Members of the Kootenay Rhythm Dragon Boat Team and members of the local Breast Cancer Support group were at Nelson Safeway to answer questions and distribute information to shoppers on Oct. 22/23.
Pictured at the Safeway display for Breast Cancer Awareness month are (from left to right) Patty McMillan, Rebecca George, Margot Waterer, Lua Gerun (Safeway employee) and Dorothy Hatto....
Are you a first timer?
Have you ever tried snow-cat or heli skiing?
If you haven’t you ‘gotta’ this winter and the Powder Highway is the place to get out there. The West Kootenay has 16 cat and nine heli operations.
Here are a few 2012 packages:
Deep powder package
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The Kootenay lake Hospital Foundation has been celebrating the hospital’s recent emergency room expansion and the addition of the CT scanner.
But another key piece of the health services at KLH is made up of the many surgeries that are performed in Nelson by local and visiting specialists.
These services include a...
Changes to the BC Arts Council board will result in the loss of a unique rural perspective, and will lessen the BC Arts Council’s ability to meet the needs of arts organization and artists in rural B.C., says Columbia River–Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald.
The decision of the BC Arts Council not to renew the board appointment of Bill Usher of Golden — and instead replace...
It’s a local diet of another sort.
Tea Preville is cataloguing a huge body of work to publish a guidebook in 2012 and seeks community input to ensure all active spiritual locations are acknowledged.
Using...
Thirteen-year-old Kyra Burkart explored her local watershed recently and got a closer look at Anderson Creek near Nelson.
She joined other Grade 8 students from Trafalgar Middle School who participated in Know Your Watershed, a Columbia Basin Trust water-stewardship initiative.
Kyra and the rest of the students did water quality testing and...
Are you a descendant of a British child immigrant? Is there a ‘home child’ in your family background? How would you know?
Join historian and author Art Joyce Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7 pm at Touchstones Nelson, Shawn Lamb Archives for his presentation Laying the Children’s Ghosts to Rest: Honouring Canada’s Child Immigrants.
Between 1869 and 1939, 100,000 children were...
The popular Book Babies storytime is back and begins on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at the Nelson Public Library.
This 20-minute program is designed for parents and infants from birth to pre-walkers. Book Babies introduces your little one to songs, rhymes, stories, lullabies and tickles.
This...
Hallowe'en is a time when kids and even adults dress up to play a part.
And this Hallowe'en night, Oct. 31, marks the start of a six-week playwriting course at Nelson's Oxygen Art Centre, where students will develop their skills at creating character, dialogue and plot while crafting a half-hour play.
The course, taught by Cassie Beecham,...
Nelson’s Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History is opening its doors and waiving admissions from Wednesday, Nov. 8 to Sunday, Nov. 13 in an effort to help area residents learn more about the Columbia River Treaty (CRT) and how it relates to local dams, reservoirs and lake levels.
Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is hosting a display at the museum as part of its...