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by Contributor on Monday Mar 22 2010
Last year’s impromptu ‘Gathering’ brought together the legendary group of friends who perfected the freeski alpine lifestyle, melding mountaineering with mogul-mania and fashion with free-dog in Verbier in the 1970s and 80s. News of the frenetic blend of skiing, philosophizing and partying that ensued over three days in March 2009 at Red...
by Mona Mattei on Wednesday Jan 06 2010
The unfortunate death of an Albertan man in an avalanche over the weekend in Rossland is a tragic reminder that avalanche awareness is critical to anyone doing backcountry sports in the Kootenay Boundary. Greg Johnson, avalanche forecaster for the Canadian Avalanche Centre based in Revelstoke, explained that current conditions across the regions are dangerous.
“It sounds like what...
by Kimberly Joines on Tuesday Dec 29 2009
Hey Rossland,
I hope that your Christmas holidays all went extraordinarily well! I ate too much turkey of course… and continue to. As the family guests are heading out of town, I thought I should take a spare moment to catch up with you. In a week I will be heading to Europe for the first part of the World Cup Tour; so it may be a while before I have the chance to write again.
... by Contributor on Monday Dec 21 2009
Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) Board member Kim Deane met with George Apel, Director of Biathlon BC and Director of the Hannah Creek Biathlon Society on Saturday, December 19 to announce a $60,000 grant toward the Society’s Hannah Creek Biathlon Enhancement Project.
The project has seen the society expand trails, increase the number of lanes in the...
by Andrew Zwicker on Thursday Dec 10 2009
Last week’s article and discussion around the Rossland arena raised a number of questions over the project. However, the overwhelming sentiment in the story was that the arena is indeed important to Rosslanders and that something--be it renovations or replacement--should be done to maintain it. Now that Rossland council has turned down a $400,000 grant to replace the roof of the arena,...
by Andrew Zwicker on Thursday Dec 10 2009
Over the past several years, the city of Nelson has gone through an extensive process to get a new arena facility built. Significantly smaller than Creston's development, the 13 million dollar project involved the adding of a new arena to an existing aquatc center whereas in Creston it was the addition of an aquatic centre to an existing arena. This week The Rossland Telegraph's...
by Kimberly Joines on Monday Dec 07 2009
Hey Rossland,
It’s been a while since I’ve written, so I thought that I’d check in. After nearly 2.5 months off to heal a shoulder injury, I am finally cleared to get back out and ski. I was about half way to crazy, and now I’m probably about half way to fully healed. Turns out I will be needing surgery, but it’s something I am able to put off until after the games. Nothing like...
by Dr. Brenda Gill on Monday Dec 07 2009
Recently, there have been articles in health magazines in regards to acid-base balancing and what that entails. It is based on the essential metabolic processes in the body. These processes take place at the smallest cellular level. Energy is acquired in humans by the breakdown or oxidation of large carbohydrates into smaller compounds from which the cell draws nutrients for it’s activities...
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