Meet Joël and Kristi: new owners at Revelstoke U-Brew
March 9th will be the one-year anniversary of the opening under new management of the Revelstoke U-Brew. New owners Joël and Kristi Leblanc can help you produce a fine ale or a stunning chardonnay. Leslie Savage photos Food Editor Leslie Savage March 15th will be the one-year anniversary of the opening under new management of the Revelstoke U-Brew. “When...
Recipes to celebrate Canada’s Olympic performance
Notes on Cooking with Wine and Beer One-Pan Coq au Vin Beef in Beer (Carbonnades à la flammande) Cooking with wine and beer has been traditional in many societies for at least 5000 years. Before refrigeration, fermenting grape and barley was one way to preserve fruit and grain otherwise subject to rot, and marinating meat in alcohol helped make it...
Hero’s Olympic photo diary
Zuzana Driediger, one of the lucky Revelstokians tapped to help make the Vancouver 2010 Olympics a success is back with her rescue dog, Hero, and more than a few photos to of her canine’s experience at the Games. “It was pretty quiet,” she said in her office at Parks Canada. “The only time my adrenaline got going was when we...
New Parks and Rec Director wants to make a good impression
Kerry Dawson, the City's new director of parks and recreation, is hoping to meet with as many groups and individuals as possible over the coming months. Hired to replace Alan Chell when he retired, she knows she can't exactly fill his shoes, but she does have some ideas about ways to make the Community Centre, Forum and Aquatic Centre...
New budget receives lukewarm support from the Chamber
By David F. Rooney Council’s new budget, which incorporates a 2.5 per cent increase in taxes on commercial property is receiving a lukewarm nod from Chamber of Commerce President Don Teuton. “It’s a step in the right direction,” he said Saturday. “I’m glad, I guess, that it’s not a huge increase but it’s...
Free income tax service available for eligible seniors
Alice Daniels The month of March is going to be a very busy one, so please make sure to pick up your monthly calendar. You won’t want to miss out on the activities and events. On Tuesday, March 2 at 7 pm the CBT verbal presentations will have taken place to the general public and the panel. Our President Ruth Boettger has done our presentation for...
Ambassadorial smiles
Parks Management Plan on track
Karen Tierney (left, at the lectern), superintendent of Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks tells City Council how close parks staff are to completing the new management plan for the national parks. She told Council on Tuesday that after months of public consultation the plan is near completion and will be presented to Parliament in the spring....
Cranes of hope and prayer
By David F. Rooney Fold 1,000 cranes and the gods will grant your wish. If that’s true then they surely must be listening to Revelstoke where people across the community have been busy folding thousands of origami cranes to help commemorate the 100 anniversary of the March 4, 1910, avalanche that killed 58 CPR workers. “We have about 5,000...
BC Hydro plans painted turtle study this summer
This summer BC Hydro will begin a study to learn more about the painted turtle’s natural movements and use of the Arrow Lakes Reservoir. Revelstoke’s population of Western Painted Turtle was recently highlighted at the 2010 Winter Games. With a painted turtle design emblazoned on his helmet, Jon Montgomery, Canada’s skeleton racer, blistered...
