Junior Naturalists explored our environment from top to bottom
The kids enrolled in the the Friends of Mount Revelstoke & Glacier’s Junior Naturalists Program this year had a blast exploring the environment from top to bottom. Here are some of the kids and some of the places they visited in a summer’s worth of discovery! Dynamic Decomposers – photographed at the Skunk Cabbage Boardwalk, Mount...
Chrissi’s diary: What does a German girl want to do in Revelstoke?
Chrissi Meyer What does a German girl want to do in Revelstoke? That was the first question on my mind when my sister told me that she had moved to a small town in B.C. Now she has already been here for more than a year and there is no way I can convince her to come back to Germany. That´s why I had no choice but to fly across the big blue sea and...
Signs of the season
Coral fungus – good for soups or salads! Laura Stovel photo By Laura Stovel One of my favorite things about Revelstoke is the way we can observe, almost on a daily basis, the steady progress of the seasons. And, for me, the John Markstrom carefully picks a chanterelle. Laura Stovel photo crest of autumn is the best time of all: the first dustings...
A stroke here, a heart attack there — what to do? What to do? An update!
David F. Rooney KAMLOOPS — There’s nothing like a stroke and a heart attack to prompt some major lifestyle changes. As Revelstoke Current readers know by now, I suffered a stroke on the night of August 21. What they aren’t aware of is the fact that subsequent CAT, MRI and Ultrasound scans at Royal Inland Hospital here in Kamloops show...
Good Morning Program seeks to make contact with vulnerable people
Jean Pedersen They live in seniors’ complexes, private homes, apartments, or mobile home parks. They have lived productive lives for 60, 70, 80 or more years. Yet now, they find themselves alone, unable to get out, isolated from neighbors and the community. They are the homebound, hidden elderly. Or perhaps they are not yet elderly; they...
Hill Creek Channel continues to spawn a high success rate
Brian Barney oversees operations at Hill Creek Spawning Channel north of Nakusp, which has for the fourth year in a row exceeded a 50 per cent egg-to-fry survival. Angus Glass photo For the fourth year in a row Hill Creek Spawning Channel, north of Nakusp, has exceeded a 50 per cent egg-to-fry survival. Recent fry counts show that 67 per cent of the...
Toonie Race won by Macintosh and Bernier
Brendan Macintosh and Melanie Bernier were the big winners in Revelocity’s Toonie Race No. 3 while Kellen Viznaugh received a special mention for racing in the under-18 cateory. Men: 1st ($117) Brendan Macintosh, 2nd ($70) Don Robertson, and 3rd ($47) Rich Hamilton. Women: 1st ($80) Melanie Bernier, 2nd ($50) Sally Carmichael Macintosh and Bernier...
Jason Keerak wins the People’s Choice Award
Jason Keerak's whimsical photo illustration, Matches, is the winner of the People's Choice Award at this year's Kootenay-Boundary Regional Art Exhibition, Things Your Mother Warned You About, which was shown at the Visual Arts Centre all through August. Read More →
Summer Reading Club kids rocked out at the end
Young Kobe B. poses with this year's Summer Reading Club painting donated by David Rooney and Elks Club Lodge 453 President Clancy Boettger after being presented with the painting he predicted he would win. Photo courtesy of the Revelstoke Branch of the Okanagan Regional Library When young Kobe B. saw the Reading Rocks painting donated to the Revelstoke...
Savagely Delightful herb harvesting
This bouquet of tea herbs is ready for drying, with mint, lemon and lime balm, bergamot blossoms (the flavouring for Earl Grey Tea), lavender, yarrow and feverfew. Photo courtesy of Sandra Davis Sandra Davis Few things match the satisfaction of growing and eating your own food. One of the easiest things to grow are herbs. They’re more likely to perish...
