A gold-winning Nasty Habit everyone should try
Mount Begbie Brewery has won a gold medal for its Nasty Habit I.P.A in the English India Pale Ale category at the 2010 Canadian Brewing Awards. The company also won a silver medal for its ever-popular High Country Kolsch in the Kolsch category. The full awards are listed on www.canadianbrewingawards.com. B.C. breweries did very well this year. Tracey...
Parks Canada restores the old Mount Revelstoke Fire Lookout
The historic Mount Revelstoke Fire Tower has just been restored by a special Parks Canada restoration team. According to Parks Canada spokeswoman Jacolyn Daniluck this favourite heritage building was in need of repair due to natural wear and tear. “It is now restored to how it would have been in the 1930s,” she said. “Note that the fire tower...
In Pictures: The Tea Party, a photo essay by Rob Buchanan
What to do on a rainy Revelstoke Friday with five little girls between the ages of four and five? Why have a Fancy Nancy Tea Party at Sangha Bean Café, of course. Krista Cadieux provided the tea and Kendra Powell from Mountain Meals created the cream cheese and cucumber finger sandwiches and ants on a log (celery, cream cheese and raisins). The girls...
Okanagan Regional Library seeks feedback during Library Month
October is Canadian Library Month, and the Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) is honouring this annual celebration by asking the public what they would like to see in their local library services. Throughout the month, the ORL will be conducting telephone and web-based surveys, focus groups, and Facebook discussion groups as the first step in developing...
Lights! Camera! Action! We’re in the movies again!
By David F. Rooney Lights! Camera! Action! Revelstoke’s city streets as well as Blanket Creek and Greely are the scenes for a new film being shot here this week. Director and screenwriter Michael Bafaro, who is orginally from Revelstoke, said Monday that the film is about a reporter and cameraman who come to Hatt’s Creek, a small town in Montana,...
Prepare to stop!
Get ready to stop! The intersection of Mackenzie and Third Street is now a four-way stop. David F. Rooney photo Read More →
Help keep your kids safe with the RCMP’s Kidz Printz program this Saturday
Local RCMP want to help parents keep their children safe by fingerprinting them, photographing them and taking DNA samples. All of this data will be kept by parents — not the Mounties — in a special booklet through the Kidz Printz program offered at the Community Centre on Saturday, October 2, from 11 am until 3 pm. The Kidz Printz program provides...
In Pictures: The New Moon Family Festival
By David F. Rooney The Chamber of Commerce’s New Moon Family Festival brought hundreds of people to the sun-drenched downtown core of the city for a Saturday afternoon of music, fun and shopping. Judging by the pictures below, a good time was definitely had by all… Revelstoke's New Moon Family Festival kicked off Saturday with music...
Parks fire crew to appear on Discovery Channel
This just in from the Hop Tips Department at Parks Canada: “I have just been informed,” says an e-mail from Jacolyn Daniluck, “that the Daily Planet’s Alan Nursall segment with Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks’ own fire crew (Greg, Keith, Warren, Charlie, Dean) filmed on August 16, will air next Thursday, September...
Drivers dinged under new drinking and driving law
The launch of the new drinking and driving legislation on September 20th has already seen the suspension of three drivers’ licences in Revelstoke. A statement from Const. Rod Wiebe of the Revelstoke detachment said the first incident was on September 20 at about 12:45 a.m. A roadblock was being conducted in the 500 block of Wright Street when...
