Obituary Notice — Eunice Marjorie Chamberlain
Eunice Marjorie Chamberlain 1920 - 2011 Eunice Marjorie Chamberlain passed away at Mt. Cartier Court Extended Care, Revelstoke on Saturday, May 28 at the age of 90 years. A Graveside Service will be held at Valley View Memorial Gardens in Surrey on Saturday afternoon, June 4, where Eunice will be interred beside her husband, Chuck. A Memorial Tea...
Obituary Notice — Melvin Terrance (Terry) Gilbert
Melvin Terrance (Terry) Gilbert 1952-2011 Melvin Terrance (Terry) Gilbert passed away at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Revelstoke on Saturday May 28 at the age of 59 years after a lengthy illness. A service will be held at St Peter’s Anglican Church in Revelstoke on Wednesday June 1 at 1 p.m. with Reverend Dan Meakes officiating. Honorary Pall...
Labour Council seeks to identify municipal election issues
Michelle Cole of the Shuswap Columbia District Labour Council (right) sums up for participants at a public forum as Chantel O'Neill of the Canadian Labour Congress listens. David F. Rooney photo By David F. Rooney How do you take the measure of the men and women who may run for elected office during this autumn’s civic elections? That’s...
Army Cadets on parade!
Revelstoke’s Rocky Mountain Rangers Army Cadets held their annual Ceremonial Review at the Community Centre Sunday with newly elected MP David Wilks presiding as the formal reviewing officers. The cadets’ invited guests saw demonstrations of the cadets’ skills and a display of artefacts related to the regiment. Here are a few images...
In Pictures: Day Two of The Chickadee Nature Festival
By David F. Rooney This year’s Chickadee Nature Festival wrapped up Sunday with birding, a Bio Blitz and “a weed pull” at Skunk Cabbage Boardwalk in Mount Revelstoke National Park. The Bio Blitz encouraged visitors to record and identify all of the different species of plants, bugs and amphibians they could find that the boardwalk....
NCES Bike Giveaway a huge hit
The North Columbia Environmental Society's Bike Giveaway winners picked up their new bikes at Sarah Newton's and Rory Luxmoore's house on Seventh Street East on Saturday. Jim Maitre photo The North Columbia Environmental Society’s annual Bike Giveaway was — as always — a hit with bikeless segment of our local society. Would-be bike...
In Pictures: Day One of the Chickadee Nature Festival
The sixth annual Chickadee Nature Festival dodged a bullet Saturday when predictions of day-long rain proved to be unfounded. The festival provided lots of fun and diversion for families that also wanted to hit the Farmer's Market. David F. Rooney photo By David F. Rooney The sixth annual Chickadee Nature Festtival dodged a bullet Saturday when...
To be or not to be — that was Peter Waters’ question
Author’s note: I offered to write this column for David Rooney many weeks ago, but the words would just not come. What follows is not an essay on Hamlet’s famous soliloquy although you may recognize some common themes. Peter Waters As some people know, I live with a bi-polar disorder commonly known as manic depression. A major contributing factor...
New report maps out wildfire risks
By David F. Rooney The forest fire that overwhelmed Slave Lake, Alberta, was not an isolated event. One of Kelowna’s neighbourhoods was burned in 2003. And a similar wildfire could happen here, too. “We can get high and extreme wildfire conditions here in Revelstoke for 20 days a year on average – and for up to 2 months in years like...
Heather Mountain’s long, slow slide continues
Heather Mountain, near the East Gate of Glacier National Park, is once again shedding rock, mud and trees. So far this year, the long, slow slide, which began on May 21, has only caused limited periodic delays of up to 20 minutes, according to a statement from Parks Canada’s Partnering and Engagement Officer Tania Peterson. The mountain began...
