Thanks to the community from the Relay for Life
Relay For Life is over for another Year!! The 2012 Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life was held on Sunday June 10 from 10:00 am – 10:00 pm at Mtn View School Ball Field and a great day was had by all. It started off with introductions, then a message from Mayor Dave Raven, followed by Survivors Victory Lap and the Caregivers joining them leading...
Hone your photographic skills through this shootout at 3 Valley Gap
Advertising Feature By David F. Rooney If you yearn to be a model or fashion photographer you can explore your potential through a series of workshops starting July 8 created by photographer John Morrison. Set in locations as diverse as Three Valley Gap and an industrial junk yard, as well as a traditional studio, Morrison’s workshops introduce photographers...
Teachers ratify agreement with government
Members of the BC Teachers’ Federation have voted 75% to ratify the agreement reached on Tuesday, with the government’s bargaining agent, the BC Public School Employers’ Association. A statement from the BCTF said that in a province-wide vote conducted June 27–29, a total of 21,044 teachers cast ballots and 75% voted yes. The turnout rate was...
Red Cross accepting help for Sicamous flood victims
Just because you no longer see anything on TV anymore doesn’t mean the washout and flood in Sicamous is over and done with. Areas of the town 60 kilometres west of Revelstoke remain evacuated and the Canadian Red Cross says it has set up an assistance centre (which they are calling a ‘resilience’ centre, for some reason) and is accepting assistance...
Ready for some great times? Canada Day and Timber Day offer fun for families
This weekend and next promise to have great fun for families as Revelstoke celebrates Canada Day on July 1 and Timber Day on July 7. Revelstoke Current file photo By David F. Rooney Break out your red-and-white duds and oil up your chainsaw — It’s time for Canada Day and Timber Day. This week will see the two day-long family-friendly community...
Bursary for Brady Blake
Revelstoke Fire Rescue Society President Brad Faucett presents Brady Blake with the Burt Bradstock $1,000 Bursary. The RSS grad was chosen to receive the award, which was created in memory of Burt Bradstock, who succumbed to his injuries while fighting a vehicle fire on Dominion Day on the Tran-Canada Highway in 1965. The award is available to children...
The Eagle River Expedition: boys will be boys
De-masted but un-dissuaded, Tom Parkin (right) and friend losing control on the Bow River, 1971. Once wasn’t enough for this lesson! As with the Eagle River Expedition, it too piled into a logjam. When current catches the upper deck of a small raft, it attempts to submerge it, as shown here. WARNING: We were very lucky (myself more so, in view of...
2012 Street Fest gets a youthful kickoff
By David F. Rooney Street Fest 2012 kicked off on Thursday evening with performances by a raft of talented local youth performers. They included Hailey Christie-Hoyle, Juliana Carter, Dorothy Tappell, Footle, Amber Hart and Taylor Masson, Defiance, Ideal Effect and Riley Dickson. The evening was a little overcast but warm and there was an fair-sized...
True patriot love
John Devitt This weekend we celebrate the 145th birthday or our great nation of Canada. We’ve come a long way kids! A recent survey by Ipsos-Reid leading up the festivities and reported by The Province newspaper. (Click here to read the story) explains how Canadians are growing prouder of our patriotism. For some reason this is surprising to many...
Closed for good but forever in our memories
By David F. Rooney The sound of children’s voices will never again echo in the halls and classrooms of Mountain View and Mount Begbie. The two schools closed forever on Thursday afternoon after one last year-end assembly. Oh, teachers still have one more day — officially — and many will put in more than that, packing away their books, posters...
