Premier Christy Clark comes to town
In Revelstoke Tuesday morning, Premier Christy Clark made a pitch for support from local women during a breakfast meeting at the Golf Course Tuesday morning.Here she shakes hands with Maria Stagliano as Edie Schleiss (left) and Judy Vigue look on. The 60 women who attended the breakfast meeting with the BC Liberal leader seemed quite responsive to...
City plans major roadwork for Lowertown next year
By David F. Rooney The City’s recent $430,000 road reconstruction project on a portion of King Street from Second Street to Douglas in Lowertown has neighbourhood residents wondering why other crumbling and broken road surfaces in the area aren’t being addressed. “King Street has been paved three times but it just doesn’t last,”...
Vandals destroy Railway Museum flag poles, steal flags
Somewhere in town tonight someone has a couple of new flags — a Canadian one and a British Columbian one — that they stole from the Railway Museum after climbing on a fence and destroying two steel flagpoles, presumably in the early hours of Tuesday morning. This was not the work of bored, hyperactive 12-year-olds but adult or near-adult individuals...
More mighty surges
BC Hydro Community Engagement Advisor Jennifer Walker Larson recently took these three videos of test spills at the utility’s Mica Generating Station on July 26. We thought they were engaging and urge you to watch and enjoy them all… we did! Read More →
Vital Columbia Basin stats going online
It’s now much easier to locate important statistics about the Columbia Basin. Oh, we know, we know — that’s not first and foremost on most people’s minds, but it is nonetheless a significant development for journalists, academics, researchers and others who rely on accurate economic, demographic, social and other kinds of statistics. These kinds...
Glacier Challenge more than just a summer event
David F. Rooney For 25 years, the Glacier Challenge has been Revelstoke’s signature summer event. But it goes way beyond that. It has become a summer tradition for hundreds of people who plan their vacations around it. Don’t believe me? There are teams that have been coming here for 10 or 15 years and one that has been to every single one of the...
Glacier Challenge increases its music quotient
Twenty-five years! That’s a true milestone by anyone’s calculation and the Revelstoke Glacier Challenge knows how to mark that anniversary in true Revelstoke style — with an amazing 25th Anniversary Prize Package. The $6,000 prize, which will go to some lucky team that has registered to play in this year’s tournament, will ensure that the winners...
Free Spirit Sports celebrates 20 years of quality
Advertising Feature Looking for stylish, high-quality children’s sports wear? Free Spirit Sports’ Liz (left) and Elmer Rorstad stock the best in town. David F. Rooney photo By David F. Rooney Keeping pace with the city’s transition to a tourism economy is a challenge and few businesspeople know that better than Elmer and Liz These colourful...
Name your poison
By David F. Rooney Call them cocktails. Call them poo poos… with the usually hot, dry August long weekend fast approaching there seems to be no better time to ask this ever-popular question: What’s your favourite mixed drink in the summer? Is it a Harvey Wallbanger? A Margarite or how about a Bloody Caesar? Or — dare we ask — is it...
Open houses to explore proposed Area ‘B’ zoning bylaw
Area ‘B’ residents will have an opportunity to look at the proposed Electoral Area ‘B’ Zoning Bylaw No. 851 during two open-house meetings slated for Thursday, August 9. The first one will be held at the Trout Lake Community Hall from 10:30 am to 1 pm and the second one will be at the Revelstoke Community Centre from 6:30 pm to 9 pm. Columbia...
