September 8: BC Hydro and Mitsubishi showcase Mitsubishi’s new electric vehicle — City Hall — 11:30 am
September 8: Central Residential Revelstoke Community Group Meeting — Community Centre — 7 – 8:30 pm
September 10: Revy Rocks! Everyone knows that… but it has talent too! Come out to the Revy Rocks Talent Show to see who wins [...]
What’s On This Week
September 4th, 2010Return of the red fish
September 4th, 2010By Chrissi Meyer and Laura Stovel
One of the rites of autumn in Revelstoke is watching the brave struggle of the red fish as they fight their way upstream to spawn. Parents take their children to observe these fresh- and salt-water salmon (kokanee and sockeye respectively) as they [...]
Art shows open with a farewell to Sue Davies
September 3rd, 2010Arts Centre hosts The BC 150 Applied Arts Project opening this Friday
September 2nd, 2010
By Chrissi Meyer
Over the next three weeks the Art Centre in Revelstoke hosts a travelling exhibition presenting applied arts as they were developed within British Columbia over the last 150 years.
1858 was the formal beginning of the province and the exhibition “reflects, acknowledges and celebrates” the achievements and spirits of B.C. and tries to [...]
Sue Davies says goodbye
September 1st, 2010By Chrissi Meyer
After two years in Revelstoke Sue Davies and her family are going back to New Zealand. Sue is a painter and she has been part of the local art and culture community here in Revelstoke.
“I have had a fantastic two years here in Revelstoke but it is time to return to New Zealand [...]
Chrissi’s Diary: Dogs, unlocked trucks and Johnny Cash
September 1st, 2010My first week in Revelstoke, my first week in Canada is over and I realized a few things that work differently here. Back home I made plans of what I want to do here and at what time everything has to be happening and done to keep my schedule working. The first lesson I have [...]
Junior Naturalists explored our environment from top to bottom
August 31st, 2010The 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!
Chrissi’s diary: What does a German girl want to do in Revelstoke?
August 31st, 2010What 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 [...]
Jason Keerak wins the People’s Choice Award
August 28th, 2010Summer Reading Club kids rocked out at the end
August 28th, 2010When young Kobe B. saw the Reading Rocks painting donated to the Revelstoke Branch of the Okanagan Regional Library for this year’s Summer Reading Club program draw, he immediately told his mom “I’m going to win that!”
Head Librarian Joan Holzer was quite taken by that story, particularly when Kobe’s name was drawn at the Summer [...]
12-Mile Ferryman receives headstone worthy of his importance
August 27th, 2010By Laura Stovel
To Ada Domke Jarvis it didn’t seem right. Ed Mulvehill, the first ferryman who, from 1923 to the late 1930s, plied the Columbia River between 12-Mile and the west shore, did not have a headstone on his grave.
Mr. Mulvehill, a quiet, pipe-smoking man, was a central part of life on the river at a time when transport [...]
Heritage Explorers make butter the old-fashioned way
August 27th, 2010By Laura Stovel
The Revelstoke Museum and Archives summer children’s program for five-to-12-year-olds – the Heritage Explorers – has ended this year’s season with its 11th annual biscuits and butter event. The museum provides home-made biscuits and the children make the butter in an improvised version of the old fashioned way: by shaking whipping cream in a jar.
Here are [...]
Here’s something to brighten up your drive home!
August 21st, 2010BC Arts Council chair blames budget cuts and interference for her resignation
August 20th, 2010Jane Danzo, who resigned as chairwoman of the BC Arts Council last week has released a letter she wrote to Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Kevin Krueger outlining her reasons for resigning.
“…it has recently been made clear that the Board does not have a voice independent of government,” she said in her letter, [...]
