What’s On This Week
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...
New report outlines the lies, lies and more lies behind the BC Liberals’ HST ploy
A damning report out of the BC Ministry of Finance, made available through the Freedom of Information Act, shows the BC government wanegotiating with the federal government regarding implementing the HST months before the provincial election in 2009. Fight HST Leader Bill Vander Zalm says the report proves the BC government deliberately deceived the...
Out of the Office for Awhile
It is my regretful duty at this point to notify all of The Current’s faithful that editor David Rooney has recently suffered a stroke and will be unable to continue his work with the Current for the next week or so. Fear not, for David is strong and he is now resting comfortably in the Kamploops hospital and is expected to make a full recovery....
BC Arts Council chair blames budget cuts and interference for her resignation
Jane 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, which was...
Police urge life-jacket use after Shelter Bay drowning
Revelstoke RCMP are investigating the drowning of a 50-year-old Westlock, Alta., woman. A statement from the detachment said police were called to the Shelter Bay Provincial Park shortly after 8 pm on Wednesday, August 18. ‘The investigation has shown that a husband and wife were out in a small Zodiac, fishing in Upper Arrow Lake,” the...
BC Supreme Court rules in favour of anti-HST petition
By David F. Rooney Local organizer Jim Daniel welcomed the BC Supreme Court ruling in favour of the anti-HST petition as great news but wonders what happens next. “It’s going to be interesting to see what the next move will be,” he said Friday. Local anti-HST canvasser james Walford’s reaction was blunt: “Mr. Campbell is...
Outside watering now prohibited — except by hand
By David F. Rooney Effective immediately, all outside watering of lawns and gardens by sprinklers is prohibited, says Darren Komonoski, operations manager of the City’s Engineering and Public Works Department. “Irrigation demands are so high we’re getting fluctuations and cannot maintain our mandatory fire flows,” he said Friday...
Plastic bags: they are oh-so-convenient but we pay a terrible price for them
Plastic bags. On average they are used for about five minutes but they'll last 1,000 years or more. Drive almost anywhere and you'll see them blowing in the wind, trapped in trees, bushes and fences and — in their greatest concentrations — filling an area in the North Pacific about the size of Texas. Hailey Ross of the North Columbia Environmental...
It needs a little tweaking, but Council will back a cosmetic pesticide ban
As previously skeptical Councillor Tony Scarcella put it on Tuesday "we're better off safe than sorry" and with that City Council unanimously agreed to back a bylaw that will ban the use of synthetic cosmetic pesticides on both public and private property. Here, Councillors listen as Dr. Warren Bell (right) talks about the studies that...
Railway Days In Pictures: Sunday’s Commemorative Ceremony in Rogers Pass
By David F. Rooney The bonds between two cultures were strengthened Sunday as Japanese and Canadians gathered together in two poignant and moving ceremonies to commemorate the 58 workers who died in the 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche. The main ceremony, which was sponsored b y Parks Canada at the Rogers Pass National Historic Site and included the public...
