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 [...]
Arts 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 [...]
CBT told water-initiative forum for concerned youths
September 1st, 2010Youths 15-29 are being invited to sign for CURRENTS — the Columbia Basin Trust’s Youth Water Forum for 2010, being held at Halcyon Hot Springs in Nakusp, September 24-26.
“CBT is looking forward to engaging youth in water issues in the Columbia Basin for a second year at CURRENTS,” Heather Mitchell, CBT’s water initiatives manager, said [...]
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!
Signs of the season
August 29th, 2010By Laura Stovel
One of my favorite things about Revelstoke is the way we can observe, almost on a daily basis, the steady progress of the seasons. And, for me, the
crest of autumn is the best time of all: the first dustings of snow on the mountains; a new crispness in the air after summer’s heat; [...]
Summer 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 [...]
Getting behind on payments?
August 27th, 2010Sooner or later, people suffer circumstances that make it hard for them to meet their financial commitments. Most people as a result of embarrassment and not knowing what to do make their situation even more difficult by doing nothing. The best way to deal with this situations is by taking action. Here are some helpful [...]
New courses at Okanagan College
August 27th, 2010The Revelstoke Current is pleased to list new course offerings at Okanagan College courtesy of the college’s Revelstoke Centre.
Course listing updates will be posted by about 5 pm as they become available.
People interested in these courses, or those shown on previous weeks, are strongly encouraged to contact Okanagan College. Its Revelstoke Centre is located at [...]
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 [...]
Computers and seniors are coming to a meeting of the minds
August 22nd, 2010Many seniors are still mystified by the concept that communications can instantly flow through cables or that information can be retrieved on almost any subject by using a search engine. Computers can be overwhelming to anyone, especially to those who did not ‘grow up’ with them. Never before in our history has so much potential [...]
Here’s something to brighten up your drive home!
August 21st, 2010Conserving during the heat wave
August 18th, 2010With every provincewide heat wave comes a slight increase in electricity use. Although BC Hydro is a winter-peaking utility – our demand is the highest on the coldest, darkest day of the year – summer heat waves, like the one we are in right now, provide a great opportunity for British Columbians to learn how to conserve [...]
