We’re clearing out the old Home Hardware Store at 311 Campbell Avenue. The building must be cleaned out before the end of April. Doors, windows, discontinued or damaged stock, shelving, Christmas trees, decorations and much, much more. Everything must go — including shelving and fixtures. The sale runs Friday, April 12th, and Saturday, April 13th, [...]

The newly formed Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society (CSISS) is seeking an enthusiastic, experienced Coordinator on a long-term contract basis. The CSISS is a recently registered non-profit society that services the geographic area of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District with the mandate to educate and engage public, private landowners, land and aquatic managers, first nations and others about invasive [...]

Glacier Manor Apartments is offering a two-bedroom suite for rent starting on March 1. Heat and hot water are included in the rent and there is an on-site laundry. This is a quiet building and neighbourhood. NS, NP. For more information please call the resident manager, Roberta, at 250-837-2939 and leave a message

The Revelstoke Current now subscribes to the Revelstoke Tourism community events calendar. The Curent’s version is called Today and you can access it by pressing the button at the right-hand end of the top navigation bar on the front page. I have long advocated some kind of centralized event-planning  in Revelstoke and this new community [...]

The Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce a new calendar for the Revelstoke community.  The calendar (www.time.ly), built in Nelson was customized for the Chamber by local companies Monashee Mountain Multimedia and Revelstuck Marketing. The calendar is flexible so that any Revelstoke business, service or not for profit organization can subscribe for free and [...]

By Laura Stovel WorkBC held its grand opening on Wednesday, promising better integration of services for job seekers in Revelstoke. The opening was held almost two months after WCG International, an international human resources firm, and Bowman Employment Services took over the contract to run the Revelstoke employment service center from Okanagan College. The new [...]

By David F. Rooney The rules for commenting on The Revelstoke Current have been changed as a result of the recent unpleasantness regarding Norm Macdonald’s opinion piece headlined, British Columbians aren’t buying BC Liberal excuses on HST. In the interest of full disclosure and maintaining a high level of civility all posters are now required to [...]

Advertising Feature By David F. Rooney Concerned about their overhead at Bear Canyon Cabinet Company, Rob and Michelle Nagy began looking around for alternatives and, from a business perspective, did the smart thing. First, they found  a more sustainable location at the Revelstoke Business Complex on Power House Road and then they wrapped up the [...]

If you are looking for work or own a business the Revelstoke Employment Services Centre has an up-coming program that may be of interest to you — Employment Wage Subsidy Information Session for Employers. The 45-minute information session at the RESC office at 117 Campbell Avenue on August 24 will provide employers with key information [...]

The Revelstoke Current has created buttons for the What’s On This Week section and a page just for garage sales! The buttons are located at the bottom of the Front Page and at the bottom of all section fronts. We hope that will make finding the What’s On and Garage Sale listings somewhat easier than [...]

Basin residents interested in providing advice to Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) on delivering benefits to the region are invited to apply for volunteer positions on CBT’s core social, economic and environment advisory committees. The application deadline is May 20, 2011. “We rely on our advisory committee members for their community perspective, as well as their [...]

With the start of construction on the Mica Units 5 and 6 Project this spring, BC Hydro is offering an additional $60,000 in total to trades training programs given by local colleges, funds that are a direct benefit of the project and designed to help build trades capacity in local communities. Colleges in Revelstoke, Golden, [...]