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Rossland Council Writes to Province Citing Local Travel Concerns
A letter is set to go to the province citing council's concerns; it also requests that more be done to promote the Provincial Health Officer's "close-to-home" travel recommendations and suggests that local-travel be more clearly defined as Health Service Delivery Areas. -
Selkirk College Sees Increased Health Care Assistant Training
Program participants work as Health Care Support Workers in long-term care or assisted living residences, while also completing courses to become Health Care Assistants; the province committed to meeting service demand for HCA’s in BC in September 2020. -
Rossland Supports Grant Application for Green Link Trail Phase One
Phase one will see improvements to Wagon Road to allow for commuter-style bicycles, from the end of Esling Drive to Redstone Drive. -
Metal Tech Alley Highlighted by Environment and Climate Change Canada
Circular Economics reject the take-make-waste model by using all that is made and recycling all that is used to close the circle; one example is Trail's KC Recycling extracting lead from dead automotive batteries, and sending them to Teck who smelts the lead and returns it to manufacturers. -
Castlegar Man Charged Following Thefts From Unlocked Vehicles
41-year old Kristian Erb was arrested yesterday, January 20th, and has been charged with four counts of theft of a credit card, four counts of fraudulently using a credit card, and two counts of possessing stolen property under $5000. -
Kootenay-Boundary Keeping COVID-19 at Bay
The B-C Centre for Disease Control indicated there were no new infections from Jan.10 to Jan.16 in the Trail, Castlegar, Grand Forks, Creston and Kootenay Lake areas, two in and around Nelson and one in Arrow Lakes. They counted four in the Kettle Valley. -
Arrest Made Following Grand Forks Mischief Spree
The first few reports of mischief hit the detachment last week and the suspect was arrested by 6AM on Sunday, released on conditions to appear in court this April. -
Province Funds Community Mental Health Training at Selkirk College
The funding will see 12 students take two mental-health focused courses and a weekend workshop on motivational interviewing. -
Trail City Council Looking at a Tax Increase for 2021.
Trail City Council heads into its capital plan review projecting a 3.68-percent tax increase. Mayor Lisa Pasin says a 2-million dollar federal and provincial cash infusion for COVID-19 relief helped keep projected expenses down.
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