Opinion

The Greater Trail Relay For Life 2011 takes place this Saturday, May 28, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m at Haley Park Track.

There are some inhabitants of these “river valleys and mountainsides” whose needs have not been considered in the co-operative process, and whose very survival is essential to honouring those needs.

Yesterday Tourism Rossland hosted the first of two public input sessions where it invited suggestions on how to move our city towards some of its goals as an official “resort municipality” in the eyes of the provincial government.

If you’re interested in bee keeping or raising chickens, or just want to keep the dogs and bears out of your garden, there’s an electric fence workshop coming up on May 28 from 2-4 p.m. The workshop is $5 per person and is being put on by Rossland REAL Food and Bear Aware.

The Kootenay Dance Works year end performance is this Saturday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the Charles Bailey Theatre in Trail. If you don’t already have a ticket, they can be purchased at the Box Office which opens at 5:30 p.m.

It’s been great to see the communities of the West Kootenay coming together in preparation for the 2011 BC Seniors Games over these past many months, and it was wonderful to see that sense of collaboration continue as organizers gathered for a torch-lighting ceremony in Castlegar on Tuesday night.

For many moons Rossland has kindly tolerated my version of the town’s events — as edited, laid out, and headlined in a heroic weekly effort by Robson Fletcher, who also handles the Castlegar News and the West Kootenay Advertiser — so we’ve decided a short column would help readers take me with a pinch of salt and dash of spice.