Tag Archives: Canal Flats

Krista’s eye on the East Kootenay

OMG! B.C.   By Krista Nebloch Wasa-based photograph and rambler of the region Krista Nebloch is so prodigious in image production that she will be featured once a month in e-KNOW.   Here are some photos from my travels this … > Read More

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Over 170 take part in Highland Dance Competition

By Chris Newel The Kimberley/Cranbrook Highland Dance Association sponsored the 34th annual Highland Dance Competition over the weekend. Over 170 dancers from southeast B.C. and Alberta participated in the event held at Kimberley’s Selkirk Senior Secondary School. Dance judges were … > Read More

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Flats back to full council complement

The Village of Canal Flats council is back to a full complement following March 30 by-election. Dean Midyette captured the council seat vacated by Coun. Evence Blanchard in December, capturing the most votes of the 126 cast. Midyette, who was … > Read More

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March in the East Kootenay ‘13

March is the month when optimism for the future begins to peak with most Canadians. Beasts converted to accepting the sufferance of winter, we drop our chins each November and march stoically forward, biting back occasionally at the pinch and … > Read More

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Valley-wide Valley Pride April 27

If you are in the Columbia Valley on Saturday, April 27 – we want you to volunteer to be a part of our community and pitch-in to clean up our paradise. Organizers of the annual Valley Pride Community Clean-up have … > Read More

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Alert citizen spooks off possible thieves

Columbia Valley RCMP Report As a result of an alert citizen a number of thefts from cars was thwarted at the Fairmont Hot Springs Ski Hill on March 14.  An older male, thin and in his ‘50s was observed going … > Read More

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Predators on the hunt again

Letter to the Editor COUGAR SIGHTINGS:  As in previous years, sightings of cougars have been recently reported in the towns of Invermere, Windermere, Canal Flats and Edgewater. ICAN would like to once again remind you that cougars and coyotes are … > Read More

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Playing with our rivers is not a good idea

Perceptions by Gerry Warner What goes around comes around, so they say, and the same is true about history repeating itself, especially here in the Kootenays. The latest example of this hearkens back to the ill-fated Baillie-Grohman Canal diversion project … > Read More

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Elk avoidance causes rollover, injuries

Columbia Valley RCMP Report At 7:50 p.m. on Feb. 28, Columbia Valley RCMP Detachment members responded to a single vehicle accident on Highway 93/95 and Burns Avenue at Canal Flats. A 2006 Ford F-150 driven by a 31-year-old male from … > Read More

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Three running in Canal Flats by-election

The Village of Canal Flats is heading to a March 30 by-election. Village Mayor Ute Juras informed the Regional District of East Kootenay board of directors March 1 that three candidates have come forward Voters will have a choice between … > Read More

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