Park waterbodies closed for another year
Posted by Steve Hubrecht | Mar 28, 2024 | Fishing, Local News, Local News, News
Easter bunny on the way for ‘Egg-Stravaganza’
Posted by Admin | Mar 27, 2024 | Community, Community Out and About, Local News, Local News
Consultation begins on affordable housing
Posted by Steve Hubrecht | Mar 25, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
Get set for library ‘bookmobile’
Posted by Admin | Mar 24, 2024 | Columnists, Community, Community Columns, Community Out and About, Local News, Local News
Rockies end season with heads held high
Posted by Admin | Mar 24, 2024 | Local Sports, Sports
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Read MoreHospice Society supports diversity
Hospice’s doors are open to all. We welcome and serve everyone — young and old, sporty and couch potato, cheerful and grumpy, talker and observer, believer and skeptic, loner and social butterfly, quiet and loud, traveller and homebody — no matter who you are and how you choose to be in the world, we are here for you when loss visits. We have the inevitability of death in common.
A mental health poem to offer hope
The following poem offers a hope-filled perspective on mental health as we prepare to recognize Mental Health Awareness Month in May.
When Easter is not domesticated
by Admin | Mar 27, 2024 | Columnists, Community Columns, Opinion
The word “Easter” domesticates the radicalness of what it commemorates – crucifixion and resurrection.
Easter bunny on the way for ‘Egg-Stravaganza’
by Admin | Mar 26, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
The Radium Hot Springs Public Library will once again be hosting our annual Easter Egg-Stravaganza event on Saturday, March 30 at the Radium Centre.
RDEK not thrilled with ministry response
by Lyonel Doherty | Mar 26, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
It was a “sheer insult.”
That’s what a director with the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) said about a response from the Ministry of Forests regarding the board’s endorsed resolution at last year’s UBCM convention.
Pat Cope of Family Dynamix steps down
by Steve Hubrecht | Mar 25, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
Longtime Family Dynamix Association executive director Pat Cope is stepping down from the role this spring.
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Stay on line if you misdial 911
Mar 28, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News RCMP Report, RCMP
On March 18 police were dispatched to an abandoned 911 call from the Wilmer area.
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Park waterbodies closed for another year
Mar 28, 2024 | Fishing, Local News, Local News, News
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Mar 27, 2024 | Community
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When Easter is not domesticated
Mar 27, 2024 | Columnists, Community Columns, Opinion
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Easter bunny on the way for ‘Egg-Stravaganza’
Mar 26, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
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RDEK not thrilled with ministry response
Mar 26, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
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Consultation begins on affordable housing
Mar 25, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
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Mar 25, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
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Rockies end season with heads held high
Mar 24, 2024 | Local Sports, Sports
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Recent Obituaries
- MacQueen, Robert Douglas March 27, 2024
- Hagman, James Douglas March 27, 2024
- Marshall, Robert (Pops) March 27, 2024
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Connect your neighbours with small grant
by Admin | Mar 23, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
This year, the Columbia Valley Community Foundation is leading the Neighbourhood Small Grants (NSG) program for the Columbia Valley. This program offers microgrants up to $500 to individuals for projects that connect people socially or involve sharing skills or talents.
Dismayed by resort’s decision
I read the article about Fairmont Hot Springs Resort’s refusal to allow a bat condo to be placed on their land near the old barn in Fairmont.
The fraud files: don’t get caught by scammers
by Lyonel Doherty | Mar 23, 2024 | Editorials, Opinion
While scam artists are getting smarter in their deceptions, people are growing wiser in this cat and mouse game. But sadly new victims keep piling up.
Another step towards STR regulations
by Steve Hubrecht | Mar 22, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News
Another month gone, and the District of Invermere is another step closer to having short-term rental (STR) regulations in place.
Student gardeners convince council to grow vegetables
by Steve Hubrecht | Mar 22, 2024 | Community, Local News, Local News, News
A group of green-thumbed grade schoolers have convinced the District of Invermere to grow vegetables in some of its flower beds.
Show a little ‘Puppy Love’ for GALS
by Lyonel Doherty | Mar 22, 2024 | Community, Local News, Local News, News
Animal lovers are urged to unite in solidarity on March 23 to show a little “Puppy Love” in Invermere.
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Mar 28, 2024 | Local News, Local News, News RCMP Report, RCMP
On March 18 police were dispatched to an abandoned 911 call from the Wilmer area.
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Park waterbodies closed for another year
Mar 28, 2024 | Fishing, Local News, Local News, News
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Hospice Society supports diversity
Mar 27, 2024 | Community
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When Easter is not domesticated
Mar 27, 2024 | Columnists, Community Columns, Opinion
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Turn and Burn slalom race returns to valley
Mar 18, 2024 | Local News, Local News, Local Sports, News
If you love ripping the slopes on one plank instead of two, and enjoy a banked slalom course to boot, then you’re in luck — the valley’s newest snowboard event is back.
Rockies playing hard in round two vs Ghostriders
Mar 16, 2024 | Local Sports, Sports
Nobody’s giving anything away, but hesitation has taken its toll on the Columbia Valley Rockies.
Rockies primed to haunt Ghostriders
Mar 9, 2024 | Local Sports, Sports
The first round of the Eddie Mountain Division series ended February 29 and the Columbia Valley Rockies took the series of seven games from the Kimberley Dynamiters in their own barn in game five.
Games learning experience for judo athletes
Mar 2, 2024 | Local Sports, Sports
What does judo teach you? Sportsmanship, mastery of one’s self, patience and perseverance.
Community
A look back in history: John George Adami
Mar 20, 2024 | Columnists, Community, Community Columns
When Dr. John George Adami died in 1926 the British Medical Journal published a three-page obituary detailing his impressive career. Such big news at the time was even reported in the Adelaide Advertiser in Australia.
Sash weaving steeped in tradition and culture
Mar 13, 2024 | Community, Indigenous, Local News
The Métis sash is a key part of Métis traditional dress. It has bright colours and can incorporate beads and other embellishments. Like ribbon skirts, the sash is sometimes available in different Indigenous clothing stores.
International Women’s Day: Hannah’s excellent adventure
Mar 8, 2024 | Community, Local News, Local News, News
The Pioneer features Hannah Griffin on International Women’s Day. Read her adventure on the Columbia River.
Local photographer celebrates IWD by offering photo shoot
Mar 7, 2024 | Community, Community Out and About, Local News, Local News
A local woman is launching a new business with a special event on International Women’s Day.
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New home needed for bat colony
The Kootenay Community Bat Project (KCBP), a group dedicated to bat conservation, has secured funding to build a bat condo to replace the barn.
Save bats before it’s too late
I read the article in the March 7 edition of the Pioneer, ‘Barn bats seek new home in Fairmont’, with great disappointment that this colony is facing homelessness unless a location can be found for their new roost.
Council missing opportunity
I was so excited to fill out the recent Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce survey regarding a pedestrian-only main street feature on Saturdays and/or Fridays and Saturdays.
Not in this life!
Mar 16, 2024 | Editorials, Opinion
What some people wouldn’t give to be young again — to ride the wings of that sweet bird of youth, to be a teenager once more.
On second thought . . . not in this life!
Community
Madcap juggling comedian can’t help it
Feb 26, 2024 | Entertainment, Local Entertainment, Local News, Local News, News
When self-described professional “zaniac” Alex Zerbe arrives in Invermere in a few weeks, residents should brace themselves for a storm of high-octane comedy.
Shuswap Band to host live comedy show
Nov 19, 2023 | Entertainment, Indigenous, Local Entertainment
National Addictions Awareness Week takes place November 22 to 28, and so the Shuswap Band has created a live comedy show for the community.
Film festival will be ‘wild & scenic’ for all
Nov 13, 2023 | Community, Community Out and About, Entertainment, Local Entertainment, Local News, Local News
Films have the power to inspire, entertain and provoke us, and the 10th Wild & Scenic Film Festival on November 18 promises to do all of this.
Author-musician launches new book, albums
Nov 5, 2023 | Entertainment, Local Entertainment, Local News, Local News
A missing dog, a vanished lover, and a guitar-slinging protagonist running from toughs intent on killing him, all amid the soaring peaks and wide open horizons of the west. It’s a classic tale told with swashbuckling verve in both words and in song by Invermere author and musician James Rose.
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- Columbia Valley Weddings October 25, 2023
- Columbia Valley Real Estate Guide Fall 2023 September 28, 2023
- Columbia Valley Map Book 2023 July 5, 2023
- Columbia Valley Real Estate Guide Summer 2023 June 15, 2023
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Recent Obituaries
- MacQueen, Robert Douglas March 27, 2024
- Hagman, James Douglas March 27, 2024
- Marshall, Robert (Pops) March 27, 2024