Dry your tears, little one
Our great grandkids are already calling to us. Can you hear them (soft as a whisper)? Why grandpa, why grandma . . . why?
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by Admin | Apr 20, 2024
Our great grandkids are already calling to us. Can you hear them (soft as a whisper)? Why grandpa, why grandma . . . why?
by Lyonel Doherty | Apr 20, 2024
As expected, last week’s hearing on the proposed four-storey housing development and Métis office in Invermere played with a lot of emotions.
by Admin | Apr 13, 2024
I saw on the news last week that a call is going out to scrap unfair prices on women’s feminine hygiene products.
by Lyonel Doherty | Apr 13, 2024
Too bad the carbon tax hike that came into effect on April 1 wasn’t Justin Trudeau’s idea of a bad joke.
by Admin | Apr 7, 2024
The Great Depression of the 1930s was more than just a decade on a calendar.
For those who were influenced by those years their values were changed forever.
by Admin | Apr 7, 2024
Since the NDP approved funding cuts to the B.C. Provincial Retinal Treatment Program, I have received dozens of calls, emails, and visits to my offices from constituents in Columbia River-Revelstoke who are dismayed at the prospect of losing access to vision-saving treatments.
by Admin | Apr 6, 2024
January and February 2024 saw a sharp increase in food bank use in the Columbia Valley. Coupled with rising costs of living, more residents of the valley are turning to emergency food relief to put food on the table.
by Lyonel Doherty | Apr 6, 2024
On the way home, the dad is shaken; his youngest born could have hopped into a predator’s car, driven to a strange home and raped.
by Admin | Apr 1, 2024
I am sitting and sorting through a season’s worth of photos to send you, your parents and your coaches and writing this bit, this column, this… well, not quite a goodbye, but definitely à la prochaine (see you next time).
by Admin | Mar 31, 2024
Just say “ICAN” if you want to help in Invermere.
by Admin | Mar 31, 2024
The Friends of Kootenay National Park are saying goodbye.
by Lyonel Doherty | Mar 31, 2024
Many people would agree with Allen Segstro from Radium who astutely said that Canada has a legal system that should not be misconstrued as a justice system.
by Admin | Mar 27, 2024
The following poem offers a hope-filled perspective on mental health as we prepare to recognize Mental Health Awareness Month in May.
by Admin | Mar 27, 2024
The word “Easter” domesticates the radicalness of what it commemorates – crucifixion and resurrection.
by Admin | Mar 24, 2024
The Invermere Public Library is launching a ‘bookmobile’ service.
by Admin | Mar 23, 2024
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.
by Lyonel Doherty | Mar 23, 2024
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.
by Admin | Mar 20, 2024
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.
by Admin | Mar 17, 2024
The Kootenay Community Bat Project (KCBP), a group dedicated to bat conservation, has secured funding to build a bat condo to replace the barn.
by Admin | Mar 17, 2024
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.