Community

Faculty members of the School of Environment and Geomatics (formerly School of Renewable Resources) at Selkirk College have spent the last year re-designing curriculum in four environmental diploma programs. The new curriculum is ready for fall 2011.

Lions Park was the place to be on Sunday as the local service club held a celebration at the Uphill park. There were games for kids, food, a doggy competition and smiles all around.

Rocco Mastrobouno of the Canadian Italian Society recently donated $1,000 to Wendy Lacroix, chair of the Onagawa fundraising committee, with mayor John Dooley looking on

The Nelson Youth Employment Resource Centre is inviting youth between the ages of 15 and 30 to participate in the Nelson YERC Scavenger Hunt.

With forecasts calling for thunderstorms on Friday, many people wondered whether the West Kootenay EcoSociety would have to take the unprecedented step of cancelling its annual street festival.

The Circle of Habondia Lending Society is getting set to host an exciting art auction on Thursday at Self Design High (Legion Building on Victoria Street).

Endless Adventure in Crescent Valley is once again presenting the Kootenay Whitewater Festival this weekend.

The automobile reigns supreme in North America today. A quarter of our working lives are spent paying for them; communities fight each other for the right to manufacture them; cities are torn down, remade and planned to accommodate their needs; wars are fought to keep their fuel tanks filled; songs are written to praise them.

Things haven’t been going so well. Maybe you need to change direction. But how? The answer may be as close as your local library for some Shelf Help.

With the L.V. Rogers Class of 2011 getting set to embark on their post-high school journey through life, the Nelson Star is pleased to present a list of scholarship award winners.