Community

More than 250 people attended the Toastmasters Provincial Spring Conference in Osoyoos earlier this month, where Nelson member Heather Love was co-chair.

The Grade 5/6 class at St. Joseph School is inspired to change the world.

Air cadets Adam Kilbourne-Quirk and Rowen Weber, of 561 Osprey Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in Nelson, recently received hands-on experience in a B767 at the Aveos Maintenance Facility at the Vancouver Airport.

The Nelson Waldorf School will be offering a new class in the fall, and expanding its early childhood programs to meet the changing children and families’ needs.

“Top notch” — that’s the descriptor being used for the conduct of the students at South Nelson Elementary School. Schools throughout the Nelson Fire Department protection area took part in the annual fire drill competition, with the youth in South Nelson pulling off an impressive performance to edge out the rest.

This month residents in communities across Canada will participate in Lupus Canada’s most important public awareness and fundraising event, Walk for Lupus. Lupus Canada, in partnership with its provincial member organizations, is holding their tenth annual Walk for Lupus campaign in conjunction with World Lupus Day to help increase awareness and funds for lupus. Events will be held worldwide in an effort to bring more awareness to this under-funded and under-recognized disease.

The Nelson Public Library has received the gift of a beautiful quilted fibre work donated by the artist.

The Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program provided more than $7 million in funding in 2010 to nearly 65 projects around the province — including the Kootenay — and is looking to do the same in 2011.

Nelson resident Trevor Jenkinson snapped this shot of the sun at around 3 p.m. May 13 downtown Nelson.

Ten youth projects were successful in the recent intake of the Columbia Basin Youth Grants program. Offered by Columbia Basin Trust, the grants support youth-led projects that directly benefit Basin youth (ages 15 to 29) and involve youth in project development, planning and implementation.