Community

The Nelson Lions Club is hosting Lions Park Day once again this year on Sunday.

Earth Matters, a program of Nelson CARES Society and a local non-profit organization, has been leasing two community gardens from the City of Nelson for over 10 years with a commitment to maintain these gardens and provide local programming to the community.

Selkirk College is hosting a special reunion on July 8, 9 and 10 at the Castlegar campus to celebrate 25 years of International Education. Hundreds of students from five continents and more than 25 countries have come to study and experience life in the West Kootenay over the past quarter century.

Relay for Life brought together many people at Lakeside Park on Saturday. Various teams came out to show their support and raise money to fund cancer research. The Rosemont KARES Club was among those groups, and featured Katelynn Poznikoff (center) who did the opening speech for the Relay.

Cheryl Grant’s WildFlower II class put on a play for Mother’s Day and donated $307.15 of the proceeds to West Kootenay EcoSociety.

Fields of lavender, landscaped ponds, organic market gardens, blueberry hillsides, garlic, and flowers everywhere — 10 gorgeous valley gardens to explore.

The Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo recognized the L.V. Rogers Grade 9, 11, and 12 mathematics teams as zone champions in the 2011 Canadian Mathematics Competition.

July 10 marks the tenth anniversary of the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation’s Legacy Golf Event at Granite Pointe.

Once again summer is upon us and it’s time to put your feet up and read a good book.

They were welcomed by a very smelly baited bear trap when they arrived in the group campsite at Kokanee Creek Provincial Park, but initial anxiety wore off and 19 Rotary youth exchange students quickly started to enjoy their first overnight tent camping experience.