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Come see thousands upon thousands of deep red kokanee gathered together at the spawning channel near Meadow Creek at the north end of Kootenay Lake at an open house on Sunday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The fall leisure guide for Slocan Valley recreation is now out so make sure to check it out for all the great programs coming up.

When the Kerr apartment building in Nelson tragically burned down this year and residents needed assistance, the Kootenay Savings South Slocan branch didn’t hesitate to ask how can we help?

Over the last three months, local Save-On- Foods customers have been donating points for Our Daily Bread.

How could you not love that face? Plenty do and this Saturday pug lovers are invited to the sixth annual Pugapalozza in Crescent Valley at the Frog Peak Cafe.

About 120 students in Nelson will receive a nice surprise in time for the new school year — a backpack filled with basic school supplies they likely would not have been able to afford otherwise.

Chainsaw collector Mike Acres is bringing some of his unusual antique saws from Vancouver to the 100th Kootenay Lake Fall Fair this Saturday. He has also promised to cut a log with one of these unique machines.

It is that time of year again. Along with the return to school, the registered music teachers return to the work of musically educating their students.

Two hundred years to the day after explorer and fur trader David Thompson visited the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia rivers, locals gathered at Millennium Park in Castlegar Monday.

It’s difficult to imagine being part of an organization or even a profession for more than half a century, but this summer the longest serving member of the Touchstones Museum board stepped down.