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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.

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink Tour Bus made its way through the Kootenays this week, making two stops in Nelson.

Since Riondel’s Brandon Salviulo died in 2009 in a tragic ATV accident, his family and the community have worked to make sure his memory lives on.

On September 5, 1811, David Thompson and his crew reached the confluence of the Columbia and Kootenay rivers where they had an historic meeting with the First Nations — the first known direct European-First Nations contact in our region.

What is it about summer we love so much? The warmth, the sun, the long days, the time away from work, times away from home, visits from friends and family. So much is packed into those few months, and we want them to be great.