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Just before the beginning of the Chinese New Year, mayor John Dooley proclaimed the week of May 9 to 15 as Chinatown Week. May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada, and Nelson is celebrating its first Chinatown Week, in recognition of the significant contribution made by its Chinese community to the city’s rapid growth in its early days.

What’s it like teaching in a country about as long as the Slocan Valley? Where each student has their own car and driver, and Sharia law may not be a kind friend in your time of need?

The Nelson Disc Golf Society received some major financial support from the Nelson and District Credit Union to install a proposed disc golf course (also known as Frisbee golf) in Uphill Nelson.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a human rights activist, president and co-founder of Stop Child Executions, former Miss World Canada and Miss World first runner-up and the upcoming speaker for Selkirk College’s Mir Centre for Peace winter lecture series.

Santa returned to the Chahko Mika Mall on Saturday to visit the children who lived in the burned-out Kerr Apartments. Kids received Christmas presents and stuffed stockings to make up for the presents lost in the fire, and also had a chance to sit down with the jolly man in red one last time