So far this year 6000 people have obtained a winter permit to tour in Rogers Pass, that’s a high for prior years, and we’re only mid-season. Jonas Hoke is a mountain safety specialist in Glacier National Park. Here he talks about the permitting system and reflects back on when it started, in 1995. We also […]
Today in The News we heard about the Revelstoke Workforce Affordable For-Purchase Housing Program, a renovation at the Farwell daycare centre, and the Olds from 1985. Listen to the full show:
Let me take you back in my series, The Olds. This week we went to back to February, 1985. Thanks to the Revelstoke Museum and Archives for letting me look through old newspapers. Long live local news!
Revelstoke’s school district has been working with the province and childcare society in town to add more infant-toddler daycare spaces in the Farwell building. Absolute Contracting will renovate the building, and 12 more ten dollar a day daycare spots will be added. Bruce Tisdale is the secretary-treasurer of the Revelstoke School District:
Kevin Dorrius, the general manager at Community Futures, has taken it upon himself to create a non-market housing development, where Revelstoke residents will be able to purchase units. Dorrius has been working over the last year-and-a-half with the city of Revelstoke, the Revelstoke Community Housing Society, and Cathy English at the museum and archives. Now, […]
In this episode of the News Show I spoke with Tina Witt, the manager of Cheers liquor stores, Gordo who was buying bourbon, Nick Arkle, the CEO of Gormon Brothers Lumber Ltd, and Ravi Parmar, BC’s Minister of Forests. I also played a clip of Andy Beshear, Kentucky’s governor, which originally played on NBC. Listen […]
The newly created Revelstoke Women’s Collective aims to provide women leaders an opportunity for connection and growth. Revelstoke Chamber of Commerce executive director Caroline Lachapelle said the collective was formed in response to inquiries from women leaders on the Chamber’s board of directors. “And, so I realized, if the women on my own board are […]
The Ol’ Frontier Family Restaurant is gone following a structure fire that broke out early Saturday morning. In a statement issued late Saturday morning, the City of Revelstoke said Revelstoke Fire Rescue responded to a commercial structure fire call just after midnight on August 24. While firefighters weren’t able to save the historic restaurant, they […]
A proposed tourist accommodation along Airport Way won’t be moving forward. At its regular meeting on August 15, The Columbia Shuswap Regional District Board of Directors voted against approving two zoning bylaw amendments which would have allowed the owner of a 7.5 hectare property at 4762 Airport Way to create a small tourist accommodation with […]
This year the Revelstoke Golf Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary. According to a post on the BC Golf House Society’s website, the success of the Banff Springs hotel and golf course, which opened in 1912, inspired the federal government of the day to contemplate a similar project for Mount Revelstoke National Park. However, when […]