A portion of downtown Revelstoke was transformed into a fashion show runway for Birch and Lace’s annual trashion show, held on May 25. Usually held in April to celebrate Earth Month, this year’s trashion show took place in partnership with another environmentally focused event, Revy Re-Fest. The trashion show featured 12 outfits and 15 participants, […]
Revelstoke’s 106.1 Bounce Radio is among 21 radio stations Vista Radio is looking to acquire from Bell Media. The sale is pending approval from the Canadian Radio-Televison and Telecommunications Commission. For many in Revelstoke, news of the potential sale of Bounce Radio better known to some as CKCR or the Big R, came via a […]
A pump track is a little bit closer to becoming a reality in Revelstoke. Revelstoke city council has given the go ahead for city staff the enter into a contract with Velosolutions to design and build a pump track at Centennial Park. In a brief overview of the project to council at its regular meeting […]
Trevor Kehler 20 years ago started making bags out of old seatbelts, one of which is now featured in the Godzilla series — Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. U.S.E.D, the name of Kehler’s Revelstoke-based company, came up when Haida Harper did a search for tote bags made in B.C. The assistant props master was looking for […]
Every year a CP Rail train decked out in lights, stops in communities across Canada and the U.S., and raises money for local food banks. CP presented a $10,000 to the Revelstoke food bank when they were in town, from the stage that folds down from a special train car. Musicians performed Christmas songs on […]
Millions of dollars worth of commerce flow every hour on Highway One and the Canadian Pacific Rail through the Rogers Pass in B.C. The Selkirk Mountains are legendary for steep terrain and deep powder skiing, which is also perfect equation for massive avalanches that thunder from the tops of the mountains all the way in […]
A 27-year old man from Quebec died on Sat. Dec. 4 while snowmobiling in the Toilet Bowl area of Boulder Mountain, according to a news release from the Revelstoke RCMP. The man had been separated from the group he was riding with. He tried to contact them by radio, but since he didn’t have a […]
Radio story: The owners of the two biggest manufactured home parks in Revelstoke, want to turn them into stratas. The Cumming family, which operates as Rimcher Investments Ltd., owns four parks in town. They sent out a letter in November to residents of Glacier Heights and Oscar Street parks, saying they are starting the stratification […]
Listen to the radio story here: Google has struck a deal with the federal government. And Canadian news content will not be blocked in google searches as a result. The Canadian government in the spring passed the Online News Act, Bill C-18. The intent of which is to try and support the Canadian media industry, […]