Stonehenge exhibition opens at Denver Museum of Nature & Science DMNS on March 12, 2021 artifacts, science behind World Heritage Site Wiltshire, England; tickets.
by John Boivin Local Journalism Initiative on Monday February 01 2021
The opening session of the budget deliberations – which will go on for the next two months – brought the major issues to the fore and set general directions for the discussion.
The Regional District of Central Kootenay’s board of directors have had their first glimpse of this year’s budget – along with a warning that choppy financial waters may be ahead.
“We don’t know if the last quarter of 2021 will look anywhere near the first quarter of 2020, and being able to predict that is easily the most difficult task we’ve got with respect to budgeting,” RDCK Chief Administrative Officer Stuart Horn told directors at a special budget meeting January 22.
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January 27, 2021
Internet speed tests still available for some residents
There is still time for residents in select East Kootenay communities to be able to test their internet speed courtesy Columbia Basin Trust.
Panorama Mountain Resort, Wilmer and Moyie area residents are invited to test internet speed, as well residents in Golden, Kicking Horse, Upper Donald, Nicholson, Wynndel, Slocan, New Denver, Silverton, Rosebery, Nakusp, Salmo, Ross Spur and Valemount.
The Trust asks residents to take this internet speed test before Sunday, January 31.
“By taking the online speed test, you are providing specific data about the true state of connectivity in your area. This information determines eligibility for federal connectivity granting programs. Certain areas of the Columbia Basin are showing as meeting service expectations; however, that is not what we heard from you. If you live in one of these communities, take the speed test by January 31.”
Indigenous beadwork flourishes on Instagram
A pair of earrings, beaded onto smoked hide, by the Cherokee artist Tayler Gutierrez. Photo: Tayler Gutierrez.
by Anna V. Smith
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Last year, after the museum that Tayler Gutierrez worked at in Salt Lake City closed temporarily because of the coronavirus, she turned to her beadwork.
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Gutierrez, 24, had been practicing beadwork for years after learning from a mentor, Diné poet Tacey Atsitty, and she already had a modest following on her Instagram page, where she posted her custom hat brims, earrings and leather pouches.
Interior Health said communities in the Kootenay/Boundary regions were part of the initial roll-out of the Moderna vaccine in Interior Health last week. Interior Health said those communities include Nelson, Kaslo and New Denver in the West Kootenay, Grand Forks in the Boundary region and Creston, Fernie and Invermere in theEast Kootenay. Interior Health said vaccines at this