Junior Dragons’ Den is coming to Nelson and we’re looking for talented young entrepreneurs throughout the West Kootenay and Boundary area who want to get their business idea off the ground. Modelled after CBC’s “The Dragons’ Den”, students from Grades 7 to post-secondary level pitch their business idea to a group of potential investors. The …
$6.75 million committed for three year partnership (Columbia Basin) – The Trust is making history as it establishes a new program, a new partnership and new funding to support the Basin’s heritage values. The Trust has allocated $6.15 million for a three year large capital grants program for built heritage and $600,000 for a Heritage …
West Kootenay EcoSociety works to preserve wild places, air and water for future generations; to take action to reduce the crisis of climate change; and to promote sustainable local food systems. If you are passionate, organized, love children and people of all ages, and are pursuing a career in education, we want you to join …
CASTLEGAR – Get ready for a robot competition like no other. With experimentation and mentoring, youth around the region learn how to design, build and program robots that they will enter into the annual RoboGames with the ultimate machines awarded. Registration is now open for RoboGames 2017. Open to youth ages 6 to 18 from …
Revelstoke. As expressed so succinctly on the Tourism Revelstoke website to describe living in this small Kootenay city: It’s a rare feeling. It’s an epic experience. It’s The Real Stoke. And right they are. Revelstoke takes tremendous pride in its rich heritage and spectacular scenery. This is a community that has succeeded in diversifying its …
Expedia recently released their Top 17 Canadian Cities to Visit in 2017 and guess which Kootenay communities made the list! Really, you could look at any number of our beautiful towns and cities around the region and easily put them on any “Tops” list. But, it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to …
Avi Phillips of Nelson, BC has gone from child actor in the big city to entrepreneurial dad as the owner of his own online marketing agency, and co-founder/developer of a new app along with his wife/business partner in the Kootenays. Following a serendipitous path, he translated his acting, writing and overall creative storytelling talents into …
The potential for creating the life you want, free of the needless complications, stresses and anxieties of the conventional rat-race often associated with more urban environs – a life-work balance – is becoming increasingly available here in the Kootenays. One Rossland resident is embodying that balance to the utmost, having left his big city, big …
“Place-based” marketing has become an effort gaining traction throughout the province as rural BC communities look to employ strategies encouraging talent retention, looking to take from cities such as Vancouver and Calgary. Looking to more of a Vancouver Lite approach to marketing smaller BC cities. In reference to Prince George and Quesnel’s recent campaigns to …
With the approval by the BC Government of what is soon to be the largest outdoor playground in Canada, Revelstoke is poised to take adventure tourism in the Koots to a whole new level. The Revelstoke Adventure Park will not only provide onsite camping including yurts and an RV park but enough outdoor fun to …