The Powder Highway: Working the Dream!
It’s only nearly Halloween but many folks around the region are celebrating first snows and the steady accumulation of fresh snow up high. The countdown is officially on! The dreaming about fresh tracks has begun… now it’s just a matter of how you’re going to make it actually happen. #Yourbetterlife combines supreme ski and snowboarding […]
Help Nelson’s Civic Theatre win $40,000!
The Civic Theatre (Nelson Civic Theatre Society) has been selected to compete against eight other groups across Canada in the National Trust for Canada’s This Place Matters competition. In this contest, the project that gathers the most votes (or combination of votes and dollars, as every dollar raised is worth a vote as well) by […]
YCDTH Episode 89 – Let Your Passion Lead the Way With Adrian Wagner
Change. It has a way of separating those that are good at doing, and those that are good at doing as well as learning, growing and adapting. The person who is open to learning, adapting and evolving will find change to simply be the canvass for their creations. Yes standing still is death in a […]
Basin Recreation Infrastructure Enhanced
Hearing about the recent funding granted the Slocan Valley upon only a little digging, it didn’t take long to find there was significantly more funding made available to other communities throughout the Basin specifically to support recreation opportunities. 20 Basin recreation projects receive $1 million Under the Columbia Basin Trust‘s Basin Recreation Infrastructure Grants program, […]
The Trust Grants $250,000 for Slocan Valley Recreation Project
Media Release~ August 23, 2016 Thanks to a generous grant from the Columbia Basin Trust (the Trust), recreational opportunities in the lower Slocan Valley will be improved and expanded for park and trail users. The CBT has awarded a $250,000 Recreation Infrastructure Grant to the Slocan Community Recreational Greenway Project, a unique partnership comprised of […]
Kootenays Attractions Make Top 10!
It never comes as a surprise to anyone when Vancouver makes a Top 10 List. In fact, after so many, it’s almost expected that Vancouver is considered one of the Most Liveable or one of The Best Cities to Live or, hey, how about Most Beautiful? In the expanse of beauty and liveability that defines […]
YCDTH Episode 85 – Peter Moynes of Kootenay Mountain Culture Limited
Culture. Webster’s defines it as the manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. Culture is also a perfect way to view and understand a particular group of people or geographic region. It’s a beautiful thought really, understanding and getting to know a place or people by their collective achievements. Here in the Kootenays much of […]
YCDTH Episode 82 – Product Design With Cam Shute of G3
Your Better Life and You Can Do That Here live in synchronicity here in the Kootenays. They go hand in hand as the Kootenay region supports and encourages all manner of opportunities that you can find and do here to help you live your dream – #yourbetterlife! Cam Shute of Nelson, BC, an Engineer and […]
Remote Kootenay wilderness about to become ‘virtually’ trekkable
The Nature Conservancy of Canada and Google have partnered in a unique project to put B.C. wilderness online It’s not quite “going where no man has gone before”, but it’s close. Adrian Leslie of the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has just finished slogging through a remote corner of the Kootenays known as Darkwoods, […]
Thought for Food: Food Policy Council
The Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK), Community Futures Central Kootenay and the BC Food Systems Network announced today the launch of a joint project to create a regional Food Policy Council for the Central Kootenay. The Kootenays are abundant with food production and agricultural activities and this project aims to devise a made-in-the-Kootenays model […]