Life in the Kootenays

#YourBetterLife

Are you living YourBetterLife in the koots? We want to know about it! Show us your what #yourbetterlife looks like in photos, videos and stories. Share with us on Instagram and Twitter using #yourbetterlife or post on our Facebook timeline so that we can feature all the ways you are loving life in these fantastic …

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Rural Life the Answer to the Increasing Stress of Urban Living

Home prices, and not only how the city of Vancouver, but the BC Provincial Government, intends to handle this problem plaguing the Lower Mainland, has been making the news for the past many months. With a median home price moving towards $700,000 and many desirable neighbourhoods commanding $1.5 to $2 million-plus, it’s more than beyond …

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RED Mountain Partners With National Ski Academy

RED Mountain is making news and, yet again, all good! RED made the announcement last week that it has partnered with the National Ski Academy (NSA) and their Legacy Training Centre has been designated the National Ski Academy’s Official Western Canadian Training Centre. “The forefront of this relationship is to cement ourself as a leader …

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YCDTH Episode 94 – How To Be Prolific With Adam O. Thomas

Adam O. Thomas has made a career out of letting his creative juices flow, collaborating with others, and creating unique, engaging content. Whether creating experimental comedy or educational media Adam brings a punk rock, do it yourself attitude to everything he does, infusing his own life experiences along the way. He’s had success recently with …

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Reel Youth Film Festival Comes to Rossland

Rossland Council for Arts & Culture will be bringing the Reel Youth Film Festival to town! The Reel Youth Film Festival pulls together an insightful, compelling and humorous collection of short films from across the globe – all made by youth. Chosen by a youth selection panel from over 700 submissions and 20 countries around …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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