Community

The Free Press has appointed a new publisher.

East Kootenay Community Credit Union (EKC) is again looking for great projects to help out.

Racers took to the slopes at Fernie Alpine Resort on Saturday with their cardboard creations for the Raging Elk Cardboard Derby.

All the Burns Night traditions were celebrated at the Fernie Museum on Saturday night.

Any girl named Beulah Remona is bound to lead as interesting a life as that name and perhaps that’s what Beulah Limber’s maternal grandmother intended when she insisted that her daughter’s tenth child be given that designation.

Fernie Alpine Resort held Avalanche Awareness Days on the weekend, at the same time the Canadian Avalanche Centre was warning of extremely high avalanche danger in the region.

The rain held off on the weekend as Elkford celebrated Winter Festival with their annual Wilderness Classic Sled Dog Derby.

An enterprising cleaner is helping raise money for the Women’s Resource Centre in Fernie by recycling items that would otherwise be thrown away.

A Jaffray family who lost their home in a house fire three weeks ago have received $10,000 from a dinner and silent auction on the weekend.