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ndependent Bookstores across the country are hosting promotional events on Saturday, October 15th in celebration of Independents’ Day. This is a major marketing drive championing the cultural and economic contributions made by long-established and new generation independent booksellers operating in many Canadian communities.

Life depends on water; it is something we can’t do without. It makes sense that we should protect our primary source of water, so we can drink, fish and swim in it for years to come. The Elk River Alliance was formed a year ago with this in mind, wanting to connect people to the Elk River and encourage them to look after the Elk Valley watershed and aquatic ecosystem.

The District of Sparwood has won a Community Excellence Award at the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) Convention.

Former Sparwood fire chief, Rick Goold, appeared in court in Cranbrook on Wednesday morning, charged with sexual interference of a person under the age of 14.

BC Hydro is moving ahead with its cost-cutting program, eliminating 300 positions this week and announcing 150 more will be gone in the next two years.

A man has died after being hit by a car near Dicken Road, east of Fernie.

Clear your calendar's this Saturday 15th because this is your chance to truly rock and roll! Fernie's own Roller Derby team, the Avalanche City Roller Girls are hosting their first local fund-raising event and they're bringing a riot of rockabilly, burlesque and the rolling brigade of black and red ladies who are set to take the East Kootenay Roller Derby League down; avalanche style.

The head of the B.C. Treaty Commission wants her mandate extended one more year to see if the federal-provincial effort to settle aboriginal land claims has a future after two decades.

Pat Bell's latest assignment is simple. As Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation, all he has to do is take B.C.'s success in reaching out to Asia for forest products, extend it to the rest of the economy, and make Premier Christy Clark's jobs plan work.

Sparwood and Elkford students took part in the annual Terry Fox run. Students at Sparwood Secondary School watched a video commemorating Terry Fox and his journey, learning of the strength, and passion Terry Fox was filled with on during his run. They learned of his past and the reasons he was running for and they left inspired knowing that one person can truly make a difference.