A long-time curler from Rossland Curling Club was recognized by his club for his dedication to the sport.Read More »Aged 95 and still a threat on the ice
Cranbrook’s curling club might not be the centre of the universe, but it has suddenly found itself with a powerful tool that allows it to reach a national or even international audience.Read More »High tech streaming system brings Kootenay curling into digital age
Tommy Gossland dives into the UBC Aquatic centre pool. Picture Copyright Geoff Lister/The Ubyssey.
Canadians need to start embracing the Summer Olympic Games like they embrace the Winter Olympics.
For a nation that professes to love sport, we are too often prone to ignore some of our best and brightest athletes.Read More »Summer Games athletes deserve support
Christmas is coming — and it’s time for the annual tree panic. If an artificial tree just won’t cut it, then you might want to join the growing numbers “choosing and cutting” their own Christmas tree. I visited a farm to get the whole festive experience. South Wales Evening Post, Wednesday, December 7, 2011. I HAVE really fond memories of my childhood trips to get our Christmas tree.
My dad would take my sister, my brother and I out in our estate car, armed with an axe and some twine, and we’d travel up a snow-covered country road to find somewhere where an evergreen would be growing. The outing usually culminated — after a big argument over which tree to choose — with my dad strapping a less-than-perfect-but-still-beautiful tree to the top of the car, and packing us all home where mum would serve hot chocolate.
If this sounds unlikely to you — a bit too Hallmark-card perfect — it might not surprise you to find out that I grew up in Canada.
Not just Canada, but northern British Columbia, where trees outnumber people by about 82 million to one, give or take, and there’s always a white Christmas. It has meant that, for me, the fake Christmas trees you buy in the supermarket just won’t cut it.
Read More »Plastic may be fantastic but only a real Christmas tree will cut it
Pic by Graham Roumieu.
THE best-selling Da Vinci Code book and film inextricably changed the face of Rosslyn Chapel, on the Scottish borders.At one time, the relatively small chapel attracted 3,000 visitors a year.
But Dan Brown’s international best seller threw the decaying building into the limelight. At the height of the book’s popularity, 175,000 visited the chapel, and, in 2009, visitor numbers were still well above the 100,000 mark.
Although a visit to the chapel wasn’t our only aim on travelling to Scotland, it was most definitely one of the highlights.
Cinema-goers from the News area will be able to see some familiar sights when they go to the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.
Farnborough Airport and the Bruneval Barracks, in Montgomery Lines, Aldershot, were used in the eagerly-anticipated follow-up to Casino Royale, due out in cinemas Friday.
The star-studded cast from the film, including Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench, were all filmed in the area in January.
The barracks were portrayed as snow-covered buildings in Moscow.
Read More »Aldershot barracks fill in for ‘Eastern bloc’ era Moscow buildings in Bond film
The Interior News, July 28, 2004.
WHEN Fatima Cengic was 13 years old, she was living in Tesanj, a Bosnian city under siege by Serbian militants. She was unable to enjoy even the simplest of pleasures of life, such as a carefree stroll down the road.
Because of the threat of gunfire and bombs, she lived with her family in the basement of their home for six months.
But after six months, Cengic got fed up and decided enough was enough.
“My room was upstairs, everything was upstairs,” she says.
“I just hated the basement.”
To the chagrin of her parents, Cengic defied what they thought was safe, and began sleeping upstairs.