Status quo not good enough after stairwell collapse
By Laura Keil Last week, a senior fell when a staircase collapsed at the Golden Years Lodge. I believe this is an important story and I wanted to do it right. Even though it puts […]
Month: August 2019
Goat gets top honours at newspaper awards
By Goat Staff The Rocky Mountain Goat has placed 1st in the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for Best Feature Story in 2018. The award was given for Laura Keil’s longform feature story Failed Mission about […]
The alleged forged license and the inadmissable evidence
By Andru McCracken When Daniel Jason Keen produced an enlarged, doctored photocopy of a driver’s license, law enforcement may have thought they had a clear case of forgery on their hands, but Keen was cleared […]
The Rainbow unveiled
By Andru McCracken A small group of local people and a few tourists unveiled a rainbow bench on the patio of Valemount’s Gathering Tree on July 27 in an emotional ceremony that recalled the struggles […]
Food camp gets kids pumped about local food
By Jean Ann Berkenpas For a week in the middle of July a group of children from the McBride area spend their mornings learning about food: growing it, preparing it, and of course eating it […]
Esser back on top
By Andru McCracken McBride’s Agnes Esser has reclaimed the Canadian national title in discus at the Canadian Track & Field Championships held in Montreal, Quebec. Esser held the title in 2016 and 2017, and placed […]
Letter: Rainbow Bench is a platform for education
I wanted to applaud Sherral Shaw, owner of the Gathering Tree, for taking the initiative as a business owner to recognize the LGBTQ2S+ community with a rainbow bench. A business owner in a small community […]
Bite and Bark
By Andru McCracken A travelling exhibition at the Valemount Museum features an ancient, rare and once commonplace art that you may have never come across before. Birch bark biting is thought to be tens of […]
RMG 2nd annual photo contest
By Laura Keil The Goat’s photo contest attracted some excellent submissions and we are happy to showcase a number of them in the paper this week. The grand prize winner is Courtney Rupertus for her […]