Lost in Space
Canoe Valley Skating Club held their 47th consecutive skating carnival on March 7th. The carnival marked Sharonrose Shalla’s 30th year coaching the club. Skaters dazzled the audience with their spaced out costumes, one skater took […]
Arts
Treeplanter-fronted Sask band can’t resist Valemount: Multiple St. Patrick’s shows this year
By Goat Staff Valemount is in for a genre-defying evening of original, female-fronted tunes Monday, March 16th. The Valemount Legion will be hosting Rymestone (Sask), 0Stella (Edmonton/Dublin) and the Robson Valley’s own Cat Crowley. The […]
Through the Seasons
By ANDREA ARNOLD The McBride Figure Skating Club presented their annual carnival on Saturday February 29, 2020. This year’s theme, “Through the Seasons” took attendees through all four seasons, beginning with spring as the skaters […]
Staving off Cabin Fever
By Jean Ann Berkenpas With the mercury dropping down to -40C last week, many families were stuck indoors. My family is one that spends a big part of our day outside, so we were strained […]
Transformative librarian on the move
By Andru McCracken The remarkable librarian Naomi Balla-Boudreau is leaving McBride. She has decided to take a position in Deep River in the Ottawa Valley, north of Algonquin Park in Ontario, it’s very close to […]
Jazi Azi teaching kids to dance
By Jean Ann Berkenpas Jasmine Hoetjes is bringing her passion for the arts to the Robson Valley through her new Jazi Azi Dance School. This fall she offered dance classes in McBride. On Friday November […]
Another call for public art
By Andru McCracken The Columbia Basin Trust has opened their next call for public art. This is the same grant stream that caused two uproars in Valemount just a few months ago. One, when a […]
Dance extravaganza!
Time to shine! The Roundhouse Theatre was alive with laughter, dance, music and even a few tears on Friday night as a talented group of locals treated the full house to an old-fashioned variety show. […]
Smoke Risin’
By Lisa Hennigar My teenager’s characteristic lateness afforded me some advantage in scoring front row seats to Ashley MacIsaac last week. We rushed in as he took the stage, not believing our good luck that […]
Maternal monologues: a window on rural fertility
By Laura Keil Prejudice, hostility, fear, loneliness and geographical barriers… those were just some of the inner and outer conflicts in a Wishbone Theatre production last week that tackled the issues of rural birthing and […]