Columns – The Rocky Mountain Goat News

Mountain Top Experience: Life-Long Faith Journey

October 12, 2019 The Goat

By Eleanor Deckert A heart-to-heart conversation with an older friend is something to treasure. In a quiet, trust-filled moment, you might ask very personal questions. “Have you always believed the same thing and expressed your […]

Local youth succeed at Valemount Funduro!

September 29, 2019 The Goat

By Jean Ann Berkenpas Two local kids participated in the Valemount Mountain Bike Park’s first enduro style mountain bike race on September 14th. Elli Taylor and Kirby Scheller both had their first experience competing at […]

A Berg Lake trek with children in tow

September 5, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Jean Ann Berkenpas A group of 11 women and children did a quick overnight hiking trip to Berg Lake. While the Berg Lake Trail sees many visitors, this group was unique because it consisted […]

Mountain Top Experience: The meaning of home

August 21, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Eleanor Deckert I counted. By the time I was 30 years old, I had lived in 12 houses. If you add in the dormitory, grandparents, live-in-nanny jobs, tents, summer camp, hospital, and relatives, also […]

Food camp gets kids pumped about local food

August 13, 2019 Arthur Tanga

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 […]

Cross Continent Cycle for Cancer

July 31, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By ANDREA ARNOLD Imagine you are a college student at the University of Texas in Austin Texas, when someone approaches you and asks you to dedicate the next two years raising money for and spreading […]

Wonderful things to do (with kids) in the Robson Valley!

July 21, 2019 The Goat

By Jean Ann Berkenpas While it may feel like summer has just started, there are only seven weeks left until kids are back in school. Make the best of the time left for some family […]

Our Home and Chosen Land

June 30, 2019 Arthur Tanga

Eleanor Deckert reflects on the nature of belonging in an adopted country By Eleanor Deckert I didn’t want to lie. So, for many years, I closed my mouth and did not sing the four syllables […]

Remmelg retires after 36 Years

June 24, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By ANDREA ARNOLD In the summer of 1983, Laverne Remmelg (then Clostio) caught a ride to McBride from Prince George with the new McBride Secondary principal Brian Janson. The Janson’s were looking at real estate […]

I remember when: The Bookmarker

June 17, 2019 The Goat

By Joan Nordli In the summer of 1945 – end of WWII – the Price family of Coleman, Crowsnest Pass, AB, ventured off to Banff’s Veterans’ Hospital to visit our Dad, Jack Price. My dad, […]

World War II veterans: Their sacrifice honoured in ice, stone & water

June 16, 2019 The Goat

By Andru McCracken Seventy-five years after D-Day, a turning point in the Second World War, Canadians are remembering the sacrifices made by a generation, close to Valemount a mountain, glacier and creek mark the extraordinary […]