Community

Volunteers have been heavily involved in the renovations and revamping of the Robson Community Memorial Church.

Peter Wulowka of Raccoon Carpentry and Steve Jerome donated their time to help Darlene Kalawsky of Communities in Bloom beautify Castlegar’s welcome sign near Blueberry last week. Wulowka, with apprentices, plans to team up with Communities in Bloom throughout the summer to bring his carpentry creativity to area residents. To contact Wulowka, phone 365-9810. The rocks used for the planting were donated by Marwest Industries.

Organizers with the sixth annual Spring Fling are calling last Saturday’s event a success, with residents from all over the West Kootenay coming to attend the festivities.

Around 35 people participated in Sunday’s Hike For Hospice, bringing in a total of $2,000. Participants had the option of walking a short route down 3rd Street and around 13th Avenue and back, or a longer route down the Millennium Walkway. This was the 9th annual event that occurs across Canada.

Haley Fry of Curves in downtown Castlegar shows food donations and a cheque for $250 collected during the month of April to be donated to the Community Harvest Food Bank. Current Curves members brought in food donations and anyone that joined as a member during the month of April donated $30 to the food bank instead of paying a service fee. Each jellybean on the wall behind the food represents a pound of food collected, totalling 225 pounds.

It is almost that time again: the Castlegar Garden and Nature Fest is just around the corner!

About 280 of Selkirk College’s 716 spring graduates celebrated their accomplishments at the Graduation Ceremony and Tea at the Castlegar campus on Thursday last week.

The Castlegar Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale will be held on Saturday, May 7 from 9 a.m. to noon. The Castlegar Station Museum, located at 400 13th Ave., is the perfect spot to plan a morning sojourn for a change of pace.

The Robson Community School held its annual Spell-A-Thon on March 30. Students were given word lists that they need to study, and were asked to collect pledges, with proceeds going toward our school.

Castlegar families can get the information they need to get started, during the Society’s free tele-workshop on Thursday, April 28 at 7 p.m.