Community

Magician John Kaplan is set to take the stage at the Castlegar Community Complex next week in an effort to help Kinnaird Elementary students raise funds for a trip to Calgary.

Derrick Statt (left) and Peter Wulowka (right) present a $300 donation to Deb McIntosh of the Community Harvest Food Bank.

SHSS students hit the runway at the ‘Spring Fling Fashion Show’ on April 16, gathering donations for the local food bank at the same time. See more photos from the show at facebook.com/castlegarnews

For its sixth year, Castlegar’s Spring Fling will shut down the streets of downtown for a one-day festival.

Get your walking shoes on for the Hike for Hospice at Kinsmen Park next Sunday. Now in its ninth year, this national event raises funds for hospice and palliative care in Canada. Locally, the money raised will go to the Castlegar Hospice Society.

Staff and volunteers at the Creston Museum have been busily working on a brand new exhibit, and would like to invite you to come down and check it out...

Dale Donaldson was the lucky winner of this year’s Castlegar Rotary Club Golf Raffle. The first prize, a one-year membership at the Castlegar Golf Club, was presented by committee chair Jo-Ann Bursey. All of the proceeds from the raffle go to the Castlegar Rotary Club’s Stanley Humphries Secondary School scholarships.

If you live in Castlegar’s downtown area, don’t be surprised if you’re woken up to a lively choir on May 1.

Castle Wood Village saluted its many volunteers on Thursday with a Hawaiian-themed celebration. The music, dancing, drinks and food were part of national Volunteer Appreciation Week and the colourful shirts and leis, well, they were just for fun, said community manager Linda Frew.

Airing the dirty laundry of domestic violence is the purpose of the Clothesline Project, now in its second year in Castlegar.