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One of the few remaining ingredients in the construction of the new Chances Gaming Centre was dealt with by Castlegar City Council during its regular meeting of July 18.

Acts of vandalism continue to frustrate local residents and authorities. A person or persons, probably sometime over the past weekend, defaced property along Castlegar’s Millennium Walkway and Zuckerberg Island, leaving their spray painted marks in numerous locations.

Elections BC is keeping its call centre open until midnight Friday, the deadline for B.C. residents to register and request a voting package for the harmonized sales tax referendum.

On July 12 the BC NDP Kootenay West Constituency Association acclaimed Katrine Conroy as the NDP candidate for the next provincial election. The party’s new leader, Adrian Dix, attended the meeting and praised Conroy for her contributions to her constituency and as a leader of the opposition in Victoria.

A former Marijuana Party candidate and a former Canadian Border Services officer petitioned city councillors on Monday to support the creation of a "compassion club" in Castlegar and push for the decentralization of medical marijuana distribution.

The inaugural Kootenay Festival in Castlegar is being hailed as a big success, thanks to nearly ideal weather on Saturday, a wide variety of well-received artists and merchants and thousands of visitors who came out to be a part of it all.

Government communications have traditionally been built around a stream of propaganda, with the emphasis on pictures and text arranged to show the ruling politicians of the day in a flattering light.

The B.C. government finished the fiscal year this spring with a deficit of $309 million, nearly $1 billion less than what was forecast last fall.

Chinese buyers purchased $122 million worth of B.C. lumber in May, surpassing the value of lumber shipments to the United States for the first time ever.