Community

Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their last respects to 19-year-old John Cutt who was electrocuted in an accident at Christina Lake.

BC Rivers Day was celebrated last Sunday, with local members of the Kettle Granby Boundary Fly Anglers picking up the trash from the Kettle and Granby Rivers.

A wonderful evening of celebration was held at the Grand Forks Art Gallery (Gallery 2) on Sept. 7, when the Champions for Literacy in the Boundary were honoured.

The Grand Forks Gazette and the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL) are teaming up for the Reach a Reader event next week.

Grand Forks & District Public Library has planned an amnesty during the month of October on fines for unreturned items.

Local residents and food enthusiasts Bob Kendell and Gary Smith proposed the introduction of the haskap berries into Grand Forks agricultural production at a recent city council meeting.

Although the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy recently celebrated its 10th anniversary as a non-profit society, its roots go back much further – at least to 1990.

Celebration of Today’s Entrepreneurs is the theme for Community Futures Boundary’s annual small business recognition and awards evening on Oct. 13.

With unexpected extra funding available, the Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communities is asking for community organizations to send in proposals for grants to the region this fall.

You’ve read the books, you considered, and you chose and now, the votes have been tallied.