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Pickleball popularity grows in Fruitvale
March 25, 2025 • 2 minutes

Pickleball popularity grows in Fruitvale

More people are picking up pickleball as their sport of choice. With support from the Trust and the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, Beaver Valley residents have more courts to play on.

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Creating Jobs While Enhancing Basin Trails
March 19, 2025 • 3 minutes

Creating Jobs While Enhancing Basin Trails

The Trust’s Basin Job Experience Trail Crew Program helps organizations like the Salmo Valley Trail Society keep their trail networks safe and accessible all while creating opportunities and hands-on skills development for local workers.

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Dedication in Action: Three Long-Serving Women at the Trust 
March 12, 2025 • 4 minutes

Dedication in Action: Three Long-Serving Women at the Trust 

These three women share a common thread—a passion for the work they do and the communities they support.

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Ecosystem Improvements on the Horizon
March 10, 2025 • 7 minutes

Ecosystem Improvements on the Horizon

Ecosystem Enhancement Program projects will include forest thinning and prescribed burning on the east side of Columbia Lake through a partnership between the Ktunaxa Nation Council, ʔakisq̓nuk First Nation and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

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Supporting Improvements to Seniors’ Housing
March 6, 2025 • 4 minutes

Supporting Improvements to Seniors’ Housing

Seniors’ spaces across the Basin will see more amenities for health, comfort and engagement including the new Ash Street residence in Valemount.

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Families thrive in ʔakisq̓nuk First Nation and beyond
February 26, 2025 • 3 minutes

Families thrive in ʔakisq̓nuk First Nation and beyond

Free activities including outdoor adventures like fishing days and day hikes are connecting families while building community and relationships of support thanks to the ʔakisq̓nuk First Nation's Little Badgers Early Learning Centre.

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Kaslo Thrift Store — Give a little, help a lot
February 19, 2025 • 2 minutes

Kaslo Thrift Store — Give a little, help a lot

The Kaslo Thrift store runs on community spirit, giving back to residents and local efforts year-round. Now with the addition of a solar array, insulation, new roof and other improvements to their critical storage outbuilding, volunteers can work comfortably while reducing operational costs.

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Pursuing an education locally
February 12, 2025 • 4 minutes

Pursuing an education locally

Each year, the Trust's Columbia Basin Bursary Program helps students at Selkirk College, College of the Rockies and Okanagan College's Revelstoke campus reach their educational goals.

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New Community Liaison Strengthens Support for Northwest Basin
February 11, 2025 • 2 minutes

New Community Liaison Strengthens Support for Northwest Basin

New Community Liaison Amanda Murphy will support communities in the Basin’s Northwest region including Revelstoke, Nakusp, New Denver, Silverton, Slocan and more.

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Families will benefit from new child care spaces in Kimberley
February 7, 2025 • 3 minutes

Families will benefit from new child care spaces in Kimberley

Rocky Mountain Childcare facility project partners toured the new child care centre at Marysville Elementary School on January 6.

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The joy of poi comes to Golden
February 5, 2025 • 2 minutes

The joy of poi comes to Golden

A-Muse Troupe in Golden is helping to introduce community members to the performing art of poi, benefitting mind and body.

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CBAL helps families make literacy fun
January 28, 2025 • 4 minutes

CBAL helps families make literacy fun

The Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy supports the life-long literacy needs of Basin residents of all ages including special programming during Family Literacy Week.

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