Fifteen years ago in November, the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League assembled a team of its best players to play Team Canada East in a pre-tournament match-up in advance of the 2007 World Junior A Hockey Challenge co-hosted by Trail and Nelson. The coaching staff for the KIJHL All-Stars was led by Nelson Leafs Head Coach Simon Wheeldon, who had current KIJHL Head
Two Roots Farm is home to 60 alpacas and two llamas, in addition to several other, more typical domestic animals.
It is also the location of a fiber mill, where owners Ruth Ann and Brad Goss produce a variety of products from the fiber sheared from the alpacas and llamas, and will be the site of an outdoor holiday market this weekend.
âWeâre a fiber farm, so we raise our animals to produce the fiber,â explained Ruth Ann Goss.
Goss said it initially started when she and her husband moved from Alabama in 2013 to retire, which she joked is not going to happen.