Way back in the spring of 2020, Valemount novelist Maureen Brownlee applied to the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance for a touring grant for a novel expected out in the fall of 2020. We all know how that went. Fast forward to April 2022 and Brownlee’s novel, Cambium Blue, is now in bookstores and her CKCA-funded Columbia Basin tour is back on and arriving at the Rossland
What to do about humans and bears; cost increases likely from the RDKB for Rossland’s Fire Services, Regional Waste Management and Environmental Services; help for a destroyed community; what needs support for COVID costs and losses; sharing our bylaw officer; the bottle bin . . . and more. Present: Mayor Kathy Moore and Councillors Andy Morel, Terry Miller, Chris Bowman,
by Contributor on Monday May 17 2021
To celebrate the April 23rd Supreme Court decision recognizing the Sinixt Nation has constitutionally protected Indigenous rights to hunt in ancestral territory in Canada, we are featuring a collection of First Peoples literature.
Books of My Life
What is your favourite childhood book?
My favourite childhood book is the collection of Dr. Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting. My grandparents sent me the whole collection. My mum couldn’t read them fast enough for me, so I had to learn to read. I remember that by book six I was reading on my own and so very proud.
by Contributor on Friday Jan 15 2021
Rossland Public Library board member Abigail Steel; submitted photo
“Books of My Life”
Q and A with Abigail Steel, Rossland Public Library Board Member:
My favourite childhood book and favourite book to read aloud because I spent part of my early childhood in England, my much loved, favourite books are those by A. A. Milne, including
The House at Pooh Corner. The “hundred acre wood” referred to in the
Winnie-the-Pooh stories is in Ashdown Forest, located not far from where I lived in East Sussex. As my three children were growing up in the country near St. John’s, NL, reading aloud was a pastime that helped replace television in our family. The
Eileen Daniel; submitted photo
“Books of My Life”
Here’s more inspiration for reading to carry us through the dark days of this pandemic winter, away into other worlds and other times while tucked up safely at home.
Q and A with Eileen Daniel, Rossland Public Library Board Member, Publicity:
1.
Adventure series by Enid Blyton:
The Island of Adventure; The Circus of Adventure; et cetera
. Four young protagonists had exciting adventures and implausibly solved mysteries in post-war Europe.
2.
My favorite movie versions of great novels are the three
Lord of the Rings movies. Although I sometimes wish I lived in the idyllic Shire (Rossland is the closest), it’s mostly Faramir: “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”