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The Kootenays’ Backyard Booty

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Dave Quinn.

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For the last five years Nelson’s Mitchell Scott and Peter Moynes have bound a range of place-based art into the pages of a single publication, Kootenay Mountain Culture magazine (KMC). And for the past five years, KMC’s high-quality presentation, resonant content, and creative depth have had locals clamouring for the next edition of this biannual months before publication.

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Diary of a Torchbearer (part one)

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Bernice Paul.

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2010 WINTER OLYMPICS UPDATE
Local gal to carry the Olympic torch December 19
by Bernice Paul
The Olympic Torch Relay, which began locally on October 30 in Victoria and is wending its way some 45,000 km across Canada,will be borne by a total of 12,000 torchbearers – athletes and civilians alike. Twelve thousand, each of whom will carry the torch [...]

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Profile: B.C.’s Charles Montgomery, the 2010 Olympics and the Struggle Against Homelessness

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by BCAA.

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In search of happiness, charity and Olympic accommodations

by Tyee Bridge
In his 2004 travel memoir The Last Heathen, Charles Montgomery followed the trail of his great-grandfather, a 19th-century Anglican missionary, to the Melanesian Islands of the South Pacific. (Praised by critics at the New York Times and the Globe & Mail, among many other publications, [...]

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New Mexico: Billy the Kid Rides Again

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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According to the legend, Billy was a homicidal maniac who killed 21 men, one for each of his 21 years. In truth, he shot four by himself and perhaps five others in concert with others – either in self-defence or as an act of war. Rather than a cold-blooded killer, he seems to have been a product of his times. New Mexico was a violent place in 1880.