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The Voice of PCSS: Summer poems

Creston Valley Advance - Wednesday February 22, 2012

Grade 10 English students were challenged to create poems from set opening lines...

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Integrated partnership will benefit Kootenay Lake

Creston Valley Advance - Monday February 20, 2012

The Kootenay Lake Partnership (KLP) adopted a terms of reference to develop integrated, collaborative approaches to lake management...

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Creston COTR instructor planning seed event

Creston Valley Advance - Saturday February 18, 2012

College of the Rockies horticulture program co-ordinator Anita Sawyer is currently planning a Seedy Saturday event...

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Creston youth select content for Scratch magazine

Creston Valley Advance - Thursday February 16, 2012

A group of Creston youth met on Feb. 9 at the Snoring Sasquatch to select articles, poetry, creative writing and photos for Scratch...

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Train ride offers unique look at Kootenay Lake

Creston Valley Advance - Monday February 13, 2012

In December, Mayor Ron Toyota offered me a ticket to ride the CP Holiday Train from Creston to Nelson...

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Volunteers wanted for Creston Relay for Life

Creston Valley Advance - Sunday February 12, 2012

The Creston Valley has come together for 10 years to celebrate cancer survivors, remember lives lost to cancer, and commit to fight back...

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EKFH raising funds for machine to aid detection

Creston Valley Advance - Saturday February 11, 2012

The East Kootenay Foundation for Health (EKFH) has rolled out the largest public campaign in the organization’s history...

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Dinner raises $1,700 for Sierra Leone well

Creston Valley Advance - Thursday February 9, 2012

A dinner held in December raised over $1,700 to put toward a well for a school in Mabureh, Sierra Leone...

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Ecstasy-related deaths make drug use a gamble

Creston Valley Advance - Tuesday February 7, 2012

In the past few months there have been an unusual number of ecstasy related deaths in B.C. and Alberta...

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Nelson credit union donates to Creston-Kootenay Foundation fund

Creston Valley Advance - Monday February 6, 2012

Two years ago, the Salviulo family of Riondel undertook to establish a scholarship fund...

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Survey helps Wildsight get feedback from public

Creston Valley Advance - Sunday February 5, 2012

Wildsight, an East Kootenay environmental organization, is asking for public feedback about their work and community involvement...

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Creston's Therapeutic Riding Program hosting Art Trot

Creston Valley Advance - Friday February 3, 2012

The Creston and District Society for Community Living’s Therapeutic Riding Program is very grateful for all the support it receives...

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PCSS grad earns Governor General's Academic Medal

Creston Valley Advance - Thursday February 2, 2012

Prince Charles Secondary School student Katerina Gribbin was recently awarded the bronze Governor General’s Academic Medal...

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Affordable housing needed for Creston Valley

Creston Valley Advance - Wednesday February 1, 2012

In the matter of family housing, the lack of dedicated and affordable family housing in the Creston area should be the highest concern...

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It's Elementary: My Jungle Adventure

Creston Valley Advance - Monday January 30, 2012

My friends and I love to learn about animals, so we decided to go on an African jungle safari to Kenya...

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The Voice of PCSS: The survey says...

Creston Valley Advance - Sunday January 29, 2012

Recently, Prince Charles Secondary School classes were surveyed...

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It's Elementary: Making changes for 2012

Creston Valley Advance - Saturday January 28, 2012

The Canyon-Lister Elementary School newspaper committee asked the students and staff of CLES what their New Year’s resolutions were...

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The Voice of PCSS: Metaphorical poems

Creston Valley Advance - Friday January 27, 2012

Prince Charles Secondary School students wrote the following poems to show the power of creative comparison...

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It's Elementary: The Story of Romance

Creston Valley Advance - Thursday January 26, 2012

This story is about how two different people can be together no matter what happens...

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The Voice of PCSS: Afghanistan and poetry

Creston Valley Advance - Wednesday January 25, 2012

Prince Charles Secondary School English 11 honours students were asked to creatively describe a character from the novel The Kite Runner...

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