Life

The best way to protect yourself from falling objects in an earthquake is ducking under a desk or sturdy table until one minute after the shaking stops.

Come listen to a free presentation called Pollinators That Really Perform on Tuesday, October 25.

Each spring and fall, at hundreds of sites across North America, volunteers participate in hawk watches. Despite the name, it is not only hawks that are observed, but all day-time raptors, including hawks, eagles, falcons, vultures, kites and Osprey.

To keep the public informed about current operations on the Arrow Lakes and statistics on fish numbers, Angus Glass, Communications Coordinator from the FWCP along with biologists Jeff Burrows, Senior fisheries biologist for the Ministry of Forestry Lands and Natural Resources, as well as Arndt, came to Nakusp on September 28.

The Arrow Lakes Saddle Club held their last gymkhana of the year down near Burton Beach.

Cover crops are the way to keep your soil protected and enriched when fallow.

Gary Davidson explains why people choose bird watching as an activity.

Meadow Creek Spawning Channel Open House September 11

Scottie and Dallas Tait live and roam in the "Three Twenty", a paddle wheeler they built themselves as a labour of love.

Sometimes at the library, we get opportunities to take stories outside the library and this past month, I took a large stack of children’s books to the Nakusp Music Festival. A few neat things happened -- but first: a big thank-you to the festival’s organizers for welcoming the library into their program and gave us a space where we could read books to children attending the festival. We had a wonderful time.