KAST News

CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON BUILDING TO HOUSE ARROW LAKES ARCHIVES CBT contributes $100,000 toward Centennial Building addition

Construction has begun on an addition to the Centennial Building in Nakusp, which will house the archives of the Arrow Lakes Historical Society. Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) has supported the project with $100,000.

Need a hand? Hire a student. New CBT program can help

TheCBT School Works program is for businesses and non-profits.

The new School Works Program is a pilot project providing a wage subsidy to encourage businesses and organizations in the Basin to provide part-time employment for full-time high school and post-secondary students during the school year.

Benefits include:

Nelson based Cartolina featured in The New York Times

If she can make it there, she can make it anywhere.

Yes New York, New York... well, the New York Times technology section anyway,  has come calling on Nelson's own Cartolina.

REEL Youth Int'l Film Fest rolls into Rossland Nov 26

Join KAST and the Rossland Arts Council at the REEL Youth Film Festival where talented young Kootenay filmmakers will take on the best the world's youth have to offer.

Sat Nov 26th at noon, Rossland Miners Hall, $3

Win an iPad in the Kootenay Contraption Contest!

Students in Grades 2-8 are invited to enter the Kootenay Contraption Contest. (Districts 51, 20, 10 and 8)

Contest rules are very simple: imagine and design a “contraption” that solves some future problem.