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The planning department presented the public with a suite of proposed changes to Rossland's zoning bylaws at an open house at the Miners' Hall on May 26, with the most important changes including a new residential "infill" zone, and a light industrial zone just west of the museum.

Participants at Sandy Santori's regional economic development meeting on May 26 raised ideas to boost the region and Rossland that ranged from improved transportation — all of road, rail, air, and gondola — to business centres and fibre optic internet infrastructure, to arts and education.

About 40 people, mostly from different walks of Rossland’s business life, attended Sandy Santori’s presentation at the Prestige on May 26 to discuss the role of the Lower Columbia Initiative Corporation (LCI) in regional economic development.

The legion is closed for June, July, and August, but it will reopen briefly to celebrate "Legion Week."

More than 100 people turned up at the Rossland Museum on Saturday to celebrate "museum day" and the beginning of the 2011 season, a big turnout for a drizzly day with lots of other activities competing for attendance.

With the carrot being stability in schools come September, the BC Teachers' Federation is holding out the stick of teachers' job action in a bid to speed up provincial contract negotiations.

"I have lived in more places than I can remember, and as a place for a writer to be based, I have never found one that is remotely as satisfactory as Rossland," Jordan said.