The Fernie Food Action Strategy is a first step toward a vision of a resilient local food system and improved community-level food security in the Elk Valley.
We may all have stories of when and how we realised the importance of Labour Day and the support staff in our daily lives – the labourers, sanitation workers, servers, cleaners, house help, tradesmen, healthcare workers and everyone else.
Fernie Fire and Rescue Fire Protection Officer Brett Uphill is trading his structural firefighting gear for wildland gear and joining a team that will provide Structural Protection to the Doctor Creek Fire near Canal Flats.
With Teck matching all donations up to $50,000 before Sept 30th, the Fernie Fox Hotel donation will be leveraged to help achieve the goal of raising $300,000 to purchase the ultrasound machine.
Wildsight needs your help start Fernie’s 1st local food store to connect local food and local people year-round. Local food doesn’t have to end when summer does.
Just last week, scientists announced that the amount of selenium pollution in Lake Koocanusa should be kept to less than half of what Teck is already sending downstream