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Phantom Cop

By Allysha Fryer-Thomas • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Humour

So it’s late Friday night, the moon is full, and stars fill the sky. It’s a beautiful night and I’m in a pretty good mood. I climb into my car and crank the music, as I am drive home to Trail from a friend’s house in Fruitvale. I’m rockin’ out around “blue bird corner,” [...]



Celebrate, Remember, Fight Back

By Allysha Fryer-Thomas • Mar 30th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story

There are a few things that signal the arrival of spring, unfortunately this year most of them are a little late. However, the annual Relay for Life in the Kootenay area is right on schedule. This event is aimed to raise money and awareness about cancer. Cancer is a disease that at some point will [...]



Amazing Art & Wicked Sounds: Battle of the Arts

By Allysha Fryer-Thomas • Feb 3rd, 2009 • Category: Arts and Entertainment, Events, Lead Story

On Friday, January 30 music could be heard filling the streets around the Legion in Nelson. Who and what was “disturbing the peace?” The first annual Selkirk College Student’s Union Battle of the Arts, that’s what. The night was a mix of some amazing art and really wicked sounds.
The turn out was so good that [...]



Selkirk College Facebook Textbook Exchange

By Allysha Fryer-Thomas • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Features, News

Tired of paying full price (or pretty close to it) for textbooks you might not even end up opening? Tired of not getting a fair price for trading in your barely used books?
Well someone has come up with a brilliant solution in the form of a Selkirk College Book Exchange Facebook group!
A combination [...]



Back Off!

By Allysha Fryer-Thomas • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Opinion

It’s been snowing all night and you wake up to discover, although it looks pretty, it’s going to be a long drive to school. You rush around hoping to get ready with enough time to clean off the car and still get to school on time.
After a struggle to pry open the frozen doors [...]



Ready, Set, CARVE!

By Allysha Fryer-Thomas • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: Events

Halloween: a time to carve pumpkins and roast corn. On October 30 the spirit of Halloween was in the air at the Selkirk College Castlegar campus, and for those who participated it was a fun-filled day. Outside the pit windows, billowing smoke from roasting corn could be seen, and all over the pit people were [...]