Category: community

North West Photo Fest 2016

Kitimat. BC, held the second annual North West Photo Fest on the weekend of August 5 and 6, 2016, a celebration of photography in Northwestern British Columbia. In 2015, The Kitimat Museum & Archives held a successful exhibit, “Local Lens” that featured the work of photographers in Kitimat. As summer visitors viewed the photos at […]

Riverlodge float in Kitimat Canada Day parade

Canada Day in Kitimat, July 1, 2013

July 1, 2013, marked Kitimat’s 60th anniversary, so the theme was “Pioneer Days.”  The float from the Riverlodge Summer programs took first prize for best float. (Robin Rowland)   A girl celebrates Canada Day at the beginning of the parade. (Robin Rowland) The RCMP and other first responders lead the parade. (Robin Rowland) A boy […]

The TTC Danforth subway second exit controversy

There’s a huge controversy in my Toronto neighborhood at the moment over plans by the Toronto Transit Commission to build second exits at a number of the subway stations on the Danforth line.  As the engineers explained at a stifling and noisy public meeting last night (July 12, 2010) in this security conscious era, second […]