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	<description>Discover British Columbia&#039;s upper Columbia River valley in the Kootenay BC Rockies</description>
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		<title>Aquatic health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everything is downstream. Rivers connect to people, fish, wildlife, and eventually feed into the oceans. It&#8217;s essential to protect our watersheds because good planets are hard to find.&#8221; &#8211; Shelley Humphries]]></description>
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		<title>Backwoods Blues Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 20:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 18-20, Invermere &#8211; Horsethief Hideout will be rockin’ come the May long weekend, May 18th, 19th and 20th, and you’re invited! The first annual Backwoods Blues Festival is a family event with 3 days of some of the best music ever plus camping in the beautiful Columbia Valley. The on-stage lineup for the weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purcell Mountain Painters art show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 06:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 15-27, Invermere &#8211; Did you know that the Columbia Valley has its very own painting collective? It may not be as well known as the famous Group of Seven, but the 30-members-strong Purcell Mountain Painters have been painting their interpretations of the breathtaking local landscapes for over 14 years. Their art will be on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purcell Mountain Painters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 05:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the Columbia Valley has its very own painting collective? It may not be as well known as the famous Group of Seven, but the 30-members-strong Purcell Mountain Painters have been capturing their interpretations of the breathtaking local landscapes for over 14 years. The group was founded by longtime resident, Vivian Crebo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re back</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 06:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the temperature begins to rise look up and you may spot a turkey vulture soaring overhead. These birds arrive back in the Columbia Valley in April using thermals to move through the air with very little wing flapping. They are rarely seen on the ground except when feeding on a carcass. Vultures are one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaclyn Guillou returning to Strand’s</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 01:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 9, Invermere &#8211; &#8220;BC has produced another rising star, someone perhaps to follow in the footsteps of international jazz artist Diane Krall in the years to come,&#8221; says Review Vancouver. Critical Jazz reports, “Guillou puts a slightly more organic contemporary jazz spin on music steeped in tradition and thus makes old school become new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whazzup at Pynelogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 02:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello there Columbia Valley. I hope you had a rejuvenating winter, and are raring to go for what looks like a busy summer ahead. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joshua Estabrooks, and I have lived in Invermere for just over a year. I came down here as part of a work transfer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s up &#8212; prairie crocus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 22:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prairie crocus seems fitting to be the first flower in the Friends of Kootenay &#8216;What&#8217;s Up&#8217; series as it is one of the first flowers to bloom in the park. This harbinger of spring emerges from the ground and blooms even before its leaves have developed. It prefers sunny, hot, dry areas and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The badger, a 4-legged digging machine</title>
		<link>http://columbiavalley.com/1115/the-badger-a-4-legged-digging-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 29th, Wendy Schuck had a little help digging her garden, from her neighbor &#8212; the badger. &#8220;The American Badger is a nocturnal member of the weasel family. Low-slung, with short, powerful legs and impressive claws, this animal was &#8216;made to dig&#8217;.. Its front claws are long and stout for ploughing through soil, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the frogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The northern leopard frog (southern mountain population), is designated endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. The population is threatened by low recruitment, disease, predation, habitat fragmentation and degradation, and introduced fish species. Amphibian populations are declining around the world and species extinctions have occurred rapidly even in protected areas. [...]]]></description>
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