City of Fernie

11/02/2026

🏛️Tomorrow, November 3, is the Inaugural Council Meeting where the elected mayor and councillors will be officially sworn in to serve a four-year term from November 2026 to November 2030.

📍The meeting will be held at the Fernie Senior Citizens Drop-In Centre (562 3rd Ave) starting at 6:30 pm. The meeting is open to the public with limited seating available. Doors will open at 6:00 pm.

🎥You can watch a livestream of the meeting on our YouTube channel here: youtube.com//streams.

💻To attend the meeting webinar, please click the link below.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85016790612
Or call: 1.778.907.2071
Webinar ID: 850 1679 0612

Find meeting details and the agenda here: https://fernie.civicweb.net/document/206009.

11/02/2026

📣Community Energy Association is hosting free Home Energy Retrofit webinars on November 3 and 12. Check out the post below for more details!

Want to save energy on your home, but don't know how to start? Let's make sense of the path forward.

11/02/2026

🏊The Aquatic Centre will be closed to the public today from 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm for the Elk Valley Dolphins Race Night. The facility will reopen to the public for leisure and lane swim at 7:00 pm.
Good luck to all the swimmers at the event!

10/30/2026

🎃Happy Halloween! Let's take the scary (and confusing) out of recycling this Halloween!

🍫🍬 Is it plastic? Is it flexible? Does it make a crinkly noise? Did it used to hold Halloween candies before *someone* ate them? Don’t throw those bags and wrappers away – return them to a depot with other flexible plastic packaging:

Learn more about what you can recycle here: fernie.ca/recycling.

👯‍♂️Have a safe, fun, and zero waste Halloween!

10/30/2026

🌊There's still spots available for the National Lifeguard - Pool Course in November!
🧑‍🏫The National Lifeguard course emphasizes the lifeguarding skills, principles, practices, and the decision-making processes that will assist the lifeguard to provide effective safety supervision in swimming pool environments.
📅The course runs Thursday to Sunday on November 12-15 and 19-22.
⏰Thursdays and Fridays from 4 pm to 9 pm.
⏰Saturdays and Sundays from 8 am to 5pm.
📍Fernie Aquatic Centre, 250 Pine Ave.
🔗Register here: https://anc.ca.apm.activecommunities.com/fernierecreation/activity/search/detail/16343?onlineSiteId=0&from_original_cui=true

10/30/2026

🕰️Even though we aren’t changing our clocks this weekend, now is still a good time to check your smoke alarms.
👇Read the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK)'s post below to learn more about how to protect your household.

The Regional District of East Kootenay is reminding residents to check their smoke detectors.

The RDEK, including municipalities, will no longer be changing the clocks twice a year, so the familiar “change your clocks, check your batteries” reminder may no longer serve as a seasonal prompt. Please take a few minutes to test every smoke alarm in your home and replace batteries where needed.

Smoke alarms save lives. To help keep your household protected:

• Test each smoke alarm using its test button.
• Replace batteries if your alarm uses removable batteries.
• Check that alarms are installed in appropriate locations and are not blocked, painted over, or damaged.
• Replace smoke alarms that are expired or not working properly, following the manufacturer’s instructions.

Choose a date that works for your household and make smoke-alarm testing part of your regular home-safety routine.

10/30/2026

🧚Wishing everyone a super spooky, fun AND safe Halloween!
Here are some tips from Fernie Fire and Emergency Services to stay safe while trick or treating:
👁️Always look both ways before crossing the street.
🔦Stay visible. Use flashlights and add reflective tape to costumes.
🚶‍➡️Stay on the sidewalk. Before crossing the street look both ways.
👥Always stick together in a group.
🍭Check your children's candy before they it.

🚗Drivers, please remember to stay alert. It will be busy out there tomorrow night with excited trick or treaters running from house to house. Drive with caution, especially in historically popular areas like the Annex and the Airport.

10/28/2026

🗣️Tourism Fernie BC wants to hear from you. As a Fernie resident or second homeowner, what do you think of tourism?

Complete a short survey by October 31 and enter to win local gift cards.

Learn more and find the survey at tourismfernie.com/article/fernie-tourism-statistics.

10/28/2026

❄️ With flurries in the forecast, and November just around the corner, here's a reminder that our Winter Parking Regulations are in effect from November 1 to April 15 each year.

🚙 Before the snow arrives, it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with the winter parking maps to get a refresher on the alternating parking schedule for your neighbourhood at fernie.ca/WinterParking.

10/27/2026

📥 We've received several reports about missed curbside collections and are working with SRP Projects to review them. In a number of cases, carts were placed out after collection crews had already passed by.

⏰To help ensure your cart is collected, please place it at the curb between 5 am and 7 am on collection day. Collection times can change from week to week. Even if your cart is typically picked up later in the day, routes may shift due to weather, equipment availability, or operational needs. Having your cart out by 7 a.m. helps ensure your household isn't missed.

🚚SRP has made the following adjustments to their program to make sure routes are completed on time, especially as we head into snow season.
• A second truck is out on Fridays for recycling pick up.
• A second person is assisting with opening the locking mechanism for organics pick up.
🔓And we’re working with the original supplier of the organics bin to solve the problem with the bear-resistant lids not opening during collection.
For more information about what goes where and tips on how to keep your cart clean and secure from wildlife, visit fernie.ca/organics.