Daily Watch brief · September 13, 2026 · checked 6:32 a.m. PDT

Greenwood Sunday status: showers, no warning object, no Boundary evacuation item, candidate list still pending

By Ledge Daily Watch · Official sources checked: City of Greenwood home/news/election/package/staff/council pages, public eSCRIBE calendar, DriveBC weather/events/emergency-alert/wildfire feeds, EmergencyInfoBC, B.C. Wildfire Service / Southeast Fire Centre restrictions, RDKB public pages where reachable, Greenwood Museum, Greenwood Public Library, Greenwood Elementary, SD51, and public Facebook/community source shells where accessible.

Sunday’s official-source pull is steady rather than alarm-driven. Grand Forks and Rock Creek show no active weather-warning object, but the forecast has shifted to a cooler, wet day: cloudy, a few showers beginning this morning, 5 to 10 mm expected, and a high near 15 C.

No official Boundary-region evacuation order or alert was found in the DriveBC emergency-alert API or the EmergencyInfoBC homepage text pull. The nearby DriveBC / BC Wildfire map records within 100 km of Greenwood remain listed Under Control and none of the pulled records was marked wildfire of note.

The civic desk remains a watch file. The public eSCRIBE calendar still shows the Sept. 8 Committee and Regular Council agendas and the Sept. 10 Special Council agenda, but it does not show minutes for those September meetings in this morning’s pull. The City election page still shows the 2026 election and candidate-package information, but the automated public pull did not find an accepted candidate list.

What changed or matters this morning

• Weather: Grand Forks and Rock Creek showed no active warning object. Today’s forecast calls for showers, 5 to 10 mm of rain, high 15 C and low UV.
• Emergency feeds: DriveBC’s emergency-alert API returned an empty list; EmergencyInfoBC did not show a Greenwood, Midway, Grand Forks, Rock Creek, Christina Lake, Boundary or Kootenay Boundary evacuation item in the homepage text pull.
• Wildfire map: no status, size or nearby-set change detected from the September 12 pull. Current under-100-km records are all Under Control.
• Roads: Spraggett Road remains the nearest closure in the DriveBC pull, and Highway 3 utility work near Mt. Baldy Road/Rock Creek-Bridesville Road remains active. The regional Needles Ferry maintenance rows changed wording/timing, but they are about 97 km from Greenwood and are treated as regional travel context.
• Council desk: Sept. 8 Regular agenda: True, minutes: False; Sept. 8 Committee agenda: True, minutes: False; Sept. 10 Special agenda: True, minutes: False; Aug. 10 Regular minutes visible: True. The Sept. 10 Special Council agenda remains an agenda record only; it does not identify a person, department, resignation, appointment or public decision.
• Election desk: the nomination-period date has passed, but no official accepted-candidate list was found in the City public pull. Candidate names should wait for a City list, CivicInfo/Elections BC list, or named public candidate statement.
• Community desk: Greenwood Elementary’s public page points to PAC involvement, volunteering and school transportation reminders, but the automated pull did not provide a dated standalone event. This is a useful human follow-up lead, not a confirmed event story yet.

Civic and election watch

The key distinction remains unchanged: meeting agendas show what was scheduled, not what was decided. The Sept. 10 Special Council agenda cites Community Charter section 90(1)(c), labour relations or other employee relations, for an in-camera item. That is not enough to report any specific personnel outcome.

Ledge should keep asking for official minutes, a City statement, an open-session motion record, or a named on-record source before publishing any claim about fire-department leadership or staffing changes. The same standard applies to Heritage Society grant outcomes and other Sept. 8 agenda items.

For Greenwood Votes, the public next step is the accepted candidate list. The City page continues to show the general voting day as Saturday, Oct. 17, with advance voting on Wednesday, Oct. 7. Candidate self-announcements can be covered only when the source is public and named.

Roads, weather and fire map

• Today’s forecast: Grand Forks: Cloudy. A few showers beginning this morning. Amount 5 to 10 mm. High 15. UV index 2 or low.; Rock Creek: Cloudy. A few showers beginning this morning. Amount 5 to 10 mm. High 15. UV index 2 or low.
• Tonight: Grand Forks: A few showers ending this evening then mainly cloudy. Fog patches developing after midnight. Low 9.; Rock Creek: A few showers ending this evening then mainly cloudy. Fog patches developing after midnight. Low 9.
• Monday forecast period in the pull: Grand Forks: Clearing in the morning. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. High 21. UV index 5 or moderate.; Rock Creek: Clearing in the morning. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. High 21. UV index 5 or moderate.
• Current under-100-km wildfire-map records: N61319 (N61319, 41.7 km, Under Control, 67.1 ha), N61846 (N61846, 41.7 km, Under Control, 0.04 ha), N51996 (N51996, 80.1 km, Under Control, 0.75 ha), N51938 (Ezra Creek, 84.5 km, Under Control, 143.0 ha), N51207 (N51207, 91.0 km, Under Control, 367.8 ha).
• Closest road items in the pull: Spraggett Road (17.0 km): Utility work. Starting Thu Aug 13 until Wed Sep 30. All day, every day. Closed. Work happening between Carson Rd and Almond Gardens Rd W. Road Closure planned.; Highway 3 (23.1 km): Utility work. Starting Mon Aug 10 until Wed Sep 30. From 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM PDT, weekdays. Single lane alternating traffic. Watch for traffic control. Speed Limit restriction: 60 kmh.; Highway 3B (56.5 km): Road construction. Starting Thu Jul 30. From 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM PDT, weekdays. Single lane alternating traffic. Watch for traffic control. Expect delays.; Highway 3 (63.4 km): Ditch maintenance. Starting Tue Jul 21. All day, Wednesday to Friday. Single lane alternating traffic. Expect minor delays. Watch For Crews and Equipment,.; Highway 3B (75.4 km): Utility work. Starting Wed Aug 12 until Fri Oct 30. From 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM PDT, weekdays. Right lane blocked. Shoulder closed. 50km/h construction speed zone in effect 24/7. Storm main being replaced in the ditch. Eastbound left turns will be restricted for Phase II of the project.; Highway 6 (90.1 km): Road construction. Starting Mon Sep 14. Expect 15 minutes delay. Culvert Replacement along Hwy 6, Slocan Park.; N Naramata Road (93.1 km): Road construction. Starting Tue Sep 8 until Wed Sep 30. All day, every day. Single lane alternating traffic. Expect minor delays.; Highway 6 (96.4 km): Paving operations. Starting Tue Sep 8 until Sat Oct 31. From 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM PDT, Monday to Saturday. Single lane alternating traffic. Watch for traffic control. Possible ferry delays.; Needles Ferry (96.7 km): Required maintenance. Starting Tue Sep 15 until Tue Sep 15. From 5:30 AM to 9:30 AM PDT, Tuesday. Needles Ferry will be shuttling and not maintaining a schedule due to construction at the Needles Terminal.; Needles Ferry (96.7 km): Safety inspection. Starting Tue Sep 22 until Tue Sep 22. From 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT, Tuesday. Out of service..
• Comparison with Saturday: Needles Ferry (96.7 km): Required maintenance. Starting Tue Sep 15 until Tue Sep 15. From 5:30 AM to 9:30 AM PDT, Tuesday. Needles Ferry will be shuttling and not maintaining a schedule due to construction at the Needles Terminal.; Needles Ferry (96.8 km): Required maintenance. Starting Mon Sep 14 until Tue Sep 15. From 11:00 PM to 1:00 AM PDT the next day, Monday. Closed.. Close new roads: no new under-70-km DriveBC road item found against the September 12 raw pull.

Community desk

Greenwood Museum, the public library, Greenwood Elementary and SD51 loaded publicly. The Museum page remains a good visitor-centre and heritage-source doorway. The library page shows regular public hours and program categories. Greenwood Elementary’s page is the strongest community lead today because it points to PAC involvement, volunteering and updated school transportation reminders.

Best human follow-up: a named school/PAC contact for a community feature, a named City/fire-service source for readiness questions, official candidate-list publication or public candidate statements, and Legion/Museum/library contacts for dated events and volunteer stories.

Facebook groups and private/community posts remain lead-only when they cannot be read publicly or independently confirmed. Send public links, screenshots with permission, or named contacts for community stories.

Sources checked

• Greenwood public eSCRIBE calendar — Sept. 8 Regular agenda: True, minutes: False; Sept. 8 Committee agenda: True, minutes: False; Sept. 10 Special agenda: True, minutes: False; Aug. 10 Regular minutes visible: True.
• City of Greenwood elections page and elections packages page — election date and candidate-package links remain public; no accepted candidate list was found in the pull.
• DriveBC weather regional API — no active warning object for Grand Forks/Rock Creek; previous pull showed no active warning object.
• DriveBC emergency-alert API — empty list.
• EmergencyInfoBC homepage — emergency pages elsewhere in B.C. were visible, but no Greenwood, Midway, Grand Forks, Rock Creek, Christina Lake, Boundary or Kootenay Boundary evacuation item was found in the text pull.
• DriveBC / BC Wildfire API — current under-100 km entries included N61319 (N61319, 41.7 km, Under Control, 67.1 ha), N61846 (N61846, 41.7 km, Under Control, 0.04 ha), N51996 (N51996, 80.1 km, Under Control, 0.75 ha), N51938 (Ezra Creek, 84.5 km, Under Control, 143.0 ha), N51207 (N51207, 91.0 km, Under Control, 367.8 ha); comparison changes: no status, size or nearby-set change detected from the September 12 pull.
• DriveBC road events — changed existing item: Needles Ferry (96.7 km): Required maintenance. Starting Tue Sep 15 until Tue Sep 15. From 5:30 AM to 9:30 AM PDT, Tuesday. Needles Ferry will be shuttling and not maintaining a schedule due to construction at the Needles Terminal.; Needles Ferry (96.8 km): Required maintenance. Starting Mon Sep 14 until Tue Sep 15. From 11:00 PM to 1:00 AM PDT the next day, Monday. Closed.; close new items: no new under-70-km DriveBC road item found against the September 12 raw pull.
• City of Greenwood home/news/elections/staff/council/mayor-council/calendar pages — public pages loaded; Stage 2 water and all-open-burning alert text remains visible.
• B.C. Southeast Fire Centre restrictions page loaded; Greenwood’s local City open-burning alert remains the stricter practical check inside city limits.
• RDKB and RDKB emergency pages returned 403 Forbidden to automated HTTP checks; no inference is made from that access limit.
• Greenwood Museum, Greenwood Public Library, Greenwood Elementary and SD51 websites loaded publicly; Facebook/community sources remain lead-only unless readable and confirmed.

This brief is an official-source monitoring note, not a substitute for emergency instructions, election filing advice or legal advice. For orders, alerts, filing deadlines, fire rules and road closures, follow the issuing agency first.