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Property owners around B.C. recently received their 2013 assessment notices, and in this area, there has been a modest decrease.

� e City of Rossland as-sessment roll decreased from $603 million last year to $588 million this year

City of Trail, on the other hand, had a static assessment roll, staying at $1.1 billion. � e villages of Fruitvale and Montrose also remained the same, at $194 million and $105 million, respectably.

BC Assessment admin-isters the assessments and provided examples of the real-world implications of the drop.

For instance, if your prop-erty was valued at $250,000 for the 2012 assessment roll, then its assessed value would drop to $243,000 for

Recent news that Rossland’s hopes for the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum have been dashed, are a disap-pointment for Rossland Mayor Greg Granstrom, as well as the city.

Granstrom was one of the

champions for the bid, put forth as a potential replace-ment for the mine tour that had to be closed a few years ago due to safety concerns.

Granstrom said he heard the news of Mont Tremblant’s win-ning bid, last week, through media and had not been con-tacted by the Canada Ski Hall of Fame and Museum board.

He said the Rossland pro-posal was well thought out for

this city.“We had to be very sure that

what we presented was sus-tainable to Rossland,” he said, but added that the hall of fame board had some conditions that concerned the Rossland board. For instance the board would be under the supervi-sion of the Ottawa board.

“So we put a proposal out there that we thought was sustainable and could work in

Rossland,” he said. “� ey went with Mont Tremblant, which is interesting, because we (Ross-land) also talked to Tremblant about some kind of east-west partnership. � at wasn’t pur-sued by either side, but we did put that out there.”

� e mayor said that the mu-seum in Rossland has many historic skis from the likes of Nancy Greene-Raine and Ker-rin Lee-Gartner, and so a part-

nership could have presented opportunities to share collec-tions.

He also noted that it’s inter-esting it didn’t go to Revelstoke.

“Other than Rossland for history out west, that would be the place,” he said.

“We weren’t told their � nal criteria.”

Another concern they had was the logistics for inductions

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On Monday, Feb. 4, School District 20 will meet for the first reading of any potential bylaws related to any reconfig-urations or closures of Ross-land schools.

The first motion that should be made by the board is to remove Option 3, K-7 at Ma-cLean and the Annex, from consideration.

Here’s why: MacLean as a K-7 school does not work now, and will not in the fu-ture. The district’s average functional capacity of 283 as-sumes the loss of all shared space (except the library) and the StrongStart program. The MacLean StrongStart is the busiest in the district, current-ly serving 70 families. In the Option 3 scenario, where does this important program go?

Using every space avail-able leaves no back up plan if a few more students show up in September than expected. MacLean cannot accommo-date the anticipated future growth.

Last year, for example, there were too many grade ones to fit in two divisions, so a third was created. This couldn’t

have happened if the school was a K-7 and completely full. All other

SD20 elementary schools have spaces such as multi-purpose rooms. MacLean does not have a multi-purpose room. MacLean is already a very small, crowded school with small hallways – the smallest amount of space per child in the district.

In all the years of Planning for the Future, the Annex has never been considered as a us-able space.

The Annex, built in 1904, is an inefficient building that has had minimal maintenance.

The $20,000 worth of reno-vations, as cited in Super-intendent Greg Luterbach’s presentation on Tuesday, Jan. 15, will not turn it into a good educational space. If K-7 at MacLean/Annex is truly un-der consideration, as we have been led to believe it is, then the community is entitled to see a renovation plan with ac-curate costing.

Yet without the Annex, several portables would need to be added on a schoolyard which is already the smallest in the district.

MacLean was designed for 232 children, and cannot be expanded.

Rossland’s population in-creased by 8.5 per cent in the last census, and SD20’s Facili-ties Update projects student populations in Rossland in-creasing from 550 in 2013/14 to 745 in 2029/30. Under Op-tion 3 (K-7 at MacLean) there would be no room for growth in the fastest growing commu-nity in the district.

Since the Annex is inade-quate and a sufficient number of portables won’t fit, would the youngest students in our community be bused to Web-ster?

In other areas of the dis-trict, SD20 has committed to keeping the youngest children in their communities: K-7 in Warfield, Trail, Fruitvale and Castlegar. Here in Rossland we fight even for that assur-ance.

If SD20 decides to bus our youngest students to Webster, they won’t fit there either.

In the school district en-rollment projections, both Glenmerry and Webster will be over their average func-tional capacity by years 2015 and 2016, respectively, and the maximum functional capac-ity by 2017 and 2019. These schools both already have portables.

Where will the rest of the

Warfield and Trail students go?

Will they be bused to Trail Middle School? Maybe Fruit-vale?

Where will the 100 alternate program students go?

This is not planning for the future of our children’s educa-tion - it is planning for the next three years of budget cuts.

There is no plan for how this will impact all the south-end students and where they will go in three to five years.

The district will need all the facilities it has, and definitely should not close RSS or they won’t have space for all the students in the south end of the district, if their projections are accurate.

Mark in your calendar: Spe-cial School Board meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 6:30 p.m. in the RSS gym.

Again, let’s fill the room to the rafters. This will be the second reading of the Ross-land school

closure motion, where the Board will debate the options under consideration. It’s im-portant for the community to attend to hear what is commu-nicated.

Aerin Guy is co-ordinator for the Neighbourhood of Learning commititee in Rossland.

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The rossland Museum won’t be getting the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum. The honour of hosting the national museum is going to Mont Tremblant, QC. Arne Petryshen photo

into the hall of fame.“That could have got really

onerous for Rossland, because of the distances,” he said. “Ottawa is more the place you would do those kind of inductions. It was really expensive, they pay for the inductees to come there, travel, food… That was a concern too, but like I said we put a proposal together that was sustainable. Our

opinion on the task force was that you can’t put in a pie in the sky proposal, we have to put in what’s sustainable to Rossland.”

Granstrom seemed to leave the possibility of the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum com-ing to Rossland if Mont Trem-blant faltered.

“Museums aren’t the easiest things to run. Our board here has a lot of experience; I think we’ve had a museum here since 1964,

I believe,” he said. “So we have a very experienced board and they understand totally what it takes to make it work. Who knows what could happen.”

As for what is next for the mu-seum, Granstrom said the Gate-way Project is moving forward, with a meeting later this month where it will put out a request for proposal and present their plan for the museum upgrades.

Ski hall of fame not coming to Rossland

2013’s roll. “Most homes in the municipalities of Trail, Ross-

land, Fruitvale, Montrose, and Warfield have de-creased modestly from last year’s assessment roll,” said Dennis Hickson, deputy assessor at BC Assessment.

The date of the valuation is July 1 of each year, so this year’s roll numbers come from the value of the property from July 1, 2012.

“Property owners who feel that their property as-sessment does not reflect market value as of July 1, 2012 or see incorrect information on their notice should contact our office as indicated on their notice as soon as possible in January,” said Hickson.

“If a property owner is still concerned about their assessment after speaking to one of our appraisers, they may submit a Notice of Complaint (Appeal) by January 31, for an independent review by a Property Assessment Review Panel,” added Hickson.

The Property Assessment Review Panels, indepen-dent of BC Assessment, are appointed annually by the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Develop-ment, and meet between February 1 and March 15 to hear formal complaints.

The Nelson/Trail Assessment Office is located at 502 Victoria Street in Nelson. During the month of January, office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Mon-day to Friday. Property owners can contact BC Assess-ment toll-free at 1-866-valueBC (1-866-825-8322) or via www.bcassessment.ca

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Downtown dogs and public smoking were once again brought up in council.

The current animal control bylaw has been a contentious issue for the city, as it bans dogs from downtown.

However, the bylaw hasn’t been easy for the city to enforce, with a limited budget for bylaw enforcement.

Coun. Kathy Moore suggested council sus-pend the current bylaw for one year.

“Put up dog (bag) dispensers and look into dog hitching areas for one year, and then see if it creates all the problems that people think will arise form this, or if it really isn’t that big of a deal,” Moore said. “I’ve been in so many com-munities where dogs are allowed and it just doesn’t seem to be the same angst as it is here.”

After one year they could decide whether to repeal it completely or keep it.

She also suggested that during that time council direct the bylaw officer to put more en-forcement of the leash law.

Coun. Jill Spearn took the devil’s advocate side, as she called it, and precluded by saying that she is a dog owner and likes dogs.

“We have trails galore, both in the City of Rossland and around us. There’s a block and a half of our city where we say let’s have it dog free,” she said, adding that she wouldn’t mind if they had a leash law, but didn’t want to see people tying their dogs up downtown.

However, she continued by saying that she thought it’s okay to not have dogs downtown.

“This is why this law came in historically to our town,” she said, noting many people’s fear of dogs. She settled on one year leash law, but no tying up dogs.

Coun. Kathy Wallace said she was in support of looking at revising the bylaw, since it is cur-rently not working.

“Since council started this discussion about whether to review the bylaw or not, what I see downtown is people in direct non-compliance to the bylaw that still does exist,” Wallace said, noting that dogs tied to the newly planted trees downtown, as well as in front of Ferraro Foods, are a big problem.

“It’s inconsiderate leaving your dog in the entrance of such a busy storefront,” she said.

Wallace also wondered if they set up hitch-ing posts for dogs, would the city be liable if they fought.

She suggested that it was worthy of setting up a task force, as she wasn’t comfortable with the motion on the table.

Coun. Jody Blomme liked the idea of allow-ing leashed dogs downtown.

Coun. Tim Thatcher was open to a one-year trial, but was against allowing dogs to be tied.

He said he would like to know what business owners think.

Mayor Greg Granstrom however was op-posed to the idea.

“I’ve lived here a long time and I’ve had a dog every minute of the time I’ve lived here, and never once have I had the need to take my dog uptown shopping with me,” the mayor said. “I walk my dog three times a day, not one of those is downtown. Why we cannot have a section of town that says please don’t bring your dog in, I don’t understand why we can’t have that.”

He said the bylaw is already being taken ad-vantage of and the enforcement is lacking. So a leash bylaw would have a similar problem.

He said that since the bylaw has come up for discussion, there’s been more dogs downtown then he’s ever seen.

“By changing this bylaw without enforce-ment, we aren’t going to change anything,” Granstrom said.

The motion ended in defeat, and the discus-sion was differed to a Committee of the Whole meeting. The meeting will likely not take place until the end of February.

Next up, was discussion on a smoking regu-lation bylaw.

On this, Moore asked that they defer this discussion as well, so they could invite Trish Hill from Interior Health to do a presentation.

“I think that it would be good for us all to look at these things before making a decision on this bylaw,” Moore said.

Wallace noted that both the smoking and the dog discussions brought up the question of by-law enforcement in the community.

She asked for a staff report on what it thought of bylaw enforcement in the community.

“We do have budget discussions coming up, it would be nice to have that information prior to budget discussions,” she said.

Coun. Cary Fisher didn’t support the mo-

tion. “I look at both these issues, and to me, they

aren’t really big issues at all. I don’t see a prob-lem with the dogs leashed or unleashed, we’re not enforcing it. I don’t think we’ve had any real issues around the smokers. I honestly in two years haven’t even smelled smoke down-town,” he said. “If you really look at it, what are we talking about? Why are we wasting time and money looking at something like that? Re-ally search your soul and think. Have you had a problem with a dog on or off a leash? Have you had a problem with a smoker on a leash or off a leash?”

The motion was carried. All but Fisher were for it.

Arne PetryshenRossland News Editor

Council has deferred discussions on the animal control bylaw, which means it is still in effect. Discussions on whether to get rid of it altogether will likely not resume until the end of next month. Arne Petryshen photo

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Binding arbitration coming for Rossland/Trail sewer issues

The sewer dispute between Rossland and

Trail will soon be solved through binding ar-bitration. The results of that arbitration will be known in the next few weeks.

The dispute arose as a result of a disagree-ment on how much Rossland should pay for

the use of the sewer services, owned by the City of Trail, after a regional service review found that Rossland should pay more.

In order to settle the matter, the provin-cial government, appointed an arbitrator to

the case. The City of Rossland disputed the appoint-

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and there’s lots of fun and excite-ment planned! With Canada AM broadcasting live for the eastern Canada audience, the community is encouraged to come out and enjoy the festivities at 2:30 a.m. on Fri-day morning. No, that’s not a typo! Friday morning at 2:30 a.m., the streets will be alive with the revelry of Winter Carnival - including over 15 retailers, the Rail Jam, Ice Carv-ers, Bobsled-Shine and Show and of course free coffee and hot chocolate to keep everyone warm! The Winter Carnival continues all weekend with lots of activities planned. More info at www.rosslandwintercarnival.com.

Red Mountain has night ski-ing and boarding, every Thursday night from Jan. 17 through to Feb. 21. The Red Carpet and T-Bar are open from 6-9 p.m. every Thursday. If you want to make an evening of it, Rafters is open with their family friendly dinner menu, available on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Please contact Red Mountain at 250-362-7384 for pricing or check their website at, www.redresort.com.

If you’re interested in renting ice at the Rossland arena, please give us a call. We have several available spots this coming weekend!

If you’re new to town and won-dering about drop in hockey, there are several opportunities to lace up your skates and join the locals! On Thursdays you can play from 1:45-3:15 p.m. with Johann’s Hockey. On Tuesday nights the Co-Ed Rec Hockey runs from 9:45-11 p.m. and the Sunday hockey runs from 9:15-10:30 p.m. The drop in fee is $10 per person, or you can purchase a 10X pass at the Rec Department, for $80. Sr.’s Hockey is running in the arena on Friday mornings from 9:30-10:45

a.m. This ice time is for Senior and/or “laid back” players who are com-mitted to ensuring a fun and safe game of hockey. Players are expected to play in the spirit of fellowship and sportsmanship. All abilities are encouraged and welcome! For more information, please contact the program coordinator, Mike Ramsey at [email protected]. The Satur-day Co-Ed Rec Hockey has been cancelled, so make sure you take advantage of the Tuesday/Thursday/Friday/Sunday ice times.

The Hip Hop & Jazz classes start this week and will run until the first week of March. The classes are of-fered in the MacLean Annex on First Avenue between St. Paul and Monte Christo. Classes are on Tuesdays from 3-3:45 p.m. for 5-6 year olds, 4-5 p.m. for 7-9 year olds, 5-6 p.m.m for 10-13 year olds. On Wednes-days, classes for teens run from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and adults from 6:45-7:45 p.m. The classes are taught by Meg Wadsworth and are guaranteed to be high energy, addictive and fun!

Public Skating for the week of Jan. 21 to 27 is on Wednesday, Jan. 23 from 6:30-7:45 p.m., Friday Jan. 25 from 5-6:30 p.m and Sunday, Jan-uary 27 from 6-7:30 p.m. For more information about admission prices and skate rentals, please log on to the City’s website, at www.rossland.ca. The information can be found under the city hall, arena page.

The winter session for Karate has begun and runs until March 2013. The program is for Youth as young as 12 years old and runs on Tues-days and Thursdays, in the MacLean gymnasium from 6:30-8 p.m. If you’re a karate beginner, the instruc-tor will provide separate instruction until you can manage the basics. The Rossland Shotokan Karate Club has

been operating continuously since 1996 and new students are accepted in the months of September and January.

If you’re a parent of a preschool-er, there’s a new Parent & Child Mother Goose Program running on Saturdays, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., starting Jan. 12 and running until March 16. This program is offered through the public library for babies 6-18 months and their parents. To reserve a place, please contact the Children’s Librarian, Lynn Amann, at [email protected] or by phone, at 362-7611.

The outdoor rink is located on Third Avenue, between Spokane and Washington, and weather permit-ting, is open to the public. Red Mountain also has an outdoor ice rink for public use and the rental department has a small fleet of rental skates available.

The Rossland Public Library is of-fering a 3 p.m. “Movies & Munchies” program, every third Wednesday of the month. Kids will enjoy five different cartoons from the National Film Board – quirky, interesting independent films – while enjoying a healthy snack! For more informa-tion, contact the library, at 362-7611 or [email protected].

The recreation department is working on the Spring Brochure, which will be available mid-March and cover the months of April, May and June. If you’re new to town and interested in teaching a hobby or skill that you enjoy, please contact us to discuss opportunities for running a program. If you represent a local organization and you have events during that time period that you’d like to advertise, please email us with the information, at [email protected]

This weekend Rossland celebrates the 116th anniversary of the first Rossland Winter Car-nival.

That means that in 1897 this mountain king-dom decided to have a celebration at the cold-est time of the year.

It all began with just a few events that have now culminated in a tradition of snow events of all kinds.

As well as bobsled and luge runs, there will be cultural events, like the official unveiling of the Olaus Jeldness statue downtown.

The statue itself represents the Norwegian man whose love of ski jumping brought about the first carnival.

This weekend also presents an opportunity to hear both a Norwegian and Canadian per-spective, as on Sunday, Norwegian journalist Svein Saeter and historian Ron Shearer will have a presentations on just that.

There is a delegation of Norwegians that ar-rived today to celebrate the unveiling and winter carnival.

Tonight, or tomorrow morning, Canada AM will be filming from 2:30 a.m. to 6 a.m.

Despite the early hour, it sounds like there will be no shortage of people downtown to take part in the live broadcast to the eastern Canadian au-dience.

They could always use more people though, especially to participate in the Rail Jam at that time.

What is always impressive is just the sheer number of great events that go on during the short span of four days.

The posters around town are proof of that, as they are packed with line after line of events hap-pening all over town. It’s looking like it will be

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School board trustees have worked tirelessly under very dif-ficult circumstances to try and find options and funding. School District staff have expressed their concern and shown their dedication to their stu-dents.

Even with all of this hard work, the School District is still left with a large deficit, communities are worried about losing their schools and parents wonder what kind of education their child will receive.

I have been asked what my views are on the education crisis in this area. Firstly I will say that I have the greatest respect for the elected school trustees who rep-resent their constituents. It is they who have been given the very dif-ficult task of running an education system in a rural area with limited funds.

I support them in their work

and I am always willing to dis-cuss any role I can take with the provincial government on their behalf.

I understand that they are in a financial predicament. They are looking at a 1.75 million dollar shortfall and limited options on how to deal with it.

I applaud the trustees in having two community meetings to talk to parents and students about how they think the problems can be addressed.

With over 500 people in Ross-land attending their community

meeting and almost 200 people in Castlegar there is no doubt that people are passionate and determined to fight for their schools. Whatever decisions the school trustees make in the next few weeks I think that it has been shown that all sides are commit-ted to try and find solutions.

As the provincial representa-tive for this area I have been a part of an opposition caucus that

has been discussing rural school funding issues for many years.

My colleague, Robin Austin, is our critic for Education within the NDP Caucus and he has been discussing the very problems we are seeing in Kootenay West and holding the various education ministers responsible.

I have explained to him our concerns in this constituency as well. He and I will be continuing to fight for rural schools once the legislature returns in February.

The provincial government funding that school districts re-

ceive, and in particu-lar, rural school dis-tricts, is simply not enough. Since 2001 when funding for-mulas changed in BC, rural school districts have had difficulties balancing their bud-get while also attend-ing to community

needs. Distances between communi-

ties, mountainous terrain, weath-er, bussing, declining enrollments have all made providing education in areas like the West Kootenays a challenge.

I am committed to work with the School Board trustees and to work with my colleague, the Edu-cation critic, to fight for changes within the Legislature.

Remember some years ago when a movie was made in Rossland?

“Miracle” it was called, about the famous hockey game where U.S. took on Russia, at the 1980 Olym-pics.

The real game was played in Lake Placid in New York State.

I can’t imagine why the film-maker chose Rossland since it has no resemblance to Lake Placid whatsoever.

I don’t recall if they even used our arena; I do remember they plastered artificial snow all over downtown.

Imagine, fake snow in the Mountain Kingdom!

The movie, hockey, the arena and all the goings on there lately made me think we should make another movie here. “Miracle 2’”wouldn’t work – although we can only hope.

Maybe a Spy Mystery: under-cover operator gains trust of orga-nization, engages in illicit trading, cashes in for hundreds of thou-sands of dollars, escapes just as the authorities are closing in, and then, incredibly, re-appears in a

new guise working for a different agency in the same city. Maybe a bit far-fetched; who would believe a story like that?

How about a good old Spaghetti Western? Old West mining town, citizens up in arms over high taxes and mysterious expenses going into the pockets of high rolling gambler, sheriff narrowly avoids lynching party, saved by ex-mar-shal who controls angry mob by force of personality. Outrage and anger still seethes beneath the surface, egged on by passionate editorials in local paper, fuelled by allegations of a former deputy obsessed with truth and righteous-ness, fanned by a veil of obfusca-tion at city hall; how will all this end? A gun fight at the OK Store? Still a bit over the top perhaps.

What about a comedy then? Oh, come on now; how could any of this fascinating saga be even re-motely amusing?

The fantasy genre is popu-lar these days, let’s try that. Tiny troubled town struggling to find its niche in the world sends envoys up to the high sacred mountain to

consult with the Holy Oracle on how to find the right path. A long and arduous journey for the party of pilgrims, but at length they ar-rive at the sacred cave. Oracles don’t usually have a lot to say, and this one is no exception:

“Discover what can better be, Beyond the bounds that we can see.” But how shall we do that, they ask? “The wisdom of the wisest man, Is naught ‘gainst that of everyone, ” replies the Oracle, hobbling back into her cave They depart back down the mountain scratching their heads. Good set-up for a sequel and might work for the NFB, but likely not Oscar material.

Historical Drama, now there’s a possibility.

It looks like ‘Lincoln’ is going to grab all the Academy Awards this year, with all the drama of civil war, leadership and assassination. Could be right down our street.

Graham KenyonRossland

KAtrine ConroyKootenay West MLA

Letter: Arena fiasco could be movie

OpinionLocal MLA weighs in on Rossland schools issue

“Even with all of this hard work, the School District is still left with a large deficit.”


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The Canadian Open Junior Freeskiing Championship had its finals at at Red Mountain Saturday. Top, onlookers stand at the edge of the exit gates as as they watch each run, ready to cheer the big jumps. Lower photo, Xander Sterpin, from Rossland takes on some big air which landed him in seond place for the men’s 15-18 category.

Sports

Red Mountain Resort hosted the North Face Ca-nadian Open Freeskiing Junior Championships last week, with the final taking place on Saturday.

The championships were open to three age catego-ries: 7-11, 11-14 and 15-18, and the event is a part of the International Free Skiers Association.

Rossland skiers represented well on the challenging course, with five skiers placing in the top three.

The results in the female 7-11 category were Mal-lory Stewart, from Coldstream, Alta. in first, Jemma Capel, from Banff in second and Erin Flood, from Rossland taking third.

In the male 7-11 category, Rossland’s Simon Hillis took first, Sandy Phillips, form Kamloops took second and Ladd Costain, from Whitefish, took third.

In the 12-14 female category, Haley Cooke, from Nelson, took first, MacKenzie Flood, from Rossland, was second, and Hadley Michaels, form Mercer Is-land, took third. In the male category, Loki Wickman-Ratthe, from Nelson, took first, Cooper Bathgate, from Whsitler was second and Fernie’s Seth Amund-sen took third.

Rossland’s Sally Steeves took first in the 15-18 fe-male category. West Kootenay skiers rounded out the men’s category with Trace Cooke, from Nelson, taking first, Xander Sterpin, from Rossland, second, and Sam Woodward, from Nelson, third.

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The Rossland Secondary School girls’ basketball team is off to a great start.

So far in the season they are on a 13-0 run and took top place in three tournaments.

The three tournaments were at JL Crowe Secondary in Trail, St Ann’s Academy in Kamloops and Grand Forks Secondary School.

Coach Rick McKinnon noted that the team has

been playing very well. “Last weekend they defeated Castlegar 60-10, LVR,

from Nelson, 71-29, and JL Crowe 49-40 in the finals to win the Grand Forks tournament,” McKinnon said.

The week before that they travelled to Kamloops to participate in a tournament at St. Anns’ Academy.

There they defeated Valemont 60 - 14 , St. Ann’s Academy 67-21 and then Kamloops Christan School 72-48 in the final to win the tournament.

This weekend the girls are off to Creston. The fol-lowing weekend, they are participating in a Single-A seeding tournament.

The Rossland Secondary School girls’ basketball team recently took top place in three tour-naments.

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The Rossland Winter Carnival begins to-day and there are many events to take part in or enjoy from the sidelines.

Later this evening, the Nelson and District Credit Union Variety Show is at the Ross-land Secondary auditorium.

The show officially starts at 7 p.m., but there is a pre-show at 6:30 p.m. with Richie Mann and the Golden City Fiddlers.

“There’s such a wide range of entertain-ment,” said Lisa Henderson, who runs the show. “We have about 20 acts of all ages. There’s dance, musical theatre, soloists.”

They held two night of auditions to get through all the potential acts. She also scout-ed some of the acts at events like the Joe Hill Coffeehouse.

“We tried to squeeze in as many acts as possible, because it’s a variety show,” she said.

A gymnastic group made up of grade 6 and 7 students will be one of the featured acts.

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organizations about town, bobsleds on dis-play and music going on. The Rail Jam will also be happening downtown.

Deanne Stevens, from Tourism Rossland, is still hoping that more people come to show the Rossland spirit at those early hours.

Stevens is also hoping for more snow-boarders and skiers to get in on the early morning Rail Jam.

It could be an opportunity to be featured on national TV.

There will also be many retailers open for the event.

At 1 p.m. on Friday, the King of the Moun-tain ski, telemark and snowboard race takes place on Red Mountain.

The event challenges the racers to excel in all three disciplines.

Learn to Luge also starts at that time on Red. Bring snowboots and a helmet and pre-pare for some speed.

At 6:30 p.m. the 116th Carnival Parade is happening downtown. The parade begins at the corner of Columbia and Butte.

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featuring live music and DJs from 6-11 p.m.On Saturday, the firefighters will be put-

ting on a pancake breakfast at the fire hall.

Then at 9:30 a.m. the Sonny Samuelson Bobsled Race down Spokane Street begins.

There are many other events going around town Saturday.

On Sunday, the day starts with the Olaus Invitational Luge Race at Red Mountain. Participants must qualify in the Learn to Luge events on Friday and Saturday to par-ticipate.

The John Heintz Relay Race begins at 1 p.m. It’s a race form the top of Red Mountain to the Lions Campground.

In the afternoon, Norwegian journalist Svein Saeter and Rossland born historian Ron Shearer will talk about Olaus Jeldness from their two unique perspectives- Norwe-gian and North American.

The presentation starts at 3 p.m. at the Prestige.

For a more detailed itinerary, go to www.rosslandwintercarnival.com, or see sched-ules printed in the Rossland News and West Kootenay Advertiser.

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Violinist extremist Kytami, right, played to a packed Miners’ Hall Saturday night. Kytami fuses different styles, like classic and hip hop, together to provide an energizing set.

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Good turnout for avalanche awareness

The annual Avalanche Awareness Day was held Saturday at Red Mountain Resort.

The event is put on by the local search and rescue groups, including Rossland and Dis-trict Search and Rescue.

The event featured four information sta-tions, each with different avalanche and snow techniques to learn about.

The first station was a probe line, which

taught probing techniques as well as proper deployment of the long probe.

The next station was a beacon station. Av-alanche beacons were buried earlier in the day so that participants could practice locat-ing them, as well as becoming more familiar with the beacon and how they work.

The third station was about snow profiles and shear tests.

This gave people a chance to get a good idea of how snow builds up and causes ava-lanches.

The fourth station was on how to build a snow cave.

At the end of the day there was a fun race, where teams went through each of the four stations.

Among the participants were people new to avalanche hazards as well as experienced backcountry enthusiasts.

Organizers said they had a great turnout for the event, adding that lots of people en-joyed the events and gained some knowl-edge and information.

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100 Years AgoJanuary 1913

Over 3000 Men on Kettle Valley Line

At the present time the Kettle Valley Railway Co., has over 3000 men at work on the construction of their line between the Kootenays, the Okanagan, Similkameen and Hope. The present work entails an expendi-ture of just over a quarter of a million dollars a month and the employment of 140 draughtsmen and engi-neers.

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Michael Hearne is in custody in Butte, charged with bigamy. The two wives met a few days since, wife No. 1 coming from Ireland.

She is fifty years old and has three children which she left in Ire-land to journey to Butte to expose her husband.

Wife No. 2 is 20 years old and is pretty, and has a baby only three months old.

Hearne left Ireland four years ago on a globe trotting trip, and, af-ter journeying through numerous countries, he finally made Ross-

land his home. He was engaged here as a miner. He met wife No.2 in this city and they were married in Nelson.

She insists, when Hearne gets out of jail, that she has the first call on his somewhat erratic affections.

When Hearne arrived in Butte a relative of his learned of his sec-ond marriage and wrote to Mrs. Hearne, No. 1.

At the same time Hearne was writing to wife No. 1, telling how lonesome he was with his single

life.Hearne is a diamond drill man,

and while employed in the Dia-mond mine, at Butte, he stuck a wire into his right hand and it be-came infected with blood poison-ing.

It may become necessary to am-putate his arm. Pending trial, he is confined to a detention hospital.

***Fire in Hop Lee’s Chinese

Laundry

At 1:15 on Monday afternoon, a fire broke out in Hop Lee’s laundry on LeRoi Ave. It was a two-story frame structure.

The fire was well under way be-fore an alarm was turned in, and the building was completely ablaze by the time the department arrived on the scene.

Hop Lee’s laundry was gutted, and there was no insurance.

The loss will be around $500 on building and clothing destroyed.

***75 Years AgoJanuary 1938

William Turner is Mayor Again

Wm. A. Turner, who did not officially an-nounce his intention of contesting the may-oralty seat in the Ross-land city council until Monday of this week, was elected by a major-ity of 16 votes over J.E. Gordon, 1937 Mayor, in yesterday’s election.

After two years of re-tirement from civic af-

fairs Mr. Turner again offered his services and was the choice of the electors in one of the closest fought battles in recent years.

***Heaviest Snowfall of Season

RecordedWeather report for the last two

or three days is good news for ski-ers, and very, very bad for the an-cient and honorable order of snow shovellers.

Twelve and one-half inches of snow have been recorded since Monday.

The Rossland Historical Museum is open during Winter Carnival Weekend!

Arne Petryshen photo

Bert’s Blues Guys got a real treat, when Kootenay Jack (middle) invited them up to provide backup with their voices and harmonicas. This was just one of the great performances at the Joe Hill Coffeehouse Sunday.

Maureen BrownRossland Historical Museum

Community

History: Hop Lee’s burns in 1913

Hop Lee’s laundry was gutted, and there was no insurance. The loss will be around $500 on building and clothing.

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Red Mountain Resort Lodging is currently seeking applicants for the position of Head Housekeeper. This position is full time year round. The successful applicant will have to be detail oriented, have excellent organization and communication skills, thrive in a fast paced environment, and be able to both lead a team as well as function as a member within the team. Benefits include a season pass to Red Mountain Resort, benefit package, and annual vacation. Wage is negotiable. Please send resume to [email protected].

Head Housekeeper

Atco Wood Products is seeking an experienced Timber Harvesting Supervisor. Reporting to the Woodlands Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of supervising timber harvesting and road building contractors, including pre-work reviews, coaching, monitoring progress and managing workplace safety. In addition, this individual may be responsible for private land/ BCTS timber procurement and other forestry field work as required. Critical to the role will be your ability to function as an integral member of a team of results oriented forestry professionals.You will possess excellent communication and leadership skills and have strong analytical and problem solving capabilities. A minimum of 5 years experience and an RFT or RPF designation are definite assets. If this opportunity is what you are looking for and you have the skills necessary to succeed in this role, please forward your resume to [email protected] by February 1, 2013.ATCO Wood Products Ltd. is a SFI certified family owned company located in Fruitvale, BC with over 50 years of history in the forestry and wood products manufacturing industries. For more information on our company, please visit our website at www.atcowoodproducts.com.Atco offers a competitive compensation package commensurate with qualifications. Please submit your resume to:Kris Harvey, PO Box 460Fruitvale, BC V0G 1L0or email to:[email protected](No phone calls please)

Timber Harvesting Supervisor

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Nelson & District Credit Union is a respected, vibrant and community-minded organization with 60+ employees serving over 10,500 members at three community branch locations. Our organi-zation has a reputation for enriching lives and creating a culture of innovation and excellence while being committed to staying on the leading edge of banking products and financial services with a solid commitment to community.

Currently, the Rossland community branch has an entry level employment opportunity for someone willing to work on a casual basis. Candidates will have exceptional communication skills and enjoy meeting and serving our members. If you would like to begin a rewarding new career or expand on past career experience in the financial services industry, please direct inquiries to:

Brian Poch, Branch ManagerNelson & District Credit Union2071 Columbia Ave, PO Box 489Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0p. 250.362.7393 e. [email protected]

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CITY OF Yellowknife invites applications from qualifi ed candidates for the following positions: Pumphouse and Liftstation Tradesperson - Public Works Department Competition #902-137 Closes: February 1, 2013. Pumphouse and Liftstation Maintainer - Public Works Department Competition #902-135 Closes: February 1, 2013. Building In-spector II - Planning and De-velopment Department Com-petition #220-125U Closes: February 1, 2013 Submit re-sumes in confi dence by the closing date, to: Human Re-sources Division, City of Yel-lowknife, P.O. Box 580, Yel-lowknife, NT., X1A 2N4; Fax (867) 669-3471 or Email: [email protected] Please di-rect all inquiries to the above listed email address. For more information on these positions, including the required qualifi -cations, please refer to the City of Yellowknife’s web page at: www.yellowknife.ca or con-tact Human Resources at 867-920-5603.

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116th Winter Carnival 2013

WinterRosslandJanuary 24th- 27th

Thursday• 7pm--The Nelson and District Credit Union Variety Show

Advance group tickets at Rossland Hardware $5 kid, $7 adult $15 Family (max 4)

at RSS. Pre-show at 6:30 with Richie Mann and the Golden City Fiddlers.

• 8pm--Bobsled Calcutta at the Garage Restaurant

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Great Selection of Arc Teryx &

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All Weekends Events• Kids slide at the library created by the Slocan Snow Sculpturers

• Friends of the Rossland Museum display at Pro Hardware

• Watch for the Boomtown Garter Girls performing around town

Friday• 2:30 am- 6am--Canada AM party- over 15 retailers open, Rail Jam, Bobsled-

Shine and Show, Ice Carvers. Free coffee and hot chocolate! Thousand’s of dollars

worth of prizes!

• 1-3pm--Learn to Luge Helmets & snow boots mandatory Red Resort, $10

• 1pm--King of the Mountain ski, telemark & snowboard race at Red Resort -

12pm registration, $15

• 3-8pm--Nelson & District Credit Union Free Hot Spiced Apple Juice

• 6-11pm--Olaus Ice Palace, Live music and DJ - cover charge (Bring 2 pcs of ID) Queen

& Columbia

• 6:30pm--The Game‚Open Jam pre-registration at Rossvegas 6:30-9pm Helmets &

waiver mandatory $20 Queen & Columbia

• 6:30pm--City of Rossland‚116th Carnival Parade Located downtown, entrants meet

at 6pm corner of Columbia & Butte- Win a Red Mountain Resort Season Pass! Enter

the parade (costumes &/or � oat mandatory). Draw at 7:00pm

• 7pm--Post Parade Extravaganza Free hotdogs for parade kids, hot chocolate, bon� re

in Harry Lefevre Square (Columbia and Washington)

• 7pm--Red Mountain season pass draw. The Grand unveiling of the new Olaus Statue

on the corner of Columbia Ave and Washington with the Spirit of Red Society.

• 7:30pm--“Pyrophoria” Fire Dancers Special Performance Harry Lefevre Square

(Columbia and Washington)

• 9-1:30am--Friday Night Open Jam at the Legion

• 9pm--Party at Red Mountain Resort From 9pm-1:45am with Mat the Alien,

a prominent DJ, and free shuttle from downtown to the day lodge.

Saturday• 7:30am--Fire� ghters Pancake Breakfast 10am Located at the � re hall on 2nd Ave - $5

• 9:30am--Mountain FM / 103.5 The Bridge presents The Sonny Samuelson Bobsled Race

Spokane Street Award presentation (Queen & Columbia)

• 10-5pm--“The Game” Rail Jam by Rossvegas (Registration 9-10 � rm) Open Jam helmets &

waivers mandatory. $20

• 11-5pm--Library- extended opening hours

• 11-1am--Celebrate Australia Day at the Rock Cut Pub.

• 7:30pm-- Crazy, fun horse race- The Olaus Cup! – Rock Cut Pub

• 1-3pm--Learn to Luge Helmets at Red Mountain Resort. Helmets and snow boots

mandatory $10

• 12pm--GT Racing on Spokane Street Helmets & Waivers mandatory, no entry fee Spokane

& 2nd Ave

• 12pm--EZ ROCK Powder Pounder Snow Volleyball $40 per team Spokane & Columbia

• 12-6 pm--Olaus Ice Palace and Food Fair Queen & Columbia

• 12-6 pm--Rossland Museum Open

• 12-1:30--Borscht at the Legion Washington & 1st Ave

• 1pm--World Championship Bigolfathon Red Mnt. Resort (bottom of Red Chair) $10

• 1-4pm-- Street Racing, Cross country ski style! 2013 Rossland Winter Carnival Team Sprints

Upper Spokane St (by Ice Arena) Registration 1:00 Heats 2:00 Finals 3:00

- Entry Fees • Under 14 $5 • 14 – 19 $15 • Over 19 $20 Contact: Tom Gomez 250-362-0062

• 2pm--Steps Dance Centre Presents ‘The Freeze’ All-Styles Dance Battle at the Parish Hall on

Columbia Ave, Registration- $5 Contact Nicole Bruce.

• 9 pm--The Freeze Party- ages 19+, $20 presale, $25 at the door, featuring Philthkids/

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• 6-9pm--Red Mountain Resort Family Fun Night Free night skiing and boarding, skating Rink

& Firepit, Tobogganing, Kids Movie, Indoor crafts & activities Sourdough Alley Cafeteria

Sunday• 9am--The Olaus Invitational BC Cup Luge Race Helmets & snow boots mandatory Red Mtn, $15

• 12-2pm--Kids Carnival Presented by West Kootenay Snogoers Kids Snowmobile Rides,

Concession, games & more! Lions campground $2

• 10-2 pm--Rossland Museum hot cider & coffee

• 1pm--John Heintz Relay Race relay race from top of Red Mtn. to Lions campground

register at Red in the conference room 10:30-11:30am. Awards ceremony at Lions

campground $50/team $25 single

• 2pm--Steps Dance Centre Presents- ‘The Freeze’ All-Styles Dance Workshops. Contact

Nicole Bruce [email protected]

• 3pm- 6pm-- “Who was Olaus Jeldness”at the Prestige. Admission $12.00. Advance tickets

available at Mountain Town Properties, 2020 Washington St. and at the door. Refreshments

will be served. Cash bar. Sponsored by Rossland Historical Museum and Archives

Association and the Spirit of Red.

Final schedule subject to change

PLATINUM PLUS CASH SPONSORSNelson and District Credit Union

PLATINUM CASH SPONSORSTeck, Columbia Power Corporation, RDKB- Area B,Castlegar Hyundai

GOLD CASH SPONSORSColumbia Basin Trust, Fortis BC, Ferraro Foods ,

SILVER CASH SPONSORSRossland Collision LTD, Alpine Drug Mart IDA, RHC Insurance Brokers, CFDC of Greater Trail, Halls Printing

BRONZE CASH SPONSORS Outdoor Design Company

PLATINUM PLUS IN KIND SPONSORSCity of Rossland, Red. Mt. Resort, Mountain FM, EZ Rock

PLATINUM IN KIND SPONSORSRossland News, Trail Daily Times, Tourism Rossland

GOLD IN KIND SPONSORSHLF Images, Rossland Telegraph, Powderhound

SILVER IN KIND SPONSORSThe Red Barn, Big Red Cats, Prestige Mountain ResortKokanee Springs

2013 Rossland Winter Carnival Sponsors

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