Rossland News, February 11, 2016

Black Jack skier Julien Locke won first at the Haywood NorAm Canadian Eastern Championships over the weekend and is bound for the FIS Nordic U23 World Ski Championships in Romania.

Members of the Trail Chamber of Commerce voted unanimously to merge with the Rossland Chamber of Commerce on Dec. 18.

“The red tape isn’t all in line yet, because we are looking at a name change,” said Audry Lochrie, executive director of the Trail Chamber.

Though the chamber’s logo identifies the organization as the Trail and District Chamber

of Commerce, the name was never officially changed.

The board will also need to be restructured so that Rossland is also represented.

“I’m talking to three people that were previously on the Rossland chamber that are in-terested in joining this cham-ber,” said Lochrie. “My goal would be to have half the board members from Rossland and a diverse group, so not just every-body from construction sector, or everybody from tourism sec-

tor, but a real diverse group.”Lochrie and the chamber

will continue to work out the details of the merger in the near future.

Meanwhile, Rossland busi-ness owners wondering what benefits they’ll receive from joining the chamber can expect help with West Kootenay-wide marketing and promotion.

“We’re doing lots of promo-tions, lots of marketing, busi-ness of the week. We’re getting people’s names and doing little

blurbs about them on our so-cial media, in our newsletter,” said Lochrie. “We’re also pro-moting in different business magazines.”

The chamber also offers its members a health benefit pro-gram, which is a big draw.

Since the merger, 30 Rossland businesses have al-ready joined the chamber, and Lochrie said they haven’t even started actively recruiting yet.

“It’s just kind of been organic recruiting,” she said.

The chamber invites Rossland business owners — non-members are invited too — to take part in a series of free seminars to celebrate chamber week. The free lunch and learn seminars will be held Monday, Feb. 15 to Thursday, Feb. 18, from 12 to 1 p.m. and will in-clude free lunch.

Those interested in attending should RSVP by Friday, Feb. 12 by calling 250-368-3144 or emailing [email protected].

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CUPE Local 2087 has ratified a new contract with the City of Rossland.

The previous contract expired Feb. 28 last year, but negotiations didn’t start right away for “a variety of rea-sons.”

“Some of it [was] our personal change, and then [there was] some personal change on the negotiating team of the union,” explained Mayor Kathy Moore.

Originally CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) Local 2087 asked for a three-year contract and the city for a five-year, but com-promised on a four-year agreement. There were also compromises made on both sides regarding employee raises, which ended up being two per cent per year.

“When you’re in bargaining it’s always, you know, we have one side and they have the other side,” said

Jean Pool, president of CUPE 2087. “So we settled. Our aim for the raise was two per cent and we did get two per cent.”

Moore was happy with the way the process went and thought that negotiations had ended well for both parties.

“They had very good productive meetings and the two sides weren’t very far apart, and we’re pretty happy. We came to a fair deal for everybody,” said Moore.

Union members also seem to be happy with the agreement.

“The membership ratified it 100 per cent, so I think that they are very happy about it,” said Pool.

The collective agreement consists of a two per cent increase in each year along with improvements in extended health benefits, bank time and con-tract language.

CUPE 2087 represents 24 workers in the City of Rossland.

Miners’ Hall reno shortfall, selling off Rotary buildingCouncil voted to fund the

shortfall on the exterior renova-tion of the Miners’ Hall, includ-ing the replacement of the south facing windows, the roof, the sid-ing, painting and the scaffolding, with $100,000 from the Land Sales Reserve Fund.

Councillor Martin Kruysse mentioned that he’d like to see a fixed cost contract for the project.

“This is a really, I think, straight-forward project and I think we want to ensure that we avoid any cost overruns or changes,” he said.

Councillor Andy Morel was uncomfortable with the idea of a fixed cost contract.

“I see where Martin wants to go with this idea; my concern is that when you request fixed price, often it’s reflected in the quotes,” he said.

Council then voted to sell the Rotary building to replenish the Land Sales Reserve Fund.

Mayor joins Hospice Society Swimathon

Brenda Hooper, chair of the Greater Trail Hospice Society Swimathon, challenged Mayor

Kathy Moore to join the Swimathon and raise more than other mayors in the region. The mayor accepted and invited councillors to join her. Councillor Marten Kruysse was eager to participate and en-couraged the other councillors to take part. Mayor and council were dismayed to learn that the Trail rec fees would not be waived for the event, and Moore challenged Mayor Mike Martin to waive the fees for Rossland residents partici-pating in the Swimathon.

Rainbows for RosslandEllie Knox and Joel Moyer pre-

sented on behalf of the Rossland Youth Action Network (YAN) and their Creating a Supportive Rossland (CSR) group. Knox and Moyer requested that council ap-prove flying a rainbow flag out-side City Hall, either year-round or during Kootenay Pride Week in September, and painting a rain-bow crosswalk outside Rossland Summit School following the con-struction on Washington St. YAN would cover the costs of the flag and crosswalk. Council will vote on the matter at the next regular council meeting.

Trail recreation subsidyCouncil voted to put the bal-

ance of the $50,000 it allocated

for a Trail recreation subsi-dy—$25,000—toward reimbursing Rossland residents the TRP fee on two 10-punch passes, or the equiv-alent amount on a more expensive pass, for the Trail Aquatic Centre. Councillor Andrew Zwicker was opposed, because he felt they were leaving a lot of people out by re-quiring the minimum purchase of a 10-punch pass.

Last call on water and sewer rates

Council did third reading of the bylaws to raise the water and sewer rates by 4.5 per cent each, and will adopt the bylaw at the next regular council meeting. As of Tuesday night, council had not had any public input on the increases and is issuing a last call for any objec-tions or public input on the matter.

Borrowing capability for Washington St. infrastructure

Council adopted the bylaw that will allow the city to borrow up to $4 million to complete the Washington St. Infrastructure Renewal project if necessary. The bylaw went through an alternative approval process, and there was not enough objection to prompt a referendum. It also received ap-proval from the inspector of mu-nicipalities.

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An accident at Red Mountain Resort shut down the Silverlode chair lift on Saturday while Ski Patrol responded to the incident and brought a male skier down the mountain by rescue toboggan. The skier was later removed from the Ski Patrol office by stretcher and loaded into an ambulance.

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Black Jack skier wins Easter Canadian Championships, heads to Worlds

Black Jack skier Julien Locke won first place at the Haywood NorAm Canadian Eastern Championships over the weekend.

Locke felt good about how the weekend’s race went.

“I had quite a good race, I was not the greatest the weekend before in the Mont Ste-Anne NorAm, but then my shape came around quite nicely for the sprint on Friday,” he said. “The body felt quite good, tactics were good and my speed is pretty good.”

The victory puts Locke in the standings to be part of the Ski Tour Canada national team and comes just before his departure for Romania, where he will compete in the FIS Nordic U23 World Ski Championships, taking place Feb. 22 to 28.

“It’s been good preperation; it’s good for his confidence,” said Dave Wood, his coach.

Locke is currently the NorAm Sprint leader, but will be away in Romania during the Haywood NorAm Canadian Western Championships and could have that title usurped.

“After westerns I will qualify for the ski tour, but if somebody passes me while I’m not there, then…. We’ll have to wait and see what happens,” he said.

But taking the time to go to Romania is worth it. If Locke

makes it into the top 12 at the World Championships then he’ll qualify for the national team next year.

In Romania, Locke will com-pete against skiers he’s never skied against before, but he’s confident.

“I don’t believe that the level there — I mean the level there is high — but I don’t believe it’s out of reach, and my goal is to be in the top six there in the A final and

I think that’s realistic and that’s what I’ll be aiming to do,” he said.

If Locke qualifies for the nation-al team this year, then he’ll travel from Gatineau, QC to Montréal, QC to Québec City to Canmore, Alta. from March 1 to 12.

Either way, he’ll be competing in the 2016 Haywood Ski Nationals Championships in Whitehorse from March 19 to 26 to finish off the season.


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Protesters fear peace in forests

After 20 years of representing BC coastal First Nations to negotiate what US-directed activists labeled the Great Bear Rainforest agreement, a weary Dallas Smith expressed his relief and frustration.

At a ceremony to sign the final agreement in Vancouver last week, Smith, president of the Nanwakolas Council of remote Central Coast

communities like Bella Bella, joked that he’s finally out of a job. Then he got serious.

“My communities still aren’t bet-ter places to live yet,” he said. But the land use agreement with the prov-ince and forest companies over a vast coastal area up to the Alaska border means the years ahead will be better.

He said when he started it was like being caught in a divorce between the BC forest industry and international environmental groups. Dutch-based Greenpeace, its California offshoot ForestEthics and others moved on from their Clayoquot Sound battle to the BC coast, looking to continue the blockades against logging.

“It’s the First Nations of the Coast who stood up and said ‘no, this is how it’s going to work’,” Smith said.

How it’s going to work is that log-ging will continue on 550,000 hect-ares of coastal forest, with a greater share for First Nations, and with 85

per cent of the region preserved after a century of logging that began with sailing ships.

Aside from a few diehards who are either paid to protest or can’t get past issuing demands, BC ab-original people have grown tired of being used as props in global de-marketing campaigns directed from San Francisco or Amsterdam. The protesters’ tactic of organizing customer boycotts that damage far-away economies might be good for international fundraising, but it’s bad for poor people.

Formally begun 10 years ago with $30 million from Ottawa, $30 mil-lion from BC and $60 million from a group of wealthy US family founda-tions with a larger anti-development agenda, the land use plan remains under attack.

Among the many protest outfits is Pacific Wild, which has specialized in Great Bear Rainforest campaigns

and now needs a new enemy. Their credibility was demonstrated recent-ly when potty-mouthed US pop star Miley Cyrus decided to speak out against BC’s wolf kill.

Typical of celebrities, Cyrus had no idea about the struggle to preserve dwindling herds of mountain cari-bou. She barely knows where BC is, a fact made plain when Pacific Wild toured her around the North Coast, far from the Kootenay and South Peace regions where the wolves in question actually roam.

Cyrus’s handlers spoon-fed video and statements to urban media, who were so anxious to exploit her global popularity that they played down the fact she was at the wrong end of the province spouting nonsense.

After periodically attacking their own BC agreement as inadequate, Greenpeace and ForestEthics have moved on to what they call the “bore-al forest,” which we like to call north-

ern Canada. The same bully tactics with forest products customers and producers have been featured.

This time, a Quebec company that signed an accord in 2010 is suing Greenpeace for “defamation, ma-licious falsehood and intentional interference in economic relations.”

Aboriginal companies on the BC coast will continue to log, including areas of old-growth forest and sec-ondary growth. They will continue to export logs as economics dictate. They will continue to harvest ani-mals, including grizzly bears.

And, I expect, they will continue to be subjected to attempts to super-vise and direct them by members of urban society’s new religion, envi-ronmentalism.

The leaders of this movement don’t like peace. It’s bad for their business.

Tom Fletcher is BC legislature re-porter and columnist for Black Press.

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Rossland’s heritage buildings, reminder of rich pastEditor’s note:The 2016 theme for Heritage Week (Feb. 15 -

21) in BC is Distinctive Destination — Experience Historic Places. We asked local historian Jackie Drysdale to write a piece for our readers to pon-der as they reflect on how Rossland’s rich history has shaped what it is today. She graciously agreed and has captured the spirit of Rossland’s heritage perfectly.

Rossland is a perfect example of a distinctive destination — its historic character is noted by all our visitors, whether scanning our panoramic scenic mountain landscape or enjoying the ambi-ence of our downtown. We have many heritage buildings in our community that date back to a time when Rossland was a thriving, internation-ally recognized resource town, rapidly developing as a community to support the needs of the gold mining operations and their workforce.

Rossland experienced phenomenal growth in terms of population — it was a mining camp of 250 people in January of 1895 and by 1897, when incorporated as a city, the population was 7000. The phenomenal growth in construction paral-leled the population growth. By 1900, both sides

of Columbia Ave. from Spokane St. to St. Paul were filled with two and three storey buildings as was the first block of Spokane St. and two blocks up Washington St. There was a spirit of initiative, opportunity and confidence behind this growth based on the knowledge that these local mines had quality and quantity of ore that spoke to a prosperous future.

With the international investment world fi-nancing the development of hard rock mining enterprises in our local mountains, the smelter at Trail was built (1895/96) and two railways (one American and one Canadian) were completed into Rossland in 1896. West Kootenay Power (Fortis) built the world’s longest high voltage line from the first dam on the Kootenay River in 1897 to service the needs of the mining industry and close by communities. Infrastructure was important and it came quickly!

Our heritage buildings are visual reminders of those heady days when Rossland’s gold mining gave roots to BC’s mining industry, opened up the West Kootenay and connected it to the rest of Canada in so many ways. Rossland was never an Old West frontier town — it was cosmopolitan

and had all the trademarks of a community: jobs, a wide variety of stores and professional services (lawyers, doctors, undertakers, etc.), banks, a court house, a hospital, the Miners’ Union Hall, and ever expanding schools.

Major fires (1902, 1927, 1929) in our down-town area have destroyed many buildings, but those that remain certainly add character to our streetscapes and speak of a significant past for Rossland. Appreciation is expressed by many people for the efforts of building owners to re-store and rehabilitate the facades of their heritage buildings, keeping the original integrity in mind. Conservation of our heritage buildings in Rossland does hinge on the buildings being in use and we can only hope that the spaces within our heritage buildings will be put to good use ensuring their longevity.

Experience is becoming a new buzz word in tourism — what many people are looking for in their travels. Having our heritage buildings in situ, coupled with the memories, information and stories they evoke certainly is a stepping stone in adding to the experience for people visiting Rossland today.

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Richard Cannings, MP for South Okanagan-West Kootenay made his first visit to his new Castlegar constituency office on Tuesday. Rossland News caught up with him to find out how things are going on the Hill so far, and what constituents can expect from the first-time MP.

Rossland News: What’s it been like sitting in parlia-ment so far?

Richard Cannings: Well of course, in many ways for a new MP it’s a big adventure. You’re sitting in the House of Commons and pinching yourself that this is where you work. So on some level it’s a lot of fun, and on other levels it can be a bit stressful, but usually it’s very interesting, and I’ve really enjoyed it so far.

RN: Do you have any plans to introduce any bills?

RC: Each MP has the opportunity to put for-ward private members bills or motions, and right at the start of the session, back in December, there was a draw. They have a lottery to see who gets to put in each bill, when, because there’s only time in a four-year parliament for, say, about 180 pri-vate members bills to go through and there’s almost 300 MPs that can do that. So my number, I think, was 82 or something. So in about a year and half,

I’ll have that opportunity to bring a private mem-bers bill into parliament, so I’m working on some ideas around that.

And of course, you know, I can bring in any number of motions or bills more for political effect than for the real thing. So I can put forward motions and they’ll never be acted on perhaps, but it’s out there and gives the gov-ernment perhaps some ideas that they should be working on.

There’s also opposition days. Even as a third party, the NDP gets an opposi-tion day say maybe once a month and on opposi-tion days we bring for-ward motions that we think are important and those motions are ideas that are brought forward by people like me, so … if I think there’s some im-portant issues that I think we should be presenting as opposition, there’s that op-portunity as well. In many ways it’s a more powerful voice than a private mem-bers bill because you get a whole day to debate that one issue and we just had a very successful one last week. We had an opposi-tion day where we brought forward a motion on pay equity, and that had some pretty powerful parts to it … and it passed, because you know it would be hard pressed for the Liberals to vote against pay equity.

So there’s a number of ways I can do that.

RN: What are the chal-lenges in representing this particular riding in

Ottawa?RC: There’s just the

physical challenge of being on both sides of the rid-ing often enough. You know, I live in Penticton, so there’s that challenge of getting over here, but we do have these break weeks — so called break weeks. They’re breaks from Ottawa, where I have the opportunity to come over here for a number of days and meet with quite a few constituents or groups to hear the issues out here.

There’s the other chal-lenge that the issues out here are often quite dif-ferent than they are in the Okanagan, where you have an economy that’s based largely on ag-riculture and tourism and seniors/retirees. Out here there’s a lot more industry

and things like that. So the issues are quite different. It adds a lot of diversity to my work, so that’s a bit of a challenge too, but it’s all interesting and I’m trying to figure out how best I can meet those challenges.

RN: Are there any con-cerns that you’ve heard about since you took of-fice — from Castlegar in particular — that are really pressing?

RC: Just before you arrived I was meeting with postal workers who are concerned about not just cutbacks in terms of door-to-door deliv-ery, but also cutbacks in the post office here in Castlegar and throughout the Kootenays. It’s some-thing I hear about as well in Penticton.

When I meet with local municipal politicians and regional district people, they have issues around infrastructure grants that are particular to the area. A lot of the communities here applied for Canada 150 grants for instance, and some got their grants and some didn’t, and it’s a bit of a mystery to them and myself as to why they were refused those grants. So those are the issues we’re looking into.

I’ve been hearing about the Lemon Creek spill issue, about the federal government finally tak-ing some responsibility and looking into doing an investigation into that event. So that’s certainly a local issue that’s very much a concern in the Slocan Valley.


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Special Olympics BC Trail hosted the Snow Sports Winter Festival in Rossland for the first time over the weekend.

Athletes competed in alpine skiing events at Red Mountain Resort and snowshoeing races at the Black Jack Ski area on Saturday, and had lots of fun.

“I’m proud I got two second places,” said Jake Miller, who got second in the Male 01 200m and the Male 01 400m snowshoe races.

“I’m proud of what I’ve done,” said Kayleigh Postmus, another snowshoer who got first place in both the Female 01 50m and the Female 02 100m, and second place in the Female 02 400m, an event she only decided to participate in at the last minute.

“It was hard work and I want to thank my coaches — Luke, Jarod, Debbie and es-pecially Ben — for training me … to get this far,” she said.

“And Rhonda,” added Miller.“Thanks to Kurt and Darrel and all the

other coaches from skiing for coaching us,” said skier Tim McTeer who participated in both the Giant Slalom and Slalom events.

“[And] Ben,” added Serena Lapointe, who participated in the Female Novice category of the alpine skiing events and placed second in the Giant Slalom and third in the Slalom.

Miller, Postmus, McTeer and Lapointe were all looking forward to competing again next and were sure they would do even bet-ter in their respective events. They were also looking forward to spending the rest of Saturday evening dancing and having a good time with the visiting athletes from other communities.

Overall the festival went very well.“We had great support,” said Ben Postmus,

coach and event organizer. “Both courses were excellent; the weather, couldn’t ask for anything better. Red Mountain Resort did a fabulous job of supporting us, letting us run races on their hill, same with Black Jack Ski Club.”

Results for the Trail Special Olympics athletes were as follows:

Showshoe racesFemale 01 50mFirst: Kayleigh Postmus, 17.81Second: Patricia Soto, 24.53Female 02 100mFirst: Kayleigh Postmus, 38.09

Fourth: Patricia Soto, 53.22Male 01 100mSecond: William Thatcher, 20.56Fourth: Jake Miller, 22.44Fifth: Eugene LaRoque, 25.35Male 02 100mThird: Jordan McPhee, 30Female 02 200mThird: Patricia Soto, 2:07.06Male 01 200mSecond: Jake Miller, 51.06Third: Willam Thatcher, 56.25Fourth: Eugene LaRoque, 1:02.41Male 02 200mFourth: Jordan McPhee, 1:11.10Female 02 400mSecond: Kayleigh Postmus, 3:43.75Male 01 400mSecond: Jake Miller, 2:03.37Male 02 400mFirst: William Thatcher, 2:14.30Fifth: Eugene LaRoque, 2:48.69Male 01 800mSecond: William Thatcher, 3:41.81Giant SlalomFemale NoviceSecond: Serena Lapointe, 1:58.96Third: Sophia Santano, 3:20.08Male NoviceSecond: Stewart Babakaiff, 1:14.02Male IntermediateSixth: Tim McTeer, 1:04.40Seventh: Stuart Hawton, 1:11:84SlalomFemale NoviceSecond: Sophia Santano, 2:22.41Third: Serena Lapointe, 2:28.20Male NoviceFirst: Stewart Babakaiff, 1:21.60Male IntermediateFifth: Tim McTeer, 1:14.02Sixth: Stuart Hawton, 1:15.80 Chelsea Novak photos


Top: Jake Miller (third from left) and Eugene LaRoque (second from right) got a strong start in a qualifying run for the Male 01 200m. William Thatcher had a good race day, placing first in one event, second in two events, and third in one event. Serena Lapointe (middle) and Tim McTeer (bottom) take off from the starting gate for their second runs in the Slalom event.

MUSEUM SATURDAY CRAFTERNOONSStop in anytime Saturdays between 1 to 3 p.m. for Crafternoons in the Discovery Zone! Crafts and activities for kids of all ages. Free with adult admission. Parents can feel free to look around the mu-seum while we craft with the kids. The Museum is openall winter Wednesdays to Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Coffee, tea, and hot chocolate available to keep you warm! Contact: 250-362-7722 or [email protected].

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p.m. $2 drop in or $5 for the season. Please use back door to enter. For more details contact Ryan at [email protected] or text 250-921-5644.

SWING DANCING AT THE LEGION

Swing dancing lessons are starting up again at the Legion on Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. We’ll teach each other our favourite moves. Bring your favou-rite swing songs on an iPod or USB memory stick. Spread the word!

ART DROP IN NIGHTMondays, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. There will be no instruction, just a space to be creative with other youth artists. Come hang out and get creative!

ROSSLAND BEAVER SCOUTSMondays, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Girls and boys ages 5 to 7 years. Please contact Deanna Leask at 250-362-7118 to join.

SLURPS AND BURPS FEEDING GROUPTuesdays, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Family Obstetrics Clinic, Fourth Floor

Maternity, KBRH Trail. Share your experiences with your peers in an in-formative place for breastfeeding and bottle support. Whether you are an expectant mom, brand new mom, or a more seasoned mom, we welcome you!

ADULT CO-ED REC HOCKEYTuesdays and Thursdays, 9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. Join this fun, co-ed recreational program of non-contact drop-in hockey. Please enter on Second Ave. This is fun, no contact, no pressure hockey! Full equipment is required and some experience necessary.

GROUP OFFERS SUPPORT, INFORMATION FOR TRAIL FAMILIES LIVING WITH DEMENTIAThe second Tuesday of each month, from noon to 2 p.m. The Alzheimer Society runs a monthly dementia care-giver support group in Trail, for resi-dents who want to prepare themselves with current information that will help improve quality of life with the disease. The group offers the chance to exchange information and friendship with oth-ers affected by dementia, access the

most current information, and learn and share practical tips for coping with change. For more information and for specific location details, contact Julie Leffelaar at 1-855-301-6742 or [email protected].

MUSIC NIGHTTuesdays, 6:20 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Drop in event for ages 12 to 18. How do you like to music? Come to the YAN Space and immerse yourself in anything/ev-erything music. No prior music-ing experience necessary.

AFTER SCHOOL KID’S CLUBWednesdays, Feb. 3 to May 25, 3 to 5 p.m. Drop in for after school fun! Explore science, create crafts, and play games. The museum has tonnes of re-sources for kids interested in geology, science, history, and more! Bring a snack, and enjoy two hours of super-vised fun. For ages five to 12. Drop in $8/child for non-members. Buy a punch pass and get one free visit. Can also pre-pay by calling 250-362-7722.

GIRL TALK FOR GIRLS 14-18Wednesdays, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Want some time to just relax, talk, and hang out doing cool things with other girls? We have all kinds of awesome, inclusive, creative activities for you at Girl Talk. No pressure, chillspace, girls only! Free.

YAN AFTER SCHOOL DROP-INMonday to Thursday, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Come in and chill, get homework help, build a resume or do a job search, or just hang with you friends. Free.


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passed away peacefully in Kananaskis while guiding blind skiers on February 5th, 2016. Erik was born on February 12th, 1938 in Rossland, BC. Erik’s hobbies included skiing, hiking, Masons, Sons of Norway and Ski for Light Canada. He enjoyed travelling

to England and Denmark and especially spending time with his family and grandchildren. Erik is survived by his loving wife Margaret, his sons; Paul (Colleen) and their children Mya and Kristian; Mark (Julie-Anne), and their children Logan, Winter and Moss, his daughters; Karen and Anna, his brother Einer (Mariette), his sister Linda (Allan) as well as nieces and nephews. Erik was predeceased by his parents Hans and Linna, his brothers Frankie and David. A Mass of Christian Burial for Erik will take place on Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 10:30 am from Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rossland with Father J. Joseph Kizhakethottathil M.S.T., Celebrant. Brent Long of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ in care of arrangements.As an expression of sympathy, donations in Erik’s name may be made to Ski for Light Canada c/o Barry Nelson, President, 21771-126th Avenue, Maple Ridge, BC, V2X 4P1You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca

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The Rossland Public Library has your Valentine’s Day blind date.

This is the fourth year Rosslanders have been able to find a blind date at the library and they seem to like it.

“Last year there were people waiting at the door when we opened so they could have the biggest selec-tion of potential dates,” said Library director Beverley Rintoul.

Drop by the library between noon and 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13 to choose your date. They will be coyly wrapped in brown paper with a sentence or two telling you about themselves on the front. No peeking until you get your date home!

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ROSSLAND CITY COUNCIL MEETINGMonday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m.Monday, Mar. 7 at 6 p.m.

SWEET VALENTINE REFUGEE CONCERT FUNDRAISERHosted by the WKFoR. Saturday, February 13, 7:30 p.m. Join Carolyn Cameron on violin and Dawna Kavanagh on piano who will perform “Music of Vienna” at the Muriel Griffith Room at the Charles Bailey Theatre. All proceeds will go towards sponsoring refugee families to Canada (specifically to the West Kootenays). Wine served at cash bar. Admission is by donation. Please RSVP to Melva Scott at [email protected] to reserve your seat.

ME INC: HOW TO START YOUR OWN BUSINESSThursday, Feb. 11, 6:30-8 p.m. Have you ever considered being an entrepreneur but have hesitated about taking the next steps? This session will provide you with all of the critical considerations before making the leap. This 1.5 hour intensive program will walk you through all the critical consideration and link you to more resources in each topic area if you need more information. Free lecture.

OSTOMY SUPPORT GROUP

Monday, Feb. 15, 2 p.m. at the Kiro Wellness Center, 1500 Columbia Ave., Trail. Scheduled guest: Duane Lehr,tax investment and expert from Pinpoint Personal Tax Services.

WINTER SPEAKER SERIES — ROSSLAND SKIING MEMORIESThursday, Feb. 18, 6:30 to 8 p.m. As part of our Winter Speaker Series and in line with the BC Heritage Week theme of “Distinctive Destinations,” we will have Al Fisher and Richie Mann (and hopefully a few others) join is for a panel discussion on memories of skiing in Rossland and on Red Mountain. Entry is by donation. Seating in the Cominco Theatre is limited to 32 people, and while we can stuff a few extra chairs in the back section, please note that we may fill up fast.

GRANDPALSWednesdays, Feb. 24, March 30, April 27, 10 to 11 a.m. In conjunction with Rossland Seniors Centre, the Rossland Museum presents Grandpals. A great opportunity for Rossland’s senior and junior generations to come together and share stories, crafts and games (preschool ages two and a half to five). Four free sessions, but please pre-book by calling 250-362-7722. Seniors interested in taking part are also welcome to get in contact.


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The West Kootenay Friends of Refugees are getting ready to welcome a family of four Syrian refugees, (parents and two small children) to our area. Thanks to the generosity of people in Rossland, Trail, Fruitvale and Castlegar, we have raised enough funds to begin the sponsorship of the Abdins, who are expected to arrive in a few weeks — maybe sooner.

The WKFoR group will help them get settled in the cozy home of one of our members, which will be a nice change from the crowded situation in the Turkish refugee camp near Ankara where they have been living for the past two years. Recent photos of the camp show the ground covered with snow and shivering children without warm coats living in the cloth tents pro-vided by the Red Crescent (the Muslim version of the Red Cross).

WKFoR members have been signing up for a variety of tasks as we set up the living space, collect clothing, books and toys, stock the cupboards, organize paperwork, find medical and dental services, prepare a budget and financial plan, create an orientation binder and organize in-home English les-sons as well as those that will be provided by the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy. Most impor-tantly, since the family only speaks Arabic, we have located a transla-tor, living in Rossland, to help us communicate with the Abdins and help them adjust to their new lives in Canada.

The family will have a diffi-cult job ahead of them, learning English, adapting to a new culture, taking on job training and rais-ing their two small children so far from familiar surroundings and

the people they love. The WKFoR members encourage everyone in the surrounding communities to make our new guests feel welcome and appreciated. We are lucky to have so much to share with those who need our help.

On Saturday, Feb. 13, there will be a fundraising concert in the Muriel Griffiths room of the Charles Bailey Theatre to sup-port the Abdin family and a sin-gle Syrian woman who is being privately sponsored by a family in Fruitvale. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the music will start at 7:30 p.m. Musicians Dawna Kavanagh and Carolyn Cameron plan to perform the Music of Vienna on piano and violin. Admission is by donation and there will be wine served at a cash bar. Please reserve your spot by contacting Melva Scott at [email protected].

Rossland Public Library goes live with TEDxThe Rossland Public

Library will be live-streaming one day of the TED Talks confer-ence taking place in Vancouver next week.

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the

form of short, power-ful talks (18 minutes or less). A conference has been held each spring which, since 2014, is held in Vancouver. There are a number of other events over the course of the year along with TEDx events, which are locally orga-

nized, following TED’s guidelines.

This year’s topic is Dreams. The three ses-sions to be streamed on Thursday, Feb. 18 at the library are titled Out of the Box, The Dreams that Define Us and Fantasists and Catalysts. Each session is roughly two

hours and features five to seven speakers. There is approximately an hour between sessions, allow-ing time for viewers to discuss the ideas.

This is a free event and no registration is required.

For a schedule of the day, contact the library.

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Avez-vous déjà rêvé de vivre dans une ville qui est digne d’une reine? Moi je l’ai trouvée ma ville royale. Je vis à Queen City. Aujourd’hui, je vais vous parler d’une belle petite ville qui s’appelle Nelson. Je vais vous décrire son histoire, ce qui s’y passe et ce que j’aime de cette ville.

Nelson est une municipalité canadienne de la Colombie-Bri-tannique. Elle est située au sud-est de la province dans les monts Selkirk le long du bras ouest du lac Kootenay.

Ses mines sont la principale raison de l’existence de cette communauté. Par la suite, elle s’est transformée en une région touristique avec moins d’in-dustries. Elle est officiellement devenue une ville en 1897. En 2011, Nelson comptait 10 230

habitants. Nelson est aussi connue sous le nom “Queen City” et est reconnue pour son impression-nante collection de bâtiments restaurés.

À Nelson, il existe une communauté francophone qui s’appelle l’AFKO. L’AFKO organise plusieurs événements tout le long de l’année et compte près de 600 membres.

L’hiver dernier, l’AFKO a fabriqué deux marionnettes géantes de 12 pieds de haut représentant les pionniers fran-cophones des Kootenays. Elles ont paradé dans les marchés et les carnavals. On peut faire plusieurs choses à Nelson. Premièrement, le centre-ville de Nelson est rempli de bons restaurants, de cafés, de belles petites boutiques chaleu-reuses et de galeries d’art.

À chaque mercredi, sur la rue Baker, il y a un petit marché com-munautaire. Le marché vend des breuvages, de la nourriture et les artisans vendent leurs produits. Il y a aussi le fameux “Market Fest” chaque dernier vendredi des mois d’été, où les gens peuvent profiter de rafraîchissements, de musiciens et de projets d’art dans le cen-tre-ville.

À Nelson il y a de très belles randonnées populaires comme les sentiers Nelson Salmo Great Northern Trail, ou Pulpit Rock qui se termine par une magnifique vue

sur la ville de Nelson. En hiver, le ski est la principale

activité de plein air. À 20 minutes au sud de la ville, il y a le centre de ski Whitewater qui permet un domaine skiable de niveau débutant à avancé. En plus, Whitewater est le 3e centre de ski avec le plus de neige poudreuse en Colombie-Britannique.

Moi, ce que j’aime de Nelson est la communauté parce que la plupart des gens sont aimables. Même s’ils ne te connaissent pas ils te disent salut ou te font signe de la main. Il y a beaucoup d’événements communautaires et beaucoup de nature en ville. Moi j’aime la gentillesse de Nelson. Je vous ai partagé mon secret, mais ça reste entre nous. Vous êtes les bienvenus de visiter, mais ne vantez pas trop notre petite ville.

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Ookpictou, un brave petit Esquimau, partit un jour pour chasser le phoque sur les banquises flottantes des côtes de l’arctique. Il était armé d’une lance, d’un arc et une flèche qui avait servi à la chasse au caribou l’automne précédent. Avant de partir en expédition, Ookpictou avait consulté le corbeau qui lui avait dit justement de se procurer ces armes. Il faut dire ici que le corbeau savait que toute arme qui avait servi à chasser le gibier à sang chaud ne devait pas servir à chasser le gibier à sang froid à moins d’avoir été purifié par le feu au préalable. Mais, il ne chuchota pas un seul mot au petit chasseur à cet effet. Non satisfait d’avoir ainsi déçu l’enfant, le corbeau avait ajouté : « Mais, pour chasser le phoque, il faut aller vers le Nord. Or, au nord, il n’y a pas de banquises flottantes ; il n’y a que des glaciers permanents. C’était un vilain tour à jouer à un jeune

chasseur qui avait tout à apprendre. Heureusement, Ookpictou

rencontra chemin faisant, un harfang des neiges qui s’informa aussitôt des intentions de notre jeune aventurier. Il avait pressenti qu’un si jeune enfant se trouvait à un endroit où il ne devait pas être.

-- Où vas-tu ? demanda-t-il au chasseur armé jusqu’aux dents.

-- Je m’en vais à la chasse aux phoques, répondit fièrement Ookpictou.

-- Mais, il n’y a pas de phoques là où tu te diriges. Il n’y a que les glaciers et le pergélisol. Tu reviendrais les mains vides… (si tu revenais en tout ) pensa en lui-même le harfang soucieux.

-- Monsieur le corbeau ma pourtant dit…

-- Ha ! Monsieur le corbeau ne dit pas toujours la vérité. Il faut s’en méfier.

Le harfang fit une courte pause et ajouta :

-- Je vois que ta lance est tachée de sang. N’as-tu pas purifié ton arme avant de partir ?

-- Purifié mon ar… -- Mais oui, mon ami,

interrompit la chouette blanche. Cela ne porte pas chance d’utiliser une arme qui a servi à abattre un animal terrestre.

-- Ha ! Ça alors. Le corbeau va me payer cher le sale tour qu’il a voulu me jouer.

-- Rien ne sert de blâmer Monsieur le corbeau. Il fallait d’abord t’informer avant de partir. Tes parents savent toutes ces choses. Ha ! Mais je comprends, dit le harfang d’un ton rassurant. Tu as voulu leur prouver que tu es brave et que tu pouvais toi aussi chasser le phoque. Retourne chez toi et dis à ton papa que tu es assez grand pour faire partie d’une expédition de chasse. Il sera fier de toi et à coup sûr, il t’amènera sur les banquises là, où l’ours polaire chasse le phoque lui aussi tout comme les braves Inuits.

Ookpictou remercia le harfang des neiges de ses bons conseils. Celui-ci s’éleva en battant des ailes et disparut dans le blanc arctique.

Le petit esquimau, le corbeau et le harfang des neigespar Aurélien Dupuis

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“And the Oscar goes to…”Most wait for the moment the

leading actors, best director and top film are announced during the swanky Hollywood gala - but there’s also plenty of off-screen talent and Oscar-worthy accolade that goes into making an Academy Award winning movie.

And this year, there’s a local connection.

Montrose native Charlie O’Shea is part of a sound mixing trio up for a golden statue in a few weeks.

The Vancouver-based crew in-cludes Salt Spring Island’s Chris Duesterdiek, the production sound mixer, and Candice Todesco, a sound assistant O’Shea has worked alongside since teaming up in the science fiction disaster film, “2012.”

On Feb. 28, the long time boom operator will find out if he can add Academy Award winner to his list of achievements follow-ing six arduous months shooting “The Revenant” - Leo DiCaprio’s adventure thriller that leads the pack with 12 Oscar nominations.

After 30 years of building his resume as a boom operator on movie and television sets, the 1981 J.L.Crowe grad, says from the onset, the sound team had an inkling “The Revenant” could produce the chance of a lifetime.

He was recommended for the job because of his experience, but on top of that, O’Shea says there was also an element of luck in-volved.

“All the stars aligned and we got on the right movie with the op-portunity,” O’Shea told the Trail Times. “Everybody knew there was an opportunity for an Oscar with DiCaprio in the film and all the hubbub around it.”

O’Shea knew if he could stick out the demanding project, the chance of being nominated for the hottest movie of the year was high, and worth every minute of 14-hour days standing in snow and freezing water to catch the perfect sound.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” he said. “With such a star, most people knew when they got on the movie, this might be DiCaprio’s opportunity to finally get an Oscar.

Everyone is kind of riding on the coat tails of that.”

Having multiple credits from TV series like Psych and Da Vinci’s Inquest as well as hits like Godzilla and Tomorrowland, O’Shea had sound in his life well in advance of his career.

His dad and namesake, Charlie O’Shea, owned the Radio Shack in downtown Trail.

After high school graduation, he enrolled in a film program at SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology). From there, the budding sound mixer moved into broadcasting at a TV station in Lethbridge.

That was where he caught the movie bug.

OShea was on set for the 1987 filming of “Betrayed,” a drama starring Debra Winger and Tom Berenger, when the rest, as they say, is history.

After working another two years sound mixing for an Edmonton TV station and training as a boom operator, O’Shea says the industry began heating up in Vancouver.

A move to the coast brought post production opportunities and an eventual in to the IATSE Local 891, a union of artists, techni-cians, and craftspeople who work primarily in film and television production in B.C.

“You just have to slowly build up your resume in the areas you want to work in,” he explained. “Like if you want to work on a TV series, you can pursue that avenue - but I’ve always wanted to pursue the movies,” he added.

“And I decided to stay with boom operating because I like the part about being on set with the actors.”

The principal responsibility of a boom operator is microphone placement - with the aim being to hold the microphone as close to the actors or action as possible without getting in the way of the camera.

“There are three of us on a movie who have to try and figure out how to get all the dialogue from the actors, as clearly as possible,” O’Shea explained. “So when it does go to post production, called the re-recording mixer, we give them the best sound possible given the situation we were in.”

Long days in the remote Canadian wilderness (“The Revenant” was mainly shot out-side of Calgary and in Squamish) and the unconventional manner of shooting presented some unique

challenges for the boom operator.“We had minus-30 days and a

lot of us had to be in hip waders for all those scenes that were shot in the water,” he said, mentioning long johns and down-filled jackets were a necessity.

“We would get there in the morning and rehearse until the light was right for the director of photography, which was in the eve-ning before the sun went down.”

After hours of practising with stand-ins each day, the final scenes were shot in a tight time frame.

“When the director came to set we only had a certain amount of time, which was really stress-ful,” explained O’Shea. “For the crew to get everything the way he (Alejandro González Iñárritu, di-rector) wanted it, we had maybe two hours.

“A lot of work went into how to coordinate all the movement.”

As award season nears and “The Revenant” buzz continues to rise, O’Shea has already moved on to his next venture.

He’s back on set in Vancouver, working on the third installment of the “Planet of the Apes” movie series.

“I’ve been hacking away at this for 30 years, so it’s a long time in-vested in the business,” he said. “And it takes time to gain experi-ence, it can’t be bought, you have to go out there and do it.”

Though he won’t be in a tux or walking the red carpet at the Oscars, O’Shea is planning to fly to Los Angeles next week to mingle with peers at the Cinema Audio Society awards.

And he has some advice for other small town kids looking to break into the industry.

“I know when I grew up in Trail, Hollywood was a place a million miles away,” he said. “But now it’s an accessible place that people can be part of it whether you are working in Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal - there’s this great opportunity for young people to become animators, sound people or camera people. It’s another part of our province being diversified, and you can have a good career working in film.”


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