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SeasonMid Magic Iain Reid photoBlack Jack Ski Club delivers their mid season report, and with 70 or more days of skiing left, the future is looking bright. See page 6.

The Rossland Chamber of Commerce is looking to make its third move in four years.

The chamber’s executive director, Julie Parker, has asked the city for help in mak-ing the organization’s transition to the Rotary Health Building.

The chamber is requesting 12 months of in-kind rent from the City of Rossland to facilitate the move to the city-owned build-ing that includes the Rossland Food Bank and Rossland Search and Rescue, present-ing to council in their regular meeting on Jan. 27.

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The strength of the city’s cross country ski community will be on display at the upcom-ing B.C. Winter Games.

Three Black Jack Ski Club

athletes will be heading to Mission for the Games this month to compete in cross country skiing—part of an eight-member Kootenay contin-gent. Remi Drolet, Michaela McLean and Bronwyn Moore will be competing.

Held every two years, there are usually several skiers from Black Jack heading to the Games, but this trio is strong and should bring home some medals, said Black Jack Club member Fred Bushell.


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Call to spare Star Gulch madeThe city is misguid-

ed in its endeavor to launch a feasibility study on removing

Star Gulch as the city’s alternate reservoir, says the president of the Rossland Stewardship Society.

Bill Mickelthwaite said not only is the city

wrong in looking at the possibility of making the former main water reservoir for the city a recreational lake, they are overlooking the ideal opportunity to

create a swimming hole that would better serve the community and tourism—one that is already developed.


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Joe Hill Coffee House celebrates Pete SeegerOn Sunday, Feb. 16, performers at Rossland’s Joe Hill Coffee House will be cele-

brating the songs of the late, great Pete Seeger. Be prepared to sing.Our performers on Sunday are:• The Kidz: Five fine voices, singing songs that Pete wrote and made famous.

It’s a double set, to give the audience lots of opportunities to sing along.• Kootenay Dance Works: “Bright Lights” ~ Elyse Vickers; “Rock, Paper,

Scissors” ~ Emilia Hofmann, Brynn Streadwick, Brooklyn Donovan; “Ave Maria” ~ Bethany Johnson

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3-D Pottery Snowman workshops The pottery courses with Sarah Zanussi are on Wednesday

Feb. 19. Children will learn how to make three-dimensional snowmen by using pinch pot techniques. This is a fun, creative class for enthusiastic artists. This one-day workshop is for children ages four to six and seven to 12. Please contact the Recreation Department for specific workshop times.

Beginner media classThis is an excellent introduction to making movies or a

chance to create one that you’ve been thinking about for a while. The focus will be mainly stop action animation and live action with green screen effects. Participants will have the opportunity to add sound and text to their creations. The class runs Mondays from 5:15-6:15 p.m. starting Monday, Feb. 17 until March 11.

Folk dancing in the Miners’ Union Hall this weekEnglish country dance and some contra dance too. All dances

are walked through and newcomers are easily accommodated. A partner is not required for this fun, easy, social dancing style. Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. $8 drop in.

REDroc modern jive for beginners Check out the Tuesday beginner dance class at the Miners’

Union Hall. Discover modern jive, a creative, stylish and con-stantly evolving style of dance that doesn’t require tricky footwork or a partner. Loved by people of all ages, abilities and musical tastes. Every Tuesday night at the Miners’ Union Hall at 7 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students.

The Rossland Youth Action Network • Parkour, the “Art of Movement”Mondays and Thursdays, 7 p.m. at the RSS Auditorium, that

started Feb. 3.Involvement in Parkour requires consistent, disciplined train-

ing with an emphasis on functional strength, physical condition-ing, balance, creativity, fluidity, control, precision, spatial aware-ness and looking beyond the traditional use of objects.

In partnership with the Rossland Council for Arts & Culture, there are lots of amazing film courses for youth coming up.

• Introduction to Digital Film MakingSaturday, Feb. 8 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Miners’ Union Hall This workshop is for youth with intermediate skills, but ad-

vanced filmmakers are encouraged to come. It will cover al lthe bases, including pre-production, production and post-production.

• Ski/snowboard film and the importance of storyline Saturday, March 15 7:30-9 p.m. at the Miners’ Union HallJoin internationally renowned ski photographer Mark Shapiro

for an evening of watching new ski/snowboard films shot by film wizard Guido Perrini, followed by a discussion of the merits of a solid story and some great camera work.

• Film Special EffectsSaturday, April 5, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Miners’ Union Hall Get your film in tip top shape for entry into the U10 Film Festi-

val. Give it the edge it needs by learning special effects.

West Kootenay Ostomy Support group meets Monday, Feb. 17 at 2 p.m. at the Kiro Wellness Centre in Trail. Guest speaker is Denise Pawlyshyn, registered dental hygienist. For informa-

Named for a unique Newfoundland phrase that means ‘imminently’, now is indeed the time for The Once.

Set to appear Wednesday, Feb. 26 (8 p.m.) at the Miners’ Union Hall, the trio has kept their music uncomplicated, dependent on the power of their voices and acoustic instru-ments. Their debut album has built a gradual following, and their live show is unique in its combination of intimacy and power. They have won several East Coast Music and Cana-dian Folk Music awards, and the country is slowly waking up to just what an amazing band they are.

Since they signed to Borealis Records in 2010, they have toured throughout the country and Europe.

The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture brings The Once to Rossland. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Available at Out of the Cellar in Rossland.

• Vic Buehler: Big voice and a big gui-tar, like the “Old Man”

• Justus Prevails - Keith Park and Ray Scott, making sweet, rhythmic sounds

• Kootenay Jack – The working man and his country guitar, closing the show like a pro

Joe Hill Coffee House, Rossland’s monthly community venue for talent throughout the Kootenays, happens in the Miners’ Union Hall, 1765 Columbia Ave.

Doors open at 6 p.m.; the show starts at 7 p.m. Admission is a mere $3; kids and students free.

Submitted photoThe combination of savvy shoppers and dedi-cated volunteers pays off. The Rossland Health Care Auxiliary donated Thrift Store proceeds of $17,942 to purchase new equipment at Koote-nay Boundary Regional Hospital. Departments receiving funding include emergency, intensive care unit, medical, operating room and daycare. Lisa Pasin, director KBRH Health Foundation, accepts the funds from Joan Hanson, newly ap-pointed president of the Rossland Health Care Auxiliary.

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A new city website is preparing to make a splash. Council has accepted membership onto a new splash page design that brings together several of the city’s major organizations.

Proposed by Tourism Rossland, Deanne Steven, executive director of Tourism Rossland, presented the new design to council on Jan. 27 in

order to obtain permission to include the city on the page.

Steven had iterated to council the importance of using the page design—complete with a new city logo approved by council late last year—to keep it streamlined with current branding.

The current version, which is hosted on www.rossland.com and www.rossland.ca, is the entry page to the city and its major organiza-tions.

It includes links to the City of Rossland website, the Rossland Chamber of Commerce site, Tourism Rossland and rosslandevents.ca.

The splash page pictures scroll every five seconds, and the pictures will be changed (which can be easily done) periodically.

“It provides a fresh look and feel,” Steven said.

Tourism Rossland required coun-cil’s approval to load it onto their site.

New page makes a splash in RosslandTimoThy Schafer

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The city’s first craft beer festival will also feature a downhill race and a concert.

The Brewers Cup Race goes down Sunday, March 2.

And after the beer sam-pling and mingling festivities during the day come to an end on March 1, the Skullcandy Music Series presents The Thermals at Rafters Lounge, an indie rock band (on the Sub Pop label) from Portland, OR starting at 10 p.m.

The Beer Goggles Craft Beer Festival at Red Mountain Resort goes Saturday, March 1. There will be more than 50 different beers for the tasting event. Pricing is only $24 per person which gives you a four-ounce taster beer mug and three, four-ounce sampler tokens. Check out http://www.redresort.com/beergoggles/.

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Rosslanders heading into the back-country to snowmobile now have to contend with closure to one of the region’s prime terrains.

In an effort to help protect mountain caribou habitat and support British Columbia’s Mountain Caribou Recovery Implementation Plan, the province has closed the South Selkirk mountains east of Salmo, the South Purcells of Kootenay Lake north and north, as well as Cranbrook and Creston backcountry areas.

Natural resource officers and conser-vation officers are patrolling the back-country this winter to enforce snowmo-biling regulations and the area closures.

The closures are intended to help boost mountain caribou populations in the area. Snowmobile activity can affect the animals’ behaviour, prompting them to move into less suitable habitat where the food supply is not as plentiful or where their activity in steep terrain could create avalanche hazards.

“Under the Mountain Caribou Recovery Implementation Plan, scien-tists recommended over one million hectares across the mountain caribou range be closed to motorized winter recreation to facilitate recovery of cari-bou populations,” read a provincial release on the closure.

Since 2009, government has closed

areas to snowmobile use across the mountain caribou range in order to sup-port population recovery.

If mountain caribou are forced out of an area unnecessarily, the caribous’ energy reserves can be depleted during this critical time of the year.

Failure to comply with the regula-tions or co-operate with officers could result in fines or equipment seizures. Continued non-compliance could result in increased closures in the area.

Province-wide, closures are in effect in a total of 60 areas frequented by the mountain caribou, an endangered spe-cies in British Columbia.

Snowmobilers should also be aware that it is illegal to damage young trees in reforested areas or operate a snow-mobile on plowed forest service roads.

Areas of particular concern this win-ter include: Silvercup Ridge, Mt. Grace, Standard Peak, Sale Mountain, Frisby Ridge, Catamount Glacier, North Star Glacier and the Upper Spillimacheen River area.

To view an interactive map showing areas where snowmobiling activities are currently restricted to support moun-tain caribou recovery (or to download the information for viewing on a GPS device or in Google Earth), visit: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/wildlife/snow-mobile-closures/.

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The steamer Rossland: length, 183 feet; beam, 29 feet; tonnage, 884

SS Rossland was launched at Nakusp, Nov. 18, 1897 and without fur-niture, fittings or window panes, was pressed immediately into freight service so that Lytton could be withdrawn for major repairs.

Rossland became even more valuable when the fine new SS Nakusp, launched in 1895, was burned to the waterline at Arrowhead on Dec. 24, 1897. This left Rossland and Kootenay (launched in April 1897) to handle all of the then heavy traffic.

Rossland was fitted up for passenger-express service in March 1898. Her powerful engines could drive her at speeds above 22 miles per hour and she was capable of negotiating all the rap-ids between Northport, Wash. and Arrowhead at any stage of the water

level without resorting to “lining up.” The CPR built bigger and costlier

sternwheelers than Rossland but none of the later rivals ever improved on her speed. In June 1898, Rossland and Kootenay commenced the daily service between Arrowhead and Robson which was to continue for 17 years.

SS Minto was launched at Nakusp on Nov. 19, 1898 and replaced Rossland on the Arrowhead-Robson run during the winter months thereafter.

In 1909, Rossland was withdrawn from service for construction of a new hull and her passenger accommodation was increased by the addition of 12 staterooms on the Texas deck.

The following year, 1910, another two staterooms were added to the same deck. The old hull served as a wharf at Captain Forslund’s ranch near Needles.

SS Bonnington entered service in July 1911 and thereafter displaced Kootenay in summer service with Rossland. Bonnington proved no match for Rossland as to speed but had much more accommodation for passengers. Kootenay and Minto maintained the win-ter service for the next eight years.

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There is no doubt Rosslanders pride themselves on their prowess on the snowy slopes.

With abundant access to groomed slopes, manicured cross country ski-ing trails, and endless backcountry bliss, there is ample opportunity for locals to hone the craft of their sport—and plenty of people to help them gain an edge. It is a given peo-ple of the Golden City are adept on the snow, and can stand amongst some of the best in the country.

But it is still an accomplishment worth mentioning when nine young athletes and two coaches are named to the regional team to represent the Kootenays at the B.C. Winter Games. Not only does it show the develop-ment of the sports of alpine and cross country skiing in the city are still strong, but it gives a nod to the dedi-cation of the parents, coaches and athletes that continue to filter through the Red Mountain Racers and Black Jack Ski Club programs.

A tip of the toque to a job well done. Good luck in the Games.

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repairs. Before these were accom-plished, Rossland was allowed to become overburdened with snow and ice while lying at the shipyard at Nakusp and foundered there in December 1916.

The loss of Rossland broke the heart of every interior steamboat man. Her speed was legendary and she was loved by all Arrow Lakes residents, save those who swore her heavy wash was responsible for eroding half their orchards into the lake.

SS Rossland was raised in the spring of 1917, dismantled and disposed of. Her hull was purchased by Hall Brothers of Hall’s Landing (north of Arrowhead) and used as a wharf.

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Electric fencing will soon have some new conditions imposed after city staff drafts and council adopts a proposed zoning bylaw amendment. Council passed a motion directing city staff to prepare the amendment, after one Rosslander brought concerns to their attention about unregulated use.

At a meeting on Jan. 13 council heard a pre-sentation from Jeff Ginalias (whose neighbour has erected an electric fence on the property boundary) outlining some concerns with elec-tric fences in residential areas and requested council consider some policies or provisions regulating electric fences.

Prohibiting electric fences in residential zones or in all zones ran contrary to the city’s current support of local agriculture and the city’s support of Wildsafe BC’s recommended approaches to wildlife conflict prevention.

Electric fences are permitted throughout the city with no other regulations. Council had asked staff for a report on the issue.

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Ten minor hockey teams from British Columbia will each receive 25 tickets to attend the Heritage Classic, held on March 2 in Vancouver’s BC Place stadium. This year’s Tim Hortons Heritage Classic will hold up to 55,000 fans, eager to watch a vintage, clearly Canadian showdown between the Canucks and Senators.

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In her presentation, Parker stressed to council the chamber needed to find new office space in order to realize the vision of mak-ing the organization a stronger, more viable part of the business community.

Many different locations were considered for their potential location, but the space had to be contingent on where they were going as an organization what role they wanted to play in the community and what services they wanted to offer members.

“We are up on the second floor, we are far away and we aren’t accessible,” she said.

“We don’t have the informa-tion and the racking we used to have.”

Administratively, the office suits the chamber, but it doesn’t suit the members and offer the services it once did—which mem-bers are still requesting.

Currently, the chamber is housed a small, second floor office in the Bank of Montreal Building, and has no board room, nor office working space for its member-ship.

The proposed location would include full chamber services, developing it as a community business centre and a welcoming centre, with a meeting room.

It is expected that city staff will be bringing a recommendation to council on the request this month, with council to make a decision thereafter on the matter.

Regional district directors are considering granting themselves a raise. At the Jan. 30 Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) board meeting in Grand Forks, a motion to approve an increase to the director’s monthly stipend by $200 per month, plus $200 per month for a technology allowance (which would combine the present $75 cell phone allowance and $175 technology allowance) and establish a car allowance of $50 per month.

The amount would represent a 36 per cent increase.The presentation on the raise was done by Trail director Robert

Cacchioni to the policy, executive and personnel (PEP) committee, said Grace McGregor, RDKB board chair.

“It showed the widening gap between what municipal directors get paid and what electoral area directors get paid,” she said.

Electoral area directors represent rural areas A, B, C, D and E in the Kootenay-Boundary, while the remaining directors, the municipal directors, represent larger areas such as towns and cities.

McGregor said the motion was deferred to allow PEP to look at the issue more in depth with the information Cacchioni provided.

McGregor said the different directors play different roles with the RDKB board providing the only local government for the electoral areas. “We make different decisions. That is our main government whereas municipal directors, their government is their council. So they sit at that table because they share some services as a regional district.”

RDKB directors consider raisecraig lindsay

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The Black Jack Ski Club has been hav-ing a great year so far and is looking for-ward to another 70 days of fantastic ski-ing.

We have been grooming consistently since Nov 3, and if all goes well, expect to groom into late April or early May. That means cross-country skiing for exactly half the year. We have 701 members this year, our second highest ever, and it’s now our fifth year in a row with more than 600 members. In fact, our three biggest mem-bership years on record have all come in the last four years.

Members are generally from within a two-hour radius of the club, including Nelson, Grand Forks, Creston, Kaslo, Winlaw and Spokane. Approximately one third of our members are less than 35, another one third are over 50, and the rest are in between. Of note, we have 52 mem-bers that are 70 years and older. Now that’s a lifetime sport.

Day passesWe also have thousands of day-pass

visitors per year from far and wide, many trying cross-country skiing for the first time this year.

It is now our second year offering ski rentals at the trailhead, allowing newcom-ers to give this fantastic sport a try. We rent both skate ski gear and classic ski gear.

Skier developmentThe kids Skier Development Program,

including the Bunnies, Rabbits, Track Attack, and Junior Racers, has more than

80 participants this year, and is supported by dozens of volunteer coaches and help-ers.

The Junior Racers (a.k.a. Black Jack Race Team) have a number of out-of-town athletes that are living and training in Rossland on a full-time year-round basis

(this year from Revelstoke, Nelson, Kimberley and Japan.).

Haywood NorAmThe Haywood NorAm and Buff Sprints,

World U23 Junior Championship Trials and the Kootenay Cup were a huge suc-cess this past December.

Over 250 athletes from all over North America were in attendance, including Olympic athletes, Olympic hopefuls, national champions and the best under-23 and junior athletes on the continent.

Athletes came from Alberta, B.C., Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.

This early-season event substantially

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WANNES LUPPENSfor the Rossland News

Cross country skiing in Rossland enjoying increased membership, booming kid’s programs and tonnes of great snow at season mid point

increased occupancy levels for local accommodators at a time when occupancy levels are usually near zero.

In addition to the athletes, visitors included coaches, wax technicians, sup-port staff, family members, technical del-egates and Cross Country Canada staff. Approximately 150 volunteers dedicated their time and effort to successfully pull off this event.

Of note, of the 13 cross-country skiers that Canada has sent to Sochi, five com-peted here at the NorAm, and a further five have competed in previous NorAms at Black Jack, including medal hopeful and 2011 World Champion Alex Harvey.

A number of the current US Olympians have also competed here in Rossland, including medal hopeful and 2013 World Champion Jessie Diggins.

Other events at Black JackThe club has hosted the Golden City

Grind trail run, XC Skiing Community Coaching workshop, Snow Show and Ski Swap, Decorate a Tree Week, Bring a Friend to Ski for Free/Black Jack orienta-tion day, Ski with Santa, New Year’s Eve bonfire, Mountain FM Tour de Soup, Super Hero Day and the 30th annual Black Jack Loppet (coming up on Feb. 22).

Trail maintenaceThis past summer we were able to

undertake extensive maintenance and improvements of our trails, including reopening an old favorite, Ophir Trail.

The trail work allowed us to start ear-lier for our membership and visitors, as well as continue to host high level events.

A big thank you to the following orga-nizations for supporting the trail improve-ments and the Haywood NorAm: Columbia Basin Trust, RDKB Area B, Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust, CBT Community Initiatives Program, and HostingBC, the Province of BC and viaSport.

NorAm major local sponsors included Teck Trail Operations, Kootenay Savings Community Foundation and Red Mountain. NorAm local sponsors: Nelson and District Credit Union, Gerick Cycle and Sports, and Big Red Cats.

This past January marked the 31st year of Black Jack as a club. From the early days of dragging a mattress behind a snowmo-bile for grooming, amazing volunteers and community support have gotten us to where we are today.

Thank you for supporting the club and a lifetime sport. Happy trails.

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The Rossland Figure Skating Club had a great weekend of competition from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at the Kootenay Regional Competition in Fruitvale.

The weekend started off with the following skaters passing high tests:

• Desiree Cassidy: Keats Fox-trot and Introductory Interpretive

• Ella Knight - Introductory Interpretive

Results from the competition are as follows:

• Elle Ballendine: silver evalua-tion in Star 1; Maya Maturo - silver evaluation in Star 1.

• Morgan Corkill: bronze evaluation in Star 2; Loren Corkill: bronze evaluation in Star 2; Taty-anna Fontaine: silver evaluation in Star 2; Brian Chan: silver evalua-tion in Star 2.

• Payton Reed: silver evalua-tion in Star 3.

• Desiree Cassidy: third place in Star 4, 13 and over; Ella Knight: fourth place in Star 4, 13 and over.

• Sianna Tomich: second place in juvenile competitive, under 14.

• Jade Gaudet: second place

in pre-introductory interpretive; Desiree Cassidy: fourth place in pre-introductory interpretive; Ella Knight: fifth place in pre-introduc-tory interpretive.

• Payton Reed: sixth place in bronze interpretive.

• Sianna Tomich: first place in silver interpretive.

• Desiree Cassidy: second place in Elements 1.

• Brian Chan: third place in Elements 1.

• Sianna Tomich: first place in gold solo dance.

The skaters are all coached by Sabrina Hinson.

Next up for the skaters: nine skaters will be travelling to Revelstoke Feb. 21-22 for low and high tests.

Skaters are also busy pre-paring for the Super Series Final Competition to be held in Kelowna in early March in addition to the Year End Ice Show, set to a movie theme this year. The ice show is on Wednesday, March 12, and the public is welcome to come and watch.

Rosslanders pull off top marks in Fruitvale

Submitted photosLeft: Sianna Tomich (middle) in first place in the silver interpretive event. Middle: Brian Chan (right) takes the bronze medal for Elements 1. Right: Jade Gaudet and Ella Knight before the pre-introductory interpretive event.

Drolet has been undefeated this season and represents an excellent chance to medal at the Games, he said.

“Even with the lack of snow Nordic skiing has been excellent this year. The kids are all having good races. In particular, Remi Drolet has won just about every race he has been in this season,” added Black Jack club mem-ber Ann Quarterman.

McLean has also had great success this season, Bushell explained, earning medals in several pro-vincial competitions.

And Moore has been training hard and competing and is look-ing forward to person-al bests at the Games.

All the team mem-bers must be born in the year 1999 or 2000. All the skiers had to earn their spot at the Games in a trial race held in late December at the Black Jack venue, said Bushell.

Although the host city for this year’s Games is Mission (beginning Feb. 20), cross country skiers will be competing at the Whistler Olympic venue in the Callaghan Valley.

The races at the Games will consist of an individual classic distance race, free

technique sprints and a relay.

“All the Black Jack skiers have had a busy season training and racing throughout the province,” said

Bushell. “For the skiers

going to the Games, this will be a highlight of their season. The B.C. Winter Games are a tremendous oppor-

tunity for young developing athletes to participate in a multi sport games.”

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Language classes start soonRecreation, Education, Community Rossland Rec Department

Spring brochure The REC Department will start

working on the Spring Brochure and if you’re interested in submitting a pro-gram or course, the deadline for the Spring Brochure is March 1.

The brochure will hopefully be available to the public online, by the third week of March.

Typically the Spring Brochure covers the months of April, May and June with many Rossland Pool details included. Spring break will run March 17-28. If you are interested in running a spring break camp let us know as soon as possible so we can work out details and start advertising right away.

We are always happy to add infor-mation regarding community groups and resources in the Community Events and Info pages.

Public skating schedule, Feb. 10-16Public skating this week is on

Wednesday, Feb. 12 from 6:30-7:45 p.m. and on Sunday, Feb. 16 from 2:30-4 p.m. and again from 6-7:30 p.m.

For more information about admis-sion prices, skate rentals and more, please log onto the city’s website, at www.rossland.ca, then arena page.

Available ice at the Rossland Arena Lots of ice available this weekend if

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Ice times available include Saturday, Feb. 15 from 8 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

Please give the Recreation Department a call to discuss costs and availability at 250-362-2327 or by email at [email protected].

Adult co-ed rec. hockeyAdult co-ed recreation hockey is at

the Rossland Arena on Tuesday nights from 9:45-11 p.m. and on Sunday nights from 9:15-10:30 p.m.

Join a great group of people for fun, co-ed hockey. Full equipment is required and some experience is neces-sary. A waiver must be signed prior to getting on the ice. Drop-in is $10 and 10x passes are available from the REC Department.

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Last day for Anna Hogarth’s co-ed kids rec hockey program. Please remem-ber to bring back the jerseys.

Rossland Seniors HallThe Rossland Seniors Hall has lots

of great activities running through the week.

On Mondays at 1:30 p.m. the Rossland Seniors Art Club meets. Contact Edith Harasin at 250-362-5477

for more information. On Monday evenings, the Rossland

Quilters Guild gets together at 7 p.m. Contact Deyanne Davies at 250-362-7727 for more information.

On Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. the Rossland Golden City Old Time Fiddlers practice and play. The public are welcome to sit in and listen to the old time fiddlers play their music. Visitors should contact Richie Mann before going to the Hall. Contact Richie or Audrey at 250-362-9465.

Selkirk College language classesSpanish for Travellers Level 1 – If you

know little or no Spanish but would like to learn, this is a great place to start. The Instructor will teach you the basics with an emphasis on conversation. Course runs Mondays and Wednesdays, February 24 to March 10 from 7:30-8:30pm, at RSS in room 308.

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Star GulchContinued from Page 1

He resurrected the notion of the Bear Creek area being developed as a swimming hole, and sparing a vital part of the city’s potable drinking water.

City council has directed staff to seek grant funding opportunities to partially pay for a feasibility study (CBT Community Initiative Grant) on Star Gulch—in addition to the $8,000 they have budgeted in 2014.

Mickelthwaite—a former

city councilor in the late 1970s and into the 1980s, and a career engineer—said council needed to discuss the feasibility of cut-ting a portion of its water sup-ply out of the picture before they commissioned a feasibility study.

“You’ve got to be smoking something to deliberately prej-udice your water supply,” he said. “Beaches in water sup-plies are not a good idea.

“Why would we want to spend money out of the taxpay-ers’ pocket to enable something that will destroy the lifestyle 10 years down the road?”

In the early 1980s a group called the Rossland Red Mountain Development Society—that included the then ski club, Rosslanders and coun-cil—collaborated on the idea to make tourism development work in Rossland.

The group fully developed the idea of putting a swimming lake on the uphill side (north-west side) of the Dunn Avenue causeway. However, the idea was shelved, even though it was fully developed.

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Poplar Grove winemaker Stefan Arnason will bring four of the winery’s award-winning wines to the Rossland Rotary Club’s 25th annual Wine Fes-tival on Saturday, Feb. 22 in-cluding 2011 Reserve Char-donnay and 2009 Merlot.

The 2009 merlot has full aromas of raspberry, blue-berry and cocoa. Ripe smooth tannins and balanced acidity underscore flavours of dark cherries, cigars and Okana-gan sage. Aged for 18 months in French oak and 18 months in the cellar prior to release makes this merlot ready to enjoy.

The 2011 Reserve Chardon-nay was fermented in 100 per cent new French oak barrels for six months. Barrel rolling was used to incorporate the lees into the flavour profile to bring the nutty characteristics forward.

The result is a rich, fruit forward, well-balanced wine

with lovely hints of nuttiness.After tasting wines from

Poplar Groves and other re-gional wineries, this special Rossland Rotary evening continues with dancing to DJ Mike Cole with a “Poly-ester Disco Nights” theme at the Miner’s Union Hall, all in honor of celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rossland Rotary Wine Festival.

Louis Dionne, Rossland Rotary member and chair of the event committee, was very enthusiastic about this year’s change in the annual event with the addition of the dance.

“We listened to attendees from past years who said they wanted something to do af-ter the tasting event, and we wanted something special for the 25th anniversary of the wine event, so our always cre-ative and enthusiastic mem-ber Jon Marion came up with the idea of the disco dance,” said Dionne. “What’s not to like about a disco dance?”

Event proceeds fund Ross-land Rotary projects which

include:• fundraising for the Ross-

land Skateboard Park;• temporary housing and

essentials for Philippines and Haiti;

• funds to help with the Al-berta flood;

• sending local exchange students to Germany, Italy;

• send local students to the Rotary Youth Leadership Pro-gram and the Adventures in Citizenship Program in Ot-tawa;

• scholarships to Rossland High School graduates; and

• support the Interact Club of Rossland, for their local and international projects.

Tickets are available now for the wine festival and dance at $70 per person, or purchase tickets now for the wine festi-val only $60 per person. Tick-ets are available at Powder-hound in Rossland or from any Rossland Rotary Club member.

Contact Louis Dionne for more info at [email protected] or 250-362-3303.

Award-winning Poplar Grove wines come to Rossland

sheree sonfieldfor the Rossland News

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