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If career training (or retraining) is part of your new years resolution, you might want to consider connecting (or reconnecting) with your inner Jamie Oliver and sign-ing up for culinary school.
You may not become a celebrity chef, but in the cur-rent labour market finding employment as a professional cook may be as close as it comes to a sure thing.
Based on the results of a 2013 study by the BC Tourism Labour Market Strategy (TLMS) 18,620 new jobs will open up for chefs, food coun-ter attendants & kitchen help-ers between 2011 and 2020, with 589 of those positions located in the Kootenay Rockies region.
The predicted shortage of cooks is so significant that the TLMS study is being expand-ed to look at the demand for skilled kitchen workers in industries besides tourism—namely the oil and gas sector, care homes and other institu-tions.
“We need to know how many culinary jobs are likely to become available,” explained Arlene Keis, CEO of go2 (BC’s tourism and hos-pitality human resource asso-ciation), “so that B.C. can come up with a strategy for recruiting and training people to fill these positions.”
Although the number of post-secondary tourism train-ing programs in B.C. increased from 200 to 300 between 2003
and 2011, with the largest growth in professional cook programs, there is no way the province can train enough people to meet the demand.
“An increase in profession-al training opportunities is necessary,” said Keis, “but culinary programs are not easily fitted into the average post-secondary institution due to the need for experi-enced educators and special-ized equipment.”
Bob Falle, chair of the School of Hospitality and Tourism which runs the Professional Cooking pro-gram at Selkirk College in Nelson agrees.
“The current demand for trained cooks presently exceeds the number of stu-dents we have in our pro-gram,” he said.
But according to Falle, more cooking schools may not be the solution. “Additional training opportu-nities have been attempted over the past year with the prep cook program,” he said in reference to the expansion of the program at Selkirk.
“However, there weren’t enough applicants to fill the program. Our current enroll-ment has been low due to a very low unemployment rate in the area.”
For the students who do enroll, Falle reports a 100 per cent placement rate for those who remain in the cooking field with 60 per cent finding training-related full time employment less than one month of completion.
Tourism labour shortage predicted
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ON THE EVE OF THE BIG EVENT
Monika Smutny photoOlaus Jeldness was dressed in his Yuletide best on Christmas Eve as Rosslanders gath-ered with their family members for the big event.
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OngoingYouth Action Network
• Rossland has a new youth coordinator who’s putting togeth-er fun for the community’s kids. Mike Kent is working at creating opportunities around a parkour club, art workshops, dances, movie nights and more.
Check out the Facebook page and “like” it to receive updates. To email Mike directly to discuss programming opportunities, ideas, sponsorship or to inquire about committees, contact [email protected]. Rossland Golden City Quilt Guild
• The guild meets every Monday. The guild meets at the Senior Centre on Rossland avenue from 7-9 p.m. Rossland Retirees Curling Club
• The curling club invites men and women interested in curling on Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., to call Bill at 362-9462 or Jim at 364-1051.
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Rossland House Concert• Friday, January 107:30 p.m. People are invited to an exciting night of music at the
home of Brenda Trenholme.If you have enjoyed La Cafamore concerts in the past, you
may also have heard Nina Horvath and Nicola everton play as well. They are excited to be joined by Nelson-raised violin-ist Natasha Hall for a night of duo and trio music.
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Spend four weeks learning your craft and the next four weeks preparing for the production of Seussical (dr. Seuss musical).
experience all aspects of a Broadway show alongside three specialized instructors (Juliana Marko-dance, Nadine Tremblay-voice and Carolyn Ferraro-acting).
Steps offers three different levels based on the ages and skill level of the students.
Levels and pricing:• 7-9 years: Saturdays, 4-6:15 p.m., $250• 10-12 years: Saturdays, 4-7 p.m., $325• Teen: Saturdays, 4-7 p.m., $325Please email Juliana with questions or to register at juliana@
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Local governments have submit-ted their recommendations regard-ing the future of the Columbia River Treaty (Treaty) to the provincial and federal governments.
Ensuring a voice for Basin resi-dents in future Treaty discussions, reducing impacts from Treaty-related dams, enhancing ecosystem function, and sharing equitably in any benefits flowing from the 1964 Treaty are among the key recom-mendations.
“Basin residents were clear about their issues and concerns related to the future of the Columbia River Treaty and we’ve worked together to find practical solutions that address a range of Treaty-related issues from salmon restoration, to increasing input from Basin resi-dents in dam operations,” says Deb Kozak, chair of the Columbia River Treaty Local Governments’ Committee.
“Our recommendations are with government now and we expect that they will be incorporated into any decisions about the future of the Treaty.”
Both B.C. and the U.S are in the process of developing recommenda-tions on the future of the Treaty because 2014 is the earliest opportu-nity that either country can give notice to terminate substantial por-tions of the Treaty, which would
take effect in 10 years. “Residents want local govern-
ment and First Nations’ input into any future discussions about the Treaty,” says Kozak.
“And they want the Provincial Treaty Review Team to continue assessing alternative scenarios for Treaty dams and reservoirs that would improve ecosystem function and other values. Residents in BC especially want to understand what it would mean for this region if the Columbia River was managed to meet the U.S. request for increased Columbia River flows in spring and summer.”
More than 235 people attended recent workshops hosted by the Provincial Treaty Review Team and the CRT Local Governments’ Committee in November, and more than 100 people provided written input on the recommendations drafted by the committee.
Residents generally support the committee’s 12 recommendations directly related to the Treaty, and its five recommendations to address domestic Treaty-related issues.
They also suggested refinements to the draft recommendations which the Committee has reviewed to pre-pare their current recommenda-tions.
The committee’s recommenda-tions are available from the commit-tee’s webpage (www.akblg.ca/con-tent/columbia-river-treaty). They address the following international
Treaty issues: • local government status in
international discussions; • continued engagement with
Basin residents; • assessing benefits and impacts; • reducing negative impacts to
the Basin; • equitable benefit-sharing; • expanding the focus of the
Treaty to include ecosystems and other interests;
• flood risk management; • Canadian input to Libby Dam
operations; • power generation; • continuing Treaty rights to
water use in BC; • integrating climate change; and • pursuing salmon restoration. Recommendations regarding
regional or so-called domestic issues address:
• mitigation and/or compensa-tion for negative impacts in the BC portion of the Basin;
• community economic develop-ment;
• meaningful ongoing engage-ment of Basin residents;
• restoration and conservation of fish and wildlife in the East Kootenay-Koocanusa;
• a water management process for the Kootenay River;
• full implementation of the Columbia River and Duncan Dam Water Use Plans; and
• the Columbia Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program.
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BC Hydro’s imposition of manu-al meter reading fees has persuad-ed most holdouts to accept a wire-less smart meter.
BC Hydro imposed a $35 month-ly fee starting Dec. 1 for customers who refuse to part with their mechanical electricity meters, after offering the 68,000 customers who still had them the option of accept-ing the new meter with the radio transmission function on or off.
BC Hydro reported the results this week to the B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC), which is reviewing the fees. More than 48,000 customers chose the smart meter to avoid the meter reading fee. Another 450 chose the radio-off meter, which comes with a $100 setup fee and $20 a month starting April 1 to cover costs of collecting readings.
Another 6,270 customers chose
to keep their mechanical meters, and 13,110 more did not respond to BC Hydro’s letters, so they will have the $35 fee added to their bills until they choose another option.
BC Hydro reports that 99 per cent of its customers now have the wireless meter. Most of those have been switched to automated billing, and have their daily electricity use displayed on their online account pages.
Claims of health effects from wireless meter transmissions have been rejected by health authorities, and also by the BCUC in a review of FortisBC’s wireless meter pro-gram.
More than 16,000 unionized pro-fessionals working in the health sector have a five-year contract in place under the B.C. government’s Economic Stability Mandate for
2014 negotiations.The Health Science Professionals
Bargaining Association and the Heath Employers Association of B.C. have ratified the agreement negotiated in November, four months in advance of the current agreement’s expiry on March 31, 2014.
The term of the new agreement is from April 1, 2014, to March 31, 2019.
It provides for a modest 5.5 per cent wage increase over the five years of the term, with potential for additional increases if the B.C. economy exceeds the annual fore-casts set by the Economic Forecast Council.
The Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association represents more than 16,000 front-line health workers in more than 100 different specialized disciplines that provide diagnostic, clinical and rehabilita-tion services.
IN BRIEFHoldouts ante up
New agreement signed
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The City of Trail has reached an agree-ment to purchase the Trail Regional Airport for S1.28 million from the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) with a tran-sition plan expected to be secured within the next six months.
To maintain the 4,000-foot airstrip run-ning on a break-even basis, the city is con-sidering increasing the $7 fee affixed to the purchase of a ticket to $12, which will avoid a hike in property taxes related to the acqui-sition and daily operations of the service.
Under the RDKB ownership the airport was volunteer-run, however, the city is cur-rently recruiting an airport manager during this initial phase of transition.
IN BRIEFTrail looks to expand reach
The Silver City is looking to log the land between Rossland and Trail.
City council in Trail advanced a proposal for ATCO Wood Products to begin logging city-owned forest in the Violin Lake Watershed by June 2014.
Discussions with ATCO were initiated earlier this year to determine if the producer of softwood veneer would have opportunity to expand into the 45-hectare area, which would add $640,000 to the city’s revenue.
“The last time we did business with them in 2002 it was very well executed and they lived up to all their commitments,” explained David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administra-tive officer (CAO) during a recent gover-nance committee meeting.
That section of Violin Lake land derived the city almost $750,000 and has since been replanted and a current review indicates the reforested area may be able to be logged again in future years, added Perehudoff.
“We don’t see any issues or concerns and ATCO is looking at the city to commit and formalize an agreement so they can establish their plans in term of resources to get in there and start logging the property.”
The city has developed a partnership with the wood products company related to ATCO’s ownership of various haul roads that gain access to city property with the company assuming responsibility of all issues related to logging the area, and paying Trail on the basis of the volume of timber cut from city land.
“Due to the fact we have no way to get the logs off of the city’s property over land, the costs would be prohibitive,” explained the CAO. “The only other way to log without the use of haul roads would be via the air and this is not economically feasible.”
With the city investigating measures to decommission the Cambridge Dam, a barri-er to water drawn from Violin Lake and stored in a reservoir known as the mill pond, Trail may have a future in the sale of logs.
“Additional logging opportunities in the lower areas of the valley around the mill pond and Violin Lake will be looked at again next year,” explained Perehudoff. “There isn’t the revenue to start roads but with respect to the dam and if the pond is drained that will impact and possible gain access to some pretty prime timber.”
A team of engineers, is working on the plan to decommission the Cambridge Dam with a report expected mid- January.
ATCO’s current proposal takes into con-sideration the changes in the logging market and the increased cost associated with log-ging based on the timber cruise. The com-pany is willing to pay the city a fixed price of $32 per cubic metre for saw logs and $5 per metric tonne for pulp logs.
Violin Lake area to be logged
Leaving no stone unturned in its 8.6 million hectare territory, the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI) has released the 2013 State of the Basin report.
In the works for several years, the 2013 report updates and builds on the work produced in the 2008 State of the Basin report. The 75-page long report and 16-page graphic-based snapshot report provide an important sketch of southeastern British Columbia.
“The goal is to benchmark and increase our collective understanding of well-being in the region and to promote discussion on where we are at and where we might want to go,” says Dr. Terri Macdonald, regional innova-tion chair for the RDI. “In this report we provide a picture of this region at a given moment in time in a report that explores economic, social, cultural and environmental conditions and trends.”
In 2006, the Columbia Basin Trust responded to long-standing requests for information on economic, social, environmental and other trends in the region by launching the State of the Basin initiative. Resulting from the work of project consultants, a volunteer working group, Columbia Basin Trust staff and more than 50 expert advisors, the first State of the Basin report was put together in 2008. Response to the 2008 project indicated that the State of the Basin initiative addressed an important need for informa-tion in the region, and that future iterations would be of benefit to local communities and organizations.
The Columbia Basin Trust transferred responsibility of the State of the Basin initiative in 2011 when a partnership was created with Selkirk College to create the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute.
“The release of the 2013 report is really just the beginning of our work at the RDI,” says Macdonald. “We now look forward to working with com-munities to support their efforts in using this data.” The report is loaded with valuable information that will enable community leaders, businesses, investors, non-profits and individuals to make decisions that will enhance the work already being done to make the region stronger.
Working on the four pillars of the region – economic, social, cultural and environmental – the report gauges issues like the business climate, con-sumer confidence and a breakdown of growth sectors. It also explores areas like traffic volumes on regional highways, high school completion rates in each community and volunteer trends. Many aspects of life in the Columbia Basin are touched on in the report.
The work on the report does not end with the release of the findings. The public has already been important in the compiling of the data – a telephone poll reached 400 residents this past summer and ongoing sur-veys of regional businesses through business retention and expansion projects across the region has included 555 surveys conducted – but there is still more work to be done.
Residents are encouraged to visit www.cbrdi.ca, to sign up for the RDI e-newsletter, and to explore the full text of the long report and the snapshot report. Access to the online survey can also be found using the links from the homepage. The Basin-Boundary region included in the 8.6 million hect-ares includes the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, the Regional District of Central Kootenay, the Regional District of East Kootenay, Valemount and a portion of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District.
Submitted photoThe recently released 2013 State of the Basin report explores the four pillars of the region – economic, social, cultural and environmental.
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A hopeless wish list for B.C. in 2014
Here are a few things I’d like to see in B.C. political life in the coming year, but won’t.
An orderly schedule of legis-lature sittings, one in the spring and one in the fall.
I canvassed this topic with Premier Christy Clark in our year-end interview, and got the usual runaround about how it’s always been option-al since old Gordon what’s-his-name set the schedule of sittings and elections more than a decade ago. Spring is for the budget and MLAs sit in the fall if they need to dis-cuss legislation.
They need to all right, but what governments want to do is ram it through as fast as they can, so that’s what they do. The last couple of years of this have been a sham worthy of a South American banana republic, with three chambers running simultane-ously and opposition mem-
bers trying to prepare as they run down the hallways.
It leads to mistakes in new laws and adds to the public’s cynicism about the whole business, but it gets things done with minimum expo-sure of the government to criticism. Stephen Harper would approve.
A political debate about real issues, rather than just a compe-tition to score points in an end-less election campaign.
I appreciate that this is hopelessly naive, but setting aside enough time to consid-er issues could, at least in theory, lead to that happen-ing occasionally.
Certainly the hastily staged mock combat of our legislature today isn’t win-ning new friends for any political party. The main growth area today is people who have given up on the whole thing.
An opposition with ideas.The B.C. NDP will have
another leadership contest in 2014, and they’d better bring more modern policy to the table than they had in the last one.
Remember the big issues
in that pillow-fight? Me nei-ther. I had to look them up. Health care? Local organic carrots into the hospital food. Forest industry? A job protec-tion commissar to force the mills to stay open. Resource development? They’re for it, unless you’re against it.
These guys need a Tony Blair-type makeover. They need to be for something, and they need to leave the past behind.
Media that care about more than conflict.
News organizations are in bad shape these days, and the competition for a rapidly fragmenting audience is hav-ing some ugly effects.
One thing that needs to go is obsessive coverage of who’s winning and who’s losing. If the news media are going to be interested mainly in the gaffes and gotcha moments, is it any surprise that’s what politicians try to provide?
The Canada Post announcement that it has to wind up home delivery offers a recent example. Is it really so outrageous for the CEO to suggest that walking
to the corner is good exer-cise? When there’s a 24-hour news cycle to fill, it’s a scan-dal!
How many people know that Canada Post’s unfunded pension liabilities amount to $6.5 billion, as it continues to pay a dwindling workforce to hand out mostly advertis-ing flyers? Should they just keep doing that until they run out of cash? Are taxpay-ers really expected to main-tain another two-tier service that’s only available to select-ed urban people?
Facts to go with opinions.Whether it’s the govern-
ment’s fantasy figures on job creation or the opposition’s arithmetic-challenged child poverty claims, serious prob-lems can’t be understood, much less solved, without defining them accurately. Submitting government advertising to scrutiny by the Auditor General to make sure it is accurate and non-partisan would be a good place to start.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: [email protected].
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Teck: committed to health and safety of all residentsTo the Editor:
For over 100 years Trail Operations has operated as a world class refinery and smelter in the West Kootenays of British Columbia.
Our facility refines and recycles every-thing from metal concentrates to used batteries into metals and fertilizers that we all rely on.
Over our 100-year history we have grown in lockstep with the city of Trail and surrounding communities. Our peo-ple live, work and raise their families in this community. I can say with certainty that no one cares more about the health and safety of people in this region than those of us who live here.
We are supportive of the efforts of residents of Northport, Washington, a community south of Trail, to determine what is causing any unusual rates of ill-ness in their community.
It is important to note that we have not seen similar rates of illness in Trail. Further, a 2004 human health study relat-ing to inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) by the United States Department of Health found no link between the rate of IBD in Northport and in other counties in northeast Washington and Trail Operations.
And, a recent study by the BC Centre for Disease Control found rates of IBD in Trail were far lower and not comparable to those reported in Northport.
We take our commitment to support-ing the health and safety of residents very seriously. We have invested more than $1.5 billion at Trail Operations to modernize the facility and improve its environmental performance.
As a result, Trail Operations has seen a 95 per cent decrease in emissions of met-als to air and water since the mid-1990s.
We are committed to continuing to improve our performance and ensuring the West Kootenay region remains a great place to live and work.
Greg Belland, general manager, Teck Trail Operations
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Did you know?• 85% of Canadian adults have read a newspaper in print, online, tablet, e-reader or mobile in the last week
• More people read a newspaper every week (on any device) than use the internet every month. 2,3
• There are 122 daily newspapers and over 1,100 community newspapers in Canada. There are 21% more daily and community print newspapers in Canada than there were in 1970.2
• Print remains the preferred choice for newspaper readers with 73% of adults reading a print edition each week.5
• Ads in newspapers are the most acceptable compared to out-of-home, radio, magazine, TV and online ads.7
• Ads in newspapers are deemed to be the most truthful (compared to other media).7
• 4 out of 5 adults took action (clipped a coupon, bought, visited a site) as a result of newspaper ad in the past month.8
• 3 million views on You Tube would be a once-in-a-lifetime smash hit. For newspaper websites, it’s Tuesday.2
• Newspaper websites are considered to be the most trusted online news source (vs. Facebook 3%, Twitter 0.2%).11
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1. Totum Research; Canadians 18+, any week, December 2011 2. Newspapers Canada 2012 3. Canadian Media Research, “Is the Internet Over-Rated, June 25, 2012 4. BBM, June 25, 2012; StatsCanada 2012 5. NADbank 2011 6. ComBase 7. Ad Standards Canada 2011 8. Newspaper Association of America 2012 9. Research Brief: Center for Media Research, “QR codes best in magazines, newspapers and packaging”, Aug. 26 2011 10. reportr.net, “News is a top online activity for Canadians”, October 13, 2011 11. Market-watch.com, “Ongo survey finds Americans trust news on social sites significantly less than newspaper sites with editoria curation”, September 21, 2011 12. NewMediaAge.co.uk, “Premium publishers most effective for performance campaigns”, August 9, 2011 13. Forest Products Association of Canada
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“There is a substantial increase in demand for trained cooks in the prov-ince,” Falle confirms.
“We get calls weekly from employers from all over the region; East and West Kootenays and beyond.”
For these reasons, go2 will be looking outside our province’s employment rich labour pool and recruiting international culinary students to do work experience here in B.C. “It is important to give Canadians first opportunity,” said Keis, “but if there are no Canadians to fill the gap, we need to look elsewhere.”
Although the TMLS numbers can not be broken down by city or areas within the six tourist regions, anecdotal evidence suggests that attracting people from else-where has not been a significant challenge for Rossland.
Red Mountain had no issues staffing their operations, states Don Thompson,
vice-president operations for the resort, and that includes their new food stop at the bottom of Grey, Wiener Take All.
Both Red Mountain Village and the Prestige Mountain Resort did have to advertise heavily to fill housekeeping positions this season, however, lending credit to other findings from the TMLS study which also predicts a shortage of cleaners, servers, managers, bartenders, front desk clerks, recreation and sport instructors, and bus and taxi drivers across B.C.
Between 2011 and 2020, the expected number of new job openings in the Kootenay Rockies tourism region totals 3,089 (three per cent of the provincial total for this period) in accordance with a pro-jected average regional labour demand growth rate of 1.3 per cent.
Growth is obviously good, but only if there are enough resources to fill the need.
B.C. TMLS is currently developing a strat-egy to meet this challenge. And for them, the demand for tourism employees in remote areas requires unique consider-ation.
“Rural communities are not for every-one,” said Keis.
“We need to target people who are looking for that lifestyle or people who are already living there.”
Recruiting professionals in their 50s who are thinking about retirement to fill positions that do not need significant training like customer service is one such strategy.
Also family members of people mov-ing into the community to fill jobs in other industries or people outside BC and Canada who are willing to do temporary, seasonal work.
“Everyone’s heard of Vancouver and Whistler,” said Keis. “We need to raise the
profile of more rural, but equally beautiful and inviting places.”
Teaching employers that there are other things people value besides wages is another strategy. “BC has the highest tour-ism wages in the country but it is still hard to compete with industries like mining,” explained Keis.
Focusing on flexibility, job satisfaction, recreational opportunities, lower cost of living – these are the perks of filling tour-ism positions in rural areas.
“Tourism is strong in B.C.,” said Keis, “because we have a great product and because the province has listed tourism as one of the eight sectors they want to grow.”
In short, people want to come here. And when they come, they need to eat. So get out that chef’s hat and prepare to dig in—a career in tourism could be your rec-ipe for success.
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The scare created when 10 skiers on Red Mountain Resort’s new Grey Mountain slopes did not report in Sunday was resolved Monday morning.
All skiers who were reported missing Sunday were found
unharmed later that night by Rossland Search and Rescue.
On Sunday, Dec. 29, shortly after 5 p.m., Red Mountain Resort reported 10 overdue ski-ers that had not reported in.
They had set off in the morn-ing and had spoken of exploring the new area of Grey Mountain.
The 10 skiers varied in ages
and all were from the state of Washington, said RCMP Cpl. Dave Johnson of the Greater Trail detachment.
“Although from out of town the lead male knows the area, has a residence at the resort on Red Mountain and is believed to be an advanced skier,” he said.
Search and Rescue was acti-
vated and subsequently located the skiers on the back side of Grey Mountain near Esling Creek Sunday night.
“No one was injured and all were accounted for,” said Johnson. “They had been able to start a fire and await assistance.”
Given the terrain and other variables search and rescue
determined that they would set in for the night on Sunday and be brought out at day break. At first light on Monday a helicop-ter was deployed to shuttle out the overdue skiers and the search and rescue team that located them. The process of shuttling out skiers was expect-ed to be completed Monday.
Ten overdue skiers on Red Mountain now foundTimoThy Schafer
Rossland News
Sports
Ian Lockey’s journey has taken him from New Zealand to Rossland to Russia; from a broken back to the big-gest sports competition in the world.
And Rosslanders get to claim Lockey as their own as he heads to Sochi to rep-resent Canada in the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
As part of the first ever snowboard event at the Paralymic level, Lockey will compete in a time trial version of the Snowboard Cross.
In this event, each rider performs two or three timed runs—with only one rider on the course at a time—tackling modified terrain features including banked turns, rollers, tabletop jumps and Wu-tangs.
In other words, Lockey will be riding a difficult course, competing with the best athletes in the world, on a snow-board adapted for lower limb impair-ment.
At the age of 25, Lockey crashed while dropping a cornice on his snow-board in New Zealand. The accident crushed three of his vertebrae, resulting in a severed spinal cord and a minor head injury.
As a standing paraplegic, Lockey has only 50 per cent use of his muscles from the waist down.
“I have no calf muscle in either leg,”
explained Lockey. “No hamstring, gluteus maximus or
peraforma muscle on my left side (and majorly reduced function of the same muscles on my right side) as well as missing some posterior abdominals and some internal organ function.”
“I can’t walk on my toes,” said Lockey.
“When I bike I stand on my pedals on my heels. Yes, I look funny.”
In snowboarding, he uses a third binding strap that runs from his shin to his highback so he can use his upper body strength to lean forward on his board.
Judging by the photos, there’s noth-ing funny about the set up—just suc-cessful. In his eight years on the Canadian National Adaptive Snowboard Team, Lockey has traveled to World Cup events in Whistler (host of the first ever Para-Snowboard World Cup in 2008), USA, Slovenia, and Spain.
He’s collected a trophy case full of medals, including North American Alpine and Freestyle Adaptive Champion in 2007 and 2010.
In May 2012, after years of effort on the part of Canada Snowboard and the rest of the snowboarding community, Snowboard Cross was officially added to the 2014 Paralympic Games.
One year later, Lockey was nominat-ed to the 2014 National Para- Snowboard team, fulfilling a dream that’s forced
him to amp up his game plan. “I’ve been training really hard at Get
Focus personal training in Trail,” said Lockey, “working hard on max strength of my core, quads… and concentrating on getting my hips forward.”
Lockey is appreciative of all the sup-port he’s received from Get Focus. He also gives credit to the rest of his home team, including Scenar Health Rossland, Rossvegas (“the best snowboard shop ever”), and his wife, Natasha, “my big-gest motivator and helper.”
In addition to physical and mental preparation for the games, Lockey’s been working hard to fund this season.
“All my trip to World Cups are self paid with the Olympics being the only funded event,” he said. The cost for snowboard equipment, in addition to contest and travel expenses, well exceeds $10,000.
“I have been lucky enough to have my friends donate about $3,000 through the website www.gofundme.com/helpIan.”
To find out more, visit www.IanLockey.com and get ready to cheer on Rossland’s own as he and his team-mates make history this March at the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Lockey, who loves the freedom of snowboarding and has fun playing with gravity, has already given us lots to cel-ebrate—even before leaving home.
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Rossland’s Ian Lockey a lock for Paralympic team in Winter Games
Submitted photoRosslanders get to claim Ian Lockey as their own as he heads to Sochi to represent Canada in the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
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A Rossland man is giving the region a taste of Japanese swordsmanship.
Brian Mauchline is a third degree black belt in the 400-year-old martial art of Iaido (pronounced e-i-do), teaching the forms (katas) in the fitness centre at the Trail Memorial Centre.
His movements are smooth and precise, executed with intense focus, yet, with an ease and fluidity that belies its mar-tial origins and deadly intent.
Mauchline practices the Muso Jikiden Eishin-ryu style, a popular form of Iaido that uses a wooden or steel sword in a variety of movements that focuses on drawing and cutting with a sword and returning it to its sheath in one fluid motion.
But it is as much a mental discipline as a physical one, invested with Zen qualities, the ethics of Confucianism, philos-ophy of Taoism, and aspects of bushido.
“It’s like Chinese Taoism, the same kind of concept. What it (Iaido) means is ‘the way of being prepared for whatever happens to you in life,’” said Mauchline.
Iaido evolved following the Warring-States period (400-300 B.C.) that introduced 200 years of relative peace for the domi-nant Samurai class.
“They had to keep their martial skills up, because that
was their function in society, but there weren’t any major wars going on, so what hap-pened was the forms of martial arts developed into the Budo … where the idea became less the idea of self-protection and more the idea of self-perfec-tion,” added Mauchline.
It’s modern form developed with the collapse of the Japanese feudal system in 1868 and the abolishment of the Samurai, and has since under-gone many transformations, and variations.
“Obviously, with Iaido you’re not going to run into somebody carrying a sword, and you’re not going to be car-rying a sword, so the self-defence aspect of it is totally gone now, it’s much more focused on personal develop-ment.”
The retired Teck worker began studying the art of Iaido almost a dozen years ago under fifth-degree black belt David Williams, a fellow Teck employ-ee who moved to the area from Vancouver.
Mauchline also has a black belt in Aikido and his interest was sufficiently piqued when he learned of Williams’ arrival and his desire to start a club.
“It took me a while.It wasn’t until a friend of
mine was practicing with him and he said, ‘You know this guy is too good to be missed,’ and I said, ‘You’re right he is.’”
Since then Mauchline has practiced Iaido diligently, offer-
ing his expertise to newcomers for the past several years.
The practice also has its competitive element, with the focus on perfecting the many and varied katas derived from the different styles. Although Mauchline and his students do not compete, their reason for practicing Iaido is a personal one.
“Why do people play golf? You’re competing against your-self, you’re never going to have a perfect game, but you can always improve. And it’s very similar with Iaido, we are try-ing for perfection doing a series of physical movements, and, really, we’re never going to get there - but there’s always room for improvement.”
Iaido classes are currently underway at the Trail Memorial Centre with a new session start-ing in January, on Mondays from 3-4:30 p.m.
Call the Trail Parks and Rec at 364-0008 or visit www.trail.ca for more information.
Iaido, abbreviated with iai, is a modern Japanese martial art/sport.
Iaido is associated with the smooth, controlled move-ments of drawing the sword from its scabbard or saya, striking or cutting an op-ponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard.
While new practitioners of iaido may start learning with a wooden sword (bokken) depending on the teaching style of a particular instruc-tor, most of the practitioners use the blunt edged sword, called iait. Few, more expe-rienced, iaido practitioners use a sharp edged sword.
Practitioners of iaido are often referred to as iaidoka.
Iaido emcompasses hundreds of styles of swordsmanship, all of which subscribe to non-combative aims and purposes. Iaido is an intrinsic form of Japanese modern budo.
Iaido is a reflection of the morals of the classical warrior and to build a spiritu-ally harmonious person possessed of high intellect, sensitivity, and resolute will.
The metaphysical as-pects in iaido has been influ-ence of several philosophical - and religious directions. Iaido is a blend of the ethics of Confucianism, methods of Zen, the philosophical Tao-ism and bushido.
Source: Wikipedia
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Practising the martial art of Iaido
Jim Bailey photoRossland’s Brian Mauchline is teaching the martial art of Iaido in classes in the New Year.
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CommunityGet on the iceChristmas public skating scheduleRecreation, Education, Community Rossland Rec Department
Rossland Recreation The Winter 2014 Brochure is available online,
at www.rossland.ca, city hall home page and the Recreation Program Guide page.
You can also pick up a hard copy at City Hall, the Credit Union, Rossland School, the Rossland Library and at the Rossland Arena. Registrations for all programs starts Jan. 2.
The recreation department hours over the holidays will be as follows: Closed Friday, Jan. 3. All other days the office is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
The arena is open for regular ice time throughout the holiday season, except for the following dates and times: Closed Wednesday, Jan. 1.
If you would like to rent ice and the recre-ation department is closed, please contact the arena directly at 250-362-7396, ext. 1229 or 250-521-0110. The arena staff will be able to assist you with available times and rental rates.
Public skating scheduleThe holiday public skating schedule is as fol-
lows:• Thursday, Jan. 2: 5:15-6:45 p.m.• Sunday, Jan. 5: 2:30-4 p.m. and 6-7:30 p.m. For more information about admission pric-
es, skate rentals and more, please log onto the city’s website, at www.rossland.ca, then arena page.
Youth Action NetworkPainting with Stephanie Gauvin
The second in our local artist series, youth artists can come and learn painting techniques from popular local artist Stephanie Gauvin.
Space is limited so register now at Rossland Recreation 250-362-2327.
Times: 3:30-5:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Rossland Art Gallery, four
sessions: Feb. 5, 12, 19 and 26. Cost is $25 for all four sessions. Includes art supplies.
Rossland Youth Action Network logo contestDesign their logo. The winning logo will be
included on all posters, event pages, etc. This could be your 15 minutes of fame.
The winning logo designer will win a $100 gift certificate to a Rossland business of choice.
There will be runner up prizes as well.
Chess players? Paul DeVilliers is volunteering with the
Seven Summits Centre for Learning and is teaching the students how to play chess.
Paul is looking for donations of chess games and would also like to hear from other local folks who play chess well and would like to volunteer at the Learning Centre as Chess men-tors.
The students are in Grades 8-12 and Paul is using chess as a tool to teach abstract thinking and increase problem solving skills.
Interested in passing on your knowledge and skills? Contact Paul at 250-362-0024.
Rossland Public Library Check out the library’s website for a com-
plete listing of the programs they’re running. From Storytime for toddlers to Teen Movie night, the library has some excellent opportuni-ties to connect with others and to further a love of literacy.
Rossland Seniors The Rossland Seniors Hall has lots of great
activities running in the New Year. 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.
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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.
On Thursdays between 9:30-11 a.m. join the seniors for stretching exercises and morning tea and snacks.
It seems the City of Trail won’t play nice with anyone when it comes to recreation.
After much discussion, the BV Recreation Committee has decided not to renew the recre-ation agreement with the City of Trail.
Facilities covered by the agreement include the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre, leisure programming, Field House and Haley Park.
However, Trail city council agreed to extend the Trail Residency Program (TRP) on a month-to-month basis with the caveat that Beaver Valley Parks and Recreation show a willing-ness to reconsider its position and renegotiate the agreement.
Beaver Valley is no longer willing to cost share in region-al recreation which means the price to play pickleball, swim or maybe join a yoga class in the new year will be consider-ably more expensive for valley
residents after the current agreement expired Dec. 31.
“The city has received con-siderable feedback regarding Beaver Valley’s decision not to renew the Recreation Cost Sharing Agreement,” explained David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administrative officer (CAO).
“It would seem as though there is significant concern coming from the residents of Beaver Valley who are impact-ed.
“The city is more than will-ing to enter into negotiations with Beaver Valley Parks and Recreation if there is interest in renewing,” said Perehudoff.
Until an agreement is con-sidered, council gave three readings to amend the Trail recreation fee bylaw which excludes the Beaver Valley communities and now defines “resident” as an individual from the City of Trail, Village
of Warfield or Electoral Area B. “Adoption will be held in
abeyance if there are discus-sions associated with renewing the agreement,” explained Perehudoff. “Otherwise coun-cil can adopt the bylaw and B.V. residents will be subject to higher rates (effective Jan. 1).”
Players in the Greater Trail minor hockey who do not have a residency card and reside in Rossland, Fruitvale, Montrose or Area A, will con-tinue to receive a free sport pass for minor hockey.
The five-year agreement was negotiated following the collapse of the Regional Recreation Service when all Greater Trail communities con-tributed to Recreation and Culture as part of the regional service.
This agreement commenced in 2009 and called for a $200,000 financial contribution by the Beaver Valley.
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