Rossland News, March 24, 2016

The City of Rossland has a draft budget for 2016 to 2020.

The draft was presented at a Committee of the Whole meet-ing on Monday afternoon and revealed that if council doesn’t find a way to cut costs, taxes will increase by over 10 per cent in 2017.

According to Steve Ash, in-terim manager of finance, high taxes in Rossland are being driven by recreation spend-ing, the operation of several older buildings, spending on social programs, a dispropor-

tionate allocation of regional services and the high costs of providing basic services in a mountain community with high snow fall.

While 2017 represents the biggest tax increase, failing to cut costs would lead to consid-erable tax increases from 2018 to 2020 as well: seven per cent in 2018, four per cent in 2019 and five per cent in 2020. That would be on top of the 3.5 per cent increase in 2016.

In the interest of keeping costs under control, council asked Ash and staff to suggest options for cutting costs by $250,000 in 2017. The draft

presented three possible op-tions for cutting costs. The first focuses on cutting rec-reation and would include closing the arena. The second option focuses on cutting re-gional services and would in-volve renegotiating Rossland’s tax allocation to the district. Rossland could also with-draw from certain regional services, like the cultural al-location and economic devel-opment. The third option takes a more varied approach, and could include reducing arena hours, renegotiating some re-gional services and increasing revenues without increasing

property taxes.None of the options include

a provision for increasing bylaw enforcement.

Ash’s recommendation is to take an approach similar to op-tion three, cutting $220,000 in 2017 by reducing arena hours, reducing recreation programs, cutting $30,000 through con-tinuous improvement of city services, re-negotiating re-gional services, reducing the TRP amount from $50,000 to $30,000, opting out of regional economic development and reducing community grants.

Reducing costs by $250,000 in 2017 and $150,000 in 2018

could allow the city to keep tax increases down over the next four years, to five per cent in 2017, four per cent in 2018, two per cent in 2019 and four per cent in 2020.

Ash would like to emphasize that nothing in the draft bud-get is final and no decisions have been made. The public is invited to attend a public bud-get consultation at the Prestige Mountain Resort on April 13 at 7 p.m. where Rosslanders can share their priorities for the next five years with mayor and council.

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FortisBC has received regu-latory approval from the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) to build a new Kootenay Operations Centre in Castlegar. The facility will have 23,000 sq. ft. of office space, 7000 sq. ft. of warehouse space and be located at 120 Ootischenia Rd. It will house operations for the electricity branch of FortisBC.

The new facility will central-ize many key operations into one facility and will replace

existing facilities that the com-pany says are reaching the end of their useful life. One of those facilities is the South Slocan Operations Centre which is over a hundred years old.

The South Slocan Generation Plant will remain in operation, but the opera-tions centre will be moved to the new facility. The Castlegar District Office will also close and the employees will be transferred to the new loca-tion. Operations in Trail and Warfield will remain open,

but some employees will be relocated.

FortisBC issued a request for expressions of interest from general contractors for the $22.4 million facility in February in anticipation of BCUC approval. The company is currently evaluating those submissions and will pre-quali-fy contractors who will then be invited to respond to a request for proposals that will close in mid-April. Construction is ex-pected to begin in May.

The new operation centre

will be home to about 100 em-ployees. “This is simply a move, there are no changes to staffing that we foresee as a result of this,” said Nicole Bogdanovic, corporate communications advisor for FortisBC.

The City of Castlegar was quick to issue a press release expressing excitement over the approval. “Fortis’ decision to relocate the regional service centre here in Castlegar rec-ognizes that Castlegar is the centrally located community in the West Kootenay for invest-

ment,” said Mayor Chernoff in the statement.

The process has been a long one, beginning in 2012. But Bogdanovic believes it shows that care was taken before the plans were finalized and ap-proved. “It gives certainty that there is rigor in the process,” she said. “These decisions are not made lightly. We have been connected to the community for over a hundred years, so we know these decisions have long term impacts and we make them very, very carefully.”

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The federal govern-ment released its 2016 budget on Tuesday, and the local MP feels it’s full of missed opportunities.

Richard Cannings, a member of the NDP, sent out a press release Tuesday afternoon accus-ing the Liberals of falling short on their campaign promises.

“We were disappoint-ed and we’re calling it a missed opportunity, es-pecially for the oppor-tunity the Liberals had to reduce inequality in Canada. I think that’s one of the main things Canadians are expecting from the government is to turn that tide,” he told the Castlegar News on the phone from Ottawa.

In par t icu lar, Cannings was disap-pointed that there was nothing on home care for seniors. Back when he was trying to get elected, Justin Trudeau promised to negotiate a new health accord with the prov-inces, with a long-term agreement on funding that would include an extra $3 billion over four years for improved home care services. While the new budget mentions both the health accord and home care, there’s nothing about the prom-ised $3 billion:

“The Government is committed to work-ing in partnership with provinces and territo-ries to negotiate a new

multi-year health accord that will improve health care in Canada and boost health outcomes for all Canadians. The Minister of Health has begun discussions with her provincial and ter-ritorial counterparts to enhance the affordability and accessibility of pre-scription drugs, improve access to home care and mental health services, and support pan-Canadi-an innovation in the de-livery of health services.”

The Liberals also dropped their plans to expand taxation of stock options.

“These are opportuni-ties to get funding again for programs without hitting the middle class and lower income Canadians with taxes,” said Cannings.

While he may be dis-satisfied with the deci-sion, Canadian startups, who reacted against the idea, were reportedly very relieved on Tuesday.

Cannings was also upset about the Liberals’ changes to employment insurance, which he said don’t go far enough.

“They haven’t really brought in measures that will reduce the money coming in that goes into general revenue and they really have only moder-ately increased the ability of Canadians, who paid into this fund as they work, to access it once they’re out of work,” he

said.Cannings and the

NDP reacted to the fact that the budget shows the government will have collected $6.9 billion in revenue from EI premi-ums over three years, but it’s worth pointing out that $3.5 billion of that was collected in 2014-2015, $2.2 billion in 2015-2016, and the smallest amount, $2.1 billion will be collected in 2016-2017. In the three following years, the budget projects that EI will pay out more than is collected, though only up to $3.5 billion, not $6.9 billion. This deficit is ac-counted for in part by the Liberals’ plans to lower EI premiums, beginning with a decrease to $1.51 in 2017.

The budget projects a deficit of $29.4 billion for 2016-2017, with no surplus in sight, even in 2020-2021 by which time there will have been an-other election.

“We will admit with them that it is a diffi-cult fiscal situation and difficult to balance the budget this year, but … if this is going to work, as they say, in stimu-lating the economy, we should hope that it re-ally works and we have a plan to actually get out of this deficit situation,” said Cannings. “So we’re disappointed that there’s no surplus in sight, no balanced budget in sight.”

Shane Preedy spoke on behalf of the Rossland Curling Society and pre-sented a petition with 239 signatures against clos-ing the Rossland Curling Rink. Preedy acknowl-edged that council has not actually made a de-cision to close the rink, but the Curling Society wanted to be preemptive as council moves forward with planning the city’s budget.

Council won’t waive youth soccer feesFollowing a request

from Rossland Youth Soccer (RYS) at the last regular council meeting, council voted to inform RYS that the city isn’t in

a financial position to eliminate their field fees.

Council further voted to have staff continue to improve Jubilee field as finances allow, and to let RYS know that council will consider the long term liability of an arti-ficial turf field in town.

Sean Ofarrell, vice chair for the Kootenay South Recreational Soccer League and a member of the execu-tive for RYS also talked to council about the ef-fects of Trail Recreation fees on youth soccer. He said that this year Trail started charging Rossland teams an extra $356 each. Ofarrell asked council to continue nego-tiating with Trail to reach a deal so that recreation fees don’t continue to in-

crease. Councillor Aaron Cosbey assured him that Rossland council will eventually go back to the table with Trail to try to work out a deal.

Benefit concert needs new location

Council received a re-quest from Carol Enns and Marjorie Kidd ask-ing to use the arena park-ing lot, Nickelplate Park and the stretch of Second Ave. between both loca-tions for the Kootenay Carol’s Children’s Festival and Benefit Concert on June 29. Enns and Kidd also requested that the city supply a stage, bar-ricades, tables and chairs for the event, and asked that City Hall house two ballot boxes from May 1 to June 28.

Unfortunately the area is unavailable as it’s being used as a laydown area for contractors during the Washington St. con-struction. Council voted to inform Enns and Kidd that the location was un-available and asked staff to look into other pos-sible locations. Council also asked staff to re-port back on whether or not city policy allowed non-profits to rent city equipment free of charge. Finally council approved the request to house the ballot boxes at City Hall.

Council to participate in Montrose paradeMayor and council

agreed to send a delega-tion to participate in the Montrose Family Fun Days Parade on June 11.

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Sealed Tenders from Roofing and General Contractors will be received at the City of Rossland, 1899 Columbia Avenue, Rossland, BC, V0G 1Y0 on or before Thursday, April 7, 2016, a 2:00 P.M., local time. Tender Revisions may be faxed to 250-362-5451.

The Phase 1 Roof Replacement Work includes, but not limited to: - Provide a new batten rib roof of approximately 5733 sq. ft. at a 45 degree slope on new plywood

sheathing.- Removal of the existing metal roof, shingle roofing, chimney and wood strapping.

The Phase 2 Exterior Restoration & Refinishing Work includes, but not limited to:- Existing wood siding repair and painting; replacing existing deteriorated siding; new pediment; four

new wood windows. The surface area of the four exterior elevations is approximately 9710 sq. ft.

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The Regional District of Central Kootenay is calling on the province to crack down on the newspaper in-dustry to join a provincial recycling stewardship program. However, an industry executive says if they were forced to pay the proposed fees, a number of papers would have to shut down to meet the costs.

“We simply can not afford the millions of dollars this would cost the newspaper industry,” John Hinds, the CEO of Newspapers Canada, an industry group, told the Star. “It would put a significant num-ber of newspapers at risk if we were forced to pay the Multi-Material BC (MMBC) fees as they stand. Look at what happened in Nanaimo and Kamloops [where newspapers re-cently closed]. Look at what is hap-pening around the country.”

The RDCK board passed a mo-tion in February to urge BC’s envi-ronment minister to pressure the industry to comply with regulations that require producers of paper and packaging to pay for the recycling of their products.

MMBC is the non-profit stew-ardship organization tasked with getting BC industries, rather than taxpayers, to pay for recycling the paper and packaging it produces. MMBC collects, processes, and sells recycled material, and about 1,300 producers of paper and packaging in BC pay them to do this.

Businesses that produce paper and packaging are required by BC law to have an approved steward-

ship plan to recycle their waste. But the newspaper industry has so far declined to join MMBC, in an appar-ent contravention of that regulation. This is a problem for the RDCK.

MMBC doesn’t cover all areas of the province. It has never set up shop in some rural areas, including some parts of West Kootenay, because it says it can’t afford to expand its ser-vices further until the newspaper industry signs on. MMBC wants the newspaper industry to pay $20 per ton to recycle the province’s newsprint. According to Hinds, this would amount to about $10 million per year.

“To pay that price would mean for example in the West Kootenay I would close three marginal small town newspapers, and curtail the number of copies that we put out,” says Rick O’Connor, the president of Black Press, which publishes six papers in the West Kootenay includ-ing the Star.

Asked to respond to the indus-try’s contention that it would have to close papers, MMBC’s Allen Langdon said “This regulation has been in place since 2011. They have had a long time to think through how it would comply with the leg-islation and try and work something out with government.”

Some RDCK population centres — including Nelson, Kaslo, and Castlegar — have contracts with MMBC, but rural areas don’t, and it is costing the regional district to recycle in those areas, according to chief administrator Stuart Horn. The RDCK has asked MMBC to take over, only to be told they can’t af-ford to take on new areas until the newspaper industry comes on board.

Hinds says he doesn’t believe MMBC when it says it can’t afford to expand their service because the organization reported a $33-million surplus in its last fiscal year. Langdon says that money is a reserve.

“Our entire program costs $80 million per year,” Langdon said, “so we set a target of a reserve of about half the annual requirements. We are a non-profit so we had always planned to develop a reserve because we don’t have assets or other types of capital to rely on if commodity markets drops.

“If I were to expand the program,” he continued, “the current members who are meeting their obligations and are good corporate citizens would be forced to subsidize the companies that have not joined and not met their obligations.”

O’Connor and Hinds say MMBC is asking for more money from newspaper publishers than recycling programs in other provinces. They say the original deal with MMBC would have seen the newspaper in-dustry contribute millions of dol-lars worth of advertising promoting recycling. Langdon disagrees and says there was a draft agreement but MMBC didn’t sign it because “our members could not agree because it would have meant them subsidizing the newspaper industry.”

O’Connor disputes that version. “MMBC had their lawyers write the agreement and presented it to newspapers to sign. After some ne-gotiations, newspapers signed the agreement. MMBC was then taken over by the Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance who refused to sign their own agreement.”

Hinds says MMBC’s asking price of $200 per ton is “four or five times what newspapers pay in other prov-inces.” Comparison with other prov-inces is complex because each prov-ince has different regulations and systems. In Ontario and Quebec, newspaper publishers pay in-kind with advertising. In Manitoba the government pays the newspaper industry’s fees. In Saskatchewan newspapers are exempt from the system.

“[In all provinces] the idea is that everyone contributes but the news-paper industry doesn’t want to,” says Langdon. “From our perspective our program is probably the most progressive and leading edge in the country and the one where we are having the most success engaging directly with producers on how to work with them to adapt to change their packaging. That is exciting and is something we should be proud of.”

Asked what the newspaper in-dustry is doing to resolve this stale-mate, O’Connor admitted nothing has changed. “We have been try-ing to work with the provincial government to come up with our own stewardship plan to meet the obligations under the regulations but not through MMBC, and we were hoping the government would approve StewardsChoice, which we propose to be a competitive vehicle to MMBC. It is not that are opposed to recycling, it is that we are opposed to being extorted by MMBC.”

Hinds says the government made a mistake lumping newsprint in with packaging. He says newspapers should be treated not as a package

“like a yogurt container” but as “a product with social value” which, he adds, brings higher prices on the recycling market than most kinds of packaging, and which is already being successfully recycled by 80 per cent of BC residents. O’Connor said MMBC is keeping the revenue of recycled newsprint, estimated cur-rently at $60 per tonne.

Asked what he would say to the RDCK board, O’Connor said “If MMBC is telling you the reason they can’t increase service is because newspapers have not paid their ex-orbitant fee, I would say that that is not true. We never indicated that we would pay their fee and we will go to court before that happens. The industry is pretty adamant about this. MMBC is using this fantasy that newspapers are not paying this $200 as an excuse for not serving the West Kootenay.”

Asked the same question, Hinds said “You have to look at the value of newspapers in the community and it is an untenable cost to newspapers currently, and we simply can’t afford it. We would absolutely have to shut some papers down.”

Langdon, asked what he would say to the RDCK, said, “I think the action being taken by the regional district [lobbying the minister] is the only course of action available to them at this juncture.”

The Star asked the ministry what it is doing to bring the newspaper industry into the fold. It replied by email: “The ministry continues to pursue compliance with all freerid-ing producers, including newspapers and is in active discussions with the newspaper industry to find a solu-tion.”

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Matching Challenge nets $52,000 for Miners’ Hall renovationSt Patrick’s Day turned out to

be a lucky day for the Miners’ Hall! As the clock wound down on Rossland Arts Council’s 30 Day Matching Challenge, the community of Rossland ral-lied and pushed the Matching Challenge past the $25,000 goal.

“It was a little tense going into the final day,” said Ann Damude, a volunteer with the Miners’ Hall Renovation team. “But at 4 p.m. on the final day of the Matching Challenge, our Yodel on-line fundraising site hit the $25,000 mark. And although we had met our goal, people continued to donate.”

The final community contri-butions came to $27,859. When the $25,000 in matching funds is added in, a total of $52,859 was raised for the Miners Hall Attic Renovation.

“We are overwhelmed by the generosity of residents and visitors,” stated Kimberley Pegg, RCAC Board member. “And we are extremely grateful to the

group of local donors who initi-ated this campaign by providing the $25,000 in matching funds. The success of this fundraising challenge is a reflection of the importance of the Miners’ Hall in the lives of our community members.”

RCAC has now secured

$363,000 of the $500,000 in funding needed to complete the attic renovation. Although the Matching Challenge has come to an end, RCAC continues to gratefully accept donations for the project.

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To whom it may concern,Congratulations to the individuals and au-

thorities for the total demise of the north end of Jubilee Park. First, we encountered in disbelief an unsightly garden and now there is a flood plain in progress. Mother Nature has just begun her springtime gift of run-off, something we have tried to contain for years.

Former mayor Harry LeFevre had more knowledge and experience in dealing with this problem than any other local resident. He spent countless hours and dollars in trying to divert the water safely underground and through the park by way of a proper drainage system.

It appears that through lack of research and planning all of his efforts have been dismantled. Because of his foresight we were able to create a dry area for a basketball court, a gazebo and a picnic area for Golden City Days.

This parcel of land has now become a hazard and is threatening the use of Jubilee Park as it did in the past. The liability aspect of this proj-ect is mindboggling. Should one tragedy occur, Rossland will be held accountable. If a fence is required to prevent any such happening, the building cost would be extreme. I might also ask who is supervising a repair and maintenance program for this project as it is obvious one will be required. Are taxpayers on the hook again?

A “wetland park” idea started out with a mini bobcat backhoe and now it will require a full size excavator to bring us back to reality. As a native son of Rossland, I am totally disappointed in this undertaking. These are my concerns and I would gladly entertain a response from council members.

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Alternatives to urban drug ghettosMy recent col-

umns on BC’s strug-gle with the growing westward migration of transients have produced responses that fall mainly into two groups.

The largest is people relieved that somebody is ques-tioning the urban

media narrative. That’s the one where drifters, drug addicts, welfare shoppers and thieves are the victims, and working people whose hard-earned communities are being degraded are the problem because of their selfish, uncaring attitudes.

Then there are readers so marinated in our nanny-state education, media and po-litical system they object to anything other than a big-government response. They tend to ask, what’s your solution, Tom?

As someone who has lost one relative to heroin addiction and almost lost another, I reflect on the history of successful addic-tion treatment. That is one of detox and abstinence.

That’s why I oppose the failed model of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where resources are poured into concentrated housing and “harm reduction” that perpetu-ate addiction, handouts and helplessness. Housing Minister Rich Coleman is rolling this out in other communities, in what I

fear is an effort to paper over the problem for an election year.

The Globe and Mail recently profiled a methamphetamine addict enrolled at Onsite, the belated treatment addition to Vancouver’s Insite supervised injection site. It was his fifth try, which may have some-thing to do with the fact that when he walks outside he is in the middle of Canada’s big-gest street drug bazaar.

Contrast that with a facility called Baldy Hughes, a therapeutic community 30 km outside Prince George. It’s a working farm, designed to provide a year-long program of abstinence-based therapy and meaningful work.

It uses the traditional 12-step program developed by Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, with peer support and group therapy.

There’s a greenhouse for winter farming, livestock to tend and the residents have de-signed and built a new horse stable. There’s also a beekeeping project. Residents can complete their high school education, take first aid training and learn basic computer skills.

What they can’t do is leave unescorted during their treatment program. They can’t bring drugs, alcohol, weapons or phones with them.

It’s a costly program, with a small number of spaces available on referral from BC’s social development ministry. Others can finance it with the help of medical employ-

ment insurance.I mention this not to suggest it is a solu-

tion for every community, but to compare it with what the BC government is spending millions on.

A news event was arranged to greet the first resident moving from Victoria’s squalid downtown tent camp to a refurbished nurs-ing home. And who was the poster child for this project, hand-picked by the agency that runs the growing network of shelters in the area?

He described himself as a former Edmonton resident who was hitch-hiking around, going from shelter to shelter and ending up camped in the squat. He was impressed by the tidy room with three meals a day he was being given, in a “low barrier” facility where booze and drugs are brought in, no questions asked.

What he was really looking forward to, in addition to accommodations, was an op-portunity to kick back and play his favourite video game. That would be Grand Theft Auto, where your character runs around stealing cars, escaping police and meeting with criminal gangs. It’s popular with ado-lescents, which these days means anyone under 30.

This is where your tax dollars are going. Waves of people come in, with key trouble spots being communities on the major high-ways coming into the Lower Mainland.

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Local brewery, Rossland Beer Company, won the first place prize for the second year in a row at Red Mountain Resort’s Beer Goggles craft beer festival.

The third annual Beer Goggles Craft Beer Festival took place over the weekend and saw nearly 600 people come out to sample beers from ten BC breweries.

“This is the third year of the event and we’re going to keep it rolling year after year, adding new breweries, trying to switch it up and make it exciting for the guests,” said Nicole Briggs, marketing and events manager for Red.

This year saw two new breweries in at-tendance: Driftwood Brewery from Victoria

and Bad Tattoo Brewing from Penticton. The other breweries in attendance were Rossland Beer Company, Stanley Park Brewing from Vancouver, Fernie Brewing, Mt. Begbie Brewing from Revelstoke, Central City Brewers from Surrey, Prohibition Brewery from Kelowna, Steamworks Brewery from Vancouver, and Nelson Brewing Company.

Festival attendees enjoyed samples out of mini beer mugs, BBQ and a DJ in an outdoor tent with heating and woodchip flooring.

Asked what his favourite beer was, enthu-siastic festival goer Peter Worden said, “I’d go with with the Mt. Begbie scotch ale.”

But ultimately by the end of the festival, Rossland Beer Company was voted Fan Favourite of the Fest.

Second place went to Driftwood Brewery and third went to Stanley Park Brewing.


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Learners create videoTwo learners sorted through

hours of footage to put together a video about the Rossland Range cabins.

Caelum Scott and Aidan Smith both worked on the 15-minute video as part of their Grade 10 indepen-dent project for English and Social Studies at the Seven Summits Centre for Learning last year, and Friends of the Rossland Range (FORR) shared it on their website earlier this year.

“Basically the point of the video was to tell the story of how the cab-ins got there,” said Scott.

He and Smith were given a hard drive with about 60 hours of in-terview footage and photos of the construction of the original cabins. The original footage was shot by James Klemmensen and included an interview with Cookie L’Ecluse,

who built the historic Cookie Jar cabin.

“So we had a lot of material to work with, and we went through all of the footage and just kind of constructed a video out of it,” said Scott.

He and Smith also added some of their own photos and footage to the video. They took a day to go out and shoot the cabins, so that they’d have more recent shots to work with.

“Basically it was great editing to pick out what they did,” said Kim Deane, FORR chair. “Then they added music, a bit of their own footage to fit everything together I guess.”

Scott and Smith also moved the materials from the hard drive to a more secure device, after strug-gling to access the materials in the first place.

“The first time we ever tried get-

ting the footage off the hard drive and plugged it into my computer, my computer didn’t recognize any of it,” explained Scott.

They eventually found a com-puter that could recognize the files and then copied everything over to a flash drive.

The timing of the video fits nicely with the construction being done on the new Rossland Range cabins.

“Having the video is just a great contribution,” said Deane. “Mainly to have all the information easily accessible, without going through the hours and hours. In 15 minutes you get a pretty good idea. It’s not everything of course, but there’s quite a bit in there as to where they all came from. Now that we’re sort of rebuilding them all, we’re into sort of a new phase, so I guess we should capture that someday.”

The video can be seen at ross-landrange.org/RRRS/shelters.html.

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Rossland Beer Company won first place for the second year in a row at Beer Goggles Craft Beer Festival over the weekend. Chelsea Novak photo

Skiers from the Black Jack Cross Country Ski Club are in Whitehorse for the 2016 Haywood Ski Nationals until Saturday, March 26 and so far two of them have had a spot on the podium.

Remi Drolet earned a gold medal in the Juvenile Boys’ 5 km Interval Start Classic on Sunday afternoon. His time was 14:07.4, nearly 46 seconds faster than Konrad Van Varseveld from Larch Hills Nordic, who came in second.

Later in the afternoon, Black Jack skier Chiaki Yamamoto took second place in the Junior Women’s 5 km Interval Start Classic, earning a silver medal. Her time was 16:36.2, only 12.1 seconds behind gold medal winner Marie Corriveau of the MSA Ski Club, and a mere 4.1 seconds ahead of Sadie White of Big Thunder Nordic, who took third.

Red Mountain Racer September Stefani brought home two sil-ver medals from the final competition of the Matrix Western Ski Cross Series last week in Fernie.

Stefani has been a Red Mountain Racer since 2010, but this was her first year competing in all three of the Western Ski Cross competitions, and the 16 year old wrapped up her season by win-ning silver in both Open Women ski cross events.

“It was really fun be-cause that was the first time I actually went to all three ski crosses,” she said. “I usually just go to one, and it was just nice to see people over and over again that I’d met at the first one, and saw at the second one, and really got to know them at the third, which was great.”

Racing at all three competitions was worth it, as Stefani performed well at each. She also brought home two sil-ver medals from the first competition at Big White in January, and placed third in both of her events at Lake Louise in February. She finished

the series with the high-est number of points in her category.

“It got harder each time,” she said. “The first one, Big White, it was just really introductory ski cross for people who haven’t done it before. In Lake Louise, it offered some new challenges, bigger features, and

in Fernie, it was much bigger features and just testing different skills for each course.”

Stefani hopes to com-pete in all three compe-titions again next year, but she’ll be graduating then as well, so plans may change. “I really hope to be able to go to all three again.”


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Remi Drolet (centre podium) won gold in the Juvenile Boys 5 km Interval Start Classic at Nationals on Sunday.

Chiaki Yamamoto (left) won a silver medal in the Junior Women’s 5 km Interval Start Classic at Nationals on Sunday.

Red Mountain Racer September Stefani won two silver medals in the final competition of the Matrix Western Canadian Ski Cross Series. Courtesy Brian Stefani

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Revival Boutique donated $1540 to three local non-profits on Monday as part of its community initiative inspired by the Margaret Mead quote, “Never doubt that a small group of thought-ful committed citizens can change the world; it’s the only thing that ever has.” Individuals who bring their clothes to Revival Boutique can choose to forgo payment and instead donate to one of three organizations. Revival will then contribute 50 per cent from the sale of those clothes to either Trail Family & Individual Resource Centre Society (FAIR), the Rossland Youth Action Network (YAN) or Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL). Pictured here: Zabrina Nelson, owner of Revival Boutique, presents a cheque for $700 to Gail Lavery, executive director of FAIR.

GIVING BACK

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Two Rossland artists launched a fiber art exhibit at the VISAC Gallery in Trail on Tuesday night.

Perspectives: A Contemporary Fibre Art Exhibit features the felt work of Sarah Elizabeth and Theshini Naicker. The exhibition came about because Kristen Renn, gallery curator, wanted to do a fiber art exhibition and approached Elizabeth and Naicker about show-ing their work.

“I didn’t know Sarah’s work much at all, and she didn’t know mine, so we sort of got together, talked about general concepts and ideas,” said Naicker.

She has shown her felt work at VISAC once before, but this is Elizabeth’s first exhibition.

Elizabeth loved how the show came together and how the works were curated in such a way that there’s a progression through her and Naiker’s work as gallery goers make their way through the room.

“There’s a great juxtaposition in our styles. Theshini has got this beautiful, organic but also very tech-nically and very striking work, this gorgeous work, and then she has this

softer movement into the work,” said Elizabeth. “Then you’ve got the wild, really textured, not even, not perfect kind of look [of my work]. I just love how it works and complements.”

Elizabeth has been a practicing artist for 15 years, but only recently started working with fiber in 2013.

Naiker has been working with fiber for over 15 years now, but just came off a three-year hiatus. Before she took a break from felting, Naicker’s focus had been on wear-able art, but now that she’s returned to the medium she’s started trying

more advanced felting techniques and has been working on more wall pieces. She also dyes some of her felt, producing rich, saturated colours.

“This show has a lot of the natural fibres in it, but I do like working with colour,” said Naicker. “I dye all my own colours, because I find the commercial ones, the pallet is a bit limited.”

The pieces Elizabeth made for Perspectives use limited colour. There’s a purple wool used through-out many of the pieces that she bought from a mill. She chose the co-

lour because the pieces were inspired by winter and mountain rocks, and she thought blue would be too cool. “One of my favourite things is that dusky purple light that you get across the mountains,” she said.

Both Naiker and Elizabeth used a variety of fibers in the works on display. Naiker said she prefers using finer wools — such as cashmere and Merino — because they felt faster, but she also uses slower felting fi-bers to produce different textures. Whereas she gets a lot of her fibers from Ontario, Elizabeth focuses on

local fibers. Since last year she’s been building a fiber arts business that focuses on supplying fiber artists with local fibers, locally processed fi-bers, Canadian fibers or just unique fibers in general that are sustainably grown and purchased. She gets her silks — like those used in her piece “Shear” — from Darn Good Yarn, a company that recycles used sari silk.

The exhibit also features a variety of fibers that gallery goers are invited to touch.

Perspectives will be on display at VISAC until April 22.


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Theshini Naicker and Sarah Elizabeth posed next to Elizabeth’s piece “Crevice” at the opening of their exhibition at the VISAC Gallery on Tuesday night. Naicker and Elizabeth next to Naicker’s piece “Impermanence.” Chelsea Novak photos

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. The YAN Space will be closed for Spring Break and will reopen on March 29.

ART DROP IN NIGHTMondays, 7 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! The YAN Space will be closed for Spring Break and will reopen on March 29.

ROSSLAND BEAVER SCOUTSMondays, 3 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 recre-ational 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 caregiver support group in Trail, for

residents who want to prepare them-selves with current information that will help improve quality of life with the disease. The group offers the chance to exchange information and friendship with others affected by dementia, ac-cess 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 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/everything music. No prior music-ing experience necessary. The YAN Space will be closed for Spring Break and will reopen on March 29.

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 resources for kids interested in geol-ogy, 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.

SWING DANCING AT THE

LEGIONSwing 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!

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. The YAN Space will be closed for Spring Break and will reopen on March 29.

REC VOLLEYBALL AT RSSEvery Thursday night from 7:30 to 9:30 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.

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 museum 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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ROSSLAND — The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) and the Rossland Youth Action Network (YAN) are presenting a series of film-making workshops for youth.

For the past nine years RCAC has been provid-ing youth film program-ming, hosting workshops and presenting the West Kootenay U19 Film Festival each spring.

“This year, in response to youth feedback, we are putting more focus on education and skill development,” says Tara Kowalchuk, RCAC ex-ecutive administrator. That focus is being real-ized in a series of work-shops, each teaching a different aspect of film making. Each workshop will provide youth with a wonderful opportunity to learn from a profes-sional.

The first workshop will be Claymation with Shelley Painter, taking place April 9 from 1-5 p.m. Shelley will teach all the skills needed to make great Claymation films: storyline, set up, building characters, and how to turn stills into a motion picture. These skills can also apply to films using Lego and action figures.

Next up will be a special effects make-up workshop facilitated by Carolyn Ferraro. Ferraro has a diploma in makeup design for film and TV from Vancouver film school. She has worked on numerous sets in Vancouver. This will be a two-day workshop on the afternoons of April 16 and 17. Day one will focus on creating cuts and bruises and day two will be about prosthetic appliance application (the gory stuff).

The final workshop in the series will be on April 23 from 1-5 p.m., a directing workshop fa-cilitated by Jason Aspell. Aspell graduated from the SFU film program, he

manages and programs for the Civic Theatre in Nelson. He is also a lead instructor for the Senior Director’s Seat summer film camp in Nelson. Participants will learn tools for taking charge of film projects and skills to take written scenes to the screen, including breaking down shots and blocking for actors.

In addition to these workshops, RCAC and YAN will also be host-ing weekly film-making drop-in nights. There will be no set curricu-lum for these evenings, youth can work on their films and get input and guidance from adult fa-cilitators. They will have a chance to ask questions specific to each of their films.

The culmination of the programming will be a film showcase on May 5. The showcase will be part of a Youth Variety Show/Awards Night oc-curring during Rossland Youth Week.

“We are so glad we were able to accom-modate the youth’s re-quests in this way,” says Kowalchuk. “It is great to be able to update our format, and still continue to provide the quality programming RCAC is known for.”

All the workshops require pre-registration and have limited spaces available. Registration can be done at u19film-fest.com. The workshops and drop-in sessions will take place at the YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. in Rossland.

For more information contact Tara Kowalchuk, 250-921-8272 or [email protected].

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ROSSLAND CITY COUNCIL MEETINGMonday, April 11 at 6 p.m.Monday, April 25 at 6 p.m.

PUBLIC INPUT SESSION: 2016-2020 FINANCIAL PLANWednesday, April 13, 7 p.m. at the Ross Thompson Ballroom in the Prestige Mountain Resort. The City of Rossland will be holding a public input session to discuss the proposed 2016-2020 financial plan. All Rossland taxpayers are encouraged to attend.

EASTER EGG HUNTSaturday, March 26, 12-2 p.m. at the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre. The museum opens at noon with face painting, games and activities inside and hot dogs for sale. At 1 p.m. sharp the egg hunt begins (no poach-ing please! — no pun intended). We have a roped off toddler zone, ages four to seven on the lawn, and ages eight and up in the upper yard. A movie will be shown at 2 p.m. in the Cominco Theatre with popcorn served. With even more chocolate eggs than ever, this is going to be the best Easter Saturday ever! Entry is by donation.

EASTER SUNRISE SERVICESunday, March 27 at 7 a.m. St. Andrew’s United Church will hold an Easter Sunrise Service at Kerby’s Farm in Happy Valley (2503 Park St., follow the signs). All are welcome. Refreshments to follow in the Church Annex.

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After last year’s dry summer and water restrictions, there have been some concerns in Rossland about maintaining reservoir levels. But Rossland’s dry season is nothing compared to desert areas in coun-tries like Nepal and Chile, where researchers have come up with an innovative way of supplying com-munities with water.

Fog harvesting is the process of collecting fog in a large, vertical polyethyleen mesh net. The fog is captured in the net and drips down to the bottom where it’s captured in a trough that connects to a pipe. The pipe can lead either to a stor-age tank or can flow downhill to a nearby village.

It takes 10 million microscopic droplets of fog to make one drop of water “the size of a match head,” but in the right areas, a large fog collector (LFC) can collect an aver-age of 200 litres a day.

“Each fog collector — the panel on it is about 4m high by 10m long — on the average will col-lect 200 litres a day. So some days it might collect nothing, some days it might collect 500 litres,” said Dr. Robert Schemenauer, co-founder of FogQuest.

FogQuest is a charity based out of Kamloops that constructs LFCs in communities of developing countries with seasonal or year-round dry conditions.

Schemenauer has a PhD in cloud physics and a broad back-ground in the atmospheric sci-ences. He first started working on fog collecting around 1985 when he was working for Environment Canada as a research scientist.

“I was asked to go to Chile by an agency in the Canadian gov-ernment called the International Development Research Centre to

see whether fog might be a reliable source of water for people living in the dessert of northern Chile, which is the driest place on earth,” he explains.

Schemenauer’s work in Chile turned into a multi-year project that resulted in the development of LFCs. After her retired from Environment Canada, he went on to co-found FoqQuest, which was registered as a charity in 2000.

So far, fog collecting has only been done for research purposes in Canada. Schemenauer says fog harvesting is only recommended in places where there are no other options for accessing water.

“People are curious because they do have fog and they do have periods without rain, so people do investigations,” he says. “[But] in this country where we’re wealthy and we have access to water maybe with a little bit of effort, I don’t think it’s really going to be some-thing that’s adapted.”

LFCs cost $1500 USD to con-struct, which isn’t bad considering the amount of water they produce, the low maintenance they require and their ten-year lifespan. But setting up the LFCs first requires taking the time to experiment with

location and placement, which is done using 1m2 standard fog col-lectors. Ultimately it’s not worth the effort if there are other ready sources of water.

Schemenauer doesn’t recom-mend fog collecting for Rossland, as we do have other options for accessing water. That being said, fog collection is already a natural part of our water cycle.

“Fog collected by the trees, whether it’s in the summertime when it’s liquid droplets hitting and dripping off, or whether it’s fog in the winter time, it’s again liquid droplets and they freeze forming rime ice, together that source of water from fog is prob-ably around 20 per cent of all of the water that’s available in the area around Rossland,” he says. This is known as occult precipitation.

One area in BC that may try fog harvesting is the Gulf Islands.

“Surprisingly some of those lo-cations are extremely dry for many months of the year. They’re very rocky, so they don’t really have ac-cess to wells or ground water,” says Schemenauer.

But for Rossland, occult pre-cipitation is probably the closest we will get to fog harvesting.


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Repaving the Trail air-port is a no-go this year after the city was denied federal funding through the Airport Capital Assistance Program (ACAP).

Airport manager Don Goulard received news from Transport Canada in late February that high demands for ACAP funding led to the Trail project not being ap-proved this cycle, but will be considered again in 2017.

Coun. Kevin Jolly, chair of the airport com-mittee, confirmed dur-ing Feb. 22 council that the city will resubmit next year. The city was

requesting $4.2 million.Two other bigs proj-

ects are underway at the airport, one nearing completion and the other still grounded.

A new gas tank sys-tem has been installed and awaiting final certi-fication, but the Airport Terminal Building (ATB) project remains in the

planning stage.“Council discussed

the most recent itera-tion of the ATB during capital budget delibera-tions and directed staff to prepare a report on how the city could fund an ATB on a phased basis,” Jolly explained. “We will be considering the pending report at an up-coming Airport Service Committee meeting to be scheduled in early April,” he added. “And the com-mittee will then provide council with a recom-mendation to consider.”

The ACAP program is available to any Canadian airport that is not feder-ally owned or operated, meets certification re-quirements, and offers year-round regularly

scheduled commercial passenger service.

Depending on the number of passengers accessing the service an-nually, each eligible air-port can qualify for up to 100 per cent funding on projects that Transport Canada rates in priority. Because Trail falls into the least scheduled pas-senger category, 1,000 to 49,999, the city is eligible for full funding of first priority projects.

Meaning, any safety related airside improve-ments such as runway rehabilitation, visual aids and aircraft firefighting equipment required by regulation, can be 100 per cent paid for through the Transport Canada program.

We will be considering the pending report at an upcoming Airport Service Committee meeting to be scheduled in early April

Thanks to some dedicated parents, the Rossland Summit School’s boys basketball team had a great year.

Three dads took on coaching the Grade 6 and 7 team. Josh Swain, head coach, returned to volunteer coaching after last year’s season, and was joined by Kevin Jangula and Blaine Benner. Together they coached two squads.

“Last year when I was assistant coach, we kind of had so many kids on the team, there were 17 kids on the bench at any given time, and I felt like it’s really hard to keep the kids engaged in the flow of the game when they’re just waiting that long for a turn to play,” said Josh Swain, head coach. “So I kind of hatched a plan last year that if we had that many come out again, then I wanted to split the squads.”

Splitting the squads gave the kids more time on the court, giving them more opportunity to develop their skills. Many of them started the season without any previous experience, but with more chances to play, both squads finished the season strong.

“We’ve seen a tremendous improvement in the basketball of all these kids,” said Jangula.

Together Red and Gold squads

had nine wins, seven losses and four ties during the season, and at a season end tournament, Gold Squad finished first and Red Squad finished third.

The players said they learned a lot over the season, but were also straightforward about what they thought the team could im-prove on.

“It’s a really good team, we just… some of us get so lost in trying to win that we kind of like stop being so sportsman-like,” said Diego Palmer, Grade 6, Gold Squad.

There were a couple of anoma-lies on the team this year. First, two Grade 5 players were included on the team.

“Two Grade 5s played up. They

were super keen,” explains Swain.Second, Savanah Tweedy asked

to play on the boys team this year, instead of the girls team.

“[She] felt that the level of focus and competition wasn’t quite what she wanted with the girls team,” said Swain. “So she kind of talked to the coaches, and the coaches conferred and we talked to her parents and we kind of decided it was best all round, and certainly best for her to play with the boys. She was a real big addition to the team and a real treat to coach.”

“I find boys teams are a lot more competitive than girls teams,” said Tweedy, Grave 7, Red Squad. “Last year I played on the girls team and it wasn’t

as fun.”Of the 20 players on the team

this year, seven are Grade 7 stu-dents and will move on next year. The team will miss the inside play of Ryder Eagleton, Savanah Tweedy, Tayne Stevens and Isaac Power, and the ball handling and hustle of Finn Kinghorn, Yarrow Doyle and Zac Johnson.

The coaches would like to thank Jim Adams for coming to so many games and practices, and stepping in whenever asked; Patrick Kinghorn and his staff at RSS; Chris Bowman and the other men’s league players who refereed at home games and the tournament; and the parents who kept score, came to all the games and supported their kids.


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Arnie Sherwood Memorial Funspiel

The Legion hosted the 8th Annual Arnie Sherwood Memorial Funspiel at the Rossland Curling Club. We had a full slate of 64 curlers who enjoyed the meals provided by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary. Mike Williams, the ice maker, did a great job of provid-ing quality ice.

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Canadians fell in love with Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s beautiful bride when he brought her to the world stage as Canada’s youngest First Lady. Yet, as time went by, Margaret was unprepared for public life, and plagued by mood swings. After three sons with Pierre, the marriage ended. She then remarried and had two more children. But the tragic loss of her son, Michel here in the Kootenays and the passing of Pierre Trudeau a few years later, were too much to bear, and she became severely ill.

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