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� e City of Rossland is making changes to the water and sewer rates and services to ensure we have a sys-tem that charges enough to be self-sustaining.

Understanding the current reality and the proposed changes is a lot of information to take in and city coun-cil wants to ensure they are consider-

ing and answering the questions peo-ple have about the proposed changes.

Residents are being invited to re-view the information and pose a ques-tion. Email invitations are being sent out for people to take a few minutes to read a high level summary, a more detailed overview, or dig into the con-sultant’s report and then ask council

any questions they might still have about the proposed changes.

� en council will be hosting a meeting at the Seniors Center on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. to respond and answer as many of the key questions as they can.

OverviewWhile Rossland needs a sustainable

water and sewer service that charges

enough to be self-supporting, coun-cil has never set the rates to properly re� ect the true cost of operating the system. � e full cost of the service in-cludes the day-to-day operations and considers the future capital require-ments of our water and sewage treat-ment facilities.

Changes coming to water and sewer ratesDoug Halladay, president of the Legion, and Sheryl Clark, poppy chairperson for the Legion, presented the year’s � rst poppy to Mayor Kathy Moore at City Hall on Wednesday. Photo submitted by Sheryl Clark

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With the help of a con-sultant, city council has created a 25-year plan estimating the current and future operating and infrastructure needs fol-lowing best practices for such services. With this plan comes a new billing structure that will charge a blended rate, based in part on the size of your water pipe (because that is the actual capacity of wa-ter available to you) and on the amount you actu-ally use.

Currently, we dip into general tax revenue to pay for our system annu-ally. This means we need to borrow or raise taxes when major work needs to be done. It makes more sense to plan for them and pay for them over time with fees, which provides

everyone with more fi-nancial stability. Rossland is committed to charging fair and equitable rates for all customers based on an easy to understand struc-ture.

For more details and to ask your questions

Watch for an email invitation in your inbox from Thoughtexchange and city council on Mon-day, Oct. 19. If you don’t receive an email invitation you can self-register at bit.ly/rosslandwatersewer or stop by City Hall to pick up hard copies of the in-formation.

Next StepsCouncil will have a

public meeting to report back on this Thoughtex-change process and to an-swer questions on Thurs-day, Nov 12, 2015 at the Seniors Center, 1916 First Ave. at 7 p.m.

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The John Welsh Band played to an enthusias-tic crowd at the Miners’ Hall on Saturday, Oct. 24.

The upbeat, latin/reggae inspired tunes had the audience on their feet and danc-ing all night long. The

members of the band had a variety of musical talents and the songs in-corporated harmonica, cow bell, tambourine, and bongos.

John Welsh Band travelled from the Fra-ser Valley to perform as one of the acts in the

Rossland Council for Arts and Culture’s Per-formance Series.

“This crowd has made the 7 hour drive here worth it,” said John Welsh near the end of the first set. “In the sec-ond set we’ll make the 7 hour trip home worth it.”

And they did, playing numerous numbers that had the crowd clapping, dancing, singing, and stamping along.

The night culminated in a conga line led by band member Courage, playing the cow-bell.

Af ter w his t l e s ,

cheers and stomping feet, which the band said must be “Koote-nay speak for one more song,” the band played an encore mash up of their take on Mexico meets the Beatles, leav-ing the crowd with big smiles.

The crowd gave great reviews.

“The show was really hot,” said one audience member.

Based on the cheers, the smiles, and the num-ber of CDs purchased, it is safe to say John Welsh will be welcome back in Rossland any time.

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In a small village in the Isaan region of northern � ailand, Ross-land native Frances Watthanaya (née Pettit), a wife, mother, Muay � ai � ghter and trainer, has a new challenge on her hands as she and her � ai husband, Boom, are in the process of building a Muay � ai gym for the village’s most vulnerable.

“My husband and I, we never intended to actually start this gym,” said Frances who was back in Ross-land for a visit last week. She was living in her husband’s home village of Phutthaisong and training for a January � ght when the task of starting a gym was unexpectedly thrust upon her.

“I was training in my husband’s yard, in the dirt with one of my trainers. All these kids started showing up, 15 kids and asked if they could train with me and I said sure, of course you can train with me, it’s no big deal.”

Some of her young, new � ghters traveled miles to train with Wat-thanaya and workout in the rustic environment with a watered-down dirt � oor, single heavy bag, a few mats, and sticks for training tools.

“I posted this video up on you-tube of me and the kids training in the dirt, and it went viral,” said Frances. “I had all these people from around the world contact me

and say, ‘I want to help. You need to get a roof over these kids’ heads, you need to have proper training facilities, what can we do to help?”

At the time, Frances was work-ing as an English teacher and Boom was training Muay � ai � ghters in Malaysia, so building a gym in Boom’s home village was not on the agenda, but the response to the video and interest from generous private investors persuaded the couple to set up a GoFundMe site.

“We really didn’t know what would happen and we really weren’t holding our breath . . . We start this GoFundMe and it just took o� ,” said Frances. “We were completely � oored by the support we received.”

� e kids at Frances’ gym call her mom or aunt, as is the custom in a � ai gym. � e gym is a � ghter’s extended family, but in Isaan, it is even more challenging because of the abject poverty, gangs, rampant drug abuse, and alcoholism.

Frances and Boom are trying hard to help young � ghters emerge from the debilitating cycle and give them a leg up on life, restore hope, and � nd the ability to help others.

“� e big thing in Isaan where my husband’s from, is the kids are really poor. � ey don’t have oppor-tunities to play you know tennis, volleyball, soccer. So Muay � ai is like the poor man’s sport where the poorest kid in the entire village, this can change his life.”

A young � ghter can take home a minimum 300 Bat (about $10 US) for winning a � ght, more than a labourer makes in a day, so the Muay � ai � ght game can be self sustaining if not relatively lucrative.

� e Wor. Watthana gym has begun to take shape. � ere is a ring and superstructure covering the training area, it has the latest gear provided by corporate spon-sor Booster Fight Gear and a large contingent of � ghters. Traveling is the biggest expense now for Wat-thanaya’s � ghters who � ght up to six times per month in various provinces.

To keep the gym viable the Watthanayas rely on support from sponsors and donations to pro-vide food, education, and travel expenses.

� e campaign was an amazing start for the Watthanayas, and while they enjoyed their recent time on vacation in Rossland and Christina Lake, they look forward to the rest of the journey.

“We’re extremely happy and extremely humbled by this whole experience,” said Frances. “We re-ally couldn’t do it, if it wasn’t for the people who contributed to the GoFundMe campaign and now our monthly sponsors.”

� ose interested in sponsor-ing or donating funds can contact Frances at [email protected].

Rosslander builds gym and dreams for Thai youthJIM BAILEYRossland News

� is winter’s Rossland Winter Carnival, which will be held Jan. 28-31, 2016, will feature not one, but two nights at the Ice Palace.

� e winter carnival’s board met for its annual general meeting on � ursday, Oct. 22 at the Alpine Grind and then discussed event plans for the 2016 carnival, including new plans for the Ice Palace.

Friday night the Ice Palace will feature Best Of, and Saturday night is a double act with Rossland’s own John Lee’s Hooker opening, and Edmonton band Wet Secrets headlining.

Both performances are also part of Blizzard Fest, which is now its own non-pro� t organization.

So far the line-up for the festival also includes Shred Kelly, HUMANS, Bend Sinister, Steph Cameron, Ben Rogers, Van Damsel, DJ Fresh Cut Melon, and local band � e Dead Strings.

Early bird three-day passes are already available for $85, and single tickets can also be purchased at blizzardmusicfest.com.

� e bobsled races, with a calcutta, and the rail jam will once again be big downtown events, expected to draw in plenty of festival goers.

To make those and other fun events happen, the board relies on plenty of volunteer support, and is looking for Rosslanders to help make the 2016 event a success.

Volunteers receive a piece of Winter Carnival swag for their e� orts, such as toque or scarf. � ose interested in helping out can email [email protected].

More Ice Palace than everCHELSEA NOVAK

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The Rossland Winter Carnival board met for its annual general meeting on Thursday, Oct. 22 at the Alpine Grind and then discussed event plans for the 2016 carnival. Photo by Chelsea Novak


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The Rossland Sustainability Commission and the West Kootenay EcoSociety hosted a Green Drinks event at the Redroom Lounge on Tuesday night. Green Drinks is a global event, which traditionally invites people who work in the environmental � eld to meet and network, but the Rossland event was also open to anyone passionate about sustainability. Organizers hope to make it a regular event. From left to right: Montana Burgess, community organizer for West Kootenay EcoSociety, Ann Damude from the Sustainability Commission, and Councillor Andrew Zwicker. Chelsea Novak photo

Rossland City Council Briefs OCT 26

Washington St. designCouncil was presented with the

results of the Washington Street Design Charette, and recommenda-tions from sta� on how to proceed.

Mayor and councillors voted to proceed with the bike path between First Ave. and Jubilee St. on the east side, the sidewalk from downtown to Fourth Ave. on the west side, the sidewalk from downtown to Kirk-up on the east side, closing Fourth Ave., redesigning the Kirkup and McLeod intersection, landscap-ing, and putting in bumpouts at Second and � ird Ave. as planned, adding an extra bumpout at the top

of Kirkup. � ey asked sta� to consider op-

tions for Sixth and Turner Ave., speci� cally turning them into one ways or closing them, taking into account both cost, safety and access.

Councillor Andy Morel also introduced a motion to have sta� investigate closing access to the highway via Kirkup, and seek pub-lic consultation on the matter, but the motion was defeated, with only Morel and Councillor Loyd McLel-lan supporting it.

Rossland crime statsSgt. Oelke from the Trail &

Greater District Detachment of the

RCMP presented Rossland crime statistics for 2014 to council. Murder: 1 (2014), 0 (2013)Sexual assaults: 1 (2014), 0 (2013)Other assaults: 4 (2014), 6 (2013)Robbery: 0 (2014), 0 (2013)B&Es: 3 (2014), 8 (2013)Attempted B&Es: 0 (2014), 0 (2013)� e� of motor vehicles: 3 (2014), 1 (2013)� e� , mischief, and possession of stolen property: 55 (2014), 27 (2013)Drug o� enses: 4 (2014), 7 (2013)Fatal tra� c accidents: 1 (2014), 0 (2013)Injury tra� c accidents: 0 (2014), 0

(2013)Reportable property damage tra� c accidents: 12 (2014), 14 (2013)

Sgt. Oelke made a point of men-tioning that the murder that oc-curred in Rossland last year is still being actively investigated.

Change to council meeting schedule

� e regular city council meet-ing scheduled for Monday, Nov. 9 was moved to Tuesday, Nov. 10, and the meeting scheduled for Monday, Nov. 23 was rescheduled for Tues-day, Nov. 24 to accommodate the returning CAO’s schedule.

Golden City Quilters request

discountCouncil denied a request from

the Golden City Quilters Guild to have their rental fee for the Miners’ Hall cut in half, because the group already received a non-pro� t rate for the rental. � e guild rented the hall for their biennial quilt show on Oct. 17 and 18.

Piano in the squareCouncillor John Greene reported

that the piano has moved to a per-manent home in Trail. It will be re-placed by a new piano in the spring.

Dear editor,I would like to thank the voters

of South Okanagan-West Kootenay for the trust you have placed in me by electing me as your Member of Parliament. I am humbled by your support and will work hard for all the people of South Okanagan-West Kootenay. My o� ce door will always be open, and I pledge to not only take your concerns to Ottawa, but to ac-tively seek out your ideas on how we can make this region an even better place to live.

I would also like to thank the hun-dreds of volunteers who worked for my campaign, and the volunteers who worked for the other candidates. Democracy only works when people are engaged, and this election cam-paign certainly saw Canadians get in-volved in record numbers. We should be proud that our riding had one of

the higher voter turnouts of 73.4 per cent.

I also congratulate the other candi-dates—Connie Denesiuk, Brian Gray, Marshall Neufeld and Samantha Troy—for putting their names for-ward and campaigning in a fair and collegial manner. A� er a year and a half of meeting each other at events across the riding we came to know and respect each other—we all love and care for this region and our coun-try despite what political di� erences we may have.

It will take a few weeks to set up my local o� ces; in the meantime please feel free to contact me through an interim email address: [email protected].

RegardsRichard CanningsMember of Parliament electSouth Okanagan-West Kootenay

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MUSEUM SATURDAY CRAFTERNOONSStop in anytime Saturdays between 1-3pm for Cra� ernoons in the Dis-covery Zone! Cra� s and activities for kids of all ages.FREE with adult admission. Parents can feel free to look around the mu-seum while we cra� with the kids.� e Museum is open all winter Wednes-days-Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Co� ee, tea, and hot chocolate available to keep you warm!Contact: (250) 362-7722 or info @ rosslandmuseum.ca

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

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

SLURPS AND BURPS FEEDING GROUP Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Family Obstetrics Clinic, 4th Floor Maternity, KBRH Trail.

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

ADULT CO-ED REC HOCKEYTuesdays and Thursdays, 9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m.Join this fun, co-ed recreational pro-gram of non-contact drop-in hockey. Please enter on 2nd Ave. This is fun, non contact, no pressure hockey! Full equipment is required and some expe-rience necessary.

MUSIC NIGHTTuesdays, 6:20 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Drop in event for ages 12 to 18. How do you like to Music? Come to the

YAN Space and immerse yourself in anything/everything music. No prior music-ing experience necessary.

MUSEUM AFTER SCHOOL KIDS’ CLUBWednesdays until Dec. 16, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ the Rossland Museum.Explore science, create cra� s, and play games. � e museum has tonnes of re-sources for kids interested in geology, sci-ence, history, and more. Bring a snack, and enjoy two hours of supervised fun.Ages 5-12. Drop in $5. School bus stops at the museum.

GIRL TALK FOR GIRLS 14-18 Wednesdays, 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, Chill Space, Girls Only! FREE

LOCAL WRITERS DISCUSSIONWednesdays, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. @ the Rossland Seniors Hall. To share ideas, expertise and knowl-edge, critiques, and open opportunities for experienced and want-to-be writ-ers. For more information contact Les Anderson by email at [email protected] or phone 250-362-5532.

PICKLEBALLWednesdays, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ RSS. Indoor pickleball.

MAKERLAB FOR YOUTH 12-18� ursdays, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave.Newly renovated and expanded for this year, the Makerlab is a meeting ground for youth who share a keen interest in all aspects of technology. Bring your tech-nology project, whether it is robotics, motion graphics, creating and printing 3D models, or something completely dif-ferent. You don’t need experience, just an enthusiasm for technology! By donation.

SATURDAY NIGHT SOCCERSaturdays until Oct. 31, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Jubilee Park. All ages welcome!

YAN AFTER SCHOOL DROP-INMonday-� ursday, 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

ROSSLAND SENIORSMonday 1:30 p.m. Seniors Art Club meets. Contact Edith at 250-362-4477.Monday 7 p.m. Rossland Quilters Guild meets. Contact Dayanne at 250-362-7727.Wednesday 7 p.m. Golden City Fiddlers play. Visitors should contact Richie at 250-362-9465. Thursday 9:30 to 11 a.m. Seniors stretching exercises and morn-ing tea and snacks.

ROSSLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY Lego Club: 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, 3-4 p.m.Library Bingo: 2nd Thursday of the month. Pick up card at the library.Movies and Munchies: 3rd Thursday of the month, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.Books and Babies: Fridays until Dec. 18, 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Stories, songs and fun for those 0-30 months and their grown-ups. For more info call 250-362-7611.

NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING:Tuesday, Nov. 10, 6 p.m.Tuesday, Nov. 24, 6 p.m.

FALL SPEAKER SERIESOctober 29, 6:30-8 p.m. at Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre.As part of the Speaker Series, the Ross-land Museum & Discovery Centre is happy to host author Sean Arthur Joyce to talk about his book Laying the Chil-dren’s Ghost to Rest: Canada’a Home Children in the West.

FREE FAMILY MOVIE ROYAL THEATREOctober 31, 3 pm at the Royal theatre. Hotel Transylvania 2

BLACK JACK SKI CLUB ANNUAL SNOW SHOW AND SKI SWAP.Saturday Nov. 7, at Prestige Moun-tain Resort RosslandCome and enjoy this social event!Equipment drop off 8:30-10:30am. .It’s time to get your Early-Bird season pass, register for programs and get your skis waxed by the Junior racers.

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For the � rst time in a while, the Ross-land Interact club has joined with Trail Interact to create a joint club in the hopes of more e� ective community output. Es-sentially, Interact, the youth-version of Rotary, is a non-pro� t club that is run by high-school students. Its purpose is to serve both the local and international community, and this year, they are look-ing to embark on an international volun-teer trip. As Oct. 31 nears, the Interact club is looking forward to participating in another community service.

Every Halloween, instead of trick-or-treating, youth battle local hunger and poverty on an international scale. As a university student, Jonathan White, who is now a professor, started the campaign with the hopes of providing some level of relief to those who need it. Now, as Free � e Children’s long-serving member of the U.S. and International Board of Di-rectors, he has started a movement. In 2013, an extraordinary collection of over 1,677,254 lbs of food was donated world-wide to local food banks, and the trend continues.

Participating in Free � e Children’s We Scare Hunger campaign (former-ly named Halloween for Hunger), the Rossland-Trail Interact Club is support-ing the local food bank and all those the bank supports. � e club will be walking around town, perhaps blending into the many children that will be out collecting sweets that night, knocking on as many doors as possible. At each door, instead of the usual exchange, they will be ask-ing for any non-perishables the person is willing to donate. By doing this, Interact hopes to raise awareness for the families this a� ects, thereby increasing the level of thankfulness one feels for the things that they have been blessed with.

Having participated for many years, the Rossland Interact club has donated hundreds of pounds of food for the food bank, and just last year, they were able to collect approximately 350 items from the community. With this in mind, the new joint Interact club hopes to donate an even greater amount this Saturday. � ey will be going from house to house be-tween the hours of 5 and 8 p.m., and they hope — for the sake of those who bene� t — to be greeted with the incredible gener-osity typically found in Rossland.

To contact them, send them an email at [email protected].

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Seven Summits learners per-formed well at the 28th annual Pumpkin Classic debate tourna-ment this year.

The tournament took place at J.L Crowe Secondary School on Saturday, Oct. 17, and three learners participated.

Bronwyn Moore and Aven Cosbey participated in the se-nior category, debating the topic

“Canada has a duty to vastly ex-pand the number of refugees it will allow to immigrate.”

“I really liked the topic,” said Moore. “I thought it was interest-ing and it was a bit of a challenge for the senior category, and there was some pretty good competi-tion from Kelowna.”

Scarlet Guy, in Grade eight, teamed up with Rossland Sum-mit School student Brian Chan to participate in the novice cat-egory, debating the topic “Books

are better than movies.”Teams had to argue both sides

of each topic at least once.“Each team competes in ...

three debates, so we personally argued affirmative twice, which is for bringing in more refugees, and negative once,” said Moore. “But you don’t know that before-hand.... You have to write speech-es for both of them.”

Moore and Cosbey came fourth in their category, and Guy and Chan came second.

Learners impress at debate tournament

Left: Scarlet Guy from Seven Summits Learning Centre and Brian Chan from Rossland Sum-mit School got second in the novice category at the 28th annual Pumpkin Classic. Right: Aven Cosbey and Bronwyn Moore from Seven Summits Learning Centre placed fourth in the senior category at the 28th annual Pumpkin Classic. Photos provided by Seven Summits Learning Centre

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Rossland youth learned the art of improv on Friday after-noon.

Two members of the Van-couver TheatreSports League were in town as part of the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture’s performance series, and spent the afternoon teach-ing kids how to perform improv comedy.

Lauren McGibbon and Taz VanRassel are currently touring BC, teaching kids about improv.

“Vancouver TheatreSports League works with ArtStarts and has booked a tour to per-form and educate kids about improv theatre and comedy,” said McGibbon, who joined the tour for five weeks.

VanRassel, who joined the tour for a week, said they spent the afternoon teaching the kids “basic improve. General ‘Yes, And’ sort of stuff.

“For those who don’t know what that means, there’s a gen-eral language for improv where we always agree to agree with each other, to know each other, to like each other, to kind of be positive on stage so that the scenes can actually go forward.”

McGibbons and VanRassel taught the kids a number of games, like improvising a con-vincing choreographed dance

and “puppet master” where two of the players have to be moved around the stage either by two other players or two members of the audience.

The kids enjoyed it and learned a lot.

“It was really exciting to do really fun things and have it not really planned,” said Lil-lian Tanguay. “ I learned that there’s no wrong way to do it, but you just need to say yes to everything everyone else does.”

“I thought it was super fun that we got to just improvise stuff and that we got to do what-ever came to our mind first, and I thought our teachers were re-ally awesome,” said Ellie Knox. “I’ve seen them performing be-fore [in Vancouver], so it’s really cool to actually participate.”

“I learned that it’s more fun to get people to copy what you’re doing than you think,” said Lily Kompass.

The two improv profession-als said the kids did well.

“They were really fun to work with,” said VanRassel.

During the evening’s perfor-mance, McGibbon and VanRas-sel invited many of the kids to come up on stage as volunteers.

“We did games with them that we didn’t go over in the workshop and they picked them up like that,” said McGibbons, snapping her fingers.

“We put them on the spot,

and they were fine,” said Van-Rassel.

The rest of the audience also did a good job of getting into the act, calling out prompts for the improv performers when asked and volunteering to go up on stage.

“Everyone was on board. We got enough people coming up, enough volunteers, which

sometimes it’s a bit of a trial, but everyone was super into it,” said VanRassel.

Rosslanders even surprised the duo by asking for an encore.

“I have never done an im-prov show where the audience asked for an encore,” said Mc-Gibbon.

“We were not expecting that,” said VanRassel.

Young actors learn the art of improvChelsea Novak

Rossland News

Rossland youth play “puppet master” during a workshop led by the Vancouver TheatreSports League. Photo by Chelsea Novak

Rossland youth playing “puppet master”. Taz VanRassel and Lauren McGibbon play “puppet master” with mem-bers of the audience, who have to move them around the stage. Taz VanRassel interrogates Lauren McGibbon on-stage during the Vancouver TheatreSports League’s eve-ning performance. Photos by Chelsea Novak


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School District 20 trustees made a decision Monday night to explore the possibility of recruit-ing international students as a means of increasing revenues.

� e motion presented by the revenue generation ad hoc com-mittee authorizes the board to fund up to a maximum $25,000 for a feasibility study/business case development by an external consultant related to the rees-tablishment of an international student program. � e funding for the initiative will come from some unexpected revenue gener-ated from international students that enrolled in the district this year.

Superintendent of Schools Greg Luterbach agreed that the research should be handled by an outside consultant. “We don’t feel from a sta� perspective that we have either the time or the background to take this on,” said Luterbach. “We need to bring someone in that has expertise to tell us what it could look like, what would it cost, what would we have to invest to make this a successful program.”

Trustees Kim Mandoli and

Mickey Kinakin expressed con-cerns based on what they saw as di� culties experienced the last time the district engaged in an international student program. A� er much discussion, the mo-tion passed with trustees Mickey Kinakin and Mark Wilson voting

against the motion.� e board also decided to cre-

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� e committee will be charged to bring forward by February 15 a shortlist of 3-5 names, in order of preference, for the board to con-sider. � e proposed name will be for the entire school yet include a strategy to be able to identify both campuses. Based on the rec-ommendations brought forward, the board will also consider mak-ing no name change.

Twin Rivers PAC vice chair Catherine Zaitso� was present at the meeting and the board asked for her input. “� is is not an issue [the current name]. Everybody that was starting at Castlegar Primary when you changed the administration are already now at Twin Rivers, everyone coming in just calls it the Castlegar Pri-mary campus,” responded Zait-so� . “� e cultures are already together.”

� e vote to go forward with creating the committee was 5-4 with Castlegar trustees Mickey Kinakin and Rosann Brunton be-ing joined by Kim Mandoli and Gordon Smith in voting against

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For the second year in a row the Ross-land Skatepark Association will show Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Miners’ Hall.

� e screening will take place on Friday, Oct. 30 and all proceeds will go toward the skatepark.

“� e main idea of the show is to of course play the movie, which is quite an interesting interactive event,” said Robin Strachan, a member of the board of direc-tors for the Skatepark Association.

Watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show in theatres isn’t like other movies.

To begin with, Rocky Horror audiences are expected to dress up like their favou-rite characters from the � lm, and on Fri-day there will be a chance to win prizes for best costume.

“Should be great fun. We had some awesome costumes last year,” said Stra-chan.

� ere’s also a litany of commentary and abuse that audiences members yell at the screen and a number of props to be thrown around the theatre:• rice• newspapers (grab a copy of Rossland

News from downtown)• water pistols• � ashlight (the one on your phone

works)• rubber gloves• noisemakers• confetti• toilet paper• toast• party hats• bell• cards

However, for this event Strachan re-

quests that audience members leave rice, confetti and water pistols at home.

“For our interest in not having to clean up rice that’s all over the � oor, we’ve asked for no rice at the event,” said Strachan. “And because the RCAC has so graciously lent us their equipment to show the movie on, there’s quite a bit of concern about any water getting on the screen.”

And of course you have to dance “� e Time Warp,” a good warmup for the dance following the movie.

DJ RSK will preside over the beats, and there will be plenty of libations for all, with beer provided by Rossland Brewing Company.

Tickets are $15 and available at the Al-pine Grind, Ross Vegas, at the door, and online through the Rossland Skatepark Association’s Facebook page.

� e association hopes to break ground on the skatepark in Spring 2016.

Rocky Horror skatepark showCHELSEA NOVAK

Rossland News

The previous year had fans dressed up and boogying to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. L-R Back Row: Mike Flood, D. Digler and Aaron Crosby. L-R Front Row: Trina Crocker, Sally Buck-ley, Reva Strachan.

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