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The Devil Wears Gore-TexCarolyn Sharp heads downhill — in full costume — on telemark skis, as part of the “King of the Mountain” competition at Red Mountain

Resort during the 114th annual Rossland Winter Carnival over the weekend. For the story, see page 5. And for more carnival coverage see, well, pretty much the rest of the newspaper. This edition is full of photos and stories from the city’s yearly celebration of the season, themountains, and outdoor culture. A colour photo spread is on pages 10 and 11 and more photos are online at www.rosslandnews.com.

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Council deliberated over the 2011 budget on Monday night, looking at fi gures from previous years and projecting forward on a fi ve-year plan prepared by city staff .

Th e 2011 budget is currently in a draft state as council makes de-cisions line-by-line on which pro-grams to support and with how much money.

Th e Monday meeting was ad-journed due to the late hour be-fore everything was fi nished — the meeting will resume on Feb. 7

at 7 p.m. — but several substantive decisions were made.

Coun. Andy Stradling wanted to make 20-per-cent cuts “across the board” to the Museum Soci-ety ($33,000 budgeted), Tourism Rossland ($75,000 budgeted), the Chamber of Commerce ($41,400 budgeted), and the Sustainability

Commission ($61,000 requested.)“Th e time has come for us to

start weening these guys off our budget and putting them on notice that this isn’t an endless source of [funds], and they need to up their fundraising eff orts,” he said.

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Stradling elaborated on his position, not-ing his sense that the city’s mandate to market Rossland as a whole, to get people to live here and fi ll the schools rather than just hotel beds and business ledgers, was not served by several small and separate organizations.

With two exceptions, Stradling received no support for this proposition, and all decisions so far have maintained last year’s level of funding.

“I just see us passing the buck to the next council,” Stradling said. “All the diffi cult work still to be done.”

One exception was Coun. Laurie Charlton who also favoured cuts to Tourism Rossland and the Sustainability Commission.

Th e other was Mayor Greg Granstrom whose opposition to the full funding request of the Sustainability Commission, combined with Stradling and Charlton’s opposition, resulted in a $16,000 cut, to $45,000.

Stradling also presented a motion to limit the city to one pick-up of yard waste per year, rather than the current two. Although this would have saved the city approximately $12,000, with a view to the recent no-burn bylaw it was deter-mined that the service was necessary and the motion was defeated.

Th e only other savings identifi ed by councilincluded $1,500 removed from their in-kindsupport to the pond hockey championships.Th is will not aff ect this year’s but only next year’scompetition.

Mayor Greg Granstrom

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Th e fi rst in the Rossland Skatepark Association’s (RSA) new round of public consulta-tions on Jan. 25 “went extreme-ly well” according to Les Carter who facilitated the meeting and is helping the RSA come to a community consensus on the best location for a skatepark in Rossland.

“Roughly 20 people were there, bringing all kinds of points of view,” Carter said. “I was impressed with the energy, thought, and good will that went into the meeting. Th ere were a lot of things shared that needed to be shared and a lot of common ground found.”

Although the main thrust of this fi rst meeting was to agree on criteria that will later be ap-plied to a number of potential sites, Carter identifi ed three major points that arose: plan-ning history, neighbourhood impact, and city council au-thority.

Th e Emcon site, which un-til recently has been the main focus of the planning process, was bought by the city back when Carter was mayor. Later, Carter explained, a lot of eff ort went into a “a very structured process to plan how to use the Emcon site.”

A plan developed for the Em-con lot that was never used, but “a number of people were up-set because those original plans

did not include a skatepark.”Consequently, a new criteria

has been added: “What’s the planning history of the site?”

In April, when the RSA holds its second meeting in which the criteria are weighted and applied to the various sites, Carter said, “One of the ques-tions I will ask is, if this were the only site, what would it take to make it work?” In that case, people might consider how the earlier plans could be amended to include a skatepark.

An old criteria, impact on the neighbourhood such as noise and garbage, or attracting the “wrong sort of people,” came out strongly as a “deal breaker” from most participants.

Carter put it in perspective, noting that these concerns are recognized, but “we don’t have the information to assess whether they’re valid or not.”

To this end, RSA directors are currently gathering infor-mation from a number of other communities with skateparks, so we might learn from others’ experiences. Th is is why the next meeting is not planned until April, by which time these important facts will be gath-ered.

“We’re also going to gather information about the sites on our list, technical information,” Carter added. “How good a site is this to physically build a skatepark on?”

Another matter arose regu-larly, Carter said, clarifying

fi rmly that “this is all simply arecommendation to city coun-cil. We can’t make the fi nal de-cision.”

He explained, “We electedour government to make thehard decisions about land-useand they don’t delegate that au-thority away. Th e power of [theRSA’s] process is to approachcouncil with a consensus.”

To aid the decision-makingprocess in April, RSA directorsaim to come up with a simplemap and drawings for each sitealong with a package of infor-mation.

Besides the southeast cor-ner of the Emcon lot, the othersites currently under consider-ation include the north end ofJubilee Park, near the commu-nity gardens, the Centennialsoccer fi elds close to the bikejumps, the western section ofthe Centennial trailhead park-ing lot, and Ross-Glenn, thecurrent bike skills park belowEsling Park.

Carter said the RSA is stillwide open to other sugges-tions, such as the west side ofthe Arena parking lot besidethe embankment. “Th e processis open at any time for peopleto come in and add comments,”he said.

Carter will soon post thewritten comments off ered bythe meeting’s participants onthe RSA website, www.skat-erossland.com, and will preparea report that will be available atcity hall and on the website.

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Kelly Acheson, one of the main or-ganizers for Winter Carnival, was re-ally pleased with the way the weekend turned out and she shared her high-lights with us.

“It was crazy busy all weekend, what a huge team eff ort” she said. “It was awesome.”

“It was 100 strong that pulled it off ,” she continued. “I want to thank my board of directors and all the volun-teers. We’ve got our event organizers and they just do their thing, they just run with it.”

Besides Acheson, the board includes Caroline Rousselle, Anna Caron, Mar-lene Streif, Sarah Dixon, Tara Kowal-chuk, Larry Doelle, Richard Reid, Don DeLong.

“Th ey did everything that needed to be done,” Acheson said.

She also thanked the event’s four “major majors,” the City of Rossland, the Nelson and District Credit Union, Red Mountain, and Crossline Films, but also Doctors with Warm Hearts, Teck, Columbia Power, Columbia Ba-sin Trust, Regional District of Koote-nay Boundary, Th e South Kootenay Business Centre, Castlegar Hyundai, Fortis BC, and many others.

“It’s a great community event,” she said, thanking all these sponsors and others for “everything from cash, to fl at bed trucks, to prize donations.”

“Th e bobsled’s always a highlight,” Acheson continued.

“We thought we’d be down in reg-istration [because Rick Mercer wasn’t here], but we weren’t. And the race went without incident.”

“Th e Slocan ice sculptures are a monstrous favourite. You can just feel the weekend kicking into mode that Th ursday,” she said, when the Cana-dian Snow Sculpture team arrives and begins to build the beer garden and the ice slide outside the library.

“Th ese guys are world famous and we are so lucky to have them here. Th ey’re somewhere diff erent every weekend,” she said about the Kootenay artists who have worked together on sand and ice since 1992, off er work-shops, and attend festivals all over the map — visit www.snowsculpture.com.

“Th is year they embedded lights into the bar. Everybody stops and checks them out. We’ve already booked them for next year,” Acheson said.

“Th en there’s the rail jam, it speaks for itself,” she continued.

“It’s too bizarre that they would transplant a ski hill onto a downtown street. And there are really good rid-ers! Pete Gearin [the organizer], he’s awesome. I saw him on the street and he’s already talking about next year.”

Acheson was really fi red up to be paired with the Blizzard Fest, especial-ly since “we were an offi cial outdoor music venue for the fest, with wicked DJs. We’re going to do it up again next year, bigger and better.”

She wanted to give a special thanks to the Kootenay SnoGoers. “Th ey gave snowmobile rides to kids all aft ernoon

at the kids carnival at the Lion’s camp-ground.”

And there was so much more, from King of the Mountain and Learn to Luge, to the relay race, the kids’ art exhibition, snow golf, snow volleyball, not to mention the parade and all the food and drink.

“Th ere’s just nothing about the weekend that’s not involved with the outdoors, the mountains, the snow,” Acheson said. “I just loved it, every minute of it.”

ANDREW BENNETT


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“Are you working for the Summit?” this reporter was asked by a group of rowdy Manitobans learning to luge at Red last Fri-day. “It’s not called the Summit anymore?”

Nineteen years ago, the Big Dog Ski Tour made their group’s in-augural ski trip, choos-ing Red Mountain as their destination.

“We were in this Rossland Winter Car-nival,” said Rick Duha, the de facto spokes-person for the group that was otherwise busy laughing, pok-ing fun at each other, or swigging on a beer. “Th is same group of guys, and we won a half-page ad in the pa-per, in the Summit.”

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us and everything,” he continued. “We actu-ally have that and we’re going to be marching today in your parade with a picture from that newspaper.”

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Dog Ski Tour has trav-eled to a diff erent re-sort each year. “Th e rule was you could never go back to the

same resort,” Duha ex-plained. We changed the rules last year so we could come back.”

“I’ve been luging for about 30 seconds,” Duha said as he settled onto a sled to learn how to brake.

“We did the bobsled at Park City once — a real four man bobsled with a professional driver — but we’ve never luged.”

Others in the group boisterously claimed their provincial affi ni-ty to Jon Montgomery, the 2010 Olympic gold medalist in skeleton from Russell, Man.

“We have the Big Dog Classic Luge competition for the fi rst time today,” Duha laughed.

“We have a good time, we love to ski here, and you have a great town.”

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Th e annual Sonny Samuelson bobsled races were as wildly popular as ever, de-spite the lack of Rick Mercer’s partici-pation this year, with hundreds lining Spokane Street from top to bottom to witness 24 teams plummet downhill in unlikely clunkers.

City workers volunteered time at 4 a.m. the morning of the race, choos-ing the coldest time of night to spray the street with 1,000 gallons of water to make the course as fast as possible de-spite the unseasonable warm weather.

Liquid Courage took the day with a top speed of 73 km/h and a combined time of just over 74 seconds. Last year’s icy course was won by SS Instigator with a top speed of 85 km/h, but they fi nished fi ft h this year.

“Th ey’ve been the dynasty for the last four years,” exclaimed the stunned Win-ter Carnival organizer, Kelly Acheson. “Th ey’ve got a machine with stuff that’s top secret. Nobody’s allowed to see their sled. But they’re a cold weather team.”

Liquid Courage’s winning runs can be experienced on YouTube. Dial in “Ross-land bobsled 2011” to watch the footage from two diff erent helmet cams or check the video out along with the online ver-sion of this story at www.rosslandnews.com.

Th e sled was built by Travis Drake and friends when he was a student at RSS. Last year was his fi rst year with a new crew — Scott Urquhart, Alastair Ber-glund, and Luke Russell — and they won third. Now Drake is a ski tech at Gericks and he credits the sled’s old Fischers and the right wax for his team’s win.

“We had the ugliest sled on the course,” Drake said, raising a highly de-batable point, “but it was all in the skis

that we won.”Other sleds run on “plastic coated

pipes which are better on ice. It’s about knowing your conditions.”

Almost tied for second with com-bined times just over 79 seconds and top speeds of 70 km/h were the historic (if humble) Old and Blue — run by Darrin Albo, Jason Ward, Dave Th oss, and Dar-ren Pastro — and the sleek and green Whalebacker — run by Mike Williams, his brother Darren, Steven Robinson, and Craig Clare.

Th e Whalebackers edged Old and Blue into third place with a clocked speed in the second run that was 3 km/h faster.

“Its one of the highlights of my life for sure,” said Mike Williams who, along with the rest of the team were born and raised in Rossland, though now all but Darren live in Trail. “We’ve all done it various times before, but since we had kids we’ve stayed away from such risky

stuff . But this year we just decided we’d go for it!”

“It’s great. We were a little nervous — the speed and because we are older,” he laughed, “but when you come over that arena hill it’s quite a thrill.”

Other notable contestants include last year’s last-place team, the Warfi eld Fire Department, who this year placed 19th.

“Th ey were inside out with glee over how much they had improved over pre-vious years,” said Acheson, the Winter Carnival organizer.

Th is year’s last-place team was Bobbi’s Bus, a close-knit family aff air with Parry Lafonde, Trinda Ross, and Lorilie Jones led by matriarch Bobbi Lafonde.

With a clocked time of 46 km/h both times, “they win the consistency award,” Acheson said.

“Th ey’re awesome sports, they come out every year.”

For longtime bobsled enthusiasts, the top-ranking fi nish of the rustic Old and Blue was certainly a heart warmer.

“It used to be my dad’s,” said Dar-rin Albo, the city’s manager of public works and a bobsledder since it started again roughly two decades ago. Albo’s father also worked at the city alongside Sonny Samuelson, now memorialized by this race.

“[In the 1960s], they used to sled down the backside of the old Cascade highway,” Albo said. “When they decid-ed to get it going again, my dad remem-bered having this Old Blue out there. Th ey’d just left it where they crashed it in the trees, so they went looking and pulled it out of the trees. Th e same one, right where they’d left it!”

“It goes!” he continued. “We haven’t done a lot of modifi cations. Th e steer-ing’s all original and the runners are original, but we changed the square tub-ing on the bottom and replaced it with angle iron that acts like a skate. We also put old cable guides, that yellow stuff that Fortis uses to protect their cables, and riveted it to the tube steel to give it less friction.”

Albo recalled how he, his dad, and his brother used to take part in the races near the Lion’s campground, out at Asshole Mountain. It was moved from there out to Mayor Road, near Black Jack for a couple years. Roughly 12 years ago, with all the festivities go-ing on in town for Winter Carnival, the city wanted it back in town.

“It’s awesome,” Albo said about the town’s enthusiasm for bobsled races. “It keeps growing.”

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The historic sled ‘Old and Blue’ makes its way down the course en route to a third-place fi nish.


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“It was another great and suc-cessful King of the Mountain competition,” said the race direc-tor for the last three years, Tyler Merringer, as the competitors as-sembled in Raft ers for beer, pizza, and raffl e prizes before the win-ners were announced.

“We had 18 competitors, which doesn’t sound like a lot,” he said, “but considering how exclusive the event is and that an individual has to do each of telemark, alpine, and snowboarding to compete, I thought it was pretty good.”

Competitors had assembled earlier in the day at the top of the Face of Red, below the Cliff . Be-ginning with their weakest disci-pline, racers were released one at a time from the starting gate to ski, ride, or tele a slalom course to the bottom, near the magic carpet.

Th ere, the racers quickly changed into their next set of gear

and scrambled to quickly get a lift back up. From the top, they nego-tiated the moguls on the cliff and the slalom course again, before making their second equipment change and returning to the top for their third and fi nal run.

“As you can tell from the cos-tumes,” Merringer said, referring to devils, rock stars, jeans, wigs, and onesies, “it’s defi nitely a fun event. We’re not taking it overly seriously.”

He paused, “But ultimately there is a sense of competition.”

Among the women, Andrea McCormick, wearing fuzzy purple-striped fl eece pajamas, wrenched the title of queen from Caroline Rousselle with a time of 24 minutes and 14 seconds, the fourth-fastest time overall,

“It feels really good. Th is is my favourite Rossland race of the year,” McCormick said, “I came in second last year to Caro. She’s amazing. She was 10 seconds behind me this year. I gotta wax

my skis next year, that’s what that says.”

When asked about time lost lacing boots, McCormick

laughed. “Don’t lace the boots, that’s a rookie mistake, that’s just silly.”

Among the men, the old rivalry

between Pete Golden and Dun-can Browning played out againthis year. Golden, long dubbedthe ‘Princess of the Mountain’ forhis losing streak against Brown-ing, fi nally got some revenge.Despite a spectacular 360 on hisback during a high-speed fall onthe Cliff , Golden snatched thecrown with a time of 22 minutesand 36 seconds.

“It was a big win,” Golden said.“Th ere were lots of people inthere, really tuggin’. Th e competi-tion was tight.”

Only 19 seconds behind — andstill one minute and 12 secondsahead of Art Abrahams’ thirdplace fi nish — Duncan was allsmiles in his purple onesie.

“I think I skied, boarded andtele’d really well, I just screwedaround too much on my transi-tions and didn’t have a full-onsetup.”

We’ll have to wait until nextyear to see if new challengers riseto usurp the thrones.

ANDREW BENNETT


Pete Golden slashes on alpine skis. Andrew Bennett photo

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I think it’s time to set the record straight about the new garage that encroaches onto Second Avenue.

Th e owner of the property fol-lowed the advice of city staff and, in good faith, constructed a garage that encroaches on Second Avenue. Th e garage may be innovative and effi cient but it still encroaches on city property.

Th at encroachment could cause problems for the owner in the future. It may aff ect his insurance or mort-gage and, as any real estate agent knows, will probably aff ect his ability to sell the property.

Th e garage replaced an old wall that also encroached onto Second Avenue but there is no indication that old wall was authorized by any council. Replacing one encroachment with another is not a solution. As most have learned, two wrongs don’t make a right.

Th e problem does not lie with the owner of the property — the problem lies at city hall.

Encroachment of retaining walls, and sometimes buildings, onto public property is not unusual in Rossland. Th e city has had a policy in place for several decades to reduce or eliminate these encroachments as the opportu-nity arose and has had considerable

success in doing so. However, the precedent established by this recent action might allow any property owner with a wall or fence or some other encroachment to demand the right to extend their garage, carport, patio or whatever onto city property. Clearly that is not acceptable.

Th e building inspector was quoted as saying “by local government act, if you have a building lot, you have to have access from the street you’re facing.” I know of no such provision in any provincial legislation. Th e city’s zoning bylaw does however specify that access may be from a street or a lane. Th is property has access from the lane as many properties in Ross-land do.

So what are some of the problems with this encroachment?

Th e highway access bylaw says that small lots are only allowed one access. In this case there is an existing access from the lane. A second access is not permitted.

Th e zoning bylaw says that garages and carports must have a setback of at least 0.3 meters from the property line. Th is can be changed by a Devel-opment Variance Permit (DVP) but no DVP was applied for or granted.

Th e zoning bylaw also says that buildings cannot straddle property

lines and that lots must be con-solidated before a building permit is issued. Obviously, the owner will not be able to consolidate his lot with the city road allowance and no building permit should have been issued.

Th e encroachment bylaw says that an encroachment not secured by a restrictive covenant is an unlawful encroachment and shall be subject to removal. Th e courts have ordered the removal of unauthorized en-croachments. Council may permit an encroachment but has not done so in this case. Staff have no authority to approve an encroachment in spite of the assertions of the CAO.

Staff have not followed the bylaws they were hired to enforce. Th eir motives may have been laudable but there is still a legal process to follow to achieve the intended results. Th at did not happen in this case.

Th e travesty in this case lies with council. In spite of being informed of the obvious transgressions in this case council did nothing. Will council ever understand that they were elected to represent the interests of all the citizens of Rossland including the protection of public land?

Laurie CharltonRossland city councillor


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Everyone loves Winter Carnival. For the long nights grooving all over town to Blizzard Fest tunes, for those amazing jibbers at Th e Game, for the races and much more, we give thanks to those who gave their time, money, and skill to make it all possible.

Volunteerism is certainly the most signifi -cant element for success. You can’t buy com-munity spirit, that go-get-’er, up-and-at-’em attitude that fi res people up to get out on the streets, the stages, and the slopes at all hours of the day and night with smiles on their faces to help put smiles on others’.

If all these wonderful people who work and organize these events were to charge a “going rate,” the festival would die before it was born.

But it also costs money. As council hashes out the 2011 budget, it’s time to examine the question of cold hard cash.

Th e city budgets $6,500 each to Winter Carnival and Golden City Days. Taxpayers naturally ask: What is the return for me and my town?

For these festivals, we feel strongly that the benefi t is widespread and worth the cost.

Council just decided to slash the Sus-tainability Commission’s grant by $16,000, sapping its strength to unite diverse groups towards a vision of a better city for all. Th is doesn’t seem worth the savings of $5 per per-manent resident.

For comparison, consider the city-wide benefi t of grants to groups with relatively few participants and the option of user fees, such as tennis ($8,400), the pool ($40,900), and curling ($11,300.)

Alternatively, lets buck up and be willing to pay, just like we donate our time.

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Th e Neighbourhoods of Learning community meet-ing scheduled for March 3 in the RSS gym to discuss the proposals submitted to the school board is now being re-scheduled to Tuesday, March 1 at 6:30 p.m., as the previ-ous date confl icted with the newly scheduled Planning for the Future focus group meetings the school board is holding the same week.

Th e status quo is not an option for Rossland and we need to look seriously at the proposal of moving K-12 into the RSS building. We plan to have representatives from other K-12 schools in our region at the NOL meet-ing to help us understand how their schools work and the opportunities and ben-efi ts of a K-12 school.

Th e school board’s Plan-ning for the Future focus group meeting for Rossland takes place the next night, Wednesday, March 2, 6:30-9:30 p.m. in the RSS gym.

Th ese are two very im-portant meetings about the future of education in Rossland. Th ey are being held two nights in a row, which is a heavy schedule, but it is imperative that as many Rosslanders as possible attend both of these meetings to understand how a K-12 school could work, and to discuss with board staff and trustees what our community wants and how we can get there.

Please mark these impor-tant dates in your calendar!

Th e NOL proposal can be downloaded at vssrossland.wordpress.com/latest-news/

• • •Th e Facilities Report 2010-

2015: Planning for the Future document released this fall received mixed reactions from the various commu-nities in the district. Th e Neighbourhoods of Learning Committee believes it has

many technical fl aws, and isn’t the unbiased, objective report it should have been.

Previous to this report, the school board released two other documents which con-tain much information that should be revisited: Planning for the Future 1 and Planning for the Future 2. Th ese can be downloaded from the SD20 website: www.sd20.bc.ca/planning-for-the-future.html

From Planning for the Future 1, May 2008:

“In the past, one option oft en raised, was to close RSS and transfer the 8-12 second-ary students to JLCSS. As the enrolments and empty seats data shows … this option is not feasible, even for grades 10-12, the graduation pro-gram grades, until sometime well aft er 2012/13 given the reduced size of the new JLCSS. Th e JLCSS school site would not be ready to receive portables, if such an option were to be considered, until sometime around 2011. Considering portables or an addition to JLCSS would reduce the fi eld space at the new JLCSS.

“Given the enrolment pro-jections and given the clear preference from Rossland citizens to keep K-12 educa-tion in their community, a priority for the Board during 2008-09 is to consult with the community on how to consolidate and reduce the existing and future unused school space in order to maintain quality education in Rossland…

“One option may be to create a K-12 school in Rossland. RSS has suffi cient space for the current and future projected K-12 stu-dent enrolment. Th is would require ministry approval for renovations to confi gure RSS as a K-12 school. Although RSS is an old building, it is solid and in good shape except for the need of a roof

replacement in the near future. [Note: most of the roof work has since been completed, with $220,000 left in repairs to be completed in 2013.] Th is option would result in the eventual closure and possible sale of MacLean Elementary.

“Another option may be to build a new K-12 Rossland school, in partnership with the municipality, the Fran-cophone School District, the Ministry of Education and our district…”

PFF1 also contains infor-mation about the benefi ts of small schools, and talks about the opportunities of “Neighbourhoods of Learn-ing” centres that could be in-tegrated into district schools.

From Planning for the Future 2, November 2009:

“Although the preferred scenario would be to build a new replacement K-12 school, the current provincial economy does not make this a viable option. However, the renovation scenario, making RSS K to 12, may be achiev-able at this time.

“Th e K-7 students, com-posed of two Kindergarten classrooms for a total of 11 homerooms, can fi t into the fi rst and second fl oors of RSS; 2 classrooms on the main fl oor and 9 on the second fl oor. Th e secondary students 8-12 can fi t into the rest of the school…

“Th e estimated cost for minimal renovations would be around $400,000. Th is cost would need to come out of board capital reserves unless, or until, the Ministry indicates its available fund-ing support. Th is investment of $400,000 by the district would allow the reconfi gura-tion of RSS to K-12 to take place within the next fi ve years, possible as early as 2010/2011, and allow for the closure and disposal of MacLean Elementary.”

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At our last staff meeting, staff discussed the plethora of misin-formation and half truths fl oating around Rossland, regarding the Columbia Avenue and Washington Street “re-do.” In an eff ort to set the record straight, staff decided to use the weekly REC column (Recreation, Education & Community) to bring everyone up to date and debunk a few myths.

It is well known that the Ministry of Transportation (MOT) has been planning to pave Columbia Avenue. In co-operation with MOT and in order to take advantage of the op-portunity to have the paving paid for provincially, the city has carried out an assessment on the valves, pipes, water and sewer connections existing below Columbia Avenue. (If MOT is paying, why don’t we fi x our old pipes?)

Using this initial assessment, a rough cost of the project was developed. Th e city also thought that if MOT is going to pave, this would be a good opportunity to look at any changes to Columbia Avenue.

So, in 2010 the city undertook three design charettes (public input sessions) on how Columbia Av-enue might look in the next fi ve to 15 years. Th e ideas gathered at the charettes were used to do a very ba-sic conceptual drawing of the streets.

As the city got deeper into our in-vestigation of the 50-60 year old in-frastructure, we also took a detailed look into Washington Street and its infrastructure (the water/sewer pipes, etc., under the pavement.)

Th e city chose to include Wash-ington Street as part of the plan to improve Rossland’s infrastructure, as it is a main road in the community, in hopes of reducing the costs to tax-payers by piggybacking it with MOT and our Columbia Avenue project.

Th e next step is where we are at today. Council approved an Alternate Approval Process (AAP) to provide the city with the legal authority from the taxpayers of Rossland for the city to obtain funding not to exceed $6 million.

Without this approval, the city cannot start the detailed engineering and design work required to deter-mine the actual costs for this project.

Th is detailed engineering and design work will tell us what needs to be done: the sizes of pipes; what valves and connections need to be replaced; how to control surface water (snow and rainwater); pedes-trian traffi c fl ow (no need to run across four lanes!); the underground pipe replacements required for sewer and water; as well as the water/sewer connections leading up to properties.

Th e cost for the design and engineering work is estimated at $500,000 for a project of this scale. Regardless of whether the Columbia/Washington project goes ahead, the engineering still needs to be done!

Once we complete this detail work, council will then assess whether we can proceed to complete the critical underground work on Columbia Avenue and Washington Street or scale the project back to be only a bit, half, three quarters — who knows?

Council could decide to complete some portions in the near future. Council also has the option at this time to go to a referendum which would delay the engineering and risk losing the cost benefi ts of partnering with MOT for the Columbia/Wash-ington project.

Important things to note: • Paving and one-half of the cost

of curbs for Columbia Avenue will be paid for by the Ministry of Trans-portation.

• Approximately 75 per cent of the drainage costs for Columbia Avenue will be paid for by MOT.

• MOT is also footing the bill for design and engineering for Colum-bia Avenue for storm system, roads (paving), curbs and sidewalks.

If money is still available other surface work such as streetscapes, kiosks, parking modifi cations etc can be considered. Th is type of surface work can be also done at a later time when budget is provided.

It is imperative to have a long-term vision of how the streets might look if we had the funds required or if some level of government gave us a grant towards the surface work.

Th e city is applying for three grants thus far which could poten-tially off set up to one-half of the project cost as stated in the AAP. If the grants are successful the taxpayer costs will be greatly reduced.

If the grants are not successful, council will again assess whether it is prudent to increase taxes between $132 annually to as high as $188 an-nually per homeowner for 20 years.

Th e city understands that this might still be too high a tax burden for our taxpayers but also recognizes that Columbia Avenue and Washing-ton Street, our two major arteries, are the most signifi cant and the highest priorities for major infrastructure improvements. We have to do them sometime and we want to make sure that we replace the 50-60 year old pipes to avoid digging up brand new

pavement in the very near future.With the successful completion

of the arena project, the city has demonstrated that not all borrowing permission sought from the taxpay-ers is utilized as requested. We had asked for up-front borrowing per-mission of $1.2 million for the arena project. Our fi nal borrowing will be $250,000, to be paid $50,000 per year over the next fi ve years.

Th e project expenses came in at just over $1 million, with up to $750,000 coming from reserves and grants, proving the city is fi scally responsible and respectful of its residents by taking advantage of such grants.

City council, administration and staff are working hard to ensure that longevity, livability and fi scal fore-thought is in place to keep Rossland

sustainable. Addi-tional information about the Colum-bia/Washington project is available at city hall and on the city’s website.

•••Th e Spring Recreation Brochure

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All information, including pro-gram details, must be in our offi ce by Feb. 15 in order to make the publica-tion deadline.

With spring in the air, the local foodies are starting to think about gardens. Check out the rosslandfood.com site for information about up-coming lectures, movies, bee work-shops and seed swaps.

Do you have a young person who wants to play soccer? Youth soccer in our area is huge, and is run by the Kootenay South Youth Soccer Association. Due to overwhelm-ing popularity and sheer numbers, their registration is early this year. Registrations will not be accepted aft er Feb. 25 and are done online. To register, please visit www.kootenay-southsoccer.com.

Th e Tuesday / Sunday co-ed rec hockey nights have been so popu-lar (and full!) we’ve added a new night to help get you on the ice. Th e extra ice time starts this Saturday at 8:45 p.m. Dates and times over the next few weeks are; Saturdays at 8:45pm — Feb. 5, 12, and 19. Spaces fi ll quickly and there is a maximum number of players per night. If you would like to play, please ensure you arrive early!

Debunking the Myths: ColumbiaAvenue & Washington Street Project

A Secret Keptby Tatiana de RosnayThis story unfolds almost hesitantly at first, and then rushes the reader through a flurry of emotional events and revelations that keeps you clutching the book until it is spent. It follows the lives of the Rey family, delving into the depths of the complex family relationships and a family

secret that reveals itself tentatively. Antoine Rey and his sister, Melanie, return to the seaside vacation villa of their childhood in order to celebrate Melanie’s birthday. This simple vacation triggers vague memories and motivates a search for answers to their family history. The unraveling of the family “secret” is layered in amongst the modern trials of the various members of this French family living in Paris and is situated within Antoine’s mid-life crisis as he navigates divorce, love, and his relationships with his children. It is not at all like de Rosnay’s previous novel, Sarah’s Key, but is touching and emotive in its own right. It underscores the importance of family within an exploration of modern relationships, and although modern, retains a timeless quality.

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Each year a group from Rossland’s Radical Luge Club fences off a piece of Red Moun-tain, builds a luge course, and spends a few days passing on their love of luge to anybody with the temerity to try and/or the drunkenness to dare.

“It’s not going to stop you on a dime, it’s just going to slow you down,” said Mike “Slo” Curry of the Slocan Valley as he explained how to put on the brakes to a new luger on Fri-day.

“He only thinks Slo,” joked fellow luger Dave Deno who was looking on, “he doesn’t go Slo.”

So, how does one luge?“It’s a state of mind. It’s a

constant state of luge,” Slo said, cracking a brew with a pensive look.

“It’s just tobogganing for adults, but kids do it too,” he continued. “It’s what we did growing up, sliding downhill on implements.”

“Luge gives you the oppor-tunity to do it safely. You can brake it, you can turn it, and it gives you a track to ride on. It’s just one step up from tobog-gans, inner tubes, and crazy carpets.”

Luge was invented some-time in the 19th century in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and the fi rst recorded competition was in 1883, also in Switzerland.

“I personally got involved in Alberta, in the late 1980s,” Slo said. “Th en I moved to the valley and we heard there was a club here, so that’s what brought me here, sliding. I’ve been coming ever since.”

“We’re teaching the basics. How to stop. How to turn,” he

said.To stop, it’s “a combination

of your feet braking and pull-ing up on the reins.” Th at’s the easy part.

To turn, “you’re using the rein and pushing on the kufens [runners].”

To turn right, for example, you pull up on the right rein (with the left hand), while pushing the left kufen with your left leg. Meanwhile, the right hand is spread out to the side to brush the ground and the right leg is also swung out to the side, to keep it clear of the right kufen.

To turn left , all the bits needs to swap sides quickly, perhaps with a swift brake in between to keep from fl ying too fast around the corner.

Th ere was so much interest at Friday and Saturday’s learn to luge — some 50 people each day — that they had to turn people away.

“We’re overwhelmed,” Slo said. “Th is is what it’s all about, this carnival weekend. We

want to turn people on to lug-ing. We only have the track infor fi ve days.”

Some 30 people competedin the race on Sunday. Th osewho raced their three runs andshowed their ability to navigatethe course safely and compe-tently were allowed to join theRadicals’ club, the chief benefi tbeing the offi cial qualifi cationto run down Rino’s aft er thehill closes.

“Th ere’s not many slid-ers who are qualifi ed to go toRino’s run,” Mike said, “It’s notfor everybody, it’s pretty ex-treme.”

On Sunday, as the sunshone on the hardpack courseon which Danimal had justsecured his fi rst place fi n-ish, and the club members atepizza and drank pitcher (aft erpitcher), some mentioned thatit’s a shame the track isn’t in allseason.

“You know,” Slo said, “in thebig picture, we’re skiers andboarders. If it was a powderday, we’d be skiing.”

ANDREW BENNETT


Mike “Slo” Curry shows a Big Dog Ski Tourer how to move withthe luge.


Even the lugers get lucky sometimes

Th e LeRoi Community Foundation based in Trail announced on Jan. 25 that it has com-pleted its fall granting cycle with donations of $12,100 to various charitable organizations throughout Greater Trail.

Th e Rossland Historical Museum and Ar-chives Association is one of the successful ap-plicants, receiving $1,500 to support a winter staff position to do archival work.

“We’re very grateful to receive the grant, it’s greatly appreciated,” said Libby Martin of the Historical Society.

“We got it about a month ago and Joyce [Austin] has therefore been able to spend some time cataloguing and digitizing artefacts, work that there’s no time to do when the museum is open,” she said.

“We also get a fairly substantial number of

requests for work in the archives, to researchpeople’s houses and that kind of thing.”

“Even in diffi cult economic times, the foun-dation continues to provide a stable base forcharitable giving within our region,” said AdamMonteith, the foundation’s chair. “By success-fully connecting donors and donees, we canensure the continued achievement of those or-ganizations that perform vital functions withinGreater Trail.”

Donations to the non-profi t LeRoi Commu-nity Foundation are held in a permanent fund,with income generated from that investmentdistributed to registered Canadian charitableorganizations whose projects meet the Foun-dation’s goals.

Th e foundation advises prospective donorsto visit www.leroifoundation.com for more de-tails and also to talk to discuss the benefi ts ofcharitable giving with their local fi nancial ad-visor.

ANDREW BENNETT


Museum association receives LeRoi funds

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As the King of the Moun-tain competition came to a close, the Rossland News caught up with the de-scendants of the original mountain king in Raft ers — Randie Ridgewell, the great-grandaughter of Olaus Jeldness, and her daughters Amanda Tame and Laura Price.

“We skied up on Red to-day,” Ridgewell said, “that’s where [Jeldness] skied, not Granite but Red.”

Price had come to the carnival in 2009 and had such a great time that she told Ridgewell, “Mom, we’ve got to go to the carnival.”

“So we came to the carni-val last year and we had so much fun,” she said.

“[Jeldness] came over from Norway when he was 16 to mine, in 1887,” she said. “He went all over Can-ada and the U.S. Spokane, he was there a lot. Also Or-egon, Montana. He came to Rossland for the gold and he stayed to ski.”

“He would donate skis to anybody who wanted to ski,” she continued. “He would take staves off old barrels and make them into skis.”

Jeldness had three daugh-ters. One died young, an-other lived to a ripe old age but had no children, and Randie Jeldness kept Olaus’s lineage alive.

“My grandma had my father and his sister, but she passed away at fi ve,” Ridgewell said, “so we’re the only descendants of Olaus.”

Grandma Randie Jeld-ness may have skied a bit, but “she was more of a min-er,” Ridgewell commented, a diffi cult path to tread for a woman among turn-of-the-century patriarchs.

“[Olaus] was trying to get her into mining, but then she met my grandfather, set-tled with him and had kids,” she said.

Th e family moved to Spokane, up in the woods because Ridgewell’s grand-father was a logger. Around when her father came along, they moved to Seattle, where Ridgewell was born in 1950. By then, however, skiing had long since died out in the family.

“When I was 18, we moved to the Sunshine Coast, to Gibson’s. Th at’s where I raised my girls,” she said.

Ridgewell was 30 before she started to ski, learning on Cypress and Grouse in Vancouver.

“My girlfriend was an avid skier and she said, You have got to ski.”

“She knew who Olaus was,” she continued. “It’s so funny, so many people do know who he was.”

“Th ere are so many people in Rossland who know more about my great-grandfather than I do,” she said.

“I’ve learned so much here, talking at the muse-um with Libby Martin and other people like the Spirt of Red Society that’s raising money to build the statue of Olaus.”

Now Ridgewell lives with her husband Terry in Oliver,

“so we ski on Mt. Baldy all the time. It’s so nice.”

Ridgewell’s daughter Amanda Tame still lives on the coast — and was out on the slopes learning to snow-board during this interview — but fi ve years ago Laura Price moved to Nelson.

Price opened a clothing store, Global Underground on Ward Street. Th ough she didn’t move here to ski or out of any infl uence from her great-great-grandfa-ther’s spirit, “going up to Whitewater was the fi rst thing we did,” she recalled. Price has been skiing since she was seven — fi rst under the tutelage of her father —

but started snowboarding when she moved here.

“I come to Red a lot,” she said.

When pressed on the age-old Red vs. White, she came back right away,

“I like Red,” but then she hesitated. “I like them both — but I stopped getting a pass at White, put it that way, and I started coming here. I’ve been coming as much as I can.”

Her mother had nothing but good words for Ross-land. “It’s a lovely town,” she beamed. “We’re going to walk in the parade tonight and we get to carry the ban-ner.”

ANDREW BENNETT


Laura Price, Randie Ridgewell, and Amanda Tame, the only descendants of Olaus Jeldness, were in Rossland for the winter carnival.


Jeldness descendants visit carnival

Th e 22nd Rossland Rotary Wine Festival on Saturday night was a big hit, with 30 wineries passing out more than 120 kinds of wine to the 260 peo-ple in attendance, who also had the pleasure of Gabriella’s delicious appe-tizers and Mountain Nugget’s scrump-tious chocolates.

“It was awesome,” said Rotary presi-dent Fiona Martin. “We changed our venue this year from the highschool to the Prestige and it worked out really well.”

To accommodate all the people and wineries, the organizers found it nec-essary to spread out between two con-ference rooms, and fi lled both with art from the Rouge Gallery and entertain-ment by local crooner Norm Worsfold,

and singer-guitarists Vic Buehler, Mike Scully, and Tim Wiley.

Th e way the event works, $50 gave people “all the wine they can possibly drink,” in addition to the food and chocolates. Guests also went home with their glass, a souvenir with the Rotary logo and the logo of a local business that won a lottery leading up to the event. Th is year it was RossVe-gas.

“Th is is a major fundraiser for us,” Martin explained, “We really rely on it to support our diff erent causes.”

Th ese causes include an internation-al youth exchange program. Currently the Rossland Rotary is hosting Bobay, a Grade 10 girl from Th ailand, and two Rosslanders are being sponsored abroad, Kevin Pistner in Ecuador, and Michelle Spencer in Sicily.

Every May, the club also sponsors a

student to take a week-long “citizen-ship trip” to Ottawa in May. Th ere the student joins with many other youths sponsored by Rotary clubs from all across Canada for a tour of the town and the parliament, to learn more about our country and government.

Th e Rossland Rotary also has mon-ey set aside for the skatepark. “We’re just waiting to see where the venue is and for plans to get a little more sol-id,” Martin said, but then they will be ready with their support.

At the wine festival, the Interact Club supported their community proj-ects by doing the coat check, taking tips and donations. Th eir next proj-ect may be a bench on the Centennial Trail, Martin speculated.

Martin was very pleased by the suc-cess of this year’s event and the way it seems to grow year aft er year.

ANDREW BENNETT


Rotary wine festival continues to grow


Arts & Culture

Jake’s Gift , a nationally acclaimed one-woman show about friendship and war, love and loss, will be presented by the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) on Feb. 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Miners’ Hall.

Written and performed by Julia Mack-ey, and directed by Dirk van Stralen, the 60-minute play depicts an 80-year-old Second World War veteran who returns to Juno Beach on the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

Th ere he meets Isabelle, a precocious 10-year-old from the local village whose youthful questions and charm challenge him to confront long-buried pain, most notably the wartime death of his older brother Chester who had once been a promising young musician.

Humourous, poignant, and historical, the story captures the loving friendship that develops between Jake and Isabelle while he explores his past. At its heart, Jake’s Gift pays homage to those who

fought and died for their country and captures the importance of remembrance through the story behind one soldier’s grave.

“Jake’s Gift is has received incredible reviews. We just knew that our audiences would love it too,” said Renate Fleming, the president of the RCAC, further noting that the RCAC will have more theatre in their performance series this year.

Mackey fi rst created the character of Jake at a workshop in 2002, falling in love with the “funny, old guy,” and wanting to tell more of his story. She travelled to the beaches of Normandy in 2004, 60 years aft er D-Day, and walked the coastline meeting numerous veterans and listening to their stories. Inspired, she soon “dis-covered” the remainder of Jake’s life story.

Since Juno Productions began tour-ing Jake’s Gift in early 2007, the play has received critical acclaim at festivals and theatres across Canada, notably Best New Play in 2007 and 2008 at the Victoria Fringe Festival, and Best of Fest in 2008 and 2009 at the Edmonton and Winnipeg Fringe Festivals, respectively.

Reviews from across the country show-er the play with praise, from “as near a perfect play as I’ve ever seen,” (Jackie Flanagan, Founding Editor, Alberta Views magazine, Calgary,) to “If I could give this play six stars, I would,” (Shannon Bokl-aschuk, Th e Star Phoenix, Saskatoon.) Th ey assert that Mackey plays both char-acters superbly and makes the audience feel that there are two actors on stage.

John Th relfall of Monday Magazine wrote from Victoria that, in 60 minutes, the script and performance “speak more to the heart about Canada’s role in World War Two than would a six-hour NFB doc-umentary. Without a doubt, Jake’s Gift is one of the most moving and unashamedly heartfelt pieces of solo theatre that has graced a stage in a long time.”

Th e performance is appropriate for ev-erybody over the age of 10. For more in-formation, visit www.jakesgift .com.

Tickets are $15 ($10 for youth under 18) and are available at Out of the Cellar on Columbia Avenue or at the Charles Bailey Th eatre box offi ce in Trail or by phone at 1-866-368-9669.

ANDREW BENNETT


Jake’s Gift, a critically acclaimed, one-woman show about an old veteran return-ing to the beaches of Normandy, will beplaying at the Miners’ Hall Feb. 12 and 13.

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Fringe festival favourite coming to Rossland

Th e Rouge Art Gallery hosted the annual Early Years Children’s Art Ex-hibit all day on Saturday, the third year this event has showcased the works of young Rossland art-ists.

Art from Four Winds Daycare, Golden Bear Children’s Centre, Ilo’s Playschool, Kindercare, Home Childcare Provid-ers, StrongStart, and Ma-cLean Elementary were intermingled with art by members of the Rouge Gallery. Th e mingling was a new approach this year that took advantage of the extra space the gallery now enjoys on the main fl oor of the old BMO building and, by all reports, the approach was successful.

“Th e children’s art was fabulous, and the event was very well attended,” said Louise Drescher, a Rouge Gallery member who helped organize the event. “Everything was very well presented and there was a wide variety. We had things in there from little tots, two-year-olds on up.”

“Items were for sale by

donation,” she continued. “I bought an item, it’s hi-larious, a group project by three to fi ve-year-olds. It’s an empty cookie tin fi lled with glue, and then they stuck in all these items: Dice, beads, little fi gures, buttons. Th e way it’s put together is so charming. It’s like a little treasure box.”

“Th ere was another collaborative piece, by Four Winds, a quilt made out of paper. Each square had been done by a diff erent child and was then sewn together with wool,” she said.

Th ere were also lots of paintings, a large piece with gingerbread people

holding hands behind glass, a whole row of very interesting snowmen, sculptures, and more.

One youngster at Ilo’s had chosen a frame with “woof woof ” written on it, so chose to draw a dog. Ilo told Drescher that she had commented to the little boy, “Isn’t that a nice picture of a dog,” to which the boy replied, “Well, there’s no dog that looks like this!”

“As the years progress,” Drescher said, “[events like this] becomes tra-dition, so people have more time to anticipate and come up with new ideas every year. Th is year was great.”

Louise Drescher bought this fi ne piece of art, a cook-ie tin with colourful artefacts glued in the bottom, at the Early Years Children’s Art Exhibit on Saturday.

Submitted photo

ANDREW BENNETT


Early Years Art Exhibit a hit at Rouge Gallery

Th e bright Sunday Sun shone on the John Heintz Cup relay race, Rossland’s quintessential quintath-lon that combines our town’s favourite sports in an all out dash from the top of Red Mountain to the Lion’s Campground.

Typically teams of fi ve people sign up, one per leg of the race, but two of this year’s 12 teams were single men.

“Th at’s something I al-ways like to see,” said race coordinator Kathy Wal-lace.

“It’s quite a feat to do it by yourself, especially with all the gear chang-es.”

Th e race began at the top of Sally’s Alley and contestants skied or boarded down Dale’s Trail to the bull wheel at the bottom of Red.

Th ey passed off to a biker who headed down the Old Red Mountain Road to the Centennial Trail where a cross-coun-try skier took over.

From Centennial trail-head, a snowshoer blitzed down the Centre Star Gulch Trail to the Esling Park Lodge. From there, a runner took the last

leg, going west on Co-lumbia Avenue, down Dunn Crescent, up into Black Bear and Centen-nial Park, onto the new trail up to the highway, and fi nishing at the Lion’s Campground.

For the fourth year in a row, the race was won by the Double-Ds — that is, they’re undefeated since they fi rst entered the relay four years ago.

Max Banks skied, Dave Diplock biked, Dave No-rens cross-country skied, Josh Swain snowshoed, and Colin Adamson ran, completing the course in 21 minutes.

It was Bank’s idea to enter the team, but their win that fi rst year was a surprise. “I knew they were great people, but I had no idea they were fast!” Banks laughed.

Will they enter again next year?

“We’ll see if we can get everyone together,” Banks said.

“It’s always a juggling act with the kids.”

Banks added, “What’s really impressive is the guy who did it himself in 27 minutes. By yourself, that’s amazing.”

“Drew, that’s all he put down,” Wallace said, re-ferring to her notes.

“Twenty-six minutes. Wow, that Drew guy was really fast!”

Not far behind was solo contestant Alar Ruu-topold with a time of 30 minutes.

Th ere were two fam-ily teams this year, and the three-person team of Chuck, Jess, and Nevon Fuller won the family cat-egory.

Two family teams this year, Chuck, Jess, Nevon Fuller... Fuller Brush team, the three of them did the whole race, win-ning the family category.

Les Boys won in the women’s team category yet again this year, all dressed up in suits and moustaches.

Wallace had a per-sonal favourite, however. “A group of four year old kids did it with their parents and, maybe they had a little help here and there, but they fi nished it themselves!”

Th e team registered late, so did not get an offi -cial time, but rumour has it the four-year-olds did it in 57 minutes.

Winter Carnival orga-nizer Kelly Acheson also watched the team.

“It’s the die-hard nature of the outdoor culture of Rosslanders.”

ANDREW BENNETT


Unique quintathlon highlights city’s ‘die-hard outdoor culture’


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Adaptive snowboarder and Rosslander Ian Lockey’s de-but in the Winter X Games in Aspen last weekend ended un-fortunately with a dislocated shoulder aft er a gap jump on the boarder cross course.

Adaptive boarder crossers are disabled athletes who have adapted their technique and style so they can compete on the same platform as able-bod-ied riders.

“He came off a jump not quite right and just wasn’t able to land it,” said head coach Candice Dr-ouin who was there with Lock-ey and Canadian Paralympian Tyler Mosher for three days of

training prior to the race.“It was a hard course,” Dr-

ouin said. “I’ve been to eight X Games and I’m pretty versed in X Game courses. Th ere were a lot of injuries. X Games is not for the weak of heart.”

She noted that several able-bodied Canadian athletes on the skier and boarder cross course were injured as a result of this event.

“It’s the largest course Ian and Tyler have ever ridden,” she continued. “Th e fi nal jump is 70 feet.”

“Ian’s doing fi ne. He’s happy and stoked he came down. In the big picture it was a success with a little setback of an inju-ry,” she said.

Th e inclusion of adaptive

snowboard cross in the Winter X Games showcased the event to the world.

“It is a huge step for the sport,” Drouin explained.

Although it was an exhi-bition event this year, “hopefully next year we can be a full medal sport and it will help it be in-cluded in Sochi 2014,” she said about the next Winter Olympics.

“Logistically, [it shows how] you can run an able-bodied alongside an adap-tive course, side-by-side,” she said.

Th is year, including Lockey and Mosher, only six adaptive boarders competed.

“We had some great talent out,” Drouin said. “In the fu-ture, hopefully we’ll have more numbers.”

Despite the injuries, Drouin is a big fan of the X Games.

“It’s one of the best events ofthe year. It pushes limits. It testsyour skill and your ability toovercome. And it’s fun to scareyourself!”

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Injury no setback for Lockey: coachDespite dislocated shoulder, local adaptive snowboarder ‘happy and stoked’ with X Games

event, which served as a showcase to the world as well as Olympic Games organizers

From left to right, the six competitors who competed in the adaptive boarder cross race at last weekend’s X Games (and their fi nishing po-sitions): Evan Strong (1st), Tyler Mosher (5th), Dan Monzo (3rd), Mike Shea (2nd), Keith Deutsch (4th), Ian Lockey (6th.)

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Th e Face of Red and Back Trail, at Red Mountain Resort, will soon be slashed by the long sharp edges of giant slalom and slalom skiers in the FIS, ACA, and BC Alpine sanctioned races that will run Feb. 25 - 28.

Many volunteers are needed because men and women skiers will race simultaneously for all four days. Women will run the GS course on Jan. 25 and 26 while the men run the slalom course. Men and women will swap courses for Jan. 27 and 28.

Today is the entry deadline for competitors, but approximately

100 volunteers will be required for a multitude of tasks. Race organiz-ers said that all help is welcomed, regardless of experience with ski racing or a lack thereof, and any assistance will be very much ap-preciated.

Volunteers who commit to four days will receive free shared ac-commodation in a condo, a gift , lift pass, and free lunches.

To volunteer, contact Alar Ruu-topold, the chief of volunteers, at [email protected].

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