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� e Rossland Neighbour-hood of Learning (NOL) com-mittee will hold a public meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at the Rossland Secondary School gym. NOL is urging residents to show up. � e committee will be presenting its � nding on potential options and alternatives for keeping K-12 education in Rossland.
Aaron Cosbey, a member of NOL, put together a detailed list of the arguments for taxation to keep K-12 in Rossland.
� e argument against is that the tax increase would be felt by everyone, even those who don’t have children in school, and would only bene� t those with
With a raise of the hand the fate of one of Rossland’s two schools was sealed Monday night.
� e board of trustees for School District 20 (Kootenay Columbia) adopted a bylaw to close MacLean Elementary School next year, and Rossland Secondary School will begin hosting kindergarten to Grade 9 in September.
Amidst the � urry, the city
will also be losing three grades of secondary schooling, with grades 10-12 heading down the mountain next year to Trail’s J.L Crowe High School.
� e vote—that passed six to three without any debate dur-ing the board’s regular meeting at Trail Middle School—could have been a crushing blow to Rossland, but there was a groundswell of optimism al-ready rising that night that all grades will be kept in the Gold-en City for the next school year.
� e community-based Neighbourhood of Learning (NOL) committee acted quick-
ly a� er the board’s decision, and announced a public forum had been set for this � ursday on what options are available to keep K-12 in Rossland.
NOL coordinator Aerin Guy said the forum will give the grassroots movement a sense of cohesion, and funnel some of the ethereal ideas � oating in the community into a more concrete form.
“It’s been a fast two months full of information with ideas � ying around, so we need to pull people together at this point to move on to the next steps,” she said.
� e forum in the RSS gym-nasium (7-9 p.m.) will develop working groups and task forces around the options NOL has been researching.
Guy said the committee has been looking at the possibil-ity of an independent school at RSS, creating a municipal school district in Rossland, or the city partnering with the school district and drawing upon a tax increase from its citizens to keep the high school grades in the city.
“� ere will also be an oppor-tunity to explain what some of the options are in terms of the
buildings and remaining with the school district,” she said.
As well, representatives from the City of Rossland will be there to pitch the idea of in-creasing taxation to help fund the shortfall the school district needs to keep 13 grades in RSS.
“Very quickly council will be meeting to discuss those alter-natives,” said Rossland Mayor Greg Granstrom. “Certainly, we are waiting for some more information from the (NOL) committee and we will proceed from there.”
SD20 board chair Darrell
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Isaac Lunn, of the Red Mountain Racers, sets up at the start gates prior to his race. The racers hosted the Teck U14 and U16 Zone GS event in Rossland last weekend.
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Coming eventsblaCk JaCk loppet: Black Jack Ski Club will be having its 29th annual Loppet race on Saturday, March 2 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information on the event, go to www.skiblackjack.ca.CItY CouNCIl: Next regular meeting is Monday March 11 at 7 p.m.rosslaNd goldeN CItY QuIlt guIld meets every Monday. The guild meets at the Se-nior Centre on Rossland Avenue from 7-9 p.m. rosslaNd News CaleNdar oNlINe: Upload events that are coming up free online at www.rosslandnews.com/calendar/sprINg FlINg 2013 at the RockCut Neighbourhood Pub on March 13 from 5 p.m. For $20 you will receive an RC cheeseburger, fries or salad and beer, plus an evening of funfilled entertainment. Bring your toonies for the famous “Toonie Auction” & “Peel & Pay.” Get your group together to play Name That Tune. Seating is limited. Tickets available at 362-9649.All proceeds are in support of the Canadian Cancer Society Support Services.rosslaNd retIrees CurlINg Club invites men and women interested in curling on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., to call Bill at 362-9462 or Jim at 364-1051. Beginners are welcomed!Heart aNd stroke moNtH is happening in Rossland. Look for canvassers to donate. For more more information, contact Mary Ann at 362-7302.Joe HIll CoFFeeHouse Joe Hill Coffee House takes place the third Sunday of each month starting in September. It carries a great Rossland tradition into a new season.The music starts at 7 p.m. in the Rossland Miners’ Hall, in a relaxing cafe setting with coffee, tea and good things to eat. Don’t miss the opening event of another season of fun! Les Carter, 250-362-5677, [email protected] mIC NIgHt at the Flying Steamshovel every Wednesday at 9 p.m.legIoN The Rossland Legion is open. Go in and check out their newly renovated windows.sCHool dIstrICt 20 meetINg The next school board meeting is March 11 at 7p.m. at the Blueberry Creek school. rosslaNd lIgHt opera plaYer Will perform their new production The Show Must Go On March 1. More info at rlop.ca.sCeNestudIo: Acting for All! Rossland’s new acting school is open and offers ongo-ing programming. Professionally trained in Theatre and Film and TV, working ac-tors, G. Michael and Alicia Gray, teach these exciting and educational classes. 2010 Washington (in the historic BMO Building) [email protected] (250)-521-1559 www.facebook.com/SceneStudio.cagoldeN CItY lIoNs: The Lions meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 6 p.m. at the Rossland Legion. Contact W. Profili at 362-7671
rosslaNd radIo Co-op: Open house every Monday from 3-7 p.m. followed by station meeting at 7 p.m. More info: [email protected] maple leaF baNd Monday evening practices 7 - 9 p.m. in the McIntyre Room at the Cominco Memorial Centre. Brass and woodwind players welcomed. For more info, contact Andrea McKay, 362-7604.rosslaNd skatepark CommIttee 6-8 pm, first Tuesday each month at the Rossland Library. Come be part of the process. sCoutINg For boys and girls, now at the Rossland Scout Hall. Beavers (ages 5,6,7) Tuesdays. Cubs (ages 8,9,10) Scouts (ages 11-14) Contact Tom Leask 362-7118. Ac-cepting applications for Scout Leaders.ColumbIa dIstrICt gIrl guIdes Columbia District Girl Guides has units from Ross-land to Salmo for girls aged 5 to 17. Call 250-367-7115. Leaders also wanted.YCdC YoutH NIgHts Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or contact [email protected]. Art Night: Tue. 7pm; Movie Night: Wed. 6-8pm.roYal CaNadIaN legIoN br. # 14 rosslaNd General Meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. on the third Wed. of every month. All members of Branch #14 are asked to attend.rotarY Club oF rosslaNd: Weekly meetings at the Rock Cut Pub, Mon., 6-8pm. All welcome! Contact John Sullivan, 362-5278.geNealogY West Kootenay Family Historians, 7pm, first Monday each month, Sept to June, SHSS, Castlegar. Annual fee $10. Contact Jean, 365-8100, or Grace, 364-1426.NaNCY greeNe Hut Crew Once again, it’s time to make sure our favorite huts around Nancy Greene Summit are ready for the snow season. If you would like to help cut fire-wood, make interesting repairs, or just learn where the huts are, get some exercise, and help put the “party” in work party, contact Les Carter at 250-362-5677, [email protected]. traIl sea Cadets: Ages 12-18 Meets every Tuesday 6pm-9pm at the 44th Trail Ar-mory in Shaver’s Bench. 1990 - 7th Ave Contact Richard Chanig at by calling 250-364-6247. aIr Cadets Meets every Wed. 6pm - 9:15pm at the 44 Trail Armory in Shaver’s Bench 1990-7th Ave. Contact: Michelle Szabo at 231-5000, [email protected]
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The City of Rossland is seeking applications for volunteer positions on the
HERITAGE COMMISSION
The duties of the Heritage Commission are:
• To preserve and promote buildings and sites that are significant to Rossland’s identity. • To advise Council on any matter relating to heritage conservation; • To recommend strategies and policies to Council, and undertake programs for the support of heritage conservation; • To support heritage education and public awareness of heritage; • To raise funds and pursue partnerships for the support of conservation and promotion of heritage.
The Commission is particularly interested in people with writing experience and a key interest in heritage. Further information about the role and procedure of the Commission can be obtained by contacting Stacey Lightbourne at 362-2329.
Please submit your interest in writing or email by March 1, 2013 to:
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1899 Columbia AvenueBox 1179, Rossland, BC. V0G 1Y0
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Ganzert said the school district was not expecting a reply from the city until early April when its budget process is complete and the city will know if there is the where-withal to talk figures with the district.
The city was looking for the final word to decide on what to do, as was NOL, said Rossland trustee Gordon Smith, but the will to continue to battle for keeping K-12 in the city did not die with the vote.
“There certainly is a lot of community energy (to keep K-12) which is typical of Ross-land,” he said.
Smith, who voted against the bylaw, said the adopted bylaw means the RSS building will be saved and will give the community the opportunity to further save the remaining grades.
“The building staying open, which is the larger of the two, allows us the opportunity to explore alternatives in terms of revenue generating programs, as well as the blended learning if the board decides to do it,” he said.
Although the closure of Ma-cLean—as well as the amal-gamation of Twin Rivers and Castlegar elementary schools in Castlegar—will save the dis-trict nearly half of the $750,000 shortfall this year, the savings could be less if the money is put where the mouth is.
At one point in a public meeting last month at RSS on the school closure, one man asked people to stand up if they agreed they would take their kids out of the school dis-trict if RSS were to close, and instead home school, move away or put their kids in school
in another district.After 200 people stood up
the man told the board closing RSS would take over $1 mil-lion straight out of the budget.
“It’s a huge, huge economic cost to the school district if RSS is closed. So that’s what you really need to focus on is losing that revenue,” he said at the time.
Another man suggested 90 per cent of parents would con-sider moving out of the dis-trict, home schooling or attend other school districts.
But the notion of lost rev-enue through student defec-tions wasn’t factored in for the final board decision, said Gan-zert.
“We had a bunch of people stand up at a meeting, whether that will translate into a bunch of kids, we don’t know. We’ll deal with that issue when we come upon it,” he said Monday.
And the community’s will could be made clear in the next few weeks when NOL launch-es its community-wide survey, both in a mail out to Rossland homes and online.
“We are going to launch a survey ... that asks the commu-nity what their opinions on tax increases are and what they feel about that, and if those dollars were to be available what they would like them used for,” said Guy.
The survey will take place over a period of 10 days.
The four options are for $300,000 to be paid annually for a period of three years, for $300,000 to be paid for one year, for $140,000 to be paid for a period of three years (in one lump sum or annually), and $140,000 for one year, car-rying potential tax increases of $15 to $95 per year.
Rossland city council will submit two resolutions for con-sideration to the Association of Kootenay Boundary of Lo-cal Governments (AKBLG). The two resolution both come as a result of the funding needs of the school district not being mat and the potential closures of Rossland schools.
In council last week, Mayor Greg Granstrom advised council that the AKBLG doesn’t want resolutions that are similar to past ones coming through.
Coun. Jill Spearn said she was confident that these are fresh resolutions from Rossland.
The first resolution asks that the Union of B.C. Municipalities request that the provincial gov-ernment “continue its commit-ment to build strong communi-ties throughout the province.”
It asks that the Ministry of Education assist municipalities or local interests groups to de-velop creative solutions to keep schools open and to provide top-level education to students wherever they live in B.C.
The resolution notes that the government has recognized the unique needs of rural and small communities, as well as the im-portance of a stable sand effec-tive education system to support a sustainable community.
It also notes that closures can
have a significant and long-term effect on the economic growth of a community, as well as a det-rimental effect on students.
The second resolution asks that the provincial government immediately form a task force to undertake a comprehensive performance audit, review and possible revision of the funding formula for education in rural areas.
The purpose would be to “insure the fair funding, equal
access and high qual-ity edu-cation of p u b l i c education throughout the prov-ince of Brit-ish Colum-bia.”
The rea-sons given
behind the second resolution are that there “has not been an ade-quate review of the effectiveness or fairness of the funding for-mula for B.C. school districts.”
The resolution also notes that the funding formula has resulted in substantial funding losses for rural school districts in the past 10 years and has created “signifi-cant differences between various school districts by the applica-tion of inequitable criteria.”
The resolutions will be sub-mitted for consideration to the AKBLG for its 2013 annual general meeting which is April 17-19.
For the Feb. 25 agenda pack-age, which includes the reso-lutions, passed in the Feb. 13 council meeting, go to the City of Rossland website.
A cougar that had been spotted around Rossland was destroyed last week, after it at-tacked a local dog.
Ben Beetlestone, the conser-vation officer who responded to the call, said he was following up on a complaint about a cougar that attacked a dog on the night of Feb. 15.
“We were able to locate the cougar because it was seen again at about 8:30 a.m. in Rossland
and the person phoned it in right away,” Beetlestone said, of the morning of Feb. 16. “I was in Rossland with a houndsman so we located it right away and could deal with this situation right away before somebody got hurt.”
Beetlestone said the cougar was still on the hunt in the resi-dential part of Rossland where it was shot.
“We didn’t have to use the hounds, because it hadn’t left town yet and we were able to find it hiding in a hedge in a backyard,” he said.
A cougar is strictly a car-nivore, so he said that if it is hanging around a community it is hungry. The ones that find themselves in that situation are generally either young or sick cougars.
“They just are not able to survive, for whatever reason, in the wild, so they start hanging around residential areas where they begin to pick off pets and stuff,” he said.
“This one certainly was sick, the necropsy has not been done yet, so I don’t know what was wrong with it.”
He said that a cougar is es-pecially dangerous because in that state it would look at a child as prey, whereas a bear likely wouldn’t as long as it isn’t threat-ened.
“It’s very important that peo-ple call these issues in and we’ll make the determination if it’s a normal behaviour or not and then take an appropriate course of action,” he said.
If you do spot a cougar or bear, report it to the Report All Poacher and Polluters (RAPP) toll free 1-877-952-7277 or at www.env.gov.bc.ca/cos/rapp.
Rossland will now decide on K-12 funding
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Tonight, Neighbourhood of Learning will discuss the possibilities that the community can pursue to keep K-12 in Rossland.
The mandate that the committee has taken on is exactly that, to keep K-12 here, and so despite a middle ground outcome from Mon-day night’s school board meeting, one which creates a K-9 Rossland Secondary, the battle will continue.
The meeting tonight will introduce a sur-vey that NOL has put together, it is partly an informal version of the one the city may send out, asking how much residents would be willing to fund the remainder of the grades for K-12.
As for the city, the community has definite-ly shown a strong voice on the school front, one which council will not be able to ignore.
However, the implications of other taxes coming to Rossland are still not known, and so whether residents can stomach another raise on top of those things will be a different matter.
There are of course other options, includ-ing charter and private schools, a municipal school district and just plain homeschool-ing, if negotiations with the district fall apart. Much of that would still depend on the Min-istry of Education’s word, but there is some room for movement, if the countless hours NOL volunteers have spent researching the topics are to be believed.
So the battle with the school district is fin-ished, but there may be still be some hope in the future of K-12 in Rossland.
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He has a white beard and a bully pulpit on CBC television, but he doesn’t use it to promote hockey fighting. Instead he sucker punches the oil and gas industry at every op-portunity, with increasingly flagrant disregard for the rules of science. Public broadcasting referees keep their whistles in their pockets, wary of offending a legend.
He’s David Suzuki, and he has evolved from geneticist to TV celebrity to his current role as the Don Cherry of Canadian science, an angry curmudgeon lashing out at his enemies.
Earlier I wrote about Suzuki’s hit piece on the Alberta oil sands, featuring selective pollution studies and a celebrity turn by movie direc-tor James Cameron, who toured the alleged carbon crime scene in his personal jet helicopter.
Suzuki’s latest Scud missile of misinformation was launched Feb. 7 on The Nature of Things. It’s called Shattered Ground, and it borrows heavily from earlier shock docs that target hydraulic fracturing for shale oil and gas.
While clearly aimed at the surging shale gas industry in B.C., this hour-long program offers little about B.C.’s long history of gas development. Suzuki’s voice-over refers briefly to B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission,
insinuating it was set up as a pet regulator protecting the industry from stricter oversight.
Mostly the show focuses on places like Dish, Texas and Dimock, Pennsylvania. The Texas segment talks about traces of neurotoxins in residents’ blood samples, blaming this on gas drilling and “fracking,” the new swear word of professional environmentalists.
The evidence shows some people have these traces in their blood, but others don’t, which suggests that more likely sources are cigarettes or exposure to disinfectants.
Pennsylvania and Colorado are key stops for the anti-fracking crowd. For centuries there have been places known for methane dissolved in groundwater, typically from shal-low coal seams.
This is where you can find a rustic fellow to shake a jug of well water and touch his Bic lighter to it, producing a brief blue flame. The standard sequence moves to a sink and faucet, where a more impressive methane fireball is generated.
Suzuki’s voice-over notes that this is the scene that really gets media attention. There’s no evidence that drilling caused it, but hey, it’s TV. Science, meet Hillbilly Handfishin’.
Protest sequences take up much of the program. Moms rally against a gas well near a school in Erie, Pennsylvania, forcing evil Canadian corporation Encana to back off. An
elderly Quebec woman sobs on cam-era, convinced that a nearby gas well will trigger a relapse of her cancer.
One bit of local content is a seg-ment on fracking-induced earth-quakes, presented with sombre alarm by Ben Parfitt, go-to re-searcher for the anti-industry left in B.C. These are detectable by sensitive instruments, as is the case with some mining and other industrial activi-ties, but according to the Oil and Gas Commission, they don’t do any actual harm.
It should be noted that Suzuki doesn’t do much beyond reading a script on these shows. He has people to load up the propaganda weapon-ry, just as his ghostwriter in Toronto cranks out the relatively innocuous weekly columns that run in some Black Press publications.
In fairness, most episodes of The Nature of Things are in the original spirit of the show. A recent program on an ancient Egyptian aquifer, voiced by Suzuki over National Geographic video footage, would be appropriate for a high school class-room.
The same cannot be said for this anti-fracking screed, which is plainly and recklessly calculated to twist public opinion against a crucial B.C. industry.
Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com. Email him at [email protected]
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Council of the City of Rossland, under section 24 of the Community Charter, has approved an extension of the current lease to the Rossland Radio Cooperative for an additional (1) year, for a portion of the City owned building located at 1807 Columbia Avenue (Rotary Health Centre). The lease will comprise of reduced rent for the year, $110.00 per month plus utilities. A copy of the agreement can be viewed by contacting City Hall (250)362-7396 or [email protected].
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RETIREMENT NOTICERossland may soon be a part of a carshare
co-op as the Rossland Sustainability Com-mission is working to establish a branch of Kootenay Carshare Cooperative.
Ann Damude, the sustainability commis-sion’s manager explained that residents have been asking how to make Rossland more af-fordable for young families and also reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
“This isn’t the first time that Rosslanders have considered a car share initiative, but this time we think that the timing is right,” Damude said.
Kootenay Carshare Cooperative currently co-ordinates successful car sharing pro-grams in Nelson, Fernie, Kaslo, Kimberly and Revelstoke. To participate, car share members pay a one-time $500 deposit. The deposit is refundable should the member leaves the co-operative without having any accidents with the car share vehicles.
Alex Loeb, the sustainability commis-sion’s lead on the car share initiative, recently launched a survey to assess the need in for such a program in Rossland.
“The commission is asking interested businesses and individuals to complete the survey which asks what type of vehicles they would be interested in accessing and for how many hours a week.
“We’ll use the information to assess feasi-bility and develop the program,” Loeb said.
Members also pay a monthly membership fee which is scaled to how frequently they use the car share vehicles.
“If you drive the car share vehicle less than 100 kilometres in a month, which is about four return trips from Rossland to down-town Trail, then your monthly membership fee would be around $5 per month,” Loeb said, adding that a 1.5 hour trip into down-town Trail would cost about $10 in usage fees.
Vehicles would be booked on-line through the Kootenay Carshare website for as little as 30 minutes or for multi-day trips. Members
pay a usage fee based on the kilometres trav-elled and hours booked.
The co-operative pays for all fuel, insur-ance, licensing fees, vehicle maintenance and routine cleaning. Members receive a monthly invoice from the co-op that item-izes charges. Members pay their fees and the carshare co-op team handles the rest. Carshare co-ops in other Kootenay towns not only have a range of SUVs, trucks and sedans available to their members but also utility trailers, roof top boxes and bike racks.
Damude said car sharing is a great solu-tion for families who occasionally need ac-cess to a second vehicle, or for a business that needs temporary access to a truck to make a delivery. For many people car sharing is a cost effective, hassle free alternative to car ownership.
If you’re interested in being part of the Kootenay Carshare Cooperative, complete the on-line survey at https://www.survey-monkey.com/s/RosslandCarShareSurvey or contact Ann Damude, Rossland sustainabil-ity manager at 250-362-5617.
Rossland Radio Co-op will not have to pay the full $2,484 of the three-year gas bill that was recently dropped on it.
City council decided to follow staff recom-mendation to waive two of the three years covered in the bill, bringing it down to $805.
Council also granted a one-year lease re-newal, diverging from staff’s opinion of a three-year lease.
Marty Unger, a member of the co-op, spoke during the public input period, prior to council’s decision and said the bill would be a major hit to the cooperative.
Unger said the co-op does as much fund-raising as it can, and is still working to pay off a roof repair bill.
He said the radio station is a valuable tool in the community, and not just a bunch of renegade kids, since there are members with credentials.
Coun. Jill Spearn agreed that the radio co-op serves an important purpose in the com-munity.
“Having a radio co-op in our town is an attribute to the community,” Spearn said, however she added that she is in favour of selling the Rotary building, where the co-op is housed, down the road.
Coun. Tim Thatcher said he doesn’t think the city should be in the real estate business, and agreed with Spearn that he’d like to see the city sell the Rotary building.
Currently, the co-op shares the main floor of the building with the Rossland Food Bank. Rossland and District Search and Res-cue utilizes the basement to store gear.
Neither the food bank, nor the search and rescue outfit pay rent, while the co-op pays half for its space.
Council then discussed the priorities of
housing non-profit organizations.Coun. Kathy Moore said it’s not fair to
have the co-op covering the entire rent.Mayor Greg Granstrom noted that if the
food bank had to pay rent it would have to move or close.
Council agreed that there was a benefit to providing space to some worthy non profits.
Coun. Cary Fisher said that he would pri-oritize the search and rescue over the radio co-op.
“There are basic needs that need to be cov-ered,” he said, noting that search and rescue and a food bank are among those needs.
Coun. Kathy Wallace said she was still not sure that the Rotary building is the best loca-tion for the co-op. She suggested, as she had in the past, that it move into the school at some point, once the reconfiguration of the schools is complete.
“It exposes the co-op to that whole body of students,” Wallace said.
Fisher suggested a standard application for funding in the Feb. 13 city council meet-ing, as a result of the Kootenay Columbia Trail Society misunderstanding in that meeting. That way, certain organizations which meet the requirements wouldn’t have to keep coming back to council fearing their funding will be cut.
He elaborated on the thought a bit more with regards to the co-op’s situation.
“There should be a plan for these types of organizations for seed support, then a time frame for self-sufficiency,” Fisher said.
That way, the organization can get on its feet, but knows that the funding is lim-ited and is forced to seek other forms of income.
Fisher addressed the co-op: “One day if the city doesn’t have money, they’ll come to you and say your cut.”
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Properties in the regional district, in-cluding Rossland, could see another po-tential tax raise to support the regional hospital.
The West Kootenay Regional Hospital District board is hoping to put money into a reserve fund for future infrastruc-ture upgrades that Interior Health may call for, and potentially a new hospital building.
The hospital board suggested to its members that they go and talk with their constituents to find out how much, if any-thing, the communities in the Kootenay-Boundary region would be willing to pay.
Coun. Kathy Wallace, Rossland’s rep-resentative on the board, said there are a number of options that the board has put forward.
There is the option to do nothing, which would lead to a slight drop in taxes of less than a dollar per residence, that would raise no money.
There is the option creating a $1 mil-lion reserve, which would cost $5.96 per $100,000 assessment. Then there is a $12.27 increase which would create a $2 million reserve, and a $18.58 increase which would lead to a $3 million reserve fund.
Council decided to support the $1 mil-lion reserve.
“I do support the concept of the hospi-tal board planning for the future,” Wallace said. “And recognizing that delaying that to the taxpayers of 15 or 20 years from now, I don’t think, is good planning.”
Wallace noted the timing for the pro-posal wasn’t very good.
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nificant economic benefits to the town of Rossland as a whole from keeping K-12 here, and the costs to not doing so.
Excerpts from the Neighbour-hood of Learning letter:
In the Rossland Schools Survey, 13 per cent of parents said they’d move from Rossland if RSS were closed, and 45 per cent said they’d consider moving. While those numbers should probably be dis-counted, they should not be dis-counted to zero. Whether we like it or not, some families will go else-where if they have to bus their kids to Trail for grades 10 – 12. Indeed, we know of families inquiring about putting their houses on the market after SD20’s first reading.
Attraction of future residents: Arguably even more important is the ability of a town with K-12 to attract future residents who are deciding between various options (e.g., Fernie, Revelstoke, Nelson, Kimberly, Golden, Canmore) for their location. Much of the growth in Rossland’s population in the last decade has come from such peo-ple, and almost to a person they list the availability of K-12 in the city as one of the items on their check-lists. At the Planning for the Future meetings we heard oral evidence
from a number of parents to this effect, and from some that were waiting for the results of the con-sultation to actually complete their move here.
Loss of spending from Inter-national and Academy students: International and Academy stu-dents temporarily increase the population of City while they stay in Rossland. Each student injects $700 per month in home stay fees into the local economy, which then has multiplier impacts. Perhaps even more important than this di-rect spending is spending by their parents when they visit, which they typically do for some extended pe-riod every year. A conservative es-timate of the contribution of each International student to the local economy is $25,000-35,000 per year (this includes fees). The loss of K-12 in Rossland would also mean the loss of the Academy and Inter-national programs, and the loss of these contributions.
The absent 10–12s: Three grades of Rossland students would be spending their lunch money in Trail, and would not be doing af-ter-school shopping in downtown Rossland. They would also be un-available to act, as many now do, as after-school child care providers for the younger grades; by the time they got back up the hill it would be too late to pick up their charges. Nor would they be able to fill part-
time jobs with local businesses, as many now do.
Loss of value of housing stock: This would happen in two ways. First, the net decrease in residents would mean less demand for hous-ing and more supply, equating to a drop in prices. Second, the price of any given house reflects not only the house itself, but also the ameni-ties in the immediate surrounding area, and K-12 schooling is widely acknowledged to be an important amenity. This loss of value would not be reflected in lower taxes; since it would be across the board it would just mean a higher mil rate. But it would mean a loss of equity for all of Rossland’s citizens. Even a miniscule one per cent drop in value would mean a loss of $2,650 equity for the average homeowner. Assuming a $50 per year tax increase to support K-12 in Rossland, this alone would be worth 53 years of support.
Dynamic effects: Taken togeth-er, the effects described above have dynamic impacts. For example, existing and potential residents of Rossland can be deterred not just by a lack of K-12, but also by the decline in population and the eco-nomic decline that they see taking place.
Impacts of the loss of K-12 will create their own further impacts, in an economically damaging neg-ative spiral.
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The 29th Annual Black Jack Loppet is coming up on Saturday March 2nd, 2013 in Rossland. It’s a free technique (skating) cross-country ski event with distances from 10 km to 30 km for adults and shorter for the younger participants. Check out the new team category where teams of 3 will ski 10 km at the same time and fi nish together. Come and enjoy all of the festivities, food and fun while having a great ski!
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The 29th annual Black Jack Loppet is this Saturday in Rossland.
It’s a free technique (skating) cross-country ski event with distances from 10 km to 30 km for adults and shorter for the younger participants.
The events begin at 10 a.m. with a free technique mass start and continue throughout the day. Bib pick-up is at 9:15 a.m.
There are categories for all age groups, from under five years old to over 70, and the races are part of the Zone4 circuit.
Start lists will be posted on the outside board op-posite the Black Jack Cabin.
There are some new team category where teams of three will ski 10 km at the same time and finish to-gether. Come out watch the races and enjoy all of the festivities, food and fun while having a great ski!
See the Black Jack Ski Club website at www.ski-blackjack.ca for more information.
The event is located at the Black Jack Cross Country Ski Club on Hwy 3B, three km north of Rossland.
Registration and fee payment is on-line at www.zone4.ca.
Rossland Scouts and Cub Scouts attended the Lord Baden Powell banquet in Trail last week. The event celebrates Scout-Guide Week in Canada and founder Baden Powell’s birthday on Feb. 22. Landon Lafond one of Rossland’s Cub Scouts was awarded Cub of the Year. He is joined by Parry and Bobbi La-Fond, in the left-hand photo. Shanna Tanabe (above, right) received the Jack Staats Event of the Year award from Heather Hamer, for or-ganizing the Kub Kar Rally last year. Tanabe also received the Newton Sherwood Appre-ciation Award for “Dedicated Scouter.”
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Kootenay Music Awards are back for a second year of celebrating our home-grown talent.
Sponsored by the Nelson Brewing Company, and Black Press, the awards are currently accepting nominations for artists in every genre of music — from punk rock to folk bands and electronic producers. There’s also awards for the year’s best artist, album and song.
“If you’re making music in the Koo-tenays and you have an MP3 you can send us, we want to hear from you,” said Chad Hansen founder and president of the Kootenay Music Awards.
A panel of music industry profes-sionals will listen to every submission and shortlist the top four or five entries in each of the 10 categories. Then it will be up to the public to decide with their online votes which artists deserve the titles. The winners will be announced at an awards banquet at Nelson’s Spiritbar on May 10.
Hansen said the contest provides incredible exposure for the shortlisted artists.
“Last year, artists were getting 2,000 unique listens on the tracks up for awards,” he said. “It’s a really great op-portunity for an up-and-comer or es-tablished artists alike to get exposed to new audiences in all of the communities in the Kootenays.”
Last year it was Fernie’s Shred Kelly that went away with coveted title of Art-ist of the Year, while Nelson’s The Auto-mation was named best new band.
Hansen can’t wait to see who will en-ter the competition this year.
“There’s so much musical talent in the Kootenays,” he said. “There’s great bands just jamming in their basements or playing for the dinner crowd at local restaurants — we want to dig out those hidden gems.”
With the help of Black Press com-munity papers, including the Ross-land News, all the performers in the running for an award will be in the spotlight.
“The reach of the awards has grown exponentially,” Hansen said. “We’ll be exposing people to artists from Golden to Grand Forks and all the communities in between.”
To nominate yourself or someone else for a Kootenay Music Award, go to kootenaymusicawards.ca and click “nominate” in the page banner.
Nominations close March 31 and on-line voting will run April 7 to 30.
Other sponsors for the event are AM Ford (Platinum), Selkirk College (Plati-num), Chatterson Drive (Gold), Wapiti Music Festival (Gold), Kootenay Sav-ings Credit Union (Gold), Bee Kissed Body Piercing (Gold), Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism (Gold) and Nelson’s Ric’s Lounge and Grill (Silver).
Chad Hansen is the founder and president of the Kootenay Music Awards. Submitted photo
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Education WeekThe Rossland News is putting out a special section on Education in our schools. There are two parts to this unique section. The fi rst, and most exciting part, is that we are going to get the students themselves to draw up the advertisements. This is a great opportunity for students
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Arena season is officially over in only two
more weeks – so if you haven’t enjoyed pub-lic skating or taken in a hockey game, don’t delay…..Spring is right around the corner! Several arena programs will also be ending within the next two weeks - the Senior’s Hockey ice time on Fridays from 9:30-10:45 a.m. has officially ended. The arena officially closes on Friday, March 15, so if you would like to rent the ice, please contact our de-partment for available times.
The Rossland Public Library has intro-duced a new Lego club on the first Thursday of each month from 3-4:30 p.m. The club starts on Thursday, March 7. The Library will supply the Lego – please leave your own at home so that they don’t get mixed up.
The Rossland Figure Skaters Club is gearing up for their year-end ice show on Wednesday, March 13 at 4:30 p.m. Skaters as young as three years of age, all the way up to our senior skaters in their mid-teens will be showing off their skills and delighting the audience. Admission is by donation to this exciting, endearing annual show.
Public Skating for the week of Feb. 25 - March 3 is Friday March 1 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 3, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. The Sunday 2:30-4 p.m. public skate has cancelled due to the minor hockey tournament. For more information about admission prices and skate rentals, please log on to the city’s website, at www.rossland.ca. The information can be found under the City Hall, Arena page.
The recreation department and art in-structor Shelley Painter, are running Spring Break Art Camps to help keep the kids busy and having fun over the Spring Break! Classes are held in the arena lounge from 2:30-4:30 p.m. and each day has a different art theme to look forward to. Some themes include; shadow puppets, block printing, stop action movies, beading and painting. The dates are March 18-22 (five day week) and March 25-28, (4 day week). Children ages 6-12 years can register for one day, sev-eral days or a full week. Spaces are limited and the instructor will require advance no-
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Volleyball at RSS on Thursday, Feb. 28 has cancelled due to the NOL Community meeting in the gymnasium.
Hip Hop & Jazz classes will be showing off their new skills with a dance party on Wednesday, March 6 at 5 p.m. in the Min-ers’ Hall. All friends and family are invited to come and watch them perform their new moves.
The Rossland pool doesn’t open for sev-eral months, but we’re looking for qualified, certified Staff. The outdoor pool opens at the beginning of June and closes at the end of August. The Rossland pool offers a full range of aquatic education – including School Board Lessons, Aqua Tot, Red Cross Swim Lessons, the Bronze courses and Swim Club. Resumes should be forwarded to the Recreation Department by March 15.
The Rossland Public Library’s 3 p.m. “Movies & Munchies” program is every third Wednesday of the month. Kids will enjoy five different cartoons from the Na-tional Film Board – quirky, interesting in-dependent films – while enjoying a healthy snack! For more information, contact the Library, at 250-362-7611 or [email protected].
The Lil’ Gretzky’s Preschool Hockey Pro-gram is going to continue as a drop in pro-gram on Mondays from 3:15-4:15 p.m. This is a fun introduction to skating, holding a stick and moving the puck around. Parent participation is required for this preschool program. Helmets and skates are a require-ment for both. The program will run until March 11.
If you’re a parent of a preschooler, there’s a new Parent & Child Mother Goose Pro-gram running on Saturdays, from 11 a.m. To 12 p.m., starting Jan. 12 and running until March 16. This program is offered through the public library for babies 6-18 months and their parents. To reserve a place, please contact the Children’s Librarian, Lynn Amann, at [email protected] or by phone, at 250-362-7611.
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This weeks pet of the week is a beautiful girl named Issis. She is a three year old Siamese cross. This beautiful cat would be ideal for a senior or a quiet person. Issis was brought to the shelter after her owner passed away and no one could look after her. She is a quiet, clean, very sweet girl. When you � rst meet Issis she plays shy, but give her some time and she will show you her true colors. Issis would do best in a home without dogs, children, or a lot going on. Issis would love a warm bed to lie in all day long, or a spot on the couch beside you. Over all Issis is very laid back and does not need a lot of attention all the time. She is a very independent girl just looking for a warm home.
If this beautiful lady sounds like the right cat for you, please come down to the shelter to meet her.
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This weeks pet of the week is a beautiful girl named Issis. She is a three year old Siamese cross. This beautiful cat would be ideal for a senior or a quiet person. Issis was brought to the shelter after her owner passed away and no one could look after her. She is a
meet Issis she plays shy, but give her some time and she will show you her true colors. Issis would do best
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Rossland Rotary held its 24th annual wine festival at the Prestige on Saturday. The event brought in wine-makers from all over the Okanagan and the Kootenays.
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