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Th e West Kootenay will proudly host the 2011 BC Seniors Games (WKSG), but between now and Aug. 16 there’s a lot of work to do from logistical preparations to volunteer recruitment.
Ann Damude, the operations manager for the WKSG, said they
are actively looking for volunteers — 1,500 or more will ultimately be needed — and have identifi ed some priority areas, from hosts for each sport to courtesy car drivers and fi rst aiders.
“It’s going to be a very exciting and interesting time,” she said. “Th ere are some exceptional mas-ters-level athletes coming to com-pete. World records, literally, will
be broken during these games.”Among the greats is Olga Ko-
telko, a 91-year-old Canadian athlete of Ukranian descent who started track-and-fi eld at age 77. Now she holds 23 world records, continues to break them, and has become the subject of scientifi c studies that hope “to better un-derstand how to stall the natural processes of aging,” the New York
Times reported last November.Athletes will compete in 27
sports, including several sports not in previous games. Some must be included every year, but others are optional, Damude explained.
Th is year will feature equestrian for the fi rst time in fi ve years as well as bocce ball in Trail’s Gulch.
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Volunteers still needed for massive sporting eventANDREW BENNETT
Rossland News Reporter
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Plenty of good times at mellow
Wing DingANDREW BENNETT
Rossland News Reporter
Rossland’s Spring Wing Ding on Satur-day came on hot and blue, with buskers, street vendors, ice-cream, and deals all over town.
Competition from Christina Lake (fi -nally, a lake day!), Castlegar’s Sunfest, the annual mountain bike Trails Day by the Kootenay Columbia Trails Society, and so much more kept the downtown relatively quiet — compared to Golden City Days, for example — but none-theless a good time was had by all.
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with more photos Russell Haskins and Brian Kalbfl eisch team up for song or two at the Queen Street market during the Spring Wing Ding.
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News2 www.rosslandnews.com Thursday, June 9, 2011 Rossland News
Many cats have gone missing last fall and this spring, disap-pearing without a trace — pos-sibly in the jaws of coyotes — while others have found their cats fatally mauled by dogs.
Th e data does not exist to tell if there is a trend of increasing or higher-than-normal disap-pearances or maulings, but many Rossland pet owners are concerned.
At 10:30 p.m. last Saturday, Sam Troy of 2nd Avenue “bore terrible witness” to a dog attack-ing her beloved, 13-year-old Sneetch, a gentle gray cat this reporter knew well from two months of living in the lap of hospitality at Troy’s house.
Troy heard the screams of what she assumed were her neighbour’s young chickens be-ing attacked. She ran out to fi nd Sneetch being tossed around in the mouth of a mid-size mixed
breed with German Shepherd markings.
She moved in and rescued Sneetch as the dog “cringed” away and bounded a tall stone wall and fence, leaving “silently,” Troy said.
Sneetch died four hours later, suff ering from the trauma and wounds.
Troy suspects several dogs on the loose in Rossland are culprits behind numerous fatal maulings.
Th e same night Sneetch died, another cat was attacked in Low-er Rossland by a mid-size mutt with Shepherd markings, and “a Mastiff face,” they reported.
Many more people report that their cat disappeared “with-out a trace.” Without evidence, many plausible explanations ex-ist, but most argue that coyotes have snatched the cats. Others also suspect cougars or even raccoons.
Mr. Puss was fi ve when he chose Stewart Spooner over
Spooner’s friend.“He seemed to like my place
better and stuck around,” Spoon-er recalled.
Now 16 years old, Mr. Puss hasn’t been seen for more than two weeks.
“Th ere’s no evidence at all,” Spooner said. “Normally he doesn’t stray too far from home. We searched high and low, fi g-uring he could be caught some-where, or injured and hiding out.”
Since then, Spooner has asked around and has found many others who have lost pets.
“A guy on 1st Avenue, his 10-year-old inside-outside cat went missing at the same time. Another two over by the MacLean school went missing around then too.”
Spooner fi gured coyotes were a likely culprit. “I’ve certainly heard coyotes at the perimeter of town,” he said, “and coming in at other times. It seems less likely to me, cougars wandering
the streets.”He suggested that the
late spring and snowpack might aff ect typical behav-iours, but he added that it’s “all speculation at the moment. I haven’t heard of any sightings of preda-tors.”
Neither has the conser-vation offi cer, Ben Beetle-stone.
“If there’s a coyote prob-lem,” he said, “no one’s told us about it.”
Since April 1, 2010, there has been one unconfi rmed cougar sighting near Ross-
land reported to the conserva-tion offi ce, and one call to advise the offi ce of a coyote pack here.
“If cats are going missing, it could be a neighbour who doesn’t like cats. It could be coyotes, it could be a cougar,” Beetlestone said, illustrating the variety of explanations. “If a dog attacks a cat, it will kill it. It’s just a game, to kill it, and it will leave it wherever it killed it.”
Nevertheless, he added, the dog may not kill the cat some-where that is easy to fi nd.
Th e conservation offi ce is most interested in reports of ab-normal behaviour. For example, “If coyotes were being seen reg-ularly through the day,” he said, “or aggressive behaviour was seen. But we’re not seeing any of that.”
Cindy Devine lost 17-year-old Nootka last September from her Cooke Avenue home. Like Mr. Puss, there was no trace of “Nootie.” Since then, Devine be-gan to notice “posters all over town.”
She counted 15 cats missing between August and September. “Th ere was a quiet period over the winter,” she said, “I don’t know where the coyotes went then.”
She argued, “usually if there’s an attack by a dog, there’s some hair or remains. Nootka’d been in a lot of kerfuffl es. Usually there was a huge amount of hair.”
“Th ere’s something about the coyotes that they remove them quickly; domestic dogs will maul them right there,” she said.
Devine’s cat went missing af-
ter dusk, but her friend Sarah Adamson’s cat went missing in the early morning.
Devine suggested a “safe win-dow” from late morning to af-ternoon and wished she’d known the danger beforehand. “I would be more diligent if I had a cat again.”
Now she fi nds solace cuddling dozens of cats at the SPCA in the communal cat room, “instead of giving one cat all my attention.
Heather Smith lost her much loved cat Lazer this spring, but philosophized, “How many birds and other animals did he kill in his life?”
If you have stories to share, please write them to [email protected] so we can in-clude them in updates, or com-ment at www.rosslandnews.com with your opinions.
Vince Profi li, Doug Halladay (president), Ivan Bell, and Jim Albo of the legion paint ceil-ing panels to spruce up Branch No. 14 as part of the general upkeep of the hall. Halladay warns that the days of the Rossland Legion are numbered unless member participation increases.
Sprucing up the Rossland Legion
Andrew Bennett photo
ANDREW BENNETT
Rossland News Reporter
Mr. Puss has been missing formore than two weeks and hisowner, Stewart Spooner, fi guresa coyote got him.
Elise Pare photo
Cat owners disturbed by spate of disappearances
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Newswww.rosslandnews.com 3Rossland News Thursday, June 9, 2011
Th e fuel treatment pro-gram to protect the perimeter of Rossland from wildfi res started again on May 12 aft er being shut down by snow on Dec. 10, 2010, but project co-ordinator Don Mortimer says a big part of community wild-fi re protection depends on the active participation of private landowners.
Th e treatment involves re-moving the forest's "kindling", Mortimer said, to create a "shaded fuel break." Surface fuels and ladder fuels — small trees and low branches that can take the fi re up to the crown — are removed, while logs and some standing dead trees are left behind to provide important wildlife habitat. To help build soil, logs are limbed and bucked so they make con-tact with the forest fl oor.
A "visual buff er" of small trees is also left in a strip along trails, but otherwise the result is a forest that appears more open and "walkable," an eff ect trail users can see for them-selves in the Star Gulch reser-voir area and above both the Iron Colt and Black Diamond subdivisions.
Another benefi t of the pro-gram is the six-foot lengths of fi rewood-size logs stacked along the trails. "Th ese will be moved to the trailhead just outside the Star Gulch reser-voir gate for resident pick up," Mortimer said.
Eleven of the 22.4 hectares of city land slated for treat-ment around Rossland were completed last fall, and anoth-er eight hectares were partially treated as the snow fi rst fl ew. Now the snow has melted, these areas will be revisited and the fi nal four hectares will be fi nished this spring.
Th e wildfi re protection plan targets key areas around town with the potential to ignite, but Mortimer noted, "the im-portance of private landown-ers 'FireSmarting' their own properties can't be overem-phasized."
"A number of private prop-erties on the community inter-face require fuel treatment to reduce their wildfi re hazard," he explained, "but of course this publicly funded program is unable to provide hazard re-duction on private properties. Property owners should get the FireSmart Homeowners
Manual — a free publication available at city hall, the fi re department, or at the insur-ance agency offi ce downtown — go through the manual and apply the recommendations to their property."
"It's important that Ross-land property owners rec-ognize the potential for high intensity wildfi res burning in the mountains above Ross-land to burn non-FireSmart structures on the community perimeter or shower large quantities of embers into the townsite," Mortimer said. "Th ese embers can ignite non-FireSmart structures in short order."
Mortimer, a specialist with more than 36 years of expe-rience in forest fi re manage-ment and a longtime Rossland resident, said the fuel treat-ment signifi cantly reduces the chance that a fi re started in the treated areas — for ex-ample, by embers loft ed in by nearby fi res — will develop into a destructive, high inten-sity wildfi re."
He thinks the fuel treat-ments completed on some of the city's forested land will re-duce the possibility of embers showering into the townsite, "however the fuel treatment program has only treated a small percentage of the forest lands."
High intensity wildfi res can send embers further than two kilometres, but treatment that far out "is neither practi-cal nor aff ordable," Mortimer explained. "Homeowners have to FireSmart their properties so that embers landing on and adjacent their structures are less likely to ignite and destroy those structures."
He stressed that even prop-
erties with minimal vegetation need to be "ember-proofed," as wind driven embers can ignite anything combustible.
With the Slave Lake fi res occupying a lot of national at-tention, Mortimer was careful to draw several distinctions between the Slave Lake event and the wildfi re risk Rossland faces.
"Slave Lake losses were more due to an extreme wind event than anything else," he explained.
"Th e forest fuels were very dry and no doubt contributed to the initial wind driven fi re that surged into Slave Lake, but I'd suggest the majority of structures burned in that incident were ignited by fi re-brands created by the wind stripping burning pieces off of one house and deposit-ing them downwind on other structures."
Although similar events have happened in Rossland, Mortimer credits stricter building codes and improved fi re department capabilities for "more or less" putting an end to "city burning" fi res, but "It's pretty impossible for any fi re department to get a handle on that kind of fi re spread once it gets established," he said.
"Fortunately, we don't get those sustained high wind speeds or the very low 'pre-green up' forest fuel moistures of Northern Alberta's boreal forest here in Rossland," he said, but we do face potential-ly severe consequences when, "inevitably," wildfi re visits us. Structure fi res on windy days could be disastrous.
Visit city hall, the fi re de-partment, or RHC Insurance to get a free copy of the FireS-mart Homeowners Manual.
A crew with Apex Forest and Wildfi re Services of Nelson burns slash cleared from a Rossland-area forest.
Don Mortimer photo
ANDREW BENNETT
Rossland News Reporter
Wildfi re protection now depends largely on landowner participation Can you help out? Your family? Your team?
Your service club? Your organization?
Join our Team!Nelson, Castlegar and Trail are hosting the BC SeniorGames, August 16-22, and we need your help!
Volunteers are needed for a wide spectrum of areas and activities. Right now, volunteers are needed for the following jobs:
1. Hosts for Castlegar and Trail 2. Medical First Aid (re-certi cation is available) 3. Drivers for all cities 4. Security for all areas 5. Sports: Swimming, Track and Field, Horseshoes, Crib, Dragon Boat 6. Registration Tables 7. Phone calling
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Business4 www.rosslandnews.com Thursday, June 9, 2011 Rossland News
Lori and Bill Craig fi nally realized a big dream on June 1 — they now own the building they have leased for almost seven years for Lori’s business, Better Life Fitness.
“When the ‘for sale’ signs hit on our building, people didn’t know what was going on,” Lori recalled. “We had to ex-plain to everyone we had a few years left on the lease, we weren’t going anywhere. We had to be very patient and know, somehow, that we were going to pull it off .”
“We took a run at [owning the build-ing] seven and a half years ago,” Bill said, when the credit union put it up for sale, “but the off er didn’t fl y.”
Burg Jones bought it instead, and leased the space to the Craigs who set about gutting the old bank — the offi ce now was the vault then. Th ey did most of that themselves, then refi nished it with the help of three carpenters, installed all the machines as the snow fl ew, and opened for exercise at the beginning of 2005.
“It was a lot of work, but it happened amazingly fast and went amazingly smooth,” Bill said about the three-month transformation to the building.
Since then, the couple has kept the building in good shape, but they felt, as renters, that they lacked the incentive to make really important improvements over the last seven years.
“When there’s a for sale sign on it, it’s not our building to make look really good,” Lori said, “We wanted to buy it.”
Bill said, “Th e prospect of getting energized to pour more money into a building that you don’t own…” and Lori fi nished, “it hurts.” Bill added, “With a lease, you never know.”
Th e Craigs relate how when their fi rst lease was up in 2009, the lease rate went up and it took negotiation to bring it down for a new three-year lease. Th ey approached Jones again about buying the property last fall, suggesting he sec-tion off two undeveloped commercial lots on the property and sell the building separately.
It took until now for Jones to decide to go for it and for both parties to settle on a price. Th e couple had to “dig in,” Bill explained, “we couldn’t walk away from the negotiations.” As Lori said, “perse-verance is how we’ve done our life.”
Th e dedication paid off but, Bill added, “without Community Futures, we wouldn’t be having this interview. Th ey’ve been fantastic right the way along.” Community Futures helped the couple fi nance the purchase with more reasonable terms than off ered by any bank.
Lori said, “Th ey saw the value in what we were doing. A lot of banks don’t do that. It’s all about the bottom line and the numbers.”
Now, as owners of the building, “we have better control of our costs. If we control our costs, we can keep our members happy,” Bill explained. “Our
membership rates are probably the best in the Kootenays.”
Lori remarked, “Th e sale for me was terrifying. We’re in for the long term now. I’m going to put in a lot more years than I thought I would, be-cause I love it.”
Until now, she thought she would re-tire when her daugh-ter Camille graduated, but all that’s changed. She laughed, “I real-ized, man, this is just the start. I said to my butt blaster class I’ll be walking in with my walker when I’m 90 to teach the class!”
“Th ere’s a sense of accomplishment,” she said. “Deep down inside, it was always meant to be ours, even when we missed out on that fi rst op-portunity.”
Anyone who goes to their centre knows that Lori runs a tight ship, from the centre’s clean sparkle to her close watch on the books, but Lori gives heavy credit to her partnership with Bill.
Bill understated the matter: “I take out the garbage and fi x the machines.” But Lori said, “Bill’s the man. You see an out of order sign, and not a day goes by and it’s fi xed. He’s literally wrenching once or twice a week. If he didn’t have his tools, and he didn’t have his experience, I wouldn’t be open because I wouldn’t be able to aff ord to get those machines fi xed. It’s a great partnership.”
Now an agent with Century 21, Bill’s experience includes decades as an air-craft maintenance engineer specialized in heavy-lift helicopters. Aft er graduat-ing from BCIT, he moved to Smithers for some years where he met Lori. Th e couple left Smithers in 1989 for Victoria, and then Bill took a position as a base engineer in Haida Gwaii. And then they bumped into Rossland in 1992, felt the love, and bought a home almost imme-diately even though they were unable to move until the following year.
In the meantime, Lori never lost sight of her hard-driven philosophy: “Th e purpose of life is making it better. No one wants to get old, no one wants to be frail.”
“I’ve always been into fi tness, prob-ably since the day I could walk,” she said. I ran marathons when I was in my teens, I’ve done all sorts of journeys with dif-ferent sports. I’ve always known it makes me feel really good inside, mentally, physically.”
Bill smiled as he recalled enjoying a six pack and looking on as Lori, with only three days notice, worked her six pack in the gruelling 18.5-kilometre Tongariro
crossing alpine race in New Zealand.“Fitness is my life,” Lori said. “I’m
working my ass off just as hard as every-one in the gym. I’m stronger now at 48than I was in my thirties.”
“She’s got a great attitude and a goodfollowing,” Bill said. “People come hereat 5:45 to work out. I don’t know any-body else who could have pulled this to-gether. It’s not all fun and games. Th ereare some times you don’t know why thehell you’re there. But she manages to getthrough those times.”
“I’ve always believed that when you dosomething, you have to have joy in yourheart,” she said. “When the alarm goesoff at 4:40, it’s never pretty for anybody.But once the coff ee hits your mug, youhave your shower, I’m here at 5:45 andthere couldn’t be anything else I could beso happy doing. I laugh all day!”
Now the future looks even brighter tothe Craigs as they look forward to paint-ing the front in the gym colours and Billrevels in fi nally having cleaned up themess in the back and tackles other main-tenance projects.
“I’m going to have to be even more cre-ative with programs,” Lori said. “For me,it’s a renewal. Th is is my future now.”
“Th ose 13-year-olds coming in, they’reour longterm memberships. Th ey’re go-ing to be here until Grade 12.
“Or the Kung Fu kids downstairs,” Billadded. “Th ese kids are our future busi-ness,” Lori agreed. “We take care of themwhen they come in.”
“I want my members to know,” shesaid, “I want the community to know.Come and buy a punch pass. Come andcheck us out. We’re here for them. Nowthat for sale sign’s down, the Craigs aregoing to be here for a long time.”
Ownership makes for a better Better Life
Bill and Lori Craig are celebrating the realization of alongheld dream to own the building where Lori’s busi-ness, Better Life Fitness, has operated since 2005.
Andrew Bennett photo
ANDREW BENNETT
Rossland News Reporter
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Newswww.rosslandnews.com 5Rossland News Thursday, June 9, 2011
Fift y volunteers turned up bright and early Saturday morning for Trails Day, the seventh annual trail-building blitz organized by Pat-rick Kinghorn of the Kootenay Columbia Trails Society (KCTS).
Trail crews had previously prepared a sec-tion along Record Ridge for a rerouting of the Seven Summits Trail, marking the new trail and cutting out logs and vegetation in the way. Th irty fi ve of the day's volunteers met at the Centennial trailhead and walked up for an intense morning of digging out the new trail.
"You never know who's going to turn up," said Stewart Spooner of the KCTS, "but we had a bunch of really keen people and knocked it out in a few hours. It was a beautiful day and went really quickly. It's a beautiful spot, we had great views, and we got a lot done."
Meanwhile, avid volunteer trail builder Ryan Kuhn led 15 others over to the Neptune area where he and other volunteers had built the BS Trail two years ago.
"It needed fi ne tuning," Kuhn explained. "We had a great day. A bunch of people came out, trail builders, families and kids, and we worked our way up until we hit snowline."
He said the relatively new trail needed "tweaking" as it settles in, and is now "smooth-er, with new features and better fl ow."
Aft er the day of labour, the trail build-ers met up at the Rush Café for a late aft er-noon pot luck and kegger funded by a group of local freeriders who raised money at the Life Cycles movie fundraiser in Trail last fall, Spooner said.
Meanwhile, trail maintenance crews are "going great," he said. "Th ere's always a lot of work this time of year."
Crews are faced with an "endless list of things to improve," with issues in the spring from winter windfall to drainage repair from damage done by the late and deep snowpack and the extra rain we've had this spring.
"We get the trails open as best we can with the time we've got," Spooner said. "We're waiting for some of the higher ones to clear and then we'll get those in too."
Th e KCTS has built and maintains a laby-rinth of interconnected trails that traverse the full extent of the Rossland Range, many following old wagon roads, horse trails, rail grades, and, the KCTS website reports, "even smuggler’s routes that date back to the late 1800s and early 1900s."
Th e trails range from wide, gently angled beginner terrain to expert routes with pre-cipitous drops and jumps for technical bike stunts.
For more information about the KCTS and the trail system, including a detailed map, visit www.kcts.ca.
ANDREW BENNETT
Rossland News Reporter
ABOVE: Trails Day organizer Patrick
Kinghorn and volun-teer Cam Spooner dig out a re-routed
section of the Seven Summits Trail on Record Ridge on Saturday. RIGHT: Volunteers gather
to work on the trails.
Vincent Boothe photos
Fift y volunteers pitch in for 2011 Trails Day
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HST will be reduced from 12% to 10%.After listening to British Columbians, the government has proposed an HST reduction from 12% to 11% by 2012, then to 10% by 2014. This proposed change will take effect if the province votes to keep the HST in the referendum. If B.C. votes to return to the GST + PST system, the combined rate will remain at 12%.
Transition cheques for families & seniors.Under the proposed change to a 10% HST rate, the average B.C. family will be $120 better off annually than under the old 12% GST + PST system. And to help transition to the lower rate, the government will provide $175 for every child under 18 and every senior with income under $40,000.
Th e Rossland Pool has an aqua fi t instructor on staff this summer and we’re excited about bringing aqua fi t classes back to Rossland! We have three weeks over the summer scheduled for aqua fi t – this week until Th ursday, June 9, the week of July 11-14 and the week of Aug. 2-4. Class runs from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and costs $5 for members and $6 for non-members. If you’re interested in trying it out — come tonight! Bring a water bottle, a towel and enjoy the new, warm showers, aft er your work-out. Th e pool is a comfy 85 degrees — so no excuses!
Th ere are many benefi ts to aquatic workouts — specifi cally, water de-creases the amount of shock which is transmitted through the bones, joint and ligaments. People who have mobility issues also experience the benefi ts of aquatic exercise because buoyancy decreases the eff ect of gravity: body weight is reduced by up to 90 per cent. Special populations including the elderly who may have fragile bones, the arthritic, the dis-abled, the injured athlete, as well as pre-or post natal women will exercise in relative comfort and ease in the water. Th is class incorporates cardio, muscular endurance and stretching in a refreshing and challenging way. A great way to cool down aft er a long, hot day!
Interested in playing soft ball with other families? Th e recreation depart-ment has set aside Cooke Avenue ball fi eld in lower Rossland on Friday nights from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Grab your gloves, your bats and your kids
and head out to Cooke Avenue fi eld for a casual, relaxed game of soft ball. Th is is a co-ed, multi age, recreation-al, fun game organized by the fami-lies that show up. Tell your friends! Th e more families who show up, the more fun you’ll have! Adults will be responsible for ensuring safety, com-mon sense and fair play.
Due to numerous requests we’ve been able to schedule an early morn-ing lap swim, once a week at the Rossland Pool. On Tuesdays, start-ing June 14, from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. you can swim at the Rossland Pool! Admission is $2 for members and $5 for non-members. Instructors will be available to assist you with stroke development and a workout sched-ule. Th ere are lots of other times in the schedule for lap swim — check out the schedules for lunchtime and evening swims.
Th e Redefi ning Beauty course with Amber Oosthuyzen has been re-scheduled for June 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Rossland Arena lounge. Th e course is for girls ages 12-18 years. Amber is a local teen from Trail who has developed a course for girls and young women, that helps them to channel their self-worth, develop healthy relationships and teaches them to set the bar high. Th is year’s program focuses on mental and physical health and stripping away an obsession about body and image. Th e participants fi gure out what makes them tick through discussions and activities while enjoying the support of the group. To register a daughter, niece or granddaughter, please con-
tact the recreation department. Th e Home Alone course is also
being off ered in June — right before school lets out for the summer. Th is is a great course for kids who may fi nd themselves at home, alone, for short periods of time. Th e course is for children ages 10-13 years and is being off ered on Th ursday, June 16 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at RSS.
If you’re interested in Adult Roller Hockey at the Rossland Arena, a new Coordinator has started up the sport. Days of the week and times may change in the future. If you’re inter-ested in playing, please contact Hart Joron at [email protected] Hart will be able to answer any questions about drop in fees and equipment required.
Junior roller derby in the Rossland Arena has started up, with regular, weekly practices on Sundays from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Equipment can be purchased at Rossvegas or from several online retail stores. For more information, please contact Darlene, the co-ordinator, at [email protected]. junior derby is for girls ages 5-18 years, with the diff erent age catego-ries being split out for safety. Th ere is no contact allowed for junior derby, so there’s no reason to not give it a try!
Are you interested in selling something at the Rossland Mountain Market? Th e co-ordinators would like to encourage anyone who’s interested. Please come out to the public infor-mation session June 15 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the meeting room at the Rossland Library.
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It’s good to see provincial offi cials working to strike a balance between protecting public health and allowing small-scale, local markets to fl ourish.
As the Rossland News reports today (on page 14), Interior Health has relaxed the rules governing vendors at gatherings like the an-nual Mountain Market in Rossland, making it easier for people to sell their homemade products within the bounds of the law.
Foods that fall into a designated low-risk category no longer need an offi cial “stamp of approval” to be sold at market. Th is category includes things like jams and jellies, cakes, cookies, chocolate, fruits and vegetables.
Th is is a relatively common-sense approach to food safety that ought to encourage more people to participate in the Mountain Market this summer and in other similar markets in the region.
On top of that, local health inspector Juliana Gola will make herself available to Rossland residents on Wednesday next week to answer any questions prospective vendors might have about the new rules, or which foods fall into the low-risk category and which are deemed to be more potentially dangerous and thus subject to more stringent regulations.
Overall, this seems to be a reasonable way to keep small-scale food producers from get-ting bogged down in too much red tape while simultaneously reducing the risk to the public of food-borne disease.
As we’ve seen with the recent and still mysterious outbreak of a new strain of E. coli bacteria that began in Germany and has now spread throughout Europe and into North America, the threat of contaminated food should not be underestimated. But, at the same time, this threat should not be overes-timated to the point that it discourages local food production and commerce.
Th e current approach seems to fi nd roughly the right middle ground.
Th e right balance
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How would you feel if someone took $1,000 out of your purse or wallet?
How about $275 million dollars a year for 10 years out of your children’s education?
Highest education funding ever? We don’t believe it and you don’t have to take our word. Check out what the BC Supreme Court found in its decision on April 13, 2011.
Confi dential government documents revealed a plan (“Run Silent and Run Deep”) to cut $275 million dollars per year from the K-12 public education budget. A November 22, 2001 email from a government offi cial to then-Minister of Education Christy Clark dis-cussing the government’s pending legislation warned: “Parents are apt to notice signifi cant reductions in service levels.”
Th is is exactly what happened.Minister Clark proudly led legislation based
on information that the court found was “not accurate” and “so vague and unsubstantiated that it was impossible to challenge it meaning-fully”. Th e judge stated: “It would be unfair to give it any weight for the truth of its contents.”
What has been the eff ect on public educa-tion in BC?
• Since 2001, there has been a 22-per-cent reduction in K-12 funding.
• Boards are scrambling to pay for govern-ment downloaded costs such as new cur-riculum and initiatives, carbon off set taxes and collective agreements without adequate funding.
• Some boards have seriously proposed non-replacement of secondary teachers and support staff on the fi rst day of absence.
• Boards can’t adequately plan in advance due to constantly changing funding formulas and secretary-treasurers are challenged by a $300-million shortfall just to retain the status quo this year.
• Schools are being closed; class sizes are increasing; special education, gift ed, and ESL student needs are not being met; and, teacher-librarians, special education teachers and counselling levels are being reduced to meet shortfalls.
• BC teachers rank eighth in pay in Canada
and haven’t had substantial benefi t improve-ment in 20 years.
Education ministers since Christy Clark have continued to claim that the government has provided the “highest funding ever”.
Declining enrolment has been used as a smokescreen to hide the fact that there is a “structural shortfall” in funding because the government is chronically lagging behind what it should be paying for delivery of ser-vices that boards are mandated to provide.
You be the judge.• Have you noticed a reduction in educa-
tion service levels?• Is your board scrambling to meet man-
dated services?• Has your neighbourhood school been
closed? • Have your child’s educational needs and
choices been torpedoed by what the court has found as the government’s unconstitutional actions?
Send an email to Premier Christy Clark at [email protected] and ask where the money taken from BC’s kids has gone and urge her to restore education funding immediately. Our kids can’t wait!
Respectfully submitted by theLocal Presidents of the:
Arrow Lakes Teachers’ Association -Pat Dion
Boundary District Teachers’ Association - Norm Sabourin
Creston Valley Teachers’ Association -Becky Blair
Kootenay Columbia Teachers’ Union -Andy Davidoff
Kootenay Lake Teachers’ Association -Steve Anderson
Nelson District Teachers’ Union -Tom Newell
‘Highest education funding’ ever? You be the judge of that
Th e Rossland Historical Museum and Archives would like to thank the following for their help in making our third annual Muse-um Day a success: the Friends of the Museum, Rossland Chamber of Commerce, Don Vock-eroth, Bear Aware, Shelley Ackerman, Ross-land Old Time Fiddlers, Mary Janni, Rotary
Interact students, City of Rossland, Rossland Hardware, Bear Country Kitchen and the citi-zens of Rossland for their continued support.
Joyce Austin, manager
Rossland Historical Museumand Archives Association
Th anks for supporting Museum Day
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In celebration of its 57th year in business, Trail Driving School is giving a car to one of its students. Th e 2001 Toyota Corolla, one of the driving school vehicles, which has about 328,000 km’s is just “broken in” as a Toyota dealer would tell you. A well maintained Toyota vehicle can easily reach the 400,000 plus mileage status.Th is 2003 photo shows the vehicle that is to be given away. Signage will be removed from the car as well as the instructors “dual brake” (even though some parents might prefer to have it left in!) Full contest details full contest details are now available on the Trail Driving Schools’ website or you can contact them nowfor details. 250-368-8000Th is 2003 photo shows the vehicle that is to be given away. Signage will be removed from the car as well as the instructors “dual brake” (even though some parents might prefer to have it left in!) Full contest details will be available soon on Trail Driving Schools’ website or you can contact them now for details. “It was just the right time to do it “, says Gary Fleming, owner of the business since 1999. “I was going to do it on the 60th anniver-sary however I want to “retire the car” this year”. Even though the car has been well maintained and has annual ICBC inspections, it has little trade in value but it would be a great “student car”. “It will be sad to see it go. People really become attached to their vehicles and they always remember their fi rst vehicle”. A lucky student of Trail Driving School will never forget this one. Th e B.C. certifi ed
high school teacher loves to see motivated students, and seeing the students get excited over this opportunity is great. Not only is it a great prize, but the chances of winning the car are extremely high compared to other draws.Students get an entry form for every lesson purchased. Th ose who enroll in Trail Driving Schools’ Driver Education Course, a defensive driving program, will get additional entry forms. Part of the contest is to have students guess the number of lessons given in that car between 2003 and April 15, 2011. Several numbers ranging from 2970 to 5480 will be given on the entry form to choose from. On Nov. 29th, four student names will be drawn and the student who has the closest guess to the number of lessons given in the vehicle will win.Generations of families have taken lessons from Trail Driving School, and people keep coming back. Some families have had 4 children take the Drivers Ed Course so it’s also a way to say thank you to the community for 57 years of support and give something back. Residents can look forward to many more years of dedicated service.
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Th e Queen Street market featured classics like Michel Germaine’s baking and Rebecca Gilhula’s Sweet Dreams cupcakes. Dave Klein and Caley Mulholland had the seedling market cornered while Sarah Zanussi and other artisans sold pottery, hats, stained glass, patio stones and more.
Brian Kalbfl eisch played double duty, selling his artwork made from wood salvaged from the old Bank of Montreal building and the fi re hall dur-ing renovations. He also had out his ukulele and the golden tones of his voice rang out across the square.
On the other side of the street, serenading the crowds that descended on Bear Country Kitchen for ice cream, was Heavy Shtetl, the mostly-Nelson collective of musicians playing infectiously uplift ing Eastern European folk roots and jazz arrangements on tuba, trombone, accordian, clarinet, and more.
Local busker Russell Haskins also made an ap-pearance as the hot sun lowered on a perfect blue day.
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TOP: Heavy Shtetl’s upbeat Eastern European jazz-roots music could be heard up and down Columbia, with Michael Gifford’s bouncy tuba refl ected off the Post Offi ce amphitheatre. MIDDLE: Dave Klein sells seedlings from his Westfalia van. ABOVE: Sarah Zanussi’s colour-ful ceramics were on display and for sale. LEFT: Everyone loves ice cream! The cool hang out by Bear Country Kitchen was bustling.
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• CANADIAN ENVIRONMENT MONTH• RICK HANSEN WHEELS IN MOTION DAY, JUNE 8• NATIONAL RIVERS TO OCEANS WEEK, JUNE 8-15• NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY, JUNE 21• CANADIAN MULTICULTURALISM DAY, JUNE 27
Coming EventsBC SENIORS’ GAMES, 55+ Aug 16-20. Visit bcseniorsgames.org, contact Barb: 362-9489.STEPHANIE GAUVIN ART SHOW All June, Rush Coff ee Lounge at the Prestige. Interconnect-ing mountain lifestyle with acrylic creativity.ROYAL DIVAS BALL June 11, 8pm to late, Prestige Hotel. Ladies night and roller derby fundraiser. Advance tickets, $20, at RossVegas and Th e Red Pair.SAFETY VILLAGE, AGES 9-12 June 11, 10am to noon. Bicycle and fi re safety, bring bike and helmet. Parental participation required. Pre-register at Aquatic Centre, 364-0888.FARMER’S MARKET HEALTH REGS MEETING June 15, 5-6 pm, library meeting room. Public information session hosted by Rossland REAL Food with presentation by Local Health Authority Juliana Gola. Recommended for Mountain Market vendors. Free. WHITE WATER BLACK GOLD DOCUMENTARY June 16, 7 p.m., RSS. Film on the tar sands fol-lows David Lavallee’s journey in search of answers about the battle between water and oil. $10 adults, $5 students and children. Trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/17123122.HISTORIC FORT SHEPHERD June 16, 7 p.m., Rossland Museum. Free presentation by Trail Historical Society on the historic Hudson Bay Co. trading post near the Waneta Dam.FOLK DANCING - ENGLISH & CONTRA Next: Friday, June 17, 7-9:30pm, Miners’ Hall, Newcomers welcome! $5 drop-in. Contact Dave Cornelius, 362-3319. YOUTH CHOIR PERFORMANCES June 17, 6:30 p.m., at the MacLean PAC barbecue at Ma-cLean Elementary. BBQ begins at 5:30 p.m.ROSSLAND GLEE CLUB PERFORMANCE June 18, 6pm and 7pm performances, Rouge Gal-lery. An eclectic repertoire directed by Nadine Tremblay. By donation. Bar and snacks.JOE HILL COFFEEHOUSE Next: June 19, 7-9:30pm, $3 for adults, free for students. To volun-teer or perform, contact Michael Giff ord at 362-7170 or giff [email protected] ANNUAL EAGLES PIG ROAST June 24, 5-11pm, and June 25, 8am-8pm, Trail Eagles Hall. Pancake breakfast, entertainment (Titus Kanby, 9pm, June 25), kids’ zone, cake walk, silent auction, concession trailer, beer garden, all-day live entertainment, and roast pig dinner. Contact Larry at 362-5860 or Kim at 364-2646.LEGION WEEK CELEBRATIONS Reopening June 24, 3pm to closing, and June 25, all aft er-noon, Rossland Legion. Meat draw and jam night on June 24. On June 25, 1pm boche tournament, fi sh pond, kids games, horsehoes, and heritage history hunt with prizes. Hamburgers, hot dogs and salad. Golden City Fiddlers play for a dance that night.7TH ANNUAL ART FOR PEOPLE FUNDRAISER June 24, 6pm, 1930 Monte Christo, Martine and Andy’s home and garden. Lots of art, wine, cheese, and a raffl e for a painting of your choice. Visit www.artforpeople.ca to see projects funded to date. 362-9177.ZUMBATHON June 25, 9am registration. A 2 hour Zumba fi tness class charity event. $30 registration before June 15 includes T-shirt. Visit www.zumba.com for details.S-100 FIRE SUPPRESSION COURSE June 25 & 26, Rossland. S-100 provides training to work on a fi re suppression crew. S-185 (entrapment avoidance) included in training. Contact instructor Don Mortimer, 362-9680.
ROSSLAND MOUNTAIN MARKET Farmer’s market, June 30 to Sept 29, Th ursdays from 3 to6:30pm. For contact and vendor information, visit www.rosslandfood.com. DRAGON BOAT - KOOTENAY ROBUSTERS Tue/Th u evenings, Sat morning, May to Sept,Christina Lake. Carpool from Rossland. Contact Mary Hatlevik, 362-9452. All womenwelcome. Raise awareness of breast cancer, support wellbeing. BARKS & RECREATION DOG TRAINING CLASSES Start anytime: puppies 2-6mo. old, basicobedience, small dog socialization, advanced obedience, tricks and fun. Contact:521-BARK, [email protected], 1396 Cedar Ave.KIDS KUNG FU May 16 to June 29 on Mon. and Wed., 3:30 to 4:30pm at Better Life Fit-ness. Ages 7-12. 14 classes for $70. Contact 362-3348 or [email protected] WITH KERRY Power Flow: Tues/Th urs. 6:30-8pm. Yoga for Peace (restorative):Sun. 10-11:30am. At Better Life Fitness. Visit www.kerryyoga.com.HIP HOP CLASSES For all ages. Contact Megs: 362-3381, [email protected] CLASSES Tues., Miner’s Hall, with Shauna: [email protected]! Mon/Wed 9:30-10:30am. Tues. 6-7pm, Miner’s Hall, dance with Amber: [email protected], 362-7447, www.zumbakootenay.com. $55 for 10, fi rst time free.INTERMEDIATE PILATES WITH JACKIE Mon 7:30-8:30pm, Fri 6:30-7:30am, at Better LifeFitness. www.betterlifefi tness.net. Drop-in $12 or 10 for $95.URBAN DANCE Tuesdays, 5-6pm, $8 drop in or 6/$40, Better Life Fitness - 2086 Washing-ton. No experience required. Contact Nicole at 362-9673. OUT OF BOUNDS FITNESS Indoor cycling, Drill Fit, Pilates, strength training, cardio,core, and more. 1995 Columbia, above the Subway. www.outofb oundsfi tness.com.SATURDAY MORNING GROUP TRAIL RUNS 8-9:30am, Saturdays, May to October. Meetat Kootenay Nordic Sports (2020 Washington). Free drop-in, all levels, year-round.Contact Tammie Gibson, 362-7071, [email protected] HOCKEY Fridays, 7pm, Rossland Arena. Co-ed drop in, all welcom. Contact HartJoron, 778-588-7195.SHUTTLE RIDES Wed. and Th u. nights, Pick-up 5:45pm at Revolution Cycles, Drop-off at the Steamshovel aft erwards, by Adrenaline Adventures. $15 shuttle, or $20 includesburger and beer. Diff erent ride each week. Limited space, book ahead.LESSONS AT LOOLU’S LOST SHEEP Knit, crochet. $2 drop-in. Call 362-5383.MOTHER GOOSE Rhymes, songs, fi nger plays and stories, 10:30-11:30am, Th ursdays atMacLean StrongStart Center. Free, drop-in, for caregivers and young children.KOOTENAY DANCE WORKS Ages 3 to adult. Ballet, African, modern and more. ContactRenée Salsiccioli at 368-8601 or [email protected] AT THE LIBRARY Fridays at the Rossland Library: Tots (ages 3-5) 10:15-10:45 am and Books for Babies (under 3) 11:00-11:30 am. Drop-in. A parent orguardian must remain in the program room for the duration.ROSSLAND RADIO CO-OP Join, volunteer, host a show. Meet the 2nd Wed each month,7pm at the radio headquarters, Rotary Health Building, 1807 Columbia Ave.ROSSLAND SKATEPARK COMMITTEE 6-8 pm, fi rst Tuesday each month at the RosslandLibrary. Come be part of the process. 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.SCOUTING For boys and girls, now at the Rossland Scout Hall. Beavers (ages 5,6,7)Wed. 6-7pm. Cubs (ages 8,9,10) Th u. 4-5:30pm. Contact Shanna Tanabe: 362-0063.YCDC YOUTH NIGHTS Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or [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. onthe third Wed. of every month. All members of Branch #14 are asked to attend.
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Th e weekend of June 17 to June 19 brings with it a spate of musical fun, beginning with the MacLean choir and the Rossland Cherub Choir singing for the PAC family barbecue on the roof of MacLean on June 17, to the Glee Club performance on June 18, and the fi nal Joe Hill Coff eehouse of the season on June 19.
Th e MacLean PAC barbecue begins at 5:30 p.m., and Janet Marshall’s little cherubs will raise their angelic voices in joy and song at 6:30 p.m., followed by the MacLean student choir directed by Terry Marshall.
Th e MacLean students have performed all over Rossland for diff erent events, from the Santa Claus parade to Earth Day, but the Cher-ubs have not performed as much.
“It’s aft er school on Tuesdays,” Terry said about the choir Janet conducts voluntarily. “Parents and kids, whoever wants to come. She’s got preschoolers and kindergarteners, so it’s not like my choir where they learn lots of words, but it’s really fun!”
“We hope the weather will cooperate and we’ll be on the roof entertaining as people wait in line for their supper,” he said.
Th e Glee Club, directed by Nadine Tremblay,
will present an “eclectic repertoire of world, re-naissance musical theatre and folk music” at the Rouge Gallery at 6 p.m.
Admission is by donation, and both a bar and snacks will be available.
Th e fi nal Joe Hill Coff eehouse of the sea-son lands squarely on Father’s Day. “What a great gift for the father in your life, come to the show!” said Coff eehouse organizer Michael Giff ord.
Th is 26th Coff eehouse also marks the end of a successful third season. Season four of Ross-land’s monthly variety show begins again on Sept. 16 and runs on the third Sunday of every month.
“Every month brings another great show of amazing local talent,” Giff ord said. Th is month’s show features everything from the hot and southern Dos Gringos — John and An-drew Cullen — to Don Birtch and Lawrence Shumey of Titus Kanby performing “Titus-style” old pop and rock hits.
Regular favourites like Kootenay Dance-works, Paul Bowles’ percussion and poetry, and singer-songwriter Russell Haskins will also perform, as well as Janet Marshall with young singer Kara Deane.
Mara Sand and Grant Freeman will play blues and keyboard, while Th e Nelsons, a fam-
ily of musical fun, wrap up the evening.Th e Miners’ Hall doors open at 6 p.m., and
the Coff eehouse runs from 7 to 9:30.Admission is free for students, $3 for adults
and beverages and treats will be on sale by the RSS Drama Club.
ANDREW BENNETT
Rossland News Reporter
The Rossland Cherub Choir, led by Janet Marshall and Mara Moen, celebrated a great season of singing every week by performing the Jelly Bean Song for Liz Arsenault at Jelly Bean Junction, who paid for the performance with — what else? — jelly beans. The choir’s fi nal little show will be at the MacLean family barbecue on June 17 and is just one of a host of musical performances set for Rossland this weekend.
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Full weekend of music ahead
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Guest speakers Jamie Forbes and Sarah Benson, the president and archivist of the Trail Historical Society, will give a presentation on the historic Fort Shepherd at the Cominco Th eatre of the Rossland Museum on June 16 at 7 p.m.
"I've seen the presentation, it's very informative," said Joyce Austin, the Rossland Museum archivist. "It's defi -nitely worth coming and fi nding out more about some of the historic places and names that were in our area."
Fort Shepherd was built on the shores of the Columbia River near the present-day Waneta dam, roughly 45 years aft er explorer David Th ompson pioneered the fi rst river route through these hills to the Pacifi c.
Th e Hudson's Bay Company "fort" was not a military installation but, like most of the company's forts, operat-ed as a trading post. With poor agricultural land around it and a low intake of furs, the fort was a failure at fi rst and closed in 1860. It soon reopened, however, and was a stop
on the Dewdney Trail when it came through in 1865.Today, Austin said, "a lot of people are familiar with
Fort Shepherd for the reclamation work Teck has beendoing in that area," beginning with clearing up of "oldrubble, car bodies, and that sort of thing."
Now part of the Land conservancy for B.C., naturalistsknow the area as a wintering ground for many species ofwildlife.
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I/O Design and Engineering is a small mechanical engineering design firm located in Trail, BC. We are currently looking to fill the following positions: a junior mechanical draftsperson, a junior mechanical designer, and a mechanical engineer. Typical projects involve concept generation to detailed design for: automated equipment, lifting devices, material handling equipment, specialty equipment platforms, and process equipment and components. If you are interested in applying please check out the careers section at our website www.iodesign.ca for further details on the job postings.
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CANADIANDIABETESASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATIONCANADIENNEDU DIABETE
As the fi rst Mountain Market rapidly approaches, interested vendors should note that a free public information session on newly relaxed health and safety guidelines has been scheduled for June 15 at 5 p.m. at the li-brary.
Local health inspec-tor Juliana Gola will give a brief, plain language presentation on the 2011 Interior Health Market Food Sale Guidelines for vendors who intend to prepare food for sale at the farmers’ market.
“Th is year, it’s actually easier for people to sell low-risk food items legally at farmers’ markets,” ex-plained Rachael Roussin of Rossland REAL Food, the organization that operates the market and will host this session. “REAL Food and the market commit-tee hope that [the relaxed guidelines] will encourage people to come out and try vending. Selling at the market can be a great way to earn a little extra cash and try out something new during the hot sum-mer months.
“Low-risk foods are de-fi ned as items not capable of supporting the growth of disease-causing organ-isms or the production of toxins. Low-risk foods may be prepared at home for sale at “temporary food markets” such as Ross-land’s Mountain Market.
Before, these items needed a “stamp of ap-proval,” but now they don’t.
Examples include fresh or dried fruits and vege-tables, jam and jelly, apple sauce, brownies, bread and buns, popcorn, butter tarts and fruit-fi lled pies, cakes and cookies, dry cereals, chocolate, fudge, and candy.
Foods become “higher risk” and are subject to stricter rules when cer-tain foods including dairy products like cream fi ll-ers and yoghurt are added into the mix. Th e meeting on June 15 will help people navigate the line between low and high risk, and Gola will answer any and all questions about safe and legal food preparation aft er her presentation.
“Th is is an excellent opportunity to come talk
one-on-one with the inspector,” Roussin said.
Prospective merchants should also note that Rosslanders receive a cut rate for market space — $5 per week instead of $8 for a 4-by-4 foot table, and $10 instead of $15 for a tent. Merchants committed to the whole season of 14 weeks,
from June 30 to Sept. 29, receiveone week free by opting for theannual rate. Like last year, themarket runs from 3 p.m. to 6:30p.m. every Th ursday on Queen St.between RossVegas and the CreditUnion. Interested vendors shouldvisit www.rosslandfood.com orcontact Roussin at 362-5452.
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Owner retiring - make me an offer. Phone Dale for Viewings [email protected] 250-368-7995
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Clean 2 bdrm condo, sauna, laundry, July 1, $650 per month, 250-362-5960Rent or Rent to Own McNab Street Trail (Annabel) proper-ty, 2brm 1 bath bungalow completely renovated with pri-vate back yard. f/s/w/d $850/mon avail July 1, Dan 250-231-8667Rossland Nickleplate apt. 2 brm semi-furnished, 825/mo incl util. Call Dan 250-231-8667SOUTH Slocan Village Road: bright spacious 4Bdr home, 1.5 baths, 2082 sq.ft. $285 000. Pictures and details at www.property-guys.com/196602, 250-359-5948.
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Health inspector available to answer questions about selling food at market
Something for the whole family Sam Steele Days is
Cranbrook’s annual festival featuring fun and excitement for
everyone in the family. Enjoy a kid’s fun zone, strongman
competition, parade, ball tournament and much more!
Taste of Cranbrook will showcase a variety of local
restaurants, artists and entertainers. Enjoy a sampling of
Cranbrook’s finest restaurants—sampling tickets start at $1. Bring
your appetite because your tastebuds are in for a real treat! Enjoy
your treats while listening to the community stage entertainment
and then browse the arts and crafts displays. It all takes place at
Spirit Square, Saturday, June 18th, downtown Cranbrook in the
Kootenay Rockies.
For information, call the Sam Steele
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Mountain biking will also take place on Nelson’s trails, an event that hasn’t run since Prince George in 2008.
Registration varies, and the 2011 games are scheduled at the end of summer rather than in early fall as before, so it remains to be seen how that interacts with people’s holiday plans. Nevertheless, 3,000 athletes are expected, more than participate in the Olympics.
“We may be the biggest provincial sporting event in BC, including the Van-couver Olympics,” Damude said.
From Rossland to the Slocan valley, every community near the tri-city hosts of Trail, Castlegar, and Nelson can also expect to see economic spin-off s, estimated at more than $2 million for the region.
“Th ese athletes book their own accom-modation, and they’re responsible for feed-ing themselves. Th ere’s going to be huge economic benefi ts,” Damude explained.
Damude said to expect seniors to be in your community, and requested we be the good hosts for which the West Kootenay is
known! More to the point, “be prepared, if you are a downtown business, this is not the time to close. It’ll be busy!”
Rossland, for example, can expect a spike in accommodations, Damude speculates, as beds in Nelson, Castlegar, and Trail fi ll up, and other factors such as the Waneta Dam construction continue to put pressure on the region’s accommodations.
“Mostly, we’re looking for people to con-sider volunteering for the games,” she said.
“Th ey can vol-unteer for as little as four hours. Many events are available. If they’re
willing to volunteer more than that, there are jobs they can be involved in literally from right now until the games roll out.”
Prospective volunteers should visit www.2011bcseniorsgames.org where regis-tration forms ask about interests, availabil-ity, and skills. Th e provincial website, www.bcseniorsgames.org, does not include regis-tration, but does link to the 2011 site via the WKSG logo.
Paper registration forms are available at the Trail public library and at the Trail Aquatic Centre.
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3,000 athletes to compete — more than at Olympics
Th e RSS girls soccerteam made RSS historylast weekend, taking sev-enth place in the single-Aprovincial championshipsin Victoria.
Coach Rick McKinnonwas proud of his team.
"Th at's the best stand-ing ever for any Rosslandschool soccer team," hesaid.
Th e team fi nished theround robin with two winsand one loss, having de-feated North Island 3-1and Fort St. James 3-1, butsuccumbing to Immacu-latta, 4-1.
Th is left the girls in fi rstplace among the publicschools, McKinnon re-ported, as the team movedinto the play-off round.
Th ey lost to Ashcroft 3-1and went on to defeat St.Ann's Academy 3-2.
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When the West Kootenay zone bid on the BC Seniors Games, it was actually for 2012 — but the provincial so-ciety asked if our region would consider 2011 instead and now the planning for a 27-sport, 3,000-athlete, three-city event has been pressed into a tight schedule to meet the Aug. 16-20 games.
Ann Damude, the sole employee of the re-gional body West Kootenay 2011 BC Seniors Games (WKSG), said “Normally we would have two years to put all the partnerships in place. People are working really hard right now be-cause we only have a year to do it.”
Th e WKSG must organize 27 sports in 20 venues. Seven track events will take place at Haley Park in Trail, for example, and each event has three to fi ve age categories.
“Th at’s a lot of logistics. Even running one of those events would be a major undertaking,” Damude explained, but the incredible task is managed down to the fi ne details by a complex structure of delegated responsibilities.
“Th e Senior Games is run a lot like the Olym-pics,” she explained. “Th ere’s a provincial orga-nization, the B.C. Seniors Games Society (BC-SGS), that runs the games year aft er year, and host communities that change every year.”
Th at is, the International Olympic Commit-tee (IOC) was to VANOC what the BCSGS is to the WKSG.
Th e BCSGS is composed of 12 zones that take turns host-ing the event, and every zone sends a group of athletes to the games. Barb Roberts, for example, is the director for the West Kootenay Zone and co-ordinates the registration of
our region’s athletes. Sometimes, if there are more athleteswho want to participate than the zone can send, qualifi ersare played within the zone to secure spots on the team.
Th e WKSG is a non-profi t society with 27 people on itsboard representing the three host communities of Castle-gar, Nelson, and Trail.
At the top, what Damude called the “trium-virate,” are the president, Pat Metge, the formerrecreation director at the Castlegar complex,and vice presidents Bill Reid of Nelson andKeith Smyth of Trail.
Th e 14 WKSG directors and some co-direc-tors are divided into services, or directorates,such as medical, security, and administration.Th ree to six chairs under each director havemore specifi c areas of responsibility.
“Within the directorates and chairs, there arealready some 200 volunteers, and under thatthere will be all sorts of general volunteers,” Da-mude said.
“By the time this rolls out, there will be aninfrastructure of at least 1,500 volunteers.”
Damude’s own role is to do bookkeeping,troubleshooting, and “really sexy jobs, likemaking sure there are enough porta potties andthat tents are equitably distributed.”
She understates the case, of course. With allsorts of specialized directors and chairs, it’s im-portant to keep an eye on the bigger picture andhow the diff erent needs of diff erent events over-lap and interact.
It may seem “overly bureaucratic,” she said,“but when you get down to who’s doing what, it’s really niceto know who’s getting the tents to your site. It’s a really goodmanagement model and a great way of organizing a mas-sive number of volunteers.”
ANDREW BENNETT
Rossland News Reporter
“Within thedirectorates and chairs, there arealready some
200 volunteers, and under that there will be all sorts of generalvolunteers. By the time this
rolls out, there will be an
infrastructure of at least 1,500volunteers.”
Ann Damude
Army of volunteers to tackle logistical challenges of running BC Seniors Games across three cities
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Th e families of the late Jack Bryden wish to thank all those who attended his
Celebration of Life on May 19th, 2011 at the Prestige Mountain Resort in Rossland.
Special thanks to Ivan Moore for serving as an emcee for the event and for writing a poem dedicated to Jack, to Art Mercer for his choice of verse from the Bible and to Hans Louwe and to Melissa Bryden for their moving and amusing eulogies. Th e families would also like to acknowledge the eff ort that Lisa Stewart put into creating the video that was shown at the Celebration of Life.
Th e families also wish to thank Jack’s medical team for the care and attention that they provided him over the past two years. Th e network included:Drs. A. Jugnauth, M. Humer and Manji of Kelowna; Dr. N. Scotland, Diana Ferguson, Donna Markle, Community Care Nurses, Emergency Room Doctors and Nurses and other KBRH staff from Trail; Dr J Dalla Lana, Pharmacists Mel and Kathy, Joe Ranallo of Rossland, and BC Ambulance attendants from Castlegar.
We would also like to acknowledge the support and professionalism provided by Al Grywacheski and his staff at Personal Alternative Funeral Services. Our thanks to the Rev Ken Siemens for his understanding and kind words at the private memorial service and internment at Mountain View Mausoleum on May 11th, 2011.
No thank you would be complete without acknowledging the support that family, neighbors, and friends including the e-mail group provided during Jack’s illness. Jack was grateful to you all. And best wishes for recovery to the many that we connected with that are still in the battle with cancer. Special thanks to Rhonda Kendell for taking our beloved Beau whenever we needed to go out of town for treatment. Many random acts of kindness occurred in the last two years and we were thankful recipients for them. And fi nally, the families wish to thank everyone for their visits, cards, fl owers, food, phone calls and messages and donations made in Jack’s memory.
God Bless You All. We are all truly going to miss Jack.
With our thanks,Ellen Bryden and families
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