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Now that a second medical marijuana dispensary has opened on Baker St., bringing the local count to six, Kootenay-Columbia MP Wayne Stetski believes it’s time to embrace the burgeoning industry.

“There are companies that are well down the road to being able to produce commercial quantities of medical-grade marijuana, and the whole thing seems to have gone into a stop mode until the Liberal govern-

ment figures out how how to move forward,” Stetski told the Star. “We’re stuck in Never Never Land here.”

But the local cannabis industry seems to be pick-ing up steam regardless, with the Nelson Potorium joining five other existing storefront dispensaries in the downtown core.

‘The concept is to be inviting’

Potorium owner Chris Campbell has an adult son

who suffers from severe epilepsy, which is why she originally started investigating cannabis as a medicine.

The process of acquiring the CBD oil she uses to treat her son’s seizures was frustrating at times, and at one point she thought she might have to move to Colorado, where marijuana has already been legalized. She ultimately sourced products from Vancouver and elsewhere, but now wants to make sure residents can find these products locally.

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Pedestrian struck in downtown crosswalk

A woman suffered non-life-threatening in-juries after being struck by a van at the intersec-tion of Ward and Baker St. on Wednesday morn-ing.

Nelson police Sgt. Dino Falcone said it hap-pened around 11:30 a.m. as the vehicle, heading north on Ward St., made a left onto Baker.

The victim, who was in the crosswalk be-tween Wait’s News and the KWC block, was at-tended to by paramedics and firefighters and taken to hospital by ambulance.

The driver has been “completely co-operative” with police, Falcone said.

He said it was too early to say if any charges would be laid.

Great Northern Trail to be resurfaced

The Regional District of Central Kootenay will resurface portions of the Nelson Salmo Great Northern Trail this summer, a project that will improve drainage and create a more consistent trail surface for cyclists. The initiative is a partnership be-tween the RDCK, Bike BC and the City of Nelson.

“Resurfacing the Great Northern Trail will make cycling easier and more accessible for everyone,” Ramona Faust, chair of the RDCK’s Nelson, Salmo, and Areas E, F, G parks com-mission, said in a news release. “The

new granular surface, as well as the drainage work, will greatly improve trail users’ experience.”

The resurfacing/granular material specified for this project has been used successfully on a number of rails-to-trails projects in BC.

Work on this project is expected to occur in July and August and is primarily focused on the section of trail between the Mountain Station and Svoboda trailheads. Trail users should expect intermittent local-ized closures during drainage work construction with a full trail closure when resurfacing material is being installed.

Nelson sports council to dissolveTYLER HARPER

Nelson StarThe Nelson Regional Sports Council is

set to fold at its annual general meeting next month following the organization’s decision to cease management of the Civic Centre.

Sports council chair Mari Plamondon said Wednesday that the four remaining board members decided to resign after meet-ing with city councillors Val Warmington and Janice Morrison on Tuesday to discuss the future of the rink.

Plamondon said she was disappointed with how the partnership with the city ended, but that it makes sense.

“It was not an easy decision, but we rec-ognized that it’s not really what our mandate as a sports council was all about and with the declining income we’re just not in a posi-tion to lose more money as we did with the bowling alley,” said Plamondon. “It was just a smart thing to do.”

Morrison declined to comment until the city and Regional District of Central Kootenay meet to discuss the issue next Tuesday.

The sports council, founded in 1999, took over management of the city-owned Civic Centre in 2006. The rink has since become an albatross for the sports council, which has lost $40,000 operating the 81-year-old venue since 2010.

City council, which has not increased its funding to the rink from $55,000 since the partnership began, rejected a sports council request in February for an extra $20,000 to

help off-set the decline in revenue.Plamondon said the healthy state of

Nelson’s sports community also played a role in the sports council’s demise.

“We just are redundant,” she said. “We don’t need to exist. I think that sports has come a long way in Nelson and all the groups are managing just fine. So with-out the sports council having enough in-come to pay someone, like we had [Kim

Palfenier] in our office digging up grants and finding opportunities for sports edu-cation and tourism in Nelson, there’s just not a purpose for us.”

The rink is the second venue the sports council has stepped away from. The coun-cil previously ran Savoy Lanes but cited significant financial losses when it ceased management in March 2015. The bowling alley shut down for good last month.

The Nelson Regional Sports Council has decided to dissolve once it ceases management of the Civic Centre rink in June. Tyler Harper photo

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The Kootenay Lake school board didn’t realize they weren’t going to openly debate their amended draft facilities plan at their most recent meeting until they walked into the building.

“The whole purpose of us going into a committee of the whole format was to relax the board meeting rules and have a full dia-logue,” board chair Lenora Trenaman told the Star.

But when they arrived that day, legal counsel informed them that according to their policies they have to proceed with the school closure consideration process prior to the trustees stating their personal thoughts on the matter, because they have to demonstrate “an open mind”.

Six schools are potentially on the chopping block: Trafalgar, Winlaw, Salmo Elementary, Jewett, Creston Education Centre and Yahk. According to the process trustees have to demonstrate an “open mind” during the present 60-day consideration period.

Essentially, these policies temporarily muzzle trustees, preventing them from ex-pressing opinions until the process con-cludes. During the most recent meeting, trustees repeatedly referred to a list of rules on sheets of paper in front of them, at times expressing confusion about what they were and weren’t allowed to say.

‘I can understand the parents’ frustrations’

“That day was really, really difficult,” said Slocan Valley trustee Sharon Nazaroff.

“Right up until that day we thought we were going to have that debate and we were telling the community that. It made me uncomfortable that we had to go back on that. I cannot speak for the board, but I can understand the parents’ frustrations.”

Trenaman also sympathizes, but was quick to point out the public will still hear that debate — just not until July 5. That’s when they’ll unveil their finalized plan and engage in full deliberation.

“It will be our plan, and our intention, but once we come up with that final plan

the mechanisms and the work that’s required will proceed,” said Trenaman.

“There might be roadblocks and it might change. All the feedback received between now and July 5 will be heard and considered as we go through this deliberation process. A lot of folks think it’s a done deal, and that’s not the case. This plan will represent what might happen, not what will happen.”

Following legislated processes

Superintendent Jeff Jones feels the board’s caution was warranted, and crucial to en-sure they’re following the proper legislated processes.

“They need to make sure they don’t put themselves, the board or the community into a difficult and challenging position — one worse than the one we’re already in,” he said.

“What we knew was it would be inappro-priate to advance a plan that said a school is closing without going through the prop-er process as outlined in the board’s own policy.” He said in a way, this buys parents more time. “Every one of these communi-ties have asked for more time, and this gives them that.”

Though parents and trustees have decried what they call an underfunding of education,

Jones feels this process has a noble goal: addressing under-utilized space.

“This is a very challenging time for all of our communities as we consider what lays in front of us and how we best meet the needs of our students,” he said.

“Really this is an opportunity for us to see where we’re spending our dollars and where we don’t need to spend them. That’s what this exercise is all about — could we spend that money better on behalf of our kids?”

‘An opportunity to step up’

Nazaroff put forward motions at the most recent meeting to remove both Winlaw and W.E. Graham from the list of schools being considered for closure. She was only suc-cessful with W.E. Graham.

“I know it’s been disappointing,” she said. “But let’s look at this as an opportunity to step up and say more. Maybe there are people who haven’t gotten involved yet.”

She’s game to hear any ideas parents might have.

“I think trustees are ready to keep lis-tening, and our minds are not made up. I would encourage everyone in the Slocan Valley to keep submitting their ideas and perspectives.”

And she has a message to parents upset by the potential closures: “Don’t give up hope.”

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Local committee will support Syrian family for a yearBILL METCALFE

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Jameel Msatat, age 5, seems pretty con-fident about moving to Canada.

“He was marching forward, confident, like he is looking for a new adventure,” says Nelson resident Brian d’Eon, recalling the ar-rival of Msatat family at the Castlegar airport on Wednesday. The family — Mohammed and Tasmeen Msatat and their children, Jameel and Leen, 4 — are Syrian refugees brought to Nelson by the Cathedral Refugee Committee.

The family has spent the last two years living in a rooftop shed with a leaky roof in Beirut, Lebanon, after fleeing the destruction of Aleppo, Syria.

They flew from Beirut with a one-night stopover in Vancouver, to land in the undoubtedly bewildering world of Castlegar and Nelson. They don’t speak English, but were assisted with translation at the airport by Nelson resident Zaynab Mohammed.

“They appreciated our feeble attempts

at Arabic,” says d’Eon, who was one of a group that took some basic Arabic les-sons last month in Nelson, in anticipation of this arrival. “It was amusing because I used the three phrases that I knew and then Mohammed spoke to me in a full sentence, and I was completely helpless.”

The refugee group, which has pledged, through the federal refugee program, to support the family in Nelson for one year, recently rented a house on Mill St. for the Msatats. D’Eon says the family was over-whelmed when they saw it.

“It has been beautifully furnished with the help of various businesses and volunteers around town, and they are thrilled about it. They were flabbergasted. They could not believe they also had a backyard. The two children have beds upstairs and they were very excited about that.”

D’Eon says the next few weeks the group will help the family with getting social insur-ance numbers and a bank account, showing them where and how to shop, looking into school for Jameel, and starting language assessments and English lessons at Selkirk College for both parents.

“And then we have a whole cadre of people ready to be tutors, including me. At the same time we want them to have a few days where they can have some down time and catch up on their sleep.”

Jameel Msatat, 5, and his four-year-old sis-ter Leen, refugees from Syria, greet their new country at the Castlegar airport on Wednesday. Betsy Kline photo

Reality TV series to capture Kaslo Logger SportsGREG NESTEROFF

Nelson StarVideo cameras and logs will

both roll during the annual Kaslo May Days Logger Sports this month.

TV personality Andrew Younghusband — known for hosting reality shows includ-ing Canada’s Worst Driver and Canada’s Worst Handyman — will participate in several events as part of a new Discovery chan-nel series, Tougher Than it Looks.

“I think it will be exciting and put Kaslo on the map again,” said Kathy Freeman, a logger sports organizer.

She received an email over the winter from she show’s producers inquiring about the event, and the possibility of Younghusband competing as a

“pseudo lumberjack.”Kaslo Logger Sports has

been held annually since 2008 and usually draws about 60 competitors from BC, Alberta, Washington and as far away as Ontario for events including axe throwing, log rolling, and tree climbing.

Younghusband is expected to take part in ten of the 27 events over two days, May 21 and 22. He’ll also head into the field with Sunshine Logging to shadow an actual logging operation.

Younghusband is no novice when it comes to forestry-related feats: he holds the Guinness re-cord for opening the most bot-tles of beer in one minute with a chainsaw (23 and he’s going to demonstrate how he does it).

A production crew is expect-

ed in Kaslo today to look around the competition grounds and village and meet with organizers to discuss the shoot.

The episode is expected to air this fall, although the exact date hasn’t been set. Proper Television, the production company behind the series, wasn’t available for comment this week. However, a news re-lease in January said the series will see Younghusband “tackling the hardest, weirdest, and most dangerous activities he can find in an attempt to beat the experts at their own respective games.”

It’s not the first time Kaslo Logger Sports has benefitted from this sort of attention. In 2009, following an online con-test, the village was among ten communities included on the

TSN Kraft Celebration Tour. Anchors Jennifer Hedger and Darren Dutchyshen broadcast from Kaslo, which also received $25,000 towards improving the logging sports grounds.

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“I hope to make it in-viting for people who’re a little unsure about can-nabis and would like in-formation.”

Her storefront is swank, with a display case featuring nuggets of marijuana arranged on mirrored stands like expensive jewelry. In a sly touch, a large black and white image shows a pair of befuddled cops examining a marijuana plant.

“Most dispensaries have been put together on a dime budget because of the uncertainty around whether they can exist or not,” Campell said. “I wanted to present some-thing that shows we’re here to stay.”

She’s not using tinted windows or attempting to hide her business in any way.

“I think it’s about nor-malizing our industry. We’re just like any other store on Baker St.”

‘Why are westill arresting

people?’

Potorium employee Kaleigh Herald began working in the cannabis industry in Vancouver two years ago, and has since moved to Nelson and become the founding Kootenay chapter chair of Women Grow, a cannabis non-profit.

She believes the time for government regula-tion is now.

“I was in Vancouver when that turbulent gray area market just exploded there. We went from 10 to 100 [dispensaries] in like two years, and the lack of regulation led to an unsafe industry.”

Campbell agrees, and wants to set a new stan-dard locally.

“We need to make sure our products are being produced in FoodSafe areas. I want to have our products tested. We need to up our game.”

But while their opera-tion continues to exist in plain sight, people are

still being arrested for possession — which in-censes Herald.

“There have been 24,000 cannabis-related arrests that have oc-curred since Trudeau’s been elected, and that’s more than in 2014. Why are we still arresting peo-ple for this?”

Locally, the Nelson Police Department has promised to keep an eye on how the dispensary situation progresses but hasn’t intervened sig-nificantly since helping to twice evict a fledgling dispensary in 2015.

Recently Leaf Cross Health moved from its original location at Urban Legends in the 500 block of Baker St. into a larger location next to Gaia Rising in the 300 block. Though Nelson isn’t granting them busi-ness licenses, the dispen-saries have already begun collecting federal taxes.

‘This whole thing is in total chaos’

Stetski thinks the Liberals are dragging their feet on moving forward with marijuana legalization, and said they’ve ignored NDP calls to decriminalize the plant in the meantime.

“The federal govern-ment could have done that five months ago and they chose not to,” he said. “This is putting both entrepreneurs and the public into a state of confusion.”

The morning he spoke with the Star, Stetski was in parliament as the Liberals announced the rolling out of a new le-galization task force.

“What that looks like, nobody knows. But we do know nothing is going to happen until March 2017.”

Stetski has tangled with the marijuana in-dustry in the past, as the mayor of Cranbrook, and believes the federal gov-ernment is putting local municipalities in an un-enviable position.

“This whole thing is

in total chaos. Marijuana needs to be decriminal-ized now, and we as the NDP are proposing that those who have been jailed for simple posses-sion should have their records expunged.”

He accused Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould of making the situation worse.

“She has said current laws continue to apply until the law changes. According to that, even possession is something police forces could and should be charging, if you’re going to take the minister at her word.”

But that’s becoming increasingly hard to do, he said.

“From the perspective of a local police chief, you would have to wonder why you would waste your members’ time to deal with possession at all.”

A passion for cannabis

Although Nelson has relied economically on logging, mining and trades industries that weren’t especially fe-male-friendly in the past, Herald and Campbell be-lieve the cannabis indus-try is a perfect milieu for women.

“It can be very em-powering for women,” said Campbell. “Many women in the industry have children so this is something where they can pick their hours, work from home.”

Herald believes other

women could benefit from the opportunities she’s been given.

“I see a huge place for women in this industry. The cannabis industry is very female-friendly, and in Nelson specifically it seems like everyone’s appreciative of everyone from the women growers to the female caregivers to the extractors.”

It’s not just women who benefit, she said.

“We’re also seeing it’s not just about women, it’s different ethnic and age groups. This is an all-encompassing industry that’s great to be part of.”

‘I would loveto educate thecommunity’

Campbell is frustrated about the stigma that continues to exist around cannabis, and “the exist-ing attitudes that come from misinformation.”

“I think education is what we need. I would love to educate the com-munity about what we can provide and what cannabis can do.”

Though the Potorium does sell typical joints, they also sell products such as suppositories, pills, topical creams and other derivatives that give people alternatives to smoking.

They’re also making sure to source their prod-ucts locally.

“I’m optimistic about our government. I’m very excited,” said Campbell. “I know we’re still in

limbo, but I see a lot of changes happening and they’re mostly positive.”

From here, she plans to grow.

“We’re just at the ground level of this budding industry,” said Campbell.

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Nelson to put Airbnb under themicroscope

According to the city there are 130 local Airbnb listings. I’m almost certain a skilled worker at city hall should be able to contact all of the unit holders with an email taking perhaps an hour maybe an hour and a half tops and put in a demand for business licences, insurance, etc. They have no problem demanding that my business is compliant. – Paul Archambault

Airbnb undoubtedly impacts the rental market. It is much more attractive for a homeowner to rent their home as an Airbnb than provide permanent housing, but one has to make decisions based on ethics. I live in Vancouver and it is incredibly difficult for people to find rentals. The result? The best people, who have given everything to create community are leaving. – Sarah Albertson

Housing has been an issue in Nelson for as long as I can remember and will likely continue to be a problem with the finite land base and markets being

what they are. Airbnb is relatively new. It is only re-cently that vacation rentals are highlighted due to this service along with people jumping on board to use it. Vacation rentals have always been here. Perhaps not in the numbers we are seeing now but they have existed with private websites. It will take govern-ments a while to catch up which is usually the case as technology moves way faster than creating new laws. – Dana Richards

A lot of jobs are created by Airbnb such as manag-ing sites for out-of-town owners and hiring cleaning crews to ready the places for the next guest. I think there needs to be some sort of moderation but I think hotel owners and other small businesses need to ac-knowledge that the low wages they pay their staff are an extra incentive for people to go into business for themselves. Another point is that Nelson has always and probably will always be a haven for under-the-table business and I think that is just a fact of low minimum wages and poverty that people can’t make ends meet and have to supplement their incomes with shadier ventures. — Mandy Root

The city’s hire of a summer student to study the Airbnb issue generated many online comments. Join the discussion at facebook.com/nelsonstarnews

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Provide free sani-dump for RVs

In some towns and cities in the Kootenays, tourists who travel with RV units are wel-comed with a tourist informa-tion centre that offers a no-charge sanitation sewer dump close to where free maps are supplied for areas that may be of interest to the tourist.

The area is large enough to allow large RV units to eas-ily access the water and sewer dump facilities with adequate parking space while operators access the maps, etc.

These areas include Cranbrook, Castlegar, Creston, Grand Forks, and Greenwood. Now that Nelson has a better tourist facility at the foot of Baker St., perhaps it’s time to install a proper free RV dump and water pick up area near the tourist information centre.

The present tourist park is crowded and access to the sewer and water facility is tough for big rigs. Charging $10 for a sewer dump and water fill up is out of line with other communities where this service is happily provided as a drawing card for the many RV travellers who grace our Queen City and leave tourist dollars with us in the summer months.

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Windermere golfers issue

challenge

During the afternoon of May 5, the Windermere Valley Men’s Club held its weekly competition. Our thoughts were not on golf, but rather on the families displaced by the fires raging in northern Alberta.

At the conclusion of the event, our membership de-cided to donate the prize money that would normally have gone to the afternoon’s winners to the disaster re-lief efforts currently being undertaken.

Al Wittke, a longstand-ing member of our club, also donated $2,000 to the Salvation Army. Al lived in Fort McMurray in the Beacon Hill subdivision. His former residence has burned to the ground.

The Windermere Valley Men’s Club is challenging men’s and women’s golf clubs across BC and Alberta to do the same. Take the prize money from one af-ternoon of golf to assist our friends and neighbours in the Fort McMurray area.

Dean Midyette, President, Windermere

Valley Men’s ClubWindermere

The noise of commerce

Re: “Helicopter noise worse than motorcycles,” Letters, May 6

I am amazed at the mindset of people in this town given Keith Wiley’s comments about the noises of the various ve-hicles of commerce.

Every time we hear one of these noises (helicopter, train, trucks, motorcycle or plane) it is most likely someone going to work and contributing to our region. Those motorcycles generate a lot of income to our hotels, restaurants etc. The he-licopters and planes contribute a lot of revenue to our sleepy hollow community and with-out that airport to base them and the air ambulance from, we would have greater impair-ment.

I employ big noisy highway trucks and have a noisy motor-cycle for commuting to work down by the airport. I would suggest that if people do not like the noises of commerce they should buy earplugs or move farther into the valleys where they can hear the chain-saws and logging equipment.

Noise of commerce is ev-erywhere, my friends. Suck it up and move on.

Charlie BourgeoisNelson

The state of the Jumbo debate

The Ktunaxa First Nation has peti-tioned the Supreme Court of Canada for a judicial review, requesting that no resort development will be in their sacred place, Qat’Muk, by keeping the Jumbo Valley area naturally wild.

This is an appeal as the BC Supreme Court decided the Jumbo Glacier resort development would not impact the area negatively. The federal court has agreed to take the case.

The proponents of the resort develop-ment have petitioned the BC courts for a judicial review claiming that BC. Minister of Environment Mary Polak’s Oct. 4, 2014 decision that no “substantial start” had been made was erroneous. That decision determined that they did not receive their permanent certificate.

Eco-Justice, part of the Jumbo Wild team, has asked the BC government how the cancellation of the environmental cer-tificate for the resort proponents will affect tenures like “license of agreement,” etc.

So far neither the federal nor the pro-vincial governments have made known in any way their decisions regarding the above.

The current word about Jumbo Wild, the movie, is that it is being shown widely internationally with thousands of signa-tures on the petition. The on-the-ground results of all this far flung interest is that the valley saw many more back country recreationalists, mainly skiers, this winter.

Rowena EloiseKootenay Coalition for Jumbo Wild

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Opinion

HUGS: A huge hug to the kind gentleman and the clerks at a local grocery store for returning my purse to me.

SLUGS: To whomever took a golf cart and two sets of golf clubs from shed No. 69 at the Granite Pointe Golf Club. May Karma find you. – A disappointed senior

SLUGS: To the driver who blew through two stop signs in Rosemont on Sunday. You think because you have a fancy car the rules don’t apply to you?

HUGS: To Uphill dog owners who walk their dogs on leash, from a cat owner who recently had her elderly cat treed by a dog not on leash. Thank you for respecting the rules and not endangering my old kitten. It could have been so much worse.

HUGS: A wonderful poetic hug to the young lady poet at the Garden Market who crafted a very pertinent poem. May you continue your word creations which contributes to the good-ness of our world. – A grateful recipient

SLUGS: Slithering, slimy, sub-standard secondhand slugs to the folks who knowingly donate dangerously faulty, broken and/or useless items to charities. Since you’ve saved some bucks on dump fees, why not buy something that actually works, and donate that?

SLUGS: To the vehicle owners who toss their cigarette butts out of their vehicle windows onto the bush and dry grass along our beautiful Kootenay roads. Has Rock Creek and Fort

McMurray taught you nothing?! If you have to smoke, please extinguish and dispose of your toxic waste considerately or give your body and all of us a break and give up!! – A disgruntled living-on-the-highway home owner

HUGS: I’ve had two bad luck days on the road. One was lost car keys that were found by two strangers who helped. God bless them both. The next was a flat tire on the way home from Castlegar. A young lady and her daughter stopped to help and showed me how to change a tire. Then a young fellow stopped to jump in and take over the job. How lucky I’ve been by the kindness of others. In Friday’s paper I counted 12 hugs and four slugs. Wow! What a great week, don’t you think?

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Women best positioned to respond to climate change

As primary caregivers, many women in poorer countries are responsible for trekking miles to collect water and fuel. When climate change depletes water, women notice first. Water is a climate change issue.

In many parts of the world women have already walked long distances to find water, but, as sources dry up, those treks are becoming more difficult. Searching remote areas for fuel and water exposes them to greater risks of violence like rape or kid-napping.

Yannick Glemarec, deputy executive director of United Nations Women, says women in so-called

developing countries are hit the hardest and are the first to be affected by climate change in every country.

As climate change puts pressure on natural re-sources, fresh water is becoming scarcer, food prices are increasing and infectious illnesses like the Zika virus are on the rise. Worldwide, women tend to be poorer than their male counterparts and have less representation in policy-making.

We need to focus on women’s leadership develop-ment, build finance skills and policy skills and move women to positions of power in government and business. The people most likely to be hurt by climate change are also the ones best positioned to fix it.

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The award-winning interactive project High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese will be showcased at the Langham in Kaslo. The project consists of an interactive website, eight videos and an interactive gallery instal-lation. Eleven local artists, including Nicola Harwood, Fred Wah, Bessie Wapp and Thomas Loh, participated in its creation. It will be exhibited until July 3.

Nelson Community Band is holding its Spring Concert on May 17 at 7:30 p.m. with special jazz combo guests So No, Lulu. It will be held at 611 5th St.

Theatre

On Saturday, May 21, Spiritbar presents the Avant Garde Cabaret’s “A Night of Risks and Risque” at 9 p.m. Beats and bass will be brought by DJ RSK, there will be comedy, live music, dance, theatre and costumes galore. Featuring performances by Scarlet Mary Rose, Vesper Valentine, Lil’ Bear and Rosie Delight. Attendees are encouraged to arrive in costume.

Black Productions presents its fourth mu-sical, Rock of Ages, at the Capitol Theatre from May 26 to 29 at 7:30 p.m. Starring Anna Backus, Pat Beauchamp and Ty Wright, the show is directed by Lisel Forst and features Selkirk College music students in onstage roles and in the band under the musical direction of Rick Lingard. There will be a late night party show on May 27 at 11 p.m. and a May 29 matinee at 1:30 p.m.

Literary arts

The next Nelson Poetry Slam will be held on Sunday at John Ward Fine Coffee from 6:45 p.m. to 9 p.m. The slam will feature Lip Balm, a spoken word artist hot off compet-ing at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam and is touring across Canada. Earlier that day he will be offering a class at 1 p.m. in the basement of Momento Cafe.

The Nelson Public Library presents a reading from Tricia Dower’s new novel Becoming Lin, which takes place in 1960s Vietnam. It will be held on Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m. The book follows the story of Linda West, desperate to escape her home-town and the collective memory of a sexual assault she endured as a teenager. She is swept into the changing times when she meets a young, newly ordained Methodist minister with a social justice agenda that

includes harbouring of draft dodgers hoping to escape to Canada.

Five BC crime writers, including Kootenay authors Deryn Collier and RM Greenaway, will host a reading at Oxygen Art Centre on May 18 at 7:30 p.m. as part of Crime Time Nelson. Featuring Dieter Kalteis, Sam Wiebe, and Linda L. Richards.

Music

Tonight at 8 p.m. Spiritbar will host a Kootenay triple bill, with Red Eyed Soul, Dirt Floor and The Pocket Divas all per-forming. Doors open at 8 p.m. They will also be presenting a school concert today at South Nelson Elementary.

On Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Selkirk Pro Musica presents the Sycamore String Quartet at St. Saviour’s Pro Cathedral. In ad-dition to the concerts, the quartet is offering a workshop on playing music in ensembles on Saturday afternoon, May 14, from 1 to 3 p.m. at St. Saviour’s. The workshop is not exclusively for string students.

Movies

Captain America: Civil War continues at the Civic multiple times daily. It will be playing regularly for the next two weeks. Political interference in the Avengers’ ac-tivities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson and an all-star cast.

Adrian Wagner photoThe Nelson Community Band’s spring concert is next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Baptist Church.


Imagine you’re cheekbone-deep in Kootenay Lake, ner-vously sculling in place, while underneath you a jetpack

begins to rev. Core tight, breath held, you feel the water rumble-churn beneath your feet. Slowly you begin to ascend into midair, the surface falling away from you on all sides.

It’s at this point you remember to shift your balance slightly for-ward, putting pressure on your toes, as the Seadoo-powered jets of water transform you from a wetsuit-clad dope into a bonafide superhero soaring ten feet about the surface.

For a moment it seems like you might be able to float up the slope of Elephant Mountain, like you could leisurely coast over the Big Orange Bridge and into the fog-misted Selkirks.

Then you belly-flop. Hard.By mistake you bent your knees,

which sent you into a jet-propelled spiral, and now you float face-down trying to remember how to breathe. Will this be like water ski-ing as a kid, where you never suc-cessfully mastered it and returned to the shore defeated? Will you be bested by this piece of machinery?

No, you refuse.Instead you take deep nostril-

shots of the mountain air, stretch your arms Superman-like in front of you, and prep for the next burst of power. And each time you try, each time you go up then come back down, the 60-foot hose that connects you to the Seadoo begins to get further and further out of the water.

Finally, on your fifth or sixth attempt you find something that resembles stability as you near a 25-foot elevation and let out a Tarzan-like yodel. The feeling may vary from person to person, but it’s some variation on this theme: I am a God.

Honestly, this doesn’t feel like it should be real. Isn’t there some law of nature that’s being broken here? Even bungee jumping, skydiving — these activities take advantage of the laws of nature, rather than subverting them. If you want to be hyperbolic about it, this is an example of technology triumphing over human limitation —literally giving you the opportunity to fly.

By the time you’ve reached the end of 20 minutes, taking a few breaks and getting pro-tips from your instructor, you’re feeling trembly and water-slapped — but also energized, your cheeks flushed and heartbeat thrumming in your neck. As you propel yourself back towards the dock your thoughts inevitably turn to the life you’ve left behind onshore, the one where you’ve got an office waiting and a job to do.

But before that moment comes,

as you’re finally starting to mas-ter how to deke back and forth skateboard-like across the sur-face, you pump your fists in the air and mug for the camera — the key to crafting your pre-planned Facebook post. It doesn’t hurt that the wetsuit kind of makes you look like a chubbier Deadpool.

Finally, heave-panting, you go slack as an enthusiastic group of onlookers drag you back on to the dock and congratulate you for the performance. Even though you’re in reasonably good shape, it’s still going to be at least half an hour until your heart rate returns to normal — and longer before you come down from the life high of achieving ascension.

This is the experience Dustin Jay wants to give Nelsonites with Kootenay Flyboard, a new com-pany launching on Saturday from Lakeside Park. He first discov-ered the sport while on vacation in Mexico, and the 32-year-old has made it his life’s passion to bring it to Canada. He’s invited Mayor Deb Kozak, chamber boss Tom Thomson and anyone else to come down to Lakeside first thing on Saturday to see what it’s all about.

Having teamed up with local businessman Steve Ramsbottom, Jay plans to run Kootenay Flyboard out of a pontoon boat that will float back and forth across Kootenay Lake. It promises to make a great spectator sport for people from Railtown to Chahko Mika Mall and all the way to Lakeside Park. They plan to run the business seven days a week and ultimately expand to further lakes in the area.

It might be you’re only interest-ed in gathering onshore, watching as enthusiasts attempt back-flips and dolphin dives. But maybe, if you gather up enough courage, it could be you hurtling action he-ro-like across the face of Elephant Mountain.

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Left: It took Will Johnson approximately ten minutes to figure out how to achieve ascension with a flyboard, but he ultimately had a blast testing out the contraption offered by local business Kootenay Flyboard. Owner Dustin Jay took the opportunity to show off his moves, rocketing 30 feet into the air and giving the city of Nelson an aerial salute. Photos courtesy of Kootenay Flyboard

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La Cafamore performs classics from the silver screen June 5SUBMITTED

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La Cafamore is in its eighth season of per-forming chamber works in the Kootenays. The trio consists of violinist Angela Snyder, violist Alexis More and pianist Carolyn Cameron, who

will perform classical music which has made it to the silver screen.

“We try to find a theme for each con-cert,” says Cameron. “Something that ties the works together. In this case it is the fact that each of these pieces has been featured in a movie

soundtrack.”Every piece?“Not exactly,” says

Cameron, “which is why we had to add the caveat that the Internet lies.”

This particular con-cert was put together thematically through an Internet search of classi-cal music for piano trio

which has been featured in movie soundtracks. The group figured that as part of the research, they should actually watch the movies to make sure that they weren’t offensive to the classical music audi-ence.

“That’s when we dis-covered that not only

was one of the movies in question extremely bad, but it also did not contain the music in question. That’s why I had to put the part about the Internet lying,” says Cameron, “just to shatter people’s trust.”

While the music, Shostakovich’s piano trio

No. 2, did not make up the movie’s soundtrack, it does make an uncredited appearance in the movie Fiddler on the Roof.

“You will have to come to the concert if you want to know which movie it was suppose to be in” says Cameron. The group will be giv-ing the movie away as a door prize at one of their concerts.

Will audiences get to hear some of mov-ies’ more iconic theme songs? The theme from Star Wars perhaps?

“You have to remem-

ber that even though we like to think of ourselves as cool, essentially, we’re classical musician dorks with a taste for the ob-scure. So no Star Wars. I will say that our encore is extremely recogniz-able. In fact, if you don’t recognize it, I would like to talk to you. See me after the show,” says Cameron.

The group will be playing in Crawford Bay and Nelson. The Nelson concert is Sunday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nelson United Church, 602 Silica St.

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Now in its eighth season of performances in the Kootenays, La Cafamore presents Music from the Movies (and Other Internet Lies). The trio consisting of Angela Snyder (violin), Alexis More (viola) and Carolyn Cameron (piano) will plays works of Felix Mendelssohn, Dimitri Shostakovich and Joe Hisaishi.


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Nelson Christian Community school students regularly visit Mountain Lake residents. The students buddy up with a senior and read together. It makes a huge difference for residents who cannot leave the home, school admissions director Janice Van Caeseele said.

Book details pioneer upbringing near KasloSUBMITTED

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brings her book Throw a Saddle on the Star: A Pioneer’s Tale to Touchstones Nelson on May 26 at 7 p.m.

The book tells the story of her life growing up in a pioneer life-style in the 1960s in the Kootenays. When most were seeking modern conveniences, Armstrong’s family life was centred around self suf-ficiency by logging and farming with horses, growing gardens and making their own hydroelectric power, among other activities.

The presentation details her parents’ childhoods, her father as

a hobo riding the rails during the Depression, and various photos depicting her parents’ preparation for homestead life. Also included are photos of the pioneer life near Kaslo.

Armstrong will share her child-hood adventures, challenges and the joys of a family working to-gether.

She has applied many of her pioneer skills into her current life in the Shuswap. She lives in a log house that she and her late hus-band built.

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Nelson Commons, the future home of the Kootenay Co-op, continues to take shape. “The building’s just get-ting nicer and nicer as it gets its skin,” project manager Russell Precious told the Star this week. “We’re really delighted with the brickwork and the Hardie Board.” On Wednesday, Spearhead Timberworks was erecting the entranceway to the store, which will face Baker St. Construction con-tinues with the residential component slated for completion in August and the store scheduled to open in September.

Café Langham’s popu-lar Inspired Ideas Speaker Series will continue this spring with talks, perfor-mances and workshops in Kaslo, held in conjunc-tion with their second annual Asian Series.

The Asian Series is in-spired by High Muck A Muck: Playing Chinese, an interactive exhibition on display in the Main Gallery from May 6 to July 3. It explores Chinese immigration and settle-ment in BC which first began in large numbers in the 1850s during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.

The exhibition was created by a team of Nelson and Vancouver artists including Nicola Harwood and former Canadian parliamen-tary poet laureate Fred Wah, along with Bessie Wapp, Thomas Loh and Jin Zhang. Hiromoto Ida, Tomoyo Chaya and Phillip Djwa all made significant contributions, and many community members contributed oral histories and stories, including Cameron Mah and Lawrence Mar.

If you missed the Oxygen Arts Centre’s showing in 2014, this is an opportunity to view this award-winning digital exhibition at the Langham. It has been de-scribed as an “innovative use of digital media” that is both easy and satisfying

to use.Using their varied

skillset, the collective married together hand-painted graphics with interactive poems and presented it on a map interface.

As the creators de-scribe it: “Buildings dis-appear, stories disappear and racism goes under-ground shaping contin-ued and subtle patterns of exclusion. It is the creators’ hope that High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, unearths some of these layers that make up our shared history of place.”

The first talk will take place on Thursday, June

2, highlighting Wah. The fifth Canadian par-liamentary poet laure-ate and an officer in the Order of Canada, he will deliver a talk called Learning How to Swear Poetry in Chinese. Wah grew up in Nelson and will read and dis-cuss poetry from his recent book Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems 1962-1991.

On Sunday, July 10, the series will present a three-hour hands-on workshop The Art of Chinese Tea (Gong Fu Cha) with Cloud Mountain Teahouse owner and tea master Christopher Harfman.

Gong fu means the art of doing something well. In the tea ceremo-ny known as gong fu, the implication is that time, dedication and effort will produce an ultimate tea experience.

There will be a talk on The Art of Designing a Traditional Japanese Garden and The Tao of Chinese and Japanese Gardens along with a talk on the history of Chinese Canadians in the region will follow in July and August.

The series will con-clude in August with two performances of the acclaimed Sansei: The Storyteller with the

Calgary artist Mark Kunji Ikeda. Ikeda will also teach a workshop.

Watch for the second summer and fall series, In Beauty We Walk, which will explore the theme of beauty in our world and what it means to live in harmony.


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Patrice Leung, Thomas Loh, Nicola Harwood, Jin Zhang, Cameron Mah, Bessie Wapp, and Fred Wah were involved in creating High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese. Courtesy Nicola Harwood


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1. We are from Nelson. We love this city and we know this city. We know the neighbourhoods, the people, the history and economy. We know Nelson.2. We have been on the other side. We know what it is to like to buy and sell a house, a farm, a commercial building and a business. We know what we liked about our realtors and we know what we didn’t like.3. We understand the importance of communication, in listening, but also in being able to speak openly and honestly with our customers. We aren’t about lip service and our customers will get clear communication and complete honesty.4. We know about marketing. We have a 25-year background in marketing and advertising and we will bring that expertise to every single one of our customers.5. We are a team. When you hire one, you get both of us. That means we will always be available and you won’t have to wait until we deal with another customer � rst. You will always be � rst.

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History

1916: Special boats and trains for Victoria Day

Dateline:May 9, 1916

Tenders have been asked for the construc-

tion of the new British Columbia Telephone Company’s building on the west side of Stanley St. in the rear of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s store and almost imme-diately opposite the pres-ent building.

The plans and speci-fications call for a one story building of brick and stone or marble, having concrete founda-tions and with a 30-foot frontage and a depth of 90 feet. The building will front on Stanley St. with its entrance at the northwest corner

opening into a spacious well lighted general of-fice with ample room for staff and public. Immediately behind the general office will be lo-cated the operator’s room with three large windows facing north, so that the light will fall directly on the switchboards.

It is believed that with the installation of the new central energy system in the building, it will do away with the necessity of ringing for the operator and with ringing off when com-pleting the call. When installed, it will only be necessary for the subscriber to raise the receiver from the hook in order to make the con-nection and to replace it when finished using the instrument.


Within six months or half the time in which it was asked for the citizens of Nelson and District have donated the sum of $10,000 to the local branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund, with a margin of $51.79 to spare. At the begin-ning of the second year of the fund, November 15, 1915, Nelson and District were asked to contribute, as its estimat-ed share of the expense of providing for the de-pendants of soldiers, the sum of $10,000 for the current year. It is believed that what has been done during the first half of the year, can and will be done again during the second half; for it is pointed out the need for additional funds grows daily as a greater propor-tion of married men are enlisting. (Editor’s note: 10,000 1916 dollars =

$195,538 in 2016)


Nelson will adopt the new 100-candle power tungsten filament, gas filled, electric light bulbs, to replace the old three carbon lamp clusters now being used. It is proposed in installing the new sys-tem to have groups of 40 lights under the control of one switch, operated at the substation, which could be turned off and on by one man.

By this means the lights would never have to burn more than 10 hours at a stretch, which, taken with the savings in consumption in the new lights, would mean a saving of about 3,240 watts in electric power per day. The new lights will be installed on the present poles, one light to each pole, in place of the inadequate three-light clusters now in use, each new lamp giving double the candle power of the three old ones and more than double the light.

The service will be in-stalled on 40 poles, which it is understood will be within a short radius of the substation and it is believed the equipment now in use on the poles will be used in outlying portions of the city that are at present insuffi-ciently lighted.


Kaslo will be “en fete” for the reception of visi-tors on Victoria Day, May 24, and special induce-ments are being offered to holiday makers to pay the city a visit. The Canadian Pacific has announced special train and boat service at re-

duced rates.A boat will leave the

city wharf in the morn-ing at 8:15 o’clock, calling at Willow Point, Kittos, Harrop, Balfour, Procter, Queens Bay, Ainsworth, Cedar Creek and Riondel. The fare from Nelson will be $1.75 for adults and 85 cents for children.

A special will also run from Slocan City, leaving there at 6 o’clock in the morning and calling at Silverton, New Denver, Rosebery and Sandon, arriving at Kaslo at 11:15. Special rates have also been announced from the above mentioned sta-tions. The train will leave Kaslo at 12 midnight.

Among the features that have been prepared for the entertainment of the visitors are a baseball game, in which Nelson, Silverton and Kaslo will compete, children’s sports and a dance in aid of the Red Cross fund during the evening. Music will be furnished during the day by the Kaslo City Band.

GREGSCOTT

Touchstones of NelsonFrom the � les of the Nelson Daily News

1916: Special boats and trains for Victoria Day

The Nelson Daily News of May 16, 1916 advertised Victoria Day celebrations in Kaslo.


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Victoria author Tricia Dower reads at Nelson library


The 1960s was a time of great social upheaval as resistance to the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights captured the hearts and minds of young people on both sides of the border. This is the setting for Victoria author Tricia Dower’s new novel Becoming Lin, published this spring by Caitlin Press. Dower’s Kootenay book launch takes place on Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m. at the Nelson Public Library.

Becoming Lin follows the story of Linda Wise, desperate to escape her hometown and the collective memory of a sexual assault she endured as a teenager. She is swept into the chang-ing times when she meets a young, newly-ordained Methodist minister with a social justice agenda that in-cludes marches, demonstrations, and the harbouring of draft dodgers hoping to escape to Canada. A tale of transfor-mation in a time of chaos, Becoming Lin

portrays a young woman’s awakening to the moral issues of her time as she confronts the fear that keeps her frozen in childhood.

Tricia Dower’s story collection Silent Girl (Inanna Publications) was nomi-nated for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature; her first novel, Stony River (Penguin Canada), was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Last year Dower won first prize for creative non-fiction in subTerrain Magazine’s Lush Triumphant literary awards.

Award-winning author Donna Morrissey says “Becoming Lin encap-tures, with poetic flair and sensual de-tail, the turbulent and passionate era of the sixties with all of its political, social, and emotional strife.” Indian Horse author Richard Wagamese says “Tricia Dower has established her-self as a literary force to be reckoned with.”

Submitted photoTricia Gower’s new book, Becoming Lin, explores the draft dodger era.


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The Okanagan Spring Wine Festival takes place every spring and includes wines from all over the province. It is a chance for win-eries to showcase the release of their spring wines, usually Whites and Roses, as reds need some extra time in the barrel. There are events held all over the valley - trade tastings, dinners and The Best of Varietal Award Reception. (If you are unsure what vari-etal means, it is the type of grape used to make that wine.) West Jet also sponsors a tasting that is open to the public. It is a well organized event with music, extraordinary food and hundreds of wines to sample.

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Pairings: a Compendium of Beloved Recipes and Books from the Chefs of Nelson, published by the Nelson Public Library, showcases choice recipes from 21 Nelson restau-rants, along with the chefs’ favourite books. Nancy Diamond chose Helen Keller’s autobiography The Story of My Life, because the story of the blind and deaf girl’s courage and subsequent accomplish-ments “had real impact in my life,” she says. Pairings is available at the library, at bookshops, and partici-pating restaurants. David R. Gluns photosDavid R. Gluns photos

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The Selkirk College Mir Lecture Series welcomed Dr. Amir Hussain to Nelson’s Civic Theatre last week for a discussion titled “A Muslim Scholar of Islam Responds to Muslim Violence.” More than 200 people came out to the event to hear the Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles) faculty member who is considered an authority on subject in North America. The lecture and discussion was part of Hussain’s week in the West Kootenay where he also taught the Peace 224: Introduction to Islam course in Castlegar for current students and community members.

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Black Jack skier cracks National TeamJIM BAILEY

Trail TimesCross Country Ski Canada has named

Nelson native Julien Locke to the national ski team.

Locke joins a high-powered group of athletes led by Alex Harvey who won two medals on the World Cup Tour last season.

“I’m very pleased,” said Locke. “Being a member of the senior national team has been a goal since I was seven, so it’s been a long-term thing to get on the team, and it’s pretty satisfying to be on it now.”

Locke, 22, wrapped up a stellar season last month, winning bronze in the men’s open sprint at the Canadian Ski champion-ship in Whitehorse, finishing just behind national team members Harvey and Len Valjas.

Locke also won the overall NorAm Buff Sprint Series championship, and was fourth behind Black Jack’s David Palmer, who won the National Championships U23 men’s aggregate award.

Locke’s season included qualifying for the U23 World Cup in Romania, where he was the top Canadian in 16th spot, and podium finishes in every major sprint race on the NorAm circuit, including gold at the Canadian Junior and U23 Trials in Thunder Bay, and a bronze medal in men’s open sprint at the US Ski Championships.

“I was pretty optimistic,” said Locke. “The season went quite well, but you never know what’s going to happen. So we had to just wait and see.”

Black Jack ski coach David Wood was

hopeful for Locke making the national team, but he wasn’t certain until the se-lection committee released the names.

“The season certainly indicated that he should be selected,” said Wood. “Right now, the main advantage for him is the opportunity for international racing.”

Locke has been racing with the Black Jack Ski team for nine years and has been under the tutelage of former national coach Wood since 2010. The relationship has forged a steady stream of success culminating in the past year’s triumphs.

“He’s strong enough now so that he’s solid all year long,” said Wood. “In the past, let’s say against the best in the coun-try, he’d have good days, but they weren’t all the time, and this past season every time out he won all the time in Canada except when Alex was there. I think his

level has just increased and increased and now he’s at a level you notice it all the time.”

A major goal for Locke is to set his sights on the World Championship in Lahti, Finland in February, but as part of the national up-and-coming U25 team, Locke will spend the winter racing World Cups, international development level races, and Haywood NorAms in Canada, but the race schedule has yet to be ham-mered out.

“Were still deciding what the primary objective of the season is going to be,” said Locke. “For sure I want to race on the World Cup a bit, and I’ve been told that is going to be an option in the winter. There’s a few different opportunities … but we’re still looking at which ones to target.”

The coming season is a big one for winter athletes, not only is there early season World Cup races and the World Championships, but pre-Olympic quali-fying for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.

“Were still kind of planning and look-ing at how it’s going to work,” said Locke. “But I’m still going to work with my coach Dave and keep working together because I think the things we’ve been doing have been working really well. But I’ll be spending a lot more time in Canmore.”

Locke joins the national team at its home base in Canmore in the upcoming weeks to begin training with the national team.

Following a remark-able season on the snow, Black Jack skier Julien Locke was named to Cross Country Ski Canada’s National Ski Team.

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Winners’ podium feels like home for Kootenay Chaos

The past two weekends have found athletes from Nelson’s Kootenay Chaos Track Club spending quite a bit of time on the win-ners’ podium.

Two weeks ago Koby Upper came away with gold medals in the hur-dles, 100 m sprint, long jump and shot put at the Legion meet in Trail. At the same competition Mitchell Erickson won the high jump and 600 m run. Edmond Daras won the 200 hurdles and 2,000 m run.

Avie Waterfall won the

100 m and placed second in the 300 m run while Zoe Taylor was third in the 2,000 m race. Kieran Dehnel was a gold medal-list in the 800 and 1200 m races. Taya Short, Carmen Lewandowski and Ethan Yanke also performed well in their events but fell just short of the medal podium.

This past weekend Matti Erickson continued his winning ways by garner-ing gold medals in both the 800 and 1,200 m runs at the Norwesters meet in Vancouver. He missed the provincial record in the 1,200 by only two seconds.


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Nelson’s Matti Erickson came within two seconds of a provincial record at the Norwesters meet in Vancouver.

A dominant performance on home turf has booked the L.V. Rogers senior boys rugby team a ticket to provincials.

The Bombers hammered Cranbrook’s Mount Baker 40-0 at Lakeside Park on Wednesday to win the British Columbia Secondary Schools Rugby Union Kootenay final.

“It was a good win,” said head coach Mike Joyce. “We played well at stages but there’s plenty to do before provincials. There’s some kinks to work out, for sure.”

The win improves the Bombers to 9-0 this season. Joyce, who is in his seventh year coaching the team, said the record won’t mean much when they get to provincials.

“Undefeated is nice,” he said. “When we get the provincials the test gets stronger though.”

Nelson’s minor hockey teams will be wearing some new jerseys next season after winning an award.

The Nelson Minor Hockey Association is one of six associations nationwide to be awarded Esso medals and certificates of achievement for the 2015-16 season.

The six winners were chosen from over 15,000 entries. The association will be presented with $5,000 while the Peewee Leafs earned an additional $1,000 donation.

“Our association will purchase some new jerseys with the prize money,” said minor hockey representative Lisa Upper in a release. “We have been working on getting new jerseys for all our teams and this well help finish our goal.”


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NOTICE OF AGM

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The L.V. Rogers senior boys rugby team pose with their trophy after winning the Kootenay final (above left). It was a successful weekend for the boys, who bested Mount Baker.

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The Nelson Peewee Leafs will receive $1,000 after winning an Esso medal of achievement.


Arts

New Baker St. sculptures selectedBILL METCALFE

Nelson Star

Spring in downtown Nelson means new sculptures. Each year the city leases several pieces from Castlegar Sculpturewalk with 75 per cent of the lease price going to the artists. The new pieces will be installed any day now.

Eagle Dancer (top left) by father-and-son artists Grant and Clint George from Penticton, will be placed in front of the CPR station in Railtown.

Grant has been an artisan from childhood, creating pieces from metal, wood and leather. Clint, having worked as a tattoo artist for 17 years, has moved on to sculpting in metal and painting. “Eagle Dancer is a visual interpre-tation of an iconic, important First Nations symbol signifying healing and prayer,” their bio states.

The Walker (bottom left) by Yeins Gómez Sousa will be placed on the south side of the 500 block Baker.

From his bio: “Yeins Gómez Sousa is a Cuban sculptor from Matanzas, just east of Havana. His relative youth belies his experi-ence and knowledge – Sousa is a professor of sculpture at the Professional Art School in Matanzas while continuing to study restora-tion and conservation at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana.” His works have been ex-hibited widely in Cuba and he also works in sand and other mediums. The Walker is an life-size abstract figure of a skeletal man.

Focus (top right) by Osamede Obazee will be placed on the north side of the 500 block Baker.

From Benin, now residing in San Francisco, Obazee is “recognized as one of the lead-ing proponents of contemporary African-influenced sculpture,” his bio states. “He carries on a hundreds of years old tradition of metal, wood and stone carvers from cen-tral west Africa. Focus portrays an African woman in the throes of the creative process.”

Kootenay Time (middle right) by Brent Bukowski and Arin Fay will be installed in front of Railtown Coffee.

Bukowski and Fay live in Kaslo. “Working primarily with glass and recycled metal using minimal tools, Bukowski creates intriguing industrial-like works that comment on global patterns of excessive consumption, resource extraction and environmental degradation. Fay’s paintings tend toward the impressionis-tic/abstract but also follow deliberate themes. Kootenay Time is an imposing sculpture that — using reclaimed materials — portrays a denuded clock, its mechanisms exposed.”

The Landing (bottom right), a bronze piece by Nathan Scott of Victoria, will be installed on the north side of the 400 block Baker.

Scott’s bio says he “has undergone a dra-matic career change – from gold miner in the Yukon to bronze sculptor – with hardly a misstep along the way.” His bronze sculptures “capture motion in his meticulously crafted wildlife pieces,” which have been shown across North America.

Affordable public artThe city’s cultural development officer, Joy

Barrett, says the sculptures in the downtown are “a real draw for people, particularly chil-dren — they love them. It is a very affordable way for the city to have public art because to purchase them you might be looking at maybe $15,000 for one piece, where with this leasing program you get five or six for quite a bit less than that.”

Each year the public art working group, a committee of the city’s cultural development committee, decides on which works to lease. Submitted photos

The Slocan Valley Heritage Trail Society has released their new logo. “It’s taken a few years to get here and involved some sometimes intense discussion, but we feel we’ve come up with a great design that cap-tures the essence of our community very well,” says vice-chair

Kurt Hilger. The stylized logo features a trail winding between mountains with a backdrop of one of the most well-known features in the Slocan Valley — Frog Peak, tying it all together. The design was created by Prefix Media, a local company. To become a member of the society, see slocanvalleyrailtrail.ca.

Join the Friends of Kootenay Lake Stewardship Society for a lake watchers workshop on osprey nest monitoring tech-niques by boat and land.

This workshop will take place on Monday, May 16 at the nature centre at Kokanee Creek Provincial Park from 10 a.m. to noon and Tuesday, May 17 at the Community Corner in Crawford Bay from noon to 2 p.m.

It will involve nest monitoring tech-niques by boat and by land. Facilitators Janice Arndt and Elaine Moore will walk volunteers through important information needed to monitor osprey nest breeding behaviors and educate volunteers for boat tour monitoring that the society will initiate in June, July and August.

The team of facilitators have been in-volved in over 18 years of osprey nest monitoring from Waneta to Balfour. The project will help inform on-the-ground ac-tion projects for future years. The project will increase the scope of the monitoring to include the main body of Kootenay Lake.

Volunteers will be using proven protocol established from this program and all the results will be both reported to the Kootenay Lake community and to provincial database efforts such as BC nest records, provincial species inventory database and to Project NestWatch.

Increasing our understanding of breeding ospreys is extremely important as they are considered bio indicators of aquatic health, depending almost exclusively on fish for their diet.

Currently, there is a fisheries decline oc-curring on Kootenay Lake and it has be-come increasingly important to enhance our knowledge of the breeding success of this sentinel species.

For more information, visit friendsofkoo-tenaylake.ca/news/osprey-nest-monitoring-workshop or contact Kat McGlynn at [email protected] and 250-777-3542.

The mandate of Friends of Kootenay Lake Stewardship Society is to improve the health and stewardship of Kootenay Lake through monitoring, habitat restoration, capacity building and the empowerment of local communities and stakeholders. The society is an inclusive stewardship group dedicated to engaging local people to be stewards of Kootenay Lake’s water quality, fish and wildlife habitat.


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Life, Call, Purpose and Dream. Focus on how to move on with Him in

this season ... Together!H.O.P.E. Church Pastoral couple Jeff & Marilyn Zak www.hopenelson.ca

St. Saviour's Anglican Church

The Rev. Jeff Donnelly • kokanee-parish.comOf� ce: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tue. - Thu. • 250.352.5711

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

St. Michael & All AngelsSunday Service 11:30 a.m.

8551 Busk Road, Balfour

St. Mark'sSunday Service 9:00 a.m.

5th & C, Kaslo

701 Ward St. at Silica St., Nelson

Nelson Unitarian Spiritual Centre

Speaker: Rev. Linda Thomson

Any questions? Contact 250-354-5394

717 Vernon St.Sunday at 11 a.m.

“Holy Curiosity - Enrichment through Diversity”

Topic:

From Ontario

HOPE“I hope I make it to my appointment on time.” “I hope it’s going to be sunny next week.” These statements typify – for the most part – how we use the word ‘hope’ today. Present-day use of this word is dependent upon favourable outcomes, and is nothing more than wishful thinking. Today’s use of this word is anemic.Contrast this to what the Bible says about ‘hope’. The Bible describes hope as being an anchor for our souls (Heb 6:19). (The soul is a person’s mind, will and emotions). An anchor has one sole purpose: to keep ships in one location. Anchors are the solution for ships to stay in one place against tides and storms. They provide stability, security and confi dence that the ship will not be moved. This same stability, security and confi dence is applied to an individual whose hope is in God. This kind of hope produces stability for the soul. When diffi cult times come, this hope stabilizes a person’s thoughts, decisions, and emotions. Hope in God has substance and grounds a person through tough times.Here’s the interesting thing: God came to this earth, He died to take away our sins, He rose from the grave and invites us to believe in Him today. Jesus gave us a promise when He said: “Come to me all you who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will fi nd rest for your souls” (Matt 11:28-29). “Jesus is gentle and humble in heart and He gives me rest?” one might question. The answer is ‘Yes!’ “I thought God was angry and mean”. ‘No!’ He is for us. He longs for us to know Him.There is rest for souls and a hope with substance for us today. His Name is Jesus.Today we can be anchored in Him through believing.

Glen Stewart,Pastor, Kaslo Christian Assembly

Come down and cel-ebrate the opening of the 2016 Cottonwood Community Market on Saturday from 9:30 am to 3 p.m. at Cottonwood Falls Park in Nelson. Live music starts at 10 a.m. with Eva Blum and then at 12:30 Rob Funk takes the stage.

“As our climate and our global trading system become more uncertain, a strong local manufac-turing and agriculture network is essential for sustaining our long-term regional service and food needs,” said West Kootenay EcoSociety markets and events di-rector Jesse Woodward.

“Local farmers mar-kets like Cottonwood Community Market create more stable and secure local livelihoods as well as access to unique local products and food-stuffs, so we’re excited to see lots of folks in 2016 taking advantage of what Cottonwood Market has to offer.”

For the 2016 season,

Cottonwood will be a tent market due to the old wooden stalls be taken down in late 2015. The market will be located on the same location were the wooden stalls used to be. This year is a tran-sition year between the old market space and the new market space which should be in place inside of Cottonwood Falls Park by spring 2017. There will be water, electricity and bathrooms available for use on the event site and we have a full roster of season vendors ready to go.

Market-goers will find everything from bedding plants to locally grown produce, delicious ready to eat foods, organic meat and eggs, handmade ar-tisan gifts, and locally made body care products. The mix of full-season vendors and drop-in ven-dors make for an exciting shopping experience that is always a different from week to week.

The West Kootenay EcoSociety encourages you to leave your cars at home and walk or bike to the market. Those who

must drive can find early bird parking next to the market site, but by mid-day it is advised to park at the foot of Baker St. and walk the two blocks to the market. There is also spill

over parking at the Rod and Gun Club parking area. Don’t miss being a part of the fun and ex-citement of Cottonwood Community Market on opening day and every

Saturday from May 14 through Oct. 29.


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There will be plenty of interesting products at the Cottonwood Market Saturday.


Saturday May 14 2016 8:30am - 4:30pm

F R A M E S H OW

& SALE!

366 Baker Street, Nelson www.nelsonoptometry.ca

Saturday May 14 2016 8:30am - 4:30pm

F R A M E S H OW F R A M E S H OW

& SALE!

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Community

Under the B for Bad Ass

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Bad Ass Bingo raised over $8,000 for local charities this past winter thanks to many local businesses who donated prizes and all the participants who played on Tuesday nights in Mike’s Place Pub. Money was raised for the Nelson Women’s Center, the Nelson branch of the SPCA, the Alzheimer’s Society of BC and the Salvation Army. Pictured here from left are Simon Grypma, accepting a cheque on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Society, bingo hosts Bridget Panko and Nelson From Nelson, and Lexy Zoobkoff of the Salvation Army. The Hume Hotel says it looks forward to doing it again next year.

Pentecost is the birth-day of the church and St. Saviour’s Anglican Church is planning to celebrate on Wednesday, May 18 from 5 to 7 p.m.

This will be a birthday party. Fifty days after Easter, Christians com-memorate the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples of Jesus.

Symbols of Pentecost include fire, wind and water and they are being used in Messy Church crafts. Come and make kites, sail boats, and enjoy community, fun and food. Everyone, adults and children, is welcome. There is no charge, although dona-tions are appreciated.

St. Saviour’s has held a number of Messy Church events and they are al-ways great fun. See for yourself.

So what is Messy

Church? The move-ment began in England in 2004 and now has spread worldwide. Messy Church is a form of church for children and adults that involves creativity, celebration and hospitality. It’s for church people and for people who don’t already belong to another form of church. It meets at a time that suits people who don’t already belong to church.

It typically includes a welcome, a creative time to explore the bib-lical theme through get-ting messy; a short cel-ebration time involving prayer, song and perhaps a Eucharist; and a sit-down meal together at tables. All elements are for, and should include, people of all ages, adults and children.

It’s all-age. It’s fun. It’s a church for people at all stages of their faith jour-ney and of any age.


Wayne Germaine

250-354-2814 $180,000

RECREATION HIDEAWAY!! Here is a perfect recreation cabin and property located on the edge of Balfour. This private .27 acre hideaway features a fully furnished 2010 Kropf Industries Park Model 4270 with a bedroom, bunk room and full bath. Spacious & modern kitchen. Huge deck, level yard. Community water. Beautiful views. Only steps away from the Balfour playing field, tennis courts and [email protected]

[email protected] Goertz

250-354-8500 $79,900

BUILDING LOT WITH GREAT VIEWS!1.28-acre serviced lot with lake and mountain views. This north shore property is close to recreation for the outdoor enthusiast. Located on the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in an upscale neighbourhood, this lot is a great option for those looking to build..

www.valhallapathrealty.com

$499,000

CLASSY AND MODERN This eco themed home built in 2009 may be everything you have waited for. It has hardwood floors and granite in the kitchen, gas fireplace, gas stove, jetted tub and glacier views. For those who are health conscious this home has been insulated with natural recycled denim insulation. Also, a bright one bedroom basement suite with cork floors, concrete countertops and marble bath. [email protected]

Sarah Rilkoff

250-509-0006

Norm Zaytsoff

250-354-8584$559,900

[email protected]

TIMBER & STONE

Stunning log home just outside Nelson City limits. 5 bdrm, 4 baths just 5 minutes from downtown Nelson and steps away to the Give Out Creek Trail Head. Heaven for hikers and riders alike. A 5 minute walk along a forested pathway to the Nelson Waldorf School

Lev Zaytsoff

250-354-8443 $359,[email protected]

CREEKSIDE RETREAT

A 3 year old, 3 bdrm 2 bath home on prime 1 acre creekside lot in Winlaw. High-end finishings inside and out. See it today.

Steven Skolka

250-354-3031 $249,900

TOWNHOME WITH GREAT USAGE OPTIONS Attractive unit seeks savvy investor! Affordable opportunity to enter the real estate market for the first time, or a proven income earner for the experienced landlord. Three bdrms, 3 bathrooms, modern kitchen, renovated detached garage. Use as your home office or studio! Fully fenced outdoor space in the back to grow veggies, plant gardens, or simply lounge in the all-day-sun. No strata fees! [email protected]

Kristina Little

250-509-2550

$395,900

WOW FACTOR

Unique, 3 bedroom, 2 bath character home. House sits on .78 of an acre, 20 minutes from Nelson. With over 2700 sq ft of living space, this home is perfect for a family looking for a turn-key, one of a kind property. This home must be seen to be appreciated! [email protected]

Wondering how to donate to help KAAP pets? The Kootenay Co-op store in Nelson has a KAAP “Till Card”. When you

pay for your purchases, just ask to swipe the KAAP till card, and $2 will be gratefully received. Thank you!

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These are some of the KAAP adoptable pets ready to meet their

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BARRYThis 7-year-young Chihuahua x will make someone the best companion. He is super cuddly, loves to sit on laps as long as you will let him. He prefers to sleep on the bed at night and burrow under the covers. Good on a leash and harness for walks, house trained. likes other small dogs but would also be � ne alone with someone who is home most of the time. He does bark, so would not be the best condo dog. To meet Barry please call KAAP at 250-551-1053. Application must be completed prior to visit. Adoption fee applies. More info at

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TAZThis little guy is the real deal kitten. He is extremely social, energetic, snuggly, and playful. He goes full speed and loves to climb and zoom around. He loves people. Truly adorable little guy! Taz is 10 weeks old, short hair, big eyes. He is vaccinated, vet

checked, and will be neutered when he is a bit older. This is all covered by his adoption fee of $175. Call KAAP at 250-551-1053 or visit www.kaap.ca/adopt/taz-3. Adoption application must be completed prior to visiting him in his foster home in Castlegar. KAAP has two more adorable kittens just getting ready for adoption; keep

checking our web site for updates.

SAVE THE DATE!

Nelson Community BandSpring Concert

May 17, 2016 • 7:30 pmWITH SPECIAL GUESTS: So No, Lulu Jazz Combo

611 5th Street, NelsonAdmission by donation

St. Saviour’s marks Pentecost

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Messy Church involves creativ-ity, celebration and hospitality.

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250.352.7252

Glen Darough250.354.3343

Julie Wilson250.777.4202

Alan Tarr250.354.8489

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SALMO CREEKSIDE

Dave Buss 250.354.9459

Located in one of Salmo’s most sought after neighbourhoods is this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home set on a 85’ X 207’ lot that backs onto Erie Creek. Features include a gas fireplace in the living room, wood floors, attached garage and carport.

$259,900MLS 2413506

GREAT INVESTMENT!!

Julie Wilson 250.777.4202 $599,900

1 Acre, level property with 120 feet of waterfront! This property has many possibilities. No zoning. Features a spacious 3 bedroom home in good condition plus a 2400 sqft heated shop. Ready for you to move in today! Price below assessed value. MLS 2412216

RECREATIONAL CABIN

Located just east of Procter Village, on a 0.42 acre view lot, this basic cabin will serve as a seasonal cabin until you are ready to build your dream home. Separate, unfinished bath house and water line to property.

Lorne Westnedge 250.505.2606 $159,000MLS 2412904

4440 TURNER ROAD

David Gentles 250.354.8225 $375,000

Workshop alert! 2.18 Acres features a spacious 3 bedroom mobile home with an addition and a 24 x 14 covered deck plus a 36 x 40 over-sized shop with mezzanine. This is a great handy man property with a comfortable meticulously maintained home.

2.18 ACRES

MLS 2412200

BUNDLES OF CHARACTER!

Lisa Cutler 250.551.0076 $269,000

Charming 2 bdrm & 1 bth home a few blocks up from Baker Street. This sweet, bright home has had many modern updates, fully fenced private backyard w/ cedar deck, clean, plus a bright unfinished basement w/workshop. Low maintenance home, move right in.

NEW LISTING!

MLS 2413497

LIVE ON THE LAKE

There are lots of options here with this 4 bedroom home set on 1.16 acre just east of Kokanee Creek Park. The property consists of two waterfront lots totalling nearly 200’. Keep it all, build on one and rent the other, or explore other possibilities.

Dave Buss 250.354.9459 $859,000MLS 2413091

ONE OF THE NICEST YARDS

You will ever find in a Mobile home park. Ample space for gardening, fish pond and a benched area to admire the views of Kootenay River. The mobile has had many upgrades and includes 3 bdrms and two baths. Easy maintenance. 55+ Park

Julie Wilson 250.777.4202 $119,900MLS 2413044

12 ACRES

Located in the Slocan Valley, a 45 minute drive from Nelson or Castlegar, this remarkable acre-age runs from Highway 6 to the rail-trail corridor, with the Slocan River just across from that. Ex-cellent access & privacy.

HWY FRONTAGE

Lorne Westnedge 250.505.2606 $149,900MLS 2408741

DL10272 HWY3A

Large private parcel of land close to town. Located above the Taghum/Beasley highway with highway access. Bordered by a creek + plenty of privacy. A level building site is all ready for your new home. Power will have to be extended to service.

David Gentles 250.354.8225 $330,000MLS 2412034

A WALK IN THE PARK

Almost Waterfront and Peaceful! Stunning A frame. 4 Bdrm, 3 bthrm home which includes a spacious & bright 1 bdrm suite. Gorgeous bright home w/ vaulted ceilings, huge rooms, expansive deck, gardens & great sized yard. Bordering Kokanee Park & steps to the sandy beaches.

Lisa Cutler 250.551.0076 $449,000MLS 2412431

2724 FIR DRIVE

Laura Salmon 250.551.8877 $340,777

Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath home centrally located btwn Nelson & Castlegar. Many updates include hickory cabinets, large island, maple floors, newer windows, H/W tank, furnace & roof. The partially finished base-ment is having the perimeter dry walled and wired.

QUICK POSSESION

MLS 2408273

COMMERCIAL BUILDING

Glen Darough 250.354.3343 $319,900

Attractive investment building situated just around the corner from City Hall. Two levels; approx. 1000 on each, with separate entrances and services. Tenant on main floor with base-ment coming vacant July 1.

PRICED TO SELL

MLS 2412258

COUNTRY RESIDENTIAL ESTATE

Alan Tarr 250.354.8489 $329,900

In Salmo Village. A solid built 2 bedroom and den 1898 sq, ft. home. A double sided fire place in living room and dining room. 14.02 acres, treed and private, with a fantastic valley view.MLS 2409268

120 VERNON STREET

Commercially zoned duplex close to the end of Baker Street and the Railtown District. Main and upper 1 bedroom suites, shared laundry, nice views. Great highway exposure for a busi-ness location.

Tamara Jenkinson 250.354.3714 $324,000

RARE FIND!

MLS 2413369

WATERFRONT WITH NO NEIGHBOURS

$795,000

Stunning updated 3 Bed, 2 Bath Cedar Home on 300ft of secluded beachfront. Rare Lakefront prop-erty with 1.25 Acres that sits in its very own bay on the North Shore near Balfour. This home is one of the most private waterfront properties on the market.

Luke Mori 250.551.4917MLS 2412683

1103 FRONT STREET

Heritage Duplex! Main floor unit consist of 3 good sized bedrooms, updated bathroom, open layout and views of the West Arm. The Basement has 2 generous sized bedrooms, newly updated bathroom & kitchen. Most windows have been replaced. Convenient location.

GREAT INVESTMENT!

Laura Salmon 250.551.8877 $389,777MLS 2412877

FAMILY HOME + SHOP

Stylish two storey home with hardwood flooring throughout, gourmet kitchen open to family room, three bedrooms, office, 2.5 baths + unfinished basement. Double garage plus 40 x 26 shop. Great Value!!!

PRICE REDUCED!

Glen Darough 250.354.3343 $419,900MLS 2410032

AIRPORT RD SALMO RANCHER

A solid built 3 Bdrm 1 Bath rancher on a level 0.18 acre lot just South of the Salmo Golf Course. This is a great home for first time home-owners or a great investment project. A sunny southern exposure. Plenty of recreation close by.

Alan Tarr 250.354.8489 $126,500MLS 2412438

3069 MILLER ROAD

Private lake access without the price! Great for a family with an outdoors lifestyle. 4 Bed-room 3 baths, airy open central living, wrap deck on 1.36 acres. 10 Minutes from Nelson on a no-thru road.

REDUCED

Tamara Jenkinson 250.354.3714 $445,000MLS 2411144

EXECUTIVE NORTH SHORE HOME

Executive North Shore Home with 2.41 Acres of Private Land with Additional Guesthouse/Workshop Outbuilding. This pristine 5 Bed, 3 Bath home is equipped with high ceilings, open concept floor plan and large spacious rooms.

$564,900Luke Mori 250.551.4917MLS 2413312

SALMO DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

First time on the market. This 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath home is well built but needs a little TLC. Set on a level, landscaped, fenced 60x120 lot with flowers and a garden area and a fish pond. Court ordered sale.

Alan Tarr 250.354.8489 $129,000MLS 2413669

8.11 ACRES NEAR WINLAW

Tastefully renovated home featuring 3 bdrms, 2 bths. Rental suite potential. Views from upper level are lovely. Highway 6 splits the property al-lowing for approximately 4 acres of privacy and a place to play. Immediate possession.

$269,800Julie Wilson 250.777.4202 MLS 2410128

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250.354.8409WWW.NELSONRENTALS.CA $129,000

UNIQUE PROPERTY

Former church site with church and hall buildings included. 15 minutes outside of Nelson on a 1/2 acre lot. This property awaits your development ideas. Each building has over 1,000 sq. ft. & the hall bldg. also has a full, unfinished basement.

Lorne Westnedge 250.505.2606MLS 2412458

This is a ground level 2 bedroom strata unit in the West Creek Developments just 5 minutes to Nelson’s vibrant downtown core. Near-new open concept home is easy care and has ample storage in the basement.

David Gentles 250.354.8225 $229,000MLS 2413686

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