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At last week’s in-camera meeting of Rossland city council, a resolution was passed restricting Coun. Laurie Charlton’s interactions with city staff.

Mayor Greg Granstrom said the resolution comes after a thorough investigation by a third party consultant and an original complaint which goes back to February.

Granstrom said there wasn’t any choice on the part of council.

“This had to happen,” he explained. “Council is the employer and when an employee brings an allegation of harassment to the employer it’s very important that the employer investigates.”

He said council hired the independent consul-tant to look into allegations brought forward by staff to see if there was in fact harassment in the workplace.

The consultant’s report came back saying there was and that it needed to be dealt with.

“We went to legal counsel and received some recommendations as to how to proceed with the matter, he said. “You have to treat harassment in the workplace as a very serious matter.”

Coun. Laurie Charlton said Monday that there was actually no motion of censure.

“What council adopted the other night was some resolutions that were put forward,” Charl-ton said.

The resolutions were based on the report from Al Strachan, a labour consultant out of Kelowna.

Charlton said the report itself had a number of factual errors and there were some exaggerations, but noted it was nothing that significant.

“What it does is put the whole report itself in question. If he makes mistakes on these simple little things, what has he done with the rest of it?” Charlton asked. “For example, he referred to me as a chemical engineer. I’m not a chemical engi-neer, I’m a chemist.”

In another example,Charlton cited:“He said that I had been on council for 19

years, actually I’ve been on council for just fin-ishing 17 years. Then he referred to the building

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Monday evening practices 7 - 9 p.m. in the McIntyre Room at the Cominco Memorial Centre. Brass and woodwind players welcomed. For more info, contact Andrea McKay, 362-7604.

Tue/Thu evenings, Sat morning, May to Sept, Christina Lake. Carpool from Rossland. Contact Mary Hatlevik, 362-9452. All women welcome. Raise awareness of breast cancer, support wellbeing.

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Become a host family for Rossland Rotary’s Youth Ex-change program and welcome an international student into your home for 3 months. Contact Susan van Asselt at (250) 362-5161 or [email protected]

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Each month on the third Sunday from 7-9:30 pm., the Ross-land Miner’s Hall hosts performers - music, dance, spoken word, theatre. Interested volunteers and performers may contact Michael Gifford at 250-362-7170 or [email protected]. Adults $3, students free. Treats available. Doors open at 6.

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Rhymes, songs, finger plays and stories, 10:30-11:30 am, Thursdays at MacLean StrongStart Center. Free, drop-in, for caregivers and young children.

Ages 3 to adult. Ballet, African, modern and more. Contact Renée Salsiccioli at 368-8601 or [email protected].

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 or guardian must remain in the program room for the duration.

Rossland Radio Co-op, 101.1 FM. Come to a Wednes-day meeting, 7-9pm, 1807 Columbia. Or email [email protected].

6-8 pm, first Tuesday each month at the Rossland Library. Come be part of the process.

Columbia District Girl Guides has units from Ross-land to Salmo for girls aged 5 to 17. Call 250-367-7115. Leaders also wanted.

For boys and girls, now at the Rossland Scout Hall. Beavers (ages 5,6,7) Wed. 6-7pm. Cubs (ages 8,9,10) Thu. 4-5:30pm. Contact Shanna Tanabe: 362-0063.Popcorn fundraiser is currently going on around town.

Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or contact [email protected]. Art Night: Tue. 7pm; Movie Night: Wed. 6-8pm.

General Meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. on the third Wed. of every month. All members of Branch #14 are asked to attend.

Weekly meetings at the Rock Cut Pub, Mon., 6-8pm. All welcome! Contact John Sullivan, 362-5278.

West Kootenay Family Historians, 7pm, first Monday each month, Sept to June, SHSS, Castlegar. Annual fee $10. Contact Jean, 365-8100, or Grace, 364-1426.

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inspector saying that I questioned over-building permit that he issued. Well, yeah,” he said. “I had some questions about two or three of them, certainly not every one of them.

“So there are these gross exaggerations that

are just trying to build up the case, but what it does is detract from the relevance of the re-port.”

Charlton said the issue originated when he wrote a letter to the editor about a garage that

was built on Second Avenue on the city road al-lowance. He said there had been no encroach-ment agreement in place and no variance permit granted to allow the owner to build a garage beyond the setback that was specified

within the bylaw.When asked what this could do to his run

for re-election, Charlton said it wouldn’t hurt him, since the community knows what hestands for.

Remembrance Day is only a week away and the poppy campaign has now begun.

The campaign starts two weeks prior to Remembrance Day and so started Oct. 29.

i canvas the business and the lodges and service clubs and I ask fo ra donation to go to the Poppy Fund. Any money that we raise here in Rossland stays in Rossland. There are quite a few stipulations.

The funds have to be used for veterans. The biggest part of the Rossland campaign goes to five

bursaries at the high school and they are grandchildren of a veteran. If we give a bursary to someone other than a grand-

child, than that comes out of the general fund at the Legion. it cannot come out of the poppy fund.

Then we have the poppy contest in the school and we give out prize money for the kids for first, second and third in po-etry and literature and posters. That comes out of the poppy fund.

Everywhere across Canada it’s the same. When the service clubs donate they get a wreath to lay on

Remembrance Day. Lafond wanted to make it clear that the veterans don’t sell

the poppies, but distribute them.“If you go down the street and you meet a legionnaire with

poppies they’ll probably ask you, “would you like to wear a poppy?””she said. “If you want to put a dollar or something in the pot, that’s fine, but you don’t have to. That’s up to you.”

The legion had a distribution day last Saturday and will be doing another this Friday in Rossland and Saturday at the mall in Trail.

The service in Remembrance Day starts at 10 a.m. in the Legion Hall.

She said that everybody’s welcome. School kids will read some poems and they also want to encourage the local scouts to come out.

“We have just a short half hour service in the legion, then we line up and march to the cenotaph to have the reasong of the men who died in the wars and the laying of the poppies,” she said. “That’s at 11 a.m., but we try to encourage people to come to our service in the legion.”

After the parade and wreath laying, the legion will have some entertainment and lunch for a donation.

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Lastr weeks in-camera council meeting saw resolutions put forward to restrict Coun. Laurie Charlton’s communications with city staff. Charlton is on the far left.Arne Petryshen photo

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The RSS Senior Girls field hockey team left for provincials in Burnaby on Tuesday. They are entering the tournament ranked fourth in their category. Some members of the team were out Saturday morning selling baked goods to raise money to cover trip expences. From left, Taylor McKinnon, Brenna Mackay, Caycee McKinnon and Jos Reynolds.

The Rossland Council of the Arts and Culture is asking the city for support for a bear sculpture in downtown as well as ren-ovations to the green room in the Miners’ Hall.

Renate Fleming, president of the arts council, said they have some funds put aside and want to use them to renovate the green room in the attic of the Miners’ Hall.

“We’re asking for the support of the city in helping us develop plans,” Fleming said, adding that the council has money to draw up the plan and people interested in helping them coordinate the project.

“We would like to work with the city and get your approval in principal for this project.,” she added, saying that if there is any of the arts council’s extra money from the project would go into finding more grants to do this project. “At this point we don’t have the budget to begin.”

Fleming said it’s an important project for the arts council. “We would like to offer our performers a professional envi-

ronment,” she said. “There is a lot of use for that sort of space. It could also be used for meeting rooms.”

She said the room would be multifunctional and could add to our community.

“We know you are planning some renovations at the hall in the next year or two, so we’d like to tie into that,” she said.

The other project that Fleming outlined and hoped for sup-port for was a bear sculpture that would be displayed down-town.

“We’d like to put a sculpture up in the downtown core and we are looking again for your support in principal,” Fleming said.

They would also need the city to provide a space for the sculp-ture and given the downtown revitalization project see this as a good time to have a statue put up.

Approval of a space is needed in order to put a call out for submissions, since artists would need to know where their work is going to be displayed.

Once they have an artist chosen, then they would have anidea of the price tag to put on the project and can pursue grantmoney.

Fleming thanked council for their continued support, whichshe said was especialy important to because they’ve had so manyfunding cuts.

The city’s funding in matched by the B.C. Arts Council.The city funds are also the only funds that they can use to pay

their administrator to continue operations. “Despite the many volunteers that we have, it’s very important

that we have an administrator that follows through the commit-ment and continuity of a paid person and makes all our pro-grams possible,” she said.

“It couldn’t all be done by volunteers.”The arts council has put on three shows this year and has five

more planned. The Joe Hill Coffeehouse is one of their more community ori-

ented projects.

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With the Nov. 19 deadline for voting quickly approaching, the Rossland Chamber of Commerce and Rossland Rotary Club is asking for questions submissions to ask to candidates.

The questions will be asked at the municipal forum that will be held on Nov. 15.

The all-candidates forum will be held at the Miners’ Hall at 6 p.m. on the Tuesday.

Renee Clark, from the chamber, encourages everyone to at-tend this event.

It is a platform to have yourself heard, hear concerns and questions from the community. It is also a part shaping Ross-land’s future.

Though Mayor Greg Granstrom has been acclaimed, Jody Blomme, Robert Chamut, Laurie Charlton, Cary Fisher, David

Klein, Kathy Moore, Jill Spearn, Tim Thatcher, Kathy Wallaceand Sharon Wieder will all be pursuing their campaigns for councillors.

Advance voting will be Nov. 9 and 16, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. at city halland everyone can vote in the advanced poll.

In the past a reason was needed to be able to vote in the ad-vanced poll.

General voting day is Nov. 19 at MacLean School, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

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BearAware told council last week that this was a much quieter bear season when com-pared to last year.

Sharon Wieder the BearAware Commu-nity coordinator said there were only 41 calls to the Report all Poachers and Polluters line, which goes to the conservation officer in Castlegar. This is a marked decrease from 132 in 2010.

“They don’t have any statistics on bears that were killed in the area this year because that is not available until the end of the sea-son, towards Nov. 30,” Wieder said.

“In general, people that I’ve talked to in town have commented on seeing far fewer bears than they have in the past and also re-porting very large bears around more than before.”

Wieder gave her semifinal report from BearAware, the final report will be out at the end of November.

She said so far this year the cities of Ross-land and Trail donated $2,500 each to the BearAware program. Columbia Basin Trust again donated money to communities in the basin that had BearAware programs to help cover the cost of the BearAware community coordinator wages.

In terms of activities this year, Wieder was glad to see the Wildlife Attractant bylaw passed.

She said some problems arose this season where the bylaw came in handy.

“We could use that bylaw as a little tool if you will,” she said. “To get people to be more compliant and more careful about bear gar-bage problems.”

She also talked about the bear saver cart, household carts that have been tested for bears.

“They don’t call them bear proof, because nothing’s actually bear proof, but they are extremely bear resistant,” she said. “It would take a lot for a bear to access one of those carts.”

There was one in the door of city hall.She said the hope was that if they could get

some interest in the carts they could put in a bulk order to get them at a reduced cost than if people bring them in on their own.

BearAware also put on a dumpster deputy program.

“Last year we had a huge problem with dumpsters so I started a program early this year, in April, talking to people and asking for volunteers to monitor dumpsters where they live and where they work,” she said.

The deputies report back to either Wieder, city hall and or waste management opera-tors if they observed a dumpster that wasn’t

locked or was too full that it couldn’t be closed and would attract bears.

She ended up with 13 people who volun-teered to do that on a regular basis in Trail and Rossland.

Once the bears get in to the garbage, it’s pretty difficult to get them to change their patterns.

“The bears did come out a little later this year so it’s a combination of talking to peo-ple early and bears coming a bit later, a good combination,” she said.

Wieder was also looking for a letter of support from the city.

“As is customary for delegations, we don’t make decisions at this juncture,” Mayor Greg Granstrom said. “However, I think that it’s pretty simple that we can put something to-gether.”

Coun. Jill Spearn congratulated Wieder on her job, admitting she is a bear lover.

“I live in the neighbourhood of bears and have not seen nearly as many bears this year,” Spearn said.

“Whatever we can do as a community to keep the bears alive and whatever we can do to as a community to keep educating our citizens.”

Spearn also asked if there would be Bear-Aware programs going into schools to which Wieder commented that a program had been offered to schools but was turned down.

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this month! The Little Gretzky’s hockey program is starting Tuesday, Nov. 22 from 11-11:45 a.m. in the Rossland arena. Team Profilli has signed on to lead the next generation of hockey players learn the fundamen-tals of skating and hockey. If you have a preschooler in the house, who would like to learn to skate and play hockey, register them for the Little Gretzky’s program!

The co-ed youth hockey program is for preteens and teens who would like to get out on the ice with friends and play some hockey! This ice time is on Tuesdays from 3-4 p.m. Drop in will be welcome only if the program has 10 registered for the session. If your young person has “nothing to do” on Tuesdays, consider registering them for this fun, friendly hockey program. The Profilli team will be teaching youth the fundamentals of hockey - including skills, drills and a game of scrimmage at the end of each session. Players will require the majority of hockey equipment – helmet and full face mask, neck guard, elbow pads and hockey stick are required. Shin guards, hockey gloves and a cup are recommended.

The girls only rec hockey program is for girls ages 5-10 years. If your daughter has expressed an interest in playing hockey and has been scared away from our co-ed program, this is a great opportunity to get her out on the ice and learn the fundamentals. This ice time is Tuesdays, from 4:15-5:15 p.m. and led by the Profilli team – a combination of parents, grandparents and hockey enthusiasts. This is a great opportunity for the young girls in our community. For the big girls, we have an ice time set aside on Fridays, from 3:30-4:45 p.m. for teen girls and women who would like to get out on the ice and have some fun. Full hockey equipment is en-couraged, but a minimum of a full face hockey helmet, elbow pads, neck guard and hockey stick are required.

The next folk dancing class is on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Miners’ Hall. This is a fun combination of English Country and American Contra dancing. No complicated steps are required – just a sense of rhythm and humour! Newcomers are welcome – come as you are or bring a friend!

Senior’s duffer hockey is off to a great start! If you enjoy playing hockey and have Tuesday mornings avail-able, come out to the Rossland Arena for a fun game of ice hockey. This is an ice time set aside for players who are 50 and up with varying skills. Players are expected to play the game of hockey in the spirit of fellowship and

sportsmanship. All abilities are encouraged and wel-come! Play time is from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. on Tuesdays at the Rossland arena. If you’re new to Rossland, enter the building from Second Avenue, where you’ll find the change rooms and the washroom immediately to your right.

The release of All I Can at the Miners’ Hall on Nov. 4 is sure to get the ski season started! The Sherpas (sherpascinema.com) are proud to present All.I.Can: a two-year feature film project that fuses their passions for riding and exploring the mountains with their potential to help the environment. The film strives to unite global mountain culture and bind winter sports enthusiasts together as the leaders of a revolution. Multi-award win-ning directors Dave Mossop and Eric Crosland journey to Chile, Morocco, Alaska, BC and beyond with riders Kye Petersen, Mark Abma, Eric Hjorleifson, JP Auclair, James Heim, Chris Rubens, Mike Douglas, Dana Flahr, Rory Bushfield, Ian McIntosh, Lynsey Dyer, Alexi God-bout, Matty Richard, Chad Sayers and more. Tickets are for sale at The Red Pair, in Rossland.

The next kids wheel throwing and mask making class starts Monday, Nov. 21, but the instructor has increased the number of classes from four classes to six classes. If you have a child who enjoys pottery and using the wheel, consider registering them for this great class.

Public skating at the arena is on Wednesdays from 6:30-7:45 p.m., Fridays from 5:00-6:30 p.m., Sundays from 2:30-4 p.m. and then again from 6-7:30 p.m. The Sunday 2:30 p.m. skate sometimes is cancelled as a result of minor hockey tournaments. Please check the website to confirm, or give us a call at 362-2327. Skate rent-als are available if you don’t have your own. If you own skates and need them sharpened, the arena attendant would be happy to sharpen them.

Indoor soccer at RSS is on Wednesdays, at 6 p.m. in the gym. This is a fun soccer game for those who love to play. Although this is advertised as an adult program in the recreation guide, if you’re a teen and love to play soccer – please come out and have fun! Make sure you have clean, indoor running shoes and a full water bottle.

The Rossland SK8 PARK design planning meeting is happening Today (Nov. 3) at the Miners’ Hall at 7:15 p.m. This is a great opportunity for you to provide your input on design. Skaters and everyone else is invited to participate in this community planning session for the Rossland SK8 PARK.

Remebrance Day is coming up and while there our Remembrance Day issue will be next week it’s still important to remember our veter-ans by getting a poppy to wear for that day.

The tradition is that poppy wearing can-not begin before the government in Ot-tawa has begun putting their poppies on. They try to time it to as close the end of October and two weeks before Remembrance Day.

Contrary to some beliefs there is no charge for a poppy, only an optional donation, some-thing the Royal Canadian Legion Rossland Branch 14 wanted to make clear. They do ap-preciate if you donate something though.

The poppies can be sought out by finding a member of the legion around town.

The ceremony is set to take place at 10 a.m. on Nov. 11 at starting at the legion, with the cenotaph dedication at 11 a.m.

The legion invites anyone to come and pay their respects.

Lately, the weather has been changing quite rapidly, and so with winter fast approaching and already some snow touching the ground, it’s time to get some snow tires on your vehi-cles.

There’s nothing worse than sliding through intersections, except if you hit something.

The tires make a tremendous difference as most of you probably already know.

They could be the difference between stop-ping and going over a cliff or causing a colli-sion. As the ground gets more slippery, tire choices become more important.

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The second challenger in the Rossland Reads series to be profiled is The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre.

Francine Weigeldt is defending the book.Weigeldt said that part of the reason she selected the book was be-

cause they had to select a book that their book club had already read. It wasn’t just that they had read it, it was abook that brought about a lot of discussion in her own book club.

“When we had our book club meeting, most of the people stayed on the subject, we had the most things to say about it,” Weigeldt said. “A lot of discussions revolved around the fact that there’s abuse in the book and what’s the cause of it?”

She said it was interesting to hear the people talk about it most had strong opinions about it.

“So I thought, if it did that to our book club, maybe it’s worth ev-erybody reading,” she said.

The book is about a priest who lives in a small community on the East Coast. He is known as the enforcer.

“He has to go and basically put out fires in all these communities where preists have been linked to abuse,” she said. “The person that gives him his job is the bishop and the bishop kind of calls him in every once in a while and says, “we have a problem here, go take care of it.””

She said the book is a recollection of his life as this enforcer and so causes a lot of anguish personally to him.

“We get an insight as to how he deals with it,” she said. “Sometimes he questions it. The book brings up questions of the church being sacred and what should be public.”

It is also a sort of personal justification in how he deals with it. She said that towards the end he breaks away from the approach that the church takes.

Despite the subject matter the book is not difficult to read, Weigeldt assures, having read it three times.

“I read it the first time for the story, then the second because our book club read it,” she said. “Because I wanted to be part of the dis-cussions. Now I’m reading it again for Rossland Reads.”

The book also has a mystery that keeps you guessing until the last page.

Weigleldt is a teacher at L’école des Sept-Sommets and voracious

reader.She spends most of her free time reading, and doesn’t watch televi-

sion.“I’ve been a part of this book club for about five years,” she said. Weigeldt is also a ultra-runner, which means she runs long dis-

tances in the range of 160 kilometres. As a part of the long recovery from the long runs, she reads.“When I’m done a race, I read,” she said.The next Rossland Reads is at Café Books on Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. The

series continues throughout November.

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Rossland Reads kicked off Tuesday at Cafe Books. The four panelists are, from left Sarah-Jane Chris-tensen, Francine Weigeldt, Dawn Leithead and Carol Markowsky. Next week one book will be eliminated.



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“One Seed” book event is growing this weekend in Rossland

With a slight change in the U-19 format this year, the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture has partnered up with the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology to bring you the REEL Youth Film Festival. Screenings will begin at noon on Nov 26th at the Miners Hall with a $3 admission charge.

The REEL Youth Film Festival features some of the best in international youth film-making, along with submissions from the talented youth of the West and Central Koo-tenays (youth under 19 must submit films by November 4, 2011 – visit www.rosslandcac.com for submission guidelines and prize in-formation).

The 2011 Reel Youth Film Festival is a col-lection of compelling and entertaining short youth films: animations, dramas, documen-taries, comedies and a musical. Whether facing down riot police in Copenhagen,

vying for love in Philadelphia, or searching Vancouver’s downtown east side for a miss-ing aunt, these are the unflinching stories of today’s youth.

Local sponsors of the Reel Youth Film Festival include the Columbia Basin Trust, Kootenay Association for Science and Tech-nology, BC Arts Council, Columbia Power Corporation, Nelson and District Credit Union and of course the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture.

The highly anticipated Gala Event, spon-sored by Teck, is once again taking place in the Ross Thompson Room at the Prestige. Ticket prices are $35. Doors open at 6pm with films starting at 7pm. As usual, you can expect a lovely evening of live performance, great food (by Gabriella’s), choice of wine, and, returning this year, the Silent Art Auc-tion which will feature local artists.

The performer this year will be Domin-ique Fraissard: hailing originally from Aus-tralia, he now calls Canada’s west his home.

He has opened for Jack Johnson, John But-

ler Trio, the Waifs and Bill Bourne, amongst others and has been a BCIMA 2011 Top 3Finalist for People’s Choice, Best Folk/Tradi-tional Recording, Best Roots/World Record-ing, and Best Producer.

Certain to be a hit in Rossland, BC Musi-cian Magazine sums him up by saying:

“We are sure to be hearing more of this warm, comforting voice in the cool, darkfestival night.”

Listen to his music at: http://www.mys-pace.com/dominiquefraissard

As done last year, the Silent Art Auctionwill be donating all funds raised.

This year’s organization will be the Koote-nay Columbia Trails Society (KCTS – www.kcts.ca): the group that creates and main-tains the trails within the area. Last year,the auction’s highest item went to artist JulieMacDermott (www.juliemacdermott.com)who has agreed to come back this year withtwo pieces – her energetic, action paintings of the Rossland lifestyle will be sure to grabyour attention..

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Film fest changes it up this year

Laura Hoochantink andAmy Ens, both Ross-landers, model the Ca-nadian Cancer Society’s“What’s Your Game Plan” boxers at the “B4 Clink”fundraiser held at The Fly-ing Steamshovel Oct.15. A total of almost $1,100 was raised in support of the upcoming “CLINK For The Cure” Canadian Can-cer Society event which will be happening on Sat-urday, Nov. 19.

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“One Seed”, the storybook and song about a seed that decided to grow when all the other seeds said it was impossible and couldn’t be done, is being presented live at Cafe Books West in Rossland, on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 1 p.m.

Everyone is welcome to come and join author and singer-song-writer Rosemary Phillips for a sing-along and interactive reading of the storybook.

Phillips, who is a resident of Christina Lake, first published “One Seed” in 2002 with Quills Quotes & Notes.

Since then, Phillips has present-ed the storybook and song to hun-dreds of school children in British Columbia and Ontario and to au-diences of all ages in community halls. Teachers in North America, Europe and Australia have used

“One Seed” in programs about seeds and gardens and to discuss everything from ideas to courage, hope, inventions, bullying, toler-ance, being different and making a difference.

In 2009 “One Seed” was pre-sented in Rossland Elementary and since then it has undergone a major change with a colour format and translations into French and Persian.

“My dream is to have it translat-ed into many languages, to offer a message of hope and courage to all children around the world,” adds Phillips.

While the story captures the at-tention it’s the song that sticks in the mind.

“One principal let me know,” ex-plains Phillips, “that after a presen-tation in their school, the children were overheard singing away all af-ternoon. Recently an E.S.L. teacher in Spain had the same problem after choosing “One Seed” for her

children. She e-mailed me that the class

wanted to keep working on the topics all week long and to keep lis-tening to the catchy song and story - again and again. She also sentalong pictures the children had drawn and these are now on the“One Seed” art gallery web page.”

Phillips says that the greatest re-views have been from parents whocomplain because they have to put the CD player in the children’sroom because they play the CD over and over again while readingthe book.

In addition to “One Seed” Phil-lips will be presenting another chil-dren’s story “The Whales’ Secret”which has been beautifully illus-trated by Creston artist Julie Drap-er and was launched this spring at the Pacific Rim Whale Festival. For more information about Rose-mary Phillips and her writing, per-formances and publications visit: www.quillsquotesandnotes.com.

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TREVERTON: Mabel – A long-time resident of Rossland, passed away peacefully at the Columbia View Lodge on October 27, 2011. She was born on March 26, 1927 in Rossland, BC.

Friends will remember Mabel as a well-read lady, with a quick, dry wit who was never afraid to express her opinion. Although she liked to maintain a stern outer demeanor, she had a warm, loving heart for her family and friends.

Mabel often wore a pin which said, “I’VE SURVIVED DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING!” that appropriately summed up Mabel’s approach to life.

Mabel was predeceased by her brothers; Les and William (Spike).

At Mabel’s request, there will not be a service. Al Grywacheski of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

Donations may be made in Mabel’s name to the British Columbia Heart and Stroke Foundation at # 4 - 1551 Sutherland Avenue, Kelowna, British Columbia V1Y 9M9 or online at www.heartandstroke.bc.ca

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TREVERTON: Mabel – A long-time resident of Rossland,passed away peacefully at the Columbia View Lodge onOctober 27, 2011 She was born on March 26, 1927 in

Treverton, Mabel

NOTICE OF ELECTION BY VOTING

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of the City of Rossland that an election by voting is necessary to elect six (6) Councillors for a three-year term commencing December 2011 and terminating December 2013, and that the per-sons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are:

NAMES OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR COUNCILLORSSIX (6) TO BE ELECTED

General Voting Day General Voting Day will be open to qualifi ed electors of the City of Rossland on Saturday, November 19, 2011 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 p.m. at the MacLean School Annex 2095 Monte Christo Street, Rossland, B.C.

Elector Registration If you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by com-pleting the required application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the following qualifi cations:18 years of age or olderCanadian citizenresident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding voting dayresident of OR registered owner of real property in the City of Rossland for at least 30 days immediately preceding voting day, andnot otherwise disqualifi ed by law from voting.

Resident electors will also be required to produce 2 pieces of identifi cation (at least one with a signature). Picture identifi cation is not necessary. Th e identifi cation must prove both residency and identity.

Non-resident property electors must produce 2 pieces of identifi cation (at least one with a signature) to prove identity.

Advance Voting OpportunitiesAdvance voting will be open at the Rossland City Hall, 1899 Columbia Avenue on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 and on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 p.m. each day. All electors will be eligible to partici-pate in advance voting.

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A public hearing will be held for the new zoning bylaw at Rossland City Hall, Council Chambers, 1899 Columbia Avenue on November 14, 2011at 7:00 p.m.

Th e purpose of this meeting is to give all persons who deem their interest in Bylaw No. 2518 - City of Rossland Zoning Bylaw an opportunity to be heard.

Copies of the proposed Bylaw and Zoning Map may be inspected at the City Offi ce from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on regular working days or on the City Web Site at www.rossland.ca

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Rossland Secondary School was alive with thinkers this weekend, as debate teams from as far as Spokane came to put their logic to the test.

This year, the debate tournament was or-ganized by two senior students of the school Sydney Gomez and Tierra Brant. Gomez and Brant are usually RSS’s debate team, but this year decided to try the organizing side of things out.

“We had the most experience, so we be-came coaches, and coaches organize the tournaments,” Gomez said. “It all happened very fast.”

The event came up so fast that planning didn’t start until the end of September and beginning of October.

She also said that a lot of the planning took place only days before the tournament.

“We only had six judges on Thursday (Oct. 27) and we needed 48,” she said, adding that the day before the tournament, “we miracu-lously found 42 judges.”

Both Brant and Gomez have been debat-ing since Grade Seven.

“My first debate was at provincials and I got last place,” Gomez said. “I was like ok, I have to do better. I was hooked.”

Gomez went to nationals twice and she and Brant have been partners for the past two years.

This year, the teacher who usually orga-nizes the tournament moved to J.L. Crowe Secondary so there was an opening.

As the oldest and most experienced they

were the likely candidates as organizers and coaches, so that’s what they did.

Gomez said that though the planning started last month it was down to the wire by the end.

“The end of September is when most of the planning started, because in the begin-ning we were all just sort of figuring out the debate club and the date and such. So yeah it was mostly end of September, beginning of October and, well, last night. A lot last night actually.

The 42 judges that they found the night before were mostly from Rossland, but there were also volunteers from Trail, Castlegar and Nelson.

She said the need for the extra judges came from a pouring in of debate teams from plac-es as far as Spokane’s Gonzaga Prep.

“It was amazing,” she said. “We usuallyhave probably 15, 20 debaters. It’s usually a more localized tournament. I guess we sent out the invitation to more people. It got pret-ty big.”

She said it’s not usually this big and thisspread out. The tournament had to be spreadthroughout RSS on Saturday.

The timers and chairpersons were mostlyvolunteers from the school. They’re usually Grade eight to 11 students.

“They generally do it for free pizza,” she said.

“Though some people do it because they want to debate but can’t. That way they canwatch it and be a part of it.”

Gomez also wanted to thank all the con-tributions from the community to help in making the day a success.

Students from RSS and other schools as far away as Spokane took part in the debate tournament.

Debate alive and wellat Rossland Secondary

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Sydney Gomez and Tierra Brant organized the Rossland Secondary School debate tournament Saturday.

november 3, 2011 rossland news

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