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Thursday, July 25, 2013 Vol. 8 • Issue 31
GREENER PASTURES
Della Schafer photoThe green slopes of Red Mountain bask in the warm sun of summer and regenerate, awaiting the return of winter. This photo is part of one hot day in Ross-land, July 13, and a photo feature called A Day in the Life of Rossland. See pages 12-19 for the entire feature in this issue.
Cash crunch crimps city coffersThe city is cash poor but
asset rich, according to the lat-est financial audit, and has dipped into a financial debt position.
Rossland recorded a deficit position after the tale of the tape was in for 2012, according to the latest financial audit by Berg, Naqvi, Lehman chartered accountants in Nelson.
However, the deficit was not due to mismanaged city opera-
tions, but the multi-million dol-lar cost of the Columbia Ave./Washington Street project.
The timing of the funding for the project eroded the city’s cash position, meaning it had to draw down its reserves to pay for the project when the bills came due, said Rossland chief administrative officer Cecile Arnott.
A municipality is not allowed to pass a deficit budget accord-ing to the Community Charter, but it is allowed to come in at a deficit at the end of the year.
However, under the Charter, the city now has some work to do.
“You have to clearly address that in your next plan as to how you are going to deal with that deficit,” she said.
As a result, there will be a $4 million borrowing undertaken this year by the city to offset the existing deficit—and the cur-rent alternative approval pro-cess is underway to gain the community’s blessing, and to set the terms of the borrowing.
TIMOTHY SCHAFERRossland News
• See AUDIT, Page 4
IN THE RED• The city has a net fi nancial debt of $2.85 million.• Financial assets dropped to $3.89 million from $7.1 million.• Grants and accounts receivable rose from $440,150 to $2.9 million.• The city went from a cash basis of $6.38 million down to $468,000.• The end-of-the-year accumulated surplus was $40.5 million.• Expenditures in 2012 rose to $6.9 million from $6.1 million in 2011.• Revenue rose by $1.1 million to $8.2 million in 2012, largely on the strength of a $650,000 increase in grants.Source: City of Rossland audit
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Until Aug. 24• THE GOLDEN TICKET This is Rossland’s heritage package and includes admission to the Rossland Historical Museum and site tour, as well as The Gold Fever Follies. It includes great discounts at 11 participating Rossland merchants. The Rossland Museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday and seven days a week this month and into August. Site tours start at 10:30 a.m. with the last tour at 3:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. after July 1). The Follies run Tuesday to Saturday with two shows daily: 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. until Aug. 24. Tickets available at the museum (cash/debit/credit) and Café Books West and at the Follies shows (cash only). Tickets are adults $18, senior/students $13, children $9. Thursday, July 25• SuMMER GARDEN CONCERT presented by the Rossland Council for Arts & Culture. Adrian Glynn (from ‘the Fugitives’) and Steel Audrey. 7:30 p.m. at the Old Chinese Gardens, home of Larry Doell and Audrey Gerein 888 Esling Dr. Tickets: $12 in advance or $15 at the door. Tickets for sale at Out of the Cellar. Listen Here: www.adrianglynn.com; www.steelaudrey.com. Directions: below the Rossland bike skills park, at the end of the gravel road. Please bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Snacks and drinks welcome. Limited parking.Wednesday, July 31• A MIDSuMMER NIGHT’S PARTy Live music, dancing (encouraged), out-door games for kids, a car boot sale, fortune telling and a barbeque at the Rossland Museum. 5-9 p.m. By donation.Wednesday, Aug. 14• AT THE MuSEuM Do you know Where the Wild Things are? From 3-7 p.m. at the Rossland Museum kids of all ages are invited to this free (by donation) event to discover wildlife. In partnership with Wild Safe BC, the museum will have interactive displays on local species and wild life. This is planned to include large mammals, reptiles, birds, insects as well as in-vasive species of plants. Plans include a barbeque and marshmallow roast with stories.Thursday, Sept. 5 • HISTORICAL LECTuRE SERIES The first of a three lecture series which will feature local historians at the Rossland Museum. The first is on Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. More details will be added as speaking engagements are confirmed. This is timed to get people in the spirit for Golden City Days. By donation. For audience from teenagers to senior citizens.Saturday, Sept. 7• GOLDEN CITy DAyS PARADE Start planning your entry for Saturday, Sept. 7. Enter a decorated float, play music, wear costumes, sing, dance, or walk the streets while showcasing your business or group. Entry forms on Facebook, Bhubble, and Rossland Chamber website.OngoingGold Fever FolliesPerformances take place from June 29 to Aug. 24. Showings are at 3 pm and 7:30 pm, Tuesday through Saturday. This year’s new show is called A job well done, a brand new comedy by Kate Eldridge with music by Harris Anderson.Theatre classes as well ...The cast of the Gold Fever Follies also offer theatre classes through the Recreation Department. If you have a child in the house who’s interested in theatre, take a look at the daily classes offered through the month of July and into the beginning of August. The courses are advertised in the Summer Brochure which can be viewed online, at www.rossland.ca then Recreation Department, then Program Guide. Rossland Mountain MarketThe market has started and runs from June 27 to Sept. 26 on Thursdays from 3-6 p.m. The market is located downtown on Queen Street next to the Credit union. The slogan is “Make it, Bake it, Grow it!” and features fresh produce, baked treats, artisan goods and live music. If you would like to be a vender please visit: www.rosslandfood.com or email [email protected]. Rossland Library Summer Reading ProgramThe program started and is for ages 6-8 on Tuesday and Thursday from 1-2:30 p.m. and ages 9-12 are on Tuesdays from 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday Teen Nights are from 6:30-8 p.m. with movies, games and crafts. Afternoon at the movies is Aug. 21 at 4 p.m. and movies and a snack are included. Preschoolers can join the Summer Read to Me Club on Fridays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. for stories, songs, games and crafts.Rossland MuseumThe museum is now open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed Monday and Tues-day. Open daily July and August 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. including holidays. Admission is adults $10; children 6-13 $3; students 14+ $5; seniors 60+ $8; children under six free. Family rate is $28 based on two adults and children. Vinyasa Flow YogaInstructor Cynthia Anonuevo, RyT, is hosting an outdoor beginner Vinyasa Flow yoga class at the Rossglen Park in lower Rossland. The weekly class will run on Wednesdays, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. until July 31. Please contact Rossland Recreation, at 362-2327 for more information. Classes will com-bine flowing progressions from one pose to another, as well as sustained postures with attention to basic alignment.w
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Rossland-based artist Stephanie Gauvin continues to be Spellbound by the land that captivated her years ago
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Stephanie Gauvin and a painting from the Slocan valley’s Idaho Peak in the show Spellbound at the
Rossland Art Gallery this month.
Ten years ago Stephanie Gauvin was at a cross-road.
She had been laid up after a mountain biking injury in Whistler and had been contemplating mov-ing back East to Quebec and leave B.C., her “ski bum” lifestyle and her dabbling in art behind.
That was when she picked up a painting canvas. Once she pushed through the shock of marring the large, smooth white surface she began to paint.
And Gauvin never looked back. Today, she is one of the most accomplished painters in her home of 20 years in Rossland, and is featured in the latest group show Spellbound at the Rossland Art Gallery.
Throughout her journey to where she artistically is now Gauvin has used landscape as her inspiration, and it formed the crux of the meaning for Spellbound.
“Spellbound is the title for how you feel when you get up to the alpine and see all of the flowers in the alpine; it’s kind of like you are in a magic land,” she said.
The full time artist is heavily involved in the out-doors—with mountain biking and skiing—along with her husband and two children, and it is there she finds the subject matter for her art.
Gauvin takes photos on her outings into the region around Rossland and into the Slocan Valley and converts those images into vivid, colourful, acrylic-on-canvas paintings back in her Rossland studio.
“Whenever I am outside I am always in awe and enjoying and noticing every little detail. That is what lights me up,” she said.
Although she obtained a fine arts degree at Sherbrooke College in 1989, she painted children’s murals, painted on glass and when she moved to Whistler she painted T-shirts before she really found
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her niche as a landscape artist.“It’s what I am,” she said about painting full time.
“I’m never going to stop. I am a painter and I’m never going to stop learning and trying to do new techniques. I’m still going to be wondering how to paint even still when I am 80.”
Gauvin may still be trying to figure out how to seize a feeling of what she wants out of a scene, but people across the province and judges have a good feeling for her work. She has won several awards in shows since 2003, and now, as a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, she is verging on achievement of signature status.
In Spellbound, Gauvin highlights seven large works from the last few months, and two previous ones, along with 18 new smaller works on a back wall of the gallery.
Gauvin’s work is not just for Rosslander eyes only. She sells commissioned works and online as well—marketing, packaging and managing her own career and work—with gallery connections in Fernie, Revelstoke, Whistler and Nelson. After the Rossland show Gauvin’s work moves to the Craft Connection in Nelson for August. Her next Rossland show is in early December as part of a group show.
• Finalist at FCA juried show; Capturing the Canadian Spirit, 2010 Pond Hockey• Gold award finalist,West Kootenay Chapter FCA juried show, 2010 Light Shines Through• Kelowna Chapter`s FCA Artvisions, 2010 finalist Gog Lake• TNSC FCA, open show, 2011 Hear The Bells?• Small, Smaller, Smallest FCA juried show`12; Little by Little and The Chase Is On• FCA juried show,The Hundred Mile Painting Time Is On My Side Nov,2012.
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PUBLIC NOTICEALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS
In accordance with Section 86 of the Community Charter, Council for the City of Rossland proposes to proceed with the adoption of Bylaw No. 2554, a Loan Authorization Bylaw intended to authorize the bor-rowing of up to $4,000,000 (four million) as the City’s share of the funding required to finance the Columbia Avenue / Washington Street Upgrade Project. The City of Rossland is proposing to borrow up to $4,000,000 to pay for the project using long term financing.
The bylaw proposes to authorize the borrowing and financing of a sum, not exceeding $4,000,000 towards the Columbia Avenue/Washington Street Upgrade Project, over a term not to exceed 30 years.
In accordance with Section 86 of the Community Charter, an Alternative Approval Process is provided to the Electors of the City of Rossland, giving them the opportunity to respond against the proposed bylaw as described above. Response against the adoption of Bylaw No. 2554, “Columbia Avenue and Washington Street Upgrade Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2554, 2013”, must be submitted to Council, on the form provided and available at City Hall, by 4:00 p.m. on August 27, 2013.
Unless a response is received from at least 10% of the Electors of the City, estimated to be 256, by the dead-line date noted above, Council will be in a position to proceed with the adoption of the Loan Authorization Bylaw. Electors of the municipality wishing to respond against the Bylaw, should submit their response to Council, on the form available from City Hall, located at 1899 Columbia Avenue, Rossland, during business hours.
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Rosslanders can breathe easy now that a gas line break has been repaired.
A high-pitched whistling noise could be heard through-out downtown Rossland Wednesday afternoon as emer-gency crews and FortisBC workers strove to seal off a leak on a residential natural gas line.
A City of Rossland crew was working in an alley between First and Second ave-nues in upper Rossland when an excavator ruptured the gas line at nearly 2 p.m.
“Crews arrived on site and they ensured the scene was made safe and then they brought the gas under control at around 2:50 p.m. by stop-ping the flow of gas in the two-inch main,” Michael Allison,
spokesperson for FortisBC, said Thursday.
“The pipeline was repaired and regasified at around 7:30 p.m. And then we began relights (to appliances) to six customers who were unfortu-nately affected.”
Regional fire worked close-ly alongside to ensure the safe-ty of Rossland residents, according to Terry Martin, regional fire chief.
“Fifteen houses in the neighbourhood were cleared and a total of 10 Rossland resi-dents were evacuated as a safe-ty precaution,” he said.
Members were testing the atmospheres of evacuated houses for accumulated natu-ral gas before allowing resi-dents to return to their homes.
Customers are asked to do their research before digging by calling BC One Call to locate any underground utilities.
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Trail Times Rossland used up a portion of its 15 minutes of fame recently when Global TV News featured the Golden City in its Small Town B.C. feature.
Airing July 6, the 3:48 cut of video includes plenty of photographs shot in Rossland by Rosslanders, spiced with some local and recent history of the city. Hosted by Sonia Beeksma of Vancouver’s Global, the feature also contained some explanation of the city’s evolution as a year-round tourist destination with the develop-ment of Red Stone’s 18-hole golf course and the popu-larity of the local mountain biking trails.
Check out the link at: globalnews.ca/video/698073/small-town-bc-rossland.
IN BRIEF15 minutes of fame for Golden City
Tourism Rossland has increased shuttle service to and from the Spokane Airport, via Rossland, through to Nelson for the winter of 2013/2014. Queen City Shuttles will now be running guaranteed transfers Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday all winter. In addition, the price has changed from $135 (plus tax) each way to $135 (plus tax) one way or $198 (plus tax) for return. Tourism Rossland, Nelson Kootenay Lake Destination Marketing Organization and Whitewater Ski Resort are partners in this.
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Submitted photoRed Mountain Resort and Boarding for Breast Cancer partnered to raise funds at the B4BC’s Shred the Love Winter Series at Red Mountain Resort. Christine Andison, (left) planning coordinator Red Mountain Resort, presented a $1,500 cheque to Lisa Pasin, director of development KBRH Health Foundation, for the digital mammography campaign.
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Currently, cash for the city coffers com-pared to last year at this time is down near-ly $6 million. And, although the city has reserve fund balances of $4.3 million, it is actually in a deficit of $3.7 million because it has used the money to fund the project with-out having the bor-rowing in place.
Financial assets dropped to $3.89 mil-lion from $7.1 million due to a drop in cash and short-term invest-ments. The Columbia/Washington project was funded from cash reserves.
Grants and accounts receivable rose from $440,150 to $2.9 mil-lion, after the city received cash from the provincial Ministry of Transportation for the C o l u m b i a /Washington project, as well as the money the city receives back from the HST (around $600,000).
Liabilities remained largely the same at $6.7, down slightly from $6.9 million.
Those figures gave the city a net financial debt of $2.85 million, as opposed to a net financial asset of $259,981.
“We are really in a financial debt posi-tion,” Arnott said.
While the city sits in an accumulated sur-plus of over $40 mil-lion, nearly all of that is tied up in tangible capital assets—assets
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The Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue is currently taking applications for paid on-call firefighters in Rossland.
If you are interested in serving the communi-ty by becoming a paid, on call firefighter in Rossland—or at anyone of the five other depart-ments—you can pick up an application form at KBRFR headquarters located at #201-843 Rossland Ave. in Trail. Company number one in Rossland is at 2044 Second Ave.
Warfield, Genelle, Trail, Montrose and Fruitvale are also looking for a few good men and women. Applicants must be 19 years or older and possess a valid driver’s license. Applications are to include a driver’s abstract and criminal record check.
Criminal record checks will be returned and all information will be kept confidential. If you have any questions, please contact regional fire chief Terry Martin at 364-1737, Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
IN BRIEFHot times in the city
The popular Kootenay-wide book club One Book, One Kootenay has kept regional readers busy trying to decide which of the three short-listed books should get the nod.
Each year, booklovers read, discuss, and vote on the book they think book all Kootenay folk should read. The deadline for voting for the 2013 One Book, One Kootenay (OBOK) selec-tion is Aug. 2.
This year’s shortlist is comprised of Never Going Back by Antonia Banyard, Confined Space by Deryn Collier and The Dolphin’s Tooth: a Decade in Search of Adventure by Bruce Kirkby.
Since May, these Kootenay authors have been reading in libraries across the region, either in person or virtually through film. With several days left to read and vote, the Kootenay Library Federation that hosts OBOK is urging people to pick up copies of the books at their local libraries, and vote. www.obok.ca is the place to find information about the books, fol-low the results of the vote, and find out where to catch an author reading at the library.
Voting deadline looms for OBOK
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The contractor of the Ophir Creek Reservoir project has submitted claims relating to the construction of the project. The city is conducting a review of these claims and as at the year end, no estimate can be made of the likely outcome and no accrual has been made for these potential claims. In the normal course of a year, the city may be faced with claims for damages of a diverse nature. An estimate of the contingent costs cannot be made, and no accrual has been recorded for these contingent liabilities in the financial statements.Source: City of Rossland
other contingencies
that have a physical form. Tangible assets include both fixed assets, such as machin-ery, city buildings and land, and current assets, such as inven-tory.
The city has reserve funds of $4.258 million but it is in an operat-ing and capital fund deficit of $3.7 million. This is where the anomaly exists.
The city says it has reserve funds of over $4 million, yet it does not have the cash to cover the reserves.
“So, substantially, the city has unfunded reserves,” said auditor
Andrea Kramer.“And when we put
the $4 million back that we will borrow we will have that cash back,” said Arnott.
That is why the city went from a cash basis of $6.38 million down to $468,000.
Capital revenues and operating reve-nues less your operat-ing expenditures—excluding capital expenditures—gives the city a annual sur-plus of over $1 million.
On operating expenditures the city was “fairly well in line” with what they anticipated from the
budget. Net debt went
from $259,000 posi-tive to minus $2.8 million.
Expenditures in 2012 rose to $6.9 mil-lion from $6.1 million in 2011. However, revenue rose by $1.1 million to $8.2 mil-lion in 2012, largely on the strength of a $650,000 increase in grants.
The city’s annual surplus for 2012 was expected to be $1.34 million, up from just over $1 million in 2011, but the city fell short of its expecta-tion.
However, the end-of-the-year accumu-lated surplus was $40.5 million.
But the surplus is not something that can be spent, said Arnott, meaning it is tied up in tangible capital assets, or the net book value of the city’s buildings, equipment and [email protected]
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operates in the dark as far as our water resources are con-cerned.
In what will come as a sur-prise to many, BC collects almost no data on water used by major industries in the province.
It’s a glaring hole in envi-ronmental stewardship. In fact, in some cases the BC government doesn’t even require big water consumers to measure what they with-draw from rivers, lakes and streams. In the pulp and paper industry, for example, only one mill — that’s right, just one — is required to meter the water they take.
In the natural gas industry, where large volumes of water are required for use in contro-versial hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations, a num-ber of companies are similar-ly off the hook for metering under the terms of govern-
ment-issued water licenses. More troubling, the water used is subsequently ren-dered so toxic that it can never be safely discharged back to where it came from.
In response to increased public criticisms about the impacts that the natural gas sector could have on our waters, the provincial Oil and Gas Commission began in 2011 to require at least partial reporting on the water used by the industry, and it is com-mitted to fuller reporting in the months ahead.
But this is the exception to the rule. British Columbia has no central repository where the most basic information on water use is housed. Consequently, no one can say with certainty how much water is withdrawn from what water body at any point in time.
Compounding problems,
Shortly after the 2009 BC election, a commitment was made to modernize
the province’s century old Water Act to meet the chal-lenges of a new century.
It was one of the govern-ment’s most important envi-ronmental initiatives, yet remained unfulfilled as the last mandate ended and a new government was elected last month.
Too often, British Columbians falsely assume that we have no end of fresh water. But we don’t. And there’s every reason to believe in the coming decades that our water resources will be under increased strain due to rapid population growth, major industries clamouring for more water and residents and businesses alike demand-ing more power from hydro-electric sources.
If this isn’t reason enough to get serious about how we manage our most precious natural resource, climate change could bedevil even the best water management plans by altering the intensity and duration of peak and low water flows.
All of the above under-scores the need for Premier Christy Clark and her gov-ernment to follow through on the commitments made four years ago. British Columbians deserve a new Water Sustainability Act now, before a raft of proposed new mines and liquefied natural gas plants are built.
Clark has underscored many times her commitment only to approve energy proj-ects once environmental con-cerns are properly addressed. Committing to completing the Water Act renewal work that her predecessor began would be a great place to start, because right now the provincial government often
we are not being compensat-ed adequately when major industries use public water resources. For example, right now under the terms of their water licenses, natural gas companies pay the province token “fees” of just $2.75 for every Olympic swimming pool’s worth of water with-drawn.
In Dawson Creek, by com-parison, the same amount of water sold by the municipali-ty to some of the same com-panies involved in fracking operations fetches more than $11,000.
With fracking likely to sky-rocket under a scenario where one or more liquefied natural gas terminals get built in BC, the need to properly monitor our water resources is urgent.
The provincial government can remedy this situation immediately by doing three simple things.
First, grant one provincial agency sole responsibility for gathering and reporting all information on water use and have an independent auditor periodically verify the agen-cy’s performance.
Second, require that all major water users meter the water they consume and report it to the province.
And third, increase water use fees and use a portion of the revenues collected to pay for a province-wide water use database and increased envi-ronmental monitoring and enforcement efforts.
The time has come to bring our water legislation into the 21st Century. The right place to start is to insist that we know what is being used and that users pay their fair share for what they take.
Ben Parfitt is a research asso-ciate with the University of Victoria’s POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, a resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and author of Counting Every Drop: The Case for Water Use Reporting in BC, available at policyalternatives.ca/counting-every-drop.
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Should the city support a “natu-ral” playground for the new el-
ementary school site, or should it stick with the existing one?
Last weekThe city’s elementary school students will
be shifting from MacLean Elementary School to the former Rossland Secondary School building this fall.
And when they do, some modifications will be needed to not only the school, but the school grounds.
One change will be the playground, where a group of parents are proposing building a “natural” playground, something that would take shape over the course of a few years.
However, the city has already raised the issue of insurance and liability for the uncon-ventional playground, one that could prevent it from being realized.
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Application by FortisBC Inc. for approval of a multi-year performance-based ratemaking plan for the years 2014 through 2018
NOTICE OF APPLICATION, WORKSHOP AND PROCEDURAL CONFERENCEWorkshop Procedural conference
Date: Thursday, July 25, 2013 Friday, October 11, 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m.
Location: Holiday Inn Express, 2429 Highway 97 North, Kelowna, B.C. (Aberdeen/Pandosy Room)
THE APPLICATIONOn July 5, 2013, FortisBC Inc. (FortisBC) applied to the British Columbia Utilities Commission for approval of a proposed multi-year Performance Based Ratemaking (PBR) plan for the years 2014 through 2018, and for approval of permanent rates effective January 1, 2014 (Application), pursuant to sections 59 to 61 of the Utilities Commission Act (Act).
Among other things, FBC seeks approval of the following:• Approval to make the existing interim rates as permanent effective January 1, 2013, and to
increase the permanent rates for all customers by 3.3 percent, effective January 1, 2014.• Approval of a rate stabilization deferral mechanism to mitigate rate variability for the years
2014 – 2018, as set out in the Application.• Approval to flow through, during 2014, any increases or decreases arising from a decision in the
Generic Cost of Capital Stage 2 Proceeding that is currently before the Commission.• Certain accounting treatment and financing of deferral accounts.• Discontinuation, modification and creation of certain deferral accounts, and the amortization
and disposition of balances in deferral accounts; • Acceptance of certain Demand Side Management expenditures, pursuant to section 44.2 of the Act.• Changes to certain accounting policies to be used in the determination of rates for FortisBC.
THE REGULATORY PROCESSBritish Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission) Order G-109-13 has established a Workshop, Procedural Conference and Preliminary Regulatory Timetable for the regulatory review of the Application.
The detailed Regulatory Timetable can be reviewed on the Commission’s website at bcuc.com under Current Applications.
FortisBC will hold a Workshop to review the Application on Thursday, July 25, 2013, commencing at 10:00 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Express, 2429 Highway 97 North, Kelowna, BC in the Aberdeen/Pandosy Room.
The Commission will hold a Procedural Conference regarding the further regulatory process for the review of the Application on Friday, October 11, 2013 commencing at 9:00 a.m. in Kelowna.
REGISTERING TO PARTICIPATEPersons who wish to actively participate in this proceeding should register as Interveners with the Commission in writing by Wednesday, July 24, 2013, identifying the issues that they intend to pursue as well as the nature and extent of their anticipated involvement in the review process, and indicating whether they plan to attend the Procedural Conference. Interveners will receive email notice of all correspondence and filed documents. An e-mail address should be provided if available.
Persons not expecting to actively participate, but who have an interest in the proceeding, should register as Interested Parties with the Commission in writing by Wednesday, July 24, 2013 identifying their interest in the Application. Interested Parties will receive a copy of the Commission’s Decision when issued.
PUBLIC INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTSThe Application and supporting material will be made available for inspection at the following locations:
FortisBC Inc.Suite 100 - 1975 Springfield Road Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 7V7
British Columbia Utilities CommissionSixth Floor, 900 Howe StreetVancouver, B.C. V6Z 2N3
The Application and supporting material are also available for viewing on the following web sites:fortisbc.com and bcuc.com.
All submissions and/or correspondence received from active participants or the gener-al public relating to the Application will be placed on the public record and posted to the Commission’s website.
FURTHER INFORMATIONFor further information, please contact Ms. Erica Hamilton, Commission Secretary, as follows:
Telephone: (604) 660-4700 Facsimile: (604) 660-1102 Email: [email protected] BC Toll Free: 1-800-663-1385
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Rossland Historical Museum worth a visitTo the Editor:As some of your readers
are aware, Betty and I spend a fair amount of time on the golf course.
However there are days when we scratch our heads over finding something else
to entertain ourselves.On Saturday, July 13 we
went for a drive up to Rossland and beyond on the old highway to Christina Lake. We only went a mile or so unlike a trip over the whole route I did with my
dad in 1950.As we still had more
time, we stopped in at the Rossland Museum. Years ago we had toured the out-door aspects, but we had never gone inside.
This time we did and it is
a “wow.” Congratulations to those who developed and those who maintain this extremely interesting and historic facility. I would like to encourage you to add it to your bucket list.
Terry Panton, Trail
City, residents make deal on land swap A Kootenay Avenue road closure
bylaw adopted by council on May 24 is adopted again and now includes a land swap between the city and two resi-dents.
The initial bylaw had been submitted to the Land Title Survey Authority (LTSA) for registration with the corre-sponding subdivision but was rejected because the area represented in the bylaw was slightly different than the subdivision plan. A new bylaw is now on the books, repealing the original bylaw and containing drawings accu-
rately representing the road closure. Council made first and second reading of the bylaw and set a public meeting on June 24, and approved it July 15.
The owner of two properties (1960, 1980) on Kootenay Avenue submitted a development variance application to reduce the front setback on the two lots.
Upon review of the site, it was deter-mined that a land exchange, which would result in the lots shifting south-ward toward Kootenay Ave, would be preferable as it would secure additional snow storage within a wider lane way north of the lots, while also allowing the city to better manage the drainage and snow melt issues.
A second property owner, at 1992 Kootenay Ave, agreed with the propos-al, which in addition to creating a wider lane way north of the lot, would pro-vide a compliant setback for the dwell-ing on both the east and south property boundaries—the dwelling’s siting is now legally nonconforming.
The proposed land exchange is intended to result in no increase or reduction in lot size from the three properties; sections of boulevard acquired from the City’s Kootenay Ave. boulevard assume the same value as that acquired from the three lots.
The City will cover the costs of sur-veying and registration.
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And there is plenty of smoke coming from the city’s skateboard park project volun-teers as they continue to nail down the fund-ing required for the $600,000 park.
The fire is also burning, with several pokers placed out into the community with various financial
sources to close the $220,000 gap the Rossland Skatepark Association (RSA) feels it has before con-struction can begin.
RSA volunteer Aaron Cosbey said the funding pieces are fall-ing into place—with $80,000 of the $300,000 in cash already in the bank—and construc-tion could still be on pace to begin in spring of 2014.
He estimated RSA would be able to secure around $200,000 out of the total estimated budget for the park through in-kind contribu-tions—and some com-munity partners have already verbally declared an intention to be on board, Cosbey said. In-kind dona-tions are promised through several local businesses while some contractors are ready to get on board.
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(funding) is in place it will be a draw. It’s a beautiful park. You’ll have people coming not just from Rossland but skate tourism throughout the Kootenays,” he said. “We’re optimistic we’ll get there.”
The group will be meeting this week to finalize a fundraising strategy going into the fall. Everyone on the committee has their assignments in terms of talking to people about in-kind contri-butions.
There are bunch of irons in the fire, but the committee is look-ing for major grants rather than smaller fundraising efforts, given the amount of money they need to raise.
Cosbey said Teck Trail Operations and the Columbia Basin Trust (possibly around $50,000) could ante up some funds, as well as
the Nelson and District Credit Union, the United Way and the City of Rossland through its Gas Tax Fund.
One of the guaran-tees RSA gave the nearby neighbours of the site was if it didn’t have enough money and its full budget to do all of what is con-tained in the design it would not proceed.
“So we promised them we would not do that, to ensure we potentially would not leave a project half fin-ished,” he said.
The 15,000 square foot park (1,400 sq. metres) received approval by city coun-cil in August after a lengthy public process to create a design that suited the community, met the needs of the local skate population, and melded seamless-ly into the Official Community Plan for design.
“This park needs to be more than just a skate park. This is a valuable lot. It’s a dia-mond, actually, and it’s sitting in the centre of Rossland on a nice level lot and we want it to be more—we want it to be a public area,” Cosbey said about the design.
Tending toward a bowl with a flowing transition from park to a plaza, the park will be constructed for skateboarding, scoo-tering, in-line skating and biking.
Once funding has been secured, the asso-ciation will ask city council to consider the process of rezoning the lot for placement of the recreation facili-ty (re-zoned to parks and open spaces).
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There is a cougar in the region and it has
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“At this time we do not recommend using the Dewdney trail (Old Cascade Hwy provides an alternate route to Rossland for Seven Summits riders), and suggest that any trail users in this area (including the Seven Summits and Sheep Creek trails) travel together in groups.”
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She is making steady progress: seeks out our company, shows more eye-con-tact and has developed a greater attention span (we will spare you the statistics) and she now uses around 15 words regularly, expresses her wants more clearly and has been known to con-tribute to the dinner table conversations from time to time.
If you know Ellie, you know how big of a miracle this is. We’ve also made humongous progress with toilet training since daddy put in a toilet in Mika’s playroom—they are both so proud of their accomplishments.
Thanks to you and all the generous dona-tions we received in the last 12 months. We raised $8,000 towards our $13,000 goal. We’ve also made it without Mika to the Option institute for a total of three advanced programs in the last 18 months to solidify our home program.
Mom will continue to home school Mika through the summer and started training a new facilitator that will start in September.
We will be doing our intensive program with Mika starting Sept. 30. This is awe-some and scary news as we are still in need of more funds to make it happen, $5,000 more to be exact.
We’re also booked to do lessons in the Anat Baniel method (science-based inter-vention through movements for the brain to make new connections. This method work in sym-biosis with the Son-Rise program focusing on neuroplasticity).
The July and fall sessions will run at $2,000-$3000. We use our personal funds as much as we can and our school funding helps a long ways to pay a teacher/facilita-tor at home to help me, but between running a gluten and corn free diet with probiotics supplements and the costs of tuition/train-ing we cannot do it alone. Hence our need
to fund raise, again.We are so grateful
for the contributions of the community. It’s a real lesson in humility every time we receive donations, but we love our daughter and we will do everything to offer her the best chance to find her voice.
Government fund-ing is limited and lim-iting in its essence. We can’t make it work on our resources and gov-ernment resources alone. And they are not all what Mika needs—we tried them.
School resources are also limited and it was too busy of an
environment and over stimulating for her. Right now we can do better controlling her coping behaviours at home.
Fundraising is a humbling venture.
We do what we believe in and if it means asking for help, so be it. In exchange, people that give can really impact the life of a little girl, her family and the community she belongs to.
Thank you so much for supporting our dream for our daugh-ter to be able to express herself and lead a ful-filling and indepen-dent life.
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Carmen Adam photoMika and her favourite dog, Tulip.
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You can also send a cheque to:Finding Mika’s voiceBox 2035, Rossland, BC, V0G 1Y0
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Day in the Life ... of Rossland
It was a beer-y good start to Sat-urday morning as Ryan Arnaud, above, the head brewmaster at Trail Brewing—soon to be Rossland Brewing Company—works his mag-ic on the grain that will soon � nd a home in someone’s frosty mug. Petri Raito, left, hauls out the hops that are left from the process.
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10:20 A.M.
The energy of the ebb and flow of life in Rossland can only be believed by those who spend some time here to witness it.
It’s a pace that is healing, the rate at which life is meant to be lived and breathed. Maybe it is the mountain air, the recre-
ational lure, the sense of community, or the multi-faceted, multi-talent-ed characteristics of the people who live here, but Rossland is the quintissential mountain town in Canada.
And what better way to illustrate it than to record a day in photo-graphs. The day in question was Saturday, July 13, a hot, humid and sunny day in the Golden City. From Red Mountain to Red Stone, Columbia Avenue to the reaches of Upper Rossland, Rossland life was sliced by a camera and saved for posterity.
SOME UNGODLY HOUR IN THE A.M. ...Sarah Cussons of the Alpine Grind pulls a fresh baked batch of muf� ns from the oven. The smell of roasted coffee and fresh baking pull many Rosslanders and Rosslander-wanna-be’s to the East end of Columbia Avenue for morning “worship.”
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10:40 A.M.Right: Randi Adams edges the
ceiling of the Sunshine Café as the popular breakfast spot undergoes a complete renovation of the 1897
building it resides in. The café should be opening soon, says Ad-
ams, as work is nearing completion.
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11:40 a.m.The Smiths of Ross-land enjoy a spot of ice cream while staying cool in the shade on Columbia Avenue. Kristen, right, holds four-month-old Coo-per, while his sisters Mattea, five (far left), and Addison, two, fin-ish their tasty treats.
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11:20 a.m.Ralph Zedrynski of Trail brought his dog, Odin, up to Rossland for the day after paragliding in the morning. Odin is the former dog of former Rossland mayor Gordon Smith.
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11:47 a.m.Biker in Abstract by Julie MacDermott gets straightened out by Powderhound owner Brian Potter during a quiet moment in the popular ski and outdoors shop.
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11:55 a.m.Timothy Schafer photo
Above: Recent Rossland Secondary School graduate Patrick Solstice picks a peck of un-pickled peppers as produce clerk at Ferraro’s Fine Foods.
12:36 P.m.Left: Betty Jenkins takes in a Saturday task of sudoku in the shade on the deck amidst her verdant garden.
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12:41 P.m.Right: Two Rosslanders don’t beat the heat but keep in step while they jog through the midday sun.
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1:35 P.m.Above: Goats penned up on the slopes of Red Mountain Resort look on with curi-ousity at a strange, relatively hairless bear that invaded their Saturday solitude.
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2:31 P.m.Top: Two mountain bikers head out across the slope of Red Mountain in search of some cool trails in the forest.
2:44 P.m.Left: The silent lifts of Red Mountain sit patiently waiting for the days of summer to pass and the snow of winter to return.
Day in the Life ... of Rossland
3:12 p.m.Océanne Verot, six,
takes flight down the slide at Rossland Pool while her father Daniel Ouellet was waiting in the water to ensure a
safe entry.
Timothy Schafer photo
3:30 p.m.Right: Big John Kirkup deals out the law in early Rossland
as the cast of Gold Fever Follies performs in a matinee presentation of A Job Well Done at the Miners’ Union Hall.
Timothy Schafer photo
2:51 p.m.Below and below right: Rosie the Labrador retriever keeps in the game chasing after and stealing tennis balls with her
owner Rick Entress and tennis adversary Juan Arriagada.
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3:41 p.m.Young entrepreneur Tarn Bazley, six, right, brought his sister, Anise, four, and his mother, Barb, out in the heat to try his hand at setting up and selling lemonade in his first business venture. At 50 cents a glass, the price and the heat tempted Jill Kalawsky, left, Lydia Kalawsky, five, and Beth Toombs to buy three cups.
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4:02 p.m.Tierra Machek-Brant pours a
cup of Red Mountain Espresso, a tea that has a coffee flavour, at Café Books West on Washington Street. The tea is a new product brought into the book shop café
by owner Evans Rora.
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Day in the Life ... of Rossland
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
4:35 P.M.Above: A cyclist toils up the grade towards Red
Mountain Resort on the outskirts of the city.Timothy Schafer photo
4:55 P.M.Right: Kelly MacKay (left) drains a putt on the ninth hole at Red Stone Golf Course while his
golf mate Ryan Harder looks on.Della Schafer photo
Timothy Schafer photo
Timothy Schafer is the editor of the Rossland News. He has worked at various newspapers across Western Canada, including the Nelson Daily News, the Valley Voice (New Denver) and the Trail Daily Times in the West Kootenay.
Della Schafer has worked in nearly every form of media over the years, including television with CTV, print media, documentary film prduction and radio with the aboriginal radio Missinippi Broadcasting Corporation. Her photos have been printed in several newspapers and magazines across Canada and Germany.
Riel Schafer did contribute much to this feature and was quiet and well behaved for all important shots.All photographs were taken on Nikon digital equipment. No film was harmed in the shooting of this feature.
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Rossland could become a West Kootenay pioneer if a move to bring broad-band, high speed internet to the Golden City is successful in September.
With communities of all sizes across the West Kootenay consid-ering laying their cards on the table for broad-band, high speed
internet infrastructure, Rossland has already approved in principle the introduction of the service to the city.
City council will be weighing its options to pull the trigger and approve the project in conjunction with the Columbia Basin B r o a d b a n d Corporation (CBBC) in fall, after some or all of the nearly $185,000 in start-up funding is accounted for through
grants.Councillor Jody
Blomme, who is a member of the com-mittee trying to bring broadband to the city, said gaining any grant money toward the project would be vital in the decision, since it will ease the burden on the municipal bud-get.
“You really have to get the community buy in to justify where the property taxes
have to go,” she said about sustaining and maintaining the ser-vice.
“But a lot of people recognize the value of this and the sustain-ability of the project.
It is absolutely something that could pay for itself over time, and the indirect eco-nomic benefits are huge. I think that, in the long run, we will do well by it.”
A meeting at the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) office in Castlegar on Friday, July 19 urged interest-ed West Kootenay communities to “sell” the idea to their respec-tive communities.
Blomme said there needs to be a vision constructed for the community that looks at the service 10 to 15 years down the road. As well, the CBBC is putting together a model on how the ser-vice would work for Rossland, who would maintain it and how it would be legislated.
On Monday, July 15 council approved the broadband committee putting in a grant application on behalf of the city with Southern Interior D e v e l o p m e n t Initiative Trust (SIDIT).
The committee will also be applying for a Western Development E c o n o m i c Diversification grant, as well as the Southern Interior Beetle Action Coalition (SIBAC).
The CBBC network will be an open access network mandated to meet the needs of Basin businesses. The network will offer increasing numbers of business applications and services based on local demand and sup-ply.
Benefits of the Rossland Broadband project would include about 20 times faster than current down-load speeds achievable in Rossland, and about 100 times faster than current upload [email protected]
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Rossland NewsEfforts to improve access to high speed internet isn’t the purview of Rossland alone.The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) is also in the running to improve internet speed in its rural communities.RDKB chair Larry Gray said a Broadband Forum in Cranbrook late last month examined some of the issues and possible solutions to the provision of broad-band to rural areas in the Kootenays and Boundary.The outcome of the meeting was to endorse a commit-ment from all participants to request support from the province in rural broadband, Gray noted in a report to RDKB board members.“This need not be in terms of financial support but could mean some streamlining of regulations,” he said.The possibility for provincial grants was also a consideration and was supported by the Network BC representatives. Gray said new Build Canada and Gas Tax program funds now could be used for broadband infrastructure. Currently, the three Kootenay regional districts are working in cooperation with the province, ISP’s (inter-net service providers) and CBBC to attempt to build better high speed internet service for rural areas.CBBC is re-examining its proposals for fibre connec-tions and service in the area as its initial plan proved too costly for towns where capital costs amounted to about $180,000, and annual support at about $40,000, even with CBBC bringing the fibre to the communities.Gray said the CBBC will look at the issue again to see how it could work with ISP’s to supply high speed wire-less service at a cheaper cost and wider range, using a feed from the existing fibre put in place by CMON.“One option might be to run cable to a central spot in a community and then use the wireless technology from an independent ISP to transmit wireless, or to work in conjunction with a municipality and an ISP to do this.”
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