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WARFIELD
Diamond celebration for ‘Jewel of the Kootenays’ BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
The Village of Warfield is celebrating its diamond jubilee and everyone is invited. The weekend will commemorate the village’s history on both Friday and Saturday with several events for the whole family. “It’s going to be a busy weekend,” said Teresa Mandoli the recreation coordinator for the village. On Friday everybody is welcome to attend the Warfield Community Hall for tea and music from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Citizens can also use this time to test their knowledge on the area by participating in a game about the heritage of the area. The self-proclaimed “Jewel of the Kootenays” “It’s going to be a busy is renowned for its distinct small town culture and weekend.” beautiful gardens. “It’s going to be like a TERESA MANDOLI Trivial Pursuit,” said Teresa Mandoli. “We have a little booklet that we’re going to use dating back from 1952 until now.” The tea will also include performances by Terri Mandoli and Roland Perry. The 60th anniversary will offer the community a chance to smell and taste delicious food, as well as hear local bands perform. “It’s a community filled with family and friends,” said Teresa Mandoli. “And the anniversary is great for new families who have moved to the area. It helps them experience the village and closeness some of us have through the programs offered in the community. “Usually if you meet somebody once, you start bumping into them everywhere.” The festivities will continue Saturday with a pancake breakfast in the Warfield Community Hall from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. for $3 per person. The proceeds raised during this event will be used to replace the picnic tables at the pool park near the hall. “It’s a future project,” said the chief administrative officer Vince Morelli. “We’re going to be replacing some of the picnic tables at the park.” Many other activities will take place from noon to 3 p.m. at the Webster School field, including games and live entertainment for every age.
See BARBECUE, Page 3
BREANNE MASSEY PHOTO
(From left to right) Dean Scott, Jennie Kelly and Stewart Sutherland stood behind a sculpture named “Bubbles” and some hand-made leather bags. The trio volunteered to set up the space to exhibit their artwork for the storefront’s grand opening on Friday in the Waneta Plaza.
Art eases effects of life-altering injury Storefront in Waneta Plaza opens Friday to showcase efforts of West Kootenay Brain Injury Association BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
Stewart Sutherland was working on a hotel restoration project in 1998 when a 15-foot fall changed his life forever. Sutherland, 62, was working on a “beautiful” project, but the aftermath of his fall left him with a brain injury that dramatically altered his life. “I think every limb on my body was dislocated,” said Sutherland. “And it was strange because my eye was
taken out by this beautiful chair that a blacksmith made and I had been sitting on that same chair just five hours before.” After the accident, Sutherland was rushed to a hospital in Princeton, but when the medical team realized the gravity of the injuries that he sustained he was sent to Kelowna for help. After spending roughly one month in a wheel chair, Sutherland had to overcome the anger he felt about what had happened to him. To make matters worse, he could no longer work as a millwright like he had been doing for his entire life because he lost his sense of balance. “This brain injury has gone a long, long way to making me a rather strange person,”
admitted Sutherland. The brain injury forced him out of work and he became engrossed by making artwork as a blacksmith, which will be on display in the West Kootenay Brain Injury Association’s (WKBIA) new storefront in Waneta Plaza along with seven other artists from the region. The gallery will have an opening exhibition Friday between 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is free to the public, the perfect tribute for Brain Injury Awareness Month. “We’re using the new storefront to showcase artwork from members of the brain injury association,” said Jennie Kelly, outreach worker for the WKBAI. “We work with very talented (people) and we were lucky enough
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to have this space donated to us by the Waneta Plaza so we wanted to show people what we can do.” The WKBIA’s new location will serve as a gallery for people suffering from brain injuries to exhibit artwork, an information and prevention centre and it will host small fundraising events for the organization, including an ongoing raffle that begins on Friday. “There is life after a brain injury,” said Kelly. “Making artwork is like a positive outcome from a brain injury. Neither (Sutherland or Dean Scott) had any artistic hankering before their injuries.” Scott, 44, suffered from an oxygen deprivation in 2006 and after overcoming a
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