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BC Liquor store employees were among those taking part in a province-wide strike by government employees yesterday. From left to right: Deb Pickering, J.P. Vaucrosson, Lori Drake and Colleen Jones. Story on the strike on page 7.

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Rossland CAO resigns, position already filled ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor

Council kept quiet about the recent resignation of CAO Victor Kumar during Tuesday’s regular meeting, with only a few sentences exchanged about the subject. Rumours that the city’s Chief Administration Officer (CAO) had resigned had been circulating for a number of months, before confirmation came through the Sept. 4

city council agenda package.

On Tuesday, council voted to declassify some information from in-camera meetings on June 11 and 27 of this year.

The information that was declassified was the resignation of Victor Kumar and appointment of Cecile Arnott as both CAO and Chief Financial Officer.

Councillor Kathy Moore was the only one to speak up about the appointment and resignation.

“I’d just like to make the comment that I’m happy to see this come forward at this time,�

Moore said solemnly. “I’m extremely disappointed that this didn’t come forward earlier.

I think we owed it to our citizens to make this announcement earlier and do a thorough search for the replacement, but I’m happy to see it now.�

Mayor Greg Granstrom was quick to respond. “I think it’s important to note that there are two sides to that

coin, we also have to respect the people that are coming in and the people that are leaving. That’s what we tried to do.

There was no motion of council to proceed in any other way.

The motion that was made was to proceed in the manner that we proceeded. Thank you very much.�

The mayor finished by saying that there would be no further discussion.

Kumar resigned back in June in an in-camera meeting

and the resignation was kept from public knowledge, which could raise questions about the number of qualified candidates that would have applied for an unadvertised job.

Cecile Arnott has been named the new CAO and CFO (Chief Financial Officer) for Rossland. Arnott is coming from Grand Forks city hall where she held the positions of CFO and deputy CAO. She will take over as of Oct. 1, 2012

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St. and Leroi Ave. Join the Rossland Tennis Society for fun mixed doubles drop in tennis from 9 a.m. to noon.

30--&3 %&3#: The season finale is Sept. 9. Who will rise to the top and become champions in the West Kootenay Women’s Roller Derby final. From 4 -8 p.m. at the Rossland arena. Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door. For more info go to kootenayrollerderby.com.

3044-"/% .06/5"*/ ."3,&5 Thursdays from, 3-6 p.m. Queen Street and First Avenue. Live music, artisans, fresh produce, baking and more!

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(0-%&/ $*5: -*0/4 The Lions meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each

programming. Professionally trained in Theatre and Film and TV, working actors, G. Michael and Alicia Gray, teach these exciting and educational classes. Itty Bitty FUNdamentals. Age 5-7 Mondays @ 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Acting FUNdamentals. Ages 8-12 Mondays @ 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.Acting for Film and Television. Ages 13 - 19 Mondays @ 7 – 9 p.m. 2010 Washington (in the historic BMO Building) MikeAlicia@ SCENEstudio.ca (250)-521-1559 www.facebook.com/SceneStudio.ca

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If you are interested in selling your wares, vendors can phone 368-3144 for more information.

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who’d like to give dragon boating a try. The team, made up of breast cancer survivors and associate paddlers, practice three times per week, carpooling to Christina Lake.

We leave Rossland at 4:45pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 7:45am on Saturday mornings. Dragon boating is a team sport with a focus on fitness, working together and camaraderie. No experience necessary - we’ll teach you everything you need to know. For more information call Jan at 250-362-5289.

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:$%$ :065) /*()54 Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or contact coordinator@columbiaycdc.ca. Art Night: Tue. 7pm; Movie Night: Wed. 6-8pm.

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(&/&"-0(: 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.

Nelson: Sept. 12 at 7pm in the Nelson United Church Hall, 602 Silica Street.Castlegar: Sept. 13 from noon to 2pm at the Castlegar Recreation Centre, 2101 6th Avenue.

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The executive director of the Lower Columbia Initiative was in council Tuesday as a delegation.

Sandy Santori provided an update on the lower Columbia Initiatives recent progress on projects they’ve been working on.

There were five key projects that LCI got involved with in 2012.

The first is an industrial land inventory database.

Santori explained that it was made to give a better understanding to the RDKB of what industrial land is available in the region, which includes Rossland.

“There is some industrial land available in Rossland, although very little and in private hands,” Santori said.

“There is still some potential for some development in the light industrial sector in Rossland.”

The majority of the industrial land is Columbia Gardens in Trail.

“The good news is there is significant opportunity, should the opportunity arise, that we are requested for industrial or light industrial land,” he said.

The second project is to support existing businesses by implementing a region-wide business retention program.

“We set a goal of 225 businesses in the LCR. We’re at 130 now. It did slow down considerably during summer time for obvious reasons,” he said.

A report should be done at the end of the year.

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Lower Columbia Initiative’s Sandy Santori talked to council Tuesday.

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The third project is a Lower Columbia regional profile.

“In the past, profiles have been done on individual cities,” he said.

“What we have found is that when we’re talking to potential investors, especially those in the retail sector, population is significant in terms of them making a decision of whether they will be located in a specific area,” he said. “When we throw out numbers like 5,000 and 7,000 and the demographics it gets challenging, we don’t meet the minimum standards when it comes to population as individual cities.”

By consolidating the Lower Columbia together into a much bigger population around 21,000, it make the area look more appealing to employers, he said.

“It will act like a tool he hopes to help draw people to the people,” he said.

The forth project is the development of strategic partnerships that are ongoing with companies like Teck.

Santori said Teck presents significant opportnities for third parties to get involved.

The fifth project is a look at marketing possibilities, such as Teck and the recycling plant, to get more people to the area.

Update: Street celebration in the works COLUMBIA TASK FORCE Submitted

The Rossland Chamber of Commerce will be working on a “street celebration” of sorts with the City of Rossland and the Columbia Communications Task Force once when the project is nearly finished.

The date has not been confirmed as of yet as we would like to ensure there are a few ssentials (sidewalks, a square, and trees) or the celebration. The chamber is looking or feedback from businesses on what they would like the celebration to be. Let Renee

Clark at the Chamber know, as the event will be planned in the coming weeks! The date for the event will be announced soon.

On the construction side of things: Expect to see the sidewalks poured and finished over the next two weeks. You can see a sample in front of the COPCAN office (LeRoi Mall) if you would like to wander by.

There has been some vandalism to some of the cement that has already been poured.

It is extremely expensive to fix and disrespectful of the hard work the crews have been doing .

Also, wandering dogs have been walking

in the fresh cement.

Please ensure your dogs are not loose.

Crews have been instructed to enact the dog bylaw if they should see a dog wandering in the fresh cement.

Washington Street water main should be finsihed this week.

Once done, then crews will be working on sewer, a deep 13-foot hole will be dug for this.

The City is requesting that children going to and from school to not use the block as it is an active construction site and will be for the next few weeks.

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Pet Of The Week

Kisses, also known as Shiloh, came to the shelter after her owner fell ill and couldn’t give her the care she deserved. Kisses is a three year old lab husky cross.

She loves people, children, and cats, but chooses which dogs she likes. Kisses loves to play fetch and loves the water.

She walks well on a leash and knows all of her basic commands.

She does have some separation anxiety so a home where her owner is around most of the time would suit her best. She is so gentle with children and people and as her name says “she loves to give kisses”. If you are looking for an extremely affectionate, laid back girl, then come meet Kisses today!! On September 15, we will be holding our “Paws for a Cause” event in (Genelle) Castlegar, at Birchbank Park. Registration will start at 10am and the walk will start at 11. There will be prizes, games, silent auction, live music, and food. Come out and support a great cause!!

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Rossland Arena Saturday, September 8, 2012 11 am - 6 pm

Entertainment E ntertainment Schedule: 11:30 am: Mirage Belly Dancers NOON: Terry & Janet Marshall & children’s choir 1 pm Rossland Glee Club 2 pm Max Hawk 3 pm Golden City Fiddlers 3 pm Children’s Magic Show featuring “Wiz ard Kim” in Arena Lounge 4 pm Michael Gifford 5 pm Boomtown Garter Girls

All day: Competition exhibits, Art Show & Sale, Petting Zoo, BoBo the Clown, Facepainting, children’s activities, Fortis Bicycle Power booth, Golden City Railway Model Special Feature: KAST presents “Raptor’s Ridge Birds of Prey” Tour Many new Craft and Information booths.

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 Rossland News Publisher: Barbara Blatchford Editor: Arne Petryshen Sales: Monika Smutny 2114 Columbia Ave., Rossland 250-362-2183

No further discussion on CAO Council started on a emotionally charged note as Councillor Kathy Moore questioned the procedure that the city had followed surrounding the resignation of Chief Administrating Officer Victor Kumar.

Rumours of Kumar leaving Rossland staff had been circulating for the last few months, but it was only last week that a resolution in Tuesday’s agenda package confirmed it.

Moore was disappointed this information didn’t come out earlier.

The city gave no public notice that they were hiring a CAO. There is also the seemingly unfair practice of hiring a CFO who was actually applying for CAO as well.

Would the application pool have been bigger had their been a proper notice for the position?

As it is now, the city already has a new CAO/ CFO lined up. Cecile Arnott, current CFO and deputy CAO of Grand Forks will take over the two positions.

The emotions welled up in the voice of Mayor Greg Granstrom as he shut down Moore’s pondering of the appointment. The mayor pointed to the need to keep the matters private for outgoing and incoming staff.

“No further discussion,” he said.

And there wasn’t. It’s likely as well that there won’t be further information on the subject as well.

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Golden City Days this weekend Golden City Days and the Fall Fair are coming up soon! On the weekend of Sept. 7, 8 and 9, Golden City Days is a community festival that promotes community spirit and fun, over three fun days. GCD is annual community festival celebrating the rich heritage of Rossland.

Golden City Events will be located in the Rossland Arena parking lot. We will have the children’s inflatable fun park, a climbing wall, Sour Dough Alley Stage entertainment, food and craft vendors, and more. The parade will start behind RSS, loop around Jubilee Park, down St. Paul St., across Second Avenue, ending at Nickleplate Park.

There are lots of new and exciting events, participants and musicians this year. Look for the Raptor’s Ridge Birds of Prey exhibit presented by KAST, and a magic show with “Magician Kim”. The Rossland Model Train will be at the Fair as well as face painting, live entertainment, new craft and information booths and BOBO the CLOWN! For more information, check out the festival’s page on Facebook—2012 Rossland Golden City Days.

Enjoy games, food, music, softball, a parade, much more. Look for the Golden City Days brochure and the orange registration brochure for the Fall Fair, located at businesses around town.

The Rubberhead Bike Festival is coming up quickly!

Huck-en Berries Bike Jamruns Saturday, Sept 8 from 12 p.m.-9 p.m. Huck-en Berry Bike Jam is a mountain bike slope style event for all ages, made to challenge avid mountain bikers to create aerial style moves with finesse and creativity. Riders will make their way down a course filled with intermediate and advanced features (jumps, tables, hips) to be crowned the ultimate hucker! Contact Rory Belter at 250-231-1481 or info@rosslandrubberhead.com for more information or to register.

The Dreadhead Super D on Saturday, Sept. 8 from 9 a.m. -3 p.m. is a fit for intermediate to advanced rider ability. The Dreadhead Super D takes place on the super flowy and slightly technical Larch Ridge and Metacola (MC) trails starting at the Black Jack Biathlon area just outside of Rossland on Highway 3B. The course offers 4.5km of single-track and involves 120 metres of climbing and 335 metres of descent. Contact Ryan Kuhn at 250-362-9074 for more information, or to register.

The Pumptrack Challenge Racefor kids 5-95 years old is on Saturday, Sept. 8. The event combines with the Huck en Berries Bike Jam. While the big kids are warming up for the Huck en Berries, the younger kids from 5-6yrs, 7-8yrs and 9-11yrs will be taking to their line

up for a round at the pump track. This is a fun race! For times and information, contact Rory Belter at 250-2311481 or info@rosslandrubberhead.com for more information or to register.

SCENEstudio - Acting for All! Rossland’s new acting school is open and offers ongoing programming. Professionally trained in Theatre and Film &TV, working actors, G. Michael and Alicia Gray, teach these exciting and educational classes. WHAT: Itty Bitty FUNdamentals. Age 5-7 Mondays @ 3:30 - 4:30 Acting FUNdamentals. Ages 8-12 Mondays @ 5:30 - 6:30 Acting for Film & Television. Ages 13 - 19 Mondays @ 7 - 9 WHERE: SCENEstudio - 2010 Washington (in the historic BMO Building) CONTACT: MikeAlicia@SCENEstudio.ca (250)-521-1559 www.facebook.com/SceneStudio.ca The brochure is online and can be viewed at www. rossland.ca. The hard copies will be in the mailboxes at the end of this week. There are lots of new and exciting courses to look forward to. Shelley Painter is offering several new Art Courses; Betty Go Hard is offering a new Sunday afternoon Hike and Yoga class; Kootenay Groove is bring a Beginners Salsa Dance Workshop to Rossland; Pam Shirley is offering a new and slightly more advanced mountain bike course for kids; we’re working on new mountain biking courses for teens and an intermediate technical bike skills course for women.

Registration opens on Sept. 4!

We’re really excited about a new Mountain Biking course for intermediate guys between the ages of 13-17 years. This freeride skills course features certified bike coach instruction with Ryan Kuhn. Ryan is a Level 2 certified Professional Mountain Bike Instructor with advanced first aid. He has been coaching professionally for three years and currently coaches the PerformX Young Guns World Cup downhill team, as well as a handful of Kootenay-based racers.

Ryan will give youth exposure to freeride skills with 30 minutes of skills-base instruction at the community skills park and then to the trails via shuttle for additional coaching. Shuttle-assisted rides will happen on all four dates from 4:30-6:30 p.m. to give youth an opportunity to practice technical riding skills. Participants must have a duel suspension bike in good working order and experience downhill riding. Full-face helmets are mandatory and armor is advised. For more information on the instructor, go to www.cycleye.com. Must have minimum 5 riders pre-registered by Sept. 7 or course will be cancelled.

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Friday y, Sep pt. 7 • 9 am – 5 pm – Rossland Historical Museum open • All weekend – Slow-Pitch Tournament, Rossland ball fields, JJ Delong – 250-3625758 • 7 pm – An Evening of Entertainment EXTRAVAGANZA, $13 advance tickets only at Rossland Hardware, featuring comedian Tara Holmes, RSS Auditorium, mature humor and refreshments

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Saturday events held in Rossland Arena parking lot, unless otherwise noted.

• EZ Rock and Mountain FM on location • 7:30 – 10 am – Pancake breakfast, Rossland Firefighters, Rossland Firehall • 9 am – 3 pm – Dread Head Super D race, pre-rides from 9 – 11 am, race time at noon, Larch Ridge/MC Trails, Ryan Kuhn, 250-231-0157 • 9 am – 5 pm – Rossland Historical Museum open; interpretive site tours every 1½ hours from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm • 10 am – United Church Ladies – pies, baking • 10 am – 2 pm – Climbing Wall – presented by Nelson & District Credit Union • 10 am – 4 pm – Inflatable Fun Park – presented by Nelson & District Credit Union • 10 am – 4 pm – Golden City Lions, sausages, drinks; Trail Rotary Club, kettle corn; Trail Kiwanis Club, hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks; Craft Vendors • 11 am – Parade, Registration behind RSS; route proceeds around Jubilee Park, St. Paul St., 2nd Avenue, ends at Nickleplate Park, reception for Parade participants • 11 am – 6 pm – Fall Fair - vendor tables and displays; live music from noon - 6 pm, inside Rossland Arena. Petting Zoo and children’s activities, Spokane St. • 11:30 am – 1:30 pm – Rossland Legion Ladies Auxiliary – Baron of Beef, lower Legion Hall • 11:30 am – 2:30 pm – Children’s Games, Rossland Interact Club • 1 – 4:00 pm – Sour Dough Alley Stage – Golden City Fiddlers; Mirage Middle Eastern Dance Ensemble; Salsa dance interactive demonstration with Amber and Ory; Rossland Heritage Celebration award presentations; Laela Heidt; “Roy Has Fire” (progressive/alternative youth rock band); chainsaw carving demonstration – watch Mike carve a masterpiece!

• 1:30 – 3 pm – Stake Your Claim children’s “dig for gold” event, hot dogs, bake table, open house, Four Winds Daycare • 3 – 7 pm – The Huck en Berries Jump Jam, practice runs at noon; kids’ fun pump track races, beer garden, music, and food, Centennial Jumps, Rory Belter, 250-231-1481 • 8 pm – Dance to “The Nards” at the Rossland Canadian Legion, $10 cover at the door • 9 pm – Music by TNT, The Flying Steamshovel, no cover charge

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Nancy Greene herself phoned Margaret (Bobbi) LaFond yesterday morning to share the news and congratulate her on receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Nancy Greene will present the official award this Monday in the Legion at 7 p.m. LaFond’s recognition and contributions will be announced then. She has been a local in the area since the late 1940s.

This new commemorative medal was created to mark the 2012 celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne as Queen of Canada. The Queen Elizabeth

II Diamond Jubilee Medal is a tangible way for Canada to honour Her Majesty for her service to this country. At the same time, it serves to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.

During the year of celebrations, 60,000 deserving Canadians will be recognized.

The Chancellery of Honours, as part of the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, administers the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Program.

To be eligible for this honour, a person must: 1) Be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, but need not necessarily reside in Canada; 2) Have made a significant contribution to a particular province, territory, region or community within Canada, or

an achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada; and be alive on Feb. 6, 2012, the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty’s accession to the Throne. The medal can be awarded posthumously, as long as the recipient was alive on that date.

There is a nomination process to ensure that a variety of fields of activity are recognized, partner organizations have been invited to nominate candidates from their community or organization for this national honour.

The Diamond Jubilee Medal is a way to honour those who’ve improved the well being of many in our communities. She has been a local in the area since the late 1940s. Many years of community service attributes to her upcoming award.

Government employees stage province-wide strike TOM FLETCHER Black Press

Provincial government employees staged their largest one-day strike so far Wednesday to press for a bigger wage increase, with two thirds of the workforce off the job at ministry offices, liquor stores and ICBC offices province-wide.

Both the government and the B.C. Government and Services Employees’ Union remained unwilling to budge from their positions after negotiations broke down over wage increases this spring.

The union executive is meeting next week to consider further strike action this fall.

Two earlier one-day strikes targeted liquor warehouses and then selected resource ministry offices in the B.C. Interior. Government

negotiators offered raises of two and 1.5 per cent for the next two years, then withdrew the offer after the union staged the first strike.

BCGEU chief negotiator David Vipond said Wednesday the wage offer has been tabled and withdrawn three times since talks began early this year, a tactic he called “peek-a-boo bargaining.”

And after three years without a wage increase, he said the union is sticking to its demand for 3.5 per cent in the first year and a cost-ofliving raise of about 2.5 per cent in year two.

“They want us to reduce our real income over this contract, and we’ve already taken a five-per-cent hit,” Vipond said in an interview.

“So to try and chisel us again with a skinny deal doesn’t make sense to us. We want to at least keep up with inflation and gain a little of what

we have lost.”

Premier Christy Clark unveiled her new cabinet lineup in Victoria Wednesday as BCGEU pickets circled government offices downtown. Both Clark and Mike de Jong, the new finance minister, said they have no intention of increasing the burden on taxpayers to provide bigger raises to provincial workers.

“The government’s position on this hasn’t changed,” Clark said. “I am not going back to taxpayers for more money in order to give government workers a raise. We are in very tough economic times and we have to balance our budget.”

The government estimates that the wage offer adds up to $1,700 more over two years for a BCGEU employee making $48,000 a year.

Get the tools to get published STAFF WRITER Rossland News

Rossland authors Darcee O’Hearn and Yolanda Ridge will be doing another workshop tonight on the subject of getting published.

The workshop brings together the knowledge of both authors who

took separate routes to getting published. O’Hearn succeeded in getting her books to print on her own, while Ridge took the more formal route. Both routes have there positive and negative aspects, which they will discuss. The workshop is also an in depth discussion on how to get published in today’s

market. Topics will include: market research; selling yourself; developing a need for your book; determing target audience; query letters; the pitch; working with editors; how to deal with rejection.

Contact Darcee at 362-5559 or darceeo@telus.net to reserve a spot or get more information.

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Drivers that observe the state of the traffic signals as they approach have time to plan and take the appropriate action. If you don’t brake hard, chances are the vehicle following you will be much less likely to hit you from behind.

If road conditions are poor, anticipation will allow you to stop for the red light without unintentionally sliding into the intersection.

Slowing down gradually in anticipation of the red light will reduce wear and tear on your vehicle and your wallet. Brake maintenance is expensive and the inefficient use of fuel costs you money and all of us in air quality.

Plan it all correctly and you might not have to stop at all! Timing may mean that the traffic signal has turned green as you arrive and you can keep on rolling. If other drivers are going to talk about your driving skills why not let it be admiration?

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Rossland resident Genevieve Fortin is raising funds to help her daughter Mika, who was born autistic.

Fortin is fundraising by way of a painting

by Stephanie Gauvin which depicts a photo of Mika and her father on Record Ridge.

The painting, entitled Finding Mika’s Voice, The Mountain Ahead is for sale for $100 each and the money goes to the fund.

Fortin said they want to get Mika into an intensive program at the Son-Rise Center which is in New York.

There professionals work with both parents and children to help in the most thorough way possible.

Fortin already did a week there, without Mika.

“There is a lot to work on before you bring your child there, they like to see that you have a solid home program first, so that you can really benefit from their program,” she said. “There are a lot of Canadians and families from around the world doing it. It’s been around since 1978.”

The family made Son-Rise program for their son, and it worked to bring the child out of autism. Fortin said there are a lot of stories like that coming out of Son-Rise.

In B.C. the only therapy that is approved by the Autism Funding Unit. But Fortin said that approach didn’t work for them.

“ABA really didn’t call to us at all,” she said.

“By the time she was second year in school I thought OK let’s do this.”

Fortin compared it to dog training, you repeat something until they do it on their own.

“It didn’t work. It didn’t work for her, it didn’t work for us,” she said.

Then her education assistant, who works with the family at home, had been researching other posible therapies and she found the Son-Rise method.

It took Fortin a couple months to really give the program a look, because to her, it seemed like it was too good to be true.

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Rossland resident Genevieve Fortin is raising funds to help her daughter Mika, who was with autism. The above painting by Stephanie Gauvin is for sale to raise money to send Mika to Son-RiseCenter in the U.S. what to think or how to approach children contributing member of her peer group. with disabilities in our sociaty to a place Fortin said she wants the whole town to where we just have to accept it and just ac- know why she’s doing this and endorse it. cept them for who they are,” she said. “They She added some people would say that sowon’t heal, but we can help them be in our cializaton would be the best, something she world, and then this program tells me that, tried by putting Mika in daycare when she yeah you have to accept them, but we can was two. But she compares the socializing also have hope that they will reach our world skills that Mika lacks to playing an instruand become active participating members of ment. our society and not need help anymore.”

“If I want to learn guitar I can’t just go Finally she went over and did the parent hang out with people who play guitar, I have training and found it was amazing. She said to stay at home and learn the chords and in ABA, the method is to try to get rid of the practice,” she said. “Then I can go and hang abnormal behaviour of an autistic child, re- out with people that play the guitar.” place it, but at Son-Rise it’s totally different.

Fortin needs to raise $15,000, half of which “At Son-Rise, they have a wierd behaviour, has been raised so far.

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Rossland Real Food and Bear Aware put on an interesting clinic about electric fencing to keep out predators last week.

The simple electric fence set up could be used to stop bears and other animals from reaching not-quite-ripe fruit trees and chicken coups.

While turnout for event on Wednesday was on the low side, there were a few interested onlookers.

Joanne Siderius, Nelson and Area E and F Bear Aware Co-ordinator made the trip to demonstrate how to erect a temporary or long-term fence to keep predators out.

Siderius first drove rebar stakes into the ground to make the perimeter that would become the fenceposts. She then attached clips to the posts that hold the wires.

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The fences, when grounded are relatively safe to touch as well, provided the person touching it has rubber soles on their shoes.

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It can also be a proactive way to keep

chickens safe, as hungry bears may break into a coup primarily to eat the feed, then stay for the chickens.

A zap under the fur would make that a negative experience and could help keep bears off of properties and out of town.

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School closure discussions begin again With school back in session, the school district will once again be looking to Rossland and Castlegar school closures TIMOTHY SCHAFER Trail Times

As students file back into schools this week for another year of learning it will likely mark the back-to-school swan song for two School District 20 facilities slated for closure.

Both Castlegar and Rossland are expected to be down one school after this year as the Kootenay Columbia’s board of trustees begins a facilities review this month that could trim two buildings—and possibly the administration’s own office—out of its 11-school inventory.

During budget deliberations last spring the board passed a motion to undertake a facilities review in order to cover for yet another $600,000 budget funding shortfall.

SD20 board chair Darrel Ganzert said the district does have a long list of cuts to look at that are not school closures before they get to that stage this fall, but the facilities review is inevitable.

“We want to keep the school closures separate and do that, not for budgetary reasons, but for educational reasons to the extent we can,” he said during budget discussions.

“It will be a lengthy process that we want public input on.”

But dropping enrolments across the district have spelled the death of school buildings, and could claim two more.

And with dropping enrolment comes a resultant drop in funding from the province, to the tune of $600,000 last year.

As a small rural district the area needs more funding to deal with dropping enrolment after block funding was introduced five years ago, replacing per-student funding, said Trail trustee Mark Wilson.

The board had written letters in the

past to the Ministry of Education imploring them for the need for more money, he explained, to no avail.

“But you know what? At the end of the day we have to manage our house. We have to tighten our house up. I don’t blame them for not giving us any more money,” Wilson said.

He was adamant more should be done beyond the facilities review. He felt the board of nine should be cut to five trustees, and administration at the very top should be cut.

“We can make those cuts but we’ve chosen not to,” he said after the board’s last budget was passed in May. “And the reason we’ve chosen not to is that we have had a real political board here.”

In May a motion was passed to consider possible reconfiguration or closure of Castlegar area schools with a decision to be made by Dec. 31, 2012 and implementation in September, 2013.

Included in the consultations, but not limited to, are making Twin Rivers Elementary School kindergarten to Grade 7 and closing Castlegar Primary School, or combining Twin Rivers Elementary School and Castlegar Primary School to be one school with two physical campuses.

In addition the board will consider possible reconfiguration or closure of Rossland schools with a decision to be made by Dec. 31, 2012 and implementation in September, 2013.

The board will look at making Rossland Secondary School (RSS) kindergarten to Grade 12 and close MacLean Elementary, or make RSS kindergarten to Grade 9, close MacLean, and send RSS grade 10-12 students to J.L. Crowe Secondary in Trail.

The board could also make MacLean kindergarten to Grade 7, close RSS, and send RSS grade 8-12 students to J.L. Crowe.

Under the new funding formula from the province schools that are not maximized are bleeding money from the district, said Wilson. He said a kindergarten to Grade 12 school for Rossland made sense.

If the board had addressed that situation years ago the district would not be in the budget shortfall position they are in. Instead, he said, the cuts for the last three years have been to services, to the teachers, and to the quality of education.

One year ago he sent a letter, sup-

list sufficient reconfigurations and such.

“We are not advocating for school closures, that is not what we are saying,” he explained, “but there are options that they don’t even have on the table to consider.”

Like the board office. Wilson wondered why SD20 had to rent a board office when there were vacant buildings across the district, pointing to Trail Middle School as the most likely spot for moving the office.

As well, one of the school district’s maintenance shops in Waneta is still owned by the district but is currently rented out after district maintenance was centralized and moved to Castlegar.

Wilson said the facilities review will also call into question the future of Trail Middle S c h o o l — c u r r e nt l y housing around 200 alternative education students.

“We have to tighten up our facility rope instead of just cutting services all of the time,” he said. “If we can do that, we can avoid cuts to the services and, ultimately, the students.”

The facilities review made perfect sense to Ministry of Education spokesperson Scott Sutherland.

“If you look at SD20 … you have 1,600 fewer students, how many fewer schools do you have? How many fewer teachers do you have?” he said.

In 2000-2001 Kootenay Columbia was a school district that had nearly 5,600 students. It is estimated that, next year, for the fourth year in a row, it will have less than 4,000—a decline of 30 per cent.

Enrolment has been declining

The board will look at making Rossland Secondary School (RSS) kindergarten to Grade 12 and close MacLean Elementary, or make RSS kindergarten to Grade 9, close MacLean, and send RSS grade 10-12 students to J.L. Crowe Secondary in Trail. ported by two other trustees, to the Ministry of Education asking that the entire board be fired.

“We were not doing our jobs. The ministry would not touch the issue,” he said. “At one time it paid to put buildings ahead of jobs, but not now.”

Kootenay Columbia Teachers Union president Andy Davidoff said he expected the board will be cutting teachers again— two teacher-librarians and almost eight teachers—to save $4-500,000 in salaries next year because “they have not put on their

steadily for the last decade while, over the same period, operating funding has gone up and down until about 2007/08 when SD20 became eligible for funding protection.

The protection meant the level of provincial funding stayed the same as enrolment dropped. However, because so many districts have seen declining enrolment, funding protection was getting to be a bit of a burden on the province.

So it was decided, in consultation with school districts, that last year funding limits would have to be scaled back—with 1.5 per cent the most a district could lose from their budget.

From 2000-2001 to 2012-2013 the per pupil funding in the Kootenay Columbia has gone from a little over $6,800 per pupil to over $9,000 per year (estimated), said Sutherland.

Even while enrolment declined, the amount of money per student has been increasing in SD20, and it is up 32 per cent, he said.

The government line aside, Ganzert said the issue of a funding shortfall won’t be something the board will throw back at the province—yet.

He said a lot of the trustees are waiting to see if the facilities review will resolve the issue.

“It would be personally irresponsible to approach the government for more money because the first thing they would say is, ‘Cut a school.’

Now, do you want us to do that without public input?” he said.

If there are to be any school closures, Ganzert noted, people will know well in advance and they will have time to prepare for that eventuality.

The board begins meeting this month and they will have solutions coming up by December, and if they close any schools that will be put in place at the time so the following year there will be closures.

Get rid of those old tires next Saturday STAFF WRITER Rossland News

Get rid of those old tires lying around in your yard, free of charge.

All it will take is a quick trip down to Trail.

Tire Stewardship BC is holding a Tire Round-Up at OK Tire on Old Waneta Road in Trail. The stewardship is encouraging locals to retire their old car tires, on and off rim.

While there, enjoy a hamburger and hot dog BBQ and drive through the OK Tire car wash, with proceeds

from both going to support the Special Olympics.

One quick triop down the hill could help the environment and your community, as well as free up some space in your yard.

The tire event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15 at OK Tire, 8137 Old Waneta Road, Trail.

From there, old tires will begin their journey to a new life, by being recycled into products such as playground surfacing, coloured landscaping mulch and athletic tracks.

Most consumers return their scrap

tires at the same time they purchase new ones, but some may choose to take their old tires home or switch the tires themselves. If the tires are piling up, ity may be time to get rid of them.

The stewardship offers two free disposal options for these tires:. One is the Tire Round-Up for car tires on and off rim; and the other is the Return to Retailer program, where consumers can drop off up to four car tires (clean and off rim) to participating retailers.

Both of these options help in re-

ducing the burden at landfills.

Schools and municipalities are also encouraged to consider the use of B.C. recycled rubber in their projects, making them eligible for funding under the Tire Stewardship BC Community Grant Program.

In 2011, that program kept more than half a million pounds of tires out of landfills by contributing over $600,000 to communities throughout the province for recycled rubber projects, including water parks, playgrounds and outdoor fitness areas.

Recipients of previous grants in-

clude the Glenmerry Community Playground in Trail, which was completed in 2010.

Tire Stewardship BC is a notfor-profit society formed to accept responsibility for the provincial scrap-tire recycling program. TSBC submitted its Stewardship Plan to the Ministry on Aug. 17, 2006. Ministry approval was received on Sept. 19, 2006. On Jan. 1, 2007 TSBC launched the new scrap-tire recycling program replacing the government-run program that had been in place since 1991.

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White Caps holding regional soccer academy BOB HALL Nelson Star

If the swarm of young soccer enthusiasts at Nelosn’s Lakeside pitch last week night was any indication, the new Vancouver Whitecaps FC Academy program is going to be a hit in the West Kootenay.

“I’m really pleased to see so many players out,” said David Broadhurst, the Whitecaps FC Okanagan head coach. “I wasn’t expecting to see close to a 100 players, it’s fantastic. It’s great to see that there is interest here in the Kootenays for what we are trying to offer.”

The academy’s aim is to give players that are already with clubs in the East and West Kootenay supplemental training with the best coaching the province has to offer. The academy will include four age groups

for both girls and boys: U11/12, U13/14, U15/16 and U17/18.

The Nelson evaluation session earlier this week included players from Nelson, Trail, Castlegar, Grand Forks and everywhere in between.

Three years ago the Whitecaps moved their first academy program outside the Lower Mainland to Vernon. Broadhurst runs the program there and has already seen plenty of success.

The move into the Kootenay is the first push farther into BC’s hinterland.

“I think Dave [Spendlove] and [Nelson’s] Soccer Quest have done a great job in this community,” Broadhurst told the Star when asked about why there was such a positive turnout for the first sessions. “Their reputation is good and the small pieces of work we have done with them in previous years, the message is getting out that

we are going to be here for the long run.”

The program runs for seven months starting in September and ending in April (there is a two month winter break in December and January). The training includes eight weekends at Nelson’s Soccer Quest indoor facility. Four travel events per age group will also be part of the academy.

Based on the evaluations on Tuesday and Wednesday night at Lakeside, those players accepted into the program will be notified and begin their training next month.

“As a club we are completely committed to player development, it’s crucial for us to survive,” Broadhurst said of the motivation for the Whitecaps to extend their reach.

“As a club, the dream is to have homegrown talent, even on our first team… that is what the fans want

and the owners would love to see it. The more work we can do in the smaller districts, working with the coaches and the players, it will benefit our program in the long run.”

Broadhurst grew up in England where football is king.

He spent 12 years coaching with the Manchester United Soccer Schools at international projects in the UK, Japan and Switzerland.

Though soccer in Canada still has a long way to go to catch up to worldwide leaders like England, Broadhurst said the Whitecaps are up to the challenge.

“There are a lots of great athletes here and lots of players that love the game,” he said.

“It’s only a matter of time before those technical skills will catch up. The players have to put the work in and what we are trying to here gives them that ability.”

Roller Derby Final this weekend ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News

Rossland’s Gnarlie’s Angels will hit the flat track for the last match of the season Sunday when they face off against Salmo’s Babes of Brutality.

This is the third annual final for the Women’s West Kootenay Roller Derby League.

Rossland will be trying to channel last year’s winning game as they took the match in a comeback victory.

Doors open at 4 p.m., whistle at 5 p.m..

Tickets are $15 in advance ($20 at the door) at RossVegas (Rossland), Mountain High Lighting (Castlegar), Salmo Scuba Shop (Salmo), Gerick (Trail), Phat Angel (Nelson) or online at kootenayrollerderby. com.

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Gnarlie’s Angels will be putting their team to the test this Sunday in Mountain Mayhem III. Arne Petryshen photo

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One book, one Kootenay selection revealed ROSSLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY Submitted

The Third Crop comes out on top The readers read, they considered—and they voted. Author Rita Moir’s The Third Crop: A personal and historical journey into the photo albums and shoeboxes of the Slocan Valley 1800s to early 1940s (Sono Nis Press 2011) is the book to read in 2012 according to Kootenay booklovers who took part in the 2012 One Book, One Kootenay reader’s choice event. OBOK is an annual project of the Kootenay Library Federation.

It was close, says OBOK organizer Helen Graham. “It was an exciting, neck and neck race,� Graham said. “I couldn’t call it until the last of the nineteen participating libraries, in the Kootenay Library Federation, weighed in. All three books were popular choices, but in the end Rita’s really spoke to the majority of OBOK readers.�

Moir’s beautiful book of image and essay about the history of the Slocan Valley reflects sentiments both local and universal. In The Third Crop, Moir embarks on a personal journey through memorabilia found in private albums, dusty shoeboxes, and community archives, skillfully and passionately recounting the stories of an era.

More than 180 historic photographs are beautifully juxtaposed with contemporary im-

ages of the valley. For anyone living rurally, or simply loving history, the stories resonate.

The Third Crop is Moir’s fourth book. Survival Gear (Polestar, 1994), Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels (Coteau, 1999), The Windshift Line: A Father and Daughter’s Story (Greystone, 2005), have all been shortlisted for or have won awards, including B.C.’s Hubert Evans award.

Moir is delighted that The Third Crop got the nod. “Hundreds of people contributed to this book during the years of research: Molly Hufty, whose recall was phenomenal, and who just died this summer; Ray Kosiancic, who inspired the book’s title when he spoke of bounty and hard work and luck; all the families and all the archivists, volunteer and professional, and the entire team at Sono Nis Press, that’s who made this book what it is,� says Moir. “I’m deeply gratified that people throughout our region look at The Third Crop and see the book for what it is: a story of the ancestry of place, the story of what makes a rural community.�

In October, Moir will embark on a multi-library tour sponsored by the Kootenay Library Federation, Columbia Basin Trust and the host libraries.

She will read at Rossland Public Library on Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. To find out when she will be at another library near you go to www.obok.ca, ask at your library, or watch for an announcement in your local newspaper.

One Book, One Kootenay is a region-wide book club that celebrates the work of the tal-

Author Rita Moir signs a copy of the 2012 One Book, One Kootenay selection The Third Crop .

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ed this year. All three authors were celebrated at the OBOK launch in Nelson this spring, and appeared at solo readings across the Kootenays through the summer.

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She’s been cover girl on such literary publications as Quill & Quire and BC Bookworld.

Abdou will read from her work at Rossland Public Library on September 22 at 7pm.

Abdou, an instructor at College of the Rockies with a PhD in creative writing, is the author of three notable works of fiction.

Her short story collection, Anything Boys Can Do (Thistledown, 2006) was heralded by BC Bookworld as “an extraordinary literary debut.”

The Bone Cage (NeWest, 2007) chronicles the stories of Sadie and Digger as they prepare for Olympic competition in swimming and wrestling, respectively. Its selection

by NHL player Georges Laraque for the Canada Reads competition thrust Abdou into the spotlight and a whirlwind of public appearances.

It was included in Canadian Literature’s all-time top ten list “Best Canadian Sport Literature.”

Abdou’s latest novel, The Canterbury Trail (Brindle & Glass, 2011), was a thesis project that generated both a doctorate and notable critical acclaim. The story, inspired by Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, brings together a disparate assort-

Fernie Author Angie Abdou talking about her book when she was in Rossland last.

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ment of snow enthusiasts on the last weekend of the ski season.

The nearby town rings remarkably like Fernie, but the characters that converge on a snow-bound backcountry cabin are entirely themselves.

Abdou’s tour is sponsored by the Kootenay Library Federation and the host libraries. For more information contact Rossland Public Library at 250-362-7611 or go to www.abdou.ca.