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The Regional District of Central Kootenay has approved an infrastructure agreement clearing the way for a large North Shore housing development.

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Corky Evans and Josh Smienk Speak to Regional Politicians

Consider Trust’s future, RDCK urged GREG NESTEROFF Nelson Star Reporter

By their own admission, Corky Evans and Josh Smienk don’t run in the same circles. So when the former Nelson-Creston MLA and former Columbia Basin Trust chair speak as one, people take notice.

“When people with our two different backgrounds appear [together], lots of phone calls start to happen.”

Corky Evans

Former Nelson-Creston MLA

The pair are appealing for public consultation on the future of the Columbia Basin Trust and its joint venture partner, the Columbia Power Corporation.

Last week Evans and Smienk addressed the Regional District of Central Kootenay board, calling for a symposium to discuss the next stages of the crown corporations’ existence.

Columbia Power, which splits its power-generating profits with the Trust, is seeking ideas on what it should tackle once the last of its initial projects — the Arrow Lakes generation station, Brilliant dam expansion and Waneta dam expansion — are com-

pleted in 2014. Suggestions so far include adding generators to the Duncan dam and developing or buying hydroelectric facilities in the East Kootenay.

But Evans and Smienk, among the Trust’s architects, think it’s time for broader soul-searching.

Smienk said when the Trust’s management plan was created in 1997, it was believed the organization would earn $12 million to $15 million per year by now, when in fact it has doubled those projections, and last year generated $29 million.

“Last time we didn’t dare dream as big as what the Trust has become,” he said. “With this opportunity comes a responsibility to go back to people of the Basin to say ‘What is that grander, larger vision?’”

Smienk added the regional district, as one of the partners in the Trust’s creation, could provide regional input into a new management plan. He said questions might include whether the Trust should diversify its portfolio and whether it continues to partner with Columbia Power or seeks new partnerships.

Evans said the completion of the third major hydroelectric project should be cause for a “massive celebration … Hold the biggest street dance ever. What happened here has been wonderful. We, they, you, deserve the credit.”

But he said it’s also important

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Former Nelson-Creston MLA Corky Evans (left) and past Columbia Basin Trust chair Josh Smienk appeared as a joint delegation at the Regional District of Central Kootenay table last week. They say it’s time to rethink the Trust’s future.

to consider what happens next, and is proposing less a business plan than a regional vision for the next 25 years.

Evans acknowledged his and Smienk’s submission has already raised eyebrows: “In elections we tend to vote differently. When people with our two different backgrounds appear [together],

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lots of phone calls start to happen.”

But while they may have created some inadvertent anxiety, Evans said he has no objections to Columbia Power’s work and isn’t criticizing the corporation’s current process.

Following the presentation, the regional district board passed

a resolution endorsing a “broad public engagement process” that allows Columbia Basin residents “to consider and articulate a vision for the future of power investments as a Basin asset.”

It further supported a “renewal of the original vision as articulated in the Columbia Basin management plan.”

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Nelson Police Looking for Impaired Drivers

‘Tis the season for roadchecks KIRSTEN HILDEBRAND Nelson Star Reporter

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At least it isn’t minus 24 degrees says Cst. Eric Enkirch, putting on gloves a mere 20 minutes after donning a toque.

The Nelson Police Department officer and three colleagues are out on the second ICBC CounterAttack roadcheck of the holiday season.

Just outside Nelson where Granite and Government Roads meet Highway 3A, the busy intersection seems chaotic with flashing lights and cars approaching without reprieve. Calm and cordial, the officers’ number-one goal for the night is catching impaired drivers.

“It really is unfathomable that people still drink and drive in this day and age,” says Enkirch.

But they do and in this case, it doesn’t make officers happy to catch their criminal.

“I would love to come out here and check a million cars and not find a single impaired driver, but we catch them every time.”

This night, last Thursday, as a few flakes fall, officers check just over 400 cars in two locations. They hand out one suspension, tow two vehicles for no insurance and license, and make three drug seizures. One man drives up to the checkstop with a bag of marijuana obviously sitting between his legs.

It’s about asking questions and observing for these officers. They watch how people drive, give a sniff and look for physical symptoms, obviously. But there are little techniques these officers have learned through experience that help them find those drivers who shouldn’t be behind the wheel.

“Sometimes it’s easy to tell.

Sometimes it’s not,” Enkirch says.

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Nelson police and their partners are out in full force doing their part to keep impaired drivers off the road.

In a checkstop Thursday evening, almost 400 cars were checked in two locations — this one being just outside Nelson on Highway 3A. One license suspension was issued.

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ing to tell whether drivers have consumed alcohol and/or drugs. Often, they can even tell what drugs a suspect has taken.

Several drivers admit consuming one drink, a good idea considering the nose knows. Denying he’s been drinking, when Enkirch could smell alcohol on his breath, holds up one man who takes a breathalyzer exam.

“Why’d he lie?” asks a suspicious officer.

Alcohol affects everyone differently and there’s no formula to tell how many drinks a person can safely put back before taking their car to the road. It’s better to just not take chances, says Enkirch.

Directing traffic from all angles becomes an intricate game as officers don’t want to hold up commuters. No one seems to mind, however.

Enkirch says most appreciate police work to keep drunks off the road.

“The vast majority don’t mind being inconvenienced,” he says.

In the dark of night the flashing lights of police cars are enough to make any

driver’s heart rate increase and palms sweat. Add in the officers stopping cars in their bold yellow vests for visibility and the fact you know you’re next in line, it’s normal to be nervous.

“I am a police officer and I get nervous,” says Enkirch.

A quick chat and license plate check sends most drivers through.

Nelson police may have their favourite checkstop locations, but they aren’t telling. They mix it up as much as possible so “people can’t get a false sense of where we will be,” says the constable.

He adds that how long they stay at any one location varies as well. Sometimes he needs that toque and mitts until the wee hours of the morning.

The Nelson Police Department held another checkstop on the first Thursday of the month. Several high profile locations were targeted for these stops with over 320 drivers checked that evening. Two drivers had their licenses suspended for drinking and driving. Several others were arrested for other criminal activities.

Tips for a trouble free holiday season This holiday season, the Nelson Police Department is asking people to remember the following: • Make the right choice for everyone — don’t drive if you have been drinking or using drugs.

• You do not have to be legally drunk to be charged with impaired driving.

• Plan ahead for safe transportation. There are alternatives to impaired driving.

• If you encounter a suspected impaired driver, record the vehicle license plate number and dial 911 anywhere in the province.

• Nelson police are warning drivers they’ll be out in full force this holiday season to make sure people are not getting behind the wheel after drinking.

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Outdoor Skatepark

Council endorses Rosemont location SAM VAN SCHIE Nelson Star Reporter

New plans to build an outdoor skatepark in Rosemont has the support of Nelson council.

On Monday, councillors received a verbal staff report on the benefits of having the skatepark in Art Gibbon Park, next to the bike park.

Then, council passed a motion to support, in principle, the development of the skatepark in that location and to gather public feedback at an open house in the New Year.

“As we all know, there are very limited alternative options,” city manager Kevin Cormack told council during the staff report. “We have looked at other locations for 10-plus years.”

The Kootenay Lake Outdoor Skatepark Society had been pushing to have the skatepark built in front of the Nelson and District Community Complex — but that was before they learned last fall that they’d need $200,000 more than anticipated for site preparation costs alone.

“At first when we heard about the need for a change in site, we were fairly

devastated,” society spokesperson Chad Hansen said.

“But what it comes down to is we can build a bigger, much more elaborate skatepark for the exact same dollars [in the new location].”

Hansen said users of the skatepark care more about having a quality park than having it right downtown.

Nelson and District Youth Centre manager Christine Schmidt also pointed out that many young families already live in Rosemont.

“For many youth, this location is actually closer to where they live,” she said.

Nelson police chief Wayne Holland said it would have been easier to monitor a downtown skatepark, but he doesn’t anticipate a problem with doing more patrols in Rosemont when the park is built.

“Finding a place that works for end users is what it’s all about — if council and the end users are happy, we’re happy,” Holland said.

Cormack said the park will be wired for closed-circuit television cameras, which could be installed for security monitoring down the road if needed. But Holland said he

isn’t advocating for that.

Instead, police and city staff agree they would rather see an ambassador program developed, which would involve older youth mentoring the younger users and reporting problems to the police.

“The feeling of KLOPS members is let’s get ‘er done.”

Chad Hansen

Skatepark Society

Cormack noted the lack of parking and emergency vehicle access at Art Gibbon Park would have to be addressed if the skatepark goes there, and the cost of adding those features may fall to the City.

“We don’t expect these park improvements to come at zero cost to the City,” Cormack said.

The skatepark society already has the money in place to build a $600,000 skatepark, thanks to a $400,000 community recreation grant from the province (which expires in March 2014), $10,000 from Columbia Basin Trust’s community initia-

tive program, and steadfast fundraising by the society.

New Line Skateparks who designed original plan for Community Complex location has agreed to do a free redesign for the Rosemont site.

“This is probably the most in line the ducks will ever be to have a skatepark built,” Hansen said. “The feeling of KLOPS members is let’s get ‘er done.”

An open house for community members to see the skatepark design for the new location and provide feedback, will likely be held sometime in January at Rosemont Elementary School.

If there are no further hiccups, the six month construction period could get underway after the spring snowmelt, and the park could be complete by the summer.

“This is something every one of us on council has said during election times that we’d support once the community group could bring us a feasible plan,” Mayor John Dooley pointed out.

“We’d all really like to see this happen, for the benefit of the young people in our community.”

Throwdown finals go live starting today SAM VAN SCHIE Nelson Star Reporter

The final round of Powder Magazine’s Ski Town Throwdown opens today and we expect Nelson will be in it.

When this newspaper went to press Tuesday afternoon there were just over eight hours remaining in the voting. Rossland/Nelson had a comfortable lead over Sandpoint, Idaho in the

semi-final round with a tally of 2,868 to 1,535.

The two local cities, which were grouped together for the purpose of the competition, had already advanced through three rounds of voting — defeating Sugarloaf, Whitefish and Crested Butte — by collecting more votes on Facebook than the competition in each two-day voting block.

Semi-final challenger

Sandpoint is home of Schweitzer Mountain and there is currently talk at city council of making the Idaho community a sister city.

The final round will be against either Fernie or Bozeman, Montana (at press time Bozeman held an eight vote lead).

To cast your ballot for your favourite ski town, go to facebook.com/powdermag and look for the voting link in

the page banner.

Voting will only be open for two days — Wednesday and Thursday — and you can only vote once per IP address, per 24 hour period (but if you get your first vote in early, you’ll be able to squeeze in a second one).

The winner of this round will take the title of best ski town in North America and have a feature article in Powder.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Nelson Star

Editorial

Answers not possible

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t’s an unimaginable pain. Only those who have lost someone so close can even hope to relate. Even then, the innocence of six and seven year old children being stolen away in a moment of madness is impossible to fully comprehend.

This past weekend, communities across the United States were in mourning. As our neighbours to the south attempt to come to grips with the horrendous tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, we grieve with them.

The mass shooting that stole the lives of 20 children and six adults is one of those rare moments that shakes society in its entirety.

Even if you don’t want to think about it, you do. It makes us ask questions at a time when answers are not even possible. It forces us to acknowledge that evil exists.

American society — and the way it deals with guns in particular — may allow Canadians to say: “It could never happen here.” But to pass it off as their problem is a mistake.

Violence and how we treat those who need help are not unique to the US. It’s our problem too.

The impact of this tragedy will not wane anytime soon nor should it. Those who have children will continue to hug their little ones much tighter in the days to come. We should all treat each other with an extra level of kindness regardless of how different they may seem. As painful as it is, the opportunity to discuss issues coming out of this latest act of violence is important. And try as we might to find answers, we will ultimately fail. The headline in the Sunday edition of Stockton, California’s The Record provides the truth of this moment: “Sadness the only certainty.”

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World View – Gwynne Dyer

Guns and culture in America

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ere’s an interesting statistic: the second-highest rate of gun ownership in the world is in Yemen, a largely tribal, extremely poor country. The highest is in the United States, where there are almost as many guns as people: around 300 million guns for 311 million people.

But here’s another interesting statistic: in the past 25 years, the proportion of Americans who own guns has fallen from about one-in-three to only one-in-five. However, the United States, unlike Yemen, is a rich country, and the average American gun owner has four or five firearms. Moreover, he or she is utterly determined to keep them no matter what happens.

What has just happened in Sandy Hook, Connecticut is the seventh massacre this year in which four or more people were killed by a lone gunman. The fact that this time 20 of the victims were little girls and boys six or seven years old has caused a wave of revulsion in the United States, but it is not likely to lead to new laws on gun controls. It’s not even clear that new laws would help.

Half the firearms in the entire world are in the United States. The rate of murders by gunfire in the United States is almost 20 times higher than the average rate in 22 other populous, high-income countries where the frequency of other crimes is about the same. There is clearly a connection between these two facts, but it is not necessarily simple cause-and-effect.

Here’s one reason to suspect that it’s not that simple: the American rate for murders of all kinds — shooting, strangling, stabbing, poisoning, pushing people under buses, etc.

— is seven times higher than it is in those other 22 rich countries. It can’t just be guns.

And here’s another clue: the rate of firearms homicides in Canada, another mainly English-speaking country in North America with a similar political heritage, is about half the American rate — and in England itself it is only one-thirtieth as much.

What else is in play here?

Steven Pinker, whose book The Better Angels of Our Nature is about the long-term decline in violence of every kind in the world, is well aware that murder rates have not fallen in the United States in the past century.

(Most people don’t believe that violence is in decline anywhere, let alone almost everywhere. That’s why he wrote the book.) And Pinker suggests an explanation for the American exception.

In medieval Europe, where everybody from warlords to peasants was on his own when it came to defending his property, his rights and his “honour,” the murder rates were astronomically high: 110 people per 100,000 in 14th century Oxford, for example. It was at least as high in colonial New England in the early 17th century.

By the mid-20th century, the murder rate in England had fallen more than a hundredfold: in

London, it was less than one person per 100,000 per year. In most Western European countries it was about the same. Whereas the US murder rate is still up around seven people per 100,000 per year.

Why?

In the United States, where the democratic revolution came over two centuries ago, the people took over the state before they had been disarmed.

Pinker quotes historian Pieter Spierenburg’s provocative suggestion that “democracy came too early” to America. In European countries, the population was gradually disarmed by the centralized state as it put an end to feudal anarchy. Only much later, after people had already learned to trust the law to defend their property and protect them from violence, did democracy come to these countries.

This is also what has happened in most other parts of the world, although in many cases it was the colonial power that disarmed the people and instituted the rule of law. But in the United States, where the democratic revolution came over two centuries ago, the people took over the state before they had been disarmed — and kept their weapons. They also kept their old attitudes.

Indeed, large parts of

the United States, particularly in the southeast and southwest, still have an “honour” culture in which it is accepted that a private individual may choose to defend his rights and his interests by violence rather than seeking justice through the law. The homicide rate in New England is less than three people per 100,000 per year; in Louisiana it is more than 14.

None of this explains the specific phenomenon of gun massacres by deranged individuals, who are presumably present at the same rate in every country.

It’s just that in the United States, it’s easier for individuals like that to get access to rapid-fire weapons.

And, of course, the intense media coverage of every massacre gives many other crazies an incentive to do the same, only more of it.

But only one in 300 murders in the United States happens in that kind of massacre. Most are simply due to quarrels between individuals, often members of the same family. Private acts of violence to obtain “justice,” with or without guns, are deeply entrenched in American culture, and the murder rate would stay extraordinarily high even if there were no guns.

Since there are guns everywhere, of course, the murder rate is even higher.

But since the popular attitudes to violence have not changed, that is not going to change either.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Letters to the Editor

Get our priorities straight

The furor over the right and freedom to display a banner in Nelson to support your group and organizations’ focus, or to march, write, and express opinions or beliefs, is again under attack in Canada.

True pro life is the consistent policy and behaviour to stand up for the rights of weaker, vulnerable or persecuted sectors of society. Whenever one dominant and/or stronger group, tribe, political party, race, gender or individual can exterminate, eradicate, humiliate or terminate the life, dignity, equality and human rights of another, we must consistently stand up for the rights of the weaker, voiceless or oppressed. We have a human responsibility to do it, even if we don’t fully understand or condone their behaviour and activities.

Support for and love of other fellow human beings comes from compassion, which should also extend to respect for the earth and all living things. It includes those known to us as family and neighbours, or people unknown, or on the other side of the world. If we are so lucky as to be in some advantaged group, we have been blessed with the opportunity and responsibility to help others less fortunate.

Often, in 20/20 hindsight, we acknowledge the holocaust of the Jews, yet miss the current oppression of Palestinians, who are refugees in their own homeland for 50 years, with homes bull-

dozed, civilians killed, Israeli settlements encroaching on their territory, in a David and Goliath role reversal.

We can see and deplore historical war crimes against humanity: Rwandan, Serbian or other ethnic cleansing, yet condone or ignore present genocides, suicides (especially when suicide and drunk driving are the leading killers

We must consistently stand up for the rights of the weaker. of youth in North America), and gendersides. Millions of female fetuses are aborted in India, infanticide in other countries, and women are perceived as lesser people and possessions, and are often murdered or raped, with impunity.

Capital punishment in Canada was banned, and many wrongful committals saw people incarcerated for years exonerated by new DNA evidence. Yet, there are new calls to reinstate death sentences, build more jails, versus programs and opportunities to rehabilitate what are already traditionally disadvantaged groups who are incarcerated. (Aboriginals, blacks, abused victims who become abusers, drug and alcohol addicted, mentally ill, etc., which are from those oppressed groups who are overrepresented in jails.)

Then there is not only the massacre of Montreal female engineering students, commemorated last week, but also domestic and sexual assault that we turn a blind eye to; or bar brawls that we’d rather watch or participate in; bullying, racial or sexual slurs and jokes; or violent movies and video games that we gift the young and impressionable with for Christmas.

Our foreign battlegrounds are usually chosen in oil or resource rich areas, often economically strategic to our corporations, like Iraq or Afghanistan.

The US has the military and defence eating up 60 per cent of their budget, while gutting and cutting social programs and health care; subsidizing corporations, yet allowing personal home foreclosures.

Anyways, the advent of the Christmas season is a wakeup call with crises globally, environmentally, and personally, which we all have skills, talents and abilities, enabling us to work on our priorities.

We must follow the dictates of our own consciences and beliefs. So our challenge is to do something positive for change in the world, not to criticize those who have joined groups, marched in protests, signed petitions, do “Write for Rights,” donate to charities, etc. Why not join us? Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc.

Marion Bergevin Nelson

Request for Proposals The Nelson Youth Soccer Association (NYSA) requests proposals from qualified and experienced applicants to provide head coaching and technical services for its Rep and House League Programs for the 2013 season as either an employee or as a contractor.

NYSA will consider proposals covering either program, or proposals covering both programs.

The successful applicant will work with NYSA to promote and fulfill our mission and purpose and reach our objectives and program goals. Please see our website www.nys. ca, NYSA Policies, Mission Statement to see those strategic statements. NYSA has a progressive membership that strives for soccer excellence and we are looking for someone to deliver programming that supports that target.

Proposals for each program will outline delivery of the following: • oversees the development and delivery of all technical aspects of the NYSA’s U6 to U18 programs following the design of BC Soccer’s Long Term Player Development guidelines • provides coaches with comprehensive and regular technical on-field support and mentoring which promotes the learning and understanding of the game as it relates to the age level being coached, while creating and supporting a coaching fraternity • provides players with comprehensive and regular technical on-field support which promotes the learning and understanding of the game appropriate to the age level of players, while encouraging individual and team play • supports NYSA on all matters pertaining to coaching and player development, and participates, as needed, with coach recruitment and retention, operations and scheduling issues and other duties as assigned (this might need some work) In addition, the proposal must include the following: • a current resume with contact information for no more than four relevant references • a description of your experience fostering player and coach development and effectively developing a culture of soccer success • a budget segregating costs for each service delivered within the program(s) • a month by month schedule of when individual services will be provided • the names and qualifications of all other coaching resources who the applicant intends to use to supplement the delivery of services Taken all together the proposal will outline a systematic, progressive, association-wide approach that will promote and foster an environment that produces a high standard of coaches and players in both competitive and recreational soccer.

Deadline: If you are interested in providing a proposal, NYSA must receive it by January 5th, 2013 at nys@nys.ca or PO Box 162, Nelson, BC, V1L 5P9

Courtesy of Ric’s Lounge & Grill and The Prestige Lakeside Resort & Convention Centre,

it’s the FIRST ANNUAL

Canada doesn’t need F35 fighters

Re: Federal government and the F35 fighter jets Our Legoland prime minister and his henchmen seem to be squirming a little on this issue recently. Personally, I think we should outlaw air warfare, but barring that unlikely development I guess Canada needs new planes.

I do not think we need to buy “stealth” fighters in order to defend our country. The sneaky part is only required

when we decide to invade or attack other people’s countries, and I see no eventuality where we should do so.

I do feel a little sorry for Minister of Defence Peter MacKay though. You see, Peter quite obviously thinks that he is entitled to spend tax dollars however he sees fit, like when he took the $100,000 military aircraft flight to get his ass to work from his fishing vacation, and

saw nothing wrong with it.

Peter MacKay is a pretty wealthy guy and when he decides to buy something, I assume he just goes out and buys it, so why should he act any differently when spending our taxes? I guess he is just now finding out that most of us like to check the flyers before we make a major purchase.

Rod Retzlaff Glade

MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT AT nelsonstar.com This week’s question: Do you think that The Royal will survive as a live music venure in Nelson’s downtown?

Last week’s result: Should the Glacier/Howser proponents proceed with their IPP proposal?

YES 58% NO 42%

A Food Drive for the Nelson Food Cupboard

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Saturday, December 22nd from 9-11 am

Each person bring cash or food donation and join us for full hot breakfast buffet in the ballroom

Other proud sponsors for this great event are...

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If you are not able to attend and would like to make a donation please bring it to the front desk at the Prestige Lakeside Resort

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Council wraps 2012 GET IT HERE Mayor Dooley and council honour city employees and volunteers at annual reception; look back on successes and challenges of the year that was

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All proceeds from this event will be directed to the Light Up the Hospital! campaign to enhance and support surgical services at Kootenay Lake Hospital.

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Mayor John Dooley and more than 100 guests paid tribute to the City of Nelson’s dedicated employees and volunteers last week, at the city’s Annual Reception of City Council at the Prestige Lakeside Resort.

Two dozen staff and five volunteers were awarded at the December 10 event for their noteworthy terms of service to the city, as well as to law enforcement and fire protection.

“Without these kinds of employees and volunteers, we simply cannot do the job,” the mayor told the crowd during his 35-minute address. “Nelson is a better place because of them all.”

Presentations for long service committee recognition were made to three Nelson residents for their six years of service on city council’s board of variance, and two other volunteers for their seven years of assistance to the Nelson and District Youth Centre advisory committee.

Eight City of Nelson employees received 20 year service awards, five received 25 year service awards and four were honoured for city careers spanning 30 years.

The City also appointed its Cultural Ambassador for 2013, naming Nelson actor and comedian Lucas Myers to the position for the upcoming year.

After an opening ceremony that included both English and French renditions of Oh Canada performed by the Hume School choir, Dooley outlined

Mayor John Dooley addressed the crowd gathered at the Prestige Lakeside Resort last week in his annual 2012 speech.

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the city’s accomplishments and challenges over 2012, (see related story below), but not before making somber mention of Shirley Turner and Rodi DeVuono, two long time City of Nelson employees who passed away earlier this year.

Dooley also took a moment to introduce two newcomers to Nelson, both of whom he personally invited to the reception after meeting them earlier that very day in City Hall. Luis Mendez Soria has recently moved to the city from Cuba, Maria Rodriguez Veliz relocated from Peru and has already shown some heritage city volunteer spirit, offering her time to the Nelson Electric

Tramway Society.

The mayor went on to note the results of an impressive Ipsos Reid survey released earlier this year, which found that 96 per cent of Nelsonites polled feel their quality of life is good or very good, in part thanks to the city’s growth and development, infrastucture improvements, great parks and trails and the city’s revitalized downtown.

The survey also found that 88 per cent of residents polled are happy with the quality and level of services provided by the city, while a further 68 per cent said they feel they are receiving good value for their municipal tax dollars.

The Year In Review: A snapshot of the accomplishments and challenges marked by the City of Nelson and its staff over the past 12 months Beginning with an outline of city council’s nine main priorities, Mayor Dooley noted over 50 projects, programs and events the city successfully undertook and addressed over the past 12 months.

Those included: • Improved financial management, cost containment and new revenues.

• An improved variety of housing options due to developments like those on Anderson Street, Perrier Road, and Choquette Avenue.

• The establishment of the regional transit committee and new upcoming services provided by the integration of Nelson, Slocan Valley, Castlegar and Kootenay Boundary Transit Systems.

• Reaction to major storm events through June and July.

• Implementation of the sustainable downtown and waterfront master plan, as well as the update of the official community plan and land use regulation bylaws.

• Corporate and community greenhouse gas/energy conservation efforts like the highly successful Eco-Save program.

• On-going core infrastructure improvements around the city to water and sewer systems.

• Major neighbourhood and community group-driven park projects including 7th Street, Lions Park, Davies Street, the Lakeside Dock and The Heron’s Landing sculpture at Lakeside Park • Nationally-recognized fire and police efforts like the Nelson Fire and Rescue’s smoke alarm program.

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Community Christmas Eve Dinner We would like to invite you to dine with us on December 24 at 5 PM.

Kootenay Christian Fellowship (Our Daily Bread), is offering a Christmas Eve Dinner to anyone who would like to come.

All guests will receive a first class dinner in a pleasant and homey atmosphere, plus a wrapped Christmas Gift.

Four city employees were recognized for 30 years of service, including Nelson Hydro plant manager Mike Amos, Nelson Public Library children’s coordinator Nancy Radonich and Nelson fire captain Gordon Rae. Not pictured: Nelson librarian Martha Scott.

It costs approximately $4.00 per plate to host our Christmas Eve dinner.

Any donations received above the cost of our Christmas Eve dinner will go to providing meals throughout the next year. Five days a week we provide hot meals and other vital services to the working poor, those looking for work, and the families that are less fortunate.

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Please donate online at www.kootenaychristianfellowship.com and click on the Our Daily Bread tab or send cheques payable to:

An income tax receipt will be mailed to you in March of 2013.

KCF is a registered Canadian charity. #894450840

Our Daily Bread 812 Stanley Street Nelson, B.C. V1L 1N7

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The Corporation of the City of Nelson

HOLIDAY SEASON REMINDERS Five city employees were recognized for 25 years of service, including Nelson Hydro subforeman Garth Georgetti, utilities lead hand Rocco Mastrobuono, and bylaw enforcement officer Fred Thomson. Not pictured: Nelson librarians Anne DeGrace and Helen Blum.

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Notice of schedule change for garbage pick up the week of December 24th • If your regular garbage day is Tuesday, your garbage will be picked up on Thursday December 27th • If your regular garbage day is Wednesday, your garbage will be picked up on Friday December 28th Residents are reminded to have garbage out by 7:00 am If you have any questions please call 250-352-8238. To report an after hour emergency for the Operations Department call 250-352-3103 There will be no Transit Service December 25th, 26th, and January 1st NELSON HYDRO EMERGENCY CONTACT: To report a power outage, electrical hazard, damage to Nelson Hydro equipment or for outage updates call 1-877-32HYDRO (1-877-324-9376)

The City of Nelson’s Operations Department and Nelson Hydro would like to wish all residents of Nelson and the surrounding area a Safe and Happy Holiday.

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$10.70 +dep Eight City of Nelson employees were recognized for 20 years of service, including Nelson Police Sgt. Howie Grant, mechanic Deane Centrone, office administrator Heather Grant, IT technician Steve Donald, and power plant operator Kevin Johnson. Not pictured: heavy equipment operators Aldo Pulice and Maurice Penner, and STP operator Mike O’Neil.

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The Cooperative Count: Hundreds of people work in conjunction with the city for dozens of boards and organizations • Number of city committees, commissions and boards assisted by city council, city staff and volunteers: 9 • Number of associations and organizations that work with the city directly, including those whose boards include members of city council: 16

• Number of service clubs that work with the city directly, including those whose boards have members of city council: 6 • Number of local and regional partnership organizations that work with the city directly: 8

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NELSON’S HERITAGE HOTEL SINCE 1898

Dec 20th - Cedar, Beat Doctor & X-LTEE Free Show Dec 21st - Picklepocalype w/ SweetPickle & PCrow Dec 22nd - Amplified feat. Billy Bangers & DJango Dec 26th - Boxing Day w/Bryx, B-Ron & Erica Dee Dec 28th - Ryan Wells & Friends Dec 29th - Kyprios & The Chaperones Dec 31st - New Year’s Eve with Hoola Hoop, DJ Soup & Lorne B Video Mapped Visuals Jan 19th - Love & Light Jan 25th - Chili Tom & Kori K Whistler Jan 26th - JFB Feb 2nd - Sweatshop Union Feb 8th - Bobby C Sound Feb 15th - Humans

Every Thursday features various dj’s.

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Food delivery: Sunday to thurSday 9am- 11pm Friday and Saturday 9am - midnight

liquor delivery 9am - 11pm 7 dayS per week

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Pizza now available 11am till Late!

Community Organizations Play table tennis Wednesdays (school holidays/events excluded) at the Blewett Elementary School, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. There is a $2 drop-in fee. For information phone Karl Rosenberg: 250352-5739.

Al-anon meetings are held Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. at the Cellar, 717 Vernon Street, and on Fridays from 8 to 9 p.m. at 601 Front Street in the basement. For more information about the Cellar meetings contact Norma at 250-352-3747 and for the Front Street meetings contact Sharon at 250-352-7333.

The Nelson Technology Club hosts a Hackerspace Wednesdays, 6 to 8 p.m., at their new location in the annex building at Selkirk College Tenth Street campus.

Hackerspace is a place to talk about technology with people who understand what you are talking about.

Bring the whole family down to Breakfast with Santa at the Prestige Lakeside Resort on Saturday, December 22, from 9 to 11 a.m. Enjoy a full hot breakfast buffet in the Prestige Hotel Convention Ballroom. Admission is by donation of cash or food donation so we can help stock the shelves of our local Nelson Food Cupboard.

Santa and his elves will be there along with Deejay Terrantino grooving us into the Spirit of Christmas. Photos with Santa will be an extra cash donation, with all those proceeds going to the Food Cupboard as well. Door prizes to be won and a 50/50 draw and will be underway for the entire breakfast, so be sure to buy your tickets.

On Sunday, December 23 at 3 p.m., everyone is invited to come to the Vallican Whole Community Centre

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(3762 Little Slocan River Road) for a Seasonal Singalong with the newly formed Vallican Whole Choir. There will be mulled cider to drink, you are encouraged to bring cookies and other goodies, and admission is by donation. Any money raised beyond expenses will go to the Slocan Food Bank.

Nelson Ultimate Frisbee has moved inside for the winter. Come join us on Monday nights at Soccer Quest from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Bring a light and a dark t-shirt, running shoes and water. Drop in fee is $12, to cover rental costs.

All levels of experience are welcome! Stay warm and get in shape chasing after a disc! Email nelsonultimatefrisbee@gmail.com for info.

Ascension Lutheran Church’s free dinner has moved with the congregation to Rosemont Elementary School while the church is prepared for demolition and reconstruction. All are welcome to join us for a free Christmas Dinner on Tuesday, December 25 at 6 p.m.

The Nelson Lions club and 561 Osprey Squadron Air Cadets will be picking up Christmas trees within the City of Nelson on Saturday, January 5 for a suggested donation of $5 per tree. Simply leave your tree in front of your home by 9 a.m. Saturday. If you are not home, leave a note on the tree to let volunteers know where your donation is located (neighbour, mailbox etc). For more information contact 250-352-9771.

The Nelson Storytelling Guild meets the 1st Sunday of every month as a place for everyone to find their voice.

It is an informal pot luck gathering that includes personal, historical, and fictional stories from all backgrounds.

Adults are catered to, children are welcome. The next meeting is Sunday, January 6 at Self Design High, 402 Victoria Street (second floor, abouve the Legion).

The Circle of Habondia Lending Society is having its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, January 12, 2 p.m. At Seniors’ Branch 51, 717 Vernon St. They need to organize a new Board of Directors in order to remain in existence. Otherwise Habondia will fold, after 15 years of helping West Kootenay women and their families toward financial independence. All women are welcome to come and offer your ideas and energy. There will be refreshments. For more information call Pegasis at 250-229-4223.

Workshops Every Saturday beginning at 10 a.m., Ellison’s Market is offering free workshops.

Head down to Ellison’s cafe and learn something new you can implement in your life.

Every Friday, Community Threads meets at Nelson and District Women’s Centre from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come learn to knit, crochet, spin, embroider and make rag rugs. On Wednesdays, Community Threads offers quilting lessons from 9 a.m. to noon at the same location. Women of all ages welcome. Call 250-551-4951 for more information.

Craft Fairs and Bazaars The Nelson Trading Company Artisan Christmas Market runs daily at 402 Baker Street until December 23.

Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday to Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays.

Vendors welcome, call 250551-6911 for details.

Fundraisers The Salvation Army Toy Tree is at Annie’s Boutique

BiBO OYSTERBAR THURSDAY, Dec 20 250.352.2744

in Nelson now, until December 24. People are to come to Annie’s Boutique at 106-402 Baker Street where they will be directed to the toy tree at Chuckleberry Lane, operating next door. Annie’s hours during the Christmas week are from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Sunday with the exception of Friday, Dec. 21 when the store will be open until 7 p.m. On December 24, the store will be open until 3:30 p.m.

This year Kootenay Coop “adopted” Kalein Hospice Centre as the recipient of their Annual Xmas Giving Tree. When you drop into the Coop to shop, choose one of the unique decorative cards on the Giving Tree and take it to the till. Each card represents a $10, $25 or $50 donation to Kalein. The card is swiped at the till and at the end of the month, Coop sends 100 per cent of those donations to Kalein. Then you can send those lovely cards as gifts to friends and family in whose name you are making the donation.

Casting call Black Productions is seeking performers age 18-70 for its inaugural presentation, the Tony Award-winning musical Cabaret. We are looking for actors, singers and dancers, who don’t mind donning a pair of fishnets and speaking in a foreign accent, to come and audition on January 20 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) or 21 (7 to 10 p.m.) at St John’s Lutheran Church (321 Silica St). Cast members must be 18 years of age or older. For details contact: nelsoncabaret2013@gmail. com or 250-354-0475

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Talent competition

The second annual Nelson’s Best Singer competition is here. The quarter finals are December 20 at 7:30 p.m. at L.V. Rogers high school. There is a 30 singer limit so don’t miss your chance to show off your talent. Sign up at kootenaysbestsinger.com. Sixteen finalists will be selected to move onto the semi-finals on February 7. Tickets are $6 for students, children and seniors, $8 for adults and $20 for a family of four. Tickets are available at Eddy Music, Bent Over Leather, at L.V. Rogers (at lunchtime for students) and at the door.

Blue Night

Art at the Capitol presents new works

by Bridget Corkery, Boukje Elzinga and Deb Thompson with an opening reception December 20 from 5 to 7 p.m.

The exhibit is on now until January 31.

Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to announce the opening Rescue – My Landscape, a mixed media installation

by Calgary-based artist Lylian Klimek.

Opening reception, Thursday, December 20 from 7 to 10 p.m. with artist’s talk at 8 p.m.

Ourglass Studio and Gallery, at 568 Ward Street, will be open late on October 20. Stop by to see the newest wood tile mosaics made of reclaimed lumber by artist Brian Kalbfleisch.

Theatre

A new play reading series kicks off on December 28 with a reading of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Directed by Michael Graham, read by local actors Richard Rowberry, Jane Sinclair, Carly Brandel and Terran Orletsky. The reading will be at the Old Church Hall, 602 Kootenay Street, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 per reading or $30 for a pass to see all three readings in the series.

Music

Electric Wednesdays with Estevan at The Royal. Take your turn in the spotlight, or enjoy the music of those who do, at one of the Kootenay’s best open stages. Starts 8:30 p.m.

Join Nelson vocalist Laura Landsberg and her husband, guitarist Paul Landsberg for an evening of music by the fire on Wednesday December 19, 6 to 10 p.m. at Hume Hotel’s Library Lounge.

Nelson CARES fundraiser at The Royal on December 20. Come out for an evening jam packed with music from many of our amazing local artists, including Lint, Brian Rosen & WhatNow, Vortex Skeleton Crew, Shyness Of Strangers, Von Butcher and many more!

On Friday, December 21 come dance to live music by Clinton Swanson and friends as Mostly Swing hosts a dance party at The Royal. You’ll be swinging’ to classic R ‘n’ B, blues, latin, and swing tunes performed by local saxophonist Clinton Swanson and his fine band. The music starts at 6 p.m. No cover.

The Picklepocalypse has cometh. To welcome in the new era, local dj hero Sweet Pickle alongside his compadre Perching Crow will be on hand to play music at Spiritbar on Friday, December 21. Doors at 10 p.m. This show is free before 11 p.m., $5 thereafter.

On Saturday, December 22, Ellison’s Cafe Acoustic Unplugged Sessions presents another three new acts to finish the year: Vanya Popov, The Two Birdz, JC Van Breugel and Melanie Schwarz, noon to 3:00 p.m.

The Royal presents Savage Blade on Saturday, December 22. This will be a night of some serious hard core heavy metal as we celebrate the forthcoming release of the band’s new album, Angel Museum. There will be a listening party at 9:30 p.m. sharp and anyone in attendance will receive a promotional code to download the new album for free.

Drunk Uncle will take the stage following the listening party and then Savage Blade will roll on from then. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15, available at The Royal, Urban Legends, The Music Store and liveattheroyal.com.

Billy Bangers and DJango are uniting once again at Spiritbar on Saturday, December 22. A four-hour DJ set to bring on the post-apocalyptic showdown after the world melts down in Mayan chaos.

Doors at 10 p.m. Cover is $5.

Spiritbar is the place to be on Boxing Day, Wednesday, December 26. Both rooms will be in full swing with Erica Dee owning the back room and local DJ heroes B-Ron and Bryx holding down the main room. The show starts an hour

early at 9 p.m. Tickets $10 at the door.

Ryan Wells plays a free show with J Wolf and K McAlister at Spiritbar on Friday, December 28. Doors at 10 p.m.

Kyprios and The Chaperones live in concert at Spiritbar on December 29. This five piece hip hop band that includes horns, backup singers, drummer, bassist, guitarist and DJ to back Vancouver-native Kyprios, who was also a founding member of Sweatshop Union. Doors open at 10 p.m. First 100 tickets are $10.

At the Pub

Join the Ymir Hotel’s country and bluegrass jam every Friday night.

Things get going around 5 p.m. and wrap up around 9 p.m.

Steal away with the hoodlums! Come to the Dam Inn on Friday nights for some of your favourite tunes, a seafood special and other fine eats and drinks.

Music by Pauline Lamb aka Molly Malone, Marvin Walker kickin’ the ol’ travellin’ case and Glen Martin of Tuques and Von Butcher fame on mandolin and the guitbox. Things get going at 8 p.m. Minors welcome.

Wednesdays at Finley’s: Wine and wing night with karaoke dance party to follow.

Thursdays at Finley’s: Selkirk college student night with resident DJ and guest.

Fridays at Finley’s: After work and all request DJ to follow. Free cover.

Saturdays at Finley’s: All request DJ and free cover.

Sundays at Finley’s: Football with karaoke at 9 p.m.

Mondays at Finley’s: Football and battle of the hotels, bars and restaurants.

Tuesdays at Finley’s: Live rock n’ roll and blues band come play with the band.

New Years Eve

Spiritbar welcomes 2013 with a party in both rooms, with a rotation between DJ Hoola Hoop, Soup and Lorne B

of Home Breakin’ Records. The party goes until 3 a.m. Tickets are on sale at the Hume Hotel for $20.

There’s something for everyone at the Royal’s New Years Eve party. Starting off the night will be some old school R'n'B dance classics served up Bessie and The Back Eddies style. Next, Shred Kelly and their foot stompin’ stoke folk music will take us through the New Year.

Finishing off the evening will be DJs Rafferty Funksmith and Breakfluid as they take us until 4 a.m. Tickets are $25 and are available at the Royal, Urban Legends, The Music Store and liveattheroyal.com. Doors open at 6 p.m. The music starts around 6:30 p.m.

Royal Canadian Legion Nelson Branch #51 New Years Eve party featuring live music with That Girl and Earl.

Tickets $15 available at the Legion.

Members and guests welcome.

All-ages New Year’s Eve party at the Eagle’s Hall, 641 Baker Street, with six hours of live music starting at 7 p.m.

The stage will warm up with some of Nelson’s favourite solo acts, including Darcy Hula, Eric Johnson, Spoon Castro and Doug Normal. At 9 p.m., the dance floor opens with The Jones Brothers, rock and soul to get your feet moving. At 11 p.m., Lift will make its rocking debut with its eclectic style of original dance rock. Tickets are $25 each or $50 for a family and include food/ drink items. Tickets are available at Positive Apparel Thrift Store, Big Cranium Design and Boomtown Emporium.

Concert announcement

Nelson Overture Concerts Society presents Allison Girvan on January 26, 8 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets $24 for adults, $14 for students and seniors available at the theatre box office.

Martha Wainwright is coming to the Capitol Theatre on Thursday, March 7. Tickets at $25 through the Capitol Threatre box office.

The Royal will be hosting Montrealbased indie band Stars on Tuesday, April 2. The band will be touring in support of their new album, The North. Tickets $25 in advance, available now at Urban Legends, The Music Store, The Royal and online at liveattheroyal.com.

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Nelson’s Live Music Scene

The Royal halts fundraising push SAM VAN SCHIE Nelson Star Reporter

Owners of The Royal have cancelled a fundraising effort aimed at helping them secure a long term lease on the Baker Street music venue.

In an email to supporters of the club, Paul Hinrichs confirmed that he and business partner Howie Ross have decided to cease operations of the club as of May 1.

“Unless there is a massive miracle relatively soon, there’s no way we’re going to raise the necessary funds to continue,” Hinrichs wrote.

Last month, The Royal launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise the $75,000 necessary to secure a 30-year lease on the building.

Only $2,500 has been donated to date. Hinrichs stated that money will be refunded to donors after the campaign closes on February 4.

A fundraising concert scheduled for Thursday will still go ahead, but the money raised will be donated to Nelson CARES and Hinrichs is offering bands who planned to play that night and businesses who donated items for the silent auction the opportunity to withdraw their contribution.

“We won’t be taking any donations for The Royal,” Hinrichs explained.

He said the future of the space will be decided by the building owner.

“Personally, I’m done at The Royal after this,” Hinrichs wrote. “It has been an incredible experience, and I’ve genuinely loved meeting and working with all of you, but it’s time to move on.”

Several local residents were critical of The Royal’s fundraising effort.

Actor/musician Kevin Armstrong posted a scath-

ing public letter about the bar on his Facebook wall and encouraged others to re-post it.

“Most importantly, and what people need to remember: The Royal is a FORPROFIT BAR! They are not

“Unless there is a massive miracle relatively soon, there’s no way we’re going to raise the necessary funds to continue.”

Paul Hinrichs

The Royal Owner

offering anything to the community except for a place to rock out and get hammered,” Armstrong lamented.

He encouraged people to instead donate to non-profit arts organizations and ven-

ues like Capitol Theatre and the Civic Theatre.

Ross posted a response to Armstrong’s online criticism to explain why he and Hinrichs had turned to the community for donations.

“The Royal is a venue that supports musicians, both local as well as major acts, mostly as a community service, despite what you and some others are purporting,” Ross wrote. “The bottom line is this: I did not want to close The Royal unilaterally, without giving the community a chance to somehow save it.”

In the last year, The Royal has hosted acts like Dan Mangan, Bill Frisell, John Mayall, Leon Russell and Maria Muldaur. The website bcliving.ca named it the people’s choice pick for Best Live Music Venue in Interior BC. Henrich and Ross took over the club in October, 2011.

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Work is underway to install a new fire sprinkler system at Ward Street Place.

The 100-year-old building at the corner of Ward and Victoria streets contains 37 low-cost rental units and five commercial storefronts. Stepping Stones emergency shelter runs out of the basement.

The Nelson CARES Society bought the property 10 years ago, and recently refinanced the building to come up with the $400,000 for fire safety improvements.

“When this building was built, there were very different fire regulations,” explained Jenny Robinson, executive director of Nelson CARES. “We take our community responsibility very seriously, and we want to ensure we’re doing everything we can to protect our clients, tenants and commercial retailers in the building.”

Local contractor Trainor Mechanical has set up a workshop in a mobile storage unit outside the building. The workers need to completely re-build the water system in the building before they can install the piping for sprinklers in every room.

“It’s a pretty elaborate undertaking,” Robinson said. “When it’s finished, there will be sprinklers everywhere, from the commercial spaces to the closets and bathrooms.”

The overhaul of Ward Street Place’s fire safety system is only the start for the historic downtown building.

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Besides the sprinkler systems, there will also be a new fire alarm system installed and electrical upgrades in the suites, as well as interior door treatment to improve fire safety. The work is scheduled to be complete by March.

This is the first phase is a larger revitalization project planned for the building. Further improvements are grant dependant (Robinson expects to hear back about a $1 million grant from Columbia Basin Trust and BC Housing any day now).

Future improvements could include moving Stepping Stones out of the basement and renovating that part of the building to include 12 new rental units. The society also wants to restore the heritage facade of the building to improve the look of the streetscape, and make the building more energy efficient.

Nelson CARES is planning a community fundraiser, which will launch next year, to help cover some of the costs of the improvements.

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Letters to Santa

We wish all our clients & friends the very best of the Holiday Season and look forward to working with you again in the New Year!

Letters to Santa and More

A Rosemont Christmas Last week, the Nelson Star asked Rosemont Elementary School to prepare some letters to Santa and artwork for our special Christmas greeting section.

They delivered and we are pleased to present their work on these five pages.

All the little girls and boys should easily make Santa’s nice list.

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DEAR SANTA...

Are the elves your sons and daughters? (Lily) What kind of cookies do you like? (Jordan) Are you married? (Monet) How do your elves make lots of presents? (Cash) What do you want want for Christmas? (Jaiden) Why do you wear a red suit? (Keinen) What is your favourite food? (Kyle) How many kids have you delivered presents to in your life? (Shayle) What is your favourite colour? (Ethan) Do you have candy? (Hanlin) How old are you? (Macy) How do your reindeer fly? (Sadie) Where do you live? (Tristan) Do you ever get mad? (Aiden) Can you read? (Chuuninli) How does Rudolph’s nose get red? (Conor) Do you have a dog? (Gareth) Dear Santa Claus.

I do want a camera for Christmas, but I do want the poor to have money and food and to have good health. I wish to also have a great winter. I also want peace for the poor and friendship. I wish you a Merry Christmas. I also want an Ipod Touch. Merry Christmas!

Olivia West Grade 5

Dear Santa.

My name is Shamus. I live in Nelson. Some of the things I would like for Christmas are an XBox 360, skis and ski boots and maybe some toys. I would like to give some presents to families in need. It makes everyone feel good to give. So Santa please reply back as soon as you can. PS. How are your elves?

Shamus Grade 5

Smile...It’s Christmas!

Cheers to all the fantastic individuals that frequent the mat. Because of you each day is packed with hilarity, entertainment, and thoughtfulness. I thank you for making my days so fun and interesting. to all the thefantastic fantastic Cheers to all individuals So here’s to wishing you allCheers infinite good individuals that the Mat. that frequent thefrequent mat. Because of you Thanks foris all the laughter, each day packed with hilarity, health, happiness, and contentment - crazy entertainment, and thoughtfulness. interesting conversations, honestyI now and throughout the year ahead. thank you for making my days so fun and kindness.

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So here’s to wishing you all infinite good I wish you all good health, Cheryl health, happiness, and contentment happiness and contentment for the

Wishing a very happy holiday season to all our patients and their families.

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Letters to Santa Santa drawings by the Kindergarten class Letters from The Grade 5 Class Dear Santa.

How are you doing? I was wondering what you want for Christmas because you deserve it. My sister Jayden wants to go to Africa to help the needy. I want an iPad so I can contact my dad and his side of the family. Christmas is my favourite holiday of the year.

Santa, you do a great job of taking care of it with your elves. I love giving things to people to make them feel how I feel on Christmas.

Another gift I want is that everyone will be happy and grateful on Christmas.

Kolbi Watmough Grade 5

Dear Santa.

My name is Corey and I live in Nelson, British Columbia. What I would like for Christmas is Call of Duty Black Ops two for XBox 360, two XBox remotes, a BB gun in machine gun one and 10 thousand BBs that are orange. I don’t want much for Christmas because I already have a bunch of toys. So thank you for your time reading this letter. BTW how are your elves and reindeer?

Corey Grade 5

Dear Santa.

How is Mrs. Claus, the elves and the reindeer especially Rudolph and of course yourself? This year I’m not asking for much.

This year my class and I want to give to the children, adults and schools that need the food, water, family, shelter and wonderful presents more than us. All we need is a little Christmas magic and some time to spend with our family this year. So please sprinkle some Christmas magic on our town and ride on to the people that need help the most.

Love Ashleen Grade 5 PS. I wold love a little book for Christmas Dear Santa.

Please don’t come this year. I don’t want anything for Christmas because I think you should help the needy. They don’t have enough food, water, medicine, money and shelter. Please help the needy.

Shaelyn Grade 5 Dear Santa.

I do want an iPod touch so I can listen to music. But most of all I want to give food and water and money and toys to all the poor children all around the world. That way every one of those people that have no food or money or water would be really happy and won’t die from starvation. Christmas is a time for giving, not for the presents.

Love Roberta Grade 5

Dear Santa Claus.

Hi Santa, how are you doing? Every year my family provides a goat for a poor family for $150.00. We always get a picture of the family with the goat. How are the elves? I’m guessing that they are really tired from making all those toys. You should give them a break after Christmas weekend so they don’t get so pooped. For Christmas I’d like some ski gear or an iPod Touch. Thanks for your time to read this.

Sincerely, Logan Grade 5

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The polite Kindergarten/Grade 1 requests Dear Santa...

How are you? How are the Elves? May I please have a rainbow sparkler and sparkler jewel? Cora How are you? How is Rudolf? How is Mrs. Claus? How are the Elves? May I please have Furby? XOXOXO. Suzy Dear Mom. I love you. How are you doing/ I will do my chores in the house. Liam How are you? How is Rudolf? How are the Elves? May I please have a Furby and an American Girl doll? Ally How are you Santa? I love you Santa. How is Rudolf? May I please have an unfolding phone? Merry Christmas. Zoe How are you? Are there cookies for you? May I please have three DS XL? Alex How are you? How is Rudolf? May I please have a lego city? Merry Christmas. Drayden How are the elves? How is Rudolf? How are you? May I please have a Wii and Wii Sports and a Furby? Mason How are you? How are the reindeers? Wut are they doing? Can I have a toy cat? Merry Christmas. Emily D How is Rudolf? How are you? May I please have a Furby? Please can it be black? Please may I have a webkin? Ashia I luv you. How are the reindeer? May I have a video game player, but it has to be a Lego Star Wars game? Braeden How are you? How are the reindeer? How is Mrs. Claus? May I please have some lego? Gavin How are you and your reindeer? How is Mrs. Claus? May I please have a stuffie dolphin? Tiia How is Rudolf? How is Mrs. Claus? How are the elves? How are your reindeer? May I have lego? Finn How are you? How is Rudolf? How are the elves? May I please have a iPod? Merry Chistmas! Tanner How are you? How is Rudolf? How is your sleigh? How is Mrs. Claus? May I have an iPod Touch for Christmas? Ethan How are you. How is Rudolf? May I please have Webkins? Merry Christmas! Sophie How are you? How is Rudolf? May I please have a Webkin? Raemie

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Letters to Santa

Santa drawings by the Kindergarten class Letters from The Grade 5 Class Dear Santa.

This year I would not only like to receive but give as well. When you come to my house I will try to convince my mom to leave some food and money. If you are real you will take it for the needy. I do not really need anything but if you think I have not been naughty you can leave me a surprise.

Angela Grade 5

Dear Santa.

My name is Arjun. I live in Nelson on Gore Street. The only thing I want is an iPod Touch for Christmas.

Thanks!

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Greetings of the Season

Dear Santa, Hi Santa. So I hear you are doing well at the North Pole. How are the Reindeer and Mrs. Claus doing? So I just want to tell you that every year I get something for a girl my age at Walmart. My brothers get for a boy their age too. My family also does a thing with the Linnens. If you don’t know who they are, Ruby is in their family and she is my best friend. We get some kind of animal.

Normally, we give a tree or a cow to the family. So, I hope I don’t sound greedy. I would like to have a good sled and a Christmas colouring book. I will help as many people as I can.

Love Abby Grade 5 Dear Santa, I want some presents and I want to give some presents to kids who don’t have anything like food and water and clothing. But I also want an iPod 5 and an iPad 2. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

From Jared Grade 5

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Dear Santa Claus.

Hi Santa? This is Lisa who is from South Korea. Today, in my school our teacher read a book named Dear Santa. I hope that you give a little present to poor people such as South Africans. That makes everybody happy and this world peaceful. I’m so sad about someone who can’t go to school or to a hospital because they don’t have lots of money. But most people think of themselves not other people. So, I want to help people with you.

When you help others, then you will feel good. Also, lots of people will trust you and believe you. Now, children will get enough presents from you. So, we have to give. Recently, people are excited about Christmas and you! Santa! They prepare for their Christmas tree and write letters. Santa, please help poor people to make this world peaceful. I believe in you Santa.

From Lisa Grade 5

Dear Santa Claus, Are you ready for Christmas because I am. Are you going to give lots of great things to homeless people because that’s a great idea. What I want for Christmas is…

1) 50 inch plasma TV 2) A 5th generation 32 GB iPod 3) And a Xbox 360 I hope you have a great Christmas.

From Andy Grade 5 Dear Santa.

My name is Kaleb. What I want for Christmas is a sled and a new 4th G iPod case. This year I’m going to focus on giving not getting. And don’t forget to eat some of my cookies and milk. P.S. How are the elves and Mrs. Claus?

From Kaleb Grade 4

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Nelson Search and Rescue

Pair rescued after boat capsizes on Kootenay Lake Greg Nesteroff Nelson Star Reporter

Search crews rescued two Cranbrook men whose boat overturned at Pilot Bay Saturday evening.

Nelson Search and Rescue manager Craig Gutwald didn’t know the exact circumstances that led to the craft capsizing but said the two 25-year-olds were found on shore. They were cold and wet, but otherwise all right, and were released after being checked out by BC Ambulance attendants.

“They were very fortunate to have a witness in another boat who saw it happen,” Gutwald says. “He saw them make it to shore with their dog but wasn’t able to actually help them be-

cause of rough water.”

The witness lost sight of the men in the darkness — they didn’t have flashlights and couldn’t start a fire — but he yelled at them to look for a path that would come around to Sawmill Bay. He then called RCMP, who in turn tried to dispatch Creston Search and Rescue, but no one was available. Gutwald says Nelson Search and Rescue was called at about 6:50 p.m.

They sent a rescue boat and crew along with a ground team that set up at the Balfour ferry terminal.

“We didn’t know if they were trying to walk through the darkness or stay by the water,” Gutwald says. “One issue I was grappling with was were

these locals who lived on the Crawford Bay side and just went home?”

Nine searchers were involved from Nelson. People were also called in from Castlegar, Kaslo, South Columbia, Cranbrook and Kimberley, but were turned around once the boat crew located the men at about 9:30 p.m.

Gutwald said no one reported the men missing.

“It’s really critical that people leave some sort of trip plan, advising where they’re going and when they’re expected back,” he said.

Gutwald wasn’t sure what the men were doing on the choppy waters. He didn’t know if their boat struck something before it overturned.

Senior mixes up brake/gas pedals Nelson Star Staff

Though the temperatures have dropped and the thought of a warm vehicle is enticing, the Nelson Police Department are reminding residents to not leave your unattended vehicle running.

On Thursday morning just before noon, a man attended the front counter of the downtown police station to report that his unattended vehicle in Uphill collided with a fence.

The owner of the vehicle advised that he left his vehicle running and unattended and returned a few minutes later

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to find it was gone. The Nelson resident discovered that the vehicle had smashed through a fence and it had come to rest in the front yard of another home.

Officers attended and determined that the damage to the fence was approximately $1,500 dollars.

“Not only is this [leaving a running vehicle unattended] an offence under the Motor Vehicle Act, it is also a public safety issue,” acting sergeant Dino Falcone stated in a press release. “Police are thankful that there were no injuries in this incident.”

••• On Friday afternoon just

after 2 p.m., an 81-year-old driver accidentally pushed on the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal while proceeding out of the Chahko Mika Mall parking lot.

The driver claimed that her foot then became wedged against the gas pedal and caused her to lose control. She collided with an unattended vehicle, which was pushed into the side of another vehicle which then pushed into another vehicle.

The driver’s vehicle was towed due to extensive damages and the towing company had to separate two other unoccupied vehicles from the scene.

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Autumn Labour Dispute

Rec complex strike cost $25,000 Greg Nesteroff Nelson Star Reporter

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Rotating strike action by unionized staff at the Nelson and District Community Complex this fall cost the facility over $25,000 in lost revenue, the Regional District of Central Kootenay says.

According to a report to the recreation commission, registration revenue declined $3,200 during the two-week walkout, facility revenue dropped $9,500, membership revenue was down $8,400 and drop-in and miscellaneous revenue dipped by $4,200.

The greatest impact was on high performance users of the facility, community services manager Joe Chirico wrote in the report.

“Due to the facilities being used heavily during peak demand times, these groups will not be able to pick up additional training time,” he said.

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Two weeks of job action at the Nelson and District Community Complex this fall affected the facility’s bottom line, a report says.

However, he added longterm use of the complex isn’t expected to be affected.

During the strike between September 21 and October 4, CUPE Local 2262 set up an information picket outside the building and portions were closed due to staff withdrawing services, but it never shut down entirely.

The arena and aquatic centre were each closed five days, and child-minding services weren’t available for four days. Management staffed the fitness and customer service desk when those employees walked out.

The complex received 2,240 fewer visits during that period compared to the

same time last year, according to the report, not including decreased attendance as a result of fewer arena and pool rentals.

The report does not discuss wages saved as a result of the strike.

The dispute ended with a new four-year contract retroactive to 2011 with wage increases of one per cent in the first year, 1.5 per cent in the second, and cost of living in the third and fourth years, expected to be closer to two per cent.

Previously the union asked for a two-year deal with cost of living adjustments in both years while the regional district countered with two and three-year offers with one per cent increases in each year, in line with agreements with other employee groups.

CUPE represents 55 staff at the complex, 12 full-time and the rest part-time and casual. Wages range from $14.74 to $29.18 per hour.

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Stairs lead up to the second floor, where the great room complex stretches from the front to the back of the house.

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Sports

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Kootenay International Junior Hockey League

Leafs dispose of Thunder Cats KIRSTEN HILDEBRAND

KIJHL Stats League Standings

Neil Murdoch Division TEAM GP W L T OTL P Nelson 32 24 6 1 1 50 Castlegar 32 19 7 5 1 44 Beaver Valley 33 20 11 1 1 42 Spokane 32 12 18 1 1 26 Grand Forks 34 5 27 0 2 12

Nelson Star Reporter

The Nelson Junior Leafs commanded the ice against the Creston Valley Thunder Cats Friday night, beating their Kootenay Conference rivals 6-2.

The Leafs opened scoring near the midway point of the first period. Former Leaf forward Matti Jmaeff was off the ice for high-sticking when Nelson midget call-up Brandon Sookro scored a power play goal with help from teammates Seth Schmidt and Colton Schell.

Fans at Nelson and District Community Complex were treated to a rash of goals in second period action with Leafs’ Carson Willans scoring off a pass from Dustin Reimer early on. Thunder Cats’ Angus Johnston capitalized on a Schell penalty scoring at 5:24.

Leafs’ Linden Horswill went on a tear having a hand in his teams next four goals, earning first star accolades for the game. With 11:43 left in the second period he and Kyler Wilkinson fed the puck to Dustin Reimer who made the score 3 to 1.

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Eddie Mountain Division TEAM GP W L T OTL P Golden 33 19 11 1 2 41 Fernie 29 18 8 1 2 39 Kimberley 34 19 15 0 0 38 Creston Valley 32 11 17 0 4 26 Columbia Val. 34 12 20 0 2 26 Okanagan Division TEAM GP Princeton 32 Kelowna 32 Osoyoos 33 Summerland 33 Penticton 32

Leafs forward Linden Horswill was hot in Friday night’s game at NDCC. The Nelson native assisted on four goals in a game that saw the local team trounce Creston Valley Thunder Cats 6-2.

Kirsten Hildebrand photo

At 11:53, Sookro scored a powerplay goal catching the puck from Willans and Horswill. Horswill and Schell got the assist on Schmidt’s powerplay goal with 5:36 left in the second.

Heading into the dressing room after two, the home team was up 5-2.

The Willans, Horswill,

Schell trio continued to be hot in the third as Willans scored the Leafs sixth goal of the game at 7:11.

Not willing to give up the fight, Creston Valley Thunder Cats Marcel Fuchs scored from Angus Johnston and Andrew Hotter. It was a powerplay goal that made the final score 6-2.

Sookro was given the game’s second star and Willans got the third star nod.

The Leafs return to the ice tonight to take on the Castlegar Rebels who currently sit in second place in the Neil Murdoch Division behind first place Leafs. The puck drops at 7 p.m. at the community complex.

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RECENT RESULTS

FRIDAY, December 14 Creston Valley 2 Nelson 6 Summerland 5 Fernie 6 (OT) Kimberley 0 Columbia Valley 1 Sicamous 10 Chase 3 Spokane 0 Revelstoke 7 Osoyoos 3 Kelowna 4 (OT) Princeton 1 Penticton 4 Golden 7 Grand Forks 6 Castlegar 3 Beaver Valley 5 Kamloops 5 North Okanagan 9 SATURDAY, December 15 Summerland 3 Kimberley 5 Columbia Valley 4 Creston Valley 1 North Okanagan 5 Revelstoke 4 Spokane 5 Sicamous 4 (OT) Princeton 6 Kelowna 0 Chase 1 Kamloops 4 Golden 5 Castlegar 5 Beaver Valley 5 Grand Forks 1 SUNDAY, December 16 Golden 1 Beaver Valley 8 Summerland 2 Creston Valley 4 Kelowna 1 Penticton 0 Revelstoke 4 North Okanagan 3 Sicamous 4 Kamloops 1

Nelson Leafs Leaders

PLAYER Position Colton Schell Forward Linden Horswill Forward Carson Willans Forward Jacob Boyczuk Forward Matthew Naka Forward Seth Schmidt Defence

LEAFS HOCKEY

HOME WED. DEC. 19th 7:00 PM

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Doug Birks Division TEAM GP W L T OTL P Sicamous 31 20 5 2 4 46 N. Okanagan 32 20 9 1 2 43 Revelstoke 32 16 12 3 1 36 Kamloops 36 13 17 2 4 32 Chase 34 7 23 3 1 18

Ladies Rock the House The Nelson Curling Centre hosted its Annual Ladies Bonspiel earlier this month.

The two-day event featured eight teams from Nelson and three from Castlegar.

(LEFT) Eventual B event winners (L-R) Marcie Stefiuk, Allison Sutherland and Marla Dreher compete in one of the Sunday morning games with their skip Jill Winters waiting for the incoming rock. The ladies recreational league is always taking new participants and those interested can join midway through the season. The Star will feature more on this event in an upcoming edition.

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Annual General Meeting

Nelson Cycling Club charts course for future SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star

It was an energetic gathering, when 40 members of the Nelson Cycling Club convened for the club’s Annual General Meeting held at the Hume Hotel in lateNovember.

“We have had a very successful year, with lots of exciting things in the works for 2013,” said Garett Lumley, club treasurer, who presided over the meeting.

Currently, there are 430 members in the club, 35 per cent of whom are under the age of 18.

Lumley kicked off the night by acknowledging the years of hard work that former president Pat Wray and her husband John Krebs (former trail stewardship coordinator) have done for the Nelson Cycling Club. Wray and Krebs moved to Cranbrook last fall, leaving the position of president vacant.

The Nelson Cycling Club is the stronghold of mountain biking for the Nelson area. Apart from building and maintaining trails

in the areas of Mountain Station, Svaboda, Kokanee Park, Giveout Creek, Morning Mountain and Smallwood, the club hosts an annual bike swap, monthly “toonie” rides for club members, built and maintains the bike park at Art Gibbons Park in Rosemont, hosts the annual Fat Tire Festival, has created a site plan for the Morning Mountain Polygon, an area that the club received Section 57 Authorization for in 2010, and built and expanded the trail system at Smallwood.

Many of the trails are multiuse, enjoyed not only by bikers but also hikers, runners, dogwalkers and other recreationalists. What many people don’t know is that the majority of the property at Mountain Station is privately owned, and the other trail systems are located in government regulated parks or crown land. Without advocacy of the Nelson Cycling Club with the landowners, many of these recreation opportunities would not exist.

Among the many items dis-

The annual Fat Tire Fest was once again the Nelson Cycling Club’s biggest event of the year.

Bob Hall photo

cussed at this year’s AGM, were several topics of particular interest including the City of Nelson’s interest in the Art Gibbon Bike Park, format changes for the Fat

Tire Festival, the new Nelson Cycling Club Trail Guide, and logging in the Giveout Creek area where the popular trail Powerslave is located. Powerslave was

highlighted in the 2010 bike film Life Cycles.

The 2012 board of directors was re-elected with Mark Crowe as land-use liaison, Darcy Lutz as communications coordinator, Chris George as trail stewardship coordinator and Lumley as treasurer.

The position of president remains vacant, as well as the following very important committee positions: bike park coordinator, Smallwood director, Morning Mountain Polygon director, and road riding liaison.

Anyone interested in these positions should contact Lumley at 250-505-4412 or yelmul9@yahoo. com.

Minutes from the meeting are available in full on the NCC website at: http://nelsoncyclingclub. blogspot.ca/ Resuming in January, the Nelson Cycling Club Board meets every fourth Wednesday of the month, at 5:30 p.m. in the Chamber of Commerce boardroom.

All members are welcome to attend.

Friday Night Shopping in Nelson Starting Friday, November 30th

the following businesses will have extended Friday Night hours.

Visit them November 30, December 7th, 14th, & 21st until 7pm.

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News Balfour Public Land Issue

Red tape threatens beach transfer GREG NESTEROFF Nelson Star Reporter

A last-minute bureaucratic roadblock has been thrown up in the transfer of public land at Balfour and Ootischenia to the Regional District of Central Kootenay.

Although the regional district has already secured 30-year licenses of occupation for Balfour Beach and Waterloo Eddy for regional park purposes, the province is now asking for independent appraisals of the properties.

“It is a bit frustrating,” said regional director Ramona Faust, in whose area the Balfour beach lies. “It seems retroactive and a little bit punitive.”

The transfer of the 3.7 hectare property and 200

meters of Kootenay Lake shoreline has been in the works since 2005. The process moved slowly because it requires sponsorship of a provincial ministry.

While the land’s value was estimated at $1.5 million, the regional district received a letter last month from the province asking for a more accurate appraisal.

“Although our ministry has determined an estimate of value for the Balfour park, an independent opinion is required to ensure that the issuance of your tenure complies with policy,” the letter read. It asked that the appraisal be provided within 90 days or the license of occupation could be cancelled.

However, regional district staff balked at the request, and recommended that

Area E Director Ramona Faust

since they met all legislative requirements to gain tenure, the board should tell the province they will do market appraisals in future, but not in this case.

That made some directors uncomfortable. Hans Cunningham worried it might jeopardize the park given the letter’s “slightly threatening” tone, while Garry Jackman didn’t think professional appraisals should be required

at all — at least not at their expense.

While the regional district hasn’t sought a quote, they estimate the appraisals could cost around $10,000. Faust wouldn’t say if she would swallow the bill if she had to.

She first wants to know how far back the government is going in asking for such appraisals and whether others are in the same boat.

“I want to ensure this is applied equally across the province and understand the length of reach back on this process,” she said. “Moving goalposts is never a good way to play a game.”

The board heard the request as the result of a policy change, not new legislation.

Ultimately they asked staff to find out more before they respond to the letter.

First homes could be built in 2014

Continued from Page 1 ongoing requests from area residents to run their water systems.

“We felt instead of having three or four small ones, the best way would be one large one,” Mickel says. “We’re not really supposed to be helping developers. Our money went into the potential expansion to allow us to service existing homes.”

Shannon Point presently has its own water system, including a lake intake and treatment plant, but is expected to switch over to the new system.

“We’re not really supposed to be helping developers.

Our money went into the potential expansion to allow us to service existing homes.”

Ron Mickel

Area F Director

In a 2010 referendum, Ridgewood Road residents voted to turn their system over to the regional district, but since then have spent money investigating what’s required to bring them up to Interior Health standards. It has yet to be decided if they will be part of the joint plan.

The agreement ratified last week was in the works for 18 months, while Shannon Orchard has been on the books for several years. Mickel says the purchase agreement on the property was subject to the water deal being approved.

The regional district is now expected to obtain the necessary water licenses, while the developer buys the land. Mickel anticipates the water system will be designed and installed next year and the first homes will go up in 2014.

A combined sewage service is also possible, pending the outcome of a referendum.

“To me it’s a good proposal because the whole area needs to look at what’s going to happen with sewage,” Mickel said. “If we can centralize a treatment system, I think that would benefit everyone.”

CONCERNS PERSIST Some existing water users on Shannon Creek, however, remain concerned the new water system may leave them short.

Mel Reasoner of Willow Point Lodge says allowing a developer to “leapfrog” their intake sets a bad precedent.

“It’s a recipe for conflict,” he says. “It’s bending if not breaking the rules.”

He’s worried that by tapping the creek above the 34 existing water licenses, the development will reduce their streamflows. He argues not enough data exists to make accurate flow assessments, and climate change has not been taken into account.

Reasoner says pumping water either out of the lake or from the current intake into a reservoir would satisfy their concerns, but Mickel is confident there is enough water for everyone.

As part of the agreement, the developer will continue to monitor the supply.

“If we get some new numbers in the next six to eight months, we always have the lake to fall back on,” Mickel says. “The developer doesn’t want to put a pump in the lake, but if needed, it can be done.”

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Local Team Taking to the Elements Starting Thursday

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Nelson firefighters set to camp out on Safeway roof to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star

Join Nelson firefighters on Thursday to Saturday as they hold a 54-hour rooftop campout in support of Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

Be sure to stop by Nelson’s Safeway where the firefighters will be camping and contribute to the cause with boots in hand.

To show their support for people with neuromuscular disorders, the local firefighters are organizing their third annual rooftop campout to raise awareness and funds to help “make muscles move.”

A rooftop campout is a fundraising event where members camp on the roof of a building, enduring below freezing temperatures, inclement weather, and whatever else nature throws their way, and collect donations from the public to support Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

Since 1954, Canadian firefighters have been helping Muscular Dystrophy Canada fight the battle against muscular dystrophy — a group of over 150 types of neuromuscular disorders characterized by the wasting and progressive weakness of muscles. Over time, many people with neuromuscular disorders are unable to walk, speak, or ultimately breathe. Some diseases are life-threatening and presently, there is no cure.

The money raised by Nelson firefighters will be donated to improve the quality of life for people living with neuromuscular disorders by purchasing mobility equipment, providing support services, and funding research, which will one day lead to a cure.

Last year, Firefighters in BC and Yukon raised over $571,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. It takes a firefighter 56 muscles to put on a boot; it takes you to help fill it.

By dropping your extra change into the boot, you are making muscles move in your community.

So come out to support your local firefighters in the battle against muscular dystrophy.

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Barbara Lucille Browell

Born October 26, 1931 Passed December 14, 2012

Barb passed away peacefully at Kootenay Lake Hospital in Nelson, B.C. on Friday December 14, 2012 after a short but courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Saskatoon and grew up in Swanson Saskatchewan. She worked at the Royal Bank in Watrous Saskatchewan and it was there that she met her husband Russell, only twice because the third time they met was when she travelled to Creston and eloped to Coeur d’Alene.

This was the beginning of 56 wonderful years together.

Barb was predeceased by mother Emma, father Realf and mother Ruth. She leaves behind her loving husband Russell, daughter Lori (Doug) Bagshaw, grandchildren Kirstie and Lindsey (Murray) and great grandchildren Mackenzie and Brady, son Ross (Michelle) Browell, son Ty (Tonya) Browell and grandchildren Cody and Kale, sister Leila (Don) MacWilliam, sister Helen (Gordon) Blair, brother Jack (Sharon) Skjeie and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family would like to thank Dr. Noiles, Dr. Malpass, Dr. Grant and all of the nursing staff at Kootenay Lake Hospital for being so kind, caring and supportive. Barb loved the numerous visits and conversations with family and friends that showed her how much she was truly loved.

She touched the hearts of everyone she met.

Cremation has taken place and at Barb’s request there will be no service. As an expression of sympathy, family and friends may make a donation to the Kootenay Lake Hospital, 3 View Street, Nelson B.C., V1L 2V1.

Arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral Service Ltd. Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

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Walter Greavison Walter Greavison, of Nelson, passed away at his home on December 15, 2012 . He was born on March 25, 1920 in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England to parents Ernest Henry and Ina Olive Greavison. When he was seven years old his family immigrated to Canada and settled on a small farm in Slocan Park.

At the height of the depression, when Walter was 14, he had to go to work to support his family due to his father’s ill health. He worked at forestry jobs in the area during summers and horse logged their land in winters with his brother, cutting ties for the railroad with a crosscut saw.

In the spring of 1941 he enlisted in the army, scoring the highest mark in the region on his exams, and was offered an offi ofÀcer’s education but refused as his gentle nature made him prefer to be an enlisted man. He saw action in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Sadly he lost his brother, Flying Offi OfÀcer Ronald Greavison to the war effort.

At the end of the war he returned home and continued to work forestry and labour jobs. Walter also worked in road construction, dam construction and mining as a driller and powderman. At one time he was a guard at the Crescent Valley school where he met his wife, Rose, the teacher at the school. They married in 1951, settling in Crescent Valley for a short time before buying a home and small chicken farm in Nelson.

After his retirement in 1980, Walter was able to indulge in two of his favourite hobbies woodworking and helping his children and grandchildren. He also enjoyed gardening, lovingly helping his wife Rose with her many Á flower and vegetable gardens every year. Walter was also a lifelong, avid fi Àsherman, whether trolling the main lake for Rainbows, spin casting for Kokanee, or ice fi Àshing for trout in the winter. But his favourite was fl Áy fi Àshing the Slocan pool or the area’s mountain lakes using fl Áies he tied himself. He spent many wonderful weekends and holidays with his children and grandchildren gardening, swimming, camping, hunting and fi Àshing; providing them with invaluable lessons on true sportsmanship, small scale farming, and care of the land.

Walter is survived by sons Ronald (Nadya), Raymond, daughter Elizabeth McDermott; grandchildren Erik & Curtis Greavison, Rob & Jenny McDermott; and sisters Marjorie and Doris. He was predeceased by Rose, his wife of 61 years, in March of this year. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, December 20 at 1:00 pm at Thompson Funeral Home, 613 Ward Street, Nelson, BC. The family would like to thank all the health care workers who helped Walter through his illness this last year.

Can also add As an expression of sympathy As anyou expression of sympathy donations may be made donations may beCancer made to The Canadian CancerDivision, Society, to The Canadian Society, BC and Yukon BC and Yukon Division, Box 292, Nelson, BC V1L 5P9 Box 292, Nelson, BC V1L 5P9 Online condolences may be expressed at www. thompsonfs.ca. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral Service Ltd.

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Wilfred (Bill) Douglas Seafoot Born: Dec. 26, 1925 Passed: Dec. 10, 2012

Bill Seafoot passed away December 10, 2012 in the presence of loving family and friends in the Palliative Care room at the Kaslo Victorian Hospital. He was the last surviving member of his immediate family.

Dad was born in East End, Saskatchewan and moved to Trail, BC in 1941 and then to Kaslo in 1959 to work for T & H Sawmills. He began Kaslo Skid Contractors Ltd. in the early 1960s, and was legendary for his no nonsense approach to logging. He was called the “Paul Bunyan with bulldozers” by the National Geographic Society. He was also called many other names, some of which cannot be put into print, but most prominently “Panicky” or “Cranky”.

When Dad wasn’t working he was involved in all aspects of the Legion and coaching minor and senior Àshing around men’s baseball. He would often be found fishing the local lakes with his main sustenance of an Oh Henry bar, pepperoni stick and a bottle of Coke purchased from the Mohawk. When the weather wouldn’t allow him to be outside he could be found sitting in his recliner cursing and swearing at the TV when the Toronto Blue Jays were playing. Dad enjoyed many happy times quading and snowmobiling with his many friends. He was a real people person and loved the daily contact with the community. Whenever there was a need, Dad was there.

Dad was predeceased by wives Irene (1989) (mother of his children) and Cathy (2012); daughter Bev Gatzke (2012); son Keith (2004); and grandsons Donald (1994), Allan (1995), Kevin (1995), Ron (2007).

He is survived by daughters Linda and Bonnie (Rick); sons Craig (Susan) and Gordon; and grandchildren Karen, Bret, Gary, Leroy, Dave, Lorne, Jason, Pam, Ryan, Bill, Mark, Kelly, Tania and Sheldon; and 22 great-grandchildren.

Funeral service will be held Friday December 21 at 11 am at the Kaslo Legion Hall. Refreshments will be served at the Legion following interment at the Áowers donations Kaslo Cemetery. In lieu of flowers in Dad’s memory to the Kaslo & Area Hospice would be appreciated.

Linda, Bonnie, Craig and Gord would like to thank everyone who helped us in any way during this difÀcult time. difficult Arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral Service Ltd. Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

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With an exciting new product line and beautifully renovated facilities, Kalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC is looking for a capable, personable and motivated Sales Representative to join its sales team. We’re a family-owned and operated General Motors dealership with over 20 years of experience providing quality automotive products and exceptional service to our customers.

Kalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC has an immediate opening for a CertiďŹ ed Automotive Technician.

We are a leader in automotive repair and service and we’re looking to hire and retain the very best. We offer competitive pay, excellent beneďŹ ts and a great work environment.

If you have an abiding interest in automobiles and enjoying sharing your passion with others in a helpful and ethical manner, then maybe this position is for you. We provide the kind of training and support to help you succeed, and our compensation and beneďŹ ts packages rank among the best anywhere.

We’re a family-owned and operated General Motors dealership with over 20 years of experience providing uncompromising service to our customers, and we’re looking for someone who shares our philosophy and work ethic. Come be a part of our team. General Motors experience is considered an asset, but is not essential. However, you must have your own tools and safety boots.

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Please submit your cover letter and resume to:

Scott Hutt, Sales Manager Kalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC 1700 Columbia Avenue Castlegar, BC V1N 2W4 Fax: (250) 365-3949 Email: scott@kalawsky.com

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Community

...And we shall live forevermore because of Christmas Day

Nelson Christian Community School

Joy of giving at Christmas SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star

Christmas this season has been one of giving for children at Nelson Christian Community School.

Rather than spending countless hours on an exciting Christmas

“I’m happy that we hand out stockings because it’s what Jesus would want us to do.” musical, students have been active in their community. But are they really making an impact? Let’s see.

Ask the youth living in transitional housing: Did they like the stockings children enthusiastically prepared for them? Incidentally, children are learning that difficulties come into everyone’s lives and we need to demonstrate affection through what we do.

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Christmas wreaths made by little hands using cedar boughs, which were laid on doorsteps in our neighbourhood?

And consider those living in a local emergency shelter, for whom children have written earnest Christmas cards.

A chilly afternoon ringing the kettle for the Salvation Army while singing carols on Baker Street was also important in joining forces and learning from a generous organization.

Amidst the excitement of Christmas celebrations, listen to how kids are proud of their efforts to spread Christmas joy in this wonderful community: “I’m happy that we can hand out stockings because it’s what Jesus would want us to do,” Emily said.

“I think it was kind to help people who don’t have an actual Christmas with family — it made me feel happy,” said Izaak.

“It’s kind of exciting!” said Lucas.

“I think it showed me that serving is not just something you do; it actually makes a difference,” said Emily.

“To some people it puts a spark in their eye and can change their lives knowing that someone did that out of their own

will,” said Simone.

“It was fun… but we’re also being a help to some other people,” said Lily.

“I makes me happy to make them happy,” said Zach.

It appears that impacting others is ultimately impacting young hearts.

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THINK LOCAL FIRST LIVE. SHOP. PLAY NELSON AND AREA What three businesses would you miss if they disappeared from Nelson?

Has it been a while since you shopped there?

Stop in….say hello…and pick something up. Make an ongoing commitment to spend at least $60 in your favorite stores. It’s pretty simple…. It’s your purchases that keep those businesses around When you think local first it allows your money to go full circle, right here at home… 360 degrees right back into our community.

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Pick 3 ….Spend $60…your money goes full circle back into our community.

With all the great shops and restaurants in Nelson and area… why stop at 3????

Remember to Think Local First

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Your Best Friends Christmas Store

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We carry grain free food & treats Nelson Farmers Supply Ltd. 524 Railway St, Nelson, BC 250-352-5375

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Bamboo/maple snowboards $200 Telescopic ski/hike Poles $25 New Bamboo Skis from $349 Boomtown’s own skis starting from $250 New X-Country Ski Packages from $229 Snowshoes starting at $65

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Having a hard time finding a gift for that someone who has everything?

Family in town and want a Christmas experience they won’t forget?

“Kootenay’s greatest selection of garden gifts”

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