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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
District’s Lock Down Policy tested
BANNER TIME FOR CURLING FANS
BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
JIM BAILEY PHOTO
Cal McKerracker (right) and Grant Gariepy of the Trail Curling Club hoist the provincial curling banner as the club gets set to host the B.C. Senior Men’s and Ladies’ Curling Championship Feb. 11-17. See Zone playdown results Page 11.
Rossland garnering major media attention New York Times ranks it among places to visit and Canada AM set to broadcast during carnival BY GUY BERTRAND Times Staff
The Golden City is shining like a diamond in the eyes of the media. Fresh off winning Powder magazine’s North America-wide Ski Town Throwdown, Rossland is garnering more attention nationally and in one of the largest newspapers in the U.S. The New York Times travel section listed Rossland number-eight
overall in its feature of “46 places to go in 2013.” Meanwhile Canada AM, the longrunning national morning show on CTV, is coming to Rossland for the winter carnival on Jan. 25. “We’re on a really good roll with all this stuff now,” said Deanne Steven, executive director for Tourism Rossland. “It really does make a big difference when you have something new to talk about. Combine that with the fact that our downtown has never looked better. It has exceeded everybody’s expectations. “People have been super upbeat here and it’s showing.”
The New York Times article is just the latest acknowledgement of Rossland’s appeal. Steven explained that in October’s ski show circuit, Tourism BC organized a series of interviews between tourism representatives and reporters in Seattle. “It’s kinda like speed-dating with journalists.” She credited the terrain expansion at Red Mountain Resort as the hook that caught the writers’ attention. “We were the only ski resort that had anything new to announce. So it was really a lot easier for us to sell our great story.”
Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Nicaragua, Ghana, Bhutan, Amsterdam and Houston were rated ahead of Rossland in the New York Times list that also includes such exotic locales as Istanbul, New Delhi, Koh Phangan and Hawaii. New York Times reporter Christopher Solomon said Rossland was set to “step into the spotlight,” of ski destinations. “Long known for its steeps, treeskiing and out-of-the-way location (it’s a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Spokane) that leaves its lift mazes empty and led Skiing magazine last year to call it the See PROMOTIONS, Page 3
With the wounds from the second deadliest shooting in U.S. history still fresh, it didn’t take long for School District 20 to test its mettle on how it would handle a similar episode. Mere days after Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot 20 children and six adult staff members on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Trail Middle School had to contend with potentially dangerous situation of its own. An angry student had made threats against the school, said SD20 board chair Darrell Ganzert, prompting school administration to quickly implement its Lock Down Policy. The policy, in place since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, was effective in diffusing the situation he noted. “Those are the worst nightmares for anybody, and we do what we can. But (that situation) just points out that the drills they do in the schools three times per year pay off in awareness,” he said. Although Ganzert expected discussion of the Connecticut incident would arise See DRILLS, Page 3
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