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Vol. 8 • Issue 4
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Thursday, January 24 • 2013
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ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor
Property owners around B.C. recently received their 2013 assessment notices, and in this area, there has been a modest decrease. The City of Rossland assessment roll decreased from $603 million last year to $588 million this year City of Trail, on the other hand, had a static assessment roll, staying at $1.1 billion. The villages of Fruitvale and Montrose also remained the same, at $194 million and $105 million, respectably. BC Assessment administers the assessments and provided examples of the real-world implications of the drop. For instance, if your property was valued at $250,000 for the 2012 assessment roll, then its assessed value The annual Avalanche Awareness Day, put on by local search and rescue, was held Saturday. Above, participants would drop to $243,000 for demonstrate a probe line. Arne Petryshen photo See Home on P.4
Rossland’s ski hall of fame bid unsuccessful
ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor
Recent news that Rossland’s hopes for the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum beenFordashed, Yourhave Horoscope the Week are a disapwithpointment Michael O’Connor for inside Rossland Mayor Horoscope the Greg West Kootenay Advertiser Granstrom, as well as the For the Week city. RosslandNews_2013_Jan13-27.pdf 12/17/2012 2:41:55 PM with Michael O’Connor Granstrom was one of the
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champions for the bid, put forth as a potential replacement for the mine tour that had to be closed a few years ago due to safety concerns. Granstrom said he heard the news of Mont Tremblant’s winning bid, last week, through media and had not been contacted by the Canada Ski Hall of Fame and Museum board. He said the Rossland proposal was well thought out for
this city. “We had to be very sure that what we presented was sustainable to Rossland,” he said, but added that the hall of fame board had some conditions that concerned the Rossland board. For instance the board would be under the supervision of the Ottawa board. “So we put a proposal out there that we thought was sustainable and could work in
Rossland,” he said. “They went with Mont Tremblant, which is interesting, because we (Rossland) also talked to Tremblant about some kind of east-west partnership. That wasn’t pursued by either side, but we did put that out there.” The mayor said that the museum in Rossland has many historic skis from the likes of Nancy Greene-Raine and Kerrin Lee-Gartner, and so a part-
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nership could have presented opportunities to share collections. He also noted that it’s interesting it didn’t go to Revelstoke. “Other than Rossland for history out west, that would be the place,” he said. “We weren’t told their final criteria.” Another concern they had was the logistics for inductions See Ski on P. 4