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The annual Terry Walgren Memorial soccer tournament took to the Lakeside pitch over weekend with rep games in ten different divisions from U11 to U18. This Saturday game featured the Nelson Selects U14 Boys (white) against the club from the East Kootenay. For more weekend photos see Pages 21-23 and online at nelsonstar.com.

As Jumbo Glacier Resort developers get a green light to build lifts and a lodge at the resort site, the fight against the controversial development is forging ahead despite disappointment.

The permit allowing construction to proceed on ski lifts and a lodge of up to 150 rooms was approved by Jumbo mayor Greg Deck and the resort municipality’s council last week — the governing body which the West Kootenay EcoSociety executive director David Reid along with lawyer Judah Harrison filed a petition in BC Court against in February.

“The zoning permit is obviously frustrating, but it’s not unexpected,” Reid told the Star on Saturday.

“It doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of the people in the Kootenays are opposed to it. It doesn’t change the fact that there are two lawsuits in the courts right now challenging the development agreement and the municipality. It doesn’t change the fact that there are people willing to put themselves on the line to keep this resort Story continues to ‘Opponents’ on Page 9

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The Friends of Kootenay Lake are working with citizen-scientists and marinas to monitor the water quality of the local lake.

Modeled off of Lake Windermere ambassadors, Friends of Kootenay Lake are a one-year-old stewardship group dedicated to protecting the fish and wildlife habitat of Kootenay Lake, explains Claire de la Salle, program director.

The program has a twopronged approach. There are 15 people on the lake that are taking weekly temperature and water clarity readings from 15 different sites. In addition, they are conducting a more intensive monitoring program on the West Arm where they monitor by boat 12 times between AprilOctober.

Friends of Kootenay Lake are looking for volunteers to get involved with the effort, whether it’s taking weekly temperature readings off the end of a dock, taking water clarity readings from a boat, or joining them out on a chartered boat for a day.

“We’re giving the community members the tools they need to protect their own water resources,” de la Salle says.

“History has shown that without diligence on the part of local people, the values of the lake can be lost over time.”

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Friends of Kootenay Lake volunteer Eric Sargent takes water samples.

“Kootenay Lake is an absolutely massive amazing lake and we need all the help we can get to monitor it,” she continues. “Believe it or not, Kootenay Lake is facing challenges right now. There is increasing shoreline development, climate change, lasting effects from hydro dams and

also threats of invasive species.”

The program director points to the Sushwap where the shoreline is fully developed and salmon habitat was lost. While the West Arm of Kootenay Lake is quite populated, the main lake is largely wild. If the lake is valued as

a drinking water supply with an active fishery, for example, monitoring and providing residents with tools to live healthfully by the water is vital.

“People look at the lake and think ‘oh, it’s so pristine.

Why does it need help?’” relays de la Salle. “If we value the lake, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Among other things, water samples are looked at for water clarity, nutrient levels, temperature and dissolved oxygen as well as fecal coliform to determine its safety for consumption. The threeyear program is designed to collect important base-line information and to encourage a broader and deeper understanding of the lake’s ecosystem.

“We can come back whenever we feel it’s necessary and we will have something to compare to. We can monitor changes over time,” she says.

De la Salle explains there are many ways to get involved and while people have enthusiastically come forward, more help is needed.

“People want to feel connected to the lake and I feel that’s why this program has been able to attract volunteers,” she says.

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Firefighters feel slighted Greg Nesteroff Nelson Star Reporter

The Regional District of Central Kootenay is concerned a statue on the lawn of the BC legislature dedicated to fallen firefighters fails to recognize volunteers, but the president of Nelson’s firefighters union says no slight was intended.

The monument was unveiled in February by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Professional Fire Fighters Association to commemorate firefighters who have died in the line of duty. But RDCK regional fire chief Terry Swan said it fails to properly acknowledge volunteers in addition to career firefighters.

He said nearly 75 per cent of firefighters in the province are volunteers, and 67 have paid the ultimate price while serving their communities.

“I have not heard there has been any action taken on correcting that,” Swan told 103.5 The Bridge. “But my hope is it is rectified fairly quickly.”

Swan said it should be as simple as placing an additional plaque or replacing the existing one that recog-

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This statue was unveiled in Victoria earlier this year and RDCK regional fire chief Terry Swan says volunteer firefighters did not get proper recognition and wants it fixed.

nizes volunteer service.

The board passed a resolution this month urging the province to formally recognize the contributions and sacrifices of volunteer firefighters.

But Marc Thibault, president of the Nelson local of the International Association of Fire Fighters, told the radio station that while the impetus for the statue came from the union’s provincial branch, they didn’t make a distinction between professionals and volunteers.

“The memorial doesn’t specify that it’s only for career members,” he said.

“It’s just generally fallen firefighters across the province.”

Thibault said the misconception the statue only honours fallen professionals probably stems from the way it was unveiled — the ceremony coincided with a bi-annual union meeting.

“That’s probably where the mix-up came,” he said. “Since [volunteers] weren’t invited they might have felt purposely left out, which wasn’t the case.”

Thibault added he hasn’t heard any concern about the statue from the 21 volunteer members of Nelson Fire and Rescue.

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A Lethbridge doctor died while scuba diving in Kootenay Lake earlier this month.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed that Shane Timothy Mortimer, 46, of Lethbridge, Alberta was one of a group of four persons engaged in recreational scuba diving in the area of the MV Anscomb shipwreck at Woodbury on the morning of May 18.

“Shortly before noon, Dr. Mortimer, an experienced scuba diver, was noted to be in trouble while underwater,” a press release issued last Thursday afternoon by the coroners service stated.

“His diving partners attempted rescue and resuscitation,

After being retired because of the new Osprey 2000 ferry on Kootenay Lake, the MV Anscomb was taken to Woodbury Resort just north of Ainsworth where it sank. It is now a popular dive site where an Alberta man died earlier this month.

which were then continued by first responders and emergency room staff at the hospital.”

Despite these efforts, Mortimer could not be revived.

The BC Coroners Service and RCMP continue to investigate this death.

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According to his obituary in the Lethbridge Herald, Mortimer grew up in Calgary.

He graduated with a masters in endocrinology from the University of Calgary in 1992 and then attended the University of Alberta Medical School, graduating with

distinction in general surgery in 1996.

In 2001, he and wife Natasha married and moved to Lloydminster where he began his surgical practice.

After three years they moved to Lethbridge.

“Shane enjoyed spending quality time with his daughters,” his obituary read. “He shared a passion for life including diving, photography and teaching. He will be missed by his family, friends, and those whose life he impacted as a dedicated and compassionate surgeon.

“It is for his generosity, love of family, belief in people and passion for medicine, diving and teaching that we deeply grieve for him.”

Funeral services were held Monday in Lethbridge.

A Trail man is presumed drowned after the canoe he was in capsized in Little Wilson Lake near Rosebery on Saturday evening.

Michael Lorne Guthrie, a 32-year-old Trail resident, entered the lake along with one of two camping companions who was fishing with him in a canoe.

While one man was able to swim to shore, Guthrie was reported missing to Slocan Lake RCMP.

RCMP Cpl. Ryan Fehler told the Star they don’t know why the canoe capsized, but alcohol is believed to have been a factor. Neither man was wearing a lifejacket, nor did they have any safety equipment.

The search was suspended Monday evening when the RCMP underwater recovery team, RCMP helicopter and local search and rescue were unable to locate the missing man.

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Ten things you (probably) didn’t know about the Nelson Fire Department Nelson Star Reporter

have since returned to fire engine red.

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Nelson’s volunteer fire department became partly paid in 1901 with a full-time chief, assistant chief, and teamster plus ten volunteers who each received a monthly stipend of $15, less $2 for missing a call. By 1922, the paid staff had grown to five with the addition of two more drivers. In 1951, there were 14 full-time members when amid much controversy their ranks were trimmed to eight supplemented by 30 volunteers.

Today the department consists of the chief, assistant chief, a fire prevention officer, two shift captains, six firefighters, a secretarydispatcher and 21 on-call auxiliaries.

While the department still awaits its first fulltime female firefighter, it does have one amongst the auxiliaries.

The Nelson Fire Department, now Nelson Fire and Rescue, has had 18 chiefs since the city’s incorporation in 1897. Longest serving was Elwyn Owens (1954-73), under whom the department won numerous national fire safety and prevention awards but ironically also suffered its deadliest fire, when the Strathcona Hotel burned, taking six lives. Owens was Citizen of the Year for 1965.

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Harry Sommerville was the first Nelson native to become chief. He and present chief Simon Grypma are among the longest serving members in the department’s history: Sommerville was a volunteer from 1952 to 1958 and full-time from 1967 to 1992. Grypma joined as a volunteer in 1976 and went full-time two years later.

Retired chief Randy Brieter also spent close to 30 years with the department.

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When Owens retired, it ended a long tradition of fire chiefs living in the hall. However, volunteers, mainly those going to Selkirk College, continued to live there into the late 1980s. Rent was free but in the early days they were pretty much on call around the clock. Sommerville recalls moving in as a volunteer in 1952 and staying two or three years. Grypma says when he started in the 1970s, nine men still lived upstairs.

The hose tower was decommissioned decades ago with the introduction of electric dryers.

The chief ’s office is now in the tower’s base and there’s another office on the second floor. All the hardware used to hang hoses is still there.

The former ambulance station, built in 1984 and vacated in 1992, now stores trailers for hazardous material response and sprinkler equipment for wildfire response.

dye was placed on the boxes and local teachers knew any student caught with green fingers had likely been up to no good. The punishment was spending a Saturday polishing fire trucks.

The boxes were finally retired in 1980 even though they still worked well (a couple are in the fire hall’s museum).

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photo courtesy Nelson Fire and Rescue

Although it doesn’t appear in the earliest photos of the building, at some point the two main bays had lettering placed above them reading “Engine Companies No. 1 and 2” and “Hook and Ladder/Rescue Car.” The signs are returning in time for the fire hall’s centennial.

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Nelson had a somewhat mysterious second fire hall which opened in 1899 on Observatory Street between Ward and Josephine to complement the first hall at the corner of Josephine and Victoria and provide faster response to Uphill. The hall seems to have been rebuilt and expanded in 1908 but what became of it after the present hall opened five years later is unknown.

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The completion of the present fire hall coincided with the installation of a new electric alarm system. Thirty-five boxes were scattered throughout town. Tripping the switch notified the fire hall, and a gong relayed the call’s location through simple code.

For instance, two bells, a pause, and three more bells meant box 23.

To combat false alarms,

Remember the lime green fire trucks of the 1980s? Nelson wasn’t the only place that had them. They were purchased in the name of improving safety, since red trucks were hard to see at night.

Unfortunately, many people didn’t know what to make of them and mistook them for utility vehicles.

While nighttime accidents decreased, daytime accidents increased. Nelson and many other departments

Although it doesn’t appear in the earliest photos of the building, at some point the two main bays had lettering placed above them reading “Engine Companies No. 1 and 2” and “Hook and Ladder/ Chief ’s Car.” The latter later read “Rescue Car No. 3.”

Another current project will see the lettering returned as well as the fire hall’s date of construction placed above the main door.

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In time for the fire hall’s centennial, firefighters are restoring one of its brass poles, of which there were originally two and later three.

First to go was the one near the back of the hall where the horses were stabled, which was removed to allow for a new interior staircase. The one next to the alarm room was taken out when an exhaust system for the trucks was installed.

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Editorial

Capturing teen wisdom

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n a special B-section of today’s Star we have put together a focus on education in the Nelson area. It’s an annual section that features cute advertisements produced by elementary students and other educationrelated material.

In the previous two years we focussed on a more visual theme, amassing a volume of artwork produced at schools from all different grades. Though it’s always great to look at the impressive artwork, this year we switched gears a bit.

In more than half of the 16 pages you will find essays written by Trafalgar Middle School students. Principal Carol-Ann Leidloff posed the following question to her Grade 8 English class: Does social media create a more isolated society?

If you take the time to read through all of them, you’re sure to be impressed by the thoughtful approach of these young teens.

Adults have a hard time comprehending the trends of youth. From Elvis to the Summer of Love to Atari 2600, it’s much easier to dismiss than to discuss. Gaining a perspective from thoughtful teenagers can open up a whole new level of understanding.

Not surprisingly, the majority of the essays debunk the idea of isolation at the hands of social media. It’s a given that the demographic most plugged into the modern world are mostly staunch defenders of it. But these are not shallow plugs for protecting what they enjoy. These students have taken a thoughtful approach to the subject and after reading all of the essays it will be difficult not to surrender at least some ground in the debate.

We hope you enjoy the entire B-section as much as we did. Though we should celebrate education, educators and student success every day, once in a while it’s important to highlight what’s going on in classrooms.

Thanks to the Trafalgar Grade 8s for opening up the discussion and helping bring a fresh voice to an important issue.

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Uncommon Knowledge — Greg Nesteroff

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Digging up more details

atching up on some corrections and clarifications: Some further digging in the archives produced more details about Kenneth Campbell, who stepped aside so Premier John Oliver could run for office in Nelson in 1924, as detailed in this space Friday (“Nelson gets a shot at electing a premier”).

The fire hall’s construction was probably hastened by the fire bug of 1911-12.

Campbell was born around 1881 at Galterigill, Duirnish, Isle of Skye. He did business in Glasgow for five years, went to New Zealand and Australia for five years, and returned to Scotland to marry.

He arrived in Nelson in 1910, ran a hotel in Sandon for three years, and then came back to Nelson to buy out the Kootenay Monumental Co. with fellow Scotsman A.G. Ritchie.

Campbell lived in Fairview with his wife and four children. He was a founder of the Kootenay Kiltie pipe band, belonged to the board of trade, served as a school trustee, and in 1922 topped the polls for city council. Soon afterward he defeated several others for the Liberal nomination in the Nelson riding.

I wrongly stated Charles F. McHardy was Nelson’s former mayor when he ran against Campbell in that by-election. In fact, he was the sitting mayor — and therefore the vote pitted

council colleagues against each other.

I still don’t know what became of Campbell after 1927.

FIRE SALE: In another story Friday (“Horses, hoses, and history”) I wrote the Nelson fire hall came in under budget and slightly behind schedule. But it was more like slightly over budget and well behind schedule.

According to the Nelson Daily News of August 27, 1912, while the contract was awarded to John Burns and Son for $17,973 the overall cost was closer to $21,000 when factoring in $1,100 to acquire the property and $1,700 for a new alarm system. Council originally budgeted $20,000 for the project, which was expected to be finished around the end of November, but took until May due to boiler problems.

I also neglected to point out that the fire hall’s construction was probably hastened by the fire bug of 1911-12, about which more will appear in a subsequent story.

CAPITOL MEMORIES: Mitzi Hufty phoned to say that while the Capitol Theatre ceased to be a regular moviehouse as of 1947, it did continue to show movies whenever the Civic hosted a live show.

Hufty, who worked at the Civic from about 1948 to 1953, recalled on those occasions they packed up the concession and moved over to the Capitol. In those days Cecil Hughes managed both theatres.

“I remember we used to

Kenneth Campbell as depicted in the Nelson Daily News of March 23, 1922 upon being elected Nelson MLA.

be very excited about it,” Hufty says. “It didn’t happen that often.”

Indeed, I found an ad in the Daily News of September 28, 1951 for Fort Worth at the Capitol, starring Randolph Scott.

Hufty says in those days, a decade before it was all but abandoned, the Capitol was “gorgeous ...

The [Ward Street] entrance was something. It had a glass ticket booth. You went through beautiful old velvet curtains into the theatre.”

I erred in saying the Capitol screened the Lon

Chaney film Mr. Wu a few days before its grand opening in 1927 (“Ten things you [probably] didn’t know about the Capitol Theatre,” May 8).

A closer inspection of the ad on which I based that statement shows the film actually appeared at the Starland Theatre on Baker Street, which was also part of the Capitol circuit and closed upon the new theatre’s opening.

Greg Nesteroff is a reporter at the Nelson Star. He can be reached at reporter2@nelsonstar.com

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Headline was insensitive

Regarding the sensationalist headline “Man wanted for harassment gets naked during police chase,” May 24 and the Facebook page manager posting that stated: “this would have been quite the sight.” I would like to provide background.

My son has bipolar disorder and had been under a lot of stress leading to poor and disrupted sleep. He recognizes this as the first trigger of hypomania, but was caught in a Catch 22 situation. The emergency room doctor would not admit him as he presented too well and it would be too unethical, and the psychiatrist at the Daly Pavilion in Trail would not

take him as a voluntary patient as he might leave against medical advice. So he was given a prescription for seda-

So much for preventative medicine or being proactive in one’s own health. tives and antipsychotics and sent away. This was on Friday, May 17. Unfortunately his state escalated to full-blown mania which culminated in the apprehension in such a dramatic and embarrassingly undignified way on Monday night.

So much for preventative medicine or being proactive in one’s own health. This situation equals going to emergency with a gash on the arm and told to come back for treatment when it becomes infected. Waiting until a health concern worsens is so very costly — in this case emotionally and monetarily to our health care system, police resources, legal system and so on.

May 6 to 12 was Mental Health Awareness Week.

Please educate yourselves.

Start conversations about this amongst your circles of family and friends.

Mary Anderson Nelson

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The headline for the letter in your March 27 edition, “Capitalism ‘delivers death’”, was wrong-headed and foolish. Take a look at our latest, glorious socialist state Venezuela. Venezuela is oil-rich, with the world’s largest oil reserves, and they send oil tankers loaded with oil to Canada’s east coast. The socialist government nationalized the industry (took it away from the greedy capitalists to run it themselves), along with many others businesses. The socialist government has achieved an inflation rate of over 20 per cent, food shortages, and a murder rate of about 20,000 murders per year. In the capitalist Harper state of Canada there are about 600 murders a year.

Some say it is safer to visit Iraq or Afghanistan than to visit Venezuela.

I have joked for years that the socialist New Democratic Party (NDP) could not run a coffee shop, yet they aspire to run the province and the country. Now there is proof that I am right. The Windsor Regional Hospital in Ontario contained a Tim Horton’s coffee shop. In their wisdom, the officials and unions decided to take it

over and run it themselves, expecting to collect a profit of about $250,000 per year for the hospital. The shop was union run. Instead of making a profit for the hospital they lost about $250,000 a year.

The same thing happened at the Newfoundland Health Science Centre, where they lost another $250,000 or so.

Many unions and socialists have been on a campaign to “Stop Harper.” Ever since I first heard of Stephen Harper his primary theme is to be fiscally prudent and try to balance budgets.

There are stories of financial hardships all over North America and Europe. Wise people are saying that there are so many entitlements, such as pension liabilities, that the economy is unsustainable. Socialists and unions say this is nonsense, and that basically the taxpayers should keep paying big pensions to workers in spite

of there being no funding available. Greece is an example.

Some people even advocate that governments should simply print more money.

That leads to inflation, as has happened in Venezuela and Zimbabwe, and Venezuela has recently devalued its currency for the fifth time in ten years.

Strangely, Canada’s largest provincial labour federation, the Ontario Federation of Labour, is in serious financial difficulties, due primarily to unfunded pension liabilities.

The union-controlled town of Stockton in California is the largest town so far to declare bankruptcy, due largely to unfunded pension liabilities.

Many unions and socialists have been on a campaign for some time to “Stop Harper.”

Ever since I first heard of Stephen Harper, his primary theme is to be fiscally prudent and try to balance budgets.

The NDP is a party that could not run a coffee shop and wants to stop Harper, which is an admission that the NDP is openly opposed to fiscal responsibility.

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Capacity to go through cement I recently learned that Telus is in the process of installing new microwavetransmitting cell towers throughout the West Kootenay, including where I live near Ymir. With current scientific research showing without doubt that there are potential health risks to humans, animals and other life forms from microwave radiation emitted from these towers, it is astonishing that Telus would even consider such expansion (bioinitiative. org).

Telus would have us believe that these new towers are necessary so that cell phone coverage can include more areas. This is not true; if it were then transmitters in the 1G or 2G range would suffice. Telus is preparing to install the new 4G transmitters that will send the radiation over several kilometres and the new signal will have the capacity to go through cement and other materials — it is all about selling their products to an unsuspecting

clientele. Devastation to local wildlife including pollinators could follow soon after the erection of powerful microwave transmitters in the 4G range. (citizensforsafetechnology.org/wildlife-and-environment).

There are two important issues to Telus’ proliferation of microwave transmitters in our area. One is the potential health risks to humans and the natural environment. Science has shown that it cannot be ruled out that the decline in bees and other pollinators is a direct result of the electromagnetic radiation beaconed from all microwave towers.

The second issue is with political control. Perhaps it is time that the citizens of the West Kootenays get a say in just how much radiation we want to be exposed to. Since the onslaught of wireless technology, citizens have been kept out of the discussion and in the dark as to the potential health risks from this radiation. Local

politicians who do support a pre-cautionary principle have been overruled by Telus and other multi-national corporations. In the meantime we have seen a constant decline in our natural environment and a dramatic increase in certain cancers and chronic diseases. With all the independently funded scientific studies showing potential harm from microwave radiation, we cannot rule out that the signals that now surround us on a daily basis from cellular towers are a potential health risk.

There are alternatives to cell towers. Fiber optic broadband technology is a viable and healthier alternative. We can still make technological progress without compromising our health and the health of vital elements of our environment — humanity, plants, animals, pollinating insects like the honeybee and the fabric of life itself are at stake.

Josh Currie Ymir

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Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit Report Released

Gang connection exists in Nelson BOB HALL Nelson Star Editor

It may seem like a problem that only exists on the television news with a backdrop of the Lower Mainland, but gang activity impacts the Kootenays.

Earlier this month the province’s anti-gang police unit — the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) — issued its first ever Community Report.

And though Nelson doesn’t find itself directly in the mix, the Nelson Police Department says gang problems are not only a big city issue.

“We certainly support their initiative of going out and targeting the gangs,” says Nelson Police Department Inspector Paul Burkart.

“Obviously it’s a little more of a concern in the Lower Mainland with more people,

more traffic and the ports.

But it would be naive for us to think for a second that the dope that is grown around here is not ending up in the hands of gangs elsewhere.”

CFSEU is the integrated team of 400 officers and civilians from 14 different agencies, including RCMP and municipal police forces, that disrupt and suppress organized crime around the province.

Their investigations have cracked big cases, such as the discovery of an audacious cross-border drug-smuggling tunnel in Aldergrove and the unraveling of a massive international moneylaundering ring.

The CFSEU is now out to capture a bigger public profile with the publication of its first-ever Community Report. The report can be read online at bc-anti-gang.com.

The Nelson Police Department is not intimately involved in CFSEU, but the local force works with the unit through information sharing.

“The people supplying the cocaine here will have gang associations. They are getting their dope from gangs.”

Paul Burkart

NPD Inspector

“These grows that we are kicking in that are between 200 and 400 plants, these people that are growing this dope are not going out and selling it in quarter-ounce baggies to their friends,” says Burkart. “This is big business

and these people are selling to larger groups that are often gang related.

“The people supplying the cocaine here will have gang associations. They are getting their dope from gangs. Growers may be selling their dope to gangs and the gangs in return are selling their product here. They control the flow and people get roughed up in the Kootenays.”

Burkart says the Nelson Police Department fully supports the work being done

by CFSEU. “The longer these agencies are around, the better systems we will have in place to deal with the threat to our region,” he says. “People would be naïve to think that there is no connection here.”

For more on the CFSEU, check out their website at cfseu.bc.ca.

Opponents expected a change in government in Victoria Continued from Page 1 from happening.”

The EcoSociety’s aim is to challenge the appointment of a governing body without any electors saying it violates the constitution and various provincial statutes. Though building can now go ahead, Reid doubts anything will get done this summer because the application didn’t have a proponent, he said.

“It wasn’t that there was someone out there saying ‘I’ve got a $100 million I want to build a backcountry lodge on Farnham Glacier, can I get some zoning for that please,’” said Reid. “It was someone on city council who said ‘why don’t we get this thing started and open the door in case someone

comes along.’”

Reid is confident in the strength of their case and if the courts overturn the municipality, the zoning would be meaningless. The province has gotten two extensions from the court to delay response to the lawsuit.

A response is expected by the end of May. “A lot of people expected a change in government to answer the Jumbo question,” said Reid. “Now, it’s even more important that community members get involved in the campaign to keep Jumbo wild. It doesn’t change our determination.”

Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall promised to fight for a wild Jumbo as she campaigned for re-elec-

tion. She says the governing body overseeing the resort doesn’t have to worry about accountability because they

“Now, it’s even more important that community members get involved in the campaign to keep Jumbo wild.”

David Reid won’t be seeking public reelection. Moving forward with development is their only mandate, she said.

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Mungall is working to continue organized opposition alongside Norm Macdonald from Columbia River-Revelstoke as the two NDP MLAs serving the public in affected ridings.

“Norm and I are working with community groups as to what the next steps will be,” she said.

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Community Organizations Join the Grade 12 EOS youth on Wednesday, May 29 at 7 p.m., for a presentation on their recent trip to Guatemala where they participated in a “voluntourism” project that provides homes for orphaned children, in partnership with Project Somos. The presentation will take place at the SelfDesign High (402 Victoria Street).

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Spark! is a free after school arts group for girls ages 12 to 16 every Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Nelson and District Youth Centre. This week we’re making feather earrings, and next week, dream catchers. Snacks are provided. Facilitated by Ursula Twiss.

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.

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: 250-352-5739.

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

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The Earth Matters Upcyclers meet Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Nelson and District Youth Centre. Youth 13 to 30 are invited to stop in and learn how to turn trash into treasure, or take part in group discussions about waste reduction, meet other youth and enjoy a snack.

Nelson Knitting Co-op meets every Thursday from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the Nelson and District Community Complex. The meeting is open to anyone interested in sharing their projects, learning new techniques and socializing with other fibre enthusiasts.

The Kootenay Co-op grocery store is hosting a rally to protest the Canadian Food Inspection Agency changing the definition of “local” food.

Gather at the Co-op on Saturday, June 1 at 1 p.m. to express your support for “true local” and sign a petition to be delivered to the CFIA. The Peoples Drug Mart Walk for ALS in the West Kootenay will be kicking off at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 2 at Lakeside Rotary Park in Nelson.

Experience a telescopic view of the night sky, or see the sun through our filtered telescopes with the Starry Night Astronomy program, which meets June 7 and 14 and Solar Sundays (June 2 and 16), noon to 2 p.m., at Taghum Hall, weather permitting. Contact Wayne at 250-354-1586 for more information.

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The 14th annual Slocan Valley Art and Garden Tour is on Sunday, June 16. The tour includes five new gardens and four past favourites to explore between Slocan Park and the Village of Slocan. Tour brochures are available at local garden centres and on community bulletin boards. An online version is available at slocanvalleyarts. ca. For more information contact Ruth Porter at 250226-7349.

La Leche League Nelson (breastfeeding information and support) meets the third Monday of each month (June 17) at the Family Place, 312 Silica Street at 1 p.m. Come on out and meet other moms and babies, share your stories, help and be helped.

Snack, lending library and childcare. Expectant moms are especially encouraged to attend.

Fundraisers Gigantic Charity Yard Sale by local TELUS West Kootenay Ambassadors is on Saturday, June 1 at Wholesale Club Parking Lot (402 Lakeside Drive) starting at 10 a.m. All proceeds to support Friends of the Family.

Papa Thom, a musician who travels Canada raising awareness of homelessness and poverty, will give a benefit concert for St. Saviour’s Food Pantry on Saturday, June 8 at 7 p.m. at St. Saviour’s Pro-Cathedral, 701 Ward Street (at Silica). Admission by donation, and nonperishable food items welcome. Info 250-3529871.

Ongoing bottle drive in support of BEAKS Wild Bird Rehabilitation. Bottles/cans

can be dropped off at The Nelson Animal Hospital on Ymir Road.

Workshops 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 info.

MP Alex Atamanenko will host an informal panel and round table discussion entitled, “Pipelines, Tankers and Energy Policy” on Saturday, June 1 at Nelson United Church from 7 to 9 p.m. featuring NDP energy critic Peter Julian and special guests.

Local physicist Morgan Dehnel is giving a presentation on the Higgs Particle on Wednesday, June 5 at Expressions (554 Ward Street) at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5.

Announcements Calling L.V. Rogers grads of 1982, 1983 and 1984. A 30-year reunion is being planned. Email anne@anniesboutique.ca for details.

Only a few spots left to take the watercolour workshop with well-known artist Harold Allanson September 21 and 22 in Nelson. Harold is a highly recommended workshop instructor from the Federation of Canadian Artists. He likes to paint all kinds of things — boats, people, cityscape’s, ranch life, reflections, birds, and the work-a-day world. To register or for more information email sandeo@telus.net or call 250-352-7230.

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Theatre

The Real Ponchos bring their deep, soulful and honest groove music to the Cedar Creek Cafe in Winlaw (5709 Highway 6) on Monday, June 17. The show starts around 6:30 p.m. and will be held outside, weather permitting. Admission by donation.

A local production of the musical Cabaret, directed by Pat Henman and featuring a slate of local actors including Michael Graham, Lisel Forst, Michael Calladine and Sydney Black, opens at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday, May 30 and continues Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1 at 8 p.m. nightly. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee on June 1 and a late night show on May 31 at 11 p.m. Tickets are $22 for adults or $17 for students, available at the Capitol Theatre box office.

Homelinks presents the musical Tuishi Pamoja, directed by Allison Girvan and Miriam Mason Martineau, on Thursday, June 13 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in the South Nelson School gymnasium. The show, put on by homeschoolers ages six to 14, follows a young giraffe, Raffi, and young zebra, Zea, who want to be friends despite warnings from their parents.

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Fliks is screening Still Mine on Wednesday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. Based on true events, Still Mine is a heartfelt love story about Craig, an 89-year-old New Brunswicker. Tickets are $10 for adults or $5 for youth under 18, available at the door or in advance at Otter Books.

Visual Arts

TeenScene at the Nelson Public Library is featuring Grade 9 art from L.V. Rogers secondary school. Come in and enjoy the great work of Impressionist landscape pastels on display until June 14.

Birds and Blooms art show featuring paintings by Sue Parr is on display at Cottons Clothing Company, (390 Baker Street) until June 29.

Nathan Grey, a former Nelsonite now living in Vancouver, will have his abstract paintings on display at the Craft Connection/Gallery 378 until the end of June. An opening reception for the show will be held on June 7 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Talks

Alanna Mitchell, author of Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, will give a talk at the Nelson United Church (602 Silica Street) at 7 p.m. on June 13 about moving from environmental despair to imagining a new world. A donation of $10 is suggested, with youth and students free.

Clinton Swanson and Friends play Spiritbar on June 20, along with Bessie and the Back Eddies and Hornography.

Ticket information at the Hume Hotel.

Edmonton heavy metal band Striker plays Spiritbar this Thursday.

Music

Electric Wednesday open stage at Spiritbar on Wednesday, May 29. Take your turn in the spotlight, or enjoy the music of those who do, at one of the Kootenay’s best open stages. Talk to Estevan to sign up for a timeslot during the night.

Edmonton heavy metal band Striker plays Spiritbar on May 30 with Nelson’s Savage Blade. Doors opens at 10 p.m.

Ticket are $10.

Laura and Paul Landsberg bring their jazz music to the Ravencourt Bed and Breakfast (4615 Upper Passmore Road) on Friday, May 31. Admission by donation.

For info phone 250-226-7801.

UK drum ‘n’ bass duo Tantrum Desire will be at Spiritbar with Deeps, Dirty Tactix vs. L-Nix on Friday, May 31. Doors open at 10 p.m. Ticket info at the Hume Hotel.

Vancouver's Orpheus Male Chorus will join the Nelson Barbershop Chorus for an evening of vocal music, Saturday, June 1, 7 p.m. at Bethel Christian Church.

Tickets are $20 for adults or $18 seniors and students, and are available at Kootenai Moon Furniture and the Music Store. For more info, call 250-352-6892.

Spiritbar proudly welcomes Berlin house master Lars Moston for a summertime throwdown on Saturday, June 1.

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

Canadian singer-songwriter Lynn Jackson is at the Cedar Creek Cafe in Winlaw (5709 Highway 6) on Thursday, June 6. The show starts around 6:30 p.m. and will be held outside, weather permitting. Admission by donation.

The funk rock trio Jan Van Gold Band play Sleep is for Sissies in Winlaw on June 7. For info call 250-226-7663.

The North Carolina-based EDM duo Clicks & Whistles is at Spiritbar on Friday, June 7. Ticket info at the Hume Hotel.

Lowry Olafson plays a family-friendly house concert on Saturday, June 8 at 7 p.m. Come hear, up close and personal, a fine musician whose lyrics and tunes are delightful to hear. Advance ticket purchase required. Adults $15; kids $8.

Contact 250-352-9547 or email p.nina@ shaw.ca for location and to purchase your tickets.

The Cave Singers play Spiritbar on Saturday, June 8. Doors open at 9 p.m.

Tickets are $18, available at the Hume Hotel front desk, and online through ticketweb.ca by searching “Hume Hotel.”

Factories and Alleyways bring their lush three-part harmonies to the Cedar Creek Cafe in Winlaw (5709 Highway 6) on Thursday, June 13. The show starts around 6:30 p.m. and will be held outside, weather permitting. Admission by donation.

Tofu Stravinsky plays Spiritbar on Friday, June 14 with Chinese for Travelers. Tickets are $10.

Amy Ferguson Institute fundraiser on Saturday, June 15 at 7 p.m. at the Nelson United Church (602 Silica Street), featuring performances by local vocalists and musicians including Audrey Bisset, Allison Girvan, Bob Hargrieves and many more. Tax receipts will be provided for donations over $20.

Electro Swing Club returns to Spiritbar on June 15 with their unique and original musical time travelling experience. Doors open at 10 p.m. Tickets are $15 or $10 if you dress in swing attire.

The Tiny Lights Festival brings music, art, dance and spoken word to five historic venues in Ymir on June 15 and 16. This year’s lineup includes Vancouver’s Miami Device, a nine piece Afro-beat/funk band, and violin wizard Jaron FreemanFox with his super group The Opposite of Everything. Weekend passes are $75 for adults and $45 for youth. See the full schedule of events and purchase tickets online at tinylightsfestival.com.

On Thursday, June 20 drop by the Cedar Creek Cafe (5709 Highway 6 in Winlaw) for Buckman Coe, who delivers a worldbeat concoction of sun-sweetened folk, down-home Americana and souldrenched roots. The show starts around 6:30 p.m. and will be held outside, weather permitting. Admission by donation.

Vinyl Richie and DJ Hoola Hoop are at Spiritbar on Friday, June 21. Ticket info at the Hume Hotel.

Ziggy Marley, son of reggae legend Bob Marley, plays the Capitol Theatre on Friday, June 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets are sold out.

Saskatchewan legends The Deep Dark Woods are at Spiritbar on Saturday, June 22 with folk rockers Frontier Ruckus.

Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the Hume Hotel front desk or online at ticketweb.ca by searching “Hume Hotel.”

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Markets

Cottonwood Market is held every Saturday at Cottonwood Falls Park featuring live music, regional produce, eggs, great savory and sweet foods, and a variety of unique products.

Winlaw Sunday Market is every Sunday at Sleep Is For Sissies from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring local produce, artisans, hand made goods and games for kids.

The Nelson Downtown local market opens Wednesday, June 12 and continues weekly throughout the summer. You will find locally made art, clothing, food and more.

The first Marketfest of the season is set for Friday, June 28 from 6 to 11 p.m. Three blocks of Baker Street will be transformed into a street market featuring about 100 vendors. There will also be live music and performers on two stages.

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Dancing Myself is Rabi’a’s self-portrait, made from an incorporation of her passion for metalwork with mosaics.

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“So of course,” she laughs, “I did.”

The 10-foothigh sculpture is a feast of colour and form.

Oversized Rabi’a metal hands and feet flail, bangles festooning the arms, while the mosaic pants encircle a tiny waisted, shirted torso splashed with bits of ceramic and glass. Thanks to the intricate mosaic work the piece is abstract and incredibly detailed at the same time, capturing the joy and sensuality of rhythm and movement nicely.

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Location: Sidewinders amenity area Artist’s Bio: • Owner/operator of BronzeAge Art Casting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

• Graduated from Augustana College in Sioux Falls with a combined degree in art and anthropology.

• Learned the art of mold making and casting working with Minnesota sculptor Paul Granlund, as an assistant. Haugen operated the foundry for two years after Rick Haugen Granlund’s death before returning to Sioux Falls and opening BronzeAge. • Occasionally manages to create some artwork of his own while assisting with sculpture repair, restoration and installation, in addition to transforming clay and other mediums to beautiful bronze.

About The Sculpture: The serene and introspective

Location: Touchstones Ward Street Artist’s Bio: • One of eight children born in Holland.

• Has lived around the world before settling in the Slocan Valley.

• Cultivates extensive gardens, operates her bed and breakfast (the Artful Lodger, in a literary nod to Dickens) and creates her highly original art pieces, which dot her acreage.

• “Kitchen sinks, farm implements, stones and found metal are just some of the materials I’ve done mosaics on,” she says, “and they are all uniquely beautiful in my opinion.”

• Always eager to enhance her artistic passions, Rabi’a’s new-found love of mosaics took her to Barcelona to study the work of the one of the masters of the form, the late Anthony Gaudi.

About The Sculpture: Made of steel, glass and ceramic,

Location: Lakeside Park Artist’s Bio: • Began her art career in 1984, after schooling in Fine Arts, and working as an anatomical illustrator, graphic designer and art history researcher.

• Between 1984 and 1989, her work was seen and enjoyed by millions of people at top outdoor art events around the United States, commissioned and displayed across North America, Europe and Asia.

• Currently she confines the showing of her artwork primarily to galleries, plus occasional commercial events and print advertising.

• Scores of commissions, awards Story continues on Page 13

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Special Event Last Month

A perfect partnership in Balfour JONN Lavinnder Special to the Nelson Star

The Coffee, Bake and Art Show at the Balfour Community centre last month was a community partnership of two local organizations — St. Michael and All Angels Women’s Guild and local artists from the Balfour area.

This was a well-attended event and both artists and women’s guild benefited by it as a joint enterprise.

The ladies of the women’s guild provided coffee and cakes and sold baked goods as well as plants and seedlings.

There were door prizes and a raffle for a painting donated by Andrea Gardener.

“In the past we spent the winter on knitting and sewing projects, but many of the ladies are unable to do that anymore,” said Micahel Lavinnder, who is a member of the women’s guild.

Marilyn Stacey, who is a member of both groups, came up with the idea of joining with the local artists to help pick up the slack.

Eric and Aline Winje of Slocan are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Anitra Minette to Greg, son of Mary Nesteroff of Nelson and John Nesteroff of Castlegar. The wedding took place at the Brilliant Cultural Centre May 19, 2013.

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Coffee, Bake and Art Show at the Balfour Community centre on April 20.

“The group that helped out with the art show are members of my painting classes that I have been teaching in my studio in Balfour for the last two years,” said Gardener. “Having experienced the

Continued from Page 12 and prizes accorded her work have contributed to her growing reputation, and have stamped her as one of the premier designers of human figures in the US. About The Sculpture: There! will be placed in Lakeside Park by the soccer fields, pointing at the Osprey sculpture by Denis Kleine in the small bay nearby.

The sculpture was purchased by Dr. Ken Muth Susan Geissler for the Nelson Rotary Club which is donating it to the City.

The sculpture was created on account of the artist’s interests in the history of the underground railroad, which served as a basis for several sculptures depicting the heroic abolitionists and affected slaves involved.

There! is the latest addition to her series, expanding on one of the figures in her “Freedom Crossing” monument, which was installed at Lewiston, New York in late 2009. There! is a powerful work made more so because of the significant historical circumstances behind it.

value of being able to show my own work to the public, I am open to all possibilities of developing opportunities for my students to show their work.”

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by Carl Schlichting of Winlaw

Location: Railtown/Cottonwood historic bridge Artist’s Bio: • Grew up on the Western Canadian prairies.

• Never envisioned living in the mountains of the West Kootenay. “But I was always taken by my surroundings when I was growing up,” he says, “the endless stretch of the land and the enormity of the prairie sky were influential, certainly. But so was having a bunch of talented siblings.

They really inspired me to pursue my artistic side.”

• Studied fine art at Vancouver City College (now Langara) after leaving

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lowed opportunity for outsiders to the church community to participate in this event where they might not have before,” she added.

The plan is to repeat this cooperative event in the fall.

the prairies, then acquired additional understanding and comprehension through travel and study over 25 years in his career as a museum curator and gallery owner • Accomplished, award-winning ice and snow sculptor.

About The Sculpture: QR’s innovative look and feel has little in common with vast panoramas, instead emphasizing the inventiveness and dexterity Schlichting possesses in a variety of mediums.

Taking a Carl Schlichting 12-foot length of discarded pipe, Schlichting has mounted it on a circular base to provide contrast, then cut out abstract, puzzle-like pieces mirrored in clear glass that protrude at strategic points in the vertical length. The top of the sculpture ruptures in an explosion of raggedly wild concentric forms similar to the cutouts that provide depth perception along the vertical stem.

There is lovely counterbalance displayed through Schlichting’s careful, deliberate inclusion of the mirrored glass, and an abundance of cohesion in the various contrasts of the piece.

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Community Literacy Award NOMINATION FORM Name of Individual(s), Service Group or Business:____________ _______________________________________________ Nominee(s) Contact Information: Address:_________________________________________ Phone Number:____________________________________ Email Address:_____________________________________ Brief summary of why you are nominating this individual(s), group or business:__________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Nominated by:____________________________________ Phone Number:___________________________________ Email:__________________________________________ Deadline for nominations isJune June9,30, 2011. Nominations may be 2013. submitted by: email to jexley@cbal.org drop of at The Learning Place or the Public NelsonLibrary Public Library Nomination forms available: At the Learning Place, in the Nelson Star, at the Nelson Public Library, in locations around town For more information please call Joan at 250-352-3218

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Above and Beyond Marcello Piro (left) accepts the Italian Society Man of The Year award from society president Vince DeVito (right). This award is given to a member who goes above and beyond the normal course of duty on behalf of the society.

Pipeline discussion goes Saturday NELSON — Peter Julian, the federal NDP critic for Energy and Natural Resources, will be the featured guest at an informal round table in Nelson hosted by Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko and the West Kootenay EcoSociety.

At the end of May the BC government will present its final official position on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline to the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel (JRP). Premier Christy Clark has outlined five conditions that must be met if the project is to receive provincial government support, including “appropriate safety measures,” but the Harper government’s Bill C38 abbreviates the environmental review pro-

cess and appears to give them the authority to override decisions made by Canada’s energy authority.

The public is invited to participate in the discussion of the proposed Enbridge pipeline, the impact of tanker traffic along the BC coast and Canada’s energy policy.

Joining Peter and Alex are David Reid of the EcoSociety, Keith Wiley of the Kootenays for aTanker Free BC, Wayne McCrory from the Vahalla Wilderness Society, and Nadine Podmoroff representing the Nelson Council of Canadians.

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The 26Th annual BC ChilDren’s hOsPiTal’s MiraCle WeekenD

BC Children’s Hospital helps kids get care closer to home Brooke Malakoff has made countless trips to BC Children’s Hospital since she was diagnosed with cancer in 2011. The 18-yearold Fernie resident has nothing but praise for the hospital and the doctors and nurses who have cared for her, but she’s always happy when she doesn’t have to travel any further than Cranbrook for care.

“They have a little oncology unit in Cranbrook,” she says. “I go there once a month for about three days now. It’s much more spiritually uplifting to be at home, and it’s nice to be closer to my friends and family.

Just being able to sleep in your own bed makes all the difference in the world.”

Fortunately, caregivers at BC Children’s Hospital know it is easier on children and their families when they can receive care closer to home. With this in mind, the hospital supported the creation of Child Health BC, an initiative aimed at ensuring all BC children have access to a consistent standard of specialized care, ideally close to home.

“It’s always good news to me when a young person is able to receive specialized care close to home,” says Dr. Maureen O’Donnell, executive director of Child Health BC. “That is exactly what we’re looking for.”

In the near future, children and youth in the Kootenay will benefit from an even closer link. Equipment

purchased by Child Health BC is being installed at the Kootenay Child Development Centre that will allow it to operate as a “telehealth” centre – a direct connection to BC Children’s Hospital via an audiovisual link.

Child Health BC’s activities took off after Overwaitea Food Group became the lead benefactor with a pledge of $20 million in support in 2007. TELUS and Scotiabank later made gifts of $5 million and $1 million, respectively. This support had an immediate impact, says O’Donnell. Pediatric clinics established with Child Health BC’s support in Nanaimo and Prince George have thousands of patient visits annually; additional travelling clinics are staffed by BC Children’s caregivers in communities across the province; and over 1,000 health professionals have participated in Child Health BC’s workshops.

O’Donnell credits Overwaitea Food Group’s donation with Child Health BC’s growing reach across the province, noting that it’s a perfect fit for an organization with a presence in so many BC communities. Overwaitea Food Group President Darrell Jones agrees.

“We’re committed to the health and wellness of kids and families in BC,” says Jones. “We’ve been

proud to support BC Children’s Hospital for more than two decades – and with the help of our communities, we’ve contributed millions of dollars toward hospital improvement projects, advocacy programs and important research initiatives. We’re grateful for the amazing support of our local communities, team members, customers and supplier partners who have all played a key role in making this fundraising success possible.”

Child Health BC is part of a larger transformation in the way BC’s children receive care, says Larry Gold, president of BC Children’s Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children. The transformation also includes the construction of a new BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.

“We want to ensure children have access to a consistent standard of care, whether they live in Smithers, Campbell River or Castlegar; and there will always be children who need care that’s only available in a children’s hospital,” says Gold.

BC Children’s Hospital Foundation has raised close to $170 million, including Overwaitea Food Group’s gift and $25 million from Teck Resources Limited, in its $200-million capital campaign to support construction of the new hospital and Child Health BC. Gold says that the new hospital, which will open in 2018, will be family-friendly, making it easier for families from outside the Lower Mainland to remain with their children.

Beyond the money being raised for the new hospital and Child Health BC, Gold says the hospital also counts on donations of about $14 million a year to support research, equipment purchases and training.

On June 1 and 2 BC Children’s Hospital Foundation will hold its annual Miracle Weekend celebration on Global BC, to raise the millions the hospital needs to cover its urgent annual needs.

“Every year people from across the province make donations in support of the hospital and it makes a huge difference,” says Gold. “Brooke Malakoff is proof of that.”

Brooke’s family has a direct connection to Child Health BC’s biggest supporter.

Brooke has worked at the Overwaitea in Fernie and her stepfather George Torresani manages the meat and deli department.

The store’s annual fundraising programs in support of BC Children’s have taken on special meaning, but Brooke and her family have always been keen to help their community.

“I volunteer as much as I can and anywhere I can,” she says. “Anything I can do to give back.”

In 2012, over 360 children from the Kootenays made over 900 visits to BC Children’s Hospital.

JUNE 1 & 2, 2013 On June 1 and 2, tune in to Miracle Weekend, broadcast live from BC Children’s Hospital, on Global BC from 7:00pm on Saturday, June 1 until 5:30pm on Sunday, June 2 The 26th annual BC Children’s Hospital’s Miracle Weekend is a two-day celebration that showcases the best of BC Children’s Hospital: patients, their families, caregivers and supporters who come from every corner of BC. BC Children’s Hospital receives over 200,000 visits from patients from across the province every year. Donations help the hospital deliver the best in care every day, and are helping to prepare for the future by supporting the construction of a new BC Children’s Hospital and better access to care for children in or close to their home communities.

Please support BC Children’s Hospital.

Donate at GiveSpace.ca or call 1-888-663-3033

At the Overwaitea Food Group, we’re very proud of our longstanding commitment to investing in the health of kids and their families. We’re grateful to everyone who supports us in this effort. Our team members, customers and suppliers have all played a key role in our fundraising success over the years.

We’ve been supporting BC Children’s Hospital for more than two decades, and we’ve raised millions of dollars in support of capital improvement projects, important research initiatives and advocacy programs designed to help keep our kids safe by reducing preventable injuries.

In 2007, we made a $20 million pledge to support Child Health BC, an initiative of BC Children’s Hospital that helps get kids in BC get the care they need, closer to home. Since then, we’ve raised more than $10.7 million toward our goal, and Child Health BC has been able to put this concept into action in a number of communities throughout BC. We are grateful for the amazing commitment and fund raising efforts driven by OFG team members who encourage the generosity of our customers and suppliers.

Darrell Jones, President OFG

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Community The Save-On-Foods BC Children’s Hospital Golf Tournament

Combining fun and community spirit KIRSTEN HILDEBRAND Nelson Star Reporter

Over 100 golfers of all skill levels united at Granite Pointe Sunday for a fun day of raising money for BC Children’s Hospital — the driving factor, a voracious volunteer spirit.

Save-On-Foods employee Joanne Phillips spent her Sunday morning greeting members of the 27 participating teams. Selling 50/50 tickets, mulligans and “gimme strings,” her morning was social and satisfying.

“I love helping out.

Look at all the people getting out in the sunshine.”

Joanne Phillips

Save-On Employee and Volunteer

“I love helping out,” she said. “Look at all the people getting out in the sunshine.”

Save-On-Foods has hosted the BC Children’s Hospital Charity Golf Tournament since 2005. General Manager Ron World says 100 per cent of the proceeds are donated and around $15,000 is raised through the fun event. About 30 extra golfers joined in this year and the tournament thrives on donations from 71 sponsors.

“There is great community involvement,” he said.

The 18-hole best-ball event featured Ebesse Zozo hot sauce tasting, Little Miss Gelato, drinks and hot dogs on offer — all by donation. Teams from businesses and organizations throughout the community made their rounds before sharing a meal together in the clubhouse.

For continued success of the tournament, World relies on his staff members who are always keen to help out by volunteering their time.

“People like to give back. They feel involved and good about helping kids,” he said. “It’s really nice they donate their time. This wouldn’t happen without them.”

Lindsay Britton is a Save-On employee who was a patient at BC Children’s Hospital. When she was seven-years-old, she had heart surgery. She is more than happy to be on board as a volunteer and seeing her employer benefit the hospital is heartening.

“It’s awesome,” she said. “It’s nice to see a big corporation giving back. It makes working there more personal.”

On Sunday, she and colleague Sharalin Gabriel spent the day on the 15th hole witnessing for a $10,000 prize hole-inone prize offered by Coca-Cola.

“Everyone is having such a good time,” said Gabriel. “Save-On does a lot. They never stop. There’s a lot of giving going on.”

LEFT — Volunteers Lindsay Britton (left) and Joanne Phillips (right) were into the spirit on Sunday. Both Save-On-Foods employees, Britton was actually a patient at the BC Children’s Hospital when she was seven. RIGHT — Save-On general manager Ron World (left) enjoying the afternoon of golf.

photos by Kirsten Hildebrand

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They are to receive their wings and sergeant stripes on their return to Macleod. The airmen marched up Baker Street and back on Stanley, to the Canadian Legion where they were welcomed by Mayor N.C. Stibbs who wished them a

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Co-Signer: A co-signer is basically a co-owner in that they are registered on title and are equally accountable for payments (although it is often the case they will not make any payments). The cosigner will be kept on title and on the mortgage until the primary applicant is able to qualify on their own.

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Guarantor: A guarantor personally guarantees payments if the original applicant defaults but they have no claim to the property as they are not on title. A guarantor is more often used when the primary applicants income qualifies but has damaged or non-existent credit. A guarantor needs to qualify for the entire mortgage so they need to be a stronger candidate than a co-signer whose income is used to subsidize the applicants.

This option is riskier for the guarantor because they have no control of the property but are responsible should the property go into arrears.

That being said it is much easier and cost effective to take the person off the mortgage and lenders are often willing to release a guarantor earlier provided the mortgage is in good standing after 12-24 months.

Before agreeing to act on behalf of an applicant, guarantors and co-signers need to evaluate the time commitment they are willing to make. Being a co-signer or a guarantor will limit their available credit in the future.

For all of your mortgage questions don’t hesitate to contact me anytime. I work for you not the banks!

Office (250) 229-5711 Cell (250) 505-5850 Fax (888) 628-2867 derek@derekdiener.com

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ver 9,000 bedding plants, soon to send their grace and beauty to the City of Nelson parks, cemetery and boulevard, are growing in the new City greenhouse at Lakeside Park.

Besides them are 550 geraniums, 24 hydrangeas, 18 coleus

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Dr. Michael Brennan

How do I prevent seasonal injury?

Dateline May 10, 1943

hearty welcome and a happy holiday. After registering their names the boys were introduced to their hosts and hostesses and complementary tickets to the Firemen’s Ball at the Civic Centre were distributed. The ticket provides for admission to the dance for both the airman and his partner.

and 36 begonias, dozens of edging geranium, chrysanthemums and so on. In the other small greenhouse are dahlias and Canna lilies, and small flats with tiny seedlings growing to the first transplanting stage. Gardener Frank Holt has struck 280 dahlia cuttings, and these are thriving. Every plant in the two greenhouses has its place in the City beautification plan. The plan is all down on paper, and has been drawn not only with the specific type of

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What about my eyelashes?

Everyone loves long eyelashes.

Our obsession with this seemingly insignificant facial feature has resulted in a thriving lash industry.

Each year, many women spend considerable amounts of money on their lashes: buying mascara, lash primers, getting eyelashes tinted and the latest trend — eyelash extensions.

Despite our fascination with eyelashes, most people know very little about them.

The most common eyelash misconception is that when an eyelash falls out, it does not grow back. Your eyelashes, like any other hair on your body, follow a growth cycle. They grow.

Then, at some point, they fall out and are replaced by another eyelash.

Your eyelashes have a very distinct growth cycle. They start with an active growth phase, which lasts between 30-45 days. Only about 40% of your upper lashes will be in 250-352-3280 Toll Free: 888-288-0813 www.relaxationredefined.com

this phase at the same time.

In the active phase, the lash will grow to a specific length and then stop growing. The next phase, when the hair stops growing, is called the transitional phase. It lasts about 2 weeks and is when the hair follicle shrinks.

After that, the lash moves into a resting phase, which can last more than 100 days.

It is during this time that the lash will fall out and a new lash will begin to grow. Each lash follows its own life-cycle to ensure you always have eyelashes.

Looking after your lashes is important. Just like you treat your hair and skin to keep it in top condition, it is also good to do the same for your eyelashes. Now that you are a lash expert, the next time you shed a lash or two, you will know not to panic, because more are on the way!

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Dateline May 12, 1943

pproximately 2,000 residents of Nelson and District enjoyed a rich musical experience Tuesday night when they heard the Royal Canadian Navy Band of Esquimalt, touring the Kootenays to help boost the Fourth Victory Loan campaign, in a concert at the Civic Centre.

From the concert, the crowd moved into the Civic Centre

Hall where the swing section of the Band played for a highly popular dance. Also at the concert, Lieut. W.H. Black, R.C.N.V.R., convoy veteran now convalescing from wounds, spoke to the crowd in part that “We hear so often those words: ‘From all these operations only one bomber failed to return.’ That’s fine. It’s all very happy. It’s a great victory. But have you ever stopped to think that in that plane eight men are lying dead? And that the lives of eight wives or sweethearts have been spoiled?

A larger fighter escort, more ammunition, might have saved

that plane. When we buy Victory Bonds we are saving the lives of men.”

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Dateline May 24, 1943

inal figures for the Fourth Victory Loan campaign in Nelson District show a total of $1,093,750 subscriptions – the greatest subscription of the war to date.

Nelson City itself contributed $601,300 exceeding its quota of $555,000.There were more individual subscriptions in the Fourth Loan than in any proceeding campaign. Nelson District has now subscribed a

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Wow, that’s a lot to put on a simple date!

How is anyone going to be able to meet that expectation?

Why not ask yourself “What do I bring to the table as a person?”

Are you happy with your life? Do you feel connected to your community? Do you have sports and hobbies that you participate in regularly? Do you contribute to those around you? Do you feel complete as a single person, or do you wish for a relationship to support you, fill your needs and desires and make you into the person you want to be?

Let’s face it, through movies, songs and books we have been conditioned to use relationships for the wrong reasons, to end loneliness, recover from a breakup, for security and a myriad of other reasons.

That is not what relationships are for. Relationships real purpose is to serve the mutual growth and soulful expression of each individual. Relationships are an important tool for self-discovery and co creation. If you can look at what you put into it rather than what you can get out of it then whole lives transform.

So let’s look at some things that should be released or changed prior to your next date.

Neediness is highly unattractive, if you believe you are incomplete and your date or partner will fix, mend, tend and fill that maw for you so that you feel better.

Stop now!

Incessant insecurity just feeds your ego illusion that you are less than. Why do you need to do that?

You are perfect in this moment in time as you are, whether you are overweight, underweight, looking for work – whatever.

Listen to the person you are with, don’t immediately judge them. Appreciate them as they are with no preconceived ideas or notions. So they didn’t pay your tab for a cuppa tea – so what. How was the conversation? How did you feel?

If you are hardened and bitter and still telling the stories you need to about your ex or how hard done by your life is. Stop now! This is repressed anger and victimhood. How about lightening up and becoming responsible for your day to day emotions?

Next time you head out on a date, have fun with it. Enjoy meeting a new person, enjoy having conversation and you know what if it is fun and you want to do it again, great. But please, please don’t anticipate that one person is going to solve all your angsts on a date.

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I often get asked what a Registered Massage Therapist is or what the difference is between a registered and unregistered therapist. So here is some

clarification.

A Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) is the professional designation for a person who has trained and completed competency-based education at educational institutions recognized by the Government of British Columbia, Ontario or Newfoundland in Canada. These therapists are governed by a College of Massage Therapy in their respective province and have completed registration examinations set by their college. The College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia (CMTBC) regulates the profession here.

RMT’s in BC have the highest training standards in North America and have studied the sciences of anatomy, physiology, pathology, neurology and physical assessment.

Only individuals who have completed the requisite training and have met the strict competency requirements of the College of Massage Therapists of BC, ON or NL can call themselves a “Massage Therapist” or a “Registered Massage Therapist” within these provinces. RMT’s must continue with postgraduate studies to remain registered and must also honor a strict code of ethics set by the CMTBC. Although Massage Therapy falls under the umbrella of the “health professions act of Canada” the rest of Canadian provinces have not yet regulated the profession of massage therapy. So there will be varied amounts of training from practitioner to practitioner.

If you visit an RMT outside of a regulated province be aware that the title may not suggest that the therapist has the same competencies as an RMT in BC, ON or NL. If you are unsure, simply inquire about the therapist’s training. He/she may indeed have quite extensive training and experience even though they are practicing in a non-regulated province.

An RMT treatment differs from another practitioner’s treatment in that an RMT is trained to deal with specific injuries, syndromes, conditions and ailments.

BC RMT’s are trained to evaluate individual health needs and provide complete patient care. Through the use of different techniques RMT’s act upon the muscular, skeletal, nervous and circulatory systems to improve patient health!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

For more information you can visit The College of Massage Therapists of BC online www.cmtbc.bc.ca or The Massage Therapists Association of BC, website www.massagetherapy.bc.ca

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total of $4,253,000 in Government War Bonds, including the First and Second War Loan and Four Victory Loans. (Ed note: $1.00 in 1943 converts to approximately $13.94 in 2013 money. Therefore the $601,300 contribution of Nelson would be a staggering $8,382,122 in today’s money. Source: Bank of Canada)

Dateline May 27, 1943

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“get ahead” of meat rationing.

From today forward they will have to buy on a ration basis, and the run was caused by those “trying to beat the gun.”

Most customers wanted smoked meats for their keeping qualities, but supplies of these lines were low and comparatively few were accommodated.

Meat buying has also been heavier during the past week, probably due to impending rationing.

St. Saviour’s Food Pantry Fundraiser

‘An empty stomach is an empty stomach’ keith thom Special to the Nelson Star

“Winter, spring, summer or fall… all you have to do is call and I’ll be there yes I will… you’ve got a friend.” These famous lyrics from a Carole King song ring true when it comes to hunger, homelessness and poverty. We seem to think that these issues are only a problem through the winter months and that’s just not true.

St. Savior’s Church in Nelson is that “friend” with their food pantry that operates out of their basement every Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. Like so many social programs, they require money to operate.

In the beautiful town of Nelson there are families where both parents are working, perhaps minimum wage jobs and after rent and utilities there is quite often not enough left over to feed their families. There are single parents that have been left the sole responsibility of raising their children. Then there are those that suffer from mental illness that on the surface appear to very capable of working but cannot. Also in Nelson there are students that have scrimped and saved enough to attend one of the colleges in town, but don’t have enough budget left to eat healthy food.

It is these people that prompted the fine folks at St. Savior’s Anglican Church to reach out and help those that need assistance and it is for those reasons that I will join with them.

I am a singer songwriter (Papa Thom), that for five years has driven from BC to Ontario and back through the winter months cooking up Shepherd’s Pie in homeless shelters and trying to raise awareness of the many complex issues related to homelessness and poverty.

I will be performing a Benefit Concert for St. Savior’s Food Pantry on Saturday, June 8 at 7 p.m. There will be no cover charge, but donations will be gratefully received. To listen to some of my music go to Papa Thom on Facebook or Twitter or papathom.com.

I once had a fellow tell me that he felt that 40 per cent of people that use soup kitchens or food banks are probably milking the system and don’t really need the services.

As he was much bigger than me I chose not to be rude in my reply so I said this; “If what you say is true that would mean that for every 10 people that say they need food, four of them are milking the system. I’m not prepared to ignore all 10 because four may be scoundrels. An empty stomach is an empty stomach no matter which way you look at it.”

I choose to fill that stomach and so does St. Savior’s.

See you on June 8 for the concert or you can drop in Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. when I will be speaking about Camp Owaissi Children’s Camp where I am the executive director.

For more information contact St Savior’s Anglican Church (710 Ward Street) at 250-352-5711.

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Tell us how your team is doing, email: newsroom@nelsonstar.com

Nelson shines at Walgren weekend

The annual Terry Walgren soccer tournament took to the Lakeside pitch over the weekend with teams coming from across the Kootenays to challenge the Nelson Selects. Game action included divisions from U11 to U18 in both girls and boys. Today the Nelson Star will feature some of the action and on Friday we will put a wrap on game action for individual teams

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Contact: Liz Simmons 250.352.1890 circulation@nelsonstar.com

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YOU ARE INVITED: BC HYDRO OPERATIONS UPDATE MEETING

TERRY WALGREN MEMORIAL

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Nelson Selects Rep Soccer Coordinators Lua Gerun & Shiloh Perkins would like to thank the following people and businesses for their support on our recent

When: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Location: Castlegar & District Community Complex - Purcell Room 2101 6th Avenue, Castlegar

Terry Walgren Memorial Tournament and Jamboree

BC Hydro will host an operations update meeting to provide information regarding: • BC Hydro Columbia operations including Arrow Lakes Reservoir • Local projects and initiatives • Other local BC Hydro activities Doors open at 5:45 p.m.

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For more information, please contact Mary Anne Coules at 250 365 4565.

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• Nelson Safeway for the unlimited amount of oranges, water and free lunch coupons • Safeway staff and families, Marc Hammerstrom, Ashley Deleeuw, Anna Chernenko • Karen Bennett, Kamala Melzack & the Nelson Star for the amazing new logo • B.C. Soccer • Mallards Source for Sports • Panago Pizza • Dairy Queen • Eric Galbraith for the concession, even on your holidays:) • Sveta Tisma for schedules and your organizing • Steve Cobbs for the refs

• Julien Cormier for keeping the fields looking great • All the referees and ARs • Peggy Aitken for the help with water bottles and great looking t-shirts • Brenda Nelson, for the long hours helping at the field all weekend • Bob Allan for the delivery of food • The U18 girls for the last minute team • All of the players - we only saw positive kids on and off the field. Way to represent Nelson!

• Our volunteer coaches and managers of the teams • All the parents and players who helped during set-up, takedown, concession and sales • And all those that took in the festivities and travelled to attend our tournament

Thanks for the support!

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Bridget Anne Corkery / Grace passed away at the age of 52 on Wednesday May 22, 2013 after an 11 month journey with melanoma. She spent her last moments in the presence of her husband Michael Grace and her father, Patrick Corkery.

Bridget spent her life in creative pursuits which most recently included working at Stryck Design as a woodworker as well an instructor at Kootenay School of Art and some time spent teaching in the Selkirk College Multi-media program. She was a founding member of the Oxygen art centre and her commitment to community involvement was endless which included volunteer work with The Rosemont school PAC, Destination Imagination, Nelson Minor hockey, Nelson Youth Soccer, Home links home school program, Oxygen Arts centre, LVR Boys Basketball and BC Festival of the Arts.

Among those creative pursuits was her garden. Bridget was not herself if she was not gardening or making art. In the winter it was cross country skiing that was her passion.

Bridget will be loved and remembered forever by her husband Michael Grace, sons Gavin, Adam and Neil, her brother John Corkery and her father Patrick Corkery. Bridget’s mother, Barbara Corkery, passed away in 2011. There are many extended family members and close friends who will miss her dearly.

Bridget was born to Barbara and Dr. Patrick Corkery on September 16, 1960 in Warrington, England. The family immigrated to Canada when Bridget was 5 years old. She grew up in Edmonton Alberta, where she stayed until graduating with a bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta.

She attended Florida state university, in Talahassee Florida, where she achieved her Master’s degree in Fine arts as well as a certificate in cabinetmaking as part of her sculpture training. She stayed in the United States for a few years moving to Philadelphia, where she worked as a woodworker and began building her art career, participating in artist run galleries, workshops and other art events.

Bridget moved to Toronto in the late 1980’s where she met Michael her husband. There they both pursued careers in art and design and set out to establish themselves as practicing artists and craftspeople. Bridget again worked as a woodworker/ furniture maker. She was an active member of open studio and a founding member of the Red Head gallery, an artist run co-operative gallery, which still exists today. She participated in many exhibitions with her print making, painting, sculpture and furniture making and fostered many strong relationships in that community that still exist today.

In 1990 Bridget and Michael moved to Port Rowan, Ont., two hours from Toronto, after their Toronto studios were slated for demolition. They found a rural property and converted a barn into a studio for furniture and art making. The property also allowed for a huge vibrant garden which was Bridget’s summer passion. Gavin and Adam, her eldest and middle sons, were born in Port Rowan.

There again she has left many friends from that community.

In 1995 Michael accepted a teaching position at Selkirk College in Nelson and the family moved to British Columbia. Neil, her youngest son, was born in Nelson. Bridget found a place in the art community here as well as being heavily involved in her children’s activities.

We love her very much and we are going to miss the spirit that gave our family joy.

A Funeral Mass was held on Monday, May 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM at the Cathedral of Mary Immaculate, 813 Ward Street, Nelson with Father Jim Ratcliffe presiding.

There was also a reception held at 4:00PM on Monday, May 27 at Mary Hall located at Selkirk College 10th Street Campus, 820 Tenth Street, Nelson As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made to

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Obituaries

Ines Fabbro June 6, 1923 April 30, 2013

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Ines Fabbro was born in Italy to parents Giacomo and Celesta Fabbro and immigrated to Canada when she was sixteen years old. She was the yoXngest oI ÀYe siblings two brothers 7ony and Fred and two sisters /eonora and Gina. 7he Iamily liYed in Genelle and Ines spoke fondly about that period of her life. Ines liYed in Grand Forks and then moYed to 1elson in . 'uring that short time in 1elson Ines touched many liYes and will be missed and fondly remembered by many people.

Ines passed away peacefully in her home.

Ines was predeceased by her parents and all her brothers and sisters. She is surYiYed by one nephew and seYen nieces. 2ne niece 5osanna Fabbro predeceased her.

A celebration of Ines’s life was held in her home on 0ay .

May she rest in peace.

Andrew Savinko Sadly the family of Andrew Savinko of Nelson, BC, formerly of Winlaw, BC wishes to announce his passing at Nelson Jubilee Manor, on Monday, April 22, 2013, blessed with 79 year of life.

Andrew was born in Thrums on September 7, 1933 to parents Helen and Fred Savinko. The family moved to Winlaw when Andrew was 3 years old. He attended the Winlaw school up to grade 8 and then worked on his parents farm, growing vegetables and selling them in the surrounding communities. Andrew’s working life continued with CP Rail, driving snowplow, a ďŹ rst attendant in a local sawmill, moving up to mill personnel and safety manager. In his spare time, Andrew worked as a paramedic based out of Slocan and he also taught Industrial First Aid throughout the West Kootenay.

Andrew was an umpire for a men’s baseball league and a head coach of the Winlaw Little League baseball team. He liked to ďŹ sh in the local river and creeks and became an avid golfer in his senior years.

Andrew was devastated by the death of two sons, Kenny in 1978 and Raymond in 1995.

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Left to mourn his loss is his wife Elsie, son Wayne, granddaughters Alexandra and Raya and sister Anne Poloniko.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

Funeral Services were oďŹƒciated by Sid Malako at the Appledale Community Hall on Monday, April 29, 2013 followed by interment in the Perry’s Siding Cemetery.

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For how often does a sunset Bring nostalgic thoughts to mind Of moments that our loved ones shared In days now left behind!

How often has a flower, Or a crystal autumn sky Brought golden recollections Of happy days gone by!

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Daughters Edna Friesen, Helen Sheloff & families.

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We offer a great working environment with a competitive base salary and commission plan along with a strong beneďŹ t package.

Black Press has over 170 community newspapers across Canada and the United States and for the proven candidate the opportunities are endless.

Please submit your resume with a cover letter by 5:00 pm Friday May 31st, 2013 to: Chuck Bennett Group Publisher Black Press, Kootenays chuckbennett@blackpress.ca Thank you to all who apply, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Help Wanted Responsibilities include cleaning and maintaining all common areas of the shopping centre, including snow removal and grounds maintenance. Must be able to work in all elements; is customer focused and able to work with minimal supervision.

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Bayshore Home Health is currently seeking Registered Nurses & Licensed Practical Nurses for night shifts in the Castlegar/ Nelson area to work with children with complex care needs. If you are an RN or LPN and love working with children and their families , we would appreciate hearing from you. Pediatric experience is an asset and we do offer client specific training.

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An exciting opportunity has opened up for the right person to work for a small group of companies located in South Slocan. The position includes full cycle accounting, cost accounting and payroll. Working closely with the Corporate Controller, there will be the opportunity for advancement and growth. The position may require working some days in the Kaslo office. Experience with Simply Accounting is an asset, education 3rd or 4th level CMA or CGA with 3-5 years of experience or equivalent experience will be considered.

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The Nelson and District Women’s Centre has two job postings.

For the past forty years, the Nelson and District Women’s Centre has been providing space, support and resources for women to learn, connect and become empowered in their own lives and engaged in their community.

Both positions will commence in July. Application deadline is June 12th. For full job description of both positions, please visit www.nelsonwomenscentre.com To apply, send a cover letter specifying the position you are applying for outlining relevant experience and a current resume. Resumes will be accepted by email at tasha@nelsonwomenscentre.com or by mail or in person to 420 Mill Street, Nelson BC, V1L 4R9. Please specify the position for which you are applying.

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This is a part-time permanent position. The Program Coordinator trains and supports volunteers in addition to overseeing the drop-in program. Some of the responsibilities include providing counselling and referrals to women who utilize the drop-in, facilitate volunteer training, and organize special events.

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Pacific Insight Electronics (PI) is a leading supplier of integrated solid state lighting solutions for the automotive, commercial and specialty vehicle markets.

PI is seeking an experienced, highly motivated team player to fill the position of Accounting Clerk within the Company’s Accounting and Finance Department.

Responsibilities: Reporting to the Controller, the successful applicant will be responsible for processing monthly Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable transactions including invoice data entry, posting of cash receipts, conducting month end account reconciliations, providing clerical support within the accounting department and other duties as assigned.

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Mid Uphill 2 brd suite private entrance and driveway W/D N/S Pet neg $950/m incl util avail June 1st 354-5324 NELSON Uphill: 2bdrm apt at Granite Manor, 104 Morgan St 55+, NS/NP, avail June 1st $950/m heat/cable incl.

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“You’re a wood carver? We need a wood carver!”

That was the reaction Merv Robertson received from an artisan the first time he visited Crawford Bay. Five years later, he has a workshop and gallery in the core of the East Shore hamlet, and couldn’t be happier.

“This is the best location I’ve ever been in for what I do. It’s my dream come true.”

Merv Robertson East Shore Artist

He’s carved elsewhere — central Alberta, the Yukon, the BC Coast — but, as artisans and visitors alike already know, the artistic vibe in the area was just what he needed.

“This is the best location I’ve ever been in for what I do,” he said. “It’s my dream come true.”

The rural location was also a big draw, as carving can be a noisy process.

“Neighbours aren’t really conducive to carving,” his wife, Donna, said with a laugh.

The work of over a dozen other artists — including Donna, who sketches portraits and carves magic wands — is also displayed in the gallery, including Creston wildlife photographer Brent

Wellander and East Shore oil painter Garth Low. Each high-quality piece complements Robertson’s work well — his carving is smooth and flowing, rather than the rustic, squared look often expected from chainsaw carving. Of course, that’s not to say his work isn’t without charm — a selection of faces, including John Lennon’s, about six inches high lends a touch of whimsy. And they’re popular, too.

“I can’t make enough,” he said.

Robertson hasn’t always been a carver, but got his artistic start when his parents put him in painting lessons as a young teenager.

“That’s the only training I ever had,” he said.

His folks later bought him a set of chisels, but carving didn’t become a passion until he began building log houses.

“I realized what a chainsaw could do, and away I went,” Robertson said.

He learned on his own, preferring to be self-taught rather than taking lessons.

“You’re not limited,” he said.

“No one says, ‘Hey, you can’t do that.’”

With no restrictions, Robertson quickly developed a strong passion for carving — a necessity for anyone attempting the timeconsuming art.

“It’s just something you have to do,” he said. “Otherwise, you Story continues on Page 27

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Crawford Bay wood carver Merv Robertson with his $225,000 piece, MythConBrian Lawrence photo ception.

Continued from Page 26 wouldn’t do it because it takes too long.”

A photo of a favourite, which was bought by a U.S. customer, hangs proudly on the wall. Called Slipping Through the Cracks, it was carved from a cracked piece of wood and depicts a man who appears to be climbing through the wall.

When inspiration for Slipping first struck Robertson, he was home alone and the neighbour was out, so he had no one to share his excitement with.

“I was laughing and crying at the same time,” said Robertson. “I was sitting on the lawn just shaking.”

Inspiration doesn’t always strike so suddenly, though. Larger pieces develop as Robertson works, cutting knot and cracks from the wood.

“It’s pretty good, and then, bam! There it is,” he said.

One of his biggest pieces, MythConception, was carved from an 800-year-old piece of wood, and depicts Eve next to a tree picking fruit. But not just any fruit — a leaf hanging over the apple looked like North America, so after a bit of additional carving, Eve is now picking Earth.

That carving is about seven feet high, and is an eye-catching, integral part of the gallery, so much so that its price is set at $225,000. It may take time to sell, but if it does?

“I’ll have time and space to make another one,” said Roberston.

And if he stumbles across the right piece of wood, that just might happen, anyway.

“When I’m in a place along the lakeshore, I’m looking for ‘that’ piece of wood always,” he said.

Once he’s finished with the piece, it could end up pretty much anywhere — Robertson’s art can be found, among other places, in South Africa and Holland. And having a customer enjoy it makes all the hard work worth it.

“I’m doing what I love to do,” Robertson said.

“You get in the zone and time just goes.”

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A COLONOSCOPE? Osprey grants support the community in many ways – including providing money for this colonoscope purchased by the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation.

Money donated to Osprey is never spent. Instead it’s invested, and the income earned goes back to local charities. With your help, we’re building a community nest egg. For good. Forever.

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Education in Nelson

Trafalgar Middle School Takes on Big Issue

Does social media create a more isolated society?

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are modern day phenomenons that many people are still having a hard time getting a grasp on. For those under the age of 16, they can’t likely remember a time in their life when the term ‘social media’ didn’t exist. To explore this issue further, Grade 8 Trafalgar principal Carol-Ann Leidloff posed the above question to her English class. Here’s what they had to say...

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Justin Lasichuk any people have varied opinions about whether or not social media creates a more isolated society. In this essay I’ll be telling you my opinion, and other people’s opinions, about this controversial subject.

I will also add evidence that brought me to my conclusion.

In my own personal experience, I think social media, such as Facebook, is less isolating for some people and not for others.

The reason I feel this way is because some

people can spend all of to organize a time when ing their family. Sherry Canada). The chances are their time on social methey can get together Turkle, 2012, says that that when they are not dia and do not relate to with each other. You can technology is “so psycho- getting exercise they are their family or friends. use it to find upcoming logically powerful that on some form of technolMy mom told me that events, meet new people, they don’t only change ogy. Not only that, but when she was young, kids and find old ones that what we do but change according to Nielson would always be outyou might have not seen who we are.” statistics, the average side playing games and for multiple years.

Did you know that American watches more interacting with one TV than the another. Now it is average TV Facebook was founded in February, 2004 common for kids to critic. If you As of March, 2013 there are 1.11 billion users worldwide add up all the stay inside the whole day using technolmath includogy and getting more and Social media changed only seven per cent of ing work, TV, sleep etc., more distant from their people from sitting at the people aged 5 to 17 meet the average American families and friends. dinner table talking and the recommended daily only spends 46 minutes On the other hand, eating to sitting in the amount of physical activ- per day having intimate some people use social living room to eat while ity? Also only 15 per cent conversations. media to connect with watching TV, texting, or of Canadians meet the So, in total social their friends and family both at the same time minimal amount of exer- media does have some and then use social media and basically ignorcise each week (Statistics things good about it, but

after some investigating I have come to realize that social media does create a more isolated society, and that you need to learn how to interact and communicate with your family and friends. Also, you need to take some time out of your day and reserve it and dedicate it for exercise. I still believe that social media does have good benefits that can’t just be ignored, but we have to limit our use on it and not let it take over our lives.

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McKenna Bennett f you post about every meal you eat, you might be addicted to social media!

If you spend more than six hours on one website a day, you might be addicted to social media!

People all over the world are becoming addicted to the internet, but can these bustling websites cause social isolation? Social media sites are meant to hook and lure you in, but in my opinion they do the exact opposite of isolation.

It is a well known fact that teenagers are glued to their phones and can barely carry out a face-to-face conversation. What people don’t take into consideration is that pretty much all they are doing on their phones and profiles is communicate. When they text, IM or Facebook, they share more details about themselves than they would in a productive conversation.

The interesting part of the opinions on this topic is that most of them don’t talk about the skills that the kids develop using these devices. Some people might say that the proof is in the pudding, but to put this in my own words, I will say that kids these days have better chances of getting a job. The fantastic skill like typing and website design that these teenagers are provided with will prepare them for so many amazing future opportunities.

Imagine a hypothetical situation where you are the new kid in school with no friends.

Then you join a social media site and before you know it people get to know you and right in front of your eyes you become a social butterfly.

You might think I’m lying, but that really does happen.

I am not saying that there are some pretty horrifying flaws like unsafe profiles or fake information; I’m simply stating that if you use the correct protection settings for your profile and make smart choices you should be okay.

Love can also transform on the Internet. People who don’t go out much get that little push to go on a dating site and fall for their perfect match.

The fact is that there may be new sites or phones that can cause problems, but the rate of tragedies has not changed

since 1955. Some people enjoy being alone and that is their sometimes unchangeable choice. For those people that want to break out of their almost uncrackable shell, the internet is one of the extremely obvious ways to go.

For those people that want to break out of their almost uncrackable shell, the internet is one of the extremely obvious ways to go.

To wrap up my rant/essay I will state this: social media does not cause isolation. It opens people up to humongous things that are around the world. These websites are not the problem at all. I think they are the solution to the problem, for people who don’t or can’t communicate.

There are so many strong, ruthless opinions on this touchy topic, but I will stand unyielding on my ground and say or shout to the world that social media is the future.

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Liam Smith ell phones are great?

Cell phones should be banned forever?

Is social media ruining conversation and relationships between people? People can have mixed feelings about this particular topic.

Some people think social media is isolating people and other people believe otherwise.

Some people think social media creates more isolation because they don’t develop skill with real conversations.

It’s unhealthy not to talk face-to-face. You need talking skills to get a job in an interview because there, questions and answers are not predicable and controlled. You also need good eye contact when talking. If you talk most of the time on text you will not establish skills such as these.

Other people think that social media does not cause isolation. People think it can be helpful in many ways like if you need help you can text your family or friends. It can also make communication more effective. For example, if you want to go do something with your friends you

can text them. This is better because before texting you couldn’t always reach people on their house phone and they could miss out.

I think social media can be great at times. I use it to keep in touch with my friends and family that live far away.

I text friends to see if they want to hang out. Computers and digital devices are never going to go away. They are going to become a bigger part of our lives. There’s no running away from it, it is always going to be there. So it is best to use the technology in ways that will help you.

Quin Hall believe social media isolates people because they spend too much time on their iPods. For example, texting at the dinner table breaks up the family time by not communicating face to face. Also, people tend not to be themselves on Facebook.

For example, some people lie about their age just to make themselves cooler and they go online more times than they go outside. This isolates them from the world.

Some people want to be heard, like that voice that says you got to speak up, so they post things on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Amegle and iMessage. These sites have so many people using them that it is easy to get sucked in. I, myself, like using some of these sites, but that’s beside the point.

My point is that not all sites are the safest. You never know who you’re going to meet. There are lots of weird people out there. You might be bullied or hacked. Trust me, not fun. Kids feel lonely so they go outside to see their friends, but really they have no friends because all their friends are online. They seek someone to talk to on the computer, even though it’s bad for you to be on it 24/7.

In my opinion, I think social media does isolate people not because of their iPods or their computers. It’s because it’s the connections that the internet provides that hook you in.

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Continued from Page 3B book are bad because you Tyler Bidinoff exting can be done on social media for chatting, won’t get exercise and you an iPod or phone. You won’t be able to talk face to but I don’t ever feel lonely. can text from your The reason is I’m chatting face. house and wherever you are. with my friends, so I feel like Texting is good for sharing I’m really face-to-face. Also Trace J. Winters believe that social media social people who are socially with your friends. It is bad if does not create a more you tell people that you don’t connected with Facebook isolated society. For some know where you live because and social media can create specific people it does, but as they could go to your house relationships. a whole society it doesn’t. It and steal all your stuff.

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You can take pictures with side and people are becoming For example, someone unhealthy.” I don’t agree with your cell phone. It is good because you can take pictures who had to immigrate or just this statement. simply move to a new town when you are on a trip if you People can search the can still contact to friends or forget your camera in the internet about “how to be relatives by just going to the hotel. You can use your cell healthy” and it has a lot of library or school computer phone for texting and calling information about healthy lab. They can even make new people. It is bad if someone living. Also smartphones friends in their new town face plants in the ground have apps for health and from going on line and postand you take a picture and exercising. ing something. you laugh at them. You have People promote healthy On the other hand, social to ask before you take their living while texting and media can be like an escape picture.

Facebooking. Recent studfrom what is really happenFacebook is a program on ies have shown that people’s ing. From the time that the the internet. On Facebook behaviours rub off onto alarm goes, to the time you you post messages to your their friends. Bad habits go to bed some people never friends about your new TV, like smoking and overeatput their phone back in their your new pet and your new ing are contagious also, say pocket. That doesn’t quite house. Another good thing many researchers. But so are about Facebook is it can help good behaviours like eating Essays continue you with your typing. healthy, which people talk on Page 5B I think texting and Faceabout on social media.

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For some people the idea of face-to-face conversation has been eliminated other than Skype or FaceTime. A lot of people have more Facebook or Twitter friends than real friends. Most people need to feel like they are being heard. Whenever no one is around to hear what you have to say you will just post or tweet it and the world has access to it.

Not everything that I just said is bad, though. People express themselves way more on social media sites. People that have bad conversational skills could learn how to make more friends by using those sites. Using those sites lets them talk and not make a fool of themselves. The more they do that the better they get at face to face conversations. Everything has benefits and non-benefits. You just need to find the better of the two.

Kaleb Comishin magine if the whole world had been put back to the year 1985, and we had no social media. We all communicated by using our phones, which were connected to the wall. Each minute we talked it cost money.

Phone bills were dramatic as we had to talk back and forth.

Social media is a really powerful tool.

Imagine where social media will be in 25 more years.

Social media is a great thing; you can text, Skype, talk on a wireless phone and oodles more. What is remarkable about this is that it’s all free. Another magnificent thing about social media is that you have as much time as you want to correct your work before you hit “send.”

This is important because you can express yourself more clearly.

There are two new significant trends in social media.

These two trends that have

emerged in the last year have changed the social landscape.

The number one trend in social media is visual contact and uploading the most unblemished pictures to all your friends quickly and efficiently. Another astonishing thing about social media is you can email more than one person at a time by linking it to their email. Social media is very superior because you can use it to contact people if you’re lost or being hassled by someone.

A huge thing that everyone forgets about social media is that you can contact people anywhere around the world.

This is very important because you can talk wirelessly to someone in a different country, instead of having to travel around the world to meet up with someone to talk. If you want to talk face to face with someone in a different country you can just use Skype – and it’s free!

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In closing, social media is so amazing because you can text, Skype, talk, link emails, correct your mistakes, and even talk face to face to your friends if they were right beside you.

Social media is a really powerful tool. Imagine where social media will be in 25 more years.

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Ashley Zarikoff think social media does not cause a more isolated society. All these networks like Facebook, Gmail, Text+ and Twitter can help you by letting you connect to people far away that you know. You can use it for a healthy reason, such as texting a friend “Let’s go for a jog today.”

One example where these networks can help you live a healthy lifestyle is texting.

Texting can be good for you in different ways. One way texting can help you is by picture messaging. For example, you’re home sick and there’s a big test the next day. You missed class, how can you study for the test?

Texting can help you since your friend could go and send you all the notes on the board that will let you still be able to study. If you do come back to school the day of the test you will be ready for it. Here is an important way texting can help

you: If you’re stranded in the forest and you need to get help fast, you can phone for help if you have service. So, I think that the people out there that think social media is causing isolation should give social networking a chance because it is not all that bad. To all the people who think our lives will get taken over by all these networks should think that we know better and that we are not going to let that happen.

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Caitlyn Maida ho hasn’t heard of the Amanda Todd story yet? She committed suicide because of constant offline and online bullying. A lot of people think that social media can cause an isolated society; I personally believe that statement is true.

One of the reasons I think it’s true is that when people are constantly texting or calling with people they start to lack face-to-face conversational skills. They may be so used to talking electronically that they become awkward or shy around people in real life.

Another reason I think that is, if people are constantly on social websites they begin to

believe that keeping the relationships they have with online people is more important than their real life relationships.

They spend a lot more of their

time inside on a computer or phone talking online or gaming rather than going outside and hanging out with their friends.

The last reason that leads me to believe the statement is true is that sometimes if people post a photograph of themselves online the people that see it can say things like “you’re ugly” or “you’re fat.” That can cause people to be depressed, self conscious, and sometimes if the situation is taken far enough it can cause people to commit suicide.

Those are some of the reasons I believe that social media can cause a more isolated society.

If our society doesn’t address these issues, future generations are just going to follow in a downward spiral.

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Kaylee Shukin an social media make people lonelier? It’s a fact that social media like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. might make you more isolated. Did you know that the average teenager sends over 50 texts a day? Also, teens 13-17 spend over three hours on the internet a day; 80 per cent is on social media sites. While they’re spending all that time on the computer, they might or rather are doing productive, interactive things. I personally believe that social media does not create isolation, but creates more social activity.

The median person uses social media to contact people out of phone service. Say your best friend moves to, oh I don’t know, Australia. That’s more than half way around the world! How are you supposed to contact her/him? Emails are one thing, but Skype and IM is another. It would be like actually having a conversation!

Another thing that people use social media for is scheduling events. People all over the world use social media sites to make plans with friends, promote parties and gatherings, etc.

Also, people use social media to make or create relationships. Websites like EHarmony, Match.com and many others let you socialize and connect with strangers. These little chats can actually turn into a relationship or even marriage very fast. This also makes you more social because you actually get out and interact with people you met online.

So to conclude, I strongly believe that social media does not create isolation but, creates more social interaction. It builds, replenishes and creates more connections throughout the world. I think that social media is an awesome addition to the internet and people’s lives.

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Nick Huiberts think that social media does not create an isolated society. In fact, it connects people together more because you can always be talking to each other. When you’re not talking to your friends you can still be texting them. Social media isn’t just Facebook or Twitter, there’s hundreds of social websites. It’s all how you connect with all your friends.

Without social media you’re kind of out of a lot of things.

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Continued from Page 6B words are having on them. otherwise you feel alone and bad thing too because you If you walk downtown, like no one is listening. This can spend too much time happens to many people, but there are a lot of people on it. On rainy days when walking and texting. Most of not everyone. you’re not with your friends, those people are teenagers.

Some people know the you can easily FaceTime your limit and don’t go over the They are addicted to their friends if you have an iPod. digital devices. Even when top with social networks, FaceTime is like they are home they Skype but it’s on Text messaging is the most widely used are on an electronic mobile apple dedevice of some sort. mobile data service with 74% of all vices. You can use Instead of hangFaceTime or Skype ing out with their mobile phone users worldwide — or 2.4 friends they are anywhere that has WiFi. You can billion out of 3.3 billion phone subscribers texting. They might even connect more end up lazy just sitfriends when you’re — at the end of 2007 being active users ting at home doing at a friend’s house. nothing; that’s no of Short Message Service.

It’s just another way fun. Without faceto connect more. to-face conversaOn social media you can’t tions people will become less they check it every once in only talk to your friends, you awhile and don’t always have intellectual. can meet new friends too.

Some people use digital the need to send a text or a I’ve met several new people devices for their jobs. That’s tweet. on social media. Social media different; they would use it Some people think that keeps us more involved in at work, but hopefully they social media is all bad, but things like parties and upwouldn’t come home and the truth is it’s not always. coming events. On Facebook It’s not always necessary to go on their digital devices. you can either text everyone People should come home call someone, so it’s much or you can just talk to one and talk to their families and easier to text, especially if friend at a time. Facebook hang out with them and tell you just want to say, “Want is also a good thing because to hang out?” People say that them about their day. you can talk to friends that It’s a well known fact that it’s easier to text because you moved away a long time ago. don’t have to say it to their people don’t tell the truth on the Internet. When two faces, so if you want to say Alyssa Anderson friends are talking in person something embarrassing ome people say that you can tell if they are lying or something difficult to a social media is ruinor not, and online you can’t. person, you text. That is not ing conversation and a good thing. When you have It is a risky thing to have relationships between people. something important to say Facebook accounts and other That can be true; some accounts because people to someone but it can’t be in people are so obsessed with could stalk you and they person, calling is always the texting and social networks might have a fake profile. way to go but lots of people they don’t even know how to think that it is just too much I believe the impact of talk to their boyfriend in real work to pick up the phone social media is negative. It’s life. and have a real conversation. escaping reality. That is my Texting and social media two words to explain it. I That’s the problem, people can be a good thing though; can’t deal with real conversa- hope everybody doesn’t get you can stay in touch and too addicted to their digital tions anymore. talk to more people often, devices.

I think that social mewhich can bring you closer dia is fine as long as people to your friends and family.

Curtis Young know the limit and don’t get n my opinion social meIf you are not obsessed with isolated by the internet and dia does not cause social it, it’s not always a bad thing. their cell phones. isolation. I think if you It also can advertise healthy are an active person being living and get together with Taylor Zimmer magine a world where on your device contributes your friends easier. Texting is face-to-face conversato your social life. Texting is an easy way to communicate tions are not the main really fast and easy to use and with your friends and family, way to communicate. Social Facebook is always putting which can make it easier to media like texting and Faceinformation about events on talk to your friends when book are making it so people it. you’re not with them. Some One way social media can people take it the wrong way don’t have good face-to-face conversations anymore. contribute to your social life and text people, even while People say more things is by using iPods, cell phones they’re in the same room. and social media networks.

Social networks have been over a text than in person.

Is that a better way to say It helps for example when affecting people’s lifestyle what you need to say? No, wanting to hang out with and their health. It is proven it’s not if there is something your friends. You can check to take over your life when you should say in person. If your Facebook or Twitter you get so obsessed with it, people are talking in person to see if your friends will be you start to feel the need to you can see their emotions, at the basketball game. Or check your Facebook every but if it’s over text you can’t you could text them and ask 10 minutes, or constantly tell if they are actually sad or have your phone ringer on if they are just faking it. You and in your pocket. It’s like Essays continue you always have to have that, can’t tell what impact your on Page 8B

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In conclusion, social media does not isolate me because I use it every day because Facebook and Twitter help me keep connected to my friends. It is fast and easy to use and helps you find events on Facebook.

them. However, with social media it’s sort of an illusion of stuff that is actually going on in the real world. It’s like you’re running away from the truth and hiding yourself behind a fake personality by texting and convincing yourself being online on social media is helping you be more social. In my opinion, I like social media and being totally honest I probably couldn’t survive without it.

There are more great things about social media than bad things, so I believe it’s not isolating anyone.

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Katie Stolte n my opinion I am in the middle, I can’t agree or disagree. If you text more than talk, you’re most likely obsessed with social media, but you also learn valuable things from texting too, like using more descriptive language and it helps you spell correctly.

Also, I disagree with the statement “you feel less alone if you’re texting.” If you are alone, texting someone doesn’t make you feel any less alone.

However, I do agree you should say the more important things face-to-face. It means a lot more to communicate face-to-face than on text. Even I have told someone something important on text and I’m not proud of it. People only do it because they don’t have the courage to say things face-toface and it makes you feel more confident.

Another great thing about social media is that it helps you stay in touch with friends and family that live farther away by emailing them and texting

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Jade Vanruymbeke hat if every conversation we had was over text.

Many people prefer to have conversations over text because it gives them more confidence and they can delete what they say. It is a lot faster to just text people rather than call. It is really helpful to text people and make plans but some people would rather just text, and I think that’s bad.

I think over time more people will consult in text because they are coming out with faster ways to send messages.

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There are some dangers in social media such as people pretending to be someone they’re not, to get close to you.

Lots of people get hurt that way.

There are some dangers in social media such as people pretending to be someone they’re not, to get close to you. Lots of people get hurt that way. There are people that make fake accounts for bad reasons, but sometimes people make them to escape their own life and be something they wish they were and that can be a good thing.

Some other dangers can be

cyber bullying which can cause people to hurt themselves or even kill themselves.

I think the reason why people cyber bully is because they have the confidence to say what they’re too scared to say in person.

I believe that social media is not a bad thing but it really depends on the person and how it affects them, and everyone is different.

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Jaydon Wouters ould it be true… that kids these days could be spending more time texting and spending time on Facebook and Twitter, etc. than they are learning in school?

I strongly believe that social media is a positive and technologically advanced way of communication over the Internet. I do agree that many people spend way too much time on these websites and on their phones, but it is an easy and convenient way for people to connect because not everybody has the

privilege to just walk down the road and spend time interacting with their friends.

Texting and talking to people throughout the Internet does a lot to lead to a positive interaction with friends.

Facebook and Twitter are very good for fitting into new places. For example, maybe you just moved into a new community. You have no idea who anyone is then you join Facebook and become friends with people in your community. Maybe it leads to later interactions and friendships. It has been proven that social media has made new environments more comfortable and a lot less awkward.

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So altogether, social doesn’t seem to have any downsides except for the overusage of these networks. Is social media causing social isolation?

Personally I strongly think that it is a positive influence in our social lives.

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Teo Cho an you live without social media such as Facebook, Twitter and stuff like that forever? The next few paragraphs are going to be about how social media doesn’t cause a more isolated society.

Firstly did you know that a lot of people don’t sit on a basement and focus in computer? Social media doesn’t replace face-to-face interaction. Fundamentally, the internet is different from all the other traditional mass media because the Internet is the place where we can connect to other people, so that

Skype was first released in 2003 written by Estonian and Swedish developers.

It developed into a platform with over 600 million users and was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion.

The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam, and instant messaging over the internet. Phone calls may be placed to recipients on the traditional telephone networks. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free of charge, while calls to landline telephones and mobile phones are charged via a debit-based user account system.

is a major characteristic that makes the network bigger and more diverse.

The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project found that social networking site users used social media close to an average of 39 days each year, while saw them in person 210 days per year,” said Chul-Joo-Lee, an assistant professor of communications of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lots of friends of mine don’t use social media that much and I even don’t have a social media site (except email). You don’t need social media that much. This is why social media doesn’t make an isolated society.

Secondly, lots of people learn subjects from social media.

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In school we also use social media called Edmodo. You can study a specific subject such as Social Studies. That is why social media doesn’t make a more isolated society.

Thirdly, you can read a book on social sites.

You can read nearly every book in the world.

That way you save money, and get knowledge as well. It also helps you in life. Let’s say you want to memorize some English vocabulary because you have an English test tomorrow.

You can memorize in a bored way, like read a vocabulary book, or you can get into social media, and read digital vocabulary book, and memorize faster, and have fun at the same time. That is why social media doesn’t make a more isolated society.

Fourthly, there are a lot of events going on in social media like Facebook. Some examples are to invite someone to a party, call your friend to go to a specific place or to hang out, outside. That is why social media doesn’t make a more isolated society.

Lastly, you can call someone that you can’t talk to because you are living a far distance away. When I or my family want to call or see my family in Korea, like my two grandmothers and my grandfather, I use social media. Plus you don’t get addicted calling people. Since you can contact friends or family you can’t call, events in social media, reading books, and learning umpteen subjects, social media doesn’t make an isolated society.

These paragraphs you just read were about the disagreement that social media makes an isolated society. I hope you enjoyed it!

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Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and “used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the ‘hotter’ person.”

To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard’s computer network and copied the houses’ private dormitory ID images. Harvard at that time did not have a student “facebook” (a directory with photos and basic information), though individual houses had been issuing their own paper facebooks since the mid-1980s. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.

The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration.

Zuckerberg faced expulsion and was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy. Ultimately, the charges were dropped. Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final, by uploading 500 Augustan images to a website, with one image per page along with a comment section. He opened the site up to his classmates, and people started sharing their notes.

The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook”, originally located at thefacebook.com.

Source: Wikipedia THE TOP 18 PAGES ON FACEBOOK # Name 1

Facebook for Every Phone 2

Facebook 3

YouTube 4

Texas HoldEm Poker 5

Rihanna 6

Eminem 7

The Simpsons 8

Coca-Cola 9

Shakira 10

Harry Potter 11

Michael Jackson 12

Lady Gaga 13

Cristiano Ronaldo 14

Justin Bieber 15

Katy Perry 16

Family Guy 17

Linkin Park 18

AKON

Total Likes 224,995,821 90,406,548 72,990,316 69,973,910 68,863,278 68,481,581 63,057,551 62,781,435 62,759,287 60,810,491 57,348,845 56,351,326 56,347,089 52,458,848 52,044,234 51,886,640 51,362,769 46,281,514

Daily Growth +441,262 +41,579 +41,546 +9,175 +45,402 +42,042 +35,579 +42,390 +43,458 +27,079 +41,340 +21,841 +34,319 +21,731 +2,249 +19,398 +38,177 +27,675

Weekly Growth +3,136,273 +351,134 +321,825 +69,440 +351,736 +342,944 +278,712 +361,088 +346,563 +214,830 +327,397 +176,491 +248,724 +159,481 +183,092 +151,893 +292,950 +224,749

Two powerhouse Facebook pages are Rihanna (above) and Eminem (below).

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Students Travel to Fort MacPherson, NWT

Looking back at L.V. Rogers look north Cathy Scott-May Special to the Nelson Star

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he 2013 north-south student exchange was an important learning opportunity on many levels.

Seventeen L.V. Rogers students developed meaningful friendships with aboriginal youth who live in a remote

While all participants said the project was more work than anticipated, many students welcomed the opportunity to take responsibility for their own learning. northern community, which will have lasting benefits for themselves and society. Over time the students can draw on the experience to help understand and contribute to issues between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians that are redefining how natural resources are managed.

Understanding the challenges associated with increased resource development in the

north, its impacts on northern communities, and the need to support a fundamentally different role for aboriginal and rural communities in Canadian society are critical for the next generation of Canadians.

The students also gained a great deal from the process of planning the exchange. They were active participants in making decisions every step of the way. They met with teacher sponsors and a parent volunteer coordinator twice a week for five months and, in doing so, learned that what you get out of an experience depends on the level of effort you give to it.

While all participants said the project was more work than anticipated, many students welcomed the opportunity to take responsibility for their own learning. As one participant stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I liked being treated as an adult.â&#x20AC;? Parents and teachers liked what they saw as the students grew into the responsibilities.

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Earlier this spring, 17 L.V. Rogers students traveled north to Fort MacPherson, NWT to complete an exchange that brought the students to Nelson earlier this year. Over the following pages, we are pleased to present some of the images of the trip as captured through the lens of LVR student Emily Hoff.

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Continued from Page 12B projects that have benefit for the broader community. After reading about the exchange in the Nelson Star, individuals who had no direct connection with any of the students called LVR school to offer support. Local government, businesses and community organizations stepped up with financial and in-kind support. While amazed and slightly overwhelmed by the support, the

students came to feel validation for their efforts to learn about their country in ways that few us choose to do.

As a parent of one of the participants, one of the more powerful images I have is of our students sitting huddled around a campfire at -25 C at 3 a.m. watching the northern lights dance across the sky.

They had snowmobiled out to hunting cabins with elders for an overnight camp. This was not my school experience

at 15 years of age, but I am grateful that this has become part of what school is for my son. I also believe it is the future of education â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an idea that came from youth, which mobilized parents, teachers and many organizations to collaborate to support them in becoming globally engaged citizens, which is necessary even if you grow up and want to continue to live in a relatively quiet corner of southeastern BC.

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