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Thursday, July 18, 2013
Vol. 8 • Issue 30
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Horoscope For the Week with Michael O’Connor inside the West Kootenay Advertiser
The shell game over Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI) funding has the shuttle bus service to Red YourMountain Horoscope ForResort the Week hanging in the balance. with Michael O’Connor inside ago Tourism Rossland Three weeks the proposed West Kootenayto Advertiser have extra RMI funds allocated to the establishment of a daily, continuous winter bus service from the
city’s downtown to the ski hill, but the move would have cost the Rossland Museum and its planned renovation in the process. Tourism Rossland (TR) had made two proposals to the City of Rossland—the gatekeeper of the hotel room tax money coming from the province—with each one based on the number of hotel rooms certified under Destination B.C.
• See MUSEUM, Page 5
Final count pending The province’s tourism inspector is still missing in action. The person charged with approving the city’s bid for over 450 units of accommodation registered with Destination B.C. has still not visited the city.
• See TOURISM, Page 5
A scheduling conflict has pushed back a planning process expected to dissect the very anatomy of the city’s affairs. First slated to begin June 1, city council has instead elected to begin Oct. 1, once the entirety of city council was firmly lodged back in their seats. But city staff felt to ensure all of council had input into the fiveyear plan and to accommodate council’s planned vacations, an alternative was proposed to ensure a five-year plan adoption by year end (end of December) with the “least amount of redo.” The delay did not sit well with councillor Jody Blomme. “I disagree that we should be waiting. I’m ready to go,” she said. Council had been telling the community it wanted to work on the plan all summer starting June 1, said Blomme, and now there is a four-month delay.
• See PLANNING, Page 8