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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Vol. 8 • Issue 32
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TIMOTHY SCHAFER Rossland News
Talk about getting a bang for your buck. A local developer is offering to rent a large parcel of land in the city for $1 per year, after his development for affordable housing has been tied up in bureaucratic process for almost two years. Cezary Ksiazek has been trying to develop the former Cooke Avenue school site since it was purchased by a trio of local investors in early 2011, but he said his attempts to bring an “affordable, low cost” development to the city have been slowed by red tape to the point he just wants to see something on the land.
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TIMOTHY SCHAFER Rossland News
hen Mattias Hofmann prepared for his trip to the world tae kwon do championships he set his sights on a lofty goal of finishing in Your Horoscope For the Weekthe top five in the world. with Michael O’Connor inside Considering the 12-year-old Rosslander had never the West Kootenay Advertisercompeted on the world stage, it was an ambitious Timothy goal. Schafer photo
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This is a big empty lot and nobody is using it in a land-poor community like Rossland, he explained. “If someone is interested to put on this land a goat, a cow, horses or sheep, I agree without any challenges. One dollar per year is the price,” he said. “Somebody who wants to use this land, go ahead, because this is a shame and sin to keep something big in the middle of city and do absolutely nothing with it for years.” The current rezone application first came to light in September, 2011, but it wasn’t until Dec. 10, 2012 that a public hearing was held on the project.
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Bus service stalls TIMOTHY SCHAFER Rossland News
Despite a rumour last week the city’s winter shuttle service to Red Mountain Resort was to be shuffled, the game is still afoot and awaits a word from the province. Enthusiasm had been flagging for the shuttle bus—that would have linked Red Mountain and the city’s downtown in a daily, continuous service—heading into a regular board meeting for Tourism Rossland on July 24, but an internal vote delayed a decision on the proposal’s fate until an inspector from Destination B.C. finishes up in Rossland next week. The inspector will give the word if the city will have the required number of approved accommodation rooms—450 and over—to give the city a two per cent share of the Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI) funding from the province, up from one per cent.
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It’s time for an Internet make over for Rossland. Although the Rossland splash page isn’t ready yet the Tourism Rossland page will be revamped this week and loaded. The splash page—an introduction page on a website—contains Tourism Rossland, the City of Rossland, the Rossland Chamber of Commerce and Rossland events. The Tourism Rossland page (http://www.tourismrossland.com. ) will contain road biking maps, hiking maps, pictures, photo tours and reams of information on the city and the area embedded so people can tour around the businesses and the region and get an idea of what Rossland has to offer.