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Horoscope For the Week with Michael O’Connor inside the West Kootenay Advertiser
It’s every kid’s dream: an extension to summer. Summer holidays for students planning to attend the former high school turned elementary school in Rossland have been extended by two days. A missive sent out by School District 20 on Monday morning is instructing parents of students at the new kindergarten to
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Grade 9 school to hold off sending their children to school until Sept. 5. Granted, the window for renovation and refurbishing of the school to transition it from secondary to primary instruction was small—not even two months—but SD20 board chair Darrell Ganzert said the delay will be for teachers to get prepared for the students.
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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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City prepares to turn golden
Made CookeinSt.Rossland plan goes public mountain bikemeeting photo contest in upcoming
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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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It’s time for an Internet make over for Rossland. Despite a rumour last week the city’s Although the Rossland Rossland News winter shuttle service to Red Mountain splash page isn’t ready Resort was to be shuffled, the game is still yet the Tourism Rossland The Rossland Golden City Days Committee page will be revamped afoot and awaits a word from the province. is bringing the city a weekend of fun and this week and loaded. Enthusiasm had been flagging for the The splash page—an entertainment Sept. 6-8, celebrating the tradishuttle bus—that would have linked Red introduction page on a tional heritage festival, and they hope Mountain and the city’s downtown in a website—contains TourRosslanders are planning to join them. ism Rossland, the City of daily, continuous service—heading into a To kick off the weekend events, the Time Rossland, the Rossland regular board meeting for Tourism Capsule Project sealing ceremony will be takChamber of Commerce Rossland on July 24, but an internal vote and Rossland events. ing place on the front lawn of the Rossland delayed a decision on the proposal’s fate The Tourism Rossland Library on Friday. until an inspector from Destination B.C. page (http://www.tourTIMOTHY SCHAFER That same night at 7 p.m. at the Miners’ ismrossland.com. ) will finishes up in Rossland next week. Rossland News Union Hall, an evening of fantastic live music contain road biking maps, The inspector will give the word if the hen Hofmann prepared for his trip hiking maps, pictures, will unfold with the Evening of Mattias Entertainment city will have the required number of to the world tae kwon do championships he photo tours and reams Extravaganza. approved accommodation rooms—450 of information on the city set his sights onTim a lofty goal of finishing in Local talent such as Norm Worsfold, and the area embedded and over—to give the city a two per cent the top five in the world. The Vultures, Grant Mara’s YourBourchier Horoscope Forand the Week so people can tour around share of the Resort Municipality Initiative Considering the 12-year-old Rosslander had never Timothy Schafer photo Doninside Birtch, Dawn Graham, Les withWishes, Michael O’Connor the businesses and the (RMI) funding from the province, up from In one week the Health Care Thrift Shop gets enough donations that it virtually buries its back room. But competed on the world stage, it was an ambitious region and get an idea theCarter, West Kootenay Advertiser Kyla Hanna, and Kootenay Jack will Timothy one per cent. it’s a deluge of refuse in some cases, says Thrift Shop manager Sharon Hansen. For a complete story on of what Rossland has to goal. beSchafer taking to the stage. their plight and their • See HOFMANN Pageplea 3 to the community, see Page 4. offer. photo
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Martial artist Mattias Hofmann captures bronze at the Tae Kwon Do World Championships in Coventry, England
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