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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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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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Sunday, Sept. 1 • The Seven SummiTS Poker ride is a non-competitive group ride on the Seven Summits Trail. Participants are expected to be expert riders in good shape and self reliant in the remote trail setting. Costumes optional, friendly attitudes required. riders will amass a poker hand throughout seven different card stations spread along the trail and prizes will happen at the post ride BBQ at the Lion’s campground. Cost: $45. • Saturday, Sept. 7 starts with the dreadhead enduro dh at the Larch ridge trailhead in the morning and finishes with the huck n’ Berries dirt Jump competition and beer gardens at Centennial Park. registration is at revolution Cycles. Locals are asked to register in person at the shop, out of towners please call us at 250 362 5688. Thursday, Sept. 5 • Book reAdinG Takaia Larsen will be at the rossland historical museum to present from her book “Sowing the Seeds: Women, Work and memory in Trail, BC, during and After the Second World War” (2010). 6–7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6 - Sunday, Sept. 8 • GoLden CiTY dAYS Weekend festival celebrating rossland’s gold-mining history. Parade, sports events, children’s games and inflatable fun park, pancake breakfast, local musicians and vocalists, food and craft vendors, beer garden, Fall Fair activities and displays, outhouse races, Stake Your Claim, and more. Watch for schedules of events in rossland stores in late August. Saturday, Sept. 7 • GoLden CiTY dAYS revival of the outhouse races. Grab four friends, build your outhouse, see the entry form and rules on Bhubble and Facebook (Golden City days page), and have a blast pushing your outhouse down the street to the toilet plunger finish. This event is sure to be a hit. Contact mike at 362-5244 or mikescarvings@hotmail.com. Wednesday, Sept. 11 • roSSLAnd GirL GuideS registration night for Sparks, Brownies, Guides, Pathfinders and rangers will be held Sept. 9, 7 p.m. at the rossland Library to meet the leaders and find out about plans for the upcoming year. There is an opening for a new leader for the Sparks program. inquiries: contact Lori heximer (heximer@telus. net) or rachel moore (rachel.tim.moore@gmail.com). Tuesday, Sept. 10 • SkATe And GeAr SWAP do you like to skate or want to learn? rossland Figure Skating Club invites you to join us. Look for the rFSC at the Golden City days Parade, Sept. 7; Skate and gear swap sale and registration, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 6-7:30 p.m., rossland Arena Lounge. drop off skates, figure skating outfits etc. Sept. 9 6-7 p.m. at the rossland Arena; Late registration and bake sale Thursday, Sept. 19, rossland mountain market; Canskate, rising Stars and Starskate programs (ages 3- 18) run oct. 2 to march 12 in rossland Arena. For more information contact Teri mack terimack@live.ca 250-362-7340. Saturday, Oct. 2 • LA CAFAmore has been striving to bring high quality classical music to the ears of kootenay listeners since 2008. on oct. 2, 7:30 p.m. at the rossland Gallery they will bring two famous piano trios to rossland classical music lovers. haydn’s Gypsy trio is recognizable because of its lively last movement, which uses themes based on hungarian gypsy music. Beethoven’s Archduke trio is considered the pinnacle of the piano trio repertoire with its expansive themes and orchestral-like instrumentation. Admission: Adults $15, Seniors & students $12, Children under 12free. Tickets at Bear Country kitchen and at door. Ongoing Rossland Mountain Market The market has started and runs until Sept. 26 on Thursdays from 3-6 p.m. The market is located downtown on Queen Street next to the Credit union. The slogan is “make it, Bake it, Grow it!” and features fresh produce, baked treats, artisan goods and live music. if you would like to be a vender please visit: www.rosslandfood.com or email rosslandmountainmarket@gmail.com. Rossland Library Summer Reading Program The program started and is for ages 6-8 on Tuesday and Thursday from 1-2:30 p.m. and ages 9-12 are on Tuesdays from 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday Teen nights are from 6:30-8 p.m. with movies, games and crafts. Afternoon at the movies is Aug. 21 at 4 p.m. and movies and a snack are included. Preschoolers can join the Summer read to me Club on Fridays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. for stories, songs, games and crafts. Rossland Museum The museum is open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed monday and Tuesday. open daily July and August 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. including holidays. Admission is adults $10; children 6-13 $3; students 14+ $5; seniors 60+ $8; children under six free. Family rate is $28 based on two adults and children. Rossland Radio Co-op open house every monday from 3-7 p.m. followed by station meeting at 7 p.m. more info: radio@rosslandradio.com. roSSLAnd GoLden CiTY QuiLT GuiLd meets every monday. The guild meets at the Senior Centre on rossland Avenue from 7-9 p.m. roSSLAnd reTireeS curling club invites men and women interested in curling on Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m., to call Bill at 362-9462 or Jim at 364-1051.

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Just over $107,000 is available to fund projects that make a positive difference for Columbia Basin youth aged 12 to 29 in the upcoming Youth Grants Program (YGP) intake. Organizations, school districts, First Nations organizations and local governments—plus youth aged 15 to 29 with a sponsoring organization—can apply for up to $15,000 per project. “CBT strives to take an active role in helping communities create opportunities for young people in the Basin,” said Aimee Ambrosone, CBT senior manager, sector initiatives. “Projects that receive Youth Grants funding benefit Basin youth in diverse ways.” CBT’s Youth Advisory Committee, made up of youth aged 15 to 29 from around the Basin, adjudicates the YGP applications. The upcom-

ONGOING your rossland events listings roSSLAnd GoLden CiTY QuiLT GuiLd meets every monday. The guild meets at the Senior Centre on rossland Avenue from 7-9 p.m. roSSLAnd reTireeS curling club invites men and women interested in curling on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., to call Bill at 362-9462 or Jim at 364-1051. GoLden CiTY LionS The Lions meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month

What: $107,000 is available to fund projects that make a positive difference for Columbia Basin youth aged 12 to 29 in the upcoming Youth Grants Program (YGP) intake. Where: online at www.cbt.org/ygp When: The upcoming YGP deadline is oct. 7at 2 p.m. PdT.

ing YGP deadline is Oct. 7at 2 p.m. PDT. Program adjudicators are especially interested in projects that support youth engagement, leadership or employment and entrepreneurship. The next YGP intake will be spring 2014. For more information, visit www.cbt.org/ygp.

at 6 p.m. at the Legion. Contact 362-7671. roSSLAnd rAdio Co-oP open house every monday from 3-7 p.m. followed by station meeting at 7 p.m. more info: radio@ rosslandradio.com. TrAiL mAPLe LeAF BAnd monday evening practices 7-9 p.m. in the mcintyre room at the Cominco memorial Centre. Brass and woodwind players welcomed. For more info, contact Andrea mckay, 362-7604. roSSLAnd SkATePArk CommiTTee 6-8 p.m., first Tuesday each month at the rossland Library. Come be part of the process. YCdC YouTh nights Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or contact coordinator@columbiaycdc.ca. Art night: Tue. 7 p.m.; movie night: Wed. 6-8 p.m.. roYAL CAnAdiAn LeGion Br. # 14 rossland General meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. on the third Wed. of every month.

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The people spoke and the federal government didn’t listen. An overwhelming majority of people in the West Kootenay region asked to not be divided politically when the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission toured through last October and proposed changes to the political boundaries. Through a series of town hall meetings, West Kootenay people asked the commission to respect geographical challenges—keeping together communities nestled in the same mountain valleys—and not separate neighbouring places like Castlegar and Nelson, grouping them with far off, larger centres of Penticton and Cranbrook, respectively. But the commission did not heed the request and elected to group Rossland and the communities of Trail, Castlegar and Grand Forks, and most of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, in with Penticton and parts of the Okanagan. The Golden City will become part of the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding, with the total population of Rossland and its far flung and fellow Kootenay and Boundary places not even equal to the population of Penticton alone at over 32,000 (2006 Census). What’s more confusing is the nearby West Kootenay communities of Nelson, Salmo, Kaslo and Creston will be looking east to Cranbrook as they now join the Kootenay Columbia riding. B.C. Southern Interior member of Parliament—that used to represent the entire West Kootenay and

South Okanagan-West Kootenay The riding will consist of: • Regional District of Kootenay Boundary; • Castlegar; • the villages of New Denver, Silverton, Slocan and Nakusp; • Regional District of Central Kootenay subdivisions H, I and J and part of K; • parts of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen comprised of: Penticton; Oliver and Osoyoos; Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen subdivisions A, C, D and E and parts of F; • Penticton Indian Reserve No. 1 and Osoyoos Indian

Boundary region—Alex Atamanenko, was saddened by the severing of ties, and the lack of compassion by the commission for geographical ties. “I’m disappointed because when we had the public hearing process an overwhelming majority of people basically said they don’t want our communities to split up,” he told the Trail Times. The commission reviewed electoral boundaries across Canada and has redrawn them to account for movement and growth in population.

As a result, the commission for British Columbia has introduced six new districts. The intent of the commission was to redraw boundaries to keep all electoral districts around the 105,000 population quota. The South Okanagan-West Kootenay will have approximately 113,000 people, more than the under 100,000 it contained as the Southern Interior. The Kootenay Columbia district will increase to about 108,000 people. editor@rosslandnews.com

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Rossland’s community spirit was out in full force last weekend as volunteers descended upon the Seven Summits Centre for Learning to prune, prime, paint,

and lend their considerable talents to the renovation of the site. The progress has been amazing and the centre staff are grateful for the outstanding contributions of time and skills from students, families, and community mem-

bers who helped. There’s still much work to be done and the community is invited to join again this weekend to help prepare the space for learners in September. Volunteers can meet at 2393 Columbia Ave at 10 a.m. on

Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Lunch will be provided. Seven Summits learners will start their studies at the Red Mountain Conference Centre on Sept. 3. All students will take part in a team-building camp-

ing excursion to Kokanee Creek on Sept. 9 - 11. The Seven Summits Centre for Learning will officially open on Sept. 16. For more information, visit the website at www.sevensummitslearning.com.

A feasibility report on a “natural” playground for the former high school playground will be forthcoming from city staff. City council approved city staff delving into developing a report on the legalities and the feasibility, as well as any city costs, in allowing a natural playground to be built at the edge of Jubilee Park close to the former Rossland Secondary School. At the July 15 regular meeting of council Caley Muholland presented a plan and power point presentation proposing the construction of a natural playground at the former RSS, asking for approval for city staff to report on the feasibility of constructing a natural playground at RSS. Council approved city staff to provide a feasibility report on the installation of a natural playground and whether a natural playground is possible for the area at Jubilee Park closest to the school. “For my part I will be investigating if the grounds can handle such a playground at that end,” said city manager of Public Works, Darrin Albo. “The water table is to high which is what we encountered in the other play module.” As well, the city is waiting to see if the school district will be bringing the old MacLean School playground over. “So there are a bunch of unknowns in this,” he said. It may not even be feasible, said Mayor Greg Granstrom, before they talk to the school district. “We need to find out if this is feasible for us,” he said. On July 23, Mulholland, a parent and environmental educator, asked in a letter to council to meet and discuss with city staff what the project might look like and to identify key planning considerations, including cost, design, time frame, logistics and community collaboration. No meeting will be set until the report is delivered.

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What a difference a week makes. In one week the Health Care Thrift Shop gets enough donations that it virtually buries its back room, prompting store volunteers to throw away massive mounds of the less saleable items to deal with the deluge. But it’s a deluge of refuse in some cases, said Thrift Shop president and store manager Sharon Hansen. A lot of the items being dropped off at the back door every night and on the weekend should be destined for the

dump, not a second hand store. Hansen said the amount of items donated that cannot be sold because of their shoddy state is beginning to wear on the store’s pool of volunteers—mostly “older women and retired women, she said. However, the thrift store staff still have to sort through the mountains of items to get to the ones that can be sold, she said. “It’s mostly big items that are being dropped off that are concerning us,” she said. “We can’t lift those big items that people are dropping off, like furniture. The store added in anoth-

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A town hall meeting has been set to discuss the prospect of broadband Internet. The town hall would be a power point presentation to the community on the proposal—with an opportunity to ask questions—delivered on Sept. 10, 7 p.m., at the Miners’ Union Hall. Council approved a Sept. 9 committee of the whole meeting—along with a report delivered to council—to give council a chance to ask questions of the city’s broadband committee. The meeting would also delve into the different options presented. A request for decision on broadband would come to council on Sept. 24. An open access network is proposed for the city’s downtown. Also called broadband, the network would create a whole new economic platform that would support and encourage the fledgling web-based economy in the city. It would improve speed and bandwidth for Internet users, said councillor Jody Blomme, who sits on the broadband task force, In open access the network owner does not offer services, but opens access to the network to other service provider companies, including Telus and Shaw. Hundreds of services could potentially be offered by dozens of providers, including Internet, telephone, TV, accounting software and management, tech-support, security services/monitoring, data backup, database creation and maintenance and distance learning/teaching. The open access network would include about 20 times faster than current download speeds achievable in Rossland, and about 100 times faster than current upload speeds. It will also allow better, more reliable connectivity to transfer data files and to use with POS systems and other communications such as internet telephone, video conferencing and webinars. For more information visit the Rossland Broadband website www.rosslandbroadband.com.

Cut-athon set for Carol Enns fundraising It’s a cut above in an effort to help one of Rossland’s own. A fundraiser is being held Sept. 16 that joins the forces of several salons in the city. A cut-athon is being planned amongst Blowup Salon (Uli), Salon Kula (Tennille) and Pam Martin from Details Hair Studio. They are doing cuts only—both men’s and women’s—at regular salon prices, and 100 per cent of proceeds will go toward raising money for Carol Enns. “It’s a little bit of a friendly competition as well,” said Martin. People coming in for the haircut will donate their money. Even if they are not coming in for a haircut, people can still donate to the cut-athon, and put money in the “jar” at each location

er day shift right now—to the two they already run— because they are never getting sorted through the donations and finding their way back to the end of the storage room wall. Fortunately not all of the waste clothing items are going to waste disposal. A lot of the unused clothing items are picked up by Positive Apparel out of Nelson where it boxes them up and ships overseas for up-cycling into other products. Hansen said the rule for donating is simple: If it was going to go to the dump in the first place, it should go to the dump, not the thrift store.

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“We just want stuff that is not broken, or stained,” she said. “We’re looking for anything that is wearable, any toys that aren’t broken, good housewares and wearable children’s clothes. “And no heavy stuff.” The Health Care Thrift Shop donates money to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail, as well as giving money to local community groups. The Health Care Thrift Shop is open Wednesday and Friday, from 10:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Store volunteers sort items on Monday and Thursday. editor@rosslandnews.com

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“There is all sorts of planning that has to take place so that transition (between grades) can happen as smooth as possible,” he said. Teachers need to have “team” meetings, as well as one-on-one meetings with neighbouring grades, as the special needs and requirements of each student is made known to the new teacher, said Ganzert. Although some demolition took place by SD20 staff before the school year ended in June, it wasn’t until nearly mid July that the contractor could get on site to begin the task of converting former high school workshops and resource rooms into classrooms. SD20 superintendent of schools, Greg Luterbach, said the district met with school contractors to look at the final outstanding items late last week to assess the situation. “What we found is that while the contractors will be done, the vast majority of the work will not leave any time for teachers to prepare their rooms to be ready for the students,” he said in a press release. The contractors will finish the majority of their work on Friday, Aug. 30. Over the long weekend a school district crew will clean the remaining areas of the school and move furniture and boxes into each classroom. On Tuesday, Sept. 3 and Wednesday, Sept. 4 school staff will be in the building preparing their rooms for students. School will open for students on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 8:30 a.m. for a full day of school. Over the first few weeks in September, outside of regular school hours, the last of the contractors will be installing some millwork,

sinks in primary classrooms and painting some common areas. “The school will not be completed on the first day of school,” said Ganzert, “but education will still take place.” No date has been set for the completion of the project. The loss of two days from the school calendar will be made up over time, said Ganzert, likely with the inclusion of extra minutes tacked on to each school day. “Management hasn’t come up with a strategy for how that will take place,” he said. MacLean and the Annex The Francophone School will still be holding classes in the MacLean Annex come September, and will not be moving into the former MacLean Elementary School building, Ganzert confirmed. Nothing of significance has come forward over the summer months to warrant the closure of a sale on the school building, he said, although it was noted earlier in summer the Francophone school administration was interested in the prospect of buying the building for their school district. Bargaining time Although the teachers’ union took much of the spotlight last year in their contract negotiations and labour actions with the province, they could take a back seat to CUPE workers this fall. The province has made it known that contract talks with the B.C. Teachers Federation will not begin until later this year, after a contract has been settled between the province and CUPE. editor@rosslandnews.com

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The Miners’ Union Hall will continue to host one of the city’s more popular daycares after council decided to renew its lease for a year. After the lease with ILO’s Playschool expired and Ilo Shubert indicated she would like to renew the lease for another three-year term. The playschool has occupied the bottom floor of the Miners’ Union Hall since 1987. Currently, the rent is $300 per month for eight months of the year ($2,400 per year). In the summer the room is occupied by the Gold Fever Follies as their change room. In 2008 the city formed the Miners’ Hall Task Force to make recommendations regarding the uses of the hall. Since that time a portion of the recommendations concerning ILO’s Playschool have been implemented, including a rent increase and service agreement. Councillor Kathy Moore wondered what the market rate for the rental space would be. She suggested a discussion on subsidizing the private business should come up in social planning, and to what extent. Council directed city staff to renew the lease with ILO’s Playschool for an additional year at the rate of $350 per month ($2,800 per year). The lease will allow the playschool to plan for the upcoming year, and allow council time to consider Miners’ Hall usage.

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Ten cases of whooping cough have been diagnosed in Rossland in the last two months, prompting Interior Health Authority to issue an alert. Regional medical health officer Dr. Rob Parker said the Golden City and the region bounding it has seen a surge of whooping cough cases in children over the last few weeks. Since the middle of June, 10 cases have been diagnosed in Rossland and 19 throughout the region, including seven in Trail. That compares to an average of less than two cases diagnosed at this time of year. Dr. Parker said the culprit for the outbreak might be lower than normal immunization rates in the city and the West Kootenay, with 65 per cent vaccinated in the area, less than the 90 per cent rate in the rest of the province. He reminded parents to make sure their children were immunized so they were not at risk. “The West Kootenay and the Fraser Valley have some of the lowest childhood immunization rates in the province,” he said. Whooping cough is a respiratory infection that is highly contagious, and causes illness lasting up to two months. Whooping cough can cause serious consequences for any child, he said, but newborns and infants are at greatest risk. The illness is spread through coughing and the infection is most contagious during early stages. Dr. Parker said whooping cough “can spread quickly and easily among those who aren’t vaccinated.” “The best way to protect newborns and infants is through high vaccination rates—also known as herd immunity,” Dr. Parker said. The last whooping cough outbreak in the

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he city of Rossland will now be grouped with the much larger centre of Penticton when it comes to federal political play, It’s not an ideal situation, and one in which not only Rosslanders lose out in. Much of the Greater Rossland region will end up swallowed by the southern Okanagan city, which will ultimately make up one third of the voting populace of the riding—almost 45 per cent if you factor in the Greater Penticton population. That means the majority of the money and attention will flow west to Penticton, something the city of Rossland has already been subjected to under the previous boundary borders. However, the real loss is the feel of being included in the West Kootenay culture. The federal government has split up the kinship Rosslanders had with some of the communities north of it in the former B.C. Southern Interior riding. It’s a spiritual loss, one that can’t be measured and was not a factor in the federal commission’s decision to split ranks in the Columbia/Kootenay river valley.

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The Nordic Law - The Swedish experience There is currently a campaign underway in Canada called Defend Dignity, an initiative of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada. Defend Dignity exists to abolish prostitution and is asking the Canadian government to look at the Nordic law which was first implemented in Sweden in 1999. In essence, what the law does is penalize the buying of sex, while decriminalizing those who are being sold. The premise is that if there is no demand for purchases of sexual services, there will be no supply. Those leading this campaign, point to the fact that prostitution is violence against women, that prostitutes start young and are most often victims of sexual abuse as children. They also state that prostitution and poverty go hand-in-hand. According to Shelagh Day, human rights advocate and founder of the Women’s

Legal Education and Action Fund, poverty drives women into prostitution and keeps them there. Women usually enter prostitution to survive – to pay the rent, support kids, because they run away from home, or because they are not eligible for welfare. First Nations women are at the greatest risk for prostitution in our country. For example, 52 per cent of sex workers in Vancouver are First Nations women while only 1.7 per cent of the population in that city are First Nations people. The House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women recognized that Aboriginal women are trafficked internally in Canada, and that their poverty, poor conditions on reserves, and abuses in their communities cause Aboriginal women to be Canada’s most vulnerable victims. First Nations youth who leave their home communities for urban areas are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation in that they are both homeless and in an unfamiliar cultural environment. Housing instability increases reserve-to-urban migration, leaving young women extremely vulnerable to prostitution, in that homelessness has been established as a primary risk factor for prostitution.

Sweden officially recognized prostitution as a form of exploitation and violence against women and children. By choosing to solely prosecute the purchasers of sexual services (predominantly men) rather than the prostitutes, Sweden is the first country to criminalize demand while decriminalizing supply. They have taken a firm position that prostitution entails oppression of women and is therefore an affront to gender quality, and as long as the prostitution of women and children exits, equality cannot be achieved. The Law on Prohibition of the Purchase of Sexual Services is the legislative tool applied to eradicate prostitution in Sweden. In addition to eradicating prostitution, the law was also proposed to bring about a fundamental change in societal attitudes. Children are taught in school at a young age that the purchase of sex is illegal and unacceptable, in hopes that the next generation will grow up considering prostitution a much more heinous offence than it is considered today. It appears that before the law came into effect, there were nearly 2,500 prostitutes in Sweden. This figure was cut in half within a year of the law being enacted. In Stockholm, street prostitution has been reduced by two thirds and the number of pur-

chasers (johns) of sex has decreased by 80 per cent. The government of Sweden published an evaluation of the law’s first ten years and how it has actually worked in practice and the findings are pretty positive. Street prostitution has been cut in half; there is no evidence that the reduction in street prostitution has led to an increase in prostitution elsewhere, whether indoors or on the Internet; the bill provides increased services for women to exit prostitution; fewer men state that they purchase sexual services; and the ban has had a chilling effect on traffickers who find Sweden an unattractive market to sell women and children for sex. Following initial criticism of the law, police now confirm it works well and has had a deterrent effect on other organizer and promoters of prostitution. Sweden appears to be the only country in Europe where prostitution and sex trafficking has not increased. Interestingly enough, the Government of Quebec is considering adopting similar legislation. Perhaps the time has come to have a discussion on the Swedish model in our country. Alex Atamanenko is the Member of Parliament for Rossland and the BC Southern Interior.

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The community is pulling together to help more of its own. Led by Marjorie Kidd, Rosslanders are pooling resources to help a family of six that lost everything they own in an Aug. 6 house fire. People are already donating household items, clothing and furniture to help the family out, said Kidd, but more is needed. “It is hard to imagine the terror and loss of a fire but when faced with uncertainties in life, it’s nice to know there is security within community,” she said. The family was blessed with no loss of life and luckily have a home to move to, but require help restocking their lives, said Kidd.

Towards that end, donations are needed to help re-create a space brimming with the comforts of home. “We all have something beautiful we can spare, something gently used to share. Lets come together to help create a space full of books, games and art, all the things that make a loving home,” Kidd explained. The family consists of a dog, mom and dad, two boys (aged five and 10) and two girls (aged eight and13). This is a large family moving into a small space, they need just about anything your own family finds essential, said Kidd, including beds and dressers for all—mom and dad and four singles. If possible, a kitchen table with bench seating for a small space is required, a free standing pantry and cupboard unit, dishes, cutlery, pots, pans, baking

Museum project clears next hurdle Consultant now engaged for crafting design plan and renovation with selection of Vancouver firm timothy schafer Rossland News

The group expected to map out the change at the Rossland Historical Museum has been chosen. After a request for proposals closed in mid July, on July 29 the city chose Vancouver’s Donald Luxton and Associates Inc. to carry out the Rossland Museum Gateway Project The city’s financial obligations are limited to the budget for the work, which include all fees and disbursements, and is limited to $48,500 (plus GST). The consultant will develop a recommended conceptual overview and design approach, with schematic drawings and plans.” The work is expected to draw upon the expertise of consultant Mike Stolte with limited engagement from the community. An interim report will be filed Sept. 30 with the final report delivered by Nov. 15. The plan to revitalize and expand the museum’s scope and breadth was approved by City council five months ago—the Rossland Museum Gateway Project Site, Facility, Operational and Sustainability Plan—paving the way for a request for proposals going out in April. With visitor numbers dropping rapidly since the gold mine tour was permanently closed in January, 2012—around 50 per cent in all— an advisory committee was struck

The sTudy The study will assess and evaluate three broad areas: • Site and facilities analysis will identify the risks and gaps, as well as the potential of the framework and the overall look and feel of the site. • Operational components of collections, exhibitions, programming, governance and management will be examined, and a plan will be recommended to revitalize the institution. • Sustainability considerations will explore options for any capital development.

to investigate new ways to prop up the ailing institution. The Rossland Museum Gateway Project (RMGP) was created through that process, arising out of a stakeholder driven initiative that began in 2012 to revitalize the museum, “enliven its connection with the community, strengthen its value to the local and regional cultural economy” and solidify its role as a resource for the community’s heritage. Prior to the start of the 2010 operating season, Teck suspended access to the mine, citing issues of safety and liability. The Museum Gateway Project advisory committee, including the Rossland Museum Association, the City and Teck Metals Ltd, completed its due diligence and drafted the request for proposal to be sent out by the end of April. The bid process will end June 14 with the contract awarded July 31. editor@rosslandnews.com

Closing out in Rossglen Park

Rossglen Park will be closed from Sept. 3-6 for dangerous tree removal. If people have any questions about the trees coming down, they are asked to call Public Works for more information at 250-362-2328.

sheets/tins, cookie cutters, rolling pin, cutting boards, slow cooker and blenders/beaters. As well, Kidd said there is a need for a microwave, a deep freeze, bookcases, bed sheets, pillows, face clothes, towels, jewelry, toys, a TV, video games, computers, telephone and winter/ski gear. As of Aug. 23 donation’s can be dropped off in the garage at 1057 Spokane where the Family can view and sort. What ends up not being required will be sold at a garage sale to help replace the things that could not be replaced (eye glasses, etc.). Anything in excess of the family’s need will be donated to their close friend Carol Enns. Phone 250-362-5181 for more information.

IN BRIEF Fall Fair coming up The Rossland Fall Fair takes place inside the Arena on Saturday, Sept. 7 in conjunction with Golden City Days weekend. The Fair is a one-day celebration of “Old Fashioned Community” and its purpose is to promote and display the work of those interested in agriculture, domestic science and handcrafts. The Fair gives everyone in the community the opportunity to show, test and display their achievements for the enjoyment of all. Children and adults are invited to enter into the spirit of neighborly competition and to become a part of this community event. So, pick up a brochure and an entry form at various locations downtown and bring it to the Arena with your entries by 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, and then come to the Fall Fair on Saturday, Sept 7. Ribbons and prize money are awarded to first, second and third place exhibits and, new this year, special sponsored prizes will also be given out. In addition to the exhibition, the Arena will be filled with vendor and information booths, an Art show, a petting zoo and children’s interactive area and live entertainment throughout the day.

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Seven Summits support sought For all of you that would like to support kindergarten to Grade 12 education in Rossland, here is your chance. The Seven Summits Learning Centre is preparing its location and making economical choices regarding the required equipment it needs to purchase. But the fledgling school could really use the help of the community. Seven Summits is looking for donations and for volunteers to assist in preparing the school. There is a list of items school organizers are hoping Rosslanders may be able to donate to the program. If you have any of these items, Seven Summits will gladly take them off your hands. Please contact Christine Therriault-Finke at 250-362-5361 or Sue McBride at 250-362-5942 to donate And, if people have some extra time, the school can use help in preparing the Learning Centre. There are many odd jobs that need to be done. For a complete list of the items needed, please see: http://www.bhubble.com/classifieds/node/45445.

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Location, location, location. The first rule of real estate will be tested when the lid is ripped off in a public review of a rezone application for the Cooke Avenue development, with the question of the location of access points to a new development being posed. The public review on Sept. 23 (7 p.m., council chambers) for a proposed residential development at 1541 Cooke Avenue in southeast Rossland will be a further litmus test for the development by Rossland resident Cezary Ksiazek which has been lodged in the wheels of bureaucratic process for almost two years. The proposed development consists of 24 dwelling units in five buildings. However, road access to the development is now a sticking point for council in approving the application. Ksiazek has proposed access points to the property on both Cooke and Thompson avenues, for a total of five access points. City senior planner Mike Maturo said the proposed design creates certain impacts to existing traffic operations on both Cooke Avenue and Thompson Avenue. His view was supported by an independent consultant’s report. To give the decision some balance for council, the city retained ISL Engineering and Land

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The developer is proposing to have five buildings— three buildings with four units each and two buildings with six units each. Two driveways are proposed for each four-unit building—four driveways on Cooke Avenue and two driveways on Thompson Avenue. In addition, an access to the potential laneway is proposed off Cooke Avenue, which would connect to parking areas for two six-unit buildings. Each unit will include three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a single or double car garage. The total living space will be approximately 2,000 square feet and at $150 per square foot, including land cost, it is the lowest possible price, said Ksiacek. Ksiazek has conducted a preliminary review of servicing requirements for the site—a full city block— and is proposing the multiple-family dwellings within the one-block span on the former Cooke Avenue school site now zoned public institutional.

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Existing road conditions Both Cooke Avenue and Thompson Avenue are east-west, two-way, two-lane roads with gravel shoulders on both sides. Driveways to residential developments and onstreet parking are found on these roads. Based on the latest City of Rossland Official Community Plan (OCP). Cooke Avenue is classified as a local road while Thompson Road is classified as a collector with bus services. Traffic data is not available; however, traffic volumes are expected to be low on Cooke Avenue due to the surrounding residential land uses. Higher traffic volumes on Thompson Avenue are expected with a higher hierarchy of road classification to connect the surrounding local roads.

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“It … generates more vehicle to vehicle conflicts and increases collision risk with pedestrians and cyclists,” the report read. “The chance of on-street parking by visitor vehicles is also higher.” The city recommended another building and access arrangement than what the developer proposed: six buildings with four units each. It advised against any driveways onto Thompson Avenue and two driveways are proposed to come onto Cooke Avenue, connected to a parking area for both resident and visitor parking spaces. In the proposed scheme with five access points, Maturo was concerned on-street parking for visitor vehicles would take place on both Cooke and Thompson avenues. “If sufficient space is not provided on driveway, parked vehicles may overflow onto roadways, creating operational and safety issues,” the report read. “Some visitors may park right next to or opposite to the development’s driveways.” Parking restriction signage could reduce some illegal parking, the consultant noted, but the cost of enforcement would increase. The city staff concept provided a more efficient and safer operation, the report concluded, and on-street parking would be minimized with clear signage. editor@rosslandnews.com

I would like to wish all workers and their families a safe and relaxing Labour Day. We honour your commitment to make our community strong and prosperous. Katrine Conroy, MLA Kootenay West 1-888-755-0556 Katrine.conroy.mla@leg.bc.ca www.katrineconroy.ca

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With five driveways on a short section of roadway, it is expected the developer’s option will generate more stop-and-go maneuvers for turning vehicles and a longer vehicle delay along Cooke Avenue. Visitors may not easily identify appropriate driveways designations, generating slow vehicle speeds on Cooke Avenue and possibly creating unnecessary U-turns, particularly at night. With a central parking area in the city’s option, vehicles may need to travel slightly longer to their parking spaces and generate more vehicle-vehicle conflicts. However, these conflicts are generally created within parking lots where vehicle speeds are relatively slow. Impacts to traffic operations in the surrounding roadways and intersections are expected to be low.

• Excessive fill placement will likely be required to facilitate access from Thompson Avenue. • Construction of accesses on Thompson Avenue shall consider the location and condition of the existing water main. • Multiple accesses on Cooke Avenue may have increased drainage impacts to Cooke Avenue and to the existing creek northeast of the site. • Additional road improvements may be required to accommodate multiple shared accesses on Cooke Avenue.

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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 claims his attempts to bring an “affordable, low cost” development to the city have been slowed by red tape. 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. The public hearing was followed by a council committee of the whole meeting Jan. 21, 2013 to discuss the issues raised at the public hearing. Ksiazek again met with the city on Feb. 8 and no common ground was found on the contentious points. On July 31 Ksiacek met with three city officials— without senior city planner Mike Maturo who was on holidays—on the property to review the proposal’s contentious points as a prelude to the council meeting. On Aug. 12 the re-zone application was to appear on council agenda for the night but it was taken off just three hours before the meeting after it was found council needed “further clarification on some of the information items in the application.”

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The Kootenay Robusters dragonboat team is wrapping up its season with an eye to recruiting more paddlers for fun, fitness, and a little friendly competition. While Robuster numbers have been robust over the years, in recent months they’ve seen a considerable ebb in participating paddlers restricting the team’s ability to compete and even train at times. As a result, the Robusters are canvassing the area for paddlers and the best news: no experience - with paddling or breast cancer - is necessary. “Due to family commitments and

non-paddling related injuries the number of paddlers has declined over the years,” said Robuster Debbie LeRose. The West Kootenay crew require 20 paddlers to race and a minimum of 14 to practice in addition to a steersman, and drummer. The team encourages all ages from teenagers to women in their 80s to come try it out, the only requirements are a good attitude, the desire to join a great social group, with exercise and enjoyment the top priorities. “We have ladies in their 70s out there doing it, so there’s whole bunch of benefits, the health side, the friendships, and the support,” added LeRose. Kathy Hanson, a veteran paddler of 12 years, stresses that being a breast-cancer survivor is not a requirement to joining, and with an average age of 62, the team races against much younger paddlers, so an injection of youth would be welcome. “We just want ladies to come and try dragon-boating, because once people get out and try it, they realize they can do it . . . and you can be any fitness level to start.” The Robusters dragon-boat team originally formed in 2001 as a group of breast cancer survivors and associate paddlers from Trail, Rossland, Grand Forks, Christina Lake, and Castlegar. They excelled early, placing second in Kelowna’s Breast Cancer Challenge after just one month of training. Since then the team has competed in dozens of dragon boat festivals culminating in a first-place result in the Kelowna festival in 2006 and a trip to the 17th annual Kaiser P e r m a n e n t e International Dragon Boat Festival in San Francisco last year. Most recently the team had a strong fifthplace finish at a festival in Lethbridge in

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The West Kootenay crew of the Robusters require 20 paddlers to race and a minimum of 14 to practice in addition to a steersman, and drummer.

July. But a team’s success is ultimately tied to good coaching. A serendipitous meeting in a Rossland coffee shop landed the Robusters their coach of 13 years in Trish Ostlund. In the 1990’s Ostlund paddled with the world champion False Creek women’s team, and has brought her expertise, knowledge, and enthusiasm to the Robusters, transforming new and experienced paddlers into a coherent force. Commitment and training is necessary and for those who want to get in an extra workout or make up a missed practice, the team has access to a paddling machine known as an ergonometer at Fortis in Trail. “Anybody can phone us and we can take them there and just show them, and they can at least try it before they go in the

boat,” said Hanson. The relationship between breast cancer and dragon-boat racing began in 1996, when Dr. Don McKenzie’s research dispelled the notion that repetitive upperbody movements led to lymphedema, an irreversible swelling of the arm and chest that is a common affliction of breast cancer survivors. McKenzie studied a group of 25 women who began an exercise program involving dragon-boat paddling, indicating that this type of exercise had no relation to lymphedema. Soon after, “Abreast in a boat” was born and the number of dragon-boat teams has grown significantly ever since with festivals being held all over the globe, raising funds and drawing awareness that there is life after breast cancer. The Robusters prac-

tice three times per week at Christina Lake, car-pooling and taking turns driving to make it more fuel-efficient and social. Once on the water, time itself disappears with every stroke, the team moving as one, immersed in the scenic and serene setting of Christina Lake. “It’s really fun, but it’s to get the people out to try it, and a lot of people do work, but they work around it and if you can only make two practises or only make one practise a week that’s okay,” said LeRose. The Robusters are on the water at Christina every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. For more information or to join phone 364-0993 in Trail; Castlegar phone 3653794; Grand Forks 4423333; Rossland 3629644; Christina Lake 447-6169.

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The wheels on the bike ... Recreation, Education, Community Rossland Rec Department 7 Summits Poker Ride Sunday, Sept. 1 The Seven Summits Poker Ride is a noncompetitive group ride on the Seven Summits Trail taking place Sunday Sept 1st. Participants are expected to be expert riders in good shape and self- reliant in the remote trail setting. Costumes optional, friendly attitudes required. Prizes will happen at the post ride BBQ at the Lion’s campground. $45 cash cost. Current KCTS membership required. Register at the bike store for locals or at 250362-5688 if you are out of town. Check out more info at: http://rosslandrubberhead.com We still need some volunteer help to pull it off so if you’d like to be a part of the elite team of fun seekers responsible for the good times, please let us know by contacting Revolution Cycles: 250-362-5688 The Rubberhead Bike Festival Saturday, Sept. 7 The day starts with the Dreadhead Enduro DH at the Larch Ridge trailhead in the morning and finishes with the Huck n’ Berries Dirt Jump comp and beer gardens at Centennial park. Registration is at Revolution Cycles. Locals are asked to register in person at the shop, out of town folks please contact the shop at 250-362-5688. Check out more info at: http://rosslandrubberhead.com The Rossland Fall Fair and Art Show Saturday, Sept. 7 If you have a young person in the house and they’re getting bored, get them to work on some submissions for the Fall Fair. Get your exhibits ready now for the Fall Fair and Art Show held on Saturday, Sept. 7 located at the Rossland Arena. Fall Fair Entry Forms can be picked up at City Hall, Rossland Library, IDA Drug Mart, and Rossland Grocery. For more information contact Laurie at 250-362-5641. The Golden City Days Events Sept. 6-8 Founded in 1972, Golden City Days is a

weekend festival, on September 6, 7, & 8, 2013 celebrating Rossland’s rich gold-mining history while promoting community spirit and fun. For more information, check out the festival’s page on Facebook Rossland Golden City Days. Enjoy children’s inflatable fun park, pancake breakfast, outhouse races, Stake Your Claim, food and craft vendors, outdoor stage entertainment, sports events, a parade, and much, much more. Look for the Golden City Days brochure, available at the end of August. Gold Fever Follies The Gold Fever Follies annual summer production is running on Tuesdays through Saturdays with shows at 3 pm and 7:30 pm. The famous summer theatre production is located in the historic Miners Hall, located at 1765 Columbia Ave. Mountain Market Rossland Mountain Market runs from June 27 to Sept. 26 on Thursdays from 3:00-6:00pm. The market is located downtown on Queen St. next to the Credit Union. The slogan is “Make it, Bake it, Grow it!” and features fresh produce, baked treats, artisan goods and live music. Come out and participate in Rossland’s #1 weekly summer social event! If you would like to be a vender please visit: www.rosslandfood.com or email rosslandmountainmarket@gmail.com. Terry Fox Run Sunday, Sept. 15 The Terry Fox Run is on Sunday Sept. 15 at Gyro Park in Trail. Registration is from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. with the mass start at 10 a.m. For $4 you can purchase a Kiwanis breakfast between 8:3011 a.m. For more information or to volunteer, contact the Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research at 1-888-836-9786. Fall brochure The Fall Brochure is in production and if you’re interested in offering a program, please contact our office to discuss the specifics. We can help you design a program depending on your skill or interest and then advertise it in the Brochure. The Recreation Department takes care of all the advertising, registrations, payment, liability, facility access and insurance.

BC Rivers Day back on sheri regnier Trail Times

Welcome news for Basin residents is that BC Rivers Day is set to go Sept. 29, after the City of Trail stepped up to man the helm and keep the 10-year local tradition alive. “The Columbia River plays an integral part of our being in the city,” said Coun. Eleanor Gattafoni-Robinson. “And it is incumbent to Trail residents to keep it clean and protect our ecosystems.” The city has decided on a new venue, Jubilee Park, to encourage the community to gather and enjoy the downtown area on the Esplanade while re-connecting with the river. Volunteers are asked to meet at Jubilee Park that morning at 9 a.m. for registration, followed by a walk up the banks of the river for

clean-up between 9:30 a.m. and noon. Embracing youth in the clean-up is a vital aspect to BC Rivers Day in Greater Trail, and this year, a dozen members from the 531Trail Air Cadet program are committed to sweeping the shoreline of debris. Teams will be assigned an area of the shoreline that spans a 1.5-kilometre stretch from Gyro Park to Casino Beach. By enlisting help from community partners including the 44th Field Engineers and Teck, shoreline clean up has removed over 112,000 pounds of garbage and debris from the banks of the river. Clean-up will be followed by the Local 480 Steelworkers flipping free burgers and a draw for prizes donated by local businesses. For information, contact Jolly at 364-0834 or email ajolly@trail.ca

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IN BRIEF Anderson gets gold

Rossland’s Leslie Anderson has won gold at the 2013 B.C. Seniors Games in Kamloops. Competing in the men’s 65 and over category, Anderson captured the gold medal for the Golden City and the Zone 6 West Kootenay Boundary team. Already Zone 6 athletes have captured 47 gold, 34 silver and 20 bronze medals, placing eighth in the medal standings out of the 13 zones competing. Athletes from Rossland, Castlegar, Robson, Slocan, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Kaslo, Nakusp, Nelson, Salmo, Trail and points in between, represent the West Kootenay Boundary. More than 3,500 seniors compete in 26 events, making it one of the most well-attended seniors games ever. For a full list, visit www.bcgames.net/resultsv1/ results.aspx.

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SD20 numbers up for kindergarten art harrison Trail Times

As August draws to a close signalling to many students the approach of yet another school year, a new crop of kindergarten students are preparing for, what is for them, a whole new adventure into the world of formal education in the K-12 system. Greg Luterbach, School District 20 Superintendent, is expecting a slight increase in the number of new kids entering the SD 20 system this autumn. “As of the end of June we had 289 students registered for kindergarten for the fall,” said Luterbach by email. “We are projecting around 300 so we should achieve that once September comes. By the end of September 2012 (last year) we had 275 kindergarten students so we should be up (as projected) for this year.” Although full-day kindergarten was brought into effect in 2011, the Ministry of Education allows gradual entry to kindergarten, understanding that not all five year-olds are prepared to go into a day-long schedule immediately. Each individual school will be issuing a letter to parents providing specific details of the plan

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A large section of Riverside Drive in Grand Forks was closed for most of Wednesday after police halted a vehicle carrying several sticks of dynamite. RCMP learned of a person attempting to transport sticks of dynamite in a truck on Aug. 21, and managed to stop the driver, directing them to place the 35 sticks on the roadway and leave the vehicle. Although Grand Forks Fire Rescue attended the scene, the “bomb squad” from Vancouver was called to the area to properly dispose of the dynamite. The suspect had previously contacted the fire department asking for help with the material, but chose instead to transport the 35 sticks of dynamite in their vehicle, said Dale Heriot, fire chief and manager of emergency services for Grand Forks Fire Rescue. “We told him not to move it,” he said. “But he did. We also told him to call the RCMP with regard to dynamite because we don’t handle that but the RCMP does.” Grand Forks RCMP Staff Sgt. Jim Harrison said they received a call at around 11 a.m. “He had initially been transporting the dynamite but thought better of it,” Harrison said. “He called the fire department, who told him to contact us. We said, ‘Stop where you are. Don’t drive with a whole pile of dynamite that might be unstable. Any movement could set it off.” The man complied with the police and stopped the vehicle and took the dynamite out of his truck. Fire Rescue had to cordon off a section of Riverside Drive after the man was stopped and wait for the bomb squad to arrive, he said. The bomb squad (the Explosive Demolition Unit) from Vancouver arrived on the scene at approximately 6:30 p.m. and disposed of the sticks of dynamite. “They poured some liquid material on the dynamite, out it into a protective container, loaded it on the back of their vehicle and took it away for disposal,” said Heriot. Riverside Drive was open by 7 p.m. and the situation diffused without incident. Harrison said the suspect has not been charged but an investigation is ongoing.

for that school and a general schedule has been developed by SD 20 to help new students (and their parents) prepare. It is important to note that there will be no bussing available for kindergarten students during the gradual entry process. Starting Sept. 3, kindergarten students will begin with a one-hour class to introduce them to their new environment and parents will have the opportunity to sign up for a parent-teacher conference. September 4 and 5 students will attend for two hours but will have Sept. 6 free while their parents have to go to school to begin conferences with their teachers. The following week on Sept. 9 and 10 the new students will be expected to attend the entire morning but will not stay for lunch break and their parents will have to opportunity to continue meeting with teachers in the afternoon. September 11 and 12, students will again attend a half day, until noon and go home for lunch. September 13 is another school free day for kindergarteners but the following week, starting Sept 16, students begin full days of instruction and a regular school bus schedule for them will begin at that point.

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IN BRIEF Fortis pulls plug on talks Without even completing the first day of mediation between Fortis BC and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW,) the company walked away from the table, dashing brief hopes that the eight-week lockout of almost 230 employees might be near an end. “They gave us a new proposal asking for some unbelievable concessions that we’ve never even seen before,” said IBEW business manager Rod Russell Wednesday evening. Talks had barely begun before the two sides saw a widening gap between their positions, generally focusing on the introduction of a two-tier pay and benefit package for newly hired employees. The company had a different opinion on the events at the bargaining table. “Fortis came to the table flexible and open, prepared to bridge the gap in differences but when it became clear that they weren’t going to move on their prior offer, we ended the talks,” said Joyce Wagenaar, director of communications for Fortis BC. The breakdown in talks leaves the union on the picket lines preparing to make applications to the B.C. Labour Relations Board (LRB) to expand their picket lines and looking towards a possibility of litigation to resolve the dispute.

Teachers won’t cross picket lines If an agreement is not reached, September could be a month of havoc for students if CUPE initiates strike action. Andy Davidoff, president of the Kootenay Columbia Teachers Union, confirmed that if legal picket lines are set up on school grounds, teachers will honour the job action and not cross the lines. “It would be pretty tough to see the school system operating because CUPE members drive us, clean our schools and work with teachers in the classroom. They are an integral component of the educational system,” he said, adding, “I have to make this very clear, teachers will honour a (legal) CUPE picket line.” — Trail Times

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Golden City Nelson’s hot Balkan five-piece brass band, Oxygen Orkestar, will close out the evening. And, of course, an evening of music wouldn’t be complete without the Golden City Fiddlers, who will be opening the evening with some preshow, foot-stomping fiddle music. Tickets for this licensed event must be purchased in advance at Café Books West, or by contacting Lisa at 250-362-9063 or old_grey_mare_55@ hotmail.com. The annual pancake breakfast will be held at the Rossland Firehall on Saturday morning. Don’t forget to visit the Fall Fair after the parade on Saturday and enjoy browsing the many items entered by Rossland residents, as well as, check out the many vendors, informative displays, live entertainment, and concession area. The Petting Zoo will be outside on Spokane Street. From the parade Saturday morning to the Nelson and District Credit Unionsponsored inflatable fun park in the Rossland Arena parking lot, you and your children will be busy all day.

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The parade will loop around Jubilee Park, down St. Paul Street, across Second Avenue and end at Nickleplate Park. The craft vendors and food booths, featuring burgers, sausages, pulled pork, wraps, fries, kettle corn, baked goods, and cold drinks, will be located in the arena parking lot. Mountain FM and EZ Rock will be on hand to provide music, goodies, and treats. Rounding out the food selection will be the famous baron of beef served up by the Rossland Legion Ladies Auxiliary in the lower Legion Hall. Saturday afternoon’s Sour Dough Alley Stage entertainment includes the Trail Pipe Band, Golden City Fiddlers, Les Carter, Kootenay Jack, and the well-known band, No Excuse, featuring Karli Harrison. The afternoon’s entertainment will finish with a set from Paul Dasti’s trio, No Fine Print—just in time to watch the Outhouse Races. The Outhouse Races will feature teams who will push, pull, and run around their home-built contraption to the finish

www.rosslandnews.com A13 line. Gather at the edge of the arena parking lot near Second Avenue to witness the revival of this old-time traditional contest. Cheer on your favorite team and watch to see who wins the coveted outhouse trophy. The Slo-pitch Tournament will run all weekend at various Rossland ballparks. Look for posters with information about the Huck en Berries Jump Jam and Dreadhead Enduro DH race on Saturday. In the former Emcon lot, skateboard-

ers will gather to take part in the KSS Miner Threat Jam, and young bikers will enjoy the games, bike-decorating, and fun races hosted by BettyGoHard. Continuing with the sports activities, check out The Golden City Grind on Sunday. Sunday’s activities on the MacLean Elementary School grounds feature a mini bocce tournament, community white elephant sale, Stake Your Claim children’s “dig for gold” event, burgers, hot dogs, and music by the Rossland

Radio Co-op. Form your bocce teams, sell the items you no longer need, watch your children dig for the prized “gold,” bring your lawn chairs and enjoy this social afternoon with family and friends. Closing out the weekend, you won’t want to miss the fourth annual Mountain Mayhem West Kootenay Roller Derby Championships. Check out their poster for details. Raffle tickets are on sale at Rossland G ro c e r y and

Powderhound. Your support of the Golden City Days raffle could win you a pair of Motorhead skis from Powderhound, a chainsaw-carved bench by Mike Williams (on display at Powderhound), a beautiful Avon product-filled gift basket, a one-night stay at the Flying Steamshovel, Red Mountain Resort one day lift ticket, or one of many other wonderful prizes, donated by supportive Rossland businesses. The weekend event wouldn’t be possible without generous

sponsors, including Canadian Heritage, City of Rossland, Columbia Basin Trust, Mountain FM, Nelson & District Credit Union, Trail Daily Times, Rossland News, FortisBC, EZ Rock, Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, Area B, and Teck Trail Operations. Pick up your schedule of events at Rossland businesses and check out the Rossland Golden City Days page on Facebook to find out more about the many events happening around town.

IN BRIEF Election reform pledged for 2014 A ban on anonymous contributions in municipal elections is among the reforms the provincial government is pledging to have in place the next time local voters go to the polls to elect councils in November of 2014. Details are to be in a white paper next month. But Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Coralee Oakes said additional changes will also require disclosure and registration of third-party advertisers in local government elections. Sponsorship information will also be mandatory on all election advertising, and campaign finance disclosures will have to be filed within 90 days, instead of 120 days.

B.C. fire crews sent to Idaho B.C. is sending firefighters and equipment to help battle wildfires burning in Idaho. One 40-unit crew consisting of personnel from the Northwest, Prince George and Coastal fire centres leaves for Coeur d’Alene, Idaho on Thursday. Two air tankers and a birddog aircraft were sent earlier this week to Boise. Officials with B.C.’s Wildfire Management Branch said they still have enough personnel and resources at the ready to combat forest fires within B.C., based on the current level of fire activity and forecasted conditions.

If you see a wildfire call *5555 on your cell. Nearly half of all wildfires are preventable. Please, be responsible in our forests.

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Do you like to skate or want to learn? Rossland Figure Skating Club invites you to join us. Mark these dates! Sat, Sept 7th, Look for us at the Golden City Days Parade Tues, Sept 10th 6:00-7:30 Skate & Gear Swap / Registration Rossland Arena Lounge. Sept 9th 6-7pm Drop off skates and gear at the arena Thurs. Sept 19th 3-6 Late Registration & Bake Sale Rossland Mtn. Market. Canskate, Rising Stars & Starskate Programs (ages 3-18) run Oct 2nd-March 12th in Rossland Arena. For more info. contact Teri Mack terimack@live.ca 250-362-7340 TUPPERWARE BACK TO SCHOOL SALE! Saturday September 7, Sandman Inn 1944 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Great in-stock savings. Susan Wilson, Independent Tupperware Consultant (250) 2267751, swilson@direct.ca or visit

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The call for help went out. Rossland Search and Rescue was in need of radios to help their members communicate when in the field and on rescue forays. And the Health Care Thrift Store answered. The ever giving group of volunteers at the city’s second hand store on Washington Street bequeathed Search and Rescue with the $5,000 they needed to secure six top-of-the-line radios, complete with all the fixings. Search and Rescue’s longest serving member, Graham Jones, said they had made a pitch to the thrift store board for funding earlier in the year, and their pitch was accepted.

The donation helps complete the circle of required gear and technology for the community-based group. One year ago Search and Rescue purchased a new emergency response vehicle— something the crew has never had—to compliment their fully equipped mobile command trailer. But both units were not equipped with hand held radios that volunteers needed to stay safe and adequately do their jobs. “So if we jump into the truck and go and we send people into the field we need to give them radios to help them stay in contact,” Jones said. “We go out into some pretty horrendous conditions, so (these radios) will help us stay in contact, and stay safe.” The money allowed search and rescue to

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From left: Thrift Shop volunteer Andy Cant, president and store manager Sharon Hansen, Rossland Search and Rescue’s Graham Jones and shop vice president Linda Cant with some of the new radios.

purchase six radios and charging systems as well as spare battery packs. “Groups like ours, we can’t function without the generosity of different organizations within the com-

munity,” said Jones. Raising money is always an issue for Search and Rescue to keep up-to-date with training and to purchase the technology to keep members safe in the backcountry.

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