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On the edge of the bowl — The all-wheel park at Art Gibbon in Rosemont was filled with excited boarders, scooterers and cyclists Sunday as they learned the project was complete. Kirsten Hildebrand photo
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About 50 skateboarders came to Art Gibbon Park in Rosemont this past Sunday to help “load test” the 15,000 square foot park that includes bowl, ditch run and plaza elements. “It held up phenomenally to all the tests,” said Chad Hansen, spokesperson for the Kootenay Outdoor Skatepark Society. “It’s well built and should last for 30 years, with minor maintenance.” Designed and built by New Line Skateparks from Langley, the park was originally slated to open in
September but the unseasonably wet weather this fall pushed back the timeline. The official opening was moved to mid-October, then further postponed until next spring. “We sent the crews home, thinking we weren’t going to be able to finish it this year — then the sun came out,” Hansen explained. So, the crews returned and the weather held out while they poured cement and sealed the surfaces. Hansen said it was a relief to see the park finished before winter. “It makes everything way sim-
pler,” Hansen said. “There would have been a lot of repairs needed by next spring, if they’d had to wait until then to finish it.” Never mind the fact that every step in the process of building an outdoor skatepark in Nelson has been riddled with delays. It took more than 10 years for the Kootenay Outdoor Skatepark Society to secure the site and funding for the project. New Line had to completely re-design the park last year after plans to build it in the parking lot
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A traditional Chinese medicine doctor who didn’t pay his income taxes for three years has been ordered to pay a $40,000 fine and spend six months in jail for the crime. Warren Fischer, 50, is the founder of Nelson’s Academy of Classical Oriental Sciences, where he works as a classroom instructor and an acupuncturist in the outpatient clinic. Between the years of 2007 and 2009, he filed income tax statements reporting either no earnings or a net loss. But according to a Revenue Canada investigation, he earned between $80,000 and $135,000 during each of those years and owed about $62,000 in taxes for the three-year period. The sentence handed down by Judge Lisa Mrozinski at the Nelson courthouse Tuesday morning gave him three and a half years to pay back 75 per cent of the amount he owes in back taxes. Fischer’s lawyer Shawn Buckley had recommended that Fischer pay the mandatory minimum fine of 50 per cent of the amount owing and that he be given a conditional sentence that could be served in the community. But Crown prosecutor Nils Preshaw asked for a 100 per cent fine and one year in jail. Mrozinski told the court that she did not believe Fischer would comply with a conditional sentence order because of his history of defying court process and regulations of other governing bodies. For example, during pre-trial hearings he and his supporters were disruptive in court and during the trial he refused to enter the courthouse, opting to stand outside the doors in peaceful protest. He also continues to practice Chinese medicine, seeing between 50 and 60 patients per week, despite not being in
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