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Museum preparing exhibit on Sinixt First Nation Alex Cooper Arrow Lakes News
Cliff Woffenden and Sharon Montgomery are hard at work on a large diorama that will showcase both winter and summer Sinixt settlements in the Nakusp area. Alex Cooper/Arrow Lakes News
The history of the Sinixt people will be given their own space at the Nakusp Museum when a new exhibit opens this spring. The exhibit has been years in the making and is finally going forward after the museum was granted additional space thanks to the expansion of the Centennial Building. “We have been wanting to build a big outdoor exhibit for a long time now, we just couldn’t get any other land in Nakusp,” said Sharon Montgomery, the curator of the museum and cochair of the Nakusp & District Museum Society. “When (the expansion) happened, we thought, let’s downsize and show their habitat in miniature and move the rest of the artifacts and give them a special spot.” The Sinixt have a history in the Nakusp area going back 10,000 years, said Montgomery, and the exhibit will shed light on how the people lived around here. The centrepiece of the exhibit will be a large diorama of the Nakusp area. The diorama models the Nakusp shoreline from Kuskanax Creek to the east, with the mountainscape to the north of Nakusp painted on the wall. The diorama will feature a model Sinixt village next to the Kuskanax and a winter village where Nakusp is today. The summer village will feature a tule mat teepee and a fish drying shack, while the winter village will feature a pit house.
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Nakusp Chamber of Commerce forms new board of directors Alex Cooper Arrow Lakes News
The Nakusp & District Chamber of Commerce held its annual general meeting last week, using it as opportunity to go over the chambers work last year and plans for this year, and to form a new board of directors. The AGM was held at Chumley’s last Thursday, Jan. 26, with about 25 people in attendance. Cedra Eichenauer, the manager of the Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Centre, went over the chamber’s financials. The chamber posted a $2,000 profit last year, which she hopes will tide the organization over while member’s pay their dues for 2014. Eichenauer unveiled the new website, which is currently online but not live to the public. The site replaces the old, textheavy web page with one that is much more graphic intensive. “I don’t know how many of you are familiar with our current website, but I use it every day and I find it a little bit difficult to navigate and not automatic when you see it,” she said. “The new one, we’ve eliminated the text so you just get images.” The home page of the new site features three photo slideshows leading to sections titled visit, discover and stay. The visit section provides information about the region and how to
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The Chamber of Commerce board and staff: Left to right, standing: Niel Allkins, Overwaitea Foods; Craig Savage, chamber events systems coordinator; Willi Jahnke, Nakusp Greenscape; Joanne Cowan, Kootenay Savings Credit Union; Susan Kostuch, Coachman Campsite; Shirley Kosiancic, Century 21 Mountainview Realty and Spectrum Home & Family Care; Dawn Devlin, ReAwakening Health Centre; Cedra Eichenauer, Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Centre manager.; Kneeling: Shari Wahl, HUB International Barton Insurance. Seated: Peter Welkerling, Brouse Creek B&B.; Absent: Tammy Dachwitz, Cozy Cabin B&B and Nakusp Glass; Barbara Ross, individual member. Alex CooperArrow Lakes News
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