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Red Mountain Racers Society nears completion of long-time desire and plan to create permanent snow making infrastructure on Red Mountain, and establish an athlete’s training facility.
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An idea that has been 15 years in the making for the city’s downhill ski racers could finally come to fruition. The Red Mountain Racers Society is close to realizing the goal of an athlete’s training facility at Red Mountain, but first they must gain approval from city council to obtain water from Star Gulch reservoir for snow making purposes. • See SNOW MAKING, Page 7
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Ward, city head to court TIMOTHY SCHAFER Rossland News
The City of Rossland is suing its Rivervale home, former building inspector. $228,500 On Monday, Feb. 3 the city filed a notice of civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court against Jason George Ward. Ward was the city’s former chief building inspector. ONE PERCENT REALTY In the fall of 2011, the city discovered that while Ward was 368-1817 | 362-9094 nancykaiser.ca employed by the city as chief nnckaiser@gmail.com building inspector, he was also Yourinvolved Horoscope Forwith the Weeka business called withADA Michael O’Connor insidewhich had been Co. Inc. Horoscope the doing West Kootenay Advertiser construction work for the For the Week city. with Michael O’Connor The city investigated and con-
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firmed that $181,662.70 had been paid to ADA Co. Inc. in relation to work done on the Rossland Arena. It is alleged that the value of the work done was worth substantially less than the amount paid to ADA Co. Inc., and in this lawsuit the city is seeking to recover the difference between the value of the work and what had been paid. As this matter is now before the courts, the city will not provide any further comment. An Attorney General for Local Government audit of Rossland’s past management practices—the report is pending—was requested by the city after its tendering, contracting and project reporting
practices were brought to light by the Ward incident. The AGLG will wade into the tangle created when Ward’s own company was able to bill the city $185,000 for arena renovations, unbeknownst to council. In the audit the provincial office is expected to make recommendations to council on the best means to provide adequate oversight of contract services and project management and to reduce the possibility of fraud in the future. The province has contracted with KPMG and Grant Thornton to assist in the conduct of the performance audits.
Dredging up the past STAFF Rossland News
The Rossland Historical Museum is embarking on a new project to record the human history of longtime Rosslanders. Called Old Timer Interviews project, museum directors Roly Worsfold and Lydia Jakovac are now busy tracking down senior Rossland community members to interview and record their stories and memories of living in the Golden City.
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