Arrow Lakes News, September 17, 2014

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

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Arrow Lakes News

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Since 1923

Vol.91 • Issue 38

Buying or Selling a Home?

Laura Salmon

Birds of Nakusp

GS What?

Rotary waterfront lighting project

12 species on walk to summit. See page 5

International motorcycle contest in Nakusp. See page 7

Progress being made on waterfront lighting project. See page 8

Cell 250-551-8877

E-mail Laura@LauraSalmon.com Website www.LauraSalmon.com

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TEACHERS STRIKE DRAWS SUPPORT K I D S A N D G R A N D PA R E N T S TO PICKET LINE

431 Baker Street , Nelson, BC Phone: 250-352-5033

Full story on page 6

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Eve Pavan drawing a picture and enjoying the goodies available for participants.

Photo by Trisha Shanks

Multiple non-profits to purchase downtown building Rauni Naud

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TRISHA SHANKS Arrow Lakes News

Located at 611 Broadway, the Kinsmen Building is flanked by the post office and the former Nakusp Music Festival/Emergency Services building, now Waterbridge Fer-

ries Inc. Built in the 1960s, it was donated to the Village of Nakusp in 1969 for use as a health facility with a 40-year contract in place. Then in 2009, the village started to collect rent from its tenants. Five years later, at the beginning of 2014, primary tenant

Interior Health ultimately gave notice and chose to relocate its public health nurse unit to the Arrow Lakes hospital. This left the ultra-part-time Nakusp Options for Sexual Health (OPT) as the only tenant. Their use was minimal: only two evenings a month.

The OPT clinic had been able to piggyback on the IHA’s tenancy and was not being charged rent for their use. With the nurse unit gone, this left huge concerns for the volunteer-run clinic which provides free disease screening,

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