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Residents of New Denver as well as other concerned citizens held a vigil for the four young people who were involved in a tragic canoe mishap. One teen has been confirmed as dead while three others are still missing and presumed drowned. Isaac Carter, ICandyFilms photo

er to 480 feet (146 meters), “making any recovery more difficult.” The four youths were paddling north from New Denver to Rosebery. None had lifejackets on. The cause of the mishap is unknown — conditions were good when they set out. Searches by air and boat have not turned up any sign of them. An eight-member RCMP dive team joined the search Monday morning, using underwater cameras. Given the temperature, each diver can only spend limited time in the water. A police helicopter also scanned the lake and shoreline. Divers searched all day, concentrating on Bigelow Bay and working from the shore toward deeper water. They returned Tuesday as RCMP planned another aerial search.

Little dispelled rumours that the helicopter spotted three bodies in the water: “This is not the case. As one might guess this has caused a lot of anguish in the community.” Meanwhile, the man whose canoe the youths borrowed described them as “wonderful kids.” “They were really full of life and fun. Just marvellous people,” said Dan Nicholson, publisher of the Valley Voice. “It’s a huge loss.” All four lived in the Slocan Lake area although Kyle was originally from Gibsons. Kyle and Harmer-Taylor both lived with Nicholson’s family in Rosebery, while Donnet lived with them for a while when he was younger. Nicholson said he knew all of them except Kyle since infancy, as they were friends of his own kids. Each had one

parent living locally and another somewhere else and they “bounced back and forth.” Kyle had been staying with Nicholson’s family for a couple of months. He moved from the Sunshine Coast to Nelson where he worked on a demolition job with Donnet, and the two became close friends. Once the job ended, Kyle needed a place to live, and asked Nicholson and his wife agreed he could stay with them until he got back on his feet. Harmer-Taylor and Wiltshire-Padfield were a couple and planning to hitchhike to Regina to see her father. She was just finishing high school in New Denver. Last fall, Nicholson and his wife offered her a place to stay as well. Continued on Page 3

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At the same time, Rev. Father John Althoff was disturbed at “the intoxication of praise and the glory of war” and warned of its “soberness and gravity.” Even those who listened to Althoff ’s admonitions wouldn’t have anticipated the horrors to come over the next four years. Many who departed that day didn’t return. In her new book, Names on a Cenotaph: Kootenay Lake Men in World War I, Sylvia Crooks takes a closer look at the local men who died on European battlefields in

what was supposed to be the war to end all wars. She previously wrote Homefront and Battlefront: Nelson BC in World War II and during her research on that book was intrigued by the fact that even though similar numbers enlisted locally in both wars — about 1,300 — nearly four times as many men from the earlier conflict appear on the Nelson cenotaph. “That was pretty overpowering,” Crooks says, attributing the difference partly to strategy. “They were using

Victorian military strategy with more modern weapons. These men were walking into wave after wave of machine gun fire.” It wasn’t unusual for 1,000 or more to die in a single battle, many from blood poisoning. Another stark statistic: one-third of the names on the Nelson cenotaph have no known resting place. As the battleground was repeatedly churned up, makeshift graves were blown apart. Crooks, a Nelson native and retired Continued on Page 5

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or as long as he can remember, Case Grypma has been obsessed with flying. “It’s absolute freedom. It’s kind of hard to put into words. You’re getting away from everything. It’s really an escape. You’re up in the sky, you don’t have to worry about ditches or oncoming traffic. There’s time for intense concentration—take offs and landings— but you really get a sense of wonder. You go back to your childhood where everything is new and perfect.” Grypma has been flying planes for the last 40 years. Licensed as a commercial pilot as a teenager, he ultimately went on to work as a bush pilot in the north and to fly commercial airliners,

mostly in and out of the Kootenays. But his favourite aviation experience isn’t even his own. “The most intense and exciting experience was standing on the ground watching my 16-year-old son fly solo for the first time. Being there, watching that, and that sense of ‘wow, he’s doing something that’s so amazing, that very few people will ever experience’,” he said. “It’s hard to describe.” Grympa now wants to replicate that experience for the Nelson community. As chairman of the upcoming aviation showcase on Saturday, August 2, he wants to install a passion for aviation in the future generations that will be lined up on the tarmac. “It’s a really fun, family grassroots aviation event. It’s not like a huge inter-

national show like Abbotsford. People come right out on the tarmac. They talk to the pilots, sit in the airplane. They’re literally meters from an old World War II training airplane,” he said. The show will feature aerial performances by eight pilots, including Bill Carter, John Mrazek and Peter Herzig. The aircrafts will begin arriving on Friday evening on August 1, and the event begins at 8 a.m. Saturday with a pancake breakfast. “The setting here is spectacular,” said Grypma. “Centre stage is right over the lake front, from Lakeside Park to the mall to the airport there’s no bad seat. You could be on your verandah on Mill street and have this beautiful aerial performance right in front of you, with the mountain right behind.”

Grypma said aviation is an integral part of the Nelson community. “Nelson has always been a very airminded community. As a matter of fact, the very first air show occurred in 1912 at the site of the aquatic centre parking lot. It was an American pilot by the name of Walter Edwards. He came in from Portland, Oregon and did a fantastic show here.” Ever since then, aviation has been closely linked with development in the area. “The airport was originally constructed by volunteers and the city of Nelson in 1946 and it’s been operating consistently since then. It’s become a gateway to Nelson” he said. Continued on Page 3

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Local search and rescue volunteers spent 7½ hours Sunday rescuing a local woman seriously injured in an avalanche on the Kootenay Pass that killed one of her ski companions. The victims were part of a party of four, all from around Nelson, who were backcountry skiing in the Lightning Strike area, southwest of the highways yard at the top of the pass. Nelson Search and Rescue’s Chris Armstrong said they were called out around 1 p.m. and dispatched a helicopter with two technicians to assess the avalanche risk. The class two to three slide pulled the man through a heavily treed area and down a cliff. “The man went right to the midslope and travelled a great distance through a lot of timber,” Armstrong said. “The woman was hung up on a tree near the top and it’s probably what saved her.” Although neither was buried in the slide, the 27-year-old man died at the scene. The woman, also 27, is recovering in hospital in Trail with unknown injuries that may include broken ribs. The other two skiers in their party were not hurt. Another party of six in the area witnessed the slide, and four joined in the rescue effort. One person went to the highways yard to call for help. The first search and rescue personnel arrived between 2:30 and 3 p.m. Armstrong said the weather, diminishing daylight, and difficult access prevented a helicopter rescue, but they didn’t think they could wait overnight to bring the woman out. “With her injuries, we decided if we hunkered down we may not be able to get her out if it snowed. So we deemed it best to get her out, and brought in all

A local man was killed and a woman seriously hurt after a large avalanche Sunday near the top of the Kootenay Pass (seen above). More than two dozen search and rescue volunteers responded to the call. File photo the manpower we could.” Teams from South Columbia, Rossland, and Castlegar were called and 26 volunteers ultimately flew or hiked into the area. The woman was packaged on a stretcher, dragged down a creek valley, and back up to the highway. It was between 10:30 and 11 p.m. when she was transferred to BC Ambulance personnel. “We basically did it by sheer manpower,” Armstrong said. “Hours of grueling slogging, pulling a stretcher through the snow.” Following the rescue, the operation was shut down until morning, when

technicians triggered controlled avalanches to make the area safe. Three search members then skied in to recover the man’s body. His name has not been released, but in a Facebook comment his aunt called him a “great young man.” “The family is devastated,” she wrote. “Our thanks to the crew and everyone who has helped in our time of need.” Armstrong also paid tribute to the volunteers: “Twenty-six people who had to go to work Monday morning went out and completely busted their humps. We have a great system of volunteers and they need to be appreciated

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hen Roxanne, the hit Steve Martin movie filmed in Nelson, was released on DVD in 2000, it contained no deleted scenes or bonus features apart from the theatrical trailer. This was a let down because we know some parts did end up on the editing room floor. (If you’ve never seen the film, or haven’t in a long time, best do so before reading further.) But in 1997, Martin published his original screenplay, giving us some idea of what didn’t make the finished movie. What’s striking isn’t only what was left out but what was added. When the film was released in 1987, Martin told the New York Times it was “almost depressing” how many big laughs came from improvised material. However, he considered “those

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One of the first things Martin had to figure out was where the movie would take place. “I needed a setting where people could run into each other on the street and be believable,” he told the Times. Martin lived in Aspen, Col. in the 1970s and decided a ski resort town “was the perfect size and everybody hung out in the same place.” The exact location was apparently chosen by the time the script was finalized, for Nelson is mentioned by name on the first page. Martin began thinking about a modern-day Cyrano in 1983 and wrote ten screenplay drafts before showing it to Columbia Pictures in 1985. He eventually wrote another 15 drafts, although some versions only had a few scenes altered. (In 1990, Martin donated his drafts, revisions, and final shooting script to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre at the University of Texas.) “The secret was to have the courage to throw things away at any point when they didn’t seem to be working,” Martin

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said. “I’d get a better idea and it would affect everything else, so other things would go out of balance.” Martin had co-written most of his films to that point, but had never done a solo screenplay. Feeling insecure, he laboured at it 12 hours a day, and at one point asked Gore Vidal to write the movie, who declined. Martin did, however, receive suggestions from Melnick and directors Herb Ross and Mike Nichols. In one early version, Chris, C.D.’s rival for Roxanne’s affection, dies in a fire and several months later, Roxanne tells C.D. she’s pregnant and wants to raise the child with him. However, Martin decided killing Chris off was “arbitrary.” “My big breakthrough was when I asked myself, ‘If I keep Chris alive, what is he thinking?’ and I realized that after his one night of glory, he would be tremendously uncomfortable with Roxanne.” Story continues to Page 8

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The two people who robbed Star Grocery in Nelson on Friday night are still at large. Nelson Police Department is still investigating the incident that occurred just after 9 p.m. Store owners Jian and Julie Situ told the Nelson Star the robbery when two people walked into the establishment, located at 1516 Crease Avenue in Rosemont, and up to the counter. Jian said the man and woman were dressed in black, their faces and hair were covered and both wore gloves. “The man placed a black garbage bag on the counter and the woman stood in front of the cash register,” said Jian. “They didn’t say anything other than the man told me to give him the cigarettes and money.” That’s when the man pulled a canister of pepper spray from behind his back and sprayed Jian in the face. Jian said he backed away. He couldn’t see clearly anymore and feared they might have a gun. The woman took the money out of the cash register which Jian estimates was $300 to $400, while the man took approximately 50 to 60 packs of cigarettes from the shelves. Then the man and woman left the store. Jian’s wife Julie had left the store five minutes earlier and was upstairs when she heard a loud noise below. She heard her husband shout, “Call the police.” Julie came downstairs into the store to check on him but she had difficulty breathing because of the pepper spray still in the air. Jian described the female suspect as very heavy, shorter than 5’6” and he believes she is in her 30s. The man was a bit taller than Situ, who is approximately 5’9”. A witness to the event saw two “rotund” people walking down the street just uphill from the store who stopped underneath the street lamp and put hoods on their heads. It was spitting

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Jian Situ is the owner of the Star Grocery store in Nelson. On Friday night, his business was robbed and Situ was sprayed in the face with pepper spray. Tamara Hynd photo rain on and off at the time. One witness heard what sounded like a woman’s giggle. When the pair walked into the Star Grocery parking lot, a witness noticed their hoodies were pulled very tight around their faces and something didn’t feel right. Less than two minutes later the same people exited the store, sauntering faster up the street the way they came from; the taller person was holding a plastic garbage bag with something in it. “The size they were, they weren’t go-

ing anywhere fast, so in retrospect they may have had a vehicle parked further up the street,” said a witness. Witnesses heard Jian yelling, “Call the police, call the police,” and saw him come out of the store rubbing his eyes. The Nelson Police Department received several calls and witnesses said officers were on the scene very soon. Police blocked the road coming from the store and patrolled the area with a spot light. The fire department and ambulance responded as well. They flushed Jian’s eyes and firefighters set

up a very large fan for 45 minutes to air out the store. On Saturday, Jian said he was doing well other than he couldn’t sleep as his skin felt hot through the night. He is grateful that he is okay. Jian and his wife opened their store at 8:30 Saturday morning as per their regular hours. According to a Nelson Police Department press release, the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with any information about this crime is encouraged to contact the NPD at 250-354-3919 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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