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$325,000 grant towards increasing public avalanche safety ALICIA WALLACE Rossland News

Avalanche Canada will receive $325,000 over the next two years from Columbia Basin Trust in an effort to assist the avalanche forecasting organization’s on-going work of increasing public safety for winter backcountry users.

With world-leading accident prevention programs

and services, Avalanche Canada is a national public avalanche safety organization based in the Columbia Basin.

Throughout winter, Avalanche Canada issues free daily avalanche forecasts for much of the mountainous regions of western Canada, including the Kootenay Boundary region and the local backcountry playground areas of Kootenay Pass and the Rossland Range.

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“Kootenay Boundary is definitely a place that we are interested in having recreational users in the backcountry. Our goal is to try and engage as many backcountry users to better equip them to make more informed decisions in relation to avalanche risk,” said Avalanche Canada’s public avalanche warning service manager, Karl Klassen.

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Reporter Alicia Wallace asked people if Rossland should go without plastic bags and why or why not?

Here are a few of the responses.

Should Rossland be plastic bag free?

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News City budgets and community engagement ALICIA WALLACE Rossland News

The City of Rossland has once again allocated grant funds to community organizations as part of the community support program.

The table below identifies entities that received funding in 2015 and compares it to the amount received in 2014.

Ultimately it is the tax payer who pays for these community organizations and while the council determines how the funds are spent, community members can still have their say.

Organization

Mark your calendar for the public council meeting on March 23 where council will be discussing the outcomes of the public engagement in regards to the city budget.

Council have recognized that the city needs to put out more information and communications. Councillor John Greene summed this up by stating, “A lot of citizens don’t understand a lot of the things we’re learned over the past three months.”

“Some community groups were disappointed that they did not get the grant money they requested.

Council really struggled with this year’s allocation,” said Mayor Kathy

Total $ Value of Community Support Funding in 2015

Difference in $ dollars

Percentage change

0

0

-6,275

- 4. 98

3,909

48,500 (plus 18,500 for operational support) 126,000 (plus 3,500 operational support) 4,000

-91

-2.27

15,636

32,000

-16,364

-51.13

20,000

20,500

-2,197

-2.43

22,803 2,150

25,000 2,500

-2,197 -350

-8.78 -14

6,841

7,001

160

-2.28

4,235

5,000

765

-15.3

1,710

1,800

-90

-5

14,659

5,000

+9,659

+193.18

2,854

3,000

-146

-4.86

9,772

N/A

N/A

N/A

4,339 9,500 (plus up to 5,000 contingency) TBA in budget

5,900 17,054

-1,561 0

-26.45 0

3,200

TBA

TBA

TBA in budget

26,800

TBA

TBA

TBA in budget

1,700

TBA

TBA

Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre

48,500

Rossland Public Library Rossland Council for Arts and Culture Rossland Chamber of Commerce Kootenay Columbia Trails Society Tourism Rossland Wildsafe Bear Aware Financial Assistance Policy Heritage Commission Misc. GrantsIn-Aid Sustainability Commission Rossland Tennis Club Rossland Vision for Small Schools Golden City Days Rossland Winter Carnival Rossland Senior Citizens Rossland Curling Club Rossland Lion’s Club

119,725

Total $ Value of Community Support Funding in 2014

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This is a result of infrastructure and capital reserves being neglected over the years. Now council has to meet the deficit and play catch up to continue operating at the same level.“We set a cap of seven per cent of tax revenue for this purpose,” said Moore.

If you are interested to learn about council decisions and find out how to have your say, come along to the next council meeting scheduled for March 23 at 6 p.m.

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Record year for Rossland’s accommodation revenue ALICIA WALLACE Rossland News

Tourism Rossland has announced that the 2014 calendar year produced the greatest accommodation revenue to date for the city.

In 2014, total accommodation revenue for Rossland was $4,456,868. This compares to $2,974,000 in 2012 and $3,532,000 in 2013.

The revenue has been generated by the 10 accommodation businesses, all included Rossland’s municipal and regional district tax, or hotel tax reporting program.

These 10 accommodators meet the government’s criteria on collecting the tax. Combined, these 10 properties can sleep a total of 1,250 people per night.

Tourism Rossland compiles accommodation revenue reports based on the data from the tax.

This involves accommodation properties collecting two per cent of the nightly rate on stays that are less than 30 nights.

Each month, accommodation properties with four or more rooms remit the two per cent tax to the provincial government.

The BC government then distributes these funds to tourism organizations via municipal governments throughout the province.

Funds dispersed back to Tourism Rossland are used for marketing initiatives aimed at creating awareness of the destination and motivating visitors to Rossland.

Deanne Steven of Tourism Rossland says her organization been collecting and tracking the data since 2006 as a means of measuring the status of the visitor economy.

“This is the only concrete number we have for the state of the industry,” she said.

Based on a metric from Destination British Columbia, the value of tourism in Rossland is estimated to be $13,264,488 per annum. This figure is calculated based on the tax as a proportion of the total visitors spend in a destination.

Steven explains this accommo-

dation revenue gives a snapshot of visitor expenditure across the service industries. These figures can be used to calculate estimates on new money brought into the economy by visitors and what they spend at local restaurants, gas stations, retail stores and groceries.

Steven puts the increased revenue down to big events and festivals and the addition of snow making at RED Mountain Resort.

“Several factors have also lead to the success of the tourism industry including large races hosted by Black Jack and the Red Mountain Racers, the success of the Rossland Winter Carnival, the expansion of Red Mountain, the continued improvements of our trails network, and effective co-operative marketing,” she explained.

“By working in a collaborative manner, Rossland businesses have been able to continue to grow the local economy in a strategic way,” Steven added.

The data analysis process takes three months to reach full circle.

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t’s a tough job keeping a community’s social, environmental and economic benefits prioritized, balanced and equitable.

The city’s newly elected officials deserve a pat on the back for aiming to leave Rossland in better shape and more sustainable then when they first sat.

It was responsible of council to look at overall demands on the city’s budget prior to assessing community support funding and a great idea to set a cap of seven per cent of the city’s tax revenue for this purpose.

Sure, some community groups were disappointed they did not receive the taxpayer hand out they were hoping, for but council took into consideration many factors when allocating these funds.

In a market-driven environment there has to be structure and criteria around who receives what and why. The public can be satisfied when it is possible to look up justifiable reasoning and from this information make broader decisions — such as should I invest in Rossland? It is a fine balance between keeping taxes low to entice others to purchase property and invest here and on the other hand provide a vibrant community with an abundance of services.

We are not saying that these organizations are not worthy of more funding. Rossland would definitely be more vibrant if we could throw bucket loads of loonies at each organization and build them into elite entities.

It is ultimately the taxpayer who pays for these community organizations and while council determines how the funds are spent it is the people who determine if they will invest here and ultimately contribute to the city’s budget.

To conclusively allow the people to decide, community groups should be looking for other revenue streams to be financially stable and the city needs to develop comprehensive policies around who and what taxpayer money will fund.

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The title is a fact. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is saying, “Whether I want them to or not, men explain things to me,” and these men — she emphasizes that she is not writing about all men — do this without wanting to engage her in conversation or even worrying to know what they’re talking about. They simply interrupt and override her, assuming that they are entitled to behave that way.

A line joins this belief in the right to take over a conversation to others’ beliefs in their right to ignore, silence, control, physically harm, emotionally abuse, and kill whom they wish.

All these people think they are entitled to determine what they can do and what

others cannot. Not all men commit these acts, but, Solnit offers, all women’s lives are impacted and impaired by them.

Consider two examples from North America (Solnit supports her points solidly with data and examples from around the world): the college women who described “intricate ways they stayed alert, limited their access to the world, took precautions, and essentially thought about rape all the time (while the young men in the class […] gaped in astonishment)” and the young aboriginal woman in Thunder Bay who was abducted, raped, beaten, and left for dead by men who made it clear that their horrible abuse of her was a retaliation against the Native Canadian Indigenous rights movement Idle No More, which encourages women to claim “voice, power, and the right to participate.”

Shouldn’t these — shouldn’t all — women be able to rule their own fates, to create their own lives?

Solnit uses similar examples as starting points to frame other interactions. Don’t the victim and alleged assailant in a sex scandal “model larger relationships” between individuals and groups who believe in their undeniable right to exercise their power? Aren’t such dynamics at the heart of domestic violence, homophobia, rac-

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These essays also explore how society recently has created awareness and laws that have brought the prevention and discussion of these abuses into the mainstream. In one of her earlier books, Hope in the Dark, Solnit writes that she “was born [in 1961] into a world in which there was little or no recourse — and often not even the words — for racial profiling, hate crimes, domestic violence, sexual harassment, homophobia, and other forms of exclusion and oppression.”

These “new” words reveal shifts in how we imagine family, sexuality, gender, and race. In Men Explain Things to Me Solnit examines how these shifts created ideas that led to actions. The importance of this process can’t be downplayed, because ideas withstand: rights can be abolished, ignored, and trampled on, but ideas can’t be taken away.

We don’t need to share Rebecca Solnit’s experiences or her views in order to understand the importance of these essays.

Attitudes of power, control, entitlement, and indifference are all around us. Shouldn’t we think hard about the facts, anecdotes, questions, and points she raises, and then reflect on our selves, our community, and our society?

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The Trust’s commitment includes $100,000 per year over the next two years for ongoing activities, such as the public avalanche warning service, Avalanche Canada’s training courses and youthspecific initiatives.

It also includes a one-time $125,000 grant that will enable the organization to continue developing its new website and its mountain information network, which allows backcountry users to share real-time data and observations from the field.

In addition, this grant will allow Avalanche Canada to make important information technology purchases that will help stabilize its public avalanche warning services and reach a broader base of winter backcountry recreationists.

With the aim of eliminating avalanche fatalities and injuries in Canada, field observations from users on Avalanche Canada’s mountain information network and mountain weather forecast is utilized.

These observations come from a variety of sources including avalanche consultancy firms, commercial winter guiding operators, ski hills, highway and railway maintenance crews, professional avalanche course participants, university research teams and Avalanche Canada winter field team staff. Observations Avalanche Canada receives from the public via the mobile app or website also assist.

Avalanche Canada has developed an internationally recognized curriculum for recreational avalanche safety training, and support instructors who teach thousands of people each year.

“We are honoured by this support from Columbia Basin Trust,” said Gilles Valade, executive director, Avalanche Canada. “Today’s announcement is vital to the maintenance of our service level for the backcountry community and it will also allow us to continue to innovate avalanche risk management tools.”

“The services of Avalanche Canada are essential when it

comes to winter safety, both here and elsewhere in the country. We know that both residents and visitors to the Basin benefit greatly from the daily bulletins and avalanche warnings,” said Neil Muth, Columbia Basin Trust president and CEO. “As a non-profit, the organization’s funds come from a variety of sources and vary from year to year. We’re pleased we can help increase Avalanche Canada’s stability so it can strengthen these important services to the public,” Muth added.

To learn more about Avalanche Canada, visit avalanche.ca. Additionally, Avalanche Canada’s snowmobile specific webpage at avalanche.ca/sled highlights items of special interest to mountain snowmobilers for a safe experience in the backcountry.

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Rossland gets ready for another sell out ALICIA WALLACE Rossland News

Kootenay band Shred Kelly, a high energy stoke folk troupe, is performing at Rossland Miners’ Hall on Friday, March 20. In late January this year, the band released their third album titled Sing to the Night which CBC Music named Top 15 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015.

Having performed at some of the nation’s premier festivals, Shred Kelly has garnered themselves sold-out shows across Canada.

Their success at entertaining to a jampacked dance floor is a result of the fun and genuine love they have for performing live.

They have been re-defining what folk music means in Canada by amplifying the traditional sound of folk with a

contemporary twist. The audience can expect to hear sounds which define the peaks and valleys of the Kootenays.

The five-piece band consists of Tim Newton on the banjo, cello banjo, vocals, guitar and ukulele; Ian Page Shiner on drums; Jordan Vlasschaert on bass, acoustic guitar and the harmonica; Sage McBride sings vocals and plays the keyboard; and Ty West on guitar.

The band has played in Rossland several times, mainly for the Blizzard Music Festival during Winter Carnival. McBride explains that the group has so much fun every time they play in Rossland that they wanted to do a show for the release of the new album and 1980s-inspired ski video for the title track.

“We will be playing a bit of everything from crowd favourites to

songs on the Goodbye July and In the Hills albums and new music from the Sing to the Night album,” said McBride. McBride also encourages everyone to check out their music video. “It’s a one-shot ski video in retro ski gear,” she adds.

While in Rossland the band will be going out for breakfast and the Alpine Grind coffee shop is the place they have in mind.

The shop is also selling advanced tickets for the gig titled Stoke Folk — The Party! Shred Kelly with Brian Rosen & The WhatNow. Get your tickets early for this crowdfavourite show or you may only get to see the band at breakfast.

Below: Stoke Folk — The Party! Shred Kelly with Brian Rosen & The WhatNow are coming to Rossland Miners’ Hall on March 20.

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Rossland News reporter Alicia Wallace caught up with Sage McBride, vocalist and keyboard player from Shred Kelly, to get the low down on the upcoming gig Stoke Folk: The Party RN: What do you like most about being a musician?

McBride: I like creating new songs. I also like playing new shows, it’s the most rewarding part. Playing a show and receiving the audience reaction is unlike any other feeling in the world!

is all about. And the emotion. It is an emotional and high-energy song; it captures everything we do as a band in one piece.

RN: What’s the wildest gig you have played at to date?

RN: What’s one song that will get people excited for the Rossland gig?

McBride: We played a show at Castle Mountain where eight people were crowd surfing at once, shoes being thrown and all sorts. It got pretty wild.

McBride: Definitely Sing to the Night, that would be the perfect song to capture what Shred Kelly

RN: What’s the most memorable thing an audience member has done?

McBride: We played in Winnipeg and a woman started doing scandalous dance moves in the first set. It was hard for the band to contain our reaction to what was happening. Please don’t do that in Rossland!

RN: What’s the best thing about being on tour?

McBride: Meeting new people and getting to see other bands play.

You arrive in a new town and hear new bands.

When you hear some of them play, they can become one of your favourite bands.

RN: What is one tip you would give to an aspiring musician?

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McBride: Work really hard. Talent is only part of what carries you through. It is a combination of talent, hard work and dedication.

If you want to pursue a career in the music industry you have to be dedicated.

RN: Thank you Sage, we look forward to seeing you in Rossland later this month!

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ROSSLAND MUSEUM WINTER HOURS For the winter season, admission will be 50 per cent off !

ROSSLAND REC VOLLEYBALL Thursday, March 12, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the RSS gym. Come out for some spring vball action!

ROSSLAND SACRED HEART CWL ST. PATRICK’S DAY TEA March 14, 1 to 3 p.m. @ Sacred Heart Church in the Gathering Space. Cost is $4 per person.

ART DROP IN NIGHT Mondays, starting March 2, 7 to 8:30 p.m. @ our new space next door to RHC Insurance down town. There will be no instruction, just a space to be creative with other youth artists. We will have guest artists present to lend support. Guest artists: March 2 and 9 – painter Stephanie Gauvin; March 16 and 23 – air brush artist Colin Taylor.

Other guest artists to be announced!

ROSSLAND MAKERLAB Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 p.m. @ Seven Summits Centre for Learning Mentors are on hand to help with 3D modeling, printing or for other technology project. For youth 12 years and up. This program is free.

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Rossland Miners Hall Saturday March 14 Doors @7pm Concert @8pm Ticket $25 or $30 at the door

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YOUTH FILM MAKING DROP IN Wednesdays, March 4 to April 1, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. @ YAN space.

Hang out with other youth film makers and work on your film projects. Get your films ready for the U19 film festival with the support of other people interested in film.

Help each other film scenes, share knowledge, techniques and equipment. Facilitated by Liam Barnes, former winner and judge of the U19 Film Festival.

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Sundays, 9:15 to 10:30 p.m.

Join this fun, co-ed recreational program of non-contact drop-in hockey. Full equipment is required and some experience necessary.

FREE DISC GOLF Fridays, 7 to 9 p.m. from January to mid-March at the RSS gym. The Kootenay Rockies Disc Golf Society are offering indoor disc golf. A variety of fun putting games will be played on a short indoor course.

Baskets will be provided, however if you have a practice basket bring it along. Players should bring their own discs but if you don’t have a disc there will be discs available. There are no fees.

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OPEN MIC NIGHT Tuesdays 9 to 11 p.m. Join us every Tuesday and strut your stuff up on stage. With a new host every two weeks its gearing up to be a season of fantastic new talent and great music.

Sign up sheet located in the foyer of the Flying Steamshovel.

TEEN NIGHT Tuesdays 6-8 p.m. @ the Rossland Public Library. Let Sage and Sally know what you want to do at Teen Night. Come out and have fun!

ROSSLAND SENIORS Monday 1:30 p.m.

Seniors Art Club meets. Contact Edith at 250-362-4477.

Monday 7 p.m.

Rossland Quilters Guild meets.

Contact Dayanne at 250-362-7727.

Wednesday 7 p.m.

Rossland Old Time Fiddlers play.

Visitors should contact Richie or Audrey at 250-362-9465.

Thursday 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Seniors stretching exercises and morning tea and snacks.

LOCAL WRITERS DISCUSSION Wednesdays 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. @ the Rossland Seniors Hall. To share ideas, expertise and knowledge, critiques, and open opportunities for experienced and want to be writers. For more information contact Les Anderson by email lesanderson66@gmail.com or phone @ 250362-5532.

WRITER’S CLUB Every Wednesday until Apr 15, 2015. 7:30 to 9 p.m. @ Rossland Seniors Hall. All genres of writers welcome. No membership fee. Learn from published authors and writers.

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grams and events: Homeschoolers Happy Hour: 1st and 3rd Friday 1-2 p.m.

Lego Club: 1st and 3rd Thursday 3 to 4 p.m.

Books and Babies: Fridays at 11 a.m. Songs and story time for little ones 0 to 30 months.

Page Turners Book Club: 2nd Thursday of each month from 3 to 4 p.m. for kids 8-11 years old.

Book Club for adults: Last Wednesday of each month.

Movies and Munchies: 4th Thursday of each month from 3 to 4 p.m. For kids 6-12 years.

ROSSLAND MONKEY CLUB Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m. @ RSS Auditorium. Parkour and freerunning. Ages 8 and up. $5 drop-in.

Joe Hill Coffee House March 15

On Sunday, March 15, Rossland’s Joe Hill Coffee House presents another great show filled with talent from near and far, including our headline group, Peanut Butter and Jam, who are trekking all the way from Creston to be part of the fun.

Here’s the show: •Peanut Butter and Jam: Julie Groot on lead /harmony vocals, flute and penny whistles. Shirley Cameron on lead / harmony vocals, EWI (electronic wind instrument) and penny whistle.

Bob Gollan on lead/harmony vocals and guitar.

Ted Bryant on bass guitar and vocals. Celtic, Maritimes, and more.

•Bert Kniss: Fruitvale’s famous harmonica man.

•Ralph Zebrinski: making his solo debut at Joe Hill.

•The Kidz: Wonderful harmonies; Keith Park,

Anne-Marie Bruun, Ray Scott, Wendy and Paul Harvey, for the love of singing.

•J.P. Sykes: The man with the axe and the chops.

•Doug and the Thugs: The name says it all.

Old-time country from the gang.

Excellent venue, friendly scene, soft seats, goodies, coffee and tea, and only $3. Kids and students are free. Doors open at 6 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m.

Performers young, old, new or experienced, solo or together, Joe Hill Coffee House is a place to try out your style in public for the first time, or to relax and perform for the best audience in the Kootenays. There are no auditions. Just sign up for your 15 minutes of fun. Contact Les Carter at 250-362-5677 or email retrac01@telus.net.

ROSSLAND BEAVER SCOUTS Mondays 3 to 4 p.m.

Girls and boys ages 5 to 7 years.

Please contact Deanna Leask at 250362-7118 to join.

ROSSLAND TOONIE XC SERIES AT BLACKJACK Come ski under lights at the BlackJack Ski Club. XC Skiing events every Thursday night. Events will continue through March or until we run out of snow. Register in the trailhead cabin between 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

March 19: Skate March 26: Classic

SUBMISSIONS This page is for community, charity or fundraising events that are free (or nearly so) at the discretion of the editor. Dated events take priority and every effort will be made to ensure the publication of all contributions, as space allows. To post an event, provide information with contact details to editor@rosslandnews.com or call us at 1-877-365-6397.

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Kootenay Festival of Arts Volunteers needed

The Kootenay Festival of Arts will be hosted in Trail from April 6 to 18.

The festival offers students in the disciplines of dance, piano, speech, drama, choral, vocal and strings, the opportunity of performance and adjudication by professionals in a theatrical environment.

Volunteers are needed to assist with day to day duties.

Please call Audrey Gerein at 250-362-5522 to volunteer.

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Élie Carpentier, pionnier Francophone. Élie Carpentier serait né aux alentours de 1836. Personne ne sait exactement l’âge qu’il a, pas même ses amis. Ce n’est pas le seul mystère qui gravite toujours autour d’Élie: on ne connait pas son lieu de naissance, et il est impossible de retrouver une seule photo de lui. On croit qu’il aurait grandi dans le nord de la France à Saint-Omer.

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City of Trail 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 Trail Council Chambers

Rossland city council briefs MARCH 9 ALICIA WALLACE Rossland News

North Jubilee Wetland Project Council moved a staff recommendation to support the rehabilitation of the North Jubilee Park Wetland into a healthy and functioning wetland as proposed in the feasibility study dated last month.

The elected officials also budgeted for the removal of the basketball court during the construction of the wetland. Councillor Lloyd McLellan raised the question of whether a new basketball court should be constructed at another location.

While council felt it was a good idea, no commitment was made for a new one.

Redstone golf course request to amend permit Council received a request from Redstone golf course to amend the development permit that was issued in January this year for removal of trees on the property. Redstone golf course had a condition that 15 metre vegetation buffers would be

designated on both sides of the fairways, greens and paths.

Discussion included the contractor engaged to monitor the removal works and their specific ecological training or lack thereof. Council amended the motion so that Redstone must engage a qualified professional to monitor the works.

The motion to adopt the recommendation with the amendment was carried 4-3, with councillors Andy Morel, Andrew Zwicker and McLellan voting against the motion.

Morel voted against the motion because he said the area is ecologically sensitive habitat for rare salamanders and snakes, and contains fish streams. He believed there was a substantial amount of logging in this area.

Star Gulch feasibility study Last year the City of Rossland commissioned a feasibility study to assess the possible development of the Centre Star Gulch reservoir into a recreational lake

for public use.

The study was funded with a budget of $8,000 to be provided by the city and a grant of $4,000 from the Columbia Basin Trust. The study ended up costing $10,739.

The study found the project is cost prohibitive with an estimated $157,250 needed for capital expenses and $45,394 for the annual operation and maintenance of the public facility.

However, the study indicated the project is feasible from the perspective of provincial legislation and requirements in terms of constructability and site development.

McLellan asked staff to investigate the cost of conducting a feasibility study at another popular swimming hole, which currently does not allow for public access.

Next meeting The next regular council meeting is scheduled for March 23 at 6 p.m. and the public is welcome to attend. Agendas are available from the city website rossland.ca/ agendas-and-minutes prior to the meeting.

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City of Rossland 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 Rossland Council Chambers Electoral Area ‘B’/ Lower Columbia-Old Glory 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 9, 2015 Genelle Hall Village of Warfield 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Warfield Council Chambers

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Beaver Valley 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Montrose Hall Regional Project Public Input Session – BY INVITATION ONLY 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 26th, 2015 RDKB Board Room A PROGRAM OF

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Indi rock band Twin Peaks played new music from their album Wild Onion to a sold-out crowd in Rossland on Saturday.

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