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CITY COUNCIL
The City of Greenwood has finalized plans for the use of grant funds to upgrade P the multi-use ball field.
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POLICE
SPORTS
After almost seven years with the Midway and Grand Forks RCMP detahcment, Staff Sgt. Jim Harrison is leaving. P
New fishing restrictions on the Kettle River system intended to help protect trout P populations go into affect April 1.
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Mixed Woodcarvings reaction true works of art to tax PAT KELLY
Boundary Creek Times Reporter
Support in the West Boundary is evenly split for and against the proposed room occupancy tax on the local accommodation industry. However, according to Cindy Alblas who has been working on the project since last September, there is now a 68-per-cent buy-in from accommodators across the Boundary and the project is ready to move to the next phase. She said that to date her focus has been on the hotels and motels, but she will be meeting with other businesses such as Deadwood Junction and the Motherlode. “I will give you a complete report on Greenwood,” she promised, “but the report I am giving to you today is the Boundary wide report.” She estimates between $30,000 and $40,000 in new revenue might come in from the tax. Seventy per cent of the tax would be directed to marketing the region with the purpose of increasing bed stays; the remaining 30 per cent will be used for administration. Connie and Rainer Nisson at the Greenwood Motel are very much opposed to adding a new tax on their customers. • See ROOM TAX page A10
Paul Lautard, former resident of Rhone now residing in Midway, hosted a display of his life-long woodcarving hobby last week in the basement of Parkview Manor. Word spread around the community and Lautard spent the day greeting people as they came to see his work. He said he began carving in his 20s. In fact, he did one carving while stationed in Scotland during the Second World War that he left behind there when he came home. He continued his hobby until he had to quit when his eyesight began to fail. The bas-relief carvings were done in teak planks which came from Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand. They are heavy, and as Lautard points out, they were once twice as heavy before he began to bring them to life, a task that took as much as six months per piece. Many of his carvings depict local landscapes—lakes and mountains; one shows a prospector’s cabin that no longer exists. Another shows a winter scene with a cougar treed by dogs. Each carving has a custom-made wooden box to protect it that Lautard (a retired carpenter by trade) made before he started the piece. Also on display were the tools he’d used, including a hammer for his chisel work that he’d made from a broken baseball bat. He said his woodcarvings have been displayed in schools, both locally and on the coast, and in the Vancouver and Coquitlam art galleries. The lines he uses to frame the scene are perfect and his letters look like they were done with stencils. A modern CNC routing machine would be hard pressed to equal Lautard’s hand-carved work.
Paul Lautard’s bas-relief woodcarvings show amazingly fine detail with animals and foliage standing clear of the background. To accomplish this he would first carve the details on the foreground features and then, using short pieces of hacksaw blade, cut the piece free from the background (as shown by the piece of paper placed under the tree branch above). PHOTO: PAT KELLY