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BELOW: Robert Goertz embraces his 12-yearold daughter Talia after the pair completed a 241-km relay to raise awareness and funds for the Shriners.

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Robert Goertz organized a 241-km relay from Spokane to Nelson in honour of his daughter Talia, who received help from the Shriners WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star In the moments before BC Finance Minister Mike De Jong announced the province’s intention to donate $250,000 to the Shriners, he took the opportunity to address the Nelsonite who made it possible — 12-year-old Talia Goertz.

“Talia, I need you to know that virtually everyone here today who participated in this relay experienced a moment — maybe when the sun was beating down, or the rain, or they were confronted by hills — and they thought ‘I’m going to do to this because Talia got through her surgery and her challenges’. You inspired us all the way.”

De Jong praised her as a “brave young lady” and thanked her parents Robert and Tracy for organizing the 241-km relay that started in Spokane on Saturday and ended Monday morning at the Prestige gazebo.

Robert organized the relay to raise awareness and funds for the Shriners after his daughter received treatment and free transportation to their hospital last year. But he said his wife did much of the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

“Tracy was a vital part of making this all happen,” he said. “Some of the media reports have made it seem like I’m a single father, but this was definitely a family effort all the way.

I couldn’t have done it without her.”

And he’s thrilled at the outcome.

Goertz said he’s forever grateful to the Shriners for the support they gave Talia, and having this chance to give back has been a thrill.

“I want to highlight the amazing job they do.

There are hundreds of current BC residents who are patients of Shriners hospitals, and they look after transporting kids down to the hospitals at no charge to the family,” he said.

De Jong also praised the Shriners, joking that his old friend Goertz convinced him to participate in a “weak moment”.

“He knows whenever I run it’s a seismic event,” he joked, Continued on page 4

LEFT: BC Finance Minister Mike De Jong announced a $250,000 government contribution to the Shriners at the relay’s conclusion.

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TAMARA HYND Nelson Star Lt.-Gov Judith Guichon visited Nelson last week as part of a tour of the West Kootenay.

The city hosted a reception for Guichon and the viceregal party at Touchstones Nelson Museum on Thursday.

Many community leaders attended. After Guichon addressed the crowd, a reception followed in the museum where guests could meet her and listen to the live jazz played

by Swing Theory, a band of high school students.

On Friday, Guichon visited Trafalgar Middle School, addressing Grade 6 to 8 students about her role representing the Crown in BC. She shared with the students what she did before she became lieutenant governor.

“I’m a rancher,” she said. “I chase cows.”

She also explained that 2015 is the International Year of the Soil. After fielding guesses of how many living organisms are in one tablespoon of soil, from 500 to one million, she revealed that are, in fact, more than all the people on Earth (approximately 7.1 billion).

“Soil is so important,” she said. “Not just for food, but to clean our air and water.”

Guichon encouraged the students to learn outside the classroom and find out about the industries around them such as fisheries, forestry, power generation, hydro dams, agriculture and biodiversity. She spoke to the importance of voting, once they are old enough to so, municipally, provincially and federally, and urged them to keep engaged with the leaders.

“Go to your elected leaders, attend council and regional district meetings and ask them what they are doing,” she said.

Fielding children’s questions like how long it took her to get the position she replied, “A lifetime really,” adding her various community activities including her work with species at risk. The rancher in her came out when asked how many kids she has.

“None,” she said with a smile. “Kids are baby goats. But I have four wonderful children.”

She has met Queen Elizabeth on one occasion in February 2013. “She’s as every bit wonderful as she looks,” said Guichon.

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News Nelson hospital laundry worker Sophia Dricos presents petitions collected over the last few weeks protesting the privatization of Interior Health laundry services to MLA Michelle Mungall on the steps of the legislature last week.

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Hospital workers present 12,000-name petition

BILL METCALFE Nelson Star Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall presented a 12,423-signature petition to Health Minister Terry Lake in the legislature Thursday, calling for the government to halt the Interior Health Authority’s plan to privatize hospital laundry services.

Sitting in the public gallery was Sofia Dricos of Nelson, a laundry worker at Kootenay Lake Hospital. Earlier in the day on the steps of the legislature, she and other hospital workers presented the petitions to Mungall and opposition health critic Judy Darcy.

In an interview with the Star, Dricos expressed her surprise the number of signatures.

“It blew our socks off,” she said. “We were so excited when we heard. It really uplifted us. We had hoped for 5,000.”

Mungall says she was not surprised.

“People get this,” she said. “They get the

importance of the jobs. Nobody wants to get a surgery bumped because the clean laundry is stuck on the other side of a mountain pass in the winter.”

Dricos has worked in health care for 29 years, and in the laundry for the past ten.

She is the chair of both her HEU local and the union’s laundry committee.

Asked why she thinks so many people signed, Dricos said “The communities really care about losing jobs. We are in a small community and we have seen health care deteriorate over the years.

“Having laundry trucks from Alberta or Vancouver is the craziest idea I ever heard of. And they are not going to hire us because we are in the union, and we would have to move.”

The health ministry did not respond to the Star’s request for a comment specifically about the petition, but sent this more general comment in an email: “Interior Health’s laundry service facilities

are aging and will require significant investment to bring them up-to-date in the coming years. As we know, health authorities only have so much money for capital projects, and need to focus their dollars as much as possible on direct patient care — such as for new medical equipment, upgrades to aging health facilities and new patient care beds and spaces.

“To address this need in the most effective way possible, Interior Health has been exploring options for best delivering this service, including going to the private sector to see what companies have to offer, through a request for solutions.

“This provides the health authority with flexibility to implement the best solution for each community. In some cases this may mean services remain in-house. It is important to note that no decision has yet been made; however, Interior Health will work with staff and the union through any changes that are deemed appropriate.”

In Brief Studies on Grohman Narrows project near completion BC Hydro says it continues to plug away at studies that will help it decide whether to go ahead with widening the channel at Grohman Narrows.

“This supplementary set of studies is a result of feedback from elected officials, First Nations, stakeholders and the community, and is necessary for future discussions on the project and to determine next steps,” said spokeswoman Mary Anne Coules.

The studies are expected to be completed by the end of summer. A public meeting is planned for Nelson in the fall to review the information and ask for public feedback.

BC Hydro will then determine whether to proceed with the next phase, which would take up to two years and “be subject to regular re-evaluation of the project impacts, costs and benefits.”

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Banner being repaired The wrap around a former gas station in Fairview has been tagged with graffiti, but the artist who created it says she’ll repair it.

“It’s disappointing that someone tagged it,” said Nichola Lytle of Pink Dog Designs.

“So much effort went into fundraising and illustrating/production.”

The banner, which surrounds a fenced lot in the 700 block of Nelson Ave. across from the Husky station, was installed in February.

Entitled Spirit of the Waterfront, the banner is 235 feet (72 m) long and features local species of birds, fish, and wildlife. It cost $12,400 and took over eight months from conception to installation.

“I am going to try to repair it,” Lytle said.

She also designed the colourful wrap around a former gas station on Baker St. — Nelson Star

Telus investing $800,000 in Nelson Telus says it will spend $800,000 on new communications infrastructure in Nelson this year to meet growing demand for highspeed Internet services.

The company says it will upgrade every wireless site in the community to 4G LTE as part of a commitment to invest $4 billion in BC through 2018.

“Telus has invested nearly $4 million in Nelson in the last two and a half years as the demand for Internet and wireless services continues to explode,” said Steve Jenkins, general manager for the southern interior.

“These days it’s not uncommon for families to have more than ten wireless devices amongst them.”

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Funds will support Shriners’ transportation Continued from page 1 noting his 10-km contribution was a struggle. “But it’s easy to be inspired when you look at all the people here.”

De Jong said he finds Talia’s story compelling.

“Talia confronted those challenges with bravery, and with the support of her Mom and Dad. The last three days are a testament to how the community has rallied around this family and the work the Shriners do.”

Talia’s mother Tracy said the funds will go to good use.

“This donation will go a long way towards helping other children experience the exceptional level of care that we experienced last year,” she wrote online.

In a press release, Premier Christy Clark praised the Shriners: “The Shriners do amazing work for sick children and their families, and the organization relies entirely on funds collected through their philanthropic efforts and private donations. For more than 100 years, the Shriners have helped thousands of kids get important treatment, regardless of the family’s ability to pay.”

De Jong said Clark is an ardent supporter of the Shriners, and was cheering his efforts.

Shriners of BC and Yukon CEO and chairman Dan Mellor was thrilled by the cash infusion, and said his organization plans to put it to good use.

“On behalf of all the Shriners of Brit-

ish Columbia and Yukon, our patients and their families that we care for, we wish to express our deepest gratitude to the government of BC for this generous contribution and the personal effort of Michael De Jong,” he said.

After the relay was finished, Tracy made sure that one more person got the recognition she deserved: her mother Diane Lloyd.

Online she wrote that Diane “was with us every day at the hospital, even sleeping in the room with Talia at night when I needed to catch up on my sleep.

It is her love and support that got us through the difficult days, weeks and months following the surgery and it is her special bond with Talia that let’s Talia feel as though she has three parents and not just two.”

During De Jong’s speech, Talia stood embraced by her tearful father. When the Star asked her how she felt about the relay, she was effusive.

“It’s nice having also these people out here with me,” she said. “I have a really great family.”

The $250,000 donation from the province will help the Shriners cover capital improvements for their transportation program. Since 1903, the organization has raised millions of dollars for children requiring treatment for things like burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate conditions, regardless of the family’s ability to pay.

BC Finance Minister Mike De Jong (second from right) ran alongside Nelson’s Talia and Robert Goertz (third and fourth from right) near the end of the relay.

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TAMARA HYND Nelson Star To raise awareness of the risks of Lyme disease, Nelson resident Mary Jane Jojic, in conjunction with the Canadian Lyme Foundation, is sponsoring the dual film screening Under Our Skin and Emergence.

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.

The free films will be followed by questions and answers with Jim Wilson of the Canadian Lyme Foundation.

Lyme disease is a serious illness which spreads by the bite of infected blacklegged ticks. Although commonly found in wooded areas, ticks can be found pretty well anywhere because they are carried by birds and other animals they feed on.

According to the foundation, there are approximately 40 species of ticks in Canada, but fortunately, only a few transmit Lyme disease. While not all blacklegged ticks carry the disease, populations of infected ticks are growing.

People come into contact with them while golfing, hiking, camping or gardening.

If not identified and treated early, Lyme disease can cause serious health issues. But there are simple and effective measures you can take to protect against it. As you prepare to spend time outdoors, now’s the time to learn more about Lyme disease and how to prevent it.

According to Wilson, Lyme disease is occurring in the West Kootenay and has been for decades.

“Luckily it occurs in relatively low numbers,” he wrote. “Lyme disease is a very difficult organism to create a vaccine for. There was one that came out in the late ‘90s but it was a dismal failure and was removed

Pictured is a female Western Blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus. West Kootenay residents are welcome to a free film screening of an awardwinning documentary, Under Our Skin, followed by a screening of the sequel, Emergence, on May 23 at the Nelson United Church, followed by a question-and-answer period with Jim Wilson of the Canadian Lyme Foundation.

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from the market. While many companies are trying to come up with a vaccine, I do not expect to see an effective vaccine in my lifetime.”

Most ticks in the West Kootenay are either the Rocky Mountain wood tick, or the smaller western blacklegged tick who have dark shields behind their head. The wood tick is larger and has a light coloured shield behind its head.

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A number of individuals in this community have been diagnosed with Lyme disease, including Jojic’s son.

“Most people, including the medical community, are under the impression this is still a very rare ailment in Canada,” wrote Jojic.

“Unfortunately, this is not the case.”

Her son was bitten three years ago while

walking his dog at the former Kootenay Forest Products site in Nelson.

“He could not get diagnosed or treated in British Columbia,” Jojic wrote. “We were told there’s no lyme in BC, it’s the wrong shape rash, it’s the wrong time of year, so on.”

They finally went to the United States where her son was diagnosed and treated and is now back to high school and leading a normal life.

“The longer you go undiagnosed, the greater the chance of not obtaining a full recovery,” Jojic said. “My goal, in sponsoring this event in partnership with the Canadian Lyme Foundation, is to prevent other families from going through what we have had to go through.”

The films will be shown on Saturday, May 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the Nelson United Church basement.

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She was the only one of her friends with reliable employment, businesses left in droves and the younger generation went in search of better opportunities.

“You could’ve bowled in the streets.

Twenty five per cent of all the people in town left. I would say maybe a quarter of the houses were for sale. The loss of the university was the last straw. Everything else had been taken away.”

Despite these circumstances, Relkoff remained in the Kootenays and developed a successful career as an editor. And ever since, she’s been spearheading a local effort to build a collaborative community of writers, establish a local literary culture and restore university-level creative writing education to Nelson.

As part of this drive, Relkoff helped organize the now-flourishing Elephant Mountain Literary Festival. She’s been involved in initiatives such as the Kootenay Literary Competition and has campaigned hard to bring opportunities for young writers to Nelson.

Now, come September, Relkoff ’s goal will be realized: the University of British Columbia has announced it intends to offer a themed course here called Writing from the Ground Up as a pilot program to gauge the community’s interest in creative writing education.

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Relkoff said this announcement is a huge step in the right direction.

“We need to build our university presence back. What Nelson has done, which is quite amazing, is thrived without any major industry in town. We have 1,600 small business licenses here. It’s the city itself, and the tenacity of the people who want to live here, that makes this possible.”

Winlaw poet Tom Wayman agrees.

“This is part of a larger push to create a local literary culture. We’ve been fighting and working to increase the vitality of the writing scene here, and what’s exciting about this isn’t just the course and the opportunity it provides. What’s exciting is the potential to have a university, UBC, back in town.”

Wayman envisions the course being the first of many.

“The potential for way more programming exists,” he said.

Wayman said once UBC Okanagan was established in Kelowna, he figured it would be a natural progression for them to continue developing eastward.

“Where better to come than Nelson?” said Wayman, noting the region’s propensity for launching post-secondary institutions such as David Thompson, Notre Dame and Kootenay School of the Arts.

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Pet of the Week Local literary figures Verna Relkoff and Tom Wayman chose to pose near the construction on the Stores to Shores and Nelson Commons projects because they believe the literary culture they’re building in Nelson is “under construction.” They have successfully brought a university-level writing course back to Nelson for the first time since David Thompson University Centre closed in 1984. It will be offered by UBC in September.

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Mathur said the course will be community-oriented.

“The course is themed to help show that writing arises from and returns to one’s community — human and natural. Writing from the Ground Up provides a solid foundation for further studies in creative writing, as well as a chance to develop an appreciation of many possibilities as a writer.”

Wayman said they need 15 people to enrol, and they’ve already received interest from people in the community — including two city councillors.

“You can write about anything, in any genre, but the emphasis is going to be on writing in community, whether that’s a natural community or a biological one.”

The course will be offered as an intensive every second Friday evening and on Saturdays. It will run Sept. 25 and 26, Oct.

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Mathur said registration for the credit course will be handled on a first-come, firstserved basis. Registration will open on the UBC registration site later in May. No portfolio is required for admission, and the cost will be approximately $500.

Still to come are details on who will teach the course, and where in Nelson classes will be held.

UBC is currently going through the hiring process, and Wayman said he’s thrilled by some of the potential candidates.

“We’ll be publicizing details as they become available, including how to register, both in the media and on the website of the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival,” said Relkoff.

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Re: “Freezers help prevent wildlife conflicts,” Letters, May 13 I’m happy to inform readers of a method to deal with food waste that deters wildlife. I too had used our freezer to store waste, but didn’t like the space it took up there.

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Many thanks to the Nelson Star for enlightening the co-op members as to the actions of the co-op’s president and board. The article revealed just how disingenuously worded the recent update letter from the board was. We have lost two of the most respected members of the board.

The co-op has become the success that it is under Deirdrie Lang’s management. To dismiss her as general manager is outrageous. It sounds like a takeover bid for the new store. As a member I demand that a full membership meeting be called to address the board’s behaviour.

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Help the poor adapt to climate change Re: “Citizens’ Climate Lobby calls for fee and dividend,” Letters, May 8 Citizens’ Climate Lobby members Jan Slakov, Laura Sacks, Michael Jessen, and Kate Polle are right to advocate that we act on the climate change. But they might want to reconsider whether the overconfident approach of their organization is one they really support.

Across the world people suffer due to climate change. Yet aid agencies are unable to secure sufficient funds to help them because of the $1 billion spent globally every day on climate finance, only six per cent of it is goes to helping vulnerable people adapt to climate change today.

Because groups like Citizens’ Climate Lobby have convinced governments that we control climate as if we had a global thermostat, a truly silly idea that has no scientific credibility, the remaining 94 per cent is poured into mitigation, trying to stop phenomena that might someday happen. This is immoral, valuing the lives of people yet to be born more than those in need today.

Let’s help the poor adapt to climate change in today’s world and stop pretending we have a crystal ball to the future.

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mented but not bad odour.

All that is needed is a bucket (with lid), some special bokashi mix, sawdust or bran, and some organic waste. After fermentation has occurred, we just dig the bokashi-treated waste into our compost pile to allow further decomposition.

I have been using bokashi for three years, and the bears that annually pass our compost are no longer interested in our pile. And the worm population has soared. Bokashi supplies and information are available at Ellison’s Market in Nelson.

Lisa Bramson Nelson

Bokashi, an anaerobic fermentation process, results in a different end product than composting.

High-density developments have energy efficiencies

No need for May to apologize for f-bomb

Re: “Developments should address waste, energy,” Letters, May 13 I read through Tom Prior’s letter twice, trying to follow the logic in his argument. In terms of infrastructure, it seems unreasonable for new developments that are deemed “wealthy” (costly) to also create their own parallel infrastructures.

I assume that many of those moving in to the new high density development have sold their former residence, making it available for new owners. I assume they will continue to pay property tax that helps support city infrastructure.

There are energy efficiencies associated with high density development — so overall energy consumption should be reduced. Waste collection has the efficiency of one stop to pick up the equivalent 40 plus stops to single residences.

It is interesting to note the use of “wealthy” rather than costly when discussing the expenses related to these projects. I would like see the data used to support the claim that moving into an expensive high density development results in a drop in community involvement and an increased cost per unit to the city for services vis-a-vis a single family residence.

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It occurs to me that we live in a very peculiar society. It is a society where if we get a little tipsy, and impugn the reputation of our honourable members of parliament we have to immediately apologize profusely, even though we only made the comment because it was true, but if you allow a young Canadian citizen to be imprisoned and tortured for a trumped up “crime” which happened in a war zone causing an illegally-invading army to suffer a casualty, and subsequently subject him to imprisonment for more than a decade, stealing most of his youth … no apology is necessary. How bizarre.

I do not think Elizabeth May should have apologized. She should have been forced to put a loonie, or maybe even a doubloonie into the parliamentary swear jar. There the little fellow would be in good company with Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s “fuddle duddle” dollar, and John Crosbie’s “pass the tequila Sheila, and lie down and love me again” dollar, except for the fact that they didn’t have to put in their dollars, nor was any apology forthcoming.

Omar Khadr’s imprisonment was absolutely a shameful chapter in Canadian history, and I wonder how Stephen Harper, a devout Christian, plans to explain it to St. Peter when

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he gets to the Pearly Gates. It is unforgivable in my books, but maybe St. Peter’s a Tory.

Elizabeth May should not be ashamed of following in the footsteps of our nation’s founder John A. Macdonald (also a Tory). He was always clever enough not to apologize.

He decided it was easier to set up a “Chamber of sober second thought” to ameliorate his transgressions.

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More support for Savoy Lanes This is a plea for help to save our Savoy Lanes. It is a setting for social gatherings like birthday parties etc. as well as for our bowling. It will be sorely missed if we lose it.

We are so grateful for our manager, Dan, who has done such a good job by bringing in newcomers and school groups. He has so much patience with all of us and such a good personality for the job because he is such a “people person.’’

So, if the Savoy Lanes do close, I am concerned we will never have one again. Can you help in any way?

Dawn Williams Nelson I would like to express my dismay on hearing that again it looks as though we are going to lose our bowling alley.

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In my humble opinion, this is an important activity in our community. For the 55-plus age group who have three leagues, the mixed leagues, and the special needs persons who bowl every Saturday, this is important. For some seniors this is their only social interaction and a part of our exercise programme.

Surely some person or persons or an organization that would consider stepping up to the plate and helping us.

Anne Secord Nelson I find it appalling that yet another sports activity centre is on the chopping block. Many patrons frequented this bowling alley, from the Nelson Seniors Bowling League, to men’s and women’s bowlers, to the Special Olympic users and the very young, having birthday parties at this facility.

Surely the owner can apply for a grant or even the City of Nelson can assist with the cost of the overhead to help run this much-needed sports facility, which many people have used at varying degrees in their lives.

This bowling alley is an icon to Nelson’s rich history. It would be a very sad day indeed to see this close down for lack of revenue and interest.

Kara Witcher Salmo Regarding the possible closure of our Savoy Lanes bowling alley, this is a facility that is much needed. As seniors we need it for exercise and we enjoy the social aspect as well.

For some seniors this is their only outing and opportunity for socializing.

Arlene Sorenson Nelson I would like to express my disappointment at the lack of interest by the general public for activities for seniors. This facility is for many in our area including our weekly league for our special needs group and our school children.

Jody Ramsay Nelson While the Nelson Regional Sports Council is no longer operating the Savoy Lanes, they are expected to remain open over the summer. See story in this Friday’s Star.

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The mystery of Kaslo’s first Japanese Canadian

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hile preparing a series recently on the history of the Langham building, I came across something intriguing: when Japanese Canadians were forced from their Lower Mainland homes and interned in Kaslo in 1942, there was already one living there.

Although Koto Kennedy is not totally forgotten, I don’t think anyone has ever written about her.

And what little we do know about her is shrouded in mystery and speculation.

We don’t even know her birth name for certain: it was most likely Koto Shimizu, but her first name is sometimes given as Kato, and her maiden name as Shaunan or Shinnizn, probably from a misreading of handwritten documents.

She was born in Yokohama on April 11, 1874 or 1875, and was said to be the daughter of a geisha.

According to her brief obituary in The New Canadian, she married a Canadian sailor at age 15 and came here with him. It didn’t reveal his name or say what happened to him.

It suggested she arrived in Kaslo in 1889, which is before the village existed. Even if that’s an error, she may have been one of the first women in the fledgling mining camp — leading me to wonder if she was a prostitute, as was the case for nearly all Japanese women in West Kootenay’s early years. Barbara Bavington of the Kootenay Lake Historical Society believes she was.

Koto doesn’t appear on the 1901 or 1911 census, but there were two Japanese prostitutes listed in Kaslo in 1911.

The earliest evidence we have of Koto in Kaslo comes upon her wedding to miner John Kennedy on Feb. 22, 1921, an early and unusual interracial marriage. He was 49. She was 46. The ceremony was held at the home of W.R. Whittaker, with John Skillicorn and Margaret Whittaker serving as the witnesses.

While Koto had supposedly previously married a sailor, the registration indicated she was a spinster. While she signed her own name Koto Shimizu, elsewhere on the form her surname is given as Shawnigan and her parents are identified as Ichiyeman and Kinu. The 1921 census found the newlyweds living on Front St. and indicated Koto came to Canada in 1882.

John died of throat cancer on June 30, 1937. He had been in Kaslo at least since 1901 when he first appeared on the voters list. In addition to his wife, he was survived by two sisters in Cape Breton where he was born.

Aya Higashi — today the only Japanese-Canadian still living in Kaslo — told Langham museum curator Ian Fraser that Mrs. Kennedy “was a comfort to the internees, and that her husband treated her very well. She was held in awe as a highly cultured gentlewoman by the young internees.”

Higashi told archivist Elizabeth

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They understood she came to Canada on a fishing boat as a teenager.

Tom Shoyama, editor of The New Canadian, also befriended her.

Koto Kennedy died on Sept. 18, 1951 at Kaslo Victorian Hospital at age 77 and was buried in the local cemetery. Her pallbearers were Mayor George S. Baker, S. Shinmoto, J. MacPherson, J. Paterson, William Dunn, and Ben Sutherland. She left a 91-year-old brother in Japan and a nephew.

No photo of her is known to exist, and her grave is no longer marked if it ever was.

In 2002, the Kootenay Lake Archives received a letter from Hiroshi Shimizu of Mississauga (no relation), who was born in Canada but lived in Japan from the age of two and graduated from high school in Akita, a city in Japan’s northwest. Soon after he returned to the Toronto area where his mother and siblings lived.

Around 2000, one of his Akita classmates contacted him asking for any information on Koto Shimizu. The story he had heard in Japan was different and considerably more dramatic than the one contained in her obituary. As Scarlett related it to me, in 1889 Koto and her father were fishing off the coast of Akita when a violent storm buffeted their boat and they were carried by the storm through a narrow channel between the mainland and Hokkaido into the Pacific Ocean.

They drifted and eventually reached the coast of BC, where they were rescued by a man named Benjamin Kennedy, whose family she lived with, and later married his son John. (What happened to her father isn’t recorded.)

Koto supposedly returned to Japan in 1925, where she had been presumed dead, and was mobbed by journalists who covered her miraculous homecoming. The story was apparently widely reported in Japan, which is how Hiroshi’s friend came across it many years later. The news reports did not, however, indicate where Koto and her father were rescued in BC. The friend was trying to find records of the initial search and

rescue attempt in 1889, but hadn’t located anything by the last time Scarlett corresponded with Hiroshi, who has since died.

There are a couple of problems with this story: John Kennedy’s father was named Lachlin, not Benjamin. And despite the supposedly widespread coverage Koto’s return to Japan received, relentless searching on numerous digitized newspapers sites has so far failed to turn up anything — although it certainly doesn’t help that I can’t read Japanese.

There’s more to this story, but for the moment that’s as much as we know.

A GRAVE MATTER: The chances of ever finding the Slocan Valley’s lost Cody cemetery, which I recently wrote about, are even more remote than I first thought.

Two people independently told me recently that the cemetery was covered in a rock slide, probably more than a century ago.

Frances (Fanny) Remillard died in September 1897 and her infant daughter died less than three months later. They were both laid to rest in Cody, which at the time served both that community and nearby Sandon. Once Sandon incorporated at year’s end, another location was found for a new cemetery.

Fanny’s niece, Patricia Waters of Nelson, told me that according to her father, a rockslide covered the cemetery. Fanny’s great granddaughter, Gail MacArthur, said the same thing.

About all we know of the cemetery’s location is that it was alongside the trail en route to the Freddy Lee mine. The remote spot was chosen because the first man interred there was struck and killed by lightning in 1892 and it was too difficult to get his body out.

Subsequently, two avalanche victims and a young boy were also buried there.

CHURCH CORRECTIONS: Two corrections regarding a recent story on the centennial of St. Francis-in-the-Woods, the former Queens Bay church.

First, I used “dedicated” and “consecrated” synonymously, where there is actually a distinction. Kathryn Lockhart, archivist for the Anglican Diocese of Kootenay, says technically the church was dedicated when it opened in 1915, but only consecrated in 1927 once it was debt-free, which was a requirement.

I also wrote that the church was deconsecrated on May 15, 1994, and that it was afterward discovered to be the Feast Day of St. Francis. In fact, the deconsecration occurred on Oct. 4 of that year, which is the actual Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

Finally, although we’ve already run a correction about this, it bears repeating that the centennial tea will be held on Saturday, June 6 from noon to 4 p.m.

Kaslo was one of several places in West Kootenay where Japanese Canadians were interned during the Second World War. When they arrived in 1942, there was already one living there. This photo shows a group of boys in 1943, including Sus Tabata (on left).

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In a more recent example, the NDP recently won a majority government in Alberta with 40 Donors like you have per cent of the popular vote and donated $1,289,735.78 54 seats. The Progressive Conservatives suffered a massive defeat, to keep the Operating winning only 10 seats, yet they Room at Kootenay Lake received 28 per cent of the popular Hospital furnished with vote, while the Wildrose Alliance Party took 21 seats with only 25 state of the art medical per cent of the popular vote (i.e. equipment. less of the popular vote than the PCs).

These numbers demonstrate that our current electoral system You are the reason that we have a thriving Operating Room, which is used over does not give us what Canadians 2,000 hours per year on orthopaedic surgeries, obstetrical and gynaecologic ask for at the polls. Not even close. surgeries and general surgeries such as hernia repairs and varicose vein surgery.

Moreover, the system we currently operate under promotes corrupThis year we are asking for your help to purchase a new Surgical Table for the tion and lack of accountability.

Operating Room. It’s used for almost every procedure we perform, and is the An alternative to our first-pastmost important piece of equipment in the OR. the-post system exists. It is called proportional representation. PR Please visit www.klhf.org to make your secure donation online. would give each party the exact percentage of seats in the House as Canadians who voted for them. So, Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation if the Conservatives got 39 per cent 3 View Street • Nelson • 250.354.2334 • www.facebook.com/klhforg of the popular vote, they’d get 39 www.klhf.org per cent of the seats in the House

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Community Comment of Commons. If the NDP also got 39 per cent of the popular vote, they would get the same number of seats as the Conservatives.

In New Zealand and many European countries such as Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria, proportional representation has led to a) effectively functioning governments, b) better representation of visible minorities, women, and minority parties, c) fewer policy surprises, and d) greater accountability and transparency. It also increases voter turn-out as folks no longer feel that they are wasting their time voting.

In countries where PR has been adopted, calls for electoral change have been born out of government corruption and lack of accountability. Typically the governing party will not support a proportional representation system, because it would not allow them to unfairly gain a majority. Rather, PR evens the playing field, giving strength to minority parties. In Canada, the NDP and the Green Party have taken firm stances on the issue of electoral reform, both promising to support a change to PR. I recently interviewed the NDP, Green, and PC candidates in the riding of Kootenay-Columbia on their views on proportional representation (the Liberals do not so far have a candidate in this riding).

According to Wayne Stetski, NDP candidate for KootenayColumbia, “diversity is a good thing.” He emphasizes that our current system does not represent the public’s votes, and that PR would introduce variety into parliament.

Bill Green, Green Party candidate for Kootenay-Columbia, says that “Repairing our democratic institutions, including through proportional representation, is quite simply my highest priority.”

He believes that PR will help restore our democracy, and is a firm supporter of and activist for PR. Alternatively, David Wilks, PC candidate for Kootenay-Columbia, does not support PR, stating “I

respect the decision of the electorate not only in British Columbia, but also the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Ontario who also voted down referendums on proportional representation.”

It should be noted that BC’s 2005 referendum on changing our electoral system to PR was not defeated. In fact, 58 per cent of BCers voted in support, yet the government decided not to follow suit.

As for the 2009 referendum, a study was sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at UBC after the defeat, in which voters were surveyed about their opinions on majority government versus a more balanced make-up of different parties. The study showed that BC voters generally favoured coalition government over majority governments, in addition to showing that most BC voters didn’t actually know very much about PR. This ignorance was enhanced by the incredible public spending on TV, radio, billboards, and newspaper ads for the “No” side, something that the “Yes” side did not do. Moreover, the wording of the question was different in 2009 and likely influenced voter opinion, and the campaign and referendum were held while the Canucks were going for the cup, therefore reducing public interest.

Non-Conservative voters were outraged when the Harper government changed the boundaries of many of Canada’s electoral ridings in 2012. The new re-drawn ridings will give the Conservative Party a much greater advantage in the upcoming election due to our electoral system, including here in Kootenay-Columbia.

If we changed our electoral system to PR, these re-drawn ridings wouldn’t matter. You could vote for who you truly wanted to vote for. Strategic voting, once ruling many on voting day, would cease to exist.

Our government would be forced to become more transparent and follow through on their promises. Moreover, a single party wouldn’t be able to make all the decisions unless the majority of Canadians voted for them. The concept of a majority government elected by a minority of Canadians would cease to exist. Let’s make our electoral system the election issue that it should be. You can do this by supporting only those candidates who support proportional representation.

Danette Moulé is a Kootenay kid, born in Nelson, and raised in Blewett and Calgary. She holds a masters of resource management, and a bachelors of applied policy studies. She is happy to be working with Fair Vote Canada to push the issue of proportional representation.

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Nelson Sea Cadets hold annual review

Submitted to the Nelson Star The Nelson Sea Cadets recently held their annual ceremonial review at Lakeside Park. This year they had the honour of Nelson city councillor Michael Dailly as their reviewing officer.

The event started with the arrival of the reviewing party from the Prestige to Lakeside Park by way of the Nelson tram. The ceremony then proceeded with an inspection, march past, speeches, awards and the advance.

Honoured guests in attendance were Dave Smith from BC Hydro, Nelson fire chief Len MacCharles and John Bowles of the Nelson Lions Club.

A number of awards were given out, including the Legion Medal of Excellence presented by the Nelson Legion to Kaden Ellis, chief petty officer second class; the Lord Strathcona Medal presented by Michael Dailly to Katelyn Ellis, chief petty

officer second class; also a number of service medals were presented by Denise Robson, the BC Mainland Navy League representative, for four years of service to Katelyn Ellis; Dasha Russell, Sebastian Bodine, and Tanner Pearson.

Kenneth and Kaden Ellis also received their six years of service bars.

The cadets also received long-sleeve shirts for their year-end gift from the Nelson Navy League Branch. The cadets presented their parents with a token of thanks by way of carnations purchased by the Nelson Navy Legion.

The staff and cadets thank everyone who supported them over the year and all those who helped make the annual review a huge success.

For more information on sea cadets please contact Michelle Harris at Michelle.Harris@cadets.gc.ca or by phone at 250-359-7079 or visit cadets. ca for more information.

Nelson city councillor Michael Dailly (third from left) visited with local sea cadets this month during their annual ceremonial review. Submitted photo

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Submitted to the Nelson Star wo new temporary exhibitions will open at Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History this Friday night. Happening in conjunction with the city-wide Blue Night event, you can expect an evening full of culture and entertainment.

This year is the 60th anniversary of Touchstones Nelson, which began in 1955 as the Nelson Museum Association. Curator Rod Taylor’s exhibition 60 Years/60 Objects: A Diamond Anniversary Exhibition will share 60 notable or unusual objects from the archives and collections that help tell the story of our community.

Did you know that in 1949 all bikes in Nelson required a license? Or that the first taxi service of horse drawn carriages was located across from what is now Oso Negro?

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Gallery B will feature Nelson artist Katherine Hofmann’s exhibition Domiciled. Hofmann’s collection of raw, ambiguous sculptural forms surprise, delight and confound. Her work is process-driven, and she celebrates the mistakes made along the way. Finger marks, cracks and patches are part of the finished pieces. Many have rounded shapes and fleshy tones are reminiscent of the human body, while other pieces reflect plant forms and architecture.

Everyone is welcome to the opening receptions for free. Make sure you stop in as part of your Blue Night circuit.

Top left: This 1949 metal bike license is one of the artifacts in the new Touchstones exhibition 60 Years/60 Objects.

Left: Detail from Katherine Hofmann’s Terracluster, ceramic and found glass containers, from her new exhibit Domiciled.

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‘Mad grad’ painter strikes again at Dairy Queen

Dateline May 4, 1965 The disappearance of the Canadian maple leaf flag from the courthouse flag pole topped a “rough weekend” of petty larceny and assorted mischief for the city police this past grad weekend. The flag was attached to the flag pole perched atop the corner turret of the three-story courthouse, but it is raised and lowered by a rope outside the building at ground level.

The “mad grad painter” struck again at the walls of the Dairy Queen at the corner of Kokanee Ave. and Nelson Ave. during the same time as the flag disappeared. It was the third time that grads emblazoned the wall with the year of this graduating class. Just recently the proprietor had the wall repainted to remove previous grad and other vandalism.

Dateline May 7, 1965 “Service above self ” that was born in the visionary mind of Paul P. Harris in 1905, has become a vibrant, personal symbol in the city with the converging of some 375 members to the Rotary International District Conference which began here Thursday. Representing 25 clubs in District 508, the congenial invasion, 200 members of which journeyed from northern Idaho, southeastern BC, and eastern

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Washington, have a busy four-day itinerary ahead of them highlighted by the presence of Hon. P.A. Gaglardi, Minister of Highways and Herb Capozzi, general manager of the BC Lions.

Dateline May 10, 1965 A 55-year bid for the team’s first Allan Cup failed as Sherbrooke’s Le Castors (The Beavers) took the Allan Cup series four straight by defeating Nelson Maple Leafs 8-4 in Sherbrooke Saturday night. The victory brought the cup back to Quebec Province after an absence

of 18 years. Gil Gilbert, manager of the vanquished Leafs, said the Beavers were “without a doubt worthy champions of Canada” and added that the Beavers were the best balanced team his western squad had met all season. For the 24 players on the Maple leaf team, it will be a short summer layoff after a tremendous season when training camp opens again at the Civic Centre in October.

The Leaf lineup: Goal: Letcher.

Defence: Carlson, Steinke, Stewart, Malacko. Forwards: Kilburn, Laughton, Kromm, Chawacka, Hornby, McTeer, Crawford, Peacosh, Rusnell, Owens, Mowery.

Dateline May 13, 1965 Two relics of Nelson’s mining past wandered into the city and the lock-up, the obstinately resisted their release from their incarceration Wednesday. Annabelle and Sugar, two burros belonging to Tony and Alex Semeniuk of Blewett, took a nocturnal stroll Tuesday night ending up on Government Road Wednesday morning. When city poundkeeper Bill Krieger arrived at 10 a.m., the two burros were content to be herded to the city jail yard. By 2 p.m. the owners arrived to remove the burros to their home pasture. Twenty minutes of pushing, slapping, yanking, kicking,

flailing, clambering, loaded the two burros on the trailer.

As the two burros headed into the west, they were still protesting abandonment of Nelson hospitality by testing the strength of the trailer with their hooves.

Dateline May 20, 1965 A $21,225,000 highway development program announced here by Premier W.A.C. Bennett for the Arrow Lake region, will provide the first connecting link in West Kootenay between the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 3A, and will bypass the city of Nelson. The huge highway program was the initial stage of a multi-million dollar redevelopment program for the Kootenays announced by the Premier at Victoria two weeks ago.

It also seems to dash the hopes of residents of the Nelson, Kaslo and Lardeau areas that the two-highway connecting link would run south from Revelstoke via the Duncan Dam development highway. The new highway will run up the Slocan Valley through New Denver, Nakusp and via a new ferry at Shelter Bay to Revelstoke.

The Nelson Maple Leafs won the WIHL championship in 1965 and made it to the Allan Cup final, where they lost to Sherbrooke, Que. (Greg Nesteroff collection). We wanted to use an old picture of the Dairy Queen with this column but can’t locate one. If you have one — a family group shot, a picture of that new convertible at the DQ — let us borrow it or send us a scan: editor@nelsonstar.

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Join the Spring Fling event and annual fundraiser by the Winlaw Elementary Parent Advisory Committee on Saturday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Featuring a barbecue, bake sale, kids games, face painting, auction, and more.

Tell us about your upcoming event, email: reporter3@nelsonstar.com June 3. Refreshments will be served after the meeting. Activities enjoyed at the centre include bridge, crib, dominos, chess, euchre and snooker. For further information, call 250-352-7078 weekday afternoons.

Workshops

Ellison’s Market free Saturday workshop on May 23, from 10 to 11 a.m. is Garden Fertilizers-what should you use when and for which plant? Learn how to nourish your garden so you can nourish yourself.

Thinking about starting your own small business? The Basin Business Advisors Program offers a free workshop called ‘Me Inc.’ to help you get started. The workshop runs 6:30 to 8 p.m. and will be offered in Salmo on June 2. For more information and to register, visit bbaprogram.ca or call 1-855-510-2227.

May 22nd - Carmanah w Andrew Parkhouse & The Magpies May 23rd - LongWalkShortDock w/Rim Visuals + more May 28th - Gay Nineties

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Kootenay Medical Qi Gong workshop on Thursday, May 21 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Nelson United Church, 602 Silica Street, basement. A $2 fee.

May 30th - 4th Annual Kootenay Music Awards!

June 5th - The Thrill Show w Scarlet Mary Rose Burlesque June 6th - Sonny Rhodes June 7th- Danny Michel - On Sale Soon!

June 12 - Locarno June 13th - SubSoul w Erica Dee + More June 30th - GOB - All Canadian Punk Party

There will be a free public screening of Under Our Skin, an award winning documentary on Lyme disease and its much anticipanted sequel, Emergence, at the Nelson United Church basement on Saturday, May 23 at 6:30 p.m. A question and answer period will follow with Jim Wilson from the Canadian Lyme Foundation.

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The Regional District of Central Kootenay is inviting residents to learn more about the role it plays in local communities by attending a free barbecue on Thursday, May 21. For local goverenment awareness week, the board and head office staff will be at the event from noon to 1 p.m. at 202 Lakeside Drive to answer questions about the regional district.

Nelson @ its Best Summit for a healthy and poverty-free Nelson on Thursday, May 21 from 3 to 9 p.m. at Central School Gym, 811 Stanley Street. Open house from 3 to 5 p.m., free dinner and interactive activiities from 5 to 6 p.m. and discussion until 9 p.m. See details bestnerlson.org or contact Helen Lutz at 250-354-7509.

Selkirk College fine woodworking year-end show is May 22 to 24. Beginning Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. with an opening reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Continuing Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. At the Nelson Trading Company, 402 Baker St.

Cafe Langham’s Inspired Ideas presents: The Salmon Ambassador’s Story with Gerry Nellestijn on Thursday, May 28. The third speaker in the series, from 7 to 9 p.m., is in Kaslo at the Langham Theatre. Chair of the Canadian Caucus of the Columbia River Round Table and a Salmo Watershed Streamkeeper, he was recently appointed as one of the two ‘Salmon Ambassadors’ by the Canadian River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission and the Ktunaxa Nation Council. Suggested $10 donation at the door; youth are free.

KAIROS Reconciliation Walk, rebuilding relationships with Aboriginal people in Canada on Friday, May 29. Meet at 12 p.m. outside Nelson City Hall and walk to Lakeside Park.

Rides can be arranged between City Hall and the park. Info: 250-352-9871.

Monthly Meetings

All seniors welcome to the monthly meeting of the Senior Citizens’ Association Branch No. 51, at 717 Vernon Street. Meeting commences at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday,

A horse show on May 23 and 24, the 15th Annual H.A.C.K. Spring Schooling Show, hosted by Horse Association of Central Kootenay at the Nelson riding grounds. Info or programs: 250-359-7097.

Celebrating 100 years of community, a Centennial Tea will be held at St. Francis in the Woods at the Queens Bay townsite on Saturday, June 6, from 12 to 4 p.m. By donation.

The Kootenay Shambhala Meditation Centre (Tibetan Buddhist Lineage) offers free introductory meditation instruction every Monday night at 7 p.m. Teachings, a talk or discussion group and tea follows the meditation session. Other public sitting times are Tuesdays 7-8 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays noon to 1 p.m., and Sundays 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. For more information, visit.nelson. shambhala.org or e-mail nelsonbuddha@ gmail.com.

Fundraisers

The L.V. Rogers Global Perspectives class will host a family five-course dinner and dance on Friday, May 22 with live music by All Canadian Back Bacon, Tibo Komel and Swing Theory. The fundraiser is for education in a Kenyan village through the Free the Children charitable foundation. Tickets are $20 for students, $25 for adults and $75 for a family of four. Tickets are available at Otters Books and L.V. Rogers.

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Family Dinner and Dance Friday, May 22 6 - 9:30 pm

L.V. Rogers courtyard • 5 course meal • Silent Auction • Live musical performances Proceeds to Free The Children Foundation $20 students, $25 adults, $75/family of four Tickets at Otters Books and L.V. Rogers

Special events The L.V. Roger Grad Talent Show will be a night of showcasing Nelson’s incredible local youth talent to be held on Saturday, May 23. Doors will open at 7 p.m. and the show will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available for purchase from the Capitol Theatre for $15 for adults or $10 for students. For more information call 250-352-6363 or purchase tickets online at capitoltheatre.bc.ca. A 50/50 draw will support the 2015 Graduating Class and some great student art will be on display in the foyer.

The Fifth annual Oxygen Art Market will take place from May 22 to 24. The hours will be 7 to 10 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. With over 150 pieces of artwork on display by 40 Kootenays artists, this is a great opportunity to get yourself a piece of original, locally made art.

Fifty per cent of sales will be given to the Oxygen Art Centre as part of their fundraising efforts.

For more information visit oxygenartcentre.org.

The Langham Asian Canadian Heritage Month volunteer group invites you to their annual celebration in Kaslo on May 22 and 23.

With asian poetry reading focusing on food and wine, followed by a traditional drew and jewellry show. The event goes from 6 to 9 p.m. on May 22, and 9:30 a.m. to noon on May 23.

There will be kite-flying workshops, origami, qi gong and keiki. All workshops are free. Children and adults are welcome. For more information call 250-353-9685. Those who live outside Kaslo can reserve tickets by e-mailing rglorioso@ peoplepc.com or call 250-353-9685.

Singer-songwriter Mary-Jo Therio of New Brunswick will perform an intimate concert at Hart Hall during the French Extra Market on Sunday, May 31. Tickets are $5 for the market and $20 for the concert and market. Tickets are being sold at l’Afko Franco, Au Soleil Levant, Bite Fresh Food Inc and Chez Totoche. For more information call 250-352-3516.

MUSIC On Friday, May 22 at 9 p.m. Carmanah will make their Spiritbar debut will local rockers Andrew Parkhouse and The Magpies. Tickets are $10 and are available from the Hume Hotel.

For more information call 250-352-5331.

The Royal on Baker will host an open stage tonight. On Thursday Anna Katarina will perform, followed by DJ Eyedwag and DJ Express for the ladies night dance party. Friday night will feature Michelle Anderson’s modern contemporary abstracts as part of the Blue Night tour, with music from Marty Carter, Jimmy Lewis, Patrick Bonin and Danny Devillo. On

The Civic Theatre presents Pitch Perfect 2 beginning on May 23 at 7:30 p.m.

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Saturday Foundationstone Reggae Band and Lint will play with Bessie Wapp at 9 p.m. $8 cover at the door. For more information call The Royal at 250-354-7014.

On Saturday, June 6 the Crank it to 6 concert series continued with a live-to-air broadcast from City of Fire with Nelson’s own Minus the Czar. Doors at Kootenay Co-op Radio at 9 p.m. KCR requests no glass/crybabys/false metal. For more information visit the Crank it to 6 concert series on Facebook.

CONCERTS Corazón (68 singers) and the Lalin Ensemble (15 singers), both directed by Allison Girvan, present their year-end concert When the Earth Stands Still. Four shows: Friday May 29, 6pm and 8pm, and Saturday May 30, 2pm and 6pm, at the Nelson United Church. Tickets at the Capitol Theatre box office or online at www. capitoltheatre.ca. Regular admission $18.

Students $12. Balcony seating $12.

On the Road Productions presents The Great Lake Swimmers at the Civic Theatre

in Nelson, playing live on Monday, June 1 with The Weather Station. Advance tickets are $25 plus taxes at Eclectic Circus and the Hume Hotel. Also available now online at OnTheRoadManagement.com. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Movies Tonight the Civic Theatre presents Mad Max: Fury Road at 7:30 p.m. Set in post-apocalyptic future, the George Miller-directed action film features Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. For more information visit civictheatre.ca.

The Civic Theatre presents Pitch Perfect 2 at 7:30 p.m. on May 23, 24 and 25, at 4:00 on May 24 and 11 a.m. on May 25. After a humiliating experience at the Lincoln Center, the Barden Bellas enter an international competition.

Directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Anne Kendrick. For more information visit civictheatre.ca.

The Knowledge Network is hosting two free screening of Nelson filmmaker Amy Bohigian’s Dreamers and Dissidents, a nine-part series

about Kootenay characters on May 28 at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. From war resisters to residential school survivors, hopeful immigrants to pioneering women, Dreamers and Dissidents explores why certain people are drawn to BC’s rugged interior. Through family albums, archival photos and intimate interviews, we learn how Nelson – and the broader Kootenay region – came to be known for its resilient spirit.

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Nelson Star Staff It wasn’t pretty, but the L.V. Rogers senior girls soccer team is off to the BC soccer AA provincials. The girls qualified after two straight wins last week.

They scored three goals in the opening three minutes in the final match against Invermere on Thursday, but weren’t able to find the back of the net again after that.

Luckily the team defended well and was able to keep their East Kootenay rival from getting any serious offensive opportunities. The 3-nil win earned the girls the Kootenay berth for the provincials.

“It wasn’t the kind of game you want to see your team play in a final,” said coach Brett Adams. “But you can’t be too hard on a team that wins 3-nil in a

final to get to the championship.”

A day earlier against West Kootenay rival J.L. Crowe, it was a different story. The girls played well, but struggled against a pesky Crowe team and a spectacular effort by the Trail keeper. The game was still nil-nil at half. It wasn’t until the second half that LVR was able to break the goose egg and come away with a 2-nil win. Both goals were scored by striker Naomi Perkins.

“We probably played a better game our first game,” added Adams. “We certainly played better football and Trail was definitely a tougher opponent.”

The girls will now be getting ready for the BC AA provincials, being held May 27 to 30 in Burnaby.

Nelson’s L.V. Rogers will represent the Kootenays at the AA girls soccer provincials in Burnaby at the end of the month.

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Sporting life from hockey to pickleball

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e have a real mixed bag of information for you this week.

Starting with hockey registration (justifying it by reminding everyone — even though our favourite teams are probably out by now — that it is still playoff time). So, close to home, Nelson Minor Hockey registration is already underway. The early bird deadline, with a $50 discount, is May 31. Those early birds will be entered in a draw to win a hockey stick from Mallard’s Source for Sports valued up to $200. Great incentive or what?

If you miss it, the regular registration deadline is July 31.

Fees vary depending on division although all first-time players, regardless of division, pay only $200. Plus the program is eligible for KidSport grants and there is an equipment program in place for the asking as well.

Contact Nelson Minor Hockey for more information through nelsonmha.ca Last year I went whitewater rafting with the local Nelson Whitewater Rafting Co. and

sport try-it day on Aug. 22 at Lakeside. Watch this space for more information closer to the time but the idea is to offer a day much like the winter version of Sports Day Canada in November.

So if you haven’t put your toe in the lake by then, Aug. 22 will be warm and perfect.

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had a blast. I highly recommend giving it a go this year and taking your summer visitors along for the (very professional) fun ride.

This season the company is also adding stand up paddleboard and kayak rentals to their box of toys. They have many types of vessels to choose from for your water fun. Go to nelsonpaddleboardandkayak.com Staying on the water, the local water sport clubs, kayak and canoe, dragon-boaters, sailing and rowers will be holding a water

The Balfour golf course and Rec Commission 10 have partnered to offer an incredible opportunity for ten local youth to learn and play unlimited golf for the 2015 season. The program is available for a maximum of 10 children aged 10 to 14. Registration deadline is Wednesday June 3 and costs $100 (KidSport eligible — a $350 regular cost).

It includes 2015 junior membership, six instructional sessions with head golf pro Craig Wilkinson and a season-end in-house competition. Enrol your child in this program and they will learn to play this great game and be introduced to the importance of honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect and many other positive values that are inherently connected to golf and life. For more

information please contact Craig at 250-229-5655 or cwilkinson@ golfbalfour.com

With the indoor season of pickleball done, the outdoor courts are beckoning. The adult group has moved to the tennis courts at Lakeside for the summer and are inviting drop in participants on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to noon. It’s free and paddles and balls are supplied.

Last, information from the BC government that will support sport group events was released last week. A new stream of grants is always good but they’re also developing new resources that will help the sport and recreation sector in general recognizing the economic impact sport events have on host communities — which is about time! For details go to news.gov.bc.ca/stories/ event-hosting-gets-boost-fromprovince.

Kim Palfenier is executive director of the Nelson Regional Sports Council.

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Henry Everett Stevenson April 12, 1916 - May 17, 2015 It is with heavy hearts that the family of Henry Stevenson announces his passing on May 17, 2015 at the age of 99. A celebration of life will take place this summer. In lieu of ďŹ&#x201A;owers, donations can be made to KLHF.

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Donald was born on October 11, 1929 at Kootenay Lake Hospital and passed away there on May 4, 2015.

Donald is predeceased by his parents Annie and Norman. He is survived by his sister Christine Macleod and Norma Macleod, Shirley Macleod, Ian Macleod, Peggy Denny, Jack & Linda Denny.

Donny was proud to have worked for Cominco for 45 years of his life. He thoroughly enjoyed his retirement too, and lived his senior years very happily.

A Celebration of his Life will be held on Saturday, May 30th, 2015 from the Procter Senior Hall at 790 Woodside Road from 2-4 pm.

As an expression of sympathy, family and friends may make donations to the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation 3 View St, Nelson, BC V1L 2V1 would be greatly appreciated.

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Marion Rose Maglio October 22, 1918 - May 21, 2014 Beloved Mother, Cherished Grandmother & Great Grandmother Your sparkling eyes, your sweet gentle grace, The beautiful smile upon your face, Your encouraging words, your loving embrace, We forever hold you in our hearts!

Your giving nature, your thoughtful kind deeds, Sharing your time to help with our needs, Providing us wisdom by planting the seeds, We forever hold you in our hearts!

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Extremely Missed, Forever Loved Mel (Judy), Bob, grandchildren Darin (Meg), Stephen (Rachelle), Graham and great grandchildren Nicholas, Seth, Quinn and Evan.

PS I miss my best friend, Your Bobby

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History A pole derrick — also known as a gin pole — was used to build the Civic Centre. The facility was erected in the midst of the Great Depression. Touchstones Nelson Shawn Lamb Archives.

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ith the Nelson Commons crane dominating the downtown skyline, we recently posed the question: has a crane ever been used for a construction project in Nelson? You told us: yes. A construction crane was used for Kutenai Place, the pink government offices on Victoria St. built in 1993, as well as the present city hall, built by the provincial government in 1974. Prior to that, similar devices were used in the construction of the orange bridge (1957), Civic Centre (1935), and courthouse (1908).

BELOW: A steam derrick helped construct the courthouse. This remarkable postcard is believed to have been taken from the top of it. Among the buildings visible are the Hume Hotel, post office (now Touchstones Nelson), Grand Central Hotel (bottom left, where the credit union is today), KWC block, Madden Hotel (where the Athens Centre is now), and opera house (now the site of CIBC Wood Gundy, until recently the BC Assessment Authority office). In addition to the unusual angle, postcard maker J. Howard Chapman outlined the rooflines in white, creating a drawing-like feel.

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