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The show will be at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m. See full story page 12.

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BILL METCALFE Nelson Star A federal lawyer told a Nelson provincial court judge Monday that the government still hasn’t decided whether it will take over the prosecution of a Calgary company for polluting Lemon Creek and the Slocan River in the summer of 2013.

Judge Richard Hewson was not impressed.

“Why not?” he asked prosecutor Todd Gerhart, who appeared in court by phone.

Gerhart said there was still more investigation to do.

“How soon will you have an answer?”

Hewson asked.

“I don’t know,” Gerhart replied.

Hewson said he had no inclination to wait any longer and scheduled an arraignment hearing for Monday. Gerhart said he would not be there for that hearing.

Executive Flight Centre is the Calgary contractor whose tanker truck overturned in July 2013 en route to a forest fire, dumping jet fuel into Lemon Creek.

When it appeared that there would be no Fisheries Act charges laid against the company, Marilyn Burgoon, a Slocan Valley resident, launched a private prosecution against the company and the provincial government. Her action was accepted by the court in December, allowing a summons to be issued.

Burgoon also named the provincial

government in the prosecution, she says, because of its inaction when the Fisheries Act was contravened, and because it controlled access to the staging area the tanker was trying to reach.

In a private prosecution, a citizen takes on the role of the public prosecutor. Such prosecutions are rare because citizens usually don’t have the financial resources, legal expertise, investigative powers, or institutional backing of a prosecutor’s office.

In court Monday, Burgoon’s lawyer Lilina Lysenko and lawyers for the provincial government and Executive Flight Centre agreed the trial could take about two weeks.

Burgoon told the Star she is disappointed the federal government has not

decided to take over the case but said there is a potential upside.

“Often when public prosecution does take over, they delay it, and it never gets to trial. It just sits there.

“If we do not have the public being taken care of through the system,” Burgoon said, “it will take the citizenry to do it, and I am ready to go ahead and continue. I was confused that it was never processed initially. That is the expectation when someone violates the law.”

Burgoon said that according to the law, the courts “don’t need to show intent. The fish are dead, the river was polluted, and there is an admission that

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TAMARA HYND Nelson Star Eight-month-old Skye Roulette’s family will tell you the value of BC Children’s Hospital. Born 3½ months premature, weighing one pound and two ounces, the little girl spent the first six months of her life in the infant ICU, with her mom Kristine Balfour staying in Vancouver at the Ronald McDonald House nearby.

“It was really hard to see all the kids need to be treated every day, but they were the strongest people,” said Balfour. Although it was a sad time, she found the children inspiring. She said there the children’s hospital is filling a great need, as people travel great distances from all over the province and Yukon.

“Most stories had happy endings,” said Balfour. “There is a great need, so anything we can do to help to get medical care and treatment, anything we can do to help them forever.”

It’s the tenth annual Save-OnFoods’ BC Children’s Hospital Golf Tournament at Granite Point Golf Course on Sunday.

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All the funds raised go to help the kids who need special care at the hospital.

Born at 28 weeks, Skye has come a long way since then.

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the ICU, husband Wade Roulette travelled back and forth on weekends from Nelson to continue working.

Balfour and her husband saw “so many children” as outpatients for oncology staying at the Ronald McDonald House on downtime from their treatments.

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With Skye’s age and size, she qualified for some studies which can help the staff find anything they can do to improve their technology or treatment.

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Living away from home, Balfour said she appreciated the well-wishes she received, as well as an online auction that will continue to fund several

Nelson’s Skye Roulette with her parents Wade Roulette and Kristine Balfour. Skye was dubbed Baby Ninja by her admiring aunt who started a fundraiser for family medical expenses and travel when the little girl was born more than three months premature, weighing one pound and two ounces. Eight months later, Skye and her mother Kristine Balfour are finally back in Nelson.

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Action urged on child poverty Kootenay Lake board of education will send letter to Premier Christy Clark

WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star Child poverty was on the tip of everybody’s tongue at Tuesday night’s Kootenay Lake school board meeting.

Representatives from a variety of interest groups urged the board to do away with multi-tiered school fees that create a “quasiprivatized” school system, and the board voted to send a letter to Premier Christy Clark urging her government to create a poverty reduction strategy.

“This is bigger than just education,” said trustee Curtis Bendig, who introduced the motion. He noted that BC currently has the highest poverty and child poverty rates in Canada, and does not have a plan to address it.

The board voted unanimously in favour of sending the letter, which will be drafted

by Bendig and chair Lenora Trenaman.

“There’s never enough money for education,” said Trenaman. “There’s never enough money for families, and we feel it in our schools. You heard it when we talked about fees, you heard it when we talked about poverty in our district. We have been talking about this for a long time.”

Trenaman said teachers and administrators have been coming up with creative ways to get students the support they need, but they’re not being supported financially by the government. In many cases, teachers pay out of pocket for essentials such as food and supplies. Meanwhile, students suffer.

“We know that children who are hungry don’t learn well,” Trenaman said. “We know children who are cold or need clothing can’t focus. For that in itself, this is difficult. But if you have a family that can’t afford three square meals a day or runners, and then we put fees on top of that, how can we help them?”

Kootenay Lake school board chair Lenora Trenaman and trustee Curtis Bendig are drafting a letter to the government urging action on child poverty and the creation of a poverty reduction and economic inclusion plan.

Will Johnson photo She said the government needs to take action.

“We would like to see our province take the full initiative, take the bull by the horns and start taking care of our kids.”

Trenaman said she feels conflicted about charging children additional fees.

“Legally we can do this, but with our values, that’s where the challenge is. Because we want to provide for these kids. I think it’s

pretty safe to say that all the trustees believe in public education and believe it should be publicly funded,” she said.

“There’s fees, and then there’s fees, and then there’s fees on top of that, because they’re not properly funding public education.”

Bendig noted Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall recently introduced legislation urging the government to address child poverty as well, for the fourth time in four years.

“This is legislation that would address our concerns,” he said.

Creston Valley Teachers Association president Becky Blair added her voice at the end of the meeting, saying the current fee system would have excluded her when she was a student.

“Ask any teacher. Most parents are not going to ask for help. My parents would not have come forward, and I would not have gotten that art class. Public education is in a position right now, you have to realize, where we’re really struggling,” she said.

“Every piece of money hurts.”

Nelson and District Teachers Association president Paul Boscariol said the fees are a cause of concern for everyone, with the system creating a hierarchy of students.

“We’re creating a huge wedge in accessibility. We’re quasi-privatizing by doing this. It’s very much like sending your kid to private school.”

Bendig said he hopes the government gets the message.

“One of the greatest tools we have as a society is a strong, well-funded education system that will help raise our students out of poverty,” he said. “When the government looks at this I hope they see a universally accessible public education program as an important part of the future of this province.”

Porch fire scorches exterior of Uphill home

Nelson Star Staff Damage is estimated at $5,000 after a porch fire late Wednesday at 15 View St. Nelson Fire Rescue responded at 10:45 p.m. to a report of smoke, flames and embers coming from the front of the house.

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Aimee Beaulieu transition house marks 20 years Dozens gathered at an open house to recognize two decades of sheltering women and children from violence

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Mandy Root, program coordinator Anna Maskerine and Nelson Community Services executive director Rona Park at the Aimee Beaulieu Transition House 20th anniversary open house on Wednesday.

Tamara Hynd photo TAMARA HYND Nelson Star It’s been 20 years since the Aimee Beaulieu transition house opened in Nelson as an emergency safe place for women and children who are facing violence.

Opened in May 1995, the transition house was named in memory of Beaulieu and her twin infants, Samantha and David, who were murdered in 1992, a case which remains unsolved. To honour the milestone, staff hosted an open house at the Prestige Lakeside Resort on Wednesday.

Nelson Community Services executive director Rona Park spoke to the crowd, thanking the staff for their dedication and expertise.

The facility has eight beds and resources to support women and children leaving violent situations.

“It’s almost always full,” said Park. “That’s sad but it’s the truth.

Staff are there 24/7, 365 days of the year. Everyone is a dedicated worker.”

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ited program coordinator Anna Maskerine. Her 20 years of service with “amazing leadership” extended to her role on regional and provincial boards.

Nelson police Sgt. Dino Falcone said “words can’t describe how amazing Anna is. Her diligence, proactiveness in training her staff.

She’s a wonderful leader.”

He added her informative presentations to police officers year after year are helpful and professional.

“I have heard women proudly state that they’ve stayed at the transition house and that it changed their life,” he said.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Leanne Tuchscherer echoed the comments about the skilled staff.

“It’s the best support network women could ask for,” she said, encouraging those involved to pat themselves on the back. “One person is a success,” she said.

Representatives from the Nelson Women’s Centre expressed their gratitude to have a safe place

to refer clients who may be at risk.

Maskerine was matter-of-fact about the praise.

“A leader looks really good when you have a great team,” she told the Star. “I really do appreciate the work they do because it’s hard work, hearing really impactful stories. It’s important that they know they make a difference.”

And as far as training and expertise, Maskerine focuses on building on their strengths.

The transition house is run by Nelson Community Services and funded by BC Housing. Over 20 years, they have supported 16,000 callers in a time of crisis and 1,650 women and children in Nelson have been sheltered. One woman housed at the shelter wrote: “Staff helped me through the hardest part of my life.”

For more information, visit nelsoncommunityservices.ca, or call the transition house at 250354-4357 (250-354-HELP) or the regional crisis line at 1-888-353CARE (2273).

Prosecutors decline to explain delay

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She said those facts were all established in a report commissioned by the provincial government and Executive Flight Centre.

“So I cannot imagine what they are still investigating. They just need to read the report.”

The federal government’s public prosecution office declined to comment on the reasons for the delay or the need for more investigation.

Lysenko said she is disappointed because “it is the job of the federal government to prosecute files like

this or at least to decide whether they are going to.”

She said factors the government would have to consider include whether the case presents a reasonable likelihood of success and whether it is in the public interest, “and it is our position that both of these are present in this case.”

Do Monday’s events mean the federal government is out of the picture and Burgoon is now stuck with prosecuting the case herself?

Lysenko says she doesn’t know.

“They could still step in if they want to, but they will not be attending the arraignment hearing on Monday and I am not sure what that means.”

Marilyn Burgoon is now faced with the likelihood that she will have to prosecute the Lemon Creek case herself.

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Don Johnston named Liberal candidate in Kootenay-Columbia

BILL METCALFE Nelson Star Don Johnston of Nelson will be the Liberal candidate in the upcoming federal election for the riding of Kootenay-Columbia.

The riding will include Nelson this time around, since the riding boundaries were redrawn in 2012.

Johnston’s acclamation by the local Liberal party organization will be finalized in a public nomination meeting on Wednesday.

He joins the race against the Conservative incumbent David Wilks, Green Party candidate Bill Green, and the NDP’s Wayne Stetski. He is the only candidate among them who lives in West Kootenay; the rest are East Kootenay-based.

Johnston grew up in Nelson and is a graduate of L.V. Rogers. He is the former CEO of the Columbia Basin Trust and Canada World Youth. He has 40 years of community development work in Canada and abroad.

Asked why he is running, Johnston said “Because I want my Canada back. My Canada is one that is very different from the one Mr. [Stephen] Harper represents. My Canada is one that cares about the role we play on the international stage, and where we return to using our advantages as a middle power to help convene people to help introduce positive dialogue in difficult international discussions.”

Johnson said other examples of the Canada he wants back include: • A preference for diplomacy over war.

“You can’t get involved in diplomacy when your attitude toward international relations is to create an enemies list and a friends list.”

• An independent Supreme Court. “Canada is a country where we understand that the only thing that separates democracy from countries that move increasingly toward autocratic rule is an independent court, and you treat it with respect.”

• Tougher regulations on environmental protection. “What frightens me is how much they [the Conservatives] are muzzling scientists on research issues we are paying for, and I think that is deplorable.”

• More action on climate change. “They are still hiding their head in the sand on carbon issues.”

• Independence for MPs (except in budget votes or votes on things that are in the party’s platform). “David Wilks represents the Conservative Party in the riding. I would represent the riding in parliament.”

• Respect for parliamentary tradition.

“Treat question period with the seriousness it deserves and don’t send clowns out to answer with absurd responses to serious questions that have nothing to do with the subject matter and often turn into rants.”

Splitting the vote?

Asked about the likelihood his candidacy will split the non-Conservative vote in this riding, Johnston said “Let’s not forget that Mr. Wilks had 57 per cent of the popular vote, so we need to make inroads, we need to see that vote collapse in the same way the vote collapsed in Alberta and in the same way things collapsed in favour of Jack Layton in Quebec.

“In our campaign we are going after that vote, and we believe we are better positioned to move that vote than the NDP is. The NDP did a good job in Alberta but every situation is different during this volatile time,

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“I am presenting myself as a person with the kind of long term experience and the knowledge of the riding from having grown up here, having been the CEO of the Columbia Basin Trust, knowing the riding and the issues, who can bring that strong representation.”

Expertise in community development Convening people to talk about their similarities and solve problems is part of Johnston’s stock in trade, he says.

“That is what I have done all my life. My career has been in community development and international development, trying to bring people together.”

Johnston said that as an MP he would use those skills to call public meetings around the riding “to discuss what economic diversification possibilities would look like, and I would raise this in Ottawa [by] convening a group of people there, across party affiliation, who have an interest in protecting the quality of life in rural Canada.”

He thinks MPs should use their position to convene more meetings in their ridings to “create conversations across the region.

When an MP convenes a meeting in the riding, people are going to come.”

Focus on rural economic development Johnson said that as Canada urbanizes — 80 per cent of Canada’s population lives in urban environments — rural issues get lost, rural economies need to diversify, and more money needs to be spent in rural infrastructure including a major upgrade of the highway through the Rogers Pass.

His concept of economic diversification would include extractive industries.

“I am a full supporter of the idea that resource extraction properly done is always going to be one of the drivers.”

Happy to be on Trudeau’s team Johnston says the Liberal party is just beginning to release its election platform, and he is satisfied to align himself with Justin Trudeau.

“If you look at his platform and the leadership style, it is much more inclusive than the present government and it focuses on a team approach to things. Justin Trudeau has been able to bring the party together, and I am quite happy to be part of that common purpose and common vision.”

But he says it is Don Johnston he wants you to vote for.

“I am not trying to get the Liberal Party elected in this riding. I am trying to get me elected, and I am happy to be under the banner of the Liberals.”

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He said this would include setting up an all-party committee to look at ways to increase participation and trust in the democratic process in Canada, and could include discussion of proportional representation.

Bill C-51: Liberals are misunderstood On the recent controversy over national security in Bill C-51, now passed as the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, Johnston says the Liberal Party’s support of it in parliament is misunderstood.

He says the party knew it would pass, and supported it even though it disagreed with some parts of it, and that the party proposed amendments to the bill that would provide independent oversight and “narrow the definitions that could be used against people protesting against pipelines. Those amendments will be part of our election platform.”

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n May 14 the Queen City was delighted to receive a visit from the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Judith Guichon. Her Honour was an energetic and inquisitive guest and she enjoyed meeting the people of Nelson as much as we enjoyed hosting her at Touchstones and Trafalgar School.

As a cattle rancher from the Chilcotin, Her Honour is very knowledgeable about the issues facing rural British Columbians and is very engaged in promoting the needs of agriculture. Her visit lasted less than 24 hours and she departed with a sincere invitation to return.

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tremendous amount of time and energy has been put into Nelson police services since the election and I’d like to update you on how things are progressing.

My goal was, and continues to be, to improve the relationship between the police board and city council through better communication and building understanding. I’ve had many conversations with community members, board members, council, staff, our officers and others. It has been a rich and challenging experience and we’ve learned a lot.

The April 14 joint meeting between council and the board was a successful first step in the process.

This facilitated session provided

Lt.-Gov Judith Guichon and Mayor Deb Kozak are seen at Touchstones Nelson next to the uniform of Edgar Dewdney, BC’s lieutenant governor 1892-97. an opportunity for each member of council and the police board to share their thoughts and begin the conversation about the request to increase the number of officers.

These challenging situations, lead us to consider new things and to think in different ways and that is what we are doing. I’ll be frank; no one assumed that an agreement would be reached, but this meeting was the first building block to thinking about what the future of police services in our community might look like.

I’ve learned that the future of policing services province-wide is under review and that change is coming in the next few years.

Nelson is ahead of that curve as we embark on these discussions locally. The provincial discussion began with Justice Wally Oppal’s report that was tabled in the ‘90s: pssg.gov.bc.ca/policeservices/ shareddocs/specialreport-opalclosingthegap.pdf.

Some of the Oppal recommendations were implemented, others not. The provincial task force has picked up the ball and is looking at this and other strategies as they plan for policing into the next century. Our local council and board is

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paying close attention to this work.

Police interactions with people experiencing mental health issues is not a unique phenomenon in our community, but a global issue. Police as first responders are the “go to” service. As demand has increased, so has the urgency to identify the core factors and cooperate with community supports to address the issue appropriately.

We are meeting with Interior Health and community agencies to complete the circle, be aware of what is available and to coordinate services. In my search for solutions, I also spoke with Jonny Morris from the Canadian Mental Health Association. He has put us in touch with some regional resources and is currently pulling together a pilot project. Nelson will be invited to take part. Interior Health staff will attend an upcoming meeting with the Nelson Police Board to educate members on what is available and what IH is considering.

I attended two conferences in the last few weeks that were of great help in looking at the big picture in policing in our province and internationally. The first was the annual meeting of the BC Police Association boards which I attended with

our board and deputy chief. This event provides education and the opportunity to connect with other municipal boards from across the province. Clayton Pecknold, assistant deputy minister of police services, led a session to inform us about the progress of the provincial review.

The committee just completed a cross-Canada review of other forces and boards to understand how they operate. This information is being collated and will be shared. My conversations with other board members and police chiefs at the conference were helpful, informative and encouraging.

A consistent message from all was the importance of strong relationships between council and board and clear understanding of roles.

The second conference I attended was about risk management and insurance. The conference was held in the US where the police culture is different, but the topics were useful. While not specific to policing, there were two sessions that were about challenges facing police.

One identified issues of privacy with new surveillance technology.

Body cameras and drones are being used extensively and while there are benefits, there are challenges.

BC is considering making body cameras mandatory for police and I found this session helpful in considering the ramifications. The second session was about improving interactions between civilians and police. This is a critical issue in the US. The presenter was clear in his recommendation to de-militarize police services and concentrate on excellent communication and relationship building with the community. I think that is a strong suit in our police department.

There is much more happening, but these are the highlights of this journey. I’ll continue to keep you informed on our progress and welcome your feedback. Contact me at dkozak@nelson.ca.

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The inedible muffin Recently I had a “procedure” (colonoscopy) at Kootenay Lake Hospital. All went well. All the nurses and doctors were personable, friendly and efficient. Bed clean, blanket warm. If it had been a spa, I would have given it a five star review.

During the procedure itself, I was not conscious, in that eerie state of total blotto that only a general anesthetic can produce. I awoke to a symphony of gently passing gas — my own, and whoever else was in the recovery room behind drawn curtains. Relief!

As a reward for being such brave soldiers, patients are offered a little snack afterwards. The preparation for a colonoscopy, as most of you will know, requires a period of fasting. (It requires other things, too, but let’s keep our focus.)

I was pretty hungry, salivating a bit. A muffin and a stick of cheese and a little box of juice sat on my tray. The muffin was wrapped in clear plastic, which I removed before taking a bite. I chewed. Or should I say, I made chewing motions, for I did not actually encounter any chew-able substance. It was more like paste, or glue. It stuck to the roof of my mouth. After a few minutes of this, I was able to swallow the stuff, but did not feel encouraged to try another bite. I looked at the printing on the wrapper: the “muffin” was provided

by Sysco. From Toronto.

I ate the cheese and washed it down with juice. The cheese was produced by Kraft, and came in its own nifty little plastic package. It tasted kind of like cheese, yes, and I was able to chew it. I forgot to look to see where it came from.

Okay, so in terms of stories of personal suffering, this one is pretty pale, eh? Kind of like a senator going on about cold Camembert. Nevertheless, there is a larger issue. A hospital service, presumably, takes an interest in the well-being of patients.

Why serve bad, non-nutritious, nonlocal food? I’m pretty sure I know the answer. “It’s cheaper.” That’s what the IHA would tell us, yes? But do we know this to be really true?

Anyway, all of you who might be wondering when you’ll schedule that colonoscopy your doctor recommended — go ahead and do it. You don’t have to eat that muffin.

Ralph Friesen Nelson

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Relay impresses, inspires neighbouring Shriners Re: “Nelson family completes pilgrimage,” May 20 Three Shriners from Creston were able to attend the end of the relay race at the Prestige to witness a spectacular donation from the government of BC to Shriners Care for Kids transportation in the

name of Talia Goertz.

There were also two Shriners from Castlegar. It is always great for us to see firsthand the miracles that Shriners hospitals perform for the child and family.

As with other service clubs, we too are facing shortages in manpower to continue fundraising for such great causes, but something like this event does wonders for

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All the way back home we were brainstorming how we could do more than our regular ticket draws, selling popcorn, and banging drums in parades. It is this kind of exposure that we hope inspires more men to join us in this great work.

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HUGS: To my friend who gave me the opportunity to experience the Kootenay mountains in a helicopter.

SLUGS: To the trophy hunters killing unarmed bears.

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HUGS: To the man who shovelled the deep sand off the highway shoulder. You did a great service to all cyclists. Thanks! Safe cycling!

HUGS: To the young man who turned around and offered me assistance while my vehicle was broke down on the side of the highway. Chivalry is not dead!

HUGS: To the commercial and private aviators who follow the published rules and fly over the lake on take off at the Nelson airport. Thank you SLUGS: To the commercial and private aviators who have total disregard for the published rules and continually take off over our Fairview neighbourhood, making it unbearable to enjoy our outside spaces.

Shame on you.

SLUGS: To grocery stores that advertise big savings on items in their flyer and then it goes through the till at regular price. You always have to be checking. Not acceptable!!!

HUGS: To those responsible for shoring up the small spit of land on the dog walk and for planting the trees. It looks lovely now and will be even better when the trees have grown. Well done.

– Appreciative walker HUGS: Big hugs to the crew who found a solution to what had been an ongoing erosion issue in front of our homes. You were professional, polite and extremely efficient in finding and implementing satisfying solutions to the problem, all within a very timely manner.

SLUGS: To the person who stole my cat from Chatham St. Really, how can you live with yourself, stealing a beloved family pet who is missed just like a family member? Could you not go find your own cat and build your own relationship instead of leaving us as though someone has died in ours?

If you have a Hug or a Slug... we’d like to hear it. Simply email us at editor@nelsonstar.com with your short quips, compliments or complaints. Keep it tasteful and anonymous — no names of individuals, businesses, or places please. You can also drop by a written submission to our offices at 514 Hall Street.

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n early April I invited Kootenay author K.L. Kivi to come by the Star for an interview about her poetry book Unknown Hum. Though I was primarily interested in her literary work, I was also aware that she was known locally as a fierce environmental advocate.

“You’re an anti-Jumbo activist, right?” I asked.

Kivi took this opportunity to correct my semantics. The way she figured, it was the developers and future polluters who were “anti-Jumbo,” while she considered herself “proJumbo” because she wanted to retain the area’s pristine state.

She explained that true activism is inspired by love for the natural world.

“We have to learn to love our environment again,” she told me.

“We need to be in love with our surroundings. With the sky, the air, the ground, the animals.”

I told her she was preaching to the choir, smitten as I am with Elephant Mountain and my newly discovered Nelson refuge.

Though I’ve never marched in a parade or considered myself a proactive environmentalist, I am definitely a tree-hugger of some stripe.

But the truth is I’ve never felt any urgency on the matter.

When the tsunami hit South Asia back in 2004, it may as well have happened on another planet. The earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011? That was way over on the other side of the ocean.

Then things started happening closer to home — half of New York was submerged by Hurricane Sandy, Toronto got caught in a record-breaking ice storm and Calgarians watched floodwaters sweep their possessions away.

Still, though, I was untouched.

Then, two days after my interview with Kivi, there was an oil spill in Vancouver, just off the coast of the beach I took my partner Darby to on one of our first dates. Toxic blossoms of purple sludge floated suspended beneath the waters where I used to work as a lifeguard.

The sacrifice zone Having spent my 20s in a selfinvolved fog in which I rarely considered my surroundings, I feel like I’m just now starting to take stock of our environmental situation. The primary emotion it inspires: alarm.

Maybe it has something to do with living in the Kootenays, the land of default defiance, where protesters routinely parade down Baker St. But once I acknowledged the looming threat of climate disruption and the environmental devastation of extractive industries I decided that the very least I could do was read a book about it.

At the urging of Citizens’ Climate Lobby area organizer Laura Sacks, who I interviewed last year when she attended one of history’s largest ever environmental protests in New York, I picked up Naomi Klein’s non-fiction tome This Changes Everything and spent a few weeks dutifully highlighting page after page.

A lot of the sky-is-falling stuff I already knew, but I was surprised to find Klein’s ire aimed at environmentalists and capitalists alike. As far as she’s concerned, nothing we humans are doing is working and it’s going to take something extreme to alter our system’s apocalyptic course.

I found her hypothesis — that the forces of global capitalism are at direct odds with the health of our planet — compelling and self-evident. But, like most people, I wasn’t sure what to do about it.

When I attended her sold-out lecture at the Brilliant Cultural Centre this year, Klein had at least one answer: get arrested.

She praised activist Zoe Buckley Lennox, who scaled a Shell drilling platform in the middle of the ocean. She called for individuals and institutions to aggressively divest from extractive industries and invest in clean energy. She encouraged anyone who could to travel down to Seattle for an upcoming protest.

Turns out Klein was similarly

heartbroken to see the news about Vancouver’s spill, as she wrote two of her books in that area. She said the old model of putting aside land as a sacrifice zone is no longer feasible.

“We’re all in the sacrifice zone now.”

Waking the frog Klein’s talk made me feel daunted, but also hopeful. Hearing her speak, and watching the enthusiastic response from the Kootenay audience, I felt like I was watching the community reach a new level of understanding. There was a giddy, electric energy in the room.

Another person capitalizing on this momentum is author Tom Rand, who came to Nelson at Sacks’ invitation to give a free lecture based on his book Waking the Frog. Nelson Mayor Deb Kozak and the entire city council saw fit to reschedule their normal meeting to make sure to be in attendance.

Judging by his sold-out show, Rand’s message has been wellreceived locally. And elsewhere in this issue you can read about one Nelsonite who is already putting his vision into action.

Essentially, Rand believes we’re like the pot-warmed frog doomed to cook if it doesn’t jump out. He encouraged his Capitol Theatre audience to be among those who make the leap.

Sacks told me there are plans in the works to distribute recordings of his talk and show it in Kootenay classrooms. She’s enthusiastic about his message, and figures his urgings could bring real change.

“It’s not irrational to despair,” Rand tells his readers. “But despair is a choice and not one we need to make.”

Rand says his message is directed at both progressives who see climate change as a threat, and conservatives who don’t.

He’s attempting to find a middle ground between them so they can work together for a better future. As a capitalist within the

system, he feels he can act as an “insider looking ahead.”

Throughout the book he details ways technology, capital and policy can work together to ameliorate the effects of climate change and encourage the introduction of clean energy. Rand’s book is far too heady and ultracomplicated to summarize in a column, but his most important message is this: we’re all responsible for Earth’s fate.

In the preface he quotes Marshall McLuhan: “There are no passengers on spaceship Earth, only crew.”

In other words: get to work.

Canary in the coal mine I’ve had some eye-opening experiences related to climate disruption in the past few months, including seeing the Johnsons Landing slide in person. I met activist Brian Rosen, who just released a song called Right Upon the Hour, and I attended a meeting in a local church basement organized by Sacks and other environmental advocates.

I even participated in their sing-along, which consisted of us belting out a climate anthem set to the tune of Bad Moon Rising

by CCR. (“I see temperatures a’rising…”)

But mostly I’ve just been reading.

Like the majority of us, I don’t have any solutions to the global climate threat we’re facing. And I’m definitely not an expert. But I’m starting to “feel the threat,” as Naomi Klein puts it.

And I’m not the only one.

The day the Vancouver oil spill happened, my UBC teacher Steven Galloway expressed his dismay at the news via Facebook.

“What I hope happens here is that we become mobilized and start voting with the protection of the place we live in and our own physical and social and economic interests at heart,” he wrote.

“Because this is a canary in the coal mine, and the canary just died.”

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this weekend There will be a free public screening of an award-winning documentary, Under Our Skin, which explores Lyme disease, plus a second showing of the 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 of the Canadian Lyme Foundation.

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, raffle and more.

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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, Nellestijn was recently appointed as one of the two salmon ambassadors by the Canadian River Inter-Tribal The KAIROS Reconciliation Walk to rebuild relationships with aboriginal people in Canada goes Friday, May Fisheries Commission and the 29. Meet at noon outside Nelson city hall and walk to Lakeside Park. For more Info: 250-352-9871.

Ktunaxa Nation Council. SugSubmitted photo gested $10 donation; youth are free. some yarn, knit a scarf, hook and to register, visit bbaprogram.

Monthly Meetings Weekly Meetings a rug, and make a friend. Call ca or call 1-855-510-2227.

All seniors welcome to the Djembe drum circle at Lakeside Tira at 250-505-0698 or email monthly meeting of the Senior Announcements Park near the greenhouse on tirab@uniserve.com.

Citizens’ Association Branch No. A horse show will be held on Mondays at 7 p.m. Participants 51, at 717 Vernon Street. MeetMay 23 and 24. The 15th Annual are encouraged to bring their Nelson Chess Club Saturdays, ing commences at 10:30 a.m.

H.A.C.K. Spring Schooling Show, own drums and chairs.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nelson Seniors on Wednesday, June 3. Refreshhosted by Horse Association of Association (next to the Civic ments will be served after the Central Kootenay at the Nelson Join community yoga at the Centre), 717 Vernon St. All ages meeting. Activities enjoyed at riding grounds. Info or programs: youth centre every Wednesday. and levels are welcome. It’s free. the centre include bridge, crib, 250-359-7097.

Afternoon practice for girls and dominos, chess, euchre and women from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous holds 14 snooker. For further information, Celebrating 100 years of comAll levels welcome. A fun evening one-hour meetings weekly in call 250-352-7078 weekday munity, a centennial tea will be practice at 6 to 7:15 p.m. for Nelson, at 717A Vernon St. (in afternoons. held at St. Francis-in-the-Woods anyone to open up and stretch. the Cellar downstairs), including at the Queens Bay townsite on Workshops For all ages: teens and 19-plus. early morning, noon hour, and Saturday, June 6 from 12 to 4 Ellison’s Market free workshop Pay what you can. Contact Ursula evening meetings on specific p.m. By donation. on Saturday, May 23, from 10 at ursulatwiss@gmail.com. days. Call 250-352-3391 or pick to 11 a.m. is Garden Fertilizersup a complete list at the Cellar.

The Young Women’s Peace what should you use when and The Nelson Knitting Co-op has Leadership Camp, for 15 to 35 for which plant?

Learn how to an ongoing knitting group every Al-Anon Family Group meets year olds, will run Aug. 24 to 28 nourish your garden so you can Thursday from 12:30 to 3 p.m. twice weekly. Wednesday noon near Nelson. Participants will nourish yourself. at the Nelson and District Comto 1 p.m. at the Cellar, 717 explore possibilities for careers munity Centre general purpose Vernon St. and Friday 8 to 9 and activism at all levels of the Thinking about starting your room ($2 drop-in). p.m. at 601 Front St. at the side peace process in a beautiful own small business?

The Basin basement. The only requirement environment, and meet women Business Advisors Program ofCommunity Threads holds a for membership is that there involved in local and global fers a free workshop called Me fibre craft-themed project every may be a problem of alcoholism efforts. Contact and registration Inc. to help you get started.

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Special events The L.V. Rogers 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. 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.

Friday night at the Royal on Baker 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 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.

Alicia Priest’s memoir A Rock Fell on the Moon will be presented at the Nelson Public Library on Tuesday, June 6 at 7 p.m. Shown here is alleged ore robber Gerald Priest with wife Helen and daughters Alicia and Vona in the Yukon.

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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 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. 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.

For more information visit civictheatre.ca.

Literary Arts Author and filmmaker Colin Browne will host a special pre-event of Nelson’s Elephant Mountain Literary Festival on Friday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. when he reads from his newest book of poetry The Hatch. Opening for Browne will be former Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah. Browne will also offer a documentary film workshop on Saturday, May 30 at Oxygen Art Centre. Cost is $75. For more information visit emlfestival.com.

A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist, recounts the baffling but unforgettable story that began in 1963 when the author’s father, Gerald Priest, allegedly stole 670 bags of ore—80% silver—from United Keno Hill Mine in the Yukon. Priest, who recently passed away, was a respected journalist whose

in-depth investigation lead to this book, released

by Harbour Publishing last fall and nominated for a BC Book Prize. Priest’s husband Ben Parfitt presents the book with a talk and slideshow on Tuesday, June 9 at 7 p.m at the Nelson Public Library. This presentation will fascinate anyone interested in mining, history, or simply an audacious story well told.

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BILL METCALFE Nelson Star The L.V. Rogers Grad Talent Show packs the Capitol Theatre every year, and audiences are always amazed by the calibre of the performances by these children of an arts town.

It’s a Nelson tradition.

The event has become known also for its colourful MCs. This year it’s Grade 12 students Hayden Wasylyk and Alex McMahon.

Here’s what they told the Star about why they took on this role:

Hayden: I thought what a great way to end my Grade 12 year, by hosting it with a dear friend of mine thousands of years old. So that is the real reason but also I think it is good to be involved with your grad class, you know, get your fingers into the meat, you know, tear it apart.

Alex: All those reasons and more. Frankly I am honoured to be the voice that brings on the raw talent of …

Hayden: So much. So much talent. It is a pool of raw clay that is of the earth, you know?

Alex: LVR is a writhing, angry

cesspit of talent and diversity. And as MCs we will bring to the stage a certain wacky charm that the audience will be offended by … or enjoy.

Hayden: Or just something unfamiliar, you know? It is good to just stare into their eyes sometimes.

Alex: It is good to stare into the eye of the abyss.

Hayden: Why should people come to the show? Well, if they like to go to things they don’t come back from … I mean … that they enjoy, they should come to the Grad Talent Show 2015. We will be there, in every single seat.

For an amusing video of this interview with Hayden and Alex, go to nelsonstar.com.

Local actor and director Pat Henman is directing this year’s Grad Talent Show, as she did the two previous times one of her three children performed in it.

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“But my second thing is I love mentoring those kids, sharing stories, giving them tips, and having them say, ‘Okay, that’s great, I can do that.’ That is why I love it.”

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“At 16 I was willing to go the gamut. I did not know my limitations. You just go for it. After you are older and have trained, suddenly you go, ‘Hmmm, I can’t take that chance because it might not work.’”

Henman is glad to have Hayden and Alex as the MCs. “They are so lively, so energetic, and they have these improv skills — they can take care of whatever BLUE NIGHT PRESENTS... gets thrown at them.”

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Dance collaboration celebrates Movement Over 100 dancers from the L.V. Rogers dance department and Allegro Dance Theatre will perform at the Capitol on Thursday, May 28

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will johnson Nelson Star Kootenay dancer Dani Zak had a terrifying experience in 2012 — stuck in a cabin, she was trapped in the middle of a windstorm in which 1,500 trees toppled around her. Now the aspiring choreographer has turned the memory into a collaborative dance piece featuring four other students — Emma Weiland, Emma Abbey, Tessa Timmerman and Andriana Bergman.

“I wanted to capture that feeling of being trapped, but also explore the beauty you can find in tragedy,” said Zak, a Grade 12 student who will not only perform in the show, but choreographed three pieces herself.

“What I really love about collaborating, is I told the girls the story and it’s cool to watch them put their own twist on it, and their own experiences into the movement.”

Zak said the piece, which is set to the song Medicine, by Daughter, is one of her proudest accomplishments. And she can’t wait to see it performed at the Capitol on May 28.

“It’s a really melancholy song, but absolutely beautiful. It’s contemporary dance with a lot of really good expression. We’re all really excited,” said Weiland, who added it was a pleasure to perform in something created by a peer.

A collaboration between L.V. Rogers dance department and Allegro Dance Theatre, the night will feature over 100 dancers.

Eve Maslak said the night will feature no shortage of fabulous costumes, but her favourite outfit is a 1920s flapper-style dress.

“There’s one where we wear flapper dresses with headpieces, and it’s a lot of frilly stuff and beading. It’s so much fun,” she said.

Both Maslak and Saida Mackenzie said

they really appreciate the opportunity to work with dancers of different ages.

“I’ve danced pretty much all my life, it’s just something I enjoy doing,” said Mackenzie.

“And being able to be around different age groups and all the different dancers is so nice.”

LVR’s Jen MacMillan and Allegro’s Lynette Lightfoot said the collaboration between the high school and private studio is a nobrainer, and is working great.

“I think that union is important,” said Lightfoot. “A lot of these students take dance at school during the day then come to my studio in the evening. This way we can bring it together so they’re working on one cohesive project.”

Lightfoot said she’s amazed at the work her charges have put into the upcoming performance. “There are five or six pieces entirely done by students like Dani. They design their own lighting, choose their own costumes, they do it all. They’re taking it one step further,” she said.

Tickets are $11 for adults and $6 for students/seniors. Children six and under can get in for free. Tickets are available at the Capitol Theatre box office at 250-352-6363.

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Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker (centre) told the Star he’s looking forward to his concert at the Nelson Civic Theatre on June 1, where he’ll be playing songs from the band’s sixth album, Forest of Arms.

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WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star Great Lake Swimmers lead singer Tony Dekker believes if you line up their six albums side by side, you’ll be able to detect a subtle spiritual through-line that connects them all.

“You can see the progression, right up to the sixth album now, and draw a thematic line all the way through. A lot of it is about trying to approach a spirituality in the natural world, and having a respect for nature, but also recognizing the danger in it,” he said.

“I’m surveying landscapes both internal and external, tying together the emotional aspect of life and the physical aspect.”

This is something he explores in the new track Zero in the City, which has a recently-released music video online. Dekker said he wrote it while living in urban drudgery, and feeling a little lost.

“It takes that idea of temperature-reading, like reading on scales what’s happening inside and simultaneously what’s happening in the city. I was feeling a sense of emptiness or incompleteness, and I tied that in with the weather

reading.”

Dekker will perform the song live during his concert at the Civic Theatre on June 1. Having played at The Royal and Spiritbar in the past, he said he’s looking forward to filling a bigger venue.

“We’ve actually been stepping up a bit across Canada, in general. Our live show has become something that’s really important to us. It’s a really dynamic acoustic show. We’ve got upright bass, violin, banjo — even a little bit of tastefully played electric guitar.”

He said the new tracks have a bit of a folk feel, but not in the way most people expect.

“We’re more dreamy, looking to the poetic side of it. I think of us as very separate from that whole genre of stomp-your-boots kind of playing. We go for a sublime aspect, diving into nature.”

Dekker said though he appreciates the green spaces in his home of Toronto, it’s when he gets out into “true wilderness” that he feels most alive. And that’s what he had in mind when he wrote crowd-favourite Your Rocky Spine, which he promised will be on the set list during the Nelson concert.

“Toronto has a quite a bit of green space, but my inspiration zone is getting into Northern Ontario and into the real wild places.

The Kootenays are wonderful for that. I had a chance to spend a little more time there during a solo tour I did a few years ago, traveling all cross Canada, my wife and I. It’s just level after level of awesome across the Kootenays and the Rockies.”

Tickets are $25, available from the Nelson Civic Theatre. Great Lake Swimmers will be performing with the Weather Station. Concert starts at 7 p.m.

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Nelson students get safety training

Submitted to the Nelson Star On Wednesday, the Alive After Five program spoke to students at L.V. Rogers Secondary about staying safe at work and knowing your rights.

“Studies show that young workers are 40 per cent more likely to get hurt on the job. It is not because they are inattentive or risk takers, but simply because they lack experience and training,” said Layne Clark, a facilitator with the Alive After Five program.

The presentation covered employer and employee responsibilities in the workplace, types of workplace health and safety hazards and, perhaps most importantly, workers basic health and safety rights, including the right to refuse unsafe work.

“What’s really unique about our program is that it’s peer to peer, meaning it’s delivered by young workers to young workers. Our facilitators bring unique perspectives, personal stories and humour to their presentation making it both interactive and interesting for students” said Clark.

With the support of teachers and schools province-wide, the program has engaged with more than 150,000 students since it started ten years ago.

“Reaching out to high school students is extremely important, many of them are just starting in their first job,” said Clark. “The goal of the program is to leave them with important information about their rights and the confidence to ask questions about workplace safety.”

Alive After Five is one of five outreach programs of the BC Federation of Labour’s occupational health and safety centre, which provides accessible health and safety education across British Columbia. It is funded by the Workers Compensation Board.

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The LVR junior girls soccer team. Back row from left: Mimoka Okada, Laurel Halleran, Emma Wheeldon, Noa Butterfield, Grace Dehnel, Mattea Lorenzo, Julia Burkhart, Ruby Creighton.

From row, from left: McKenna Bennett, Taylor Zimmer, Bella Guderyan, Sofia Arcuri, Andrea Autrique.

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LVR junior girls cruise to Savoy Lanes still open 6-2 soccer win in Trail

The Savoy Lanes bowling alley will be open Friday and Saturday nights through the summer, and can be pre-booked for any other time during the week.

Tamara Hynd photo

BILL METCALFE Nelson Star There’s a rumour out there that Nelson’s bowling alley is closing, but that’s not so, according to Dan Sammartino.

Sammartino was the manager when the Nelson Sports Council decided to withdraw from the business this past spring, and stayed because “I saw that there is potential for a successful business as well as community service.

“There are several senior leagues,” he said, “and it is a big part of their life — they get to do some exercise and have some nice social time with their friends. Some have been bowling for 30 years. If it was shut down they would feel like they have a hole in their week.

“They are very competitive. It is serious fun for them. They want the stats just right. It is like a sport.”

Savoy Lanes support The Star has received many letters of support for the bowling alley in the past week.

Here are a couple more.

I am writing this letter adding to the list of people who are saddened at the news that again our Savoy Lanes bowling may be closed.

This is one of the sports that seniors can enjoy with little risk of an injury. It is a chance to meet fellow seniors and to socialize. I have made many friends over the 40 years I have bowled in Nelson. We can also enter tournaments in other cities which allows us to advertise our

Sammartino says there is also a special needs group of adults who use the lanes every week.

“You can see how much fun they have. They are very animated, happy, laughing, cheering, really into bowling, and it would be a shame if they could not continue.”

Sammartino says the lanes are also popular for kids’ birthday parties and families, despite the fact bowling as a sport has diminished and there are no adult bowling leagues any more.

He wants to use the lanes for a bigger variety of events, “with DJs, bands, art openings, special events. We are looking at an oyster bowling night. We had a punk rock show with five punk bands. It was a fundraiser for Co-op Radio, and it sold out in 12 minutes.”

The Savoy Lanes will be open this summer on Friday and Saturday evenings, but bowlers can book lanes by phone for any time of the week.

Nelson Star Staff L.V. Rogers’ junior girls soccer team needed a wake up call at half time, but once they got it there was no stopping them.

The Nelson girls hit their stride in the second half of a friendly match against West Kootenay rival J.L. Crowe Wednesday in Trail.

After a 1-1 draw in the first half, LVR scored five straight goals to put the game out of reach for J.L. Crowe. The home side did get one back, but that was it as Nelson

beautiful city.

I hope this situation can be resolved and our bowling alley will be open for regular bowling again in September.

Winnie Jarvis Nelson

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I am writing this regarding the possible closure of Savoy Lanes. If this does happen, it will probably mean it will never re-open.

This facility enhances our health and helps keep us active. Special needs and young people need a positive, social outlet.

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“They were pretty flat in the first half, but they really stepped up their game in the second half. They were told they needed to be a better side in the second half and they did just that.”

Emma Wheeldon led the scoring with three goals, while Taylor Zimmer, Noa Butterfield and Mattea Lorenzo rounded out the scoring.

The stands were full to watch the Kaslo logger sports competitions on the May long weekend.

With sawdust flying, many enjoyed the sunshine and festivities.

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Common name: Bluebeard, Blue Mist Shrub Botanical Names: Caryopteris x clandonesis A favorite of many gardeners, the Blue Mist Shrub is truly a mini marvel. With intense true blue flowers in July and August, its bright silvery/grey foliage forms a bushy mound, with a strong lavender fragrance.

It is a woody shrub that needs to be cut down to the ground in late fall, just as if it were an herbaceous perennial. It is extremely drought tolerant and is virtually maintenance free! And every bumble bee and butterfly in town will find it when they start to bloom. Their small size and soft grey foliage make them a good choice in any size garden. The blue flowers mix well

with either pastels and whites or vibrant yellows. Since they bloom later in summer, Caryopteris make nice companions to Rudbeckia and Goldenrod. Although they prefer a well drained, sunny spot in garden they can tolerate a more moist soil and even a bit of shade. They are also excellent in tubs or mixed containers. Once established they will not require any supplemental watering. They are not heavy feeders so a bit of compost at planting time should be all the nutrients they need! Cut them back in late fall or early spring to about 6 inches, sit back, relax and watch them grow!

LEARN TO FISH

Midsummer dreaming at the Capitol Theatre

Submitted to the Nelson Star Enjoy A Midsummer Night’s Dream this June in Nelson’s Capitol Theatre as part of the VIIth annual Bard in the Bush Shake-speare Festival. Four teens get lost in the woods where the faerie queen and king fight over a human child while a troupe of workers rehearse a play to perform before the duke and his bride at their wedding.

The all-ages cast has been rehearsing in the Civic Theatre since the new year to give audiences a fun, spirited version of Shakespeare’s most-performed play. Songs, danc-

es, projections, slapstick, sparkles and swordplay entertain even those audience members who feel as if the Bard’s language is all Greek to them.

Nelson Youth Theatre actors like Elle Horton (Titania, the Faerie Queen), Sylvia Hardy (Puck) and Luther Perry (Oberon, the Faerie King) play key roles in this classic romantic comedy.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream was Nelson Youth Theatre’s first play in 2009 and six years later Alexander George (Bottom) and James Tucker (Theseus) are repris-

ing the roles they played in that debut production.

Act II of Bard in the Bush is Two Gentlemen of Vancouver in Gyro Park this August. Jeff Forst directs both plays after recently helming the Capitol’s Christmas panto and playing Billy Flynn in Chicago.

Among Nelson Youth Theatre’s other successes, Twelfth Night delighted the Bard in the Bush crowd in 2014, preceded by Much Ado About Nothing, Juliet & Romeo and As You Like It. For further theatrical information, please journey to forstmedia.ca.

Homelinks presents Mozart’s Magical Journey Submitted to the Nelson Star Audiences of all ages will be sure to enjoy this year’s Homelinks production of Mozart’s Magical Journey with the inclusion of over 20 excerpts of the master’s music, including themes from Mozart’s operas and some of his most enduring and memorable works.

The music is magically woven into the drama as the young Homelinks actors, aged 5 to 15 recreate historical events from the composer’s life.

Mozart’s young son, Karl, feels isolated at boarding school and burdened by being the son of Wolf-

EcoSociety hosts Spring into Spring

gang Amadeus Mozart. Wolfgang is experiencing his own pressures from fame and his son’s school antics. But when three children from Wolfgang’s opera show up in Karl’s boarding school room one night, they embark on an adventure through time and understanding as they all discover Wolfgang’s incredible musical talent and passion for composing.

Watch this adaptation of the story from the popular Classical Kids Audiobooks come to life as this community of homeschoolers relive young Wolfgang’s meeting with the Queen of England, are Submitted to the Nelson Star West Kootenay EcoSociety invites you to Spring into Spring with a unique fundraising dinner on May 30. The banquet hall at the Hume Hotel will take on a garden theme, with plants and many other items available for silent auction.

confronted by police officers in Rome, visit Karl’s own mother on her wedding day, and speak with Ludwig van Beethoven.

This fantastical voyage confirms for Karl that he is well loved and that future generations of musicians will always have his father by their side through the influence of his timeless music.

You can catch this one act, one hour show directed by Allison Girvan and Miriam Mason Martineau on Wednesday, June 3 or Thursday, June 4 at 4 p.m. at the Covenant Church (702 Stanley St.). Admission is by donation.

The dinner will raise funds for West Kootenay EcoSociety’s programs.

“We haven’t had a dinner like this for many years, and we’re very excited to celebrate our programs,” said executive director David Reid.

Tickets are available online at ecosociety.ca/spring or at Otter Books.

BC HYDRO OPEN HOUSE LEARN TO FISH

Cottonwood Lake (Nelson) Saturday: 10 am – 12 pm May 23, 2015

When: Time:

Monday, June 8, 2015 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Castlegar Recreation Complex, 2101 – 6th Avenue, Castlegar

BC Hydro is hosting an open house in Castlegar to provide information about BC Hydro’s

For kids 5 to 15 with accompanying adult.

All equipment provided.

operations and programs/activities in the Lower Columbia. Topics include the operation of our Columbia facilities and expected summer Arrow Lakes Reservoir levels, Columbia River Water Use Plan programs, Hugh L. Keenleyside Spillway Gates Project, and the Grohman Narrows Channel Improvement Project.

For more information, please contact Mary Anne Coules at 250 365 4565 or by email at maryanne.coules@bchydro.com.

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Students wild about Shakesfest

BILL METCALFE Nelson Star .V. Rogers drama teacher Robyn Sheppard has taken students to the annual Good Will Shakespeare Festival (affectionately known as Shakesfest) in Summerland for 13 years.

The kids who go to Shakesfest are really excited about it. They can’t get enough of it. This year 55 LVR students applied to go but that’s far beyond the maximum number the festival allows, so 35 went, not just to perform but to take workshops in acting, writing, film and other disciplines.

Why are they so enthusiastic about it?

The Star sat down with Grade 11 students Emily Hoff, Jacklyn Banman, and Ingrid Love, Grade 12 student Zorn Rose, and their teacher Robyn Sheppard to find out.

This is an edited version of our conversation. We started with the question: What is attractive to a teenage actor about Shakespeare?

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Emily: It opens people to all this language that no one knows about or talks about. It is kind of confidential. It’s like a secret.

Ingrid: There is something about speaking words that are really rich that you don’t necessarily understand but you have to work to understand. And when you are performing them it encourages you to dig deeper, further into what you are saying and what you are feeling.

You watch somebody in a drama class go and take a scene that is difficult as far as language goes, and they have to work harder to see what it is really about, and then suddenly once it is clear, they can really run with it.

Emily: Because it is not just a bunch of mumbled words that don’t make sense. It might seem like that in the beginning, but …

Ingrid: There is a lot of intention. It is written that way for a reason. It is full of clues and full of stuff that is ready for interpretation that you can play with.

Robyn Sheppard: The words are playful. Kids love to speak his language once they understand it, and even when they don’t, just to get their lips around some of the alliteration and some of the incredible metaphors. It’s fun.

Zorn: When I was in Grade 7, Shakespeare was my first play, and at that point I was semi-interested, and then I went to Shakesfest and then it was definitely my passion. Shakesfest is such an awesome experience and it is so much fun and I miss it so much.

Jacklyn: I was always interested in acting, but what really got me interested was I took a theatre intensive, and he told us Shakespeare is basically the teenager of that time, he was inventing words, he followed his own writing style, and that is what I like to do when I write: I like to do my own thing.

Emily: At Shakesfest there are so many kids and it is all crazy, like on the bus you are so stoked for it, and then you get there and everyone is really pumped, really ecstatic, crazy drama kids who don’t really care about anything, about judgements and stuff. There were some kids this year who did not want to participate fully and I would be just like, ‘go, and go full force,’ and I tried to get my energy up so they could get their energy up.

Zorn: It is high energy.

Jacklyn: It is community.

Zorn: It is like, if you were dead for 362 days a year and for three days you weren’t dead. That is kind of how it is.

Ingrid: When you are standing on the stage, you feel everyone’s energy in the audi-

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Shakespeare fans: From left, LVR Grade 11 students Ingrid Love, Emily Hoff, and Jacklyn Banman with drama teacher Robyn Sheppard.

Bill Metcalfe photo ence lifting you up. There is so much positive energy and influence being sent your way, and you feel like you are going to go through the roof because you have so much adrenalin. It gives you so much to work with.

Jacklyn: I find it so exciting when the director has worked so hard and then finally they are like, ‘Okay, you are on,’ and they go into the audience, and you get this excitement and adrenaline being backstage. It is the best feeling in the world being backstage with everybody like that.

Ingrid: I think there are so many talented people at LVR in so many ways and then when I go to the festival and I see there are so many talented people out there [in other places too], it blows my mind.

We are close as a drama community at LVR, we are family, but then you get there and it is like you have an extended family, people you are related to that you have never met.

The piece the LVR drama class took to the Shakespeare Festival this year was Tom Stoppard’s 15-Minute Hamlet, and it was directed not by Robyn Sheppard, but by her student, Ingrid Love, under Sheppard’s mentorship. 15-Minute Hamlet is a popular play, but Sheppard and Love found an original take on it. Here’s the story of how a teacher gave a student a challenge that turned out to be intensely educational.

Robyn: I am always looking for student directors, one because I love to direct and love to see when students take that initiative and because Ingrid has all the character traits that I think make a strong director: she is willing to try things, she is willing to collaborate, she commands attention, she does her homework, she knows the language, she is very good at communicating when they need direction, she understands acting and intention, and she has been in the course for a while, so it was like it’s time.

She did a fantastic job. She just went with it, and it was fun because there would be a problem and we would talk and she would bring ideas to the table and problem solve, and then she would go into rehearsal and say, ‘Here, this is how I solved it.’

Ingrid: It’s fun to go in there and tell people to do something and then change my mind several times. But I think as I got into it I gained a lot of confidence when I started to know where I was going and how I was going to make things happen and when I hit a roadblock I would do it different ways until it started to work.

Robyn: I was talking to her about concept, and about how as a director you need to have a concept that you work from and make decisions based on, and we had a concept

discussion, and I threw that out. I said, ‘I want you to put Stoppard’s 15 Minute Hamlet on a chessboard,’ and she looked at me and I looked at her, she tilted her head and I tilted mine, and I said, ‘This is not going to be that easy. Do you play chess? Make it a real game and make it work.’ And she was fantastic because she took that concept, and a difficult one, and off she went.

Ingrid: I got the beautiful chess board my grandfather carved and took it to my room and looked at it for hours and hours, and finally I started writing stuff down and playing a game against myself, and playing and replaying it until finally it settled, and I said, ‘OK that is it, that is how it is going to work.’ But it got complicated toward the end because we were adding people who had never been there before because we needed other people — pawns, bishops …

Robyn: The metaphor is Hamlet having a hard time deciding what his next move is going to be, he deliberates like a chess player, he takes forever to make his next move…

Ingrid: It is interesting for Hamlet though because some of it is so literal, there is a king and a queen and we are trying to get the power of the throne and that is what chess is all about.

There is a scene in which Hamlet is speaking to a grave digger and he holds up Yorick’s skull, and I spent a long time thinking, ‘I don’t want extra props because I don’t want to distract from the vision of this chess board,’ and finally I realized what we could do is place the grave digger right on the edge of the chessboard at the front and where all the bodies are, where all the dead pieces were piling up.

She would be sitting right next to that and it made so much sense to just pull up someone who was already dead and hold up their literal head as Yorick’s skull and see a kind of metaphor of a person from the past reappearing as a dead chess piece on the side, and we laughed a lot about that because it does look kind of funny but I think it came through well at the end.

That sort of escalated because we thought Ophelia is dead and we talk about her being buried and she is lying right there on the stage, let’s bury her in other people’s bodies.

Robyn: It was fun for me to see her discover creative choice in the moment and have the confidence to go with it, and when it did not work, to have the confidence to say, okay we tried that, so let’s move on.

Ingrid: I think it was key though that everybody in the cast was willing to follow me and trust that maybe I had no idea what I was doing, but maybe it will work out in the end. They were really respectful of me and gave me their full attention and we worked well together.

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Bringing to you our weekly words.

What’s in your play book? When I was in high school I played football. In addition to rigorous physical training we had to learn and run all the plays that the coach devised.

Some of these plays were really easy but in many cases they were complicated and required great attention. I was watching the highlights of the hockey game and they showcased a specific player. They praised him for all the accolades and trophies. They said that just follows this kid”. I see that this player Nelson United Church “winning not only, like me in High school, does all the physical Sunday Worship Gathering 10:00 am training but takes careful attention to the direction Minister: David Boyd All are Welcome from the coach and how he partners with his team to achieve the goal.

Celebrating Pentecost Carol Prochaska presiding All children welcome for Sunday School and Nursery Room available

Corner of Josephine and Silica Streets Ph: 250-352-2822 • www.nelsonunitedchurch.ca

The Salvation Army Nelson Community Church

Sunday Worship Service at 11:00 am Everyone is Welcome Your Pastors:

Majors Robin and Yvonne Borrows 250 551 4986

601 Vernon Street (Middle Level)

GATHERING THIS SUNDAY MAY 24TH 10AM 2402 PERRIER LANE Bring food to share at our potluck brunch.

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CATHEDRAL OF MARY IMMACULATE 813 Ward Street 352-7131 Sunday Mass Times: • Saturday 7:00 pm • Sunday 8:30 am and 10:30 am Parish office open Tuesday – Friday 9:00 am - noon rccathedral@shaw.ca • www.catholiccathedralnelson.ca

St. Saviour's Anglican Church 701 Ward St. at Silica St., Nelson

Family Service & Eucharist Every Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Messy Church Wed. May 20 from 5-7 p.m.

Fun, crafts, Eucharist and a meal.

All are welcome!

St. Michael & All Angels Sunday Service 11:30 a.m.

8551 Busk Road, Balfour

The Rev. Jeff Donnelly • kokanee-parish.com Office: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tue. - Thu. • 250.352.5711

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Kootenay Christian Fellowship Join us for our Worship Celebration Sundays @ 10:30am

The apostle Paul reminds us: Philippians 3:12-14 NIV Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

God has a beautiful play book for all of us. He stands on the side lines as our biggest coach and partner. He has the Word of God as the amazing play book. Some of these plays are easy but like in team sports, some of the plays are complicated and require you to “press on toward…”

Nelson Christian Science Society You might have A Branch of the Mother Church in Boston MA to sacrifice, put in Sunday Service in Balfour 9:30 am at the Anglican Church on Busk Rd. the effort and in some cases really For information 250-229-5237 give it your “all”!

The reward? The Prize?

Deep and intimate AsEckankar SoulWorship I amService Free relationship heavenward with Saturday May 30 at 11am our Triune God. Wharfhouse Business Services 601 Front Street, Suite 108 I encourage (down stairs) you all to be in Everyone Welcome the Play Book (Bible) everyWe are Preaching in Riondel day.

Do the Community church this Sunday, training (walk 11 am- Come & join us! out the Gospel “Who then is this, that even the wind and Life) and most the sea obey Him?” importantly be July 21/15 Retreat in partnership Shalom, South Africa not only with a 3308 Silver King road • 250-352-5007 team (church) H.O.P.E. Church Pastoral couple Jeff & Marilyn Zak www.hopenelson.ca but with the Holy Spirit.

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Burning ban announced

Nelson Star Staff Effective noon today, Category 2 and 3 open fires are prohibited in the Southeast Fire Centre to prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety.

Prohibited activities include the burning of any waste, slash or other materials; stubble or grass fires of any size over any area; the use of fireworks, sky lanterns or burning barrels or cages of any size or description; the use of binary exploding targets (e.g. for rifle target practice); and the use of forced air burning systems. This prohibition does not ban campfires that are a half-metre high by a half-metre wide or smaller, and does not apply to cooking stoves that use gas, propane or briquettes.

The Southeast Fire Centre is experiencing drierthan-normal conditions and an elevated fire hazard.

These prohibitions are being put in place due to current weather conditions and the long-range forecast.

The prohibition covers all BC Parks, Crown lands and private lands, but does not apply within the boundaries of a local government that has forest fire prevention bylaws and is serviced by a fire department.

Obituaries & Memorials HARRY MITTELSTADT March 4th, 1934 - January 26th, 2015 A Life Worth Celebrating

The family invites friends to join with us as we remember Harry.

Saturday, May 30th, 2015 1:00 p.m.

Taghum Community Hall

William Bruce Scott

Born November 15, 1938 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan Died May 3, 2015 in Kelowna, BC

The day is soft and warm. A bit of a breeze brings the scent of lilac through my kitchen window. Returning swallow families rush back and forth in furious argument over housing, and a single humming bird has come to the window to remind me to fill the feeder.

I’ll sit on the deck with my coffee, but there’s only one mug and an empty chair beside me.

Bruce, my partner, my companion, my husband died at the beginning of May in Kelowna Hospital.

Even though his passing was quite sudden, our children: Marguerite Odendahl (Scott) of Prince George, BC., David Scott from Sidney BC. and Tereus Scott from Victoria were all able to visit with their dad which meant that his illness and his departure were somewhat easier for him and for the rest of us. My sister, Shirleen Smith, was here as well with her comfort, her love and her support.

Bruce’s elder sister, Donelda Leale (Scott) was not able to come from her home in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, but the blessing of her thoughts and prayers were with us, as were the memories and laughter shared with Bruce’s cousin, childhood friend and playmate, Mari Etta McEachern of Saskatoon. Duncan Scott ? story teller, fiddle player, brother and friend died in September, 2001.

It was a chilly day in November, 1938, when Bruce?s mother, Gertie Scott and his dad, Bill Scott brought Baby Bruce home to his brother and sister. But it was not long before Child Bruce was disassembling clocks and sending messages on a wire strung from his Nipawin bedroom window to his neighbour next door, in fact, from a very early age, Bruce knew where he would lead his future: electronics was his only plan, and piling hay after school and working during the summer on the rail crew only emphasized his decision.

It’s quite a trek from Saskatchewan to British Columbia and Bruce did not take a direct route.

Electronics training and experience took him to North Bay, Ontario, and even further north to Federal Electric at Cambridge Bay in the Yukon where he worked underground at the SAGE computer system to monitor the DEW line (the distant early warning system managed jointly by both Canada and the United States in the late 1950s.) He returned to Ontario during a particularly chilly winter, and it was then that the moan of a reluctant starter and a crisp, frozen instrument panel confirmed his absolute determination to move to BC. His electronics training was topped up at IBM near Poughkeepsie, New York and Bruce came west to IBM in Vancouver to be the Customer Engineer for the newly opened Genie Centre at the Bank of Montreal on Broadway, and that is where we met.

Although we were together for the rest of his life, we did not stand still. We shifted Home Base from Vancouver to Shalalth on Seton Lake in the BC Interior, and after a decade or so, slid back south to Victoria for a few years, then upisland to Ladysmith, and finally to what became our home here in Riondel. In between there were a few Mexican holidays, a jaunt across Canada and south again along the Atlantic coast for an extended, warm, Mexican winter.

I suspect the warm winter feeling became rooted early in Bruce’s psyche coaxing him away from the cold and guiding us into Kootenay country to discover home here in Riondel.

A memorial will be held at 4:00 pm, Saturday, May 30, 2015 at Dutch Harbour on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake just north of Riondel.

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BRIAN LAWRENCE Creston Valley Advance CRAWFORD BAY —After a couple of decades of twisting and turning handles and weaving broomcorn, North Woven Broom Co. owners Rob and Janet Schweiger decided to work toward retirement. They didn’t have to look too far for a successor, though — and their nephew, Luke Lewis, is now the one doing the twisting, turning and weaving.

“I’ve been in and out of the shop since I was pretty little,” Lewis said. “I never thought I would work here, but it’s a place I’ve always known of ... Even having grown up always knowing about the brooms, it’s amazing how much there is to learn — sweeping styles and what a good broom feels like.”

His mom and Janet are sisters, and Lewis, who was born in Nelson and grew up near Toronto, visited Crawford Bay regularly with his family. His parents, both teachers, had an organic dairy farm and they encouraged creativity.

“The way my home was growing up, it was always about art and doing things with your hands,” Lewis said.

He took environmental studies at York University from 2006-11, and worked in Jasper National Park and travelled each summer. When he wanted to learn to build a yurt — a round tent-like structure based on the tents used by central Asian nomads — he went to the Yukon to learn to make buckskin.

But when he visited his aunt and uncle during their winter vacation in Arizona, they brought up the idea of him taking over the business — they bought the Crawford Bay shop in 1992 from the previous owners — which is complemented by their daughters’ Granville Island Broom Co. in Vancouver.

This wasn’t something Lewis could just jump into, though — there was a steep learning curve to creating the North Woven Broom style, which employs a rarely-seen weave with two layers of unprocessed broom corn to give the broom’s head both strength and a unique bulbous look.

“There are very few people doing this, especially the weaving of the stems,” Lewis said. “It’s a very old style coming from Shakers, who were really the people who popularized the flat broom.”

The technique Lewis uses is about 200 years old, and THE machines used in the shop aren’t particularly modern either. A flattener is from the 1870s, and a machine from the 1930s is used to make straight-handled brooms.

“With this machine, they would have stopped doing the weaving, but we’ve modified it,” said Lewis.

Even with the machines, the work is physically demanding, with muscle memory working to create the right tension — pressure that ensure good callouses are developed.

“My uncle often says, ‘We have callouses in places people don’t have places,’” said Lewis. “There’s a lot of contact.”

The challenges are worth it, though, to bring a level of style to a tool that can be found in every home.

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“This is celebrating that and adding a level of beauty,” said Lewis. “I feel my aunt and uncle have really brought art to broom making.”

The art is evident in some of the more unusual handle styles, particularly manzanita, which Rob and Janet have long gathered while on winter vacation in Arizona.

“I can get lost in it,” Lewis said. “It’s so beautiful to look at.”

That can be said of all of the company’s products, which have been used in a wide range of TV shows (Road to Avonlea and Star Trek: Enterprise), movies (Shanghai Noon and Bewitched) and stage productions (Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof and the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s La traviata).

Of course, they’re probably best known for their use as promotional items by Raincoast Books, the Canadian publisher of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which required a total of 300 full-sized brooms and 500 miniature brooms.

And while visitors are quick to identify the brooms with the shop, they are also mesmerized by the number of artisans in Crawford Bay, of which Lewis is proud to be one.

“There is so much to do and see here,” he said. “It’s a whole experience to be here. It’s not just brooms and it’s not just the forge, it’s everything.”

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Will johnson Nelson Star One Kootenay environmentalist is putting climate disruption expert Tom Rand’s message into action and has started an Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund the cost of making a documentary film about him.

The funds raised will also go towards buying television ads that encourage voters to make clean energy a priority in the next election.

The first phase of the project has a goal of hitting $9,700 by June 6, and by press time Barbara Bergen had raised 67 per cent of that, with 58 people having donated $6,545.

For this project Bergen teamed up with local environmentalist Laura Sacks, the area organizer for the Citizen’s Climate Lobby.

“To get Rand’s message out to a large enough audience, we need to get it onto mainstream television,” writes Bergen.

“If we act now, we can mitigate a very scary future not just for us, but for our children and grandchildren.”

The documentary about Rand — who recently spoke in Nelson to a packed house at the Capitol Theatre — will be one hour long. The budget for the project is $82,500. Additional money will go towards pitching foundations and funding bodies.

Contributors to the campaign can receive everything from a DVD to an associate producer credit.

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life,” she states simply.

She spent her career inspiring others, spearheading One Book programs for Seattle and appearing regularly on National Public Radio. At the University of Washington she taught a course called Book Lust 101, and from there went on to publish the bestsellers Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, its follow-up More Book Lust, and for teens and children, Book Crush. (We have them all.)

An Australian tribute band called The Nancy Pearls gave their debut performance on a library rooftop in her honour.

Pearl became so well known and won so many awards that, yes, an action figure follow-up was almost a no-brainer.

Some called the Nancy Pearl action figure (which depicts Ms. Pearl in a frumpy dress and sensible shoes, hair in a bun) as shameful stereotyping. Ms. Pearl herself suggested it would determine “which librarians have a sense of humour” according to the Seattle Times.

There are days when Nelson Public Library librarians feel like superhero action figures, if not leaping buildings in a single bound, then certainly multitasking through impossible odds to reach pinnacles of good service.

Last year we welcomed you in more than 141,000 individual visits and circulated 220,000 items.

We ran programs, troubleshot eBook issues, and answered 10,000 reference questions. It was a normal year for us, with 2015 shaping up to be the same, if not busier.

We do it all smiling (most of the time) and we hardly ever shush. We know that books really can save lives and we don’t want to get in the way of that (although we are always grateful when we hear a mom or dad say: “please use your library voice.”)

But mainly, we want the library to be a comfortable place to meet, chat, read and learn.

There are those who miss the good old days of quiet libraries, and we do understand. Sometimes folks need a quiet place to tutor English learners or hold Skype interviews and not bother

other people. Students need a place to study for that final exam; writers need to finish that novel.

Nelson Public Library to the rescue — with some help from our friends. Thanks to generous donations from the estate of Don Flood and from the City of Nelson, we now have two small glassed-in “quiet rooms” available for use at the back on the non-fiction section.

Right now, for the sake of sign-up, they’re called Room 1 and Room 2, but your Nelson librarians — who enjoy a sense of humour worthy of Nancy Pearl — are throwing out suggestions for better names. Who wants boring old Room 1 and Room 2?

How about (from popular culture) Abbott and Costello, or Mutt and Jeff? Or (from literature, of course) Griffin and Sabine, Jekyll and Hyde, or Thing 1 and Thing 2? Or, (closer to home) Stanley and Victoria? One librarian suggests we call them “Shush” and “Be Quiet.”

Or perhaps we should call our new quiet rooms Nancy and Pearl. After all, they come with built-in shushing action, no push button required.

Anne DeGrace is the adult services coordinator at the Nelson Public Library. Check This Out runs every other week.

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