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Come June 15, more progress is expected to be made in regards to the Trail and Rossland Chamber of Commerce merger. This is when the Silver City outlet will be meeting again.

President for the Trail Chamber, Naomi McKimmie said, “We are in agreement that as a board, we are going to go through with [the merger] but because we have to apply to have our district borders expanded through the board of trade and industry, we can’t actually solicit members from Rossland at this time.”

In the meantime, “Any businesses in Rossland that are current members of the chamber in Trail are still members of our chamber,” McKimmie

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said. She went on to say all businesses in Rossland that would like to be part of the Trail chamber — even before the border expansion — are welcome to contact the office and get a member application.

McKimmie and company at Trail’s Chamber of Commerce are all quite excited to bring Rossland into their fold, but before that can happen there’s significant paperwork and checklists to go through.

Speaking in regards to Rossland’s outlet, McKimmie said, “Now that it’s been dismantled and the doors are closed and it’s no longer functioning, we have to go through certain steps because industry Canada isn’t going to allow us to expand our boundaries until all of the paperwork for the old Rossland Chamber is done and it’s no longer any

kind of a legal entity.”

The head of the Trail Chamber explained why she is looking forward to moving along and expanding upwards into Rossland.

“It goes in line with what the Lower Columbia Initiative Corporations are trying to accomplish in bringing unification to the entire lower Columbia area.”

She added, this will help ensure everyone as a whole is working together to promote business, lifestyle and economics.

“That is one of the reasons we feel this is a really good fit for us to bring Rossland into our district.

To the outside world, we are showing more of a unified front for the area instead of all these separate little entities.”

We will never keep up with our big competitors and their steady increase in service charges and bank fees.

We’ve only changed our fees twice in the past 15 years! You’ll just have to continue to accept our low fees and great service as-is.

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Renovations are ongoing at the Health Care Thrift Shop but that doesn’t put a stop to the generous donations being dropped off. Outside the thrift store Monday afternoon, many stopped by, wondering what all this was.

Simply, kind donations from the people of Rossland. However, with all these items, the crew at work in the shop is feeling slightly over-burdened. Anyone wishing to help is encouraged to stop by during business hours throughout the week.

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Ilo Shubert retires after 28 years

Local preschool on uncertain grounds Chris Stedile Rossland News

“I heard somewhere that every time you smile it improves your sense of well-being, and I thought, they make me smile a hundred times a day.”

These are the words of Ilo Shubert, several days before she hands out certificates of graduation to her 40 plus preschoolers for the final time.

Shubert has run Ilo’s Preschool for over 28 years now and believes it’s time to pack it in, but not before she’s certain after it’s been sold and the school will continue to operate as it has for so long.

Shubert is asking the city for a letter of assurance that whoever buys her business can continue to run the preschool in the same room and pay rent at a reasonable cost.

Located in the Lodge Room, downstairs in the Miners Hall, her children have all the space they could need for anything a growing, learning kid needs.

“It has big high ceilings, lots of natural light, lots of space so the kids have room to move,” she said.

Shubert has stations set up all over the room for various activites including painting, reading and more.

“We run a flexible but consistent schedule every day. They learn what’s coming next and that’s their preparation for Kindergarten; following a schedule and learning to work in a group.”

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Shubert’s work, but at the same time, she said she’s seen a drop in interest because of the uncertainty.

“It’s actually bittersweet this week. I’m feeling it’s time for someone younger with a little more energy to take over but I’m going to miss them so much. I have kids of kids now. Those who came before are now bringing their little ones and that’s so cool.”

During last week’s council meeting, several concerned citizens, parents, and friends of Shubert came out to voice their support.

“Going to Ilo’s, has provided my kids with the opportunity to play, to learn, to meet other children and discover what school is,” said one mother, Janet Brooks.

“It’s such an amazing and positive way to introduce school and learning and things outside of the home, to kids.”

Next to address council, Jill Knight, shared her fond memories of Ilo’s.

“I have five children and they’ve all gone through Ilo’s program. Just the other day my eighteen year old quoted ‘You get what you get and you don’t get upset.’

I’m pretty sure every child in Rossland knows that line. Ilo has been an iconic figure in this community. Everyone always says it takes a community to raise a child and Ilo gives the opportunity to create that community.”

Ilo Shubert retired last Thursday after many fun-filled years, educating and inspiring the youth of Rossland.

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From humble beginnings when the school was supposed to host one group twice a week Ilo’s has grown to have 75 kids at times. Over the years, Shubert has cut back but still tends to cover several groups, four days a week, mornings and evenings.

The Miners’ Hall is owned by the city and Shubert contracts with them to run the preschool.

“Different people over the years have thought the room should be used for different things. I want to make sure that space is available for the preschoolers.”

Shubert believes there is no other place quite like the Lodge Room.

“Some are concerned about having to cross the road [to get to the Miners’ Hall] but I say it’s just another opportunity for learning the rules involved with crossing.

“I find it hard to believe ­— of course I’m biased — that anything else is more important.”

Shubert said that various councils over the years have agreed that it is in the city’s best interest to keep this preschool around. Especially with the recent closure of the high school, parents want to keep their kids in their community.

“I have 40 families that want preschool in September and they’re all so panicked not knowing what they’re going to do.”

As it stands now, there is interest from people who want to continue on with

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Rossland resident Sara Howard (middle) with a class of Grade 12 students she teaches at a government high school in Thailand’s Ayutthaya Province. Howard is a graduate of Selkirk College’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Program (TESOL) and teaches overseas.

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Teaching English in Thailand opens up new worlds for Selkirk College alumni

A thirst for international travel brought Sara Howard to the Selkirk College Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Program (TESOL) and a continued passion for education has taken her to the other side of the globe.

Raised in Rossland, Howard enrolled in the Selkirk College TESOL Program after finishing her Psychology Degree at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO). Howard now teaches at a government high school in Thailand’s Ayutthaya Province where her educational journey continues in the classroom and beyond.

“The best part about teaching overseas is the ability you have to immerse yourself totally in a culture,” says Howard. “You begin to understand the lifestyle of the local people, as you become one yourself. It’s usually the small things that start to become a big deal and really memorable. I don’t think anyone at home will quite understand the intricacies of my relationship with the man at the market who sells me my fruit.”

Howard graduated from Rossland Secondary School in 2008 and once she completed her degree, was looking for the next step and found it with teaching. Instead of taking the 12-month West Kootenay Teacher Education Program (WKTEP), she decided to spend four months testing the teaching waters with the TESOL Program.

“I have always loved travel and wanted to experience living in another country to really understand the culture and lifestyle on a level that was beyond being a tourist,” says the 25-year-old. “I attended Selkirk College in the first year of my undergraduate degree, so I was familiar with the campus, the environment and

the programs offered.”

The Selkirk College TESOL Program offers both Canadian and international students the opportunity to gain a diploma and certification to teach English.

Students complete 252 hours of class and course work, but also take part in a minimum of 42 hours practicum teaching, observation and seminar work.

The program includes the areas of second language acquisition theory and linguistics, curriculum design, materials development, intercultural communication, classroom management, multimedia resources and assessment. Practice teaching within the Selkirk College English Language Program (ESL) is also a key component and provides students with a concrete experience.

“Having a class size of only 14 made it easy to have plenty of involvement and opportunity to share opinions and participate,” says Howard. “Working closely with the TESOL instructors was so interesting and we all learned a lot from them.

I also loved having such a diverse set of classmates: older, younger, Korean, Japanese and Canadian. It was so important and helpful to have so many different perspectives to hear from and to learn from. I learned so much more than I ever expected to from my fellow teacher trainees about English and learning.”

After graduating from the program, Howard did some traveling and completed an international practicum in China which is offered to Selkirk College graduates. Applying for jobs in 10 different countries late last summer, Howard landed a position in Thailand in October.

Howard is at a high school that has more than 5,000 students in six grades.

She teaches 20 classes a week to students between the ages of 14 and 18. Throwing herself fully into the experience, Howard is also helping students prepare for an English drama performance and several short speeches in English for competitions.

Though the hours are long and the challenges of living so far from home are sometimes difficult, Howard says there is plenty of support.

“There is a strong community within foreign teachers,” she says. “We live at a guesthouse that has about 15 foreign teachers who all work at various schools and come from Canada, the United States, England, Wales, South Africa and Australia. The home away from home and the international family you build are absolutely incredible. Everyone is united by his or her love for teaching and for travel. It’s a wonderful way to bring people together with common interests.”

Howard says it’s likely she will return to Canada in a couple of years to complete her post-degree in education where she hopes to teach in British Columbia.

Until then, she is grateful for the international pathway Selkirk College put her on.

“It’s an amazing course, well worth the money and the time for what you can get out of it,” says Howard. “It was one of the best things I have ever done for myself.

The ESL/TESOL community is amazing and taught me so much about second language acquisition, language barriers, living in a foreign country and making new international friends.”

Selkirk College is now accepting students for the Fall, 2015 program. Find out more about the TESOL Program at selkirk.ca/program/tesol.

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Editorial TOM FLETCHER Black Press

We might call ourselves Super, Natural or even The Best Place on Earth, but how is B.C. viewed around the world?

Ever since U.S. billionaires and their environmental clients decided more than a decade ago to supervise our society, the impression that British Columbia is a primitive colonial backwater in need of “saving” has only been reinforced.

In late April, the province and coastal aboriginal leaders announced completion of marine planning areas for Haida Gwaii and the North and Central Coast. U.S. activists knew about the announcement weeks before the legislature press gallery did, and a documentary crew was sent up to advance the narrative of the saving of the “Great Bear Rainforest.”

Within minutes of the announcement, the World Wildlife Fund website trumpeted the creation of the “Great Bear Sea,” continuing the penchant of outsiders for renaming large parts of B.C. to fit their marketing strategies.

Unlike the “Great Bear Rainforest” land use deal of 2007, the Sierra Club, ForestEthics and Greenpeace were not represented. Instead, Tides Canada CEO Ross McMillan sat beaming in the audience.

McMillan’s role in directing U.S. foundation money to

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B.C. has prompted him to declare himself “a principal architect of the Great Bear Rainforest project,” although in the early years he and his staff (currently 24 people) stayed behind the scenes while Sierra, Greenpeace et al took the credit.

At the event, two aboriginal leaders gave a nod to the real funder of the ongoing effort to “save” the B.C. coast, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Gordon Moore is a co-founder of Intel Corp., maker of most of the world’s computer processor chips, now spending his vast fortune on the Amazon basin, B.C. and other “threatened” places.

Other Silicon Valley and Seattle billionaires helped finance the original effort, and a strategy document surfaced in 2008 describing their plan to de-market the Alberta oilsands by creating a blockade against energy exports on our Pacific coast. That campaign has featured a fake cancer study and grossly exaggerated greenhouse gas claims compared to U.S. coal and oil production.

The effort has since expanded to natural gas, with false horror stories about “fracking” finding a receptive global audience.

Last week I wrote about the plan by British manufacturing conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser to buy up farms in the B.C. Interior and replant them with trees. Contrary to my description, “RB Trees for Change” isn’t participating in the

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Letters Policy The Rossland News welcomes letters to the editor intended for publication but reserves the right to edit for brevity, clarity, legality, accuracy and topicality. Letters should be typically in the range of 300 words in length.

Anonymous letters will not be published. To assist in verification, name, address and daytime telephone must be supplied, but will not be published.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca.

Book review

Letter I live on 4th and Monti Cristo where there are always dogs left to run unattended. Last night I saw three dogs taking turns at knawing on the bottom part of a deer leg. This morning I picked up the hoof and remainders to dispose of. Are these dogs taking down the deer as packs have in the past? When will people become responsible pet owners? We have bylaws but no enforcers. Not everyone loves your pooch as you do.

dodgy European carbon credit market.

They’re just doing it for global marketing purposes, covering pioneer-cleared farms of our colonial backwater with forest for 100 years so they can advertise their soaps and cold pills as carbon neutral. Another 10,000 hectares of B.C. “saved” from destruction by benevolent foreign interests!

Back to reality. B.C.’s Auditor General issued a report last week calling on the province to do more to prevent the “cumulative effects” of industrial development. A familiar example of this is the struggle to maintain caribou herds in northern B.C. The B.C. government mustered a response from the multiple ministries that have worked on this since 2010.

Among other things, they noted that 90 per cent of B.C.’s vast area is now covered by regional land use plans created to manage cumulative impacts. A whopping 37 per cent of B.C. is designated as parks and protected areas for environmental and cultural values.

Maybe that’s still not good enough, but it’s better than anything I can find in Europe or the U.S. That’s particularly true of California, home of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, a pipeline spill, heavy oil refining and gridlocked freeways.

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MARK CONLIFFE Andrew O’Hagan is one of the most exquisite prose stylists writing in English today. His novel Our Fathers was a finalist for the Booker Prize, yet each of his novels has received rave reviews.

His much awaited recent novel, The Illuminations, shows O’Hagan’s writing at its best, as he immerses us in a world with characters that wrestle with love, memory, and the ways that secrets and lies shape our lives and the lives of those we love.

The novel weaves two main story lines — one that follows Anne, an innovator in documentary photography, in her later life in an assisted living home in Scotland, and one that depicts the life of Luke, Anne’s grandson, first during his tour as a British army captain in Af-

ghanistan and then in some of his posttour experiences with men in his unit, his mother, and his grandmother — and a slightly lesser one that unfolds the daily life of Maureen, Anne’s neighbour and helpmate. As we learn about these characters, we experience the effects of Anne’s photographs on them and her, as well as the consequences of years of their family habits.

These two topics form the artistic glue of The Illuminations. O’Hagan draws on understandings that we readily assign to photography in both his narrative approach and his characterization. The novel consists of short carefully detailed chapters that provide telling glimpses into his story lines, and quite often the action focuses on characters’ tendency to frame their stories — their moments, their lives — so that others and they themselves understand those stories in specific ways.

He also wants us to think about how and why family members might regard each other as they do, and to do this he tends to consider a daughter’s thoughts about her mother. For instance, Anne’s

daughter, Alice, considers that her mother “trusted strangers, and so, quite clearly, did Maureen: they liked a new person’s willingness not to jump on the things you said, questioning everything and doubting you. Families did that but strangers didn’t.” And, Esther, Maureen’s daughter, reflects on the tension between her mum and her, knowing that “love is hard work and you don’t get anywhere just by feeding your resentments. She thought she could steal a little goodness back just by stopping to remember how lovely her mother had been to the woman next door. She once read a paper that said if you love someone then you’re always ready to let them start again.”

These two topics also are at the heart of Anne and Luke’s coming together for a trip to Blackpool, a trip that helps Luke not only spend time alone with his grandmother; it also gives him the means to uncover and explore a mystery that reveals his grandmother’s artistic talents and her family life, and thus that explains a telling secret about the life his own family has lived for decades.

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Mayor

Kathy Moore There’s been a lot of excitement in Rossland recently. The Canada 150 Community Infrastructure grant has created a big buzz. This is a federal grant that will dedicate $150 million dollars over two years to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial. One hundred and fifty years since Confederation is indeed something to crow about and so is $150 million dollars!

At our May 25 council meeting, the council chambers were full of citizens lobbying for their favorite project. The greening of the Emcon lot, the designated future home of the Rossland skate park, had the biggest turn out. There was also support for the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture’s ambitious Miners Hall renovation project. And in addition, the library and the museum have large renewal projects that qualify for this grant stream as well. With all these great projects, it is council’s job to select the one that best meets the grant criteria.

The goal of the grant is to rehabilitate and renew existing infrastructure. Under the theme Giving back to Canada: shaping the future, leaving a lasting legacy and giving a gift to Canada, the tag line, “Strong, Proud and Free” is meant to reinforce pride, national identity, unity and attachment to our great country. The Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program is intended to support projects that celebrate our shared heritage, create jobs and

improve the quality of life of Canadians from coast to coast to coast. It’s a big undertaking by the government.

Western Economic Diversification Canada is the body entrusted by the Federal government to determine the best projects for our region. They have the daunting challenge to allocate the $46.2 million dollars earmarked for the western provinces. In Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, strong preference will be given to projects that are undertaking meaningful upgrades to existing cultural and community facilities.

The upgrades must provide long-term benefits to the community, be viewed with pride by the community, and are recognized as providing a lasting legacy to the community.

The program anticipates funding 1,800 projects that will hopefully be significantly completed in time for the sesquicentennial celebrations in 2017. The details of this massive program were announced on May 21 with the application period closing at 1 p.m. on June 17. That doesn’t give applicants much time to meet the elaborate requirements for consideration. While it is rushed, in Rossland we are confident that we have several really strong candidates. However, the competition for these funds is going to be really intense. As with any grant program, the needs and plans of communities far exceed the money available to pay for them.

Many projects qualify. Examples of the type of community infrastructure that could be supported include: existing museums, community and cultural centres; parks, recreational trails, libraries; recreational facilities including local arenas or other sport-specific facilities, tourism facilities or other community infrastructure for public benefit.

There are some strict guidelines for eligible projects: The amount of funding requested

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under the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program cannot exceed 50 per cent of the total cost of a project, up to a maximum of $500,000.

Strong preference will be given to projects that have the other half of the required funding already confirmed.

One important criterion is the funds must be used for the rehabilitation, renovation, or expansion of existing infrastructure for public use or benefit. The guidelines are quite specific that projects involving construction of new infrastructure or significant expansion beyond 30 per cent of existing infrastructure, are ineligible.

The project must be community-oriented, non-commercial in nature, open for use to the public and not limited to private membership. Preference will be given to an applicant that has strongly demonstrated the ability and the capacity to complete the project by the fall of 2017.

It is interesting to note a number of entities have standing to apply for these funds: A local or regional government, a not-for-profit entity or a First Nations government. In addition, eligible applicants must directly own the facility that is being renovated or have a long-term lease in place (with permission from the owner to undertake renovations); and finally, the entity must be incorporated. Each of these requirements presents it’s own set of challenges to proponents.

As the Rossland News goes to press, Council has not held our Committee of the Whole meeting to discuss which project has the best chance of success but by the time you read this, that discussion will have happened and a decision will have been made. Check the City’s website at www.rossland. ca or my facebook page, Mayor Kathy Moore, to learn of the outcome. Then, all we can do is cross our fingers, wait and hope our proposal is a winner.

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We asked, you answered.

Reporter Chris Stedile asked the people of Rossland...

The city is currently figuring out which projects around Rossland are most deserving of grant applications.

If you were given significant grant funding, what would you do with it?

Maura Malone Find a way to unite the rec facilitators around this area, into Trail and Warfield.

Mary Austin We’d like to build a new playground.

Christina Crowe Support the skate park, of course.

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ROSSLAND MUSEUM REGULAR HOURS The Museum is open for the summer season.

May-June: Wed to Sun: 10 am to 6 pm July-August: 7 days a week: 10 am to 6 pm Check out the website for more information and all upcoming events and activities at www.rosslandmuseum.ca.

SPRING WING DING June 5-6, 10 am to 3 pm in downtown Rossland.

Various retailers will have special deals on this weekend, be sure to take advantage of the wonderful weather (fingers crossed), the great deals and wonderful food.

FIRST SUMMER FARMERS MARKET June 4, 3-6 p.m. @ the corner of Columbia Ave and Queen St Join us as we kick off another great Summer Farmer’s Market season!!

Awarded BC’s “Small Farmer’s Market of the Year” and we’ve got lots in store for you! To keep up to date,

CAVE HUMAN SEXUALITY TRAINING June 10, 1:30 — 4:30 p.m. @ the Youth Action Network Space The goal of CAVE is to provide individuals and professionals with an opportunity to build awareness, comfort, confidence, and competence by exploring their values and gaining the knowledge required to talk about sexuality in an unbiased, non-judgmental, knowledgeable, and inclusive manner. Teaching techniques and resources will be provided in the workshop. For more info call: 250 352-6786.

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MUSEUM AFTER SCHOOL KIDS’ CLUB Tuesdays, Wednesdays until June 17, 3-5 p.m. @ Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre. Crafts, games, and other educational activities on geology, history, mining, sports, science, and so much more! Ages 6-12. $5/session (can pre-book/pay). For more details or to register, please contact Sandra at (250) 362-7722 or email admin @ rosslandmuseum.ca.

YOUTH DROP IN AT THE YAN SPACE Tuesdays till June 16, 3-5 p.m.

After school drop in for youth 1218 at the YAN space. Come hang out and do art, make buttons, play foosball or just chill!

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JL CROWE PERFORMS GREASE THE MUSICAL Friday June 5, 7 to 9:30 pm Saturday June 6, 7 to 9:30 pm.

Grease, first performed in 1971 in the original Kingston Mines Chicago Club is now being taken on by a group of talented J.L. Crowe students and will be performed at the Charles Bailey Theatre in Trail.

Saturday June 6, 9 a.m.

Come out and help clean up and work on the trail system including over 30 trails totaling over 170 kilometres.

All volunteers are rewarded with a potluck and beverages, plus schwag!

SLURPS AND BURPS FEEDING GROUP Tuesdays until Nov 3, 11:30 am to 1 pm. Family Obstetrics Clinic, 4th Floor Maternity, KBRH Trail. Share your experiences with your peers in an informative place for breastfeeding and bottle support. Whether you are an expectant mom, brand new mom, or a more seasoned mom, we welcome you!

THE CHURCH OF DIRT Mondays, 5:30 p.m. @ the Centennial Trail-head parking lot.

Come out and get dirty, meet great folks young and old, and add to our fantastic trail system. Reminders, updates, and location changes will be posted on Bhubble before each build night. No experience needed.

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ROSSLAND MAKERLAB Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 p.m. until June 18 @ Seven Summits Centre for Learning Mentors are on hand to help with 3D modeling, printing or for other technology project. For youth 12 yrs and up. This program is free.

ADULT CO-ED REC HOCKEY Tuesdays 9:45 to 11 p.m.

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

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

PICKLEBALL Indoor Pickleball at RSS Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

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

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

ROSSLAND BEAVER SCOUTS Mondays 3 to 4 p.m.

Girls and boys ages 5 to 7 years.

Please contact Deanna Leask at 250362-7118 to join.

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LOCAL WRITERS DISCUSSION Wednesdays 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. @ the Rossland Seniors Hall. To share ideas, expertise and knowledge, critiques, and open opportunities for experienced and want to be writers.

For more information contact Les Anderson by email lesanderson66@ gmail.com or phone @ 250-362-5532.

ROSSLAND SENIORS Monday 1:30 p.m.

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

Monday 7 p.m.

Rossland Quilters Guild meets.

Contact Dayanne at 250-362-7727.

Wednesday 7 p.m.

Rossland Old Time Fiddlers play.

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

Thursday 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Seniors stretching exercises and morning tea and snacks.

ROSSLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY The library has lots of great programs and events: Homeschoolers Happy Hour: 1st and 3rd Friday 1-2 p.m.

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

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

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

Book Club for adults: Last Wednesday of each month.

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

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Two members of the BV/ Rossland Chito Ryu Karate Dojo travelled to Richmond last weekend with hundreds of other qualifiers from across the province. They met at the Olympic Oval to compete in the KBC Karate Provincial Championships.

Scott Sheldo and Megan Campsall were the only practicioners to qualify from the Kootenay Boundary area this year.

The competition began with a demonstration of Okinawan traditional drumming and dance amidst the cacophony of a six ring event, which saw live broadcast online through Viasport and garnered hundreds of spectators.

Competing in her first provincial tournament was Fruitvale’s Campsall in 10/13 Long Weapons Kata (Bo Staff) and girls 12/13 Intermediate Kata.

Six of the best female Bo Staff Kata’s performed in the traditional Kobudo Kata and there were some spectacular performances by these girls.

Campsall did a great Kata and

fought to a fifth place finish. In Kata, Meagan had a field of 16 other girls to duel through.

In the current WKF rules, Kata is done in a duel with two facing off to perform a Kata and the judges raise a flag to decide the winner. To win the gold you need to do at least five or six duels, alternating the Kata between duels performed ,with that many competitors in Repechage system.

Winning her first duel, Campsall faced off with the zone two qualifier’s gold medalist Casni Govender of Penticton. Campsall was defeated.

She then dueled for three more matches, acheived victory in all and won her first BC Provincial bronze medal.

While in Men’s Masters Black Belt Kata, Sheldo dueled Sensei Jason Farquharson from the Northern Rockies Dojo and he admitted it was a privilege to witness Sensei Jason’s performance of a traditional Okinawan Kata.

In the end, Sheldo was defeated but accumulated one flag in the

duel.

His next match was against Mark Bretell from Chilliwack, BC and Sheldo ended up with three flags and was awarded the silver medal.

Sheldo said, “Flags are important because if I could have won two more flags I could have achieved gold, which tells me I need to train harder.”

In Long Weapons Kata the Rossland instructor faced off with what he describes as an amazing newcomer from Victoria BC, Sarah Doctor who went first in their duel and did what Sheldo thought was an incredible performance of her Kata.

“However, after my Kata the judges scored me all three flags, winning the gold. That’s a first for me, I’ve never achieved that before. Training hard and competing in competitions is I think the most responsible expression of Karate and it was so much fun competing in such an amazing place as the Olympic Oval. I can’t wait to try again next year,” Sheldo concluded.

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As part of the Columbia Basin Trust’s (CBT) Know Your Watershed program, five Grade eight students from the Seven Summits Centre for Learning are teaching other students and the community about where they get their water from and what happens to it after it’s used.

The amazing 3D model is a fun and unique teaching tool to educate the Rossland community about their water.

“This activity was part of their Student Action Project,” noted Jess Williams, the local Know Your Watershed educator in Rossland.

“Students took what they learned in class and created this visual representation of Rossland’s watershed. The model highlights our watershed boundaries, where our water comes from, how our water is treated, and where our water goes once we use it. Students gain a real understanding of the true journey our water takes starting from the headwaters of Topping Creek to the outflow into Columbia River, and all the places in between” adds Williams.

The students will bring the 3D Watershed LEGO Model to the L’École des Sept-Sommets to give a short presentation of the model to four different classes.

Williams added, “These students wanted to share their knowledge of how Rossland’s water is vital to everyday life; our environment, our health, recreation and community. This model

is a great way to teach students and adults alike about our local watershed.”

Ben Kroeker, Grade eight learner said, “I already knew where my water came from, but I didn’t really know where my poop goes.”

Mélanie Boothe, Grade 8-12 science mentor at the Centre for Learning explained, “The Know Your Watershed Program is a valuable, hands-on experience for students to learn more about their watershed, reinforcing the learning outcomes of the Grade 8 science curriculum.

The Student Action Project gave my students the opportunity to apply their knowledge in a meaningful manner. They feel a sense of pride in accomplishing their 3D Watershed Lego Model and sharing their insights with other young learners.”

The community will have their chance to view this creative and informative 3D model on June 11 at the Rossland Mountain Market. Everyone is invited to come out and learn a little something about their local watershed.

Know Your Watershed is a regionally based watershed education program of the CBT delivered throughout the Canadian portion of the Columbia Basin since 2010. Administered and managed by Wildsight, the program is designed specifically for students and support teachers in delivering the Grade 8 science curriculum. Students take part in two classroom sessions and a full-day field trip to increase their knowledge and awareness of their watershed and water-related issues in their communities.