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A 28-year-old Fruitvale man was pronounced dead at the scene of a single-vehicle accident in Fruitvale early Saturday.

Fire and ambulance responded to a call at nearly 1 a.m. at the top of Nine Mile Road, where the fatal accident occurred.

Driver Tyler Tjader rolled his truck and was pronounced deceased at the scene but his passenger walked away from the accident, according to RCMP. “He was just a young guy, it’s just a tragedy,” said Cpl. Darryl Orr of the Trail and Greater District Detachment.

“It looked like the truck had been taken off road, and somehow that played a contributing factor,” he explained.

Trail RCMP continue to investigate the cause of the incident, which is a rare one on Orr’s account.

“An off-roading accident in the winter, in my experience, is somewhat rare,” he added. “You hear about people getting into Ski-Doo accidents but off-road vehicles at this time of year, you don’t hear much of that.”

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LAST MARKET OF 2015 Rossland Mountain Market held its final market of the year on Saturday at the Miners’ Hall and Becky Gilhula from Sweet Dreams Bakery was there selling Christmas goodies. Naomi Panschow from Novega Fine Foods sold local roasted garlic soup, vegetarian coconut curry, bread and homemade baileys at the market. There will be one last winter market in the new year, on Jan. 30.

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MAYOR’S REPORT 250-365-6397 or sales@rosslandnews.com

Thank you for your support in 2015 see you in 2016 !

Happy Holidays!

MARIE CLAUDE 250-512-1153 MAYOR

KATHY MOORE

The City of Rossland is seeking applications for volunteer positions on the

Washington Street Advisory Task Force A key purpose of the Washington Street Advisory Task Force is to assist in the advisory capacity to the Owner’s Representative on the Washington Street Infrastructure Renewal Project.

Duties may include review of the tender package, bids, contract management, overall engineering, reporting and change orders.

The Task Force will consist of the Owner’s Representative, a member of Council, staff and up to 4 (four) citizens with engineering qualifications and/or experience in managing major construction projects. Citizens will be appointed by Council.

The Terms of Reference for the Washington Street Advisory Task Force are available at City Hall and on the City website: www.rossland.ca Please submit your interest in writing or email by January 8, 2016 to: City of Rossland PO Box 1179 1899 Columbia Avenue Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0 Phone: 362-7396 Fax: 362-5451 Email: cityhall@rossland.ca

Rossland council is pleased to announce that we have retained the services of two experienced and qualified individuals to temporarily fill key roles in city hall.

With the immediate departure of Ms. Cecile Arnott, our current chief administrative officer/ chief financial officer, we sought to divide the job into a more traditional configuration: chief administrative officer/corporate officer (CAO/CO) and manager of finance. These will be short-term contracts while we conduct an open and competitive hiring process for both of these senior management positions. We want to take some time to find the right fit for Rossland.

Ms. Lynne Burch has had a long and successful career in local government. She worked her way up through the ranks to become the cor-

porate officer in Grand Forks; a position she held for several decades.

During her tenure she was called on to be the acting chief administrative officer multiple times. For the last three years, prior to her retirement, she was hired as the CAO for Grand Forks and enjoyed the top spot very much.

Ms. Burch has excellent people skills as well as strong corporate officer credentials and experience. In the two or three months she will be with us, we look forward to learning new ways to professionally organize and manage the City of Rossland.

Her primary role will be to provide the overall leadership for the corporation and work towards implementing council’s strategic plan. She will work closely with the finance department to ensure that we are providing good value for taxpayer money in everything we do. Careful monitoring of our major capital projects as well as ensuring that our next budget and five year financial plan are created in a fiscally responsible manner will top the “to do” list.

Mr. Steve Ash will be an expert financial advisor to the City of Rossland for an estimated period of up to three months. Mr. Ash will assist city council

and staff with a review of its current financial situation, future impacts of anticipated operating and capital expenditures, and business and taxation strategy.

Mr. Ash will also review the city’s financial policies and procedures, finance department staffing, procurement and asset management.

Finally, Mr. Ash will advise the CAO/CO and council on the hiring of a permanent chief financial officer (CFO).

Mr. Ash has an MBA with a very strong finance and business background. Many Rossland residents will know Mr. Ash as the former CFO of West Kootenay Power and later president of West Kootenay Power.

Others will know of Mr. Ash’s community involvement including the Red Mountain Ski Club and the Rossland Sustainability Commission and as a businessman in Rossland for the last thirty years.

Council looks forward to Ms. Burch’s and Mr. Ash’s role as key team players in the city’s transition toward longterm financial viability and strengthening the taxpayer’s trust in their local government.

For further information contact: Kathy Moore, mayor 250-5211500 or mayor@rossland.ca.

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Meet Rossland’s secret writers’ society CHELSEA NOVAK Rossland News

Rossland’s secret society meets every Wednesday night in the back room of the Seniors’ Hall, seated around a table set with cups and saucers for coffee or tea.

One week before Christmas there is also a tray of holiday goodies to go with the usual cookies.

There are five writers at the table: Les Anderson, who runs the group and who has written articles for magazines and newspapers; Philip Matyszak, a PhD graduate from St. John’s College, Oxford who specializes in ancient history, teaches for Cambridge University through their eLearning program, and goes

by Maty; Skip Rowland, who is working on getting his first book published; Alice Cristofoli, a Trail resident who’s new to the group; and your friendly neighbourhood reporter, also new to the group.

The evening takes the form of a discussion, spurred by readings from those present.

Anderson has brought an article he wrote for Canada’s History about Fruitvale resident Katy (Ireland) Olsen’s 500-mile trek from southern to northern Saskatchewan when she was ten years old.

Anderson read out a few experts from the piece, detailing Olsen’s family’s struggles to make it across the province with four horses, a freight wagon and everything they

owned.

Cristofoli was attending the discussion because she wants to write her own family’s history, and her interest and Anderson’s reading sparked a discussion about tracing family lines.

Cristofoli also brought an excerpt of her writing to read aloud about the time she met Norwegian hero Thor Heyerdahl.

She is of Norwegian decent and in fact made a trip back to Norway the year that Heyerdahl made his famous trip across the Pacific Ocean to prove Polynesia could have been settled by people from the Americas. She didn’t meet him until much later, during the 1990s, when he was the guest of honour

at the Scandinavian American Hall of Fame in Minot, North Dakota.

This topic connected well with the subject of Rowland’s book, No Return Ticket, which is about his voyage around the world on a 43foot ketch with his wife. He read an excerpt from the book about the time an Australian warship transferred them a jar of apple sauce for their pork chops, mid-sea.

Rowland is in the process of trying to get his book published and said he is extremely grateful for the support he gets from the writers’ group, who give him both encouragement and advice.

Matyszak has published 20 books so far and is hard at work on the 21st, so he’s able to provide some

practical advice to other writers in the group. As mentioned, Anderson has worked for a number of magazines and newspapers and can also offer insight on getting published.

Rossland’s secret society is really not a secret — it’s listed as an ongoing event in the Rossland News community calendar — but Anderson said it feels like a secret since so few people seem to know about it. The group is always open to other writers’ seeking advice or feedback, or to other experienced writers with advice and feedback to give.

At the end of the evening every one wished each other happy holidays and agreed to meet again on Wednesday, Jan. 6 at 7 p.m.

Rossland Summit School students hold climate march CHELSEA NOVAK Rossland News

The Grade 7 French immersion class from Rossland Summit School marched into downtown Rossland on Tuesday, Dec. 15 to raise awareness about climate change.

The class celebrated COP21 and learned about climate change all last week.

Students got to experience what it’s like to participate in their very own climate march, making signs with catchy slogans and standing on Columbia Ave. outside and across from Ferraro Foods, getting drivers going by to honk their support.

“We are walking around with signs that we made that have nice catchphrases and stuff,

of how you could stop the pollution and waste of garbage and litter,” explained Chaselyn Robillard.

“I’m looking forward to helping people be aware of what’s happening about climate change and that it is not indeed a myth, it is real,” said Avery (who declined to share her last name).

The students learned a different lesson each day of the week.

On Monday they took a pledge to do their small part for the environment.

Annataya Tatareczuk pledged to use a single water bottle instead of throwing plastic water bottles in the trash.

“I found a fact that worldwide over $100 million is spent a day on water bottles, 75 per cent of that is wasted and polluted, and 25 per cent is recycled,” she said. “So

we’re trying to work on using one and using less money.”

Each student had to learn three statistics related to their pledge.

Madeline Clarke learned about the environmental costs of raising livestock for hers. “[Animals] use up so much land and so much water, and so I was learning how 70 per cent of all the world’s fresh water, that’s drinkable, is actually going to our animals,” she explained.

Eben Sirgis also looked up facts on raising livestock and pledged to only eat beef twice a month.

“It was about the many resources and water and land that food takes up, but I was focusing in more specifically on beef,” he explained. “[It] takes 6,809 liters of water to make one pound

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of beef.”

Wednesday the COP21 celebration continued, with each student pretending to be from a different nation and sharing environmental concerns and statistics from that nation.

Thursday the students

had a mock rally in class.

“They [got] to do little speeches about what [they’re passionate about] or watch little videos that they found,” explained their teacher, Véronique Darwin.

Friday they watched an environmental film.

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AS IT HAPPENED

The Spanish Flu visits Rossland With the flu season upon us, perhaps it is a good time to review the visit of the “Spanish Flu” to Rossland in 1918.

An earlier epidemic may have started in Europe in early 1918, but the deadly virus that attacked Rossland RON SHEARER appeared in the ports rshearer@mail.ubc.ca of the eastern United States in August, 1918, and then made its melancholy way across the continent, reaching the Pacific Northwest in early October.

The first cases were reported in Rossland in mid-October and between then and the end of the year some 600 people were afflicted, about a quarter of the population. The first death, Minnie Sanderson, a 30-year-old housewife, occurred on Oct. 25; a second followed the next day and then the flood. In the week of Oct. 28, there were 21 deaths from influenza, or its complication, pneumonia. Sixteen deaths occurred in the following week, then seven and finally one each in the two successive weeks, the last one, a 36-year-old miner, on Dec. 4. The medical officer reported 50 deaths in all, but I can identify only 49.9 per

cent of deaths from all causes from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31.

Most of the deaths in Rossland were of males (69 per cent) in the prime of their lives. The oldest victim was just 50. Most of the deceased males were miners but included the chief of police. Many victims left small children. The illness was deadly and swift; the typical time to death was a matter of days, seldom longer than a week and a half.

How did Rossland cope? All public assemblies were prohibited and all schools were closed, as were the mines and the Trail smelter. The Allan Hotel was enlisted as an annex to the overwhelmed hospital, with a special laundry set up to provide a continuous supply of clean linens and the hotel kitchen operated overtime to feed the sick. Two nurses and a doctor were recruited from Nelson, but the doctor left in a huff after two days when criticized for breaking a hypodermic needle in a patient’s arm. The council refused to pay her $50 bill because she left “patients without care,” but was effusive in its praise of a doctor from Northport who served throughout the epidemic. His bill was paid in full.

Men and women “volunteered” to staff the Allan Hotel. Some male “volunteers” were recruited by the police under orders to “bring

in any man who is not working or attending the sick” and to arrest any man who did not show up for his appointed duties. Volunteer grave diggers and pall bearers assisted the overwhelmed staffs of the two cemeteries.

Owners of automobiles provided emergency ambulance services and drove medical staff on visits to home bound patients. The government supplied “brandies or liquors to provide the necessary stimulants for the sick.” Perhaps more helpful were two kitchens that provided broth and soup to stricken families, one operated by the IODE lodge and the other by other volunteers. Inoculations of an experimental vaccine were offered. Produced on the misguided assumption that the epidemic was caused by bacteria, the serum was ineffective.

The epidemic was rife with personal tragedies. People lost spouses; parents lost children; children lost parents. There was no formal welfare system to provide relief for stricken families. At a public meeting in November, a special committee recommended a voluntary levy of $3 per month from every “business and professional man” and $2 per month from every “working man.” To provide immediate relief money in the “Patriotic Fund,” created to provide relief for families of war casualties, was diverted to influenza relief.

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After three months, the voluntary levy was replaced with a one mill tax, the maximum that the municipality was permitted to assess for relief purposes. One family, that of Leander Mickleson, an immigrant from Finland, was devastated. Four boys and young men, aged 13 to 32, died, including the oldest son, George, who was married with four small children.

His widow was unable to cope with the loss of the family breadwinner and under court orders the city paid for families in Vancouver to care for the children.

In the aftermath of the epidemic the council faced the costs of the emergency measures.

In some cases the council felt that the bills presented were excessive and negotiated reduced payments. In general, the council was sympathetic and settled bills amicably, but one particularly annoying case involved a Mr. Henderson who refused to compromise his demands for reimbursement for ambulance services. The council eventually told him to collect from the people he transported — most of whom were either dead or indigent.

The 1918 flu was an extreme event. Let’s hope there is no repetition, but perhaps contemplating its devastation may remind people that influenza can be deadly and encourage some people to be vaccinated.

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Top: The after school choir at L’École des Sept-sommets sang “L’enfant au tambour” (French version of “Little Drummer Boy”) and “Noël des enfants du mond” at the school’s Christmas concert last Thursday.

Below: The Grade 1 and 2 class sang “Mon beau sapin” (“O Christmas Tree”) in a mix of French, English and German.

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Hark! the francophone children sing CHELSEA NOVAK Rossland News

L’École des Sept-sommets celebrated the end of term with a Christmas concert last Thursday.

The school’s 57 students performed songs, skits and dances for each other and their parents — all in French, of course.

“In each of the classes, kids have worked with their classroom teacher and we also have a language assistant here, Marie-Christine [Boucher], this year, so she worked with every single class as well,” explained Marie-Josée Beaulieu, principal.

Boucher taught every class to perform their own version of “Vive le vent” (French

version of “Jingle Bells”).

The kindergarten and Grade 1 class performed the song with boom whackers and the Grade 1 and 2 class performed it with percussion instruments.

The Grade 1 and 2 class also sang “Mon beau sapin” (“O Christmas Tree”) in a mix of French, English and German.

Boucher also runs two after school programs, the choir and Circque Musique.

The choir sang “L’enfant au tambour” (French version of “Little Drummer Boy”) and “Noël des enfants du mond,” and the students of Cirque Musique performed a number of tricks to music. Some spun plates on sticks, others tossed devil’s sticks in the air and two girls twirled the same giant hula hoop.

The Grade 3 and 4 class performed the song “Noël n’est pas au magasin” (“Christmas Is Not in a Store”) and did a skit called “Noël d’hier à aujourd’hui” (“Christmas from Yesterday to Today”), where they explored how Christmas traditions have evolved over time.

The Grade 5, 6 and 7 class performed “Vive le vent” on several different instruments including piano and guitar.

Some of the older students — Emry McGill, Sawyer Dale-Smith and Léa Boiridy-Graves — also performed winter poems they’d written in class.

The performance ended with all the students performing “Vive le vent” and then their parents joined them for a Rigodon dance.

Setting our direction — Strategic planning for School District 20

CHAIR, BOARD OF EDUCATION

TERI FERWORN

Giving our students the tools and confidence they need to be successful in a rapidly-evolving global environment is our first priority as a Board of Education.

To assist us in achieving this goal, we will be engaging our commu-

nities in building and maintaining a school system that reflects local priorities, values and expectations.

In June 2015, the Board of Education began the strategic planning process with senior district leaders, to discuss big picture questions like: what are the attributes of the students we want exiting our schools; what learning opportunities are students provided; what do our learning environments look and feel like; what staff do we need to achieve these objectives and how do we support our staff; how are parents and community members involved with our schools; what are we good at; where can we improve; what opportunities exist for the district; etc.

Currently, we are immersed in

the process of community engagement to determine our priorities and guiding principles by discussing the same big picture questions. These “district directions” will impact critical aspects of the district including where we spend our limited resources.

Given their impact, we want to be certain that all community education partners are involved during the development process.

We met with district staff in early November and were encouraged by the valuable, thoughtful input we received.

Next steps include a meeting with parents in January 2016 to hear what they believe are important skills for their children/youth to acquire in order to develop to their full potentials.

Students and community will

also be invited to participate in this process as we continue this inclusive work.

After hearing from all stakeholders in the district, board and staff will develop a draft plan that will identify where we want to be as a district, for our schools, for our students, staff and for our communities. This will be presented for feedback and adjusted as necessary to develop a directional document that we can feel confident will guide our district to support students to become socially engaged citizens who can actively contribute to positive change in our global world.

We look forward to meeting with you in the near future!

Teri Ferworn Chair Board of Education

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas CHELSEA NOVAK Rossland News

Holidays are here again and Rossland is all dressed up for the occasion.

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Curiosity Clothing and Gifts made an impression with a gown made of cedar boughs and falling snowflakes.

The mannequin and window took five hours to decorate.

“It was a lot of fun,” said Trinda Bowman, owner. “It’s done with chicken wire and boxes to build up the dress and she’s wrapped in chicken wire.”

Revival Boutique’s window was inspired by the live window display the shop did during Rekindle.

“I wanted to just sort of recapture what we had done,” said Zabrine Nelson, owner.

“So I took the costumes off the live models and transferred them onto the window mannequins.”

Nelson said she got the elf costumes from various online sources.

Courtney Jewitt designed a window display for New Edition Café & Books in the old Bank of Toronto building during Rekindle.

New Editions will be moving to that spot sometime in 2016, and Andrea Rabone, owner, said that Jewitt did the window as a sort of “coming attraction” display.

The display has since been moved out of the Bank of Toronto building so it wouldn’t be in the way of construction,

but can still be viewed two doors down.

The display includes a little Christmas tree with gold owl ornaments and even smaller trees made out of old books.

The Red Pair Shoe Store’s window was designed by local Gwen Johnson and features a pair of red Portofino boots surrounded by birch trees.

Johnson has designed the Red Pair window for the past six years and Stephanie Robinson, owner, said this is the best window she’s done.

“I had somebody that was driving from … I think it was Kelowna … and they drove by and the mom stopped the car and ran out to come look at the window and came in and told us how great it was,” Robinson said.

Legacy Gift Room and Brew Shop’s ice window was inspired by winter in Rossland.

“Everything I chose there, to go for that window when I was purchasing, I chose with Rossland winter in mind,” explained Roseanne Chobanuk.

“Not so much Christmas as Rossland winter.”

The window features a large icey painting, an ice fairy — whose wings can be removed postChristmas to make her look less angelic — and a variety of woodland creatures, including an owl and some penguins.

From the top:Revival Boutique’s window was inspired by the shop’s live window display during Rekindle.

Legacy Gift Room and Brew Shop’s ice window was inspired by winter in Rossland. The Red Pair Shoe Store’s window was designed by local Gwen Johnson.

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Learners support education for all girls CHELSEA NOVAK Rossland News

Learners at the Seven Summits Centre for Learning raised money for the Malala Fund with a bake sale.

Inspired by co-founders Malala Yousafxai and her father Ziauddin, the Malala Fund works to ensure that girls receive a full 12 years of education.

At the bake sale on Thursday, Dec. 10, Grade 8 learners raised $211.35 for the fund.

“Everyone in our class has baked something. Either that or they made a pamphlet or a poster, and we sat out front of our local food store and we told people about Malala, and we told people why we’re raising money for her and why we think it’s important,” said Yasmin Evans, a learner at SSCL. The bake sale was by donation, and some people even opted out of the baking and just donated.

The fundraiser was part of the unit the learners did on Malala starting in early November. They learned about her work advocating for girls’ education in Pakistan and the Taliban’s attempt to kill her in 2012.

“She got shot by the Taliban, which was really bad because she was speaking out about all this [suppression of girls’ education],” explained Evans. “In her hometown Swat, she was getting really upset because the Taliban were taking over and telling everyone that she couldn’t go to school and her mates couldn’t go to school because they were girls. So she decided to speak out against this and now she’s started this fund to make it so that she can raise money to spread awareness about this and to fund schools for people like her.”

As part of the unit, the learners read the book I Am Malala and watched the documentary He Named Me Malala.

“On the 15th, He Named Me Malala, [which] is a documentary that was just in theatres, came out on DVD, so we watched that,” explained Kylie Stewart, mentor for

the class.

The class also learned about Benazir Bhutto, the first female prime minister of Pakistan who was assassinated in 2007, by watching the documentary Bhutto and wrote papers about Malala.

“What really made me happy was that when they wrote their papers, they said you know, ‘I used to come to school and it was so boring and I didn’t think anything of it and didn’t realize how lucky I was,’ and through reading I Am Malala and the documentaries and hearing different stories they realize I think now more how important education is and how lucky they are to have such a great education.”

The SSCL class also shared a Pakistani lunch prepared by Christophe DeckTisserand with the Grade 7 students from Sept-sommets on Tuesday, Dec. 15, and shared what they’d been learning.

Learners in the SSCL class were very inspired by Malala’s story.

“She’s very brave, I gotta say, because I remember her saying, ‘They shot me in the head, and they thought it would silence me, but instead it made me louder,’ and she doesn’t yell because she can, she yells because she’s speaking for a large audience, and she’s speaking as if she’s all the people that don’t get the education that they need,” said Evans.

“I think she’s really brave for standing up to the Taliban,” said Scarlet Guy. “I think she’s smart. One of her quotes is, ‘If a Talib came up to me and said that he was going to kill me,’ she said that she would instead of hitting him with her shoe, … tell him all the things she knows about

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Stewart said even the boys in the class got into the unit.

“I was a little bit worried about the class saying, ‘Oh, but this is all about girls,’ but really when it comes down to it, it’s just about education for all children and they realized that,” she said. “We had great, intelligent conversations about it.”

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UPCOMING ROSSLAND CITY COUCIL MEETING Monday, Jan. 11, 2016 at 6 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 at 6 p.m.

HOLIDAY PUBLIC SKATING Monday Dec. 28, 2015 2:30 to 4 p.m.

Tuesday Dec. 29, 2015 4 to 5:30 p.m.

FREE SKIING ALL CHRISTMAS DAY AT BLACK JACK What better way to work up an appetite for your Christmas beast then

a few hot laps at biathalon or a leg burning sprint up Gibbards! Bring a thermos of mulled wine and cruise through the beautiful snowy fields to one of our destination cabins. Bring all your friends and family!

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WEST KOOTENAY OSTOMY SUPPORT GROUP Meets Monday, Jan. 18, 2016 at 2 p.m., Kiro Wellness Center, Trail.

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ONGOING MUSEUM SATURDAY CRAFTERNOONS Stop in anytime Saturdays between 1-3 p.m. for Crafternoons in the Discovery Zone! Crafts and activities for kids of all ages. Free with adult admission. Parents can feel free to look around the museum while we craft with the kids. The Museum is open all winter Wednesdays-Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Coffee, tea, and hot chocolate available to keep you warm! Contact: 250-362-7722 or info@rosslandmuseum.ca.

ART DROP IN NIGHT Mondays, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. There will be no instruction, just a space to be creative with other youth artists. Come hang out and get creative!

ROSSLAND BEAVER SCOUTS Mondays, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Girls and boys ages 5 to 7 years. Please contact Deanna Leask at 250-362-7118 to join.

SLURPS AND BURPS FEEDING GROUP Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Family Obstetrics Clinic, Fourth 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!

ADULT CO-ED REC HOCKEY Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. Join this fun, co-ed recreational program of non-contact drop-in hockey. Please enter on Second Ave. This is fun, no contact, no pressure hockey! Full equipment is required and some experience necessary.

MUSIC NIGHT Tuesdays, 6:20 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Drop in event for ages 12 to 18. How do you like to music? Come to the YAN Space and immerse yourself in anything/everything music. No prior music-ing experience necessary.

MUSEUM AFTER SCHOOL KIDS’ CLUB Wednesdays until Dec. 16, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ the Rossland Museum.

Explore science, create crafts, and play games. The museum has tonnes of resources for kids interested in geology, science, history, and more.

Bring a snack, and enjoy two hours of supervised fun. Ages 5-12. Drop in $5. School bus stops at the museum.

GIRL TALK FOR GIRLS 14-18 Wednesdays, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Want some time to just relax, talk, and hang out doing cool things with other girls? We have all kinds of awesome, inclusive, creative activities for you at Girl Talk. No pressure, chill space, girls only! Free.

YAN AFTER SCHOOL DROP-IN Monday-Thursday, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Come in and chill, get homework help, build a resume or do a job search, or just hang with you friends.

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LOCAL WRITERS DISCUSSION Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. 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 at lesanderson66@gmail.com or phone 250-362-5532.

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Wednesdays, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ RSS. Indoor pickleball.

MAKERLAB FOR YOUTH 12-18 Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Newly renovated and expanded for this year, the Makerlab is a meeting ground for youth who share a keen interest in all aspects of technology. Bring your technology project, whether it is robotics, motion graphics, creating and printing 3D models, or something completely different.

You don’t need experience, just an enthusiasm for technology! By donation.

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.

Golden City Fiddlers play. Visitors should contact Richie at 250-362-9465.

Thursday 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Seniors stretching exercises and morning tea and snacks.

ROSSLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY Lego Club: 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, 3-4 p.m.

Library Bingo: 2nd Thursday of the month. Pick up card at the library.

Movies and Munchies: 3rd Thursday of the month, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Books and Babies: Fridays until Dec. 18, 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Stories, songs and fun for those 0-30 months and their grown-ups. For more info call 250-362-7611.

Toddlers and Tablets: Wed. Dec. 16, 1-2 p.m. Apps in laps. Our children’s librarian Lynn will share apps you can use with your 3 to 5 year old. The emphasis will be on parent and child playtime and you will get to test drive the apps on the library’s iPads.

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THE SPIRIT OF GIVING The Rossland Eagle Riders and the Eagles club held a fundraiser at the Rossland Eagles Hall to raise money for the Rossland firefighters' Christmas hamper fund. $600 was raised and a large box of groceries was donated to the Christmas hamper fund.

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Rossland Thrift Store upgraded SUBMIT TED The Rossland Health Care Auxiliary Society has upgraded its thrift store with support from Columbia Basin Trust. This project will help it continue to support local health care needs.

“Since the early 1940s, our thrift store business has been enhancing local health care services and increasing the comfort of patients and residents,” said Joan Hanson, society president. “This renovation has made the building more safe and sanitary for our volunteers and customers.”

Renovations included improving basement access by installing an emergency door and increasing air quality by installing a heat recovery ventilation system. These follow previous upgrades to items like the sales area, storage spaces, insulation, and fire and carbon dioxide alarms. These have all helped the shop comply with health and safety standards and building and fire codes.

“The thrift store is an important part of the Rossland community,” said Kelvin Saldern, community relationships manager, Columbia Basin Trust. “Not only do profits get donated to local health care organizations, but the store itself provides low-cost items to those in need. Plus it keeps used items from ending up in the landfill.”

Columbia Basin Trust supports efforts to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits to the residents of the Columbia Basin. To learn more about the Trust’s programs and initiatives, visit cbt.org or call 1.800.505-8998.

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Travel through time to 2016 RCAC rings in new year with Time Traveller’s Ball CHELSEA NOVAK Rossland News

Rosslanders are invited to travel through time this New Year’s Eve at the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture’s Time Traveller’s Ball.

Doors open at 8:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve at the Miners’ Hall and the ball will benefit the building’s renovation and restoration project.

“We wanted a fun way to raise awareness for the project,” said Kimberley Pegg from the RCAC in a press release. “A New Year’s Eve Party seemed like the perfect way to include the community, raise money for the project, and have one last great bash at the Miners’ Hall before it closes for renovations!”

Though the project is slated to begin in early February, the RCAC and the City of Rossland still need to raise quite a bit of money.

“They’ve raised [over] $600,000 at the moment between the city and the RCAC, and they’re hoping to raise [over] $900,000,” said Pegg.

Attendees are encouraged to don apparel from their favourite era and DJs RSK and Sexton Blake (Rupert Keiller and Nadine Tremblay) will keep

everyone on their feet with tunes from across the ages.

The DJs are also free to give out prizes at their discretion.

Depending on how the evening goes, RSK and Sexton Black may give out prizes for best costume or whatever else they feel like.

The DJs won’t be the only ones providing entertainment for the evening. There will also be a Burlesque troup to spice things up and help sell raffle tickets to raise money.

So far the raffle prizes, which are being donated by local businesses, include a season pass to the Gold Fever Follies, a flask, a chocolate basket and five passes to Better Life Fitness. The RCAC is still accepting donations of additional prizes.

Closer to midnight there will be snacks provided, including desserts and pizzas from Misty Mountain Pizza.

When the clock strikes 12, time travellers from every era will welcome 2016.

“We’re looking forward to an exciting night,” said Pegg. “Who knows what will happen!”

YAN invites girls to a shame-free space CHELSEA NOVAK Rossland News

The Rossland Youth Action Network has a new program for girls.

Shameless is for girls aged 12 and over, and takes place on Wednesday nights from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

“We just wanted to create a fun, empowering space for girls

where they could hang out, ask questions, and learn through playing games, doing crafts, art and watching videos,” explains Kelly Woods, one of the program’s facilitators.

Woods and Sammantha Parrott are facilitating the program together, and started it just two weeks ago.

Shameless is the second program YAN has offered for female

youth, the first being Girl Talk, which is for girls 14 and up on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m.

Woods says they started Shameless so younger girls would have a space of their own.

“We just wanted to, you know, have a different space, because it’s tough when you’re teens,” said Woods. “Like 18-year-old girls and 12-year-old girls are just going through different things.”

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The nature of this position will require the Purchasing Coordinator to work with constant interruptions and minimal supervision while meeting deadlines as well as travel throughout the district.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND ABILITIES: a) Grade 12, Level III Purchasing Management Association of Canada, Professional Development Program and courses in Business Education and related computer software and/or b) Two years recent previous experience in the purchasing field, including working knowledge of purchasing processes and procedures and legal requirements including Federal and Provincial legislation (Sales Tax, the Goods and Services Tax and Duty Exemptions, AIT, TILMA, etc.). c) Proven ability to operate a computer with word processing, spreadsheet, database and communication applications. d) Ability to communicate effectively, both oral and written, with employees and the public. e) Valid Class 5 B.C. driver’s license.

The awarded applicant will be required to join the CUPE Local 748 Union. Wages will be as per the current Collective Agreement found at http://www.sd8.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/748SD.-8-COLLECTIVE-AGREEMENT-2014-2019-FINAL.pdf.

A Criminal Records Check will be required.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Applications will only be accepted through our online job posting board – Make a Future. www.makeafuture.ca Job Posting # 1142551.

For more information contact: Kim Morris, SecretaryTreasurer, at kmorris@sd8.bc.ca or 250-505-7039.

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