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while working as secretary to the president of Notre Dame University (which existed on the present site of Selkirk’s Tenth Street Campus) and then for the provincial health department. The first of her decadeslong succession of volunteer and public service positions was with the Red Cross Ladies, who knitted garments for needy children. “It was an amicable little group,” she says, “and we knitted like crazy. We often had to undo what we knitted because we were talking all the time.” When her daughter Wendy was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Raschdorf devel-
The provincial director of police services says Nelson should hire one more police officer and add one more administrative position. Clayton Pecknold’s longawaited decision on the Nelson Police Board’s 2015 budget request was released Thursday. The board had asked for two more officers plus the administrative position. According to a news release, Pecknold also recommended the police board direct a further internal review of the department’s service delivery model to address gaps identified in his original review. “This internal review would allow for the establishment of a board-endorsed action plan which will include the formulation of a multi-year staffing and resource plan,” the news release states. More than a year ago, the police department asked the city for a $311,000 increase to cover the cost of two additional officers and an administrator, but council declined. The police board then appealed to Pecknold, who has the power to investigate and declare the minimum number of officers required in Nelson. Mayor Deb Kozak, who is also the police board chair, told
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Nelson Citizen of the Year Susanne Raschdorf is seen with her husband Klaus. She’s provided respected leadership in a very long Bill Metcalfe photo list of local organizations, beginning in the 1960s.
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Asked to name her favourite of the dozens of volunteer and service positions she’s held in Nelson over the past 50 years, Susanne Raschdorf says “All of them. I have never done anything in my life that I have not enjoyed thoroughly.” Why has she taken on important work with, among others, the Nelson and District Credit Union, BC Central Credit Union, Nelson Hospital Board, Canadian Diabetic Association, the Co-operative College of Canada board of
In addition, Raschdorf has a methodical and task-oriented side. She wants to know exactly how things work. “I need to know what is going on. One of the biggest things that motivates me is: do not criticize until you find out what it is all about. That is why I got on the hospital board, to see how it really works. That is how I got involved in a lot of things, especially city council, and also the church.” Raschdorf, whose extended family recently threw a big 80th birthday party for her, has been named Nelson’s 2015
Citizen of the Year. A survey of the ways she has contributed to the community could almost serve as a social history of Nelson over the past five decades. Raschdorf, born in Germany, arrived in the Slocan Valley from England in 1958 with her first husband Michael, a teacher, and their one-year-old daughter Caroline. Not long after, Michael was diagnosed with brain cancer. The family returned to England, where a second child, Wendy, was born. After Michael’s death when she was 27, Raschdorf decided to return to Canada and the Slocan. For many years she tended her young family
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