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Castlegar city council has passed a bylaw amendment that limits how often and how many councillors can attend the annual Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference.

The resolution is one of a pair of motions brought forward by councillor Florio Vassilakakis after controversy arose when Mayor Bruno Tassone and councillor Cherryl MacLeod declined to provide council with a detailed accounting of their activities at the conference during a June council meeting.

Vassilakakis’ first motion passed in June and requires any councillor or mayor who attends out-of-town events to submit detailed reports from those events.

The new policy will limit FCM attendance to once per term for each council member and limit the number of members attending on any given year to two.

The previous policy allowed councillors to attend twice a term and did not specify a limit as to how many could go at once.

Vassilakakis’ motion stated the value to taxpayers of attending this specific conference twice in a term was questionable. It also stated that attending other conferences, workshops, training sessions and seminars may provide better value to the municipality.

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Tidy up Castlegar – Communities in Bloom judges arriving soon BETSY KLINE Castlegar News

Castlegar Communities in Bloom and the City of Castlegar are asking residents and business owners to tidy up their properties in preparation for the arrival of the Bloom judges.

Volunteers have already been busy making sure the city’s public floral displays are in tip-top shape, but trimming weeds and collecting litter can go a long way in helping to spruce up the city.

The judges will be in town from July 28 to 30. They judge everything from flower beds to how well a community preserves its local heritage, how it fits into and protects the environment, and how engaged residents are in promot-

Last year’s Communities in Bloom judges met with City of Castlegar representatives at Photo: Betsy Kline Millennium Park. ing community pride. national symposium.

This year Castlegar will be parCommunities in Bloom is a Canaditicipating in the Grand Champions an non-profit organization committed category. to fostering civic pride, environmenThis year’s judges are Colleen Stockford tal responsibility and beautification from Sussex, New Brunswick and James through community involvement and Bourgeois from Rosemère, Québec. the challenge of a national program, The results will be announced in with focus on the enhancement of September during the organization’s green spaces in communities.

Suspect in custody after break and enters BETSY KLINE Castlegar News

Police have a 48-yearold man in custody after a string of break and enters in Castlegar.

Shortly after midnight on July 19 RCMP responded to a call from a local resident. The homeowner had disrupted a break and enter in progress.

The suspect tried to get in though an unlocked

door.

“After a brief struggle the suspect departed on foot and the resident was able to lock the door and contact police. Castlegar RCMP arrived within minutes of the report and arrested the suspect,” said Sgt. Monty Taylor.

The homeowner was not injured.

Chad Carr appeared in Rossland Provincial Court on Monday, charged with

forcible entry into a property. He’ll remain in custody at least until his next court date on Aug. 15.

According to RCMP, he is also alleged to have committed two other separate break and enters to Castlegar homes on June 29 and July 7.

During both these incidents Carr is alleged to have entered homes through unlocked entryways to steal property.

Passenger counts still rising at West Kootenay Regional Airport BETSY KLINE Castlegar News

Reliability and passenger traffic numbers at the West Kootenay Regional Airport are continuing their climb into the year’s second

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Reliability rates were 96 per cent in April, 100 per cent in May and 97.5 per cent in June. April and June figures were an increase of about two per cent each and May

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In one incident the homeowner was home and thwarted the attempt. In the second incident the resident arrived home to locate someone inside.

Carr was arrested for the initial break and enters and was on bail awaiting a court appearance at the time of his July 19 arrest.

RCMP are reminding residents to lock doors to their homes and outbuildings and report any sus-

This quarter’s reliability rates follow the trend set in the first quarter when rates for January were 65 per cent, up 15 per cent over last year. February’s rate was at 78 per cent, up

two per cent. March’s rate was 90 per cent, up five per cent.

Passenger traffic was up 44 per cent in January, seven per cent in February and 22 per cent in March over 2018 figures.

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Mountie boss asks RDCK directors to go to bat for them at UBCM JOHN BOIVIN Castlegar News

The top Mountie in the West Kootenay-Boundary wants local politicians to take a message to their provincial counterparts.

Insp. Tim Olstead asked the directors of the Regional District of the Central Kootenay to lobby for more money for police officers in his region.

“We really haven’t had any added investment into policing by the province, and that is having a ripple effect down to the front line,” Olmstead told the Castlegar News.

“Where shortages of funding prevent us from effecting timely transfers effectively, it causes an inability to create staff positions we would like to create here in the Southeast District.”

Olmstead made the comments at last week’s monthly meeting of the RDCK’s board of directors.

There are 82 people — both police and civilian staff — working in the West Kootenay-Boundary detachment of the Southeast region. In some cases, individual de-

tachments can be down 30 per cent on their official complement of staff for extended periods, Olmstead says.

While there are few hard vacancies — positions left unfilled — there are several nagging soft vacancies, created by delays in transfers and situations where officers can’t report for duty.

As well, many of those positions are being taken by raw recruits from the police academy, and fewer by trained, experienced officers.

He says the problem comes down to money.

“The RCMP in general has a bit of an attraction and retention issue with our human resources,” he says.

“And much of that is founded in the relative pay scale compared to other police forces.

“We’re not quite as competitive as we used to be and for that we have sometimes difficulty attracting people to come work for the RCMP and that is reflected in the Kootenay-Boundary.”

He says that means more work is being piled on fewer officers.

“The members that remain

on duty are servicing a higher case load, and they are working more than their scheduled 40 hours per week,” he

“There’s no need for concern. The RCMP will always be there to answer the call,” he says. “And we will respond in an appropriate manner to the nature of the call.

“If we have insufficient numbers in the region to address the situation, then other members will come from outside the Kootenay-Boundary and take care of the situation as it dictates.”

Olmstead hopes the regional politicians will take that message to their provincial counterparts at the upcoming meeting of the Union of B.C. Municipalities.

“That is the hope, that there is clear messaging to all our elected officials that the RCMP does need a bit of added investment to … supplement our staff,” he says.

“We have four detachments in the RDCK that are due for an increase in staffing, but we just can’t fill those position unless we get the funding.”

Olmstead oversees detachsays. “And it takes a toll both But Olmstead is quick to ments in Nelson, Castlegar, psychologically and physical- point out that the shortfall Trail, Salmo, Kaslo, New ly — it does catch up with shouldn’t have residents wor- Denver, Nakusp, Grand Forks, and Midway. them.” ried for their safety.

Motorcylist injured, medevaced in Crescent Valley JOHN BOIVIN Castlegar News

A motorcyclist had to be medevaced to hospital after an accident on Monday in Crescent Valley.

An air ambulance

was called just after noon to the community when a motorbike collided with a truck.

“We dispatched a paramedic ground unit who arrived on scene in about 15

minutes. We also auto-launched our air ambulance helicopter out of Kamloops,” said BC Emergency Health Service communications officer Shannon Miller.

“The patient was

airlifted from the scene in serious condition and taken to hospital in Kamloops.”

The accident occurred just outside the Crescent Valley Fire Department

hall.

Emergency crews were called in from the Tarrys and the Crescent Valley fire departments. Traffic was reduced to a single lane in both directions as officials

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The driver of the truck was uninjured.

Police are still investigating the cause of the accident.

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Animal behaviour with a twist – including a golf-ball munching elk

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s an observer of animal and bird life, I thought I’d seen it all. In some cases, what the creatures did reminded me of humans doing the same.

Perhaps you could say my most recent animal connection had similarities to human behaviour, but that might be stretching things.

This latest incident happened at the Castlegar Golf Course, where birds and animals seem to flourish even as humans smack little white balls all around them. On fairway 17, a par 3, I hit my drive about three-quarters of the way to the green. I could see my ball lying there, but as I turned to get into my golf cart, a young elk popped out of the narrow band of woods separating fairway

17 from fairway 11.

My playing partners and I watched it as it made its way toward my golf ball.

Curious like a human, the elk picked the ball up and dropped it once or twice.

One of my partners yelled out, “Leave it alone. That’s not an egg.” The young elk took no notice and picked up the ball again — and swallowed it. I kid you not!

Then it trotted back into the nearby woods. I replaced the ball and hit my second shot to the green. In fact, we could still see the young elk as we finished up and moved toward the 18th tee box. Then I saw a golfer from the group behind us hit his ball up toward where my ball had been swallowed, and lo and behold, the young elk came out of the woods and grabbed that ball, too. But he spit it out, and I thought, “It must be a Top-Flite.”

Several years before this incident, we had nesting robins acting so strangely we couldn’t believe it.

These two robins returned to our yard for a second year and chose our under deck beams for their nesting site. Except —now imagine this — they created eight different nests along the beam. The female then laid an egg in the first nest but chose to incubate the rest of her eggs in nest No. 8. Somehow, the subterfuge

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This young elk swallowed Gord Turner’s golf ball.

— a common human behavior — worked because crows came to plunder but were quite perplexed by the many nests.

One year we were topping a few of our birch trees as the tops were dying, and we wanted to save the trees.

Our tree technician was a specialist in this type of work, and we watched as he climbed the dead top of a tall birch in our back yard. And as he began to cut away the smaller limbs, a mother squirrel scrambled up the tree and arrived on a swaying leafy branch just behind him. She was practically screaming at him, chirping for dear life, but he couldn’t hear because of the noise from his chain saw.

Then when he cut the last meter and a half off

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the top of the main trunk, the squirrel barely resisted jumping onto his back.

But then she disappeared as quickly as she had scrambled up. Examining the cutpiece just topped, our tree specialist’s assistant on the ground discovered a nest of baby squirrels in the piece of tree that fell. At that moment, the mother squirrel appeared and began shrilly chattering at her.

The young squirrels seemed all right, so we stood the chunk of tree upright and went on with the work. The next morning I went out to examine the baby squirrels and discovered they were gone. It was simply a mother looking after her young — not unlike the protective stances of humans regarding their young.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Wildlife suffering from heat stress In these alarming times of global change one cannot help but notice that our vocabulary has also changed to more accurately describe how the unprecedented rate of destruction is affecting humanity and the planet. We are now hearing words like ecocide, compassion fatigue, extinction rebellion, climate chaos, and heat stress.

Dr. Brian Horejsi, in his June 26 column in the Penticton Herald, warned that heat stress is negatively impacting wildlife in our area.

With global super heating landing hard on our air, land and water, its impact on wildlife only adds to the widespread crisis in conservation humans have already created.

He notes hundreds of documented cases of this crisis, but here’s just one: There are 451 vertebrate (backbone) populations whose abundance has been monitored in Canada since 1970; on average they have experienced a decline of 83 per cent. Animals like moose, caribou and bears respond to prolonged or extreme high heat by seeking relief in cooler habitats, usually large stands of mature tree cover. These are quickly disappearing due to present logging practices that fragment a landscape physically, ecologically and behaviorally and reduce functional thermal relief.

Of course, as our human population continues to increase at an unsustainable rate, demand for wood products will increase and cause even greater loss of wildlife habitat. The Union of Concerned Scientists (over 1,600 of the world’s leading scientists) have released their second World Scientists Warning to Humanity which cautions that overpopulation is the driving force behind most of our critical world issues, such as deforestation, climate change, and extinction of species. They add that technology will not be able to bail us out of this predicament, and we must take action immediately if we are to have any hope of saving our planet.

According to Population Institute Canada, our numbers here have also grown beyond a sustainable level, and it is time to take action for the greater good.

Val Allen Castlegar

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Health impacts of climate change As a health professional I am deeply concerned about health impacts of climate change.

I believe that effective policies and actions are urgently required in all areas of Canada and in the world. We cannot wait for our children to grow up to save the world because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 2018 that we had only 12 years left to act to prevent catastrophic and irreversible changes. We need to act now!

World Health Organization and prestigious medical journal Lancet call climate change the greatest global health threat of this century.

Without effective solutions to climate change, business-as-usual emissions are projected at 2.6 to 4.8°C increase in global temperature by 2100, which is going to be incompatible with human life and lives of many other species. The importance of climate change for our health is that simple but profound.

At the same time, climate change is also seen by health professionals and scientists as the greatest health opportunity, meaning that with changes in policies and economy, humanity can significantly reduce burden of many diseases, improve health outcomes for billions in the world and contribute to social equity and cohesion.

The decision behind the 100% Renewable Energy resolution, which Castlegar city council is working on, has potential to positively affect not only health and lives in this community, but also to serve as a role model for other communities in the province and in the world.

Globally the health impacts of climate change are already devastating with more than seven million

deaths annually attributed to heat and air-pollution exposure, as well as due to extremae weather events and cancers associated with carbon-intensive energy systems and undernutrition. In addition, there is huge increase in economic losses worldwide due to extreme heat, diseases associated with climate change, and decrease in agricultural yield potential.

Although as a large and rich country, so far Canada is better protected than most of the world from these health outcomes, many Canadians already suffer physically and mentally from health effects of climate change, such as extreme heat, air pollution, UV radiation, vector-borne disease, extreme weather events, and various mental health impacts.

For instance, in some parts of Canada extreme heat already claims lives, most of whom are elderly, as well as individuals with chronic diseases, and other disadvantaged populations. In Quebec alone during summer 2018 heat waves took lives of more than 90 individuals. In addition, extreme heat can cause heat stroke, dehydration, and can exacerbate pre-existing cardiovascular and respiratory

conditions. The reality is that the human body has a hard time tolerating temperatures above 40°C, with vital organs such as heart, kidneys, and liver shutting down after some exposure to the extreme heat.

Air pollution, which is one of major components of climate change, is responsible for an increase in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. In British Columbia alone more than 1,300 premature deaths are attributed annually to air pollution.

All of us remember provincial state of emergency last summer due to hundreds of wildfires in British Columbia. Because of extremely inadequate air quality during those months, many residents were left coughing and cooped up indoors. In addition, many people in B.C. experience trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of emergency evacuations and population displacements during recent summers due to wildfires and floods.

Canadian doctors, nurses and other health professionals have no doubts that without effective changes to policies and appropriate actions on climate change, physical and mental health risks will

grow for British Columbians and for the world population, including increases in heat-related and air-pollution illnesses and deaths.

100% Renewable Energy by 2050 is not really an option. It is our responsibility to protect the health and lives of our children, grandchildren now and the future generations!

Olga Halborg, RN Castlegar

days, deaths and emergency room visits caused by air pollution declined; Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions fell, while Ontario’s economy grew.

Wynne took a giant leap towards sustainability. She proved that economic growth is not dependent on expanding energy consumption or poisoning the environment. We need courageous, intelligent leaders like Kathleen SCENE IT? Wynne.

Each Friday Castlegar News will be posting a photo online from a location Robert M. Macrae Judge leaders by somewhere in the West Kootenay.

The first reader to correctly identify the Environmental Techactions, not words spot will receive one movie ticket to Kootenay Centre Cinemas. This week’s nology Instructor winner was Linda Verishine, who correctly identified the spot as one of the Castlegar Former Ontario Prenew water fountains on Columbia Avenue.

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West Kootenay U16 Rebels win battle for provincial gold Castlegar News Staff

The U16C West Kootenay Rebels were perfect on the weekend, capturing gold at the BC Girls Softball Championship in Quesnel.

A thrilling semifinal comeback victory over the Central Saanich Extreme, set the stage for the Rebels’ gold medal win over the same Extreme team.

The Rebels fell behind 6-3 heading into the top of the seventh inning in Sunday’s semifinal. The Extreme added four more runs to make it 10-3 going into Rebels’ last at bat. But the West Kootenay battled to stay alive in the bottom of the seventh and scored eight runs to win the game 11-10 and advance to the gold medal final.

After the Exteme won their B-side match, they faced the Rebels again in the gold medal game.

This time, the Rebels got on the board first for a 2-0 lead in the third inning and didn’t look back.

The Extreme put one on the board in the fifth, but the Rebels answered with four of their own to go up 6-1 heading into the sixth.

CS Extreme scored one but the Rebels replied again with three more runs to end the final game with a 9-2 win, the gold medal

and a provincial championship banner.

The West Kootenay team includes players from Trail, Rossland, Castlegar and Salmo. The Rebels went 4-0 in the round robin, making them the top seed of eight teams in the gold medal bracket None of their playoff wins were easy as the Rebels took on the Prince George Predators in the first match Saturday afternoon.

The Predators jumped out to a 6-1 lead after three innings, but the Rebels fought back scoring six runs in the fourth in a two-out rally and another five in the sixth inning to win the game 13-6.

Sunday morning the Rebels started the day with a game against the South Surrey/White Rock Sapphires. The Rebels struggled early and were down 3-1 going into the bottom of the fifth inning, but with two outs the Rebels plated two runs to tie the The West Kootenay Rebels brought home gold from the U16C Girls BC Softball Championship in Quesnel last weekend. Back row, from left: coach game going into the sixth. The Ryan Ferreira, Mary Colwell, Kadence Ferreira, Kendal DeRosa, Jorja Cutt, Emma Degan, and coach Jeff DeRosa. Middle row: Allison Soukeroff.

Photo submitted Rebels held the Sapphires off the Front from left: Andraya Lok, Avery Zanussi, Brook Jessup, Kyla Jones, and Rhiannon Isaacs. Missing: Allie Richdale. scoreboard in the top of the inning and added two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to end the game with a 5-3 win.

In all, the Rebels went 8-0 in the 16-team tournament for a thrilling BC championship title.

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Council cameras and webcasting delayed BETSY KLINE Castlegar News

Castlegar residents are going to have to wait a while longer before they can watch city council meetings online.

The City of Castlegar has had to award a second contract for the installation of cameras and webcasting capabilities in council chambers after the initial contractor failed to fulfill the contract.

The original contract was awarded to DHC Communications based on price, being local, and a proven track record with other systems for the city. The contract specified a completion date of April 22.

According to a report by the city’s IT manager in the July 15 council agenda, DHC lost a key staff person and asked for an extension to June 12 and then shortly after that another extension to July 12.

The city granted the extension, after discovering that alternate proponents would not be available until August.

“Since granting the extension, DHC has not provided the city with a timetable and has proven unable to complete the work,” states the report.

The $46,400 contract is now

going to MaestroVision, a Montreal company that originally bid on the project. The company has implemented webcasting systems for five other municipalities.

The original proposal from DHS included hosting the council meeting videos on YouTube, with viewers having to access the whole video in order to find the part they want to view.

The new contract will see a different hosting arrangement where viewers will be able to click on the portion of the agenda they want to view and be taken directly to that segment of the video.

The report states that another advantage with Maestrovision’s proposal is that the videos are stored in Canada and are the property of the city as opposed to public property.

The cost for hosting the videos will be $3,600 per year.

The contract also includes a lifetime warranty and free upgrades on the Maestrovision software and equipment and technical support, costing an additional $2,860 per year.

The total ongoing yearly costs will be $6,460.

Citizens can expect to be able to access the meetings online in October.

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Stunning Outdoor Sculptures

Enjoy sculpture from International artists on a beautiful walking tour in downtown Castlegar. Vote for your favourite sculpture via ballot, or decide which one you’d like to purchase or lease for yourself. See why we’ve been named The Sculpture Capital of Canada™ and take the Sculpturewalk today!

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He has instructed locally for years, and taught for a number of summers in Pietrasanta, Italy instructing students in the nuances of clay sculpting.

Victoria-based sculptor David Hunwick studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in London, England from 1981 to 1985.

He then trained as a teacher of Art and Design, and has been teaching and exhibiting ever since.

In 2001, Hunwick moved to Canada.

Within a few years he was firmly entrenched in the Vancouver Island sculpting fraternity, establishing the Sculpture Studio in downtown Victoria in 2008.

He was an integral part of the Blue Whale Project for UBC for over two years. He moulded and cast over 71 pieces of the blue whale skeleton in addition to re-sculpting the skull.

His first piece, Rebirth, displayed in Castlegar in 2014, was sculpted from casts made of the ribs.

A recurring theme in many of Hunwick’s always-gorgeous sculptures is hares. His entry last year portrayed several hares cavorting delightedly at the end of winter burrowing.

This year he offers two hare-themed sculptures. Dreams Can Come True depicts a leaping hare - at the summit of a connecting rod - surmounting the moon below. It, in turn, is above the ocean (three diminishing blue lines) while at the bottom of the vertical rod is a stylish seedpod.

As Hunwick explains, “I conceived a symbolic transition from earth, water and moon, with the hare transcending the natural elements.

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Mourning expresses Winlaw sculptor, Peter Vogelaar’s, dismay at the impact humans have on other species. His work this year is an indictment over the loss of thousands of animal and plant species. Invariably, more will disappear unless there is a sea change in human behaviour.

“I am trying to share my feelings of loss for all the species which are being driven to extinction by human actions. There are creatures all over the world we will never see again. Mother Earth raises her head in sorrow.”

It is a poignant and timely sculpture.

A recent report from the United Nations (nearly 150 authors from 50 nations worked for three years to

compile the data) says up to a million species of plants and animals may become extinct without dramatic change.

Mourning is a lament, and a powerful statement. Sheets of steel, rust-like patina with hints of blue decorating them, stand arrayed in a tight line. The upturned profile rises from the centre of the semiabstracted metal that portrays no less than thirteen species recently extinct.

Vogelaar’s sculpture addresses an issue that affects all of us.

He has been sculpting for over fifty years in a number of different mediums. He has worked in snow and sand, in competitions and events worldwide, in addition to concrete, bronze, stone and steel.

His sculptures are in private and public collections across North America and beyond; recently a work displayed in Sioux Falls in 2016 was purchased for a personal collection.

This year’s entry is lovely - and lovingly composed. Mourning’s message will resonate with viewers as will the sculpture itself. www.amazingsand.com

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