GO Cranberley by Kootenay Media

SUMMER 2022

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF KAREN VOLD

10 Year Anniversary

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PUBLISHER Grady Pasiechnyk

SALES & DISTRIBUTION Grady Pasiechnyk

ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Ashley Dodd

COPY EDITING & SOCIAL MEDIA Monica Karaba

CONTRIBUTORS Britt Bates

Dan Mills

Ferdy Belland

Grady Pasiechnyk

Emi Callele

Jeff Pew

Ashley Dodd

Sarah Stupar

Monica Karaba

CONTENTS

KAREN VOLD: If Life Was a Carnival Dunk Tank

THE WINTER OF OUR DISS-CONTENT: The Witty Insults We All Not-So-Secretly Know and Love

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Karen Vold If Life Was a Carnival Dunk Tank At Kootenay Media, we mourn the loss of a local legend and our good

friend and cheerleader, Karen Vold, Co-Publisher and Creative Director of GO Cranberley (Kootenay Media). Karen passed away peacefully in her home March 28th, 2022 after battling breast cancer with bravery, strength, and as always, a dry sense of humour.

Karen was born and raised in Kimberley, then lived throughout BC,

working in commercial aviation (air traffic control and pilot) before

permanently returning with her family in 2000. Karen packed lifetimes of adventures into her sixty years, including flying planes, travelling

the world with family and friends, buying magazines, and saying YES to just about anything. She was an inspiration and will be deeply missed

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by all of us.

Grady Pasiechnyk

CO-PUBLISHER, GO CRANBERLEY

Jeff Pew

I miss Karen terribly. I don’t know what I did to deserve her mentorship and friendship. She put me on my life path and I’ll forever be grateful for that. After seven years of running the magazine together, I can only guess why she asked me to partner with her in the first place. Karen had cracked life’s code: she understood life is for enjoyment, and it’s boring to do it alone. I once asked her why she wanted a partner. “Because I wanted somebody to share the good and bad with,” she said. “You need somebody to complain with and someone to celebrate with.” The partnership worked perfectly. In seven years we never had a disagreement. We’d often joke that we were the world's best apologizers and would share any mistake we made over the years. People will comfort themselves by saying it’s always the good ones that get taken from us, and it’s never been more true than with Karen. You won’t find anyone who took advantage of being alive as much as she did. I’m so grateful that she didn’t sit in her office and wait to retire before taking in all the amazing things this world has to offer.

WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER Karen was always evolving: after retiring from professional aviation and air traffic control, she relocated to Kimberley, excited to raise her family in the town she grew up in. She opened an ice cream parlour, became a personal financial advisor, and took creative writing courses. In 2015, she bought a magazine, GO Kimberley, and then quickly started another one, GO Cranbrook (both of which were later combined into the current GO Cranberley). Karen developed a team of writers, photographers, and designers that took the magazine in a new direction. She wanted it to reflect something our towns could be proud of. She wanted to tell the stories of local legends: women who carved homes deep in the mountains; the eccentric and lovable piano teachers; hard rock miners who told tales of what lay beneath us; and the woman who decorated her house every Halloween and had kids lined up down the block. Karen wanted to celebrate the people she grew up loving, people who made Kimberley and Cranbrook what they are today, with all their glorious quirks. As a writer, she was one of my biggest fans, telling me she’d print whatever I wrote. Once, she told me about an Italian man who built an addition onto his house to grow his fig tree. Karen marvelled at the wonders within each of us. We’re really going to miss her.

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Ashley Dodd

ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER/ILLUSTRATOR I met Karen in 2018 at a local TED-Talk style event titled “Ordinary Women Sharing Extraordinary Stories,” and as I reflect on this memory, I realize that the theme of the show is indicative of how I will always remember her. Working with Karen, her humble and generous demeanour as well as her creative and adventurous spirit were always apparent. At the first staff meeting I attended, she welcomed all of us into her warm home where we sat around her kitchen island overflowing with delicious goodies and drinks (the leftovers she sent home in our bags, hands, or pockets). With her endearing, quirky charm, Karen encouraged the discussion of the interesting and obscure within our community, and we all brainstormed how to contribute to her vision of telling positive stories that celebrate where we live. Sprinkled into these meetings and other encounters with her, she shared small but mighty tidbits of her life from how she overcame her first diagnosis with cancer, to her latest adventure on her e-bike, to her experience with naked onsen bathing in Japan. In the short time I knew Karen, she showed me the value of walking your own path and embracing life with vigour and wonder. Karen was more than ordinary; she was an Extraordinary Woman Sharing Extraordinary Stories, and our community is a better place because of her.

Sarah Stupar WRITER

I owe Karen so much. I wish I could have told her how much her support meant to me. When I first moved back to Cranbrook in 2019, I had the dream of writing for magazines, but I couldn't get up the nerve to pitch, so I kept putting it off. Then almost a year later I performed five minutes of stand-up at the Lilith 2020 show in Kimberley and Karen was in the audience. She came right up to me afterwards and asked me to write a Coming Home article for the magazine! It just meant so much to me, and I'm so happy with what I turned out. I just recently got hired as a freelance writer for the Calgary Guardian, and I never could have done it without Karen's initial support.

Britt Bates WRITER

Karen was a great many things to me, and to all of us, but perhaps above all she was generous. Generous with her time, energy, resources, and attention, certainly — but even moreso, she was generous of spirit. In every encounter with her, Karen shared abundantly from her optimism, playfulness, and passion. She believed enthusiastically in my skills as a writer, and the years of encouragement and praise I received from her helped fundamentally shape my career path from its beginning. My friendship with Karen was a privilege, and it irrevocably altered my life in a wonderful way. I’ll carry her memory with a renewed orientation toward generosity, and by living each day with the understanding that it is wildly precious and full of opportunity — just as Karen did.

Monica Karaba

EDITOR/WRITER/SOCIAL MEDIA Karen was one of the first people I met when I moved to Kimberley and she altered the course of my life. If Kimberley was a carnival dunk tank, it was Karen who threw the ball that hit the target. Suddenly, I was plunged into its water before I could even first dip my toes in. I would never have met so many interesting people, gone to so many events, or come to learn about and appreciate the many rich layers of history and connections here without Karen as my guide.

I am eternally grateful for Karen’s presence in my life. She was such a comfort when I lost my own mother last year. After the last few years, I think we are all realizing how beyond precious life is. Help us honor Karen by always opting for the adventures like she did, confidently stretching beyond your comfort zone, and prioritizing time with those special people who you love and who make you feel the most alive. You never know when it will be the last hike, the last conversation, the last text, or the last email.

Her adventurous spirit, generosity, curiosity, and confidence overflowed from her and filled others' cups. She became a friend, boss, and mentor. I relished our coffee dates and writers’ meetings. In my first winter with the magazine, she sent me dog sledding for a story, which was not something I ever would have imagined myself doing after just moving here from California. Next up was river rafting.

Here is the last message Karen sent to our little team at Kootenay Media. It still makes me tear up when I see it in my in-box.

One of my favorite assignments was when Karen invited me to hole up in a cabin next to her for a silent meditation retreat at Clear Skye Meditation Centre. It was hard to keep a straight face when we made eye contact throughout the weekend. For our karma yoga, we were sent berry picking side-by-side on an unbearably sweltering day, and we couldn’t even commiserate because we had to remain silent. After the sweat-inducing labour, we had to weigh and record our individual yields. On the drive home, we could finally talk again. We burst out laughing when we discovered that instead of being mindful and becoming “one with nature,” we each had been silently competing with the other to see who picked the most berries. Karen won.

3/18/2022 Hi team, I just want to thank you for making a beautiful magazine while I’m dealing with this cancer. I’m beyond grateful to you for your willingness to go beyond what you signed up for. I’m on a lot of drugs so I might not be making sense but I am crying while I write this, so it must be heartfelt. Karen

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“Magic is just science we don’t understand yet.” ~ ARTHUR C. CLARKE ~

W&P: Dan Mills

What do you call a place where circumstance sometimes collide with possibility, a place where the idea of coincidence is replaced with the probability of causality — in short, a magical place, where stuff happens? Well, some would call it Ralph, but they would be wrong.

Years back, I became obsessed with exploring the wilderness that is Height of the Rockies Provincial Park (HOTR). While pouring over a topo map, I spotted a large alpine lake situated in a high basin, just to the north of the chain of peaks known as the Royal Group. The name on the map indicated that blue dot to be Ralph Lake. Even then, I thought to myself, who calls a lake Ralph? Turns out no one did.

Years later, I bumped into Gord Burns, an outdoorsman I respect highly and a man who at one time had the guiding territory that lay within HOTR park. He had purchased it from some other outdoor legends, the Tegarts. Gord explained that the Tegarts had named the lake for a helicopter pilot, Rolfe Ganong. Rolfe had this honour bestowed upon him for flying a wood stove into the lake so that Mrs. Tegart would no longer have to prepare meals over a campfire. A map maker's unfortunate typo negated Rolfe's opportunity for immortality. By coincidence, my wife and I had flown with Rolfe and knew him to be not only a great pilot but a fine human. If this lake was named for him, we would do our best to set the record straight.

My first trip into Rolfe was with another fine human, Harland Doerksen. Harland was and is younger, fitter, and much more well read than myself, so adventuring with him kept me sharp in more ways than one. Long, intricate conversations on subjects I knew little about, stuff like quantum physics, made the arduous kilometers fly by. Nothing like an explanation of entanglement theory to take your mind off a steepening trail. After hours of ascending the rough path, we arrived in the high basin that is home to Rolfe Lake. This jewel of ever-changing colours is ringed by a grassy shore and towered over by the Royal Group’s matriarch, Mount Queen Mary. The magic of quantum science pales in comparison.

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EAGLE TRACKS AND FEATHERS

TEGART'S CABIN

While making camp, Harland and I discovered some huge bird tracks on the shoreline as well as feathers that, judging by their size, could have only come from an eagle. The mystery deepened when upon further exploration, we realized they could be found around the entirety of this large lake. These curious clues weren’t left by a few birds; they were left by hundreds. Only upon returning home and doing a little research did I find out that Rolfe Lake is directly in the path of the Golden Eagles spring and fall migration. Magic confirmed by science.

witness each year. The Cointreau went untouched for hours. It’s impossible to sip when you are continuously and simultaneously gasping, “ooh” and “aah.”

Later, as Harland and I reclined on the grassy shore and watched the purple-blue of the twilight sky become night, we sipped Cointreau and marveled at the stars. Then, one streaking fireball after another, they began to fall from the sky. It turned out we had unknowingly planned this adventure to coincide with the height of the Perseid meteor shower, considered to be one of the most awe-inspiring celestial events we get to

Stars and eagles aren’t the only things that drop from the sky in this basin where stuff happens. On the north ridge above the lake there is debris from a helicopter crash and a plaque bearing six pairs of initials. It reads, “It wasn’t our turn. Sept. 8, 2005.” Mysterious on many levels but maybe especially since Height of the Rockies Park has banned motorized and mechanized access, including helicopters, since 1987. Although we can assume the folks these initials represent survived the event, I believe a helicopter crash would fall — pun intended — into the category of bad luck, as would some of the events that have occurred on my own handful of trips there. Any outdoor activity opens the door for possible misadventure but at the seemingly catalytic Rolfe lake, it is flung wide open.

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There are many places in the mountains that could be called magical, but this particular spot, at the northern end of the Royal Group, is eerily so. While doing research for this piece, I had the pleasure of interviewing Erla by phone. I asked a lot of questions but her answer to, “Have you had any unusual experiences in that area?” was most memorable. While escorting a dozen youngsters aged between ten and sixteen — a heroic endeavor in itself — on a trip from Queen Mary Lake, over to Rolfe and then down to the Palliser River, Erla, her husband Larry, and five other adults had a momentous few days.

HELICOPTER WRECKAGE

Cameras have been lost; equipment has failed; injuries and illness have occurred; and rifts in longtime friendships have taken pace, all while in that basin. On one occasion, after returning with the camera this time and downloading all the images onto the computer, a cup of coffee was accidentally spilled onto the laptop. After great effort and cost, all the images were restored, except of course, for the ones from the Rolfe adventure. Despite these many less than positive experiences, the magic of the lake drew me back again last summer, this time with my son Sean and his good friend James. While we were driving to the trailhead, I told them the story of how the place had been misnamed, that it really should be called Rolfe. I mentioned the Tegarts and their longtime association with the area. Sean’s ears perked at the name. It seems a senior lady had seen one of his photos on the internet and liked it enough, she painted it. She later told Sean that she would like him to have it. He drove up the valley and met this lovely, silver-haired woman and during their conversation, Sean discovered that her maiden name had been Tegart. Erla’s last name was now Mottram and she had spent much of her life riding, hiking, and exploring the very mountains we were now, incidentally, heading into.

It started when one child’s sleeping bag fell off their pack and tumbled half a kilometer down an avalanche chute. Then there was the tremendous thunderstorm that caught them on a ridge above Rolfe and had their hair literally standing up with electricity, then a heated discussion over the correct route to take, and a dog howling that had never howled before. Now running late, they descended to the Palliser River in the hope of shelter. At the Tipperary cabin, tired and hungry, with twelve exhausted children to calm, Erla still took time to care for the dog. Finding a hotdog in her pack, she fed it to him aaand... yup, it got stuck in his throat. The pup eventually dislodged the weiner and caught its breath. The adult humans, however, were still breathless knowing they were a day late to meet their pick-up vehicle, which was having misadventures all its own. The hair-raising storm that Erla’s party had encountered on the ridge had left the road to reach them washed out in several places. Both parties did eventually meet up. Erla said getting back through the washouts was a bit of a rodeo though. There are many places in the mountains that could be called magical, but this particular spot, at the northern end of the Royal Group, is eerily so. Stuff happens there. Call it coincidence; call it synchronicity; call it quantum mechanics; call it what you will. Just please, do not call it Ralph.

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KIMBERLEY KALEIDOSCOPE ARTS & CULTURE FESTIVAL August 20–27

An 8–day celebration that provides a series of visual, performing, and literary arts events at Centre 64 and throughout downtown Kimberley.

DerRic Starlight’s Indigenous Puppets Gemini Award winning comedian, voice actor and puppeteer, DerRic Starlight will beputting on a puppet show for the children of Kimberley as part of the Kaleidoscope Kids Festival on Sunday, August 21st.

Grandmama Speak Shayna Jones is an award-winning professional performance artist specializingin the Traditional Oral Storytelling of African and Afro-Diasporic Folklore. Joinedby Canadian-American cellist, Rufus Cappadocia in the Centre 64 theatre on Thursday, August 25th.

Carly’s Angels The riotous, risqué drag performers from Calgary are back! Be sure to grab your tickets to this energetic performancequickly as they are bound to sell out once again. The show is taking place in the Centre 64 theatre on Saturday, August 27th.

Events Schedule Visit kimberleyarts.com/calendar for event and ticket info

Saturday, Aug. 20

Outdoor Concert featuring The Hillties Entry by donation, 7:30pm

Sunday, Aug. 21

Children’s Festival featuring Kiki the Eco Elf (free) and DerRic Starlight ($10 adults/$5 kids) Pottery & Sip Ceramics Workshop, Day One with Helen Robertson $30 members, $36 non-members, 7:30pm

Tuesday, Aug. 23

Date Night Under the Stars featuring jazz music from Kimberley’s Take Four $22, 7:30pm

Wednesday, Aug. 24

Paint & Sip Paint Night $30 member, $36 non-members

Thursday, Aug. 25

Grandmama Speak featuring Shayna Jones & Rufus Cappadocia on cello $25, 7:30pm Pottery & Sip Ceramics Workshop, Day Two with Helen Robertson 7:30pm

Friday, Aug. 26

Kaleidoscope Festival Gala 7:30pm

Saturday, Aug. 27

Carly’s Angels Drag Show $35, 7:30pm

Selk irk Story tellers We have come a long way in developing our confidence as Indigenous storytellers, which has ultimately led us to form deeper bonds with our Indigenous culture.

W: Emi Callele

Storytelling is an age-old practice in Indigenous cultures. It is a cultural imperative to teach Indigenous ways of knowing and understanding the world. As the movement toward Truth and Reconciliation intertwines with British Columbia’s education system, changes in the stories of Indigenous people follow suit. The Aboriginal Education Journal was created as an outlet for a team of Indigenous students at Selkirk Secondary School to share their stories and what it means to be an Indigenous student in the twenty-first century. With time this journal has become a necessity for the team to pave the way towards Truth and Reconciliation in both the school and the local community. The change in the storytelling of Indigenous people is necessary because more often than not, we are viewed as figments of the past — not politicians, teachers, creatives, and so much more. Students on the team researched a variety of topics that they were interested in, from pop culture to political activism such as the Every Child Matters movement. Highlighting different Calls to Action has become a crucial portion of each issue that is published. As a founding member of the journal, I can say that the journey to where we are now has not been the easiest. It started two years ago with a group of five like-minded students who dedicated themselves to learning the ways of publishing a magazine from scratch. We have come a long way in developing our confidence as Indigenous storytellers, which has ultimately led us to form deeper bonds with our Indigenous culture. In my senior year, the journal now has a streamlined process and a tight-knit team of eight writers. This was made possible by Selkirk’s new program called Storm Time which is a short block every day where students can either study or try out a variety of activities outside of the school curriculum. In the case of the journal, we utilised this time to bounce ideas off each other and provide daily updates. Being a team of diverse writers ranging from grades nine to twelve has allowed for several new bonds to be formed between the younger and older storytellers. I will never forget the day we celebrated our first print release of the year by breaking bannock with each other. Additionally, the journal has now taken the great step of not only publishing physical copies throughout the Kimberley community but also publishing online for all to read. This has truly become one of the most impactful experiences for all members of the Aboriginal Education Journal team. Never did we ever think that our small magazine would reach the School District Six Superintendent, let alone the Kimberley Bulletin. It is with great sorrow that this is my final year working with the journal, but I along with the other journal alumni are excited to see how much more this magazine will grow and shape the community with Indigenous-centred stories.

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The Winter of Our

D I S S - C o n t e n t: The Witty Insults We All Not-So-Secretly Know and Love W: Ferdy Belland | Illustration: Ashley Dodd

In a bygone era before the ongoing dumbing-down of society boiled the language down to four-letter words and annoying acronyms akin to Orwellian Newspeak, the spoken word used to be a wondrous realm of expression and imagination, elevating humanity's intellect and overall culture. A sharper aspect of human nature is our surprisingly clever might when it comes to the dubious art of the insult. Yes, yes, yes, we're all striving to create instant overnight utopias in our kinder, more loving world of compassion, understanding, inclusion, empathy, and cheery smiles, and of course that's all well and good — a noble goal to achieve and nuture. But, dammit, there still comes a time when we need to throw decorum and manners aside like a dripping Kleenex and just let some well-deserving, pointy-headed twerp have it. So, if we're going to diss somebody, at least let's be eloquent and articulate about it. And most of the time, one can drive the barbed point home without resorting to lowbrow vulgarity if we really apply ourselves. Here are half a hundred of the cleverest insults devised over the past century and a half. Namaste.

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"He had delusions of adequacy." Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues

I dislike and none of the

vices I admire."

Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries

with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

"Ernest Hemingway has never been known to use a word that might

send a reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner

"Poor Faulkner, does he really think

big emotions come from big words?" Ernest Hemingway

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book;

I'll waste no time reading it." Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is

intensely disliked

by his friends." Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two

tickets to the first night of my new play;

bring a friend, if you have one." George Bernard Shaw ( to Wi nston Churchi ll )

"Cannot possibly attend first night;

will attend second ...if there is one." Winston Churchill ( to George Bernard Shaw )

"I feel so miserable

without you; it's

almost like having you here."

Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man

and worships his creator."

John Bright

"I've just learned about his

illness. Let's hope it's

nothing trivial." Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of

dullness in others." Samuel Johnson

"He is simply

"He uses statistics as a

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support, rather than

"He loves nature

"He had delusions o f a d e q u a c y. "

Paul Keating

in spite of

what it did to him." Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there,

looking like an

illumination."

Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but I'm afraid this wasn't it."

Groucho MarX

Andrew Lang

W a lt e r K e r r

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the

envelope vices I admire." without any address on it?" "I have never killed a man, Winston Churchill

– Mark Twain

but

h av e

read

many

"His mother w i t h g r e at p l e a s u r e . " should have "If you were my

thrown

him away and kept the stork."

Mae West

"Some cause happiness

wherever they go;

obituaries

Clarence Darrow

"If you were

husband , my wife , I'd give you

poison!"

– Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

I'd drink it."

– Winston Churchill to Lady AstoR

others, whenever "Richard Nixon inherited some good instincts

they go." Oscar Wilde

from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." James Reston 30 / SUMMER 2022 / GO CRANBERLEY

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who want to be "The trouble ain't that "Women with men there are too many fools, equal but that the lightning lack ambition."

ain't distributed right."

Timothy Leary

Mark Twain

"Thinking is the unhealthiest

"I never forget a face,

thing in the world, and people

but in your case,

die of it just as they die of any other disease;

fortunately, thought is not catching." Oscar Wilde

I'll make an exception." Groucho Marx "The tautness of "If your brains were dynamite,

there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses." Elizabeth Taylor

your face rivals sour grapes."

William Shakespeare

"If you want anything said,

ask a man; if you want anything done,

"Only two things are infinite — ask a woman." the universe, and human stupidity...

Margaret Thatcher

and I'm not so sure about the former." –– Albert Einstein

"If they can make penicillin

of moldy bread, "I like your opera...I think out they can sure make I'll set it to music." Ludwig Van Beethoven then something out of you." Muhammed Ali "You and I were happily married

for eight months; unfortunately, the "One useless man marriage lasted four-and-a-half years." – Nick Faldo

is a shame ,

"Americans will always try two useless men is a law firm , to do the right thing , and three or more after they've tried everything else." is a congress ." Winston Churchill

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John Adams

"He may look like an idiot

and talk like an idiot,

but don't let that fool you —

he really is an idiot."

Groucho Marx

"Whatever women must do, they must do twice as well as men

to be considered half as good...

luckily, this is not difficult." Charlotte Whitton

"What did I think of the singer's

execution? I'm all for it."

Calvin Coolidge

"What do I think of Katherine Hepburn's acting? She ran the whole gamut of

emotions, from A to B."

Dorothy Parker

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." J.D. Salinger

"Winston Churchill, you are a disgusting drunk!"

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Take What You Need. Leave What You Can. How We Create Community on Our Front Lawns W&P: Jeff Pew

Over the last few years, if you’ve “With the help of private donors and out their website (www.cranbrookfoodbeen travelling through Kimberley and Cranbrook neighbourhoods, you might have noticed a new trend sprouting from front lawns: food pantries and miniature libraries. It’s as if homeowners are saying, “You’re hungry? Come grab something. I don’t want you to be hungry.” Whether it’s books or food, we’re refusing to allow ourselves to become more isolated. We welcome strangers onto the fringes of our lives so we all feel less alone.

Kimberley’s Sandra Stallwood explains the origin of these food pantries: “Meal Shelter 365’s director Paul Blais, a local advocate for feeding the less fortunate, came up with the concept of front lawn food pantries. Then, Sean Westle and I began a Facebook group ‘Healthy Caring Meals’ and we became the caretakers of the pantries, where freshly cooked meals and food supplies were dropped off.” Volunteers, like Jack Sandburg and Gerry Frederick, built pantries out of donated lumber, then homeowners could request to have them installed on their front lawns.

surplus food bank supplies,” Stallwood says, “we ensured the pantries would always be stocked with food. There are homeless people in Kimberley and Cranbrook and single parents who really need help. We wanted to make sure people were getting something healthy. No one’s ever going to starve while these pantries are stocked. My heart is warm, knowing this.”

Deanna Kemperman, Executive Director of the Cranbrook Food Bank Society, states, “We supply approximately three hundred pounds of food to the six Cranbrook pantries every two weeks. As well, people from the community, like Healthy Caring Meals, provide intermittent food supplies to the pantries.” Kemperman states that the pantries provide meals for emergency situations, however, she claims the pantries serve a small percentage of the population who access food donations. “At the Cranbrook Food Bank, we feed between 100-200 people a day, with 2,000 active clients,” she says. Kemperman encourages people to check

bank.ca/) for food hamper booking or delivery information. The most current 'Cranbrook Free Food Schedule' highlighting all local sources of free food or meals is also on the website. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the pantries anonymously fed some of Kimberley and Cranbrook’s most vulnerable populations. “There’s a lot of people who might be embarrassed to go to the food bank,” Stallwood says. “With front lawn food pantries, they can go at nighttime, so others don’t see them. Sometimes, especially with poverty, people can be embarrassed about asking for help.” The communities’ response on social media is overwhelmingly positive. Kimberley’s Kary Loras writes, “This is really heartwarming. As food costs and rental rates have gone up, people on assistance, disability, and pension are really struggling to feed themselves and their families through a full month on one meager cheque. These pantries can save lives. I love that our great town does this. Thank you all.”

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“ We wanted to make sure people were getting something healthy. No one’s ever going to starve while these pantries are stocked. My heart is warm, knowing this.”

Kathy Desbiolles, Vice Chair of the Kimberley Food Bank, states that, “As a food bank, the six Kimberley pantries came on our radar when folks were saying there’s hardly any food. We’ve got data that most of the use is at night because of the stigma. A few food items to help them make the end of the month is helpful. We thought we could support that.” Desbiolles states that the pantries aren’t without their drawbacks: “We have the issue of weather and how that affects the items we put in, as well as potential bear damage. We’re limited with what can go

in. Items have to be tamper-proof and hermetically sealed. Even soup cans are weather dependent.” The pantries certainly serve a purpose according to Desbiolles, but she’d rather see people come to the food bank to get nutritionally-balanced hampers. “If you come to the food bank,” she says, “you can get fresh milk, eggs, yoghurt, and cheese, things that can’t go into the pantries.” In addition to the food pantries, homeowners have installed tiny libraries on their front lawns, where neighbours can

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drop off or pick up a book. Kimberley’s Heather Wattie — whose metal-artist husband Rob Toller built a beautiful tiny library — explains her motivation for getting involved: “I’ve always been an avid reader,” she says, “and I wanted to provide that opportunity for the community in a funky, fun, creative way. People seem to really enjoy it. It seems to fill up and empty at different times during the year. As well, it’s pedestrian-friendly, community building, and encourages sustainability. I think people appreciate how cute it is, seeing that it’s a Rob Toller art piece.”

When Covid hit and everyone was in lockdown, Kimberley’s Linsey Taylor-Jones began lending books to senior, single neighbors who were bored and fed up with no library or activities. “I had a mini library sitting in my shed,” she explains. “My son and I decorated it with help from our neighbour’s kids, then my husband attached a roof and stand to it and we put it out and stocked it up.” Taylor-Jones describes the library as well-used, often by neighbours or people from the surrounding community. “I switch the books out regularly with donated books or ones from

my own collection,” she says. “It’s been so lovely seeing people stop by and take a book or leave a book. We’re thinking that we may add seeds to it next year.”

for someone else to find. The organization relies on volunteer “stewards” to construct, install, and maintain the little libraries.

In addition to the private libraries, some front-lawn librarians have joined the Little Free Library, a non-profit organization that promotes neighborhood book exchanges in the form of a public bookcase. More than 90,000 tiny libraries are registered and branded as Little Free Libraries. Like other public book exchanges, a passerby can take a book to read or leave one

“It’s such a lovely way to add to community and connect with our neighbours,” Taylor-Jones says, “especially during the last couple of years.” Whether it’s a food pantry or tiny library on our front lawn, perhaps the human emotion of caring is what makes these such beautiful assets in our community.

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A Tourist in Your Own Platzl

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One night over the winter we were finishing up a lovely dinner in the Platzl with the kids thinking, “How nice would it be to just be heading out for a drink and walking back to our hotel?”

Here are the facts: My wife and I both work full-time

jobs. We have two beautiful, little girls, ages two and five. We have a dog and a house reno. We have dance classes, swim lessons, birthday parties, and from time to time one of us plays some rock and roll. Suffice to say, we, like most people in this season of life, are busy, and what we don’t have is free time and free cash to go on vacations as much as we’d like. Enter: The Larix Hotel. The Larix hotel is what I would consider the ultimate use of one of the most important buildings in Kimberley’s history. Many will know the hotel from its previous incarnation, Chateau Kimberley, which served for nearly two decades as a European-inspired, seasonal boutique hotel. A smaller subset will remember this as the main office for Cominco with its headquarters for HR, mine management, and their first ‘computer.’ I can still remember my grandma Bev, who was recruited to become one of the first operators of this fancy, room-sized machine, coming home with hundreds of old, hole-punched data cards to use for note taking by the phone.

It’s not hard to understand how we got here. Of course, we wouldn’t trade the aforementioned kids, jobs, and extracurriculars for the world, but trading them in for a night to ourselves every once in a while is borderline necessary. The tricky part is fitting it all in; one night over the winter we were finishing up a lovely dinner in the Platzl with the kids thinking, “How nice would it be to just be heading out for a drink and walking back to our hotel.” As luck would have it, Sue Raymond, one of the partners at The Larix/Stonefire was checking in on us after our meal, and we suggested this. Of course, she couldn't agree more, and we carved out a night in May to truly be tourists in our own town. What’s obvious the moment you walk up to the lobby doors of The Larix is that the details have been attended to. The colours, the decorations, and the artwork are all perfect and nothing is by accident. A small fire crackles outside. It’s hard to imagine those doors being held open by somebody with a hard hat on their head and dirt under their fingernails walking into the former headquarters of the world's largest lead and zinc mine.

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He describes the inspiration for The Larix as, “We imagined a Montana rancher meets a New York City socialite, and she dragged him traveling around Not exactly what comes to mind the world for years. This would be their living room.” when you think clean, cozy, and upscale. Yet here we are. In many ways, it’s the epitome of Kimberley. When I asked Marc Raymond, owner of The Larix, how they created such an incredible atmosphere, he describes the inspiration as, “We imagined a Montana rancher meets a New York City socialite, and she dragged him traveling around the world for years. This would be their living room.” Somehow, they nailed it. At twenty rooms, the hotel feels almost exclusive. There are places to mingle with other guests, including ‘the library,’ a comfortable place to relax, read, or enjoy the company of your fellow travelers. The entire property has been updated and the most important part, the rooms, are outstanding. New beds, furniture, and bathrooms make everything fresh, and the high ceilings and massive windows make the spaces feel huge. Proximity to the Platzl means you’re walking distance from all the incredible food, drinks, and shopping your heart could desire, a bonus that we immediately took advantage of. The main event of our night as tourists was our dinner at Stonefire, the other project of Marc and Sue. We were swept off our feet by outstanding food and spoiled by the service from restaurant manager, Michael Sutcliffe. After a feeble attempt with the menus and explaining to Michael that we always order the same thing,* he took the menus out of our hands and simply said, “Let me feed you.” Rich gnocchi, savory prawns, and perfectly cooked chicken parmesan had us wishing we could eat twice. We later learned that Michael was testing Stonefire’s new menu on us, which is lucky for anyone dining there this summer. The icing on the cake

was quite literally icing on cake, with an incredible tiramisu and perhaps the most delicious dessert I’ve ever eaten, in the form of handmade balls of gelato, which Michael sources from an old friend in Calgary. If I could eat only one dessert for the rest of my life, I believe I’ve found it. We walked out embarrassingly full, giggling at how amazing the evening had been, almost as if we weren’t five minutes from our home. As Kimberley has slowly shifted from industrial mining town to a not-so-secret tourist destination, we locals have been spoiled by an amazing number of food, drink, golf, trail, and shopping options per capita. We all benefit from people coming to enjoy the riches we have to offer, and I can now confirm, as a one-night tourist, that our out-of-town guests are in very good hands. *Two pizzas, caesar salad, and the meatballs. You won’t regret it.

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The Closure of the Sullivan Mine: Kimberley’s Successful Transition Congratulations Kimberley on being named the 2022 Best Small Town in B.C. by CBC British Columbia! For nearly 100 years, the Sullivan was critical to the social and economic fabric of the Kootenays. We are proud that Kimberley has remained a vibrant community post closure and that Teck continues to be a strong contributor to the community. To learn more visit www.teck.com/sullivan