December 30, 2011 The Nelson Star

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Fire guts Kerr ApartmentsA Thursday fire at the historic

Kerr Apartments that left as many as 100 people homeless is being treated as suspicious by the Nel-son Fire Service.

Fire chief Simon Grypma says reports of smoke and flames at the 100-year-old Victoria Street building first came in around midnight. The fire appears to have started in the basement, but Grypma says by the time first re-sponders arrived the entire build-ing was filled with smoke.

“Our first priority was to con-duct a search and ensure an evac-uation of the building,” he says. “So our first crews did go up onto the third floor and started evacu-ating the occupants of the build-ing that had not left yet.”

More than 20 firefighters re-sponded to the alarm, and set to work moving residents into the nearby Capitol Theatre. No residents were injured in the fire, Grypma says, giving partial credit to the building’s modern alarm system installed a few years ago at the fire department’s request.

From there the fire moved quickly. Because the building had incomplete fire separation com-mon in heritage buildings, flames were able to spread up the three floors and into all 38 units.

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The only thing Carol Taylor had time to take as she evacu-ated her third-floor suite in the Kerr Apartments early Thurs-day were her son’s ashes.

“We just panicked,” she said a few hours later outside the New Grand Hotel, where she and her teenage son and daughter are now staying. “I grabbed my son’s urn — it was all I could think of. He passed away two years ago at 17.”

That, plus her purse and the clothes she was wearing are all she has left.

Taylor only lived in the Kerr for three months before the fire, paying $635 not including utili-ties for a one-bedroom suite.

“It was kind of crowded,” she says. “I gave my kids the bed-

‘We just panicked’

ANDREA KLASSENNelson Star Reporter

GREG NESTEROFFNelson Star Reporter

In the early hours of Thursday, firefighters battled the Kerr Apartments blaze. By morning, the historic building was completely gutted. For more on this story see Pages 9, 12, 13.

Kerr resident tells heartbreaking tale

of escape and her now challenging future

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B r e a k i n g n e w s a t n e l s o n s t a r . c o mNELSON STARThe smell of freshness

on Baker StreetSee Page 18

Indoor soccer final matches decidedSee Page 22

RDCK manages to keep tax hike minimalIn era of rising costs, regional government keeps hit to rural

taxpayers down and manages to even give some money back

The Regional District of Central Koo-tenay has adopted a budget with a 2.1 per cent property tax increase, to be offset by an unusual rebate in hospital taxes.

“It is the best bang for the buck and responsible to the taxpayer,” chair John Kettle said last Thursday as the board ap-proved its 2011 budget and five-year fi-nancial plan.

“The board did a good job on this. I think it’s the first time we’ve had a unani-mous vote on passing the budget in the last six years. They worked hard at it.”

The property tax increase is actually 1.2 per cent before ten new services are factored in, including water systems at

Prepare for SplashdownBob Hall photo

The annual Whitewater Ski Resort Slush Cup took place on Sunday as more than two dozen brave souls challenged the icy waters. Some made it across, some didn’t. For more images of the thrills, spills and chills, check out page 31.


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B r e a k i n g n e w s a t n e l s o n s t a r . c o mNELSON STARLeafs head coach

moving onSee Page 16

CPR station model stars in new art projectSee Page 3

FERRYTALEThe Glade ferry will get its biggest workout in recent

memory this month as the community on the south side of the Kootenay River marks its centen-nial with a three-day extravaganza. The celebration from July 29 to 31 will include his-torical displays, multimedia presentations, sports,

live entertainment, and traditional Doukhobor food.Planning began last October, according to organizing commit-

tee chair Rob Zwick.“The community’s interesting because right now it’s about half

Russian and half non-Russian,” he says. “It’s a community that gets along great.”

Zwick himself is a self-described urban refugee from Vancou-ver, who moved to Glade with his wife in 1995. She was originally from the community and her parents still live there. Zwick’s great grandfather John W. Sherbinin, meanwhile, was a Doukhobor community administrator.

But while the celebration will have a strong Doukhobor fla-vour, it won’t be exclusively so. First Nations representatives have been invited, and the organizing committee itself includes people

Once exclusively a Doukhobor community,

but now a mix of cultures, Glade is throwing itself a

100th birthday party this month

TOP: The Glade ferry as it was long ago and as it is today. The ferry — in one form or another — has been a lifeline connecting residents to the outside world for almost the entire 100 years of the com-munity’s existence.

BOTTOM: The Glade community prayer meeting ca. 1925. In its early years Glade was home to 1,750 residents — six times the current population.


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It was high fives and intense action on Thursday as several events in the 2011 BC Seniors Games opened action. The Games are being held in partnership by Nelson, Trail and Castlegar. More photos on pages 2 and 3.


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A blast from Nelson’s sporting pastSee Page 25

Skiers leave Kokanee

Glacier cabinNine of the 14 skiers

staying at the Kokanee Glacier cabin when a man died in an avalanche this week have now been flown out.

Several helicopter loads of people and equipment landed at the Nelson air-port Wednesday morn-ing.

Although the skiers de-clined media interviews, one of them said “We’re all obviously very sad-dened.”

RCMP Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel said police planned to speak with the group

as part of the ongoing coroner’s investigation, and offer them help.

“I don’t know how vic-timized they might be. We have a responsibility to provide them with as-sistance, or direct them to counselling,” Seibel says.

Communication with the group while they were at the cabin was limited. Seibel says the coroner spoke with them via satellite phone, as did one police officer. How-ever, Seibel was unable to reach them himself.

Range Helicopters of Nelson holds the contract with the Alpine Club of Canada to move visitors in and out of the cabin.

“Every Saturday there’s a guest change,” says pi-lot and co-proprietor Vic Corrie. “That goes un-til May. Generally it’s a group of 12, but they got permission to do 15.”

Corrie says BC Parks normally limits the cabin A Jewel on Ward Street

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Christopher Kölmel uses a torch to heat up some wire for an earring at Kölmel Jewellery Thursday.

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It’s go time at the Kootenay School of the Arts. The air at the Victoria Street campus is filled with the buzz of sewing machines and pounding

hammers, welding sparks and end-of-term excitement.

Over the next two days, students will launch two ma-jor exhibitions of their year’s work, and as deadlines loom there are plenty of finishing touches to be made.

In the third-floor jewelry lab, Lexie Owen is readying her displays for the graduate exhibition running at Touch-

stones Museum and Art Gallery.

Owen’s four-piece Albatross Series takes its name from the burdensome bird in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and fea-tures designs that are techni-cally wearable, but heavy in context.

“They’re looking at HIV infection rates, piracy off the coast of Somalia, child soldiers,” she explains.

The works range from a chainmail choker to an almost-playful looking boat-shaped pendant (which becomes more alarming on closer examination, when one notices the plastic machine gun nestled inside it).

“I think jewelry is really

the most intimate form of art we have, because we wear it every day without even think-ing about it,” Owen says. “So to combine the idea of mak-ing a political statement with this really intimate thing you wear, I think really brings the message home to people.”

Made from a range of materials that includes both raw diamonds and Lego, each piece is also deigned without a clasp, requiring them to be slipped over a wearer’s head.

“They’re challenging to take on and challenging to take off,” she adds. “Just to make people think about them a little bit more.”

THE FUTUREAfter a school year full of new discoveries, honing skills and exploring techniques, the current crop of

Kootenay School of the Arts students bring the sum of their toil to the public at their annual year end shows


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Some of the young artists who will go pub-lic with their work this weekend include (top of page L-R) metal work student Amy Fox, clay student Kristen Young, jewelry student Lexie Owen and fiber student Teyana Neufeld. (Above) Some of Young’s work, headed to Touchstones Nelson.

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Leafs battle to stay atop division standingsSee Page 23

Taking the lead on reading

The Nelson Star partners with Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy to shine spotlight on importance of reading, raise funds and get

the entire community involved

Can you remember the first time you enjoyed a book? The first time a book moved you, or kicked start-ed you?

Whether at home, in the classroom or on the job, reading is an integral part of everyday life.

For this reason, Black Press Publishing — the par-ent company of the Nelson Star — in conjunction with Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL) has launched the Reach a Read-er program. The project

which spans the East and West Kootenay aims to raise awareness and funds for lit-eracy by asking Black Press readers for one day only to buy their local newspaper by making a donation.

“Literacy is critical to a healthy community,” said Nelson Star publisher Chuck Bennett when asked why he felt project was important.

This is a sentiment echoed by CBAL co-coordinator Joan Exley who believes lit-eracy entails more than just the ability to read and write.

“When I talk about lit-eracy I talk about having the skills that you need to do what you want to do in your life,” said Exley.

Many are unaware that computer literacy also falls into the general literacy The Look of Determination

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Layla Precious of the Lily Whites takes a shot in City Soccer League semi-final ac-tion at Lakeside pitch on Sunday. The game was part of a packed weekend of local adult soccer. For more photos turn to page 16 and the full story on page 30.

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Municipal Election Decision Day 2011

Th is year’s municipal elec-tion race hasn’t had the con-troversy seen in past years, but two local political watch-ers are divided on what the outcome of Saturday’s elec-tion will be.

“I think that the coun-cillor race is going to be a surprise,” said former Nel-son mayor Bill Ramsden. “I think that there will be some people that get in that every-body would think that they wouldn’t. I wouldn’t go out

on a limb that I would say that anyone is going to win it, period, this time.”

But 103.5 FM Th e Bridge news director Glenn Hicks doesn’t see much change happening around the coun-cil table.

“Th ere’s going to be a slight change,” said Hicks. “Put it this way, I don’t think there will be a political revo-lution. I think most if not all the incumbents have a very good chance of remaining at

YOUR TURN

Th e campaign has run its course and now it’s time to get down to decisions. Pundits agree this campaign was not the most exciting in

our area’s history, but many important issues were raised and on Saturday our political fate

for the next three years will be determined

MEGAN COLENelson Star Reporter

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the hardwood at LVRSee Page 23

Kerr effort continues to go strongSee Pages 3 & 4

The first thing to know about Max Liboiron’s new installation at the Touchstones Museum

and Art Gallery is it’s made entirely from garbage. The second thing? It smells delicious.

A “Nelson-ish” town in minia-ture, Liboiron’s Trashscapes and Rubbish Topographies features more than 900 tiny homes and a tree-lined mountain, all made from either cardboard or dried, used tea bags. It’s the latter that gives the show it’s sweet, perfume-like scent, and highlights relationship people

can have with their trash when they’re given a reason to value it.

“These tea bags came from friends and friends of friends and strangers and co-workers and fam-ily,” Liboiron says.

“Some of them have burn marks on them because people have dried them over their burners. People are shipping them over from England, and reaching into trash bins in their offices to get their coworkers’ tea bags. People are putting a lot of care and energy in being stewards of their trash for me.”

While Liboiron is based in New York, the artist and academic visits the region twice a year to see her parents, who live in Winlaw. Last

year she staged her first show here, an installation at the Oxygen Art Gallery called Salt-winning, where visitors traded items of value for small sculptures made of trash and road salt, encased in jars. She still considers it one of her all-time best works,

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B r e a k i n g n e w s a t n e l s o n s t a r . c o mNELSON STARSea of yellow not best

welcoming beaconSee Page 6

The many ways to reconstruct a pewSee Page 8

Lake levels rising

Kootenay Lake expected to hit

mark not seen since 1997; cool weather

helps slow melt

Water levels on Koo-tenay Lake are expected to peak at their highest levels in 14 years, lead-ing some homeowners to start sandbagging.

According to FortisBC, as of 7 a.m. Tuesday, the lake elevation at Queens Bay was 1,748 feet (533 m) and 1,746 feet (532 m) at Nelson.

Levels have been rising several inches per day and are projected to top out at between 1,752 and 1,754 feet (534 and 535 m).

For Willow Point resi-dents Eva and Jay Mc-Kimm, the key number is 1,750.

“That’s not the stage it would actually start flooding,” Eva says. “But

Split Decision Andrea Klassen photo

Kaslo was once again alive with activity over the long weekend as the north Kootenay Lake community celebrated its annual May Days. The weekend included the always popular logger sports (above). See more photos on page 16.


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Onagawa chaperon died in tsunami

A man who came to Nelson last year as part of a delegation from Onaga-wa, Japan was killed in the March tsunami, according

to a Canadian teaching there.

Michael Luzia of Ab-botsford confirmed in an email last week that Mit-suru Sato of the board of education “died heroically” while helping some Chi-

nese exchange workers at a nearby marine products factory.

“He led them to safety before going back into the factory one more time, looking for any stragglers,” Luzia says. “That’s when the

wave hit.”Sato’s name “is all over

the Chinese news now, and the Chinese government is talking about making a

Nelson Connection to Japan Tragedy


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New transfer station site approved

Despite concerns from Pacific Insight, RDCK says public consultation process

confirmed support for move

The Regional District of Central Kootenay has approved the purchase of a new Nelson transfer station site five kilome-tres west of the city, while leaving the door open to compensating its most affected neighbour.

The purchase of the 22-acre site at the end of Insight Drive was given the go-ahead last week as part of a $3.3 million plan to move the exist-ing transfer station off the waterfront.

Staff were instructed to work with nearby prop-erty owners to “ensure issues raised during the public consultation pro-cess… are appropriately addressed.”

Electronics manufac-turer Pacific Insight pro-tested the location, which will see trucks turn off the highway at their plant and go around it. They

also felt left out of the loop.

However, regional di-rector Ron Mickel, who chairs the central waste committee, says they will work with the company and keep its concerns in mind as the site is devel-oped.

“We made some com-mitments that we would Dusty Day for Little Rippers

The annual Fat Tire Fest took to the trails this past weekend with outdoor enthusiasts of all ages taking part. More photos from the weekend on page 30.

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RDCK Area F director Ron Mickel says Pacific Insight may be compen-sated.

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Sweatman’s spirit honouredHundreds of emergency response workers gather for Sheilah Sweatman’s memorial;

family and friends paint picture of passionate, adventurous, and creative young woman

Michael Sweatman (in front of microphone) delivered an emotional eulogy in honour of his sister, Sheilah Sweatman, as other family looked on.Megan Cole photo

Search and rescue workers from around BC, along with the RCMP, BC ambulance attendants and oth-er emergency responders gathered with family and members of the public to pay respects to Sheilah Sweatman on Saturday.

The sound of bagpipes led the

way as a procession of approxi-mately 500 uniformed emergency service workers made their way down Lakeside Drive.

PEP Air, Nelson Search and Rescue, Castlegar Search and Res-cue and the Beasley Rescue Society were part of a fly-over and marine procession.

Pastor Jim Reimer began the memorial with a prayer, which

was followed by presentations by fire and emergency management commissioner Rebecca Denlinger, Regional District of Central Koot-enay board chair John Kettle, Nel-son Mayor John Dooley, RCMP Insp. Dennis Crowe, BC Search and Rescue Association president Don Bindon, Nelson Search and Rescue vice-president Darcy Fear, and Sweatman’s friend and search

colleague Callie Chatten. Crowe said Sweatman’s death is

a personal and painful reminder of “the price of our service.”

“Having your SAR pager go off is as likely as responding to your family, but it is a rewarding job,” he said.


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‘Nelson’s just a cool little town’

With a wealth of great terrain and some excellent snow, there’s plenty for back-country skiers to love about Nelson. But organizers of the Coldsmoke Powder Fes-tival say there’s another rea-son they keep coming back for another run: we’re just too awesome.

“Nelson’s just a cool little town,” enthuses Phil Bridgers of Spokane-based Mountain Gear Inc., which hosts the annual four-day festival in partnership with Arc’Teryx Equipment and Whitewater Ski Resort.

“It’s fun to do something in an area where they get it.”

Now in its fifth year, Coldsmoke takes its name from the light, fluffy snow Whitewater is known for,

explains resort administra-tor Veronica Reid.

While the festival features a mix of indoor and outdoor activities — from races and clinics to film festivals and a buffet dinner — that fa-mous powder is always the star of the show. And Reid says there should be plenty of it to enjoy when the festi-val opens Friday.

“It’s looking good in the forecast,” she says. “We’ve got a lot of snow coming this week, and a lot of sun-shine for this weekend.”

Coldsmoke kicks off with a day of clinics at the ski hill and an opening film festival at the Capitol Theatre, then swings into full gear over the weekend with more clin-ics, demonstrations and two competitive events per day.

Where There’s Smoke... Bob Hall photo

The fuel mitigation program in Rosemont’s Art Gibbon Park was fired up on Monday as crews gathered up brush and debris for the burning piles. Debri Re-sources has been given the contract to clean up the forested area to ensure the fire risk is lessened. Debri’s Jim Garth used a blower to stoke the flames.

The fifth annual Coldsmoke Powder Festival rolls into the area this weekend with an army of outdoor lovers attracted to the special vibe and brilliant snow conditions Nelson offers


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Sad end to grizzly saga

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The L.V. Rogers class of 2011 is only a few days away from graduation, and the excitement is starting to show. Ceremonies begin Friday night at 6:45 p.m. at the Nelson and District Community Complex. For more grad see page 9.

Two bears who returned to Nelson after they were trapped and relocated put

down by conservation officers; garbage, aggression towards humans blamed


Two sub-adult grizzly cubs who first visited Nelson last fall won’t be making further trips into the city.

Conservation officer Jason Hawkes told the Star the two male grizzlies were trapped and euthanized two

weeks ago, after the bears charged a Perrier Road resi-dent.

The two bears, who had identifying ear tags, were con-firmed to be part of the family of grizzlies who were relocat-ed after roaming the city for nearly a month in September 2010.

The grizzlies were origi-nally spotted in the Mountain Station area in early May, but had been sighted in residential garbage on Granite Road a few days before they were put down.

Hawkes said Bear Aware coordinator Joanne Sid-erius went door to door in the area to encourage residents to better manage their garbage but “unfortu-nately it didn’t work.”

“There was some garbage available in the Granite Road/Knox Road area and the Perrier Road area and the bears got into the garbage and continued to get food conditioned.”

On May 25 the bears broke into a garage on Perrier Road, seeking garbage. The bears then left the area,

“It’s not that the bears want to

come down and get into the garbage.”Jason Hawkes

Conservation Officer

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BAKER STREETSHUFFLE

The economy is in the dumpster and the short-term outlook is bleak, but don’t tell local small

business owners.This year’s summer buzz on

Baker Street has been cranked up a notch with a flurry of busi-ness activity in the city’s core. New shops are opening, others are moving to bigger spaces and some are getting out after decades of great service to the commu-nity. It all adds up to a new look and increasingly optimistic future for the city’s downtown.

“It’s a very vibrant time for Baker Street… the downtown

is very alive,” says Justin Pelant, Nelson Business Association board member and owner of Ted Allen’s Jewellers.

The ebb and flow of retail on the city’s main drag is nothing new. Businesses open, others close and the most successful

become Baker Street staples. But in the last couple months the in-crease in activity has been highly noticeable.

Three of the city’s longest serving Baker Street businesses have gone kaput. For a number of reasons Lyon’s Shoes, Ben Suther-land Music and McLaughlin’s Printers have all closed the books on lengthy downtown runs. All three occupied prime storefronts which have been, or are in the process of being, snapped up.

Moving or expanding busi-nesses include Shoes for the Soul, Rivers Oceans & Mountains, Bent Over Leather, Hall Printing,

There is plenty of economic doom and gloom to bring summer spirit down a notch, but a closer look at business in Nelson reveals plenty to be optimistic about. In a special report we shine the spotlight on the community’s main

street where entrepreneurs are making the best out of these bad times and providing plenty of positive energy

BOB HALLNelson Star Editor

At first glance this situation may not look promising, but when one door closes another opens. In the case of Ben Sutherland Music, it will soon be replaced by an expanded Bent Over Leather. Bob Hall photo

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A mix of optimism

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Monday night; Mayor John Dooley takes opportunity to set the tone for future

Nelson residents fi lled the audi-ence at the Prestige Lakeside Resort on Monday night for the inaugural council meeting.

Mayor John Dooley and the six city councillors were all sworn in by Judge Lisa Mrozinski.

In addition to awards given out for long service to the city, police and fi re departments, Dooley gave an inaugural address.

“Many of you have come for var-ious reasons tonight,” he said to the crowd. “But when I look through this crowd I see people that give to our community on a regular basis and I know that each and every one of you play an important role in making Nelson the place that it is to live.”

Dooley now sits at council with his two male colleagues, and he joked that a committee at the Fed-eration of Canadian Municipalities is working towards a goal of 30 per

Elvis Has Left the Capitol

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The 24th annual Christmas pantomime went off huge at the Capitol Theatre over the weekend. A cast of 40 sang, danced and frolicked their way through The Elves and the Shoemaker. Attendance to the fi ve-show run broke records. For more panto photos turn to pages 20 and 21.

Selkirk College Mourns Loss of Student

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Selkirk College students and friends of a 20-year-old who died last week aft er a ski accident are rallying to promote helmet safety in skiing and snowboarding.

William Joseph Sidney School-er — who is originally from Ed-monton, Alberta — fell and struck his head last week while using a makeshift ramp that he and a friend had built at the college.

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A Nelson paraglider is premiering his documentary

of a record-breaking flight across Canada and inviting the community to join in his latest aerial formation photo.

Benjamin Jordan holds the Guinness record for longest distance travelled by power paraglider, set in 108 consecutive flights in 2009 that took him from coast to coast.

He and a support team documented the journey through a combination of footage and stills, which he assembled into a film called Dream.

“You’re basically flying with me across Canada, province by province,” he says.

Along the way, he landed at schools and summer camps to talk to kids and “get them

excited about what I was doing and about their own dreams.”

So far the only public screenings have been in Europe, where Jordan travelled last summer to honour a commitment to his sponsor, a Czech manufacturer of aviation equipment. Next Fri-day, the Capitol Theatre will host the Canadian premiere.

“It was shown in Europe to paragliding communities, but that’s not who I made this for,” he says. “I made it to inspire youth and adults, and understand they’re watching someone do what they’re most pas-sionate about.

“This is the first time it’s being shown to the kind of audience I

Paraglider and photographer Benjamin Jordan turns people on the ground into art from the air

by Greg Nesteroff

Story continues to ‘Aerial’ on Page 14

Ben Jordan’s aerial photos like the one above were taken from a power paraglider — and composed of hundreds of people standing in formation. He plans to take another in Lake-side Park next week.

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The nephew of a Nelson-raised World War II pilot will at-tend a ceremony in France tomorrow

honouring his uncle, whose plane was shot down in 1944.

Wreckage from flight officer Harry MacKenzie’s Typhoon aircraft was found in a marsh near the village of Sacy le Grand, a farming community about 40 km north of Paris, touching off a search for his descendents and the creation of a memorial by lo-cal residents.

“It’s taken on a life of its own,”

says Ian MacKenzie of Coquit-lam, who with wife Kim will to-day visit the site where the plane’s engine was recovered and then join 300 guests at a reception at the town hall Saturday.

“In October 2009, I got an email at work from a man named Eric Fardel. It was in my junk folder and I almost deleted it, but it said ‘Are you related to [Harry] MacKenzie? We’ve pulled the motor from his plane.’ It went exponentially from there.”

Hector Henry MacKenzie Jr. — Hank or Harry to friends — was born in

1920 in the now-abandoned B.C. mining town of Anyox, but his family soon moved to Nelson, where his father was a popular physician and surgeon at Koote-nay Lake hospital.

As Sylvia Crooks writes in Homefront and Battlefront:

Nelson, BC in World War II, Harry received most of his edu-cation here, but his parents sent him to boarding school in Victoria for Grade 10 — where he badly missed his friends and begged to come home.

“He raised hell and what for and he joined us for [Grades] 11 and 12,” his classmate Dawn Penniket told Crooks. “He was a great guy, more fun and a lousy dancer but much loved by our gang. He and Bob Crerar owned an old car and it always was in a million pieces spread out on Carbonate Street.” (The MacKenzies

Killed at war 67 years ago, Nelson’s Harry MacKen-zie will be honoured on Saturday by the French

village where his plane’s wreckage was found

by Greg NesteroffNelson Star Reporter

Nelson-raised Harry MacKenzie (right) fought in World War II. His plane was shot down on his last mission. Sixty-five years later the engine from his plane (above) was discovered in a French marsh. He will be honoured this weekend in France.

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Majestic Bird Flies into Taghum Powerline

Sad end in effort to save eagleA bald eagle died this week af-

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Anne Bokser Wishlow, who saw

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However, near the community hall, the eagle struck a wire.

“It was a huge light show,” she says. “The bird fully lit up. There was a big arc and the power went

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The eagle was left hanging up-side down, holding onto the wire by a talon. Bokser Wishlow as-sumed the worst, but after a few

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Year in ReviewTop 10 News Stories of 2011

Reeling in Nelson’s year

The March 11 earth-quake and tsunami in Japan forced a

local group to cancel its trip to Nelson’s sister city of Izushi. But at least Izushi was spared the quake’s wrath.

Not so for another town with strong Nelson ties: Onagawa, where Lt. Robert Hampton Gray died in an air raid near the end of World War II, was devas-tated.

A 15-metre high tsu-nami swept one kilometre inland, destroying the town centre, leaving over 1,000 people missing and at least 300 confi rmed dead.

In the immediate af-termath, Nelsonites be-gan raising money while awaiting word on homestay

students who visited here the previous October.

Th e news fi nally came from Sue Luzia, an Ab-botsford woman whose son Michael taught in Ona-gawa. She reported all the

kids were safe — but many lost family members, and all were homeless.

Mitsuru Sato, a school board member and chaper-one during the 2010 Nelson visit, also died heroically

while helping some work-ers at a marine products factory.

Michael Luzia later described how he was at a nearby island school when the quake hit. Aft er fi ve minutes of shaking that made it hard to stand, he and other teachers led stu-dents onto the soccer fi eld and watched cracks open in the ground.

Back at home, a cam-paign began to fold 1,000 origami cranes — a Japa-nese symbol of hope and peace. Placed on pins, they sold for a few dollars each, with demand exceeding supply.

Kim Osika organized To Japan with Love, a one-day event at the Prestige Lake-side Resort, Jude Davison

The year in headlines began in dramatic fashion with a downtown fi re that resulted in tragedy for so many, but became another

triumph for small town community spirit. From there, the steady fl ow of ink-worthy issues, faces, feats and debates didn’t stop.

Nelson rarely disappoints when it comes to keeping those who chroni-

cle our history busy and 2011 did that once again.

From the tragic death of Nelson Search and Rescue volunteer Sheilah Sweatman to the inspiring lot of BC Seniors Games athletes who showed folks of all ages you’re never too old to thirst for friendly competition, the stories ran the gamut of emotion.

As we get set to cover another year of life in the Nelson area, the Star is looking back on what caught our at-tention in 2011. Reporter Greg

Nesteroff has scoured the last 100 editions of this newspaper to come up with the top 10 stories of the year.

We began the countdown Wednes-day and in today’s edition unveil the top three. We are also pleased to present our choice for the newsmaker of the year (Page 5), honourable mentions (Page 14) and noteworthy passings (Page 13).

Enjoy as we travel back in time and see what stories made the biggest impact in 2011.

33 FEELING JAPAN’S GRIEFGREG NESTEROFFNelson Star Reporter

Locals like Kim Osika were behind several fundraisers in the Nelson area that ended up raising more than $40,000 for Onagawa this past spring.

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Year in Review

She was supposed to help recover a missing woman’s vehicle. Instead

she lost her own life.Sheilah Sweatman, 29,

of Ymir was a member of Nelson Search and Rescue’s swift water team, called out on June 29 to a bridge south of Creston, where a car had been spotted submerged in the Goat River.

While trying to attach a tow chain to the vehicle, she went overboard and didn’t re-surface. Her colleagues found her body the following day. Compounding the tragedy, the body of Lana Chipesia, 23, the car’s owner, was dis-covered further downstream following an aerial search.

Sweatman was praised as one of the group’s most dedi-cated members — someone who always responded, no matter the task. Search and rescue became central to her life, and she was an integral part of the team.

Nelson Search and Rescue colleagues, along with repre-sentatives of other branches, attended a family service in her hometown of Winnipeg, while a public memorial at Lakeside Park a few weeks later drew hundreds of emergency responders from around BC.

Her brother Michael and parents Teddi and Wynn, who lovingly called her Sheesh, delivered emotional eulogies.

“Sheilah was always a work

in progress, emerging and evolving from one beautiful stage and moving on to the next,” her mother said.

Framed by two pieces of Sweatman’s artwork, her parents painted a portrait of their daughter, sharing her passion, sense of adventure and creativity.

“Sheilah was the strongest woman I’ve ever known,” her search colleague Callie Chat-ten added. “She gave the best bear hugs, had a mischievous smile, and big brown eyes

that could convey anything.”Central Okanagan Search

and Rescue named its new jet boat aft er Sweatman, while Nelson Search and Rescue will build a monument at its new North Shore headquar-ters with stones contributed from each of the province’s search and rescue groups.

A coroner’s inquest into Sweatman’s death will be held in Nelson next June.

A WorkSafeBC investiga-tion also remains outstand-ing.

22SHEILAH’S SACRIFICE##GREG NESTEROFFNelson Star Reporter

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The new year was less than a week old when the year’s big-

gest story broke. In the early hours of

January 6, fi re began in the basement of the century-old Kerr Apartments, and quickly consumed the en-tire three-storey building.

Amazingly, no tenants were hurt, although several pets died. Firefi ghters spent all night dealing with a blaze that chief Simon Grypma called “extremely diffi cult.”

“Both the temperature and the wind really ham-pered our fi refi ghting attack because our visibility was pretty well zero,” he said.

Two fi refi ghters were treated for smoke inhala-tion and a third for hyper-tension.

Th e approximately 80 displaced residents, mean-while, were evacuated to the Capitol Th eatre over-night, then put up in local hotels, and fi nally moved to the Villa Motel while they searched for new accom-modation.

“We just panicked,” Carol Taylor, one of the victims, told the Star out-side the New Grand Hotel, where she and her teenage children were staying.

“I grabbed my son’s urn — it was all I could think of. He passed away two years ago at 17.”

A committee was struck to help meet the former Kerr residents’ needs, with the assistance of many agencies and social ser-vices, including the Red Cross, Salvation Army, City of Nelson, and Regional District of Central Koote-nay.

Numerous fundraisers collectively raised over $70,000, while a massive one-day drive fi lled the old Movie Gallery location on Vernon Street with more household goods than resi-dents could use.

Investigators, mean-while, had their work cut out, as tons of rubble covered the fi re’s origin point. Once they fi nally gained access, they could only conclude it was not deliberately set. Offi cially, the cause went down as undetermined.

At that point, the build-ing’s fate was still an open question.

Although the Kerr was on the city’s heritage register, that didn’t aff ord it protection from demoli-tion. While the stone walls looked solid at a glance, an engineer’s report said preserving them as part of a rebuild wasn’t feasible.

And so an excavator moved in one day in June and began knocking them down. Th e date stone and entrance arch were saved for possible inclusion in a future project.

Th e site remains a fenced-off pit, its prospects unknown.

In May, a tree was planted in Lakeside Park to recognize the groups and individuals who responded to the disaster.

Dave Sprague, the ten-ants’ representative on the unmet needs committee, who devoted all his ener-gies to helping his former neighbours fi nd homes, said he was touched by the community response.

Mayor John Dooley echoed those sentiments.

“Th at’s the Nelson I know and love and am honored and proud to be the mayor of,” he said. “It’s a community that meets the needs of those in desperate straits, not only at the time but going forward.”

11THE KERR BLOCK BURNSGREG NESTEROFFNelson Star Reporter

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The greater Nelson area came together to help the victims of the Kerr fi re put their lives back together.

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The Kerr storyline lasted for several months after fi refi ght-ers put out the fl ames. From fundraisers to demolition, the January 6 blaze captured many headlines.

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Although it doesn’t normally make news on its own, it’s hard to imag-

ine another organization that has experienced such highs and lows in the same year as Nelson Search and Rescue.

On June 29, the volun-teer group broke ground on a new garage at the North Shore hall, which would fi nally give them a place to call home. Th e same day they lost one of their members.

Th e hall’s lease is the result of a long-term agree-ment with the regional district that will see half the basement converted into an offi ce and training area and the upstairs made available a few times a month. Th e garage to store vehicles and equipment was recently completed.

“It’s going to give us a central location to work from where we have access to all of our equipment when we get a call,” search and rescue president Randy Lall said last week.

“People can come there, pick up whatever gear is required, put it in our re-sponse vehicle and respond appropriately. In the past we’ve had our truck packed with everything you could ever possibly need, to the point where we oft en didn’t have room for people.”

Lall says the new ar-rangement should be more effi cient, improve cama-raderie, and allow search managers a better space to work from than a truck tailgate. (Until the offi ce space is ready, they’ll oper-ate from a trailer inside the garage.)

However, soon aft er the groundbreaking came a call about a vehicle submerged in the Goat River. Search and rescue’s swift water per-sonnel responded, includ-ing Sheilah Sweatman, one of their keenest members.

It ended tragically, with Sweatman’s death.

“It’s extremely ironic,” Lall says. “It’s defi nitely been a challenging year for many people and continues to be for those immediately involved.”

While a coroner’s inquest is still to be held, Lall says they have not changed the way they do business, except “I think everybody’s more attuned to potential risks and doing everything we can to mitigate the risks. Th ere’s been no underlying structural change or policy changes.”

One of their tasks in 2012 will be building a stone monument in Sweat-man’s honour.

But before and aft er the above mentioned events, search and rescue contin-ued to do what it does best:

get people out of tight jams. Among other things, they:

• Recovered the body of Manfred Rockel, killed in a January avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Park;

• Rescued Creston snowmobiler Ken Gadicke, who plunged more than 25 metres down an old mineshaft near the top of the Kootenay Pass;

• Located a pair of lost snowshoers from Quebec who spent a night out in the Hummingbird Pass area near Whitewater;

• Rescued a CPR worker injured on the south arm of Kootenay Lake;

• Plucked Nelson’s Scott Newland from the middle of Kokanee Creek aft er he

jumped in to try to save a friend’s dog;

• Helped one of the own-ers of the Ymir Yurts, who was hit by a tree at the end of Wildhorse Creek while clearing a cat trail.

Despite all that, Lall says if anything, it was actually a quieter year than normal.

“We were tasked approx-imately 30 times, which is average, but a lot of those we were stood down before we actually got going any-where,” he says.

However, he’s “extremely grateful” for the commu-nity’s support, both in the wake of Sweatman’s death and in securing the agree-ment that let them lease the North Shore hall.

Newsmaker of the Year: Nelson Search and Rescue

It was a year of extremes for Nelson Search and Rescue. Th e volunteer organization tasked with helping those who encounter trouble in the most precarious locations gained a permanent home on the same day they tragically lost one of their own. Th ough they diligently worked behind the

scenes for many years, in 2011 we were off ered a glimpse into the resolve of this vital crew


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ABOVE — Search crews prepare to head into the backcountry near White-water in February where a pair of Quebec snowshoers became lost.RIGHT — In July a mas-sive memorial was held at Lakeside Park to remember Sheilah Sweatman; who died in June while on a res-cue mission near Creston.

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Editorial

The privilege this job aff ords is one of access. As jour-

nalists we ask to peek through the window of people’s lives every day and talk to folks we never imagined connect-ing with.

Every day is diff erent because the variables in each headline we write and each interview we conduct are so unique. Sometimes it’s pain-ful and uncomfortable, other times thoughtful and engaging.

Over the course of 12 months, the rigours of the job sometimes mean the days pass in a blur. An endless steam of quotes and photos as we chronicle the history of this community.

If you’ve done this for as long as I have — I sat in the Nelson city council media gallery for the fi rst time in 1994 as a much younger lad — the constant deluge of local news is coupled with the sometimes diffi cult task of remembering exactly when it all took place. But every year without fail, there are a handful of moments on the job that leave a permanent imprint. Th ey might not be the most explosive or dramatic stories — be-hind the scenes it’s some-times mundane — but the access we are given results in some standout memories in the massive pool of ink.

Here are some of my mine from 2011…

Early last February I arrived to the Nelson

Star News Loft earlier than the rest of the crew. Shortly aft er, I received a phone call about a rescue eff ort assembling on the road to Whitewater preparing to search for a couple of lost snowsho-ers.

Only a couple of Nel-son Search and Rescue team members had ar-rived by the time I pulled up to the site. It off ered me a rare glimpse into just how much logistics go into helping those who encounter trouble in the backcountry.

I tried to stay out of the way as I waded amongst the crew preparing skis and equipment. Th ey all had their game faces on, but were gracious to the guy with the camera snapping away.

From all over the Koo-tenays, more and more team members arrived. All of them eager to help where they could.

Th e result that day was a good one. Th e two Quebec travellers were found that aft ernoon, a little shaken, but alive.

Th e Sheilah Sweatman tragedy a few months later brought to light just how dangerous the life of a search and rescue volunteer can be. Th ey thrust their time and energy into helping without any thought of reward. Th ese people love the outdoors and understand the unforgiv-ing nature of playing in it. We can’t thank them enough.

•••A few summers back

I returned from quick nine holes at Granite Pointe just aft er 7 a.m. While most people in our neighbourhood still slept, Dryden Hunt was out on the street shoot-ing pucks.

He was 12 at the time, still in pee wee hockey. Th ough I had seen him around the Civic Centre many times over the previous winter, we had only recently become next door neighbours. He was one of the top young hockey players in the Kootenays at that time. It became clear to me that summer that the scene I watched morning aft er morning was the reason why.

Dryden is still just a kid, but in early Decem-ber scored his fi rst West-ern Hockey League goal. A massive achievement

for one of the youngest players in Canada’s ma-jor junior hockey ranks. He just turned 16.

I was lucky enough to interview him the next day aft er he recorded another notch in what will likely be a long hockey career. He was still excited as he told me how it happened. All the while, all I could think about was that dedicated little kid out on the front street pounding pucks.

Like Dryden there were plenty of other local kids who made us proud of their hockey accomplishments. Geoff Kinrade, the MacLeod brothers, Adam Wheel-don... all fi ne young athletes who prove that a supportive community, fantastic families and hard work can help you realize your dreams.

•••A journalist’s abilities

are put to the test during spot news events. We had barely shaken off 2010 when what is easily the biggest spot news story of the year went down.

I was awoken by my cell phone early that Th ursday morning. It was former Star sales associate Jennifer Cowan calling to tell me there was a big fi re in the downtown. She wasn’t sure where, but it was big. I grabbed my cam-era and within minutes was on my way towards the downtown.

I’ve covered many fi res in the community over the years and the same feeling always hits me on the way to the scene. Of course there’s adrenaline, it’s impossible not to get swept up in the mo-ment. But the overriding feeling is the pit in my stomach. Moments of dread and fear because people die in fi res. Th is is a tiny community full of familiar faces, the last thing I want to cover is unfathomable loss.

Th ankfully that morn-ing there was no loss of life, but it was apparent from the time I arrived that many people had lost everything in the blaze.

Returning to the offi ce a few hours later with a stench of smoke caked on, I arrived to fi nd what would become the most memorable part of the Kerr storyline. Th e sales team at the Star

had received a number of phone calls from concerned community members and an initia-tive was already under-way to bring relief to the residents who were left homeless.

We were not only recording the events of the day, but this newspa-per began to help pull to-gether the eff ort to help. So did many others.

Over the next few weeks there was an outpouring of support I’ve never witnessed in this community. People gathered goods, raised money and did whatever they could to ensure complete strangers were not left out in the cold.

Nelson is a communi-ty that off ers its residents a bounty of natural bril-liance, a beautiful setting and endless recreational opportunities. It’s what sets this community apart from others. But what keeps me here is Nelson’s heart. Knowing that if I stumble, there will be somebody there to pick me up.

•••Th ere were plenty

more moments in 2011 that gave the news team energy to keep provid-ing the Nelson area with the quality newspaper it deserves. I look forward to the continued access to the lives of the people of this community and building even more con-nections in 2012.

Bob Hall is the editor at the Nelson Star. Reach him at [email protected]

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Behind the scenes highlights from 2011

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Just like the trees in front of the Kerr Apartments last January, the fi re’s storyline is frozen in the minds of many. Bob Hall photo


Editorial

Our government, politi-cians at all levels, the media, and our teachers keep telling us how lucky we are to be living in a democracy. Is this mantra repeated so oft en because they are afraid we might forget, or are they try-ing to indoctrinate us with their belief that we are living in a democratic society? Th ey say Canada is democratic simply because the people are allowed to vote and choose their own government.

In the last election, ap-proximately 60 per cent of the voting public voted against the Conservative Party, but that party won a majority of the seats in the House of Commons. Is that democratic? I don’t think so.

A party that gets elected with a majority of the seats in the House of Commons based on its electoral plat-form, and then suddenly changes its mind, or comes up with a multi billion dollar military purchasing policy which it never mentioned in the election campaign, is that democratic when the people cannot vote for or against this new policy until the next election? Is that democratic?

I don’t think so.Some people believe that

if 40 per cent of the people vote for a party’s candidates, then 40 per cent of the Com-mons seats should go to that party. Fine. Who selects those candidates? Is it those 40 candidates who received the

highest number of votes or does the political party make a list of all 308 candidates and the top 40 get elected? Is it fair that the party, and not the people decide which representatives should get elected? I don’t think so.

Some people believe that we should be able to vote for the candidate we like best and also for the candidate that we like second best. By eliminating the votes of the candidates who received the

least number of fi rst votes, and transfer their second votes to the more popular candidates, is that demo-cratic? It would seem to be the better of the above evils. Th e people will have had a preferential vote, and would have more say in choosing a candidate other than their favourite to represent them.

Should we hold referenda whenever the governing par-ty introduces a change to its electoral platform? Should we be asked constantly for our views on government expen-ditures? Would that be more democratic? I think so, but our governments at all levels will tell us that such a demo-cratic system is too costly! At what cost is democracy? Th ousands of Canadians have died in wars to preserve our way of life believing that we are a democracy. Can we not aff ord, fi nancially, to make this country even more democratic?

So stop telling us how fortunate we are that we can vote. Go deeper into the meaning of democracy for a change.

Bob AbrahamsNelson

HUGS. to the young woman at Otter books who bought Christmas cards made by school children to raise funds for their school activities. Hugs to Otter books for letting us sell them from your front counter. Slugs to the person slamming local busi-nesses for not selling “not for profi t cards.” Did you look at Otter books?

SLUGS. To whoever stole our family Christ-mas presents from our daughter back east... I know times are tough we are all strug-gling... but to break into my mailbox? This was my one hope to cheer up my day.

HUGS. To the person who tried to buy not-for-profi t Christmas cards. Next time try the hospital gift shop. Recycled Christmas and all occasion cards are sold and the pro-ceeds go to the chemo lab. Check them out the next time you are in the area.

SLUGS. To the holiday road raging (old men) in their cars and on crosswalks. Life is too short to lose your head and make mountains out of molehills... just chill or you’re going to have a heart attack. Errrr... maybe I’ll fi ght back next time: puttem up

putt ‘em up. P.S. You were both scary! In Nelson of all places? Here’s to holiday cheer anyhow. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

SLUGS. To the person who backed into my vehicle at 3:30 p.m. on Christmas Day at Ainsworth Hot Springs, damaged it ter-ribly and then took off. You made a diffi cult Christmas much harder for a visitor from out of town.

SLUGS. A whole lot of slugs to the people that smashed our driver’s window on our broken-down van on Christmas Eve, then the man that t-boned my husband not even 15 minutes later as that guy failed to yield. Then an even bigger bunch of slugs to the people that smashed our van’s front window on Christmas of all days. That leaves a fam-ily of four on disability with no vehicles and a whole of lot of heartache on Christmas.

SLUGS. To downtown business owners who don’t shovel the sidewalks in front of their shops. You are not helping people shop local and enjoy their downtown experi-ence. Break out the shovels gang!

If you have a Hug or a Slug... we’d like to hear it. Simply email us at [email protected] with your short quips, compliments or complaints. We will print the anonymous sum-missions for all to see. Be honest, but all we ask is you keep it tasteful. You can also drop by

a written submission to our offi ces at 514 Hall Street.

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Happy New Year! Time keeps rolling along and already it is 2012.

A few weeks ago, I was doing some holiday shopping locally, and a friend and I were remi-niscing about years gone by. Mostly, we were laughing about the days when our respective households had a single phone, located in the kitchen and we would spend hours talking to friends. Th e year my family got an extension cord for the phone receiver meant privacy for me, and peace and quiet for my parents.

Back to the present, my friend and I each have smart phones that do so much more than relieve us of that terrible cord. Take a video, send it to Twitter and Facebook, text a friend about it then call our parents (who just learned

how to turn on their new cell phones). Indeed, time brings change.

Our time on this island called Earth has also brought changes to the climate. Th e international scientifi c com-munity has reached consensus that global warming is a result of human beings polluting the atmosphere with too many greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, mostly over the last 50 years. Now, our planet’s “thermostat,” as the David Su-zuki Foundation puts it, “just doesn’t work the way it should.” Extreme weather events are more common, the Earth is heating up, glaciers are melting and ecosystems are changing.

When I was on the wired phone back in the day, my friends and I would talk about the need to stop pollution,

but we had never heard the words global warming. Now, when on my smart phone, it’s a persistent topic — particularly

when the Harper Conserva-tives pulled Canada out of international talks to address this global issue and left an embarrassing mark on our na-tion’s reputation. Worst of all, Canada isn’t taking meaning-ful action to change its ways

and head off global warming. BC isn’t doing much either as the Liberals contemplate the Enbridge pipeline that would bring Alberta crude to BC’s coast. Th is has to change.

You can be a part of mak-ing that change happen. Not only can you make choices to reduce your individual carbon footprint, but you can also call on others to join you. Namely, government decision-makers need to step up and make the necessary big changes. So start with a pen and paper, share them with some friends, and write your thoughts down in letters or petitions to Christy Clark and Stephen Harper. Tell them you don’t support oil pipelines. Tell them you want to see renewable energies developed by and for the pub-lic. Tell them you’re making

changes and so should they. Tell them you’re part of the 99 per cent and things need to change. Send me copies of your letters and petitions and I will present them in the Legisla-ture. And if they prefer not to make those changes, the 2013 and 2015 elections may force another kind of change.

Never underestimate the power of the pen or a small group of people. So get on that phone, call, Tweet, text, Face-book some friends and make something happen.

Time brings change; you decide what change you want to see.

Michelle Mungall is the MLA for Nelson-Creston and the NDP opposition critic for advanced education, youth and labour market development

“I relay because I ran out of fi ngers and toes counting up the family, friends and relatives who have had their lives touched by some form of cancer. My dad died of lung cancer, an uncle has had prostate cancer, right now a cousin is having a bone mar-row transplant, a friend has just been diagnosed with throat can-cer — the list is long. Preven-tion, improved treatments and support services — we need it all. It will provide hope instead of fear!”

— L.M.

“My mom never got to see me enter high school, graduate, or go to college, and she’ll never get to see me get married, buy my fi rst home, or have children. Cancer stole these memories from me, and they stole her life from her. Words cannot describe the severe hurt and suff ocating pain attributed with a loved one battling and having their life stolen by cancer, yet too many people can relate to this feeling. Th e Canadian Cancer Society is making a diff erence by funding leading cancer research which leads to new treatments, by supporting those battling with support programs, information and personal assistance, and by leading change in health promo-

tion and lobbying government in an eff ort to prevent cancer. No family should ever have to experience what mine did; no family should be torn apart by cancer. Th is is why I volunteer. Th is is why I relay.”

— J.B.

Th e Canadian Cancer Soci-ety is the largest national chari-table funder of cancer research in Canada. We fund the best researchers in BC and across the country on all cancers. We are so much more than just research however — we off er practical and emotional sup-port programs when you need us.

But you know, I hope you never need us.

I hope you never need to take advantage of our fi nancial support programs to subsidize expenses incurred as you travel out of area to undergo your cancer treatment. I hope you never fi nd yourself a guest at one of our economical and welcoming patient lodges while away from home for your medical care.

I pray that the summer never comes where you will send your child or grandchild for an action packed, fun fi lled week for kids with cancer at Camp Goodtimes.

It is my sincere wish that you will never have to call

your volunteer support peer — matched to you through Cancer Connection — in the middle of the night to talk about your diagnosis, treat-ment, side eff ects, prognosis; or simply your hopes and fears.

And though I hope you never have to call our Cancer Information Service for infor-mation on your or a loved one’s cancer diagnosis or treatment; I hope you will call them with any cancer related questions you may have. Th ese highly trained specialists provide the most up to date informa-tion in a way that is easy to understand, in more than 100 languages, helping you to make informed decisions about your health.

While I hope you never need us, I ask you to hear us when we say that about half of cancers are preventable, and initiatives to reduce the risk of cancer have the greatest poten-tial to save lives. Th e Canadian Cancer Society uses public education, health promotion, community action, and advo-cacy to government to advance cancer prevention — because by preventing cancer in the fi rst place, we all win.

I truly hope you never need us — but if you do, I want you to know that we are there. We are able to off er services and supports such as these

only through the hard work of our fundraisers and the generosity of our donors. For ten years Nelson has played host to the Canadian Cancer Society’s largest fundraising event, the Relay For Life. We want to enter into our second decade stronger, bigger, and better than the Relay that you

have come to appreciate. Our goal is elevate Relay from an event to an experience — for all who take part. We want more teams, more survivors, more caregivers, more partici-pants — including families and children. We are reinventing and refreshing ourselves with more ceremony, more activi-ties, more storytelling, more of what you have come to expect from Relay For Life!

Nelson has come together

for ten years to celebrate cancer survivors, remember lives lost to cancer, and commit to fi ght back against this disease that touches all of us. We are asking for your support to help us make Relay For Life in Nelson the absolute best it can be. We want to hear your ideas, share your passion, and bring to the community a unique Nelson event. We are inviting all to an informative brainstorming meeting on Saturday January 7 at 10 a.m. at the Community First Health Co-op. If you’ve ever been involved in Relay in any capacity, or have never been involved but would like to — we want to hear from you.

Th e Canadian Cancer Soci-ety invites all Nelson residents to get involved:

• Volunteer to assist with event organization.

• Volunteer to help out the day of the event.

• Organize a group of friends/family to participate as a team.

• Sponsor someone who is participating.

….absolutely no experience necessary!

Join us as we meet to begin plans for this fabulous event: Relay For Life kickoff /informa-tion meeting Saturday, January 7 at 10 a.m. at the Nelson Com-munity First Health Co-op. Refreshments will be served.

From the Legislature - MLA Michelle Mungall

Change is what you can make happen

“So start with a pen and paper, share them with some friends, and write

your thoughts down in letters or petitions to Christy Clark and Stephen Harper.”

So you thought you knew Relay For LifeLORI STEVENSONSpecial to the Nelson Star

“While I hope you never need us, I ask you to hear us when we say that about half of cancers are preventable, and

initiatives to reduce the risk of cancer have the

greatest potential to save lives.”


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Announcements EventsNEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE BALFOUR BEACH INNSunshine Drive will be previewing some of the songs from the up-coming new CD. Hoping to offi cially release it at the beginning of February. Th e CD will contain 100 per cent original content. A couple of the tunes will be played publicly for the fi rst time at this gig. Th ey are very excited about the evening as we will be having lo-cal saxophonist Clint Swanson playing with us as a guest performer. Clint is also featured on many of the tracks on the new CD. Th e eve-ning is a masquerade ball. Th ere is a $5 charge for the evening which includes a mask, party favours, a midnight snack and an evening of dancing to Sunshine Drive. Contact the Balfour Beach Inn for more information.

BRIDGER’S LATEST SHOW HELPS NELSON FOOD CUPBOARDPicking Up Th e Pieces, a fabric art show by local artist Kate Bridger, will be on display at the Nelson Public Library from now until Janu-ary 30 during which time Bridger will donate 10 per cent from all sales to the Nelson Food Cupboard.

CHRISTMAS TREE PICK-UPTh e Nelson Lions Club and Air Cadets are one again teaming up to pick up Christmas trees in Nelson on Saturday, January 7 between 9 a.m. and noon. A donation of $5 per tree is requested. Please leave the tree in a visible location in front of the residence. If you will not be home leave the donation attached to the tree or leave a note indi-cating where the donation can be found. If you have any questions please phone 250-352-9771 or contact [email protected]

YOGA-THON FUNDRAISERTipi Camp hosts its third annual Yoga-thon Fundraiser in Nelson on Sunday, January 8 at SelfDesign High at 402 Victoria Street from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. It was a wonderful day last year and such a beautiful embodiment of our community and all it represents. Participants can stay for one class, all day or anywhere in between. Spontaneous drop-ins on the day are most welcome. Alternatively, print up a pledge sheet off the Tipi Camp website at tipicamp.bc.ca and sign up spon-sors before the event. Pledge sheets are a vital aspect to our fundrais-ing eff ort. Imagine, if every person who shows up to the yoga-thon brings a little, or a lot, of money in their envelope amazing things can happen and who knows what fundraising heights we can reach. Every little bit helps (no contribution is considered too small), as loonies, toonies and $5 bills add up fast. We all know this from our own piggy bank experience. Take your pledge sheet around to family and friends asking them to support your participation in the event by sponsoring you to attend. You can inform donators that all monies will be go-ing directly to the camp. For those who live far away donations can also be made on line at tipicamp.bc.ca/contact-us/support-our-work. When you arrive at the Yoga-thon, hand your pledge sheet in with the sponsorship money, make your own personal donation with cash or cheque and take in a class or spend the whole day with other people who love yoga and wish to support Tipi camp. Donations and grants make this possible so please include Tipi Camp as part of this season’s sharing and giving. For more info contact Sandra or Dave at 250-505-3173, or Melanie at 250-359-7702 or email [email protected]. Visit our website tipicamp.bc.ca, where donations can be made directly via PayPal.

LIONS CLUB KIDS’ VARIETY SHOW IS BACKTh e Lions Club of Nelson Kids’ Variety Show is back aft er a one year absence. Th e show continues to be suitable for kids of all ages and will be held on January 25 at the Nelson Rod and Gun Club. Telephone ticket sales will be starting soon so please answer your phone when we call and support your local Lions Club by purchasing tickets for your family or for less fortunate kids in the community.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30Max and Irma’s restaurant will now have live music Fridays and Sat-urdays between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. featuring Rylan Kewen and NikkoForsberg.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31Bibo is pulling out all the stops. New Year’s Eve only happens once ayear so make it special and sparkle. Celebrate over a very special din-ner sure to delight those discerning palates and help ring in the newyear right, and it’s going to be a great one, don’t you think? Get oursparkle on and have a great night. Reserve by calling 250-352-2744.Our chefs are busy creating an exceptional menu.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 1Do you have a story to tell? Or perhaps you just want to listen tothe talent of local storytellers? Th e Nelson Storytellers Guild will bemeeting at 7 p.m. at the Backalley Studio (across from the OxygenArt Centre.) For more information email Ray Stothers at [email protected]

MONDAY, JANUARY 2Interested in doing some Scottish country dancing? Every Mondayfrom 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Central School gym. Beginners welcome. Formore information contact Kathy at 250-359-7545, June at 250-352-1836, or Beverly at 250-352-7850.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3On January 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nelson United Church, audiencemembers will be treated to performances by two young Nelson mu-sicians. Natasha Hall is a gift ed violinist who began her studies inNelson with Wendy Herbison. She now studies in Pittsburgh withAndres Cardenes where she has completed a performance residency.Along with beginning a music degree program, Natasha is also pre-paring for some international competitions. She will be joined onTuesday night by Niallan Collier. Niallan is a Grade 12 student atLV Rogers School and studies piano with Anne Macdonald. He ispreparing for the Toronto Conservatory Grade 10 piano exam. Th ispromises to be an exciting evening of music by two talented youngmusicians. Admission is by donation.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4All seniors welcome to the monthly meeting of the Senior Citizens’Association Branch No. 51, located at 717 Vernon Street. Meetingcommences at 10:30 a.m. Tea and goodies will be served aft er themeeting. Some of the activities enjoyed at the centre include bridge,crib, whist, dominos, chess and snooker. For further information,call 250-352-7078 weekday aft ernoons.

Th e Nelson Technology Club is a growing, independent initiativeto nurture technology advancement within the local community.Hackerspaces are creative outlets which cater to the curiosities of theenthusiasts and the skilled alike. Bring in your projects, you too canparticipate. Th ere are open meet ups every Wednesday from 6 to 8p.m. at 207-601 Front Street besides Ellison’s.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19Nelson and District Hospice Society will be off ering a six week griefsupport series for adults grieving the death of a loved one. Hosted bytrained volunteers, topics will include: the needs of the mourner; whygrieving is diff erent for everyone, common myths about the grievingprocess; resources and tools for fi nding hope and healing our hearts.If interested, please contact [email protected]. Pre-regis-tration is required. Th e series will run every Th ursday from January19 until February 23 from 10 a.m. to noon at the public health unitmultipurpose room.

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Entertainment listingsThe Capitol Theatre421 Victoria Street — tickets at capitoltheatre.bc.ca

Finley’s Irish Bar and Grill705 Vernon Street

Friday, December 30Come down every Friday night to Finley’s where Dallas Wolbaum shares his live music with a comedic twist. Come and enjoy drinks and great company. Finley’s is the place to be on Friday nights for appies and drinks with friends. Dallas perfromes from 5 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, December 31Tickets are going fast. Pick up your ticket for $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Val Kilmer and the New Coke are here to bring in the new year. Get out of your winter cozies get all dressed up and head down to Finley’s where for $15 you get to dance the night away, a mid-night snack buff et and champagne toast. To reserve a table you will need to make dinner reservations with Sage chefs cooking for you. Tickets are on sale now. For more information on tickets, this event or future events contact Finley’s at 250-352-5121.

Tuesday, January 3Calling all musicians to Finley’s Irish Bar and Grill for open mic nights. Amps, guitars and drums are provided. Th e music gets going at 9 p.m.

Capitol Season Series PresentsCapitol Season Series PresentsBallet Jörgen CanadaBallet Jörgen CanadaAnastasiaAnastasiaSaturday, February 4 at 8 p.m.Saturday, February 4 at 8 p.m.

SpiritbarBelow the Hume Hotel

Friday, December 30

Th e Latitude Project is hosting a musical extravaganza to help raise money for their latest initiative in rural Nica-ragua. Th e Latitude Project is a grassroots organization founded in Nelson by Alanna Tynan and her sister. Th ey work throughout Latin America, undertaking health, education and sanitation initiatives. Information about the Latitude project can be found at thelatitudeproject.com or on their Facebook page. DJ SweetP and DJ Ryan Wells will be opening for popular local band Yard Sale in hopes of raisin’ the roof for the project. Tickets for the show are sliding scale $10 to 20 and are available at the front desk of the Hume Hotel. All proceeds go directly to the project.

Saturday, December 31

Aft er a two year hiatus, Vinyl Ritchie is making his re-turn to the Spiritbar alongside Foxy Moron. Known for his party rockin’ style and loyalty to vinyl, he gets it going every time. Th e main room will feature custom visuals on our new HD system by Sijay of Onbeyond. Th e back Ben-well Lounge will also be transformed through visuals and sound by the BC Dub Cats aka Naasko and Craig Mul-lin. Two completely diff erent party vibes to welcome in the new year. Don’t forget that we will be staying open an extra hour until 3 a.m. Th e usual party favours, confetti canons and midnight toast will help decorate the night. Early bird tickets go on sale Monday for $20.

The Royal330 Baker Street

Friday, December 30Kootenay Co-op Radio and Th e Royal present Erica Dee. She is bringing you a full live set fi lled with R & B, hip hop, reggae, soul, funk. She will be accompanied by some of Nelson’s fi nest: Paul Landsberg-bass, Tony Ferraro-drums, Tyler Toews-guitar, VJ Mardirossian-keys + Miss Evy Jane-vocals. DJ Rhapsody of Break Th e Stereo will be bringing you break beat music through funk, soul, and rare groove and lots more. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available at Royal Espresso and liveatthe-royal.com

Saturday, December 31

Th e Royal is hosting a New Year’s party the best way we know how with a New Year’s Eve tie dye ball. We are going to transform the Royal into a psychedelic treat for your eyes, and of course your ears. Th ree crazy high energy bands and one fantastic DJ will make you wanna get up and get down as they take you into the New Year dancing and singing. Th e night will feature the alt-country-gyp-sy-circus music of the one and only Blackberry Wood, the stoke folk band Shred Kelly, local Balkan brass band Oxygen Orkestar and Raff erty Funksmith. Tickets are $25 and are available at Royal Espresso, liveattheroyal.com and Eddy Music.

The Kaslo Hotel430 Front St. Kaslo

Saturday, December 31Ruckus, based in Castlegar, likes to play music that ev-erybody knows and loves. Th ey are all about having fun and entertaining party goers. Loretta Sheriff , lead vocals/percussion, fronts Ruckus full time, belting out the tunes and loving every minute. Party at the Kaslo Hotel with Ruckus, party favours and bubbly at midnight. Th e party gets going at 10 p.m. and wraps up at 2 a.m. $20 at the door, $10 in advance. Guest room stays are also available. 250-353-7714

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NewsHigh Praise for Fred Wah

‘Kootenay boy’ honoured as Parliament’s poet

In the wake of his appoint-ment as Canada’s new parlia-mentary poet laureate, every place Fred Wah has ever lived is claiming him as its own: depending on the source, he’s Saskatchewan’s Fred Wah or Vancouver’s Fred Wah or Calgary’s Fred Wah.

But while he identifi es with all of those places — he was born in Saskatchewan, lived and taught in Calgary for 15 years, and now has a home in Vancouver — “in my own mind, I’m essentially a Koote-nay boy.”

Wah, 72, grew up in Nel-son, where his family ran the Diamond Grill, a Chinese-Canadian cafe on Baker Street, famously chronicled in his poetic memoir of the same name.

He was the founder and di-rector of the writing program at David Th ompson Univer-sity Centre and also taught at Selkirk College in Castlegar.

For nearly 25 years he lived in South Slocan, where his children grew up, and he and wife Pauline Butling still summer at her family’s old property at Deanshaven on the East Shore.

Th is area, he says, holds signifi cance not only for him, but many writers.

“Nelson has always been very central and primary to the arts in general. I don’t know what it is: the water, the mountains, the skiing. It’s just a very important place.”

Wah was nominated and

passed over for parliamen-tary poet laureate about fi ve years ago, but was asked if he would let his name stand again the next time a writer from English Canada was due to be selected.

He agreed, but when the call came a couple of weeks before Christmas, “I was very surprised. I hadn’t thought much about it lately since it was sort of off the radar.”

Th e position, created in 2001, comes with a mandate to write poetry — particular-ly for special occasions at the request of the speakers of the house and senate — as well as sponsor poetry readings and advise the parliamentary library on acquiring Cana-dian literature. Wah also sees another component.

“I’m quite interested in the educational aspect,” he told the Star this week, a day aft er returning from visiting his daughter in California. “I’m not sure how that’s going to pan out, but I’d like to initiate or generate more interest in getting Canadian poetry into schools.”

Wah says he’s still wrap-ping his head around the

whole laureate concept, which comes with an annual stipend of $20,000, a travel budget of $13,000, and ad-ditional funds for program-ming, administrative expens-es and translation.

“It’s not a job. It’s kind of an honourifi c for a life spent in poetry. I’m expected to represent Canadian poetry and literature to Canadians. I haven’t talked to the parlia-mentary library people yet, but it’s symbolic of the gov-ernment supporting culture.”

He’ll visit Ottawa from time to time, including for the Queen’s jubilee celebra-tions in February, but oth-erwise he can work “pretty much anywhere.”

“I’m curious how I might react poetically to Parlia-ment,” he says. “So I’m going to spend some time there learning about it and talking to parliamentarians.”

Even prior to his appoint-ment, Wah was already busy working every day on vari-ous projects — including one with Nicola Harwood of Nelson’s Oxygen Art Gallery, which he expects will take a couple of years.

“It started out as a history of Nelson’s Chinese, but it’s torqued into something a little more general about Chi-nese life in Western Canada,” he says. “I’m working on that fairly hard now.”

Wah is the fi ft h writer to hold the offi ce of parlia-mentary poet laureate. He replaces Pierre DesRuisseaux, whose two-year term expired this year.


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Pledge forms are available at www.klhf.org. Donations will be accepted at Lakeside Park during the event and at Kootenay Lake Hospital.All funds raised at this event will support surgical services at Kootenay Lake Hospital with the purchase of an Insufflator, camera system and 3 high definition monitors.

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Take a “CHILI” dip in the lake on New Year’s Day

Plunge into 2012 with the annual Polar Bear Dip!January 1, 2012 at Lakeside Park

Hot Chili will be served by donation beginning at 11:30 am, followed by the dip in Kootenay Lake at 12 noon.

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Year in Review

Continued from Page 3put on a benefi t concert, and city council agreed to chip in $10,000 — bringing the grand total to over $40,000 earmarked for scholarships for Onagawa high school students.

Several local residents also went to Onagawa and saw the destruction fi rst-hand: Red Cross veteran Mary Nishio taught disaster psychology to mental health volunteers, and by fl uke, met a Nelson

homestay student sheltering in an auditorium with 800 other people.

Selkirk College student Kei Takayama delivered supplies, paper cranes, and letters, and spent several days volunteer-ing.

Author John Craig, who made several trips to the disaster area, returned in Au-gust feeling discouraged by a $3 billion reconstruction plan he called a “hallucination.”

He found 600 people

remained in shelters, with little incentive to leave, and believed civic offi cials showed “cognitive dissonance in the extreme” by expect-ing their pricey scheme to be approved.

More recently, forests minister Steve Th omson met with Onagawa’s mayor, and pledged $4.5 million from government and industry to help aff ected communities rebuild facilities using BC wood products.

Onagawa rebuilding will be a long process

Passings

Loss and remembranceSome noteworthy deaths

of 2011:

John Norris, 88. Author of well-regarded local history books and memoirs including Historic Nelson, Old Silver-ton, and Wo Lee Stories. Died at home near New Denver, January 11.

Manfred Rockel, 46. Avid backcountry skier and accomplished climber from Calgary. Caught in an avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park, January 16.

Gord Reid, 74. Co-found-er of the Kootenay Story-telling Festival in Procter, a summer staple for a decade. Passed away February 26 in Calgary.

Willie Bohmke, 96. East Shore motel builder whose early life included adventure on the high seas. Died April 4.

Bert Learmonth, 86. Ship model builder extraordinaire, who reconstructed Kootenay Lake’s entire fl eet in minia-ture. Died May 21.

Sheilah Sweatman, 29. Nelson Search and Rescue Technician. Drowned in the Goat River near Creston, June 29, while on a rescue mission.

Jim Kienholz, 64. Long-time Nelson Leafs scorekeep-er and outdoors enthusiast. Killed in a plane crash at Nakusp, August 24.

Anaya Cassin-Potts, 2. Infant who suff ered from Krabbe leukodystrophy but was embraced by the com-munity. Passed away No-vember 13 at BC Children’s Hospital.

Will Schooler, 20. Selkirk College ski resort opera-tion management program student. Died in Kelowna hos-pital November 28 aft er falling from a makeshift ski ramp.

Pete Leontowicz, 88. Local prospector and co-founder with his son John of Retal-lack Lodge, a catski operation on his mining claims. Died December 10.


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Year in Review

Logging, garbage, and a bolstered hospitalWhittling down all the year’s

news to a top 10 list wasn’t an easy task. Here are a few more signifi cant stories that earned our attention in 2011.

STANDOFF ON PERRY RIDGE

A protest camp on the road into a contentious Slocan Valley cutblock

dispersed peacefully in March aft er an injunction was served.

However, local members of the Sinixt First Nation still plan to appeal the dismissal of their

constitutional challenge against the logging operation.

Th e Sinixt petitioned the BC Supreme Court for a judicial review of the timber sale license awarded to Kaslo’s Sunshine Logging, concerned the logging threatened drink-ing water, bull trout habitat, and archaeological sites.

Aft er a judge ruled against them, the Sinixt — joined by local water users and other supporters — erected the camp. Th e company obtained an injunction, which police moved in to enforce a few weeks later.

About 40 people met offi -

cers, but no one was arrested.As work progressed in the

spring, plugged culverts were discovered. According to BC Timber Sales, which monitored the work, it was “pretty clear” the jams weren’t natural, but no one was caught.

PACIFIC INSIGHT VS. THE TRANSFER

STATION

The Regional District of Central Kootenay’s plan to move the Nelson

transfer station off the water-front was well received — ex-cept by the closest neighbour of the proposed new site.

Th at neighbour happened to be electronics manufac-turer Pacifi c Insight, one of the region’s largest employers. Th e regional district ultimately went ahead with the property’s purchase, but also off ered to pay Insight over $117,000 in compensation.

LIGHTS OUT ON HYDRO OFFICE

Responding to a govern-ment-commissioned report telling it to slash

staff rather than raise rates, BC Hydro announced it would close its Nelson offi ce and lay off several Fish and Wildlife

Compensation Program em-ployees.

Although the company will continue to spend the same amount of money on habitat restoration, community groups are expected to do more of the work.

In response, nearly 50 scien-tists signed a letter slamming the move, MLA Michelle Mun-gall took the energy minister to task in the legislature, and the BC Wildlife Federation called for an independent body to administer the funds.

Th is one is still playing out.

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El Taco • Nelson 352-2060

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Full Circle Cafe • Nelson 354-4458

Funky Monkey • Nelson 352-5111

Fusion Bistro 352-3011

Hume Hotel • Nelson 352-5331

Itza Ristorante & Pizzeria • Nelson 352-3573

Jackson’s Hole & Grill • Nelson 354-1919

KC Restaurant • Nelson 352-5115

JB’s Pub & Family Restaurant 353-7716

Kaslo Hotel & Brew Pub 353-7714

Kurama Sushi • Nelson 352-5353

Louie’s • Nelson 352-5570

Main Street Diner • Nelson 354-4848

Max & Irmas Kitchen • Nelson 352-2332

Outer Clove • Nelson 354-1667

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Quiznos • Nelson 352-2494

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Year in ReviewSERVICE CANADA ON THE MOVE

The local federal government offi ce that han-dles everything from passport applications to employment services moved this fall from the

basement of Kutenai Place to the Chahko Mika Mall.Th is, they said, would be more convenient for the

public and more space effi cient.Only problem: the move displaced three stores.

Although Bentley Leather moved to another location in the mall, Northern Refl ections and Please Mum closed, putting several people out of work. (Th e latter would have shut down anyway, a victim of company-wide restructuring.)

SQUARE FOOT TO FREEDOM

Kootenay Christian Fellowship’s ambitious campaign to raise $1 million to buy the old Savoy Hotel and transform it into low-cost

housing never gained enough traction, although it was widely praised as a great idea.

Th ings hit a dead end in August when BC Housing told the church its project wasn’t feasible. Th e cost of renovating the building, vacant since a fi re a few years ago, was expected to add as much as another $2 million to the tab.

CT SCANNER ARRIVES

The most highly anticipated piece of medical equipment in Nelson’s history was fi nally de-livered to Kootenay Lake Hospital in October

and saw its fi rst patient in December.

Th e CT scanner is the result of a campaign by the hospital foundation that raised $1.5 million in a year and a half. It’s in a specially designed suite that was part of a $15 million renovation to the emergency wing, expected to open early next year.

The federal government moved the Service Canada offi ce from Nelson’s downtown to the Chahko MIka Mall in or-der to improve access for those using it. Megan Cole photo

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Whitewater day tripping made easier

Leafs look to regroup for push to the post season

If you’re looking to head up to Whitewater Ski Resort for a day of fun in the snow in the near fu-ture, the new direct-to-lift ticket sales just might be your fast-track to the slopes.

For the fi rst time, Whitewater is off ering customers the option of purchasing their lift tickets in town at either R.O.A.M. on Bak-er Street or the Whitewater offi ce on Victoria Street.

“We thought that just as a convenience to customers com-ing from Nelson, but also out of the area, that it would be good to have,” said Anne Pigeon, general manager of indoor operations and marketing for Whitewater Ski Resort.

“A customer can go in either the day before or a week before and we can pre-print the actual lift ticket for that specifi c day, then they just get to the area and go straight to the lift line.”

Pigeon said they are able to print tickets up to seven days in advance of one’s planned ski day.

“We know that our facilities at the mountain are pretty tight and we get stretched on some of the busier days… it’s kind of a new thing. It just avoids the line-ups at the hill,” she said.

“We’re just trying to make it more convenient for everybody.”

With the new direct-to-lift ticket sales at R.O.A.M., White-water has also added an addi-tional shuttle stop in front of the Baker Street store. In addition, a direct-to-lift ticket can be pur-chased with a shuttle pass as for a small discount.

“Th e shuttle is a new acquisi-tion for Whitewater as well. Th is year we’ve taken over the opera-tion of that. We’re pretty excited about it,” said Pigeon.

Th e shuttle stops at R.O.A.M. at 8:30 a.m., while tickets are available for purchase from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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R.O.A.M. employees Kara Montefi ore, left, and Danielle Dornik pose Wednesday with some of the direct-to-lift tickets available.

Despite breaking for the holidays on a four-game losing streak, the Nelson Junior Leafs are aiming to come back strong this weekend against Spokane.

“I think a break was needed for us,” said Leafs head coach Frank Maida.

“We went through a stretch in October and played a lot of games, [had] some injuries and I think we’ll start the new year with pretty much everybody healthy hopefully, mentally ready, fo-cused and ready to go.”

Th e last game the Leafs won

was on December 9 against the Castlegar Rebels, and since then they’ve come up short four times in a row, falling twice to the Beaver Valley Nitehawks, who are ranked fi rst in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League’s Neil Murdoch Division.

However, coming off a 12-day break, the Leafs will have their chance this weekend to redeem themselves in a home-and-home against Spokane, who arecur-rently sitting fourth in the divi-sion behind the Leafs.

“Friday will play a big impact on our game Saturday. Both teams will be tired on Saturday,

so our Friday game is huge and we need to fi nd a way to play 60 minutes on Friday and then come back Saturday aft ernoon

and want that game even more than the victory on Friday,” said Maida.

“I’m looking for our goalten-ders to lead the way and our

leaders, the guys who are wear-ing the letters on their jerseys, to step up and play our system and lead the way.”

Maida said at this point of the season, doing the “little things” like getting the pucks deep, not getting caught and playing a very solid defensive game will help them be successful into the playoff s.

“Getting into a comfortable zone, and not being mentally focused as we get ready at the beginning of games I think is a big contribution to our incon-sistency,” said Maida.

“Th is last quarter is to fi nd a consistent game, stay in our

system and prepare for the play-off s.”

With the roster deadline ap-proaching quickly on January 10, Maida said there’s room for one more player and he’s always looking to make a fi nal adjust-ment for the last quarter of the season.

“We’ve been getting consis-tent work ethic from most of the players and now we just want everybody to be doing it every day and every game for 60 minutes.”

Th e Leafs play host to the Braves Saturday at the Nelson and District Community Com-plex starting at 2 p.m.

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“This last quarter is to fi nd a consistent game, stay in our system and

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Nelson Leafs Head Coach

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BC’s Games have inspired thousands in Nelson area

With the 2012 BC Winter Games set to start in Vernon in February, spirit is building in ev-ery community across British Columbia.

Th e brainchild of Premier Bill Bennett, the Games began in 1978 in Penticton. Since then, 38 communities across the province have host-ed the Games, some of them more than once. Over 200,000 people have volunteered and over

150,000 athletes have competed since it be-gan.

“One of the most important benefi ts of hosting a BC Games is how it brings a com-munity together,” says Henry Pejril, president of the 2006 BC Sum-mer Games in Kam-loops.

“Th ere aren’t many opportunities like a Games that can cap-ture the full cross-sec-tion of a community.

Th e feeling of pride and accomplishment lasts in a host city for many years to come.”

Many well-known athletes had their start at the BC Games, including Tour de France cy-clist Ryder Hesjedal and 2010 Olympic wom-en’s snowboarding cross gold medallist Maelle Ricker, who are among the alumni who say their dreams of international competition be-gan at the BC Games.

“My Olympic success can be traced to the provincial Games in my native Manitoba and I see the BC Winter Games providing the same opportunity for young athletes today,” says BC Games Society chair and 1976 Olympic speedskating silver medalist Cathy Priestner Allinger.

“Th e BC Winter Games provide rising stars an opportunity to benefi t from excellent coach-ing, while testing their skills against BC’s best. Our next generation of Canada Games athletes and Olympians are getting ready for the 2012 BC Winter Games in Vernon.”

Participants are generally under the age of 18 (depending on the sport), and have the poten-tial to move beyond local and regional competi-tion to the national stage and beyond.

“Th e BC Games are an important stepping stone towards the Canada Games and ultimate-ly the Olympic Games,” says Kelly Stefanyshyn, a former Olympic swimmer and BC Games So-ciety board member.

SportsVernon to Host in February

KERRY VITALBlack Press Sports Reporter

Trail’s Keith Smyth has helped spear-head local efforts in the past.

Story continues to ‘Large’ on Page 20

“Th ere is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die . . .”

Th ose timeless words begin the famous poem found in the Hebrew wisdom book of Ecclesiastes. Many people love the poem and turn to it for a kind of comfort, but it is really a lament. Th e writer views time as a tyrant. Everything seems to be predetermined and out of the author’s control. Th is is his experience of life under the sun.

It’s New Year’s Day again. Th e day has come without our approval or request. Like pawns in some giant game, we experience the sensation of being moved through the calendar of days against our will to the relentless ticking of the clock. Th e tyranny of time is upon us, and we have become slaves to our own creation.

But the devices we have made to measure time are misleading. Th ey suggest that time is cyclical when it is really linear. In reality, we have never experienced this moment before. It’s not Monday again, or Christmas again, or New Year’s Day again. It is a whole new day, a whole new season, a brand new moment and a new year.

And time to celebrate the new creation.

Many early Christians celebrated the fi rst day of the week as the eighth day – a day to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. It was a day of new creation, a spiritual marker in their week that reminded them that, in the end, time does not win. Even though the ravages of time seem unstoppable, ‘Christ Jesus . . . has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel’. (2 Timothy)

Th e Teacher in Ecclesiastes was accurate in his observation that we often fi nd ourselves in a rut. But the great message of Jesus is that because of forgiveness, and because of the resurrection, we don’t need to allow the past to pre-determine our future. We don’t need to make the same mistakes this year. It is a New Day, a Resurrection Year, an Octave in the cycle of seven.

So may we enter this year with an optimism that is grounded in the hope of Jesus.

Churches of NelsonThe Eighth Day Rev. Scott SimpsonFirst Baptist Church

The Salvation ArmyNelson Community Church

Sunday Worship Serviceat 11:00 am

Everyone is WelcomeYour Pastors:

Majors Robin and Yvonne Borrows(New to Nelson)

250 551 4986 601 Vernon Street (Middle Level)

EvangelicalCovenant ChurchLoving Jesus, Loving People,Loving Jesus, Loving People, Transforming Lives Transforming Lives

• Nelson-702 Stanley St. • 352.9613Sundays at 10:00 amPastor Arden GustafsonPastor Chris Wiens

www.ecov.org

• Balfour-7741 Upper Balfour Rd. • 229.2301Sundays at 9:30 amPastor Jason Ashley

• Playmor Junction-2840 Eden Rd. • 359.5065Sundays at 10:00 amPastor Jesse Lerch

Nelson Seventh-day Adventist Church

1502 Granite Rd., Tel (250) 352-6102 – nelsonadventistchurch.org

Saturdays:

10:00am Family Bible Study11:00am Worship Service12:30pm Fellowship Lunch (vegetarian)1:30pm Prayer Ministry

“Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD.”Isaiah 1:18

Join us each Sabbath for Bible study, prayer and Christ-centred worship in a spirit of true Christian fellowship.

Anglican Church of CanadaSt. Saviour's ProCathedralWard & Silica, NelsonFamily Service & EucharistSunday 10:30 AM

St. Matthew'sVillage Road, South SlocanSunday 9:30 AM(No service third Sunday)

St. Michael & All AngelsBusk Road BalfourSunday 11 AM

Office: 8am - 1pm Tue - Fri

[email protected]

www.stsavioursnelson.org

CATHOLIC CHURCHCATHEDRAL OF MARY IMMACULATE

813 Ward Street 352-7131

FEAST OF MARY, HOLY MOTHER

OF GOD Mass Saturday

December 31st 5:00 pm Sunday January 1st 10:00 am

[email protected] www.catholiccathedralnelson.ca

NelsonUnitedChurch

Nelson United Church

602 Silica Street, Nelson BC V1L 4N1Ph: 250.352.2822 • www.nelsonunitedchurch.ca

Minister: David BoydSunday Worship Gathering: 10:00 am

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Service of Lessons and Carols

All are welcomeNursery Room Available

Children’s Quiet Play Area

A Friendly Bible Centre Church

623 Gordon Rd. Nelson BC V1L 5X6Phone 250-352-9322 • Pastor Rev. Ken H. Keber

Refreshments are served after the service(Affi liated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada)

Sermon title “Give Ear”

First Baptist Church611 Fifth Street 250-352-3212611 Fifth Street 250-352-3212

Worship Service: 10:00 amPastor: Rev. Scott Simpson

First Baptist First Baptist ChurchChurch

fbcnelson.cafbcnelson.caPart-time childcare available at

Cornerstone Children’s Centre 250-352-9910


Sports

Continued from Page 19“Learning to [compete] for a

team beyond just your sport and focus while so many events are occurring is imperative to an athlete’s success.”

According to the offi cial web-site, the aim of the Games is “to provide an opportunity for the development of athletes, coaches and offi cials in preparation for higher levels of competition in a multi-sport event which pro-motes interest and participation in sport and sporting activities,

individual achievement, and community development.”

“Having served as president of both the Summer and Winter Games, I have certainly observed fi rst hand the positive eff ects on a community,” says Trail’s Keith Smyth, president of the 1996 BC Summer Games and 2006 BC Winter Games.

“Certainly there is the pride to have executed such a high level, complex athletic endea-vour, but beyond that, it’s the bonding of volunteers and ath-

letes doing their best for a com-mon cause which really shines. Th e Games brings out the best

in human spirit, that is, respect for others and the tenacity to ac-complish a worthy goal. In addi-tion, through the team building experience a community is left with the lasting legacy of having a huge skill set and talent pool for future endeavours. For sure, a truly uplift ing experience.”

Th e Winter Games feature 15 sports, including curling, fi g-ure skating, skiing and women’s hockey. It is expected that over 1,500 athletes and over 300 coaches will participate in the

Games in February.“I believe in the BC Games as it

provides an opportunity to share the spirit with other British Co-lumbians while celebrating your community in the most fantastic and rewarding way,” says Diana Johnstone, operations manager for the 2002 BC Summer Games in Nanaimo. “I can’t wait until 2014 when Nanaimo will once again be privileged to host this amazing event.”

Surrey will host the 2012 BC Summer Games in July.

Large numbers expected in Vernon this February“Learning to [compete] for a team beyond just your sport and focus

while so many events are occurring is imperative to an athlete’s success.”

Eric Charles Taylor passed away on December 19, 2011 at the age of 65 years. He was born in Halifax, N.S. on December 24, 1945 to the late Austin and Enid (MacKenzie) Taylor. Eric travelled west as a young man and settled in the Trail area. After a 30 year career with Teck-Cominco, Eric retired to Nelson and enjoyed the many friends he made while managing a mobile home park. He was an avid outdoors man and was very involved with Boy Scouts and Trail Minor Soccer when his boys were young. Eric always enjoyed story telling, hunting, fi shing, his prized motorcycle, many motorcycle trips with one across Canada and through the U.S.A. He was a friend to many and enjoyed a good poker game. Eric was predeceased by his son Corbin in 1994, brother William, and sister Victoria ( Charlie) sister in law Mary and brother in law Red. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife Sharon, son Donald (Karen), 3 grandchildren Meghan, Reid and Matthew. Th e mother of his children Donna. His extended family Dawn McKenzie-Perepolkin (Gordon) their children Kelsey and Jacob, Lisa McKenzie and her children Brian and Gordie, brothers Wentworth, Bryon (Celia), twin brother Earl ( Joyce), sisters Shirley Morris, Mabel ( Jack) Sawyer, Margie (Scott) Quinn, Debbie (Brian) Weatherhead, Dorothy (Dale)Fischer, sister-in-law Jeanette Taylor. Also numerous nieces and nephews. Extended family Rhonda ( Jack) Swetlishoff , Keith (Roxanne) Shelefontiuk, Andrea (Stewart) McCullagh, Holly Smith ( Jim) and special nieces and nephews.Funeral Services will be held on Th ursday, December 29, 2011 at 1:00 PM from the Chapel of Th ompson Funeral Service with Mr. Tim Joveski offi ciating. Cremation has taken place. As an expression of sympathy family and friends may make donations to the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation 3 View St. Nelson, BC V1L 2V1.

Sometime,Somewhere in the great unknownWe shall meet again and I shall

Have a happy, smile for you.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Th ompson Funeral Service Ltd.

On line condolences may be expressed atwww.thompsonfs.ca

NOTICE OF PASSING

Eric Charles Taylor

In Loving MemoryOf Cyril Saviskoff

January 02, 2009

Time slips by but memories stayQuietly remembered every day

Lovingly remembered and sadly missedYour Loving Family

Obituaries and MemorialsJody Lee Kelly

August 24, 1968 - December 26, 2011

In loving memory of

It is with great sadness we announce the sudden

passing of Jody Kelly on December 26, 2011.

Mass of Christian burial will be announced at a later date.

Phillip Pete Chernenkoff1934 -1997

In loving memory of

On Dec 16, 2011 we would have celebrated our

50th wedding anniversary.You are sadly missed but never forgotten.

From your loving wife Mary and children and all 6 grandsons.

God Bless you Phil.

William (Bill, Willie) ALMACK

Dec 23, 1939 - Dec 17, 2011

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandpa, brother and friend on December 17, 2011.

He will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 49 years Faye, sons Norman (Cheryl) of Prince George, Robert (Scott, proud grandpa Willie of Jared) of North Vancouver, sister Margie (Mick, nephew Scott) of Kimberley and numerous cousins. Bill was predeceased by his father Albert 1976, and his mother Gloria in 2010.

Bill was a lifetime resident, having been born in Kimberley and raised on Ross Street. Bill loved the Kootneys and enjoyed day-tripping about the area not usually straying too far from home. Bill was an avid fisherman and spent many years holidaying on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the trailer at Balfour. Bill was a long standing member of the Royal Canadian Legion and the local Elks Club. he will be sorely missed by the “gang” at Kootenay Lake and all his friends at the different associations he belonged to. Bill also enjoyed camping and hunting “chickens” up St. Marys and out in the Lost Dog area. Bill retired in May 2001 after 43 years of service with Teck Comico, much of it spent as Chief Flotation Operator at the Concentrator. In his retirement, Bill and Faye spent a lot of time in Balfour, day-tripping and visiting their sons. As per Bill’s wishes, there will be no service memorial.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made in Bill’s name to the Canadian Diabetes Association www.diabetes.ca Kimberley Branch, 1589 Sutherland Ave., Kelowna, BC V1Y 5Y7 or the A Clearview Mammography Program - East Kootenay Foundation for Health www.aclearview.ca, 13-24th Ave N Cranbrook, BC V1C 3H9.

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Request for Proposals Balfour Golf Course Clubhouse Restaurant & Bar

Balfour Golf Course located in beautiful Balfour, BC is seeking proposals for a Lessee Operator to assume management and operation of the Balfour Golf Course restaurant and bar. The successful operator will be required to assume all aspects of the food and beverage operations. For general information, visit our website at www.golfbalfour.com. To receive a written proposal package, please contact us:Phone: 250-229-5655 / 1-866-669-4653

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Coming Events

DYNAMITE DANCERS Moving Centre w. “Miss.Karin” 3-4yrs,1:30-2:15;Creative Dnc 5-7yrs,3:30-4:15;Combo Class

(ballet/jazz/hip hop). 6-10yrs,4:15-5:00;Breakin’ &

Hip Hop (boys & girls). 12 classes on Mondays beginning January 16th

call 250-505-5013 or email [email protected]

Rhythmic Gymnastics Winter Session

Jan.3- Mar.8 Learn to dance with ribbons, hoops, balls & more in our fun and creative programs for girls & women.

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CLASSES with Rita & Ian

Deane in Nelson!

Thursdays (Jan.5-Mar.8) 6-7pm BEGINNER (Jive),

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Help WantedAlberta earthmoving company requires a Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic. You will work in a modern shop and also have mechanics truck for fi eld work. The job is at Edson, Alberta. We require that you have experience on Cat crawl-ers and or Deere excavators. Call Lloyd at (780)723-5051.

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250-352-6661 (p)250-352-3566 (f)Attn: Dominic

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Food Counter Attendant required

Full time Food Counter Attendants req’d for Java Coffee Garden Coffee Co. in Nelson Shopping Mall.

Duties: Meet & greet customers, take orders, cashier duties, prepare

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Stories to be toldCommunities are woven to-

gether by a collection of diverse stories.

Th e stories represent diff er-ent times in our history, people that did great things, battles that were fought, won and lost, but most of all they talk about people who called this region home.

“Th e Kootenays is just full of stories,” said Ray Stothers. “Ev-erywhere you look there is some character or characters doing something. You look at our civic politics, the provincial version of our politics, the kinds of eco-nomic development, our under-ground economy of all sorts, the Doukhobor background, our experience during the war with the Japanese and the experience of our men and women going away to both wars, there are so many stories to be told.”

Stothers along with a group of storytellers like Richard Row-berry started gathering at the Backalley Studio in the fall as an attempt to foster a space that would inspire Nelson storytell-ers.

“Th ere’s so much artistry in Nelson, and the storytellers guild is an attempt to create a space where this kind of artisan quality can take root in the craft of storytelling; where the people who are trying to storytell will have the opportunity to develop in that way so that maybe some day we as a group of people will be able to contact the Scottish International Storytelling Festi-val and say ‘Hey, we really have somebody here that you should consider,” said Stothers.

Stothers had a career as a professional storyteller which took him around the world. He no longer calls himself a “professional” but is hoping he will be able to guide others who want to pursue a similar path.

“For a couple of decades I couldn’t imagine doing anything but storytelling. It took me through Scotland and Ireland, most of Western Canada and parts of the States. It’s fabulous and it’s a wonderful way to sur-vive, but it’s virtually impossible to raise a family unless you’re married to somebody who has some kind of income stream that can support a family in these days,” he said.

Th e guild welcomes all new and experienced storytellers, and even those who just want to

listen, and the hope is that as-piring storytellers will be given the support and mentorship from others to potentially move them forward.

“I might recognize somebody who can pursue storytelling professionally, and they might get something out of my touring experience, or Richard’s touring experience,” said Stothers.

Th e guild was born aft er sev-eral attempts at keeping a story-telling festival alive in Nelson.

Th e festival struggled with what many volunteer run events face: funding.

“Th e festival ran into the same dilemma that almost all not-for-profi t societies run into, and that is, it’s diffi cult to get all the administration done by volunteers. Eventually, in usu-ally seven to 10 years, they burn out and the festival as success-ful as it was — it was a brilliant little jewel that people would even drive up from Spokane for — there was no way to sustain it from a volunteer perspective,” said Stothers.

A group gathered again shortly aft er the original incar-nation of the festival fell away to try and inspire the growth of a new festival.

Stothers said the goal was that little by little the festival would create a foundation which could eventually lead to a paid administrator, but then the event lost its funding.

“We couldn’t even aff ord to put on a proper festival anymore, so then what? Th e re-source of story is still here. You look at the way the museum is built. Th ere are stories oozing out of every crack in that place,” he said.

Stothers said the ideal place to hone the storytelling craft is in a “beautiful cave” with candlelight or a fi re, but with no cave available the guild began meeting monthly at the Backal-ley Studio.

Th e group meets once a month on a Sunday at 7 p.m. and will be gathering on New Year’s Day.

For more information on the guild contact Stothers at [email protected]

Storytellers Guild Builds Momentum

Th e cause of the Boxing Day fi re that engulfed the garage of a Kaslo home is still unknown.

Kaslo fi re chief Larry Badry said they have determined the fi re started in the garage of the rental home, but it would likely depend on in-surance as to whether or not they would look into the cause.

“It’s very diffi cult to determine the cause of a fi re like this,” said Badry. “We know where it started, but we just don’t know what started it. We know the location where it started but to pin point how it started and everything is diffi cult.”

Th e volunteer fi re department received the call around 11:30 a.m. on Monday and was on the scene within about 15 minutes.

When they arrived the garage was fully en-gulft ed in fl ames.

“Th ey did a great job,” said Badry. “Th ey stopped it and prevented the fi re from going into the home. So the home was saved.”

Th e family that was renting the home has been moved into a temporary shelter.

“Th e structure next door is unsafe,” said Badry. “It’s not a stable structure now because all of the framing is burned. Th ere are children in the family so we don’t really want to expose them to that type of danger. Th e fi re is out but there are still toxins and fumes coming off the burned out area. You just don’t want to be sub-jecting people to that. “

According to a neighbour Carl Mortensen — who rushed to the scene on Monday morning — there was a mother with her nine children living in the home.


“The Kootenays is just full of stories.

Everywhere you look there is some character

doing something. ”

NBC Spreads SpiritChuck Bennett photo

Just before Christmas, the Nelson Brewing Company spread some of the spirit of the season with a $1,500 donation to the Salva-tion Army as part of Nelson Toyota’s Fill the Tacoma fundraiser. The crew at the Latimer Street brewery gathered on the steps to pres-ent the cheque.

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Th e Slocan Valley Rail Trail has become a popular winter pastime in the Slocan Valley in recent years and this year promises to be better than ever. Volunteers of the Slocan Valley Heri-tage Trail Society have groomed the northern half of the trail already and are ready to groom and trackset the entire 50+ kilometre trail when more snow arrives. Here are a few tips to help make the trail an enjoyable experience.

If you’re wanting to know what the state of the trail is, visit the new Rail Trail website at slocanvalleyrailtrail.ca and fi nd out. Th e home page will have a link to let everyone know where the trail has been groomed and when.

For those using the trail, here are a few re-minders: Th e trackset is for skiers, so please try not to walk in it. Th e trackset will be on one side of the trail so there will be ample room for walking, snowshoeing and skate skiing. If tak-ing your pet, please try to scoop the poop off the main trail to assist with the grooming pro-gram. Th is year, horse riders are being asked to refrain from using the groomed sections of trail from December 1 to mid-March.

Th ere are two upcoming Rail Trail events happening in January that everyone is invited to enjoy. Th e Full Moon Ski takes place on Jan-uary 8 between 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. and the eighth annual Day on the Trail takes place on January 28 from noon to 2 p.m. Both events are taking place approximately 1.5 kilometres north of Perrys Siding or 2 kilometres south of the Kennedy Road Trailhead at Lemon Creek. Both will feature hot chocolate, a roaring fi re and lots of friendly smiles.

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All Quiet at LVRApproximately 300,000 children are forced to become soldiers in areas of confl ict around the world. After such a devastating experience, these children need rehabilitation. The L.V. Rogers Leadership Team hosted a day of silence on December 7. Stu-dents from Toronto to New Mexico took part in the event. Participating students worked together to collect pledges for the Free the Children’s Child Soldier Rehabilitation Program. Vow of Silence students did not com-municate in any way for 24 hours, to show support for children throughout the world who have no voice.

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~ Lindsay Gaschnitz, Osprey Foundation

THINK LOCAL FIRSTWhen you support local business, those businesses in turn support local organizations and causes who depend on local business support for their success. Local businesses provide in-kind donations, cash donations and indispensible contributions to many organizations within our communities. Locally owned businesses build strong neighbourhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbours and by contributing to local causes.

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December 30, 2011 The Nelson Star

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