March 31 2011 Rossland News

Renato Tognetti, Black Jack Cross Country Ski Club’s oldest active member, turned 90 years old yester-day; although we had already gone to print, in all likelihood he spent the day skiing.

Th is impressive man swims three times a week — 10 laps and four sets of 30 pull-ups on the racing platforms — skis every other day (or more) at Black Jack where he has had a free pass since he turned 75, and greets people with a broad grin and a healthy, youthful face that tells more about his philosophy of positivity than words ever could.

Tognetti looks back fondly on 30 years of skiing at Black Jack, a sport he picked up around the time he re-tired.

“Oh, I’ve seen changes in a lot of things,” he said, nodding, “put a lot of work in too. Cutting old trails,

building new trails, digging ditchesto stop the runoff from washing outthe trails.”

He has plenty of good memoriesof days spent working and skiingwith Jimmy Douglas, Eric McLeod,Dave Rusnell, and “many, manyothers.”

Born and raised in the Italian vil-lage of Cardoso in Tuscany’s Serchiovalley, about an hour’s drive northof Pisa, he never harboured any in-tention to leave his homeland.

He wasn’t interested in war either,but in early 1941, when he was 19,he enlisted to fi ght for Italy.

In 1943, Italy surrendered tothe Allied advance, but it wouldn’tbe the end of their war. Italy was amess of diff erent allegiances to oneside, the other, or neither. Germantroops began rounding up Italiansoldiers and sending them to prisoncamps.

Th is spring’s federal election is either unnecessary and a waste of money or the inevitable result of the government’s contempt for Parliament, depending on which candidate for B.C. Southern Inte-rior you ask.

Conservative Stephen Hill wishes we weren’t going to the polls, and says based on his cam-paigning to date, neither do most citizens.

At the same time, he said “my life in purgatory is over. I will have certainty as of May 2.”

Hill, who has held the nomi-nation for 18 months, is running

on a job-creation platform, point-ing to his work in re-establishing the Midway sawmill as the sort of community venture capital proj-ects he can broker.

“I did it as a non-MP and it cost me huge personal resources,” he says.

“It’s taking an inordinate amount of time with absolutely no benefi t

other than personal satisfaction of helping people gain employment in the Boundary.”

Th e Rossland resident says economic development is key to preserving schools, hospitals, and other services in small communi-ties.

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Th e Earth Hour Pledge encouraged people to promise to switch off their power for an hour on March 26, at 8:30 p.m. as part of a global movement initiated by the World Wild-life Fund to raise awareness on energy conser-vation.

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Aus-tralia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour. Th is year, the AAP reported that “billions” in 133 coun-tries took part.

Fortis BC’s contest pitted community against community, from Creston to Keremeos, to see which community would get the greatest pro-portion of its citizens to make the pledge and follow through.

Just more than six per cent of Rosslanders made the pledge, which put us in a tie for sec-ond place with Kaslo and Crawford Bay. With more than seven per cent participation, Kere-meos took the $5,000 prize that will be used for energy upgrades to their Legion, Branch No. 192.

In Rossland, the Rock Cut Pub served din-ner by candlelight, while the hundreds in at-tendance at Th e Gathering in the Miners’ Hall were encouraged to get touchy feely in the dark by host Mitch Scott.

Almost three per cent of Castlegar’s popula-tion mobilized, roughly two per cent in Salmo, just more than one per cent in Nelson, and a little less than that in Trail. Grand Forks and Kelowna were at the bottom of the heap.

Across the region, Fortis BC reported “elec-tricity consumption dropped by approximately one per cent, or 3.58 megawatts, during Earth Hour — equal to switching off about 60,000 in-candescent light bulbs.”

Eco-contest attention has now turned toEarth Day nominations for the HometownHero awards.

Th ese awards give “grassroots recognition”to the people who overcome environmentalobstacles and engage others in support of asustainable community, said Emily Lu, the pro-gram’s coordinator.

She said the program gives Canadians achance to “recognize and celebrate environ-mental leaders — whether an individual, group,or small business — who foster meaningfullong-term community awareness and action.”

Th e $10,000 award for individuals is split 50-50, with half of the award donated to an envi-ronmental cause of the recipient’s choice.

Th e $10,000 group award is given to supporttheir work, while the small business award isan all-expenses paid trip to a professional de-velopment course, workshop, summit or con-ference focused on environmental sustainabil-ity or conservation in Canada.

Earth Day was founded by Denis Hayes andGaylord Nelson (A U.S. governor) in 1970.Earth Day Canada is a national environmen-tal charity founded in 1990 that strives to keepEarth Day close to its roots and ward off at-tempts by businesses to co-opt the event to“green-wash” their products and services toincrease profi ts.

To this end, the group has trademarked both“Earth Day” and “Jour de la Terre” in Canada.

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To nominate a person, group, or business forthe Hometown Hero Awards, download thenomination package from www.earthday.ca/hometown and submit it before Earth Day onApril 22.


Th e next Green Drinks on April 5 will tackle the issue of global population and the pressure we collectively exert on the world’s resources.

Green Drinks are a decid-edly social event, usually held on a monthly basis in com-munities all around the world, from Argentina to Zambia, encouraging a lively mixture of people to come together to discuss new ideas, make con-tacts, and consider ways to improve the world we live in.

Guest Speaker Jack Alp-ert, director of the Stanford Knowledge Integration Lab, will return to Rossland for his second Green Drinks gig in our town, joining local panel-ists Aaron Cosbey and George

Penfold.Alpert will likely argue that

we have drastically underesti-mated the impact of overpop-ulation. A short documentary he posted online takes the stance that, if everyone were to “enjoy” a North American lifestyle forever, the planet could only support 100 mil-lion people, less than two per cent of the current global pop-ulation.

“I haven’t met him, but he sounds like quite the char-acter!” said Lea Th uot, the manager of the Sustainability Commission and the event’s main organizer.

Cosbey is an associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and specializes in climate change and ways to mitigate or adapt to its eff ects.

Penfold will bring his expe-rience as a researcher and theRegional Innovation Chair forrural economic developmentat Selkirk college. He will tryto untangle the implicationsof British Columbia’s rapidlyaging population.

“I think it’s going to be re-ally interesting,” Th uot said.“Especially in Canada, whereour population is actually de-clining, it’s tough to talk aboutglobal overpopulation andwhat it means for the wholesystem.”

Th e event begins at 7 p.m.on April 5 at the Rock CutPub. For those who plan towalk, a group will meet at theCentennial Trailhead at 6:30for a brief stroll and a chat onthe way up to the pub. “Other-wise,” Th uot said, “people arewelcome to carpool.”


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Alex AtamanenkoNDP

Atamanenko is a retired teacher who was fi rst elected in BC South-ern Interior in 2006 and then re-elected in 2008. He was the New Democrat critic for food security in the previous Parliament.

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Stephen HillConservative

Stephen Hill runs a business in the Greater Trail area which em-ploys 12 people. He has degrees in political science and business administration. Hill is married with two teen-age children.

Shan LavellLiberal

Lavell is a resident of Kelowna who has a nursing degree and a master’s degree in counselling psychol-ogy. She has worked as counsellor for the BC Cancer Agency and is also a foster parent.

Bryan Paul HuntGreen Party

Hunt grew up in the Southern Interior and currently runs his own software develop-ment consulting fi rm in Calgary. He describes himself as an outdoor enthusiast. He is mar-ried with four children.

“Th e reason I’m doing this is because they closed my chil-dren’s elementary school. Th ey’re now aft er my children’s high school, and if we don’t fi ght for our communities, what’s left to fi ght for?”

Hill says incum-bent New Democrat Alex Atamanenko is “a very fi ne gentle-man. He’s very intel-ligent, very articulate, a great singer and gui-tar player. He’s very good at karate.

“But I guess the question has to be: how many jobs has Alex created in the last fi ve years, and why do we have the worst unemployment in British Colum-bia?”

Atamanenko, how-ever, says he proudly stands on his record.

“A lot of things I do don’t make headlines. I have been helping communities and in-dividuals,” he says.

“My staff and I have worked really hard since I was fi rst elect-ed and we’re getting some very positive feedback.”

As NDP agriculture critic, Atamanenko says he is beholden to both his party and his constituents.

“My priority is the riding, but at the same time I have a responsibility on leg-islative issues. A lot of things I do nationally

resonate here on agri-culture.”

In the Midway case, Atamanenko gives Hill full marks for his volunteer ef-forts, but notes the mill has not reopened yet, and it remains to be seen what sort of eff ect it will have on the community.

“If things get going and he’s been instru-mental, that’s good. But I don’t know how many jobs will be cre-ated, what the con-ditions are, or what people are going to be paid.”

Atamanenko says he doesn’t usually get involved with specifi c issues unless asked.

“I try to cooper-ate with local gov-ernment offi cials and back them up on a federal angle. If there’s a provincial is-sue and I want to get involved, I check with local MLAs [fi rst].”

He believes the election is necessary aft er the government was found in con-

tempt of parliament, and that Hill must justify his party’s ac-tions.

Green candidate Bryan Hunt, who was raised in Kaslo but lives in Calgary, says he will soon be on the ground campaigning.

“My offi cial stance is that I do not think this is an election Ca-nadians want right now,” he wrote in an email. “I think it is a waste that could be spent better other places. Especially when the polls indi-cate the likely out-

come is pretty much exactly what we have now.”

Hunt says better cooperation between the parties could have staved off the election, “so I am a bit disap-pointed with them… Now that it has been called though, I am happy to campaign and get the word out about the Green Par-ty and myself.”

Th e Liberals re-cently announced Kelowna’s Shan Lavell as their candidate, as reported last week on rosslandnews.com.

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“My priority is the riding, but at the same time I have a respon-sibility on legis-lative issues. A lot of things I do nationally reso-nate here on agriculture.”

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Council was divided on Monday night over city staff ’s recommendation to hire ISL Engineering to produce a refi ned design and cost estimate for the Washington-Columbia infrastructure upgrades.

Ultimately, the motion to support staff ’s top pick out of 10 qualifi ed fi rms was defeated by a tied vote of 3-3, with Coun. Andy Stradling, Coun. Laurie Charlton, and Coun. Kathy Moore op-posed and Coun. Hanne Smith absent. Th eir reason was not disagreement so much as confusion: Th ey wanted more information to understand how staff made their decision.

Nobody denied ISL’s excellent quali-fi cations — the fi rm is perhaps best known for their high profi le work on the Sea-to-Sky Highway — but several felt that the ranking was not suffi ciently transparent to distinguish ISL from oth-er equally capable fi rms who could po-tentially do the job for less money.

Council had authorized up to $250,000 for engineering services, but staff ’s ISL recommendation suggested a budget of $300,000 for the fi nal class A estimate, with $50,000 or more going to a new class C estimate, even though such an estimate was already done by WSA Engineering three years ago.

CAO Victor Kumar explained that ISL had off ered to consider new ways of approaching the problem, so a new class C estimate was required.

But this information was not in coun-cil’s package, nor were several other cri-teria that infl uenced the staff choice.

Stradling concluded: “Th ere was nothing in any of these proposals to sug-gest which of these companies had the resources available to deliver this work in a timely fashion at a cost that is well within our budget.”

Aft er the defeat, Stradling forwarded a motion, which passed, to request that staff provide more information on the top four companies, in particular, “what’s the cost, what’s the schedule, what’s the deliverable?” Stradling asked.

Stradling’s managerial work with Teck has given him a lot of experience in assessing big engineering contracts, and he was concerned with what he saw before council.

“I couldn’t come to any agreement with the recommendation because all I was reading was a bunch of standard brochures from companies that are all qualifi ed and not one of them stood out,” he said.

“What gives me more concern,” he continued, “when we’re looking at a $300,000 contract with management of a $6-million contract, the appropri-ate management of the engineering contractor is critical. I’m not confi dent that in our evaluation, or in our staff , we have that person who’s going to manage this contractor.”

“Th is is a cost-plus estimate,” he ex-plained. “Th ere’s no schedule provided,

no cost estimate provided, no hours provided. As such, the city is incurring a risk where the contractor manages the job and there’s no accountability. What’s the process for reporting weekly on the hours spent on the job and progress to-wards a goal?”

Mayor Greg Granstrom, clearly frus-trated, claimed that Stradling and others displayed a lack of trust in staff .

“Th ere may not be every nut and bolt in this report,” he said, but “staff ’s recommendation has been put to us by considerable research.”

Moore responded, “We’re not elected to rubber stamp staff ’s decisions. It’s important for us to understand. I’m quite confused about what we’re buying here.”

Ten fi rms submitted qualifi ed propos-als for the city’s RFQ (request for quali-fi cations) and four were short-listed. Staff then reviewed costs, interviewed the four, consulted with the Ministry of Transportation — an ever-present part-ner in this project if all goes well — and checked references.

But Moore noted that references were only checked for ISL.

“When I used to hire people,” she said, “I’d check the references on a number of fi nalists, particularly when we have a situation when some of them were very, very close in points.”

Coun. Jill Spearn echoed these con-cerns and added, “I had questions around the data, and how we got there. I’m wary of the numbers.”

Th e staff report explained that the fi rms were ranked by four staff mem-bers on seven criteria, but only the total score for each fi rm from each reviewer was given in council’s package.

Th e reviewers — building inspector Jason Ward, city planner Mike Maturo, assistant planner Marie-Ange Fourni-er-Beck, and manager of fi nance Deb Timm — gave scores on the following criteria: 20 points for ongoing and cost-eff ective public sector work, 20 points for capital planning, grant writing, and civil engineering, 15 points for under-

standing municipal laws and processes,15 points for planning street redesignsand improvements, 10 points for traffi cand structural engineering, 10 pointsfor surveying and mapping, and 10points for pavement management.

To the consternation of Moore, Stra-dling, Charlton, and Spearn, no break-down of the scores was supplied andstaff gave council only two options: con-tract with ISL or abandon the projectaltogether.

A cursory inspection of the scoresalso reveals some inconsistencies. Forexample, Stantec received low gradesfrom three reviewers (between 66 and74), but Timm gave them zero. At theother end of the scale, Timm gave twofi rms 100 and two fi rms 98.

Spearn asked pointedly: “What expe-rience does Deb Timm have in justify-ing engineering contracts? I’m just ask-ing that question, I’m not saying that shedoesn’t.”

Spearn also felt that Group MMM“really spoke to Rossland and under-stood our community. How [do] yourank that?”

ISL’s nearest offi ces are Lethbridgeand Burnaby — all the other fi rms haveoffi ces in Kelowna, Cranbrook, Nelson,Castlegar, or Trail, and Focus Corpora-tion Ltd. maintains a permanent offi cein Rossland.

Focus received average scores fromthree reviewers, but a very low 35 fromMaturo with no further indications tohelp councillors make sense of this re-sult.

Charlton noted that the top fi rmsreceived scores that diff ered by mean-inglessly small amounts, so were eff ec-tively equal. He also pointed out thatthe scope of the engineering work is stillambiguous: “We still haven’t decidedwhat, exactly, we want them to do.”

Following Stradling’s request for in-formation on cost, schedule, and scope,the decision on which fi rm to hire forthe Columbia-Washington project willbe postponed until the next regularmeeting on April 11.

Coun. Andy Stradling (foreground) and Coun. Laurie Charlton were opposedto "rubber stamping" staff's choice of engineer without more details about theselection process than the sparse information provided in council's package.



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Tognetti and his brother were on a pas-senger train, heading home from their post on the border with France, when they saw that the train was pulling into a sta-tion that bristled with gun-toting Nazis. Th e engineer slowed down but did not stop, and went straight through.

Tapping his head, Tognetti said: “He knew what was going on.”

Th e rest of the war years were spent in the crossfi re, dodging bombs and mor-tars from both the Axis and the Allies, and “selling wine to both sides,” chuckled Tognetti’s nephew, Roland Guasparini, a medical doctor in Trail.

Tognetti married in 1947 and they start-ed to raise a family. Still happily married 53 years later, Tognetti’s wife passed away.

It was Guasparini’s father and others in the family who wanted to move to Canada, not Tognetti. Th e family had already estab-lished a long history of moving “back and forth” between Italy and diff erent places in North America.

“My cousins and others wanted to go, so I followed,” he said.

Guasparini told the story, “My dad

came home from the fi elds one day, tired and sweaty, and said, I’m sick of working in the fi elds! His cousin said to him, Well, they’re taking immigration applications in Canada.”

So Tognetti and several members of his extended family immigrated to Canada in 1950. He started off working on a farm in Quebec for $1.50 per day plus board, but soon moved to Trail, joined by his wife and their two children Ione and Sergio. A third, Lori, was born shortly aft erwards in Trail.

Arriving in Trail, Tognetti recalled, “I didn’t even know where I was!” Since then, though he may have moved around for work, his home has been at the corner of Lookout and Spokane, surrounded by family in a neighbourhood that mostly traces its origins to Italy and Scotland.

For Tognetti and his family in 1950, the tangle of steep, narrow roads mean-dering through a cascade of small houses and stone walls, stacked one on the other, was immediately reminiscent of Cardoso. Th eir Trail neighbourhood even has the same aspect as the hillside village they left behind, and to which he has returned six times to visit.

“I’m very happy that my family grew up here,” he said, noting the schools and the opportunities. He’s happy his children have been able to “make good lives for them-selves,” with all three living comfortably in Vancouver with their own families.

He worked for CPR and Cominco, mostly in the Warfi eld yard. “It was re-ally good,” Tognetti said, “I enjoyed it, and learned a lot.”

Refusing to be at loose ends when he re-tired, he set right into a new mode of life, swimming all year around, skiing through the winter, and gardening through the summer. He also took on new hobbies, such as building and refacing the rock-walls around his property, a fi ve-year proj-ect that earned him a place in the recently published book, Set in Stone — A History of Trail’s Rock Walls.

Th e multi-coloured stones in his mas-terful walls were collected from “all over the place,” from Waneta to Kamloops. Any time he found beautiful stones, he fi lled his trunk and took them home.

True to his Italian roots, Tognetti re-mains in close touch with the earth, hunt-ing mushrooms in the area from Salmo to Castlegar.

In his large garden he grows “every-thing,” from leaf crops and other veg-etables to a variety of fruit trees bearingapples, cherries, apricots — with peachbranches graft ed on — pears, raspberrybushes and more.

On Saturday, Tognetti and Guaspariniwill hit the road to visit Tognetti’s childrenin Vancouver. At 90 and fi t as a fi ddle, Tog-netti is still driving. When asked his secretto a long and happy life, his advice is sim-ple but strong:

“Eat good food,” he said, “lots of let-tuce, many kinds, big salads with onionsand vegetables. Drink a couple of glassesof wine each day. Cheese and prosciutto.”Laughing, he passed over a plate full ofcolourfully wrapped treats. “And eat lotsof chocolate!”

Excercise is clearly a part of his day-to-day routine, but he said attitude is just asimportant.

His nephew said, “He always has a goodsense of humour, and spins things in apositive way. He takes a positive view nomatter what.”

Tognetti smiled, “And I keep on work-ing hard all the time.”

“He never stops,” Guasparini laughed.

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His hard work ‘never stops,’ even aft er retirement

Spring is in the air, (well, sort of!) and the spring program guide is in the community. If you didn’t receive one in your mailbox, please drop by the recreation department or give us a call.

Th e “arena season” has just wrapped up and the ice is offi cially out of the building now. Public Works is readying the arena for Roller Derby, which will be moving in for practices and tournaments as of April 1.

Th e renovations and improvements to the arena last year were well re-ceived by the public who provided us with positive feedback for the recent facelift . Th e arena itself is enjoying a much busier schedule with increasing numbers of users booking ice time. If you were hoping to acquire ice time next year, the only available time in the evenings, on a semi-regular basis, is Saturday nights.

With suggestions from the public for more daytime hockey next year, we’ll be programming two more adult hockey ice times during the day. We’ve had a request for a 55+ men’s rec hockey and another co-ed rec drop-in hockey. If you’re interested in other opportunities at the arena next year, please don’t hesitate to come by the offi ce to discuss what you would like. We’re excited about how well used the arena is and look forward to working with groups who would like to obtain ice time.

Th e Rossland Pool opens soon and is currently accepting applications

from qualifi ed instructors and life-guards. If you are currently working towards full certifi cation, please drop off your resume for consideration. Th ere are casual and junior guard positions that can be fi lled by local youth who are still 16 and/or not fi nished their instruction certifi ca-tions. Students and local youth are given priority in the hiring process — if you’re interested in working at the Rossland Pool — don’t delay! Drop off your resume at the Recreation De-partment, or email it to [email protected].

Th ere are lots of great programs coming up! If you have a creative teenager in the house, check out the “Cartooning for Teens” class that starts April 6 and runs until June 8. Th e class is for teens 11-14 years and is taught by a certifi ed teacher who specializes in art.

Revolution Cycle is off ering a kids bike maintenance class on Wednes-day, May 18 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. and an adult class on Tuesday April 19 and Wednesday May 11.

Th e violin classes are popular! If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to play the violin, this is your chance to give it a try. Th e beginners class starts April 7 and runs until June 2, on Th ursdays from 7 - 7:45 p.m. Th e Beginners and Intermediate class is on the same dates but starts at 8 p.m. and runs until 8:45 p.m.

With elections in the air, maybe it’s time to start thinking about running for municipal council? Mayor Greg

Granstrom is hosting an informative workshop for those considering a position on council. Th is workshop will answer your questions and pro-vide you with a clear understanding of council’s roles and responsibilities. Th ere are two sessions to consider — the fi rst one is Tuesday, May 17 from 6 - 8 p.m. Th e second one is Th ursday May 19 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Th e workshops are $5 to register, with all proceeds going towards KidSport.

If you have a young musician in your midst between the ages of 3-4 years, check out the “Sunrise 2 Pro-gram” starting on April 4 and run-ning until June 6 on Mondays from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Th is is the second level preschool music class in the Music for Young Children music program. MYC is an internation-ally recognized music program with levels from preschool to teens. Th e Sunrise 2 class is a great introduc-tion to the curriculum and teaching philosophy. For more information please log on to the website at www.myc.com.

Th e recreation department will be working on the summer brochure in the next few weeks. If you’re inter-ested in running a summer program, please contact our offi ce. If you would like to run some kids camps, please let us know! We’re always looking for new and exciting ways to keep the kids busy and happy during the summer. Give our offi ce a call, at 250-362-2327 or email us at [email protected].


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‘Arena season’ has wrapped upRecreation, Education, Community - Rossland Rec Department

As the snow melts, we imagine storm drains running close to capacity, many of which spill into, and overburden, the sewage system. Th e design and cost to fi x this and other issues won’t be accurately known until engineers are hired to complete a class A estimate for the Columbia-Washington upgrades.

Important as hiring an engineer may be, it would be absolutely irresponsible for council to proceed without careful attention to details, particularly as the scope of the engineering proj-ect is ill-defi ned so a real risk exists for a profi t-focused fi rm to fl eece the town.

We applaud the councillors who opposed the recommendation of ISL. ISL’s qualifi cations are superb, but how staff chose them was relatively opaque, judging from the public materials.

Council and Rossland’s taxpayers deserve a transparent process. Cynically, our democratic institutions safeguard against back-room deals. More to the point, although we trust staff ’s good intentions, an elected council can improve deci-sions with perspectives that may not have oc-curred to staff , or diff er in other important ways.

We’re talking about a multi-million dollar project — an extra two weeks to reassess the process could be an excellent investment.

Finally, we have to object to Mayor Gran-strom’s meeting facilitation. He fl ushed with frustration, raised his tone against Coun. Stradling’s calm and reasonable argument, and accused the opposition of distrust.

“Forgive me if I sound rude. I’m not trying to be rude,” Granstrom said. Nevertheless, his irritation impeded his ability to absorb and con-structively assess an important message: Council doesn’t want to do staff ’s job, but they do want to see clearly how the job was done.

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Th e third annual Gath-ering at Red Mountain last weekend brought together legendary skiers, photog-raphers, and fi lmmakers to share their talents and regale audiences with their stories in a festival that celebrates the inspired images that arise each winter from the core of ski culture.

“It’s gaining steam,” said Red’s Mika Hakkola. “We had a lot of heavy hitters.”

Also gaining steam were two fully nude, apparently male skiers on Saturday af-ternoon. As this reporter sat on the Motherlode lift , one cried out, “I’m going to rip the s--t out of this,” before the pair charged Link’s Line and skied away.

Th e reference was to Gnar, the Squaw Valley game in-vented by iconic pro skier Shane McConkey who died in a ski-basing accident on March 26 two years ago.

For those unfamiliar with ski-basing, the Gathering had attracted extreme ath-lete and ski-baser Matthias Giraud from Europe, who explained how he had been inspired by McConkey to en-ter this sport in which skiers launch off massive cliff s and free fall before deploying a parachute.

Mike Douglas, the “god-father of freeskiing,” now a fi lmmaker, and also a close friend of McConkey’s, said to the Gathering, “[McCo-nkey] is the greatest skier of all time. He did more things for this sport and to inspire people than anybody else I know. He made us laugh; his legacy lives on.”

Douglas went on to show video of his pioneering ef-forts to ski-surf in Hawaii.

Kootenay local and “Red Sucks” star Mitchell Scott hosted the event both nights, keeping the crowd endlessly entertained. He gave big kudos to patroller Sparky Steeve’s burly line down the Microwave face, eight-year-

old Simon Hillis’s hard shred-ding and superior goggle tan, and his best in-bounds day of skiing ever thanks to the “shacks with beer every-where” on Red Mountain.

One of the evening’s high-lights was National Geo-graphic photographer Ace Kvale’s Vision Quest slide-show that documented the eff orts of three doctors to give free eye surgeries in Asia and Africa, as many as 1,000 in a week, between skiing and mountaineering expedi-tions and colourful encoun-ters with diff erent cultures.

“We can give people sight overnight,” Kvale said.

Marko Shapiro, dubbed by some to be the godfather of ski photography, began shooting pictures in the 1950s and winter sports in particu-lar in the 1970s. He told the crowd, “Th ere are a zillion factory riders. My show is dedicated to those couple of riders who, [understanding] that the life of a pro rider is not very long, have gone out to fi nd other venues to keep their lifestyle and their rid-ing going, like Leah Evans and Mike Douglas.” Shapiro’s show highlighted Domin-ique Perez, a pro skier who has spent years creating his

own shows and making his own opportunities.

On Friday night, local ski-ers Colston Beatson, Dane Tudors, and Leah Evans each gave presentations.

Local photographer Fran-cois Marseille took a turn, “documenting life on the oth-er side of the resort that most of you don’t know about and stay away from.”

His creative and hilari-ous short took us on a tour of a Rossland trailer on a ski morning following a binge, looking in on beer-can arch-ways, a mess of passed-out partiers — including a pair of snuggling ladies — and a couple pauses while the fl im-maker swigged whisky and burned blades before hitting the slopes with a case.

“I’ll see you at the end of the summer when I come out of rehab, or something,” Marseille said.

Filmmaker Derek Frankowski, a photojournal-ist by training who works to merge art with storytelling, gave a behind-the-scenes look at his well-known mountain bike fl ick, Life Cycles.

Steve Ogle, a skier, pho-tographer, and ecologist out of Nelson, presented a stun-

ning collage of photos and videos from his “best week ever,” not in the hills of a far away continent, but right here at home this February.

Presentations were also given by Grant Gunderson, the lead photographer for Th e Ski Journal, Whistler’s Leslie Anthony, an award-winning writer, editor, and fi lmmaker, and Derek Taylor, the editor of Powder Magazine.

“Red Mountain’s heritage as the original ski resort of Western Canada makes it the perfect location to bring together the old guard of the ski world with young up-and-coming skiers, snow-boarders, photographers and fi lmmakers of the vibrant Kootenay region,” Hakkola said, adding that the event is a sign of Red’s “growing reputation as a crossroads of international mountain pro-fessionals.”

Parties carried on into the night, with the Disco Inferno Party at Raft er’s on Friday and the Toques rocking the Steamshovel on Saturday.

Before the crowd dis-persed, Red Resort owner Howard Katkov announced, “Th e Gathering Four will continue next year, we wel-come everybody!”

Gathering brings out the many colours of our mountain cultureANDREW BENNETTRossland News Reporter

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Various skiers, photographers an fi lmmakers gave presentations as part of the Gathering at Red Mountain over the weekend.


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It’s time to pam-per your pooch and powder her nose, the fi rst ever Kootenay Mutt Strut will attract doggies from all over the region to partici-pate in a fun outdoor dog show on May 1 at Centennial Park in Rossland.

All proceeds will support the Trail branch of the SPCA.

“I am very excited about this fundraiser and am hoping to get people from all over the region to come out an participate,” said organizer Ida Koric.

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A delectable dinner will be served at the Gypsy at Red on Saturday evening, April 9, to raise badly needed funds for the SPCA shelter in Trail.

“It’s held together with duct tape,” Sue Wrig-ley said wryly about the shelter. “Th e BCSPCA is completely funded by private donations, we don’t get any government funds at all.”

Wrigley lives in Rossland and is a volunteer at the shelter, but she is also the regional di-rector on the BCSPCA board for the Interior East region (Cranbrook, Nelson, Trail) and a member of the Trail shelter’s community coun-cil, a fundraising and advocacy branch of the shelter.

Th e BCSPCA is legally required to provide the services necessary to enforce the provin-cial Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, but receives no monetary support beyond in-kind government donations such as some buildings, land, and lower lease rates.

“We’re just trying to meet the budget,” Wrig-ley said. “We break even, barely, but there are plumbing problems, exhaust problems, roof problems. We just want to spruce the place up. Everything helps.”

Many may know the shelter from when their pet was deposited there by a bylaw offi cer, but this dual role as the pound “is not a normal thing for the SPCA to do,” Wrigley said. In

Trail, however, the shelter has contracts withthe cities of Trail, Rossland, Montrose, andFruitvale. “It brings us in some extra money,”she explained.

Th e primary function of the shelter is to takein abandoned animals and put them up foradoption following a number of humane butcostly policies.

First, every animal that comes through thedoor must be spayed or neutered. Secondly, theshelter keeps the animals until they’re adopted.No animal is euthanized unless severe behav-iour or health issues prevent adoption.

To raise funds for maintenance and “to bringit up to some standards,” the shelter’s commu-nity council coordinates events such as thisdinner in partnership with Gypsy at Red.

“Gypsy at Red are such a huge supporter ofthe BCSPCA,” Wrigley said.

Dinner plus a glass of wine, costs $55, fromwhich $35 will cover costs and $20 will go tothe Trail Shelter.

Wrigley’s involvement comes from her “loveof animals,” and she hopes similar sentiments—and a love of good food — will bring a heartycrowd out to the Gypsy at Red for an eveningof fun.

Diners are encouraged to buy tickets in ad-vance, either at Gypsy at Red, Tails Pet Sup-plies, or at the Trail Shelter.

For more information, contact Sue Wrigleyat 362-5332. Th e dinner starts at 6 p.m. onApril 9.


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Th e Global Issues Club at RSS staged a T-shirt blitz to raise roughly $400 to support an orphanage in Cambodia.

Th e T-shirts, emblazoned on the front with the motto, “Build for their future” — a play on the RSS motto, build for the future — was designed collectively by the students, said David Sterpin, the club’s teacher.

“We were kind of secretive within our club,” explained Ne-maiah Shaw, designing and ordering the shirts without letting the word leak out.

“We convinced all the teachers to buy a t-shirt, which raised a lot of money in the fi rst place,” student Jake Fantin said about the next stage in the students’ undercover campaign.

“On the sly,” Sterpin said, T-shirts were sold to every single staff member in the building. “Custodians, teachers, secretar-ies, education assistants, they all supported the idea, every-body bought a shirt.”

Th en, when the shirts arrived, the club members came to school early, put up posters, and quickly distributed the shirts to all the staff — “a big schemozz,” Sterpin said, “as they’re all diff erent sizes, diff erent colours, diff erent arm lengths.”

In the coup-de-grace, everyone donned their shirts.Th e rest of the student body arrived at school unaware of

the plot that had been brewing. “A buzz was created,” Sterpin said.

Th e stir convinced more than 100 students to buy shirts as well, so altogether more than $400 was raised to support the Cambodian orphanage which Sterpin and his family — in-cluding his son Xander and daughter Hannah, also members of the club — encountered as they traveled through Asia in 2009 and 2010.

“Our tuk-tuk driver in Phnom Penh said to us, do you want to visit an orphanage? I thought that was an odd sort of thing to off er a tourist,” Sterpin recalled. “Eventually I realized that a) there was a need, and b) there’s some orphanage tourism there in some ways.”

In either case, the family agreed to go and ended up vol-unteering at the orphanage for more than a week, teaching English to the kids.

“Th ere were 26 kids living full-time at the orphanage,” Ster-pin said, “And they’re not all orphans, some of them are actu-ally kids with one parent who just can’t aff ord [another kid.]”

Mr Samid, who runs the orphanage, originally trained as a

monk, but then worked in the forest service before contract-ing malaria and fi nding his subsequent calling at the orphan-age.

Th e days were hot and, “God love ‘em, the food was aw-ful,” Sterpin said, but that is not the only diffi culty faced by the children. “Cambodia is really, really poor. It’s corrupt, the government’s awful. Th ere’s abject poverty next to obscene wealth, and very little in between.”

Sarita Dole, a club member who has also traveled to Cam-bodia, concurred. “Th ere really was no middle class, just the really rich and the really poor.” Dole also attributed much of the country’s problems to government corruption.

Considering solutions, Xander Sterpin expressed opti-mism. “Organizations like [our club] for sure help out.”

Racheal De Rosa added, “If everyone helps out, we can get people out of poverty.”

Julie Huttemann felt it was not only possible to make a dif-ference, but our responsibility.

“I think it’s important to do whatever we can. We’re really privileged here in Canada.”

Members of the Global Issues Club assemble in David Sterpin’s classroom earlier this month sporting the T-shirts with which they raised roughly $400 to support an orphanage in Cambodia. From left to right: Melissa Detimus, Racheal De Rosa, Xan-der Sterpin, Jesse Fuller, David Sterpin, Hannah Sterpin, Chloe Franklin, Sarita Dole - whose smiling visage obstructs Cambodia on the world map - Nemaiah Shaw, Julie Huttemann, Jake Fantin, and student teacher Corissa Rees.



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Coming EventsTRAIL GYMNASTICS CLUB Spring Sessions begin week of March 28. Register for preschool, co-ed, and boys classes only. Contact 364-5688. 1501 Cedar Ave, Selkirk College, Trail.SHANE PHILIP Mar 31, 7pm, Miners’ Hall. All proceeds to Japan Relief Fund, Red Cross. Tickets $25 at RossVegas, Drift , Clancey’s. Donations? Email: drift [email protected] DAYS Mar 31 and Apr 1, 10am-5pm, Ferraro Foods, to support the Rossland Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society. Contact Mary Hatlevik, 362-9452, to order.POSTURAL ALIGNMENT WORKSHOP Apr 2, 9am to noon, KP Hall, Trail. $30, register with Kerry Turner: [email protected]. Visit www.kerryyoga.com.SPRING SUPPER Apr 2, 5-7pm, St. Andrew’s United Church, $35/family, adults $15, age 6-12 $10, under 6 free.DUMMY DOWNHILL AND FINAL DAY AT RED Apr 3, 9am to 3pm, Red Mtn Resort.ROSSLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY AGM Apr 4, 7pm, meeting room. Everyone welcome.GREEN DRINKS Next: Apr 5, 7pm, Rockcut Pub, free admission. Topic: Global overpopu-lation. A group walk to the event begins at 6:30 at the Centennial Trailhead.DERBY DOES DALLAS Apr 8, 7:30pm, Royal Th eatre, Trail. West Kootenay Women’s Roller Derby League fundraiser. Two fi lms, costumes encouraged. $10. Licensed.FOLK DANCING - ENGLISH & CONTRA Next: Friday, Apr 8, 7-9:30pm, Miners’ Hall, New-comers welcome! $5 drop-in. Contact Dave Cornelius, 362-3319. INDOOR GARDENING TOURS Next: Apr 9, 6:30-8pm. $5. Hanne Smith: 362-7767.STREAMKEEPERS PLANNING MEETING Apr 12, 4-5pm, Library. Protect local wetlands and waterways. Contact Jen Vogel, 362-5624, [email protected]. All welcome.APRIL VERCH FIDDLE WORKSHOP Apr 16, 1-3pm, Miners’ Hall. Bring $25, a fi ddle, a tape-recorder, and intermediate skills. Register with Nadine: 231-7943.GNARLIE’S ANGELS VS BABES OF BRUTALITY Apr 16, Arena, Roller Derby action!SCOTIABANK MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WALK Apr 17, Trail. 20th annual fundraiser. For infor-mation, call 1-866-352-3997 or register at www.mswalks.ca.SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO SENIORS AGM Apr 17, 1:30pm, at the Trail Seniors’ Hall, under Selkirk College, Portland St. entrance.JOE HILL COFFEEHOUSE Next: Apr 17, 7-9:30pm, $3 for adults, free for students. To volun-teer or perform, contact Michael Giff ord at 362-7170 or giff [email protected] GUITAR DUETS Apr 19, 7:30pm, Rouge Gallery. Alan Rinehart and Clive Tit-muss play 16th C. Spanish to Fandango. $12 in advance, $15 at the door. 362-9609.WEST KOOTENAY CAMERA CLUB PHOTO SHOW 21st annual, Apr 29 deadline for submis-sions. Visit www.westkootenaycameraclub.com for contest details.FLOW YOGA WITH NORMA continues Mon/Wed, 5:30pm at Th e Annex until the end of April. Norma thanks all clients for the time shared, and reminds students with classes remaining to come out. She says, “Be well and thanks again Rossland!”KOOTENAY MUTT STRUT May 1, Centennial Park, regional dog show, all entries accepted.

Information at kootenaymuttshow.weebly.com or contact Ida Koric at 521-0403.CASTLEGAR GARDEN AND NATURE FEST May 14, 10am-3pm. Vendors ($30/space) andnon-profi t groups (free space) wanted. Contact 399-4439, [email protected] WITH KERRY Après-ski Yoga (fl ow): Tues/Th urs. 6:30-8pm. Yoga for Peace (re-storative): Sun. 10-11:30am. At Better Life Fitness. Visit www.kerryyoga.com.MORE YOGA Intro class, Mon. 5:30-7pm at Better Life Fitness. Spin & Hatha class,Th urs. 9-10:30am below Subway. Contact Lydia: 362-5083, [email protected] HOP CLASSES For all ages. Contact Megs: 362-3381, [email protected] CLASSES Tues., Miner’s Hall, with Shauna: [email protected]! Mon/Wed 9:30-10:30am. Tues. 6-7pm, Miner’s Hall, dance with Amber: [email protected], 362-7447, www.zumbakootenay.com. $55 for 10, fi rst time free.INTERMEDIATE PILATES WITH JACKIE Mon 7:30-8:30pm, Fri 6:30-7:30am, at Better LifeFitness. www.betterlifefi tness.net. Drop-in $12 or 10 for $95.OUT OF BOUNDS FITNESS Indoor cycling, Drill Fit, Pilates, strength training, cardio,core, and more. 1995 Columbia, above the Subway. www.outofb oundsfi tness.com.SATURDAY MORNING GROUP TRAIL RUNS Meet 8am at Mountain Life (BMO building)and carpool to adventure. Free drop-in, all levels, year-round.WEDNESDAY GROUP SKATE SKI 6:30pm, with Gerald, meet at Black Jack trailhead. Free.LESSONS AT LOOLU’S LOST SHEEP Sock Class begins Mar. 29, Knit Class on Apr. 2,Cabled Wrap Class on Apr. 6, Sweater Class on May 1. $2 drop-in. 362-5383.KINDERCARE AT RED 8:30-4 daily, 18 mo. to 5 yrs, ski lessons for 3-5 yrs. Punch pass,$250/10 half days. Contact Jenny: 362-7384, ext. 237, [email protected] GOOSE Rhymes, songs, fi nger plays and stories, 10:30-11:30am, Th ursdays atMacLean StrongStart Center. Free, drop-in, for caregivers and young children.HARMONY CHOIR All levels, new members welcome! Sept. 8 to April, Wed. at 7:30pm,J.L. Crowe Music Room, Trail. Contact Tammy, 368-8399.KOOTENAY DANCE WORKS Ages 3 to adult. Ballet, African, modern and more. ContactRenée Salsiccioli at 368-8601 or [email protected] AT THE LIBRARY Fridays at the Rossland Library: Tots (ages 3-5) 10:15-10:45 am and Books for Babies (under 3) 11:00-11:30 am. Drop-in. A parent orguardian must remain in the program room for the duration.PUNK ROCK BINGO 9pm to last call, every Wednesday. Join Rosie and Katie at the Fly-ing Steamshovel. $3/one card, $5/three cards. Proceeds to local families in need. ROSSLAND RADIO CO-OP Join, volunteer, host a show. Meet the 2nd Wed each month,7pm at the radio headquarters, Rotary Health Building, 1807 Columbia Ave.ROSSLAND SKATEPARK COMMITTEE 6-8 pm, fi rst Tuesday each month at the RosslandLibrary. Come be part of the process. COLUMBIA DISTRICT GIRL GUIDES Columbia District Girl Guides has units from Ross-land to Salmo for girls aged 5 to 17. Call 250-367-7115. Leaders also wanted.SCOUTING For boys and girls, now at the Rossland Scout Hall. Beavers (ages 5,6,7)Wed. 6-7pm. Cubs (ages 8,9,10) Th u. 4-5:30pm. Contact Shanna Tanabe: 362-0063.YCDC YOUTH NIGHTS Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or [email protected]. Art Night: Tue. 7pm; Movie Night: Wed. 6-8pm.CURLING AT THE ARENA Rossland Retirees Mixed, Mon./Th u., 9:30am. Beginners wel-come. Call Bill, 362-9462, or Jim, 364-1051. Also Ladies Curling, Mon., 7pm. BINGO AND FILMS Bingo Th urs., fi lms Tues., both at 1:30pm, Rossland Seniors’ Hall.ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BR. # 14 ROSSLAND General Meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. onthe third Wed. of every month. All members of Branch #14 are asked to attend.ROTARY CLUB OF ROSSLAND: Weekly meetings at the Rock Cut Pub, Mon., 6-8pm. All

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The Rossland Trail Country Club - Birchbank Golf Course is pleased to introduce new 1st year membership rates for the upcoming 2011 season. Tremendous Savings available for Singles, Couples and families

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Esso Imperial Oil

The BC Chamber of Commerce and Imperial Oil are pleased to offer the Esso Direct DriverBilling Program to all members, including a preferred 3.0 cent per litre discount off of fuel purchased at any Esso-branded service station.

Th e Corporation of the City of Rossland PRIVATE PUBLIC HEARING A public hearing will be held in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 1899 Columbia Avenue on Monday, April 11, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Th e purpose of this meeting is to give all persons, who deem their interests in the OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW, No. 2504, 2011(1) an opportunity to be heard.

Th e City of Rossland is proposing to amend its Offi cial Community Plan (OCP) Section 33, “Development Permit Area 2, Environmental Protection Guidelines, by adding a new clause to Section 33.4.3:

“No residential or commercial building or structure shall be constructed, reconstructed, moved or extended, nor shall any mobile home or unit, modular home or structure, be located within:

be followed by an additional clause, (d):

(d) 30 metres of either edge of Topping Creek. Ski lift towers and ski operations’ accessory buildings and structures (i.e. lift shacks), not including mechanical repair facilities, may appear within the 30-metre setback but only in compliance with provincial and federal regulations.”

While the City of Rossland’s OCP already contains statements requiring riparian setbacks which can range from 7 – 30 metres, Council has requested an increase to the Topping Creek Riparian Setback to a consistent 30 metres. Copies of the report initially submitted to Council are available on request and a copy of the proposed bylaw may be inspected at the Rossland City Offi ce, 1899 Columbia Avenue from 9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Monday – Friday or can be viewed on www.rossland.ca.

For further information please contact:

Tracey Butler, Corporate Offi [email protected]

As humans we expect a lot of ourselves. Regardless of what you do, striving to be the best you can be has its highs and lows.

I fi nd it humbling to be put in a position where I do not perform to the level I expect of myself. Regardless of the situ-ation I have high expectations of my abilities and when I don’t meet those expectations I get discouraged.

A fun ride with friends can quickly turn into a competition of me against the world; it’s not that I am comparing myself to my friends so much as compar-ing myself to my unreasonable expectations. Quickly that little voice in my head starts to berate me on not being good enough, fi t enough, fast enough, ballsy enough — whatever fi ts the particular situation.

Instead of giving up I have started to embrace these feelings of discomfort and use them to propel me to the next level. It is also great to know how it feels to be left behind. Without these experiences where is the motiva-tion to keep getting better?

I don’t think it matters what level you are at. Th is happens to the best of us. And, as a begin-ner, don’t forget that everyone starts somewhere, and for most there is always someone better.

It is important not to hold yourself back by thinking you

are not good enough; honestly how are you going to get better? If someone wants to get out and have fun with you that is what they want to do.

I have found time and time again that people will decline an invitation to get out stating that they are not good enough and they don’t want to hold me up. Th at is not a good enough excuse.

So take on the challenge, embrace the discomfort and use it to your advantage. One of the things I love about the Betty-GoHard participants is the way they feed off of each other; all of them turn up thinking they will be the weakest member of the group. Pushing those bound-aries and challenging those assumptions is as easy as seeing another at the same level as you do something you never thought you would do.

Th at same competitive spark fl ares up and the rules of the game change. Suddenly, things not imagined become possible and new doors open.

I dare you to feel uncomfort-able and love it!

Natasha Lockey runs Betty-gohard Women’s Action Sports

Community.Originally from New Zealand

she has been living andplaying in the Kootenays for

the past seven years.

Defy expectationsBeing Betty - Natasha Lockey

Mike Williams of the Rossland Lions Club presents a cheque to Noreen Poznikoff of the Rossland Eagles. The funds will go to Corbin Lew and will help pay for medical expenses while he is receiving treatment in Vancouver.

Lions for Lew

Submitted photo

The 531 Trail Air Cadets won silver in the West and East Kootenay Marks-manship Competitions on March 5 in Cranbrook. Last year, the Trail Air Cadets’ fi rst year at the competition, they won bronze.

From left to right: Sgt. Cameron Hos-sack, WO1 Colin Gurnett, Sgt. Jordan Hansen, Cpl. Ryan May and Cpl. Ethan Szabo.

Silver for Cadets

Submitted photo


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Erin Handy at the KAST (Kootenay Associa-tion For Science and Technology) head of-fi ce in downtown Rossland holds a poster advertising the “Community Science Cel-ebration” regional science fair coming up on April 2, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Nelson’s Selkirk College campus.

Science Celebration


Th e West Kootenay Camera Club’s 21st annual Photo Show is up and run-ning, with entry forms now available for photographers to enter photos in nine cat-egories before the April 29 deadline.

Photographers may enter up to three prints per cat-egory, to a maximum of 10 prints total. Th ere is an en-try fee of $6 per print.

All photos — including scores and the jury’s com-ments — will be exhibited at the Kootenay Gallery in Castlegar from June 3 to 5, and at the Visac Gallery in Trail from June 24 to 29. Th e grand opening at each venue will be from 7 to 9 p.m. on the Friday (June 3 and June 24, respectively.)

For $1, people who attend the photo show can vote their favourite picture for the People’s Choice Award and enter to win a framed print.

Th e camera club started

their “Annual Photo Salon” in 1991, in which 21 partici-pants gave 73 entries in three categories. Th e show, which was renamed the “Annual Photo Show” in 1996, now draws hundreds of entries in nine categories.

Th e categories are nature, fl owers, human interest,

photojournalism, creative, architecture, portraits, old, and an open category that covers everything else.

Th e photos will be rat-ed by four invited CAPA (Canadian Association for Photographic Art) or PSA (Photographic Society of America) certifi ed judges.

Rules to pay particularattention to include “nodigital alterations other thancropping or normal colourcorrections,” and submit-ted prints must be attachedfi rmly to a solid backing suchas matte board or foamcore(not cardboard.)

Entries must be at least8 by 10 inches up to 16 by20 inches. Th is is the fi rsttime such large prints are al-lowed.

In fact, panorama printsmay be up to 16 by 40 inch-es. Prints, which may becolour or black-and-whitein all categories, may not beframed or glassed.

Details can be found onthe entry forms that areavailable online at westk-ootenaycameraclub.com, atRHC Insuance in Rossland,Doell Photo in Trail, andVogue Studio in Castlegarand Nelson. Submissionsmay be dropped off at theselocations.

For more info, email [email protected] or call Eileen Hen-schell at 250-364-2878.

Violet Madrigga of the West Kootenay Camera Club says that composition, exposure, use of light and appropri-ate settings are things that comprise a good photo. This photo of hers took fi rst place in the club’s 2010 contest in the architecture category.

Violet Madrigga photo


Call for entries in annual photo contest


CAREERS AT CBTCBT has an opening in the Castlegar office for a Manager, Operations.

A detailed description of duties, skills and qualifications can be viewed at www.cbt.org/careers or requested from Debra Stewart at 1.800.505.8998.

Please forward resumes to [email protected] by noon (Pacific) April 8, 2011 for consideration.

Join us:

Holiday ReliefGraphic Design / Production

The Trail Daily Times is looking for an individual with exceptional ability in using / learning computer design programs.

If you are organized, thrive in a fast-paced deadline driven environment, then you should apply today.

Experience with Indesign CS3 and Photoshop in a Macintosh environment is required and internet, email and Word are de nite assets. The right applicant will be a motivated team player, with an innovative, creative approach to building advertising and marketing materials. Previous print production experience a de nite asset.

This is a relief position and the successful applicant must be eligible for union membership.

To apply, mail, fax or email your resume and cover letter with references prior to March 31, 2011 to:Barbara Blatchford,1163 Cedar AvenueTrail, BCV1R [email protected]: 250-368-8550

Only quali ed candidates will be contacted; no phone calls please.

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Ice Tech/Maintenance Workerrequired for Invermere & Dis-trict Curling Club 2011/2012. Responsibilities will include Ice making & maintenance of ice, general maintenance & clean-ing of Club. Previous ice mak-ing experience preferred but will train the right person. Please respond to:invermerecurling @shaw.caor leave msg 250-342-3315

MEDICAL OFFICE Trainees needed! Hospitals & doctors need. Medical offi ce & medical admin staff! No experience? Need training? Career training & job placement available! 1-888-748-4126.

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SOUTH ROCK Ltd. is hiring for all positions. Milling per-sonnel, paving personnel, safety advisor. Experience with asphalt preferred. Valid drivers licence required. Send resume: Attention: Tamara; [email protected] 403-568-1327;www.southrock.ca.

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An eager crowd of 25 gathered at Café Books last Saturday to hear from Dr. Ralph Behrens and his decades of gar-dening wisdom.

Th e turnout belies the recent upsurge in spring fever that has already seen Rosslanders digging the snow off their garden beds and planting seeds in their window sills.

Over the last couple decades, Beh-rens has worked hard on his property in Happy Valley, building an amazing system of rock walls around outdoor gardens, a greenhouse, and an orchard planted with the help of resident expert Scotty Miller.

Th e rock walls aren’t just beautiful, but function to “trap” the sun’s heat, cre-ating hot and dry microclimates for his seedless grape vines and espaliered fruit trees that he prunes onto hooks embed-ded in the concrete mortar. In general, Behrens doesn’t rotate his crops very much as he has matched each of his gar-dens many microclimates with the spe-cifi c needs of diff erent plants.

His favourite herbs are basil, parsley, and savory, and he takes a Rosemary bush into the greenhouse each winter, then moves the pot outside again in the spring. He likes to use mulch on many plants, but was clear to distinguish hay from straw: Hay, which is harvested green and oft en with seed heads, will lead to weeds.

Down below in his fi elds, his orchard has plums, cherries, apples, and both bartlett and anjou varieties of pear, which he highly recommends.

He warns against bosc pears, how-ever, that failed to ripen even in front of his rock walls, and he also warns against apricots which, aft er 10 years of eff ort, he abandoned as “too futile.”

His greenhouses are unheated but well-situated so plants such as his brown fi g tree can give him a good yield.

Snow may still carpet the ground, but Behrens already has tomatoes, pep-pers, eggplants, celery, and leeks seeded in pots, and onions direct seeded in his greenhouse to later transplant to out-door beds.

Behrens recommended glass and a light agricultural cloth known as re-emay to increase soil temperatures at both ends of the growing season. Even the hardiest plants won’t grow at all until the soil warms above 10 C.

When the time comes, he will direct seed many more plants in his beds, and some he recommends sprouting fi rst, particularly large seeded species such as peas, beans, corn, cucumber, and squash. Planted as sprouts, the plants grow up quickly and are less likely to rot in the ground.

Once the snow melts, Behren’s will amend his soil with a handful of basic products: manure, wood ashes, dolo-mite (a type of limestone), kelp, feather meal, and whatever compost he has on hand. He no longer uses fi sh fertilizer,

which “attracts varmints.”His compost also attracts varmints,

something that doesn’t bother him. He tried valiantly to keep the bears out with an elaborate Fort Knox of a composter, but the bears smashed it in. Now he has an open concrete-lined compost and lets everyone in.

He put’s everything in as well, from table scraps and yard waste to chicken bones and dead squirrels. “It doesn’t matter,” he said. “[My neighbour] Cher-yl is on my case when it starts to smell!”

It doesn’t smell now, and an addition of high carbon material such as wood chips or straw quickly solves the prob-lem balancing the compost and turning it into a healthy soil.

Behrens doesn’t bother tilling in his soil amendments, but just sprinkles them on the surface.

Dolomitic lime, for example, helps in-crease the pH of our acid, glaciated, san-dy soils, and also makes other nutrients more available. Dolomite, as opposed to regular limestone, has magnesium that is literally a central component of chlo-rophyl, the molecule that makes leaves green and captures energy from sun-light.

Rather than worry about nutrient ra-tios, Behrens just remembers that leafy crops need more nitrogen, while roots and fruits need more potassium and phosphorous.

Garlic, for example, is a bulb so loves phosphorous. Scotty Miller, Rossland’s garlic expert was on hand to confi rm what Behrens learned the hard way, namely that garlic should be picked be-fore the leaves turn yellow, usually in mid to late July, and they should be dried in the shade or dark, not in the sun where the bulbs turn to a translucent mush.

One nutrient that sometimes gets overlooked is boron, an essential mi-cronutrient that is oft en defi cient in our region’s soils. Boron is available in kelp meal, but minute quantities of diluted borax (boric acid) every few years can also do the trick, something on the or-der of a teaspoon in a gallon of water for

one tree.Some of Behrens’s information was

starkly personal, inspiring participantsto eat more home-grown fare: For ex-ample, more than half the nitrogen inNorth American bodies comes fromsynthetic fertilizers. Nitrogen, a ba-sic building block for proteins, is moststable as a gas in the atmosphere, but itcan be “fi xed” for plants either naturally— by soil bacteria — or syntheticallythrough a great expenditure of energyin the Haber process.

Behrens doesn’t have an elaborate ir-rigation system. He just waters with asimple sprinkler, using it “less and lessevery year” as he learns that his plantsdon’t need as much water as he used tobelieve. He doesn’t wait so long that theplants wilt, however. Some, like onions,never recover from that.

Now he waters roughly every otherday, sometimes testing how much waterhas fallen by putting a rain gauge, suchas a clear cylinder, in the middle of thegarden. He lets the sprinkler run untilabout an inch of water has fallen.

Sometimes he may dig a hole andsqueeze some soil from a few inchesdown. If it holds together, the soil is wetenough; if it crumbles, it’s time to water.

Finally, aft er all his hard work, whathe doesn’t eat straight away he stores inhis root cellar, an uninsulated partitionin his basement that’s relatively humid,with an air intake at the bottom of theroom and an air outfl ow at the top.

Diff erent vegetables require diff er-ent treatment. Behrens loves leeks, forexample, and plants a zillion, which heharvests, cleans, and keeps upright infi ve gallon buckets with a couple inchesof water in the bottom and a loose-fi t-ting lid.

Squash, however, are an exceptionto the storage rules. Behrens recentlylearned from Happy Valley farmersBob and Judy Kerby that squash is beststored warm and dry, such as on shelvesas decorations until the day they’re eat-en. Now he knows, aft er years of rottenroot cellar squash.

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Roller derby is back on track, and the West Kootenay Women’s Roller Derby League is smashing into the new season with a dou-ble feature of block bustin’ local “derby inspired” fl icks at the Royal Th eatre in Trail on April 8.

Derby Does Dallas: A Flat Track Film Fest, will raise funds to sup-port the burgeoning league and its raucous roller women.

Not only are the movies “amaz-ingly awesome,” according to or-ganizers, but there’ll be “loads of sweet swag to give away” and team

merchandise to buy.All the better to cheer on Ross-

land’s Gnarlie’s Angels as they take on Salmo’s Babes of Brutality in the fi rst bout of the season at the Arena on April 16.

Alcohol will be served to keep things good and rowdy, and derby themed costumes are emphatically encouraged.

Unfortunately, no minors are permitted to attend the party.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. on April 8, and the fi lms start at 8. Tickets, $10, are available at RossVegas in Rossland, Gerricks in Trail, Phat Angel in Nelson, and HTR in Castlegar.


Last Sunday, during the Fourth Annual Spring Formal on the back of Red Mountain, Duncan a.k.a. “The Duchess of Red” showed off his telemark skills while on his way to an important board meeting.

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The annual slush cup at Red Mountain fell on a cold and snowy Sunday afternoon, but a few hardy souls made the polar bear plunge in a range of fantastic costumes, wowing the big crowd with back fl ips and belly fl ops.

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Rossland’s Gnarlie’s Angels back in action on April 16

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