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Approval in principle has been given by city council for water access for snow making infrastructure on Red Mountain, but there are still several humps to clear before the project is realized.

The Red Mountain Racers Society was given the yellow light by city council last week to obtain water from Star Gulch reservoir for snow mak-ing purposes on Red Mountain.

The request made was to enter into a water use agree-ment between the city and the society for the purposes of establishing an athlete’s train-ing facility at Red Mountain.

But the city will first have to do some leg work to see if it can amend its water licence, said city deputy chief adminis-trative officer Tracey Butler.

“Right now we are investi-gating what it would take to approve that (agreement) with the licensing we have with the Ministry of Environment on our water reservoir,” she said.

Then the city will have to determine the costs involved to complete the agreement and obtain provincial approval, said Rossland Mayor Greg Granstrom. After that the city and the society will have to agree on costs.

“But council certainly agrees that it could be a benefit to the community, so that’s the agreement in principle,” he said. “But the nuts and bolts of it, there still needs to be some discussion.”

The city of Rossland’s popula-tion continues to grow while every other community and rural elec-toral area in the Kootenay Boundary region experiences a decrease.

According to figures recently released by BC Stats in the 2013 Sub-Provincial Population Estimates, the Golden City increased its population by .1 per cent.

Although the increase translat-ed into a gain of only two people (and you know who you are), the city was the only Kootenay-Boundary community that saw any increase over last year, rising from 3,588 people to 3,590.

The city is famed for its lifestyle and continues to draw people into the fold, said Mayor Greg Granstrom, even during tough economic times that effectively

siphon people off nearby commu-nities.

He also credited a concerted decision by the city to keep taxes as low as possible, and the vision to upgrade city amenities (Columbia-Washington project).

“So it makes it a place we all like to call home,” he said.

In 2012 Rossland’s population rose .7 per cent (26 people).

Of all provincial regions the Kootenay-Boundary saw the stron-gest rate of decline (2.1 per cent) in 2013, with a drop in population of 645 persons.

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7,307, a decrease of 237 people. Last year the Silver City decreased 1.9 per cent and has dropped almost 400 people since 2011 (7,693).

The rural areas of Kootenay-Boundary fell 3.3 per cent (327 people) to 9,498 people.

Warfield decreased 1.8 per cent to 1,672 people, a drop of 30 per cent.

Across the Columbia River val-ley, Montrose dipped .4 per cent to 1,032 (four person decrease), and Fruitvale lost five people in 2013, a .2 per cent drop to 2,036.

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Arts and culture

REDroc modern jive for beginners Check out the Tuesday beginner dance class at the Miners’

Union Hall. Discover modern jive, a creative, stylish and con-stantly evolving style of dance that doesn’t require tricky footwork or a partner. Loved by people of all ages, abilities and musical tastes. Every Tuesday night at the Miners’ Union Hall at 7 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students.

The Rossland Youth Action Network • Parkour, the “Art of Movement”Mondays and Thursdays, 7 p.m. at the RSS Auditorium, and

has already started.Involvement in Parkour requires consistent, disciplined train-

ing with an emphasis on functional strength, physical condition-ing, balance, creativity, fluidity, control, precision, spatial aware-ness and looking beyond the traditional use of objects.

St. Patrick’s Day teaRossland Sacred Heart Church is hosting it’s annual St.

Patrick’s Day Tea on Saturday, March 15 from 1-3 p.m. in the Church Gathering Space.

In partnership with the Rossland Council for Arts & Culture, there are lots of amazing film courses for youth coming up.

• Film & Editing Techniques WorkshopThe course is being held on Saturday, March 8 from 3-8 p.m.

at the Seven Summits Centre for Learning. The fee is $25 and includes a pizza dinner. This workshop is

for youth with intermediate skills, but advanced filmmakers are encouraged to come. It will cover all the bases, including pre-production, production and post-production.

• Ski/snowboard film and the importance of storyline Saturday, March 15 7:30-9 p.m. at the Miners’ Union HallJoin internationally renowned ski photographer Mark Shapiro

for an evening of watching new ski/snowboard films shot by film wizard Guido Perrini, followed by a discussion of the merits of a solid story and some great camera work.

• Film Special EffectsSaturday, April 5, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Miners’ Union Hall Get your film in tip top shape for entry into the U10 Film Festi-

val. Give it the edge it needs by learning special effects.

West Kootenay ostomy support groupMeeting on Monday, March 17 at 2 p.m., Kiro Wellness Cen-

ter, Trail. Guest speaker: Leo Salsman, Financial Advisor. For info, call 250-368-9827 or 250-365-6276.

Digital camera classes in RosslandHave a new digital camera but not sure how it all works?

Selkirk College’s photography Instructor, Ed Chernoff, will be in Rossland on Saturday teaching two workshops on using your camera to its fullest potential.

The morning class is from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and focuses on the basics of how to use your camera. The second class is from 1-5 p.m. and is an advanced class that covers the more creative side of using a digital camera.

The class location is in the Arena lounge on Third Avenue. To register for the classes, please call Selkirk College at 250-364-5770.

Mountain Bike Academy ProgramSeven Summits Centre for Learning is working on a Mountain

Bike Academy program for local youth. The program will start in April and run until June.

Program details include; trail building, bike maintenance, instruction and coaching and a trip or two out of town to check out the trails and Bike Parks in B.C. More information will be available soon.

Brett Wildeman has been slowly but steadily crafting his raw folk sound over the past few years while performing in intimate venues throughout B.C. and Alberta.

A Rocky Road Tour is an ode to the fossil fuel dependent path Canada’s federal and provincial governments are lead-ing us down, as the Joint Review Panel has given the green light to contentious Northern Gateway Pipeline.

The tour will stop in Rossland on Saturday, March 8 at the Alpine Grind Café.

The price tag on the Rossland Historical Museum’s renewal concept is sizable and is the biggest hurdle the city’s venerable facility now faces, says the museum society president.

Libby Martin said the $3-mllion estimate for the entire project is sizable, but it can be broken down into smaller, more digest-able modules so the entire vision could be achieved in stages as the money becomes available.

Charting the financial path is the key right now, and any potential museum friends to ferret out funds could be made at the next public meeting in the sec-ond week of April, Martin said.

“We’re hoping there would be some members of the community that would be interested in helping with securing some of the initial funding for the museum, some that are familiar with the granting

process,” she said.“It’s a bit of a call for

knowledgeable people to help out.”

The next step for the museum advisory commit-tee will be to figure out a funding formula, based on a combination of grants, corporate sponsorship and partnerships with senior levels of government.

The consultant hired to develop the renewal con-cept, Don Luxton of Vancouver, provided a list of various funding agen-cies.

The costs of the renewal concept have been deter-mined through an order of magnitude for each phase that can proceed indepen-dently as required.

The priorities for the plan have been determined so that the renewal can pro-ceed in a “logical manner” as funds are secured, Luxton’s final report read.

There is no more quib-bling on the specifics of the plan, said Martin.

“We’ve pretty much agreed that we like the

overall plan, it’s a question of the money,” she said. “If we get the money for the first phase, we’ll go ahead. And then we’ll go after money for the next phase.”

The renewal concept has been developed with the intention of meeting senior government criteria for funding without compro-mising local identity and programming.

To get there, some of the next steps include setting up a fundraising commit-tee, initiating a capital fun-draising campaign and approaching senior levels of government to deter-mine levels of project sup-port and appropriate fund-ing programs.

As well, corporate and community partners will be identified, and grant applications will be initiat-ed. The report will go pub-lic in the second week of April, although it is avail-able in its entirety on the city’s website.

The judges of the Kootenay Literary Competition (KLC) have chosen the winners of this year’s competition from among entries from across the east and west Kootenays.

Writers submitted work in the fiction, non-fiction and poetry catego-ries, and cash prizes will be awarded for the best work, plus publication in the KLC Anthology.

The winners will be notified on March 7, and receive their prizes at the Literary Gala celebration

on Friday, March 14, 6:30 p.m. at the Prestige Hotel in Nelson.

Angie Abdou of Fernie, whose book The Bone Cage was a competitor in Canada Reads in 2011, and whose second novel The Canterbury Trail was a finalist for Banff Mountain Book of the Year

2011 will be the special guest speaker.

Tickets for the gala are available at the door, with a suggested donation of $5. The 2014 anthology Refuge, will be available at the event for $7.

Rossland Museum Historical Society begins fundraising campaign for the $3 million renewal concept outlined in the newly-released consultant’s final report

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Total budget: ap-proximately $3 million

• Museum building: $2,085,000 for 10,700 sq. ft. = $195 psf

• Shed building: $490,000 for 1,920 sq. ft. = $255 psf

• Artificial rock, al-low $200,000

• Exhibit design and fabrication, allow $225,000

• Entry gallery $240,000 (includes $100,000 demo, disposal and hoarding costs)

• Mining experience $630,000 (includes $50,000 demo/dis-posal costs and part of cost of metal roof across entire back of building)

Artificial rocks $200,000, includes design of tunnel and mine entrance.

• Atrium $420,000 (Atrium and mining experience could be built concurrently)

• Industrial building shed $490,000

• Screen/sign/site work/exterior walls/windows $375,000

• Interior renova-tions $420,000 (in-cludes $80,000 struc-tural and $200,000 mechanical/electrical)

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The renewal conceptThe concept

includes recreating a section of underground mine tunnel (21 me-tres, 70 feet), complete with rocks, rails and water drips.

The renewal con-cept would open up the interior, creating a larger entrance gallery and adding on a full glass, well-lit atrium to welcome people into the museum.

As well, the outside artifacts would be housed in an industrial shed with level access and siting to create an outdoor stage for events and classes.

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The city is cancelling one of its two seasonal cleanup collec-tion services in order to cut costs for waste collection.

Over $5 per household will be saved by the city with cut-ting the offering of a free fall cleanup service, a significant achievement in the face of increasing costs for the service.

The waste collection bylaw will still provide a spring waste collection service to the resi-dents of Rossland, while absorbing the contractor’s increase of $8.25 per dwelling unit per year.

Providing a spring yard and garden waste collection offers the convenience of disposing of yard and garden waste for resi-dents; to reduce the number of trips that residents need to make to the Trail landfill to dis-pose of their yard and garden

waste and thereby decreasing the community’s greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce the instances of illegal dumping of yard and garden waste by resi-dents.

The new bylaw will see an overall reduction to each ser-viced home from $84.25 to $79.14 per year.

The spring cleanup service has been a much heavier used service than that of the fall cleanup service, manager of public works, Darrin Albo, told council.

But he said some people might be resistant to the cancel-lation of the fall cleanup.

Breaking down the costs, the city will charge a flat rate ser-vice fee of $63.14 per year per dwelling unit to fund solid waste collection and disposal services in Rossland.

In addition to the flat rate service fee, users wishing to utilize curbside pickup service,

shall purchase contractor stick-ers.

The city will charge a flat rate service fee of $16 per year per dwelling to fund the spring yard and garden waste collec-tion and disposal service in Rossland.

If a garbage service account balance remains unpaid on Dec. 31 in any year, the amount will be transferred to the tax account of the property.

Water ratesThe city will also be apply-

ing to the Columbia Basin Trust’s water smart match funding grant opportunity in order to hire a water rate con-sultant via a request for pro-posal process.

The consultant will assist the city in developing a long-term water utility rate structure.

The city will be budgeting $5,000 as their portion of the matching funding.

Sara Jane Maloff photoA fuel tanker truck overturned on the Schofield Highway Monday

morning in Warfield, causing a road closure until late in the day.Trail and Greater District RCMP Detachment temporarily closed roads

in the Warfield area—between Wellington Avenue and the Webster School area at Murray Drive—as a result of a commercial vehicle incident.

Road conditions are believed to be the culprit in the incident after a heavy snowfall that started Sunday fell unabated into Monday. No one was injured in the mishap.

Boundary Regional Fire Rescue and tow vehicles attended the scene.Small vehicles detoured through Bingay Road and large vehicles were

required to re-route through Castlegar and used Highway 3.The road was declared reopened just before 11 p.m.

If you own a small business in Rossland you can get financial help to hire a student over the summer by applying for a wage subsidy from Columbia Basin Trust’s Summer Works Program.

Application forms are available starting Friday, Feb. 21 at cbt.org/summerworks. Because the program is popular, people are encouraged to submit an application form as soon as possible.

Rossland’s The Red Pair Shoe Store was one of the businesses that benefited from the program last year.

“The Summer Works program is fan-tastic,” said owner Stephanie Robinson. “I can hire a student who needs to work during the summer months, and I can afford to give

her those hours. I would be one burnt-out person without this program.”

To help businesses offer summer jobs to high school and post-secondary students, the program provides a wage subsidy of up to $8 per hour for entry-level or career related positions.

Since 2010, Summer Works has helped cre-ate up to 150 student jobs each summer. For more info, visit cbt.org/summerworks, email [email protected] or call 1-877-489-2687, ext. 3644.


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Anyone who comes to visit Rossland spends the rest of their time away trying to figure out

how to get back here to stay.There is a magical draw to the

Golden City, and it is part of the reason the city has enjoyed marginal growth and some stability in years when all neighbouring communities are suffering decreases.

Maybe it’s the mountains, maybe it’s the closeness and uniqueness of the people, or its vast recreational opportu-nities, Rossland is able to remain a com-munity that people want to live in.

For all of its recreational abundance, unlike many other recreational meccas in the province, Rossland is still afford-able, in housing costs, taxes and stan-dard of living, as well as providing many of the services you would find in a larger centre.

Even despite the city’s lack of a major industrial employer, it has managed to fly a straight course and not bottom out drastically on the economic end of the spectrum, as well as the population end.

Like the city’s mayor, Greg Granstrom , noted, Rossland is a place you want to call home.

A place to call home

Ski hill etiquette should be common sense

Skiing is a won-derful sport. It involves many

people sliding in dif-ferent directions on a slippery surface.

There are some uni-versally recognized rules to maximize the enjoyment and mini-mize the risks of inju-ries through the inter-action of all those ski-ers.

These basics rules are often printed on lift tickets. Part of the education of skiers involves understand-ing those basic rules that can be called alpine (skier or board-er) safety code. They are often referred to as responsibility code or etiquette.

I don’t think that the word etiquette is a strong enough word. Often we associate eti-quette to how we should use our knife in a restaurant. It is often just a matter of prefer-ence if we put it on the side of the plate between usage or not.

However, the safety rule goes much fur-

ther. The safety rule means that we don’t want to harm our neighbour. We should not plant our knife in our neighbour’s body.

Those rules are pre-sented in a variety of ways and often with different emphasis, however, the main rule that is always present and is considered the most important: People ahead of you have the right of way. It is your responsibility to avoid them.

It is easy to under-stand that the skier ahead of you does not have some rear view mirror and that she/he should concentrate on looking where he/she is going for their own safety and the safety of the skiers below.

The skier from behind sees the whole situation and can take the necessary correc-tions even if it involves changing their desired path or speed.

After a few days off because of ankle prob-lems I wanted to try my aching joints. I did

not even make it to Mother Lode. While doing gentle turns on the slope towards the chair once I passed Main Run, I was hit with such violence that I was suddenly air-borne without skis.

The projectile that hit me was further down the hill. He was a mature person, with a season’s pass. He was polite enough to say his name when asked (however, I won’t divulge it not to embarrass him).

The scariest part is that this mature person could not realize that it was his responsibility to avoid me. He sought all kinds of mitigating factors as he said “our skis bare-ly clipped.”

The factors: I was

doing gentle turns at a relatively low speed; It was not a bullet attack-ing him at an angle; I was well below him; I was very visible; I have a very bright green jacket so that my wife who is legally blind can follow me more easily; There was probably nobody else on the slope around us.

The intensity of the contact: I weight 185 pounds and I was pro-jected down the hill right out of my bind-ings; Through my jack-et and two sweaters the skin was scraped off my left forearm near the elbow for a length of about 10 cen-timetres.

The impact contin-ued to my ribcage with the result that I won’t

be able to sleep on that side for quite a while and my movement is limited. I feel very for-tunate that my left forearm absorbed much of the impact (probably his ski pole) otherwise I might have had a perforated lung. Imagine the same impact on a less visible young kid.

What is the scariest is that this skier never learned anything from that experience. Many parents are thinking twice about hockey because of the physical dangers.

I know many peo-ple who are thinking twice about skiing because of the numer-ous skiers like the one who did hit me.

Paul Picard is a Rossland resident.

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Just a little note for the motivation of this column:I was the 67-year-old skier who got lost on Grey

Mountain and ended up spending the night sitting on his skis before successfully walking to the Big Sheep Road near kilometer 10 where I was picked up by a helicopter.

That extremely long night was a very special expe-rience where I could not tell if I would survive or not. I was lucky enough that my body, through extensive shivering, could stay at an acceptable temperature during the night, and there was enough energy left in the morning to allow me to scramble through to the Big Sheep Road.

The fact of having my ski boots on for about 30 consecutive hours resulted in quite a sore spot on my left ankle. All the scrambling under, over and through obstacles did not help my arthritic knees.

I find it very ironic that, when I first tried skiing again, within 30 seconds I ended up being injured more seriously than what I suffered through that 30-hour ordeal.

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International Women’s Day 2nd Annual Contest2014 AnsWers

In THe LOWer COLUMBIA reGIOn:A Living Wage is the amount for a family of 2 adults and 2 children (age 4&7) that must be earned to meet common household needs in a specific area or city. In the Lower Columbia Region, with each parent working 35 hours per week, each parent must earn $18.15/hr to meet these needs.

1. What percentage of the above family’s monthly income is dedicated to childcare? a. 20% b. 25% c. 35% d. 10%

2. How much does this family pay in food each month (based on the Dieticians of Canada’s Healthy Food Basket)?

a. $926 b. $755 c. $832 d. $467

3. What is the average cost of a 3-bedroom rental, including utilities, in the Lower Columbia region?

a. $1048 b. $873 c. $925 d. $768

4. What specific issues do you think prevent women in our community from earning a Living Wage?

We know that transportation, education, employment, childcare shelter, and health are top barriers. Did you identify any others?

5. What does a “Family Friendly Workplace” mean to you?_ Family Friendly Workplaces offer programs and initiatives to employees with young

families, including but not limited to flexible work hours, child care assistance, parental leave top-ups. Are you a Family Friendly Workplace? Please let us know at [email protected].

Did you enter for a chance to win a $50 gift card to shop at you local grocery store?

In honour of International Women’s Day (Saturday March 8th), Women Creating Change asked you about women in the Lower Columbia Region (Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Fruitvale, Montrose, Area A, and Area B).

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The society will have to raise approximately $2.1 million to fund the development of the training facility and the snowmaking infrastruc-ture, according to their preliminary estimates.

The new training facility could bring approximately 5,000 athletes to Rossland in the month of November, as well as several thou-sand more in late spring for post season training.

Under the terms of the five-year draft agreement, the society agrees they will not use any additives, chemi-cals, agents or substanc-es in connection with the snowmaking activi-ties.

The society will also provide adequate back-flow protection to insure that the water system and water supply facili-ties of the municipality are not damaged by any backflows, depressur-ization or drainage which may occur in con-nection with the opera-tion, maintenance or shutdown of the snow-making equipment and facilities.

As well, the city will “use its best efforts to provide the Racers with the snowmaking water as provided herein, however, the Racers shall have no guaranty of and no absolute right to receive water from the Municipality as this will be limited by the physical limitations of the delivery system and the availability of a water source to supply the snowmakmg water.”

In the agreement, in the event water levels in

the city’s reservoir drop below acceptable eleva-tion, as determined by the city’s engineer, the snowmaking infrastruc-ture will automatically shutdown.

The society would own the snowmaking equipment and enter into a long-term operat-ing and maintenance agreement with Red Mountain Resort for the training facility.

The $2.1 million would go toward installing snowmaking on Red Mountain and purchasing the neces-sary equipment to oper-ate 10 training lanes and a terrain park.

Other improvements to be funded include a multi-purpose building which will provide coaches and athletes a space for meeting and for video analysis, as well as a race and events office.

The proposed snow-making system would be fully automated and would have sensors which would turn the system off if at any time the reservoir levels went below the elevation pre-determined by the city’s engineers.

The slopes would provide approximately 10 training lanes and could accommodate between 100 to 200 ath-letes per day, said Andison.

“This means we could bring an addition-al 5,000 people to Rossland during the shoulder seasons of November and April for pre- and post-season training,” she [email protected]

The North Face presents B4BC’s Shred The Love Breast Cancer Benefit and Red Mountain Resort hosts “ReTreat Yourself” for cancer survivors on Saturday, March 8.

The event is an inclusive ski-and-ride day where Red Mountain Resort will donate 50 per cent of its day ticket reve-nue to help raise funds for several of B4BC’s initiatives, including scholar-ships through the Survivorship Fund to ReTreat Yourself, a yoga, ski and snow-board retreat for women who have been affected by breast cancer.

Activities at Red on Shred The Love Day will include ski and snowboard demonstrations as well as breast cancer screening info booths.

IN BRIEFShred the love at Red

Bill 13, the Off Road Vehicle Act intro-duced today, promises certainty, safety and regulatory structure for thousands of off-road enthusiasts.

The proposed Off Road Vehicle (ORV) Act replaces the 40-year-old Motor Vehicle (All Terrain) Act with a modern management structure, designed to align with existing regulatory regimes at mini-mal cost.

Increased use of quads, snowmobiles and other ORVs has helped British Columbians get out and enjoy the beau-ty of the province’s backcountry. Bill 13 will help ensure these vehicles are driv-en in a safe and environmentally respon-sible manner.

The act, if passed and brought into force, will:

• Establish a one-time registration system specifically designed to integrate with the pre-existing structure of the ICBC’s vehicle registry.

• Allow the development of regula-tions on the rules of operation (such as wearing helmets), safety standards and conditions of use.

• Provide officers with more effective enforcement tools to target the small number of irresponsible ORV owners that endanger others or damage sensi-tive habitat.

To view a copy of the bill and view its progress through debate, visit: www.leg.bc.ca/40th2nd/4-4-40-2.htm.

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In the Boundary region, Grand Forks bled a little with a decrease of 36 people, a .9 per cent drop to 4,026. The City of Greenwood saw six fewer people in 2013, a .9 per cent drop to 699. Midway lost two people in 2013 to record a .3 per cent drop to 663 people.

On an annual basis, BC Stats pro-duces sub-provincial population esti-mates using the generalized estimation system (GES). This regression model uses symptomatic indicators such as health client registry and residential hydro hook-ups to gauge population growth from one year to the next. These estimates assist in local and provincial government planning processes.

In the other West Kootenay region, the Regional District of Central Kootenay also declined, but by only .5

per cent, or 321 people.Nearby Castlegar dropped by 98

people, or 1.2 per cent in 2013 to 7,762 people. Nelson rose slightly, 24 people, to 9,877, or .2 per cent. Creston fell 4.8 per cent to 5,169 in 2013, a drop of 261 people.

The other mountain cities of Golden and Revelstoke both dropped in popu-lation, .9 per cent and .1 per cent respec-tively. Revelstoke lost six people to come in 2013 at 7,241, while Golden fell to 3,691 (35 person drop).

In the East Kootenay, Cranbrook fell one per cent to 19,245 (198 people), while Kimberley slide by 100 people to 6,406 (1.5 per cent drop). Fernie came in at 4,538, down 1.2 per cent in 2013, or 56 people.

Across the province, Peace River showed the highest regional growth in 2013 (2.1 per cent) with a boost in popu-lation of 1,280 persons.

In terms of actual number of people, Greater Vancouver, the most common

destination of choice for immigrants landing in B.C., saw the largest increase in population (34,702 persons) in 2013.

Surrey attracted more newcomers than any other municipality between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013 (11,116 persons or 2.3 per cent).

Of the 10 largest (over 100,000 peo-ple) municipalities in the province, Kelowna, Saanich and Delta showed a decline of 0.2 per cent, 0.4 per cent and 0.1 per cent, respectively.

Amid municipalities with greater than 5,000 people, Creston and Port Alberni reported the fastest rates of decline (4.8 per cent and 3.3 per cent, respectively).

The coverage of B.C.’s geographies using GES focuses on 189 areas com-prised of 162 municipalities and 27 unique aggregations of unincorporated areas.

Most of the province’s residents (almost nine in every 10 persons) live in municipalities.

Smart meters are coming to the city of Rossland.FortisBC confirmed that the project to install new technology will begin

in the fall of this year.“We plan to advise customers well in advance of work commencing in

the area,” said FortisBC spokesman Neal Pobran.There will be approximately 130,000 meters installed throughout

FortisBC’s service territory, and about 2,300 meters to be replaced in Rossland.

In July of 2013, FortisBC received approval from the BCUC to install advanced (smart) meters in all its customer’s houses. Pobran said FortisBC will be employing a subcontractor to do the actual meter exchanges in Rossland.

“This was something we proposed in the original application to the B.C. Utilities Commission as a way to keep project costs low for our custom-ers,” he said.

The work in Rossland is expected to be complete by early 2015 and the advanced meter project in the area to be completed by the end of 2015.

Pobran said there was still an opt-out clause in effect for Rosslanders.“Advanced meters bring many benefits to customers, but for those who

have concerns there is a radio-off option, meaning customers can get an advanced meter with the radio disabled,” he said.

The cost, which was approved by BCUC in December, is $60 before the meters are installed and $88 afterwards. The customers would also have to pay $18 every two months to have the meter read manually.

“It’ll be a new advanced meter, but the radio will be turned off if that’s what the customer wishes,” said Pobran.

More information on the radio-off option can be found on the FortisBC website or by calling the contact centre at 1-866-436-7847.Meter reading

During the Fortis BC employee lock out electrical meters were not being read. That is changing now that FortisBC employees are back to work, said Pobran. Pobran said that if customers don’t think their bill should be so high, they should give the company a call. The company could make adjustments to customer’s previous bills based on that collected data.

Get ready for another exciting season of camping, hiking and picnicking as BC Parks’ reservation system, Discover Camping, pre-pares to open. Starting at 9 a.m. (Pacific time) on Saturday, March 15, 2014, Discover Camping will begin accepting reservations at most campgrounds. In total, there are over 5,200 easily accessible (frontcountry) camp-sites. Up to three reservations can be made in one easy transaction. Individual front-country sites are available up to three months in advance, while group sites are available up to 12 months in advance of your arrival date. Book your favourite camp-ing spot on or after March 15 at: www.dis-covercamping.ca.

IN BRIEFCalling all wilderness explorers

The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is urging backcountry recreationists to avoid aggressive, unsupported avalanche this week. Areas of heightened concern are the Valhallas and mountains surrounding Slocan Lake, and the Kootenay Boundary, southern Purcells, and South Rockies regions.

“While we expect to see fewer natural avalanches, tricky conditions persist and there is serious potential for human-trig-gered avalanches,” says senior avalanche forecaster James Floyer.

The CAC advises recreational backcoun-try users to remain very conservative in their terrain choices, and stick to more moderate terrain.

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Sports

Our U16 athletes recently returned from competing in the provincial championships, which included six days of rac-ing at the Purden Ski Village just outside of Prince George.

Red Mountain Racer Soleil Patterson stole the stage with three golds and one silver. After being sidelined with a concus-sion for almost six weeks, Soleil came back with a vengeance and was crowned the U16 over-all provincial champion for 2014.

She has qualified to com-pete at Whistler Cup where she will take on athletes from across Canada and around the world.

Even though there is one more week of training for Nancy Greene Ski League ath-letes, the racing wrapped up this past weekend with the sea-son finale on stellar snow con-ditions at Salmo. Red Mountain

Racers had solid performances and a great time skiing on a very snowy day.

Nine-year-old Chase Eagleton stood on the podium twice in the U10 category with a bronze in the slalom and win-ning the GS.

Radek Krampl took bronze in the U12 GS, and Bella Vockeroth Fisher also came home with a bronze. With a free hot dog and a medal around their necks, it was a great way to end the season.

The U14 athletes traveled to the BC Games to compete in the giant slalom, slalom and skicross events held at Hemlock Ski Resort.

Unfortunately, weather pre-vented the U14 men from com-peting in all but one event.

While all of the athletes had solid results Kaysa Panke and Sammie Gaul brought home the hardware. Kaysa brought home a bronze medal in slalom and a silver medal in giant sla-lom. Sammie came home with

a silver in the ski cross event. March will be a busy month

for all Red Mountain Racers. The FIS racers are currently in Kimberley for a speed camp followed by four days of rac-ing.

The U12 racers depart for the Interzone Championships in Big White March 8-9. The U14 Provincial Championships take place in Sun Peaks March 13-16 and the U16 CAN AM Westerns take place at APEX March 17-23.

Plans are under way for a Nancy Greene mini Ski Camp over spring break and there are rumours of a race-your-parent day to wrap up the event.

Stay tuned to redmountain-racers.com for more informa-tion.

The race season continues for the older racers right into the second week of April. It continues to be an action packed season and we wish the athletes the very best in their upcoming events.

Bernie Hoffman photoAfter six weeks off recovering from a concussion in Fernie, Soleil shows the province how it’s done after taking three gold and a silver at this year’s U16 Championships in Prince George.

Soleil Patterson crowned U16 overall provincial champion

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HOW IT WORKS - Students are required to submit a business concept paper for their business idea (standard outline provided), and a brief 1.5-2 minute video elevator pitch, explaining their business idea and why they should be chosen to compete in Junior Dragons’ Den. Video submissions will be viewable online at www.juniordragonsden.ca and be eligible for voting.

THE TOP FIVE - The top � ve applicants from each category will then work on re� ning their business concept into a formal business plan (outline and template to be provided), as well as create and submit an updated video elevator pitch for their business.

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Tango classes starting upRecreation, Education, Community Rossland Rec Department

Spring brochure The REC Department will start working on

the Spring Brochure and if you’re interested in submitting a program or course, the deadline for the Spring Brochure is March 1.

The brochure will hopefully be available to the public online, by the third week of March.

Typically the Spring Brochure covers the months of April, May and June with many Rossland Pool details included. Spring break will run March 17-28. If you are interested in running a spring break camp let us know as soon as possible so we can work out details and start advertising right away.

Rossland Arena – available iceThe last day of operations at the Rossland

Arena is on Friday, March 14. If you’d like to rent ice in the first two weeks of March, there are lots of ice times available. Please contact the Recreation Department to inquire about avail-ability.

Public skating schedule, March 3-9Public skating this week is on Sunday, March

9 from 6-7:30 p.m. For more information about admission prices, skate rentals and more, please log onto the city’s website, at www.ross-land.ca, then arena page.

Adult co-ed recreation hockeyAdult Co-Ed Recreation Hockey at the

Rossland Arena is coming to an end soon. The last Sunday ice time is Sunday, March 9. If you haven’t played yet, don’t delay.

Rossland Seniors HallThe Rossland Seniors Hall has lots of great

activities running through the week.On Mondays at 1:30 p.m. the Rossland

Seniors Art Club meets. Contact Edith Harasin at 250-362-5477 for more information.

On Monday evenings, the Rossland Quilters Guild gets together at 7 p.m. Contact Deyanne Davies at 250-362-7727 for more information.

On Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. the Rossland Golden City Old Time Fiddlers prac-tice and play. The public are welcome to sit in and listen to the old time fiddlers play their music. Contact Richie at 250-362-9465.

Seedy Sunday – March 17Rossland’s annual flower and vegetable seed

sale event with local seeds grown right here in the Kootenays. Save the date, Sunday, March 17 from 1-4 p.m. at Rossland Secondary School. Seed vendors include: The Seed Basket, Cherry Meadows Farm, Mountain Seed Co. and Stellar Seeds. If you have your own seeds to swap or sell, this is the place to come.

Tango classes in RosslandBeginning today a new class of beginner

Argentine tango classes starts. The seven-week series will work with foundations of tango—which is all about walking in connection with your partner and finding ease and flow in that connection. Contact Heather, at [email protected] or 250-505-0109 for more information, class fee and location.

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Nine Skaters from the Rossland Figure Skating Club travelled to Revelstoke on the weekend of Feb. 21-22 to participate in a test day.

The skaters, coached by Sabrina Hinson, were part-nered for their dances by Michael Farrington, who competed in dance in the 1988 Olympics. Skaters passing tests were as follows:

• Elle Ballendine - baby blues

• Erin Flood - baby blues

• Loren Corkill - baby blues, swing, fiesta tango and pre-liminary skating skills

• Morgan Corkill - swing, fiesta tango and preliminary skat-ing skills

• Brian Chan - canasta tango, baby blues, fiesta tango, preliminary skating skills, preliminary freeskate test - ele-ments and solo

• Desiree Cassidy - junior bronze freeskate - elements and solo

• Payton Reed - blues and starlight waltz

• Ella Knight - junior silver skating skills, junior bronze freeskate - elements and solo

• Sianna Tomich - gold skating skills, gold interpretive and junior silver freeskate elementsUpcoming

Next up for the skaters is the Year End Ice Show on Wednesday, March 12 from 4:30-6 p.m. The public is welcome to attend.

Nine skaters hit test day in Revelstoke

Submitted photoRossland Figure Skating Club, from left: Brian Chan, Morgan Corkill, Loren Corkill, Elle Ballendine, Si-anna Tomich, Payton Reed and Desiree Cassidy of the Rossland Figure Skating Club. Missing from the photo is Erin Flood and Ella Knight.

The Rossland Fig-ure Skating Club is go-ing to the movies. It’s that time of year when skaters are practicing their performances for the year end show on ice. This year’s theme ranges from the young ones dressed up as bumblebees from the modern Bee Movie to some oldies from the 60’s stint of Hairspray.

The showcase should be loads of fun and entertaining for the club and anyone from the public is welcome to attend. There will be refreshments avail-able and a donation is encouraged.

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Further afieldSabrina Hinson; the head coach has much to be

proud of, as the club wraps up the season. Some members of the RFSC are also heading to

Kelowna this weekend, March 8 for the Super Series Figure Skating Competition which gets streamed online for viewers from afar. The RFSC has the op-purtunity to attend several dance tests in Fruitvale on March 15 and a Spring School in April to advance their skating skills, hosted by the Beaver Valley Club.


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The Trail Regional BCSPCA currently has a handsome older gentleman looking for his retirement home. Nunu is a 10 year old neutered male with a short black and white coat. Nunu can be nervous when things change too quickly for him, so would do best in a quiet and relaxed home. Nunu doesn’t require much to be happy and offers affection warmly when he feels safe in his environment. Although he is older, he has a lot of love to offer the right home. You can contact the Trail BCSPCA at 250-368-5910 or [email protected] for more information on Nunu,

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The Trail Regional BCSPCA currently has a handsome older gentleman looking for his retirement home. Nunu is a 10 year old neutered male with a male with a short black and

be nervous when things change too

him, so would do best in a quiet and relaxed home. Nunu doesn’t require much to be

Nunu

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This weeks pet of the week is a beautiful girl named Issis. She is a three year old Siamese cross. This beautiful cat would be ideal for a senior or a quiet person. Issis was brought to the shelter after her owner passed away and no one could look after her. She is a quiet, clean, very sweet girl. When you � rst meet Issis she plays shy, but give her some time and she will show you her true colors. Issis would do best in a home without dogs, children, or a lot going on. Issis would love a warm bed to lie in all day long, or a spot on the couch beside you. Over all Issis is very laid back and does not need a lot of attention all the time. She is a very independent girl just looking for a warm home.

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This weeks pet of the week is a beautiful girl named Issis. She is a three year old Siamese cross. This beautiful cat would be ideal for a senior or a quiet person. Issis was brought to the shelter after her owner passed away and no one could look after her. She is a

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The Kootenay East, Nelson-Creston and Kootenay West electoral districts are part of the Columbia-Kootenay Region described in Bill 2 and could be subject to change, if new legislation passes.

Bill 2 seeks to amend the principles that will instruct the independent Electoral Boundaries Commission. The proposed legislation would preserve the current number of electoral districts in northern and rural regions of the province that are most at risk of losing representation in the legislature. This includes the Columbia-Kootenay region that has Rossland in it.

But the Electoral Boundaries Commission can recommend changes to the boundaries of indi-vidual districts within the Columbia-Kootenay in order to balance population across the region as a whole.

The proposed amendments to the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act are outlined in a white paper released recently by Attorney General and Justice Minister Suzanne Anton.

The white paper is available for viewing at http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/legislation/ebca/index.htm. If passed in the spring sitting of the legislature, the amendments will give the next Electoral Boundaries Commission (EBC) clear direction to preserve the existing number of elec-toral districts in northern and rural regions of the province when recommending new boundaries.

The North, Cariboo-Thompson and Columbia-Kootenay are the regions with the sparsest popu-lation and, as a result, have a high number of geographically large electoral districts.

The boundaries of existing electoral districts within those three regions could be changed, but the EBCwould still be required to apply the prin-ciple of representation by population to the greatest extent possible.

The Columbia-Kootenay Region means a region consisting of the following electoral dis-tricts: Columbia River-Revelstoke; (b) Kootenay East; (c) Kootenay West; (d) Nelson-Creston.

Postal service cuts that have sliced into communities across the nation will not be slashing into the services of Rossland.

A spokesperson with Canada Post confirmed the city will be spared any of the country-wide changes it has made to the way the nation’s mail is handled.

Anick Losier said Rossland, although holding city status, is served by post office boxes—all of which are not affect-ed by the national postal service’s Action Plan.

She also said there were no immedi-ate planned cuts to the staffing levels in the Rossland Post Office, but hinted that

staffing could eventually be reduced.“Our employees enjoy job security

and we intend to respect all clauses of our contract,” said Losier. “Any staffing reduction is planned to be done via attrition.”

Over the next five years, Canada Post will transition the one third of the nation’s addresses currently served by door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes.

‘To my knowledge, there are no spe-cific changes in (Rossland) but we con-tinually review our retail network to ensure that it serves the needs of the communities we serve,” she said.

The city’s member of Parliament, Alex Atamanenko, has spoken out recently about the cuts to postal service

in the largely rural B.C. Southern Interior riding. He noted the cut to Saturday service in Greenwood as an example of the lack of sensitivity to the needs of Kootenay-Boundary communi-ties.

“I don’t think they’re really doing any consultation with the people in the area,” he said. “They’re trying to cut back. They’re trying to cut costs.”

The other aspect is, if Canada Post cuts service it cuts hours. So either they lay off someone or someone’s making less money and there’s less money in the community, Atamanenko noted.

“They want to cut costs and unfortu-nately what happens, is these effects are felt a lot more in our small communi-ties,” he said.

A partnership between Teck Metals Ltd. Trail Operations and Selkirk College that has created an annual fund to provide support for a student to undertake a local community applied research project is looking for a sum-mer research project and sponsoring organi-zation.

Called Teck Serv, up to $10,000 in funding is available to cover the cost of hiring a stu-dent to work on an applied research project and adds to Teck Resources Ltd.’s ongoing commitment to Selkirk College, its students and the communities in the region.

Now in its fourth year, Teck Serv will match a community organization with a stu-dent to undertake an applied research proj-ect. Organizations and students interested in the 2014 Teck Serv Applied Research Internship opportunity are invited to visit http://selkirk.ca/research/ric/teckserv-applied-research-internship to learn more. The deadline for proposals is March 14.

IN BRIEFTeck Serv summer internships

Teck Resources and the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FEW) have just announced they are offering grants of $2,500 to women entrepreneurs across British Columbia who are seeking mentorship and support to grow their businesses. The grant will go towards travel and tuition for FWE’s four-day ESeries program in Vancouver which connects emerging entrepreneurs with successful vet-erans to gain insight into growth plans, mar-keting, human resources, sales, culture and other challenges that arise while growing a viable business.

Inspired by MIT’s Birthing of Giants pro-gram, the ESeries has been referred to as a “mini MBA” for emerging entrepreneurs.

The program runs from April 8-11 and application dates for the grant must be in before Monday, March 10.

Applicants can find more information at http://www.fwe.ca/programs/e-series/.

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