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Students in art teacher Tanya Hobbs’ Grade 10/11/12 split class at Golden Secondary School have been readying their work for their end of semester showcase, an art show that will take place on Jan. 27.

For the show, students were asked to use techniques, strategies and theories learned

throughout the course, while also explaining their source of inspiration and their use of vari-ous design elements.

Monty Wright says she is proud of her fin-ished product.

“When I thought of this I was just kind of thinking about what someone sees every day, the sky during the day and at night, (and) putting those together in a way that someone hadn’t seen it before was kind of my initial

idea,” she said of her piece that used acrylic on watercolour paper.

Piper Noble admits she made a couple small mistakes with her piece, but believes those will add character to the piece she created on can-vas using poster and acrylic paints.

“I like the idea of skeletons and stuff talking to each other, I just think it’s kind of funny,” she explained.

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From left: Piper Noble, Monty Wright and Gage Chernoff pose with their completed pieces in advance of their classes’ end of semester art show. Their work, and art from their classmates, will be on display at the GSS library starting on Jan. 27. Joel Tansey/Star Photo

Golden Secondary students prepare for art show

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Paris, Shanghai, Birmingham…Golden?You wouldn't normally see these world renowned destinations and metropolitan centres in the same

sentence with Golden, but they do all have one thing in common. They are all featured in the Round-abouts of the World 2015 Calendar.

"Nearly a year ago I heard an interview on CBC radio’s As it Happens with Kevin Beresford who pro-duces a calendar called Roundabouts of Britain – he was expanding to Roundabouts of the World," said Phil Armstrong, planning technician with the Town of Golden.

"So I sent him a picture of Golden’s gem of a roundabout and he decided to feature the roundabout in his 2015 edition of the calendar."

Golden's road to roundabout fame was not quite as simple as that, however. After receiving the photo of Golden's roundabout, Beresford lost all of the information, including a contact for Armstrong. He then had to seek help from the CBC and its listeners to identify the mysterious traffic circle in the B.C. mountains.

As it Happens and CBC posted it on their Facebook pages, asking help to find this place.After a variety of guesses, including Clearwater, Squamish, and one gentleman who was certain it was

downtown Regina (apparently the mountains in the background resembled those of Saskatchewan), enough people identified it as Golden.

Beresford was able to find contact information for Armstrong, and let him know that the calendar had been published, with Golden featured in March.

And Golden is in with some pretty impressive company. A roundabout from Idaho, which Beresford calls "a worthy winner of the International Roundabout of the Year award," features a wildlife scene with a mountain cliff face, cascading waterfalls, and soaring eagles.

"There's some pretty cool other ones in there," said Armstrong.Our own roundabout came about from the revamping of the overpass off of Highway 1. Highways

decided to use a traffic circle, and the Town of Golden wanted to add a little flair to it."We had our new sign program designs in, so I thought 'why not do this?' Each of these structures

were designed as landmarks to point to things in the community. And we wanted something big and bold here, so we put more of these together," said Jon Wilsgard, chief administrative officer with the Town of Golden.

Highways had planned on putting shrubs in the centre, but Wilsgard wanted something a little more attention grabbing.

"It's nice because you can see it from the highway when you drive in."As roundabouts are becoming more and more common in the province, so to is the inclusion of com-

munity art. Most that are popping up feature some sort of centrepiece that showcases the community in some way.

Perhaps a Roundabouts of British Columbia will be coming up next.

Town CAO Jon Wilsgard, left, and Phil Armstrong, planning techni-cian with the Town, hold a copy of the Roundabouts of the World Calendar in front of Golden’s own roundabout, which is featured in the calendar for March. Golden’s roundabout came to the attention of the calendar’s creator after Armstrong sent in a photo of it.

Jessica Schwitek/Star Photo

Golden joins other world cities inRoundabouts of the World Calendar

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Lisa WhartonAvalanche control crews use a DaisyBell to trigger avalanches above Highway 1 east of Golden last week. The operation was delayed because heavy snow had spun several semis out in the avalanche zone. Jessica Schwitek/Star Photo

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We all know what it's like to sit in our vehicles on the highway, waiting for the authorities to tell us that it is OK to pass, just as soon as avalanche control is done. But what is actual-ly involved in shutting down a major highway?

For the roughly four or five times a season that the Ministry of Trans-portation and Infrastructure closes the highway east of Golden for ava-lanche control, highway crews have to scramble to make sure that every-one is out of the zone before any operations can start.

"First thing is we have to make sure we have flaggers at both ends of the canyon, and also at strategic loca-tions like downtown. We don't want traffic to get too backed up on the highway, it's better to have people diverted in town. At least that way there's facilities if it ends up being a significant closure," said Blair Pig-got, Quality Assurance Supervisor with HMC Services.

Once HMC has got everyone out of the zone, and does a sweep to be absolutely sure, then the Min-istry commences operations. When the highway was closed last week that task was particularly difficult because four semis were spun out on a hill, one of which needed to be towed out.

The avalanche control itself con-sisted of a helicopter flying over with a "DaisyBell," which is a device that explodes a hydrogen/oxygen mixture above the snowpack. The

deposits of snow then fall, either into the ditches or across the high-way.

"The first objective once they’re done with the control is go in and do whatever we have to do to get the highway open. Then we'll come back in, usually within the next night or two, and start cleaning out the ditches from avalanche debris," said Piggot.

The debris usually isn't exces-sive, but can often spread across the entire highway. As HMC was clearing the zone just prior to ava-lanche control last week, there were small, naturally occurring avalanch-es starting to fall on the highway. The debris was not enough to cause damage on its own, but would cer-tainly be enough to distract drivers, potentially causing accidents.

"You can tell the avalanche techs made the right call because snow is already starting to come down," said Greg Ehman, division manager with HMC.

Avalanche control often comes at inopportune times, such as last week when crews were already deal-ing with heavy snow fall and spun out vehicles.

"Sometimes it's a little bit short notice, but that's just the nature of it," said Piggot.

Communication has also become a major part of operations, as web-sites like DriveBC like to keep travel-lers as up to date as possible.

Predicting opening times can often be difficult, with most clean-ups taking HMC crews roughly two hours.

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An overheated incinerator at Tembec’s Skookumchuck pulp mill resulted in an unpleasant odour pervading Golden and the Upper Columbia Valley late last week.

An incinerator at the mill that burns non-condensable gases shut down automatically, as it’s sup-posed to, when the temperature of the gases its burns crept above 300 degrees Fahrenheit (148 Celsius), resulting in the gases venting (a standard safety measure) for 11 minutes on Thursday night before the incinerator was restarted. A wind blowing from the southeast at the time meant the gases left a lingering smell in Canal Flats, Invermere, Panorama and all the way up to Golden by Fri-day afternoon.

“We do apologize for the odour, it’s really difficult to avoid at times,” said Tembec acting technic-al manager Roger Puar.

The high temperature triggered an alarm that shut down the incinerator at 10:12 p.m. on Thurs-day night. The machine was relit and running again by 10:23 p.m.

An incident such as this is considered fairly minor, although as a matter of course Tembec will be investigating it thoroughly, said Puar, adding that the automatic shut down and venting system is in place because if the gas was not vented in such as case, pressure in the incinerator would build up and the mill would have a much more serious incident on its hands.

The smell present in the valley may have been more apparent than normal because the gas nor-mally heads out a vent that runs along one of the mills stacks, several hundred feet (more than 100 metres) high.

“Unfortunately in this incident that vent was plugged by winter condensation,” said Puar. That resulted in the temperature of the vent rising to the point that another automatic safety system kicked in, and the gases were then vented out vents that were only 30 feet (nine metres) above the ground.

The much lower altitude of the vents, combined with the wind blowing in the right direction lead to the smell in the valley.

“Its appears the wind was coming from the southeast at the time of the incident, so it would be blowing (north),” said Puar.

The incident was immediately logged in the company’s I-sight database, a monitoring system that measures all incidents relating to environment, safety or product quality, and this automatically results in an internal investigation, according to Puar.

A significant portion of the gases released were methanol, although there were smaller amounts of sulphur compounds.

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Interior Health is currently doing some repairs to the front of entrance at Golden District Hospital following a January 1

motor vehicle accident.

The front entry is still open while repairs are taking place, but IH is requesting that patients/visitors with mobility issues (including wheelchair) access the hospital

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For Gage Chernoff, his inspiration came from a character in a video game. “He’s the most annoying character you could ever imagine,” he laughed.

“He’s hilarious and very annoying and you just wish somehow that he would end up gone from the game.”

Chernoff used pencil and a Sharpie marker to create his work, which he says took him a considerable amount of time.

Hobbs says the class used a large variety of mediums while combining them in different ways.

“I am impressed with the work that students have generated. They are clearly dedicated to improving their skills in art and have shown consider-able development since September,” she said.

There will be a lunch time opening from 12:30 to 1 p.m. on Jan. 27 in the GSS library, with an after school opening from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., but the art will remain on display long after then and individuals can sign in at the office to view the students’ work.


Police responded to 64 files last week.

Stolen items at Finn Creek

On Jan. 2 a vehicle was broken into at the Finn Creek parking area in Yoho National Park.

A group of snow-shoers returned to their parked vehicle to discover that their rear window had been smashed in and that some person-al items had been stolen.

This is extremely common at this time of year and police urge individuals to avoid leaving valuable items in their unattended vehicles.

Accident east of Golden

On Jan. 3 an Alberta vehicle travelling east lost control and swerved into oncom-ing traffic. The vehicle struck a westbound B.C. vehicle. A tick-et was issued to the Alberta driver for driv-ing too fast for the road conditions.

Fraudulent phone call

A man, posing as a lawyer, called an elder-ly woman in Golden and told her that her favourite nephew was in trouble and needed some money.

The woman, con-cerned for her nephew, sent a few thousand dollars across multiple transactions to the man. She later heard

from her nephew, who was never in any legal trouble. Police are reminding individuals to use caution when receiving calls of this nature. The incident is still being investigated.

Vehicle theft at Prestige

In the morning on Jan. 8, a vehicle was reported stolen at the Prestige Inn.

A vehicle had origin-ally been stolen from Revelstoke, but the sus-pects made the switch in Golden, leaving the Revelstoke car at the Prestige and taking an Alberta rental car with them. The theft is still under investigation.

Intoxicated vehicle theft

On Jan. 10 a pair

of suspects took a vehicle from the 800 block of 11th Avenue South and later crashed through a fence at Louisiana Pacific.

The individuals, one from Calgary and one from Medicine Hat, were found to be intoxicated at the time. Charges are cur-rently pending.

Art opening hosted in library

RCMP Report: Drunk thieves crash stolen car

Golden players finish in firstSix midget hockey players from Golden joined the Invermere Rockies at a tour-nament in Missoula, Montana just after Christmas. The High School Holiday Classic had two pools, and after a sudden death overtime win against the Moscow Bears, the Rockies won it. Golden players included Brendan Sime-Vivian, Austin Gudjonson, Jake Gudjonson, Trey Beckett, Jared Frasca and Isaiah Fedow. TJ Routley also plays with the team, but did not attend the tournament. Photo Submitted

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I have officially experienced my first injury of the season. I’m sure the medical profes-sionals in the town have seen plenty already, but this is my first this year, and it’s not even one I can brag about.

I fell on a gradual slope while cross coun-try skiing (slowly, I might add), and gave myself whiplash.

Every year locals and tourists boast about their injuries, bragging about what crazy thing they did to get their arm in a sling.

Me...I lost my balance while practically standing still, and fell in such an awkward manner that my head bounced off the ground.

Fortunately I fell into fluffy snow, and was only injured due to the way my neck snapped back. But had I had the same fall while walking to my car on an icy street, I would be suffering from a very dif-ferent injury right now.

Brain injuries are becoming increasingly preva-lent in Canada.

The annual incidence of acquired brain injury in Canada is 44 times more common than spinal cord injuries, 30 times more common than breast cancer, and 400 times more common than HIV/AIDS. In fact, brain injury occurs at a rate greater than that of all known cases of Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal Cord Injury, HIV/AIDS and Breast Can-cer per year combined. 452 people suffer a brain injury every day in Canada. This amounts to one person injured with a traumatic brain injury every three minutes. (Brain Injury Association statis-tics).

In British Columbia alone, there are 22,000 cases a year, plus more than 180,000 currently liv-ing with the results of brain injury.

Many of these injuries result in partial, or permanent disability.

But it isn’t necessarily the dare devil antics that result in disaster. Quite often it’s the seemingly benign incidents, like falling on fluffy snow, that end up hurting the most.

On the same day as my fall I listened to a friend tell a story about a girl who fell on the ice while curling, and suffered such a serious brain injury that it has prevented her from working since it happened nearly five years ago.

Obviously we can’t prevent everything, and no one is going to walk around with a helmet all the time. But this is the time of year where one wrong step can take us out. It wouldn’t hurt us to be a lit-tle more aware of our surroundings.

It isn’t just the adrenaline junkies who get hurt.

Treatment of driversI am a truck driver and on January 6th I was enroute to

Langley with a load. Reaching the area of ten mile that evening the road was closed for sometime due to ava-lanche control, and clearing. We waited in line for some-time, then were directed to go to the ten mile brake check where chain up was mandatory to proceed. After chain-ing up I made my way into Golden arriving about 8:30 p.m.

Once in Golden, we were told that the highway west of Revelstoke was closed until after 3 p.m. Jan. 7th, and that Revelstoke itself was filled to "capacity" with trucks, and there would be no room to park. We were told by the dept. of highways workers that night that the Rogers Pass was open but extremely hazardous, and that we should stay in Golden.

BUT!! Golden also was pretty full to capacity with trucks everywhere. Trying to find a spot at night in the dark, while snowing, and not knowing the side roads at all was difficult. Eventually I parked along the curb along the north side of the frontage road running beside the high-way, I was up about 1/2 mile from the Husky, just before the driveway to the U-haul lot. There were a number of other trucks parked the same. There was a clear lane for traffic in the middle of the roadway but 2 cars couldn't pass at the same time. I checked making sure I was clear and safely situated. I left my four way flashers on and went to bed at about 11:30 p.m.

At roughly 7 a.m., I was awakened by a pounding on the side of my truck. A guy who said he was from high-ways maintenance gruffly, and not nicely, ordered me to immediately move the truck or he was calling the cops.

He said it was a fire lane. He said there were lots of other places to park, which there were not. He was impolite, and spoke to me like I was some sort of criminal, or bot-tom feeder.

I phoned the police, 911 to be exact. I explained to the lady the situation, the highways being closed, the parking problem, and even that highways guys were blocking the exit from town from where I could see.

At about that point the guy came back, driving a dark green minivan with an amber light on the roof. I told him I was talking with the police, and they want to speak with him.

He took my phone and identified himself as a Mainten-ance Supervisor, and said I was ordered to move because I was blocking the fire lane "completely" and he said he asked me to move " 30 feet" and I was not complying. The fact is there was no spot 30 feet one way or another, and not anywhere in sight. He told the RCMP dispatcher something about highways maintenance taking control of the road situation or something like that.

In the end, the RCMP told me it's better to move than to confront this guy, saying he was offering to lead me to a better spot. But when I was ready to move he had dis-appeared. I did drive up and down the roads and found no spots the full length of the frontage roads, either side, and in all the lots, everything was full. On my second go round a truck pulled out next to the Husky lot and I man-aged to park for a bit.

My question is this. Is this how Golden treats truck driv-ers? Are we the nasty things you want to get rid of as quick as possible, after we spend our money of course?

Anthony BoogerdLower Mainland

I think we can all agree that we need to make improvements to the way our government works. Many British Columbians feel that our gov-ernment does not represent them, and that government does not func-

tion in a way that makes life better for regular citizens.

People point out the fact that the Premier rarely attends the Legisla-ture, the Legislature rarely sits, and so-called consultation by government

rarely results in anything meaningful.As a member of the Legislature for

the last 10 years, I have been extreme-ly disappointed by how much our democracy has eroded.

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MLA Report: Working for better democracy

Continued from page 6I am hopeful that British Columbians will

begin to take democratic reform seriously, and will ensure that they only support polit-ical candidates and parties who have made a strong commitment to improving the democratic process in this province.

The Opposition has put forward a num-ber of ideas that we believe will make our democratic system work better. We sup-port proportional representation, a meth-od of electing MLAs that is fairer, and more accurately represents the will of the people. We support the removal of all corporate and union donations to political parties and candidates so that political parties are no longer controlled by big donors. And we have put forward legis-lation that would protect whistleblowers who provide information in the public interest.

I also believe that we need to improve the committee system of the Legislature allowing for meaningful consultation and development of legislation; using MLAs from both sides of the Legislature as well as passionate and knowledgeable citizens to make real changes to the way we live. At present, most legislative committees do not sit, and rarely are reports written by committees taken with any seriousness by government.

I believe that we need regular fall sittings of the Legislature to ensure that proper time is spent debating legislation before it is passed. Brit-ish Columbia’s recent record of the number of sitting days of the Legis-lature each year has been amongst the lowest in Canada.

And I believe that we need to employ a system, similar to the feder-al government, where Private Member’s Bills are actually voted on by members. In British Columbia, a bill brought forward by an individ-ual member can be entirely ignored by the government.

I think that people really care about their democracy, and support these changes to make things better. I would invite you to take the time to learn more about some of these ideas, and then make sure that the Premier knows how you feel. Send an email to [email protected].

The Golden Star Wednesday, January 14, 2015 www.thegoldenstar.net A7Star editorial and opinion

A Star to the honest person on Dec. 21 that picked up and returned my birdseed outside Overwaitea, which I had forgotten to put in my car. I really appreciate the honesty!

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Stingers to the new neighbour who moved into our peaceful and quiet neighbourhood with14 howling, barking and yipping working dogs. We hope you can, at all times, keep them quiet!

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Area A ReportBy Karen Cathcart

One month in, and it’s full speed ahead….. It’s exciting and very interesting!!

A Conversation with our Area A Director…..• I guess the first thing I want to tell our resi-

dents is that I certainly enjoy hearing from them. Having an open and transparent communication process is critical. I am learning a lot about what resi-dents want to see happen and the process of local gov-ernment.

• The second thing I want to say is a huge thank you to the CSRD staff for being so supportive and helpful. We are very lucky to have the resources we have in Salmon Arm to support our regional dis-tricts.

• Since December 5th, it’s been a very busy time. I attend the Board of Director Meetings that are held once a month in Salmon Arm. I bring concerns and issues and opportunities to the table on behalf of Area A residents. Should I not be able to attend a meeting Mike Cantle is my alternate and our Munici-pal representative at the CSRD table is Caleb Moss.

• What have I been doing? I have been read-ing a number of documents from the 2012 Ground-water Monitoring Report Nicholson, BC., Kinbas-ket Reservoir Commercial Recreation Opportunities Analysis, CSRD, Fire Services Review for KHMR for example, meeting with a number of companies and ISP’s (Internet service providers) about high speed internet, planning the next steps for the water situa-tion in Nicholson and moving forward with the Parks and Recreation Commission planning to name a few. I attended the Kootenay East Regional Hospi-tal District Meeting, Parks and Recreation Commis-sion Meeting, Golden Museum Society Meeting and

Board meetings in Salmon Arm. I have had the oppor-tunity to meet with a num-ber of our residents as well.

• So you have a plan? My plan is to work with our Area A residents. To that end, after the Board of Dir-ectors Meeting on January 15th, I will begin the pro-cess of creating the advis-ory committee. There will be a call to action in the news-paper and on Facebook that will ask residents to submit their resumes and letter of intent for the advisory committee. The advisory com-mittee will become the foundation group for build-ing the capacity for Area A.

• I have been working with the Town of Gold-en Mayor, Council and staff to ensure that our two legislative bodies are working collaboratively and col-lectively so that we can maximize the opportunities for Area A and the Town. One big project the CSRD and the Town will embark on will be the Shared Ser-vices agreement Model. The CSRD will work collab-oratively with the Town of Golden to ensure that we develop a model that is sustainable and fair.

• Please keep connecting with me should you have questions or concerns and opportunities you would like to share! I want to hear from you! If you need to connect with me, please call me at home: 250-348-2226 or 250-344-8357 or Facebook: Karen Cath-cart Director Area A

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This WeekAPES After School Program Mon. - Fri. 3 -5:30pm. $12/day ages 5-11. To register leave a msg 250-272-0425.StrongStart a free, school based learning program birth-5years. Mon.&Fri. 12-3:30pm, Wed. 2-5pm, Tues.&Thurs. 8:45-11:45am. 250-439-9324 for info.Guided By Mountains: The Colours of the Wind Jan.16-Feb.21 at the Art Gallery of Golden.

Wed, Jan. 14Golden Public Health pres-ents Baby Talk for new parents and kids every Wed., 1:30-3pm in the Early Learning Centre. 12 months and under. 250-344-3001 for more info.Hapkido Martial Arts Wed., Arena Lounge 6-7pm (kids) 7:15-8:15pm (adults).Winter Walking at the Rec Plex. Wednesdays 9-10am. Parent and Tot Play Group Wed. 10:30am-12pm at the Rec Plex. Follows school schedule. 344-2000 for info.Badminton Wed., 7-9pm at the Rec Plex $6 ($5 stu-dents/seniors) bring racket.Public Skate Wednesdays 7-8pm at the Arena.

Thurs, Jan. 15 Men’s Basketball Thur. 7:30-9:30pm at the Rec Plex. Bridge Club every Thur. at the Senior’s Centre 1-4pm. 250-344-5448.Golden Toastmasters Thursdays, 7:30pm at College of the Rockies.Mountain Magic Quilters Guild Thur., 7:30-9pm in the GSS sewing room. New members/guests welcome, annual membership is $25.Jam Night at the Golden Taps Pub every Thursday.A.A Meetings Thursdays, at the Family Centre, 421 9th Ave N. All meetings are open and start at 8pm.Golden Youth Centre Band Of Guys drop-in for male teens (12-18) every

Thursdays 3:45-5:30pm.Aquafit at the Travelodge Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm $5.Shinny at the Arena Thursdays 9-10pm.Kicking Horse Culture pres-ents Film Kicks: Tracks Jan.15 at 7pm at the Golden Cinema.

Fri, Jan. 16All Girls Hockey run by girls, for girls 9+ Fridays, 4:30pm. Free for minor hockey mem-bers, $100 for non members.A.A Meetings Fridays at the Lutheran Church basement 915 - 9th St S. All meetings are open and start at 8pm.Golden Youth Centre drop-in Fridays from 3:30-7:30pm.Karaoke Night at The Mad Trapper every Friday night.Meat Draw every Friday at The Legion 5:30pm.Friday Night Bridge at 7pm at St. Andrew’s Centre for Peace. 250-344-5448.Mother Goose Program Fri. 10:30-11:30am at the Early Years Centre. Free and snacks are included.Special Olympics “FUNdamentals” youth pro-gram Fri. 9-10am at APES. For children 7-12 years with intellectual disabilities. Call 250-919-0757 for info.FREE Settlement Services to help newcomers to Canada with English language train-ing, citizenship, community resources, banking, hous-ing, and more! Fridays from 9-11am. Call 250-344-8392.Parent&Tot Skate Fridays 11am-12pm at the Arena.Public Skate 12-1:30pm Fridays at the Arena.Winter Walking 1-2pm Fridays at the Rec Plex.Aaron Enns Guided By Mountains opening recep-tion Jan.16 from 5-7pm at the Art Gallery of Golden.

Sat, Jan. 17Meat Draw Saturdays at The Legion 5pm.A.A Meetings Sat. at the Golden Museum. All meetings are open and start at 8pm.Public Skate Saturdays 7-8pm at the Arena.Kicking Horse Cinema is showing The Merry Wibow (Lehar) at 11am, Jan.17.

Whitetooth Grill Concert Series at the Day Lodge at KHMR: Tony Bell Jan.17 from 3-5pm.The Merry Widow (Lehar) is showing at The Golden Jan.17 at 11am.

Sun, Jan. 18Sunday Howl open mic at the Wolf’s Den Sundays 4-8pm.Magic the Gathering Game Tournament 12-5pm at Bizarre Entertainment.Public Skate Sundays 4:30-5:45pm at the Arena.

Mon, Jan. 19Join the Cadets. Free pro-gram meets every Monday, 6-8pm at the Alexander Park School gym. For young men and women ages 12-18.Seniors Day at Reflections Hair Studio Mondays 15% off all regular priced ser-vices, call 250-344-5766. Heroclix League 6-9pm Mondays at Bizarre Entertainment.Picnic in the Park Play & Chat Mondays from 11:30am-1:30pm at the Alexander Park Elementary playground.Family Dinner Play and Learn Mon. 5-7pm at the Early Years Centre. Free pro-gram includes dinner, par-ent discussion with child minding. 250-439-9665 to register. Telling Our Life Stories Writing Workshop Mon. 10am-12pm. Techniques to organize memoirs. No writ-ing experience necessary. 250-439-9665 to register. Golden Youth Centre drop-in every Monday from 5-8pm.Nicholson Parent & Tot Mondays from 9-11am at Nicholson School.Hapkido Martial Arts Mon., Arena Lounge 6-7pm (kids) 7:15-8:15pm (adults).Golden Youth Rec Hockey Mondays 8-9pm, ages 13-18 until Feb.23.Badminton Mon., 7-830pm at the Rec Plex $6 ($5 stu-dents/seniors) bring racket.Winter Walking at the Rec Plex Mondays 1-2pm.Indoor Soccer at the Rec Plex 8:30-9:30pm.

Tues, Jan. 20A.A Meetings Tues. at the United Church 901 11th Ave S Alley Ent. All meetings are open and start at 8pm.Golden Youth Centre drop-in Tuesdays from 3:30-7:30pm.Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition Tuesdays 6-9pm at Bizarre Entertainment.Volleyball drop-in Tues. at the Rec Plex $5, 7-9pm.FREE Settlement Services to help newcomers to Canada with English train-ing, citizenship, community resources, banking, hous-ing, and more! Tues. 1-3pm. 250-344-8392.Golden Shotokan Karate Tues. & Thurs. 6-6:45pm (kids) 7-8:30pm (adults).Parent and Tot skate Tuesdays 10-11am at the Arena.Aquafit at the Travelodge Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm $5.Rockwater Grill & Ba

Upcoming Events Free Employment Workshop Jan.21 at the EK Employment Office (205-421 9th Ave N). Call 250-344-5413 to regisgter.Soup Day at the Golden Seniors Centre Jan.23 from 11:30am-1pm. $6.Yoho Blow Days Jan.23-25 in Field. Various outdoor activities! Starts Friday night at 7pm with a hockey game.Huckleberry Loppet at Dawn Mountain Jan.24 (classic)and 25 (skate). Whitetooth Grill Concert Series at the Day Lodge at KHMR: The Pickups Jan.24 from 3-5pm.2015 Buff Canadian National SkiMo Championships Jan.24 at KHMR.The Small Glories: Cara Luft & JD Edwards Jan.24 at 7pm. 40 advanced tickets only at Bacchus Books. Kicking Horse Culture pres-ents Live Kicks: Tom Allen’s Judgement of Paris Jan.29 at 7:30pm at the Golden Civic Centre.9th Annual Snow King Excellent Space Adventure Masque Parade Feb.14 at 7pm in Spirit Square.Elliott Brood with The Wilderness play at The Rockwater Feb.17.

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Another very suc-cessful season is now half over. As we move forward into our busy “Tournament” season, our kids are improving their hockey skills and team building skills at an incredible pace.

Our coaches, parents and other volunteers never cease to amaze me with their tireless efforts in all aspects of the game. Our arena is always alive during every week night and almost every weekend with the slap of sticks on ice and the sharp noise of the occasional puck rattles off the glass. “Music” to our ears!

We have had another impressive year of events…a fully functioning hockey school in August, Hockey Canada Coaching Clinic for all Golden Minor Hockey coaches, a BC Hockey Ref clinic with 10 referees in attendance, power skat-ing sessions coming soon, and in the next month we will have four local tournaments with many out of town teams attending.

One of the most exciting events we have ever hosted is coming to Golden in early February. Bauer Canada will be in town with free equip-ment for all first time players from the ages of six to 11! A huge thank you to Tyler Gulliford for coordinating this event. I have always believed that every single child in Canada should play organized hockey at some time. This will give all kids the opportunity to try it out.

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Juno award winning artist Cara Luft has performed as part of a band and as a solo artist, but recently she has formed a duo with J.D.Edwards after discov-ering that the pair had a rare, instant chemistry.

Luft co-founded the folk trio The Wailin’ Jennys before breaking off and achieving success as a solo artist with albums such as 2010’s One Take Only and 2012’s Darlingford.

The latter was hailed as her best album yet and called a powerful per-sonal statement by Folk Radio UK, while Luft was praised for singling like an angel named Joni or Alanis by The Globe and Mail.

Now Luft and Edwards, together known as The Small Glories, are get-ting set to release a self-titled album this spring.

They started performing regularly together early last year, and the chem-istry between the two was apparent right away.

“The way our voices worked together was magical. It kind of blew both of our minds,” Luft recalled. “It doesn’t always

work when you sing with other people. It can be really beautiful and really nice but this was going to another level.”

What was supposed to be a single per-formance turned into a tour and even-tually they decided to team up full time.

The artists trade between singing the melody and the harmony, with Edwards playing the guitar and Luft on the banjo for the most part.

While Luft broke away from The Wailin’ Jennys in order to possess com-plete creative control over her music, she says it’s different playing along-side Edwards and it’s been an excellent career change for her.

“I think part (of the success) is that when we play, it’s a very intense per-formance but it’s a very authentic per-formance as well,” Luft said.

“I’m giving 110 per cent of myself in this formation and the people that have been fans of mine for a really long time…now that they see me with J.D. they say ‘now you’ve met your match’.”

Locals will get a chance to see The Small Glories on Jan. 24 when they per-form at the house of Bacchus Books owner Caleb Moss. Tickets must be pur-chased in advance at Bacchus.

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In 1977, a 27-year-old Austral-ian woman named Robyn David-son set out from Alice Springs to walk 2,700 kilometres of harsh desert to the Indian Ocean. Accompanied only by her dog and four camels, David-son yearned for a solitary jour-ney of self-discovery, and had no ambition other than to reach the ocean. She ultimately wrote about her desert adventure in her 1980 book Tracks, which became a cult favourite around the world and has now been beautifully adapted for the big screen by director John Cur-ran (The Painted Veil, We Don’t Live Here Anymore).

The film adaptation, Tracks, will be the next feature in Kick-ing Horse Culture’s Film Kicks on Thursday Jan. 15.

Robyn (Mia Wasikow-ska, Alice in Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right) spends two hardscrabble years in the Alice Springs area learning how to train and care for camels (feral herds of which number in the thousands in Western Aus-tralia) in order to prepare for the epic trek. Finally ready

to embark on her journey, she realizes she is woefully under-funded and, despite her desire for self-sufficiency, accepts a fee from National Geograph-ic in exchange for a written fea-ture on her travels. The maga-zine adds a condition: she must allow photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver, The F Word, television’s Girls) to photograph her at selected stops along the way.

As adapted by Marion Nel-son, Tracks captures two ardu-

ous journeys: Robyn mak-ing her way slowly through the outback, and her (argu-ably more perilous) inner search. Curran casts the harsh, red-baked land as much more than just Robyn’s antagonist—at different points it woos her, threatens her, comforts her, steals from her, and submits to her, and we feel privileged to share the journey.

The show starts at the Gold-en Cinema at 7 p.m. Tickets are cash only at the door.

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Tracks, starring Mia Wasikowska, is the next Film Kicks feature on Jan. 15. Photo Submitted

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Cara Luft and J.D. Edwards are playing in Golden on Jan. 24. Tickets are available at Bacchus Books. Photo Submitted


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One of the best things about Netflix is that its exten-sive library allows the user to discover solid, hidden gem movies they never would have seen otherwise. There’s considerably little risk in tak-ing a chance on an unknown movie by an unknown direc-tor when it’s so easy to bail on it whenever you like.

96 Minutes was that pleas-ant surprise for me, a thrill-er along the lines of Crash and Babel which combines the stories of several differ-ent individuals and gradually brings them together.

The film begins by show-ing a pair of women who are in the back seat of a car and being held at gunpoint by two teenage boys. One of the women has been shot in the face but remains alive.

We are then introduced to each character and the deci-sions and events that led to the carjacking.

It’s a pretty simple prem-ise but it is executed well and in a way that extracted a maximum amount of sus-pense from the plot. The film does feel jumpy at times as the action bounces back and forth from the present

to the events from earlier in the day, but overall it’s a tech-nique that director Aimee Lagos uses well.

The cast lacks true star power but most of the per-formances were both believ-able and engaging. Evan Ross and Brittany Snow are especially impressive in their respective roles.

The primary aggressor in the entire ordeal is a troubled 16 year-old named Kevin (played by J.Michael Traut-mann). There were times where Trautmann lacked

the acting chops to make his character completely believ-able, but that’s my only gripe with the performance from the cast.

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The Golden Sound Festival is getting set for its second Winter Block Party (in addition to two successful summer festivals) and Todd Menzies, Willhorse bassist and one of the festival’s organiz-ers, is exceptionally pleased with how things have gone thus far.

“We’re starting to see more and more support not only from our community but from the Town itself,” Menzies said.

The festival will present an exciting lineup on Feb. 21, with breakout stars Head of the Herd, as well as Royal Tusk, taking their place as the headliners.

Menzies, who now lives in Vancouver, has been working on this winter’s lineup ever since their summer festival ended.

“I just try to bring the best to Golden that I can that may not necessarily make a stop in Golden on their regular tour or real-ize that there is a music scene or an appreciation for music (in town),” he said.

Head of the Herd hit it big with their sophomore album that included the single By This Time Tomorrow (feat. Jasmin Par-kin) which soared to number one on Canadian rock charts.

Meanwhile, Royal Tusk has recently released their first EP, but singer/guitarist Daniel Carriere and bassist Sandy MacKin-non have been playing together for much longer as members of Juno-nominated Ten Second Epic.

The festival will also feature its first MC (Immaculate) as well as local favourites John Jenkins, Pablo Euphoria and Infinity Sol-stice.

“I want the Golden Sound Festival to be really diverse and have a bit of everything,” Menzies said.

For more lineup information and ticket info, check out the fes-tival’s webpage at www.goldensoundfestival.com.

The Net Result: 96 Minutes of thrills

Evan Ross stars in 96 Minutes, a thrilling movie that centres around a car jacking. First Point Entertainment

Head of the Herd among Sound Fest headliners

Motus O brings out inner creature

During a dance workshop put on by theatre company Motus O, Georgia Gale gets on the back of Christina Spence to create a new “creature” with their two bodies. The workshops were free, and were brought to Golden by Kicking Horse Culture. Jessica Schwitek/Star Photo


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The past is the story of where we have been but that story when told, has often been incomplete.

Whole groups of people and indi-viduals or families ignore women when they think about their own history. Much official hist-ory, whether written by professional his-torians or journalists, has left out one half of the population. Traditional record-ed history focused on political, military and economic lead-ers and events, pass-ing over the lives and accomplishments of women.

And yet, in count-less ways, women have played an essen-tial role in shap-ing our commun-ities and our coun-try – in the home and family, on the farm, in industries, offices, schools, hospitals, religious institutions and benevolent and reform organiza-tions.

Our female ances-tors made signifi-cant contributions as wives, mothers, daughters, paid and unpaid workers, vol-unteers and com-munity leaders. Women’s achieve-ments today are a legacy of those past actions and achieve-ments. It is time for Canadians to cele-brate the lives and accomplishments of women past and present.

All too often, his-tory has been pre-sented as the story of privileged people and distant events.

But women’s history tells the story of both the famous and the not-so-famous, of the

ordinary women of all origins who made this country what it is today.

Golden, like many small communities recorded the first “white” child born here, the first Ital-ian etc., we also rec-ord the lasts. One of the last women in his-tory to travel across the country in a cov-ered wagon came to the Columbia Valley.

Her name was Daisy Addison. Daisy was born in Leicester-shire, England, the youngest of a family of 12 children. Times were very hard in England and in 1926 Daisy’s mother, Eliza-beth and her step-father Leonard Tol-ley brought the family to Canada.

They landed in Montreal but kept on going until they came to Storthoaks, Saskatchewan, where they bought a farm. They stayed and worked this farm until they were forced out by the drought of the ‘30s.

Once again, the family packed up their belongings, this time into two covered wagons and headed for Vancouver. When they came through the Banff-Winder-mere highway, they liked what they saw

and decided to make their home on the McMurdo bench. While still in Sas-katchewan, Daisy met a young man named Nat Addison and within a short time, they were engaged. Nat followed the family west and went on to the coast look-ing for work. Within three months, he was back to marry Daisy and settle in the val-ley.

Daisy, always art-istically inclined, had appeared on the legitimate stage as a child star, with a group of professional actors in a travelling troupe.

Also, while a child of only six years, Daisy started lessons in ballet and trained as a ballerina for years, intending to seek a professional career. Daisy was the star of many dancing and ballet displays on both sides of the ocean.

In her last years Daisy took up paint-ing and sketching and her detailed pic-tures of dogs, birds and landscapes cov-ered the walls of her modest little home.

Over the many

years of her life Daisy lived through many different challenges and hardships, none of which was able to take the lady out of the lady.

She lived alone at her home in McMurdo from the time her husband passed away in 1978 until her own death. And up until the death of her husband, still carried water from the spring.

Daisy enjoyed visit-ing with neighbours and friends and made everyone feel welcome.

She enjoyed a par-ticularly good rela-tionship with the Braisher family who were her neighbours for many years on the McMurdo bench. Daisy and Nat never had any children who might have done something special to recognize her exist-ence but I hope that we have done that today.

Unfortunately the Golden Museum has no pictures of Daisy or Nat Addison but we would be interest-ed in adding them to the collection here if you happen to have one.

Friends walking on the wagon road east of Golden before the Kicking Horse Trail was completed. This is now the Trans Canada Highway. W. Wenman Collection at the Golden Museum copy-write Karen Flewin.

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Lakshmi, an ascended master associated with abundance, stands confidently before us, with hands open to share her good fortune. This can manifest as a new job opportunity, a flow of inspired creativity or a renewal of self esteem that reminds us that we all have ample gifts to share with one another. The elephants playfully spraying water behind her, can represent bringing our sense of humour with us as we remove obstacles, or move through obstacles that have formerly blocked us. We always have a choice to find the humour in a situation, and within ourselves and our reactions.

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The students of Nicholson Elementary School have been back in school for one week now and are busy getting back into the swing of things. We started off Monday mor-ning with an assembly for Habit #2 – Begin With the End in Mind.

This was a perfect habit to learn to start the new year as the students discussed goals they wanted to achieve and how they would get there. They realize that they have to focus on “what” they want to accomplish and then figure out the little steps they need to do in order to achieve that goal.

Leadership teams are happening at the school as well. A group of students are organizing a drawing club for interested stu-dents in the building and hope to culmin-ate their efforts with a spring art show in the school (watch for further information as to times and dates).

We also have students in each grade/room who are part of the recycling team, school greeters and a theme day team. It is very rewarding to see the students come up with ideas of leadership and watch them put them into action! The students are learn-ing that no job is too big if we synergize and make it happen together.

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It was a difficult weekend for the Gold-en Secondary School’s senior boys’ basketball team that ended with the club going 2-2 against some game competi-tion in Kamloops.

The Eagles, who went into the week-end undefeated in the 2014/2015 sea-son, took losses against Fulton (Vernon) by a 67-56 score and Valleyview (Kam-loops)by a 66-54 score.

“Those teams were ready for us, they knew about us…they came out firing and that’s what we have to understand…all these teams are going to play their best games against us so if we don’t play our best game then we are going to be in trouble,” said head coach Kindy Gosal.

Valleyview, the tournament hosts, have been a particularly difficult nemesis for Golden, as they defeated the Eagles twice last season, including a tight victory in Golden at the Kicking Horse Classic.

Despite losing a few starters to gradu-

ation, the Kamloops squad bested the Eagles once again, this time by 12 points.

“We just came out sloppy. I think they started on a 12-0 run and after that point the game was neck and neck. Coming out slow like that really hurt us for the rest of the game because we couldn’t close it out,” said Grade 9 student, John Oszust.

A raucous crowd was on hand for the game, making things difficult on the Eagles, but according to Grade 11 stu-dent, Meva Dhami, the boisterous crowd didn’t pose much of a problem for him.

“When we were taking our free throws they were heckling…I kind of use it as motivation. You use it to your advan-tage,” Dhami said.

The Eagles also received support from a small but vocal number of parents, family and friends who made the trip to Kamloops to cheer on the team.

Golden managed to take out Salmon Arm by half a dozen points and Mount Elizabeth (Kitimat) by over 50 to close out the weekend at .500.

One of the Eagles’ weaknesses was something that simply can’t be helped. The team played with just seven play-ers and was up against squads with twice that number. That allowed opponents to roll different lines onto the court to take advantage of a tired group of players. Naturally, conditioning is paramount for the short-benched Eagles.

“We work hard in practice,” Dhami said. “But we are going to work harder.”

Golden will travel to Vernon for a tour-nament this weekend, with a potential rematch against Fulton Secondary loom-ing.

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The Rockets earned a win over Princeton on Friday before tak-ing one on the chin the following night against the Kimberley Dynamiters for a 1-1 weekend that saw the team drop to fourth place in the Eddie Mountain Division.

Golden 6, Princeton 4

The Rockets got off to a poor start and found themselves behind by a goal after barely a minute had ticked off the clock when Kurtis Klinger beat starter Magnus Viberg.

Mckechney answered that with a shorthanded goal less than two minutes later to knot things at one. It was a sign of things to come, as Princeton would hold four sep-arate one-goal leads throughout, with the Rockets answering each with the tying goal.

Minutes later, Kyle Bergh notched the

second for the visitors. Surprisingly, that was it for Viberg as the Rockets netminder received a quick hook from head coach Ty Davidson in favour of Mark Becica.

“They scored two quick goals and I didn’t think (Viberg) looked comfortable on even the saves he was making. He just didn’t look there tonight for whatever reason,” Davidson said when asked why he made the change.

Brennan Fuoco tied it up with the first less than half over thanks to a precise point shot. That was how the teams went to the dressing room after 20 minutes.

Just as in the first, the teams traded goals in the second, with Thomas Cankovic and Connor Sloan scoring the goals for the Posse and Nic Noseworthy and Ian Desrosier tallying the responses for Golden.

The Desrosier mark-er was the obvious choice for goal of the night. Mckechney

found Fuoco with a dazzling cross-ice sau-cer pass before Fuoco tee’d one up for the Rockets’ leading goal scorer in the slot.

Early in the third the Rockets grabbed their first lead of the game when Alex Astasiewicz walked the line and ripped home a slap-shot less than three minutes into the per-iod.

From there it was far from easy, but the Rockets held on despite a barrage of penalties that includ-ed a lengthy 5 on 3 dis-advantage.

Davidson declined to offer his opinions on the officiating, but was visibly upset on the Rockets’ bench on multiple occasions after his club took penalties.

However, one of the Rockets’ biggest strengths all season has been their pen-alty kill, and despite allowing a rare oppos-ition powerplay goal, this was another mighty effort on that front.

“Our penalty killing

has really been a shin-ing light all season long for us,” Davidson said, while noting that his team had given up just that one power-play goal across its last five contests.

Nick Hoobanoff added a sixth goal for Golden to put a cap on the scoring.

Golden 1, Kimberley 8

The Rockets won the third period, but little else, as a dismal opening 40 minutes paved the way for the team’s worst home loss of the season in an 8-1 drubbing at the hands of the Kimber-ley Dynamiters Satur-day night.

“It isn’t a physical thing, we have every bit as much talent as Kimberley has. I have no idea why we weren’t ready to go tonight but that will be something I will be diving into as a coach and hopefully try to rectify,” said head coach Ty Davidson.

“We just didn’t come to play. Mental-ly we weren’t there…

they noticed that at the beginning of the game and took advan-tage of it, putting us in a hole we couldn’t get out of,” said Rock-ets captain Daniel Dahlin.

Nitros captain Jason Richter opened the scoring with a power play goal with just over five min-utes remaining in the first and Braden Saretsky added another two minutes later. The real back-breaker came late in the opening per-iod when Dynamiters forward Brady Rev-ie flashed impressive speed on a defensive zone breakout and fed a beautiful pass to Alex Rosolowsky

for a one-timer that left Rockets goalie Mark Becica with lit-tle hope for a stop.

The Dynamiters added five more in the second period, including a flurry of three goals in a two and a half minute span late in the frame, to give them-selves a dominant 8-0 lead through two.

There was little action in the third as the Nitros were con-tent to coast to an easy victory, but Nic Nose-worthy did salvage a measure of pride for Golden with a power play goal that broke the shutout.

If there was a silver lining for Davidson, it was the team’s resolve

in the third with the game out of reach.

“At least in the third period we were play-ing the game the proper way, we were winning battles…if there’s one positive we can take out of it, it’s that we played a solid third period,” Davidson said.

The loss was cost-ly in the standings, as Creston Valley was also a winner on Sat-urday to push Golden down to 4th place in the Eddie Mountain Division. The Rockets will hit the road next weekend for a bout with the Grand Forks Border Bruins on Fri-day before a division-al matchup against Creston on Saturday.

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Ian Desrosier attacks the Princeton net on Friday night. Desrosier didn’t manage to score on this chance, but the club scored six in a two-goal win over the Posse. Joel Tansey/Star Photo


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(250) 272-4321Dan Veselic

(250) 344-1435Flec Demmon

(250) 344-8451Norma Crandall(250) 344-0275

2310 Campbell Road19.87 acres

$197,000

Garry Oddy(250) 344-7234

Lot 3, 3495 Highway #95, South36.33 Acres

$189,000

1502 Poplar Street3 bedrooms 2.5 baths 3,768sqft

$420,000#10 Parkland Gardens

3 bedrooms 1 bath 1,152sqft

$154,9001445 Granite Drive

4 bedrooms 3 baths 3,152sqft

$639,600407 Riverglen Drive


$369,000

701 - 8th Street6 bedrooms 2.5 baths 2,810sqft

$339,000

880 Canyon Creek Road.44 acres

$97,000

909-14th Street3 bdrm Home w/ 1 bdrm Legal Suite

$430,000

514 - 7th Street3 Bedrooms 2 Baths 1,213sqft

$299,900

701-12th Street4 bedrooms 2 baths 2,333sqft

$308,000

527 - 12th Street4 bedrooms 3 baths 2,174sqft

$339,9001500 Quartz Crescent

3 bedrooms 2.5 baths 3,447sqft

$579,600

1501 Quartz Crescent4 bedrooms 2.5 baths 1,833sqft

$569,600

1000 Kicking Horse Drive8.7 acres

$2,300,000

#204, 521 - 8th Avenue2 bedrooms 1 bath 813sqft

$174,900

#21, 1345 Aemmer Way2 bedrooms 1 bath 770 sqft

$285,000

1596 Columbia Valley 1.871 acres

$149,900#406, 1549 Kicking Horse Trail


$375,000

1205 Trans Canada HighwayLand & Building

$900,000

619 Lower Habart Road3 bdrms 2.5 baths 3,120sqft .61 acres

$277,333

1213 - 10th Avenue3 bedrooms 1+ baths 3,300sqft

$299,000

320 Fisher Road20 acres

$1,599,000

955 McAllister Road3bdrms 2.5 baths 2,430sqft 3.97 acres

$735,0001735 Oberg Johnson Road

3bdrms 1 bath 1,988sqft 1.5 acres

$269,000NEW NEW1361 Pine Drive


$443,300

405 Riverglen Drive5 bedrooms 3 baths 2,450sqft

$362,500

1308 Pine Drive4 bedrooms 3 baths 2,432sqft

$305,600

#207, 521 - 8th Avenue2 bedrooms 1 bath 813sqft

$169,9001145 - 10th Street


$179,0001309 Pine Drive


$349,900

5256 Ben Hynes Loop Road

$362,000

2bdrms 2 baths 1,500 sqft 67 acres#15, 415 - 5th Avenue


$299,900517 - 12th Street


$338,3001398 Harley Road

1 bedrooms 1&2 1/2 baths 2,432sqft

$299,900

2205 Holmes-Deakin Road3bdrms 1 bath 1,244 sqft 1.29 acres

$133,900

551 Highway #95, South6bdrms 4 baths 4,056sqft 3.19 acres

$595,0002016 McMurdo Road

2 bdrms 2 baths 2,300sqft 3.71 acres

$469,000

1695 Golden Donald Upper Road3bdrms 1 bath 1,230sqft 5 acres

$309,900#402, 1549 Kicking Horse Trail


$365,0001907 Highway #95, South

3.74 acres

$19,900

SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD

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SOLD

1742 Seward Frontage3 bdrms 1 bath 1,740 sqft 18.5acres

$585,000

1202 Alexander Drive5 bedrooms 2 baths 1,976sqft

$229,500

SOLD

515 Highway #112 acres

$59,000NEW

golden star, january 14, 2015

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