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Class of 2013 celebrates� is weekend the L.V. Rogers

Class of 2013 will cap o� their high school careers in typical grand fash-ion.

� e high school year-end tradi-tion gets underway Friday night at the Nelson and District Com-munity Complex with the cap and gown ceremony. On Saturday, the blue mortarboards will give way to prom dresses and tuxedos for the grand march, downtown cavalcade and evening prom.

“It’s getting exciting now that it’s so close,” said LVR grad committee member Carley Bennett. “It was a little stressful for most of the year with all the organizing, but now it’s time to have fun.”

� is year’s nine-person grad ex-ecutive spent many months fund-raising and putting in place all the special events on tap this weekend. It’s a huge undertaking for a monu-mental step in young lives.

“I joined the executive mainly because I was forced to by my dad,” laughed committee member Jordan Mulvihill. “But now that I am ac-tually on the grad executive, I ap-preciate what we are doing and it has been a really good experience.”

“You really get an understand-ing of what it means to be a leader,” added committee member Sydney Zondervan.

Life in a small community high

L.V. Rogers Graduation Weekend

BOB HALLNelson Star Editor

TAKING A LEAP INTO THE FUTURE. L.V. Rogers grad committee members (L-R) Carley Bennett, Jordan Mulvihill and Sydney Zondervan have been helping the Class of 2013 for this coming weekend’s grad events. Earlier this week, the trio released some of their excitement for the big event by throwing themselves off a picnic table at the school. Bob Hall photo

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NewsKnowledge Network Competition

History � lmmaker chosenLocal � lmmaker Amy Bo-

higian is the recipient of the $30,000 � lm contract that was up for grabs in the BC Knowledge Network’s his-tory shorts competition.

� e public broadcaster hosted a two-day pitching workshop this past weekend in Nelson. Fi� een � lmmak-ers were invited, knowing one of them would walk away with the contract for create a series of 10 two-minute his-tory documentaries based on still photographs.

Over the weekend, the filmmakers shared their story ideas and received feedback from each other before pitching them to the network. Knowledge Net-work president Rudy Butti-gnol said some of the popular themes the � lmmakers were interested in documenting included the Japanese in-ternment, silver mining and sternwheelers.

“� ere was a lot of over-lap in terms of what every-one wanted their � lms to be about,” Buttignol noted. “What made [Bohigian] stand out was her ability to � nd a person with an indi-vidual story that illustrates the larger issues. She has a lot of � lmmaking experience and we know she’ll be able to deliver on the project.”

Bohigian runs her own � lm company called Wa-tershed Productions and is the founder of the Sum-

mer Film Camp for Youth and the Kootenay Summer Shorts Film Festival. Her recent documentaries Rural Transcrapes, about transgen-dered folks in the Kootenays, and Conceiving Family, about same-sex couples adopting children.

She’s currently working on a 12-part documentary series for the Columbia Basin Trust called Basin Stories. She’s spent the past year and a half interviewing more than 45 people about how the area has changed since the 1964 Columbia River Treaty.

Bohigian said some of the stories and photographs she collected through the Basin Stories project will likely make their way into the Knowledge Network series.

“I’ve gone through a ton of shoe boxes of photographs

in people’s living rooms and of course you get way more material than you could ever use for one project,” Bohigian said. “� ere’s a lot of interest-ing people in this area.”

� e series Bohigian came up with for the Knowledge Network is tentatively titled If � ese Mountains Could Talk. It includes episodes on the back to the land move-ment, how the collapse of the salmon run impacted First Nations, the history of Ko-kanee Glacier Park, and of course, the � ooding of the Columbia Basin.

“� ese are big topics to squeeze into two minute clips,” Bohigian acknowl-edged, noting she’ll have some good help to accom-plish this.

She’s recruited local archi-vist and researcher Nicole

Tremblay to help � nd photos and research stories; Selkirk College digital arts instruc-tor Daryl Jolly to help with help with post-production and digital e� ects; and com-poser Ben Euerby to write the music.

“I think it’s going to be in-teresting for the rest of BC to learn about the history of this area,” Bohigian said. “Nelson and the Kootenays will be in the television spotlight for awhile.”

� e series will air on the Knowledge Network to-gether as a package and then separately between other programming.

� ey’ll also be available to view online, and there’s talk of organizing a local screening of the series at the Civic � eatre sometime next year.

Knowledge Network president Rudy Buttignol (left) and Murray Battle, Knowledge Network director of in-dependent production and presentation (right) were at Touchstones Nelson on Sunday where they awarded Nelson � lmmaker Amy Bohigian (centre) with a $30,000 � lm contract to produce a series on local history.

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Bowling alley continues rolling Savoy Lanes Purchased by Kootenay Advocacy Network

Nelson’s only bowling alley will remain open, thanks to a couple of non-pro� t organi-zations that have teamed up to save the facility.

� e Kootenay Advocacy Network put forward $45,000 to buy Savory Lanes for the Nelson and Regional Sports Council, which will operate the business going forward.

“It’s a perfect partnership — they didn’t want to run it and we didn’t have the mon-ey,” sports council executive director Kim Palfenier said, noting local businesses and organizations have also of-fered to pitch with in-kind donations to help � x up the facility over the summer.

� e bowling alley will be closed for the next three months for renovations. Ramps will be installed to make the facility accessible to people in wheelchairs, and there’re bathroom improve-ments and tiling work that

need to be done. It will also be cleaned up and painted before re-opening in Septem-ber, when leagues start train-ing for their seasons.

� e facility is well used by senior and Special Olympic leagues.

Vince DeVito, treasurer of the Kootenay Advocacy Net-work, has a son with Down Syndrome who bowls with the Special Olympic teams. He was devastated when he heard news that previous owner Kevin Franz planned to close the business.

“We felt if we lost the bowl-ing alley, we’d never get one back — they cost too much to set up today,” DeVito said.

� e Kootenay Advocacy Network, whose primary

mandate is to provide low-income housing for people with developmental disabili-ties, had money in the bank a� er BC Housing purchased a property it was managing. � e non-pro� t had planned to spend the money in the community, and this seemed like the perfect project, De-Vito explained.

“I see it as a viable busi-ness that will sustain itself, if it’s marketed properly,” said the longtime businessman and owner of Vince DeVito Specialty Footwear on Hall Street.

“It probably won’t make a huge pro� t, but it should make enough to keep the doors open and employ a few people.”

� e sports council plans to hire a manager to work in the bowling alley and increase programming there. Some of the new o� erings could include establishing a junior bowling league, increased availability for party and lane rentals, and theme nights for adults, like galaxy bowling and disco bowling.

“It will be open much more o� en, and for a broader demographic,” Palfenier said.

� e sports council’s objec-tive is to promote all recre-ational and team sports in the community. It already operates the Civic Arena, which houses the Nelson Sports Museum, and is in talks to take over the Curl-ing Club.


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Continued from Page 1school mirrors life in a small town. There’s a different spirit of camaraderie that exists at the Fairview school that stu-dents are proud to be part of.

“We have a really good group of kids and we are re-ally close,” said Zondervan. “There’s not just cliques and certain groups. That’s pretty impressive when you consid-er there are more than 200 kids in the grad class.”

As is the case with all of life’s significant milestones, the LVR Class of 2013 is heading into the weekend with a reflective tone.

“I will be thinking about all the kids I have become friends with over the last two years, it’s a pretty di-verse group,” said Mulvihill on his days in public school. “In three weeks we will be out of high school, then sum-mer is going to go by in two

months… then ‘bam’ you are in university. I’m moving across the country and won’t see any of these people for a year… so it’s kind of sad real-izing how fast it’s gone by.”

All committee members agree that the local education system has provided them with a solid foundation for moving on.

“We’ve done this for 13 years,” said Bennett. “Every fall you go back to school and see the same friends and it’s not too much of a change. Come fall, that all changes.

“I’m ready to move onto the next thing. School has prepared us fairly well for the next step… it’s exciting to move on.”

Mulvihill and Zondervan have been classmates since Kindergarten at Gordon Sar-gent. It’s a bond that many of the kids taking the walk across the stage at the NDCC

on Friday share and one that will be on their minds.

“There will be tears,” said Zondervan. “At the cere-mony when we all hear the speeches and realize it’s over, there will be tears.”

All three of the grad com-mittee members have differ-ent plans for the coming year. Mulvihill is off to Carleton University in Ottawa to take the five-year aerospace en-gineering program. Bennett is heading to Austrailia for a year of travel before com-ing back to Canada to attend university in what she hopes will be a path towards law. Zondervan will also be tak-ing a break and heading to Holland for a few months be-fore coming back to Selkirk and then on to the University of Victoria where law is also one of her considerations.

Chasing dreams has only really just begun for the

Class of 2013. The committee members charged with put-ting on this weekend’s party feel Nelson has prepared them well for whatever pur-suits they choose.

“The community has been really supportive of all our fundraising activities this past year and everything we have done over the years,” said Zondervan. “Nelson has really been there for us, it’s pretty special to be part of such a great community.”

Doors open at the for the cap and gown at 5:30 p.m. with first come/first choose seating. The ceremony gets underway at 6:45 p.m. On Saturday at 1:30 p.m. the grand march will take place at the NDCC and the cavalcade through the downtown will begin at 4 p.m. The Saturday night prom at the Prestige Lakeside Resort takes place from 7:30 p.m. to midnight.

Grohman findings to be revealedNarrows Dredging Project

BC Hydro will reveal the findings of hydraulic and geotechnical studies on its proposed Grohman Narrows dredg-ing project at a pubic meeting on Mon-day, June 17.

The company completed 10 days of field work this spring at a cost of $70,000 to help determine if widening the Koo-

tenay River bottleneck is feasible.Grohman Narrows, about three ki-

lometres downstream of Nelson, re-stricts the river’s flow, which can result in flooding during high inflows into Kootenay Lake, as seen last year.

The area was last dredged in the late 1930s and early ‘40s.

FortisBC supports investigating the idea and Nelson city councillor Deb Kozak, who chairs the Columbia River

Treaty local governments committee, says she feels “really positive about it.”

However, letter writers to the Star have suggested it may do more harm than good.

The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Prestige Lakeside Resort. Company spokeswoman Mary Anne Coules says they will present background on the project, findings of their studies, as well as a timeline and next steps.

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Here is an award winning tree! First introduced in the 1950’s the Sunburst Locust won the prestigious Award of Garden Merit in 2002. It is one of the very best yellow foliaged trees you will � nd. Although originally found in wet or even swampy areas this smaller, rounded tree does well in much drier and free draining soils. It is somewhat slow to leaf out in spring but, when it does it is a sight to behold. � e new foliage starts out a bright, almost lemon yellow, and turns into an attractive greenish-yellow during the summer. For fall it once again assumes the beautiful colour it � rst had in early spring. � eir canopy is light and airy, and it is this quality that makes them

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SPCA pushes City for new policy

Salmo updating animal control bylaw

With no pet stores selling live animals currently oper-ating in Nelson, there’d be no one to complain if the City adopted a policy to ban such a business.

According to a presenta-tion the BC SPCA made at recent city council meeting, this is the best time to push through the policy change.

“� is is a prevention is-sue,” BC SPCA policy and outreach o� cer Amy Morris told council, citing problems with cat over-population in some cities. “We want to

avoid that happening here.”Several major cities have

similar policies, including Richmond and Maple Ridge, as well as Toronto and Mis-sissauga, Ontario.

Morris noted the poor conditions animals endure in mass breeding facilities, during transportation to pet stores and in the stores them-selves. She said some stores

will get too many animals in stock and end up surrender-ing the animals to a shelter if they can’t be sold.

� is goes for cats and dogs, as well as smaller pets like birds, � sh, rabbits and other small rodents.

Councillor Donna Mac-donald questioned whether the SPCA would have bet-ter luck advocating for a province-wide ban rather than pursuing individual municipalities.

Morris explained that her organization is interested in municipalities because they issue business licences and could choose to refuse

a licence to a business that wanted to sell live animals.

Councillor Paula Kiss agreed with the SPCA’s po-sition.

“It’s the perfect time to do this and o� end no one,” Kiss said. “� is would allow us to o� er clear guidelines for any pet store interested in establishing itself here in the future.”

Nelson’s manager of legis-lative and administrative ser-vices, Frances Long, pointed out that the city will soon be reviewing its business licenc-es policies and made a note to include the issues of live pet sales in that review.

� e Sale of Live Animals in Pet Stores

Backyard Chickens


“It’s a perfect time to do this and

offend no one.”Paula Kiss

City Councillor

Salmo council may soon be crying foul on its backyard chicken trend.

� e village has moved to update its animal control bylaw in response to the in-creasing number of chicken coops cropping up on resi-dential properties.

Since 2004, it has been free range for animals other than dogs in the Village of Salmo, said administrator Scott Sommerville.

“Since 2010, mayor and council have been discuss-ing an animal control bylaw,”

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But � rst, the bylaw regula-tions need to be more clear cut, said councillor Merle Hanson.

“It’s not just a matter of saying, okay you can have four hens. � ere are a lot of other issues that need to be taken into consideration,” he said. “In particular, how are you going to enforce it?”

Hanson explained that even Vancouver’s animal control bylaw is only en-

forced based on complaint.“It will all depend on how

your neighbour feels about chickens.”

However, Salmo residents who currently house back-yard cluckers may not need

to be concerned just yet.“I would expect that

residents who already have chickens will be grandfa-thered in,” said Sommerville. “� ey will be allowed to con-tinue until their operation ceases.”

Additionally, under the new bylaw it is not just feath-ered friends whose numbers may be endangered within the village boundaries.

Council is also consider-ing a limit on the number of cats that a property owner may possess.

“I think they are more of a problem that chickens,” said councillor Jennifer Peel.

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Every September a new group of eager young kindergarten students begin an exciting new chapter of their lives. A

tiny army of backpack-clad cuties file into elementary schools in Nelson eager to learn, meet new friends and open new worlds.

Thirteen years later and hundreds of new experiences gained, they become the next grad class at L.V. Rogers secondary school. A little more jaded and whole lot more wise, the pack of polished publicly-educated teenagers celebrate a massive milestone.

Both parents and students are left wonder-ing where did the time go?

For parents, it seemed like only yesterday the runny-nosed wee ones were being shuffled out the door with a nutritious lunch and encouraging words. The stress and worry of “will my child be happy and successful today” always on their minds. When it comes to chis-eling out a future for your children, every day seems huge. The culmination of all those days, more enormous than any other achievement a parent will ever accomplish.

For students, the last 13 years are a blur of mathematical equations, grammar lessons and science experiments. A marathon of daily challenges and new frontiers. Basking in suc-cess and picking up the pieces after failure. Meeting new friends and creating lifelong bonds that even at this moment are difficult to comprehend. At times it likely seemed the end goal was impossible to reach, but each day the building blocks created what these young men and women are today.

Grad weekend is a time to celebrate. That’s never a problem in Nelson. Few other small communities can boast a downtown cavalcade where close friends and complete strangers line the streets to enthusiastically cheer on the graduating class. It’s one of the days that help make the place we call home so special.

Congratulations to the Class of 2013 on a job well done. With the help of your parents, teachers, family, friends and entire support system you have made this community proud. Your success is our success and we will con-tinue to cheer you on as you head out into the next fantastic chapter of your lives.

Where did those 13 years go?

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It’s certainly not an-other version of the “Arab Spring”; Turkey

is a fully democratic coun-try. It’s not just a Middle Eastern variant of the Occupy movement, either, although the demands of the huge crowds who have occupied the centre of Istanbul and other Turkish big cities are equally dif-fuse and contradictory.

It’s more like the student uprising in Paris in May, 1968, although most of the demonstrators in Turkey are neither Marxists nor students. Like the Paris demos, it began over lo-cal issues and has rap-idly grown into a popular revolt against an elected government that is deeply conservative, increasingly autocratic, and deaf to all protests.

The original issue was Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan’s plan to destroy Istanbul’s Gezi Park in order to build a new shopping mall in a city that already has far too many. The park is the only green space in the newer part of downtown, north of the Golden Horn, and covering it over with yet more shops was bound to meet with some resistance.

Erdogan, in cahoots with the developers as usual, assumed that the plan to include a mosque in the new mall would placate his own support-ers, while the plan to make the exterior of the mall a replica of an old Ottoman barracks that had once stood on the site would assuage everybody else’s unhappiness at the loss of the park. He was wrong.

At the start of the pro-test, on May 27, only a few

hundred people occupied the park. It might all have petered out if the police had not attacked them with clubs and tear gas last Friday night, burning their tents after they fled. The protesters came back in far larger number the next day, and the same thing happened again. By the third night, city centres were being occupied all over Turkey, and it wasn’t just about Gezi Park any more.

Prime Minister Erdo-gan, leaving for a tour of several Arab countries on Monday, dismissed the protests as the work of “a few looters” and “extrem-ist elements”, and said he’d sort it out after he got back on Friday. Unruffled, you might call him — just as you would have described French President Charles De Gaulle in the first days of the 1968 revolt in France.

It’s been a week, and the protesters have not quit. Meanwhile, in Erdogan’s absence, his closest col-leagues have been concil-iatory. President Abdullah Gul said “the messages sent in good faith have been received,” and Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said “The use of excessive force against the people who initially started this protest... was wrong.”

But what is it really about? After all, Prime Minister Erdogan has led his moderate Islamist party, the Justice and Development Party (AK), to three successive wins in national elections, each time with a bigger share of the vote. He has presided over a decade of high-

speed economic growth that has lifted millions out of poverty, and he has finally forced the army out of politics. Why don’t they love him?

Some do, but many peo-ple think he has got too big for his boots. Erdogan retains the support of the pious and deeply conser-vative peasants and recent immigrants to the cities who make up the bulk of his supporters, but he wouldn’t have won with-out the backing of secular, urban voters who saw him as the best chance to expel the army from politics and put Turkish democracy on a firm footing. He has now lost their trust.

He won it by promis-ing that his government would not shove conserva-tive Islamic values down everybody else’s throats, and until recently he kept his promise. But his last election victory, in which he got 50 per cent of the vote in a multi-party race, has emboldened him to believe that he can ignore his erstwhile secular sup-porters.

He has pushed through new laws restricting the sale and consumption of alcohol. Despite the mis-givings of most Turks, he

enthusiastically supports the Sunni Muslim rebels in Syria, as part of a broader strategy of re-establishing the political and economic dominance that the Otto-man Empire once enjoyed in the Sunni Arab world.

He even insists on nam-ing the proposed third bridge across the Bospho-rus after the 16th century Ottoman ruler, Yavuz Sul-tan Selim, who is notori-ous for massacring tens of thousands of Turkey’s Alevi religious minor-ity. Around a quarter of Turkey’s population are Alevis, and they have not forgotten. Once Erdogan could play public opinion like a violin; now he is ar-rogant and tone-deaf.

So where does this end up? Not with the over-throw of Turkey’s elected government, and probably not in a military coup ei-ther. Most likely there will be apologies, and some government concessions, and the turbulence will subside. Erdogan will not even be removed as AK party leader right away, though some of his senior colleagues now clearly see him as a liability.

The protesters in Paris in May, 1968 didn’t get what they wanted right away either. Indeed, like the protesters in Gezi Park today, they weren’t even sure exactly what they wanted. But 11 months later Charles De Gaulle resigned, and France has never since had to cope with the problem of a Strong Man in power.

Gwynne Dyer is an in-dependent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Letters to the Editor

HUGS. Huge hug to the lovely lady who took the time to return our very loved, albeit misbehaving, dog from the road. I am so grateful for your act of kind-ness. - Sammie’s owner

HUGS. Hugs to the owners of Nelson’s Dulux/Colour Your World for refinishing the surface of the bench on Pulpit Rock. Slugs to the person who had defaced it.

- A Grateful Pulpiteer

SlUGS. To me for almost accidentally cutting you off... hugs to you my neighbour for being so under-standing :)

HUGS. To the person that returned my son’s wallet intact... A big hug and many thanks! So good to be able to trust in our little community.

HUGS. To the lovely, cheerful woman who could spare some change for the parking meter on Baker Street. Thank you for helping me out — many flow-ers and blessings!

HUGS. To the Harrop ferry operators who deliver everyone safely especially during the recent storm of wind, rain, and “high seas.”

SlUGS. To whoever put a box of their car garbage including soiled diapers into the Nelson Star box at Harrop.

HUGS. To the baseball coach who toils away to always ensure the Queen E diamond is well mani-cured for game time. Not an easy task in the Nelson spring. It enhances the enjoyment for the players and the parents watching from the stands. Keep up the great work!

HUGS. To Tom at ROAM for amazing customer service.

SlUGS. To whoever keeps taking my for sale signs from Chatham and Nelson Ave.

SlUGS. To the person responsible for hitting our loving big orange cat with a car on West Innes Street the morning of May 30. Accidents happen, that’s understandable. But to leave an injured animal to die on the road is horrible. If you are reading this, our cat belongs to a low income family, please help us with the vet costs to heal our puma.

HUGS. I became a permanent resident just over a year ago now, and I have to say... I already knew I was moving to the coolest town in the country, but continue to find it getting more cool every day. I thor-oughly enjoyed the fact that our major newspaper reserved an entire section last week for the children of the town to contribute the articles on social media!

I thought this to be very wise, and demonstrated well all the influences the children of Nelson have. The articles revealed the influence of parenting, teach-ing, each other, and I also enjoyed that writing from the girls and the boys were each well represented. I appreciated this special section very much. It was extremely refreshing newsmaking. Thank you!

HUGS. To Victor for such a quick response and great service to our broken furnace needed even in May!

HUGS. To Derek at Andex for an incredibly quick repair of my trailer tire... On my way in a jiffy.

- Happy machine renter

HUGS. To the cast and crew of the Capitol Theatre production of Cabaret. Outstanding performances and musical direction. Hats off to you all.

HUGS. To the most amazing Rink Guy named Ed-die. You made a dream come true for a deserving 40-year-old boy! I thank you so much. I dont know how to repay you! xo

HUGS. To the City workers who are doing such a beautiful job of fixing up the 900 block of Vernon Street. Thank you for all your good efforts to keep our city lovely.

HUGS. Huge baskets of flowers to our Nelson Ford dealership for the wonderful customer service after my car’s recent issues. It is wonderful to be in a community where relationships mean a lot. Thank you so much for taking care of things for me.

- Grateful to be driving again

HUGS. A special thanks to Tony and staff of Maglio’s for their effort to get me the special product I needed to finish a project. Very much appreciated.

HUGS. Big hugs to Nelson Sears and our local busi-ness community from the kids at L’ecole des Sentiers Alpins. Our fundraiser was a success because of your generosity!

HUGS. Big hugs to the resilient kids of Rosemont el-ementary school for cleaning up and making the best of a senseless attack on their newly planted gardens. They “fill my bucket” each and every day.

HUGS. Great big huge hugs to the RDCK, Nelson RCMP and “the dog lady”... sorry, I don’t know your name but appreciate your work. Great big huge hugs from the families who love to enjoy Taghum Beach but have been chased away by public alcohol con-sumption, loud, offensive language and unleashed, unmanageable dogs. Thanks for giving us our beach back to enjoy! Your efforts are very much appreciat-ed! - Able to enjoy the beach at last

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Letters to the Editor

Re: Letter to the editor “An alter-nate idea for the Extra Foods site” (May 24, 2013).

� e Kootenay Co-op never expected to be taking on the role of developer in the mixed-use project of Nelson Commons. When we took possession of the old Extra Foods property, it was our expecta-tion that we would renovate and

move in. As we began to further in-vestigate the condition of the build-ing and the options the site pre-sented, we realized that we had an extraordinary opportunity to turn the site into something amazing for the co-op and our community.

� e building has been inad-equately maintained and is very energy ine� cient. It needs a new roof, new plumbing, electrical and mechanical systems. � ese renova-tions would be costly and we would still have a 50-year-old cinder block building.

� e City of Nelson’s Sustainable Waterfront and Downtown Master Plan encourages vacant sites within the downtown core to be developed

into mixed-use with retail at street level and residential above. In ad-dition they call for developments that will “create strong civic spaces that are focal points for neighbour-hoods;” this is our vision of the Nelson Commons development.

� e pro� t realized from a project like this would normally be fun-neled out of Nelson by the out-of-town developer. With the co-op as developer, the success of the Nelson Commons mixed-use development will serve to reduce our long-term debt load; the costs will be shared between the commercial and residential owners. It is also impor-tant to recognize that the co-op is committed to a � nancial, social and environmental bottom line and has the wellbeing of the whole commu-nity in mind, not common in the world of property development!

� is project presents a great challenge and an incredible op-portunity for our community and for our co-op. We are both daunted and inspired by the task at hand. We will continue to gather input from our community as we move through this development process.

Additional information can be found in the Kootenay Co-op news-letter “On � e Table” and on our website nelsoncommons.ca. Ques-tions or concerns can be emailed directly to [email protected].

Deirdrie Lang Co-op general manager

Russell PreciousProject manager

This project presents a great challenge and an incredible opportunity for our community and our co-op. We are both daunted and inspired by

the task at hand.

Co-op project will enhance downtown

In response to Roger Pratt’s comments on NDP and “co� ee shops” that appeared in the May 29 edi-tion of your paper (“NDP couldn’t run a co� ee shop”), I would like to o� er some clari� cation on the NDP and � scal responsibility.

� e Fiscal Reference Tables produced by the fed-eral Department of Finance for 2008-09 showed that New Democratic govern-ments in Canada produced budgets that were in sur-plus 51 per cent of the time covered by the report. � e Conservative governments ranked second while Lib-eral governments placed a distant third at 30 per cent.

Included in the strong NDP record of � scal man-agement was the Romanow government of Saskatch-ewan that brought the prov-ince out of years of deep

Conservative de� cits. As well, Manitoba under

former premier, Gary Doer presented eight balanced budgets.

It is interesting to note that, according to Regina Leader-Post columnist, Murray Mandryk, the Saskatchewan Conserva-tives under Premier Grant Devine, ended up running the worst government in Saskatchewan’s history, one that le� taxpayers with a $14 billion debt.

� e Devine years also brought big scandals. Ac-cording to a CBC op-ed of April 26, 2007, the � rst three ministers sworn in during 1982, Eric Bernston, Colin � atcher and Bob Andrew all ended up con-victed of criminal o� enses. � irteen MLAs were impli-cated in a scheme to syphon o� caucus communication

money for personal and po-litical purposes. Eight were convicted and more than $800,000 of public money was involved.

On the other hand, when Tommy Douglas took o� ce in 1944, Saskatchewan had a debt of $218 million — 38 per cent of provincial GDP. By 1949, he had reduced the debt to $70 million and by 1953, had eliminated it. By 1961, when he le� o� ce, he had produced 17 suc-cessive budget surpluses. By reducing the debt and thereby reducing costs, he was able to spend more on public services without rais-ing taxes. (Globe and Mail – November 20, 2010).

I am sure that letter writer Mr. Pratt would agree that the NDP record is pretty impressive.

Alex AtamanenkoSouthern Interior MP

NDP is � scally responsible

Re: Letter to the editor “An alternate idea for the Extra Foods site” (May 24, 2013).

Stefano Bozzi’s suggestions certainly contain some very excellent suggestions. Rather than a three-storey building with condos, which need to be sold before a new co-op store can be built, I fully endorse his idea of keeping the building as is, and mak-ing the large parking lot into a lovely green space (commons square?) with su� cient parking, with a few spaces for other mobile vendors.

I am not sure why the Kootenay Co-op board would want to enter into a massive re-direction from one of their “mission statements” (providing highest quality, a� ordable natural foods and products, and wherever possible organic, in a pleasant, comfortable environment).

Co-op board and members please recon-sider. You have a lovely inviting store now, recreate it in a larger version.

John Vanden HeuvelNelson

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Kalein Hospice Centre volunteers Senna Andison and Amber Santos — who is also the lead artist on the project — were busy Wednesday morning creating an interactive, public art installation on the side of the old Extra Foods building. A section of the wall was covered with blackboard paint where passersby can complete the statement “Before I die I want to ____.” The installation, which will remain in place at least until the end of the summer, is meant to encourage people to reflect on their life and what’s important to them.

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Experience a telescopic view of the night sky with the Star-ry Night Astronomy program, which meets June 7 and 14 or see the sun through our filtered telescopes at Solar Sundays (June 16), noon to 2 p.m., at Taghum Hall, weather permitting. For info call Wayne at 250-354-1586.

The Nelson-West Kootenay Chapter of the Council of Cana-dians has its monthly meeting on Saturday, June 8 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Labour Exchange Building, 101 Baker Street (next to the Best Western). All inter-ested folks are welcome. Further information 250-352-5274.

The Nelson Grans to Grans are once more holding the Stride to Turn the Tide walkathon on Saturday, June 8. Register at Lakeside Park at 10 a.m. The walk to Cottonwood Park starts at 10:45 a.m. The event is to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in Africa. Donate online at http://bit.ly/StrideNelson13.

The L.V. Rogers 2013 grad cavalcade will roll through downtown Nelson on Saturday, June 8 from 4 to 5 p.m. Come out and support this year’s grads.

A walking group meets Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. under the Orange Bridge by Lakeside Park. Everyone is welcome to join in for a walk. For informa-tion contact [email protected].

Culture Days information ses-sion will be held at the Nelson and District Chamber of Com-merce (225 Hall Street) on June 10 at 6 p.m. Meet and network with other Culture Days activity organizers and find out what is being planned in your commu-nity. This year Culture Days will take place September 27 to 29.

Spark! is a free after school arts group for girls ages 12 to 16 every Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Nelson and Dis-trict Youth Centre. Snacks are provided. Facilitated by Ursula Twiss.

The Nelson Technology Club hosts a Hackerspace Wednes-days, 6 to 8 p.m., at their new location in the annex building at Selkirk College Tenth Street campus. Hackerspace is a place to talk about technology with people who understand what you are talking about.

Play table tennis Wednesdays (school holidays/events exclud-ed) at the Blewett elementary school from 5:30 to 7 p.m. There is a $2 drop-in fee. For info call Karl Rosenberg: 250-352-5739.

Al-anon meetings are held Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. at the Cellar, 717 Vernon Street, and on Fridays from 8 to 9 p.m. at 601 Front Street in the basement. For more informa-tion about the Cellar meetings contact Norma at 250-352-3747 and for the Front Street meetings contact Sharon at 250-352-7333.

The Earth Matters Upcyclers meet Wednesdays and Thurs-days from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Nel-son and District Youth Centre. Youth 13 to 30 are invited to stop in and learn how to turn trash into treasure, or take part in group discussions about waste reduction, meet other youth and enjoy a snack.

Nelson Knitting Co-op meets every Thursday from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the Nelson and Dis-trict Community Complex. The meeting is open to anyone inter-ested in sharing their projects, learning new techniques and socializing with other fibre en-thusiasts.

Lions Park Day is taking place at the Lions Park in Up-hill on Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come enjoy a by-donation hotdog lunch at the Nelson Lions Club’s famous chuck wagon. There will be kids’ activities in the morning; and prizes to be won in a dog-and-owner lookalike contest in the afternoon, between 1 and 2 p.m. (Remember: pets must be leashed). The spray park will be open, weather permitting. For

more information contact Quinn Pharness 250-352-0611 or email [email protected].

The Kootenay Lake Vintage Car Club’s 23rd annual Cruisin’ The 50’s show and shine will be held Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the east end of Baker Street.

Original Anscomb Wheel-house Restoration Open House on Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to noon. The ceremony will start promptly at 10 a.m. with a ribbon cutting, tours and re-freshments. Very limited seating, bring a lawn chair.

The 14th annual Slocan Valley Art and Garden Tour is on Sun-day, June 16. The tour includes five new gardens and four past favourites to explore between Slocan Park and the Village of Slocan. Tour brochures are avail-able at local garden centres and on community bulletin boards. An online version is available at slocanvalleyarts.ca. For more information contact Ruth Porter at 250-226-7349.

La Leche League Nelson (breastfeeding information and support) meets the third Mon-day of each month (June 17) at the Family Place, 312 Silica Street at 1 p.m. Come on out and meet other moms and babies, share your stories, help and be helped. Snack, lending library and child-care. Expectant moms are espe-cially encouraged to attend.

Community First Health Co-op Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, June 18 at 6:30 p.m. Find out how good the Co-op is doing and our exciting plans for affordable housing. There will also be a presentation on hands-on art therapy for seniors.

WorkshopsEvery Friday, Community

Threads meets at Nelson and District Women’s Centre from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come learn to knit, crochet, spin, embroider and make rag rugs. On Wednes-days, Community Threads of-

fers quilting lessons from 9 a.m. to noon at the same location. Women of all ages welcome. Call 250-551-4951 for info.

Are you a caregiver for some-one with a chronic or terminal illness? On Wednesday, June 12 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Com-munity First Health Coop at 518 Lake Street invites you to attend Christine Sutherland’s workshop on Massage for Chronic or Termi-nal illness. This hands-on session includes Care for the Caregiver with a head, shoulder and neck massage for all to learn. This is a free session and is part of CFHC continuing education series.

FundraisersKootenay Rhythm Dragons

are holding a “burger and beer” fundraiser at Finley’s on Friday, June 7. Tickets are $15, and pro-ceeds will help send our local dragon boat team to festivals in Kelowna and Kalispell, Montana this year. Come meet team mem-bers, and enjoy a sizzling burger and cold beverage.

Papa Thom, a musician who travels Canada raising awareness of homelessness and poverty, will give a benefit concert for St. Sav-iour’s Food Pantry on Saturday, June 8 at 7 p.m. at St. Saviour’s Pro-Cathedral, 701 Ward Street. Admission by donation, and non-perishable food items welcome.

Giant Garage Sale, Saturday, June 15, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Nelson United Church (602 Silica Street). The sale includes house wares, toys, linens, jewel-lery, small appliances, tools and more. Proceeds go to the Nelson United Church.

From Thursday, June 13 after 2 p.m. through Saturday, June 15 all day, the Nelson Leafs is accepting bottle donations for Shane Sprowl who lost his Har-rop home to fire in April. Dona-tions are still being accepted at the Credit Union under account number 40025080-150. Air mile donations are also appreciated. For more information contact Sprowl at 250-551-3847.

Kukua Pamoja African Feast at Nelson United Church on June 17. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Adults $15, children eight and up $10, and children seven and younger are free. Get your tickets at ANKORS, Otter Books or at the door.

marketsCottonwood Market is held

every Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cottonwood Falls Park featuring live music, regional produce, eggs, great savory and sweet foods, and a variety of unique products.

Winlaw Sunday Market is every Sunday at Sleep Is For Sissies from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring local produce, artisans, hand made goods and games for kids.

The Nelson Downtown local market opens Wednesday, June 12 and continues weekly throughout the summer, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. You will find locally made art, clothing, food and more.

announCementsCalling L.V. Rogers grads of

1982, 1983 and 1984. A 30-year reunion is being planned. Email [email protected] for info.

Nelson Youth Theatre is preparing to mount a production of Much Ado About Nothing for the fifth annual Bard in the Bush Shakespeare Festival. Rehearsals will run Mondays and Thursdays from 1 to 4 p.m. from August 6 to 24, though there is relative flexibility for most actor schedules, depending on the role. The cast will be between ages 11 and 15, with some exceptions. Basic auditions will be held around the end of July on an individual basis. Please contact [email protected] for more information.

To include your event in the online calendar visit nelsonstar.com. Or email [email protected] to add your event to the community calendar.

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Union worried about Canada Post outlet storeCanada Post plans to open up

a new outlet in Nelson which has unionized employees worried about the future of the Heritage City’s main post o� ce.

It’s said the new franchise will be located at Highway 3A and Baker Street to serve the high re-tail density area with extended service hours.

Brenda Muscoby-Yanke, president of Canadian Union of Postal Employees local 790, says history shows when Canada Post is planning on closing down a main o� ce, one of the � rst steps is to set up a private franchise to take away revenue. It can then claim that the corporate o� ce is no longer viable.

“� ey bring in a franchise and the next thing you know, a year goes by and the corporate store isn’t making as much. � en they shut it down,” Muscoby-Yanke told the Star. “� ey would have a report saying ‘Look, your sales are down. We can’t a� ord to keep the corporate store open.’ … All they would have le� is carriers and parcels.”

Canada Post claims declining mail volumes may lead to losses of close to $1 billion by 2020. President Deepak Chopra says letter mail has declined by about one billion pieces since 2006 with 30 per cent of that coming in 2012.

A “convenient retail network

with the use of franchises” is part of “staying ahead of the curve to avoid � nancial crisis,” writes Chopra in a letter issued to em-ployees.

In an interview with the Trail Times, Anick Losier, media rela-tions for Canada Post, says the corporation is undergoing some signi� cant changes because peo-ple are not using mail the same way they used to.

“I understand the union’s concerns, but our business has changed dramatically,” she says.

“We need to be mindful about cost factor in everything we do, which is why the franchise model enables us to o� er more services, but not at the same cost.”

Muscoby-Yanke, who repre-sents about 40 employees in Nel-son and the greater area, admits letter mail is down but claims Chopra’s estimates are just that.

“It’s not down as much as they’re saying, and they’re only estimating,” she says. “First-class letters are down, but not a great deal. We do a lot of business here.”

� e CUPW president says the Nelson post o� ce is busy.

“I think it’s because we have a lot of government services and a lot of small businesses. Even though they sell online, there’s still a paper trail, and our parcels have gone up quite a bit. We’re still dealing with a lot of mail,” she says. “We have one of the highest volumes in BC. It’s just below Vancouver Main. � at’s how much business we do here.

We have three wickets open. Castlegar has one. Trail has one.”

Canada Post also plans to open more retail outlets in Grand Forks, Castlegar and Trail.

MP Alex Atamanenko is urg-ing Canada Post to reconsider “this devastating policy of priva-tization” in the communities in his riding.

“Canada Post Corporate of-� ces provide a very bene� cial service to our rural communi-ties. Workers are paid a decent

living wage and as a result, con-tribute to the viability of our small businesses and economy in general,” says Atamanenko in a letter to Chopra. “� e loss of full-time union jobs will have a major negative impact on our rural communities.”

Atamanenko suggests work-ing with CUPW and communi-ties to see how Canada Post can continue to provide a valuable service by maintaining its main corporate post o� ce.

Muscoby-Yanke plans to ap-pear at the Nelson City Council meeting on June 24 to argue that the current location of the post o� ce is good for business on Baker Street. It’s been there since the mid-1950s and was next door in the Touchstones building for 50 years before that.

“I think Nelson will � ght to keep us here because it is that kind of city,” she says.

Ultimately, Muscoby-Yanke is concerned for the future integrity of the postal system. Nelson al-ready has one commercial outlet operated out of Shoppers Drug Mart at Chakho Mika Mall.

“� is city alone will loose ap-proximate a 100 years of experi-ence,” she says. “When it’s not a corporate store, those people don’t get trained. � ey may be minimum wage employees. And they can charge what they want to a point. � e corporate o� ce has certain prices and that’s all we can charge. � ey work for Shopper’s. � ey have nothing to do with Canada Post.”

Within � ve years she predicts letter sorting could be discon-tinued in Nelson forcing letter carriers to travel to Castlegar to pick up their mail.

“� e job of a letter carrier won’t be the same anymore,” she says.

� e Nelson post o� ce em-ploys 10 full-time carriers, one part-time carrier, two relief car-riers, six full-time clerks and two part-time clerks.

Crown Corporation Making Changes

Nelson Star Staff

CUPW local president Brenda Muscoby-Yanke is concerned that the proposed new outlet store will lead to more cuts of Canada Post union employees.

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NewsNew Black Press Contest

Star Backyard BBQ Blowout Contest

Show your true ‘petriot love’

Feature your father, win him a grill

An online Canada Day pet photo contest hosted by Black Press is pitting proud pet owners against one an-other in the quest for a fun prize package.

Called the True Petriot Love Contest, passionate pet owners should be up to the challenge.

Snapping pictures of Mit-tens, Rascal and Tweety is something most people al-ready love to do.

“Everyone loves their pet and especially taking pictures of their pet,” says Nelson Star publisher Karen Bennett. “� is is just a fun way to in-corporate Canada Day cele-brations into a contest people are already going to enjoy.”

She’s hoping people get creative by way of displaying their patriotic pride with � ags, bandanas and other Canadian memorabilia all mak-ing good accessories. Maple leafs are a safe bet but it’s how they’re used that will peg one photo a notch above the rest.

� is is the � rst time Black Press if o� ering a contest running across the West Kootenay. Competition will be sti� with pet owners from Nelson, Trail, Rossland, Castlegar and Grand Forks all participating.

“Pets are popular so this is a great place to start with our � rst regional contest,”

says Bennett.Prizes on o� er include a

$50 shopping spree gi� card from Dig Garden Centre; a Canadian-made Silverfoot

collar and leash set plus a Red Dingo ID tag from Tails

in Rossland (valued at over $60); restau-rant gi� certi� cates courtesy Selkirk Veterinary Hospital valued at $100; Up to 25 lb of Petcurian Pet Food from Nel-son Farmer’s Sup-ply worth $50 and a cat and dog prize package from Cen-tral Bark.

To enter the pho-to contest go to our newspaper website and click on con-tests. Register and then upload your Petriot Love photo.

� e contest is now open with a deadline of July 1, Canada Day. Good luck!

� e day for appreciating dad is fast approaching and the Nelson Star is asking for you to brag up the big man in your life.

Did he teach you to ride a bike and take care of your scraped knee? Does he read you bed time stories and comfort you during the night? Does he let you eat ice cream for breakfast? Or, maybe he’s always there to

take a call, teach you how to change a tire or maybe the greatest at the grill.

In 50 words or less, tell us why your dad is the best and deserves to win the ultimate Father’s Day contest — a bar-beque package of enviable proportions. It only takes a few words.

“Keep it short and sweet,” says publisher Karen Ben-nett. “Even kids can do this — with a little help from mom.”

� e chosen dad will win a backyard barbeque blowout prize package that includes

a portable Weber BBQ and a grocery gi� certi� cate so dad can get all the � xings for the feast he makes best.

� e barbeque is courtesy Kootenay Woodstoves and both Save On Foods and Kootenay Co-op are provid-ing groceries.

� e contest opened on Monday and runs until June 14 at 3:59 p.m. To enter, go to nelsonstar.com and click on contests. All ages are wel-come to participate. Good luck!

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The Downtown Nelson Local Market returns on Wednesday in the 400 block of Baker Street for its fourth year.

The West Kootenay EcoSo-ciety hosted market runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through to

September 25. It offers a mix of fresh local produce, plants, prepared foods, body care products, and hand-made arts and crafts. At least 80 per cent of each vendor’s wares must be made or grown locally.

The City of Nelson’s down-town and waterfront working group recently hosted a webi-nar that emphasized the ben-

efits of having a public market in the downtown core. Re-search shows that 60 per cent of market customers shop at local retailers and restaurants when they come to the mar-ket, and that 60 per cent of those customers would not have otherwise patronized the retail establishments.

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Paul Franck clung to the window ledge as smoke and screams � lled the air.

“I could feel my � ngers burning as I hung onto the hot cement sill three storeys above ground,” the 28-year-old typewriter repairman said. “To me it looked like the end of the world.”

It was 1 a.m. on May 27, 1955 as the 50 guests and permanent residents of the Strathcona Hotel awoke to the horrible realization their building was on � re.

“Staircases hung at crazy angles silhouetted against the

raging inferno of � re licking at tarred siding and tinder dry woodwork,” the Daily News vividly recounted.

“� e occasional loud crash told of another wall falling and an eerie daylight glowed at the intersection of Stanley and Victoria.”

Some guests, like Franck, were le� dangling from upper-storey windows.

“I made a dash for the win-dow and slid out until I was just hanging by my � nger-tips,” he told the newspaper. “I remember screaming my lungs out, shouting for help. It was three storeys to the pavement. I didn’t relish the jump.”

He tried to get back inside, but couldn’t get past the smoke and � ame. At last, he heard a � reman shout: “Don’t jump, we have a ladder.”

Franck hung on and emerged from Nelson’s worst

CITY in FLAMES

In 1955, � re destroyed the Strathcona Hotel in downtown Nelson. Six people died in the tragic blaze, leaving the city to pick up the pieces.

In the last of three parts marking the � rehall’s 100th anniversary, reporter Greg Nestero� looks back at that horrible night and other � res burned into

the community’s memory as a new exhibit opens at Touchstones.

The Strathcona Hotel in � ames on the morning of May 27, 1955.photo courtesy Touchstones Nelson/Nelson Daily News collection

GREG NESTEROFFNelson Star Reporter

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April 17, 1967: St. Paul’s Trinity United Church. The church’s organist, a Trafalgar teacher, was charged with arson. Damage over $250,000.

November 17, 1969: Queens Hotel, Baker Street Destroyed. Now the site of the Moun-tain Hound Inn.

July 19, 1972: Overwait-ea, 503 Vernon Street Damage of $125,000. Six onlookers either volun-teered or were conscript-ed to help fight the fire.

August 2, 1974: Chinese Nationalist Society, 524 Lake Street. Claimed the life of Wah (Shorty) Der, 69.

June 13, 1975: Trafal-gar School auditorium. Arson. $275,000 loss.

December 1, 1976: Johnstone block, Baker Street, where BCAA is now. Seven stores and seven apartments lost. Suffered two previous fires: one in 1938 destroyed the top floor, another in 1949 destroyed seven businesses as well.

February 28, 1979: Hume School. $300,000 to $400,000 damage. Arson. A 15-year-old was arrested. Although gutted, the rebuilt school incorporated the original brick facade.

September 28, 1982: Heritage Lanes bowl-ing alley and Big Daddy’s Tonite night club, 500 block Vernon Street. $750,000 damage. Arson suspected.

1984: Kootenay Forest Products sawmill

December 22, 1993: Kootenay Forest Products planer mill

1994: City of Nelson power plant

January 1, 1998: Granite Pointe golfclubhouse. Destroyed.

July 28, 2001: House at 915 Carbonate Street. Claims the lives of Vern Hodgkinson, Sarah Hellman, 35, and Andy Johnson, 35.

October 8, 2001: House at 215 Stibbs Street. Claims the life of Lynne Eliza-beth Roberts, 54.

May 4, 2003: Nel-son museum. The MV Amabilis de-stroyed and other

artifacts smoke damaged. Arson.

July 3, 2003: Rod and Gun Club destroyed. Arson.

November 10, 2007: Savoy Hotel, Falls Street. Mazatlan restaurant, Back Country Hostel, and Club 198 destroyed. The bar in the same building burned in 1973.

December 18, 2008: Trailer fire, 700 block Lakeview Crescent. Claims the life of Maurice John Eggie, 59.

December 31, 2009: Kootenay Sleds and Wheels. Former A&W.

July 29, 2010: Redfish Grill, Baker Street.

MAJOR FIRES OF THE LAST 50 YEARS

The Kerr block fire lit up the downtown in 2011.photo courtesy Nelson Fire and Rescue

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FeatureContinued from Page 14blaze with only burned hands. Others weren’t as lucky: six people died that day, among them 10-year-old Rudy Symington whose family lost their Harrop home to fire only a few months earlier.

Four others went to hospital — in-cluding a father and son who did jump — and firefighter Jim Peck, who saved several lives while nearly losing his own.

“It was what I imagined hell must be like,” he said.

Another 40 people escaped without serious injury.

The ladder that swung from win-dow to window that terrible day is among the most evocative artifacts in an exhibit that opens Saturday at Touchstones Nelson, entitled City in Flames: A Journey Through Nelson’s Fire History. Coinciding with the fire hall’s centennial, it looks at the many fires that transformed the community.

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When Nelson’s volunteer fire department formed in early 1891, the first order of busi-

ness was deciding on a name. It required several speeches and bal-

lots, but according to The Miner, “Fi-nally the organization was christened Deluge Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 of Nelson and the man who proposed the name was sprinkled with muddy water from a floor sprinkler, much to the amusement of the friends of the defeated names.”

In those days, there were no horses much less motorized engines and a fire department’s worth was measured by how fast its members could pull a hose reel or chemical wagon (one of the latter, beautifully restored by former deputy chief Bob Slade, forms a cen-trepiece to the Touchstones exhibit).

Nelson’s first significant fire on April 7, 1892 destroyed Carney and Barrett’s store, a loss of over $7,000, but for the most part the city suffered few big fires in its early years and escaped the sort of massive blazes that levelled Sandon, Fernie, Kaslo, and Rossland.

(It may have been partly due to the foresight of the first city council, which in 1897 passed a bylaw banning construction of wooden buildings downtown.)

Any complacency ended in the sum-mer of 1911, during the spree of the notorious fire bug. For several weeks, fires broke out almost nightly in lum-ber yards, Chinatown, the Lake Street brothels, and even a toolshed adjoin-ing the fire hall — each started by a lit candle atop paper and kindling.

Scared residents were on high alert, fearing their homes and businesses could be next. Freeda Hume Bolton recalled: “It got so people didn’t go to bed until ‘after the fire.’”

The attacks peaked on consecu-tive days in early September with the destruction of the brewery and idle Hall Mines smelter. The prime suspect, John Bradshaw, was arrested and tried several times before he was finally convicted of starting a single fire on the Nock ranch.

The jury asked for mercy on the grounds he committed the crime “as the result of a mania for setting fires.” Bradshaw was jailed three years.

The fire bug panic also probably helped convince city council to put up the money for the present fire hall, built in 1912-13.

‘REMINDED ME OF THE HINDENBURG’

Ask Nelson’s fire chiefs past and present about their most memorable fires, and you get

a pretty good overview of the major conflagrations of the last 30-plus years.

For Harry Sommerville, who became a career firefighter in 1967 and was chief from 1982 to 1992, the Blaylock mansion fire of July 10, 1981 sticks out.

“That was out of our jurisdiction. We had to phone all six councillors to get permission to respond. It was quite a severe fire but we saved it,” he says. “Otherwise there would have been nothing left.”

Randy Brieter, on staff from 1978 to 2007, including the last four years as

chief, was captain on duty the night the idle Kootenay Forest Products ply-wood plant burned on July 28, 1987.

By the time he reached the corner of Front and Ward streets, Brieter could see flames licking up over Fairview.

“I knew we had something pretty big,” he says. “To approach that as one fire-man, one fire truck, there was not much you could do. It reminded me of the Hindenburg. People were finding pieces of charred

plywood up around Four Mile.”Simon Grypma, who joined the paid

ranks in 1978 and has been chief since 2008, singles out the Kerr block fire of January 6, 2011 for special mention, “as it represented the saving of so many lives.” He says the fire department was responsible for many safety upgrades to the building that prevented deaths and injuries.

“This was a great historic building and very tragic to lose. However, the loss of life could have been tragic if we did not work with the owners to ensure the safety of all including the firefighters.”

The other tragedy that stays with him is the April 2, 1992 trailer fire that claimed the lives of Aimee Beaulieu and her twin infants — still an un-solved crime. Five more fire-related deaths have occurred in Nelson since, bringing the total in the city’s history to over 20.

“Any fire with a loss of life has a pro-found impact on the fire department,” Grypma says. “These fires set the stage for an aggressive fire prevention pro-gram in the city. Our goal is never to have another fire fatality.”

City in Flames: A Journey Through Nelson’s Fire History runs at Touch-stones from June 8 to September 8.

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Cardinals capture Castlegar Sunfest title

U14 girls bring home silver medal from Kalispell

A pair of local Cal Rip-ken minor teams headed to Castlegar this past week-end for the annual Sunfest Tournament and the Nel-son Cardinals came away with the title.

The Cardinals won all three games it played in the double elimination tournament, including a 10-9 nail biter against their hometown rival Nel-son Tigers to win the 9 to 10-year-old event.

In the contest between the two Nelson teams, the Cardinals started off with scoring four runs in the first inning with key hits by Seamus Boyd and Kelton

Forte knocking in two runs with a single. Boyd pitched the first two innings giving up only one run. After two innings the game was 5-1 favouring the Cardinals. An error and a hit by Ten-zin Mint resulted in three runs scored for the Tigers in the third to make the game 5-4.

A double by Kaliana Forte — who scored three runs for the Cardinals — knocked in David Snell and a successful steal of home by Kaliana Forte in the fourth made the game 8-4 Cardinals. In the bot-tom of the inning, a double by Noah Quinn knocked in two runs and then another double by Matti Erickson drove in two more runs be-

fore he was thrown out at third base by Tigers center fielder Snell for the third out making the score 8-8 going into the final inning.

At the top of the final inning, Kelton Forte took a base on balls and stole second, third, and home for the go-ahead run. Adi

Manhah stole home for the final Cardinals’ run to make the score 10-8 going into the bottom of the in-ning.

Kelton Forte pitched the final inning giving up a hard single by the Tiger’s Mint who stole around the bases to score a run mak-ing it 10-9. Kelton Forte then forced a grounder to first for the first out and then stuck out the last two batters to seal the win for the Cardinals who im-proved their overall team record to 14-2 for the sea-son.

Earlier in the day, the Cardinals beat a strong Beaver Vally team 7-4 be-hind solid base running by the team, timely hitting by Josh Creek, and excellent pitching by Camryn Par-nell and Kelton Forte who held them to one run in two innings.

The Nelson Selects U14 Girls came away from the Three Blind Refs tourna-ment in Kalispell, Montana this past weekend with some disappointment, a silver medal and some valuable lessons for the future.

A last minute schedule and group change threw the girls into some early morning disarray with their first match against Flathead Soccer Club from Kalispell. An 8 a.m. kick-off time and a lack of sleep proved to be immense hurdles for the Selects to overcome, as they lost the match 2-0.

“We came out looking rather lethargic,” said Se-lects head coach Iain Har-vey. “And we paid the price despite my feeling that we were much the better side”.

Nelson’s second game had them resorting back to their form from the Terry Walgren tournament, as they brushed aside Fernie United 3-1 without really ever getting out of second gear.

Taylor Zimmer, Laurel Halleran, and Jessie Van Donselaar struck for the Selects, with Van Donse-laar getting a large degree of praise from her coach.

“She was essentially un-stoppable today,” said Har-vey. “And on this form she will be a significant factor

in our provincial playdown games this coming week-end.”

With their next match not until 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, the girls could afford to have some ex-tra sleep and a leisurely breakfast before heading into their third match, a tense one versus playdown rival KEYSA Rovers from Cranbrook.

With many motiva-tional words ringing in their ears from their loud coach, Nelson controlled the match from start to finish and won 2-0 to grant passage to the final that af-ternoon.

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Nelson Star Staff

The Nelson Cardinals celebrate after going undefeated at the Castlegar Sunfest tournament this past weekend. The Cardinals are nine and 10-year-old baseball players.

Nelson Star Staff

The U14s (seen here in action at the Terry Walgren tournament last month) came away with their second silver medal of the season this past weekend in Montana. Bob Hall photo

Story continues on Page 19

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Dragons raise funds� e Kootenay Rhythm Drag-

ons are currently training to at-tend the Kelowna Dragon Boat Festival July 27 and 28 at the Riverfront Park in Kelowna.

In September the Dragons team will be travelling to Ka-lispell, Montana to participate in the Montana Dragon Boat Festival on Flathead Lake.

� is will be a new adventure for this team as it is the � rst race they have attended outside of Canada.

To enable all team mem-bers to participate and attend

the festivals, the Kootenay Rhythm Dragons will be host-ing a Dragon Boat Fundraiser, Friday, June 7 at Finley’s Irish Pub & Grill.

Fun begins at 6 p.m. and continues to 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15 which provides a frosty cold drink and a sizzling grilled burger. In addition, an evening of fun, music, door prizes, toonie draws, and 50/50 draws will be enjoyed by all.

Advance tickets are avail-able from Kootenay Rhythm Dragons team members or at the door Friday evening.

Come and enjoy this Dragon Boat Fundraiser, meet team

members, gather information about the Kootenay Rhythm Dragons, and enjoy a night of good fun, food and fundrais-ing.

The Kootenay Rhythm Dragons is an inclusive team and they want all women to be able to enjoy the sport, the camaraderie and the support of the team.

� e Kootenay Rhythm Drag-ons appreciates the great, con-tinued support of the commu-nity of Nelson in health, � tness and breast cancer awareness.

For more information con-tact Mary Walters at 250-352-3256 or [email protected].

SportsBusy Season for Dragon Boat Team


Continued from Page 18Megan Tennant and Marley Reynold scored

the goals. Amy Hodgson and Jasmine Faulkner also added goals that were disallowed for minor infractions.

Assistant Coach Pat Hodgson was delighted with the result, remarking that “we showed them what we are capable of, and although Rovers gave it an earnest e� ort, the quality of our play was fantastic today.”

� e Selects lined up on Sunday a� ernoon to play against Electric City Soccer Club from Great Falls, Montana in the � nal.

Nelson got o� to a � yer with an early goal from Emma Wheeldon giving the Selects the lead. However some decisions then started to go against the Selects, one of which lead to the tying goal before the end of the � rst half. De-spite holding the majority of possession, Nelson couldn’t translate that stat into further goals and the match ended 1-1. Extra time solved nothing

and the game headed into the dreaded penalty-kick shoot out.

Having never been in that particular situation before, the girls couldn’t keep their nerve, and lost the shoot out 3-0, despite the best e� orts of Nelson keeper Ava Strautman.

“We were better than them in every aspect of the game, and it’s a big disappointment to lose in that manner, especially when comparing our style of soccer to theirs,” said Harvey. “But I give them and their keeper all the credit in the world for being able to neutralize us a� er our � rst goal. Although the ref wasn’t our friend on the day and it a� ected our game to a degree, our girls will bounce back from this even stronger from the experience.”

� e U14s are now set for the provincial play-downs that go Sunday in Fruitvale against re-gional rivals Kootenay South and KEYSA Rovers for the opportunity to represent the Kootenays at the Provincial B Cup in July in Vancouver.

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Come join us for the grand viewing of the newly restored

Historical Original Anscomb Wheelhouse

at the Balfour Ferry LandingJune 15th, 10:00 am-12 noon

Ceremony and Ribbon Cutting with Open to Walk Through

• Refreshments to follow • Everyone welcome,

please bring a lawn chair Balfour and District Business

and Historic Association 250-229-2113 www.balfourcanada.com

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Nelson StarCarrier of the Month

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Tell us a little bit about yourself:I like playing sports and drawing.

What do you like to do in your spare time?Horse ride.

Why do you like delivering the Nelson Star?Because I like being outside and active.

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Sports

Whitewater festival promises

great action and education

Endless Adventure and Borderline Boaters are presenting the Kootenay Whitewater Festival in Crescent Valley on the June 22-23 weekend.

The festival offers a variety of clinics for be-ginner, intermediate, and advanced levels of paddling, along with dryland games, a Nelson Brewing Company-sponsored happy hour, and live night-time entertainment featuring Shane Phillips and Roy Has Fire.

For the first time ever, lunch will be hosted by the famed Whitewater Fresh Tracks food truck, resulting in some serious culinary delicacies over the weekend. Throw in the awesome prizes, auction items, free camping, and you have one fantastic weekend in the Kootenays.

The clinics throughout the weekend will be led by a certified instructor, and offered at a low additional cost. Suited for both beginner and intermediate paddlers, they include: Beginner Basic Skills, Intermediate Playboating, and Ad-vanced Creeking. Other highlights include the legendary Boatercross, a free SUP clinic, and river running missions down the Slocan and Salmo Rivers, and perhaps some other Kootenay river gems.

Be one of the first 10 people to sign up and get entered in a draw to win a free NRS Pin-kit, and the first 15 registered also get a free gift from Endless Adventure. Your festival registration includes: one festival t-shirt, guided river runs down the Slocan River, access to paddling races and events, two lunch vouchers, a chance to win some great prizes, and entrance into the after-party.

The cost for early registration is $55, with a deadline ending Wednesday, June 19 at 6 p.m. Late registration continues into the weekend with an additional cost of $10.

To register, call Endless Adventure at 1-877-FUN-8181, or email [email protected]. Proceeds from the festival will be used to help the Borderline Boaters club promote river safety and stewardship.

Crescent Valley


Th e Spirit of Sonship: Experiencing God as FatherBruce Coyle - Eleos Centre Ministries, Nelson BC

“Because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your Hearts crying, Abba! Father!” (Galations 4:6)James Jordan from Father Heart Ministries talks about the many

blockages to someone receiving God as Father. One of the major blockages is that many of us have had wounding from our earthly Dads.As Christians, we are receiving the Spirit of Sonship through the Holy

Spirit, but it has no expression in us when we closed our Hearts to being a son or daughters in the physical world. We may experience the Holy Spirit in other ways but not as the Spirit of SonshipWhen we closed our a hearts to our natural parents it becomes a

complete block to knowing God as Father to you. � is is because God is Father; therefore the only way we can relate to Him is as Father. If we have closed our hearts to our earthly fathers there is no connection for us and God the Father.Some of the wounding we have had from our earthly father can be

great and di� cult to overcome, especially where a father has abused or abandoned someone as a child. Obviously, forgiveness from the heart is the important key to ‘pave the way’ to receiving the Spirit of Sonship. Forgiveness is a whole other teaching in itself which I will not go into now.When we are able to restore our hearts as sons and daughters we now

have a place where God can pour out His Fathering Love like an ocean into us and we begin to experience Him as Father.As James Jordan says, “the same principle applies when we think of

Jesus as our Lord. If we want to have a relationship with Jesus we have to make him Lord of our Life. You can have a touch of Jesus in your life; an experience; a momentary visitation with Jesus, even experiencing a miracle but there is no continual relationship with him until you have made Him Lord of your Life.So it is with our

Father, we can have a touch of the Father’s Love, we can have a healing touch of His Love. If we want to have a relationship with Him as Father we have to come to him with the heart of a son or daughter.”Last year, I had

the most awesome experience of the Father’s Love at a Fathers Heart School where James and Denise Jordan were speakers.James and Denise

Jordan will be in Nelson for Fathers Heart Conference, June 27,28, 29. http://eleoscentre.com/?p=323

The Salvation ArmyNelson Community Church

Sunday Worship Serviceat 11:00 am

Everyone is WelcomeYour Pastors:

Majors Robin and Yvonne Borrows250 551 4986 601 Vernon Street (Middle Level)

Evangelical Covenant Church

Loving Jesus, Loving People, Transforming Lives

Nelson702 Stanley St. • 352.9613Sundays at 10:00 amPastor Arden GustafsonPastor Chris Wiens

Balfour7741 Upper Balfour Rd. • 229.2301Sundays at 9:30 amPastor Jason Ashley

Playmor Junction2840 Eden Rd. • 359.5065Sundays at 10:00 amPastor Jesse Lerch

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A Friendly Bible Centre Church

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

Refreshments are served a� er the service(A� liated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada)

Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 am“Death! What Next?”

NelsonUnitedChurch

Nelson United Church

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

Celebrating the 88th Anniversary of the United Church of CanadaSunday School (Ages 4 and up)Nursery Room AvailableChildren’s Quiet Play Area

of the United Church of Canada

Sunday Worship Gathering 10:00 am MINISTER – David Boyd

Unity Centre of the Kootenays

905 Gordon Rd (IHA Bldg., back door)

starts at 11amDan Nelson is speaking on

“Interdimentionals and Extraterrestrials”

Any questions? Contact 250-354-5394

NEW LOCATION Kootenay Christian Fellowship

520 Falls Street, (just off Baker St.) www.kootenaychristianfellowship.com

Church Office: 1.888.761.3301

Jim Reimer

Developing Relationships Music that will move you Helping people - Help people

Join us for our worship celebration in our

new location Sunday @ 10:30 AM

Jim Reimer, Pastor

Nelson Christian Science SocietyA Branch of the Mother Church in Boston MA

Sunday Service in Balfour9:30 am at the Anglican Church on Busk Rd.

For information 250-229-5237

St. Saviour's ProCathedralWard & Silica, NelsonFamily Service & EucharistSunday 10:30 am

Heritage ToursTues – Sat, 11 am – 3 pmJuly – August

St. Michael & All AngelsBusk Road BalfourSunday service 11 AM

Anglican Church of Canada

Of� ce: 8 am - 12 pm Tue - Fri

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Churchs of NelsonBringing to you our weekly words.

This Sunday: Gathering @2402 Perrier Lane 10amBring something to share

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CATHOLIC CHURCHCATHEDRAL OF MARY IMMACULATE

813 Ward Street 352-7131

Sunday Mass Times: • Saturday 7:00pm • Sunday 8:30 am and 10:30 am

Parish of� ce open Tuesday – Friday 9:00 am - noon [email protected] • www.catholiccathedralnelson.ca

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Community

DatelineJune 6, 1913

In the death of Gilbert Sproat at his residence in Victoria, British Colum-

bia has lost one of the most noted of her few remaining pioneers. He was long known as father of the Kootenay and founder of Nelson and Rev-elstoke. In 1885, Mr. Sproat moved to the Kootenay and took up residence at the spot where Nelson now stands. He was appointed the same year stipendiary magistrate and gold commissioner for the Kootenay. His decisions as gold commissioner gained for him a reputation as a just and painstaking officer. Revelstoke was first called Farwell by Mr. Sproat, named after his friend, surveyor A.S. Farwell, before being renamed by the C.P.R. In 1890 Mr. Sproat returned to Victoria where he lived a retired life.


Today the Kootenay-Columbia Preserving Works will commence

jam making for the season and the Nelson Jam Factory will also begin operations early this week. On Friday the field foreman of the Doukhobor colony, which owns the Kootenay-Colum-bia factory, returned from a visit to ranches on the West Arm, where contracts have been made to pick strawber-ries, the Doukhobors paying for the fruit on the plants, and on Saturday some 20

children passed through the city on their way to Willow Point and Hallerts to begin picking operations. Reports of a very heavy crop are coming from all quarters and J.A. McDonald, proprietor of the Nelson Jam Factory, estimates that he will receive from 10 to 15 times as many strawberries as last year.


Burglars who entered J.O. Patenaude’s jewelry store late on Friday

night got away with about $1,000 worth of rings, watches and pendants, and although the city police are working on several clues thieves have not yet been captured. Entrance was made at the back of the store through a broken window into the cellar. From there they entered the store through an unlocked door. Nothing but the empty trays from which the jewelry had been taken remained when the store was opened at the usual hour on Saturday morn-ing. Mr. Patenaude declares that he has a very satisfactory clue as to the identity of the persons concerned in the robbery and advises them to return the property at once.


Displayed on the table in front of the mag-istrate’s desk at the

city police court yesterday morning was one of the most varied collections of opium

manufacturing and merchan-dising material that has ever been raked in by the Nelson police. The “dope” and other material came from a house in Chinatown in which lives Get Chong, who was charged with having opium in his possession for sale. Poppy seeds from which is manu-factured opium, utensils for converting the seed into the drug, crude opium, opium in the form of little red pills and enclosed in vegetable fat, the usual pipe and lamp for smoking, addressed enve-lopes for mailing to persons living outside of Nelson and scores of other paraphernalia from the joint were piled on the table. The opium alone is estimated to be worth many hundreds of dollars.


Swat the dandelions is suggested as a summer war cry for the Nelson

Improvement Association by a prominent citizen of the city. This year the yellow pest is to be seen in great numbers on almost every street and alley, while some of the vacant lots are thick with the weed. Already flowers are dying off and leaving behind the fluffy seed, which flies far and wide, setting in flower beds, lawns and other places where it is least wanted, and it is urged action be taken to destroy the weeds on the city property and compel owner’s of lots to do something to prevent the spread of this nuisance.

Touchstones of Nelson — Greg Scott

Opium den bustedLos Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE MAY 15, 2013

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Tuesday’s Puzzle SolvedBy Thomas Takaro 5/15/13

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 5/15/13

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The Nelson Star is running new crossword puzzles! The answer for Wednesday’s paper will be printed in Friday’s paper while the Friday answers will be published in Wednesday’s paper.

Just play, have fun and enjoy the games! Best of luck!

Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

June 5, 2013

For the benefit of Kootenay Lake area residents, the following lake levels are provided by FortisBC as a public service.

Queen’s Bay: Present level: 1748.51 ft. 7 day forecast: Up 0 to 2 inches. 2012 peak: 1753.78 ft. / 2011 peak: 1751.71 ft.

Nelson: Present level: 1746.41 ft. 7 day forecast: Up 0 to 2 inches.

Levels can change unexpectedly due to weather or other conditions. For more information or to sign-up for unusual lake levels notifications by phone or email, visit www.fortisbc.com or call 1-866-436-7847.

A22 www.nelsonstar.com Friday, June 7, 2013 Nelson Star

Moe passed away at Kootenay Lake Hospital after a very brave fight with cancer. He had just celebrated his 82nd birthday. He was born and raised in Trail and graduated from the Trail High School. He was very active in many sports as a youth. In latter years he spent many happy hours at Birchbank Golf Course. His education continued at SAIT in Calgary where he obtained a diploma in Surveying His work career was mainly with Hydro Dam Construction in Alberta, B.C. and Yukon. He worked on the Duncan Dam, the Kootenay Canal and 7 Mile Dam near Trail. He is survived by his wife Connie, his daughter Colleen Walton and granddaughter Emma Walton of Charlottetown, his son Gordon Walton of Robson, his brother Norman Walton of Seattle, WA., his sister Pat Nelson of Trail, his sister in law Margaret Johnson of Puyallup, WA., His nieces Sharon, Liana, Naomi, Sandra, Debbie and nephew Wayne. He was predeceased by his parents, Norman and Margaret, his brother George and his niece Aeron. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or Kootenay Lake Hospital. There will be no service by request.

John Maurice (Moe) WaltonApril 24, 1931 - May 28, 2013

N o t i c e o f P a s s i n g

Donald ChambersJanuary 4, 1947 - May 22, 2013

We regret to announce that Donald Gordon Chambers of Castle Wood Village, Castlegar died peacefully in his sleep on May 22, 2013. He was predeceased by his parents, Steve and Dot Chambers. He is survived by his wife Sarah Chambers of Mountain View Lodge, Nelson; his mother-in-law, Betty Polster of Duncan; his brother in law, David Polster and wife Genevieve Singleton of Duncan; sister-in-law, Celia Cheatley and husband David Cheatley of Victoria; brother in law Alan Polster and partner Lisa Larson of Revelstoke; and many nieces and nephews.

Don was a kind man and a devoted husband, son and uncle. He grew up with his brother Dennis in Castlegar and was a lifelong resident of Castlegar and surrounding area. He worked for BC Forestry at a fi re tower, Cominco and BC Ferries at Th rums, Glade and Robson. He married the love of his life, Sarah, in 1980. During all the ups and downs of Sarah and Don’s challenges Don remained committed and concerned about Sarah to the end of his life. In midlife Don was diagnosed with bipolar disease and later blindness. He took a great interest in country and western music, cars and current events. He had a phenomenal memory for dates and events. As a young man he enjoyed fi shing, camping and hiking. His nephews and nieces gave him great joy and he took much interest in their activities.

Our deepest thanks to Rhonda Barisoff and Linda Krantz of Castlegar Mental Health for making a profound diff erence in Don’s life during the last few years; Linda Frew and Jane Phillips of Castle Wood Village and staff for making the last year of his life so comfortable; Dr. Merritt and staff for their many years of care of Don and Sarah; Clare Singleton of Endako for her help and long friendship with Don; Jim May and Cathy Scott-May of Bonnington for their assistance in the past year and Jean Smith for her kind visits to Don.

A celebration of life will be held Tuesday, June 18, 2-4 pm, at Castle Wood Village,

525 Columbia Ave., Castlegar. Donations to Castlegar Mental Health Services,

707 10th Street, Castlegar, BC, V1N 2H7, earmarked with Don’s name would be welcomed.

Condolences to the family can be sent via David Polster and Genevieve Singleton, 6015 Mary St, Duncan, BC, V9L 2G5,

twinfl [email protected] , phone 250-746-8052.

Rest in Peace dear Don. Your troubles are over.

MISSING

Have you seen our pet?Tallis is a red, brown and white Corgi, Pembroke Welsh male.He wags his tail vigorously when talked to.

Last seen June 1, 2013 outside Selkirk Veterinary Hospital. He slipped his collar while being

exercised. Headed towards Baker St. and was possibly seen on Cherry St. 30 minutes later.

If you know the whereabouts of Tallis or have any information that could help, please contact

Jean at 250-352-6744

CottonwoodCommunity MarketSaturdays 9:30-3:00

May 18 to Oct 26Cottonwood Falls Park

Downtown NelsonLocal Market

Wed 10-4June 12 to Sept 25

400 Block Baker St.

MarketFest6:00 - 10:30

June 28 * July 26 * Aug 23200 & 300 Blocks Baker St.

Calendar Club of Canada is a seasonal retail operation

selling calendars, games and toys, is looking for an

enthusiastic entrepreneur who has own business to operate

our location(s) in Chahko-Mika Mall, Nelson and Waneta

Plaza Trail, BC from Nov to Jan. We have 200 stores

across Canada and have been in business since 1993.Minimal capital required,

everything provided exceptlabour, biweekly draws. You

receive % of sales. If you have a desire to run your own retail

business email Anne at [email protected] asap.

Lost & Found

Information

Business Opportunities

Information

Announcements

InformationNelson & Area Elder Abuse Prevention Resources Centre Drop in Wed. 12-2 pm at 719 Vernon St., Nelson For info:

250 352-6008; [email protected] or visit www.nelsonelderabusepre-

vention.org Obituaries

Coming Events

Obituaries

Lost & Found

Announcements

InformationPlease join us for the

ANKORS AGM from 1-3 pm on Wednesday, June 19, at the ANKORS East offi ce,#46 - 17 Avenue South in

Cranbrook. For moreinformation, or if you areinterested in being on the

ANKORS Board, please call Karen at 250-505-5506 or

1-800-421-2437

Lost & FoundFOUND: Jacket on curb ofGovernment Rd & HWY 3A beginning of May250 399-4253

Obituaries

Announcements

Lost & FoundFOUND: Stroller on Stanley St outside Otter Books May 23rd Thur afternoon. Claim @Nelson Police Station

LOST: Set of keys anywhere from the bridge to the end of the dog park. Call Joanne @354-3131

Information

Your community. Your classifi eds.

250.352.1890

fax 250.352.1893 email classifi [email protected]

Classified Deadline 4pm Monday & Wednesday

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Call 250.352.1890Or Drop by our office at

514 Hall StreetNelson, BC

8:30-5:00 Monday - Friday

Adopt a Shelter Cat!The BC SPCA cares for thousands oforphaned and abandoned cats each year.If you can give a homeless cat a secondchance at happiness, please visit yourlocal shelter today.

www.spca.bc.ca

MISSING

Have you seen our pet?Tallis is a red, brown and white Corgi,

Pembroke Welsh male.He wags his tail vigorously when talked to.

Last seen June 1, 2013 outside Selkirk Veterinary Hospital. He slipped his collar while being exercised. Has possibly been sighted on the Burlington

Northern trail approx. 11 km from Nelson (towards Ymir)

If you know the whereabouts of Tallis or have any information that could help, please contact

Jean at 250-352-6744

Nelson Star Friday, June 7, 2013 www.nelsonstar.com A23

WANTED:TICKETED

"B" WELDERS, ELECTRICIANS,AND MILLWRIGHTS

International Forest Products Ltd. is looking for ticketed “B” Welders with Millwriting experience, Planer Tech 1, electricians, and millwrights to join our lumber manufacturing facility in Castlegar, BC.The skilled individuals must be self motivated, able to work on their own and in a team environment.Applicants must be flexible with shift scheduling and trade lines.Interfor offers a competitive wage and benefits package as outlined in the USW Southern Interior Master Agreement.Interested candidates are invited to submit resumes by June 21, 2013 to Interfor’s front office in Castlegar.Candidates can also submit their resume by mail, fax, or email to:

PO Box 3728, Castlegar BC, V1N 3W4Fax #: (604) 422-3252

Email: [email protected] thank all applicants in advance, however, only

those selected for a interview will be contacted.

Nelson Home Building Centre requires a healthy, energetic individual for our lumber yard. Please bring resume and

ask for Nathan in person.

Home Owners helping home owners

NELSON HOME BUILDING CENTRE 101 McDonald Drive

Summer Student Job Opportunity Office Admin and Museum Curator

30 hours a week. July 2-Aug 31.

Please go to www.nelsonsports.ca for details.

Please apply by email or fax at:F: (250) 352-0053 Email: [email protected]

CooksNOW HIRING:

Lake View VillageNelson, BC

The Capitol Theatre is calling for Expression of Interest to direct this year’s 25th Anniversary Christmas Pantomime. The Panto is a community show produced by the Capitol Theatre over 12 weeks with rehearsals twice a week starting in September. Five performances take place in the first week of December. Usually there are 50 people in the cast and another 30 or so who volunteer backstage. The director works with a musical director and choreographer. The actors range in age from 9 - 90! The Panto is an annual Capitol Theatre fundraiser and everyone in a Panto is a star! Small monetary compensation available and large satisfaction guaranteed. If you are interested in directing please mail, email or drop off your resume and a letter expressing your interest. Mail to Capitol Theatre PO Box 403, Nelson, BC V1L 5R2 or email [email protected] or drop off at the Box Office Tues-Fri noon-4:30pm. Deadline for Expression of Interest is Monday, June 17.

Service AdvisorKalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC seeks an energetic, customer-focused and professional service advisor. Duties include scheduling maintenance and repair work, providing estimates, selling service and parts, coordinating technicians and embracing administrative tasks. Strong communication and multitasking skills required.

Our standards are high because our customers deserve the best treatment when entrusting their vehicles to us. We offer excellent benefi ts, bonuses and a positive working environment. This is a full-time position. If you have sales or service experience outside the auto sector, we will also seriously consider your application.

Please send your resume with cover letter to:

Mitch Rinas, ControllerKalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC1700 Columbia AvenueCastlegar, BC V1N 2M8Fax: (250) 365-3949Email: [email protected]

CHEVROLET BUICK GMC (1989) LTD.

Pacific Insight Electronics (PI) is a leading supplier of integrated solid state lighting solutions for the automotive, commercial and specialty vehicle markets.

PI is seeking an experienced, highly motivated team player to fill the position of Sales Representative within the Company’s Business Development Department.

Responsibilities: Reporting to the VP of Business Development, the successful applicant will be responsible for maintaining a close relationship with our existing customers while identifying new sales content opportunities. This position will lead direct customer sales solicitation, market existing products, establish customer contracts for sales, request sourcing agreements, long term supply agreements or production contracts, conduct sales/quote follow-up activities, support Customer Service interactions and maintain sales correspondence and record keeping.

Position Qualifications and Experience: The preferred candidate will possess a post secondary Diploma, preferably specializing in sales and marketing, and offer a minimum of three years of sales experience preferably with selling manufactured products. Demonstrated experience working with product quote applications and strong negotiation skills. This position requires excellent presentation skills and the ability to work well in a team environment.

Please forward a cover letter and resume highlighting your qualifications by June 12/13:

[email protected] detailed description of this job can be viewed at:

www.pacificinsight.com

Certifi ed Dental Assistant needed Full-Time to start July 2nd, Mon-Thur please sendresume to Dr. Zarikoff515D Vernon St, Nelson, BC V1L 4E9 or fax 250-352-5886

EmploymentEmployment

Business Opportunities

CHRISTINA Lakeside Resort is seeking a person or persons interested in responding to an Expression of Interest to pro-vide services to the Resort as Contract Manager. Christina Lakeside Resort (CLR) is a seasonal recreational property containing 138 member owned sites, recreation facilities, boat docks, extensive beach areas and its own sewage treatment plant. Applicants should have experience and/or training in all aspects of the resort man-agement including guest and owner services, all offi ce func-tions including bookkeeping, Microsoft Offi ce and mainte-nance of marine and land based assets. The successful candidate must have Sewage Plant Operation certifi cate at time of contract signing as well as confi ned space entry train-ing. Candidates who display alternate, but equivalent work history will be considered al-though those with industry ex-perience will be given priority. Interested parties should re-spond no later than June 19, 2013 [email protected] receive the Expression of Interest Documents.

Help Wanted

ARE YOU EXPERIENCING FINANCIAL DISTRESS?

Relief is only a call away! Call Shelley Cameron Estate Administrator

at 877-797-4357 today, to set up your FREE

consultation in Nelson. Donna Mihalcheon CA, CIRP

33 years experience. BDO Canada Limited.Trustee in Bankruptcy.

200-1628 Dickson Avenue, Kelowna , BC V1Y 9X1

An Alberta Oilfi eld Company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing re-quired. Call (780)723-5051 Edson, Alta.

Career Opportunities

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A healthy local economy depends on you

SHOP LOCALLY

A24 www.nelsonstar.com Friday, June 7, 2013 Nelson Star

The award-winning Castlegar News has an opening for an experienced full time Advertising Sales Representative.

The successful candidate will be required to meet sales targets by deepening relationships with existing clients and developing new business with an aggressive face-to-face cold calling mandate. The ability to work independently in an extremely fast paced environment while adhering to deadlines is a must. Candidates considered for the position will be results oriented, strong communications, and be willing to learn and adapt in an ever changing business environment. A vehicle and a valid driver’s license is required.

We offer a great working environment with a competitive base salary and commission plan along with a strong benefi t package.

Black Press has over 170 community newspapers across Canada and the United States and for the proven candidate the opportunities are endless.

Please submit your resume with a cover letter by 5:00 pm Friday June 14th, 2013 to:

Chuck BennettGroup PublisherBlack Press, [email protected]

Thank you to all who apply, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

No phone calls please.

Advertising SalesRepresentative

CALL FOR PROPOSALSGLACIER CREEK REGIONAL PARK

CAMPGROUND HOST

The Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) is accepting applications for an onsite campground host for Glacier Creek Regional Park located on Duncan Lake north of Meadow Creek BC.

The Glacier Creek Regional Park Host will be responsible for providing a safe, sanitary, socially acceptable, environmentally responsible, rustic public recreation opportunity. The host will help recover operational costs through the collection of camp fees. The host will be required to provide personal onsite accommodation and will report to the RDCK Parks Operation Supervisor while maintaining open communication with the Glacier Creek Regional Parks Commission (GCRPC). This position will run from June 20th 2013 through September 15th 2013. The host will be paid $3,500/month for a total of $9,800 and the potential to share in a small portion of camp fee retention. The host will also have an opportunity to sell firewood within the campground, for profit, if desired.

A copy of the Call for Proposals is available on the RDCK website www.rdck.bc.ca Public Notices/Tenders and/or at RDCK reception.

Proposals must be clearly marked “Call for Proposals – Glacier Creek Regional Park Host” and must be received by mail, e-mail or hand delivered to the office of the Regional District of Central Kootenay, 202 Lakeside Drive, Box 590, Nelson, B.C. V1L 5R4, no later than 2:00 pm (local time) on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013.

Inquiries and proposals may be addressed to

Cary GaynorParks Operation Supervisor (250) 352 [email protected]

2004 Grand Prix GT

Brand new winter tires & extra set of summers. New brakes, front & rear, recent oil change, brand new set of headlight lenses w/extra set of bulbs (low & high beam), loud stereo w/ 10 inch subs & amp, very clean, lots of power, very reliable! $4000 obo. Comes with 3/4 tank of gas ~ 250-357-0122

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Employment

Help WantedHarvest Rescue ProgramCoordinator: The Nelson

Food Cupboard Society seeks a Harvest Rescue

Coordinator. For info, see www.foodcupboard.org. The

position runs July-Oct, 20hr/week,$16.50/hr.Qualifi cations include

volunteer managementexperience, excellent

communication &organizational skills, ability to work fl exible hours, physically

fi t, valid driver’s license &reliable vehicle. Submit

resumes [email protected]

Deadline June 10th.

Make extra $$$ delivering phone books

The BetterBook requires a re-sponsible and reliable per-son(s) to deliver phonebooks to residences and businesses in Balfour, Kaslo and Nelson. Reliable vehicle (van or cov-ered pickup) is required and the ability to lift heavy phone-books. This is a great group fundraiser! Contact Linda in our distribution department at 1-800-663-8555.

Nelson Minor Hockey iscurrently accepting coaching applications for Pee Wee Rep, Bantam Rep, and Midget Rep hockey teams. Applications can be found on the Nelson Minor Hockey Website. They must be fully completed with all requested and applicable details to be considered. Deadline for applications will be June 18, 2013

Unemployed? Looking for work?

Find your way and fi nd your work at KCDS/WorkB

Call KCDS/WorkBC in Nelson and fi nd out

how to get ready for the job you want

Call 250-352-6200www.ksds.ca

Employment

Medical/DentalRegistered Nurses &

Licensed Practical NursesBayshore Home Health

Bayshore Home Health is currently seeking Registered Nurses & Licensed Practical Nurses for night shifts in the Castlegar/ Nelson area to work with children with complex care needs. If you are an RN or LPN and love working with children and their families , we would appreciate hearing from you. Pediatric experience is an asset and we do offer client specifi c training.

Please send your resume and cover letter to:[email protected] or

fax to 1-866-686-7435

Services

PsychicsPsychic Readings w/Rubiyah

Ratna, BFA, MFA.Experienced Meditator

Teacher & Psychic Reader for Over 30 yrs. 352-4647

Financial ServicesGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.

www.pioneerwest.com

Need CA$H Today?

Own A Vehicle?Borrow Up To $25,000

No Credit Checks!Cash same day, local offi ce.www.PitStopLoans.com

1-800-514-9399

Help Wanted

Services

Legal Services

CRIMINAL RECORD?Guaranteed Record Removal

since 1989. Confi dential, Fast, & Affordable. Our A+BBB Rating

assures EMPLOYMENT &TRAVEL FREEDOM.

Call for FREE INFO. BOOKLET1-8-NOW-PARDON(1-866-972-7366)

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Home Improvements

FLOORING SALEOver 300 Choices

Lowest Prices Guaranteed!Laminates - $0.59/sq ftEngineered - $1.99 sq ftHardwood - $2.79 sq ft

Overnight Delivery in most of BC!www.kingoffl oors.com

1.877.835.6670

Household ServicesA-1 FURNACE & Air Duct Cleaning. Complete Fur-nace/Air Duct Systems cleaned & sterilized. Locally owned & operated. 1-800-565-0355 (Free estimates)

Pets & Livestock

BoardingSentinel Boarding Kennels Open for the Season. Best RATES in the Kootenay’s

250 359-7433

Feed & Hay

HAY FOR SALE small square

$160/ton250-428-4316

Merchandise for Sale

Antiques / Vintage1947 Buick Sedan Super all original, good running

condition $4800 OBO Call 250-365-5003

Food Products

BUTCHER SHOPBC INSPECTED

GRADED AA OR BETTERLOCALLY GROWNNATURAL BEEF

Hormone FreeGrass Fed/Grain Finished$100 Packages Available

Quarters/Halves$2.55/lb Hanging WeightExtra Lean Hamburger

$4.00/lbTARZWELL FARMS

250-428-4316 Creston

Help Wanted

Merchandise for Sale

Garage Sales411 1st St Sat June 8th 8 am - 12 noon, Dresser, MirrorTable, Ironing board & MoreANTIQUE Furniture, piano, tires, solid oak living room set, misc household items, every-thing like new 875 China Creek Road Genelle.... Big Building in RV Storage area Saturday 8-1 June 8th Preview Furniture 9-3 week daysMulti Family Garage SaleBarnes Rd @ 6 MileSat. June 8th8 am - 12 noon

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53 in stock.SPECIAL

44’ x 40’ Container Shopw/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!40’ Containers under $2500!

Call Toll Free AlsoJD 544 & 644 wheel loaders

JD 892D LC ExcavatorPh. 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB

www.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?TOPSOIL and gravel for sale. Free fi ll available. Six Mile area, north Nelson. Phone 250-509-0961

Topsoil, Sand, Road Gravel Fill with deliv-ery call for prices 250.359.7188 c:250.304.8158

Misc. WantedTrue Coin Collector Looking to Purchase Collections, Accu- mulations, Olympic Gold and Silver coins, Bills + Not melting down, Serious Collector. Call: Coin Couple 1-250-499-0251

Musical InstrumentsGuitars, Amplifi ers, Drums Keyboards, Band & String

Instruments, Music books & Accessories, Music Lessons

Sales & RentalsBAY AVENUE MUSIC

1364 Bay Ave, Trail 250-368-8878

Real Estate

For Sale By OwnerBEAUTIFUL NORTH SHORE

PROPERTY - .41 acres,reno’d 3 bdrm manuf. home.1 blk from Kootenay Lake.

Many extras. $214,000250-229-4743

GREAT STARTER HOME

&/OR INVESTMENT ON RIONDEL RD.

Above Kootenay Lake. 4km to Ashram, Marine, Golf Course, Riondel & beach. 2 3/4 acres & 2 storey unfi nished (but furnished) “Small is Beautiful” cabin. Good benches for building, one with lake view. In Aug, 12 appraised at $170,000 but older, fl exible vendor open to offers & might carry part of mortgage for suitable person or couple. For info & viewing please call:

1-780-566-0707WATERFRONT HOME, Nelson B.C. 114 ft. sandy beach and gorgeous city view. Rancher home with RV sites and an easy upgrade cottage on just under an acre of land. Go to property guys.com and type in 196175 to view pics. 480-620-7177,[email protected]

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentBrand New 2 bdrm apt near creek in Nelson long term N/P N/S $1200/m + util avaiJuly1st 509-1135

NOW taking applications for 2 bdr apartments in clean, quiet, adult oriented buildings. N/S N/P. References required.$650 and $750 per month plus utilities. Call 250-352-3965

Apartment Furnished

Small 1 bdrm suite Ymir W/D N/S, ref, Pets possible $650/mincludes heat 604 989-0258

Help Wanted

Rentals

Commercial/Industrial

CASTLEGAR 279 Columbia Ave

1800 sq ft Prime Main fl oor retail/offi ce with 2400 sq ft lower retail/storage area,

kitchen, ladies/men change rooms & showers.

For information call Peter 250-365-7551

Fireside Inn & Conference Centre 580 sq ft commercial retail

space, looking for a tenant to complement the

tourist & hospitality industry perfect for a gift shop, salon gallery or massage therapy

Call 250-365-2128 rob@fi resideinn.ca

Duplex / 4 PlexNewly Renovated 3 bdrm

home in Rosemont. On June 15th your new half duplex is

available. It is 3 bdrm, 2 bath. Lots of storage, big

kitchen, dining room and a living room with a great view of the mountains. Includes off street parking, fenced backyard with a deck, all

appliances. Close toRosemont Elementary and

bus stop. Pets welcome with damage deposit. $1400/m + hydro each. Call to see your

new home 250 505-9339

Suites, LowerLarge 2 bdrm , possiblegarden space, W/D util

including Avail July 1 st, ref 352-3293

NEW: 1 bdrm Suite facing SE, in fl oor heating, private patio,

W/D D/W N/S, petsaccepted, Rosemont $850 +

util avail July 1st250 352-1191

TownhousesWOODLAND PARK

HOUSING CO-OP affordable clean 3 bedroom townhouse

with basements centrally located and close to

amenities, park like setting Applications forms at

#1,1692 Silverwood Crescent Castlegar, 250-365-2677

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Want to RentNelson - Castlegar areaconsidered: Responsible young couple require accom for $800/m, must have access to public transit. Good ref avail. Veronica @ 352-9876Nelson: Disabled construction worker requires housing in Nelson. Prefer quiet selfcontained unit close todowntown. Can pay within $500 range all included.Reliable, tidy, non-partier. Good tentant! Please contact Rob @ 352-9876

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Recreational/Sale1988 furnished 32’

Travel Trailer with large roofed 12x30’ deck new

fridge, extra fridge and freezer in shed permanently parked at

Cedar Glen Campground (occupancies April to Oct) at

Balfour Landing behind bakery $15,000, Pad fee is paid to April 1st, 2014, 365-4740

Trucks & Vans06 Dodge Laramie Qd/Cb low mileage 72 k kl new condition, new tire & brakes $20,000 352-5679

Boats1992

170 CAMPION ALLANTE 2.5L Mercruiser,

Slope top canvas, EZ Load Trailer

Excellent condition, full service & maintenance each year,

always stored indoors. Price $8,500

250-428-9604, 250-402-9476Creston, BC

CAMPION Cuddy, 1975 17’6”, 120hp OMC & 9hp Mariner kicker, w/Cal. trailer, excellent condition w/full clears/canvas, $4,750, 250-229-5742

World’s Finest FISHING BOATS

Weldcraft, Hewescraft,Lund, Godfrey Pontoons

Mark’s Marine, Hayden, ID1-888-821-2200

www.marksmarineinc.com

MoorageBoat House (21’) at Kootenay Launch Club, for rent or sale604-989-0258

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Search resumes for missing man in Slocan Valley

The search for Michael Guth-rie, a missing Trail man, resumed Monday as RCMP further deployed underwater sonar equipment.

“We are still acting on the prem-ise that Mr. Guthrie was unfortu-nately drowned in the lake,” said Sgt. Darryl Little. This is based on a witness account of the event itself.”

A province-wide RCMP un-derwater recovery team was sum-moned and arrived in Nakusp along

with the sonar equipment.“Members are located through-

out the province as they perform these duties in addition to their normal work,” explained Little.

“Also, the side-scan sonar is a newly purchased piece of equip-ment and has not been used in this area previously.”

The side-scan sonar is towed be-low the boat and projects a com-puter image of the lake bottom.

A week ago Sunday, the RCMP underwater recovery team began to scour the bottom of Little Wilson

Lake using side-scan sonar equip-ment, but were unsuccessful in lo-cating Guthrie.

By late Monday, almost one third of the lake had been searched, but two more days were needed to com-plete the sweep of the lake.

Guthrie has been presumed drowned since his fishing canoe capsized on May 25.

Slocan Lake RCMP responded to a call from two Trail men, who reported Guthrie missing.

At that time, it was determined that Guthrie had been fishing with

one of the men in the canoe.If the search of the lake is unsuc-

cessful, it has not yet been deter-mined how long recovery efforts will continue.

“This is a difficult decision and is made in consultation with the family and dive team,” said Little.

Little Wilson Lake, located near Rosebery is described as high-alpine with frigid water this time of year.

The lake is approximately 63 acres in size with an average depth of 39 feet, and areas over 80 feet in depth.

News

SHERI REGNIERTrail Times Reporter

1440 Georama RdLarry’s Gravel & Topsoi l

Larry’s treasures can be your pleasuresCamper Trailer, Drill Press, Cutoff Saw, Compressor, Electric Motors,

Hand Tools Saturday June 8th9:00am - 4:00pm

3071 Heddle RoadMOVING SALE

Furniture, housewares, treadmill, reno items

Saturday June 8th8:00am - 4:00pm

2827 Duhamel Rd (6 mile)

Multi - Family Sale

Sat. June 8th & Sun. June 9th8:00am - 2:00pm

1015 Latimer Street Multi - Family Salefor L’Ecole des Sentiers Alpins


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Stihl chain saw, computer, desk,

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Lots of Stuff!!!


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2736 Robison RdHousehold items, Propane fireplace, vanity top, water

heater & more


2085 Kettleson Road (4 mile off Taylor Dr) White fridge, fir flooring, construction materias, old wood cabinet,

wood windows, books, kids toys/clothing, tent/bike/ski/outdoor gear, 1993 F150, sewing machine, lots of misc, lemonade stand

No Early BirdsSaturday June 8th 8:00am - 1:00pm

702 Fourth StreetMulti - Family SALE

Furniture, women’s clothing, household items, tools, jewellery,

sports equipment & lots more Saturday June 8th9:00am - 1:00pm

410 Howe StreetMulti - Family SALE

All Proceeds go to YWAM Nelson


412 Silica StreetAll Sorts of Everything!!!!

Crafts, household, extra


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Business

As a mother-of-three recently back to work after a long time in

my kitchen office, I have a soft spot for moms who seem to be able to do it all. And then there are some who can do it all and win awards along the way. Sabrina Baker is one of those women.

It has been an amazing year for the Bumblebee Toys owner.

Baker was just won the 2013 Influential Women in Business Award where she was nominated with the likes of Val Semeniuk of Kootenai Moon and Janet Skolka of Jilly bo Billy.

“What an honour to win this in the midst of so many amazing and influential busi-ness women,” says Baker. “I’m totally floored and it com-pletely caught me off guard.”

Found at bumblebeetoys.com, Baker’s business also won six platinum and one gold awards in Kootenay Business’ first Annual Didi-Tech Awards handed out this winter.

Chosen for favourite overall website, e-commerce website, retail website, blog, Facebook page, eNewsletter and Twitter feed as well as favourite use of photography, the list of hon-ours is long and impressive.

Baker was also nominated for MOMpreneur Award of Excellence put on by Parents-Canada last fall. Through all these accolades, Baker feels pleased she “can be an inspira-tion to others whether they are women in business, or hard working moms.”

“It’s been long journey with many mistakes and successes and I’d love to think I can help others follow their passions also,” she says.

Started in 2007, Bumblebee Toys offers a unique collec-tion of natural toys, crafts and playthings “to inspire the imagination and nourish the

senses,” says Baker.

Trevor and Todd Hutt are no strangers to nourish-ing the sense — namely taste. The owners of Bogustown are hanging up that hat as the Fairview pub offered its last famous beef donair, last pint, last hurrah on May 31. The brothers who formally owned DJ’s on Baker Street, have been in the restaurant busi-ness for 20 years and are ready for a new chapter in their lives.

Another long-time Koote-nay restaurateur, Yoshikatu (Yoshi) Jack Shirotani has reached a major milestone. Kurama Sushi celebrated its anniversary this week. On June 4, the local sushi busi-ness turned 11-years-old. The sushi bar at 491 Baker Street offers “healthy, nutritious, ap-petizing and delicious fare as sushi becomes one of the most popular foods world-wide.

After 15 years at the top of a steep stairway Alan Burch Law Office has moved to a newly renovated, wheelchair accessible office on the main floor of the same building at 466 Josephine Street.

Alan Burch provides legal services in real estate matters, wills and estates as well as notarizing services.

Just next door, Skin Bliss Medi Spa has moved into the former Araya Day Spa loca-tion. Owner Rebecca Wilcox opened the new location on June 1.

Skin Bliss is most well known for its laser and photorejuvenation tretments which will continue.

Still offering beauty services such as eyelash extensions and the mineral make-up line by Jane Iredale, new services will now be featured.

With three massage prac-titioners on board offering hot stone, shiatsu treatments among others, Skin Bliss also has drop-in infrared sauna available. New too are detoxi-fying and firming mud wraps. Body sugaring is new to try as well.

Now in its third year of business, Skin Bliss used to be located at 601 Front Street. They will celebrate their new location with a grand opening in July.

Kootenay Glass and Mir-ror have also moved shop from their 121 McDonald Drive location to 206 Lakeside Drive. The full-service glass provider offers windshields, door glass and much more for contractors and the gen-eral public. Open since 1991, Woody and Dale will contin-ue to offer that “old fashioned” service their customers have some to rely on.

Away from the bricks and mortar of the Biz Buzz, KAST and Community Futures Central Kootenay are bring-ing a very successful initiative back to Nelson on June 17 to continue growing the local en-trepreneurial community with a little bit of legal advice.

“We deal with a host of im-mensely talented people who

The Biz Buzz — Kirsten Hildebrand

The Buzz goes Bumblebee

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Sabrina Baker of Bumblebee Toys.

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SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 8 (KOOTENAY LAKE)Aboriginal Education Enhancement

Agreement Community MeetingWednesday, June 12th - 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Hume Hotel – Emporium RoomSchool District #8 is currently in the process of renewing our Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement. An Enhancement Agreement is an agreement between the school district, the local Aboriginal communities, and the Ministry of Education developed to enhance the educational achievement and experience for all Aboriginal students. Community consultation is an essential component to renewing our agreement. We need to hear from Aboriginal parents, students, and community members. Please join us at this community meeting. Light snacks provided.


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have excellent business ideas and are very good at what they do,” explains KAST’s ex-ecutive director Kelvin Saldern. “One of the common challenges we hear from start-ups is that the legal aspect of the business is not their strength and can be challenging.”

KAST has a strong focus on assisting and accelerating entrepreneurial growth in the region and implemented the “Ask an Expert” program in September.

The program is designed to provide a help-ing hand for small businesses, companies and start-ups that traditionally may not see their issues as being substantial enough to motivate them to pay a lawyer but are critical to their venture.

The first three sessions held in Nelson, Trail and Castlegar were great successes and featured the help of Leon Pigott of Pigott and Co. He provided valuable advice to 18 busi-nesses from sectors including digital media, IT, manufacturing, finance, construction, professional services, education and tourism/recreation.

“It has been rewarding,” says Pigott. “People often don’t know the extent of the resources and assistance for small businesses that are available. Right now, some of these ideas are in the business conception stage, but could turn into a great business and a great thing for the area. I see the Ask an Expert program as a long term investment, to grow the region and build on an existing startup community.”

Half-hour per-client appointments are available between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. but must be booked in advance. Contact Community Futures at 250-352-1933 or email Janeen Mather at [email protected] by June 13. The event will be held at Community Futures Central Kootenay (201, 514 Vernon Street).

If you have an item you would like to see in the Biz Buzz, email to reporter3@nelsonstar.

The Kootenay Lake School Dis-trict has been served strike notice by its CUPE workers who have plans to picket in front of Hume school Monday.

Strike activity will be limited to one-day overtime bans, 30-minute study sessions during breaks and picketing when classes are out and no extracurricular activities are oc-curring.

Superintendent Jeff Jones says at this time, it doesn’t appear job ac-tion will continue beyond June 10.

“We have received confirmation that there is no contemplation of a full withdrawal of services by unionized support staff in June,” he says.

Intended strike activity will not cause any problems for the welfare of students or area residents accord-ing to CUPE. Also, there will be no interference with access to schools and offices for students and staff.

Pickets in front of Hume Elemen-tary School will start at 4 p.m.

Any employee in the district who is not management or a member of the Kootenay Lake Teachers Fed-eration is a CUPE member.

CUPE workers serve strike noticeNelson Star Staff

Kootenay Animal Assistance

Program Society (KAAP)Pets Available for Adoption

For info call 250-551-1053 or visit www.kaap.ca

ADOPT TODAY!250.352.7178520 C Falls Street Nelson(Above Savoy Bowling Lanes)Open Tues - Sat.: 12:00 - 5:00pmView our current animals available for adoption and check out the new Lost & Found section on our website!

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Have a : Adopt a Rescue Pet!Do you know how you can help your local animal rescue organization best? By ADOPTING, DONATING and FOSTERING. We can’t do this job with out your help!Here are some pets needing forever homes. Call KAAP at 250-551-1053 or visit www.kaap.ca for more information.

Be part of a community that is supporting a more humane approach to our animals.

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TITOHe’s a healthy 1 year old Terrier cross. Gets along with other dogs and cats. Will be a loyal companion. Read more at www.kaap.ca/adopt/tito.

JaxHe’s a big love; Saint Bernard mix, 2 years old. He needs an experienced dog owner who can handle his exuberance, can provide lots of daily exercise, and continue Jax’s obedience training (his commands are very good).

JoeyThis gorgeous 2 year old Collie – Shepherd cross also needs an experienced dog owner who will continue the training that KAAP has started around his protective issues. He responds well to positive handling, and loves walks and play time.

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BLEWETT HOBBY FARM9.3 acres of heritage farmland at your doorstep. Tons of sun, two sources of water, great soil and a substantial barn with power and water are just a few perks this property offers. Overlooking all this is a 7-year-old home with jaw dropping views and a floor plan to fit any family’s needs. Minutes from town. Call today.

AFFORDABLE FOR YOU!This like-new 2010 2-bedroom home is immaculate inside and out. Beautiful large kitchen open to the living room with vaulted ceilings. Located on quiet Lower 6 mile Road in the 21 Pine Park. Just a short walk to the beach and the city bus. Easy to finance.

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PRICED RIGHTBeautiful, private corner lot in Slocan. Extremely well maintained home is a great value. Home features 3 bdrms, 1 bath, new roof, new windows, new wood burning fireplace insert, 2 large family rooms, and a lovely yard complete with gardens and fruit trees. Don’t miss this opportunity to own for under 200k!

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SLOCAN RIVER CHARMER Set peacefully by the mouth of the river and only a few steps from Valhalla Park on the outskirts of Slocan. 2- bedroom home on a beautiful flat yard with fruit trees and forest. This could be a great starter home or vacation getaway! Call Steven

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GREAT HOME GREAT VALUE Located 15 min from Nelson, this 4-bed, 2-bath home is sure to meet your criteria. Features include hot tub, paved driveway, underground sprinkler system, spacious room sizes, double attached garage and a spacious half-acre lot to enjoy. This will not disappoint, call today.Call Norm or Lev

6035 WOODWARD RD. WINLAW, BC Close to a variety of outdoor recreation opportunities, this energy efficient home sits on a private and flat 2-acre property. The home utilizes all of its space through use of built-ins and a well designed floor plan.

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601 Baker Street, Nelson BC 250.352.7252 www.rhcrealty.comE a c h o f f i c e i n d e p e n d e n t l y o w n e d & o p e r a t e d

En j o y p r i v a c y and sunsh i ne ! J u s t o v e r 4 a c r e s w i t h a r o omy t wo - l e v e l h ome w i t h f u l l y e nc l o sed sundec k and a de t a c hed wo r k shop /s t ud i o . S i t u a t ed a l o ng P as s C r eek Rd , j u s t p a s t C r e s c en t Va l l e y. S u r r ounded b y C r own Land ! MLS 2389517

Glen Darough 250.354.3343 $369,900

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Th i s 2 bed r oom mob i l e h ome has been e x t en s i v e l y r e no va t ed , i n c l ud i ng a new k i t c hen , b a t h r oom , f l o o r s , mos t w i ndows and mos t o f t h e wa l l s h a ve been g y r o ced . N i c e qu i e t l o c a t i o n , y e t a n e a s y wa l k t o s choo l a nd pa r k s .

MLS 2389185Dave Buss 250.354.9459 $39,900

UpdAted in rosemont

37.36 EXTREMELY PR IVATE t reed Acres w i th a 2 bdrm, 1 ba th cab in and a newer 3 bdrm 2 ba th mob i le wh ich a re perched on a p la teau , o r ien ted toward and ma jes t i ca l l y above the S locan Park va l l ey and sur rounded by c rown land . Th is p roper t y w i th two houses i s per fec t fo r the ou tdoor en thus ias t w i th w i ld l i f e a t your doors tep o r any rec rea t iona l

you choose . MLS 2390169Lisa Cutler 250.551.0076 $399,000

oUtdoor pArAdise

C l a s s i c F a rm House w i t h mode rn upda t e s i n t h i s 4 -5 bed r oom 2 ba t h house on 7 .42 a c r e s on l y 7 m i nu t e s t o Ne l s on . Wonde r f u l K oo t ena y R i v e r V i ews . MLS 2389878Christine Pearson 250.505.8015 $430,000

Hobby FArm

A g r e a t s t a r t e r o r r e t i r e m e n t 2 B R h o m e o n a 1 2 0 x 1 1 0 f o o t , l e v e l , l a n d s c a p e d l o t . R e c e n t i m p r o v e m e n t s i n c l u d e a n e w m e t a l r o o f ; h o t w a t e r t a n k , e l e c t r i c b a s e b o a r d s , b a t h r o o m f i x t u r e s , f l o o r c o v e r i n g s a n d f r e s h p a i n t t h r o u g h o u t . A v e r y p r i v a t e s e t t i n g n e x t t o a b e a u t i f u l s e c l u d e d m o u n t a i n c r e e k

p a r k . A M U S T S E E ! MLS 2218486Alan Tarr 250.354.8489 $148,900

sLocAn city JeWeL

Steady revenue f rom the two bedroom home, four manufac tu red homes, p lus four mob i le home pads make th i s a decent inves tment p roper t y. Cur ren t owners have made many upgrades . Creeks ide se t t ing jus t ou ts ide Ne lson . MLS 2390441

Glen Darough 250.354.3343 $439,000

investor ALert

Th is bu i ld ing has leve l access , k i t chen , mu l t ip le o f f i ces and a la rge open ha l l a rea measur ing 46’ x 30’ w i th 13’ ce i l i ng he igh t . Zoned R-3, Core Apar tment Res iden t ia l . Conven ien t l oca t ion , ve r y c lose to downtown. MLS 2216411Lorne Westnedge 250.505.2606 $289,000

cHUrcH or HALL

Immacu l a t e c o n t empo r a r y 3 bed r oom 2 ba t h F a i r v i e w home w i t h a 1 bed r oom I n -l aw Su i t e i n t h e ba s emen t . A b r i g h t o pen f l o o r p l a n a nd a l a k e v i ew. A mus t s ee .

MLS 2217348

Alan Tarr 250.354.8489 $365,000

A sUite Home

4 bd rm 2 ba t h home l o ca t ed i n l owe r F a i r v i ew. Th i s 2 s t o r e y home w /b smn t i s p l a ced on a 46 ’ x 120 ’ l o t o f f e r i n g a l a r ge deck t o s oak i n t h e s un , c a r po r t & ga r age . The home needs s ome TLC bu t i s i n t h e pe r f e c t l o c a t i o n c l o s e t o a l l amen i t i e s . Su i t e p o t en t i a l & Qu i c k po s se s s i on a v a i l a b l e .

Lisa Cutler 250.551.0076 $264,900

bring yoUr ideAs

Two bed r oom 2 ba t h c on ven i en t l i v i n g i n L owe r F a i r v i ew. Co ve r ed pa r k i ng and c l o s e t o amen i t i e s .

MLS 2218521

Christine Pearson 250.505.8015 $269,000

WALk everyWHere!

He r i t a ge Cha rm w i t h upg r ades , o r i g i n a l F i r f l o o r s , e x ce l l e n t s un e xposu r e , b o x ga r dens & g r eenhouse p l u s p l e n t y o f o f f s t r e e t p a r k i ng ! MLS 2218303

Christine Pearson 250.505.8015 $246,000

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E l egan t 4 bd rm & 3 ba t h s F r on t D up l e x w i t h o v e r 2052 ’ o f l i v i n g s pace w i t h t h e f i n e s t t o uches & pano r am i c s t r i k i n g L ak e , C i t y & M oun t a i n v i ews . Add ’ l 500 s q f t o f o u t doo r c o ve r ed v e r andah s pac e . Th i s up s c a l e p l a c e i s l o c a t ed j u s t 5 m i n f r om t own i n l owe r Ros em on t c l o s e t o t h e G o l f c ou r s e , a l l am en i t i e s , s c hoo l s & bus r ou t e s . MLS 2390202

Lisa Cutler 250.551.0076 $425,000

brAnd neW

Grea t s t a r t e r h ome on p r i v a t e 1 . 3 a c r e s o f u s eab l e l a nd c en t r a l l y l o c a t ed be tween Ne l s on & Cas t l e ga r ! Nes t l e d i n t h e t r e e s s i t s a l o v e l y 2 bed , 2 ba t h , 2003 mob i l e w i t h p eek a boo v i ew o f Koo t ena y R i v e r & Go l d I s l a nd . MLS 2389152

Laura Salmon 250.551.8877 $289,777

tUrn key!

Pr i va te 1 .04 acres o f f l a t useab le land w i th an immacu la te 2001 mob i le w i th 2 bedroom, 2 ba th rooms, 24x36 garage on concre te s lab w i th a t tached lean to fo r a l l your too ls o r toys . Garden shed, gazebo & covered deck . C lose to a l l amen i t i es & a s tones th rough away f rom Win law E lementa r y.

MLS 2389745Laura Salmon 250.551.8877 $214,777

perFect pAckAge in WinLAW!

A rust ic Riondel waterfront lease lot Cabin. 121.42 feet of beach by 300 feet in depth. Treed, s loping lot with v iews of Purcel l Mountains across the Lake. Recreat ion get-away.MLS 2204586

Alan Tarr 250.354.8489 $125,000

WAterFront LeAse Lot

Beautifully maintained and landscaped 2

bedroom, 2 bath home located in Nasookin

subdivision, just 5 minutes from town. 3 level

split home on 1/4 acre lot with fireplace, double

carport and decks. MLS 2389992Lorne Westnedge 250.505.2606 $349,900

vieW property

Jus t l i s ted , th i s 3 bedroom 2 ba th home has a covered ve randah, and a la rge open sundeck . A t tached carpor t in an Uph i l l l oca t ion w i th leve l d r i veway, a l a rge v iew lo t and g rea t sun exposure . Exce l l en t cond i t i on and lov ing l y

ma in ta ined . MLS 2390729Lorne Westnedge 250.505.2606 $329,500

UpHiLL WitH cHArm

3 bedroom, 2 bath manufactured home on creek front property, just outside Nelson city limits. Good condition with covered porch, 3 piece en-suite bath and a park-like setting, just under 1/2 acre. MLS 2389991Lorne Westnedge 250.505.2606 $149,900

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f u r n a c e , n e w r o o f , a l l n e w p l u m b i n g , n e w r e n o s ,

u n d e r g r o u n d s p r i n k l e r s y s t e m , g a r d e n & t o n e s o f

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t o t h e d o w n t o w n c o r e o f N e l s o n p l u s l a k e v i e w s .

Lisa Cutler 250.551.0076 $335,000

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N i c e l y m a i n t a i n e d b r i g h t 3 b d r m m o b i l e h o m e a p p r o x 5 m i n u t e s f r o m t o w n . N e w e r w i n d o w s & n e w l y p a i n t e d t h r o u g h o u t . T h e k i t c h e n a n d l i v i n g r o o m o f f e r a n o p e n f l o o r p l a n d e s i g n w i t h l a k e v i e w s f r o m t h e l i v i n g r o o m w i n d o w s . C o v e r e d p a t i o s

& D e c k s f o r o u t d o o r s i t t i n g . MLS 2218336Lisa Cutler 250.551.0076 $35,500

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I n “ a s new” c ond i t i o n , t h i s 1 bed r oom + den , 1 ba t h 3 r d f l o o r c ondo un i t i s we l l a ppo i n t ed w i t h many e x t r a s . L a r ge sundeck w i t h a f t e r noon sun , l a k e v i ew, l a r ge mas t e r b ed r oom w i t h wa l k - i n c l o s e t , c o ve r ed pa r k i ng . MLS 2389782Lorne Westnedge 250.505.2606 $299,000

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t h i s 2 bed r oom m ob i l e h om e l o ca t ed i n t h e

popu l a r Sunny s i d e M ob i l e Hom e P a r k . L o t s

o f upda t e s , g r e a t l o c a t i o n . MLS 2389756Dave Buss 250.354.9459 $55,500

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Ver y charming 2 bdrm 1 ba th home a few b locks up f rom Baker S t ree t . Th is sweet , b r igh t home has had many modern updates , p r i va te backyard w i th cedar deck , c lean , b r igh t un f in i shed basement ho lds lo ts o f s to rage . Low ma in tenance home, move r igh t in . MLS 10062854

Lisa Cutler 250.551.0076 $259,000

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Beau t i f u l h ome , r e a d y t o mo v e i n t o , w i t h s uch f e a t u r e s a s cu s t o m ca b i n e t s & h a r dwood f l o o r s , c ons t an t f r e sh a i r HR V s y s t em , 3 – 4 bed r ooms , 3 . 5 b a t h s , s e p a r a t e g a r age , a nd i n c r ed i b l e v i e w s . L a n d sca p i n g i s d one ! P r i c ed t o Se l l ! ! ! MLS 2218348

Glen Darough 250.354.3343 $559,900

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You could not replace this home for this pr ice. 2 f lat fenced acres with a 4 bedroom 4 bath custom luxury home plus tr ip le garage & guest sui te. Truly Breathtaking! MLS 2217377Christine Pearson 250.505.8015 $795,000

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Friday, June 7, 2013 Volume 2 Issue 18

Winlaw's Peter Corbett shows paintings of proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline route

in upcoming joint exhibit at TouchstonesPage 5

Abandoning Paradise

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Yan Zombie{vurb} contributor

Greetings, music lovers! For the � rst of two Yan Zom-

bie Presents events in June, I'm pleased to welcome Michael Red from the mighty Lighta! crew in Vancouver.

I was � rst introduced to MRed's sound seeing him lay down one of his trademark morning sets at The Bass Coast festival. Since then I have seen him throw down a seriously diverse and versatile range of sets � tting different occasions; proper dancehall, to dub and rap in� uenced sets, always delivering that spontaneous vibe that comes from perfectly gauging and reading the dance � oor.

He was open to my nosey prying for a little insight into what he's up to.

Yan Zombie: First off, thanks so much for taking the time to chat. What other areas of life do you draw inspiration from that guide your musical choices and direction?

Michael Red: Hmm. My inspirations are endless really. I'm inspired by a lot different people in my immediate life. Certain close friends I'll have in my head sometimes when I'm mak-

ing music, angled towards fashioning something they'd be down with. Jamie DJ Tusk is one of them. Certain artists that work really quickly and are pro-li� c have fueled me recently too, like Machinedrum, Self Evident, and even Riff Raff. I'm not saying I'm down with everything Riff Raff does, but I have to admire his sheer output and what ap-pears to be his lighthearted approach.

YZ: What can you tell me about the fo-cus and theme of The New Forms Fes-tival that you curate and contribute to?

MR: I've been with New Forms since 2003. This year, however, I've taken a step back to allow more time for my own personal projects. To me, I take the words "New Forms" literally and make efforts to book and showcase work that is truly "new" or very much "now." As well, I've made it rule-of-thumb for my-self to only book artists that haven't been to Vancouver before, and book locals that haven't played the festival before too. I also see the festival as a forum to take more risks than usual and really challenge the average event goer, always seeking to set the bar higher and higher.

YZ: For people unfamiliar, what is the Low Indigo Blog and movement all about ?

MR: Low Indigo is purposefully am-biguous, with elements left unde� ned, as a re� ection of real life and a signa-ture of remaining "open." I see it as hav-ing its own organic spirit which, at its own pace, becomes more de� ned as it discovers itself. I guide its growth, but life in general also helps guide it.

The Facebook group, for example, has evolved into a really great com-munity that continues to grow. I never planned for that, and it's totally wonder-ful. I love the fact that it's participatory and it makes perfect sense to me that an open-ended group of people are all helping shape Low Indigo's growth and identity. It looks like the blog might just become a place to post strictly event and label news, which also makes a lot of natural sense to me — 'cause the Facebook group already more than serves the purpose that a blog typically would.

Catch Michael Red at Spiritbar on Thursday, June 13. Cover is $7 before 11:30 p.m. and $10 after that. There will also be opening sets from myself and Frumlater

Yan Zombie is a Nelson-based electron-ic music producer and promotor. His events run monthly at Spirtbar. Follow him on twitter @yanzombiemusic.

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A herd of young actors from the Homelinks homeschooling program are preparing to hit the stage with a musical about safari animals overcoming their differences.

Tuishi Pamoja, directed by Allison Girvan and Miriam Mason Martineau, is about a young giraffe, Raffi, and young zebra, Zea appear to want to be friends, despite warnings from their parents.

Homeschoolers, ages six to 14, have been working together with great ener-gy and focus to present this musical that is both fun and holds a deeper message and invitation: to look beyond our differ-ences, to reach out and take a chance.

The show goes Thursday, June 13 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. at South Nelson School gymnasium.

Admission is by donation.

Bristol Diving School is a collective of artists from Bristol, UK, four of whom are Artists-in-Residence at Oxy-gen Art Centre from June 8 to July 6.

In its initial inception, Bristol Diving School was a project that developed into a collective with the objective to erase individual authorship of an artwork through negotiation between those collaborating in its conception and production. So named for the building where the collective was formed in 2009, it operates both on and off-site as members of the 20-strong collective extend the project through national and international activities.

Within Bristol Diving School, col-laboration is regarded as both method and subject, with all works accredited to Bristol Diving School: the project as the author, the artist. The group works primarily in New Media and Installa-tion.

Bristol Diving School will use their residency to investigate the cultural heritage of Nelson as a research point and develop their findings into a body of work that questions, distorts and embellishes these historical narra-tives.

By researching local history, inte-grating themselves into Nelson’s artist community and engaging the public in their process through participatory events, they hope to cultivate an ar-chive produced through a collabora-tive process that takes on an (pseudo) anthropological form.

The public is invited to attend an artist talk at Oxygen this Thursday, June 13 at 7 p.m. The centre is located at 320 Vernon Street (the entrance is off the alley).

For more information visit the Oxy-gen Art Centre website at oxygenart-centre.org.

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Three of the most talented professional pho-tographers in British Columbia will be coming to Nelson to teach a two-day photography work-shop geared towards emerging and professional photographers.

Anna Beaudry, Brent Edwardson, and Michael Moster will travel from Vancouver to present “The Ignite Sessions – Nelson.” The workshop will begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday, June 9 and will cover topics such as lighting, posing, photoshop and business practices.

“It is so exciting to have photographers of this calibre come to Nelson to help our local pros work on their craft” says workshop host Melissa Welsh. “Our photographers do not have the same access to professional development as our city colleagues do, so it is a real treat to not have to travel for an educational opportunity.”

The workshop is sponsored by the Profes-sional Photographers of Canada – BC. Master photographers, committed to making a differ-ence in the photographic industry, volunteer their time to guide emerging photographers towards success. These two-day educational programs refresh fundamental skills, reveal in-dustry standards and instill a sense of confidence and direction in local photographer’s businesses.

Welsh, a Past-President of PPOC-BC, will be hosting the event. The program will run 10 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 9 and 10 to 4 p.m. on Monday, June 10. Registration fee is $169 for non-members and $89 for members.

For more information please contact Melissa Welsh 250-352-5664 or see the PPOC-BC calendar online at ppoc-bc.ca

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If the unrelenting bad news about the environment has got you down, mark your calendars for a talk on Thursday, June 13 in Nelson by Alanna Mitchell, author of the bestselling Sea Sick: The Hidden Crisis of Global Ocean Change. Mitchell will speak on moving from environmental despair to imagining a new world.

Mitchell contends that although aware-ness of the environmental crisis is vital, so-ciety cannot achieve a better world unless we can imagine what that world would look like. The author, winner of the prestigious $100,000 Atkinson Fellowship in Journalism in 2008 and the $75,000 Grantham Prize for environmental writing in 2010, is a former Globe and Mail reporter who now directs her attention to investigating changes in Earth’s life-support systems.

She will talk at the Nelson United Church, (602 Silica Street) at 7 p.m. An opportunity to meet the author and book signing will follow. A donation of $10 is suggested, with youth and students free.

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Daniela Elza’s milk tooth bane bone is a book that sweeps across the read-er’s consciousness like a bird’s wing. The poems do something rather mi-raculous: fragmentary yet narrative, grounded yet mythic, they deconstruct and build simultaneously, forge and empty out meanings and images.

Elza, a Portland-based poet, will be at Booksmyth Underground on Thursday, June 13 to read from her new book. The evening will also include readings by Samuel Stephenson, founder of the Nelson Poetry Slam, and an open mic component featuring 10 local readers.

Stevenson is one of those spoken word poets who gets spinal shivers when people tell the truth. He was nominated for a Champion of Liter-acy Award from the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy in 2011 and cur-rently teaches poetry workshops in high schools.

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I’m going to be running a 50 kilometre moun-tain trail race this fall in an event appropriately named Kaslo Suffer Fest.

A few weeks ago my friend lent me his copy of acclaimed Japanese author, Haruki Murakami’s memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Well aware that it held the po-tential to either motivate me or scare the bejeezes outta me, I gladly accepted it. For somebody whose novels are usually expansive, ambitious, and mysterious, his memoir is concise, modest and revealing.

Murakami’s made a career out of squeezing bizarre plot lines out of otherwise simple seeming narratives. For exam-ple, The Wind Up Bird Chron-icles that began as a teenage runaway tale quickly spun into a race to save the world from a demon Colonel Sanders. Another book featured a cult guru and little people that emerged from the mouth of a dead goat.

So even though this is his least Murakamiesque book, this is the most Murakami that we ever see in any of his books.

In this memoir, Murakami traces his thought as he trains for both the New York Marathon and a triathlon in Japan. This is a fellow who spends six out of every seven days running and then writes literary masterpieces when he gets home.

He’s very candid, a little self-deprecating, and (a rarity in memoirs) never comes off as preachy or pretentious.

The most successful as-pect of his memoir is his direct connection between the acts of running and writ-ing. He examines the par-allels between success in both literary and physical planes, the solitary nature of the two activities, and the ways each act both complements and com-pensates for the other. Instead of chronicling his romances or heartbreaks, this memoir focuses on this. These pursuits have become who he is, more than anything else.

One of Murakami’s notable marathon man-tras is “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” Beyond running or writing, these words can be applied to so much in life.

So I’m going to run the 50 km, and it’s going to hurt. But despite the name of the festival, I’m determined not to suffer.

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Join the revolution and share a hand-crafted beer with Joe Wiebe, the Thirsty Writer, as he celebrates the release of his book, Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Brew-eries.

On Monday, June 17, Wiebe will be at Otter Books signing copies of his book between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., and at 7:30 p.m. that evening, he will be giving a talk at Mike’s Place Pub. The evening event will feature a cask of the Nelson Brewing Company’s Full Nelson Organic Impe-rial IPA. Both events are free.

In Craft Beer Revolution, Wiebe documents the fascinating craft beer movement in BC, pro-� ling its history, the breweries themselves, the people behind the kegs and casks, and the co-lourful stories. The book is � lled to the brim with recommendations for beer tasting tours around the province, lists of the best brews that BC has to offer and entertaining trivia that will make beer geeks salivate.

To write this book, Wiebe undertook what he called his “Craft Beer Odyssey” — a road trip around the bottom half of the province visiting as many craft beer hubs as possible. The Lion’s Head Smoke and Brew Pub near Castlegar was an essential stop on this trip. In his book, he describes it as “an oasis of craft beer,” which of-fers artisan smoked meat along with twelve taps featuring beer from breweries across the prov-ince, including Nelson Brewing, Tree Brewing, Fernie Brewing, Mt. Begbie Brewing, Crannóg Ales, Cannery Brewing and Spinnakers Brewery.

The Nelson Brewing Company is another major player in the craft beer revolution. They opened in 1991, and in 2006, they decided to go all-organic, a move that created some challenges due to the dif� culty in � nding certain ingredients (hops, in particular). However, this movement

towards healthier, more sustainable pro-duction by brewers such as the Nelson Brewing Company has spurred a growth in organic hop production, especially in Canada and the United States.

British Columbians are embracing craft beer like never before. It may, in part, be wrapped up in an ever-growing movement to consume high-quality, local products. However, there is more to craft beer than its superb ingredients. Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, writes that “craft brewing universally involves boldly � avoured beers coupled with a de� antly independent spirit.” In Craft Beer Revolution, Wiebe celebrates this independent spirit that has overwhelmingly soaked into BC’s brewing scene.

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Opening of Abandoning Paradise: The Northern Gateway Project, with artists Glenn Clark and Peter CorbettFriday June 14, 7-9pmExhibit dates: June 15 to September 15 Location: Gallery ATouchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History502 Vernon Street, NelsonArtists paint landscapes threatened by the Enbridge PipelineOver the course of a year, Glenn Clark (Penticton) and Peter Corbett (Winlaw), traveled across northern BC, painting landscapes that would be impacted by the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline. An exhibition of their plein air sketches and studio paintings will be shown

at Touchstones Nelson, opening Friday June 14 at 7pm. The exhibition will also include pertinent information about the region and the scope of the pipeline project.

Last spring Clark and Corbett travelled in an old Chevy utility van, which doubled as a plein air painting studio, out� tted with an upper deck for capturing more expansive views of their surroundings. The van was painted with a mural and dubbed The Grey Whale. Throughout their journey, the artists met many residents who would be affected by the controversial project, and witnessed the landscapes that may be at risk, including salmon bearing rivers and the treacherous seas around the Great Bear Rainforest and Kitimat Harbour.

Glenn Clark received his BFA from the University of Calgary in 1991, and has exhibited his work throughout BC and in Calgary, as well as completing several mural projects. About this project, Clark states: “I feel a great sense of urgency to visit the many sensitive sites in BC’s northern region and to document their current state. My work will illustrate the grandeur of this geographic area and as a worse case scenario, act both as a record and a reminder of a pre-pipeline landscape”.

Peter Corbett is a � sh biologist and a self taught painter, and has exhibited his work for the past seven years throughout BC as well as Calgary and Edmonton. Corbett states: “As a � sh biologist, I feel the government and

resource industries do not take scienti� c evidence adequately into account in their decision-making process. Maybe as an artist I will have a better chance to reach out to more people and help change the way we view our landscape and its resources”.

The artists’ project was supported by a grant from the BC Arts Council. All are welcome to the exhibition opening on Friday, June 14, as well as the artist talks on Saturday, June 15 at 3pm. Stay tuned for a series of related events throughout the summer on the theme of “art as activism”, including � lm screenings and a panel discussion.

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Nestled down near the east shore of Okanagan Lake

is a winery that never fails to surprise. And it is one sure to convince all but the most de-termined of wine snobs that all good things do not come from grapes.

Elephant Island Orchard Wines cap-tured our imaginations on our � rst visit a decade ago and hasn’t failed to im-press since then.

Not having visited the winery for a few years, we were reintroduced to its fruit wines at a Naramata Bench Winery Association tasting in Calgary a few months ago. Guests were presented with a glass of pink bubbly upon arrival and it was a real treat. Murmurs could be heard around the room when it was announced that the Pink Elephant was made from apple, not grape, juice.

Then, on our last trip to Naramata, we were royally entertained at the Naramata Heritage Inn, where the new owners’ grand opening celebra-tions were kicked off with the sabering of sparkling wine. A series of brave volunteers sharply slid the blade of a sabre along the neck of the bottle, which snaps off the heavy ring of glass at the top. The pressurized contents then shoot the cork and glass ring a considerable distance, and also eject any tiny glass shards. It’s an exciting way to start a celebration, and the wine

did nothing to lessen the momentum of the evening.

Elephant Island Orchard Wines was founded in 1999 by Miranda and Del Halladay, in partnership with Miranda’s grandmother, the architect Catherine Chard Wisnicki. Wisnicki had pur-chased the property against the advice of her husband, who was convinced the investment for retirement would turn into a White Elephant. He referred to the property as his wife’s Eye-land, because of what he perceived as her obsession for the aesthetic.

So visitors shouldn’t be surprised when the road down to the winery doesn’t take them over a bridge and onto an island. It does, though, lead to a remarkable selection of wines, a couple of which are even made from grapes.

First to the Pink Elephant. Fer-mented from the juice of Granny Smith apples, the wine is made with the methode champenoise, like tradi-tional Champagne from France. Before being corked it gets a dosage of Cassis, which lends a beautiful pink colour to the end product. We have served it with the addition of Okanagan Spir-its black currant liqueur to make Kir Royals which, with the addition of a preserved hibiscus � ower in the bottom of a glass, results in a very exotic drink that bumps up any celebration a notch.

Another sparkling wine, The Little King, is named in memory of the Hal-ladays’ son, Rex. All proceed to go a pediatric nursing education fund at the BC Children’s Hospital. To date more than $70,000 has been donated.

Four fruit wines are available, from pears, cherries, blackberries and black currants. The dessert wine line-up in-cludes forti� ed versions from black currants (Cassis), raspberries (Fram-boise), apricot and crabapple wines and a Port-style wine, too.

Two grape wines, with tongue-in-cheek names, Naysayer (Cabernet Franc) and I Told You So (Viognier), acknowledge that the Halladays can handle fruit from vines too. In fact the Viognier (which has a touch of Sau-vignon Blanc added for acidity) was named the best in its category in the Okanagan Spring Wine Festival, a testa-ment to Del’s skill in the winery.

If Elephant Island was just a nov-elty among BC wineries, it would be a good one. But it’s much more than that. We still smile when we remem-ber reading, on our � rst ever visit, a newspaper article talking about how someone managed to slip an Elephant Island cherry wine into a Pinot Noir tasting in Vancouver. It won, much to the embarrassment of the judges when the ruse was discovered.

More information can be found on the excellent web site, elephantisland-wine.com.

Lorne Eckersley is publisher of the Creston Valley Advance. His website, lorneeckersley.com, features a collec-tion of columns, stories and photo-graphs about wine, beer and spirits, food, travel and arts.

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TheaTreHomelinks presents the musical Tuishi Pamoja, directed by Allison Girvan and Miriam Mason Martineau, on Thursday, June 13 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in the South Nelson school gymnasium. The show, put on by homeschoolers ages six to 14, follows a young giraffe, Raffi, and young zebra, Zea, who want to be friends despite warnings from their parents.

Lucas Myers is remounting the very first show he performed in Nelson, East, as a festival opener for the Tiny Lights Festival in Ymir. The show combines three plays, including We Are Going on a Journey which condenses a Greyhound bus ride from Vancouver to Toronto into 20 minutes, The Landlords Daughter, a tale of Love and Rental SNAFU, and The Forgetful Prince, a puppet show. The evening will also feature special guests that are performing at the festival. See East at The Ymir Hall, June 14 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 with a Tiny Lights festival pass or $10 without, and are avail-able in advance at the Ymir Store.

Spoken WordPortland-based poet Daniela Elza will be reading from her new book milk tooth bane bone on Thursday, June 13 at Booksmyth Underground (338 Baker Street). The night will also feature slam poet Samuel Stephenson and open mic readings. Doors are at 7:30 p.m. Admis-sion is $7 to $10, sliding scale.

FilmThe Civic Theatre hosts a gala screening of Star Trek: Into Darkness on June 14 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 for this licensed event (sorry, no minors). There will be prizes for best costume. Gala tickets are available at Otter Books and Baker Street Menswear and online at civictheatre.ca. There will also be regular, family-friendly screenings on June 15, 16 and 18.

ViSual arTSNathan Grey, a former Nelsonite now living in Vancouver, will have his ab-stract paintings on display at the Craft Connection/Gallery 378 until the end of June. An opening reception for the show will be held on June 7 from 6 to 9 p.m.

History of Fire in Nelson opens in Gal-lery B at Touchstones Nelson on June 8. This exhibit will celebrate the 100th an-niversary of the firehall on Ward Street in Nelson, and document the many fires that have transformed our community over the decades.

Oxygen Art Centre’s newest artist in residence is the Bristol Diving School, an artist collective from England. They will be working in the centre from June 8 to July 7 and will offer an artist’s talk on June 13 at Oxygen, located at 320 Ver-non Street (alley entrance).

Abandoning Paradise: The Northern Gateway Project by Glenn Clark and Peter Corbett opens June 14 in Gallery A at Touchstones Nelson. The exhibit features landscape paintings of places that would be impacted by the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline.

TalkSAlanna Mitchell, author of Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, will give a talk at the Nelson United Church (602 Silica Street) at 7 p.m. on June 13 about mov-ing from environmental despair to imag-ining a new world. A donation of $10 is suggested, with youth and students free.

muSicThe funk rock trio Jan Van Gold Band plays Sleep is for Sissies in Winlaw on Friday, June 7. For info call 250-226-7663.

The North Carolina-based EDM duo Clicks & Whistles is at Spiritbar on Friday, June 7. Ticket info at the Hume Hotel.

Lowry Olafson plays a family-friendly house concert on Saturday, June 8 at 7 p.m. Come hear, up close and personal, a fine musician whose lyrics and tunes are delightful to hear. Advance ticket purchase required. Adults $15; kids $8. Contact 250-352-9547 or email [email protected] for location and to purchase your tickets.

Papa Thom, a musician who travels Canada raising awareness of homeless-ness and poverty, will give a benefit concert for St. Saviour’s Food Pantry on Saturday, June 8 at 7 p.m. at St. Sav-iour’s Pro-Cathedral, 701 Ward Street (at Silica). Admission by donation, and nonperishable food items welcome. Info 250-352-9871.

The Cave Singers play Spiritbar on Saturday, June 8. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $18, available at the Hume Hotel front desk, and online through ticketweb.ca by searching “Hume Hotel.”

Kootenay Co-op Radio punk implosion featuring Living Deadbeats, Taberf**ks, Thus Far, Drunk On Purpose, and Sober Becky in the KCR basement (308 Hall Street) on June 12. Cover is $8 and doors open around 8 p.m.

Electric Wednesday open stage at Spiritbar on Wednesday, June 12. Take your turn in the spotlight, or enjoy the music of those who do, at one of the Kootenay’s best open stages. Talk to Estevan to sign up for a timeslot during the night.

Factories and Alleyways bring their lush three-part harmonies to the Cedar Creek Cafe in Winlaw (5709 Highway 6) on Thursday, June 13. The show starts around 6:30 p.m. and will be held outside, weather permitting. Admission by donation.

Yan Zombie present: Vancouver producer/DJ Michael Red, a founding member of Lighta! Sound, will be at Spiritbar on Thursday, June 13. Doors at 10 p.m. Cover is $7 before 11:30 p.m. and $10 after.

Tofu Stravinsky plays Spiritbar on Friday, June 14 with Chinese for Travelers. Tickets are $10.

Amy Ferguson Institute fundraiser on Saturday, June 15 at 7 p.m. at the Nelson United Church (602 Silica Street), featuring performances by local vocalists and musicians including Audrey Bisset, Allison Girvan, Bob Hargrieves and many more. Tax receipts will be provided for donations over $20.

Electro Swing Club returns to Spiritbar on June 15 with their unique and original musical time travelling experience. Doors open at 10 p.m. Tickets are $15 or $10 if you dress in swing attire.

The Tiny Lights Festival brings music, art, dance and spoken word to five historic venues in Ymir on June 15 and 16. This year’s lineup includes Vancouver’s Miami Device, a nine piece Afro-beat/funk band, and violin wizard Jaron Freeman-Fox with his super group The Opposite of Everything. Weekend passes are $75 for adults and $45 for youth. See the full schedule of events and purchase tickets online at tinylightsfestival.com.

www.allseasonscafe.com Open Nightly from 5 pm

620 Herridge Lane Nelson 250 352 0101

Introducing Chef Robert Ericksonand the All Seasons Cafe new Spring Menu. Vegan and Vegetarian dishes, BC meat from four different Kootenay farms, Oceanwise fish and seafood.

Award winning wine list starting at

$30.00

The best patio in Nelson is now open.

Come and experience our new menu, the same award winning wine list with wines starting at $30.00, in a truly spectacular setting.

GRAND OPENING

DOWNTOWN LOCAL MARKETWEDNESDAY JUNE 12 10:00AM TO 4:00PM

400 block of Baker Street, NelsonEcoSociety.ca for more info

ALANNAMITCHELL

International Seller of“SEA SICK - THE HIddEN CrISIS of

GLobAL oCEAN CHANGE”7 PM THUrSdAY JUNE 13THNELSoN UNITEd CHUrCH

602 SILICA STrEETYouth (to age 25) & Students are free

Suggested donation $10Email [email protected] or

phone 250 358 7904 for more info!

THE NELSON CYCLING CLUB PRESENTS THE

18TH ANNUAL FAT TIRE FESTIVALAUGUST 23-25

Hey Kids! Get involved...submit your own t-shirt design to Gerick’s or Sacred Ride by June 30. The winning design will be the

of� cial kids t-shirt logo! More details at www.nelsonfattire.com

Join the 117 year

old hotel ymirmonday - Sunday

open 3pm-9pm, will stay open later for parties!

over 20 musical instruments to choose from to play anytime

Every Friday join us for the Country & Bluegrass Jam

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nelson star, june 07, 2013

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