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Mayor John Dooley was crestfallen at the news of los-ing the mayoralty race to Deb Kozak on Saturday evening but expressed relief that chal-lenger Pat Severyn didn’t get the seat.

“I wouldn’t call it a defeat,” he told 103.5 The Juice. “I’d call it a success because Councillor Kozak is going to be mayor, and we’ve worked very closely together over the years. We’ve got a lot of planning in place. Pat Severyn had no experience and no knowledge of how the community works, so he prob-ably would have set us back.”

An emotional Dooley said he’s looking forward to seeing the work Kozak will do, and can now focus on the recent death of his brother Frank.

“The reality is I’ve had an absolutely devastating week with the loss of my brother. Right now I just want to sit and reflect on the loss,” he said.

Dooley’s last council meet-ing as mayor was on Monday, and he said it’s now time to look to the future.

“The results are the results and it’s our responsibility now to get behind the new mayor and make sure our community continues to move forward,” he said.

Dooley received news of his loss at Jackson’s Hole & Grill, where he was waiting with a full house of supporters and his family, including wife Pat.

“You can see tonight all the family is here, and I have all these grandchildren that I’ll be able to spend more time with. And I’ve got another one coming.”

Dooley said, though he was confident in his re-election, he was prepared for the possibil-ity of defeat as well.

“You always know going into an election that there’s risk. Stuff happens. There was a lot going on. I really wished we could have talked about the real issues facing the munici-pal government and we never did get there.”

Dooley said issues unrelated

to municipal politics got an unusual amount of attention during his campaign.

“Other things were brought up, discussed, that I think were not quite relevant.”

One issue that was raised was marijuana legalization, with provincial initiative Sen-sible BC publicly endorsing and backing Kozak. Dooley said their influence may have held sway over the results.

However, he holds no grudg-es towards his long-time col-league.

“On the upside, Councillor Kozak is experienced, she’s been there in the past as a councillor and a lot of the planning that’s in place, she was part of it,” he said.

“It will continue and I think the community will move for-ward in a very positive direc-tion.”

Dooley to reflect on his lossesIt’s been a ‘devastating week’ for Nelson’s outgoing mayor

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Kevin Mills photoNelson Mayor John Dooley (right) congratulates Mayor-elect Deb Kozak as his wife Pat (middle) looks on.

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HISTORIC VICTORYWILL JOHNSONAND TAMARA HYNDNelson Star

Deb Kozak has been voted Nelson’s � rst female mayor, defeating incumbent John Dooley by a little under 300 votes.

Kozak had 1,756 votes to Dooley’s 1,475, while retired police o� cer Pat Severyn came third with 780.

“I’m so looking forward to the next four years working with this council. It’s going to be great,” said Kozak, to thun-derous cheers from her supporters at the Nelson Legion. Her husband Pete and her son Terry stood clapping nearby, and embraced her.

Kozak told the Star the � rst point of business is to speak with the new council to see what they heard from constituents while campaigning.

“I think the � rst step that I’m going to take is to sit down with the councillors and my team, because elections are a great time of opening in the community, where we’re really engaged in the com-munity and all of these people have been engaging with di� erent people. I want to know what they heard with this election.”

She said Dooley was the mayor of Nel-son for nine years and put in a “tremen-dous amount of work and e� ort”.

“He loves the community dearly. I re-spect the work that he did... I’m looking forward to his support for the initiatives

that this new council will be taking for-ward.”

As for Severyn, she said he ran a great campaign, especially considering it was his � rst time in politics.

“I have great respect for the solid cam-paign that Pat ran. He worked hard every day and I was proud to get to know him a bit better.”

Kozak addressed the crowd. “I’ve had the privilege of working with so many good, good people who stand up in the community and do good. I’m looking forward to the next four years with this new council. I’ve had the best team and campaign team.”

She said she has big plans for the com-munity.

“I’m looking forward to the next evo-lution of who we can be. I don’t mean that in an airy-fairy way. I think that we’ve been resting on our laurels since the ’90s.”

“I’ve talked to everyone in this room about their ideas and where we need to go as a community. Yes, there are chal-lenges, like climate change, but we have so many things to be grateful for.”

She thanked all the “wonderful people who have stepped up and done com-munity work. � is town is so amazing for that.”Will Johnson photo

Deb Kozak receives the announcement that she won the Nelson mayoral race.

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Councillor Paula Kiss and Nelson-Cres-ton MLA Michelle Mungall were present for the announcement of Deb Kozak’s historic election as Nelson’s � rst female mayor, while councillors Candace Batycki and Donna Macdonald weren’t far behind in o� ering their tearful congratulations.

“I think this is a great day. Nelson just elected our � rst woman mayor,” said Mun-gall, who served on council from 2002 to 2005. “We’ve had the right to vote for 96 years and now we have our � rst woman mayor. Deb’s made history.”

� e departure of Macdonald, Batycki and Kiss became a controversial issue in this election, as some claimed they le� due to incumbent Mayor John Dooley’s aggressive leadership style. All three expressed their hope to the Star that Kozak’s leadership will bring about a more collaborative environ-ment in council chambers.

“I was really happy to see Deb elected. I think she’s a great communicator. I like her style. She wants to empower people and I like that,” said Kiss. She believes Kozak will see to fruition some of the plans they created over the last term.

“I would like to see really good adherence to the community’s various plans: our active transportation plan, our downtown water-front master plan. I think there are a lot of initiatives we can start working on and the council going in now will be able to see those come together.”

Kiss said she expects communication with the regional district to improve under Kozak’s leadership.

Donna Macdonald, who ran unsuccess-fully for mayor in 1996 and 1999, said she was thrilled by the news.

“I’m delighted to see our � rst woman mayor,” she said. “Deb is a good leader and she’ll work well with this new council, where there’s a good blend of experience and bright

new ideas.”Macdonald and Batycki said the achieve-

ment marks a cultural evolution that started with the election of council member Annie Garland Foster in 1920.

“It’s taken a while to get a female mayor, and every female politician has played a role in getting to this point,” said Batycki. “I think it’s going to be a dynamic and ex-citing term.”

Macdonald said she was pleased with how the election went.

“It was about ideas, about directions. It wasn’t about nattering or personalities,” she said. And though she’s thrilled at Kozak’s win, she was quick to express her admiration for Dooley.

“I’ve seen him tonight and he seems to be moving forward in a really positive way. I’ve worked with � ve di� erent mayors. He was my � � h and � nal one. It was a really interesting experience and I have a lot of respect for John,” she said.

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Mayoral candidate Pat Sev-eryn received the fewest votes in Nelson’s race for mayor, but he said he’s fine with the results because he successfully ousted incumbent John Dooley.

“I didn’t realize I was capable of being a politician. I’m not a politician, I give answers to people. I look people in the eye. I tell the truth. It’s the way I work,” he said.

Severyn said his immediate plans include catching up on sleep and visiting his grand-children in White Rock.

After that, “I’m not going to say I don’t have any plans. I’ve been contacted by some people who suggested things to me from a riding that is in-

teresting, I’ll see how it goes.”Severyn said he doesn’t re-

gret running for council rather than mayor.

“Not for a second,” he said. “I don’t know if I could be that guy who could be on council the way operations are going. Now there’s a fresh mayor, she’s been on council, she has something to say and we have a whole bunch of new coun-cillors. This city is going to be invigorated.”

“It’s a tough time for coming ahead. This won’t be an easy slug for the next four or five years. And we have to be pa-tient with these people because they’ve got to learn, and they are good people from top to bottom and they are going to do a heck of a job.”

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Pat Severyn (right) congratulates Deb Kozak on her win on Saturday night. Severyn came in third in the mayoral vote.

Will joHnson andTamara HyndNelson Star

Newcomer Anna Purcell received the most votes of any Nelson city council hopeful in this year’s municipal election with a final tally of 2,424.

She will be joined in city council cham-bers by incumbents Bob Adams and Rob-in Cherbo, as well as former councillor Janice Morrison and newcomers Valerie Warmington and Michael Daily, all of whom will be serving under Nelson’s first female mayor Deb Kozak.

“Completely shocked, I’m stunned,” Purcell said. “After this moment I’m go-ing to have a bath with a glass of wine. I’m really excited to work with everybody. There’s a great group of people, a change in mayor, and we’re really going to have to learn how to work with each other.”

Newcomer Michael Dailly received 2,167 votes and finished second.

“I’m really grateful for the trust that the voters of Nelson have put in me. And it feels like a big responsibility. The job is to step up and do what I said I was going to do now.”

Dailly’s first priority is affordable hous-ing, and finding ways to “work with the business community and all the groups” to be more inclusive.

Incumbent Robin Cherbo had the next most, with 2,015 votes.

“I’m happy to be re-elected. We’ve got lots of work left to do in this city,” said Cherbo, who expressed his disappoint-ment at Dooley’s loss.

“I’ve worked with Deb for the last nine years, so I don’t see a problem. We’ll have to obviously work out where everybody fits. All the people elected will be good councillors, including my old buddy Bob Adams.”

Adams received 1,973 votes.“It’s going to be totally different,” Adams

said. “I don’t know how or why but it’s going to be very different.”

Adams was surprised by Dooley’s loss but unshaken by the news.

“Yes, I was surprised but these things happen all the time. Surprises come and surprises go. I’ve known Deb a long time and I think she’ll be fine. It’s a different position than anything she’s done before and she’ll have to make some firm deci-sions.”

His advice to Kozak: “Listen to all the councillors”.

Newcomer Valerie Warmington re-ceived 1,853 votes.

“I’m really excited and looking forward to the new challenge this work represents. I think this was an excellent result. I’m excited about Deb Kozak’s election, and I think it’s going to open some opportu-nities for a new direction,” she said.

Warmington hopes that new direction will include finding jobs for people in the area. She said that’s one of her most pressing concerns, as many in the com-munity are searching for or unable to find suitable employment.

She’s thrilled that so many women were elected to council.

“I think it’s really exciting and obviously a huge change for Nelson. Just from taking a glance at the results across the province, this is a trend that seems to have been repeated all over. Women bring a different

perspective to the table, so it’s going to be exciting to see the result of that,” she said.

Former Nelson councillor Janice Morri-son has returned after a 12-year absence with 1,797 votes.

“I’m glad to be back on council,” said Morrison. “I told many people I had a preferred candidate, and unfortunately John Dooley lost. But I was quite happy to have Deb Kozak.”

Morrison expressed disappointment that issues unrelated to municipal elec-tions came up during the campaign. She believes they drew attention away from the real issues.

“I’ve held a number of positions around the table in the past and I have a good idea of how they work. I’m looking forward to making sure Nelson moves forward,” she said.

She said she wants to continue the “good work done to date”.

Among the unsuccessful candidates, Justin Pelant had 1,687; John Paolozzi 1,501; Jason Peil 1,203; Brian Shields 798, Jeff Shecter 454, and Charles Jeanes 421.

The preliminary turnout count was 50.7 per cent.

This election, 4,011 people cast ballots for mayor compared to 2,376 in 2011.

Purcell tops council pollsIncumbents Adams, Cherbo joined by four newcomers

Nelson’s newly elected council includes (clockwise from top left) Anna Purcell, Michael Dailly, Robin Cherbo, Janice Morrison, Valerie Warmington and Bob Adams.


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New faces on RDCK boardGreG NesteroffNelson Star

There will be at least seven new faces on the Regional District of Central Kootenay’s board following Saturday’s election, but some familiar ones as well.

Ramona Faust was re-elected in Area E (Rural Nelson) over Rick Marken by a vote of 692 to 440. Turnout was 40 per cent.

“I think people around the region vot-ed for positive messag-es, social innovation and financial control,” Faust said. “I don’t think people want cuts to services but they don’t want unplanned budget or development growth either. They need us to prioritize our spending on what matters and work with them on decision making.”

Faust was first elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2011.

• Tom Newell defeated Kevin LePape in Area F (Rural Nelson), by a vote of 475 to

387. Turnout was 29.5 per cent.

“I am very grateful and appreciative of the hundreds of Area F residents who wel-comed me as I showed up on their doorsteps,” Newell said. “Whether we agreed or disagreed the conversations were

always interesting and educational.”He added that he looks forward to “this

exciting experience” and will establish a Facebook page as a means to communicate in a “thorough and transparent way.”

“I know that we will not always agree on issues but I assure you that the conversations will be open, frank and interesting,” he said.

Newell is a past Nelson District Teachers Union president. He will replace Ron Mick-el, who is retiring after two terms.

LePape, who has been highly critical of several regional district decisions over the last year or so, said he thought the “most important and disappointing” fact was that while 862 people voted, more than 2,000 did not.

“As a parting shot I must tell you that I learned on Friday that the Nelson and District Community Complex pool reno includes ripping out and replacing all the practically brand-new lockers (they’re in perfect condition) because the colour will clash with the new tiles. Maybe someone, anyone would like to take this up with their new directors. I’m done.”

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• Aimee Watson will succeed Andy Shadrack as director for Area D (Rural Kaslo).

She defeated Donna Cormie 463 to 125. Turnout was a dis-trict-high 60 per cent.

“I am very excited and honoured for the privilege to serve my community,” Watson said.

She is the first wom-an elected to represent Area D, although she has been Shadrack’s alternate this past term and believes that had a large impact on the result.

“This provided an amazing level of con-text to what the positions while also pro-viding up-to-date information about the issues,” she said. “I attended a lot of meeting sot hear from the community over those years while also leading some of the files for Area D.”

Watson also credited her campaign team and said going door-to-door, calling resi-dents, and attending forums were “deeply engaging experiences that connected me even more with the community. I honestly won their support by being present, listen-ing and being able to discuss with knowl-edge what was important to them.”

Cormie is a former Kaslo village coun-cillor.

• Hans Cunningham was re-elected in Area G (Rural Salmo). He defeated Werner Kraus 218 to 24. Turnout was 23 per cent.

“I was reasonably confident,” Cunning-ham said, “because a lot of people said ‘We know you, we like you, you do good work. Why should be change?’ I’m glad peo-ple have confidence in me and will do my very best to live up to their confidence.”

Cunningham, 71, has served as director since 1986 and during his next term will be-come the longest-serv-ing director in RDCK history, passing John Voykin’s record of 31 years.

Cunningham started out as an alternate director in the 1970s, at a time when “I think the whole board was old men who smoked and some went out for a three-martini lunch. Some fell asleep at the table. That has changed.”

Cunningham said he has always liked the regional district model of operating with distinct services, although in recent years the board has tackled broader issues.

Although he’s been approached to run provincially and federal, he has always de-clined: “I’m not a party person. I’m a local government person.”

• In Area J (Rural Castlegar), Rick Smith unseated 12-year incumbent Gord Zaitsoff by a vote of 353 to 202. In Area B (Rural Creston), Tanya Wall beat Jared LeBlanc 568 to 112. That’s the seat presently held by board chair John Kettle, who did not seek re-election.

• Directors already re-elected by accla-mation were Garry Jackman (Area A – East Shore), Larry Binks (Area C – Rural Creston), Walter Popoff (Area H – Slocan Valley), Andy Davidoff (Area I – Rural Cas-tlegar), and Paul Peterson (Area K – Arrow Lakes).

In addition to the 11 rural area directors, there are nine municipal directors appoint-ed by their councils. Present directors who will not be back include Nelson’s John Dool-ey, Salmo’s Ann Henderson, and Slocan’s Hillary Elliott. Those re-elected Saturday who may be re-appointed to the board are New Denver’s Ann Bunka, Silverton’s Leah Main, Creston’s Ron Toyota, Castlegar’s Lawrence Chernoff, Kaslo’s Jimmie Holland, and Nakusp’s Karen Hamling.

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Salmo will have an entirely new council after all the incumbents were either defeated or did not seek re-election.

Stephen White was elected mayor with 245 votes to Henry Huser’s 196 and Dennis McLean’s 56. Incumbent Ann Henderson decided not to run again following three terms.

White reserved comment pending com-pletion of the official results, which was expected Tuesday, past the Star’s deadline.

In the race for council, Ken Anderson topped the polls with 304 votes followed by Cathy Paton with 299, Steven Dimock 232, and Dan Danforth 214.

Those not elected included incumbent Bob Vliet with 158, fellow incumbent and former mayor Merle Hanson 154, Diana

Lockwood with 150, Jonathon Heatlie with 120, incumbent Janine Haughton with 90, Dan Isaacs with 69, Curtis Richens with 62 and Jim Mullaly with 10.

Salmo was the last municipality in BC to file its results online, which did not happen until about 10 a.m. Sunday.

Hewat to take reins in KasloLongtime councillor Suzan Hewat has

been elected mayor of Kaslo, defeating in-cumbent Greg Lay.

Hewat had 245 votes, compared to for-mer mayor Pat Mackle’s 140 and incumbent mayor Greg Lay’s 138. She will be just the second woman to serve as mayor since Kas-lo’s incorporation in 1893. Isabel Butler was the first in 1978-79.

Hewat said she didn’t think any particular issue made a difference to the outcome.

“I believe that the citizens of Kaslo knew my record and work ethic given my pre-vious 10 years of experience on council as well as over the last 30 years on numerous volunteer boards,” she said.

Village council will consist of newcomer Romella Glorioso, who topped the polls with 327 votes, followed by Kellie Knoll with 306, incumbent Rob Lang with 236 and fellow incumbent Jimmie Holland with 233.

Those who didn’t make the cut were Lyn-da Beddow with 195, Louise De Pape with 191, John Addison with 166, Dustin East with 132 and Dave Collier with 123.

“I feel that the community has elected a good team with a mix of people new to council and those with experience,” Hewat said. “I see us as a group that will work well together, bringing different perspectives and knowledge to the table.”


Editor: Kevin MillsPublisher: Karen Bennett

Editorial

Stunning. Impressive. Historic. Those are just a few adjectives to describe Deb Kozak’s upset

win Saturday in knocking off three-time incumbent mayor John Dooley.

I was among those guessing Dooley would be unstoppable, giv-en a lack of polarizing issues in the campaign. The mayoral race was instead about “leadership style.” While some on council were clearly dissatisfied with Dooley at the helm, I never got the same sense from the community at large.

Early on, I speculated Pat Sev-eryn’s candidacy would benefit Kozak by drawing away votes that would otherwise go to Dooley, but as the campaign progressed I began to think the opposite would be true, as Severyn and Kozak seemed to be singing from the same song sheet.

Severyn was asked many times why, given his lack of political ex-perience, he didn’t seek a council seat. He spelled it out a little more clearly for us on election night: he ran for mayor in part because he couldn’t stomach the idea of serving

on council under Dooley.Having knocked off six other

contenders in three previous elec-tions, I figured Dooley would brush off his challengers yet again, even if the race was much closer. Wrong!

Oddly, Severyn and Dooley both took consolation from Kozak’s victo-ry: Severyn was happy Dooley didn’t win and Dooley was happy Severyn didn’t win.

On election night, Dooley also spoke of a personal tragedy that some in the community were aware of, but others weren’t: he was grieving the loss of his only brother, Frank, who died in Lethbridge on November 6 after a serious fall.

Dooley deserves much credit and gratitude for his years of ser-vice — nine as mayor and six as a councillor. Congratulations to mayor-elect Kozak, and thanks to outgoing mayor Dooley.

ENDORSEMENT CHECK: Dooley amassed an impressive number of endorsements from all walks of life — 19 were included in

his four-page campaign flyer.The most eye-opening, perhaps,

were those of retired Nelson police chief Dan Maluta and retired Sgt. Howie Grant, who might otherwise have been expected to support their ex-colleague Severyn.

(Severyn said some of his for-mer co-workers were prepared to endorse him, but they lived outside city limits and he figured testimoni-als should only come from residents

of Nelson proper.)Severyn did have the backing of

CUPE BC, however.Kozak, meanwhile, had on-the-

record support from Golden mayor Christina Benty, singer/actress Pat Henman, climate change scientist Dr. Mel Reasoner, outgoing Nelson councillor Paula Kiss, Elkford coun-cillor Ken Wildeman, rural Kaslo regional director Andy Shadrack, ALP-S CEO Eric Veilleut — and Sensible BC, a group pushing for marijuana law reform.

Nelson was one of seven cities where the latter endorsed candi-dates, but the only one outside the Lower Mainland. (They also gave their seal of approval to council hopefuls Robin Cherbo, Michael Dailly, Charles Jeanes, Jason Peil, Brian Shields, and Valerie Warm-ington.)

While some might say municipal-ities have little control over marijua-na laws, Sensible BC’s Dana Larsen suggests the mayor and council can have a “huge impact” on local law enforcement priorities, and point-

ed to the number of pot possession charges laid in Nelson before and after Dooley became mayor. (The trend has been upward since 2007, although whether that’s really his influence, I can’t say.)

The infamous 2012 council meeting where Dooley let out a surprising tirade against the Stop the Violence BC campaign, which has similar goals to Sensible BC, was clearly a low point of the last term. It was tempered somewhat by the fact Dooley later supported the Union of BC Municipalities’ call for decriminalization.

But Sensible BC remained wary of him. When Kozak and Severyn both said they supported a different approach to cannabis, the group did a phone poll.

“We called every land line in Nelson with a recorded message asking who they planned on voting for,” Larsen said. While the results weren’t scientific, they received 377 responses and found 30.5 per cent supported Dooley, 24 per cent

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Now that the final votes have been cast, tallied and announced, it’s time for municipalities and rural areas across the province to get back to business.

The 2014 civic election in BC has come and gone and communities in the West Kootenay can finally put all the campaign drama behind them.

Councils and other elected bodies can set their sights on doing what they where elected to do — run their re-spective areas and serve their citizens.

That’s a concept often lost on new politicians. The people voted them into office so they can best serve the needs of the community, a feat that isn’t al-ways easy.

Despite the best intentions of many new politicians, changing the world — or at least their tiny part of it — doesn’t happen overnight.

All those bold promises of change and improvement will take time.

There is a political process that has to be followed and it’s time for the new-comers to go to school.

For those newbies, there will be a steep learning curve in the coming months. Hopefully more experienced, returning politicians will share their experiences to allow the newcomers to more quickly acclimatize themselves to their new responsibilities and the process, rules and regulations that have to be followed.

The political realm is a slow moving machine and once the hype of an elec-tion dies down, the process will begin to plod along. Still, the coming of new people always brings new hope.

Candidates, turned politicians, have the opportunity to change the system, one slow bit at a time. Let’s hope they succeed in reinvigorating the process as they adjust to their new roles.

As for the public that voted in the new governments, their job isn’t over yet either.

Voting was just the first step. Now it’s their job to keep informed, keep watching and hold their politicians accountable.

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Peter MacKay’s “Online Spy-ing” Bill C-13 will enable author-ities to monitor the private lives of innocent Canadians, without any real oversight.

It will give telecom providers legal immunity for handing over your private information to the government without a warrant and without any oversight.

That means people harmed wouldn’t even have the right to sue.

Victims of these privacy breaches wouldn’t even be in-formed — that means the gov-ernment could spy on anyone, at anytime, and you wouldn’t even know when you’ve been a victim.

C-13 is hugely unpopular: 73 per cent of Canadians oppose Bill C-13, with just 15 per cent approving. There is huge oppo-sition among all regions, age groups, genders, and income

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C-13 by 62 per cent to 24 per cent.

The government is misleading Canadians when it says Bill C-13 is about cyberbullying.

It only includes a couple of pages about cyberbullying, along with 65 pages lifted from Vic Toews’ hugely unpopular spying bill C-13 which was abandoned after Canadians spoke out.

The government recently cut Parliamentary debate on C-13 short, showing it is running scared of Canadians, including thousands of its own supporters who are speaking out against on-line spying.

The Bill was rammed through the House of Commons and will soon be voted on by the Senate. The Senate prides itself on be-ing a chamber of sober second

thought, and if ever a Bill needed a sober rethink it’s this one.

The Supreme Court of Cana-da recently ruled that warrant-less government requests for private information are uncon-stitutional.

As things stand, C-13 effec-tively encourages unconstitu-tional behaviour.

It would be reckless and irre-sponsible for Parliament to pass C-13 in its current form, espe-cially as it could cost Canadian taxpayers millions to defend in the courts.

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s.supported Kozak, and 16 per cent were behind Sev-eryn. That left about 30 per cent undecided.

Figuring Kozak stood the best chance at defeating Dooley, Larsen pledged that “our team will be work-ing the phone bank all week, pushing our people to vote for Deb Kozak.”

Larsen said he was “very pleased” with the elec-tion’s outcome. “Sensible BC put quite a bit of effort into supporting Deb Kozak’s campaign. We’re thrilled to see her replace John Dooley as mayor.”

How much influence the group actually had we’ll never know, although Dooley believes it was a factor. Was it enough to account for the 281-vote difference?

HIGHER CALLING: If she hadn’t run for mayor, Kozak might have sought to represent us in Ottawa. She revealed during the mayor’s forum last week that she considered running federally for the NDP or Liberals. Either party would have been lucky to have her, as it will be an uphill fight against David Wilks in the Conservative stronghold of Kootenay-Columbia.

FAMOUS FIRST: As a measure of what Kozak accomplished Saturday: Nelson incorporated in 1897. Women were allowed to run and vote in municipal elections in BC beginning in 1918. Annie Garland Foster was the first woman elected to Nelson council in 1920. She ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1922.

Other women who have since run for mayor in-clude Edith Van Maarion, Sharon Heflin, Sandra Laine, Susanne Raschdorf, Donna Macdonald, Nicole Marek, Judy Harris, and Marianne Bond. (My list may be incomplete.) While Macdonald came closest, none pulled it off until Kozak.

After 117 years — or 96, depending on how you look at it — Nelson finally removes itself from a dwindling and somewhat embarrassing list of West Kootenay communities that have never elected a woman as mayor. Only Trail and Warfield are left, although there was encouraging news on both fronts this election: for the first time, three women have been elected to Trail council at once, and for the second time, a woman topped the polls.

Only one woman ran for Warfield council, but she also led the pack.

FULL COUNT: Three years ago, when Nelson first used vote counting machines, results were in within half an hour of polls closing. This time it took over two hours.

Word of Kozak’s win came much sooner, though, thanks to her scrutineer. Her celebration was well underway and Dooley and Severyn had long since congratulated her by the time tallies were actually posted online.

Kaslo, where the count is still done by hand, was a bit of a straggler compared to most. Its results weren’t

available until around 1 a.m. But that was nothing on Salmo, which didn’t produce semi-official numbers until about 10 a.m. Sunday, the last place in BC to do so.

TURNOUT TALES: Nelson’s election was 53 per cent — better than the 33 per cent in 2011, but still not particularly impressive.

Kaslo’s turnout was 61.7 per cent, Salmo’s was 57.6, and Slocan’s was 44.6.

In the Regional District of Central Kootenay, the highest turnout was in Area D (Rural Kaslo) at 60 per cent, not counting the Riondel referendum in which 66 per cent cast ballots.

In descending order from there: Area E (Rural Nelson) 40 per cent; Area F (Rural Nelson) 29.5 per cent; Area J (Lower Arrow-Columbia) 25 per cent; Area G (Rural Salmo) 23 per cent; and Area B (Rural Creston) 22 per cent.

Highest turnout in West Kootenay/Boundary for the second straight election was Greenwood: 70 per cent this time and last. Rossland, where outraged citizens flocked to the polls, was at 62.4 per cent, up from 37 per cent in 2011.

Lowest turnout was Fruitvale: 22.6 per cent, where there was no mayor’s race and only five candidates for four council seats.

NECK-AND-NECK: Closest races in West Koo-tenay/Boundary: Rossland and Greenwood.

In Rossland, there’s a tie for the sixth and final council seat, necessitating a recount. If things are still deadlocked, they’ll draw lots — something that happened in Kaslo and Slocan in 2008.

In Greenwood, four votes separated third from fifth place in the council race (only the top four are elected) while the mayor’s race was decided by 17 votes — a landslide compared to 2011, when the margin was four.

Highest vote total: Anna Purcell in Nelson, with 2,424. Although she was “completely shocked” at that outcome, I wasn’t. My impression was that she cam-paigned the hardest, both online and on the street.

Lowest vote total: well, you can find it for yourself in these pages. Let’s just say it’s in the single digits.

THE JP VOTE: Star reporter Will Johnson notes three Nelson council candidates had the same initials: Justin Pelant, John Paolozzi, and Jason Peil. They finished seventh, eighth, and ninth respectively. Did anyone intend to vote for one (or two) of them but fill in the wrong oval?

BIZARRO COUNCIL: Monday’s final council meeting was like something out of The Twilight Zone: lots of applause, Deb Kozak shaking hands with Claus Schunke, and praise for the media. (See story page 14.) Somebody pinch me.

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Curtis Bendig and Bill Maslechko will represent Nelson on the Kootenay Lake school board.

Bendig, who ran unsuccessfully in 2011, topped the polls this time with 2,090 votes. Multi-term

incumbent and former district superintendent Maslechko had 1,872. Bob Abrahams finished third with 1,209.

“Throughout the entire cam-paign I received tremendous support and encouragement from all across Nelson,” Bendig said. “I am very honoured by the results. I look forward to work-ing with the new board and the community to keep our public

education system strong and vibrant.”Maslechko said he was glad to be re-elected and

thanked his supporters.“I want everyone to know if

there are any concerns, I’m open and receptive to hear them,” he said. “My focus at the board table will be spending our budget in a way that best meets the needs of our students.”

Abrahams said the campaign was a “good experience.”

“Considering I ran a one man campaign, I am pleased with the number of people who supported me,” he said. “I met some wonderful people. I hope in the coming four years, the board of education will put the concerns

of the students first, rather than run the board like a business.”

Meanwhile, incumbent Le-nora Trenaman was re-elected trustee for the North Shore and East Shore of Kootenay Lake. She defeated newcomer Raeanne Gow 823 to 447. Turnout was 28.5 per cent.

Trenaman said she felt “hon-oured and truly privileged” to be re-elected, and said Gow did the district and education system a “grand service” by running for office.

“I applaud Ms. Gow and all the other trustee candi-dates,” she said. “Campaigning is hard work. It takes a lot of attention, energy and time, not to mention the significant emotional and financial expenditures. Thank you for caring enough to put your name and voices forward in the effort of advocating for public education.”

Trenaman said, however, that she fears education is not receiving the attention it deserves and that there is “something fundamentally wrong with our society’s focus and perspective. If we don’t provide our children with a high quality education as our first priority, what do you think your municipality will look like in the future?”

Cody Beebe and incumbent Rebecca Huscroft were elected to represent rural Creston. They join several other trustees who were acclaimed: Sharon Nazaroff in the Slocan Valley; incumbent Dawn Lang in Kaslo; Bob Wright for Salmo, Taghum, and Blewett; and Heather Suttie for the Town of Creston.

Bendig tops school district voteMaslechko, Trenaman also elected

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(x) denotes incumbentCAPS denotes elected

NELSON MayorKOZAK, Deb (incumbent councillor) 1,756Dooley, John (x) 1,475Severyn, Pat 780

Council (Top 6 elected)PURCELL, Anna 2,424DAILLY, Michael 2,167CHERBO, Robin (x) 2,015ADAMS, Bob (x) 1,973WARMINGTON, Valerie 1,853MORRISON, Janice 1,797Pelant, Justin 1,687Paolozzi, John 1,501Peil, Jason 1,203Shields, Brian 798Shecter, Jeff 454Jeanes, Charles 421

Turnout 52.9%

KASLOMayorHEWAT, Suzan (incumbent councillor) 245Mackle, Pat 140Lay, Greg (x) 138

Council (Top 4 elected)GLORIOSO, Romella 327KNOLL, Kellie 306LANG, Rob (x) 236

HOLLAND, Jim (x) 233Beddow, Lynda 195De Pape, Louise 191Addison, John 166East, Dustin 132Collier, Dave 123

Turnout 61.7%

SALMO MayorWHITE, Stephen 245Huser, Henry 196McLean, Dennis 56

Council (Top 4 elected)ANDERSON, Ken 304PATON, Cathy 299DIMOCK, Steven 232DANFORTH, Dan 214Vliet, Bob (x) 158Hanson, Merle (x) 154Lockwood, Diana 150Heatlie, Jonathon 120Haughton, Janine (x) 90Isaacs, Dan 69Richens, Curtis 62Mullaly, Jim 10

Turnout 57.6%

SLOCANMayorLUNN, Jessica (incum-bent councillor) 88Elliott, Hillary (incumbent councillor) 78

Council (Top 4 elected)PERRIERE, Madeleine (incumbent mayor) 113VAN BYNEN, Burly 109PELLETIER, Joel 107PATTERSON, Jean (x) 89Littley, Thomas 84Buller, Ezra 83McGreal, Patricia (x) 35Millership, Kevin 8

Turnout 44.6%

KOOTENAY LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICTNelson/Bealby Point (Top 2 elected)BENDIG, Curtis 2,090MASLECHKO, Bill (x) 1,872Abrahams, Bob 1,209Turnout unavailable

East Shore/North ShoreTRENAMAN, Lenora (x) 823Gow, Raeanne 447Turnout 28.5%

REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAYArea D (Rural Kaslo)WATSON, Aimee (Incum-bent alternate) 463Cormie, Donna 125Turnout 60%

Area E (Rural Nelson) FAUST, Ramona (x) 692

Marken, Rick 440Turnout 40%

Area F (Rural Nelson) NEWELL, Tom 475LePape, Kevin 387Turnout 29.5%

Area G (Rural Salmo)CUNNINGHAM, Hans (x) 218Kraus, Werner 24Turnout 23%

ReferendaArea A (East Shore)Are you in favour of borrowing of up to $1.2 million to renovate the Ri-ondel Community Centre? Yes 31 NO 116Turnout 66%

Area A (East Shore), Area D (Rural Kaslo), Area E (Rural Nelson)Are you in favour of establishing a conserva-tion fund service with an annual requisition of up to $106,500 or $0.062 per $1,000 of property assessment, whichever is greater, to be collected by an annual parcel tax? YES 1,128 No 1,042Turnout 41%

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urday, November 22, 10 to 11 a.m. Introduction to Bio-Feedback presented by Brian McArthur. An introduction to this method of identifying and un-derstanding our bodies and how to discover balance.

Entertainment listingsmusiCSan Francisco psychedelic rock band The New Riders of the Purple Sage play Nel-son’s Capitol Theatre on Friday, Novem-ber 21 and Saturday, November 22. Doors open at 8 p.m. New Riders will play two sets. Tickets are $39.50 at the Capitol Theatre box office (421 Victoria Street), online at capitoltheatre.bc.ca, and by phone at 250-352-6363.

The Crooked Brothers and James Lamb will host an after party at Spiritbar (follow-ing the Capitol’s concert for the New Riders of the Purple Sage) on November 21 at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available from the Hume Hotel.

Nelson Overture Concerts Society presents Canada’s legendary piano duo Anagnoson & Kinton at the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, November 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $24 for adults and $14 for students. (Students from schools participating in the school outreach program can access tickets for free.)

Alissa Arnason returns to Ellison’s Cafe Un-plugged Sessions on Saturday, November 29 at 1 p.m. Her music is instantly familiar and

comforting. At 2 p.m. The Kitchen Players, made up of four Nelsonites brought together by their love of acoustic music, will plan a set featuring ukelele, mandolin, harmonica and banjo.

spECial EvEnts The Oxygen Art Centre Cabaret Fundraiser, All or Nothing, will be held on Friday and Saturday, November 21 and 22, at 8 p.m. Featuring visual artists, dancers, singers and a magician. Local artists include host Lucas Myers, as well as Lisel Forst, Sydney Black, Bessie Wapp, Krista Lynch, Thomas Loh, Lisa Menna, Craig Korth, Hiromoto Ida, Brian Kalbfleisch and July Johnson-Mur-ray. Tickets at the door or at Eddy Music. For more information visit oxygenartcentre.org.

The Capitol Theatre presents its 27th Christ-mas Panto on December 4, 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. and December 6 and 7 at 2 p.m. This year’s panto, Bedtime Rhymes Pantomime, is written by Lisel Forst and directed by Jeff Forst. The panto is a mainstay of local theatre featuring community members of all ages. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students, or $45 for a family of four. Buy

tickets at capitoltheatre.bc.ca or phone 250-352-6363.

visual artsFormer Nelson cultural ambassador Amy Bohigian’s exhibition Wide Shot/Close Up, a video installation that explores identity and diversity within our community, is up at Touchstones Nelson. After placing a casting call for “real people” she asked 25 Nelson residents from various walks of life the same five questions on camera. The installation features five stations. For more information call 250-352-9813.

Three conceptual artists, Erica Konrad, Martha Stokoe and Ron Robinson, will host a show and sale of contemporary art work at 511 Nelson Ave on November 21 from 6 to 9 p.m.

moviEsChristopher Nolan’s Interstellar plays at 9:30 p.m. tonight and 7 p.m. Thursday. The blockbuster film, starring Matthew McCo-naughey, takes place in the near future. For more information visit civictheatre.ca.

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A referendum to create a conservation fund in three rural areas of the Regional District of Central Kootenay narrowly passed Saturday.

Residents of areas A (East Shore), D (Rural Kaslo) and E (Rural Nelson) collectively voted 1,128 to 1,042 in favour of the proposal, which will see residents pay a $15 parcel tax to raise $106,500 per year for various conservation projects.

The fund is expected to be administered by the Kootenay Conservation Program, similar to an ar-rangement in East Kootenay where $1.5 million has been given out for 44 projects since 2008.

The referendum passed at only five of 20 polling stations, failed in 12, and there were three ties, but was approved overall. The greatest support was reg-istered in Crawford Bay, Kaslo, and Procter, while the greatest opposi-tion was in Balfour and Wynndel. Most other polling stations were separated by only a few votes.

Area E director Ramona Faust speculated the difference in sup-port between Balfour and Procter may have been due to Balfour hav-ing a greater number of high val-ue homes, “and people are at their taxation limit.”

“The other possibility is that there are conservation organizations in the Harrop-Procter community that can envision the benefit of a fund such as the one proposed by the referendum,” she said.

Area A director Garry Jackman said the wide range in support suggested there may have been “inade-quate information around the purpose and oversight of the fund in some of our communities.”

“This could have been linked with stronger voices putting out their own interpretations such as what impact the fund would have on the working land base with subsequent negative impacts on the forestry sector,” he said. “The fund is of course set up to deal more with private land and with issues around the lake itself.”

Area D director Andy Shadrack said he was “de-lighted” with the outcome, and noted his constituents stated water stewardship and ecosystem protection were among their highest value priorities in a 2008

official community plan survey. They voted 55.2 per cent in favour of the fund.

Dave Hillary of the Kootenay Conservation Pro-gram said in a posting at nelsonstar.com that they would work with the regional district to ensure tax dollars are spent “in the most cost effective way pos-sible. If jobs are created for local residents, adding to economic growth and the vitality of our communities as a result, all the better.

“We plan to help deliver an exceptional benefits to all area residents. Please hold us accountable to that.”

Overall voter turnout was 41 per cent.

Riondel renos nixed:A referendum on borrowing $1.2 million to reno-

vate the Riondel community centre was resoundingly defeated Saturday.

Only 31 people voted in favour of the proposal while 116 voted against. Turnout was 66 per cent. The proposal, favoured by nearly three quarters of eligible residents in a straw vote this summer, would have seen part of the former school torn down and the rest renovated.

East Shore regional director Gar-ry Jackman said the community worked its way through several op-tions with the help of consultants, but only one concept can be voted on at a time.

“The [referendum] result was that this is not the most viable or affordable option,” he said.

“Community members have already begun to con-sider where to go from here.”

Jackman said he and senior Regional District of Central Kootenay staff are speaking with the local commission of management to assess all services in Riondel “and look at factors which impact the bottom line affordability of community amenities. I have been seeking this review for some time now.”

The community centre, the former J.A. Cochran school, was built in stages between the early 1950s and 1967. It sat empty from 1972 until 1979, when the regional district acquired it from the school district. However, it has never been renovated and retains its original appearance. In recent years it has been home to many groups, including the seniors society, art club, historical society, and library.

Conservation fund approvedVoters narrowly pass referendum

Election 2014


A 10-vote margin made the difference in Slocan’s mayoral race. Jessica Lunn defeated fellow incumbent councillor Hillary Elliott 88 to 78.

“I’m extremely excited,” Lunn said in an interview. “It was a phenomenal election. We had a great slate of candidates step forward and I think the pub-lic really had hard decisions to make. In terms of the mayoral race, Hillary and I were both strong candidates and you can see by the results it was close.”

Lunn has served two terms and Elllott two and a half terms. Lunn becomes the fourth female mayor in Slocan’s history — no other West Kootenay municipality has yet elected its third.

The councillors will be incumbent mayor Made-leine Perriere, former mayor Burly Van Bynen, in-cumbent councillor Jean Patterson, and newcomer Joel Pelletier. Perriere topped the polls with 113 votes, followed by Van Bynen with 109, Pelletier 107, and Patterson 89.

Among the unsuccessful candidates: Thomas Lit-tley with 84, Ezra Buller with 83, incumbent Patricia

McGreal with 35 and Kevin Millership with eight.“We will definitely have a lot of experience,” Lunn

said. “Burly hasn’t been on for a while, so it is still a shakeup. He’ll bring some new energy to the table. Madeleine and Jean both bring experience of the last two terms, so there’s continuity. Joel will provide a fresh perspective. I think it’s going to be a strong and very effective council.”

She thanked all the candidates and offered her “deep respect” to Elliott, whom she said she had been privileged to work with.

Lunn acknowledged this council is the first elected since the removal of the village’s waterfront sawmill, built 50 years ago. She said one of council’s top pri-orities will be looking at the budget and trying to figure out how to get by having lost a “significant percentage of our revenue.”

But she also considered it an opportunity, and said suggested the future of the site has “captured the imagination of the community. It’s quite an exciting time for Slocan. I hope we are able to connect with the site owner and build a relationship for a shared vision.”

Lunn said to date there hasn’t been much commu-nication between the village and Brisco Wood Pre-servers, although the company has provided updates on the demolition.

Slocan: Lunn elected mayor

Lunn

“The referendum passed at only

five of 20 polling stations, failed in

12, and there were three ties.”


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Retiring Nelson city councillor Donna Macdonald paid tribute to her colleagues, city staff, and even the media Monday as she chaired her final meeting.

“It’s been an amazing experience in city politics,” she said. “It cer-tainly hasn’t always been easy, but it’s never been boring. It’s often been really rewarding. I highly recommend it and welcome the councillors who are about to em-bark on this journey.”

Macdonald has served 19 years on council since 1988. It was also the final meeting for councillors Paula Kiss and Candace Batyc-ki, who did not seek re-election either. Both were first elected in 2011.

Mayor John Dooley, who was defeated in Saturday’s election, was absent for personal reasons. However, Macdonald would have chaired the committee of the whole meeting anyway.

Macdonald thanked voters, her supporters, friends, and the media, “which we don’t often do. We appreciate them coming to our meetings and letting our commu-nity know what we’re up to. I’ve always felt treated very fairly by our media.”

She also praised city staff as “wonderful to work with” and expressed gratitude to her council colleagues, who said she had gen-erally co-operated, despite “a few bumps,” and accomplished much over the last three years. “I won’t miss the meetings, but I’ll miss getting to hang out with all of you,” she said. Council responded with a standing ovation.

Kiss acknowledged the unusual-ly large crowd in the gallery, which

frequently applauded. “I have learned a tremendous amount, and grown to appreciate staff and all they do,” she said. “A lot of times we get credit for things that are directly because of staff ’s skill, diplomacy, and ability to put intelligent things in front of us.”

Kiss also said she had a “nervous relationship” with media before moving to Nelson, but is now much more comfortable. She is returning to school to study proj-ect management, but intends to come back.

Batycki said after hearing a se-ries of delegations Monday, she was impressed again by the level of volunteerism in Nelson.

“A whole cadre of volunteers stands behind everything we heard tonight,” she said. “It’s such an engaged and caring communi-ty. People care about their fellow citizens and are generous with their time.”

City manager Kevin Cormack said staff ’s job depended on coun-cil’s leadership. “We do our best to provide the best professional ad-vice, but the community lens you bring to each decision is what is important,” he said. “It’s certainly

been a pleasure to work with this council and I would hold up what you’ve accomplished in the last three years against any community in this province or country. You should all be proud.”

Rona Park, executive director of the Nelson Community Service Centre, who was in the audience, said the current council was “one of the best I’ve seen in the 20 years I’ve been here. To step forward as a community member and be included, involved, listened to and respected as we assist council in making decisions, I think we should all feel very blessed.”

Her view was not shared by frequent critic and blogger Claus Schunke, who during public time spoke to council for what he said was the 31st time this term.

He addressed mayor-elect Deb Kozak directly, saying he hoped she would honour a pledge to make council meetings more open and welcoming. Kozak walked over to him, shook his hand, and said she was “looking forward to working together. I’m hoping for cheerier-sounding reports.”

The new council will be sworn in December 8.

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Outgoing Nelson city councillor Donna Macdonald received a standing ovation from her colleagues Monday as she attended her final meeting. She has served a total of 19 years since 1988.

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Determining cause of fireThe Office of the Fire Commis-

sioner is investigating last week’s fire that destroyed the main mill building at Meadow Creek Forest Products.

Commissioner Gord Anderson said in a statement they will work with the BC Safety Authority and WorkSafeBC.

“Each agency would determine any potential for prosecution based upon the outcome of the overall investigation,” he said.

His office will focus on determin-ing the fire’s cause and, if possible, identifying any fire code breaches.

The fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. Thursday at the Cooper Creek mill. Neighbours said they heard several explosions.

As the area has no fire protec-tion, and a request for the Kaslo fire department to respond was declined, the building was allowed to burn.

The mill restarted this year under new ownership following a three-year closure.

Commissioner looks into sawmill blaze

Robyn Sedan photoA fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. Thursday at the Cooper Creek mill.

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$3 million markPeople may be familiar with the saying “the credit

union difference”. The acts of 60 local credit union employees have made that difference, since Thursday was the day that Nelson & District Credit Union broke through the $3 million mark in community giving from its 15 year old Community Investment Program.

Some might call it a coincidence that World Kind-ness Day fell on the same day the credit union reached this impressive milestone, but it is not.

To celebrate kindness, community and co-opera-tion, each employee played a role in surpassing the $3 million mark in giving by identifying a volunteer in the community that stands-out to them.

The Credit Union then donated $100 to the local organization that the chosen volunteer is affiliated with, in the name of that outstanding volunteer.

Doug Stoddart, CEO stated, “We have wanted to make this a special day. The power of each employee calling one community member in a day to share this good news, and the trickle-down of the selected volunteers sharing with their local organizations, is something we hope will resonate through the com-munity and demonstrate how different we are from the banks.”

In addition, Stoddart mentioned, “We are empha-sizing this $3 million milestone. As members support us with their deposits and borrowing needs, we will continue to put our profits back into community programs that strengthen our social infrastructure.”

When the Credit Union’s Community Investment Program started, the purpose was to support the many community groups and devoted volunteers to ensure our communities are sustainable and vibrant.

“As a community based financial institution, Nelson & District Credit Union has had, and will continue to have, many great opportunities to lead by example,” explained Tom Atkins, manager of marketing and relationship development.

“It is the support from our dedicated members that allows our Credit Union to continue to care for and be engaged in the communities we serve, along with our devoted employees that are familiar with each community we serve, that will always serve to set our financial institution apart.”

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Anne and Steve (names changed) were married for 34 years before separating.

Steve was the main family bread-winner during the marriage. Anne had worked in a bank for 20 years during the marriage. But, for the last 12 years of the marriage she had not worked at the bank, instead she did child care out of the family home.

Anne was now 58 years old and did not have a high school diploma. Steve had never been supportive of Anne’s child care work and at the time they were breaking up she stopped running the child care program. After their marriage ended, Anne did not try to get work outside the home, since she’d only qualify for minimum wage-type work that she wouldn’t like.

Steve was at one time making $125,000 a year. But his income had recently dropped to $90,000, and his job was now less secure too.

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But, the court also acknowledged that becoming fully � nancially self-suf� cient may not always be possible due to age, health, limited education or other reasons.

Nevertheless, the court emphasized you have to make an effort – it’s not fair to put the whole � nancial burden for your future � nancial support on your ex (and this wouldn’t promote the law’s important goal of striving for self-suf� ciency after a marriage ends).

The court went on to say that, yes, in our free society, you can choose not to take a job which you wouldn’t like and feel doesn’t pay enough (like minimum wage). But even if your earning ability may not be great, if you don’t try to contribute to your own self-suf� ciency, you have to bear the � nancial consequences of your own personal choice.

The court observed here that Anne received the family home when the marital property was divided up, in part because she said she wanted to run a daycare in it. But she hadn’t started on that.

In these circumstances, the appeal court said that the spousal support Steve had to pay, based on his income and the guidelines commonly applied, should be adjusted downward.

The court made an assessment of what Anne could be expected to earn, either as a part-time employee earning minimum wage or by running a daycare. These earnings were estimated at $1,000 per month ($12,000 per year). The spousal support order was therefore adjusted to arrive at a new, lower amount of spousal support he had to pay her under the guidelines.

The court also said that either Anne or Steve could apply for a review of the court’s decision in six months’ time, based on relevant factors.

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In Nelson, struggling to make ends meet is a familiar reality for many. In recognition of this, Community Connect Day will offer a warm welcome of free ser-vices, goods and information on Saturday, November 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Central School Gym, 811 Stanley Street.

The Nelson Committee on Homelessness, and dozens of ser-vice providers, health professionals and small-businesses have pooled their volunteers and resources to host a marketplace of free activities and resources for anyone strug-gling in the community.

The event offers everything for

free and is a family-friendly event.Over 20 different booths will

provide haircuts, dental check-ups, flu shots, medical appointments and health testing, foot care and hearing screening. There will be coat and clothing booths, wellness packages and lots of door prizes.

“We have been amazed by the generosity of businesses and pro-fessionals in Nelson,” said Ann Harvey, community coordinator of Nelson Committee on Home-lessness.

“The amount of local support and engagement has been incredi-ble and it is absolutely what makes this great event possible.”

Guests can enjoy hot soup, baked goods, fresh fruit, beverages and more in the cafe area. Profes-sionals will offer massage, physio, Reiki, acupuncture and reflexol-ogy. There will be a kid’s corner of activities, face-painting and child-minding to free parents to access the other resources avail-able. Art activities for all ages will be offered too.

Service providers can help peo-ple search for housing, seek em-ployment, provide advocacy, and help with government forms and problems. Information and sup-port services will be offered for seniors, women and youth.

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Leo Grypma of the Nelson Fire and Rescue Department, at a previous Community Con-nect Day in Nelson. The fire truck will be there again this year, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Retirement partyShe has spent 19 years representing

the citizens of Nelson on city council. She worked with five mayors. There were meetings too numerous to count — on everything from recycling to cul-tural development to the RDCK. If she never has to attend another meeting, that would be just fine with her.

Nelson city councillor Donna Mac-donald is retiring, and this time it’s for keeps.

To honour her many years of ded-ication to the community, Osprey is inviting Nelsonites to “set her free” at a retirement celebration on Monday November 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Adventure Hotel.

The evening will feature tributes and music, entertainment and spe-cial guests. It will also be a fundraiser for Osprey Community Foundation, the local charitable foundation which Macdonald helped to establish in 2000 during a brief hiatus from city council.

In lieu of flowers or gifts, Macdon-ald wants everyone to come out, enjoy themselves, and make a donation to Osprey’s Community Fund.

“I love Osprey and all it has done and

will forever do for our community,” Macdonald says. “There’s no better way to celebrate my retirement from poli-tics than gathering for a fun party and giving a big boost to the Community Fund.”

Locals donating their time and tal-ents during the evening include Nelson cultural ambassadors Corazon, Lucas Myers and Anne DeGrace; musicians Bessie Wapp and Clinton Swanson; for-mer Nelson Star and Nelson Daily News editor Bob Hall; Nelson city manager Kevin Cormack; fellow Osprey found-ing director Marty Horswill; and other special guests.

Jocelyn Carver will emcee the event. There will be food and a cash bar, ad-mission is free, and donations are en-couraged. No tickets are required, but Osprey asks those planning to attend to RSVP so that organizers know how many to expect. Call 250-352-3643 or [email protected].

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Neil Murdoch DivisionTEAM GP W L T OTL PNelson 23 14 6 2 1 31 Castlegar 24 13 7 1 3 30Beaver Valley 23 12 6 1 4 29Spokane 24 12 9 0 3 27Grand Forks 22 7 13 1 1 16

Eddie Mountain DivisionTEAM GP W L T OTL PFernie 21 16 4 0 1 33 Golden 25 12 10 0 3 27Kimberley 23 12 9 0 2 26Creston Valley 23 11 8 1 3 26Columbia Valley 24 5 15 0 4 14 Okanagan/Shuswap Conference

Doug Birks DivisionTEAM GP W L T OTL PKamloops 23 14 7 0 2 30Sicamous 25 13 11 1 0 27100 Mile House 22 12 8 0 2 26Revelstoke 23 9 10 2 2 22Chase 23 7 10 2 4 20

Okanagan DivisionTEAM GP W L T OTL POsoyoos 25 20 4 0 1 41Princeton 23 12 7 2 2 28Summerland 20 12 7 0 1 25 Kelowna 24 8 13 2 1 19N. Okanagan 24 3 18 1 2 9

Leaf LeadersPLAYERS GP G A PRobson Cramer 20 8 17 25Rayce Miller 21 10 13 23Matt MacDonald 20 7 16 23Aaron Dunlap 19 10 8 18Michael Crawford 18 3 16 19Patrick Croome 21 4 10 14Nolan Percival 21 6 9 15Darnel St. Pierre 17 5 7 12Austin Lindsay 18 6 4 10Dylan Williamson 9 7 6 13Timothy Nichols 17 2 8 10Aidan Geiger 17 5 4 9Aaron Brewer 19 3 5 8Branden Chow 20 4 3 7Drew Carter 17 4 2 6Samuel Weber 16 3 2 5Austin Seaman 21 1 5 6Blair Andrews 9 1 4 5

GOALTENDERS GP W-L-T AVG SV%Joey Karrer 2 1-0-0 2.18 .937 Adam Maida 12 5-5-1 2.99 .879

Leafs hang on to top spotA weekend split, coupled with a forfeit, narrows Nelson’s lead to one point

Kevin MillsNelson Star

The race for first place in the Neil Mur-doch Division of the KIJHL is tighter than ever, but the Nelson Leafs are still hanging on to top spot.

The Leafs split a pair of weekend road game, losing 6-4 to Castlegar on Saturday then bouncing back to defeat Beaver Valley 4-1 on Sunday to maintain a one-point lead over the second place Castlegar Rebels.

Beaver Valley sits in third place, just two points behind Nelson.

Saturday’s game against the Rebels was a tought loss for Nelson.

The locals fell behind fast allowing the first three goals on just three shots.

Goaltender Adam Maida struggled and was pulled from between the pipes after the Rebels Darren Medeiros, Bryan Lu-bin and Tyler Barrett all found the back of the net.

Nelson’s Patrick Croome scored to make it 3-1 after one period.

Castlegar had the only goal of the middle frame as Medeiros popped in his second of the game.

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it 4-2 but the Rebels quickly regained a three-goal cushion thanks to Medeiros’s hattrick goal.

Cal Owens scored again for the Rebels to

put the contest out of reach.Goals by Nelson’s Rayce Miller and Rob-

son Cramer made the final score more re-spectable.

“I actually thought we outplayed them dramatically throughout the whole game,” said Leafs head coach Dave McLellan.

“We battled back in the third too, but we didn’t get the result. It’s pretty tough to come back from 3-0.”

The coach said mistakes on the ice cost his squad on several occasions.

“To be honest, I don’t think they (the Reb-els) earned a single goal. We gift-wrapped them for them.”

The following day, the Leafs traveled to Fruitvale to take on the Beaver Valley Ni-tehawks.

This time it was Nelson that scored early,

thanks to powerplay goal by Miller.The 1-0 lead held up until the second

period when the Nitehawks tied the game, thanks to a marker by Ross Armour.

It was all Nelson after that.Cramer gave the Leafs a 2-1 lead before

the end of the second. Third period goals by Austin Lindsay and Darnel St. Pierre sealed the victory for Nelson.

Joey Karrer was strong in net for the Leafs, stopping 36 of 37 shots.

“We played a really solid game. It was a tough fought game, both teams played really well.”

The coach said goaltending was a key factor in the win.

“We got excellent goaltending, it made a big difference,” said McLellan.

Overtime:The Leafs lost two points after the KIJHL

stripped the local club of a win for using an inelegible player.

McLellan said the whole situation was an oversight.

“We understood that BC Hockey was going to place him on our roster.”

The player, who was not named, has been practising with the squad and played in one game. However he was never carded to play.

McLellan said he has now been registered and will be added to the roster this week.

“It is what it is, we’ll just move on.”

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Nelson Minor Hockey’s peweee house team host-ed a 12-team tournament this weekend, and came out of with two wins and two losses. Coach Dean Centrone said the Leafs were in top-form.

“It was a great weekend. The kids improved every game,” said Centrone. “This is one of the biggest

tournaments for Nelson Minor Hockey. We had teams from all over.”

Teams traveled from communities across the interior of BC, including Creston, Castlegar, Kelowna, and the Tri-Cities of Washington State, to play at the Nelson and District Community Centre arena.

“They were doing everything that we have been

Peewees take seventh at Nelson tourney

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Gordon Hollett, 11, prepares for a line change during a game against the Kelowna Spartans on Sunday morning.

The Nelson Leafs peewee house team won two games and lost two on their way to a seventh place finish in the 12-team tournament. Coach Dean Centrone said the boys’ performance was top-rate.

working on in practice, from clearing our zone, battling for the puck, great passing and some beauty goals.”

The four Leafs’ MVPs of the tour-nament were Ben Thast, Callum Cut-ler, Nikko Lazier and Josh Marsden.

The first game pitting the team against the Castlegar Giants, result-ing in a 4-1 loss.

“Our goal was scored by Callum Cutler. MVP was Ben Thast. Ben played amazing as this was his fourth game ever as a goalie,” he said.

The second game was played against the Tri-Cities Thunder. The Leafs thrashed their opponents with a 4-1 victory.

Next they faced the Kelowna Chiefs. The game was a neck-to-neck race, resulting in a heartbreaking 5-4 loss.

“Game three was a thriller: down by three with six minutes to go, the kids turned it on, scoring two goals a couple minutes apart,” said Centrone.

“Then, with two minutes left, two kids battling for the puck, we take a

penalty. They didn’t give up though. They kept working right ‘til the end.”

Nick Haydu, Seamus Boyd, Jack Centrone and Callum Cutler scored during the game.

Finally the Leafs went up against the Kelowna Spartans for seventh place on Sunday.

“The kids were tired and sore but played the best game of the tourna-ment.”

They won 4-0, with Callum Cut-ler scoring two goals and Pax Ar-rowsmith and Seamus Boyd contrib-uting one apiece.

“This was Josh’s best game of the season,” said Centrone. He praised the entire team’s performance.

“Basically, they were working on positional play, trying to get the puck out of our end. They were moving the puck forward and working hard,” he said.

In the final, Creston beat the Grand Forks Grizzlies 4-3 in overtime to win the tournament.


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Sports Day in Canada on No-vember 29 provides the perfect day to recognize the difference sport makes in our community.

Of course, you know it’s not just in our community when you get national backers such as RBC Canada, CBC and ParticipAC-TION.

Locally, Nelson is making the most of the event by ensuring there’s something for everyone and includes recognition, partic-ipation, education and of course, fun!

Friday, November 28 is Jersey Day. This means everyone is invit-ed to brighten up the office, class-room or activity by wearing your favourite team jersey for the day.

Add the challenge of throwing in a buck to the kitty to donate to KidSport-Nelson while you’re at it. (Collect the cash and take to the KidSport/Sports Council office (new location at the Youth Center on Lake Street).

Added bonus: wear your jersey to the Community complex to be entered in the draw for a Nelson Leafs jersey.

n Volunteers are the mainstay of community sport. With that in mind 10 local folks are being rec-ognized at the Community Sport Hero Awards for their outstand-ing contribution to their sport of choice.

In every case each person has dedicated their time for as long as five to 10 years and some even more. Please join us in thank-

ing these tireless volunteers (for names go to nelsonsports.ca) by attending the awards at The Ad-venture Hotel, November 28 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Pre-purchased tickets ($15) must be bought and are available at Sports Council office until Thursday, November 20. Tickets include refreshments and keynote speaker Eric Sinker from ViaSport / Canadian Sport for Life.

n National Coaching Certi-fication Program (NCCP) has been redeveloping some of their courses to align with the Canadi-an Sport for Life model. New to the program is the Fundamental Movement Skills workshop that promotes development of the ba-sic skills toward physical literacy.

This fun workshop is being offered on Saturday, November 29 from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the

chamber meeting room on Hall Street.

The cost is $15 and is perfect for the new coach, early childhood workers, or parents wishing to learn new skills to help the de-velopment of their own children.

Please pre-register at thelocker.coach.ca/Event/Detail/5060245 or call Kim at 250-352-3989 for more info.

n The Sports Day, November 29 Try-it activities take place between 1 and 4 p.m. both the curling club and the squash club (above the Royal on Baker) are hosting a free open house where you can try out the sport for fun.

Meanwhile there will be vari-ous activities to try at the Nelson Youth indoor soccer facility also for free. There will be a loonie/toonie fee at the NDCC facili-ty between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. (skate/shinny/swim).

Get your try-it passport stamped for each sport you try throughout the afternoon and be entered into the draw for a NDCC sponsored one month pass.

n And by the way, we moved.The Nelson Sports Council

and KidSport office is now locat-ed at the Youth Center at 608B Lake Street (ground level, far right door). Same phone number though — 250-352-3989, same email [email protected] and same mailing address Box 1190, Nel-son, V1L 6H3.

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Nelson cashspiel setNelson will be hosting it’s annual

curling cashspiel from November 21 to 23.

The event will see 16 teams compete for over $10,000 in prize money. Local businesses and merchants have been generous with donations and this spiel is becoming the premier event for SouthEastern BC.

The field includes mens’ and women’s rinks from around the Kootenays and Okanagan, includ-ing several former BC champions.

Games start Friday at 6 p.m. with curling all day Saturday and Sunday.

The finals for all events are on Sunday at 2 p.m. The event is free to the public and people are en-couraged to come down and watch some great local curling.

Details can be found at nando99.shawwebspace.ca.

Nelson will also be hosting the

East-West Kootenay Men’s play-downs on December 5 to 7. This event will qualify two teams for the

provincial playdowns. The public is encouraged to come out and support their local teams.

Curling club to host $10,000 event

Last year’s winning team was made up of T.J. Perepokin (skip), Deane Horn-ing (third), Tyler Orme (second), Don Freschi (lead) and Kevin Nesbitt (fifth).

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It is with profound sadness I announce the passing of my son Michael Damian Dowkes. Born in Nelson, BC on August 28, 1978, Michael passed away suddenly on November 6, 2014 in Kamloops, BC where he spent most of the last years of his life. Mikey was only 36 years old and will be dearly missed.

Gone from us but leaving memories death can never take away.

Memories that will always linger while upon this earth will stay.

Michael is survived by his Mom Barbara-Jean Kuntzemann, his Dad Peter Dowkes, his brother Cameron Dowkes, his niece Airi-Jean Barton-Dowkes, several Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and many, many friends.

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He is predeceased by his sister Olivine Spence(Harold) and survived by his sister Norma Hougen(Mel) and brothers Gordon(Claire) and Don.

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The proposed duration of the PMP is from January 15, 2015 to January 15, 2020.

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DEVELOPMENT OF A PEST MANAGEMENT PLANApplication #: NELSON HYDRO WP PMP 2014

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The pest management methods proposed for use include stubbing (non-chemical), pole replacement (non-chemical), insecticide use for ant control, and the use of wood preservative pesticides. The use of pesticides is intended within the area to which the PMP applies. The common name and examples of the trade names of the pesticides proposed for use under this plan include: bendiocarb (Ficam), copper naphthenate (C -Nap), sodium uoride copper naphthenate (Cop-R-Plastic), copper naphthenate borax (CuRap 20), metam sodium (Woodfume), disodium octaborate tetrahydrate (Tim-Bor Professional), disodium octaborate ( mpel Rods ), and disodium octaborate boric acid (CobraRod). Application methods include: external bandages, internal liquid injection, internal rod placement and low-pressure backpack sprayer.

The proposed duration of the PMP is from January 15, 2015 to January 15, 2020.

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Andrew Jones, author of Veterinary Secrets: Natural Health for Dogs and Cats with his dogs Lewis and Jessie.

Grief support offered

Tamara hyndNelson Star

Nelson resident and former vet Dr. Andrew Jones’ book Veteri-nary Secrets: Natural Health for Dogs and Cats has been doing well since it was published in August.

Jones said his book appeals to “dog and cat owners who want to be more involved in their pet’s care, and those who want to know more about the array of alternative options for common dog and cat diseases.

“Veterinary fees are escalating, so clearly my book appeals to pet owners who are looking for ways to save on veterinary care.”

Jones said he wrote the book for many reasons.

“In part to clarify what really happened with me — the real reasons I am not practicing vet-erinary medicine, and the issues with my former governing body, the College of Veterinarians of BC (CVBC).”

Jones practiced veterinary medicine for 17 years before he resigned in 2010 after a $30,000 fine from CVBC for his market-ing practices of his online pet care business.

“During my years of veterinary practice I increasingly came to question how pets are conven-tionally treated, and many of my former Nelson clients were the ones to spark my interest.

“I saw the benefits of using nat-ural, holistic remedies, and there are very few books for pet owners detailing these.”

The heavy book opens with his story of being a banned veteri-narian before moving into three sections reviewing health of dogs and cats, healing the natural way and dog and cat diseases with at-home remedies.

A chapter of when to treat your

pet at home and when to seek vet-erinary care precedes brief chap-ters on healing with homeopathy, herbs, acupressure, and massage.

He officially released the book in the middle of August on Ama-zon with the goal of reaching the Amazon Best Seller List.

“The initial response was great, and I was fortunate to make it as the Number 1 Best Seller category in the competitive category of pet care,” he said.

“In total during that week I sold approximately 1,000 copies.”

It took Jones three years to complete his book and to finally published it.

“It is a long and challenging pro-cess to have a published book,” he said. “And my hats off to all the local authors, for it’s difficult. In some ways more difficult than being a vet.”

The book can be purchased lo-cally at Otters Books and Coles.

Helping pet ownersFormer Nelson vet shares secrets of good health

Community

The holidays can be a particularly difficult time for those who have lost someone through death. The cycle of loss through detachment, despair and anger to recovery can be a lonely, frightening and overwhelming experience, even when family and friends are trying to support us.

A grief support group provides a safe, supportive environment where the bereaved can learn that the way they are experiencing their grief is normal and individual.

Grief is a healthy response to loss that needs to be acknowledged and expressed before we can move on. Working through feelings about losses and sharing them with others who are also grieving decreases our isolation and loneliness while help-ing us learn how to experience and work through our pain.

Nelson and District Hospice Society is offering a free grief support series for anyone grieving the loss of someone through death.

The group will run for four weeks starting on

Thursday, November 27 until December 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. Pre-registration is required but atten-dance is free.

In addition to the next regular grief series, Nelson and District Hospice Society is also holding two drop-in grief support groups during the holidays, on December 23 and December 28, from 2-4 p.m.

And, as always, the group will host a Tree of Remembrance at the Chahko Mika Mall from De-cember 11 until December 18.

The tree gives everyone a chance to take a mo-ment out of their busy holiday shopping to stop and remember those loved ones they have lost over the years by placing a dove on the tree, and to access resources that can help them work with their grief through the holiday period.

For more information and/or to register for the next grief group, please call Nelson Hospice at 250-352-2337 or email [email protected]. All calls are confidential and donations are grate-fully accepted.


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Battling for robot supremacyTamara HyndNelson Star

Robots engaged in battle on Saturday with tracks rolling and wheels turning thanks to the ingenuity of their young and older creators.

The Nelson Tech Club held Robogames 2014 at Selkirk College drawing a crowd and with good reason. New to this year’s annual competition was the robo battles which saw the robots go head to head.

In preparation throughout the fall, youth, adults, teams and schools have been living, learning and loving robotics in anticipation of the big event.

All robots were created by an individual or team. And the level of sophistication was impressive. The competition had three main events: the obstacle course, special tricks and the robot battles.

Robots needed to maneuver the obstacle course as quickly and carefully as possible, navigating walls and corners which required logic. Creators were encouraged to be cre-ative demonstrating what made their robot awesome.

Judges also gave points for programming and logic. Whether it was Lego, Arduino or other materials, the robots were brought to life to navigate mazes, sense objects and even avoid obstacles.

Regardless of whether it was 3D print-ed, aerodynamically tested or built out of popsicle sticks, the goal was to make the robot useful, mechanically inventive and functional so judges also gave points for design and assembly.

The judges also assessed its ability to prob-lem solve and adapt to challenging situa-tions. As for tricks, one robot, created by

Klassen and Furman, sang Happy Birthday. Noah Graffran built a quad-copter

drone, for $150 that can drop things on target. Flown outside, his plan was to drop a chocolate bar on the judges. He said un-fortunately somebody ate it so he used a piece of plastic instead.

Graffran has been part of the Nelson Tech club for three years. “There are creative, smart people in a mixture of ages,” he said. “There are tons of cool, interesting projects.”

Dylan Peil has been with the club for 2½

years. He built his robot, named Munch, mostly out of recycled parts so the total cost was from $100 to $200.

He said he likes the tech club because “you can ask anyone anything. If they don’t have the answer, they point out the person who will likely know.”

The club gets together every Wednesday and Thursday night.

For more information visit robogames.ca or email tech club president Brad Pommen at [email protected].

Hundreds turn out for Robogames 2014 at Selkirk CollegeTamara Hynd photo

Tamara Hynd photo

Robogames 2014 winners: Youth (12 and under), First place: Jaida Klassen, 10, and Sydney Furman, 12); Second place: Carter Erickson, Ciaran Tanner and James Price, all 11. Student (12 and over): First place: Noah Rawick, 16; Second place: Noah Gaffran, Evan Forst, Matthew Holitzki and Reece Boulanger, all 14. The Nelson Tech Club organized the event held at Selkirk College on Saturday.

From left: Nelson Tech Club members Dylan Peil, 13, with his robot Munch, Noah Rawick, 16, and Noah Graffran, 14, with his drone quadcopter.


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