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CASTLEGAR NEWSBreaking news at castlegarnews.com
Humpty Dumpty had a Humpty Dumpty had a great timegreat timeSee Page 2See Page 2
A gunner’s returnA gunner’s return
See Page18 See Page18
Downtown Art Farm - part of the package
Castlegar cops fi ve CiB blooms in national program
Your Horoscope For the Week with Michael O’Connor inside the West Kootenay Advertiser
Th e City of Castle-gar has once again performed very well at the 2011 Nation-al Communities in Bloom competition.
“We achieved fi ve blooms again and we’re really happy about that,” said Castlegar Communi-ties in Bloom chair
Darlene Kalawsky. “We have increased our scoring which is a great indication that we are doing things in the right way. We’re very happy.”
Castlegar received 840 points out of 1,000. Th e city also received a special mention for the Downtown Art Farm volunteer proj-ect. “We’ve come up about 10 points,” said
Kalawsky. “I know it sounds minute but that’s how the scoring system works.”
Castlegar was a fi nalist in the 7,501-10,000 population category, which was won by New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Th e cities were judged on eight diff erent criteria: Flo-ral, Landscape, Urban Forestry, Environ-ment, Tidiness, Com-
munity Involvement, Turf and Groundcov-er, and Heritage.
“Th e report from the judges was very glowing of the City of Castlegar and what has happened in the city,” said Kalawsky. “Th e recommenda-tions that we received, it looks like just a lot of tweaking that must be done (to improve the city’s score). Nothing
majorly stands out in any of the categories.”
In their evaluation, judges Arlene Jan-zen (White City, SK) and Hugh Skinner (Roblin, MB) said: “One is introduced to both the imagina-tion and charm of Castlegar’s gardens and art displays at the Downtown Art Farm. Th is project embod-ies many principles
of sustainability and community-building, principles that Com-munities in Bloom encourages. Volun-teer groups strive to improve a community while involving people of diff erent ages. One goes on marvelling at the many whimsi-cal fi gures of the city’s downtown sculpture walk program.
CRAIG LINDSAYCastlegar News Reporter
Continued on P. 2
Scoring well in numerous categories, Castlegar, thanks to a hardworking group of volunteers, has solid reward for its CiB efforts.
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Election2
Cord Lafond can picture himself as part of Castlegar City Council and he has decided to make a bid for a council seat.
Lafond operates NIMBY Recycling and he’s lived in Castlegar for 14 years since moving from Terrace.
Th e outgoing La-fond has a routine that puts him in reg-ular contact with a wide assortment of people.
“I pretty much have my fi nger on the pulse of the commu-nity,” he said during an Oct. 31 conversa-tion with the Castle-gar News.
To supplement his community minded-ness he says he’s been
taking in council meetings on a regular basis for the past sev-eral years, gaining an appreciation of what’s involved in municipal government.
While not possess-ing formal experience on a civic council, he says he does have a solid background working with service
clubs and his church, and he has a strong desire to add his energy to the task of advancing the public agenda.
T h e f r e s h l y -committed candidate is largely sup-portive of the group which has
steered civic policy over the past couple of terms, and he feels he could be a con-structive member of the team.
He said he’s pleased with the fi -nancial situation the city is in although he sees room for overall improvement in the
governing process.“I think we could
be a little more pro-active yet,” he sug-gested.
He said he’s aware the public has a re-sponsibility in work-ing toward greater pro-activity.
“It would be good to get some of the discourse from the A&W aft er the fact – to the council cham-ber before the fact,” he said.
Th e extension of water and sewer ser-vice to the “Airport Lands” is what La-fond sees as the ma-jor issue presently be-ing faced by the city, although he does not see it as a source of contention.
“We have com-mitted to it,” he said, adding that it’s a nec-essary step toward
needed commercial growth.
Lafond pointed to the upcoming all-candidates forum being held Nov. 8 in regard to the Nov. 19 election, and in-dicated his support for more of that sort of thing, regardless of the election schedule.
“Why not have twice yearly ‘Town Hall’ sessions?” he asked, asserting the opinion that more public input should always be welcome.
“Th e main plank in my platform is that God gave me two ears and one mouth,” he stated.
“We need more pro-active commu-nication, otherwise we’re working on the agenda of seven people instead of the whole community.”
Candidate Lafond seeks chance to serveJIM SINCLAIRCastlegar News Editor
Cord LafondFile photo
It was a frighten-ing good time had by all Friday night at the Monster Mash Hal-loween party at the Castlegar Commu-nity Complex.
Th e fi rst-time event
was a fundraiser for the Castlegar Hospice Society.
“It was excellent,” said Suzanne Lehbau-er, executive director of the hospice society. “We had about 125 people attending. We raised about $2,000, which is excellent.”
Th ere were many
great costumes and judges Jim Sinclair from the Castlegar News and Chris McIn-tyre of Mountain FM had some tough deci-sions.
In the end, the fi rst place winner was Jake Zondervan, who was dressed as Humpty-Dumpty.
In second place was Ryan Benedict, decked out as “Mr. Roboto” and third place was Heather Anderson as “Her Royal Highness.”
“We’re going to continue having it as one of our yearly fundraisers because the response was so
positive,” said Leh-bauer. “People said the band was great and the food was good and that is was something that grown-ups could do at Halloween.”
Go to www.castle-garnews.com for more photos from the party.
CRAIG LINDSAYCastlegar News Reporter
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CommunityA look back to Halloween
“Kira” above, who does PR here at the Castlegar News had some clamp-on company for the occasion, while the unidentifi ed man (at right) at the Hospice Society’s Monster Mash last Friday was poppin-fresh.Jake Zondervan, as Humpty-Dumpty, below, took fi rst prize at the mash, while celebrators, lower right, gathered for a group shot.
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Election
At 24, Tyler Mad-docks is undoubtedly the youngest can-didate running for council in Castlegar.
“I think I could bring my youthful ex-periences and energy to the realm of rep-resenting the citizens of Castlegar,” he said. “I’m running to add a diff erent perspective and bring new ideas to the table.”
Maddocks, a lo-cal assistant fi nancial planner, was born and raised in Castlegar. He has lived here his whole life save for two years spent working at a marketing fi rm in Vancouver. He gradu-ated from Selkirk Col-lege in Castlegar with a Business Adminis-tration diploma.
“I have a strong de-sire to get youth more involved in all areas of community life,” said Maddocks.
“I think a good start to that would be incorporating social media and getting Fa-cebook well known so people can keep up-dated and voice their opinions.”
Maddocks thinks the current council is doing a very good job keeping the bud-get balanced. He also believes the sewer and water expansion to the airport lands is
important to the re-gion.
“Th e airport expan-sion is very important for economic devel-opment for the area,” he said. “Hopefully, we’ll see new jobs and business ideas for the area and a broader se-lection of businesses. So people don’t have to go to Trail, Nelson, Kelowna, Spokane for their shopping needs.”
Maddocks believes recreation is very im-portant to the people of Castlegar and area. He would have liked to have seen more public consultation into the recent recreation ex-pansion referendum at the Castlegar Com-munity Complex.
“I believe some-thing needs to be done,” he said. “I’ve heard Pioneer will have to shut down a
some point. I think we need two hockey rinks in this hock-ey-rich community. Maybe a newer, cost-effi cient arena.”
Maddocks also sees the water meter issue as important to lo-cal residents. “Th ere’s a lot of negativity around the issue,” he said. “People saying that we live in such an area rich with wa-ter but that’s not the issue. I don’t think they’ve been present-ed with the facts of how much water this area is using and how we’re missing out on infrastructure grants. And how the costs of cleaning and pump-ing the water are so high in this area.”
Maddocks said, there’s more about the meters that needs clarifi cation. “Th ey’re being installed in
people’s houses and it’s not clear who ex-actly owns the water meter,” he said. “If anything goes wrong with the water me-ter, it leaks or causes water damage, who’s responsible for pay-ing?”
Maddocks would like to see more con-sultation showing people that water me-ters could be a good idea and it would, on average, save them money.
Like many young people, Maddocks is involved with sports. He enjoys playing road hockey with his friends. He is also an avid guitar player.
Serving in offi ce in Castlegar is some-thing of a Maddocks family tradition. His grandfather (Colin Maddocks) and great uncle (Bob Mad-docks) served as may-ors in Kinnaird and Castlegar. His father, Richard, served as a councillor in Castle-gar several years back.
“I’m very aware I have a lot to learn in the fi eld, but given the chance to serve my community I will be willing to work with my colleagues and citizens of Castle-gar to bring my ideas forth and become the best representative of this city that I can be,” he said.
Maddocks hoping to follow family footsteps into council seat CRAIG LINDSAYCastlegar News Reporter
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Remembering “Uncle” Jack
Castlegar presents an interesting elec-tion scenario – interesting, in part, because the city doesn’t seem to have a particularly hot issue or issues generating election fe-ver in the community.
It’s not as though the concerns of the “crossroads” city are not serious and im-portant, it’s just that it may not be as easy to get passionate about issues like water and sewer service to the airport lands, as it would be, for instance, to ponder the pros and cons of a new open pit mine in the neighbourhood.
Th en again, from the outside looking in, other towns and cities where emotions are boiling over may be doing so over some is-sues that appear mundane... it all depends on the personalities involved.
To an observer with less than six months on the local scene there doesn’t appear to be a whole lot of animosity between can-didates. Th at being said, it does look like the race for mayor will turn out to be an exciting one.
Plenty of surprises may be in store at the All Candidates Meeting coming up at the Fireside Inn this coming Tuesday.
Th is is the sort of event that’s well worth attending, likely to demonstrate the very most important personal qualities of each candidate.
In-person debate is a high point in ev-ery election campaign, at every level.
Do yourself a favour and fi nd out how the competitors rise to the challenge.
Challenges come in all
sizes
Theresa HodgeOffice Manager
Jim SinclairEditor
Chris HopkynsPublisher
Cindy AmaralProduction Manager
Shaun CarriggProduction
Sandy LeonardProduction
Craig LindsayReporter
Kamala MelzackProduction
It’s comforting to me to know that there is extended family. Th ere are many cultures which endow upon family friends the name of uncle, or auntie.
To me, it is a privilege to be called auntie whether I am genetically linked to the person who calls me such, or not.
Growing up, I had several aunties and uncles. Th ey were family friends, and the tradition of calling close friends of our parents those aff ection-ate names continues.
Because my parents’ families were scattered from the east coast to the west, and from across the pond to Canada, the practice of revering close family friends and counting them as relatives was common.
I clearly remember Uncle Jack. He was a close friend of my parents. I think he must not have been any more than 25 or 30 when he came into my life.
Uncle Jack was a wonderful man. I clearly remember that his smile was the kind which would light up the darkest room. Th e door opened, and there was Uncle Jack. He was full of life and vi-brancy and without fail he would run to each of my siblings and give us a huge hug and kiss. Quite oft en he had little presents which he would fi sh out
of his pockets. Th e presents weren’t anything of great value, and yet every time he presented each and every one of us with his gift , that gift told us that each of the fi ve of us were special in our own and unique way.
If I remember correctly, Uncle Jack was single and his nieces and nephews were important to him. For some rea-son, I seem to remember that he was in the Canadian services. My folks were in the services, and so it stands to rea-son that he would be welcomed and embraced into my parents’ close circle of friends.
It’s curious to me that I don’t remem-ber Uncle Jack’s last name and that it’s likely that he has passed on, and yet his presence still embraces me.
I remember on Easter eve and Eas-ter morning Uncle Jack had come to visit us. Uncle Jack liked his rum. How an eight-year-old girl remembers that is beyond my reckoning, and yet I re-member that clearly as yesterday.
I remember how jovial he was and how he would grab me and my siblings around our waist and swing us about. I also remember how he would laugh at our antics. Each time he did so I be-lieved I was truly the smartest and wit-tiest girl in the world.
Uncle Jack was my hero. He was the
epitome of love, laughter and kind-ness.
One Easter morning I awoke to the sight or a huge, overgrown bunny sleeping on our couch.
“Is that you, Easter Bunny?” I asked.
“Of course I am,” the hung-over Eas-ter Bunny replied.
I believed him.Evidently Uncle Jack had found an
Easter Bunny costume the night before and in his rum-induced stupor came to crash at our house, unbeknownst to the children until the early Easter morning.
Th at was years ago, and now, I won-der what, exactly, happened to Uncle Jack.
A while ago, when I was going through some diffi cult family times, a wise person told me, “Karen, we all have many cups on our life. We fi ll those up in any way we can.”
At that point I wasn’t able to under-stand her message. I now do.
Family and friends are hard to de-fi ne. We are not the nucular family of the 50s. We choose to fi ll up our cups in various ways. Uncle Jack fi lled up my cup.
I’m happy for Uncle Jack and the les-son of the empty cups.
Off the Line - Karen Haviland
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In sympathy for a wounded goose
For the past two days my family has been nothing short of truamatized by a very unfortu-nate hunting incident that happened very close to home. We have a resident fl ock of geese that stays in our yard year-round.
Th ese birds have become a part of our every day life, and we all enjoy their company.
As we were going out the door to school Th ursday morning, to our great shock, we saw that one of the geese had an arrow sticking out of it. Needless to say, it was a very horrible sight for myself and my two young daughters.
To see this beautiful bird so cruelly shot and suff ering, trying to move around on one leg, while the other hung uselessly is not an image I will soon forget.
A huge thank you needs to go out to Con-servation Offi cer Th in for his understanding and compassion in dealing with this situation. I really could not believe that someone would actually try to shoot a goose with a bow and arrow, but I found out from CO Th in that it is indeed bow hunting season for Canada Geese. I understand that hunting is very popular, and I’m sure most hunters are very responsible and will only take a shot when they know it will kill the animal.
I know sometimes an animal moves and the shot can miss its precise intended target, but I am just asking all hunters to be extra careful before taking that shot.
An injured animal is a very sad thing, and I hope to spare anyone else the trauma that we have gone through.
Th ank you,
–Rebecca Voros, Robson
Election issues to consider
Voters are entitled to six votes to elect councillors, however, voters should only vote for the council-lors they want to elect even if you use fewer than six votes.
If you want to elect three candidates then you vote for three candidates. As any ex-cess use of votes could cancel out the ones you actually want to elect.
If you think you would like a change in council, you need to consider the pres-ent council’s record:
- Owner/Opera-tor of CMON high-speed internet service a dead end.
- Council scrapping the middle school and now the Pioneer Arena. Replaced with a $25 million debt to homeowners.
- Forced unhealthy smart water meters on homeowners with-out a referendum.
- Cost just for a sole service water line to Twin Rivers was $1 million, paid for by taxpayers.
- A cost of $4 mil-lion for water/sewer to the airport land.
Paid for by a tax in-crease.
- A new multi-million dollar water reservoir to allow an increased capacity to fi nance ongoing de-velopment, as yet to be added onto the taxpayer’s bill.
- A new long-term agreement to con-tinue to reduce indus-try’s local taxes comes at a time when Celgar Pulp received $57 mil-lion tax dollars. Th is was used to build and entirely pay for their new electric genera-tion plant, resulting in additional income stream for Celgar Pulp, a foreign corpo-ration, which now re-fuses to support even local taxation.
Homeowners will have another addi-tional tax increase to pay for the shortfall resulting from the in-dustry refusing to pay their fair share. Can families simply aff ord a council to continue in this direction?
Please get out and vote just for whom you want to elect.
–Mel McMullenCastlegar
Davin Esovoloff and brother Maxim carve a pumpkin at the Castlegar Community Com-plex Halloween fun festival on October 29. Craig Lindsay photo
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NOV. 1-8 - TWO FOR ONE ADULT BLUE JEAN SALE AT THE TREASURE SHOP - Th e Castlegar & District Hospital Auxiliary Treasure Shop located at 210 - 11th Avenue (across from the Library) is having a 2 for 1 adults only blue jeans sale from November 1 to November 8, 2011. Hurry on in for pick of the crop! Take a look at our monthly Silent Auctions with new off er-ings each month on display.
NOV. 3 - YOUTH MOVIE NIGHT - 6-8pm at the Castlegar Aquatic Centre. No adults allowed! For grades 5,6,7. Bring any fl oaty and watch a movie from the pool. Popcorn and drinks are available. Admission $3.50 per person.
NOV. 4/5 - ANNUAL KOOTENAY CO-LUMBIA CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR - 10am-8pm on Friday and 10am-5pm on Saturday. Over sixty craft ers, door prizes and bake tables.
NOV. 6 - FLEA MARKET AT ROB-SON HALL - 8am - 11am. Break-fast sponsored by Relay for Life “Moonlight Strollers”. Tables are $5 each. Call Kathy at 365-3796 to book. No Flea Market on Nov. 13. Flea Markets than resume weekly starting Nov. 20.
NOV. 8 -CIVIC ALL CANDIDATES FO-RUM - at the Castlegar Rec Centre from 6-8pm.
NOV. 13 - ANNIVERSARY SERVICE AT ROBSON COMMUNITY MEMORIAL CHURCH. - 2:00 p.m. Everyone welcome. New addition update - refreshments. It is available for rent. For more info please phone 365-6506
NOV. 18/19 - CLOSE TO MY HEARTS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CROPFriday November 18th 7pm-12am, Saturday November 19th 9am-9pm. At the New Life As-sembly Church Gymnasium$25 incl. lunch & refreshments, door prizes & layout etc...Making Memories Store will be on site. Register by November 11th with Elisabeth Robertsonor for more info [email protected]
NOV. 19 - CHRISTMAS TEA AND BAZAAR - St. David’s Anglican Church invites everyone to their annual Christmas Tea and Bazaar at the Legion Hall. Goes from 1pm-3pm. Enjoy door prizes as well as bake table and attic trea-sure table. Tickets $3.
NOV. 19 - CASTLEGAR SUNRISE 2000 ROTARY CLUB ANNIVERSARY DINNER AND DANCE at the Fireside Inn. Tickets are $40/person. Music by Th at Girl and Earl. See a Rotary Club member for tickets.
NOV. 22 - BLUEBERRY CREEK COM-MUNITY SCHOOL COUNCIL’S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING at 7:00pm in the Blueberry Creek Commu-nity School boardroom. Come out and support our school, programs and events. Numbers count so bring a friend! Refresh-ments provided.
NOV. 26 - CHRISTMAS TEA - Present-ed by Minto chapter #79, Order of the Eastern Star. From 1pm-3pm at the Legion Hall in Castlegar. Door prize, baking, craft s, food hamper, raffl e, and silent auction. Tickets $3.
NOV. 27 - SELKIRK COLLEGE CHIL-DREN’S FESTIVAL - at the Castlegar Community Complex. Th is will be the last time you will be able to make a gingerbread house, candle snowman and all of the other activities. Come and have FUN with us. 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. For more info. Phone Inga Lamont 250 365 7500
ONGOING: ENJOY THE GREY CUP IN GOURMET STYLE WITH SMOKED SALMON - Castlegar Sunrise 2000 Rotary Club are selling pre- packaged Smoked Lox Style Sockeye Salmon in support of the Outdoor Green Gym Project. Salmon may be purchased for $15.00 for ½ lb. or $25 for 1 lb. packages. Orders are being taken until Th ursday November 17th Delivery will be November 24th in time, for Grey Cup Weekend. Contact Brenda Balahura at 250-365-6912 or [email protected] to order.
ONGOING: TOASTMASTERS MEET-INGS - Th e local Toastmasters club, the Sentinel Speakers, meets from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Fireside Inn Castlegar on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Learn speaking skills, gain confi -dence and have some fun! Guests warmly welcomed. For more in-formation please call Mark Sirges at 250-368-2504 or Diane Cush-ing at 250-365-8336.
ONGOING: CASTLEGAR JUDO CLUB MEETS MONDAYS, THURSDAYS AT 6:15-8PM - At Twin Rivers El-ementary for Sept. 12 to May/June. Male or Female, ages 8 years and up. Registration at any meeting. Call senior sensei John Gibson 250-5763 or sensei James Welychko, 250-365-4920.
ONGOING: TWIN RIVERS CHORALE REHEARSALS are held every Th urs-day at 7 pm at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church (713 4th Street, Castle-gar, BC, V1N 2B7). If you love to sing and want to sing both clas-sical and contemporary music, come join the Twin Rivers Cho-
rale. Th e registration fee is $30 for the entire season and you do not have to be able to read music to join the chorale. FMI contact Sarah Currie at 250-304-2529 or [email protected].
ONGOING: CONVERSATION CLUB. Mondays 9:30 - 11 a.m. If Canada is your new home, come and meet others who have immigrated to Canada and spend time chatting and learning. ONGOING: ALPHA COURSE - WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE? - Come and join us on this journey of discovery as we look into the is-sues of fi rst order. Alpha Course is on Wednesday Nights begin-ning on September 28th at 7pm at the New Life Assembly 602 7 Street, phone 250-365 -5212. Dessert and coff ee will be served, the course is free, everyone is welcome.
ONGOING: SELKIRK WEAVERS’ AND SPINNERS’ GUILD GIFT SHOP - DEMONSTRATIONS AND DISPLAYS OF HANDWOVEN WORK. Open 10 - 4 p.m. June, Saturdays and Sundays. July - mid September, Wednesday to Sunday. Located within the Doukhobor Discovery Centre. Admission free to our shop. For additional information please email [email protected] or phone 250-365-8026.
ONGOING: THE WEST KOOTENAY FAMILY HISTORIANS SOCIETY meets at 7 o’clock on the fi rst Monday of each month (September to June) at Stanley Humphries Senior Sec-ondary School in Castlegar. New Members are welcome. For fur-ther information, contact Grace DeBiasio at 250.364.1426 or In-geborg Leavell at 250.367.0076. Th e November meeting will cover electronic book publishing your family history with open forum discussions on all family history and genealogy. Local family historians on hand to assist with questions and aid in research.
ONGOING: SHARING DINNER POT - Every Tuesday at 12noon at the Cadet Hall on 8th Avenue. No charge.
NOVEMBER SR. ACTIVITIES @ COM-PLEX - Mon. 10:00 Darts. 1:00 Whist, Tues: 9:30 Floor Curling & Carpet Bowling, 1:00 Craft s 7:00 Pool,Wed: 9:30 Floor Curl-ing, 7:00 Rummoli (Nov 2) Bin-go (Nov 16 Raspberry) Th urs: 9:30 Floor Curling (Nov 3 meet-ing) (Nov 17 2-4 Tea Dance) !:00 Bingo, Fiday: 1:00 Crib & Bridge, Sat: Nov 26 Soup Day 11:30-1:00, Dec 9 - Xmas Dance.
ONGOING: BEAUTIFUL BEGINNINGS. Pre and postnatal program 10:30 - 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, includes lunch, supplements, resources, workshops at Kootenay Family
Place.
ONGOING: CASTLEGAR A.A. MEET-INGS AT THE PIONEER ARENA. Sun. at 10 a.m. (phone Mike at 365-8302), Tues. at 7 p.m. (phone Dennis at 365-2738), Th urs. at 8 p.m. (phone Jim at 365-6216) and Sat. at 8 p.m. (phone Leonard at 365-7805.)
ONGOING: MEAT DRAW - EVERYONE WELCOME. Every Saturday. Royal Canadian Legion, 248 Columbia Ave. First draw starts 4 p.m. Free pool. Bring your friends and have an aft ernoon of fun.
ONGOING: USCC CULTURAL INTER-PRETIVE SOCIETY meets every Monday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Doukhobor Arts and Craft s Centre, 820 Markova Rd., beside the Brilliant Cultural Centre.
ONGOING: NEW SEASON STARTS OCT. 5TH - WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLUE-GRASS CIRCLE JAM AT BLUEBERRY CREEK SCHOOL. From 6:30- 9 p.m. Runs every second Wednesday. All levels of Bluegrass players welcome. For more info call Ruth at 250-365-5538.
ONGOING: TEENS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO ON A FRIDAY NIGHT? Blueberry school has a movie and gym night every Fri-day at 8 p.m. Free but bring $$ for candy, grades 6 and up. Info - call 365-7201.
ONGOING: BEAKS WILDBIRD REHA-BILITATION CENTRE MEETING Every 3rd Th ursday of the month 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Common Grounds coff eeshop in Castlegar. Our meetings are short and friendly. Contact BEAKS 250-365-3701. ONGOING: MORNING COFFEE CLUB - Fourth Wednesday of every month beginning on Septem-ber 28, morning coff ee party at Castlegar United Church (beside the Kinnaird Clinic) at 10:00 a.m. Come and enjoy a coff ee and meet new friends.
ONGOING: FAMILY FUN NIGHTS - Come for a fun time with activi-ties, books, art and theme nights. A healthy meal is provided. Rob-son Community School - 1st Wednesday of the month from 5:30–7:00 pm. Call Laurie at 365-5970 to pre-register. Off ered by the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy and Robson Commu-nity School.
ONGOING: AT THE COMMUNITY LEARNING PLACE YOU CAN GET FREE HELP with basic computers, read-ing and writing, citizenship, test preparation, and skills upgrad-ing. Th is program is off ered at the Castlegar & District Public Library on Tuesdays from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm. For more in-formation call 250.365.3336. Of-
fered by Columbia Basin Alliancefor Literacy.
ONGOING: BLUEBERRY PLAY TOLEARN PRESCHOOL currently hasspace for 3 year old children inthe Tuesday/Th ursday morningpreschool class. Th is programwill provide your child a warm,nurturing environment for yourchild to get ready for Kindergar-ten. Call 250-365-7201 for moreinformation.
ONGOING: MOTHER GOOSE - Cuddle,Connect and Communicate withyour 0-12 month old at the ParentChild Mother Goose program.Join us at the Castlegar and Dis-trict Public Library on Wednes-days at 10:30-11:30am startingOctober 12 until November 30.To register call 365-6611.
ONGOING: ROBSON AND BLUEBERRYSTRONGSTART CENTRES free earlylearning programs for parents/caregivers with young children.Join us for snack, art, stories,gym time, and music. RobsonStrongStart - Mon, Tues, Wed, &Fri 8:30-11:30am, Th urs 12:30-3:30pm. Blueberry StrongStart- Mon, Wed, Th urs, & Fri 8:30-11:30am and Tues 12:00-3:00pm.For more info call Alana at 304-6862 or 365-7201.
ONGOING: SCRABBLE CLUB - Comeout and play Scrabble on the 2ndWed. of the month at the Castle-gar Public Library - 6:30–8:00pm. All levels are welcome! Forinformation call Alana at 304-6862.
ONGOING: FREE ENGLISH CLASSES -Attend free English classes at theCastlegar Public Library on Tues-days and Th ursdays from 9-11am. All levels are welcome! Forinformation call Alana at 304-6862. Off ered by the ColumbiaBasin Alliance for Literacy.
ONGOING: 12 WEEK BIBLE STUDY FORWOMEN - Begins Friday, Sept. 30 at 7pm at New Life Assembly, 6027th Street, Castlegar. To register:Email [email protected] orcall 250-365-5212.
ONGOING: SEPTEMBER SR. ACTIVI-TIES @ THE CASTLEGAR COMMUNITYCOMPLEX - Mon. 10:00 Darts. 1:00Whist, Tues: 9:30 Floor Curling& Carpet Bowling, 1:00 Craft s7:00 Pool, Wed: 9:30 Floor Curl-ing, 7:00 Rummoli, Th urs: 9:30Floor Curling,1:00 Bingo, Friday:1:00 Crib & Bridge .
ONGOING: AL-ANON MEETS EVERYMONDAY NIGHT AL-ANON is for people whose lives have been af-fected by someone else’s drinking.Meeting every Monday 8 p.m. to9 p.m. at 2224 6th Ave. (KootenaySociety for Community Livingbuilding.) For more informationcall Donna 365-3168 or Eileen365-3674.
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Th e downtown is character-ized by sculptures, attractive, well-maintained trees, and colourful fl ower beds. Spirit Square in front of the new Castlegar City Hall and the linked green space in front of the Station Museum are beau-tiful gathering spaces in the downtown.”
We do need to work on a few areas such as environmen-tal sustainability in terms of communicating with the judg-es about what we have going, said Kalawsky. “Th e areas we would like to look at for next year - and this is all pending our budget and our involve-ment with our municipality - doing some work on our heri-tage conservation. Th at area was one of our lower scores. Th e other one would be envi-ronmental action.”
Kalawsky said that, unfortu-nately, due to some issues with travel, the judges were unable to be in Castlegar for as long as they would normally.
“I’m interpreting some of these scores as them not get-ting all the information when they needed,” she said.
Th e judges made several recommendations in the vari-ous categories that Castlegar Communities in Bloom (CiB) is hoping they can implement.
“We toured with them on the Brilliant Bridge and they suggested the Regional District of the Central Kootenay put information in a pamphlet so
self-guided walkers can learn more about the natural histor-ic site and it’s restoration,” said Kalawsky. “Th ey talk about an interpretive pamphlet that would talk about the unique forest environment in the Kootenay/Columbia region.”
Th e judges also recom-mended waste-proof, bear-proof receptacles all over the city, as well as a dog park at Millennium Park.
“Th ere are just recom-mendations they made to us, whether we act on them or not. Th ese are their opinions,” said Kalawsky.
Th e judges were very im-pressed by much of what they saw in Castlegar including the entrance to the airport, the downtown revitalization proj-ect, and the Adopt-A-Road program.
“Th ey thought the Adopt-A-Road program was very impressive in terms of all the groups and individuals that are involved,” said Kalawsky.
“We will take all the recom-mendations and present them to our Public Works Depart-ment,” said Kalawsky. “We might then take into consider-ation what might be a possibil-ity and what might not be.”
Kalawsky said that the com-mittee is always looking for citizen input in terms of mak-ing the city a better place to live.
“What the program strong-ly says is that our community is very active and very pro-active in doing what they’re
doing and they do it well,” she said. “We basically just need to tweak this program and en-courage more people to get in-volved with it. Basically, what we’re going to be looking at is how we can build on what we’ve already done so well.”
Communities in Bloom will be presenting the Five Bloom Certifi cate to Castlegar City Council on Nov. 7 at the regu-lar council meeting.
Currently, volunteers for CiB are planting bulbs around Castlegar and getting the beds ready for winter.
“We’re still driving and continuing to drive,” said Ka-lawsky. “Th e scoring is im-portant but the focus is ‘how will we make Castlegar better for the citizens?’ Th at’s why we keep going. We want more people to become aware of all the diff erent parts of the pro-gram so they can participate with us and make it happen.”
If anyone wants more in-formation on Castlegar CiB, please contact Darlene Kala-wsky at 250-365-2155 or by email at [email protected]. Residents can also stop by City Hall and leave their name and number.
“Th e Communities in Bloom committee thanks the members of our community who have participated this past year in our program,” said Kalawsky. “We invite any-one who is interested to get in touch with myself or City Hall. We’d be very happy to get them involved.”
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Come and Celebrate Your Success The Children’s Festival has reached their fundraising goal of $30,000 for an endowment to support Selkirk College students.
Food, Fun, Fantastic Family Event This is your last chance to participate in the ever popular Christmas crafts and games events, including: gingerbread houses, candle making, cake walk, fishpond, gift shop, and a special mystery station.
For more information contact Inga Lamont at 250.365.7500.
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