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Rossland city council is moving forward with a plan to increase water and sewer rates, but it can expect some opposition.

Two new bylaws would intro-duce increased pricing for water and sewer starting Jan. 1, 2016.

Council’s goal in implementing the bylaws is to make the two utili-ties self-supporting, and the City’s rational is that current rates don’t re� ect the true cost of operating the system, but that’s little comfort to those facing steep hikes come January.

Mike Williams, secretary of the Rossland Fraternal Order of Ea-gles, said the increased cost could make them consider closing down Canada’s oldest Aerie.

“� at would be an option that we’d be forced to look at,” he said.

� e new billing structure will charge customers based on a com-bination of their pipe size and us-age. While most homeowners will only see an annual � xed rate in-crease of about $16 for water and $74 for sewer, businesses are see-ing signi� cantly larger increases.

� e Eagles for instance will see an increase of about $1,536 for water and $2,436 for sewer. A total annual increase of about $3,972 or 570 per cent.

� e Eagles rent out the top � oor of the Aerie for dance classes, but Williams said they wouldn’t want to look at increasing rental costs for the space to meet costs.

“� at’s going to hurt the kids in the community that are dancing,” he said.

“And their parents,” added the club’s vice-president, who asked not to be named.

Neither of them want to see kids forced from dance because of increased costs being passed along.

Williams, the vice-president and a trustee all explained that the Eagles give revenue back to the community, and provide space for events. Bene� ts that will be im-pacted by increased costs.

� e Royal Canadian Legion will likely face similar increases, but president Doug Haladay didn’t see that there was much choice in the matter.

“We’re not excited about it, but we have to be practical and pay the bill,” he said.

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� e latest is-sue of Black Press’ popular lifestyles maga-zine Route 3 is now available on newsstands and at co� ee shops around the re-gion.

The cover story by Will Johnson looks at � eLineUp, a live show at Nelson’s Shambhala Hall hosted by Jenna Raider that mixes inter-views and performances. It also gives Selkirk College students experience at creating a TV show, as the segments are � lmed and posted online.

Sheri Regnier recounts the long history of the Trail Times, which turns 120 this year. Founded in 1895 by W.F. � ompson as the Trail Creek News, it has undergone several name and own-ership changes but has always been an integral part of the community.

Andrew Tripp takes us on a tour of Route 3 through the West Boundary, stopping at historic buildings and sites along the way, including the Lawless ranch, the Schorn house at Bridesville, the McArthur home in Greenwood, the Rock Creek Hotel, and St. Mary’s Church.

Betsy Kline writes about what might be Cas-tlegar’s greatest jewel: Millennium Park, which boasts soccer � elds, playground equipment, natural swimming pools, walking paths, and � ower beds. � e newest addition is the Celgar Pavilion, a multi-use facility featuring a covered picnic area and concession.

Trisha Elliott talks to the founder of Su� erfest, the annual race between Nakusp, Kaslo, and New Denver that includes trail runs, mountain biking, cyclocross, and duathlon events. Cre-ated six years ago, the event continues to grow. Participants have tripled and there are plans for a new winter triathlon.

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Casa Alpina will see the same increase to its annual fixed water rate as the Eagles, but will see a slightly higher increase in it’s sewer rate (up by $2,548) since its cur-rently paying less than the Eagles for this utility.

Part of the intent of the new billing struc-ture is to “charge fair and equitable rates for all customers based on

an easy to understand structure.”

But whatever the ra-tionale, Avtar Powar, owner of Casa Alpina, still isn’t sure how he’ll manage the increase, given his motel has had 25 per cent fewer book-ings this year than last year.

He said that given his occupancy rate and the fact that there’s no lon-ger a restaurant in the motel, the water pipe he has for his building is

bigger than needed. But to put in a smaller pipe, thereby reducing his annual fixed fee, would cost him even more up front.

Documents released before the regular coun-cil meeting on Tuesday, also told Rosslanders to expect an 11 per cent in-crease to water rates each year until 2030, and then a three per cent increase until 2037. Sewer rates are expected to increase 15 per cent per year for

the next eight years, and then increase by five per cent until 2036.

At the regular coun-cil meeting on Sept. 28, council did the first two read throughs of the two new bylaws, and direct-ed city staff to prepare the two bylaws for pub-lic consultation.

At Tuesday’s meet-ing, staff returned with a plan for a public meet-ing that will be held on Thursday, Nov. 12 at the Seniors’ Hall.

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A week before the federal elec-tion, the organizers behind the Community Voters’ Challenge released the voter turnouts from 2011.

In total nine municipalities and five electoral areas agreed to participate in the challenge, though the electoral areas have been grouped with nearby mu-nicipalities for the challenge re-sulting in nine contestants.

Rossland’s voter turnout in the 2011 election was 69 per cent, bested by only two competitors, Slocan (73 per cent), and Kaslo and area D (70 per cent).

Since the winner is the com-munity that increases its voter turnout by the biggest percent-age, not necessarily the commu-nity with the highest voter turn-out, it could still be anybody’s race, so Rosslanders should be prepared for some fierce compe-tition not only from Slocan, and Kaslo and area D, but from all competitors.

The best way to assure vic-tory is to ensure that no voter is left behind. Voters should be prepared to offer rides to polling stations, form voting parties, and attest for any voters without the necessary ID.

The whole point of the chal-lenge is to get more people out to vote, hopefully by getting them excited about it.

“We think [the Community Voters’ Challenge] has added a whole bunch of optimism in a time ... [when] people look at politics ... either apathetically or with a cynical view,” said Mike Chapman, one of the organizers. “We feel that there’s been a whole bunch of excitement generated, enthusiasm generated here, and we’re just really, really pleased with the numbers.”

So far the prize for the winner is bragging rights, but the Com-munity Voter’s Challenge has also posted a YouTube video on its Facebook page at facebook.com/CommunityVotersChallenge?fref=ts summoning Rick Mer-cer to visit the winning commu-

nity and “bless them with a Rick Rant of his own.”

Advanced poll voter turnout across the country is up from 2011, giving some hope that overall voter turnout may be up as well.

Those who didn’t vote in the advanced poles will have from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 19 to do so.

Get ready, get set, vote!Community Voters’ Challenge heats up as election day approaches

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2011 voter turnouts:• Slocan—73%

• Kaslo and Area D—70%

• Rossland—69%

• New Denver—67%

• Nelson and areas E and F—64%

• Fernie—64%

• Nakusp—62%

• Grand Forks—62%

• Castlegar and areas I and J—61%

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Chef John Premier (right) and sous-chef Ryan Tucker (left) prepared Saturday night’s Thanksgiv-ing feast, and Danielle Hachey (second from left) and Paul Girardi (third form left) provided table service. Ron Halliday, a local jazz musician, provided music during the incrEDIBLE Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday. Photos by Chelsea Novak

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� e Old Fire Hall was � lled with music, mingling and great food on Saturday night for the inaugural incrEDIBLE � anksgiving dinner.

� e dinner was hosted by the Sustainable Lo-cal Agriculture Committee of the Lower Columbia Community Development Team Society (LCCDTS) to raise awareness of the economic potential of agri-culture in the area.

“We have a lot of land here that is suitable for de-velopment, and we have a lot of land—just in Areas A and B we have about 15,00 hectares—that is suit-able with our current climate for a cash crop,” said Gina Ironmonger, chair of the committee. “And by cash crop I’m talking about hops, and grapes, and berries and that type of thing.”

All of the food for the evening was sourced lo-cally, and was prepared by local chef John Premier.

Premier runs his own catering company, Premier Chef Services, and moved into the Old Fire Hall two months ago.

“It’s like my catering base, my headquarters,” said Premier.

Premier prepared a number of appetizers for the evening, as well as a four course meal.

� e main entree was goat from Moon Gravity Farms in Rossland braised in red wine from Co-lumbia Gardens Vineyard and Winery in Fruitvale, roasted potatoes from Earthy Organics in Fruitvale, and roasted beets and carrots from Soahc Estates in Fruitvale.

Soahc Estates and Columbia Gardens Vineyard

and Winery were both also behind the bar for the evening, serving glasses of wine and selling bottles to take home.

Dessert was pumpkin pie made from Earthy Or-ganics pumpkins, and Rossland resident Samantha Troy also brought an additional dessert, cricket car-rot cake.

Troy made the mini cakes using cricket pow-der to replace one-third of the recipe’s � our. She farmed the crickets at home, and is starting her own business, Kootenay Mountain Cricket Company.

Her primary product will be the cricket powder, but she also hopes to supply crickets to local chefs so they can experiment with di� erent dishes.

Fletcher Quince, a member of the LCCDTS, sup-plied the location for the evening.

Quince recently leased the Old Fire Hall from Kootenay Savings and is starting up the Rossland Social Club. His plan is to invite a number of local businesses, of which Premier Chef Services is the � rst, to use the space as a social hub.

“� e space is intended to bring a whole group or series of sole-proprietor or non-pro� t or corpo-rate level groups together to serve the individual purposes of the space in a gestaltian model, in the sense that by putting them all together we can o� er something that’s greater than the parts can on their own,” said Quince.

He’s also hoping to bring in a group to organize live music performances and hopefully broadcast live from the space.

Music for the evening was provided by local jazz musician Ronald Halliday.

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� e October 8 edition of the Rossland News mistakenly stated that the Rossland Sacred Heart CWL Fall Tea and Bazar will be held at the Kiro Wellness Centre in Trail and that the West Kootenay Ostomy Support Group will be held at the Sacred Heart Church, when

in fact it is the other way around.� e News apologizes for this

error and any inconvenience it may have caused.

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Rossland would like to thank Chel-sea Novak who attended the 100

Year Anniversary Open House on September the 26 and submitted the photo and article relating to the event.

� e door prize, a lovely original painting done by Charlene Barnes of Rossland was won by Dina TeB-ulte of Fruitvale.

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� ere was a � urry of excite-ment in the B.C. legislature last week, as Delta South independent MLA Vicki Huntington released documents suggesting that a mul-tinational manufacturing company continued to buy up B.C. farms for carbon o� sets a� er they said last June they would stop.

False alarm, as it turns out. Ag-riculture Minister Norm Letnick

clari� ed that three more farms in the Peace and Cariboo region had indeed been bought, but the com-pany was merely following legal advice to close deals on farms that it had already agreed to purchase.

� e company, British-based cleaning product and pharmaceu-tical maker Reckitt Benckiser (RB) con� rmed this. A company o� cial reiterated that its program to buy farms and replant them with trees is suspended.

By the time the B.C. government became aware of this global public relations scheme, thanks to the work of NDP MLA Lana Popham and others, about 10,000 hectares of farmland was already planted with seedlings. RB initially said they were buying up abandoned and unproductive farms, but local government o� cials disputed that.

RB soon realized that under-mining already precarious farming communities was going to provide

the opposite of the green public-ity they sought, at least in B.C. � e company told me it is now looking to switch its carbon o� set program to replanting forest areas depleted by pine beetle and � re.

I’ll believe that when I see it, but on the face of it, this sounds al-most as questionable as converting farmland back to forests. Pine for-ests need � re to regenerate, so � res have been part of the regeneration of the ecosystem since the retreat of the last Ice Age.

Beetle-kill areas are already coming back, and they were never completely denuded in any case, so the notion of manual planting these areas seems impractical. Most are now criss-crossed with deadfall and all but impassible.

Another situation that received little public attention was a report issued late this summer by the B.C. Forest Practices Board about forest stewardship plans.

� e board reviewed 43 steward-ship plans from all regions of B.C., prepared as required under provin-cial law by forest tenure holders on Crown land. � ey are supposed to deal with things like where roads go and how streams are protected.

� is is the management system put in place in 2003, when the B.C. Liberal government changed its ap-proach to forest management. Gone was the NDP’s infamous seven-vol-ume “Forest Practices Code,” which attempted to micromanage every detail of a timber licence, right down to inspecting for litter le� at a logging site.

In came “results-based” forest management, where licence hold-ers had to produce a plan show-ing stream protection and other values. � e Forest Practices Board has found these plans o� en aren’t good for much, although results are generally good when they follow up with on-the-ground audits of actual

timber harvest areas.� e investigation found that

many of the plans cover “vast and overlapping areas of the province, and were written using legal lan-guage that makes them very dif-� cult for public understanding or review.” Little has changed since a similar � nding in 2006.

During that time, the forests ministry was turned into Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Op-erations, with greatly increased re-sponsibility over wildlife, mining, gas drilling and so on.

Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald, who trav-eled the province as NDP forests critic in recent years, says the prob-lem now is there just aren’t enough people on the ground to assess what’s going on in our huge expanse of Crown land.

Meanwhile the city media cov-ers professional protesters issuing demands about the Walbran Valley.

Editor: RCAC Wants You!� e Rossland Council for Arts and Culture

is looking for volunteers to join our board. RCAC has been “enhancing lifestyles

through creative expression” since being founded in 1998. � e group’s mission is to provide, promote and further cultural and ar-tistic opportunities that enhance the quality of life in Rossland.

If you are passionate about the arts and have some time to dedicate to help us achieve that mission we would love to hear from you.

RCAC has many ongoing projects and programs, all facilitated by our dedicated Board members. You could be involved in implementing one or more of these exciting initiatives.

RCAC’s Downtown Sculpture project brings art to the main street of Rossland. � e Ravens outside the library, Rusty the Horse, Two Bears Playing, and Sphere of In� uence outside Revolution Cycles have all been se-lected and installed thanks to RCAC’s Sculp-ture committee.

Have you seen the “Poetrees” on the KC trail? � is is part of RCAC’s Random Acts of Culture initiative, which focuses on the cre-ation or encouragement of spontaneous art

events in unusual or unconventional spaces. � e RCAC Performance Series is in its

11th season of bringing high quality perfor-mances to Rossland. Volunteering as part of the Performance Series committee you would help organize this successful program and assist with bringing more of these artists to town.

RCAC has a special relationship with the Rossland Miners Hall. For the past 15 years, RCAC has been leading improvements to the Hall that support performance; these improvements include upgrading of acous-tics, sound equipment, lighting and audi-ence seating. Now, in partnership with the City of Rossland, RCAC is spearheading a major renovation- turning the spacious attic of the Miners Hall into useable space for the arts and the community, as well as restoring the exterior and front façade of the building. � is is a major project that will require a lot of volunteer help. If you are passionate about this community hall there are many ways you could help support this project.

Other RCAC programs include our Youth Film Programming, and the Joe Hill Co� ee House. Should you have ideas for new and di� erent programs or ventures we would be interested to hear about those as well. We are

always looking for new perspectives.Organizations bene� t from volunteers,

because volunteers make programs run but volunteers receive many bene� ts as well. Ac-cording to helpguide.org volunteering can:

• help you make new friends and contacts• increase your social and relationship

skills• increase self-con� dence• help you stay physically healthy• teach you valuable job skillsIf that isn’t enough, volunteering makes

you happy! According to a study in Social Science and Medicine: compared with peo-

ple who never volunteered, the odds of be-ing “very happy” rose 7% among those who volunteered monthly, 12% for people who volunteer every two to four weeks, and 16% for those who volunteer weekly!

If you love the arts and have some time to dedicate to the arts in our community we would like to hear from you. To � nd out more about how to get involved and become part of our team as a board member or volunteer please contact RCAC President Renate Flem-ing at renate� [email protected].

� e Rossland Council for Arts and Culture

Questionable plan for beetle-kill areas

COLUMN BY TOM FLETCHER

Letters

The 2015 Canadian federal election on Oct. 19 is fast approaching, so we’ve put together a short guide to help read-ers get ready to hit the polls.

Getting registeredThe easiest way to

check whether or not someone is already reg-istered is to visit elec-tions.ca. For those who need help using the website, or simply need access to a computer, the Rossland Library’s staff are happy to help. For those who aren’t yet registered, or who have recently moved, the li-brary can also offer help with online voter regis-tration.

Those who can’t reg-ister online can register by mail by contacting their local Elections Canada office, or can

register at the office in person. The closest local Elections Canada office to Rossland is in Trail in Waneta Plaza, and the office’s hours are as follows:

Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The office will also have extended hours during Thanksgiving weekend:

Saturday, Oct. 10: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 11: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The deadline for voter registration is Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 6 p.m. local time.

Where and when to vote

Rossland residents can vote at the advance polls from Friday, Oct. 9 to Monday, Oct. 12, from noon to 8 p.m. at the Rossland Summit School, or on election day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the school.

Alternatively, votes can be cast by mail or at the Elections Canada office, but those who

wish to do so must ap-ply for those options before Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 6 p.m.

What to bringVoters must prove

their identity and ad-dress, which requires ID. The best option is to bring a piece of picture ID with a current ad-dress, which can include a driver’s license or BC ID card.

For those who don’t have a piece of ID show-ing a current address, there’s also the option to bring two pieces of ID, one with a photo, and the other with a current address. This could include a driver’s license and utility bill, for instance, but for a full list of options visit elections.ca.

In the event that someone doesn’t have any ID showing their current address, they can also bring two pieces of ID with their name, and someone who can vouch for their address. That person must have proof of identity and address, be registered in the same polling divi-sion, and can vouch for only one person.Deciding how to vote

It’s all very well to be registered, have ID and know where to show up on election day, but for those who are voting for the first time, or those who feel they don’t fol-low current events, de-ciding how to cast their ballot can seem daunt-ing. Luckily there are a number of resources

available.In Canada, we don’t

vote directly for our na-tion’s leader the way they do in the US. Instead we vote for the member of parliament who will rep-resent our electoral dis-trict. Some Canadians prefer to base their vote on the individual candi-date who they think will best represent their rid-ing, while others prefer to make a decision based more on party platform and leader. Or both can be taken into account.

For those interested in learning more about the candidates for the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding, Ross-land News published a candidate profile in the September 24, 2015 edition of the paper, two

more in last week’s pa-per, and two more in this week’s paper.

For those wanting to learn more about party platforms, Apathy is Boring is a non-partisan charitable organization that works to educate youth about democracy. While the site is geared toward younger people, it provides a great re-source for understand-ing where parties stand on important issues.

Finally, we’d be remiss not to mention strategic voting. We will advocate neither for nor against this, but new voters may find it useful to have more information about it.

Strategic voting means that rather than casting a vote based on

either of the above cri-teria, a vote is cast in order to avoid splitting the vote. Vote splitting is considered to occur when voters from the same side of the politi-cal spectrum (right or left) split their votes be-tween two similar can-didates, decreasing the chance that either will win, and increasing the chance that a dissimilar candidate will win.

Voting strategically means voting not for the candidate or party that best represents one’s values, but voting for the candidate whose values are closest to one’s own, and who has the best chance of defeat-ing a popular candidate whose values are not close to one’s own.


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Are you ready to vote? If you’re a Canadian citizen, 18 or older, you can vote in the federal election.

Your voter information card tells you when and where to vote.

If you didn’t receive your card, you can still register and vote at your polling place.

To find out where to vote, and what ID to bring, visit elections.ca or call 1-800-463-6868 ( TTY 1-800-361-8935).

Elections Canada has all the information you need to be ready to vote.

Federal election day is Monday

There are some big changes at Rossland’s city hall. In a press release, the city said Cecile Arnott was

coming back to the role of Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer, (CAO/CFO).

Arnott has been on leave since Oct 2013. Her return is effective October 19.

“City Council would like to thank Mr. Mike Maturo for the excellent job he has done as our Interim Chief Administrative Officer,” said Mayor Kathy Moore in the press release. “Mr Maturo was able to step into the role and immediately implement some of the changes Council and the community wanted to see go forward. His prior experience with the city made him a natural choice for the temporary role.

“We want to thank Mr Maturo for his energy and dedication to the job. His vision for Rossland was well aligned with council’s priorities and he will be missed.”

Also moving on is acting Chief Financial Of-ficer. Lois Hunter has taken a new position with a neighbouring municipality.

“Ms. Hunter has been a terrific asset to the city. Under her leadership and quiet competency the City’s financial department greatly improved report-ing, efficiency and implementation of the suggested improvements from the Auditor General of Local Government. She has done a very good job for the city,” said Moore.

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Rossland voting guide: getting you to the polls

Chelsea NovakRossland News

With a newly redrawn riding, the 2015 federal election campaign is shaping up to be his-torical, which fits right in with South Okan-agan-West Kootenay Conservative candidate Marshall Neufeld.

He doesn’t just like history, he lives in it.

“I love history in gen-eral, so it was natural for me when I was buying my house to buy a heri-tage house,” Neufeld said.

He’s spent a lot of hours restoring his 1956 heritage home near downtown Penticton for the past five years. Of course, time is in short supply during an elec-tion campaign.

Neufeld has been a realtor in Penticton for seven years, a business started by his grandfa-

ther in 1949. While living in Vancouver he worked at Lion’s Gate Hospital for a year in rehabilita-tion assistance. He then came back to Penticton to work at the Village by the Station as a recre-ation therapist.

“The furthest thing from politics possible,” Neufeld said.

However, politics has always been in the mix. Neufeld volunteered for the Stockwell Day cam-paign in 2000 while he was still in high school and hasn’t stopped.

“It’s the same desire I’ve had throughout my life which is to try to serve and help people. During that time work-ing for Stockwell, I saw the amount of good that one MP can have in their community if they’re

working really hard and listening to their con-stituents.”

The brand new riding of South Okanagan-West Kootenay raises some new challenges with both the diversity of commu-nities (112,000 people) and physical size.

“Whoever the MP is will have to ensure they do a lot of travelling and make sure that all the constituents throughout the riding, no matter where they live, that they feel well represented and feel connected to their

member of parliament,” Neufeld said.

He’s been knocking on doors during the long campaign and finds that many people are bringing up the same issues on the federal level.

“They’re the national concerns of jobs, the economy and taxation is-sues,” Neufeld said. “You do hear a whole variety of questions at the doorstep, but that’s by far the most common thing.”

Airport infrastructure is another common issue brought up.

“Penticton, Castlegar, Trail, all three of them have issues with the air-port,” Neufeld said.

He noted the past ef-forts of Stockwell Day and MLA Rick Thorpe who pushed for a four-lane highway between Penticton and Kelowna, and that he hopes to bring that same determination to airport infrastructure. The federal government has already made a prom-ise to expand the waiting area for the Penticton Airport, but there’s more to be done Neufeld said.

“That’s still just the first step, the ticketing area is too small to have the increased number of flights that we want to have in Penticton,” Neufeld said, adding it needs a general facelift to the area as a whole. “I still think if there would

be a way to achieve hav-ing a flight to Edmonton as well, I think we need to be getting that.”

Another key issue in Neufeld’s campaign is expanding markets for fruit growers. Last year, the Conservative government signed an international trade deal with China to sell B.C. cherries overseas.

“This past year is the first year that we had a crop that went over there, and according to the industry’s own num-bers that’s meant a $20 million boost annually,” Neufeld said.

“That’s why I’m a believer in free trade. I think we need to contin-ue signing more agree-ments that keep the inter-ests of Canadian business and industry in mind,” he said. “If we have fruit producers who are say-ing that they have wasted their crop at the end of the year, we need to find them a new market. For cherries we’ve done that.”

Other fruit produc-ers have been asking for an expansion of markets as well, according to Neufeld.

“If I’m elected I’m happy to be working with all of our fruit producers to try and find new mar-kets and advocate to the Minister of International Trade to go and try and sign similar agreements.”


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Brian Gray has thrown his hat into the mix for the 2015 federal election in the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding out of concern for his country.

“I was concerned with the fact that our country’s prime minister was support-ing a facist Nazi regime in the Ukraine,” said Gray. “He is giv-ing over $600 million dollars of our tax dollars to support them. A lot of people say ‘Oh that can’t be the case’ well it is.”

And Gray said more people are starting to understand.

“I couldn’t accept the fact that our country was sup-porting a Nazi regime in the Ukraine. The unbelievable fi-nancial situation our globe is in too,” added Gray. “I have presented policies that can ad-dress those concerns and get us out of this mess.”

Before putting his name forward, Gray was enjoying re-tirement. He loves gardening, playing golf and barbecuing.

“Other than that I don’t do a heck of a lot,” he laughed.

Gray, 66, was born and raised in Vancouver and has spent the last 14 years in the Okanagan, including 11 in Penticton. His work experi-ence ranges from working in the forest industry, including pulling lumber off the green chain at Gorman Brothers Lumber Ltd. in Westbank back when “it was just held together with bailing wire and chewing gum.”

“Pulling lumber off a green chain in the middle of winter

with no canopy on it and it’s snowing at 2 a.m. — it could test your mettle,” he said.

For 20 years he worked for TBC Teletheatre, a betting outlet for horse racing. He did that in Kamloops and helped set up operations in Salmon Arm, Victoria, Duncan, Na-naimo and Kelowna.

“I was looking forward to this summer to try to enjoy my retired life on the limited income I have,” said Gray. “This election has kind of in-tervened.”

Gray’s election platform is based on research from the Committee for Republic of Canada, which he is a mem-ber of, and American political economist Lyndon LaRouche. One of the topics in Gray’s platform is restoring the pillars of banking regulations. In his brochure, it states that Cana-da’s banks functioned within the framework of regulations known as the “4 Pillars” (aka: Canada’s Glass-Steagall) which

served to separate commer-cial, investment, trusts and in-surance banking transactions.

“The policies I’m putting forward have certainly found their impetus from my af-filiation with CRC and the La-Rouche organization, but they are just common sense,” he said. “I’m not the only person talking about that. Other po-litical organizations are doing that.”

Gray, who can be found every Saturday at the Pentic-ton Farmer’s Market, said he is surprised at the number of people who are in agreement with his policies. They encour-age him to keep going.

“To be frank, I know there’s virtually no way I’m ever go-ing to win this thing,” he said. “I’m campaigning to win. I just want to get these policies in the political debate.”

More information on Gray’s campaign can be found at www.facebook.com/brian-gray2015.

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land Range Recretion Site in Jan-uary, the Friends of the Rossland Range Society has been hard at work replacing some of the old, debilitated huts with sturdy new cabins.

Berry Ridge was one of the huts replaced by a new cabin, located in Lepsoe Basin on the north side of Mount Lepsoe, between the mountain and Highway 3B.

Dave Watson was one of the Friends of the Rossland Range (FORR) members who spear-headed construction on the new cabin.

“We started talking about the project with planning meet-ings the end of January, and we evolved from that through design and fundraising well into Febru-ary, March,” he said. “There was a major fundraising move in May where the Kootenay Mountain-eering Club agreed to sponsor the entire project.”

The Kootenay Mountaineering Club put up a total of $11,000 to build the new cabin.

“After that we had money so then we proceeded with the pro-curement of the material, final-izing the design. Construction started the third week in June, and we finished ... Friday, [Oct. 2],” said Watson.

Construction of the project went very smoothly. Watson and his partner in crime Bob Mc-Queen both have project experi-ence and tackled construction of the cabin accordingly.

The only real challenge was getting the materials to the cabin site.

They used an old logging road to get into Lepsoe Basin near the Seven Summits Trail, but then they still had a 300m slope to conquer.

“K2 Contracting in Rossland actually helped us by donating an excavator and a driver,” said Watson, “and he was up there for a day and a half I think, building a bit of an access track so we could get our four-wheel drives in, but even the four-wheel drives had a lot of difficulty getting in there.”

The site wasn’t far from the Big Sheep Creek fire, and Watson said there were lots of helicopters flying overhead during construc-tion.

“We were so close that we got a little worried, because it wasn’t far over the ridge into Sheep Creek where the fire was, and there was another one out by Paulson,” said Watson. “Close enough that I contacted the wildfire service centre and told them where we were and what we were doing.”

Luckily neither the construc-tion team nor the cabin were ever in any real danger.

The cabin is a timber frame that’s been doweled together—no

nails needed.“It kind of looks more typi-

cal until you walk inside and see that the timber structure is actu-ally the feature of the cabin,” said Watson.

The interior of the cabin will also feature a plaque marking the 50th anniversary of the Kootenay Mountaineering Club. The club also has the privilege of deciding on a name for the new structure.

Many of the people who worked on the cabin, including Watson and McQueen, also be-long to the Kootenay Mountain-eering Club.

“There’s a few names being bandied about,” said Watson.

The FORR still have a number of other new cabins to build, but Watson says he’s done building them. He and McQueen will con-tinue to help out with the main-tenance of the new cabin, as they did when it was the Berry Ridge Hut.

“Bob McQueen and I have been at it for quite some time, in terms of maintenance, fix-ing them up, cleaning them up, putting in firewood that sort of thing,” said Watson. “Now that we’ve build a new one, I suspect we’ll continue helping out with [it].”

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ROSSLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY Lego Club: 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, 3-4 p.m.Library Bingo: 2nd Thursday of the month. Pick up card at the library.Movies and Munchies: 3rd Thursday of the month, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.Books and Babies: Fridays until Dec. 18, 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Stories, songs and fun for those 0-30 months and their grown-ups. For more info call 250-362-7611.

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THE ROSSLAND TENNIS SOCIETY AGM � ursday, Oct. 15, 7 p.m. at the Seven Summits School, 2393 Columbia Ave. Rossland.

THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN QUILT SHOW AND SALESaturday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Sunday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Quilt show and sale at the Miners’ Hall. Admission by donation. Contact Janice Parsons 250-362-9672 for more infor-mation.

JOE HILL COFFEE HOUSESunday, Oct. 18, 6 p.m. @ Rossland Legion.We will be presenting our classic Joe Hill format—friendly co� ee house atmo-sphere, great sound, nice seating, good-ies, tea, co� ee and so� drinks (no bar).Admission is $3, kids and students free. � e lineup: Dawn Graham, Bert Kniss

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RCAC AND YAN PRESENT: ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRLSunday, Oct. 18, 6 p.m. @ Miners’ Hall.High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, � nds his outlook forever altered a� er befriending a class-mate who has just been diagnosed with cancer. Doors at 6 p.m., show at 6:30 p.m.Admission is by donation and there’s a concession on site.

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LOWER COLUMBIA REGION BUSINESS WALKTuesday, Oct. 20, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. � e Lower Columbia Region’s � rst Business Walk event is taking place during Small Business Week! � e walk allows elected o� cials and economic develop-ment partners to take the pulse of down-town by connecting face to face with busi-nesses. Representatives from the Ministry, City Council, Chamber of Commerce, and the Economic Development o� ce will be checking in with as many of our region’s businesses as possible!

AGM FOR THE ROSSLAND SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TROUBLEWednesday, Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ the Rossland Art Gallery.

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� e Rossland Golden City Quilt Guild will be holding its semi-annual quilt show on Saturday, Oct. 17 and Sunday, Oct. 18.

� e show will give all who attend a chance to see what the guild mem-bers have been working on, and even a chance to take home some quilts.

“All of the people that are members of the guild contribute quilts of all sizes that they’ve made throughout a couple of years,” says Janice Par-sons, member of the guild. “We have displays, [and] some of them are for sale.”

Quilting enthusiasts will also have the opportunity to check out fabrics and supplies.

“We have quilt vendors come—we usually have two or three—and those are merchants from around the area that have fabric and quilt related no-tions to sell to people,” says Parsons.

� ere’s also a chance to win a quilt made by the guild, which will be raf-� ed o� at the show.

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The West Kootenay Roller Derby is gearing up for a new season and held open houses for fresh meat on Monday, Oct. 5 and Thursday, Oct. 8.

Fresh meat is how roller derby girls refer to fresh recruits, and the fresh meat was put through the grinder on Thursday night, skating innumerable laps while they learned the skat-ing basics, including t-stops, plow stops and crossovers to help them get around the corners of the oval roller derby track faster.

Among the fresh meat was Dakota Sulli-van from Fruitvale. She said she’s always been interested in joining roller derby.

“It’s always some-thing I’ve been into. I’ve always been really phys-ical. I was in marshal arts, and kick boxing for a really long time, and you know it just wasn’t my thing anymore, and this is more up my al-ley,” she said.

Both open houses were hosted by Castle-gar’s Dam City Rollers, but also included mem-bers from the Ross-land Trail Roller Girls (RTRG).

The league used to have up to eight teams, but as interest in the sport has wained, its down to just the two, who will play against teams from another league once the season’s bouts get under way.

Sullivan was origi-

nally hoping to join the RTRG since she has a lot of friends on the team, but now she’s leaning towards the Dam City Rollers.

“There’s more people on the Dam City Roll-ers, it seems like there’s more of a team, so I don’t know I’m kind of torn,” she said.

Roller derby veterans were also on the track Thursday night, putting the fresh meat through their paces and offering tips.

Amber “Daisy Mae Glutes” Fuhrmann is starting her third sea-son with the RTRG. She was introduced to roller derby by a friend in Prince George, but was pregnant at the time.

“And then we moved here, and I didn’t know about derby here, and I went to a game that they had at the Cominco Arena and decided that I wanted to play,” she said.

Cheyanna “shyRA-Masaurus Wrex” Shy-pitka, or Wrex as she’s usually called on the roller derby circuit, is a member of the Dam City Rollers and this is her fourth season play-ing. She’s been interest-ed in the sport since the league first formed.

“I lived in Salmo when the first teams started forming and they started talking about roller derby as a sport in the Kootenays in about 2008 or 2009, I wanna say,” said Wrex. “And by 2010 there was the start of a team in Salmo and I was preg-nant, and I couldn’t join.

I also wore glasses and I had laser eye surgery done specifically so that I could play roller derby without having to wear glasses.”

Corrine “Sweet Ven-geance” Tarasoff also plays for the Dam City Rollers and this is her sixth season. She joined after moving from Nel-son to Castlegar.

“I used to do MMA and kickboxing and stuff like that, and I was still looking for a sport

to have some physi-cal contact,” she said. “And it was interesting joining a sport—com-ing from a sport mainly with guys—to mainly with girls, and it’s been incredible.”

Asked what they like most about roller derby, both Wrex and Sweet Vengeance mentioned sisterhood.

“It is a family outside your family,” said Sweet Vengeance. “Plus that, you get to hit people.”

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With a guitar in one hand and a suitcase in the oth-er, John Welsh has been performing his eclectic style of music for audi-ences around the

globe for the past 10 years. On October 24, he will bring his musical talents to the Rossland Miners Hall as the second performance in the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture Performance Series.

John Welsh draws influences from artists such as Ben Harper, Michael Franti, Sam Roberts, and Joel Plaskett. His songs are often inspired by his travel experiences, blending elements of folk, surf rock, Reggae and Latin.

“We are trying to include performances in our series which will broaden our audience,” says Melissa Ringer of the RCAC Performance Series committee. “We think that John Welsh’s eclectic acoustic stylings will appeal to a younger crowd, while still providing

the kind of high quality show that our core audience knows us for.”

The group’s laid back, upbeat, beachy melodies are a perfect way to cure the shoulder season blues; escape the fall weather and feel like you have taken a tropical vacation without having to leave Rossland. “He’s got a natural command of the stage, combined with infectious toe tapping songs that put one in mind of sunny beaches and happy times.” Says Michael Juk, Senior Producer CBC Vancouver, “I think we could all use more music from the John Welsh Band in our lives.”

Come out to the Rossland Miners Hall on October 24 and get some John Welsh Band in your life!

The doors for the concert open at 7:00pm, show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are $20, available at Out of the Cellar (Rossland) and the Charles Bailey Theatre Box Office (Trail). As always RCAC members get $2 off. More information, memberships and tickets can be found online at www.rosslandartscouncil.com. If you would like a preview of the John Welsh Band you can find their music online at johnwelshmusic.ca

On Sunday Joe Hill Coffee House, Rossland’s community venue for performers from near and far, will be visiting the Rossland Legion, located at 2081 Washington Street in Rossland (one block up Washington from our town square).

They will be presenting the clas-sic Joe Hill format – friendly coffee house atmosphere, great sound, nice seating, goodies, tea, coffee and soft drinks (no bar).

Doors open at 6 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m. Admission is still a mere

$3, kids and students free.The performers for October 18

are:• Dawn Graham• Bert Kniss and friends• Chickadee• Al Woodman• Vic Buehler and Keith Robine• Paul Bowles• Wayne SalutiDon’t forget: October 18, Ross-

land Legion, Joe Hill Coffee House, show at 7 p.m.

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on in the Spring of 2016 in spite of the Miners’ Hall being closed for renovations (third Sunday of every month).

The visit to the Legion this month is a preview of our Spring venue. A big thank you to Royal Canadian Legion Branch 14 for inviting Joe Hill to use their hall!

If you would like to perform at Joe Hill Coffee House or would like more information, you can contact Les Carter, 250-262-5677, [email protected].

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