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skiing agreement in place now.”

Nelson currently has two sister cities: Izushi, Japan and Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec.

Local leaders are giving the BC Liberals’ Tuesday budget mixed reviews.

The government’s 2012 budget will restrict spending increases and maintain current tax figures to meet its balanced budget target in 2013.

“This government is making sure that they’re keeping their fiscal house in order,” said Tom Thomson, executive director for the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce.

“From that perspective, they’re doing their job.”

On Tuesday, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon’s budget forecast a deficit of $968 million in 2012-13 and surpluses of $154 million in 2013-14 and $250 million in 2014-15.

To get there, however, the province will see several changes that may seem grim for some.

“There is a new paradigm in today’s world economic environment,” said Falcon in a press release. “It demands prudent fiscal discipline. With Budget 2012, we continue to

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Skateboarders Ramp Up for Sk8 Fest

Skateboarders like Cosmo Rich (above) are hoping that soon Nelson will be home to an outdoor skate park.

Tonight at Mary Hall the Kootenay Lake Outdoor Skate Park Society is holding Sk8 Fest to continue their efforts to make an skate park in Nelson a reality. The event starts at 6 p.m.

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The City of Nelson could be adding another sister city to its roster.

During a presentation by the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce at

Monday’s committee of the whole meeting, Tom Thomson said the chamber is looking at the possibility of adding Sandpoint, Idaho to Nelson’s sister cities.

“This initiative was originally brought to the

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chamber as an organization that can take the lead in trying to make this sister city initiative happen through Whitewater,” said Thomson. “Whitewater and Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort down in Idaho, they’ve got a reciprocal

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“I love working with people and having an exciting job that doesn’t involve sitting at a desk all day so nursing was a good fit for me.”

Hatlen was recently given the Rising Star award by the College of Registered Nurses of BC. “I’m very honoured and it’s really wonderful to find that my colleagues are so supportive of me and they really believe in the work that I’m doing here and overseas with Medecin Sans Frontier,” she said.

After graduating from the Selkirk College-University of Victoria nursing program in 2008, Hatlen began working at the Kootenay Lake Hospital in the maternity ward.

“I was funded to do my specialty training in maternity nursing right out of school by Interior Health and have been lucky to work on the maternity floor at Kootenay Lake Hospital with that training,” she said.

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The site of Nelson’s first hydroelectric plant could once again become a power producer.

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, who has long been involved in the restoration of Cottonwood Creek, says there’s an opportunity to include a model independent power project in revitalization plans for the area.

“One thing that came up in conversation with [Mayor] John Dooley about the creek restoration was the role the heritage of power production might play,” she says. “I think John said perhaps we could produce some power with this water.”

Local consulting firm Selkirk Power has studied the idea and concluded the water coming out of the Cottonwood Falls culvert has enough head and flow to produce a noticeable amount of electricity — which could possibly be used to light the Cottonwood market, restored CPR station, and Baker StreetRailtown corridor.

Delehanty Pearkes says it’s not clear who would build or maintain such a facility, but Nelson Hydro, Columbia Power Corporation, BC Hydro, and FortisBC are all potential partners.

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“They’re interested in demonstrating how an independent power project can function in a sustainable way that is not ecologically harmful,” she says.

In the case of Cottonwood Creek, the ecological harm occurred when the highway interchange was built in the early 1970s and the waterfall was forced into the culvert.

“The impact has long been done. This is an opportunity to take a culvert pipe that throws water down into a plunge pool and convert that into electrical power,” Delehanty Pearkes says. “We could create a hydroelectric facil-

ity that makes the best of a bad situation.”

She expects the project to have little or no aesthetic effect on the falls, and as a bonus, it would trigger a series of studies that could help achieve another goal: bringing fish back to the creek.

“The connection between nature and culture is what I like about this,” she says.

“The cultural history of our region can connect with the natural features, and the contemporary culture too.”

Dooley, meanwhile, says the idea fits well with an overall plan for that part of town, which includes improved footpaths and an

outdoor museum.

“I’m excited about it,” he says. “It talks about our history and will be an opportunity to highlight the area in general and also generate a little power.”

A subcommittee is expected to tackle the idea once a group working on a broader plan for the creek reconvenes in April. Other projects include planting riparian trees and shrubs, restoring wetlands and streambed, and creating spawning habitat.

Cottonwood Creek generated the city’s power from 1896 until 1907, when the much larger Bonnington Falls plant was completed.

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Nelson Star reporter/photographer Megan Cole’s memorable image of the Occupy Nelson movement has been recognized as one of the best community newspaper photos of 2011.

The British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspapers Association announced its finalists for the Ma Murray

2012 Community Newspapers Awards on Wednesday and Cole’s November 2 front page image has made the top-three for spot news photos.

“The group was gathering for the Zombie Walk,” Cole says of the event that was staged in front of City Hall and proceeded through the downtown on a crisp Friday afternoon.

“There were kids and people around with their signs… I was just trying to capture the moment where they were about to take to the streets.”

Of the dozens of photos Cole took that afternoon, the one of a woman holding a “CHANGE” sign and done up in haunting zombie make-up emerged as an unforgettable look into the scene.

“I liked the sign she had and the look on her face… that

The photo that garnered Cole the nomination.

kind of captured it,” says Cole.

“She seemed to represent what they were doing the best and the feeling in that moment.”

Due to the frenzy of the afternoon, Cole didn’t think much about the

photo until she retreated back to the Star newsroom.

“It stood out when I got back to the office,” she says. “I like when you catch those moments where they don’t see the camera.

She was involved in what was going

on around her and I caught her in that moment.”

Cole, 26, arrived to the Star this past July from the Fernie Free Press where she had been working the seven months prior.

The Langara Community College graduate, who originally hails from Victoria, also worked for CBC radio for three months before heading to the Kootenays.

The newspaper association received 1,800 entries for this year’s awards in a number of different categories. Cole’s photo will be going up against spot news pictures from Percy N. Hebert of the Cariboo Observer (Quesnel) and Mike Thomas of the Yukon News.

The awards ceremony takes place at the River Rock Casino in Richmond on April 14.

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Continued from Page 1 “We think that there are some good opportunities with Sandpoint, and not to discount the other sister cities because they are very important initiatives, this one I think can have some more economic impact to our community in the tourism sector for sure,” said Thomson.

Sandpoint is about a two and a half hour drive from Nelson, which Thomson said opens up a variety of tourism opportunities between the two communities.

“We thought there are some good synergies here between Nelson and Sandpoint as far as the towns we have there is good tourism opportunities, and cultural exchange opportunities,” he said.

Thomson said Neil Harrower — executive director of the Capitol Theatre — expressed interest in the new sister city initiative because of the possibility of touring acts travelling over the boarder between Nelson, Metalline Falls and Sandpoint.

In the fall, Thomson along with representatives from city council, chamber and the Destination Marketing Organization met with a delegation from Sandpoint.

“At that time we decided we should wait until after the 2011 election and wait until the new council is in place and then we’ll bring it back to council formerly and see if we can move this thing forward,” he said.

The Chamber is preparing a proposal to the City, but said one obstacle is the current sister city policy which limits Nelson’s sister cities to two.

“The only concern I think that they had at that time is that there is a policy in place to only have two sister cities and we have the one in Japan and the one in Quebec, but we’ll put this proposal together and say that maybe there is an opportunity for the administration to take a look at the possibility of adding another sister city, maybe on a trial basis,” said Thomson.

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A life on the right tracks changed — except the Capitol Theatre was closed and the streetcar no longer ran. His task was to keep the CPR’s industrial clients happy, which he generally did until retiring in 1983.

Fourteen years ago, neighbour Archie McKen suggested Laurie become involved with the streetcar society, which had put the old tram back on track.

Within a year, he was president. Since then he has filled all the roles, including driver. “It’s a great feeling to operate it,� he says. “The big thing is the people you meet and work with. It’s a great bunch of guys and gals.�

Keeping the streetcar going isn’t easy — meeting safety standards and replacing rails and ties has taxed the volunteer group — but Laurie says his former employer has been extremely generous with materials and labour.

At 89, Laurie remains active with the streetcar, lately as its historian. “It’s my second love,� he says. “My wife is my first love and the streetcar is my second.�

He and Effie have been married nearly 67 years and have five children, seven grandchildren, and six great grandchildren.

They always planned to retire to Kelowna, but when the time came, “we looked at the value of Kelowna versus Nelson. Kelowna was a big city. Nelson was a beautiful town. We stayed here.�

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alt Laurie spent more than 40 years with the Canadian Pacific Railway, but never got to drive a train. Piloting Nelson’s Streetcar 23 was the next best thing.

Laurie went to work for the CPR in his native Cranbrook after being discharged from the army during World War II. He would have been a trainman, but couldn’t pass the medical exam. So instead, he unloaded boxcars.

After working his way up to station agent in Fernie, he transferred to sales in Kelowna, and then Vancouver. But big city life didn’t suit him. When Laurie’s boss asked in 1968 if he’d like to be considered for district manager of marketing and sales for the Kootenays, he replied that he was determined to get the job. “I explained I grew up in the Kootenays and knew most of the people in the industry. Trying to build myself up, I told him ‘I’m the only man who can do the job you want in the Kootenays, because I know it so well.’ I really went at it pretty strong.�

Laurie had fond memories of Nelson, where the position was based: he spent a summer here with his uncle and aunt when he was 14 or 15. Back then, Nelson had a larger population than Cranbrook and many more amenities. “I thought I was in heav-

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After a long career with the CPR, Walt Laurie got involved with Nelson’s streetcar society. He’s been known to give a rousing rendition of I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.

en. [There was a] five-andten Woolworth’s store. As a kid, that was a supermarket.

The Capitol Theatre was so beautiful. Then you had the Civic Centre with artificial ice, a gymnasium, and a field where they played baseball and lacrosse — everything a young teenager could want. We didn’t have that in Cranbrook.�

For a nickel, he could ride the streetcar downtown from Fairview. If he walked, he could pick cherries off trees hanging over the sidewalk on High Street.

Furthermore, his relatives lived only a block from Lakeside Park, “and to have a beach like that was

wonderful. Kids here didn’t realize what they had.�

One day, Laurie marvelled as a passenger train pulled up beside the park and hundreds of people spilled out: it was the Cominco picnic, the one day of the year when Trail smelter workers and their families frolicked at the company’s expense.

Having convinced his boss he was right for the job, Laurie arrived in Nelson to find little had

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Editorial Budget a reality check

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or the past few weeks, one of the top world stories on the morning news has been the economic disaster going on in Greece. Citizens of that country are in a panic and it’s playing out in violence in the streets.

On Tuesday the BC Liberals released their budget. Though we’re still a world away from the turmoil in Europe, it wouldn’t be a total stretch to say British Columbia is facing an economic crisis of its own. There is very little light in Finance Minister Kevin Falcon’s grim offering, unfortunately it’s a necessary document for what our immediate future holds.

In politics and the public purse, you get what you vote for in a democracy. In the case of British Columbia we have a fiscally conservative party running the show in Victoria.

Though the road ahead for all British Columbians is going to be about as smooth as the drive up to Whitewater in March, we should take some comfort in having a government weary of exploding deficits.

This past summer, the majority of British Columbians voted down the HST. The return to the PST will rob provincial coffers of a half billion dollars. Analysts say the hardest hit will be those in the lower income. The will of the people spoke and now we must deal with the fallout.

Nobody will go untouched by this budget.

Some ministries will be hit harder than others, but in the end everyone in this province will feel the pinch.

Over the last decade there has been some good times and relative comfort. Though it appeared we staved off much of the economic woes the rest of the planet has been battling, Tuesday was a reality check.

We are a long way from violence in the streets and there’s no need to panic, but the short term economic outline for this province is nothing to feel optimistic about. It’s time to tighten our belts and endure the pain.

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Asian shift no reason to panic

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n February 15, just as Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping arrived in the United States for a fourday visit, US President Barack Obama told an audience of American workers in Milwaukee: “Manufacturing is coming back!” Coming back from China, that is. But while the Master Lock Company of Milwaukee has indeed moved some jobs back to the United States, everybody knows that the flow will really continue to be in the other direction.

It doesn’t matter whether China’s economy finally overtakes America’s in 2020, or 2025, or 2030. A great shift of productivity and wealth is underway, and economic power generally translates pretty directly into military power. So will the United States and China be able to manage the shift without a great war?

At the end of VicePresident Xi’s US visit, the future Chinese leader assured delegates at a trade conference in Los Angeles: “A prosperous and stable China will not be a threat to any country.

It will only be a positive force for world peace and development.” Perhaps, but everybody else is very nervous about it.

The transition from one dominant world economic power to another is always tricky, and the historical precedents are not encouraging. Spain was the 16th-century superpower, and the shift to French domination, though never complete, entailed several generations of war. Then Britain displaced France,

amidst several more generations of war.

When Germany challenged British supremacy and Japan began building its empire in the Pacific and East Asia in the early 20th century, the transition involved two world wars — and resulted in the de facto division of the world between two nonEuropean superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The omens are not promising, to say the least.

But the past is a complicated place, and there is a systematic distortion of history that emphasises violent transitions at the expense of peaceful ones. In fact, at least one major power shift in the past century was entirely peaceful.

The US economy overtook Britain’s late in the 19th century, and it was not inevitable that the change in the pecking order would be peaceful.

The time when the two

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Both the US and the Chinese armed forces use these precedents to argue for greater military spending. The Chinese generals mostly do it privately, within the confines of Communist Party hierarchy. American military leaders do it more publicly, by coming up with risk assessments designed to frighten the public into keeping defence spending up, but of the both groups play the same game.

They can’t help it. Their military training and their whole worldview condition them to expect conflict, and their corporate interest in a higher defence budget leads them to define almost any change as a threat. It sometimes feels like we are doomed to repeat the past endlessly.

countries would be close allies was still far in the future, and throughout the 19th century Americans continued to see Britain, their old colonial master, as their most dangerous enemy. The two countries fought their last war in 1812-1814, but Britain kept a garrison in Canada until 1870.

London then withdrew the garrison, but not because it trusted the United States. It just calculated that the United States was now so strong that Britain could never win a land war against it in North America. It also concluded that a large Royal Navy presence in American waters was likely to drive the United States into a naval arms race that Britain would lose, and so began thin-

ning out the number of warships that it kept in the western Atlantic.

It was the right strategy.

The United States never invaded Canada again, and although it meddled a great deal in the affairs of various Caribbean and Central American countries, that did not threaten any British vital interest.

The thorny crown of being the world’s greatest power passed from Britain to the United States without a war, and within one more generation the two countries were actually allies.

So now it’s America’s turn to figure out what to do about an emerging great-power rival on the far side of a great ocean, and one option would be to copy Britain’s example.

Don’t provoke the Chinese by hemming their country in with air bases, carrier fleets and military alliances, and they’ll probably behave well. If they don’t, then the other Asian great powers, Japan, India and Russia, are quite capable of protecting their own interests.

The United States has no truly vital interests on the Asian mainland, or at least none that it could protect by fighting China. It was entirely safe from foreign attack before it became the world’s greatest power, and it will still be militarily invulnerable long after it loses that distinction.

Britain is a lot more prosperous than it was when it ran the world, and its people are probably happier too. Decline (especially decline that is only relative) is not nearly as bad a fate as Americans imagine.

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Local wood policy makes sense Should the City of Nelson have a wood policy with regards to purchases of building materials for City of Nelson projects? There has been some negative reaction to this notion, with some letter writers saying that it smacks of political correctness and will just cost taxpayers more money.

My understanding is that this all came about because the province has asked that local governments support the forest industry with a “Wood First” policy, on the grounds that wood is “sustainable.” But what does this mean? There are contradictions between the slogan and the actual practice in this province. Would it be good to develop local wood policies?

As a province, almost half of our wood is exported as raw logs, mostly to China, according to Terry Glavin writing for the National Post. Over 70 sawmills have closed in BC. Exporting sawmill jobs doesn’t “sustain” sawmills or their workers.

Further, last week the provincial auditor-general reported that the province lacks the necessary clearly defined objectives, effective management practices, and monitoring capacity to prevent our forests from continuing to decline in health and value.

Several communities in

our area have created their own “community forests” in order to establish local control of what happens to local resources. These include Harrop-Procter, Kaslo, Nakusp, Creston, and Slocan. As an example, HarropProcter Forest Products has its own sawmilling and value-added operation. Some of the trees cut from their community forest end up as finished products for local and regional markets. The remaining logs are sold to local sawmills, including Kalesnikoff Lumber, who produce their own value-added products. Harrop-Procter Forest Products has chosen to make certain products that are competitively priced compared to non-local suppliers. They often send customers to Maglios or Home Building Center in Nelson for items Harrop-Procter Forest cannot competitively produce. These same building stores also send customers to Harrop-Procter Forest Products for custom items they do not carry.

From the point of view of sustaining jobs in this area, one aspect could be a preference for buying “local” to support the best use of wood to create jobs in this area. It may not be practical for Nelson to have its own community for-

est — that partly depends on the availability of local timber licenses. However, both the city and its residents can have an effect by working through local building supply retailers to ask for products that support local community forests and sawmills.

Another aspect of local wood policy would be to create consumer demand so that retailers will carry lumber certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. As the Harrop-Procter example shows, this can often be price competitive. To be certified, they have to manage their forest according to high standards of wildlife protection, water protection, respect for natural forest processes, social benefits and long term economic returns. “Social benefits” might include not clear-cutting large blocks, thus impacting the vistas for the tourists that bring money to this area.

I think it makes sense to have a wood purchase policy for the City of Nelson, looking at all the issues: local sourcing, impact on jobs, tourism, cost in the short run, and good management for the benefit of animals, humans and the forest itself in the long term.

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SLUGS. To the person responsible for choosing the bantam house hockey teams and claiming they are even. You ruined the enjoyment of this hockey season for twelve young individuals.

climbed in the snow with big smiles on their faces and no second thoughts just to help me out. It brightened my day and made me happy to know that there are people who want to help out. Many thanks.

HUGS. And spring flowers to the jam fairy who keeps stocking the Nelson Food Cupboard with homemade jams and jellies.

SLUGS. To the people who can’t complete a sentence without changing the subject.

HUGS. To the teller at the Royal Bank who helped me with a bank draft Friday afternoon. You were hospitable and friendly and it made my afternoon to know their are still people out there who care about others.

There should be more of that in such a small community. Hope your husband and son are feeling much better!

HUGS. To the proprietors of the Pony Espresso in Crescent Valley for their help in getting my van unstuck last Saturday. They

SLUGS. To the people who put reward posters on the bulletin boards for the safe return of their pets. You know what? Coyotes can’t read.

- Grumpy pet lover HUGS. To the woman who smiled at me in passing. You had no idea who I was and I did not know you, but your smile immeasurably brightened up my day and it was very much appreciated. Thank you for being friendly to a stranger!

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Nelson Search and Rescue is reminding outdoor lovers to be diligent about checking avalanche conditions before heading out into the backcountry. “The more we can pound into people’s heads, the better we will be,� said Murray Springman of the local search crew.

The friendly reminder to check avalanche.ca before embarking comes after two missing skiers were located Tuesday morning after spending a chilly night on the Kootenay Pass.

The pair — and man and a woman from Nelson, both 29 — were located hiking in an area near the Ministry of Highways works yard.

In the morning, search and rescue teams from Nelson, Rossland, South Columbia, Kimberley, and Columbia Valley all joined in the search, hampered by continuing fog. “They were a bit hypothermic,� Springman says. “But they had a shower, dried their clothes, and everybody’s happy.�

The couple spent the night in a snow cave they built for themselves. Springman says they didn’t have a map or compass, and were only prepared for a day trip. They did, however, have probes, beacons, and shovels.

According to avalanche technicians on the pass, the avalanche risk in the area was between moderate and considerable.

They became disoriented in foggy conditions as they were trying to return to their car.

Both were cold and wet but otherwise in good health.

They were taken to the highways office by snowmobile, checked over by a doctor, and have since left.

Nelson Search and Rescue received a call that the pair was overdue. They were expected to return at 4:30 p.m.

Monday after backcountry skiing towards Ripple Ridge cabin at the top of the pass.

For safety reasons, searchers decided not to send out a crew that night, although one member, along with another from South Columbia Search and Rescue spent the night in the parking lot, in case the missing pair returned.

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Mungall says budget will touch all British Columbians Continued from Page 1 we continue to hold the line on spending and will achieve a surplus in 2013-14, as required by law.�

Falcon’s budget will see that the government will contain spending growth to an annual average of two per cent over the next three years. While he says health and education will continue to be protected, this spending growth restriction may leave other ministries with little to work with. “It’s always challenging in tight economic times to try and get back to balanced budgets. Health care and education continue to get some increased funding, and elsewhere there’s going to be a lot of status quo,� said Thomson,

adding that while there’s “not a lot of things that people can jump up and down about,� there hasn’t been any personal income tax increases, which is always positive.

The budget will also see that the small business income tax rate be maintained at 2.5 per cent and be revisited once the fiscal situation has improved.

Additionally, a temporary one-point increase in the general corporate income tax rate to 11 per cent is included and will be effective April 1, 2014.

Thomson said even with the slight increase, the province is still competitive for businesses. “We have a very solid personal and competitive business tax regime throughout the province, even with the

slight increase in the corporate tax rate for one year.�

Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall said that the Liberal government’s approach to the challenges BC is facing shows that there’s no new creative vision coming from the current government. “I’ve been focusing mostly on the things that are going to impact everybody and their day-to-day pocketbook,� said Mungall, noting a four per cent increase in Medical Service Plan premiums that will affect every BC resident. “It’s kind of a prudent budget,� said Thomson. “It relieves taxpayers and businesses form a lot of additional pressures and maybe helps mitigate against external risk.�

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British Columbia has traditionally been synonymous with forestry and today this industry is still one of the cornerstones of our economy, especially in many rural communities which strongly value and support timber harvesting. With over two-thirds (60 million hectares) of the provincial land mass covered in forest we can count on a healthy industry for many more years B.C. has more than 110 lumber mills, over 70 with a capacity of more than 40 million board feet per year; 27 veneer, plywood and OSB (oriented strand board) mills, eight pellet mills, 18 pulp mills (six of which are also paper mills) and over 80 other primary processing mills such as chips, shake and shingle, pole, and log manufactures.

The forestry sector has a deep pool of skilled professionals and a highly trained workforce.

Altogether the industry employs well over 50,000 well paid employees, often the life-blood of small towns. B.C.’s forest sector is deďŹ nitely starting to recover from the last decade’s downturn. Since 2009, over two dozen mills have announced they are reopening or adding shifts. The importance of this industry to B.C. is demonstrated by the fact that 40% of the province’s regional economies are based on forestry activities, in more than 7,000 businesses.

Structuriam, developing a method to produce Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), received approximately $3.2 million in federal contributions and $2.5 million in provincial to support innovation and to help commercialize this new wood product. The company also invested more than $7.5 million in cash and in-kind contributions to produce CrossLam, the new line of CLT. The opening, in 2008, of a state of the art value-added wood facility in Okanagan Falls, which is the largest laminating facility in Canada with a production capability of over 60,000 board feet per day, speaks loudly to the success of the investment.

One reason for growth in the industry is the Asian market. International buyers know that B.C. is a stable supplier of high-quality wood products; we can provide timber supply security.

This secure supply, coupled with the fact our spruce, pine, ďŹ r, hemlock and balsam ďŹ bre baskets are among the richest in the world makes B.C. extremely attractive.

The B.C. brand of wood products is well established globally with market-leading shares in key countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. B.C. is also looking to be the ďŹ rst major country that deals in softwood lumber to establish its products in the India marketplace. Working with the federal government and industry, the Province has strengthened and diversiďŹ ed the B.C. forest sector by increasing market demand for softwood lumber throughout Asia.

The global demand for bio-products from the forest is predicted to reach $200 billion a year. Renewable fuels, plastics, and chemicals for the pharmaceutical and food industries can potentially be manufactured by running wood ďŹ bre and residues through bio-reďŹ nery.

B.C. has taken steps to make it easier for the non-lumber sector to source supplies of lower quality ďŹ bre. This includes ďŹ bre supply licences to cut to use logging debris that is left behind on landings and roadsides.

Taking care of this natural abundance is critical. An amazing statistic is the fact B.C. has planted more than six billion trees since reforestation programs began in the 1930’s, and is on track to plant its seven billionth tree in 2013/14. We plant an average of 200 million trees each year. B.C. produces more wood products certiďŹ ed to environmental standards than any other region in the world and has 53 million hectares certiďŹ ed to one of three internationally recognized sustainable forest management certiďŹ cation standards.

Growth now and in the future requires a solid foundation. B.C. created the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations to deal with increasing demands and pressures on the land base by taking a more integrated approach to managing B.C.’s natural resources. B.C. Hydro launched a two-phase Bioenergy Call for Power. Phase one has helped advance bioenergy development in Kamloops, Castlegar and Prince George, while phase two has done the same for Chetwynd, Fort St. James, Fraser Lake and Merrit.

B.C. has also passed the Wood First Act to promote and encourage a cultural shift that will make wood the ďŹ rst choice for construction in the commercial and institutional sectors as well as residential.

The future looks very bright for this most iconic of British Columbia industries.

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Calendar FUNDRAISER

Feb. 24th - Rococode with Sweet Pickle Feb. 25th - Funkanomics

The Kootenay Lake Outdoor Skate Park Society is hosting a night of Skateboarding, Street-Themed Food, Music and Art at Mary’s Hall to continue the effort to raise money for the skate park project. Doors open at 6 p.m. on Friday, February 24. Tickets are $50 or $25 for kids aged seven to 16. Kids under seven are free. Tickets are available at Ripping Giraffe, Husky Gas Station, Eddy Music, Nelson Ford, 103.5 The Bridge.

(Ghetto Funk, Germany) with Freddy J (Calgary)

Mar. 2nd - Deekline Tickets on Sale Now Mar. 3rd - Violin vs. Vinyl feat. Kytami formerly of Delhi to Dublin

Mar. 8th - International Women’s Day Celebration feat. Avalon Alumni

Mar. 9th - The Funkhunters with B-Ron Mar. 10th - Sweatshop Union Mar. 16th - El Jimador with Just-B Mar. 17th - A Wakcutt St. Patty’s Mar. 21st - Electric Six Mar. 22nd - Grapes of Wrath & The Odds Tickets on sale now

Mar. 23rd - Masta Ace w/Marco Polo Mar. 24th - A Skillz with Stickybuds Mar. 30th - Delta Heavy (UK) Drum and Bass/Moombahton/Drumstep

Mar. 31st - Mat the Alien Apr. 3rd - Cancer Bats with Touche Amor & A Sight for Seven Eyes

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Kootenay Co-op Radio, our locally owned, listener driven, non-profit radio station, proudly presents an evening of time-travel and dancehall fun at the historic Nelson Eagles Hall.

Saturday, February 25. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with showtime at 7:15 p.m.

This all ages event features local R&B maestros Bessie and The Back Eddies, who have been amazing local audiences with their classic style and stage presence. Advance tickets available at Kootenay Co-op Radio at 308a Hall Street.

International Women’s Day Night of the Stars Fundraiser for the West Kootenay Women’s Association. Come and celebrate the 101st Anniversary of International Women’s Day in the company of feminist greats such a Nellie McClung, Gloria Steinem, Rosa Parks, Frida Kahlo, Emma Goldman, and Simone De Beavoir. Friday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m. at SelfDesign High. There is a $10 suggested donation.

On Saturday, March 24 more than 30 local artisans, crafters and businesses will be showcasing their talents and wares at the fourth annual West Kootenay Springtime Faire. There will be a $2 admission at the door which will help support the Second Chance Animal Shelter and the Salvation Army Food Cupboard.

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Pizza now available 11am till Late!

All seniors welcome to a potluck luncheon to be held at the Senior Citizens’ Association Branch No. 51, located at 717 Vernon Street. Luncheon begins at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, February 24. For further information, call 250-352-7078 weekday afternoons.

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Kutenai Art Therapy Institute is celebrating its grand opening with a paint-in from 1 to 4 p.m. and a gala from 5 to 8 p.m. The Institute is located at 191 Baker Street on the second floor.

The Izu–shi Friendship Society will be holding its annual general meeting on Tuesday, February 28, at the Nelson Fire Hall at 7 p.m. For information call Bruce Walgren, President at 250-352-7110 or email at walgren@ telus.net.

Circle of Habondia invites input.

Women are invited to join Habondia for a facilitated strategic planning session, 9 a.m. to noon, Thursday, March 1 and Thursday, March 8.

Please call Pegasis at 250-229-4223 to RSVP and for location details.

Ladies, do you like to sing? Come and have fun with Glacier Harmonies, barbershop style singing for women.

We meet Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 611 Fifth Street, Nelson. Please contact Dorothy 250-352-7199, or Joey 250-352-3393 for more information. We are also available to perform for special occasions, e.g. weddings, dinners, special gatherings.

All seniors welcome to the monthly meeting of the Senior Citizens’ AssociationBranch No. 51, located at 717 Vernon Street. Meeting commences at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 7. Tea and goodies will be served after the meeting. For further information, call 250-352-7078 weekday afternoons.

Dementia/Alzheimer’s caregiver education workshop at Selkirk College’s Silver King Campus, Thursdays March 1, 8, and 29 from 7 to 9 p.m. Cost for the series is $40. To pre-register call 250-352-6601. For more information call 250-352-6788, 1-877-452-6788 or lhoskin@alzheimerbc.org NELSON’S 2011 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR

This is the 48th year that the Nelson Knights of Columbus have sponsored this event. Nomination papers are located at Nelson City Hall administration, Sonja’s China Cabinet and Chamber of Commerce. A cover

letter is enclosed with the nomination papers. Deadline for nominations is 4 p.m. February 29. There’s a selection committee composed of five judges of which one is the chairman. These are citizens from Nelson chosen by the chairman.

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Looking for a fun way to run around indoors this winter? Join Nelson’s Indoor Ultimate Frisbee League on Monday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Beginners welcome. Drop in spots available. Contact nelsonultimatefrisbee@gmail.com for more information.

Kootenay Rhythm Dragons Membership Drive Saturday, March 10 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Community First Health Co-op Building at 518 Lake Street (lower level - CCCR office). Muffins and coffee served. All women are welcome to join Nelson’s local dragon boat team, learn the basics of paddling, get fit and have fun!

For more information: Dorothy Hatto 250-551-3104.

SPIRITUAL

On Saturday, March 3 the women of Malaysia invite you to join in with them in the world day of prayer of celebration praying under the theme Let Justice Prevail. The prayer service will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Ascension Lutheran Church at 1805 Silver King Road. For more information contact Merle MacDonald at 250-3526122.

WORKSHOPS

Become a volunteer literacy tutor working with adults and youth on reading, writing or language. The first in a series of training workshops put on by the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy will happen February 27 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Learning Place.

For more information about the tutoring program or volunteer training call Joan at 250-352-3218 or email at jexley@cbal.org.

If you have an event or announcement you’d like to put in the Star, email reporter@nelsonstar.com with a short write-up including date time and location. Submit your event online at the nelsonstar.com for our new community calendar.

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g n i y l l u B e Tak y l s u o i r e S Reports o you know if your child is being bullied?

Here are some signs to watch for: Feelings of rejection Low self-esteem, poor grades at school Isolation, withdrawal from group activities at school and outside of school, aggressiveness, nervousness, extreme sensitivity, fear or refusal to go to school.

What is bullying?

Psychologists define bullying as a power relationship carried on by one individual or a group of individuals towards another person. Bullying does not necessarily need to be brutal or physical violence, rumours, threats and hurtful words also lead to feelings of rejection.

What does bullying look like?

Teasing, hair pulling, pushing, pinching or touching without consent, insulting somebody by making crude, sexist, racist or homophobic remarks, spreading rumours Threatening looks, unsightly gestures, writing unpleasant things about somebody (on paper or by email), threatening or scaring somebody, stealing, “taxing” (extortion of money and personal items).

Targets for bullying: Choice of clothing, physical differences or faults (fast, slow, big or small development), distinctive characteristics of par-

ents (different education from other parents of the region, religion, origin, language), nutritional habits, speech impediments, introverted personality, solitary person

• Ask the source for further details • Make sure the behavior is bullying not teasing • Monitor your child a bit closer • Ask your child • Identify the exact location and time • Respond ASAP if you suspect those reports have validity

What Should Children Do? Do not answer back with verbal violence Ignore the insults by walking with your head up high. If you witness bullying towards another student, it is best to immediately refer what you have seen to an adult.

What Should Parents Do? Discuss the problem with your child and try to obtain the name of the bully Discuss the problem with the teacher and the principal of the school. Advise the child, but try not to do everything in his or her place. Guide the child towards out-of-school activities. Do not encourage verbal or physical violence as a suitable means of defense. Do not trivialize the problem. Take it seriously! (Source: Mia Lambert, Jeunesse J’ecoute and Annie Fernandez, Le Journal de Quebec)

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Porch light policy made New York Times GREG NESTEROFF Nelson Star Reporter

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n Nelson Hydro’s early days, the Bonnington plant produced such an abundance of power that the city could afford to give it away.

An early policy — no one is exactly sure when it was adopted, but it probably wasn’t long after the plant’s completion in 1907 — stated: “One 50-watt lamp or its equivalent shall be permitted to be used without charge if suspended outside the front door of each residence within the city.”

This served two purposes: first, it was a cheap form of street lighting. Second, it was good for bragging rights.

As the Nelson Daily News of September 25, 1908 put it: “[I]t is probable that in days to come Nelson will no longer be known as Queen City of the Kootenays but as the electric city of the west. There are many Queen cities. There is only one city in the west which has had the courage of its convictions as to the use of electricity.”

Indeed, Electric City and City of Light were alternate nicknames for many years.

The porch light policy, meanwhile, was considered crazy enough to rate mentions in several major publications.

Richard L. Neuberger remarked upon it in the Saturday Evening Post of April 30, 1949: “[O]fficials boast that Nelson is the only city on earth which allows its citizens unmetered electricity for porch lights.”

Neuberger mentioned this fact again nine days later in the New York Times: “Twenty-four hours a day lights gleam on Nelson verandas and the meters do not record the extravagance.”

The policy was still in place as of September 1961, when Christian Science Monitor travel editor Leavitt F. Morris visited.

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Back in the early days of Nelson Hydro, the utility was so flush with cash and pride that every home in Nelson received free electricity for porch lights. Some of those old circuits are still out there.

the world does the front-porch welcome light burn more freely than it does right here in this lakeside city,” he wrote.

“It is common, at any hour of the night and until sunup, to see the warm, friendly glow of hundreds of porch lights throughout the community.

“The more economicalminded need not be concerned about the electric light bills for these homeowners as it doesn’t cost a citizen of Nelson one penny for keeping that front light burning around the clock.”

Morris said one citizen told him he even left his porch light on while away on a threemonth trip.

“The front-porch light is on a separate circuit from the rest of the house and being the very honest people these folks are here no one ever thinks of plugging their electric lawn mower into the ‘free’ circuit!”

That last bit certainly wasn’t true.

According to Ken Morrow in his autobiography, A Boyhood in Nelson, when he and

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his brothers wanted to illuminate their backyard ice rink in the 1930s, they strung extension cords to 100-watt bulbs suspended above the rink, and tapped into the porch socket.

“Each night after we finished playing, we carefully disconnected and hid the long extension cord in case some meterreader or town official might see this set-up and report us,” he wrote. They knew it was illegal, but their desire to play hockey overrode that concern.

For six winters, they got away with it — and then their luck ran out. A disgruntled neighbour complained, and Morrow’s mother was ordered to appear before city council.

“We waited anxiously to hear the outcome. We had used tremendous amounts of electricity. We imagined a heavy fine for Mom and punishment for us boys. Finally she returned and we heard the verdict. With a big smile, she said ‘Don’t worry boys.’”

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“We could see that the punishment didn’t fit the crime,” Morrow wrote. “We suspected that the council members waited until our mother was gone and then shared a goodnatured laugh about our ingenuity.”

Others undoubtedly abused

the privilege as well.

“So many people were cheating by plugging all sorts of things in,” says longtime resident Alan Ramsden. “Making their morning toast and coffee [using] the outdoor light socket. Some even heated their homes with it.”

Combined with rising demand that erased the city’s power surplus and the fact electricity was no longer such a status symbol, the policy was cancelled — although it’s unclear precisely when.

No additional free porch light circuits were wired, but existing ones were allowed to remain.

Incredibly, an estimated 170 are still out there, according to Nelson Hydro general manager Alex Love, probably without the knowledge of the present homeowners.

It’s hard to chase them all down, but crews have found the odd one while doing other work, such as meter replacements. Love says they don’t meet current wiring standards.

A 60-watt incandescent porch light left on constantly consumes about $42 worth of power in a year, so the utility could be out as much as $8,000 annually.

Nelson Hydro by the numbers Number of residential customers: 8,714 Commercial customers: 793 Profit to the city in 2011: $2.7 million Capacity of the Bonnington plant: 9.1 megawatts Number of generators: 5 Generators in use: 2 Generators available as back-up: 2 Retired generators: 1 Number of substations: 7 Price charged by Nelson Hydro per kilowatt hour: 8 cents Price charged by FortisBC: 9 cents Price charged by BC Hydro: 6.6 and 9.6 cents (Based on inclining block rate) Percentage of the city’s power consumption that is self-generated over the course of a year: 55 Percentage purchased from FortisBC: 45 Amount the city paid FortisBC in 2011 for additional power: $6.4 million

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Feb. 24th - Rococode with Sweet Pickle Feb. 25th - Funkanomics (Ghetto Funk, Germany) with Freddy J (Calgary)

Mar. 2nd - Deekline Tickets on Sale Now Mar. 3rd - Violin vs. Vinyl feat. Kytami formerly of Delhi to Dublin

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For Canadian music junkies the list of associated acts behind Rococode is more than impressive.

Johnny Andrews and Shawn Huberts have spent many years as the rhythm section for Tegan and Sara while Andrew Braun — guitarist, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist — spent two years playing with Hannah Georgas, and Rococode’s female vocalist and keyboardist Laura Smith has performed also played with Georgas in addition to Juno Winners Said the Whale and Dan Mangan.

“Recording our first album was an adventure,” said Braun.

“We really had no idea what we were going to do. It wasn’t as though we worked on all these songs as a band and honed our sound.”

Braun said that he and Smith had six or seven songs that they decided to work on when they went into the studio with Ryan Guldemond (of Vancouver’s Mother Mother.)

“We just totally sort of stripped them bare and slowly, gradually built them back up and when the album was finished that was what the band sounded like,” he said.

Guns, Sex & Glory combines haunting vocals that mirror Arcade Fire with the driving rhythm section of some of the best rock bands.

The formation of Rococode seemed to be somewhat meant to be.

Braun met Smith while attending music school at Capilano College.

“I actually graded her papers — that was one of my first Laura experiences,” he said.

It was at a wedding when Andrews and Huberts came into the picture.

“Through a mutual friend I randomly played a wedding with them and we were all kind of playing kind of silly music. We had a great time playing together,” said Braun.

Their paths continued to cross until a year and a half ago when Smith and Braun were in the studio beginning to record Guns, Sex & Glory.

“At first they just played and had to go on tour and left but by the time they came back they could tell that this was a band they wanted to be part of full time,” said Braun. “Now it’s the four of us working away here.”

If the list of names that Rococode has worked with isn’t enough, they managed to enlist more Canadian music stars to help create their first album.

Shawn Penner, who has worked with Mother Mother, Hannah Georgas and Elias and mixer John Congleton who joined forces with St. Vincent, Polyphonic Spree and The Walkmen helped fine tune Guns, Sex & Glory, which has only been on record store - and iTunes shelves for a few weeks.

With their first album under their belt, Rococode is now preparing to hit the road and share their music with the masses.

“It’s great we’ve all toured a lot and sort of made our living on the road so it’s not a frightening task or something that we know we can’t prepare for,” said Braun. “We’ve sort of been through all the paces and it’s a lot of work to get ready to go out there but I think that we all know as soon as you are packed up and pull away and you hit the highway, you relax because you know what your life is going to be like for the next month: drive, eat, sleep, play, sleep, drive...”

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Five questions

Charlie Hunter

What kind of music were you listening to growing up? I know you play a lot of jazz now. Were you listening to that as a kid?

When did you start learning the guitar?

Not much really, not at all actually. My mom was a big old time blues fan, and acoustic blues. That was on all the time in the house and she knew a lot of those players. She’d take me to see that music. And also a lot of what I listened to on the radio at the time which was a lot of soul music and the Beatles, rock and Jimi Hendrix as well.

Why did you decide to pick up the guitar?

When did the jazz start coming in?

When I was a teen I got into it. I got into it through Charlie Christian because I was really into playing all kinds of music. I was pretty good as a kid. I had gigs when I was in high school playing mostly blues and rockabilly and soul music. I wanted to take it to the next level and I felt like the only way to really do that was to explore other stuff and Charlie Christian eventually led to John Coltrane and Charlie Parker and all that stuff.

I think I was about 12 years old.

I didn’t want to learn the guitar because I grew up around guitar players. Everyone around me played guitar, I mean everybody including my mom, all her friends and all my friends. I was a drummer as a kid. We just got too many complaints from the neighbours and I decided it was time to play the guitar. I still play the drums. It’s my hobby.

I’m an avid hobbiest but I do what I do.

You play a custom seven and eight string guitar now, when did you start playing that?

I’ve been doing this kind of thing about 20 something years now - 22 or 23 years - I enjoy it. I am really having a lot of fun with it.

German ghetto funk, breaks, hip hop, funk, electronica and dubstep masters Funkanomics are playing Spiritbar on Saturday night as part of their Canadian tour and Ricardo Hubbs and Christine Hunter caught up with the trio before they take the stage.

1. Tell us how the name of your band reflects in the music you play.

Most of dance music got its basics in funk music. It’s a genre, which will never die and most parts of our productions are based on funk combined with some up to date stuff. We love slapping basslines, funk instruments and urban grooves and always try to keep it real as much as possible.

2. How do you see electronic music defining a generation?

The past year’s electronic music became very fast moving and every genre got plenty of sub-genres in between short times. You can get plenty of productions, remixes and mashups in the web and it became a kind of lifestyle for many people out there, which everybody can get involved easier than back in the day.

3. You are all from Germany. How does electronic

I heard you played with Michael Franti for a while. What was that like?

We worked at the same guitar store. He repaired basses and I taught guitar. I was teaching guitar and playing gigs and moving furniture. You have to understand he’s not a musician and I think people tell me he knows a little bit about music now, but he knew nothing. He couldn’t play music at all. He was really just a poet. He got a record deal and he asked me to go on tour with him and they paid just a little bit more than I was playing as a furniture mover. It was okay. It

was interesting. It definitely taught me what I didn’t want to do with my life which was being in anything associated with pop stardom.

If I could just be in the studio and making the music but if you have to deal with that world and the people in it and the business, it’s not for human consumption. You really have to have some serious screws loose in your head.

I have screws loose in my head but they’re different screws.

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Charlie Hunter plays the Royal on Monday night.

What’s spinning in Nelson music vary from country to country, continent to continent?

how much actually stays on course whilst into the live set?

Europe was most about minimal in past years. House is getting a big revival at the moment and Midtempo stuff always had its followers confined to a smaller scene, but there are always good parties, which is pretty nice to see.

The scene in Canada is way bigger and the people are much more open minded into bass music then in Germany. We love the good vibes going on in Canada and it feels good to be part of it.

We spend a lot of time on our track selection and love stuff with good party vibes. As we were raised on sound from the early ‘60s, ‘70s and some hardrock, before we found our sound into golden era hiphop, dancehall and reggae, we generally try to represent that and combine every kind of music, we dig at the moment. Funkanomics sets are generally based on stuff we like and every thing gets its little own bass treatment from originals to remixes to mashups.

4. So you’ve been on tour in our beautiful part of the country. How has the tour been treating you? What’s the highlight of the tour thus far?

We love Canada, the whole country, the kind people, the great vibes and the open minded population. Nearly every gig on the tour has been packed and sold out so far and there is no general highlight for us, Canada itself is the highlight and it feels awesome to have such a great fanbase over here. “Canada ist wunder-wunderschön !!!”

5. We know this is a question artists generally don’t like to be asked, but here we go, when creating a set how much thought goes into your track selection and

6. Another track selection question here: how often does the crowd influence the next track you’re going to select?

We always look at the crowd’s reaction and as we are not fi xed to one genre, we keep on playing stuff the crowd likes.

Sometimes, we would like to play more tunes, we dig for ourselves, but if it doesn’t work for the crowd we change the genre, as the people are the most important part of every event.

For questions with Freddy J — who will also be playing Spiritbar on Saturday night — visit nelsonstar.com.

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rt is inspired through many paths and for Winlaw artist Tanya Pixie Johnson, growing up in Cape Town, South Africa created a path that continues today.

“My growing up years and my university years were pre and during the revolution,” said Johnson. “That injects so much into the arts, because there is struggle. It’s the art of struggle. There is power in the art. Although I was young, the social and political milieu informed my psyche and subsequent making of art. It feels like it has informed my whole life.”

Johnson — who was recently the artist in residence at Oxygen Art Centre — is one of the artists involved in a current exhibit at Touchstones Nelson called Forest for the Tree.

The series entitled Riverspines, which is included in the exhibit ,was inspired by traveling the Slu7kin (Slocan) and Shiwnitqua (Columbia) rivers by canoe and examining their edges, the very meeting between the land and water.

“The process included playing with axis, making image that included its reflection and extrapolating body

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imagery from the forms and their reflections. The horizontal axis is made vertical and spinal forms can be read. The subsequent drawings are abstracted further from this; there is formal suggestion of bone and skeleton and to the idea of nerve or information highways.

The cartographic idea of body-mapping and river-mapping was explored, the referencing of the human body in the land and water and its meeting and the alluding to the skin of the water.”

Through all of Johnson’s life and work — even as a child in South Africa — she has been attracted to indigenous ways and communities.

“Although I grew up in a segregated society, my tendency was to look toward the lives and ways of living of the indigenous people,” she said. “As soon as I could, I would be up in the hills. That is where I found resonance” Living in the Slocan Valley, Johnson has made relations with certain Sinixt people.

She has been given the blessing to include certain cultural information, shared with her, in her art making.

“It is a tricky responsibility for an artist”, she said of this work. “One has to have so much awareness around appropriation. Much of what Ki-xu-xus-kit (Bob Campbell) shares with me is not directly obvious in my

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Some of the world’s most beloved puppets are taking the stage on Saturday night as part of the Nelson Youth Theatre’s presentation of the Nuppet Show.

“It’s fun to be a new character like you’re not actually people,” said Mimi Lockhurst who plays Grizo.

“He’s always with Gonzo,” said Lockhurst. “They’re like best friends and Gonzo is my sister so it’s easier for us to work together.

She’s like my best friend so it’s more fun.”

The cast was busy at Trafalgar school on Monday as they pre-

painting, often the references are subtle and symbolic. I have been working with the Sinixt text. I am inspired by how the language is in the land. It is clear that the threat to the land and water on this planet is the same as the threat to indigenous people and language.”

The work unpacked in her residency at Oxygen Art Centre, Johnson said, was influenced by her relationship with the Sinixt family living in the area and in particular, her relationship with Campbell.

“I am completely in support of Sinixt rights in this territory and am so grateful of his support of my work.”

A portion of Johnson’s “Riverspines” series are on display at Touchstones and will be going on tour with the next show scheduled for The Kootenay Gallery of Art in August.

pared for opening night.

Even veterans to the stage like Lockhurst and Elle Backus-Horton have some nerves about their night on stage.

“I like acting here because it’s actually quite fun and we get to pretend to be different characters,” said Backus-Horton.

E v e n though the rehersals have been a lot of work, both girls said they have had a lot fun.

“The Muppets are really funny,” said Backus-Horton. “I just started watching the Muppets and renting all the movies to do my research.”

Showtime for the Nuppet Show is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available online through the Capitol Theatre website and at the box office.

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There’s a story about how Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer) wrote some of his best songs by taking Ritalin and drinking tequila. In no way am I as talented or crazy as he is but as I write this, I am out of my mind just like he was when Hash Pipe was conceived. See, I just got out of a surgery and am on some very heavy painkillers. I’m not writing any songs, but just a simple mix-tape. So in honour of Rivers, I figured this week’s theme — to quote The Pixies — Where is my mind?

The Grateful Dead: Uncle John’s Band. I’m suddenly transported to the late ‘60s taking a trip on the famous “Magic Bus”. And I’m fi tting right in.

Tame Impala: Half Full Glass of Wine. Rockers from Australia. This tune sounds like an amalgamation of the best of The Beatles and Zeppelin. This is heavy.

Beck: E-pro. All the lyrics my mind can retain right now? Na Na Na Na (the next few lines are where the song gets complicated): Na Na Na Na Na. This is perfect and catchy.

The Beta Band: Human.The Beta Band must have written most of their music on hallucinogens because at this point in my experimentation, I have to wonder... Is anybody else craving blueberry pie?

Holy Ghost!: Some Children. Great spacey song.

This band’s ahead of their time. Also... Is that Michael (expletive) Macdonald from the Doobie Brothers?!? Reason enough to listen to this one.

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Donovan: Sunshine Superman. My mom always said this song was “head music”. Not too sure what she meant by that until this moment. But since she grew up in the ‘60s, I’m on to her...

Silversun Pickups: Melatonin. Melatonin creates a lightening of the skin. But with crunchy guitars, and a bass line that will punch you, all this song will create is a beaming smile. That was lame. Let me start over. Wait... I lost my train of thought.

WHERE’S MY EDITOR?!

David Bowie: Young Americans. This song has all I need in life at this moment. Horn section, piano, Motown backup singers. So many sounds coming into my ears right now. Blowing. My. Mind.

Wilco: Handshake Drugs. From their seminal album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, this song’s obviously kind of literal. Seven minutes of pure gold.

Queens of the Stone Age: Feel Good Hit of the Summer.Tongue in cheek song about drugs. They only sing fi ve words in this song. “Nicotine, valium, Vicodin, ecstasy and alcohol...” Ridiculous, but you’ll be bobbing your head to this none-the-less.

Editor’s note: Dustin reported last week that he’s feeling “fantastic” and is back at work entertaining locals on the morning show. I’d also like to add my pick Where is My Mind by The Pixies.

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With teen fantasy novels still going strong, I thought I’d pick a book that contains a strong female lead, aspects of adventure, and is very well written.

I love all of Juliet Marillier’s books (she has a great Celtic fantasy series), and this one is no exception. Wildwood Dancing is set in a historical rural Transylvania, and is loosely based on the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses.

Here, there are five adventurous sisters who live near the

edge of the Wildwood - a land of magic, fairies, and the Night People.

When their father falls ill, it’s up to the two oldest sisters (Jena and Tati) to manage the household. All goes well until a tragic accident puts their overbearing cousin Cezar in charge, and the sisters become divided. Jena must use all her wits to save those she loves and fight for her own independence.

There are not one but two romances, and even an enchanted frog. While it is a

fantasy, Marillier has done her homework, and uses the rich folklore and mythology of Transylvania (reaching past the Dracula myth to the older tales of the Night People) to create a world that is believable as it is fantastic.

I couldn’t put it down, and was quite excited to find that there is a companion book titled Cybele’s Secret.

While this is a teen novel, I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good story.

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The paper has come down off the windows of Fusion and Relish has been unveiled, but the man behind Fusion seemed to have disappeared.

"I felt like when I sold Fusion I just sold it and didn't do a going away party. I just did all the paper work and did my own thing," said Jamie Hertz chef and former owner of Fusion. "I think it was because I was way beyond burned out."

Since the restaurant switched over to Relish, Hertz has been hearing a lot of questions about his whereabouts.

"I just wanted people to know I'm alive and well and I'm in Nelson, and I have a bunch of little businesses on the go - I always have my finger on something," he said.

After several months away from cooking, Hertz is ready to get back to work.

"I just got the domain name set up yesterday: I want to do Nelson Underground and it's going to be nelsonunderground.ca," said Hertz.

It will be Nelson's first underground restaurant.

At a undisclosed location, Hertz will serve a five course meal to a small group — from six to 10 people — for the set price of $65.

"The idea is to give a really high quality, high end experience where it's somewhat of a cooking class and it's a show," said Hertz.

Nelson U n d e r ground was essentially born out of Hertz's love for food and Megan Cole photo the kitchen.

"I really really miss cooking," he said. "For the first little while when I sold the restaurant I wasn't sure if I wanted to cook any more. I felt dead. I just went through all that Top Chef stuff and I did a bunch of media stuff. But now I'm itching to get back to it."

Another project Hertz is working on is an educational website teaching people to cook, including various dietary restrictions like celiac disease and sugar free.

"We'll teach people how to cook and actually not be afraid of cooking," said Hertz. "There will actually be a video recipe. It won't just be im-

ages and words."

Hertz ownered of Fusion of seven years and during that time received both Canadian and US fame through the TV show Top Chef Canada.

"I really just wanted to thank Nelson," said Hertz. "I never really got a chance to thank them. I'm not leaving town and I'm not being run out of town. I just decided that after seven years it was time to step back and do other things with my life. " Stay tuned to {vurb} for the launch of Nelson Underground and more with Jamie Hertz.

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Arts and Entertainment Listings ON STAGE Nelson Youth Theatre presents The Nuppet Show at The Capitol Theatre on Saturday, February 25. Tickets are available at the Capitol Theatre box office.

As part of the Capitol Theatre’s kids series Alex Zerbe: Professional Zaniac takes the stage on Sunday, February 26. Tickets are available at the Capitol Theatre box office.

The Capitol Theatre's Big Lip Sync Competition is coming Saturday, March 3. Last day o registration is Friday, February 17.Tickets for the March 3rd event are $10 kids, $15 adult and $45 family of four. For more information please call 250.352.6363.

MUSIC Friday, February 24 The Polyrhythmics with Lint and Rafferty Funksmith play the Royal.

Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets $15 available at Urban Legends and liveattheroyal.com Friday, February 24 at Spiritbar. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Ticket information is available at the Hume Hotel.

Join the hillbilly jam every Friday night at the Ymir Hotel.

For more information contact Hans Mayar at 250-357-2461.

Funkanomics plays Spiritbar with Freddy J on Saturday, February 25. Doors open at 10 p.m. Ticket information is available at The Hume Hotel.

The Royal is opening their doors to the community on Saturday, February 25.

The Man in Havana will be on deck to help launch the new microbrew beer, wine list and non-alcoholic

drinks. Doors open at 9 p.m.

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James Lamb and David Newberry, An Elegant Touch and the Trafalgar Coffeehouse Singers play Unplugged Sessions at Ellison's Market starting at noon on Saturday, February 25. More information is available at Ellison’s Cafe’s Facebook page.

James Lamb and David Newberry perform on Sunday, February 26 at John Ward Fine Coffee at 7:30 p.m.

Guitarist extrodinaire Charlie Hunter plays The Royal on Monday, February 27. Doors open at 6 p.m. and showtime is at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available at Urban Legends and online at liveattheroyal. com Every Tuesday at The Royal local musicians take the stage.

This week is Knoot with Groove Machine. Doors open at 9 p.m. No cover.

Nelson vocalist Laura Landsberg joins Guitarist Cliff Maddix.

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Every Wednesday The Royal Variety Show opens the stage up to local talent. The open mic night starts at 9 p.m. Instruments are provided. No cover.

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by the fire starting at 6 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday February 28 in the Hume Hotel’s Library Lounge.

On Friday, February 24 at Finley's Glacier Gymnastics Burger and Beer Fundraiser from 6 to 9 p.m. Come down and support local sports in your community Also if your team or organization is wanting to raise some funds come down and see how it happens and we would be happy to book your date!

Finley’s Saturday we have live music and free cover with our all request DJ from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Come down to Finley’s if you feel like dancing!

Finley’s Wednesday wing and wine night get a pound of wings and wine with karaoke to follow. Enjoy our busy wing and wine night from 5 to 10 p.m. Karaoke from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m.

ARTS ANNOUNCEMENTS A call for artists! Plans for the second (non-annual) fantastic art sale are underway. Kate Bridger is organizing this event which will likely take place in Nelson towards the end of May. There are no commissions, just a modest set-up fee. Interested artists are invited to contact Bridger at kbridger@telus.net for details.

Art opening at the Dominion Cafe. Saturday, March 3 from 4 to 8 p.m. There will be an open house with wine and cheese with original paintings

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Leafs and Rebels Open Post Season on Friday

‘It will be war for sure’ After the regular season solves nothing, historic rivalry kicks off the run to the KIJHL crown.

Either the Nelson Leafs or Castlegar Rebels will come away with bragging rights within a week BOB HALL

KIJHL Stats League Standings

FINAL STANDINGS Neil Murdoch Division TEAM GP W L T Beaver Valley 52 42 7 0 Castlegar 52 37 11 1 Nelson 52 30 17 0 Spokane 52 21 28 1 Grand Forks 52 1 49 0

OTL 3 3 5 2 2

P 87 78 65 45 4

Eddie Mountain Division TEAM GP W Fernie 52 35 Kimberley 52 36 Creston Valley 52 30 Golden 52 21 Columbia Val. 52 3

L 12 14 17 25 48

T 0 1 0 1 0

OTL 5 1 5 5 1

P 75 74 65 48 7

Okanagan Division TEAM GP Osoyoos 52 Princeton 52 Penticton 52 Kelowna 52 Summerland 52

W 31 28 25 26 15

L 18 19 19 22 35

T 1 1 1 0 0

OTL 2 4 7 4 2

P 65 61 58 56 32

Doug Birks Division TEAM GP Revelstoke 52 Kamloops 52 N. Okanagan 52 Sicamous 52 Chase 52

W 37 35 35 22 5

L 11 10 16 28 45

T 0 1 0 1 1

OTL 4 6 1 1 1

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Nelson Star Editor

It’s as even a first round playoff series as you can get and one that promises plenty of excitement. Two bitter rivals, deadlocked during regular season, will settle the score over the next week.

Game one of the Neil Murdoch Division semi-final opens tonight in Castlegar with the Nelson Junior Leafs and Castlegar Rebels looking to start a march towards a KIJHL championship on the right bladed foot.

“It’s going to be a very good series,” says Leafs head coach Frank Maida. “Both teams get excited to play each other.”

The eight regular season games solved nothing in the Highway 3A rivalry. In a back-and-forth manner, the two teams came out with four wins each.

Though the Rebels finished 13 points ahead of the Leafs in the regular season standings, that will mean nothing when the puck drops at the Castlegar Community Complex in what could very likely be a series that goes the seven game distance.

“I would say we are a bit of an underdog on paper, but through playing them we are all square. So it’s anyone’s series to win,” says Leafs leading goal scorer Patrick Martens.

“It’s going to be a really fun series… it will be war for sure.”

Both teams boast a potent offensive attack with a mix of proven veterans like

Upcoming Games NEIL MURDOCH DIVISION Castlegar (2) vs. Nelson (3) Game 1: February 24 in Castlegar Game 2: February 25 in Castlegar Game 3: February 27 in Nelson Game 4: February 28 in Nelson Beaver Valley (1) vs. Spokane (4) Game 1: February 24 in Fruitvale Game 2: February 25 in Fruitvale

The eight regular season games between the Leafs and the Rebels have been physical affairs and there is no reason to believe the playoffs will be any different.

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Castlegar’s Anthony Delong and flashy newcomers like Nelson’s Nik Newman.

“Castlegar is a similar team to us,” says Maida.

“They move their feet and they move the puck well.

They have a lot of experience up front that can do a lot of damage so we have to be ready and pay a lot of attention to those guys.

“We are a pretty deep, four strong line team. It will be to our advantage that we

can throw out any line at any time and create some opportunities.

“Our defence is very good with experienced guys like Jonathan Petrash and Tyler Parfeniuk, and some young guys that are eager. We do have the nucleus and we are gelling at the right time of the season… we are all excited and ready to go.”

As is the case in any successful playoff run, the last line of defence will play a

major role in ultimate success. In that category, the Leafs have a proven money goaltender in Andrew Walton who helped take the Fernie Ghostriders to final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup last spring.

“It will be a tough series and it could come down to goaltending. If that’s the case then I feel pretty good Story continues to Page 25

EDDIE MOUNTAIN DIVISION Fernie (1) vs. Golden (4) Game 1: February 24 in Fernie Game 2: February 25 in Fernie Kimberley (2) vs. Creston Valley (3) Game 1: February 24 in Kimberley Game 2: February 25 in Kimberley OKANAGAN DIVISION Osoyoos (1) vs. Kelowna (4) Game 1: February 24 in Osoyoos Game 2: February 25 in Osoyoos Princeton (2) vs. Penticton (3) Game 1: February 24 in Princeton Game 2: February 25 in Princeton DOUG BIRKS DIVISION Revelstoke (1) vs. Sicamous (4) Game 1: February 24 in Revelstoke Game 2: February 25 in Revelstoke Kamloops (2) vs. North Okanagan (3) Game 1: February 24 in Kamloops Game 2: February 25 in Kamloops

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WHO WILL BE NELSON’S 2011 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR?

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The Nelson Knights of Columbus are seeking nominations to recognize an individual who has made the greatest contribution through volunteerism.

Nomination forms and cover letters are available at Nelson City Hall, Chamber of Commerce and Sonja’s China Cabinet.

Nominations close at 4:00 p.m. February 29, 2012

REGULAR SEASON RECORDS

K N I G H T S OF COLUMBUS

Nelson: 30-17-0-5 65 points • Third in the Neil Murdoch Division • Tied for eighth in the KIJHL overall standings Castlegar: 37-11-1-3 78 points • Second in the Neil Murdoch Division • Tied for second in the KIJHL overall standings Nelson goals for/goals against: 259/167 Castlegar goals for/goals against: 255/133

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PLAYERS TO WATCH Nelson leading point getter: Nik Newman, 68 Nelson leading goal scorer: Patrick Martens, 40 Nelson penalty minute leader: Colton Malmsten, 181 Nelson goalies save %: Andrew Walton .892 (28 GP) and Patrick Defoe .878 (23 GP) Castlegar leading point getter: Stuart Walton, 87 Castlegar leading goal scorer: Anthony Delong, 39 Castlegar penalty minute leaders: Kody Disher and Erik Alden, 148 Castlegar goalies save %: Connor Beauchamp .898 (29 GP) and Jordan Gluck .898 (26 GP)

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Continued from Page 24 about our goaltending presently,� says Maida, who was quick to give plenty of credit for the team’s regular success to backup rookie puck stopper Patrick Defoe. “At this point Andrew will start the playoffs and we will see how it goes from there,� adds Maida. “If he needs a rest or a break then Patrick will be ready for it.�

Martens agrees that the guys wearing the biggest pads will be instrumental, but he’s not throwing the team’s fate on one player. “All the pressure shouldn’t be on the goaltenders,� says

Martens. “Obviously they have a big stake in it, but we have shown we can score a lot of goals.�

Maida says one of the key intangibles will be special teams. “Discipline will be a very important part,� says the Leafs coach. “They have a very good powerplay and our powerplay has been clicking of late. The team that stays out of the box will have the advantage and we are going to focus on that.�

So who is going to come out on top? It’s nearly impossible to call at this point, but Maida is preparing his crew for a long and exhausting series.

“Once you hit the playoffs there is no time,â€? says Maida who has enjoyed a few marches to the KIJHL finals while an assistant under Simon Wheeldon a couple years back. “You play almost every day and you have to be ready. We will play one period at a time and that is how we are entering the series‌ we are not looking any farther than the first period of the first game.â€?

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High School Team Prepares for Upcoming Season

Local rugby gaining role models MEGAN COLE Nelson Star Reporter

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The snow may still be on the sports fields around Nelson, but the rugby team at L.V. Rogers is preparing for their season.

While the players prepare at home, former Bombers have been taking to the field across the country from Vancouver to Waterloo and one player has gone down under.

Sean Hickson, who joined the Bombers when he started high school, has recently joined an Australian rugby team, the Sunnybank Dragons.

“He was a soccer player for a long time,” said LVR coach Michael Joyce. “Obviously he didn’t have the opportunity to play rugby until Grade 8, but really it’s a high school sport.”

Joyce said that early on as a rugby player Hickson enjoyed the sport for the camaraderie of the team and having fun on the field, but when he was in Grade 11 Joyce saw a change.

“As he came into his senior years he really started to commit to the sport. He

Quinn Cowie (left) is one of the standout LVR players making moves beyond Nelson’s borders.

practiced it and became committed to the gym,” he said.

“He became a student of the game. He went from someone who did it as a pastime and to be with friends and it moved really seriously into him wanting to go somewhere.”

Hickson recently received a unique opportunity to con-

tinue his development and career as a rugby player.

“It’s interesting because Hickson through the Rowers — the club team in Vancouver he was attached to — had the opportunity to go down to play with the Sunnybank Dragons in Queensland, Australia,” said Joyce.

The Dragons are a feeder team for the Queensland

Reds, a professional club.

“The majority of the Reds players go on to play for Team Australia,” said Joyce.

“The Queensland Reds are a really powerful professional team.”

Hickson is currently starting his pre-season for the Dragons.

Joyce said Hickson’s journey to the Dragons is important because Nelson kids can see the path the sport can take them.

“There is a path for kids here. High school graduation doesn’t have to be their ending point,” said Joyce.

Other Bombers like Quinn Cowie, Maverick Seed and Colin Robinson are playing in various levels for the Rowers in Vancouver, and Jim Stevensen is playing university level rugby for the University of Waterloo.

“Cowey is playing for the Rowers at the highest division and having a lot of success there,” said Joyce.

Cowey was the MVP at last year’s provincial tournament and played half a game last week and scored a try.

The Bombers season starts on March 5 with several away games.

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Wildcat Six Off to Winter Games The BC Winter Games go this weekend in Vernon and seven local female hockey players will be in mix. Six Bantam Wildcats and one Nakusp bantam house member made the Kootenay U16 team in January tryouts in Invermere.

The six Wildcats who will represent our area include (L-R) Stephanie McAuley (Trail), Jesse Cooper (Nelson), Julie Sidoni (Trail), Catalina Hartland (Kaslo), Emma Hare (Nelson) and Merissa Dawson (Nelson). Missing from photo is Kira Streliev from Nakusp. Good luck to all the local athletes who are taking part in the Games.

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Faust off to Vermont

Skiers embrace new challenge SUBMITTED

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Former Nelson Junior Leafs goaltender Billy Faust has signed with the University of Vermont for the fall of 2012.

Currently backstopping the Nanaimo Clippers, the 5’11” puck stopper committed to the Catamounts earlier this month.

“We are very proud of Billy,” Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp said on the BCHL website. “He has been a solid member of our hockey club both on and off the ice and is very deserving of this opportunity.

“The University of Vermont will be a great place for Billy to develop as a player while obtaining a top notch education.”

Faust, a native of Alta Loma, Calif. has compiled a 20-21 record this year and has a 2.88 goals-against average to go along with a .912 save percentage and

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Billy Faust

four shutouts. In 68 BCHL games over the last three seasons, he is 32-28.

Faust played two seasons with the Nelson Leafs starting in 2008-09 where the club won a KIJHL championship.

At Vermont, Faust will join his former teammate Kyle Mountain who he played with last season in Penticton.

The Catamounts play in the NCAA Division I Hockey East conference and have produced current NHLers Martin St. Louis and Tim Thomas.

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The Whitewater Ski Team’s K1 and K2 skiers are making history.

Earlier this month four female athletes — Oso Punchard, Haley Mitchell, Savannah Leishman and Cheyanne Stevens — participated in the Kootenay zone’s first ever official K1 skier cross event in Fernie.

“Skier cross is going to add a whole new level of excitement to the sport,” said Whitewater coach Al Bull. “It’s fast and it’s fun. The kids race four at a time so the pressure is on, but by the end of each race they’ve made new friends.”

Punchard, 11, survived three heats to take third place in the B finals.

Day two saw the girls compete in three SL events with the following results: Mitchell 24, 8, 12; Stevens 19, 23, 19; Punchard 20, 19, 22; Leishman 13, 14, 14.

“The team has had a phenomenal race season already but it’s

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far from over,” said Bull. “K1s still have the provincials ahead of them at Big White and the zone finals at Whitewater. Some of our racers are also going to the BC Winter Games [this weekend] and the Whistler Cup.”

“Skier cross is going to add a whole new level of excitement to the sport.”

Al Bull Whitewater Ski Team Coach

Meanwhile, the Whitewater K2 team headed to Apex for a four-day GS and SL provincial race series where they went toe to toe with the best 13-15 year old ski racers in BC. The conditions were challenging and the competition was extremely stiff as the well-oiled and heavily financed race factories from the coast and Okanagan zones, Whistler and Fernie sent their best athletes to compete.

In total, 160 athletes from 20 clubs competed and Whitewater

athletes represented themselves extremely well.

The boys’ results were: Jamis Beatty 13th and 16th with two DNFs; Harper Henderson 34, 36, 45, DNF; and Liam Osak 46, 50, 52, DNF. The K2’s lone female competitor, Paisley Randell, finished 36, 37, 44, 49.

Head coach Dylan Henderson was thrilled with the team’s results.

“Our athletes laid it all on the line every race,” he said. “There was absolutely no holding back and each racer achieved personal bests in at least one discipline at these races.”

The K2s are back training at Whitewater until they head to Panorama for the super G and skier cross provincial championships starting February 29.

“This will be the first time any of our athletes will be competing in either of these disciplines and they are ready to amp up the speed in super G and mix it up in the skier cross,” said Henderson.

“It’s gonna be a super exciting race series at Panorama.”

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Annual General Meeting

Community Touchstones of Nelson - Greg Scott

Monday, February 27 7p.m. at the Nelson Curling Club

Taxi driver thwarts terrorists Dateline February 5,1962

OSPREY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION Applications for General Community Grants and Arts Legacy Grants (for Literary Arts projects) www.ospreycommunityfoundation.ca Application deadline: March 30, 2012 Did you know? Many forms of spoons used by the ancient Egyptians included those composed of ivory, flint, slate and wood.

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errorists struck at the Courthouse late Sunday night, dumping five incendiary devices inside its 50-yearold grey stone walls, almost 19 hours before three convicted terrorists were to be sentenced. Four of the bombs were half gallon Safflo sunflower seed oil cans and the sixth device was found outside the building in a beer box. Quick action by taxi driver Buster Wigg prevented two of the bombs from exploding, by snuffing out their fires with his bare hands and tossing out a third bomb, a gallon jar, which exploded when it struck the pavement in front of the main entrance.

Except for burns to the taxi driver’s hands, no one was injured in the short blaze which scorched the basement stairway, foyer and second floor stairway.

Dateline February 7,1962

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he question of whether an area on the North Shore will

become a motel or a school will probably come before an arbitration board for settlement. Nelson School District wants the property for a school and the present owner of the property wants it for a motel. A committee appointed by the school board has looked over several properties in that area just west of the Nelson Bridge and found this property most suitable for a school site. It is the owner’s contention that if the school board takes part of his property, it will ruin his plans to build a motel there. The property offers beautiful sights of the city lights to tourists and there will also be a place to eat.

The board informed him that they would prefer to negotiate rather than taking steps to expropriate.

Dateline February 8,1962

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ale of the 25-acre farm site of John De Jong to the City for $61,250 will be consummated soon.

The Silver King Road area, overlooking Ymir Road, will be the site for the voca-

tional school to be built by the provincial government.

Actual construction will begin probably June 1, though government crews would likely be on the land at an earlier date. The government did not object to Mr. De Jong’s residing on the property until June 1, but would object to his using the area for farming till that date. City parks committee was told two piles of manure also escaped the city’s grasp. They were informed that the manure piles were chattels of the land and would be removed before construction starts.

Dateline February 19,1962

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t was a busy day for everyone at the Silver King Ski Club jumping hill Sunday when the Nelson Club hosted the Western Canada Nordic Ski Championships. The twoday championship which was studded by skiing stars from British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, attracted close to 1,000 spectators with the majority viewing Sunday’s jump-

ing. Conditions on the hill were fair when the jumping exhibition began and slowly became better as the event progressed. Only three skiers of the 23 entered, fell in their attempts to reach far down the sharp dropping slope.

Dateline February 21,1962

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og tracks on gardens and lawns added $300 a month to the city employee’s payroll Monday night.

Citizen’s ire over wandering canines culminated in city council’s agreement to hire a full time dog catcher.

“This has been brought upon us by pressure of the people,” explained Mayor T.S. Shorthouse, “This problem has been a menace for many years. I’m getting phone calls morning, noon, and night and it is time we put this on a full time basis.

This man will be working 12 to 16 hours a day catching up with dogs and controlling the problem,” the mayor said, adding that the dogs have had a 10-year head start on the catcher.

L.V. Rogers Takes Lead on Pink Shirt Day

High school students join sea of pink SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star

L.V. Rogers Secondary School, along with tens of thousands of schools across Canada, is taking part in an event known as Pink Shirt Day. On Wednesday, February 29 students and teachers will be wearing pink to symbolize a stand against bullying and that it has no place in schools, the workplace or even in the home.

Pink Shirt Day is a nationwide movement that originated at Central Kings Rural High School in Cambridge, Nova Scotia over a decade ago. There, two students witnessed a bully harassing and threatening a Grade 9 boy wearing a pink shirt to school. The two students, who witnessed the event, took action, went out and bought 50 pink shirts, encouraging others to wear them or their own pink clothes to school the next day. “A sea of pink” hit the school the following morning when hundreds of students showed up decked out in pink to support the cause.

Schools right across the country now

Members of the LV Rogers leadership team will be wearing their pink next week.

participate annually in Pink Shirt Day and seven schools from Nelson are on the official list of schools taking part in the event. Students are asking the community to participate in this important event and wear pink on February 29 to

support the stand against bullying.

If you are a victim of bullying you can contact the Kids Help Line at 1-800-668-6868 or register a complaint at stopabully.com. And to learn more you can visit pinkshirtday.ca.

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Community Volunteer Group Once Again Comes Through for Local Health Care

Hospital auxiliary digs deep for Foundation removed. The auxiliary reported this to the management of the hospital who in turn spread the word that this was not to be tolerated as the plants were donated and worked on by

volunteers to make the hospital a more pleasant place. Within a short time, an envelope appeared in the gift shop with $80 and a note stating that the person was sorry for stealing the plants and

the $80 was to pay for them.

The auxiliary is always looking for new members. If you have time to volunteer, please call Caroline Hopwood at 250-352-7170. If you

don’t have time to join, but like to knit or quilt the auxiliary would be happy to have your donation.

The auxiliary also has wool available if your need it to knit for the gift shop.

Kootenay Lake Levels February 22, 2012 For the benefit of Kootenay Lake area residents, the following lake levels are provided by FortisBC as a public service.

Members of the Nelson Chapter of the Kootenay Lake Hospital Auxiliary recently donated $10,000 to top up the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation’s Light Up the Hospital campaign and ensure the Foundation met its goal of raising money for equipment purchases for the surgical unit. Members of the executive presented the cheque to Foundation administrator Bryna Idler.

SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star

The Nelson Chapter of the Kootenay Lake Hospital Auxiliary has been operating since it was formed in 1931.

It is not just a bunch of women having bake sales, although bake sales are one of its activities. In 2011, the Nelson Chapter of the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation donated $39,000 to the equipment fund of the Foundation.

The 69 members of the auxiliary raised this money by operating the hospital gift shop, providing TV service to the patients, operating the ATM machine in the hospital lobby, conducted two raffles and four bake sales.

To meet this goal, the members put in 15,000 volunteer hours last year.

The auxiliary takes care of the gardens and planters at the

hospital, decorates the hospital for special holidays and, with the help of other volunteers, takes little gifts to the patients at Christmas and Easter. The auxiliary also recognizes the New Year’s Baby, with a special gift.

In the past, the auxiliary has purchased furniture for various departments in the hospital, such as maternity, palliative care and the lounge areas.

The auxiliary gift shop is located off the lobby at the hospital.

The shop has a wide variety of small gifts, knitting, blankets, gift cards, used books, patient comfort supplies, confections, stuffed toys, baby gifts, etc. The gift shop has cards crafted by auxiliary members who do this to raise funds specifically for furnishings for the chemo unit.

The shop is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to

Friday and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays.

It is a great place to purchase a gift for any event. All proceeds are returned to support patient care.

The auxiliary plants and maintains the gardens, flower boxes and hanging plants at the hospital.

This is done to create a more pleasant atmosphere for both the patients and visitors to the hospital.

Last year while the volunteers were working on the plants, an elderly gentleman was sitting outside and made a comment that he had been in the hospital for 43 days and sitting outside among the flowers was a real blessing to him that had helped lift his spirits.

In 2010, some of the perennial plants went missing. It appeared that this was not the work of vandals, but the plants were properly

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Happy Though Married Raising well adjusted Kids - Jim Reimer, Pastor Kootenay Christian Fellowship For the last three weeks, we have been talking about marriage in our “Happy though Married” series.

Today’s subject is one that has great potential to put your marriage under stress and can even destroy it. I speak of raising children. A big mistake couples can make is to divert their attention from keeping their marriage healthy and strong to focusing entirely on their kids. At first glance this may seem strange, but let me assure you, strong healthy marriages produce emotionally strong healthy children.

This is not to say we should not care for our children. Matthew 18:1-6 tells us to do it well and not to offend any of these little ones. If we don’t care for our kids, there is a severe and terrible consequence that awaits. The best way not to offend these little ones is for the husband and wife to have a good relationship. In the book Exploring Psychology, the authors quote the researcher, Mavis Hetheringtion and her colleagues, who stated that divorce places “children at increased risk for developing social, psychological, behavioral and academic problems.”

Conventional wisdom says that a bad marriage harms the kids and it is not good for them to see a loveless marriage. However, new research is now suggesting that even a challenging marriage is still better for the kids than divorce.

Dr. Joshua Coleman, psychologist and author says, “Contrary to the wisdom of pop psychology, it is not essential to you or your children’s well-being for you to have a great marriage.” In fact he counsels, “imperfect harmony” allow parents to demonstrate conflict resolution, faithfulness, and forgiveness.

Parents, if your marriage is struggling, instead of using your kids as an excuse to divorce, work on the challenges and make it better. There is no problem or challenge to big that God cannot help make better.

Children learn more by what you do than what you say.

They are natural mimics who act like their parents, despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.

The way you handle conflict is the way they will. The way you treat your spouse is the way they will treat their friends. The way you work is the way they will work. The attitude you display towards your spouse, is the one they will carry. This should give us pause. If we want to have welladjusted kids, who grow up mature and responsible, then we must first demonstrate maturity and responsibility in our relationship with our spouse.

Determine what kind of home you are going to have: will it be: one that is filled with laughter and fun or tension and work; one that is filled with acceptance and love, or criticism and judgment; or one that is filled with respect and honor, or rudeness and impatience.

These things you have control over. If you feel that your marriage has deteriorated to the point where you don’t have control, then it is time to seek help. There are excellent individuals in our community that can asset in resolving marriage conflict.

Pray and consider church attendance. God is very much interested in the wellbeing of your marriage and the emotional and spiritual health of your kids.

And most importantly, determine to be “Happy though Married” and see what a difference it will make.

Community

Churches of Nelson Anglican Church of Canada St. Saviour's ProCathedral Ward & Silica, Nelson Family Service & Eucharist Sunday 10:30 AM

St. Matthew's Village Road, South Slocan Sunday 9:30 AM (No service third Sunday) Office: 8am - 1pm Tue - Fri

250.352.5711 St. Michael & All Angels stsaviours@netidea.com Busk Road Balfour www.stsavioursnelson.org Sunday 11 AM

A Friendly Bible Centre Church Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 am Sermon title:

“Works, The Proof Of Faith” 623 Gordon Rd. Nelson BC V1L 5X6 Phone 250-352-9322 • Pastor Rev. Ken H. Keber

Refreshments are served after the service

(Affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada)

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church

611 Fifth Street 250-352-3212 Sunday Worship at 10:00 am Pastor Scott Simpson fbcnelson.ca

Nelson United Church Nelson United Church

Sunday Worship Gathering: 10:00 am Minister David Boyd First Sunday of Lent

Evangelical

Covenant Church Loving Jesus, Loving People, Transforming Lives

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• Nelson

702 Stanley St. • 352.9613 Sundays at 10:00 am Pastor Arden Gustafson Pastor Chris Wiens

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• Balfour

7741 Upper Balfour Rd. • 229.2301 Sundays at 9:30 am Pastor Jason Ashley

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• Playmor Junction 2840 Eden Rd. • 359.5065 Sundays at 10:00 am Pastor Jesse Lerch

www.ecov.org

CATHOLIC CHURCH

CATHEDRAL OF MARY IMMACULATE 813 Ward Street 352-7131 Sunday Mass Times: • Saturday 7:00pm • Sunday 8:30 am and 10:30 am

Sunday School (Ages 4 and up) Nursery Room Available Children’s Quiet Play Space

602 Silica Street, Nelson BC V1LL 4N1 Ph: 250.352.2822 • www.nelsonunitedchurch.ca dh h

Parish office open Tuesday – Friday 9:00 am - noon rccathedral@shaw.ca • www.catholiccathedralnelson.ca

The Salvation Army

Nelson Community Church

Sunday Worship Service at 11:00 am Everyone is Welcome

Your Pastors: Majors Robin and Yvonne Borrows (New to Nelson) 250 551 4986

601 Vernon Street (Middle Level)

Community Foundation

Osprey seeks grant applications SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star

Is your organization planning an exciting project within the next year that would really benefit this community? Osprey Community Foundation distributes grants to local organizations to support the great work they are doing. This year’s grant application guidelines and forms are now online at ospreycommunityfoundation.ca.

The deadline for applications is March 30.

Applicants must be registered charities or sponsored by “qualified donees,” as defined by Revenue Canada.

Osprey also distributes one or more grants each year from its BC Festival of the Arts Legacy Fund. The focus this year is on literary arts. These grants support local artists, preferably young or emerging artists, to create new works. Each year a different arts discipline is selected. Applications for these grants are also online, with a March 30 deadline.

Previous grants have supported a range of projects, from providing dental care for lowincome residents, to training Red Cross volunteers to take on leadership roles in the event of a local disaster, to funding CyberSeniors classes to help seniors learn computer skills and stay connected.

Grants have helped fund playgrounds, restore the Anscomb wheelhouse in Balfour, support the Capitol Theatre’s summer youth program, and subsidize summer tipi camp fees for low-income families.

That’s just a sample.

This is all possible because of donations local citizens have made to Osprey’s Community Fund. The community benefits go on year after year, because donations to the Foundation are never touched, but become part of an endowment — a growing community nest egg — generating income to support the people of this area in perpetuity.

For further information, contact executive director Vivien Bowers at 250-352-3643 or ED@ospreycommunityfoundation.ca

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Unity Centre of the Kootenays Sunday 11:00 am Angel and Cedar On Colour and Sound 905 Gordon Rd (IHA Bldg., back door)

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Community Grand Opening Set for Saturday

Art institute takes therapy to the next level MEGAN COLE Nelson Star Reporter

The Kutenai Art Therapy Institute has seen a lot of growth since it began in a small office on Front Street in 1995.

Through the work of interns and the staff of the institute, thousands of hours of free art therapy has been provided to the community.

“One of the things I think is really significant about the institute is that we are responsive,” said Monica Carpendale, founder and executive director.

“We respond to the requests of the community. We don’t go out and say what we’re doing but as the needs become evident in a great many ways we

Monica Carpendale, founder and executive director of the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute.

Megan Cole photo

look at how we can best meet those needs.”

The Institute trains students through their campus program and their distance program and will soon be opening an East Coast campus in Halifax.

A new phase is also starting in Nelson as they celebrate the grand opening of their new location on the corner of Falls and Baker Streets.

The offices include new studio and classroom space which will allow them to provide more services like an open studio for teens on Thursdays.

Art therapy helps people in both group and individual settings work through issues from loss and grief to trauma and life threatening illnesses.

“The new neuroscience research is demonstrating how important the art therapy process is from the physical to the sensory engagement to make new pathways through the brain,” said Carpendale.

She said that unlike talk therapy, art therapy can help those who can not express themselves through language have a voice.

The institute will be having the grand opening for its new location on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. with a paint-in and open studio session.

There always be a gala with an art auction from 5 to 8 p.m.

The Institute is located at 191 Baker Street on the second floor.

Obituaries & Memorials In Loving Memory of

Mary Berukoff Passed away February 28, 2011 Forever loved and dearly missed by her children Verna, Walter and Cathy and their families

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Forever in our hearts and memories

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In Loving Memory Of

JOHN DERHOUSOFF

January 17, 1930 to February 23, 2006

Katie Konkin Late February 10th, 2012 Katie passed away peacefully in her sleep at the Trail Hospital after a brief illness. She was born in Trail as Katie Zoobkoff on May 31st 1939. Her parents were William Zoobkoff and Mary Kalmakoff who now lay at rest at the Brilliant Cemetary. She was also predeceased by her husband Fred Konkin and her younger brother Bill Zoobkoff. She grew up in Blewett but moved to Nelson shortly after marrying Fred. She is survived but two loving sons, Donald Fred Konkin of Lions Bay, B.C. and Kenneth James Konkin of Van Anda, B.C. and her younger sister Myrtle of Prince Rupert, B.C.. The family initially lived in Rosemont before moving to the Northshore. Katie lived in Nelson her entire adult life and was an avid gardener and loved nature. She was a strong independent woman that had many friends of which we are grateful for all their support, care and kindest wishes. We’d also like to thank the doctors and nurses for their best efforts to save her. In accordance to her wishes, in lieu of flowers please send donations to the CNIB. This institute was instrumental in allowing Katie to maintain her independence during these past few years that enabled her to live a full and productive life. She will sadly be missed by all that knew her.

The World May Change From Year To Year, And Friends From Day To Day, But Never Will The One We Love, From Memory Fade Away.

Always missed & never forgotten The Derhousoff, Nazaroff & Tucker Families

Gail Valliere August 19, 1940 to February 17, 2012

It is with immense sadness and the heaviest of hearts that we announce the end of a life well lived.

On Friday, February 17, 2012 , in the presence of her ever faithful husband, only son and three grandchildren, Gail Valliere of Slocan, B.C. continued her journey with her Heavenly Father.

Originally from Nova Scotia, Gail bravely made the move out west at the age of 21, settling in Slocan, where she met her true love Wilf, uniting in marriage on July 4th, 1969. On June 22, 1978 they welcomed their only child, Andrew.

From a very young age, Gail continuously defeated the many challenges she was faced with due to her diagnosis with muscular dystrophy. Not expected to live into her 30’s, the Lord gave her the strength and determination to surpass the doctor’s expectations by more than 40 years. As a true child of God, Gail faced each new day as a gift, always expressing how grateful she was for what she was given; a wonderful husband who loved her whole heartedly, always ensuring her every need was met, a son who learned from her example and a granddaughter with a heart just as tender as hers. Gail was thrilled when Andrew got married, gaining a daughter-in-law with two children who she adored and loved as her own. Over the years, Gail was blessed by amazing and extraordinary people, making beautiful life long friendships. Her encouragements, generous heart and kindness will be sorely missed by all who were so lucky to have her in their lives. The way Gail lived her life was a true testimony of a Christian - If we could all live by her example the world would be a better place! Gail will forever be remembered by her husband Wilfrid; son Andrew, daughter-in-law Joelle and grandchildren Taylor, Dion and Dania. Also left to cherish warm memories of Gail are her brother Burke, sisters Shirley and Vivian and their families, as well as by many extended family members and an incredible amount of close friends. Gail was predeceased by her parents Ralph and Ivy Miller. As Gail wished, cremation has taken place.

A memorial service to honor Gail’s beautiful life will be announced at a later date.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca Funeral Arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral Service Ltd.

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Lost & Found LOST: Caravelle Bulova Watch w/sentimental value on Valentines’s Day in downtown Nelson area. Call Dana 352-2514 LOST: Dangling multi-stoned earring in Nelson or Castlegar.

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Call Shelley Cameron Estate Administrator at 877-797-4357 today, to set up your FREE consultation in Nelson.

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Eco Society seeks Market Director. Up to 30 hrs/wk relevant experience required www.ecosociety.ca

Births

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Olivia Doreen Gardner Jeremy and April Gardner are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Olivia Doreen. Born September 17, 2011 at 11:44pm, weighing 7 pounds and 9.5 ounces.

Help Wanted

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1st or 2nd Year Apprentice Automotive Technician

HHDI RECRUITING is hiring on behalf of Baker Hughes Baker Hughes Alberta based oilfield services company is currently hiring;

DRIVER EQUIPMENT OPERATORS & SERVICE SUPERVISORS

Wages and benefit package based on experience.

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An earthmoving company based in Edson Alberta requires a full time Heavy Duty Mechanic for field and shop work. We require Cat Dozer/Deere excavator experience. You will work a set schedule for days on and off.

Call Lloyd @ 780-723-5051 CERTIFIED DENTAL ASSISTANT required for F/T position in upbeat, team oriented dental office in Nelson, BC starting April 1, 2012.

Please call (250) 352-2711 or toll free 1 (877) 647-8476.

Please email resume to: mistisosplace@gmail.com DIRECT SALES REPRESENTATIVES. Canada’s premiere home automation and Security Company is NOW hiring AprilAugust. No experience necessary. Travel Required. E-mail resume: kkurtze@vivint.com Visit: www.vivint.ca Kooteany Society for Community Living is looking for someone to do homeshare with an individual with developmental disabilities in his home. The homeshare provider would be living 24-7 in his home. This contract would include respite money, and daytime staffing hours at 5 hours/day, 5 days/week.

Anyone interested please contact KSCL by email at bigbykscl@telus.net or fax at 250-352-0867.

Skilled Millwrights, Welders and Carpenters required for sawmill & mining construction.

Pls fax or email resume to: 250-825-9687 timberlinemill@shaw.ca

Kokanee Springs Golf Resort is now accepting applications for the 2012 Season: Lodge: -Housekeeping Staff Golf Shop: -Retail Staff -Player’s Assistants -Starter -Cart Attendants Food & Beverage: -Servers -Dishwasher/ Food Prep -Cooks -Janitorial Submit your resume with a cover letter stating the department/position you are applying for, to: Kokanee Springs Golf Resort Box 96, Crawford Bay, BC V0B 1E0 Fax: 250-227-9220 or email: brenda@kokaneesprings.com **Staff Accommodation is available**

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Sam at Root 99 is welcoming new clients. Men’s cut $15, Ladies cut $20, Foils $50. For appointments call 354-4999 Terry’s Barber Shop open 6 days a week. Men’s Ladies & Kids cuts. #2 606 Front Street

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For more information or send your resume & current drivers abstract to: driverclass1@shaw.ca JOE’S AUTOBODY REPAIR in Prince Rupert, BC. Currently has an opening for a Collision Technician and Certified Painter. Must be a team player for this relaxed and friendly,but hard working atmosphere.

Wages and moving expenses negotiable. Email resume to: joesauto@citytel.net Fax: 250627-4702. Call: 250-624-1795 Traffic Control training for dates call 1-866-737-2389 or www.roadsafetytcs.com

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MILLWRIGHT (DIESEL MECHANIC) Meadow Creek Cedar Ltd. is hiring for Millwright (Diesel Mechanics) - $29.93/hr, 40 hrs/wk. Send resume by mail Box # 970 Kaslo, BC. V0G 1M0. Fax 250-366-4241.

Help Wanted

Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism Destination Marketing Organization is looking for a dynamic individual comfortable with online marketing and social media with a creative skill set to develop, manage and promote the area’s distinctive character and attractions.

Reporting to and working with the Board of Directors the Executive Director will be responsible for the day to day operation of the ofÀce, the development, coordination and implementation of the yearly marketing and sales initiatives of the Destination Marketing Organization.

Required Skills include · Knowledge of destination marketing principle’s · Ability to develop and implement media campaigns, media buys · Knowledge of tourism industry including local, provincial and national trends · Sound working knowledge of computer applications · Ability to maintain relationships with partners, industry stakeholders, municipal and regional politicians, media and businesses · Ability to work Áexible hours as required for meetings and or trade show events.

Send or drop off your Resume by March 9th to: Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism Society Hiring Committee c/o Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce 225 Hall Street Nelson BC V1L 5X4 Or email to nrsc@telus.net

Reliable & Responsible Fifty + man, w/good rental reference looking for 2bdrm unit or 1bdrm in shared situation.

Has small, well behaved dog & cat. Vegetarian, Non-drinker, NS. Pls contact Mel 352-9876

Transportation

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Household Services

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SCRAP BATTERIES WANTED We buy scrap batteries from cars & trucks & heavy equipment. $4.00 each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Minimum 10.

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Boats

Livestock

14’ Springbok Boat. 9.9HP, Evenrude engine, 5 gallon fuel tank, 2 fuel lines. as is package $1500 call 250-352-5097

BULLS For Sale: Luing Registered 2-year old and yearling bulls for sale. Telephone: 250346-3100. Delivery available.

World’s Finest FISHING BOATS 2011 Lund 1800 Sport Angler 150 HP Mercury Verado, full canvas wash down. Shorelander trailer.

Clearance price $36,995 US Mark’s Marine, Hayden, ID Call 1-888-821-2200 for more info. www.marksmarineinc.com

Merchandise for Sale

Food Products BUTCHER SHOP BC INSPECTED GRADED AA OR BETTER LOCALLY GROWN NATURAL BEEF Hormone Free Grass Fed/Grain Finished $100 Packages Available Quarters/Halves $2.45/lb Hanging Weight Extra Lean Hamburger $4.00/lb TARZWELL FARMS 250-428-4316 Creston

Heavy Duty Machinery A- STEEL SHIPPING STORAGE CONTAINERS / Bridges / Equipment Wheel loaders JD 644E & 544A / 63’ & 90’ Stiff boom 5th wheel crane trucks/Excavators EX200-5 & 892D-LC / Small forklifts / F350 C/C “Cabs”20’40’45’53’ New/ Used/ Damaged /Containers Semi Trailers for Hiway & StorageCall 24 Hrs 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for Sale

For full Job Description please go to www.nelsonkootenaylake.com This is a contract position based on 32 hours per week.

Salary Range is $40,000 - $48,000 and is dependant upon experience and skill-set.

Want to Rent

ICF BUILDING PRODUCTS LOGIX Insulated Concrete Forms. Highest Energy (50%) Savings, High Quality Products, Service and Installation.

Castlegar Home Expo March 3 and 4 at Selkirk College.

Demos 1 PM. West Kootenay Distributor: 1-888-289-4731. brianoneill77@gmail.com www.logixicf.com

Pets & Livestock

Trades, Technical

Fairview: Looking for a funny, respectful & tidy housemate in February (asap). call 352-2816

Duplex/4 Plex

Legal Services

Drivers

Help Wanted

Employment Opportunities

Merchandise for Sale

NELSON: 1201 Davies St. new 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom duplex. Half sold, high quality, energuide 80,great views, great location, $349,000 incl.

HST, 250-226-7809. propertyguys.com ID#196677

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LIVE in Nanny wanted. Grand Forks area. Wages paid to care for teen. Must have valid drivers license, be outgoing. positive, and responsible. Call 250-442-6060 or 250-3099566

Calling Wood Artisans The Cross Roads Collective is a live woodworking shop and Consignment type gallery featuring wood artisans from the Kootenays.

We will have our grand opening in Invermere in early May and we are currently seeking artisans interested in consigning pieces and being involved in a collaborative artisans community.

For more information please call or email Jessie at: 1-250-688-0061

Services

BRAND NEW, never out of the box Cuisinart fully automatic burr grind & brew thermal coffeemaker. Paid $220 + HST SELLING FOR $150 OBO 250-551-8965 HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

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Mobile Homes & Parks 1983 General 14x70 3-bdrm Mobile home. Following renovations: sealed vinyl double pane windows, hot water tank, stove, fridge, bathroom, laminate flooring, metal roof with engineered trusses. Sliding glass doors off of dining area.

Asking $32,000 Must be moved. 250.354.1257 FACTORY DIRECT WHOLESALE modular homes, manufactured homes, and park models. New homes starting as low as $37,209, 16 wides $49,183, and double wides $70,829. www.hbmodular.com or 877976-3737 The Home Boys.

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent 2bdrm + large storage room.

Very nice, great location, NS call 250-551-4821 for details NELSON: Uphill, 2 bdrm WD/FS, NS/NP, Avail. March 1st $695/month 250-354-7438 Newly Reno’d self contained bachelor suite w/lake view, close to town, very quiet NS/NP, WD, $525/mo 250-352-5634 / 250-354-1424 Shaughnessy Apartments now accepting applications on 2 bedroom apt. NS/NP $670/mo + util. Quiet Adult bldg in Rosemont 352-0118

Homes for Rent 2.5 bdrm Mobile Home N/S, N/P, W/D, new carpet.

Adult Park, references required, 7 min to Nelson on Granite Rd. $775.00/mo plus utilities. 250-352-0898

World’s Finest FISHING BOATS Weldcraft, Hewescraft, Lund, Godfrey Pontoons Mark’s Marine, Hayden, ID 1-888-821-2200 www.marksmarineinc.com

Moorage

Rare opportunity to own one of the very popular Nelson boathouses. This boathouse has had numerous recent upgrades, including new front and back doors as well as new decking. This is a great boathouse for some family fun and a great way to take advantage of all of the fun opportunities Kootenay Lake has to offer. $30,000. For more info contact Bev at 250-505-5744 or by email at taillon@shaw.ca.

Legal

Legal Notices NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Notice is hereby give that creditors and others having claims against the estate of William Joseph Robertson aka: Billy Robertson of 290 Vector Road, Salmo, BC V0G 1Z0 are required to send full particulars of such claims to the executor, Bill Robertson at 250-357-0131 on or before March 2, 2012 after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have been received.

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Cottons Clothing Company is pleased to announce the launch of

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a two day collaborative workshop facilitated in association with six dynamic presenters and delivered with love and intention.

Sunday, March 4th 9:45 am - 3:45 pm Nutritious lunch provided Sunday, March 25th 12:30 - 5:00 pm Dinner and a movie to follow Pre-registrtion is required (maximum 10 women) Cost is $95.00 per person

Stop by Cottons 390 Baker St. to register or for more information.

They Know the Drill The staff and students at St. Joseph’s Elementary School posted impressive results to overcome strong showings from other schools to win the latest round of the Nelson Fire Rescue Services’ Fire Drill award. To win the trophy, and the $300 cash prize that accompanies it, schools were judged on their conduct while they exited their buildings. It should be noted that the alarms were activated, without warning, by Nelson ďŹ reďŹ ghters, to simulate the spontaneous nature of ďŹ re alarms. The best schools not only knew to be calm and efďŹ cient while exiting, but also to ensure all windows and doors were closed behind them. Closing a door to a room helps limit smoke damage in a building and slow a ďŹ re’s growth. Nelson Fire Rescue Services thanks the Nelson Insurance Brokers Association (RHC, BCAA, Poulin’s, and KIS) for funding the cash prize and offers congratulations to the staff and students at St. Joseph’s.

Anyone wishing to ďŹ nd out more information about exiting a building during an alarm or with other preparationrelated questions are encouraged to contact the ďŹ rehall at 250-352-3103 or visit nelson.ca

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GENDERCIDE The War on Baby Girls Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100 million girls have disappeared— and the number is rising

Izu-shi Friendship Society Needs New Volunteers

Keeping our links with Japan

See: The Economist: March 4th 2010 http://www.economist.com/node/15606229

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The Izu-shi Friendship Society (formerly the Nelson – Shuzenji Friendship Society), is celebrating its 25th anniversary as a sister city with Izu, Japan.

The society which began in 1987 as an economic and cultural exchange between Nelson and Shuzenji is mainly now a cultural exchange.

The Izu-shi Friendship Society now maintains the garden at Cottonwood Falls Park, hosts Japanese students and adults in a homestay program in Nelson, which is struggling right now. The society also sends students and adults from Nelson to Izu in

the spring, and although this has not happened for the last five years, because of various problems in the world, most recently the tsunami and nuclear power plant failure.

There is hope that this program will get back on track with some new members.

The Izu Peninsula is approximately two hours from Tokyo and five to six hours from the Onagawa, Japan.

The largest part of what the society does is the organization of the homestay program.

This requires a lot of time and volunteer work. The greatest reward from this is the long lasting friendships that develop and stay forever.

“I have been fortunate enough to go to Shuzenji twice

Are you having difficulty concentrating?

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1990 and 1995 with the Kootenay Kiltie Pipe Band promoting Canada and the City of Nelson,” said society member Bruce Walgren. “The friendships I made during those two trips still carry on today.”

The society is looking for new volunteer members who would like to help maintain the Garden at Cottonwood Falls Park, learn about the Japanese culture, the people, language and the country and share the Nelson/Canadian culture with some new friends.

They will be holding their annual general meeting on February 28 at 7 p.m. in the Nelson Fire Hall meeting room.

For more information contact Bruce Walgren at 250-352-7110 or email walgren@telus.net.

Lakeside Physiotherapy & Sports Injuries Clinic The staff at Lakeside Physiotherapy & Sports Injuries Clinic are very pleased to announce that Robyn Skopac, BSc., MPT will join our treatment team.

Born and raised in Nelson, Robyn was excited to return to the Kootenays to pursue her career. Working in both Nelson & Creston, she’s also been the physiotherapist for the Nelson Leafs for two years.

Robyn enjoys the outdoors, with a special passion for downhill skiing, mtn biking, road biking and soccer.

To book an appointment with Robyn, call: 250 354-3929.

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We Love Your Pets & They love Us!

Nelson

Licensed Poultry Abattoir

Animal A niimall Hospital Healthy Pets, Happy Pets

Chicken Day at Vallican Whole SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star

After a successful first year operating the area’s only licensed poultry abattoir, owner Judi Morton is beginning the new season with an educational event.

“Chicken Day” will be held March 10 at the Vallican Whole Community Centre.

It will feature an introductory session for beginners as well as sessions for experienced poultry producers and planning for group orders of chicks and feed.

Morton is expecting a busy second season for her abattoir.

“We have a great crew who take pride in our convenient and humane service,” she said. “We have updated our website with tips for commercial producers and backyard hobbyists alike (passmorepluckers.ca).”

The site also has the schedule, booking instructions and prices.

Locally raised poultry is popular and profitable.

Morton hopes her abattoir will support growth of sustainable farming in the

area. Chicken that has been processed in a licenced facility can be sold legally to a wholesaler or direct to retailers, restaurants or consumers. Every bird in Morton’s abattoir is examined by a Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspector.

“Our CFIA inspector was really impressed with the quality of poultry raised in this area,” Morton said.

The abattoir is located in the Slocan Valley so poultry travel less than two hours from anywhere in the West Kootenay.

Considerate treatment of the birds is important for Morton.

“Short travel distances are best for the birds,” she said.

“Most go from the producer’s farm to the customer’s fridge or freezer in the same day. We help producers plan their delivery to get the optimum value from the birds and create a safe delicious product.”

Chicken Day will be held at the Vallican Whole from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday March 10.

Admission by donation. For directions see VallicanWhole. com.

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250.352.7178 520 C Falls Street Nelson

Valhalla Path Realty 280 Baker St., Nelson, BC

(250)354-4089

valhallapathrealty@telus.net THE BEST OF RURAL LIVING

Wayne Germaine 250.354.2814 wayne@valhallapathrealty.com

Robert Goertz 250.354.8500 robert@valhallapathrealty.com www.kootenayconnector.com

$599,900

$275,000

Impressive handcrafted timber frame home 10 minutes west of Nelson with stunning river and mountain views. The quality and warmth make you feel at home. 4 beds, 2½ baths, including a huge master suite with office nook and deck.

Wood cabinets, floors and windows. Wood burning stone fireplace, efficient heat pump/air conditioning system, wine pantry, media/movie room. Spacious sun deck. Large double garage/ shop with fitness loft. Over 1 acre with trees, lawn and southern exposure.

Call Wayne

A WHITE PICKET FENCED HOME Built in 1919, this home in Uphill offers an affordable alternative to renting. A comfortable residence, this 3 bedroom heritage home sits on a superb lot and has a good floor plan. www.kootenayconnector.com Call Robert

Norm Zaytsoff 250.354.8584 norm@valhallapathrealty.com

Lev Zaytsoff 250.354.8443 lev@valhallapathrealty.com

Hidden in the trees of Bonnington this park like acreage is as rare as it is special. From its development potential to its mountainous beauty this is truly a specialty property. The 4 bed 3 bath home is well thought out, bright and is sure to please. In addition there is a wood burning sauna and a 16’3x 24’2 shop well equipped for the craftsman in the family. Quick possession is available as well to rent. Opportunity awaits.

$530,000

Call Norm or Lev

$129,900

A LOT OF POTENTIAL Level serviced Fairview Lot with access off of 10th St or 11th.

Towering evergreens, a lake view and assured privacy are just a few of the perks of this well positioned lot. Bring your plans bring your dreams.

Call Lev or Norm

www.spca.bc.ca/nelson Kootenay Animal Assistance Program Society (KAAP)

Pets Available for Adoption Call 250-551-1053 for information or visit: www.homesforanimals.com

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More can be found on our web site at www.homes4animals.com. Please call our volunteers at 250-551-1053 for more information on any of these sweeties, and to arrange a visit in their foster home. Updates daily on KAAP’s Facebook page as well.

Brewster He’s almost 6 months old, and is a real “Kootenay Special” – Border Collie – Heeler – Staffy cross. Sweet young guy, is prime for puppy training. He will be a medium size dog.

Lots of love to give.

Fingal A 3 year old Akbash – Bernese X, neutered, needing a country property to guard and all-adult family to go skijoring and hiking with. Very obedient, needs experienced owner and he will be the best dog.

Carlie She’s a 6 months old Flamepoint Siamese X kitten. Carlie is spayed and vaccinated. She will do best in a quiet home with another cat for company, as she is shy initially. She will make a wonderful companion.

$1016 PER MONTH!

James Loeppky 250.509.0804 james@valhallapathrealty.com

$249,500

At 3.1% interest, 5% down you can live in this brand new duplex for as little as $1016 per month.

Why pay rent? Call James to view these beautiful 3 bed 2 bath half duplex units anytime.

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Yara Chard 250.354.3382 info@nelsonlocal.com www.nelsonlocal.com

$259,900

This spacious 3-bedroom home is ready to move right into. With fresh paint, new flooring upstairs, and a lovely kitchen, there is not much to do but add your personal decorating touches. It will be easy to enjoy the deck and mountain view during the warmer weather while the kids and pets run free in the fully fenced lot. This property is on the bus route and close to Rosemont school and the new Rosemont park.

Call Yara or visit www.nelsonlocal.com

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STILL DOING TIME!

(Above Savoy Bowling Lanes) Open Tues - Sat.: 12:00 - 5:00pm View our current animals available for adoption and check out the new Lost & Found section on our website!

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Honey One of the prettiest and most affectionate cats we have ever had! Honey is 3 years old, spayed, loving. She would like a mostly indoor home with lots of attention.

Silky long hair will need frequent brushing.

GREAT NEWS! The Kootenay Co-op has included KAAP in their “Till Donation” program. Now it is easy to make a small donation to help our community pets every time you shop. Just look for the KAAP till card, and have it scanned when you do your checkout. Thank you!

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February 24, 2012 OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT NEWS

COUNCIL UPDATES 116 Years of Power and Sustainability This week is Heritage Week and communities across the province are celebrating “Energy in BC: A Powerful Past, a Sustainable Future.” The theme has a lot of meaning here in Nelson, as this month marks 116 years of hydro generation by the City of Nelson.

Nelson Hydro’s revenues make a significant contribution to the City’s annual budget.

Operations Projects for 2012

2012 will be a significant year for Nelson Hydro as the City continues to invest in renewing hydro infrastructure. “Nelson Hydro is an asset not just in energy terms, but also in terms of our financial position,” say Mayor John Dooley. “Pretty soon we will see electrical upgrade work starting up again.

I hope that, when residents see that work happening it will be with a sense of pride. We are in the final stages of renewing our community’s hydro utility.”

Street Plowing, Cleaning and Clearing

What Can You do to Celebrate Heritage Week?

The hydro electric generating plant at Cottonwood Falls was built in 1895-1896 and was the first hydro generating station in BC. Photo, circa 1898, courtesy of Touchstones Nelson.

Nelson Hydro is the only municipally-owned hydro utility in the province that has its own generation, transmission and distribution system.

Why not…

• Visit the Library and check out one of the many fascinating books about the history of Nelson • Visit Touchstones Nelson • Familiarise yourself with the City’s Heritage Register • Take a self-guided walking tour of the City’s Heritage Buildings and the Nelson Memorial Park Cemetery • Enjoy a stroll through the City’s historic downtown...

You can also visit www.heritagebc.ca and www.nelson.ca for more information and ideas.

2012 HYDRO UPGRADES

Operations will continue to focus on renewing infrastructure. The major projects planned for 2012 include ongoing replacement of watermains, replacement of the pressure reducing station at Ninth Street, and chlorinator and disinfection upgrades at the Mountain Station Reservoir. Sanitary projects include ongoing work to separate the storm sewer catch basins from the sanitary system, re-lining of existing sanitary mains, ongoing improvements at the Sewage Treatment Plant, and at sanitary lift stations.

From November 1st to April 30th each year, vehicles must be parked on the odd-numbered side of the street on odd-numbered dates; and the even-numbered side of the street on even-numbered dates, within residential zones, to allow City Operations to plow snow, clean and clear the streets. Once the snow has gone, the City of Nelson will begin sweeping and flushing streets.

Water Construction on Victoria and Kootenay Streets City crews are currently at work adding a water service on Victoria Street. While working, they discovered some additional upgrades that need to be made. The 200 to 300 block of Victoria Street will be open intermittently over the next week, and the work will also impact the 500 block of Kootenay Street. Crews expect to complete the work by Friday, March 2.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain the infrastructure that is so vital to our whole community!

CITY BULLETIN BOARD 2012 Budget Meetings Council has been holding its annual series of budget meetings throughout January, February and March. These meetings are open to the public. Residents who want to be informed about decisions made at City Hall are encouraged to attend.

The next meetings will take place on Thursday, March 1st and Monday, March 5th, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Meetings are held in Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall.

A Budget Open House will also take place later in March. Details will be coming soon to our website at www.nelson.ca and in local media.

Extension Cord Use and Abuse Are you using any extension cords in your home? Are you using them safely? Few people realize that an extension cord that might look perfectly good can easily start a fire. On our home page at www.nelson.ca you can see a video that shows how coiling an extension cord can start a fi re. Take a look around your home and make sure you aren’t using extension cords on a permanent basis. If you are, replace them with a ULC-certified power bar.

Power bars have breakers to protect you and your home. They are also built to be used daily, on an ongoing basis. Extension cords are NOT constructed to meet the same standard. You can always find more safety tips, guides and video links on our fi re safety page at www.nelson.ca\fi resafety.

Vibrant Library, Healthy Community 2012 will see the completion of the three-year downtown electrical conversion project. The exact start date depends on the weather, but the project will be complete by this fall.

Downtown Electrical Conversion Project The start date of this project is weather dependant. It will begin with zone by zone installation of the aerial secondary distribution system conductors on all of the newly installed poles. Next, the zone by zone customer transfers to the new overhead secondary distribution system will take place, followed by the removal of the old electrical overhead infrastructure. Telus and Shaw Cable will then install their cables on the new poles. Removal of old pole structures and communication lines will complete this three-year project.

Rosemont Substation Rebuild Project Rosemont Substation was installed in 1950 to accommodate the new transmission line from the power plant into Nelson. The system load increases since 1980 are now approaching the full capacity of these transformers. In order to meet normal system load growth plus voltage conversion loads, the existing Rosemont Substation must be removed from service and replaced. Completion of this rebuild project will enable us to retire the City Substation at Victoria and Josephine Streets.

Bonnington Falls G4 Generator Rewind and Automation Project The G4 Generator was installed in 1948. The unit is original except for a new high efficiency runner, installed in 1984. The Generator windings were scheduled for rewind in 2013. On July 23rd, 2011 the 63 year old windings suffered a failure causing the rewind project to take place this year. While the G4 Generator is down we are utilizing the G3 and G5 Generators, each at full capacity to meet our generation entitlement of 9.1 MW.

The Nelson Public Library Annual Report for 2011 is now available online at www.nelsonlibrary.ca and in print at the Library. Here are a few highlights, for your reading pleasure: • Circulation: up 13% • Membership: up 14% • Downloaded e-books: up 77% • Items in the collection: 43,000 • Number of items circulated each month: 20,000 • Programs enjoyed by adults, children, and teens: 104 • Attendance numbers: 5,593 Quote from a library user: “Library access is crucial for a healthy community. Thank you!”

U-Turn Epidemic Under the BC Motor Vehicle Act a driver must not make a U-turn over any type of line painted down the center of the highway (this includes Baker Street). It doesn’t matter if the line is a double solid, a single solid, a solid with a broken line or a single broken line.

Under City of Nelson Traffic Bylaw N0. 3156, a U-turn is called a reverse turn. You can learn more about this bylaw and reverse turns by visiting our website at www.nelson.ca. Nelson Police’s message on this one is clear: the best way to change directions is to drive around the block. It will save you time and money in the long run.

CITY OF NELSON Mailing address: Suite 101, 310 Ward Street, Nelson, BC V1L 5S4 • Email: info@nelson.ca • Phone: (250) 352-5511 • Fax: (250) 352-2131 website: http://www.nelson.ca