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City leaves $5 million pool fund off city plan ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor

to education over the past 10 years. At Maclean Elementary, teachers exited school just after the end-of-school bell carrying protest signs. Jill Spearn, who teaches at MacLean said that the day of action is in

Council has taken the $5 million line item for the controversial pool upgrade off the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five-year financial plan. The funds were allocated there in the case that the city gets the 4 million it applied for from the province in December. Coun. Kathy Moore put forward the recommendation that the item be taken out until they hear back from about the grant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we were to decide that this is where we want to go then we could amend it and put it back in,â&#x20AC;? Moore said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel this particular issue has been very troublesome in the community and I do not want to see it in the plan.â&#x20AC;? Moore cited that sometimes money ends up being spent on things in the plan for the sole reason that it was in the plan. Coun. Cary Fisher suggested that they leave some amount in the fund, because they will, either way, have to do some maintenance on the pool structure. CAO Victor Kumar explained that since the $4 million would come from the province, the net effect would only be about $400,000 to the city when all is said and done. Mayor Greg Granstrom acknowledged that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone understands that, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just been a contentious issue,â&#x20AC;? Granstrom said. Moore said that Coun. Fisher had a good

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Jill Spearn, right, and other teachers at MacLean Elementary formed a protest at the end of classes Monday in support of the BCTF and against action being taken by the provincial government to mandate teachers back to full duty.

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continued from P. 1 point, saying that the number left in should be the amount that it takes to maintain the facility for the three months a year it is currently open. Coun. Jody Blomme said that one of the purposes of this plan is to cover all our bases. “We as a council voted to apply for a grant and to take this out of our plan could potentially hinder that grant,” she said. “If that’s going to affect that situation, then we’re going through this process for nothing, because we’re backstopping, we’re jumping into the pool and then jumping out.” Moore said that council needs to “have a little bit of reality here.” She said that council package included information that the $30 million recreation fund the grant would come out of was heavily Coun. Kathy Moore put forweard a motion to change the $5 million line item on the city’s ﬁnancial plan to the amount oversubscribed. “There are $110 million worth of that it would take to maintain the structure. Arne Petryshen photo projects that have been applied for “I think it’s more important for three month operation. that fund, 219 municipalities put Moore said they she would rathin applications to the government,” us to make a plan that we believe in she said, adding sarcastically that, for our community then it is to go er add it back in when they know “we have to really cover ourselves chasing the tail of some grant that what the community wants. The mayor, as well as coun. here to make sure that our plan is we’re very unlikely to get in the first Blomme and coun. Kathy there so that when we get 13 per place.” Council voted to have the item Wallace were opposed to the cent of the fund, we’re ready for it. reflect the swimming pool as a motion. That’s not very likely.”

Regional district wants more information on smart meters ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor

The regional district has decided to back a Union of British Columbia Municipalities motion that called for a moratorium on smart meters until more research is shown. The motion comes after information that the power supplier for the region district, FortisBC, had to put in an application to be authorized to install the meters. Area A Director Ali Grieve brought the resolution to the board of directors meeting last Thursday in Trail. “I was asked by area residents to bring the issue forward,” she said, adding that the resolution didn’t come directly from here, but from staff. Her suggestion was simply that they discuss it, she said. “Basically, what I’m hearing from constituents is that they want more information and I think that’s a fair request. That’s kind of the reason I wanted to bring it here for a discussion.” Grieve asked for support to write a letter for more information before “something is imposed on us that we didn’t ask for.” Marguerite Rotvold, Midway director, said the resolution was confusing in a way. “The UBCM resolution really came about because of the government mandating that B.C. Hydro proceed with that,” Rotvold said. “In this area, we’re under Fortis, and Fortis has to apply for that privilege to use smart meters.” She argued that the UBCM resolution pertains to

B.C. Hydro and not FortisBC. Rotvold mentioned a resolution from the Lower Mainland that asked for the public to be able to choose whether or not to have the meters installed. “There’s a lot of fear out there and I think this is attempting to address that,” Grieve added in. Brian Taylor, Grand Forks director, spoke against the motion. “I think it’s general hysteria,” Taylor said. “I think smart meters are part of doing good business, and just like in your municipalities you couldn’t opt out from the sewer or water service in your area, this is something that needs to be done in concert with the whole province, and I think, clearly, it’s hysterical.” Nipper Kettle, Greenwood’s director, sided with Taylor on the issue. “I’m going to vote against the motion as well,” Kettle said. “I think a lot of this is fear mongering by people that do not know the facts.” Grieve shot back that, “Regardless if it’s hysteria fear, if it’s an unknown, let’s put the facts out there and share them with everybody.” Although the meters are mandated by B.C. Hydro, the energy provider for the all the RDKB is FortisBC, which is in the process of applying to the Utilities Commission to be able to install the meters. CAO John Maclean said that so far there hasn’t yet been a response back from the UBCM on the issue. The UBCM called for a moratorium on the meters until further research was completed, back in September, though the provincial government went ahead with the mandated installation.

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Teachers could strike next week

School may not be in session Monday as teachers all over B.C. decide if they will escalate their job action to a full-scale walk off. They will have to hurry, as Minister of Education George Abbott has tabled a bill that will force teachers back to work. Teachers have the right to strike as early as Monday, provided they give parents two days notice. The teachers’ contracts expired last spring and there hasn’t been a budge in either direction since then. While a strike is disruptive to schools, teachers have so far done their best to keep the classes rolling as usual. With the government rolling out their bill in what looks like a forceful manner, a strike is the probably only option. The NDP has promised to oppose the bill and if so could stop it from being implemented. The decision to strike should be known this morning and depending on how long it takes the government can pass its bill, will affect the length of the strike. Teachers have the go ahead to strike for a maximum of three days next week if they so choose. Yesterday from noon to 1 p.m., Abbott held a live chat over Twitter to discuss the bill with teachers and whoever else wanted to join in. While it’s nice to see that the provincial government is trying to branch out, there were pages of concerns and not much in the way of understanding the Liberals’ postion coming from the people on the chat. Concerns were mostly aimed at students and not salaries. After how can you improve education while cutting funding? We want to hear from you.

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If you have a youth in the house who would like to play soccer this Spring, don’t delay registering them with Kootenay South Soccer. The closing date for registration is March 16. Log on to www.kootenaysouthsoccer. com to register. There will be a new face in the recreation department while I (Robin) am away for the next two months. Heather Bartlett will be replacing me for the months of March and April while my family and I enjoy an adventure in Central America. Pam will be in the office three days a week, keeping everything running smoothly with Heather and also running several of the new Spring programs. For those of you who are interested in where I’m going and what I’ll be doing - in between being tourists, studying Spanish and trekking through the jungles, we’ll be volunteering at two different organizations, each for several weeks. While in Costa Rica, the girls and I will be volunteering with the Cloud Forest School, (www. cloudforestschool.org); a K-11 environmental education, project based learning school located in the National Cloud Forest preserve. I’ll try to send a “column” back to Rossland, about our time with the school, so that if you’re interested in the direction RSS is moving in, you can read about the organization and curriculum of a similar school. While we’re in Guatemala, we’ll be volunteering with Project Somos, (www.projectsomos. org) – a children’s village for abandoned and orphaned children. This is the project that Steve Knox worked on last year, for his sister Heather, the founding director for the project. The Spring Brochure is now online and can be viewed on the city’s website (www.rossland.ca) and on Facebook. Hard copies will be in mailboxeds next week. Spring break is still a few weeks away, but if you’re looking for something for the kids to do over the break, Shelley Painter will be running some March Break Art Classes! Running Monday to Friday, March 12 to March 16 and then again from March 19 to 23, these two hour long classes run from 2 – 4 p.m. Each day will be a different project and some days will explore more than one project, using a specific technique. Participants can come to one class or all the classes – whichever works best for your child’s schedule. Suggested ages are 6 to 12

years, but 3-5 year olds are welcome to come with a parent or babysitter, for the first hour only. For specific information about each day, please log onto www.rossland. ca and look at the Spring Break Art Camp information in the center of the home page. The Neighborhood of Learning (NOL) and Visions for Small Schools (VSS) committees have created a survey regarding the school configurations in Rossland. The survey can be found at www.surveymonkey.com/s/ RosslandSchools or in hard copy format at city hall. Important decisions are being made in our school district regarding school configurations and they need your input! The Neighborhood of Learning committee needs to know what Rosslanders want. It is critical that you make your views known so that NOL committee knows what to fight for and what perspectives to present to the school district. All views and ideas matter and they want to hear from a diverse range of people. Make your views known! Rossland residents completing this survey will be eligible for a $50 draw prize! Please complete this survey by March 19 to be eligible for the draw. Morning Zumba is now at a 7 a.m. start time on Mondays and Thursdays, which began Feb. 16. The class runs from 7 – 8 a.m. and can help you get an early, healthy start to your day! Classes are in the Miners’ Hall and are $7 drop-in for those younger than 55 years of age and $6 drop-in for those older than 55. The early morning classes will run until March 8 if there is enough interest to continue the 7 a.m. class. Evening Zumba will continue on Mondays and Thursdays from 6 - 7 p.m. If you would like to be on the instructor’s email list, in order to receive updates about schedule changes, please email Amber, at a_hayes@telus.net. Public Skating schedule for the week of Feb. 27-March 4 will be: Wednesday, Feb. 29 from 6:307:45 p.m. and on Friday, March 2 from 5-6:30 p.m. On Sunday, March 4, public skating is from 2:30-4 p.m. and again from 6 -7:30 p.m. If you currently enjoy a recreation program in one of the school buildings, please note: All recreation programs either end before Spring Break (March 12-27) or take a break during the two weeks, resuming when school starts again, on March 28. There are no recreation programs when school is not in session.

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Letter: Worried pool plebiscite waste of time I worry that this plebiscite Rossland CAO and council are proposing might be a total waste of time and money if the question is simply going to be, “Would you agree to have your taxes increased to support people to go to and use Trail Facilities?” We have to know the exact dollars it will increase. Now council wants to know real numbers? What data and real numbers are we actually going to compile by doing this? If you are going to get people to go through this process why not ask all the questions. I disagree with Coun. Spearn in that this should only be about the aquatic centre, why would we exclude others that are having to pay extra for adult hockey, slow pitch, baseball, track and field, squash and racquetball and probably other programs I am forgetting to mention. Those people might not use the aquatic centre. Plus we already did an elaborate sur-

vey in 2009, the data was presented by Hannah Smith in her Nov. 12, 2009 report. The report stated of those surveys completed and received, 51 per cent of the households use Trail facilities and of those containing children, 90 per cent make use of the Trail facilities. I feel that if you are going to do this all again, why not do it right and get all the info. I would like to suggest a solution for now, forget the plebiscite, and stick with policy 320 (subsidy for non-profit groups to use programs and facilities in neighbouring cities), even at the existing $20,000. Open up access so that at least the citizens who really want to use these facilities and haven’t found a way around the rules in Trail, can have a legitimate option. It was mentioned that we only use $6,000 of the budgeted $20,000, so council make it easy on yourselves and keep it at $20,000 this year and look at possibly increasing it next year if all the funds are used. Taxes would not have

to be increased. There are many people that are currently able to get around the system in Trail, and will continue to do so. Why would they vote to have their taxes increased now?? They won’t. And it would be too much work for them to change it up and go through a society. People will still have to make a serious effort to get reimbursement. It’s not like council will be giving away the money to people at the door. Even if council goes ahead with this plebiscite (which I hope it does not), and the majority says no to whatever the question will be you will still have a large number of people who will want to use facilities and programs in Trail. Hopefully council will at least keep policy 320 or a revised policy 320 in place for those citizens. Let council know how you feel about the proposed plebiscite. Kari Kuznecov, Rossland

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Job action looks more likely as teachers face new bill continued from P. 1 protest of the pending legislation expected to come from the Minister of Education. The legislation would force teachers back to full duties. , “We’re predicting from his words last week that they are drafting legislation as we speak to legislate teachers back to work,” Spearn said outside the school. “It’s also a protest against the general direction that this Liberal government has taken education and the lack of funding for education.” Spearn said teachers are outraged at the government over the $3 billion that’s been taken out of the education budget in the last 10 years at a rate of $300 million a year. “We still have areas of our contract that were stripped, that they were told by the provincial government that they were supposed to put back in place and have not done so,” she said. “There are a whole bunch of issues for teachers, it’s not the monetary aspect.” Though she admitted that a fair wage increase to keep up the cost

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of living is something they are asking for. “We have fallen to ninth place in Canada, with regards to salary and benefits, she said. “We used to be in the top one or two. We have a premier that is the second highest paid in the country, we have the number one child poverty in the country in B.C. and I think their track record with regards to the social programs and needs of the province are not being met.” On Tuesday, Education Minister George Abbott introduced Bill 22, dubbed the Education Improvement Act which introduces fines for an illegal strike. The bill limits teachers’ bargaining power as well, taking away the power to bargain on things like class size, staffing levels and caseloads until two years down the road. It also includes a wage freeze for teachers for the next two years. In the event of an illegal strike, individual teachers would be fined $475 a day, union officials $2,500 a day and the BCTF a minimum of $1.3 million a day. As of press time, teachers were voting on whether to escalate to full-scale walkout.

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News Local MLA concerned about provincial budget ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor

Last week, the province released it’s budget and according to Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy, it has a lot of faults. How will the budget affect Rossland? Conroy explains. For one thing, there was a moratorium on selling school buildings. “(The government’s) given the go ahead for filling your boots selling surplus buildings and that sends a bit of a message,” Conroy said. “Especially for small communities like Rossland.” She is also concerned with healthcare. “There is a slight increase, but it’s not even enough to cover the cost of living, to pay for heat and light and things like that,” she said. The new budget also ignores the B.C. Om-

budsmen report on senior health. Conroy said that instead there was the announcement of a $1,000 credit for seniors to renovate their house and make it more accessible, but they have to spend $10,000 first. “I’ve talked to a lot of seniors and they’re in the process of downsizing, not putting big renovations into their home,” she said noting that even putting in a ramp wouldn’t cost that much. “I think it would be a pretty fancy ramp for $10,000.” There is also an increase to Medical Service Premiums. “So there’s another increase to that and we have another year of the HST,” she said. “They haven’t done anything to get rid of that. They said it won’t be gone until this time next year. “So right before the election they’re going to get rid of the HST. You have to wonder, we keep hearing about the balanced budgets and what they’re going to do and it just seems

Rossland Radio Co-op gets a reduction in rent ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor

Rossland Radio Co-op will be getting a 50 per cent cut to the rent it pays to the city, but council decided it will have to pay for the damage done to the roof. The co-op asked for a reduction in rent last month. The roof costs came about after the co-op attempted to install an antenna on the roof, which lead to roof damage that needed to be fixed. It took council three votes to come to an agreement. Coun. Kathy Moore called for council to wave the rent and pay half the bill for the roof, because of the service the co-op provides to the community. Coun. Tim Thatcher said he thought a 5050 split of both the roof and the rent would be best. Thatcher also brought up another discussion of why the city owns the Rotary Health building in the first place. “I don’t understand the reason that we own it,” he said.

The roof damage comes from the installation of lag bolts without the authorization to the city. Coun. Jody Blomme said the RRC is an important part of the community, but not the same kind of non-profit as Search and Rescue or the food bank, which also share the building. As such, she said they should pay something. “As far as the lag bolt issue, there was a rental agreement,” Blomme said. During the public input period Marty Cancilla, president of the RRC apologized for the roof damage, but pleaded with council to help with the bill. Cancilla said there had been water damage there from before which contributed to the roof damage. Coun. Jill Spearn said the co-op has a place in the fabric of the community, but she didn’t agree with the location, because it is “the entrance to the community.” “We have to really go back and revisit the sustainability of the building,” Spearn said. “I always feel that everybody should pay something. The primary user of the building is the co-op.” Coun. Cary Fisher supported the recom-

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mendation of staff, which was to keep everything how it currently is and make the RRC pay the bill for the roof in full. Fisher did suggest an amortization plan of 12 months that council did eventually adopt for the repayment. Fisher said he can’t on one hand ask the city staff to look at cutting taxes, while eon the other granting exceptions for community groups. Moore was the only one to vote to wave the rent and payment plan for half the bill. Coun. Kathy Wallace said the co-op is in a bad place right now as a lot of Rossland can’t get reception, which is affecting membership. “I think they’re in the wrong location,” she said. “I’d like to see them survive for the next year.” Spearn hinted that perhaps with the potential school restructuring there would be some space opening up in the next few years. Fisher’s motion that rent be reduced by 50 per cent and the bill payment be amortized for 12 months, finally passed with Moore and Spearn opposed.

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Rossland Public Library Rossland Public Library is currently a small library with big ambitions. We are looking for someone with the creativity and vision to help us move on to the next chapter. Reporting to the Rossland Library Board, the Library Director is responsible for the efficient management, operation and direction of the Rossland Public Library. The library is an integral part of the community. The Director must be able to enthusiastically engage patrons and liaise with many different community groups. The successful applicant will possess: A minimum of a Library Technician Certificate or Community Library Training Program Certificate. Equivalent experience will also be considered. The ability to produce a Strategic Plan with the assistance of the Board and report on progress with reference to the plan. The ability to produce a budget, report monthly and demonstrate sound bookkeeping knowledge. A love of reading and a good understanding of how to promote literacy of all kinds for all patrons. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with staff and patrons. The ability to use the latest technology to help achieve library goals. Experience with day to day management of library facilities. Rossland is a small town in the West Kootenay area of British Columbia. Known as the highest alpine city in Canada it offers fabulous recreational opportunities and a rich cultural life. Applicants are asked to please submit cover letters and resumes to rosslandpubliclibrary@gmail.com or to the Rossland Public Library Board at P.O. Box 190, Rossland, and B.C. V0G. The competition will close March 15, 2012.

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On Saturday March 10 “The Fugitives” will play the Rossland Miners’ Hall to inspire audiences with their unique blend of song writing, poetry, and multi-instrumental talents to create a dynamic mix of modern folk. The Fugitives are the combined talents of Vancouver artists Adrian Glynn, Barbara Adler, Brendan McLeod, and Steve Charles. A group of multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, poets and novelists, each with their own burgeoning solo career, they’ve won individual accolades as diverse as the Canadian SLAM poetry championship, CBC poet laureate, and a place in the Peak performance songwriting series. But their primary focus lies in banding together to integrate their sensibilities into a dynamic mix of modern folk. Formed four years ago on Vancouver’s East Side, The Fugitives have trod their instruments and words numerous times through Canada and Europe Performances that began in abandoned bank vaults and small vegetarian restaurants in England have turned into mainstage appearances on the Canadian folk festival circuit and sold out headlining shows at venues as diverse as the Vienna Literary Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, the Vancouver Jazz Festival,

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and the Chutzpah Dance Festival. The Fugitives are presented by the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture as part of the 2012 performance series at the Miners Hall on Saturday, March 10. Tickets are $20 in advance or $23 at the door ($2 off for

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