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More than 65 years ago Japanese Canadians were forcibly removed from their homes on British Columbia’s coast and brought to internment camps in places like the Slocan Valley during the height of the Second World War. Today those who lived through the ordeal tell stories of struggle, sadness, and forgiveness. Here’s one such tale... GREG NESTEROFF
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ongtime Nelson resident Yosh Tagami mi remembers working for 25 cents an hour building internment shacks on n the Popoff farm near Slocan City. He was 17 and his family would soon move intoo one of those houses, which measured 14 x 25 feet. “The first winter was cold with four feet of snow, and icicles formed inside so we put cardboard from boxes on the walls,â€? he says. There was no insulation beyond paper Vanessa LeFebvre helps students at St. Joseph’s Elementary School with finger positioning for a and shiplap, and no indoor plumbing. chord Wednesday during a ukulele lesson. The class is preparing for a spring music concert on May Wooden beds lay at either end oftalent. 16 that bunk will showcase the students’ Samuel Dobrin photo the house with a kitchen in the middle. They used a wood stove for cooking and heating. School Board Budget “Rice was rationed and we made green tea from alfalfa leaves,â€? he says. “We had a garden arden and also bought vegetabless from the DoukABOVE —Even hobors who camee in horse horse-driven driven before World War II, wagons.â€?third reading and approve a preJapanese yearsCanadians regardless of declining enSAMUEL DOBRIN Tagami, now 85, was born atsubmitted liminary budget to be rollment. like Yosh Tagami Nelson Star Reporter Genoa Bay onprovince. Vancouver Island “The district did not have to to the were ďŹ ngerprinted and raised at Paldi, sawmillthe servicAlong withaaligning be challenged in previous years The Kootenay Lake School and photographed community near He es with the Duncan. needs of students, the in terms of making some hard District is continuing to work for identity cards had four brothers and two decisions through creating a status quo board is facing some challenges whenstaffing they turned 16. as the student sisters.toTheir father Jirosaku, a sustainable budget.a population budget for the 2012-13 school RIGHT — Thou- decreased. millwright, injured a fall we’ve been advised is “Thewas district hasinhad the good year and making efforts to ensure sands of“What internees and unable to work, so the sons profortune of receiving funding that the funding they’re doing so sustainably. were sent to Slocan protection over began logging tection forasateenagers. number of years, â€? where the next three “We’re continuing to gather inCity they en- years will by 98.5 per cent of what we received in formation from participants in said Jones. dured primitive living The funding protection the process,â€? said superintendent Story continues to allowed conditions. districton to Page receive Jeff Jones, adding that at the May the ‘Tagami’ 3 the same (Tak ToyotaStory photo)continues to 8 board meeting he hopes to have amount of funding as previous ‘Budget’ on Page 4
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Nelson city council gave three readings Monday to a five-year financial plan that includes a three per cent property tax increase for 2012. Councillor Bob Adams, however, voted against the budget, arguing that combined with previously approved increases to water, sewer, and hydro rates, it places too heavy a load on taxpayers. “Three per cent is not a whole lot, but some people can’t afford it,� he said. “People like to come to Nelson, but it’s too expensive to buy here.� Adams said Nelson’s tax burden places it 30th among BC municipalities. “About 100 are better than us. We’re very high. This can’t keep going.� Councillor Robin Cherbo said he agreed with Adams, but “continual provincial and federal downloads� Story continues to ‘Average’ on Page 9
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News L.V. Rogers Drafting Students Take on Civic Centre Project
Students recreate history SAMUEL DOBRIN Nelson Star Reporter
Drafting students at L.V. Rogers are taking on a project that will challenge their skills and enrich their class with a little bit of history. After the 1935 blueprints to the Civic Centre were recently unearthed, LVR drafting teacher Lance Peters was approached to create 3D renderings of the historic building with his class. The senior drafting class toured the multi-level building to get a grasp before beginning the project. Through recreating the building in AutoCAD, a computer drafting program, the students will create a piece to eventually be incorporated into a museum display inside the centre. “They’re really enjoying it,” said Peters about his students. “They’re doing really
The recently discovered plans students are working from.
well with it and they’re doing a great job.” Currently, the students are about halfway to completing their 3D virtual Civic Centre models. Peters said this kind of project involves his students with the community. “A huge part of what I like doing as a teacher is getting involved in the community… The senior drafting class really seems to be taking a sense of ownership with this proj-
ect. This is our building, it’s our history and I think that’s just great,” he said. The idea for the project came from Bill McDonnell, a longtime Nelson resident. “I’ve always wanted to have a model of the Civic Centre, so when I found a copy of the original blueprints I went to the high school to see if they would be interested in taking this on,” said McDonnell. “I’m overjoyed with it… to see the enthusiasm of the
kids taking on a project of something that in my mind is a landmark in the community… it’s something I’ve wanted to do since we came up with the concept of the museum component.” When completed, the 3D renderings will be able to offer viewers a virtual tour of the Civic Centre. “As far as using the program and designing, it’s a fantastic challenge for the students,” said Peters, adding that this project also helps the students connect with the community and history. “We get them to do house plans, but nothing even remotely this complex has crossed their plates before so it’s a great challenge and a great learning tool.” The blueprints contain some differences from the complex that was eventually built — including a swimming pool.
Vital Healthcare for Our Community Since 1998 If you have been away from Nelson, or not up on the latest news, we want you to know that KOOTENAY LAKE MEDICAL CLINIC at Chahko-Mika Mall is OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK for all patients. New owners, same great staff and the perfect location. Check in, then wander the mall, do some shopping or grab a snack - without losing your place in line! “ I have at times gone to the clinic on weekends when I haven’t been able to wait to get into my family physician. In each case, I was dealt with promptly, efficiently and with a great deal of empathy and care.” Andy Leathwood - Nelson
“I have used the Nelson Walk-In Clinic for 10 years. I used them solely for my first 6 years and now periodically with my young children. I trust the walk-in doctors mostly, because I feel they have an open-minded approach to patient care. I feel they truly listen and give options that work best for me in my particular scenario, allowing me to choose. It is so great that Nelson has a walk-in clinic that provides the same quality of care as my family doctor.” Jody Konkin - Nelson
Swedish Man Believed Missing Turns Up Safe and Sound
Faulty planning leads to unnecessary search Nelson Star Staff
RCMP say a Swedish skier believed missing on the Salmo-Creston pass last week is in good health, camping in the Golden/Revelstoke area. The whereabouts of Bjorn Soderlund, 23, only became known after Nelson Search and Rescue completed an “extensive” helicopter and snowmobile search of the Ripple Ridge trails.
Late Friday afternoon, police confirmed Soderlund obtained a backcountry travel permit near Revelstoke on April 9. He was previously thought to have departed Nelson a week ago Sunday with plans to ski the Ripple Ridge area and return Tuesday. He was reported missing by an acquaintance on Thursday. “RCMP ask that backcountry travelers always leave detailed itineraries
with friends or relatives,” they stated in a news release. “If travel plans change then friends and relatives should be updated. This will narrow down search parameters for police and search and rescue when reports are received of overdue backcountry travelers, not to mention reducing the stress and anxiety of friends and relatives.” Police thanked Nelson Search and Rescue and local media for their help.
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CONTRACTOR INFORMATION MEETING Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:00-7:30am Nelson Home Hardware, 101 McDonald Drive
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With donations and grants pouring dollars in for the outdoor skate park, the project looks to be well on the way to becoming a reality. “Things feel great right now,” said Rob Levesque of the Kootenay Lake Outdoor Skate Park Society. “It’s been eight years of determination and perseverance just to try to make it happen, so to have all this money and have the community behind this, we’ve never felt so good and been so opti-
mistic about the project.” The project received a $400,000 grant last month from the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development’s community recreation program that the City applied for. On Monday an additional $10,000 through the Columbia Basin Trust’s community initiative program came through. Levesque said the next step for the group is to meet with several different groups. “We have most of the money in the bank and we’re just down to figuring out the
logistics of the project,” he said.
“We’re hoping to break ground this summer, but we don’t know for sure yet.” In total, Levesque said the cost will be around $600,000, but he’s unsure exactly at this point. To raise the remainder of the required money, the group is still applying for grants, accepting donations
with various sponsor levels identified, and will begin a $50 per square foot donation campaign soon as well. In addition, Levesque said they’re hoping to have some of the materials and labour donated to the project. “We’re hoping to break ground this summer, but we don’t know for sure yet. Until then we’re meeting with the City, talking with engineers and going through the steps to get this together,” said Levesque. “It’s been a long process and things feel great right now.”
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Regional East and West Kootenays Environmental Justice Conference Local to global Opening social: Friday, April 27, 7:00–11:00 p.m. Taghum Hall (Bring musical instruments!) Saturday evening: April 28, Documentary Awards Night at the Legion. $1000 in cash prizes–Teacher & student categories. Submission deadline is midnight April 22 Workshops: April 28 and April 29, 2012 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. each day L.V. Rogers Secondary Wide range of workshop topics Conference cost: $50-75 *negotiable for part-time employment Yoga at 7:30 a.m. Refreshments provided. Bring your own mug. Local organic lunches provided Fantastic keynote speakers Registration deadline April 22, Earth Day
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An 87-year-old urn containing the ashes of a former Kootenay man that washed up on the Oregon coast last month has been returned to his granddaughter in Oliver. Iris Close took possession
of the remains of William George Kennedy Sr. and expects to be in Nelson sometime in May to inter the urn alongside her father’s grave. Astoria funeral home director Tom Preston shipped the urn to the Oliver RCMP detachment, which released it to Close. The urn became a mi-
nor media sensation after a 17-year-old boy found it and then turned it over to the funeral home, hoping to find its rightful owner. The Star helped find Close, who was born and raised in Nelson, but has not lived here for many decades. Her grandfather, a gardener, emigrated with his
children from England to Harrop in 1911 and established a nursery. He later moved to the US and ran a hotel in Bellingham, Wash., until his death in 1925. After news of the urn’s discovery broke, a man stepped forward to say he presided over its burial at sea 30 to 35 years ago.
Budget will be sent off for provincial approval in May Cont. from Page 1 the previous year,” said Jones, adding the district is looking for sustainability and predictability when making budgets. “In order to ensure that our programming is sustainable, we can-
not rely on these funds to support our core programming … it only takes two or three years until we’re no longer in funding protection and that means the funding we receive is only funding that is generated by our stu-
dent population.” However, the district will be receiving funding to be used for special projects and initiatives. “We are pleased that Bill 22 has introduced a Learning Improvement Fund
of $626,190 for the 2012-13 school year. This fund was originally half the amount we are receiving, however the government is utilizing strike savings to add to the fund — therefore doubling it throughout the prov-
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ince. The fund will support students in a variety of ways — such as the addition of teacher time, professional development for teachers, education assistant support, supplies and so forth,” said Jones. The budget has gone through second reading and will reach third reading at the next school board meeting, when it could also be approved as the preliminary budget. “We’ve presented many possibilities for consideration and over the next few weeks we’ll be receiving more input from participants on the finance committee,” Jones said. “It won’t be until the trustees have done their third reading of the budget and approved it that we’ll know what we are going to move forward with for next year.”
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Telephones, travels and royal teas GREG NESTEROFF Nelson Star Reporter
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or Nelson’s Doug Smith, telephone work was all in the family. He spent 38 years with BC Tel, his father was a cable splicer for the company, a brother worked for them, and both his sisters were operators. “I was involved in it because my dad was,” he says. “It was sort of second nature.” His father Bob was among the first babies born in Vancouver, while his mother Esther (nee Habegard) was born in Ainsworth. The youngest of five children, Doug had a curly mop of hair and was once mistaken for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. The family moved from Bealby Road to Third Street in Fairview when he was an infant, and he enjoyed a bucolic childhood that included rides with Chinese vegetable seller Wo Lee on a horsedrawn cart and tobogganing down Elwyn Street. On weekdays he rose at 5 a.m. to deliver newspapers, and on Saturdays tried to collect from customers. Even at a penny a paper it was sometimes difficult during the Depression. “Quite often they didn’t have the money and you had to go back,” he says. “My first summer job at Beacon Motors, I worked six days a week, ten hours a day, for $5 a week. It was that or a job with my own bicycle delivering for a drugstore for $4 a week. I thought there were too many hills!” Not that inclines intimidated him: he and friends once climbed Silver King Ridge and skied down. “It took almost eight hours to get to the top, and 20 minutes to come down,” he laughs. After graduating from Nelson High School in 1947, Smith joined BC Tel,
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Doug Smith at his Nelson home today (above) and as a child at the Nelson train station at the foot of Baker Street (left).
for whom he had worked summers. After a year he transferred to Cranbrook — where the local subsidiary was still known as the Kootenay Telephone Co. — and worked his way up to district manager. Subsequent moves took him to Kamloops and the Lower Mainland. His job also led to memorable encounters with two notable BC athletes. Soon after skier Nancy Greene won Olympic gold, BC Tel hired her to tour the province and speak to high school students. Smith squired her around the Kamloops area. Rick Hansen’s father worked for the phone company in Williams Lake when Hansen suffered his spinal cord injury. Smith arranged for them to be together in Vancouver during Hansen’s recovery, and later hired him as an operator. Technology never stands still in the phone industry. When Smith
started with BC Tel, he installed and repaired crank phones. By the time he retired in 1986, party lines were nearly extinct, rotary dial was on its way out, and the first cell phones had appeared. Smith has a collection of antique phones at his Queens Bay cabin — on a property his father bought as a result of periodically inspecting the phone line along the lake. “They would take a rowboat all the way to Kaslo, checking the line,” he says. “There was no road through Coffee Creek, so when they got to Queens Bay they’d stop and have lunch at the property we have now. He discovered he might be able to buy it.” The cabin hosted a royal tea when a childhood friend of Smith’s who commanded Princess Patricia’s namesake infantry brought her to see the area where he grew up. Smith returned to Nelson in 1994. He and wife Phyllis live at High Street Place — site of the old hospital where he was born. For a gallery of photos from Doug Smith’s childhood and career, see nelsonstar.com
Opening Soon! Kootenay Medical Centre Dr. David Sonnichsen and his team are pleased to announce the opening of Kootenay Medical Centre – Nelson’s newest family practice clinic. We welcome existing patients and are presently accepting new patients. • Monday to Friday • 9 AM to 5 PM • Appointments required
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Editor: Bob Hall Publisher: Chuck Bennett
Testing our patience
PICTURES from our
Granite Pointe golf course opened on Thursday. Originally the course was known as the Nelson Golf and Country Club (when this J.H. Allen photo was taken c. 1930s), the equipment and styles may have changed, but the views remain spectacular.
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nother ribbon was cut in Nelson this week marking another step forward for this community. For many years the old student residence building in the corner of the Tenth Street Campus sat as a reminder of the days when upper Fairview bustled with student activity. For the last decade Selkirk College continued to bring the spirit of learning to the campus classrooms, but the residence buildings were a black mark. Sitting empty and looking Eastern Bloc, it was a symbol of opportunity lost. After a $7 million renovation to the building, the new dorms stand as a symbol of a new era for post secondary learning in the Nelson area. With its beautiful glass atrium and new home smell, the project has brought new life to the neighbourhood. Selkirk administration is excited about the 100 dorm rooms because it will help alleviate the student housing crunch and make the school more appealing to those looking at the college from out-of-town. Locals should be excited because it brought construction jobs to the community which provided a short-term economic boon. In the longer term, the more success Selkirk has will ultimately make the entire community stronger. One of the biggest lessons to be learned from the Selkirk dorm project is patience. The decaying dorms were a huge issue for community leaders for many years. In 2009, the wait started to pay off with partnerships between the federal, provincial and local governments. A spirit of cooperation helped make it a reality. Looking around at other projects and issues in the city, patience will again be required. The Civic Theatre, the old CPR building, the outdoor skatepark, Davies Street Park... all are currently in a stage of flux and many are growing impatient for a final outcome. If the new dorms at Selkirk are an example, the wait will be worth it. We want to hear from you. E-MAIL LETTERS TO: editor@nelsonstar.com The Nelson Star is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the BC Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent within 45 days to the BC Press Council, 201 Selby Street, Nanaimo, V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to bcpresscouncil.org
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oes any community do a worse job of apportioning its Columbia Basin Trust funding than Nelson? If so, I’d like to see it. On second thought, no I wouldn’t. It’s not the outcome, but the process that stinks. Contrast the scene Monday night in council chambers — where councillors struggled for over two hours to divide $126,400 among 50 groups and projects — with Salmo, where residents played a direct role in the decision-making and the whole thing was done in an hour (see story page 8). Due to heavy oversubscription, there were bound to be winners and losers in Nelson, but at the end of the night, the sheer arbitrariness of the process and amount of horsetrading left me with a bad taste. While councillors came armed with a matrix indicating their favourite projects, ultimately it only winnowed the applications with little or no chance of succeeding, and did nothing to resolve the thornier problem of who gets how much. The decision-making process is messy, time consuming, and prone to last-minute wrangling. Council was more likely to fully fund projects discussed early in the evening while they were feeling generous than those that came up later as the well
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began to run dry. (Your opinion of the outcome will likely be influenced by whether your favourite group got what it asked for.) In a unique approach, Nelson sets aside 35 per cent of its funding for cultural projects and empanels a local jury to deliberate on those applications and bring forth recommendations, which council can accept or ignore. (Full disclosure: I was a juror last year.) However, only councillor Donna Macdonald appeared to have read the jurors’ notes explaining why they felt certain projects should receive less funding than requested or none at all. Which isn’t to denigrate the organizations that were successful. There isn’t a bad project among them, even if lots were left out. But in Salmo, the process was over lickity split, with less room for recriminations. It’s one of several places in the Columbia Basin (others include Winlaw, New Denver, Nakusp, and Area E of the Regional District of Central Kootenay) that get the community directly involved. People arrive at a meeting, hear brief pitches from organizations seeking funding, and vote for the projects they want to support. In the Salmo example, residents are issued a handful of dots, each
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with a dollar value determined by the total amount up for grabs and the number of people who show up. Each person divides their dots among the projects as they see fit. More dots means more funding. No project receives more than it requests; any excess increases the value of all the other dots. This dotmocracy, as it’s sometimes called, is not without drawbacks: an organization with more members is likely to receive more votes — although a larger membership is arguably an indicator of greater community support. I also think groups that get the vote out should be entitled to the benefit of their enterprise. For a city council, trying to divide money amongst community groups is in many ways unenviable and thankless. They are bound to be second guessed no matter what they decide. But it’s harder to argue with the collective wisdom of several hundred people — which is why Nelson should switch to a direct participation method. With a larger population than other communities that presently employ it, it may be more difficult to administer here, but it would still be better than what happened Monday night. Agonized decision-making doesn’t necessarily result in better decisions.
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Serving Nelson & Area Since 1987.
Much at stake for Jumbo
Re: Jumbo Glacier Resort: It’s been well over 20 years with the environmental process. There has always been strong opposition, and over the past 10 years there has been even a stronger number opposed, including the District of Invermere. Five years ago the government cancelled public input and how convenient that the democratic process was eliminated. So how can this decision to go ahead with the development plans for a village resort be based on 1,000 for and 1,000 against this
proponent’s investment? Inside sources have admitted that the decision was based on the fact the proponent has spent a lot of money on the environmental process. Are we surprised? The real fact is the risk of the development’s proponent’s investment/investors is at hand too. I would be the first to admit that the Jumbo Glacier environment is the best and hosts the most unique slopes for the skiers’ divine experience. However, the most important fact remains
you can’t put a shovel in the ground and expect it to go down half an inch. In short, it is not an environmentally safe proposal or investment. The other fact is that the government’s method of grizzly management is extinction. So money for profit over environmental impact reality is poor decision making. We said we wouldn’t turn our back on keeping Jumbo Glacier Valley natural, and that is not only a fact but a promise too. Jana Harmon Nelson
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SLUGS. To the boozed-up clowns and tarts-in-training who marred Whitewater’s family beach party a few weeks back. With little kids and parents enjoying the final Sunday of a stellar season at the mountain, it was a total drag to see your gang bomb past the bunny hill with your boobs and butts hanging out. The gratuitous nudity was lame. Woodstock ended half a century ago. Save that crap for your mom and dad’s basement. And to the drunk long-haired Aussie stumbling around in nothing but his surf shorts — you’re an embarrassment to anyone who knows the words to Waltzing Matilda. If you can’t behave any better than an outback outcast then hop a one-way jet and take off. Regardless, congrats to the Whitewater staff for not tasering the entire lot of ya. SLUGS. To the RV/trailer trasher. If it is parked on the street call the bylaw officer. If it is parked in my driveway, I pay my taxes, mind your own business. HUGS. And goodbye to Extra Foods. Special thanks to Annette for courtesy and efficiency, Tina who always knew if the ham was full cooked and Robin for remaining good humoured over screw-ups. HUGS. Huge hugs to the two gals that spearheaded the Sunshine Bay Riding Club’s 20th dinner/dance and to all the volunteers. It was a fabulous evening and the food was so totally scrumptiously delicious. Thanks to all the businesses and individuals
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Operating as Chillers Pub, this C-1 zoned property will accomodate many uses. This is a beautiful building of approx. 2000 sq ft on the main and 1100 upstairs including an excellent 2 bedroom suite. Lots of paved parking and level access. Located at 6 mile on Nelson’s North Shore. Purchase with or without the business and equipment.
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Top floor, corner unit. Neat and tidy one bedroom condo at Blaylock just a few miles from Nelson on the beautiful North Shore. Vaulted ceiling in living room, beautiful kitchen and bright bedroom. The 8’x25’ deck has a wonderful lake view and is great for container gardening. Condo also includes a single carport and storage room.
Truly outstanding heritage home located on a private, exclusive cul-de-sac. One of the most impressive and expansive city and lake views in Nelson. High end original features are immaculate and include oak floors with inlaid walnut, wood trim, cove mouldings and 2 fireplaces. New media/family room. The spacious main floor has 2 bedrooms plus a den and the upstairs has a large third bedroom. Level access to the 88’x155’ lot with established tiered gardens.
SLUGS. To people working out at the gym who feel the need to yack away at their cellphones. Why are you working out in the first place? It is disruptive to your work out flow and very unnecessary! Please leave your tumor toy in the locker until you’re done. SLUGS. To the fearless female hunter for shooting poor Harry. While turkey hunting on private land without permission, it would seem that you outwitted this wild and wily bird. In truth we have three completely tame and trusting tom turkeys (Tom, Dick and Harry) that we raised from orphan poults and, had you waited a while, he would have come right up to you anyway. Your claim that you “missed him” was also flawed as he showed up late for breakfast the next day — blind in one eye and having great difficulty swallowing. I suspect acute traumatic lead poisoning. Call for further updates on his condition and bring a net to test your angling skills on a couple of nice koi in our small ornamental pond. HUGS. To Coach Iain at Soccer Quest. Your sometimes prickly exterior and full volume 10 communication skills may be a wee bit scary at first, but underneath all that is a kind man and excellent soccer coach. This community is very fortunate to have a guy like you to mentor us coaches and teach our children how to be better players and better people. Keep up the great work, continue to spread the passion and good luck in the spring season.
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Stickers divide Salmo’s Basin pie GREG NESTEROFF Nelson Star Reporter
More than 300 Salmo and area residents played Santa Claus for a night last month, helping distribute $60,000 in Columbia Basin Trust community initiative funding for local projects. Each person received five stickers worth $38 apiece, and after hearing one-minute pitches from organizations seeking funding, placed one or more stickers on their favourite projects. “You’re basically giving people $200 when they walk in to give to the projects they want to support,” says village administrator Scott Sommerville. “It’s a lot of fun.” In the end, 28 groups received at least some funding, ranging from $238 to $6,455. The biggest winners were the Salmo and Area Seniors Supportive Housing Society, Salmo Public Library, Salmo Ski Club, and Ymir Community Association. Most projects were from Salmo or Ymir, but a few from further away received money as well. Groups ask for a specific amount — usually less than $5,000 — and never get more than they request. If a group receives more stickers than it needs, they’re thrown back in the pot, increasing the value of all others.
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Salmo residents gathered in the school gym to help divvy up the Trust cash last month.
Although groups are limited to a brief presentation before the vote, that doesn’t prevent them from lobbying beforehand and encouraging supporters to come out. Some groups put up posters or established Facebook pages. While in many other municipalities, council deliberates long and hard about who receives Trust funding, Sommerville says this method “is quick and over. It happens in a flash … It takes all of about an hour.”
It’s the fifth consecutive year Salmo has done it this way, and this year saw the greatest turnout, with 313 people voting. “I’m pretty sure that’s the record for attendance,” Sommerville says. “I don’t know the capacity of the community centre, but we couldn’t hold much more.” It has also attracted outside attention. “People from other areas study it and local government management associations are interested in how we do it,” he says.
The vice-chair of the Regional District of Central Kootenay will make an extra $500 a month instead of $214, following a motion passed last week, retroactive to January 1. Chair John Kettle says present vice-chair Hillary Elliott attends virtually every meeting he does. “My belief is you can’t have a No. 2 who is not in the loop,” he said. “She participates in 99 per cent of the things I do. She can step into this role immediately if I’m sick or away.” Slocan Valley director Walter Popoff said he hoped future vice-chairs are as involved as Elliott. Municipal directors receive a base salary of $1,006 per month, and the 11 rural directors $2,593 each. The chair receives an additional $2,467 per month.
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News Jumbo Wild and Pipeline Free BC Team Up for Event
Earth Day rally goes Sunday Nelson Star Staff
The West Kootenay Coalition for Jumbo Wild is doubling up on Earth Day by joining the Kootenays for a Pipeline-Free BC for a rally at Nelson City Hall Sunday at 3 p.m. “This is the day to stand up for our wild places whether it is mountains, northland or coastline,� said Jumbo Wild organizer K. Linda Kivi. “We teamed up with Pipeline-Free BC for this gathering because, really, it’s all the same issue: what is our vision for our land and our future? We believe there is an economy of the wild. Democracy matters.� “If all we care about is dollars, then we should realize that there is more money to be made by keeping Jumbo Wild,� said Kim Kratky, Jumbo Wild spokesman. “That’s why people come to BC, for the wilderness. Our main focus is to let Jumbo’s French investors know there is a reason why the proposal was on the books for 20 years. Local people
Jumbo opponents last held a rally in late March.
don’t want it.� Kratky said the taxpayer costs of road building to Jumbo and the infrastructure of a non-elected municipality should concern everyone in BC. Jumbo Wild has other concerns to be addressed, said Kratky. “Back country closure is high
on the list. Jumbo Glacier Resort’s Master plan calls for ‘grizzly habitat enhancement such as access management’ and that means they are planning to keep us out of certain areas we love and use,� he said. The Earth Day rally will focus on concrete actions people can take including a postcard campaign aimed at the French investors, Compagnie des Alpes. Organizers ask those who attend to bring toonies to help pay for stamps and cheque books to help build campaign momentum. Kootenays for a Pipeline Free BC will have information on their upcoming event and speaker series and will be signing people up for their pipeline caravan. Billed as the “wild-est, jumboest� rally yet, a car will be turned into an animal and music, art and celebration will mark this Earth Day. Bring your teddies for the Bears for Jumbo wall of fame. And the Jumbo Jester invites you to come in costume.
Average jump will be $40 Continued from Page 1 forces the city to make up the difference. “We’ve had heated discussions about services,� Cherbo said. “It’s very difficult to decide where to cut city services. Most people want more, not less. We need to find other sources of funding.� Councillor Deb Kozak noted the tax hike — which will generate another $195,000 in revenue — works out to $40 more for the average homeowner. “For some it is a hardship,� she said. “But at this point we’re not able to make any big changes.� Kozak said they have reduced some services — including not filling positions in the fire and police departments lost through attrition last year — but wondered about a previously contemplated overall review. Councillor Donna Macdonald complimented staff and council for doing “a really good job� after some long meetings. “We’ve made good progress. We can’t keep dealing with a structural debt every year without new revenue streams,� she
said. “If we can keep the tax increase at or around the cost of living increase, we’re doing pretty well.� Macdonald noted other BC municipalities have seen double-digit tax increases this year. “Nobody likes to increase taxes but the reality is costs go up.� The financial plan was presented for council’s consideration following an open house on April 4, attended by 22 members of the public. The plan projects Nelson will take in $51.9 million in revenue this year, including $8.6 million in property taxes, and $15.5 million from Nelson Hydro — up from $48.7 million in 2011. The share collected from each property class (residential, business, light industry) will remain proportionately the same. Overall, property taxes account for the second largest chunk of city revenue at 18 per cent. Forty-four per cent comes from user fees. The financial plan is expected to receive final adoption at council’s next meeting.
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Seniors have the right to live in dignity, free from abuse, neglect or exploitation. If you have questions or concerns for yourself or an other senior please contact us at the Nelson and Area Elder Abuse Prevention Resource Centre. Wednesdays from 12 to 2 p.m. at 719 Vernon Street or phone 250-352-6000 or read more about us and email us via nelsonelderabuseprevention. org.
The Nelson Grans to Grans will present the movie Condoms, Fish and Circus Tricks on April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the United Church sanctuary. This film takes an intimate look at those who are dying, those who care for them and why AIDS has a devastating affect on African society. Admission is by donation and all proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Suggested donation is a minimum of $5. Film is not recommended for those under 14. Discussion and refreshments to follow viewing of the film.
Mars and Saturn are all visible in the night sky. Come to Taghum Hall’s Starry Night astronomy program and we will show you these planets as well as starclusters, galaxies and binary stars through two astronomy telescopes. Dates are: Friday, April 20 and we will be viewing the first quarter moon April 28, International Astronomy Day. All programs are weather permitting. For more information contact Wayne Holmes at 250-354-1586 or email sumfun@telus.net.
The Friends of the Nelson Library are now collecting donations of your gently used books for the spring book sale. Donations gratefully accepted until Friday, April 20. Please no magazines, encyclopedias, dated travel and computer books, or Reader’s Digest condensed books.
Unmani is a spiritual teacher who has lived a nomadic life since the age of 18. She travels around the world holding meetings and retreats, relying on the generosity of people touched by her message. Since she was a child Unmani never identified with the role she seemed to be playing as a person living a life. After years of searching to find a way out of the pain this created, she met a Zen master in India, who helped her realize that what she had been searching for is right here. Unmani is the author of two books; her website is die-to-love.com She will give a public talk at 7 p.m. in Nelson on Friday, April 20 at the Old Church Hall (602 Kootenay Street), and lead a weekend retreat on April 21 and 22.
The Nelson and District Chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women will hold their monthly meeting at the New Grand Hotel in Nelson on April 21 at 9:30 a.m. Our guest speaker is Isabelle Herzig who will talk of Fundraising Projects to aid women and children in Gambia. For further information please phone Pat Reid at 250-505-5561.
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The morning of this full day, interactive workshop, presented by the Rental Owners and Managers Society of BC, will cover the Residential Tenancy Act and Regulations as well as the Personal Information Protection Act. The entire afternoon is then dedicated to dispute resolution; evidence preparation, presentation execution, and a mock hearing to test what you’ve learned. This workshop is being held at the Baker Street Inn (153 Baker Street) on Saturday, April 21 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The cost to attend is $79 plus HST per person for ROMS BC members, or $99 plus HST per person for non-members, and includes handouts, refreshments and lunch. To register, please call 1-888330-6707 or go to education2012.speedsurvey.com. Nelson Fresh Tracks Toastmasters will be hosting the annual Division C inspirational and evaluation speech contest at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 21 at the new Shambhala Music and Performance Hall. Speakers from Okanagan and Kootenay regions will compete and the winners will move on to the District competition at Harrison Hot springs in May. Visitors are invited for the evening Keynote speech by Jamie MacDonald and the inspirational speech contest. Visit nelsontoastmasters.ca for information. Tickets at the door. The Chamber of Mines of Eastern BC will hold an Introduction to Prospecting course from April 23 to 29, Monday to Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. with a full day review on April 28 and field trip on April 29. Cost of $250 includes textbook and supplies. Visit 215 Hall Street weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., or call 250-3525242 to reserve. Nelson Fresh Tracks Toastmasters in Nelson is a great place to: learn, develop and practice your public speaking skills in a fun, safe, encouraging environment. Visit our club to learn why so many people join Toastmasters clubs to improve their public speaking skills. Guests are always welcome.
Friends of the Library will hold their spring book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 28 at the basement of the library. Book extravaganza, where you can pick up a bag of books for only $3, between 2 and 3 p.m. We look forward to seeing you there. WORKSHOPS
The Cascadia Green Building Council – Kootenay/ Rockies branch presents a wood-chip clay wall systems and natural plaster seminar on Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. Learn about these inexpensive and beautiful insulative wall systems and finishing techniques that use local waste materials. The seminar will be held at the Seed Studio above Reo’s. Admission is $5, free for members. To register or for information please contact kr@cascadiagbc.org or 250-354-3116. Save the date for our upcoming seminar: Vegetated green roofs, May 16. GETTING ACTIVE
Looking for a fun way to run around indoors? 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. Enjoy some Scottish country dancing every Monday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Central School gym. Beginners welcome. For more information contact Kathy at 250-359-7545, June at 250-352-1836, or Beverly at 250-352-7850.
Chen tai chi, chi gong and broad sword classes. Classes will start with a 20 minute chi gong and standing mediation, we’ll then move into learning the chen tai chi set move by move, and we’ll finish the class with two-person drills and learning the tai chi broad sword. Classes will be held every Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7 to 8 p.m., at the Central School gym. For more information call Chris Gibson 250-505-4562. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Join us at Selkirk College (Rosemont Campus) Silver King Road, Nelson, Room 118 on Tuesday, April 26. Meetings every second and fourth Thursday of each month. Visit nelsontoastmasters.ca for more information. Opening social at the Taghum Hall, Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m. bring an instrument and partake in fireside story telling accompanied by warm bannock and borscht. Saturday and Sunday enjoy morning and afternoon workshops at LVR covering topics on global warming, energy systems, solar panels, and go carts. Then on Saturday night at 7 p.m., April 28, the Legion will be hosting environmental documentaries made by YOU! Create a three minute video telling us what you LOVE about the Kootenays and win $100! For more information and registration details contact Shannon Lanaway at slanaway@sd8.bc.ca or call 250-354-1743.
Call for photos. Wanted: Old, candid pictures of the Balfour ferry landing and Kootenay Lake for a commemorative poster series, a keepsake that shows the ferry landing legacy. Black and white or colour OK. Winning pictures will receive Dock ‘n’ Duck gift certificates, will be named on the posters, and will receive a free copy of the commemorative poster. Proceeds from poster sales go to the Anscomb Wheelhouse project. Cut off for photo entries is April 30. For more information call Robin at 250-229-4244. If you have an event or announcement you’d like to put in the Star, email reporter@nelsonstar.com with a short write-up in sentence form including date, time, location and contact information if needed. Listings may be edited for space and style. Events can also be submitted and posted on our new online calendar on nelsonstar.com
That Spring Fling Tango Thing with Instructors Ricardo Pacheco Heather Grant & Beth Hargreaves
Friday April 27th 6:30pm-8:30pm Milonga Lesson, all levels/Practica
Saturday, April 28th 10:30am-11:45am Beginner 1 & 2, 1:00pm-2:15pm Intermediate 1 & 2, 2:30pm-3:45pm Technique for lead & follow,
6:00pm-7:30pm Dinner (A-la-carte) at Ric’s Grill, Prestige Lakeside Resort, 7:30pm-11:00pm Milonga (Dance)
Sunday, April 29th 10:30am - 11:45am Intermediate 1 & 2 New Steps
Location: The Moving Centre 533 Baker Street, Nelson $25/lesson, $10/Milonga OR $100 for all lessons & Milonga Pre-registration required. Please contact Heather Grant 2hvgrant@gmail.com / 250-226-7229 OR Beth Hargreaves eliz63@gmail.com / 250-352-5081
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Tango Bar Nelson presents...
Tango Bar Nelson presents...
with Instructors Heather Grant & Beth Hargreaves 8 Lesson Series beginning Tuesday, May 1st 5:00pm-5:45pm Beginner 7:00pm-8:00pm Practica Location: The Moving Centre 533 Baker Street, Nelson $75/person for the entire series
with Instructors Heather Grant & Beth Hargreaves 10 Lesson Series + 1 week practica beginning Tuesday, May 1st 6:00pm-7:00pm Beginner 7:00pm-8:00pm Practica 8:00pm-9:00pm Continuing Beginner $100/person for the entire series
Teen Tango Lesson Series
Argentine Tango Lesson Series
Pre-registration required. Please contact Heather Grant 2hvgrant@gmail.com / 250-226-7229 OR Beth Hargreaves eliz63@gmail.com / 250-352-5081
Arts THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS are pleased to announce
Film Lovers in the Kootenays Presents
Taming the wild mustangs SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star
FLIKS brings Wild Horse Wild Ride to the Capitol Theatre on April 25 and to the Vallican Whole on Friday (both shows 7:30 p.m.). If you care about seeing films on the big screen in your community, come watch this festival audience favourite. Each year thousands of wild mustangs are rounded up from public lands — they have lived wild for generations and have never been touched by
human hands. Wild Horse, Wild Ride tells the story of the Extreme Mustang Makeover Challenge, an annual contest
where people attempt to tame a totally wild mustang in order to get it adopted into
a better life beyond federal corrals. Stunning and poignant, Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus’ debut feature documentary chronicles a handful of unforgettable characters from their first uneasy meeting with their horses and over three months as they attempt to transform from scared strangers to the closest of companions. It all ends in a competition where trainers must bid against the public if they want to keep their horses.
THE NELSON OVERTURE CONCERT SOCIETY PRESENTS
SYMPHONY OF THE KOOTENAYS
Bruce Halstead as NELSON’S 2011 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR
He will be honoured with presentations and a Catered Dinner at the Catholic Centre (523 Mill Street)
Saturday, 6:00 p.m. April 21, 2012 Tickets: $30.00 each Purchased at Sonja’s China Cabinet Look for the display board at the window Cut- off date for ticket sales is 3:00 p.m. Friday April 20, 2012
For more information Call Bob Tremblay at 250-825-9204
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The ever popular Symphony of the Kootenays, comprised of musicians from the East and West Kootenays and Alberta, returns to Nelson once again to thrill our audience with their wonderful sound. Under the direction of conductor Bruce Dunn, their concert program will include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 in which the orchestra will be joined by Anna Petrova. Ms. Petrova performs widely as solist and chamber musician in North America, Europe and Asia. Students from schools participating in the NOCS School Outreach Program are granted free admission.
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Arts Launch of Latest Work Goes Next Weekend at Oxygen Art Gallery
Wayman’s poetry takes on modern war SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star
How the Afghan War has impacted daily life in Canada is the focus of West Kootenay author Tom Wayman’s newest collection of poems, Dirty Snow, which will be launched April 27 at the Oxygen Art Centre (320 Vernon Street — alley entrance). The launch, which begins at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public. “The core of Dirty Snow is the Afghan War, whose effects
hang over all of us: the financial, moral, and social waste, as well the destruction of lives, minds and bodies that has resulted from Canada’s military intervention in a civil war between two odious sets of combatants,� Wayman said. He said the poems of Dirty Snow explore the tension between two realities. “We are citizens of a nation which has impoverished itself through pointless military adventurism, and simultaneously we in BC’s southeastern Interior are inhabitants of one of
the most beautiful and inspiring landscapes on the planet, a region whose networks of caring, intelligent and strongminded individuals allow for an existence here that is rich beyond measure.� Winlaw resident Wayman has had more than a dozen collections of his poems published, and his books have been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry and the BC Book Prize for Poetry. His collection of short fiction, Boundary Country, currently is a contender for
the 2012 One Book One Kootenay selection, a project of the Kootenay Library Federation. He has taught writing at several post-secondary institutions, including Nelson’s David Thompson University Centre and the Kootenay School of the Arts, and most recently the University of Calgary. The launch of Dirty Snow is part of Oxygen Art Centre’s Presentation Series, which hosts artists’ talks, author readings, book launches, independent film showings and community forums.
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Arts
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Tonight a group of Nelson youth participating in the Gender Action Project will perform live at SelfDesign High. Rumours and Just a Friend, interactive forum theatre pieces about gender issues, are the result of a ten-week long workshop series facilitated by the Nelson Women’s Centre and supported by SelfDesign High and the Columbia Basin Trust. They are entirely written and performed by teens aged 14 to 18. Unlike ordinary theatre, forum is a space where the community is invited to be a part of the action onstage. These plays don’t have neat and tidy resolutions — they end in crisis. Then the audience is asked to respond, by offering alternatives, options, and choices to the characters, attempting to change the outcome. It is an exercise in collective problem-solving, community responsibility, and self-exploration. Together, you get a chance to look deeply at issues people in our community face, and explore ways you can help address these problems together. The Gender Action Project is facilitated by the West Kootenay Women’s Association, an organization with a 40-year history in the region, that works to promote gender justice and equality, and seeks to create supportive space for women in our community. The Nelson Women’s Centre hosts a dropin three days a week where women can access free food and clothing, counselling, referrals and advocacy. The Gender Action Project was initiated in the hopes of extending this supportive space to youth, and learning together how to address gender justice issues in the younger generation. Ten youth from the Nelson area participated in workshops this winter and spring, bringing their stories together to write the two pieces which will be performed tonight. It has been a powerful and inspiring learning process for all involved, and the work of these youth will be honoured and built upon by the community attending the performance. The performance is at SelfDesign High (402 Victoria Street). Admission is by donation to the Women’s Centre, and doors open at 7 p.m.
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Sports
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Georama’s Plant of the Week Case Grypma
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Common name: Pieris japonica Botanical Name: Lily of the Valley Shrub, Japanese Andromeda
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The modern Pieris shrubs are mainly slow growing and compact, growing between two to five feet depending on the cultivar. Most have white flowers resembling the true Lily of the Valley, although some newer cultivars have a beautiful pink colour. The photo was taken in our front yard and shows off the variegated form with its beautiful creamy-white-edged foliage. Other forms include, ‘Valley Valentine’, Mountain Fire’, ‘Forest Flame’. New spring foliage ranges from bright pink to silvery-yellow that contrasts strongly with the previous season’s growth. The blooms arrive in large clusters of small urn shaped flowers that persist well into winter. The shrub requires no special pruning to stay attractive and is easy to maintain if planted in a somewhat protected area. It performs best in a rich, well drained, slightly acidic soil. Plant in light shade with no strong afternoon sun. Too much shade, though and flowering will be sparse. Companion plants to the Pieris could include: Rhododendrons, Ferns, Hostas and epimediums. The Pieris is one of our most important temperate broadleaf shade shrubs and can easily be grown in zone 6 (lower Nelson, North Shore) and in protected areas in Uphill, Rosemont and even Blewett.
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Sport Hero award recipients pose after receiving their award Wednesday at the Prestige Inn (Back row from left) Bill McDonnell, Mary Walters, Sofeya Devji, Bill Harbord, Dean Siminoff; (Front from left) Liz Saunders, Mari Plamondon and Laura Torrans. Samuel Dobrin photo
In small communities it’s volunteers who offer their time and energy that can make the difference between dull and vibrant, active communities. Nelson is no exception and when it comes to volunteers, there seems to be a high number of them dedicated to serving others. To recognize just a few of these people, Sport BC held its Community Sport Hero Awards in Nelson Wednesday night. The first Sport Hero awards in Nelson since 2005, 10 sport volunteers were recognized for dedication and leadership in their respective activities.
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“We brought it on because we believe that sport volunteers don’t get any recognition,” said Carey Summerfelt, event manager for Sport BC.
“We brought it on because we believe that sport volunteers don’t get any recognition.” “We know it’s a struggle sometimes and in small communities there’s often a few volunteers that do everything. It’s a way of saying thank you.” Sport BC has been monitoring volunteer efforts in communities throughout the prov-
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ince through KidSport chapters and sport councils. Recipients of the Sport Hero award in Nelson are Laura Torrans, Sofeya Devji, Mari Plamondon, Dean Siminoff, Bill McDonnell, Pat Wray, Liz Saunders, Bill Harbord, Jane MacLeod and Mary Walters. Siminoff, who has been active in promoting and teaching taekwondo in the area, said volunteers give up their time and effort just for the sake of helping people. “We do it because we love people,” said Siminoff. “Taekwondo is just a vehicle to do that and I know it’s the same for all the rest of the volunteers and why they do what they do.” Call of the Wild...
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Sports
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Jim Hiller came out on top of the Nelson-connection WHL series that saw his Tri-City Americans win in seven games over former Nelson Junior Leafs sniper Dylan Walchuk and the Spokane Chiefs. The Americans came into the second round series as the favourites, but it took the Washington state club seven games to dispose of the pesky Chiefs. The seventh and deciding game went Wednesday night at the Toyota Center in Kennewick. It was the Chiefs who got on the board first when Walchuk assisted on a powerplay marker by Dominik Uher late in the opening frame. The Americans fought back in the second with a goal by Brian Williams. Early in the third period the Chiefs went ahead with a Mitch Holmberg goal and an upset was in the making. With just over five minutes left in regu-
Former Nelson resident JIm Hiller behind the Tri-City bench.
lation time Tri-City’s Malte Stromwall scored to tie the game and a minute after that Brendan Shinnimin put the Americans ahead. The game ended 3-2 and sent the Americans to the Western Conference finals where they will take on the Portland Winterhawks. That series opens tonight in Kennewick. Hiller grew up playing minor hockey in Nelson. He went onto win an NCAA national championship with Northern Michigan University and played 63 NHL games before
moving to Europe where he had a lengthy and successful career. Since getting behind the bench, Hiller has enjoyed plenty of success including guiding the Americans to a first place Western Conference finish in the regular season this year. He is up for WHL coach of the year honours. Walchuk was a member of the 2008-09 Nelson Junior Leafs that won a KIJHL championship. He then moved onto to play for the BCHL’s Vernon Vipers.
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Kootenay Lake Levels
Sports
April 18, 2012 For the benefit of Kootenay Lake area residents, the following lake levels are provided by FortisBC as a public service. Queen’s Bay:
Present level: 1743.60 ft 7 day forecast: Up 0 to 2 inches. 2011 peak:1751.71 ft. 2010 peak:1748.68 ft.
Nelson:
Present level: 1742.33 ft. 7 day forecast: Up 0 to 2 inches.
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Two-time Olympian Bobby Swan (right) and 11-year-old Whitewater Ski Team member Haley Mitchell celebrating the end of the race season. SUBMITTED Special to the Nelson Star
GOLF TOURNAMENT Sunday, May 6th 2012 Granite Pointe Golf Course in Nelson Registration 10:00 am Shot gun Start 12 noon Dinner to follow with prizes Fee $100.00 for golf & dinner For further information contact Ron World Phone 250-352-7617 • email: 953sm@owfg.com
It was a busy last month of the race season for the Whitewater Ski Team as local athletes took in their last action of the campaign. During the last month the young racers took in events at Panorama, Big White and back home at Whitewater to wrap up the season. The 13-to-16 year olds headed to Panorama in early March for the K2 Provincials where athletes posted some great results against over 200 racers from the powerhouse clubs in Fernie, Whistler and the coast. In the girls Super G, Paisley Randell finished 38, 40 and 51, while Linnea Sharelove finished 43, 44, and 50. In the boys Super G, Jamis Beatty finished 19, 22, 27; Liam Osak finished 45, 45, 51; and Harper Henderson finished 46, 46, 47. Each athlete also competed in the first ever skier cross held at the provincials. Once again, Whitewater athletes showed their mettle with every racer making it through the qualifiers and into the final heats. Only Beatty made it into the finals where he finished just out of the medals in fourth. The 11 and 12 year olds travelled to Big White for the K1 provincials in mid-March. Most of these
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athletes are in just the first year of racing and the results were surprisingly impressive. In a slalom race highlighted by a very challenging course and 35 disqualifications, every Whitewater athlete posted results with Haley Mitchell finishing 13, 83, 16, 20, 19; Savannah Leishman 60, 22, 31, 32, 50; Oso Punchard 47, 46, 79, 81, 68; Cheyanne Stevens 46, 62, 79, 81, 68; Liam Jones 71, 61, 60, 76; Isaac Gray 87, 87, 83, 83, 65; Jesse Thurston 45, 47, 40, 39, 64; and Kalob Jensen 75, 76, 63, 79, 68. Coach Al Bull was very positive with these results. “For their first big provincials, our athletes posted great results against the best skiers in the province,” Bull said. “I’m thrilled with the progress they have shown throughout the season and I expect big things from this group heading into the next 2 years of K1.” The ski team wrapped up the 2012 race season during the last weekend in March at Whitewater with the Teck Kootenay K zone finals. A total of 90 athletes from Fernie, Kimberley, Red Mountain, Salmo, Nakusp and Whitewater competed over the weekend in GS and slalom races. Conditions were unseasonably warm and sunny, forcing the
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Obituaries & Memorials
Sports Continued from Page 16 athletes to ski on soft conditions for the first time all season. Whitewater racers posted some outstanding results with multiple podium finishes over the weekend. The lone E2 girl, Ohia Wintraub, finished 1, 4 and 5; E2 boys Yael Oosthuizen 5, 5, 6; Arlo Henderson 3, 5, 6; Ronan Gray 11, 12; K1 girls Savannah Leishman 4, 8, 10, 11; Hayley Mitchell 4, 5; 10. 18 ; Oso Punchard 7, 9, 15, 16; Cheyanne Stevens 18, 19, 20; K1 boys Liam Jones 3; 3, 3, 11; Jesse Thurston 1, 3, 4, 5; Isaac Gray 7, 8, 8, 13; K2 girls Linnea Sharelove 2, 4; K2 boys Jamis Beatty 1, 1; Harper Henderson 2; Liam Osak 4; J girls Paisley Randell 1, 2; Shannon Osak 4; and Masters racers came out in force with Bobby Swan finishing 1 and 4; Robert Mitchell 1; Bill Ahrens 2, 3; and Leigh Brousson 2. “I’m really proud to be part of this team and to coach these great athletes,” said Whitewater coach Dylan Henderson. “And, I’m super stoked for next year as we continue to grow our K and Masters programs into a dominant force in BC. To quote Maverick in Top Gun, ‘I feel the need – the need for speed!’” “This year has been a huge success for the club and the results from these races speak for themselves,” said Whitewater team president Paul Osak. “To get this number of athletes achieving podium finishes and top 10 results is a remarkable accomplishment for our team. We are so proud of our athletes, coaches and parents who have made our club one of the fastest growing and most successful programs in the entire province. And we anticipate even better results next year.”
Polly Chernoff Jan 28, 1912 - Apr 3, 2012
Polly passed away at Kootenay Lake Hospital in her 100th year. She was born in Pelly, Saskatchewan to George & Dora Malakoff; the youngest of four girls. She was predeceased by her husband William (Bill), her daughter Margaret Saliken, grandson Leonard, great grandchildren Alyssa and Nathan. Polly enjoyed the farm and grew a huge garden filled with flowers and vegetables. She was also skilled at many handicrafts. She loved people with a genuine interest wherever she lived including her last few years at Mountain Lake Seniors Community where she formed many friendships among both residence and the kind and caring staff. Polly is survived by her daughters; Nellie Konkin, Helen Kootnikoff, Barbara (Bob) Ward, eleven grandchildren as well as many great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. Polly was loved by all her family. Her sense of humour was a great contribution to family gatherings & she will greatly missed.
Forever in our hearts and our memories Shirlie Diana (Granger) McFetridge May 13, 1925 to April 6, 2012 Shirlie passed away on Friday morning at the hospice at Langley Memorial Hospital. She would have been 87 in May. Her family extends thanks to the staff at the Irene Thomas Hospice in Ladner and the Langley Memorial Hospital. Shirlie spent fourteen years at Seton Villa in Burnaby where she had many kind friends and fond memories. Shirlie is survived by her sisters Patricia Granger and Norma Macleod both of Burnaby. She is survived by her Àve children Robert McFetridge and his wife Irene of Bowser on Vancouver Island, Gerald McFetridge and his wife Lynne of Quesnel, Douglas McFetridge and his partner Lisa of Calgary and Doug’s daughters Katie and Natalie, Ray McFetridge and his wife Irene and their children Madeline, Lucas and Jillian of Surrey and Patricia Hannigan and her husband Michael and their children Conor, Olivia and Euan of Victoria. She is pre-deceased by her father Ernest Granger, her mother Edna Granger and her husband John McFetridge. Shirlie was the Àrst child born in the new hospital in Kimberly. Her father was an underground miner. When Ernest developed silicosis the family moved to Penticton. During the war Shirlie repaired transmissions and transfer cases on Jeeps in Vancouver and Edmonton. Back in Penticton after the war, Shirlie met and married John McFetridge a civil engineer with the CPR. They moved to Edmonton where two sons were born. Then they moved to Lloydminster and then to Winnipeg where two more sons and a daughter joined the family. Later the family moved to Calgary and then Nelson. Shirlie developed a strong interest in art and did contract murals for restaurants in Winnipeg. She became interested in Inuit art and worked in an Inuit art gallery in Winnipeg. Shirlie is remembered for her sense of humour and enjoyed the company of friends wherever she was. Shirlie had a love of travel. In 1966 she and John took the family on a vacation to Uclulet when the road to the west coast was very rough. She stayed in a hotel in Tiananmen Square a week after the uprising. She travelled on the Orient Express with a friend. She went to Macchu Pichu and Lake Titicaca in Peru. She lived in San Jose, Costa Rica for three years. Shirlie will be dearly missed by her family and friends. Donations in the memory of Shirlie McFetridge may be made to the Ride2Survive. Ray McFetridge will be riding from Kelowna to Vancouver on June 23rd as he does each year. The website is http://www.ride2survive.ca/ and donations for cancer research can be made at http://ride2survive.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=488820&lis=1&kntae4 88820=D8F05EEE8D8343D899B3056427B3A10B&supId=247695761
Disposition of Unclaimed Cremated Remains Thompson Funeral Services Ltd., 613 Ward Street, Nelson BC V1L 1T2, 250-352-3613 will be disposing of the following unclaimed cremated remains on Thursday, May 31, 2012.
Bachelor, Jean Margaret
January 22, 1985
Higgins, Charles Raymond
September 25, 1973
Oliver, Mary Ellen
October 22, 1972
Bastin, Mabel Catharine
November 10, 1967
Hopkins, John Alan
November 28, 1977
Pearce, Frank
July 24, 1965
Bell, Jean Christina
July 16, 1990
Hunter, Margaret Jennie
January 23, 1969
Peterson, Carl
December 5, 1989
Bennett, Marjorie Martha
May 31, 1976
Johnstone, Elizabeth
January 5, 1964
Purser, Roy A.
September 26, 1972
Breeze, Arthur
October 9, 1969
Kirk, Edwin Clayton
December 17, 1968
Turner, Richard Alexander
May 29, 1966
Brown, Mildred Francis
1962
Koska, Erma W.
September 15, 1981
Sheets, Clara May
July 11, 1961
Brown, Arthur M.
August 21, 1996
Kosma, Ladlislo
September 8, 1969
Smales, Vera Emma
November 4, 1974
Byres, Robert
July 19, 1977
Lawrence, Percy
August 17, 1983
Spurway, Rowland
1952
Clark, Edwin Herbert Clark
November 13, 1997
Lawrence, Benjamin J.
July 4, 1984
Streets, Clive Alan
May 29, 1979
Cooper, George Taylor
November 28, 1977
Linden, John
May 3, 1965
Tofell, Neil Eugene
August 21,1996
Crosby, Mervin Eugene
May 10, 1988
Lovelette, Faye
December 30, 1992
Treen, Sarah
February 29, 1972
Dent, James Dennis
April 8, 1969
McGregor, Edward James
January 10, 1977
Turner, Richard Alexander
May 19, 1966
Farmer, Helmi
August 7, 1970
McKenzie, Marlin
January 6, 2004
Turnquist, Karl
September 8, 1987
Ferworn, Emma
1951
Mitchell, Baby boy
December 18, 1981
VanManen, William Johann
1952
Forbes, Edward
May 8, 1986
Moore, Lucy Brett
April 21, 2001
Veale, Frances, Elizabeth
September 1, 1977
Fountain, Wayne Allen
August 24,1996
Moxley, Raymond Donald
August 24, 1996
Wells, Irma Joan
November 22, 1994
Hendry, Earl Duane
May 11, 1965
Odmark, Josefa
January 3, 1980
Wolfhard, John Wolfgang
March 12, 1979
Any person with a right to control disposition of the remains under the Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act must contact Thompson Funeral Services Ltd. as soon as possible to recover the cremated remains. April 17, 2012, Robert Sylvester, Funeral Director
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Bound for Freedom
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Rev. Scott Simpson • First Baptist Church, Nelson There is some debate about the origins of the word ‘religion’ but let’s say, for the sake of this conversation, that it comes from the Latin that means ‘to bind’. Many people are uncomfortable being bound to anything, especially a rule or law. But binding ourselves to rules and laws and customs is really part of belonging in human community. We willingly limit our own freedom in order to live in harmony with one another. I bound myself through vows at my wedding day. I bind myself to the rules of the road when I drive my truck – well, most of the rules. You get the idea.
“Religion” has become a nasty word both inside and outside the church. It has become associated with a kind of oppressive moral regime that is meant to rob us of our freedom. In reaction to this perception, and disillusioned with their religious experience, some people have decided to ‘love Jesus, but hate religion’ or ‘love Jesus, but hate the church’. Even within the church, many Christians are quick to argue that they don’t have a ‘religion’ but instead have a ‘relationship’.
The problem that Jesus seemed to have with the religious leaders of his day was that they were binding themselves, and others, to the wrong things – the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law. His point wasn’t to abolish the law or religion but to return to the core of the law: Love God; Love Others.
I understand the motivation for this kind of thought, and even empathize strongly with it, but I think there might be a better way to resolve the tension between relationship and religion.
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James gives us the practical implication of this principle when he states, ‘Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this; to look after orphans and widows in their distress . . .’ ( James 1:27) The freedom that the good news of Jesus brings is not the freedom of anarchy. It is a freedom from sin and guilt and shame so that we might freely be with and belong to one another in love. The church, then, is a m i c ro - c o m mu n i t y of those who, in freedom, have bound themselves to one another in love.
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Wendell Berry, poet, farmer, activist and author states, “A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives.” We don’t need to choose between religion and Jesus. Instead, our religious practice should bind us in love to Jesus and to one another.
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Supernatural spark hard to quantify SAMUEL DOBRIN Nelson Star Reporter
For those who call Nelson home, it’s nothing new when this unique town receives great exposure. For some of us, that’s why we’re here, and when Red Bull Supernatural shone yet more light on the area last month it was more of the same. “I think just the exposure for the region is always positive,” said Tom Thomson, executive director of the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce.
“Whether it’s for Baldface or Whitewater or any of the ski operations, I think a program like the one that ran on NBC just promotes this region and the ski-ability of the area and the terrain we’ve got up here.” Tom Thomson Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce
“Whether it’s for Baldface or Whitewater or any of the ski operations, I think a program like the one that ran on NBC just promotes this region and the ski-ability of the area and the terrain we’ve got up here. “A program like Supernatural can only expose our area to even more folks looking for an adventure they’ve never had before in this area,” he said. Thomson said while exposure from newspaper and magazine articles sometimes garners more interest from those wanting to relocate to the area, Supernatural did still spark some interest in people. “From the Supernatural event we’ve certainly had some telephone calls and enquiries and I think it’s probably just going to continue to build, especially for people into the backcountry skiing type of operations,” said Thomson. Jeff Pensiero, owner of Baldface Lodge where the Supernatural was hosted, said he has seen people interested in visiting the lodge because of the event, but doesn’t attribute his success to that. “It would be hard for me to say that because of Supernatural we’re doing all this business,” he said, adding that more than anything it just brings a lot of awareness to the brand. “I think we just ran a great operation up there, and people love the new lodge… pretty much everyone that came up this year re-booked for next year and we’re already booking out into 2014.” Thomson said when programs like Supernatural run on a major network, “it’s just tremendous for this area.”
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Arrow & Slocan Lakes Community Services is looking for Casual Custom Transit Operators for the Nelson area. • Clean driving record with Class 2 licence preferred • Minimum Class 4 required. • Wages and benefits as per collective agreement. If interested please email resume and current driver’s abstract to: hiring@aslcs.com. For more information call: 250-352-0621.
Service Manager Required Immediately Nelson Chrysler, a well established Chrysler dealer, is seeking a qualified individual to lead our service department. Duties include the everyday operation of a busy service area, including, customer satisfaction, warranty prossessing and submission, staffing, organizing technicians training schedules and motivatation and performace of all service area employees. Duties will also include numerous daily tasks of running an effiecient and profitable service department. Strong organizational skills and computer experience an asset. Rate of pay to be negotiated depending on experience. Please email your resume to
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Former Nelson-Creston MLA Corky Evans will be the keynote speaker Sunday as Salmo marks Earth Day with an environmental forum. Entitled The Place Where We Live, the conference’s theme is “community-based sustainability” and is being put on by Salmo’s Green Dream Committee. Cathy Paton, one of the organizers, says the idea came out of a meeting hosted last October by the Columbia Basin Trust, where the environment was identified as one of three key areas for community consideration. “We decided that we wanted a next step to be the greening of Salmo, and a focus on environmentally friendly economic development options for our area,” Paton says. “We hope the forum will excite other residents, and inspire them to get involved in green endeavours that are meaningful to them and the community.”
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The conference comes on the heels of Salmo winning FortisBC’s Earth Hour challenge — in which residents pledged to shut off non-essential lights and appliances for an hour as a symbol of energy conservation. Other speakers include Darwin Horning of the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute at Selkirk College, who will talk about “Community capacity building through information sharing”; Curt Kerns, president of Wetlands Pacific Corporation, who will discuss “The value and function of nat-
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www.spca.bc.ca/nelson Kootenay Animal Assistance Program Society (KAAP) Students walked home from Waldorf on April 11 with the help of a Nelson Police Department escort. The effort is part of the walking school bus initiative at the local school.
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As its next step toward greening the school, the Nelson Waldorf School is targeting the carbon footprint of travel to and from school. To encourage families and children to walk to and from school in groups, the staff is initiating a walking school bus. The benefits of having students walk to school are enormous. Students enjoy the invigorating exercise in the fresh air while having the social experience of chatting with schoolmates while they walk. They arrive at school with rosy cheeks, wide awake and ready for the challenges of the day ahead of them. At the end of the day, the walk provides a wonderful out-breath for children who have worked hard all day. On April 11, the first walking school bus escorted 30 children from the school campus to Selkirk College on Silver King Road. A second walking school bus will did the reverse route this past Wednesday morning. It is hoped that parents and students will connect with each other and plan subsequent informal walking school buses to create a safe and satisfying alternative to driving to school. Waldorf is grateful to Sergeant Janet of the Nelson Police Department who provided a safe and cheerful escort for the first walking school bus. CLARIFICATION Wednesday’s story on the Nelson Cycling Club’s bike swap this Sunday did not mention the location. It will take place at the Nelson Rod and Gun Club. For more information call Helen or Darcey at 250352-6654. You can also check out the club website at nelsoncyclingclub.org
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Adopt + Cute Pet = Save a Life Here are some of the cats and dogs currently looking for new homes through the Kootenay Animal Assistance Program (KAAP). All KAAP pets are cared for in foster homes, and you can call 250-551-1053 to set up a visit with any of our animals. More cats and dogs are listed on www.homes4animals.com, or on KAAP’s Facebook page.
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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 when you shop. Just look for the KAAP till card, and have it scanned when you do your checkout. Thank you!
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assabi Collective fans might be wondering what will happen to the popular local reggaefusion band now that two of its core members have left Nelson. Both the band’s lead vocalists, Melissa Meretsky and Brent Hongisto, are living in Vancouver, and the remaining three members have no plans of moving. But Hongisto says the distance won’t hurt Wassabi. If anything, he expects it will force them to be more productive when they are together. “When we saw each other all the time, it was easy to put off recording and say we’ll just do it next time,” he says. “Now our time together is precious. We won’t have the luxury of procrastination.” Wassabi is currently in the middle of a two-week tour performing at public schools across the Kootenay. Tonight they take a break from that to celebrate 420 with a show at the Royal. And while Hongisto is, of course, thinking about putting
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Justin Martin has played Shambhala and is now headed back to the Kootenays to play Spiritbar tonight. {vurb}’s go-to source for electronic music knowledge, Shambhala Music Festival, caught up with Martin before he arrived in Nelson.
1. First, describe in three or fewer words your sound. How would you explain that to someone trying to understand electronic genres? Beauty + Bass = Bliss… It’s booty shaking dance music that blurs the lines between musical sub genres.
2. You played Shambhala a couple years back. How was that experience for you?
and I have spent a lot of time touring the world in search of the best slice of pizza.
It was one of the most fantastic festivals I have ever been a part of, and I didn’t stay nearly long enough. I had such a blast playing, exploring, and getting completely lost. It was very hard to put me on the bus home the next morning. I really wanted to stay for the whole weekend.
4. And what’s up next for Justin Martin?
3. What have you been up to since your last visit to the Kootenays?
Well, I am currently trying to grow my fi rst pair of wings and learn how to fl y like a bird. I also am working on a transporter device so I can instantly beam myself anywhere in the world… Hopefully I will finish building it in time for Shambhala this year so I can see you on the dancefloor.
In the last year I have written my very fi rst artist album, Ghettos & Gardens, coming out on Dirtybird May 22
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Yukon Blonde {vurb} editor Megan Cole caught up with Jeff Innes, who does vocals and guitar for Kelowna band Yukon Blonde, and is making his way to The Royal for their show Sunday night.
the worst times and way different times than everyone else does. I don’t eat breakfast but I eat brunch, so whenever we stop to get gas I just end up eating at a gas station which kind of sucks.
What was the first CD that you ever bought?
What are your favourite things to pick up?
It’s a toss up. My family had the buy 10 CDs for one penny thing, and I got to choose one and that was Noss. I forget the name of the record but that was in 1996. The first record I ever bought with my own money was Marilyn Manson’s Anti-Christ Superstar.
I like that popcorn in a bag. That’s pretty good, that Smart food popcorn and coffee.
What are five must have items when you are on tour? I need to have my phone, computer, guitar, toothbrush, underwear and socks. I pretty much get in the van and go and figure it out along the way. Are you guys junk food connoisseurs when you’re on the road?
No. Well, I am. I eat quite a bit of junk food. I just get hungry at
Where did the name Yukon Blonde come from? Do you want a fake answer or a real answer? It’s the name of...never mind...I can’t come up with a fake one. Our bass player’s boss was in denial about having grey hair when he accused her of having grey hair and she shot back that she wasn’t grey she was Yukon Blonde. Mostly we just thought it was a cool name, but a terrible story. What is one of your favourite memories from being in the band so far?
I don’t know. We used to go to theme parks all the time. When we were Alpha Baby we would go on these crazy tours and have five days off between shows, so we would always go to theme parts and stuff and blow all our money. That was bad. [Laughs] That was years ago but more recently, our first trip to Europe was pretty amazing. One of my favourite memories was Jason Haberman was playing bass for us — he also sings in the Paint Movement. We were in Paris one day and didn’t have GPS or a map of the city or anything, but decided we were going to find the Eiffel Tower. So we set out, and I guess the way Napoleon had the streets planned was that it is pretty much a spiral all the way down to the Louvre, the Arc deTriomphe and the Eiffel
Tower. We really just started driving and ended up there, which is pretty crazy. Once we got there we started to get kind of goofy and pulled out a video camera and started doing random interviews on the street. It was like, do you remember Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod? We were kind of doing that sort of interview like “What can you do to make your body better?” It was kind of stupid. Anyways, when we tried to leave, for the same reason it was easy
to get there we couldn’t leave. We kept ending up back at the Arc de Triomphe. If you could appear in a line-up with any band — living, dead, together, broken up, whatever — who would they be? David Bowie, The Kinks and the Flaming Lips.
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y looking at the cast of characters that makes up Blackie and the Rodeo Kings you may wonder how this unique bunch of musicians created something that has lasted over a decade, but vocalist and guitar player Stephen Fearing said it’s a shared love of music and a deep respect for each other that holds them together. “No one would have ever planned it,” said Fearing from his Halifax home. “No one would have ever looked at us and thought ‘let’s put these guys together.’ But when we got in the studio — and it’s a cliche but it’s true — I just felt strongly that there was something more than just a bunch of musicians coming together who loved this one musician’s music.” Blackie and the Rodeo kings first formed as a Willie P. Bennett tribute band. Fearing was introduced to Bennett’s music as a teenager. His older sister Jane came back to Ireland, to the family home one year with a Bennett album and Fearing connected to the music. “It was one of those random things,” he
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said. “His music has a lot of layers, which is great when you’re kind of a guitar nerd/ geeky teenager and sort of filled with teenaged angst you want something with a certain melancholy to it. At the same time it’s very simple to play. It’s not complicated chord-wise. It’s something you can grasp quickly yet it keeps going and going. As you get older and understand more things about life the songs still work.” While Fearing was living in Vancouver working on his music and developing his craft as a singer/songwriter he had the unique experience of meeting Bennett, a musician and songwriter he deeply admired. “It was a little bit awkward when I first met him because I was just another person who knew of him from his records and now as an artist myself when somebody comes up to you and they are really enthusiastic, they only know one part of you, so initially he was kind of standoffish,” he said. Fearing had gone to The Classical Joint in Vancouver’s Gastown for their open stage night and Bennett was in the crowd.
“I went up to him and said ‘Hi, I’m a really big fan,’ and he kind of looked at me like ‘Oh, not another male singer/songwriter.’” Fearing remembers Bennett was wearing a “funny hat” like a khaki hat worn by the characters on M.A.S.H. but more like a fishing hat with fishing lures stuck in it. Fearing said once Bennett found out he was a musician, he was very generous with his time. “We became fast friends,” he said. “As I sort of grew as a performer myself I started coming into Toronto more and more and he just said here’s a key to my house, come in and make yourself at home.” Blackie and the Rodeo Kings has gone on to make seven albums since their first Bennett tribute album. “I am surprised,” Fearing said about the band’s success “Colin [Linden] lives in Nashville, Tom [Wilson] is in Hamilton and I’m in Halifax. It’s not really a recipe for a band to continue but we’re closer now that we
have ever been and we’re making more headway and achieving more of our goals than we ever have. “This thing just keeps growing and growing, and getting deeper and richer. I don’t really understand why that is. There are lots of things you can point at but it just comes down to us having a shared love for the same music and we really respect each other a lot. And we don’t have to spend every day of our lives around each other.” The band has received numerous award nominations and won the Juno award in 2000 for best roots and tradition group. The New York Times included Blackie and the Rodeo Kings in a list of songs that appeared on President George W. Bush’s iPod. Blackie and the Rodeo Kings plays two shows at The Royal on Friday, April 27. The first is at 6 p.m. followed by a 9:30 p.m. show. For more information visit liveattheroyal.com.
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Eve 6: Open Road Song – This song is about driving a car. “My pile shakes as I hit 80 on the open road.” I can only hope that “Pile” means his car. Stereophonics: Dakota – Band from the UK. This is one of those tunes that you were never too sure of the name of the band, but as soon as it comes on, it’s that familiar tune that you know all the words too.
The Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated – Yes. You’re totally going to be screeching out the lyrics to this one... and possibly mumbling. Joey Ramone isn’t the best vocalist.
CCR: Up Around The Bend – I couldn’t forget one of the best bands for a Road Trippin’ Mix! Much like Petty, I wanted to put every CCR tune on here... This took the top spot though!
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Earth Day and Reo’s has 4 brand new environmental films on the shelves:
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It’s hard to believe when you see the exquisite cakes and dessert of Epiphany Cakes that owner and baker Melissa Owen came to her love for baking in her 20s. “I wasn’t really into baking and cooking at all until my late 20s,” said Owen. “I was never really interested in it at all. My sister is a chef and that was always more her thing.” She had grown up in Bahrain – an island off the coast of Saudi Arabia – with an American father and Egyptian mother. “We travelled a lot,” said Owen.
Because she had American citizenship when she first moved to Canada with her former partner she was unable to work. “That was fun for about three months,” she said. “I went to yoga every day and explored this new city I was in but I started going a big crazy because my ex was working and I was on my own.” In search of something to do Owen enrolled in a baking and pastry arts course the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts. “It didn’t end up being all that much fun, it was really hard work. I went to university and have a bachelor of fine art and the culinary institute was much harder,” she said. While working as a pastry chef for the Vancouver Art Gallery Owen became pregnant with her now seven year old son Nile. Owen moved to Nelson when her son was three months old and after her maternity leave was finished she started Epiphany Cakes. “It was the process of baking that felt really creative and tapped into what I loved in my fine arts background,” she said. Owen started Epiphany Cakes by selling her deliciously decadent chocolate brownies to Oso Negro. “Then as my son got older the business just grew really slowly and really organically,” she said. “I have products in the Co-op in the deli, still at Oso, Evergreen out in Crescent Valley and Ellison’s.”
At the time when Owen arrived in Nelson she said that there seemed to be a need for fancy cakes and desserts. “The community really seems to respond to the fact that it’s all organic and made from scratch,” she said. “I feel so lucky that this is my job. I get to bake cakes for people and that is just so great.” Some of the Epiphany Cakes menu items include her classic carrot cake, German chocolate cake and strawberry shortcake. “I love baking and decorating cakes but I love decorating cakes the much,” she said. “I love that so often I’m dealing with people when they are really happy and celebrating something. People are generally quite glad to receive a cake or order a cake. It’s a nice way to interact with people.” Like his mom Nile has a sweet tooth and enjoys spending time in the kitchen with her baking. “He’ll eat anything sweet; cake, cupcakes, ice cream, brownies or whatever,” said Owen. “Most recently we made his birthday cake which was so much fun. He had an ancient Egyptian themed party we made this cake shaped as a pyramid and we worked on that together.” Baking Nile’s birthday cakes together has become a tradition because Owen said he has high expectations when it comes to his cakes. “Last year he wanted to have the
Hogwarts Castle from Harry Potter,” said Owen. “He’s really artistic and creative so baking kind of appeals to him in the same way that it appeals to me.” Epiphany Cakes will be at the MarketFests throughout the summer and for more information you can visit their website at epiphanycakes.com
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Nelson’s premier arts festival is back for its 24th year. ArtWalk is calling for applications from emerging and professional artists to display original work in downtown venues in an eight-week extravaganza beginning July 6th. At a presentation held at city council chambers Tuesday, April 10, NDAC President, Stephen Fowler quoted Carolyn Kolmel of Kolmel Jewelers, as saying that “it’s a wonderful, festive event. It’s good for business, but even if it wasn’t we’d still do ArtWalk. It’s wonderful having the art in our store”. ArtWalk is great for the artists, our visitors and Nelsonites too. Here at Nelson District Arts Council (NDAC) we have been receiving lots of emails from Artists who are ready to put a show together in a local business venue. The Call for Artists is official. The artist application can be printed
off from our website ndac.ca. Artists can now read the guidelines on the website and start to get their portfolios ready.The deadline for applications is May 30, 2012. NDAC has asked Joy Barrett to once again to be our ArtWalk Event Producer. Joy is the City of Nelson’s Cultural Development Officer and Executive Director of Castlegar’s Sculpture Walk. She is super busy. If you want something done, always ask a busy person. Joy gets it done and will be contacting local businesses soon. She has received requests from some new businesses already. We are fortunate to have her working with us again this year. ArtWalk is something everybody in Nelson and from all over can really enjoy all summer. If you have bought art from ArtWalk in the past tell us about it. Email us at artwalk@ndac.ca
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Lawrence’s father bought a piece of land next to West Coast BC’s Desolation Sound marine park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters.
It was these early experiences, many alongside an inuential hermit named Russell, which led Lawrence to a life of music and journalism. In Adventures in Solitude, Lawrence regales us with tales of “going bush,â€? the tempting dilemma of ďŹ nding an unguarded grow-op, and other laughout-loud stories from this unique place. In addition to his radio appearances, Grant Lawrence hosts many major music events, such as the Western Canadian Music Awards and various festivals around North America, and conducts music industry seminars on music and media related topics. He still spends much of each summer at his cabin in the Sound. He lives in Vancouver with his wife, Canadian folk singer Jill Barber.
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Nelson Overture presents... The Nelson Overture Concerts Society is delighted to be bringing Nelson concert goers the ever popular Symphony of the Kootenays on Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. The Symphony of the Kootenays is a professional and celebrated cornerstone of the regional music and cultural scene of the Kootenays. The Symphony is a professional orchestra comprised of musicians, the majority of whom live right here in the Kootenays. The Symphony of the Kootenays provides concerts and performances throughout the region, performed by its musicians and guest artists who strive for the highest possible artistic standards. The Symphony also provides educational opportunities to the youth of the Kootenays to enhance their awareness and appreciation of, as well as participation in classical music. This supports the Nelson Overture Concerts Society’s mandate to encourage and support the youth of Nelson to not only appreciate but possibly pursue classical music endeavors.
At the concert on April 21, the Symphony Orchestra will be joined by Anna Petrova. Petrova performs widely as soloist and chamber musician in North America, Europe and the Far East. The Symphony will perform under the direction of conductor Bruce Dunn who has been Music Director of our Symphony on the Kootenays for 13 years; and he claims to have been embraced by both the Symphony and the Kootenays! The program will include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The Nelson Overture Concerts Society is thrilled to have the privilege of bringing the Symphony of the Kootenays to the music lovers of Nelson! overtureconcerts.inthekoots.com
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It’s a love affair that ďŹ rst began in the south of France, but it’s a romance of a different kind. The romance is Virginie Baysse’s passion for photography that ďŹ rst began on that Mediterranean shore. Since then, the Nelson photographer’s work has exhibited in France, Montreal, and the Kootenays. Her series Les baleines des Escoumins is on display at the Nelson Public Library through April and May. Says Baysse, “In this magic place of the north coast of QuĂŠbec, on the Saint-Laurent River, whales such as Minkes, Fins, and Humpbacks
have been caressing the shore on their migratory journey for thousands of years.� Baysse’s photographic eye captures the subtle shapes and colours in tidal pools and rock formations that pay homage to these awe-inspiring marine mammals. The magic is reected in a series of photographic landscape images that honour the impressions left by their passage. Baysse was educated in France in psychology and education and has since embraced studies in visual arts, art therapy, and other disciplines in QuÊbec. She sees photography as a way to explore and share the earth’s stories.
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talented artists tackle these burning questions. Hosted by Lucas Myers as Steven the Art Star and Featuring the talents of Bessie Wapp, Krista Lynch, Lisel Forst, Lisa Menna, Joel Cottingham, Geordi Campos, Julie Johnston-Murray, Jason Asbell and as special guest appearance by Nicola Harwood and Brahm Taylor as Ilsa and Klaus. Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, 8 p.m.. Tickets are $20 to 15 on a sliding scale, available at Eddy Music and the door.
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Mochipet, Yan Zombie and MC Zulu are taking the stage at Spiritbar on Saturday night and Christine Hunter from Shambhala Music Festival caught up with all three.
Let’s get a bit of history on Yan Zombie. If I’m not mistaken you were a founding member of Kootenay hip-hop crew Cyphanex. Give us some background on what that was all about and how it led you to where you are now? YAN ZOMBIE: Cyphanex is a hip hop group I’m in with my two co-conspirators, DJ Digs and Vs. We have been making music together for about 10 years. We started making futuristic hip hop that was too weird for jiggy rap idiots or backpacker squares. Vs. and I were really into stuff like Anti-Pop Consortium, El-P & Def Jux, Aesop Rock, Freestyle Fellowship, and of course the classics of the east and west coast. We have been lucky enough to open for, and play with, a wide variety of really influential acts over the years... Quannum, members of Wu-Tang, Project Blowed, DEL, The Beatnuts, and KRS ONE to name a few. Give us a bit of the lowdown on what gear you use and what your production process is like. YAN ZOMBIE: In my studio I use a Moog LP, Korg Vocoder, MPC 2000xl, Yamaha Motif, Roland Space Echo, some smaller analogue synths toys and noise makers into Ableton Live. I approach each project or track differently.. sometimes starting from a sample (or 20), other times from programming the drums... I’m also lucky enough to live across the street from a homey with a whole bunch of vintage keyboards and synths, plus some nice old guitar amps and efx. I have also been blessed with a few opportunities to go wild in The Fungineers studio where they have some serious rare old Moog synths and a grip of sonic goodies. Big love to those freaks! On that tip why don’t you tell us about your full-length release, the concept behind it, and where you can cop it for free online? YAN ZOMBIE: The Hold-on Tight: Analogue Slices of Love and Confusion, is a concept album about — as the title suggests — love and confusion. It was inspired by a most unfortunate interaction with a duplicitous and dishonest female, and a subsequent nervous breakdown on my part. It is a sleazy, funny look at love and male/female dynamics told through sampling hundreds of snippets of classic love songs from the 1930s to ‘70s mutated in a glitch-hop fashion through analogue filters and moogy-blips and bleeps. People seem to really like it and it got a great response. I went through a bunch of offers
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from really great labels that ultimately all balked at the idea of the potential harassment from publishing lawyers, so I decided to give it away for free on my Facebook fanpage through bandcamp: facebook.com/pages/ YAN-ZOMBIE/160321516907?ref=tn_tnmn Now to become more acquainted with the man on the mic, let’s get the background on MC ZULU. Where did you come from, how did you get started MC’ing, and what have you been up to since then? MC ZULU: I am originally from Panama, and have been living in the Chicagoland area since I was a kid. My start in the music industry was as an engineer. I ran sessions for hip-hop and house musicians, then got into producing and selling tracks to bigger names. I wasn’t really on course to do vocals until I ended up in the studio with Farley Jackmaster Funk. He wanted someone to sing Reggae over a track of his. I always figured I might try, but that was the first real opportunity.... It was HORRIBLE, but I think I’ve gotten progressively better since then. So for those that don’t know give a quick description of what you are in for when you go see the Yan Zombie and MC Zulu show. MC ZULU: Zombie is a great DJ in the sense that he feels out a crowd. We are working sound system style, but I have given him most of my live tracks. They span a lot of genres, and he has no trouble transitioning between them during the night. He is not restricted by what tempo or genre the tracks are. Every show ends up different. YAN ZOMBIE: Well... the Badman MC Zulu murdering sound over Dub, dancehall, bashment glitch and future bass featuring beats from the many excellent producers who have worked with Zulu intermingled with my own mash ups remixes and live glitchy routines. Isn’t Mochipet like the name of a Tamagotchi or something like that? MOCHIPET: Yeah, I don’t know, everybody keeps asking me about that. (laughter) I don’t think so. ...You know what it is? My grandmother and some of my relatives used to make mochi and they used to make little pets out of it. (laughter) Yeah yeah yeah, it’s like a rice... if you know what mochi is, it’s basically like a rice CAKE, you can shape it into whatever things, and you can make it into little pets and stuff. It’s awesome.
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ON STAGE The Mayans predicted that 2012 would be the last year of our existence and there are about 2012 websites offering indisputable proof that the Four Horseman of the Apocolypse are shining up their spurs. Will the Rapture be as weird (and good) as the Blondie song? Will the End of the World really be the end or just an opportunity to start fresh? Maybe (gasp) it's all just a metaphor! Come to the Oxygen Arts Centre's Fundraiser to see how some of Nelson’s talented artists tackle these burning questions. Hosted by Lucas Myers as Steven the Art Star and Featuring the talents of Bessie Wapp, Krista Lynch, Lisel Forst, Lisa Menna, Joel Cottingham, Geordi Campos, Julie Johnston-Murray, Jason Asbell and a special guest Appearance by Nicola Harwood and Brahm Taylor as Ilsa and Klaus. Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, 8 p.m.. Tickets are $20 to15 sliding scale, available at Eddy Music and the door.
MUSIC The last Unplugged Sessions of the season at Ellison’s Cafe will be this Saturday, April 21. Opening at noon for the first half hour, The Nelson Waldorf School Recorder Troupe, a group of students interested in taking their music study to a deeper level. The group, made up of students from Grades 6 to 8, meet once a week to practice higher level material and to put together a repertoire for performance. They will be followed by local singer/songwriter Joyce K. who will be sharing a selection of celebratory song prayers. The second hour brings Sherri, Jill and Genie, who have been jammin’ together for a couple of years now and have
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The Royal is very proud to present one hell of a hardcore evening with the Godfather's of hardcore punk, D.O.A. on Saturday,April 21. This is their 35th anniversary world tour and we couldn't be more excited to have these legendary veterans of punk blow the doors off the Royal! Opening the show is Bradys Problem. Tickets are $15 and are available at Urban Legends, The Music Store andliveattheroyal.com. Doors open 9 p.m. Mochipet, MC Zulu and Yan Zombie are at Spiritbar on Saturday, April 21. Doors open at 10 p.m. Ticket information is available through the Hume Hotel.
Areaone events presents Justin Martin at Spiritbar on Friday, April 20. Doors open at 10 p.m. Ticket information is available at The Hume Hotel. Feeding off the energy of the San Francisco underground and mentored by fellow super producer Claude VonStroke, Justin was intrinsically involved with the development of dirtybird records. His music encapsulates both melody and emotional depth yet always with Dance Umbrella enough 15th Annual Spring Showcase undeniable Tickets on sale now at the Capitol Theatre ass shaking May 10th • 7pm properties May 11th • 7 pm to translate May 12th • 2 & 7 pm to the floor. Tickets $11
Joe Keithly aka Joey Shithead of D.O.A. will be doing a unique live acoustic show at Packrat Annie's on Kootenay Street on Saturday, April 21 at 3:30 p.m.
The Nelson Overture society presents the ever popular Symphony of the Kootenays on Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. The Symhony of the Kootenays is a professional and celebrated cornerstone of the regional music and cultural scene of the Kootenays. Ticket information is available through the Capitol Theatre. The Royal is very pleased to announce that Yukon Blonde will be making a stop in Nelson on Sunday, April 22. They're on tour in support of their latest release which is due out this spring and we couldn't be happier to have them stop at the
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