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The fate of the Rossland Mountain Market is known at last and the news is good. The city’s much loved market will start again later next month, but will be relocated. The construction on Columbia Avenue, which will be going on all sum-
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mer forced the move. Rachael Roussin, who helps organize the market said that it was just a matter of working the details out with the city. During the summer, the market will run every Thursday from 3:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. “We’re hoping to keep the identical format. same vendor prices, music, kid’s activities, we’re even trying to do more of
that,� Roussin said. “The only thing that’s changing is the location.� She said that the task of finding a location has not been easy. “There were a million considered,� she said. “It was really hard to relocate the market because, as most locals know, it’s taken awhile to get the market established.�
She attributes much of that success to the downtown location that the city allows Rossland Real Foods to run the market on, between the credit union and Rossvegas. She said the difficulty is trying to find a suitable location outside of the downtown that would have the same charm and presence. Other locations that were
considered were places like Spokane Street between First and Columbia, but that didn’t work because of future traffic rerouting. The Cooke Avenue ball diamond was an option, but that was too far out of town. Another was the Emcon lot or the Shovel parking lot or the area behind the arena, but See Market on P. 3
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starting at 6 p.m. Gnarlie’s Angels will be taking on Bad News Betties. Tickets are $5 at the door.
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of fun and everyone leaves dancing! You can see more information ,demos etc at www.kootenaygroove.com.
3044-"/% 53"*-4 %": Eighth annual Rossland Trails Day. June 2 from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. Spend the day in the woods, building trails, followed by potluck, beer and prizes. Contact Patrick Kinghorn at pkinghorn@sd20.bc.ca.
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*/5&3"$5 413*/( #00, $% %7% '"*3 is Saturday, June 2 in downtown Rossland. Recycle your used paperback and hard cover books, CDs and DVDs. Drop off your items at Rossland Secondary School (8-4, Mon to Fri) or phone for pick-up. No magazines, text books, or encyclopedias Sales Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. All proceeds will go to support Rotary Interact’s international project in Honduras in August, 2012. Questions? Call Marilyn Nelson @250.362.2258(h) or 250.362.7388 or Nicole Spencer @ 250.362.5669 3&-": '03 -*'& is Saturday May 26, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Haley Park in Rossland. Join
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the month. More info: radio@rosslandradio.com.
53"*- ."1-& -&"' #"/% Monday evening practices 7 - 9 p.m. in the McIntyre Room
at the Cominco Memorial Centre. Brass and woodwind players welcomed. For more info, contact Andrea McKay, 362-7604.
+0& )*-- $0''&&)064& Each month on the third Sunday from 7-9:30 pm., the Rossland Miner’s Hall hosts performers - music, dance, spoken word, theatre. Interested volunteers and performers may contact Michael Gifford at 250-362-7170 or giffmus@telus.net. Adults $3, students free. Treats available. Doors open at 6:30p.m.. Next show is June 17. '0-, %"/$*/( English country dancing and contra dancing for all. from 7p.m. to 9:30
p.m. at the Miners’ Hall in Rossland. Instruction for all dances; no partner required. Contact: Dave Cornelius dc@2cats.net Website: www.2cats.net. $6.
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4503:5*.& "5 5)& -*#3"3: Fridays at the Rossland Library: Tots (ages 3-5) 10:1510:45 am and Books for Babies (under 3) 11:00-11:30 am. Drop-in. A parent or guardian must remain in the program room for the duration. 3044-"/% 4,"5&1"3, $0..*55&& 6-8 pm, first Tuesday each month at the Rossland
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*/%003 40$$&3 Wednesdays at RSS gym. starts at 7 p.m. $2 drop-in or $5 for the
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4$065*/( For boys and girls, now at the Rossland Scout Hall. Beavers (ages 5,6,7) Wed. 6-7pm. Cubs (ages 8, 9, 10) Thu. 4 - 5:30 p.m. Contact Shanna Tanabe: 362-0063. Will be having a bottle drive fundraiser June 23. :$%$ :065) /*()54 Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or contact
coordinator@columbiaycdc.ca. Art Night: Tue. 7pm; Movie Night: Wed. 6-8pm.
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(&/&"-0(: West Kootenay Family Historians, 7pm, first Monday each month, Sept to June, SHSS, Castlegar. Annual fee $10. Contact Jean, 365-8100, or Grace, 364-1426.
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Construction will limit parking this week JODY BLOMME Columbia Task Force
This is the third installment of a weekly update column courtesy of Coun. Jody Blomme, a member of the city’s Columbia Task Force.
Crews work to replace the piping under Columbia Avenue yesterday afternoon. Parking will again be further affected along Columbia and trafďŹ c rerouted this week. Arne Petryshen photo
Starting today, there will be no parking on either side of Columbia from St Paul to Washington. The sewer main will be run to Washington, then water will be installed from Washington back to St Paul and, next, storm pipes will be run back to Washington. This process will take approximately three weeks. Parking has been established on the private property at the corner of Spokane and Columbia. The new lot behind Rossland Hardware will have painted parking stalls by the end of this week. We have also come to an agreement with the property owner of the land behind the Post Office and will be digging to see how much can be used for parking. The section of Queen north of Columbia, up the hill, is now available for angle parking and lines will be painted in the coming few days. The result of these additions will be at least the equivalent to lost parking on Columbia, so please continue to support your downtown stores and services. Every effort is being made to allow for parking in front of individual businesses. It cannot be stressed enough that Columbia Ave is a work site as well as a highway. Safety has to prioritize higher than parking. St. Paul intersection should be back to operation by this midweek and traffic will again be able to flow up St. Paul and East on Columbia. Please call 250 512 1641 with all your technical questions. Please contact the Communications task force at columbiaproject@rossland.ca with any concerns, complaints or suggestions. We are working hard to address issues as soon as they come to our attention.
Market in new location for the season they were dismissed because of the longer walk from downtown as well as the heat. “One thing we’ve come to realize is that when the surface that the market sits on is gravel, on a hot summer day with wind, it can get very dusty, which isn’t very sanitary for food or nice for clothing and other artisan wears,� she explained. Another possible location they almost went with was the area right behind Golden City Day Care, which she said was a great location and very central. There was also the possibility of including the day care. But the spot turned out to be too dusty and hot and would have cost too much to fix up, as the market doesn’t have the capacity to resurface an area for just the season, she said. “The location between the fire hall and the church with the
red roof is ideal in that it’s scenic, it’s clean, it’s almost central and traffic is going to be increased on First due to the downtown renovation,� she said. “Basically, Rossland Real Food is going to go full ahead with the market this summer and we hope that it’s extremely successful.� They welcome new vendors, as always and the cost for vendors will remain the same, with the rules that govern the market: “Make it, bake it, grow it, with a few exceptions.� Roussin said they are hoping to have secured a grant from the Kootenay Columbia Culture Alliance as well, which would allow them to have five music days. They would pay musicians to come and play music at the market. “We’re also hoping to partner with the Rossland Library, so that we can do reading times at the farmer’s market,� she said. “We feel that would be a nice summertime activity for kids, and
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it’s also a model that other farmer’s markets in the province have used.� She said the market is definitely a summer highlight for the community and plead to Rosslanders not to “forget to walk the one block up to First Avenue,� to get fresh carrots, cupcakes and other goods. The first date will be Thursday June 28, and they hope to go until Oct. 24, the same schedule as last year. They usually start the last Thursday in June because that’s when farmers start to have their crops. A favourite from last year, Mad Dog Farms, will be back at the market this year. They are organic farmers from the Castlegar area who usually bring honey and organic produce. Unfortunately, the other favourite Centre Road Farms won’t be coming back because they are not farming this year.
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Meeting of the mayors Mayor Greg Granstrom participated in the inaugural B.C. Mayors’ Caucus happening in Penticton from May 16 to 18. Organized by a steering committee comprised of nine mayors from across B.C., more than 80 mayors from each corner of the province were in attendance, where topics on the agenda including: A News Deal for BC Communities; Building B.C.’s Economy; and Moving Forward.
RSS prepares to celebrate 60 years ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor
This June marks an extra special occasion for grads as they are the 60th grad class to come out of Rossland Secondary School. To mark the school’s 60th birthday, the Parent Advisory Committee for RSS has put together a birthday celebration of sorts. Diana Wilkes, a member of the committee, said they are currently looking for memorabilia that they could put on display for the event on June 1. Wilkes has grad picturse, yearbook photos, but welcomes more items. The open house will run from noon to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, June 1 at the school. Wilkes said they wants to get the word out to the graduating class of 1951-52, as well as others who graded in the 50s. She said that the idea came about as a result of all the negative things the school has been going through, with possibilies of closure or reconfiguration. “We came up with the idea of why don’t we do a birthday party for the school?” Wilkes said. PAC is ordering three cakes for the celebration, with photos on top of the grad classes of 1951-52 and 2011-12. Wilkes has scanned some of the yearbooks, which have messages that the grads wrote at the time. Have the messages changed over time? “They’re really not much different than today,” she said, adding that they talk about plans to go to university or work, what their pet peeves were and of course sports. “Skiing was big back then, as it is now, lots of discussion around being a skiing community.”
The Rossland Secondary School graduating class of 1951-52. RSS is celebrating 60 years in Rossland on June 2. Submittied photo
The grad class back then was also smaller than this year’s class. She said they’ve had both small and large classes over the years and been all over the map. The open house is a chance for anyone in the community or in the area to come out and celebrate the highschool being in the community for 60 years. Neighbourhood of Learning will also be there with an infor-
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Plant of the week: Stinging Nettle MONIKA SMUTNY Rossland News
Stinging Nettles: Urtica urens dioica and gracilis Last weekend found me and my family biking from upper Rossland down to Redstone for lunch and continuing down the wagon road to Warfield. Along the way we stopped just before a muddy patch to discover a good stash of Stinging Nettles, which are now young, ripe and ready for harvesting. Just to make sure it was indeed this green ally, I took a close look to view the fine hairs that poke out on the stems and leaves. Out of curiosity my son asked if they are edible. I replied yes, Stinging Nettles are, but before I finish explaining he’s already put the leaf onto his tongue. He quickly discovered why they are called Stinging Nettles. I told him not to worry, the stinging will pass. My grandparents of Europe remember the elderly running through fields in the forests of Czech Republic purposely barelegged to stimulate circulation and to alleviate medical conditions. I clasped the plant in my hand as the tiny hairs sting my fingers and I envision the medicinal properties moving through and
into my well being. The little hairs or bristles are hollow, and act as “hypodermic needles” that contain formic acid. This can be prevented if you harvest wearing leather gloves or by carefully picking the stalks with your thumb and forefingers. Make sure the stinging nettle is properly identified before harvesting and note that some people may react to this plant. I neither claim to be plant expert nor a formalized herbalist. The morning and evening times are best before the blazing heat, always collect them dry, the younger the plant the more tender they are. Stinging Nettles are one of the most valuable of our neglected herbs, for they contain such health-giving salts. Boiled as spinach they afford excellent green food during the early spring, when other green vegetable are scarce in the garden. Urtica: uro (Greek) means urine (in Latin) urens is stinging, burning. Gracilis translates to “slender, graceful.’ This plant is a tonic for the adrenals and kidneys. Throughout Europe and North America are many more useful species of Urtica. There are too many uses to list with this plant in one column but to brief Nettles may
Stinging Nettle have been cultivated in Mexico as early as 8,000 years ago; the fiber is used in paper pulp and spun and woven into strong thread. Dye in various shades of green are derived as well as in prepared hair lotions, tonics, tinctures, teas, juice, compost activator, insecticides, soups, quiches and beer. Nettle leaves and stalks can be used as an
everyday nourisher, the fresh young leaves are an excellent source of minerals, vitamins and amino acids, protein building blocks. Stinging Nettle Fun Fact: The Tibetan Buddhist Saint Milarepa, student of the great translator Marpa, lived exclusively on nettles in his retreat: and it is said that he became both green and enlightened.
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The Rossland Historical Museum opened for the season on May 19, and will be showcasing new exhibits on the Farms and Gardens of Rossland. Did you know there were 13 dairies supplying products to the City of Rossland during the gold mining days. The Chinese Gardens, located in lower Rossland, provided the vegetables for the town. Rossland was on the 100 Mile Diet long before that diet became popular. Photos and maps from the early years highlight how much gardening
and farming was being done in this mountain city. Museum Day will take place this year on Saturday, June 2nd from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. and will also focus on the farms and gardens of Rossland’s past. Activities include a fish pond, rock painting, sunflower planting and gold panning! Guided site tours, a Bear Aware display, Rossland Real Food’s display and plant sale as well as Music in the Museum will make for a fun time. Food – hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and juice will be available and admission is by donation to the Museum. Visit your Museum – you may just pick up some tips for your own garden.
The Rossland Museum will be having Family Day celebrations on June 2 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rossland News photo
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Interesting events coming up in Rossland Despite the woes that the construction may be bringing to Rossland, there are still a lot of things which are coming up to do in this town. For those intersested in learning more about chickens and how to raise them in your backyard, the chicken crawl may be just for you. If chickens aren’t your thing, you could listen to Rossland composer Karl Meinhardt next week. The interesting tones that come from the various woods that his instrument is made from are definitely worth a listen. If history is your thing, then Rossland Secondary having its 60th anniversary may be of interest to you, especially if you are one of the original graduating class. It could also be a good time to begin training for the Christina Lake Triathlon, which would make a great beginners triathlon, but the competition will challenge even the stronger competitors. There’s also the option of local sports like the obvious mountain biking and hiking trails, to tennis, which is great to play as the weather becomes warmer. The museum will also be having their Family Fun Day which will highlight their new exhibit on the farming heritage of Rossland. So with the post skiing blues now passed, it’s time to embrace the season and get out to the events of Rossland and area.
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Summer brochure out this week The Summer Brochure will be available this week, online at www.rossland.ca and in your mailboxes early next week. The Rossland Pool is actively looking for qualified guards and instructors for this summer! We are short several qualified staff and as a result may have to restructure the times and days that the pool is open. If you know of anyone who is currently certified to guard or instruct, please encourage them to contact the recreation department as quickly as possible. For the teenagers in our community, please consider taking your Advanced Aquatic Courses, in order to obtain employment in a challenging and rewarding field. Aquatics is a great way to work part time while you’re in High School and can help offset the cost of college or university. There is an increasing shortage in our area, of qualified Staff to operate our local, outdoor pools. If you’re thinking about your future employment options – GET CERTIFIED as quickly as possible. We need you! In order to be fully employable, you’ll need the following courses; Bronze Medallion, Bronze Cross, NLS, AWSI and WSI. These certifications are the bare minimum required, for the Rossland Pool. RSS is celebrating its 60th birthday on Friday, June 1 from noon to 2:30 p.m. with an open house. Everyone is invited to come and celebrate, walk the halls, have lunch in the cafeteria, look at the Graduating class pictures from years ago and enjoy a piece of cake. For more information, please contact RSS, at 250-362-7388. The Annual Museum and Family Fun Day at the Rossland Museum is coming up on Saturday, June 2 from 11-3 p.m. The REAL Food people are organizing a local seedling sale – if you have seedlings to sell, please bring them along! Some of the activities to enjoy include; free admission, kid’s activities, a scavenger hunt, music by the Golden City Fiddlers, a Bear Aware display and BBQ. The Christina Lake Triathlon is coming up and registration information is available online, (gfplay@rdkb. com) or in the recreation department. The triathlon is on Sunday, June 24 and is very popular! Register early to avoid disappointment! Registration deadline is June 17 with early bird registration until May 31. The Rossland Pool is scheduling several new opportunities in June – a Stroke Correction class, Adult Lessons and the Bronze Medallion will all be offered in June. If you’ve struggled with swimming in the past, or have genuine fears, the adult lessons would be a great way to start the summer swimming season. If you’re
interested in pursuing lifeguarding, the Bronze Medallion is the first certification course you’ll need to pass. For more information about lifeguarding requirements, please contact the recreation department. Roller Fit in the Rossland Arena starts on Tuesday, May 8, from 7:30-9 p.m. and runs until June 26. Each 90 minute class will consist of on-skate dynamic warm ups, cardio, core and upper body strength exercises. Instructor Darlene Jamin (aka Slameron Diaz) will lead you in this fun and energizing total body workout – without all the bruises! This course is for women of all ages, from 13 years and up! Drop-in is $12, including HST. Proper safety equipment, including a mouth guard, helmet, shin, elbow and wrist guards and either roller skates or inline skates are mandatory. For more information, please contact Darlene, at darjamin@telus.net Little Kid Rugby starts at the beginning of June! If you have a little one, ages 5-9 years who’s interested in running, jumping, throwing and catching games…. check out this new, non-contact Rugby program! Kids Rugby training develops and enhances a child’s basic motor skills and focuses on activities which develop balance, co-ordination and agility. Program starts Friday, June 1 from 3:15-4:15 p.m. on the Cooke Ave. field. Hey youth! A Life Coaching course is a great addition to your resume and life skills! Check out Psyched for Life Camp for Youth - Mental Toughness, Training and Outdoor Pursuits with Lesley Beatson, PhD Leadership Coaching and Consulting. The highly qualified, experienced leaders will facilitate a weekend of fun and learning that will help lead to your success! Mental training sessions will be facilitated before each activity and participants will be encouraged to apply skills from sport psychology during activities of choice. Parents are invited to a wrap up portion of the program on Sunday at 2 p.m. for an information and Q&A session to help incorporate newly learned skills into daily life and sport. Dates for the exciting weekend are: May 26 and 27, Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Ages 10-13 and 14-17 years (Min. 25 participants) $165. For full program details contact Rossland Recreation at recreation@rossland.ca or 250-362-2327. Shelley Painter’s Adult Multi Media Art program starts soon! The course runs May 28 until June 25 on Mondays from 7-8 p.m. in the Rossland arena lounge. This course is designed to help you improve your art skills – whether it’s drawing, painting or 3D art. Participants will discuss their interests with Shelley and then the following classes will be catered to those goals.
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Fireworks light up the skies above Rossland in 1937 MAUREEN BROWN Rossland Historical Museum
This column is compiled by the Rossland Historical Museum from the pages of the Rossland Miner. Reminder that the Museum is now open for the season! 100 Years Ago: May 1912 Around the City Daniel Rowe, who fell down a shaft in the Centre Star, two weeks since and sustained bodily injuries, is convalescing in a satisfactory way, and will not be an inmate of the hospital, where he was taken at the time of the injury, for any great length of time. *** Lyman Carter, manager of the Blue Bird , reports that the shares of the Blue Bird are now selling in Spokane for 25 cents. *** Grand Ball (to be held) at the Armory, under the auspices of the Rossland City Band. Tickets $1. *** Wallace, one of the largest dogs in town, was run over by an ore train and killed. Wallace was 15 years old, and with age came poor sight and deafness, and this accounts for his being run over, as he evidently did not see or hear the train that caused his death. The Columbia River Bridge The bridge, which will span the Columbia river, at Trail, is rapidly approaching completion. Three of the spans are in position, and the fourth will be in place in a week. Then the approaches will be made, and in two weeks the structure should be open for traffic. In the old days, crossing the river was accomplished by a ferry (which was) a large scow attached to a cable, and when crossing, the forward end was headed up stream at an angle of about 45 degrees and the current supplied the motive power.
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Rossland Pays Homage to Their Majesties Coronation Ceremony A Union Jack waved proudly from the roof of the festooned court house as (hundreds of) citizens stood in massed formation on the street below to pay homage to the King and Queen. ...The ceremony was a deeply impressive demonstration of loyalty and fidelity to the newly crowned monarchs. Fireworks Greatest Spectacle It was a happy thought on the part of the Coronation Celebration Committee when the idea of fireworks was acted upon. For forty minutes the huge throng of two thousand or more persons, which encircled the ball park, watched with audible interest the bursting of the bombs, the brilliant light of the flares, the magnificent colouring of the exploded rockets, and the spectacle of the rotating wheels. Huge Beacon Shines from Mountain Top Rossland’s beacon, constructed by boy scouts, shone like a kingly crown from the side of Columbia Kootenay mountain as a fitting climax to celebrations. The huge fire, considered by many to be the largest ever built by local scouts, could be seen from any part of the local district and observers stated that it was very clear from Trail. All across Canada similar beacons burned on Coronation night. Reception for Msgr. McIntyre – Silver Jubilee of Rossland Priest’s Ordination People from all parts of the Kootenays and every strata of life will congregate at the parish hall for a public reception. It is of special interest for Rossland because “Father” McIntyre, as he is familiarly known... has served this community for the entire twenty-five years of his priesthood.
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Above, opposing team members looks on as the ball narrowly missed the mark during last Wednesday’s match. Rossland beat out all the other teams in the tournament to get a place in the Single A provincials. Arne Petryshen photo
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Rossland Secondary’s girls senior soccer team captured the Kootenay High School tournament last week. The team went undefeated at the tournament, which took place at the Rossland school’s field last Wednesday. The eight team tournament finished with third place going to
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or both the West Kootenay championship field hockey team, and the West Kootenay championship basketball team. McKinnon added that with any luck, the team’s hard work and talent may land them a great showing at the provincial soccer championship. He said getting gold would be the pinnacle of success for the girls, many of whom are in their last year of high school.
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The Rossland U13 team (in blue) played Beaver Valley (blue and red) Tuesday night in Rossland at Arne Petryshen photo Jubilee Park.
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The pleasant sounds of wooden marimbas made from Canadian Cedar will fill the Rossland Miners’ Hall June 2. The marimba will be joined by flute and world instruments when Rossland local Karl Meinhardt presents a compilation of his new work inspired by nature. The man behind Meinhardt is Roland Bryce. Bryce is originally from the UK and uses the name as a composer pen name. As Meinhardt, he has entertained audiences to critical acclaim in Europe and beyond for the last 30 years, now settling in Rossland. Next Saturday he will perform two new musical compositions, ‘Whistler Suite’ and ‘Septenary’ that use musical technology to take the audience on a sonic journey. ‘Whistler Suite’ was completed in 2011, inspired by the beauty of the B.C. forests, which uses a Canadian Marimba made from the indigenous B.C. timbers of Cedar, Pine and Maple. “Whistler suite started off life as a sort of sound design experiment. Sound design is when you take sounds and you create your own sounds,” Bryce explained at his home studio in Rossland. “I used Canadian wood and basically engineered. I thought, rather than have an African marimba, why not have a Canadian marimba.” Bryce said that after the concert, the audience will never think of a two by one board the same again. “I literally just took two by ones and carved them this shape,” he said, adding that you can find the point where the resonance happens and actually feel the vibration happen. He said it started from the idea of having a massive sort of array of bars or wood tones. “I made them all when I was in the UK, it took me about three or four months to make them,” he said. “I wanted to make an actual instrument you could play, but it was just too expensive, like $25,000.” So he started out by sampling them. He then uses a computer program called Logic to play them back. He demonstrated the different notes that the different types of wood make. “So the different pieces created this instrument which I can play like a piano,” he said. The Whistler Suite tied in with the Olympics for him. “I went to Whistler and looked around the area and I was just inspired by the trees and the whole of nature around it,” he said. “So I wanted to make something that just had a synergy with Canada.” One of the pieces in the Whistler Suite called Eagle’s Nest embodies the bold eagle flying over the forest. He worked on the Whistler suite for three years. It is seven movements and Eagle’s Nest can be view on Youtube. “It just goes up and up like you’re on a ski lift,” he said about the song. “They’re all based on the different synergies that you can hear.”
‘Septenary’ is a brand new piece inspired by the muse of Rossland and composed in the space of three weeks. Described as a piece that will soothe the soul and feed your ears with a selection of flute and world ensemble music. “For this one I’ve taken the idea of energy circles in the body being related to resonance,” he said. “The idea is that there will be part of you that will be physically in empathy and sympathy and resonate with the sounds that you hear. For example, you hear a piece of music and it’s in the key of G, it may be that you hear it and G actually resonates more with you than B or E flat or D.” So he took all seven notes in the harmonic series and wrote the seven tracks, each with a slightly different key. You can pre-listen online on iTunes and Amazon and find out more about Meinhardt at www.musictrees.ca. The concert is suitable for both children and adults. “Symphonies” is presented by the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture. Tickets are $12 in advance at Out of the Cellar in Rossland or $15 at the door. $2 off for RCAC members.
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Sunday’s Joe Hill Coffeehouse was the last one that long time organizer Michael Gifford will organize, the task now going to a group of four. Above, the Golden City Fiddlers played some dancing music. To the left, singer Dawn Graham sang a few songs from various musicals she has taken part in through the Rossland Light Opera Players. Below, dancers from Kootenay Danceworks, fresh off their Saturday performance at the Charles Bailey Theatre in Trail, performed a number of dances. Arne Petryshen photos
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PUBLIC HEARING A public hearing will be held in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 1899 Columbia Avenue on Monday, May 28, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to give all persons, who deem their interests in the Zoning Amendment Bylaw, No. 2530, 2012(3) an opportunity to be heard. The proposed bylaw will amend the Zoning Bylaw No. 2518 such that Lot B, District Lot 695 Kootenay District Plan EPP13954 (2720 St. Paul Street) is rezoned from R-1Infill – Infill Residential to R-2S – Two Family Detached Residential Small Lot, to allow for the construction of a small lot duplex on the property.
The native pollinator workshops that are coming up will show how to properly build nest for and identify the different types of pollinators..
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Outdoor pollinator days coming up ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor
Copies of the proposed Bylaw may be inspected at the City Office from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on regular working days or on the City website @ www.rossland.ca. Tracey Butler, Corporate Officer 250-362-2321 traceybutler@rossland.ca
Registration is now open for the outdoor sessions of the native pollinator workshops put on by Rossland Real Food. Hanne Smith, who organizes the workshops, said the indoor session, back in April, gave a full background on the ecology of the bees and their habitat needs. At that workshop entomologist Lynn Westcott demoed the building of nest boxes for the pollinators. “The outdoor one is to give people the opportunity to be out there with her looking at bees and identifying them,” Smith said, adding that it puts the questions that were asked at that meeting into perspec-
tive. “She’s going to be showing what makes good habitat for native pollinators. And then she’s going to be taking people around to not only see the bees, but see the possible nesting habitats and plants that are useful for pollen or nectar sources. As she sees the bees, Westcott will identify them and explain how to identify them: What to look for; different types of bees; what they look like; what does their behaviour say and things like that. “Then when it gets to the nesting habitat, she’ll be showing sites where bees can nest, like the ground nesting bees,” she said, adding that if property owners have built tunnel nests for bees on she’ll show them. Smith said they asked people to preregis-
ter for it because they are trying to include anyone and everyone who wants to come. “We’re asking them to contact me specifically, because then we can keep our groups a little bit on the small side,” she said. “That way people that are there can actually see what she’s looking at and hear here.” Smith said that way Westcott won’t have to yell to be loud enough to carry to 30 people outside, as well as if there are 30 people, they won’t be able to see what she’s talking about. “We want everyone who comes to have a good time,” she added. So far they have a lot of spots left for all the days. The dates are, for the low altitude site, in Fruitvale, June 2 and June 16 and 17 for the high altitude sites which are in Rossland. All three sites feature adequate parking and a wide variety of flowering plants: cultivated and wild flowers and shrubs, veggies, fruit trees and berry bushes. “We’re getting some sign ups, but it’s still early,” she said. “I think people are getting distracted because it’s spring. I’m going to be sending out a reminder and putting some posters up.” The series is about showing the pollinators at a good site for bees so that they can see what all the components are to successfully house them in your yard. “And as usual we have all the resource information, so anyone who comes who doesn’t already have the plant list and the descriptors and how to build a tunnel nest documents can get them from me,” she said. “Anybody can come to these and we’re really welcoming everyone. and people who contact me I will send them maps of where the sites are. It’s not a mystery, it’s just we didn’t announce them because we want people to call me so I can keep the groups small.” The days will begin at 10 a.m. The field days are free. To pre-register for a one-hour time slot at your preferred location, contact Hanne Smith at 362-7767 or smithhanne@gmail.com .
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