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Friday, June 14 • 2013
Vol. 5 • Issue 100
L.V. Rogers students assist in climbing rescue See Page 3
Trafalgar students deal with nasty weeds See Page 18 City Hall
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Concerns that viewscapes as a resource were being overvalued in some areas while undervalued in others have been addressed by new objectives received from a contractor in early 2012.
With the backlog of projects waiting for attention from Nelson city staff, at least one councillor wants to be more choosey about the type of assignments that get added to the list. At a meeting Monday, Councillor Deb Kozak was passionately opposed to adding a seemingly straight forward item to staff ’s to-do list, arguing that every new request adds to the already long wait time that other projects are facing. Councillor Robin Cherbo had put forward a motion to have staff develop a community health partnership between the City and Interior Health wherein both parties agree to promote health and wellness in Nelson. Cherbo said the symbolic partnership wouldn’t require the City to do anything that it isn’t already doing and would cost nothing. Kozak argued that it wasn’t going to change anything, there was no point in doing it.
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The spire on St. Saviour’s Anglican Church was removed last week after it was discovered the roof-topper was rotted and no longer safely secure. Before it came down, contractor Rolf Gosney was up on the scaffolding looking for the best way to get the spire — erected in 1929 — safely down. For more on the removal turn to Page 23. Bob Hall photo
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Visual land management input sought KIRSTEN HILDEBRAND Nelson Star Reporter
Though few changes are expected in the Nelson area, the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is putting out for public review proposed changes to logging activity that
affects viewscapes. Changes to the visualquality objectives in the Kootenay Lake portion of the Selkirk Resource District are proposed for consistency, says Julie Castonguay, stewardship forester at the Selkirk Resource District office. Work on the existing map was started in
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the mid 1980s and different people refined it on several occasions until it was last dealt with in 2002. “It still was a good product and we’ve been working with it,” she says. “But we knew we could probably get something that was more refined and more standardized.”
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