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The cast of Gold Fever Follies is on the top of their game as the summer stock musical theatre company gets set to open their 27th season in Rossland at the Miners Union Hall this Saturday night (7:30 p.m.). For the first inside look at what is in store with the all-new production directed by R.J. Peters, see Page 2.
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Call it the nesting effect. The city’s former elementary school is not for sale right now, at least until its students are safely nes1st Trail Real Estate tled into their new home in the 1993 Columbia Ave. Rossland Rossland Secondary School (RSS) building, says Your Horoscope For the Week the chair of School District 20’s finance and facilities with Michael O’Connor inside Horoscope committee. the West Kootenay Advertiser For the Week Mark Wilson said although the with Michael O’Connor sale of the school officially kicked off inside the West Kootenay Advertiser 250-512-1153
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two weeks ago with a public meeting in Rossland—and there has been an “expression of interest” from the city’s Francophone school—School District 20 will only entertain offers on MacLean Elementary School right now. The district cannot pursue anything any further in the way of a sale or a negotiation on MacLean until the hundreds of thousands of dollars in renovations planned for RSS are complete and the kindergarten to Grade 9 grades are in class.
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Trail of Trail hurting region Silver City’s bid for boundary expansion prompts Rossland city council to action in protest TIMOTHY SCHAFER Rossland News
Sand has been kicked in the face of the communities of Greater Trail by the Silver City and regional harmony is now precariously perched by a move to expand its boundaries. The City of Trail recently released details of a mutual agreement that outlined Trail’s intent to expand its boundary into Teck-owned land in Area A. But the agreement is going to focus economic development strictly on Trail, no longer making it a regional effort as it was under the Lower Columbia Initiative Corporation, said Rossland councillor Kathy Moore.
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Arts and culture UPCOMING your rossland events Calendar Friday, June 28 • ART FOR PEOPLE Ninth annual Art for People fundraising art show. This year’s art show will take place at the home and garden of Martine Bédard and Andy Holmes at 1930 Monte Christo on Friday, June 28, starting at 5 p.m. This year part of the proceeds will go Art for People Projects (AFPP). Please see the AFPP website (www.artforpeople.ca) for the projects that AFPP has funded to date. There will be wine and cheese, a raffle to win a painting of your choice and lots of art to look at. Saturday, June 29 • GOLd FEvER FOLLiEs Performances take place from June 29 to Aug. 24. showings are at 3 pm and 7:30 pm, Tuesday through Saturday. This year’s new show is called A job well done, a brand new comedy by Kate Eldridge with music by Harris Anderson. Monday, July 15 • WiLL sTROET ON TOUR Will Stroet’s performances are often described as bilingual rock concerts for kids. songs like Bike Safety Boogie and Full of Beans have the audience dancing and singing to the catchy beat. Your child can experience this talented, energetic entertainer and songwriter at the Rossland Public Library for free on July 15th at 2 p.m. Ongoing • THE ROssLANd MUsEUM is now open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed Monday and Tuesday. Open daily July and August 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. including holidays. Admission is adults $10; children 6-13 $3; students 14+ $5; seniors 60+ $8; children under six free. Family rate is $28 based on two adults and children. • viNYAsA FLOW YOGA instructor Cynthia Anonuevo, RYT, is hosting an outdoor beginner vinyasa Flow Yoga class at the Rossglen Park in lower Rossland. The weekly class will run on Wednesdays, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. until July 31. Please contact Rossland Recreation, at 3622327 for more information. Classes will combine flowing progressions from one pose to another, as well as sustained postures with attention to basic alignment.
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Gold Fever Follies opens this Saturday night with an brand new, original show
What: Gold Fever Follies Where: Miners’ Union Hall Opens: saturday, June 29, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $13 at door The show runs until Aug. 24.
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It wasn’t that long ago when a young Jill Amantea rushed over in the summer to the Miners’ Union Hall to watch and idolize the ladies performing in the Gold Fever Follies. The region’s only professional summer stock theatre company was an institution in the former mining town, and contained some of the best young singers, actors and dancers from the West Kootenay and across the province. And Amantea knew it. She absorbed as much as she could from what was happening on the stage, and looked on wishfully when she saw the adoration and fame the cast members held on the street in the community. One day she snuck out of high school to audition and she landed a part. A small part in the cast that usually ran about 10 members, but she was in. Three years later the 19-year-
old Rossland resident—now attending the School of Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg—is a show veteran with a major role (Florence Phillips) in the Gold Fever Follies new season that opens this Saturday night (7:30 p.m.) at the Miners’ Union Hall. “I used to come every summer with my mom and I’d always be so intimidated by the all of the dancers and I would think ‘I want to be like that one day,’” she said. “They would be neighbours or people I would see around town. And now it’s just really cool to be that person and have little girls come up to you and say ‘Hello.’” A new generation of singers, dancers and actors will be inspired when the Follies opens Saturday for its two-month run. The new season of Gold Fever Follies is unearthing some pretty valuable and rare minerals never seen before on any stage with an all new play, A Job Well Done, loosely based on the historic events and people of Rossland’s
early gold rush days. Written by Follies alumnus Kate Eldridge, the play is directed by three-time Follies director R.J. Peters, who brings his humourous touch to the stage. It’s an all new show, says casting director Lisa Henderson, who took over as president of the Follies’ society last year. “One thing the locals don’t understand is that it is a completely different story every year,” she said. “Some people think ‘Well, I saw the Follies last year.’ But it’s not one of those shows you see on cruise ships where they do the same show every year because they have thousands of tourists go through each day. We actually create a whole new story.” The show runs from Tuesday to Saturday, with two shows daily, a matinee at matinee at 3 p.m. and an evening show at 7:30 p.m. After the opening Saturday night the regular shows run starts Tuesday, July 2.
Tickets are available at the door for $13 (general admission), while children under five are free. Children from six to 12 are $8, while seniors (65+) are $10. The show runs until Aug. 24. editor@rosslandnews.com
The ploT ThiCkens This year’s A Job Well Done, written by past Follies member Kate Eldridge, takes place in the Columbia, a new dancehall that was the first of its kind. Frank Hanna Jr. (Casey Gray), son and namesake of the founder of Trail, is miserable in life and in love, but when he meets Josie (Alexandra Wever), a dancehall girl from spokane, his world is turned upside down. However, he isn’t the only one vying for her affections. His competitor, Ed Roberts (vaughn Naylor), is a newcomer who claims to be a contractor hired by the CPR, but he appears to be doing the town more harm than good. Frank needs to win Josie’s heart for both his sake as well as for Rossland’s.
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A lack of communication erupted around a new communication policy for council. Council was presented with a draft policy from city staff June 17 on how to deal with formal and informal communication by electronic means, namely, email. But the policy ignited some disfavour with council, and councillor Kathy Moore quickly made a motion not to adopt the policy, citing several elements of it that contravened how councillors needed to conduct their business. She thought the policy was to deal with how to handle email from citizens to council, but felt it was derailed from its original intent and was far broader than intended. “It was a council resolution that we develop a policy,” explained Mayor Greg Granstrom. “And part of that resolution was to come up with a policy on how we interacted with each other. I’m positive that was part of it.” He said the motion addressed the resolution. There was some discussion on council as to what was appropriate and inappropriate in email. Councillor Jill Spearn disagreed with the policy in that it “muzzles” councillors. She noted that, under the draft policy, electronic communication from any member of staff to any member of council was to be copied to all of council and the chief administrative officer, and the reverse was true from council to staff. In addition, all electronic communication of an informational nature, from one council member to another, were to be copied to all of council. “To put restrictions around using electronic communications worries me,” Spearn said, noting the only restrictions should be around confidential information or items discussed in camera (behind closed doors in council). Any discussion amongst coun-
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cil is supposed to be accessible to the public. Discussions regarding city business, not subject to Section 90 of the Community Charter (meetings that may be closed to the public), should be held in an open and transparent forum at committee or council meetings that are generally open to the public. “So that is part of the reason this came forward, in my understanding,” said councillor Kathy Wallace. The motion to not accept the policy was passed. A sub committee was proposed to take the draft policy and wordsmith it to make it more palatable to council. Later in the meeting Moore revisited the decision and made a motion that committees dealing with reviewing the procurement and delegation policies take higher priority than the communication policy. All council directives on policy take staff time, she said. “If we are allocating staff time and setting priorities, I think we should set them on things that are of higher priority than things that are a lesser priority,” she said, like the communications policy. “Council made a resolution that we develop a policy,” Granstrom replied. “We are dealing with that.” “And we set a committee to deal with the delegation bylaw and we have not dealt with that. We set a committee to deal with the procurement situation and we have not done that,” Moore countered. “I’m just saying those things should be dealt with before we allocate staff time on a communication policy which I see as a soft issue. I see those other things as a little more beef.” Council saw the communication policy as a priority, Granstrom said, and a committee could tweak the policy in a matter of a few hours. The motion to prioritize the committees was defeated. editor@rosslandnews.com
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“It’s one of those things that it’s out there, but it’s not for sale right now until we are in Rossland K-9,” said Wilson. “We have to make LO sure we are in the new K-9 school, 100 per cent, before we can think of entertaining an offer.” The school district will not commit to anyone until that happens. Something could happen over the summer, like a strike or a lack of supplies, said Wilson, that could set back the comHiking, Camping, Climbing, Backpacking, Active wear, Souvenirs and more. pressed time frame for the renovations to turn High quality gear and the knowledge to make sure it’s right... the high school building into an elementary and the guarantee if it isn’t, we’ll make it right. school. And, when completed, the school district has to be satisfied the facility is suitable for elementary school students before it releases its hold on MacLean. “No matter what, we have to have a facility for these kids in fall,” he said. Find us on Rossland BC The Francophones are interested in purchashe Rossland Chamber of Commerce Introduces the ing the school right now, Wilson said, and there could be other community groups in the running TheRossland RosslandChamber ChamberofofCommerce CommerceIntroduces Introducesthe the The for the school when the process resumes in earnest later this year. shared co-working space available ether a local looking for • wifi, copier, printer, desk use “The Francophones have only given the Whethera alocal locallooking lookingforfor wifi , copier,printer, printer,desk deskuse use Whether • •wifi , copier, school district a letter of interest and that is as far uge from the home offi ce ••board board room meeting (8)it goes,” he said. refugefrom from thehome home offi a arefuge the offi cece • boardroom room meeting space meeting space space (8)(8) as visitor in need of the or a visitor in need of the or a visitor in need of the As for MacLean, when the school goes back ••basic basic kitchenette basickitchenette kitchenette • amenities ofa aprofessional professional amenities nities of a of professional on the market, MacLean would be sold as is, downtown town location • location ••down down town location offi - TheHUB HUB theplace place ceceHUB - The is isthe e -offi The is the place leaded water problem and all. • professionalquiet quietwork workspace space remoteworkers workersininRossland. Rossland. • forforremote • professional professional quiet work spaceSD20 superintendent of schools Greg emote workers in Rossland. youneed needtotobring bringis isyour your privateoffi offi spacesalso also AllAllyou • •private cecespaces Luterbach has said the school district would disoulaptop/device(s). need to bring is your • available private laptop/device(s). availableoffice spaces also close the water problem when a sale happened, op/device(s). available and people would be apprised of the situation Visitwww.rosslandhub.com www.rosslandhub.com Visit before buying. But it would not be fixed. call250-362-5666 250-362-5666for formore moredetails. details. oror call Visit www.rosslandhub.com On the move? or call 250-362-5666The for more details. The downtown Trail school board office will TheRossland RosslandChamber Chamber be moving into the old Trail Middle School— 204-2012 WashingtonStSt 204-2012 Washington now the Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre— 250-362-5666 250-362-5666 The Rossland Chamber after years of rumours of it moving, Wilson con204-2012 Washington St firmed. The board is looking to get out of its current 250-362-5666 lease situation in the Fortis BC building in downtown Trail. “We could be (at Trail Middle School) before December of this year,” he said. With Fortis BC now expected to buy the T
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whole building where the offices reside, it would mean the power company would buy SD20 out, and the lease issue would be resolved. That would allow SD20 to move across the river to a building it already owns so it would save thousands on lease payments right now. How much would be saved, Wilson did not know. As well, no renovations would be needed and it would bring more usage to an under utilized facility, he noted. “We just have to cut. It’s one of the big things,” he said. Still nine Another committee examining the number of trustees in the district overturned a proposal by Wilson—who sat as its chair—to reduce the amount of trustees in School District 20, and save even more money for the district in the process. Wilson said with only 11 schools in the district it was ridiculous to have almost one trustee per school—at nine—when it could be as effective with less. “It’s one of those things, it’s hard to vote down your own job,” said Wilson of the trustees on the committee. “But I thought it would have really shown a lot of leadership on our part because we are making all these cuts everywhere else.” editor@rosslandnews.com
Seven Summits Centre for Learning set to open TimoThy Schafer Rossland News
The city’s new independent school is set to open, according to the Neighbourhoods of Learning committee. An NOL release late Friday stated the Seven Summits Centre for Learning will open this fall for Grade 8 to Grade 12 students from Rossland “and beyond.” The new option for education is partnering with Self Design Learning Community to offer a student-centred, inquiry-based learning centre—to be name Seven Summits Centre for Learning—which will offer the entire B.C. grade 8-12 high school graduation
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program. As well, it will offer a “diverse suite” of independent study choices and community initiatives. Self Design is an independent distributed learning school that was established in 2002. It is an internationally recognized school that was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Education Innovation. The school offers individualized learning customized to each student’s needs, using an effective combination of online interactive learning and classroom learning, said Aerin Guy, NOL coordinator in a press release. “Teachers will be working
in Rossland, at the centre, faceto-face with students,” she said. All courses are certified by the B.C. Ministry of Education. People can attend a public meeting on Wednesday, June 26 at 7 p.m. at the Rossland Gallery (formerly Rouge Gallery) to hear details about the program. Guest speaker Barbarah Nicoll, vice principal of Self Design Learning Community, will explain the program to potential students and parents, and answer their questions. For more information, please contact Aerin Guy, coordinator, Neighbourhoods of Learning, at aeringuy@ gmail.com or 250-231-0055.
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2. Make it Happen awards The criteria for the Make it Happen awards • The students are the type that never give up • make things happen even when there is little time or resources • do not let adversity get in the way • see a way to overcome challenges
Top athletics Grade 6 female: Eva D’Odorico Grade 6 male: Ethan Jang Grade 7 female: Sophie DeRosa and Ali D’Odorico Grade 7 male: Aaron Finke and Umar Hill Junior female athlete: Chloe Franklin Junior male athlete: Gav O’Shea Senior female athlete: Kaela Zimmer, Kaycee McKinnon Senior male athlete: Alex Stanton, Patrick Soltice Amanda Williams Award, for most inspirational field hockey player: Jaala Derochie Pete Bowcher Memorial Athletic Award, for overall service and commitment to sport: Annie Cameron Boys golf: bronze at provincials. Field hockey team: ninth in BC Boys soccer: 13th in BC Girls basketball: ninth in BC Girls soccer: fourth in BC Principal’s award, based on outstanding effort and achievement throughout the year: Ali Ferguson Grade 7 RSS honour award, based on high academic, athletics and citizenship: Ella Knight and Sianna Tomich Student generated awards 1. Citizenship awards The criteria for the citizenship awards are • The students must be a positive influence on our school • build community by bringing individuals together socially and for learning • do the right thing for others • share knowledge and time • are willing to help others in school and around the community Grade 6 — Ellie Knox. All around nice to everyone. Always happy, has a positive attitude, and does the right things for others. Grade 7 — Tyrien Newell, Marley Lemeaux. Tyrien: Kind and considerate to everyone around her. She puts others first and makes sure others participate and she is an amazing friend and classmate. Marley: Always thinking of other people and is positive all the time. She listens to others’ ideas and makes the classroom and school grounds a better place. Grade 8 — Jane Andison. Unassuming, nice to everyone, and not a mean bone in her body. Grade 9 — Kara Deane, Braden McKay. Kara: Helps everyone at school, helps out in the community, and is an active part of our school and town. Braden: Always bubbly and happy. He likes to talk and laugh with everyone.
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whose idea it was originally— the student generated awards were handed out for the third year in a row. Under the titles citizenship, make it happen and unsung hero, the awards were handed out to students in each grade. Using a group of students from each grade a list of nominees was generated in each grade. The students identified the reasons for the nominations, and a suitable award for each nominee. After that, the entire student body was given the
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ow can expansion at Red Mountain Resort be viewed in a negative light? With nearly 1,000 more ski-able acres being added to the formidable slope inventory of Red and Granite mountains, Grey Mountain’s new chair lift is almost as welcome of a sight as Olaus Jeldness stepping off the train in Rossland. The expansion at Red is certain to put a few more dollars into the economy in Rossland, but only if one key piece is in place. The city needs to have a regular shuttle bus service from the municipality to the hill several times per day, to bring the expected increase of destination visitors into the city after taking them up for a day of skiing. Not only will bus service help business in Rossland, it will answer the question for those visitors who may have opted not to come to Red Mountain and Rossland in the past due to the lack of transportation. It certainly isn’t a chicken-and-the-egg scenario, but there are some untapped synergies that could be harnessed for the City of Rossland, Red Mountain and city businesses if the transportation question is truly resolved.
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s she unveiled her new cabinet, Premier Christy Clark promised a “line-by-line” review of government spending to deliver a balanced budget this year. Statements such as this would have more credibility if politicians subjected their own personal spending to the same scrutiny. That’s still not happening in B.C. Expense accountability has come a long way in the last year, thanks mainly to the work of now-departed Auditor General John Doyle, who swung the cobweb-covered door open on B.C.’s secretive Legislative Assembly Management Committee. Chaired by the speaker and
run by senior MLAs from both parties, the committee had been doing pretty much whatever it wanted with MLAs’ own expenses. Doyle’s audit found that MLA credit card bills were being paid without receipts, part of a lax accounting system that included inaccurate bank records and inadequate management of the legislature gift shop and dining room. The operating budget of the legislature and constituencies runs to more than $60 million a year. Now-retired speaker Bill Barisoff asked the auditor to give a pass to the $119,000 annual allowance for each of the 85 constituency offices. Transfer amounts and payroll expenses were verified, but constituency expenses were not, likely because these records weren’t kept either. I’m not suggesting that there has been any misuse of public funds. The point is we don’t know, and the notion of an “honour system” for politicians’ expenses has become unacceptable. A similar toxic tale has been unfolding in the Senate in Ottawa. It has its own secretive committee called the
Board of Internal Economy, which was forced into the open after trying to sweep Senator Mike Duffy’s housing claims under the red rug of the Senate chamber. Duffy has lived in Ottawa for decades, first as a TV host and then senator, but he decided the rules were loose enough that he could claim his summer place in Prince Edward Island as his principal residence. An audit has also found he was claiming living expenses in Ottawa while campaigning for the Conservatives back east. It turns out the key ingredient in an honour system is honour. This mess goes back more than a century in B.C. and Canada, and has its roots in the British Parliament, where MPs and Lords had a system of claiming all sorts of expenses, including construction of a “duck house” and maintenance of the moat around an Honourable Member’s castle. Many years ago, British MPs convinced themselves that they were underpaid, and rather than create a public fuss by giving themselves a big raise, they would be able to top it up by claiming up to 250 pounds at a time without
receipts. Cheers! You can imagine how well that worked out. As one observer put it, the system was not only open to abuse, it was actually designed for it. Here in B.C., the next step is obvious. If you go to the website of Alberta Premier Alison Redford, you can easily find the link to her detailed expense reports, itemized for travel, meals, hotel rooms and so forth. Alberta cabinet ministers provide the same disclosure. B.C. cabinet ministers’ travel expenses are now reported, but only as an occasional lump sum. As a result of Doyle’s revelations last summer, B.C.’s Legislative Assembly Management Committee now meets in public, with transcripts of proceedings available. But MLA expenses are still not itemized. Total expenditures are being reported on a quarterly basis, but with no detail to explain why some MLAs have much higher totals than others. It’s time to sweep out the cobwebs. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com.
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“I think it is highly unlikely that there will be much appetite for regional economic development when Trail has the whole of the doughnut, taken care of by the gift from Teck,” she said. She said Rossland needed to talk to its neighbours—Warfield and the Beaver Valley—and bring up the subject of amalgamation again now, gauging the desire to generate support to look at a study on what the impacts of amalgamation might be. “It is really inequitable to have one community get all of the benefit from the only industrial tax base that is within our region,” she said. Moore suggested the city write the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development and protest the move by Trail. Councillor Kathy Wallace agreed. “I think this (boundary expansion) is going in the exact opposite direction of where our communities should be going, and I’m not against writing a letter of support, but I do think we need to understand the situation fully,” she said. Towards that end Area A (Beaver Valley) director Ali Grieve appeared before council on June 17 to present Area A’s side of the matter. Trail has also been invited to speak. She asked Rossland for support to oppose any boundary expansion that has the potential to “negatively impact other communities, and further to oppose the concentration of so many tax dollars within one community.” Councillor Jill Spearn was personally alarmed when she heard of Trail’s deal with Teck. She said the move did not foster regional relationships at all between municipal governments. “And let’s face it, we have been struggling with some of our regional relationships and we have offered the olive branch a number of times to our neighbours down the hill in a number of different ways,” she said. “I just feel it is becoming less cooperative than we need to have in this day and age in regard to finding efficiencies around a number of regional projects.” With only one industrial tax base for the region, Spearn added, it should be shared. Moore agreed.
“I personally don’t believe it is healthy to take that large of an amount of tax dollars and put that into the control of one community,” she said. “That doesn’t make sense and it is just giving too much power and control to one particular community.” Boundary expansion was recently resurrected at the request of the property owners’ in the Columbia Gardens Industrial Park. The tentative agreement between the City of Trail and Teck on boundary expansion would see Teck’s property taxation reduced in return for the company’s financial support of economic development in Trail and of boundary expansion. However, Trail has been instructed by Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development to come up with an offer to reduce the impact on Beaver Valley taxation, which could be a loss in the neighbourhood of $160,000 to $460,000, said Grieve. In a consultant report on boundary expansion, there was a proposal that provided a revenue transfer of $220,000 of the taxation lost, meaning an increase in property taxes to Area A residents if the service did not reduce its level of spending. “At no time, nor in any way, will we accept that the residents and taxpayers of the Beaver Valley will have to face reductions in the services provided or tax increases,” said Grieve. “Our community must not suffer in any way due to the proposals of the City of Trail.” Grieve threatened that Area A could revise its $1.2 million contribution to regional district administration—from the Seven Mile Dam—money pays for all of the administration costs for the entire regional district government including the Boundary. “Should a boundary expansion proceed, it is likely the people of the Beaver Valley will ask to revisit that tax sharing level,” said Grieve. The agreement between Teck Trail Operations and the City of Trail must be submitted to the province for ratification after a study update is done and a disposition of concerns is addressed. editor@rosslandnews.com
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he viability of the community and its ski hill were the chips on the table when the Red Mountain Resort powers that be laid their cards on the table for expansion three years ago. Their ante was $2 million and the gamble was increased destination visitors to the area (called tourists), almost one third more (35,000) hoped for when the lift is realized for the coming season. The idea for expansion was not driven by real estate, said Howard Katkov, chief executive officer at an official ‘ground breaking ceremony’ with toast at Red Mountain Resort last Thursday. Instead, the new acres of land to play fixed-grip Poma quad in. chair—that began “Now, anybody installation June 20— who wakes up on a that will give access to powder day here will almost 1,000 more look up and say, ‘Oh acres of terrain is my God, where do I about sustainability go?’” said Katkov. for the community, The new lift is on the resort and for the schedule to be comregion, he noted. pleted for this coming “In terms of the ski season to give peohill’s viability, it had ple access to challengto be done. I think it ing new chutes and had to be done. It was steeps off the north supported profoundly and eastern slopes of by the community, Grey. more importantly,” he Heart of the matter said. Grey expansion The new lift opens was first envisioned up intermediate terthree years ago in the rain and another heart of the recession mountain in Red’s when real estate had arsenal to deliver a pretty much collapsed 360-degree ski experiaround the world for ence—Granite being second homes. the other one—to creAfter owning the ate the twin towers of hill for a number of downhill efficiency, years, and underand a total of 2,800 standing the commu-
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nity, the ownership group of Red Mountain Resort felt it was necessary to do something “even bigger outside of real estate, to bring in more destination visitors for the sustainability of this community and the ski hill,” said Katkov. “This is not a real estate play, to be clear,” he emphasized. Katkov pointed to a metric in the ski world of 150,000 ski visits as a target sustainable number, and Red has averaged around 115,000 per year. The consultants hired—S.E. Group— to examine expansion gave anecdotal evidence of terrain expansion at other ski hills in recent years and approximately 70 per cent of those showed
increased skier destination visits. Research also showed the addition of Grey Mountain would be the largest expansion at an existing ski hill in over four decades in North America, and would make Red Mountain the eighth largest ski resort in Canada and 20th largest in North America. And the ski expansion also opens up intermediate terrain that the resort really needed, having a reputation as an Howard Katkov expert mountain. snowboarding,” he “That was part of said. the strategy, not only And all signs point to open up terrain to the genius of the and bring in more plan so far. Last year destination visitors with news of Grey for the resort and the Mountain’s expansion, community, but also the opening of the new to offer more interruns and mediate skiing and
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• Expansion on Aug. 1, 2012 added 997 acres and a whole new mountain to the 1,685 acres already developed at the hill. • Grey, like Granite (Red’s other peak), is volcanoshaped, which allows for 360-degree skiing around the peak from a single lift. • The 997-acre expansion on Grey alone is about the same size as the Mount Baker ski area in Washington. • The total acreage with the new terrain on Grey makes Red larger than Jackson Hole in Wyoming. • With the new zone, Red falls into the top three per cent of all resorts in North America for skiable acres (2,682). • At the completion of run development, Grey Mountain will have 22 perfect ski runs. • Expansion makes Red the eighth largest ski area in Canada and, for comparison, the 18th largest in the USA out of approximately 500 resorts.
nificant investment in the region by the trust. “So that’s a third party validation of the project,” said Katkov. At the time of the development, Katkov said the management team spent eight years “reinforcing” the company’s infrastructure, investing $50 million in the facilities, and completing world class slope-side accommodations. With $2 million being poured into the project, the question of return on investment was one Katkov hesitated to answer at this point, characterizing it as “complicated at this point.” Shuttle run The importance of having a daily shuttle bus run to the ski hill from Rossland several editor@rosslandnews.com times a day was facebook.com/flyerland.ca emphasized. @flyerland Last year Tourism Rossland operated a shuttle bus to the hill for the first time, but there is a push to get a public transit route set up, in partnership with the City of Rossland, BC Transit and the regional district. Live M usical Theatre from “We’ve lost busithe Gold Rush Day ness as a result of not s having it,” said Richards. That’s one of the questions people ask about the hill is how do they get down to the city after skiing, In its 27 th Seas he said. on “People love TUESDAY - SATURDAY • 3 P.M. & 7:30 P.M. Rossland. It’s a real Rossland MINERS HALL on Columbia Avenue, Rossland place rather than a Rossland M iners Hall manufactured mall at on facebook.com/flyerland.ca
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social age, it’s a completely much more modern world. “And our focus is communicating to that generation because we think that is the market that will really appreciate this product, but also the affordability of this product,” said Katkov. “Our affordability set against this product and this town of Rossland is going to be very desirable to that generation.” Red Mountain is in the entertainment business, said Richards, and when people make choices of where to go and where they are going to spend their vacation and where they want to be entertained, they will hopefully look to Red now with the expansion and the additional events and marketing planned. “And I think the warmth of this community when they get here really adds to their experience.” Follow the money Funding for the new chair lift came inpart from aeloan from th the Southern Interior Development Initiatives Trust (SIDIT). SIDIT’s funding programs are specifically targeted June toward 9 to investments in 2 selfAug ust 24 sustaining projects that support the 10 2 Shthemes ows Das mandated aily Tuin defined eslegislation thru Sat approved 3pmby &the 7:3prov0pm ince. It was the first sig-
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sures and gateways to the backcountry, all those elements of the operating side of that mountain have really had a good hard look at last year, Thompson said, and it gives the Red crews a head start this year. All access There will not be access to base of the new lift from the Silverload chair this year, said Katkov. There is another lift planned in the future that will access more runs in the area near the base of Grey Mountain. The placement of the Grey chair anchor and route was chosen to provide a reasonable ride time, around 11 minutes, said Thompson. “So striking that balance for riders and also being able to ski every direction off of Grey, collect and all come back to that bottom terminal (was key),” he said. What Red staff are exploring is a form of connector from Silverload to Grey chair with a 300-metre handle tow installed at some point. The new chair lift creates redundancies in the system, said Katkov. If Motherload chair went down, for instance, people could go over to Grey Mountain chairlift to keep skiing. “So that’s a good thing. Plus it opens up all of that terrain,” he said. There will be snowshoeing, cross country branded area created at the foot of Grey Mountain, said Katkov, with guiding. “It’s absolutely fabulous terrain.” The sands of time There is a real big demographic shift happening at ski hills across North America. Baby Boomers are leaving the sport, and the younger generation is looking at the world differently than that generation, it’s as an electronic age, it’s a
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offering cat skiing, day ticket sales increased 29 per cent over the previous year. And with the expectation of a new lift at Grey, bookings to-date over last year are up 132 per cent (the year starting in May). “And that obviously spells good news for the local and regional economy,” said Fran Richards, vice president of marketing. Growing pains With the increase in acreage there won’t be a corresponding increase in staff. Red vice president of operations and development, Don Thompson, said there will more lift operators, more patrollers and another operator added in grooming department, but not a lot of staff overall added to manage the new mountain. “But it’s not like we take the amount of staff we have now running Granite and are duplicating it, because everything goes on a rotation,” he said. There will still be a testing format required next year for grooming, he said, with eventually Red staff grooming that whole side. “Because nobody’s driven a groomer over there, ever, we have some early season testing to do,” Thompson said. Machine time and numbers of staff needed to do the job will unfold over the next few years, he added, as the complexity of the hill is revealed. Already Red staff have gained knowledge about Grey through last year’s trial run as a cat access mountain. In 2012-13, Red shuttled skiers in groups of nine to the top of Grey using a new snowcat. Snow pack research, avalanche routes, control routes, patrol clo-
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month. Self control through meditation and practice is the basis for their training, something they have both achieved in their approximately four years at the Trail Martial Arts studio under Jason Ayles and Mike Vroom. A lot of tae kwon do is psychological, especially in competition, said French, a 17-year-old recent graduate of Rossland Secondary School. He will compete in sparring and patterns, a combination of fast and slow, light and forceful movements together with extensive footwork. It’s the first world tournament for French, who won gold last September in Kelowna at the Western Canadian Tae Kwon Do championships, then bronze a few weeks later at the Canadian championships. He will be relying on muscle memory, gleaned from hundreds of hours of practice in the dojo (training facility) and countless more at home, and original mind created through “mat chat” with Ayles at the beginning of each tae kwon do session. Through Ayles French has been able to cultivate focus on a task until he is done. But for the world tournament, French will also rely on his intuition. “I am not entirely sure how I am going to cope with doing it in front of so many people,” he said. “You want to stay calm in a sparring match. You are extremely focused on one particular aspect of your oppo-
nent.” Not worrying about the thousands of people on hand to watch the event, that attracts over 3,000 competitors from around the world. For Hofmann, 12, a Grade 6 student at RSS, he is already focused, doing more mental training and meditation. He won gold at the Western Canadian championships and followed that up with another gold in patterns at the Canadian championships. Ayles felt he was ready to challenge on the world stage after four years of practice. “Right now I am not thinking about how far it is and how big of an event it is, I’m thinking about going to England to have some fun,” Hofmann said. “I’ll get to the arena and it will be pretty scary and an overwhelming sight. I’ll cope with it however I can, maybe do some meditation and try not to think of how big it is.” Hofmann will be there with his mother, Karen Lavender, and will also be visiting his grandparents. The two athletes will be sorted into classes at the world championships according to their weight, the colour of belt attained, and their age. Although French prefers patterns and Hofmann sparring, each one excels in the other discipline. To bring home a medal, however, could prove tougher to accomplish than here at home, and both athletes admit the experience of a world tournament will be medal enough. editor@rosslandnews.com
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Recreation, Education, Community Rossland Rec Department The Rossland Pool is offering evening lap swim this summer. The days of the week and times of day change between June and July, so if you’re interested in evening lap swim, please take note of the following dates and times. Evening Lap Swim in June is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-7 p.m. There is one lane rope in the pool, separating the two activities. In July, evening lap swim is on Tuesday and Wednesday from 6:307:30 p.m. Aqua tot classes If you have an
infant, toddler or preschool child, the Aqua Tot classes start next week, at the Rossland Pool. This half hour class is from 11:30-12 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and runs eight weeks until the end of August. Lessons will cover buoyancy, movement, floating, gliding and swimming skills while enjoying active water play. Family swim The Family Swim time at the Rossland Pool changes to 5-6:30 p.m., seven days a week, as of July 2. If you have young children it’s one of the
nicest ways to end a hot summer day, before the demands of dinner and bedtime routines. The Rossland Pool has season’s passes available to make things even easier. Contact the Rossland Pool at 362-5455. Tennis, anyone? If you’re interested in playing tennis there are two courts to choose from. One
court is a beautiful, 100 year old court located in a quiet setting near the corner of Park Street and LeRoi Avenue. Annual membership dues can be purchased at the Rec. Department. The other court is located at Red Mountain on the right hand side as you drive into the residential area and doesn’t require a membership.
CITY OF ROSSLAND ANNUAL REPORT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION JUNE 25, 2013
The Community Charter requires that, by June 30th in each year, a municipality must prepare an Annual Report and make that report available for public inspection. This report will be available for public inspection on June 25, 2013 at City Hall and on www.rossland.ca At the Regular Council Meeting, July 15, 2013, 7:00 pm at Rossland City Hall, Council will consider submissions and questions from the public regarding the Annual Report.
RTRG host exhibition derby game in Trail submitted Rossland News
The Rossland Trail Roller Girls (RTRG) is making its mark in Trail history this month with the first ever live roller derby game at the Cominco Arena. And to promote the June 29 bout, derby girls will be at the Trail Market Friday selling tickets. Free tickets will be given out to the first 20 people to engage their core and out plank a team representative at the market along the Esplanade from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The newly amalgamated team, made up of combined players from the former Gnarlie’s Angels of Rossland and Trail’s Bad News Betties, has only ever dreamed of playing in the Trail arena until now. The city has now given these women a chance to introduce the sport to Trail, a city that prides itself on being B.C.’s number one sports town. RTRG has rallied a team from the East Kootenay, the Mountain Town Maulers of Cranbrook, to come play in West Kootenay Roller Derby territory. AM Ford presents Helter Smelter, a separate game from the league’s regular schedule put on by RTRG and supported by team sponsors. A half time show from Steps Dance Company, a beer garden, 50/50 draw and door prizes round out the night. Fans are asked to dress to impress, with an RTRG super fan contest awarding those who come decked out in team colours (red, yellow and black) or in a great costume. Doors open at 5 p.m., with the first whistle blown at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 ($2 for kids 12 and under) and can be purchased in Trail at Cedar Avenue Salon, Hall Printing, Gerick Sports and Got Juiced, or in Rossland at the The Red Pair or Got Juiced. Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five roller skating in the same direction around a track. Game play consists of a series of short matches (jams) in which both teams designate a scoring player (the jammer), who scores points by lapping members of the opposing team. The teams attempt to assist their own jammer whilst hindering the opposing jammer—in effect, playing both offence and defence simultaneously.
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Valerie Patricia Rose Nicol (Topliff) passed away peacefully on June 18, 2013 in Nelson BC. Valerie was born on February 14, 1933, the youngest of six children to Earl and Lucy Topliff in Rossland BC. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from The University of Toronto in 1955. In 1965 she accepted a position as social worker with Human Resources in Trail, BC and returned to Rossland with her three children Cynthia, Pamela, and Douglas. She is predeceased by her brothers Douglas and Eugene and sister Joyce. She will be greatly missed by her brother Jerome and sister Pamela, her children and their spouses (Cynthia and Gordon, Pamela and Donald, Douglas and Evelyn), and her grandchildren (Elyse, Nicolas, Mitchel, Sydney, Grant, and Blake). We will remember her kind and compassionate heart, her love of knowledge, her appreciation for nature, art and culture, and her passionate dedication to her children. The family thanks the staff at Nelson’s Mountain Lake Seniors Community for their special care provided to Valerie. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral Service Ltd.
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Rossland hosts 2013 Kootenay Cuboree Submitted Rossland News
The Second Rossland Cub Scouts hosted the 2013 Kootenay Cuboree from June 14-16 at the Lions Campground in Rossland. There were groups from Creston, Cranbrook, Nelson and of course Rossland. All in all there were nearly 60 youth and 20 leaders and parent helpers who came out to enjoy campfires, activities, games, skits songs and cheers. Friday night was arrival and set up, and some get to know you games lead by Leader Mike Kent and Josh Swain. The most popular had to have been the four way tug
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From the top right and clockwise; Scouts learned the art of sawing logs with the guidance of Second Rossland Group Commissioner Tom Leask; A Cub Scout holds on during the zip line Tyrolean Traverse obstacle course; Rossland leader and event organizer Fred Fontaine hands out awards during the closing ceremonies; Wolf Cubs and Scouts receive first place in the Gold Claim Wide Group Game.
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The RSS Interact Club presents a donation to the West Kootenay Friends of Refugees volunteers. Back row L-R: Joseph French, Colby Zanier, Denomie Fisher, Madeline Fisher, Jonas Houlden, (Interact president), Marley Lemieux, Hannah Klemmensen, Rachael Roussin, Susan Shaw, Kate Mahoney (WKFoR members). Front row: Michelle Laurie, Alesha Hall, Marilyn Nelson (Interact advisor, teacher and WKFoR volunteer), Lucy Beck, Hannah Kroeker, Kathy Moore, (WKFoR chair). Interact’s missing club members: Maggie Chan, Bianca D’Appolonioa, Julia Keller, Sierra Methson, Meghan Heximer, Julia Keller, Tristan Neufeld, Keegan Fry, Annie Cameron, Britta, Brogan Pastro, Alex Reed, Alysha and Jose Robonson-Wallis, Samantha Flemming, Mackenzie Ropas, Irena Rorie, and Delaney Bowman.
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2nd Rossland Cubs Scouts would like to give a huge thank-you to all of the people, groups and organizations that helped make the 2013 Kootenay Cuboree so successful.
Sponsors • Cims Limited Partnership, Rossland Division • Marwest Industries Ltd. • West Kootenay Mechanical Ltd. Other Thank you’s
Major Sponsors Inn staff; Dan, Kelsey and Sara
• Rossland Volunteer Fire Department • Rossland Historical Museum • Golden City Lions • City of Rossland • 44th Field Squadron • BV Tool Rentals • The Kootenay Sawyer • Powderhound
Huge thanks to our Volunteers • Markus Bruckmeier • Joe Catalano • Parry LaFond • Jason & Skye LeBlanc • Randy Nilsen • Ian Sibbald • Monika Smutny • Josh Swain
The West Kootenay Friends of Refugees, who are sponsoring two Burmese refugee families to live in Rossland, held a very successful “Burger and Beer” fundraiser at Rossland’s Flying Steamshovel. “We sold over 90 tickets, raised money from the raffle and 50/50 draw and received numerous donations,” said Katherine Mahoney, WKFoR organizer. “We raised about $2,000.” Supporters were entertained by The Barefoot Toubadours, Andrew Bennett and Peter “Buzz” Reed on fiddle and guitar and mandolin. They were followed by blues rockers John Lee’s Hooker. The prize draws, held between sets, were well received with cheers and laughter from all. WKFoR appreciated the prizes donated by BLOWUP, Gericks, Nature’s Den, Powderhound and Out of the Cellar. The Holiday Bucket grand prize, put together by Rachael Roussin and Kate Harrison Whiteside, full of fun travel items, included donations from Main Stage Gallery and Powderhound. The next fundraising event will be an elegant piano concert on Oct.10. WKFOR is just waiting for word from the Canadian government to say the refugee families are on their way to Rossland. Their applications were submitted close to 24 months ago but they have not yet had their immigration interviews with Canadian authorities. To date, the West Kootenay Friends of Refugees group has raised almost $30,000 for their support.