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Lower Rossland residents have had to detour around Thompson Avenue since Good Friday due to the collapse of a culvert. And though the situation may cost the city upwards of $170,000, one homeowner is thankful for the job works crews did to save his house. It had been raining pretty hard the night of April 17, so Dan Wehrle whose home is right next to Trail Creek, went out to check the culvert where the creek flows under Thompson at Spokane Street. He saw that it was only about a third full, and for this time of year, he felt there wasn’t much to be concerned about. So he went to bed. “I woke up at 2 a.m.,” he explained. “It was just thundering rain on my metal roof, so I went out in my housecoat to check the culvert again.” The water was up to about half. But again, he felt there was no danger, so he went back to bed. But at 6 a.m. he awoke to a lack of sound coming through his bedroom window. “The key is, if you don’t hear the creek, then things are backing up,” he said. “So I went back out.” The culvert was full to the brim and the water was rising to about six inches above it He crossed the road to check the outlet and found there was only about a third of the water coming through.

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Thursday, May 1, 2014 Rossland News

Community Calendar / News UPCOMING

ROSSLAND YOUTH WEEK May 1 to 7, 2014 The Rossland Youth Action Network, in partnership with community organizations, is planning an entire week of events to celebrate the diverse, talented and overall fantastic youth of Rossland. This youth focused festival is made possible by funding from Columbia Basin Trust. Events include a youth variety show, art show, the U19 Film Fest, Red Talks, free mountain bike shuttle, a graffiti art workshop, and more. Check out individual event listings for details or go to www.rosslandyan.ca WAFFLE COFFEE PARTY Saturday, May 3 10:00 am – 12:00 pm @ St. Andrew’s United Church Coffee party with waffles, fruit and whipped cream, bake table and more. Contact Doreen 250-362-5757 for more information. UNDER 19 FILM FESTIVAL Saturday, May 3 7:00 pm @ the Miners’ Hall The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture and the Rossland Youth Action Network are proud to present the 7th Annual “Under 19 Film Festival”, featuring films by youth from the West Kootenay region. Admission: $5 for adults - $3 for students. FREE BIKE SHUTTLES FOR YOUTH Sunday, May 4 1:00-5:00 pm Free pickups at the Warfield Community Centre and shuttled back up to the Mining School. First pickup in Warfield is at 1:00 pm. Adults accompanying youth can shuttle by donation. CHURCH OF DIRT COMMUNITY BUILD NIGHTS Monday, May 12 5:30 pm @ the Centennial Trail-head parking lot Stewart Spooner, the KCTS trails manager and trail system architect, will share his vision of the trails in the Monte Cristo / Columbia Kootenay area above town. Come out and see how our trail building will fit into this vision of what our trails could be. ROSSLAND GARDEN FESTIVAL “It’s A Garden Party!!” Thursday, May 15 3:00 – 6:00 pm Rosslanders are eager to get their gardens started, so come join us for a kick-off to the May long weekend, with live, local music and lots of eats and treats for the whole family. Now booking vendors for all things garden!! Visit www. rosslandmountainmarket.com for more details or contact Miche at 250-362-7737. JUMPSTART GOLF TOURNAMENT Saturday, May 17 @ Redstone Resort Sponsored by Canadian Tire, Trail, the tournament is an open invitation to all! Canadian Tire Jumpstart is a nationally registered charity dedicated to removing financial barriers so kids across Canada have the opportunity to get off the sidelines and into the game. Register today at 250-362-9141 or events@redstoneresort.com BCWF WETLANDKEEPERS WORKSHOP May 23-25 @ Rossland location TBA This FREE 2.5 day hands-on fieldwork course provides participants will technical skills to steward their own wetland. Registration is required. For more information visit www.bcwf.bc.ca or email: wetlands@bcwf.bc.ca AUTHOR WALTER VOLOVSEK Saturday, May 24, 6:30 pm @ the Rossland Museum Walter Volovsek, author of The Green Necklace: The Vision Quest of Edward Mahon speaks on his book about Edward Mahon and his vision to incorporate green space into early city planning. FAMILY DAY Saturday, May 31 10:00 am - 3:00 pm @ the Rossland Museum The museum will be hosting Family Day once again. We have a barbeque planned and lots of events including games, a blacksmith demonstration, spinning, knitting lessons and more. Plan to come!

ONGOING JIVE FOR BEGINNERS Tuesdays 7 pm @ the Miners’ Hall Discover modern jive, a creative, stylish and constantly evolving style of dance that doesn’t require tricky footwork or a partner. Loved by people of all ages, abilities and musical tastes. Every Tuesday night at the Miners’ Hall at 7 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students. CHURCH of DIRT Monday nights startsing May 12 5:30 pm Come out and get dirty, meet great folks young and old, and add to our fantastic trail system. No experience needed - just a passion for our local trails. Contact Scott at scotfor@gmail.com for more information. rossland seniors Monday 1:30 pm Seniors Art Club meets, contact Edith at 250-362-4477. Monday 7:00 pm Rossland Quilters Guild meets, contact Dayanne at 250-362-7727. Wednesday 7:00 pm Rossland Old Time Fiddlers play. Visitors should contact Richie or Audrey at 250-362-9465. Thursday 9:30 - 11 am Seniors stretching exercises and morning tea & snacks SENIORS SING-A-LONG TO THE OLD SONGS Wednesdays until June 18 1:30 to 3:00 pm Tea and/or coffee will be provided along with a snack. Contact Les Anderson at 250-362-5532

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The Victoria Day long weekend might as well be known as the “garden weekend” as it is the traditional kickoff to planting and landscaping. Rosslanders are hoping the last of the snows are behind them, and are eager to squeeze some edible or colourful plants out of the abbreviated growing season. In anticipation of backyard toil, the Rossland Mountain Market is hosting a Garden Festival on Thursday, May 15. Vendors will be on hand from 3 to

6 p.m., offering seeds, bedding plants, herbs, ornaments, décor and anything else to help your garden thrive or look beautiful. Local entertainment, “Whisky Jacks”, will provide musical background, while delicious food will be available throughout to help fend off the munchies. This is a great opportunity to celebrate the return of the sun in a vibrant community atmosphere. Rub shoulders with friends and neighbours while stocking up on all of your gardening needs.

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Columbia Basin-Boundary residents are invited to attend an interactive workshop on how to use a new, powerful regional information tool developed by researchers at Selkirk College. “The Digital Basin,” an online data portal, includes more than 100 community-specific datasets relating to economic, cultural, social, and environmental topics. “Information on conditions and trends in our region is now literally at the fingertips of residents,” says Dr. Terri MacDonald, the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute’s (RDI) Regional Innovation Chair at Selkirk College. Developed in partnership with the Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre, the Digital Basin allows users to explore information through maps, tables, charts and reports. Sources of data include national and provincial government agencies, municipalities and regional districts, local non-profit organizations, and researchers located within and outside the region. Workshop participants will learn how to access and use this data, and leave with an understanding of assets and indicators related to income, housing, parks and recreation, crime rates, education, climate change, and more. Participants will also learn about findings and a related site selection tool generated from the Employment Lands Inventory project. The RDI is hosting six free workshops throughout the region, offering

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community members and representatives of local organizations the opportunity to attend the workshop that is most convenient for them. Workshops are scheduled for 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the following West Kootenay Boundary locations and dates: • Nakusp – Monday May 12, Selkirk College Nakusp Centre (311 Broadway Street) • Castlegar – Tuesday May 13, Selkirk College Castlegar Campus, Staff Lounge (301 Frank Beinder Way) • Grand Forks – Wednesday May 14, Selkirk College Grand Forks Campus (486 72nd Avenue) To register for any of these workshops, email sstoddart@selkirk.ca. Visit www.cbrdi.ca for more information. The Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute, at Selkirk College, is a regional research centre with a mandate to support informed decision-making by Columbia Basin-Boundary communities through the provision of information, applied research and related outreach and extension support.

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News HAVE YOUR SAY We’re Listening PUBLIC MEETING

Monday May 12 ,2014 5:00pm Council Chambers 1899 Columbia Ave

Unexpected and unwanted lake side property, flooded yard from collapsed culvert. City of Rossland Photo

Collapsed culvert blocks off Thompson Continued from Page 1 “I figured something must be blocking it in the middle.” Not wanting to call emergency crews out on a holiday, he watched the creek rising and decided he’d have to make the call, like it or not. The city workers were there just after 7 o’clock. They brought pumps and got them going, but the water was still rising. So they kept bringing more and more pumps.” In the meantime, Wehrle’s yard had become a lake and a foot of water filled his basement. Wehrle said the culvert replacement was long overdue since it had been in place since that section of Thompson was developed in 1971. “These things have a shelflife and it was slated to be replaced. This hurried it up.” Rossland public works manager Darrin Albo said eventually they had nine pumps going, trying to keep up with the rising creek. He also started the emergency preparedness procedure, hoping for funding through PEP. “Total cost is about $160,000 to $170,000 and we hope to get $40,000,” he said. The city was aware of the problem with the culvert in that area, Albo confirmed. “Dan had called earlier to warn that it was in danger, so (the project) was on our fiveyear plan.” But Trail Creek wasn’t going to wait. Albo said the runoff this

year is average or even lower than usual, but the rain brought surface water into the catch basins and the creek just filled up. “Sewer, water and gas lines run through there so they all had to be capped off,” he said. “We had to disrupt services but it was minimal – only a few hours. The Pumping out the front lawn flood. weather hasn’t coLana Rodlie operated. It was either raining or my house than the trees.” snowing.” As of Friday, Albo said the Other than an old rug and new culvert was in place and some lino, Wehrle said it was the creek is running through more of a bother than cost, it but it would be another four which is a good thing because or five days of backfilling be- like most homeowners, he fore the job is complete. isn’t covered for flooding. Wehrle watched workers “The city provided a dumptear out the old culvert and ster and two students to help replace it with a bigger mod- rip out the old rugs and damern double-walled hard plastic aged Gyproc,” he said. culvert rather than galvanized On top of that, friends and steel. neighbours took him in while Although his basement got repairs were going on, invitwet, he couldn’t be happier ing him for dinners and makwith Rossland’s public works’ ing room for stuff from his response. freezer. “They saved my house,” he “I commend the city worksaid. “They were on the scene ers and thank them for the right away. I only had stand- work they did to save my ing water for about an hour. house. They did a fabulous I could have lost my house. job. My neighbours put up It would have filled up to the with the noise. It’s so good of main floor. Some trees had to Rosslanders to come through be ripped out, but they would again. The whole problem have had to be removed any- worked out fairly well. It could way. I was more worried about have been a lot worse.”

PUBLIC MEETING Multiple Family Design Guidelines What is the Public Meeting all about? Rossland City Council is considering updating Development Permit Area Design Guidelines for all Multiple Family Developments (2 or more units) in Rossland and is seeking public input on the proposed guidelines.

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A properties zoned R1 Infill are permitted to build a duplex. All other properties in Rossland may apply to Council to rezone to allow 2 or more units. Do you want some control over the design of these multiple family buildings? All multiple family developments in Rossland must comply with these design guidelines after they have been approved by Council.

How do I get more information? A copy of the proposed guidelines are available at the City of Rossland Office, 1899 Columbia Ave on regular working days from 9 am to 4pm, and also online at www.rossland.ca. Stacey Lightbourne—Planner

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May 9, 2014 7:30 to 9:00 pm PG-13 Language and Adult Content “Myers is Brilliant” - Globe and Mail

Randy the Redneck: Tellin It Like It Iz WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY LUCAS MYERS

The Rossland Miners Hall May 9 7:30 pm Tix $10 in advance at The Cellar in Rossland and the Charles Bailey Theatre in Trail and $12 at the door Come into a world of simple truths, good times, and poor impulse control. A world where “party” is spelled with a “d”, where the smoke is always thick and the riffs are always heavy. Come into the world of Randy. As an “altered ego” of Nelson based writer/

performer Lucas Myers, Randy has been seen offering advice in various Pilotcopilot Productions including DRESS, East, and HELLO BABY. Now he is going to be sharing some of his redneck truisms in RANDY: Tellin it Like it Iz, an entire evening dedicated to the Randster. Topics will range from “What Is a Redneck?” to “Why Hockey Still Matters (a Parable)” to “How to Actually Have Sex in a Canoe, Fer Real” as well as his recent conversion to becoming a dedicated “Environmentalistic”. Featuring original music and Myers’ unique brand of observational humour, this is a live comedy event not to be missed!

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Editorial

Thursday, May 1, 2014 Rossland News Kootenay group publisher: Chuck Bennett Acting publisher: Karen Bennett Advertising: Lisa Wegner

Better workers’ safety needed

As technology races ahead and people race to keep up with it, it’s sometimes said that things were better the way they used to be. This kind of comment may come from any generation and can be expected when the speaker comes up against their own wall – their own learning saturation point. Newer may not always be better, but there is one category where older is worse... hands down. In terms of workers’ safety the good old days were terrible. A lot of progress has been made over the years... since child labour laws were enacted... or since people mined asbestos with nothing in the way of a mask. But it’s clear that more effort is required in order to allow more workers to safely make it home from the job site. The International Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job was observed this past Monday and a small, respectful group was on hand. Organizers were grateful for those who had shown up, but a local spokesperson was curious why so little attention is paid to the event, especially when considering the large number of industrial-type jobs being done in places like Castlegar and Trail. Maybe a person just has to know, or be related to someone who has lost their life or their health due to workplace issues before they recognize just how serious the situation is in many cases. Given all the progress made since the workplace carnage of the dark ages, can workers still get killed on the job? Last year in British Columbia, the families, friends and co-workers of 128 found out that they can, and still do.

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Inconvenient truth of pine beetle By Tom fletcher Black Press

VICTORIA – Last week’s column on Earth Day myths attracted a fair amount of criticism. One tireless member of the “Alberta tar sands killing the planet” crowd scolded me for daring to mention that 60 per cent of the oil pollution in the oceans around North America comes from natural seeps. That’s eight times more than all pipeline and tanker spills combined, and it’s been going on 24 hours a day for the last 10,000 years or so. This fact blows another hole in the carefully crafted narrative that only Canadian oil exports to Asia would destroy our delicate ecosystems. That narrative is why the daily Alaska supertankers along the B.C. coast are ignored, as is the barbaric shale oil rush in North Dakota that can be seen from space. U.S. oil barons are flaring off the vast volume of natural gas that comes up with the more valuable

light crude, while the U.S. environment lobby obsesses over the Keystone XL pipeline. Here’s another one that may upset people indoctrinated by our school system, media and our supposedly green B.C. Liberal government. B.C.’s recent pine beetle epidemic was caused by human carbon emissions, right? Everybody knows that. Gordon Campbell hammered the point home in speeches for years. In 2012 I participated in a B.C. forests ministry tour of facilities where hardy seedlings are grown for reforestation. Test plantings were also underway to see if the range of southern tree species is shifting northward due to climate change. During the bus ride, I asked the province’s top forest scientists if Campbell was right. The answer? We don’t have enough evidence to conclude that. As for shifting tree habitat, those decades-long experiments are continuing. The scientists confirmed what I already knew, which

is that the most recent bark beetle epidemic is the latest of many. It’s the largest “on record,” but the record goes back less than a century. In 2008 I interviewed Lorne Swanell on the occasion of his 100th birthday. A graduate of UBC’s school of forest engineering, Swanell began his career with the forests ministry in 1930. After a year as a ranger, he was assigned to the Kamloops region to help deal with a pine beetle epidemic. Conventional wisdom on the latest outbreak holds that it spread so far because of a lack of cold winters, attributed to human carbon emissions. I grew up in northern B.C., and my last two visits to the Peace country were both in January. In 2004 I recall changing planes on the tarmac of Prince George airport, moving briskly in the daytime temperature near -40 C. That night, and subsequent nights, the mercury dropped to -50 C. In January 2013 I returned for some discussions on the Enbridge pipeline route, and experienced a

relatively balmy -30 C in the daytime. So when I hear people talk about the end of cold winters in northern B.C. because of global warming, it’s difficult to square with personal experience. I can hear the rebuttals already. It takes long periods of extreme cold to kill the pine beetle. How long? Longer than those ones, of course. Similarly flexible theories are being advanced to explain the 17-year “pause” in Earth’s average surface temperature rise, the growing Antarctic ice sheet, and this past winter’s “polar vortex.” If anyone has substantial evidence that CO2 from human activity was the trigger mechanism for the latest beetle outbreak in B.C., I’d like to see it. But please, spare me the affirmations of quasi-religious faith that often pass for climate change arguments today.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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Time to celebrate the youth - Rossland Youth Week

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Youth Week is a provincial celebration of youth held annually during the first week of May. “It is a week of fun, interaction and celebration intended to build a strong connection between young people and their communities, as well as to profile the issues, accomplishments and diversity of youth across the province,” explains Rossland’s Youth Act Network Co-ordinator Mike Kent. This week marks the first Rossland Youth Week. As Kent explains, week is about celebrating youth but it is for everyone. Most happenings during Rossland Youth Week don’t have an age limit and he encourages people to come out and see what Rossland’s enthusiastic youth can achieve. During the primary Youth Action Network meeting last September, the idea of Youth Week was formed with 35 youths. They wrote a Columbia Basin Trust grant proposal and received funding for what has now become Rossland Youth Week. The daily events have been planned by Youth Action Teams consisting of young people working together to make the events happen. For instance, Rossland School of Motion have been putting in extra time to practice and

has brought in expert instructor Chad McDonald from Alberta for a coaching seminar to improve the skills of the instructors before this week. The Youth Week Variety Show is put on to showcase the talented youth of Rossland. There will be dancing, singing and more. The Rossland Art Gallery has been filling with art made by two different age groups, Grade 6-9 and Grade 10-12. The artists are excited to show their art; it is for many their first public showing. Come show your support to these talented adolescents and vote for the People’s Choice Award. Other activities include graffiti artist Bryn Stevenson teaching at Rossland’s First Legal Graffiti Wall during the weekend and a free bike shuttle that will be running for youth. The Seventh U19 Film Festival is being held with open film contributions by young filmmakers that will be filed into different categories. There are five judges who will select a winner in every category and an overall People’s Choice Award. On Tuesday, May 6, the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will be shown in partnership with Rossland Council for Arts and Culture at the Miners’ Hall. The week will wrap up with RED Talks, Rossland’s version

CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF ROSSLAND 2014 PARCEL TAX ROLL The 2014 Water and Sewer Parcel Tax Roll and the Red Mountain Specified Area and Ophir Reservoir Local Area Service Parcel Tax Rolls are available for public inspection at the Rossland City Office, 1899 Columbia Avenue, during regular office hours, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. A person may make a complaint to the Roll only in relation to the person’s own property and on one or more of the following grounds: (a) there is an error or omission respecting a name or address on the parcel tax roll; (b) there is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of a parcel; (c) there is an error or omission respecting the taxable area or the taxable frontage of a parcel; (d) an exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed. If you or your agent wish to file a complaint, the written notice of complaint must be delivered to the Rossland City Office, to the attention of the Collector, not later than 12:00 Noon, Monday, May 12th, 2014. L. Hunter Acting Chief Financial Officer/Collector April 28, 2014

of TED Talks. Jonny Coleshill, who is one of the brains behind RED Talks, explains “the idea is to use the TED Talks format and approach, and we wanted to provide a venue for excellent local people, both youth and adults, to share their ideas, stories, inspiration, research, talents and anything else!” The theme for the talks is “Life Path” and there are ten guests bringing up several intriguing topics. Rossland Youth Week will be an eventful week with activities for youth and the community.

Rossland Youth Week

•Variety Show – RSS Auditorium May 1, 6:30 p.m. •The Rossland Youth Art Show – Rossland Art Gallery May 2 - 11. The opening Night Gala Friday, May 2, 7 p.m. •Graffiti Art Workshop – Rossglen Bike Park May 3-4, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. •The Seventh Annual U19 Film Festival – Rossland Miners’ Hall May 3, 7 p.m. •Free Bike Shuttles for Youth – Pick up at Warfield Community Centre to the Mining School May 4, 1-5 p.m. •Free Art of Movement by Rossland School of Motion – RSS Auditorium May 5, 6-9 p.m. •The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – Rossland Miners’ Hall May 6, 7 p.m. •RED Talks: Ideas Worth Shredding – Rossland Miners’ Hall May 7, 7 p.m.

Program Program Administrator Administrator The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) requires a qualified and dynamic Administrator and Program Coordinator to assist in the delivery and administration of RCAC programs and projects. This is a flexible part-time position of approximately 8-16 hrs per week to be delivered on a contract basis. The successful candidate should be familiar with the arts and culture in our area, have experience with non-profit organizations, and be willing to work some evenings and weekends. This contract position has flexible hours and is perfect for a self-motivated individual, who can work efficiently from a home office.

Join a free Me Inc. workshop in your community for the latest start-up tips. Launching a start-up? Maybe buying a business and running it? the Me inC. workshop, offered by the Basin Business Advisors Program, is designed to answer questions in a 2.5 hour period.

We will review: • industry insights, business and product types • trends and common entrepreneurial requirements, opportunities & much more! • best practices and insight into the entrepreneurial lifestyle • support resources and more...

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Thank You, City of Rossland Engineering and Operations Departments Emergency Weekend Crew • Mike Hinchcliffe • Mike Wert • Ryan Zanussi • Brady Zanussi • Parry LaFondEmergency Response Coordinator • Tom Drake • Don Williams • Wayne Laybourne • Jeff Pols • Jim Fike • Tony Jenkin

Deadline for receiving applications is Monday, May 26, 5:00pm

To all those who helped with the recent flood emergency at 1619 Spokane St., Rossland. Your quick responses and hard work helped save my house.

• Curtis Nichols • Carl Martin • Darrin Albo, Manager of Operations Night Shift • Lyle Frank • Marcel Lerger Also • Mayor Greg Granstrom • Leigh Adamson • Mike Barta – Village of Warfield • Larry Abenante- City of Trail • Patrick Gauvreau- City of Trail • Rob from Trowelex – generators & pumps rental • United Rentals- pump rental

• Lyle Simm Simm Excavating- equipment rental • DJM Contracting- equipment • Dennis Hughes- Hughes Contracting – Vactor rental • Ed Mayer Contracting • Dave Seaby – Fortis Gas Regional Fire Department • Terry Martin • Dan Derby Emergency Management Division in BC • Gundula Brigl • Linda Harfman • Steve Newton To each and everyone who helped

And thank you good people of Rossland: friends, neighbours and sidewalk foremen of all ages for your help and support. Sincerely, Daniel Wehrle

HAVE YOUR SAY We’re Listening PUBLIC HEARING

Monday May 12, 2014 7:00pm Council Chambers 1899 Columbia Ave

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PO Box 1179 Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0

For more information please visit our website: www.rosslandartscouncil.com If interested, please send your résumé and cover letter to: rosslandarts@gmail.com or mail to Rossland Council for Arts and Culture, P.O.Box 405, Rossland, BC, V0G 1Y0.

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PUBLIC HEARING City of Rossland Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 2567

What is Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 2567 about? The zoning amendment increases the maximum allowable size of a secondary suite from 70 sq metres(753 sq ft) to 90 sq metres(968 sq ft).

How will this affect me? The purpose of the bylaw is to increase the maximum allowable size of a secondary suite from 70 sq metres(753 sq ft) to 90 sq metres(968 sq ft) to be consistent with building code regulations and with those regulations in other communities.

How do I get more information? A copy of the proposed bylaw and relevant background documents may be inspected at the City of Rossland Office, 1899 Columbia Ave on regular working days from 9 am to 4pm, and also online at www.rossland.ca. Tracey Butler - Deputy CAO/Corporate Officer

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Rossglen Bike Park Revitalization Underway SUBMITTED Rossland News

Rossland’s Rossglen Bike Park is getting a facelift to reflect the changing desires of local mountain bike users. Rossglen has been a fixture for the biking community for the past eight

years but is in need of upgrades and expansion, and a group of volunteers are working with the City of Rossland to see that happen this summer. “The catalyst for the Rossglen Revitalization Project stemmed from the

desire to have a quality community pump track,” says volunteer organizer Mark Daugherty. “It was also recognized that the woodwork is starting to degrade and is in need of replacement, and the jumps need to be im-

proved for beginner to intermediate users. This compliments the expert jumps located at the Centennial Park.” In the short term, city workers are going to assess the wood features and remove those that are deemed

unsafe. Volunteers are beginning the park design process, which will be presented to Rossland City Council for approval. The intent of the park is to build beginner to intermediate features that will appeal to a broad range of moun-

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tain bike users. “The city welcomes the revitalization of Rossglen as in recent years it has seen a decrease in user visits,” says Robin Hethey of the Rossland Recreation Department. “It’s our goal to create a park that meets the current needs and desires of bikers but also ensure the safety of its users.” In addition to new wood features, the jump lines will be rebuilt with beginner and intermediate tabletop lines. The pump track, which is comprised of a loop of tight berms, rollers and features, will be built in phases as funding and volunteer hours are available. “Pump tracks are an great way to improve your bike handling skills while getting a workout,” says volunteer organizer Ryan Kuhn. “This will be a great addition to our trail and bike infrastructure, and is an excellent resource for local youth.” In addition, the large wall ride at the park is getting refurbished and will be utilized for a youth graffiti art project funded by the Youth Action Network (YAN). “A graffiti wall was

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‘The Greatest Threat to the B.C. Environment in our Lifetime’ This is the second of two columns addressing what I see as the greatest threat to the BC environment in our lifetime. The Alberta oil industry’s Northern Gateway plan is to export bitumen to Asia via tankers from the BC coast. Under no circumstances should we allow that to happen. A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline, together with the fish and wildlife that depend on it, for hundreds of years. My first column discussed the light oil spill by the Exxon Valdez and the terrible toll it took on the Alaskan habitat and fishery. It also gave proof that a bitumen spill would be far worse. A bitumen spill would be almost completely unrecoverable because it would sink and stay on the bottom of our seabed. The solution that is best for Canada is to build a refinery in Kitimat. I am promoting and backing this solution. It will convert the bitumen to very light fuels that would float and evaporate if ever spilled. There are other enormous benefits: • There will be a major reduction in greenhouse gases. We will use new cuttingedge Canadian technology in our refinery. It will be so clean that in combination with oilsands extraction there will be less CO2 than in the huge conventional oilfields and refineries of Iraq and Nigeria. In other words the Kitimat refinery will neutralize the extra greenhouse gases generated in Canada’s oilsands. This refinery will be built in Asia if not in Kitimat, and if so it will emit double the CO2 of our new design. This is the reason that Andrew Weaver

of the BC Green Party is in favour of a Canadian refinery. • An Asian refinery will also generate 100 train cars a day of very dirty coke (much fouler than BC coal) which will be subsequently burnt in the atmosphere to create power. The Kitimat refinery will not result in the production of any coke. As we all live on one planet, it is far better for the global environment to build this refinery in Canada. • Construction of the refinery will create 6,000 jobs in BC for five years. Operations at the refinery will result in more permanent jobs than any project has ever created in BC with approximately 3,000 direct jobs. These will be highly paid permanent jobs. These jobs will be available for the life of the refinery which should be in excess of 50 years. In addition there will be thousands of other jobs created in spinoff local petrochemical companies and in indirect employment throughout the province. • The Canadian and Provincial governments, local regional districts and municipalities, and many First Nations, will share in billions of new tax dollars each year. Unfortunately our Canadian oil companies are not interested in building a new major refinery. They are focused on extraction which is more profitable than refining. One of them challenged me to spearhead the refinery myself, so I am doing that. We have a solid business plan and as a consequence Chinese banks and other institutions are prepared to lend us most of the funds required to build the greenest and most efficient refinery in the world.

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company based in BC so it cannot shirk its legal liability if there ever is a spill at sea. Let me be up front about my biases. I am for creating thousands of good permanent jobs in BC. I am for creating billions of new tax dollars for government coffers. I am for reducing the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. I am for building an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for building a modern tanker fleet that carries only refined fuels that float and evaporate if spilled. I am against shipping bitumen in tankers. If you agree that we should not put bitumen in tankers please contact your local MP and say so. The Canadian government makes a decision on Northern Gateway next month. David Black

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The April 28 Rossland city council meeting featured a slim agenda, with the majority of the debate occurring over “information” items. Councillors Moore, Spearn and Fisher, along with Mayor Granstrom, just rounded out quorum for the evening. Seven Summits Centre for Learning Graduate Scholarship The Seven Summits Centre for Learning made a request of council for a scholarship for students graduating from the program. Councillor Spearn opened the discussion in support of the request, pointing out that two scholarships of $300 and $250 are provided to JL Crowe and it is important for the community to support local schooling. She went on to note that it is a growing program that allows parents to keep their children in Rossland. A value of $200 for one scholarship was suggested. Councillor Fisher disagreed, stating that the Seven Summits centre has only two students and the support would be greatly disproportional compared to the number of students at Crowe. Fisher’s own two children attend the Trail school and he attested to their contentment and success there. He felt that the size of the financial gift to

Seven Summits would be unfair, and voted against the resolution. Councillor Moore countered that it is important for parents and students to have choice in where education takes place, and that the school has become a huge draw for the community. She noted that the ski academy was highly successful and brought dozens of international students into Rossland. Mayor Granstrom, while abstaining from the vote, noted that supporting independent schools may be dangerous territory. Independent schools, he stated, draw funding away from public schooling, hurting the majority of the community’s children. He cautioned against encouraging people to send their children outside of the public schooling umbrella. After a vote of 2-1 in favour of the scholarship, Councillor Spearn sought to redirect funding blame away from the Seven Summits Centre for Learning. “It was the school board trustees who “shot themselves in the foot”, she stated, “by sending Grades 10-12 down the hill despite heated opposition from the community. In seeking $140,000, they incurred a loss of $750,000, and are the main reason funds are disappearing from the public school system in SD20.” She reiterated that having

K-12 options in Rossland is important for families staying in the city and for longterm sustainability. New Hotel at Red Mountain A motion to approve a development permit for the Red Mountain Hotel passed unanimously, with conditions about environmental sustainability and aesthetics imbedded in the resolution. The new hotel, a venture of Texan investors, is destined for the upper parking lot on Red Mountain. Councillor Spearn expressed concern over loss of parking space for skiers, to which staff replied that Red Mountain Resort, and not the hotel developer, would be responsible to meet those requirements based on the carrying capacity of the hill. The understanding appeared to be that new lots would be built across the highway from the current parking area. Roads and pedestrian pathways would also need to be reconfigured to allow vehicle access to the hotel and ensure skier access to the hill from lower lots. Councillor Spearn also wondered aloud if the placement of the hotel would create a divide between locals and urban vacationers, giving prime access to an “elite” consumer, but no further concerns were raised.

Castlegar man facing child porn charges Staff Castlegar News

Castlegar RCMP, in an April 24 press release have reported that a 68 year-old local man has been charged with a pair of child-porn related offences. Corporal Debbie Postnikoff ’s release lists counts of possession of child pornography, and making available child pornography, after police conducted a search of the man’s home on April 16. His first court appearance is scheduled for May 23, 2014 in Castlegar. “The man was arrested and later released on several conditions,” the press release describes, “which include not being allowed to possess any electronics that have the capability of accessing the internet, not to have communication with anyone under the age of 16 years-old, not to possess any pornographic material by electronic means, and not to have a functioning internet connection inside his home or access the internet anywhere.” The communication explains that police had become aware of the illegal activity thanks to information provided by the The BCIntegrated Child Exploitation Unit (BC-ICE) which is responsible for identifying and assisting child victims of sexual abuse, monitoring and prosecuting child pornography distributors and viewers. The unit uses online undercover officers to identify and apprehend those who target children on the internet for a sexual purpose. Police point out that files like this one serve as reminders that your activities on the Internet are monitored and that you cannot erase your mark.

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On Saturday night, the Rossland Arena was hopping as a West Kootenay Roller Derby double header descended upon the mountain town, including the homeopener bout for the Rossland Trail Roller Girls (RTRG). The RTRG were up against Castlegar’s Dam City Rollers, who turned up moustachioed and ready for battle. From early on it was apparent that the Rollers were bigger, faster and had more strategies in their playbook, leading by nearly two hundred points at the half. As the game wore on and fatigue set in, the Dam City lead continued to grow, and a few costly Jammer penalties sealed the fate of our local warriors. Despite battling until the final whistle, the RTRG were defeated by a score of 415 to 59. For those that have never witnessed the spectacle that is roller

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derby, it is so much more than a sporting event. Fans are clad in vibrant costumes, up-tempo music fills the arena throughout, punctuated by colour commentary that is… colourful. The players themselves sport fierce war paint, and take on fear-inspiring stage names like Slaughter Mouse and Lady MacDeath. As the raging battle ensues, otherwise benevolent women doctors, mothers, neighbours – unleash an animalistic ferocity and try to knock each other out of their skates. Roller derby’s origins go back all the way to the 1930s, but it was in the 70s that the sport took on its dazzling rock n’ roll persona. During that era, bouts were mainly scripted, much like televised wrestling, but during recent revivals derby has become a bona fide competition, celebrating speed, agility, cooperation and

physicality. There are five players from each team on the track at the beginning of each two-minute round (“jam”); four blockers and one jammer. The jammer is the player responsible for scoring points, and is marked by a large star on the helmet. The jammers begin behind the “pack” (eight weave their way through; the first jammer through is granted the privilege of being able to end the jam whenever she sees fit. From that point on, players circle the track and jammers try to skate past members of the opposing team, scoring one point for each successful pass, up to five points per circuit. The opposing team tries to block jammers using hips, buttocks and shoulders, which can result in spectacular collisions. There are a number of penalties in the game, including using elbows, pushing from behind, grabbing limbs, trip-

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blocked. The length of bridge which has 1939hundred feet away. car; requires a light to illuminate the March seen one fallen is about 150 feet with a 100-foot All small arms to be registered number on the rear of the car, so that April 1939 drop in the centre. An announcement has been issued theThe number seen at which a distance Cascade Opens to Traffi c May 1st featuremay of thebeincident, has by the Rossland police department to Th e Golden City’s most direct link of fi ft y feet; sent a shiver through the city, is the fact the effect that all small arms, including with the all points callsthefor thewas used by hundreds of revolvers andOkanagan pistols, mustand be registered that bridge westward will1 and be opened 1 this number of the between March July 1 ofMay this year. miners going to and from the mines. It Application for registering be that was the main thoroughfare to the mines year. Comparative dates may show machine to be made the local and a great the at5000 footpolice pass office. is open at least printed ondeal the of traffic passed over the structure. three weeks earlier this year than last. face of the two Northern world welcomes spring At one time on the day of the acciEarlier Spring Season Seen In front lamps. Today is the day when the northern dent there were three sleighs, heavilyMountains As Th e Tourist Traffi c InBoth the loaded with ore, besides foot passengers world throws open its door to spring. creases Provincial Act on it. British Columbia’s southern and and City Geographically speaking, it is the day Thethe bridge was built 16-and-a-half most central port equinox: of entry,the immedithat marks the spring day years by J.C. Corbin of the Spokane Bylawagorequire hours sunlight experienced equal those a Falls and Northern atelythe south ofof Rossland, all vehicles to Railway, on account when darkness. of their in Rossland, which thebus.of 300 per cent jump in incoming tourturn toproperty the left 1939 Rossland-Trail But it is more than that around bridge floor was put on when served. meetingA new Rossland Historical Museum & ist passenger lists during the month the bridge two years ago and it has been Rossland as warm sunlight burrows into of March this year, as compared to other vehicles. Archives month old drifts and the hills take on a regularly inspected. March 1938. look. ThIte has Rossland softer expectant been suggested that the most Eleven hundred and fifty-nine inCity Bylaw makes it necessary for drivfeasible way to rebuild the bridge was coming travelers ersarrange of carswith to sound a whistle or horn First bicycle tourists were appearlisted on theduring aveto the Consolidated the month; they made entrance in 408 Company to run their waste rock by ap- nue when rounding corners and when As another sure sign of means of anpedestrians. aerial tram into gulch, of all kinds. In spring, Marchthe 1938 a proaching Thethe bylaw calls vehicles her first 1939 bicycle leaving culvertlights for the below. total ofCity 372saw passengers made entrance for twoawhite oncreek the front of the Golden get underway on Columbia the meantime, pedestrians might in 155 vehicles. At the same time, carInthat will throw light so that objects traffic Avenue. use the Great Northern railway bridge slightly more people left the province may be clearly seen one hundred feet As yet there is only a narrow bit of by arrangements with the company and than entered during the early spring away. Th e bylaw requires a red light hard surfacing showing up, but it seems the building of a footpath. month of both years. onVehicular the rear traffic of theiscar capable of being to be enough just to test the wheels out crossing by the lit-

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1 2003 NFL rushing leader __ Lewis 6 “Shoot!” 10 Pro-prohibition org. 14 Olds compact 15 EKTORP sofa seller 16 1800s law-enforcement family name 17 Canadian city named for a historic battle site 20 Mom, to auntie 21 Merits 22 John who sang “Daniel” 23 “Star Trek” spinoff, briefly 24 Part of a stable diet? 25 Stressed commuter’s complaint 34 Horned beast 35 Main points 36 Statesman Hammarskjöld 37 Fine things? 38 Scrabble squares 39 Kitchen timer sound 40 Acting as 41 Canonized fifth-cen. pope 42 Best 43 “Enough kid stuff!” 46 Narc’s find 47 “Yo!” 48 Rouge target

51 Orbiting phenomenon 54 Red leader 57 Totally lacks pep 60 “The Time Machine” race 61 Move like a monarch 62 Bare 63 Peel 64 Dieter’s calculation 65 Triatomic gas in a thinning layer ... and, symbolically, what appears in this puzzle’s four longest answers

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1 Benchley thriller 2 Jai __ 3 Team with a skyline in its logo 4 Is for two? 5 Medici known as “the Magnificent” 6 Gucci rival 7 Senegalese-American rapper 8 Popular ‘20s cars 9 Indian bread 10 Prosperity 11 Market vehicle 12 Jazz combo, often 13 Informed about 18 Vacación destination

19 Milk sources 23 Salon goals 24 Giant Mel et al. 25 Samarra native 26 Finger-tapping sound 27 Pull a chair up to 28 Disney’s “Darby __ and the Little People” 29 Pie-eyed 30 Make __: employ 31 Mrs. Roosevelt 32 “Amazing” illusionist 33 Pop-up frozen fare 38 Firebird option 39 Tax 41 Successful, in slang

42 Pizzeria herb 44 “Let’s see what you got!” 45 “Yikes!” 48 Café sign word 49 Healthy 50 Those, in Tijuana 51 “J’accuse” author 52 Throw out 53 Sch. research papers 54 Shortfin or longfin predator 55 Architect William Van __ 56 Merrie __ England 58 Broadway opening? 59 Toon spinner

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