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Incident commander Glen Burgess addresses a public meeting at the former A.I. Collinson school Wednesday evening on the DuhamelSitkum creek fire burning on the North Shore of Kootenay Lake. Greg Nesteroff photo
GREG NESTEROFF Nelson Star A 450-hectare fire burning on the North Shore of Kootenay Lake is about 20 per cent contained along the south flank, a public meeting heard Wednesday night. Incident commander Glen Burgess, whose team took over Tuesday morning, told about 200 people gathered at école des Sentiers-alpins (the former A.I. Collinson school) that the fire is an “extremely high priority” for the BC Wildfire Service. “We are getting the resources we need to put our plan in
place and contain the fire,” he said, noting that about 90 firefighters are at work on the blaze — including many from the Nelson area — along with 15 support staff, three helicopters, and nine pieces of heavy equipment. “We are making excellent progress.” Burgess said firefighters have concentrated on the fire’s southern flank directly above homes as well as the east flank up to Sitkum Creek, and are starting to move ground crews to the west into Duhamel Creek. Only when they feel secure about those areas will they worry
about the other side of the fire. “Right now it’s about the homes,” he said. “We won’t expend energy on the backside.” Burgess explained that his team, one of six in the province, was called into remove the burden off local staff because it had crown beyond their capacity to handle. About 350 homes remain on evacuation alert, but there is no immediate threat to residents. In the event of an evacuation, residents would be asked to report to either the Nelson and
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WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star f you’ve lived in Nelson for any length of time, chances are you’ve glimpsed the flamboyant orange electric-assisted tricycle David Beringer uses to deliver bread. “It’s really hard on cars to go short distances, and it creates a lot of pollution. Any mechanic will tell you it qualifies as severe use,” said Beringer, who purchased the vehicle in May 2013. “This was a way to get an electric vehicle, get some exercise and also lower my carbon footprint.” Beringer said purchasing the electric-assisted tricycle was the fulfillment of a multi-year ambition. “People love it. It’s funnylooking like a VW van or bug. It’s friendly, and not intimidating but not wimpy either. I mean, I’m not usually an outgoing kid guy but when the kids at South Nelson School see me going by they run over to the fence and go crazy waving.” The ELF — which stands for Electric Light Fun — was invented by Organic Transit in
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Environmental awakening Beringer had his first environmental awakening over the course of a few months in the early summer of 1986. He was living in southern Germany, on the border of Switzerland, when he heard news of Chernobyl’s nuclear meltdown. As he watched the fallout, with the German, Swiss and Austrian governments scrambling to figure out how to respond, he realized none had the answers. “I quickly became aware that governments did not have the
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The future of electric transportation Beringer owns two businesses with Sanderson — Soups in Season and the Uphill Bakery. He said the ELF has helped both move towards a sustainable fu-
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BILL METCALFE Nelson Star ebecca Bracewell is travelling in uncharted territory. The 17-year-old Nelsonite is a classical accordionist, one of only a handful in the country and one of the best. And although it is almost unheard of for an accordionist to solo with a symphony orchestra, she will be doing just that with the Victoria Symphony on Aug. 2. At the world accordion championships in 2013, Bracewell was named the best accordionist under 18 in Canada. Each year Victoria’s Symphony Splash event auditions youth soloists and chooses two to perform with the Victoria Symphony on a floating stage in the Victoria harbour for tens of thousands of people. This year Bracewell will be one of those soloists. She says the accordion is normally associated with various kinds of folk music but it is gradually making its way into classical and other kinds of music.
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Rebecca Bracewell in the front yard of her parents’ home in Nelson. Her accordion teacher in Victoria says she is seen as a role model by young accordionists across the country. Bill Metcalfe photo
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“Accordion is slowly coming back and it is getting cooler,” she says. Bracewell plays a special kind of accordion called a Bayan, developed in Russia in the early part of the 20th century. “Most traditional accordions only have chords on the left hand, but mine has an entire keyboard, and that means I can play anything a piano can play.” She started playing piano at age seven. At 14, feeling uninspired, she gave it up. “I decided I really like music but piano was not what I wanted, so I started playing the accordion. It felt more like me. It was different. No one I know plays it, so it was the uniqueness, and it is so versatile — you can play any kind of music with it.” Last year Bracewell moved to Victoria to attend school so she could study with the internationally recognized accordionist Jelena Milojevic, one of the few classical accordion teachers in Canada. “I live with her and her husband and three kids. She is really young and cool, and very un-music-teacher-like, but she is very good at teaching. Outside of practice she is a friend.”
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Frequency and intensity of forest fires spiking: report According to climate projections, West Kootenay can expect fire numbers to quadruple by 2020s
An aerial view of the fire burning over the North Shore of Kootenay Lake.
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Continued from page 1 District Community Complex or the Balfour hall, the meeting heard. Burgess said he would likely recommend lifting the evacuation alert once the fire’s east and west flanks are partly contained, but couldn’t guess when that might happen. With the progress they have been making, he expected to have “a pretty good level of containment” in 10 days or so. However, it will require 25 to 30 mm of rain to douse the flames. The forecast calls for a chance of showers tomorrow. When the floor was opened to questions, one resident suggested that crews were not swift enough in tackling the fire from the air after it flared up Saturday, but fire information officer Jordan Turner called the fire
a “sleeping giant” and insisted air tankers moved in as soon as it made sense to do so. In response to another question, Burgess said they are contemplating dropping fire retardant using a helicopter rather than a plane, but recognize it is a “sensitive issue” due to domestic watersheds in the area. Others asked why certain areas, particularly Lower Six Mile Road, have not been included in the evacuation alert, but an answer wasn’t immediately available. Regional fire chief Terry Swan said the potential evacuation area is determined based on advice from the Southeast Fire Centre. A group of firefighters received a round of applause when they entered the room, and there were further cheers for search and rescue and other emergency groups.
Will Johnson Nelson Star Two local residents are warning the West Kootenay could be reduced to grasslands by the 2080s due to the growing number of forest fires and intense weather events caused by climate disruption. According to the report Climate Change and Area Burned: Projections for the West Kootenay, we can expect quadruple to quintuple the average area burned by forest fires within the next half decade. “By the time you get to the 2050s the projections are off the chart. It scares the hell out of me. The only good part of the story is I’ll be gone by then,” said Nelson’s Greg Utzig, one of the report’s authors, who is a conservation ecologist and land use planning consultant. The report, funded by the British Columbia Future Forest Ecosystem Council, explores the implications of climate change on the forests of the West Kootenay. “The results from the fire analyses for the south subregion are theoretically consistent with climate envelope shift projections that include a substantial area of drier fire resistant forest types, including grassland climate envelopes for the lowest elevations of the south,” the report reads. “This would indicate a potential disturbance regime shift in
Some climate scientists believe this area will experience a spike in forest fires and extreme weather events as the effects of climate change intensify. Will Johnson photo
the longer term from infrequent high intensity stand-replacing fires to frequent low intensity fires more associated with grasslands and open forests.” Utzig summed this up the following way: “The amount of precipitation is going to increase, but the trick is the major portion will be in the winter. Meanwhile the summers are getting drier and hotter. And a larger percentage of the winter precipitation will come as rain rather than snow.” He called this a “worst possible scenario” for forest fires. North Shore climate scien-
tist Dr. Mel Reasoner agreed with Utzig, warning the Pacific Northwest may experience a heat wave akin to the one that killed thousands in Europe in 2003 and Moscow in 2010. “Look at a climate map of those years and there was a big red blob over Europe. What’s happening is the frequency of those big red blobs is increasing significantly, and this year there’s a big red blob over western North America.” Reasoner said the events were like “Hiroshima in magnitude” and the “morgues were overflowing.” Utzig noted the Kootenays had very few large forest fires in latter half of the 20th century — following a spike in the 1930s — but the effects of climate change are beginning to be seen. “If you look at the graphs, it looks pretty bad in the 1930s but that’s small compared to what it’s going to look like in the 2050s.” He said the fact they’re anticipating trees will be burned to the ground every two to 20 years means the area will no longer be able to support forests. “If you think the Okanagan looks like grasslands, that’s nothing compared to what this will look like. As far as the eye can see, there will be no trees in the valley bottoms.” To download the report visit kootenayresilience.org.
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Wilks rejects Stetski’s all-candidates challenge BILL METCALFE Nelson Star Kootenay Columbia NDP candidate Wayne Stetski says in the 2011 federal election, Conservative MP David Wilks did not attend all-candidates meetings in Kimberley, Creston, Revelstoke, Invermere, or Cranbrook, amounting to a 43 per cent attendance rate. In an email to the other three parties and the media, he is challenging Wilks to do better this time around, and attend meetings in the above-named communities as well as Fernie, Golden and Nelson. (Nelson will join the Kootenay Columbia riding in the fall election as a result of riding redistribution.) “He needs to show respect for the people,” Stetski told the Star. “All-candidates meetings provide an opportunity for the public to see all of the candidates at once.” Wilks, also contacted by the Star, responded: “The NDP candidate can regurgitate is-
Kootenay-Columbia Conservative MP David Wilks (left) says he’s not interested in a proposal to coordinate dates for all-candidates meetings as proposed by the NDP’s Wayne Stetski (right). sues from 2011 if he likes. I am living in 2015 and will continue to work for the constituency as I have for the past four years and will not concern myself with what happened then.” Stetski has proposed the parties form a committee consisting of a campaign worker from each party that would coordinate the dates of all candidates meetings in eight communities to ensure
everyone can attend. Wilks says he’s not interested. “If the NDP candidate wishes to concern himself with the debate schedule he can do that,” he said. “My focus is to serve my constituents.” Asked about the usefulness of all-candidates meetings, Wilks said “For the most part, those that come to all-candidates forums have made up their minds
who they are voting for, and as a result, the candidates normally know who is coming to the mic, what the question will be, and who it is directed toward. That is what you can expect from the all-candidates forums.” Liberal candidate Don Johnson’s campaign office has responded to Stetski with an email stating “We welcome this request by the NDP to coordinate debates. We hope that a timetable can be arranged that will accommodate the Conservative candidate’s schedule.” Green Party candidate Bill Green also accepted the invitation to work collaboratively to organize dates for the meetings. He said there should be meetings in 11 communities — including Salmo, Kaslo, and the East Shore of Kootenay Lake (Gray Creek or Crawford Bay) to ensure coverage of the riding. He said that he participated in six of seven forums in 2011, missing only the one in Invermere.
Rotary honours youth camp leader Nelsonite Dave Douglas involved with leadership camp for over three decades
WILL Johnson Nelson Star Dave Douglas has spent over three decades organizing week-long leadership camps for youth, and though he’s been recognized with multiple awards for his work, it’s spending time with the kids that keeps him coming back. “It’s nice to be recognized,” said Douglas, who received the Service Above Self award at a recent Rotary conference. “But I would do this for no recognition and no payment whatsoever. It’s all about the kids.” This year Douglas is hosting an annual leadership camp at Selkirk College which runs through Saturday. He has 51 students attending. His charges, who range in age from 18 to 25, have already graduated high school and are now benefiting from Rotary’s programming and Douglas’ tutelage. But even more can benefit from his expertise, because he’s written a book called Leading the Way which is already on its third printing.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2015 Nelson Star
Editorial
Adapting to climate change means water management
People power keeps Jumbo wild
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There is an obvious adaptation to climate change we need to have started “yesterday.” Aside from comments about 38 degrees in May of this record-breaking 2015 and the need to put a war effort equivalent effort into slowing down global warming (the World Meteorological Association announced in 2012 that for the previous decade we had already been experiencing 200-year events every 10 years), the most obvious critical adaptation we need to make is to store water uphill during the rainy season in each watershed. We thus would have a chance to respond to the kind of extreme “organized crown” fires (which skip fire breaks) that are occurring if we had these widespread reservoirs and also to deal with the other implications of drought. Ideally water licensees (and municipalities) would get together with support from downstream power generators, government and endowments like the Columbia Basin Trust (in our region) for soft costs (design costs for: hydrology/engineering, including assessing rain event flood/landslide risks,in planning these reservoirs, and also organizational development expertise to help watershed licensees organize themselves to manage these). We would then be able to have water at high pressure and volume to douse vulnerable public and private infrastructure as well as have water for domestic use, agriculture, to maintain streamflows as habitat and presumably this would also benefit downstream power generators during the high value season for their power as there would tend to be more preserved streamflows. Andre C. Piver, MD Procter
fter 25 years, our region received some very good news: Jumbo Glacier Resort lost its environmental certificate that allowed it to build a mega resort on Jumbo Glacier. The Kootenays responded with a big cheer. We had been clear for more than two decades that this proposed resort was a bad idea and unwanted. It’s not that we didn’t like the resort because we have a problem with skiing or snowboarding. The Kootenays have one of the highest concentrations of ski resorts and back country operations in North America. We love to ski! I’m a snowboarder and most of my friends can be found on the hill when the snow flies. So we know a good ski resort from a bad one, and Jumbo Glacier Resort was destined to be a bad one. We certainly don’t have a problem with economic development. Kootenay people are amazing entrepreneurs, ever expanding the tourism industry and all the other industries that make us such a special part of the world. But not everything is going to fit in our economic strategy, and Jumbo Glacier Resort didn’t fit. We believe it imperative that we protect our environment for generations to come. In an era of climate change, skiing on a glacier just doesn’t make sense. We need it to provide clean fresh water to drink, irrigate farms, stock our lakes, and generate carbon-free electricity. Along with protecting our water sources, we protect our wildlife, and the Jumbo Valley is home to a genetically important grizzly bear population as well as many other species who would have been negatively impacted by a resort.
Connecting the dots on climate change
It seems that climate change has arrived in Nelson in the guise of a very hot, dry spring, a rogue wind storm last week, and a forest fire this week. It would be helpful if media reports connected the dots from the conditions we are experiencing locally to the larger issue of global climate change. The conditions we are experiencing are similar, though not as severe as those experienced in recent years in Australia (floods and fires), the
Philippines (huge typhoons), and the US (Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy). We all need to start talking about climate change, as a first step to taking action. Recent prophetic writings by Naomi Klein and Pope Francis explain that our fossil-fuel driven, growth at any cost economy is neither sustainable nor moral. We must work together to develop a renewable en-
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View from the Leg We also know that building respectful relationships with First Nations is the way forward. Reconciliation will never happen if governments and communities do not recognize and value the spiritual traditions and culture of aboriginal peoples. The Ktunaxa name for Jumbo is Qat’muk. It is home of the grizzly bear spirit, and is a sacred place in their traditions. Despite aboriginal peoples’ long experiences of being oppressed, beaten, denigrated and mocked for sharing their traditions, the Ktunaxa gathered their courage to let the world know what Qat’muk meant to them and that a resort there would be devastating. Words cannot express the honour it has been to bring these voices to the legislature and pressure the Liberal government to keep Jumbo wild. They ignored us in 2004 when they allowed the resort proponents to proceed by issuing the necessary environmental certificate. They ignored us in 2009 when they automatically renewed the certificate. ergy economy that meets our needs on a finite planet. We need to make changes in every area of our lives by making our homes and workplaces energy efficient, driving less, shopping locally, and vacationing close to home. But all of this is a drop in the bucket if we don’t have leaders at all levels of government who factor climate change into every decision and make the policy changes that
They ignored us when they came up with the crazy scheme of setting up and funding a fake town to issue permits for the resort. But we couldn’t be ignored forever. Major investors stayed away. The proponent failed. We never stopped. And it made the difference. The proponents now say they might come back with a new design that won’t require an environmental certificate to proceed. I doubt they have the financial backing to do this, but even if they do, they would do better to read the law in full and consider it. The law is clear that the minister may designate any project for an environmental review, particularly if there are potential “adverse environmental, economic, social, heritage, or health effect” from the proposal. Knowing what we know about the potential for adverse effects in all of these criteria, it is wishful thinking to suggest that a smaller scale resort for this area wouldn’t require an environmental assessment. With that it mind, the proponents might want to reconsider their stubbornness, cut their losses and move on because the Kootenays will keep Jumbo wild. We will continue to sign petitions, put bumper stickers on cars, attend rallies, write letters, donate, go to court, elect representative who work to keep Jumbo wild, and talk to other people about Jumbo if that’s what it takes. But friends, I think we can celebrate the amazing work we have done and the results we have achieved. Jumbo is wild and it is going to stay that way.
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Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall writes here once a month. will contribute to a renewable energy economy. Our next opportunity to choose our leaders is the federal election scheduled for Oct. 19. Each of us must ask candidates and parties how they plan to deal with climate change. And everyone, who is qualified to vote, must get out and vote. A failure to vote is a vote for a continuation of the Harper government’s stance of
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We can all feel overwhelmed in the face of what global warming portends for ourselves and our planet. It is so refreshing then to witness the response of individuals, organizations and governments tackling the issue boldly and creatively. We don’t hear enough about this. One of the most exciting ventures that deserves more notice is the recent alliance between two organizations, the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Carbon War Room. This alliance combines cuttingedge technological prowess with entrepreneurial expertise into a powerful engine for creating and financing the emerging low-carbon economy. It’s this kind of dynamic private-sector partnership that will lead the way in implementing effective solutions to global warming. Governments are stepping up too. During 1980–2009, for example, the Danish economy grew by two-thirds, while carbon emissions fell 21 per cent. The conservative Danish government has adopted a virtually selffinancing strategy to get completely off fossil fuels by 2050 by further boosting efficiency and switching to renewables, which already account for 36 per cent of their electric generation. Europe as a whole is going in the same direction and the governments of Japan and China are moving that way as well. These are but a few examples. History shows that the cauldron of adversity and challenge often forges humanity’s most creative, audacious, and profound responses. No challenge has perhaps been greater than global warming; it is heartening to see some of our best and brightest leading us into a different and better future. Paul Campbell Kaslo
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HUGS: To street sweepers, tree trimmers and hydro workers for cleaning up after the storm! HUGS: To the City of Nelson workers on the great clean up at the park. You wouldn’t even know the mess Mother Nature made. HUGS: To the drivers who pass me on my bicycle without blowing your horn or flipping me the bird. Thanks for your patience! HUGS: Big tree hugs to the trail crews that following the big storm very quickly cleared the big trees that littered the bike trail from the cemetery to the Rails to Trails path. SLUGS: To the slugger who orders bikes to ride on the sidewalk. Not only is it illegal, it can be dangerous for pedestrians (and cyclists too). To avoid close calls, s l o w d o w n. SLUGS: To the man who frequently brushes his dog and leaves clumps of fur at a picnic table on the dog walk. Please pick up that unsightly mess. The garbage can is right there! SLUGS: To those (especially retirees who can do it anytime) doing yard work with loud machines on weekend mornings – especially Sundays! Can we not have at least ONE day of peace? SLUGS: To the family with a sad looking, limping and very unkempt dog who is in a fenced-in area with so much clutter the poor thing hardly has room to move around. Very sad — shame on you. HUGS: A great big hug to the person who turned
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my wallet in to the customer service desk at a local supermarket. It’s people like you who make Nelson such a great place to live. Thank you so much. SLUGS: To the slug who believes cyclists should ride on the sidewalk while crossing the orange bridge. Riding on the sidewalk is illegal. Sidewalks are for pedestrians. Cyclists and cars share the road. Try waiting for a safe time to pass and it won’t be so scary. HUGS: Sad hugs going to the man who ran over our cat last week. Thank you for stopping, and telling us. We know it wasn’t your fault, and greatly appreciate you telling us, rather than just leaving her there. It actually helped our daughter’s grief, to know that you cared enough to stop. We are sorry for the pain it caused you, too. SLUGS: To all the bridge designers who failed to consider cyclists and pedestrians. Taghum (one sidewalk with terrible access points); Dam Inn (no room at all; death awaits!); Slocan River on Hwy 3A (narrow, 12” for cyclists). With vehicles blasting past at more than 80 km/h, narrow bridges are a danger to cyclists and other motorists as well. Let’s see some proactive changes before something terrible happens!! HUGS: To the young person working at the local video store who helped me pick the perfect movie for Father’s Day. I asked for a funny, light-hearted movie similar to Waking Ned Devine and she immediately suggested a brilliant, sweet and funny Canadian movie called The Grand Seduction. Everybody in the family loved it… the adults, the younger one and the preteen. From this experience I was able to realize the value of a local video store over an online service.
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Common name: Summer Sweet Botanical Names: Clethra alnifolia In a recent conversation (actually we were text messaging – I’m so with it!) with a college, she mentioned a few plants that are great for our landscape but were quite underrated and not selected enough. After our discussion I thought to high light some of them in the Plant of the Week articles. I chose to start with the Clethra, most commonly called the Summer Sweet, because it is such a superb shrub with a lot going for it. It has attractive bottle-brush shaped blossoms, it can tolerate shade or sun, it likes moist soils, it attracts butterflies, is deer proof and it blooms from late July to September. Best of all is its fragrance. When it is in bloom you can smell it from 50 feet away! It is native
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Friday, July 10, 2015 Nelson Star
Opinion
Making sense out of extreme weather Wildfires are burning across BC and escalating weather events continue to threaten the Kootenays. Now what?
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ast week I took my partner Darby out for dinner to celebrate our four-year anniversary. It was a clear Monday evening — the sky baby blue and cloudless — and we were halfway through our first drink when the air suddenly seemed charged with an icy electricity. Tree limbs overhead rustled frenetically, then we heard rumbling in the distance. From above the trees we could see a brown-grey cloud working its way east, consuming the landscape like a scene out of Mad Max: Fury Road. Within moments we were hit with a Noah-style deluge. “Dust storm coming from Castlegar!” our waitress shouted, panicked, as she tried to keep her dress from flapping up in the wind. “We need everyone inside now.” As we retreated with our utensils and half-consumed appetizer, fat pellets of screaming rain barraged the patio, crumpling the umbrellas and sending the plastic chairs bumping along the paving stones. Inside we watched as skeletal treedetritus was hurled from the sky and cringed as the windows tinkled with the sound of flying debris. Unknown to me at the time, several trees in Lakeside and Gyro Parks were being wrenched from the earth and tossed to the ground while residents fled for cover. Nearby mountain bike trails had been obliterated, and hundreds of insurance claims came flooding in for damaged houses and vehicles. “The bridge was screaming,” city councillor Anna Purcell said, while describing the scene at Lakeside. Those words have niggled in my mind ever since.
one may be 100 per cent attributed to steroids.” The same is true of weather events in the Kootenays, he says. “What you can say is the frequency of these events is increasing and that’s due to climate change.” Reasoner pointed out the mean temperature for Kaslo in June — which is indicative of the general trend in the Kootenays — was 20.5 degrees Celsius, nearly a six degree jump from the 20th century’s mean temperature of 14.9. He said the new mean temperature is above the top of the former bell curve. “That in itself if alarming, and it’s precisely what our model projections have been telling us for decades.”
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Kootenay Goon Things are getting biblical If you need any more proof that extreme weather events have taken on a biblical magnitude, look no further than the recently released encyclical from Pope Francis, which prompted a cross-community show of bell-ringing solidarity last week. Francis is urging humanity to take extreme measures to ameliorate the intensifying situation. “The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life,” he wrote in Laudato Si. Francis was on my mind five days after the tree-toppling storm, as I wound down Highway 3A in the direction of the Six Mile wildfire. When I first caught sight of it, I felt like Frodo Baggins gazing horrified into the bowels of Mount Doom. The orange inferno reminded me of
Wildlife photographer Jim Lawrence captured this stunning image of the treetoppling dust and lightning storm that swept through the Kootenays last week. Jim Lawrence photo
some CGI spectacle, and later sixyear-old onlooker Oz Meeker agreed. “It looks like a volcano,” he said. When I met Bob Tremblay he was sitting in the beautifully manicured terrace of his backyard in a lawn chair. Approximately two kilometres uphill he watched as the flames descended the slope towards him. It was an eerie sight, one I won’t soon forget, seeing him alone in the shadows and surrounded by the meagre water-spitting of five or six sprinklers.
The top of the bell curve Climate scientist Mel Reasoner, who lives on the North Shore, has been trying to raise the alarm about the increasing frequency and intensi-
ty of weather events since the 1980s. “All the projections say we’re going to have warmer, drier, longer summers. And that’s going to translate into worse fire seasons,” he said. “With individual extreme events, it’s hard to hang a number on the percentage you can assign as far as whether it’s due to climate change because you have a whole bunch of natural variability sometimes working together in opposite directions.” The analogy he likes to use involves a steroid-using heavy hitter. “His batting average wouldn’t be going up if he wasn’t using steroids. He’s the leading batter and he knocks home runs out of the park, and each home run might have nothing to do with steroids. Maybe he just got everything right. But then another
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Since reading This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein and attending her sold-out Castlegar show, I feel like I’m becoming slowly radicalized and on the verge of becoming a fullout environmental activist. Talking to people living under the evacuation alert of the Sitkum/ Duhamel fire, families who are trying to decide what to bring along when they flee, I’m realizing this stuff isn’t hypothetical anymore. It couldn’t be closer to home — I can literally see the smoke from my porch under Elephant Mountain. I’m not the only one who feels this way. “I’ve always considered Nelson to be the perfect place to bunker down and ride out the apocalypse,” wrote Nelson resident Stevland Ambrose online. “But this week I am starting to reconsider.”
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Community Wild & Wacky Summer Wednesdays at the Nelson Public Library begins next week. Drop in on July 15, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. For youth going in to Grade 7 and up. Art, games, challenges, good books, snacks, prizes and it’s free! FMI contact Joanne at jharris@nelson.ca or 250-505-5683. Check the library website for more details.
Weekly Events The Kootenay Shambhala Meditation Centre (Tibetan Buddhist Lineage) offers free introductory meditation instruction every Monday night at 7 p.m. Teachings, a talk or discussion group and tea follows the meditation session. Public sitting times are Tuesdays 7 to 8 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays noon to 1 p.m., and Sundays 9 a.m. to noon. For information go to nelson.shambhala.org or email nelsonbuddha@gmail.com. Community Threads holds a fibre craftthemed project every Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Nelson and District Women’s Centre, 420 Mill St. Knit a sock, crochet a cap, sew a hem, spin some yarn, knit a scarf, hook a rug, and make a friend. Call Tira at 250-505-0698 or email tirab@ uniserve.com.
Join community yoga at the youth centre every Wednesday. Girls and women all levels practice from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. A fun evening practice at 6 to 7:15 p.m. for anyone to open up and stretch. For all ages: teens and 19-plus. Pay what you can. Contact Ursula at ursulatwiss@gmail.com. Alcoholics Anonymous holds 14 one-hour meetings weekly in Nelson, at 717A Vernon St. (in the Cellar downstairs), including early morning, noon hour, and evening meetings on specific days. Call 250-352-3391 or pick up a complete list at the Cellar.
Workshops Attention 10 to 16 year old scientists! Kootenay Nature Investigator is at Kokanee Creek Provincial Park every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in July and August. Explore with a naturalist, aboriginal educator, and an artist. Learn about tracking, botany, keeping a field journal. For more info or register, visit kokaneevisitorcentre.org.
Announcements Donations for the Unist’ot’en Pipeline Blockade Camp. The Unist’ot’en are an Indigenous grassroots resistance community near Smithers. Activists from the Kootenays are travelling to the camp in early July to deliver
goods and support. These volunteers are collecting requested items, including kitchen-ware, preserves, grains and produce. For donating specifics, call 250-551-7774. For their wish list, go to: forestaction.wikidot. com/wishlist or unistotencamp.com. Royal Canadian Legion Branch #51 invites guests to enjoy billiards, snooker, shuffleboard, big-screen television for sports, barbecues, monthly celebrations, beverage room, darts (Wednesdays 7:30 p.m.), meat draws and karaoke (Saturdays, 3:30 p.m.) and cribbage (Sundays 1 p.m.). Call for upcoming jam sessions. Info: rclbr51@telus. net or 250-352-7727/250-352-6464. Nelson Chess Club Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nelson Seniors Association (next to the Civic Centre), 717 Vernon St. All ages and levels are welcome. It’s free. The Young Women’s Peace Leadership Camp, for 15 to 35 year olds, runs Aug. 24 to 28 near Nelson. Participants explore possibilities for careers and activism in a beautiful environment. Contact and registration info: peacecampnelson@gmail.com, or call Madelyn MacKay at 250-505-4122.
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Djembe drum circle at Lakeside Park near the greenhouse on Mondays at 7 p.m.
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Patio Sessions with Jimmy Lewis followed by Friday Night Live Open Jam hosted by Danny DeVillo, Jimmy Lewis, Patrick Bonin & Marty Carter. Enjoy a veggie burger for $10.
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The Royal presents Rossland’s finest rock & rollers, live & all fired up! Geoff Ross Dizzy Spell & John Lees Hooker. Show starts at 9:30pm and there will be a $10 cover. Classic Poutine for only $5.00!
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and they’re playing in Nelson as part of a crossprovince tour. Tickets are $5 to $10 sliding scale. For more information visit textureandlight.ca.
Tonight at 8 p.m. Sofiella Watt and the Huckleberry Bandits will celebrate the local release of their hot-off-the-press new EP. The show will be at the Ymir Schoolhouse. Doors will open at 8 p.m. with the music beginning at 8:30 p.m. from guest performers. Tickets are $10 and children under 12 are free.
On Thursday, July 16 Nelson musician James Lamb is hosting Midsummer Opry: a folk’n extravaganza at the Royal on Baker. Featuring Jenny Ritter, Twin Bandit, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald and David Vertesi, as well as an opening set by Lamb. Doors at 8 p.m. and show will be over by 11 p.m. Tickets are $10.
Nelson’s own Led Zeppelin tribute band Heavy Airship make their Spiritbar debut on Saturday. Doors open at 9 p.m. and Andrew Parkhouse and the Magpies will kick it off at 10 p.m. Advance tickets are $10 and are available now from the Hume Hotel.
movies The Nelson Civic Theatre presents the animated kids’ movie Inside Out starting tonight at 7 p.m. Directed by Pete Docter and rated G, the movie follows young Riley after she’s uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco. Her emotions — Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness — conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. It will screen on July 11 and 12 and 14 at 7 p.m., July 12 and 14 at 4 p.m. and July 13 at 11 a.m. For more information visit civictheatre.ca.
Riondel-raised Baba Brinkman is bringing his comedic rap concert to the Civic Theatre on July 13 at 7 p.m. The Rap Guide to Religion traces the roots of faith from tribal animism to radical Islam to Justin Bieber thanking god at the MTV Teen Choice Awards. For more information visit bababrinkman.com or civictheatre.ca.
Starbelly Jam, an annual outdoor music festival held in Crawford Bay, runs from July 17 to 19. The music choices are soulfully eclectic, and will include funk, world music, rock, hip hop, reggae, blues, bluegrass, folk and other acts harder to define. There will be activities for family and children, and children under the age of 13 are free with an adult. Performers include Aidan Knight, DJ Rippel, Slova Doval’s DanceFusion, Sofiella Watt and the Huckleberry Bandits, Shred Kelly and more. The Star’s contest code word for Starbelly Jam: Muppet. For more information visit starbellyjam.com.
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On Saturday, Bloom Night Club presents Wallis of the Pagoda Stage family and Lady Vic,
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Illustrator Amber Santos unveiled The Town of Nothing at the Nelson Public Library on Tuesday night along with author K.L. Kivi. See full story on page 11. Will Johnson photo who was recently nominated for Best Electronic Artist at the Kootenay Music Awards. Wallis is one of the founding members of the Bearded House Mafia. Their mission is to spread the highest calibre of house music near and far — just up the valley, out to the coast, and beyond the ocean.The show begins at 10 p.m. For more information visit Bloom Nightclub on Facebook. On Friday there will be patio sessions with
GNOME SAYIN'? Imaginative New Works by Mary Marinangeli. Up for the month of July @ Opening Reception Party Friday July 10 @ 8pm Featuring Music by 4Mat. www.bottledcolour.com
Jimmy Lewis at the Royal on Baker followed by Friday Night Live Open Jam until 2 a.m. Saturday will feature Rossland’s Geoff Ross playing alternative rock and John Lees Hooker playing dirty rock and blues. Show starts at 8:30 p.m. For more information call the Royal at 354-7014. Toronto’s The Sadies are coming to Spiritbar on Thursday, July 16 at 8 p.m. They will play two sets with no opener. The show starts at 9 p.m. Their music is a mix of bluegrass, blues, 60s garage and psychedelic and punk rock. Tickets are $20 and are now available from the Hume Hotel. Jake Ian will perform live at Cafe Momento on Tuesday, July 14. A seasoned singer-songwriter, Ian writes about hard work, hard times, shaky relationships and perseverance. His latest album It Don’t Really Matter Anymore is a collection of folk, blues and country. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, July 18 at 8 p.m. Texture & Light will play at the Blue Mule Espresso Bar. Their music is described as electronic dream rock,
The Nelson Poetry Slam, featuring Nelson’s own slam team Discursive, will be at John Ward Coffee on Sunday, July 12. Admission is pay what you can (suggested $2 to $20). Doors and sign-up are at 6:45 p.m., and the show will start at 7:15 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded to three poets. For more information visit the Nelson Poetry Slam on Facebook. Creativity is highlighted at Nelson’s annual Elephant Mountain Literary Festival today through Sunday. The 100-Mile Gala tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Adventure Hotel celebrates the local with readings, food, and wine pairings. Daytime Saturday panels explore the creative process with local luminaries, including the authors who will appear on stage at the Capitol tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. These are: Kate Pullinger, Marina Endicott, and songwriter and memoirist Bob Bossin. For more information go to emlfestival.com.
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Overture Concerts Society Nothing comes to Nelson K.L. Kivi and Amber Santos launch The Town of Nothing
Will Johnson Nelson Star Years ago local activist K.L. Kivi was camped in the Purcells when one of the developers of the hotly-contested Jumbo Glacier Resort confronted her. “He said ‘you’re camped inside the boundary of the town’,” Kivi told the audience at her library book launch for The Town of Nothing Tuesday evening. “I looked around and said ‘There’s nothing here’.” The absurdity of the situation prompted her to start writing. “Later I started writing about this nothing thing. It was so ridiculous; it didn’t make any sense at all — and that’s how this [book] came to be.” Children and adults alike came out for the book launch, which featured a live reading from Kivi and illustrator Amber Santos. Audiences learned that, like Jumbo, the book is densely populated with bears. If you look closely, there’s at least one on every page. In one section, the Mathematician of Nothing says “Nothing from nothing leaves nothing”— one of Kivi’s favourite moments. On another page the Musician of Nothing adds “You’ve got to have something if you want to be with me.”
Activist K.L. Kivi debuted her anti-Jumbo all-ages picture book The Town of Nothing at the library on Tuesday evening. Will Johnson photo “We’re calling it an all-ages pictures book because there’s a bit in it for everybody,” Kivi said. And though it’s a humorous read, Kivi believes the subject matter is serious — and important. “This is part of our ongoing commitment to saying ‘no, that’s not what we want’. The Jumbo project was first proposed in 1990 and it’s been 25 years that people have been trying to keep the Purcells and the Jumbo Valley wild.” Many Jumbo activists were in attendance, and during question and answer period they discussed the environment minister’s recent decision
that put the brakes on the project and proposed turning the isolated concrete slab involved in the project into a community art project of some sort. “I consider myself an art activist,” said Santos. “K.L. approached me first to paint a car. There was a rally outside city hall and we were trying to turn protesting into an act of joy.” When Kivi asked her to be involved with the book, she jumped at the chance. “For me it was a nobrainer. I feel passionate about our wilderness and Jumbo.” Santos said expressing her political sentiments through art is a way to
foster solidarity in the community. “You can look around and say ‘wow, a lot of people feel the way I do’.” A new Jumbo vehicle, decorated with Santos’ bears, was parked outside. And though audience members joked the best way to protect the wilderness is to stay out of it, Kivi emphasized the sustaining power it has. “It’s amazing what happens when we do go out into the wilderness. It’s part of that bond. I’ve spent so much time over the last 10 years in Jumbo, and every time I go the commitment intensifies.” She said it’s that love, not conflict, that fuels her. “I think things done out of love are stronger than if they’re done out of disagreement or opposition. I feel a lot of love for that place.” The pair received a Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance grant to tour the book, and already a generous donor has ensured every library in School District 8 has a copy. The Town of Nothing is available at Otter Books. All proceeds go to the Keep Jumbo Wild campaign. The book will also be for sale during market days at the West Kootenay EcoSociety booth.
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Alliterative artist animates animals Kootenay illustrator Lauren Herraman’s art featured on upcoming Sofiella Watt album
WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star On the cover of the latest album from Sofiella Watt and the Huckleberry Bandits there’s a banjo-playing giraffe in a rocking chair smiling next to a guitarist hipster fox and surrounded by a trio of percussive raccoons — all created by Kootenay artist Lauren Herraman. “I like to quietly observe life’s little quirks and charms right down to the finest of detail. Much of my inspiration comes from animals, people, nature and particularly children’s books,” Herraman writes in the artist statement currently on display as part of ArtWalk at Blackbird Physiotherapy. “I am quite a cheeky person; I find the greatest delight is to witness the giggles and grins that come when I share my work with others.” And she’s been doing plenty of sharing lately. Since moving to Nelson last January, the 33-year-old has thrown herself into her creative pursuits, working in a variety of mediums. When she met the Star for an interview, she was wearing a rabbit brooch of her own design. “It’s affordable art,” she said.
Lauren Herraman showcases one of the pieces from her series Amalgamated Alliterative Collective Nouns. The caption reads “a float of frocodiles foolishly fumble their fidgety fingers to find folky funk fusions on fraying fiddles.” Will Johnson photo
“I figure not everybody can afford an $800 painting but they can afford maybe 40, 80 bucks to have something they’re going to see all the time.” That’s something she started doing while selling her work in Belgrave, Australia, but it’s something she wants to take to the next level now that she’s settling in Canada. She said she loves the Kootenays and thrives off the creative energy. And working with Watt — one of her best friends from Australia — is something she loves. This year she starred as the titular character in their music video “Junkyard Bettie.”
“They’re my best buddies here so we support each other,” she said. And creative collaboration is something she’s passionate about. “I came to Nelson because I wanted to settle in and pursue my artistic career here,” she said. “My big dream is to publish my first children’s book.” The book — which she calls Amalgamated Alliterative Collective Nouns — consists of a series of poems with illustrations. “My vision is whole pages full of colour, with my little poems on the page. Every page is a different poem with a different
character.” Herraman creates hybrid animals, then has fun with linguistics. “It has to work with A) the alliteration and B) the collective noun, so one animal has to be a collective noun like wisdom of owls. Then you mix owls and wolves and you end up with a wisdom of wowls.” She laughed. “That’s how my crazy brain works.” Herraman has 11 pieces in the series, which was recently featured at Oso Negro. She also makes jewelry, art cards and sculptures — many animalthemed. Last year she participated in Blue Night and coordinated an exhibition with several local artists called the Infinite Animal Parade that was on display at the Dancing Bear Inn for three months. “Plus I worked with Kootenay Life clothing to create designs for T-shirts and hats. Busy times!” But that’s the way she likes it. “I want to be living and breathing art, basically,” she said. For more information on Herraman’s work visit Laurellbush on Facebook.
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The Capitol Capitol Theatre Theatre presents presents The 27th SUMMER SUMMER 27th YOUTH PROGRAM PROGRAM YOUTH
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Artwalk 2015 kicked off Friday evening on Baker St. The 27th annual event, produced by the Nelson and District Arts Council, runs through Aug. 28 and features the work of 25 artists at 17 venues. (Artist profiles begin today on page 14.) Laura Duncan photos
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LAINEY BENSON • TOUCHSTONES NELSON Benson feels she was destined to paint, even if she was slow to get started. She comes from an artistic family; her father was a professional musician, and one of her brothers followed in his footsteps. Two other siblings are both accomplished artists, and her mother taught elementary school art. Although Benson’s career path took her into health care, she recently picked up brushes and refreshed her memory on colour theory classes from a decade ago. “As it turned out, the urge to paint was stronger than my career ambitions,” she admits. “So, after some deliberation and a sense of relief, I returned to my studio. And so for
the past few years, I’ve been devoting much of my time to painting and I feel all the richer for it.” In recent years, Benson’s paintings have taken on a new and remarkable
vibrancy. Artist’s statement: “I have played with various styles of painting and subject over time. My current works are the total sum of these. My wish
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WATER RESTRICTIONS The City of Nelson is asking residents to restrict their water use even more due to the continuing hot, dry summer. Residents have used 35% more water this year than last year at this time. So far, the summer of 2015 is recording the highest level of water use in recent years. Lawns Lawn sprinkler or irrigation watering is ONLY permitted between 4 am to 9 am or 7 pm to 10 pm ONCE PER WEEK on Wednesdays (for evennumbered addresses) or Thursday’s (for odd-numbered addresses). Gardens Garden watering is ONLY permitted with a sprinkler or hand-held hose or drip irrigation system and only between 4 am to 9 am or 7 pm to 10 pm. Other outdoor water use Do not use water to wash sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, exterior windows or exterior building surfaces. For more information, please contact: City of Nelson - Water Smart Ambassador at: Phone: 250-352-8102 Email: watersmart@nelson.ca City of Nelson – Public Works & Water Utility: Phone: 250-352-8238 Email: publicworks@nelson.ca
Overture concerts society celebrates 60th season Submitted to the Nelson Star Nelson Overture Concerts Society celebrates its 60th season of presenting quality classical music to the Kootenays with a stellar lineup of performers, both well-known artists returning for repeat performances, and emerging artists embarking on promising careers. The season opens on Saturday, Oct. 17 with the ever-popular Symphony of the Kootenays, including Jeff Faragher, music director, and Nelson native Natasha Hall, violin soloist. On Saturday, Nov. 21 the highly acclaimed Russian-
Canadian pianist Sergei Saratovsky, winner of numerous awards, is sure to present a dazzling performance. Couloir, the harp and cello duo of Heidi Krutzen and Ariel Barnes, shares the stage on Saturday, Feb. 20. Possibly only one of three professional harp and cello duos worldwide, Couloir focuses on connecting with their audience by exploring the spiritual nature of music, depth in music and “getting beyond the notes.” Nelson favourites, duo sopranos Nancy Argenta and Ingrid Attrot, with pianist Maggie Colet
will bring the season to a close on Saturday, March 12 with a concert of glorious solos and duets spanning three centuries of song. All concerts are at the Capitol Theatre. Series tickets are available through the Capitol by phone or in person starting July 14. They are $75 for adults and $42 for students. Individual tickets, also available online, are $24 for adults and $14 for students. Students from schools participating in the Nelson Overture Concerts Society school outreach program are granted free admission.
Special thanks also to all of our sponsors and community minded businesses that supported the event
The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce would like to thank everyone involved in making Canada Day 2015, a true community and regional celebration. The Chamber of Commerce takes on the organizational role of this free family fun day in Rotary Lakeside Park. Special thanks this year to the City of Nelson Public Works, Parks and Nelson Hydro staff for working diligently to get Lakeside Park ready for the annual festivities. We are able to pull off a successful event thanks to the contributions by the following business, which we encourage you to support and thank, as well all the performers and community groups. Thanks to the thousands of folks who showed up making for a great atmosphere in one of the best venues in Canada. • Heritage Harmony Barbershop Choir • Brenda McJones Highland Dancers • Mountain Station • AFKO Choir • John Kaplan Strolling Magic Shows • Playmor Junction • Nelson Community Band • Everyman • Kootenay Kiltie Pipe Band
• White Lightning Blues Band • Sunshine Drive • Charlie Jocobsen Band • Samba Band • Big Mama Blue
Special thanks to The City of Nelson, The Nelson Professional Fire Fighters Association, Heritage Canada, Celebrate Canada, RDCK Areas E, F, H, City of Nelson Parks staff, Nelson and District Community Complex, The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce, and many community-minded businesses and organizations. Community Display Booths and Activities • Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce • 103.5 Juice FM • BMO Bank of Montreal • Bubbles the Clown • Bethel Christian Centre • Duke of Edinburgh’s Award • EZ Rock • H.O.P.E. Church • Joshua’s Giant Bubbles
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U13 Selects fall to Kelowna in provincial opener The Nelson U13 Selects lost 4-1 to Kelowna during the first day of the girls provincial soccer championships at Lakeside Park on Thursday. Coach Darren Peloso said the girls played a strong offensive game, keeping it neck-and-neck until the final moments when Kelowna scored two goals in a row. The U14 Selects also opened against Kelowna while the U15 Selects took on North Shore, both past the Star’s deadline. Action continues today and tomorrow with the finals set for Sunday. Check nelsonstar.com throughout the weekend for results and photos from the local pitches, as well as from Penticton where the U16 and U18 girls are playing, and 100 Mile House, which is hosting the U13-15 boys provincials. Will Johnson photos
BILL METCALFE Nelson Star The West Kootenay SUP (Stand up Paddling) race is “putting this area on the map for beautiful paddling, flowing rivers and stoked locals,” according to one of the organizers of last weekend’s two races on the Slocan and Columbia rivers. The SUP Cross, a race on a section of the Slocan River, is “a 3.5 km technical race where you have to hit certain buoys and tag lines to a finish line,” Andrea Ryman says. The men’s winner, Chris Ryman, finished in about 20 minutes. The women’s winner was Jenny Poppitt of Kelowna who took her first SUP lesson only two days before. Andrea Ryman says the SUP races in the West Kootenay are the only river races in western Canada, so they are an attraction, bringing people in from Saskatchewan and the Yukon. Most SUP races are on lakes or the ocean. The other race, 16.5 km down the Columbia from Robson to Genelle, is the longest SUP river
race in Canada, Ryman says. The winner did the race this year in just under an hour, and Ryman came in third in the women’s event. What was the atmosphere like at the races? “Lots of cheering and huge smiles,” says Ryman. “People really encouraging each other, not as competitive as some of the others. The competition is dissolved because the river adds a new dynamic.” Ryman says interest in paddling has exploded in the past three years. She says her Crescent Valley business, Endless Adventures, was about 80 per cent whitewater sports nine years ago and now it is 70 per cent SUP. The reason for the sport’s popularity, she says, is that it is “less intimidating for people to get on a board than in a kayak. Anybody can do it.” She said the level of the river made a difference to the races this year. “Last year the river was a lot higher. The river level of Slocan now is what it would [typically] be at the beginning of August.”
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LEFT: South Nelson Elementary’s Teresa Olleck has been taking her Grade 1 students on weekly trips to Hendryx St. Forest Garden. She recently shared her experiences, and a short film starring her class, with the Kootenay Lake school board. RIGHT: Jackson Zaytsoff (bottom) and Gala Thomas (top) are two students who loved their weekly visits to the garden. Both chose “magic spots” in the forested area and appreciated the chance to get outdoors regularly.
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Teacher extolls virtues of learning outdoors Teresa Olleck took her South Nelson Grade 1 students to the Hendryx St. Forest Garden each week to get to know nature
Will Johnson Nelson Star uring her time as a Grade 1 teacher at South Nelson Elementary, Teresa Olleck encouraged her students to find their “magic spot” in nature. And once a week she marched them down to the Hendryx St. Forest Garden to visit. “Learning takes place everywhere,” Olleck told the school board at a recent meeting, where it was announced she is retiring. She screened a short movie created by local filmmaker Amy Bohigian to share some of her experiences. Olleck said she was inspired to start looking outside her four walls for learning opportunities that would engage her charges, as part of the district-wide push to broaden the scope of the traditional education model, and that’s when she came up with the idea for weekly outings to the park. “Digging up actual worms is way more fun than reading a book called Digging Up Worms,” she said.
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“It took me a long time to realize that it’s not difficult or expensive or dangerous to take kids outside or off school property.” In fact, she counted the steps it takes to transport her class there: 220. And that led her to another realization: parents love to help out, with Bohigian being a case in point. Once the routine was set, parents started coming out of the woodwork to volunteer. Students decided to take ownership of the park, taking it upon themselves to keep it clean, well-organized and aesthetically pleasing. And each week they tried new activities. According to students, the walk was well worth it. When the Star met with seven-year-old Jackson Zaytsoff, he was hanging a clay bird he had created from a tree limb. “We’ve been building nests, doing stuff with the animals, and right now we’re all hanging birds. We painted them and put shiny stuff on,” he said.
Zaytsoff said the highlight of his week is Thursdays, when Olleck brings them to Hendryx. “There’s so much space to learn, there’s so many more things that will grow and there’s so much stuff to do like making tea and building nests and pine cone feeders.” Gala Thomas, 6, agreed. “I just like being out in nature,” she said, in her magic spot. “Seeing all the bugs and things, and the trees. I like to feel the wind. Yeah, actually I just like being outdoors.” She showed a craft she constructed with the help of Olleck and parent volunteers. “The adults put wet concrete in a pan and then I decorated it with little square things and shells and little marbles and gas jewels,” she said. After a screening of Bohigian’s film, the school board thanked Olleck for her contribution and superintendent Jeff Jones praised her. “Thank you for sharing with us some of the learning you’ve experienced. I want to commend you a career well-spent,” he said.
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Carmela Campese passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on July 8, 2015, at the age of 85. A Funeral mass will be held at the Cathedral of Mary Immaculate Saturday July 11, 2015 at10:30 AM.
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The images from last week’s conflagration were stunning. Photos taken of the fire burning at night above highway 3A were some of the most arresting and powerful. The Nelson Star’s Will Johnson wrote, “the fire conjured up visions of Hell as it painted the sky in deep oranges and blood-reds.” Does a consuming fire on top of a mountain trigger that association for you? Hellfire? While many people connect fire with hellish imagery (imagery usually drawn more from Dante’s Inferno than the Bible), fire has an altogether different association in the Bible. Throughout the Bible, fire is equated with the very presence of God. Both the Old and New Testaments declare, “God is a consuming fire” (Deut. 4:24; Heb. 12:29). After God had rescued the oppressed Israelites from Egyptian slavery and brought them to the foot of Mt. Sinai, God drew near to them at the mountain’s peak. “ To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain” (Exodus 24:17). “Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, the whole mountain trembled violently, and the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder” (Exodus 19:12). This “God of fire” was a God who had sought out and redeemed the oppressed and abused. He had heard the cry of those looking for freedom, and in his fiery, holy love, had rescued them in a way that they couldn’t have rescued themselves. The fire on the mountain was not associated with condemnation (hellfire). It was associated with hope and deliverance. It was a powerful symbol of rescue and redemption. It was evidence that God saw and reached out to help those whom the world had dehumanized and degraded. While the conflagration near Nelson is currently contained, the images of the mountain on fire will stay with us forever. Let ’s let them remind Kootenay Christian Fellowship us that one of the best images for capturing God’s very presence is fire. And let ’s permit those pictures to challenge us with the biblical idea that God burns Join us for our Worship Celebration Sundays @ 10:30am with a passion to bring his redeeming love to our • Developing Relationships city in such • Music that will move you Nelson Christian Science Society a way that • Helping People ~ Help People A Branch of the Mother Church in Boston MA the oppressed Pastor Jim Reimer Sunday Service in Balfour 520 Falls Street (Just off Baker Street) are liberated, Parking available behind the building 9:30 am at the Anglican Church on Busk Rd. www.kootenaychristianfellowship.com • 1.888.761.3301 the hungry For information 250-229-5237 are fed, the lonely discover Unity Centre c o m m u n i t y, of the Kootenays Sunday Worship Gathering 10:00 am the exiled find Minister: David Boyd All are Welcome home, the lost Speaker - Dan Nelson find the way, and Prayer for the Body, Topic - “Universal Patterns the broken find Mind and Heart and Archetypes” healing. May All children welcome for Sunday School 717 Vernon St. and Nursery Room available God ignite our Sunday at 11 a.m. Corner of Josephine and Silica Streets hearts with that Any questions? Contact 250-354-5394 Ph: 250-352-2822 • www.nelsonunitedchurch.ca same passion. And may it burn St. Saviour's Anglican Church brightly and 701 Ward St. at Silica St., Nelson CATHEDRAL OF MARY IMMACULATE spread. Family Service & Eucharist 813 Ward Street 352-7131
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Dorothy Anne Schweitzer was born May 9, 1944 to George and Gwen Jameson in Crawford Bay, B.C. Anne was the youngest child in her family. Anne’s brothers are William, Reg, and Syd and her sisters are Ivy and Ruth. Anne loved Crawford Bay and enjoyed ice skating, swimming and fishing as she was growing up. Anne enjoyed school and had many good friends. She graduated from the Crawford Bay school in June 1963. Anne married Arnold Schweitzer on August 26, 1972. They made their home in Blewett just outside of Nelson, BC. They had a small farm and enjoyed raising chickens, turkeys and cows. They had currently made their home in Salmo, BC. Anne worked as a long term care aide at Willowhaven and then as a LPN at Mount Saint Francis Hospital for more than 25 years. She was loved by co workers and patients she cared for. Anne loved to care for people and at work she personalized this. Anne was a devoted mother to Anita and Eric. As a family, they enjoyed many camping trips and travelling to visit friends and family in BC , Alberta, and Spokane. Anne loved to cook, bake and have people over for dinner. Anne loved celebrating holidays and she was quick to invite people to join in who may not have family to be with. The kitchen table was often crowded with people but there was always room for one more. Anne was an active and committed member at Bethel Christian Center in Nelson. She was a board member, helped with the youth group, and helped in the kitchen. She loved serving and caring for her church family. Her faith in Jesus was a vital part of her life. Her faith was seen in the gracious way she cared for so many people. Anne was predeceased by her father, George Jameson; her mother, Gwen Dobie, her brothers William and Syd Jameson, and her sister, Ivy Jameson. Anne is survived by her husband Arnold Schweitzer, her children Eric (Charity) Schweitzer, Anita (Andrew) Thompson, Bob Schweitzer (Allison Hutchinson), Grant (Cindy) Schweitzer and Lorrina Paul; her brother, Reg (Sharon) Jameson, sister Ruth (Jack) Hacking and sister in laws, Helen Jameson and Ellen Jameson. She had 11 grandchildren and many loved nieces, nephews and families that she loved like family. A memorial service is planned for Sunday, July 12, 2015 at Bethel Christian Center, 623 Gordon Road in Nelson, B.C at 2:00 pm. Pastor Ken Keber officiating. Refreshments following the service.
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Doors to the past opened Selkirk College students Allysa Webber (left) and Mike Graeme (right) are two of the participants in the Slocan Narrows archaeological project that is taking place just north of Lemon Creek. The six-week field school at the Slocan Narrows pithouse village will culminate this weekend with the archaeology open house which invites all interested public to come experience interactive guided tours that will be held throughout the day and a barbecue to raise money for the Slocan Valley Rail Trail Society. Based in New York state, Hamilton College is coordinating the project in partnership with the Slocan Valley Rail Trail Society, Columbia Basin Trust, the local Sinixt people and Selkirk College. The open house takes place on Sunday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The site can be found by taking Highway 6 north of Winlaw where parking will be available at the Lemon Creek trail head. Find out more about the project at selkirk.ca. Submitted photo
Spirit festival returns for second year
Submitted to the Nelson Star You’re invited to the second annual Kootenay Spirit Festival in Nelson. This weekend of yoga, meditation, music and dance will take place Sept. 18 to 20. Aspiring to ignite and unite community within this region and beyond, this spiritually charged festival has it all. Whether rising early to meditate or dancing late to the beat of world music (or both) participants will be inspired by top local and visiting teachers, speakers and musical acts. Events are hosted in many eclectic studios, venues and parks,
where you are encouraged to walk and cycle between events. Nelson provides an ideal location to celebrate mindful living, love of nature and engaged community. What to expect with your weekend pass purchase: “The workshops are diverse and explore many different spiritual traditions,” says coordinator Trisha Wilson. “Some are suitable for beginners while others may appeal to more advanced practitioners. Some are physically active while others are contemplative and meditative. Body, mind, spirit. Promoting balance in our personal lives, loving kindness for
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others, respect for nature, collective peace.” There will be an expanded Spirit Market at Lakeside Park with local vendors. As part of the festival’s mission of accessibility within the community, there will once again be a free concert, acro yoga, hoops and new this year, a kids’ zone. The focus this year includes youth (teens and young adults). There will be programming by and for youth. Get your tickets early and take advantage of early bird pricing. They’re available until Aug. 1. To purchase, go online to kootenayspiritfestival.ca.
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Busking for the food cupboard Students from St. Joseph School present a cheque to the Nelson Food Cupboard after busking on Baker St. recently to raise money and awareness for the food cupboard. The school thanks the community for supporting the young musicians and helping others to eat. Submitted photos
Betsy and Bootsy Fairweather are two little friendly girls that are well socialized and love to play. They have been vet checked and had their shots and are ready for their new home. They are 10 weeks old and being fostered in Nelson. Call KAAP at 250-551-1053.
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Historical walking tours offered
Submitted to the Nelson Star The exhibition 60 Years 60 Objects celebrates the diamond anniversary of Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History. If you have seen the show, you know that the first 15 objects are photographs of historic buildings that have moved, been altered, or are gone entirely. Now is your chance to hear the fascinating stories behind these businesses and hotels from Nelson historians Ron Welwood and Greg Scott. The tours will take place on four Saturdays over the summer: July 11, 18, 25, and Aug. 1 from 10:30 to 11:40 a.m. Meet at Touchstones Nelson. Tours are $3 per person, payable at the front desk. NoxregistraBlackpress 2.833 3 tion is required.
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