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Kimberley’s Aquatic Centre is a great place for folks of all ages to get fit and have fun! Whether you’re training in the faﬆ lane of the lap pool, floating down the Lazy River, or enjoying the spectacular hillside view from the hot tub, you’ll be surrounded by good friends and great ﬆaff. The Aquatic Centre is a disability-accessible building featuring the 25-metre, 5-lane ‘Bert Banks’ lap pool with a competition diving board, a leisure pool with fun water features including a teacup spray waterfall and Lazy River, hot tub, and a ﬆeam room. The ‘Kimberley Alpine Resort’ multi-purpose room is available to rent for hoﬆing parties, meetings, and other events. Birthday party packages are available. Each month, on the firﬆ and third Wednesdays, local organizations and businesses sponsor a Free Public or Family Swim evening, so you can bring your whole clan. Free public swims run from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. and the free family swims run from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Swimming lessons are also available for children of all ages and advanced young swimmers can sign up for leadership, water safety, and babysitting courses. Adults can take advantage of the drop-in classes, such as Aqua ﬁt and the “Twinges in the Hinges” program geared towards seniors - a great way to get in shape and meet new friends! The Kimberley Aquatic Centre also oﬀers Friday Toonie Swims, Special Events, and Kids Programs during Spring Break, summer, and some school Non-Inﬆructional days! The Kids Programs not only involve swimming but arts & crafts and outdoor activities as well, making them tons of fun! The camps are quite popular, as is the Annual Boat Race scheduled for Friday, June 22nd at 2 p.m., so be sure to book in advance! Please note that the Kimberley Aquatic Centre will be closed for its annual maintenance from April 2nd to 22nd, re-opening on the 23rd. The Aquatic Centre is located at 520 Archibald Street, Kimberley, BC, across from the Civic Centre. Hours of operation do vary, so please check out the City website at www.kimberley.ca for more information.

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with thorough insurance and excellent resources: “The only thing we don’t have is a paycheque,” Wendy says, with her upbeat, easy laugh.

Wendy is talking about the Kimberley Search and Rescue team (SAR), of which she has been the senior manager for over fourteen years. She comes across as lighthearted and effortlessly kind, though her determined passion for this work quickly shines through.

Keeping community members safe is the top priority for this well-trained team, who respond to calls from the RCMP, BC Ambulance Services, BC Coroners Service, and BC Wildfire Service. The terrain that Kimberley SAR covers is enormous, varied, and rugged: it extends all the way from Canal Flats to Fort Steele, then reaches far up into the wild reaches of the St. Mary Valley, Grey Creek pass, and north into the pristine St. Mary Alpine Park. This encompasses an area of approximately 10,000 square kilometres, most of it sublime backcountry, often untouched. “It’s such a beautiful area,” Wendy says. “But it can be very dangerous.”

British Columbia has one of the most well-developed Search and Rescue programs anywhere, and training to the highest possible standard is required of its members. Even right here in Kimberley, the team of professional volunteers undergoes extensive and ongoing education to stay up-to-date on the most sophisticated emergency services practices. This develops areas such as technical swiftwater rescue, high-angle rope rescue, and avalanche rescue. In each area, the team constantly hones their skills as they learn about the most comprehensive technology and rescue strategies. The Search and Rescue is fully equipped

According to the core value of the Search and Rescue, the best rescue is the one that doesn’t happen. Prevention is key, and the SAR pours a great deal of their hard work and resources into community outreach programs that equip community members with the most valuable tool: knowledge around how to stay safe in the wild.

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This includes a diverse program called Adventuresmart that works across BC to educate the public. It incorporates elements such as putting informational kiosks at trailheads, a wide array of educational programs for kids of all ages as well as adults, and – of course – avalanche awareness programs, which are of particular value in an area like the East Kootenay, where so many of us are avid backcountry enthusiasts. In fact, at the same time as I spoke with Wendy, the avalanche rescue group was out in the field alongside the Cranbrook and Sparwood Search and Rescue teams to put their skills into practise on a multi-day training exercise. The avalanche safety faction of the Kimberley Search and Rescue is headed by a female – not unusual at all in the Kimberley SAR. “In fact, half of our team are women,” Wendy explains to my delight. “It’s funny, because most people still associate emergency services as a male-dominated area.” Perhaps not for long, though, as the Kimberley Search and Rescue does its part to push aside that tired belief. Peter Reid, another leader on the team, tells me, “Many of the women in leadership roles have been instrumental in building the team into the high-performance organization that it is today.” Wendy agrees that the equality is excellent on the team. “But, it’s not about being male or female, or anything else,” she says. “It’s simply about skill.” If taking on these skills and being a part of this high-functioning organization sounds like something you’d love, too, Wendy encourages members of the public to reach out and join in a couple of training sessions. “Come try us on for size,” Wendy says happily. She reminds me that it isn’t easy work: “It’s very organized. It takes commitment. It is training to a very high standard. Come prepared for the elements.” After all, the team works tirelessly to keep community members safe as we play in the wild Kootenay landscape that we are so lucky to be surrounded by. Easy? No. But important? Definitely.

For more information and to register for training and volunteering with Kimberley Search and Rescue, visit kimberleysar.org or find the “Kimberley Search and Rescue” page on Facebook.

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W & P: Jill Christie Crack...whoosh...TING! The snow’s insular properties are blown wide open by the mechanical combination of a steel trigger and a bullet. Silence re-establishes its place in the winter landscape, masked subtly with controlled air releasing from lungs. It is the breath of a troop of young boys ages 9-13 and their coach. They lay poised, belly down, on mats 50 meters from their targets at the Kimberley Nordic Club’s Biathlon range. In trance-like concentration, they prepare for their next shots, steam rising up to collect on eyelashes and errant locks of hair that stray from underneath toques. Faces sparkle with tiny droplets of condensation, heads cock slightly to the side, and thin-gloved hands steady rifles. Only indistinct shuffling of bodies on snow and breath can be heard until...bullets streak through the air cracking through the sound barrier, creating a startling piercing of the silence. Ski poles lay to the side of the mats, while skis (still clipped into boots) splay out along the snow helping to balance and steady for the next shot. Five targets are shot at, guns are lowered, poles are picked up, and the skiing resumes. The boys skate ski a route that takes them through the larch and pine forests of the nordic trails. Their breathing becomes rapid and laboured and sounds now include the rhythmic scoring of ski edge on snow, alongside the squeak of pole tips levering through the snowpack.

The range, tucked into the forest butted up against a rock slide, is located at the end of a six-kilometer loop. It was built by Chris Heinnman for the 2008 BC Winter Games and didn’t see action again until Bryce Cox and his partner Tisha became inspired to provide a cool sporting option for their son (just as Bryce’s father did for him). Bryce started biathlon in Prince George around age 13, competing internationally in the World Junior’s in Switzerland and eventually training out of Canmore on the National Junior Team. At 21, Bryce discovered climbing and touring, which closed the chapter on biathlon and opened a new door into the ACMG (Association of Canadian Mountain Guides) world. He has, however, come full circle as he and his clan of boys enter into their second year, out at the range, testing their sharpshooting skills. Recent developments have contributed to a new warming hut built by the families involved. The boys ski their route and slide into the range, dropping poles and falling into position on the mats again. The rifles poised and awaiting their next fire accept the loaded magazines. With thumping heartbeats pulsing loudly in their heads, the outside world becomes quiet again with the exception of the air whishing in and out of the boys’ mouths. Take aim, steady on the out breath, FIRE!

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n this issue of GO Kimberley, we celebrate four generations of Kimberley women. Strong women. Talented and creative. Compassionate and wise. Ava Fei Clark, an eight-year old of the iGeneration, reinvents what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to be a kid, adventuring her way throughout the Americas. Chloe Smith, a millennial, redesigns a new way of working and living. Becky Bates, a baby boomer, races her way through midlife. And Shirley Rossi, a member of the Silent Generation, reflects on a life of generosity, when you could trust a candy apple. Kimberley Women. Each in their own quiet, kick-ass way, inspiring us to do things a little differently.

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Eight-year-old Ava Fei Clark sits at her kitchen table pretending she is my teacher. On a whiteboard she marks fourteen math questions, checking my answers against a multiplication table posted on the wall. Her ten-year-old brother, Koby, makes ginger snaps, and calculates how many ¾ cups of brown sugar he’ll need for a cup and a half. In ten days, Ava Fei and her family will leave Kimberley, BC on an epic adventure. Like many families, they’ll drive to California. Once safely parked in Anaheim, her parents, Dan and Alice, will take their kids to Disneyland. Then, like many Clark-Young family trips, things will take a monumental twist: the family of four will head south on their bikes, 2,500 kilometres to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Once there, they will do what most families do: they’ll relax, eat fish tacos, make sand castles, and swim with the whales. Following this, they’ll bus across the U.S. border, mount their bikes and head north, cycling over 4,000 kilometres to Jasper, Alberta,

part of the family’s goal to cycle the route between Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, to the southern tip of Baja, Mexico. Adventure is nothing new for Ava Fei (see insert). In 2010, as a one-year-old, she and her brother accompanied her parents on a 700-kilometre, 20-day canoe trip along the Yukon River. Over the next seven years, Ava Fei and her family undertook some legendary adventures: they paddled over 4,400 kilometres during 197 days on water, and cycled 9,500 kilometres during 247 days on the road. In 2016, they hiked 250 kilometres of the Continental Divide. At their kitchen table, we watch the video of the McKenzie River trip. At one point, Ava Fei looks into the camera and giggles, then turns around and splashes into a mud puddle beside the river. While watching the film, Ava Fei is laughing. I ask her what was the favourite part of the trip. “We got to play,” she says, then continues watching the film, giggling away.

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In his film, Familia Ciclista, Dan Clark reflects on what his family gains during these journeys far away from home: “Our family is unified in this simple life,” he says. “They become little people ready to take on the world.” I ask Ava Fei about the deeper meaning of these adventures, what she learns from journeys very few humans have undertaken. She looks perplexed, as if to say, “This is just what we do. I’m not sure what you mean?” This is a family that enjoys spending time together. If someone’s experiencing an intense feeling, they talk about it. They study the things around them. They notice what clouds look like before rain. How black flies behave when the wind dies down. How a passing musk ox steps though an ancient era. They make popcorn in cast iron pots. Listen to rain on tent

roofs. They play trumpets with pepperoni sticks. They giggle. “We rejuvenate ourselves on these trips,” Alice says. “We find our rhythm. Things are pretty simple.” I ask Ava Fei about her thoughts on their upcoming adventure. “I’m going to miss school,” she says. “It’s ok,” her mom responds. “You can teach us while we’re away.” “Are you nervous?” I ask her. Ava Fei giggles. “No,” she says, then finishes marking my test with a red erasable pen. “You got a perfect score!” she shouts, then bites into one of her brother’s cookies and smiles.

AVA FEI’SADVENTURE STATS 2010: 700 km. Yukon River. Canoeing. 20 days. 2011: 300 km. Valdez to Whittier, Alaska. Ocean canoeing. 42 days. 2012: 3400 km. Jasper to Tuktoyaktuk. River canoeing. 100 days. 2014: 6000 km. Patagonia to Bolivia. Cycling. 195 days. 2015: 1000 km. Great Slave Lake, Pike’s Portage, tundra circuit. Overland canoeing and portaging. 55 days. 2016: 250 km. Continental Divide hike from Field to Kananaskis. 25 days. 2017: 3500 km. Inuvik to Jasper. Cycling. 52 days.

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W & P: Jeff Pew Chloe Smith sips tea on the couch and stares out the window. She’s got the old-soul, quiet comfort of someone in no rush to speak. “It’s like a puzzle,” she says, describing what it’s like juggling five jobs and a sixty-hour work week. “All these pieces that fit together. It’s tight, but the irony is, I feel free.” Like many millennials, Chloe’s chosen a career path more flexible and less predictable than previous generations. “I have all these tiny pockets of friends and families,” she says, “but I need a pretty fancy daytimer to keep it all organized.”

THE LIFEGUARD “I’m the Kimberley Aquatic Centre’s longest standing employee. It’s been eleven years. I had a moment the other day looking out the window, staring at the trees. I thought, they’re blocking the sun. When I started here, they were just planted.”

THE BARTENDER “My dad had a beer fridge in the basement when I was a kid,” she says. “I know how to pour a beer. A friend of mine start working at Overtime, and I thought, this looks like fun. Every time someone comes in, I learn something new about the town. And, I like good beer.”

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THE RECEPTIONIST “Friday mornings, I work at Revolution Acupuncture & Wellness, with Troy and Yana. One afternoon, they invited me for a beer, and a few weeks later, I was working there. I look forward to every shift with them. They’re incredible human beings.”

THE NURSE “As a kid, we’d listen to my mom’s nursing stories. My brother would turn green, but I loved it. When considering careers, I thought, I like taking care of people. Being a nurse would be a good fit. I worked for five years, on and off, in Cranbrook doing private nursing care. Now, I’m specializing in nursing foot care two days per week.”

THE DESIGNER “My great-aunt was a founder of Blanche MacDonald Fashion and Beauty School. In 2014, I went to Vancouver to study fashion design. I wanted to create comfortable, stylish, mountain-style clothing. After I completed my program, I returned to Kimberley to begin a design company. My great-greatgrandmother, Lily, was a seamstress and a nurse in the war. Everyone called her Lily of the Valley. One day, I was driving home from work, the alpenglow striking the Rockies. I had this ah-ha moment and thought I’d call my company Lily of the Mountains. Presently, I’ve got a beautiful studio with lots of natural light. I head there in the morning and lose myself for hours drafting new ideas. I’m content with being small, but I’m growing steadily and sending packages all over North America.”

THE OCTOPUS “All my jobs I never sought,” Chloe says. “They just seemed to happen. At times, I feel a bit like an octopus. I can feel spread pretty thin, but I never get bored. There’s never enough hours in a day. I know there’s a time when I’ll need to focus on one thing, but it’s just not right now.”

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W & P: Jeff Pew Becky Bates can’t feel her hands, the hair outside her toque, frozen. She’s just returned from a two-hour run through Kimberley’s Nature Park and has put on a pot of tea. She offers me a beer. “Today was hard yards,” she says. “Minus 16.” In four days, Bates will leave for Hawaii to compete in the Hurt 100, one of the planet’s toughest 100-mile races. She’ll navigate slick-rooted jungle trails, stream crossings, mud wallows, and thirteen hours of dark. Over half its entrants won’t finish. “Beware of the chair,” she warns. “The number one rule of ultrarunning, beware of the chair.” Bates, who’s in her mid-fifties, describes how she emerged as one of North America’s top female ultrarunners, twenty years older than most of her professionally-sponsored competitors. “On our 50th year celebrations, my friends danced and partied. I went to Helena, Montana to see if I could run 50 miles. I had no fricken clue. I didn’t train. I did two three-hour runs before the race. I placed 5th, which I thought was pretty good, though I didn’t run for a year and a

half after that.” Since then, Bates has competed in fourteen ultrarunning races, ranging in distance from 45 to 160 kilometers, half of which she finished as first or second female athlete. When Becky isn’t training, or adventuring with her husband, Ian, near their St. Mary’s River home, she’s working in the Vancouver film industry as a special effects assistant. She works with a fabrication team, constructing mechanical devices for stunts and effects: pneumatics, hydraulics, flight simulators, and weather machines that create fog, rain, and wind. “We throw cars sixty feet across the road,” she says. “It’s pretty cool.” She explains how she fell into a career in stunts and special effects: “I was living in Squamish and went to visit friends on a movie set,” she says. “The art department was looking for someone to glue moss on the bottom of a fake log spanning a gorge. I was a climber, so I volunteered and the next thing I knew, I was gluing branches to a fake log.”

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The next summer she took a job as a stunt double. “I thought I was going to die every time I went to work,” she says. “I hated stunts, but if it sounded fun and I thought I was going to survive, I’d take it.” In Jumanji, with Robin Williams,

On race day, Bates is excited. She feels ready. She recalls the daunting advice her coach gave her a week ago: Unless your femur is protruding out your rear, there will be no DNF (Do Not Finish). Five hours in, Becky starts to warms

she stunt doubled for thirteen-year-old Kirsten Dunst, diving out of the way of stampeding rhinos. “It was a strange life,” she says. “One week I was working on X-Men 2. The next I was climbing the Squamish Chief, eating Dunkin’ Donuts.”

up. She finds her stride. A smile comes across her face. “Think I’m better at longer races,” she says.” I like going long and slow.” Thirty miles into the race it pours rain. She’s hungry and freezing, yet doing well: she’s two hours ahead of her predicted time. “I wore a space blanket like a tutu,” she says. “I warmed up at an aid station that was so remote they had to haul everything in by goat. For the first fifty miles, I just drink fluids. I ached in places I didn’t know I had.”

Becky recalls a typically treacherous day working in stunts: “We’d been in the water all morning. I had to jump in a river, fully wet-suited and in a period-piece long dress, nine times. If we missed the eddy, we’d go over the falls. It was fricken cold. We were going under and couldn’t get back up. Rafts with the cameras were bouncing off rocks. “I put my hand up to get rescued and no one was there. One of us was going to die if we kept doing it. I said, ‘I’m done.’” “Now, my days are emails and a cell phone,” she says. “I work 12 ½ hour days, but at least I know I’m going to make it home.” Ian joins us at the dining room table. “What’s amazing about Becky,” he says, “is she works a 60-hour week, drives 45 minutes home to a basement suite, puts on a headlamp and heads out in the rain for a three-hour run. Then, she gets up at 5:45 the next morning and does it all over again.”

Bates finished the Hurt 100 in record time (27:33:07), tenth overall and second female in a field of professionally-sponsored athletes. Two days later, while most competitors were recovering in the warmth of the Pacific Ocean, Becky flew back to the Vancouver rain and began her 60-hour week. I ask the obvious question: “Why?” “It keeps me in the mountains,” Becky says. “And you get free beer. I’ve got a bunch of growlers and belt buckle prizes. Some get a leather belt,” she says. “I’ve got one of those too.”

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APRIL 2018 Exhibition by Neal Weisenberg Ongoing Gallery Exhibition March 27–April 21 | Tuesday–Saturday | 1-5 pm | Centre 64 Gallery | by donation

Latin Dance Nights 30 min. introductory lesson and dance to follow (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue) Every 2nd and 4th Friday | March – June | 7 pm | drop-in $8 | All skill levels, beginners welcome, singles & couples

Saltwater Sessions: East Coast Kitchen Party Featuring Phill Hood, Lennan Delaney & Guests April 20 | 7 pm | Centre 64 | $25 entertainment only - $40 dinner & entertainment | Tickets available at Centre 64 and Sprout

Home Grown Coffee House Great music by local talented artists April 21 | 8 pm sharp | Centre 64 Theatre Tickets $8 available at Centre 64 and Snowdrift Café

Have Camera Will Travel | “Exploring the Beautiful East Kootenay” – Janice Strong Travelogue April 24 | 7:30 pm | Centre 64 Theatre | by donation

Adjudicated Open Young Artists’ Exhibition Ongoing Gallery Exhibition April 24–May 19 | Tuesday–Saturday | 1-5pm | Centre 64 Gallery | by donation

Exhibition Opening Reception Adjudicated Open Young Artists’ Exhibition April 28 | 2-4 pm | Centre 64 Gallery | come meet the artists | refreshments will be served Live@Studio64: Sean McCann

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“Fabricated” Works of the North Star Quilters Ongoing Gallery Exhibition May 21–June 2 | Tuesday–Saturday | 1-5pm | Centre 64 Gallery | by donation

Kootenay Quilt Guild Conference May 25 evening & May 26 daytime | Studio 64 and Centre 64 Gallery & Theatre

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The Silent Generation

W & P: Jeff Pew “Let’s see how many of these things I can break,” Shirley Rossi says, as she reaches into a china cabinet, searching under a stack of cups and saucers. “I don’t need ‘em anyways. They’ll all have to go sooner or later.” She pulls out newspaper clippings, old photographs, and awards, then lays them on the kitchen table. “What’s this?” she asks, then laughs. “I didn’t know I had this one.”

a lot of social media attention, Shirley’s portrait has 363 likes and 80 shares. People are effusive about their love for Pat and Shirley Rossi: “Everyone in this community, both young and old, have been touched by the overwhelming generosity of Shirley and Pat,” Kathy Merkel writes, “Memories that so many longtime area residents will never forget. Thank you Shirley and Pat!”

She holds a medal in her hand and shakes her head. It’s her 1993 Governor General’s Canadian Commemorative Medal for volunteerism. “I should polish this one,” she says, then chuckles. She passes me yellowed newspaper articles highlighting the history of her extraordinary volunteer work (see sidebar). With each article and momento she smiles. Often, she laughs, then tells a story: “I said to them, if ya wanna make money, sell food. Food makes money, and the next thing I knew, I had an $8,000 bill at AG Foods and 600 pounds of potatoes.”

Merkel’s referring to the Rossi house, where for fifty-one years, over 350 kids visited every Halloween. “I made 6 trays of caramel apples, 12 dozen gingerbread boys and girls, and 150 caramel suckers,” Shirley says. “It took me and Pat a week to decorate the inside and outside of our house. We made our decorations, cutting and painting plywood patterns. It was a lot of fun. We were always busy people.” All this, while raising a family of six children. “We had one kid every year for six years,” Shirley says. “When the babies cried upstairs, we’d both jump up. It was awesome. I never had any reservations about it.”

Later that week, I post a photo of Shirley on Facebook. I’ve never seen anything like it. For a generation not typically garnering

“I DON’T KNOWWHERE SHE GETSALL THEAMBITION FOR HOW SMALL SHE IS.”

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And if you know the Rossi story, it makes perfect sense to wonder how they found the energy and compassion to give so much to their community. “We knew our boys,” Shirley says. “They’d want us to go on. You know your kids. You know what they’d want.” She’s referring to the two separate fatal car crashes, six years apart, of their boys, Lyle and David, “It’s there every day,” Shirley says. “You never forget it, but what are you going to do? You have to go on living.” It’s apparent how much Shirley believes “going on living” includes giving back to her community: “If you don’t have volunteers, no city the size of Kimberley would make it,” she says. “We don’t have those kinds of dollars. Your heart has to be into it. You have to believe in where you live. If it weren’t for volunteers, what would you have?” In the last few years, Shirley’s health has forced her to quit most of her volunteering, as well as the extensive Halloween celebration. “I’m slowing down a bit,” she says. “I’ve only felt my age in the last few months. I was too involved. Didn’t think about getting older.

Didn’t have time.” Yet she takes it all in stride, like all adversity thrown her way. “You take life as it comes,” she says. “Obviously, Pat and I learned that one. You have to make out of life what it offers you. It is what it is. We’re going to make this work.” It’s just before 5 pm, and Shirley and Pat’s son is pulling up to the house, like he does every day, to have a beer with his dad and visit the dog. “It’s the only dog who eats in the front room and gets to drink beer and tea,” Shirley says, then laughs. Pat rests his hand on Shirley’s shoulder. “She’s a marvellous person,” he says. “ A great mother and a wife. I don’t know where she gets all the ambition for how small she is.” He pauses, then tears up. “I love the lady...” “Before you go,” Shirley says, “I’ve gotta find some more paperwork. Somewhere I’ve got this all written down. I said to my kids, ‘You can’t expect me to remember all this stuff...’”

ONLY SO MANY HOURS INA DAY. A Partial History of Shirley Rossi’s Volunteer Work

Brownies: Leader

Kimberley Summer Theatre: Board Member

Women of the Moose: Banquets. Catering.

Kimberley Country Fair: Founding Member

United Way: Canvassing

Dynamiter Hockey: Booster Club. Concession Stands.

Julyfest/Winterfest: Board of Directors. Food Booth.

Mark Creek Lions: Pancake Breakfast.

Kimberley Old Time Accordion Championships: Food Services.

Rotary Club: Paul Harris Fellow for “Significant assistance for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among the people of the world.”

Kimberley Bavarian Society: Vice Chair/Board

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W: Jill Christie P: Court Forster This past spring, I journeyed afar to a soccer tournament that both my boys participated in. We had been camping, but the nature of their schedules had me cooking dinner between games. I backed my truck into a gravel spot that partnered up to a busy paved path along Kootenay Lake, dropped the tailgate, got my four-burner stove and cooler set up, and went to work: propane on, lighter lit, pots filled with water. While in the thick of my cheffery, I got the sensation that I was being watched. The first comments came from two sweet elderly women who were shuffling by, hands gripped onto each other’s wrists, heads down in deep dialogue. They asked what I was doing and I cheerily walked them through my set-up to which I was showered with remarks of “oh my” and “aren’t you clever?” As I was madly stirring pasta and chopping veggies, a couple of fellas in their late teens marched by. I could tell that they were trying to work out what was going on as my four-burner stove belted out heat and the water in my pots started to bubble. I heard whispered murmurings including, “That is so rad! My dad used to do that when I was young.” As I stirred the pasta that began to dance around in the tumultu-

ous liquid, a man with dreads and a hardcover book tucked under his arm politely stated, “bon appetit” as he thoughtfully sauntered past. There were several more comments and lots of inquisitive observers which caused me to reflect more deeply about where all this action was taking place – on the tailgate. Until that day I hadn’t considered the convenience and freedom that a mere tailgate has allowed me in my life. The experience reminded me that I have been utilizing tailgates for years (well, decades now). I have had many memorable (and barely-remembered) moments unfold on the backside of my truck tailgates starting with a 1971 Ford half-tonne. It was pastel yellow with a super loud muffler and lined in silver chrome. Its roaming grounds were the back roads of Southern Ontario and at that stage of my life, the tailgate mostly served as a table for drinks and a bed for sleeping on. Growing up on a tree farm, however, it had a variety of purposes related to wood: planting trees, gathering firewood, and brush clean-up (which was my father’s intended use of the purchase, not as a drink stand).

Throughout my university years, poverty would have it that tailgates were replaced by bike wheels, so I felt like I had died and gone to heaven when I got back into the business of tailgates with my red Toyota 4x4 pick-up! This purchase corresponded with my introduction to the life of a tree planter, where I came to realize that a truck could qualify as a home and a tailgate marked the front stoop! So I lived in that truck for months at a time – at first solo, then with my to-be husband, often accompanied by a couple of dogs. The red tailgate, with its bold white letters spelling “Toyota,” represented freedom and shelter with free rent. With a reef of the wrist, I would lower it down with its familiar skreeck and thump, hop in, lie down with candles, and catch some zzzz’s or read a book. Once again, the tailgate proved to be incredibly vital to my lifestyle as I cooked, sat and drank tea, slept in the sun, sorted gear, washed dishes and clothes, stretched, read books, brushed dogs, clothed myself, and swung my legs freely when I had time to spare. Endless opportunities with only a lift of a metal handle! Tailgates took on a whole new meaning of convenience when kids arrived and we upgraded to a Tundra. We could be anywhere, anytime and with a flick of the handle, I had myself a change table accompanied by a breast-feeding chair. It was also the wet clothing, nasty sock removal, add layers for cold temperatures, or replace clothes station. Our tailgate transformed into a gear bench where we put on and took off swimsuits and life jackets, ski boots, or snowshoes. I fed my kids on the tailgate in bumbos, feeding chairs, and eventually on their own behinds. It became an (unsanitary) first aid station where I doctored fingers, toes, knees, and noses. The tailgate was a place to huddle on and take refuge during a torrential downpour or when one of those unsuspecting Kootenay winds whipped up. It was a great slab for napping on or a temporary jail to put someone when I had been pushed to the limits that no parent likes to admit. All these available options, without bending my back, through the simple act of dropping the gate!

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Up until this point, I have not touched on many other uses of a tailgate that many of us average rural Canadians employ! It goes without saying that those metal benches help out in the tasks of firewood gathering and lumber hauling, while also serving as a mobile tool bench, chainsaw-sharpening spot, bike rack, and built-in dog water dish. The list of uses for tailgates could get really lengthy as there are as many uses as people who use them. It took a mere dinner at a soccer tournament to connect these thoughts for me. And now that I have come to recognize how versatile they are, I have a deeper appreciation. I can’t imagine my life without a tailgate in it! Multipurpose, strong, stores nicely, and only a handle away!

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