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Images clockwise top left: Train Westward Bound; Bruce Thomas­‑the man himself; Mother and Child Reunion; Sharp Hum of the Ocean; Out in the Rolling Fields; Carbon and Wire. Images by Bruce Thomas.

A Convergence Of Mediums

by John Devitt

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visit to Bruce Thomas’ website is an excursion into an immersive experience with an artist who is not limited to style. The site is rich with images, video, music and stories. Bruce plays here and there however the mood strikes him, like a child with toys at Christmas. When it comes to his art, Bruce is always trying to figure out how to better play with his new toys.

Bruce first moved to Revelstoke in 2010 and quickly became a fixture of the community, presenting his art and offering instruction at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre. Bruce experiments in many mediums, including paint and canvas, pen and ink, words, images, music…

“The root of my work is very tactile,” Bruce explains.

“I love the grain and the distortion and the ‘noise’ that things make.”

Bruce’s newest project takes his ‘analog’ foundation and pushes it further into the digital space creating high definition, moving sound paintings.

“I’ve been exploring the possibilities using a program called Resolume.”

Bruce is currently in Toronto, prepping a live, improvisational exhibit at Hideout Showspace, a gallery on Queen Street West. He explains over the telephone how the program works.

“The technology allows me to beat match sound with visuals. Light, music, video, smoke… In the past you had to have separate control rigs for each effect. It was very expensive, clunky and none of the systems cross-communicated well. In its latest permutation, Resolume allows me to do some really interesting stuff, using just one system.”

Bruce’s work with Resolume began in 2014 when he received a grant from the Columbia Basin Trust. His plan was to work with abstracts; black and white images and writing, to create ‘Subtle Reactor,’ a graphic novel.

“I realized I could use Resolume to experiment with the format and render the graphic novel in movement. Essentially, I create my piece, film it, render it and use the elements to create improvisational pieces, live.”

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Bruce’s newest project takes his ‘analog’ foundation and pushes it further into the digital space creating high definition, moving sound paintings.

his show on the road, stopping in 14 cities throughout the Kootenays. His current exhibition in Toronto is a natural extension of the 2014 tour.

“Getting out in front of people and just feeling it as I go was a great way to learn and create something live.”

Traditional technique has helped set Bruce apart from other digital artists.

“It’s really, really hard to digitally reproduce the grain of a nice, thick piece of water colour paper,” Bruce explains.

“So I don’t. I go home and create a water colour painting, giving it an organic depth of field before pushing it through a highly technical 3D rendering process, which all converges in my live exhibits.”

Convergence fascinates Bruce and permeates his art.

“Our generation is living in this age where movies, music, literature, all forms of media and expression are beginning to meld into one interlinked phenomenon. I am trying to gain a deeper understanding of this McLuhan-esque convergence of media, while using cutting edge technology and my traditional palettes to portray that.”

Bruce’s next project this fall will continue this theme as he partners with local musicians Simon Hunt and Steve Smith to develop a new, layered and textured sound, intuitively and dynamically tapping into the Kootenays.

“I love working with talented people and I’m really looking forward to getting back into the studio with these guys and finishing laying down the tracks on an album,” says Bruce.

To see more of Bruce’s eclectic pairing of visual and auditory mediums, visit his website brucethomas.ca.

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What's Your Adventure?

by Heather Lea

Adventure looks different to different people. This is something I notice when telling people my boyfriend and I are planning to travel around the world on our motorcycles starting this fall. Reactions to this news has been everything from wows and well-wishing to flat out fear for our well-being. This adventure, which you can read about at ridingfullcircle.com, is incomprehensible to some and a no-brainer to others. To me it’s somewhere in between.

Just as there are many different adventures there are many ways to describe adventure, typically defined as an exciting, risky, hazardous undertaking into unknown territory. This can mean anything from travelling around the world with your young family to quitting your job in search of something more fulfilling.

Adventurous activities create stirrings in our psyche that can be either positive or negative by way of excitement or fear. In some cases adventure becomes a lifelong pursuit, an obsession of sorts that is almost unquenchable the more adventurous the person becomes; as though there is no way to satiate. Is this good or bad?

In other cases going on an adventure is more simplified; a yearning to gain a new skill, knowledge, confidence in a chosen recreational activity; adventure as education, the activity’s environment the classroom.

When you think about it, the greatest of tales told again and again are epic stories of risk, excitement, danger and accomplishments—adventure. Earth its very self was and is discovered and explored through adventure. Advances in technology and science are also discovered the same way. Adventure can be eating coconut curry oatmeal (bit.ly/1Px8XZm) or by walking a new way to work.

Heck you can go on an adventure in your local Dollar Store where they sell hula hoops and stuff.

Reved reader Cassidy Fandrick describes her idea of adventure as, “exploring the unknown with the one whose company you enjoy the most. It means getting out of cell phone service, putting on your hiking boots and getting lost [for] awhile. Bring your lover, your best friend or a family member and you will end the time with more trea-

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Humans in various states of adventure.

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Anyone can have an adventure. You just have to think of any single thing that hauls you out of your everyday. sured memories than you could have possibly hoped.”

An anonymous reader says adventure is being able to get out of town and back in one day without the road closing in winter.

Adventure isn’t something unusual that exists only for those who are lucky. Adventure is life in general. What’s unusual is that we tend to get stuck in the daily grind. And why is this? Most of us crave something new and exciting from time to time or all the time. Life is an adventure. Life is not schedules and errands.

Despite writing this article, I don’t feel any closer to explaining adventure to myself or anyone who wants to know why we want to ride around the world. It’s like trying to explain love or happiness or the very meaning of life itself. (Which is adventure, right? Remember?)

Adventure is parenting. Adventure is working. Adventure is recreation, studying, walking, driving, dreaming and scheming.

Sounds like life to me.

If you exist you’re already in the midst of an adventure. Everyday when you wake up, you might have expectations for your day but you really don’t know what could happen do you? Maybe you’ll go to work, eat food or run some errands.

But all of that is just a basic plan or assumption for your day.

You could see someone you know, start talking and be completely diverted, mentally or physically, for the day. That in itself is an adventure. Adventures mean loose plans or no plans at all. Just think of any single thing that hauls you out of your everyday. Something that gives you fear and goosebumps yet is also something you know will enhance your life.

Your adventure doesn’t have to be huge. It doesn’t have to take months or years to plan or pull off. It doesn’t have to keep you just a hair short of death or render you insane. What about a mini-adventure? One that starts from simply walking out your front door. An adventure in your own neighbourhood, city or country.

All adventure really means is being human and doing something out of your ordinary.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. —Helen Keller

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hen Mat Rebelo first saw the Main Street Café for sale online he was half a world away, working as a private chef on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean.

“I thought it looked like a cool building with great potential,” the young chef recalls from his newly renovated restaurant. But six years ago the price tag was high and he and his partner Anna had yet to make Revelstoke their home. It was simply a musing, nothing more.

The pleasingly colourful heritage building with its steeply pitched roof and well-positioned patio has been comfortably situated on the corner of MacKenzie Avenue and Third Street since 1899. During its lifetime it has been a private residence, a workplace for the disabled and since 2003, a café. This spring, Mat realized his dream and purchased the Main Street Café and has been working about 12 hours a day, seven days a week ever since.

Mat began cooking for a living when he was a high school student in Quebec. At 18 he moved to Banff, AB where he met a cute Kiwi girl called Anna and found a job at The Keg as a dishwasher. Typically, it turned into prep cooking and then working on the line. The couple stayed in the Rockies for a couple of years before moving on, booking a one-way ticket to Anna’s homeland, New Zealand.

It didn’t take long for Mat and Anna to exhaust their respective work visas for New Zealand and Canada so they began looking for work elsewhere where Mat gained the bulk of his culinary experience. In France they found jobs on a super yacht, Mat working as a private chef and Anna as a stewardess and deckhand. It wasn’t as glamorous as it sounds, Mat assures me.

“It was me, Anna and the captain sharing a very small cabin cruising around Corsica.”

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restaurant in Hokaido before heading back to the Mediterranean. He and Anna worked for over two years on yachts cruising around France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Mat had the freedom to create his own menus and did all his shopping at markets where everything was fresh and local.

“People expect the top because they are paying 50 grand a week to be on the boat. It was good because there was no budget; you could buy what you want and some pretty good cooking wines too,” Mat says with a laugh.

When the time came to settle down a bit, Mat and Anna headed back to the mountains.

In Revelstoke, Mat worked as sous-chef at the 112 for three years. The Main Street Café was still for sale. It looked like the timing was right.

After taking ownership this spring, Mat closed the restaurant to renovate the interior.

The result is a light, airy space with artwork by Revelstoke painter, Francine Lanoie lending splashes of colour to the walls. Keeping it local, Mat hired Bob Walker of Revelstoke Tree Care to craft his countertops out of unwanted trees from local properties and Take to Heart Specialty Wood Products supplied the hefty post and beam that supports the ceiling where a wall used to be. A shiny antique stove from 1891 has been installed comfortably against a newly bricked-in wall serving as a place to keep the cream and sugar.

“I always liked it,” Mat tells me of the old stove he discovered in his landlord’s basement. The Italian family used it for canning and preserving.

Old apple crates serve as shelves, antique food tins have been reinvented as flower pots and glass milk jugs rest in a burlap lined wooden crate, perhaps reminding us of a time when cream was delivered to doorsteps by a man on horseback: simple décor reminiscent of yesteryear.

And like the décor, Mat’s cooking style is

Mat is a ‘from scratch’ kind of guy envisioning food the way it used to be; not processed.

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He is a ‘from scratch’ kind of guy envisioning “food the way it used to be; not processed.”

The new Main Street Café may look unchanged from the outside but everything is new inside and on the menu. Breakfast is a fun combination of Huevos Rancheros with black bean chilli, pico de gallo and corn tortillas to old classics like bacon and eggs.

There is a ‘Vegan Brunch’ with scrambled tofu, sundried tomato, spinach, mushrooms and homefries as well as decadent options like ‘Cheezy Apple French Toast’ with brie cheese, maple caramel apples and cinnamon crumble as well as a selection of crepes, bennies and omelettes. The hollandaise is made from scratch every morning and the maple syrup is real.

Classics on the lunch menu have creative twists like brie cheese, cranberry chutney and roasted garlic mayo on the Club Sandwich as well as roasted chickpeas in the Chicken Caesar wrap.

Lighter, healthy options like Kale Chickpea Salad and the Yam Quinoa Bowl share menu space with Blackened Fish Tacos and Banh Mi, an Asian style sandwich with braised pork shoulder, pickled vegetables and cilantro.

This past winter Mat and Anna were married in New Zealand and in January are expecting their first baby. Their journey has taken them from the mountains to the sea and back again.

Now the owner of an already established Revelstoke business, Mat’s experience and creativity stand to make the Main Street Café a key player in Revelstoke’s growing culinary scene.

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Preserving The Bounty (It’s Easier Than You Think)

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is the season for unruly squash plants and trees heavy beneath their burdens of ripening fruit. Not sure what to do with this fall’s cornucopia? Here are some easy ideas to ensure you have delicious, healthy food all winter long and keep the hungry bears away from your garden.

Winter Squash: These are the hard shelled squash like pumpkins whose wicked grins adorn so many stoops in late October. Squash are not just for carving though. To cook them, cut them in half or quarters, scoop out the seeds, lube up with some vegetable oil and roast skin side up in a moderate oven till soft. When cool, scoop out the flesh and process in a food processor or blender to make a smooth puree. This can be frozen in freezer bags for use all winter. Use it to make muffins and pies or stir it into macaroni and cheese. Warm it up, add a squirt of Dijon, some grated sharp cheddar, salt, pepper and maybe a splash of cream for an easy, healthy delicious cheese sauce.

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Summer Squash: Unlike winter squash, which will sometimes keep for months if stored in a cool, dry place, summer squash like zucchini must be eaten quickly. Trouble is they are so prolific lying willy-nilly around the garden defying you to think of ways to use them up before they rot. They can be grated and frozen for later use in breads or muffins. Or they can be chopped up, blanched for about a minute in boiling water, refreshed in an ice bath (this prevents them from overcooking and becoming soggy) then frozen in freezer bags.

They are a great addition to many comforting winter dishes like chilli, lasagne or spaghetti and sauce.

Tree Fruits: Don’t let the bears feast on your bounty. Keep it for yourself! Most fruits are easily turned into jam. Just simmer roughly equal parts chopped fruit to sugar in a heavy bottomed pot. To determine if it is ready, take a small amount and chill in the fridge. If it is too runny, cook for longer. If it is too stiff, it has simmered for a bit long so just add a bit of water to thin. Don’t have supplies for canning? Freeze your jam in yoghurt containers that you probably have lying around the kitchen.

Tomatoes: Tomato sauce can be so easy! Just chop your tomatoes and put into a heavy bottomed pot and simmer, stirring occasionally. It can easily take well over an hour or two to reduce all that liquid.

When thick, puree till smooth. Then simply pass through a sieve or China cap (a conical strainer) to remove seeds and bits of skin. This simple sauce can be canned or frozen and dressed up with beef, veggies, garlic, basil or whatever you like.

Do you have a dehydrator? So much can be done in a dehydrator.

My latest favourite is fruit leather, which can contain so much more than just fruit. Why not add a little beet to your blueberry or carrot to your peach and orange.

Puree the mixture with banana to thicken then add ground nuts and seeds to make it more substantial or yoghurt for a creamier flavour.

Fruit leathers are easier in a square dehydrator but a round one can work too. Simply cut parchment paper to fit your trays and spread your pureed mixture onto that. Be sure to make the edges a bit thicker than the middle.

Kale chips are expensive in the store but so easy to make from this hardy plant that can produce well into December. Simply remove the stems, wash the leaves and dry in a salad spinner or tea towel.

Toss in a big bowl with a little olive oil and salt. Feel free to experiment with adding nutritional yeast or parmesan cheese for different flavours. The chips are usually crispy after about three hours in the dehydrator.

Cherry tomatoes dry well, too. Cut them in half and dry them skin side down till the outsides are dry but the centres are still wet. Then toss in a large bowl with olive oil, fresh basil leaves and sliced garlic.

Freeze in bags removing as much air as possible. Partially drying the tomatoes intensifies their flavour while maintaining some of their natural juiciness. They can be used all winter in pizza, pasta, bruschetta or salad.

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Photos clockwise top right: Nelson jumping off the wall protecting the old city of Quebec. Rory, Nelson and Alexandra at the British Museum in London. Alexandra doing a cartwheel at Admiralty Arch in London. Alexandra excited to be at Buckingham Palace, London. Photos courtesy of Rory Luxmoore and Sarah Newton.

Home Away From Home

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One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. –­ Henry Miller ith our backpacks strapped on we said goodbye to our family and friends in Revelstoke and started on our journey around the world—a trip myself, my wife Sarah, our twelve year old son Nelson and ten year old daughter Alexandra, have been planning and saving for for many years. The idea was to explore outside our community and see the world and ourselves in a different light.

You don’t have to be rich to travel well. – Eugene Fodor Planning a trip of this magnitude was intimidating. The challenge was balancing the budget while creating meaningful, authentic experiences. One area of travel we did not want to empty our pockets into was accommodation. Staying in hotels is not only expensive but can also limit interactions with locals. Our research brought us to three organizations that helped us get closer to our goals (and not cost us a single cent in accommodation); Servas International, Warm Showers and WWOOF (no correlation to dogs).

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine Servas International is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that was established in 1949 in response to the horrors of World War II. The founder, Bob Luitweiller, wanted to promote world peace through person to person contact. Today there are 14,000 members in 128 different countries around the world. We became grateful members by securing a number of reference letters, writing letters of introduction and surviving an in-person interview. It did not take us long to reap the benefits of this impressive organization.

Our first Servas host was Diane Norman, a retired nutritionist, who has travelled to most corners of the world. We found her in Montreal sitting on her balcony awaiting the arrival of her tired backpacking guests. For several days we shared food, exchanged stories and toured the sights of the lively city. As we look forward to Europe and Asia in the months ahead we will peruse the confidential list of potential hosts for the countries of interest looking for a good fit. To find out more check out servas.org.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. – Saint Augustine WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) is an organization found in 99 countries that matches volunteer workers with or-

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Staying in hotels is not only expensive but can also limit interactions with locals.

ganic farmers. Unlike Servas where your stay may be limited to a few days, WWOOFers can stay from a few weeks to several months. One of our goals on our year off is to become more fluent in French language and culture. To that end, we have secured a three month stay on a dairy farm in the French Alps. In exchange for up to five hours of labour during the day we will be housed and fed, but more importantly be immersed in another culture. We may even learn how to make some smelly cheese. Check out wwoof.net.

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

– Tim Cahill For several years we have been fortunate enough to meet travellers from around the world through the Warm Showers organization. In the summer months we find ourselves opening our doors several times a month to travelling cyclists eager for some company and hospitality.

This welcoming organization matches cyclists with hosts. These short stays have developed lasting relationships and an opportunity for us to reciprocate our hospitality. There are 65,000 members scattered from Afghanastan to Zimbabwe. We found a willing family in Quebec City who opened their house to us for several days. If you are a travelling cyclist you may want to check out warmshowers.org.

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher With access to meaningful organizations such as Servas, WWOOF and Warm Showers we can get closer to seeing the moon from different parts of our earth and make connections with people outside our local communities.

In the process you could return home with a refreshed perspective on life and a few shekels still left in your pocket.

You may also want to check out a couple of other international accommodation organizations. HelpX is a similar platform to WWOOF and is gaining popularity worldwide. Search helpx.net.

Coachsurfing can offer similar benefits to Servas without all the paperwork. Check out couchsurfing.com.

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hese days we do not practice enough self-love. We are bombarded by consumer marketing ideals of how we should look and by things we must buy in order to feel satisfied. Self-help and professional development implies we are not good enough. Social media has us comparing our weekend plans with everyone else. Sometimes, we need to just give ourselves a hug. Other times, we need to masturdate.

Masturdating is an intentional pun, allegedly first coined by Conan O’Brien. This seemingly lewd act is basically just an ordinary date but done so alone with the sole objective of impressing, charming and bewitching one’s self. After all, haven’t you spent more than enough attention on others?

There are a few things to remember if you’re going to enter into a relationship with yourself. First off, taking yourself out alone is not the same as being alone. There are different types of ‘alone.’

There’s the alone that makes you feel lonely and then there’s just being ‘not with other people’ alone like when you’re out for groceries.

This is pretty much the default state of our existence. Being intentionally and actively alone while focusing on one’s self is far more enlightening. You too can enjoy the benefits of masturdating, if you remember these simple steps: 1. Take it slow.

You might be a little nervous or even embarrassed to take yourself out for dinner, so go easy. Don’t jump straight into dining alone in a busy restaurant where everyone can stare and judge you for being alone. Start out with a movie in the dark where everyone has paid money to stare at something else.

2. Dance like no one is watching.

Take that message above posted on social media pages everywhere by young women—and some men—and let it haul you out of

your comfort zone. Get somewhere you can be fairly certain no one you know will see you, if you care, and just cut loose. Try going out of town to a concert or sporting event.

3. Explore new interests.

The actual dating of other people gives you an opportunity to leave your comfort zone and learn new things. Same with masturdating; take some time to get fascinated with yourself. See how far it can go. Do you like to paint? Time to find out! Maybe you like scuba diving. Or not! But how will you know? It’s time for some new adventures. Put yourself out there. Make sure you do whatever it takes to hold the attention of your self. There’s nothing worse than a boring date.

4. Make it special.

This isn’t some sort of internet chat room hook up thing. This is you we’re talking about. It’s time to put on some nice clothes, shave and maybe even buy yourself some flowers. It’s important you demonstrate how important you are to yourself. This is the key to a successful self date.

5. Don’t be afraid to go over the top.

If you’ve followed the steps carefully, then you should be ready for the ultimate masturdate; the solo dinner. You’ve graduated to taking yourself out to a swanky restaurant. Splurge on the surf and turf platter and a nice bottle of wine. Reminisce about the first time you met your self and laugh about all the best memories and adventures you’ve had over the course of your relationship.

However you approach the newly developing mastudating scene, just remember: Spending more time alone gives you an opportunity to discover yourself and find your own voice, as well as having the benefit of enhancing the quality of your relationships with others.

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ure, $1,500 isn’t exactly a fortune in the music biz. It’s nowhere near the investment indie-artists typically need in production and marketing costs to make it on the world stage. But wait and see how far it goes for Christine Amelio.

Nina Amelio (her stage name) took home a $1,500 cash prize this summer from FACTOR—the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings—for her song Who Do You Think You Are. The Canadian government-funded FACTOR stipulates money be put towards recording, making it a first for the Revelstoke-raised singer-songwriter now living in Castlegar, who’s set to record another single and— who knows—maybe stretch that modest sum around the world.

Who Do You Think You Are has already had airtime in the UK, Italy and Denmark as well as an LA, California indie station with 600,000-plus listeners, says Nina.

The song—about bucking abusive relationships and not getting hurt again—has wide appeal.

It was a semi-finalist contender as voted by industry pros in Unsigned Only, a worldwide talent competition for artists not signed to a major music label. And it placed Top 10 on CBC’s Searchlight Competition regional finals.

“It’s a really important song to me,” says Nina, explaining she experienced bullying and abuse in her own life. She co-wrote the song with Mark Zubek of Zedd Records in Toronto over Skype and e-mail. When the two met in-studio Nina laid down vocals over Zubek’s keys, bass, guitar and drums.

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“He’s amazing—one of the best producers I’ve worked with,” she says, adding, “not that I’ve worked with many.”

The result is a bold, bouncy single with attitude and the lyrics: Who do you think you are / Remember that I’m the star / If you play me one more time / I’m out, I’m out.

The 26 year old spent her formative high school years in Revelstoke. She was voted Revelstoke Princess in 2006 and has been a B.C. Ambassador for Revy but more recently spent 2014 playing shows in the province.

You may have caught her playing Revelstoke’s Grizzly Plaza during 10-year homecoming last summer.

She says she had the good fortune to gain vocal training and mentorship from Canadian jazz singer Cheryl Hodge. Nina is herself now a vocal teacher at Supercat Studios in Castlegar.

Her plan is to record that second song with the grant money, then try to get licensing deals for one or both songs. On whether to continue her music career in B.C., Nina is torn. Thanks to social media, she says, it’s easier to market and distribute music from anywhere.

But it still is not great to live in a little mountain town if she wants to tour and do more high-profile shows.

“So, maybe Toronto,” she says with a question mark, “but a U.K. tour is not out of the realm of possibility. I have no idea where this is going at all. I’m just enjoying it.”

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Hunters and warriors spent their days crafting equipment and honing their accuracy to execute a perfect shot when needed most.

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rchery was a way of life through this valley when a precise shot determined your survival. Bow and arrows were used to defend territories and feed families in a time when First Peoples lived here and the land was still wild. This lifestyle is rarely considered in today’s world but a small group of locals are still flinging arrows. It’s a challenging activity that can turn into a passion.

The origin of the name Arrow Lakes is derived from arrows being shot into an overhanging rock ledge south of Nakusp. Several historical interpretations reveal the history of Arrow Rock, which includes stories of war victories and rituals.

These remarkable recollections enlighten us on an unimaginable existence from our modern day perspective. Hunters and warriors spent their days crafting equipment and honing their accuracy to execute a perfect shot when needed most. Archery skills were developed through patience, determination and good old-fashion target practice. It takes balance, coordination and control to become a proficient marksman.

Archery craftsmanship is still alive in Arrow Lakes where Clark Dennill carves wooded longbows from locally harvested yew wood.

His title, Master Bowyer, has been earned from more than two and half decades of shaping bows.

People voyage from around the globe to take part in Clark’s bowmaking workshops at his residence in Nakusp. Students start with an aged yew stave and end with a highly functional piece of art after days of carving, sanding and learning the unique grain.

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harvesting before it’s sculpted into a magnificent bow, for which Clark is renowned.

He also creates arrows, which are designed to match the specific bow for the optimum flight path to precision.

Whether you’re shooting a traditional wooden bow or a state of the art carbon fibre bow, you’re dealing with a high powered weapon capable of hunting large animals. Hunting season starts this fall with the twang of a bow string instead of the bang of a gun. This is because the Bow Only Season for deer, elk, moose and turkeys begins 10 days ahead of the rifle hunting season in most areas. The head start allows stealthy bow hunters an opportunity to track game before the sound of rifle shots spook creatures into hiding.

Archery is booming in popularity. It became an Olympic sport in 1972 and has gained mass momentum in recent years due to primetime exposure on TV shows such as The Hunger Games. Heroic archers continue to dazzle audiences with their poise on the big screen and they are creating a following.

Revelstoke archery has a small following of people who enjoy the challenge of target practice or the thrill of pursuing wild game.

To get involved in the local scene join the Revelstoke Rod and Gun Club, that has a designated shooting range and an archery committee. There are several archery clubs in our neighbouring towns and a provincial association if you are interested in competing.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man.

When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the case of his failure in himself.­—Confucius

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by Erica Maltby

s some of you may have noticed the public boulevard opposite the pool has recently had a strip of beautiful native garden mowed. This six foot strip—a thriving habitat for bees, toads and many other critters—has been reduced to a mere shadow of its former glory, left to whither and brown in the summer heat. This is ‘just six more feet’ of a formerly rich riverside ecosystem. But when do we decide that ‘just 6 more feet’ is enough?

I was born and raised in Revelstoke. For most of my 25 years I have had the privilege of calling 512 Boyle Avenue home. When I was three we made the big move from 510 Boyle Avenue to 512 Boyle Avenue. My parents have an even longer history on that block.

My familys'’ time there predates the fire hall, the glacier condos, the police station and the new pool and accompanying parking lot.

My parent, Clara and Francis Maltby, moved to Revelstoke searching, like many others at the time, for their slice of this mountain paradise.

What they found was a downtown residential area that was rich with nature—massive cottonwood trees, beautiful meadows and urban forests. Then, six feet at a time, nature was cut back. The construction of the pink Glacier Townhomes at 511 Boyle Avenue took away part of the meadow. Shortly after completion, the rest of the meadow was mowed despite conditions in the development permit indicating otherwise. The cottonwoods that provided bank support and shaded the riparian ecosystem beneath its canopy mysteriously died and were consequently chopped down.

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Top photo: Erica Maltby (right) with friend Maryjoy Marshall in 2012. Photo: Francis Maltby. Before, (two left bottom photos), 512 Boyle Ave shortly after moving in/during development of the Glacier Townhomes around 1993, and after (two right bottom photos), summer 2012. Photos: Francis Maltby

The development of the pool wiped out beautiful evergreens that cooled and provided shade for the original community centre.

The parking lot that followed leveled a beautiful deciduous forest that afforded privacy to the residents now overlooking the lot. Six feet at a time, we have cut back habitat for other living things that are essential to our survival.

We think of habitat loss as something that happens ‘out there’.

It is seen as a problem caused by logging and building pipelines.

But as so often happens when we disconnect ourselves from nature we neglect to look in our own backyards where we have a very real ability to affect change.

Much of the food we eat is made possible because of a pollinator. The same pollinators we are killing off at alarming rates—the bees and the butterflies that would benefit greatly from natural landscapes and flowering yards. So why then are we placing such significance on the ‘aesthetic value’ of short manicured grass? These areas essentially amount to a green deserts, providing no food or shelter for these pollinators that are critical to our survival.

We have the opportunity to do something truly remarkable with the boulevard at 512 Boyle Avenue. The boulevard plays host to hundreds of bees, insects, western toads (a listed species), birds, bats and more. To use this as an open door for education on what actually happens in a self-sustaining ecologically conscious yard would be a wonderful thing.

This isn’t about not mowing your yard—although that is a great place to start. You have to take the time to pull what’s invasive and do the proper clipping and trimming of certain flowers and grasses before they go to seed.

A “no mow” yard is not a representation of someone who is lazy— although that is what the stigma supports. My family spends countless hours in the yard making sure everything is healthy and thriving.

As such the decision of the council to mow a portion of the boulevard came as a devastating blow. This decision was made behind closed doors, without consulting their environmental advisory committee, and with willful disregard for support garnered through an online petition.

Going forward we must strive to hold our council accountable to their own bylaws supporting such native spaces on city property, bringing nature back to our urbanized areas. Nature is no longer just ‘out there.’ It permeates our everyday environments so we can take ownership and care for the world around us. We could begin with ‘just six more feet.’

The native garden at the 512 Boyle Avenue boulevard exists partially on public land—much like the various ecosystems that once existed in this area. This never was about where the property line falls or what my preference is over my neighbors. This is about the bigger picture. This is about doing our part to help save the critters that are important to our survival. In Revelstoke, our Official Community Plan supports native green spaces—now it’s time we learn how to support them too.

This never was about where the property line falls or what my preference is over my neighbors.’

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Can You Can? KidsCAN!

by Melissa Hemphill

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he recently formed Revelstoke Local Food Initiative Society (LFI) and the Revelstoke Bear Aware Society (RBAS) are teaming up once again to help reduce wildlife attractants in town while harnessing an awesome, abundant food source. This year Revelstoke youth have the opportunity to really sink their teeth into the kidsCAN! Gleaning & Canning Project with a new twist; for the 2015 fruit season the NCES and RBAS are planning to involve youth in all aspects of this project, from picking fruit (gleaning), designing labels and posters, processing the fruit (dehydrating and canning) and, new this year, selling the goods. As in the past, a portion of the products will be donated to the food bank in addition to fresh fruit donations but this year LFI and RBAS are hoping to sell the remaining products to raise funds for running the project again next year.

Each project non-profit societies like Bear Aware and the LFI run require grant or donated money to hire coordinators and to cover expenses. The grant application process is time-consuming and unreliable, so societies try to find creative ways to raise some of their own income. This approach has brought a third partner on board with the kidsCAN! Gleaning & Canning Project: Axis Mundi, the people behind the Harvest Festival taking place in Revelstoke September 18-20th. As part of their festival, Axis Mundi wanted to team up with a local non-profit and help to fundraise and support a community project. In response, Axis Mundi has launched a crowdsourcing campaign to raise donations for the kidsCAN! Gleaning & Canning Project. Check out gofundme.com/kidscanproject to learn more about the campaign and to donate.

They are hoping that people from Revelstoke and all over the world see the value in cleaning up unused fruit in an effort to reduce the attraction for wildlife to come into town for food.

Seeing bears in town and in our backyards each summer is an exciting reality that rarely ends well for the bear.

Bears that find food sources in towns can become habituated and can act aggressively to maintain their access to rich food sources. Problem bears are sometimes relocated (usually returning within a year or less) but more often they need to be destroyed in order to keep people and property safe. Revelstoke Bear Aware shares that “on average, seven bears are destroyed each year in Revelstoke (10 in 2014) with a staggering record number of 53 black bears and two grizzlies destroyed in 1988 and, last year, 25 sightings of black bears in town in one day.”

The LFI and Bear Aware were fortunate to receive a small grant from BC Hydro’s Environment Fund to get the project rolling. Bernardin Canada has also donated cases of jars for canning. Apart from the obvious costs of renting a kitchen and the canning supplies there is a fair bit of background work that will go into this project. From knocking on fruit tree owners` doors, to rallying volunteers and kids, processing the fruit and managing donations and sales, the coordinator for this project will have their hands full. To volunteer with this project get on the gleaning e-mail list by sending a note to beaware@telus.net.

This year Revelstoke youth have the opportunity to really sink their teeth into the kidsCAN! Gleaning & Canning Project with a new twist.

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Murder And Shenanigans In The Brothels Of Farwell

by Alison Lapshinoff

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ver a well-tended lawn a weathered headstone stands. Beneath faded Japanese characters the English inscription simply reads: “Jennie, Japanese.” The headstone has been there near the centre of Revelstoke’s Mountain View Cemetery for 110 years.

The story of Jennie Kiobara is a sad one.

Taken from her home in Japan, Jennie was brought to Canada to work as a prostitute. According to police record, she had been in Revelstoke since at least 1903. On April 19, 1905, she was found murdered in her home, a brothel on Front Street in Revelstoke’s then-named Red Light District.

In the early days of the 20th century, Revelstoke’s main business district was located along Front and Douglas Streets next to the river. This area was known as Farwell after a surveyor, who laid claim to the land. A map of Front Street businesses produced by Revelstoke resident and historian Earle Dickey (1893-1954) shows 12 saloons, eight hotels, three general stores, two dance halls, a doctor’s office, a drug store, a barber, a blacksmith, a butcher, a tinsmith and four or five brothels. Indeed the quiet area we now know as Lower Town was once a hive of activity.

Some of the shenanigans of the time were described in a 1965 interview with Doug Abrahamson conducted by Imbert Orchard for the purpose of keeping a historical account of life in Revelstoke in the early 20th century. Doug was a Swede who came west working for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1885. He settled in Revelstoke and built and ran a hotel in town.

“Oh, the Red Light District, oh Lord, yes! I could tell you all about that!” the transcript of his interview records.

“On Front Street and on the riverbank side there was Della Powers,” he began. “She had

the lush place of the town if you understand what I mean. It was the place where they had all the big wine parties. These business men, even though they might go to church on Sunday, they did have their wine parties. Continuing down the same side of the street there was Black Mary’s, as the name tells you, she ran a coloured house.

“There was a house we used to call it the French house.”

Doug continued. “Another house owned by Grace O’Neil and then cutting across the avenue going across over toward Douglas Street there was Blanche McDonald’s to the left and on the other side opposite to her was the old Del Monte house. I don’t know how many girls she would have in there. Going towards uptown right behind ‘em was Alice Langford’s. Across the street was the two Jap houses. Now those were all active when I was a kid.”

That was a lot of girls to service the needs of Revelstoke’s early pioneer males. A western frontier town populated primarily by working class single men, catering to their appetites must have indeed created a thriving industry.

And needless to say, things got a little heated from time to time.

“You want something sensational?” Doug asked the interviewer. “All right, we’ll give you one. So long as you rub it out because the people concerned are still living. This happened recently in just around the very early ‘20s.”

Doug continued, somewhat reluctantly, by the sounds of it.

He tells a tale of a prostitute known as Bullfaced Marie. It appears she wanted out of Alice Langford’s place and into another brothel run by Lillian Douglas so a faked telegram was sent saying she was wanted at home right away.

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“Some dynamite was procured up at the big tunnel they were driving then, the Connaught Tunnel,” Doug explained. “This charge of dynamite was put under this [Lillian’s] house and the house was blown.”

Alice Langford was committed for trial in August of 1922 on the charge of attempted murder.

Doug Abrahamson, the first paid fireman in Revelstoke, recalls another incident involving Alice Langford’s house of ill-repute. When the fire department purchased a new engine, they wanted to take it for a trial run so they sent a fellow down to a gutted home in Lower Town with a can of coal oil to set the place alight. The affair was botched when the fire engine took a wrong turn and ended up at a dead end at the top of what is now the First Street hill. The fire grew, spreading to Alice’s place. One can only imagine the verbal lashing those fellows got from the fiery Scandinavian madam as her eaves burned.

As for Jennie, her murder was never solved.

Her tombstone was paid for by Wah Chung, a wealthy Chinese merchant believed to be her pimp and lover, who owned the house in which she lived.

Jennie was treated with contempt by the other Japanese of the community. The article in the Kootenay Mail about the murder investigation ends sadly.

“The Japanese and women of the neighbourhood refuse to assist the police by giving information. They say that the woman was no good and not worth hanging a man for.”

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Photos left, clockwise: "Santa!"; playing in the mud; the Thea-fied lights of Thea's rig; the miner; driving with a smile and a stash; her home digs; Thea the miner; a girl and her dog and a teepee.

Photos courtesy of Thea Gray.

f you were once soaking in a hot tub and got sprayed by a snowplow that was (probably) Thea Gray. (She’s really very sorry.) If you ever watched an RV on fire in the Nomad parking lot, that was also her doing. If you ever went to an epic teepee party at Nine Mile, yep, her old place.

Her recent career as a truck driver started on a steep learning curve. (“Let’s just say Vernon’s still missing its stop sign,” she jokes, not joking.) She cut her tooth, that is, the teeth of the snowplow she was driving, on the guardrail of the Mica dam bridge, leaning her side-wing plow up against it just enough to clear snow and not go over. She calls her work ‘sporty' and her last gig as a bush driver in Hinton, AB? She calls this the best job in the driving world.

“It’s cowboy-up. It’s pretty full on. You get to chain up and play in the mud. It can be really fun.”

It’s a far cry from Thea's double-clutching days practicing for a Class 1. Now she’s “slamming gears like nobody’s business” wearing sunglasses and a moustache and getting cheeky on the CB. She, in addition to taking an astrology course, also reads “super-huge rednecks” their horoscopes.

“It’s like, OK Pisces, today…”

She feels at home on the job.

“I have two doors, locks and it’s my own space. I deal with customers and it’s smiles and sunshine then I get back in my truck and keep karaoke-ing. I love that.”

Forgiving, of course, the errant splashes of street sleet when she couldn’t get the plow up in time, Thea is the perfect neighbour. She’s a woman of countless rugged life skills whose doula-ship has helped bring 15 babies into the world and, best of all, she’s not around all that much. She's either driving or in the bush, where she’s at her best.

“I just need my bush time, you know?” says Thea from where she's currently living in Hinton, a day or two before heading back into the bush.

Thea has been living off and on in Revy since the age of 15. When she is here, you’ll find her south of town on the flats but currently she hangs near Hinton or Golden, coming back to Revelstoke for births.

“I have a really nice connection that way.”

Thea was born in Whitehorse—“almost in a snow bank and that’s a true story,” she says. Her dad was a bush pilot with the Yukon Game Branch and also a musician. “So, I had a pretty rad childhood.”

She describes days spent as a three-year-old flying around helping her dad transplant mountain goats, keeping them cool on hot days with a hose when they landed at gas stations.

She refers to him lovingly as a complete redneck who trims his trees with a .22—“about as red as they go”’—but credits her stepdad, who came into her life early on. He was the one Thea credits for getting her into the great outdoors differently. She was backcountry touring with him at the age of six.

“Loved it. Loved it, loved it,” she remembers fondly.

Thea Gray is the perfect neighbour.

She’s a woman of countless rugged life skills whose doula-ship has helped bring 15 babies into the world and best of all she’s not around all that much.

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She moved to Revy in Grade 10, the daughter of the town’s two psychologists, which is probably another story altogether, and she began cross-country ski racing competitively. She moved to Canmore for skiing until she met and fell in love with a European man she would marry and “drop skiing like a hot rock,” she says.

The two took off on a two-month Arctic expedition beginning in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut where they saw muskox and even more boulders that resembled muskox, but that they skied hours to see up close, and called them ‘muskrocks.’

The two married when Thea was 21. They planned to fly a Justice of the Peace up onto Begbie for the ceremony. But as they approached the glacier, rain and fog rolled in so thick they barely had SAT phone use. So, they just did the wedding at Thea’s teepee.

“Oh yeah, I lived in teepee for nine years,” she juts in.

The wedding party congregated at her cone home at Nine Mile, and, naturally, it was epic. (When she uses ‘epic’ to describe stories, it actually is.) The wedding video is punctuated by her mother-in-law’s screams as a black bear circled the teepee three times.

Another one of her homes, an RV she named War Pony, used to be parked at 12-mile. But War Pony went up in a blaze of glory one afternoon stopping for a burger at the Nomad.

“Fire trucks pulled up and it was really embarrassing,” she says. It wasn’t her first car fire. A few years earlier her Ford Festiva also went up in flames. “All these epic things happen to me in Revelstoke.”

She and her husband are divorced now, “but [the marriage] was amazing,” she says, adding, “I’m currently in love with an Alberta redneck.”

Their next golden opportunity may be the untouched wilderness around Golden; Thea compares it to Revy, which she says is being bombarded by dirt bikes and quads.

“It’s changing. Golden has that wildness to it still.”

Or it may be a gold-prospecting gig, “digging holes and smashing rocks,” as she puts it.

Her backcountry savvy and the Yukon gold in her blood make her highly sought by geologists. More likely for now she’ll take an even more grueling down to earth job as a new mom. She says with a laugh and about eleven e’s: “I think I’m going to bre-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-d! You can write that down.”

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