Kootenay Lake Pennywise November 6, 2012

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PAGE 20 Nov. 6, 2012 Pennywise

Tey Sang For A Can!Garbage is the greatest season-long bear attractant in the

Kootenays in all o BC. How do you convince people tomanage their garbage and to consider using bear-resist-ant garbage cans? You get them to sing!

You may have seen Bear Aware at various public eventshis summer with a large stufed bear in a red apron. Bear-sta Bear was advertising the Sing a Silly Bear song con-est. Kootenay Coop Radio (KCR) co-sponsored the con-

est that encouraged people to compose their own song, oradapt an old standard to come up with a song about bearsand garbage. Prizes included a large bear-resistant garbagecan (donated by the Nelson and District Credit Union),a smaller bear-resistant garbage can (donated by RollinsMachinery) and Oso Negro Cofee and kids t-shirts (do-nated by Oso Negro Cofee). Our judges were the PoliceChie Holland o Nelson City Police, Conservation O -cer Hawkes, RDCK Area E Director Faust and Nelson CityCouncillor Batycki.

Who won the prizes? All the entries were great. Our judg-es chose the Wildfower School and their Bear Aware Songas the overall winner. Anneke Rosch came second withWho Cares About Bears and Heartsong came third withDirty Old Bear. You can listen to the award announce-

ments (and the songs) on Kootenay Coop Radio podcastskootenaycoopradio.com/index.php?/radio-show/show/

kootenay_morning. Te songs are also posted on the BearAware Facebook page (www.acebook.com/BearAwareBC).

Te contest was great un, but it had a serious objective:

make people aware o managing garbage so that bears arenot drawn to garbage in our community. People can keepgarbage indoors or in a secure structure until the morningo collection (or until they take garbage to the landll);hey can reeze the smelly ood bits and put them in the

garbage just beore collection; or they can use a bear-re-istant garbage can.

Bear-resistant garbage cans are a solution or those whodo not have adequate secure or indoor garbage storage.However, the cans are not available or purchase in Nel-

on and area and are, in comparison to standard garbagecans, expensive. People have had to order rom the coast,or Alberta and have had to pay large shipping costs. A

elson resident, ea Preville, is trying to help Kootenayesidents solve this problem by putting together an order

o at least 50 cans to Rollins Machinery to reduce costs tondividuals who want to purchase a can. Tere is no protnvolved, just an opportunity to get a bear-resistant can

at a more reasonable cost. You can contact ea or morenormation, [email protected], 250-352-0333.

Tere have been at least 6 bears destroyed in Nelson andarea this summer, largely due to garbage. Please manageour garbage.

Learn more about identiying and managing bear at-ractants near your home by visiting www.bearaware.c.ca or emailing Joanne Siderius, Bear Aware Com-

munity Coordinator, at [email protected]. Visitour new acebook page

Trilling Evening In NelsonMark Nykanen, an internationally recognized master o

the psychological thriller will be hosting the launch o anew addition to the genre by rst time novelist and long-time resident, Bill Moore on uesday, November 13 atBooksmyth (338 Baker Street) in Nelson. Nykanen is theauthor o seven novels that have been widely praised in na-tional magazines and newspapers, both in North Americaand abroad. As an investigative reporter, he won an EdgarAllan Poe Award rom the Mystery Writers o America

and our national Emmys.Bill Moore does an extraordinary job writing rom the

points o view o numerous characters, including a whollyconvincing portrait o a killer and the moving emotionso young men and women coming o age, Nykanen said.Yellow Dog Comingis a searing tale that is brilliantly told and impossible to orget.

Moore has lived in the Kootenays since 1980 and is vis-ually impaired. Now 66, he has written all his lie, but Yel-low Dog Comingis the rst to be published.

I thought I might as well wait till I was almost blindbeore I hit the big time, he laughs. On one level, YellowDog Coming is a thriller, the story o two boys on a col-lision course in a small logging town. On a deeper levelit explores what happens when unthinkable trauma meetsunconditional love. As a social worker and educator, hehas worked with troubled youth throughout his lie.

Besides hosting the evening, Nykanen will read ex-cerpts and moderate a discussion. Te author will beon hand to sign copies o his book and the un beginsat 7:30 pm.

yler Scott WinsIke Barber ransfer Award

yler Scott, o Blewett, graduated with an Associateo Arts degree in Psychology rom Selkirk College thisspring, and now he has even one more reason to be proud:winning the Ike Barber ranser Award o $5000, to be dis-tributed over two years.

Awarded to 100 university-transer students each year,

this scholarship is intended to reward academic excel-lence, as well as contributions to community and schoolby helping ofset the costs associated with moving rom arural region, such as the West Kootenay-Boundary, to anurban centre to nish a degree.

Scott was able to complete the frst two years o hisour-year degree at home, or a raction o the cost. Hisgoal is to complete a PhD in anthropology and then doresearch abroad, improve peoples lives, and possiblyteach at a university.

I would like to inspire and help students learn, just like

the proessors at Selkirk did or me, Scott said o his Sel-kirk College experience.

Scott also won the $2000 University o Victoria transerscholarship where he is currently enrolled.

For inormation about starting your university degree atSelkirk College this all, go to www.selkirk.ca or call LindaHarwood, Chair o the School o University Arts and Sci-ences at 250-365-1394.


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