Nelson Star, April 08, 2015

Reliving the devastation of the Johnson’s Landing slide

Mandy Bath stands beside what remains of her rustic Kootenay home, which was damaged by an initial slide and fully destroyed by a second one in July 2013. She continues to retrieve discovered belongings to this day, and is searching for a precious jewelry cabinet. Photo by Will Johnson

Reliving the devastation of the Johnson’s Landing slide

Beneath Kootenay Joe Ridge

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In the moments a� er an apoca-lyptic surge of churned-up earth and toppled trees � attened Man-dy Bath’s rustic Johnson’s Land-ing home, chasing her into Koote-nay Lake while a terri� ed TV crew � lmed nearby, she sat trembling in the back of her friends’ boat amidst

the settling waves and stared dis-consolately at the destruction.

“It doesn’t occur to you that life will end on this day, and it will never be the same again. You just don’t believe it. It was a moment of reality for me. � at’s when I realized everything was lost.”

Bath had returned to the site looking for her cat, an endeav-our she now recognizes as foolish.

“People in trauma are danger-

ous because they get mad ideas. I got this mad idea I was going to go search for Ozzie. Everyone begged me not to go, and I didn’t hear any of it. I was hellbent and determined be-cause here was something I could do.”

Nearly three years later, Bath has now published her personal account of the slide’s destruction, Disaster in Paradise. � is week the Star accom-panied Bath to the landslide site to

see how the community has coped in the years since the catastrophic event.

Ignoring the signsBefore rounding the head of

Kootenay Lake towards John-son’s Landing, Bath led the Star to a vantage point ideal for viewing the slide’s path. A co� ee-coloured scar bisects the slope vertically.

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And though nobody anticipated the slide, according to Bath’s book there were plenty of signs that it was imminent. � e trouble: nobody was quali� ed to interpret them.

“I would look at these giant trees that have been there for hundreds of years, for much longer than this tiny blip when we’re alive, and � gure nothing was going to change.”

� at denial is typical of humans, she said, as we’ve continued to ignore global warming, pollution and other ecological crises. As disruptive weather events become more common, she feels survivors need to tell their stories as a community service, seeing as readers may one day be in the same boat.

And Johnson’s Landing makes for a par-ticularly unique case, as the event centres around an eccentric rural community ill-served by the some of the government’s policies.

Later that a� ernoon, while showing the Star the damage up close, Bath said the four people killed in the slide would have had only seconds before their houses and their lives were pulverized beyond recognition.

“As we’re standing here it’s quite dry and gravelly, but during the slide all of this was super saturated. It was gloopy mud that seeped into everything.”

And though giant uprooted trees still jut-ted out of the landscape like broken bones, freshly-planted trunks 10-inches tall sur-rounded her on all sides.

“Life keeps going,” said Bath. Remembering the victims

On the small uncovered corner of Pe-tra Frehse’s property that remains, a small memorial has been erected for her with a bear sculpture constructed from a saw blade, a plaque and a carefully balanced spherical rock.

Bath sat on the bench nearby as she de-scribed her deceased friend.

“Petra was from Germany and this was her soul-home,” she said, reminiscing about Frehse’s love of bears and her cute home. And though her body was never recovered, Bath doesn’t believe she su� ered.

� e same is true of Valentine Webber and his daughters Diana and Rachel, who were killed while eating breakfast. Bath described in detail her memory of the fam-

ily, and mused about Diana’s burgeoning screenwriting career.

“It was this terrible, totally avoidable thing,” she said, noting the daughters didn’t even live in Johnson’s Landing.

“But it was the same timing that took me to Kaslo an hour and a half earlier. It’s unbelievable to try to comprehend.”

Further down the slope a memorial the locals are calling Diana’s Tombstone marks the spot her body was discovered. Around

the base they’ve heaped heart-shaped stones.“We’re always � nding heart-shaped rocks

around there. It’s just one of those signs that keeps showing up,” she said.

As if to prove her point, a few moments later Bath found a perfectly heart-shaped rock on the slope and placed it among the others.

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‘I realized everything was lost’

Mandy Bath sits beneath Kootenay Joe Ridge, surveying the destruction wrought by the Johnson’s Landing slide of July 12, 2013. Now nearly three years later, she has written a book about her experience called Disaster in Paradise. This week-end she accompanied the Star to the site. Photo by Will Johnson

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Should Nelson’s � re� ghters and po-lice o� cers be paid the same wage rates as their counterparts in Vancouver? Or should their wages be independent of the big city and based on local economic con-ditions? � ose questions are at the heart of the city's labour negotiations with both of those groups.

In their most recent contract, the police got a pay increase of 21 per cent over � ve years (4.5 per cent in 2008 and 2009, and 4 percent in 2010, 2011, and 2012.)

� at resulted in Nelson police o� cers' wages ranging from a probationary of-� cer at $62,052 per year to a sergeant at $102,467 per year. � at agreement expired in 2012 and so far there is no sign of the beginnings of negotiations for a new one.

Waiting for Vancouver?� e city and the Nelson Police Associa-

tion have not started labour negotiations yet because it bene� ts the union to wait until its Vancouver counterpart signs an agreement. And that usually takes a while.

Former mayor John Dooley expressed dissatisfaction with this at a council meet-ing in 2013, saying that “there is no point in trying to negotiate with them” because the police and � re unions insist on waiting for big city agreements that they can use as a precedent. (� e city’s agreement with the International Association of Fire Fighters also expired in 2012, and the same issue applies.)

Nate Holt, a Nelson police o� cer and the head of the Nelson Police Association, says waiting is justi� ed.

“I know we have been criticized in the past for trying to follow on big city con-tracts,” Holt said in a recent interview with the Star, “but from our point of view what we are trying to do is let those bigger enti-ties spend the big dollars and do the heavy li� ing and go to arbitration if necessary and � nd out where the base line [for wage rates] is.”

Arbitration and essential servicesPolice and � re employees in BC are

prohibited by legislation from striking. So if they cannot come to an agreement

with their employer, an arbitrator must be called in to make a binding decision.

Arbitration can be costly, and according to Holt can run from $20,000 to $50,000 for each side, depending on the complex-ity of the issues. � ose are big dollars for a small police local and a small city like Nelson.

Vancouver’s newest contract with its po-lice force, signed in 2014, went to arbitra-tion and resulted in an increase of 2.33 per cent each year for three years. � e result is that the basic rate for a � rst class constable in Vancouver will be $92,165 in 2015. � e corresponding rate in Nelson under its ex-pired agreement is $81,647 — a di� erence of about 12 per cent.

Of the 12 cities in BC including Nel-son that employ their own police forces, Oak Bay and Central Saanich are the only two that are approximately the size of Nel-son. Police employees in those two cities have recently signed wage agreements that match Vancouver’s.

According to Nelson’s 2013 annual re-port, policing and bylaw enforcement ac-counted for 10 per cent of the city’s opera-tions budget that year.

“Both of the associations [police and � re unions] are in� uenced by a provincial mandate,” says city manager Kevin Cor-mack, who heads bargaining for the city. “� ey want to know what the settlements are primarily in the Lower Mainland be-fore they are willing to engage in meaning-ful bargaining at the local level.

“In Nelson we focus on completing the collective agreements � rst that are totally bargained at the local level, being IBEW [Nelson Hydro] and CUPE [most other city workers],” Cormack said.

Nelson negotiated agreements with the IBEW and with CUPE in 2014.

About 75 per cent of Nelson’s operat-ing budget goes to wages and bene� ts, and much of that is governed by collec-tive agreements between the city and four unions: IAFF, NPA, CUPE, and IBEW. Ne-gotiations of those collective agreements don’t o� en make the news, but they have a huge impact on the budget, the services the city o� ers, and its relationship with its sta� .

How much do Nelson � re� ghters make?

� e last time the 11 members of the

Nelson local of the IAFF negotiated with the city an arbitrator had to be called in. � e resulting decision was 6.5 per cent in 2008, 6.5 per cent in 2009, and 5.75 per cent in 2010 and 2011, for a combined in-crease of 24.5 per cent over four years.

Annual wages, not including bene� ts, for Nelson � re� ghters under that expired agreement range from a probationary � re-� ghter at $53,592 to the assistant � re chief at $95,700 based on a 42-hour work week.

� e 2008-12 agreement brought � re-� ghters from 86 per cent of the provincial average wage rate to their current 94.5 per cent, according to Mark � ibault, who heads the Nelson local of the IAFF. He says Nelson and Fernie are the lowest paid of the 52 professional municipal � re depart-ments in the province.

� e � rst signs of movement toward a new agreement for the Nelson local of the IAFF is a � rst meeting with the city tenta-tively set for May, says � ibault. He says the time lag of a few years before starting to negotiate is not unusual.

“It is not one side or the other dragging their feet,” he said. “It is kind of a mutual thing. Rather than make a mistake that might drag us into an arbitration later, it is cheaper to let it sit and see what the rate is going to be.

Trying to catch up“Our main goal is to catch up. I know

we are not going to get what Vancouver does. But I used to be a teacher and when I got into the � re service I was comparing the wages, and I realized we make less than teachers do. But teachers make the same wage across the province, so if teachers are allowed to make the same across the province, why not � re� ghters?”

According to the city’s 2013 annual re-port, � re protection accounted for � ve per cent of the city’s operations budget that year.

Having two collective agreements run-ning far beyond their expiry date can make it di� cult for the city sta� to budget accu-rately. � ey know they will have to pay out a lump sum retroactive payment sometime in the future, but they don’t know when or how much. Chief � nancial o� cer Colin McClure says he budgets for increases that are close to the in� ation rate. � e average in� ation rate in Canada was 0.94 in 2013 and 1.9 in 2014.

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In preparation for the city’s Stores to Shores downtown re-vitalization project, the City of Nelson and the Star are present-ing historical retrospectives of the important properties along Hall Street.

� e Adventure Hotel is tak-ing on a new metropolitan feel while maintaining its 100-year-old roots. � e building’s original tower, built in 1913, was named � e Grand and became home to guests pouring into the city in search of new opportunities. It’s said that an even older wooden hotel once sat on that corner but it burned down.

In 1934, a new wing was add-ed on Hall Street and the hotel became � e New Grand. Dur-ing that time, the Kapak family owned the building and were pleased to announce the open-ing of a fully licensed “New La-dies’ Parlor Addition” separate

from the men’s parlour by hang-ing curtains.

� e last addition that stretch-es south was completed in 1959. From the 1970s, during its Lord Nelson era, the building was owned by Mel Buerge and the family of Gus Adams, which in-cluded Nelson’s own Vancouver Canucks hero, son Greg.

Danny Rickaby took owner-ship of the historic hotel in 2000 and he continues renovations to the building today. With tickets from a Christmas dance held in 1944 and old Lord Nelson menus from the 1950s show-ing a $5 steak sandwich still in his possession, Rickaby honours tradition while moving forward with a hip and modern renova-tion that speaks volumes about Nelson’s future.

Keep an eye on facebook.com/storestoshores for weekly additions the City of Nelson's Stories + Storeys Hall Street Ret-rospective series!

One of Nelson’s longest streets, and one of its oldest too, Hall Street extends from far above the Heritage City’s down-town all the way to Nelson’s fa-mously scenic waterfront. And like both Stanley Street, and the city’s legendarily charming main avenue, Baker Street, Hall

Street’s story is just as extensive. In anticipation of the Stores To Shores Downtown Revitaliza-tion Project, launching this Spring, the City of Nelson takes a look back at some of the fa-mous properties and parcels that made Hall Street so impor-tant to our history.

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� e Grassroots Grammas are about to do it again! On the morning of Saturday, July 18, 2015, starting at 9 a.m., the Winlaw Hall will be the place to be for Tools and Treasures Two. � e scores of lucky people who attended Tools and Trea-sures, the deluxe rummage sale organized by the Slocan Valley Grassroots Grammas three years ago, are still talking about their new golf clubs, chain saws, cas-serole dishes, jewellery, toys, a teak bu� et and even a swim-

ming pool. It was the sale that gave twice: once to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s international Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, and again to the hap-py local shoppers who stocked up on good quality items at very a� ordable prices.

Grassroots Grammas is now seeking donations of items for the home and the workshop to make for a great Tools and Treasures Two. � ings you have valued, but perhaps not used for a while (though not books or clothing this time), will be great-ly appreciated. Spring cleaning

season is the time to hound your friends, neighbours, relatives and co-workers to box up the ‘good stu� ’ for this sale. Call Linda, the lead organizer and owner of the former Carlotta’s store in Winlaw, at 226-7304 if you have donations that need pick-up, pricing and storage.

All proceeds will be direct-ed through the Stephen Lewis Foundation to the grassroots organizations in Africa that provide grandmothers and the children in their care with food, educational supplies, uniforms, school fees, medical care, HIV

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Touchstones Nelson and Selkirk Col-lege are joining forces to present the event Celebrating the Sinixt: An evening of His-tory, Language and Song, happening at the Shambhala performance hall on � ursday April 9th at 7:30pm. � is landmark event will celebrate the history of the Sinixt people and the revival of their cultural presence in the Kootenays over the last thirty-� ve years. Many local residents know that the Sinixt were declared extinct by the Federal government in 1956, but how many locals have heard the Sinixt language spoken, let alone sung?

“� e story of the Sinixt is one that needs to be told,” says Jessie Demers, programming coordinator and co-curator at Touchstones Nelson. “I think our community is keen to learn about the history of Sinixt presence on this land, and to celebrate Sinixt culture”.

� e event will begin with drumming and prayer, followed by the 35 minute � lm � e Journey Upstream by Erica Kowz, which documents the Sinixt return to their ancestral lands. Lori Barkley will talk about

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Sinixt language will be shared by Shelly Boyd (Inchelium Language House) and LaRae Wiley (Salish School of Spokane). LaRae will then show her mastery of the lan-guage by singing contemporary pop songs in Sinixt. � e event will close with drumming.

� e event is one of several programs hap-pening in conjunction with the exhibition unlimited edition, a collection of Indig-enous and Inuit prints on loan from the Kamloops Art Gallery, curated by Tania Willard, Aboriginal Curator in Residence at the Kamloops Art Gallery. � is is a unique opportunity to learn about and experience Sinixt culture � rst hand.

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We don't know how strong we are until we have no choice. Hugs to the mom who shared this story. I know this pain and guilt. I also received amazing help in Nelson and in Creston with Victim Services and Mental Health. You are not alone.-- Casey Luscher

What an inspiring story of courage! Peter has made a difference in many lives!-- Leslie Comrie

I think this article is horribly disrespectful to the deceased individual and should be taken down. This is only half of the story and we will never know the other half because that person is gone forever. All I see here is deceased person being painted as an alcoholic.-- Morley Nelson Lamb-Paul

Whomever you are, sweet women, I read this, I hear you, I understand, you are not alone. Thank you for your bravery, for telling your story, I hope that this helps to close the doors on the past so that you may enjoy your children and your sweet self.-- Bernice Raabis

I think it’s great that the Star agreed to tell your story. So many people suffer in silence.-- Karen Logan

I am not one to usually comment on Facebook, but in this case I can’t restrain myself. Yes, I understand the "message" in regards to alcoholism and mental health that some can relate to and may find touching. I'm not saying what's right and what's wrong, or what's true and what's false. I just think this article portrays a biased image and is a very poor representation of who the man really was. Everyone knows the saying, "There is two sides to every story." Well I can't stress enough but to run that through your head while reading this article. Ask yourself questions in the perspective of both parties involved. He cannot plead his story to you now. Although for the people that knew the man "with a big heart" well, we know that there is a lot more to this story. Cody-Von Garnier

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LettersGovernment should

invest in prescription drug plan

An article in the Canadian Medical Journal and a study done by a professor of health policy at UBC have both shown that a nation-wide prescription drug plan would save Canadians billions of dollars. Canadians who, at present, cannot afford to take the prescribed medica-tions would be able to do so. Universal public drug plan would reduce total spending by between 7.3 and 8.2 bil-lion dollars every year. The Harper government is more committed to protecting the large pharmaceutical companies than caring for Canadians. Instead of spend-ing billions trying to match Obama in fighting foreign wars, why not spend that money on heath care for Canadians? It should be an urgent priority for working people in this country.

Bob Abrahams Nelson

A rowboat metaphor for the earth’s future

If we think of planet earth as a metaphor for a rowboat, some parallels can be made. Throw in some oars that are metaphors for the possible different solutions for deal-ing with climate change then things start to get compli-cated. Now add a crew who are metaphors for the various interest groups, political par-ties and corporations who not only have different views as to which course should be taken, but also what oar they want to use. Now add the fact that this is the trip of a lifetime. Things do indeed get complicated.

REALITY CHECK: Go back to step one—is the boat sound? If not, what specific repairs are needed? Before setting off, there has to be agreement on the course to be set. There has to be

agreement on an appropri-ate set of oars that will work well together. There has to be a willing crew with a single focus of getting the job done. Now you need a leader who is prepared to put it all together to make sure we are all rowing in the right direction. We have to work hard to find that leader, who has a vision of a sustainable future. It is a choice we must collectively make—what will that future be?

Ron RobinsonNelson

A response to “Canada’s

involvement in foreign wars”

I appreciate your propen-sity to print such a wide vari-ety of letters in your paper. Most are so well thought out and make very good break-fast reading. Your Good Friday paper had a letter from Bob Abrahams titled "Canada's involvement in foreign wars". A couple of things occurred to me after reading it. Firstly if Canada didn't involve itself in foreign wars, we wouldn't have any wars to fight at all, Bob. Now what kind of twisted world would that be? Just kidding.

Of course as usual I completely agree with Mr. Abrahams, except for the last paragraph of his let-ter, where he talked about Canadians having to endure the sacrifice due to Harper's war mongering. I think we should be a lot more concerned about the sacri-fices being endured by the people who we are using our high tech weapons to blow up. The Conservatives would have us believe that we had to attack Isis because they were on the verge of attacking us. Do they really think that Canadians are stupid enough to buy this? We don't like what they are doing, so it is up to us to destroy them. That's how

we solve our problems, kids.One thing's for sure

though, if they retaliate after we attack them, they are definitely terrorists. Crude, evil, nasty people, not civi-lized like us.

Rod RetzlaffNelson

Re: "One Story of Desperation".

I was struck by this story, as obviously many people were, judging by comments that followed. I do not belong to Facebook so could not publicly add my com-ment to the others.

What struck me more about this story was the fact that a mother would have her obviously small child accompany her to this story telling event (in the Nelson Star office). I was also struck by the lack of respect on the part of the Nelson Star to not consider the very short period of time that has lapsed between this article and the young man’s death.

I would have expected better judgment on the part of this local paper. This is a very small community and as is always said, "news travels fast".

It strikes me that there are always two sides to every marriage breakdown and the emotions and mental turmoil that families experi-ence during that can and is excruciating, but should not be allowed to be aired in the local paper.

Barbara LambSouth Slocan

Bill C-51 safeguards are needed

All Canadians will be caught up in the web of Bill C-51. It is imperative that we become informed and pro-active. There are some excellent sites, such as The Walrus: “The good, the bad and the truly ugly” and www.michaelgeist.ca:

conversations about Bill 51. I urge you to write Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety, House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6 and your MP, Alex Atamanenko.

The following are some quotes for your consider-ation: Alex Atamanenko in his letter to the Prime Minister: “In its current form Bill C-51 erodes civil liber-ties while giving increased powers to national security and intelligence agencies without proper and effective civilian oversight.” Michael Geist: “The Bill permits sharing across government for an incredibly wide range of purposes, most of which have nothing to do with terrorism….several of the provisions would seem-ingly allow for informa-tion sharing for almost any investigative purpose…those expressing fears about these provisions covering advo-cacy or protests have good reason for doing so.”

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien, appointed by the government less than a year ago and described as an expert by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, slammed the bill: “It could be used…for virtually unlimited pur-poses.”

More work needs to be done on Bill C-51 and safe-guards put into place, or we will wake up one morning and find ourselves in a police state.

While visiting relatives in Russia, over and over we were warned to “wake up”, “stop being such polite Canadians”, “get involved”, “exercise your civil rights” or you’re in for a shocking awakening when your free-doms are taken away—the freedoms hundreds of thou-sands of young men fought and died for. Freedoms your forefathers escaped to when they migrated to Canada.

Evelyn KristiansenNelson

Facebook reactions to

‘One Story of Desperation’

The Star received many online comments following Will Johnson's article "One Story of

Desperation." Here is a selection.

In a column on April 1 ("On the trail of Nelson's stone circles") we incorrectly attributed the photo to Greg Nesteroff. Robert George took the photo.

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It’s in the early stages yet, but East Shore area A director Garry Jackman has asked the regional district to consider extending the Riondel � re service boundary to Crawford Bay. � e current bound-ary is the cuto� between Highway 3A and Riondel Road (at the junc-tion).

For many years Riondel � re services has provided road rescue service well beyond the � re bound-ary. Jackman said it’s provided road rescue into Boswell—� re respond-ers and motor vehicle incident re-sponse along with extrication tools.

Now they are looking at the fact that many of the providers of � rst responder and � re support for Riondel live in Crawford Bay.

“� ey now have fully trained level one members who live in Crawford Bay and Gray Creek and they can get to a satellite base very quickly so it’s an opportunity to expand,” said Jackman.

He said members can live in one community and still volunteer in another.

Riondel � re chief Cory Med-hurst says they have decided to explore the idea of providing � re protection to more residents on the East Shore.

“Since we already respond to all other calls in Crawford Bay and beyond (up to Akokli creek for road rescue),” said Medhurst. “We � gured it would make sense to also provide � re protection as

far as we can.”“As a larger service, we would

then be able to recruit more mem-bers, take on more responsibilities such as search and rescue (with water rescue), and provide more training,” said Medhurst.

Jackman said the request to the RDCK board to expand the area is in its preliminary stages and he doesn’t expect it to voted on until next year.

� e new boundaries have yet to be determined exactly but it could mean faster response times for other communities on the East Shore. It’s not yet known if it will lower insurance rates or increase taxation and Jackman said these questions are exactly what the ini-tial study is meant to determine.

He said the study would include "what boundaries make sense in order to provide a reasonable re-sponse time given the locations of volunteers, what the potential insurance bene� ts are (this im-

pacts the e� ectiveness of the ser-vice and has a bearing on potential insurance bene� ts), whether the residents in the proposed area are likely to support the service, what taxation would be raised from the new area to support all new costs without having a negative impact on residents within the current service area and what additional equipment is needed to avoid di-minishing the level of service in the existing service area.”

Jackman said although simulta-neous � res are rare, they can occur in particular if there is a nearby forest � re. However, the RDCK has other means to reduce this risk such as the deployment of mobile sprinkler units.

Said Jackman, “Some years back a di� erent proposal to create a stand alone � re service was turned down by voters in the Crawford Bay area so I would like to ensure the most cost e� ective and e� cient options are considered this time.”

East Shore � re services boundary may extend to include Crawford Bay

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CommunityNelson Grans to Grans are host-ing a bedazzling Spring Bling women’s vintage accessory sale on Saturday, April 11, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Nelson United Church Hall, 602 Silica Street. Strut-ters is providing a wee fashion show and refreshments will be available. All proceeds donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers Campaign.

Kid-Sized Book Sale at the Nel-son Public Library on Saturday, April 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Books, puzzles, games, movies and music for kids aged zero to 12. All by donation. Monies raised will help to build a comfy new reading nook in the Chil-dren’s area. Questions? Email [email protected] or call Catherine at 250-352-5975.

Spring Kids Carnival at St. Joseph School on Saturday, April 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 523 Mill St. (Mill Street and Jose-phine Street). An exciting event filled with carnival games. Kids of all ages welcome. Concession is available and game tickets are 50 cents each. Volunteers are needed-please email [email protected]. All funds raised support the PSG and St. Joseph School programs.

Healthy Child Day on Friday, April 24 at the WE Graham Com-munity School in Slocan, from 10 a.m to 1 p.m. A free, fun event to connect families with young children to health and wellness service providers in the Slocan Valley. Displays and staff on hand, crafts, songs and stories for the children, plus lunch and door prizes. Individual sessions available with a trained consul-tant to learn more about your child’s development. Call Penny at 250-226-7605 to book.

Monthly MeetingsNelson healing practitioners monthly potluck for the self employed (or trying to be) to network and explore oppor-tunities to support each other

- professionally and personally. On Friday, April 10, 5 to 9 p.m. at 211 Hart St. in Uphill to cre-ate a nourishing community of wholistic healer types through mutual support, collaboration and generosity.

Nelson Dances of Universal Peace, with live music. No

experience necessary. They do dances and walks with singing, representing spiritual traditions from the world over. At the Old Church Hall on Friday, April 10, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. At Victoria and Kootenay St., 602 Kootenay. For information call Candace: 250-354-4288.

The Council of Canadians (Nel-son Chapter) will have its regular monthly meeting on Saturday,

April 11 at 10 a.m. at 1010 Baker Street, downstairs. All welcome. Info: 250-352-9871.

The Canadian Federation of Uni-versity Women Nelson & District general meeting is Saturday, April 18, 10 a.m. at the banquet room of the Adventure Hotel in Nelson. Yvonne Shewfelt and

Christie Heuston are present-ing at 11 a.m. the topic of, “Representation Agreements.” The presentation is to educate and empower adults to make informed decisions with au-tonomy when health care issues and competence collide. Living wills are not legal; a properly executed Representation Agree-ment is.

WorkshopsThe Circle of Habondia and the Nelson and District Women’s Centre invite women to a five session strengths-based, empowering, financial literacy course, focusing on small bud-gets. Begins Monday, April 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Women’s Centre over five weeks. Limited spaces so register soon. $5 per session donation sug-gested, but no woman will be turned away.

AnnouncementsThe Nelson Women’s Centre Library is having a sale of used books on Saturday, April 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 717 Vernon Street (Senior Citizens’ Association Branch #51). Most books will go for a dollar, or fill up a book bag for $5 or less. Info: 250-352-9916 or 250-352-9871.

Join the Passport to Wellness Health Fair on Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Community First Health Co-op, 518 Lake Street. The free event will have sessions offered for all ages on a variety of topics. Door prizes and healthy snacks. Door open at 9:45 a.m for sessions. See schedule of events in Nelson Star in April 15 edition.

The Nelson and District Seniors Coordinating Society offers a vol-unteer income tax service. If your income is less than $30,000 (single) or $35,000 (couple), volunteers at the NDSCS can help prepare your tax forms. Please call 250-352-6008 for an appointment (no drop-ins).

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THEATRE

Opening on Thursday, April 9, Kootenay Home Educators presents a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Starring a cast of Kootenay children, the show features the female wizard Prospera and a trumpet-playing hobgoblin. There will be three performances at Nelson Covenant Church at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Admission is by donation.

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Slava Doval’s DanceFusion presents it’s 4th Annual Showcase on April 18 at the Capitol Theatre. Be inspired by over 135 students taking to the stage to perform dances inspired by contemporary, urban street styles, folk, belly dance, breakdance, Bollywood, jazz and more. Matinee is 2 p.m. and tickets are $9. Evening show is at 6:30 and tickets are $13, doors half-hour prior. Purchase tickets at the box office or online at www.capitoltheatre.bc.ca.

MOVIES

On April 8 at 7:30 p.m. the Civic presents Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame. Giuseppe Marinoni is a charismatic man. He has a sparkle in his eyes. You can see it when he works on a frame or hunts for mushrooms in the forest like a child looking for chocolate Easter eggs. He’s driven, too. When he started his frame-building operation 40 years ago, he’d stay up all night thinking about building bikes. For more information visit civictheatre.ca.

On April 9 at 7:30 p.m. the Nelson Civic Theatre presents Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, directed by Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz. It is no fairy tale for Viviane Amsalem, an Israeli woman seeking to finalize her divorce from her cruel and manipulative husband. In Israel there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce. Only rabbis can legalize a marriage or its dissolution, which is only possible with the husband’s full consent. Viviane has been applying for a divorce for three years but her husband will not agree. For more information visit civictheatre.ca.

Will Ferrell stars in Get Hard, a comedy with comedian Kevin Hart and directed by Etan Cohen. When millionaire James King is jailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, he turns to Darnell Lewis to prep him to go behind bars. It will screen on April 10 at 7 p.m. at the Civic Theatre. Rated 14A. Visit civictheatre.ca for more information.

What We Do In the Shadows plays April 10 at 9 p.m. at the Nelson Civic Theatre. From the creators of Flight of the Conchords, this film follows lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine

Clement) – three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. For more information visit civictheatre.ca.

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The Royal on Baker presents Selkirk College’s Yellow Jack every Wednesday night from 8 to 10 p.m. For more information visit royalgrillnelson.com.

On Thursday the Royal on Baker will have ladies night from 8:30 to 12 p.m. with DJ Mach1 and DJ Eyedawg playing funk break future bass music. For more information visit royalgrillnelson.com.

On Saturday April 11 from 1 to 3 p.m, Ellison’s Cafe Acoustic Unplugged Sessions host their Season Finale. Elijah Larsen and Simon Stockner, both from The Racket, will

be joined by Dylan Ferris from The Magpies. Last act until the Fall will be a five piece group, Sofiella Watt and the Huckleberry Bandits.

Humans, the live indie electronic pop act consisting of Nelsonite Robbie Slade and Peter Ricq, is coming to Spiritbar on April 10 to promote their latest album Noontide. With opening act Mooves, and more acts TBA. Advance tickets are $10 and are available from the Hume Hotel.

Montreal-based bluesman Michael Jerome Browne will play a concert at the Blue House in Nelson on April 12 at 7 p.m. Browne is touring to support his most recent album, Sliding Delta.

On The Road Productions and the Hume Hotel present 2014 Kootenay Music Awards winner Lisa Nicole live at Spiritbar on Saturday, April 25, playing two full sets of her original country-rock music along with some popular country covers. Advance tickets are $10 and are available from the Hume Hotel.

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On April 10 at 7 p.m. Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to present the launch of K.L. Kivi’s first book of poetry along with Pemberton-based author Katherine Fawcett, who is in Nelson to launch her latest collection of short fiction The Little Washer of Sorrows. Admission is by donation and everyone is welcome.

Nelson slam poet Laforge will perform a 15-minute feature set at John Ward Coffee on April 12 at 7 p.m. As part of the monthly Nelson Poetry Slam, Laforge will be raising funds for

his upcoming trip to the championships in Vancouver. Necomers are welcome. For more information visit Nelson Poetry Slam on Facebook.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, on Tuesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. Nelson poet Jane Byers and Ellen Jaffe will share their work at the Nelson Public Library. Ellen’s latest collection is Skinny-dipping with the Muse, and Byers will be reading from Steeling Effects. Slam poet Damian John will also make an appearance.

Join Mandy Bath at Touchstones Nelson for the Nelson launch of her new book, Disaster in Paradise: The Landslides in Johnson’s Landing. The event will take place on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, and the event will include a reading, presentation and book signing. Books will be available for sale through Touchstones Nelson’s gift shop. The evening is jointly presented by the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival, Touchstones Nelson, the Nelson Public Library, and Oxygen Art Centre.

Sofiella Watt and the Huckleberry Bandits will play at Ellison’s on April 11.

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Baker Street’s gallery of outdoor sculptural art is soon to see a swap, just in time for the arrival of spring. And, according to Nelson’s Cultural De-velopment O� cer Joy Barrett, if you fell in love with one of the existing sculptures, now is your chance to own or lease it and extend your en-joyment.

Five sculptures cur-rently grace the down-town: Seed by Nathan Smith, Rhythm of Being by Regine Neumann, To See & To Say by Serge Mozhnevsky, To Love Is To Be by Martin Eich-inger, and Fir Cone by Kevin Kratz. All will come down in the � rst week of April, to be re-placed by � ve new works of art that will beautify the downtown for an-other year.

“We’ve had a very

positive response to the public art downtown,” says Barrett. “Our streets now re� ect what we already know - that Nelson is a creative and artistic community.”

� e downtown sculp-ture program, urged by Nelson citizens who helped create of the City’s Sustainable Wa-terfront and Downtown Master Plan, has proven to be a very cost-e� ec-tive way to increase pub-lic art in the community, amounting to just one tenth the cost of outright purchasing the art.

This initiative has been championed by the City of Nelson’s Cultural Development Commit-tee (CDC), which is dedicated to the devel-opment, promotion and enhancement of Nelson’s art and culture sector. To � nd out about prices email Joy Barrett at [email protected].

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Nelson slam poet Laforge at-tended a Shane Koyczan spoken word performance while he was a high school student at L.V. Rog-ers. � ough he’d dabbled with poetry over the years, he hadn’t yet found a ful� lling creative out-let. � e show overwhelmed him.

“I’d been scribbling words and rhymes since I was 10 or 11, but I had no idea where I could go

with it or what I could do with it. It was so inspiring to see him, but also so overwhelming I didn’t write for like six or eight months because I � gured I could never write something that good,” he said.

Laforge eventually got over these feelings, and a� er getting invited to a slam competition in 2009 he found himself hooked on the adrenaline rush of perform-ing in front of a crowd. He said it’s the raw vulnerability of the

art form that he cherishes, and engaging with the work has been hugely bene� cial throughout his various mental health and sub-stance abuse issues over the years.

Two years ago he su� ered an episode in which he ended up in a psychiatric unit, and it’s his art that’s helping him to recover and remain sober.

“I’m working every day to make sure I don’t fall back into that place where I’m sleeping in the dog park at Lakeside, wan-

dering the streets of Baker at all hours. � e best part of poetry for me is that it’s cleansing. Once it’s out of you and on a piece of paper, or on a computer screen, it’s not weighing you down any-more.”

Now sober and clean a� er years of self-destruction, he hopes to be a positive role model for those who have reached simi-lar depths.

Laforge representing the Kootenays

Nelson slam poet Laforge is heading to Vancouver to compete in the Canadian Individual Slam Poetry Championships. On April 12 he will perform a 15-minute feature set at John Ward Coffee that will help fundraise for his trip. He’s joined here by poetry council board member Jonathan Robinson, who is working on a video collaboration with him. Photo by Will Johnson

Nelson slam poetry champion heading to Vancouver competition, performing feature set on April 12

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� e Village of Salmo has hired Diane Kalen-Sukra as its new Chief Adminis-trative O� cer.“We are pleased to have recruited such a quali� ed and committed individual for this vital position,” says Mayor Stephen White. “Council is committed to build-ing public trust through transparency, accountability and proper processes, and our new CAO is up for the chal-lenge. “Diane has been with us for less than 2 months and has already taken steps to

upgrade our records management sys-tem, launched an organization-wide audit of our services and assets, brought bylaws into compliance with the Com-munity Charter and initiated various grant processes to help council meet its commitment to the people of Salmo.”Kalen-Sukra's previous employer was the City of Castlegar. She has an MA in political science, a BA in political science and philosophy, and training in local government management and municipal law.She lives with her husband and four children in the Salmo area.

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“She is away, but she’ll never be forgott en. She has slipped

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� e annual Easter egg hunt at Lakeside Park was a splash of pas-tel eggs and balloons.

Heaps of colour-ful plastic eggs strewn across the grounds of Lakeside Park were quickly scooped up into the baskets of children on Saturday morning.

Each child turned in their collection to re-ceive a bag of assorted treats.

Hundreds of fami-lies were in attendance. Proceeds from this an-nual event will go to the Nelson Food Cupboard and the Nelson skate-board park.


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“I don’t think anyone can every really understand the crazy places I went to, but if I can give them just a sense of what it’s like, just a piece of it, that’s what I want,” he said.

Slam poetry council member Jona-than Robinson said Laforge narrowly won the designated spot to Vancouver’s national individual slam championships over busking poet Zaynab Mohammed at their recent competition.

Both Robinson and Laforge praised Mohammed’s work, which they say is indicative of the diversity within the Kootenay scene.

“� e � rst time I went to a slam, the content and delivery I’ll never forget. � ey were touching on addiction, home-lessness, substance abuse. As someone who comes from a background of strug-gling with all that, it was incredible,” said Laforge.

Robinson said Laforge’s work is emo-tionally potent.

“Poetry saves lives. It connects people intimately in ways you can’t have with other people. If you’re homeless you can’t go to a concert, but you can come to a slam. And you could probably go up on stage.”

Laforge said much of his work re-

mains private, but he shares the pieces that have messages he’d like others to embrace.

“When I was around 17 a lot of my work was based around how suicidal I was, and how I was tempted to take my own life. But then I thought about the impact it would have on my family, my friends, my community. In Grade 12 that was a message I wanted to share: ‘Life will get better, you can get through it’.”

His hope is that his outlook will en-courage others, and also inspire them to jump on stage at one of their upcoming performances.

“Don’t give up hope. I found my hope and my own way, and so can you.”

� e Nelson Poetry Slam is currently held on the second Sunday of every month at 7 p.m. at John Ward Co� ee. Lately the event has been so popular they’ve been pointing a speaker at the patio for the audience assembled outside.

Robinson, who also works as a videographer and runs the YouTube Channel ilovedjwho, said he’s planning a collaborative video with Laforge. He recently � lmed and produced the debut track by local band So� ella Watt and the Huckleberry Bandits.

For more information visit Nelson Poetry Slam and Laforge Poetry on Facebook.

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‘Poetry saves lives’

Writing as therapyBath said she was surprised at � rst to

� nd nobody else in the community was writing down their recollection of the story. As her research and soul-searching approached a more publishable form, she decided with Kaslo writer Holley Rubinsky to go ahead and interview whoever was willing to share.

� e book includes � rsthand accounts from many of the survivors, as well as from the local media and emergency response personnel.

Bath said she feels more like a com-munity archivist, and she hopes the narratives will help others cope with their trauma but also think about the implications of extreme weather events and how we might prepare ourselves for them.

HealingIn months a� er the event, Bath found

herself lethargic and fogged.“It was rather like having a physical

brain injury. I had amnesia, I walked around in this mental fog, I think it was such a complete overload my brain said ‘I can’t cope anymore’.”

Her response was to stay far away from the place where she had nearly been killed twice in 24 hours.

Now happily settled in Kaslo, she’s at a place personally where she can still reconnect with the land and visit her friends. But seeing her destroyed home still � lls her with sadness.

“I have a beige � le cabinet that con-tains my jewelry and my mother’s jew-elry. We found everything in the room that was around it, but we didn’t � nd it.”

She theorized it may have been swept into the lake, but she holds out hope that one day she’ll � nd a rusted metal corner sticking out of the dirt. Walking around

the perimeter she can still identify each shard of pottery and every mangled mess of wires.

Standing in her intact garden, which is overgrown and hosts Ozzie’s grave, Bath gazed at the slide’s path twenty feet away and she shook her head.

“I don’t come here very o� en because it’s so emotional. It’s such a wonderful place and the view still is unbelievable. As one person said, it’s even better with-out those pesky trees there. But they weren’t pesky. � ey were wonderful.”

Bath stood looking out at Kootenay Lake for a long moment before she was interrupted. When she turned back, she was blinking away tears.

Nelson book launchBath will launch her book at Touch-

stones Nelson at 7 p.m on April 30. � e event is a collaborative e� ort put on by the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival, the Nelson Public Library, Touchstones and Oxygen Art Centre.

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� e Waneta Expansion Limited Partnership (WELP), a partnership between Fortis Inc., Columbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust, announced today that the Wa-neta Expansion Project near Trail is now online and generating power.

� e $900 million 335 MW expan-sion adds a second powerhouse, im-mediately downstream of the Waneta Dam on the Pend d’Oreille River, that shares the existing hydraulic head and generates clean, renewable, cost e� ec-tive power from water that would oth-erwise be spilled.

� e project included construction of a 10 km, 230 kV transmission line and provides enough energy to power about 60,000 homes per year. Long-term agreements are in place with BC Hydro to purchase the energy and FortisBC to purchase the capacity from the project.

Project bene� ts include the injec-tion of over $300 million into the lo-cal economy through the purchase of goods and services and wages. Em-ployment reached over 1,400 people.

“� is project is a testament to the

can-do attitude of British Columbi-ans,” said John Walker, Executive Vice President, Western Canadian Opera-tions, Fortis Inc. “As the majority own-er, Fortis Inc. would like to thank all the workers that made this project a reality keeping it on budget and ahead of schedule.”

“As a partner, and the Owner’s Rep-resentative managing the project,” said Frank Wszelaki, President and Chief Executive O� cer, Columbia Power Corporation, “we are extremely proud of the project and thank the workers and SNC-Lavalin, the project contractor, for making this project a huge success.”

“� is achievement is the culmi-nation of the vision and e� orts of so many,” said Neil Muth, President and Chief Executive O� cer, Columbia Basin Trust. “� is project provided

many direct bene� ts from jobs to lo-cal spending, and the region will con-tinue to see bene� ts as the Trust uses the revenues to support well-being in Basin communities.”

� e partners extend a huge thank you to the workers, contractors, First Nations, local communities, and the Community Impact Management Committee for their support through-out construction. To acknowledge the e� orts of everyone who worked on the project, a keepsake book is being produced and a family BBQ is being planned. Register to receive your book and/or attend the BBQ at: http://� uid-surveys.com/s/waneta/.

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The Waneta expansion project nearTrail. Photo by Bree Seabrook

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Avez-vous entendu parler du Mar-ché French Extra? L’AFKO, qui organise cet événement excep-tionnel entamera sa troisième année. Un petit changement à noter à vos calendriers… Cette année, le Marché French Extra se déroulera à la fin du mois de mai plutôt qu’en mars. Dimanche, le 31 mai sera une journée rem-plie de bons petits plaisirs! Im-pliquant un thème aux allures d’ambiance européenne, le Mar-ché French Extra est parmi l’une des activités préférées de notre belle région des Kootenays. Entre autres, vous pourrez y déguster des pâtisseries, des croissants, prendre un petit café ou jaser avec un savoureux vin rouge au Bistro! Et pourquoi ne pas venir découvrir les créations de nos artisans francophones! De plus, cette année, l’AFKO a décidé de nous gâter en offrant un considé-rable ‘’extra’’ au menu : Marie Jo Thério en spectacle de clôture!

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Détenant un caractère et une force uniques, Marie Jo Thério dispose d’un parcours dominé par le goût de l’aventure. Née à Moncton en Acadie en 1965, Ma-rie-Jo étudie tôt le piano, joue dans une troupe de théâtre pour enfants. Puis, petit à petit elle s’éloigne de l’univers classique du piano pour explorer ses premières chansons plus personnelles.

À 17 ans, elle part pour Mon-tréal, se produit régulièrement dans des boites à chanson, étudie la littérature, puis le théâtre au Conservatoire d’art dramatique, d’où elle est mise à la porte. Elle retourne en Acadie jouer dans une pièce pour enfants, dont elle signe les musiques. Puis, invitée par des amis comédiens, elle re-tourne à Montréal, participe à un spectacle de Brecht-Wells (Les 7 péchés capitaux) où l’auteur Mi-chel Tremblay la repère et lui pro-pose de faire une audition pour Nélligan, un opéra romantique sur la vie du poète Émile Nelligan, présenté au théâtre Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts de Montréal à guichet fermé.

Elle continue de se produire seule et de gagner petit à petit un public de plus en plus fidèle. Elle accepte entre-temps un rôle à la télé dans Chambre en ville qu’elle tient du-rant 3 ans. Lors d'un voyage en Russie, elle rapporte un accor-déon. Au 1er congrès mondial Acadien en 1994, le producteur Robert Vinet (GSI musique) as-siste à un de ses spectacles et lui offre un premier contrat de disque. L’album Comme de la mu-sique voit le jour en 1995. C’est sur la petite scène du Théâtre du Maurier que Marie-Jo apparait au grand jour. Inclassable, bête de scène, désarmante d’authen-ticité, conteuse hors pair, elle se fait un nom. Marie-Christine Blais de La Presse écrit : ”elle fait du Marie-Jo Thério et c’est tout”.

En 1996, aux Francofolies de Montréal, elle est la première ré-cipiendaire du prix Félix Leclerc. S’amorce ainsi une tournée du Québec, un passage aux Franco-folies de La Rochelle, des partici-pations à des comédies musicales (Les Misérables, Notre Dame de Paris...) Elle joue au cinéma: For-bidden Love(1992), Kacho Kom-plo(2002), Book of Eve, Full Blast (1999: prix Jutras de la meilleure actrice de soutien). En 1998, suite à sa rencontre avec Georges Moustaki, elle assure sa 1ère partie au Casino de Paris et fait quelques dates avec lui en France. Elle donne une série de concerts clandestins en solo, où dans des 1ères parties (Claude Nougaro, William Sheller, Alain Baschung). Elle va jusqu’à Madagascar (mé-daille d’argent au Sommet de la Francophonie), au Vietnam, en Bosnie et bientôt Nelson (C.-B.).

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� e Rolling Stones song says you can’t always get what you want. � at sadly came true for the Nel-son Regional Sports Council last week as we regretfully relinquished responsibility and business opera-tions for the Savoy Bowling lanes.

� e intention of the Sport Council at the time of purchase in 2013 was to avoid an almost certain closure of the facility that would have prevented bowling to continue in Nelson. Venturing into the business was somewhat tenuous not knowing entirely how popular the sport really was. How-ever, without a facility, the chance of keeping the sport alive and well would have gone and with it the highly valued activity for groups such as the Special Olympics and senior bowlers. � e risk, therefore, was worthwhile.

� e honeymoon year saw a re-surgence of the adult league and public participation that led us to believe there was hope, even though meeting our � nancial

goals � uctuated. We knew head-ing into the second year that tight � nancial management would be a priority. Attempts were made to mix it up a bit by adding ping pong and music events and reducing costs. However, a� er two seasons, including a faceli� and other up-grades, it became evident that the high overhead costs and decline in league interest in the second sea-son meant that a new operational model was going to be necessary for the business to � nancially sus-tain itself. Operating the bowling machinery and system required expertise, making volunteer la-bour impractical.

� e Sport Council did not, at all, arrive at their decision lightly. Much angst and consideration of other options, sta� , the lease and ultimately our entire sport council � scal responsibility contributed to the � nal decision. � ere is some solace, however, in knowing that at least two more years/seasons were added to what would have been a certain end at that time.

Sincere thanks go to our bene-factor, KanTask who made it pos-sible with their donation in the � rst place for the Sports Council to consider taking on the project. � e many volunteers that rejuve-nated the facility, the businesses who supported us, the sta� who took care of the operations, and of course the patrons, all deserve thanks for breathing life back into the place.

It is our hope that the facility will remain open and thrive as an active entertainment centre that it could so potentially be with the right resources and foresight.

As for the Nelson Regional Sport Council, our mission remains to support and strengthen commu-nity sport. Failing to make this project a viable entity only serves to be an example of how we can improve our organization. We will do that to the best that our ability and resources allow. So, in the end, although we are sorry our goal fell short for this community project we are unapologetic for giving it a shot and walk away knowing that everyone involved gave their best.

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't ac-cept not trying.”

--Michael Jordan


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Sports council withdraws from Savoy Bowling Lanes

� e honeymoon year saw a resurgence of the adult

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Nelson’s Trace Cooke has made it to the big leagues in the freeski-ing world. His standings in the Freeride World Quali� ers have earned him a place in the 2016 Freeride World Tour. It’s a dream come true for the 19-year-old as this o� cially means he’s a skiing professional.

“It hasn’t really hit me yet,” Cooke said. “A couple times I’ve got a whole bunch of energy, even crying and excited talking with my parents. I feel like its really going to hit me when I get the start list for the 2016 world tour.”

While Cooke is waiting for the o� cial invite, his FWQ points have placed him third in the North American region, earning him a place on the 2016 Freeride World Tour.

Overall his FWQ standings have him ranked eighth out of 591 skiers.

Cooke’s last two competitions at Crested Butte, USA and Wrangle the Chute in Golden, launched him ahead with a total of 2690 points. Cooke and his parents calculated that he would need a seventh place and a podium � nish between the two.

When he placed seventh at Crested Butte, the pressure was on.He recounted the his last qualifying competition in Golden,

which was fairly close to home compared to the competitions that took him across Europe and to the US this season.

He came in third on day 1 at Golden with two American com-petitors also vying for a top three in the FWQ.

On day two he had it in his head that he really had to do well so he put together two “really scary lines”.

“For me, when I know I have a good line, I’m nervous at the top... and I was way more nervous at these two comps than I have ever been. I landed a 360 that lots of people tried but I was the only one to land on my feet.

“Wrangle was the best two best competition runs I’ve ever skied,” Cooke said. “� e line score and the big 360s and stu� that I did…compared to other comps, there was no holding back. I really went for it, I gave it my all.”

His roommates and buddies were there to watch as they haven’t been able to see him compete in two years because he has been competing overseas.

“And I got exactly second…but then I had to wait a whole day for them to put in my actual scores to be sure that I actually got the points I needed to make the world tour.”

He kept vigil at the computer, checking his and other competitors standings, refreshing the quali� er website over and over, until he fell asleep in front of the screen. He woke up Monday morning to a litany of online congratulations from friends he has met at the competitions over the past two years.

He had made it.“It came down to the last little point,” he said. And he may be the only Canadian in the male ski category on

the tour.Cooke and the two Americans, Max Durtschi and Martin Lentz,

will all be 20 once the tour begins. “I think we may be the three youngest skiers to qualify,” he

said, “which just goes to show how much the sport is becoming a younger atmosphere and the stronger skiers are coming out of the juniors because of how good the competition is.”

Overall he said the season was a di� cult one due to many weather days in Europe. Avalanche conditions were touchy at times too with a lot of wind loading, but he said the o� cials did a good job waiting so they could pull all the competitions o� safely.

� e FWT will begin in Chamonix, France around mid January 2016.

Until then Cooke plans on staying � t and tree planting through the working season. He has set up a personal trainer again, which he started last summer. Training will begin with rehab from this season, then focusing on leg and core strengthening, and building up “every ski muscle” he needs to be 100 per cent.

He has been waiting for a couple years to be able to own the title of a professional skier, and now he can. With that means profes-sional sponsorship.

Now is the time that he may gain new sponsorship and his cur-rent ones should restock his equipment which he said was badly needed a� er a low snow year. Budgeting for next winter’s world tour is also key as it will require extensive travelling in Europe.

Among Cooke’s current sponsors, he emphasized that Ian Mc-Adams from � e Village Ski Hut in Nelson has been a huge help.

“He gave me a pair of his own personal skis to ride on for Wrangle the Chute. He has tuned my skis for free and, since I’ve started these competitions, he has been my biggest sponsor every step of the way.”

To learn more, visit tracecooke.com.

Trace Cooke wrangled the chutes in Golden and earned a place at the 2016 Freeride World Tour. Pictured: Cooke in the middle of a 360. “I took off a meter up from where my ski tails are,” said Cooke calmy, “and landed just past the little trees on the landing to the lookers left of the trees... I would say [the drop was] about 35 feet, around 40 with the travel out.” Submitted photos

Trace Cooke launches to FWTPlacing third has earned him a spot on the 2016 Freeride World Tour

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As the ski season comes to an end I am � lled with a sense of appreciation. I realize that I am living in a bubble of awesomeness

that is the Kootenays, which is for the most part protected from the big rough world out there, but this season even Whitewater felt the e� ects of a changing climate. � is has made me hold skiing closer than ever before. I have found myself stopping part way down a run to take in the beauty of a world of white, squeezing every last sparkle of detail from these precious mountains.

I hope that you, like me, are drawn to skiing all the more as it becomes ever more a precious pursuit. I feel that we have many more decades of skiing here, however there will be inconsistencies to the quality of the snow that we can prepare ourselves for.

Here are some skier tools to help

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tools that are designed for a speci� c consistency and depth of snow, as well as turn-shape and terrain. Your skiing skills are only as versatile as your tools, and these tools can take your skiing experience to places that you have never thought possible. I would never tell you to trade in your fat Pontoons for skinny race skis, but I feel that you need a powder ski that you can ride on the 10cm+ days and some carving skis for when it hasn’t snowed in a week.

2. Skiing skills. Changing climate means that we have to change our approach to skiing and look for adventure and enlightenment in places other than your secret powder stashes. I

know that many of you have had a season of immense growth in your technical skiing as you have had to negotiate steep, icy slopes this winter. � ese are the conditions that ski racers learn to love as they are the ultimate challenge that tests your technical skills. � e Whitewater Ski Team and the Whitewater Ski Resort o� er skill building sessions and lessons that can help you love the tough conditions.

3. Learn to enjoy all aspects of our ski mountain culture. We are blessed with very easy access to the backcountry and have a rich community of educated and experienced ski touring enthusiasts that are happy to share their knowledge and skills. O� en when the weather has not been

cooperating at the resort, it is time to get out and earn your turns. And you can burn calories without producing excess CO2!

� is coming fall, like you I will be praying to Ullr for a big powder season, but I will also be preparing to work on my never ending quest for the perfect carved turn.

As JP Auclair, one of skiing’s most creative in� uences commented on climate change, “I don’t think that it’s about doing less, I think that it is about doing more. Being more creative, it’s about being more active”.

Appreciate the last days of the ski season. Check us out on Facebook at Whitewater Ski Team.

Our ski columnist Dylan Henderson is the head coach of the Whitewater ski team.

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Obituaries & MemorialsPeter Weinerth

August 16, 1951 – April 1, 2015

Peter passed away peacefully on April 1, 2015. He is survived by his loving wife and best friend Lorelei, his two sons Mike and Kevin, sister Irene, nephews Christopher (Julie) and Jason and great niece Ava. He is also survived by his mother in law & father in law and countless relatives who lovingly welcomed him into their family. He will be sadly missed by everyone who knew and loved him.

There will be no funeral at his request; however a Celebration of Life will take place at a later date.

Ryan WoikinApril 8th, 2013

In Memory of

Until We Meet AgainThose special memories of you

will always bring a smileif only I could have you back

for just a little while.Then we could sit and talk again

just like we used to do.You always meant so very much

and always will do too.The fact that you’re forever in my heart

until we need again.From Joan, Bill, Tricia, Dwayne, Jack and Lily

Marge JacuraApril 8th, 2014

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At the age of 70 years old, passed away suddenly at home on March 27th,2015. He is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Wendy; daughter Lisa (Doria) Newman of Trail, granddaughter Katie (Josh) Moisson, and great grandson Jaxton; his son Greg (Christina) Spence of Golden, grandson Connor and granddaughter Isabel. He will be sadly missed by his brother Doug(Laurie) from Sooke, his nephew Andrew (Karen) and Julianne of Sooke; nephew Scott(Destiny) and daughter Taryn of Fort St-John; his sister Debbie(Mike) Torresan of Fruitvale and their children Travis (Jessica) and sons Justice and Leo and nephew Justin and niece Tricia of Fruitvale.Tom was born on June 24th 1944 in Wapella

SK, to his parents William and Margaret. He graduated high school in Trail in 1964. He joined Teck/Cominco in 1965 where he started his apprenticeship in lead burning and completed it in 1970. He accepted a position as supervisor at Teck where he worked for 37 years, before retiring in 2001, and made the move to Nelson shortly after.Tom was a great family man and a loving father,

grandfather and great grandfather. He married Wendy, his childhood sweetheart in 1966.Tom was a social, active man who was well

respected in his community. He enjoyed building and helping friends with any project. His family and friends will always remember him as a generous, loyal person. A celebration of Tom’s life is scheduled for 2:00pm till 4:00pm on April 10, 2015 at the Balfour Golf Course. All are welcome to attend and celebrate Tom’s life. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to BC Heart and Stroke, or any children’s cause. Arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral Service. Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

Tom Spence

Mike grew up in Smithers and Nelson. He attended Mt. Sentinel High School, Selkirk College, and Thompson Rivers University where he graduated in 2006 with a BSc in Computer Science. Latterly, he made his home in Victoria where he worked for the provincial government in the Information Management Branch. Mike grew up outside, both on the water and in the

mountains with his family. He was a well-spoken, fun-loving, athletic young man in the prime of his life. He was an expert skier, soccer player and loved riding his motorcycles or hiking the coastal trails around Vancouver Island. Above all, Mike had a special knack of making and keeping friends, a deep and infectious laugh, and a wonderful sense of humour. He was stricken at work on March 18 with a massive

aortic dissection and stroke. Despite the heroic efforts of his co-workers, staff at the Victoria General and Royal Jubilee hospitals, he died March 23. Eleven years ago Mike registered as an organ donor. This decision and his resulting gift went on to save or improve the lives of thirteen people. Mike was predeceased by his mother Maureen, and

is survived by his father John, brother Ian, stepmother Kathy, grandparents Rick and Betty Askew, uncle and aunt Bruce and Betty Lou Askew, and his girlfriend Damaris Walters. A memorial will be held at 11 AM on Thursday

April 16 at the United Church in Nelson, followed by an internment service. In lieu of fl owers, the family suggests friends consider registering with BC’s organ donor program at www.transplant.bc.ca

Michael Douglas Pollack January 8, 1983 - March 23, 2015


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Walmart employees raised $4325 for the Hospital Foundation in various fundraising activities over the past year. Left to right; Katie Szabo, Rosa Martins-Hawkins, Jennifer Leben, Brya Idler, Rachael Bradley, Mabel Riebalkin, and Debbie Pederson. Photo submitted

Walmart employees raise money for hospital

Peter WeinerthAugust 16, 1951 – April 1, 2015

Peter passed away peacefully on April 1, 2015. He is survived by his loving wife and best friend Lorelei, his two sons Mike and Kevin, sister Irene, nephews Christopher (Julie) and Jason and great niece Ava. He is also survived by his mother in law & father in law and countless relatives who lovingly welcomed him into their family. He will be sadly missed by everyone who knew and loved him.

There will be no funeral at his request; however a Celebration of Life will take place at a later date. In lieu of flowers donation can be made to Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation, 3 View Street, Nelson, BC, V1L 2B1

Nelson thespian Hannah Wiedrick only recently moved to the Kootenays, but already the 13-year-old is making her onstage debut as Prospera in a modern musical adaptation of � e Tempest.

Marooned on a desert island with her daughter a� er a ship-wreck, the magical sta� -wielding character is the lead in Shake-speare’s tragicomedy.

“Hannah, physically speaking, is very imposing. Part of it was a visual choice, plus she sang for me and had such a strong voice,” said director Michael Calladine. He said her performance will be a real treat for Kootenay residents.

And the show features much more than just a female wizard. � e Nelson Covenant Church production is being staged by Kootenay Home Educators for three a� ernoons this week: � ursday, Friday and Saturday at 4 p.m. As part of their cur-riculum, the students are learn-ing both about performance and about the Bard. � e show is a U.K. musical adaptation of the famous play.

“I was drawn in particular to the music of this piece. � ere’s one song in particular where Cal-iban comes on singing this bluesy jazz number about being a miser-able monster,” said Calladine.

"Immediately I started to pic-ture the hobgoblins, who are in the cave, doing a jazz snap

along with it. We also have a lot of talented musicians, and one of our hobgoblins happens to play trumpet quite well. So he'll be playing a little bluesy ri� ."

� e show will run for ap-proximately an hour and twenty minutes, with an intermission. Admission is by donation.



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The upcoming production of the Tempest put on by Kootenay Home Educators features a female incarnation of the wizard Prospera, played by Hannah Wiedrick, 13 (holding staff) and a trumpet-playing hobgoblin. Photo by Will Johnson

Tempest adaptation features trumpet-playing hobgoblin

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