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City hikes fees for parks and soccer fieldsBILL METCALFE

Nelson StarFor the first time in 20 years, the City

of Nelson has revamped its method of charging groups for the use of parks, including the soccer fields.

According to a staff memo presented to council this month, one goal of the changes is to have rates that reflect the cost of maintaining the fields and parks. Another is to introduce an hourly or daily rate.

The rate schedule includes sepa-rate rates for commercial groups, adult groups (e.g. slow pitch, ultimate frisbee) and youth groups (e.g. youth

soccer, minor baseball, school district, rugby).

“The commercial rate,” the memo states, “reflects the true hourly cost to maintain the fields based on an eight hour day, seven days per week for 27 weeks (costs for labour, equipment, materials, insurance, and utilities). The adult rate is 55 per cent of the commercial rate and the youth rate 65 per cent of the adult rate. These ratios are comparable to those used in other municipalities.”

For example, to rent a half field at Lakeside sports fields, the cost for youth groups will be $12.90 per hour

or $83.85 per day. For an adult group, the cost would

be $19.80 and $128.70 respectively, and for a commercial group, $36 and $234.

For the day rate, the maximum num-ber of hours a group will be charged for field use in a single day is 6.5 hours.

There will also be some changes for School District 8, which historically has not been charged for the use of the city fields. Now they will pay the youth rate.

“Based on 2015 bookings, if the schedule had been in place in 2015 the school district would have paid $3,334 in field bookings,” the memo says.

At the tourist campground, the cur-

rent fee for additional people in a site will change from $2 to $5, to adequately cover the cost of showers, washrooms, and shared kitchen.

There will be new charges for hold-ing special events at city parks: $100 for private weddings, $50 for public events sponsored by a non-profit group, and still no charge for community events such as Canada Day.

A full list of charges for vari-ous groups in the soccer fields, ball diamonds, tennis courts and indi-vidual parks can be found at bit.ly/NelsonParks.

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Art Party crosses genre boundariesHundreds attended the 10th Art Party at the Royal on Baker on Thursday evening, where locally made jewelry created by Stephen Cupello (above, right) was for sale, local band Atlas played (featuring violist Aline Bobbin, centre) and participants such as Jenna Sipponen (left) danced until at least midnight. Art Party is part of a nationwide movement to encourage cross-genre collaboration and to create supportive social infrastructure for creative communities. See related story Page 19.

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There was free food, music and plenty of vendors at the Nelson Street Party on Saturday. The event at the Hall St. plaza was put on to open Nelson’s campaign for the Air Miles Detour Program, which is showcasing five arts-centric communi-ties nationwide who have a chance to host a concert by pop singer Meghan Trainor.

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Trafalgar Middle School is accepting registrations and doing course selection for the coming 2016-17 school year.

Orientation visits and activities are happening at the Nelson Family of Schools (Redfish, Blewett, Rosemont, SNES, Hume) near the end of April.

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A new liver, a new lifeCathy Grouwstra divides her life

into two parts. There was her life before the surgery, in which every day was a struggle to endure the exhaustion and despair that were symptomatic of her deteriorating liver.

Then there’s today.Fresh from being discharged

from a Vancouver hospital, Grouwstra is now recovering but hopes to return home this week to her son. The Crescent Valley resident is grateful for the trans-plant that saved her life, and is speaking out during Organ Donor Awareness Month so no one for-gets how urgent donations are to the people who need them.

“I always knew it was important even before any of this happened,” said Grouwstra in an interview with the Star last week. “I was al-ways a believer that we need to do that, that when we pass I thought it was important for people to do that, for me anyway. But I never thought I’d be the one going down that road.”

Grouwstra first felt something was wrong in February 2011. She was diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, a disease that causes inflammation and scarring in the bile ducts, which in turn leads to a build up of bile

in the liver.So began a four-year battle

against extreme fatigue, stress and what she calls a mental fog. Even menial tasks were an effort, but because there’s no cure for PSC the only solution was a liver transplant. For that to happen, Grouwstra’s liver had to worsen to the point where her doctors could get her on the waiting list for a transplant.

Grouwstra was only just put on the waiting list last June. She likens the wait to a game of musical chairs — any improvement set her back on the list, but if she got worse it was straight to the front of the line. Over 500 people are currently on a list for organs in BC, according to the BC Transplant website.

People also die waiting for dona-tions that never come — there were 278 such deaths in 2014, according to Health Canada’s website.

“The waiting list is really hard for a lot of people because you are getting sicker by the day, and we don’t have a warehouse of livers for people,” Grouwstra said. “We have humans, and that’s the big thing for me is to promote people to sign the card to donate their organs when they pass.”

The final stages of liver disease — which includes jaundice and vomiting, and in her case a loss of 50 pounds — were setting in when Grouwstra found out Feb. 14 that

she was getting surgery. One day later she was under the knife. She ended up staying in a Vancouver hospital for four weeks and need-ed an extra surgery to stop some bleeding, but lately she’s started taking walks again. Her energy is better, although that sometimes draws Grouwstra into mistakenly thinking her body is healed.

“This is going to take me a few more months to mend physically,” she said. “They took an organ out, put an organ in. The organs have to play nicely with each other, have to accept each other. So it takes a while for the body to heal.”

Meanwhile, Grouwstra’s son Shaun is waiting for her at home. He turns 16 this month, and Grouwstra is looking forward to taking care of someone rather than being cared for. That wouldn’t be possible, she says, if someone hadn’t taken a moment to become an organ donor.

“We tend to forget about this after a while,” she said. “We think about it and [say], ‘oh yeah yeah yeah I’ve got to do that’ and then you just forget about it and get on with your life, but it is extremely important.”

BC residents can sign up to be organ donors online at transplant.bc.ca. Financial donations can also be made to Grouwstra at gofundme.com/Cathysliverfund.

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It will be late 2017 before the second half of the Hall St. recon-struction is complete.

Public works director Colin Innes says this summer the city will apply for funding and create detailed designs to augment the general concepts developed so far, and there will be opportuni-ties for the public to see those designs and comment on them.

“Traffic management will become one of the major com-ponents of Phase 2,” Innes says.

That’s because of the very busy intersections at Front St. and Lakeside Dr., and the rail-way crossing between them.

Innes says he’d like to put bet-ter turn lanes in the Hall and Front intersection, but there is no room. But there will be significant work put into better storm drainage for that intersec-tion, to counteract its tendency to flood during rainstorms.

The next challenge is the rail-way tracks. Innes says to con-form with new federal safety requirements, the city will have to upgrade its signage and road markings.

Then comes the intersection at Lakeside.

“For people who live here, we are used to it,” says Innes. “But for tourists or visitors it presents some challenges. We’re think-ing of putting a roundabout into that intersection.

“Roundabouts can be intimi-dating but it will be a lot more understandable than hitting this three-way intersection, which is really confusing.”

Then, moving north into what is now part of the Prestige parking lot, the plan is for a plaza or park, which will include terraced steps to the water and perhaps an amphitheatre. The

existing gazebo will be moved closer to the waterfront. There will be benches, plantings, and public art.

Along the entire length of Phase 2, the style of Phase 1 that was finished last year will be continued: the same lamp posts, benches, and plants.

On the east side of Hall St., Phase 2 begins at Lake St. at the entrance to the community complex.

But on the west side it begins further up the hill, where Phase 1 left off, at the top of the stairs

that descend in front of Bibby Orthodontics. The question of what to do with the blocked alley beside Kootenay Co-op Radio will be decided during the design phase this sum-mer but if it is to be changed — which it might because its installation last fall was said to be temporary and up for review — that won’t happen until the following summer.

As in Phase 1, Innes says about half the cost of Phase 2 will be to replace aging water and sewer pipes under the street

— work that has to be done anyway, even without the other street enhancements.

Innes estimated the budget for Phase 2 as $6.6 million. Phase 1 cost $4.2 million.

The city will be applying to the Build Canada Fund for the entire cost of the project, but if the city makes a contribution it will come from utility reserves already earmarked for the water and sewer upgrades, and there is also the possibility of fund-ing from the provincial govern-ment.


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Hall St. project to be complete by fall 2017BILL METCALFE

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This outline of what the plaza at the foot of Hall St. might look like by the end of summer 2017 will be planned in more detail this summer, with opportunities for public input. Courtesy City of Nelson


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Chimney fire damages North Shore homeA chimney fire damaged a Crescent

Beach home Thursday evening.The Balfour-Harrop fire depart-

ment responded to the call around 8:30 p.m. and arrived to find the shake roof fully engulfed. The fire spread to the upstairs bedrooms and bathroom.

A total of 21 firefighters responded from both the Balfour-Harrop and North Shore fire departments, along with paramedics.

As there are no hydrants in the area, two tenders from Balfour-Harrop and one from North Shore shuttled water from a hydrant to the fire.

Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the second floor. There were no injuries.

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No one was injured when a chimney fire spread to the roof of a Crescent Bay home on Thursday.

Nice weather no excuse to speed, RCMP sayNora Hannon photo

Local traffic police are urging motorists to resist the urge to speed in spring weather after catching more than a dozen vehicles in the last week going at least 40 km/h over the limit.

“We all are enjoying the early spring and the roads are very clean and clear, but this does not mean you should increase your speed,” said RCMP Sgt. John Ferguson, the officer in charge of West Kootenay Traffic Services. “We still have wildlife, bicyclists, pedestrians and tourists using our roads.”

Ferguson said police stopped and seized 13 vehicles for excessive speeding — including one driver doing 145 km/h in an 80 zone and another going 167 km/h in a 100 zone. Each vehicle was impounded for seven days.

The incidents occurred in the morning, early afternoon, and evening, and in several locations, including between Nelson and Castlegar, Castlegar and Trail, and

on the Blueberry Paulson.“It’s more than we usually see at

this time of year,” Ferguson said, attributing it largely to the nice weather. “Looking at the forecast,

it’s not going to change dramati-cally, so we’re getting a little ner-vous. We haven’t even started tour-ist season.”

If you’re caught travelling more than 40 km/h over the posted limit, you can be charged with excessive speeding and fined $368 plus pen-alty points. If you’re more than 60 km/h over the limit, the fine goes up to $483.

On top of the fine, your car will be seized for seven days, costing you a storage and tow bill. Cause a crash and, depending on the cir-cumstances, you might also see higher insurance rates.

Ferguson said typical excuses include “I was trying to get some-place,” “I didn’t realize I was doing it” and “I just passed a slow moving vehicle.”

“We are out there watching and no tolerance will be allowed for excessive speed,” Ferguson said. “We want the Kootenay Boundary area to be the safest in the province [in terms of crashes and fatalities] and so far we are.”

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Collective will and the new Water Sustainability Act

The BC’s government’s long-awaited Water Sustainability Act came into force last week.

In Blewett, a forested, mixed-farm-ing community, residents have a lot of questions about what the prov-ince’s new water laws will mean for us — in particular, what the new act will mean for the 100 households that depend on Aquifer 511 and for Okinshaw Water, the bottled water company that, according to gov-

ernment documents, taps into this same aquifer.

The centrepiece of the new act is the introduction of licenses and pric-ing for groundwater use for the first time. BC is (in)famously one of the last jurisdictions in the global north to regulate groundwater, instead relying on a Wild West approach of taking groundwater wherever, whenever, and in whatever volumes.

All that changes with the new act, which will phase in licensing for groundwater users such as irrigators, waterworks, and yes, water bottling companies, which use groundwater for non-domestic purposes.

Of special interest to the people of Blewett are the interactions between groundwater and surface water since more people in the Kootenays rely on creeks and streams than any-where else in the province. A 2010 report by the BC auditor general pointed to a lack of information and understanding about this rela-tionship in BC, and how the total amount of groundwater diverted will affect the whole water system.

For example, how will environ-mental flow needs be established and protected when new licenses are

issued? How will cumulative impacts of existing groundwater extraction on surface water flow sustainability be assessed? Will groundwater li-censes be conditional and subject to review after they have been issued?

Will First Nations’ consent — be these “recognized” peoples or not — be sought not only in in deter-mining which users should receive licenses in the province’s “first in time, first in right” system? And fi-nally, fully implementing the Water Sustainability Act means not only developing strong regulations, but also ensuring sufficient funding for the people most affected to pro-grams to help them establish what their needs are.

In Blewett, we wonder whether there is enough water in the local aquifer to supply our needs as well as those of a company striving to be the “leading premium bottled water company in the world.”

The BC government character-izes our little aquifer as 11 square kilometers, while Okinshaw speaks about a “35 square kilometre catch-ment area” and an “underground lake [that] is extremely vast.” With no idea of how much water we have

underneath us, no aquifer mapping or reporting or monitoring require-ments in place, or even agreement that we’re talking about the same aquifer, how can we issue licenses without knowing what we have?

Our regional director contact-ed the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, which responded that while a de-tailed aquifer groundwater quan-tity and quality study can be done, these are typically large projects that span multiple years, and “requir[e] significant resourcing and collabora-tion between multiple government agencies.”

Instead of waiting for the axe to fall, our Conservation Society executive decided to launch a pe-tition asking the government to withhold issuing any commercial groundwater licenses until a third party environmental assessment has been done, adequate water supply is confirmed, and a water sustain-ability plan for the community (that includes public consultation and on-going water monitoring) is in place. People can also write to their elected officials through the society website, blewettconservation.com.

As the climate continues to shift around us (Level 4 drought condi-tions in summer of 2015), we need not just water security now but also the ability to respond to and adapt to changing conditions. Two wells in our community already ran dry last summer. For our community’s children and their children, and so on, water will be the resource that ensures the health and wealth of the ecosystem they will rely on.

It will take broad community involvement to hold the govern-ment’s feet to the fire so that the Water Sustainability Act has strong regulations in place to protect our collective values.

This means that above all new groundwater licences be based in sustainable stewardship, be condi-tional and be subject to review and revocation if Aquifer 511 doesn’t continue to provide for our basic needs. Only our vigilance will en-sure that Water Sustainability Act regulations and enforcement reflect our collective will.

K.L. Kivi is a director of the Blewett Conservation Society and has lived in Blewett for 22 years.

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Mount Sentinelclass raises funds

Homelessness is an international crisis, but it also poses an issue to members of our own community. Mount Sentinel Secondary’s Grade 9 health and career education class has taken it upon themselves to address the issues of poverty and homelessness.

In the past three weeks they have been gath-ering supplies, as well as information sur-rounding homelessness and poverty. After many preparations and fundraisers they are proud to present 12 backpacks to Stepping Stones, the local homeless shelter. These packs contain a variety of useful supplies for those in need, including toiletries, sunscreen, travel mugs, etc.

In support of the Pura Vida foundation, a locally based organization founded by Nathan Beninger that provides safe housing and educa-tion to young girls who have been victims of sex trafficking in Cusco, Peru, students have raised funds through school-based initiatives.

After much hard work and determination these Mount Sentinel students feel proud of what they have accomplished to help provide a safer tomorrow for their fellow human beings. They encourage other youth to take action as

well in building a better future for girls in Peru through Pura Vida.

Josie McIntyre and Asraia MayerMount Sentinel

The downside of Site C

Bull trout don’t like fish ladders. This is a problem for BC Hydro in the construction of the Site C dam. So they came up with a solu-tion. They plan to stun the fish (bull trout and

arctic grayling) when they reach the new dam on their way up the river to spawn. Then they will put them in aerated tanks, and drive them upstream to the spawning grounds.

Of course on their way back downstream, they will be on their own, which means 40 per cent of the large fish, and 10 per cent of the small ones will die going through the turbines. It seems pretty clear that it won’t take long to eliminate all the big ones, and maybe a little longer to eliminate the species altogether in

that stretch of river. That sounds like a typical BC Hydro plan. Soon we will have plenty of electric power to cook the fish, but no fish to cook, and no potatoes to make the chips either, since we are flooding the fertile bottom land.

It wouldn’t be so bad if we really needed to build this dam, but the truth is we do not. The best we could hope for is that the power will be used to liquefy natural gas, which we have fracked out of the ground, likely causing earthquakes, and polluting our ground water, in order to load it on ships in the inside passage destroying our eelgrass salmon nurseries, and possibly spilling out and polluting the once fabulous Pacific ocean, so that we can have the jobs doing so, and the corporations can fill their pockets with cash. Barring that we will have to sell it to California at a loss, or possibly to Alberta, if our premier will stop picking fights with them long enough to talk a deal.

I want my Beautiful British Columbia back. It is time the NDP got back to its democratic roots and presented a real, viable alternative. If they can’t do that they should step aside and make room for some other alternative. The “British Columbia Beauty Party” has a nice ring, don’t you think?

Rod RetzlaffGlade

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The family of 338 pulls together

As we approach the six-month anniversary of the Oct. 19 federal election I

want to provide you with a brief summary of life in Ottawa as your member of parliament. Let’s start with legislation.

Three of the more significant bills have been the legislation to cut income taxes for the middle class, which for the Liberals means anyone who earns between $45,000 and $190,000 (we believe it should have started at $20,000 and have a much lower top end), bring-ing home our jets from bombing Daesh/ISIS/ISIL in Syria and in-stead increasing our armed forces’ boots on the ground for training and intelligence gathering (all 338 MPs believe Daesh must be defeat-ed but the parties disagree on the best way to do it), and the 2016/17 federal budget where the Liberals went from a campaign promise of three years of annual deficits of $10 billion and a balanced bud-get the fourth year to a whopping $29.4 billion deficit for next year followed by significant deficits for the following three years with no balanced budgets in sight.

Adding it all up, the Liberals will add $69.5 billion to our deficit over their four year term if they meet their revenue targets. This will bring our national debt to $718.2 billion by 2019/20! How will future generations pay it down? Will your day-to-day circumstances improve as our debt grows?

There are three pieces of legis-lation coming up that will change our way of life.

By June, as mandated by the Supreme Court of Canada, par-liament needs to pass a bill that guarantees Canadians the right to physician-assisted suicide for adults suffering with intolerable pain from an incurable disease. I

believe it needs to be accompanied by enhanced palliative care.

The second piece of legislation will fundamentally change how we vote in federal elections, moving from the current first-past-the-post system to a form of propor-tional representation. I recently attended a breakfast meeting on this topic for MPs and senators and asked the presenter, who has stud-ied proportional representation around the world, which system he thought worked best.

He suggested we check out Finland. You will be asked for your input as part of this signifi-cant change.

The third bill looks to fulfill the Liberals’ campaign promise to le-galize marijuana (our position was to decriminalize it which could have already been put in place). There are many questions that need to be answered. What should the legal age be? Will it be sold only through government stores or will mom and pop businesses be licensed? Who will be allowed to grow it and under what circum-stances? Governments really don’t like to miss out on taxes so will enforcement against non-licensed growers be increased as a result of its legalization?

The minister has reaffirmed in parliament that all existing laws should be enforced until the new legislation comes in, as police agencies were wondering what to do in the interim.

Another role for MPs in Ottawa is to meet with individuals and groups important to our ridings. In the first six months I met with over 50 organizations includ-ing CP Rail, BC Fruit Growers, a state representative from Montana, BC Building Trades, BC Dairy Association, Canadian Cattleman Association, Canadian Health Coalition, Canadian Police Association, Canadian Association of Firefighters, the National Allied Golf Association, Teachers Institute, Canadian Federation of University Students, Teck Resources, the Green Budget Coalition and several unions and ambassadors, to name just a few.

I have also held meetings with, and written letters to, senior gov-ernment ministers and staff to talk about infrastructure and other needs for the riding, and to discuss concerns related to my critic port-folio — national parks. I generally

leave my apartment around 7 a.m. and return around 9 p.m. daily. While it is extremely busy I like the fact that every day is different and every day brings new challenges and learning.

Every MP works long hours both in their riding and in Ottawa and is dedicated to their job and their constituents. When I’m in my office in the evenings I will often see lights on in other offic-es long after the staff have gone home. We recently lost one of our Conservative MPs, Jim Hillyer, who exemplified that commitment.

The morning of March 23 I ar-rived at the Valour building for an 8 a.m. BC caucus meeting. There is always tight security at every location frequented by MPs and senators but that morning there was more security than usual with questions being asked about what floor people were heading to.

We found out later that Jim died in his office overnight. Even though he wasn’t feeling very well he wanted to be in Ottawa for the presentation of the budget on March 22. After parliament fin-ished for the day he went to his office to catch up on work. When he didn’t call home later that night, his wife called security and asked them to look for him. They found him in his office.

I felt a deep sense of sadness for his wife Livi and his four children back home in Medicine Hat, along with an intense feeling of loneliness — Ottawa can feel a long way from home sometimes. But I was pleased and proud of what happened later on that Wednesday.

Parliament convened for ques-tion period at 2 p.m. but instead of the usual, and unfortunate (my words) acrimony, the prime minis-ter and the leaders of the other four parties took the time to praise and thank Jim for who he was and for his dedication to the people of his riding of Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner and to Canada. After the last tribute was paid, the House of Commons shut down for the rest of the day to honour Jim.

While we as members of parlia-ment come from differing perspec-tives, in the end we are a family of 338 people who can and do pull to-gether in time of tragedy. It doesn’t get much more Canadian than that.

Kootenay-Columbia MP Wayne Stetski writes here once a month.

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The case against a plastic bag ban

Re: “Should Nelson ban plastic bags?” April 1The reasons given for the proposed ban were plas-

tic bags are clogging our waterways and our oceans and finding their way into the tissues of animal life. No doubt true in some parts of the world but not in Nelson or Canada. We have for a very long time dis-posed of our garbage including plastic bags so they do not pollute our environment. Our water courses and oceans are not clogged with plastic bags. However, many poor countries do not have the extra wealth to manage their waste in the same way we do. Banning plastic bags in Nelson or Canada will not change the activities of other countries.

However, regardless of whether a ban is successful, it has a sinister aspect because it is a violation of the right of Canadians to be free. Free to choose the things they produce or use without being forced or coerced to follow the dictates of other people. Freedom is our most fundamental right. All other rights — free speech, religious freedom, etc., etc. — are based on our constitutionally guaranteed right to personal freedom. It’s fine to try and persuade people, but completely wrong to force them to follow your ideas.

Even without intention a ban becomes an attack on the freedom of Canadians. I hope Nelson city council does not make itself a conduit for the viola-tion of our freedom.

Stu McDonaldNelson

Nelson Ultimate Frisbee Association free beginner’s clinic tonight, 6 to 7 p.m. at Lakeside Park. Contact Amy MacKay at [email protected] or at 250-505-4837 with any questions.

School District 8 Parent Advisory Committee 6 p.m. April 21 at the school board office. Superintendent Jeff Jones will be presenting information about the Teacher Regulation Branch. DPAC will be discussing the facilities plan and reviewing the resolutions for the upcoming BCCPAC AGM. Contact [email protected] to find out how to attend by phone.

Earth Day Celebration at Duck Bay, at Lakeside Park between the soccer fields and Save On Foods, 9 a.m. to noon April 21. Wildflower Middle School, Wildsight, Friends of Kootenay Lake Stewardship Society, and the Central Kootenay Invasive Species Society have adopted this wetland. More info: 250-352-7584.

Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC public information session. Learn how the society is investing your licence dollars. April 21, 7 to 8 p.m. at the Best Western, 153 Baker St. More info: [email protected].

Whole School Open House, 2 to 5 p.m., 5614 Highway 6, Winlaw, April 21. Activities for children until 3 p.m., meet the teachers and principal from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Accepting kindergarten and multi-aged elementary ap-plications for the 2016-17 school year. More info: 250-226-7737.

Who will protect our water? Join the Blewett Conservation Society at 6:30 p.m., April 21 at Blewett Elementary, with dis-cussion on community water security with a panel of speakers, including Emma Lui of the Council of Canadians and Marilyn James, Sinixt Nation Society. More info: visit blewet-tconservation.com.

Random Act of Co-operation, noon to 1:30

p.m. April 22 at the Nelson Food Cupboard Garden Project at Hoover and Ward streets, to assist the Nelson Food Cupboard in preparing their garden in Uphill for the summer growing season. Sponsored by the Upper Columbia Coop Council. More info: [email protected].

Law Day in Nelson at the courthouse, 320 Ward St., April 23, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tour courthouse and jail cells, watch a mock trial, view law enforcement vehicles, learn from en-forcement agencies, enjoy refreshments. Free. Family friendly. More info: 604-687-3404.

Dances of Universal Peace, with live music, walks and dances with singing, representing spiritual traditions from the world over, no experience necessary, April 24, 3 to 5 p.m. at 602 Kootenay St. More info: 250-354-4288.

Spring Flea Market, fundraiser for Ladies Auxiliary to Nelson Legion Branch 51, April 30, 8 a.m. to noon, table rental $25. More info: 250-354-1787.

Your Best Health Fair at Hart Hall, 501 Carbonate St., April 30, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., speak-ers, information, workshops, healthy treats and more. More info: [email protected].

Nelson and Area Elder Abuse Prevention Program, 1 p.m at Passmore Lodge, 3650 Old Passmore Rd, May 3, education on older adult abuse and neglect, free. More info: 250-226-7758.

Senior Citizens’ Association Branch No. 51 monthly meeting, 717 Vernon Street, 10:30 a.m., May 4. Refreshments. More info: 250-352-7078.

Balfour Church Guild Mothers Day Tea/Coffee Party, Art Show & Sale, at the Balfour Hall, May 7, 10 a.m. to noon, $3, Oso Negro coffee, tea, home baked goods as refreshments, and baking, deli items, plants and flowers for sale. Raffles, door prize. More info: 250-229-4550.

Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast, Passmore Hall, 3656 Old Passmore Rd., May 8, 9 a.m. to noon, adults $9, chil-dren under twelve $5, silent auction and plant sale.

Creston Valley Bird Fest, a celebration of the birds, the art, and the agriculture of the Creston Valley, with films, speak-ers, guided tours, workshops, May 13, 14, and 15. Register in advance at crestonval-leybirds.ca.

Announcements

Billets needed for the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra, high-school and college-aged musicians, for the nights of May 4, 5 and 6. Billeting is a great way to have your child meet inspiring musical youth. More info: 250-354-1060.

Nelson Friends of the Family now takes donations online at nelsonfriendsofthefamily.com to support families who need to travel to receive emergency or necessary medical treatment for their children. More info: 250-354-4670.

Low cost dental applications accepted April 25 at Seniors Co-ordinating Society, 719 Vernon St, 7 a.m. to noon. More info: 250-352-6008.

Canadian Red Cross needs volunteers for one four-hour shift per week, 614 Front St., Nelson. More info: 1-855-995-3529.

Weekly eventsGlacier Harmonies Women’s Chorus at 7

p.m. Wednesdays, First Baptist Church, 611 Fifth St., newcomers welcome. More info: 250-825-0027.

Breastfeeding Drop-in Support by a public health nurse Tuesdays 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Nelson Health Centre, 2-333 Victoria St. More info: 250-505-7200.

Taoist Tai Chi Arts Classes, Mondays 7 to 9 p.m. at Nelson District Rod and Gun Club, 801 Railway St. By donation with free introductory class, join any time. More info: 250-509-2499.

Seniors Co-ordinating Society Income Tax Program for low income and seniors at the Civic Centre on Vernon St. Tuesdays 9:30 to noon. More info: 250-352-6008.

Heritage Harmony Barbershop Chorus invites men of all ages to sing harmoniously. Weekly practice at Kiwanis Christie Lees Hall on Radio Ave. Mondays, 7 to 9:30 p.m. More info: 250-352-7025.

Nelson Hospice Drop-in Grief Support Series, Saturdays at 1 p.m., 402 West Richards St. For anyone who is experiencing grief due to the death of someone they love. Hosted by trained Nelson Hospice volunteers. More info: 250-352-2337.

Parkinson Support Group meets every third Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Christie Lees Hall in Kiwanis Villa, Gordon Road. More info: [email protected].

Djembe drum circle every third Monday night at The Old Church, 602 Kootenay St., 7 p.m. $5. Participants are encouraged to bring their own drums.

Heartfulness Meditation, Sundays 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Vitality Clinic, 206 Victoria St. Wednesdays 7:30 to 9 p.m. at 415 Kootenay St., office 103. Free. More info: 250-354-9496.

Love 2 Learn presented by the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy Mondays at South Nelson School and Fridays at Hume and Wildflower Schools, 9:30 to 11 a.m., a free program for little ones three to five years old, and their adult. Explore and learn together,

make simple materials into learning toys, make felt boards and book crafts, borrow books, share a snack.More info: 250-505-2361.

Living with Loss from Suicide support group, Nelson and District Hospice Society, Wednesdays 1 to 3 p.m. at the Moving Centre, free, pre-registration required. More info: 250-352-2337.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Living with Stroke program on Friday mornings for eight sessions in Nelson. Have you or a loved one had a stroke? We can help. Register online at heartandstroke.bc.ca/livingwithstroke or call 1-888-475-4636 to reserve.

Alcoholics Anonymous holds early morn-ing, noon hour and evening meetings on spe-cific days at 717A Vernon St. (in the Cellar downstairs). More info: 250-352-3391.

Al-Anon Family Group meets twice week-ly. Wednesday noon to 1 p.m. at the Cellar, 717 Vernon St. and Friday 7 to 8 p.m. at 601 Front St. at the side basement. The only re-quirement is that you have a relative or friend with alcoholism. More info: 250-352-3747 for Wednesday, 250-352-7333 for Friday.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #51 invites guests to enjoy billiards, snooker, shuffleboard, big-screen television for sports, barbecues, monthly celebrations, beverage room, darts (Wednesdays 7:30 p.m.), meat draws and karaoke (Saturdays 3:30 p.m.) and cribbage (Sundays 1 p.m.). More info: [email protected] or 250-352-7727.

Nelson Healing Rooms, a place for confi-dential prayer, Wednesdays 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 711 Tenth St., free. More info: [email protected].

Monthly EventsSPEAK (Supportive Parents Educating

and Advocating for Kids) provides infor-mation and support to parents of children with special needs, the last Thursday of each month, 4 to 6 p.m. at Nelson Family Place, 312 Silica St., snacks and childcare provided. More info: [email protected] or to confirm attendance and childcare needs.

Nelson Breast Cancer Support Group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month, September-June, noon to 1 p.m. at the Community First Health Co-op, 518 Lake St. More info: [email protected].

People in Pain Support Group, Shambhala Meditation Centre 812 Stanley St., 1:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month. More info: [email protected].

Nelson Fresh Tracks Toastmasters meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 266 Baker. Improve your speaking, listening and thinking skills and increase self-confidence. Guests welcome. More info: nelson.toastmastersclubs.org.

La Leche League Nelson provides breast-feeding information and support to moms and soon-to-be-moms at 1 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at The Family Place, 312 Silica St. More info: 250-352-3583.


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Minor baseball concerned about new feesChanges to park use fees

are prompting questions about what the new costs will mean for sports in Nelson.

A staff memo presented to city council on April 11 sets new charging methods and fees for anyone using park space (See Page 1 for more details on the plan). The changes were a surprise to Nelson Baseball Association president Russell Stocks, who expressed concern his organization won’t be able to afford the city’s demands.

Previously, the city didn’t charge the association for use of baseball diamonds at Lions Park and Queen Elizabeth Park.

“I think we expect to pay,” said Stocks. “Obviously we can’t continue to put money back into the fields at the same rate [as we do now]. The big thing this year is just the timing. We’ve solidified our registration, we have our budget for the year and to have potentially a large [bill] for field use, we don’t know what it’s going to be yet. But based on last year’s usage it could be any-where from $5,000 to $8,000.”

As Stocks spoke, volunteers nearby were busy cleaning up the QE Park diamond. The city recently installed fences along the left- and right-field lines after cutting down several aging poplar trees that had grown too big, but maintenance of the field is left to the association.

Stocks said he didn’t want to overreact to the changes until he had an opportunity to speak with city officials in person.

He estimated the association has invested roughly $30,000 into the fields over the last five years.

He also plans on requesting a yearlong reprieve from the new costs.

“We’re doing and have done most of the maintenance and work on the ball part of the field so now we’ve got to talk about our expectations,” he said. “We get our membership out with this labour, we get a lot of ma-terial donated as we have in the

past. But do we continue to do that and can we be sustainable doing that as an organization? I guess that’s the question. With our current registration fees that’s going to be tough.”

Stocks’ financial concerns weren’t shared by Nelson Youth Soccer executive director Sveta Tisma.

Previously, the city charged NYS per registrant for its use of Lakeside Park fields. Under the new plan, NYS will pay a flat fee for use of the fields, which Tisma said could save the or-ganization up to $300 a week compared to last year.

“We save money so it really doesn’t matter to us,” said Tisma. “I just expect they do their due diligence about certain things. We have our field manager who does a lot of work and we pay them out of our own pocket. That should be city work.”

The fees will also apply for

the first time to School District 8. There is uncertainty about under what circumstance schools will need to pay for parks, and superintendent Jeff Jones said he was hesitant to comment prior to receiving clarification from the city.

“For us to contemplate hav-ing to pay to use a field for base-ball or soccer, it presents a new set of challenges in terms of how we allocate our resources,” said Jones.

L.V. Rogers has a baseball team that plays at QE Park, and its classes occasionally use park space for various outings.

LVR principal Tim Huttemann declined to comment before a planned meeting Friday with a city official to discuss the changes.

Stocks said the new fees will be worth it if the city reinvests into the fields.

“We’re proud of what we have at this point and hopefully we can continue working with the city just to keep improving it every year.

“But this makes it a challenge because the budget we use to put into the field and the equipment we have, now it’s going to have to go to the city.”

TYLER HARPERNelson Star

Volunteers converged Saturday to clean up Queen Elizabeth Park. Nelson Baseball Association will pay the city to use the ballpark for the first time this season. Right: Taya Short, sporting a Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista jersey, was among the volunteers pre-paring the diamond for baseball.

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Indoor soccer crowns best teamsNelson Star Staff

Nelson has four championship teams after the indoor soccer season concluded last week.

Kootenay Co-Op, Telus United, Bia Boro and Honey Badgers each lifted trophies in their respec-tive leagues.

Kootenay Co-Op stunned Hume Innkeepers 8-7 to take the Adult Nelson Star Men’s Open on Tuesday. Hume went undefeated throughout the regular season and into the playoffs prior to the loss.

Telus United downed Dirty Dozen 5-2 on Wednesday for the Adult Ladies Rec title. One day later, Bia Boro romped past an injury riddled Abacus lineup to take the Adult Jackson’s Hole Men’s Masters trophy 16-6.

Finally on Friday, the Honey Badgers downed A Team 9-8 in extra time to take the Adult Finley’s Co-ed Op championship.

Bia Bora (wearing yellow and black jerseys) defeated Abacus to win the Adult Jackson’s Hole Men’s Masters trophy last week.

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Wranglers are the best Junior B team in Western Canada.

Cole Zimmerman scored in overtime as the Wranglers defeat-ed the AGI Insurance Quakers 3-2 to win the Keystone Cup on Sunday in Regina.

The Wranglers rallied from an early deficit after Rhett Kehoe scored twice in the first period for the Quakers.

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Bombers’ strong start to the baseball season ended with a rough trip to Trail.

The Bombers finished fourth at a J.L. Crowe Secondary tournament, with just one win in five games.

LVR entered play 7-1 to start the season after sweeping a doubleheader last week in Spirit Lake, Idaho.

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The City of Nelson is reviewing aging light standards on Baker St.

The heritage style light poles, which were erected over 35 years ago, are start-ing to show their age. As a result, the city recently commissioned the Acuren Group Inc. to inspect the light pole standards and assess their condition.

“The initial inspection has deemed that the majority of inspected poles are in an acceptable condition,” pub-lic works director Colin Innes said in a news release, adding that “we have taken corrective action to deal with the poles, which appear to have the most wear and will remove any potentially hazardous poles immediately.”

The inspection process involved a visual examination as well as use of a liquid dye penetrant to identify any cracking.

One of the identified poles that will be removed is at the corner of Josephine and Baker Streets. This will affect the traffic light configuration at this inter-section. The current traffic lights will be removed and replaced temporarily with a four-way stop, until the final design plan is in place and new light

standards are purchased and installed.The city will review the results of the

ongoing testing and address any other immediate concerns that are identified, Innes said.

“Improving Nelson’s aging infra-structure is a major priority for our council and current administration,” said city manager Kevin Cormack. “Our development services team is working to finalize the downtown urban design strategy, which will create a long-term vision for upgrades and improvements to infrastructure and amenities in the downtown. We don’t want to rush in to purchasing new light poles until we have a finalized design plan in place.”

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Hornby and friends celebrate National

Poetry MonthEach year the League of Canadian Poets sets a

theme for National Poetry Month, celebrated in April. This year’s theme is “The Road,” which opens up possibilities for all sorts of journeys. The Nelson Public Library embraces National Poetry Month and its literary journeys with a book launch and poetry reading on Thursday, April 28 at 7 p.m.

Margaret Hornby launches her fourth book of poetry, Intention, fresh off the press this spring. She’s joined by invited poets Rayya Liebich and Pippa Bowley.

“What I see around me just translates itself into poetry,” says Hornby. “The life around me, the envi-ronment, the people.”

Hornby says she has been on the poetic journey for more than five decades. “My intention is to alert people to the fragility of our environment.”

Previous collections by Hornby include When the Snow Leaves Elephant Mountain (Chameleon Press, 2003) and Love in Exotic Places (PB&J Press, 2011). Intention’s cover features an original painting by Hornby’s daughter Karen.

Says poet Linda Crosfield: “Margaret Hornby takes language, feeds it ideas, and sends it out to play. Whether she is at a shrine in Japan, listening to Puerto Rican frogs, or visiting the Great Bear Rainforest, the poet is always watching, and never more so that when she’s at home in her beloved Kootenays.”

Rayya Liebich’s poetry collection Tell Me Everythingwon Ontario’s Golden Grassroots Chapbook Award in 2015. She’s been published in a number of literary journals, her essay “Radical Choices” won the Geneva Literary Award and her play Three Minutes won the Kootenay Literary Competition. She teaches Liminal Life Writing at Oxygen Art Centre.

Pippa Bowley’s publishing credits include Horsefly Magazine, Elephant Mountain Review, and the an-thology Bread and Bones. She’s a frequent perform-er at Nelson’s Poetry Slam. She offers a quote from American poet Fanny Howe: “Poetry doesn’t just help someone survive, it is a survivor itself, fluid, protean as it passes through walls, and brings a particular beat to a way of thinking and being.”

The evening of poetry and celebration includes refreshments, books for sale, and words to savour.

Margaret Hornby’s new book of poetry Intentionwill be launched Thursday, April 28

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There’s no place like home… Except Grandpa’s.

In Joey Visits Grandpa, Castlegar author Patricia Nichvolodoff tells a humor-ous and heart-warming story about the special relation-ship between Joey and his grandfather.

After his grandfather continuously misplaces his glasses, Joey devises a cre-ative plan to solve his grand-father’s problem. Just as the initial problem is solved, the story ends with a new prob-lem, revealing a humorous conundrum left for young readers to solve on their own.

“The real-life circum-stances in the story en-tertain both children and adults,” Nichvolodoff said. “Searching for the hidden

glasses in each illustration is a fun game that both can play and enjoy.”

Inspired by her own re-lationship with her father, Nichvolodoff hopes to re-mind parents of the powerful influence of loving relation-ships on a child’s develop-ment, encourage children to utilize their problem-solving skills and develop a child’s love for literature.

“Building relationships with family is rewarding,” Nichvolodoff said. “I en-courage grandparents to read the story with their grand-children to strengthen their bond.”

Nichvolodoff sets the story in Nelson, and even features the big orange bridge on the cover. Shannen Marie Paradero illustrated the book.

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Author Patricia Nichvolodoff sets her children’s book Joey Visits Grandpa in Nelson and features the orange bridge on the cover. Submitted photo


You & The Law®TYLEEN UNDERWOOD LAW OFFICE presents

Wanting to share what’s important to you with friends and family is only natural. Email, texting and posting messages or photos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media make this easy. But if you’re embroiled in an emotional break-up, be very careful about what you share – your texts and posts could come back to haunt you.

When going through a separation or divorce, the � rst rule of social media is: “Don’t email, text or post anything you don’t want a judge to see.”

Once emails, texts and posts are out there, they can be accessed, copied, shared further and printed. Even a deleted post can still be retrieved. As well, people you thought of as reliable con� dantes may pass things on to your ex.

Also, your privacy settings aren’t foolproof. They change all the time and may have unexpected loopholes. And information you think is private may not be protected. Courts need to balance your claims to privacy with the other side’s right to put

forward relevant information, which may trump your privacy claim.

In family law disputes today, much of the evidence � led in court may consist of chains of text messages, photos or posts. These can damage or in some cases even destroy a case. If you say you can’t afford to pay child support,

then texts or photos of your fancy new car or expensive tropical vacation won’t help.

And when it comes to the critical issues of parenting time and contact with your children (custody and access in divorce cases), social media posts can do untold harm. Posts sent to your ex out of frustration and anger can come across

as bullying, threatening or harassing later. If they amount to psychological or emotional abuse, they may be treated as family violence under our family law, with serious potential consequences – a protection order against you, an order to get counselling, maybe even an order to leave the family home. Photos or posts that show you partying hard, using drugs or engaging in other risky behaviours can also hurt your claims for parenting time and contact with your kids.

Even less dramatic emails, texts or posts can have negative consequences. They can show your character to be different than what you’d like the court to believe. And it can be devastating for your kids to see negative posts about your ex.

It’s normal for emotions to run high when your family is breaking apart. But you should express your hurt and outrage in a more private (even professional) setting, not in a public forum which can be seen by everyone, including your ex, their lawyer and the judge deciding your case.

So when splitting up, take your ex and their friends and family off your social media networks. Don’t leave your phone around unlocked for your ex or others to snoop through. And don’t put things on social media that could anger your spouse and turn things into a bitter court � ght. Remember, especially if kids are involved, you’ll want a civil relationship later.

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Where There’s a NEED, There’s a LION

H O W W E S E R V ELions and Our Community The Nelson Lions Club has been a fixture of community since 1945, serving with integrity and energy. Lions is a service club who help those in need locally, and internationally. We typically raise $25,000 per year, and distribute these funds to other service organizations via grants, to individuals in need (medical devices such as hearing aides, wheelchairs, etc.), or interna-tionally to a variety of projects in third world countries. The Nelson club has a focus of giving to youth programs, and those that aide the elderly in our commu-nity. Though the Nelson Lions Club is small by most standards (we have about 20 members), we have formed strong friend-ships between us, and all of us have a strong commitment to the welfare of our community. The Lions motto is “We Serve”, and this our local club does well.

Who Are the Lions? The Lions are men and women dedicated to serving those in need, whether in their own community or around the world. They are members of a club in an international organization with over 1.4 million members in over 210 countries. The association has a proud heritage of service dating back to 1917. The Nelson Lions Club was founded in 1945, and has been meeting ever since! With programs such as Sight First: Lions Conquering Blindness, Lions Youth Outreach: Changing Tomorrow Today and Lions Drug Awareness Program, Lions in your community and around the world are making a difference. In 1926 Helen Keller challenged the Lions to become “Knights of the Blind”. Since then, Lions have made the fight against blindness their primary goal.

Lions ParkLocated in Uphill, Lions Park serves the needs of the com-munity in a number of ways. The City has built a new baseball diamond, and the fields have been used for soccer. The Lions Club built a spray park which was completed in 2005 which is popular in the summer. Additionally, in the 1990’s playground equipment was installed for young children, leading to a park for use of kids of all ages. In the winter, since the 1960’s, Lions Park has hosted an outdoor skating rink. This rink is set-up and maintained by Lions members, neighbours, and other interested people in our community. At first this rink was filled by hoses from nearby houses, today we have firehoses to do the job, and the City has installed lights which allows the public to skate well into the evening. Once a year the Lions Club hosts a “Lions Day in The Park” where we set up our chuck wagon, serve free hot dogs and drinks to the community and have games and activities for children. This usually happens in June and is open to all in our community at no cost.

July 1, 2016 Pancake BreakfastOn July 1st, the Lions Club closes a block of Baker Street, and the members provide a pancake breakfast for the com-munity. This has been a fixture of July 1st in community for years, and the proceeds raised fund local needs within our community. It is not unusual for the Lions to serve 700-900 people breakfast on this morning! Come on out on July 1st and join us for breakfast!

SOME OF OUR LOCAL PROJECTS AND THOSE WE SUPPORT:

Community GrantsEvery year the Lions Club takes requests from various non-profit organizations within our City, and provides funding. In this last year, we provided the community organizations with $5700 in grants to help with their operations. In the photo below, we can see the recipi-ents and some of our Lions members.

Brad Howard and Joan Reichardt from the Seniors Coordinating Society $3200.00; Ann MacDonald from the Nelson Musical Festival Association $500.00; Tasha Bassingthwaighe from the West Kootenay Women’s Association $2000.00; also in the photo are Lions Trent Nash, Bob Abrahams, Bill Brown, Len Filbert, Travis Nakken Project chairman and Robin Borrows President. Missing from the photo is Barbara Nicoll from the Kootenay Society for Lifelong Learning $1800.00. The Community Grants applications are open in early November each year for approximately four weeks.

Bursaries for High School GraduatesKeeping with our aim to support the youth in our City, the Lions have long provided scholarships to our grad-uating class at LVR. Lions realize we need to invest in our youth and allow them to have opportunities, so they will one day build the community we want to live in. Each year the Lions Club hands out two $1000 scholar-ships and one $600 each year.

Variety ShowThis long time event is hosted by the Nelson Lions every year in the spring. Aimed at children this event is entertaining and raises funds that the Lions distribute in our community. This is a family event that highlights fun, so bring out the family next year!

BC Easter Seal CampsBC Easter Seals Camps provide overnight summer camping experiences for children and teens with physical and/or men-tal disabilities throughout British Columbia. We operate three accessible camp locations: Camp Shawnigan on Vancouver Island, Camp Squamish north of Vancouver, and Camp Winfield in the Okanagan Valley. Every summer over 750 kids with disabilities come to camp to have the best week of their year. We believe that camp is the best place on earth! It is a place that our campers come to shine! We aim to cre-ate a place that campers come to celebrate their abilities, try new things, make friends and have a lot of fun!

Lions Commitment to the BlindOne of the main goals of Lions Clubs International is to assist those people who have vision prob-lems. The Lions Club of Nelson is heavily involved in contributing money to the Canada Dog Guides. It costs $25,000 to train a puppy to be a guide dog. The guide dogs that we are supporting are not just for people who are blind. If anyone would like to assist the Lions Club of Nelson in this venture, we would like to hear from you. Phone Bob at 250-354-3320.


Philip Donaldson

1954 – 2016It is with profound

sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Philip

Randolph James Donaldson of Nelson, BC. Phil passed away at home on April 12, 2016 of a heart attack at the age of 61.

Phil was born in Nelson on December 8, 1954 – the only child of Rose and Jim Donaldson. He married his high school sweetheart Lana Petersen in 1976. In 1987 they celebrated the birth of their only child, daughter Andrea. Phil’s proudest moment was seeing Andrea called to the Bar as a lawyer at the Vancouver Law Courts call ceremony just weeks before his passing.

Phil completed his schooling in Nelson at Notre Dame University and Eastern Washington University to obtain his teaching degree. He spent his entire career as an elementary school teacher, fi rst at Woodland Park Elementary and then Kinnaird Elementary, both in Castlegar. Teaching was his passion and he was a gifted educator beloved by his students. He was “Mr. D”. He retired in 2011 after 33 years of teaching, with wonderful memories and friendships.

Phil was an avid golfer and life-time member of the Granite Pointe Golf Club, as well as a talented musician, playing both piano and guitar. In retirement, he just wanted to relax, enjoying golf, cooking, reading, and his peppermint tea while bs-ing with the boys down at Oso Negro.

He was predeceased by his grandparents, Alice and John Renzie of Procter and In-Laws, Leopold and Tamara Petersen of Nelson. Phil is survived by his wife Lana, daughter Andrea of Vancouver, and parents Rose and Jim Donaldson of Nelson, as well as several uncles, aunts, cousins, and Lana’s sisters and their families.

A funeral service will be held on Friday, April 22, 2016 at 11:00 am at Th ompson Funeral Home, 613 Ward Street in Nelson. Reception to follow.

Heartfelt appreciation is extended to Dr. Sparrow and First Responders, Paramedics and Nelson City Police for their eff orts and kindness.

As an expression of sympathy, a donation may be made in Phil’s name to the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation or to the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

Arrangements are under the direction of Th ompson Funeral Service. Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

Roy Jerome Crutchley

Roy passed away peacefully with family members by his side at

Joseph Creek Care Village, at the age of 89 years, on

April 11, 2016.Roy was born in Michel B.C., raised in Kimberley and worked at Cominco in Kimberley and Riondel. When the vocational school was opened in Nelson (now Selkirk College) Roy was hired as a machinist/millwright instructor where he taught for almost 30 years until he retired in 1992. Upon retirement Roy loved his Wasa Lake property and had great times there with family members and friends. Roy and Ann spent vacation time in Hawaii for many years, often joined by his sisters and brothers-in-law.He leaves behind his wife, the love of his life, Ann Brochu, sisters Edna Carlbeck (Alan) and Eileen Wasilciw (Johnnie), daughters April Choate (Peter), Janice Ewing (Art) and Laura along with 8 grandchildren, 1 great grandchild and numerous nieces and nephews. He also leaves behind his stepchildren Dan Brochu (Blythe Nilson) and Colleen Hedin (Tom). Roy was predeceased by his mother and father, May and Tom Crutchley and his nephew Ron Wasilciw.Th ere will be no service, by Roy’s request. In lieu of fl owers donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society of B.C., #300, 828 - West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1E2 or to the charity of your choice. Special thanks and hugs to all the staff of Joseph Creek Care Village and to our friends at “Caregivers” for all the support they have given throughout this long journey.Roy was a fun loving, generous and well respected man. He will be missed.

Arrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service.

Eleanor passed away March 03, 2016at the age of 88 years.A celebration of life will be held

Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 1:00 pm at Nelson United Church 602 Silica Street, Nelson,

British Columbia with Rev. David Boyd as celebrant. Cremation has taken place.

As an expression of sympathy family & friends may make a donation in memory to Parkinson Society Canada 890 W Pender St #600, Vancouver, BC V6C 1J9

On-line condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

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Where else, in one evening, could you see a Michael Jackson tribute band, a fashion show featur-ing local designers, live-painting, beatboxing and an impassioned speech on body issues delivered by a nearly naked poet?

That’s what Art Party 10 was all about, and hundreds packed into The Royal on Baker on Thursday evening for the four-hour extrava-ganza.

The first act to take the stage was local rapper Dazza, who was accompanied by beatboxer Douglas. Then, for a change of pace, local artist Nuzla led the au-dience in a colouring exercise with pencil crayons, aiming to challenge participants’ perceptions of them-selves and others.

That was followed by a perfor-mance by local band Atlas, which includes musicians Aline Bobbin, Trevor Unruh, Graham Stark and Anna Backus. During one particu-larly memorable sequence Bobbin

pitted her viola against Unruh’s electric guitar to epic effect.

The fashion show portion of the evening featured a number of local women, included Art Party organizers Zaynab Mohammed and Leesa Dean.

Mohammed then read some poetry, which culminated in her disrobing before the audience, wearing only underwear and sea-shell pasties, to perform a piece on body image.

The evening concluded with a poetry reading from Cheryl Thornton and then a rambunc-tious concert from the Heights, who busted out Michael Jackson

classics such as “Beat It” and “Billie Jean.”

Art Party is an all-inclusive event that’s open to everyone.

The past nine Art Party events have fluctuated in attendance as venues have changed repeat-edly, but on Thursday the bar was crowded until midnight.

According to organizers, the goal is celebration.

“Art Party is a time to celebrate art, life, community, love, laugh-ter and sight. A night filled with inspiration from many colours of the rainbow,” the group’s Facebook page reads. “We get to witness the magic, as it unfolds, together.


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