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Nelson Leafs assistant coach Sean Dooley wants to help young athletes suffering from mental illness.

Coming cleanNelson Leafs assistant

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It’s taken Sean Dooley 25 years to admit what he’s known all along.

A quarter century to look in the mirror and speak aloud about what has haunted him, what he’s denied over and over to friends, family and himself. But here it is, finally, without censor, be-cause he wants to prevent others from making the mistakes he made.

Dooley was sexually abused as a child. He suffers from clinical depres-sion. He has attempted suicide. He has been addicted to alcohol and drugs. And, at 30 years old, he has spent the majority of his life being terrified of anyone finding out.

Dooley isn’t afraid anymore. In an extensive interview with the Star, the Nelson Leafs assistant coach revealed a history of tragedy that led to and sus-tained his mental illness, as well as his plans to prevent others from following the same path.

This week, Dooley and the Leafs will launch Breakout, a player assistance and mental health awareness program for young athletes, coaches and par-ents. The program, which will create a support structure at a local level, will be the first of its kind in Junior B hockey.

“When I was ready to give up on my-self and I said that, I had people who weren’t ready to give up on me,” said

Dooley.“And that’s what we want to do with

this program for these young athletes. I wish I knew about this when I was that age because it could have saved me. Things might have went exactly the same but had I asked for help and surrendered to this, then I could have nipped this a lot earlier in my adult life.”

Dooley was born in Nelson and grew up in one of the city’s most

public families. His father, John, is a former mayor and currently the Leafs’ team president. His mother, Pat, was a schools superintendent. He also has two older sisters, Shelagh and Erin. All people who loved him and, according to Dooley, knew nothing about how the family’s youngest child used to cry alone in his bedroom.

He was five when he was sexually abused. Dooley declines to say who did it, although it was someone he knew. He added he was too young to entirely understand what had happened to him for another six years when, after learn-ing about abuse in school, he realized he was a victim.

In retrospect, Dooley wishes he had said something about the abuse. But he was too scared of the possibility that no one believed him, what other kids would say, or that it would destroy his dreams of NHL stardom.

“I felt dirty. I felt weird. I knew some-thing had happened to me and I just felt wrong. I felt uncomfortable with myself,” he said. “But I didn’t want to

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Tim Mushumanski likes to help students solve problems. That’s something he’s been doing for the last eight years as vice principal of L.V. Rogers, and it’s something he’ll be doing until at least July as the acting principal of Rosemont Elementary.

“It’s eye-opening. This is a whole different world,” Mushumanski told the Star, during his second day of work. “These youngers kids, there’s more energy. It’s noisier. It’s way more fun than I thought it would be and the kids have been super welcoming.”

And though he figures his workdays will change, there will still be “a huge overlap” in the type of work he’ll be doing.

“It’s still helping kids solve problems. Not solving the prob-lems for them, but letting them do it themselves. I did a lot of that at secondary school, and I’ll do a lot of that here. I know that already.”

Grade 1 student Oz Meeker was hanging out with Mushumanski and sorting pennies into sleeves during the Star’s visit. Mushumanski said the pair have already worked together solving a variety of problems.

When asked his favourite thing about his new principal, Meeker was succinct: “I get to hold money.”

Mushumanski said former principal Kathy Spiers, who is now an acting vice principal at the district office, will be missed.

“I’ve known Kathy for a long time. I have a huge amount of re-

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Though Mushumanski has “lots of ideas” for what he hopes to accomplish at Rosemont, right now he’s still in listening mode.

“The first couple of months will be figuring out how the school ticks, where the teach-ers and students are at, what they need. I’m not coming in with my agenda. I’m going to find out where they’re at and what they need from me.”

One thing he would like to con-tinue is Destination Imagination, a creativity and problem-solving program.

“I have a number of contacts on Vancouver Island that run prov-ince-wide and North America-wide competitions, so I want to look into that.”

He said the exercises the kids participate in develop crucial skillsets.

“Here’s an example: they’ll give you a box of miscellaneous items like straws, paper clips, tape. They’ll say build the tallest structure you can with four stu-dents and a time limit. Now go!”

The process will teach children social skills as well as problem-solving.

“There will be leaders who emerge, followers that emerge, cooperation. Sometimes there will be conflict and that has to be resolved. This is a really simple example of the type of work they’ll be doing.”

Mushumanski said he’s pleased about his new gig.

“I’m thrilled to be the principal of Rosemont. I was at L.V. Rogers as vice principal for eight years and it was tough to leave. But I couldn’t have landed in a better spot for me. I’m thrilled to be that leader for this school.”

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As part of Nelson’s Learning in Retirement program, you can at-tend field trips overseas, take a workshop on improving your sex life, learn how to write your will or find the right dose of cannabis oil to soothe your aches and pains. And that’s only the beginning.

“Registration begins today,” Diane Watts told the approxi-mately 150 people who gathered for a Selkirk College meet and greet Friday morning. “Remember that all our instructors are volunteers, and are giving freely of their time and expertise.”

Watts designed the upcoming curriculum, and promised those gathered the topics covered will be diverse and engaging.

“We are proud to offer a stimulat-ing array of events and presenters to our membership. We are now more than 300 members and would like other seniors 50-plus to be aware of what is being offered to them,” fellow organizer Laura Duncan told the Star.

Some courses include “Bridge for the Absolute Beginner” taught by Angus Paton, “Explore the Nature of Reality” with Bo Pearce, “Be an Online Library Power User” and “Watercolour Painting” with Norm Watts.

A local author series will include

talks from nine local authors and three local publishers, including Anne DeGrace, Ernest Hekkanen, Diana Cole and Jane Merks.

A variety of presenters addressed the crowd about upcoming offer-ings, including Heather Goldik from the Nelson Public Library and Jim Leslie of the Kootenays Medicine Tree.

“One of the basics we founded our company on was education. An original part of our mission is to educate the general public on the benefits of cannabis,” Leslie told the Star after addressing the crowd, and giving a run-down on his upcoming course. This is his second time offering it, after a suc-cessful run last semester.

For seniors in particular, Leslie said many are interested in learn-ing more about the THC-less ex-

tracts, oils and suppositories that can work as alternatives to phar-maceuticals.

“There are many ways to ac-complish the therapeutic use of cannabis without smoking a joint,” he said.

The latest Leaning in Retirement newsletter includes some reviews of courses offered thus far, includ-ing one offered by outspoken paci-ficist and perennial city council candidate Charles Jeanes on “War and Peace.”

“In classes he paces the front of the room, a cup of coffee in one hand, perhaps a book from the pile he brings to class in the other,” the review reads. “Mostly he simply talks, drawing on the seemingly bottomless fund of knowledge he’s acquired through years of study.”

The “Sex and Aging” class, taught by Judith Fearing, addressed “per-sonal attitudes and taboos around sex in our age group.” Reviewer John Galm wrote “she guided us in small sessions where we could express our feelings and concerns about the subject. Much informa-tion was presented in our class and we were urged to discover websites and materials available which were expansions of the presenations in the series. It was a lively time!”

Upcoming drop-in ses-sions, which are $3 at the door, include“Kootenaiana,” a talk by Ron Welwood, and “Deconstructing Dinner” by John Steinman. The events will continue until the end of May, with Greg Utzig, Irene Mock, Ross Klatte, Eileen Delehanty Pearkes and Jason Asbell all offering their expertise. They are offered at Selkirk College as well as a variety of other venues.

To find out more information about registration contact Diane Watts at drwatts@telus.net.

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Approximately 150 Nelsonites packed into a meet and greet session at Selkirk College detailing the upcoming offerings from Learning in Retirement. Will Johnson photos

Nelson Fresh Tracks Toastmasters is cel-ebrating its 20th anniversary by moving to a new location in the old Nelson Daily News building at 266 Baker. So now there is even less reason to avoid your fear of public speaking: you can’t use the excuse that the old location at the Selkirk College Silver King campus is too far away.

“We have had people who did not want to go up there in the winter,” says Toastmasters’ Karen Belland. “The new place is beautiful and it’s a great for us.”

Nelson Fresh Tracks Toastmasters is one of 15,400 Toastmasters International clubs with 332,000 members in 135 countries.

Anyone can attend a Fresh Tracks meet-ing and just observe. But Belland says it is quite common for first time visitors to surprise themselves by getting up during the

table topics competition and expounding on the evening’s chosen topic. In Belland’s case, on her first visit, the table topic was “a favourite summer memory.” She got up and told the group about going on holiday in her parents’ Volkswagen bus, listening to music on 8-track.

Meetings also include several prepared seven to 10 minute speeches that are evalu-ated based what the speaker did well and areas for improvement.

“Public speaking is a huge fear for many people,” says Belland. “Our group is friendly and open. People always say it is very com-fortable and feels safe for them. One member said that being in the group makes him won-der what opportunities he has missed in his life because he did not have the confidence to speak up, even in front of a few people.”

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It appears a 33-year-old man crashed into a Perrier Rd. house in a company vehicle, causing a dangerous gas leak this month, then drove to a further destina-tion to continue drinking, ac-cording to RCMP Cst. Gerrod Strebchuk.

And “it wasn’t rocket science” to catch him, either.

“I seized some evidence at the scene, items that broke off the truck during the crash,” he told the Star. “After the scene was secured and cleared I started making patrols and the vehicle was located on the side of the highway within a kilometre. The driver was now at another friend’s house, continuing to drink.”

The man denies the charges he faces, but Strebchuk said the

evidence is “overwhelming.”“The woman wasn’t able to

sleep in her house, because it was contaminated with gas, but she should be back now. The gas company attended that night and put on a new meter, and Nelson Fire Rescue was able to shut the line down because it wasn’t sheared off above the valve.”

A plumber was also called to deal with the damage.

“It’s a bad spot there because the houses are so close to the as-phalt,” Strebchuck said. “There’s no real median. But being heavily intoxicated sure didn’t help his situation.”

Initially Strebchuk liaised with police in Nelson and Salmo, ensuring the banged-up truck couldn’t get past them in either direction.

But neither spotted the truck.

“We knew it had to be some-where between us, possibly somewhere ditched. I started roaming around looking for damage that would match.”

It wasn’t long before he lo-cated the driver. Strebchuk had strong words for drunk drivers who continue to put others’ lives in danger.

“This shouldn’t have to be explained to the public, the consequences of drinking and driving. Here you’ve got a lady pushing 90, her house was hit in the middle of the night and that could’ve evacuated several people.”

And that’s not all.“It’s super simple: drinking and

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The Kootenay chapter of Women Grow, a can-nabis advocacy orga-nization already estab-lished in Vancouver and Toronto, hosted a well-attended educational evening at the Hume Hotel last week, aiming to “connect, educate, in-spire and empower the next generation of can-nabis industry leaders.”

“The war on drugs is ridiculous,” keynote speaker Jim Leslie of the Kootenays Medicine Tree dispensary in Nelson told the crowd, which con-sisted of approximately 150 people. A ten-year veteran of Canada Border Services, he was on the frontlines of drug en-forcement and was dis-illusioned by his time there.

He spent approximately 40 minutes going through his personal history with the controversial plant, while detailing the devel-opment of his dispensa-ries, first in Grand Forks and now in Nelson.

“To be clear: I started as a cannabis person and I never surrendered it. I went undercover for ten years,” said Leslie, who graduated with a criminology degree. He eventually joined the or-ganization LEAP — Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

“The commonality among all chapters of LEAP is that we want to see all drugs regulated, all of them — that’s the only way ahead. The war on drugs in an uphill battle, so regulation is the only answer.”

Leslie took some time to tip his hat to various cannabis activists who came before him, in-cluding “Prince of Pot” Marc Emery and Philip McMillan, founder of

the Nelson Compassion Club, who received an enthusiastic round of applause.

“Phil is an amazing man. He’s where I got my medicine when I moved to the area, and he’s a learned, compassionate, caring man who’s stuck to his principles. He was the only dispensary in this town for years and years.”

Leslie also mentioned the crew of Holy Smoke, a local dispensary that has since gone out of business, calling them “heroes of mine.”

The evening included talks by industry lead-ers Brynn Jones, Darrin Fidler and Jennifer Peel. Jones spoke at length about his “ad-venture” into the world of hemp working for J/W Mariceuticals and Okanagan Green Hemp products.

“We need to be a shin-ing beacon for change,” he said. “I stand in front of you as an activist, an entrepreneur and a fa-ther. Only events like this will make our voices heard.”

He noted that hemp can be used to make ev-erything from paper, bat-teries and clothing.

“Gandhi was clothed by hemp,” he said.

Leslie acknowledged the purpose of the eve-ning by praising the

myriad of women who have been leaders in the cannabis industry, including his employ-ees Kaleigh Herald and Tanya Shelestynski.

“I feel like I’ve been surrounded by a group of wonderful women who’ve guided us through this entire experience,” he said, theorizing that since the industry is based on “caring and nurturing” it’s a perfect fit for women interested in health care.

Leslie’s own passion is treating children, includ-ing toddler Kyla Williams from Summerland. After administering CBD oil, the youngster stopped having seizures, he said. He believes it was her example, and the fact her grandfather is a decorated RCMP of-ficer, that turned public opinion in his favour in Grand Forks.

Distributed at the meet-ing was a memorandum from the City of Nelson’s corporate services officer, Frances Long, addressed to Mayor Deb Kozak — who was invited to the event but didn’t attend. Long wrote that though the city will continue to anticipate legaliza-tion, “until the time that those regulations come into full force, members of the Nelson Police Department will con-tinue to view marijuana

storefronts as illegal.”That being said, five

dispensaries are currently operating in downtown Nelson, with a sixth scheduled to open soon. The memo noted a re-cent bust in Nanaimo occurred where it was alleged that dispensaries were selling outside their stores and to youth, and warned the same thing could happen here.

“Nelson Pol ice Department will inves-tigate such allegations and will enforce when ap-propriate,” Long’s memo read.

Leslie had strong words about the recent busts.

“Is this really the time to bust them? Now? After nine years under [Stephen] Harper? I dare say that’s stupid.”

Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall was in attendance, and said she considered it part of her due diligence in pre-paring for the arrival of marijuana legalization.

“This could be a mas-sive economic oppor-tunity for our region in the next couple of years if Prime Minister Trudeau follows through with his promise to legalize,” she said.

“We need to be learn-ing about this now. How are we going to roll out a legalized marijuana sys-tem? We need to do it in partnership with people already in the industry.”

Mungall said formerly the government’s atti-tude towards cannabis has been “government knows best.”

She also sees this as a potential opportunity to address child poverty and the financial stress being put on women by our current mental health and affordable housing crisis.

“What I think is very interesting is that the stats coming out of the States show that close to 50 per cent of business owners and CEOs in this industry are women, and that’s one of the highest ratios anywhere. I think it’s because it’s a newer industry and doesn’t have that history of making women break through glass ceilings to access positions of leadership.”

She said “this is all very new. Time will tell

us what the opportuni-ties are, and if women are able to capitalize on them, that’s great. I hope to see gender equity in all industries.”

Mungall noted that one suggestion is to use the current liquor distribu-tion infrastructure to dispense marijuana.

“Is that a possibility? Is that right right way to go? These are questions we need to be researching, and need to be research-ing now. I don’t know if [Premier] Christy Clark has jumped on that op-portunity.”

She said both the pro-vincial and federal gov-ernments, as well as the general populace, need to be prepared for a huge change when legalization hits.

“We need to be learning about legalization and preparing for its arrival right now,” she said.

WILL JOHNSONNelson Star

The Kootenay chapter of Women

Grow held an educational evening to

‘connect, educate and inspire the next generation

of cannabis industry leaders’

The Kootenays Medicine Tree director Jim Leslie was the keynote speaker during Women Grow, a meeting of cannabis industry professionals held at the Hume Hotel last week. Will Johnson photo

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The promise of a new year

A New Year, with all of its promise, has begun. When the city held its annual recep-

tion in December, I expressed my disbelief that a year had passed so quickly. There was so much activity in 2015 that the time flew by. 2016 is shaping up to be the same with new projects emerging from the wings as current projects come to completion.

It’s my hope that one small change council has implemented will pro-duce big results. Council has shifted the time of some of its committee of the whole meetings from the eve-ning to the afternoon. We hope to see more people in attendance and changing the time to earlier in the day may make it possible for more of you to come. On Jan. 18, committee of the whole will begin at 1 p.m. in council chambers. You can find the full calendar year here: nelson.ca/EN/main/services/tmayor-council/calendar/012016.html.

The potential of the Railtown district has captured the imagina-tion of the community and detailed planning for this district will move forward in 2016. The city has con-tracted with Modus, a company from Vancouver, to facilitate the planning process. Modus hosted the first workshop last week to begin the exploration. A diverse group that included business owners in the Railtown district, the Chamber of Commerce, residents, and non-profits came together to share what the future of this little gem might look like.

Prior planning documents includ-ing the Path to 2040, Downtown Waterfront Master Plan and the heri-tage register informed the meeting. It was a very good beginning. The larger community will be invited into this three-stage process as it un-folds. There is a tremendous amount of energy and excitement about the possibilities Railtown holds for the future and I think it will be a place for Nelson’s creativity to shine.

Council recently approved a three per cent increase in water rates and a two per cent increase in sewer rates for 2016. These increases will ensure that infrastructure renewal contin-ues and will build future reserves. The increase on an average home will amount to $2.03 per month. It was just over 10 years ago that the city adopted its long-term plan for infrastructure renewal. It included big goals for capital investment and a plan to build reserves for the future.

The financial investment and hard work has really begun to pay off. All galvanized pipe has been replaced, we’ve averaged close to two kilome-tres per year in water line replace-ment and 2.5 kilometres per year in sewer line replacement. Much of this work has been completed at a lower cost because we are able to use our own crews and there has been fa-vourable pricing on materials. We are ahead of many communities in this work and well positioned to share in any federal grants that the new gov-ernment may offer.

We are ringing in the New Year with the swearing in of our new po-lice chief, Paul Burkart, on Jan. 29. Paul brings both operational and administrative experience with him and is looking forward to working with council and the police board. The police department has worked hard to establish the restorative jus-tice initiative and is currently work-ing with Nelson’s street collective to develop a community-based solution for people with mental health issues.

2015 was a productive and reward-ing year and your council is looking forward to exciting developments in 2016. Thanks to all of you for your support in this first year. Happy New Year everyone!

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Wild Jumbo’s landscape and nomenclature

Currently there is a controversy being passionately engaged in by various writers of the English lan-guage on both sides of the Atlantic over the influence of dictionaries’ contents — specifically on youth — or is it that youth are influencing the contents of new dictionaries? Simply put, in order for new dic-tionaries to not become too wordy, teams of editors decide what old words need to be eliminated so new words can be added — essen-tially wild nature vs. technology.

The new Oxford Junior Dictionary has eliminated these words (partial list): acorn, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, dan-delion, fern, heron, ivy, kingfisher, minnow, otter, pasture, raven, wil-low. Familiar designations of digi-tal life have replaced them.

“People defend what they love, and to defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.” — Wendell Berry. “A vo-cabulary rich with subtle and var-iegated distinctions found in flora, fauna and even sensual properties of the natural world is essential for our perception. When that is lost, landscapes tend to be lost, too, flora and fauna are dimin-ished and endangered. What was once beautiful is rendered ugly. No one is inspired to wonder by an environmental impact report.” — Jack Turner.

I/we love, and am inspired to wonder, the entirety of the whole wild Jumbo environs from: the various gleaming, groaning glacial heights; down through alpine bou-quets; descending further through the mixed forests habitats that em-brace all manner of mammals large and small; bottoming out in the lush wetlands habitat at the north end of Jumbo Valley. Now mov-ing south many tributaries enliven the way contributing to the crys-tal clear Jumbo Creek sweet water habitat. We/I know many of these flora and fauna by sight, sound, smell and name, who are the beings that make up this thriving viable ecosystem. And I/we thank them for showing us how life works for them in this beautifully balanced vital place they call home.

All this, of course, before the

hands of men, whose jackets read “High Country Properties,” depos-ited the rude intrusions of the 2012 frantic attempts at “development.”

At this point the nomenclature of Jumbo’s wild nature still applies to all but that extremely localized area. Yet if Mr. Oberto Oberti, and his developer types get their way, the vocabulary for what we now know as common identity names for Jumbo’s wild entities will morph surprisingly fast.

Even words as common as snow algae and dandelion may be miss-ing after glaciers are salted for ski-ers and herbicides are earnestly used, as I witnessed at Whistler some years ago.

Rowena EloiseWest Kootenay Coalition for

Jumbo WildArgenta

Arguments for loud motorcycles

aren’t validRe: “Loud pipes make motorcycles

safer,” Letters, Jan. 8I wish to address some of Ruth

Meyers’ opinions.Firstly I wish that the editor had

chosen a photo of a motorcycle with loud or straight pipes and not one with legal mufflers. I am not opposed to motorcycle riders with functioning mufflers and feel this photo unfairly pointed a finger at all riders, even those with mufflers.

I have many years riding mo-torcycles under my belt. When I was younger I too enjoyed loud exhaust — but then I liked cards in my bicycle spokes too. I now know excessive noise is physically damaging to one’s hearing and can cause stress leading to other medi-cal conditions. I agree that motor-cycles shouldn’t be singled out and they are not. There are laws gov-erning the amount of exhaust noise that is legal and for the most part these regulations are enforced. Try driving a Toyota car or a Honda or Yamaha motorcycle with open exhaust and see how long you get away with that.

But for some reason Harleys are allowed to get away with this; some say it is because many police offi-cers have ridden Harley Davidson motorcycles in the force or now ride themselves. As a pedestrian and bicyclist I can say that an ap-proaching loud motorcycle isn’t

very loud until it has passed — then it hurts! If loud vehicles made the roads safer then why not elimi-nate mufflers from all vehicles? Horns were invented to inform others where you are. When I was riding a motorcycle I found my horn to be very effective.

I have met folks from Ontario who were considering selling their property because it is on a mo-torcycle tour route. I know many more from across the country and in the US too who are totally fed up with loud motorcycles. When tourists come to visit our area and they find loud motorcycles dis-tasteful, they should have the right to say so. In Nelson I witnessed an incident in front of a well known coffee shop.

A lady was walking by with her little girl when a guy started his loud Harley and then revved up the engine. The little one cringed and held her ears at which point he revved it again and burned rub-ber leaving the scene laughing! I tried to get his license number but was unsuccessful. This isn’t a laughing matter. Allowing this law-less behaviour can lead to further disregard for authority and public well being.

The economic argument for loud motorcycles isn’t valid either. Most of the motorcycles passing through our area have functioning mufflers and are driven by law-abiding citi-zens. They will continue to come and be welcomed.

Terry LowreyNelson

Grateful for Grohman decision

I would like to thank everyone who spoke out against the so called Grohman Narrows improvement project, and put a stop to it. It’s the best news I’ve heard this year. I was appalled at the attitude of some of the BC Hydro people who tried to push this through. I’m elated!

Rod RetzlaffGlade

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Community EventsLine dancing classes start Jan. 11 at 1

pm to 2 p.m. at Christie Lees Hall on Radio Avenue, taught by June Price and Marge Pollard. More info: 250-352-3005.

Canadian Federation of University Women regular meeting Jan. 15, 10 a.m. Adventure Hotel banquet room, 616 Vernon. Guest Speaker Montana Burgess of Climate Action Network International. More info: nelsoncfuw@gmail.com.

Habitat for Humanity information and organizational meeting for the public 1 p.m. Jan. 16 at Nelson Chamber of Commerce, 91 Baker St (old railway station), upstairs meeting room, look for signs. More info: kathyhfh@outlook.com.

West Kootenay Ostomy Support Group meeting Jan. 18, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Kiro Wellness Center, 1500 Columbia Ave, Trail. Topic: Prolapsed stoma. More info: 250-368-9827.

Regional District of Central Kootenay board meetings are open to the public. Budget meeting Jan. 20 at 1 p.m., regu-lar meeting Jan. 21 at 9 a.m., 202 Lakeside Drive. More info: AWinje@rdck.bc.ca.

Locavores’ Feast / Six Slocan Valley Minutes, Vallican Whole Community Centre, 3762 Little Slocan River Rd., Jan. 23, 5 p.m., celebrating local food, commu-nity and abundance. Admission by donation and a generous potluck item sourced from as many local ingredients as possible. More info: 250-226-7730.

Ymir Snowfest: pancake breakfast, music, fun, games, obstacle races and sliding hills, Feb. 6. More info: 250-357-9555.

Slopes for Hope presented by Whitewater Ski Resort & Nelson Nordic Ski Club, a fam-ily friendly ski-a-thon in which participants attempt to ski or board the vertical height of Mount Everest in one day (29,029 feet) in support of the Canadian Cancer Society, March 5. Register at slopesforhope.ca. More info: 250-364-0403.

WorkshopsKootenay Co-op presents Health &

Inflammation: Ten ways to nourish your-self and feel great at theKootenay Coop meeting room, ., 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., members $10, non-members $15. More info: 250-354-4077.

Weekly eventsGlacier Harmonies Women’s Chorus,

Wednesdays at 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 611 Fifth St., newcomers welcome. More info: 250 825-0027.

Breastfeeding Drop-in Support by a pub-lic health nurse Tuesdays 10:30 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. Free introductory class, join any time. More info: 250-509-2499.

iPad Support for Seniors at Seniors Coordinating Society, 719 Vernon, Thursdays Dec. 31 to Jan 21, free. More info: 250-505-2361.

Seniors Coordinating 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. Wednesdays 7 to 9:30 p.m. More info: 250-352-7025.

Nelson Healing Rooms, a place for con-fidential prayer, Wednesdays 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 711 10th Street, free. More info: nelson-headingrooms@gmail.com.

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

Al-Anon Family Group meets twice weekly. Wednesday noon to 1 p.m. at the Cellar, 717 Vernon St. and Friday 8 to 9 p.m. at 601 Front St. at the side basement. The only requirement is that you have a relative or friend with alcoholism. More info: 250-352-3747 for Wednesday, 250-352-7333 for Friday.

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.

The Healing Meditation, gentle, guid-ed meditation infused with the power of Conscious Co-Creation through spiritu-ally realigning your thoughts and letting go of conditions. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m.,

507 Vernon, back door, by donation. More info: 250-229-2253.

Nelson Chess Club, Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nelson Seniors Association 717 Vernon St. All ages and levels are welcome.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #51 in-vites guests to enjoy billiards, snooker, shuf-fleboard, 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: rclbr51@telus.net or 250-352-7727.

Parkinson Support Group meets every third Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Christie Lees Hall In Kiwanis Villa, Gordon Road. No meet-ing in December. More info: ecartlidge@shaw.ca.

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

Monthly EventsPeople in Pain Support Group, Shambhala

Meditation Centre 812 Stanley St., 1:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month. More info: dick@pipain.com.

La Leche League Nelson provides breast-feeding information and support to moms and soon-to-be-moms at 1:00 on the third Monday of each month at The Family Place, 312 Silica St. More info: 250-352-3583.

AnnouncementsNelson Friends of the Family now takes

donations online at nelsonfriendsofthefam-ily.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 the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month at Seniors Coordinating Society, 719 Vernon St, 7 a.m. to noon. For 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.

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Heather Goldik of the Nelson Public Library will share her expertise during this semester’s Learning in Retirement program. Will Johnson photo

The L.V. Rogers junior girls basketball team brought home some hardware over the week-end.

The Bombers captured first with a 48-42 overtime win over Selkirk Secondary to finish 3-0 at a tournament hosted by David Thompson Secondary in Invermere on Friday and Saturday.

The Bombers trailed Selkirk by one with eight seconds left when Bryce Winters was fouled. She missed her first free throw but hit the second, send-ing the game to extra time. The team then jumped ahead in OT for the victory.

L.V. Rogers also defeated

Laurie Middle School 21-19 in their first game and David Thompson 39-38 in the sec-ond.

Next action for the junior and senior girls was yesterday at J.L. Crowe, past the Star’s deadline.

The 6-0 senior girls host an eight-team tournament this weekend. Schools from Osoyoos, Rutland, Fernie, and Invermere are expected along with other West Kootenay schools.

The senior boys basketball team was also in action this past weekend. They finished fourth at a home tournament with two wins against Nakusp and Trail and losses to Rutland and Creston.

The Nelson Leafs added a pair of players at the trade deadline they hope will contribute to their playoff push.

Nelson signed forward Cleary Ambrose and acquired goaltender Josh Williams from the AJHL’s Bonnyville Pontiacs for future considerations prior to Sunday’s deadline.

Leafs general manager and head coach Mario DiBella said he thinks Ambrose, a 17-year-old from San Diego, is a promising offensive asset.

“[Ambrose has] got tremendous speed,” said DiBella on Monday. “He’s a big body, he’s got good hands and he can fire the puck. And he’s an intelligent player.”

Williams, meanwhile, was dropped from the Pontiacs’ roster following a knee injury after winning seven games in 10 appearances with the team and recording a 2.60 goals-against average as well as an .898 save percentage.

“[Bonnyville] just needed

to fill that spot and that’s why he was up for grabs. We were fortunate enough to get him,” said DiBella.

DiBella characterized the deadline dealings as frustrating. The team targeted a top-four defenceman but had several deals fall through, although he said they will still pursue a top-four, junior-A blue-liner before the Feb. 10 roster deadline. The Leafs currently have just six defenceman active.

Meanwhile, Nelson added defenceman Brendan Smith, who had previously been released by the team in December. He had six goals and nine assists but suffered an upper-body injury on Oct. 24.

The Leafs also released goaltender Zakery Babin. He’d been acquired in a trade from the Princeton Posse earlier this season but suffered three losses in just four appearances for Nelson.

The moves came a day after Nelson surrendered six unanswered goals en route to a 7-3 loss against the Beaver Valley

Nitehawks in Fruitvale.Kyle Hope, Braden Fuller,

Blake Sidoni, Devin Nemes, Allan Pruss, Ryan Terpsma and Devin Ghirardosi each scored for the division-leading Nitehawks (26-8-4).

Eamonn Miller scored twice for Nelson (16-21-1), while Samuel Weber added a single.

Beaver Valley exploded out of the gate with five goals in the first period. Leafs goaltender Curt Doyle, back again after a brief return to major midget hockey, allowed all five goals on 14 shots before being pulled at the intermission in favour of Patrick Ostermann.

“I have to take blame. My team wasn’t prepared when they dropped the puck,” said Leafs head coach Mario DiBella. “There are circumstances that are sometimes out of your control. The pace of the game was high. Beaver Valley got the advantage of a couple of penalty calls early on. They were quite physical and we weren’t prepared to match that intensity.”

Terpsma opened the second

period with a shorthanded goal to give the Nitehawks a 6-0 lead. Miller put the Leafs on the board with two goals bookending another Beaver Valley goal by Ghirardosi.

Weber’s goal in the third was all the offence either team would muster during the period, but DiBella said he could at least see a silver lining in how his team responded after the ugly first.

“The second period was 2-2 and the third period we actually won 1-0. If the game was only 40 minutes we would have won the game 3-2,” he said.

“Unfortunately it’s 60 minutes and we lost the game 7-3.”

Beaver Valley goaltender Tallon Kramer made 39 saves for the win, while Ostermann finished with 24 saves.

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The L.V. Rogers junior girls basketball team went undefeated through three games. Back row, from left, coach Chris Dergousoff, Julia Burkart, Marla Motzkus, Heather Potkins, Bryce Winters, Ohia Wintrub, and coach Willis Parnell. Front, Riley Zondervan, Sierra Jones, Sonja Boyd, and Camryn Parnell.

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Home for Quin Hall is mani-cured grass beneath a blistering sun. Home is sweat dripping down his brow and the feel of a broken-in glove on his hand as he waits for the ball to come his way.

The baseball field is his safe space, the place Hall is allowed to be himself.

“I just feel like I belong out there,” says the 16-year-old. “That’s what I want to do with my life. I want to move somewhere where it’s hot and baseball is an everyday thing forever.”

Baseball is Hall’s craft. Even dur-ing Nelson’s winter months, when snow covers the local diamonds, Hall is working away. There’s high school, but there’s also the gym, the net in his living room he throws wiffle balls into, the mir-ror he practises his swing in front of. He’s been playing baseball for eight years, but soon it won’t just be a passion. Very soon it will be his career.

This week Hall will attend Major League Baseball’s Breakthrough Series in Tempe, Ariz. The evalu-ation event gives scouts a chance to see 60 high school players who don’t normally have the means of getting on MLB’s radar. Hall, by virtue of living in Nelson, is one such player.

Attending the event, which runs Jan. 16 to 18, required an invita-tion from an MLB team, which Hall’s family believes came from the Washington Nationals. Scott Ramsay, a scout for the Nats, saw Hall when he played for the devel-opmental club Spokane Dodgers last year and reached out to him after he turned 16 in July.

Former MLB catcher Bob Didier, who has coached Hall, said he rec-ommended the young prospect be invited four months ago. The invite also included a call in early December from Nationals man-ager Dusty Baker.

Once he returns to Canada, Hall and his father, Bob, will move to the Lower Mainland later this month so he can join the White Rock Tritons of the BC Premier League Baseball, which will give him year-round baseball, better competition and exposure to MLB and college scouts.

“I want to make a bigger name for myself,” said Hall. “I just want to actually compare and look like an MLB guy so if I do get the shot at being an MLB guy they’ll be like, ‘hey, I’ve seen this guy play, I know what he can be like, I think he’s a real-time MLB guy.’”

The family received previous re-quests to move Hall away to club teams when he was as young as 14, but his mother, Pam, said she wouldn’t hear it. In the end, Hall’s

talent forced the family’s hand.“It wasn’t really a decision,” said

Bob Hall. “It was sort of like either do it or quit baseball. So it wasn’t really should we, shouldn’t we, it was like we’re just going to do it, bite the bullet and make it happen.”

Quin Hall plays centre field, bats left-handed, and watches the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates. His favourite player is Pirates centre-fielder and former National League MVP Andrew McCutchen, who Hall models his game after. At the plate, Hall prides himself as a power hitter.

“I don’t swing just to make con-tact and hit the ball over the short-stop’s head, a little blooper single. I like to stretch doubles and triples,” he said. “I’m fast too on the bases. Any time I can I steal. I’ll steal on almost anybody.”

The people most excited for Hall’s potential are those who have been watching and developing him for years.

Last summer Hall played for the Spokane Dodgers’ under-18 team even though he was only 15. Hall started working out with the Dodgers three years ago, but manager Jeff Simmelink decided the kid was worth a look against older competition.

“He’s a supreme talent,” said Simmelink. “There’s no question about that. He was really, really young for our team last year. We like to take young players that have talent and develop them. So we threw him to the wolves a little bit.”

Marty Lehn, the general manager of the Tritons and a former scout with 10 years of MLB experience, has known Hall since he started coming to a baseball camp four of five years ago that Lehn runs

in Oliver.“You can dare to dream about

Quin,” said Lehn. “He’s a great kid, he’s very coachable, he’s got a pas-sion for the game.”

In scouting terms, Lehn said Hall currently has plus-speed and plus-power. His throwing arm needs to be stronger, but it’s improving every year. Lehn also noted Hall generates great bat speed and boasts raw power at the plate.

“It’s funny. I don’t think he recog-nizes how good he is,” said Lehn. “He’s got a phenomenally quick bat. So I think as he matures he’ll start to realize that he can basically sit on balls a little bit more and evaluate pitches a little bit more because he is that quick to get to the bat and get the barrel to the ball.”

Didier, who played for parts of six seasons in the majors between 1969-74, echoed Lehn’s evaluation but added Hall’s personality also stands out.

“He’s always talking to other kids and applauding them and patting them on the back,” said Didier. “It’s not all about Quin, it’s about the team. He’s got a lot of attributes that could really help out if he does go far. I mean, who knows?”

All this experience has given Hall realistic expectations for his future.

He’s eligible to be drafted once he finishes high school, which is still a year and a half away, but he’s more focused for now on making a good impression in Tempe. When he joins White Rock, he’ll be working toward getting noticed by NCAA Division 1 colleges, which offer a more likely route to the majors.

“This is me taking it into my own hands now,” said Hall. “Putting it into perspective: I want to make a career out of this.”

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Nelson baseball player takes first steps toward

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Nelson baseball player Quin Hall is set to participate in MLB’s Breakthrough Series.

Quin Hall rounds first

The Nelson Squash Club has finally opened its doors. All it took was 10 months of hard work and long delays following years of doubt that it would even survive.

The club was made available for use last week, the result of a drawn-out process that the non-profit society’s president is thrilled to see come to fruition.

“It’s never looked this good,” Pat Hodgson said on Saturday. “It may have at one time 30 years ago but in the time I’ve been here it’s never looked this good.”

The renovations, which cost the organization $30,000 in member donations and required another $20,000 from former member Ed Olthof after a proposed plan was accepted in March, include two updated courts with better visibil-ity for spectators, a redone ceiling and walls, and a new bar.

It’s the first substantial work done to the club since its inception in 1984, and it didn’t come easy.

The courts were done in two weeks, but the liquor license took eight months and nearly $5,000 to get approved. Construction was

also delayed four months to make sure the fire separation between the club’s two floors at 330 Baker St., above The Royal, was accept-able.

The club previously occupied the space until 2011 when the building’s ownership changed and rent went up. That led to the club’s change to a non-profit so-ciety and a move out of the space to a pair of courts upstairs acces-sible only through an old window. Meanwhile, the club explored moving to the previously empty Civic Theatre and also had plans fall through to share space at the Nelson Curling Centre.

It was, according to Hodgson, less than ideal.

After a change of landlords, the club was able to retake possession of the downstairs area in the fall of 2014, but it was clear renos were required.

“This [place] was trashed,” said Hodgson. “The courts were demol-ished. There was no question about that. The courts themselves, they were 30 years old anyways, so they needed to be updated. They were getting worn out. And the floors, particularly in court one, had been

destroyed by the previous tenant. It was a gym so they dropped weights on the hardwood. So that had to be done.”

The club relied on its members volunteering construction time to stay on budget. Club manager Paul Lamoureux praised Nelson’s squash lovers for the work they put in.

“Just ripping all this stuff down and taking it out. I mean, two guys trying to do that? It would have taken forever,” said Lamoureux. “We had 25, 30 people here on like three or four different Saturdays doing the courts. It was a really good group effort.”

Hodgson hopes the completed renos mean the club can start growing again.

A new pricing structure, as well as $12 drop-ins for anyone who isn’t already a member, is a step toward growing the club’s commu-nity that has been stifled for several years by inadequate facilities.

“This place means a tremendous amount to the people who have been members here for a long time, and getting it back is a huge, huge shot in the arm for so many of us,” he said.

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one of six teams — that also included three junior squads — who took part in a weekend tournament at the Nelson and District Community Complex.

The host team went 2-1-1. On Friday, they tied the Greater Trail Orange Crush. Larson Proctor scored for Nelson. On Saturday morning, Wyatt Groenhuysen scored the lone goal in a 6-1 loss to the Spokane Kings. Saturday afternoon, Jack Boyes had a hat trick as they beat the Spokane River Rats 5-1. Wyatt Groenhuysen also scored

twice and his brother Grady had a sin-gle. On Sunday they beat the Greater Trail Storm Troopers 4-0 on goals by Larson Proctor, Wyatt and Grady Groenhuysen, and Dax Dewar.

The Nelson juniors beat the Trail Raptors 6-2 on goals by Jasper Marshall, River Marshall, Brody Arjun, Jack Fode, Theo Byers-Bohigian and Wesley Jordan. They also beat Trail Hawks 5-4. River Marshall and Wesley Jordan each scored twice and Jasper Marshall added a single. They lost 6-4 the following day to the Hawks. Nelson goal scorers were River Marshall, Caleb Bernhardt, Jaxon Slomba, and Wesley Jordan.

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EcoSociety winter markets coming to NelsonFor the first time, the West

Kootenay EcoSociety is putting on a series of Winter Markets in Nelson. These markets will take place on Jan. 23, Feb. 20, March 19 and April 16 at Hart Hall (501 Carbonate St.) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All the products that will be on offer are handmade locally so you know you are sup-porting the local economy when you shop at these markets

EcoSociety markets and events di-rector Jesse Woodward says these markets were developed and initi-ated because there seemed to be lots of genuine interest from the public and market vendors in these types

of off-season events.“After a vendor survey indicated

a high interest in winter markets as well as the EcoSociety’s markets com-

mittee advocating for the same idea I decided to move forward with this concept,” Woodward said. “There is a growing appetite in the general pub-

lic for supporting the local economy and locally made goods and these markets are assisting in that move-ment.” Knowing you are supporting your friends and neighbours really makes the whole shopping experi-ence a delightful activity.

Customers will recognize many vendors from the Downtown, Cottonwood and MarketFest events also run by the EcoSociety. Like the summer markets there will be a wide variety of items for sale including body care products, baked goods, art, amazing pottery and much more.

The Winter Markets will also fea-ture a number of local farmers who will have winter produce, locally raised meats and farm fresh eggs

for sale.“These winter markets will give

customers a little taste of the sum-mer market season that kicks off on May 14 when the Cottonwood Community Market starts up once again,” Woodward says. A $2 dona-tion is being requested at the door to help the EcoSociety cover the costs of these indoor markets.

If you are looking for something locally made, distinctive and unique for yourself or the special people in your life, don’t miss out on being a part of the EcoSociety Winter Markets. Bring your family and friends and come and support your local community of crafters and artisans.

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The first in a series of Winter Markets hosted by the EcoSociety will be held Jan. 23 at Hart Hall. Submitted photo

Caregivers often take on the pain and suffering of their patients/clients. Although intellectually many of us are aware that we are struggling with this burden, often we are not really tuned into the impact that this has on our feeling of well being. In addi-tion, in many workplaces, especially in community work, there are few options for discussion and reflection due to caseloads and time issues.

An introductory workshop this month presented by the Kalein Hospice Centre provides dancers, actors, musicians, and artists with an experience of how to work with oth-ers to understand the situations that

create stress in their lives and then to have a new way to release these stressful experiences. This is done in a group setting with a facilitator guiding the process.

The facilitator will guide the group in working with a story and animat-ing it through movement, This is facilitated in a way that assists the person telling their story to see and feel their story and allows them to experience a new perspective, gain insight or confirm and settle with the situation as it really is for them. You will be able to see the process of honouring a story through move-ment and then how to debrief the experience.

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Nelson a reçu la visite d’une famille de Québec, les Mey-er-Tremblay, constituée de

deux gentils parents, Marie-Claire et Olivier et de trois petites fi lles de 9, 7 et 4 ans, Manille, Elfée et Azarine. Ils se sont arrêtés dans les Kootenays pour une durée de quatre mois, durant leur périple de 10 mois autour du monde. Voici un extrait de leur blogue…Nous étions sur la plage, par un bel

après-midi de septembre, à profi ter des dernières journées chaudes de cet été qui s’étirait. Les fi lles étaient en train de faire une réplique du château du Neuschwanstein lorsqu’un homme est passé à côté de nous et, nous entendant parler français, il s’est exclamé: « Coudonc, ya-tu des anglophones dans cette ville? » Nous venions nous aussi de voir trois autres groupes de fran-cophones sur la plage et depuis notre arrivée, nous étions chaque jour surpris de croiser d’autres Québécois un peu partout où nous allions. Le boulanger québécois, la prof de yoga québécoise, la gardienne de refuge québécoise, la caissière québécoise, les profs québécois, la cueilleuse de pommes québécoise, nous sommes partout!Il y a d’ailleurs une association

francophone que nous avons découverte lors d’une de nos nombreuses promenades explora-toires de la ville. […] L’AFKO est venue mettre un peu de remous dans le long fl euve tranquille qu’était notre vie sociale. C’est toujours avec joie que nous nous rendons à leurs activités. […] Les fi lles sont toujours très contentes de manger de la poutine. C’est drôle d’ailleurs, car Manille n’a jamais aimé particulièrement la poutine au Québec, mais ici c’est comme si dans ces frites détrempées de sauce brune motonneuse et mêlées de fromage râpé fondu (et non, il n’est pas en grain), elle retrouve tout le goût de sa vie d’antan, à Québec. C’est quand même épatant tout le réconfort que peut procurer notre mets national. Et c’est parfois étonnant de voir que la poutine est pancanadienne. Nous l’avons croisée un peu partout lors de notre traversée du pays. Et un jour que nous étions en visite à Kaslo, un petit village à une heure d’ici, Elfée a dit :

« j’aurais vraiment aimé manger une poutine ». Quelles étaient les chances de pouvoir exaucer son souhait, dans ce petit bled perdu des Kootenays? Eh bien, imaginez-vous qu’il y a là-bas un casse-croûte « Chez Serge », tenu par un Québécois et il sert de la poutine, avec du vrai fromage en grains! Les fi lles (et le père) se sont délectées!Pour les parents, les activités de

l’AFKO sont des occasions de rencontrer des gens intéressants et de partager nos impressions sur les Nelsonites. Au fi l de ces discussions, un certain consensus se dégage d’ailleurs sur les différences que nous avons observées. Tout d’abord, il y a le fait que le travail n’occupe pas la même place dans les vies des gens qu’au Québec. Ici, le travail est secondaire, ils ne se défi nissent pas d’abord par leur activité profession-nelle, mais plutôt par leurs loisirs ou leurs intérêts.On a aussi remarqué que les gens

semblent moins matérialistes, beaucoup plus décontractés et la recherche de la performance à tout prix ne semble pas être passée par ici. Les familles où les deux parents travaillent à temps plein semblent plutôt rares et même souvent les deux parents travaillent à temps partiel. Évidemment ça a une incidence sur les revenus. Le revenu familial moyen à Nelson est environ 15 000$ de moins que celui du reste de la province (il était de 51 717$ en 2006, comparativement à 67 675$- pour vous donner une idée à Québec il est de 65 153$ alors que le coût de la vie est moins cher). On comprend mieux pourquoi les boîtes de free stuff sont aussi nombreuses […], les magasins de choses usagées foisonnent ici et les adeptes de la

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tell anyone because I didn’t want it to affect me or my family or this thing with hockey … You’re this hockey player and athlete, you gotta be strong and tough, right? So it was that thing where I’m like, okay, I went through this but I just got to tough this out. I’ll keep it to myself. I’ll be fine.”

That was the first of several incidents Dooley says led to a prolonged mental breakdown.

The second event happened on a family visit to Ireland when Dooley was 12. He went out to play in a forest with his 14-year-old cousin Alan. The pair decided to climb a tree, but Dooley wasn’t the climber his cousin was. When he asked for his cousin’s help, Alan started moving down but grabbed a branch that broke. He fell, was flipped upside down and landed on his head.

The accident paralyzed Alan from the waist down, and Dooley silently blamed himself.

“I felt bad. I felt awful. I hated myself for this,” he said. “I saw the effect this had on his fam-ily, on everyone around him, how sad they were, the feeling of insecurity, the fear of the unknown, and how heavy this situation was. I didn’t want to make it about me. It’s something I ate up again.”

This, he believes now, is when depression began to set in.

Dooley was drafted by the WHL’s Prince Albert Raiders in 2000. Hockey always gave him purpose. He felt at home on the rink, and it was during the same year he started playing for the Leafs. But during a spring game Dooley injured his back. A kink in his spine led to nagging pain that required physio and visits to a chiropractor.

At the time, Dooley lied about how much he was hurting to stay on the ice. But the pain is still with him even now.

He started drinking and ex-perimenting with drugs in high

school. The curiosity became a habit by the time he was 18. After graduating, Dooley de-cided to take a year off hockey. He took a summer job and on the first day was driving home when he encountered a car moving slowly along the high-way. Without warning, the car sped up and flipped off the road.

Dooley stopped his car and ran down a bank to find the car upside down on the forest bed. He pulled an elderly woman and man out of the car and remem-bers holding the man as help ar-rived. He later went to the hos-pital where he found the man, on vacation from Italy with his wife, had died.

The incident, and Dooley’s increased substance abuse, led him to become suicidal. He once again returned to hockey, but during the Christmas break decided he was going to kill himself. He tried and failed. No one in his family knew.

“I’m thinking I need help but I’m afraid to ask because I still had this feeling of valida-tion where I wanted to be this hockey star,” he said. “I came from such a wonderful family, I didn’t want it to reflect badly on them. I didn’t want it to tarnish my image.”

Dooley soon ended up in a hospital because of a near

overdose. It outed his substance abuse to his family, but he told them nothing else.

Dooley moved to Calgary when he was 21. Out of

hockey and in a crummy job, he started to drink and abuse drugs again. He went to a family wedding in Italy and decided he’d stay and work in Ireland.

Coincidentally, a new rink had just been built in the city of Dundalk, just south of the Northern Ireland bor-der. Dooley was offered a job running a hockey and skating school. That led to a coaching gig with the Dundalk Bulls and a role in junior development.

It was a positive time in Dooley’s life. During his nearly four years in Ireland, Dooley played for the Irish national team, and started an under-18 team intentionally built on a roster made up of Catholic and Protestant players. The team won bronze at the IIHF World U-18 Division 3 Championship in 2009.

But the job wouldn’t last. The global financial crisis in 2008 gradually destroyed Ireland’s economy. The Bulls began to lose sponsors and the privately owned rink they played on suf-fered from job losses and dwin-dling crowds. Dooley, whose own drinking had ramped up during his stay in Ireland, now watched as people who cared for him lost their livelihoods.

He returned to Canada in 2010. He had a job lined up with the Boston Bruins and Irish American Ice Hockey Association, but then Pat Dooley’s appendix burst. While hospitalized she was diagnosed with colon cancer, and her son backed out of the job in Boston to stay with his mother.

“That was a real breaking point for me, because my mom never harmed anyone in her life,” said Dooley.

Dooley joined the Leafs as an assistant coach in 2010, then returned to the team again

after two years coaching major midget hockey. During this time he was drinking less, but tak-ing more pain medication to deal with his back injury. His depression and anxiety wors-ened, and he became addicted to pain meds.

“I was so into pain medica-tion that I wasn’t using it to get high,” he said. “I was using it, for one, to mask my emotions and if I didn’t use it I’d go into withdrawal. So I’d be using this stuff because my body had be-come so dependent on it that if I didn’t use it, it was like I was dying. So I’d have to take more. And I hated it. I didn’t want it, I hated it.”

His depression was getting worse. His body felt weaker. Friends started to notice all the pills he was taking. When his fiancee Courtney gave birth to their son Boone last March, Dooley finally decided he need-ed to act.

He first asked for help from his employer at Selkirk Paving, Tony Maida, who is also on the Leafs’ board of directors. Dooley started counseling through an employee assistance program, but it didn’t stop his addiction. For that, he went to Top of the World Ranch Treatment Centre in Fort Steele.

It was a decision he says saved his life. During his 52-day stay, Dooley got clean and finally let go of all the guilt he’d carried with him for decades. He at last told his family about the abuse he’d suffered. He found peace.

That peace requires daily work to maintain. Dooley continues to see a counsellor and go to self-help meetings. Depression and addiction don’t just go away after one trip to rehab. “I live my life with my recovery in the front of my mind at all times and I do the work,” he said.

On his wrist is a bracelet that says in bold letters, “One day at a time.” It’s a reminder of what Dooley has in front of him, and a lesson he hopes to pass on in Breakout.

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