Nelson Star, June 27, 2012

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Vol. 4 • Issue 103

NELSSON STARFREE Wednesday, June 27 • 2012

Nelson photographers Nelson photographers record a day in the liferecord a day in the life See Special B Section See Special B Section

A complete guide to A complete guide to the Canada weekendthe Canada weekendSee Pages 13-20See Pages 13-20

High water wreaks havocGoose Creek mishap claims life of Crescent Valley senior; regional district scurries to

deal with problems throughout the area and calls on the province to do more for locals

High water in lakes and rivers around the Nelson area took a tragic turn over the weekend as a Crescent Valley man drowned in Goose Creek.

Th e body of Edward Posnikoff , 72, was recov-ered Sunday. He disap-peared Saturday evening aft er going to check on water levels and fl ooding around his property in the 3300 block of Pass Creek Road.

Posnikoff was last seen on a private bridge that connects his property to the road. His brother went outside half an hour later to fi nd the bridge washed out and no sign of him.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel said it’s not known exactly how Posnikoff fell into the creek

“We have no idea and may never know… he could have slipped en route or been on the bridge when it was washed away,” said Seibel.

A neighbour help con-tacted police shortly aft er 7:30 p.m.

Nelson Search and Res-cue members, already in the area to carry out an evacuation order on Slo-can Valley West Road,

were joined by a police dog team and the Crescent Val-ley, Tarrys, and Beasley fi re departments to look for Posnikoff .

“RCMP caution resi-dents, pet owners and

Th e Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce is backing the City of Nelson’s decision to support a pitch for WestJet service to the West Kootenay Regional Airport.

“We certainly applaud the cities of Nelson and Castlegar in being pro-active in going aft er WestJet and seeing if we can get these folks to come out to this area,” said Tom Th omson, executive direc-tor of the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce.

Th omson echoed state-ments by Mayor John Dooley at a city council earlier this month where council voted to send a letter in support of the WestJet presentation.

“I think it’s important that we recognize that here is a company that is deciding to

ABOVE: The Goose Creek bridge three hours before it gave way and lead to the drowning of a Crescent Valley senior. RIGHT: The area where the bridge used to be.

Chamber supports eff ort to entice

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City Hall

MEGAN COLENelson Star Reporter

Story continues to ‘Thomson’ on Page 22

Natalia Nazaroff photos

Story continues to ‘Regional’ on Page 8


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News

Gyro Park pool not a skatepark, says City

Skateboarders Cause Damage to Summer Hot Spot

Recent improvements at the Gyro Park wading pool have attracted unin-vited guests.

Skateboarders took note of the sand-blasters smoothing out the perimeter of the pool and the fresh coat of paint that went on earlier this month.

Public works supervisor Karen Mac-Donald said when a city contractor went to the pool early Th ursday morning to add a second coat of paint, there were skaters set up with a camera and tripod making a video of themselves riding the rail along the edge of the empty pool.

“Th e base coat was ruined,” MacDon-

ald said. “I don’t know if they realize the damage they’re doing. It’s putting us behind and increasing the cost of the project.”

Th e Nelson Police Department are aware of the issue and have been keeping an eye out for people hopping the fence to get into the pool area.

MacDonald said the pool won’t be ready for its usual July 2 opening, but if the paint isn’t damaged again, it should be open by July 6.

Th e Gyro Park wading pool is a popu-lar summer destination for parents with young children.

It’s free to use seven days per week, 1 to 6 p.m., from July to September, with lifeguards on duty.

SAM VAN SCHIENelson Star Reporter

Gyro Pool improvements are behind schedule due to skateboarders damaging the paint. It’s expected to open July 6. Sam Van Schie photo

Th e Nelson Police Department had a busy fi ve-day stretch from Wednes-day to Sunday, handling more than 90 calls.

On Th ursday aft ernoon at 2 p.m., offi cers arrested a male aft er he al-legedly broke down a door of an Uphill residence in a drunken rage. Th e 33-year-old of no fi xed address was apparently attempting to gather his personal belongs that he left at a friend’s house. He was charged with mischief under $5,000 and released with a promise to appear in court in September.

On Th ursday evening the depart-ment’s park patrol issued two viola-tion tickets to youths for possession of liquor. One was nabbed in Gyro Park and the other Cottonwood Falls Park. Each ticket carries a fi ne of $230 under the Liquor Control and Licensing Act. All parks in the City of Nelson are routinely patrolled throughout the summer at all hours of the day and night.

Saturday morning at 1:30 a.m., of-fi cers received a 911 call reporting an intoxicated 15-year-old male passed out in the laneway in the 600 block of Herridge Lane. Police and Nelson Fire and Rescue members attended the scene.

Two Nelson citizens assisted the male prior to police attendance, helped on scene with treating the young male and located the parents of the teen. Th e male was transported by his parents to the Kootenay Lake Hospital for further assessment.

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Kootenay Christian Fellowship has placed its Stanley Street church on the market and made an off er on the Savoy Lanes building.

Pastor Jim Reimer says the proposal has been conditionally accepted pending the sale of their current home. If the deal goes through, they would move their services and Our Daily Bread hot lunch program into the old bingo hall, which was most re-cently a Curves gym, but is currently vacant.

Reimer called the space “ideal” and noted it won’t require extensive renova-tion.

“Th is property will meet all our short-term and long-term goals if we can sell our current building and raise enough funds to purchase it,” he said.

“What excites us about this opportunity is we would be able to have Our Daily Bread in a non-residential area, have our church there, and in the future there’s enough property to build low-cost housing.”

Last year the church tried to buy the old Savoy Hotel next door and con-vert the top fl oor into small apartments.

However, estimates on renovating the century-old building, empty since a 2007 fi re, were far higher than building new.

“If we are able to pur-chase this property, we could fulfi ll our goals with less money,” Reimer says. “Th at’s the key for access-ing money for low cost housing: property.”

Th e SPCA and bowl-ing alley would remain in their present locations, and become a revenue source for the church, Reimer

added.“We’re not looking to

terminate any leases but to have them continue on, be-cause we don’t really need that extra space.”

Th e church listed its building for sale last week. Th ere has already been one

off er, but the prospective buyer couldn’t meet their conditions.

Even if it sells, that won’t be enough to cover the pur-chase of the Savoy Lanes, Reimer said, so he’s look-ing for 150 people willing to donate $1,000 each.

About $35,000 is also left over from the building fund established last year. Reimer says while some people asked for their money back when the Sa-voy Hotel deal fell through, many others told them to keep it.

Th at cash will be used to defray the cost of moving the commercial kitchen from their present loca-tion.

Reimer said ever since Our Daily Bread began, they’ve promised neigh-bours they would move to a non-residential area once the opportunity arose, “so we’re trying to keep our word.”

While he believes resi-dents are more comfort-able with the program now, “nevertheless, I think we would do a better job in this other building.”

Reimer said the money needed to purchase the Savoy Lanes is on top of the $75,000 required annu-ally to operate Our Daily Bread.

The asking price on their Stanley Street build-ing is $319,000, while the agreed purchase price on the Savoy Lanes is $1.5 million.

Kootenay Christian Fellowship eyes Savoy LanesOur Daily Bread

GREG NESTEROFFNelson Star Reporter

Kootenay Christian Fellowship is hoping to sell its present building and move to the Savoy Lanes.

Greg Nesteroff photo

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Camera keeps eye on Highway 6

City crews have been strug-gling to keep dog walkers off the West Waterfront pathway since rising lake levels made it unsafe to use.

Th e City posted a sign June 15 advising dog walk-ers to stay off the path and blocked both entry points with barricades. But people just walked around them and used the path anyways.

On June 18 City crews in-stalled a fences at either end of the trail, but public works supervisor Karen MacDon-ald said those have been tam-pered with too.

“People are trying to pull down the fence,” she said. “We have public works down here everyday fi xing it.”

Someone has also been emptying buckets of dog feces along the fence at the southwest end of the trail, near the transfer station. So far there have been four de-posits.

“It takes a sick mind to do something like this,” Mac-Donald said. “Someone had to collect the feces, drive it

here and dump it. It’s just sick.”

MacDonald stressed that to trails are closed for pub-lic safety. High water has washed out parts of the trail and there are sinkholes form-ing under the surface, which may collapse if people walk

on them. As well, the trail is slippery and people risk falling into the lake, which drops off upwards of 10 feet in some areas.

“People shouldn’t be try-ing to get out there. It’s just not safe,” MacDonald said, noting even aft er water levels

drop, city crews will need to do some work on the path before it will be reopened.

In the meantime, dog walkers can have their pets off leash on the Burlington Rail Trail or walk on-leash along the waterfront pathway near the soccer fi elds.

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Dog owners ignore messageSAM VAN SCHIENelson Star Reporter

Public works supervisor Karen MacDonald found large piles of dog feces at the gate City workers installed to keep dog walkers off the West Waterfront Pathway. Sam Van Schie photo

A new DriveBC traffi c webcam in-stalled on Highway 6 in Nelson will come in handy this winter when drivers want to check local road conditions.

Or perhaps for parents to watch for their teens hitchhiking to Whitewater on powder days while they’re stuck at work.

Th e camera points south on High-way 6 near the Rosemont/Uphill in-terchange, and includes a view of the parking lot commonly used by youth hitchhiking to the ski hill.

A live stream of from the camera went up on the DriveBC website Fri-day, along with new views from two other Kootenay cameras in Creston and Trail.

Cameras were also added to the Bal-four and Kootenay Bay ferry terminals earlier this spring.

Th is year the ministry of transporta-tion is adding 30 new traffi c cameras to highway routes prone to extreme weath-er or traffi c congestion, and areas not previously serviced by a traffi c cam.

Since it started streaming webcams in 2009, DriveBC has become the govern-ment of BC’s most popular website with 2.9 million visits per month.

Th ere are currently about 250 Drive-

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Editor: Bob Hall

Publisher: Chuck Bennett Editorial

One of the goals of the Nelson Star is to include the name or face of every community member in our pages

each year. Of course it’s an unreachable target, but we like to set the bar high.

In today’s paper you will fi nd our special A Day in the Life of Nelson photo section. Earlier this month, a team of Star photographers hit the streets to document a typical Wednesday. We were not in search of the dramatic, just a regular day as it unfolds.

Th e project was a welcome break from our usual routine. We were not seeking the next big story out of City Hall or following the controversy surrounding our education system. Instead, the photographers found the people who simply make up the fabric of this great community. Everyday tasks and interac-tions that remind us of why we live here.

Mayor John Dooley and MLA Michelle Mungall get enough ink over the course of our 100-plus editions each year, it’s always nice to uncover some of the people we’ve missed along the way to fulfi lling that loft y goal of getting all of you between our fold.

It would take 100 photographers and 1,000 pages to truly tell the story of the day proper-ly, but that wasn’t in the budget. We do think in the 16 pages that have been put together in this edition, you will fi nd a nice snapshot of Nelson life. From sunrise to sunset and a little beyond, we found plenty to document.

Th is is the fi rst Day in the Life of Nelson this paper has put together, but it won’t be the last. We look forward to seeing you through our viewfi nder the next time.

Documenting community

You probably didn’t hear this on TV, the percentage of Cana-

dians deemed “low in-come” went down slightly in 2010, according to the latest Statistics Canada analysis.

Th is news was delivered in the annual Income of Canadians report last week. Th e share of people who fall below the federal Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO) went from 9.5 per cent to 9.0.

Th e CBC couldn’t bring itself to admit any actual improvement, reporting on its website that the num-ber of people with “low income” was about three million, “virtually un-changed from 2009.” Other media outlets followed the unwritten rule that nothing remotely positive must be presented as news, particu-larly if it refl ects positively on a right-wing govern-ment. (Plus they had the Montreal body-parts case to update each day.)

Th is information likely won’t have any eff ect on the political discussion

about “poverty” in BC. Th e LICO survey will continue to be used as a measure of absolute poverty, despite the fact that it isn’t. It’s a relative measure that will always designate the same share of people at the low end of the scale.

BC Stats, the provincial equivalent of the fed-eral agency, explained this problem in a special report last year.

“To illustrate,” the report said, “take a hypotheti-cal future Canada where every citizen earns no less than $100,000 (and assume there has not been rampant infl ation in the meantime, such that buying power is not dissimilar to what ex-ists today) and millionaires are common.

“In that kind of Canada, those at the low end of the income scale (that is, those earning ‘merely’ $100,000) would be considered poor if LICOs were used as a measure of poverty.”

Math aside, that’s the alleged “poverty line” routinely cited by the usual media authorities, like BC

Federation of Labour presi-dent Jim Sinclair.

Sinclair campaigned for years to get the BC govern-ment to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $10 an hour. Th ey did, in three increments, and on May 1 it increased to $10.25 an hour. As soon as the series of three increases was announced last Novem-ber, Sinclair called a news conference to announce it’s not enough.

To get to the LICO level, the minimum wage should be $11.50 an hour, Sinclair said. Of course, if BC busi-nesses ponied up for that, the goalposts would shift again and the same propor-tion of “poverty” would magically still exist.

Th e BC NDP govern-ment-in-waiting continues to demand an “action plan” on poverty, with annual goals. All the progressive provinces have one, which I guess is why poverty is all but eradicated in enlight-ened places like Manitoba.

Th ere are signs of the reality behind this political smokescreen. Here’s one.

For what may be the fi rst time in history, we now have a North American society where one of the most reliable indicators of poverty is obesity. Th is oft en gets explained away with a popular theory that poor people are somehow forced to eat fast food and drink pop because they can’t aff ord healthy food.

People who advance this theory presumably don’t do much grocery shop-ping. Th ere are plenty of processed, sugary, fat-laden choices at the supermarket too. But there is also whole wheat bread, rice and fresh or frozen vegetables that are as cheap as anywhere in the world.

Given basic cooking skills and some eff ort, it’s easy to demonstrate which diet is cheaper as well as healthier. Most immigrants know this. Which diet you choose isn’t a function of money, but rather one of education and self-discipline.

Th ere is genuine poverty in our society. One of the things that’s needed is a useful way to defi ne it.

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The W.W. Powell Co. at the foot of Stanley Street in the 1930s. This was the storage facility for the mill that manufactured lumber and match blocks. The photo was taken by J.H. Allen and is part of the Touchstones Nelson collection.

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Letters to the Editor

I feel like I’ve written this letter half a dozen times since moving to Nelson 18 years ago. It’s that wretched old “heritage” issue getting under my skin once again.

It’s a fundamental slap in the face to creative expres-sion, free enterprise and the dogged entrepreneurial spirit required to run a small retail business in town when a proprietor is told what colour and style of signs, awnings and other exterior trimmings are acceptable to a power-wielding committee of city-endorsed preservationists.

We already know that people are attracted to our downtown because of its quaintness, diversity and vis-ible history. It’s time to trust local residents and business owners not to spoil that; aft er all, it would most certainly not be in our best interests.

Let the marketplace de-termine what is acceptable in our downtown instead

of handing it to a select few whose loyalty to “all that once was” far exceeds their abil-ity to see and appreciate a healthy and necessary mix of the past and the present that

will, ultimately, become the “heritage” package we leave to future generations. Parts of it may appear ugly to some, but obviously not to everyone or they wouldn’t exist in the fi rst place. Who’s to say one person’s defi nition of ugly is superior to another’s?

And now this visual cen-sorship has its sights set on sandwich boards again. Th ere couldn’t be a smaller, less permanent and less threaten-ing marketing tool for a local

merchant than a colourful sandwich board designed to serve as an on-the-street busi-ness card to attract customers and convey, very effi ciently, the nature of the business be-ing off ered.

I understand the need for safety and sandwich board population control, but to standardize the appearance of these colourful expressions is completely unnecessary and very dull. It is the personality of Nelson’s downtown that makes this community attrac-tive and engaging. Does city council really want to trade character and diversity for homogeneity and banality?

I, for one, fi nd parking meters unsightly — they don’t appear in old photos of Nelson, so I’m not sure that they are even legal, heri-tagely-speaking. Is anything going to be done about those prolifi c eyesores?

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Last week’s result: Do you think the mayor should have supported Stop the Violence BC? YES 74% NO 26%

Let the downtown breathe

My faith in the po-litical process has been restored — to a point, but I’ll get to that in a moment.

Congratulations to city councillors Donna Macdonald, Deb Kozak, Paula Kiss and Candace Batycki for supporting the Stop the Violence BC campaign. You ladies had the courage to stand up, and get counted on an issue that aff ects every single one of us. Well done!

Now I get to my point. Mayor John Dooley succeed in thwarting the politi-cal process by cutting the lady councillors off at the knees when he refused to support what had been passed by council when put to a democratic vote.

A presentation around the issue was made with a lot of

thought and intel-ligence and aft er an informed dialogue was supported by the four lady councillors. Th e mayor reacted very emotionally to the situ-ation. He seemed to be coming from a place of fear or perhaps of wanting to win the next popularity contest. Did the mayor do his due diligence on this mat-ter? Did he research the issues and understand the motion? And most importantly did he ask his people (the commu-nity) what they wanted?

I want to see leader-ship that is not about popular choice but one that comes from a place of knowledgable and informed decision making. Not fearmon-gering. To me that is leadership.

Sue StangerNelson

Mayor misses mark Smoking is unwise, period

Th is is in response to the letters mentioning that marijuana should be legalized.

It really surprises me that seemingly intelligent people seem to come up with this rhetoric. Cigarette smoking has been legal forever and the govern-ment has been raking in the tax money from the sales of tobacco and tobacco products. Yet for years there has been a movement underway to convince ciga-rette smokers that it is a shameful thing and that cigarette smoking is a burden on our health care costs.

I seem to remember that a number of years ago the government or our health care system was going to take cigarette companies to court in an ef-fort to recoup some of the money that cigarette smoking costs to our health care.

Does anyone not see that the same thing is going to happen when people smoke marijuana? Cigarette smoking does not make us lazy and be unambi-tious. We know that smoking anything is bad for our lungs. Be real.

Glenda ZwerSlocan

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Continued from Page 1hikers to avoid fl ooded areas and fast running streams and rivers,” Seibel said. “Until current con-ditions improve, area residents with pets should place them on leash and have them under close supervision around these water-ways.”

Regional District looks to Victoria for help

With more rain expected to fall this week and Kootenay Lake levels potentially exceeding the previous highest level in 1974, lo-cal leaders are asking the premier to intervene.

“It’s just a question of having someone at a higher political level assisting local government in making sure what’s being done is appropriate,” said rural Kaslo Regional District of Central Koo-tenay director Andy Shadrack, who introduced the motion ad-opted Th ursday.

Directors contend this year’s near-record levels on the river and lake are not merely the re-sult of Mother Nature, but of dis-charges from Montana’s Libby dam, operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

“I want the premier to inter-vene to make sure the discharges are necessary and not causing undue hardship,” Shadrack said at last week’s board meeting.

On Monday, Kootenay Lake stood at 1,753 feet (534.3 meters), up nearly a foot from four days earlier. It’s expected it to reach 1,753.2 feet — the highest level in almost 40 years — before gradu-ally dropping. In 1974, Kootenay Lake peaked at 1,754.24 feet.

FortisBC says lake levels are “predominantly” driven by natu-ral infl ows as a result of melting snow pack and precipitation, and it has been operating the Koote-nay River system at maximum discharge since mid-March.

Shadrack added that a storm on Kootenay Lake two weeks ago resulted in waves two to three feet high, and damaged a number of marinas, causing tens of thou-sands of dollars in damages.

Some basements at Mirror Lake fl ooded, while a breakwater at Jones Boys Boats at Woodbury was breached, forcing them to move all vessels onto dry land.

Shadrack is concerned damage from the next windstorm will be even more severe.

Rural Salmo director Hans Cunningham and Kaslo director Greg Lay opposed the motion to ask the premier to step in.

State of local emergencyAcross the regional district,

residents are being aff ected by rising water levels.

States of local emergency have been declared on the East Shore, in rural Creston, rural Castlegar, and the Slocan Valley.

Regional district chair John Kettle, who claims most of the fl ooding problems experienced this spring in the Creston area are “self infl icted,” plans to take a novel approach: he’ll declare a state of emergency as a preventa-tive step.

Noting that emergency orders activate funding and tools that are otherwise unavailable, Kettle said he wants to see how far he can push the idea.

“Th is is a self-infl icted prob-lem in my opinion,” he said. “It needs remediation, not fi xes af-ter the fl ood damage has been done.”

Kettle blamed federal regula-tions to protect fi sh habitat, and wants the issue addressed before another season of fl ooding af-fects properties.

“To preserve every inch of the river and call it fi sh habitat is ri-diculous,” he said, adding that he did get Department of Fisheries and Oceans approval to move equipment in to prevent further

erosion to the river banks.Kettle said his plan is to de-

clare a local state of emergency in August to remediate those areas where fl ooding occurred this spring — resulting in other emergency orders, road closures and evacuations.

He acknowledges, however, that he is testing the system.

Evacuation notices rescinded

Crawford Bay and Slocan Park residents were allowed to return home Tuesday aft er evacuation orders issued on the weekend were rescinded.

A section of Slocan Valley West Road was closed due to water fl owing over the road.

Residents of about 30 homes were told to “shelter in place.”

An evacuation alert remains in place meaning that residents

should be prepared to leave if conditions worsen.

Residents staying at hotels in Castlegar and Nelson were ex-pected to return home Tuesday morning.

With more rain in the forecast, the regional district is warning an evacuation order could be put in place should the Slocan River rise again.

Bill Macpherson, public in-formation offi cer for the re-gional district, said while river and creek levels have dropped slightly, the threat of fl ooding remains high.

“Owners of private bridges that cross creeks should have them inspected to ensure struc-tural integrity and personal safe-ty,” he said.

“All Kootenay rivers and creeks are at high levels given the recent precipitation and high elevation

snowpack melt. Residents are reminded to stay clear of creeks and rivers, and their banks, and exercise caution at all times.

“Evacuation orders/alerts must be heeded to ensure per-sonal safety and the safety of emergency responders.”

Water conservation measures for Kaslo

While water rises around the area, Kaslo faced a restriction to water use aft er the complete loss of the Kemp Creek dam on Sunday.

“Level 4 water conservation measures continue in place for the foreseeable future,” said vil-lage administrator Rae Sawyer. “Absolutely no outdoor watering or use is permitted.”

Th e water supply was greatly reduced but Sawyer said “we are holding our own today with everyone’s best eff orts, and we thank our water users for their eff orts.”

All water is moving through the local treatment plan and Kaslo is not under a boil water advisory at this time.

Dams work overtime to regulate fl ooding

Dams elsewhere in the region are continuing to release in an ef-fort to bring down water levels.

BC Hydro is planning to in-crease the amount of water dis-charging through the Keenley-side Dam near Castlegar to help bring down the water level in the Arrow reservoir.

Th e total fl ow through the dam is currently at 165,000 cubic feet per second — 20,000 cfs more than usual — and will continue at that rate for several weeks.

It will be the highest Columbia River fl ow in over a decade.

BC Hydro urged residents to be mindful of higher than nor-mal fl ows when planning ac-tivities near the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers.

“Like all rivers with upstream hydro-electric facilities, river fl ows can change suddenly,” the company said in a news release.

— With fi les from Greg Nesteroff and Lorne Eckersley,

Creston Valley Advance

Regional district directors turn attention to Victoria

“It’s just a question of having someone at a higher political level

assisting local government in making sure

what’s being done is appropriate.”

Andy ShadrackRural Kaslo Director

TOP: Kootenay Lake levels are nearing a 50-year high and creating many dra-matic scenes no the lakeshore (Bob Hall photo). ABOVE: The area around Goose Creek in the Slocan Valley is causing all kinds of problems. This old vehicle usually sits well away from the creek (Ivaan Nazaroff photo).

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Happy Canada Day!

Th e rewards of being a small town doctorDr. Paul Walker Recognized for Impressive Career in Medicine

Aft er 35 years practicing medicine in Nelson, Dr. Paul Walker shows few signs that he might be slowing down.

He was recently honoured with a Rural Long Service Award from the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada. Th e award recognizes doctors within their society who have worked for 20 years in rural and remote communities.

Th e society doesn’t have an award for 40 years of service. But the way things are going with Walker, he may well make it to that milestone.

“I failed at retirement,” the 65-year-old told the Star. “Un-less I can fi gure out what to do with free time, I might still be working at 70.”

Walker tried to retire a couple years ago. He moved his practice from its longtime home in a heritage house at the top of Baker Street into the Nelson Medical Clinic. And he found two doctors to take over his patient list (no single doc-tor would take on the number of people he had).

His wife Pat, who worked

with him everyday as his medical offi ce assistant, settled nicely into retirement. But Walker jumped on opportuni-ties to go back to work anytime his colleagues needed someone to fi ll in for them during a vacation.

“It’s hard when you’re used to going 110 miles an hour to slow down. Even just going the speed limit is tough, never mind trying to go slower than that,” Walker said.

He currently works eight months of the year, shuffl ing from offi ce to offi ce wherever he’s needed — and he’s always needed. From the day he ar-rived here, fresh out of medical school in 1976, there’s never been a lack of work for doctors.

He said even with the recent move towards mandatory rural placements for medical stu-dents, most doctors gravitative to urban centers, either be-cause that’s where it’s easier for their partners to fi nd work or because they want to specialize.

Many who start off in small towns move away aft er a de-cade or so.

“Th e 10-year crisis in medi-cine, like any career, is a very real thing,” Walker said. “You

need to fi nd something to keep the job interesting.”

Walker did consider return-ing to a big city to specialize in radiology, and even went

so far as to visit a few schools. But ultimately he didn’t want to uproot his wife and their three sons.

Instead he took on respon-

sibilities outside his practice, becoming Chief of Staff at the local hospital for a time, as well becoming involved with the Society of General Practi-tioners, an advocacy group for doctors.

But what really kept him go-ing was mentoring the medical students who came to his offi ce for their practicum and to learn about rural medicine.

“It’s easy to convince stu-dents they’ll get to do much more interesting and varied work in a rural community,” Walker said. “Th at’s what drew me to rural medicine, but for a lot of young people it’s terrify-ing.”

General Practitioners need to know about 80 per cent of what every type of medi-cal specialist knows, and they also need to learn to live with uncertainty because they can’t know everything.

“A lot of my colleagues who have since specialized say working in general practice was the hardest part of their career,” Walker said. “For me, that’s what keeps it interesting. Th at’s what keeps me com-ing to work when I should be retired.”


Not content with retirement, Nelson’s Dr. Paul Walker spends eight months of each year covering in local doctor offi ces. Sam Van Schie photo


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Th e Nelson Technology Club is a growing, independent initiative to nurture technology advance-ment within the local community. Hackerspaces are creative outlets which cater to the curiosities of the enthusiasts and the skilled alike. It’s a place to talk about technology with people who understand what you are talking about. Bring in your projects every Wednesday to 601 Front Street and you too can participate. Do you Arduino? We do. Come engage with like-minded technology enthusiasts.

Second Grand Piano Fundraising Concert and auction Th ursday June 28, 7:30 p.m. at St. Saviour’s Angli-can Church on Ward and Silica with Noemi Kiss and Kathleen Neudorf, sopranos; Robert Hargreaves, piano and harpsichord; Tobias Jenny, recorders and harpsichord. Bes-sie Wapp will auction off an Asian dinner for six cooked and served by Lena and Marty Horswill. Tickets $15 or $10 students at the door.

Grounded Coff ee House will host a charity art sale and silent auction on Th ursday, June 28. Around 70 pieces of art created by students at South Nelson elementary school and 4Cats Art Studio will be sold and two large splatter paintings will be auctioned off . Grounded will also be donating the proceeds of all food and drinks sold that day. All money raised will go to the Kootenay Kids Society’s Farms to Families program, which provides food vouchers to low-income families with children.

All seniors welcome to a potluck luncheon to be held at the Senior Citizens’ Association Branch No. 51, located at 717 Vernon Street. Lun-cheon begins at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, June 29. For further information, call 250-352-7078 weekday aft ernoons.

Celebrate Canada Day with Nelson tradition. Th e Lions Club will be serv-ing their famous pancakes on Sunday, July 1 on the 500 Block Baker Street from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Pancakes are $5 for adults and $2 for kids 12 and under.

Th e Sunshine Bay Riding Club

Show is a fun show with a number of equine events scheduled for Sunday, July 1. Come on out and do some horsing around. Th e Riding Club is located in Harrop at 6375 Erindale Road, which is the fi rst left turn just off the ferry.

Learn to meditate and practice meditation on Monday nights at the Kootenay Shambala Meditation Cen-tre at 444 Baker Street. No previous experience is required. Admission is by donation.

St. Saviour’s Anglican Church hosts summer public tours. Th e Church, located at the corner of Silica and Ward streets, will be open during the months of July and August with volunteer tour guides in attendance to answer questions. Visitors can also pick up an informational pamphlet for a self guided tour or just enjoy a quiet contemplative time. Concur-rent with this years tours, St. Saviour’s will be off ering for sale a 32-page full colour guidebook to these stained glass windows. Architectural plans for the imminent expansion of the Church will also be on display. Th e Church is open for tours, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Saturday inclusive, commencing Monday, July 3 and continuing during the months of July and August. Tours are free, though donations are accepted.

Make sure to join the Nelson Public Library on Wednesday, July 4 at 1 p.m. to kick off our summer festivities with snacks, book draws and Rossland children’s author Dar-cee O’Hearne. If you can’t make that, be sure to come see a fantastic show by Norden the Magician on Mon-day, July 16 at 3:30 p.m. Everybody is welcome. For more information about Summer Reading Club check the website at nelson.bclibrary.ca, the online Summer Reading Club at kidssrc.ca or simply email [email protected].

Touchstones Nelson will celebrate the public opening of its exhibit Baker Street Th an and Now (and the Future of Heritage?) Th ursday, July 19 at 7 p.m. with a talk by Bob Inwood, about the Baker Street Revitalization Proj-ect. Th is exhibit features a montage

of past and present photos of many of the historic buildings on Baker Street from the Touchstones Nelson Archives, as well as considering other examples of what heritage may look like as we move further into the 21st century.

Th e Grassroots Grandmas are hosting tools and treasures, a deluxe rummage sale, on Saturday, July 21. Proceeds from this event will go to-wards the Stephen Lewis Foundation in support of African grandmothers who are turning the tide of HIV/AIDSin their communities. To donate your treasures or tools to this worthy cause, contact Linda at 250-226-7304.

MARKETS

What better way to spend a warm summer evening then to experience a lively street festival full of music, dance and a wide selection papered goods and food. MarketFest has all of this and more. Around 100 vendors will be off ering an amazing verity of goods, information, and services at the fi rst event of the season on Friday, June 29. MarketFest is a big party and everyone is invited so come on down and enjoy all that it has to off er. Mar-ketFest begins at 6 p.m. and wraps up around 9 p.m.

Head down to the Cottonwood Falls Community Market on Satur-days from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Th ere is a wide selection of vendors that in-clude live plants, craft s, baked goods and more.

Th is downtown market off ers regional farm produce and a variety of locally-made and locally-sourced products that support community sustainability. Nelson’s Downtown Local Market off ers up a superb selection of regional organic produce, ready to eat food, local arts and craft s, clothing, body care and much more. Every Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. until September 26.

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Second Grand Piano FundraiserConcert and Auction

Thursday June 28, 7:30 pmat St. Saviour’s Anglican Church on Ward and Silica

WithNoemi Kiss and Kathleen Neudorf, Sopranos Robert Hargreaves, Piano and Harpsichord Tobias Jenny, Recorders and Harpsichord

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Th e ambience of the courtyard at the Ravencourt B&B in Upper Passmore is inspirational, and the next con-cert in their summer series will be on Wednesday, June 27. Classical music lovers, mark this on your calendar as valley local Sophia Gray, Swiss born and classically-trained, will sing pieces from Schubert Lieder to a Bach Cantata accompanied by piano and trumpet. Th e music begins at 7:30 p.m. Admis-sion is by donation and all proceeds go to the musicians. Refreshments will be available. For more information phone 250-226-7801.

Th e Variety Show is back at Th e Royal with Estevan on Wednesday, June 27. Take your turn in the spotlight, or enjoy the music of those who do, at one of the Kootenay’s best open stages. Th e show starts 8:30 p.m. Talk to Estevan to sign up for a timeslot during the night. Instruments provided.

On Th ursday, June 28 at Th e Royal enjoy a night on the dancefl oor with Moonbeam Hustle and music by Breakfl uid. Th ere is no cover. Doors open at 9 p.m.

Billy Manzik and Bottoms Down will take the stage at Mike’s Place in the Hume Hotel on Th ursday, June 28.

Evade Beatz and DJ Shasta will be at Spiritbar on Th ursday, June 28 for a free show. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Th e Royal is turning 100 years old! So of course they're throwing a huge party to celebrate the past, present and future of this historic musical venue on Friday, June 29. Join them for a free show with the one and only Blackberry Wood. On this special night we are also launching our new, exclusive, limited edition wheat beer from the Nelson Brewing Company. Join Th e Royal for the unveiling of our new private NBC label, and enjoy the ever entertaining Blackberry Wood, for free! And re-member...this is only the June edition. Th e Royal be celebrating their 100th birthday aft er all three MarketFests this summer. Doors open at 9 p.m. Th e music starts around 10 p.m following Marketfest.

Enjoy the Canada Day long week-end at Loki Music Festival. Loki runs

from Friday, June 29 to Sunday, July 2 at the True Blue Ranch in Kaslo. Th is year's artists include Subvert, Long-walkshortdock, Mark Instinct and Yan Zombie.

DJ Premier is at Spiritbar with Freddy Foxx on Friday, June 29. Doors open at 10 p.m and ticket information is available at the Hume Hotel.

Gisto returns to Th e Royal, with Natural Flavas on Saturday, June 30. Doors open at 9 p.m. and tickets are $10 at the door.

House Revolution Music will be at Spiritbar on Saturday, June 30 with Craig Mullin and Justin Pleasure. Doors open at 10 p.m. and ticket infor-mation is available at the Hume Hotel.

Hop on the Magic Bus at Th e Royal every Tuesday for great music from local DJs and musicians. On Tuesday, July 3 Rabs and DJ Olive take the stage. Doors open at 9 p.m. Free cover.

Th e Dudes are coming to Spiritbar on Friday, July 6. Doors open at 10 p.m. and ticket information is available at the Hume Hotel.

Th e Alan Kirk Band will be at Cedear Creek Cafe in Winlaw on Friday, July 6 from 7 to 9 p.m. Featuring guest Michael Fredrick.

Th e best outdoor concert of 2011

is returning to the Balfour Outdoor Amphitheatre. Beatles tribute band Re-volver will be back in the Kootenays on July 6 at 6 p.m. For more information call 1-877-229-4141.

Join Th e Royal for an evening of music that speaks to your soul, pleases the ears and gets you on those dancing feet as the Th e Royal presents Mod-ern Grass on Saturday, July 7. Tickets are $10 and are available at Th e Royal and liveattheroyal.com. Doors 9 p.m. Showtime approx 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday nights at Th e Royal feature local musicians, and this week Funk Boat takes the stage. Come support lo-cal music. Doors at 9 p.m. No cover.

Th e Royal presents Drunk Uncle, Babysitter and guests. Drunk Uncle are a trio originally from Windsor, Ontario who now reside in BC and are ready to terrorize your town. Enjoy a punk rockin’ evening with some local heavy hitters. Tickets are $7 at the door. Doors open 8 p.m.

AT THE PUBJoin the Ymir Hotel’s country and

bluegrass jam every Friday night. Th ings get going around 5 p.m. and wrap up around 9 p.m.

Enjoy music and wings every Friday night at Cedar Creek Cafe in Winlaw with Olin and Rob.

Every Monday at Finley’s check out the blues jam from 8 p.m. until mid-night. Hosted by Magic Carpet Blues Band. Amps and drums are supplied but please bring your own instruments. Wel-come all singers, bands and musicians.

CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTSRockopolus Promotions and Revolu-

tion Audio proudly presents Nazareth with guests Headpins live in concert on Tuesday July 10 at the Nelson and District Community Complex. Special 500 early bird advance tickets only $25, on sale now at Phoenix Computers (468 Baker Street) or phone 250-354-4300. Regular advance tickets, $35. At the gate, $45.

Spiritbar presents Inspectah Deck of Wu Tang Clan on Friday, July 27. Ticket information is available at the Hume Hotel.

Th e Royal presents Joel Plaskett with Mo Kenney as part of the Capitol Series on Th ursday, September 20. Tickets are $25 and are available at the Capitol Th eatre Box offi ce located at 421 Vic-toria Street or online at capitoltheatre.bc.ca Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Showtime approx 8 p.m.

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ArtsGrounded Coff ee House Annual Art Sale White Building Lawn

Kids raise money for kids City plans summer art

showcase

Th ere won’t be much vis-ible wall space at Grounded Coff ee House this Th urs-day.

As part of it’s fourth an-nual “Grounded Gives to Kids” fundraiser, the Ver-non Street coff ee shop will be decorated with about 70 pieces of artwork, created by local children at South Nel-son elementary school and at 4Cats Art Studio.

“All the individual art has a coff ee cup theme,” ex-plained Grounded owner

Sasha Kitch. “Th e students at South Nelson painted their coff ee cups on wood, which makes them really unique. At 4Cats they did amazing Andy Warhol-style coff ee cup.”

Also on display will be two large Jackson Pollock inspired splatter paintings created by groups of children at 4Cats.

All the art was donated to the event and will be sold with proceeds going to the Kootenay Kids Society. Th e individual artwork is $35 and the splatter paintings will be sold in a silent auction.

“I’m hoping some busi-ness owners will come and bid on the splatter paint-ings for their offi ce,” Kitch said.

Grounded will also donate every dollar it makes selling coff ee and food on Th ursday. Kitch hopes to raise over $3,000 at the event.

“If people change their habits for one day and get their coff ees at Grounded, they’ll be supporting a great cause,” said Kitch, explain-ing that she chose Kootenay Kids to receive the proceeds from the event because, as a mother herself, she hates

to think of children going hungry.

Th e money will specifi -cally fund Kootenay Kids’ farms to families program, which provides weekly mar-ket vouchers to low-income parents of young children. Th e vouchers support both the families, who can buy fresh, locally grown food, as well as the farmers who sell at the West Kootenay EcoSo-ciety markets.

Check out Grounded Gives to Kids on Th ursday, June 28, at Grounded Coff ee House, 616 Vernon Street, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

A group of young artists create a Jackson Pollock inspired splatter painting at 4Cats Art Studio. Their artwork will be sold in a silent auction at Grounded Coffee Shop on June 28, with the money going to the Kootenay Kids Society.

Local theatre and arts enthusiast Richard Rowberry is sounding the call for Nelson artists of all kinds to participate in a unique summer arts showcase.

“Th e City decided in their wisdom to present the talent of Nelson in a public venue in front of City Hall this summer and they asked me for some help with it and I, in my foolishness said I would take it on,” said Rowberry.

Th e vision for the space in front of the White Building is to have one or two platforms or stag-es with other performers and artists performing through out the space.

“In one corner we may have a juggler, and elsewhere there may be an artist with their easel painting,” said Rowberry.

Th e project is open to artists of all kinds includ-ing comedy, music, story telling and visual arts.

“Let’s just make it a place where we can show off everything that Nelson has to off er,” he said.

Rowberry is also working with Kootenay Co-op Radio to have aft ernoon live radio broadcasts from City Hall.

“At this point I’m trying to get the word out to get people to get in touch with me if they are interested in participating from mid July through August,” he said.

A day of the week has not yet been solidifi ed but Rowberry hopes the showcase will extend from the aft ernoon into the evening.

“I’m taking this on as a public spirited fellow,” he said. “I’m trying to show that even though I was not elected mayor there are no hard feel-ings.”

If you are interested in participating contact Rowberry at 250-505-6900 or [email protected]



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Th e roller derby teams may have packed up their tights, face paint and skates, but the Klash in the Koote-nays left a lasting impression on all involved.

“Roller derby is all about empowering people, giving them confi dence and doing something that nobody else does,” said Bob Noxious.

Noxious is a roller derby consultant who was hired by Brown Paper Tickets to help with the Western Canada derby tournament earlier this month.

“Seeing individuals and teams walk away with brand new skill sets and things to work on, knowing that I’ll probably get to see them next year and it will be that much better is amazing. Just to be a part of the history and be able to walk up to people and say ‘I remember when,’ and ‘Gosh, look at how far you’ve come.’ Th at’s what is reward-ing for me,” he said.

In late 2004 Noxious be-came involved in derby with the Madison, Wisconsin Mad Rollin’ Dolls.

He began as an announcer when the Mad Rollin’ Dolls were only the fourth or fi ft h

team to skate publicly at the time, now there are 1,200 teams worldwide.

Noxious gradually became involved in various aspects of the sport from coaching to business and marketing, which has taken him from his home league where the Bruise City Bruisers skate in Milwaukee to the West Koo-tenay.

“I love working for the Bruisers where we sit in an arena with 4,000 people and it’s amazing, but at the same time it’s still fun to get out and see really good derby played in more obscure ar-eas and smaller venues,” he said aft er the championship game. “You get that whole feeling of the DIY, which is where we got started, that resonates when you go back to those roots.”

Nelson hosted eight of the best teams from all over Western Canada at the week-end tournament.

Th e West Kootenay Roller Derby League is the largest in Canada in terms of teams and is the fastest growing sport in Canada.

Noxious said it is not dif-fi cult to see why the sport is drawing women in huge numbers.

“Th e draw for the women

is defi nitely the opportunity to do something vastly diff er-ent,” he said. “It is the oppor-tunity to not have necessarily played sports before, but be accepted in what is maybe the most physical in all women’s sports immediately. It gives them a peer group.”

Skaters come to roller der-by from all walks of life and Noxious said they are oft en looking for something that hasn’t helped complete them as many of them hit their late 20s or so.

“What ‘that’ is is diff erent in all of them,” he said be-ginning to choke back tears. “I see people leave the sport many times with a lot of con-fi dence, sometimes business skills they have acquired be-

cause they had to be on a committee that helped mar-ket the league or promote the league. Just knowing that they can do whatever they want to because when they got started they couldn’t even skate and then some of them are skating at a level that is so unbelievable. You just can’t imagine that ride.”

Noxious announced the championship match-up between the Terminal City Roller Girls and the Koote-nay Kannibelles.

He had fi rst seen the Kan-nibelles skate at last year’s Best in the West tourna-ment.

“I was fortunate enough to be able to announce most of their games last year in Kelowna. Th ey came in and nobody knew who they were and that was one of the reasons why a lot of people didn’t want to play them because nobody knew what to expect,” he said. “To have gone from darlings of the tournament and fi nishing in the middle of the pack to now going to the national cham-pionship, that’s crazy. Th at shows a lot of commitment and a lot of work. It’s almost unbelievable to me to make that amount of progress in that amount of time.”

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U11 Selects show right attitudeNelson Selects U11 girls

squad came away with a pair of wins this past Saturday at the Get Your Boots On devel-opment jamboree in Cran-brook.

Th e girls produced stun-ning displays against Koo-tenay East Rovers and Koo-tenay South Th under to be triumphant.

In the fi rst game of the day Nelson defeated a very tall and tough Kootenay East team 3-1 with the scoreline fl attering the hosts. Nelson kept the ball fantastically well, dominating possession and playing the large major-ity of the match in the Koo-tenay East fi nal third.

Th e second game of the day saw the U11’s play their

best football of the season against a Kootenay South Th under team. Leading 1-0 at halft ime, the girls turned up the heat in the second half and scored a further fi ve to

record an impressive 6-0 vic-tory and win the group.

“Th e girls have been bril-liant since the program be-gan, the attitude each one of them shows towards im-

proving, learning and taking those new skills on the pitch is highly commendable,” said SoccerQuest development coach Sam Heap. “You can actually see the girls taking all the information in and executing it on the pitch.

“Although winning does feel nice at this age, the re-sults aren’t important. We are just trying to coach the girls into playing the game in the right way and each one of them is improving for their eff orts. Each one of them has a very bright future should the great attitude they’ve shown remain in place.”

Th e Nelson Selects U12 girls program also sent two teams to Cranbrook. Both teams lost to Kootenay East and in the match against each other, Team White beat Team Blue 2-1.

The U11 Selects team that won two games in Cranbrook included (back L-R) coach Sam Heap, Amanda Creak, Shayla Elias, Sophie Borhi, Bryce Winters; (front L-R) Kaleigh Foxcroft, Michaela Anderson, Rylee Zondervan, Reece Hunt, Ashley Caponero and Mimi Lockhurst.


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It’s arrived. Exams done, papers marked, lunch bag stashed away. It’s

time to collect your lost and found and head out-side for two whole months of play time. It applies to us working folks too, as June allows us to look forward to the dog days of summer to relax, visit with guests and do the things we enjoy as well. It’s all good.

Summer camps are plen-tiful in Nelson and area. A list, fl yer and information can be found on the Nelson Regional Sports Council website nelsonsports.ca for camp for registration information.

Th e Kootenay Swim Club is in its fi nal month of the season and will be off for the months of July and August and restarting the 2012-2013 season in Sep-

tember. Th e club is current-ly taking resumes for the head coach and assistant coach positions. If you are interested in coaching go to thekootenayswimclub.com and click on the head coach job description for details. In the meantime, the swim-mers will be attend-ing AA’s and AAA’s long course swim meets before age group nationals in July. We wish the swimmers the best of luck.

Th e Nelson Ultimate Frisbee Association is proud to be reviving a once popular ultimate frisbee tournament this summer. Without organizers for the

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Having visitors arriving

over the summer? A visit to the newly minted Nelson Sports Museum may be the perfect activity on a less sunny or very hot day. Housed at the Civic and NDCC arenas, the sports museum exhibits are full of local hockey, skating and lacrosse memorabilia dat-ing back before the Civic (built 1935) even came to life. It is an authentic collection of photos, sport artifacts and historic audio of game play by play for sport enthusiasts, historians and returning Nelsonites to enjoy. Open July 6 to Au-gust 31 with hours Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday to Th ursday by appointment through the Sports Council at 250-352-3989. Admis-sion free or by donation.

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10:40 am O Canada Heritage Harmony Singers 10:45 am Heritage Harmony Barbershop Choir 11:00 am Logan Carlstrom 11:30 am Laela12:00pm Nelson Community Band 12:45 pm Brenda McJones Highland Dancers 1:10 pm Rhythmic Dimensions 1:30 pm Roy Has Fire2:00 pm Glacier Harmony Singers 2:30pm The Shants3:00pm Pat Henman Band4:00 pm Playmor Junction5:00 pm White Lightning Blues Band 5:45pm AKA’s 6:00 pm Myriam Parent7:00 pm Big Mama Blue8:00 pm Moving Mosaic Samba Band8:30 pm Sunshine Drive10:00 pm FIREWORKS Display Special thanks to The City of Nelson, The Nelson Profes- sional Fire Fighters Association, Heritage Canada, Celebrate Canada, RDCK Areas E, F, H, The Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce, and many community-minded businesses and organizations. Indulge and Enjoy 8am Lions Club Pancake Breakfast Baker Street10am Canada Day Cake on Display11am Canada Day Cake Served Chamber Directors/City Councillors/Dignitaries 11am-3pm Rotary Club Annual BBQ Rotary Shelter

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If you are interested in participating in our next edition of Ask the Professionals contact Selina or Karen at 250-352-1890

Ask the ProfessionalsAsk the Professionals

QWhen was the last time you played?

ADo you remember when you were a kid and you counted the days until school ended? Finally that last day arrives and you dash home with

a heavy backpack fi lled with all your projects and left over pencils and there was this great big feeling of “Whoo Hooo!” Th e world opened up to all sorts of possibilities. Swimming in the lake, visiting somewhere new, sleeping in, hanging with your friends, eating popsicles whilst sitting on a swing watching the leaves in the tree above you glisten in the sunlight. Th e days were lazy, lovely and the only thing to do was play and BE.

Oft en as we get older we lose that sense of child like wonder and we think we are too old, too smart, too grownup to go bounce on the trampoline, have a water balloon fi ght, dash through a sprinkler. You know what? Th at is so not true!

When we continually turn down opportunities to play, giggle and do something out of our comfort zone, we are squashing our internal playful being. What emerges is either the “fuddy duddy”, as I call it, you know the one? Imagine that dour person who sits on the sidelines critiquing everything and not participating and saying “You would never see me do that.” Or the other one that comes out is the small child who sits on the bench, swinging their feet thinking “I wish I could, but I can’t”, watching the other kids run around, laugh, play and have fun. Do you remember that feeling? Personally, I don’t want either of those to come out as I want to Play! I want to feel life course through me and I don’t give a fl ying fi g what other people think, whether they think it is daft , inappropriate – not my issue.

When children play, they become smarter because new neuron connections are formed in their brains. Play has been described as the work of childhood, the place where the greatest learning occurs. Yet great scientists and spiritual leaders are oft en similarly playful.

So try playing this summer. Jump in a puddle on your way home from work. Take your lunch hour and eat watermelon with a buddy and spit seeds. Hop on a swing. Do something diff erent. Play and laugh until your sides hurt. You’ll feel much better, be more productive and those niggly cares and worries won’t seem so important.

Jenny HestonCertifi ed Professional Coach and Certifi ed Life Coach

Jenny Heston1-250-509-1240

A little history about Watsu, Watsu fi rst began in 1980 by a man named Howard Dull. He took moves from his own Shiatsu practice and brought it into the Harbin Hot Springs. Then, he linked one move to another and coined the term Watsu or Water

Shiatsu. In general, Watsu is moves and stretches done to the breath, while being held and fl oated in warm water.

Its use is similar to massage for therapy, and is so much more because it induces a meditative state, interweaving different aspects of the self, reducing stress, and allowing for personal growth. Because Watsu is performed in water, it settles us into deeper states of relaxation. Being held close by the practitioner may be diffi cult to accept on land, but in the water it is welcomed because it keeps us afl oat. Being fl oated at the level of someone’s heart makes for a strong heart connection, resulting in great emotional healing benefi ts.

It was said in Egypt that water is given the soul as compensation for taking on a bodily form. In water, our bodies fi nd the freedom the soul has lost. Watsu is the continuing exploration of that freedom. When the whole body is in continual movement, each move fl owing gracefully into the next, there is no way to anticipate what’s coming next, which allows for new possibilities of freedom. This freedom is cradled and entrusted to the arms of the Watsu practitioner.

Each person is different in what they get out of a Watsu. It is a very creative and multidimensional experience where no two people come at it or react to it in exactly the same way. Watsu should be approached with an open mind with no expectations and welcomed as a precious gift of freedom. It enables the most basic of human necessities for one to receive touch. As Sandra Wooten states: “Touch not only infl uences how we move, react, or respond to our environment, but, how we know and experience ourselves.” Being touched and touching others is fundamental to our survival. It gives us our knowledge of depth, density, and form, and continues to infl uence our physical, emotional, attitudinal and spiritual nature throughout our lives.

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What is a Watsu treatment?QWhat’s the best way to protect your investment in your home?

AYour home is like your health. You have to maintain it to enjoy a long life.A comprehensive Home

Maintenance Inspection by a professional home inspector can be the best investment that a home owner can make over the lifetime of their home. Did you know that the leading cause of home fi res is due to lack of home maintenance?All homes try to speak to their owners by sending messages that are cries for help. Yet many people don’t understand these signs and signals. Th is new Home Maintenance Inspection service is easy and aff ordable. It can be of great value to home owners because of three key things:It will Assist you by interpreting what you home is trying to tell you and will help you recognize early warning signs to avoid major repair costs. In other words, it can help prevent minor issues from turning into major repair problems.It will give you Comfort by identifying the defective items that require immediate attention. It will also let you know which marginal items can be deferred to a later date, pinpointing a list of future items that can be put into a maintenance plan.It will also Protect you and your home by giving you customized, seasonal, home maintenance guidelines and an extensive list of neighbourhood contractors and service professionals.A Home Maintenance Inspection helps you stay on top of your home’s health. Take your home’s health as seriously as you take your own and start creating a plan for your home’s long-term health.Your home will be glad you did!

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CHRISTINEPEARSONSalesAssociate

601 Baker Street, Nelson, BC250-505-8015

Each offi ce individually owned and operatedRHC Realty

A Th is is a fabulous opportunity to sit down with your Realtor® & analyze why this may be. Have you had

many prospective Buyers come to see your house? If not, fi nd out why?Ask your Realtor® for some

current market data to see where your property sits in the housing market at this time. Find out how many days on average a home is on the market before it sells. Is your home priced accurately? How is your property being marketed? Does your home look appealing on the MLS website & during showings? Are there some quick fi xes and affordable solutions that may showcase your home better? Take the emotion out of the

equation, and look at your property as a stranger might see it. Remember what attracted you to your property in the fi rst place and make some notes. Discuss these things with your Realtor® and have your ideas incorporated into their marketing strategy. Try and listen to the advice and expertise your Realtor® is offering you. They are on your team and trying to sell your home and get you on your way to the next chapter that awaits you. Make your property a STAR (Stand out, Transform, Attract, and Return on your Investment) if you have further questions, don’t hesitate contacting me.

QWhy is my home taking so long to sell?

Th omson says opposition to eff ort hurts the communityContinued from Page 1get into the regional airline business. Th ey’re making a ma-jor investment into their own company and it’s a good oppor-tunity for them to come in and capitalize on their investment. It’s a great opportunity for fu-ture economic development,” said Th omson.

Even though the service to the Castlegar airport is unreliable at times, Th omson said they are doing an exceptionally good job with what they have.

“But one of the things that has always been a detriment to developing extra business and getting business coming in here is reliable air transportation throughout certain times of the year,” he said.

Business people and tourism-based companies like Baldface and Whitewater oft en struggle with the unreliability of air trans-portation to the region, which can have a negative impact to their businesses.

“Th ere are a number of indi-

vidual consultants that work out of here and use Nelson as a base and they travel and do business all over Western Canada or even the rest of the world and they have a tough time getting in and out,” said Th omson. “A lot of the times I think they end up getting in their car and driving to Cran-brook or even to Kelowna to get a reliable fl ight in and out of the area. It adds extra time and travel to their business abilities.”

Th omson also shared his dis-appointment with the opposition

to the presentation by council-lors Candace Batycki and Donna Macdonald.

“I think it’s a bit disappointing and I understand where council-lor Batycki is coming from and there are certainly environmen-tal concerns in a lot of diff erent areas,” he said. “I don’t know if saying that WestJet is something that we don’t want to have hap-pen in the City of Nelson, I don’t think that that was in the best interests of the overall commu-nity.”

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ATh is is what we found during the thousands of miles, spent on various terrain and in numerous running competitions exploring natural,

eff ortless way of moving your body through space as fast as your feet can turn.

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rather than a sense of grim duty. Don’t push yourself too hard.

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QWhat’s the deal on the new mortgage rules?

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AOn June 21st 2012, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced a number of changes related to high ratio (on a purchase with

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A Over 5,000 years ago, the ancient Chinese discovered a subtle energy system in the body that can’t be

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Th ese 500 acupuncture points, mapped and used for centuries to optimize human performance, are connections between the meridians and functions of the body, including internal organs and muscles. When the fl ow of life energy to a particular organ is defi cient or unbalanced, patterns of illness can occur. Th e Chinese were, therefore, especially concerned with eliminating energy blockages in the meridians, and used acupuncture needles and herbs to draw awareness to specifi c areas of the body--rebalancing these channels and the patients health. Acupuncture and herbs can have a profound eff ect on circulation, and hormone and neurotransmitter levels in the body to improve health. For more info visit www.nelsonacupuncture.com

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Reach Grads CelebrateEarlier this month fi ve students from Kootenay Lake School District were honoured at the 2012 Reach Program graduation ceremony hosted at the Hume hotel. Head teacher/counsellor Jordon Konken (far right) and youth and family worker Karee-Ann Stu-art (far left) accompany the graduates (from L to R) Hazen Donet, Brooklynn Leman, Nick Fitzgerald, Hube Mehan and Brandon Leman. The evening was well attended by family and friends and included encouraging words from Nelson-Creston MLA Mi-chelle Mungall, School District superintendent Jeff Jones and principal of L.V. Rogers Tim Hutteman.

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Visitor Centre set to open

Adielle Lewis picks up a piece of bark she found outside the door and inserts it carefully into the nest — just like the birds that build them. She is helping make a display for the opening of the Kokanee Park Visitors Center July 1.

She and six other home schoolers volunteered to build the osprey nest for the new Web of Life display with the help of osprey biologist Mar-lene Machmer.

“We want to show people what it looks like in those big nests we see on the poles and buoys,” said Machmer.

She and the children scru-tinized a picture of a nest and once the materials were identi-fi ed — moss, bark, twigs and grass — the materials were quickly gathered.

“Sometimes I fi nd some pret-ty bad things the birds have used

for the nests,” Machmer told the children. “Like bailing twine and even diapers. And of course, the odd Canada Goose egg.”

She explained to the students how the Canada Geese have moved into the osprey nests, a delay for the osprey that can set them back considerably.

Th is is the second season the centre will be operated by the West Kootenay EcoSoci-ety. Last year the organization received a Community Legacy Grant from the BC Conserva-tion Foundation to provide up-grades to existing displays and make them more interactive.

Th e nest is part of a larger display that weaves the bear, kokanee, eagle and osprey to-gether in the Web of Life dis-play depicting the diff erent life cycles of the kokanee salmon. Murals were also upgraded to be more interactive.

Th is year the centre will be open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. thanks to grants from Columbia Basin

Trust, RDCK’s Area E, F and H as well as the Young Canada Works program who is fund-ing two summer students with the Friends of West Kootenay Parks.

“Th is is a real coming to-gether to make this happen,” said the centre’s co-ordinator Mel Reasoner. “We will have yoga and a great dance fi tness program for men and women in the morning, hikes, more kids day programs and the evening presentations will con-tinue seven days a week.”

Reasoner said that volun-teers were the key to the suc-cess of the centre last year and he invites interested residents to come out to the centre for a shift .

New this year is the RedFish Festival, Sunday August 26.

“Th is is a great opportunity to celebrate the return of the fi sh and learn more about how they contribute to the web of life,” said Reasoner.

Kokanee Creek Provincial Park

Making a nest is easy… once you have the right materials, say home schoolers (L to R) Adielle Lewis, Galena Lewis, Myra Reasoner, Kai Dykstra-Braumandl, Lu Geraghty and Dove Geraghty. Suzy Hamilton photo


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Former soldier from Nelson joins ranks of search and rescue

COMOX — Following al-most a year of some of the most intensive training in the Cana-dian Forces, Master Corporal Nelson’s Tyler Salmond has re-ceived his Search and Rescue Technician (SAR Tech) Wings and distinctive orange beret.

MCpl. Salmond joined the Canadian Forces in 2002 as an infantry soldier with the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry based in Edmonton. He served as a sniper in Afghanistan in 2009. Following his tour to Kandahar, he set out for a new challenge as a Search and Rescue Tech-nician.

“I want to thank my family and friends for being so sup-portive along my journey to becoming a SAR tech,” said MCpl. Salmond.

Th e road to become a SAR Tech was not a short nor easy one. It started with a pre-se-lection process conducted in Edmonton and Jarvis Lake, Alberta. From a group of 31 hopefuls trying to become the next generation of SAR Techs, only eight actually became can-didates on course. From there, the real challenge started.

“Th e most challenging por-tion of the course for me was the parachuting phase,” said MCpl. Salmond. “I had to get used to some new equipment

and a diff erent style of para-chuting from when I used to do it in the army.”

MCpl. Salmond will now be posted to 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron in Comox.

SAR Tech training is run by the Canadian Forces School of Search and Rescue, located at 19 Wing, Canadian Forces Base Comox. Th e school pre-

pares SAR Tech candidates to perform life saving missions throughout Canada, in some of the harshest weather and envi-ronmental conditions. Wheth-er they are jumping into surf from a helicopter, rappelling down a cliff , parachuting into arctic winds or scuba diving into murky waters, SAR Techs are known for their ability to reach those in need.

“At the end of the selection phase I knew that I had a very strong group to work with. Th ey arrived on course from a variety of backgrounds and jelled as a team very early,” said Sergeant Paul Moquin, senior instructor

for SAR Tech Course 45. “Th eir dedication to the SAR Tech pro-fession and to each other has been proven time and again and I am proud to say that I was their course ‘NCO’.”

Working with other Cana-dian SAR partners, the Canadi-an Forces plays a vital role in a world class SAR system that an-swers the call of those in need. Th e forces annually respond to approximately 8,000 inci-dents, tasking military aircraft or ships in about 1,100 cases. As primary care providers, SAR Techs travel on all military SAR aircraft .

Th e Canadian Forces’ re-sponsibility for aeronautical and maritime SAR extends over 15 million square kilo-metres of land and sea — an area one-and-a-half times that of Canada’s landmass. Th e aeronautical SAR area ex-tends from the US border to the North Pole, and from ap-proximately 600 nautical miles (1,111 km) west of Vancouver Island in the Pacifi c Ocean to 900 nautical miles (1,667 km) east of Newfoundland in the Atlantic. Th e maritime SAR mandate includes the ocean waters within this area, as well as the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. SAR incidents under the federal SAR mandate are defi ned as “all aircraft inci-dents and all marine incidents in waters under federal juris-diction.”

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Brigadier-General Martin Galvin (left), Commander of 2 Canadian Air Division, presents Master-Corporal Tyler Sal-mond with his Search and Rescue (SAR) Jump Wings during the Search and Rescue Technician Course 45 gradu-ation parade held in Comox earlier this month. Sgt. Robert Bottrill photo

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In Memory of George (Erroll Roydon) FaustJanuary 18th, 1970 to June 25th, 1995

Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there, I do not sleep I am a 1,000 winds that blow

I am the diamond glints on snow I am the sun on ripened grain I am the gentle autumn rain

When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplift ing rush Of quiet birds in circled light

I am the soft star that shines at night Do not stand at my grave and cry

I am not there; I did not die. Love,

Mom, Dad, Harmony, Forrest, Nana and all your friends

On Thursday, June 21, 2012 Gordie Jameson of Castlegar passed

away at the age of 66 years in the KLH. Gordie was predeceased by

his parents and his youngest son Randy. Gordie is survived by his wife

Gail, his son James & Brandi, grandson Kristopher & granddaughter

Ashley, his son Douglas & Amanda, brother Gary, niece Kim, nephew

Rocky and family, and many other relatives in BC and Alberta. Gordie

was known for his music as well as all the deliveries of explosives. A

celebration of Gordie’s life will be held at Taghum Hall in Taghum BC

on Saturday, June 30, 2012 from 1 - 5 pm. Cremation has taken place.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral

Home in Nelson BC.

Gordon E. (Gordie) Jameson

Having lived a beautiful life, Albert George Edwards of Kaslo, BC

left us on June 18, 2012 in his 91st year. Born in Cluny, Alberta, Albert

farmed with his father until he moved to Kaslo in 1947. He worked

in the mining industry and in highway maintenance as a labourer,

carpenter and machine operator. Albert’s love of family and friends

was always evident whether he was playing cards, camping, fi shing,

gardening, fi xing or building something new and precious. He will be

sadly missed by his loving wife Irene of 62 years, children Don (Wendy)

Edwards, Glenn (Marie) Edwards, Joy (Howard) Fletcher, Leah (Roy)

Honkanen, Connie (Jeff) Hum, 10 grandchildren, 7 great grandchil-

dren and sister Grace (John) Bell. A Celebration of Life was held 2:00

pm, Friday, June 22, 2012 at the Kaslo Legion Hall. As an expression

of sympathy, donations in Albert’s memory to the Victorian Hospital

of Kaslo Auxiliary Society, Box 607, Kaslo, BC V0G 1M0.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Fu-

neral Service Ltd.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

Albert George Edwards

Much loved husband, father, Bopa, brother, uncle and cousin, Ralph

Hansen, passed away suddenly on June 18, 2012 at the age of 71. He

is survived by his wife, Patricia, children, Catherine, Susan, Dennis

and Douglas (Rebecca), grandchildren Jordan, Taylor and baby Jack,

honourary grandchild, Sarah, sisters Marcelle (Heinz) Grupe, Adele

(John) Erickson, sisters-in-law Judy Hansen and Donna Salby, nieces

Debi, Carroll, Amanda, Pamela, Nicole, and their families, and Squir-

relly, the cat. He was predeceased by his parents, Lucien and Barbara

and his brother, Peter.

Ralph was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg on October 26,

1940. He was raised mainly in Esch and Differdange, Luxembourg. As

a teenager he trained to be a baker. His family immigrated to Canada

in 1956 arriving by boat at Montreal and then moving further west to

fi nally settle in Winnipeg. He then worked for a number of bakeries in

Winnipeg, before moving west to beautiful BC with his family in 1967.

He worked for several Super-Valu stores in BC before fi nally settling in

Nelson to own and operate Hood’s Bakery. Besides his own kids, many

other Nelson kids passed through Hood’s Bakery either hanging out or

helping out. Pressing tart shells on a Saturday afternoon earned many

a kid a couple of spending bucks.

In 1982, Ralph and Patricia sold the bakery and he then worked

at bakeries in Calgary and Kitimat, eventually deciding to leave bak-

ing behind. He went into business for himself as a general all-round

handyman, lawn care worker and snow shoveller. For many years, he

could be seen driving around in his distinctive vehicles with a canine

companion at his side.

In his youth, Ralph was an avid bicyclist, pedaling all over Win-

nipeg. Later on when he was fi nally settled in Nelson he was involved

with the CB club, teaching judo to local kids, and the local Lion’s Club.

He jumped on the computer bandwagon early and had a succession of

computers planted on his desk since the 1980’s. He and the family liked

to take trips camping around BC, visiting the States and taking trips

back to Winnipeg to visit Patricia’s family.

The last few years he had slowed down a bit but was still doing work

for a few selected people, just enough to keep busy and out of trouble.

We’re sure there are many people out there that can tell you that he’d

give you the shirt off his back. He would help anyone who needed it.

He didn’t really judge anyone and he liked to break the rules and maybe

every now and then “get your goat”. There are many Ralph stories to

be told! Many folks have been recipients of his bread, cookies and pies

over the years. He and these goodies will be sorely missed.

Last year for their 50th Anniversary daughter Sue fi nally rallied

Ralph and Pat along with Ralph’s friend, Tim McDaniel, to get out of

town with her and head for Europe to see Luxembourg one last time.

We’re so happy that they fi nally went and had such a wonderful time.

It was one of his greatest wishes fulfi lled. Ralph has three awesome

grandkids and he was very proud of them. We are so happy that he got

to meet baby Jack at least once.

We would like to thank our neighbours, Larry and Glenda Pasutti

for their valiant efforts in trying to save Ralph, the BC Ambulance

Services for continuing their efforts, the Nelson Fire & Rescue for

their backup and support, and the Nelson City Police for their calm

kindness during this really sad event. More thanks to our neighbours

and our friends for their wonderful help and kindness over the last few

days. We hope you know who you are and we love you all.

Cremation has taken place and arrangements are under the care of

Thompson Funeral Services Ltd. There will be no service by his re-

quest and burial of his ashes will take place at a later date.

There will be a Celebration of Life for family and friends on Sun-

day, July 1, 2012 from 2:00-6:00 p.m. at the Hansen’s home on Falls

Street. This is an informal gathering to share stories, a drink or two,

and some nibbles. If you have any stories to share you can e-mail them

to Susan at [email protected].

In lieu of fl owers, you can make a donation to the Alzheimer’s

Society of BC, Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and Yukon, or a

charity of your choice. If you so choose, you can buy yourself a good

bottle of Scotch and hoist a few in memory of Ralph.

Thanks for everything Dad and goodbye. Safe journey!

ROLF (RALPH) HANSEN

October 26, 1940 to June 18, 2012

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A variety-filled role at our Castlegar, Nelson and Trail Campuses

From data entry, petty cash control and freight shipping/receiving to dealing with the public, filing or working in the mailroom, no two days will be the same as you support the wide range of Finance Department areas.

A detail-oriented multi-tasker, you have high school graduation and at least one year of the Business Administration Program or a designating Accounting Program. With two years’ related experience, you have proven proficiency with the MS Office suite and are both speedy and accurate with an adding machine. Experience in FRS and with duplicating equipment would be an asset.

FINANCE CLERK—STUDENT ACCOUNTS

A customer-oriented temporary part-time position at our Silver King campus in Nelson

You will take on a full range of accounts receivables and finance functions including: cash control, receiving student payments, generating and reconciling revenue reports, making NSF notifications and collections and monitoring delinquent accounts. You’ll also ensure the accuracy of data input, process refunds, deliver bank deposits and prepare invoices.

Highly motivated with excellent attention to detail, you have high school graduation, at least one year of the Business Administration Program or a designating Accounting Program and 2 - 3 years’ related experience. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with the public courteously and professionally are also expected.

Closing date: 4 pm, July 3, 2012.

For more information visit

selkirk.ca/s/jobpostings

Teck Metals Ltd. is currently seeking Apprentices in the following areas: Electrical Apprentice Heavy Duty Mechanic Apprentice Machinist Apprentice Instrument Mechanic Apprentice Pipefitter Apprentice Millwright Apprentice Brick Layer Apprentice

Qualifications:

TRADE APPRENTICESHIP CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Health & Wellness Connection

HELP WANTEDWe are seeking an individual with

either a Cosmetic, Esthetic or Salon

background who is interested in a

career in Cosmetic Department

Sales/Management.

Please forward resume to:

Pharmasave, Attn: Tim

685 Baker Street, Nelson, BC

V1L 4J3

www.nelsonpharmasave.com

The Alzheimer Society of B.C. is dedicated to helping families build knowledge, skills and confidence to live well with dementia. The SEC is resp. for core programs and ser-vices delivery in communities through West Kootenay area. Key Duties include: edu-cation/workshops for caregivers, people with early symptoms of dementia and public; overseeing support groups for family/friend caregivers, people with early symptoms of dementia; volunteer recruitment/management; information/support (phone calls, in person). As the Society’s rep for the area, builds good working relationships with health care professionals /community agencies; represents Society in community & media. Successful candidate must have: relevant degree & min of 3-5 years exp w/service delivery in community health or social agency; extensive knowledge with Al-zheimer’s disease/dementia and with caregiving issues; proven ability with presenting structured education, volunteer mgt,group facilitation. Must have home office and ve-hicle. Society will provide equipment, supplies, furnishings for office. Willing to travel in assigned area. For more information visit: www.alzheimerbc.org

Forward cover letter that details how your qualifications match this position and resume to:

HR, Alzheimer Society of B.C. 300-828 West 8th Ave, Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1E2 or to [email protected]. Closes Jul 3, 2012.

Pls no phonecalls to current area staff.

SUPPORT AND EDUCATION COORDINATOR West Kootenays (PT/21hrs/week)

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 8 (KOOTENAY LAKE)

Casual Computer Technician(s)

Nelson Area

School District #8 requires casual Computer Technicians for the Nelson area. The successful applicants will be required to join the CUPE Local 748 Union and have a Criminal Records Check.

Desired training and experience:

· Completion of a two (2) year post secondary technical diploma, rec-ognized industry certifi cation or equivalent combination of training and experience working in the information technology fi eld.

· Signifi cant experience in current Microsoft server and workstation operating systems; network design and components; and support-ing a variety of technology devices, including tablets, netbooks, workstations, smartphones, among others

· Microsoft Certifi cation (MCSE) preferred· Windows based software including spreadsheets, word processing, database, etc.

· Minimum 3 years’ experience· Electronic experience would be an asset· Driver’s license

Please submit your application with an updated resume to the undersigned by 4:00 P.M., Friday, July 6, 2012.Susanne Morris – Manager of Human Resources570 Johnstone Rd.Nelson, BC V1L 6J2 Fax: 250-352-6686 email: [email protected]

We’re looking for a clever IT Systems Administrator who likes to solve diffi cult problems. If you think you’re that person, call on the number below and ask for Sim:

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In return you’ll receive:· autonomy (everyone’s usually too busy to answer your questions so you’ll need to fi gure it out yourself),

· appreciation and respect (we won’t be able to do much without your genius),

· individual growth (this business changes daily, so will you), and a

· good boss (well, ok we can’t do much about that!)

If you’re still reading and are seriously interested, check out a more detailed job description at www.dhc.bc.ca




Employment


MATCO. CLASS 1 Household Goods Drivers. 2 years experi-ence required. $5000 sign-on bonus. Terms and conditions apply. Competitive wages. Contact: Dana Watson [email protected], Fax 780-484-8800

Help Wanted

Employment


Owner Operators Required

Van Kam’s Group of Compa-nies requires Owner Opera-tors to be based at Castle-gar or Cranbrook for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving expe-rience/training.We offer above average rates and an excellent em-ployee benefi ts package.To join our team of Profes-sional drivers, call Bev, 604-968-5488 or email a resume, current driver’s abstract and details of truck to:

[email protected] fax 604-587-9889

Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and En-vironmental Responsibility.We thank you for your in-terest, however only those of interest to us will be contacted.

Help Wanted

Employment

Education/Trade Schools

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Farm WorkersAUSTRALIA/NEW Zealand dairy, beef, sheep, crop enter-prises have opportunities for trainees to live & work Down Under. Apply now! Ph:1-888-598-4415 www.agriventure.com

Help WantedAn Alberta Construction Com-pany is hiring dozer, excavator and labour/rock truck opera-tors. Preference will be given to operators that are experi-enced in oilfi eld road and lease construction. Lodging and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Al-berta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Con-struction at 780-723-5051.Certifi ed Crane Operatorrequired for local construction projects please email resume to [email protected]: Looking for someone too deliver newspapers from Kaslo to the Lardeau Valley on Fridays. For more info email [email protected]

Employment

Help WantedEXPERIENCED PARTS per-son required for progressive auto/industrial supplier. Hiredapplicant will receive top wag-es, full benefi ts and RRSP bo-nuses plus moving allowanc-es. Our 26,000 sq.ft. store is located 2.5 hours N.E. of Ed-monton, Alberta. See our com-munity at:LacLaBicheRegion.com. Send resume to: Sapphire Auto, Box 306, Lac La Biche,AB, T0A 2C0. Email:[email protected].

Kootenay Society forCommunity Living is looking for Home Share providers to provide support to individuals with development disabilities in Nelson & Castlegar. For

more info [email protected] or call

352-0867 for Nelson [email protected] 365-2625

ext 2 for CastlegarSears Nelson is looking for apart-time customer serviceperson. Successful applicantmust be physically fi t, some heavy lifting involved. Pleasereply with resume to SearsNelson.T-MAR INDUSTRIES locatedin Campbell River is hiring forthe position of Heavy Duty Me-chanic. Position comes with acompetitive benefi t packageand applicant must possess avalid driver’s license. For de-tails visit www.t-mar.comContact Tyson Lambert by Fax: 250-286-9502 or by Email:[email protected]

Nelson Star Wednesday, June 27, 2012 www.nelsonstar.com A29

Bright, quiet 2 bedroom lake view, walking distance to town W/D N/S N/P $750/mo.

Available June 1st.

250-352-5634 or 208-304-5297

Nelson Rental

Employment

Income OpportunityEARN EXTRA Cash! - P/T, F/T immediate openings. easy computer work, other positions are available. Can be done from home. No experience needed. www.hwc-bc.com

Medical/Dental

Registered Nurses &Licensed Practical NursesBayshore Home Health

Bayshore Home Health is currently seeking Registered Nurses & Licensed Practical Nurses for night shifts in the Castlegar/ Nelson area to work with children with complex care needs. If you are an RN or LPN and love working with children and their families , we would appreciate hearing from you. Pediatric experience is an asset and we do offer client specifi c training.

Please send your resume and cover letter to:[email protected] or

fax to 1-866-686-7435

Trades, TechnicalEMPLOYMENT ALBERTA: Journeyman Sheet Metal Me-chanic, Field and Shop Fabri-cation, Refrigeration Mechanic, Plumbers/Pipefi tters. Overtime and benefi t Package. Email re-sumes to: [email protected]: 780-624-2190. Contact Todd at 780-624-4140OIL BURNER Technician Plumber/Gasfi tter, 4th Class Power Engineer required in Yellowknife, NT. Journeyper-son, bondable and own hand tools. Resume: k.leonardis@ jslmechanical.comTECHS LIVE Large in Alberta! Moving/training/tool allowanc-es. Great wages. Full bene-fi ts. Investment program. Go Auto has 30 dealerships/18 brands. Apply now! [email protected].

Employment

Trades, Technical

#1 CERTIFIED PLANERMAN

Tolko Industries Ltd. is a forest products company w/ marketing & manufacturing facilities throughout Western Canada. Our commitment to excellence in the forest industry has resulted in signifi cant growth.

We are currently seeking a #1 Certifi ed Planerman to join our progressive team at our Armstrong Division, located in the North Okana-gan Region of BC.

QUALIFICATIONS;· #1 Certifi ed Planerman or Millwright with a planerman endorsement· Superior Troubleshooting Skills· Excellent Organizational Skills· Hydraulic and Welding experience an asset

JOIN THE TOLKO PROFESSIONALS

· Competitive Wages· Development Opportunities· On-going Training· Dynamic and Challenging Environment

Strong values of Safety, Respect, Progressiveness,

Open Communication,Integrity and Profi t guide

us at Tolko.

READY TO APPLYYOURSELF?

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity and being part of our community, please visit our website at;

www.tolko.com and submit your resume by June 30, 2012

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Merchandise for Sale

Furniture

For Sale: 9 drawer dresser w/mirror, matching high boy,

cedar lined metal trunk, New massage table & drop

leaf table. 250-551-9317

Garage Sales

1102 Gordon Road Alpine Lake Suites

Multi- Apartment BlockArtisen, Crafts & Cooks

Saturday June 30th10:00am - 4:00pm

4310 View Ridge Rd MOVING SALE

Tools, China, Kitchen Equipment, Planting & Garden Tools,

Knicknacks, Furniture

Saturday June 23rd9:00am - 3:00pm

GARAGE SALE!!! Men’s and Women’s clothing, baby clothes, collectibles, stereo equipment, size 9 Reidell der-by skates, wheels... & lots more 7:30am Sat June 30 @ 3601 Blewett R.D.

NEIGHBOURHOOD sale. 3360 Pass Creek Rd., Cres-cent Valley. Sat. June 30, 9-2.

Misc. for Sale

Book Shelf 4x3’ $30, large screen Sony TV & DVD Player $25/each Lexmark Printer X3470 $30. 505-1185

Hotel Misc: New Manitowoc SY0454A Ice Machine makes

(450#/day), chairs, tables, brass bed, speakers, industrial

glass washer, glasses, jugs etc call Darcy 250 777-2176

STEEL BUILDING - Huge clearance sale! 20x24 $4,658. 25x28 $5,295. 30x40 $7,790. 32x54 $10,600. 40x58 $14,895. 47x78 $19,838. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca.

STEEL BUILDINGS for sale. Need some extra storage or workspace? Alpine Steel Buildings is an authorized Me-tallic Builder. Kelowna compa-ny with 1300+ sold. 1-800-565-9800.www.alpinesteelbuildings.com

Apt/Condo for Rent

Small ads, BIG deals!

Merchandise for Sale

Misc. for Sale

TV Specials Panasonic 32” $280 Samsung 51” $690, Samsung 55” 3Dincludes BluRay player

$1050 warranty included West LiquidationCastlegar call for

Appointment 250-365-3367 www .WestLiquidation.com

Real Estate

Business for SaleLIVE THE Dream. Harbours End Marine, 27 year history on beautiful Salt Spring Island, BC “the best place on earth!” Owner retiring, well-estab-lished business only $129,000 email: [email protected]

Commercial/Industrial Property

4 Houses on 5 acres min out of town $750,000. to be viewed on Property GuysNelson #30980 354-4381 or 354-7949

For Sale By OwnerUnfi nished cabin on 2.8

acres on Riondel Rd near the Ashram. Will be

appraised in May. Making a list of interested individuals.

Price likely well under $200,000. Terms Negotiable. Excellent for handy person

or couple 780-566-0707

Other Areas20 ACRES- Only $99/mo. $0 Down, Owner Financing, NO CREDIT CHECKS! Near El Paso, Texas, Beautiful Moun-tain Views! Money Back Guar-antee! Free Color Brochure. 1-800-755-8953.www.sunsetranches.com

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentNelson: 2 bdrm apartment avail. Immediately. NS/NP $750/mo incl. power 365-7335

NELSON: Downtown, 1 bdrm apartment Mature single adult. references NS/NP

$675./m incl util. Avail immedi-ately 354-4779 or 825-4666

Small 2 bdrm apartment min out of town $650/m + utilities N/S N/P 354-4381or354-7949

Commercial/Industrial

Commercial Space for lease great retail & ware-

house space can customize available immediately @

5643 Taghum Frontage Rd. for info email

[email protected]

Large A/C Offi ce downtown Nelson $750/m including utilities 354-4381 or 354-7949

Duplex / 4 PlexNELSON: Uphill Sunny 2 bdrm wood fl oors, gas f/p, yard. NS/NP $1000/mo + Util Avail July 1st 250-505-2103

Modular HomesJUNE SPECIAL

Brand New 16’ Wide ModularHomes. From $69,900Double Wide Modular

1350 sq ft from $99,[email protected]

Homes for Rent2 bdrm house immediate North Shore N/S N/P $875/m + utilities 352-9136 after 6 pm

Apt/Condo for Rent

Rentals

Homes for RentBeautiful North Shore Home 15 min from Nelson 5 plus bdrms, 2 baths, 2 kitchen,organic garden, view of lake, path to beach W/D garage, shop $1800/m avaiimmediately 825-9537

NELSON 12 Mile: Spacious 3bdrm Family Home on beautiful Kootenay Lake.

Lovely sandy beach, sloped ceilings, skylights, fi replace, lrg kitchen, ensuite, family room, formal dining + 40ft screened covered deck to

relax & enjoy the view. Gentle sloping 1/2 acre lot on lake + fenced pool area for children. Away from hwy

noise, paved driveway & carport. Asking $1850/mo or

$2000 furnished. contact Rose 250-825-4499

Offi ce/RetailNelson: Downtown offi ce suite for rent. Mountain Waters building, 205 Victoria St. Good parking & lighting, quiet $375/mo. Call 250-352-6081

Shared AccommodationNELSON- Fairview: Quiet

person, NS, NP, Avail Immed. Reference Required 505-4248

Suites, Lower2 bdrm almost new suite. $800/m N/P,N/S 352-1826BRIGHT and spacious! fi re-place, 2 bedrooms, carport, claw foot tub, sauna, laundry, private entry, coat room and patio. Property backs onto trails. 250-551-3553.MODERN 2 BDR suite in upper Fairview, one block from Selkirk campus. Private entry, private, park-like patio, full size W/D, four-piece bathroom, new paint, fl ooring and base-boards. $850/mo. plus utilities. Will consider friendly, small dog. Call 250-354-8500 or email [email protected]

Want to RentNelson: 30 yr old male with secured monthly income seeks housing/room for Aug 1st. Clean, tidy, responsible & personable. Good References avail. Contact Jesse M @ 250 352-9876

Responsible female looking to rent 2 bdrm house or apt for July 1. Yard preferred.

$700 - $800 incl util. 354-4891 or 825-9626

Transportation

Auto Financing

YOU’RE APPROVEDCall Dennis, Shawn or Paul

for Pre-Approval

www.amford.com or www.autocanada.com

Transportation

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Auto Loans or

We Will Pay You $1000All Makes, All Models.New & Used Inventory.

1-888-229-0744 or apply at: www.greatcanadianautocredit.com

Must be employed w/ $1800/mo. income w/ drivers license. DL #30526

Commercial Vehicles

School District 8 (KootenayLake) has the followingsurplus equipment and busesfor sale:

1 Coats Tire Machine1 9000 lb. Bishamon Hoist2001 Thomas 84 passengerbus, 218,00 kms1998 Bluebird 72 passengerbus, 217,000 kms2001 Thomas 72 passengerbus, 220,000. kmsThe above items can beviewed on Thursday, the 28thof June, 2012 between 8:30am and 4:30 pm at the SchoolDistrict Operations Offi ce,90 Lakeside Drive, Nelson,BC. Sealed bids will beaccepted until 12:00 Noon,local time, Friday, June 29th,2012 at the Nelson OperationsOffi ce. For inquiries call250-354-4871, local 206.

Boats

BOATING SEASON IS HERE FINALLY!

WANNA HAVE SOME FUN WITH YOUR FAMILY &

FRIENDS THIS SUMMER!!

Your Cabin on the LakeThe Kootenay Queen

• 1976 30ft cabin cruiser with a 185 merc

• Full galley (fridge, stove, sink, furnace, toilet)

• Fold down table for a queen sized bed

• Fold up bunk beds• VHF radio• Hull is sound, galley is

dated.• Low draft• 200 hrs on new engine• A great boat that needs

some TLC.$12,000.00 invested, will

take offers starting at $9000

Call 250-362-7681 or email [email protected]

for more information

FightBack.Volunteeryour time,energy andskills today.

Oops, sorry Piggy!

Paper routes available, call the Nelson Star at

250-352-1890


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Our Selection willFloor You

Visit us at 320 Vernon Street and see our wide selection of flooring materials and

our new vinyl and laminate choices.

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Contractors

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CGW is a certifi ed contractor for Ecosave Energy Retrofi ts Program

For more information on the program contact us.

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• 5” Continuous Gutters

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• Siding • Soffi t • Fascia

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Available in Nelson at: Nelson Home Building Centre101 McDonald Drive • Ph. (250) 352-1919 Hipperson Hardware395 Baker Street • Ph. (250) 352-5517

TWO-STOREY WITH CLASSIC CHARM Dormer windows and decorative woodwork lend the exterior of this two-

storey, four-bedroom family home an air of classic charm.The front entry is framed by painted pilasters set on stone bases and

sheltered by a porch with a gabled roof. A compact foyer leads into a double-height atrium tucked into the angle of the L-shaped stairway to the second fl oor. A storage closet and coat cupboard are included in this space.

To the left is a den, ideally placed to double as a home offi ce, while ahead is the great room, featuring a dramatic double-height ceiling, as well as a gas fi replace fl anked by an optional entertainment unit. Large windows look out to a large, partly covered terrace, accessible from the dining room, which is situated in a bayed-out space with windows on two sides.

The kitchen is open to both the dining room and great room, separated only by a raised eating bar that includes a double sink. The L-shaped counter confi guration ensures effi ciency, with a pantry for extra storage space.

Nearby is a two-piece powder room with a pocket door, as well as the laundry room, which includes a coat closet and access to the double garage.

The master suite includes french doors that lead out to the terrace, the perfect spot for a cuppa on a summer morning. The ensuite’s double sink, shower stall and soaker tub lend it an air of spa-like luxury, while the walk-in closet is roomy enough for a couple’s clothing and accessories.

Upstairs, a skylight illuminates a study area located on the landing. The second and third bedrooms look out to the back garden, and the second bedroom includes its own ensuite and walk-in closet. The fourth bedroom features an extra-wide window sill.

A split bathroom serves the third and fourth bathrooms, with a linen closet nearby. An unfi nished bonus room with a sloped ceiling is situated over the garage.

This home measures 40 feet wide and 59 feet, four inches deep, for a total of 2,290 square feet. Plans for design 7-4-991 are available for $746 (set of 5), $835 (set of 8) and $890 for a super set of 10. Also add $30.00 for Priority charges within B.C. or $55.00 outside of B.C. Please add 12% H.S.T., 13% H.S.T. Or 5% G.S.T (where applicable) to both the plan price and Priority charges.

Our 44TH Edition of the Home Plan Catalogue containing over 300 plans is available for $13.50 (includes taxes, postage and handling). Make all cheques and money orders payable to “Home Plan of the Week” and mail to:

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Community

Rotary Gives to Skatepark, Issues Challenge

Sam Van Schie photo

Jim Reimer of Nelson Daybreak Rotary (centre) presents a cheque for $10,000 to Claire de La Salle and Rob Levesque of the Kootenay Lake Outdoor Skate Park Society, to go towards installing a skatepark near the Nel-son Community Complex. KLOSPS is just $90,000 shy of their goal to raise the $600,000 for project. Reimer is challenging other service groups to match Rotary’s donation, so KLOSPS can break ground on the skatepark this year.

THIS IS YOUR COMMUNITY • THIS IS YOUR NEWSPAPERTh e Nelson Star is proud to be your community newspaper, but we need your help.

If you have an event, organization or accomplishment that the Nelson area needs to know about, here’s your chance. Simply email us a write up, photo or tidbit of information and we’ll print it.

No story is too small, no accomplishment ever unworthy. Write it like you would like to read it and the community will be better off for it. Email us at [email protected]

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Nelson Star Wednesday, June 27, 2012 nelsonstar.com 1BA Day in the Life of Nelson

2B nelsonstar.com Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Nelson StarA Day in the Life of Nelson

Over the course of a day in Nelson there are thousands of moments big and small. In a com-

munity as vibrant as ours, it’s not diffi cult to capture at least some of these moments for all to see.

On Wednesday, June 13 a team of four Nelson Star photographers hit the streets with the goal of documenting life in our town. Star reporter/photographers Megan Cole and Sam Van Schie were joined by editor Bob Hall and well-known local photographer Fred Rosenberg in this mission. In the pages the follow you will see the results of their hard work.

Hall started the day at 5:30 a.m. when the sun was rising and the community was getting ready for the rainy spring day ahead. Th ough the bustle of the day had yet to take hold, there was still plenty to see.

Van Schie handled the late morning and early aft ernoon shift where the downtown area comes alive and folks get down to busi-ness.

Cole was charged with wrapping up the day in the late aft ernoon and into the evening. She captured the town in its transition between getting work done and the vibrant nightlife beginning.

Th roughout the day, Rosenberg did what he does best — capture people in their essence. Still shoot-ing on fi lm in a digital age, the veteran photographer turns the average scene into art.

We had a great time blanketing the community with our lenses. We discovered that it’s true, there’s never a dull moment in our eclectic home. We hope you enjoy this peek into life on our streets as much as we enjoyed shooting it.

It’s never a typical day in Nelson

Mission Accomplished

LEFT — Even before school kids have eaten breakfast, the team of Kootenay Lake school district bus drivers prepare to get the students to school. Though he retired after 25 years as a bus driver, Larry Link (left) still pulls shifts when needed. On this day he was fi rst to arrive to the yard. After preparing coffee for the other drivers, Link did a thorough safety check of the bus he was going to pilot for the morning. Before hitting the road for the day, all drivers must ensure their rides are up to the task. The 11 Nelson-based buses service kids from Harrop/Procter to Viewridge. The fi rst student is picked up at 7:15 a.m.

RIGHT — Making the community look beautiful in the spring just doesn’t happen. Before starting his shift at the Prestige Lakeside Resort as a server at Ric’s Lounge and Grill, Jake Cobus made sure the hanging baskets around the prop-erty were equally ready for the day. Cobus is a new arrival to Canada, having left his native South Africa four months ago and arrived in the Kootenays shortly after that. Cobus said he is thrilled to be in his new hometown and is looking forward to the summer months ahead.

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LEFT — The fantastic smells pouring out of the back of Kootenay Bakery Cafe bring the morning air alive downtown. Dustin Eagleston’s (left) shift begins at 4 a.m. to ensure that all the fi ne treats and breads are ready for customers by opening. Now in her fourth year working at the coopera-tive bakery, Eagleston is seen here taking chocolate croissants out of the oven.

ABOVE — Jim Plamondon (right) shares a laugh with Wait’s News morning regulars Frank Bourgois, Dean Fair and Gord Brewer. The trio have coffee at the Baker Street cornerstone every morning. When asked how long they have been coming, Brewer answered: “I don’t know... forever. As long as there is coffee we’ll get up.”

ABOVE — Framer Lori Clyde gets the nail gun fi red up in Rosemont where she is part of the crew building an eight-plex. Clyde recently packed her toolbox and arrived in the Kootenays from Vancouver.

LEFT — Maryanne McClelland and pal Indy take a stroll along the waterfront pathway in front of the Chahko Mika Mall. Before tak-ing her goldendoodle for a walk, McClelland had already had her own workout at the gym. Her day began at 5:15 a.m.

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RIGHT — Train engineer Aaron Shrieves prepares the locomotive for the day’s Kootenay run. A nine-year veteran for CP Rail, the 33-year-old was busy with the morning crew making sure the brakes were working properly. The morning shift for this train’s crew will last ten hours.

RIGHT — 103.5 The Bridge music director and afternoon drive host Dustin Stashko pulls the morning shift. Stashko — who has been at The Bridge for a year now — started his day at 4:30 a.m. to prepare for the Morning Grind. The 25-year-old originally hails from Edmonton.

LEFT — St. Joseph’s Elementary crossing guard Heather Hardy helps ferry children and adults across the busy intersection at Ward and Mill streets. Hardy pulls the volunteer shift three times a week and enjoys the interactions with the kids and motorists who happily wave as they pass by.

BELOW — After looking for a job in Calgary, Peter, stands at the corner bus stop of Ward and Baker. Still upbeat after being shut out in Alberta, he was looking for a ride back to his home north of Kaslo.

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LEFT — Nelson crown counsel Philip Seagram dives into his day at his third fl oor City Hall offi ce. The veteran lawyer spends plenty of time amongst the mountains of fi les in his offi ce, which is the staging ground for the many hours he spends in court. From murder cases to shoplifting, the crown lawyers have to conduct a tricky juggling act each and every day on the job.

ABOVE — The Nelson Downtown Local Market is a big event on Wednesdays and those who operate booths are up early to prepare for the day. Brian and Heather unload their cube van full of starter vegetable plants. The couple operate a highway farm near Glade and sell their plants at a booth at the popular market during the summer months.

ABOVE — One of the most popular local stops on a Nelson morning is Oso Negro on Ward Street. Nikko and his daughter Tika head to the buzzing gathering place for a cup of java and a snack.

RIGHT — Morning, afternoon or night, the corner of Ward and Baker streets is one of the busiest intersections in the downtown — human and vehicle. Gathered in front of Wait’s News, Kleg (middle) describes the recent motorcycle ac-cident that broke his leg to a couple of his buddies.

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LEFT — It’s a distinctive Uphill smell — roasting coffee. The waft-ing originates at Oso Negro’s HQ on Latimer Street where they roast, package and distribute the beans that have put Nelson on the coffee map. Ned Woods (left) has been roasting beans at the local company for more than six years. Using an 80 year old coffee roaster that was designed and built in Germany and is completely manual (“I am the computer,” says Woods), the crew at Oso can do up to 25 batches a day. At temperatures between 200 and 220 Fahrenheit, each batch takes about 12 minutes to roast. In this batch Woods was taking the green beans from Ethiopia and preparing them for distribution. Oso Negro coffee is not only for locals, the company ships its renown beans to other communities in BC and Alberta.

ABOVE — Mechanic Colin DeRosa inspects brakes at Nelson Ford. One of a team of fi ve mechanics at the Railway Street dealership, DeRosa started working at Nelson Ford in high school and has been with the company for 18 years. He says he loves his job because it challenges and pushes him every day.

LEFT — Amongst the bustle of downtown, there’s always plenty of sound coming from the street thanks to a variety of buskers — regular and passing through. Bex — a music school student at Selkirk College — broke out her guitar at the corner of Ward and Victoria streets and sang original songs with a folksy and per-sonal feel.

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Letter carrier Pat Blomme gets set for his day inside the Gray Building. The local carriers usually start their day around 7:30 a.m. They will spend the fi rst couple of hours sorting their routes in preparation for their daily walk. Blomme, who has worked for Canada Post for 11 years, is responsible for the “Walk 5 Route” which includes the area around High Street, Chatham Street and View Street. Walking between 12 and 15 kilometres each day in one of the more dramatic areas of the community is a big change from his former territory in the fl ats of Calgary. “It’s cross training every day,” says Blomme, who is also a standout goaltender in the lo-cal Gentleman’s Hockey League.

LEFT — SPCA volunteer Cassie Leclair, 25, enjoys a moment with Saman-tha, one of the adult cats awaiting adoption at the Nelson branch. Leclair has been volunteering at the SPCA for four years.

ABOVE — Nelson Bylaw offi cer Fred Thompson puts a ticket under the windshield of a truck parked at an expired meter.

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RIGHT — Catherine McGrath begins a live recording of her eclectic music show, Mad for Trad, in the Kootenay Co-Op Radio studio. Her show is broadcast weekly on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and Mondays at 5:30 p.m.

LEFT — Mark Weigeldt, bike mechanic at Gericks in Nelson, fi xes a broken fork on a mountain bike.

RIGHT — Mat DeVito repairs shoes in the base-ment of Vince DeVito Specialty Footwear. Here he’s sawing the soul off a shoe in preparation to rebuild it with a thicker base. This is something he does for people who need one shoe taller than the other to compensate for one leg being shorter than the other, such as after a hip replacement.

LEFT — On their way to the downtown market, Nicole and Hugo (left) met up with Lisa and Evan (right) with plans to go explore all the booths and vendors displaying their goods on the day.

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ABOVE — Norah Thiessen, 2, gets a lift off the slide at the Lakeside Park playground from her mother Sydney.

RIGHT — Kyla Jakouickas ar-ranges potted orchids at Bella Flora in Herridge Lane.

LEFT — Patrick Blanch practices his tennis game at the Lakeside Park outdoor court.

BELOW — June Crichton, volunteer in the Hospital Auxiliary Gift Shop in the lobby of the Kootenay Lake Hospital, organizes the shelves of donated used books.

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LEFT — Vadim Kristopher checks his progress on a haircut for Tarynn Lloyd.

ABOVE — Andrew Duff gets some love from the dogs he takes care of at All Play Pet Care & Adventures.

LEFT — Crystal Shepherd sews up holes in a pair of kids jeans in her studio at Crystal’s Custom Sewing & Repair.

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LEFT — The Fisherman’s Market offers up delicious seafood to local’s like this young fi sh lover who was snacking on a little candied smoked salmon while his parents picked up dinner for the evening’s meal.

ABOVE — Young skateboarders took to the indoor skateboard park at the Nelson and District Youth Centre after school. The Youth Centre is a destination for skaters who have few places to practice their skills around town.

Above — While busy shoppers stopped at the Kootenay Co-op on their way home from work, employees made sure the shelves were stocked with everything they needed for dinners, lunches and snacks. This Co-op employee stacked fresh lettuce while the after work chaos moved around him.

ABOVE — “Where’s my library card? I know I saw it in her some-where.” Nelson book lovers make stops to return books and swap for new ones while the librarians move in the background making sure books make it back to their homes in the stacks ready for eager readers.

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LEFT — Jazmyn Nord, 9, and Phoebe Lazier, 11, (behind) paint clay busts they made in their artist of the month class on Italian sculptor Michelangelo at 4 Cats Studio on Victoria Street.

RIGHT — A late afternoon coffee break at Oso Negro provided Adam some time to work on his computer during a slow time at the popular refuelling destination.

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LEFT — As customers fi nished the fi nal sips of their coffees, the staff at John Ward Fine Coffee started the end of the day clean-up wiping down display cases and tables, and vaccuming the espresso machine.

While ball players played at the Queen Elizabeth Park diamond in Fariview, a few of the Nelson Cal Ripken squad took a break to pet a friendly dog.

ABOVE — Nelson’s Dairy Queen is a destination for locals and tourists through-out the summer months. Staff create sweet treats for crowds who wait in the hot sun for something to provide a little relief from the heat.

RIGHT — During one of the quietest periods in the downtown, Kaya took the opportunity to get some reading done on Ward Street.

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ABOVE — Having to get his truck to the repair shop the next morning, Marc gets a closer look at what he can do to get in shape to drive down from his Mill Street residence.

ABOVE — Taking a pause from the action inside the Royal Canadian Legion, Brian enjoys a smoke break on quiet evening in the downtown.

ABOVE — The tables were full inside The All Seasons Cafe as hungry diners sat down for a late dinner. Behind the scenes chefs worked hard in the hot kitchen to plate up pastas, salads, desserts and more.

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LEFT — Local musicans take the stage at The Royal on Wednesday nights to share new songs and covers of old songs. In the crowd other musicians and music lovers gather to hear the night’s offerings.

ABOVE — Travellers from Kamloops, this trio hung out on Ward Street soaking in some of the early evening action in the downtown.

ABOVE — It was Wednesday night darts at the Royal Canadian Legion where Tom and Rich engaged in a game.

LEFT — Pool players are a fi xture every night of the week at Mike’s Place. Even though this pool player and his friend felt they hadn’t been playing a good game, they enjoyed laughs and some cold beer as the sun went down around Nelson.

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ABOVE — While dancers and partygoers arrived at Spiritbar on Wednesday night, DJ Sweet Pickle got the early arrivals moving with his mixes of old songs and new beats.

ABOVE — Before the bars became lined with thirsty customers, Spiritbar bartenders prepared for the chaos by fi lling bottles, cleaning glasses and stocking shelves.

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the photographersMegan Cole Sam Van Schie Fred Rosenberg Bob Hall

Megan Cole photo Megan Cole photo

Megan Cole is a reporter at the Nelson Star and the editor of {vurb}. Cole received recognition for her photography earlier this year with a bronze at the Ma Murray Awards and a silver at the Canadian Community Newspa-per Awards. While she spends her time focused on words, Cole loves that photos can bring a reader into a diff erent aspect of a story.

Sam Van Schie is a reporter and photogra-pher for the Nelson Star and a regular con-tributer to {vurb}. She enjoys taking photos to illustrate her stories and at the community events she covers on a daily basis. Van Schie loves noticing her photos and stories clipped from newspapers and pinned to bulletin boards in local businesses and schools.

Fred Rosenberg has been documenting ev-ery move in the Nelson area for decades. Th e veteran photographer’s approach is to study a scene and capture the essence of the individual without them know-ing. His work has been shown in many venues in the area over the years, including Touch-stones Nelson. All of his photos in this section were captured on fi lm.

Bob Hall is the editor of the Nelson Star and has been turning his camera on Nelson area people and events since 1994. He has been on the frontlines of for-estry battles in the forest and captured count-less sporting moments over the years. Helping document the history of our community and its people through photos is his favourite part of the job.

Celebrating the Beauty of our COMMUN I TY

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Nelson Star, June 27, 2012