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Vol. 6 • Issue 28Free Friday, October 4 • 2013

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Health Care

If you have a medical emergency in the Kootenays, it’s best to be in Creston, judging by statistics from the BC Ambulance Service.

In 2012, Creston’s average response time to Code 3 calls — requiring lights and sirens — was nine minutes and 20 seconds, bet-ter than Cranbrook (10:01), Nelson (11:06), Castlegar (10:42), Trail (11:16), or Grand Forks (12:30).

However, all were slower than the nine-minute standard suggested by the US Com-mission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services, a benchmark reached by only ten communities in the province last year.

Creston also posted the fastest times in the region in 2010 and 2011. � e slowest response times in West Kootenay/Boundary last year were in Christina Lake (27:05), Rock Creek (26:27), and Kaslo (24:05). � e former two don’t have ambulance stations, but the latter does.

� e � gures, obtained through a freedom of information request by former air ambulance pilot Hans Dysarsz (see related story, page 5), surprised rural Creston regional district director Larry Binks, a retired BC Ambulance administrator.

“Under ten minutes is good,” he said. “It comes down to sta� ng: if a station isn’t sta� ed properly, response time is going to be poor. We

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Kaslo approves cheetah proposal

Kaslo village council has given the go ahead to a couple wanting to bring cheetahs to the community — but the cheetahs may not come.

Earl Pfeifer and Carol Plato own two of the endangered species that now live with them at their home near Toronto. In late June, they ap-proached the community of Kaslo about bringing Robin and Annie

with them to live at Kane Manor, their second home, in a conservation e� fort with the bene� t of tourism.

Mayor Greg Lay said council has granted approval in principle to the cheetah proposal subject to the proper certi� cation and com-munity support.

“� ese people love their animals and Mr. Pfeifer is a well-respected community citizen — he’s no � y-by-nighter — so that’s why council supported it in principle,” Lay said.

Needing the village’s endorse-

ment to gain the necessary permits to proceed, the endeavour intended to o� er educational and outreach programs from their home which would be transformed to safely house the South African cats.

Since council’s approval was granted at their September 24 meet-ing, it was learned that Pfei� er and Plato are instead moving their proj-ect to Innisfail, Alberta.

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Locals enjoy Emmy experienceAward Nominees

When the golden statues were handed out this week, lo-cal talents Robert Neufeld and Adham Shaikh didn’t get their Emmy Awards. But they’re still glowing about the experience.

The duo was up for Out-standing Music and Sound for their work on the National Geographic project Untamed Americas, a four-part series.

Shaikh said he was a “wee-bit sad” about not winning the prestigious award but relished in the adventure that the Em-mys provided.

“There’s always that moment of deflation,” he said, “but to even be included in this slice of reality has been a trip. It’s been an amazing journey since the first demo cue I wrote to try and get on the project.”

Shaikh made his first trip to New York City with the help of Kootenay folks wanting to see the independent local artists

benefit from schmoozing in the Big Apple — in turn benefitting the Nelson area.

“I have enjoyed myself. Met lots of interesting people,” Shai-kh told the Star. He expressed gratitude for the generosity that got him there.

BC filmmakers Velcrow Rip-per, who Shaikh worked with on Fierce Light, and Nova Ami toured the Slocan Valley-based composer, producer and DJ around the city. He also went to see his “good buddy” Nico-demus NYC do a private show

with Kruder of Kruder and Dormeister fame.

Neufeld was previously nom-inated for an Emmy in 2008 in the same category recognizing a project on the Titanic for the History Channel.

This year, HBO’s In Tahrir Square won the Emmy for Out-standing Music and Sound.

“The film that won was a more journalistic piece which was lighter on music but had some great location sound from Tahrir Square,” Neufeld described.

He and Shaikh spoke highly of their collaboration for the National Geographic project, though it proved trying at times.

Of Emmy night Neufeld said, “We had a fun evening. It was an honour to be nominated.”

Shaikh said of his and Neufeld’s trip to the Emmys, “really we are just getting warmed up.”

Of returning home to the Kootenays, he said, “Now back to chopping wood and carrying water.”

Local musical talents Adham Shaikh (left) and Robert Neufeld (right) are all smiles at the Emmy Awards ceremony held this week in New York City.


Last month was the wettest September in West Kootenay since 2004 and the third wet-test since local record keeping began in 1966.

According a monthly round-up from Southeast Fire Centre weather specialist Ron Lake-man, the Castlegar airport was deluged with 91.4 millimetres of rain last month and the 21.4 millimetres that fell when a “vigorous frontal system” passed

through on the 28th set a new record for that date.

But the month didn’t start off so damp.

“Other than a system that produced a few showers, thun-dershowers and relatively cool temperatures during the 6th and 7th, summer continued through the initial half of September with high pressure providing many sunny and very warm days,” Lakeman wrote.

The warmest temperature of the month was 32.3 degrees on the afternoon of the 2nd. Re-cords for warmest average tem-

peratures were set on the 13th and 14th.

But the second half of the month was far more typical of autumn as numerous Pacific disturbances produced frequent rain and much cooler tempera-tures, Lakeman said. More than 80 per cent of September’s total rain fell during the final 15 days and only three days were dry.

The all-time high of 123 mil-limetres of rain was set in 1997 while the record low of 1.6 mil-limeters occurred in 1990.

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A storm on September 20 contrib-uted to the month’s rainfall total.

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Zoning proposal unveiledCity Hall

A complete overhaul of Nelson’s land use and zoning bylaw is ready for public review.

City planners have spent more than a decade revising the origi-nal 1987 bylaw, which regulates municipal development issues like land use, density, building size and o� -street parking. It lays out the areas of town where commercial and mixed-use development can take place, how tall buildings can be in a neighbourhood, and how close to the property line houses can be built.

“� is is not a small change,” Nelson’s development services manager David Wahn stressed at a council meeting this past Mon-day. “It is signi� cant and applies to each and every property to some extent.”

Council decided to begin pub-lic consultation on the proposed bylaw. A public meeting is slated for Tuesday, October 22 at City

Hall (310 Ward Street, second � oor) from 6 to 9 p.m. Dra� s of the bylaw have also been posted on the city website, and hard copies are available at City Hall and the Nelson Public Library.

Many of the changes to the bylaw are intended to reduce the number of property variance per-mits that come before council. � e land setback requirements are re-duced and lot coverage allowance increased on all residential prop-erties, with added considerations given to narrow lots to encourage in� ll development.

“We’ve tried to set things at a level that variances won’t be re-quired and sta� won’t be recom-mending them, unless there’s an exceptional case,” city manager Kevin Cormack said.

To further encourage building density on existing lots, laneway houses will be permitted in most residential areas and all new con-struction in the downtown resi-dential zone (between Silica and Latimer streets in Uphill) must be

multi-family, either a multiplex or secondary suite-ready.

� e number of di� erent zoning categories have been signi� cantly reduced under the new bylaw and there are also far fewer site-speci� c zones.

Other changes include a re-striction on portable garages and other temporary shelters to only be allowed between the months of November to March, and o� -street parking and loading requirements for businesses. � ere’s new fencing rule, lighting provisions and home business regulations.

None of these proposed chang-es would impact existing dwellings — non-conforming properties in the new zoning areas would be grandfathered in. But if you want-ed to build an extension on your home or develop on a vacant lot, the new rules would apply.

A copy of the dra� bylaw is available on the city website, nel-son.ca, along with a zoning map and summary sheets on the chang-es being proposed for each zone.

SAM VAN SCHIENelson Star Reporter

A proposed amendment to Nelson’s zoning bylaw would require all new construction of single detached homes in the downtown residential zone be secondary suite ready. The public meeting on the bylaw changes, which will impact every property in Nelson, is slated for October 22. Sam Van Schie photo

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Calls Avg Avg AvgCommunity 2012 2012 2011 2010

Balfour 39 25:18 30:05 26:14Castlegar 466 10:42 11:35 11:44 Christina Lake 87 27:05 30:03 22:04Cranbrook 1,049 10:01 9:32 10:06Creston 313 9:20 9:17 10:10Erickson 64 14:20 13:31 n/aFruitvale 157 19:31 19:43 20:46Genelle 37 17:38 n/a n/aGrand Forks 331 12:30 12:49 11:56Greenwood 44 22:39 n/a n/aInvermere 149 10:26 10:09 16:08Kaslo 39 24:05 17:09 n/aKimberley 418 12:01 10:36 11:20Midway 51 18:46 14:12 n/a Nakusp 75 18:21 15:51 22:21Nelson 567 11:06 10:46 10:12Ootischenia 40 11:54 n/a n/aRock Creek 40 26:27 n/a 22:41Robson n/a n/a 18:58 n/aRossland 134 22:24 22:40 23:08Salmo 133 23:23 21:25 20:40Sparwood 159 20:15 20:23 17:21Trail 552 11:16 11:01 11:09Warfield 56 13:52 13:11 13:05

Slowest in 2012: Rogers Pass, 51:41 Fastest in 2012: Victoria, 7:32

No data: New Denver, Silverton, Slocan, Montrose, Winlaw

Continued from Page 1recognize we live in rural areas and won’t get the same response times [as in urban centres] but certainly deserve better than what is happening in some cases.”

Creston achieved its response times de-spite only having one full-time paramedic and 13 part-timers. By comparison, Nelson has seven full-timers and 33 part-timers, Trail four full-timers and 27 part-timers, Castlegar one full-timer and 27 part-timers, and Grand Forks one full-timer and 14 part-timers. (Part time employees submit their availability and shifts are staffed accordingly.)

Binks, who worked for the ambulance ser-vice from 1974-2006, and Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff have been advocating for improvements. Response times could be faster if all stations were manned full-time, Binks said, but attendants have to be adequately compensated, rather than receive a standby pittance.

Chernoff, who retired in 2006 after 29 years as a paramedic, suggested the service isn’t as good as it used to be, and one reason is training.

“That’s been identified as a key issue. In the past BC Ambulance trained you. Now

Average Code 3 Response Times Communities with at least one “pre-hospital” event per week

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Continued from Page 4and work in a small-volume station, you’re never going to get that money back.”

Chernoff and Binks met with BC Ambu-lance management last month at the Union of BC Municipalities conference, although Chernoff said previous talks were “frustrating ... It’s moving too slow for us. We’ve met with probably everybody in BC Ambulance.”

BC Ambulance spokeswoman Kelsie Car-withen said response times aren’t determined solely by staffing — other factors include weather, terrain, roads, traffic, and geogra-phy. Reponses in rural and remote areas are generally longer due to the distances involved, she said.

Sixteen ambulances respond to calls in the West Kootenay, including stations in Nelson, Castlegar, Trail, Kaslo, Fruitvale, New Denver, Riondel, Rossland, Salmo, and Winlaw. They aren’t restricted to emergencies in their im-mediate area, so a Nelson-based ambulance might handle calls from Castlegar and Salmo.

Carwithen said the ambulance service con-stantly monitors call volumes and is committed to improving all response times, especially for the most urgent calls where speedy arrivals can affect patient outcomes.

“Despite increased call volume, overall re-sponse times for urgent events in the West Koo-tenay have remained consistent since 2011/12,” she said. “Response times are extremely impor-tant, but the care and treatment paramedics provide when they arrive is equally important.”

Carwithen also said the nine-minute stan-dard is only a target that applies to urgent calls in metropolitan and urban areas — but one they do try to achieve.

“Response time figures are not based on the time it takes to have a trained emergency medical responder reach a patient; they only reflect the response time of paramedics,” she said. “First responders can arrival on scene before paramedics and begin providing care.”

Carwithen said the ambulance service is looking at ways of doing business differently and has already made several improvements including implementing an automated vehicle location system that lets dispatchers see where ambulances are in relation to the incident, and adopting computer-aided systems to maximize efficiency and better relay information to crews.

Critic promotes European approach

Don’t tell Hans Dysarsz that BC has a first-class ambulance system.

The former air am-bulance pilot and out-spoken critic of the BC Ambulance Service says this province and much of Canada lags behind European nations in pre-hospital care.

“A true first-class sys-tem uses doctors in pre-hospital response. If you’re downtown Nelson and there’s a car crash with a doctor’s office around the corner [in Europe] those doctors would be paged at the same time as the ambulance. We don’t do that here.”

Further diminishing BC’s status, he says, is a lack of advanced life sup-port paramedics. While Trail and Castlegar have such a crew, there isn’t one in Nelson.

“There is a mispercep-tion by politicians that pre-hospital care is too ex-pensive and we can’t afford it,” Dysarsz says. “That is patently false. There is no medical reason for it and no financial reason for it. It’s cheaper to provide care sooner.”

He points to Switzer-land and Germany as nations that long ago em-braced different models which reduced mortality rates and saved money.

Dysarsz, who helped create Alberta’s STARS air ambulance service, advo-cates for what he calls “the five cent solution” — a nickel per day per year from each BC citizen to raise up to $84 million for a European-style system with more paramedics, advanced life-support paramedics, and helicop-ters in key locations. That money could come at least partly through finding ef-ficiencies within the exist-ing system, he said.

Dysarsz further sug-gests the ambulance ser-vice be broken into regions attached to individual health authorities and that municipalities who want to fund additional layers of care be allowed to do so. He says paramedics would fare better under such a system in terms of pay and hours.

However, it will take a lot of people contacting their MLAs to make any of it happen, he added.

“We have an outdated system that’s deeply and highly dysfunctional. So many barriers are in place that have nothing to do with providing best med-ical care or best patient outcomes. That should be the absolute focus of all first-class ambulance systems.”

— Greg Nesteroff

Nelson’s average ambulance response time in 2012 was slower than Creston or Castlegar, but quicker than Trail.

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Common name: Maries’s Double� le ViburnumBotanical Names: Viburnum plicatum tomentosum ‘Mariesii’

Taking a walk around lower Fairview in Nelson with Imelda last week, we truly enjoyed the many plants and shrubs showing o� their fall colours. One such shrub we noticed was a nice example of Viburnum ‘Mariesii’ and if you have a bit of room, this viburnum is absolutly one of the best multi-season shrubs you can grow!

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During the late summer and early fall the berries turn black and make an excellent food source for many birds. � is easy to grow viburnum loves full sun or even part shade, and prefers moist loamy soil, but will adapt to a wide range of soil conditions that we � nd here in the Kootenays.

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I am writing in the context of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. I do not represent a special-interest lobby group trying to increase constituents’ bottom line.

The essentially absolute con-sensus about climate change is remarkable given that science is about uncertainty. It is under-standable that we have difficulty considering the changes neces-sary to mitigate what we have unleashed, given that we easily instinctively attribute the climate extremes we are already expe-riencing as one-off events; we have experienced these kind of individual events before and need science and analysis to actually interpret that the pattern is already clearly different. We also do not instinctively understand positive feedback loops and exponential functions.

For our species, which has been so diverse in its cultural/technological evolution, in the vast majority of times there would have been natural selective advantage to expect the world to go on just as we have experienced it growing up and to continue in whatever cul-tural matrix was adapted enough to allow us to have survived to adulthood.

Unfortunately, at this time, sci-ence, whose real achievement and role it is to filter out our uncon-scious biases, tells us that we are headed for a cliff. Please make the climate change story front page.

Andre C. Piver MDDirector, Transition Nelson

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I would like to draw your read-ers’ attention to the serious issue of climate change.

Climate science informs us that we must keep our global tempera-ture rise below 2ºC (3.6ºF) and consider the safe level of CO2 to be not more than 350 parts per million (ppm). We are in a crisis because CO2 levels are nearing 400 ppm and are rising rapidly.

Not only is the planet under-going one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, climate scientists report that it’s on pace to occur at a rate 10 times faster than any change in

that period. Without intervention, this extreme pace could lead to a five to six degree Celsius spike in annual temperatures by the end of the century.

It is therefore in the public interest, in the national interest, in the interest of civilization, to protect our climate.

Our federal government, rather than protecting our climate and future by meeting the greenhouse gas reduction targets as outlined in the Kyoto accord, has forsaken its Kyoto commitments. Fur-thermore, in March of this year, Canada eliminated the National Round Table on the Environment and Economy.

Debate over a Canadian energy strategy and the future of pipelines has obscured real progress on an effective climate policy. Canada must put a price on carbon in order to effectively, rapidly reduce our emissions. Canada must develop and implement a real plan to emphasize conservation and renewable energy. Canada must eliminate subsidies of over $1 billion each year (about $40 for each Canadian) to coal, oil, and gas companies. In 2009, Canada agreed to eliminate these subsi-dies. We have not done this. We give our public money to hugely profitable industries which further accelerates the damage to our climate. This shows a reckless disregard for the climate crisis. We should not promote destruction of the climate with public funds.

I would ask readers to contact

government representatives and demand urgent action on these three goals: end fossil fuel subsi-dies, put a price on carbon, and support the development of a renewable energy plan for Canada.

It has been said there is enough renewable energy from wind, water and sun to convert the planet to 100 per cent renewable energy in 20 years. All we need is the political courage and will. Let’s start now. For further information, go to climatefast.ca

Sandra HartlineNelson

Story was unfairRe: “Nelson teacher disciplined,”

September 27Greg Nesteroff ’s article on local

L.V. Rogers math teacher Paul Belanger, covering the disciplin-ary decision to suspend him for professional misconduct, was inappropriate and unsuitable for a local paper.

The piece was negative and invasive casting aside all respect for Belanger, especially when he wasn’t allowed to comment or have any say in what was pub-lished.

As an L.V. Rogers graduate I can honestly say Mr. Belanger was the best math teacher I encoun-tered throughout my high school experience. Belanger puts his students and studies first, placing a high standard on learning.

I would recommend him to any student, vouching that he has great

teaching methods and is always putting in the extra mile to stay in at lunch or after school if help is wanted. As Jeff Jones said, the disciplinary decision shouldn’t cast a dark light on the district or Belanger and neither should the Star. The distasteful article caused unfair and unnecessary public judgment. I believe it was an in-sensitive and poor decision to call a teacher out for his imperfections.

Sydney ZondervanNelson

I am a Grade 10 student at LVR and am currently taking math with Paul Belanger. My experience is that Mr. Belanger is a dedicated teacher who is passionate about math and sharing his knowledge with his students. I believe that I am going to learn a lot from him this year and this will help prepare me for my future. I wanted to let people know that I feel he is a good teacher.

Micah MayBonnington

There is no doubt that the qual-ity of education for our youth is a topic undergoing constant change, improvement, and scrutiny. Such is the way of progress in all of life’s valued amenities. The recent article regarding a local high school teacher exposed some of the so-called boundaries of our education system being crossed. But was this exposure for the right reasons? It is no doubt that certain behaviors are not acceptable in the classroom, for students and teach-ers alike. However, the article on this matter closed the curtains to a very a compassionate person and a brilliant educator.

If examined under a micro-scope, a vast majority of educa-tors, employees, and volunteer staff in any situation would be reprimanded for one reason or another. People make mistakes, and people grow. This particular article, though the research was concrete, set a very close-minded and slandering tone. Our beautiful community of Nelson is globally known for its welcoming energy, and exposing a person in this unflattering light is not the way we do things.

Educators shape lives and it comes as no surprise when some of their practices are seen as abnormal, but do we really want to stamp out groups of cookie cutter children into the world? A lot of brilliant and inspiring lessons took place in that third floor classroom. I know I’m certainly not the only student to leave L.V. Rogers with gratitude toward all my instruc-tors, and a glistening bright future.

Alexander the Great said it best: “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

Emelia McMahonNelson

Student documentary gives hope

On September 18 approxi-mately 180 people gathered for the premiere showing of a 37-minute documentary film made by local L.V. Rogers students, with mentor-ship by local film maker Amy Bohigian. The film, North-South: a Documentary, shares the experi-ences and insights gained by our local youth as they participated in an exchange with aboriginal youth from Fort McPherson, NWT. Nel-son hosted the northern students last February and our students travelled north in April. Following the screening, one adult com-mented, “It gives you hope to see what these kids have learned and accomplished.” The documentary can be viewed online at youtube/AXuqog8s2x8.

Cathy Scott-MayBonnington

Legal cannabis wouldn’t result in more users

Re: “Legalization is much too costly,” September 20

This letter writer seems to assume that when cannabis is re-legalized there will be more users. This is not supported by the facts in the Netherlands where its use is permitted and they have lower use rates in all age groups. This really appears to be a rant to make alco-hol illegal again. We are not going to fall for that BS again.

Dave LaneSanta Cruz, CA

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I’ve had the pleasure of rep-resenting members of the Kootenay Co-op as a board director since 2006. � ose

were the early days when the conversation of needing a larger location began. With a growing membership, increasing number of sta� , and a sales growth far surpassing most North Ameri-can grocery stores, we desper-ately needed to relocate.

Here we are today, seven years later and another two years to go until this vision will � nally be realized in the form of a new and larger co-op.

Why such a long process?With most supermarkets,

when growth is necessary, wheels are set in motion at a breakneck pace. Stores are closed, renovated, moved, expanded, rebranded, sold to another chain, you name it. Change moves quickly in the world of chain supermarkets. Because we’re a co-operative, owned by the people of this community, and because we’re a business with strong social, community, economic and eco-logical values, our process was instead remarkably slow — an almost 10-year process!

� is snail-like pace was the result of a number of consid-erations — � rst and foremost, � nding a location. As we looked at options throughout the city, it became abundantly clear that the co-op belongs in our beloved downtown. � is greatly narrowed our options and added years to the redevelop-ment process. � ere simply was no downtown site that would accommodate a single-level grocery store and enable our over 11,000 members to � nally own our own building. When the opportunity to purchase the former Extra Foods presented itself, it was clear that this was the only viable option in the downtown core and the site was purchased immediately. It was up to the board to � gure out how to best use that site.

� e board engaged in a thorough process of assessing our development options: 1. Refurbish the existing building; 2. Build a new stand-alone store; or 3. Be part of a multi-use development.

It was clear that option three was the obvious choice, and since then, we’ve received incredible support from our membership and community. � ank you. Of course, there are also many concerns that have been expressed as a result of our decision and I’d like to respond to the most common.

Why condos? Why not just build a store?

Standing on the old Extra Foods location, we all have the opportunity to look back in time at an approach to urban plan-ning and grocery store design that I believe simply doesn’t work. Large boxes surrounded by parking lots have de-commu-nitied cities across North Amer-ica. From an economic, cultural and ecological point of view, this approach is a poor use of space, especially in a downtown core of a city where available land is limited and valuable. From a � nancial perspective, it was also clear that if there was su� cient demand for owning residences in the downtown, then build-ing condos on top of the store would be the most � nancially sound approach for our 11,000 members and could signi� -cantly reduce the debt (and risk) that we would have otherwise incurred renovating or build-ing a stand-alone store. With 45 of the 54 units now spoken for, that decision is proving to be one of the best decisions we could have made for the bene� t of our members. � e Co-op also saw it as an opportunity to keep development within the control of our community and not in the hands of developers from outside the region.

What are the green building considerations?

I propose that the Nelson Commons development is the most ecologically sound devel-opment in Nelson’s downtown history. Why? We are building 54 residences on a very small footprint. In comparison to other residential areas in the city, that same footprint would be room for only 10 Uphill homes or � ve Fairview homes. � ese 54 residences will also be using existing infrastructure and not require any new land to build. With 54 families living downtown, that will also mean less tra� c in the city as most needs and wants can be satis� ed by downtown businesses. I can also assure the community that every option for using materials

and technologies with the least short-term and long-term im-pacts have been considered and many great low-impact choices have been made. � at aside, the co-op itself has always strived to supply products with the least ecological impact. We all eat food every day and it’s through these choices that I believe our individual footprints carry the largest impact. In the end, this project will be an exemplary model for conscientious devel-opment and mindful living in Nelson. For more on greening the Commons, go to nelsoncommons.ca.

Why is there no non-market housing?

� e desire for housing that is accessible to a wider segment of the population was a desire shared by the board from the beginning of the redevelopment process. I can assure the com-munity that the board pushed ourselves to the very limit of possibilities, but, in the end, it was unfortunately clear that the need for more a� ordable housing in Nelson is beyond the capacity of the Kootenay Co-op — especially in the downtown core where the price of land is high. For 38 years, our co-op has expended tremendous energy to work outside of the food system box and supply this community with the healthiest and most responsibly produced food we can � nd. At the same time, we’ve supported more local food pro-ducers than probably any other grocery store in the country. While the co-op has also sup-ported the non-food community in many ways, we are � rst and foremost a food store, and our decision to construct residences was to make absolutely sure we can continue to provide the community with good food at the most a� ordable prices while continuing to ensure our farmers and suppliers are fairly compensated.

For the past eight years, my work outside of the co-op as a food journalist has involved observing the evolution of food systems throughout North America. When I put my bias aside (as best I think I can), I can say quite comfortably that I think this project is hands-down one of the most innovative local food system initiatives in the country. In less than two years, Nelson Commons, in its entire-ty, will become a living symbol of how much this community cares for our farmers, the earth, and each other.

Jon Steinman is a director on the board of the Kootenay Coun-try Store Co-operative.

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SLUGS: To the person who felt it necessary to take my six-year-old daughter’s gym bag from the rec centre. It had her skirt, shirt, towel, shampoo and birthday goody bag inside. I guess you felt it more important for you to have it than her. You broke her heart, making her a victim of a theft. If it was a mis-take, please bring it back. If it wasn’t, shame on you.

SLUGS: To a local health food store that condones selling product that has broken seals. Whether or not you feel the seal breaks when the cap is removed is secondary to the fact that any bottle of any medi-cine/supplement that I have ever bought speci� cally states “Do not use if seal is broken.” No seal should come off so easily. This is not a safe practice! The af-ter fact that you would neither exchange my item nor refund my money lost you a customer. Your supplier needs to make their product safer for the consumer...– Going somewhere else!

HUGS: Thanks to everyone in the community who sponsored my Paws for a Cause Walk. Special thanks to one woman for her generous sponsorship and support. Looking forward to knocking on your doors next year!

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Helping men in transitionPilot Program

A unique group aiming to help men reclaim their lives after suffering through an impactful event is coming to Nelson.

Transitions for Men is a pilot program offering support to members of the sometimes forgotten gen-der who’ve been impacted by a trauma that’s limited their ability to live and work in their community.

“It’s time for men to support each other,” said coordinator Roger Luscombe. “There aren’t particular programs focused around supporting men so when a man has trouble he scrambles, ‘where do I go.’ … There aren’t as many places for men to land.”

Historically, women have faced more oppression and have worked hard and supported each other as they moved toward equalization, said Luscombe who works at the Nelson Community Services Cen-tre.

“They really organized over the years and have had a good sister-hood… It was mainly their grass-roots effort to make it work for themselves.

“Men haven’t really organized themselves that way and don’t nec-essarily socially connect that way either. We tend to be more stoic and ‘we can deal with it and put up with it.’”

When one suffers a traumatic event it can have varying degrees of impact. Sometimes a person retreats inward. Sometimes they turn to drugs and alcohol.

“It translates differently for ev-ery person. Everyone who expe-riences trauma has trouble with their lives and employment but for some people it impacts them more so,” Luscomb said.

For men, their self-identity is of-ten tied up with their employment and many see their contribution to society as being the provider.

While the group will set its own goals and workshop topics based on the needs of participants, some potential subjects are: role of culture, substance abuse im-pacts, understanding boundaries and exploring physical, spiritual, relational and financial impacts.

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men and then draw upon those for the group that’s there,” Luscombe said.

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life experiences and contributing too.

They will ex-plore employment readiness includ-ing strength assess-ments, interview and resume effec-tiveness and the

hidden job market, for example.

“It’s a group support model. Not so much we’re going to give you a bunch of techniques and educate you and you’ll be better,” he said. “This really is men supporting men. That’s a real awesome thing.”

Should this pilot program prove successful, there are plans to offer it throughout the West Kootenay.

The program is free and runs for six weeks with four-hours ses-sions for four days per week, 9 to 1 p.m. starting October 15. It ends November 21. Luscomb is pleased to report that the program’s first session is full with a wait list start-ed for future considerations.

The Transitions for Men pro-gram is a project of Nelson Com-munity Services Centre and Koo-tenay Career Development Society with funding from federal and provincial governments.

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Kelowna author Corinna Chong will be reading from her debut novel Belinda’s Rings at Oxygen Art Centre on Friday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m. The reading, part of Oxygen’s Pre-sentation Series, is free ($5 donation appreciated) and open to the public.

Kootenay Quilters’ Guild “Quilt-ed Treasures” show is at the Prestige Lakeside Resort, Friday, October 4 from noon to 8 p.m. and Saturday, October 5 from 9 to 4 p.m. The raffle draw is at 4 p.m.

Nelson area residents can bring household hazardous waste to Nel-son Leafs Bottle Depot on Saturday, October 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Accepted items include poisonous, flammable and corrosive items, as well as lights (bulbs and tubes) and alarms (smoke and carbon monox-ide). For a complete list of accepted items, see rdck.bc.ca or call 1-800-268-7325.

The Capitol Theatre is holding its Annual General Meeting on Octo-ber 9, from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre (421 Victoria Street). Mem-berships available at the Box Office.

Redfish Elementary and Missoula Children’s Theatre are proud to present a musical adaptation of The Secret Garden, performed by the students of Redfish on Friday, October 11 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, October 12 at 1 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door.

World Food Day is Wednesday, October 16. The Nelson Food Cup-board (602 Silica Street) is hosting a “Food Security Fair” from 4 to 7 p.m. to celebrate.

Seniors Economic Environment Development Society (SEEDS) will have its first annual general meet-ing on Thursday, October 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Kalein Hospice Centre (402 West Richards Street). For info contact [email protected].

On October 18 and 19, Touch-stones Nelson will be hosting an art and antiques appraisal clinic with Peter Blundell, a long time former Ontario Antiques Dealer. The cost is $35 for Touchstones members or $45 general public, which includes an appointment of 15 minutes for up to three items. Sign up at Touch-stones.

Authors and social historians Patricia and Bob Malcolmson offer a glimpse into the role of personal journals in our understanding of history in a special presentation on Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nelson Public Library.

The AGM for the Nelson and District Hospice Society has been postponed to Tuesday, October 22 at 7 p.m. at the Kalein Hospice Centre (402 West Richards Street).

Columbia Basin residents are in-vited to participate in the Columbia Basin Craft Symposium to be held October 25 to 27 in Nelson. This event will focus on the professional development of contemporary craft artists with a variety of workshops, discussions and presentations by some of the most influential artists in the field of craft today. For more information visit.columbiabasin-craftsymposium.com or contact the West Kootenay Regional Arts Council at 250-352-2421.

The Nelson Nordic Ski Club hosts its preseason membership drive from Thursday, October 31 to Sunday at Chakho Mika Mall. On Saturday, November 2 they host their AGM and ski swap at the Rod and Gun Club. AGM goes at 9 a.m. with doors opening on ski swap at 10 a.m. For more upcoming events and dates, and membership and kids program forms, see the website nelsonnordicski.ca.

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Wednesday at 3 p.m. to explore your iPad and learn new tips and tricks. All levels welcome! Located in the Learning Place (lower level of City Hall). Call Joan for more informa-tion at 250-352-3218.

St. Saviour’s Contemplative Group meets every second Monday, beginning October 7, for a centring prayer from 5 to 5:30 p.m. at St. Sav-iour’s Anglican Church (corner of Ward and Silica Streets, lower level door).

Drop in table tennis at the Blewett Elementary School every Wednes-day from 5 to 7 p.m. when school is in session. Please bring clean gym shoes, no street shoes allowed. A drop in fee of $2 will be collected.

The Nelson Technology Club hosts a Hackerspace Wednesdays,

6 to 8 p.m., in the annex building at Selkirk College Tenth Street campus. Hackerspace is a place to talk about technology with people who under-stand what you are talking about.

Al-anon meetings are held Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. at the Cellar, 717 Vernon Street, and on Fridays from 8 to 9 p.m. at 601 Front Street in the basement. For more in-formation about the Cellar meetings contact Norma at 250-352-3747 and for the Front Street meetings contact Sharon at 250-352-7333.

Nelson Knitting Co-op meets ev-ery Thursday from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the Nelson and District Community Complex. The meeting is open to anyone interested in sharing their projects, learning new techniques and socializing with other fibre en-thusiasts.

The St. Saviour’s Anglican Church Food Pantry is open every Friday 9 to 11 a.m. at 701 Ward Street (Silica Street side entrance) to all those in need. Barrier free, everyone wel-come.

Nelson Indoor RC Flying Club meets every Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the gym at the Central School on Ward Street, small drop-in fee for gym rental. Bring your own helicop-ter/plane/quadricopter or “borrow” for trial flight. All ages welcome. Contact [email protected] for more info.

Spark! is a free after-school arts group for girls ages 12 to 16 every Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Nelson and District Youth Cen-tre. Snacks are provided. Facilitated by Ursula Twiss.

Women and girls skateboard night at the Nelson and District Youth Centre on Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m. All ages and abilities wel-come. The drop-in fee is $2. Helmets are mandatory.

Alcoholics Anonymous holds 14 one-hour meetings weekly in Nelson, at 717A Vernon Street (in the “Cellar” downstairs), including early morning, noon hour, and eve-ning meetings on specific days. For a schedule please call 250-352-3391 or pick up a complete meeting list at the Cellar during meeting times.

WorkshopsSimplicity Parenting Workshops,

facilitated by certified Simplic-ity Parenting leader and creativity coach Kathy Stowell, begin October 7. Choose from either seven Thurs-day mornings 10 a.m. to noon; or Monday evenings 7 to 9 p.m. Please contact Kathy at 250-352-6757 to sign up and receive more informa-tion.

A global “Bars” class will be hosted in Nelson on October 10. Bars is a dynamic process where you lightly touch and hold 32 points on the head that when held dissipate and release stress, limitations and judgements. The class will be live-streamed around the world. For details about the Nelson event call Sheelagh at 250-352-1812.

Oxygen Art Centre courses open for both Youth and Adults! Karen Guilbault is teaching two one-day workshops: How Did You Get That Colour? on October 19 and Wet and Wild: A Fresh Approach to Painting on November 30. To Register phone 250-352-2821. More information at oxygenartcentre.org.

In conjunction with the Under-written exhibit at Touchstones Nel-son, Lynn Dragone will also offer a “Moving with the Big Brush: Cal-ligraphy and Movement” workshop, on Saturday, October 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Shambhala Meditation Center (444 Baker Street) The fee is $50 or $35 for members. Register through [email protected].

Internationally acclaimed artist, Kristy Gordon, will be teaching a three day portrait painting work-shop in Nelson from December 5 to 7. Each day will include a paint-ing demonstration, discussion and individual instruction at the easel. To register for the workshop, or for further information, please contact Bev Gordon by email at [email protected].

Every Friday, Community Threads meets at Nelson and District Women’s Centre from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn to knit, crochet, spin, embroider and make rag rugs. On Wednesdays, Community Threads offers quilting lessons from 9 a.m. to noon. Women of all ages welcome. Call 250-551-4951 for information.

FundraisErsThe Friends of the Nelson Mu-

nicipal Library will be holding their annual book sale in the evenings of

Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26. Donations of lightly-used fiction books will be accepted by library staff until October 5.

The Civic Theatre society will be collecting donations for the theatre at Dr. R.P Daniels Optometrist on Saturday, October 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the frame show and sale.

The great pumpkin giveaway is Friday, October 26 from 2 to 6 p.m. at Nelson Safeway. Everyone who makes a donation to the National Breast Cancer Foundation can pick a pumpkin to take home with them and enter to win a $5,000 cash prize compliments of Investors Group.

Ongoing bottle drive in support of BEAKS Wild Bird Rehabilitation. Bottles/cans can be dropped off at The Nelson Animal Hospital on Ymir Road.

announCEmEntAscension Lutheran Church is

collecting sweaters to go to Syria for refugees living in relief camps outside their home country. The goal is to gather 10,000+ sweaters and get them there before winter. Sweaters of all sizes are needed for men, women and children. New or gently loved sweaters can be dropped off at Wait’s News until October 31.

Each year hundreds of people take advantage of the fabulous cos-tumes housed in the Norma Vecchio Costume Collection in the base-ment of the Capitol Theatre. People love our collection, and we here at the Capitol love to look after them. However, occasionally costumes don’t get returned and we start missing them. This fall, the Capi-tol Theatre Costume Shop has de-clared a Costume Return Amnesty. If you (or someone you know) has a Capitol Theatre costume lurking in your closet at home, or languishing, forgotten in your basement, just re-turn it to the Capitol — no questions asked! Lonesome costumes can be dropped off at the Capitol anytime Tuesday to Friday, between 12:30 and 4 p.m.

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Summer skunk tally tops 100Urban Wildlife

More than 100 skunks were removed from Nelson city limits this summer.

For the past five years, Nelson Urban Trappers has held a con-tract with the city to trap and relo-cate problem skunks and raccoons. Justin Willands, one of a handful of people who manage the traps, was at Nelson city council Monday to report his work to date.

He said the company caught 108 skunks and 12 racoons over the course of its three month con-tract from May to July.

“Those numbers are fairly typi-cal of what we’ve been seeing for the past three years,” Willands said, noting numbers were higher when they first started trapping the pests but seem to have levelled off.

He was surprised to see that raccoon activity hasn’t spiked with the decline in skunks.

“When you remove one [forag-er], you tend to see another move in to take it’s place,” Willands said.

“As far as I can tell, the crows seem to have been the real winner — they’ve really taken off … It could be because the food skunks used to eat is now available to the crows.”

Willands has also noticed an increase in urban deer, though not to the point that he’d recommend the city take any action to reduce their numbers. He suggested if council was considering adding to his contract, the best option would be to continue skunk removal to the end of August.

“That’s when they start to bed down for winter and cause prob-lems with digging into founda-tions of people’s homes,” he said.

While the Nelson Urban Trap-pers contract is active, they pro-vide a cell number for residents to call and report unwanted wildlife in their yards. Willands and his crew respond with a trap that will remain in place for at least a week.

The animals they catch are taken a long way out of town and released.

sam van schieNelson Star Reporter

Cheetahs likely headed to Innisfail

Continued from Page 1There, the Discovery Wildlife Park houses over 40 species of orphaned animals on a 90-acre property.

Plato said that the change of venue is due to regulatory hoops they must jump through to bring the cats to BC.

“We have not given up on bringing our outreach/educa-tion for conservation program to Kaslo, but given the provincial government’s self proclaimed ‘wall around BC,’ we know it will be a lengthy and difficult process,” she said. “However, we certainly do understand and support the im-portance of well thought out con-trols for the safety and well-being of both people and animals.”

Some locals have expressed concern about such matters in

response to the couple’s desire to bring Robin and Annie with them to Kaslo.

Meanwhile, thousands of kilo-metres away, Pfeifer and Plato are nursing one of their cheetahs back to health. Last week, Annie sud-denly fell ill and required emer-gency surgery on Thursday having portions of her stomach and liver removed.

As she recovers slowly, Plato ex-pressed feeling frightened at the seriousness of Annie’s illness. The “fragile” cat still has a strong purr and her owner, at her side day and night, described this experience as “a roller coaster.”

“I honestly don’t think there could be a more wonderful chee-tah anywhere, and we are devas-tated to think we might lose her,”

she posted on her Facebook page last week.

“We believe she will make a huge difference to the cheetah conservation effort via outreach, because of her incredible, purry and cuddly personality, so we’re distraught both for ourselves be-cause we love her, and for the pos-sible loss to the conservation effort to save the species.”

A week later, Plato reported An-nie is hungry and doing much bet-ter though still has a lot of “healing and recuperating to do.”

“Regardless, until Annie is 100 per cent well, we will be staying in Ontario,” Plato told the Star.

Today, there are fewer than 10,000 cheetahs left in the world and their numbers are declining by nearly 1,000 per year.


Earl Pfeifer and Carol Plato sit with their two cheetahs, Annie and Robin. Submitted photo

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EntertainmentSherpas Cinema

Journeying Into the MindRipping down a mountain is

more than just a physical feat, it’s a mental one. Freestyle ski-ing is all about balancing risk versus reward.

Sherpas Cinema’s new fea-ture-length ski film, Into The Mind, takes you inside the head of a pair of common ski-ers as they ascend the ultimate mountain in search of a powder paradise.

“It’s a reoccurring scene in the movie,” producer/director Eric Crosland explains. “These guys keep hitting obstacles in their climb and they need to make a decision whether to keep going.”

Each decision point intro-duces an athlete segment in the film, made to appear like a dreamscape in the minds of the men on their trek and helping inform their choices.

“It’s not a happy, fluffy ski movie by any means,” Crosland says. “It’s story driven and very serious topic by the end.”

Crosland, originally from Calgary, lives in Nelson with his wife and son — that is, when he’s not travelling the world in search of snow.

Into the Mind was filmed over two winters in places like Switzerland, Bolivia and Nepal, as well as in our own backyard around Whitewater Ski Resort and Retallick Lodge.

He said one of his favourite locations visited for the film was Denali National Park in Alaska.

“It was super cold and super rugged, but it’s one of the most

beautiful places on Earth,” he says, describing the heavily gla-ciated, Himalayan-size moun-tains and the -30 C tempera-tures they endured on a daily basis. “You’d see kilometres of thick ice hanging everywhere and it would crack off right in front of you.”

He also spent a lot of time with an 80-something-year-old sherpa in Nepal who shows up in the film to symbolize the person who controls the Earth’s cycles.

“We really wanted to learn about the mountains and do something different with this film,” Crosland says. “There’s a lot of crazy stuff going on in it.”

While many production companies focused on ski/snowboard/mountain bike films pump out a new release every year, Crosland and his team are more interested in longer-term projects.

“You wind up with a bet-ter product at the end that the viewer enjoys way more,” Cro-sland said.

Into the Mind is screening at the Nelson Civic Theatre this Monday at 6:30 and 9 p.m. The

early show is all ages, with chil-dren under 14 offered free entry with an adult. The late show is licensed, and you must be at least 19 to enter the theatre.

Tickets are $12, available in advance at Gerick’s Cycle.

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A powerful, award-winning documentary film will be shown on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Nelson’s Civic Theatre.

Gold Fever is about the globalized race for resource extraction in Guatemala, and the lives of the com-munities and people who get caught in the front lines of the ensuing struggles. It takes viewers from a Guatemalan highland village to the corporate board rooms of the world — especially Canada’s — con-necting all the dots between them.

Reviewers have called it “eye-opening and inspir-ing,” and just months ago it won the 2013 Rigoberta Menchú Grand Prix at Montreal’s First People’s Film Festival.

It is the hard-hitting story of three campesino women as they resist the effects of a transnational gold mine in their community. Faced with health harms, social conflict and environmental devastation brought by the mine, these women’s strength and determination are an example for others around the world saying no to huge developments that often fa-vour the few, at the expense of so much and so many.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online or at the door. The film’s trailer is at goldfevermovie.com. For more information, call 250-354-4641.

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Diadora Hernandez, featured in Gold Fever, is determined not to sell her land to a mining company.

TOP: Director Dave Mossop filming in the Himalayas from the air. (Renan Ozturk photo). BOTTOM: Sherpas Cinema director/producer Eric Crosland.

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“Do you know if there are any gluten-free places in

Nelson?” asks a curious voice through a crackly telephone.

The voice belongs to Jenn Grant, the Halifax-based folk pop songstress who has been steadily wowing listeners and peers since her debut album, Orchestra for the Moon, first came out six years ago. Now, four studio LPs, a number of EPs, countless collaborations, and a side project or two later, Grant is finally coming through Nelson. And if a friendlier town for gluten-intolerance exists in Canada, then mod-ern day cartographers haven’t mapped it yet.

In fact, a good case could be made for Grant being awarded honourary Nelsonite status, even though she hasn’t been here yet. There’s her fierce and fearless sense of com-munal music making — even while straying from the folk-pop sound that she’s made her signa-ture — from her scene-stealing guest spots on a number of hip-hop artist’s Buck 65’s tracks, to her genre-bending electro-leaning collaborative project AquaAlta with producers Charles Austin and Graeme Campbell.

There’s also her aptitude for the vi-sual arts: Grant is a holder of a BFA in painting. “It’s a luxury to be able to paint,” she says. “Painting is an exercise that strengthens you and makes your mind more open to creating music. It’s using a muscle that then triggers something, and you become more open to art.”

She also used the previous leg of her tour to showcase works by artist and printmaker Charley Young, who special-izes in architectural monoprints of con-demned urban facades. Though Young’s work is no longer touring with Grant, that doesn’t negate her artsy bonafides.

But Grant isn’t coming to Nelson alone. She has recently joined forces

with Canadiana pop titan Ron Sexsmith to tour the country both promoting her latest re-cord (last year’s sublime The Beautiful Wild) and trying out some new material. “To be honest, I kind of felt like

the album cycle was short-lived for this record,” says Grant. “I feel it deserves a bit more time to get around the block.”

If her restless touring and creative schedule were interrupted, there’s good reason. “My mom passed away while were making it [The Beautiful Wild], as we were finishing recording. She loved the record and it’s really a tribute to her in some ways so I wanted to honour that.”

When asked if it was difficult to return to these songs, just over a year later, at the risk of bringing up heavy feelings, she doesn’t balk: “Oh yeah, definitely… but it’s been therapeutic. I didn’t know if I’d be able to, but it’s actually been a really beautiful thing. I’ve felt a deeper connection to the feelings that I had before. It’s been special.”

Jenn Grant and Ron Sexsmith will bring their distinct brands of thought-ful folk pop to Spiritbar this Tuesday, October 8.

And when informed that she wouldn’t be able to walk through downtown Nel-son without bumping into something that was gluten free, Grant laughed: “I’m so happy. I want to go there now!”

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Vancouver actor-play-wright TJ Dawe will

be in Nelson this Satur-day performing his deeply personal dramatic mono-logue Medicine, about his experience at a healing re-treat led by author, doctor and activist Gabor Mate.

Dawe, a longtime fan of Mate’s work, signed up for the weeklong retreat with only a vague idea of what might go on there. He knew that he’d be expected to ingest the Pe-ruvian shamanic psychotropic plant brew ayahuasca — that was okay with him. But he didn’t realize he’d be expected to take part in group therapy sessions — something that ter-rified him.

“I might not have gone if I’d known it was going to be like that,” Dawe admits. “For someone who feels socially alienated, like I have all my life, spending days sitting in a big cycle sharing our feelings, it’s just not something I’d like to do.”

Though Dawe has built a career on sharing his personal experiences on stage, he says talking about these things off script is totally different.

“On stage it’s scripted and rehearsed and I’m in complete control of what I’m revealing and what I’m not, and the audi-

ence only has certain means of responding,” Dawe explains. “In a group therapy session, anyone can speak at anytime and you have to engage with people individually — it’s much different and much more fright-ening for me.”

But the initial discomfort of therapy was nothing compared to what he’d go through when he finally tied the ayahuasca.

“It was the worst night of my life,” he says unequivocally. “It was physically gruelling and emotionally painful. I was real-ly brought to my lowest point.”

The drug has a different ef-fect on everyone, and a differ-ent effect on each person every time they do it. During the sec-ond ayahuasca ceremony of the retreat, he had a much better experience.

“I don’t know if I would have gotten to that place [of healing] if I hadn’t had the bad experi-ence first,” Dawe said.

Reflecting back on the expe-rience, Dawe says he has no regrets. But he says it’s not for everyone. “I would never light-ly recommend it to anyone. If anyone were to do it they need to know, they could be in for the worst night of their life.”

The play runs 90 minutes, with no intermission. It’s per-formed on a bare stage, and has minimal technical cues. Dawe will answer questions following the show.

Medicine is coming to Nelson through the support of Nelson actor Lucas Myers, a old the-atre school friend of Dawe’s. Myers usually produces his own show this time of year, but decided to focus his efforts on bringing Dawe here instead.

The show is Saturday, Octo-ber 5 at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. All tickets are $20, available in advance at the Capitol Theatre box office and at capitoltheare.bc.ca.

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Internationally acclaimed, New York-based artist Kristy Gordon will be teaching a three day portrait painting workshop in her hometown of Nelson, December 5 to 7.

This is a unique opportu-nity for students of all levels to learn the process of paint-ing the portrait in oils using a limited palette, similar to the palette of artists such as An-ders Zorn and Odd Nerdrum.

The upcoming workshop will center on the experience

of painting from a live model. There will be a single, sus-tained pose throughout the workshop, and students will complete one painting over the course of the three days. This will allow students to ex-plore the stages to developing a portrait.

“We will begin by discuss-ing comparative measuring, to get accurate proportions in the underpainting,” says Gordon. “Then we will move to colour and concentrate on

big form modeling, then defin-ing the planes of the face and features, and finally glazing to fine-tune the details.”

Students will learn how to achieve a better likeness as well as how to paint convinc-ing flesh tones and render tex-tures like cloth and hair. Class sizes will be kept small to en-sure individual instruction.

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It’s an all-star musical line-up brought together for a very special person.

On October 18, Selkirk Col-lege’s music and technology program instructors will bring together an eclectic night of entertainment for their faculty concert. It will be the first time the multi-talented instructors play together at the Shambhala Music and Performance Hall on the Tenth Street Campus.

“You will have every style under the sun and that’s what makes it really cool,” says key-boards instructor Gilles Paren-teau, one of the organizers of the event.

Faculty have put on concerts in the past, but this is the first one in three years. Parenteau says it’s important to showcase the talents of the instructors to those who are with them in the classroom learning on a daily basis.

“It’s overdue… it’s nice to show our students what we can do,” Parenteau says.

The concert will feature instructors Steven Parish (drums), Mark Spielman (bass), Darren Mahe (guitar), Paul Landsberg (guitar), Laura Landsberg (vocal), Melody Dia-

chun (vocal), John Tucker (gui-tar), Nikko Forsberg (guitar), Kiyo Elkuf (saxophone), Don MacDonald (violin/vocal) and Parenteau (keyboard). They will play as an entire group and split off in different formations during the evening.

“It will be packed with differ-ent styles from one song to the next,” says Parenteau.

The hour-and-a-half long concert will feature everything from R&B, to funky Celtic, to jazz.

Adding to the special vibe of the evening will be that the con-cert is a fundraiser for Selkirk College employee Pat Henman who continues to recover from a serious car accident this past

summer.“Pat has been really connect-

ing with our department over the years. She has a real heart for alumni and for music,” says Parenteau.

Henman is the Community Liaison/Alumni Coordinator for Selkirk College. She is also a vocalist with several recordings to her name and a well known local theatre director/actress.

Parenteau is not making any promises, but the hope is to have Henman at the show.

“It would be great to have a full house for this very special evening,” says Parenteau. “Mu-sic is an international language and it’s one easy way for us to reach out to the community.”

The MCs for the evening will be Kate Pelletier and Barry Au-liffe.

The event is by donation and seating is limited. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, con-tact Gilles Parenteau at 250-505-5739 or [email protected].

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THE CIVIC THEATREMONDAY, OCTOBER 7th 2013 | 2 SHOWS 630 & 9 PM

DOORS 6 & 830 PM | AFTER PARTY AT MIKE’S PLACE

TICKETS $12 | CHILDREN UNDER 14 FREE ADMISSION AT 630 PM SHOW | 9 PM SHOW IS 19+ EVENT

TICKETS AT GERICK CYCLE & SKI

September - November 2013September - November 2013

Moving into AbstractionInstructor: Natasha Smith6 classes: October 1 - November 56.30pm - 9.30pm Tuesdays

Low Tech-Printmaking IntensiveInstructor: Natasha Smith6 classes: October 26 & 279.30am - 4.15pm Saturday & Sunday

How Did You Get That Colour?Instructor: Karen Guilbault1classes: October 191pm - 5pm Saturday

Painting: Colour and SpaceInstructor: Deborah Thompson6 classes: October 21 - November 255.30pm - 8pm Monday

Hands-on FictionInstructor: Deryn Collier5 classes: October 29 - November 266.30 - 8.30 pm Tuesdays

Oxygen Art Centre update:Fall semester has begun! Both Youth and Adults are welcome to sign up for Karen Guilbault’s workshops: How Did You Get That Colour? on October 19 and Wet and Wild: A Fresh Approach to Painting on November 30. Workshops fees are only $50 each. In other news we would like to congratulate our writing instructor Deryn Collier, for winning the OBOK award for her debut novel Con� ned Space! Deryn will be touring Kootenay libraries this fall so keep an eye out for a reading near you! If you would like the opportunity to develop your writing with Deryn then the Hands-on Fiction course is for you! The course starts October 29 and runs weekly for 5 weeks. To register P: 250 325 2821 More info: www.oxygenartcentre.org

OURGLASS EVENTFriday October 4th7:00 pm 568 Ward St Nelson

Drinks & appetizers providedCreatures of the Sun Art Opening,

Original West Coast Artwork by Andrew TalbotOriginal Canvases, Prints, Cards & more on sale.

Surf videos later on and live music by local DJ Mamasa.

About the Artist:Andrew Talbot grew up exploring and photographing

the far corners of the island from an early age. Inspired by surf trips, hikes, and kayaking along the West Coast,

his canvases offer a glimpse into those sacred places that connect us with nature. See you there!

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Lonely Capitol Theatre Costume is HomesickEach year hundreds of people take advantage of the fabulous costumes housed in the Norma Vecchio Costume Collection in the basement of the Capitol Theatre. The costumes are cared for by Laurie Jarvis and Leslie Dickinson, who collect, clean, create and repair all of the items in the enormous ‘closet’. “Patrons rent costumes for many occasions,” reports Leslie. “They may be looking for something for a theme wedding, a corporate event, or a murder mystery party in addition to renting costumes for theatrical productions. We charge a rental fee, plus a deposit to ensure that the pieces come home.”Occasionally, however, costumes don’t get returned. Jarvis explains: “Missing costumes make us feel sad. After the years that I’ve spent curating the collection, I’m pretty familiar with each item we have, and can usually pinpoint its location on the racks. When it’s not there, Leslie and I really miss it.”This fall, the Capitol Theatre Costume Shop has declared a Costume Return Amnesty. If you (or someone you know) has a Capitol Theatre costume lurking in your closet at home, or languishing, forgotten in your basement, just bundle it up and return it to the Capitol – no questions asked.“I’d really love to see our giant red parrot costume come home,” says Laurie. “It was created by Mary Defeo for our Pantomime, Treasure Island. It’s a unique piece with a lot of sentimental as well as practical value. You wouldn’t believe how often we’ve had a need for a giant parrot!”Lonesome costumes can be dropped off at the Capitol Tuesday to Friday 12:30 – 4:00PM.

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Nutrition for kids: Back to the tasty basicsMichelle BeneteauKootenay Co-op Wellness Manager

Let’s face it — kids can be hard to feed! Their growing

bodies use up a lot of energy, and they are usually drawn to re� ned carbohydrates (sweets!) which provide quick energy, but not much in the way of health sustaining nutrients.

For optimal health, kids need to en-joy a wide variety of nutritious foods. How do we get proper nutrition into our little loved ones without having to force feed their every bite?

Assuring our wee peeps get the nu-trients they need can sound daunting, but with enough variety and perhaps a few speci� c supplements, we can rest assured our little ones are thriving.

Here are a few essentials to help guide us as we put together a nutrient-rich, tasty diet for our children.

Nutritional OilsOmega-3s are required for healthy

brain and nervous system function, among other things. These essential fatty acids help improve focus and be-haviour in children and are needed for proper nerve transmission and learn-ing patterns.

How to get ‘em:• Eating raw nuts and seeds and

their unre� ned oils and fatty cold water � sh.

• Omega 3 supplements geared toward kids can be very effective. Many are chewable, flavoured and easy to take. Some liquid oils can be very delicious or easily added to smoothies.

GreensLoaded with antioxidants, vitamins

and minerals — awesome for nourish-

ing growing bones and teeth. Greens are nutritional powerhouses!

How to get ‘em:• Eating leafy greens! Admittedly,

this can be challenging for some kids. Adding leafy greens or green powders to fruit smoothies can work well. The earlier kids start eating these foods, the easier it is in the long run.

• Older kids can take Chlorella or Spirulina in tablets.

Protein FoodsGrowing bodies need protein. Pro-

tein contains amino acids necessary for building, maintenance and repair of muscles, body tissues and nerves and much more.

How to get ‘em:• Amino acids are found in all foods.

What is important is getting a vari-ety of different foods to get the full range of amino acids. Organic lean meats, free range local eggs, beans, raw nuts and seeds (and nut and seed butters) are great protein foods and so versatile.

• Protein powders can also be added to smoothies or baking for an extra boost when necessary.

WaterWater is an essential nutrient for

life and is part of almost every tissue and process in the body, including the elimination of waste products and maintenance of the body’s tempera-ture. Water is also needed to maintain healthy mucous membranes to help fend off unwanted pathogens. When kids are thirsty, reach for a glass of ‘mountain juice!’

Check out these great tips for picky eaters: http://tinyurl.com/nhtma4f

The Kootenay Co-op Column appears monthly in this space.

KOOTENAY CO-OP COLUMN

Ingredients½ cup ground unhulled sesame seeds1 cup ground sun� ower seeds½ cup ground chia seeds½ cup hulled hemp seeds¼ cup ground � ax seeds1 cup ground cashews½ – 1 cup carob or cocoa powder¼ cup spirulina or chlorella½ cup almond butter and/or ca-shew butter1 cup raisins, chopped1 – 1 ½ cups liquid sweetener: honey, brown rice syrup, (warm-ing them to a less viscous state can help the mixing process), or agave syrup4 cups puffed millet and/or quinoa

MethodGrind seeds in an electric cof-

fee grinder, food processor, or with a small enclosed attachment (available at hardware stores) on a blender.

Put dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix with a strong spoon and a table knife once it gets really thick. Add raisins, nut but-ter, liquid sweetener, and puffed cereal, mixing as you go. Add extra powder or liquid sweetener as required to make a � rm, non-sticky consistency.

Keep cool in a closed container.

Makes at least 40 large energy balls.

High-Protein Energy BallsChoc-full of protein and nutrients, these make a sweet, high-energy snack.

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Specializing in Greek cuisine, fresh Mediterranean Style Roast Lamb served nightly. Come try our world

famous f ish‘n’chips, a Nelson icon for over 25 years. Gourmet burgers, wraps and sandwiches.

We offer a wide selection of vegetarian dishes.

Join us for every occasion.

Open Daily 11am • 616 Baker Street 354-4848616 Vernon St. 250.352.2715616 Vernon St. 250.352.2715

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PETIT TENDER STEAK SANDWICH, WITH GARLIC TOAST AND FRIES

EVERY SUNDAY

Past recipes can be found at facebook.

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Business a little slow?Get your restaurant noticed.

People want to know what is new in Nelson’s local restaurants.Show off your latest specials, fall menus or delicious offers!

Kings Restaurant652 Baker Street • 250.352.2912

For the month of October Fri Sat and Sun All you can eat Chinese

food and salad bar. 5pm-8pm

$10.00 CHINESE SMORGASBORD NIGHT

October Fri Sat and SunAll you can eat Chinese People want to know what is new in Nelson’s local restaurants.

Show off your latest specials, fall menus or delicious offers!Show off your latest specials, fall menus or delicious offers!Show off your latest specials, fall menus or delicious offers!Show off your latest specials, fall menus or delicious offers!Show off your latest specials, fall menus or delicious offers!Show off your latest specials, fall menus or delicious offers!People want to know what is new in Nelson’s local restaurants.

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Ingredients6 slices pancetta, chopped1 small onion, chopped � ne3 cloves garlic, minced1/4 c white wine300 gr spinach trimmed1 c bread crumbs4lb pork loin roast, butter� iedsalt and pepper

MethodPreheat oven to 325 F.In a large frypan, fry pancetta until

crisp. Drain fat, add onion and garlic, saute until translucent. Add spinach and saute until just wilted.

Transfer to a bowl and let cool com-pletely. Add bread crumbs.

Place butter� ied roast on board. Season with salt and pepper.

Spread cooled spinach mixture

onto pork, leaving one inch bare on the short side. Roll up jelly-roll style and tie with string.

Heat frying pan. Add 1 Tbsp oil and add pork searing on all sides.

Place in roasting pan and roast for 50 minutes or until thermometer reaches 155 F to 160 F Place on cut-ting board and tent with foil. Let stand for 10 minutes before slicing.

Remove string and slice.

Stuffed Pork Loin574 Baker St. Nelson

250-352-9777

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�rts and Entertainment Listings

FilmThis weekend's movie at Civic Theatre is Prisoners (Friday to Sunday, October 4 to 6, and Tuesday, October 8 at 7 p.m. nightly) about two sets of parents who become frantic when a police investigation does not solve the disappearance of their children.

Sherpas Cinema’s newest feature film Into The Mind is screening at the Nelson Civic Theatre on Monday, October 7 at 6:30 and 9 p.m. From the creators of All.I.Can, this ski film takes you into the mind of a common skier as he attempts to climb and ski the ultimate mountain. Tickets are $12, available in advance at Gerick’s. Children under 14 may attend the 6:30 p.m. show free with an adult. The 9 p.m. screening is licensed (no minors)

Gold Fever, an award-winning documentary film about the race for resource extraction in Guatemala is screening at the Civic Theatre on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $9. There will be a discussion following the film.

literatureKelowna author Corinna Chong will be reading from her debut novel Belinda’s Rings at Oxygen Art Centre on Friday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m. The reading, part of Oxygen’s Presentation Series, is free ($5 donation appreciated) and open to the public.

Authors and social historians Patricia and Bob Malcolmson offer a glimpse into the role of personal journals in our understanding of history in a special presentation on Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nelson Public Library.

theatre Vancouver actor-playwright TJ Dawe brings his one-man show Medicine to the Capitol Theatre on Saturday, October 5. In Medicine, he tells of his experiences at a retreat led by Gabor Mate in which the participants ingest the Peruvian shamanic psychotropic plant brew ayahuasca. There will be a discussion after the performance. Tickets are $20, available at the Capitol Theatre box office.

Redfish Elementary and Missoula Children's Theatre are proud to present a musical adaptation of The Secret Garden, performed by the students of Redfish on Friday, October 11 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, October 12 at 1 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door.

British comedians James Brown and Jamesy Evans will also be performing their award-winning production of 2 for Tea at the Capitol Theatre on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $16 for adults or $12 for students/seniors, available in advance at the Capitol Theatre box office and online at capitoltheatre.bc.ca.

The Capitol Theatre presents the ultimate theatre comedy show starring four exceptional acts. Headliner Roman Danylo is accompanied by sketch comedy group Titmouse; the cast of Vancouver’s Urban Improv; and Mirage, an improvised rock ‘n’ roll band. Come experience this life-changing act on Friday, October 18 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults or $20 for students and Capitol season subscribers. Advance tickets are available at the Capitol Theatre box office and online at capitoltheatre.bc.ca.

Jeff and Lisel Forst co-star in the world premiere of Cop Shop/Grow Op, an original play written by Jeff, on Saturday, October 28 at 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are available for $15 at the Capitol Theatre box office and online at capitoltheatre.bc.ca.

musicOn Friday, October 4 the after work dance party will feature vocalist Aryn Sheriff with Clinton Swanson and Friends at Finley’s Irish Pub. Backing saxophonist Clinton Swanson will be Colin Spence on keys, Doug Stephenson on bass, and Rob Funk on drums. Show time is 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Cover is by donation. Put on your dancing shoes.

Jpod the Beat Chef will be spinning at Spiritbar on Friday, October 4 with B-Ron. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Little Miss Higgins and the Winnipeg Five play Spiritbar on Saturday, October 5. This is an early show, beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10, available in advance at the Hume Hotel or on ticketweb.ca by searching “Hume Hotel.”

The late show at Spiritbar on Saturday, October 5 will feature Nelson DJs Cedar and Billy Bangers.

The fifth annual History of Country Music concert is at the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, October 6 at 2 p.m. Hosted by Jim van Horn, this fundraiser for Kootenay Co-op Radio. Tickets are $16.

La Cafamore presents Celebrated Trios, a night of classical music. Two famous piano trios will be performed: Haydn’s "Gypsy" and Beethoven’s “Archduke” on Sunday, October 6 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Nelson United Church. Tickets are $15 for adults or $12 for students/seniors. Children under 12 are free.

Argentine pianist Gabriel Palatchi plays at Shambhala Hall at Selkrirk College's Tenth Street Campus on Tuesday, October 8. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 to the general public and $5 for Selkirk students.

Canadian folk music legend Ron Sexsmith is coming to Spiritbar on Tuesday, October 8 with Halifax darling Jenn Grant. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25, on sale now at the Hume Hotel or on ticketweb.ca search “Hume Hotel.”

Ontario-based singer-songwriter B.A. Johnston will play a public house concert at The Special (810 Silica Street) on Tuesday, October 8 with guest Bag Boi. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Cover is $10.

Declan O’Donovan, Ryan McNally, and Steve Brockley play a live-to-air show in the basement of the Kootenay Co-op Radio on Wednesday, October 9. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.

Local favourites Selectah Meszenjah and Mama Sa will be spinning roots reggae, dancehall and dub at Spiritbar on Thursday, October 10. Doors open at 10 p.m. No cover.

On Friday, October 11, a seven-member edition of the Alberta-based Front Porch Roots Revue will take to the Capitol Theatre stage and rock the house with over two dozen cherry-picked selections from the songbook of The Band. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25, available in advance at the Capitol Theatre box office and online at capitoltheatre.bc.ca.

UK jungle and drum and bass DJ/producer Aphrodite will be at Spiritbar on Friday, October 11. Ticket info at the Hume Hotel.

Spiritbar hosts a night of twerking and teasing as Samantha Blondtron Mathews and Sweet Soul Burlesque team up to bring a show for the eyes and the dancefloor. Doors open at 9 p.m. First 100 tickets are $15, available in advance at the Hume Hotel.

Ornament & Crime, Dusty Bones, and Law of Signs play a public house concert at The Special (810 Silica Street) on Tuesday, October 15. Tickets are $10.

Vancouver’s new wave synth trio, Terrace, bring their original sound to Spiritbar on Thursday, October 17 with Justin Pleasure, who will be performing a future house DJ set. Doors open at 10 p.m. Cover is $5.

Six-time Juno award winning singer-songwriter Colin James plays an acoustic concert at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday, October 17. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are sold out.

Lee Harvey Osmond and Gordie Johnson co-headline at Spiritbar on Friday, October 18. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25, available in advance at the Hume Hotel.

Symphony of the Kootenays presents New Beginnings at the Capitol Theatre on Saturday, October 19. The program will feature works by Copland, Smetana and Felix Mendelssohn. Tickets are $29.50 for adults or $21 for students, available in advance at the Capitol Theatre box office.

Mat the Alien returns to Spiritbar on Satur-day, October 19 with Deeps. Doors open at 10 p.m. First 100 tickets are $15 at the Hume Hotel or search “Hume Hotel” on ticketweb.ca.

Invasives and War Baby play a live-to-air show in the basement of the Kootenay Co-op Radio on Saturday, October 19. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.

Selkirk Pro-Musica presents West Kootenay blues artists Holly and Jon on Monday, Oc-tober 21 at St. Saviour’s Pro-Cathedral (Silica and Ward). The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tick-ets are $15 for adults or $12 for students, avail-able at Otter Books and at the door.

Multiple Juno Award winning Toronto band The Sadies play Spiritbar on Tuesday, October 22. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $20. Ad-vance tickets are available at the Hume Hotel or at ticketweb.ca by searching “Hume Hotel”

Nelson Overture Concerts Society presents The Gryphon Trio on October 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets are $24 for adults or $14 for students, available now at capitoltheatre.bc.ca.

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Fire Prevention Week Oct. 7-13In Canada, 1 out of 100 preventable residential fires are fatal. There are about 24,000 house fires each year in Canada, resulting in an average of 377 deaths and 3,048 injuries per year. Here are some useful tips in helping you stay stafe and fire aware.(1) Be cautious with cooking equipmentWhen a pot or pan overheats or splatters greases, it can take seconds to cause a fire. Avoid loose long sleeves and never leave your cooking unattended. Check kettles and toasters for damaged electrical cords and thermostats.(2) Heating/Electrical EquipmentHave your furnace inspected annually by a qualified technician, and your chimney cleaned and inspected annually. Keep portable heaters at least one metre away from anything that can burn (including curtains, furniture, and you), and don’t use your heaters to dry shoes or clothes. Install a carbon monoxide alarm to alert you to deadly carbon monoxide gas.Ensure the following for electrical devices:1) Your electrical appliances don’t have loose or frayed cords/plugs2) Your outlets aren’t overloaded with plugs3) You’re not running electrical wires under rugs or heavy furniture4) You’re not overusing an extension cord. Be careful about do-it-yourself electrical projects; many home fires are caused by improper installation, so use a licensed electrician.(4) Careless SmokingMake the bedroom off-limits to smoking, never smoke in bed or in a place where you may fall asleep. Use large, deep ashtrays; never place an ashtray on or near anything that will burn; and check furniture for fallen cigarettes/embers. Ensure all hot embers are in an ashtray and are extinguished before emptying it into the trash.(5) CandlesMake sure that candles are placed in a sturdy holder on a level surface, away from combustible materials and out of the reach

of children or pets. Blow them out before leaving the room.(6) Ensure that you have a planPrepare a fire escape plan for your family, outlining designated escape routes and a safe meeting place outside of your home. Keep portable fire escape ladders in all upstairs bedrooms. Have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen for small fires, and learn how to use it. If a grease fire occurs, remember to never use water as this will cause the hot grease to splatter, burning you or spreading the fire. Instead, smother it with a lid or another pan, then turn off the burner. (7) Inspect your homeCheck your home for fire hazards, such as overloaded electrical circuits, light bulbs with greater wattages than a light fixture is rated for or combustible items (like newspapers, cardboard and rags). Keep any combustible items away from all portable space heaters, water heaters, furnaces or other heat sources. Install smoke alarms and check them monthly to make sure they’re working. Remember to change the batteries yearly.(8) Basement SafetyRemove all combustible and flammable materials from the basement and attic and makek sure to use only approved containers to store and transport gasoline. If your home has a chimney, they should be cleaned at least once a year.

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PREVENT KITCHEN FIRESFire Prevention Week October 6-12, 2013

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On behalf of everyone in the Regional District of Central Kootenay, THANK YOU to all RDCK Fire Department Members.

Two of every five home fires begin in the kitchen

• Almost one third of burns are caused by hot water. Keep an eye on pot handles that may catch clothing or be easily reached by children.

• Never use water to put out a pot of � aming oil or grease. It will explode and may cause severe burns to anyone in the room.

• If your smoke alarm is set off too easily from kitchen activity, relocate the alarm. Don’t disable it! It is the law in BC to have a working, mounted smoke alarm in every home.

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Smoke AlarmsHundreds of people die in residential fires in Canada every year. In many fires that have been extinguished in their early stages, people have been found dead of smoke inhalation without having suffered burns. It has been conservatively estimated that many of these lives could have been saved by the installation of properly functioning smoke alarms. Although these devices are no substitute for carefully planned fire prevention measures, they are invaluable to providing an early warning when fire strikes.Smoke alarms save lives. Almost two-thirds of home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. When there is a fire, smoke spreads fast and you need smoke alarms to give you time to get out.Install smoke alarms in every bedroom, outside each separate sleeping area and on every level of the home, including the basement. Interconnect all smoke alarms throughout the home. When one sounds, they all sound. An ionization smoke alarm is generally more responsive to flaming fires, and a photoelectric smoke alarm is generally more responsive to smoldering fires. For the best protection, both types of alarms or a combination alarm (photoelectric and ionization) should be installed in homes.Replace batteries in all smoke alarms at least once a year. If an alarm “chirps”, warning the battery is low, replace the battery right away. Replace all smoke alarms, including alarms that use 10-year batteries and hard-wired alarms, when they are 10 year old or sooner if they do not respond properly.

Do you have a plan?Fire can spread rapidly through your home, leaving you as little as two minutes to escape safely once the alarm sounds. Pull together everyone in your household and make a plan. Walk through your home and inspect all possible exits and escape routes. Households with children should consider drawing a floor plan of your home, marking two ways out of each room, including windows and doors. Also, mark the location of each smoke alarm.Everyone in the household must understand the escape plan. When you walk through your plan, check to make sure the escape routes are clear and doors and windows can be opened easily.Choose an outside meeting place (i.e. neighbor’s house, a light post, mailbox, or stop sign) a safe distance in front of your home where everyone can meet after they’ve escaped. Make sure to mark the location of the meeting place on your escape plan.Be fully prepared for a real fire: when a smoke alarm sounds, get out immediately. Residents of high-rise and apartment buildings may be safer “defending in place.”Once you’re out, stay out! Under no circumstances should you ever go back into a burning building. If someone is missing, inform the fire department dispatcher when you call. Firefighters have the skills and equipment to perform rescues.



T-shirts designed to open eyesIt’s estimated that one third of

Canada’s homeless population are between the ages of 16 and 24. In Nelson, local youth endure home-lessness and live at risk. Their re-alities are mostly hidden and often misunderstood.

This month local youth are cre-ating original t-shirts, designed to open eyes and hearts about youth homelessness.

The project is on now and all youth, age 30 and under, are in-vited to participate. Youth create the message and design. Any me-diums can be used and t-shirts can be altered or even sewn from scratch. Winning t-shirt designs will receive prizes, including Whitewater lift tickets and a cut and colour with Jai Lynn at Front Street Hair Studio.

Submission deadline is Friday, October 11. Supplies, including

blank t-shirts and entry forms, are available for pick up at Nelson Cares, 521 Vernon Street. Com-plete entry details are available

online at Nelson Committee on Homelessness on Facebook.

A public exhibit will showcase all designs, along with facts and information on organizations involved in solutions. The com-munity is invited to view the ex-hibit October 15 to 17, downtown Nelson at the Trading Company building, 402 Baker Street.

“Our goal is to open eyes about youth homelessness through art and design and we are very excited to be working with local youth”, says coordinator Katie Tabor, “We are also kindly accepting prize donations from local businesses interested in supporting their ef-forts.”

This project is sponsored by 103.5 The Bridge, ANKORS, Whitewater and Front Street Hair Studio. For more information on Design To Inform: A DIY T-Shirt Project on Youth Homelessness, contact Tabor at 250-352-6011 ext. 19 or at [email protected]

CommunityNelson Committee on Homelessness

SUBMITTEDSpecial to the Nelson Star

Touchstones hosting antiques appraisal clinic

Antiques

On October 18 and 19, Touch-stones Nelson will be hosting an art and antiques appraisal clinic with Peter Blundell, a long time former Ontario antiques dealer, who for the past 22 years has re-sided in Vernon. Today he is a fully accredited independent art and antiques appraiser, consultant and lecturer.

Blundell will give verbal opin-ions of market value on art works, antiques and collectibles (apprais-als cannot be provided for jew-ellery, coins, stamps, guns, and wristwatches).

Individuals who wish to have large furniture pieces assessed are asked to bring in a portion of the piece, e.g., a drawer, along with a photograph, and the item’s mea-

surements. Please note that items thought to be over 400 years old cannot usually be assessed during this format.

Blundell will assess those un-known treasures you have tucked away — that beautiful bowl that Granny loved, your unused ster-ling and silver-plated tea sets, that picture on the wall from Auntie Liz, the lovely and pleasing Royal Doulton figurine, the dining table beautifully restored or not — they all have value.

Tickets are $35 for Touchstones members and $45 for the general public. They’re on sale now at Touchstones Nelson. For further information please call 250-352-9813. Tickets guarantee an ap-pointment of 15 minutes for up to three items. Come, watch and listen. Spectator tickets are also available for $5.


Appraiser Peter Blundell, seen here on a visit to Rossland this year, is coming to Touchstones Nelson this month. Submitted photo

World Food Day coming

Food Cupboard

Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition is the official theme for World Food Day 2013. The event held every October 16 seeks to in-crease understanding of prob-lems and solutions in the drive to end hunger. This year World Food Day is in the middle of Hunger Awareness Week.

The Nelson Food Cupboard is hosting a food security fair from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Nel-son United Church basement (602 Silica) to celebrate World Food Day and provide an op-portunity for the public and organizations to continue the local conversation around food security. The food cupboard is inviting local food producers as well as organizations involved in facilitating access to food to book a free table at this public event.

Coordinator Kim Charles-worth states “We wish to en-courage increased awareness and conversation around the reality of hunger in our com-munity, and the incredible ef-forts going on right here to put meaning to the phrase ‘food is a right.’ Food security affects ev-eryone — from local farmers right through the distribution chain to eaters everywhere.”

To book a free table at the fair, contact Charlesworth at [email protected].


Nelson Committe on Homelessness coordinator Katie Tabor

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE JULY 8, 2013

ACROSS1 __ acid: antiseptic

cleaner6 Raindrop sound

10 Hunter’s quarry14 Texas shrine15 Civil rights icon

Parks16 Mortgage

adjustment,briefly

17 Figure of speech18 Waikiki’s

whereabouts19 Aunt Bee’s

grandnephew20 Countdown kickoff21 Wild West

showman24 Makes small talk26 Did some

pressing work?27 South Pacific

island29 Spotless31 Sent packing32 Egyptian

portrayed by Liz34 Prize with six

categories38 Dwarf wearing

specs39 Sack on a red-

white-and-bluetruck, which canhold the ends of21- and 54-Across and 3-and 35-Down

41 Savings option,briefly

42 A parolee maywear a monitoron it

44 Vehicle onrunners

45 Door opener46 Muse who

inspires poets48 Barcelona

buddies50 Phase53 NFL replay aid54 Character written

in kindergarten57 Foldable sleeper60 Criticize severely61 Good-sized

home site62 Arcade pioneer64 Dust Bowl

refugee65 Send, as

packages

66 Enticed67 Asian holidays68 Does better than69 Grasslike marsh

plant

DOWN1 Angler’s bucketful2 Shoppe adjective3 Ticket from a

postponed ballgame

4 “If you ask me,” intexts

5 Battle6 Univ. employees7 Waste time8 Dept. of Labor

protection arm9 Talking parrot of

film10 Free, as legal work11 Fasten anew12 Use TurboTax, say13 Triangular traffic

sign22 New York city23 Malaysian ape25 Stayed out of

sight27 “I did it!”28 Neural transmitter29 Yo-Yo Ma’s

instrument30 Ear part

33 Marketgoer’smemo

35 Game accessorywith 24 numberedsquares

36 Suffix with switch37 “CSI” facilities39 Pharmaceutical

giant40 Allan-__: Robin

Hood cohort43 Bloodsuckers45 Actress Basinger

47 “It’s about time!”49 Fable conclusions50 Monk’s superior51 Quench52 Assume to be

true53 Staircase units55 Canyon feedback56 Lose one’s

footing58 Calif. neighbor59 Ocean motion63 Wed. preceder

Saturday’s Puzzle Solved

By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke 7/8/13

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 7/8/13

1 2 3

6 7

The Nelson Star is running new crossword puzzles! The answer for Wednesday’s paper will be printed in Friday’s paper while the Friday answers will be published in Wednesday’s paper.

Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE JULY 6, 2013

ACROSS1 Onetime college

All-Star footballgame

9 “Hasn’t scratchedyet!” cleanser

15 Song played atthe 1920Olympics whenmusic for theItalian nationalanthem could notbe found

16 Enmity17 Colorful

headwear18 Sorbetto

alternative19 Sister20 Blitzes, in old

football lingo22 RSA neighbor, in

the Olympics23 Grizzlies, in

Granada25 Not at all swank26 “He who hath

many friendshath __”: Aristotle

27 Did some farmwork

29 “Crusade inEurope”memoirist, initially

30 “Bouquet ofSunflowers”painter

31 Have a life33 More unsettled35 Film based on

junk science, say39 Delight40 Czech sci-fi play41 Pulls down42 Fire proof44 Like infant

fingers48 First Nations tribe49 Skirts that come

in bell andpancake styles

51 Insignificant52 Rx instruction53 Pros55 Decline56 Strand, in a way58 “Absolutely!”60 Wrap again, as

an ankle61 Cared for62 Cut and dried?

63 Premature plotgiveaways, e.g.

DOWN1 Mingle (with)2 1992 Dream

Team chant3 Cambodian

leader ousted bythe KhmerRouge

4 City pol.5 Support6 Exeunt __: stage

direction7 Breathless8 Biased interview

features9 Like some jeans

10 People11 Cipher12 Vast rainforest13 Bounty rebel14 Equality of

measure21 Concert hall24 Pirate’s hunting

ground26 Medicine show

elixir28 Refuse30 Put on one’s big-

boy pants

32 Old coin with anaccented firstletter

34 Poetic adverb35 Haunting images36 Licorice stick in a

pit37 Trait determinant38 Brat topper43 Keep under

wraps45 Really fancy

46 Teacher, duringexam week

47 “Mercy me!”49 Stuck up?50 Prefix in a Dow

trademark53 Suisse peak54 “Contact”

acronym57 Baseball’s Bando59 Oporto-to-Lisbon

direção

Friday’s Puzzle Solved

By Bill Thompson 7/6/13

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 7/6/13

WORDS

Enjoy the games!


Thanks to the leader-ship of eight Grade 12 stu-dents, Special Olympics BC — Nelson is prepar-ing to launch a fun new program that will open a world of opportunities in motor, social, and sport skill development for children with intellectual disabilities.

Special Olympics BC’s Active Start program has been specifically created for children with intellec-tual disabilities ages two to six, designed to help them develop essential basic motor skills in a fun and supportive environ-ment that also helps them bloom socially.

Many individuals with intellectual disabilities have reported feeling left behind by tradition-al sport programs, and family members have described the heartbreak of watching their active children with intellectual disabilities retreat and feel isolated during programs that aren’t specifically de-signed for their needs.

Active Start provides a fun and safe environment where the children love playing with the equip-ment and gain confidence physically and mentally

as they achieve goals and do things they could not before.

The L.V. Rogers stu-dents — Erica Augsten, Tessa Exley, Sarah Harley, Rachel Kinakin, Natasha Lecerf, Calena Marchand, Daniel MacFarlane, and Danielle Solari — saw an opportunity to get involved by helping to launch this program with the Special Olympics BC — Nelson branch. After hearing a presentation from Special Olympics BC community develop-ment manager Cyra Frisk, they became interested in the world of Special Olympics, and the idea of working with younger

kids with intellectual dis-abilities appealed to them, Tessa Exley said.

That age is “a really im-portant time in their life to start working on and developing their motor skills and sport skills,” Exley noted.

Exley has been into sports throughout her life, and has been a member of the acclaimed Nel-son Rhythm Ropers for more than seven years. She feels it is important to give back to her com-munity with the kind of opportunities that Special Olympics provides.

“I think it’s a really great program, giving really good support for

people with intellectual disabilities,” Exley said. “I think it’s really important to do that sort of work in our communities.”

The students’ interest is making it possible to have Active Start in Nelson. The students are going to help lead the program as facilitators, with support from Exley’s mother.

Active Start is the first part in a continuum of Special Olympics BC youth programs, followed by FUNdamentals and Sport Start programming, which would offer further opportunities for the next age groups and help Ac-tive Start participants’ transition into developing

sport skills and growing into full-fledged Special Olympics sport program-ming. If more volunteers come on board to help coach Special Olympics BC, Nelson could begin to offer the further youth programs as well.

Once the Active Start program is launched, it will be important to pro-vide the young partici-pants with something to move on to, Exley noted. The more volunteers in-volved, the more oppor-tunities can be offered.

Volunteers interested in the heart-expanding experience of coaching and supporting chil-dren with intellectual disabilities can join in a free training session for youth program coaches on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. at KidSport Nelson. To reserve a place, please contact Cyra Frisk at 250-919-0757 or [email protected].

To enroll children in the Special Olympics BC — Nelson Active Start program set to be-gin Sunday at The Family Place, please contact Exley at [email protected] or Lecerf at [email protected]. One parent or caregiver must participate along with each child, and will have fun doing so.

Special Olympics BC

L.V. Rogers launches Active Start

Tell us how your team is doing, email: [email protected]

SportsSoccer

Whitecaps bring in

new coachA new full-time head coach for the Koo-

tenay region is a boon to ballers in Nelson’s Youth Soccer Association.

Vancouver Whitecaps’ Brett Adams will be heading up the entire Kootenay region.

Adams, 30, has been coaching for over 10 years. In England he played semi-pro-fessional soccer while coaching. His qualifi-cations include a top-level UEFAA licence.

The Whitecaps aim to continue the excellent work that players and coaches have done in the Kootenays “but take it another step,” said Adams.

“To have 900 youth players registered in a community of 10,000 people is absolutely unbelievable. It just shows you how seri-ously the kids and parents take soccer in this area,” he said.

With Adams now a permanent fixture in the community, soccer stands to benefit, says youth soccer association president Chuck Bennett.

“As an association we are very excited that the Vancouver Whitecaps have com-mitted to hiring a full-time head coach for this region who will be based out of Nelson. This is going to be great for our players and our volunteer coaches,” said Bennett. “I have met Brett and he really seems to be a great addition to our Nelson soccer community.”

Adams is relocating to Nelson with his two young children and fiancée. He is look-ing forward to making this community his home.


CORRECTIONA photo caption Wednesday about the Nelson City Soccer league playoffs (“Battle for the Finals”) erroneously stated Bia Boro played Real Nelson. In fact, the opposing team was Club Inter. Bia Boro takes on Real Nelson Sunday in the final.


Eight Nelson high school students have started a local chapter of the Special Olympics Active start program for young kids with disabilities. Submitted photo

Powerful Results

Submitted photo

Fourteen participants from Nelson’s CrossFit gym Power by You took part in a Canada-wide competi-tion put on by CrossFit Ladies of Canada last month. It consisted of three workouts in less than three hours. Bobbi Barbarich came in second place out of over 200 competitors across the country. Five women from Power by You made the top 10, includ-ing gym owner Ali Popoff and coach Katya Hayes.

Adams

LEAFS HOCKEY

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HOMEFRI. OCT. 11th 7:00 PM

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TSCHECHNEINGRID HERBERTgeb. Klemann Forstmeister✴1931 ✝2013

Lakeview Cemetery, Penticton, BC

In Memorium I.T. (20.2.1931 - 1.3.2013)

✝

Noreen Mae Hartley, 72, died Thursday, September 26th, 2013. Noreen was born October 12, 1940 in

Stornoway, Scotland and was the youngest of 6 children.

She graduated from the Royal Infirmary Nursing School as an RN and moved to Canada with her husband in 1966. She settled in Nelson, BC and worked at Kootenay Lake and Mount St. Francis Hospitals. Noreen is survived by her son Iain and her brother Ivor Macualay.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 11:00am at the Chapel of Thompson Funeral Service Ltd., 613 Ward Street, Nelson.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral Service Ltd.

HARTLEYNoreen Mae

1940 - 2013

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Thank you!The family of the late Bob Ludlow would like to take

this opportunity to thank all our wonderful friends, and relatives, for the support offered us through your cards, emails, phone calls, food, flowers, online condolences, offers of help, and donations to charities in Bob’s name.

You have been such a blessing to us with your compassion, kindness, and understanding, and you’re gentle loving care, You all have helped us get through the most difficult time in our lives.

We were overwhelmed at the outpouring of love and praise for Bob at his Memorial Service. Your beautiful tributes to him were a glowing testament to the kind of man Bob was, a gentle soul who everybody respected and loved. Your support at this time was so greatly appreciated and a great source of comfort for all of us.

So we thank you over, and over again. All of you have left an imprint in ours lives, we shall not forget. What a gift you all are to us.

We love you Bob, Papa and will always hold you lovingly and closely to our hearts. We shall miss you forever....

A special thank you to: Wayne Neilson The M.C, Joe Richichi, Bartender, Alan McLeod, Nelson Brewing Company, Pat Thast, for the Tables and Chairs, Ashley and Jeremy Laurie, the hostesses, Paul Prappas, the musician, and all the ladies that baked treats, one of Bob’s favourite forbidden indulgences.

Also a big thank you to the Beasley First Responders, especially Rebecca Scown, whose compassion and caring, was such a comfort to me. The Nelson Paramedics, your services are invaluable, and to Donna Hollman for the lovely poem for Bob.

With much Love and GratitudeSandra, Kelli, Ron, Shannon, Roger, Jade, Chase and Sweetie.

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Interfor is looking for ticketed “B” Welder with Millwriting experience, Planer Tech 1, electricians, and

millwrights to join our lumber manufacturing facility in Castlegar, BC.

The skilled individuals must be self motivated, able to work on their own, and in a team

environment. Applicants must be fl exible with shift scheduling and trade lines.

Interfor off ers a competitive wage and benefi ts package as outlined in the USW Southern Interior

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Interested candidates are invited to submit resumes by Oct 8, 2013 to Interfor’s

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We thank all applicants in advance, however, only thoseselected for an interview will be contacted.

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Please refer to Job #1313 when submitting your cover letter and resume to [email protected]

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The successful candidate will have an Undergraduate or Graduate Degree in Engineering with a Professional Engineering Designation and a minimum of 15 years experience in engineering or operations in the energy industry including at least 5 years in project management or contract administration. Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) would be considered an asset. Experience in preparing and coordinating major capital procurement and construction contracts in the energy sector is critical.

Qualified applicants interested in joining a dynamic team are encouraged to visit the Careers section of our website at www.columbiapower.org for the detailed job description. Closing date for this position is October 25, 2013

Project Manager

Announcements

Help Wanted

InformationNelson & Area Elder Abuse Prevention Resources Centre Drop in Wed. 12-2 pm at 719 Vernon St., Nelson For info:

250 352-6008; [email protected] or visit www.nelsonelderabusepre-

vention.org

Watershed DemocracyOur forests should be

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Lost & FoundFOUND: @ Slocan Beach Women’s small gold RING w/stones, Sat Sept 14th. Call Village of Slocan @ 355-2277 to describe & reclaim.

Children

Childcare AvailableDaycare with JoJo

For a complete in home family daycare experience Snack & drinks provided. 20 + yrs experience, ref avail, located in town on bus route. $55/ 8hr day. After schoolers welcome. Call 352-9293

Employment

Accounting/Bookkeeping

Permanent P/T Bookkeep-er/Secretary. Hand written cover letter to PO Box 383 , Nelson, BC V1L 5R2

Career Opportunities

DYNAMIC local health charity requires permanent, part-time fundraiser. See full job posting details at www.mssocie-ty.ca/chapters/westkootenay.

In Memoriam

Obituaries

Employment

Drivers/Courier/Trucking

CLASS 1 DRIVERS Pick-Up & Delivery

Van Kam’s Group of Companies requires Class 1 Drivers for the Castlegar area. Applicants should have LTL & P&D driving experi-ence and must be familiar w/the West Kootenay region.

We Offer AboveAverage Rates!

To join our team of professional drivers please drop off a resume and cur-rent drivers abstract to Ashley at our Castlegar ter-minal:

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For more info, please call,250-365-2515

Van-Kam is committed to employment equity and environmental responsibility.We thank all applicants for your interest!

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In Memoriam

Obituaries

Employment

Help WantedAn Alberta Oilfi eld Company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing re-quired. Call (780)723-5051 Edson, Alta.

Dental Hygienist wanted Part-Time 2 days/week avail immediately Send resume to

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Cards of Thanks

Employment

Help WantedFREEDOM Quest Regional Youth Services is looking for a dynamic and professional per-son to fi ll the combined posi-tion of facilitator for both the Youth Drug and Alcohol Inten-sive Day Treatment Program (RADD)and the Community Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program. 35 hrs fulltime with complete benefi ts. Posting Closes: Wednesday, October 7th,@ 4:00 p.m. Email Teresa Winter, Executive Director at [email protected] with cover letter and resume.

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A18 www.nelsonstar.com Friday, October 4, 2013 Nelson Star

Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land

FrontCounter BC Cranbrook has accepted an application made by Daniel and Karen MacDonald of Balfour, BC, on behalf of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource

perations MFLNR , Kootenay Re ion, for a peci c Permission for the purpose of private moorage situated on Provincial Crown foreshore fronting Lot A, District Lot 192, Kootenay District, Plan NEP21616 on Kootenay Lake and containing 0.05 hectares more or less.The MFLNRO File Number that has been established for this application is 4405421. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to FrontCounter BC, 1902 Theatre Road, Cranbrook B.C., V1C 7G1 or email to: [email protected]

Comments will be received by FrontCounter BC until November 15, 2013. FrontCounter BC may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please refer to our websitehttp://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp

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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

Help Wanted

Employment

Trades, Technical

ELECTRICIANTolko Industries Ltd. is currently seeking a Certifi ed Electrician to join our team at our Lavington Planer Division in the Okanagan Region of BC.

POSITION OVERVIEW:Reporting to the operation’s Maintenance Supervisor and working with tradesman, and other team members, the candidate will carry out maintenance programs and projects at the division. This is a challenging position and an opportunity to work in an innovative environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:•Good working knowledge of WorkSafe BC & OH&S Regulations •Valid Elec. Interprovincial Journeyman ticket•3-5yrs. industrial maint. exp •PLC exp. a defi nite asset•Superior trouble shooting and communication skills•Must be willing to work any shift and be a team player

MILLWRIGHTTolko Industries Ltd.currently seeks Certifi ed Millwright to join our teams located in the Okanagan region of BC.

POSITION OVERVIEW:Responsible for the preven-tive maintenance repair, installation and modifi cation of equipment.

QUALIFICATIONS:•Certifi ed Millwright with a Planerman endorsement•Forestry Industry exp. an asset•Superior Troubleshooting Skills•Exc. Organizational Skills•Hydraulic and Welding experience an asset•Strong safety background•Desire to work in a team environment

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Fruit & VegetablesMARECHAL Foch red wine grapes for sale Our grapes grown in Cres-ton and are completely spray free, so no herbicides, fungicides, insec-ticides, or pesticides. They are now ready for picking or delivery please call Jellyfi sh Vineyards at 250-402-6787

THE APPLE GUY & GRAND FORKS FARMS:

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pears, cabbage, Spanish onions and much more

Reserve your Foch wine grapes and juice. Find us in Castlegar on Thursdays at

the Sandman HotelSaturdays at the Castlegar Railway Museum Farmer’s

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For the benefit of Kootenay Lake area residents, the following lake levels are provided by FortisBC as a public service.

Queen’s Bay: Present level: 1744.06 ft. 7 day forecast: Down 2 to 4 inches. 2013 peak: 1749.42 ft. / 2012 peak: 1753.78 ft.

Nelson: Present level: 1743.98 ft. 7 day forecast: Down 2 to 4 inches.

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Prepare your walking shoes and get ready for International Walk to School Week October 7 to 11.

iWalk is a weeklong event that happens every October giving children, parents, school teachers and community leaders an opportunity to be part of a global event to cel-ebrate the many benefits of walking to school.

During iWalk week, some of the schools in School District 8 are planning events that cel-ebrate physical activity and encourage students to walk to school.

The City of Nelson is supporting School Dis-trict 8 to promote iWalk in Nelson. Councillors will walk with students to school and in some locations cones will be set up in a three-block radius around the school to mark off no-drop-off or pick-up zones.

Organizers hope that parents will take up the cause and walk or bike with their children to school or at least for the three blocks around the school. Let’s get out and show our kids how we used to walk to school!

The Report Card for Active Healthy Kids (you can read it at 2013active-healthykids.ca) shows too

many students are driven to school. Fifty-eight per cent of parents walked to school when they were kids, but only 28 per cent of their children walk to school today.

Seven per cent of five to 11-year-olds in Cana-da, and four per cent of 12 to 17-year-olds, meet the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for Children and Youth, which recommend at least 60 minutes of daily moderate to vigorous in-tensity physical activity.

Walking and bicy-cling to school enables children to incorporate the regular physical ac-tivity they need each day while also forming healthy habits that can last a lifetime.

Regular physical ac-tivity helps children build strong bones, muscles and joints, and it decreases the risk of obesity. In contrast, in-sufficient physical ac-tivity can contribute to chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and stroke.

The whole communi-ty benefits from efforts to enable and encourage more children to walk or bicycle to school safely.

Benefits include less traffic congestion, stron-ger sense of community, safer streets, lower costs, improved accessibility and economic gains.

Walk to School Week

Don your runners


“Are You With Me?”Arden Gustafson - Nelson Covenant ChurchIn his deeply guttural voice, our tour guide, Wallid, would often punctuate his

rolling commentary with the repeating question, “Are you with me? Are – you – with – me?” � en he would follow that question with the command, “Say yes!” And of course the whole bus would resound “Yes!”

“Alright,” Wallid would answer and then continue his well rehearsed script, pointing out details of the history, architecture, landscape and the ongoing con� ict in Israel and Palestine as our bus rolled along.

Last May I was on a trip to what is often referred to a “� e Holy Land” or the nation of Israel and the occupied territory of Palestine, to be more precise. I was travelling there with my son on a 10 day guided tour that included members of our Covenant Church family from across Canada and the U.S. � e purpose of the trip included visits to some of the most revered sites of our Christian faith, but was also designed to be an introduction to what has become the most watched con� ict in the world.

And what a place of con� ict. Since the externally imposed creation of the secular State of Israel in 1947 by the United Nations, no place on earth has seen the kind of ongoing con� ict that this strip of land has seen. And no con� ict on Earth is more complex or di� cult to comprehend. Besides the complex con� ict Israel has with its neighboring Arab countries, it has an even more complex con� ict within its borders with the occupied territories of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Each side of this Palestinian/Israeli con� ict has legitimate grievances and desires. And each side as you listen to them, is very convincing. I found myself, and continue � nd myself pulled back and forth as I heard and hear the stories – stories of loss and grief. Stories of persecution. Stories of fear and suspicion. And stories of hope.

My hope in the next few weeks is to provide my own perspective on what I saw and what I am continuing to learn about this con� ict. As a Christian, I personally want to stay away from choosing sides. But I am � nding it is a harder “third” way – to seek justice and peace in such a highly polarized con� ict. But it is the way I think most re� ects the way of Jesus. So my hope is to ask you, as Wallid asked us, “Are you with me?”

The Salvation ArmyNelson Community Church

Sunday Worship Serviceat 11:00 am

Everyone is WelcomeYour Pastors:

Majors Robin and Yvonne Borrows250 551 4986 601 Vernon Street (Middle Level)

Evangelical Covenant Church

Loving Jesus, Loving People, Transforming Lives

Nelson702 Stanley St. • 352.9613Sundays at 10:00 amPastor Arden GustafsonPastor Chris Wiens

Balfour7741 Upper Balfour Rd. • 229.2301Sundays at 9:30 amPastor Jason Ashley

Playmor Junction2840 Eden Rd. • 359.5065Sundays at 10:00 amPastor Jesse Lerch

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Nelson Christian Science SocietyA Branch of the Mother Church in Boston MA

Sunday Service in Balfour9:30 am at the Anglican Church on Busk Rd.

For information 250-229-5237

St. Saviour's Pro CathedralWard & Silica, Nelson

Oct. 6 10:30 am Celebration of St. Francis Day with Pet BlessingHarvest Thanksgiving Service Oct. 13 10:30

St. Michael & All AngelsBusk Road Balfour

No service in Balfour Oct. 6. On that day there will be a St. Francis Day service at St. Francis in the

Woods, Queen’s Bay, at 1:30 pmHarvest Thanksgiving Service Oct. 13 11:00

Anglican Church of Canada

Of� ce: 9 am - 1 pm Tue - Thurs • [email protected] • www.stsavioursnelson.org

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Churches of NelsonBringing to you our weekly words.

CATHOLIC CHURCHCATHEDRAL OF MARY IMMACULATE

813 Ward Street 352-7131

Sunday Mass Times: • Saturday 7:00pm • Sunday 8:30 am and 10:30 am

Parish of� ce open Tuesday – Friday 9:00 am - noon [email protected] • www.catholiccathedralnelson.ca

Nelson United Church

Corner of Josephine and Silica StreetsPh: 250-352-2822 • www.nelsonunitedchurch.ca

Sunday Worship Gathering 10:00 amMinister: David BoydWorld Wide Communion SundayService of Holy CommunionCarol Prochaska presidingGuest Speaker: Christopher MooreRepresenting the Transgendered CommunityAll children welcome for Sunday School & Nursery Room available

All are Welcome

Unity Centre of the Kootenays

905 Gordon Rd (IHA Bldg., back door)

starts at 11amWe welcome Caroline Vrba

Her topic will be “Is Heaven Real”?

Any questions? Contact 250-354-5394

A Friendly Bible Centre Church

623 Gordon Rd. Nelson BC V1L 5X6Phone 250-352-9322 • Pastor Rev. Ken H. Keber

Refreshments are served a� er the service(A� liated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada)

“Are You Ready?”Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 am

JOIN US THIS SATURDAY FOR A THANKSGIVING GATHERING.Saturday, October 5 @ 5:30pm, 2402 Perrier Lane. Bring a side

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The Cultural Development Committee is inviting membership applications to its new Heritage Working Group. Interested persons should submit a letter outlining their experience, knowledge and background with heritage matters and their general availability for meetings. The Heritage Working Group Terms of Reference and the City’s Community Service Application Form are available on the City’s website www.nelson.ca

If you are interested in applying, you are encouraged to:1. Read the Heritage Working Group Terms of Reference2. Download and complete the Community Service Application Form3. Submit your letter and application form no later than Friday October 18, 2013Applications should be sent as follows:Attention: Joanne CaldecottCity of Nelson Administration Department2nd Floor, Suite 101 - 310 Ward Street, Nelson BC V1L 5S4Email: [email protected] Fax: (250) 352-2131


Community

Changes at the Mir Centre

CASTLEGAR — With the new semester underway at Selkirk Col-lege there are exciting changes at the Mir Centre for Peace.

Former Mir Centre chair Randy Janzen has left his post to return to the college’s nursing program and hands the reins to Cara-Lee Malange.

“I would like to thank Randy for the dedicated and visionary work he has done over the past three years,” says Rhonda Schmitz, dean of instruction.

The Mir Centre for Peace runs two programs out of its base on the Castlegar campus: the two-year peace studies diploma and the nine-month certificate in trans-formative justice geared towards students who have already com-pleted a degree or diploma in post-secondary education. Throughout the year the Mir Centre also pro-

vides members of the community with symposiums, lecture series, peace cafes, workshops and pre-sentations.

Along with his duties in the nursing program, Janzen will con-tinue to be a Mir Centre instructor in peace studies courses.

Malange works in Selkirk Col-lege’s community education and workplace training department and is a Mir Centre advisory

member. She will be handling the day‐to‐day activities required to support the lecture series, the peace café series and other ongo-ing initiatives of the Mir Centre.

Malange arrives to her respon-sibilities with a master’s degree in anthropology and a bachelor’s degree in criminology as well as 15 years community development and community education experi-ence.

Selkirk College

Interim Green leader coming to Nelson

Recently elected interim Green Party leader Adam Olsen will be visiting the West Kootenay on Oc-tober 24, 25 and 26, on his first trip away from the BC coast.

“I look forward to visiting south east British Columbia,” Olsen said in a news release. “We have a great local organization that I am ex-

cited to support. There is a lot of opportunity for the BC Greens in Nelson-Creston and beyond. Sjeng [Djerkx] did very well. He attracted over 20 per cent of the vote and I am confident we can grow that support over the next four years.”

During his visit Olsen will meet with Kootenay mayors, council-ors and regional directors to learn more about local issues.

On Saturday, October 25, Olsen will speak at a fundraising dinner in Nelson alongside Green Party candidate Sjeng Derkx.

Olsen served two terms as a councillor in Central Saanich be-fore running in the 2013 provin-cial election in Saanich North. He was elected interim leader of the BC Green Party on August 25 after former leader Jane Sterk retired from politics.



Provincial Politics

The Mir Centre is in a former Doukhobor communal home on Selkirk College’s Castlegar campus.

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After last month’s Nelson Civic The-atre annual general meeting I received an

email from Gray Creek “mayor,” history buff, and local pioneer Tom Lymbery.

“Congratulations Anne on handling a full theatre at the Civic — and thank you so much for the effort you have put into this project,” wrote Tom. “We enjoyed the movie very much — otherwise I couldn’t have got my wife, Sharon, to come to an AGM.”

It was great to see Tom and Sharon at the AGM, along with 289 other Nelson Civic The-atre Society members, some of whom would not normally have come to an AGM. Knowing this, and knowing we had to pull out all the stops to get our 10 per cent quorum out in order to change the bylaws that required a 10 per cent quorum, we re-sorted to a little bribery.

We offered a social hour with appies (thank you, Save-on!) and tours beforehand and a free movie with popcorn and drink afterwards. We showed Hugo, a delightful movie about movies. And it worked. (Of course, many of you came just because you cared.)

I gave the president’s report, describing our journey — trajec-

tory, really — from semi-gutted space to going concern: seats in, fully digital, regular films, not to mention those supportive 2,117 members. I also lauded our staff, including “Central Nerve” operations and project manager Sue Adam, fundraising manager Roger “Go-get-‘em” Ley, and our resident cinephile and theatre manager Jason Asbell. And I gushed about my fellow board members, of course, because they really are a rare and special bunch. Committee chairs and members, volunteers — extraor-dinary hardly touches it, really.

Treasurer Rick Dietrich reported on financials, noting our happily positive cashflow but cautioning that our staff

is subsidized through various grants and that to be profitable — and therefore able to main-tain the theatre and give back to the community in the long term — three screens remains an essential goal.

Roger Ley reported on fund-raising successes, in particular the community challenge that saw more than $180,000 raised in two months for digital con-version, and outlined challenges for the next development phases. Roger talked about major sup-porters such as the Columbia Basin Trust, described the cor-porate sponsorship program,

Large Popcorn, Extra Butter

Rare and special and moving forward

ANNE DEGRACESpecial to the Nelson Star

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Nelson Commons. Now in 3D.We’ve had many visitors to the Nelson Commons Display Suite and Sales Office. Perhaps because the new 3D model makes living in downtown Nelson even easier to imagine.

Though we aren’t permitted to start pre-selling units just yet, visitors have been pre-selecting their preferred units. Come and talk to us at the display suite at 621 Vernon Street. We’re open 12:00 to 5:00, Wednesday to Sunday (or call 250 352-5847 to book an appointment).

Nelson Commons is currently not an offering for sale. Such an offering can only be made after filing a disclosure statement. All images are for illustration purposes only.

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Nelson Curling CentreThank You to the sponsors

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Achieving and surpassing their fundraising target for a digital projector was just one of several highlights for the Civic Theatre Society over the past year.

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Continued from Page 22and introduced the members of our fundraising campaign cabinet — local movers-and-shakers all.

Jason Asbell reported an astonishing figure of 40 dif-ferent movies shown since we opened as a fully digital theatre just three months ago. He described the challenges of distributors’ requirements, and our strategy to show films a few weeks after release for maximum flexibility. And he announced Monthly Member Movie Mondays (MMMM) with a chance to vote from the Theme-of-the-month list for a free movie for members.

Volunteer committee co-

chair Anna Purcell described the thousands (yes, thousands) of hours put in by volunteers, from cleaning through com-mittees. She also noted the volunteer contributions of our paid staff, who log many hours above and beyond. And then nominating com-mittee chair and vice president Marilyn Mint introduced the new board, who are: (con-tinuing): John Brand, Rick Dietrich, Marilyn Mint, Dar-ryl Santano, Ken Spencer, and (new): Don Johnston, Graeme Leadbeater, Mary Prothro, and Mark Stevens. Let me say now that this is an exceptional board going forward, which is great — because while there is

much to celebrate, there is still much to do.

Oh — and that quorum question? You discussed, you amended, and you eventually passed a more easily achiev-able AGM quorum — phew! Next year we’ll fill the seats not because we have to, but simply because you want to be there. It’s your theatre, after all.

The Nelson Civic Theatre project is all about building community, and building good memories like the one Tom included in his letter, in which a movie in Nelson was a rare and special thing.

“When my sister and I were young we only got one trip to Nelson each year, by

Greyhound, to see the dentist,” Tom wrote. “Overnight at a $2 room at the Hume and a movie at the Capitol or the Civic.”

Isn’t it great that the Hume, the Capitol, and the Civic are still here, all these years later? We’ll strive to be not so rare, but we’ll definitely work to stay special.

Anne DeGrace is the past president of the Nelson Civic Theatre Society. Large Pop-corn, Extra Butter runs every two weeks. If you have a Civic Theatre memory to share please email [email protected]. Find out about movies and more: go to civictheatre.ca

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Reach Your

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WHEN:THURSDAY, NOV 76:30 - 10:00 PM

WHERE:PRESTIGE LAKESIDE

RESORT, NELSON

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAYAT THE NELSON STAR & COTTON CREEK CLOTHING$30 IF PURCHASED BEFORE OCTOBER 21TICKETS GO UP TO $35 ON OCTOBER 21 Tickets will not be available at the doorTicket includes light appetizer and your choice of wine or beer. Cash bar to follow.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7SAVE THIS DATE FOR ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE

NELSON STAR EVENTIsabel Suppé is a climber, writer and motivational speaker who has spent most her adult life climbing in the Andes mountains of South America.In 2010, she fell more than 1,000 feet from a mountain in Bolivia and spent the next two days crawl-ing over the ice to be rescued. Soon after she was told that she would never walk normally again or climb. Isabel has de� ed the odds and returned to climbing. She is currently cycling across North America.

Dr. Scott Pentecost

$30

This motivational evening is geared for anyone who is

interested in wellness, outdoors and adventure

TO BE A SPONSOR CONTACT THE NELSON STAR AT 250.352.1890

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Nelson Star, October 04, 2013