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Year in reviewRossland

In the latest issue of Route 3, Black Press’ quarterly life-styles magazine, you’ll read about a freeride skier liv-ing his dream, an aborigi-nal sculptor, the role credit unions play in our commu-nities, winter fishing on area lakes, and how local martial artists are having a global impact.

In the cover story, Tyler Harper profiles Trace Cooke, a 20-year-old Nelson skier set to make his debut on the Freeride World Tour in January in Europe.

Joan Thompson writes about David Seven Deers, a Grand Forks sculptor and member of the Sto:lo Nation whose work references Greek myth, new archeological theories, Mayan tradi-tions, and Vedic Brahman beliefs.

Chelsea Novak looks at the history of four local credit unions — Heritage, Kootenay Savings, Nelson and District, and Grand Forks — and how they give back to the com-munities where they operate by supporting organizations and events.

Jim Bailey takes to local waterways with guide Kerry Reed to learn about the many winter opportunities for anglers and what it takes to catch a giant rainbow or bull trout.

Finally, Betsy Kline ex-amines how a Taekwondo instructor is motivating his students and other martial arts schools to be “champions of freedom and justice” and fight poverty and oppression

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Return to Ebola-affected West AfrikaRossland nurse, Patrice Gordon returned home

to B.C. on Christmas Day following four weeks in Sierra Leone aiding the fight against the Ebola virus. Upon arrival back on home soil Gordon began her three-week self-isolation period in a Kelowna hotel. Part way through the lock down she developed a fever and drove herself to the Kelowna General Hospital, the level two Ebola facility for inland BC.

The Rossland nurse was released from an isola-tion unit at the Kelowna hospital on the first day of the new year, after three tests for Ebola, over a 72-hour period, came back negative.

Gordon is one of 24 Canadian Red Cross workers who have travelled to West Africa to help with the Ebola crisis and she is now weighing up her options to return. With her skills and training, Gordon feels she has a lot to offer and is seriously considering the implications both ways.

A return back to West Africa would mean an additional seven weeks away from her home in Rossland. Four weeks in country and then the man-datory three weeks in isolation.

Seeing your family member go off into a risky mission while you are stuck at home with no con-trol over the situation is usually the hardest place to be in these scenarios. However Gordon believes her family can see beyond this and know the cause is valuable and close to Gordon’s heart.

“They would support it, they are proud of me for what I am doing and they worry, it is so much harder to be the people that stay behind,” she said.

Gordon is open to the location she is posted to within West Africa but says that returning to Sierra Leone would be favourable in order to work along-side the aid staff she had previously met.

“Our multi-national Red Cross group is one of the finest collections of people on the planet. The support, fun, mutual concern, and expertise are amazing to see. To watch so many people working so hard to fight against Ebola is a privilege. I am witnessing humanity at its best,” recounted Gordon.

New avalanche training parkLouis McBride, from Rossland’s McBride Design

and Construction Incorporated, has purchased and installed an eight-station wireless Back Country Access Avalanche Beacon Training Park at RED Mountain Resort (RMR).

McBride, an avid back country enthusiast, saw the need for this training park in the community. A lot of people travelling in the backcountry do not practice a rescue near as often as they should in

order to be efficient in a real life situation.“For me it’s important and we need one here

in the community,” McBride said of the new ava-lanche training park. This was motivation enough for McBride to fund the training park from his own pocket.

The park can be accessed by taking RMR’s Silverlode chair. The training park is visible from the chair ride on your way to the top. The park does not cost anything to use. As McBride explains, he wanted everyone travelling into the backcountry to be well prepared and acclimatized to searching and using a probe. “I think it is important, also for the sledders and snowshoers, for all those who travel into the backcountry,” he said.

McBride imparts the snow pack conditions in the Rossland Range are particularly touchy this year. “In the Rossland Range, because of the rain we got a month or so ago, it is not so safe here. There has been a lot of avalanche activity locally. A number of slides have occurred, some on the northern side of Mt. Kirkup, this was just before the ski hill opened (for the winter season),” he said.

To use the system there is a control panel. There are eight switches, one for each of the transceivers buried in the snow. Once you flip the switch on the control panel it will send a signal from the trans-ceiver to your avalanche beacon. If you locate the buried plywood surrounding the transceiver it will send a signal back to the control panel and the red light turns green. “You can also feel it,” explains McBride.

McBride has placed a notebook in the control panel and asks the public to sign it as you use the park. He also advises to “be a good backcountry partner and get out there and hone your searching skills!”

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Rossland Mountain Market wins award

The Rossland Mountain Market was announced as the winner of the Farmer’s Market of the Year in the small market category (six to 20 vendors) at the second annual BC Farmers’ Market awards.

The awards were held last month at the BC Association of Farmers’ Markets Conference in Cowichan Bay.

“It’s wonderful to see such passion and dedication to local food and farmers’ mar-kets,” said Elizabeth Quinn, the association’s executive director.

“The gala is a great oppor-tunity to celebrate the grow-ing food sector, acknowledge our achievements and recog-nize those who are making strides in our local commu-nities. Our winners are cre-ating opportunities, build-ing communities, shifting perceptions and shaping the experience of what it means to attend a farmers’ market in BC.”

The winning markets were selected from the 21

public nominated markets from across BC. The judges considered how each farm-ers’ market added value to their communities and con-nected producers to con-sumers through fresh, local foods.

Armstrong Farmers’ Market won the medium cat-egory (with between 21 and 60 vendors at each market) and Comox Valley Farmers’ Market received the award for large markets (with over 61 vendors).

“We are so honoured to receive the 2015 Farmers’ Market of the Year Award,” said Miche Warwick of the

Rossland Mountain Market Society. “We are actively striving to be a social cele-bration of local food, art and community and this award is a wonderful recognition. This is an affirmation that we are heading in the right direction, it is a super boost to motivation for all our vol-unteers’ effort.”

These accolades were made through a public nom-ination process where nomi-nators took around 15 min-utes each online to tell judg-es why they thought their favourite market should win. That speaks strongly for the passion these nomina-

tors must have for their local markets.

One of the things that has contributed to the success of the Rossland Mountain Market Society is providing access to farm fresh pro-duce throughout the winter months and connecting the farmers with local buyers.

Warwick explains the “biggest thing was that we tried to improve the com-munity’s access to local farm fresh produce and hand crafted goods year round. It has been noticed by the community that we have added a larger range of fresh produce.”

Farmers can now plan to grow crops throughout the winter knowing they will have a place to sell their yield. It allows locals good access to food all year. Rossland is one of only a handful of communities in the Kootenays where fresh produce is available at a mar-ket over the winter months.

“Becoming a society was a huge step for us and a suc-cessful moment. It has given the market the opportunity to do a lot more in the fu-ture,” explains Warwick.

Women’s National Field Hockey Team off to Dublin

The Canadian Women’s National Field Hockey Team booked its ticket to the World League Round 2 semifinal with a 5-1 win over Austria Thursday morning at Women’s World League Round 2 in Dublin, Ireland.

As they were with Ukraine, Canada’s women were ready for an awkward style of match which didn’t quite allow for a free-flowing style of hockey.

That readiness paid off early and often, as vet-eran forward Thea Culley, a Rossland native, beat Austrian goalkeeper Jasmin Anderle just three min-utes into the match to give Canada an important lead early.

The first goal of the game has proven to be quite impor-tant for the red-and-white as Canada has shown comfort playing with the lead, not giving one up throughout the entire tournament so far.

That task was made easier when Culley added to the lead in the twenty-fourth minute for her second of the game. Culley’s fourth goal of the tournament ties her for first in tournament goal scoring with Chile’s Daniela Caram and Ireland’s Naomi Carroll.

Before the half was out, Alex Thicke, a newcomer to the national scene playing in only her sixth internation-al match, was able to beat Anderle on a penalty cor-ner for her first international goal to increase Canada’s lead to 3-0.

Canada’s dominance con-tinued into the second half as the women were not going to leave anything to chance.

In the thirty-second min-ute, defender Sara McManus notched her second of the tournament on a penalty corner for the 4-0 and to extinguish any doubts sur-rounding the result. The teams exchanged goals late in the match, with Stephanie Norlander getting Canada’s final tally in the sixtieth minute.

RDKB says no to Rossland payment request

The regional district has turned down Rossland’s request for back payment for four years of fire hydrant maintenance.

Since 2010, Rossland has had a deal with the Regional District of the Kootenay Boundary where the region pays the city just over $100 per year, per hydrant. An issue arose when the city discovered it had been under reporting the number of hy-drants maintained, reducing its payment by $15,187.21 over four years.

At the most recent board of directors meeting, the RDKB received an invoice from the Golden City requesting payment of over $15,000, but the regional district followed a recommendation presented by RDKB chief administrative officer, John MacLean, and declined to pay.

“We went through a couple of issues here to determine which way we wanted to go with this,” said MacLean. “At the end of the day, the recommendation was based on how dif-ficult it would be to go back in time.”

Maclean says every dollar in the fire bud-get is accounted for, leaving no room for an extra $15,000 to be paid out.

“The fire budget is a very tight budget,” he said. “It is a large budget, but very tight.”

According to the RDKB, Rossland was re-sponsible for correctly counting the hydrants and the district is not on the hook for the money.

Manager of operations for Rossland, Darrin Albo, says the city relied on the re-ports from operators when submitting hy-

drant counts to the regional district for pay-ment over the last five years.

“I know there are some discrepancies over whether the hydrants are in a strata,” he said, adding that they still flush strata hydrants, but the city doesn’t own them. “When we get a report back from our operators, they will report that they flushed so many hydrants and then we use that number.”

The discrepancy in number of hydrants has been remedied for the 2014 payment from the RDKB, but only after a survey of the city and a hydrant count.

“This year, we actually went around and looked at our GIS (geographic information system) and we went around and physically counted all of our hydrants, and that is why the number we have now corresponds with how many hydrants we actually own,” he said.

Rossland Mayor Kathy Moore was at the RDKB committee meeting where the deci-sion to decline payment was made, and says she has no plans to contest it.

“The agreement is that cities are to tell the RDKB what hydrants they have and submit a map,” she said. “Evidently the city made a mistake and didn’t do that (from 2010 to 2013). I wouldn’t want someone to come to me and say, ‘Hey, I forgot to bill you four years ago, but I am billing you now.’”

Moore says the final decision on whether to accept the RDKB’s choice will lie with council, but she doesn’t foresee any backlash.

Tighty whities challenge takes RosslandEveryone in Rossland is pitching in to help

build a skatepark for Rossland. On Saturday, Feb. 7 while it was raining and foggy at the ski hill, a group of kids who are passionate about the skatepark project, skied down from the t-bar in nothing but their tighty whities!

During the month of December when the Rossland Skatepark Association (RSA) hosted their 30K in 30 days fundraiser chal-

lenge, locals posted various challenges to the Yodel website which were then funded by a network of their supporters. By asking their local networks to pledge them online, mem-bers expanded their fundraising pool outside of Rossland to across the world.

Mark Impey, a RSA board member, was able to reach his network of friends from across the globe to support the construction of Rossland’s skatepark. “I received donations supporting my challenge from Australia, Scotland, England, Ontario, Alberta and all over BC. If I had asked these people to donate to help build a skatepark in Rossland, they wouldn’t have given it much thought but they wanted to support me in my challenge so they gave (to the cause),” Impey said.

Local Rossland children Finn and Blaise were fulfilling their Yodel skatepark fund-

raiser challenge on Feb. 7 by skiing the T-bar slope in only their underwear. They raised the stakes when they skied through the ter-rain park side of the t-bar and even jumped some of the features set up in the park.

RSA aims to break the ground in sum-mer of 2016 with construction of the skate-park at the old Emcon Lot on the corner of Washington and Third Ave. The association is on a roll and has the project shovel ready — all that is missing is a small portion of the funds to construct the park. RSA have the designs drafted and approval for the site. They hope to raise an additional $100,000 to accomplish the project.

RSA began back in 1996. By the time the funds roll in to construct the skatepark, it will have been 20 years that the community’s desire for a skatepark has become formalized.

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Everyone is pitching in to build a skatepark for Rossland, including these kids who took to the slopes in their tighty whities on Sunday despite the drizzling rain.

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Dear Rosslanders,The volunteers at the Rossland Food Bank

wish to thank all who have donated, not only this year, but in past years as well to the food bank. Our ability to operate is totally depen-dent on the generosity of our donors and we are deeply appreciative of the support we receive.

We acknowledge with gratitude the support of the City of Rossland, Ferraro Foods, Goat FM Radio, Out of the Cellar, Rossland Beer Co., Bear Environmental, Rossland Aeire #10 Eagles, Columbia Basin Trust, Alpine Drug Mart staff, Miners’ Hall movie night, RSS stu-dents, Rotary Interac, West Kootenay Toy Run, Rossland Thrift Shop, City of Rossland em-ployees, Carpenter’s Union members, Safety Net Security, BC Government Employees Union members, Nelson and District Credit Union staff, Rossland Branch, Cynthia’s Yoga, Rossland Quilters, The Discussion Group, K2Contracting employees, Rossland Court Services, Rossland Ladies Curling Club, Rossland Firemen, and CIMS employees, TriMac Transportation Service, Trail Branch employees, St. Andrews United Church con-gregation, Sacred Heart Catholic Church pa-rishioners, who have, through their joint ef-forts, raised funds for the food bank as well as ongoing donations of food. We thank the individuals who faithfully make a monthly donation and the countless others who have made monetary donations or dropped off food in our basket at Ferraros. Our hearts are particularly warmed to see children requesting donations to the food bank in lieu of birthday presents and to those who have “gone shop-ping” for the food bank to remember the needs of others at Christmas time.

Our food bank is funded and stocked by Rosslanders, as well as those who have or have had a connection to Rossland. We are in awe at the level of support we receive which allows us to keep our door open. We are truly thankful.

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Passages of 2015: Bill BennettThe death of for-

mer BC premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the tradi-tional round of polite tributes.

He was the man from Kelowna who re-made Vancouver, with SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo ’86 to put the city on the

world map. He won three majority govern-ments before handing over the steering wheel of a smoothly running Social Credit Party to Bill Vander Zalm.

Outside BC, the wire service obituaries ran to a few paragraphs, defining Bennett first as the “architect of financial restraint in the province.”

It seems an ordinary notion today, but when Bennett unleashed his “restraint pro-gram” on the BC government in 1983, it was presented as a right-wing coup on a socialist utopia.

I was in journalism school in Vancouver when unions organized a general strike and mass street demonstrations under the banner of Operation Solidarity, appropriated from the struggle against Poland’s communist dic-tators. Their goal was to bring the recently re-elected government to its knees.

The newly tabloid Vancouver Province, it-self largely controlled by some of BC’s most

militant unions, was a screeching banshee of the big-labour left.

“Socred hitmen swoop on rights work-ers,” its front page declared after 400 layoff notices were issued to provincial staff. This propaganda was the public’s guide and my professional role model.

A bit of background: the BC economy was in the grip of an international recession, hitting resource industries and government revenues hard.

Bennett had ousted the Dave Barrett NDP government in 1975, but the legacy lived on. During its three-year reign, for example, education spending increased 13 per cent in the first year and 23 per cent in each of the next two.

The blitz of restraint legislation reasserted government’s authority to control the size and wages of provincial staff, reinstated the province’s ability to pay, eliminated various boards, and increased the provincial sales tax to seven per cent to pay the bills.

Another Bill Bennett legacy was disman-tling the monopoly chokehold of big interna-tional unions on public heavy construction.

Growing up in northeastern BC, I had seen the impressive pay for jobs on highway construction, about twice what I earned la-bouring for a non-union contractor doing city work.

A couple of friends discovered the in-side track to securing labouring jobs on a provincially-funded highway project. After

joining the union, those in the know could visit a business agent and hand over $500 cash. Within days, the lucky winner would be “name requested” to join the crew, vault-ing over those who thought paying dues and working their way up the seniority list would be enough.

This struggle over public construction continues today, with BC Hydro’s decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was awarded to a consortium work-ing with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, an alternative union known by more colourful names among old-line build-ing trades.

After graduating from journalism school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premier’s office to finish his term as a back-bench MLA.

Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Ave., where he kept an office above the family furniture store.

I found out later that Bennett’s modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier.

The party bought it for him as a humour-ous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills. That was Bill Bennett.

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out new homeRossland’s Youth

Action Network (YAN) may have finally found a home to call their own.

Located at 2076 Columbia Avenue — previously, Got Juiced and Mountain Nugget Chocolate shop — the YAN is a program of the city, funded through Columbia Basin Trust’s (CBT) Community Directed Youth Funds Program.

YAN and its coordi-nator, Mike Kent, aim to have the youth of Rossland become more involved with extra-cir-ricular activities and the community.

YAN came to life in 2013 but up until a month ago, the pro-gram had no base of operations. This location is more of a pilot project according to Kent.

How long the centre stays open at its new location depends on several factors includ-ing funding, traffic and usefulness.

Currently, Kent is waiting on a grant ap-proval which should be coming in within two weeks. If funding is se-cured, Kent said the YAN will be in place for at least another year.

As coordinator, Kent’s job is to talk with the youth and figure out what it is they want out of the network.

“Over the past two years, my role as a co-ordinator has been to get youth together, talk to them and figure out what kinds of things they feel they’d like to see hap-pen in Rossland. A lot of that’s been more around programs and opportu-nities.”

Kent and the YAN have started up a parkour program, art programs, community dances and much more.

In addition to hav-ing a more solid base to conduct planning and various activities, Kent believes having a physi-cal location is important in itself.

“There hasn’t been a defined youth space in Rossland for over a

decade. There was one that closed down when I moved here long ago but nothing since,” he said.

Kent and company have applied for a couple more grants and started work on a sustainability plan to ensure long term life for the network.

“We’re feeling pretty confident that we’ll be open for at least a year and see if the youth around here are finding value here.”

“Since the start of the project we’ve held five group meetings. The youth come in and dis-cuss different plans and actions the YAN could undertake. We’ve had some great feedback.”

Former city planner hired as new interim

CAOThe City of Rossland

has found a new interim chief administrative of-ficer in Mike Maturo, who previously worked for the city as the senior planner. Maturo will begin his new job April 27.

In a news release, the city said the search and hiring process after previous acting admin-istrator Tracey Butler resigned was long and arduous but they wanted to make sure the person who filled the role would perform the job to the same standard.

“After reviewing doz-ens of resumes and in-terviewing five finalists, city council selected Mr. Maturo to fill this critical position while the cur-rent chief administrative/chief financial officer is on extended leave,” the statement said.

“We are thrilled to welcome Mr. Maturo as interim CAO,” Mayor Kathy Moore said. “With his extensive municipal experience and under-standing of the city, Mr. Maturo is able to imme-diately step into the CAO role and have a positive impact that will help move the city forward.”

From 2007 to 2013, Maturo was Rossland’s manager of planning and development services. However, the city elimi-nated his position.

“There was an effort

to contain costs,” Moore said. “We had two plan-ners at the time and we didn’t have much devel-opment going on in the town, so the decision by the council of the day was to let Mr. Maturo go and promote the plan-ning assistant to the planner position.”

However during his time with the city, he made significant contri-butions to the communi-ty, including facilitating the adoption of the stra-tegic sustainability plan, re-writing the official community plan, draft-ing the tax revitalization bylaw and modernizing the zoning bylaw.

Maturo also led the downtown revitalization design process, managed the community wildfire protection plan, drafted the 2011 municipal in-frastructure and facilities improvement plan, and was the city’s representa-tive for the regional liq-uid waste management plan. He further led the initiative to establish the city’s active transporta-tion plan and success-fully obtained a number of grants.

Maturo holds a mas-ter’s degree in urban and regional planning, as well as a bachelor of science degree in economics. He has managed both office staff and contractors, and has over 17 years of experience working in small-to-medium sized municipalities.

Last year he briefly served as interim direc-tor of development ser-vices and engineering in Nelson, but resigned be-fore his contract ended.

“Mr. Maturo brings a wealth of practical, or-ganizational and mana-gerial knowledge to the position,” Moore said.

“Rossland has major infrastructure chal-

lenges ahead and Mr. Maturo’s previous ex-perience, knowledge of our community, our infrastructure situation and the issues raised by the auditor general for local government make him an excellent choice for interim CAO. City council is delighted to welcome him into this new role.”

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Ilo Shubert retires after 28 years

“I heard somewhere that every time you smile it improves your sense of well-being, and I thought, they make me smile a hundred times a day.”

These are the words of Ilo Shubert, several days before she hands out cer-tificates of graduation to her 40 plus preschoolers for the final time.

Shubert has run Ilo’s Preschool for over 28 years now and believes it’s time to pack it in, but not before she’s certain that after it’s been sold, the school will continue to operate as it has for so long.

Shubert is asking the

city for a letter of assur-ance that whoever buys her business can continue to run the preschool in the same room and pay rent at a reasonable cost.

Located in the Lodge Room, downstairs in the Miners’ Hall, her children have all the space they could need for anything a growing, learning kid needs.

From humble begin-nings when the school was supposed to host one group twice a week, Ilo’s has grown to have 75 kids at times. Over the years, Shubert has cut back but still tends to cover several groups, four days a week, mornings and evenings.

The Miners’ Hall is owned by the city and Shubert contracts with them to run the pre-school.

“I have 40 families

that want preschool in September and they’re all so panicked not knowing what they’re going to do.”

“It’s actually bitter-sweet this week. I’m feel-ing it’s time for someone younger with a little more energy to take over but I’m going to miss them so much. I have kids of kids now. Those who came before are now bringing their little ones and that’s so cool.”

During last week’s council meeting, sev-eral concerned citizens, parents, and friends of Shubert came out to voice their support.

Ilo Shubert retired last Thursday after many fun-filled years, educating and inspiring the youth of Rossland.

Rossland Beer Co. takes home gold

It’s been an amazing

first three years for the Rossland Beer Co. In their first six months, they won a prestigious award through the BC beer awards for their Paydirt Pale ale. And this year, Ryan Arnaud and Petri Raito are very proud to accept the Gold Medal for their stout at the recent 2015 Canadian Brewing awards. It’s en-couraging that their beer is recognized in such a prestigious event — they are clearly doing some-thing right.

Starting off just over

three years ago, they are so excited about the future and are proud to share this with the people of Rossland.

“It’s so great to look to the future and be able to grow together. We look forward to being a big part of the community down the road. We might need a little time to do all the things we want to do and be a part of, but it’s happening and we can’t wait. From being a good employer to adding to the draw of the town,” says Raito.

Students raise money for wetland projectsEarlier this year, in

March, Rossland Summit School (RSS) teacher, Bridget O’Malley, and her Grade 4 and 5 class put on a fundraiser per-formance of the classic Dr. Seuss tale, The Lorax.

The performance was to raise money for the North Jubilee Wetland Reclamation Project and altogether the students raised $878.

With the theme of the book being about stew-ardship and caring for the environment, O’Malley wanted the community project to reflect this message.

The wetland project will convert the field area that has been drained and treated as a regular park

for over 60 years into something everyone can use more effectively, es-pecially the critters that call these environments home.

“I projected we would make $150,” said O’Malley. “In my mind, I thought the kids would think $150 is a lot of money so you can imag-ine when we had the money after the show how excited they were. It was such a fantastic project with a great out-come and the kids are so proud.”

Her Honour Judith Guichon visits

RosslandHer Honour, the

Honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, paid a visit to the mountain town of Rossland on Tuesday and she loved every minute of it.

“It started with break-fast, with an amazing

group of people, with ideas that are earthshak-ing, literally. It’s an un-usual community,” she said at the closing point of her time in Rossland.

Throughout her time in Rossland, her most prominent visits were to the various schools. Her first stop was made at École des Sept-sommets.

Here she spread the word of conservation and how important the living aspects of our earth are.

The children were fully prepared for Her Honour’s visit and had prepared two songs in French, which they proudly sung before her.

After the children sang, there was a question period and nearly every hand in the gymnasium shot up.

“Do you ever regret becoming Lieutenant Governor?” asked one student.

“Not for a minute,” Guichon replied, “I’ve

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Her Honour then trav-eled to Seven Summits Centre for Learning where they provided her with several small gifts of chocolate, provided a tour and update on what it is they do at this alter-native learning facility.

Everything went so smoothly that there was a little extra time avail-able for Guichon to see the city’s courthouse and various landmarks and views.

“Whenever I meet other people and talk about the province I can talk about Rossland,” she said, “and say ‘did you know this was happen-

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May

The Lieutenant Governor, Judith Guichon, made a stop in Rossland on Tuesday as part of her Kootenay tour. What she saw and the people she spoke with, simply blew her away. After leaving each school she stopped to shake each students hand and thank them for their time. Photo by Chris Stedile

JunePhoto by Chris Stedile

Ilo with her preschool chil-dren enjoying a picnic at the park after a field trip to the local post office.

Controversial posi-tion filled

The Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue’s (KBRFR) new firefighter training po-sition has been filled.

Glen Gallamore of Company 4 was hired in-ternally to take on the new position and will begin his new role on Sept. 14.

The training posi-tion came about after the Office of the Fire Commissioner came out with a firefighters compe-tency and training play-book in September 2014.

According to the playbook, in order for a fire department to be a full services op-erations department, every firefighter must meet the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) 1001 Firefighter 2 Competencies.

Not all of KBRFR’s firefighters currently do.

So in June, the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary East End Services Committee voted for the KBRFR to be a full service operations fire de-partment, and to create the firefighter training position.

A paid on-call fire-fighter was hired to take on Gallamore’s shift now that he’ll be training full time.

The new position stirred some controver-sy when the East End Services Committee voted to create it.

Rossland city council-lor Lloyd McLellan was the only member of the committee opposed to the new position, and Mayor Kathy Moore went on re-cord to say she thought there must have been a better way.

“For the amount of money we are now spend-ing on a training officer, a fair number of people could have attended courses at the Justice Institute or a trainer could have been brought out,”

she told Rossland News. “I realize this isn’t ideal, and maybe not feasible, but I don’t believe other alternatives were properly explored.”

Chief Martin is aware of the opposition, and says he respects the East End Services Committee, all of its members and Mayor Moore, but feels the new position was the best op-tion.

Four bears killed in Rossland

Rosslanders took to Bhubble to voice their concerns after Mayor Kathy Moore posted on her Facebook page that four bears were killed in lower Rossland on Wednesday.

Sgt. Tobe Sprado from the conservation office in Castlegar confirmed that the bears — two adult males and two adults fe-males — were “destroyed” on Wednesday.

According to Sprado, the two things drawing the bears into town are garbage and fruit, and due to the drought this

year, berries have dried up earlier than usual, push-ing bears to seek out an alternate food source.

“So there will be an in-flux of bears coming into communities, and we ex-pect people to be a little bit more tolerant than they have in the past,” he said.

Sprado says that so far, fires haven’t been driving the bears into town, but his office anticipates that if the wildfires get worse, they could also become a factor.

Asked what people can do to keep bears from coming into their yards, Sprado said, “They’ve gotta eliminate the at-tractants. So specifically, even if the fruit is not ripe, bears are still attracted to that fruit. They’re gonna have to pick that fruit.”

Garbage shouldn’t be left outside before pickup. If for some reason it does need to be left outside, Sprado recommends putting organics into a different bag, and storing it in the deep freeze until garbage day if necessary.


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Oh Canada! Rossland styleCanada Day in Rossland was a

little different this year with the day’s festivities taking place out-side Rossland Museum instead of at Pioneer Park, but tradition was upheld with the annual hike up Mt. Roberts.

Hikers met at the museum at 8 a.m. For those who made it, the reward was watching the Canadian flag being hoisted high, after which, according to Mayor Kathy Moore, “the whole group sort of spontaneously burst into song,” with the singing of “O Canada.”

Back at the Rossland Museum, family friendly activities kicked off at noon with music and a bar-beque, and face painting, crafts, and carnival games for the kids. Sonja Janischewski says her two daughters Ava and Mackenzie Echle (ages three and four) “re-ally enjoyed being out and look-ing at all the equipment the city brought in,” equipment like loaders and graders.

The Gold Fever Follies sang a bilingual rendition of the national anthem and performed a teaser from their summer show and then Molly Jamin, age 13, led the official singing of “O Canada.”

Mayor Moore presented the Canada Day cake, cutting slices for everyone, and the day finished with music from the Foggy Goggle Boys.

Museum director Joelle Hodgins and museum assistant Sandra Balentine worked over the winter to organize the event at its new location. Balentine estimates at least 300 people attended.

Rossland slows down to 30 kilometers

As of Tuesday, July 21 the speed limit on Rossland’s municipal roads is 30 km per hour.

The change in speed limit was originally anticipated for mid-August, but the decals arrived early.

“We were going to do it as soon as we got the signs, but the decals for the signs—we’re just changing

the 4 to the 3 to make it 30 instead of 40—…they came in quickly, so public works was out there put-ting them on all the signs yester-day,” Mayor Kathy Moore said Wednesday afternoon.

Speed limits in school zones have also been lowered to 15 km per hour in pickup areas and 20 km per hour elsewhere.

Two specific areas of Rossland—the west end of McLeod and the Nickelplate neighbourhood—have also had their speed limits lowered to 20 km per hour, because the streets are so narrow.

Corporal Darryl Orr of the Trail and Greater District Detachment says they’ll be enforcing the new speed limit, as well as watching for unbuckled seat belts, and distracted drivers. There may be some leniency for those who haven’t realized the speed limit’s been dropped, but that call will be at the discretion of the officer, and will be based on the speed of the vehicle.

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Mayor Kathy Moore and fellow Rosslanders mak-ing the decent down Mt. Roberts.

August

Divers scour reservoirAn RCMP dive team was

searching the Rossland reservoir Monday in hopes of finding evi-dence in connection to the homi-cide of Rossland resident Thomas Feeney.

Spokesman Cpl. Dave Tyreman said the RCMP Underwater Recovery Team was called in as a result of information obtained in the ongoing investigation.

Police have yet to share how the 75-year-old died in his home on June 5, 2014. Investigators believe the death occurred during a rob-bery, and they hope the renewed search will turn up evidence that may have been discarded after the homicide.

The case, led by the Southeast District Major Crime Unit, is con-sidered a “random incident” or a “crime of opportunity” against the man who was killed at his home on Feeney Road, named after his

family.“We don’t believe it was a tar-

geted act, where they planned out to kill Mr. Feeney,” explained Tyreman. “It’s possible they were breaking in because there were some antiques or some items of interest that Mr. Feeney had col-lected.”

In this case, it appears that somebody either broke into the residence or was in the residence and was confronted by him and at that point Mr. Feeney lost his life,” said Tyreman.

The investigation is very much active, Tyreman confirmed, and police are asking the public to re-evaluate their memory because any detail could lead to solving this crime.

NDP’s Richard Cannings for the win

The red wave that swept across the country last night didn’t flow into the newly formed South Okanagan-West Kootenay (SOWK) riding.

This area remained orange for a fourth straight federal election while the Liberals took hold of

most of Canada.NDP Richard Cannings was de-

clared the winner after garnering 19,230 votes from 250 of the 276 polling stations.

By 9:45 p.m. Cannings had arrived to the celebration at his Penticton headquarters.

By the time BC voting stations closed at 7 p.m. the Liberals al-ready had a near majority govern-ment.

Following the east to west sweep, Justin Trudeau was named the next Prime Minister fifteen minutes later with 172 seats and counting.

“We’re thrilled to see that Canada’s back on the right track,” Liberal candidate Connie Denesiuk told Dan Walton of the Penticton Western News.

The country-wide Liberal roll ended in the South Okanagan-West Kootenay as Cannings took an early lead and maintained about 600 votes over Liberal Connie Denesiuk. Behind her by about 600 votes was Conservative Marshall Neufeld, with Samantha Troy from the Green Party and Independent

Brian Gray trailing.During the course of the night,

the NDP lead widened, and after 150 polls, Cannings pulled ahead by over 1,200 votes. Notably at the half way point, Denesiuk al-ready had 6,700 more votes than the Liberals received in the 2011 election.

Meanwhile, the Conservative candidate accepted the results lo-cally as well as nationally.

“It’s clear the people have made their choice in this riding and I look forward and fully expect he will be a good representative of this riding,” said Neufeld in a short speech to campaign supporters.

Eritrean refugees arrive in RosslandThe West Kootenay Friends of Refugees

(WKFoR) welcomed their second sponsored family on Wednesday, Aug. 26.

Twenty-nine-year-old Ruta Zakarias Yohannes is a refugee from Eritrea, Africa. She arrived from a refugee camp in Cairo with her two sons, Eyobed Gideon Melake, who turned five the day they arrived, and Yonathan Gideon Melake, age four.

Ruta fled Eritrea after her husband didn’t come home one day. She hasn’t seen him since.

Ruta escaped Eritrea and made it to Cairo where she and her boys lived for a year and a half, and where she applied to immigrate to Canada as a refugee.

Two other women from the camp have also immigrated to the Kootenays. Both Helen and Salam live in Nelson, and know Ruta from the camp.

Helen and Salam surprised Ruta and her children at the airport on Wednesday, along with members of the WKFoR.

Ruta speaks some English, but her pri-mary language is Tigrinya and knowing other Eritreans in the area will give her the opportunity to keep speaking it.

The WKFoR will help Ruta learn more English and train for a job.

Eyobed will be starting school in

September, but Yonathan will need other opportunities to start learning English, like the Strong Start program. The program re-quires parents to attend with their children, so Ruta would also have the opportunity to learn more English, and would get to meet other parents with children the same age.

The Canadian government will give Ruta a small stipend for the first six months she’s in Canada, and the WKFoR will help pay for anything not covered by the stipend and for any expenses during the following six months, at which point they hope she’ll have a job that will allow her to support herself.

Rosslander runs for the GreensRossland resident Samantha Troy be-

came the Green party candidate for South Okanagan-West Kootenay on Sunday, Sept. 13. Since then, she’s been kept busy filling out paperwork, attending debates and meet-ing constituents.

Troy was inspired to run when she learned that there was no Green party candidate for the riding. She liked the Green party’s plat-form and decided someone should run for the party.

“With the world as it is we need to start making some really concrete … choices,” she said. “I sure like the way Elizabeth May has presented herself over her time in parlia-ment, and not too much research to go look

up the Green party platform and go, ‘Wow, that really makes sense, and it’s actually pretty doable.’ And for all those reasons we should have a candidate in this riding, and I can be that candidate.”

For Troy, the most important issue this election is changing the election system.

Asked what she thought the elections is-sues were for Rosslanders, Troy said, “I think I need to talk to a lot more Rosslanders, and just ask their direct opinions as to what their

concerns are.”She also thinks that Rosslanders are gen-

erally pretty concerned about the environ-ment.

“We’re a tourist town. We need snow on our ski hill, and if it’s not coming there’s only so much laissez faire, that’s just the way the weather goes, sort of perspective before you really need to go, ‘No, we want to maintain our jobs, and we want to maintain our place as an active resort destination.’”


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Ruta and her sons arrived at Castlegar Airport on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Left to right: Yonathan Gideon Melake, Eyobed Gideon Melake, and Ruta Zakarias Yohannes.

October

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The RCMP Underwater Recovery Team was called in to search the Rossland reservoir Monday for evidence that may be linked to the homicide of Rossland resident Thomas Feeney.

Rossland, Trail fail to reach rec agreementEfforts to reach a recreation agreement between

the cities of Rossland and Trail have come to a standstill.

Representatives from both communities an-nounced on Thursday that after four months of trying to hammer out a deal they’ve reached an impasse.

It came down to finances and Rossland simply couldn’t afford to meet Trail’s request.

In a press release, the City of Rossland cited that its budget is “under pressure from a number of fronts.”

It highlighted the sewage plant upgrades, aging facilities and major infrastructure repairs including next year’s Washington Street renewal project.

“While we understand there is a tangible and important value to regional cooperation, our first priority must be to the residents of Rossland and making sure our spending decisions are prudent,” said the release.

The City of Trail issued its own press release explaining its negotiating committee faced a tough decision.

“It became very evident that Trail council would have to significantly compromise the original prin-ciples the city advanced when talks began in order to secure an agreement with Rossland.”

Trail Mayor Mike Martin said the gap between the two communities was just too much to over-come.

“Rossland cited financial capacity as a limiting factor and there remained a significant gap between what Rossland indicated they could afford to pay and where Trail council was ultimately comfort-able.

“As negotiations continued, council became in-creasingly concerned with the potentially negative impacts a settlement could have on the funding agreement the city has in place with Warfield and Beaver Valley. The city had to be mindful of this given what has been accomplished in these two agreements.”

Trail reached a 66-month deal with Warfield (worth $631,500 over the life of the agreement) in May and a one-year deal with Beaver Valley (worth $125,000) in August.

According to the City of Rossland press release, Trail offered Rossland a two-year deal for $90,000 per year while Rossland countered with an offer of $50,000 per year with a cost of living percentage increase for three years.

Rossland Mayor Kathy Moore said the cost proved too prohibitive.

“In the end we just couldn’t afford what Trail

was requesting. Rossland already spends 15 per cent of our annual budget on our own recreational facilities and programs. We have other basic critical needs that must be addressed.”

Despite not reaching an agreement, Moore said both sides negotiated in a friendly and open man-ner.

The Rossland press release said its council de-cided that the original offer to Trail could be used to fund a reimbursement program to residents for access to Trail’s facilities. Details of the program will be announced in the near future.

Fallen Rosslanders rememberedHundreds of Rosslanders stood in the snow and

cold on Wednesday morning to pay their respects to those who sacrificed so much to secure Canada’s freedom.

Following the Remembrance Day parade from the Legion to the Rossland Library, Rosslanders gathered at the cenotaph for ceremonies that in-cluded the singing of “O Canada,” a moment of silence and the Act of Remembrance.

Ceremonies also included a roll call. Greg Granstrom read aloud the names of Rosslanders who served in the First and Second War, as well as the names of three Rosslanders who served in the Second Boer War, while Scouts laid poppies in front of crosses bearing their names.

Ceremonies at the cenotaph were preceded by a Remembrance Day service at the Legion, given by Reverend Ken Siemens.

Siemens reflected on why Rosslanders might have originally chosen to hold a religious service at the Legion on Remembrance Day, and connected the reason with Father Pat, whose monument stands along the parade route.

“He served the community at a time when a lot of people were quite irreligious, skeptical, not a great deal of faith, and yet they appreciated his ministry and they recognized that there was some-thing in what he was doing,” said Siemens. “I was suggesting that it was probably something of that attitude that moved people to want to have the Legion church service, whether they shared the faith being expressed by whoever was leading it, but in some way I think that they almost hoped that it was true. Back then or now, we certainly do not have unanimity of faith in the room, but we have people who want to be here.”

Both the service and the ceremonies at the ceno-taph concluded with the singing of “God Save the Queen.”

Then Rosslanders returned to the legion for hot stew and rum, musical entertainment, and lively conversation.

Dough Halladay, president of the Legion and parade master, was happy to see so many people turnout for the day’s activities.

“Glad to see a good crowd out and that people are remembered,” said Doug Halladay.


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Year in review

NovemberPhoto by Chelsea Novak

The colour party led the Remembrance Day parade to the cenotaph where they stood at attention behind markers commemorating Rosslanders who gave their lives to keep Canada free.

UPCOMINGROSSLAND CITY COUCIL MEETINGMonday, Jan. 11, 2016 at 6 p.m.Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 at 6 p.m.

TOUR DE SOUPCome out and discover a new trail at Black Jack and ski for free. At each of the club’s cabins soup will be provided by the local restaurants. � e adventure is between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.

WEST KOOTENAY OS-TOMY SUPPORT GROUPMeets Monday, Jan. 18, 2016 at 2 p.m., Kiro Wellness Center, Trail. Topic: Prolapsed stoma. For info, call 250-368-9827 or 250-365-6276.


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ONGOINGMUSEUM SATURDAY CRAFTERNOONSStop in anytime Saturdays between 1-3 p.m. for Cra� ernoons in the Discovery Zone! Cra� s and activities for kids of all ages. Free with adult admission. Parents can feel free to look around the museum while we cra� with the kids. � e Museum is open all winter Wednesdays-Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Co� ee, tea, and hot chocolate available to keep you warm! Contact: 250-362-7722 or [email protected].

ART DROP IN NIGHTMondays, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. � ere will be no instruction, just a space to be creative with other youth artists. Come hang out and get creative!

ROSSLAND BEAVER SCOUTSMondays, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Girls and boys ages 5 to 7 years. Please contact Deanna Leask at 250-362-7118 to join.

SLURPS AND BURPS FEEDING GROUPTuesdays, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Family Obstetrics Clinic, Fourth Floor Maternity, KBRH Trail. Share your experiences with your peers in an informative place for breastfeeding and bottle support. Whether you are an expectant mom, brand new mom, or a more seasoned mom, we wel-come you!

ADULT CO-ED REC HOCKEYTuesdays and � ursdays, 9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. Join this fun, co-ed recreational pro-

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MUSIC NIGHTTuesdays, 6:20 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Drop in event for ages 12 to 18. How do you like to music? Come to the YAN Space and immerse your-self in anything/everything music. No prior music-ing experience necessary.

GIRL TALK FOR GIRLS 14-18Wednesdays, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Want some time to just relax, talk, and hang out doing cool things with other girls? We have all kinds of awesome, inclusive, creative activi-ties for you at Girl Talk. No pressure, chill space, girls only! Free.

YAN AFTER SCHOOL DROP-INMonday-� ursday, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Come in and chill, get homework help, build a resume or do a job search, or just hang with you friends. Free.

LOCAL WRITERS DISCUSSIONWednesdays, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. @ the Rossland Seniors Hall. To share ideas, ex-pertise and knowledge, critiques, and open opportunities for experienced and want-to-be writers. For more information contact Les Anderson by email at [email protected] or phone 250-362-5532.

PICKLEBALLWednesdays, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ RSS. Indoor pickleball.

MAKERLAB FOR YOUTH 12-18� ursdays, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Newly renovated and expanded for this year, the Makerlab is a meeting ground for youth who share a keen interest in all aspects of technology. Bring your technology project, whether it is robotics, motion graphics, creating and printing 3D models, or some-thing completely di� erent. You don’t need experience, just an enthusiasm for technol-ogy! By donation.

ROSSLAND SENIORSMonday 1:30 p.m.Seniors Art Club meets. Contact Edith at 250-362-4477.Monday 7 p.m.Rossland Quilters Guild meets.Contact Dayanne at 250-362-7727.Wednesday 7 p.m.Golden City Fiddlers play. Visitors should contact Richie at 250-362-9465.� ursday 9:30 to 11 a.m.Seniors stretching exercises and morning tea and snacks.


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Year in review

DecemberFriends of the Rossland Range

need to raise $15,000The Friends of the Rossland

Range will need to raise at least $15,000 from the community to finish their Rossland Rec Site proj-ect.

Kim Deane, FORR’s chair, shared the organization’s future fi-nancial goals at its annual general meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 25 at the United Church Hall.

FORR has applied to the Lower Columbia Community Development Team Society’s Community Directed Funds (CDF) program for $50,000 to help complete the Rossland Range Rec Site project — which includes demolishing 15 of the old shelters, putting up new signage, adding 30 parking spaces, upgrading trail access, restoring the Old Glory Forest Fire Lookout Station, and rebuilding or renovating nine shel-ters — but even if FORR receives funding from the CDF, they will still need to raise the additional $15,000.

FORR already has $85,000 in confirmed funding from the Canada 150 Fund, $42,500 from Columbia Basin Trust, and $17,500 from Rec Sites & Trails, but none of that funding can be spent on the new cabins. This funding is intended to go toward everything else, including the restoration of the Old Glory lookout.

There is an additional $19,300 from Rec Sites & Trails for the cab-ins, and Kootenay Mountaineering Club donated $10,700 for the Lepsoe Basin cabin. Otherwise FORR has already raised $20,000 in donations.

Three of the old shelters have already been replaced with new cabins — Mosquito, Viewpoint and the Lepsoe Basin cabin — and Red Dog is currently under reno-

vation.Not-So-Secret, Surprise and

Igloo could be done by the end of next summer, depending on how things go. A fourth cabin could also potentially be complete if they can decide which cabin to keep.

Barking Spider was supposed to be kept as a cabin, but now falls along a logging route, so the choice is between Eagle’s Nest, Sunspot and Crowe’s Nest.

FORR members also voted to increase the maximum size of the board of directors at the meeting, increasing the maximum to 11.

Terms for the directors are two years and Troy Colautti, Bob Bechaud, Jen Colehill and Rejean Paquin still have another year to their terms. Colin Adamson, Max Bankes, Les Carter, Kim Deane, Gerry Heacock and Stewart Spooner were elected for two terms at the AGM, leaving one spot open.

Walking in a winter wonder Rossland

The streets were white with snow by the time Rossland’s Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas came to an end late Saturday af-ternoon.

Snow began falling earlier in the day, adding to the festive at-mosphere on Columbia Ave. and Washington St. where local orga-nizations and businesses brought out the Christmas spirit, raising money for worthy causes and decking Rossland in fine holiday decorations.

“We’re very pleased with how it went,” said Kristi Calder, mar-keting manager for Tourism Rossland.“It was a great turn out and all the vendors downtown said that they raised the funds they’d been hoping to.… It was a great success.”

The Rossland Thrift Store held

a toy sale, which attracted a large and bustling crowd, while next door at New Edition Café and Books, Phil Loosley entertained little ones with story time.

The Red Mountain Racers raised money by selling Christmas trees outside Mountain Nugget Chocolate Company and the Golden City Lions Club raised money selling sausages, hot dogs and hot drinks outside Harry LeFevre Square.

The Golden Bear Child Care Centre was also supposed to be out raising money during Rekindle,

but sold out of their homemade wreaths before the event.

Rekindle also marked the opening of two new art gal-leries in Rossland; Stephanie Gauvin opened a new gallery on Washington St. and Jenny Bailie and Louise Drescher opened theirs in the Velvet building.

Drescher also gave her tradi-tional Rekindle reading for adults, this year reading from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

This year’s parade was filled with excited youngsters who fol-lowed Santa to the library, where

they eagerly lined up to sit on his lap. In total, 56 kids had their photo taken with Santa.

The Golden City Fiddlers and Les Carter played some tunes at the Rossland Art Gallery, and in the later part of the afternoon, car-olers could be heard making their way down Columbia, going from store to store.

The day ended in the square with more carols, a few words from Mayor Kathy Moore and Santa lighting the Christmas tree.

Peter Player from Rossland was the winner of the gift basked draw.

Santa Clause led the children through the streets of town to the library during the Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas parade. Photo by Chelsea Novak

rossland news, december 31, 2015

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