Nakusp resident, Johann Blattnig, has been denied bail.Blattnig was in court on Jan. 27, after being arrested on

Jan. 25 when explosives were found in his home. RCMP provided him with a search warrant, and Blattnig indicated he would prefer they search his bedroom, because he be-lieved the explosives were in there.

A stick of dynamite was found by RCMP in a mud room, just off the entrance of the home, stuffed between the shell and padding of a helmet. The stick was cut in half, with a blasting cap attached at one end. Blattnig said he found the stick of dynamite years ago and kept it.

Explosive detection dogs were brought in because it was originally believed there were seven or eight sticks of dynamite.

A jar of mercury was also found in the home. Under

the right circumstances, it could have caused an electrical charge. The defence claimed the mercury was to be used for mining.

When making a decision regarding bail, judge Donald Sperry noted Blattnig has faced almost monthly charges since August of 2015.

“I can’t bail you,” he said. “Not a chance.”Blattnig was in court in Nelson on Feb. 2 for the continu-

ation of arraignment. His court date was set on that day.

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Main: The Vernon Rebels smile after winning first place in the Pee Wee Power hockey tournament. The Rebels were one of two teams from Vernon to make it to the tournament.Top cutout: The Nakusp Falcons wait for the puck to drop as they face off against the Vernon Chiefs. Middle cutout: Noah Fizzard skates toward the puck as the Nakusp Falcons played against the Vernon Chiefs. Bottom cutout: Leah Gilliland (left) and Jan Guidon (right) smile as they man the raffle table. Jillian Trainor photos

HOCKEY WEEKEND RUSH!Story on page 9

Judge denies bail for Blattnig at hearingJILLIAN TRAINOR

Arrow Lakes News

Members of the board sat down on Jan. 28 for the annual general meeting of the Nakusp Public Library.

Kicking the meeting off was the announcement that one of the board trustees, Susan Paterson, stepped down officially as of that day.

Following this, a variety of re-ports were adopted, including the Librarian’s Annual Report.

The report highlighted a se-lection of topics important to the library, such as education, information, and recreation; staff and volunteers; and im-provements.

For education, information and recreation, the initiative Unplug

and Play was brought up. The week-long event kicked off the new year, and encouraged fami-lies and individuals to disconnect from the technological world for a short period of time.

The week started with the li-brary hosting a PJ story time and games night. Other events of the week included a book swap for adults, and a Lego building af-ternoon.

Volunteers were recognized as an integral part of the library. Assistance from volunteers and the group Friends of the Library were important to many library programs, special occasions, and fundraising events. In the last year, the Friends of the Library have devoted over 245 hours to baking, set-up, clean up, and the promo-tion of the library.

Improvements were made in 2015 as well.

Shelving was replaced in the Books for Babes, DVD/VHS, and teen sections. Overgrown shrub-bery was removed from the south side of the building and was then professionally landscaped, and a bicycle stand is to be constructed in the fall.

New officers were also elected at the meeting.

Paula Roger is the new chair-person, with Claire Paradis as vice-chair. Heather Davidson is now the new treasurer, and Linda Van Immerzeel is the new sec-retary.

The committee held its regular meeting of the board following the AGM. These meetings are open to the public. The next board meet-ing is Feb. 18.

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Students learn to code at UBC OkanaganJILLIAN TRAINOR

Arrow Lakes News

CodeCreate at UBCSix students, four from Nakusp Secondary

School (NSS) and two from Lucerne Elementary Secondary School (LESS) attended the CodeCreate learning event at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna this past weekend.

Michael Myhal, the technology and hands-on learning teacher, supervised the field trip, which involved about 100 students from the interior region. Students got to learn about computer coding with the assistance of mentors from the post-secondary community, and also community volunteers. Global TV filmed the event, which includes footage of local students. A number of teachers in the district have an interest and back-ground in coding, and the school board is looking at ways to further integrate these skills as part of the new K-9 curriculum.

Solar energy challengeThe Grade 7/8/9 class at Lucerne Elementary

Secondary School (LESS) is the first to join the district-wide challenge to monitor the graphs and energy savings as a result of the solar panels in-stalled at NES and LESS. The deadline to take part in the challenge is Feb. 4. Culminating presenta-tions to the Education Partnership Committee in June will be made by all classes involved.

Lucerne wiring updateWiring at Lucerne is almost complete, The next

step is the installation of new ethernet wired drops in each classroom. There are no wireless routers

installed in the classrooms as yet. Board protocols around restrictions of use of wireless will be shared.

Grants for Edgewood School’s Innovative Wildlife Observation Project

Primary teacher Erika Momeyer has just won two grants to support her innovative use of game cameras to enhance student learning in the K-3 class at Edgewood Elementary School. The grants come from the Canadian Wildlife Federation, and BC Hydro’s Community Champions program. Students use wildlife cameras placed in the forest bordering the school to observe and record wildlife use and patterns in the area. After several weeks of monitoring, students will decide on a community action project to help the wildlife using the forest. This could include community education through brochures, posters, or signs, garbage clean up, bird or bat box building, or another student-run initiative.

Board of Education to meet local superintendents

Parents, staff, and the public are welcome to join the Board of Education at their regular board meeting to hear Jan Unwin, Superintendent of Graduation and Transitions, and Maureen Dockendorf, Superintendent of Early Years, as they discuss the renewed K-9 curriculum, and possible changes in assessment and reporting. The meeting will take place at the Bonnington Arts Centre.

The next Education Partnership Committee meeting is Feb. 9 at 7 p.m.

The next School Board meeting is Feb. 23 at 7 p.m.

Board members sit in on Library’s AGMJILLIAN TRAINOR

Arrow Lakes News

Columbia Basin Trust is pleased to announce the formation of a Basin Youth Network. This network will help communities increase local activities and opportunities for youth, enabling youth to learn new skills, such as leadership, and engage more with each other and their communities.

“We’ve been offering youth-related pro-grams for over 15 years. Building upon these past successes, we’re excited to be strengthen-ing community efforts to increase support to youth,” said Lisa Kilpatrick, Columbia Basin Trust senior manager, Delivery of Benefits. “We know youth need a range of local opportunities and resources to be happy and engaged in their communities, and we’re committed to working with communities to achieve this.”

The Trust has allocated $4.65 million over three years — $1.55 million annually — to the network. It will build on and incorporate the Trust’s successful Community Directed Youth Funds program. Since 2011, this program has supported communities’ needs to keeping youth active and engaged.

The Stoke Youth Network in Revelstoke is one of many successful examples. “We are

really excited about the new structure,” said Megan Shandro, Revelstoke’s Youth Liaison. “It aligns with what we are already doing; it allows us to identify local priorities and act on them. We were one of the first communities to access the Trust’s community-directed youth funds, and we’ve seen tremendous benefits with bringing together community stakeholders and increased collaboration. I know that others joining the network will see success because of this approach too.”

Many communities have already received Trust support to create community youth net-works or groups, while others may now receive support to establish them. These groups will then be able to receive help from the umbrel-la Basin Youth Network to deliver programs based on community priorities — plus have a mechanism to collaborate with each other. The Trust will lead the network by developing programs, hosting youth-focused events and hiring a regional coordinator.

Collaborating is something Lori McNeill, executive director of the Cranbrook Boys and Girls Club, looks forward to. “Learning from other youth centres, talking about their ideas

and trying them out, is so valuable to provid-ing youth with diverse opportunities. I am also excited to team up with community partners in Cranbrook to build stronger programs that better serve the youth community.”

Shannon Isaac, youth coordinator at North Kootenay Lake Community Services Society thinks the network is a great idea. “Having a key point of contact in the community who can communicate with and bring local orga-nizations together, incorporate input from the various groups and oversee youth program-ming has been key for Kaslo and Area D. It’s been incredibly collaborative, and the youth programming has been enhanced because of this. We look forward to building on this as part of the network.”

The network will also support emerging needs, such job readiness, work experience programming, youth leadership, and others as identified. To learn more about your com-munity’s involvement in the network, con-tact Michelle d’Entremont 1-800-505-8998 or mdentremont@cbt.org. For information about the Trust’s other programs for youth, visit cbt.org/youth.

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MEALS ON WHEELSAVAILABLE THROUGH HALCYON HOUSEMeals On Wheels provides tasty, nutritious hot meals that are delivered to your home by volunteers between 12 noon and 1:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The cost for this service is $7.00 per meal.

To arrange for Meals On Wheels please call Anne at Community Services 250-265-3674 ext. 213 between 8:30am & 4:30pm.

FROZEN MEALSAVAILABLE AT COMMUNITY SERVICES

16 professionally prepared meals for $100.Orders are to be taken on the 1st & 3rd Monday by 10 am. Pickup is 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. SEVERAL MENU CHOICES!

Meals must be prepaid. Call 250-265-3674.

SPECIAL EVENTSAT HALCYON HOUSEAll Seniors in the community

welcome to attend all Activities Any questions call Judy at

250-265-3056 (eve.) or 250-265-3692

Arrow & Slocan Lakes Community Services NEW HORIZONS VOLUNTEERS ARE THE HEART OF

HALCYON HOUSE ACTIVITIESExercises/Birthday Teas – Elaine, Judy

Social Time – Dawna, KarenBingo – Christina

Cards – Caroline, IleenTai Chi – Barb

Time Wise – JudyChurch – Hilary, BeaBurton Church – Gale

Always welcome new student/adult volunteers!

Contact: Judy Adams at250-265-3692 or 265-3056

To contact the Recreation Dept. or to book a seat on the Minto Medical Bus for Vernon phone 250-265-3622 ext. 259.

ROTARY VILLA LOUNGEMonday: BINGO 7:00 pm at the New Lounge

Thursday: SOUP & BUN DAY12:00 Noon at the New Lounge

Monthly Dinner with DebSingalong 2nd Friday of the month, 7:00pm

MINTO HOUSE ACTIVITIES(Located at the Arrow Lakes Hospital)

Monday: Bingo 10:00 am Ice cream 1:00 pm Tuesday: Piano 10:00 am Junior Volunteers 3:30 pm Wednesday: Minto Medical Bus to Vernon Departs ALH 7:00am - Arrives Vernon 10:30 am Departs Vernon mid pm - Arrives Nakusp 6:00 pm Thursday: Church 10:30 am Crafts at 1:00pm Friday: Exercises 10:30 am Gentlemen’s Afternoon 1:00 pm Pub visit every third Thurdsay at 2:00pm

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EVERY SECOND MONDAY: Dinner with Judy

WEDNESDAY: CRIB - 7 pm

THURSDAY: SOUP & BUN DAY - 12 NoonEXERCISE (Sail Program) - 1:30 pm

GAMES - 2 pm

FRIDAY: BINGO - 11 am

HALCYON HOUSE ACTIVITIES TUESDAY: BINGO - 10 am

EXERCISE (Sail Program) - 2 pmHISTORY READING

WEDNESDAY: TAI CHI - 11 amTHIS & THAT (with Dawna & Darryl) - 2 pm

Every 3rd Wednesday - PUB DAY

THURSDAY: CHURCH - 11 am (except last Thursday of month is at 10 am)

HAIRDRESSER - 1 pm

FRIDAY: EXERCISE (Sail Program)/ WALK OR GAMES - 2 pm

ARROW LAKES MEDICAL BUS Every Wednesday to the Okanagan,

leaves Community Services at 7:00 am. Call 250.265.8747 to

book a seat

Arrow Lake Navigational Aids: Notice to Vessel OperatorsThe Canadian Coast Guard proposes to permanently remove the following aid to navigation: Arrowhead light buoy A29, LL40.7, effective: June 15, 2016.

Comments on this action are solicited from mariners and other interested parties, and should be directed to the Canadian Coast Guard within three months from the date of this notice.

Any objections raised must state the facts on which they are based and should include supporting information on safety, commerce and public benefit.

Contact :

Kevin CarriganSuperintendent, Aids to Navigation & WaterwaysCanadian Coast Guard25 Huron Street, Victoria, BC V8V 4V9Telephone: 250-480-2602Email: kevin.carrigan@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Administered and managed by:Columbia Kootenay Cultural AllianceP.O. Box 103, Nelson, BC, V1L 5P7. 1.877.505.7355 wkrac@telus.net

Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, in partnership with Columbia Basin Trust, invites individuals of all artistic disciplines and arts, culture and heritage groups in the Columbia Basin to apply for project funding.

Program brochures and application forms are available online atwww.basinculture.com.

Deadline for applications is March 4, 2016, or March 18, 2016, depending on the program.

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Nakusp Minor Soccer AGM

Tuesday, Feb 16 at 6:30 pmat the NES Library

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Community

Up close and personal with natureJILLIAN TRAINOR

Arrow Lakes News

For the last month, teacher Erika Momeyer and the K-3 class at Edgewood Elementary School has been learning more about the nature and wildlife near the school with the help of modern technology.

Through grants from BC Hydro’s Community Champions pro-gram, and the Canadian Wildlife Federation, Momyer has purchased two wildlife cameras, and the class has set them up in the woods to help observe nearby wildlife.

“I’ve had the idea in my head for a while, but trying to get the equipment was a bit of a challenge,” said Momeyer. “Once we got that grant money, it just really opened up the possibilities.”

The class has been doing outdoor learning projects for several years, but this is the first time they’ve done something like this.

Before setting up the cameras, Momeyer said students asked wonder questions, such as wondering what they might discover, and what the reaction from local wildlife would be.

“Some were wondering if they would capture pictures of preda-tor/prey activity going on, like a wolf eating a rabbit.”

Their questions act as a guide in determining where to place the camera.

Each week, two students choose the location for the camera. The memory card from the camera is retrieved and the photos are downloaded, and new students choose the next location.

Because of the risk for theft, the location of the cameras are not given out.

Students have been very excited over the project.“Last week we got several deer, and one of the neighbourhood

dogs, and the kids were just thrilled with that,” said Momeyer.

“We’ve also had pictures of nothing that we could see, but it’s been neat to see the kids try to come up with explanations, like was it the wind, was it something coming by really fast, was it snow dropping off the trees?”

The project is going to morph as it goes along. A lot of it is going to be driven by the students.

Momeyer would like to do some kind of action project to go along with this one, but she’s not sure what that is just yet.

I’m not quite sure what that would be, whether it’s building bird houses, or bat boxes, or writing an informative brochure and writing about the wildlife we’ve seen. We’ve already done a bit of picking up garbage in the area. We’ll kind of just see as we go what sparks the students’ interest.”

Strengthening opportunities for youthNew Basin Youth Network to increase support to young people in the Basin

A photo of a deer, taken at night with by a wildlife observation camera. Edgewood Elementary School teacher Erika Momeyer is currently working on a wildlife observation initiative with her K-3 class.

Erika Momeyer photo

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As I stated in last week’s Seniors’ column, the Office of the Seniors’ Advocate (OSA) BC has now released its first Monitoring Report of Seniors’ Services.

This represents a status report focusing on a range of services which fall within the OSA’s five mandated areas, from Assisted Living wait lists to Handydart service levels, to incidents of resident aggression and disease outbreak to residential care facilities in BC.

The OSA will release its monitoring reports annually as a way to compare year over year how the needs of seniors are being met by service providers.

Reports which are scheduled to be released in 2016 are expected to include a review of Home Support, a report on supplemental health benefits, review of BC’s Pharmacare system, as well as a focused look at hospital

discharge experiences for seniors.The results of the survey of Home Support

clients and their families are now in, with thanks being extended to all those who took the time to share their thoughts and obser-vations. OSA received over 9,000 responses from clients and family members, a robust sample size which will help inform the reviews of British Columbia’s home support system, which is currently underway.

Recruitment of over 1,000 volunteer survey-

ors is currently underway for the OSA’s survey of all residents in publicly funded residential care in BC and it is these volunteer surveyors who will be responsible for engaging with and listening to the voices of over 27,000 residents.

The results garnered through this survey will be used to make recommendations to improve the quality and various services our health care system delivers to our most vul-nerable seniors.

Once again, the volunteers will play a key role in helping to make the survey successful and needed within communities located across the province. Beginning in March, training and orientation will be provided. If you are interested in volunteering and can commit a minimum of 30 hours, contact project man-ager Lillian Parsons at LParsons@providence-health.bc.ca for more details.

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With unlicensed marijuana dis-pensaries popping up in urban areas and thousands of unregulated medi-cal licences for home growing still in legal limbo, the Trudeau government is starting work on its promise to le-galize recreational use.

Marijuana was a media darling in the recent election, but meeting in Vancouver with provincial ministers last week, federal Health Minister

Jane Philpott found herself preoccu-pied with issues deemed more urgent.

These include shifting our post-war acute hospital model to com-munity primary care, tackling ab-original health care needs, pooling pharmaceutical purchases to slow rising costs, and meeting an urgent Supreme Court of Canada directive to legalize assisted dying.

At the closing news conference in Vancouver, Philpott was asked how recreational marijuana should be sold. Licensed medical growers want exclusive rights to do it by mail as permitted by the Harper govern-ment, another measure forced by our high court. That would shut out the rash of supposedly medical store-fronts, which city halls in Vancouver and elsewhere imagine they can regulate.

Philpott said the question is “pre-mature” and federal-provincial jus-tice ministers were dealing with it at their meeting. Ottawa will have a

task force too.Vancouver descended into a pot

store free-for-all due to benign ne-glect from council and police, and Victoria isn’t far behind. Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang, a rare voice of rea-son in the Big Smoke, has protested dispensaries using street hawkers to attract young buyers, and pot stores setting up near schools.

Other communities, more aware of their limitations, have resisted is-suing business licences. One recent proposal in the Victoria suburb of View Royal came from a fellow who insisted marijuana extract had cured his cancer. This is typical of claims that proliferate on the Internet, and is one of many warning signs about dispensaries that put up red cross signs to sell pot products with exotic names.

BC Health Minister Terry Lake was more forthcoming a few days earlier, responding to a Vancouver reporter who judged marijuana more

interesting than his just-announced plan to hire 1,600 more nurses by the end of March.

Lake noted that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is keen to sell mari-juana through the province’s monop-oly liquor stores. BC’s government liquor store union has also endorsed this idea, forming an unlikely alliance with non-union private stores to get in on the action.

“There are public health officials that I’ve talked to who say that the co-location of marijuana and liquor sales is not advisable from a pub-lic health perspective,” Lake said. “I think whatever we do it has to be highly regulated, quality control has to be excellent and above all we must protect young people.”

Yes, liquor stores check ID. But the notion that marijuana might be sold next to beer and vodka in govern-ment stores deserves sober second thought, and serious scientific work of the kind that has shown damage

to developing brains from teenage marijuana use.

Of course all of this urban hand-wringing over pot stores ignores the de facto legalization that has existed across BC for decades.

The Nelson Star had a funny story last week about a local woman’s dis-covery on Google Earth. Zooming in on area mountains, one finds not only the Purcell landmark Loki Peak, but also Weed Peak, Grow Op Peak, Cannabis Peak and Hydroponic Peak.

Whatever the source of this cy-ber-prank, it could also be applied to other regions of BC.

For the record, I’ll restate my long-standing position that legalization is the only logical answer. I’ll say the same about other drugs that drive most BC crime, but that’s a subject for another day.

Tom Fletcher is BC legislature re-porter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

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This is your province on weed

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CRAWFORD BAY — Following the cancella-tion of this year’s Starbelly Jam music festival, local enthusiasts are trying to prevent other large-scale events from going belly-up.

“For 16 years our small East Shore community has laboured mightily to host one of the province’s best music festivals,” reads an announacement on the Starbelly website. “Each year hundreds of beautiful volunteers have stepped forward to make this party happen.”

Unfortunately, this year that won’t be the case.“We were facing real challenges filling a handful

of key management roles that would have allowed us to produce the vibrant, safe and well-organized event that we are famous for,” the notice reads.

Kootenay Lake Chamber of Commerce chair Gina Medhurst said the news will mean an economic blow to the East Shore.

“Every year at Starbelly the campgrounds are crowded, the bed and breakfasts are packed full and all the stores are open until 9 p.m. every night. It’s definitely going to be an economic shock,” she said.

“I know all the Starbelly volunteers felt really bad and it wasn’t an easy decision for them. I’d been hear-ing chatter for two or three months, so I know they spent a long time making that difficult decision.”

An unintended consequence is the cancellation of the Kootenay Gutbuster, a comedy festival scheduled to run the weekend following Starbelly in Crawford Bay in July. It’s now been moved to Creston.

In Nelson, the Kootenay Storytelling Festival has been cancelled this year, according to outgoing orga-nizer Avia Moore, and the Kootenay Spirit Festival’s future is in doubt, according to organizer Trisha Wilson. The Kaslo Jazz Etc. Festival will go ahead, executive director Paul Hinrichs said, but it is also

struggling with diminishing volunteer resources.Hinrichs said the trouble is all the work “is on the

shoulders of a few.”“Volunteer burnout is a very real situation. And

even if it’s a paid position, often there isn’t enough to make it worthwhile. So you end up with people who are unqualified or just not able to carry the responsibility these huge festivals require.”

“If it was up to the people who lived here, we would have a festival every single day,” Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism’s Dianna Ducs told the Advertiser. “But across the board we’re seeing these festivals struggle with volunteer exhaustion. People get exhausted volunteering year after year for little or no pay.”

Carla Stephenson of Ymir’s Tiny Lights Festival figures part of the trouble is festival fatigue for audi-ences in the Nelson area. Her event, now in its fifth year, attracts more than half its visitors from places like Calgary and Edmonton.

“There’s so much great stuff to do here it’s hard to get people to come out and see a band they could see anytime in town,” she said.

The full version of this story can be found at bitly.com/Festival_fatigue.

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Hired Equipment Registration

The Rocky Mountain District of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is creating its list of registered Equipment for Hire in the Selkirk Service Area for the fiscal year 2016/2017, which begins April 1, 2016. This area includes Perry River east to Golden and south to Brisco on Highway 95 (not including Glacier National Park), and Revelstoke north to Mica Creek and south to Trout Lake on Highway 23.

All individuals or companies registered this past year through the District Office in Revelstoke will be receiving invitations to re-register their equipment for the coming fiscal year by mail by the end of February.

Any individuals or companies who were not registered in 2015, but wish to have their equipment listed, are hereby invited to contact the District Office, either in person or by phone, to obtain the appropriate registration forms.

Note that while you do not need to have Commercial (Comprehensive) General Liability Insurance, or up-to-date WorkSafeBC coverage to register, you will have to meet these requirements prior to working on any ministry projects.

Only owned or lease to own equipment is eligible for registration. Equipment can only be registered in one area in any given year. Seniority is not transferable from area to area.

The deadline for new registrations is 4:30 pm on Friday, March 18, 2016. Late registrations will be accepted, but may appear at the bottom of the open list. Note that there is no charge for registering new equipment or for changing or removing equipment information already listed.

To have equipment registration forms mailed, faxed or e-mailed to you,please contact the local District Office in Rocky Mountain by mail at

555 Victoria Road, Revelstoke, British Columbia, V0E 2S0, by phone at 250 837-8400 or by fax at 250 837-9407.

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Starbelly Jam, seen here last summer, won’t be back this year. It isn’t the only festival feeling the pinch from volunteer burnout.

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In mid-January, Marie and I flew to Panama where we will be staying for 10 weeks. We’ve been here for 10 days now and it’s great! The house we have rented has a swimming pool and 5 acres of bird-rich grounds. We have made several trips to nearby birding locations, but have also spent quite a bit of time exploring the grounds and the road in front of the house. Panama is a relatively small country, about one-fifth the area of BC. Despite its size, it has a bird list of close to 1000 species! (BC has a bird list of about 500). So far, we have seen 67 species of birds within 500 m of the house. Some of the species are from families familiar to us in BC, for example the Red-crowned Woodpecker. Others however, like the Collared Aracari, are from families quite unknown to us in BC.

The Red-crowned Woodpecker is a tropical species restricted to Costa Rica, Panama, northern Venezuela and northern Columbia. Its range is quite small but it is very common in this area. We see two or three every time we go birding. Its closest relative in BC is the Lewis’s Woodpecker.

The Collared Aracari has a similar range to the Red-crowned Woodpecker but it extends a little fur-ther north up into southern Mexico. Aracaris are in the toucan family and have no close relatives in BC. There are seven members of the toucan family in Costa Rica. One of the more obvious features of the toucans is their large, brightly coloured bills.

I hope that in the next few instalments I can show you a few of Panama’s more interesting birds.

Collared Aracari

Birds of Nakusp Gary Davidson

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Emily McArdle, her brother Jason McArdle, and Isabella Millar use their imaginations to create all sorts of things at the Lego Bonanza, held at the Nakusp Public Library on Jan. 29. Once completed, their creations will go on display at the library. Lego Bonanza was part of week long initiative “Unplug and Play”

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More than just a flash in the panJILLIAN TRAINOR

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Students in the outdoor education program at Nakusp Secondary School (NSS) got a chance to show off their entre-preneurial skills at the Vancouver International Boat Show.

They were there selling flash-ers, a piece of equipment used mainly for ocean fishing. Each one costs $45, and looks like a windmill going through the water, and is used to attract fish like salmon or halibut.

“The students, when they’re standing in that booth, they have to be able to explain the flash-ers, and sell them,” said Dorian Boswell, the outdoor education instructor at NSS. “They have to explain the program that they’re in, and they have to explain tourism and what’s available in Nakusp and the valley of Arrow Lakes.”

This is the fourth year stu-dents have been participating in the event, and the third year they’ve been at the boat show.

It is estimated about 30,000 people attended the event this year.

The students made all the flashers by hand.

The students didn’t invent them, but they have made im-provements to them, and have been working with the inventor in partnership, and he lets them market the flashers.

Normally, the flashers are made of Plexiglas. Not anymore.

“We started using a new mate-rial, lexan, instead of Plexiglas.” said Cailon McQuair, one of the students in the class.

Lexan is a transparent plastic of high impact strength, which is used for things like cockpit cano-pies and bulletproof screens.

It wasn’t just all work for the students. They were able to go on a few field trips as well, including going to Science World, going rock climbing, and attending a Chinese ballet.

“The first couple of years we’d been going to the show, there wasn’t enough money for us to do anything besides show up to the show, because hotel fees in itself cost us a lot of money,” said Abby Boswell. “Since we’ve been building up the program, invest-ing in the program, and also a lot of help from the community, it has allowed us to go and do these other field trips and see different parts of Vancouver.”

Sales have been going very well for the flashers.

In the first year, the class made about $2,000, and about $7,000 the year after that. Last year, they made about $10,000, and about $19,000 this year.

“For the first time in four years, we are now sustainable. We are actually making as much money, or more, than it requires to be able to do what we do.” said Boswell.

While they are in the black for the first time since starting the program, the purchasing of materials is expensive. Some of what they buy comes from the United States, and with the Canadian dollar so low, their prices have had to go up.

“Canadians will walk up and say ‘Forty-five dollars, that’s a lot’ and then we tell them they’re

all hand made, the money goes into the program, and also the Canadian dollar is so low, so when we order our supplies from the United States, we’re paying more money, so we have to charge more.” said Abby Boswell.

While the students work hard in creating the flashers, Mr. Boswell said a lot of thanks is owed to the community

“We could not do this without the community support we get. From the grants that we get from the different organizations in the community, to the businesses in this community, it’s amazing,” he said.

“This program wouldn’t exist if we didn’t have that community backing.”

NSS Student Bill Gao demonstrates explains to a potential customer what the flashers are, and how they work.

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Members of the NSS outdoor education program had the opportunity to meet with members of the Vancouver Search and Rescue team while attending the Vancouver International Boat Show on the weekend of Jan. 23. From left to right: Bryce Friedeneberger, Cameron Olson, two crew members from Search and Rescue, Cailon McQuair, and Sam Zerrath.

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February 4 Recycling Day in Nakusp! Leave your recycling on the curb in clear blue bags, for 7 a.m. pick-up.

February 4 Mother Goose @ Nakusp Public Library. Free drop-in for ages 0-3 and their parents/caregivers. Songs, Rhymes, and snacks. 10 to 11 a.m.

February 4 Strong Start @ Nakusp Strong Start Building in NES. 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Free drop-in school-based early learning program for children age 0-6.

February 4 Nakusp T’ai Chi @ the Legion 10 to 11 a.m. Call Ruth 265-3353.

February 4 Public Skating/Toonie Hockey @ Nakusp & District Arena. 11:30 to 5 p.m.February 4 Nerd Night-Game Night @ Nakusp Youth Centre. 6 to 10 p.m.

February 4 Bingo @ Nakusp Legion. 6:30 to 10 p.m.

February 4 Darts Night @ Nakusp Legion. 7 to 10 p.m.

February 4 African Drumming Group @ Move on the Kusp at 7:15 p.m. Bring your own drum. New drummers welcome.

February 4 Drop-in Badminton for adults and NSS Students @ NSS Gym. Every Tuesday & Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m. Bring your own racket and non-mark-ing inside shoes. Beginners welcome! $3.00 drop in fee. For more informa-tion contact Lee-Anne @ 265-3326.

February 5 Strong Start @ Nakusp Strong Start Building in NES. 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Free drop-in school-based early learning program for children age 0-6.

February 5 Toonie Hockey @ Nakusp & District Arena. 11:30 to 2 p.m.

February 5 Public Skating/Toonie Hockey @ Nakusp & District Arena. 2 to 5 p.m.

February 5 Farmer’s Market @ Old

Fire Hall Collective, Nakusp. 1 to 6 p.m.

February 5 Drop in @ Nakusp Youth Centre. 3 to 5 p.m. Handmade Valentines.

February 5 Games Night @ Nakusp Legion. Come play Wii, darts, pool, or bring a game from home. Bring a friend or two along. 7 to 10 p.m.

February 6 Farmer’s Market @ Old Fire Hall Collective, Nakusp. 10 to 2 p.m.

February 6 Community Choir prac-tice @ Saddleback Church. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For ages 19 years and up. Cost is $7 on your first practice only. For more information contact Marilyn Massey @ 250 265-4087.

February 7 AA Meeting 5 to 6 p.m @ the Terra Pondera Clubhouse in Nakusp. For more information call 265-4216.

February 8 School District 10 (Arrow Lakes) Closed for Family Day.

February 8 BC Transit Bus to Nakusp Hot Springs. Cancelled for Family Day.

February 8 Bridge @ Nakusp Senior’s Centre, every Monday 1:30 to 4 p.m. Cost is $2.50, and beginners welcome.

February 9 Public Skating/Toonie Hockey @ Nakusp & District Arena. 11:30 to 5 p.m.February 9 Nakusp T’ai Chi @ the Legion 10 to11 a.m. Call Ruth 265-3353.

February 9 Village Council Meeting @ Nakusp Village Office. 6:30 p.m. Public is welcome to attend.

February 9 Drop-in Badminton for adults and NSS Students @ NSS Gym. Every Tuesday & Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m. Bring your own racket and non-mark-ing inside shoes. Beginners welcome! $3.00 drop in fee. For more informa-tion contact Lee-Anne @ 265-3326.

February 9 The Articulators Toastmasters Meeting @ Nakusp

Selkirk College at 7 p.m. Meetings include training, introductions, speeches, evaluations, jokes, timing, refreshments. Public always welcome to attend our meetings.

February 10 Toonie Hockey @ Nakusp & District Arena. 11:30 to 2 p.m.

February 10 Public Skating/Toonie Hockey @ Nakusp & District Arena. 2 to 5 p.m.

February 10 Valentines craft with Cindy and Donna @ 3 - 4pm

February 10 Poker Night @ the Leland Hotel. It’s free and beginners are welcome. 7 p.m. start. For more information contact Dan @ 265-3314.

February 10 AA Meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. @ the Terra Pondera Clubhouse in Nakusp. For more information call 265-4216.Upcoming Events:

February 13 Soup & Bun @ Nakusp United Church. 11:30 to 1 p.m. Lunch by donation, proceeds go to outreach in the community.

February 17 MeInc, a free work-shop for aspiring entrepreneurs @ Selkirk College Nakusp. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Registration is required. 1-855-510-2227.

February 18 Recycling Day in Nakusp! Leave your recycling on the curb in clear blue bags, for 7 a.m. pick-up.

February 20 Mitch Zorn Fundraiser Concert @ Nakusp Auditorium. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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From the Hour of Code to a lifetime of knowledge

JILLIAN TRAINORArrow Lakes News

On Jan. 23, six students four from Lucerne Elementary Secondary School (LESS), and two from Nakusp Secondary School (NSS) went to UBC Okanagan to take part in the Hour of Code.

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, and an initiative to get as many people as possible introduced to coding.

In computing, code is any collection of computer instructions written using some form of human-readable computer language, usually as text.

The day started off around 9 a.m. Students were brought in, and a lecture was given on the basics of coding. After the lecture, students were split into groups and given software, a game in this case, and were encouraged to break the game — go in, mess around, make changes to it, and just have fun.

It wasn’t just students in attendance. Mentors were also there, to assist students if they needed it.

“My role as mentor was to go around and make sure that the stu-dents were engaged in what was going on, and help them out in differ-ent activities,” said Michael Myhal, one of the mentors from the trip. “Unfortunately, one of the students I was helping had his laptop decide that this particular event was a good time to do a Windows update. He still had a great time.”

Myhal said the students took away a greater understanding of what coding is about.

One such student was Wolfgang Kostuch, of NSS.Kostuch has been interested in coding for quite some time, and plans

on going into video game design.He believes coding will be an important aspect to the future.“As stuff advances, it’s going to be more and more prominent to be

able to know this. A lot of cars are becoming more and more computer operated, and it’s just going to become bigger as time goes on.”

The Arrow Lakes Ridge Riders Snowmobile Club will be hosting a poker run on Feb.6, starting at Box Lake Mill. Poker hands registration is from 9 a.m to 12 p.m. The 17 km trek to Harlow Mountain is to raise funds for grooming the trails. There will be door prizes, and a family barbecue by donation. The cost is $25 for three hands, and $10 for one hand. Mark Aeichele photo

POKER RUN

The Naskup Peewee Falcons played host to the Pee Wee Power hockey tournament this weekend, facing off against teams from Vernon, Salmon Arm, and Kaslo.

As host, the Falcons played the first game of the tournament against the Vernon Chiefs.

It was a good start to the weekend for the Falcons. The team scored their first goal about thirty seconds into the first period, with a second goal scored shortly after.

The Chiefs tried and tried, but by the end of the period, Falcons had won with a score of 7-1.

Wayne Hascarl, head coach of the Falcons, was optimistic.

“There are a couple of good teams here,” he said. “We haven’t seen Salmon Arm play yet, we know the next Vernon team is a good team.”

Despite the good start to the tourna-ment, things seemed to go downhill for the Falcons during their two games on Saturday.

They lost their sec-ond game of the tour-nament to the Vernon Rebels, with a score of 7-4, and were defeated by the Salmon Arm Titans with a score of 3-1.

“They took advan-tage of our weaknesses and started throwing them at us,” said Ewan

Carter, team captain of the Falcons. “We just got angry, and started taking penalties.”

By the end of the third game, a combined total of 13 penalties had been given out.

It wasn’t all losses at the tournament.

50/50 tickets were sold at each event, and there was a raffle table near the concession stand, with a variety of different gift baskets. Money raised goes back into funding minor hockey in the area.

Each basket had a different name or theme. There was one called “Date Night”, which featured things like wine, and a selec-tion of chocolates, and “Slumber Party”, which had board games, cos-metics, and different flavours of hot choco-late.

By Sunday, things had picked up for the Falcons. They man-aged to eke their way out of last place and into fifth.

All in all, it was a good tournament.

“The Falcons played hard,” said Kristy Robins, manager of the Falcons. “There was tough competition, we had some good teams from Salmon Arm and Vernon that came out, and they played well.”

The Falcons have three home games re-maining in the season.

Playoffs this year take place in Boundary, and are on the last weekend of February.

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The proposed duration of the PMP is from April 2016 to April 2021.

Vegetation incompatible with the operation of the power system will be controlled using: physical (manual

brushing, mowing, girdling, grooming, pruning, tree removal), cultural (compatible land use), biological

(release of parasitic insects to control invasive plants), and chemical (herbicide application) techniques,

or any combination of these methods.

The active ingredients and trade names of the herbicides proposed for use under this plan include:

○ aminocyclopyrachlor and metsulfuron-methyl – Navius or equivalent

○ aminopyralid – Milestone or equivalent

○ aminopyralid and metsulfuron-methyl – ClearView or equivalent

○ aminopyralid, metsulfuron-methyl, and fluroxypyr – Sightline or equivalent

○ aminopyralid, metsulfuron-methyl and triclopyr – Clearview Brush or equivalent

○ Chondrostereum purpureum – Chontrol or equivalent

○ clopyralid – Lontrel or equivalent

○ diflufenzopyr and dicamba – Distinct, Overdrive, or equivalent

○ glyphosate – Vantage, Vision or equivalent

○ imazapyr – Arsenal Powerline or equivalent

○ metsulfuron-methyl – Escort or equivalent

○ picloram and 2,4-D – Aspect or equivalent

○ triclopyr – Garlon products or equivalent

○ 2,4-D – LV700 or equivalent

Adjuvant products may also be combined on occasion with an herbicide to improve its effectiveness, such as:

nonylphenoxy polyethoxy ethanol – Agral 90, paraffinic oils – Gateway, octadec-9-enoic acid as methyl

and ethyl esters – Hasten NT, or siloxylated polyether – Xiameter or equivalents.

The proposed methods for applying herbicides include: cut surface, basal bark, backpack foliar (low pressure

spray), mechanical foliar (boom, nozzle, powerhose, or wick), or injection (hack and squirt, lance or syringe)

techniques.

A draft copy of the proposed PMP is available at bchydro.com/pestplanforcorridors.

Alternatively, it’s available in person at 6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby; 1401 Kalamalka Lake Road, Vernon;

18475 128 Street, Surrey; 400 Madsen Road, Nanaimo; 3333 22 Avenue, Prince George.

BC Hydro, the applicant for the proposed PMP, is located at 6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby, B.C., V3N 4X8.

Please contact Tom Wells, Vegetation Program Manager, at 604 516 8943 or thomas.wells@bchydro.com

for more information.

A person wishing to contribute information about a proposed treatment site, relevant to the development of the

pest management plan, may send copies of the information to the applicant at the above address within 30 days

of the publication notice.

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The Nakusp Falcons wait for the puck to drop as they face off against the Vernon Chiefs in the Pee Wee Power hockey tour-nament. The Chiefs were the first team to play against the Falcons in the tournament.

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Local theatre group Stage Presence began its search for Buttercup and others as it hosted auditions for its adaptation of the classic tale “The Princess Bride”.

“I found The Princess Bride script online a few years ago and thought ‘Wouldn’t this be fun to do’,” said Anji Jones, director of the play. “We decided to adapt it, and do an adaptation instead.”

In order to do an adaptation, at least 30 per cent of the script has to be changed. In this case, the play is about Buttercup telling the story of the Princess Bride to her grandchildren.

Auditions took place on Jan. 23, in the basement of the Robertson Memorial United Church. Along with Buttercup, the group was looking for its Wesley, Fezzik, Prince Humperdink, and a host of others.

The weather that evening wasn’t the best, but that didn’t stop about half a dozen people showing up. Ages ranged from the young to the not so young.

One of those auditioning was Connor Scambler, a student at NES.“My mom told me, because she’s been in contact with Anji,” he

said. “We’ve always been around the theatre scene.”People were called up one at a time, looked straight into the

camera, stated their name and who their favourite character was, along with an impression, if they could.

The readings came next. Jones called up two or three people at a time and gave them a scene to read.

She said figuring out who is best for which role is kind of a gut feeling.

“I’ll see someone and just kind of get a feeling like ‘Oh, I think they’ll do really well here,’ and try them there,” she said. “Once in a blue moon, it turns out they’re not so great in the role, but they usually express that themselves. It just somehow always works out.”

Scambler doesn’t care which role he gets, he said he’s happy to be in the play.

“It’s really fun to just get up in front of people and do a show,” he said. “It’s kind of an out of body experience sometimes, when you’re up there pretending to be somebody else. It’s just really fun.”

Once everyone has been chosen, rehearsals for the play are set to begin in February.

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Stage Presence searches for its brideJILLIAN TRAINOR

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Connor Scambler and Lisa Lahiti act out a scene from The Princess Bride during auditions. The two were among those who braved the wintery weather to try out for the play. Jillian Trainor photo

Lardeau’s origin remains undeterminedOne-hundred eleventh in a somewhat al-

phabetical series on West Kootenay/Boundary place names

Lardeau — or Lardo — is one of the most puzzling and complicated place names in West Kootenay, so we’ll devote a few installments to it.

The name has been applied to a river, creek, park, mountain pass, range, valley, and two towns between the north end of Kootenay Lake and northeast arm of Upper Arrow Lake. This week we’ll look at its origin, which is still un-determined despite several theories.

The earliest mention, spelled Lardo, is in the Victoria Daily Colonist of March 24, 1885, although the name might be much older than that: “To reach the objective point at Farwell … the one may either run up the Columbia river valley, or take the Kootenay lake and Lardo river route …”

The first use of the spelling Lardeau was in the Kootenay Star of Revelstoke, reprinted in the Vancouver Daily World on Oct. 1, 1889: “The Stewart engineering party, having made the trip through the Lardeau Pass …”

A seldom-used third spelling, Lardeaux, first appeared in George W. Dawson’s Report on a Portion of the West Kootanie [sic] District, British Columbia in 1889 and in the Vancouver Daily World on July 23, 1889, quoting the Kootenay Star: “Frank J. Goldsmith, David Lowry and John McDonald started on Monday in a row boat for the North Arm and will cross to the Lardeaux, 18 miles, where they will make a camp for placer mining, remaining all winter.”

The first observation on the varied spell-ing was in the Nelson Miner of Dec. 17, 1892: “[T]he Lardo or Lardeau district — what is

the correct way to spell the name of this river, we wonder?”

The first comment on the origin appeared in the Kaslo Claim on May 12, 1893: “The word Lardo is the subject of much dispute regarding the correct orthography. The maps of the prov-ince spell it Lardeaux in the United States and along the Arrow Lakes preference is given to Lardeau, but along Kootenay Lake and in most of the towns in the district it is written Lardo. The derivation of the word is in doubt but it is said to be the name of a French voyageur who visited the country in early days.”

When the Geographic Board of Canada asked postmaster Chris McDonald in the early 1900s where the name came from, he replied that it was after John Lardo, a prospec-tor. However, the 1881 and 1891 censuses of Canada finds no one with the surname Lardo

or Lardeau.Some have suggested the region was named

after a prospector, Lardo Jack McDonald, but it was almost certainly the other way around. The earliest mention of his nickname was in the Nelson Miner of July 2, 1892.

The late Bill Laux wrote in the Winter 2003 edition of BC Historical News that Lardo was the name given to the region in 1865 by surveyor and mapmaker James Turnbull, who was sent by Joseph Trutch to check out a route from Upper Arrow Lake to Kootenay Lake and a possible pass from there to Lake Windermere.

However, Laux didn’t give any sources and the name doesn’t appear on Trutch’s 1871 map of BC. In any case, Laux speculated that Lardo came from “the prospectors’ term for a rich or ‘fat’ country, probably referring to the abun-dance of fish and game … Lardo was, in the 19th century, a vulgar adjective for a rich or fat prospect.”

Indeed, lardo is a type of Italian cold cut made by curing strips of fatback with herbs and spices while lardon is a strip or cube of bacon used to lard meat. But despite what Laux wrote, no 19th century examples have yet turned up of lardo being used to generically refer to something fat.

R.E. Gosnell wrote in his 1897 British Columbia Yearbook that Lardo was “Properly Alado” provided no further explanation. (Alado means winged in Spanish.) In 1949, A.G. Harvey wrote to the BC Provincial Archives inquiring about the Alado reference. Archivist William Ireland responded: “To date we have not been able to find anything.”

Next: Historians stumped

GREG NESTEROFFArrow Lakes News

This postcard, mailed in 1908, shows the Lardo townsite near the north end of Kootenay Lake. It was spelled two ways until the post office finally adopted Lardeau in 1947.

Courtesy Earl Hansen and Walter Volovsek