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Lead treaty negotiator to be named
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Publisher calls province’s recycling rules ‘extortion’The Regional District of Central Kootenay is calling on
the province to crack down on the newspaper industry to join a provincial recycling stewardship program. However, an industry executive says if they were forced to pay the proposed fees, a number of papers would have to shut down to meet the costs.
“We simply cannot afford the millions of dollars this would cost the newspaper industry,” John Hinds, the CEO of Newspapers Canada, an industry group, told the Star. “It would put a significant number of newspapers at risk if we were forced to pay the Multi-Material BC (MMBC) fees as they stand. Look at what happened in Nanaimo and Kamloops [where newspapers recently closed]. Look at what is happen-ing around the country.”
The RDCK board passed a motion in February to urge BC’s environment minister to pressure the industry to comply with regulations that require producers of paper and packaging to pay for the recycling of their products.
MMBC is the non-profit stewardship organization tasked
with getting BC industries, rather than taxpayers, to pay for recycling the paper and packaging it produces. MMBC col-lects, processes, and sells recycled material, and about 1,300 producers of paper and packaging in BC pay them to do this.
Businesses that produce paper and packaging are required by BC law to have an approved stewardship plan to recycle their waste. But the newspaper industry has so far declined to join MMBC, in an apparent contravention of that regulation. This is a problem for the RDCK.
MMBC doesn’t cover all areas of the province. It has never set up shop in some rural areas, including some parts of West Kootenay, because it says it can’t afford to expand its services further until the newspaper industry signs on. MMBC wants the newspaper industry to pay $200 per ton to recycle the province’s newsprint. According to Hinds, this would amount to about $10 million per year.
“To pay that price would mean for example in the West Kootenay I would close three marginal small town newspapers, and curtail the number of copies that we put out,” says Rick O’Connor, the president of Black Press, which publishes six papers in the West Kootenay including the Star.
Asked to respond to the industry’s contention that it would have to close papers, MMBC’s Allen Langdon said “This regula-tion has been in place since 2011. They have had a long time to think through how it would comply with the legislation and try and work something out with government.”
Some RDCK population centres — including Nelson, Kaslo, and Castlegar — have contracts with MMBC, but rural areas don’t, and it is costing the regional district to recycle in those areas, according to chief administrator Stuart Horn. The RDCK has asked MMBC to take over, only to be told they can’t afford to take on new areas until the newspaper industry comes on board.
Hinds says he doesn’t believe MMBC when it says it can’t afford to expand their service because the organization re-ported a $33-million surplus in its last fiscal year. Langdon says that money is a reserve.
“Our entire program costs $80 million per year,” Langdon said, “so we set a target of a reserve of about half the annual requirements. We are a non-profit so we had always planned to develop a reserve because we don’t have assets or other types of capital to rely on if commodity markets drops.
BILL METCALFEArrow Lakes News
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Jillian Trainor photo
Main: The Spavor siblings smile as they gather in the home where they grew up. From left to right, also youngest to oldest: Cathy, John, Julius, Bill and Nancy. Cathy is holding a photo of their parents on their wedding day.
REMEMBERING BILL SPAVOR
Story on page 7
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Above: Bill and Monica Spavor smile at the wed-ding of their son Julius on Oct. 10, 1998. Monica died of cancer that year, and it was her wish to see her son’s wedding before she passed away.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be appoint-ing a negotiator to lead talks on updating the Columbia River Treaty, according to a US senator from Washington State.
“Prime Minister Trudeau, Foreign Minister [Stephane] Dion, and I had a positive discussion today,” Senator Maria Cantwell said in a news release.
“The Canadian leaders agreed to move forward and appoint a chief nego-tiator to begin treaty talks. Modernizing this treaty would benefit Americans and Canadians along the Columbia River across the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.”
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed the news, writing in an email that “progress towards
establishing a negoti-ating team was made” during Trudeau’s visit to Washington last week.
“The government of Canada has been and will continue working closely with the government of British Columbia to pre-pare for discussions with the United States on the future of the treaty,” wrote Joseph Pickerill.
The Columbia River Treaty was signed in 1964 to provide flood control in the United States. In ex-change, Canada was given $254 million to build three dams along the river, and granted a share of profits from extra US power pro-duction that resulted from the treaty.
The treaty can be can-celed or changed starting in 2024, provided one side gives 10 years notice to do so.
Both sides have ex-pressed a desire to modify
the treaty. In BC, the prov-ince, local governments in the Columbia Basin and First Nations have each submitted recommenda-tions for improvements. In the US, legislators have been urging the White House to begin discus-sions.
Discussions so far have surrounded the compen-sation BC should receive for providing flood control and adding environmen-tal considerations to the treaty. First Nations on both sides of the border are pushing to restore the Columbia River salmon run as part of the treaty.
So far, Ottawa has large-ly left negotiations in the hands of the BC govern-ment. Bill Bennett, the MLA for Kootenay East and the minister of en-ergy and mines, said they are still waiting to hear Ottawa’s position on the treaty, as well as that of the
American government.“We actually have legal
authority to be consulted by the federal government and they require our sign off on anything that is ne-gotiated,” he said. “That’s the most important thing for people to understand is the Canadian govern-ment doesn’t have the same unilateral authority the US government has.”
Bennett said he expects Ottawa to take the lead on negotiations, “with BC right at their elbow pro-viding information and perspective.”
“We certainly would welcome the opportunity to negotiate with the US on improving the treaty,” he said. “We’re not inter-ested in opening up the treaty, but we’re certainly interested in improving it.”
Kootenay-Columbia MP Wayne Stetski noted the work that has been done by the province,
local governments and First Nations so far. He said the federal government’s job should be to support the work that’s been done.
“We certainly should not be starting to do it all over again,” he said.
He said the report from Washington was the first
he’d heard about the trea-ty since being elected in October. “This was the first movement on it that I’ve seen.”
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RDCK decides on pool surplus, hires deputy fire chief
The Regional District of Central Kootenay has decided to hire a deputy fire chief in a temporary term position. This deci-sion was ratified Thursday when the RDCK board passed its 2016 budget.
“This second position in fire services will be dedicated to bringing our fire stations up the train-ing standards that have been implemented by the the fire commissioner of BC,” says chief adminis-trator Stuart Horn.
The new half-year po-sition will cost $51,000, but won’t add to budget costs because fire training budgets will be reduced to compensate. Then in 2017 the board will decide whether to make it more permanent. The RDCK runs 18 rural fire halls.
The 2016 RDCK bud-get is $48 million. About $24 million comes from taxes, and the rest from federal gas tax funds, pay-ment in lieu of taxes from BC Hydro and Columbia Power, and a capital proj-ects reserve.
As for what to do with those borrowing cost sav-ings in future years, the commission will decide before next year’s budget is prepared.
It’s not easy to say how any new RDCK budget will affect taxpayers. It might involve an increase for some and a decrease for others. That’s because not every resident or community contributes to the same services.
“We have 165 services,” says Horn. “That goes from general adminis-tration that everybody in the RDCK pays into, right
down to something like a community hall contribu-tion service in Crawford Bay or Edgewood where you would have a very small portion of the population that would participate.
“Depending on where you live and who you share a service with, that has an impact on your tax bill, because whoever you share a service with, and what happened with their assessment, all that enters into the tax calculation. It is not like living in a municipality where ev-erybody pays the same rate and your taxation is related to the bill last year and they will just add on a certain per cent increase.”
As a result of this mul-titude of services and costs, and the large num-ber of rural communities in the RDCK, this year’s
budget is 253 pages long, “the biggest one I have seen since I have been here,” Horn says.
The board on Thursday also formed a committee to advise on agricultural land use matters and comment on applications initiated under the Agricultural Land Commission Act. Representation on the commission is from each of the four commodity groups (fruit, beef, grain and dairy), representing the three rural Creston electoral areas.
The board also ap-proved a budget for a full time water smart ambas-sador for a four-month term and clarified a pre-vious resolution about motorcycle noise, saying it does not oppose motor-cycles, but wants excessive noise regulated.
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Poet Wallace Stevens once said, “After the final no, there comes a yes, and on that yes the future world depends.” So many movements through-out time have met with no after no. The Abolitionist, the Suffragist, the move-ment against Apartheid, all met with endless “No!” Until one day humanity understood the imperative of “yes” to the moral issue of their time.
Today we stand at another brink — the changing climate. January was the 371st month in a row warmer than the 20th century average. NASA reveals that temperatures in February have smashed a century of global records by a “stunning” margin.
The Governor of the Bank of England states, “The vast majority of the carbon re-serves are unburnable,” be-cause burning them will only accelerate the climate crisis.
But “yes” is rising. Since 2010 global investments in renewables surpassed that of the heavily subsidized fossil fuel industry.
Globally, 96 cities, states and even countries have set ambitious targets to achieve up to 100 per cent renewable energy. Some of the largest and most recognized compa-nies are committing to—and securing — 100 per cent re-newable power.
A tax on carbon is essen-tial, making polluters begin to pay directly for previously ex-ternalized carbon costs. The impact on consumers can be reduced by redistributing the revenues to them.
On this yes our future de-pends.
Yvonne James, Nakusp, BC
Letter
In discussion with an Interior Health representative who was fa-miliar with the Kootenay Lifeline program, it was brought home with-out question, that elderly citizens and others who may be vulnerable to experiencing a damaging fall, should take the warning seriously that protection may be needed.
I remember having a long con-versation with my long-time friend and close companion Bill Spavor
during the 16 years in which we enjoyed exchanging details of lo-cally available programs and ser-vices with each other during one of my frequent visits to his home before his recent passing.
Although Bill had taken up residence at our greatly appreci-ated Halcyon House a few years ago, when still living in his own home, Bill had chosen to subscribe to the medical alert system which had been encouraged by Interior Health, today referred to as the Interior Health Kootenay Lifeline.
Reviewing the literature, which was available on the subject aimed at urging members of the public to prepare in case of a fall taking place, it was stressed that delaying
medical care could lead quickly to jeopardizing one’s recovery and also, personal independence.
A number of different medi-cal and alert response systems are posted on the Internet and are well worth checking out as part of one’s advance planning directive in case a sudden emergency arises. For those not yet familiar with how the Lifeline service recommended by Interior Health works, we are told that by pushing the round-the-clock Lifeline Response Health button worn as a pendant or on the wrist, automatically places a call for help, should a fall be detected even if one is unable to push the actual button.
In turn, a Lifeline response asso-ciate will access one’s profile and be
in a position to assess the situation. Once having signed up with the ser-vice provider, a neighbour or loved one will immediately be contacted and steps will be taken to ensure that follow up takes place, and that help is on the way or has already arrived. Information concerning additional emergency response op-tions in light of the computer age new technology, is also available.
Overall, having a standard or en-hanced form of service attached one way or another, provides peace of mind to the individual and also members of one’s family or sup-port group, should the need arise. For more details contact Kootenay Lifeline at 1-888-832-6071 (toll free).
Seniors’ columnMARILYN BOXWELL
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Halcyon House offers big thanks to local auxiliaryJILLIAN TRAINOR
Arrow Lakes NewsAs a gesture of appreciation for their generosity,
Halcyon House Assisted Living home hosted a lun-cheon for the Arrow Lakes Health Care Auxiliary (ALHCA) on March 1.
It was Halcyon’s way of saying thank you to the ALHCA for their donation of over $40,000 to help purchase a new generator for the assisted living home.
“We work hard to ensure the members of our communities through the valley, the West Kootenays, have all the medical things to make their lives more comfortable, and ensure their safe-ty,” said Barbara Abbey, president of the ALHCA.
“This generator for Halcyon House is an insur-ance that the people that are in Halcyon House will always be comfortable, and not have to fear any loss of power.”
The old generator was in the basement, and was really outdated. It didn’t always work, and the diesel tank was outside. Once, it leaked into the ground, and a new tank was required.
The new generator is now outside. It is compact, and there is no fuel tank to go with it.
Robyn Hicks, site manager and LPN at Halcyon House, would like to thank Che Rasso, who is in charge of maintenance at Halcyon House, for installing the new generator.
She said she’s happy Halcyon House has the new generator.
“It helps because of all the strange weather we have out here,” she said. “The power goes off quite
often, and when the power goes off, the automatic generator kicks on, and then the tenants’ emer-gency call bells work, the fire systems work. It keeps everyone safe here.”
The ladies of the Arrow Lakes Health Care Auxiliary hold up a cheque for Halcyon House. The money given is to help replace the generator for the care home, which had fallen into disrepair.
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“If I were to expand the program,” he contin-ued, “the current mem-bers who are meeting their obligations and are good corporate citizens would be forced to sub-sidize the companies that have not joined and not met their obligations.”
O’Connor and Hinds say MMBC is asking for more money from news-paper publishers than recycling programs in other provinces. They say the original deal with MMBC would have seen the newspaper industry contribute millions of dollars worth of advertis-ing promoting recycling. Langdon disagrees and says there was a draft agreement but MMBC didn’t sign it because “our members could not agree because it would have meant them subsidizing
the newspaper industry.”O’Connor disputes
that version. “MMBC had their lawyers write the agreement and pre-sented it to newspapers to sign. After some ne-gotiations, newspapers signed the agreement. MMBC was then taken over by the Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance who refused to sign their own agree-ment.”
Hinds says MMBC’s asking price of $200 per ton is “four or five times what newspapers pay in other provinces.” Comparison with other provinces is complex be-cause each province has different regulations and systems. In Ontario and Quebec, newspaper pub-lishers pay in-kind with advertising. In Manitoba the government pays the newspaper industry’s fees. In Saskatchewan
newspapers are exempt from the system.
“[In all provinces] the idea is that everyone contributes but the news-paper industry doesn’t want to,” says Langdon. “From our perspective our program is probably the most progressive and leading edge in the coun-try and the one where we are having the most success engaging directly with producers on how to work with them to adapt to change their packaging. That is ex-citing and is something we should be proud of.”
Asked what the newspaper industry is doing to resolve this stalemate, O’Connor admitted nothing has changed. “We have been trying to work with the provincial government to come up with our own stewardship plan to meet the obligations
under the regulations but not through MMBC, and we were hoping the government would ap-prove StewardsChoice, which we propose to be a competitive vehicle to MMBC. It is not that we are opposed to recycling, it is that we are opposed to being extorted by MMBC.”
Hinds says the gov-ernment made a mis-take lumping newsprint in with packaging. He says newspapers should be treated not as a pack-age “like a yogurt con-tainer” but as “a product with social value” which, he adds, brings higher prices on the recycling market than most kinds of packaging, and which is already being success-fully recycled by 80 per cent of BC residents. O’Connor said MMBC is keeping the revenue of recycled newsprint,
estimated currently at $60 per tonne.
Asked what he would say to the RDCK board, O’Connor said “If MMBC is telling you the reason they can’t increase service is be-cause newspapers have not paid their exorbitant fee, I would say that that is not true. We never indicated that we would pay their fee and we will go to court before that happens. The industry is pretty adamant about this. MMBC is using this fantasy that newspapers are not paying this $200 as an excuse for not serv-ing the West Kootenay.”
Asked the same ques-tion, Hinds said “You have to look at the value of newspapers in the community and it is an untenable cost to news-papers currently, and we simply can’t afford it. We would absolutely have to
shut some papers down.”Langdon, asked what
he would say to the RDCK, said, “I think the action being taken
by the regional district [lobbying the minister] is the only course of action available to them at this juncture.”
To pay for recycling, some West Kootenay papers would have to closeCONTINUED FROM A1
Community/News
Editor’s note: Second of a three-part series. This article was written for the Arrow Lakes News by Ron Ansell of the Arrow Lakes Historical Society.
Donald’s teenage years were marked by at least two major events. One was the drowning of a relative, which once again visited the spectre of of unexpected death. Seventeen-year old Donald was to act as a pall-bearer at her funeral. Another un-fortunate accident occurred when a team of horses bolted and severely injured Donald’s leg. The first event resulted in the departure of the other Waterfield family from this area, never to return. The second resulted in a painful injury which led to sur-gery, eventual amputation of the leg and what could have been a severe disability. Instead, his life took a new turn. Donald found a wife.
Freda Brown was the daughter of neighbours down by the lake and she and Donald had many things in common. Both their families had come from England and were grow-ing fruit on the land in the Crescent Bay orchards. They shared a common dislike for war and its horrors, and a common liking of good books and art as well as an appreciation of the natural scenery and life in the area. They had both been good athletes but at the time were both on crutches — Donald because of his leg, and Freda because of polio. From this beginning developed a romance which led to their marriage in 1932.
The couple built their house down the hill from the Assart and began raising a family — eventually a son and a daughter. Donald invested con-siderable time and money in develop-
ing the orchard, but found that fruit farming was not a profitable venture in competition with the Okanagan growers. He then switched to mixed farming.
By 1961, the Waterfield holdings had increased through the purchase of some additional land over the years and Donald had formed a partner-ship with his son, Nigel. However, the signing of the Columbia River treaty and the flooding of the Arrow Lakes, if such was to occur, would not materially affect their living. A small strip of lakefront would be lost, but this was not being farmed and there was a chance of a just settlement. Donald’s sister and brother-in-law, the Spicers, stood to lose much of their very productive vegetable farm, but again, there was the chance of get-ting a fair price for it. Donald was,
at the time, president of the Nakusp Chamber of Commerce. He formed a water resources committee and served as its chairman. The committee got outside expert help and tried to alert others in the area to the impending proposed changes. But why? Why stand in the way of progress? Why oppose the Columbia Treaty and all its supposed benefits to the area and to the rest of Canada? And why go to such lengths as to write not one book, but two, to travel literally thousands of miles to attend meetings, hear-ings and trials, to present briefs and explain a point of view to officials who seemed to have already made a decision anyway? In the valley, many people saw it as a chance to sell out and finally be able to leave. Others saw it as a chance to find work, and some seriously resented the imposition of
forced change. So why do it?Part three will run in next week’s
Arrow Lakes News
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Project-based learning takes on new meaning for students at NESMegan Jamison’s Grade 6 class from Nakusp Elementary
School (NES) recently had the opportunity to take part in the Exploring Mountain Culture Forum, put on by the Teaching and Learning Institute and Rural Development Institute at Selkirk College.
The class was one of several classes to take part in the forum, the goal of which was to determine what the term ‘mounain culture’ means to people of the Columbia River Basin.
Jamison heard about the project through Lucerne Elementary Secondary School (LESS) in New Denver. A teacher at LESS, Richelle Johnstone, thought it would be something Jamison and her class would be interested in.
The timing was quite fortuitous.At the time, Jamison was actually looking for a bigger proj-
ect for her students to do. She liked the idea of her students taking part, not only because she enjoys doing project-based learning with her students, but because the project was about local culture, and exposed the students to doing research and meeting members of the community.
“I thought it would be a good opportunity to meet mem-bers of the community that they wouldn’t normally have met,” she said. “I liked that it was a project that the whole class could to do together.”
A wide variety of people were surveyed, from about age 17-75.
Students started off by taking copies of the surveys home and getting their parents to fill them out. Almost every student surveyed at least one of their parents. They were also encour-aged to interview other people, whether it was a neighbour, a family friend, or someone they had never met before.
“I think some of them were a bit nervous about the surveys, but it was really neat to see once they had done one, they really enjoyed it,” said Jamison. “They get to talk about topics they’re interested in, and maybe want to get off their chest.”
Once the surveys were complete, they were sent off to researchers who would compile the data and look for any trends that might pop up.
Along with the surveys, each class did an art project.Jamison’s class created a multi-media piece of art. Students
made a tree out of birch bark which depicted the four seasons. They used Plasticine to make a person hiking in the fall, and a snowboarder in the winter, along with foam for the leaves.
All the classes taking part in the project came to Nelson on March 8 for the forum itself.
There, they had a chance to see all the artwork done by the different classes, along with being presented with the results of the surveys.
One thing that surprised the NES students was how much work they had actually done.
“Seventeen per cent of the interviews were done by our class,” said Oriah Leeson. “We’re a small amount of people, and I think it’s crazy that we could do that many interviews, and I’m proud of us.”
Leeson said while it was sometimes hard to remember to do the surveys, she enjoyed the ones she did.
“It was cool to learn about what people think about here, and what people think how we’re at risk, and how we can help it.”
JILLIAN TRAINORArrow Lakes News
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Megan Jamison and her Grade 6 class stand with the art project they made as part of the Mountain Culture Research Project. The class was one of many to take part in the project, which culminated in a field trip to Nelson to hear the results of the project.
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Steve Tays, Patsy Brinker, Judy Gran and Steve Brinker smile as they hold the winning trophy for the Nakusp Curling League Championship.
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Sophia Leeson does the crab walk at on the final day of Cassia Parent’s dance classes. The classes were held during the first week of spring break, and students learned a variety of dances from ballet, to a combo of musical theatre and jazz. Students also got to show off a bit of gymnastic work as well.
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With the death of longtime resident Bill Spavor on March 2, the number of first generation Slovakis in Nakusp has dwindled.
Spavor originally came to Canada from Kriva, Slovakia in 1948, and made his way to Nakusp in 1950.
While he wasn’t involved with traditional organiza-tions in the English community, such as the Rotary, or the Chamber of Commerce, he was very involved with the local Catholic church and the Slovaki community.
“When you’re immigrating to a country, you stick with the people that you know.” said Nancy Banks, one of Spavor’s daughters.
It didn’t help that he didn’t know much English when he came to Canada, something he decided to change.
“He had to learn because he had to provide, and he took English as a second language courses when he landed in Midway.” said Banks.
Because he knew English, when he made his way to Nakusp, he would help the Slovakians in the area who didn’t speak the language as well, and would come with them as a language interpreter if they needed something done.
“Dad really helped a lot of these elderly people establish bank accounts, do legal work, understand things,” said Banks. “I remember he also helped write letters to Slovakia for them, for the family they had left.”
It wasn’t just language Spavor helped people with. He was always ready to lend a hand if there was any building, plumbing, even potato picking to be done.
Spavor married Monica Zak in 1953, and built their family home almost completely on his own.
He worked hard to provide for his family, which meant he was hardly at home, something he always regretted.
“He always apologized to us for that,” said Julius Spavor, one of Bill’s three sons.
Spavor said his dad wanted to send all his children to a post secondary school, something he himself had never achieved.
Banks said they were never allowed to shirk their
duties.“He brought us up to have high expectations of
ourselves to do the very best that we can in every-thing, and I think that’s what we all do, and that’s what he made us to be.”
A hard worker for most of his life, Spavor slowed down a bit in the early 70s after suffering a heart attack at the age of 44, and going through a double-bypass surgery. He took up fishing and hunting, along with breeding chinchillas from 1969-1972, and rabbits from 1978-1982.
Though he didn’t have much time to spend with his family, one thing he made sure to do was take part in making homemade sauerkraut, an event that brought out many smiles and much laughter.
“We would sing Slovak songs, and we would have fun,” said Banks. “It was a big family thing when we did sauerkraut with mom and dad — all of us.”
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Bill Spavor and his wife Monica during their wedding on Aug. 3, 1953. The pair were married at the home of Monica’s father on Zack’s Road, right next to what would become their family home. Photo submitted
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Steve Tays and Ross Case play a game of cribbage during a tournament at the Nakusp Legion on March 20. The pair were the only ones to show up for the tourna-ment. The low turnout was believed to be caused by a confusion about the dates. Normally, the tournament is on the last Sunday of every month, but because Easter came early this year, the tournament had to be moved up.
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Ensemble Vivant’s innova-tive genre-diverse concerts and recordings, ranging from classi-cal to Latin and other jazz per-suasions are passionate, sensu-ous, and virtuosic with magical artistry. Ensemble Vivant’s 12 recordings are classics that are heard frequently on radio around the world. Led by pianist/artistic director Catherine Wilson, the group is comprised of outstanding performers including BC native Don Thompson, O.C. As noted Canadian composer Rick Wilkins, C.M. said: “No matter the genre, there is magic in Ensemble Vivant’s music-making.”
Inspired by his association with Ensemble Vivant in concert and on recordings, Don Thompson, O.C. wrote: “I’ve been a profes-sional musician for the past 50 years and during that time I’ve worked with some of the great-est musicians in the world from Glenn Gould to Oscar Peterson. I’ve played with some of the great-est musicians that ever lived. The passion and beauty of Catherine Wilson’s piano playing is over-whelming. She is a beautifully gifted pianist and musician with a depth of feeling that separates her from the rest and makes her a real standout in the Toronto music community. She is an in-spiration to everyone who knows her. I am honored to be part of her music and honored to join Canada’s world class Ensemble Vivant.”
Tickets for this show will be available at the Bon Marche/Dollar Store until 4 p.m. Saturday, April 2, and at the door. Doors open at 7 p.m.
March 24 Nakusp T’ai Chi @ the Legion 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Call Ruth 265-3353.
March 24 Village of Nakusp Facility Tour. 1 to 3 p.m. This is an opportu-nity to see the Micro-Hydro Generation Station, Water Treatment Plant and Wastewater Treatment Plant. Please sign up at the Village Office.
March 24 Nerd Night @ Nakusp Youth Centre. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
March 24 Bingo @ Nakusp Legion. 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
March 24 Darts Night @ Nakusp Legion. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
March 24 African Drumming Group @ Move on the Kusp at 7:15 p.m. Bring your own drum. New drummers welcome.
March 24 Drop-in Badminton for adults and NSS Students @ NSS Gym. Every Tuesday & Thursday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring your own racket and non-marking inside shoes. Beginners welcome! $3 drop in fee. For more information contact Lee-Anne @ 265-3326.
March 25 Nakusp Golf Course opens to public. Honour system in place until April 1st. No power-carts.
March 25 Fringe Friday Market @ Old Fire Hall Collective, Nakusp. 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
March 25 Games Night @ Nakusp Legion. Come play Wii, darts, pool, or bring a game from home. Bring a friend or two along. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
March 25 Loose your Muse – Coffee House @ Old Fire Hall Collective, Nakusp. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday Night Coffee House Open mic: Play an instrument, sing, tell a joke, recite a poem, or have a good rant. Bring your guitar; keyboard supplied. Hang out, discuss and interact.
March 26 Farmer’s Market @ Old Fire Hall Collective, Nakusp. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
March 26 Community Choir practice @ Saddleback Church. 1 p.m. 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.
March 26 Drop-in @ Nakusp Youth Centre. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
March 27 Overwaitea’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt @ Rotary Park. 12 p.m. start. Hot dog sale by donation and raffle tickets for sale, with all proceeds going to pledge Avery Spavor for the Vancouver Sun Run.
March 27 Artist’s Trading Cards Trading Session @ Broadway Deli. 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Everyone welcome. For more information call Don Mabie @ 250 265-3673.
March 27 AA Meeting 5 p.m. to 6 p.m @ the Terra Pondera Clubhouse in Nakusp. For more information call 265-4216.
March 28 BC Transit Bus to Nakusp Hot Springs.The bus leaves Overwaitea at 1:15 p.m. and arrives back in Nakusp at 3:55 p.m. Cost is $1.25 one way, or $2.50 round trip.
March 28 Bridge @ Nakusp Senior’s Centre, every Monday 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $2.50, and beginners welcome.
March 29 First Day of School after Spring Vacation in School District 10.
March 29 Pitter Patter Play Group @ Nakusp Strong Start Building in NES. 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. A drop-in group for parents/caregivers and children ages 0 - 2 ½.
March 29 Nakusp T’ai Chi @ the Legion 10 a.m. to11 a.m. Call Ruth 265-3353.
March 29 Strong Start @ Nakusp Strong Start Building in NES. 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Free drop-in school-based early learning program for children age 0-6.
March 29 Nakusp Village Council meeting @ Nakusp Village Office at 6:30 p.m. Public is welcome to attend.
March 29 Drop-in Badminton for adults and NSS Students @ NSS Gym. Every Tuesday & Thursday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring your own racket and non-marking inside shoes. Beginners welcome! $3 drop in fee. For more information contact Lee-Anne @ 265-3326.
March 30 Strong Start @ Fauquier Communication Centre. 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Free drop-in school-based early learning program for children age 0-6.
March 30 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.
March 30 Coffee @ Nakusp Senior’s Centre. 10 to 11 a.m.
March 30 Strong Start @ Edgewood Elementary School. 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Free drop-in school-based early learning program for children age 0-6.
March 30 Poker Night @ the Leland Hotel. It’s free and beginners are welcome. 7 p.m. start. For more information contact Dan @ 265-3314.
March 30 AA Meeting from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ the Terra Pondera Clubhouse in Nakusp. For more information call 265-4216.
March 31 Recycling Day in Nakusp! Leave your recycling on the curb in clear blue bags, for 7 a.m. pick-up.
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Lemon Creek townsite went missingGREG NESTEROFF
Arrow Lakes NewsOne hundred eighteenth in a semi-alphabetical
series on West Kootenay/Boundary place namesLast week we saw that in 1897, two townsites
existed on Lemon Creek in the Slocan Valley: one where the railway was expected to cross, known as Del Monte or Lemon Creek Crossing, and the other at the confluence of Lemon and Summit creeks, known as Summit or just Lemon Creek.
A post office application filed on Oct. 2 of that year by residents of the former town suggested the name Lemonton. The attached petition had almost 60 names, including employees of a re-cently established sawmill as well as miners and prospectors.
The postal inspector’s report stated: “The name of the station at the site of the proposed office here has been changed to Lemon Creek. Lemonton is the name of a new townsite about 12 miles east of the Lemon Creek station up Lemon Creek.”
In fact, it was probably the other way around, but in any case, a post office didn’t open and Lemon Creek Crossing became better known as Lemon Creek Siding, or just Lemon Siding. The earliest mention of the latter was in The Ledge of Nov. 16, 1899: “A large stable will be built at Lemon siding.”
A post office application was filed again in late 1900 in the name of Lemon Creek, but postal authorities didn’t believe it was necessary and it never opened.
Oddly, a much later reference to Lemonton is found in the Slocan Mining Review of June 11, 1908: “It is stated here that the wagon road from Slocan City to Lemonton will probably be extended to Perry Siding this summer … Several buildings have been erected on the local ranches recently, a barn on the Anderson ranch at Lemonton being the biggest undertaking.”
Meanwhile, unsold lots in the other Lemon Creek townsite, which never fulfilled its potential, were to be auctioned off. But The Ledge of Sept. 19, 1901 reported a snag:
“For some weeks past the Government Agent at Kaslo has been advertising to sell at public auction government lots in Lemon Creek townsite. Last week the agent went down to Slocan City to see if he could find the townsite … After investigating for a day or two and not being able to get within eight miles of its exact location, the agent wired to Victoria for permission to withdraw the sale. It was granted and the agent is now out with a search warrant for the government lots in the townsite of Lemon Creek.”
The land finally reverted to the government
in 1904.A few sources also mention a place called
Lemon City, but it’s not always clear which townsite they’re referring to. An ad in the British Columbia Gazette of Jan. 13, 1898 read: “Notice is hereby given that application will be made … to build and equip and maintain waggon [sic] roads from … Slocan City to Lemon City, on Lemon Creek …”
Clara Graham wrote in Kootenay Mosaic: “From the south end of Slocan Lake trails led up Springer and Lemon Creeks and on the latter was situated Lemon City, now another ghost town.”
And in West Kootenay: Ghost Town Country, Bill Barlee referred to Lemon City as “a short-lived railway camp founded in the 1890s when the CPR was building the Columbia and Western Railway to Slocan City.”
The Nelson Daily News of Aug. 7, 1937 said Lemon City was another name for Oro — a ghost town often confused with the Lemon Creek town-site on Summit Creek. We’ll deal with Oro sepa-rately in this series.
Greg Nesteroff collection
This postcard of Lemon Creek was mailed from Slocan to a T.J. Fowle of Vernon. The message, by W.R. Clay of Valhalla Ranch, is dated May 21, 1913.
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Thank-you to all the wonderful people that helped celebrate Jack’s life, especially, speakers: Ernie Knecht, James Andrews, Brian Kennelly and Harold Friedenberger. You were great! Many thanks to the staff at Minto House, Nakusp, The Pavillion, New Denver and all the doctors for the great care and thoughtfulness. Visits, cards, food and phone calls to all the family were very helpful.
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Requests for Proposal (RFP) packages can be obtained from the FLNRO FTP site at the following link: https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/DKL/external/outgoing/JDexter/Wragge%20Beach%20RFP/
A mandatory information meeting on the RFP will be held on April 5th, 2016. The proponent or his / her representative must attend this meeting to be eligible for submitting a proposal. The meeting will be held 10:00 Pacific Standard Time, at the Kootenay Lake Forest District Office 1907 Ridgewood Road, Nelson , B.C. V1L 6K1.
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Local teen runs for her dadJILLIAN TRAINOR
Arrow Lakes NewsAvery Spavor loves to run.It’s something she’s done for a while, and was hoping to con-
tinue doing so when she moved to Vancouver to go to school.“It’s kind of just a way to be by myself, and focus on some-
thing other than school, or all of life’s stuff,” she said. “I like doing it for my body, it makes me feel good.”
While looking for a run, her sister Ali told her about the Vancouver Sun Run, which takes place on April 17.
“I kind of kept it in the back of my mind,” she said. “When I came back down here for school, I looked into it.”
The Vancouver Sun Run is a 10 km road running event held in Vancouver each year on the third, though sometimes fourth, Sunday in April. It started in 1985 with 3,700 runners, and is now one of the largest road races in North America.
Unil she signed up for the run, she wasn’t aware she could raise money for a cause. When that fact was revealed to her, she decided to raise money for the B.C. Cancer Foundation.
Spavor’s father, Julius Spavor, is currently undergoing treat-ment for cancer.
“My dad is impressed that I like to run anyway, so I wanted to do a run just for that,” she said. “But finding out that I could raise money for him because he’s a cancer patient, was awesome.”
Training for the event can be intense. Spavor trains an average of six days a week.
She sets aside three to four days a week for different types of runs, which include focussing on things like speed, stamina, and the long run. Other days of the week, she focuses on her core, legs, and arms.
Running is one of the many things Spavor and her father have a shared passion for, and something they did together when she lived in Nakusp.
“He can’t run as much right now, but when I was home a couple of weeks ago we got out for a run, and that was his first run in a long time.”
In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, she said she’s hop-ing her father might be able to make it to Vancouver to cheer her on, but she knows he’ll be impressed no matter what.
“He told me he’s really proud of what I’m doing, and that it means a lot to him,” she said. “I know he would be running right beside me if he could.”
Anyone wishing to donate on Avery’s behalf can do so by going to her personal page at: donate.bccancerfoundation.com.,
or by going to the Overwaitea hot dog sale on Easter Sunday at Rotary Park. All proceeds from the sale go toward a pledge for Avery’s run.
Avery Spavor smiles as she hangs out with her father Julius. Avery will be taking part in the Vancouver Sun Run on April 17, and will be using the run to fundraise for the B.C. Cancer Foundation. Julius is currently going through treatment for cancer. Photo submitted
Mountain biker’s paradise in Nakusp?JILLIAN TRAINOR
Arrow Lakes NewsLooking for something to
do during the second week of spring break?
Why not try hopping on a bike and checking out one of the local bike trails main-tained by the Nakusp and Area Bike Society?
There are currently four trails for mountain bikers to ride, and each one has a dif-ferent level of difficulty.
“Kids just learning can ride Zoolander, but so can expert riders — they just go faster,” said Janis Neufeld, a member of the bike society. “There’s also Droptimus, which would be sort of your black diamond trail.”
Along with these two, there is one called Horse Thief, which would be more of an intermediate trail, and for be-ginners, there is the rail grade.
While there are currently four trails, the bike society would like to create more trails in an effort to pro-mote biking in all its forms for Nakusp, and to help pro-mote physical activity and increased recreational op-portunities.
Neufeld noted three good reasons for creating more bike trails in the area.
“One is just for our Nakuspians to have increased recreational opportunities,”
she said. “It will make Nakusp more attractive as a place to move, and the third is the economic impact that hav-ing trails here will create on Nakusp.”
With this in mind, the bike society has applied for Columbia Basin Trust’s Community Initiatives grant. The group is asking for $30,000.
What the bike society is applying for is to initiate and plan the recreation area that they’ve applied for tenure, and to build trails.
“We plan to have every-thing from your mom and pop trails down near the lake, all the way to aggressive, hardcore, full-face helmet downhill trails that go from the top of the mountain all the way down — something for everyone.” said Neufeld.
Mountain biking has many forms, it’s not just biking on a trail. There are different types, including downhill, cross country, and all-mountain.
The trails are open to the public, so anyone is free to check them out.
If a person is interested in becoming part of the bike society, Shon’s Bike and Ski Shop has the forms. It’s $15 for an individual, and $25 for a family. All profits go toward supporting the Nakusp and Area Bike Society.