castlegar news, january 17, 2013

Thursday, January 17 • 2013 Vol.10 • Issue 3

CASTLEGAR NEWSBreaking news at castlegarnews.com

SHSS Jr. Boys surpass Nelson rivals See Page A22

Issue of school closures followed with keen interest

See Page A2

Your Horoscope For the Week with Michael O’Connor inside the West Kootenay Advertiser

Record-setting Saints bag number 13� e Selkirk Col-

lege Saints, having closed out 2012 with 12 straight wins to tie a BCIHL Hockey League record, set a record of their own on Saturday night at the Castlegar Com-munity Complex.

Starting one-for-one in 2013 claimed the distinction in

front of a packed house of thrilled Saints fans.

� e team had not played competitively in quite a while.

� e Saints gave it a great e� ort but just seemed a little out of sync at times in the early going.

� at said, they had a good start and when SFU had some penalty trouble Sel-kirk poured on the

shots early, � nding out that Clan goalie Graeme Gordon was on his game.

He would prove consistently tough to beat, making one highlight save in particular that was nothing shy of sensa-tional.

� e Clan pulled almost even by the end of the period, 11 to the hosts’ 12, more telling was a 1-0 lead

on a goal from Trev-or Milner, assisted by Bruin McDonald.

� e SFU tally seemed to come against the � ow of the play as the Saints did more threatening the more they warmed up. � e hard-nosed Clan proved quite a handful in the physi-cal department as well.

In period two the visitors went up

by two a� er Logan Proulx (assisted by Jordan Wood) had put Selkirk on the board, with Milner bagging his second on the night and Bru-in McDonald’s e� ort set up by Jesse Mysio-rek and Tyler Mah.

“� is was our � rst game since Decem-ber 1,” stated Selkirk coach Je� Dubois later outside the win-ning locker room.

“So we were pre-pared for a bit of rust.” But the coach said the con� dence was there heading into the third. With less than a minute to play before the sec-ond intermission, Dylan Smith pulled his team within one, Jordan Wood again getting the assist.

� rough the � rst three quarters of the

JIM SINCLAIRCastlegar News Editor

Continued on P. A3

Simon Fraser University goalie Graeme Gordon struggles to keep track of the puck in the January 13 game against the Selkirk College Saints at the

Castlegar Com-munity Complex.The hosts pep-pered the SFU net with more than 40 shots

en route to a 4-3 come-back win.

The win was a re-cord setting 13th straight to start a

season.Also pictured are Saints captain Jordan Wood

#91 and forward Logan Proulx.

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School District #20 is holding the second of two public forum at Twin Rivers Elemen-tary School gymna-sium on Jan. 17 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the possible closures of Castlegar Primary and Rossland Secondary. The first public forum, which took place in Rossland on Tuesday, drew more than 500

people.District board chair

Darrel Ganzert says the forum will give people a chance to en-gage with the board about the possible clo-sures.

“There will be a brief introduction and then the super-intendent (Greg Lu-terbach) has a series of slides to show, the financial situation the school district finds itself in, what the dis-

trict has done the last eight or ten years to balance their budget, and largely that’s cut-ting programs and services, and some slides about potential cost savings etc. that potential school clo-sures could generate,” he said. “Then there’s a facilitated portion of the meeting where people will be broken up into groups where they have an exer-cise to do and then

report out after that. It’s largely around the value of schools in the community and things like that.”

School trustees will vote on whether or not to close the schools at the end of February following four separate meet-ings: Feb. 4, first read-ing at a location to be determined; Feb. 12 Rossland and Feb. 13 Castlegar, second reading which would include debate; and

Feb. 25, Trail Middle School, third and final reading with a show of hands on the bylaws being proposed.

Ganzert said the board will meet with PAC members pri-vately at a later date which has not been announced.

Ganzert also said there are other op-tions on the table that would save Castlegar Primary School from the chopping block.

“They involve hav-ing both buildings open, but calling it one school,” he said. “What you would do in that case is save some administration time. That option re-quires closing Castle-gar Primary in name only. That would free the administrative team up to reconfig-ure the administrative component of the new school.”

Ganzert says 88 per cent of the board’s budget comes in wag-es and benefits.

“The only way to save any kind of mon-ey has to be through job loss,” he said.

“We hope some of that job loss would be through attrition and that no one must be let go.

“But we can’t guar-

antee that someone will step forward and retire.”

Castlegar Primary School PAC president Leanne Osokin says it’s important for all Castlegar residents who would be af-fected by the poten-tial changes to get in-volved.

“We’re just trying to rev up basically all Castlegar residents (for the forum),” she said. “The current mo-tions they have up for debate will potentially affect all schools in Castlegar.”

Osokin says it doesn’t make any sense for the school board to shut down the school and move the kids into portables at Twin Rivers Ele-mentary next door.

“The basic facts really don’t sup-port them closing our school,” she said. “Castlegar Primary is currently at 94 per cent. That’s six per cent shy of being full. We have the highest number of kindergar-ten kids in the district of all the schools. We have two and a half kindergarten classes. I do not understand why our school is fin-gered yet again for clo-sure. We don’t fit into Twin Rivers.” Osokin

continued, “Their projections for school enrolment for the next 10-15 years is nothing but increasing. Yet, they want to close a perfectly good, viable school and put chil-dren into temporary shelters which are ba-sically what portables are: they’re tempo-rary. It’s not planning for the future in our minds. It’s not mak-ing a viable education infrastructure plan for our town.”

Osokin questions the board’s ability to plan for the future with the possible clos-ing of the school.

“What are they go-ing to do? Continue to add more portables to Twin River’s play-ground?” she said. “There’s no planning for the future. I un-derstand there’s a defi-cit and they have to find money. But this is short-sighted think-ing.”

Osokin says the de-cision to close schools and move children shouldn’t just be about the money.

“We just want to make sure our voice is heard and that they’re making this decision in the best interest of Castlegar,” she said. “That they’re not just looking at money.”

Parents and others invited to forum on possible school closuresCraig LindsayCastlegar News Reporter

Castlegar Primary School parents and students were out in force in May at a rally to save the school. Craig Lindsay

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NewsGrandview housing group reaches out

The Grandview Housing Co-op stated its case on January 11 to a man who could have much influence affecting the co-op following the provin-cial election in May.

Joe Trasolini is the housing critic with the party which polls suggest has a good chance of forming the next provincial government. He and colleague Katrine Conroy heard the co-op’s presentation and expressed ad-

miration for the lo-cal project above the Minto Road-High-

way 22 intersection in South Castlegar. Project spokesperson

Jim Laktin said new investors are most welcome, especially

in the yet-to-be built Grandview Chateau portion of the devel-opment. An investor such as BC Housing would suit the Grand-view group, said Lak-tin, who described how many potential new residents seem to find the idea of rent-ing, rather than pur-chasing, more to their liking.

Trasolini and Conroy were each complementary of the project, howev-er, stopped short of making any promises in regard to future fi-nancial involvement.

jim sinclairCastlegar News Editor

Pictured above from left during a Jan. 11 meeting at the Grandview Heights housing co-op, rep Elmer Verigin, Joe Trasolini - Port Moody-Coquitlam M.L.A and NDP Housing Critic, and Kootenay West M.L.A. Katrine Conroy. Jim Sinclair

‘I opened up the window and in-flu-enza.’ It’s an old joke but it also illustrates the fact that residents need to be cautious at this time of year with several cases of the flu being reported in the region.

“Throughout the

province there are positive tests for in-fluenza virus includ-ing your region,” said Peter Barss, medical health officer for the Interior Health Au-thority.

“We have lots of outbreaks going on at the moment in the re-gion. There’s cases at care facilities for the elderly, schools and,

of course, individual cases like families.”

Barss says most of the recent cases are of influenza strain AH3N2.

“It seems the vac-cine includes that strain,” he said.

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IHA confirms flu prevalence

...third period it looked very much like this could be the outcome, what with the strong guardian in the Clan’s crease. In fact, just after the second Selkirk goal to be disallowed, with about five minutes remaining, Gordon was taking on an in-vincible aura. It was precisely then that the Saints’ Thomas Hardy pumped some frantic life into the complex with a deft deflection assisted by Beau Tay-

lor and Sandro Moser. Less than a minute later – the go-ahead goal by Mason Spear, helped out by Con-nor McLaughlin and Scott Swiston. The complex went wild as a dejected Gordon lay momentarily on the ice following the win-ner.

The Saints then closed it out, giving their faithful a eu-phoric trip home.

“He played a great game,” we were all over him all night and he kept shutting us down,” said a grin-

ning Jordan Wood about the SFU net-minder. “Finally we were just able to get to him.”

The team was ob-viously pleased to get back in action, and ended up with more than 40 shots, rough-ly double that of their guests.

“Everyone was a little rusty but we worked through it… worked hard… it’s good to see.”

From Coach Jeff Dubois’ vantage point things looked good as well.

“We controlled it for the most part. We were getting pucks on net. We’ve got a group that really doesn’t give up, and they got re-warded for that.”

Down the hall – a counterpoint outside a disappointed SFU room.

“I thought we played well,” said Clan Coach Mark Co-letta of the evening. “We had a couple of breakdowns that led to their goals. Gordo was great in the pipes. I thought we had a good team effort, mi-

nus a couple of play-ers, guys out of the line-up because of in-jury and being sick.”

It was a game the Clan would have loved to have won, and they’ll try to earn a different outcome upon their return in early February.

Not only did this win set a record for the Saints, but it put distance between them and the Clan who had been only three points back heading into the Sat-urday contest after 12 games each.

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Saints stretch their success streak to thirteen

Local First Nations groups and support-ers are gearing up for an installment of the nation-wide Idle No More movement. The event is set to be held in Castlegar this Saturday at the Public Library, getting start-ed at 1 p.m.

Idle No More in CastlegarThe Jan. 10 Castle-

gar News reported that on Jan. 7 city council approved a Development Vari-ance Permit appli-cation for a single family dwelling on 14th avenue. IT WAS NOT APPROVED at the meeting. Instead, council voted to con-sider issuing the per-mit at the council meeting on Feb. 4.

CORRECTION

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niors already signed up for the Golden Guests program. The Castlegar senior’s centre is also on site at the complex and is open to anyone.

“This is our way

of letting them know about some of the new programs and to celebrate the people in our community,” she said. “Hopefully, we’ll get even more people signed up.”

Golden Guests in the spotlightCraig LindsayCastlegar News Reporter

The Castlegar Community Complex held a ceremony on Tuesday to recognize members of its new Golden Guest program. Above, the guests pose with Castlegar Mayor Lawrence Chernoff (second from left) and Castlegar Recreation Manager Jim Crockett (at right).

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Avalanche hazard expected to rise

Everyone knows the community cal-endar on page A8 of the Castlegar News is the place to go for all the latest goings-on in Castlegar and the area. But what if you don’t have the paper handy? Don’t forget the Castlegar News website has its own calendar.

� e Castlegar News online calendar is full of all the events not only in Castlegar and area but also through-out the Kootenays.

� e online cal-endar is found on the front page of the

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Not only can you check out upcom-ing events but you can also ADD YOUR OWN EVENT AB-SOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE. To add an event just click on the blue tab that says ‘add your event’ and follow the steps.

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You can even add a picture and link to

a website if you wish. You can also show your event on any of our other sister pa-pers such as the Nel-son Star, Trail Times, or Grand Forks Ga-zette.

Once you � nish, your request will be submitted to our edi-tor for approval.

� e process can take up to 48 hours before the event ap-pears on the online calendar.

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� e ultimate in free event promoCRAIG LINDSAYCastlegar News Reporter

With temperatures expecting to rise in the next few days, av-alanche danger is ex-pected to rise as well on the mountains.

� e RCMP is ask-ing skiers, snow-boarders, snowmo-bilers and anyone else enjoying the outdoors to exercise caution when leaving groomed and man-aged trails.

� e consistent snowfall gave Koo-tenay Boundary out-door enthusiasts a great start to winter. Danger ratings have

been low and people have been able to ski and ride almost any-thing without risk of avalanches, said a spokesperson from the Canadian Ava-lanche Centre. How-ever, that is expected to change shortly with the warming of the weather.

“It’s been a season without a whole lot of what we call per-sistent weak layers - those are the ones we usually have a lot of trouble with,” said Grant Helgeson, pub-lic avalanche forecast-er for the Canadian Avalanche Centre. “We have a big fore-

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Scammers trying us outI’ve just finished reading a novel

about the scamming game. It’s a 2012 Giller award novel called “419” by Calgary author, Will Ferguson. The term “419” happens to be the euphe-mism for setting up a scam or hooking someone into a scheme. In reality, 419 is a number in the Nigerian criminal code.

In Ferguson’s novel, a retired Cal-gary school teacher falls for one of the Nigerian “419” schemes. He receives an email from someone wanting help to get a woman out of Nigeria. This woman happens to have a lot of mon-ey, which will accompany her when she is freed. For some reason, this re-tired school teacher decides to help, but tells no one what he is doing.

Over a period of time, he sends money, and there is always an excuse as to why more money needs to be sent. In the end, he depletes his bank accounts, remortgages his house, and maxes out his credit cards. When he realizes finally what he has been led into doing, he drives over a cliff, com-mitting suicide.

His family is left with nothing. His wife will lose her home, and his grown-up son and daughter are in anguish as to how such a thing could happen. The

novel goes on to trace the daughter’s attempts to find the people who have destroyed her father.

Coincidentally, the day I finished the novel, I received a letter from the United Kingdom indicating I had won “two million British pounds.” It was listed as a Nokia lottery, and the lot-tery apparently picked my email as one of five from around the world.

I knew immediately it was a scam because of the fractured English and unnecessary capitals on various words throughout the document. I was cer-tain I shouldn’t respond with glee when the letter asked for my full name, postal address, phone numbers, age, occupation, nationality, and country of residence.

Clearly, I understood not to phone the phone number attached or reply to the “hotmail” email address. Can you imagine a major lottery using hotmail with millions of dollars to give out?

My final clue to it being a “scam” hit me when the letter asked if I wanted the award delivered by courier or by bank transfer. If I responded, in the future I would be asked to pay courier fees, handling charges, lawyer’s in-voices, and you name it. In addition, I would be asked for my bank account

numbers to more easily transfer the award.

A day later, I received an email stat-ing I had won the Chevron Texaco award of “one million Great Brit-ain pounds.” Apparently, my “email emerged and won” me this amount of money. Again, the contact was through hotmail.

A week later, I received an email supposedly from my friend Wayne who is currently teaching in Finland. It used his exact email address and, af-ter greeting me by name, went on to say he was in the Philippines “with his family” and had been robbed in a park near his hotel. Apparently, he had been able to deal with everything except for the $1,900 hotel bill. He didn’t want to offend me or mess up our friendship, but could I help out?

I knew it was fraudulent because Wayne doesn’t have a family, and be-yond that, he is an English teacher who would never write a message so badly. I informed him of the scam, and he has since changed his email address and passwords.

Anyway, these scam criminals are out there, sending us notes from Ni-geria, the Philippines, and elsewhere. Don’t let them into your lives.

With this being minor hockey week it seems like another good oppotunity to sing the praises of amateur sports.

First of all, let’s not even let the big-time versions of athletics invade our con-sciousness. We’re talking about school age kids being introduced to the challenges, rewards and lessons in humility that are taught by sports.

What is being glorified is the great in-fluence this kind of activity has on the kids’ physical fitness, something that could have lifelong implications.

Every backstroke taken, every puck stopped or basketball dribbled could translate to one fewer soda pop quaffed or smartphone app consulted.

No, sport does not eliminate sedentary behaviour, it displaces it.

Kids involved in sports are on the in-side track to social fluency. They learn the value of cooperation and the pursuit of shared goals.

One young athlete, described later in these pages by Craig Lindsay, even rushed from a surgical appointment (she broke her chin on the bottom of the pool) to help her squad in a Penticton basket-ball tournament. Sounds like a good start on solid citizenship.

Nevermind the pitfalls and temptations that may go hand in hand with making it big in pro sports, there’ll be plenty of time to learn how to deal with that, if the time comes. For now, let’s just celebrate our young athletes.

Here’s to the players

Spots in Time - Gord Turner

Theresa HodgeOffice Manager

Jim SinclairEditor

Chris HopkynsPublisher

Cindy AmaralProduction Manager

Sandy LeonardProduction

Craig LindsayReporter


Weigh-ing in on

DARE de-bate

I have read with interest the recent articles relating to DARE education and the comments made by Mr. Clement and Mrs. Kelly. Firstly, I would like to say that I am very happy that members of the Castlegar community are discussing drug prevention initia-tives like DARE and I would like to point out a few important issues in regard to the comments made.

The DARE com-ponent in British Co-lumbia is supported by the (Not For Profit Society) DARE, BC which financially sup-ports this program, the educational mate-rials and T-shirts that the children receive, with the exception of the learning manuals, paid for by the RCMP. The officers who teach DARE do so while on shift and in some cas-es on their own time. The program is an ad-ditional duty with no extra compensation. Many of these officers are parents perform-ing this duty because they care about the information children receive in order to make healthy choices.

I am not sure what Mr. Clement is re-ferring to when he states that, “our pres-ent drug education is based on a 50 year old drug prohibition policy.” For a number of years now drug ed-ucation has focused on children making healthy choices and providing them with universal preven-tion messages. These messages are not only delivered by the RCMP, but commu-nity groups such as Freedom Quest and Castlegar Commu-nity Services to name two. The current framework functions within a Community Prevention Education Continuum (CPEC). These profession-als have the ability to

perform secondary prevention and harm reduction strategies with students after delivering a univer-sal prevention mes-sage. This framework helps meet the needs of all students. The DARE program is but one component that is implemented within CPEC. These prevention messages are based on provid-ing comprehensive, timely information on socially relevant topics directly related to making healthy choices. This method has seen first time use of marijuana and al-cohol in the Kootenay area decrease in com-munities that work within a CPEC. These statistics are not from another country.

As for Mr. Clem-ent’s comment re-garding DARE offi-cers scaring children, I could not disagree more. I’m not cer-tain when Mr. Clem-ent last sat in on a DARE class, which I recently have done. Let me assure you, the reader, nothing is taught but clear and factual informa-tion about drugs and alcohol. The DARE curriculum has also been revamped over the years to meet children’s needs. Not once did my two chil-dren, who received DARE, ever come home scared straight. They really liked their DARE officer and felt cared about by the police in their com-munity, as Mrs. Kelly pointed out. The idea of not talking to our children about drugs because it could do more harm than good is not sound reason-ing. Smoking cam-paigns have proved that open dialogue, educating and mak-ing healthy choices have radically re-duced the number of children/people who smoke.

I too believe that the excellent young people of today have the capacity to make good choices and we as a community have a responsibility to help them. The com-

munity of Castlegar is doing so and I for one, am very proud of this.

-Cpl. Martin G. Kooiman

RCMP Drugs and Organized Crime

Awareness ServiceWest Kootenay BC

A visitor’s gratitudeOn December 8

I was unfortunate-ly in an accident a short distance west of Castlegar. Many residents of Castlegar stopped to offer me assistance. Unfortu-nately I was unable to get your names. Your kindness to my-self and my two dogs was outstanding and deeply appreciated. A difficult time was made so much easier due to this outpour-ing of concern and generosity. A special thanks to the RCMP and to the kind fam-ily who took my dogs in, fed and cared for them until I was able to do so.

My best wishes to all for 2013.

-Jo FiskeLethbridge AB.

Outside opinion on downtown

business duel

My frustration builds more and more each week as I read the articles in the Castlegar News about the ongoing battle the City of Castlegar and local business own-ers have with Basil McLaren, who owns a number of build-ings in the downtown area. I’m wondering if the locals of this town remember the ardu-ous battle the city had with the McLarens with respect to the City Center Motel which was eventu-ally and thankfully torn down due to the building’s hid-eous and neglected condition as well as

the city’s persistence. Here we are again with the same people. The same people who own and operate a very well kept and aesthetically pleasing business in Nelson which they appear to take pride in.

Where is the pride with the buildings you own in Castlegar? Instead it appears as though Basil Mclaren consistently feels the need to blame the city and the Element Night Club for their lack of consideration for his predicaments. Is it only broken win-dows that need to be addressed here? Be-cause when I drive or walk by some of the buildings Mr. McLaren owns, I see more than broken windows. I see peeled paint, broken stucco, a great deal of debris piled up against the windows on the in-side, and the list goes on. I find it hard to believe he is suggest-ing the patrons from the Element are solely responsible for the deplorable condition some of his buildings are in. The build-ings look terribly neglected and I see a lack of respect for not only other local busi-ness owners in the area, but for the City of Castlegar and the people who live here, who I might add are patrons of your stores who spend their hard earned money there.

-Jen Mair,Castlegar

You do the mathPretend you are

back at school and your teacher assigns you the following math problem:

“School District 20 is facing another huge fiscal crisis due to government down-loading of costs and needs to cut its budget by $1,750,000 and has decided that it wants to close some schools before sharing all of the potential options it may be consider-

ing for addressing its budget crisis.

Your assignment is to analyse the fol-lowing potential op-tions, determine your priorities and to send a letter to the School Board with your ad-vice on how to reduce the District’s Annual Budget by $1,750,000 over the next three years.

You have until February 4, 2013 to complete this assign-ment.”

A. How to Balance the Budget by Elimi-nating Programs & Services to Students

• Eliminate El-ementary School Teacher-Librar ian Program-$184,500

• Eliminate Trades/Apprenticeship Pro-gram-$50,000

• Eliminate District Learning Coordina-tion Program-$92,254

• Eliminate Dis-trict Integration Support Coordina-tion Program for Special Needs Stu-dents-$92,254

• Eliminate More Elective Programs at Secondary Schools by Increasing Class Siz-es-$119,925/$249,075

Total poten-tial annual savings -$538,933/$668,083

B. How to Balance the Budget by Clos-ing/Reconfiguring Rossland Schools

• Close Rossland Secondary School and move Grade 8-12 students to JL Crowe and make MacLean Elementary School K-7–$455,000

• Close MacLean Elementary School and make Rossland Secondary School K-9 and move Grade 10-12 students to JL Crowe-$285,000

• Close Maclean El-ementary School and make Rossland Sec-ondary School K-12-$145,000


C. How to balance the Budget by Clos-ing/Reconfiguring

Castlegar Schools• Close Castlegar

Primary School and move students to Twin Rivers Elemen-tary School-$170,000

• Combine Castle-gar Primary School and Twin Rivers El-ementary School as one campus-$74,000


D. How to Balance the Budget by Elimi-nating Library Assis-tants and Reducing Custodial/Clerical Staff

• Eliminate Library Assistants and cus-todial services in all schools-$182,105

E. How to balance the Budget by Down-loading Bussing Costs to Parents

Charge each fam-ily $120/$240 per stu-dent/year for bussing -$180,000/$360,000

Eliminate all bus-sing for all students or just for Grade 8-12 students and provide families

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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jan. 26 - musical revue featur-ing music from jesus christ su-perstar - Dinner theatre event sponsored by the Castlegar Sun-rise 2000 Rotary Club featuring the best music from Jesus Christ Superstar performed by the origi-nal performers from the Nelson Amy Ferguson Institute. Also in-cludes songs from other Broad-way plays such as Rent and Mou-lin Rouge.Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Includes buffet, live auction, and safe ride home.Tickets available at Oglow’s.

jan. 28 - the West Kootenay os-tomy support group will meet at 2 p.m. at the Pharmasave store, 1280 Cedar Avenue, Trail. Guest: Video conference with Convatec representative.For more info, please call 250-368-9827 or 250-365-6276. Please note: Location and date change!

jan. 28 - WK naturalists’ month-end presentation: a photo shoW and talK on the galapagos is-lands by local globe-trotting birders Ed and Hazel Beynon. Please join us for a photographic tour of one of the planet’s most remarkable ecosystems. Mon. Jan.28, 8 p.m, at Selkirk College in Castlegar. Free. All welcome. More info: call 362 - 7424.

celebrate family literacy WeeK (jan. 27 - feb. 3rd) sing & sWim: For families with young children, join us for our free Sing & Swim event on Jan. 27th from 3:00-4:00 pm at the Community Complex. Call Ala-na to register 250.304.6862.free family game nights!Bring your family out for dinner and play some games!Blueberry Creek Community School on Jan. 29 at 5:30-7:00 pm, Robson Community School on Jan. 30 at 5:30-7:00 pm, Twin Rivers Elementary School on Jan. 31 at 5:30-7:00 p.m. These events are offered by Cas-tlegar & District Public Library, Blueberry Creek Community School Hub, Robson Commu-nity School, School District 20, Castlegar & District Community Complex and Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy. Call Alana for more infoat 250.304.6862

feb. 3 - enjoy singing? come to a good old-style sing-along at the Castlegar United Church from 1:30-3 p.m. It will be sing-ing well loved songs, from our past. There will also be a few spe-cial guests. If you wish to con-tribute a small donation it will be used to support a local charity.

feb. 3 - superboWl party at the royal canadian legion - doors open at 1:00 p.m., kickoff at 3:00 p.m. There will be a potluck din-ner and lots of other great snack-ables.There will be draws for many door prizes and other spe-cial events throughout the game. There is no cover charge for this event and guest are most defi-nitely welcome and can be signed in by a member. Come out and enjoy exciting Superbowl action and spend a great afternoon with football enthusiasts..this is an event you do not want to miss.

feb. 11 - celebrate family day With free sKating and sWim-ming at the Castlegar Rec Com-plex from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Sponsored by RDCK I.

feb. 16 - castlegar move-a-thon - Skate or walk and raise funds for Castlegar Special Olympics and your favourite charity. From 10 a.m. until 12 noon at the Cas-tlegar Community Complex. Do-nations available at the complex or from any Castlegar Selkirk Lion member.FMI call Joanne 250-365-3884.

ongoing: tops group meets every Wednesday - 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Kinnaird Hall 2320 Columbia Avenue. Round table discussion. Get motivated to eat healthy and lose weight. Join round table dis-cussions and make new friends.Monthly fee of $10. FMI call 365-7956.

ongoing: sharing dinner pot - You are welcome for a hot meal Tuesdays at noon at the Cadet Hall on 8th Avenue in Castlegar, two blocks from the library. No charge. Sponsored by the Stone-soup committee. All are wel-come.

ongoing: friday youth program at blueberry creeK - Are you a youth in Castlegar looking for something to do on Friday nights? Why not check out the Friday Night Youth program at Blueberry Creek Community School? Manager Cindy Cropley and team ensure a fun, safe night for kids in the area to watch a movie in Blueberry’s very own movie theatre, play games and sports in the gym and just hang out with friends. For grades K - 5, the program time is 6:30-8 p.m. and for grades 6 and up, the program happens from 8-10 p.m. Check out the B.C.C.S. facebook page for movie listings and other information or phone 250-365-7201.

ongoing: castlegar a.a. meet-ings at the pioneer arena - Sun. at 10 a.m. (phone Mike at 365-

8302), Tues. at 7 p.m. (phone Dennis at 365-2738), Thurs. at 8 p.m. (phone Jim at 365-6216) and Sat. at 8 p.m. (phone Leon-ard at 365-7805).

ongoing: al-anon meets every monday night AL-ANON is for people whose lives have been af-fected by someone else’s drinking. Meeting every Monday 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 2224 6th Ave. (Kootenay Society for Community Living building.) For more information call Donna 365-3168 or Eileen 365-3674. ongoing: the castlegar & dis-trict hospital auxiliary trea-sure shop - invites you to take advantage of “in store” sales throughout the month of January 2013. Our first Silent Auction for the new year is now open for bid-ding with closing date Saturday, January 26th. Stop by to view the numerous beautifully displayed items of interest for everyone. Please note: after notification to successful bidders by telephone items must be picked up and paid for within 7 days otherwise the next bidder in line will have the opportunity to own items opted for. (Special arrangements can be made in the event a bidder is unable to meet the 7 day time-frame).The Treasure Shop is located at 210 - 11th Avenue (across from the Library). ongoing: castlegar judo club - Monday, Thursday evenings from 6:15 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Twin Rivers School gym.Old and new members welcome. Register anytime. From aged 8 years and up.FMI call John Gibson 250-365-5763.

ongoing: poKer fundraiser at the lion’s head pub every tues-day - Games start at 6:30 p.m. and go until there is a winner. Buy-in is $40 and the prize is $1,000 or more. Partial proceeds go to the West Kootenay Therapeutic Rid-ing Association.

ongoing: castlegar senior’s ac-tivities at the rec centre for january: at the ComplexMonday – 9:30 Floor Curling/Carpet Bowling10:00 Darts 1:00 WhistTuesday – 9:30 Floor Curling/Carpet Bowling, 1:00 Crafts 7:00 Pool Wednesday – 9:30 Floor Curling, 1:00 Bingo,(1st Wed.only)7:00 Rummoli, 10:00 16th Rasp-berry ReunionThursday – 9:30 Floor Curling 1st. Thurs. 2:00 Gen. Meeting 1:00 Bingo (just not 1st.Thurs)Friday – 1:00 Bridge/Crib,Jan. 19th - Soup Day 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

ongoing: special olympics cas-

tlegar needs volunteers - For more information please call 250-919-0757.

ongoing: castlegar garden club meets third Wednesday of the month – 7:00 p.m. at the Com-munity Complex. Discover the Castlegar Garden Club and be dazzled by the depth of knowl-edge of our monthly speakers. Garden inspirations will linger long after the meeting is over.New members always welcome. Information: Rose Cheveldave 250.365.9600 or [email protected]. ongoing: robson marKet is open except for long weekends. 8-11 a.m. at the Robson Community Hall. Homestyle breakfasts, come enjoy and maybe find some trea-sures. Tables for vendors. Phone 250-365-3796.

ongoing: the West Kootenay roller derby is looKing for supplies - WKRD is looking for donations of 1/8 thick vinyl com-posite tile, paint and brushes, seating (chairs, couches, benches etc.) and rugs to help build their new practice space in Nelson. The space is in need of some re-pair and we’re rolling our sleeves up to do it. If you’re interested in helping out our not-for-profit organization give us a shout, we’d love to have you. For more in-formation please contact [email protected] or like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wkrollerderby

ongoing: castlegar chess club meets on saturdays - The Sons of Norway ,Nordic Lodge ‘76 is sponsoring the Castlegar Chess Club with weekly games at the Selkirk Community College in Castlegar on Saturdays from noon till 3PM , till Apr. 30. Reg-istration, Saturday Jan. 26, 11 A.M. –3 P.M. at Selkirk College in Castlegar .The club is open to all ages . There are no membership fees and ev-eryone can bring their own kits. ongoing: mom’s support group Thursdays 10 a.m. to noon. (changed from Wed. afternoons). Castlegar Community Services, Sun Centre.All moms welcome to this loose-ly structured group for support in challenges of being a mom. No referral required. Com-ments/queries: Sandi McCreight 250.365.2104 ext. 42

ongoing: castlegar & district hospital foundation light up campaign - The Foundation is raising money to purchase three Space Lab cardiac monitors, Life Pak 15 crash cart monitors/de-fibrillators, and CADD Prism pump. call 250-304-1209 or mail cheque to 709 10th Street, Castle-gar, BC V1N 2H7 to donate.

ongoing: robson and blueberry strongstart centres – free ear-ly learning programs for parents/caregivers with young children. Join us for snack, art, stories, gym time, and music. Robson - Mon, Tues, Wed, & Fri 8:30-11:30 a.m, Thurs 12:30-3:30 p.m. Blueberry - Mon, Wed, Thurs, & Fri 8:30-11:30 a.m and Tues noon - 3 p.m. A partnership between Robson Community School, Columbia Basin Alliance for Lit-eracy and Blueberry Creek Com-munity School.For more info contact Alana at 250.304.6862 or email: [email protected]

ongoing: free english classes – at the Castlegar Public Library on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30-11:30 a.m. All levels are welcome. For more info contact Alana at 250.304.6862 or email: [email protected].

ongoing: join a 4h horse club near you! Check out www.bc4h.bc.ca. Nelson 4H Club Contact Kathleen Comstock @ 250-352-9693. First meeting Jan. 16, 5 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Nelson.Castlegar 4H Club Contact Tekki Brown-Hryniw @ 250-365-0725. First meeting Jan. 17, 6:30 p.m. Location contact Tekki.

ongoing: legion meat draWs ev-ery saturday - The Royal Cana-dian Legion Castlegar/Robson Branch#170 located at 248 Co-lumbia Ave. Doors open at 3pm and draws start at 4pm and go to 6pm..Draws every half hour with other special prizes awarded. Guests are more then welcome and can be signed in by a mem-ber. Come on out and have fun with great company.

ongoing: discovering loss is starting soon! Discovering loss is a program for families with young children who are expe-riencing grief & loss includ-ing; moving to a new home, a new school, divorce/separation, blended families, or a death of a loved one or pet. This free program is at Koote-nay Family Place (behind Chop-sticks) on Thursday evenings starting Jan. 24 - Mar.7, from 5:30-7:30pm. Dinner is includ-ed. For more info or to register please call Alana at 250.304.6862.

ongoing: KpKids - This is a fun, free program for children (K - Gr. 4), Wednesdays from 6:30pm-8:00pm at Kinnaird Park Com-munity Church. Starts Jan 16. For kids in grades 5-8 there is a program called “Crush” held on the same night at the same time. For more information call the church at 365-3430.

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...with $35/month per student if they are outside walk limits to get their children to school - $533,000-$218,000. Total po-tential annual savings: $180,000-$533,000.

-Andrew(Andy) M. Davidoff, President

Kootenay Colum-bia Teachers Union

Snow scooping request

On the morning of January 14 there were crews out do-ing snow removal on Columbia Avenue. I do very much appre-ciate our city staff and crews who do their

best for our city. I was not pleased with the time of day that was chosen, if this was done in the evening or early morning as opposed to our rush hour, then the traffic congestion wouldn’t have been standing still for long periods of time.

Advance notifica-tion on the local radio stations, newspaper

or signs posted on Co-lumbia Avenue would have been much ap-preciated and would have allowed motor-ists to make alternate plans.

Please consider this for the next snow re-moval.

Thanks.

A. BurkeCastlegar

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EntertainmentMake a date with Bessie and friends

On Sunday, Janu-ary 27, the Kootenay Gallery presents the Bessie Wapp Quar-tet as part of the TD Bank Sunday Concert Series 2012-13.

The group will perform a mix of originals and cov-ers inspired by mu-sic from around the world. Bessie’s pas-sionate voice and dynamic accordion playing will be ac-companied by the powerful Craig Korth (a former Western

Canadian banjo and guitar champion) on banjo and mando-

lin, the soulful Holly Hyatt on vocals and acoustic bass and

the bluesy Clinton Swanson on saxo-phone. Come enjoy an afternoon of art and music with a pre-miere performance of the Bessie Wapp Quartet.

This concert will be held at the Kootenay Gallery on Sunday, January 27 at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for Kootenay Gallery members and $15 for general admission. For more information contact the Gallery at 250-365-3337 or visit www.kootenaygal-lery.com.

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Sunday afternoon show set for Jan. 27. Submitted

Fraser East (far right), co-ordinator of the WaCanID Bike Ride, was at the Castlegar Sun-rise 2000 Rotary Club on Thursday (Jan. 10) morning to present the club with a cheque for $1,000 from the ride. East also talked about next year’s ride, which will go on Sept. 16. Also pictured are Ron Ross, local ride coordinator, and Brenda Balahura, club president.

Craig Lindsay

Residuals raised from ride donated

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• create an emergency kit with 72 hours’ worth of supplies

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• stay inside your vehicle until help arrives if it comes into contact with a downed power line

For more tips and information, visit fortisbc.com/safety or call 1-888-438-7847.

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Now accepting Vendor bookings for March 2013

Show dates March 2 & 3 Up to 2 businesses can share a booth!

Sponsorship Opportunities!

please contact Castlegar & District Chamber of Commerce

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Now accepting Vendor bookings for March 2013

Show dates March 2 & 3 Up to 2 businesses can share a booth!

Sponsorship Opportunities!

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EntertainmentJesus Christ Superstar revue coming to town

With the tempera-tures dropping and snow falling, it’s nice to get out once in a while and enjoy din-ner and a show. With that in mind, Castle-gar Sunrise 2000 Ro-tary Club’s dinner theatre this year will be a musical revue featuring the best of Jesus Christ Superstar including original performers from the Nelson Amy Fergu-son Institute produc-tion from last No-vember at the Capitol Theatre.

“It’s a nice social/cultural event in the middle of winter,” described Darlene Kalawsky of the Ro-tary club’s organiz-ing committee. “It’s all local, professional performers. It’s great to be able to come out and support local artists.”

The show goes Jan. 26 at the Cas-tlegar Community Complex with doors opening at 5:30 p.m.

The first act will feature all eight per-formers singing songs from some of the best-loved musi-cals of all time such as Rent, Moulin Rouge,

Jeckyll and Hyde, Phantom of the Op-era and Wicked. The second act will fea-ture timeless songs from Jesus Christ Su-perstar, which was written in 1969 by a 22 year-old Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Tim Rice.

The performers include Kevin Arm-strong, Pat Henman, Gabriel Macdonald, Michael Calladine, Sydney Black, Solo-na Armstrong, Bes-sie Wapp and Arron Nelson. The group will be accompanied by a four piece band coordinated by Laura Johnson.

“You’re going to hear a quality that is some of the best singers that live in

Nelson,” said Hen-man. “I’m very, very happy to be working with these people. I worked with them in Jesus Christ Superstar and when Darlene asked if we could do something like Je-sus Christ Superstar, we can’t do the play, so we’re going to do excerpts. We really jumped at the chance of performing those songs again. So we’re putting together ex-cerpts for our second act. It’s going to be amazing. At rehears-al last week, I just thought, ‘wow, this is good.’ You get the same people singing who were playing the leads in Nelson.”

The full perfor-mance of Jesus Christ

Superstar in Nelson was a big hit with the show selling out five of six nights.

“It was a great ex-perience,” said Hen-man. “I’ve been per-forming in theatre since I was a kid. I have a degree, a ma-jor in acting. I worked professional for 20 years before moving to Nelson. This was one of the highlights of my 35 years in theatre. I mean, the songs are incredible. The story is timeless, the score is fantastic. Working with 50-some actors for two months on music we all love. Everyone of us knew pretty much every line from ev-erybody’s song. We’re very excited to bring it to Castlegar.”

Some of the song performances people can expect from the Jesus Christ Superstar portion of the show are Gethsemane, which will be sung by Arron Nelson, and I Don’t Know How to Love Him, by Solona Armstrong and, of course, the show-stopping finale num-ber of Jesus Christ Su-perstar.

The evening will also feature a dinner buffet, live auction

and safe ride home. Up for auction will be several items includ-ing a Pacific Coastal return airfare for two to Vancouver and a condo stay at Chris-tina Lake. Money raised will go toward various Rotary proj-ects in the commu-nity and abroad.

“The contributions are going to local projects, including our focus project – the picnic shelter at Mi l lennium/Twin Rivers Park, which we are developing along with the eve-ning club,” said Kala-wsky.

“We also have the international projects we support like Polio Plus and Help Hon-duras. We have the Interactors (Rotary youth club mem-bers) as well. They’ll be (the parents) pro-viding the safe rides home.”

The Rotary club thanks all the spon-sors, without whom the event would not be possible.

Tickets are still available at Oglow’s. Last year’s event sold out and with only 60 tickets left this year out of 200, Kalawsky recommends picking up your tickets soon.

Craig LindsayCastlegar News Reporter

Pat Henman (left) and Sydney Galbraith will be two of the singers at the Castlegar Sunrise 2000 Rotary Club’s Musical Revue featuring Jesus Christ Superstar. Submitted

Castlegar RCMP have received several calls from concerned citizens due to an-other computer scam that is occurring.

While on their computer, they have received a pop-up message complete with a siren wailing, warning them that their computer has been associated with child pornography and that in order to “unlock” their com-puter they need to pay $100. The pop up advised them that the RCMP or CSIS has discovered illegal activity and a file has

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� ey say the only constant is that ev-erything changes. At the � irsty Duck Res-taurant and Pub, that is certainly true. � e popular spot located on Minto Road near the Brick, has recon-� gured their estab-lishment to allow kids and families to come and dine.

“� e changes are pretty much already made,” said owner/manager Carol Mil-lar. “One half of the business is now all ages, licensed dining. So anyone can come in and eat and people of age can have a li-censed beverage.”

� ose adults want-ing to quash their thirst and catch a hockey game or other sporting event can still get their � ll.

“Half of the � irsty Duck is still a liquor-primary pub,” said Millar. “We’ll still

have our Keno and gambling and fun including sporting events on T.V.,” she said. “We also have o� -sales available.”

� e � irsty Duck made the changeover on Dec. 21 and busi-ness has been great.

“It’s been fabulous so far,” said Millar. “We’ve had a great response from every-one.”

� e restaurant has added several items.

“We’ve got a brand new kids menu,” said Millar, “also a health-conscious menu coming out.”

Some of the popu-lar items on the menu are the famous duck burger, corn dogs for the kids, sliders, pasta and the pear and goat cheese salad.

Millar explains that the expansion into more of a family-ori-ented establishment was due partially to

the gov-e r n m e n t ’s stricter laws on drinking and driving.

“If I c o u l d n ’ t put bums in the seats for beer, I had to get them there somehow,” she said. “And we’ve been getting many re-quests from our regulars that there’s l i m i t e d

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In February the � irsty Duck will introduce Sunday brunch on the � rst Sunday of every month with a rotating menu. Also in Febru-ary, seniors will get a 10 per cent discount on their meals on Sundays.

Fun for all at the � irsty DuckCRAIG LINDSAYCastlegar News Reporter

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Five straight wins move Rebs into � rst

(Above) Castlegar’s Kody Disher battles for the puck in the corner with Creston Valley’s Trevor Leblanc during Friday’s game at the Castlegar Complex. (Top right) Stuart Walton of the Rebels scores to close the second period also on Friday. Jim Sinclair photos

� e Castlegar Reb-els have a win streak of their own going. Although it’s not quite as long as their Selkirk Saint neighbours, 5-0 to start the new year isn’t too shabby.

“Christmas break was good for us,” said Rebel forward Stuart Walton. “We came back feeling fresher. We’re looking pretty good now and really rolling. We even had a short bench there.”

With the wins the Rebs have moved into a two-way tie with Nelson for � rst place in the Neil Murdoch division as well as the entire KIJHL.

On the weekend, Castlegar beat Cres-ton Valley twice in a home and home se-ries, both times by an identical 3-0 score.

On Friday in Cas-tlegar, the hosts called the shots.

� e game was never in doubt as the Rebels played with con� -dence and authority on the way to a 3-0 win.

Even with close to seven minutes on the power play in the sec-ond frame the guests hardly posed a threat, when they did manage to mount an o� ensive foray goaltender Jor-

dan Gluck was equal to the task.

Defenceman Aaron Brewer put his team ahead for keeps early in the game with a power play e� ort. Brett Leidl doubled the lead.

With under a min-

ute to go in the second period Rebel sharp-shooter Stuart Wal-ton made no mistake, cruising in alone from outside the Creston blue line and twining the clincher.

Shots on goal were 23-14 for Castlegar.

� e teams played the next night in Creston at the Johnny Bucyk Arena and end-ed up with another 3-0 score in favour of Castlegar.

Braydon Horco� scored unassisted in the � rst period for the Rebs. Following a scoreless second peri-od, Aaron Brewer, (as-sisted by Riley Ostofo-ro� and Aaron Petten) scored before Petten

scored the third, as-sisted by Darren Me-deiros and Bryan Lu-bin.

Gluck, with his second shut-out in as many days, and the team’s third in as many days as well, was named � rst star. Creston Goalie Zach Straza and Castlegar’s Aaron Brewer were second and third stars, respectively.

“Our goalies have been playing really well,” said Walton. “Gluck got two shut-outs against Cres-ton (and Beauchamp against Grand Forks).

“Teams went goal-less against us the whole weekend. Our defence is really click-ing up with the addi-tion of J.R. Krolik.”

On � ursday night, � e Castlegar Rebels crushed the Grand Forks Border Bruins 11-0 GF. � e Rebs were led by a hat-trick from forward Diego Bartlett, who was fresh o� scoring the winning goal for Trail Smokies over Vernon as a recent Junior A call-up.

Bartlett picked up the � rst star, while Rebel d-man Aaron Brewer grabbed the second star with a � ve point performance which included a goal and four assists.

“Brewer’s really

been picking up his game lately,” said Wal-ton. “He’s been on � re. Diego has been hot too with the hat-trick. We’ve had a few play-ers stepping up for us.”

Also scoring for Castlegar, which had period leads of 2-0 a� er one and 7-0 af-ter two periods, were Bryan Lubin and Erik Alden with two each, and Riley Ostoforo� , Darren Medieros and Kody Disher.

“Grand Forks is a game we all want to make sure we stick to our systems and work hard,” said Walton. “We’re not really keen on running up the score. We just want to get the win and make sure nothing hap-pens.”

Connor Beau-champ picked up the shut-out win in net for the Rebs, turning away all 21 GF shots.

With only one game this weekend, Saturday at home against Columbia Val-ley, the Rebels will be looking to keep up the momentum.

“I think we’re look-ing good going for-ward,” said Walton. “We’re looking to keep our win streak up and � nish the season strong and head into the play-o� s with sol-id momentum.

Rebel Rousing:� e Rebels only

picked up one player at the trade deadline, but he is expected to be a big help.

J.R. Krolik, a 20 year-old defenceman, came over to the Reb-els from Penticton. He plaayed in all three shut-out wins this week for Castlegar.

“He adds tough-ness,” said Walton. “He’s really gritty. He’s going to help our de-fensive zone coverage and it’s another 20 year-old. We needed another strong de-fender.”

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“Christmas break was good for us. We came

back feeling fresher. We’re looking pretty good now and really rolling,”

Stuart Walton

Emcon would like to express their gratitude to all the area residents for their patience during the extreme and unique

weather events that have occurred during the past few winter storms.

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Splitting tablets in half is sometimes needed to get the correct dose. We’ll let you know when this is appropriate. Some drug companies design their tablets to split in half easily by simply pressing on the end of the tablet. We’ll inform you if this is the case with your prescription.

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SportsDental surgery no deterrent for hoop player

After missing her team’s previous tour-nament for a swim meet, Rachael teB-ulte wasn’t about to let anything stop her from playing in the next tournament, not even a root canal.

TeBulte, who is a grade 10 for-ward on the Stanley Humphries junior

girls basketball team, missed the Rockers first game at the Pent-icton tournament this past weekend, but was able to coerce her dad into driving her from Castlegar to the South Okanagan city, just in time for the team’s second game Friday.

“Yeah, I got my dad to drive me,” she said. “My chin hurt but I felt I should come and play because I had al-

ready missed a tour-nament.”

Last week at prac-tice for the Kootenay Swim Club, teBulte hit her chin on the bot-tom of the pool. After a few days of a sore jaw, she went to see the doctor and it was determined she had a fractured chin and abscess tooth which needed a root canal. She got the surgery done in Castlegar on

Friday afternoon and was on the road short-ly after.

The team was glad to have teBulte back on the court. She even picked up the team’s player of the game honours Friday night with her strong hustle.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y, the team lost to a very good Lord Tweedsmuir team from Surrey.

With the strong

competition at the Penticton tourna-ment, SHSS came out winless in four games, but it was a great learning experience.

“I felt we did good and that it was a great learning experience for us to get better as a team,” said teBulte. “Overall, we did a good job fast break-ing. I though our de-fence was pretty good all weekend as well.”

The Rockers fared better on the second day but still came up short, falling to Pent-icton 9s 31-26 after having a nine point lead. Jenna Kalmak-off picked up player of the game for SHSS with six points and playing solid defence.

In their last game of the tournament against Merritt, the Rockers had a nice comeback in the

fourth quarter but fell short, losing 21-19. Player of the game for SHSS was guard An-gela Soukeroff who led the team with eight points. Souker-off had to log plenty of minutes in the second half and performed well after an eye injury to starting point guard Rebecca Liszt, who was named the team’s top player in the tour-nament.

Craig LindsayCastlegar News Reporter

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SportsPee Wees strike gold in Kamloops

The Castlegar Pee Wee Rep Jr. Rebels took home another gold medal, this time at the Kamloops Tournament Jan. 4 - 6. They went undefeated in all five games, including the gold-medal game vs. the home-team of Kamloops, which had a final score of 8 to 5. Coach Dean MacKinnon com-mented, “ What an awesomely great group of talented kids…proud of every one.”Back row L-R: Coach: Bill Pottle, Tyson Mackinnon, Jacob Linsey, Coach: Devon Reid, Coach: Dean Mackinnon, Aiden Jenner, Eric Reid. Front row L-R: Jake Pottle, Kyler Hilderman, Reid Wilson,Kody Babakaieiff, Brandon Costa, Kelsey Patterson, Isaac tebulte, Faithe Harris and Ethan Mar-tini.Goalies: Kyle McIntosh and Christian BarlowMissing: Brayden Biln and Hayden Klashinsky

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Bartlett scores game winner for Smokies

Castlegar Rebel for-ward Diego Bartlett, who also hails from here, scored both the winning goal and ty-ing goal for the Junior A Trail Smoke Eaters against the Vernon Vi-pers in the Okanagan city on Jan. 9.

The game was al-most like a Castlegar hockey reunion with several local products playing.

Bartlett, who was called up as an emer-gency replacement, was thrilled to take on pals and Viper stars Aaron Had-ley and Ryan Renz, who he played with in Castlegar minor hockey. Bartlett also got to play against for-mer Rebel teammate Bryce Eviston, who was a defenceman for the team last year and now plays for Vernon.

Bartlett told the Castlegar News he re-ally enjoyed playing at the higher level.

“It was a good

game,” he said. “The boys played well. We battled back hard after being down 4-1 head-ing into the third.”

Bartlett says the Ju-nior A game is a little faster paced than at Junior B.

“The transition game is definitely quicker,” he said. “As well, you have to make quicker decisions when you’re out there. Guys are a bit bigger and more skilled, but I just stuck to my game and didn’t notice much. It’s fun being at that level.”

Bartlett was named the game’s first star. He was interviewed by the Vernon Morn-ing Star which wrote:

Bartlett, a Castlegar product who plays Ju-nior B for his home-town Rebels, levelled the score by going roof daddy on a rebound shot from the left side. The play started near centre when the puck bounced away from Dumonceaux and the Smokies cruised into the Viper zone.

Bartlett buried his second BCHL snipe by going top shelf again, 74 seconds into a tripping penalty by Crisfield in the neutral zone.

“They (goals) felt great,” smiled Bartlett, an 18-year-old in his third KIJHL sea-son (20 goals and 37 points this year). “I’ve got a lot of buddies on the other team over there and it feels kind of nice. It was a good night for sure.”

Fifth-year d-man Bennett Hambrook, who bear-hugged Vernon’s Ryan Renz in a tussle at the final buzzer, knows Bartlett has moxy.

“It was about 45 minutes of him work-ing hard and grind-

ing each shift and he follows it off with a little bit of skill at the end. I’ve known Di-ego since he was 13 and that’s the kind of kid he’s always been. Willing to go to the hard areas, willing to go where the goals need to be scored. We’re sure thankful we called him up to-night.”

Notes - Castle-gar’s Aaron Hadley, a right winger who was third in Vernon scor-ing with 20 points in 33 games, has signed with the NCAA West-ern Michigan Univer-sity Broncs.

Hadley was traded at the BCHL trade deadline on Jan. 10 from Vernon to the Nanaimo Clippers.

Diego Bartlett (#12), here with the Rebels, took advantage of a recent call-up to Junior A.

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CASTLEGAR REBELS VS SPOKANE BRAVES • SPOKANE - EAGLES ICE-A-RENA

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Castlegar News Thursday, January 17, 2013 www.castlegarnews.com A19

Another year has passed, It’s now 13 in all,Of course we are still missing you, I wish we could just call.

You were taken from our lives,While you were still a teen,Th ere is so much we want to learn,About you, and where you’ve been.

We believe it’s heaven,Or a place that’s much the same, A place where happiness is all around, And no one feels pain.

We are without you here, on earth,But you are in our hearts, Your memory isn’t far from us, We’ll never be apart.

Shawn SklapskyOct.9, 1982 – Jan.18, 2000

From his loving family

Irene RoslerJUNE 22, 1917

- JANUARY 3, 2013Forever we will cherish

your tenacious faith. Your fervant prayers for

others has availed much.You are now home!

Remembered lovingly by your family and extended familes.MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT THE ROBSON COMMUNITY CHURCH,JANUARY 26TH, 2013 AT 2:00 P.M.

In Loving Memory

Sadly the family of Kelly James Magee, of Castlegar, wishes to

announce his passing at Castleview Care Centre on Monday, January 7, 2013

blessed with 68 years of life.

Kelly was born in Brooks, Alberta on August 22, 1944 to parents Patricia and Arnold Magee. On September 25, 1965, he married Yvonne Cristofoli and the couple had one son. Kelly worked for 36 years, as a pipefi tter at Celgar Pulp and retired in 2000. After retirement, he spent some time helping build the Balfour ferry “Osprey”.

He was predeceased by his father Arnold and his brother Wayne.

Left to mourn his loss is his loving wife of 47 years Yvonne, his son Glenn, his mother Patricia, his brothers Keith and Dwight and his extended family.

Th ere will be no service as per Kelly’s request. In lieu of fl owers, donations in Kelly’s memory may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, PO Box 3292, Castlegar BC V1N 3H6.

Th e family would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Larocque, the nurses at Home Care, the staff at Castleview Care Centre and all their friends and family.Castlegar Funeral Chapel in care of arrangements.

Kelly James Magee

It is with sadness that the family of Maria Rempel announces her passing on Christmas Day at Bow View

Manor in Calgary Alberta.

Maria was born in the family home in Renata BC on October 9,

1921 to Jacob and Elisabeth Reimer. She spent her childhood in Renata working in her father’s orchard. Th e middle of fi ve children, Maria was only 13 years old when her mother passed away. She married William Rempel and together they raised 9 children in a log house in Renata until moving to Castlegar in 1965. In 2007 she moved to Calgary to live with daughter Cheryl eventually moving to Bow View Manor.

Maria was predeceased by her parents, her husband William (1996), daughter Jackie Yocom (1999), granddaughter Susan Merrilyn Speirs (2002), daughter Judy Elliot and son-in-law William Elliot (2010), her sister Elisabeth Williamson (1996), her brothers Jacob (1999) and Frank (2003 ) and eldest sister Susan Doell (2012).

Maria is survived by her daughter Kathy Turner, Elaine Letain (Dan), son Bob (Corinne), daughter Joanne Baker (Harold), son Gerry (Carolyn), daughter Cheryl Smith and son Ron, 21 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life will be held for Maria at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on January 25, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Funeral arrangements are under the care of McInnes and Holloway Funeral Homes in Calgary and the Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

Maria Rempel

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JOURNEYMAN FIELD TECHNICIANA variety-filled role at our Castlegar campus

You’ll be one of our refrigeration/HVAC maintenance and repair experts, providing support to all of Selkirk College’s campuses. As you’ll be based at our Castlegar campus, you’ll also provide general building and facility maintenance duties such as plumbing, electrical and carpentry work, snow removal and, at times, assisting with set-up for campus functions.

Along with high school graduation, you have a Journeyman IP Refrigeration and A/C Mechanic certificate (or an HVAC Technician certificate) and a valid driver’s licence. In addition to 3 - 4 years’ experience and the ability to operate a forklift, you have additional training or skills in: plumbing, electrical, Delta Building controls and 4th or 5th class power engineering. Since this is an active, physical job, you must be in excellent physical shape and be able to perform heavy labour. You can also expect to travel to our other campuses and learning centres.

Closing date: January 23, 2013.

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Located in the West Kootenay of southeastern BC, 400employees of Zellstoff Celgar Limited Partnership (‘Celgar’)produce over 1400 tonnes of Bleached Kraft pulp per day. Ourmill is a World Class state of the art facility & we continue tomake significant capital investments to maintain that standing!We are 1 of 3 Pulp mills owned by Mercer International Inc. Weare Castlegar’s leading employer & are committed tomaintaining our responsible position within the community &being our customers’ preferred supplier of choice.

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We are in need of a Scheduler & Administrative Assistant Apprentice for our ProductionDepartment. The successful candidate will be responsible for scheduling the Relief Pool of MillLabourers and possible others. Once successfully performing these duties, this person willstart to learn the duties of the Production Administrative Assistant on a part time schedule.

If you are looking to align with a progressive organization that respects the potential & ideasof people, let’s review our mutual expectations:

The Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) is seeking an employee to join our Financial team for a 9-month term. If you have completed the entry level of CMA / CGA or possess an Accounting Diploma and have 3 years of mid-level nance e perience that includes the full cycle of accounts payable, please forward your resume and a covering letter to the undersigned as soon as possible. Ann Fisher, CHRPRegional District of Central KootenayBOX 590 - 202 Lakeside Drive, Nelson, BC V1L 5R4Phone: 250-352-8193 Toll Free in BC: 1-800-268-7325Resumes/covering letters will also be accepted via e-mail in a Word or PDF format to a sher rdck.bc.caWe thank you in advance for your interest. Contact will be made with shortlisted candidates only.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAY

LANDFILL ATTENDANT (Nelson transfer station & Ootischenia landfill)

The Regional District of Central Kootenay is seeking a landfill attendant to work shifts at the Nelson transfer station and the Ootischenia landfill. This is a non-benefited position and no minimum or maximum hours are guaranteed. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: The successful applicant will have transportation to various sites, good public relations, cash handling experience and basic computer skills. A detailed copy of the job description can be found on our website: www.rdck.bc.ca. This is a union position and is covered by the terms and conditions of employment as set out in the Collective Agreement between the Regional District of Central Kootenay and CUPE Local 2262. The RDCK is an equal opportunity employer. APPLICATIONS in the form of a resume and cover letter detailing qualifications and experience relative to the position will be accepted by the undersigned until 4:00 pm (local time) on Thursday, January 24, 2013.We thank all applicants but only those considered will be contacted.

David Bromley Resource Recovery Operations Supervisor

Regional District of Central Kootenay Box 590, 202 Lakeside Drive

Nelson, BC V1L 5R4 Email: [email protected]

Phone: 1-800-268-7325 / Fax: (250) 352-9300

Atco Wood Products is seeking an experienced Timber Harvesting Supervisor. Reporting to the Woodlands Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of supervising timber harvesting and road building contractors, including pre-work reviews, coaching, monitoring progress and managing workplace safety. In addition this individual may be responsible for private land/BCTS timber procurement and other Forestry field work as required. Critical to the role will your ability to function as an integral member of a team of results-oriented Forestry professionals. You will possess excellent communication and leadership skills and have strong analytical and problem solving capabilities. A minimum of 5 years experience and an RFT or RPF designation are definite assets. If this opportunity is what you are looking for and you have the skills necessary to succeed in this role, please forward your resume to [email protected] by February 1, 2013.

ATCO Wood Products Ltd. is a SFI certified family owned company located in Fruitvale, BC with over 50 years of history in the Forestry and Wood Products Manufacturing Industries. For more information on our company, please visit our website at www.atcowoodproducts.com. Atco offers a competitive compensation package commensurate with qualifications.

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Automotive Service Technician Kalawsky Chevrolet Buick GMC has an immediate opening for a Certifi ed Automotive Technician. We are a leader in automotive repair and service and we’re looking to hire and retain the very best. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefi ts and a great work environment.

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Land Act:Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land FrontCounter BC Cranbrook has accepted an application made by TM Mobile Inc., of Burnaby, BC, on behalf of the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Kootenay Region, for two Licenses of Occupation for the purpose of roadway and communication site/powerline situated on Provincial Crown land west of Castlegar and containing 15.0 hectares more or less (communication site/powerline) and 0.68 hectares more or less (road).The MFLNRO File Numbers that have been established for this application are 4405304 (communication site/powerline) and 4405305 (road). Written comments concerning this application should be directed to FrontCounter BC, 1902 Theatre Road, Cranbrook BC, V1C7G1 or email to: [email protected]. Comments will be received by FrontCounter BC until March 1st, 2013. Front Counter BC may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please refer to our website:http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/search.jsp and look up the applications with the file numbers listed above. Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the FOI Advisor at the MFLNRO regional office in Cranbrook.

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Land Act:Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land FrontCounter BC Cranbrook has accepted an application made by TM Mobile Inc., of Burnaby, BC, on behalf of the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Kootenay Region, for two Licenses of Occupation for the purpose of roadway and communication site/powerline situated on Provincial Crown land west of Castlegar and containing 15.0 hectares more or less (communication site/powerline) and 0.68 hectares more or less (road).The MFLNRO File Numbers that have been established for this application are 4405304 (communication site/powerline) and 4405305 (road). Written comments concerning this application should be directed to FrontCounter BC, 1902 Theatre Road, Cranbrook BC, V1C7G1 or email to: [email protected]. Comments will be received by FrontCounter BC until March 1st, 2013. Front Counter BC may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please refer to our website:http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/search.jsp and look up the applications with the file numbers listed above. Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the FOI Advisor at the MFLNRO regional office in Cranbrook.

COURT BAILIFF SALEOffered for sale by sealed bid the interest of the following judgement debtor, 0678134 BC Ltd. and Derrell May, in the following goods and chattels, purported to be Lot 12005 Mirage Cargo Trailer serial no. 5M3BE1622510131332007 KWM Gutterman serial no. KWM8-010134-0607Mark II Trim Master Brake Model 1260 serial no. 120464including contentsLot I-Sold on an as is, where is basisSealed bids will be received at the Court Bailiff’s office at 2000 14th Avenue, Castlegar, BC V1N 3Z1 until 12:01 PM Tuesday January 29, 2013.Sale may be subjected to cancellation without notice. The Court Bailiff reserves the right to adjourn the sale without notice and may apply to the court for further direction if the needs arises. Terms of Sale: Each bid must be accompanied by a bank draft or money order for 10% of the bid made payable to Kootenay Colum-bia Collection & Bailiff Services Ltd. the Court Bailiff’s office. The balance of the bid, plus HST (if applicable), to be paid immediately upon acceptance of the bid. Failure to pay the balance at the agreed time may result in forfeiture of the deposit.Viewing and Bid forms available by contacting Bob at 250-365-6516Joan O’Connor, Senior Court Bailiff

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Good start to season for SH

Clarke Morris of the SHSS junior boys team drives to the hoop against LVR’s Avery Kushner during Thursday’s game.

Craig Lindsay photo

With plenty of new faces and lots to learn, coach Mike Lynn is pleased with a two and two start for the SHSS junior Bulldogs.

� e Stanley Humphries junior boys basketball team defeated its Nelson ri-vals from L.V. Rogers 43-35 in the � rst game of the season on Jan. 10 at SHSS. Shayden Groshaw led the Bull-dogs with 16 points, while Jared Lynn and Clarke Morris added eight each.

“We started fairly well but we’ve got a lot of things we want to implement and a lot of new players so there’s de� nitely a few kinks to work out,” said Bulldogs’ coach Mike Lynn. “We led for most of the game. � ey took the lead at one point, but we came back pretty fast. � e key to the win was our defence. � at’s what we emphasize in practice and it was us limiting their shots. We had a few 30 sec-ond violations (on the other team), some excellent full court pressure, and keep-ing them o� our end. � at’s what works ev-ery time.”

Lynn said the of-fence was solid as well.

“Considering it was our � rst game of the season, our o� ence was exceptionally good,” he said. “Lots of room to improve but a very good � rst game.”

On the weekend, the junior boys travel-ling to Trail for the J.L. Crowe tournament where they won one of three games.

On Friday, the Bulldogs beat Grand Forks 45-41 behind a balanced attack which was led by Matt An-derson’s six points.

� e following day, SHSS struggled to score and lost to L.V. Rogers 34-22.

“No one could score for us - the bas-ket seemed to have a lid on it,” said Lynn. “LVR played excellent half court defence. I was still pleased with the excellent defen-sive e� ort from our boys.”

In the team’s � nal game, they lost 55-43

to Prince Charles Sec-ondary from Creston. Groshaw led the Bull-dogs with 10 points.

“Overall, the team is starting the sea-son with very good defence,” said Lynn. “Game experience will only make us tougher on the defensive side of the ball. � e � rst year players are show-ing improvement over just four games. Ev-eryone is now more comfortable with our strengths and weak-nesses. Second year players are all show-ing a determined ef-fort to play hard and execute at both ends of the � oor. Our two and two record shows great promise.”

� e Bulldogs host their tournament this weekend with four other teams (J.L. Crowe, Rossland, Mount Sentinel and Boundary Central from Midway) joining SHSS.

� e tournament starts Friday at noon with the home team playing J.L. Crowe. Games go until 7:30 p.m. on Friday and are back on at 8:30 a.m. Saturday with Rossland playing Crowe. � e tourna-ment wraps up with a 2:30 p.m. match-up on Saturday between SHSS and Boundary Central.

CRAIG LINDSAYCastlegar News Reporter

“Overall, the team is starting the season with very good de-fence...our two and two record

shows great promise.”

Coach Mike Lynn


Castlegar skiers Heiko Ihns (above - u12, 3 golds, 1 silver) and Isaac Lunn (middle - u16, 1 sixth and 2 seventh places) of the Red Racers Ski Team did well at a slalom race at Whitewater last weekend. Submitted photo

Submitted photoBjorn Morris of the SHSS Bulldogs reaches for the rebound against LVR’s McLain Sode-vedold, in a league game on Thursday in Cas-tlegar. The Nelson squad won 52-39.

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851-8700(250)


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CASTLEGAR200-1965 Columbia Ave.

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