rossland news, march 03, 2016

Two Rossland athletes brought home medals from the BC Winter Games in Penticton.

Andrew Sibbald won both a silver and a bronze medal in diving, and Jasime Drolet won a bronze in cross country skiing.

It took a lot of dedication for Sibbald to earn his spots on the podium.

Because neither Rossland nor Trail have a diving club,

Sibbald travels to the Lower Mainland once a month to practice with the South Surrey White Rock Divers.

“Andrew is super dedicated, most of my other kids wouldn’t do that,” said Lisa Martin, his White Rock coach. “He trains really hard by himself, we try to give him all the pointers we can while he’s up in Trail. He comes down once a month, learns some new dives and then goes back up there to perfect them.”

That dedication paid off when Sibbald won the silver in the Boys 3-meter dive and

the bronze in the Boys 1-meter.“It’s very exciting, because

coming into this competition there were a lot of pretty good divers that I haven’t dove with in a long time,” said Andrew. “I was really worried, but getting second place was exciting.”

Andrew’s goal for the Games was to score more than 200, a score he beat in both of his events, with a score of 200.9 in the 1-meter dive and 200.3 in the 3-meter. A bonus on top of his two medals.

Drolet won her bronze in the Individual Start Midget Girls Classic with a time of

13:39.3.“I feel like it was a good

result,” she told the Rossland News.

Drolet felt the competition went well and found everyone

very friendly. The course itself was fairly flat, with only a few hills, and she felt that compe-titions she’d participated in earlier in the year had helped prepare her for the Games.

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Sawyer Klassen photoAndrew Sibbald with his White Rock-based coach Lisa Martin and his silver medal.

Jasmine Drolet (second from right) won a bronze medal in cross country skiing at the BC Winter Games. Courtesy of BC Games

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There are two sides to every story — especially when it comes to collect-ing tax dollars.

That is why the deci-sion to raise the cap for future hospital renova-

tions higher than $10 million still sits on the shoulders of municipal and regional officials.

A final vote on wheth-er to maintain or build tax reserves won’t come back to the WKBRHD (West Kootenay-

Boundary Regional Hospital District) until later this month, but the topic did raise healthy debate during the Feb. 24 board meeting in Castlegar.

“A lengthy and robust discussion occurred, and I was absolutely delighted this got to the table and got so many of the board members engaged,” says Trail Mayor Mike Martin, the city’s board repre-sentative. “Because it is a critical issue for us in the fact that we are con-tinuing to accumulate a reserve without a defini-tive plan.”

Therein lies the con-troversy of whether the board should up the re-serves, which currently amount to $9.3 million.

Martin voices concern about amassing tax dol-lars, but concedes his point of view is offset by other perspectives.

“One of the points I raised was, we are col-lecting taxes from cur-rent taxpayers and there

is no plan against which to contribute those funds,” he added. “So the taxpayers are being imposed with a tax from which there is no benefit they are likely to realize in the short term.”

The flip side of rea-soning centres on social conscience, he says.

“The reverse argu-ment is that we have a social responsibility to look after those that come after us,” Martin continued.

“And we should ensure that we have good health-care systems in place for our future generations — so there are two sides to this. And both, I think, are valid.”

Local councils have three more weeks to wrestle with an outcome before the board recon-siders the matter.

“We have many view-points put on the table,” Martin added. “So we are taking each back to our respective councils for input before we go back

for the final discussion and final decision March 24.”

In the interim, Martin approached the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) board Thursday evening to re-quest support in lobbying the Ministry of Health (MoH) on behalf of the regional hospital.

His appeal stems from disappointing news in December.

During a visit from Chris Mazurkewich, Interior Health’s (IH) new CEO, Martin was expecting to hear some guidelines from the min-istry on moving ahead with a $40 million reno-vation plan for Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH).

Instead, he found that the plan was sent back for the health authority to investigate whether it could fund the project — the conclusion being IH could not do it solely because several other projects are in the works.

“In my view there is no question about IH’s commitment here,” said Martin. “They have told us the KRBH Sustainability Plan is on their top priority list, and we accept that.”

Martin is steadfast that strong regional ad-vocacy is needed to move the project forward.

“What we need to do now is ensure that Interior Health has the necessary support and direction from govern-ment to actually move this into a planning stage,” he said.

Multiple partners are involved, including a very important partner, the Regional District of Central Kootenay, he added.

“We will be looking to them for support as well through the regional hos-pital district.”

With the exception of one member, the RDKB board agreed to support Martin’s request.

“From my perspective,

if you want anything to move, you have got to lobby for it,” says Grace McGregor, RDKB board chair.

“If you don’t show you are keeping track and your interest is there as a region, because it is our regional hospital, then often, you kind of get pushed to the side, ” she added.

“I’m not saying that is what is happening, be-cause I don’t know that, but what I am saying is that it can never hurt for us to work together as a unit, and try to push some buttons to move forward.”

She explained lob-bying for one specific project isn’t the job of the regional hospital board.

“That would put them in a very difficult posi-tion,” she continued.

“But if you look at who we are — it’s our hospi-tal. So if anyone is trying to move it forward, we should be the leaders in that.”

Public works employees were busy last Wednesday morning repairing a burst pipe on Spokane St.

Public works received a call the previous Thursday night letting them know that water was bubbling out of the road and flowing down the hill. The old steel pipe was temporarily patched until it could be replaced on Wednesday with a new PVC pipe.

But workers quickly discovered a new problem when they tried to turn the water off.

“When we went to shut it down, the valves down below did not work,” explained Darrin Albo, manager of public works.

The old valve also sprang a leak when they tried to use it, so that too needed to be replaced Wednesday morning.

Water on Spokane St. between Second Ave. and Columbia Ave. and in the surrounding area had to

be shut down during the day so the repairs could be made.

Mayor Kathy Moore came out to observe some of the work and to ask workers questions.

“This is the situation pretty much everywhere underground in town, so this is why we have these huge infrastructure issues, and this is why we’re doing the entire length

of Washington St.,” she said, “because that’s our main water main and sewer main. It’s really important pipes that are there and we need to get those repaired because they are in just as bad a shape as what we’re looking at here on Spokane.”

Albo said the whole stretch of pipe on Spokane needs to be replaced.

“The whole line coming down

Spokane, where the initial leak start-ed, we find it to be extremely thin and basically rotten,” he said. “So it has been on our five-year capital replacement program, and so this is just going to move it up a little bit more as far as ranking.”

Albo estimates the steel line dates back to somewhere around 1930.

“I know people find it hard to be-

lieve how much it costs to replace underground utilities when you see it’s roughly $500,000 per block,” he said, “and when you start seeing what we see everyday — this kind of infrastructure — people have a better understanding why we need to continue on with the asset man-agement replacement program and get this work done.”

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Mayor Kathy Moore talks to a public works employee working on the damaged pipe on Spokane St. The damaged valve was also replaced with this new one. Chelsea Novak photos

Final decision on hospital cap loomingSHERI REGNIER

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Some residents may question the need for snow removal this late in the year, but the city’s manager of public works says there are still plenty of reasons to remove it in-stead of just letting it melt.

In response to a complaint from the public, Darrin Albo, manager of public works, explained the rea-sons for continued snow removal to mayor and council in an email that was then shared with the press.

There are many reasons for con-tinuing to remove snow instead of just letting it melt. The first is to remove snow from corners to make it safer at intersections and keep sight lines from being blocked.

“We put quite a bit of snow on boulevards and when it affects sight lines of intersections and people’s driveways, because you know they do get quite high, we will go around and remove snow for safety reasons,” explains Albo.

The city also removes snow from boulevards when there’s too much snow to be stored without it falling onto private property.

“As they get built up, what hap-pens is the snow shoots off the top of the mound and it physically falls onto private property, so in order to keep people pleasantly happy, as much as we can, we try not to put any on private property,” says Albo. “But in some areas it’s just not possible.”

Snow sometimes also needs to be removed to open up catchba-sins and dirty snow needs to be removed so that when the snow melts, the sand doesn’t end up causing problems.

“We do go around and remove

— especially on steep streets — the excessive amount of sand that people get because what happens is that ends up falling onto the street and then when we get rain it washes into storm system, which creates a whole bunch of other is-sues downstream.”

The cost of snow removal for the city is $309.89 per hour, and last year $90,820 of a budgeted $95,615 was spent on snow removal, in-cluding removal from the down-town and side streets. That amount is strictly for removal and doesn’t include plowing or sanding.

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Find Your Divine with Margaret Trudeau

Margaret Trudeau will be the guest speaker at this year’s Find Your Divine events.

The mother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak at the Castlegar and District Community Complex on Wednesday, April 6. The event is from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

“We’re very excited,” says organizer Karen Bennett. “She’s someone we’ve looked at for three years. It just felt like this is the right year.”

Trudeau will offer a personal perspective on mental health. Since announcing in 2006 that she suffers from bipolar disorder, she has ad-vocated for ending the social stigma of mental illness and published a memoir, Changing My Mind. She is an hon-ourary patron of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

“It’s something more and more people are will-ing to discuss,” Bennett said. “So it seems like good timing for that topic. She’s led a pretty

interesting and remark-able life.”

Trudeau has visited West Kootenay many times. Her family lent its support to the fund-raising campaign to build the new Kokanee Glacier cabin following the death of her son Michel in an avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Park in 1998.

This is the second year of Find Your Divine, an evening designed for women of all ages to enjoy a relaxed, fun en-vironment with wine and appetizers while they pe-ruse a variety of booths related to women’s in-terests.

Tickets are now on sale. They’re $40 until March 14 and $45 af-terward, available at the Castlegar News and the Gift Box, as well as Bear Country Kitchen in Rossland.

The event always sells out, so if you’re interest-ed, buy your ticket early.

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Margaret Trudeau will speak on mental illness during her appearance at Find Your Divine in Castlegar next month. Tickets are now on sale.

Recently Rossland city council was presented with a sobering report on the state of our finances. Without a doubt, our obligations exceed

our ability to pay for all the facilities we operate and the services we provide. This gives us a terrific opportunity to get creative and get our financial house in order. I encourage everyone to look at the two power-point presentations posted on www.rossland.ca to be informed about the chal-lenges we face.

Throughout North America, a huge infrastruc-ture deficit has built up over the last few decades. In the 1950s and 1960s lots of in-vestments were made in civic infrastructure from roads and water treatment plants to recreation facilities. Unfortunately, many of those assets are at the end of their useful life and governments at all levels have not adequately planned to pay for the needed improvements. Thus, we find

ourselves in a tight predica-ment now.

Consider that municipali-ties own approximately 60 per cent of all infrastructure in our country. It is staggering to realize that the only sure way we have to finance opera-tion, maintenance and capital improvements is primarily through property taxes and user fees. In Rossland that means residential taxpayers because we have a very lim-ited commercial sector and no industrial taxpayers.

The City of Rossland re-cently received a grant for $75,000 from the Federal Gas Tax fund. We will use this money to refine the Asset Management Plan work that we have started. Asset man-agement is a critical compo-nent of responsible fiscal plan-ning. An Asset Management

Plan requires we have an in-ventory of everything owned by the municipality (roads, pipes, plants, equipment, fa-cilities, etc.). Next we need to document the life cycle of every item in the inventory. Finally, we need to incorpo-rate the replacement and re-pair costs into our financial planning documents.

Compared to other mu-nicipalities, we operate with a very lean workforce. In total, we only have 24 full-time employees. Many are cross-trained to do a variety of jobs. Employees are asked to reduce costs and increase efficiencies without reducing service. It’s been a challenge but they work hard at it. Here’s one example: no new employ-ees were hired when the city took on Red Mountain and the Redstone Golf Course area

despite the addition of signifi-cant service requirements.

This council recognized that the City of Rossland had some overly generous man-agement contracts and com-pensation packages. Over the last year we have addressed those issues and have hired people at a rate we can afford. We looked at other munici-palities our same size and with a similar budget to gauge a fair compensation package.

Our taxes are already higher than most communi-ties in our region. We spend 20 per cent of our budget on recreation. This includes the $50k we have set aside to re-imburse Rosslanders for using some of Trail’s facilities this year. The reality is that rec-reation is changing. We live in a fabulous outdoor play-ground — perhaps we need

to reconsider how we allocate scarce taxpayer money. Maybe we don’t need to spend such significant amounts on tra-ditional recreation program-ming and facilities. We want the community to participate in this discussion.

Your council consists of ordinary citizens — we don’t have all the answers, which is why we want to involve the community in any decisions that will have a significant impact. We are looking for-ward to your creative ideas. We are doing what we can to “right the Ship of State” but it’s a huge challenge and we will need the public’s input to help us make some creative adjustments. Stay tuned over the next few months for your opportunity to get involved in this community wide con-versation.


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MAYOR’S REPORT

MAYORKATHY MOORE

As the NDP critic for post-secondary education, I’ve met with a number of groups over the past weeks and months to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing universities, colleges and technical institu-tions, as well as with the stu-dents who are working hard to better their futures. And the benefits to post-secondary edu-cation are many. It gives young

people a much greater chance for employment; it is estimated that 80 per cent of all jobs will soon require education beyond a high school diploma. And those jobs are higher paying; university graduates earn an average of $79,000.

The challenges are also daunting. Tuition fees have risen in real terms by 137 per cent over the past 20 years alone. Housing costs have skyrocketed as well. The cost of a post-secondary education is now well over $10,000 per year and is often more than double that. For medicine and law programs the cost is often a mind-boggling $75,000 per year.

Wages for summer jobs, needless to say, haven’t kept up with those costs, so many students are forced to take out loans. In 2013 almost a half million students borrowed from the Canada Student Loans Program and others took out private loans. The average stu-dent debt increased 40 percent

between 2000 and 2010, and is now $26,300 for students grad-uating with an undergraduate degree. Students know how important higher education is for their futures, but are being saddled with crushing debts at the start of their careers.

Much of the cause of this drastic increase in tuition fees lies in a significant decrease in government funding for uni-versities and colleges, especially on the federal side. In 1995, the federal Liberal government slashed provincial transfers for social programs, including post-secondary education, by $7 billion, one of the deep-est cuts in Canadian history. Accounting for both inflation and enrolment growth, federal funding for post-secondary education is still $2.4 billion less than it was in 1993, a 50 per cent drop. Adding to this loss of federal funding is the fact that these transfer payments are no longer tied to agreements for spending on post-secondary education, and provinces often

cut back on university and col-lege funding even when the federal transfer payments they receive are increasing.

So what should be done? One obvious fix would be to create a transfer of federal funds to provinces that is directly targeted to post-sec-ondary education, similar to what is done for health care. This would relieve the need of many universities and col-leges to continually raise tu-ition fees. We could also make changes to the federal student loans and grants so that the burden the students bear is less onerous. We also need to continually work to ensure that young Canadians receive an education that readies them for today’s jobs. And what is clear is that we must fix this system quickly to ensure that Canada has a well-educated workforce to make our country competi-tive in the global economy.

Richard Cannings is the MP for South Okanagan-West Kootenay

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comment”CHELSEA NOVAK

Rossland News

Rossland News received a letter to the editor last week regarding one of my stories where I was called out for writing that a representative of the local food bank de-clined to comment on the sale of the Rotary building.

While I can understand that this person may have felt flustered when I contacted them, as a reporter I have a responsibility to provide timely and acurate reporting regarding events in the community. It’s worth noting that I did not try to contact the Rossland Food Bank for comment the week we ran the initial story, but waited until the following week to follow up on the story further.

As a reporter I also have a responsibilty to at least try to contact all parties involved in a story. In the event that I reach someone and they decline to comment, I then write that they declined to comment. The reason we do this is so that readers know that we tried to contact an involved party and know what the outcome was. When a source declines to comment, that doesn’t necessarily prevent us from writing a story, and if we do go forward with the story, again we want readers to know that we tried.

I regret that members of the Rossland Food Bank were upset by my coverage of the story, but I stand by my reporting and the article I wrote.

RICHARD CANNINGS

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Chloe Fike photoInteractor Samara Kuhn sways to the music with seniors.

Interactors bring smiles to Columbia View Lodge

Twice a month, the Rossland-Trail Interact Club goes dancing at Columbia View Lodge in Trail. Putting a smile on someone’s face and knowing that you have bright-ened their day gives you such a wonderful feeling — this is how we feel after visiting each time. At Columbia View, we dance to lively music with the seniors at their ballroom dancing session and then serve ice cream afterwards. At our weekly meetings when we talk about who will go the follow-ing week, everybody wants to at-tend. During my first visit, I spoke with a woman who moved to Trail from Italy at a very young age. I can’t even imagine how difficult it would have been for her to leave her old life and start a new one. It was such a pleasant experience speaking with people who had seen the community grow and change throughout the years, and I look forward to my next visit. Some fel-low Interact members shared their experiences at Columbia View.

“I think that each time we visit, especially as young people, they absorb the energy that we naturally radiate. We bring them more joy than we know, and I’m also left with a sense of peace and happiness afterwards. I go because everyone needs to know that they matter — even if those that used to matter to them are no longer present.” — Maggie Chan

“Going to Columbia View is always a fun time! Seeing all their smiles and hearing their laughter leaves you with a peace of mind that you’ve made someone’s day. Getting to know them and hear-ing all of their stories is a really cool experience, and definitely an eye-opener. The residents are such sweet people with big hearts and I look forward to going back!” — Destiny Lattanville

“Even though I’ve only been

there once, I had a ton of fun! There were a lot of people that re-ally enjoyed dancing, and I enjoyed dancing with them too! They were smiling and having a fun time. It really warms my heart knowing I made them smile. I had a blast there and I can’t wait to go back!” — Mahea Hill

As young members of our com-munity, we should all try to con-tribute with small acts that better ourselves and others. I can see how much the residents, as well as our members, enjoy our shared time. Thank you to Columbia View

Lodge for being so welcoming and letting us attend your event. We look forward to come dancing again soon.

Rossland-Trail Interact Club is a non-profit organization that serves both the local and inter-national community. If you are in high school and are interested in becoming involved, we have weekly meetings every Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the YAN Centre in Rossland. Please email us at [email protected] before coming so we can no-tify you of any changes.

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Interactor Mahea Hill greeted seniors during her visit to Columbia View Lodge in Trail. Seniors in wheelchairs are not left behind as Interactor Alisha Thatcher holds hands while wheeling an enthusiastic senior around.

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Local youth have launched their very own comic book.

Comics for Changelaunched at a party at the Rossland Youth Action Network (YAN) Space on Monday night. The collection is the result of the Next Steps project that local youth began working on over the summer after a visit

from representatives of the McCreary Centre Society.

“The McCreary Centre taught some really cool things,” said Ellie Knox, 14. “I was just sort of baffled by it because we’re considered the gen-eration that’s more party-ish, more drugs, more al-cohol, but actually these statistics say that we’re not. There are less teen pregnancies than there were in the past. It was really interesting to hear all that.”

Hannah Neumayer and Tanyss Knowles fa-cilitated a youth health workshop in August to share the results of the BC Adolescent Health Survey with Rossland youth. Since then, the kids proposed a number of projects, but ultimately decided to produce a col-lection of comic strips and artwork engaging with youth issues.

But the issues that meant the most to Rossland youth weren’t necessarily issues they felt were addressed by the statistics.

“Most of the results didn’t have to do with diversity. They were more just kind of general re-sults,” said Jade Connolly, 14.

Connolly produced a comic with Molly Jamin, 13, about people’s hidden talents and how people should let those hidden “colours” shine through.

Teens who contribut-ed to the book drew from a number of sources to

identify important topics and themes.

“I got a lot of the ideas from my friends, and my family and mostly from my school and ev-erything,” said Yasmin Evans, 13.

Evans’ comics address subjects such as gender equality, rejection and suicide. Many of the comics in the book en-gage with similar issues of diversity, identity and mental health.

“Something that kind of came out in the re-search that right away the youth felt they wanted to really kind of highlight was mental health issues and emotional health, and you’ll find a lot of those in there,” said local artist Kristen Renn, who worked with youth on the comics during YAN’s Art Night. “I taught them about comics and good ways to put a message into a comic and how to show it, but the major-ity of them came up with their own theme.”

The book also in-cluded photographic re-productions of the large-scale posters produced by 19 youth on the day of the workshop.

The launch on Monday was the first time the youth contrib-uting to the book had a chance to see the finished product, and the event gave them the chance to share their work with the community.

Prizes were also awarded to the youth for their artwork.


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Youth create comics for changeCHELSEA NOVAK

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Mahea Hill, Yasmin Evans, Aven Cosbey, Jade Connolly, Ellie Knox, Chase Eagleton and Ryder Eagleton pose with cop-ies of Comics for Changeat Monday night’s book launch. Knox won first place, Evans won second, and Connolly and Molly Jamin (not pictured) won third.


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Sept-sommets students practice kindnessCHELSEA NOVAK

Rossland News

Students at l’École des Sept-sommets celebrated Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday and worked on establishing a new buddy system.

The new buddy system will be implemented as part of Kindness Week, and will see older children at the school act as buddies, or super heroes, for the younger chil-dren. The older kids are working on super hero costumes they can wear while fulfilling their new role.

“When we unveil the project, the kids will be wearing their costumes so everyone knows

that they’re the super heroes and that they can turn to them if they have any issues or problems,” said Marie-Josée Beaulieu, principal.

Students were going to make a video on Wednesday as part of their application for funding to School District 93.

“Each school that submits a project, receives $400 toward the project,” explained Beaulieu. “Why [the district] is giving us some money is because they’re hoping it will have a long lasting effect.”

Students said they’d like to have a room where buddies can discuss things in private.

“That’s in the works, because it’s

also a supervision issue for us, so we’ll see” said Beaulieu.

They’d also like to have a party at the end of the year for everyone involved in the program.

The older students are also pre-paring for their new roles during their leadership time in class.

“They’ve been working a lot on how to accompany other kids, how to engage them, and make them feel better, listen to them,” said Beaulieu. “But you know, we’ve been clear that they’re not coun-sellors and that’s not their role. It’s more like being a peer that if someone else has a problem, they can turn to them.”

Chelsea Novak photo

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Students from the RSS and J.L.Crowe Interact Club met on Wednesday, Feb. 24 with Christine DeMarco of the West Kootenay Friends of Refugees. Ms DeMarco, who taught several of these students as kinder-

garteners, described the work of the WKFoR and gave an update on the two families who have been sponsored so far. The WKFoR is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a Syrian family, who should be flying in to

the Trail airport shortly. The Interact club had placed donation jars in RSS and J.L. Crowe and were pleased to present five hundred and fifty dollars to help with the resettlement of the new refugee family.

Interact club supports refugees

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MUSEUM SATURDAY CRAFTERNOONSStop in anytime Saturdays between 1 to 3 p.m. for Crafternoons in the Discovery Zone! Crafts and activities for kids of all ages. Free with adult admission. Parents can feel free to look around the museum while we craft with the kids. The Museum is openall winter Wednesdays to Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Coffee, tea, and hot chocolate available to keep you warm! Contact: 250-362-7722 or [email protected].

REC VOLLEYBALL AT RSS

Every Thursday night from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $2 drop in or $5 for the season. Please use back door to enter. For more details contact Ryan at [email protected] or text 250-921-5644.

SWING DANCING AT THE LEGION

Swing dancing lessons are starting up again at the Legion on Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. We’ll teach each other our favourite moves. Bring your favourite swing songs on an iPod or USB memory stick. Spread the word!

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

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

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

ADULT CO-ED REC HOCKEYTuesdays and Thursdays, 9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. Join this fun, co-ed recreational pro-gram of non-contact drop-in hockey. Please enter on Second Ave. This is fun, no contact, no pressure hockey! Full equipment is required

and some experience nec-essary.

GROUP OFFERS SUPPORT, INFORMATION FOR TRAIL FAMILIES LIVING WITH DEMENTIAThe second Tuesday of each month, from noon to 2 p.m. The Alzheimer Society runs a monthly dementia care-giver support group in Trail, for residents who want to prepare themselves with current information that will help improve quality of life with the disease. The group offers the chance to exchange information and friendship with others af-fected by dementia, access the most current informa-tion, and learn and share practical tips for coping with change. For more informa-tion and for specific location details, contact Julie Leffelaar at 1-855-301-6742 or [email protected].

MUSIC NIGHTTuesdays, 6:20 to 8:30 p.m. @

YAN Space, 2076 Columbia Ave. Drop in event for ages 12 to 18. How do you like to music? Come to the YAN Space and immerse your-self in anything/everything music. No prior music-ing experience necessary.

AFTER SCHOOL KID’S CLUBWednesdays, Feb. 3 to May 25, 3 to 5 p.m. Drop in for after school fun! Explore science, create crafts, and play games. The museum has tonnes of resources for kids interested in geology, science, history, and more! Bring a snack, and enjoy two hours of supervised fun. For ages five to 12. Drop in $8/child for non-members. Buy a punch pass and get one free visit. Can also pre-pay by calling 250-362-7722.

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

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


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ROSSLAND CITY COUNCIL MEETINGMonday, March 7 at 6 p.m.Monday, March 21 at 6 p.m.

MINERS HALL ATTIC SALESaturday, March 5, 2-6 p.m. at the Miners’ Hall. Rossland Arts Council is cleaning out the attic in preparation for the renovation. Sale includes heritage tin ceiling tiles, tin coving and ceiling brackets and 8’ x 4’ Styrofoam blocks. All sales “as is,” first come, first serve. Cash or cheque only. Details at bhubble.com. All proceeds to Miners’ Hall Attic Renovation.

JUMBO WILD FILM SHOWINGSunday, March 6, 7-9 p.m. at the Miners’ Hall. Set against the backdrop of incredible backcountry ski and snowboard footage, Jumbo Wild documents all sides of a divisive issue bringing the passionate local fight to protect the Jumbo Valley to life for the first time. Presented by the WK Ecosociety and Rossland Sustainability Commission.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY TEARossland Sacred Heart CWL is hosting its annual St. Patrick’s Day Tea on Saturday, March 19, from 1-3 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church. The cost is $4 and there will be a bake table. Everyone is welcome!

OSTOMY SUPPORT GROUPMonday, March 21, the West Kootenay Ostomy Support Group will meet at 2 p.m. at the Kiro Wellness Center, 1500 Columbia Ave. in Trail. Scheduled guests are Svea Menard and Coleen Welton, ET nurses. For further info, please call 250-368-9827 or 250-365-6276.

BROADBAND INTERNET LAUNCHWednesday, March 23, 7-8:30 p.m. at the Rossland Public Library. Join Columbia Basin Trust and the City of Rossland to celebrate the completion and launch of a high-speed fibre network in downtown Rossland. Participate in a live speed demonstration (and other cool stuff), learn how it will help you meet your business needs and how you can get connected.

Call for entry: artists/heritage

venuesA project of the Columbia

Kootenay Cultural Alliance

Call for entry: registrations are being accepted for artists/venues in the Columbia Basin to partici-pate in the 8th annual Columbia Basin Culture Tour (CBCT), a celebration of culture taking place Aug. 13-14, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The CBCT is a self-guided tour showcasing local arts, culture and heritage offered at no charge to the general public. “Arts” includes visual, written, performing, media and inter-arts. Participating as a venue allows you to really connect with locals, develop a wider audience, educate the public about what you do, market your activities, and attract visi-tors to your community.

The CBCT allows visitors to meet the participants “behind the scenes” and allows them to visit artists’ studios that may not regularly be open to the public, purchase works directly from the artists, visit art gal-leries, museums and cultural centres to view special interpretive displays, archives, demonstrations or performances. It is also a chance for them to meet the people behind the scenes that are such a vital part of our local culture.

Full colour tour directories will be available free of charge to the public as a guide to visit your loca-tion. Signage, posters and postcards are provided to promote your participation. Your webpage profile will also remain for the rest of the year and will list your contact hours outside of the event.

Final registration deadline is April 13

Register early and save!$40: Early registration received by March 31.$50: Registration April 1-13.

Participating individuals and venues must be lo-cated in the Canadian Columbia Basin, the southeast corner of British Columbia roughly bordered by the communities of Valemount, Golden, Elkford, Creston, Rossland, Arrow Lakes and Revelstoke. Although not in the Basin, the communities of Grand Forks and Christina Lake are again invited to par-ticipate this year.

To register visit: www.cbculturetour.com. For in-formation call: 1-250-505-5505 or toll free at 1-877-505-7355. The Columbia Basin Culture Tour is a project of the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance and is funded by Columbia Basin Trust which sup-ports the social, economic and environmental well-being of the Columbia Basin.

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Health care disciplines in sync with hos-pital procedure made for a smooth transi-tion of patients from second floor to fourth at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) this week.

The move is temporary, but will last for the duration of patient-centric renovations in the region’s only Intensive Care Unit (ICU), in situ since the ’70s.

Major upgrades ring in at $1.77 million, and involve three high level infrastructure projects, expected to be completed by mid-October.

Wall repair and window replacement may sound rather ordinary, but in fact, increasing natural light via larger glass panes, is a key component to improving patient care.

“Natural light in meeting circadian rhythms, decreases delirium and length of stay,” ex-plains Sarah McLeod, referring to physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a 24-hour cycle. “We used to sedate patients heavily and they would be on ventilators for extended periods of time,”added McLeod, KBRH manager for critical care and HART (high acuity response team). “Now we have better measures, different medications, and much more sophisticated ventilators.”

Sedation is minimized so weaning from ventilators is much quicker - meaning, patients are wakened much sooner and exposure to natural light helps orientate them to time, place and person.

Another key project focuses on improved infection control. Bedside curtains in the six-bed ICU will be replaced by glass doors, aging fixtures will be upgraded, and a new T-bar

ceiling is in the works.Project Manager Jonathan Jinjoe walked

the Trail Times through the empty ward this week, pointing out extensive re-design plans which completely shift the model of care by de-centralizing the nursing station and re-con-figuring the unit into patient-centric “pods.”

“The whole process of moving was a huge plan that took place between plant services and clinical staff,” he began, noting the original plan was to complete each project in stages, which meant moving patients during each phase. “It was our clinical lead for the site, Jane Cusden (KBRH acute health services director), who made the decision once we had funding in place, that relocating the ICU was the way to go so we could do the renovations properly.”

Jinjoe said all six rooms will be demolished and re-built in a modern ICU design that al-lows nurses to work outside each room, or “pod,” instead of at a main nursing station.

“Basically, that means most of the nursing will be done at the bedside,” he added.

The bathroom will be re-configured, equip-ment storage will replace the current nursing base, and square-footage will increase when crews construct an airborne isolation room in the adjacent space, which was formerly the renal unit.

“We are a six bed ICU but we will end up with seven physical beds including the air-borne isolation room,” clarified McLeod.

The isolation room will have the capacity for an ICU patient, but will also benefit less criti-cal patients with suspected (and confirmed) airborne pathogens.

“For example, if there is a medical patient in Nelson, who is suspected to have TB, they would be able to come to us,”she explained.

“That patient may not necessarily need ICU care, but the room is a resource.

“We would be able to put them in isolation and care for them, where we are able to keep the staff safe and the patient safe.”

McLeod has been in the nursing profession for 30 years, 18 of those at KBRH.

She’s seen much change in the field but says one thing remains constant — the ICU patients are still as sick.

But care is constantly improving as educa-tion advances, skills are kept up-to-the-minute and modern critical care equipment replaces the outdated models.

“Our patient care standards are very driven by research and aligned with the Kelowna network and with the province,” she said. “So we know we are providing really good care.

“We have a really engaged staff and a really great staff,”added McLeod. “We do the nurs-ing, the physicians, our team of pharmacists, physios, respiratory therapists - everybody works together and we have a great team. I

think this infrastructure (renovation) values and reflects the work we do.

“And it’s a real positive when your work environment is improved — it’s a great thing, it really is.”

The Ministry of Health is contributing al-most $1.3 million through Interior Health for the renovation, including $500,000 for the glass doors, walls and fixture replacement.

The West Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital District has directed $485,200 to-ward wall and window replacement, including $190,000 for the isolation room. The KBRH Foundation is currently fundraising the re-maining $57,000.

“My feeling, as a non-clinician, is that it’s the staff that provide the care, not the build-ing,” Jinjoe said. “The building helps, but it’s the staff. And the staff hasn’t changed, they just went to a temporary location like going to a summer cottage - it may be a bit more crowded but the level of care and quality of care remains unchanged.”


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How to cool your home without breaking the bankMother Nature is consistently inconsistent these days,

when 30-degree Mondays might be followed by 60-degree Tuesdays. Fickle weather is o� en accompanied by large � uctuations in temperature, strong storms and unseasonable conditions, making it di� cult for homeowners to maintain comfort levels in their homes.

As a result of � uctuating temperatures, home heating and cooling systems have been heavily taxed. Growing reliance on HVAC systems has also driven up energy bills, as moder-ate weather synonymous with spring has given way to more days of extreme heat or extreme cold. As summer approaches once again, reducing cooling costs is a priority for many homeowners. � e following are a few ways to cool your home’s interior without causing a spike in your energy bill.

• Reduce sun exposure. Much of the hot air inside of a home can be attributed to sunlight exposure throughout the day. Walls and windows on the south and west sides of a home will bear the brunt of the sun’s rays, so close shades and drapes on this side of the house to maximize coolness. Shades and curtains can save you up to 7 percent on your bills and lower indoor temperatures by up to 20 degrees.

Homeowners also may want to think about installing a retractable awning on areas of the house that get a lot of sun. Planting shade trees is another way to naturally cool down hot sides of the house.

• Draw more air into the attic. Hot air rises, and in the summertime hot air can get trapped beneath the roof in the attic and eaves of a home. While an attic should have vents, homeowners can speed up the exchange of hot air with a simple trick. Open up a window on a shady side of the home, and then open the attic door or take out the access panel and place a box fan inside to blow air up into the attic. � is will disperse the hot air and help force it out through the vents.

• Use fans productively. Using box fans to suck cool night air in from east- and north-facing windows and to push out hot air from west- and south-facing windows is another way to increase circulation through a home. Running fans may be less costly than turning on air conditioners. Also, set ceiling fans to rotate counter-clockwise. � is will pull cooler air up from the � oor and create a wind-chill e� ect.

• Switch to LED or CFL bulbs. Ninety percent of the en-ergy used for incandescent bulbs is emitted as heat. � is not

only wastes electricity but also can make conditions hotter inside a home. Switch to cooler, more e� cient light bulbs.

• Reduce humidity levels. Humidity makes hot tempera-tures feel even hotter. Clean laundry, take showers and run the dishwasher at night or early in the morning before the day heats up. Don’t forget to vent bathrooms and kitchens by turning on exhaust fans when water is in use.

• Rely on a programmable thermostat. Setting a ther-mostat to adjust the air conditioning system automatically means homeowners can keep the temperature raised when they’re not home and then have it lowered shortly before they arrive home. � e thermostat also can adjust temperatures for day and night use.

• Keep doors closed. Do not cool rooms that are unused. Maximize the cool air in lived-in spaces by blocking o� rooms that do not need to be cooler.

• Invest in more insulation. Insulation does not just keep homes warmer in the cold weather. Insulation also prevents hot air from in� ltrating living spaces while keeping cooler air where it’s needed. Sealant around windows and doors also will prevent unnecessary air exchange.

Ceiling fans can help cool a home more ef� ciently when fan blades spin in the right direction for the season.

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Temporary move as KBRH’s ICU undergoes renosSHERI REGNIER

Rossland News

The Intensive Care Unit has been cleared out and patient care moved to fourth floor as Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital begins extensive upgrades to the wing. The $1.77 million project, which involves redesigning the six-bed unit into a patient-centric model , is slated for completion by the fall. The central nursing base will soon be demolished and replaced with individual work stations outside each new patient “pod.” The former renal unit space has been gutted and will be re-built as an airborne isolation room. Sheri Regnier photos


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Rossland students learned about energy conservation from the BC Lions on Tuesday afternoon.

Linebackers Adam Bighill and Jason Arakgi paid a visit to Rossland Summit School as part of the FortisBC Energy Champions program.

The program is designed for chil-dren from kindergarten through Grade 7 and emphasizes the impor-tance of environmental responsibility and being an “energy champion.”

“We just want the kids to think about when they’re using energy and how we can start saving some energy, and to think about our non-renewable resources and fossil fuels, because we only have a certain amount. We’ve got to think about how we can live sustainably, so we can carry our way of life into the future,” said Bighill, who has been part of the program for three years now.

Asked why he thought it was im-portant that the BC Lions talk to kids about energy conservation, Bighill said, “Well anytime we show up at a school the kids are excited to see us no matter what. They tend to listen a lot better no matter what if a BC Lion shows up, so we feel like we can reach through to kids very well and we have a good time doing it.”

The Lions visit 75 schools throughout the Mainland as part of the program and have already visited 50 or so this year.

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Students held up the pieces to an “ener-gy pizza” as BC Lion Jason Arakgi explained how British Columbians use electricity.

BC Lion Jason Arakgi looked on as teammate Adam Bighill raced against a student to put on dirty clothes.

Rossland Summit School students par-ticipated in a relay with BC Lion Adam Bighill.


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