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Thursday, January 13 • 2011 Vol. 6 • Issue 2

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Th e Board of Edu-cation met as a group on Monday for the fi rst time since a trio of trustees from Trail called on the minister of education to remove chairman Gordon Smith and have the board dissolved.

Tensions were high as trustees and senior staff of School District 20 gathered at Trail

Middle School for their fi rst regular meeting of 2011.

About two dozen members of the public also attended the meet-ing, and several who spoke at the end tended to agree with the Trail trustees’ desire to move forward with the dis-trict’s “Planning for the Future” process.

Recommendations outlined in the “Plan-ning for the Future Part II” document, pre-

pared by district staff , include school closures in Rossland and Castle-

gar which would save the district a signifi cant amount of money but

have upset many par-ents, politicians and members of the public

in those two cities.

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Despite strong public support for a bylaw to ban the cosmetic use of pesticides in Rossland — and the fact that most city councillors have spoken in favour of the idea — a tragicomedy of errors led to the bylaw’s quick demise at fi rst read-ing on Monday.

Before the regular city coun-cil meeting, it seemed a given that the fi rst reading of the bylaw should pass: Four of the seven on council — Coun. Kathy Moore, Coun. Hanne Smith, Coun. Andy Stradling, and Coun. Jill Spearn — strongly support taking a stand against residential pesticides.

“I was very pleased with the way staff created this,” Moore began. She then mentioned a small issue and suggested a simple deletion to

remove a confusing redundancy.Mayor Greg Granstrom re-

sponded. “With respect, I think the fi rst item we should deal with is if fi rst reading passes. Th en perhaps we can have another motion to amend.”

Moore quickly agreed to post-pone her amendment and contin-ued with her comments that “there has been enough evidence that pesticides are creating problems. [Th e bylaw] may just be symbolic, but it gives a message to the prov-ince. We’re showing leadership in this issue.”

When the discussion reached Coun. Laurie Charlton, he made it known that he thought the bylaw was “meaningless because it is un-enforceable and is likely to be un-enforced,” but then tried to make an amendment despite Granstrom’s request.

“If this bylaw is going to go ahead,” Charlton said, “and I sense that there is a desire to do that, let’s add a little meaning to the bylaw, so I will move that ...”

Granstrom interjected at this point and tried to stop Charlton. “Councillor, we’ll get back to that,” he said, but Charlton forged ahead, talking over the mayor.

Granstrom repeated that he wanted to fi nd consensus about proceeding with the bylaw before working on amendments.

Charlton would not oblige, so Granstrom tried again: “I know procedurally you can [move amendments] but I’m asking your condolence.”

Charlton pushed on despite the request. Granstrom resigned and put the amendment to the fl oor where it failed for lack of a second.

Twenty minutes later, aft er hear-

ing the opinions of the rest of coun-cil — much the same as they were on Feb. 22, 2010, when council was hung 3-3 on a decision to even draft this bylaw — Spearn, who would likely have voted in favour, was absent from the meeting. Charlton returned to his amendment.

“Excuse me, I have to interupt,” Granstrom said, “Let’s get through this. How about I call the question right now.”

“No,” Charlton complained, “I’m proposing an amendment, which I’m entitled to do.”

“I understand that, I asked po-litely ...” Granstrom started,

“Well, if you understand that, don’t interupt,” Charlton said. “I’m making a motion to amend the by-law to [ban pesticides from Ross-land’s watershed.]”

ANDREW BENNETT

Rossland News Reporter

Tense meeting for trustees

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School trustees, senior staff and about two dozen Trail-area parents crammed into the meetingroom at Trail Middle School on Monday evening for a tense Board of Education meeting.

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Th e division between Trail and other municipalities over this issue continued to play out at the meeting.

Trail trustee Lorraine Man-ning said she was “disappointed in the board” over what she de-scribed as a pattern of ganging up on her, fellow Trail trustee Mark Wilson, and Warfi eld trustee Toni Driutti, who lives in Trail.

“If you look at all the (meet-ing) minutes, you’ll always see a bloc of votes and the Trail people are always left out,” she said.

Th e board’s decision last month to postpone public hear-ings on the Planning for the Fu-ture process was “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Man-ning said, and what prompted her to sign her name to a letter asking Education Minister Mar-garet MacDiarmid to dissolve the board and intervene directly in the process.

Castlegar trustee Mac Grego-ry, however, said he was “really disturbed” by the letter to the minister.

He said the fact that the three trustees from Trail oft en fi nd themselves on the losing end of votes is no justifi cation to dis-solve the board as a whole.

“Everyone does not agree all the time,” Gregory said. “If it’s a 6-3 vote all the time, perhaps the three are just out of touch.”

Bev Maloff , who also repre-

sents Castlegar, took things a step further and suggested the Trail trustees have some kind of grudge against Rossland.

“Why do you guys dislike Rossland so much?” she said. “Why do you always pick on Rossland?”

But Manning dismissed that accusation as ridiculous.

“I don’t hate Rossland,” she said. “I have lots of friends in Rossland.”

Maloff ’s accusation also prompted groans and plenty of eye-rolling from the Trail par-ents in attendance.

“I found Ms. Maloff ’s com-ments ... out of order,” Roland Vogel told the board at the end of the meeting.

Vogel, who has been an out-spoken critic of the board’s deci-sion to delay the public hearings, tried to voice further concerns but was cut off by chairman Smith, who insisted that mem-bers of the public ask questions — not make comments — dur-ing the designated question pe-riod at the end of board meet-ings.

It’s still unclear what will hap-pen next with the “Planning for the Future” process.

Smith said the board must meet as a committee of the whole to decide how to proceed, but trustees couldn’t agree Mon-day on a date.

Smith said he wants to ar-range for that meeting as soon as possible.

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Trail trustees feel ‘always left out’

Th e Sustainability Commission launched an “Indicator Survey” last Friday to gather information on how Rossland residents feel about their sense of community, their par-ticipation in recreation, and their satisfaction with how our town is governed.

“Th e survey is part of a larger State of Ross-land project funded by Columbia Basin Trust to monitor Rossland’s progress in terms of sustainability,” said the project coordinator, Jennifer Ellis. “Filling out the survey will help us establish important baseline information.”

“Th ere are places for people to provide com-ments as well, if they don’t want to just check a box,” she said.

Th ose who complete a survey are automati-cally entered into a draw for one of two $100 gift certifi cates that can be redeemed with any Rossland business.

“We have already collected data on 25 of 32 sustainability indica-tors,” said Ellis, pointing interested people to the Visions to Action web-site for more details.

“Another indicator will use information that we need to get from BC Transit and the six re-maining indicators are covered in the survey.”

Ellis explained that each indicator is “a yardstick” to measure how well we are achiev-ing one aspect of our sustainability goals.

She said the big ques-tion is, “How are we doing? Are we moving towards sustainabil-ity or away from it? Is the plan helping us get there?”

Th e plan she refers to is the Strategic Sustain-ability Plan. Prepared by the city in 2008, the plan outlines 147 “stra-tegic actions” grouped into 11 “focus areas.”

“Focus areas are broad areas that resi-dents in Rossland thought were key,” El-

lis explained, “such as housing and aff ord-ability, recreation and leisure, community economic develpment, sense of community, land management, nat-ural environment and resource lands, and so on.”

“In each focus area we develop strategic ac-tions,” she continued. “Th e State of the Ross-land project is intended to monitor the imple-mentation of these stra-tegic actions.”

Th e indicators, how-ever, are matched di-rectly to the general focus areas, not the strategic actions in par-ticular, Ellis said.

“Each focus area has a number of goals which state the fi nal outcome we are trying to achieve. Th e indicators measure the achievment of these goals,” she explained.

Each week, Ellis has put up a diff erent poster on the bulletin boards around town, each one describing one of the 11 focus areas.

By establishing base-line data with this sur-vey and other methods, Ellis hopes that we will be able to revisit the same questions in the future “to track trends and benchmark our achievements against

those of other similarcommunities.”

She also hopes it willhelp to establish ourcommunity’s prioritiesand “to highlight areasin which Rossland hasachieved successes.”

For example, shesaid, “the sense of com-munity results — howpeople feel about liv-ing in Rossland — areof great interest to me.Th is is an area whereRossland has a greatstrength, I think.”

“We’re interested tofi nd out the results andlook forward to report-ing them to the peopleof Rossland soon!”

Surveys have beenmailed out to residents,but extra copies can bepicked up at city hall orprinted off the Visionsto Action website.

Any member of aRossland householdover the age of 14 mayparticipate. Surveysmust be completed byJan. 28 and dropped off at city hall.

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For more informa-tion, visit www.vision-stoaction.ca.

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Winter Carnival is fast approaching (Jan. 28 to 30) but for the event to be the suc-cess it was last year, organizers need vol-unteers.

Carnival organizers plan to run volunteer sign-up tables at the front door of Ferraro’s over the next couple of weeks.

“Marlene Streif and I will be there on the 15th, from noon to four, and on the 19th from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.,” Sarah Dixon said.

“We need assistance with all the events,” she continued. “In to-tal, between 100 and 120 volunteers are needed throughout the weekend.” So far, about 25 people have signed up.

Not much time is required. “Usually only a couple of hours are needed,” Dixon said. “It depends on how much time people have and how

motivated they are to donate their time.”

In particular, peo-ple are needed to vol-unteer for two-hour shift s at the beer gar-den, either selling, serving, or cleaning up. Of 65 shift s, so far only three have been fi lled, all by the self-less Don Delong, in-cluding clean-up both nights.

“Th e adults have the beer garden, so the kids have a hot choc-olate garden,” Dixon laughed. “Mountain Nugget will be donat-ing hot chocolate for kids on Saturday af-ternoon, but they also need people to help serve.”

Th ere’s also work to be done on to set up the bobsled course on Th ursday night and Saturday morn-ing before the race. On Friday, King of the Mountain at Red, the classic snow-board-ski-telemark competition, requires helpers, as do the pa-rade and the variety show. Snow volley-

ball on Saturday and GT racing on Sunday are looking for a few hands.

On Sunday aft er-noon, the Kids Carni-val has 13 shift s open and 16 shift s need fi lling for the John Heintz Cup on Sun-day aft ernoon.

It’s not too late to dream up new events either, although “they’d have to get their act in gear pretty quickly,” Dixon said. She gave the example of the snowshoe races that, 114 years ago, were actually much more popular than Olaus Jeldness’s fa-mous fi rst ski race from Red to down-town.

Now there’s no snowshoe race, “but we’d really like to have one!” Dixon enthused. “We’re inviting any-body who would like to organize and run any new events to sign up.”

When it all comes together, like it always does, Winter Carnival is going to be a blast,

Dixon said. “Ross-land’s going to be the place to be.”

Potential volunteers can view the schedule of events and contact organizers through the website, www.

rosslandwintercar-nival.com. Th ey may also contact Deanne Stevens at Tourism Rossland, or Sarah Dixon at 362-5415 and [email protected].

ANDREW BENNETT


A snowboarder rides a rail down a Rossland street at a past Winter Carnival. Organizers are looking for more volunteers for this year’s event.

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Granstrom conceded and Moore seconded the motion this time.

Charlton went on to pon-tifi cate on the dangers we faced as a community by pesticides used in places that could enter our water supply.

“If we believe this bylaw is going to serve a useful pur-pose, let’s make sure we ban the use of pesticides in our watershed.”

Coun. Smith was the fi rst to raise concerns. “I’m won-dering if Coun. Charlton’s concept, which I agree with,

actually, is outside [the by-law’s] scope? Does it work, or is it just confounding the way it’s written?”

Mayor Granstrom replied, “I can’t answer that question, but what I can say is that I’ve tried to get us to the point where we can do that kind of thing in an orderly fashion. But just to throw amend-ments out right now is, quite frankly, confusing the issue.”

Spearn added, “I’m a little frustrated. I’m not prepared to think about the watershed right now, it’s a totally diff er-ent area, defi ned in diff erent ways [with] many activities

going on. I’m not going to vote on that tonight until I’ve had an opportunity [to get informed].”

Nevertheless, the amend-ment was carried despite the legal and jurisdictional con-cerns raised; on its surface, the change appeared to make the bylaw more powerful.

Coun. Wallace was shocked. “I just want to get caught up here: I’m pretty sure that amendment just passed, and that amendment [contradicts the bylaw.] Th e amendment is pretty much null-and-voided [by another section in the law]. It doesn’t

make any sense.”Just three minutes aft er

the amendment passed, Gr-anstrom put the question to council and the bylaw was defeated in fi rst reading, 4-3.

Th ere was no surprise that Granstrom voted against, as he is fi rmly against a ban. Wallace had stated her will-ingness to see the bylaw through fi rst reading, but was now turned off by Charlton’s amendment.

Spearn, who was initially in favour of the bylaw, now voted against it, appearing visibly annoyed by the chang-es Charlton had made.

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With the avalanche danger up at “considerable” and “high” with all the storm snow blow-ing on top of persistent weak-nesses in the snowpack, Jan. 15 might just be the perfect day to stick to the hill and brush up on your avalanche skills with the Rossland Search and Res-cue.

“We’ll defi nitely do a bunch with beacons and how to set up probes and search with them and in probe lines,” said Dave Braithwaite, the Search and Rescue president for more than two decades.

But so much more will be covered as well, the details of which will be somewhat fl ex-

ible “depending on how many people come and what they need to learn,” Braithwaite said.

“Th ere’ll be snow profi les to look at the layering of the snow, the resistance, and how to ‘see’ an avalanche before it happens by understanding the layers,” he said.

Th ey will also have a demon-stration pack on display with fi rst aid and avalanche gear, “to see what you should have.”

Th ey’ll also look at some basic survival methods, such as how to dig a snow shelter, and guest speakers will talk on diff erent aspects of snow and backcountry travel.

“Our objective is to share information about avalanches and preparedness so people

can be more aware when theyexit the boundaries about whatthey’re getting into,” Braith-waite said.

A fun race at the end willuse techniques learned dur-ing the day. Participants canwin prizes from “great localsupporters” such as ButchBoutry’s, Powderhound, Ross-Vegas, Clancy’s, Gerrick Cycle,and others to come.

Th e Search and Rescue isalso “always interested in newmembers. Th ey can have any-thing to off er at all,” Braith-waite explained. “No specialabilities are required, just a de-sire to help.

To learn more about Avi Dayor the Search and Rescue, con-tact Braithwaite at 362-9082 orGraham Jones at 362-9966.

Rossland’s Leah Evans left the competition far behind, taking fi rst place in the Subaru Canadian Freeskiing Championships that ran from Jan. 6 to 10 in Revelstoke.

Th e championship — the fi rst North Ameri-can stop in this winter’s Subaru Freeskiing World Tour which began in El Colorado, Chile, and Las Leñas, Argentina — was postponed through two weather days due to poor visibil-ity, one during qualifi ers and one aft er.

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Th e same day, Collin Collins threw down the fi rst 720 in tour history. Th is and other superb performances knocked Rossland’s Col-ston Beatson into 26th place, just missing the cutoff for fi nals on Jan. 10.

For fi nals, 20 men and seven women were fl own to the top of Mac Face, above Greely Bowl, in a Bell 105 helicopter. Th e face had just received more than 60 centimetres of fresh snow in two days and had yet to be skied this season.

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Although Evans’ fi rst run on Jan. 9 had herjust a hair in front of the competition, her sec-ond run put her fi rmly in fi rst place with acombined total score of 66.16. Silver was takenby Banff ’s Tatum Monod (46.90), and bronzeby Nicole Derksen of Revelstoke (42.10).

Evans will ski next at Red Mountain’s OpenSenior Freeskiing Championship this week,from Jan. 12 to 15.

Stay tuned for the Junior Championship thefollowing week, from Jan. 20 to 22.

ANDREW BENNETT


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Fift y-eight young fi gure skaters aged seven to 14 from all over the East and West Kootenays came to Rossland on Jan. 8 for the 28th annual Rossland Mini Skating Competition, and Rossland’s fi ve skaters per-formed exceptionally well.

Skaters competed from clubs in Grand Forks, Mid-way, Castlegar, Cranbrook, Nakusp, Beaver Valley, Glengarry, Nelson, Revel-stoke, and one girl came up from Bellingham, Wash.

Th ere were fi ve events — skills, ice dance, free skating, interpretive, and showcase — with skaters competing within skill lev-els rather than age groups.

“Everything in the com-petition is categorized by levels established by test-ing by Skate Canada,” ex-plained Cindy Reich who has coached Rossland’s club for 18 years.

“Th is is the only com-petition that we host,” she said, noting that her skaters have fi ve or six competi-tions they can attend each season, which runs from the beginning of October until spring break in mid-March.

“Th e skaters are do-ing great, the energy is wonderful,” said Teri Mack, the president of the Rossland Skating

Club during the competi-tion. “Congratulations to everyone who has come.”

Congratulations are par-ticularly in order for a num-ber of Rossland skaters.

Ella Knight and Reina Cancilla skated as a pair in the pre-preliminary Shad-ow Dance, winning gold.

“At the lower levels, pairs can be two girls if there aren’t enough boys,” Reich explained.

Knight, Cancilla, and Payton Reed also skated well in the pre-preliminary free skate, but did not earn medals.

In the performance event, a single’s free skate, Th ea Fairweather took sec-ond place and a “silver cer-tifi cate.”

Sianna Tomich, Mack’s daughter, also took home a silver from the under-10 preliminary ladies free skate, but really shone in the pre-introductory inter-pretive skate, winning gold in a fi eld of six skaters.

In both the skills event (singles) and the ice dance (pairs), skaters follow the same choreographed pat-tern, Reich explained, fol-

lowing guidelines set by Skate Canada.

Th ere is more freedom of choreography in the free skate (singles), but the skat-ers’ patterns must include “X number of spins and X number of jumps, depend-ing on the level,” said Reich, “Th is is what you see on TV for the Olympics.”

“In the interpretive event, there’s no criteria about spins and jumps,” she continued. “Usually there’s a theme, like maybe you’re trying to portray a bird, or a hockey player, or what-ever.”

“Th is was the fi rst time Sianna [Tomich] had done her interpretive,” said Mack, her proud mother. “She skated to Spirit of the Hawk. She was very hawk-ish with a pose that was very birdlike.”

Perhaps the most inspir-ing event was the showcase at the end of the competi-tion. Although this is not an offi cial Skate Canada event and was judged by three lo-cal residents, it really allows the skaters’ imaginations to run wild.

“Kids are given the

theme two weeks prior to the event,” Mack explained. Th is year’s theme was Ca-lypso. “Th e day of the com-petition they listen to the music twice, then put to-gether their own interpre-tation of the music.”

Payton Reed won gold and Reina Cancilla won sil-ver in the event.

“Th e costumes were wonderful and the kids had a great time,” she said aft er the event. “It is great to see how diff erent kids interpret music. Th e audience loved the event, and so did the kids, you could tell by the smiles on their faces.”

As with all such events, the success of Rossland’s Mini depended on what Mack called the “countless hours from many coaches from around the region,” and also the executive, vol-unteers, parents, commu-nity members, judges, and generous sponsors.

Mack, who has been president of the club for four years, was described by Reich as “an amazing woman” who “puts in a huge amount of volunteer time.”

Separately, Mack re-turned the compliment: “Cindy and I are a won-derful team,” noting in the program that Reich’s “dedi-cation and compassion has no boundary.”

Region chairperson, Shelley Verhelst of Fruit-vale, whose two daughters and two sons are all fi gure skaters, was very happy with the competition.

“Th e Rossland people here have done a phenom-enal job again. Th e food is more than what we need and the skaters are well tak-en care of,” she said.

Th e region oversees 15clubs, and Verhelst was keen to note the Kootenay Regional Skating Cham-pionships coming up in Fruitvale on Jan. 21 to 23.

Th e top four skatersfrom that event qualify to go on to the Pacifi c Skate Championship (provin-cials) which will be hosted by our region this year, in Cranbrook.

Verhelst said, “If youwant to see talent from all over the Kootenays who are going on to the provincial level, you should come out and watch.”

ANDREW BENNETT


Sianna Tomich of Rossland skating in the preliminaryladies free skate, in which she took silver.

Andrew Bennett photo

Rossland skaters shine at weekend competition

Th e Co-Ed Kids Rec. Hockey program got a post-Christmas gift from Dan Eheler from Seven Sum-mits Contracting! Dan has generously provided the program with brand new, bright red hockey jerseys with the Junior Warriors logo. Th e Rec. Hockey kids will look great with their beauti-ful new jerseys. From all the kids in the program and from the Recreation Department — thanks for supporting youth and recreation in Rossland!

If you have a preschooler, the Mom, Dad & Me Playgroup meets weekly at the St. Andrews United Church in Rossland. It is an opportunity for caregivers to come together and share their experiences and fi nd support and friendship while their children play. Caregivers are responsible for their own children.Tea, coff ee and snacks are provided at both groups. Th ere are two groups: Tuesdays for 0-5 year olds from 9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Cost: $3 drop-in fee per family or $40 for the entire session. Wednesdays for 0-18 month olds (older siblings are welcome) 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. with a $2 drop-in fee per family or $30 for the entire session. Dates: Jan. 4/5 to Apr 26/27, 2011. For more informa-tion about the program, contact Ona Stanton at 250-362-0081.

Tumbalina for preschoolers starts up again on Wednesday, Jan. 19, from 4 p.m - 4:45 p.m. in the MacLean Annex. Th is class is an introduction to gymnastics skills and apparatus in a fun, non-competitive environment. Th e class focuses on increasing physi-cal strength, fl exibility and co-ordina-tion by exploration of circuits set up in

the gym. Th e last 15 minutes includes songs and games that encourage self expression, spatial awareness and large motor skills.

Th e outdoor rinks are open and ready to enjoy! If you’re up at Red Mountain, there’s a rink below the bank, as you drive around the round-about, to your right. In Rossland, the outdoor rinks are located in the block between the arena and the high school — between Spokane and Washington.

Interested in folk dancing? Join a great group people for a fun night

of English country and American contra dancing, in the Miners’ Hall, on Friday, Jan. 14 from 7:00-9:30 p.m. No complicated steps are required, just a sense of rhythm and humour. New-comers are welcome!

Th ere’s a new indoor soccer option in Rossland! First session is Wednes-day, Jan. 12 at 6 p.m., in the RSS Gym. Bring a water bottle and indoor shoes.

Th e Co-Ed Adult’s Rec Hockey nights, on Tuesdays and Sundays are very popular and spaces fi ll quickly. Th ere is a maximum number of play-ers per night — if you would like to play, please ensure you arrive early!

If you’re interested in becoming a better classic or skate skier, we have two intermediate / advanced classes coming up. Th e skate ski class starts Tuesday, Jan. 25 and runs for three weeks. Th e classic cross country ski class starts Th ursday, Jan. 27 and also runs for three weeks. Both classes start at 6:30 p.m. and run until 8 p.m.

Zumba and Stretch and Strength have new hours. Starting Jan. 5, both classes will start at 9 a.m. in the Min-ers’ Hall. Zumba is a mix of music and dance that includes a variety of inter-national styles — salsa, samba, me-ringue, belly dancing, reggaeton and more. Th e class works every muscle, shakes every body part and teaches some great steps while having fun.

If you need a good stretch aft er a day of skiing, there are two yoga classes per week, on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

in the MacLean Annex. Th e Annex is located on First Avenue between St. Paul and Monte Christo. Please bring a yoga mat, a water bottle and some warm, comfy clothes.

Th e Sustainable Living Conversa-tion Series starts up this month. On Saturday, Jan. 22 from 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. at Café Books on Washington, you can meet for free fl owing conver-sations with experienced locals about growing and preserving food, raising chickens and animals and living in a sustainable manner. All ages are wel-come and no registration is necessary.

Karate has started up again aft er the holiday season and is accepting beginners. Classes are Tuesdays and Th ursdays from 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. in the MacLean Elementary Gym. Th e Rossland Shotokan Karate Club has been operating continuously since 1996. If you’re a beginner, the instruc-tor will provide separate instruction until you can manage the basics. If you’re 12 years of age or older, karate might be for you.

People have started karate in their 70s and 80s and gone on to reach black-belt rank!


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Who killed the pesticide bylaw? Coun. Laurie Charlton, primarily. But other councillors who actually support the idea inadvertently played a key role, too.

First Charlton tried to delete a key section. When this gambit failed, he waited and took a new strategy: Suddenly the protector of the people, he wanted to beef up the law to include the entire watershed!

Charlton has made a long career of verbose analysis of minute details. He surely must have been aware that his amendment made the bylaw internally contradictory and created potential problems with jurisdiction.

Unfortunately, with an eye to expediency, Mayor Greg Granstrom rushed the process of debate and several councillors were careless with their votes, so the amendment passed without proper consideration.

Councillors Moore, Smith and Stradling could have voted against the amendment realiz-ing that, although they agreed with it in prin-ciple, it was totally unsuited to the purpose and scope of the bylaw. Failing that, Coun. Spearn could have voted in favour of fi rst reading despite her legitimate concerns with the amend-ment, on the understanding that it could be fi xed on second reading with cooler heads and better information. Th at’s why we have the safety net of multiple readings.

But Spearn was so annoyed by Charlton that she could not vote for the amended version, even though it could have been fi xed later.

Ultimately, we fi nd it disingenuous for Charlton to shamelessly claim to be acting in the public interest with an amendment and then turn around three minutes later and vote against the amended version.

At least we agree with Spearn when, at the end of the comedy of errors that was Monday’s debate at council, she remarked: “Th at was pro-cedurally awful.” It was.

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Opinion

With all of the discussion over the last couple of years about School District 20’s budgetary issues, one very important element that we must consider is the provincial un-derfunding of education.

In the Vancouver School Board Administrative Report on Schools considered for potential closure, they published a chart showing the district’s funding shortfalls for 2010-2011. Th is included:

• Salary and Employee Benefi t Increase: $4.19 million

• Medical Services Plan Increase: $0.21 million

• Teachers’ Pension Plan Increase $2.80 million

• Carbon Off sets $0.29 million• Infl ation and Other Costs $0.87

million• Less Th an Anticipated Provin-

cial Funding $4.24 million• Loss of One-Time Funding

Sources $5.38 million• Enrolment Decline $0.42 mil-

lionTh e projected funding shortfall

totalled $17.23 million, of which $420,000 is due to declining en-

rolment. Th is is probably pretty similar in percentage to what our district, and other districts across the province, is facing. Th e ministry continually insists that the problem is declining enrolment, but it is clear that funding is not keeping up with the costs of providing education.

Th e following are some funding facts supplied by the B.C. Education Coalition, based on information from Stats Canada, B.C. Education Ministry and the Vancouver Board of Education.

• In 1991, 26 per cent of the B.C. budget went to education. Th at proportion has shrunk to 15 per cent today.

• Relative to provincial GDP, BC’s education spending has declined 14 per cent since 2001.

• In 2006/07 (latest StatsCan data), B.C. spent a smaller share of provincial GDP on public educa-tion than every other province and territory except Alberta and New-foundland.

• Despite roughly similar costs, education funding in Ontario aver-ages $10,730 per student for 2010 (a

4.5 per cent increase) compared to BC’s funding of $8,301 per student.

• In infl ation-adjusted dollars, Β.C.’s 2010/11 operating budget for K-12 education is $500 million less than the 2000/01 education budget.

• Public school enrolment in B.C. is currently higher than it has been in 28 of the last 40 years.

• Education ministry projections show K-12 enrolment is expected to grow overall in the coming decade and to keep climbing aft er that. By 2025, B.C. is expected to surpass the peak numbers of the late 1990s and to keep climbing rapidly, with enrol-ment surpassing the 800,000 mark shortly aft er that.

• Current public school enrol-ment is equal to 1993, but we have 42 fewer schools than in 1993.

School boards, educators, parents and anyone interested in the future of our children and communities across the province need to let our new party leaders know that under-funding education is unacceptable. Th is district needs to work together to demand changes — not fi ght with each other for every last penny.

Education chronically underfundedNeighbourhoods of Learning - Shelley Ackerman

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Th e Rossland Neighbourhood of Learning (NOL) committee outlined its proposal in a widely circulated media letter which contained several inaccura-cies that we wish to address.

Th e committee indicated that the Kootenay Columbia board of education will schedule new public meetings in January. Th ese meetings will discuss the Ministry of Education’s initiatives for the Neighbourhood of Learning Centres (NLCs) and 21st century education and how our communities can incorporate these new ideas.

As members of the board, we have not been notifi ed of this plan nor has any discussion taken place aft er the Dec. 13 public meeting. Also, several state-ments made in this letter are erroneous and give selective information regarding School District 51 (Boundary Grand Forks) and other districts.

Our school district has already es-tablished a partnership with the City of Trail and J. L. Crowe in the maintenance of the Willi Krause Fieldhouse.

Th e ministry announced the NLC process in early 2008 stating that all new building projects could apply for grants from the ministry to include NLC proj-ects in newly constructed schools. Prior to the completion of Crowe, School Dis-trict 20 applied for two projects. To our knowledge, the district has not received a response from the ministry.

Community connection grants, an initiative put forth a few years ago at UBCM, can be off ered jointly to school districts and municipalities by board motion. One of the criteria now is plan-ning for NLCs. A request from Rossland was supported by the district and ap-proved by the ministry last year.

Another grant approved was the ap-plication from Warfi eld village council to establish a daycare centre at Webster School. Th is facility is now in opera-tion through a lease with the Sunshine Daycare Society to cover costs.

Blueberry Creek Community School has several programs which are co-ordinated by a society. Th e district does not receive any funding for the students at this “school.” Th is building was closed as a school many years ago. Th ere is currently a one-year lease agreement with the BCCS Society.

For a complete list of all programs and services available in the district, please refer to the SD20 website under “Community Programs.”

Creating a NLC is not a new concept as the Rossland Neighbourhood of Learning committee states. Th e idea of NLC was initiated by the ministry as

a way for school districts to fi nd ways of generating revenue to off set operat-ing costs for closed schools and empty classrooms.

SD 20 is continuing to bring new concepts to empty school spaces. Some of these early childhood programs are made possible by the LINK Funding program which is distributed by the director of student support services. Th e district works with partnerships such as Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy and FAIR Society in the delivery of these programs.

What we need are more dollars to implement the many suggested pro-grams in the Rossland Neighbourhood of Learning committee’s proposal. Is the City of Rossland prepared to spend money on the committee’s proposals and, if so, how much and when?

Th e Boundary school district has schools in Beaverdell, Rock Creek, Big White, Midway, Greenwood and Grand Forks. It has two senior schools, Mid-way and Grand Forks. Beaverdell, Big White, Greenwood and Rock Creek bus their senior students to Grand Forks, Midway, and Kelowna.

Many students are on the bus for 80 minutes daily, provided road conditions are good. Th e Beaverdell School has fi ve students presently in the primary level. Th e board has told the community that when enrolment is fi ve or less, clo-sure would be considered again. Also, Boundary is on a four-day week. Th is has caused its own challenges as some parents will testify. Boundary district also receives additional rural funding.

Th e ministry informed all the school districts of its new mandate of the 21st century learning. Kootenay Columbia board of education chair Gordon Smith commented on this learning concept in the Trail Times’ Community Comment column last fall.

All district staff , principals and vice principals have been working on edu-cational plans for all schools. Last year, the district budgeted several thousand dollars to make our schools wireless and to implement document cameras in all classrooms as part of the technol-ogy plan. Th is new direction has created student engagement in their learning. Th e district continues to maintain and update our educational plan to keep up with global learning.

Do we need to create a new Planning for the Future document to incorpo-rate new directions in education? If the district wasn’t looking aft er educational plans and introducing new directions in education, then would a superintendent

of schools, an assistant superintendent of schools, director of instruction, director of student support services, secretary-treasurer and director of op-erations (all earning $100,000 plus per year) be needed?

For the year 2010-2011, our district received a facilities grant from the min-istry in the amount of $447,575.

Over the next fi ve years, the district will have to come up with $14 million torepair and bring up to code all schools and maintenance facilities. In 2011, almost $3 million will be required for these repairs.

For instance, Rossland Second-ary needs asbestos removal and has substantial water problems. Th e costs for replacement of pipes and asbestos removal in that building are consider-able. RSS also requires $3 million in repairs within the next fi ve years and is presently operating at a loss of $700,000 annually.

Many schools require repair and maintenance. For example, Stanley Humphries High School in Castlegar requires almost $1 million in repairs this year with a total of $4 million worthof repairs required within the next fi ve years. Should the board continue to de-lay and neglect repairs to all our schools over the wish list of the Rossland Neigh-bourhood of Learning committee?

Th e ministry requires school districts to submit an assessment on the con-dition of each facility and a fi ve-year plan. Th is is part of the Planning for the Future 2 document. One of the main goals of the facilities review is to ensure schools are appropriately and cost-eff ectively maintained. Government and the school board share accountability to allocate resources in a cost-eff ective manner.

Our operational funding is still based on enrolment plus supplements for items like special education and to make up salary diff erences. While small amounts of money, as suggested by the Rossland Neighbourhood of Learning committee can help the process, it can-not replace the major funding source. In a region such as ours, enrolment has declined considerably over the years. Th e Planning for the Future 2 docu-ment gives a clear and unbiased picture of what is to come and how we can best prepare all our students and facilities for the future.

Toni Driutti,Lorraine Manning,

Mark Wilson School District 20 trustees

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Cross-country skiers from Rossland’s Black Jack ski club, including olym-pian George Grey, skied to a number of top-10 fi n-ishes last week at the World Championship Trials in Th under Bay, Ont.

Over 200 competitors converged on the Lappe Nordic Ski Centre over four days for the Haywood NorAm “everything tri-als” that serve as selection events for the World Cham-pionships in Oslo, Norway, and the World Junior and U23 World Championships in Otepaa, Estonia.

George Grey beat out Graham Nishikawa by four-tenths of a second in an all-

out sprint to the fi nish line aft er one hour, 18 minutes, and 41 seconds of skiing in the senior male 30-kilome-tre classic free mass start race on Jan. 6.

Grey and Nishikawa bat-tled it out again on Jan. 9 for the top spot in the 15-kilo-metre skate-skiing event, with Grey taking fi rst by 5.4 seconds.

Rossland’s Geoff rey Rich-ards took seventh place in a fi eld of 65 skiers in the 20-kilometre junior male event, ending just one min-ute 32 seconds behind fi rst place fi nisher Andy Shields of Waterloo ski club. Fellow Black Jack skiers Peter and Julien Locke took 26th and 35th.

Black Jack’s Rebecca Reid took sixth place of 58 skiers

in the junior female 10-ki-lometre classic free mass start the same day, skiing in a chilly -18 C to a time just one minute behind fi rst place fi nisher Heidi Widmer of the Foothills club. Su-

sanne Fraser, also of Black Jack, took 34th.

Reid took ninth place on Jan. 8 in the junior female 1.2-kilometre classic (Fraser took 35th) and Julien Locke earned a 10th place fi nish in the 1.6kilometre junior male classic on Jan. 8, just 7.55 seconds behind the fi rst place time of 3:51.77. His brother, Peter Locke, took 31st place, beating Richards by a hair.

In the 15-kilometre skate-skiing event on Jan. 9, Richards took seventh place among the junior males with a time just three min-utes and 45 seconds behind Grey’s fi rst place time, and ahead of the two Lockes: Peter fi nished 19th and Ju-lien was in 25th among the junior males.

Geoffrey Richards

ANDREW BENNETT


Many top-10 for fi nishes Black Jack skiers

Th e Black Jack Biathlon Club will teach anybody and everybody, wheth-er a rank beginner or merely interest-ed, how to play their game this Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at the Hannah Creek Bi-athlon Range.

“Anyone nine years of age and older interested in trying out the sport is invited to attend,” said Gord Gibson, who has been the local coach for some three decades, the biathlon sport co-ordinator for the B.C. Winter Games

for the last four years, and will be again in Vernon in 2012.

“Aft er learning about fi rearm safety, the skiers will be able to experience the sport by shooting at targets aft er skiing some short distances,” he said.

“Th is is a non-competitive, fun-fi lled event.”

Th e cost is only $10, but the small price includes ammunition, insurance, the use of a rifl e, and the use of the club’s trails and ranges, said volunteer co-ordinator Mike Heximer, who was very clear that “no experience is neces-sary.”

It’s “free technique” cross-country skiing, so “people can come out on whatever skis they want,” Heximer said, classic or skate.

“Gord’ll bring out a variety of rifl es,” he continued, “all target .22s.”

Th e club will separate skiers into two sections. Aft er some practice with the rifl es, kids nine to 14 years old will ski a fun competition on a short course of three laps of 500 metres. Everyone 14 years and older will race 1,000 metres three times.

ANDREW BENNETT


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• ALZHEIMER’S AWARENESS MONTH• FREESKI CHAMPIONSHIPS• WEEDLESS WEDNESDAY & NON-SMOKING WEEK, JAN 16-22• NATIONAL FAMILY LITERACY DAY, JAN 27• WINTER CARNIVAL, JAN 28-30

Coming EventsFREESKI CHAMPIONSHIPS Jan 12-15 (Senior), Jan 20-22 (Junior), at Red Mtn Resort.SARAH CALVERT AT THE ALPINE GRIND Jan 13, 7:30pm. Jazzy blues to earthy folk. Admis-sion by donation ($5-$10 suggested). Visit www.quesarah.ca for a preview.FOLK DANCING - ENGLISH & CONTRA Next: Friday, Jan 14, 7-9:30pm, Miners’ Hall, New-comers welcome! $5 drop-in. Contact Dave Cornelius, 362-3319.AVALANCHE AWARENESS DAY Jan 15, 9am onward at Red Mountain Resort. RAINBOW UTOPIA Jan 16, 1pm, Free documentary showing at Rush Lounge (Prestige) on a world peace gathering in Wyoming in 2008. Contact Don, 231-4793.CROOKED BROTHERS AT RAFTERS Jan 16, 3pm on. Winnipeg roots band playing crooked country, backporch blues, and scrapyard funk.JOE HILL COFFEEHOUSE Next: Jan 16, 7-9:30pm, $3 for adults, free for students. To volun-teer or perform, contact Michael Giff ord at 362-7170 or giff [email protected] TO SKATE with the Rossland Figure Skating Club. Register until Jan. 19 with Teri at 362-7340 or email [email protected] AGES CONCERT Jan 21, 7:30pm, KP Hall, 942 Eldorado St., Trail. Bands: Roy Has Fire, Time Spiners, Speak of the Unknown. $5 at door. Contact Erica Scott: 365-6424.SUPER DEMO DAYS AT RED Jan 22 and 23, Rossignol, Armada, Elan, Blizzard.BLIZZARD FEST Jan 22-29. Jan 22 at Raft ers: Honey I’m Home with Jane & Mark; Flowmo-tion (Seattle) at 8pm. Jan 29 at Raft ers: Cam Labelle (Fernie). Events also at Drift .SKATE SKIING Intermediate/Advanced with Andy Morel. Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 8, 6:30-8:30pm, $90 +HST. Contact Black Jack Cross Country Kiosk.WINTER CARNIVAL Jan 28-30, 114th Winter Carnival. Includes the Bobsled Race, Kids Carnival, Blizzard Music Festival, Food Fair. Contact [email protected]. Volunteers contact [email protected] POND HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS Jan 28-30, with Winter Carnival. Several divisions. Jan 15 registration deadline. Visit www.bcpondhockey.com for info.NIGHT SKIING AT RED Next: Jan 28, 5:30pm to 9pm.JOHN HEINTZ RACE Jan 29, 11am to 3pm. Top of Red to downtown. Five person teams: downhill ski/snowboard, bike, xc ski, snowshoe, and run. $40/team. Registration at 9:30am at Guest Services, Red Mtn Resort.OLAUS OPEN BC CUP LUGE RACE Jan 30, 8:30am at Red Mtn Resort. $25. Participants must qualify in “Learn to Luge” on Red Mtn on Jan 28 or 29. LADIES SNOWSHOE & CHOCOLATE SERIES Wednesdays, 6-8pm, until Feb. 2. New trails, new people, and fun! Sign up at bettygohard.com or call 231-4305.LA CAFAMORE STRING QUARTET OF THE WEST KOOTENAYS Feb. 14, w/ Nicola Everton on clarinet, 7:30pm, Rouge Gallery. Tickets $12 ahead or $15 at the door. 362-9609.INDOOR GARDENING TOURS Next: Feb 17, 6:30-8pm, with Sarah Flood. Seed catalogues and selection, seed starting, garden planning. $5. Contact Hanne Smith: 362-7767.

FIS SKI RACES Feb 24 to 27. International Ski Federation ski races at Red Mtn Resort, hosted by Red Mtn Racers: [email protected] JACK LOPPET 27th annual. Feb 27.BACKCOUNTRY FILM FEST Feb 27, 7pm, Miners’ Hall. $5, under-12 free. FLOW YOGA All about Hatha with Norma Mahri every Mon/Wed, 5:30-7pm, École des Septs Sommets (1st Ave. & Monte Cristo.) Call 362-2327. Ask about our yoga special!YOGA WITH KERRY Après-ski Yoga (fl ow): Tues/Th urs. 6:30-8pm. Yoga for Peace (re-storative): Sun. 10-11:30am. At Better Life Fitness. Visit www.kerryyoga.com.INTRO TO YOGA Mon. 5:30-7pm at Better Life Fitness. Contact Lydia: 362-2348.HOOLA-HOOPING CLASSES Tues., Miner’s Hall, with Shauna: [email protected]! Mon/Wed 9:30-10:30am. Tues. 6-7pm, Miner’s Hall, dance with Amber: [email protected], 362-7447, www.zumbakootenay.com. $55 for 10, fi rst time free.INTERMEDIATE PILATES WITH JACKIE Mon 7:30-8:30pm, Fri 6:30-7:30am, at Better Life Fitness. www.betterlifefi tness.net. Drop-in $12 or 10 for $95.OUT OF BOUNDS FITNESS Indoor cycling, Drill Fit, Pilates, strength training, cardio, core, and more. 1995 Columbia, above the Subway. For more information, visit www.outofb oundsfi tness.com.SATURDAY MORNING GROUP TRAIL RUNS Meet 8am at Mountain Life (BMO building)and carpool to adventure. Free drop-in, all levels, year-round.BLACK JACK XC SKI PROGRAMS Jackrabbits (age 4-11) Sun. 1-2:30pm (Bunnies) Tue. 5-6pm (Jackrabbits). Call Tracy Lancup, 362-2247. Junior Racers, call Dave Wood, 521-0223. In-terested in coaching? Call Nellie Fisher 362-5807. Visit www.skiblackjack.ca.SUNDAY GROUP XC SKI Sundays 9am, meet at Kootenay Nordic Sports. Free.WEDNESDAY GROUP SKATE SKI 6:30pm, with Gerald, meet at Black Jack trailhead. Free.MOM, DAD, & ME At St. Andrew’s United Church, Sept 18 to Dec 15. Ages 0 to 5 years,$3, Tue. morning, 9:30-11:30. Ages 0 to 18 months, $2, Wed. morning 10-11:30.MOTHER GOOSE Rhymes, songs, fi nger plays and stories, 10:30-11:30am, Th ursdays atMacLean StrongStart Center. Free, drop-in, for caregivers and young children.HARMONY CHOIR All levels, new members welcome! Sept. 8 to April, Wed. at 7:30pm, J.L. Crowe Music Room, Trail. Contact Tammy, 368-8399.KOOTENAY DANCE WORKS Ages 3 to adult. Ballet, African, modern and more. Contact Renée Salsiccioli at 368-8601 or [email protected] AT THE LIBRARY Fridays at the Rossland Library: Tots (ages 3-5) 10:15-10:45 am and Books for Babies (under 3) 11:00-11:30 am. Drop-in. A parent orguardian must remain in the program room for the duration.PUNK ROCK BINGO 9pm to last call, every Wednesday. Join Rosie and Katie at the Fly-ing Steamshovel. $3/one card, $5/three cards. Proceeds to local families in need. ROSSLAND RADIO CO-OP Join, volunteer, host a show. Meet the 2nd Wed each month,7pm at the radio headquarters, Rotary Health Building, 1807 Columbia Ave.ROSSLAND SKATEPARK COMMITTEE 6-8 pm, fi rst Tuesday each month at the RosslandLibrary. Come be part of the process. COLUMBIA DISTRICT GIRL GUIDES Columbia District Girl Guides has units from Ross-land to Salmo for girls aged 5 to 17. Call 250-367-7115. Leaders also wanted.SCOUTING For boys and girls, now at the Rossland Scout Hall. Beavers (ages 5,6,7) Wed. 6-7pm. Cubs (ages 8,9,10) Th u. 4-5:30pm. Contact Shanna Tanabe: 362-0063.YCDC YOUTH NIGHTS Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or contact [email protected]. Art Night: Tue. 7pm; Movie Night: Wed. 6-8pm.CURLING AT THE ARENA Rossland Retirees Mixed, Mon./Th u., 9:30am. Beginners wel-come. Call Bill, 362-9462, or Jim, 364-1051. Also Ladies Curling, Mon., 7pm.

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Jill Amantea and Sally Turn-bull of Kootenay DanceWorks will perform at Sunday’s Joe Hill Coff eehouse, which runs from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Min-ers’ Hall.

Renee Salsiccioli will not perform; she is the director of Kootenay DanceWorks.

CorrectionColumbia Power is a supporter of the 2011 Rossland Winter Carnival, taking place January 28th through the 30th. Here, Audrey Repin, Stakeholder Relations Director for Columbia Power, meets up with Rossland Winter Carnival Committee Presi-dent, Kelly Acheson, to present Columbia Power’s sponsorship of $1200.

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Canada

only ex

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valid fr

om Jan

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ost new

2010 or

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aptor),

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n “Eligib

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fi nance

throug

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ill recei

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vehicle

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particip

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the Off

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maxim

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Women's Progressive

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I love hanging with the girls. Before sitting down to write this week’s column I got out on the hill with a friend. Th ere is something diff erent about riding with other females. Th e energy is diff erent and so inspiring.

Back in 1998 when I spent a season at Lake Louise, I found a posse of girls that loved to ride and no matter what the conditions the days we went out together were always my favorite. Th at was where it all started.

Returning to Canada many years later and rid-ing at Red I was surrounded by boys. Lacking my girls I went looking for inspiration in other places; magazines, movies, anything I could think of — and it was sadly lacking.

Th e girls that were in the magazines were stand-ing with their gear looking

pretty. Th at was not what I was looking for; I wanted to see them in action!

By the time we returned home I had come up with a plan to help others like me, girls looking for inspiration. We came up with the name Bettygohard and I set out to create a place where females could be inspired and inspire others.

I fi gured out how to build websites and with a snow-board bum’s budget created the Bettygohard community. It was a great start but a long way from where I wanted to go.

Th e website has evolved over the years as I searched for a way to create the interactive community I had imagined. At this time Facebook and other social networks started appearing and I had a goal: to build a social network for females of

all ages that are into action sports.

Th is Christmas Betty-gohard launched the Bet-tygohard Social Network at www.bettygohard.ca. Now it is time to get out and get you girls/ladies/women and even the guys involved in the dream of inspiring others to get out and go hard.

No boundaries, No expec-tations, just getting out and having fun, however you like to do it!

Please take a moment to log on and sign up. It’s free and easy to do. Become part of the Betty movement today and be part of the action.

Natasha Lockey runs Bet-tygohard Women’s Action

Sports Community.Originally from New Zea-

land she has been living andplaying in the Kootenays for the past seven years.

A bit about Betty and meBeing Betty - Natasha Lockey

With two recent skier triggered ava-lanches in the Rossland Range it’s easy to get caught up in the details about what is going on in the snowpack. Th e important thing to know is that there are crust layers from 50 to over 100 centimetres deep in the snowpack and their bonding strengths are failing with the added weight of one person on the slope.

Using the compression test as an example, let’s test the bonding strength of layers in the snowpack and put some numerical data to them. Th is will help to follow suspect layers and see if they are weakening or becoming stronger over time it also helps in relating data to other backcountry users.

An isolated column of snowpack 30 by 30 centimetres on the sides and no deeper than 120 centimetres is our sample for testing. Bonding strength is measured in three gradients, easy, moderate and hard; each of these three categories is further divided by 10 graduations.

To start testing, a shovel blade is placed on top of the column and gently compressed until force from your fi ngers can be transferred eff ectively to the column. Th e easy graduation is acquired by tapping the settled shovel blade with the fi nger tips using energy only from the wrist, with ten equal taps.

Moderate fi ndings are from the 11th

to 20th hit and are done with an open palm, as in a slap, using the force gener-ated from the elbow joint to the hand.

Th e strong range uses a closed fi st and the energy is generated from the shoulder to fi st for 10 more hits for a total of 30 or a “no result” rating.

Individuals will all have diff erences in forces but, as long as consistency is maintained then a practical work-able test of strengths can be made for oneself.

Suspect layers are tested and its strength can be found, such as 15 hits which put its failure point in the moder-ate range or 22 hits to put it in the hard range. Th is rating can then be used to compare tests made in another area with the same layer and a picture starts to develop pertaining to the strength of a layer from area to area, aspect to aspect and elevation to elevation.

With the skier-triggered avalanches in the Rossland Range, snowpack data on the strength of the failure layer could have been used as a valuable lesson. Firstly the skiers or boarders may have decided not to ride that slope depend-ing on the results. Secondly, there would have been data to correlate to the event on the slope and this would help when faced with similar results from tests on diff erent slopes.

Now a skill set could be developed to make educated decisions on where to

use or not use that slope. For some hands-on experience,

Rossland search and rescue will have an assortment of demonstrations at the base of Red Resort on Jan. 15 as part of Avalanche Awareness Days.

• • •With the avalanche on Moun Plew-

man’s south face, I erroneously reported a few details and would like to correct them and apologize for some inaccurate details.

Th e failure layer was either tempera-ture or sun crust or a combination of both, that formed early in December when an inversion was present and temperatures were over 0 C.

Th e crown or top fracture of the slide was measured at 60 centimetres and approximately 75 metres in length. Th e debris at the bottom of the slide was averaging about two metres and would have most defi nitely buried somebody as well as getting raked through the small trees and shrubbery.

On Jan. 6 a ski party was on the Plewman south face “having a look” at the original avalanche when a second party on the ridge above remotely trig-gered another avalanche, this on the skiers’ right fl ank of the original slide. For those who remember the picture in the Rossland News, this slide was on the right fl ank and took out the ski tracks visible in the picture.

In this circumstance when the slope has avalanched from under you, skiing out of trouble by staying on the bed sur-face or where the avalanche has already run is the safest plan and just get out of the way of any other snow that is hang-ing above you.

Th e riders that triggered the original avalanche got lucky twice.

In the beginning of December there were several weather events that have left crusts in some locations and not in others and the bonding strengths on these crust are all over the board from “easy” to ”no results” and are diffi cult to pin down.

As with Plewman’s south face we know some clues to look for, such as, steep south aspects with unsupported features such as convex or concave rolls and shallow snowpack areas, so keep your eyes open and treat these areas cautiously or avoid them completely.

I would like to thanks my colleagues, professional forecasters Sparky Steves and Keith Robine for their help and expertise in correcting my errors and providing a more accurate description of this slide.

Jim Markin is an avalanche forecaster

certifi ed with the Canadian Avalanche Association. He is also certifi ed as an

assistant ski guide with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides.

Avalanches off er learning opportunitiesAvalanche Awareness - Jim Markin

Th e Western Regional Pond Hockey Championships, to be held on Jan. 28 to 30, has recently announced that the registration deadline has been pushed back to midnight on Jan. 24.

Furthermore, the schedule of games has been changed for Jan. 29 “to accomo-date teams that may be in the bobsled competi-tion,” said pond hockey organizer, John Reed.

Th is year, teams may register in four men’s divisions (competitive

and recreation, both 19+, master’s for 35+, and senior masters for 50+) two women’s divisions (com-petitive and recreation, both 19+) or one 19+ mixed open division.

Th e puck is about to drop for the fi rst annual Northern Regional Pond Hockey Champi-onships in Prince George from Jan. 14 to 16.

Follow the action, learn more about BC Pond Hockey, and reg-ister your team at www.bcpond-hockey.com.

/Rossland News

Registration deadline for pond hockey extended


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For those already familiar with the club, there was quite a bit of trail and range im-provement last year.

“We got a grant from the RDKB for forest renewal, to work on the trails,” Hexim-er explained. “We also got a Columbia Basin Trust grant for equip-ment — we got some

grooming equipment, targets, and mats.”

Th e Biathlon Club has hosted these “fun days” for three sea-sons. “We’re hoping to do at least two more of these fun days this year, one in February and one aft er spring break,” Heximer said.

“We’ve had a lot of adult interest and we’d like to have some adult members,” he continued, giving the

example of numerous clubs in the United States that are “social and fun.”

“Biathlon B.C. added a recreational category last year in the races. Th at way you’re not competing against the serious 21 year olds, which can be intimidating,” he laughed.

Th e recreational category uses shorter distances than com-

petitive events.It’s also all about

the kids, and the club is currently com-posed of seven active athletes in the juniors, ages 10 to 16, includ-ing Heximer’s daugh-ter who’s been doing it for a few years.

For the fun day, “we’ve also got some kids coming over from Nelson and Castlegar,” Heximer said, point-ing out that this was a

great chance for these cross-country racers to get some experi-ence with biathlon.

Th e Hannah Creek Biathlon Club is part of the Black Jack Cross Country Ski Club and the range was constructed in 2006 when our region hosted the B.C. Win-ter Games.

It is accessed from the highway just north of Black Jack and used

to be marked by the large silhouette of a biathlete, but this has been removed due to vandalism.

“We’ll have signs up” on Highway 3B, Heximer said.

For more informa-tion please call Rich-ard Marchand at 352-2727 or [email protected], Gord Gibson at 365-5381, or Mike Heximer at 362-9586.

Continued from P. 9

Skiing and shooting a ‘social and fun’ activity“Biathlon B.C. add-

ed a recreational category last year in the races. That way you’re not

competing against the serious 21 year olds, which can be

intimidating,”

Mike Heximer

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Red Mountain was packed with young slalom skiers last weekend for the season’s fi rst Teck K1/K2 races in the Kootenay zone, with superb performances by the Red Mountain Rac-ers (RMR) on their home slope, particularly the four golds and one silver earned by K1 skier Soleil Patter-son, and the clean-sweep of gold by Fernie’s K2 skier Stephanie Gartner.

“Th ings ran well, though it was a little cool for the volunteers! “ said RMR president Don Stevens. “Th anks to all the volun-teers who came out and the hill for doing a great job grooming.”

Th e K1 age group (ages 11 and 12) skied two races on Saturday and three on Sunday, all of which were “one-run,” meaning that standings were based on a single run of the course.

Stephanie Gartner, daughter of gold-medal-ist olympian and former RMR skier Kerrin Lee-Gartner, took gold for the Fernie ski team in all three K2 women’s races: both the two-run race and one-run races on Saturday, and the two-run race on Sunday.

Gartner’s blazing per-formance was unmatched, with the main competition coming from other Fernie skiers. Th e best K2 wom-en Red Mountain Racers (RMR) performance was Ella Meyer’s top-10 fi nish in Sunday’s event.

Soleil Patterson stole

the home-town show with blistering runs in all fi ve events, the only K1 skier of either gender to reach the podium in all fi ve races. In the same group, RMR Jane Andison stood out for her fi ve top-10 fi nishes, and RMR Allie Seville made the top 10 in one race.

Patterson’s clean sweep of gold medals was only stopped by Fernie’s Britta Carry who went home with gold for that race in addition to two silvers and a bronze. Kimberley’s Zoe Chore was the other major competitor, taking home two silvers and two bronzes.

Among the K1 men, RMR Rowen Stevens dis-tinguished himself with two silvers, a bronze, and a fourth place fi nish. RMR Isaac Lunn took fi ft h place in one of Saturday’s races.

RMR K2 skier Ian Fry earned a silver and a fourth place fi nish in both two-run events. In the Sunday event, RMR Jacob Lunn earned bronze with a combined time that was less than a second behind his teammate Fry.

RMR K2 skiers Arlo Stevens and Jesse Galay also put in an excellent ef-forts. Stevens skied to top-10 fi nishes in the two-run events and a fi ft h place fi nish in the one-run, followed closely by Galay in sixth place and RMR Tiivo Ruuto-pold in eighth. Ga-

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RMR president Don Stevens says Red Moun-tain can chalk up another successful event, noting that the only hiccup came from the recent moves due to the hill’s renovations. “When you move, things

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But it’s one thing to the next for RMR, who are now preparing for their biggest races this season, the GMC slalom and giant slalom for FIS level athletes on Feb. 25 to 28.

Linda Schulze of RMR

calls the GMC “a very big race to pull off , with some 260 racers, plus coaches, offi cials, families, and so on.”

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Red Mountain Racer Ian Fry earned a silver and also a fourth-place fi nish in the K2 category during the slalom races at Red Mountain over the weekend. Steve Hilts photo

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