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October 7 to November 4

LAYERS OF LOVE by the Mt. Revelstoke Quil-

ters at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre. Also

features BC Parks 100 Celebration: Blanket

Creek Provincial Park Environmental Art Pho-

tographic Project. Opens Oct. 7 at 6 p.m.

October 8

AFKO FRENCH ASSOCIATION PLAY & DINNER

Celebrate the West Kootenay Francophone As-

sociation’s 25th Anniversary at this bilingual

evening extravaganze. At the community cen-

tre. Contact Elaine at 250-352-3516 for more

information. www.aftko.ca.

October 14

LAYING THE CHILDREN’S GHOSTS TO REST:

HONOURING CANADA’S CHILD IMMIGRANTS A

presentation by historian and author Art Joyce

about the 100,000 poor children who were

emigrated from Britain to Canada to work

on the farms or as domestic servants. At the

Revelstoke Museum & Archives. 7 p.m.

October 15

LAST FARMERS’ MARKET OF THE SUMMER

Enjoy one last morning of shopping in Griz-

zly Plaza before the farmers’ market moves

indoors for the winter. 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

October 31

FOURTH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACU-

LAR Dance party with costume competition

and more. Hosted by Team Gloria. Proceeds go

to the Canadian Cancer Society. At the com-

munity centre.

November 3

WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET Buy food and

other products at the winter market. At the

community centre. Every second Thursday

from 2-5 p.m.

November 5

ST. PETER’S CHRISTMAS TEA & BAKE SALE At

St. Peters Church.

November 6

REVELSTOKE SKI SWAP Buy and sell used

ski equipment. Hosted by the Revelstoke Ski

Club. At the community centre.

November 12 to December 2

ART IN THE PARK: 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF

GLACIER AND YOHO NATIONAL PARKS at the

Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre. Also features

the Best of Banff Photographic Exhibition.

Open Nov. 12 at 6 p.m.

November 17-19, 24-26

REVELSTOKE THEATRE COMPANY PRODUC-

TION The theatre company will be presenting

two one-act plays. Details TBA. At the United

Church.

November 26-27

HANDMADE PARADE & CRAFT EXTRAVAGANZA

Christmas craft fair hosted by the Revelstoke

Arts Council. At the community centre.

December 3

DOG SLED MAIL RUN A re-enactment of the

historic dog sled mail run through Rogers

Pass.

December 9-18

GIFTS FROM THE GALLERY at the Revelstoke

Visual Arts Centre. Opens Dec. 9 at 6 p.m.

December 17

REVELSTOKE CHRISTMAS FARM & CRAFT

MARKET A great opportunity to get some great

gifts. At the community centre.

This fall in Revelstoke

With the lower mountain re-graded, a tube park created and the third building of Nelsen Lodge almost done, the base area of Revelstoke Mountain Resort will be substantially transformed this ski season. Alex Cooper/Revelstoke Times Review

WHAT’S NEW AT RMR?

Families and new skiers are

the focus at Revelstoke

Mountain Resort this year,

with new developments underway

that will the base area of the moun-

tain substantially transformed

when it opens for its fi fth season of

operations on Dec 3.

The biggest news is the creation

of the Turtle Creek beginner area

and tube park right next to the Rev-

elation Gondola.

Crews have been at work all

summer grading a 177 metre slope

that will feature a new magic car-

pet ride and low angle terrain for

new skiers to learn on right at the

base of the mountain.

The plan, said resort vice-pres-

ident and chief operating offi cer

Rod Kessler, is to create a multi-

level program for new skiers.

The fi rst level will consist of

lessons on the new beginner ter-

rain. The second level will let them

take the gondola to the mid-station

and ski down from there. The third

level will see skiers take the gon-

dola to the top and ski down from

there.

“The progression works a lot

better with this concept and it al-

lows us to broaden the age group

and have a better oversight of

younger skiers,” Kessler said.

During a tour of the new terrain

this summer, Dan Sculnick, the

head of the Revelstoke Outdoor

Centre, said the area is the best

teaching area he has seen in 21

years in the industry.

Another change is that some

of the slopes below the day lodge

are being widened and re-graded

to make them friendlier for begin-

ners.

Also included in the new de-

velopment is a tube park that will

feature three lanes and be lit up at

night for some apres-ski fun.

As well, keeping with the focus

on youth, Kids ROC will open up,

featuring a climbing wall, ball pit

and other activities for children.

The resort will be hosting various

activities like movie nights, tub-

ing and other theme nights at Kids

ROC throughout the ski season.

There will also be child care for

children 18 months to 6.

“It’s going to be a lot of fun

to have a space for young skiers,”

said Kessler.

The beginner area and tube park

will be serviced by snowmaking to

ensure there is ample snow when

temperatures warm up.

On the real estate side, the third

building of Nelsen Lodge is set to

open at the start of the ski season.

The building will feature an out-

door pool, two in-ground hot tubs

and a fi tness facility.

The opening will almost double

the number of beds at the resort’s

base.

Lastly, WINO: The Wine Bar

will be open to provide another

place for apres-ski drinks and din-

ing at the resort.

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Top: Nearing the summit of Mt. McCrae, Halloween 2010.; Middle: Snowmobiling action.; Bottom: On top of Mt. Sale, November 2009.

It’s raining in town, so it’s probably snowing somewhere

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Logging roads just might be the logging industry’s greatest

contribution to society (aside from paper, wood and all that

other practical stuff). Sure, those cut blocks look ugly but

they’re a sure sign that there is a road that will give you easy ac-

cess to stunning alpine areas that would be out of reach to most

people. And in fall, it means you can experience the joy of winter

when it’s still dreary and rainy in town.

The most popular spot for fall skiing is Mt. McCrae. When

conditions are good and word starts to spread, dozens of people

fl ock here every day to get some turns in on the small glacier by

the summit and the meadows below. Located south of Revelstoke,

McCrae is accessed by driving down Airport Way and then fol-

lowing the Alkokolex and McCrae Forest Service Roads for 35

kilometres until you reach the McCrae trailhead.

The window for getting up on McCrae is pretty narrow unless

you have a snowmobile. The snow level has to be high enough to

get up the road but low enough that you don’t have to walk. If you

catch it right or have a really good car, you can ski right down to

the parking lot. Though I must say on Halloween last year the ski

out along the summer trail was the scariest experience I have ever

had on two planks.

The Malakwa Gorge is another good spot to get to. Located

down the Gorge Forest Service Road near Malakwa, there’s great

skiing right out of the car. Like McCrae, you have to time it right

or hope the road is being plowed by a benevolent logging com-

pany. Closer to town, Sale Mountain and Laforme Forest Service

Roads can also take you a long way up until you hit the snowline.

From there, it’s a matter of busting out your toys of choice and

getting a move on.

Rogers Pass usually gets good at some point in November.

It’s skiable before that (you could probably ski it today if you’re

willling to put in the effort, don’t mind suffering and don’t care

too much about your skis) but conditions are

Of course, conditions are highly variable in the fall. Snow

cover is thin, meaning there are lots of sharks and routes lurking

underneath. Sometimes, like in 2009, it starts snowing early and

there’s ample powder in October. Last fall was the opposite, with

hardly any snow falling until December and early season travel

hazardous at best.

The other thing to consider is avalanche hazard. Once the snow

fl ies, avalanches can slide. While the fi rst snowfall might not be

so bad, the layers build up quickly.

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New day spa Wildfl ower Wellness Owner Marissa Moore at her Grizzly Plaza spa. Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Times Review

The bright, clean, open space inside newly-

opened day spa Wildfl ower Wellness hides

attention to detail in its simplicity and a distinctly

Revelstoke design aesthetic.

Although Ikea makes serviceable shelving at

prices attractive to new business owners on a budget,

owner Marissa Moore opted to use local contractor

Kyle Buhler Cabinetry to create and install cedar

shelving and other cabinet work in her new spa at 120

Mackenzie Avenue in Grizzly Plaza. The Asian-in-

fl uenced showpiece display cabinet in the lobby was

created on spec by Jordan Eadie of Revelstoke-based

furniture-maker Alpine Rustics. Moore explains

the bamboo fl ooring comes from from sustainable

private lands. The design work was done by Revel-

stoke-based designer Jonathon Vinet of JDesign Stu-

dio (www.jdesignstudio.ca) and the main contractor

was Straight Up Construction. The overall package

is completed with other eco-conscious details, like

low-energy LED lighting and low-VOC paints.

This emphasis on local businesses helping local

businesses achieve world-class results is the hallmark

of an increasingly entrenched new philosophy ex-

pressed most prominently in Revelstoke’s new retail

wave.

Moore previously operated her studio in the old

Taproot Yoga studio, and has been establishing her

new location since that business closed.

Behind the lobby, a candle-lit main treatment stu-

dio leads to the back bathroom that includes a full

shower, enabling full-body treatments that require a

rinse.

Wildfl ower Wellness’ tagline is ‘Rev-

elstoke’s other natural beauty.’ Moore ex-

plains the old saying that beauty is more

than skin deep is true. She combines a va-

riety of treatments to fi nd the right mix for

her clients, offering services such as body-

work, facials, wraps, exfoliation, refl exolo-

gy, beauty therapy, massage, waxing, jade-

stone massage, hand and foot care, scrubs,

remineralizations and more.

When I met with Moore in her studio,

she was heading off to Vancouver for a

training conference with Canadian skin

care company ‘beauty through balance’,

the product line that anchors her studio.

The company brings indigenous ingredi-

ents from around the world to create “sci-

entifi cally balanced home care products

and therapeutic spa treatments.” From our

region, Canadian Glacial Clay is a key in-

gredient, as is West Coast kelp.

Moore shows me a list of ‘off the moun-

tain revival’ packages, designed to get ach-

ing muscles and wind-burned faces healed

before another day on the slopes. She’s

been low-key since opening a couple of

weeks ago and is still completing a few de-

tails inside her studio, but things have been

going great, she says. Word of mouth has

been her biggest asset so far and she hopes

her prominent storefront location will also

help.

Wildfl ower Wellness is located right

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for romantic gift ideas.

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Backyard chickens are more than just egg-layers. They are also viewed as pets by some.Alex Cooper/Revelstoke Times Review

BACKYARD CHICKENSRaising chickens is becoming more common in Revelstoke – even though it’s not exactly legal

By Alex Cooper

Local food. Food security. The 100 mile diet. How-

ever you call it, it is one of the biggest trends in

food culture right now and now people are moving

beyond gardens and raising chickens in their backyard.

I know several people who raise chickens in their back-

yards and from what I could gather, there’s several dozen

people in town who do so. The problem is that it’s not ex-

actly legal, according to city bylaws, so most of the people

I spoke to preferred to remain anonymous.

I went and visited one family at their home in downtown

Revelstoke. Three chickens were clucking around a coop

in the backyard.

“They’re the most effi cient organism I’ve ever seen,”

said the wife. “They eat kitchen waste, they produce pro-

tein and their own waste is amazing for the garden.”

She let the chickens out of the coop to run around in

the backyard. They set about scampering around the yard,

picking away at the grass and other detritus. I couldn’t tell

if there was any discernible pattern to their wanderings.

I’ve heard the expression, ‘Running around like a chicken

with it’s head cut off’ but I don’t think you have to cut off a

chicken’s head to have it run around like crazy.

I asked what they liked about having chickens. “I think

the key is we know where the food is coming from,” said

the husband. “We know the quality of the eggs because we

look after these chickens and I think it’s a good example

for our children but also for people who live in the neigh-

bourhood.”

They got the chickens from a factory farm in Edmon-

ton. They were less than a week old, came immunized and

sexed and cost $1.50 each.

“They’re so beautiful and they’re so cute. We treat them

as pets,” said the wife. “To me they’re just the most effi cient

thing I’ve ever seen. They’re a pet, they take up very little

room, they’re beautiful and they produce not just food, but

protein.”

The one person who could speak on the record was Bob

Melnyk. He’s been raising his chickens on his property in

Southside since the 1970s, when his family farm was still

outside of city limits. When the city expanded in the early-

1980s, his chickens were grandfathered in and permitted.

Melnyk lives on a quiet corner of Southside next to the

Illecillewaet Greenbelt. His family operated a farm on the

land for close to 50 years until it was inundated by BC

Hydro. I met him in front of his house and asked if he could

show me his chicken coop. “Coop?” he replied. “I have a

barn. I don’t mess around.”

Melnyk has a lot to say about chickens, knowledge dis-

cerned from 35 years raising them in his backyard. He’s re-

garded as the chicken guru in Revelstoke. He doesn’t think

much of their intelligence (“They have three brain cells and

function with two,” he quipped.) but is amazed at their ef-

fi ciency and ability to keep his yard clean.

“You will be amazed about how much compostable ma-

terial they will eat,” he said.

Chickens will lay one egg a day but they need about 14

hours of light to do so. In winter it’s suggested you leave a

light in their coop so they get the light they need, otherwise

they won’t lay. Chickens only lay eggs for the fi rst few

years of their life and many people kill them once they stop

producing. Melnyk, however, keeps his around until they

die. “It’s a retirement home for old hens here,” he said.

“They’re groundskeepers. They earn their keep.”

Fortunately for backyard chicken raisers, the City of

Revelstoke is looking at making chickens legal as part of

the upcoming land use bylaw. “It would probably be in sin-

gle-family, urbanized areas so they’re easier to manage,”

said John Guenther, the director of planning.

I learned of one person who got ratted out for their

backyard chickens. She got her chickens from Melnyk

about two years ago. “I think when I was out of town the

yard got a little messy and I imagine the neighbours were

just concerned,” the woman told me. She wasn’t fi ned but

after a few months during which she gave her chickens to

a neighbour, she brought them back and didn’t receive any

more complaints.

Melnyk thinks backyard chickens are not a problem as

long as people are sensible about it.

“Like anything people get involved in, I don’t care

what it is, with a bit of common sense and respect for your

neighbours, most things are not problems.”

As for the bear issue, everyone I spoke to said bears

haven’t been an issue. Melnyk told me he’d had bears come

into his yard but they never went after the chickens. ”I’ve

lost more chickens to damn dogs and I’ve never lost a bird

to a bear, ever.”

I asked Melnyk what advice he had for prospective

chicken farmers. He said people just need to realize it’s

small daily commitment and chickens need a little care ev-

ery day.

While I was visiting the family downtown, one of the

neighbours dropped by. She was asked what she thought

about chickens as neighbours.

“I like them way better than cats or dogs as neighbours,”

she said. “You get to look after them and get eggs when

people go away.”

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HOT SPRINGS

ROAD TRIPDown Highway 23 south, across the ferry lies a collection of natural and developed hot springs. I took a drive to check them out.

By Alex Cooper

It’s a beautiful late-September afternoon. Whisps

of clouds fl oat across the clear blue sky as I gaze

in awe at the surrounding Columbia Mountains.

The ferry chugs along slowly and a crisp breeze

hums across Upper Arrow Lake.

I’m on my way to check out the hot springs

along the stretch of Highway 23 South on the other

side of the Galena Bay-Shelter Bay ferry. I’ve been

in Revelstoke for two years and I haven’t ventured

beyond Halcyon. I’m alone on the trip, armed with

my Backcountry Road mapbook and vague de-

scriptions of the hot springs that I plucked from the

Internet.

My fi rst stop is St. Leon’s hot springs. To get

there you drive south down Highway 23 past the

Halfway River. The turn off for the St. Leon Forest

Service Road is a few kilometres later, just after the

end of a long passing lane. I’m fi rst off the ferry and

I zip quickly down the highway and right past the

turn off. I turn around at a rest stop a few kilometres

down the highway and a few minutes later I’m jos-

tling down a bumpy forest road, looking for a sign

–any sign – of a trail.

Well, I don’t see a trail but the series of fi re pits

alongside the road sure gives things away. I get out

and make my way down the steep slope, not on a

trail but pretty sure that somewhere below I’ll fi nd

the hot springs. St. Leon’s hot springs have a long

history. At the turn of the 20th century there was a

hotel nearby and the springs were visited by people

from all over the Kootenays. The hotel stayed open

until the 1950s when the SS Minto was taken out of

service and reaching the site became too diffi cult.

Today the springs are located 3.5 kilometres

down a forestry road, on private land, and main-

tained by volunteers. Like all wilderness spots, it’s

imperative to leave them in better shape than you

found them in. In my case, that meant carrying

around a few water bottles.

Walking down the hillside, I spot the springs

from above, the blue tarp of a make-shift shelter

visible from up high. St. Leon’s hot springs consists

of three pools. The largest one is made of concrete

and water is piped in through a long tube from the

springs source just above. The water is nice and

warm but not overly hot – almost bath like. With no

one else around, the only sound is the creek running

down the hillside and the occasional bird chirping.

My next stop is Halfway hot springs. The turn off

is a few kilometres north of St. Leon’s off Hwy. 23,

but the drive down the forestry road is three times

as long (10.5 kilometres to be exact, according to

the directions I have). The road to the hot springs

is bumpy and full of pot holes but not too much

trouble for my low-clearance minivan. There’s a car

parked at the top of the path down to the springs. If

you have good clearance you can drive down even

farther but I’m not taking any chances.

The directions I have to the hot springs are pretty

vague. I walk down the road a bit until I spot some

camp sites. After a bit of circling I spot a trail that

leads to a lower camp site. A bit more wandering

and I see another trail heading to the banks of the

Halfway River. When I get there, I spot a few small

pools separated from the river by rocks and sand. It

looks much smaller and not nearly as developed as

what I’d imagined but the pool is warm and invit-

ing. I sit down in it, with the sun shining down the

river, slowly dipping behind the trees.

The water was cooler than St. Leon’s – still

warm but not exactly hot. As I found out later, I

was at the wrong spot. A few hundred metres far-

ther along the road and I would have arrived at the

bigger, hotter springs, where people have created

several box pools and created an elaborate hose

system to manage the water temperature. Still, with

the sun setting and a water fall roaring, I was still in

a pretty amazing place.

Eventually I pried myself out of the water. I still

had Halcyon to hit up and I wanted to get there

for sunset. I jolted and caromed back Highway 23

South, where I turned north. Nine kilometres later I

came to the turn off for Halcyon Hot Springs.

Halcyon is the grand dame of hot springs in the

area. The resort is perched just above the Upper Ar-

row Lake and has been around in various incarna-

tions since 1894. The resort was a party place full

of drinking, dancing and gambling until it came un-

der new ownership in 1924 and turned into a health

spa.

Unlike St. Leon’s and Halway, Halcyon is a full

on resort. There are four pools available – one nor-

mal swimming pool, one hot water pool, one warm

water pool and, fi nally, a cold dip pool. There’s a

day spa and cottages and campsites available, and

the high-end Kingfi sher Restaurant.

I didn’t go swimming at Halcyon on this trip. I’d

been there twice before so this was simply a photo

stop. I stepped out onto the deck above the pool.

The sun had already descended below the Mo-

nashee Mountains but the sky was still glowing and

people were relaxing in the pools below. I set off

to catch the 7:30 p.m. ferry for the dark ride back

to Shelter Bay and onwards to Revelstoke feeling

relaxed.

Above: The author relaxes at St. Leon’s hot springs.; Middle: Halfway hot springs.; Bottom: Halcyon Hot Springs, just after sunset.

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HARD TO PIGEON HOLEArtsArtsCanvases and soundscapes, videos and booklets; the whole family packed into a trailer for a cross-Canada art journey. Artist Bruce Thomas is all in and all out.

I tried and I failed.

What the heck is new Revel-stoke-based artist Bruce Thomas? It’s kinda hard to put into words, despite this writer being one class short of a minor in art history.

A multi-media explosion? A passionate guy who does a mil-lion things all at once? An artist infused with energy?

Thomas has been in town for a year or so after uprooting his fam-ily from Ontario for a cross-Can-ada multimedia exploration called the Canadian Pulse Project. It ex-plores the personalities and land-scapes that defi ne this country. He did the multimedia series while living in a small trailer he hauled behind his car.

Eventually, he landed in Rev-elstoke and fell in love.

His children romp around the backyard as we talk on his back deck in the Big Eddy for over an hour. ‘How am I going to summa-rize this?’ I keep thinking of his dialogue, which is interspersed with expressions of excitement imparted by his natural surround-ings.

He brings big-city art market savoir-faire to the game. His latest project, Pulse Project 2011:NXT Passage Out, features 16 large-scale works he interprets as “Mtn. Aura’s” featuring a three-part audio soundscape narrative to ac-company the works. He’s got a show lined up in Los Angeles for the works in late 2011. A Canadian and European tour is planned for 2012. The works feature scenery from the Revelstoke area. “Over the past year, I travelled to various mountain locations by foot, bike and ski and have employed vari-

ous artistic medias to capture the essence or “Aura” of these ancient sentinels that stand as monuments to the earths movements over time,” he writes. “In this series I choose to focus on my own per-sonal interpretations as opposed to the many I examined in the last Canadian Pulse Project.”

Thomas is aiming to, “convey the mysterious nature of moun-tains and the infi nite and con-templative perspective they can provide.”

What the curly-haired ball of energy is, I decide, is an artist full of energy not best encapsulated in words. His multi-media works are truly that; a unique combination of digital and actual combined into his unique synthesis. Check him out directly here:

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By Aaron Orlando

These large-format graphite, pastel spray, acrylic and oil, pigmented resin images with stencils are from the new ‘Aura’s” series by Revelstoke-based artist Bruce Thomas. Images below are details.

Bruce Thomas images

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