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August 9, 2018 The Valley Voice 1 CHRISTINA HARDER Your Local Real Estate Professional Volume 27, Number 16 August 9, 2018 Delivered to every home between Edgewood, Kaslo & South Slocan. Office 250-226-7007 Published bi-weekly. Cell 250-777-3888 Your independently owned regional community newspaper serving the Arrow Lakes, Slocan & North Kootenay Lake Valleys Kaslo City Hall National Historic Site re-opens by Jan McMurray The stone work around the foundation CAO Neil Smith points out Also, it will be one of the properties Canada, BC Heritage Legacy Fund, Kaslo’s 1898 City Hall building was repointed, the wood siding boards that the offices have also been to benefit from the sewer collection Community Works Funds and other re-opened July 23 after being closed were refurbished or replaced, the modernized for the 21st century, with system expansion. programs. for restoration and renovations for circular entrance stairway and the telecommunications fibre broadband The Village accessed considerable Kaslo City Hall is one of only almost nine years. The makeover was south side stairway were rebuilt, and and VOIP services telephone made funding support for the project three municipal buildings in BC that well worth the wait – this National a wheelchair ramp was added. possible by the Kaslo infoNet Society. from Columbia Basin Trust, Parks are National Historic Sites. Historic Site is looking very good indeed. “It’s a happy coincidence that 2018 is both the community’s 125th anniversary and a new chapter in the life of City Hall,” said Chief Administrative Officer Neil Smith. The “happy coincidence” doesn’t stop at the year, though. The City of Kaslo was incorporated on August 14, 1893, and the first council meeting in the newly renovated City Hall building will take place exactly 125 years later, on August 14 this year. That meeting will begin with a brief re-enactment of an early council meeting, with council members dressed in period costume. The re-opening of this beautiful wooden heritage building is just in time for the August 11-12 Kaslo 125 Celebrations. It will be part of the guided downtown heritage walking tours on Saturday, August 11, starting at 11 am. On Sunday, August 12, the Street Party and Legacy Park Celebration will take place on the grounds of City Hall and on B Avenue, between 4th and 5th Streets, from 1 to 5 pm. The extensive restoration and renovation work to the City Hall building included a new roof, roof strengthening, a geothermal heating/ cooling system, a fire suppression sprinkler system, refurbishing and replacing wood trim, structurally re- building the front and back interior stairs, re-doing the plumbing and electrical, refinishing the floors, and plastering and painting the walls. The exterior of the building was also given much more than a fresh coat of paint. Kaslo’s 1898 City Hall building re-opened July 23 after being closed for restoration and renovations for almost nine years. Visitor Information — Pages 16 & 17 2 NEWS The Valley Voice August 9, 2018 Kootenay Lake Shoreline Management Guidelines discussed at Balfour meeting by Jan McMurray Many of the people who them. Several of the officials at the cultural values. Information from anything – we’re just trying to About 80 people attended a attended the meeting were lakefront meeting tried to assure the crowd all these studies has been integrated speed up the process, to flag things presentation about Kootenay Lake property owners, afraid that the that this is not the case. The intent onto a map of the Kootenay Lake we would already flag,” Allard said. Shoreline Management Guidelines guidelines would create more of the shoreline guidelines, they shoreline. The mapping and relevant McRory assured residents in Balfour on July 25. hassle, bureaucracy, and cost for said, is to clarify existing foreshore documents are available at www. that although there are a lot of regulations and to streamline kootenaylakepartnership.com. unauthorized docks, retaining walls, Celebrating 10 years of Fine Arts decision-making on applications Leschied explained that the and groynes along the lakeshore, for development on the foreshore. main objectives of the guidelines the Province will not be “going on The shoreline management and mapping are to provide a a blitz and knocking on doors” and guidelines are a project of the common understanding of shoreline removing the unauthorized works. • August 8 - 25 Audrey JANSEN Kootenay Lake Partnership health, to help property owners “If you have a groyne, we’re not (KLP). Heather Leschied, KLP ‘navigate the system’ when they going to dismantle it. We may • Aug. 28 - Sept. 15 John BOIVIN coordinator, explained that the want to do any work on the choose not to approve a permit for partnership was created when the foreshore, and to allow decision it, and we may say we want you to • Sept. 18 - Oct. 6 Holly WOODS federal Department of Fisheries makers to focus on higher risk let Mother Nature reclaim it,” he and Oceans noted an increase activities on the shoreline while said. He told people to contact him Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm or by appointment 250.265.3586 in man-made structures and a letting the lower risk activities go ([email protected]) with any 203 Fifth Avenue NW, Nakusp, BC corresponding decrease in fish ahead with minimal red tape. The questions about whether or not their habitat along the Kootenay Lake guidelines “provide some level docks are authorized. shoreline. The Kootenay Lake of certainty when people want to McRory also explained that Partnership has representation develop on the foreshore,” she said. when complaints come in about from the four levels of government Rob McRory, senior lands officer possible unauthorized work on that have some jurisdiction over for the provincial government, the foreshore, Compliance and the lakefront – local government added that the guidelines don’t Enforcement staff investigates on a (Regional District of Central create any new regulations or case by case basis. He added that the Kootenay, Village of Kaslo, City requirements – they are there to government will not be authorizing of Nelson), provincial government help people understand the existing any new groynes, breakwaters, or (Ministry of Forests, Lands, regulations and requirements. boathouses. Natural Resource Operations and Natalie Allard, archeological Meeri Durand of the RDCK Rural Development, Ministry of technician from the Ktunaxa encouraged people to report Transportation and Infrastructure), First Nation, explained that all non-compliant activities on the the federal government (Fisheries applications for development shoreline, but also asked people and Oceans), and First Nations activities along the lakeshore are to recognize that it takes time for (Ktunaxa and Okanagan Nation sent out for First Nations review. staff to investigate, and that staff Alliance). She said the areas that would cannot share the information with KLP created the shoreline be flagged in that First Nations the complainant until the decision management guidelines based review process are flagged in the has been made. on several studies done along the Kootenay Lake Shoreline Guidance Another person pointed out that 403-kilometre Kootenay Lake document and mapping. This means the guidelines also help people who shoreline, Leschied said. These that people wanting to apply for want to develop their property in a studies include an inventory of foreshore development can refer sustainable or lake-friendly manner, structures (such as docks and to the guidelines and mapping and mentioned that there is funding boathouses), an assessment of fish online, and find out ahead of time through the Kootenay Lake Local habitat, an archeological assessment, if there are any issues in their area Conservation Fund to pay for these and an assessment of Ktunaxa of interest. “So it doesn’t change types of projects. August 9, 2018 The Valley Voice NEWS 3 Improvements coming to Slocan Valley Rail Trail trailhead in Slocan City by Barbara Curry Mulcahy this high-use area would reduce conflict snowmobiles off the trail is another be constructed in a later phase of the and a focus group of local trail users. The north end of the Slocan Valley among the different kinds of trail users. goal of the plan. Fences could be added project. The Slocan Valley Outriders Rec Sites and Trails BC (RSTBC) is a Rail Trail in Slocan City, from the Helene Dostaler, SVHTS president, said where needed. Short bollards with a Association is researching possible grant department of FLNRO, which owns the lakefront to Gravel Pit Road, will see the that all three of these sections of the trail crossbar would be replaced with new opportunities for this. The equestrian Slocan Valley Rail Trail. SVHTS has a first of some dramatic and much needed have a deep layer of sand, and some taller bollards at the intersections with parking lot could be constructed on stewardship agreement with RSTBC to changes this fall. The ‘North Trailhead hikers and bikers have complained that Park Avenue, Fitz Avenue, and Gravel Crown land south of the transfer station manage the trail. – Slocan Valley Rail Trail proposal’ was it is too soft to use safely. In addition, Pit Road and by the gazebo. The new and near the cardlock gas station, presented at Slocan council’s regular when the sand is wet, horse hooves pock bollards would be much more visible where there is already an informal trail SOLID STUFF meeting on July 9 by Daniel Scott of the trail and then, when the sand dries, for skiers and they’d be safer for horses. connecting to the rail trail. There would Hollow bones help most birds fly nearly Rec Sites and Trails BC and members of the pocked surface becomes dangerous The area between the rail trail, Main be space in the parking lot for trucks with weightlessly but the solid bones of loons the Slocan Valley Heritage Trail Society for cyclists.