TV Film Crew Searches for Shipwrecked Train in Slocan Lake by Jan Mcmurray Operated Underwater Vehicle) to the the Tug Rosebery in Time
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October 22, 2020 The Valley Voice 1 Volume 29, Number 21 October 22, 2020 Delivered to every home between Edgewood, Kaslo & South Slocan. Published bi-weekly. Your independently owned regional community newspaper serving the Arrow Lakes, Slocan & North Kootenay Lake Valleys. TV film crew searches for shipwrecked train in Slocan Lake by Jan McMurray operated underwater vehicle) to the the tug Rosebery in time. Sentinel Secondary School in 2005, through for the last 20 years. “My There are so many good stories bottom of Slocan Lake to find the Wilke says their visit with is the director of photography. Kaio dad introduced me to Doug [from to tell about the mining era in the shipwrecked train. Chapman in Penticton this summer Kathriner, from Cranbrook, is the Glacier View Service in New Kootenays, it’s no wonder a TV “Our team has been researching was “amazing.” director. Denver],” he said. show is being produced about one this for the last two months and They also had some wonderful Berrill is honoured to be part of The team’s objective for October of them. we have a good idea where it is,” interviews with people in Slocan, the project. “It’s a treat to come home is to shoot an episode, find the train, The story of the shipwrecked he says. Silverton and New Denver earlier anytime, but to bring the cameras and produce a ‘sizzle reel’ – an hour- train that sank to the bottom of One of the high points of the this month. “People need to hear and capture the local scenery and long film to market the show to the Slocan Lake while it was being project so far, Wilke said, was a this stuff,” Wilke said. “It would be history, and to learn more about networks. barged from Rosebery to Slocan visit to Penticton to interview the a disservice to society if we didn’t the history myself, is humbling and “We want the show to be on New Year’s Eve in 1946 has last living member of the train crew. get these stories out there.” exciting – it’s really an experience engaging and educational. We want captured the imaginations of former Bill Chapman, 97 years old, was the When Wilke was putting to cherish!” he said. to change the narrative of what we’re Kootenay miner Jeff Stibbard and train’s brakeman. Back in 1946, he together the production team for Wilke also has ties to the area. showing people on TV. We want the his son Clinton, and their film was sleeping in the caboose along the show, he was able to find some He grew up in Kelowna and spent show to appeal to young people as producer friend, Colten Wilke. with the rest of the crew when the Kootenay people to fill key roles. time in the Boundary with his family. well as older folk. We’re passionate “The three of us started a barge started sinking. The whole Stephan Berrill, who grew up in His father is the AFD manager for about the history and that’s why company called Hoghead Media, crew made it off the barge and onto Slocan Park and graduated from Mt. this region and has been travelling we’re doing this,” Wilke said. after the old trainman’s term for an engineer, and this is our first project,” Wilke said in an interview. “Jeff Stibbard lived in New Denver in the 1980s and worked as a miner as a younger man. He’s always loved the history of mining and trains, and he really loves the history of the Kootenay Boundary.” The production is being funded by Jeff Stibbard’s JDS Energy and Mining Company. Wilke was the perfect film producer for the job because he also knows how to dive. Part of the project is to find the sunken train. “When Jeff and Clinton asked me to produce a TV show about the sunken locomotive, they also tasked me with finding it,” he says. The film team was in the area in August on a scouting trip, then came back October 6-9 to interview several local people. They are back now (October 19-23). On this trip, they are sending an ROV (remotely Bill Chapman, the last surviving crew member of the train that sank in Slocan Lake in 1946, is pictured here, front and centre, with the film crew that is producing a TV show about the event. 2 NEWS The Valley Voice October 22, 2020 Feasibility study underway for new rental housing in Kaslo submitted The Kaslo Housing Society, the The Kaslo Housing Society will Village of Kaslo and New Commons soon begin studying the feasibility have a solid working relationship after of creating new dedicated rental evaluating the feasibility of acquiring apartments in downtown Kaslo. Kaslo the Kaslo Bay property earlier this council gave the project the green light year. This is unfortunately not going at the October 13 council meeting. forward, but the society was able to The proposed building would be pivot when the Village-owned land located on A Avenue near the corner behind the Kemball Centre was of 4th Street and could potentially suggested as a possible site for long- provide eight to ten studio and term rental housing. larger apartments. The 75 x 100-foot The site has many advantages lot behind the Kemball Centre is that the site currently leased by the presently under-utilized as a space for society (the ‘Lovers Site’ near the secure bus parking and Kaslo infoNet Public Works yard) does not. In storage. 2018, a proposal to BC Housing for a The housing society and its development at Lovers failed because development partner – New Commons the site has no services – no access, Development – will begin a period of water line, electrical/ phone service public consultation and will have or sewer. site assessments done. An architect, The A Avenue site has all of these Christine Ross from Sanca, has been services. hired to provide high-level concept Please see the ad in this paper for drawings that can be adapted in opportunities to learn more about the response to community input. project. More opportunities to learn New Commons Development, and comment will be offered as the under its Small Communities Initiative, feasibility study unfolds. is already working with several small The housing society also communities in the region to assist local encourages any resident of Kaslo and housing providers solve the challenges RDCK Area D who may be looking for of developing housing. They bring a dedicated rental unit in the next few a much-needed level of expertise years to get their names on a waiting and experience to the work ahead list. The list will be confidential; its for Kaslo, including securing project purpose at this early stage is to give financing. The society’s intention is the society a better understanding of to develop a strong proposal for BC current need. The waiting list form Housing’s Community Housing Fund, and other information can be found at due January 15, 2021. www.kaslohousingsociety.org. October 22, 2020 The Valley Voice NEWS 3 Sinixt hunting case heard in Canada’s top court by John Boivin, Local Journalism Province of BC’s lawyers said the Indigenous people and colonizers right in their people’s ancestral their concerns and interests in the Initiative reporter matter came down to whether non- should not be ignored. territory in Canada? outcome of the case. A Sinixt hunter’s decade- Canadians could be afforded the “I would urge this court to “Once we keep that question The judges took the arguments long fight for his rights and the rights and protections guaranteed reject a vision of reconciliation that in mind, a lot of the arguments we under advisement. It’s not known recognition of his people has had by the Canadian Constitution. defines the concept narrowly and heard today are for another day.” when they’ll hand down their ruling. his day in Canada’s highest court. “The question before you is, ahistorically, and excludes from its The judges listened to arguments The Supreme Court of Canada is the Lakes Tribe an Aboriginal purview some Indigenous peoples, from nearly 20 intervenors, as heard arguments in the Rick people of Canada?” said Glen R. with enduring connections to provincial governments, First Desautel hunting case on October 8. Thompson, the lawyer representing Canadian lands, who are now based Nations and aboriginal groups from Desautel, 68, shot and killed the BC government. “The on reserves outside of Canada,” across Canada and the US outlined an elk near Castlegar in 2010, claimant group… is the Lakes said Jessica Orkin, representing the then purposely turned himself in Tribe of Washington State. The Grand Council of the Cree. “Their to conservation officers so that respondent wants to broaden that enduring connection to Canadian Our valley’s green his people’s hunting rights and designation, they want to broaden lands must be recognized and grocer since 1990 very existence in Canada could be the identification of the group to ought to be part of the project of decided in a court of law. include the Sinixt people generally. reconciliation.” Desautel is a member of That was not a finding of the courts A lawyer for the Indigenous Bar • Fresh the Lakes Tribe – descendants below.” Association group agreed, saying of the Sinixt – now part of the “If you go as far as the the government was trying to use the Confederated Tribes of the Colville respondents are suggesting, … international boundary to “lessen • Organic Reservation in Washington State.