March 12, 2020 The Valley Voice 1

Volume 29, Number 4 March 12, 2020 Delivered to every home between Edgewood, & South Slocan. Published bi-weekly. Your independently owned regional community newspaper serving the , Slocan & North Kootenay Lake Valleys. names its 2019 Citizens of the Year: Ernie Knecht & Janis Dahlen

Janis Dahlen is being recognized for her 30 years of service to the community as a foster parent, 12 years as village councillor and five years as regional district representative. Dahlen was also active with the Nakusp Figure Skating Club for 15 years and still volunteers for Meals on Wheels. Dahlen Ernie Knecht is Nakusp’s Citizen of the Year, in recognition of his work with the Nakusp Secondary School’s scholarship committee, the Arrow Lakes ATV will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifetime of service to others. Rotary president Dan Club, the Arrow Lakes Caribou Society and the Nakusp Rod and Gun Club. Ernie has volunteered at Summit Lake Ski Hill, served on the Nakusp Water Nicholson dropped by with flowers. There will be an awards dinner on March 21. See the ad on page 8. Board and spent countless hours clearing and rehabilitating back-country trails. There will be an awards dinner on March 21. See the ad on page 8.

100% Locally Owned & Operated 2 NEWS The Valley Voice March 12, 2020 Health visits the to talk cannabis regulations by Kathy Hartman reports that many of the barriers additional cost. is expected to be completed in April, for transitioning, it will be hard for The BC craft cannabis presented to the government reps Further, many people, especially and will be followed by the test phase, them to make a significant impact on community has been chosen as the were identified at last year’s Kootenay those with families or other jobs, where the possible solutions will be increasing applications until Health pilot population for a project that Cannabis Symposium as well as at don’t want to participate in the piloted in BC. Canada addresses the inefficiencies could result in changes to current preliminary meetings held locally in industry because the new legal Meanwhile, the BC Ministry and barriers on their end. All in all, Cannabis Regulations. Consultations January to discuss possible solutions environment reinforces and amplifies of Public Safety and Solicitor the two frameworks contradict each as part of the project occurred in the to consider in the pilot project. the stigma that is attached to the General is meeting with cannabis other, making the business case West Kootenay last month. One of the barriers government industry. stakeholders across the province difficult” he said. The goal of the project reps heard about, Chouinard said, Chouinard reports that Health to address key barriers within their The pilot project is being led by a is to increase the number of is cost and access to capital. The Canada has completed its outreach purview – distribution and farmgate partnership between Health Canada’s applications for micro-cultivation business case for micro licencing is to BC cannabis sector reps to sales. Chouinard says KUCA had Controlled Substances and Cannabis and micro-processing licences – not strong enough for most in the pre- understand the challenges involved a successful meeting with them on Branch (Licencing and Security by understanding the barriers for existing industry to find traditional in applying for micro licences, and March 3. Division) and the Government of applicants, developing options for sources of lending, he said. “For is now coming up with possible “While it is great they are taking Canada’s Impact and Innovation addressing the barriers, and then many farmers it seems daunting to solutions. Chouinard said this phase steps to help make a stronger case Unit. testing the potential solutions in BC. do the full build-out or renovation as On February 13 and 14, a starting point. With the excessive RCMP execute multiple search warrants, arrest five federal and provincial government costs of $700,000 to $1.5 million, this submitted items consistent with the trafficking of Traffic Services, the Kootenay representatives from Health Canada, is just the starting point. Taxes, fees The Trail and Castlegar RCMP illicit drugs, handguns, rifles, shotguns Boundary Regional Detachment the Privy Council of Canada, BC and costs lie around every corner of Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) and as many as seven motor vehicles. General Investigation Section (GIS) Cannabis Secretariat, BC Ministry the process, not to mention the many executed multiple drug search The CRU investigative team is and Cranbrook Forensic Identification of Ministry of Jobs, Economic unknowns within the marketplace.” warrants simultaneously across the committed to dismantling what they Services (FIS), adds Cpl. O’Donaghey. Development and Competitiveness, The regulation that restricts City of Trail in relation to an ongoing believe to be a sophisticated drug Four of the five men were held and the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, marketing is another barrier. “The criminal investigation into drug trafficking group operating in the in police custody throughout the day; Natural Resource Operations and inability to brand a craft industry that trafficking. Kootenay region, says Cpl. Jesse they were expected to be released on Rural Development came to the area can’t distinguish or market itself” was On March 4 dozens of police O’Donaghey, spokesman for the strict conditions, set to make their first to hear about the challenges Kootenay one of the issues Health Canada took officers, from across the West RCMP Southeast District. The Trail appearance in court at a later date. farmers are encountering when trying away with them, Chouinard said. Kootenay region, simultaneously and Greater District RCMP Crime 32-year-old John Allan Schubert to apply for micro licences. They met Another barrier is the descended upon five separate Reduction Unit and frontline officers of Warfield has now been formally with representatives of the Kootenay requirement for broad microbial properties to execute search warrants will continue to take actions in an charged with possession of a United Cannabis Association testing for cannabis. Broad microbial obtained under the Controlled Drugs effort to reduce the supply of deadly controlled substance for the purpose (KUCA), Community Futures, testing makes outdoor cultivation and Substances Act (CDSA). A total illicit drugs being trafficked in the of trafficking. He has been remanded Kootenay Outdoor Producers Co-op, of marketable flower difficult or of five individuals, all men, were taken community. into police custody and was expected and members of the community who impossible, he says, and makes the into police custody as a result of the The RCMP Crime Reduction Unit to appear in Law Courts on either have applications in process, case for certain organic practices coordinated warrant executions. was supported by frontline officers March 5. are considering applying, or feel difficult, as organic methods can The judicial authorizations have from each of the Trail, Castlegar, Once the investigation is complete, the licencing process is unrealistic rely on beneficial microbes for so far yielded undisclosed amounts Kootenay Boundary Regional and the RCMP will forward all its findings for them. healthy plants. For small cultivators of suspected cocaine in various forms, Nelson detachments, along with to the Public Prosecution Service of Damon Chouinard of KUCA or processors, this testing adds cannabis, large quantities of cash, officers from RCMP West Kootenay Canada for further charge assessment. March 12, 2020 The Valley Voice NEWS 3 Tree crashes into Silverton home during violent windstorm by Jan McMurray For the last 10 years, Don and cleaned up enough so we can use “Every year, we hire an arborist, and to the Village in early January Silverton resident Barb Barb have been telling Silverton our main entrance in and out of the he looks at all the trees with staff after a big branch came down and Broughton was awakened by the council that the campground needs house.” and takes down the danger ones. He lodged itself in their roof during the windstorm in the early hours of to be clearcut. “I am so furiously Barb says they are very pleased is looking for trees that are rotting December 31 snowstorm. “I keep Wednesday, March 4. At first, she mad,” Barb said. “None of this with the response from Public or dying – not necessarily for those repeating myself. They just don’t just heard the wind, and debris falling would have happened if they had Works and their insurance company, that can withstand a wind event,” want to hear it. We’re as sick of on the roof. What happened next is listened to us for the last 10 years. but are extremely disappointed Clarke said. “The trees that fell on the saying it as they are of hearing it.” something she and her husband, Don, We’ve told them there’s going to be with the response Barb got from Broughtons’ house pulled up huge The trees also damaged the have been worried about for years – a a violent windstorm in the middle of the CAO when she went into the root balls. They are not on any danger Broughtons’ shed, and the fence that tree from the municipal campground the night one night and kill us in our office to discuss the incident, and tree list as far as I know.” was installed by the Village between came down onto the roof and crashed beds. They are putting the campers’ “disgusted” with the mayor, who Clarke said Public Works the campground and the Broughton into their bedroom. lives at risk, too.” hasn’t responded at all. responded right away and helped in property. “The tree came in through the Barb says she called Public Barb said the CAO told her that every way they could. “Fortunately, SHELLEY BORTNICK, roof, wall and window. The window Works Foreman Len Casley at 3:30 the trees would be assessed. “They no one was injured,” he said. exploded and glass shattered all over am to tell him the trees had come have been assessed over and over Barb says in May 2018, the MSW, RSW me. The tree stopped just two to three down, and he and Fire Chief Derek during last 10 years,” Barb said, CAO at the time, Darrell Garceau, Individual, couple and feet above my head. I could have Hicks came over right away. “Len, exasperated. “We’re sitting ducks, and Casley and Mel De Rosa from family therapist died,” Barb said. Derek and Mel were here all day waiting for trees to come down on Public Works, marked trees in the 30 years experience Just minutes later, a second tree yesterday [Wednesday]. They tarped our heads without any warning.” campground that they thought were Offers counselling services involving from the campground came down off the whole roof. The Village crew Mayor Jason Clarke said the hazardous with red Xs. The one tree mental health (depression, anxiety, into their yard. was back here today [Thursday] and Village has trees assessed routinely. that came down into their yard during etc.), addictions, grief and loss, the windstorm was marked, but trauma and life transition issues. the one that crashed into the house For appointment, please call wasn’t, she said. Barb wrote a “scathing letter” 250-265-3397 W.E. 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We have an amazing culture and many great things happening at W.E.Graham Community School. We are now accepting registrations for all students in grade K through 10. W.E.Graham endeavours to engage students through a wide variety of outdoor and A tree from the municipal campground came down onto the roof of Don & Barb Broughton’s home in Silverton and crashed into their bedroom. experiential opportunities​. The Broughtons had been warning the village about danger trees in the campground for 10 years. Call us at 250-355-2212 or have a look at our Windstorm causes havoc March 4 website weg.sd8.bc.ca ​ by Jan McMurray Valley by 3:30 pm and to Trout operated radio, flashlight and fresh Trees came down on power Lake by 5 pm. FortisBC customers water on hand.” A list of emergency lines, highways and roads during in Kaslo and the had kit supplies can be found on both the the windstorm that whipped through their power back by 3:30 pm. FortisBC and BC Hydro websites. the area about 3 am on Wednesday, Jesse Ellis from the weather desk March 4. at the Southeast Fire Centre said A Ministry of Transportation the winds reached 40+ kilometres spokesperson reported that the per hour in Nakusp and the Slocan windstorm was centred mostly Valley, and 60+ kilometres per hour around the Nakusp area. Impacted in the Kaslo area. roads included sections of Hwy 6, The windstorm came in with a Hwy 31A, Hwy 3A and several side cold front, Ellis said. “Each of these roads. Debris and tree removal from cold fronts is a bit different. It’s provincial roadways began around sometimes a challenge to determine 2 am and was completed around when they will bring these strong 11 am. winds down into valley bottoms. At the peak of the storm, there It’s easy to predict strong winds on a were 2,747 BC Hydro customers and ridgetop site – that’s really common. 4,300 FortisBC customers without It’s less common for winds to reach power. The schools in Kaslo and all the way down into valley bottoms the Lardeau Valley had to be closed like they did last night [March 4].” for the day due to the power outage. The storm was tracking from the Mary Anne Coules of BC Hydro west northwest to the east southeast says the areas hardest hit with power and hit the Boundary, Columbias, outages were the Arrow Lakes and West and East Kootenays in the early Lardeau Valleys, with the largest morning of March 4 before heading pockets of people without power south of the border, Ellis said. including 491 customers south of “This is a great reminder Nakusp along Hwy 6,108 customers for customers to be prepared for in Trout Lake, and 431 customers in unplanned outages,” FortisBC the Lardeau Valley. Power went out representative Jas Baweja said. about 3 am and was restored south of “With the arrival of unpredictable Nakusp by 9:15 am, to the Lardeau weather, it’s handy to have a battery 4 OPINION The Valley Voice March 12, 2020

and Village and taxpayer liability. Coin Laundry in New To do otherwise would be grossly will close irresponsible and negligent. Delays I feel sad about having to shut down in danger tree removal have already the coin laundry. There is a new owner of led to serious life-threatening and the building and the rent being offered to financial consequences. me is more money than the business can Judith Maltz pay. I’ve paid rent to the end of April and Silverton will need time to empty the premises of Respect our elders my equipment, so the last day open will When the elders colonized North be Sunday, April 25. America they brought with them the Maybe some people will brainstorm wheel, written word and rule of law. and come up with a creative solution. I History shows that many other would be willing to donate the washing nations did not grant their new subjects machines. I think the dryers will be freedom of speech, religion or the right scrap metal. If anyone wants any parts, to protest. let me know. Time for neighbours to So be thankful to the workers who help neighbours? Share your washing built the infrastructure so that we enjoy machine? the lifestyle we have today and the elders Given the age and condition of the who had the wisdom to put it in place. building, the age and condition of the Patrick Mackle septic system, the age and condition of Kaslo the machines, the age of Rod and the age of me, this endeavour was destined Rosebery for a fairly soon ending. I just managed Summit Trail to elongate the inevitable for 7.5 years. Those who want to learn more Wendy Harlock about the Rosebery-Summit Lake trail OPEN EVERY DAY FOR LUNCH AND DINNER management plan and access related documents can do so on the updated Kitchen open from 11 AM until 10 PM. Trivia Tuesday evenings Danger trees in website: roseberysummitrailtrail.com. and Wednesday is wing-night. Dinner Specials every night. An email link for those with questions Silverton Campground The Ingrid Rice cartoon is a satirical look at current events in politics and is sponsored by the Kaslo Hotel. The Hotel does not necessarily share the political views of the artist. Recent events in the Village or comments is also on the site. NOTICE TO OUR GUESTS, PATRONS AND STAFF: campground and on the Broughton’s Docs related to the 2015 proposal are The Kaslo Hotel is taking the Corona Virus very seriously. We have instituted a number of new procedures for the protection of our guests and staff. Multiple hand sanitizer stations have been installed throughout the pub and public areas of the hotel. Staff are sanitizing all contact points---door knobs and handles, keyboards,phone receivers, cell property have demonstrated with also there, as are many photos. Further phones, and credit card machines multiple times daily. Staff are washing or sanitizing their hands frequently, especially after handling money. We are continuing to use high frightening clarity the need to updates will be posted as things proceed. temperaturewashing and sanitizing of all plates, utensils and glassware. As yet, we know of no cases of Corona Virus--Covid 19 in the Kootenays and we sincerely hope that immediately address the removal Richard Allin, Hills continues. We want our staff and patrons to know that the Hotel takes their health and safety very seriously and is taking steps to protect them to the best of its knowledge. of danger trees from the Silverton Mike Koolen, New Denver Crescent Valley, but drivers cannot be protect the land and the water in her campgrounds and take action. Crescent Valley relied on to respect it, and certainly don’t immediate surroundings, the community While no one likes to see Open letter to MLA seem to be prone to allow a pedestrian and the whole precious planet that we all trees cut unnecessarily, trees needs crosswalks to cross the road. When pedestrians dare inhabit. Her work goes back many years with compromised root systems, Michelle Mungall It is good to see that the residents of I am very disheartened to learn that Area H are keeping their director Walter to slow traffic, they are soon met with when she and Barry came to the Slocan vulnerable to toppling over in strong the federal government is contemplating Popoff busy. Striving to improve the lives much impatient horn blowing. The auto Valley, Barry leaving the US and the winds, cannot be left standing to entering into an agreement to finance the of the people he represents, he is gauging is king, and the pedestrians are expected Vietnam war. She and Barry gave birth endanger the public. Coastal Gaslink Pipeline. public opinion on dog control, noise, to scurry across between the speeding to their six children together and shared Regardless of the Village of I am equally disheartened however and unsightly premises, and dealing cars like frightened squirrels. a deep spiritual relationship; Barry Silverton’s budgetary framework that the BC government has not taken with a petition from Playmor Junction It is time that the Regional District supported all her endeavours and cared for annual danger tree removal, steps to stop it. Why has the BC demanding a zoning bylaw. Just in case put some pressure on the Highways for their farm in Vallican. Marilyn was contingency funds do exist and could government so closely aligned itself he still has a bit of free time, I would like people to give those pedestrians some born in Durham, North England and she be used to address this emergency with the Coastal Gaslink consortium: TC to propose that he and his fellow directors lighted crosswalks to use when doing jokingly reminded me that she was from situation. Energy of Calgary, Alberta Investment should address another issue before it their business in this vibrant little burg. what was called a “kindly dangerous lot.” I ask that immediate action Management Corp. of Edmonton, and ends in tragedy. This is not just an issue for Area Her whole family camped in Vallican to be taken to ensure the safety of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts of New York? The Regional District has done a H residents, but for all of us in the stop the road through ancestral residents and visitors alike, and to Michael Jones nice job improving the beach facilities surrounding areas as well. burial site land, working for many avoid potential for further damage, Kaslo that were so generously given to them at Rod Retzlaff years with Sinixt elder Marilyn James EDITORIAL / LETTERS POLICY Crescent Valley. In addition, the people Glade to remove the Canadian government’s The Valley Voice welcomes letters to the editor and community news of Crescent Valley have established a A tribute to extinction clause. She was instrumental articles from our readers. vibrant community there with two very in starting the Perry Ridge Water Users Letters and articles should be no longer than 500 words and may be busy year-round stores, and restaurants, Marilyn Burgoon Association and brought experts in edited. We reserve the right to reject any submitted material. and of course the summer rush of It is with great sadness that I write to study the terrain and give evidence Please mark your letter “LETTER TO THE EDITOR.” Include your kayakers and boat and tube floaters to about the passing of my friend and why logging should not occur along the address and daytime phone number for verification purposes. add to the mix. In short, Crescent Valley sister, Marilyn. Alas, with a sense of ridge and in the sensitive watershed. She We will not knowingly publish any letter that is defamatory or libelous. has turned into a summer resort. deep appreciation and admiration for worked with Colleen McCrory of New We will not publish anonymous letters or letters signed with pseudonyms, The road that runs through it her indomitable spirit in taking on and Denver to establish the protected Valhalla except in extraordinary circumstances. unfortunately has not changed except confronting the ignorance of our times, Park that we all enjoy. The caring that she Opinions expressed in published letters are those of the author and not for the fact that it has gotten much busier. with regard to environmental destruction. exhibited extended to the land, water, necessarily those of the Valley Voice. The speed limit is reduced going through She loved her life with the intention to vegetation and to all creatures inhabiting these lands. Her last endeavour was to Box 70, New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 single-handedly take the BC government The Valley Voice to court over the toxic fuel spill in Lemon Phone: 250-358-7218 Fax: 250-358-7793 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.valleyvoice.ca Creek, which contaminated the creek, Publisher - Dan Nicholson • Editor - Jan McMurray • Food Editor Emeritus - Andrew Rhodes • Arts & Culture Editor - Art Joyce Slocan River, and to the Columbia in July 2014. I can only Art Joyce, Barbara Curry Mulcahy, Moe Lyons, Hannah Lisgo & Kathy Hartman Reporters - speak of a few of Marilyn’s works and Published and printed in , Canada on behalf of us all, I thank you Marilyn. The Valley Voice is distributed throughout the Slocan and Arrow Lake Valleys from South Slocan/Playmor Junction to Edgewood and Kaslo on Kootenay Lake. You are truly missed and loved. Circulation is 7,600 papers, providing the most complete news and advertising coverage of any single newspaper serving this area. 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in government) I sent a copy of the letter to I’m not picking on the NDP. This has been WE DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK. and house chief through whose land which Comment on our MLA. I received a form letter saying going on for a long time. They are as guilty THIS LETTER IS A FORMALITY Coastal GasLink proposes to construct Swift River she received the letter, but still no results. as the Liberals. Forestry is governed by TO CREATE THE APPEARANCE OF their pipeline. In response to Art Joyce’s review of November of 2019, I talked to Greg Kinnear ‘professional reliance.’ In other words, the CONSULTATION. Beyond Chief Justice Lamer’s Swift River, I encourage anyone who is of the Ministry of Transportation. He was companies govern themselves. WE ARE BC TIMBER SALES. Canadian Supreme Court ruling, in interested in the book to start by reading very nice to talk to, and after 10 minutes or Peachland town council has requested RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. and so on Delgamukuuw vs British Columbia, pages 163-164 before they spend their so I realized I was barking up a dead dog’s a logging moratorium from the provincial and so on. that aboriginal title and rights in British money on it. These pages are personal arse. It could be that he needs to hear from government. Minister of Forests Donaldson My response, which I know is futile, is: Columbia have never been extinguished, opinions and judgments evidenced by the more than one person. His phone number is had a political lackey respond that logging does anyone in government read the memos the Court, while acknowledging crown lack of references to support them. In this 1-250-364-0742. Please feel free to call him. would continue despite the moratorium from the IPCC or any of the other credible rights, ruled in Tsilhqot’in (2014), at para era of expanding fascism globally, it is I’m sure he will be glad to talk to you about request. scientists? If not, here it is paraphrased: 73, 74 and 76 that: important to be mindful of those who use the speed limit on this section of the Kaslo Donaldson’s kneeling to industry will THE PLANET IS BURNING UP. “Aboriginal title confers ownership their academic privilege to advance agendas South Road. It seems that until someone is drive BC property values down while EVERY YEAR THERE IS A NEW rights similar to those associated with fee of marginalization and erasure. It is critical hit by a vehicle, nothing is going to happen insurance costs rise. Get your wallet ready. HIGH IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURE. simple, including: the right to decide how to ask: who and what is being served by with the speed limit on this road. Michael Huber GROWING, MATURING, INTACT the land will be used; the right of enjoyment such agendas? Fortunately, Marilyn James, On a better note, the letter that was sent Peachland FORESTS ARE ONE OF THE and occupancy of the land; the right to Sinixt elder and Matriarch is not so easily to the Village of Kaslo about reducing the FEW WAYS TO STEM THE EVER possess the land; the right to the economic erased from the hearts of the thousands of speed limit on the portion of the same road Lemon Creek spill: INCREASING ONSLAUGHT OF benefits of the land; and the right to pro- kids over four school districts that she has that is in the Village did not fall on deaf ears. a cautionary tale CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE 6TH actively use and manage the land. engaged with Sinixt stories and teachings for They reduced the speed limit to 50 km/h. Thank you Valley Voice for the front GREAT MASS EXTINCTION. EVERY “...it is collective title held not only for the past three decades in Sinixt territory. Nor We thank you. page story on the Lemon Creek fuel spill MATURING LIVE TREE CUT DOWN the present generation but for all succeeding in the minds of the educators, individuals Phil Trotter court case and the $175,000 penalty for REDUCES THE PLANET’S ABILITY TO generations... it cannot be alienated except and community groups to whom she has Kaslo Executive Flight Centre. I’m sure Marilyn SEQUESTER CARBON, NATURALLY. to the Crown or encumbered in ways that unfailingly made herself available. The Logging affects Burgoon would have been relieved with That memo. Anyone? John Horgan? would prevent future generations of the disrespect exhibited in the personal opinions the verdict, as she was so dedicated and Katrine Conroy? Michelle Mungall? I group from using and enjoying it. Nor can in this book towards our community elder real estate values committed to seeing justice with this case. realize it a complete waste of breathe on the the land be developed or misused in a way serves to discredit the author and undermine Poor forest management will see BC Our community misses her steady hand and BC Liberal/Conservatives. But I know for that would substantially deprive future the credibility of her work. Think before you property values fall and insurance costs efficient activism already. a fact that the others at least used to profess generations of the benefit of the land.” financially support this work. rise. Why? Meanwhile, has a group some environmental awareness. “...The right to control the land K.L. Kivi Flooding from clearcuts: Anthony of students studying both this case and the Now, I realize we are all slaves to conferred by Aboriginal title means that New Denver Britneff, retired senior official at BC Forest class action suit that lawyer David Aaron corporate agenda of endless economic governments and others seeking to use Service, predicts more Grand Forks style is working on. And the CBC might do a growth and profit. The powers that be the land must obtain the consent of the Open letter to Minister flooding. Citizens who lost their retirement, follow-up, too. just want us to be quiet, go along with the Aboriginal title holders. If the Aboriginal livelihood and community infrastructure But one thing is clear to many of us. program of destroying the planet, buy your group does not consent to the use, the of Environment, Recycle must wonder how the premier considers When small communities in BC are hit new gas guzzling Ford 350s or your Dodge government’s only recourse is to establish BC and Village of Kaslo this sustainable. Heavy snowpacks, direct by environmental catastrophe, they are Rams, a new snowmobile or quad and just that the proposed incursion on the land I am disheartened, disillusioned, sunlight on clearcuts speeds melting, rushing basically on their own. The British Columbia shut the f**k up about global warming. is justified under s. 35 of the Constitution disappointed and rather disgusted to learn runoff into town. It may be your town next. government and its various ministries will ‘YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT Act, 1982.” that I must use a particular, very large Watersheds: only account for 1.5% of not be held accountable in courts of law. As IT, ANYWAY’. Where, I ask, is Canada and British garbage can for my recycling pickup BC landmass but are logged at a frenzied defendants, they have basically skipped out Please, government, READ THE Columbia’s commitment to implement service. I’m further disappointed because pace. Vancouver, Victoria, NYC, Seattle on taking responsibility for the aftermath of MEMOS and act accordingly. “free, prior and informed consent” with the information first circulated was that we, and Portland forbid logging in watersheds. this spill. This includes long term monitoring Or, now that you are in government, we First Nations (especially when the Office in our small, rural village of Kaslo could Currently over 26 BC communities are of fish, birds, game, wildlife, and whatever should just ‘DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY’ of the Wet’suwete’en offered two alternate use containers specific to us, our location fighting to protect theirs. Logging these the human health impacts may be. The because you have the problem well in hand? routes), when they refuse to acknowledge and our situation. In other words, the tote water-purifying ecosystems results in dirty money set aside in this fine – $165,000 for I doubt it. You have become more that there should be a pause in Coastal that now takes me 3-4 weeks to fill would water flowing to your community water fish habitat in the Slocan Valley – is a drop in corporate stooges and servants to them. GasLink construction while nation to nation be adequate. The 121-litre dictated container system, wildlife driven into town to eat the bucket, and wholly inadequate given the Please, at least, be honest and tell me talks occur under s.35 of the Constitution. will take me six months to fill. Yes, I ensure your plants and pets and costly system scope of the impact that the fuel spill had on you have read the memos but just don’t give Andy Shadrack that my recycling is clean and odour free, maintenance expenses. the environment and community. a rat’s ass about them, or us, your children Kaslo and NO, I do not have space for such a Expense 1: When forestry logs the I think the real story is this. When or the planet. large can. watershed, water of poor and inconsistent something goes wrong such as an accident, Leon Pendleton Open letter to MP Be assured, I have long recycled, quality flows to the water treatment plant, spill, or explosion because of gas and oil Edgewood Richard Cannings reused, repurposed and reduced my landfill and the plant cannot adequately treat pipelines, fracking, toxic holding ponds, I am appalled at the behaviour of PM donations so that I now have one medium water so boil water advisories result. Dirty tar sands, etc., BC communities will Canada and BC Trudeau in respect to negotiating a peaceful sized can that gets emptied once a month. I water causes higher deterioration on water ultimately be abandoned by this provincial should respect right solution with the Wet’suwet’en and other applaud the demise of the blue bags, with infrastructure. Soon new treatment plants government. No one can litigate successfully Canadian Indigenous people’s demands. their intrinsic (and rather disgusting) odour. and infrastructure are required. Forestry against them given the amount of time and to free, informed, As we all know, the abuse of native people I support elimination of single use plastics. doesn’t pay for this; taxpayers do. money involved in the process. by the British and other settlers has been I would like to see bubble pack plastic Expense 2: Government subsidized So, it’s a cautionary tale. Don’t allow and prior consent going on for 200 years and it continues As a former electoral area director, eliminated. spraying to kill deciduous trees. Done to the resource extraction industry, with the today. Even after all his speeches for with a jurisdiction that extended over I ask that you revisit your dictate that I improve coniferous tree harvests while full complicity of government behind them, reconciliation, the fact is that business nearly 5,800 sq km, I have enormous and my fellows must use a 121-litre garbage/ negatively affecting habitats, biodiversity place our communities in such jeopardy in goes on as usual and Mr. Trudeau seems empathy for the Hereditary Wet’suwet’en recycling can to further reduce our footprint and community fire-resistance. Deciduous the first place. I think the Wet’suwet’en and to look the other way. After all the abuse Chiefs. That twenty band councils signed on the Earth. trees slow and stop wildfires. Deciduous other First Nations already know this and Canadian Indigenous people have suffered benefits agreements with Coastal GasLink Kate O’Keefe spraying is a government handout costing that’s the fight. since the arrival of Europeans, this should is totally irrelevant in determining the route Kaslo taxpayers’ money… and perhaps lives. John Wittmayer come to an end. of a pipeline on Wet’suwet’en Nation land. Tourism: ‘Beauty strips’ support the Winlaw/Maple Ridge British Columbia also has to do its At 3 square km the Village of Kaslo, for Kaslo South Road Beautiful BC illusion. Beauty strips are un- part, but so far Mr. Horgan has been a example, receives a grant-in-lieu of taxes logged forest left around communities and complete disappointment. I am outraged speed limit Is government from BC Hydro, even though it is wholly This letter is to those people who live roadways to make the public and tourists at the Wet’suwet’en crisis. think that they are living in an intact, well getting the memos? situated in the FortisBC service area. on Kaslo South Road and those that walk on Recently, I received a letter from BC I ask you to please do all you can managed forest. Climb up your local ridge However, receiving those benefits does not this road. In November of 2017, over 80% of Timber Sales. Here is a paraphrased version to change the pattern, begin serious or go to Big White to observe vistas of give the Village administration the right or you (39 signatures) signed the petition to get of it. (Picture the BORG): reconciliation, and reach legal accords clearcuts. Tourists are starting to catch wind authority to discuss the ongoing impacts of the speed limit on 1.2 kilometers of this road WE ARE BC TIMBER SALES. WE with all of Canada’s native peoples, complaining that the countryside looks like Duncan Dam operations within Area D, as reduced from 80 km/h to 60 km/h. It was ARE SENDING A CONTRACTOR TO particularly in respect to boundaries and a patchwork quilt. those issues are under the jurisdiction of the delivered to Mr. Spearman of the Ministry RAPE MORE OF THE TREES AROUND control of native territories by the various Why does all this continue? director for Area D. So too are the issues of Transportation in Nelson the same year. YOUR AND YOUR NEIGHBOURS’ First Nations. Government is captured by industry of building the pipeline the responsibility In November of 2018, after not seeing any HOMES. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. Moraia Grau and politicians are too soft to mount a fight. and jurisdiction of each and every clan results of our petition (things move slowly YOU CAN APPEAL TO US, BUT Silverton 6 KASLO & DISTRICT The Valley Voice March 12, 2020 Kaslo council, February 25: Recycle BC says Village must provide large recycling containers by Jan McMurray all family physicians in the area. issues that are preventing the Village awareness rather than enforcement. at the last minute at a meeting at JB’s • A letter outlining the Village’s • An open house will be organized from developing a bylaw against • A letter from Louise De Pape, Restaurant, with very few members concerns with the blue bag transition at the Kemball Centre to promote the single use plastics, and asks if there president of the Senior Citizens’ present, and she felt it should be plan process will go to Environment potential creation of a cowork space. is something other than a bylaw, Association, invites Village discussed at a regular meeting at Minister George Heyman. CAO • Anne Heard wrote a letter with regulatory “teeth,” that could representation at the association’s the hall. CAO Ian Dunlop said he Ian Dunlop explained that blue asking council to consider a policy or address the issue. Council referred March 3 meeting where the proposal would attend. bags will no longer be acceptable some kind of regulation “to tell our the letter to the Official Community for a bus stop in front of the Seniors • Mayor Hewat will write a for curbside collection as of July 1. community and the world that single Plan process. There was general Hall was going to be discussed. She letter in support of the City of Port The Village submitted a transition use plastic should not be part of our agreement that the issue would said the bus stop proposal had been Moody’s resolution in favour of plan to Recycle BC, explaining that waste.” She says she understands the be best addressed through public brought forward by Andy Shadrack universal pharmacare. residents would use a container of their choice. This plan was rejected, so the Village decided it would Washrooms at Kaslo Front Street Park could be built this year provide totes to those who did not by Charlotte Farrell, Lucerne School the construction of the stage and some with double door, a bench, and a that Jordan Jones was hired to do the want to use their own containers. work experience student landscaping. Both the washroom and community notice board. The stage conceptual drawings for the grant Recycle BC responded with a letter Front Street Park will have a new the stage would be situated near the in all four plans is a raised concrete application, but the final design and demanding that the Village supply washroom/ storage building and stage rear of the park towards Water Street. platform, with an open view to the construction planning will go through 121-litre containers to all residents if the Village of Kaslo’s application for The conceptual plans show how the lake and mountains. Three of the plans a procurement process as per the before July 1. “We have found funding from the Columbia Basin Trust market tents can be arranged in the include a movable acoustic wall, which Village’s purchasing policy. this situation frustrating because is successful. open grassy area. allows the performance space to be The detailed cost estimate puts the if Recycle BC had such a specific “The need for public washrooms Kaslo native Jordan Jones, reconfigured for different uses. The total project cost at about $700,000. requirement in mind they should downtown has been talked about for of Richard Hunter Architects in difference between the four conceptual The washroom/ storage building comes have mandated it in the first place many years,” says CAO Ian Dunlop. Kamloops, was hired to do the concept plans is that they each have different in at $224,600 and the stage, with rather than intimating we could “Front Street Park was identified as drawings for the project and to provide materials and cladding. movable acoustic wall, at $276,065. submit our own plan,” Dunlop says an ideal spot for washrooms due to cost estimates. For reference, he “No decision has been made Other project costs include professional in his written report to council. He its central location and the Saturday was given the 2010 drawings that about the preferred concept yet,” fees, site prep, and utilities. also says the Village believed small market.” were done when council considered Dunlop said. “The grant application The Village has applied for communities could be exempt from If the funding comes through, the applying for Spirit Square funding for includes a budget for developing the $454,407 from the CBT Community having to provide containers at plan is to complete the project in two Front Street Park upgrades. final design and construction-ready Outdoor Revitalization Capital taxpayer expense. phases. Phase one would happen this Jones did four conceptual plans, drawings. Jordan came up with four Grants program and plans to cover • Mayor Hewat will attend a year and would see the construction all which include a washroom/ storage concepts to show a range of creative the remaining costs through reserve meeting on March 10 in Nelson to of the washroom/ storage building. building with two heated washroom ideas but council did not endorse funding, other grants, in-kind discuss the future of primary care Phase two, in 2021, would include stalls and an unheated storage area any one in particular.” Dunlop added contributions and fundraising efforts. clinics in the area. This is one of five meetings being held throughout the Kootenay Boundary region by Film screening of Invasion at the Langham the Kootenay Boundary Division of submitted The film showings and speakers, music, silent auction, and worked on the Delgamuukw court Family Practice Board, representing The ‘West Kootenay People discussions will take place on Friday, bake sale with all proceeds going case. Who Support the Wet’suwet’en’ will March 20 from 7 to 9 pm at The to Sinixt and Wet’suwet’en water Tickets are available at Otter host screenings of the Unist’ot’en Langham Cultural Centre, 447 A protectors. Books on Baker Street or at the Camp film Invasion next weekend. Ave in Kaslo, or Sunday March 22, Sinixt elder and matriarch door for $25 per person or $15 for After the screenings Wet’suwet’en 7 to 9 pm at the Castle Theatre, 185 Marilyn James will open the evening students and low-income folks. For hereditary chief Adam Gagnon, Columbia in Castlegar to learn about and Flora Borealis (April Lavine more information or if you would Since 1986 1986 and honourary UNBC professor the Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders and Matt Vanshake) will share some like to contribute to the silent auction Get the jump on spring with our Antonia Mills who worked on the in Canada. musical inspirations. please contact Aaron: korbachs.a@ sale on select items. Delgamuukw case, will speak to the A similar event will be held in Following a screening of gmail.com or Scott: scott.jacob. Open Tuesday through audiences about Wet’suwet’en Land Nelson on Saturday, March 21, as a the short film Invasion, a panel [email protected]. Saturday. Defenders and their struggle to have fundraiser for water protectors, from discussion will ensue featuring Check out the Facebook 250.353.2566 their sovereign land rights and title 6-9 pm at Nelson United Church Wet’suwet’en member Jennifer pages: facebook.com/events/ 408 Front Street, Kaslo, BC recognized. on unceded Sinixt territory. This Wickham of the Gidimt’en Clan, 859473837808228/ or facebook. www.figmentscanada.com Film Synopsis: In this era of fundraiser will include the film Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief Adam com/events/886626945106875/. ‘reconciliation’, Indigenous land is screening as well as dinner, keynote Gagnon, and Antonia Mills who Email: [email protected]. still being taken at gunpoint. Invasion is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Café Langham & JVH School present The Grizzlies Camp, the Gidimt’en checkpoint submitted at the Langham theatre. $10 helps support JVH Outdoor and the larger Wet’suwet’en The Grizzlies is based on the suggested donation at the door Adventure students. Nation standing up to the Canadian inspiring true story of the youth government and corporations who of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, who were continue colonial violence against transformed by the power of sport, Indigenous people. tradition, and community and, in The Unist’ot’en Camp has turn, transformed their town with been a beacon of resistance for the highest suicide rate in all of nearly 10 years. It is a healing North America into a model of space for Indigenous people and hope and youth-led resilience. settlers alike, and an active example The youth overcome their of decolonization. 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New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 Thursday March 12, 7 pm March 12, 2020 The Valley Voice COMMUNITY 7 Slocan Valley resident recovering from snowmobile accident by Jan McMurray trail on her back. When she Judy Kanigan, stayed with at midnight. The accident Mark Kooznetsoff of scene. They did quite a good Sharon Milton, Slocan tried to get up, she couldn’t Sharon. Sharon sent Brent up happened between 2:30 and Castlegar Search and Rescue job with the equipment and Valley resident and Slocan because her right leg was to Grizzly Creek Cabin to get 3 pm. says when the team met resources they had on hand.” Valley Snowmobile paralyzed. the spine board kept there for The next day (Monday), the SVSA snowcat that Kooznetsoff says Neil Association (SVSA) “We knew she was in emergencies. she underwent three hours of evening, they did a quick came to the Castlegar SAR volunteer, is recovering from trouble, but we didn’t know When Neil and Lee surgery, and came out with medical assessment on Hall one practice evening a spiral femur fracture she if she had internal bleeding returned with the snowcat, a titanium road from hip to Sharon and determined she to thank the team and make suffered in a backcountry or what. It was scary,” Neil they tried to get Sharon onto knee. “She lost a lot of blood. probably had an upper femur a donation from the SVSA. snowmobile accident on said. the spine board. “We dug She had blood pressure and fracture, which turned out “That was very generous of January 19. Unfortunately, Neil sent their son about the board down in the snow hemoglobin issues all week. to be the case. “She was in them,” Kooznetsoff said. “A she ended up lying in the 10 km down the road to the to be flush with her body so We finally got to go home on a considerable amount of good outcome is really all we snow under two emergency staging area of the local we could slide her on. Every Friday,” Neil says. pain, so we administered need, but a genuine thank blankets for more than six heli-ski operation, Valhalla time we tried to move her Ben Whitton from pain medication. One SAR you is very appreciated and hours in excruciating pain Powdercats, to ask them to onto the board, the pain was the Valhalla Powdercats member stayed with her on it’s nice to get a donation. before her companions were come with their snowcat to unbearable for her. She got (Snowwater Heli Skiing) the back of the snowcat and It’s certainly not necessary, able to get her down to the rescue Sharon. When Lee herself on by sitting up and explained that the company’s continued administering the but the gesture is very ambulance at the Grizzly got there, the guests were bracing her hands by her side policy is to ensure that all pain medication on the way appreciated. Creek parking lot. loading onto the snowcat and just inching onto the guests are safely off the down. It helped, but she “Castlegar Search and Sharon, her husband to return to base. One of board. It was painful too, but mountain and back at was still experiencing a lot Rescue would like to wish Neil, son Lee and two other the employees called the she was in control of how she the base before assisting of pain. Sharon a speedy and healthy SVSA volunteers went out company owner, and then was moving. It took a while,” in public rescues. “In this “Kudos to the people on recovery.” that day on their sleds to had to tell Lee they were Neil said. particular case, we did assist pack down Grizzly Creek unable to come, but that they They got Sharon onto once our guests were off Trail. The deep snow would call Castlegar Search the snowcat and about 200 of the mountain and back made this a necessary step and Rescue. yards down the trail, they at our base. As soon as we prior to grooming, which Lee returned to the ran into Castlegar Search and heard of the incident, our was to happen a few days scene and reported that the Rescue. Then the Valhalla office/dispatch immediately later. The SVSA snowcat Powdercats wouldn’t come. Powdercats snowcat with contacted Castlegar Search (with grooming equipment “I was shocked and felt groomer arrived, which and Rescue for an immediate attached) was in the Grizzly helpless,” he said. “I couldn’t Neil says “lay a really nice response. After our guests Creek parking lot, buried believe they refused to help smooth trail” for them were safely back at our under snow with a dead someone in dire need.” down to the Grizzly Creek base, which is our legal battery. At that point, Neil says parking lot. Sharon was then obligation to them, two of Neil says Sharon hit a he and Lee went to the transported in the Search our staff members returned bump in the trail and then Grizzly Creek parking lot to and Rescue vehicle to the to the scene to groom the a second one, and was sent dig out the SVSA snowcat bottom of the Passmore trail out from Grizzly with over the handlebars with her and jumpstart the dead forestry road, where the our snowcat to help ensure right foot stuck under the battery. The other two SVSA ambulance was waiting. She a smooth transfer for the hood area. She landed off the volunteers, Brent Larsen and got to the hospital in Trail injured sledder.” A tribute to Marilyn Burgoon on World Water Day submitted Centre was fined $175,000. understand that these laws life and her work affected This year’s celebration The majority of the fine – exist and what their roles are the lives of everyone in the of World Water Day in $165,000 – will be directed in maintaining a relationship Slocan Valley. Slocan will be something to the Environmental with the landscape.” special. On March 22 at Damages Fund to be used Burgoon was not one Advertise in the the Slocan Legion, the for fish habitat conservation to seek the limelight. Perry Ridge Water Users efforts in the Slocan Valley, Nonetheless, her friends Valley Voice. Association and her close according to a release from and associates feel the need friend and Sinix’t matriarch the province’s Conservation to honour her memory, It pays!!! Marilyn James will host Officer Service. and will now have the Call 358-7218 for details a High Tea and Tribute to It is particularly fitting opportunity to share the [email protected] Marilyn Burgoon, who died that a tribute to Marilyn many stories of how her last December 18. Burgoon is part of this People are asked to year’s celebration. She gather at 1 pm at the pavilion and Marilyn James and Think spring! on the lakefront and then go other water protectors Potting soils, flats, to the lake for prayers for have worked together to the water. At 2 pm everyone make this event happen for inserts, pots, rakes, will move on to the Legion. several years. James says wheelbarrows, Participants are invited to her friend’s involvement Bird Seed share stories and memories in this work epitomizes wagons as part of the tribute, which the concept of smum iem, & Feeders 4” azaleas, lilies, will last until 4 pm. meaning “belongs to the roses, primula, cut Burgoon was noted as women.” Animal feed for a fierce protector of water. According to James, chickens, horses, flower bouquets She headed up the PRWUA, “Everything in this tum pigs, sheep, dogs, defending Perry Ridge and xúlaʔx [traditional territory, cats & more advocating for it to be a mother earth] belongs park. to the women. We own Sump pumps, hoses, Most notably, she sought everything, all the land, septic tanks & pipe, justice for those affected all the resources, all the fence & fencing when Lemon Creek and the children, all the hunger, all Slocan River were poisoned the pain, everything. We Snow blower by a fuel spill in 2014. Her women play a central role $799.00 unending persistence forced in the laws and how people Priced to clear the government to take the behave on this landscape. Lemon Creek spill seriously The first rule of smum iem #4 sunshine mix spring special and seek redress in court. is take care of yourself and $900.00 for 30 bales/$30 each/ pallet pricing only/ On February 21 of this year your family responsibilities. must take whole pallet for this price. – sadly too late for her to The second rule is, be of see it – she was vindicated service. It was and still when Executive Flight is our job to help people 8 NAKUSP & THE ARROW LAKES The Valley Voice March 12, 2020 Nakusp council, February 24: Y2Y study on economy and ecology presented by Hannah Lisgo surrounding ecosystems, Raynolds said, The project proposes the use of the make things simpler and keep visitors that RCMP and ambulance services have • Nadine Raynolds of Y2Y making it a great place to do the research. medical bus to transport vulnerable and here, Miller said. switched to a digital communication (Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation The research was conducted by Gary isolated residents to health and wellness • Director of Finance Mark Tennant frequency that is not compatible with that Initiative) gave a presentation about Bull, head of the UBC Forest Resources activities, services and resources; the reported surpluses in all departments at of the fire department. He will be looking a research project commissioned by Management Department and Jeremy priority for the use of the bus will still the end of 2019, and higher revenues into updating the fire department’s Y2Y: ‘Exploring emerging economic Williams of ArborVitae Environmental be for those with medical appointments at the Hot springs and municipal equipment in order to facilitate an open opportunities in the Columbia Services, who interviewed 30 community and seniors. campground in 2019 than in 2018. In line of communication between services. Headwaters.’ The purpose of the study leaders from a range of backgrounds and • Councillor Miller reported on January this year, however, hot springs • The Village of Nakusp will join was to “explore the opportunities and sectors. the work of the Off Road Vehicle revenues were down due to the extended the BC Rural Health Network as a challenges in providing for a strong local Research results show that there is Committee, a citizens’ group which he power outages over the holiday season. regular member at an annual cost economy while sustaining the region’s next to no engagement with Indigenous chairs. The committee is looking into the Revenues were $49,848 this January of $50. A staff report from Tennant ecological integrity.” This project is a communities, who see the impacts of issue of ORVs on roads and highways. compared to $55,941 last January. explains that the network is comprised step into “exploring the intersection decisions but none of the benefits; that Provincial regulations state that ORVs • Council approved a Development of healthcare advocacy organizations between ecosystem and economy,” forestry, tourism and recreation are are allowed only on trails; however, the Variance Permit for the former Nick’s working in cooperation with healthcare Raynolds said. exceeding what the natural landscape RCMP can issue a permit for road use Place property. The owners plan to create policymakers. The purpose of the In the Columbia Headwaters can handle; and that there is a shared for individual vehicles. The committee a residence with a small commercial network is to promote a health services (Revelstoke, Golden and Nakusp) in opinion that the provincial government is would like to see residents and visitors business at the back of the building. The system that improves and sustains the particular, the current economies are not playing its part to adequately manage of Nakusp able to drive their ORVs on zoning bylaw stipulates that the residence health and well-being of residents of rural dependent on the sustainability of the the land. roads and highways in order to reach be above or behind the business in the communities across BC. New Denver, Raynolds plans to convene a meeting area trails, rather than having to load core commercial zone. Silverton, Slocan, Kaslo and Castlegar of Indigenous and non-Indigenous up the vehicles on trailers. This would • Fire Chief Terry Warren reported are all members. leaders to facilitate a discussion. The full report detailing these findings can Trust provides $1 million+ to tackle wildfire risks be found at columbiaheadwaters.org. submitted others. The Trust also provides advice The City of Rossland will limb • Council will provide a letter of Although the ground remains to communities through a wildfire and thin trees to reduce the amount support to Arrow & Slocan Lakes snowy, communities throughout the advisor. of wildfire fuel in 12.5 hectares near Community Services for its Health Columbia Basin are thinking ahead The Regional District of Central the community. However, instead of LOOKING FOR A KITTEN? Connection Project and related as to how to reduce the risks of Kootenay has been approved for burning or chipping the woody debris, “Earl Gray” is a delightful 6-month old, application for CBT Community wildfires. Several projects will help $493,000; in collaboration with it will create hugels to improve the neutered male kitten. He is very playful, loves Initiatives and Affected Areas funding. to keep people and places safer with partners it will use various treatments overall health of the forest. This means to cuddle and is well socialized with other pets. more than $1 million from Columbia and methodologies to explore ways the debris will be piled into shallow Call PALS today at 250-265-3792 to see if “Earl Nakusp Basin Trust’s Community Wildfire to reduce wildfire fuels surrounding excavated or natural depressions and Gray” is the right fit for you! Program. These are in addition to the the communities of Kaslo, Nakusp then covered with soil, seeds and more than $1.5 million the Trust has and Creston. The findings will then mulch. SPRING IS IN THE AIR! NOW is the time to spay Launch Club and neuter your pets. PALS reminds you that (Non-profit Society) already provided since 2012 to help be analyzed to develop prescription “Hugels build soil, reduce erosion, we have ongoing assistance for those struggling communities prepare for and reduce guidelines and performance standards capture moisture, improve water financially with the costs of responsible pet care. Annual General the risks of wildfires. that other communities can use and retention, cycle slow-release nutrients, WEEKLY SPONSOR: Meeting “Anyone who’s been in the region learn from to protect themselves from retain carbon and create habitat for in the past few years has witnessed wildfire. native vegetation and underground Monday, March 16 how wildfires can choke the air and “The completed pilot projects shelter for wildlife, plus will increase 7 pm put communities in danger,” said will directly help mitigate the impacts the aesthetics and safety of our local Nakusp EMS Building in Nakusp Johnny Strilaeff, CBT President of wildfire on the communities,” trail system. They’re not constrained (250) 265-3635 www.selkirkrealty.com and Chief Executive Officer. “With said Joel Hamilton, Wildfire by the limited season for burn piles, realities of climate change, these risks Mitigation Supervisor. “They will and should cost about the same,” said Individual, couple and family therapy within a goal-oriented are increasing, and communities are also demonstrate a high level of Andrew Bennett, project lead. “Once process to address your need to feel better, more in control, and prioritizing reducing the impacts of collaboration between key players, completed, we will produce replicable freer to make healthy decisions and live into them. wildfires in the Basin.” from municipalities to recreation templates, such as a how-to-hugel Alice Watson M.Ed. Counselling Psychology 250-265-3328 The successful projects are using groups, and provide findings for other guide and a slideshow of lessons *Member of Canadian Counsellor and Psychotherapy Association, innovative methods or spreading the communities to potentially benefit learned, so the methods can be used CBT certificate holder, 17+ years’ experience. word by educating the public and from.” elsewhere in the Basin and BC.” Nakusp to host BC Community Forest Association AGM in May by Jan McMurray and First Nations. Conference volunteering at the event can contact Nakusp will host the BC Community sponsors include Kalesnikoff, CBT NACFOR: 250-265-3656 or f.swan@ Forest Association (BCCFA) AGM this and the RDCK.Anyone interested in truenorthforestry.com. year, May 27-29. The conference is expected to bring about 100 people to BC wildfire grants announced for Nakusp. Nakusp, Kaslo, Silverton and the RDCK “It’s pretty exciting that the by Jan McMurray have not covered 100% of project costs, conference and AGM will be in The Villages of Nakusp, Kaslo and so communities have had to make up the Nakusp this year,” says Frances Swan Silverton and the RDCK are recipients difference. In our area, the Columbia of NACFOR (Nakusp and Area in the latest round of provincial funding Basin Trust has offered grants to help Community Forest). “It is a great to reduce wildfire risks. with the community’s share of the costs. opportunity to showcase NACFOR The Province is providing almost The Village of Nakusp is receiving initiatives to a provincial audience, $9 million in this round to help 89 $150,832 to assist with education, and good exposure for tourism and local governments and First Nations development, FireSmart activities for businesses in the Arrow Lakes area.” protect their homes, businesses and private land, and fuel management. Swan said BCCFA staff were communities against the threat of The Village of Kaslo is receiving interested in bringing the conference wildfires. New this time is that the $139,800 to assist with education, back to the Kootenays, so Hugh Watt funding will cover 100% of project planning, inter-agency cooperation, of NACFOR suggested Nakusp when costs. cross-training, FireSmart activities for he was at the conference last year. The “Indigenous and non-Indigenous private land, and fuel management. last time the conference was held in the communities are on the front lines of The Village of Silverton is receiving Kootenays was in 2012, when it was wildfire prevention, and we removed $440,000 to assist with education, hosted in Kaslo. barriers so our Community Resiliency development, inter-agency cooperation, The conference includes field trips, Investment program met their needs,” emergency planning, cross-training, information sessions, a banquet and said Doug Donaldson, Minister of FireSmart demonstration projects, awards presentation, and a silent auction. Forests, Lands, Natural Resource FireSmart activities for private land and Proceeds of the silent auction will go Operations and Rural Development, fuel management towards student sponsorships for the announced this important change to The Regional District of Central 2021 conference. the provincial Community Resiliency Kootenay is receiving $267,000 to Swan expects about 100 delegates Investment Program (CRIP) in a March assist with education, cross-training, from community forests, government 9 press release. Until now, CRIP grants and FireSmart activities for private land. March 12, 2020 The Valley Voice COMMUNITY 9 Kaslo Eurythmy Studio offers classes and performances by Jan McMurray Colin explained that making visible the rise and fall of into the world, people asked him Sophia Grey. “We’re so excited Centre and Homelinks, and Colin and Wendy Poer eurythmy is an art form that was pitch, and tone. Every note in the about a new form of dance that that our group is coming up,” Wendy has been teaching at the moved to Kaslo in fall 2018 and created by Rudolf Steiner, who scale of music has a movement would be in harmony with the Wendy said. “Once you see it, it Nelson Waldorf School. opened the Eurythmy Studio on also created Waldorf education, in eurythmy. There’s a specific creative force of the universe. He makes more of an impression.” The Eurythmy Studio Front Street. biodynamic farming, and gesture for all the notes. It’s began exploring how to make the In the performance, the in Kaslo offers classes, “We first heard about anthroposophy. Wendy described learning how to sing or speak sounds of speech and tone visible eurythmists will be playing live performances and one-time Kaslo from our eurythmy and eurythmy as “choreography that with your whole being.” through ensouled gestures, music – cello, flute, recorders, events about eurythmy. Colin anthroposophy teachers, Karen makes music visible.” The four-year program at and this was the beginning of guitar and voice – as well as and Wendy are thinking about and Michael McPherson,” Colin Colin added that the medium the American Eurythmy School eurythmy. doing eurythmy. offering an open stage event explained. “They came up here doesn’t have to be music – it can includes study in music, speech, The Eurythmy Studio in Colin says the move to Kaslo regularly in the studio, and about about 20 years ago and fell in love be speech or poetry. grammar, poetry, rhythm. Kaslo is hosting performances has been very positive. “We organizing community theatre with the place. They bought the “It’s very much about sound. Colin explained that when on March 27 and 28 by the group feel very welcome here and it’s productions. They also have building on the main street about It’s making visible the audible Rudolf Steiner brought his Colin and Wendy have worked wonderful for our son here,” he opened a bookstore in the front 15 years ago with the dream that world,” Wendy said. “You’re philosophy, called anthroposophy, with in Northern California, as said. They have worked with the of the studio with new and used someday there could be a home well as Slocan Valley eurythmist children at Periwinkle Childcare books. for eurythmy and anthroposophy here.” Colin and Wendy first visited Kaslo about the time they got married, and, like their teachers and so many before them, they fell in love with the place. About a year and a half ago, they decided it was time to move to Kaslo for part of the year and start making the dream of a Kaslo eurythmy studio come true. The couple still lives part of the year in Northern California, where they’ve taught and performed eurythmy for almost 20 years. This is also where the American Eurythmy School is located, where they both completed their four years Colin and Wendy Poer offer eurythmy classes and performances at the of eurythmy training. Eurythmy Studio & Book Store on Kaslo’s main street. Local politicians provide input into federal budget submitted broadband, local governments transportation solutions and Regional District Directors are ready to bring life to the access to adequate broadband. Leah Main (Silverton councillor) commitments we’ve heard Local climate action and Suzan Hewat (Kaslo mayor) from this government,” said that builds better lives: participated in the Federation Board Director Main. “It is an Making housing more energy of Canadian Municipalities opportunity for the government efficient, strengthening tools board meeting in St-Hyacinthe, to show it can deliver for the for local disaster mitigation, Québec, where FCM released Kootenays, and FCM is offering climate resilience and natural its recommendations for the a clear path toward results that infrastructure enhancement, and upcoming federal budget, people can see and feel in their emissions with permanent transit ‘Building Better Lives with daily lives.” funding, while accelerating Budget 2020.’ FCM belives FCM’s submission lays out transit electrification,. that this budget represents a three paths to delivering for New progress on housing key opportunity to improve the Canadians through Budget 2020, affordability: Filling key everyday lives of Canadians as follows. gaps in the National Housing with critical investments in Strengthening Strategy by investing directly in clean public transit, housing communities of all sizes: supportive housing, along with affordability and infrastructure Shoring up key funding tools social/affordable housing for for communities of all sizes. for better local infrastructure, Indigenous households—while “Whether it’s permanent investing directly in Canada’s opening a new front of leadership transit funding, climate rural and northern communities, on the affordability of market action, or access to adequate including rural mobility and rental housing. RCMP identify Vallican deceased submitted investigation and has asked that this investigation. Anyone with RCMP have finally released their privacy be respected. any additional information is the identity of a man found The RCMP wish to thank the asked to contact the RCMP dead in the south Slocan Valley local communities of the Slocan Southeast District Major Crime October 8, 2019. Valley for their cooperation with Unit at 1-877-987-8477. “In an effort to advance the investigation, the deceased has been positively identified as Aaron Graham, 47, of Vallican,” says a February 25 press release from spokesperson Cpl. Jesse O’Donaghey. “An autopsy has confirmed that Graham’s death ‘involved criminality’. “No arrests have been made … To protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation no further details of his death will be released at this time.” Graham’s family provided a photograph to assist with the Aaron Graham was found dead in the south Slocan Valley October 8, 2019. 10 COMMUNITY The Valley Voice March 12, 2020 West Kootenay artists receive award of excellence at juried exhibition submitted and help people to experience joy, and Brown and Strouhal say it is a Slocan Valley artists Barbara peace in themselves and also remove great privilege to have been selected Brown and Frantisek Strouhal were and transform the cause of prejudices to participate in the Healing Power of juried into the Healing Power of Arts and fear. A work of art can help people Arts exhibition that promote art which and Artists (HPAA) exhibition from grasp the nature of their sorrow and expresses new and unique aspects of Manhattan Arts International and give them the ability to understand how humanity, nature, social, political, and received Awards of Excellence. HPAA to transform the negative and develop spiritual realms to help us learn, evolve is a growing global community of artists, the positive in themselves.” and transform. advocates, and writers dedicated to Barbara Brown (barbarabrownart. You can view the exhibition from raising awareness about how art serves com) is an artist, author and forest- February 20 – April 20 at healing- as a positive catalyst for enhancing the walker. She combines her deep power-of-art.org/the-healing-power- well-being of individuals, society and connection to the natural world with of-art-2020/. the environment. They believe that art her mission to bring the beauty and has the power to heal, inspire, provoke, wonder of the forest to others, thereby Paddle challenge and offer hope. helping them to deepen their own Frantisek Strouhal, a visual artist connection to nature. (virtually) down Detail from Frantisek Strouhal’s My Freedom. and writer, explores the layers of With her chosen artwork titled emotional complexity contained within Graceful Elderberry, Barbara says “I the Yukon’s the human form. Each brushstroke strive to bring to others the healing Snake River leaves a trace of timeless nostalgia, a magic, the beauty and the wonder, of submitted feeling that floods the mind and body of the forest. As we mend our broken The Langham’s popular memories made of love and heartache, connection with nature we heal our Adventure Travel Series returns dreams that are alive and dreams lost own nature. And, as we fall back in love with adventures on Yukon’s Snake along the way. with our mother Earth, in our healed River. Join intrepid Kaslovian To accompany his chosen wholeness, at one with her, she will be Rob McClure for this engaging artwork titled My Freedom, Strouhal healed as she in turn heals us. Every multi-media presentation featuring (frantisekstrouhal.com) says that “by painting contains an otherworldly stunning slides and intriguing stories creating art, I contribute to the work of aspect of symbolism or geometry to about his month-long canoeing and the universal awakening of humanity, convey the feeling behind the image.” hiking trip along the Snake River in the Mackenzie Mountains, a very remote part of north eastern Yukon. Grizzly bears, alpine flowers and amazing views are featured! Two show dates and times: Saturday March 21 at 7 pm, and then Sunday March 22 at 3 pm. $10 suggested donation at the door. www. thelangham.ca. Support the Valley Voice with a voluntary subscription Only $10-$30 Send Cheque or Money Order to: Valley Voice, Box 70, New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 Detail from Barbara Brown’s Graceful Elderberry. March 12, 2020 The Valley Voice COMMUNITY 11 Standing ovation for ‘From the Heart’ performance by Mt. Sentinel and Sequoia students by Jan McMurray funded four of these youth-led and Learning Circle at the Nelson Writes: A Guide to First Nations, show at Touchstones, as well. From A very powerful performance projects in BC. Library on March 10, and will host Metis & Inuit Issues in Canada by the Heart Art Show collaborators on the topic of reconciliation was The students hosted a public five book study sessions March 31- Chelsea Vowel. Mann says there is are encouraged to contact Mann at presented by Mt. Sentinel and debrief session about the performance June 9 at the library on Indigenous interest in putting together an art [email protected]. Sequoia high school students at the Capitol Theatre on March 5, titled ‘From the Heart: One Day. One Circle.’ “If we have a strong circle, then we can all heal together,” said Jennah, MSSS student participant, in an interview. Andrea Mann, Aboriginal Education teacher who coordinated the project, added that colonialism has caused trauma not only for Indigenous peoples but also for those who have witnessed it. She said healing both individually and collectively is at the core of reconciliation. “We can’t do either without doing both, so if we have a strong circle, then we feel supported to do the hard work needed to heal as individuals and as a collective.” Ryan, another student participant, said the project gave him an opportunity to speak about things that are truly important to him. “If it weren’t for that program, I wouldn’t have found that voice,” he said. The performance was the A very powerful performance on the topic of reconciliation was presented by Mt. Sentinel and Sequoia high school students at the Capitol Theatre on March 5, titled ‘From the Heart: One Day. One Circle.’ culmination of seven months of learning from Elders, artists, community members and each other. The students met in circle at least once a week, took a trip to the former St. Eugene Residential School in Cranbrook, made drums in ceremony with Elders, created hip hop songs and videos with KosmicT (Tanin shunter), worked with Indigenous stories, and much more. In addition to sharing Indigenous songs and stories with the audience, the students also shared their exploration of some difficult issues – residential schools, missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women, ecological grief and racism. They presented a play about residential schools by Indigenous playwright Tara Beagan, They Know Not What They Do. “There was some risk taking in this,” Mann said. “We were worried about what people would think, that the show might cause controversy. There was a lot of anxiety, especially for some of the students. We supported each other through that. We wondered if we even wanted to do the show at the Capitol, but we are so happy we did. The feedback has been very positive and we’re happy we got up and talked about these subjects.” The performance was very well received by the audience, who sang and clapped along with the music during the show, and gave a heartfelt standing ovation at the end. The project was supported with $29,000 in funding from VIDEA, an international development organization based in Victoria. Five representatives from the organization attended the performance at the Capitol Theatre and were amazed. “When you see young people doing work like that, you have so much hope for our future,” said Rachel Barr of VIDEA. The organization 12 COMMUNITY The Valley Voice March 12, 2020 Tyson Bartel offers somatic bodywork intro specials at Healing Suites Collective in Winlaw by Jan McMurray says, “because their aches and pains using your body in misalignment Tyson is now offering Bindu Studio in Winlaw, the Slocan Tyson Bartel of Sacred Earth are usually due to poor physics in for a long time. Your body wears out introductory specials on his 1 hour, Legion and Passmore Lodge. Somatics is now offering his their skeletal structure. Somatics faster if it’s not in alignment.” 1 ½-hour, and 2-hour bodywork Tyson can be contacted at: 250- bodywork treatments at the Healing improves the brain and nervous Tyson has extensive experience sessions at the Healing Suites 551-8505 and his website for classes Suites Collective in Winlaw, in the system regulation of the body’s in Thai massage, yoga therapy and Collective in Winlaw. He also and Somatic Bodywork bookings building beside Mama Sita’s, Unit natural efficiency to move in daily Feldenkrais. His bodywork sessions teaches yoga and Feldenkrais at is:-http://sacredearthsomatics.com/ #4 next to Emery Herbals. life.” draw on all three forms according to “Somatic bodywork is often a Tyson says knee and hip each person’s unique needs, creating game changer for people,” Tyson replacements are “usually about powerful healing potential. Some of the techniques that Tyson ASK YOUR PHARMACIST uses include Thai-style acupressure We’re here for you to massage the body’s energy lines, NEW DENVER COMMUNITY PHARMACY reflexology (foot massage), and the Feldenkrais techniques of Functional 250-358-2500 Integration. Starting as a yoga teacher and Nakusp Medication Delivery Thai massage therapist in 1994, Tyson saw how his practice blossomed learning from Dr. Moshe Delivered to Feldenkrais. Nakusp Hospital “Feldenkrais can seem like yoga and yet is based in the neuroscience every Thursday of movement re-patterning. You explore movements in a way that evening! improves neuromuscular function,” Tyson said. New Denver – 309 6th Avenue • M-F 10:00-5:30 As a young man, Tyson had chronic back pain. He was able to manage the pain temporarily with yoga, but despite trying conventional medicine and many other things, he did not regain good back health until he found Feldenkrais. After attending a Feldenkrais workshop, Tyson was filled with hope that this was the answer to his back problem. He continued studying and practicing Feldenkrais on his own, and then took a four- year training in Seattle to become a certified Feldenkrais teacher. “That has been the best educational experience for my own health and well-being, and also for my career Tyson Bartel is offering somatic bodywork treatments combining Thai massage, yoga therapy as a wellness professional.” and Feldenkrais in Winlaw. Winlaw Elementary celebrates Carnaval submitted Curriculum Support teacher, students students to have a French Canadian The students at Winlaw Elementary broke into multi-age groups in the cultural experience, and have some fun School hosted their own version of afternoon and circulated through featured while learning the language.” Quebec Winter Carnaval on Tuesday activities like snow sculpting, an obstacle Special guest Maurice Trudel, March 3 to learn more about French course and the Canadian classic maple representing the Nelson & Area Métis Canadian culture, characters and cuisine syrup on a stick dipped in snow. They Association, and his family engaged the from this popular annual mid-winter played a bingo game in French, learning students in a fun Métis jigging session, celebration. new words and phrases en français. learning some basic dance steps and With direction from Vanessa Finnie, Prior to the afternoon festivities, about the traditional Métis sash. School District 8’s Innovative Learning students enjoyed a free lunch of tourtière The first major Carnaval made (meat pie) provided by the PAC. its debut in 1894 in Quebec City, a Even Carnaval de Quebec official celebration intended to relieve the tedium representative Bonhomme, a snowman- of winter and gather the community like character, made an appearance. together and provide some relief from Bonhomme wears a red tuque and harsh cold conditions. arrow sash to honour the Métis heroes Luckily for the Winlaw students, the of the past. sun was shining and the temperatures Winlaw French teacher Sue Peel were above freezing, but there was still helped to organize the event and said, plenty of snow in the valley to make it “It’s a great opportunity for all of our feel like a winter celebration!

Bonhomme made an appearance at Winlaw Elementary School’s version of Quebec Winter Carnaval. Bonhomme wears a red tuque and arrow sash to honour the Métis heroes of the past. March 12, 2020 The Valley Voice COMMUNITY 13 Only minor injuries in log truck rollover submitted responded to a single vehicle accident golf course north of New Denver. The and trailer to end up on its side and lose Hydro arrived on scene to deem the On March 2 at approximately 11:13 involving a loaded logging truck. The preliminary investigation indicates the the load of logs. They rolled down the power lines safe and the truck and am RCMP, along with tractor and trailer was travelling south driver lost control by failing to negotiate embankment causing damage to a BC trailer were removed from the roadway, the New Denver Fire Department, on Hwy 6 near Jacobs Road, near the a curve in the road, causing the tractor Hydro power pole. allowing full highway access for traffic. The driver of the tractor, the sole The incident and cause of the Volunteers needed to lend a hand at tax time occupant, was able to escape the cab accident are still under investigation. submitted free tax preparation clinics in various prepare their income tax and benefit with minimal injuries and was taken to “We would like to remind motorists Volunteers with Canada Revenue locations including schools, churches, returns. hospital by BC Ambulance for medical that the road conditions are changing Agency’s (CRA) Community Volunteer seniors’ residences, and nursing homes. The CRA offers free training and attention. quickly at this time of year with freezing Income Tax Program (CVITP) help Community organizations find the tax preparation software to community Hwy 6 was closed for a short period and thawing. Please take care, especially complete over half a million tax returns CVITP an excellent way to reach out organizations and their volunteers. 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BC Jaime Moffat of Slocan Lake RCMP. looking for community organizations community prepare and file their tax For those who have a modest income to host tax preparation clinics and returns ensures these individuals receive and a simple tax situation, volunteers for volunteers to prepare tax returns. the benefits and credits they’re entitled may be able to prepare and file income Individuals must be willing to work to without interruptions,” says Elisabeth tax and benefit returns – for free. These with their local community organization Martin, CRA Local CVITP Coordinator. clinics are usually open from February and have a basic understanding of Last year, approximately 2,480 to the end of April every year. To find income tax. Community organizations volunteers and 500 community a clinic near you, go to canada.ca/ and their volunteers have offered organizations helped 102,790 individuals taxes-help. Mental health issues explored in podcast series by Charlotte Farrell, Lucerne School health topics,” Horn said in an interview. vaping, mind-body awareness, bipolar work experience student The first episode of season two is disorder and healthy eating will be The second season of a podcast about self-injury. In the podcast, Horn covered. Topics are chosen based on series dealing with mental health issues speaks to a youth who has lived through concerns of the parents and families who facing families and youth was recently it and a clinical counsellor who has access the Kelty Centre, with input from launched by the Kelty Mental Health helped many youths struggling with clinical counsellors. Resource Centre at the BC Children’s this issue. They look at the underlying The podcast is named ‘Where You Hospital. Michelle Horn and Bryn issues of self-harm, how youth use it as Are’ because of the Kelty Centre’s work Askwith are co-hosts of ‘Where You a coping mechanism, and what parents to “meet families where they are” and to Are,’ which has received five-star and families can do to help. find strategies and ways to help families reviews. Nine episodes were released last get the help they need, Horn explained. “We began ‘Where You Are’ last year, covering a range of topics, including You can find all ‘Where You Are’ year to help parents and youth have easy anxiety, ADHD, sleep, mindfulness and podcasts at Keltymentalhealth.ca/ On March 2 at approximately 11:13 am Slocan Lake RCMP, along with the New Denver Fire access to credible information on mental medication. In the upcoming season, podcast. Department, responded to a single vehicle accident involving a loaded logging truck. BC Hydro Review generating new ideas for clean power $ submitted and support the development of its by the BC Utilities Commission. BC The interim report from Phase Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to be Hydro’s five-year rates forecast is now The Apple Tree 2 of the BC Hydro Review has been filed with the BC Utilities Commission approximately 55% lower than the Present this coupon at time of released, focusing on leveraging BC’s in early 2021. The IRP outlines how 13.7% cumulative increase for the same purchase to receive a blueberry clean hydroelectricity to meet the BC Hydro plans to safely provide period under the previous government’s muffin and a regular coffee Province’s climate goals, support reliable, affordable, clean electricity to 10-year rates plan, and more than 40% economic development and make life meet customers’ needs now and into lower than the 10.7% forecast rate of (refill included) for $5.50 more affordable. the future. BC inflation over the same period. Offer expires April 1/2020 The report describes the scope, Phase 1 of the review was To view the interim report on context and work to date for Phase 2 completed in February 2019. It resulted Phase 2 of the BC Hydro review, of the review. It presents a number of in immediate actions to contain BC visit: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ ideas for discussion, including: Hydro’s costs, keep rates affordable industry/electricity-alternative-energy/ The Apple - optional rate designs to encourage and expand independent oversight electricity/bc-hydro-review-phase-2. the shift from fossil fuels to electricity in vehicles, homes and businesses and Langham’s Guest Artist: The Marc Atkinson Trio Tree achieve the emission reduction targets submitted laidback humour and casual ‘good in CleanBC; Marc Atkinson is one of Canada’s time feel’ of Canada’s West Coast. 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His virtuosic group accessible and absorbing – and good- Call for Nominations plays melodically captivating, sensually- naturedly welcomes all listeners aboard clean electricity at the least cost to keep The ARROW SLOCAN TOURISM ASSOCIATION (ASTA) Nominations charged acoustic music and blazing for an intriguing, exhilarating and rates affordable; Committee invite nominations to fill the six Director positions available for Gypsy Jazz. Atkinson is known for his unforgettable ride! - a 100% clean electricity standard, election in June 2020 at ASTA’s Annual General Meeting: which would be the first provincial catchy compositions that take the acoustic Don’t miss Atkinson in the intimate standard of its kind in Canada; and guitar beyond the usual repertoire Langham theatre Saturday March 14 at • Three seats for MRDT Collectors – one from each of the following areas: - key issues and themes related and sound. His tunes have a fiery but 7 pm. Advance Tickets $20 at Sunnyside Arrow Lakes, Slocan Valley, backcountry lodges; to enhancing Indigenous Nations’ elegant style, infused with a blend of (250) 353-9667 or Willow (250) 353- • One seat Arts/Culture/ Heritage – Arrow Lakes; participation in the energy sector and influences, while still maintaining the 2257 in Kaslo, $22 at the door 6:30 pm. • One seat Activity/ Outdoor Recreation – Arrow Lakes; furthering reconciliation. • One seat Food/Beverage/Retail – Arrow Lakes or Slocan Valley. The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Each position is for a two-year term. We are seeking candidates with an Petroleum Resources will now gather active business in the Arrow Slocan Tourism Region (RDCK Areas H and further feedback from stakeholders, K, Villages of Nakusp, New Denver, Silverton, Slocan) with ties to the local customer groups and Indigenous tourism economy. Directors may spend approximately 3-5 hours a month on Nations and organizations based on Board business, including a monthly Board of Directors meeting. Meetings the interim report. This feedback are generally scheduled during evenings and weekends. Some work during will support the development of regular business hours may be necessary. Interested members should contact recommendations for a final report to Megan Chadwick, ASTA Executive Director, for more information and/ or to be completed later in 2020. put their name forward for election. Nominations and expressions of interest Phase 2 of the review will position by individuals will be accepted until May 24, 2020. For more information: BC Hydro for long-term success The Marc Atkinson Trio performs at the Langham theatre, Saturday, March 14. 250-265-7144 or [email protected] 14 COMMUNITY The Valley Voice March 12, 2020 Lardeau Valley Community Club offers community health training submitted by Wendy Stankevich cups in the shower and not using drive the person experiencing stroke or get more information by contacting lardeauvalleycommunityclub.ca or The Lardeau Valley Community nightlights to light the way to the symptoms, especially if it is you, Amanda Cutting by email: manager@ by phoning 250-366-4236. Club has partnered with BC bathroom at night increase the risk to the hospital. Reducing stress, Emergency Health Services to of falling. Help decrease the risk by quitting smoking, cutting back on Kaslo/Vancouver indie rockers release provide a monthly health education wearing properly fitted shoes with a excess alcohol and recreational and vitals clinic, plus weekly chair wide foot bed and deep heel cups. drugs and maintaining a healthy new EP, start cross-country tour yoga classes for Lardeau Valley While walking is very important for body weight will reduce the risk for submitted be filming a documentary about rural residents. The program has already general health and keeping mobile, it stroke. Be realistic and do not expect After premiering their new single Canada and the people who keep offered potentially life-saving does not decrease fall risk. Strength to change all unhealthy habits at the and video ‘Day As An Arrow’, art and music alive in each town, training. and balance training, such as Tai Chi same time. “Eat fresh, healthy food, Vancouver indie rock band Small interviewing locals and capturing a On February 12, Community or the SAIL Home Activity Program smell the roses, and feel the air in Town Artillery announced the band learning on the road. They also Paramedic Leanne Blancher talked through findingbalancebc.ca, can your lungs,” Blancher advised. Make release of a new four-song EP, plan to raise awareness of the issues about the risk factors for falls and decrease risk by 50%. a plan and speak up to reduce the risk Bright Side Bandits, as the band was they hold close: Indigenous rights, strokes, prevention and how to Learning the signs of a stroke can for falling and the risk for stroke. about to kick-off their 2.5 month climate, and the importance of live recognize and respond to signs of a make a vital difference in recovery. Naloxone training is scheduled Cross-Canada Tour which started in music. stroke. Blancher presented numerous Blancher spoke about the FAST for the next health education and Vancouver March 6. Originally from Kaslo and now statistics and risk factors. Isolation, acronym used to recognize and vitals clinic on March 11. Naloxone The single ‘Day as an Arrow’ based out of Vancouver, Small Town an unhealthy diet, lack of exercise teach the signs. Is one side of the injections are used to treat a narcotic “was born on the banks of the Xingu Artillery are often described as a ‘rock and taking more than four prescribed face drooping? Can the person raise overdose in an emergency situation. River in the heart of the Amazon band with a horn section’. Founding medications are factors that increase both arms? Is speech slurred or “Most drug overdoses happen at home seven years ago after seeing the members and blood brothers Tom and the risk of falling and increase the jumbled? She emphasised that “Time and are with prescribed medication,” heartbreaking displacement of Derek van Deursen have been playing risk of having a stroke. One in three is brain,” and to call 911 immediately Blancher said. Upcoming clinics Indigenous peoples as a direct result together for 20 years, realizing a adults aged 65 and over will suffer when these signs are observed. include Stop the Bleed, in April, and of industry,” says lead vocalist Tom lifelong brotherhood dream of seeing a fall this year. Sixty percent of A sudden, severe and unusual a repeat of the CPR and AED training van Deursen. “In its final form, the the world through their own music. head injuries and 90% of hip and headache, dizziness, loss of balance clinic that was held in January. song pulls taut the question of where The other band members are Carson wrist fractures are a result of falls. or sudden vision trouble can be signs Community Paramedic Emily Jowle you’d fly if you could move much Webber on bass, Alex Maher on tenor Most falls happen in the home and of a transient ischemic attack (TIA), will be leading chair yoga classes at 2 faster than the frustrating snail’s pace sax and Phil Austrom. result from slipping, tripping and which happens when blood flow to pm on Thursdays, starting March 12. of politics and reconciliation. It is Small Town Artillery’s new stumbling. Improperly secured floor the brain is temporarily blocked. Lardeau Valley residents can dedicated to the Wet’suwet’en people single ‘Day As An Arrow’ is available mats, grabs bars held on by suction She also stressed never attempt to request a medical education program of northern BC, who are relentlessly on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and fighting as you read this for their other digital retailers and streaming voices to be heard.” services. Their new EP is available The majority of the cross-country on all digital platforms. tour focuses on smaller markets Small Town Artillery plays the off the beaten path with the band JVH Lighthouse Theatre in Kaslo collaborating with local bands/artists on March 30. For more information and community programs where they and the most up-to-date tour listings, can. While on tour, the band will also please visit: smalltownartillery.com. ‘Upward to Beauty - An Easter Performance of Eurythmy, Speech and Song’ comes to Kaslo submitted by weaving together the arts of The Eurythmy Studio and Eurythmy, creative speaking , and Bookstore in Kaslo will welcome an singing. Works by Rudolf Steiner, e.e. ensemble of a dozen performers for cummings, Bach, Vaughan-Williams, a week of rehearsals and inaugural Tchaikovsky, Duruflé and others performances March 27 and 28. will be presented culminating with Eurythmy, a performing art of the Grimm’s fairytale of the Bremen movement, makes visible through Town Musicians. gesture what we hear and feel in the All are invited to join in this spoken word of poetry or story as magical creation that the creators well as the laws of music and tone. hope inspires beauty, health, and life. It can also be described as ‘visible Performances are Friday, March soul’ as the eurythmist strives to 27 at 7 pm and Saturday March 28 reveal imaginations that ‘speak’ and at 11 am (family performance) and ‘sing’ the creative origins of sound. 7 pm at the Eurythmy Studio and Brought into the world by Rudolf Bookstore, 400 Front St., Kaslo. Steiner (creator of Waldorf education, Advance tickets are available for biodynamic agriculture, and many $15 at Sunnyside Naturals or at the other cultural impulses), this art is Eurythmy Studio and Bookstore taught and performed with children (open Fridays and Saturdays), $18 at and adults throughout the world. the door. Children $5 (15 and under). This performance will bring Seating is limited. For more info call to life poems, songs, and stories Colin Poer (250) 353-7675.

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Groundwater and well monitoring seeks more participants It pays!!! submitted reached a point where water supply to manage this freshwater resource climate adaptation planning. It will Call 358-7218 for details Columbia Basin businesses and is reaching critically low levels, for the health of communities and assist conservation planning to [email protected] landowners who use groundwater for and prevent the same water stress ecosystems, especially in a changing ensure sustainable water supplies for non-domestic purposes are reminded from happening elsewhere in the climate.” human use and to maintain healthy they are legally required to apply province. Domestic groundwater Living Lakes Canada is managing ecosystems. for a water licence. This change users are exempt from licensing but the Columbia Basin Groundwater The program is looking to expand came into effect in 2016 with the are encouraged to register their well Monitoring Program, which is working the number of wells it is monitoring. new Water Sustainability Act. Four so it can be added to the provincial with citizens, local governments and Suitable wells for monitoring years later, just 15% of BC users database. other stakeholders throughout the are typically not actively used to have complied, according to a recent “Groundwater helps maintain Basin to collect groundwater data withdraw water. Interested well article published by the Partnership water levels and water quality in that otherwise would not be collected. owners (domestic and non-domestic) Our valley’s green for Water Sustainability. wetlands, streams, rivers and lakes,” This information can then be used by may contact Program Manager grocer since 1990 Licensing is needed to protect says Living Lakes Canada Executive citizens to learn about groundwater, Carol Luttmer at groundwater@ many of the regions in BC that have Director Kat Hartwig. “It’s important water management decisions, and livinglakescanada.ca. To better understand the new • Fresh CBT: imagine the possibilities to renew its plan requirements for groundwater users, to apply for a licence or to register submitted the people of the Basin,” said Johnny Plan (CBMP), developed in consultation • Organic your well, visit the BC Government For 25 years, Columbia Basin Strilaeff, President and Chief Executive with people in the Basin. Using the website at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/ Trust has been supporting your ideas Officer. “This is a time to celebrate the input received through the upcoming • Wholesome gov/content/environment/air-land- and efforts. Now the Trust is inviting legacy of that engagement, to reflect on engagement process, the Trust will water/water/water-licensing-rights/ 1290 Hwy #6 you to celebrate all that the people and our shared history, and to imagine our update its management plan and renew water-licences-approvals/new- communities of the Columbia Basin future together in the Basin. I am excited its focus areas. Crescent Valley requirements-for-groundwater-users. have accomplished together over the to hear the dreams and ideas that people The public engagement process is To learn more about Living Lakes last quarter century, and to share your bring forward and I know they will be as now starting with online engagement 250-359-7323 Canada’s Groundwater Monitoring aspirations for the future. powerful as those of the past.” and in-person community meetings Program in the Columbia Basin, visit – Open daily – “Such a significant part of the Trust’s The Trust is accountable to all the until the end of June. It also includes the (Closed Christmas & New Year’s day) https://livinglakescanada.ca/projects/ creation 25 years ago was the incredible people in the Basin. Its work is guided Symposia in Golden and Trail in October groundwater/. grassroots engagement undertaken with by the Columbia Basin Management 2020. The new plan is expected to be released early in 2021. Volunteers will continue with Pavilion gardens “We invite everyone – of all submitted there,” said Wanda Palmer on behalf backgrounds, interests and ages – to The Slocan Community Health of the auxiliary. “The gardens and the participate in the online conversation and Care Auxiliary Society (a.k.a. the memorials in them are a work of love to join us at the community meetings,” hospital auxiliary) has taken the Pavilion and beauty for all to enjoy.” said Strilaeff. “All levels of participation Memorial Gardens Committee under its For the past six years the garden are welcome: drop by for a quick chat, umbrella. committee and many volunteers have stay for the facilitated session or have “We both work towards the care worked at restoring, preserving, and your say online. Let’s imagine our future of The Community Care facility and maintaining the gardens and the trees. together.” its residents and are aware of how the Funding for the garden upkeep is done To join the conversation and imagine gardens enhance the lives of the palliative by donations, grants, and fundraising. the future of #basinlife, visit imagine. and long term residents of the Pavilion, as Watch for notices about the annual ourtrust.org or call 1-800-505-8998. well as their families and staff who work summer yard sale. Contra dance series this spring Support the submitted laugh and learn some new moves. For those who haven’t heard Join us in shaking out the winter Valley Voice of contra dancing the easiest way and welcoming in spring – grab a to describe it is that it’s like square friend or neighbour and come on with a voluntary dancing – but better. 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www.facebook.com/pages/ Vince-DeVitos-Specialty- Footwear-LTD 411 Hall Street • Nelson, BC • 250-352-6261 • Toll-free: 1-800-337-1622 16 COMMUNITY The Valley Voice March 12, 2020 New Denver council, February 25: Poverty Reduction Plan grant applied for by Kathy Hartman 15%. The UBCM program provides new slough on the Galena trail, and and paper copies are available at municipalities, give local businesses • The Village will submit a grant grants to local governments to help a new washroom, trail accessibility the Village office. All residents are a competitive advantage in the global application to develop a Poverty reduce poverty at the local level improvements and private property encouraged to complete a survey in marketplace, and lower costs for Reduction Plan for New Denver and and support the provincial poverty encroachment at Rosebery Parklands order to accurately assess the housing municipal government on taxpayers.” area. Funding of up to $25,000 is reduction strategy. Once a poverty Regional Park. The list illustrates the needs of the area. RDCK staff was The motion asked that this letter be available from the UBCM (Union plan is completed, the Village can significant growth in park projects directed to assess the feasibility of a sent to all BC municipalities asking of BC Municipalities) Poverty apply for ‘action’ funds. at the RDCK and is “the first step to centralized septage receiving facility that they write a support letter to Reduction Planning and Action • Council received a Draft align Community, Board and staff at the Castlegar lagoons. Recycling the federal Minister of Health, Patty Program. If the grant application Regional Parks Project Priority List, priorities so that work progress and transition to Recycle BC is taking Hajdu. Council did not take any is successful, the Village will which was provided to the Regional planning is transparent,” says Cary longer than expected. New Denver action. partner with Selkirk College Rural District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) Gaynor, Regional Parks Manager, in may see a full transition by mid- • Councillor Colin Moss reported Development Institute to develop board at its February meeting. The list the report. The next step will be to summer. Discussions with BC Hydro on the February 23 Slocan Lake the plan. CAO Catherine Allaway includes 146 projects rated critical, refine the list with the input from the over outages is ongoing. Garden Society (SLUGS) AGM. reported that poverty is a concern high, medium, or low. In the New RDCK board. • Council received a copy of The Society plans to continue the for the community, with 2015 data Denver area, high priority projects • Councillor Colin Moss a resolution passed by the City Summer Sundays program in 2020 showing that 21% of New Denver include a new washroom at Bigelow presented his report on the February of Port Moody in support of the begun by Birgit Schinke. There is a families were considered low income Bay Regional Park, work on the 20 RDCK meeting. The Slocan Valley implementation of a Universal Public new project to develop plans for a compared with a provincial average of Galena Trail cable car, a bridge at the Broadband Project was approved for National Pharmacare program as sustainability fund designed to assure $343,000 from the Community one of the first orders of business long-term financial support for the Works fund. M’akola Development after the 2019 election. The City of Kohan Reflection Garden. A 2021 VILLAGE OF Services presented the regional Port Moody expressed its support Kohan Reflection Garden art calendar housing needs assessment. An area of the program “since health and will be produced using photographs wide online housing needs survey economics studies now show that by local photographer Chillia Zoll. NEW DENVER can be found at www.rdck.ca/housing such a policy would improve health in SLUGS has 111 members. PUBLIC NOTICES New Denver laundromat in danger of closing this spring INVITATION FOR TENDER by Kathy Hartman machines and do the upkeep. Harlock space, Sam Cowan, the new owner, said The Village of New Denver is currently seeking a contractor New Denver’s Coin Laundry is paid $5,000 for the operation and then he used a “dollar per square foot base for the Knox Hall renovation project. Closing date is March 30, slated to close April 25. put in another $5,000 for upkeep, rent formula,” looking at similar rents 2020 at 2:00 pm PST. Bid packages are available from the Wendy Harlock, owner of the maintenance and staffing. She has in Nakusp, Kaslo and Nelson, and then Village Office or contact Greg McTaggart, Facilities Supervisor laundromat business, says the building been running it at a minimal profit ever added in his “triple net costs.” He felt it at 250-344-1978. housing the laundromat and insurance since because she is passionate that the was fair, but was not aware what current office sold in December and the new laundromat is an important service in New Denver retailers pay. KNOX HALL RENOVATIONS owner has proposed a significant the town. Cowan said he hoped to rebuild the The Knox Hall and the Reading Centre will be closed to the increase in the rent starting May1. “A lot of people are going to be laundromat side of the building into “I bought the coin laundry because unhappy,” commented Chris Weisbrich, a professional space, or a live/ work public from April to September 2020 in order for renovations I couldn’t imagine this town without a New Denver senior. “I don’t have a space, or possibly into a residence if to take place. We are sorry for any inconvenience. We look a laundromat. It’s going to be a real vehicle. I walk over most days to do the zoning can be changed. forward to seeing all the new improvements in the Fall! blow to both locals and tourists,” my laundry.” However, once he was made aware Harlock said. Chuck Garden and Dianne Lindal of the importance of the laundromat, CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS Harlock has owned the laundromat from Slocan were up doing their he was sympathetic to maintaining The Village of New Denver is seeking local residents to sit on since 2012 and has been running it laundry and some shopping and said, the laundromat at the site. He pointed the Village of New Denver’s Local Selection Committee to guide virtually as a non-profit. She can’t see “This is definitely unfortunate. We have out, though, that the septic field is not the allocation of funding from the CBT Community Initiatives any way to continue when faced with always used this service and now we draining properly and will need major Program. The meeting will take place at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the rent increase. will have to go to Nelson or Castlegar.” upgrades if the laundromat remains. April 14, 2020 and interested individuals can contact the Village The laundromat is one of the Colin Moss, resident and New He is open to ideas but needs to cover Office for more information. The deadline for expressions of longest running businesses in New Denver councillor, commented, his insurance, water and property interest is 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Denver, built in 1966 by Wally and “Wendy has provided a valuable service taxes along with a base rent to cover Mary Fulkco. Mary remembers missing over the years… and the laundromat redevelopment costs. “The rent he WILDLIFE ATTRACTANTS the 1967 New Year’s Eve dance while will be sorely missed by many residents is now considering charging is not As the weather warms up, we will start to see more wildlife they finished painting the walls in time and tourists in the summer.” unreasonable but still too high for the and bird activity in our area. The Village would like to for the January 4 Grand Opening of the When asked how he arrived at kind of income generated by the coin remind residents to remove wildlife attractants to reduce the Speed Queen Coin Operated Laundry. the new rental rate for the laundromat laundry business,” Wendy said. possibility of human-wildlife conflicts. For instance, WildSafeBC In 2012, the Casley family were looking to get out of the laundromat business. recommends removing bird feeders or at least keeping the Wendy Harlock agreed to buy the area under the feeder clean, and reduce the amount of seed operation when Rod Farnsworth said you put out at a time (no more than a cup at a time). For more he’d teach himself how to fix the information, go to wildsafebc.com. Climate talk minus climate EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES action equals extinction Do you like history and meeting new people? The Village of New Denver is accepting applications for seasonal positions Smokey Creek Salvage at the . There are both Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre 24 HR TOWING student and non-student positions to be filled and details are New & Used Auto Parts, Back Hoe Work, available from the Village Office or on our website. The deadline Certified Welding & Repairs, Vehicle Removal WE BUY CARS & TRUCKS for applications is April 1, 2020. 359-7815 ; 1-877-376-6539 3453 YEATMAN RD, SOUTH SLOCAN The Village of New Denver is accepting applications for Temporary Labourer and Temporary Equipment Operator/ Maintenance Worker positions in the Public Works department. SING WITH THE FISH Interested individuals should contact the Village Office or check Just like birds, some fish sing a dawn and the Village’s website for details – applications will be accepted dusk chorus. Fish will squawk, burble, until 4:00 pm on March 24, 2020. pop, grunt, click, whistle, growl, bark, hum, hoot, rattle or make sounds like a The Village of New Denver is currently accepting applications heartbeat or foghorn. At least 1,000 types for a Campground Attendant for the 2020 season (May – of fish (including some trout and salmon) September). Please apply before 4:00 p.m. on March 19, 2020 use noise to attract mates, warn of dan- in order to be considered for this position. Please contact the ger, scare competitors and predators, or Village Office for more information about this offer. keep the school together. 115 Slocan Avenue · P.O. Box 40, New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 Wendy Harlock will be closing the Coin Laundry in New Denver on April 25. The business first opened (250) 358-2316 · [email protected] · www.newdenver.ca slocanlakess.com January 4, 1967, as the Speed Queen Coin Operated Laundry with Wally and Mary Fulkco as owners. March 12, 2020 The Valley Voice CLASSIFIED ADS 17 ANNOUNCEMENTS AUTOMOTIVE HAVE YOU ALWAYS DREAMED about KOOTS KIDS CLOTHING about his month long canoeing and hiking BUDDY’S PIZZA, KASLO: Award 1997 DODGE DAKOTA 4x4 standard starting your own business? If so, call EXCHANGE, Saturday, April 4, Noon- trip on the Snake River in the Yukon. Two winning, hand-stretched artisan pizza. for sale - $2500 OBO. View at 1501 Hwy Community Futures to learn about the free 3 pm. Bosun Hall, New Denver. Trade shows! $10 donation at the door. www. 250-353-2282. 23N, Nakusp. Call 250-265 -830 to arrange Business Plan workshop open to anyone! children’s clothes or just take some home. thelangham.ca ROSEBERY PARKLANDS AND viewing. Call or text 250 460 0474 for And if you’re eligible, you may also qualify CAFÉ LANGHAM & JVH School SLOCAN SATURDAY MARKET presents TRAILS COMMISSION (re: Galena more info. for the Self-Employment Program, where you present a screening of THE GRIZZLIES - ‘Spring is here’ market. Admission by Trail): The first meeting for 2020 will be BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES will receive ongoing business training and Thursday March 12, 7 pm. Acclaimed film donation, featuring local artisans, live music, held on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 6 pm, WHAT AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY to coaching and usually financial support while about a group of Inuit students in a small good vibes, the Hotbox Café. Saturday, Knox Hall, New Denver. Open to the public. live your dream and own your own business. you start your business. To learn more call 265- Arctic town with a high teen suicide rate who March 21, 10 am-3 pm at the Slocan Legion. COUNTRY ROAD CAT BOARDING - Become the proud owner of the Valley Voice 3674 ext. 201 or email [email protected]. take up lacrosse and discover that success Call Christina 250-355-2635. Caring, peaceful setting just for cats. Comfy and a quaint building on the main street of New COMING EVENTS ultimately lies in the spirit of community. ST. PADDY’S VEGAS NIGHT Saturday, beds, playtime, toys, outside run. Please call Denver. The newspaper business can provide SQUARE DANCING! 5 piece band $10 suggested donation at the door. March 14 at the Slocan Valley Legion Hall (250) 265-4131. a modest living for you and your family, and ‘Eldorado Hoedown’ and live caller, March THE LANGHAM PRESENTS the MARC 502 Harold St. Slocan. Door opens at 5:30 wonderful community connections. If you 14, April 18, 6:30-9 pm at the Bosun Hall in ATKINSON TRIO with Cameron Wilson pm, 6 pm Casino, Amazing Buffet at 7pm are so inclined, we would love to show you New Denver. Beginners are welcome. Call Saturday March 14, 7 pm. JUNO-nominated sharp, Live Entertainment, 8 pm more Casino. the ropes and stay as long or as little as you 358-7158 for information. and Western Canadian award-winning Tickets $20 at Mountain Valley Station or need us. We have absolutely loved our life JUSDANCE NAKUSP! Escape the cold Marc Atkinson is widely considered one phone 355-2672 to reserve. Gambling chips as newspaper people! Give us a call at 250- and get your dance on to World Fusion of Canada’s finest musicians. His virtuosic $0.50 each. Members & guests welcome. 358-7218 for a chat, or email valleyvoice@ music. Every 2nd Friday 7-9 pm (Mar. 13 quartet plays captivating, sensually-charged FOR RENT valleyvoice.ca. Yours, Dan & Jan. and Mar. 27). The Old Firehall upstairs. acoustic music & blazing, awe-inspiring 3BDR HOUSE FOR RENT, Silverton, 1 THINKING OF STARTING, buying Nakusp, BC. $10 suggested donation. www. Gypsy Jazz. Tickets $20 Willow or ½ BA, F/S/DW/WD shed, partially fenced or expanding your own business? If so, facebook.com/groups/jusdancenakusp Sunnyside. www.thelangham.ca yard, and close to beach. Available May Community Futures offers business loans, CONTRA DANCING in the Valley: Live LANGHAM ADVENTURE TRAVEL 1. $1100/mo. 250-777-1204 for inquiries. WELCOME!!! ...to Myla Marvy Konagai SERIES presents ADVENTURES ON born February 1, 2020. Adam Marvy and counseling & training; and delivers the fiddle music and caller, everyone welcome, FOR SALE YUKON’S SNAKE RIVER Saturday Yuuko Konagai and of course Myla, would Self Employment program in the Arrow guaranteed fun! Saturday, March 21 at the AFFORDABLE STEEL SHIPPING like to thank all of you for your support. “It & Slocan Lakes area. For more info leave Slocan Legion, Saturday, April 4 at theLittle 7 pm & Sunday 3 pm, March 21 & 22. CONTAINERS 20 ft. and 40 ft. sizes. takes a village to raise a child” and we feel a message at 265-3674 ext. 201 or email Red Schoolhouse. Dance starts at 6:30pm, Join intrepid Kaslovian Rob McClure Kootenay Containers Sales & Rentals, SO grateful to live in this village! [email protected]. $8 at the door. for stunning slides and intriguing stories Castlegar. 250-365-3014.

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Offices in Silverton & Nelson Offering Chiropractic, Concussion Management, Cold Laser Therapy, Call 250-358-2177 for appointments to: Valley Voice, Box 70, Custom Orthotics, Auto Injury Care and many more services. Visit www.handandsoul.ca New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 www.activebalancechiro.ca 18 CLASSIFIED ADS The Valley Voice March 12, 2020 FOR SALE skills, and office/computer skills (including EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES NOTICES HAVE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU WATKINS PRODUCTS, HAND website maintenance know-how), and NAKUSP PUBLIC LIBRARY is RHYTHM OF LIFE: You can find the KNOW been sexually assaulted and want CRAFTS – Bertha Williams, #11 – 217 enjoys working independently with looking for a Library Director to begin path to love, wisdom, and spiritual freedom help? Call the Interior Crisis Line 24/7 at Zacks Rd. 250-265-9080. direction from a board of directors. They work in May 2020. Duties include: by singing Hu every day. Singing Hu helps 1-888-353-CARE to discuss your options or HEALTH will be keen to take the initiative on special managing a budget, personnel, book us align with our own spiritual Rhythm of go directly to Arrow Lakes Hospital or your SHADE TREE MASSAGE THERAPY projects, and have an interest in business collections, and facilities,;writing grants Life. http://eckankarblog.org/sound-of-soul local emergency room for confidential care. now taking new clients in Winlaw. and economic development in the Slocan and reports; planning programming; ARE ALCOHOL OR OTHER DRUGS PETS Restorative, palliative, relaxation, Valley. Please send resume and cover letter working cooperatively and creatively a problem in your life? AA, NA and NO SIT! Not your usual dog training class. mobile available. Call or e-mail Jessica by Monday, March 16 at 4 pm to: Slocan with the community, the board of trustees, AL-ANON (family) meetings can help. Find the AMAZING in your dog. www. Coonen RMT for appt. 250-226-6887 or Valley Chamber of Commerce, Box 448, other libraries and library organizations. For information on AA: in New Denver, proudofmydog.ca [email protected] New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 or email to: Required characteristics/ strengths 250-358-7158; Nakusp, 265-4216; Kaslo, REAL ESTATE FREE YOGA WITH TYSON in Slocan: [email protected]. include: experience working in a library 353-9617. For NA: New Denver, 358-7265. EAGLEMAN ESTATE, KASLO: Fridays 9:30-11 am * CBT Funded. FULL-TIME REPORTER/ setting; excellent customer service; skills For AL-ANON (family): New Denver, 250- Large property suitable for large garden, Intro Reflexology/Thai Massage $40. PHOTOGRAPHER WANTED at the and experience in using technology; ability 551-6540. Please, if you can’t get through, housing development or subdivide into 2 sacredearthsomatics.com * 551-8505 Valley Voice to cover primarily the news of to work well with others and assume try another number. or 3 parcels. Includes 3bdr house & self- HELP WANTED Nakusp and Kaslo. The job entails writing responsibility; experience working with CARPENTER CREEK LAST contained bachelor suite. 250-551-2014, PART-TIME MANAGER wanted for all types of community news stories, budgets and supervising expenditures in an WISHES SOCIETY provides www.eaglemanestate.com. Slocan Valley Chamber of Commerce. and includes covering council meetings, administrative capacity; strong attention information on preplanning for death SERVICES The job entails general secretarial and school board meetings, court hearings to detail and organizational skills. Course and advice for alternative funeral BLAZE KING/VALLEY COMFORT light bookkeeping duties, such as preparing and community events. We are looking work connected to libraries would be a arrangements. Ph: 250-777-1974. www. Wood, Electric & Oil specialist: sales, agendas, minutes, budgets; handling for a self-starter with a desire to live in definite asset. Position is full-time with carpentercreeklastwishessociety.ca installations, service inspection & correspondence and publicity; website the rural West Kootenay region, and who part-time negotiable. Salary dependent NELSON & AREA ELDER ABUSE consultations. Duct cleaning & sanitizing; maintenance. The Manager attends is committed to writing informative and on experience. Benefits package included PREVENTION Resource Centre: 250-352- Ductwork, Chimneys, Oil tank removals, board meetings (usually monthly) and accurate articles in a clear and engaging after three-month probation. Send resume 6008 NelsonElderAbusePrevention@gmail. BC ventilation solutions & HRV design takes direction from the board. The ideal style. Journalism degree/ diploma and/ or and cover letter to Paula Rogers, Board com/ www.nelsonelderabuseprevention.ca. and installations. K.F. Kootenay Furnace candidate has excellent organizational experience required. Email cover letter Chair, via email at board @nakusplibrary. Drop-in Wednesdays 12-2 pm, 719 Vernon Ltd. 250-355-0088. skills, verbal and written communication and resume to [email protected]. ca or by mail: Nakusp Public Library, Box Street, Nelson. Nelson and District Seniors 297, Nakusp, BC V0G 1R0 by April 1. Coordinating Society.

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slocan city trading buy • sell • trade guitars • cars • art • antiques • musical instruments Ladies Fall/Winter 250-355-2299 Fashion Sale! 9 to 5 Support the Valley Voice with Support the Valley Voice with a voluntary subscription Repair and refinish guitars, Wednesday – Only $10-$30 Kaslo Clothes Hanger Send Cheque to: Valley Voice, Box 70 furniture etc. a voluntary subscription Saturday New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 We buy guitars 10:30 am - 4:00 pm Main Street, New Denver Only $10-$30 250-358-2178 March 12, 2020 The Valley Voice COMMUNITY 19 RCMP warn of latest scams, and your best defence submitted them back, says McLaughlin. And 4) Online job scam: You’ve 5) Publisher’s Clearing House you haven’t lost money, go to the A trusting, 71-year-old new this is crucial: banks and government posted a resumé online. Now, a ‘boss’ scam: You’ve won a prize! All you Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. If you Canadian from Coquitlam has been agencies will never, ever request wants you to deposit a large cheque, need to do is pay a ‘tax’ before you think you’ve lost money to a scam, stripped of tens of thousands of payment in gift cards, Bitcoin or any keep a ‘commission’, and send the get your winnings. Best defence: You call your local RCMP detachment. dollars by a criminal. As part of form of online or virtual credit. bulk to the ‘boss.’ When the cheque don’t pay taxes on lottery winnings. Fraud Prevention Month, Mounties The bank security scam is number bounces days later, you owe the bank More importantly, you cannot win a Next Valley Voice are hoping that you will help tell this one on the Coquitlam RCMP’s top the whole cheque. Best defence: contest you didn’t enter. story and prevent another person five most concerning scams. Best Never deposit a cheque on behalf of For more information on evolving Deadline: being victimized. defence: Hang up and verify. You another person. scams, or to report a scam where Scammers are targeting a will never be able to ‘help’ a real March 20, small, vulnerable percentage of bank, or be able to pay your bank Cultch Tour call for entry of artists, heritage venues 2020 our population with high-pressure bills, with gift cards. submitted displays, archives, demonstrations scare tactics, says Cpl Michael 2) Canada Revenue Agency Registration is now open for or performances. It is also a chance McLaughlin with Coquitlam RCMP. (CRA) scam: You get a call from artists/venues in the Columbia for them to meet the people behind “Criminals are counting on our the ‘CRA’ (or any government Basin to participate in the Columbia the scenes that are such a vital part collective silence. Only by educating agency) saying you owe tax and Basin Culture Tour (CBCT), a of our local culture. CONSTRUCTION our community can we help stop you’ll be arrested if you don’t send celebration of culture taking place Full colour tour directories Brian Madill & Kevin Erdos these crimes.” money right now, usually using a August 8-9 from 10 am to 5 pm. will be available free of charge to Building and Renovations On March 1, this most recent cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) machine. The CBCT is a self-guided tour the public as a guide to visit your Serving the West Kootenay victim got a phone call from Best defence: Hang up. You can’t showcasing local arts, culture and location. Signage, posters and ‘corporate security’ at a Canadian be arrested by CRA or any other heritage offered at no charge to postcards are provided to promote bank who told her that her credit government agency for debt. Nor the general public. ‘Arts’ includes your participation. Display ads and Phone: 250-355-0044 card was ‘compromised.’ In order can you pay government bills with visual, written, performing, media media coverage widely promote email: [email protected] to ‘recover the money’ she was Bitcoin. and inter-arts. Participating as a the event, and your web page pressured into purchasing more than 3) Wallet theft fraud: Leaving venue allows you to really connect profile will remain for the rest of AVIS $16,000 in gift cards at three different your wallet or purse in your car, your with locals, develop a wider the year to list your contact info EXCAVATING stores. Once the numbers for those shopping cart, or your locker creates audience, educate the public about and business hours outside of the Serving the Slocan Valley cards were shared over the phone, the an opportunity for scammers. They what you do, sell your art, and event. • Excavation • Ditching money was essentially gone. will quickly use your credit cards to attract visitors to your community. 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You’re He also suffered hearing loss as a child. classified as an emergency six months Needs! excited and a little nervous. You barely “It’s limited my ability to know as after the earthquake. A million people construction know the language. Within hours of many words as most people, because I on the island lived in tents, and a permit? your arrival, on January 12, 2010 at 4:53 won’t hear everything correctly.” This cholera epidemic that began in October pm, one of the largest earthquakes in the made the writing a challenge, because, claimed over 3,300 more lives.” For We can country’s history strikes. The epicentre he admits, “I don’t always have the these reasons – and his own searing Help. of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake erupts best grasp of language and grammar.” memories of the earthquake – Spears is just 26 kilometres from Haiti’s capital, Reading Hour Four, however, you’d donating $5 from the sale of each book Port au Prince, killing up to 300,000 never know it. His narrative is clear, easy to a Haitian charity. Given how little people. Most hospitals are destroyed to follow, and laced with vivid details. authors earn from most books, this is along with its airport and seaport. Owen He says he’s always liked writing and incredibly generous. Spears was there with his classmates had dreams of becoming a writer as early Unsurprisingly, the Haiti earthquake from Mt. Sentinel high school, and has as eight years old. of 2010 has left a permanent imprint on just released a book titled Hour Four But as much as his personal Spears’ consciousness. “I was at such about the harrowing experience. challenges shape the story, Spears says a pivotal age, where I thought I was Given that this is his first book, it isn’t just about him. “I realize that what already an adult at 17. I was planning on Spears does an impressive job of making I went through is nothing compared to going to university for political science, Contact Jesse Oldham the reader feel the very ground beneath what any Haitian person went through, and then afterwards, I lost a lot of interest their feet suddenly become insecure. I really want to make that clear when in everything – other than video games. (licenced HPO Builder) Eight aftershocks would follow that sharing my story. I wanted to make For my outlook, that I am incredibly same day, and 52 more in the coming it into a book when I started really privileged, even with my disabilities. (cell # 250 551 2593) • [email protected] weeks. As a writer Spears understands piecing everything together, realizing And that anything can change in a that it’s the odd little details we notice how intense it was. I also really wanted moment.” in a crisis – the rebar twisting out of the to highlight the country of Haiti, it was Hour Four can be purchased at Otter ruins of half-crumbled walls. A circle of struggling, and the earthquake their Books and Coles Books in Nelson, on people linking hands in a field, singing. battle.” Amazon, or online at www.hourfour. The impossibly delicious taste of a Although international humanitarian com. The price is $20, discounted to mango when you haven’t eaten for hours response poured relief into Haiti after $17.99 if you purchase online. and your body is in shock. The irony is that Spears’s high school class had just this one last project to accomplish as part of their civic volunteering program. Previously, they had helped maintain a community garden, repaired a daycare, picked up litter off the highway, catered a wedding, picked apples, and visited an Indigenous reserve. A local church leader had decided to take a volunteer group to assist the charity Haiti Arise, so Spears’ teachers thought it would make a good partnership. For Spears there was a considerable personal challenge to be confronted besides Haiti’s national tragedy. He was born with a mild form of cerebral palsy, which caused tight, inflexible muscles in his legs and delayed reflexes. “Balancing An image from the cover of Owen Spears book, Hour Four. The book deals with the Haiti earthquake. Tom Rand Returns to the West Kootenay Arts at Sequoia Tom Rand knows how to achieve a low carbon economy. A submitted green entrepreneur, investor, public speaker, and author, Rand Students at Sequoia Learning Centre has written the book on how capitalism can be reclaimed to have received an Arts Starts grant, provide the critically needed economic response to address ‘Medley of Art 2’, to expose the students climate change. to many different art forms. Last year and this year many different The author of The Case for Climate Capitalism: Economic artists have shared their expertise Solutions for a Planet in Crisis will share his ideas in two with students. This winter featured talks on March 28, 2020. snow sculpting with Peter Vogelaar, a Rand will speak at 1 pm in Kaslo at the Langham Cultural member of the Canadian National Snow Centre and then again at 7:30 pm at the Nelson United Church. Sculpting team. Students spent a full Tickets for the Kaslo talk are $10 and can be reserved by day designing and carving various ice sculptures. In January they tried their calling or purchased at Sunnyside Naturals (250) 353-9667 or hand at glassblowing with Wildfire Willow Home Gallery (250)-353-2257 in Kaslo. Tickets will go Productions (www.wildfireproglass. on sale March 9th. com). At present, they are collaborating Admission to the Nelson talk is by a suggested $10 donation on a group drawing project with artist and all students will be admitted free. Ron Mulvey (www.artabet.com). After spring break the students will Rand’s first book Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Tech- find themselves hammering and firing, was short-listed for the White nologies to Save Our World trying their hand at blacksmithing with Pine Award for non-fiction. His second bookWaking the Frog: James Karthein of Ridgeline Metal Solutions for our Climate Paralysis remained on the Globe Works. After that, they will engage & Mail’s Non-Fiction bestseller list for 9 weeks. Rand holds a with Erica Dee in a two part singing BSc in electrical engineering, an MSc in philosophy of science, workshop. The last artist will be Duncan and an MA and PhD in philosophy. Grady, visiting this spring to demonstrate The climate emergency is real and sensible solutions exist. the fine art of Storytelling. Rejecting Left/Right ideologies, Rand develops a pragmatic The school thanks all the artists for view delivering practical solutions to this critical problem. bringing their skills to the classroom, and to Arts Starts for believing in the project.