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Volume 28, Number 15 August 1, 2019 Delivered to every home between Edgewood, Kaslo & South Slocan. Published bi-weekly. Your independently owned regional community newspaper serving the Arrow Lakes, Slocan & North Kootenay Lake Valleys. Jessica Ogden’s contempt case dismissed due to a technicality by Jan McMurray protest site. The affidavits submitted I’m living underneath a slide area Was your conduct in breach of the to go back and block the road,” and The civil contempt of court case by CCC were from Kestell and Kaslo that’s going to be logged… we have order?” She said that if the concerns warned that if Ogden or anyone against logging protester Jessica RCMP Constable Shaun Kennedy. the constitutional right to life, liberty expressed by Ogden continue, “then present in the courtroom did so, the Ogden was dismissed in Supreme Justice Duncan told Ogden that and security so perhaps a constitutional the remedy you seek is probably in same consequences of a court hearing Court in Nelson on July 25 due to if CCC had filed the paperwork challenge would be more appropriate.” the order itself. I am bound by Justice would likely be pursued. a technicality. Mme Justice Jennifer according to correct procedure, Ogden Justice Duncan said she was Hori’s order. I can’t do anything but CCC’s lawyer, Matthew Duncan dismissed the case because would have been found guilty of “keenly aware” of Ogden’s concerns, follow the order.” Scheffelmaier, told Justice Duncan the plaintiff, Cooper Creek Cedar contempt for disobeying the court having read her affidavit. “What I am A long-time Balfour resident, that he didn’t realize he had to file (CCC), failed to file one piece of the injunction. “The court takes it understanding from you and the people Kevin Forsyth, was there to testify an application for a contempt order; required paperwork – an application extremely seriously when orders in the gallery is that there is a lot of in support of Ogden, to outline he believed “it rose out of the order for the contempt order. made are not followed. I know you concern about watersheds and logging. concerns he has had in his dealings itself,” referring to the injunction Several of Ogden’s supporters are taking a stand, but when the court These are not issues I can adjudicate with CCC over the years. However, ordering Ogden to stop blockading were in the courtroom and rallying makes orders, the proper avenue is to on today and they don’t inform me Justice Duncan didn’t allow Forsyth’s the Balfour Face Forest Service Road. outside on both court hearing dates, apply to have them set aside, not to whether or not I find civil contempt. testimony, as she felt it would not If Ogden had been found guilty July 22 and 25. defy them.” I can hear you, but it’s not relevant assist her to make a decision on the of contempt, CCC had been seeking Ogden was arrested for civil Ogden explained during to what I have to decide. What I have contempt charge. an order to not blockade Balfour Face contempt of court when she disobeyed the proceedings that she had to decide today is: Was the order in Justice Duncan was very clear Forest Service Road, and to pay the a court injunction to stop blockading misunderstood the legal process. “It place? Were you aware of the order? that this decision was “not a licence company’s legal costs. the Balfour Face Forest Service Road. was my understanding there would She was served the court order on be an injunction served and we would June 21 by Bill Kestell of CCC, and be able to challenge that injunction arrested on the same day by RCMP while remaining at the protest site,” officers who attended the site with she said. “I didn’t understand until Kestell. The injunction was police that day that the enforcement order enforceable. and the injunction would come at the Justice Duncan said that although same time.” the affidavits and video evidence She pointed out errors in CCC’s submitted by Cooper Creek Cedar application for the injunction, clearly show that Ogden was in which she said may have misled contempt of court, the failure of CCC Justice Dennis Hori, who issued the to file the notice of application was a injunction. Scheffelmaier admitted to “fatal flaw… so I’m not finding her the errors. guilty of civil contempt, but I’m not Ogden said that at the time she condoning her conduct.” was served the injunction, she didn’t The videos that CCC’s lawyer, understand how the protesters could Matthew Scheffelmaier, showed in present their concerns in the court court as evidence are published on system. “So this was a defense of Ogden’s Facebook page and created necessity and the last line of defence by the protesters to document their after several other efforts through encounters with Bill Kestell of CCC the proper channels,” she said. “As a Jessica Ogden speaks to supporters outside the Nelson courthouse after the hearing on July 22. At the hearing July 25, the civil contempt of and RCMP officers at the Balfour community, we feel we have reasons… court charge against her was dismissed on a technicality – Cooper Creek Cedar had failed to file a document. 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Visitor Information - Pages 14 & 15 2 NEWS The Valley Voice August 1, 2019 Passmore Lodge celebrates 20 amazing years by Moe Lyons nine verses of doggerel. housing projects. And she gave huge much you can do with bake sales,” she Slocan Valley who made the dream a On July 27, Passmore Lodge’s 20th Next up was Lydia Kania, wearing a credit to the contractor. “When you look said. She also expressed gratitude to reality.” birthday was celebrated with a huge name tag on which someone had written around this hall, when you look at the the Columbia Basin Trust. “Passmore Tenant Barb Metcalf, who welcomed party. With music from the Claybrick “Queen of the Slocan Valley.” As Moir pictures of construction that began in Lodge is the first housing project in the visitors to view her suite as part of the Band, food prepared by Mabel Kabatoff, said, “Lydia has made seniors’ housing November, 1998, in the snow, and think Columbia Basin that they put funds into – day’s celebrations, helped plan this event, and a huge cake from Fomi’s, about 150 in this valley one of her main goals. that people moved in just eight months they were here at the grand opening back and spoke briefly about her experience people turned out. She raised about $7,000 for Passmore later… That, my friends, is due to the in 1999, when they contributed $50,000. of living at the Lodge. “I feel as if I In her opening remarks, Rita Moir, Lodge and the same for Slocan City talent and hard work of Bill Berg.” Since then, the Trust has made affordable am living in a park!” she said, “I love chair of the Slocan Valley Seniors’ Suites. Lydia will acknowledge that she’s She also thanked the nine families housing in the Basin a priority, and they living here.” The formalities wound up Housing Society said, “The society no spring chicken, but every time the who together donated the land for the provided major funding to our Slocan with words from Corky Evans, about started back in 1995, when a bunch ambulance shrieks down the back road building. Two members of that group, project.” The Trust has also helped with whom Moir said, “He advocated on our of people from the Vallican Whole, to take her to hospital, every time she Greg Utzig and George Perriere, said many other aspects of the work over behalf, and I think it was his advocacy Passmore Seniors and the Doukhobor figures there’s not much left to her time they had been happy to do it. “We know the years. Trust representative Aimee (along with all the work we did) that community got together, overcame on this earth, we quickly plan another we’ll need it someday!” said Utzig. Ambrosone said, “We are so proud to convinced the province of BC that all us our differences and suspicions, and got celebration, because Lydia simply can’t Various luminaries spoke to the call you our partner.” rural people, held together with bailer down to work.” Moir and the first board miss a party.” assembled crowd, including MLA Moir also read a letter from Judy twine and love, could actually pull this president, Don Munro, pulled together a Moir expressed her appreciation Katrine Conroy, MP Dick Cannings, Harris (Judy Gayton when she was a off.” Evans said, “I’ve lived here so long committee and they were off to the races. to numerous contributors, notably, RDCK Director Water Popoff, the housing consultant for the project): “The there were 12 families on each party The result was 10 homes for seniors in a Kalesnikoff, Slocan Forest Products and Columbia Basin Trust’s Executive MOST amazing project team I had the line. Over these 50 years we sometimes beautiful building designed by architect Goose Creek Lumber, who donated all Director of Delivery of Benefits, Aimee privilege of working with was definitely have suffered from cultural differences. Eric Clough. The lodge opened its doors the wood for the building. “We promised Ambrosone, Alex Berland from the Passmore Lodge. The bureaucrats at It often wasn’t fun. And then Lydia and on July 25, 1997. to make this a showcase for wood, our Slocan Valley Community Legacy BC Housing were convinced we were others thought, maybe we should do After the opening remarks, the beautiful Kootenay wood, and Bill Society, who helped fund the party, and all under the influence of BC Bud, something together. crowd all joined in and boisterously Berg and his crew, using Eric’s design, Corky Evans, who was the MLA here and dreaming in technicolour. They “This is the place where we did sang an anniversary song to the tune of made this a beautiful showcase.” She when the building came into being. were astounded when the project came something together.” ‘Happy Birthday,’ an attempt by Moe especially thanked Eric Clough, who Moir also thanked BC Housing, together so beautifully against all odds. To read a fascinating and detailed Lyons to cram 20 years of history into has donated all the design work for both without which none of this would They hadn’t counted on the generosity, history of this project, go to https:// have been possible. “There is only so creativity, and tenacity of people in the svhousing.ca/about-us/

The board of the Slocan Valley Seniors Housing Society celebrate a hugely successful 20th anniversary party. Craft cannabis industrial park to be built in Castlegar by Jan McMurray The company plans to build units for experience making it one of the most Plans are underway to make lease to craft cannabis cultivators who talented regions in the country for Castlegar home to one of the first craft hold a Health Canada micro cultivation cannabis production,” said a CWDC cannabis industrial parks in the province. license. The units are expected to be spokesperson. “Our next project is The City of Castlegar has entered ready for occupancy in fall 2020. planned for Vancouver Island. CWDC into a lease agreement with Vancouver- CWDC also offers consultation is currently exploring a number of other based Cannabis West Development services to help cultivators obtain a micro locations throughout Canada for further Corporation (CWDC) to build a facility cultivation license. development.” on land near the West Kootenay Regional “The Kootenays hosts countless Castlegar’s Phase 1 project will have Airport. craft cultivators with generations of 10 units for lease and Phase 2 will have 30 units. More information on Phase 3 will be made available within two or three months, the spokesperson reported. All units will be 6300 square feet and will be fitted for HVAC, a backup generator, an air handling unit, individual power meter/account and will be ready for tenants to build their system. CWDC will have support staff and security on site 24/7. CWDC says they intend to hire local trades and contracting companies. “This will provide local companies with the opportunity to work alongside CWDC on this innovative new project. We anticipate this project will create approximately 30-50 full-time jobs and 30-50 part-time jobs in Phase 1.” CWDC has been incorporated for about two years. The corporation’s team is directed and managed by a group of professionals from various sectors including hydroponic system design and cannabis cultivation, real estate development, finance, law and government relations, and others. Visit cannwest.com for more information. August 1, 2019 The Valley Voice NEWS 3 New owners at Lemon Creek Lodge by Jan McMurray the restaurant to the public again in neighbouring couple wrote a letter Shambhala in the ownership of the special events that last for more than Lemon Creek Lodge changed future. to the Valley Voice (published in lodge or in the co-op. one day and deprive residents of their hands in January this year, and is Cormack said the original vision this issue), which was subsequently Cormack says they plan to host enjoyment of a peaceful life in the now owned by a group of people was to purchase the neighbouring addressed and sent to the RDCK with music and cultural events regularly, Slocan Valley. “If you have concerns who are running the accommodations Larsen and Paradise Farms, but the copies sent to all of the above. but they won’t always feature about special events, please feel free business while working on launching same week they raised the capital Cormack said the Lemon Creek electronic music. “We intend to use to email me at [email protected],” a co-operative. they needed for the purchase, both Lodge community and the festival the property as a commercial space, as he said. Tyson Cormack, a member of farms were sold to someone else. organizers are all very happy with it has been used for many years,” he the ownership group and one of the Cormack said that although it was how the event went. He said it was said. “I think there’s a looming social SHELLEY BORTNICK, founders of the co-op, said the co-op disappointing, “it just didn’t work very well run, with security staff, harm conversation on the horizon between MSW, RSW will be involved in food security, out. It’s brought the focus back to reduction teams, a medic, parking those who want to see the Slocan Individual, couple and farming and land restoration and is this home we’ve created.” In the fall, control staff, and a clean-up crew. A Valley as a retirement community and family therapist “an alliance of business partners who the lodge community plans to host a shuttle ran back and forth from Nelson those who want to see it as a place for 25+ years experience are tired of working in capitalism public engagement process to present three times to reduce the parking businesses, community organizations, Offers counselling services involving and who prefer to work in more the co-op’s articles of incorporation impact and to serve those without projects and dreams to thrive in.” mental health (depression, anxiety, community-focused business and governance documents, as there a designated driver. He said no one Area H Director Walter Popoff etc.), addictions, grief and loss, structures.” He explained that Lemon will be public memberships as well camped in the vehicles parked along reports that he has been working on trauma and life transition issues. Creek Lodge is the “founding home as equity share memberships in the Kennedy Road, and that there were a special events bylaw for the last For appointment, please call of the larger project” and will serve to co-op, Cormack said. plenty of washroom facilities with year – not to address any one special generate income for the co-op through On July 6 and 7, an electronic two portapotties and nine bathrooms event, he said, but to address all 250-265-3397 room rentals, catering, and hosting music festival called ‘High on site. Cormack said they went to events such as weddings, workshops, Frequency’ took place at the lodge every door in the neighbourhood retreats and music festivals. property, with about 250 people in prior to the event to notify people Cormack said Madrone Timothy attendance, and several neighbours and discuss it with them. “We’ve had Fenton is also a founder of the project, are not happy about it. A letter signed neighbours thank us for proactively as well as founder of White Crow by 19 neighbours outlining noise, engaging them and letting them Farm. “White Crow Farm birthed traffic, safety and other concerns know beforehand. We also had some this project,” he said, “and others are has been sent to the RDCK with neighbours dancing with us all night.” involved, too.” copies to Interior Health, Area H Cormack explained that a group The lodge property is owned by Director Walter Popoff, the Village of professional event producers from the ‘ownership group,’ structured of Slocan and the Valley Voice. One Nelson, whom the Lemon Creek as a limited liability corporation, Lodge group know well, rented the Cormack said, and there are shares Idaho Peak property to put on the festival. “We’re for sale. “We welcome people to join proud of our connections that run us in supporting the foundation of this Road closed through Shambhala,” Cormack said. project,” he said. “We want to support indefinitely “We have people in the Kootenays working class people and those with by Jan McMurray who have become well known across and modest means with an opportunity Idaho Peak Road is closed the world as musicians and event Fauquier Gas to purchase land as an owner of the indefinitely at kilometer 7 due to a producers. That community has lodge. There is a small equity play sinkhole that appeared on Saturday, become a vital economic driver & Convenience in that ownership, but the primary July 27. here in the Kootenays, well beyond 56 km south of Nakusp at Needles Ferry intention of the ownership group is “It appears that an old mine adit Shambhala.” He was clear, however, 250-269-7245 to create a foundation and space for [entrance] has collapsed under the that there is no partnership with the co-op endeavour that is about to road and has created a large sinkhole launch.” in the running surface. The road will THE SLOCAN LAKE ARTS COUNCIL IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE AN EXCITING ARRAY OF He says there is a multi- be closed indefinitely until it can be generational community living on thoroughly assessed and repairs can the lodge property – people from be made,” reported a spokesperson MUSIC AND ART SUMMER WORKSHOPS OFFERED BY LOCAL ARTISTS two and a half to 82 years old – who from the Ministry of Forests, Lands, ¯ PLEASE REGISTER WITH WORKSHOP LEADERS ¯ are members of the ownership group Natural Resource Operation and and founding members of the co-op. Rural Development (FLNRORD). TIE AND DYE. COME AND DYE YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL UNIQUE SHIRT The ownership group is running The spokesperson said district Wednesday 21 AND Thursday 22 August 10-12 Noon. COST $25 the accommodations business, and engineering staff and a geotechnical This workshop takes place over two mornings and is offered to adults and youth over 10 years old. HELD AT THE is serving food to their guests, and engineer were on site assessing the SILVERTON GALLERY, SILVERTON. Shirt and materials provided. CONTACT NONIE 2503587252.

Cormack says the intention is to open situation on Monday, July 29. COLLAGE & ENCAUSTICS. DESIGN & MAKE YOUR OWN WAXED COLLAGE Saturday 24 August 10-12 noon and 2-4 pm. COST $20 This is a full day workshop offered to adults and youth over 15 years old. HELD AT THE GALLERY, SILVERTON. CONTACT LOUISE 250-358-2469 WATERCOLOUR PAINTING. LEARN TO USE PEN & INK WITH WATERCOLOUR Saturday 10 August 9-12 Noon. COST $20 This workshop will be held in the Gazebo at Centennial Park, New Denver. Offered to adults and youth over 15 years old. All materials included in cost. CONTACT DONNA 250-358-2877 BASKETRY & CEDAR WEAVING. DESIGN & MAKE YOUR OWN CEDAR BASKET Thursday 8 August 10-12 noon, and 1-3 pm. COST $20 This is a full day workshop offered to adults and youth over 10 years old. Held at THE GALLERY SILVERTON. CONTACT ELOISE 250-358-7992 GUITAR INSTRUCTION. BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE & INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED Sunday 18. August 10-11 am, or 11-12 noon. COST $20 These are guitar lessons given by the accomplished musician , NOEL FUDGE, a performer, composer and teacher. Held at THE GALLERY, SILVERTON. Offered to adults and youth over 10 years old. COST $20. CONTACT NOEL 250-358-2181 SINGING LESSONS. COME AND SING AND IMPROVE ON YOUR TECHNIQUE Tuesday 20 August 10-11 am, or 11-12 noon. COST $20 These are singing lessons offered by the talented singer and pianist, REBECCA LAITY. Offered to adults and children over 7 years old. Rebecca will organize lessons appropriate to age and ability. HELD AT THE SILVERTON GALLERY. CONTACT REBECCA. 236-991-7983 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 4 OPINION The Valley Voice August 1, 2019

under the Clean Energy Leadership Ironic Program for solar lighting at the skate How ironic that so many letters park, I started writing a letter in my to the editor are from people who are mind to the Valley Voice on the subject. defending their environment against It became very long very quickly, so the government. instead I’m just going to quote from What’s wrong with this picture? Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets Elsje de Boer of Clean Energy and the Future of Fauquier Environmentalism by Ozzie Zehner, published in 2012 by University of How about if Nebraska Press, concerning solar cells. we just left the “...their manufacturing process is also one of the largest emitters forest standing of hexafluoroethane (C2F6), I just listened to an interview nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), and sulfur on the CBC where Michael Green, hexafluoride (SF6)... these three the man who coined the phrase gruesome greenhouse gases make ‘mass timber,’ was promoting his CO2 seem harmless. As a greenhouse product by claiming that using gas, C2F6 is twelve thousand times wood to build big buildings would more potent than CO2, is 100 percent help save the planet by replacing manufactured by humans, and survives concrete and steel, which contribute ten thousand years once released into the to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. NF3 is seventeen thousand atmosphere. According to Mr. Green, times more virulent than CO2, and SF6, big wooden buildings could store the most treacherous greenhouse gas, that carbon pent up in the wood for according to the Intergovernmental years to come, thereby reducing our Panel on Climate Change, is twenty- carbon footprint. But what about Come enjoy the view from our licensed patio. 430 Front Street, Kaslo, BC five thousand times more threatening. the waste wood generated in the Local Beer on tap! 250-353-7714 The solar photovoltaic industry is one form of slabs, sawdust, branches 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. of the leading and fastest growing etc., much of which is burnt on the emitters of these gases, which are now carcinogen by the International Agency watershed, old growth logging, and taxpaying citizens who the government clearcut... wouldn’t that be a carbon measurably accumulating within the for Research on Cancer. At the end of a extirpated mountain caribou habitat. is mandated to serve and protect? contributor? earth’s atmosphere. A recent study solar panel’s usable life, its embedded I was highly disappointed that the And lastly, but my number one How about if we just left the on NF3 reports that atmospheric chemicals and compounds can either Cooper Creek Cedar ‘argument’ priority question: Why is the BC forest standing, allowing the living concentrations of the gas have been seep into groundwater supplies if tossed was watching Jessica’s Facebook government ignoring the climate trees to store even more carbon as rising an alarming 11 percent per year.” in a landfill or contaminate air and posted videos, yet their case failed on emergency?! Our biggest contribution to they grow? Come to think of it, And if that isn’t sufficiently waterways if incinerated.” procedural paperwork flaws. But the reducing deadly 415 ppm carbon/GHG don’t living trees actually reduce the disturbing: Clean Energy Leadership? We ONLY mandate and relevant parameter in the atmosphere now is to protect old carbon on an ongoing basis? “Crystalline-silicon solar cell simply cannot continue to believe of discussion was: Did Jessica, or not, growth forests. The Amazon rainforests Clearly, trying to sell ‘mass processing involves the use or release that we can have everything our knowingly defy a court injunction?! are carbon sequestering at 1,000 tonnes timber’ as an environmental silver of chemicals such as phosphine, childish hearts desire at no cost to the No reasons why she was in the ‘court per hectare. The only carbon sucking bullet is pure nonsense. Corporate arsenic, arsine, trichloroethane, environment. Greed, ignorance, the of last resort’ after countless meetings, ‘technology’ we have to save the planet think, like canning our natural gas phosphorous oxychloride, ethyl warm fuzziness of political correctness, letters, petitions. Nothing about what from the 2030 deadline is trees! While to send it to China to save the planet. vinyl acetate, silicon trioxide, stannic the unquestioning acceptance of the had transpired, and what was at stake! the world is desperately planting the How stupid do they think Canadians chloride, tantalum pentoxide, lead, rightness of whatever has ‘green’ I have contacted MLA/ Minister required one trillion trees necessary to are? hexavalent chromium, and numerous and ‘clean’ appended to its label are Michelle Mungall’s office and others, reverse climate change (China has its Rod Retzlaff other chemical compounds... silane, digging our graves. Educate yourselves. and I have yet to get specific replies army tree planting), climate emergency Glade a highly explosive gas involved in Please, please, engage in some critical, from any of the respective ministries conditions such as heat waves, droughts, Clean energy hazardous incidents on a routine basis... independent thinking before jumping on my many previous emails, FB posts, floods, etc. mean those seedlings may newer thin-film technologies employ on that grant application for whatever questions, so I request a publicized die. Preserving existing forests globally leadership? numerous toxic substances, including it is somebody out there will profit response to these questions. is crucial. I have repeatedly implored, as When I read in the July 18, 2019 cadmium, which is categorized as an financially from you buying, while Does the new Drinking Water have thousands of BC residents, for an issue of the Valley Voice that Slocan extreme toxin by the US Environmental ignoring the real costs. Protection Act, which suggests charging immediate moratorium on old growth council and WE Graham Community Protection Agency and a Group 1 Patricia McGreal and fining anyone tampering with logging pending an inventory of healthy, Service Society are applying for a grant Slocan and willfully, predictably destroying sustainable forests. EDITORIAL / LETTERS POLICY Jessica Ogden’s watersheds, apply to watersheds I suspect there are no economically The Valley Voice welcomes letters to the editor and community news destroyed by logging?! If not, why not? viable and accessible, environmentally articles from our readers. court case and Why are former community sustainable forests left in BC. Otherwise, Letters and articles should be no longer than 500 words and may be protected ‘water reserves’ in BC forestry companies would not be logging edited. We reserve the right to reject any submitted material. forestry confined to only Vancouver and Victoria in contentious, high risk watersheds, and Please mark your letter “LETTER TO THE EDITOR.” Include your Balfour, Ymir, Johnsons Landing- now? on unregulated private land. address and daytime phone number for verification purposes. Argenta, Glacier Creek, Glade, etc. When homes, water systems, etc. BC is the “second lung of the earth.” We will not knowingly publish any letter that is defamatory or libelous. are all on the ‘chopping block’ for are destroyed by floods, mudslides, How can we criticize Brazil’s President We will not publish anonymous letters or letters signed with pseudonyms, watershed logging! I just attended landslides, avalanches, creeks drying Bolsonaro when Premier John Horgan except in extraordinary circumstances. the second court hearing/ rally, in up in summer, etc., who pays for and the NDP/ Greens are feller buncher Opinions expressed in published letters are those of the author and not support of Jessica Dawn Ogden, a these damages? Do corporate profits clearcutting old growth forests at a necessarily those of the Valley Voice. young Balfour ‘arrested protector’ of take precedence over the rights of rate of 34 soccer fields a day?! This is totally globally irresponsible. These are crimes against humanity when we The Valley Voice Box 70, New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 in the West Kootenay have old growth Phone: 250-358-7218 Fax: 250-358-7793 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.valleyvoice.ca forests we’re logging now. Why?! Why have expensive processes like Publisher - Dan Nicholson • Editor - Jan McMurray • Food Editor Emeritus - Andrew Rhodes • Arts & Culture Editor - Art Joyce travelling mountain caribou panels, and Reporters - Katrine Campbell, Claire Paradis, Barbara Curry Mulcahy, Moe Lyons three different public input processes Published and printed in British Columbia, Canada on forestry issues when by the time The Valley Voice is distributed throughout the Slocan and Arrow Lake Valleys from South Slocan/Playmor Junction to Edgewood and Kaslo on Kootenay Lake. the reports are all done, all will be Circulation is 7,600 papers, providing the most complete news and advertising coverage of any single newspaper serving this area. extirpated? Unconscionable! SUBSCRIPTIONS: CANADA $54.60, USA $84.00, OVERSEAS $126.00. E-Mail Subscription $22.40 (Prices include GST) Marion Bergevin Canada Post Publications Mail Agreement #40021191 Nelson August 1, 2019 The Valley Voice LETTERS 5

pdf/1907.00165.pdf noon on Saturday and continued become a great threat for the well-being identification difficulties are among Volunteers clear 2) Zhu and Piao wrote at https:// throughout the whole night until 5:30 of our local children and youth. the problems which may dictate in www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004 am on Sunday July. We expect the RDCK and Interior favour of an enforcement order in a Blue Grouse that the earth is greening. “Carbon I went over around 8:30 pm on Health to save us from these sorts of given situation.” and Enterprise poisoning!” we keep hearing, Saturday evening. A ticket booth events. We are prepared to protect our Madam Justice Jennifer Duncan mimicking Orwell’s Newspeak as it collected a $50 fee ($40 in advance) properties, businesses and lifestyle if suggested an hour break. After the Creek Trails purposely evokes images of bellowing per visitor. I got free entrance as local necessary by taking all legal steps. break we continued the hearing, at About a year ago, I wrote a smokestacks. Carbon particulate is resident. The lodge’s grounds were Slocan Valley residents who share which point the judge pointed out letter asking for help clearing trails, definitely bad for us. However, carbon completely occupied with cars, vans our concerns and are willing to support that she had discovered that Cooper specifically the Blue Grouse Trail off dioxide is not carbon. It’s plant food. and tents. There were food stands and us are welcome to contact 250-355-2536 Creek Cedar Ltd had failed to file some Enterprise Creek. I got a lot of response Zhu and Piao show the earth is actually two blue portable toilets. A stage with and email: [email protected] important paperwork. Justice Duncan and direction towards groups that already getting greener. I am not clear on how huge amplifiers had been set and a Elisabeth von Ah and Michael then ruled that, due to this procedural existed that would be able to sort through that’s a bad thing. DJ hammered music exceeding the Mardner error, there was not enough legal basis the paperwork involved and be a source 3) On this note: the current global health-concerning range of decibels by Lemon Creek to proceed with a conviction of civil of help. I had no idea they existed, so ppm for CO2 is 400. Greenhouses strive far. Visitors with boxes of alcohol were contempt of court. I’m doing this follow-up letter to let for around 1,500 ppm, and actually buy constantly dropping in. Car radios added A ‘win’ in a While detained in the Oliver others know that there are many groups CO2 producing machines to get up to to the noise of the stage. A shuttle bus Correctional Centre, without access in the Kootenays who need membership that number. was in operation. By 9 pm, Kennedy broken system to legal counsel or the documents and help with their projects. The ones I I stood before a BC Supreme 4) The Antarctic was warmer just Road was packed with cars, vans, tents Court judge on July 22, 2019 with pertaining to the injunction, Cooper found in my area are the Kaslo Outdoor 1,000 years ago. Lüning, S., M. Gałka, and tarps from the dead end at Larsen’s Creek Cedar’s lawyer attempted to Recreation and Trails Society, the North a stack of documents, statements, F. Vahrenholt (2019): ‘The Medieval ranch to beyond Loyola Road, ready for and articles compiled over the years proceed with the civil contempt of Slocan Trails Society, and Friends of Climate Anomaly in Antarctica.’ roadside overnight camping. By 5 am court charge on my June 28, 2019 West Kootenay Parks. There is also the regarding the Balfour watershed Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Sunday morning, a video shows both issue. Included in these documents appearance before a Supreme Court Kootenay Mountaineering Club that Palaeoecol., doi: sides of Kennedy Road filled with cars judge. Thankfully the judge did not does occasional work and the Nelson were hydrological, terrain stability 5) Patrick Moore co-founded beyond the corner at the Lemon Creek and windthrow assessments, as well allow the plaintiff to proceed and Cycling Club that does a lot of work Greenpeace in the ’70s. He is very Rail Trail parking lot. With what I believe insisted I be returned to my community keeping the mountain bike trails open as documented damage to licenced outspoken when it comes to combatting were inadequate sanitation facilities, water users’ water sources and systems and be given the opportunity to seek around Nelson. the political agenda of man-made global the negative environmental impact can legal counsel. I shudder to think what I joined the Friends of West in our watershed from what we have warming. He has blasted the scientific only be guessed at this point. However, high reason to believe are a result of would have happened had Cooper Kootenay Parks, as Blue Grouse is in community that supports anthropogenic behaviour changes in residential wild Creek Cedar Ltd been given the Kokanee Glacier Park. A week ago, a the ongoing road building and logging climate change, describing it as a animals and pets were obvious after activities. opportunity to proceed at that hearing. group of eight of us went in with three “catastrophic theory” that’s being pushed the event. I may still be sitting in jail at this time chainsaws, loppers, etc. and cleared the Also, within the information by “corrupt scientists” who are “hooked The music did not shut down submitted, there was substantial or been charged with civil contempt of trail into Blue Grouse and cleared the on government grants.” He says, and let by midnight nor was it taken inside court with no recourse. first half of Enterprise Creek Trail up into evidence of ongoing procedural this be the main point of my letter today, – impossible anyways in my view unfairness, public mistrust, disregard My final words I had wished to Kokanee Park. The road into Enterprise that “Fear has been used all through regarding the number of visitors. express to the Judge were: Is it going to was blocked by rocks, but there is a drive for public safety, and unprofessional history to gain control of people’s minds We are seniors of 78 and 70 with behaviour from this company, Cooper become common practice to expect that around now if you have a smaller 4X4. and wallets and all else, and the climate severe health issues. We could not sleep Cooper Creek Cedar Ltd will obtain, or Get out and enjoy a gem here in Creek Cedar Ltd/ Porcupine Wood catastrophe is strictly a fear campaign...” all night and regard this event as health- Products and its contractor, formerly attempt to obtain, injunctions to escort the valley and join a group to help keep Is the climate out of balance? Are threatening and impacting our quiet themselves into every contentious area recreational options open. Sunshine Logging, now Clint Carlson anomalies occurring? Yes, something lifestyle. A guest complained heavily Consulting. of logging within our communities? Ron Groom is up. But blaming it on humankind in about the noise. “I expected a quiet Or could there be remedy found by Vallican As I began to present the issues order to bring all economic engines under place in the midst of nature, not this,” along with the documentation this company actually providing fair Anthropogenic the control of a central authority means he said. In 24 years, our many visitors compiled by a number of community procedural consultation periods and we have learned nothing from history. have spent a lot of money locally and members and professionals, the judge actively, respectfully, addressing our climate change? Christine Stewart, former Canadian have supported the infrastructure. Events communities’ legitimate concerns We hear every day now how stopped me and stated that, although Minister of the Environment, said, “No like this are devastating for a business and regaining our trust? At which humankind is destroying the earth she had no doubt there was much to matter if the science of global warming is like ours and will affect other businesses point does it no longer serve the (and we are doing great harm, but be presented to contest the injunction all phony... climate change provides the negatively as well. public interest to keep using law that’s another letter), and that this is and she was willing to hear me out, she greatest opportunity to bring about justice On his Facebook page, organizer enforcement, the court systems, and somehow linked to climate change. could not however overrule another and equality in the world.” We need to Madrone Timothy Fenton comments taxpayer dollars to penalize local “Total consensus” among scientists. “We judge’s issuing of an injunction. The be reminded that not all definitions of that the gathering was a “great success” community members acting out of must act now!” is the alarm. scope of this day’s hearing was simply justice and equality are the same. Mao and that he “would like to start seeing a last line of ‘defence of necessity’ May I please add some dirt to this to determine if I was or was not to be and Lenin had particular definitions of monthly music events at the lodge.” He when all other ‘proper channels’ have fire? There is so much evidence that the charged for civil contempt of court, their own. Mistrust of government is at also states that “the lodge is somehow failed us? Especially considering, even causes of climate change are beyond regardless of the reasons that led up an all-time high, yet somehow we want connected to White Crow Farm.” In the according to legislation under which our control that I greatly wonder why to the arrest. to hand over our rights to let some entity past, noisy music gatherings at White these companies operate, it is up to the we don’t hear more about it. Could it This narrow scope of the hearing ‘fix’ the climate? Crow Farm near Perry’s bridge caused forest companies, not the government, possibly be that there is political agenda threw me off as I had prepared for a 2 Darren Stoltz great annoyance to the neighbourhood. to decide on the safety and impact of somewhere in the morass? Here I live in ½ hr hearing. So, I simply presented Winlaw Dated August 15, 2017 the Supreme their logging plans. So, are they doing the Kootenays, with wonderful people on the initial notice of civil claim, Court of BC (File No. 12838) ordered their due diligence? Or just checking who are all too well aware of globalist wherein the plaintiff, Cooper Creek that White Crow Farm owners are off boxes and counting on other failed agendas and hidden motives, and yet No to noisy music Cedar Ltd, had presented misleading “permanently enjoined from hosting systems to get us out of the way and I believe that we are still being moved information to the issuing judge out of gatherings at or permitting to be hosted festivals, convict us as the criminals as they and emoted like Bernaysian lemmings. Kelowna; namely that our watershed large public gatherings, late night raves, conduct their ‘business as usual’ I present the following papers and Lemon Creek Lodge protection camp was located in amplified music events and concerts at crimes against humanity practices. points that I hope show, at the very least, We live in Lemon Creek within one the remote geographical location White Crow Farm near Winlaw, BC.” In closing, I approached the courts the debate should not be over. kilometre linear distance from Lemon of three kilometres up Deception Lemon Creek Lodge is only 3.4 to consider that, while although there 1)‘No Experimental Evidence Creek Lodge on Kennedy Road and Creek FSR, Meadow Creek, BC. I kilometres (linear distance) from the may be substantial evidence to warrant for the Significant Anthropogenic operate a vacation rental business. argued that this then created a false White Crow Farm property. We request a conviction of civil contempt of court, Climate Change’ is the title of a paper For 24 years, we and many of our legal basis to favour an enforcement to receive the same rights and protection they also consider that there is also recently written by J. Kauppinen and guests appreciated the lodge’s excellent order to have us arrested without the White Crow Farm neighbourhood substantial evidence to warrant that it P. Malmi, showing that the IPCC had culinary service in this quiet tasteful notice of the injunction application was admitted by court. would not be in the best public interest to compensate for climate sensitivity setting. After the lodge was sold, we or an opportunity to contest it. The Music events like this affect our to do so in this case. So, in the end, did because they failed to calculate how hoped this high-end gastronomical case of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd vs business and personal well-being in an this hearing result in a ‘win’ or did I low cloud cover influences temperature. service would continue. With the ‘High Greenpeace Canada (et al. 1996 intolerable way. They might also open simply narrowly miss a conviction The paper proves that the changes in low Frequency Gathering’ on July 6-7, 2019, B.C.J No.1994 at 11, 12 and 17 on the door to hard-core drug traffic moving based on false pretence? cloud cover practically control the global this hope was erased. the CANLII database) was used as an into the so far safe, quiet and peaceful Jessica Ogden temperature. I wonder why the IPCC The open-air music party with example, stating “Events occurring in Slocan Valley. This could possibly Balfour failed to leave this out? https://arxiv.org/ unbearably loud music started around a remote geographical location and 6 COMMUNITY The Valley Voice August 1, 2019 Silverton’s second Official Community Plan meeting focuses on five questions by Moe Lyons from the public pasted to the posters. can contribute to overall community etc., more nightlife, better internet, whole process, one Silverton resident On Wednesday July 24, Silverton Participants were invited to put stickers health, with Kady Hunter, Community more full-time residents, more jobs for said, “I think this can work. And I feel held its second open house on the on the ideas they found most interesting, Health Facilitator for the Interior Health spouses of workers who work away, overwhelmed, realizing how much needs Official Community Plan review. With and to add more of their own. Authority. more and better amenities. There was to be done.” Her friend chimed in, “But, about 20 participants, this event had a The five main areas were: 1) How Hunter agreed sometimes it’s kind of a mantra going on: more jobs, nothing could be done and we’d still considerably better turnout than the last does Silverton attain/enable more “tricky” doing her job, because so many more families, more kids. want to live here.” Another resident of one, and included two members of the reliable and affordable power? 2) How people are angry with the IHA and some When it comes to attracting more 30 years said, “I think it’s a wonderful New Denver council who were looking does Silverton achieve more reliable people think she is there just to make entrepreneurs, remote workers and thing. It’s a good thing to be doing and for pointers about how to proceed when health care? 3) How can Silverton attract IHA look good. She points out that hers businesses, better, faster internet I wish more people would come. The their village enters into a similar process. more youthful residents? 4) How can is a multifaceted approach to community connectivity is always a huge factor. Once community needs to know how council This meeting, which drew on the Silverton attract more entrepreneurs/ health, and that she works with councils it is assured, promote it widely. Advertise can get things happening.” ideas generated from the one in June, remote workers/ businesses? 5) What to demonstrate how they can help Silverton as an amazing place to live CAO Hillary Elliott, who has been was described by CAO Hillary Elliott makes Silverton an amazing place to create healthy communities in many while doing cyber-business. Support overseeing this information-collecting as an “open house public engagement” live? ways, including neighbourhood design, ‘The Lift.’ As well, promote year-round process, says she feels it is “building process. Various areas of concern were There was also a display about transportation networks, supporting tourism. Create more opportunities for nicely. It is what I expected.” posted around the room, with suggestions how an Official Community Plan natural environments, enhancing food education, workshops, retreats. Build In informal conversation over soup, systems, and working for decent housing seniors’ housing, as more people require focaccia and cookies, a few ideas were Gordon William Butt for all. more services, creating more jobs. tossed around about how to stir people th th Nov 18 , 1936-July 14 , 2019 Mayor Jason Clarke says the Support the cannabis industry. Create up and bring more of them out to a discussion about alternative power is biker-specific amenities, perhaps a biker meeting: propose a huge cannabis It� is� with� deep� sadness� that� we� one he finds particularly interesting, campground such as the successful Toad grow-op, perhaps on the ball field, as it announce� the� passing� of� �ordon� and that, along with health care and Rock facility in Balfour. Create more is already irrigated; propose building a Butt� ��� our� brother,� father,� uncle,� internet connectivity, he has heard facilities generally. (Someone asked for slaughterhouse; explore amalgamation grandfather,�and�cousin�to�a�large� the most enthusiasm about in the examples of what this would mean.) of Silverton and New Denver. Whatever e�tended�family,� an�avid�volunteer� community. Ideas on this topic ranged And what makes Silverton an it takes, everyone who has participated in�the�community��and�our�friend�� from geothermal power and bladeless amazing place to live? The answers were thus far appears to agree it would be good wind turbines to lobbying to exempt numerous, ranging from arts and culture to see a large and interested contingent Born�in� �oodwater,��askatchewan,� municipalities from recently imposed venues, the Day Park, the campground, turn out for the next open house on this the� oldest� of� five� children,� �ord� Independent Power Producer constraints. the lake, the mountains, the hiking, the exercise. CAO Elliott indicated that there grew�up� on� a� farm� in��almerston,� People suggested it is important to history, safety and many more. will be one or two more sessions – one Ontario.� He�spent�his��0�s�and��0�s� investigate the costs of alternative power When asked what she thought of the in September for sure. working� a� variety� of���obs� to� earn� sources and create a business case for enough�money�to�travel��His�travels�inc�uded�catching�rides�on�freight�ships� independent power. They also proposed More appeals filed in Lemon Creek fuel spill case ac�oss�the�world�and��iding�his�motorcycle�through��frica�� asking other levels of government for by Jan McMurray the EMA. subsidies for locally produced power, The Lemon Creek fuel spill case Lasante’s sentence, handed continues to clog up the courts in down on February 19, 2019, was to �n�1���,�a�visit�to�his�brother��avid�brought�him�to��ew��enver,�where�he� reminding them that small communities appeal proceedings. Truck driver pay a $10,000 fine and to make a became�the�handyman�many�have�relied�upon�� �ordon�was�known�for�his� are as important as big ones, and they Danny Lasante is appealing his guilty $10,000 contribution to the Habitat donations�and�his�many�hours�volunteering�for�various�local�societies�� need to keep us here. Health care is of course always conviction and his sentence, and Conservation Trust Fund. The appeal a big issue and the notes stressed the the Crown is appealing the stay of of his sentence will be scheduled after �he�family�is�grateful�for�the�care��ordon�received�f�om�the�health�care�team� need for lobbying: for aging in place; proceedings of seven charges against the decisions on the other two appeals as�well�as�all�his�many�friends�from�the�local�community�� His�passion�for� for more alternative medical treatments him. – on his guilty conviction and the stay gardening,�his��ove�of��and�n�and�its�history,�and�his�practical�sense�and� through BC Health; for better home On July 22 in Nelson court, Justice of seven charges against him – have determination�wi���be�revered�and�sore�y�missed�� support. And of course always to keep Jennifer Duncan ordered that the been made. our needs visible and in the forefront, appeal of Lasante’s conviction and Lasante, driver of the fuel truck, th �� ce�ebration�of�life� w����be�held� on��ugust�10 at� �� pm� at�the� �ilverton� both through using various media and the appeal of the stay of proceedings was found guilty of one charge under �allery�� Bring�your�stories�� �efreshments�wi���be�provided�� �s�per��ord�s� by constantly encouraging politicians to of the seven charges against him be the Environmental Management Act re�uest,�donations�will�be�fo�arded�to�the��ilve�on��allery��ociety�� pressure the IHA to support us. Another heard December 9 and 10, 2019 in by Judge Lisa Mrozinski on March important health factor is that people Kamloops. 1, 2018. The other two accused in the want to make sure the village continues Lasante was charged with eight case, the Province of BC and Executive VILLAGE OF to have a dentist. counts of various violations under the Flight Centre Fuel Services Ltd., were As for attracting more youthful Fisheries Act and the Environmental let off the hook – although EFC NEW DENVER residents, people suggested a skate park, Management Act (EMA), but was may yet have to take responsibility, more contemporary music and dances found guilty of only one charge under depending on the results of the appeal PUBLIC NOTICES proceedings underway between EFC GARBAGE COLLECTION and the crown. Municipal garbage collection takes place every Tuesday for This case stems from a spill of residential properties in New Denver. Residents are reminded Valhalla Fine Arts about 35,000 litres of jet fuel into that solid waste must be bagged (in a manageable size and Lemon Creek on July 26, 2013. Danny weight), tagged and placed in a garbage can before being placed Suzuki Week Lasante, EFC driver, was delivering a curbside for collection. Please assist the Village in its efforts to tanker full of jet fuel to the provincial remove bear, dog and crow attractants by ensuring that solid government’s staging area for the Perry waste is placed in secure containers. August 5-9 Ridge wildfire when he took a wrong turn up Lemon Creek Road and lost WILDLIFE ATTRACTANTS Faculty Concert - control while negotiating a curve. The last month has shown an increase of wild animal sightings in and around the Village. A reminder for all of us to do our part in Silverton Memorial Hall keeping our community safe by managing the wildlife attractants around our homes. Thursday, August 8th at 7:00 PM If you see a bear (or other wildlife species) in your area: • Go indoors. Stay calm and do not run or taunt the animal. Final Student Concert - • Alert your neighbours. • Report human-wildlife conflicts to the BC Conservation Officer Silverton Memorial Hall Service at 1-877-952-7277. Friday, August 9th For information on attractant management please contact Tammy White, the WildSafeBC Community Coordinator for our - 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM area, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 250-505-4393. 115 Slocan Avenue · P.O. Box 40, New Denver, BC V0G 1S0 (250) 358-2316 · [email protected] · www.newdenver.ca August 1, 2019 The Valley Voice KASLO & DISTRICT 7 Kaslo council, July 16: Village partners with Chamber on signage and video project by Jan McMurray • Councillor Molly Leathwood beacon because the mast is painted. The had been done except for the cul-de-sac CrimeStoppers was active in Kaslo 10- • The Chamber is working with the reported on the Chamber/ Village Telus rep says that Transport Canada at the end of Balfour Crescent, which 15 years ago and is being re-established Village to develop a Rural Dividend business walks. She said she and a “will not actually tell us the minimum was expected to be done by early August. as it helps solve crimes. Grant application for a Community Chamber rep visited five businesses lighting requirement. They leave us to • A sewage holding tank is being • The iDIDaRide cycling and Signage and Video Project. The together and she visited a couple on interpret the regulation and determine installed near South Beach in cooperation walking event is happening August project would include directional her own to discuss the potential plastic the required lighting and submit this with the Kaslo Jazz Etc. Festival Society. 10. Council approved the street closure and wayfinding signage, a historical bag ban. She said most businesses interpretation for their approval.” The society purchased the tank (the for Vimy Park Ring Road and the beer walking tour app and a community had no complaints about the service • Mumby’s Tree Services Ltd. will Village will own it) and hired an engineer garden for the event. video promoting Kaslo’s businesses from the Village or Chamber, and update the 2009 tree inventory at an to apply for permitting. The Public • The Kaslo & District Community and organizations and showcasing most are supportive of banning plastic estimated cost of $2,500, to be paid for Works crew were to excavate the area Forest is seeking public input on its community vitality. bags. Some issues raised were the lack from the Recreation, Parks and Open and help with installation. The tank 2019-2024 draft Forest Stewardship • CAO Ian Dunlop reported on of recycling for businesses, lack of Spaces reserve fund. is being installed on Village-owned Plan, a landscape-level plan that shows Victoria’s proposed bylaw to ban single public washrooms, and parking. Some Removal of trees at 131 Washington industrial land, near the area that is set up how KDCFS will meet government use plastic bags, highlighting the need would like to see more communication and 216 B Avenue will be done by temporarily as a campground during Jazz requirements. The plan does not show for careful wording in any such bylaw. (perhaps a newsletter) and more of a Brenton Industries at a cost of $4,500. Fest. Storing the effluent will reduce the details such as cutblocks and roads. The BC Court of Appeal has ruled “can do” attitude from the Village. The Village crew will remove the tree at pressure on the sewage treatment system • All four councillors were authorized that Victoria’s bylaw overstepped the • Telus has asked for permission 301 Front Street. on the long weekend. to attend the Union of BC Municipalities municipality’s authority, as the Province from Transport Canada to remove • The CAO reported that the sewer • Council approved a $500 grant convention in September in Vancouver. is in charge of environmental regulation. all lighting from the cell tower. The mains and service stubs had been fully to CrimeStoppers, to come out of the Council will request appointments with To be valid, Victoria’s proposed bylaw annoyingly bright and flashing beacon installed and pressure tested, and that General Advertising budget. Shutty the Minister of Municipal Affairs and would have to be approved by the was installed on the tower on April 11 restoration work was scheduled to be Bench resident Ken Hart, newly elected Housing, Minister of Transportation Minister of Environment. The court because of the tower’s proximity to the completed during the week of July 22. chair of the West Kootenay Boundary and Infrastructure, and the Minister of indicated that the bylaw may have been Kaslo Airport, and efforts have been Property owners wishing to hook up to CrimeStoppers, made a presentation Health. successful if it had been aimed more ongoing to have it removed. Transport the sewer were to be sent information to council at the July 9 Committee • A notice under the Nuisance and clearly at regulating businesses, which Canada has indicated to the Village about permitting. of the Whole meeting and made the Maintenance of Property Bylaw will municipalities have the authority to do. that the tower doesn’t need a daytime • The CAO reported that all paving funding request. Hart told council that be sent to the owners of 843 C Avenue. • Geoff Scott was hired as full-time Argenta artist Richard Gross shows at Eurythmy Studio Gallery in Kaslo labourer for the Village. submitted the visual arts, vision and Kootenay of Modern Art in NY, Ontario Art Solo exhibitions include New • The RDCK notified the Village of Accomplished Argenta artist culture, you won’t miss this exquisite Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, York, Toronto, Washington, DC, and field work on Kaslo River at the end of Richard Gross will be showing over 40 retrospective.” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Canada Winnipeg, and BC shows in Victoria, July, as part of the project to update flood spectacular pieces in his retrospective Born in 1943, Richard studied at Council Art Bank, Amherst Collection Qualicum, Campbell River, Grand mapping in the region. ‘No Beginning No End’ exhibit at University of Manitoba’s School of in Boston, etc. Forks, Nelson and Kaslo. • Mayor Suzan Hewat provided the Eurythmy Studio Gallery in Kaslo Fine Arts, Haystack Mountain School Richard’s experience includes By the mid 1970s, Richard and RDCK’s quarterly report and noted that through September 1. The opening of Fine Arts, and Pulpit Rock. While half a century of group exhibitions wife Tuula were back-to-the-landers there were six building permits issued in takes place on Saturday, August 3 on 7 still a young man, Richard took the and gallery representation in leading in Argenta. While building the artful Kaslo from January through May 2019. pm with the artist in attendance. Eastern arts ‘establishment’ by storm. galleries of North America alongside home and homestead, Richard’s • Accelerate Kootenays will host a “Treat yourself,” says curator Ian Richard’s work is permanently other arts luminaries such as Cuevas, luminous oils and distinctive vision presentation about electric vehicles and Fraser. “Listen and see over 40 pieces housed in collections such as: National Botero, De Kooning, Magritte and continued to evolve. a test drive event at City Hall on August of Richard’s Art Talk. If you value Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Museum Safer. Noted Victoria artist, curator and 6, 11:45 am-2 pm. RSVP to accelerate@ commentator Robert Amos noted communityenergy.bc.ca. Funding comes through for final stage of restoration work at JB Fletcher Store Museum in 2002, “Gross is at once the finest by Jan McMurray the long-term sustainability of the parking on the lake side of the highway, representational painter of our region, Ainsworth’s JB Fletcher Store museum. “We’ve partnered with White on Sutton Street. “Instead of turning up and a talented abstract painter. He Museum restoration project is entering its Raven Emporium and want to make the hill as you approach the museum, turn creates incredible light, with oils third and final phase. With $180,000 just the gift shop part of our sustainability down toward the lake on Sutton Street working into the weave of the canvas approved by the Columbia Basin Trust’s plan,” White said. She explained that and park along it or Water street, then over a warm rosy underpainting.” Built Heritage program, the building is artisans essentially pay rent to have their walk one block up.” Now an elder with an advanced expected to be completed by fall 2019. goods in the store and receive a lower The three-phase restoration project blood cancer, Richard’s place as an The basement and back of the consignment rate in return. The rent goes has been mainly funded by the CBT Built accomplished senior Canadian artist building (known as the ‘freight shed’) directly to the society to help maintain Heritage program, which has provided is secure. ‘No Beginning No End’ received mold and mildew remediation, the building while the consignment goes about $600,000 altogether. The main showcases the life work of a master. and the front of the building has been to the seller. contractor is Pete Gosney Construction Reticent, Richard continues to let stabilized. All that’s left to do is to “It’s been very difficult to make it out of Nelson, and Peterson says they are his art do the talking. insulate the walls, install the heating sustainable in the past – that’s why it lucky to have him and his crew. and lighting, re-do the roof, and paint fell into disrepair,” said White. “So we The building was constructed in the exterior. encourage everyone to check out the 1896 by Henry Giegerich. JB Fletcher Terry Peterson, project manager, gift shop. It not only helps the artisans managed the store for Geigerich from says they had hoped to be finished last make a living but also helps support our 1913 until 1927, when Fletcher acquired fall, but were set back when they found building.” the store. He continued to operate it until rot in the west wall. “We found ourselves Another task on the list for the the early 1970s. The store closed in 1973. back at square one and dealing with society is to find a piece of land for This is one of the last surviving buildings structural issues again,” said Peterson. parking. In the meantime, White suggests from the 1890s. “A tremendous amount of work had to be done to the west wall to deal with the rot and to stabilize it.” But now that’s behind them and they’re ready for phase three, Peterson says. Once the building restoration is finished, the JB Fletcher Store Museum will re-open and will include a space for BOAT RENTALS the White Raven Emporium, a gift shop at Woodbury Resort and Marina currently located in the freight shed. The freight shed will house a museum on Kootenay Lake dedicated to the history of Ainsworth. Take a boat ride on Kootenay Lake while “We have many items that don’t belong in the store, but that are part of vacationing in the Kootenays! Ainsworth’s history, so those items will $40/hour or $200/day go into the freight shed,” said Tammy 5 km north of Ainsworth Hot Springs, 17 km south of Kaslo White, director of the JB Fletcher 1-877-353-7717 Restoration Society. www.woodburyresort.com The society is also thinking about Ainsworth’s JB Fletcher Store Museum restoration project is entering its third and final phase. 8 NAKUSP & THE ARROW LAKES The Valley Voice August 1, 2019 Nakusp council, July 22: NACFOR recommends that council not support park at Summit Lake by Katrine Campbell Lake to help inform council re: CFA area to create a park.” Mayor to get a new breakwater would be so technically it is still active. The • NACFOR provided a five- the question of their support for a Tom Zeleznik thanked NACFOR if there were no marina. Zeleznik Village is looking for individuals page briefing note with 10 pages proposed 670-hectare park at Summit for doing “a very thorough job.” The said the marina, which was good who are experienced in the of supporting documentation on Lake. The NACFOR briefing note full report is on the Village of Nakusp for 25 years, is now 36 and slowly hospitality industry to move the Hot western toad management at Summit says, “NACFOR (2013) Ltd. Board website, in the downloadable July 22 sinking. It is taking the brunt of the Springs forward through marketing, and Management recommend that agenda, pages 154-168. waves and would cost more than developing and possibly expanding council not support this initative.” • Council approved staff $1,000,000 to fix. the facility — all activities which At the last council meeting (June preparing an application for a • Council approved signing a are not really in the realm of local 24), council was asked to request that $100,000 Rural Dividend grant “to Licence to Occupy with FortisBC government. Council will continue to the Ministry of Forests exchange increase economic development by to install a fast charger for electric deal with policy. Councillors Aidan NACFOR’s Summit Lake tenure improving signage to direct visitors vehicles with two parking stalls at McLaren-Caux and Hughes will be for tenure elsewhere, in order to to the downtown core and various the Centennial Building parking lot. the Village reps, with Zeleznik as free up the Summit Lake land for a municipal amenities.” Councillor There will be a one-hour time limit alternate. Cliffard Peanut park. The NACFOR briefing note Susan DeSandoli said the Village for parking at both of these stalls, • Council approved a Develop points to a 2016 Forest Practices had already done a signage study plus at the existing charger stall. All Variance Permit for the property Board investigation that concluded and asked if that study could be of the parking stalls in the 80’-long at 402 3rd Ave, to reduce the front NACFOR had taken reasonable used. CAO Cheryl Martens said she lot need to be properly delineated; parcel line setback from 7.5 m steps to protect the toads. “With had been unable to find anything in FortisBC will help with painting. (25 ft) to 3.05 m (10 ft) to allow AVAILABLE SOON! good forest management tied to the files. In addition to the three EV charging construction of a summer kitchen. PALS HAS KITTENS! ongoing research efforts, toads • An application for a second stalls, the parking lot will include • Council was presented with Cliffard and Peanut will soon be ready to are manageable,” the note says. water line at a property in Area K in three ordinary stalls, one accessible three options to dispose of the 1994 go to their forever home! PALS has little “NACFOR should not abdicate order to create a subdivision triggered mobility, and a loading stall. The Zamboni: send it to auction, sell it boys, all orange and white, all healthy, responsibility for managing the a discussion which led to council CAO says they hope to encroach on for $3,000, or trade it for 12 LED playful and full of fun! If you have Summit Lake operational area under authorizing the CAO to review, the sidewalk for the accessible stall. lights valued at $3,000. Council been waiting for a kitten, please call a Community Forest Agreement approve or deny all new applications • Council agreed to appoint chose the trade. PALS today at 250-265-3792 to see if by creating a park. Proposed land until the Water Regulations Bylaw is new members to the Hot Springs •Zeleznik thanked Parks & we have the right kitten for your family. swaps would just result in similar amended. The recommendation from Advisory Committee and to have Recreation staff for their work management issues in other areas. the CAO to deny the application administration staff review and setting up for Horizons Unlimited’s WEEKLY SPONSOR: The forest land base is typically for the second water line at David revise the existing terms of reference Motorcycle Travellers Meeting July constrained by many different issues and Rita Beerstra’s property was for council’s approval. There have 10-14. About 275 people showed up and almost completely allocated to tabled until the next council meeting. been such committees in the past, for it, and many said they enjoyed Nakusp other licensees. Government does The mayor and council discussed which were dissolved and replaced; the community and how welcome (250) 265-3635 www.selkirkrealty.com not support removing land from the the need for a proper engineering the last was in March 2012. The they felt. This is an international study to determine consumption CAO has been unable to find any organization, whose next get- The Village of Nakusp is and capacity, and Councillor motion dissolving the committee together is in Mongolia August 2-4. looking for local citizens to Joseph Hughes called for a serious discussion about expanding Village New Nakusp area residents join our Nakusp Hot Springs boundaries. “We’ve got a lot of work Advisory Committee. Our to do,” Zeleznik said. do good work in Guatemala community vision is to im- • Four people put their names by Jan McMurray to Guatemala. “We worked with prove as a tourist destina- forward for appointments to the Denis and Eileen Nogue have this group for five years in the same retired to the Arrow Park area near region of Guatemala where we work tion by striving to enhance Municipal Campground Expansion Committee; three were selected. Nakusp, and live there about half the now. We came to know the people our recreational amenities. year. The other half of their time is and their needs, so when we retired, The mandate of this Committee is to develop strategic Sandra Pozdnikoff, Kees Van der Pol and Beth McLeod will join council spent in Guatemala as missionaries, we decided to raise money to ship a planning for potential development and create essential reps Zeleznik and DeSandoli, and where they help the underprivileged container over. After that, the door hospitality policies for recommendation to Council or campground manager Don May. with the many issues brought about opened wide for us to come into CAO. Council is searching for applicants with successful The members will determine the by extreme poverty. the community and we decided to backgrounds and/or experience with hospitality indus- committee’s terms of reference at “We have been working in become our own entity, the Seeds to Guatemala for the last seven years, Harvest Ministry.” The ministry is tries. An application form is available at the Village Office their first meeting. • Bylaw #496-6, an amendment and this has become our passion,” run 100% by donation and includes for those who wish to apply. Deadline for applications is says Eileen. the Nogues and their daughter and August 15, 2019 at 4:00 pm. to Bylaw # 496 to control and regulate traffic, parking, streets and Guatemala has the fourth highest son-in-law. For more information please contact the Village Office. sidewalks was given three readings. rate of chronic malnutrition in the The Nogues have also built one world, and the worst rates are among maternity clinic and have raised Monday to Friday 8 am – 4 pm at 250-265-3689. The bylaw will allow bicycle racks to be installed in parking spots at 212 the indigenous peoples. the funds to build another. Eileen and 409 Broadway St. When in Canada, the Nogues explained that this came about when • Administration will arrange raise funds to ship 40-foot sea a midwife approached her and asked a meeting with BC Hydro at the containers of dehydrated vegetable if we could help with scissors and Union of BC Municipalities this soup and used medical equipment to gloves. fall. Council wants BC Hydro to fix the indigenous Q’ekchi’ people of the “Her clinic was a shack with the breakwater, which was built to Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala. a dirt floor,” Eileen says. “Women protect the boat launch ramp, but The container holds about 1.5 million give birth on rough wood, with no the corporation says the only way servings of soup along with the mattress, no running water, no toilet medical equipment, and costs about facilities. The infant mortality rate is ARROW LAKES $14,000 to ship. “So it costs about a quite high – one in four, she told me, HOSPITAL FOUNDATION penny per serving of soup,” she says. and it’s not uncommon for moms to The soup and medical equipment die in childbirth.” Annual General Meeting comes from the North Okanagan The Nogues are Christian, and Monday August 26, 2019 at 7:00 pm Valley Gleaners Society. share the gospel when people are open Arrow Lakes Hospital Board Room The Nogues lived in Lavington to it. They have a film in Spanish and near Vernon for 35 years, and Q’ekchi’ and Eileen says they have Elections to fill 3 Director positions, were instrumental in establishing more invitations to come and show each for a 3 year term. the Gleaners Society in Lumby. the film than they can keep up with. The Gleaners dehydrate surplus They very much appreciate their IN LOVING MEMORY of Deborah (Deb) Pike Memberships are available from vegetables and package them as new home near Nakusp. “We love board members or from the front soup mixes, and gather used medical our work in Guatemala, but it is 1959-2019 July 16 desk at Arrow Lakes Hospital Gone too soon and suddenly. equipment from Okanagan health emotionally and physically hard for before July 26, 2019. She enjoyed camping, fishing and cabin time in the great outdoors. facilities. us there, so we needed a place to come Eileen explains that in her first back and refresh,” Eileen says. We all miss you so much. Survived by her partner and best friend For further information write to Ted, son Jim and Chelsea, grandkids Kiara, Aurora, James and Benjamin, year on the board of the Gleaners, Visit seedstoharvest.ca for more Box 284, Nakusp an application came in from a information or to contact Eileen and also Kenny, Christina, grandkids Cadance, Hannah, Jack and Lizzy, also or call 250-265-4775 sisters, brothers, mother and many friends, and other family members. ministry that wanted to send food Denis. August 1, 2019 The Valley Voice SLOCAN VALLEY 9 Second annual Summer Breeze Music and Art Party a wild success submitted myriad opportunities to engage in from Liquid Aura Studios. There was the vibes high and full of smiling faces. community response. “Art should be The wildly successful second the artistic process: through making free face painting for the children and Several visual artists were on hand accessible to everyone, which is why annual Summer Breeze Music art of one’s own: contributing to a an eclectic market place sparkling into creating art for all to witness from 4 we feel strongly about the event being and Art Party that took place on community mural; observing live the night. pm to midnight. Buck Walker and free and open to the public.” Ultimately Saturday, July 13 at the grounds of artists creating; perusing display Featuring top-tier music dance Brian Monteith collaborated on a large grateful to the business sponsors who Mama Sita’s in Winlaw was truly a artist’s booths; and enjoying local and theatre performances by the painting on a nine-foot canvas while donated generously in support of this celebration of music, arts and culture music, dance and theatrical talent. All likes of Holly and Jon, Soundserious, other artists like Katrina H and Erin event including Maglio’s, Hipperson’s in the community. With support attendees had the option to contribute RhythmDance Drum Orchestra, Shuttleworth engaged in the creative Home Hardware, the Kootenay Co- from the Slocan Valley Community to the mural with support from Lynne Eva Tree, Moving Mosaic Samba process individually. op and Ellison’s as well as the grant Arts Council, Creative BC and the Alexander as well as craft their own Band, Miss Marmot, Gemma Luna, Event organizer, Marilyn Hatfield, funding received, the pair is looking Province of British Columbia, the art by trying the art of paint pouring Kootenay Hoop Troop and Deep and stage designer, Troy Falck, are forward to the next instalment of this family-friendly, free event offered with the guidance of Sherry Heyliger Down Yonder, this lively event kept incredibly pleased with the turnout and delightful gathering of artistic talent in many forms. Please visit: www. summerbreezefestival.ca for information or to get involved.

Todd Stanley Olsen February 18, 1963 - Feb 6, 2019

The wildly successful second annual Summer Breeze Music and Art Party that took place on Saturday, July 13 at the grounds of Mama Sita’s in Winlaw was a celebration of music, arts and culture in the community. God saw you getting tired And a cure was not to be So he put his arms around you Six area credit unions approve merger business case And whispered “Come to me” submitted FICOM will commence its merger initiative. “It demonstrates in conversations and asked questions With tearful eyes we watched you The six credit unions in the region in-depth review once all required the commitment of the boards of about what the possibilities might And saw you pass away. are one step closer to merging. application documents have been directors and management teams of be. These open houses were just the And although we loved you dearly The boards of directors of all submitted to the regulator. Should the six credit unions to the benefits first in a series of in-depth member We could not make you stay. six credit unions voted to proceed FICOM provide their consent, each and opportunities a merger would conversations planned to begin later A Golden heart stopped beating with submitting an application to the of the six credit unions will proceed bring to our members, employees and in 2019. Hard working hands at rest God broke our hearts to prove to us Financial Institutions Commission of with a membership vote to determine communities.” Visit www. He only takes the best! BC (FICOM), requesting consent to if their members support the merger. All six partner credit unions exploringstrengthandunity.ca for A celebration of life will take place present the potential merger to their “This is an important and hosted an open house conversation at more information on this initiative Monday, August 5, Carpenter Creek respective memberships, resulting in significant milestone in our merger their 2019 AGMs about the concept of and the next steps. Visit www. South Side, New Denver @ 11am. a membership vote. journey,” stated Michael Strukoff, building a new credit union. Directors, exploringstrengthandunity.ca/ Please join us to share your favourite Kootenay Savings Credit Union, designate Chair of the Board for employees, and members from all partners.html for individual credit memories of Todd. Heritage Credit Union, Nelson & the Exploring Strength and Unity regions of the initiative participated union contact information. District Credit Union, Columbia Valley Credit Union, East Kootenay Community Credit Union, and Grand Forks Credit Union have been RHC INSURANCE exploring a merger since 2017. The Creston and District Credit Union was – NEW DENVER BRANCH – involved at first, but the Creston board 401 6th Ave decided to withdraw from the project. It is important to note that no CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY merger is possible without the approval of members. Should FICOM give their consent and members be TH asked to vote on a merger, members AUGUST 16 will be provided more details, information and the chance to engage 11 AM – 2 PM in conversation about the potential merger in the coming months, well in advance of any membership votes. PLEASE COME OUT FOR A BURGER, BEVER- The board of directors for each of AGE AND CAKE TO THANK THE COMMUNITY the six credit unions have reviewed FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT and analyzed the merger business case. After discussing the opportunities and BURGER BY DONATION risks associated with the merger, each of the six boards agreed to move to ALL PROCEEDS GO TO LUCERNE the next step in the merger process, ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY SCHOOL which is an application to the regulator (FICOM), seeking consent to present the merger question to members. 10 COMMUNITY The Valley Voice August 1, 2019 Free culture tour offers something for everyone submitted Just along the highway in sunny pottery. During the tour, visitors year Kohan Reflection Garden has Gallery, a small independent gallery Taking place August 10 and 11 Passmore is the studio of Cameron are invited to see the various kilns joined the tour. This is an installation which promotes local and regional from 10 am to 5 pm, the Columbia Stewart. His work is hand-built thin- and learn how the repurposing of of Japanese elements that draws artists. The gallery is going into its Basin Culture Tour allows you to slab porcelain pottery. Gunda Stewart by-products from the local forest attention to the Japanese aesthetic. 11th season of participation in the explore artists’ studios, museums, is a wood-firing potter producing industry plays an important part This conceptual garden is both Culture Tour. Studio Connexion art galleries and heritage sites during domestic ware ranging from mugs in achieving the unique surfaces intellectually stimulating and visually Gallery will showcase a special series this free, self-guided event. Travel to more elaborate, celebratory pieces. on DuPont’s work. Choose from attractive. A programmer will be by photographer Ursula Abresch to studios and archives that aren’t Her influences include English, a variety of handmade, functional in attendance during the tour to along with other fine artists’ works normally open, see demonstrations, German and Japanese folk pottery. wares including bowls, mugs, teapots, guide patrons through the venue and by Sharon Bamber, Brigitte Desbois, new exhibitions and collections or Kass Swankey makes wheel-thrown dinnerware, pitchers, vases, pie describe the elements and symbolism Alain Ayoub, Marc Grandbois, meet people behind the scenes. To and altered porcelain pots. Also at plates, butter dishes and more. contained in this space. Patrons may Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki and others. participate in the tour, simply grab this location author, painter and At venue #62 is Rabi’a Art. Rabia also find quiet corners to pause and Grab a tour directory and hit a map, your culture tour directory writer Barbara Brown will share her Gonzalez is known for her metal reflect. the road! Directories are available and go! new work for Volume II of Sylvan sculptures, glass mosaics, bronze In Sandon, Silversmith Power at tourist information centres and Here is a sample of the venues Reflections: Wanderings, Paintings work and carvings. Much of her and Light has joined the tour to share participating venues. Visit the website and artists you will meet from the and Ponderings From the Forest work is seen in Nelson but she works all the amazing history of Sandon. at www.cbculturetour.com to view lower Slocan Valley to Nakusp: — new oil paintings and poetry from her studio in Winlaw where she It is family owned and operated and full artist/venue profiles for further In Crescent Valley, Naomi about the beauty and wonder, the continues to grow her practice. Visit dedicated to the preservation and details on each location’s activities Lewis will share her figure drawings inspiration and healing found in the her venue to see her whimsical art on restoration of the historic Silversmith or register to receive a tour brochure and intricate and elaborate bronze forest. her five acres of land. Hydroelectric Generating Station and in the mail. sculptures at her own home studio. Next stop in Winlaw is the fine Visit Christiane Fortier in the historic site of Sandon. Other great For further information, call the Visitors will also be able to take a pottery studio of Robin DuPont, Silverton and see her functional and attractions to visit while in Sandon CKCA at 1-250-505-5505 or toll free walk through her ‘Peace Park’ which a contemporary ceramic artist decorative pottery. She works with a are the 1900 city hall, the 6947 steam at 1-877-505-7355. The Columbia is under construction. specializing in atmospheric fired white, porcelain stoneware which is locomotive, the museum and so much Basin Culture Tour is generously high fired in an electric kiln. more. supported by Columbia Basin Trust Next stop is New Denver. This In Nakusp is the Studio Connexion funding.

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• July 23 - August 11: Ursula Abresch • August 14 - 31: Alain Ayoub • September 4 - 21: Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki • September 24 - October 12: Charlene Duncan Gallery Hours: Tues. - Sat. 11 am to 4 pm For other times 250-265-3586 203 Fifth Ave.NW. Nakusp Robin DuPont Ceramics, firing pottery in the kiln, Winlaw, Venue #61. Decades of artistic expression on display submitted pieces or references to difficult periods Upcoming Hidden Garden Gallery in her life... or both. Fry is intrigued by exhibits showcase two valley artists with how her sculptures, crafted from a wide decades of experience honing their craft, range of items, are perceived by viewers. and unique artistic styles. The show runs August 6-11. The • Re/Visit/Vision is a collection of reception, Wednesday August 7 from paintings and mixed media sculptures 7 to 9 pm, features entertainment by by artist Eliza Fry. She paints abstract musicians Holly & Jon. landscapes of views that resonate with her • Donna’s Dimensions Depictions emotionally – mountains, plains, rolling runs from August 13-18. It features an landscapes and stark hills. Her mixed exhibit of Donna Marko’s coloured media sculptures are often memorial pencil and oil paintings. Curiosity drew her to explore courses in silk It pays to screening, ceramics, master oil paintings, watercolours on rice paper, clay advertise in the sculptures, coloured pencil paintings, acrylic paintings and more. Her hands Valley Voice!!! won’t be idle, as she paints with coloured Call 358-7218 pencils throughout the show. The for details reception, Thursday, August 15, 7-9 pm, will include refreshments and the [email protected] musical duo of Martine and Noel. Residents and visitors alike are Considering invited to experience both shows and their receptions. The spacious, Community Service? welcoming Hidden Garden Gallery is located at 112 Slocan Ave, across from Consider Nakusp Rotary the village office. Any and all donations Call Mayumi to assist with the ongoing work of the gallery are greatly appreciated. for Details: For more information please visit 250-265-0002 hiddengardengallery.ca. August 1, 2019 The Valley Voice COMMUNITY 11 Raven Acupuncture offers monthly Community Free Clinic Days at Slocan’s Wellness Centre by Barbara Curry Mulcahy and recovery – in getting the motion Conroy’s office. He asked if MSP Brendan received his Diploma that year and then expanded to Once a month, there is a special back.” Kai described Brendan as supplementary assistance clients of Acupuncture from Pacific Rim Winlaw. Two years ago, he moved event in Slocan – Community “very human, easy to connect with. would still receive coverage. The College in Victoria in 2013. He his office from Winlaw to Slocan Free Clinic Day at the Wellness He said talking to him was “like details are still to be worked out, opened Raven Acupunture in Kaslo while continuing outreach in Kaslo. Centre. Brendan Murray-Nellis, talking to a good friend…but very but it seems the answer is yes, the acupuncturist at Raven Acupuncture, professional at the same time.” coverage will continue. gives free treatments to BC’s Besides the waiting room, Brendan also wants to spread Medical Service Plan supplementary Brendan has the use of three rooms in the good news that on April 1, ICBC assistance clients and treatments by the clinic: an office for consultations, rules changed around who can get donation for others. one private room with a table for treatments after a vehicle accident. “I felt like I melted – I love it!” whole body treatments, and one Now within the first 12 weeks said Faye Agnew after her hour of room with two reclining chairs for following a crash, all claimants can treatment one Friday. She sits beside patients needing acupuncture on the receive a set number of preauthorized me to chat in the waiting room. arms, legs, and head. treatments from registered Faye is a regular patient at Raven How did the Community Free acupuncturists, physiotherapists, Acupuncture even though it’s a Clinic start? Brendan said that when registered massage therapists, 45-minute drive to Slocan for her. A he started his practice six years ago, registered clinical counsellors, friend recommended Brendan and he wanted to make sure there were psychologists, chiropractors and she says she finds him “incredibly no major barriers to treatment. Direct kinesiologists. ICBC’s website skilled” and “really talented.” billing for insurance and ICBC, and explains: “We know that delays in “Brendan takes the time to the monthly Community Free Clinic accessing treatment can prolong check in” and then can trigger the make acupuncture as accessible as recovery, which is why we have right points, she says. She calls the possible, he says. created preauthorized treatment treatment “a re-balancing” and says “It’s a tremendous gift what bundles that allow claimants to she always feels “incredible” after Brendan does for the community,” seek care directly following a crash acupuncture. Faye said. without the need to visit a physician Faye comes once or twice a ‘Gift’ is the right word. One first.” Brendan adds that if the month on other days, too. She says hour of whole body acupuncture treatments need to be continued, a the supplement of a free clinic makes normally costs $80 ($57 for MSP doctor’s note will allow a patient an her whole health care affordable. patients) and one hour of chair additional 12 weeks of care. And Faye is not the only acupuncture $40 ($17 for MSP happy patient. Bliss is apparent patients). On the Community Free in the posture and expressions of Clinic days, Brendan receives only other patients walking out of the MSP’s supplementary assistance treatment rooms. Soft music playing fee of $23 for each MSP patient and throughout the clinic provides whatever donation non-MSP patients a relaxing ambience. There’s a decide to make. Brendan says the community feel, too. Some patients MSP has kept its $23 supplementary come in for their appointments with assistance rate the same for at least children. While one parent is in the the past 25 years. clinic, the other parent or a friend The Free Clinic Day is very reads, plays with or takes the kids popular and Brendan says he works to the nearby playground or beach. harder on this day than any other. Kai Cabodyna, another patient, After hours, Brendan has also worked came in with his son Indiana. He said on behalf of those who need care. that ever since a rooster had attacked When he heard that medical care his ankle, Brendan’s treatments had premiums will be eliminated next “been super helpful with healing year, he contacted MLA Katrine PHOTO CREDIT: BARBARA CURRY MULCAHY CURRY BARBARA CREDIT: PHOTO

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250-353-2040 312 4th Street Kaslo, BC www.mtnfruit.ca August 1, 2019 The Valley Voice COMMUNITY 13 Bree Lillies is new wildfire mitigation specialist for north Slocan Valley and Nakusp and Area K by Art Joyce a home. the improvements on their property, fuels in Zone 1 significantly reduces the Salmo, Castlegar, Nakusp, and Creston. For years now residents of the north The FireSmart Canada Home and thus defeat the purpose of the risk of your home igniting and these are All are trained in wildfire behaviour Slocan Valley and Nakusp and Area Partners program offers a free in- program. typically very affordable actions. A big and science and specifically trained to K have come to know and appreciate depth assessment of your property The education that comes with the part of my job is dispelling the myth recognize wildfire risks to homes and Bree Lillies in the many roles she has along with a detailed report with assessment is free and in many cases that FireSmarting your property is an properties. The Villages of New Denver, taken on – New Denver Harvest Share customized mitigation actions designed people don’t know what the risks are expensive undertaking. The truth is there Silverton and Slocan have chosen to coordinator, WildSafeBC coordinator, to measurably reduce the wildfire risk on their property or where to begin. It’s are many small changes that you can participate in the FireSmart program by Village of Nakusp FireSmart coordinator. to the property. A FireSmart certificate very important to understand that the complete for little or no cost. It’s the little contracting the Slocan Integral Forestry Now Lillies is moving on to become the is provided upon successful completion biggest risk to our home is not the most things, for example, removing fine fuels Cooperative (SifCo) to carry out both wildfire mitigation specialist for Area H of mitigation actions and following obvious one – this wall of fire coming near the home – from your structure to interface mitigation and public education north, the Village of Nakusp and Area an onsite follow-up inspection. This from the forest around us – but the 10 metres out – that allow fire to start and services. K (Arrow Lakes). With the impacts of certification route is optional, but can be embers produced and then transplanted make contact with the house. If your home is in the areas served climate change in the Columbia Basin shared with insurance providers to lower all around our home. More than half of Lillies encourages all RDCK by Bree Lillies, you can contact her to trending toward a drier climate and or maintain rates, or with realtors to aid home losses to wildfire are caused by residents and residents in participating schedule an assessment of your property more frequent wildfires, the Regional in property sales. ignitions from ember transplant. This municipalities to sign up for a at 250-354-8120 or [email protected]. District of Central Kootenay is stepping The FireSmart Canada Community risk exists for someone living at the personalized free home assessment. To access the online application form up its wildfire mitigation programs. Recognition Program helps neighbours forest interface or in downtown New There are nine mitigation specialists at the RDCK visit: https://rdck.ca/EN/ There are wildfire mitigation specialists and local leaders organize and reduce the Denver or Nakusp. Mitigating the ember serving the RDCK areas and the five main/services/emergency-management/ throughout the RDCK, who can provide risk of wildfire for entire neighbourhoods, accumulators and mitigating the fine participating municipalities – Kaslo, firesmart.html. free advice to rural and village residents for example, Red Mountain Road, or about how best to protect themselves and pocket communities such as Bayview. Smokey Creek Salvage their properties. We interviewed Lillies It improves relationships with local 24 HR TOWING New & Used Auto Parts, Back Hoe Work, to get a more detailed picture of what fire staff and ultimately has a greater Certified Welding & Repairs, Vehicle Removal this involves. impact on reducing the spread of fire WE BUY CARS & TRUCKS In your new role as RDCK wildfire when neighbours with overlapping 359-7815 ; 1-877-376-6539 3453 YEATMAN RD, SOUTH SLOCAN mitigation specialist for Area H north, zones work together. Communities that Nakusp and Area K, what are your get FireSmart Community Recognition primary responsibilities? can use this as leverage to receive PLUMMETING POLLINATORS My primary responsibilities are to funding for future community FireSmart Many pollinators are facing extinction because of engage and educate residents on how initiatives. Woodbury and Queens Bay pesticides, habitat loss, disease, pollution, climate change and possibly Wi-Fi. The plants and trees to become more resilient to potential are two communities nearby that have they pollinate provide food for humans and wild- wildfire damage. Public presentations, gone through the recognition program. life, building materials, fibres and oils, sequester community outreach – including an Both have received funding support carbon, clean the air, keep soil from eroding educational booth at events – and from their RDCK Area Director for and give protection from extreme weather. In delivering the two FireSmart Canada FireSmart initiatives prioritized by the your backyard, plant flowers they like, give them programs are the main activities. The community, i.e. water bladders for water shallow water and avoid pesticides. assessment tool we’re using in the storage during fire season and visible RDCK is a new and exciting program property markers for all residents. slocanlakess.com in North America, which uses research Is there any funding available to from lab and field experiments and help rural homeowners to carry out post-fire disaster assessments to quantify FireSmart recommendations? If it’s an and qualify the relationship between expensive undertaking, many may not Bree Lillies is the new wildfire mitigation specialist for the north Slocan Valley and Nakusp and a wildfire and the potential ignition of be able to afford it, decide not to make the Arrow Lakes area. Slocan Buddhist memorial rededicated submitted Legacy Committee, which last year the Slocan cemetery before the New in April 1943. Seven more are likely A Buddhist minister blessed a new erected a series of roadside signs Denver Crematorium was completed. but unconfirmed. The first was Takeo monument in the Slocan cemetery commemorating the internment in the Permission has been granted to erect this Kinoshita, 9, who drowned in Slocan on Sunday, July 28, commemorating West Kootenay/Boundary, including monument and work is expected to begin Lake on July 21, 1942 while swimming Japanese Canadians cremated there one at Slocan. in the near future.” with friends. during the internment era. “We are so grateful to the Slocan At least nine people — six men, a The monument was refurbished The cedar post replaces a similar Valley Historical Society for restoring woman, a child and an infant — were in 1969 and again in 1986, when monument that has been in place at the Japanese Canadian section of the cremated in Slocan before the New the previous post was removed and the east end of village’s cemetery since cemetery to honour the memories of Denver crematorium was established replicated with the current one. 1986. The original memorial on the site those who passed away in Slocan during was created by the Slocan Buddhist the internment,” says Laura Saimoto, the Mission Society 75 years ago. Japanese Canadian Legacy committee’s Rev. Yasuhiro Miyakawa of the chair. Kelowna Buddhist Temple conducted “Close to 10,000 out of the 22,000

the blessing. Japanese Canadians were interned in MOIR RITA CREDIT: PHOTO “The refurbishment of the the Kootenay region. We hope that monument has been a desire of the projects such as these serve to educate Slocan Valley Historical Society for and commemorate this dark chapter in several years,” says secretary Greg Canadian history.” Nesteroff. “We received numerous A sawmill in Surrey donated a donations from members of the western red cedar post, Hinterland Japanese Canadian community to help Design offered discounted woodwork, Our valley’s green us complete the project.” and Rev. Orai Fujikawa, a retired Shin grocer since 1990 The previous monument consisted Buddhist minister, provided Japanese of a picket fence surrounding a rock calligraphy, which was engraved into the slab with two trees growing out of it wood and then repainted and varnished • Fresh and a wooden post between them with to withstand the elements. Japanese inscriptions on all four sides. The inscription, translated, reads: • Organic However, by 2015, the fence was rotting “Slocan Buddhist Fellowship/Place of and two sides of the monument were cremation of our fellow countrymen/I • Wholesome illegible. take refuge in Amida Buddha.” Thanks to funding from the Columbia The New Canadian, a Japanese- 1290 Hwy #6 Basin Trust Community Initiatives Canadian newspaper, explained in Crescent Valley Program, the fence has been replaced and its Sept. 2, 1944 edition: “Plans have A new Buddhist memorial in the Slocan cemetery was dedicated Sunday, in memory of those Japanese- a discreet interpretive pedestal added, been made by the Slocan Buddhist Canadians cremated there in 1942-43. Seen with the inscribed cedar post are, from left, Slocan Valley 250-359-7323 explaining the memorial’s significance. Mission Society to erect a memorial Historical Society president Joyce Johnson, Slocan Mayor Jessica Lunn, historical society director Rory The new post was created in monument (seirei to) in commemoration Lindsay, Rev. Yasuhiro Miyakawa of the Kelowna Buddhist Temple, historical society directors Minette – Open daily – partnership with the Japanese Canadian of the deceased who were cremated at Winje and Greg Nesteroff, and Laura Saimoto of the Japanese-Canadian Legacy Committee. (Closed Christmas & New Year’s day) 14 COMMUNITY The Valley Voice August 1, 2019 Animal sanctuary in Burton holds public open day submitted a Facebook page, not too many helping animals themselves. So the first public open day with If you have visited Nakusp people know about it. However, we felt it was time to announce an introduction to the sanctuary, on a Friday, you may have seen this year the Starmers realized we’re here and let more people food, vendors, speakers and a a purple table attended by some how much of an impact the have encounters.” raffle. All proceeds will go to cheery volunteers asking if you’d animals can have on people. The sanctuary is not a petting the sanctuary, and they’ll be like to buy a Save On gift card. “People can get in touch zoo. The animals come from selling Save On cards so you can Used in store like any normal with a part of themselves they a variety of backgrounds, not support a compassionate cause as payment, it doesn’t cost you a may have forgotten, that was always happy ones, and some you shop. single extra penny. But your enthralled by the joy of these are troubled and uneasy around To book an individual or purchase nonetheless supports beings,” Starmer says. “We’ve people. Healing can be a long small group visit, which are a worthy cause: a farm animal seen grown adults tear up when and slow process. The Starmers by appointment only, contact sanctuary in beautiful Burton. an animal comes to them; others respect the desire of some to be www.pohpsanctuary.com. On a Few may know the ‘Piece of have changed their eating habits; left alone, as much as others need personal tour you can see who Heaven Project’ on McCormack and we’ve even had visitors attention. wants to connect with you. It’s Road, but its proprietors have who’ve become committed to Sunday, August 18 will be revealing. been rescuing four-legged friends for more than 20 years and POHP is now one of the largest farm animal sanctuaries in BC. Owners Mark and Sharon Starmer moved to Burton from Calgary nearly six years ago and brought their extended family with them. “We’re often called ‘the dog people’ because it’s generally known that we have dogs and a lot of rescues. Both of us have always loved animals of all kinds, so it makes sense for us to do anything to help make their lives better,” says Sharon. “The transition to include other animals Few may know the ‘Piece of Heaven Project’ on McCormack Road, but its proprietors have been rescuing four-legged has its origins fifteen years ago, friends for more than 20 years and POHP is now one of the largest farm animal sanctuaries in BC. when Mark did a course in alpaca husbandry, and fell in love with MV Balfour to be back in service early August their gentle nature. Later, when by Jan McMurray from the shop on Thursday, lot and on the highway. we were asked if we’d give a The MV Balfour has been August 1. He hopes to have The MV Balfour was built home to nine members of an old out of service since July 24 the ferry back up and running in 1954, and is scheduled to be herd that would have been sent due to clutch failure. The sometime on the August long replaced with a larger, electric for dog food, we didn’t hesitate. larger Osprey 2000 continues weekend. ready ferry by 2022. “Shortly after, we heard about to make the run on the summer Coe says there is extra Check DriveBC.ca for a horse in need of assistance; then schedule. DriveBC was staff on the ship, in the parking updates. a group of unwanted goats. And reporting one ferry waits at before we knew it, we were hosts the Kootenay Lake crossing Thefts reported at Bannock Point to 64 farm animals of 11 different during the last weekend of by Jan McMurray all hours of the day at the site. species.” July. Slocan Lake RCMP have Constable Corey Chaloner If the Starmers take an Bryan Coe, Marine received reports of thefts says there have been reports animal, it is there for the rest of Superintendent at Western occurring at the Bannock of thefts of cash, alcohol its natural lifespan. Each species Pacific Marine, says he drove Point recreation site south of and clothing. Culprits are has separate living quarters, but the MV Balfour’s faulty clutch Silverton, and are warning believed to be a younger male they all graze together as one to the repair facility in Surrey people to be vigilant about and female, possibly in their big family. Thursday night, July 25, and their personal belongings at early 20s. Although the sanctuary has hopes to get the part back

250-265-0015 Over 5000 artifacts to enjoy. Relive the sternwheeler era and our colourful past. See evidence of the Sinixt people, the first The New Denver Hospice Society hands over the new palliative room cart inhabitants to our area. to Pavilion staffer Dawn Lavigne. Therein is everything necessary to brew a Open 10 am to 4 pm from Victoria Day weekend splendid pot of tea in a genuine Brown Betty pot and to serve it in Royal Doulton in May until Labour Day weekend in September. china. And biscuits to accompany same. And coffee. It is intended to provide Shorter hours until the end of October as comfort at any hour to the family of palliative clients as well as Hospice volunteer demand indicates. vigil keepers. The society members are very proud to see this project completed. The aim of the newly elected Hospice board is to raise awareness. The Silver Group tours available by request. Tsunami is fast upon us and a strong Hospice response will be increasingly Admission By Donation. called upon. The board welcomes volunteers, who will receive full training. August 1, 2019 The Valley Voice VISITOR INFORMATION 15 16 CLASSIFIED ADS The Valley Voice August 1, 2019 ANNOUNCEMENTS for this position thanks to CBT and RDCK/ And if you’re eligible, you may also qualify NEW DENVER & AREA HOUSING BUDDY’S PIZZA, KASLO: Award Kaslo EDC. for the Self-Employment Program, where you SOCIETY inaugural AGM will be held winning, hand-stretched artisan pizza. FOR FRESH FRUIT and vegetables will receive ongoing business training and on Wed., Aug. 7 at Knox Hall, 7 pm. 250-353-2282. from Cawston, visit Anthony in Silverton coaching and usually financial support while Come and hear about our progress on an KASLO HOUSING SOCIETY Housing on Fridays (9-4) and the Kaslo Market on you start your business. To learn more call 265- AT THE HIDDEN GARDEN affordable housing project in New Denver. Coordinator, assisting residents of Kaslo Saturdays till early/ late fall. 3674 ext. 201 or email [email protected]. GALLERY – Re/Visit/Vision is a All welcome. Refreshments. and Area D with affordable housing. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES THINKING OF STARTING, buying collection of selected works by painter LANGHAM GALLERIES OPENING Office hours: Tuesday 1-3, Wednesday & THE VALLEY VOICE owners are or expanding your own business? If so, and mixed media sculptor, Eliza Fry. RECEPTION Friday August 9, 7-9 Thursday 9-12 or by appointment. #23 The thinking about succession planning! We Community Futures offers business loans, Her show runs Aug 6-11. Eliza describes pm: Join us for the opening night of two Langham, Kaslo. 250-353-8363. Funding invite community members interested in counseling & training; and delivers the herself as an aging artist perpetually new exhibits in the Langham galleries - the newspaper business (or learning about Self Employment program in the Arrow trapped between “emerging” and Fractured by Erica Konrad, and The Altered the newspaper business) to contact us by & Slocan Lakes area. For more info leave “established.” The show’s reception on Landscape by Yvonne Munro. Artist talks GARDENING email: [email protected]. Serious a message at 265-3674 ext. 201 or email Wednesday August 7, 7-9 PM, features and refreshments. Free to the public. www. inquiries only, please. [email protected]. musicians Holly & Jon. thelangham.ca HAVE YOU ALWAYS DREAMED about CALL FOR ARTISTS Donna’s Dimensions Depictions, features FOR RENT starting your own business? If so, call THE SLOCAN LAKE ARTS COUNCIL an exhibit of Donna Marko’s Coloured ONE BDR COZY CABIN. Red Mountain Community Futures to learn about the free is holding a mixed-media community Pencils and Oil Paintings, August 13- Rd, Silverton. Ideal for one person/ couple. Business Plan workshop open to anyone! art show 30 August-8 September. For 18. Throughout the show, Donna will Wood stove/ electric heat. NS/ No Pets. more information and submission email: demonstrate coloured pencil painting. References required. $560 (includes [email protected]. At the reception on Thursday, August internet) + util. Available 9/15. Contact: ACCOMMODATIONS COMING EVENTS 15, 7-9 PM, refreshments will be served Collene 250-358-2652. THE FRIDAY MARKET in New Denver and music provided by Martine and Noel. SILVERTON OFF SEASON RENTAL, Grow Your Own happens downtown every Friday, 10 am to The Hidden Garden Gallery is located lake access and views, newly renovated, Indoor & Outdoor Garden 2 pm, June thru September. For 25 years at 112 Slocan Ave, New Denver, behind pellet stove, WiFi, W/D, newly renovated, Supplies, Knowledgeable Staff, this beloved little market has been bringing Sweet Dreams Guesthouse. The gallery Sept-May, $600 plus utilities, text or call Regular Hours you fresh local produce, artisan wares and is open 10 AM-3 PM, Tuesday-Sunday. 250-354-3559. Mon – Sat 9 am - 5 pm vibrant Kootenay culture. We thank you for For more information please visit Business Classifieds start at $10.00 your support. hiddengardengallery.ca. Call 250-358-7218 for details

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Call the Interior Crisis Line 24/7 at Nakusp with approved cannabis dispensary Job seekers in the Slocan Valley can For information on the programs Trust Community Technology Program, 1-888-353-CARE to discuss your options or zoning. $185,000. Listed KellyRoberts@ access enhanced employment services and services offered, visit workbccentre- the Village of Slocan, RDCK Area H, the go directly to Arrow Lakes Hospital or your royallepage.ca. local emergency room for confidential care. ONE-BEDROOM 400 SQ FT HOME at the newly renovated office space in nelson.ca or workbc.ca. Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy, PETS in the Orchard, New Denver. Interior the Village of Slocan. Adjacent to the The renovation project was made Telus, the Slocan Valley Legacy Fund PROUD OF MY DOG: Group classes, completely gutted and rebuilt; still working Learning Centre operated by the WE possible by funding received by and the WE Graham Community School. free on-line training. SPCA AnimalKind on exterior. Offering it locally first. Full Graham Community Service Society accredited. Learn more at www. price $149,000 BUT discount for anyone (WEGCSS) at 1001 Harold Street, Province seeks feedback to proudofmydog.ca who guarantees they will live in it or rent the bright and modern office provides REAL ESTATE it full-time. 358-2119 (afternoons/evenings increased privacy for clients, including ban, reduce, recycle more plastics SMALL HOUSE IN NAKUSP, BC, 700 only) or [email protected]. submitted requiring producers to take responsibility SERVICES new exterior and interior doors. Fully sq. ft. on .37 acre, quiet cul-de-sac. Shed and accessible, the space will also see the British Columbians are invited to for more plastic products, ensuring more ARE YOU LOOKING for winter house have their say on proposed new actions single-use items get recycled. Plastic bottle Renovations and care? I am looking for a winter home. I have a addition of a new washroom. secure income. I am responsible, meticulous “The Slocan office is one of several to reduce the plastic waste polluting the and beverage container returns: expanding Maintenance Made Easy! province’s waterways, environment and the deposit-refund system to cover all • Basic Renovations & Construction • and familiar with rural living, including WorkBC outreach locations serving the • Painting • Landscaping • wood stoves. References on request. Please Central Kootenays,” says Jocelyn Carver, landfills. They have until September 18 beverage containers, including milk and Hourly Rate, By Appointment Only contact Barb at 250-355-0097. to contribute their comments. British milk-substitutes, with a 10-cent refundable – Slocan Lake communities Only – Executive Director of the WorkBC BLAZE KING/VALLEY COMFORT Centres in Nelson, Castlegar and Trail. Columbians are encouraged to share their deposit, keeping millions more containers [email protected] Wood, Electric & Oil specialist: sales, She adds that they have also begun opinions in an online survey and read the out of landfills and waterways. Reducing installations, service, inspection & Province’s consultation paper: cleanbc. plastic waste overall: supporting effective AVIS consultations. Duct cleaning & sanitizing; delivering a variety of workshops and ca/plastics. ways to prevent plastic waste in the first EXCAVATING Ductwork, Chimneys, Oil tank removals, courses in Slocan, including WHIMS BC ventilation solutions & HRV design and Government is proposing action in place and making sure recycled plastic is Serving the Slocan Valley and computer basics. installations. K.F. Kootenay Furnace Ltd. “We are committed to offering four connected areas to reduce plastic reused effectively. • Excavation • Ditching WANTED programs that meet the unique needs of pollution and use less plastic overall: Bans The Province is also reviewing new • Water lines LOOKING FOR 1950s short DIVCO milk truck. rural and remote job seekers,” she said. on single-use packaging: determining ways to make plastic recycling easier, 587-803-5142 or [email protected]. • Land improvement Slocan’s WorkBC Employment which types to phase out altogether, as including a proposed system of electronic ARE YOU LOOKING for winter house care? well as any necessary exemptions, such as refunds for empty bottle returns. This • Wildfire Mitigation on Services office is open every Monday I am looking for a winter home. I have a secure those for health, safety and accessibility, to would eliminate the need to sort bottles private land from 9:30 am-5 pm. To book an income. I am responsible, meticulous and keep products available for the people who and provide the option to have refunds familiar with rural living, including wood stoves. appointment with the employment 250-226-7849 References on request. Please contact Barb at counsellor, call 250-352-6200 ext. 249 need them. Dramatically reduce single- processed electronically or donated to 250-505-9207 250-355-0097. or email [email protected] use plastics in landfills and waterways: community organizations. BUSINESS DIRECTORY CONSTRUCTION • HOME • GARDEN HARDWOOD FLOORS WHOLESALE • Registered Septic System SOLID 3 ¼ x ¾ OR ENGINEERED. 6 PLY. TOP designer and installer • WEAR 2 mm-5” WIDE PREFINISHED ALUMI- Indoor Garden • Ready Mix Concrete • NUM OXIDE, SMOOTH OR BRUSHED. $4.59 Supplies • Lock Blocks • Drain Rock • SF PLT. AVAILABLE IN 6”-7 ½” – 8 ¾” WIDE. • Road Crush • Sand & Gravel • INFLOOR HEAT COMPATIBLE. 25 YEARS Castlegar • Dump Trucks • Excavator • GUARANTEE. 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Leaf Cabinetry Residential & commercial cabinet work. Winlaw, BC T: (250) 551-7127 250.226.7441 Tyler Paynton • 250.777.3654 • [email protected] E: [email protected] www.leafcabinetry.com August 1, 2019 The Valley Voice COMMUNITY 19 Suggestions for redress include education, funding for Nikkei Centre by Katrine Campbell so the term ‘internment camp’ racism had been part of initiatives. Park. roots of racism. New Denver was one is inaccurate.) legislation from at least 1895. The current round of Paul Gibbons said the One other suggestion was of only nine communities NAJC executive director The BC premier advised consultations are to result in Nikkei Centre is running at for more funding for Asian- in BC chosen for public Kevin Okabe showed the Ottawa not to allow Japanese specific recommendations a deficit, with the Village focused festivals, cultural meetings on provincial redress 15-minute video Swimming Canadians to return to the for legacy initiatives for a covering the costs, and events and writers. for the Japanese Canadian Upstream (available on coast until 1949. And although meaningful follow-up to the worried that a future council The meeting in New population. About 20 people YouTube) to the people in the federal government earlier apology. might close it down. He said Denver was the last in the showed up and participated attendance. Afterwards, ordered the Province to A 2018 calculation of the he feared the decay would be schedule. Now the NAJC in the session at Knox Hall he asked them to answer provide schooling for the value of property seized from more than the village council will collate the inputs and on July 24. the question: What should children, it would not comply. Japanese Canadians was $867 could cope with. Amanda present the Government of Although the federal the government of British Although the BC million. Murphy, the Village’s Cultural British Columbia with its government apologized and Columbia do to redress its government issued an apology Okabe called on Coordinator responsible for recommendations. provided $21,000 to each history of racial discrimination in 2012, the NAJC says participants for their the NIMC, said the centre “Achieving justice and internment camp survivor, and unjust actions that “it does not acknowledge suggestions for redress. is still open thanks to “the closure to this dark chapter the National Association devastated the Japanese that the government of Winlaw teacher Linda Out said benevolence of a very small in BC’s history will signify of Japanese Canadians is Canadian community? British Columbia had any she had taught her students town and its council.” The a most meaningful outcome calling on the BC government The video made it clear responsibility for anything that a course on discrimination $20,000 the centre brings for all British Columbians, to do more. (Interestingly, that the call to remove happened.” The statement was which included a trip to the in from admissions and a and indeed Canadians more according to the Geneva Japanese Canadians from the made without any involvement Nikkei Internment Memorial small gift shop just covers the widely, to ensure this injustice Convention, a government coast came from Victoria, not from the community and did Centre in New Denver. She operating costs. Both agreed is never again committed in can’t ‘intern’ its own citizens, Ottawa, and that systemic not deal with redress or legacy suggested the government that sustainable funding is Canada,” says the NAJC. should fund field trips for all needed to ensure the centre’s RDCK fire services department running short on staff students in School Districts 8, future. CORRECTION by Jan McMurray in due course,” he said in an district chief until she was 10 and 20. After hearing that Others called for more and In the Silverton council The Regional District email interview. appointed acting deputy fire the Village of New Denver gets better education initiatives, all notes in our July 18 issue, of Central Kootenay’s fire Nora Hannon, Balfour chief. no support from the provincial citing personal experiences of we got a figure wrong. The services department is running Harrop fire chief, was The addition of the four or federal governments to run people having little to no idea New Denver Hospice Society on a skeleton staff. The appointed acting deputy fire district chief positions resulted the NIMC, Out added that of what had happened during received a $2,000 grant from regional fire chief and deputy chief when McMahon left the in a fairly hefty tax hike for the centre should get ongoing and after the war. Katharine the Slocan valley Legacy regional fire chief positions position, Horn said. many district residents this operational support. Dickerson said she had Fund, not a $20,000 grant. have both become vacant In January this year, the year. Author Diana Morita Cole Japanese Canadian textiles CORRECTION recently, and there is only one RDCK board agreed with When asked if the district talked about how isolated she students at the University of In the New Denver district chief where there are Bellerby’s recommendation chief model was going well, felt after moving to Toronto Calgary who had no idea about council notes in our July 18 meant to be four. to create the four district chief Horn replied, “The model is from the US as a war resister internment – their parents issue, we reported that council Stuart Horn, RDCK Chief positions. Horn said they showing tremendous value to in 1968. She later moved to refused to speak about it. had resolved in January of Administrative Officer, was posted the positions internally our halls and fire chiefs despite Nelson and founded the Asian Anti-racism education and this year to develop a plan for tight-lipped about Bellerby’s only, and did not get enough the resourcing challenges. We Heritage Event; there were initiatives were also on the wish transition to 100% Renewable departure. “All I will say qualified applicants to fill all are looking at the best way to still racial incidents in Nelson. list, extended to all peoples Energy, and to present the is that he is no longer an four positions. Two district attract further candidates.” Cole called for reclaiming lost and not just those of Japanese plan by December 1, 2020. In employee of the RDCK.” chiefs were hired – Gord The current structure of properties in what used to be descent. Someone suggested fact, council did not commit Horn reports that there are Ihlen, Passmore fire chief, the fire services department, Vancouver’s Japantown, such funding an exploration of the to presenting the plan by currently no postings for these and Nora Hannon. Currently, from top to bottom: Regional as Powell St and Oppenheimer psychological and political December 1, 2020. vacant positions. “We are Ihlen is the only district chief, Fire Chief, Deputy Regional having internal discussions supporting all 18 RDCK fire Fire Chief; four district chiefs; and will be posting positions departments. Hannon was 18 fire chiefs. Langham exhibits Kootenay painters submitted cancer. Travelling between alteration of our environment The Langham staff invite health and sickness, wholeness due to climate change, human you to the opening night of two and brokenness, Konrad uses interference and human great new painting exhibits in painting in an attempt to manipulation, expressing the the galleries, Friday August 9, capture the elusive feeling of connection, anxiety, beauty, 7-9 pm. balance through her diagnosis and concern she experiences Fractured by Nelson- and treatment. in the changing environment. based painter Erica Konrad The Altered Landscape by Featuring artist talks and presents a visual narrative of Crescent Valley painter Yvonne refreshments. Free to the her journey through breast Vanens Munro focuses on the public. www.thelangham.ca.

“Beauty in Confusion,” by Erica Konrad 20 COMMUNITY The Valley Voice August 1, 2019 Columbia Basin Trust heritage grants announced by Jan McMurray Heritage and the Heritage, Museum Historical Society ($6,500) to restore Recipients of the Heritage, the Regional District of Central The Columbia Basin Trust has and Archive programs. the SS Moyie’s wooden hull and base Museum and Archive grants in our Kootenay ($4,000) to develop a announced recipients of its 2019 Recipients of the Built Heritage of the boat’s capstan; Kaslo’s St. area include St. Andrew’s United Community Heritage register; and heritage grants. Forty-three heritage Grants in our area include the Andrew’s United Church ($211,448) Church ($5,250) for a heritage the Slocan Valley Historical Society projects are being supported with JB Fletcher Restoration Society to install a fire suppression system, assessment of the church building; ($14,200) to restore and prepare the over $2.8 million through the Built ($180,000); the Kootenay Lake upgrade electrical and heating the Arrow Lakes Historical Society Merriwake for display in the village. systems, replace ceiling in the ($15,000) for the Milk Wagon This project funding is part of sanctuary and paint the exterior; the Relocation project; the Nakusp Rail the Trust’s three-year, $7.8-million DONNA’S Lardeau Valley Historical Society Society ($1,800) to expand the rail commitment to support the Basin’s ($21,121) to do the final phase of display by acquiring a small Jordan heritage values. The Trust is also DIMENSIONS the restoration of the Billy Clark Spreader rail car and the historic partnering with Heritage BC to Cabin; and the Village of New Brouse railway station house; New enhance the capacity of local heritage DEPICTIONS Denver ($48,990) for emergency Denver’s Silvery Slocan Historical organizations by supporting a Basin- Coloured pencils stabilization and preservation of the Society ($5,000) to organize and based heritage planner. Learn more Silvery Slocan Museum. catalogue the Silverton Archives; at ourtrust.org/heritage. and oil painting exhibition by Nakusp artist, Donna Marko At the Hidden Garden Gallery Tuesday – Sunday, August 13 – 18 10 am – 3 pm Donna will be demonstrating coloured pencil painting throughout the show Reception: Thursday, August 15, 7-9 pm Music by Freya, refreshments You can also check out Donna’s art in the Nakusp Art Walk! Contact Donna: [email protected] or 250.265.8573 The Merriwake, a circa 1929 Japanese-Canadian wooden fishing boat, will be restored and prepared for display in Slocan with a $14,200 grant from the CBT. Nakusp artist Donna Marko shows at Hidden Garden Explore the Authentic History submitted Dimensions Depictions runs August in New Denver. Throughout the show, Donna Marko’s coloured pencil 13-18, Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am Marko will demonstrate coloured of Sandon at the Sandon and oil painting exhibition Donna’s to 3 pm at the Hidden Garden Gallery pencil painting. The reception, on Thursday, August 15 from 7 to 9 pm, features music by Historical Society Museum Freya along with refreshments. Marko was raised on a farm in Alberta, worked in Edmonton and now has retired in Nakusp. IN THE “I find all forms of art a way of self-expression that stimulates my mind, body and soul,” she says. BRICK Marko is a director of the Arrow Lakes Fine Art Guild (ALFA) and participates in the Nakusp Art Walk. Her curious mind has prompted her BUILDING to take various courses including ceramics, master oil painting, sculpture, acrylic painting and Sandon, BC coloured pencils. She prefers to use Prismacolour pencils, which she feels Open 7 Days a week! is the most controllable medium for precision and accurate representation 10 am - 5 pm of her subjects. Marko transfers the images onto Stonehenge paper and There’s lots of parking near the outhouse. with sharpened pencils, she shades, Disabled visitors are encouraged to park layers, and burnishes to create her in front of the museum and to use the piece. wheelchair-accessible boardwalk. She works quite large in her oil paintings, some of which are from her THIS MESSAGE IS BEING RUN IN SUPPORT OF THE SANDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY AS A journeys to Peru and Rome. She finds PUBLIC SERVICE BY THE VALLEY VOICE. the reward is not in the finished piece, but in the journey.