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A footbridge across the CPR tracks. A new Cottonwood market, the design a far cry from the old one. A linear park along Cottonwood Creek con-necting to the lakeshore. Trees and slower traffic along Railway Ave. Respect for the industrial heritage of the area.

Those were a few preliminary ideas in the draw-ings and graphics lining the walls at an open house Thursday. The new meeting room at the restored CPR station was packed with engaged, curious and talkative Nelsonites. Several people from Modus, the consulting company facilitating the planning process, hung out at the various charts and maps, explaining and answering questions.

The ideas on the walls were the result of a two-day planning workshop attended by a stakeholder group of local residents and the design consultants. The ideas presented are not set in stone but are part of a process that will take several more months and more public consultation, with final approval by city council in September. Even then, the resulting plan will be implemented in stages and could take decades.

‘Remember these are just ideas’“I thought was a fantastic process,” said the West

Kootenay EcoSociety’s Jesse Woodward who was part of the workshops. “I found it very educational and team oriented. You had people from every aspect of Nelson working on this, so I thought it was really wonderful. I think people should remember these are just ideas. We have generated a concept to say this is what it could be. People need to understand that and not be afraid of that. These are ideas and dreams.”

Former city councillor Paula Kiss was also part of the stakeholder group.

“I was really impressed with how the consultants captured everyone’s input and how seriously they took it,” she said, “and how they went out on site,

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proaching her wish list of Nelson and area women she hoped would participate in the upcoming Stories Inspire Passion, she couldn’t be-lieve the enthusiasm she was greeted with.

“Every single one of these won-derful women emphatically went ‘for sure, that sounds fabulous’ and right away they were so excited,” said Leugner, the organizer be-hind the upcoming Stories Inspire Passion event.

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The night will include inter-national tapas and wine, as well as a celebration tree and a display documenting “a century of Nelson women.”

Leugner is a member of the Canadian Federation of University Women, which offers scholarships for students at L.V. Rogers and Selkirk College.

The event, being held in honour of International Women’s Day, is Saturday from 3 to 7 p.m. at Mary Hall on Selkirk’s Tenth St. Campus.

The marimba band starts at 2:30 p.m., so Leugner recommends showing up early. Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall will give a special guest talk, and all proceeds will go towards scholarships.

WILL JOHNSONNelson Star

The upcoming Stories Inspire Passion event will feature speakers (back row, L-R) Keri Flesaker, Joan Reichardt, Eleanor Stacey, Deb Kozak, Allison Girvan, Rona Park, Susan Wallach, Amy Bohigian and Bessie Wapp as well as (sitting) Diana Cole, Margaret Stacey, Deb Smith and Shelley Adams.

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The Nelson Squash Club hosted its grand reopening Friday.

“We’re open for business every day of the week and we’re seeing new faces coming through the door,” president Pat Hodgson told the Star. “We’re really passionate about this sport and we’re glad to have our lounge back so we can host parties like this one.”

One thing he wants to make clear: “This is not a private club, it’s a community resource.

And for many people, it’s been a part of their life for decades. Manager Paul Lamoureux has been involved in some ca-pacity with the squash club for 31 years. He was over the moon as visitors packed into the space and kids tried out the courts.

“This is like a new beginning,” Lamoureux said. “It really is indescribable that this hap-

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companiment from Dallas Wolbaum, whose children were playing in the courts, and Mayor Deb Kozak and Police Chief Paul Burkart showed up to cut the grand open-ing ribbon.

“I can’t believe how busy this town is,” Kozak said. “It seems like there’s a new rib-bon cutting every day.”

Nelson Squash Club celebrates rebirthWILL JOHNSON

Nelson Star

Above: President Pat Hodgson (second from left) celebrates with friends at the grand re-opening of the Nelson Squash Club on Thursday evening. Left: Mayor Deb Kozak (centre) cuts the ribbon while Hodgson and police Chief Paul Burkart are all smiles. Will Johnson photos

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New cable ferries to be built in NakuspNew cable ferries for West

Kootenay will be built in Nakusp, the BC government has an-nounced.

Waterbridge Steel has been awarded a $27.9-million contract to design and build four new cable ferries for Harrop, Glade, Arrow Park, and Adams Lake.

The existing vessels have reached the end of their working life, the Ministry of Transportation said.

Waterbridge also built the new MV Columbia in Nakusp, which now plies between Galena Bay and Shelter Bay on Upper Arrow Lake. Harbour Cruises Ltd. of Vancouver was the other company shortlisted to bid on the project.

“Everyone at Waterbridge Steel and its sister companies are very excited by this new project,” said Waterbridge Group president and CEO John Harding. “These new cable ferries are important for ev-eryone who relies on our inland ferry service. It’s also particularly good news for employees in our operations division, who will soon have new ferries to operate.”

The new ferries that will serve Glade, Harrop and Arrow Park will be larger and able to carry more vehicles than the existing ferries, with capacity increased to handle commercial vehicles at full high-way loads.

The new Glade ferry will be able to hold nine vehicles, compared to the present eight, while the new Harrop ferry will be able to hold 24, compared to the present 18.

The current Harrop ferry, built in 1949, operates on demand 24 hours a day while the Glade ferry, built in 1948, takes a break between 2:20 and 5 a.m.

The Arrow Park ferry, 22 km south of Nakusp, can carry 24 ve-

hicles. It operates on demand from 5 a.m. to 9:20 p.m. with a break between 12:15 and 2:15 p.m.

Each of the three ferry crossings take about five minutes.

In addition, while the ferries are docked during off-peak hours, power will be supplied by on-board batteries. This will reduce noise at the terminal, and lower the vessels’ greenhouse gas emissions. It’s ex-pected the first of the new vessels will be delivered in early 2017, with all new vessels scheduled to be in service by the end of 2019.

The project will generate em-ployment for approximately 30 people over four years, with the majority of work taking place in Nakusp.

“The contract is exciting news for our community,” Nakusp mayor Karen Hamling said in a news-release. “Four new cable ferries will be built right here in Nakusp, and our local shops and services will benefit from the good-paying jobs created by this project.”

The four cable ferries to be replaced carried approximately 482,000 vehicles and 685,000 pas-sengers last year.

Nelson Star Staff

Suspect sought in attempted robbery in SalmoRCMP are trying to find a man

who tried to hold up a corner store in Salmo on Friday.

On Friday at about 6:45 p.m, a man carrying what appeared to be a black handgun entered Piper’s General Store at 701 Glendale Ave. and pointed it at an em-ployee, telling her to hand over

cash after he placed a bag on the counter.

However, he left without taking any money. No shots were fired, and no one was injured.

Police arrived within a few minutes and tried to use a dog to track the suspect, unsuccessfully.

The suspect was wearing a dark navy coloured zip-up hoody with

white pinstripes down the sleeves. His head was covered by the hood and a full face mask.

The suspect remains at large. RCMP ask anyone with informa-tion to contact them at 250-357-2212 or phone Crime Stoppers.

Police have declined to release any more information about the incident.

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Jewett closure top-ranked option for Kaslo-area schoolsJewett elementary school

in Meadow Creek would close under the top-ranked reconfig-uration option for Kaslo-area schools presented Monday night, but young students wouldn’t necessarily leave the community.

According to secretary-trea-surer Kim Morris, the scenario calls for kindergarten to Grade 3 students to be moved to the community hall and Grade 4 and 5 students to be bussed to J.V. Humphries in Kaslo.

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The Chatfield Road proj-ect in Crescent Valley is a 13 hectare project on Crown land. Access to the area will be re-stricted to enable crews to work safely. Closure signs will be in place.

The 13.7 hectare Morning Mountain regional park will

also be treated. As this is a popular mountain biking area, trails have been closed. Crews will work as quickly as possible to limit the trail closures.

Crews will cut small under-story trees, prune taller trees, and clean up woody debris from the forest floor. These measures will reduce the amount of fuel available and limit the possi-bility of forest fires reaching homes, infrastructure and other assets.

Fuel treatments are shown to reduce the likelihood of cata-strophic wildfire while improv-ing forest health. Such treat-ments are part of the RDCK community wildfire protec-tion planning and are funded through the Union of British Columbia Municipalities’ stra-

tegic wildfire prevention pro-gram, local RDCK directors, and the Columbia Basin Trust.

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Witnesses sought after man injuredNelson police are seek-

ing witnesses to an incident Thursday in the 400 block of Vernon St. in which a man was found with serious injuries.

Police, firefighters, and para-medics responded and took the man to hospital. However, no information has been released on what happened or his pres-ent condition.

Anyone who might have seen it is asked to contact Cst. Matt Caldwell at 250-354-3919.

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Aligning what we say with what we mean and do

Canada’s first ministers are set to meet this week to discuss a framework for coordina-

tion on climate change policy.According to Environment

Canada, carbon emissions in this country are currently on track to be

56 per cent above the 2030 target of 30 per cent below 2005 levels.

The challenge is to close this emissions gap with policies that put an end to business as usual.

This is where our provincial premiers and our prime minister can become bogged down as they wrangle about carbon pricing and regulatory policies.

I would rather we frame the issue as one of an authentic purpose and align what we say with what we mean with what we do — and ask our politicians to do the same. Just like businesses are realizing they have to be consistent both inside and outside their organization, so too should our governments.

Subsidies to sunset industries that are destroying the planet’s live-ability must stop. Plain and simple, they proved useful in the past but it is time they were eliminated.

There is not time to play the game of finding a way to satisfy each province’s desire to continue to prop up industries that were valuable yesterday but today are

detrimental to human survival.The next few years will see clean

tech industries growing around the world.

Businesses that produce cleaner and cheaper energy technologies that are both better and offer people more control over how they gener-ate and use energy will ultimately succeed. That is why I am con-vinced the transition to a greener economy is irreversible.

But the crucial question now is over the pace and scale of the switch in the short to medium-term — and who will benefit most from the transition.

In the near future, it is possible for each Canadian city to have its own energy company using clean energy sources and challenging the market dominance of the fossil fuel industries.

They could plow their profits into cutting energy bills for local people and insulating the homes of the fuel poor.

That is what I would call a “cus-tomer experience with soul.”

As Simon Robinson says in The Challenge of Authentic Purpose: “Experiences with soul are the only ones that truly resonate with people. A customer experience has soul when it has the quality of au-thentic wholeness, the principle of life itself.”

I believe human beings have a prodigious and skilful capacity for empathy and cooperation and it is needed now more than ever. We need all hands on deck either bailing or rowing in the same di-rection in order to achieve the na-tional objective of reduced carbon emissions.

Without the reduced use of fos-sil fuels by us all there is no way of meeting any kind of targets any level of government sets. All lev-els of government need to literally take the bull by the horns and make policy changes that are courageous in reducing the use of fossil fuel.

We need to express this story and ask our politicians to repeat it. Egos and filters need to be parked at the door before entering the

room to begin federal/provincial bargaining.

We know what our purpose is. The goal is not to have govern-ments get along, but to solve the problem of climate change. There are many tools to use to get the job done.

We need to make the connection between our economic prospects and addressing climate change and transition to a low carbon economy.

We need to say yes to investing in industries that will position each province to take advantage of grow-ing demand for clean technology and services.

We need to say yes to imple-menting solutions that ensure we have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.

All we need to do is begin with the goal that we will succeed. And for that, we need leadership with authentic purpose.

Longbeach resident Michael Jessen is a member of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

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Oil industry crash a chance to switch direction

The prime minister’s meeting with all pro-vincial premiers in Vancouver this week marks a crucial decision point for Canada in reducing emissions and fighting climate change.

Unfortunately Justin Trudeau, Rachel Notley and other premiers are still talking about shoring up the fossil fuel industry and about multi-billion dollar investments in pipe-lines and massive LNG plants. That is clearly the wrong direction and will increase carbon emissions. Let’s face it, the oil patch’s days are numbered, and besides, it has proven to be a notoriously unreliable provider of jobs — dirty, dangerous and far-away-from-home jobs at that.

The current crash in the oil industry is a perfect opportunity to switch gears and move in a clean, green direction.

Now is the time for Canadians to let our leaders know we want a new, secure future. It’s time to write letters and emails and tell them: Put Canadians to work creating our clean energy future. Here’s my letter to the prime minister and Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna:

You are well aware of the urgency of reduc-ing greenhouse gas emissions.

Canada’s responsibility to the planet, and the planet’s people, is to begin immediately with real changes to cut emissions and move to a

clean energy future. It’s great you are propos-ing a national carbon tax that increases year-over-year. Absolutely one of the key strategies.

We have great hopes for your meeting in Vancouver and we are watching for real prog-ress.

The governments of Jean Chretien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper did nothing but stall. Instead of reducing our emissions, as they promised, they allowed them to grow more rapidly than ever. This must not continue. No longer can Canada have “business as usual” or politics as usual.

A national, escalating carbon tax is one im-portant step in reducing emissions and making our economy reflect more of the heavy costs of fossil fuels. The tax must also be “buffered” so it does not fall most heavily on lower-income Canadians. This is the time for a real national action plan with large investments in green energy and energy conservation.

Put Canadians to work creating our clean energy future!

Good luck. We are counting on you to make Canada proud again!

Keith WileyNelson

A proven pothole repair technique

For many years under the direction of the ministry paving branch we repaired road pot-

holes successfully with the following technique.(a) Jack hammer and cut out the road pot-

hole and ensure the hole is tapered with the largest section at the bottom. (Like a plug.)

(b) Heat the hole area with a propane torch and make sure there was no moisture in the new tapered hole.

(c) Apply inside the entire tapered hole and the bottom of the hole a sticky tar material to seal the area and cement in the filler material.

(d) Fill the tapered hole halfway with hot patch mix and tamp the materials with a hy-draulic Stanley tamper or equal, then fill the tapered hole with hot patch mix and tamp the materials down tight to seal the surface.

Add more materials required to complete a smooth packed and sealed surface at the top of the pothole patch. Add tacky sealant to seal the top of the patch area

Simply putting loose gravel or uncompacted patchmix into a pothole is a waste of time because normally after two or three vehicles cross the uncompacted materials, the materials wind up strewn around on the road surface and the pothole reappears.

Bob JohnsonNelson

Multi-plate underpass would solve problem

Re: “South Slocan up in arms over under-pass,” Feb. 19

It seems the Ministry of Highways wants to replace the bridge by the Dam Inn with an earth/rock fill structure as an inexpensive replacement. While it may be financially pru-dent there is much to be said for keeping an access open for use of the Slocan Vally Rail trail through this point. I would ask the min-istry to consider the incorporation of a small galvanized steel multi-plate tunnel in the earth fill so that access can be maintained for this important trail. Multi-plate underpasses have been used all over the world, are inexpensive and long-lasting.

Richard DeanNelson

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Margaret Trudeau will be the guest speaker at this year’s Find Your Divine event.

The mother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak at the Prestige Lakeside Resort in Nelson on Thursday, April 7. The event is from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

“We’re very excited,” says orga-nizer Karen Bennett. “She’s some-one we’ve looked at for three years. It just felt like this is the right year.”

Trudeau will offer a personal perspective on mental health. Since announcing in 2006 that she suffers from bipolar disorder, she has advocated for ending the social stigma of mental illness and published a memoir, Changing My Mind. She is an honourary patron of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

“It’s something more and more people are willing to discuss,” Bennett said. “So it seems like good timing for that topic. She’s led a pretty interesting and remark-able life.”

Trudeau has visited West Kootenay many times. Her fam-ily lent its support to the fundrais-ing campaign to build the new

Kokanee Glacier cabin following the death of her son Michel in an avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Park in 1998.

This is the fourth year of Find Your Divine, an evening designed for women of all ages to enjoy a relaxed, fun environment with wine and appetizers while they peruse a variety of booths related to women’s interests.

Tickets are now on sale. They’re $50 before March 14 and $55 af-terward and are available from the Nelson Star and Cottonwood Creek Clothing.

The event always sells out, so if you’re interested, buy your ticket early.

Included is a glass of wine or beer, appetizers, plus lots of spon-sor giveaways and draws.

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Margaret Trudeau will speak on mental illness during her appearance at Find Your Divine in Nelson next month. Tickets are now on sale.

Decision on hospital funding cap still looming

There are two sides to every story — especially when it comes to tax col-lection.

That is why the deci-sion to raise the cap for future hospital renova-tions higher than $10 million still sits on the shoulders of municipal and regional officials.

A final vote on whether to maintain or build tax reserves won’t come back to the West Kootenay-Boundary Regional Hospital District until later this month, but the topic did raise healthy debate during the Feb. 24 board meeting in Castlegar.

“A lengthy and robust discussion occurred, and I was absolutely delighted this got to the table and got so many of the board

members engaged,” says Trail Mayor Mike Martin, the city’s board representative. “Because it is a critical issue for us in the fact that we are continuing to accumu-late a reserve without a definitive plan.”

Therein lies the con-troversy of whether the board should up the re-serves, which currently amount to $9.3 million, but is capped at $10 mil-lion unless directors de-cide otherwise.

Martin voices concern about amassing tax dol-lars, but concedes his point of view is offset by other perspectives

“One of the points I raised was, we are col-lecting taxes from cur-rent taxpayers and there is no plan against which to contribute those funds,” he added. “So the taxpayers are being

imposed with a tax from which there is no benefit they are likely to realize in the short term.”

The flip side of rea-soning centres on social conscience, he says.

“The reverse argu-ment is that we have a social responsibility to look after those that come after us,” Martin continued. “And we should ensure that we have good healthcare systems in place for our future generations — so

there are two sides to this. And both, I think, are valid.”

Local councils have three more weeks to wrestle with an outcome before the board recon-siders the matter.

“We have many view-points put on the table,” Martin added. “So we are taking each back to our respective councils for input before we go back for the final discus-sion and final decision March 24.”

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Community EventsKootenay Christian Academy

Open House, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. March 4. Refreshment, tours. More info: 250-426-0166.

The 2016 World Day of Prayer service celebrating Christian women in Cuba, at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, 1 p.m. March 4 with the theme: “Receive children, receive me.”

Slopes for Hope presented by Whitewater Ski Resort and Nelson Nordic Ski Club, a family friendly ski-a-thon in which partici-pants attempt to ski or board the vertical height of Mount Everest in one day (29,029 feet) in support of the Canadian Cancer Society, March 5. Register at slopesforhope.ca. More info: 250-364-0403.

An Evening with ‘Extinct’ Sinixt People, 6 to 9 p.m. March 5 at Nelson United Church, 602 Silica St. Learn about Sinixt history, land, politics and culture with a fundraising din-ner, keynote speakers and silent auction. Speakers: Marilyn James, K. Linda Kivi, and Lori Barkley. More info: 250-551-7774.

SIP Talks (Stories Inspire Passion) fundraiser for the Canadian Federation of University Women and scholarships for young women. Dynamic women of the Kootenays will share their stories about what excites them, at Mary Hall on the 10th Street campus, March 5 at 3 p.m. More info: [email protected].

Music, Borscht, Social at the Appledale Hall on Hwy 6, March 6, 1 to 4 p.m. Dance to country music by The Claybrick Boys. Admission $5, borscht/ bread/ cheese $7. More info: 250-226-7758.

Seedy Saturday at the Chamber of Commerce in Railtown, 10 a.m. ot 2 p.m. March 12. Workshops, seed and supply ven-dors, info booths, door prizes, networking, hands on activities for all ages. More info: [email protected].

Top O The Morning Coffee Party at the Nelson United Church, March 18, 10 a.m. to noon. Cinnamon buns and coffee, $4.00.

West Kootenay Ostomy Support Group, 2 p.m. March 21, 1500 Columbia Avenue, Trail. More info: 250-368-9827.

AnnouncementsBillets needed for the Greater Victoria

Youth Orchestra, high-school and college-aged musicians, for the nights of May 4, 5

and 6. Billeting is a great way to have your child meet inspiring musical youth. More info: 250-354-1060.

Nelson Grans are calling for donations of gently used fine and costume jewelry and summer fashion accessories for April’s Spring Bling fundraiser event with all proceeds to the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Drop off until March 15 at SK Electronics, 902 Front St. free parking, 8 a.m to 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m Saturdays. More info: [email protected].

Nelson Friends of the Family now takes donations online at nelsonfriendsofthefam-ily.com to support families who need to travel to receive emergency or necessary medical treatment for their children. More info: 250-354-4670.

Low cost dental applications accepted the second and fourth Monday of each month at Seniors Co-ordinating Society, 719 Vernon St, 7 a.m. to noon. For more info: 250-352-6008.

Canadian Red Cross needs volunteers for one four-hour shift per week, 614 Front St., Nelson. More info: 1-855-995-3529.

Osprey Community Foundation 2016 Community Grants now inviting applica-tions, as well as Arts Legacy Grants (this year for dance projects). Applicants require a CRA charitable registration number. Deadline is March 31. More info: ospreycommunity-foundation.ca

Weekly eventsGlacier Harmonies Women’s Chorus at

7 p.m. Wednesdays, First Baptist Church, 611 Fifth St., newcomers welcome. More info: 250-825-0027.

Taoist Tai Chi Arts Classes, Mondays 7 to 9 p.m. at Nelson District Rod and Gun Club, 801 Railway St. By donation with free introductory class, join any time. More info: 250-509-2499.

Seniors Co-ordinating Society Income Tax Program for low income and seniors at the Civic Centre on Vernon St. Tuesdays 9:30 to noon. More info: 250-352-6008.

Heritage Harmony Barbershop Chorus invites men of all ages to sing harmoniously. Weekly practice at Kiwanis Christie Lees Hall on Radio Ave. Mondays, 7 to 9:30 p.m. More info: 250-352-7025.

Al-Anon Family Group meets twice weekly. Wednesday noon to 1 p.m. at the Cellar, 717 Vernon St. and Friday 7 to 8 p.m.

at 601 Front St. at the side basement. The only requirement is that you have a relative or friend with alcoholism. More info: 250-352-3747 for Wednesday, 250-352-7333 for Friday.

Nelson Hospice Drop-in Grief Support Series, Saturdays at 1 p.m., 402 West Richards St. For anyone who is experienc-ing grief due to the death of someone they love. Hosted by trained Nelson Hospice vol-unteers. More info: 250-352-2337.

The Healing Meditation, gentle, guid-ed meditation infused with the power of Conscious Co-Creation through spiritu-ally realigning your thoughts and letting go of conditions. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m., 507 Vernon St., back door, by donation. More info: 250-229-2253.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #51 invites guests to enjoy billiards, snooker, shuffleboard, big-screen television for sports, barbecues, monthly celebrations, beverage room, darts (Wednesdays 7:30 p.m.), meat draws and karaoke (Saturdays 3:30 p.m.) and cribbage (Sundays 1 p.m.). More info: [email protected] or 250-352-7727.

Parkinson Support Group meets every third Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Christie Lees Hall in Kiwanis Villa, Gordon Road. No meeting in December. More info: [email protected].

Djembe drum circle every third Monday night at The Old Church, 602 Kootenay St., 7 p.m. $5. Participants are encouraged to bring their own drums.

Heartfulness Meditation, Sundays 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Vitality Clinic, 206 Victoria St. Wednesdays 7:30 to 9 p.m. at 415 Kootenay St., office 103. Free. More info: 250-354-9496.

Monthly EventsSPEAK (Supportive Parents Educating

and Advocating for Kids) provides infor-mation and support to parents of children with special needs, the last Thursday of each month, 4 to 6 p.m. at Nelson Family Place, 312 Silica St., snacks and childcare provided. More info: [email protected] or to confirm attendance and childcare needs.

People in Pain Support Group, Shambhala Meditation Centre 812 Stanley St., 1:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month. More info: [email protected].

Nelson Fresh Tracks Toastmasters meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 266 Baker. Improve your speaking, listening and thinking skills and increase self-confidence. Guests welcome. More info: nelson.toastmastersclubs.org.

La Leche League Nelson provides breast-feeding information and support to moms and soon-to-be-moms at 1 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at The Family Place, 312 Silica St. More info: 250-352-3583.

Nelson Breast Cancer Support Group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month, September-June, noon to 1 p.m. at the Community First Health Co-op, 518 Lake St. More info: [email protected].

Young musicians presented a delightful concert Sunday at the United Church with all of the donations going to Nelson Cares Society for Ward Street Place renewal. On the left are Ron Little of Nelson Cares and Anne MacDonald of the Nelson Registered Music Teachers. Submitted photo

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Once the fans had left and the arena was quiet, Rayce Miller sat alone on the bench and stared out onto the ice.

The Leafs captain, who came to Nelson from his hometown of Gilbert, Ariz., thought about his final year of junior hockey, and the three seasons he said changed his life.

And when it was over, it hurt.Miller left the ice heartbro-

ken and needed to be consoled by teammate Eamonn Miller after the Leafs were swept out of the KIJHL playoffs with a 1-0 loss to the Beaver Valley Nitehawks on Saturday.

It was an end Rayce Miller knew was a possibility, but one he still didn’t believe in.

“I was pretty optimistic that we were going to win and we almost pulled through,” he said. “I’m really proud of everybody on the team. Not one person left anything behind. We all left it out on the ice. It was great to see. It was a great team this year.”

It was also a team that had to struggle from opening night in September right to the final buzzer on a February night at the Nelson and District Community Complex.

Nothing was handed to the Leafs this season. A revolving door of players, a head coach who resigned in December, a roster so rife with injuries it was sometimes difficult to put a full team together for games. The campaign often seemed a lost cause well before the playoffs began.

But that didn’t make the con-clusion any easier for the Leafs.

Brendan Smith, who, like Miller, also played his final game in Nelson, broke down as he skated off the ice. Smith is a defenceman but his hustle dur-ing the series convinced head coach Mario DiBella to swap

him with centre Jordan Davie as a way of spurring the offence.

Smith said he thought the Leafs were fighting an uphill battle during the season but tried to stay optimistic. As the anthem played Saturday he told Miller to soak it all in. But that stoic attitude deserted him in the dying seconds of the game.

“I think it was just hard to know that that was the last buzzer I was going to hear on this ice, and the last time I was going to wear this jersey,” said Smith. “It just hit me right away.”

The Leafs entered the game with a do-or-die attitude, and it showed on the ice. But Nitehawks goaltender Tallon Kramer, who was sensational since he started in Game 2, had Nelson’s players shaking their heads with several terrific saves in the first period.

Kramer finished with 31 saves and Kyle Hope had the game’s lone goal in the second period when he elected to shoot

on a 2-on-1 and beat Nelson goaltender Josh Williams over the shoulder.

The Leafs pressed, to no avail. Kramer was too good and Beaver Valley too in con-trol. The Nitehawks, who fin-ished first in the Neil Murdoch Division, will next face either the Castlegar Rebels or the Grand Forks Border Bruins (see related story, page 11). Williams, meanwhile, stopped 25 shots.

When the game was over, DiBella told his team he was proud of what they accom-plished. Getting complete-game efforts from the Leafs was a headache for DiBella after he started his second tenure with the team, but he had no such complaints Saturday.

“You couldn’t look down the bench and say that there was a player who didn’t give his abso-lute all,” he said.

There’s no decision yet whether DiBella will return next season, although Leafs

president John Dooley said he’s pleased with the job DiBella and his staff did following Dave McLellan’s departure.

The future and all its un-knowns weighed heavily on everyone after the loss.

Some, like Rayce Miller, are going on to play univer-sity hockey. Others, like Blair Andrews, flinched at the ques-tion. Andrews said he woke up Saturday believing Nelson would win, and they would be on a bus to Fruitvale for Game 5 on Monday.

Now he needs some time to think about his life now that his junior career is over. “I didn’t want this one to end so early,” he said.

Davie was all smiles after the game. He’s made his peace with the end of his hockey career, and said, “I’m done,” as he left the ice with no small amount of finality in his voice.

Davie finished the season as the team’s scoring leader, but his thoughts were with the several affiliate players — such as Brendan Makay and Riley Swiscoski — who suited up when Nelson needed help fill-ing its lineup cards.

“We were such a young team,” said Davie. “I’ve never seen a team with this many rookies, and they went through that much shit in one year. This can only make them stronger, whether they stay on this team or move on to different teams.”

The Leafs gathered for an impromptu team photo after they collected themselves in the locker-room. Some had to be coaxed, but most lingered afterward.

They embraced each other, shared quiet conversation and said goodbye to the place they’ve called home.

“All these guys are my broth-ers,” said Miller, “and I’m going to remember them for the rest of my life.”


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SportsAn emotional end to the Leafs’ season

TYLER HARPERNelson Star

A final embrace between Eamonn Miller and Rayce Miller after the Leafs’ season ended Saturday. Tyler Harper photo

There’s no easy way to explain the hockey enigma that is Dryden Hunt.

The Nelson native, who went un-drafted by both WHL and NHL teams, is the top goal scorer in Canadian ju-nior hockey. Hunt’s 50 goals for the Moose Jaw Warriors are four more than the nearest CHL competition, and his 102 points are second in the WHL behind only Regina’s Adam Brooks.

The season isn’t even over and the 20-year-old has already topped his pre-vious best goals total by 17.

“I guess you could say I was a little bit of a late bloomer,” he says.

No kidding. Hunt’s surprise ascen-sion to junior hockey elite has earned him an entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers, which he agreed to last week. That deal was hardly in the cards prior to this season, and after years of hard work Hunt was just hop-ing someone would eventually take notice.

“I’ve always slipped in through the back door. I’ve just tried to progress every year and get better,” he says. “In my fifth year now with what I’ve been doing I think it’s all come full circle. It’s definitely nice.”

Hunt’s star took its time to rise.

The six-foot, 201-pound forward played his minor hockey in Nelson. He left for a year of bantam in Saskatchewan, and returned to play for the major midget Kootenay Ice in 2010-11 when he made a four-game appearance in Junior A with the Trail Smoke Eaters.

Hunt signed with the Regina Pats for the 2011-12 season but struggled as a rookie, posting just five goals and five assists. His next year was a disaster, with two concussions knocking him out for all but two games. He hasn’t suffered a concussion since.

Hunt returned next season and showed signs of improvement, finish-ing with 21 goals and 19 assists and received an invite to the Carolina Hurricanes’ training camp, but went overlooked. His numbers were even better in 2014-15: 33 goals and 50 assists split between Regina and Medicine Hat, with seven more points in 10 playoff games for the Tigers.

Still another training camp invite, this time from the Montreal Canadiens. Still the phone remained silent.

Hunt was acquired by the Warriors in the off-season. At the time, Moose Jaw head coach and former NHL play-er Tim Hunter knew he was getting a goal scorer. He didn’t realize he was getting a star.

When he arrived, Hunt was asked if he’d mind moving from left wing to right. Hunt shoots left-handed but agreed to the move. Hunter isn’t sure the change is what led to Hunt’s break-out, but thinks the experience has been

a benefit.“The one thing he’s really good at is

taking pucks on his backhand going up the wing or taking them off his skates and kicking it up to his stick,” says Hunter. “He’s really good at that and that’s where a lot of players struggle, taking pucks at full speed on the back-hand. It’s difficult to do and he’s done a terrific job at that.”

What sets Hunt apart is his shot. It’s a part of his game he’s spent years perfecting.

Hunt credited Mario DiBella with some early advice when he played for the current Nelson Leafs head coach in minor hockey.

Every day, DiBella told him, go out and shoot the puck. So Hunt set up a net in his backyard and practised con-stantly for years.

The hard work is finally paying off. Hunt has an unbelievable six hat tricks this season, five of them in February. He was named January’s player of the month and earned another player of the week honour in February. He says its been surreal seeing his name on the WHL top scorers list.

“There are some great players that are in that top five and I think we are all going to battle it out to the end,” says Hunt. “It’s a fun race to be a part of but most importantly our team is winning right now. It’s nice to wake up every

day and our team is winning and you are helping that cause.”

Hunter pointed out Hunt’s ability to conceal his shot from goaltenders.

“Dryden does a real good job of that,” says Hunter. “He can shoot it quick. He can pull it in and disguise the release. But the one thing he does really well is he shoots it hard, whether it’s going to be quick or he is pulling it in to change the angle on the shot. He’s got an NHL shot for sure. Not many guys in the NHL shoot it as hard as he does, actually.”

It’s difficult, Hunter says, not to play Hunt every other shift. It’s also inex-plicable to him that his star was never drafted, although Hunter suspects the season lost to concussions had some-thing to do with it.

“Guys get lost in [all the rankings] and they get forgotten about … every-one matures at a different time,” says Hunter. “It’s not really where you are at at 17, it’s where you are at at 23. I think he’s going to be in a pretty good situ-ation to be a pretty good player at 23.”

That explanation seems the most plausible for Hunt’s rise — he just needed time.

After this season, Hunt will get a shot at making the Panthers out of training camp, although a more likely scenario is a professional debut with Florida’s AHL affiliate Portland Pirates.

NHL dreams come easy during a season like Hunt is having.

“You could say it’s all kind of coming together,” he says. “I’ve worked hard the last five years to get to this point. Everybody’s goal is to get to the next level and I’ve just been trying to work hard every year to get there. It’s nice to get some recognition in my final year.”


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Nelson’s Dryden Hunt, seen here playing for the Moose Jaw Warriors of the WHL, agreed to an entry-level deal with the Florida Panthers last week. Stephen Simon photo

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Sports BriefsBorder Bruins take

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The Grand Forks Border Bruins are one win away from the Neil Murdoch Division final.

Anthony Galliart made 27 saves as Grand Forks defeated the Rebels 3-1 in Castlegar on Monday to go up 3-2 in their KIJHL playoff se-ries.

Nickey Leeder, Dylan Haney and Logan Casavant each scored for the Border Bruins.

Chris Breese had the lone goal for the Rebels, while Logan Sawka stopped 27 shots in net.

Grand Forks hosted Game 6 after the Star’s deadline Tuesday. If necessary, Castlegar hosts Game 7 on Wednesday.

Medal haul for Nelson athletes at BC Winter

GamesNelson athletes brought home

two medals from the BC Winter Games.

Brianne Stefani won gymnastics gold in the floor exercise event in Penticton, which hosted the Games from Thursday to Sunday. Stefani also finished just off the podium with a fourth-place result in bal-ance beam.

Keiran Marchand, meanwhile, took bronze in sprint boys senior biathlon and also finished fourth in the individual event.

Ten athletes from Nelson took part in the Games, six of whom

were in alpine skiing events.Salmo’s Haley Olinyk and

Kootenay Bay’s Jessica Rideout, who train out of the Nelson Nordic Ski Club, also each won a pair of cross-country medals.

Olinyk and guide Mikayla Richens won gold in para inter-val start mixed standing as well as sprint mixed standing. Rideout and guide Sofeya Devji followed with silvers in both events.

Kootenay Ice end season with pair

of lossesThe Kootenay Ice finished the

regular season in the basement of the BC Hockey Major Midget League.

The Ice fell 6-2 to the Vancouver NW Giants at home Saturday be-fore losing again, 10-4 to the Giants on Sunday.

In the first game, the Giants scored five goals in the first period en route to the win.

Sunday’s game went even worse for the Ice. They surrendered four goals in the first and another five in the second in the blowout loss.

The losses mean the Ice finish the regular season last in the league at 5-32-3.

Kootenay Wild bow out of playoffs

The Kootenay Wild were swept out of the Female Midget AAA League playoffs over the weekend.

The team lost 1-0 in overtime to the Thompson-Okanagan Lakers in Vernon on Friday before falling again 3-0 on Saturday in the best-of-three quarter-finals.

Wildcats win consolation final

Mount Sentinel had to settle for victory in the consolation final at the Kootenay High School A Boys Basketball Championships on Saturday.

The Wildcats, who hosted the tournament, defeated the Nakusp Cougars 71-55 in the final.

Sparwood meanwhile beat Fernie 73-41 to win the tourna-ment and advance to the provin-cial championships in Langley next month.

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From left, guide Sofeya Devji, Jessica Rideout, guide Mikayla Richens and Haley Olinyk on the podium at the BC Winter Games. Submitted photo


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1956 yearbook highlighted turning point in Nelson historyOne of my favorite

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gether by Nelson teenagers 60 years ago.

It is the 1956 Mountaineer, a 104-page special edition of the annual high school yearbook. Commemorating the long-awaited transition from the Nelson High School built in the early 1900s to the new L.V. Rogers high school, the yearbook was about three times the size of regular Mountaineer yearbooks. It has a variety of local histo-ry-oriented articles, lists and photos honoring the pioneers and builders of Nelson who brought the community to the point where it could boast hav-ing a modern high school with facilities as good as any in the BC interior.

The official publication date for the 1956 Mountaineer was March 10, 1956, when Education Minister Ray Williston officially opened the new $840,000 school in an event attended by about 2,000 interested residents. The Daily News estimated 1,500 packed the new gym/auditorium for the ceremony and overflow of 500 more people were directed to classrooms where they heard the proceedings on the public address system. Others heard the event broadcast by local radio station CKLN. In addi-tion to speeches and the official transferring of keys, the event featured performances by the school choir and orchestra, and guided tours of the new facilities.

It was the height of the post-war baby boom, with communi-ties across the province rushing to build schools to accommo-date the rapid increase in pupils. Williston came to the LVR open-ing from Castlegar, where the day before he unveiled $350,000 in renovations and additions to Stanley Humphries secondary school, and officially opened the nearby Tarrys elementary school. A year later Williston’s boss, premier W.A.C. Bennett, would come to town to officially open the new Nelson bridge.

I was a toddler at home when LVR opened, but I know my late parents Leigh and Dee Dee at-tended, as their signatures are in the event’s guest book at the Shawn Lamb Archives. They were both NHS graduates, and Leigh was in his fourth year as a school trustee. In the ceremony, he spoke on behalf of the trust-ees and welcomed the guests. As a trustee he received a copy of the special Mountaineer which, as a Kootenay history buff, he

treasured through his lifetime, and then passed on to me.

The articles include first-person accounts by Ross W.G. Fleming of the first NHS class in 1901; 1912 grad G.V. Ferguson; prominent BC journalist and NHS grad James B. Curran; Mrs. Charles Morris, who was the oldest NHS graduate; and Rev. R.J. Morris, who received the school’s first major award in 1938.

Construction of the new high school and other school improvements required a bylaw to be passed in the civic election of November 1952 authorizing the borrowing of $1 million, which would be matched by a grant of the same amount by the Department of Education. One of the 1956 Mountaineer stories tells of the campaign by students in support of passage of the school bylaw, including good-natured stunts on Halloween night that included writing pro-bylaw messages in soap on Baker St. storefront windows. They returned the next morning with mops and pails to wash the windows. On Nov. 5, 1952 voters approved the school bylaw 2,208 to 466, enabling work on the new high school to proceed.

Nelson resident Mitzy Hufty was in a large group of stu-dents who worked on the 1956 Mountaineer. She says it was “a real team effort,” with each student doing several of the numerous jobs the publication required. They expanded the size of the yearbook to accom-modate all the good ideas that came in. She said John Norris helped as advisor on local his-tory. Money to pay for the year-book was apparently not lacking, as a remarkable total of 84 local businesses — ranging from cor-ner stores to Kootenay Forest

Products — were acknowl-edged as sponsors.

The Mountaineer was the largest project of the year for the school’s 39-member Publications Club, which also produced two issues of the HIWAYS school newsletter. The club’s report in the year-book said Myrna Skapple was editorial writer for HIWAYSand idea-maker for the year-book, and Isabelle Fraser was the editor of both. It helped that the school at the time had a credited course in journalism.

With the help of alumni and an array of sources, the

yearbook team did future his-torians and genealogists a favor by putting together lists of about 4,000 students who attended NHS from its start in 1901 until 1955. This was in addition to the regular yearbook features on the 1956 grad class and students in other grades at the school.

As records of early years were lacking, the first two decades of students were grouped as 1901-10 or 1911-19, but starting in 1920 the grads are listed year by year, up to projected 1958 grads. The Mountaineer also lists all NHS teachers since 1901, as well as all school board trust-ees, inspectors of schools, PTA presidents, prime ministers of the student parliaments, and re-cipients of major student awards, as well as photos and captions of memorable sports, concerts, theatre productions and social events through the years. The team did a remarkable job in minimizing typos, and identify-ing people in photos.

The opening ceremony speeches and the Mountaineerboth had numerous mentions of the man the new school was named after — Leslie Vivian Rogers, principal of NHS from his arrival in Nelson in January 1922 until dying from a heart attack at age 60 in late August 1946 as he was preparing for the coming school year. Tributes to Rogers were led by Gerald Lee, who knew him as a student, fel-low teacher and then his succes-sor as principal. “For a quarter of a century he guided the destinies of this great school with credit and distinction, and during all that time there was not a teacher who did not admire and respect him, or a pupil who did not hon-our and love him,” Lee said.

In June 1949 Lee and friends raised money and conducted a dedication ceremony for a stained glass window at St. Saviour’s Pro Cathedral in memory of Rogers and his wife Eva Roberts, who died a year before him in 1945.

Rogers had a rough start in life, coming to Canada from England in 1891 at age five in one of the infamous orphan emigration programs that left newcomers — known as Home Children — vulnerable to ex-ploitation and discrimination.

He grew up on farms in Ontario and was among the youngest Canadians in the Boer War, serving as a drummer boy. After teacher training and stud-ies at Queens University, Rogers taught in several provinces be-fore settling in BC.

While he was NHS principal, Rogers pushed for a new high school to be built in an unde-veloped property off Vernon St., where fields and indoor facilities of the Civic Centre could be accessed for school use. As it turned out, the school bearing his name was built on Cottonwood St. in Fairview, where it has undergone numer-ous improvements over the years and continues to serve students of today.

The last social event at NHS was a party and dance on Thursday, March 1, 1956 which concluded with participants bidding farewell to the school and singing “Auld Lang Syne.” The next day, instead of classes students were assigned to teams to help complete the move of books, typewriters and loads of other material.

Mitzi Hufty remembers buses taking students from the old school to the new one, but she and some friends decided to walk there instead and reflect on the experience.

The location of LVR was a feather in the cap for Fairview in its ongoing rivalry with Uphill Nelson. In September 1961, amalgamation brought Upper Fairview, South Nelson and Rosemont into the expanded boundaries of Nelson.

Soon after the move to LVR the NHS buildings at Latimer and Hendryx received $100,000 worth of renovations and al-terations, becoming the South Nelson Elementary School.

Three years later, on Sept. 20, 1959, the South Nelson school was destroyed in a spectacular fire. I remember walking with my dad from our home on Stanley St. to join a large crowd of people watching the fire from a safe vantage point.

The onlookers were respect-fully silent as they witnessed the sad end of a Nelson landmark.

Copies of the 1956 Mountaineer can be viewed in the Shawn Lamb Archives at Touchstones.

Local historian Sam McBride lives in Castlegar.

SAM MCBRIDESpecial to the Nelson Star

As Nelson High School closed and L.V. Rogers secondary opened in 1956, students went all-out with a remarkable yearbook packed with special features.

Courtesy Sam McBride

The City of Nelson fibre util-ity is partnering directly with the Kootenay Lake school district to deliver high-speed fibre circuits between seven local schools.

In turn, the school district will partner with Telus and the Ministry of Education to deliver technology solutions and faster Internet to students, using the province’s Next Generation Network.

The partnership between the city and school district elimi-nates the existing network mid-dleman — the province of BC — and provides the district with direct network management and control of their fibre inter-

connectivity between Nelson schools.

The Next Generation Network is a partnership with school districts, the provincial government, Telus and IBM, the primary service providers. Launched in March 2014, the multi-year investment in BC classrooms will be fully opera-tional by March 31, 2017, with over 75 per cent of sites com-pleted by March 31, 2016.

“The rollout is one of multiple initiatives the province is leading to bring accessible, fast, and reli-able connectivity to all British Columbians,” says Chris Hauff of the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services. “Telecommunications

providers throughout the prov-ince are key partners in reaching that goal.”

The contract has awarded Nelson Fibre the seven SD8 circuits, which includes Central Education Centre, South Nelson elementary school, Trafalgar middle school, Hume elementa-ry school, Rosemont elementary school, L.V. Rogers secondary school and the Lakeside main-tenance facility.

“Nelson Fibre supports SD8 fully in their innovative ap-proach to manage their own Nelson Fibre connected net-work,” says Allison Sutherland, the city’s manager of informa-tion technology and fibre net-work. “We’ve been working

on securing this fibre circuit joint proposal with SD8 since December and we are very ex-cited with the successful result.”

Sutherland adds that the city was advised during the Ministry of Education’s evaluation process that SD8 was the only school dis-trict in the province that submit-ted a proposal to manage their own fibre connected network.

Nelson Fibre doesn’t provide service outside city limits, there-fore Telus will be SD8’s partner beyond Nelson.

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checked things, measured things, looked at the feasibility of things. The potential of this neighbour-hood has really been captured. It is a place that has soul: there is histo-ry, some industry, some creativity, a lot of nature. It has a creek. A lot of elements to this neighbourhood could make it a beautiful cohesive unit.”

Chris Chart, who owns Selkirk Veterinary Hospital in Railtown, said the group did “excellent work” and had “great ideas.”

“I like the parkway along the creek — people have been hop-ing for this for along time. I like the idea of slowing the traffic on Railway Ave. They are proposing the street become more of a boule-vard and more pedestrian friendly. Managing parking is going to be a problem, though. I like the idea of the extension of Baker past the railway station and connecting it back to Government Rd. further west.”

Chart said he liked a proposal to establish an art gallery in the old gasworks administration building, that has been empty for the last few years. “I think this would be a great use for one of Nelson’s really historic buildings, of which there are very few left in Railtown, and allow the public to view art in a beautiful space, which would not be accessible if it was being used by private business or as city offices.”

Not everyone was happy, though. Dean Fair, the owner of Cottonwood Autobody, near the Rod and Gun Club, said he wasn’t informed the planning process was happening.

“The concept is not bad,” Fair said, “but it would have been nice of the city to let us know what was going on. This is the first open forum they have had for business-es. I was not on the list. I feel I am getting pushed out. The map on the wall says my building is going to be an apartment building.”

Railtown ‘precincts’The stakeholder group, led

by Modus consulting, divided Railtown into five “precincts” rep-resenting the different activities present in, or envisioned for, the area. They are the market, indus-trial, live-work, railway, and heri-tage commercial precincts.

Some notable ideas contained in the group’s preliminary plan include:

• Within the market precinct, a small park known as the Falls Lookout, on the west side of the creek near the Rod and Gun Club. “There is a really beautiful spe-cial place there,” Modus’ Joaquin Karakas said, “with some historic remnants of the footings of the old power generation activities there that have been overgrown. We would activate that space to draw the community in.”

• A pedestrian overpass across the tracks beginning at the curve where the highway turns into Front St., and landing beside

Cottonwood Creek where there would be a path to the waterfront.

• A revamped highway-Baker St. intersection to make it more pedestrian friendly.

• A parkway along the creek from the lake to the market. “We would embrace Cottonwood Creek and bring public activity closer to it,” Karakas said.

• Greening up Railway St. and making it more attractive to pe-destrians.

• Introducing “pedestrian mews,” small areas with pedestri-an and bike access only but with a mix of businesses and activities fronting onto it. “These could be light industry or light manufactur-ing,” Karakas said. “One of these would be in a public lane that runs through where the old market is, terminating at the new market. We are calling it Cottonwood Mews. Another location would be Gasworks Mews, behind the old gasworks building.”

• Cottonwood market will move further into the park (toward the highway) in a way that maintains the existing Japanese gardens. Rather than having a single struc-ture it would be broken up into a series of kiosks focused on a stage.

• The live-work precinct would be located in vacant land at the foot of Baker St. beyond the train station. “We think this is not a blank slate,” says Karakas. “There is rich character and history, there is really good bones. They are grit-ty, industrial bones, but provide a lot of structure and cues for what development should do.

“We see a mix of housing and diversity of employment and commercial buildings that could include light industry and manu-facturing like food processing and

value added, and a great venue for business incubation. It could in-clude a mix of tech companies.

One of the stakeholders said there is a real demand for that type of use and a lack of capac-ity of commercial buildings that would support it, so the vision for the live work precinct is to have a mix of these commercial uses at grade with a mix of housing types above.”

‘Don’t want something too precious’

City councillor Anna Purcell spoke enthusiastically about the proposed plan.

“I like the idea of a rain garden in a couple of key spots, creating these ditches that are filled with drain tile and have indigenous plants that don’t mind getting their feet wet but are also drought resistant. Beautifying the walking areas, the increase in connectivity, is really interesting to me.

“The pathway loops and driv-ing loops, also a real respect for the different layers of heritage in the area. I felt the consultants understood how we don’t want something too precious. We love beauty and nature and have a very interesting industrial history and present.

“We have the rail yard, which is still right there, Maglio’s is there, the autobody shop is there, so we have to find ways to incorporate those features in a vibrant and in-teresting way but at the same time have beautiful public spaces and public walkways. There is a lot to be excited about for sure.”

The Railtown planning process has a website at nelsonrailtown.com.


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Jason P. Cazakoff April 1, 1975 - February 26, 2005

Unseen; But present in spirit.Love Forever And Always

Mom (Sheila Wilson)Garry & Joann

In loving memory of

GEORGE ALFRED LANE

January 15, 1930 – February 9, 2016

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our father, grandfather and great grandfather, George Alfred Lane of Nelson, B.C. on February 9, 2016 at the age of 86. He was born to Alfred and Florence “Flo” in Nelson, B.C. on January 15, 1930.

George loved sports…whether he was coach-ing a ball team, taking his children to hockey, watching his children play ball or his grandchil-dren play hockey, or simply taking in a game of the Nelson Leafs. He truly enjoyed being at the rink or on a ball field. George loved his coffee and socializing …he was usually seen at Kings Family Restaurant every morning (sometimes even before they opened). Dad was a Fraternal Order of Eagles Member for 54years.

He is survived by son Earl (Doreen), daugh-ter Heidi (Doug), son Rick (Kathy), daughter Lorrelei (Ron) grandchildren Kevin, Lisa, Jordan, Avery, Katelyn, Brent, Krista, Micheal, Jody great grandchildren, Jacob, Emme, Avery and Cody. He was predeceased by his partner Edel, mother Flo, father Alfred, daughter Valerie and sisters Elva and Olive.

Funeral services were held at Thompson’s Funeral Home on Saturday, February 20, 2016. Graveside service followed at Nelson Memorial Cemetery followed by a reception at the Nelson Eagles Hall.

The family would like to thank all the doctors and wonderful nurses who looked after our dad during his stay at Talirico Place in Castlegar and to all the great Home Support workers who cared for him while in Nelson. Special thank you goes out to Cliff Beatty for truly being the BEST friend dad could ever have.

Dad will be forever loved and never forgot-ten. Arrangements are under the direction of Thompson Funeral Service. Online condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

“REST IN PEACE DAD, WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU”

PHYLIS CATHARINE BACHYNSKI

Phylis died peacefully and with dignity on February 18, 2016, in her 89th year.Phylis was born in Cudworth, Saskatchewan as Phylis Catherine Genevieve to Mary and Ernest Miller, she was the the 3rd of 15 children. Th e Miller Family homesteaded in the Erwood/Smokey Ridge/Porcupine Plains area of Saskatchewan.Phylis came to Nelson B.C. in 1944 to join her grandparents Eugene and Marie Hammerer as well as her older sisters.Phylis met Stan Bachynski, a returning naval veteran and it wasn’t long before they were married on December 1, 1945. Phyllis and Stan had a long and rich life together fi rstly building a home on a portion of the Bachynski farm on Silver King Road and then raising a family of three boys.Predeceased by her husband, Stanley William Bachynski, Phylis is survived by her boys, Bob (Shannon), Tom (Shari) and Mark (Kathleen); her grandchildren, Shana (Mark), Roberta, Rhia,(Zack) and Josh and her great-grandchildren, Keaton and Presley.Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. We miss you Mom.Th e family gratefully acknowledges the wonderful support provided by the staff , the residents and her friends of the Lake View Village during the past few years.A funeral service and a celebration of Phyllis’s life will be held on March 18, 2016, at 11:00 am from the Cathedral of Mary Immaculate in Nelson B.C. Reception to follow.On-line condolence may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

In Loving Memory

August 5, 1926 Cudworth, Saskatchewan

February 18, 2016 Nelson, B.C.

(NEE MILLER)

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Luigi Lisanti, who

passed away at the age of 87 at Mountain Lake Seniors’

Community in the early hours of February 25, 2016.

Luigi, the third of nine children, was born on March 23, 1928 in Muro Lucano, Italy, to Vincenzo Lisanti and Maria Lucia Piccirilli. He married Antonietta Corsetti, the love of his life, in 1952 and they were soon blessed by the birth of their son Tony. Th ough they were happy living among their close-knit family, Luigi and Antonietta were attracted by the opportunities Canada had to off er, and settled in Nelson in 1956. Luigi soon started working for the City of Nelson public works department, and Luigi’s family became a little bigger with the arrival of his daughter Lucia.

Luigi became a fi xture in Nelson’s Italian-Canadian community. He was known by friends and neighbours as a kind man who was always willing to lend a hand when a rock wall had to be built or a cement pad had to be fi nished. He loved music and gladly took up any opportunity to play his accordion. Adored by his very large extended family, Luigi was everyone’s favourite zio (uncle), and memories of his story-telling will always bring a smile to those he left behind.

Luigi leaves behind Antonietta, his wife of 64 years, children Tony and Lucia, son-in-law Rocco Mastrobuono, grandchildren Giovanni and Luigi, siblings Teresa Russo, Brigida Tummillo and Gerardo Lisanti, and many nephews and nieces. Luigi was predeceased by his parents and siblings, Antonio, Maria Luigi, Fraustina and Pietro.

A mass of Christian burial will be held on Wednesday March 2, 2016 at 10:30 a.m., at the Cathedral of Mary Immaculate, 813 Ward Street, Nelson, BC.

Th e Lisanti and Mastrobuono families would like to thank Dr. Noiles, Dr Janz, and all the staff of Mountain Lake Seniors’ Community for the care they provided Luigi. In lieu of fl owers, a donation can be made to the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation, 3 View Street, Nelson, BC, V1L 2V1.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Th ompson Funeral Service.

on-line condolences may be expressed at www.thompsonfs.ca

Luigi Lisanti

What a great guy. Jim passed away peacefully on Feb. 23, 2016 after

a short illness. He had many accomplishments in his life includ-

ing starting and teaching many pipe bands in Edmonton, owning a retail store, Scottish Imports for over 40 years, Edmonton Burns Club Piper and Piper Emeritus for over 40 years, receiving French Legion of Honour Medal (the equivalent of the Order of Canada) in October 2015 at the Legislature from the French Ambassador to Canada.

Dad’s greatest love was his children who survive him, Jim (Judy), Ross (Sandy), Cam (Rick) and Jan: his grandchildren, Jill, Jay, Robbie, Shauna, and Michael, and his great grandchildren; Jack, Mitch, Alex, Jacob, Taye, and Gia.

Jim is also survived by sisters, Nan and Isabel, sisters-in-law, Audrey (Keith), Joan (Gavin), and June. He was predeceased by wife, Marie, in 2010.

Thanks to the doctors and nurses (station 42) at Grey Nuns Hospital for their compassionate care.

Cremation has taken place. There will be a memorial and celebration of Jim’s life for family and close friends at a later date. In lieu of f lowers donations may be made to STARS Air Ambulance.

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1966: Arrested driver puts up a fight

Dateline Feb. 4, 1966A sharp rise in unemployment

in the area served by the Nelson of-fice of National Employment Service was reported in January. Information released revealed that overall unem-ployment had jumped by more than 34 per cent last month. In terms of employment conditions the month of January was largely characterized by manpower layoffs as a result of weather conditions.

Largely accounting for a 36 per-cent rise in unemployed men were cutbacks in the level of employment in the sawmill and logging industries. Female unemployment also showed a

sharp increase of 28 per cent during January. The construction and min-ing industry saw continued good de-grees of activity with the local labour supply “failing to meet the demand in some instances.”

Dateline Feb. 7, 1966The city has gone into the elec-

tronic age with a vengeance with the authorization of a $26,250 direct ac-counting computer requested by the city treasurer. The machine will be paid for from a $22,000 chunk from general capital fund, and the balance, $4,250, from general revenue.

Dateline Feb. 8, 1966A $4,000 investment in exten-

sion of a 420-foot section of West Richards St. is a small price to pay for establishment of a 32-unit hous-ing development in Rosemont, city council decided at a special meeting. Decision to provide access to the pro-posed building site at the southwest corner of Silver King Rd. and West Richards St. followed a meeting with builders, Norm Noble of Vancouver, and his architect.

The proposal calls for the con-struction of 32 dwellings on three lots within an area 421 feet long by 330 wide. No estimate of the cost was disclosed, however, the “guess-timated” price, according to the

city engineer, is $40,000. Although only approximately 400 feet would be utilized by the proposed housing unit, the builders intend to eventually expand into the full 794 foot length of the property.

Dateline Feb. 15, 1966David Harrison, 32, former

Vancouver and Nelson policeman, was sentenced to 12 years in the BC Penitentiary for the 1962 armed rob-bery of a bank in Burnaby. He was convicted by an Assize Court jury, which deliberated only 25 minutes before finding him guilty of the rob-bery and of possession of $6,500 in stolen money. Harrison left the Vancouver police force in 1962 and later joined the Nelson police force.

In his defense, he said he won the $6,500 in a Canadian Legion lottery in Nelson. However, the secretary-manager of the Legion said the Legion never paid out that much money as a prize. Co-accused Vancouver policeman Leonard Hogue died last April in what police said was a murder-suicide in which his wife and six children were shot to death.

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an accident on Baker St. Police said a car drove onto Baker St. from a service station, swung in a big arc and crashed into two parked vehicles causing extensive damage to all three. Cst. Ted Chayeski, investigating the accident, ordered the driver into the police cruiser.

A struggle began as the officer attempted to escort the driver to the vehicle. Efforts by Cst. Chayeski to place him in the cruiser were unsuc-cessful and the officer twice called for assistance from bystanders but was ignored. He tried to deputize one bystander as a constable but the man turned and walked away with-

out offering assistance. One elderly bystander rushed to assist the officer but the driver remained outside the cruiser.

Two city firemen appeared and assisted the constable in subduing the driver and placing him in the police car after he had been handcuffed. Left in the cruiser alone, the driver began kicking at the windows and hitting them with his handcuffed wrists. A crowd of more than 50 per-sons quickly gathered as the struggle progressed. The driver was driven to the Nelson police station and placed in custody. Police said charges are pending.

GREGSCOTT

Touchstones of NelsonFrom the � les of the Nelson Daily News

1966: Arrested driver puts up a fight

From the Nelson Daily News, Feb. 28, 1966: Police and firefighters struggle to get a man into a police car.


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