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Council has taken the $5 million line item for the controversial pool upgrade off the city’s five-year financial plan. The funds were allocated there in the case that the city gets the 4 million it applied for from the province in December.

Coun. Kathy Moore put forward the rec-ommendation that the item be taken out until they hear back from about the grant.

“If we were to decide that this is where we want to go then we could amend it and put it back in,” Moore said. “I feel this particu-lar issue has been very troublesome in the community and I do not want to see it in the plan.”

Moore cited that sometimes money ends up being spent on things in the plan for the sole reason that it was in the plan.

Coun. Cary Fisher suggested that they leave some amount in the fund, because they will, either way, have to do some main-tenance on the pool structure.

CAO Victor Kumar explained that since the $4 million would come from the prov-ince, the net effect would only be about $400,000 to the city when all is said and done.

Mayor Greg Granstrom acknowledged that.

“Everyone understands that, I think it’s just been a contentious issue,” Granstrom said.

Moore said that Coun. Fisher had a good

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Jill Spearn, right, and other teachers at MacLean Elementary formed a protest at the end of classes Monday in support of the BCTF and against action being taken by the provincial government to mandate teachers back to full duty.

Arne Petryshen photo

ARNE PETRYSHENRossland News Editor

City leaves $5 million pool fund

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Teachers in B.C. are awaiting whether further action will be taken in the strike that has so far only af-fected administrative duties.

The British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) has been given the go ahead for a more in-depth strike if negotiations with the prov-ince don’t improve.

On Monday, teachers across B.C. protested the government’s handling of the negotiations as well as the cuts

to education over the past 10 years. At Maclean Elementary, teachers exited school just after the end-of-school bell carrying protest signs.

Jill Spearn, who teaches at Ma-cLean said that the day of action is in

Teachers prepare for actionARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor

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Catch the final show of the 2012 season tour in Trail @ The Charles Bailey Theatre, March 3rd @ 7:30pm. Tix available @ The Charles Bailey box office or by calling 250-268-9669

Runs every Thursday from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. at the Flying Steam-shovel. All proceeds go to the Rossland Family Relief Fund, aiding local families in need. 250-362-7323

March 2 at Rossland Senior Secondary. Presented by the Light Opera Players. Tickets available at Rossland Hardware and RossVegas Boardshop. More info at www.rlop.ca

Registration is now open at www.kootenaysouthsoccer.com

Open meetings will now take place every third Monday of the month. More info: [email protected]

Next regular meeting is Monday, March 13 starting at 7 p.m. Next regular open board meeting is Monday, March 26

at 7 p.m. at Blueberry Creek.Next Latin dance night in Rossland at the Legion is March 10. Les-

son from 7:30–8:30 p.m. then open dance till around midnight Last chance to catch the show in Trail Saturday March 3, 7:30

p.m. at the Charles Bailey Theatre. year end showcase is Wednesday, March 7 from

5-6:15 pm. This years theme is “Carnival of Colours” Admission by donation. Come and see some of the skills and talents the club has to offer at the Rossland Arena.

Drop-in hockey for men and women at the Rossland arena. Drop-in fee is $10, goalies play for free and are always welcome. Contact: Christine Hlushak at 362-7575

March 3 and 4 at the Black Jack Ski Club. Freet-echnique mass start as well as classic interval start. More info at www.skiblackjack.com.

Monday evening practices 7 - 9 p.m. in the McIntyre Room at the Cominco Memorial Centre. Brass and woodwind players welcomed. For more info, contact Andrea McKay, 362-7604.

Every Monday and Thursday. Join us for some socializing, healthy exercise and fun on the ice. Beginners welcome! Call Jim at 364-1051 or Bill at 362-9462

Start on all lifts at Red Mountain Resort. From Feb. 18 onward lifts will be open an extra half hour, until 3:30 p.m.

Every day at the Third Avenue outdoor skating rink.

Each month on the third Sunday from 7-9:30 pm., the Ross-land Miner’s Hall hosts performers - music, dance, spoken word, theatre. Interestedvolunteers and performers may contact Michael Gifford at 250-362-7170 or [email protected]. Adults $3, students free. Treats available. Doors open at 6. Next showis March 18.

Free snowshoe tours with the Rossland Snowshoe Hosts. Dog-friendly. Please call in advance if you would like to come as they go somewhere dif-ferent all of the time. Need Snowshoes. Karen Thatcher 362-7207

At Red Mountain Resort March 2 - 4. The event is a developmental program for young riders, as well as a tool for more estab-lished riders to gain FIS points. There is an open category for those that just want togive it a try. Nicole Briggs 250-362-7384 [email protected]

Sit n’ Knit, Thursdays 1:30 - 3:30 pm! Bring your projects and questions and get help from an expert knitter, all for a $2 donation(all proceeds to local charity) Call 362-5383.

Rhymes, songs, finger plays and stories, 10:30-11:30 am, Thursdays atMacLean StrongStart Center. Free, drop-in, for caregivers and young children.

Fridays at the Rossland Library: Tots (ages 3-5) 10:15-10:45 am and Books for Babies (under 3) 11:00-11:30 am. Drop-in. A parent orguardian must remain in the program room for the duration.

Rossland Radio Co-op, 101.1 FM. Come to a Wednes-day meeting, 7-9pm, 1807 Columbia. Or email [email protected].

6-8 pm, first Tuesday each month at the RosslandLibrary. Come be part of the process.

Columbia District Girl Guides has units from Ross-land to Salmo for girls aged 5 to 17. Call 250-367-7115. Leaders also wanted.

Wednesdays at RSS gym. starts at 7 p.m. $2 drop-in or $5 for theseason. Wear indoor shoes.

For boys and girls, now at the Rossland Scout Hall. Beavers (ages5,6,7) Wed. 6-7pm. Cubs (ages 8,9,10) Thu. 4-5:30pm. Contact ShannaTanabe: 362-0063.

Free drop-in, 1504 Cedar Ave, Trail. Call 364-3322 or [email protected]. Art Night: Tue. 7pm; Movie Night: Wed. 6-8pm.

General Meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. onthe third Wed. of every month. All members of Branch #14 are asked to attend.

Weekly meetings at the Rock Cut Pub, Mon., 6-8pm. All welcome! Contact John Sullivan, 362-5278.

West Kootenay Family Historians, 7pm, first Monday each month, Sept toJune, SHSS, Castlegar. Annual fee $10. Contact Jean, 365-8100, or Grace, 364-1426.

Meets every Wed. 6pm - 9:15pm at the 44 Trail Armory in Shaver’s Bench1990-7th Ave. Contact: Michelle Szabo at 231-5000, [email protected]

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point, saying that the number left in should be the amount that it takes to maintain the facility for the three months a year it is cur-rently open.

Coun. Jody Blomme said that one of the purposes of this plan is to cover all our bases.

“We as a council voted to apply for a grant and to take this out of our plan could potentially hinder that grant,” she said.

“If that’s going to affect that situ-ation, then we’re going through this process for nothing, because we’re backstopping, we’re jumping into the pool and then jumping out.”

Moore said that council needs to “have a little bit of reality here.”

She said that council package included information that the $30 million recreation fund the grant would come out of was heavily oversubscribed.

“There are $110 million worth of projects that have been applied for that fund, 219 municipalities put in applications to the government,” she said, adding sarcastically that, “we have to really cover ourselves here to make sure that our plan is there so that when we get 13 per cent of the fund, we’re ready for it. That’s not very likely.”

“I think it’s more important for us to make a plan that we believe in for our community then it is to go chasing the tail of some grant that we’re very unlikely to get in the first place.”

Council voted to have the item reflect the swimming pool as a

three month operation.Moore said they she would rath-

er add it back in when they know what the community wants.

The mayor, as well as coun. Blomme and coun. Kathy Wallace were opposed to the motion.

The regional district has decided to back a Union of British Columbia Municipalities motion that called for a moratorium on smart meters until more research is shown.

The motion comes after information that the power supplier for the region district, FortisBC, had to put in an application to be authorized to install the meters.

Area A Director Ali Grieve brought the resolution to the board of directors meeting last Thursday in Trail.

“I was asked by area residents to bring the issue for-ward,” she said, adding that the resolution didn’t come directly from here, but from staff. Her suggestion was simply that they discuss it, she said. “Basically, what I’m hearing from constituents is that they want more information and I think that’s a fair request. That’s kind of the reason I wanted to bring it here for a dis-cussion.”

Grieve asked for support to write a letter for more information before “something is imposed on us that we didn’t ask for.”

Marguerite Rotvold, Midway director, said the reso-lution was confusing in a way. “The UBCM resolution really came about because of the government mandat-ing that B.C. Hydro proceed with that,” Rotvold said. “In this area, we’re under Fortis, and Fortis has to ap-ply for that privilege to use smart meters.”

She argued that the UBCM resolution pertains to

B.C. Hydro and not FortisBC. Rotvold mentioned a resolution from the Lower

Mainland that asked for the public to be able to choose whether or not to have the meters installed.

“There’s a lot of fear out there and I think this is at-tempting to address that,” Grieve added in.

Brian Taylor, Grand Forks director, spoke against the motion.

“I think it’s general hysteria,” Taylor said. “I think smart meters are part of doing good business, and just like in your municipalities you couldn’t opt out from the sewer or water service in your area, this is some-thing that needs to be done in concert with the whole province, and I think, clearly, it’s hysterical.”

Nipper Kettle, Greenwood’s director, sided with Taylor on the issue.

“I’m going to vote against the motion as well,” Kettle said. “I think a lot of this is fear mongering by people that do not know the facts.”

Grieve shot back that, “Regardless if it’s hysteria fear, if it’s an unknown, let’s put the facts out there and share them with everybody.”

Although the meters are mandated by B.C. Hydro, the energy provider for the all the RDKB is FortisBC, which is in the process of applying to the Utilities Commission to be able to install the meters.

CAO John Maclean said that so far there hasn’t yet been a response back from the UBCM on the issue. The UBCM called for a moratorium on the meters un-til further research was completed, back in September, though the provincial government went ahead with the mandated installation.

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Grant fund for pool taken off the city’s financial plan

Coun. Kathy Moore put forweard a motion to change the $5 million line item on the city’s financial plan to the amount that it would take to maintain the structure. Arne Petryshen photo

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If you have a youth in the house who would like to

play soccer this Spring, don’t delay registering them with Kootenay South Soccer. The closing date for registra-tion is March 16. Log on to www.kootenaysouthsoccer.com to register.

There will be a new face in the recreation depart-ment while I (Robin) am away for the next two months. Heather Bartlett will be replacing me for the months of March and April while my family and I enjoy an adven-ture in Central America. Pam will be in the office three days a week, keeping everything running smoothly with Heather and also running several of the new Spring programs.

For those of you who are interested in where I’m go-ing and what I’ll be doing - in between being tourists, studying Spanish and trekking through the jungles, we’ll be volunteering at two different organizations, each for several weeks. While in Costa Rica, the girls and I will be volunteering with the Cloud Forest School, (www.cloudforestschool.org); a K-11 environmental education, project based learning school located in the National Cloud Forest preserve. I’ll try to send a “column” back to Rossland, about our time with the school, so that if you’re interested in the direction RSS is moving in, you can read about the organization and curriculum of a similar school. While we’re in Guatemala, we’ll be volunteering with Project Somos, (www.projectsomos.org) – a children’s village for abandoned and orphaned children. This is the project that Steve Knox worked on last year, for his sister Heather, the founding director for the project.

The Spring Brochure is now online and can be viewed on the city’s website (www.rossland.ca) and on Facebook. Hard copies will be in mailboxeds next week.

Spring break is still a few weeks away, but if you’re looking for something for the kids to do over the break, Shelley Painter will be running some March Break Art Classes! Running Monday to Friday, March 12 to March 16 and then again from March 19 to 23, these two hour long classes run from 2 – 4 p.m. Each day will be a dif-ferent project and some days will explore more than one project, using a specific technique. Participants can come to one class or all the classes – whichever works best for your child’s schedule. Suggested ages are 6 to 12

years, but 3-5 year olds are welcome to come with a par-ent or babysitter, for the first hour only. For specific in-formation about each day, please log onto www.rossland.ca and look at the Spring Break Art Camp information in the center of the home page.

The Neighborhood of Learning (NOL) and Visions for Small Schools (VSS) committees have created a sur-vey regarding the school configurations in Rossland. The survey can be found at www.surveymonkey.com/s/RosslandSchools or in hard copy format at city hall. Im-portant decisions are being made in our school district regarding school configurations and they need your input! The Neighborhood of Learning committee needs to know what Rosslanders want. It is critical that you make your views known so that NOL committee knows what to fight for and what perspectives to present to the school district. All views and ideas matter and they want to hear from a diverse range of people. Make your views known! Rossland residents completing this survey will be eligible for a $50 draw prize! Please complete this sur-vey by March 19 to be eligible for the draw.

Morning Zumba is now at a 7 a.m. start time on Mondays and Thursdays, which began Feb. 16. The class runs from 7 – 8 a.m. and can help you get an early, healthy start to your day! Classes are in the Miners’ Hall and are $7 drop-in for those younger than 55 years of age and $6 drop-in for those older than 55. The early morning classes will run until March 8 if there is enough interest to continue the 7 a.m. class. Evening Zumba will continue on Mondays and Thursdays from 6 - 7 p.m. If you would like to be on the instructor’s email list, in order to receive updates about schedule changes, please email Amber, at [email protected].

Public Skating schedule for the week of Feb. 27-March 4 will be: Wednesday, Feb. 29 from 6:30-7:45 p.m. and on Friday, March 2 from 5-6:30 p.m. On Sunday, March 4, public skating is from 2:30-4 p.m. and again from 6 -7:30 p.m.

If you currently enjoy a recreation program in one of the school buildings, please note: All recreation pro-grams either end before Spring Break (March 12-27) or take a break during the two weeks, resuming when school starts again, on March 28. There are no recrea-tion programs when school is not in session.

School may not be in session Monday as teachers all over B.C. decide if they will esca-late their job action to a full-scale walk off.

They will have to hurry, as Minister of Edu-cation George Abbott has tabled a bill that will force teachers back to work.

Teachers have the right to strike as early as Monday, provided they give parents two days notice. The teachers’ contracts expired last spring and there hasn’t been a budge in either direction since then.

While a strike is disruptive to schools, teach-ers have so far done their best to keep the class-es rolling as usual.

With the government rolling out their bill in what looks like a forceful manner, a strike is the probably only option.

The NDP has promised to oppose the bill and if so could stop it from being implemented.

The decision to strike should be known this morning and depending on how long it takes the government can pass its bill, will affect the length of the strike.

Teachers have the go ahead to strike for a maximum of three days next week if they so choose. Yesterday from noon to 1 p.m., Ab-bott held a live chat over Twitter to discuss the bill with teachers and whoever else wanted to join in. While it’s nice to see that the provincial government is trying to branch out, there were pages of concerns and not much in the way of understanding the Liberals’ postion coming from the people on the chat.

Concerns were mostly aimed at students and not salaries. After how can you improve educa-tion while cutting funding?

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Dear Editor,

I worry that this plebiscite Rossland CAO and council are proposing might be a total waste of time and money if the question is simply going to be, “Would you agree to have your taxes increased to support people to go to and use Trail Facilities?” We have to know the exact dollars it will increase. Now council wants to know real numbers? What data and real numbers are we actually going to compile by doing this?

If you are going to get people to go through this process why not ask all the questions. I disagree with Coun. Spearn in that this should only be about the aquatic centre, why would we exclude others that are having to pay extra for adult hockey, slow pitch, base-ball, track and field, squash and racquetball and probably other programs I am forgetting to mention.

Those people might not use the aquatic centre. Plus we already did an elaborate sur-

vey in 2009, the data was presented by Han-nah Smith in her Nov. 12, 2009 report. The report stated of those surveys completed and received, 51 per cent of the households use Trail facilities and of those containing chil-dren, 90 per cent make use of the Trail fa-cilities. I feel that if you are going to do this all again, why not do it right and get all the info.

I would like to suggest a solution for now, forget the plebiscite, and stick with policy 320 (subsidy for non-profit groups to use programs and facilities in neighbouring cit-ies), even at the existing $20,000.

Open up access so that at least the citi-zens who really want to use these facilities and haven’t found a way around the rules in Trail, can have a legitimate option. It was mentioned that we only use $6,000 of the budgeted $20,000, so council make it easy on yourselves and keep it at $20,000 this year and look at possibly increasing it next year if all the funds are used. Taxes would not have

to be increased.There are many people that are currently

able to get around the system in Trail, and will continue to do so. Why would they vote to have their taxes increased now?? They won’t. And it would be too much work for them to change it up and go through a so-ciety.

People will still have to make a serious ef-fort to get reimbursement. It’s not like coun-cil will be giving away the money to people at the door.

Even if council goes ahead with this plebi-scite (which I hope it does not), and the majority says no to whatever the question will be you will still have a large number of people who will want to use facilities and programs in Trail. Hopefully council will at least keep policy 320 or a revised policy 320 in place for those citizens. Let council know how you feel about the proposed plebiscite.

Kari Kuznecov, Rossland

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protest of the pending legislation expected to come from the Min-ister of Education. The legislation would force teachers back to full duties. ,

“We’re predicting from his words last week that they are drafting legislation as we speak to legislate teachers back to work,” Spearn said outside the school. “It’s also a protest against the general direction that this Liberal government has taken education and the lack of funding for education.”

Spearn said teachers are outraged at the government over the $3 billion that’s been taken out of the education budget in the last 10 years at a rate of $300 million a year.

“We still have areas of our contract that were stripped, that they were told by the provincial government that they were supposed to put back in place and have not done so,” she said. “There are a whole bunch of issues for teachers, it’s not the monetary aspect.”

Though she admitted that a fair wage increase to keep up the cost

of living is something they are asking for. “We have fallen to ninth place in Canada, with regards to salary

and benefits, she said. “We used to be in the top one or two. We have a premier that is the second highest paid in the country, we have the number one child poverty in the country in B.C. and I think their track record with regards to the social programs and needs of the province are not being met.”

On Tuesday, Education Minister George Abbott introduced Bill 22, dubbed the Education Improvement Act which introduces fines for an illegal strike.

The bill limits teachers’ bargaining power as well, taking away the power to bargain on things like class size, staffing levels and casel-oads until two years down the road.

It also includes a wage freeze for teachers for the next two years. In the event of an illegal strike, individual teachers would be fined $475 a day, union officials $2,500 a day and the BCTF a minimum of $1.3 million a day. As of press time, teachers were voting on whether to escalate to full-scale walkout.

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A unique hair salon and photog-raphy studio opened up in Rossland this week.

The business is Blow Up. Lawrence Wright and Ulli Kling run the studio, which was formally in Warfield.

As residents of Rossland, when the opportunity to move into the build-ing on the corner of Columbia and St. Paul came up, they took it.

Now they can walk from their nearby residence.

The salon is in a bright room in the old building.

The simplistic approach highlights the photos hanging on the rooms walls. The photos are stylized portraits of local Rosslanders, which Wright said are the only models he needs.

The salon offers the unique possi-bility of getting a hair cut and a por-trait done at the same place.

Kling has been hairdressing since 1984. She began her career in Austria before moving to Vancouver 14 years ago.

Wright on the other hand has been a professional photographer for 15 years, working in England.

“Then I was travelling for a long time and ended up here,” Wright said.

The two met and started the busi-ness together. They say they can share the space.

“It’s nice because if clients come in for me and say, “Can you do hair?” We can,” he said. “It makes it so much easier.”

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Rossland Radio Co-op will be getting a 50 per cent cut to the rent it pays to the city, but council decided it will have to pay for the damage done to the roof. The co-op asked for a reduction in rent last month. The roof costs came about after the co-op attempted to install an antenna on the roof, which lead to roof damage that needed to be fixed.

It took council three votes to come to an agreement.

Coun. Kathy Moore called for council to wave the rent and pay half the bill for the roof, because of the service the co-op pro-vides to the community.

Coun. Tim Thatcher said he thought a 50-50 split of both the roof and the rent would be best.

Thatcher also brought up another discus-sion of why the city owns the Rotary Health building in the first place.

“I don’t understand the reason that we own it,” he said.

The roof damage comes from the installa-tion of lag bolts without the authorization to the city. Coun. Jody Blomme said the RRC is an important part of the community, but not the same kind of non-profit as Search and Rescue or the food bank, which also share the building. As such, she said they should pay something.

“As far as the lag bolt issue, there was a rental agreement,” Blomme said.

During the public input period Marty Cancilla, president of the RRC apologized for the roof damage, but pleaded with coun-cil to help with the bill. Cancilla said there had been water damage there from before which contributed to the roof damage.

Coun. Jill Spearn said the co-op has a place in the fabric of the community, but she didn’t agree with the location, because it is “the entrance to the community.”

“We have to really go back and revisit the sustainability of the building,” Spearn said. “I always feel that everybody should pay some-thing. The primary user of the building is the co-op.”

Coun. Cary Fisher supported the recom-

mendation of staff, which was to keep every-thing how it currently is and make the RRCpay the bill for the roof in full. Fisher didsuggest an amortization plan of 12 monthsthat council did eventually adopt for the re-payment.

Fisher said he can’t on one hand ask thecity staff to look at cutting taxes, while eonthe other granting exceptions for commu-nity groups.

Moore was the only one to vote to wavethe rent and payment plan for half the bill.

Coun. Kathy Wallace said the co-op is in abad place right now as a lot of Rossland can’tget reception, which is affecting member-ship.

“I think they’re in the wrong location,” shesaid. “I’d like to see them survive for the nextyear.”

Spearn hinted that perhaps with the po-tential school restructuring there would besome space opening up in the next few years.Fisher’s motion that rent be reduced by 50per cent and the bill payment be amortizedfor 12 months, finally passed with Mooreand Spearn opposed.

News

Rossland Radio Co-op gets a reduction in rentARNE PETRYSHENRossland News Editor

Last week, the province released it’s bud-get and according to Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy, it has a lot of faults. How will the budget affect Rossland? Conroy ex-plains.

For one thing, there was a moratorium on selling school buildings.

“(The government’s) given the go ahead for filling your boots selling surplus build-ings and that sends a bit of a message,” Con-roy said.

“Especially for small communities like Rossland.”

She is also concerned with healthcare. “There is a slight increase, but it’s not even enough to cover the cost of living, to pay for heat and light and things like that,” she said.

The new budget also ignores the B.C. Om-

budsmen report on senior health. Conroy said that instead there was the announce-ment of a $1,000 credit for seniors to reno-vate their house and make it more accessible, but they have to spend $10,000 first.

“I’ve talked to a lot of seniors and they’re in the process of downsizing, not putting big renovations into their home,” she said not-ing that even putting in a ramp wouldn’t cost that much. “I think it would be a pretty fancy ramp for $10,000.”

There is also an increase to Medical Ser-vice Premiums.

“So there’s another increase to that and we have another year of the HST,” she said. “They haven’t done anything to get rid of that. They said it won’t be gone until this time next year.

“So right before the election they’re going to get rid of the HST. You have to wonder, we keep hearing about the balanced budgets and what they’re going to do and it just seems

that they really are misleading the public.” She cites the last election when the B.C.

Liberals said there would be a $495 milliondeficit.

“They said that’s all it was going to be, butwe know now that it was almost $3 billion,”she added.

Post secondary education was also amongher concerns.

“We have an amazing facility at SelkirkCollege and they’re struggling,” she said.“They already said that they are very con-cerned with this year’s budget and there isno new money in the budget to deal with therising costs, the issues with post-secondaryeducation.”

She said there will be a need for skilledtradespersons, but the government is not ad-dressing the need. Because of this, she thinksyoung people going into the trades will headto Alberta, where there is much more sup-port.

Local MLA concerned about provincial budgetARNE PETRYSHENRossland News Editor


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show of “Pride and Prejudice.” The play is based on Jane Austen’s book first published 200 years ago next year and adapted into a musical. The book was adapted by Bernard J. Tay-lor.

The play follows the story of Eliza-beth Bennet, played by Allison Cher-ry. The story follows Elizabeth as she issues important in 19th century England, such as manners, morality, education and marriage. Though set

in a different time, much of the story retains its importance even in the present day.

This is a special year as well for the Players, as they are celebrating their 60th year in operation.

The show is March 2 at RosslandSecondary School starting at 7:30p.m. Tickets are available at RosslandHardware and Rossvegas.

Adult tickets are $17 and children$12.

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Library Director

Rossland Public Library

Rossland Public Library is currently a small library with big ambitions. We are looking for someone with the creativity and vision to help us move on to the next chapter.

Reporting to the Rossland Library Board, the Library Director is responsible for the effi cient management, operation and direction of the Rossland Public Library. The library is an integral part of the community. The Director must be able to enthusiastically engage patrons and liaise with many different community groups.

The successful applicant will possess:

A minimum of a Library Technician Certifi cate or Community Library Training Program Certifi cate. Equivalent experience will also be considered. The ability to produce a Strategic Plan with the assistance of the Board and report on progress with reference to the plan.The ability to produce a budget, report monthly and demonstrate sound bookkeeping knowledge.A love of reading and a good understanding of how to promote literacy of all kinds for all patrons.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with staff and patrons.The ability to use the latest technology to help achieve library goals.Experience with day to day management of library facilities.

Rossland is a small town in the West Kootenay area of British Columbia. Known as the highest alpine city in Canada it offers fabulous recreational opportunities and a rich cultural life.

Applicants are asked to please submit cover letters and resumes to [email protected] or to the Rossland Public Library Board at P.O. Box 190, Rossland, and B.C. V0G. The competition will close March 15, 2012.

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On Saturday March 10 “The Fugitives” will play the Rossland Miners’ Hall to inspire audiences with their unique blend of song writing, poetry, and multi-instrumental talents to create a dynamic mix of modern folk.

The Fugitives are the combined talents of Vancouver artists Adrian Glynn, Barbara Adler, Brendan McLeod, and Steve Charles. A group of multi-instrumentalists, songwrit-ers, poets and novelists, each with their own burgeoning solo career, they’ve won indi-vidual accolades as diverse as the Canadian SLAM poetry championship, CBC poet lau-reate, and a place in the Peak performance songwriting series. But their primary focus lies in banding together to integrate their sensibilities into a dynamic mix of modern folk.

Formed four years ago on Vancouver’s East Side, The Fugitives have trod their instruments and words numerous times through Canada and Europe Performances that began in abandoned bank vaults and small vegetarian restaurants in England have turned into mainstage appearances on the Canadian folk festival circuit and sold out headlining shows at venues as diverse as the Vienna Literary Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, the Vancouver Jazz Festival,

and the Chutzpah Dance Festival.The Fugitives are presented by the Ross-

land Council for Arts and Culture as part of the 2012 performance series at the Min-ers Hall on Saturday, March 10. Tickets are $20 in advance or $23 at the door ($2 off for

RCAC members). Advanced tickets avail-able at Out of the Cellar (Columbia AvenueRossland) or the Charles Bailey Theatre (Ce-dar Avenue Trail).

For more information please visitwww.rosslandcac.com.

Fugitives will inspire audience next weekArts & Culture

The Fugitives will play at the Miners’ Hall next Saturday, March 10. Submitted photo

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