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Rossland film makers take home awards at West Kootenay Regional U19 Film Festival

by Contributor on 08 May 2013
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Rossland film makers take home awards at West Kootenay Regional U19 Film Festival

Young film makers impressed the audience at this year’s annual U19 Film Festival held on April 27 at the Royal Theatre in Trail. The annual festival is the largest youth film festival in the West Kootenay region where young film makers compete with short films for cash prizes.

“The calibre and quality of the films was the best I’ve ever seen. It’s really inspiring to see what young people are creating today with film,” says Rachael Roussin, program coordinator for the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture.

Rossland Trail Roller Girls set to do battle!

by Contributor on 08 May 2013
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Rossland Trail Roller Girls set to do battle!

The Red Army is aiming for a win this Saturday as they battle their sisters from Castlegar.

West Kootenay Roller Derby league’s second bout of the season will open with a much-anticipated match up, the Rossland Trail Roller Girls (RTRG) versus Castlegar’s Dam City Rollers.

RTRG will have to put on their game faces as they take on the Dams, a hard hitting team that they have spent much time training with.

ANALYSIS: The elephant in an almost-empty Miners’ Hall

by Adrian Barnes on 09 May 2013
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ANALYSIS: The elephant in an almost-empty Miners’ Hall

Last night a whopping 28 Rosslanders showed up at the Rossland Chamber of Commerce/Rossland Telegraph-sponsored all candidates’ forum at the Miners’ Hall, most of them the sort of highly-engaged and informed locals who regularly play their parts in the life of this community and all of whom entered the room last night with a well-developed sense of who they’ll vote for and who they’ll not. So not much was accomplished.

COMMENT: Why Justin Trudeau may be more dangerous than Stephen Harper

by Damien Gillis on 09 May 2013
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Adrian Wyld/CP

Justin Trudeau just may be Canada's most dangerous man.

He of the throngs of adoring supporters, the pretty new face that promises to resurrect "Canada's party".

Electrical glitch resolved at Silver City Days; rides to be running on time

by Kyra Hoggan on 09 May 2013
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Electrical glitch resolved at Silver City Days; rides to be running on time

A glitch that saw the rides stop working during the first night of Silver City Days is fixed in plenty of time for the causeway's opening this afternoon, according to festival society president Ian McLeod.

"One of the main generators blew up on us at about 6 p.m. (Wednesday)," he said, adding the mechanical issue put the rides out of commission, but not the food court or the entertainment stages. "The crowd tapered off a little, but we still had about 50 per cent of the (people)."

Downtown trash cans and more uncanned, but recanning remains possible

by Andrew Bennett on 09 May 2013
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Jody Blomme: "OMG! Our downtown's going to look like the patio of an A&W!"

Council has decided to reinstate the downtown furniture budget that it had put on hold last year. The $108,000 line item includes benches, but also bike racks, recycling bins, bear-proof garbage containers, and the eclectic but contentious ore cart.

Council's decision, however, stipulates that city staff will return to council for final authorization prior to making any furniture purchases. Coun. Kathy Wallace had previously raised the idea of hiring local artisans to build some of the items, for example the benches, instead of buying pre-fabricated items from a catalogue.

COMMENT: Financial Plan passes with no hint of public consultation, or thought

by Andrew Bennett on 09 May 2013
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Mayor Granstrom last year: "The numbers speak for themselves..."

Council approved the 2013-2017 financial plan (FP) on Wednesday morning, just one week after the bulk of debate was completed in a single unpublicized meeting on May 1. 

HE SAID SHE SAID: Public outcry pushes for sustainability, but council digs in its core service heels

by Andrew Bennett on 09 May 2013
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HE SAID SHE SAID: Public outcry pushes for sustainability, but council digs in its core service heels

Following council’s five hour debate on the entire budget on May 1, council was forced to pause the financial plan blitz for twenty minutes on May 6 to hear nine members of the public oppose the only major cut: approximately $20,000 axed from the Sustainability Commission (SC), terminating their paid coordinator with no transition plan in place.

The May 1 meeting was open to the public but was not publicized, so only the Telegraph and the library manager were there to witness the debate, recorded in six articles:

Change

by Keith Simmonds on 10 May 2013
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Change

We are all as unique and as individual as God made us to be. We might all 'look alike' to some visitor from a galaxy far, far away, but each of us is aware, sometimes painfully so, of the characteristics that make us as different from one-another as is one grain of sand from its neighbour.

LETTER: Taxes are about sharing

by Contributor on 10 May 2013
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LETTER: Taxes are about sharing

Dear Sir,

I couldn't believe my eyes. Your letter page contained a letter from someone who holds a position of power in a local cooperative. He wrote to raise the prospect of taxation as a spectre of fear and loathing against which all co-op members should raise standards, mount ramparts and prepare to repel raiding hordes of collectors who would reap the benefits of dividends from the grasp of co-op members.