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Paterson border.� e log house is in rough shape. � e entire roof

was burned away along with what seemed to be most of the inside and outer walls. � e extent of the damage as of now isn’t fully known.

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� e 33 � ghters came from all over the area to lend a helping hand.

Rossland sent 14 and War� eld dispatched seven, while eight came from Trail and four ventured out from Montrose.

� e blaze and situation was fully under control by midnight.

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Planned renovations take effectMiners Hall renovation granted $300,000 by Columbia Basin Trust

With the announcement of a $300,000 grant from the Co-lumbia Basin Trust, the reno-vation and restoration of the Rossland Miners Union Hall is one step closer to reality.

With this $300,000 contri-bution from the Community Development Program, the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) now have 70 per cent of the required funds in place for the project.

RCAC has been dreaming of turning the fourth � oor at-tic space into a functional arts and recreation programming

space for nearly 20 years. � e plans include a Green Room for performers, storage for the Gold Fever Follies’ props and costumes and a mid-sized main room that would be used for art classes and recreation pro-grams.

In addition to RCAC’s reno-vations to the fourth � oor, the City has planned upgrades to the roof and siding, and the project has expanded to include restoration to the façade of the building and reconstruction of the entry courtyard.

While looking at some his-torical photos, RCAC realized that the design of both the bal-cony and the roof line had been

substantially changed from the original. � e planned façade restoration intends to rebuild both the balcony and roof line to more closely resemble the original High Victorian design.

� e intent of the full proj-ect is to stabilize the condition of the Miners Hall, restore the façade to its historic form and create new spaces inside the ex-isting building that will support arts and community activities. When the Western Federation of Miners Local 38 built the Hall in 1898, they had plans to develop the Attic into usable space. Finally over 100 years later, we are going to make it happen.


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Rossland Mountain Market:

A� er eight years of serving fresh foods and great service, the Rossland Mountain Market is looking for some permanent � x-tures. � e farmer’s market owns next to no infrastructure, aside from a table and tent.

To help remedy the situation, the market is hosting a month long fund raiser with some cre-ative projects.

“We were incorporated in Jan-uary as a legitimate society and we acknowledged that having our infrastructure provided by volunteers was not a reliable nor sustainable way for this market to operate,” said board member, Miche Warwick.

In addition to the recent in-corporation, the Mountain Market also received the Small Farmer’s Market of the Year 2014 award from the British Columbia Association of Farmer’s Markets.

� e market’s site on Yodel — a local crowd sourcing, fund raiser website — states this fund raiser is intended to give the market the ability to continue living up to this standard, not only for the farmers and artisans that come from all over the Kootenays, but also for the wonderful town of Rossland.

“We’re trying to raise $8,500 in the month of April to help us build infrastructure for the market,” Warwick continued,

“To raise this money each of the board members have created personal challenges that they will be doing through the month of April.”

� ese challenges will hope-fully bring in the supporters and donors needed to fund the infra-structure project.

One such member, Kristen Renn, has already put on quite the display for the � rst in her series of eight in-your-face dis-plays of activism. Renn’s chal-lenge is called ‘Acts of Activism: Me and the Masses.’

Her opening act was to raise awareness around plastic bags and stop their overuse.

“She called on all her friends to donate all their plastic bags,” Warwick explained, “� at amaz-ing dress she’s wearing is made from plastic bags and she stood in front of Ferraro’s in it for two hours.’

Renn had with her, a large board of information on plastic bags and was engaging with any-one who would hear.

Warwick has her own chal-lenge as well, just like the other members, she explained.

“My personal challenge is to research, locate, purchase, pre-pare and share 30 local foods in 30 days.”

She explains through their campaign site, why this initiative is important to her, personally.

“I believe that every single person on this planet deserves

access to a healthy food system and our industrial food system is not healthy and I want to help more people understand the bene� ts of eating local food - nu-tritionally, environmentally and economically.”

Her third point ties in directly to the Mountain Market, “If we all work towards supporting our local food system in a better way, we are all working together to create a better future for the planet and humanity.”

Two other challenges have been issued by fellow board members, Sarah Elizabeth and Kathleen Hill.

Elizabeth’s reads, “During the month of April, I will spin, knit, crochet, weave, felt, and sew to create a one-of-a-kind Art Blan-ket, patchwork quilt style.”

While Hill swears, “� irty times in thirty days I will stand on my head in a setting where food is grown or raised.” � is particular challenge has already received $165.

Warwick � nished, “We need this in order for us to exist in the future and make certain if and when board members move on, the farmer’s market can still operate. If we can build an in-frastructure that we can pass on into the future, then we’ve cre-ated a sustainable market.”

Anyone wishing to support the Mountain Market’s cause can head over to rosslandmountain-market.yodel.org.

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Kristen Renn stood outside Ferraro’s on Good Friday for over two hours, in a rather peculiar getup made from plastic bags. Her mes-sage was simply to reduce the use of these bags in every day life. Photo submitted

� e B.C. government has made its most signi� cant moves in decades to ad-dress the needs of some of the province’s poorest people.

� e largest � nancial commitment is for a new program to help single parents escape from the welfare trap. � ere are 16,000 single parents in B.C. receiving provincial income assistance or disability payments, most of them women.

Even if they could � nd an entry-level job, it wouldn’t pay enough to cover the child care they would need to go to work. Worst of all, the current system requires that if they enrol in training, they lose their income assistance, including dental and extended medical care for themselves and their children.

� at is the welfare trap, one of the most perverse government policies to have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era.

� e new program takes e� ect in Sep-tember. It will not only continue income assistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, it promises to

cover their child care and transportation costs for an approved training program of up to one year.

Medical and child care costs will then be covered for up to a year a� er training, to allow a transition to employment.

Approved training means training for jobs that are identi� ed as in demand, requiring high school and occupation-speci� c training that can be completed in a year or less. � ey include retail sales, general o� ce work and assistance jobs in health services.

Another overdue policy change is to double the allowable earnings for all in-come assistance recipients from $200 to $400 a month. � is gives people a chance to improve their circumstances by taking whatever part-time or casual work they can manage, without having that little in-come cut from their already meagre wel-fare cheques.

And then there was the recent decision to end the claw-back of parental child support payments from income assis-tance payments.

� e province has for many years run a costly child maintenance enforcement

program to track down (mostly) dead-beat dads and force them to pay at least a token amount to support their children. Now when they pay child support to a single parent on income assistance, they will at least have the satisfaction of know-ing the children actually receive the extra bene� t.

� ese harsh, historic policies were built around a philosophy that welfare is a temporary last resort, to be withdrawn as soon as some other source of income is identi� ed. � at is a valid if unfashion-able position to take on behalf of working taxpayers who pay for all this, but it only makes sense if the income assistance re-cipient has a realistic option.

For those who are already in the entry-level job market, the minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour in September, from $10.25 to $10.45. � is is the beginning of an annual review that will tie the wage to the consumer price index.

A paltry sum, to be sure, but anyone who still thinks jacking the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is a magic solu-tion that won’t cost some entry-level jobs is clinging to a socialist dream world.

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OUR VIEW

With Easter now come and gone and the regu-lar work week continuing it leaves many to wonder what the meaning of our holidays have become.

Are they just that now, days o� ?� e society we live in has turned every event,

holiday and outing into something that can be bought, gi� wrapped and given away as a token of our appreciation and generosity.

Many children today seem to have no idea what Easter truly represents. When asked, most will say it’s no school and free candy. While these are things children would value over Easter’s true meaning in most cases, it’s important that some semblance of the holiday’s original spirit be kept in tact.

As it stands now, it’s more a celebration of con-sumerism and chocolate bunnies.

� e original story of Easter is to do with Christ’s death on the cross and subsequent resurrection several days later. It is a story about hope and per-severance through hardship.

Surely even those of no faith can see value in a tale such as this and it can be much more bene� -cial to youth, rather than a handful of sweets.

Where did the Easter bunny even come from, and why does everyone celebrate this historically religious holiday, no matter their beliefs?

According to several sources, the Easter bunny � rst arrived in America in the 1700s with Ger-man immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and transported their tradition of an egg-laying hare called “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws.” � eir chil-dren made nests in which this creature could lay its coloured eggs.

Other origin stories state the Easter Hare origi-nally played the role of a judge, evaluating wheth-er children were good or disobedient in behaviour at the start of the season of Eastertide.

No matter which story, they all di� er greatly from today’s meaningless giving of chocolates.

� is is the fate of all holidays — Christmas, Easter, Halloween, etc. have all lost meaning and have been boiled down to material goods and ex-cess foods.

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School district faces a $800,000 shortfallCuts to public education keep coming -

this year to the tune of almost $800,000 in School District 20 (SD20).

Early SD20 budget talks indicated a $590,000 shortfall, which already meant po-tential chops to teacher and counsellor posi-tions, clerical jobs, the meals program, tech-nology, transportation and custodial staffing and supplies.

Facing a $200,000 directive from the prov-ince to clean up “administrative efficiencies” as part of a $29 million order to 60 districts, a local union president says it’s time to stand up and make some noise.

Roger Smith, from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1285, is one of the region’s stakeholders presenting to SD20 trustees Wednesday afternoon prior to the public consultation slated for April 15 in the Kootenay Columbia Learning Centre gym.

Others addressing the board include rep-resentatives from the Kootenay-Columbia teachers’ union and the district’s parents ad-visory council (DPAC).

Smith has been closely involved with bud-

get talks for five years.“I want an update of what they are looking

at to cut from administrative costs,” he said. “But ultimately, I think it will come down to cutting CUPE jobs.”

Smith maintains that if school districts continue to play the cards dealt by the min-istry and achieving balanced budgets, then deeper cuts will continue to roll out year after year.

“What I’m saying to the trustees, is that you were voted by your constituents to advocate and fight for the best possible public educa-tion,” said Smith. “How can that happen when you are accepting this bullying from the pro-vincial government. That is what this is.”

“The more you accept it (cuts), the next year it will be more,” Smith said. “I’ve heard next year could be a minimum of $500,000 or possibly more. That’s speculation, but where can we keep cutting from,” he added. “I don’t see an end to this unless people take a stand.”

Although the province’s budget boasts a $110 million, or two per cent increase in education spending, it’s the fine print that left school districts and administrators in the lurch.

The cuts are ongoing, which means the total “efficiencies” actually total $54 million

next year.While decisions haven’t been made, the

board is in the beginning process to deter-mine those areas to cut, said Darrel Ganzert, SD20 board chair. “At this point, we only have a list of possible areas to reduce,” he explained. “As a board we believe the potential cuts are to the bone.”

He says the additional $200,000 of “admin-istrative savings” mandated by the province are just another way to cut funding to public schools, when private schools are getting in-creased funding.

Rebecca McDonnell, DPAC chair, says her members had a meeting planned Tuesday night to discuss the $590,000 operating deficit plus the additional educational administra-tion cuts.

“I will feel in a better position to provide information at that point,” said McDonnell in a Tuesday email. “However, I can say that SD20 parents, just like many of those in the rest of the province, are extremely frustrated with the consistent under funding of the edu-cation system,” she noted. “And we are anx-ious to ensure that the administration cuts/efficiencies announced in the budget are real-ized in that capacity and not by further strip-ping our schools of programs and services.”

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Call for final registration to Artists/Heritage VenuesThe final registration deadline is

fast approaching for this year’s Co-lumbia Basin Culture Tour. This year marks the seventh year of the tour, a celebration of culture that will take place August 8-9 from 10

a.m. to 5 p.m.The CBCT is a self guided tour

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to see artist studios, purchase works directly from artists, as well as visit galleries, museums and cul-tural centres all free of charge.

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On Saturday, April 4, the Rossland Museum put on several Easter events for the children. The day started with an Easter egg hunt in the morning, then transitioning into arts, crafts, races and a two-story egg drop.Despite the weather taking a turn for the worse, the turnout for the day was good. Photos by Chris Stedile


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Career has been endless comeback for Rossland skier

A� er what seems like a lifetime of comebacks, Para-Alpine Skier Kimberly Joines has decided she isn’t going to hang up the skis but it may be time for a break.

� e local sit-skier has been seen a lot of abuse on and o� the slopes over her 13 year career, but she never expected to be formally recognized for it. Just last year Sport BC presented Joines with the Harry Jerome Comeback Award during their Athlete of the Year awards banquet.

“It’s nice to be recognized for that, be-cause honestly, I’ve had about a dozen pretty crazy crashes and it’s not something you would normally ever get recognized for,” Joines laughed.

� is award speci� cally, was for Joines’ magni� cent return to skiing a� er cart-wheeling down the track in Sochi, 2013.

“I basically broke both my shoulders, spent a week in a Russian hospital and got medical evacuation back to Canada for surgery,” Joines explained.

She then came back to win three silver medals and a bronze in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cups in January, 2014, followed by a bronze at the Sochi Paralympics the same year.

Joines said this award and her accom-

plishments are a big source of pride for her, but that accident brought her very close to retirement.

“When I hit the ground, I thought, that’s it, I’m done. I can’t take this any-more.”

But a� er a little more consideration she was singing a di� erent tune.

“At that point I thought I would have to retire, but I thought about it for a few days, didn’t really want to get a real job or give up the dream so I switched to tech-nical events. I used to race all � ve events, but now I only do the tech events because I’ve had way too many serious downhill crashes.”

Now that the season and crash are be-hind her, Joines feels she has earned some much needed rest.

“I’ve been missing my home and rela-tionships in this town,” she said, “Prob-ably going to take a bunch of downtime. We haven’t stopped in the last two and a half seasons. I’m running on fumes at this point. I’ve been feeling burnt-out this en-tire season, which is kinda funny because I had one of my best training seasons ever.”

To add to everything that could happen on the hill, Joines doesn’t have the best of luck o� the hill either.

“When the World Circuits started I got hit by a streak of bad luck.”

While training in Spain, she fell victim to one of the hills unattended chairli� s.

“I was dragged down the hillside for a couple hundred meters. I still have crazy bone bruises on my shins and my face got raked along the fence line. It almost ripped my arms o� .”

Luckily, someone heard her cries for help, and they rushed to turn o� the li� before it was too late.

� at was just days before the � rst World Cup of the year.

“I ended up competing in about half of those � rst World Cups but it was real hit or miss. If I couldn’t even li� my arms halfway up in the morning then I wouldn’t ski and if I could do 30 degrees then I would.”

A� er the � rst round of World Cups she went home for a few days then returned to Europe for the second round where her lucky streak continued on.

“On the � rst day, I wheeled down a snowy road in my wheelchair and got frostbite on the side of my leg that was like six inches and all blistered. So I couldn’t ski in those World Cups at all.”

Joines said she is de� nitely over this frustrating season.

� e Rossland sit-skier is planning on taking anywhere from six months to a year to recover.


Kimberly Joines has been sit-skiing for over 13 years. She broke her back when she was only 19, while snowboarding. Her determination and competitive nature pushed her to become a world-class athlete despite all the challenges.On April 11, 2014, the CIBC branch in downtown Trail hosted a “Welcome Home” event for Greater Trail Paralympians who took part in the Paralympics in Sochi Russia. Kimberly Joines proudly displays the bronze medal she won in the sit ski slalom. Main photo submitted Inset photo by Guy Bertrand


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Rossland chamber set for possible mergers

After almost 120 years of service, Rossland’s Chamber of Commerce has closed it’s doors. The chamber has agreed that they are in favour of merging with Trail’s chamber and the silver city members will make their final decision April 7 at 7 p.m..

“My understanding is that the Rossland chamber felt that it

was better for the membership to merge with the Trail cham-ber and that together they could be a stronger force and provide better services to the member-ship,” said councillor and cham-ber liasion Marten Kruysse.

This decision also stems from a lack of membership renewal and overall support from within the business community.

Kruysse said that many ser-vices will likely continue over if the merger goes through.

Things such as dental, health care, etcetera.

He believes the merger is “99 per cent” finished and it’s just a matter of Trail’s official decision on Wednesday night.

The Greater Trail chamber is expected to become much stronger as a result.

For more information, stay tuned to rosslandnews.com where any further break-ing news on the matter can be found.

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Little information has been provided, but the sign on the chamber door has read “closed’”for weeks now. Photo by Chris Stedile

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THOUGHTEXCHANGE RESULTS AND THE CITY FINANCIAL PLANSunday April 12th from 4-6pm @the Miners Hall. 307 Rosslanders participated in City Council’s public engagement project with Thoughtexchange. Over 1300 ideas and thoughts were shared. Now come out and learn what the community had to say and chat with city councillors. At the same time get a peek at the draft five year financial plan.

NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING:Monday, April 13, 6 pm.

THE KOOTENAY FESTIVAL OF ARTS will be hosted in Trail from April 6-18. The festival offers students in the disciplines of dance, piano, speech, drama, choral, vocal and strings, the opportunity of performance and adjudication by professionals in a theatrical envi-ronment.

DIGITAL ARTS & NEW MEDIA YEAR END SHOW

Friday, April 17, 6-9 p.m. @ Mary Hall, Tenth Street in Nelson.The Digital Arts and New Media students at Selkirk college are hosting their annual year end exhibition. This event will feature the work of both the first and second year students. Among the features at this year’s show will be an exhibit of digital and fine art, a compilation of video, and other interactive presentations. Every-one welcome!

7TH ANNUAL BACKYARD CHICKEN CRAWLSaturday, April 18, 9:30 –11:30 am. Rossland REAL Food’s 7th annual backyard chicken crawl. Learn about backyard chickens on this self-guided tour of Rossland’s backyard chicken coops. No regis-tration necessary. Maps available at www.rosslandfood.com

HISTORICAL TALK Friday, April 24, 6:30 pm @ Rossland Museum. Topic: The two Dewdneys

RDKB TRASH TO TREASURE DAYSaturday, April 25This one day event is your chance to help reduce waste by giving away

your used household items or claim-ing treasures from your neighbours! Collect unwanted household items and place them by the curb. Create a sign to let treasure hunters know that your items are up for grabs. Re-move all your remaining items by 4 p.m. You can download a sign for your lawn at www.rdck.ca or www.rdkb.com

NDCU 64TH AGMTuesday, April 28, 7 pm @ Prestige Lakeside Resort, Nelson. To ensure members from Rossland can par-ticipate FREE bus service will be available. 5:30 pm pick up at the Rossland branch. To reserve your seat, call 250-362-7393.

AUTHOR NIKKI TATE Tuesday, April 28, 1:30 pm @ RSS.Hosted by the Rossland Public Li-brary.

GARDENING WORKSHOPSunday, May 3, 10 – 11 am @ the Rossland Community GardenLearn what grows best in Rossland, when to plant and how to extend the season. Hosted by Rossland REAL Food and presented by Rachael Rous-sin. No registration necessary. Cost: $2

ART DROP IN NIGHTMondays, 7 to 8:30 p.m. @ our new space next door to RHC In-surance down town. There will be no instruction, just a space to be creative with other youth artists. We will have guest artists present to lend support.

ROSSLAND MAKERLABThursdays 7 to 8:30 p.m. @ Sev-en Summits Centre for Learning Mentors are on hand to help with 3D modeling, printing or for other technology project. For youth 12 yrs and up. This program is free. ADULT CO-ED REC HOCKEYTuesdays 9:45 to 11 p.m.Sundays 9:15 to 10:30 p.m.Join this fun, co-ed recreational program of non-contact drop-in hockey. Full equipment is required and some experience necessary.

PICKLEBALLIndoor Pickleball at RSS Wednes-days from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

OPEN MIC NIGHTTuesdays 9 to 11 p.m. @ Flying Steamshovel. Bring your gear and come out and jam with other mu-sicians. Hosted by Tim Bourchier.

TEEN NIGHT Tuesdays 6-8 p.m. @ the Rossland Public Library. Let Sage and Sally know what you want to do at Teen Night. Come out and have fun!

ROSSLAND SENIORSMonday 1:30 p.m. Seniors Art Club meets. Contact Edith at 250-362-4477.Monday 7 p.m. Rossland Quilters Guild meets. Contact Dayanne at 250-362-7727.Wednesday 7 p.m. Rossland Old Time Fiddlers play. Visitors should contact Richie or Audrey at 250-362-9465. Thursday 9:30 to 11 a.m. Seniors stretching exercises and morning tea and snacks.

LOCAL WRITERS DISCUSSIONWednesdays 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. @ the Rossland Seniors Hall. To share ideas, expertise and knowledge, cri-tiques, and open opportunities for experienced and want to be writ-ers. For more information contact Les Anderson by email [email protected] or phone @ 250-362-5532.

WRITER’S CLUBEvery Wednesday until Apr 15, 2015. 7:30 to 9 p.m. @ Rossland

Seniors Hall. All genres of writers welcome. No membership fee. Learn from published authors and writers.

ROSSLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY The library has lots of great pro-grams and events:Homeschoolers Happy Hour:1st and 3rd Friday 1-2 p.m.Lego Club:1st and 3rd Thursday 3 to 4 p.m.Books and Babies: Fridays at 11 a.m. Songs and story time for little ones 0 to 30 months. Page Turners Book Club: 2nd Thursday of each month from 3 to 4 p.m. for kids 8-11 years old.Book Club for adults:Last Wednesday of each month. Movies and Munchies: 4th Thursday of each month from 3 to 4 p.m. For kids 6-12 years.

ROSSLAND MONKEY CLUBTuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m. @ RSS Auditorium. Parkour and freerunning. Ages 8 and up. $5 drop-in.

ROSSLAND BEAVER SCOUTSMondays 3 to 4 p.m.Girls and boys ages 5 to 7 years. Please contact Deanna Leask at 250-362-7118 to join.

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On Sunday, April 12 at 4-6 p.m., Rossland City Council is inviting the public to the Miner’s Hall to learn about the Rossland budget for 2015 and be-yond and how their input is helping shape decisions at City Hall.

� e event will be split into two parts. � e � rst half will look at 2015 and where the city is in the budgeting process including how the public input and results of the � oughtexchange project have helped shape the current version. � e second half will be used to look ahead to the future and explore the opportunities and challenges coming in 2016 and beyond.

� e event will be very interactive with oppor-tunities to share questions, concerns and ideas for Council to consider as they move forward in addressing our capital management challenges through the budgeting and planning process.

“We hope to have a great turnout on April 12,” says Mayor Kathy Moore. “� e community has shared many thoughts and priorities and this in-put has been valuable for council as we make hard decisions about the budget. At this event we want to share back what we’ve learned and where we are now. � e budget process for 2015 is nearly com-plete and we want to make sure everyone under-stands what changes we’ve made for this year and we also want to start the conversation about what changes we anticipate for the future.”

Bring a friend and come out to the Miner’s Hall on Sunday to support the future of our city.

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Marie Jo Thério, auteure, compo-sitrice, interprète et actrice d’ori-gine acadienne, se transportera jusqu'à chez nous pour vous of-frir un spectacle intime. Voici une courte biographie de sa carrière.

Détenant un caractère et une force uniques, Marie Jo Thério dispose d’un parcours dominé par le goût de l’aventure. Née à Moncton en Acadie en 1965, Ma-rie-Jo étudie tôt le piano, joue dans une troupe de théâtre pour enfants. Puis, petit à petit elle s’éloigne de l’univers classique du piano pour explorer ses premières chansons plus personnelles.

À 17 ans, elle part pour Mon-tréal, se produit régulièrement dans des boites à chanson, étudie la littérature, puis le théâtre au Conservatoire d’art dramatique, d’où elle est mise à la porte. Elle retourne en Acadie jouer dans une pièce pour enfants, dont elle signe les musiques. Puis, invitée par des amis comédiens, elle re-tourne à Montréal, participe à un spectacle de Brecht-Wells (Les 7 péchés capitaux) où l’auteur Mi-chel Tremblay la repère et lui pro-pose de faire une audition pour Nélligan, un opéra romantique sur la vie du poète Émile Nelligan, présenté au théâtre Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts de Montréal à guichet fermé.

Elle continue de se produire seule et de gagner petit à petit un public de plus en plus fidèle. Elle accepte entre-temps un rôle à la télé dans Chambre en ville qu’elle tient du-rant 3 ans. Lors d'un voyage en Russie, elle rapporte un accor-déon. Au 1er congrès mondial Acadien en 1994, le producteur Robert Vinet (GSI musique) as-siste à un de ses spectacles et lui offre un premier contrat de disque. L’album Comme de la mu-sique voit le jour en 1995. C’est sur la petite scène du Théâtre du Maurier que Marie-Jo apparait au grand jour. Inclassable, bête de scène, désarmante d’authen-ticité, conteuse hors pair, elle se fait un nom. Marie-Christine Blais de La Presse écrit : ”elle fait du Marie-Jo Thério et c’est tout”.

En 1996, aux Francofolies de Montréal, elle est la première ré-cipiendaire du prix Félix Leclerc. S’amorce ainsi une tournée du Québec, un passage aux Franco-folies de La Rochelle, des partici-pations à des comédies musicales (Les Misérables, Notre Dame de Paris...) Elle joue au cinéma: For-bidden Love(1992), Kacho Kom-plo(2002), Book of Eve, Full Blast (1999: prix Jutras de la meilleure actrice de soutien). En 1998, suite à sa rencontre avec Georges Moustaki, elle assure sa 1ère partie au Casino de Paris et fait quelques dates avec lui en France. Elle donne une série de concerts clandestins en solo, où dans des 1ères parties (Claude Nougaro, William Sheller, Alain Baschung). Elle va jusqu’à Madagascar (mé-daille d’argent au Sommet de la Francophonie), au Vietnam, en Bosnie et bientôt Nelson (C.-B.).

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“Loin des pièges des disques enre-gistrés en spectacle...se distingue en en tant qu’incontournable. À l’écoute, on a l’impression de vivre une expérience unique ou la créa-tivité se heurte aux limites tem-porelles de l’instant présent... (Magasine Franco presse)

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*Les Matins Habitables (2004)

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*Comme de la Musique (1995)

Join us this year to experience a flavorful French Extra Market! This year, we are honored to bring you a singer-songwriter-actor well known in Quebec and in the Maritimes; Marie Jo Thério will perform an intimate concert to close the famous market. Come and discover a wonderful taste of the French vibrant culture that melts with the artsy Kootenay culture!

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