Rossland News, September 10, 2015

It was a close call this year for the Seven Summits Poker Ride.

Up until Tuesday when the area re-striction on the Seven Summits trail was � nally li� ed, it looked like the ride might have to be cancelled this year due to the Big Sheep Creek � re. But luck was a lady, and the event went ahead as planned on Sunday.

� e 11th annual poker ride started

at the Seven Summits trailhead out at Nancy Greene. Nearly 100 riders hit seven stations along the Seven Sum-mits and Dewdney trail collecting cards for two hands, and enjoying a treat courtesy of the Mountain Nugget Chocolate Company.

“� e tradition is fruit and choco-late fondue at the mid-station, along with things like water and mechani-cal assistance courtesy of Revolution,” said Tyler Merringer from Revolution

Cycle, who organized the event. “We generally have a lot more support out there then on a normal day when you’re all on your own.”

At each station riders collected one card just for showing up. To earn a card for their second hand they had to play games and participate in ac-tivities.

At the � nal station riders earned their second card by riding over a ramp, but riders who did a table-top

jump could earn a wildcard. Another station took a more political approach.

“� e � rst card station had pictures of Trudeau, Harper, Mulcair and the idea was you threw darts at the bodies of these politicians to cast your vote, and ... there was also cards along the bodies ... and depending on which card you hit with your dart, that was the card you got for your poker hand,” explained Merringer.

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Main photo: The 11th annual Seven Summits Poker Ride took place on Sunday. Riders started the Seven Summits trail at Nancy Green, hitting seven stops on their way to the � nish and collecting two poker hands. Inset top to bottom: Tammie and Mark Jordan upped the ante by getting married on Granite Mountain during the poker ride. Piers Bonifant accepts a new GoPro as a prize for the best � rst hand. Tim Robert triumphantly hoists his new helmet, which he received as a prize for the best second hand. Photos by Chelsea Novak

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“It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it,” say Tanya and Trinda LaFond, this year’s organizers of Rossland Golden City Days’ third annual Outhouse Races. While last year’s organizer chainsaw carver Mike Williams is out of town on business, these two will be overseeing this year’s event.

“We aren’t talking crap,” says Tanya, “but the La-Fonds intend to wipe out anyone who attempts to dethrone them as the reigning champions.” � e La-Fonds would like to challenge last year’s competitors (the Retired Rossland Fire� ghters and the Rossland Fire� ghters) to a rematch, and dare the next gen-eration of LaFonds to put in their own team. Tanya would also like to personally challenge the Drake clan to put together a team to prove which infa-mous Rossland family is number one, and which is number two, so to speak.

All you need is � ve team members, an outhouse and a good set of wheels. Each team races the clock, with one team member on the throne and the other four pushing and pulling, to cross the � nish line with the best-combined time of two runs. Teams roll their bi� es 100 feet down the course, stop and do a � re drill (three laps around the outhouse end-ing with swapped positions) before continuing an-other 100 feet. At that point, participants ditch their rides with a roll of toilet paper in hand and hustle the rest of the way to set the roll on a plunger 30 feet further at the � nish line.

Extra outhouses are available to prospective rac-ers, thanks to Mike Williams, who built them using recycled materials.

� ose looking to step up to the challenge are en-couraged to contact Tanya at [email protected] or Trinda at [email protected] for details. Par-ticipants are encouraged to come in costume and to decorate their outhouse to match their team’s theme. Winners will take home the coveted toilet seat trophy to adorn their mantle and impress their friends and family.

For race entry forms, email Trinda LaFond at [email protected] or Tanya LaFond at [email protected].

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� e Rossland Mountain Film Festi-val held its annual general meeting on � ursday, Sept. 3.

Board members and volunteers discussed plans for the 16th annual festival, and divided up the labor needed to make the event happen Wednesday, Nov. 18 to Sunday, Nov. 22.

So far plans have been made to show the opening � lm on Wednesday

at the Flying Steamshovel. � ere will then be an all ages event at the Miners Hall the following day.

Friday evening will be the big gala, with some exciting new changes planned for this year’s event. Organiz-ers are also considering introducing a theme to help spark higher atten-dance.

Saturday’s events will feature a per-formance by Vancouver band, and Rossland favourite, Bend Sinister.

Stay tuned for more details as the � lm fest approaches.

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• Outhouse must be human-powered. No elec-tric, solar, or gas-powered assistance. Outhouse must have four walls, roof, doorway, wiping material, and a toilet seat with at least one hole. It may have a door, but door must remain securely open during the race.• Outhouse must be a minimum of nine square feet at the base, and a maximum overall width not to exceed six feet (including grasping or pushing devices). A minimum height of � ve feet from the � oor to the highest point of the roof is required.• Any number and size of wheels may be used. • Any device for pushing or pulling the out-house may be used, except ropes. All pushing or pulling devices must be solidly secured. • Outhouses may be built from any material, except glass, and must be structurally sound.• Each entry must have an outhouse name, which is to be displayed on each side of the structure. Sponsors’ names may be displayed anywhere on the outside walls. • � e team must consist of � ve people; one person must ride inside.• Minimum age is 12 years.• Team is to dress in costume to re� ect the theme of their entry.• Team check-in: All outhouses and teams will check in at the vacant lot next to Rossland Fine Wine and Spirits at 2 p.m. and will be inspected upon arrival. Races will start at 2:45 p.m. • Adequate safety attire required for all mem-bers. • � ere is no weight limit. • Handles are required for outhouse riders.• � ere will be a mandatory pit stop at mid-race for a � re drill. Each team member must run around the outhouse three times and the rider must switch places with one of the pushers. Each team member will be required to place a color-coded roll of toilet paper on a color-cod-ed plunger in order of color scheme provided at race time. � e race will be timed from start to � nish, the objective being to achieve the lowest overall time.

Last year’s winners and the team to beat this year is the LaFond Family.

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Asked which politician got the most votes, Merringer said, “Well I wasn’t clear whether you were supposed to vote for who you actually wanted or throw a dart at who you didn’t want, so we’ll say the deepest holes were in Harper’s head.”

A couple from Burlington, Ont. upped the ante by getting married during the poker ride.

Tammie and Mark Jordan said their vows on the top of Granite Mountain in wedding gown and tux spandex, and brought cup-cakes to the after-party at the Li-ons Head Campground to help celebrate their special day.

Once at the campground, rid-ers showed their hands.

The prize for the best first hand, a new GoPro, went to Piers Bonifant, while the prize for the best second hand, a new hel-

met, went to Tim Robert. There were also prizes for heaviest bike (which also went to Bonifant), oldest bike, best spandex, and more.

Merringer wanted to thank all of those who made the event possible, including Mountain Shuttle for shuttling riders to and from the trail, Rossland Beer Company for bringing the beer, and all of the local volun-teers.

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SEPTEMBERGolden City Days begins this weekend

The Rossland Gold-en City Days committee is excited to bring you a weekend of fun and entertainment Sept. 11 –13, celebrating our heritage, and we hope you’re planning to dress in heritage costume and join us. Many activities and lots of fun are in store for you and your family.

To lead into the weekend events, wan-der around our fine Rossland stores the week of Sept. 7 to take advantage of the in-store specials and side-walk sales and be sure to visit the Rossland Mountain Market, cel-ebrating BC Farmers Appreciation Week on Thursday.

Friday evening at the Miners Hall, you will be treated to a great line-up of fantastic lo-cal talent and live music at the Evening of En-tertainment Extrava-ganza. Tickets for this licensed event must be purchased in advance at the Red Pair Shoe Store or by contacting Lisa at 250-362-9063 or [email protected].

The annual pancake breakfast will be held at the Rossland Firehall on Saturday morning. Don’t forget to visit the Fall Fair after the pa-rade on Saturday and enjoy browsing the many items entered by Rossland residents, as well as check out the

many vendors, infor-mative displays, and live entertainment. The petting zoo will be out-side on Spokane St.

From the parade Sat-urday morning to the many events around town, you and your children will be busy with activities all day. The parade will begin at 1st Ave. and St. Paul; proceed along 2nd Ave., Butte St., down Colum-bia Ave., and end down-town.

The craft vendors and food booths, featur-ing pulled pork, beans, burgers, tacos, sausages, falafels, donairs, kettle corn, baked goods, and cold drinks and treats, will be located in Sour Dough Al-ley. The GOAT and EZ Rock will be on hand to provide music, goodies, and treats.

Saturday afternoon’s Sour Dough Alley Stage entertainment includes the Trail Pipe Band, Golden City Fiddlers, and the well-known lo-cal band, Foggy Goggle Boys. The Outhouse Races go in the after-noon and will feature teams who will push, pull, and run around their home-built con-traption to the finish line. Cheer on your fa-vorite team and watch to see who wins the coveted outhouse tro-phy. Will the LaFond family be dethroned this year?

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Softball Tournament will run all weekend at various Rossland ball-parks. Lil Rippers Bike Park Clinic will focus on teaching bike skills to children aged 6–12, hosted by BettyGoHard on Spokane St. on Sat-urday. Continuing with the sports activities, check out the Golden City 7, a-side Co-Ed Soccer Tournament on Saturday and Sunday and save some energy to run in the Golden City Grind on Sunday. The Golden City Days and Fall Fair committees, along with the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre and Kootenay Mountain Shuttle, have teamed up to provide a complimentary shuttle service to transport people between Spo-kane St., the Rossland Arena, and the Ross-land Museum in the af-ternoon. Schedules will be posted around town and at the arena.

Sunday’s activities in Sour Dough Alley feature a community White Elephant Sale, Stake Your Claim chil-dren’s “dig for gold” event, food vendors, and family activities. Join us to sell the items you no longer need, watch your children dig for the prized “gold,” bring your lawn chairs, and enjoy this social afternoon with family and friends. Closing out the weekend, you won’t want to miss the family

matinee movie at the Miners’ Hall, hosted by the Rossland Council for Arts & Culture and Rossland’s Youth Ac-tion Network.

Raffle tickets are on sale at Alpine Drug Mart, IDA, Rossland Grocery and Rossland Beer Company. Your support of the Golden City Days raffle could win you a pair of Elan Spectrum 105 skis from Powderhound, a beautiful Avon prod-uct-filled gift basket, a one-night stay at the Flying Steamshovel, a Red Mountain Resort one day lift ticket, a blue zipped hoodie from Ross Vegas Boardshop, or one of many other wonderful prizes, do-nated by our awesome and hugely supportive Rossland businesses!

This weekend event wouldn’t be possible without our generous sponsors, including Nelson & District Cred-it Union, City of Ross-land, Rossland News, the Rossland Telegraph, Teck Trail Operations, Columbia Basin Trust, The GOAT, Trail Daily Times, EZ Rock, and Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, Area B.

Volunteers are al-ways welcome, whether you have an hour to spare or more, and are a very necessary ingre-dient in the success of the Golden City Days weekend. Without our

reliable volunteers, many events and activi-ties would not be pos-sible. If you have a bit of time to share, please contact Terry at [email protected] or contact us on Facebook.

You’ll find the sched-ule of events in this issue of the Rossland News or pick one up at Rossland businesses. Check out the Ross-land Golden City Days page on Facebook to find out more about the many events happening around town. We guar-antee there are so many activities that you will be kept busy all week-end! We’ll see you at Golden City Days 2015!

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� e current refugee crisis, and our increased aware-ness of this huge global problem, is timely given the arrival of an Eritrean family in Rossland. � ank you to the many Rosslanders who have helped over the past two weeks. Ruta and sons are settling in well.

� e bigger picture desperately needs to be addressed. Below is a letter I have sent to the federal Minister of Citizenship and Immigration ([email protected]), copied to PM Harper ([email protected]). Please write a letter of your own, and feel free to use some of mine as a template if that helps.

Jill Alexander

Dear Mr. Alexander,

Today I signed the petition circulating on change.org which calls on you and your government to help Syrian refugees. I am writing to let you know how im-portant this issue is to me as a Canadian citizen. I hope you in turn will take it seriously and take immediate, de� nitive action.

Over the past two years I have been involved with resettling two families to my small hometown (Ross-land, BC, pop 3500). We work through the Blended Visa O� ce-referred (BVOR) system and are a� liated with the sponsorship group East Kootenay Friends of Refugees.

It has been a rewarding experience for all involved, and has shown us how easy it is to share our world of plenty with refugee families (www.rosslandnews.com/news/323775501).

� e crises facing Africa and the Middle East are not entirely of their own making. Westerners have exploit-ed their natural resources for hundreds of years and continue to do so. We have used more than our share of the world’s supplies of water, minerals and fossil fu-els. Our consumption-based lifestyles have dispropor-tionately a� ected poorer nations.

Climate change has made food and clean water pro-duction increasingly di� cult for them, while distribu-tion of these essentials is equally challenging. We can-not stand by and expect them to solve the problems alone. We cannot allow people to live with war and poverty, or to die trying to escape them.

Please make changes starting now to allow more refugees to share our country, our security and our wealth. Many Canadian citizens want to do this but we need o� cial channels to open wide.

M. Jill Peacock, MD, CCFPEast Kootenay Friends of Burma, Rossland, BC

Lisa Pasin, director of development KBRH Health Foundation (front row left), accepts a $28,270 donation to the Urology Campaign from the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary through Columbia Basin Trust’s Community Initiatives and Affected Areas programs to support the arrival of our new urologist at KBRH. Back row left to right: Robert Cacchioni, alternate director City of Trail; Bill Edwards, alternate director Area B; Joe Danchuk, mayor Vil-lage of Montrose; Ted Pahl, mayor Village of War� eld. Front row left to right: Lisa Pasin; Ali Grieve, director Area A; Kathy Moore, mayor City of Rossland; and Gord DeRosa, Columbia Basin Trust board member. Missing Patricia Cecchini, mayor Village of Fruitvale.

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Two young men remain in custody a� er a pizza delivery person was robbed at gunpoint Sunday evening.

Rylee Andrew Shipley, 18, of Nova Scotia and Collton Em-ery Knowles, a 19-year old from Alberta, are charged with rob-bery with a � rearm, possession of stolen property, possession of a prohibited � rearm, � ight from police, and other � rearm-related charges.

Both men appeared in Rossland Provincial Court Tuesday and were remanded until Sept. 10 for a bail hearing in Nelson, Sgt. Darren Oelke from the Greater Trail RCMP told the Trail Times Wednesday.

� e Sept. 6 incident began in Grand Forks just a� er 8 p.m. and ended near Rossland about one hour later.

� e Boundary RCMP received a call at 8:15 p.m. that a piz-za delivery person was approached by two males with a gun

and robbed of his vehicle and cash, Oelke explained, adding the robbery victim was not injured.

� en, at 8:45 p.m. a Trail police o� cer encountered the sto-len vehicle, a 2004 Pontiac Sun� re, heading toward Rossland on Highway 3B.

Oelke says when police attempted to stop the vehicle, the perpetrators � ed at high rate of speed, lost control on a corner and struck a rock wall.

One male was arrested at the scene of the accident, but the other � ed on foot.

He was arrested a short time later a� er a police dog tracked him down.

“It is a complex � le so all the evidence is not yet before crown,” said Oelke. “Every day we are uncovering more of their crime spree in the Central Interior and the Fraser Valley.”

Why the men traveled to Grand Forks is unknown, and po-lice say neither has known ties to the area.

� e stolen vehicle was demolished by the accident but nei-ther suspect was signi� cantly injured.

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Over the past week Rossland Beer Company has been collecting portions of growler sales to donate to Tim Van Den Nieuwenhof ’s family donation fund a� er he suddenly passed away at the end of August.

“� at fund is an awesome pool of money from the community to help with travel expenses with his family coming over from Australia for the fu-neral, and for the wake, and the celebrations of life, and then any other costs,” said Margot Phillips from Rossland Beer.

Van Den Nieuwenhof was a friend of the brew-ery, and Phillips extended condolences from every-one there to his family.

“He was such a good guy; I’m still pretty much in shock. We all loved him, and it was so sudden,” she said. “Our heart goes out to all the Van Den Nieuwenhofs who just recently lost another family member.”

Tim’s sister Anne-Louise also died suddenly in March, a� er giving birth to her second child.

A GoFundMe page has also been created for Tim’s family. So far 89 people have raised $7,545 in ten days, and the goal is to reach $10,000. If you’d like to make a contribution to Tim’s family you can do so at gofundme.com/bk3kdtwg.

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SEPTEMBER 11 – 13, 2015In-store specials, sidewalk sales, heritage displays –

visit our � ne Rossland merchants to � nd out what they have in store for you this week!!

All event times are approximate. Bring lawn chairs for your comfort all weekend.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 10

Thurs. – Sun. – MOFAB Co-Ed Softball Tournament, Rossland � elds, Jaclyn Haines; [email protected]

3 – 6 pm – Rossland Mountain Market celebrates BC Farmers Appreciation Week! Columbia Ave & Queen St.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11

Noon – 5 pm – Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre open; guided tours, 1:00 & 3:00; gold panning demonstration, 1:30 & 3:30

7 pm – An Evening of Entertainment Extravaganza. A great evening of live music and local talent! $15 advance tickets only at The Red Pair Shoe Store; wine, beer, non-alcoholic beverages; watch for posters around town for details. Doors open at 6:30, Miners Hall

SATURDAY, SEPT. 12Events held in the Spokane Street and Columbia Avenue area, unless otherwise noted. Please keep pets away from food areas and under your control (leashed) or leave them safely at home, away from crowds and heat

EZ Rock on location with goodies and smiles!

Shuttle service compliments of the Golden City Days Committee, Fall Fair Committee, Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre, and Kootenay Mountain Shuttle. Schedules posted around town and on Facebook.

Sat. – Sun. – Golden City 7 a-side Co-Ed Soccer Tournament, Jubilee Field, contact Sean O’Farrell, 250-512-8045, phunkdi-� [email protected]

Mountain Nugget Chocolate Company, heritage cut-out in store

You could be arrested and placed in jail, if the Golden City Days Sheriff catches you without your GCD button!

7:30 – 10 am – Pancake breakfast, Rossland Fire� ghters, Ross-land Firehall

10 am – 5 pm – Tasty treats – sausages, hot dogs, water (Ross-land Golden City Lions); hamburgers, hot dogs, drinks (Kiwanis Club of Trail); donairs, falafels, twisty potatoes (Ray’s Greek Food); kettle corn (Rotary Club of Trail); pulled pork, chicken, beans (Wicked Southern Barbeque); tacos, churros (Tacos el Gringos); pie sale (United Church Women); Sophie’s handcrafted ice pops; and various craft vendors

11 am – Parade; registration at 1st Ave and St. Paul; route pro-ceeds along 2nd Ave, Butte St, down Columbia Ave, ends down-town

11 am – 4 pm – Skateboarding, all ages, drop-in, donation, hel-mets and waivers are mandatory; supported by Rossland Youth Action Network; Rossland Curling Rink

11:30 am - 3:30 pm - Children’s games and activities, face-painting, parking lot next to Spokane St.

After parade – 4 pm – Rossland Thrift Shop open

After parade – 5 pm – Fall Fair - craft vendors, exhibits, dis-plays, live entertainment, Petting Zoo, and much more – Ross-land Arena, 3rd Ave. & Spokane St.

After parade – 5 pm – Rossland Mountain Market, featuring Gypsy Wagon wood-� red pizza and bulk produce available from local farmers; in conjunction with the Fall Fair, outside Rossland Arena

Noon – Sour Dough Alley Stage – more live entertainment and local talent!


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2:45 pm – Golden City Days Outhouse Races down Sour Dough Alley. Cheer on your favorite team to victory! Race rules and entry form available by emailing Trinda LaFond, [email protected] or Tanya LaFond, [email protected]

7 pm – Royal Canadian Legion Texas Hold-em Tournament, $50 buy-in, lower Legion Hall, Doug Halladay, [email protected]

8 pm – Red Feather Saloon! Celebrate Golden City Days with feature band, “Blackberry Wood”, the Boomtown Garter Girls, and numerous other performers; licensed event, no minors; $20 ad-vance tickets at Rossland Beer Company; Miners Hall, Jess Williams, 250-362-7308

SUNDAY, SEPT. 13

9 am – “The Ruby”, shotgun start, 18-hole, two-person best-ball tournament, $65, Redstone Golf, 250-362-9141

10 am – Golden City Grind, 9 am registration, 10K, 5K, and Kids’ Races, sponsored by Alpine Grind Coffeehouse and Gerick Cycle & Sports, meet at Centennial Trail Head; Shelley Acker-man, [email protected]

Noon – 4 pm – Skateboarding, all ages, drop-in, donation; helmets and waivers are mandatory; supported by Rossland Youth Action Network; Rossland Curling Rink


2:30 pm – 28th Annual West Kootenay Toy Run, Columbia Avenue

3 pm – Family Matinee Movie, host-ed by Rossland Council for Arts & Culture & Rossland’s Youth Action Network; admission by donation, refreshments available, children un-der age 10 accompanied by adult, Miners Hall

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11 am – 2:30 pm – White Elephant Sale, bring your items to sell, no fee, pre-register, 250-362-5233 or 250-231-6357.

11 am – 2:30 pm – Sophie’s handmade ice pops, Tacos el Gringos.

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To celebrate Farmers Appreciation Week the BC Association of Farm-ers’ Markets (BCAFM) is holding a poetry contest.

B.C. residents are invited to submit their original poems honour-ing B.C.’s farmers to the third annual Ode to a Farmer Poetry Contest by Sunday, Sept. 13.

“We started it because we wanted to encourage people throughout B.C. to really take a few min-utes to think about why they value B.C. farmers and agriculture,” said Georgia Stanley, mem-bership and communi-cations manager for the BCAFM. “We thought that the medium of po-etry would be a good way to look at that and ex-plore how farmers con-tribute to communities in terms of our health and preserving farmland and green space.”

The grand prize will be a $150 gift certificate to spend at a farmers’ market of the winner’s choosing, and there will also be six regional winners who will each receive a $50 gift certificate.

Despite the name of the contest, the poem doesn’t need to be an ode.

“It can be any form of poem,” said Stan-ley.

The contest is open to poets of all ages and levels.

Last year’s grand prize and northern region winner was Ruth Lloyd, who wrote a free-form poem called “Where Food Comes From.”

“It’s really try-ing to get people to think about sort of the labour and the resources, and the love that goes into producing food ver-sus just going to the supermarket and picking up a pack of tomatoes from Cali-fornia in a Styrofoam package,” Stanley said of the poem.

The Kootenay Rockies region win-

ner was Gwendolen Graovac, who wrote a ballad called “To Be A Farmer” about having left the farm-ing life behind and appreciating those who still toil to produce fresh fruits and veggies.


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Quand on compare les Kootenays et le QuébecPar Camille Mecatti

Il y a quelques mois, j’ai eu l’opportunité de passer mon été à Nelson. Ce fut trois beaux mois où j’ai rencontré beaucoup de belles personnes et vu des paysages magnifiques. Dès mon arrivée, j’ai remarqué beaucoup de différences entre le Québec et les Kootenays de la Colombie-Britannique. Chacune de ces provinces, a un mode de vie complètement distinct de l’autre, deux réalités très différentes, on pourrait croire que l’on ne vit pas dans le même pays.

Évidemment, ce qui est le plus frappant entre le Québec et les Kootenays, c’est la végétation et surtout le décor de la nature. Le paysage québécois est parsemé de champs, de grandes cultures et de fermes, contrairement à ce qu’on retrouve ici, la majorité des endroits que j’ai visité, tel que Nelson, Nakusp et Kaslo étaient tous entourés de grandes montagnes. Chez moi, au Québec, je suis habituée de voir de grands champs qui encombrent ma vision, ainsi que des fermes laitières dans tous les rangs de ma campagne, tandis qu’ici, je suis en constante relation avec les montagnes. Je ne pourrais dire quel paysage est le plus beau, mais je les aime inconditionnellement tous les deux.

Ce n’est pas seulement ceci qui différencie les deux régions. J’ai été très surprise de voir plein de boîtes sur le bord du trottoir, je me suis bien demandé ce que c’était. Eh oui, ce sont les ‘’Free boxes’’. J’ai rarement vu cela au Québec, chez nous, on fait plutôt des ventes de garage et c’est très populaire. Souvent chaque ville choisit quelques jours dans l’année et c’est à ces moments-là que les gens organisent leurs grosses ventes à petits prix, tandis qu’ici c’est à la longueur de l’année et c’est gratuit! Je trouve que c’est une très belle façon de donner à son prochain.

J’ai trouvé la Colombie-Britannique ou plutôt Nelson très ingénieux en installant des boîtes à graviers dans les rues ayant une grande pente, par exemple Cedar ou Ward. On en retrouve très peu ou pas du tout au Québec, mais cela nous serait très pratique, on est surtout reconnus pour nos hivers très froids et neigeux et je crois que ça nous ne ferait pas de tort d’en posséder quelques-unes et les Québécois en seraient heureux en cas de problème. Le Québec doit prendre exemple sur la Colom-bie-Britannique.

Habituellement, à la croisée des chemins au Québec, il y a des arrêts obligatoires, cependant ici, on voit très souvent des signes ‘’cédez le passage’’. Le ‘’cédez le passage’’ au Québec, on le retrouve la plupart du temps sur les voies d’entrée sur les autoroutes, mais rarement à la croisée de deux ou plusieurs chemins. Ici, c’est plutôt très pratique lorsqu’on s’apprête à monter une grosse pente et qu’on a déjà notre élan ou bien lorsqu’on descend la pente et qu’on ne veut pas arrêter trop brusquement. Tous ces petits changements démontrent à quel point, la vie est différente à chaque bout du Canada.

Une autre différence entre la Colombie-Britannique et le Québec est les véhicules utilisés par les policiers. Ici, en C.-B., tout ce qu’on voit c’est des trucks de police, c’est d’ailleurs très pratique lors d’une poursuite où le conducteur de l’autre véhicule décide d’aller dans des petites rues plus abruptes ou tout simplement rouler ailleurs que sur la route. Cela permet à vos policiers d’être présents et efficaces. Au Québec, nous avons la plupart du temps des voitures de patrouille et quand c’est les ‘’verts’’, ceux qui arrêtent les véhicules lourds, ils ont souvent des trucks. Les camions de police sont plutôt utilisés lors de gros évènements, par exemple lors de saisies ou de recherches. Ce n’est pas une très grosse différence, mais on s’en aperçoit rapidement lorsqu’on vit dans les deux provinces.

Le dernier évènement distinct dont je vais vous parler, ce n’est pas quelque chose que j’ai vécu, mais bien des gens qui m’en ont parlé. Il paraît qu’ici c’est très habituel de prendre congé du travail le jour même, pour aller skier lorsque de la belle neige est tombée. Ce qui m’a surpris le plus, est que c’est fréquent et que les patrons accordent les congés ou ferment l’entreprise, tout simplement pour aller s’amuser en montagne. Jamais au Québec, on ne verrait quelqu’un fermer son entreprise pour permettre à ces employés d’aller profiter de la neige! Il est vrai que nous avons beaucoup de neige et qu’il est possible de faire du ski ou de la planche fréquemment.

Et voilà, les différences les plus marquantes pour moi entre le Québec et les Kootenays de la Colombie-Bri-tannique. Mais j’aurais pu en nommer plusieurs autres, comme les ‘’garbage tag’’, les cabanes dans les arbres, le yoga très populaire ici et les ‘’gates closed’’ pour falaise. Maintenant, c’est à votre tour de trouver ce qui est le plus marquant entre les deux provinces. Au revoir les Kootenays!

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Principal Patrick Kinghorn welcomed students back to Rossland Summit School and got them sorted into their classes on Tuesday morning.

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Top right: Dizzy Spells was the fourth band of the night on Saturday, Aug. 29 at the benefit concert for the Rossland skatepark. Top left: John Lee’s Hooker closed out the night, after some door prizes were handed out, including a longboard donated by RossVegas. Bottom: Approxi-mately 350 people attended the ben-efit concert at Nickle Plate Park.Final numbers aren’t in yet, but the event’s organizer Richie Samuelson estimates that $2500-$2800 in pro-ceeds were raised.

Photos by Chelsea Novak

Rossland News, September 10, 2015

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