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Garden project aims to raise funds BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
An organization that has provided palliative support locally for over 25 years may fold it if doesn't come up with ongoing seed money, an ill Now opeN iN as Hospice Awareness Month draws to an end. waneta plaza fateMany residents are familiar with the Greater (next to Suzanne’s) Trail Hospice Society, which supports quality of living for those in the process of dying, but the Selling quality, majority of people don't know that it's no longer unique gifts completely funded by Interior Health Authority Crystals | Framed Art (IHA), says Hospice society treasurer Barbara Fairies | Dragons Gibson. After becoming a society in 2010, the nonAnimal Figurines profit group has been surviving on fundraising, & Tables and a dwindling $80,000 savings account, with Touch Lamps the addition of a $19,000 annual grant from 3d Pictures IHA. But the account is emptying and, with an Nature’s approximate $90,000 annual overhead, Gibson said it's time to come up with a steady source of L king Glass revenue or residents can say goodbye to hospice. VALERIE ROSSI PHOTO “Everyone wants a good death. A lot of people Gwen Sloman is upset after a habituated bear tore a shed door from its frame to get at garbage aren't afraid of dying, it's the before part that stored in the out building. Her and husband Bill are left with repairs and no guilty bear to blame. they're afraid of,” she said. “We're trying to make sure that someone's last wishes are carried through with regard to their care so that those people who are left behind feel good in that it wasn't a traumatic experience for BY VALERIE ROSSI the provincial body that takes them, either.” “I’ve always been Times Staff complaints. See GARDEN, Page 3 We sell the best sympathetic with A Montrose couple is repairConservation officer Blair & service the rest. ing their shed after a bear tore Thin got involved once the the bears, but when into the door and siding lookbear damaged the home and they start tearing the BY ART HARRISON ing for food. was deemed a threat. He put Times Staff house down, it gets a Bill and Gwen Sloman are a large baited culvert with a Warfield Community Days are set to go this in shock. They have lived with trap mechanism out Monday TRUST THE PROS little ridiculous.” weekend come rain or shine. bears for many years and never and left it until Thursday, when 2815 Highway Drive GWEN SLOMAN All activities will be taking place either in the had a problem escalate to such he decided to take it down to 250.368.9151 Warfield Hall this year or in the Village Square a level before. ensure another wild, innocent Park behind the hall. “I didn't think anything of the edge of the south-end of animal doesn't get what was Activities begin Friday at the Hall with a it, just that it was making a bit Montrose overlooking the val- coming for the habituated e h Community Tea from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. of a mess, that's all,” said Bill, ley,” explained Gwen. “I've bruin. t g The food theme continues Saturday morning surveying the damage Tuesday. always been sympathetic with “The next bear that wanSecurin nay with the Kootenay Savings Credit Union Pancake “I never ever thought he'd go the bears, but when they start ders through Montrose might Koote Breakfast running from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., offering into a solid wall and tear that tearing the house down, it gets be completely innocent, a and y the usual delicious fare, tickets $3 for children out, that was a surprise.” wild bear that just happens a little ridiculous.” r a Bound and $5 for adults. The Slomans lock their garMontrose village staff is cur- to be sniffing daffodils in the area There will be live music in the park including bage in their shed, perhaps a rently researching existing B.C. Sloman's backyard and walks the Maple Leaf Band, the Golden City Fiddlers, measure first taken while living municipal bear bylaws to deter- into my trap and gets destroyed and Laela Heidt, craft tables, and races for the in Rossland years ago. But the mine a direction that is suitable for absolutely no reason,” he kids from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. padlock didn't stop the bruin, for the village and is creating a explained. “We don't relocate these It all winds up with a barbecue dinner at the who tore the door right off the newsletter to inform residents hall, offering a steak dinner for $10 and a beef frame twice and then after the of cautions to take at home and black bears because they can't burger or veggie burger dinner for $5. Tickets door was repaired, opted to go who to call if a problem arises. be relocated. You can't put the SELKIRK The Slomans managed wild back into these habituated SECURITY SERVICES are limited for the dinner so book ahead. To book straight through the wall. your dinner tickets or for more information call “It's bad right where we to get through to Report All bears.” 250-368-3103 MP_adM3_Layout 1 13-05-03 AM Page See THREE, Page 3 the6:28 village office1 at 368-8802. are because we're right on Poacher and Polluters (RAPP),
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