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Residents rallied in front of city hall on Wednesday to protest the impending deer cull. Last month, city council authorized a cull of up to 50 deer — the permit from the provincial government expires on March 15. At the protest, Colleen Bailey, who is part of the BC Deer Protection Society, said the protest was about raising awareness about the cull and alternative measures, such as hazing and translocation. Bailey said that while the province doesn’t currently allow those measures, the city and the MLA should be lobbying the government to make changes to the wildlife legislation. Bailey also said that the funding being budgeted for the cull was meant to be been used to educate the public on lowering deer attractants.
ELECTION 2015
Federal candidates consider extent of Kootenay-Columbia TOWNSMAN/BULLETIN
A federal election is imminent this year, and for the first time the riding of Kootenay-Columbia includes the city of Nelson. New lines were drawn in several federal electoral districts in Canada for 2015, there are a number of big changes in the Kootenay-Columbia district, as well as the neighbouring B.C. Southern Interior district. Those changes include Nelson, Kaslo and Salmo becoming a part of Kootenay-Columbia and Penticton joining the South
Okanagan-West Kootenay, as it is to be renamed (currently named B.C. Southern Interior). Several local candidates are now in place, and offered their thoughts on the West Kootenay enhancement of Kootenay Columbia, the cultural and community diversity of the region, and how it may affect their campaigns. Incumbent MP David Wilks (Conservative) said the B.C. Boundary commission sought to get all ridings to around a population of 180,000. “There were really two ways
that they could look at increasing the riding,” Wilks said. “One was go north through the Trans Canada Highway which would have probably brought in Sicamous and then part of Salmon Arm — that didn’t work for them. Then they looked at the southern route going Highway 3 and they chose to draw a line that included Salmo, Nelson and Kaslo and most of the Regional District of Central Kootenay, excluding Nakusp, and following it down to Edgewood.”
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Shelby Schiller wins Stone Soup Challenge TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Shelby Schiller reached back into her childhood to win the Kootenay Granite Stone Soup Challenge. A chef at BJ’s Restaurant and Creekside Pub in Kimberley, Schiller made a tomato beef soup that has been in the family since she was a little girl. “We grew up with a lot of people in my family so we did a lot of gardening and stuff ourselves, so my baba [grandma] had her own canned, jarred tomatoes and that was the staple,” Schiller said. “We always had cabbage, carrots, onions and celery, so she just made soup out of it one
day. “That was the first thing my mom—I can remember her teaching me how to make it.” In a packed ballroom at the Prestige Rocky Mountain Resort, the Stone Soup Challenge concluded as Schiller went head-to-head with Kathy Morey, the Salvation Army’s own soup kitchen cook. Morey went up against Schiller with a rosemary chicken and wild rice soup that is close to her heart as well, being that it’s her son’s favourite soup recipe.
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