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decided ‘let’s just do this, super badass’.” Dressed up like ninjas, hoods and all, armed with spray paint cans they went out in the middle of the night to paint a crosswalk at a different location. “It was a terrible idea,” said Sadie. “We got caught by an off-duty officer on a bike.” She recalls the officer saying the “sentiment is amazing but this is not the right way.” They regretted their actions and their heads hung low. “Walking away from the scene, we were saying to each other ‘This was totally wrong’ and we felt so ashamed,” said Glockner. The police officer connected them with deputy chief Paul Burkart who Glockner said was “so awesome” giving them suggestions of how to approach
BILL METCALFE Nelson Star The Nelson aquatic centre will close for renovations and repairs on Sept. 19 for up to 11 months. The decision was made at a regional recreation commission meeting Friday. “It is a big gulp for the directors to think about closing for almost a year,” said Nelson mayor Deb Kozak, who sits on the recreation commission. But she said she accepts the expertise of the company recently hired to manage the project, Unitech Construction Management Ltd. Unitech was brought in recently following the failure of a bidding process that produced nothing but over-budget bids. Prior to that the pool was expected to close in May. The Regional District of Central Kootenay decided then to switch to a model that would see the hiring of a single construction manager for the whole project but with individual sections of the job tendered out to trade-specific companies, rather than hiring one company to do the whole project. The work includes renovations
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The creators of Nelson’s new rainbow crosswalk on Stanley St. are (from left) Petra Hartley, Hopi Glockner, Kyra Burkart, Rose Shine, Sadie Glockner and Julia Burkart. Anita Werner photo
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TAMARA HYND Nelson Star day after heavy rains, a new type of rainbow appeared in Nelson just in time for the Pride Parade. Nelson rainbow crosswalk organizers Sadie and Hopi Glockner and Rose Shine, along with their volunteer painting crew Kyra and Julia Burkart and Petra Hartley made history Sunday morning as they added permanent colour to the previously white crosswalk spanning Stanley St. at Victoria. With the blessing of the City of Nelson and a little prep work by volunteers from Nelson Police Department and Nelson Fire Rescue, the young women
worked their magic early Sunday morning after the rain. It was a youthful gesture in support of Kootenay Pride. But it wasn’t all sunshine and roses according to Sadie, 18, who came up with the idea with her sister Hopi and friend Rose, both 21. “You see rainbow crosswalks all over the Internet, in the US. Kelowna has one and there’s even in Castlegar so why not here?” asked Glockner. They also thought city council would be on board. “With the new council, the city is becoming as alternative as its people,” said Sadie explaining why they thought a rainbow crosswalk would be accepted. And they thought it would be a nice thing for the Kootenay Pride Festival which was just days away. But how they initially went about it was another story. With the conviction of making it happen Glockner said: “We
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