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Vol. 8 • Issue 28
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Floating down the Impulse River
“It is my goal to work hard to reach your goals”
L.V. Rogers drama student Ingrid Love (left) participated in an improvisation exercise called Impulse River, during a visit Wednesday from travelling act James and Jamesy, who are played by Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles (right). The pair will perform their show James and Jamesy In the Dark at the Capitol Theatre on Oct. 14 and 15. The entire class proceeded to squawk, hip-swivel, dance and roar along with their instructor Robyn Sheppard. For full story and more photos see Pages 12 and 13.
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Nelson Landing begins Nelson water sales, will build in spring shortage persists
BILL METCALFE Nelson Star Nelson Landing will begin preselling eight units in its first phase this fall, with a view to starting construction in the spring if enough units sell. The units will start at $529,000 for two-bedroom units, according to Allard Ockeloen of Storm Mountain Developments, the property’s owner and developer. This is a 25 per cent increase over the selling prices announced a year ago.
The reason for the increase, Ockeloen says, is a rise in building construction costs in Nelson as well as an increase in the size of the units as a result of an interior re-design. Nelson Landing is a mixed commercial-residential development of 265 housing units proposed to be build by the Storm Mountain Development Corporation on the old Kootenay Forest Products site on the shore of Kootenay Lake. The development will be phased in over ten years,
and if 40 housing units have been built by then, the phase-in period will be extended to 20 years.
Storm Mountain has gained some points with the public and city council for its contribution of land to allow Nelson’s waterfront pathway to continue through to Red Sands Beach, and the
BILL METCALFE Nelson Star In September there was more water flowing into the Nelson reservoir from its Five Mile Creek source than in August, and residents used less water. That sounds like good news. So why are we still under Level 4 water restrictions? The city’s public works director, Colin Innes, says people are initially surprised by the persistence of water restrictions, “but when they think of the lack of rain lately it all makes sense to them.” Nelson’s main water source is Five Mile Creek, located in West Arm Provincial Park, which feeds
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