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Last week’s performances of Doug Jamieson’s opera Jorinda were spectacular from beginning to end. It was a theatrical treat that demonstrated Nelson’s talent, commitment and generosity to the vocal arts. The show involved over 80 volunteers of all ages. Jorinda is based on a Grimm fairy tale where the wicked witch and her comic helper Grungella capture all the little girls and turn them into birds. Jorinda was produced by the Amy Ferguson Institute along with Nelson Community Opera.
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Rural directors respond to recycling critics BILL METC ALFE Nelson Star
A public backlash following rural recycling changes will be discussed at a meeting of the Regional District of Central Kootenay’s joint waste recovery committee today. The regional district says the new system will save $200,000 per year and reduce recycling’s carbon footprint because a new compactor truck will make fewer trips from the bins to the central waste facility in Castlegar. To enable that, however, new bins have
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been introduced at transfer stations in Nelson, Kaslo, Salmo, and area, into which recyclers have to feed the material into a small slot one piece a time. Critics say this is time consuming and inconvenient. In an article in the Star last week, regional district manager Mike Morrison explained the changes, and in a column in today’s Star, chief administrator Stuart Horn explains further the reason for the new bins. In this article we check in with the elected representatives in the affected
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areas. Aimee Watson, Area D (Ainsworth, rural Kaslo, Duncan Lake) “In the media and on Facebook, there is a bandwagon with people jumping on it to complain. This does not mean their complaints don’t have merit, but there is not much context behind it. Local taxpayers are not supposed to be paying for this at all.” Watson is referring to the fact that the province has moved to a producerpay system in which manufacturers of paper and packaging pay for a com-
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