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Vol. 8 • Issue 43
Nelson gets new fire chiefs (for a day) See Page 5
Railway station back in business See Page 3
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During the packed Room to Live fundraiser concert at the Capitol on Friday evening, Nelson songstresses Laura Landsberg, Bessie Wapp, Aryn Sherriff, Melody Diachun and Sydney Black wowed audiences with their vocal prowess. The concert has raised $13,500 so far, which will be doubled by an anonymous donor. Will Johnson photo
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Room to Live concert on track to double last year’s success WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star
During last year’s Room to Live charity concert, former mayor John Dooley challenged Nelson and area residents to raise $15,000 — enough to renovate one room at Ward St. Place. This year mayor Deb Kozak echoed the challenge, and as of Wednesday morning Nelson CARES had raised nearly double that amount. “We’re sitting at approximately $13,500,” Nelson CARES chair
Ron Little told the Star, noting that donations are still coming in. The final total will then be matched by an anonymous donor, which effectively means two more rooms will be able to be renovated. That brings the total number of rooms finished to 25, with 20 more to go. Just over one year into their three-year campaign, they’ve already raised more than half their goal. “We’re really in awe of how generous this community is, and
in particular how many individuals have come forward.” Featuring performances from Laura Landsberg, Nelson cultural ambassador Bessie Wapp, Aryn Sherriff, Bo Conlan, Melody Diachun and Sydney Black, the energetic concert Friday evening at the Capitol Theatre also showcased the musical abilities of Clinton Swanson, Doug Stephenson and many others. CONTINUED ON A23
Nelson city council has developed a contingency plan in case of an emergency water shortage. Public works manager Colin Innes is leading the development of a small water treatment system to be installed in the city somewhere on the lakeshore. It would treat water for a portion of the city — the lower part that would not require uphill pumping. Introducing lake water into the city water mains without treating it would create the need for a boil water advisory, Innes said. The treatment plant, consisting of pumps, filters, and chlorine mixing equipment, would cost upwards of $250,000 and city manager Kevin Cormack says this money is available in the current water budget. Innes says the proposal will go before council within the next couple of months and the plant would, if approved, be built in the spring. The idea for an emergency water treatment plant has been around since the city wrote its water master plan in 2006, but Innes says that because of this past year’s water shortage, “it has been pushed to front burner.”
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Nelson gets its water from Five Mile Creek and secondarily from two other creeks that originate in West Arm Park that are not glacierfed but depend on annual precipitation. This past spring and summer, low precipitation and high temperatures resulted in a low supply of water and heavy use by residents until water restrictions were imposed in the summer. Those restrictions continue. “We have got a quarter of the water normally available at this point in the year but we are able to meet the demand,” Innes says. “But we have very little extra.” The chart accompanying this story shows the water available from the creek for the past four months, the average amount for each month, and the amount actually used by the city for each month. Most notable are the differences between the average availability over the years compared to this year (columns 1 and 2) and the small gap between this year’s availability and this year’s use (columns 2 and 3). Innes added that if the city had not been making repairs to leaky water mains since 2006 we would already be running out of water. CONTINUED ON A17
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