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Friday, December 4, 2015
Vol.8 • Issue 46
Pick-up truck gutted by fire in Nelson See Page 3
Classical musicians delight Hume students See Page 11
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Elyse Johnson, Joe Gilbert, Amanda Verigin, and Kirk Jensen of Whitewater help Chad Hansen of Nelson Brewing Company (centre) celebrate the launch of Bent Pole, a new beer to mark the ski hill’s 40th anniversary.
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hen Whitewater Ski Resort opens for the season Saturday morning there will be a new tap exclusively serving a special anniversary brew. The unfiltered India pale ale, bottled this week at Nelson Brewing Company, is called Bent
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Pole. “This is a tribute to our favourite ski hill and everything it embodies,” NBC’s Chad Hansen told the Star. “We love that mountain and everything it stands for. Being able to do a 40th anniversary beer means a lot to us.” Partly, that’s because their families are intertwined. “Our brewer, Mike Kelly, has four boys up at the hill all the time. They’re on the Freeride team, they’re totally involved. I’m at the bunny hill stage with my kids right now, but that can be just as good as an intense powder day because it’s memories that stay with you forever.” NBC teamed up with Whitewater before, to make Wild Honey for its 25th anniversary, a beer that took on a life of its own.
“People loved it and it just sort of took off,” Hansen said. “We started at just the ski hill initially, but then the demand was so high we put it on tap everywhere.” Hansen said Kelly “hit a home run” with Bent Pole, which is their first unfiltered beer in a long time. “This morning when I did the first tasting I held it up and looked through the glass. It was nice and hazy like an unfiltered beer should be,” he said. “For a person that’s a fan of big, flavourful beers, a filtered beer has a lot of the flavour filtered out.” Not so with this beer. “I took a sip and it was like a punch to the tastebuds at first. Then it settled off, then I wanted to take another sip. And another.” CONTINUED ON A4
Two Nelson businesses — Kootenay Co-op Radio and Bibby Orthodontics — as well as the owner of the building in which Dr. Kathryn Bibby is located, are not happy with changes to the grade and level of the west side of the 300 block Hall St., which they say have taken away their handicapped parking. In the first of two parts we look at the alley beside the radio station. Since the reconstruction of Hall St. as part of the city’s Stores to Shores project, the alley that heads west from Hall beside Kootenay Co-op Radio has been closed off because, after the new paving, the finished level of the street is about two feet higher than before, making the entrance to the alley very steep. City manager Kevin Cormack said the original plan, long before
construction started, was to close the alley because of the steepness of its entrance. Then, after some feedback from businesses, the plan changed. The result, once construction was underway, was a surprise: the street was almost two feet higher in front of Co-op Radio. “Then, when we saw how steep it is, the question came up: does it make sense to keep the alley open, or should it be closed for pedestrian safety?” said Cormack. At a meeting this past summer, city council decided on a trial closure until spring 2016. Ross Lake, who coowns the building on the south side of the alley whose tenants include Dr. Bibby, and which supplies underground parking opening onto the alley, doesn’t like the closure. “It is absolutely not workable,” he told the Star. “We met bylaws a n d r e q u i r e m e nt s when we renovated the building and put in underground spaces and now we are accessing [the parking] by a oneblock, one-way access in a 16-foot alley. Waste Management [commerCONTINUED ON A5
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