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Vol.8 • Issue 63
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Circus comes to town From left, Poppy Herbison and Caleb Hull in an acro yoga pose, Julia Langham, Gabe Cretien, Phill Maher, Joy Weick (with hoop) and Kyla Shynkar are all instructors at Discover Circus. The group will be offering classes to kids and adults in a variety of skills including aerial silks, acro yoga, and aerial hoop. See story and more photos page 10.
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About three weeks ago a Nelson man woke up in the hospital not knowing how he got there. Fortunately a friend explained she had taken him there after he started acting very strangely in a bar the night before. The hospital lab told him he had meth and
MDMA in his system, even though as far as he knew he had only had a few beers. Around the same time Jamie MacBeth of ANKORS, the Kootenay Boundary AIDS Network, Outreach and Support Society, posted on Facebook about two other dosings. Her post reads in part:
Activists are warning BC Timber Sales officials they could face a blockade if proposed logging in the Purcell mountains north of Argenta goes ahead as planned. “I’m the only one they had to notify, because I have water rights on that creek,” rancher Gabriella Grabowsky told the Star, after meeting last week with BCTS’s Della Peterson and Sean Slimmon. “There’s nobody else to make people aware.” But she believes that’s about to change. Representatives from the Valhalla Wilderness Society are getting involved, as is retired biologist David Stevenson, local environmentalists K.L. Kivi and Moe Lyons, and others. The proposed logging is on Glacier Creek, on the west side of Jumbo Pass, the opposite side of the mountains from the controversial Jumbo Resort area. During that time logging trucks will use the roads leading up to Monica Meadows, a popular tourism destination. Kivi thinks it’s a bad idea. “Really? We’re going to take one of our best, most beautiful areas and log the hillside? We’re going to have logging trucks driving up and down those often blown-out roads? They’re layering all of these impacts on an important economic base for Kootenay Lake. There are a bunch of issues.”
‘A textbook case of multiple use’
“Hey Nelson and area friends, an FYI. There have been two confirmed GHB/roofie dosings at a bar in town here. There may have been more that have not been reported. When this is done in a bar/ party scene it is almost always by someone with predator intentions.
However, a number of residents support the project and would like to see it go ahead. Richard Brenton of Argenta told the Star the activists’ concerns were misguided. “The original road in this valley was built for mining purposes,” he said. “In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s the road was extended to the head of the valley, enabling the first pass of harvesting to take place.” He said the road has provided access to the
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