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	<description>From Bill Metcalfe in Nelson, B.C. --- another Kootenay Network weblog.</description>
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		<title>Thomas Loh&#8217;s Vision for Cottonwood Creek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of Nelson is going to refurbish Cottonwood Creek just above and below the bridge at the 4-way stop on Baker. They have hired Thomas Loh to design it. Here is my video of Thomas explaining his plans. You can read the rest of my story about this  in The Nelson Daily.]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/thomas-lohs-vision-for-cottonwood-creek</link>
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		<title>Nelson Contracts Open to European Bidders?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will European companies be allowed to bid on Nelson City Council&#8217;s contracts for construction or procurements? Will this hamper the city&#8217;s ability to buy locally? The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and Europe is heading us in that direction. The matter was brought before Nelson City Council this week by the local chapter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/nelson-contracts-open-to-european-bidders</link>
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		<title>Old Growth 10&#8211; Keep Learning, Keep Connecting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the pitfalls of getting older is social and intellectual isolation. Often it happens after retirement when we lose our work connections. Sometimes the death of a spouse is the cause. Or, if we get physically or mentally frailer, we don&#8217;t have the confidence or the patience we once had, so we stay home. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/old-growth-10-keep-learning-keep-connecting</link>
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		<title>Colin Stetson, Bon Iver, Miles from India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He uses a couple of dozen microphones placed around the room and on his body and on his instrument and he walks around among them while playing. I don&#8217;t know what else he does, but whatever it is, it&#8217;s unbelievable that he can do it live&#8211; there is no overdubbing or layering. Colin Stetson&#8230; The two pieces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/colin-stetson-bon-iver-miles-from-india</link>
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		<title>Rosie at the Ashram (Video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to post this experimental video I made recently, experimental in the sense that I am new to making videos. There is some background to it. When my daughter Rosie was about 13, she and I spent a weekend at the Yasodhara Ashram on Kootenay Lake. It introduced her to some new things because we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/rosie-at-the-ashram-video</link>
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		<title>Say the Names Say the Names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer my friends Lynn Shervill and Sheila Peters were in Kelowna so I visited them for a couple of days. Say the Names brings stories from the people who live in the towns and travel the rivers and lakes situated along the proposed route of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project in British Columbia. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/say-the-names-say-the-names</link>
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		<title>Ed Natyshak Says Get Tougher, Right Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Don’t stop moving, just because you think you’re tired!” That’s Ed Natyshak yelling at the people in his fitness class. It&#8217;s his first line in my 5-minute documentary about his classes that aired on CBC radio recently.  Click here to hear a podcast. Ed’s are the most insanely tough fitness classes anywhere, taught from his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/ed-natyshak-says-get-tougher-right-now</link>
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		<title>Old Growth 8: Too Old to Drive&#8211; Seniors and Their Driver&#8217;s Licences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When that car was gone I used to look out in that empty space every day. That hurt, really. I was afraid I wouldn’t pass the test and  I don’t think I could have taken that. That would’ve been really devastating.” That&#8217;s one of the voices from this week&#8217;s edition of Old Growth. Click here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/old-growth-8-too-old-to-drive-seniors-and-their-drivers-licences</link>
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		<title>tUnE-yArDs, Philip Glass, Ornette, and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most artists on any weekly edition of my Giant Steps radio show (new jazz and its relatives on Kootenay Co-op Radio) are still “Alive. Alive and living” as my daughter Laura said in a poem to indicate not just alive but also dealing in the world of the present and future tense. Sometimes doing a music show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/mr-sleepy-spare-parts-binoculars-and-more</link>
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		<title>Old Growth 7: My Life is Getting Bigger&#8211;  Conversations with Three Senior Humanitarian Activists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I am reducing my needs in my life, but my life is getting bigger. I feel happy with this choice and I will go for it as long as I can. But I can see that it is not for everybody. You can do a lot in your own community. People say, why do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bill.inthekoots.com/old-growth-7-my-life-is-getting-bigger-conversations-with-three-senior-humanitarian-activists</link>
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