eagle valley news, september 02, 2015

A Two Mile resident is contesting a school busing change that will require her elementary school chil-dren to either cross Highway 97A to catch the bus, or else walk to school.

Melissa Fallis has two daughters, ages six and eight, who attend Parkview Elementary.

She says last year her kids were able to catch the school bus on the frontage road just down from her Wolfe Street residence.

For the 2015/16 school year, however, Fallis says the morning bus stop will be on the other side of Highway 97A, in front of Sicamous Creek Mobile Home Park. The drop-off will be on the frontage road.

The idea of her or any kids having to cross 97A mornings and afternoons has Fallis upset and con-cerned for their safety.

“What makes it even more unsafe is my eight-year-old has petit mal and grand mal seizures, so there’s always the risk of getting hit by a vehicle, but there’s also the risk of my little girl having a seizure in the middle of the road,” says Fallis, noting there is no marked crosswalk on 97A, or signs suggesting traf� c slow down for children on the road.

Dependent upon the school bus to get her children to school, Fallis’ � rst course of action was to contact School District #83 operations manager Frank Mar-asco. She said she was told bussing isn’t a right but a privilege, and because she lives within four kilome-tres of the school, her kids technically do not qualify for that privilege. (School district policy states to be eligible for regular transportation to and from school, students in kindergarten to Grade 3 must live a dis-

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Safety concerns raised over new school bus stopTwo Mile: Parent to appeal change that requires herchildren to cross 97A.

Children crossing: Chris Evans, Natalia and Ella Suk, Melissa Fallis and Austyn Evans wait for a break in the traffic on Highway 97A to cross to where Natalia and Ella will be picked up by the school bus. Photo by Evan Buhler

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

See Marked school crossing on page 2

Highway 97A, in front of Sicamous Creek Mobile Home Park. The drop-off will be on the frontage road.

The idea of her or any kids having to cross 97A mornings and afternoons has Fallis upset and con-

“What makes it even more unsafe is my eight-year-old has petit mal and grand mal seizures, so there’s always the risk of getting hit by a vehicle, but there’s also the risk of my little girl having a seizure in the middle of the road,”

He said the only reason they’re actu-ally stopping at the mobile home park is it’s on the way back into town and it’s more a courtesy than anything.

Melissa Fallis

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tance of four kilome-tres or more from the nearest school, while students in grades four to 12 must live more than 4.8 kilometres away.)

“I basically got the vibe of shut up or we’re not even going to pick the kids up at all,” said Fallis. “That was sort of how I felt. He said the only reason they’re actually stopping at the mobile home park is it’s on the way back

into town and it’s more a courtesy than any-thing, and I can take it up with the school district transportation committee. But I got the vibe they won’t re-ally be doing anything because of the distance, we don’t really qualify for busing anyway.”

Marasco called Fal-lis’ situation unfortu-nate, but confirmed her kids live within the walk limits, and that the bus is only stopping as a courtesy on the way into town.

School trustee chair Bobbi Johnson said Fallis can appeal Mar-asco’s decision through the school district’s transportation commit-tee. If she doesn’t like their answer, the next step would be to sub-mit an appeal to the board of trustees.

Fallis is following through on that advice, having submitted a let-ter to superintendent Glenn Borthistle for the transportation com-mittee. She also sent a letter to District of

Sicamous mayor and council, asking for as-sistance in reinstating the morning bus stop on the frontage road, and in addressing the acceptable walking distance.

Regardless of what happens with her ap-peal, Fallis would like to see some safety im-provements on 97A for children expected to cross to catch the bus.

“That would make me feel better, if they put up signs saying there’s kids crossing

on the highway,” said Fallis. “Every time I have to stop and make a left-hand turn from where we live I almost get rear-ended, and then people go on the shoulder and pass me to go around. So if I was stopping for some-body to cross, they would definitely get hit by whoever is going around on the corner.

“Of course, in the winter, there’s all the fog, there’s black ice on the road, it’s just very unsafe.”

Marked school crossing, signage would help Continued from front

Existing buildings at a Riverside Avenue boat storage operation will be demolished to make way for new fa-cilities.

District council has OK’d a development permit application for Papa’s Sicamous Ma-rina at 909 Riverside Ave.

The permit, ex-plained district com-munity planner Mike

Marrs, is to allow for the redevelopment of the site, including the demolition of the ex-isting facilities to con-struct two new separate buildings, one a larger facility to store boats, and the other an office

space with residential above. The proposed work is in compliance with district zoning and the official com-munity plan.

District staff rec-ommended the devel-opment be approved,

subject to a road dedi-cation of approximate-ly 150 square metres. This is to allow the dis-trict to move forward with road improve-ments and street de-signs without having to purchase the land later.


Boat storage being demolished for upgrades

Everyone was on-board with the Shus-wap Watershed Coun-cil’s water quality monitoring program.

How to pay for it was the basis of much discussion at an Aug. 20 on-the-road meeting of the Columbia Shus-wap Regional District board in Golden.

Directors approved a Shuswap Watershed Water Quality Service Establishment Bylaw, but not the way staff recommended.

Staff had recom-mended an assessment-based tax which, based on the average as-sessed value of 1,700 parcels in the District of Sicamous and elec-toral areas C, D, E and F, would have been $10.30 annually for the average household.

“But after some dis-cussion, the board de-termined the preferred method to be a parcel tax,” said CSRD chief administrative offi-cer Charles Hamilton. “The differential be-tween a parcel tax and

a property value tax for the average assessed residential property was minimal, in fact slightly lower for the assessment scheme.”

Salmon Arm will make an annual contri-bution of $40,000 for three years through an arrangement, but will do so through their own taxation process.

CSRD would enter into a similar contract with the Thompson Nicola Regional Dis-trict, but no timeframe has been set yet.

The bylaw was

given three readings and will now go to the Ministry of Sport and Cultural Development for approval.

After the approval is obtained, the CSRD has to initiate an alter-native approval process (APP).

“That will com-mence after we receive approval and everyone will have the opportu-nity to petition against the tax if they don’t support it,” said Hamil-ton. “Staff recommend-ed the APP process given that in the larger

scheme of things, the annual requisition is not overly significant and there appears to be broad public support for the water quality program generally.

If more than 10 per cent of those eligible to file a petition against the initiative do so, CSRD will be unable to proceed with the by-law.

“In such circum-stances, the decision for the CSRD would be to go to a full-scale referendum,” Hamilton says.

By Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

Parcel tax to pay for water program

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DISTRICT OF SICAMOUS

Permissive Tax Exemption Bylaws

The District of Sicamous, in compliance with Section 224(4)(b) and Section 227 of the Community Charter, hereby gives public notice of the following Bylaws which will be considered for final adoption on September 9, 2015:

District of Sicamous Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 899, 2015 (Places of Worship) District of Sicamous Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 900, 2015 (Not for Profit) District of Sicamous Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 901, 2015 (Seniors’ Homes)

The properties identified will be given a tax exemption for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 with the estimated taxes that would have been imposed for 2016 to 2019 as follows:

Kelly Bennett, CPA, CA Chief Financial Officer

Owner ROll NumBeR 2016 2017 2018 2019

Places of WorshipSicamous Bible Church 348-05228.000 4,379 4,444 4,511 4,579

united Church of Canada 348.05630.000 2,989 3,034 3,080 3,126

Trustees Jehovah’s Wit-ness Church

348.05862.000 2,752 2,793 2,835 2,878

Roman Catholic Bishop of Kamloops

348.05880.001 3,881 3,939 3,998 4,058

Senior’s Homeseagle Valley Senior Hous-ing Society

348.05294.005 14,670 14,890 15,113 15,340

eagle Valley Senior Hous-ing Society

348.05294.010 8,220 8,343 8,468 8,595

eagle Valley Senior Hous-ing Society

348.05294.006 31,113 31,580 32,054 32,534

Not For Profiteagle Valley Arts Council 348.05175.000 5,997 6,087 6,179 6,271

Sicamous & District Se-niors Centre Society

348.05295.000 6,920 7,024 7,129 7,236

eagle Valley Community Support Society

348.05127.100 5,237 5,316 5,396 5,477

united Church of Canada Thrift Store

348.05630.000 2,173 2,205 2,238 2,272

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada

348.05065.000 5,439 5,521 5,604 5,688

Royal Canadian legion - Cenotaph

348.05127.000 221 224 228 231

Royal Canadian legion - upstairs

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Just in time for La-bour Day Weekend campers, the campfire ban in the Kamloops Fire Centre, has been lifted.

The ban was re-moved at noon on Monday.

It was rescinded due to recent widespread precipitation, which resulted in a decreased risk of wildfires in the region.

The fire danger rating is now primar-ily low to moderate throughout the fire cen-tre.

The campfire ban was enacted on July 3,

two weeks earlier than last’s year’s prohibi-tion, which went into effect on July 16.

Last year, the camp-fire ban was lifted on Aug. 21.

Those enjoying campfires are reminded to follow the following safety procedures:

• Have a shovel or at least eight litres of water available nearby to properly extinguish your campfire.

• Campfires cannot be larger than 0.5 me-tres high by 0.5 metres wide.

• Do not light a campfire or keep it

burning in windy con-ditions. Weather can change quickly and the wind may carry embers to other combustible material.

• You must maintain a one-metre fireguard around the campfire. This is a fuel-free area where all flammable materials (grass, kin-dling, etc.) have been removed.

• Never leave a campfire unattended.

• Make sure the campfire is completely extinguished and the ashes are cold to the touch before leaving the area for any length of time.

• People who light campfires are legally responsible for making sure that they don’t es-cape. They may be held accountable for damag-es and fire suppression costs if their negligence results in a wildfire.

BC Hydro may have a role in the upgrading and beautification of Shuswap Avenue.

District council has asked staff to investigate the potential of hav-ing power lines/utilities placed underground on Shuswap Avenue and Main Street.

The district is cur-rently embarking on

a project to upgrade Shuswap with the con-struction of sidewalks, lighting, drainage and gutters. Not included in the existing plan is the burying of power lines. However, BC Hydro, through a beautification fund, offers one-third funding towards the cost of removing power poles and putting power lines underground.

With construction of sidewalks expected

to begin in September, Coun. Janna Simons asked if the district would proceed if there was a possibility to put power underground, suggesting they be done at the same time. Coun. Todd Kyllo enthusiasti-cally agreed.

“I don’t think we should be going ahead and spending any mon-ey on Shuswap Avenue without putting the lines in the ground,”

said Kyllo. Interim district ad-

ministrator Tim Palmer agreed it would make sense to do the power lines on Shuswap in conjunction with the sidewalk project. How-ever, he also cautioned the amount BC Hydro contributes is limited. Regardless, council ap-proved a resolution to have staff determine possible costs and re-port back.

Kamloops Fire Centre rescinds campfire ban


District looks at putting power underground

Pedestrian safety has prompted a request for a sidewalk along White Pines Crescent from Kappel Street to High-way 97A.

The district has re-ceived at least eight form letters requesting the sidewalk, signed by residents along White Pines. The letters say the absence of a side-walk along the “narrow

street with poor light-ing, creates a very dan-gerous walkway.”

Coun. Jeff Mallmes confirmed development cost charges had been set aside from White Pines for sidewalk con-struction some 20 years ago.

“I think the buying power of those funds from 20 years is proba-bly greatly reduced…,” said Mallmes. “So, one of the things we’re go-ing through is the OCP

(official community plan). We’re trying to decide where in the community sidewalks might be the appropri-ate place, and multi-use paths might be more de-sirable.

“So I appreciate somebody created a nice letter and a whole bunch of people put their ini-tials at the bottom of it – that’s great that they got some support. But I’d like to ask, in lieu of sidewalks, would there

be any consideration of a multi-use path?”

Coun. Malcolm Makayev said he agreed with Mallmes, but add-ed that direction has to come from council, not one councillor.

“It’s just a sugges-tion,” said Mallmes with a smile.

Council did not vote on the matter, with in-terim administrator Tim Palmer saying it could be revisited at budget time.


Sidewalk request goes to budget


Energy and Mines Min-ister Bill Bennett spent much of last week in Alas-ka, trying to assure local fishermen and environmen-talists that B.C.’s mine ap-proval process is “basically the same” as Alaska’s.

Bennett visited an aban-doned mine in northwest B.C. that continues to leak acid and metal pollution into the Taku River, vowing to supervise cleanup by a new operator. He noted that one of B.C.’s proposed new mines includes a 23-kilo-metre pipe system to move ore out of the shared water-shed for processing.

This is typical of the discourse between B.C. and our American cousins. Only our industry is ques-tioned.

Meanwhile in Colorado, the latest mine spill disaster was blamed on a mistake by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And in Alaska, as in the rest of the

U.S., new metal mines such as the giant Pebble project depend on the same engi-neering and testing as ours.

Here in Victoria, Green Party leader Elizabeth May calling a news conference to announce she is (brace yourself) opposed to pipe-lines and tankers on the B.C. coast. She stood at Clover Point, where daily Alaska crude tankers sail past, many on their way to vast refinery complexes just out of sight at Anacortes and Cherry Point in Wash-ington. A good portion of B.C.’s gasoline comes from there.

For 47 years, the pipe-line has pumped huge vol-umes of oil across Alaska from the charming north-ern outpost of Deadhorse to Valdez in the south, just east of Anchorage where cruise ships dock.

In his new book, Rust: The Longest War, science writer Jonathan Waldman calls it “the biggest, bad-dest oil pipeline in the world.

“From Prudhoe Bay to Prince William Sound, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Sys-tem stretches 800 miles, which leaves engineer Bhaskar Neogi account-able for one of the heaviest metal things in the West-ern Hemisphere, through which the vast majority of Alaska’s economy flows,” Waldman writes. “Daily, the four-foot steel tube spits out $50 million of oil.”

It was once the largest private infrastructure in the U.S. Today it’s the most regulated pipeline in the world, with planes flying infrared sensors to detect leaks of warm oil and “line walkers” looking for soft spots in the permafrost.

The five Prudhoe Bay oilfields have been declin-ing in production for 20 years, to the point where the Trans-Alaska pipeline now carries about a quarter of its design capacity. It’s expected to run out around 2040, but for now Valdez still loads more than a tank-er a day.

Waldman writes that when North America’s largest oilfield was discov-ered in 1968, companies first considered extending the Alaska Railroad up to Deadhorse. But they would have needed 63 trains a day of 100 cars each. Trucks, cargo planes and even nu-clear-powered submarines running under the Arctic ice were briefly considered.

Since we had a bit of hand-wringing last week about a small earthquake near Fort Nelson that may or may not have been trig-gered by hydraulic frac-turing, it’s worth noting that Trans-Alaska oil also causes noticeable trem-ors as it rushes down the Chugach Mountains to a sudden stop at Valdez. But those are American earth-quakes, so no story there.

Editor’s note: The BC Oil and Gas Commission has confirmed a 4.4 magni-tude earthquake felt in Fort St. John and Fort Nelson in August 2014 was triggered by hydraulic fracturing.

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Policy front and centre in election

OPINION

Turn on your TV and change it to a news channel, open a paper, or check the in-ternet. It’s a policy blizzard out there.

In fact, we’d have trouble keeping up if we were covering nothing but announcements from the three major political parties. While the Unit-ed States is suffering through a bizarre Republi-can primary that is light on issues and heavy on Trump, Canada is a policy wonk’s dream.

Just in the past week or so, we’ve seen the major party leaders make promises on senate reform, old age security, northern defence, busi-ness taxes, even home renovation tax credits.

You could criticize some of these announce-ments. Many of them are on the small scale side of things.

We’ve called for a debate on big issues – things like global warming, but we could as easily have said health care or the role of Canada’s military, post-secondary education, veterans and the fu-ture of our economy.

So far, we haven’t seen too much discussion of those big issues. But the party leaders have a long road ahead of them, and they have to save some ammunition for September and October, when everyone’s back from summer getaways and can really get down to paying attention to the news again.

Right now, we’re actually pleased that, at the very least, there are issues on the table. Not all of these issues are minor, either – when Harp-er talks about expanding the Junior Canadian Rangers, or Mulcair wants to return Old Age Security to 65 from 67 years, those are both indi-cations of significant priorities for their potential governments.

We’re in the middle of a long, long campaign. The leaders could have been excused for stretch-ing things out, going to rallies, and not saying much.

Instead, we’ve actually seen a lot of talk about how things would go under Trudeau, Harper and Mulcair. It may be a little piecemeal right now, but it could be worse.

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Celebration of The Queens Reign

Buckingham Palace has calculated that on September 9, 2015 our Monarch will have served us and the Commonwealth for the longest period in our modern history. In celebration everyone is welcome to attend. Where: Upstairs at the Legion (322 Main Street) When: September 9, 2015 11:30 a.m. (Ceremony to promptly start at Noon) The event will be as follows: Opening Statements by the Mayor The singing of O ’Canada Guest Speaker - Jerry Silva Prayer - Fred Duck, Padre for Legion The singing of God Save the QueenLight refreshments to follow.

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When that giant as-teroid smashed into the earth, causing world-wide forest � res, tsu-namis and an ‘impact winter,’ they must have been really confused as life as they knew it withered beneath a heavy blanket of smog. It must have made poor T-Rex want to cover his eyes in horror, but alas, his stubby arms wouldn’t have allowed that.

Too far with dino empathizing?

Probably. But T-Rex’s short arms have always seemed like a feature worth dis-cussing and, more im-portantly, as our days grow cool beneath a smoky haze, I can’t help but think that their fate seems remarkably similar to our current plight.

Where we differ

from our predecessors, of course, is that our arms are long enough to scratch our heads and our brains are big enough to come up with some solutions. Or, at least they should be.

Trouble is that eco-nomic interests always seem to trump environ-mental issues.

When I was a younger, less-jaded re-porter all things green seemed to preoccupy both our government and the business com-munity.

Greenhouse gas production was being scaled back as a hydro-gen highway stretching all the way from Los Angeles to Whistler was plotted out.

Covering the Okan-agan’s obsession with development was an exercise in Earth-friendly thinking back then, too. If you read this paper eight or so years ago, you prob-ably could have made a drinking game out of how many times the term LEED made it into the paper. Your liver will thank you if you didn’t.

One time I was in-terviewing a builder type, however, and I

asked how long he � g-ured it would take until all homes were built in a way that was more at one with the world we live with.

He told me that would never happen. The economy would eventually take a hit, and then all things green would turn brown as the pursuit for gold became more intense. He claimed to

have seen it at least half a dozen times over his life.

I � gured he was just a grump.

Then Americans killed the economy and grumpy seemed brainy.

We now know there will never be a hydro-gen highway.

But, more impor-tantly, we know that governments put their focus on the economy above all else. Pipe-

lines, fracking, oil sands and wider high-ways have been the most all-consuming news topics of the last few years.

All the while, scien-tists and environmen-tal organizations were ringing alarm bells about rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps and soaring tempera-tures.

Today we get news

that fracking is caus-ing earthquakes in the northern reaches of B.C., while we literally breathe in the remnants of a region ravaged by � res. Then, add to the mix that they’re getting snowstorms in Alberta.

Seems to me that the “extreme weather events” we’ve been warned of for the last decade or more have decided to rear their ugly heads, and it’s

not just costing us our health.

The simple fact is that if these events continue as we’ve seen them this summer, they’re going to have a cataclysmic effect on the economy, and not in some far-off land. Here, at home, tourism has obviously taken a hit from the smoke, and if this is indeed the new normal, as Pre-mier Christy Clark al-luded to when she was at a Westside � re ear-lier this summer, how many jobs will be lost?

Who will even want to live here?

It’s enough to make someone want to throw their hands over their eyes, but given there’s an election in the off-ing maybe we can do better.

Maybe, we can keep these issues in mind and head to the ballot box this October to ef-fect change in a way that the poor dinosaurs couldn’t.

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The Insurance Corp. of B.C. is warning mo-torists they’ll soon pay more for basic auto in-surance.

Because of a rate smoothing policy intro-duced by the province in 2013, this year’s rate hike must be between 3.7 and 6.7 per cent – within 1.5 per cent of last year’s 5.2 per cent increase on basic rates.

ICBC president and CEO Mark Blucher said the initial calcula-tions suggest the maxi-mum 6.7 per cent basic rate hike is required, but pledged to work with the government to find ways to reduce that number by Oct. 30, when the formal rate application is to be filed with the B.C. Utilities Commission.

He said ICBC is grappling with “an un-expected and rapid es-calation in the number of injury claims being reported to us in recent months.”

ICBC’s bodily in-jury claim costs, which cover pain and suffer-

ing, future care and loss of wages, are fore-cast to hit $2.3 billion this year, up 64 per cent since 2008.

Higher legal and medical costs, more represented claims and more complex, cata-strophic claims leading to bigger settlements are among the factors blamed for the jump.

Injury claims are up 10 per cent from a year ago even though the number of crashes is unchanged. ICBC says more fraud is one po-tential explanation, as well as more minor soft tissue injury claims.

If regulators ap-prove the request, this will be the fourth straight year of basic insurance premium in-creases following hikes of 11.2 per cent in 2012 and 5.2 per cent in each of 2013 and 2014.

ICBC has simulta-neously reduced its op-tional insurance rates – on which it competes against private insur-ers – in five of the last seven years.

ICBC spokesman Adam Grossman said the net effect is the

average customer has seen their overall auto insurance costs rise by less than 10 per cent since 2008.

Grossman said this year’s required in-crease would actually be “on the order of 12 per cent” were it not for the constraint of the rate-smoothing policy.

Transportation Min-ister Todd Stone said even the maximum 6.7 per cent this year is too much.

“We believe that’s

not acceptable and the rate can and should be lower than that,” he said Monday.

Stone appointed fer-ries commissioner and former deputy minister Gord Macatee to help ICBC pare the hike.

Asked if the prov-ince might reduce the annual $160-million annual dividend it ex-tracts from ICBC each year, Stone said those transfers are from ICBC’s excess capital on its optional insur-

ance business and do not affect basic rates.

He acknowledged an optional rate cut would help ease the pain for the majority of motorists who also buy their optional coverage from ICBC, but made no commitment to en-able that.

The Bank of Cana-da’s recent interest rate cut has significantly re-duced the projected re-turns of ICBC’s invest-ment portfolio, Stone added.

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Owlhead Creek Bed and Breakfast is proud to present Prai-rie sweethearts, Belle Plaine and Blake Ber-glund in concert on Friday, Sept. 11.

The Grant MacEwan alumna jazz singer and cowboy songwriter don’t only complement each other vocally, but their onstage chemistry is infectious.

They have individu-ally released numer-ous studio albums, toured nationally and developed brands rec-ognized industry wide, while always staying true to their Saskatch-ewan roots.

Belle and Blake will release their limited edition, double/single take on two Zachary Lucky-penned tracks on Friday, Sept. 4.

The production of their ’70s inspired seven-inch vinyl was overseen by Jason Plumb and recorded at CBC Studio One in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Belle and Blake are

spending the month of September on the road promoting their first vi-nyl release.

The duo’s unique style is a result of amalgamating their bands. Jeremy Sauer (keys) and Elizabeth Curry (bass) are Belle Plaine’s regular side-men, and split musi-cianship duties with Berglund’s Vultures, Steve Leidal (drums) and Bryce Lewis (elec-tric guitar).

The sound is a soul-ful twang.

Lead and harmony vocals are traded with ease, and comple-ment both Berglund and Plaine’s respective styles.

Tickets for Belle Plaine and Blake Ber-glund in concert, may be purchased by call-ing 250-836-2226.

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Treat yourself to a mix of mouth-watering local cuisines from some of the best res-taurants, delis, winer-ies and breweries that the Shuswap has to offer.

Tickets are $25 and include three tasty sample tickets. Ad-ditional tasty tickets can be purchased for $3 each at the event and you can use them to sample any of the food or beverage menu items at the cel-ebration. Everything is sample-sized, so you can squeeze in as many scrumptious treats as you desire.

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Harvest Celebration isn’t just about food. Explore the village, museum and beautiful gardens. Check out the silent auction table and bid on items donated by local businesses and individuals. Har-vest Celebration will be your last chance to buy raffle tickets on the Waterway House Boat vacation. The draw will be at 5:30 p.m. during the celebration.

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Hard work and determination will pay off for Shea Weber in February when he suits up in the red and whites of Team Canada.

The 24-year-old Sicamous product was tagged last month to represent the nation in the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s a goal Weber had been working towards, and an opportu-nity he’s proud to be part of.

“The Olympics are a very special event, not only for hockey but for winter sports and to be able to play for your country and compete for a medal is kind of neat,” says Weber.

The 6’4”, 234 lb. Nashville Predators defenceman will be sporting the maple leaf with other big names in hockey like Scott

Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks), Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks), Chris Pronger (Philadelphia Flyers) and Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Pen-guins).

Apart from a camp held last summer, We-ber guesses the team may have a couple of days to gel in February before hitting the ice in Whistler, and he’s interest-ed in seeing how everyone fi ts. But Weber’s mom and dad, Tracy and James, don’t ex-pect Shea will have any problems.

“Whatever they want him to do, he’ll do it,” said James. “He’s a team-fi rst guy, he’s not a selfi sh player at all.”

Both parents share what could be described as a subdued excite-ment for their son and the hon-our that’s been bestowed up on him.

“Shea phoned home and said ‘I’ve been chosen

to play in the Olympics, and I said ‘okay,’” Tracy commented, explaining it’s kind of a family trait not to overreact – one that Shea

shares. But she and James who, with Shea,share roots in Sicamous minor hockey, are defi nitely excited, and are hoping to attendat least one of their son’s games.

Sicamous Eagles manager Wayne Marchis also pretty excited by the news that Shea, an Eagle alumni, will be playing forhis community and country at the Games.March says Shea has been totally focusedthroughout his career on what he wanted todo: make it to the NHL. In the process, Sheahelped the Eagles win the KIJHL West-ern Canadians in 2001-02; he helped takethe Kelowna Rockets to three consecutiveWHL Memorial Cup championship games,including the win in 2004; and, after signingwith Nashville in 2004, he helped the Ca-

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One of the most pleasant ways to find relief from the hot sun is to park yourself un-der the cool and protec-tive umbrella of a shade tree – especially after a cooker like we’ve had this summer!

These wonderful and amazing lifeforms have always played a vital role in support-ing life on earth, but they’ve also played a major cultural, spiri-tual and symbolic role throughout our human history too, with plenty of folklore, legends and myths surrounding them.

The original mean-

ing of the word ‘spirit’ was often described as a breath or wind, because a person felt touched or moved by something that couldn’t be seen. But this intan-gible phenomenon was difficult to describe vo-cally, so symbols were used instead.

This sense or feeling was common with re-ligion and other forms of spirituality; but it’s also felt through cre-ative processes, love or being in contact with natural environments.

Trees and forests have always been im-portant symbols in mythology and reli-gions in many cultures, which didn’t threaten God’s position as the highest being because he was considered the source and trees the channels. They have been used to symbol-ize fundamental values and beliefs relating to life, growth, health, fertility, regeneration, wisdom, enlighten-ment, steadfastness

and strength, and their many branches and leaves originating from a single stem, made a tree a natural symbol of unity that underlies the diversity of all liv-ing things. Evergreens appeared to have a stronger life force than deciduous trees because they retained their foliage through winter, so they repre-sent immortality and eternal life. In ancient Europe, one was placed inside the house during winter solstice as a sign of hope and a continu-ity of life through the darkest months, which is how Christmas trees came to be.

Large trees have always been powerful symbols of earthly life and the divine because they evoke awe, rever-ence and wonder.

According to many of the teachings of an-cient wisdom, the uni-verse comprises of a spiral or circular move-ment around a central axis or ‘centre pole,’

often depicted as the Tree of Life or Univer-sal Tree. This symbolic image essentially em-bodies the notion that all life is interrelated and sacred, and that the universe is a living, evolving organism im-bued with divine spirit – rather than a lifeless, clockwork mechanism.

Whether ancient cultures prayed to one god or many, they ac-knowledged trees as being able to elevate the human conscious-ness to higher forms of perception, and to receive messages from the higher planes or the deeper self.

In the Jewish tra-dition, the Tree of Knowledge (of Adam and Eve) imparts knowledge of good and evil (or bad), although the traditional transla-tion is a fixed expres-sion denoting ‘every-thing.’ In medieval Christianity, Jesus was associated with the hol-ly tree – a word origi-nally derived from the

Anglo-Saxon ‘holegn’ and the Old High Ger-man ‘hulis,’ meaning ‘holy.’. In Hinduism, the Vedas linked trees with Brahma – the im-mortal, innermost spirit of the universe – and it was under a pipal tree where the Buddha be-came enlightened. In the Moroccan Islamic tradition, the olive tree is the World Tree – a symbol of the univer-sal human being and of the Prophet, and in Iro-quois mythology, the Tree of Light connects

the earth and sky and is a great source of power.

There are many leg-ends of tree oracles and places throughout the world of sacred groves and sanctuaries. Their leaves became the let-ters of the old alpha-bets, which enabled man to preserve the ‘word.’ Most terms for learning, knowledge, consciousness and wis-dom are derived from words for tree or wood, such as wits, Wicca, witch and wizard. Wands were made from

very specific tree spe-cies and because they were known to have al-most human powers of perception and prefer-ences, they were care-fully matched to their owner’s personalities and considered danger-ous and destructive in the wrong hands.

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Ode For My Husband & FamilyGordon Lamb Nov. 17, 1926 - Aug. 13, 2014

A Wonderful man, one of the Best,For sixty-five years, our marriage was blessed,

5 children we had: 4 girls and 1 boy,10 grandkids, and 18 greats. Oh what a joy.

A quiet unassuming man, whose feeling ran deep,Helping behind the scenes, not for accolades to reap.

He did many things and touched many lives in his 87 years,An honest upright man who stood tall with all his family and peers.To the kids, grandkids and greats, so lucky to have known him,

When hard decisions and dark clouds come,Get strength and help from your memories with these little words

“What would Grandpa have done?”He said he’d found heaven on earth,

The home and farm he built for his family really mattered.So on the spot he picked, to rest in peace,

His ashes will be scattered,Goodbye my Darling, Farewell my love, but only for awhile,

On the other side of the Great Divide, together, we will smile.‘Til then I’ll have to muddle along, and do the best I can,

But it’s a real hard go, for this old crow,And Lord knows I miss my man.

My love to everyone of you, for always being there,For kindness, help and thoughtfulness, That show how much you care,

A family is a precious thing,The best that you can get,

Don’t ever throw that GOLD away,You’re certain to regret,

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The District Sicamous, midway between Vancouver and Calgary, is situated in a stunning and envious recreational paradise on both the Mara and Shuswap Lakes. A community with strategic potential serves a population of about 3,000 permanent residents and up to 8,000 additional seasonal residents. Affordable housing, outstanding outdoor recreation facilities, and great education options within driving distance makes the District of Sicamous an ideal location. You will have all of the benefits of small town living with close proximity to any “big city” amenities you might want. Sicamous’ newly elected, forward thinking and action oriented Council is determined to fulfill the community’s full potential of prosperity. They are seeking a “hands-on” Town Manager, who will implement policies and strategies of Mayor and Council’s with creative leadership. As Town Manager, you will direct the overall operations and management of the District while providing solid leadership and direction to staff. You will ensure that staff of the District are committed to positive customer service, strive for new and more effective approaches to fulfilling the District’s strategic objectives, and facilitate services to help the District to be optimally positioned for economic growth. You will be directly involved in providing high quality of public services and amenities of its residents and visitors. As the ideal candidate, you will bring a breadth of experience in municipal projects, infrastructure and public works operations. You will have a demonstrated ability for leading teams into action fulfilling the Town’s priorities. Having the ability to work within a complex multi-stakeholder environment you must have the ability to grasp the nature and evolution of advancing an organization within the complexities of a public sector environment and simultaneously be adept ensuring that the initiatives of a result oriented Council are achieved.

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Hard work and determination will pay off for Shea Weber in February when he suits up in the red and whites of Team Canada.

The 24-year-old Sicamous product was tagged last month to represent the nation in the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s a goal Weber had been working towards, and an opportu-nity he’s proud to be part of.

“The Olympics are a very special event, not only for hockey but for winter sports and to be able to play for your country and compete for a medal is kind of neat,” says Weber.

The 6’4”, 234 lb. Nashville Predators defenceman will be sporting the maple leaf with other big names in hockey like Scott

Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks), Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks), Chris Pronger (Philadelphia Flyers) and Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Pen-guins).

Apart from a camp held last summer, We-ber guesses the team may have a couple of days to gel in February before hitting the ice in Whistler, and he’s interest-ed in seeing how everyone fi ts. But Weber’s mom and dad, Tracy and James, don’t ex-pect Shea will have any problems.

“Whatever they want him to do, he’ll do it,” said James. “He’s a team-fi rst guy, he’s not a selfi sh player at all.”

Both parents share what could be described as a subdued excite-ment for their son and the hon-our that’s been bestowed up on him.

“Shea phoned home and said ‘I’ve been chosen

to play in the Olympics, and I said ‘okay,’” Tracy commented, explaining it’s kind of a family trait not to overreact – one that Shea

shares. But she and James who, with Shea,share roots in Sicamous minor hockey, are defi nitely excited, and are hoping to attendat least one of their son’s games.

Sicamous Eagles manager Wayne Marchis also pretty excited by the news that Shea, an Eagle alumni, will be playing forhis community and country at the Games.March says Shea has been totally focusedthroughout his career on what he wanted todo: make it to the NHL. In the process, Sheahelped the Eagles win the KIJHL West-ern Canadians in 2001-02; he helped takethe Kelowna Rockets to three consecutiveWHL Memorial Cup championship games,including the win in 2004; and, after signingwith Nashville in 2004, he helped the Ca-

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