building centre Clinton Home Building Centre CELEBRATE HOME HARDWARE’S 50 TH ANNIVERSARY! Tel: 250-459-2544 Fax: 250-459-2596 Pick up your “Match ‘n Win” ticket today and enter to win one of these great prizes: Panasonic 50” LED TV • iPad Mini • Panasonic Lumix Camera Yamaha Audio System • Garmin GPS • Yamaha Home Theatre • Bulova Watch Tassimo T20 Home Brewing System • Home Hardware Discount Contest closes Sept. 30, 2014 The Journal ASHCROFT t CACHE CREEK Thursday, September 4, 2014 $1.30 includes GST Serving Clinton, Spences Bridge, Lytton, Savona, Walhachin and surrounding areas Since 1895 Volume 119 No 36 www.ash-cache-journal.com 7 78195 50011 6 INSIDE: Politics enters the Ice Bucket Challenge. Pages 6-7 PM # 400121123 Fight at Husky may have led to accident Royal Bank repairs will take time Ashcroft RCMP are looking for witnesses to a fight that occurred at the Cache Creek Husky in the early morning hours of Aug. 29. At 2:51 am police were called to a single vehicle accident on Nugget Rd. in Cache Creek after a pickup truck struck a fence and then a tree in front of a residence. The truck came to a stop although the engine was still revving. The complainant advised that the interior of the truck was filled with smoke. Police arrived with BC ambulance and Ash- croft Fire Rescue with the Jaws of Life. The 66 year old Cache Creek driver was unresponsive and taken to Kamloops’ hospital, where staff felt the man may have had a pre-existing medic- al condition. The truck was towed. Later that morning police were contacted by a Cache Creek man who advised them that the victim and another man were arguing at the Husky and that there was a physical altercation just before the man had gotten into his truck and had the accident. Any witnesses to the fight are asked to call RCMP at 453-2216. River Festival The 11th annual Lytton River Festival was held last weekend amid music, food and great entertainment by groups like Circus West. The festival celebrates the importance of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers. “The reconstruction and restoration of the Cache Creek (Royal Bank of Canada) branch is getting underway but having ATM or any branch services, is still many weeks away,” said Pam Shaw, Regional Vice President, RBC. “As progress is made, we are making avail- able what services we can,” she said, “ensuring it safe and secure for clients and staff.” Over the coming weeks the branch will re- main closed while it is under construction. However, RBC Staff will be outside the Branch Monday to Friday from 9am to noon, to help clients with any questions and to provide access to Fast Deposit. The Night Deposit is fully operational. If business clients need Night Deposit keys and bags, staff onsite can make ar- rangements for the set up. Clients can use Local White Label ATMs at Husky, Shell, and Chevron in Cache Creek. RBC will reverse any interac fees. The bank has been closed since it was dam- aged by a fire on July 28.
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building centreClinton Home Building Centre
CELEBRATE HOME HARDWARE’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY!
Tel: 250-459-2544 Fax: 250-459-2596
Pick up your “Match ‘n Win” ticket today and enter to win one of these great prizes:Panasonic 50” LED TV • iPad Mini • Panasonic Lumix Camera
Yamaha Audio System • Garmin GPS • Yamaha Home Theatre • Bulova WatchTassimo T20 Home Brewing System • Home Hardware Discount
Contest closes Sept. 30, 2014
The JournalA S H C R O F T t C A C H E C R E E K
Thursday, September 4, 2014 $1.30 includes GST
Serving Clinton, Spences Bridge, Lytton, Savona, Walhachin and surrounding areas Since 1895Volume 119 No 36 www.ash-cache-journal.com
7 7 8 1 9 5 5 0 0 1 1 6
I N S I D E : Politics enters the Ice Bucket Challenge. Pages 6-7
PM # 400121123
Fight at Husky may have led to accident
Royal Bank repairs will take time
Ashcroft RCMP are looking for witnesses to a fight that occurred at the Cache Creek Husky in the early morning hours of Aug. 29.
At 2:51 am police were called to a single vehicle accident on Nugget Rd. in Cache Creek after a pickup truck struck a fence and then a tree in front of a residence. The truck came to a stop although the engine was still revving. The complainant advised that the interior of the truck was filled with smoke.
Police arrived with BC ambulance and Ash-croft Fire Rescue with the Jaws of Life. The 66 year old Cache Creek driver was unresponsive and taken to Kamloops’ hospital, where staff felt the man may have had a pre-existing medic-al condition. The truck was towed.
Later that morning police were contacted by a Cache Creek man who advised them that the victim and another man were arguing at the Husky and that there was a physical altercation just before the man had gotten into his truck and had the accident.
Any witnesses to the fight are asked to call RCMP at 453-2216.
River FestivalThe 11th annual Lytton River Festival was held last weekend amid music, food and great entertainment by groups like Circus West. The festival celebrates the importance of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers.
“The reconstruction and restoration of the Cache Creek (Royal Bank of Canada) branch is getting underway but having ATM or any branch services, is still many weeks away,” said Pam Shaw, Regional Vice President, RBC.
“As progress is made, we are making avail-able what services we can,” she said, “ensuring it safe and secure for clients and staff.”
Over the coming weeks the branch will re-main closed while it is under construction.
However, RBC Staff will be outside the Branch Monday to Friday from 9am to noon, to help clients with any questions and to provide access to Fast Deposit. The Night Deposit is fully operational. If business clients need Night Deposit keys and bags, staff onsite can make ar-rangements for the set up.
Clients can use Local White Label ATMs at Husky, Shell, and Chevron in Cache Creek. RBC will reverse any interac fees.
The bank has been closed since it was dam-aged by a fire on July 28.
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Ashcroft rcMP DetAchMent
POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber
Too drunk to wear a seatbeltAug. 26 at 1:43 pm Traffic Services
observed a white pickup truck on Main St. in Lytton whose driver wasn’t wear-ing a seatbelt. The officer could smell liquor on the 48 year old Lytton man’s breath. He Failed a roadside sobriety test twice and was given a 90 day driv-ing prohibition and a warning for not wearing a seatbelt.
License taken from bad driverAug. 16 at 2:30 pm Ashcroft Gen-
eral Duty and Traffic Services RCMP responded to a possible impaired driv-er at the intersection of hwys 97 and 99 after she nearly ran over construction workers and came to a skidding halt on the plastic road cones. The 59 year old Lillooet woman displayed no signs of impairment. She was issued a ticket for driving Without Due Care and Atten-tion. Officers followed her after she left to observe her driving and observed her weaving into the oncoming lane. She was stopped again and the Traffic Ser-vices officer seized her license. The Superintendent of Motor Vehicles has been requested to review her license.
Trying to helpAug. 26 at 4 pm police received a
complaint from a 60 year old Ashcroft man that a 26 year old Ashcroft man was causing a disturbance and refusing to leave a residence in Ashcroft. The complainant was calling on behalf of his ex-wife. When contacted, she told police that he was welcome to stay at the residence.
Weird hitchhiker
Aug. 26 at 8:07 pm a 57 year old Williams Lake truck driver called po-lice after arriving at the Husky in Cache Creek to say that he’d picked up a fe-male hitchhiker in Chiliwack who ap-peared confused and disoriented. He told the attending officer that she got “wierder” as the night went on, star-ing at him and not answering his ques-tions. The officer spoke to the 32 year old woman of no fixed address, who stated that she was travelling from Cal-gary to Vancouver Island. She was un-co-operative and also refused medical assistance, saying she just wanted to go to Vancouver Island. She was allowed to leave on her own.
Quick trip to the hospitalAug. 27 at 2:10 pm a Traffic Ser-
vices officer observed a Pontiac Sun-fire emerge onto Hwy 1 from Old Cari-boo Rd. by the Starhouse Restaurant without stopping at the stop sign. The vehicle was pulled over and the 41 year old woman was found to be a Vehicle Impound Candidate. She was issued tickets for driving without a Drivers Li-cense, failing to stop at the stop sign, and failing to change her address on her insurance. As she was driving her mother to the hospital for a sore shoul-der, her vehicle was impounded after the trip to the hospital.
All over the roadAug. 27 at 4:55 pm police received
a complaint about a red Dodge Caravan on Hwy 97 that was “all over the road and passing unsafely”. Clinton RCMP were notified and located the vehicle in Clinton. The 49 year old Lone Butte man was advised of the complaint and issued a ticket for not being able to pro-duce a Drivers License.
Tricked into signing over trailerAug. 27 at 6:43 pm a 75 year old
Ashcroft woman complained that family members has attended her resi-dence and tricked her into signing over her trailer, telling her she would no longer have to pay taxes on it and giv-ing her $2,000. She said her son, one of the subjects of complaint, lived in the trailer and that she considered it his. The matter is still under investigation, but is likely to be determined a civil matter.
Hit and runAug. 27 at 9:49 pm police received a
report that a BC ambulance had backed into a 1998 Dodge pickup at the Riv-er Inn, causing minor damage to both vehicles. The ambulance was trans-porting a male in cardiac arrest and left the scene immediately. The 49 year old Ashcroft woman who reported it said she wouldn’t be filing an ICBC claim.
Not a drug dealerAug. 28 at 3:54 pm a 70
year old Cache Creek man called to complain that he had been wrongly accused of deal-ing drugs, although he would not say who was accusing him.
He wanted police to know that any re-ports that he had been dealing in drugs were lies. Police said they had received no such reports.
Too drunk to standAug. 28 at 11:50 police were called
to the main intersection in Cache Creek where the complaintant had ob-served a woman yelling and then lay-ing down. Officers attended and locat-ed a 56 year old Cache Creek woman in the same area, yelling and slurring her words, with her clothes in disarray. She was arrested for causing a disturbance. BC ambulance was called because she could not stand up. She was cleared by the ambulance attendants and lodged in cells until sober.
Unneighbourly neighboursAug. 29 at 3:12 pm police received
a complaint from a 70 year old guest at the Sundowner Motel in Cache Creek that he had been threatened by a couple in another room. Police attended and questioned the complainant, who was intoxicated and couldn’t remember what the threat was. The 60 year old man and 51 year old woman, subject of the complaint, said the complainant was always harassing them and they were moving back to Kamloops.
Breach of probationAug. 31 at 12:15 am police checked
on a 26 year old Cache Creek man on curfew as part of his probation for break and enter and mischief. The man wasn’t at home and his probation offi-cer in Kamloops was notified.
BearSept. 1 at 4:42 pm police were noti-
fied of a large bear near the residences at the Ashcroft Manor. The bear was becoming a regular visitor and the call-er wanted it relocated. They were ad-vised that police dispatch nuisance bears with a rifle; they should call the local Conservation Officer if they want-ed to discuss relocation options.
Water cut offSept. 1 at 6:15 pm
police were called by a 67 year old woman in Thompson Riv-er Estates who com-plained that a neigh-bour had shut off her water. RCMP spoke to the neighbour who advised that the water for his and sever-al nearby properties was controlled by a pump on his property. None of the neigh-bours were helping to pay for the associated costs of operating the pump, so he turned it off. The woman was advised that it was a civil matter.
The Journal Thursday, September 4, 2014 www.ash-cache-journal.com A 3COMMUNITY
Time to get your Fair entries ready
A c-c-c-c-cold day in AugustMLA Jackie Tegart and her friends, Ashcroft Mayor Andy Anderson, Jack Jeyes and Ashcroft Bakery owner Deb Tuohey took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge last week and had far too much fun. More pictures on p. 7.
Creating Fair entries to amuse your friends and familyDoreen Rondquist, right, was enjoying the recycled entries at last year’s Fair. She grins as she looks at Reyla Reid’s first prize for creating a lantern from recycled material.
Trek raises money and awareness for BC Lung
Stolen dog returned
You don’t have to be a Master to have en-tries worthy to submit to the Ashcroft & District Fall Fair.
The Fall Fair’s categories are based on trad-itional hand, home and farm crafts such as sew-ing, gardening, woodworking and baking, and as such the goal is seeing them continue rather than seeing perfection. Even if your entry isn’t good enough for a first place in the judge’s opin-ion, the people attending the Fair enjoy looking at them. You can even challenge your neigh-bours to enter in the same category and have a private competition among yourselves. There are plenty of children’s categories as well.
Did you grow tomatoes this year? Can you bake a cake? Take a picture? It can be as easy as that.
Or it can be a bit more involved if you want to enter a quilt, some canning, homemade wine or or perhaps a painting. Some of the categor-ies offer substantial cash prizes for the winners.
The Fair offers hundreds of categories, from simple to complicated. If you can’t make up your mind, choose several. Choose as many as you want. Grab a copy of this year’s Fall Fair booklet and see what strikes your creative fancy. Copies are still available at the Ashcroft Jour-nal Office and the Ashcroft Bakery, or online at www.ashcroftfallfair.ca
Entries are accepted at the arena on Friday, Sept. 12 between 3-7 pm and Saturday, Sept. 13 between 9 am and noon. If you can, fill out and bring with you the entry form found in the booklet or online on the website.
Then come to the Fair on Sunday, Sept. 14 at the arena, 10 am to 4 pm. Besides lots of ex-citing entries to look at, there is also live music, food, games, and lots of vending and display tables.
Locally produced or created entries are the stars of any Fall Fair because everybody loves to see what everybody else is doing. So what are you waiting for?
On Aug. 29 at 10:54 pm a 38 year old Cache Creek woman reported that her dog had been stolen from her yard while she was at work. She said she suspected the dog’s previous owners, as neighbours said they saw a pair of teens hanging around her property.
The dog had originally been acquired by an Ashcroft family. The father decided to find a new home for it in March as his teenaged daughter wasn’t taking adequate care of it. Po-lice located the 15 year old and her 16 year old boyfriend, and both admitted to taking the dog. The young woman advised that she still cared for the dog and had been looking for it. When she found it in Cache Creek she and her boy-friend waited until the new owner left her house before taking the dog. They went back to Ash-croft and left the dog at another residence.
After being told they would have to return it to its current owner, the officer and teenagers re-trieved the dog and drove back to Cache Creek. The 15 year old said she planned to get a lawyer to help get her dog back. The two were told they were not welcome at the dog’s new home.
Cycling 200 km from White Rock to Cultus Lake and back might seem like a long haul to most, but for Ashcroft cyclist Wayne Chorneychuk and some 350 others, taking part in the BC Lung Association’s an-nual Bicycle Trek for Life and Breath (Trek) is the final leg of a journey they started training for months ago.
“This will be my 20th year,” said Wayne. “Trek means a lot to me. My fath-er-in-law passed away from lung cancer, my mother-in-
law copes daily with chron-ic lung issues, and this year a friend and fellow BC Lung Association support, Doug Hill, is facing his own battle with lung disease. My 2014 ride is in tribute to him.”
A recreational ride, not a race, Trek takes place Sept. 6 and 7 and is designed for cyclist of all levels – from the casual rider to the experi-enced cyclist. Together, over the event’s 30-year history ‘Trekkers’ including Wayne, supported by his wife Caro-lyn, kids, extended family
and sponsors, have help raised more than $6 million to help fight lung disease.
“The camaraderie and sense of community is very real. Some of us meet only once a year, but year after year we’ve become family united by a purpose. Even when the weather misbe-haves and we get soaking wet - it’s still good times,” said Wayne. “No one’s too concerned about getting to the finish line first, it’s more about completing some-thing that benefits others and
makes you feel great.”
BC Lung Association Events Co-ordinator Kate Jarvis said,
“People of all ages take part; some coming every year for a decade or more. It’s as much a fundraiser as a Trek family reunion. And the family keeps on going and growing. It may not be sur-rounded by the same fanfare as other large charity events – but that’s precisely why it’s so special. Each and every Trekker has a story which drove them to show up in the first place – and it’s these stories that give the work we do true meaning.”
For more information or to make a donation call the BC Lung Association at 604.731.5864 or toll free at 1.800.665.5864 (outside Greater Vancouver) or visit www.bicycletrek.ca
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First day of school misses the mark
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A PLEASANT DAY at the unfortunately-named Stinking Lake, east of Cache Creek on Backvalley Road
Dear EditorA great big bouquet of roses to the per-
son who returned my son’s black initial at-tack bag to the Ashcroft RCMP a couple of weeks ago.
He lost it out of the back of his truck just south of the Ashcroft turnoff north. It contained some very expensive life jackets which he figured he would never see again. The person who did this deed makes one proud to be a part of this community even if it is for a short time.
We are sorry we could not thank you in person as the RCMP would not give us your details for security reasons. Thank you once again,
Laurence and Penny GillSurrey
Dear Parent and CaregiverAs you may have heard, bargaining be-
tween the British Columbia Public School Employers Association (BCPSEA) and the
British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), the union representing teach-ers, has not yet con-
cluded with a new collective agreement.The BCTF has indicated that during this
time they will continue the full withdrawal of services. This means that school will not start on Sept. 2 as scheduled.
During this time schools will be closed so for safety reasons I ask that parents keep all children home.
It is the sincere hope of the Board of Education that this dispute will be con-cluded so normal school operations will re-sume as quickly as possible and that we can welcome students to a new school year. In the meantime, we will do our utmost to keep you informed in a timely man-ner. Further infor-mation will be pro-vided through lo-cal and provincial media and the dis-trict website www.sd74.bc.ca.
If you have any questions please contact your local school principal.
Teresa DownsSuperintendent
of Schools
Thousands of people in BC have been waiting for this day.
I am writing this on Tuesday morning. It’s still too early for school to begin - the first day of school - but as we know, school is not starting today. There will be no fran-tic breakfasts or running around the house looking for school supplies. No freshly cleaned shirts and jeans, no brand new run-ners and backpacks. No big smiles on the children’s faces as they meet up with their friends in the schoolyard for the first time since June.
We expect there will be a first day of school at some point between now and Christmas, but it won’t be today, and all of the anticipation and tradition of the first day back at school is reflected in the solid gray skies and the light drizzle that is falling from them on this Tuesday morning.
I remember my first day of school as a joyous occasion. I was four years old, six weeks short of going on five, and the youngest of three children. My older broth-ers had me super-hyped to attend that won-derful place where you met lots of people and learned something new every day. I probably drove my mother crazy by asking her if it was time to go, because we were the first to arrive. My teacher, Miss John-son, gave me some books, a pencil and a box of brightly coloured sticks! The long-est one equalled 10 of the shortest ones, and the others were various denominations.
I flipped through the books - I could read a little - and tucked them safely away in my desk. Then I played with my new brightly coloured “toys” until my new classmates started arriving. And then I re-membered my mother was still here, but she had left by the time I finally looked for her.
It was an interesting and noisy day. I think there were about 28 of us in the class, one of whom bawled for the entire morning because she wanted to go home.
I imagine that, although class sizes and compositions are different from school to school, the first day is the same in spirit anywhere you go.
It is a shame that it isn’t happening to-day, and a failing grade for BC.
Return of expensive items earns a virtual bouquet
Gold Trail schools closed while contract negotiated
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CORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE OF CLINTON2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS
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Public Notice is given to the electors of the Village of Clinton that nominations for the offi ces of:
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Village of Clinton Offi ce, 1423 Cariboo from 9:00 am September 20, 2014 Hwy., P.O. Box 309 Clinton, BC V0K1K0 to 4:00 pm October 10, 2014 Excluding statutory holidays and weekends
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Music and laughs at the Fall FairComing soon..the Ashcroft Fall Fair...udderly amoozing
The Ashcroft & District Fall Fair signals the end of the summer harvest and is an opportun-ity for not only agriculturists to showcase the many products they have grown over the spring and summer, but it is also an occasion for fam-ilies and friends to get together and celebrate their good fortune of the past few months while enjoying exhibitions and fun-filled activities. Everyone loves a fair. Sample a variety of food on the grounds, catch some of the live entertain-ment, visit with the animals on display or take a stroll through the various exhibits and entries. There is something for everyone.
This year’s volunteer-run Ashcroft Fall Fair will be held on Sunday, Sept. 14 from 10 am - 5 pm at Drylands Arena. It will be the culmin-ation of a year of planning and coordinating by the fair’s many organizers.
The theme for this year’s Fair is “Dairy - udderly amoozing”. With this theme in mind, you can still be thinking about food products or other items that you produce, or crafts that you can create for the Fair. The Fall Fair booklet can be viewed online (www.ashcroftfallfair.ca) to find out about the hundreds of submission cat-egories this year.
The entertainment line up at the Fair (Sun-day, Sept. 14) promises to be something for everyone. The Fair Stage runs from 10:30 am to 4 pm. Acts throughout the day include; Joe Charron Trio, Kamloops Old time Fiddlers and Filetta Fish.
This year’s Ashcroft Fall Fair promises to be bigger and better than ever, packed with all the frolic and merriment you would expect from a hometown event. Organizers encourage you to support your town in some good, old-fashioned fun.
For more information, visit www.ashcroft-fallfair.ca
Ashcroft Plein Air Paint-out Sept 16-18Between Tuesday, Sept. 16 and Thursday,
Sept. 18, many artists from around the region will come together to paint in Ashcroft’s natur-al beauty.
Once again Winding Rivers Arts & Per-formance Society is delighted to host the An-nual Ashcroft Plein Air Paint-out.”En plein air,” is French for “in open air” a type of art style used to describe the act of painting out-doors. The Society looks forward to welcoming those from near and far to celebrate the beauty
of what is often described as a “stunning and unique landscape” where inspiring views and vistas abound. Artists of all levels of experience are welcome. Once again, the focus will be on gathering like minds to enjoy the sheer pleas-ure of painting. There will be plenty of oppor-tunities to paint as well as gatherings for meals and conversation.
In keeping with Ashcroft’s community brand “Wellness Awaits You’, the Organizers believe creative expression is also a part of a healthy lifestyle. They are trying something a little different this year by holding the event in the Fall, as opposed to Spring. The thought was to allow artists the opportunity to view the Au-tumn colours and hues unique to our landscape. September weather is, we hope, a little more in-viting as well!
They hope to once again attract artists of all levels of experience (that includes beginners) as our goal is always to simply share in the pleas-ure of painting! We are known for our wonder-ful vistas but also our hospitality, and they look forward to welcoming all artists to the 3rd An-nual Paint-out.
After two full days of glorious painting, all Painters, Organizers and any curious Com-munity members are most welcome to attend a Celebration of event for ‘Artists Choice’ at St Albans Hall on Thursday, Sept. 18 from 6:30-8:30pm. There will be a Display and Sale of the freshly painted works.
Come and join in the fun - incomparable scenery, gracious hospitality and fellow artists await you! There is still time to register or for more info please visit www.windingriversarts.ca or email or to register email [email protected]
If you would like more information on this event or wish to register you can email them at [email protected] call at 250-453-0073 or visit the website canadianpleinairpaint-ing.com
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2014 NOTICE OF NOMINATION FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEEPublic Notice is hereby given to the electors within Electoral Area of School District No. 74 (Gold Trail)
for the office of School Trustee as follows:• Area A: Villages of Gold Bridge/Bralorne, Seton Portage/Shalalth and surrounding rural areas 1 (one) position• Area B: Rural and surrounding area of Lillooet 1 (one) position• Area C: Village of Clinton and surrounding rural area 1 (one) position• Area D: Village of Cache Creek and surrounding rural area 1 (one) position• Area E: Villages of Lytton, Spences Bridge and surrounding rural areas 1 (one) position• Village of Ashcroft 1 (one) position• District of Lillooet 1 (one) position
for a 4-year term (beginning December 2014) will be received by the Chief Election Officer or designated person from 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 30, 2014 to 4:00 p.m. Friday, October 10, 2014 excluding Statutory holidays and weekends.Nomination packages may be picked up and completed forms may be delivered to the office locations listed below between 8:30 a.m and 4:00 p.m. Nomination documents are also available on the school district website, www.sd74.bc.caElectoral Area “A”: Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Office, 1350 Aster Street, PembertonElectoral Area “B”: District of Lillooet, 615 Main Street, Lillooet Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Office, 1350 Aster Street, PembertonElectoral Area “C”: Village of Clinton, 1423 Cariboo Highway, ClintonElectoral Area “D”: Village of Cache Creek, 1389 Quartz Street, Cache CreekElectoral Area “E”: Village of Lytton, 380 Main Street, Lytton or School District Administration Office, 400 Hollis Rd, AshcroftVillage of Ashcroft: Village of Ashcroft, 601 Bancroft Street, AshcroftDistrict of Lillooet: District of Lillooet, 615 Main Street, LillooetSchool District Administration Office: 400 Hollis Rd, Ashcroft, for all electoral areas.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICEA person is qualified under section 32 of the School Act to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a trustee of the Board of Education if they meet the following criteria:
• will be age 18 or older on general voting day, November 15, 2014• a Canadian citizen• have been a resident of British Columbia, as determined in accordance with section 42 of the School
Act, for at least six months immediately preceding today’s date• in no way disqualified by the School Act, or any other enactment from being nominated for, being
elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law• the information provided in the nomination documents is true• fully intend to accept the office if elected• aware of and understand the requirements and restrictions of the Local Elections Campaign Financing
Act and fully intend to comply with those requirements and restrictionsFURTHER INFORMATION on the foregoing may be obtained by contacting:
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The Village PeopleThe Village of Clinton Council and Administrator took the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS research last Wednesday. L-R: Administrator Tom Dall, councillors Diana Guerin and Susan Swan, Mayor Jim Rivett and Coun. Wayne Marchant. Out of town: Coun. David Park.
Building Supplies & Garden Centre www.ashcroftirly.com
Ashcroft Legion General Meeting3rd Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
(no meeting July and August)
Euchre, fi rst & third Sunday of every month1:00 to 4:00 pm, beginners welcome
MEAT DRAWEvery Saturday ~ 3:00 pm
Ashcroft Royal Canadian LegionFRI., SEPT. 5th • 6:30 - 8:00 pm
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* Legion Crib Tournament last Sunday of the monthOpen 10 am starts 11 am sharp - 12 games * Free Pool Daily
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Coming ComingEvents
Sept. 4: Community Open House at the Cache Creek Library from 5 - 7pm .
Sept. 4: Cache Creek Garden Club meets in the Library from 6-7 pm. New members always welcome.
Sept. 7: Show and Shine 10am - 2pm (ish). Lions will have a lunch booth.
Sept. 8: The start of the 46th year of bridge at the Seniors Centre. Every Monday from 12:30 to 4:00pm. If you are interested, please call Muriel 250-453-9628, Isabel 250-453-2427 or Lil 250-457-9383.
Sept. 10: AGM Curling Club 7:30pm at the curling club
Sept. 13: Lions annual golf tournament. Semlin Valley Golf Course.
Sept. 14: Terry Fox Run Beginning at 9am. Walk, run, bike, crawl, 2km or 5km or 10km. Snack provided after the run- with lots of time to still attend the Fall Fair .
Sept. 18: Everyone welcome at the Plein Air Paint-Out 2014 Public Show and Sale from 6:00 - 8:00pm at St. Alban’s Church Hall in Ashcroft.
Every Friday: Soups On from 11 am to 1 pm at St. Alban’s Anglican Church in Ashcroft. Soup, buns and dessert by donation.
Every Saturday: Ashcroft Farmer’s Market 8:30am to 12:30pm, June 7 to Sept. 27. Railway Ave., Ashcroft, across from Safety Mart.
Every Saturday:- Cache Creek Market at the main intersection, 9 am to 1 pm. Farmers, Fleas and Customers all welcome.
Every Sunday: Spences Bridge Farmers Market in Clemes Hall on Hwy 8, 10 am to 2 pm.
Tuesday evenings: Trap shooting 6:00 at the trap range above the airstrip in Cache Creek. Beginners welcome: no shotgun required. For info call 250-453-2570.
Ashcroft - Cache Creek Seniors’ Group meets on the third Thursday of the month at 1:00pm at the Seniors’ Centre, Village Of� ce, Ashcroft.
Construction of the Cache Creek Landfill Extension begins this fall.
Users of the area should expect construction activities and stay alert for new signage.
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Fundraising served coldLast Thursday, MLA Jackie Tegart accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge from Minister of Highways Todd Stone and was joined by friends (L-R:) Jack Jeyes, Ashcroft Mayor Andy Anderson, and Deb Tuohey (in the dazzling shirt!). The Challenge raises money for the ALS Foundation while a fun time is had by all.
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September • Week 2ARIES - Aries, reexamine the important relationships in your life. Figure out what you learned from each friendship and acquaintance, and put those lessons to good use.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, with so many tasks to complete, you may be tempted to forget about everything and take a mental health day. But everything will still be there tomorrow.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you’re brimming with excitement about learning something new this week. You may � nally be on the cusp of mastering a particularly challenging skill.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, it may be challenging to settle your thoughts this week. Work is weighing heavily on your mind, but go easy on yourself and you will still get everything done.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, some people around you may be especially busy this week while you really don’t have much to do. Think of it as a good omen of things to come.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Share your feelings for someone else with that person this week, Virgo. You may regret your actions if you don’t take that emotional leap.
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, while you are usually the one who plays peacemaker, this week you are in a position to cause trouble. Don’t worry what others think or say.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Remember that success comes in many shapes and sizes, Scorpio. Don’t be so quick to consider something a failure. You may just need a new perspective to realize your success.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, there are many entertainment options this week, so it’s dif� cult to choose how to spend your time. Whatever you choose, it is bound to be a memorable night.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Money matters could be taking up a considerable chunk of your time, Capricorn. Focus your concentration on � nances and leave other responsibilities on the side for now.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, don’t worry if something proves confusing and a challenging nut to crack. Things will sort themselves out in due time, and you will be back on the right track.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 A predicament in your personal life could have you feeling uncomfortable, Pisces. Wait for a clearer picture before taking action.
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ON A BRIGHTER
NOTE
Are ice bucket critics all wet?Silly Internet dares
are nothing new - my kids have been do-ing them for years. So when I first heard about the ice bucket challenge and wit-nessed my 11-year-old daughter and her friends filming them-selves shrieking as freezing cold water was dumped over their
heads, I thought noth-ing of it. And then I saw a video of Oprah Winfrey participating and figured this latest craze must be differ-ent.It was. It turned out
to be part of a brilliant fundraising campaign for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) with countless famous and
not so famous folks all over North America and the United King-dom participating as well.Since the father
of one of my good friends has this deadly, incurable disease, I immediately wanted to know what he and others afflicted with ALS thought of this marketing fad. If they liked it, there was a good chance I would too.And then I got
to thinking, what wouldn’t they like about it? Because of all these goofy vid-eos, their little known disease was suddenly thrust into the spot-light and being dis-cussed on a mass level like never before. And as boring and repeti-tive as the clips can
be to watch and hear about, they’re also helping to raise an un-precedented amount of cash for the non-profit organization.Yet I keep hearing
moans and groans from people who don’t like it at all, or even hate it with a passion.Some complain
about the people post-ing videos who aren’t reaching for their wal-lets. Others grumble there are more wor-
thy causes to donate money and attention to. People doing the videos have been ac-cused of being shame-less self-promoters who don’t care about the cause at all. And, among many other gripes, there’s a strong objection to the water that’s being wasted.It’s true some people
are posting videos and not donating money, but that doesn’t mean they’re not assisting with the awareness portion of the cam-paign. And with all the charities there are in the world, it’s entirely subjective which ones are most deserving.It’s also not possible
to know the motive behind each person’s video. Some could be doing it out of com-passion while oth-ers could be doing it purely for fun. If it doesn’t hurt anyone, why should it matter?
As for the water that’s being wasted, I agree that it’s horrendously unfair there are mil-lions of people living in third world coun-tries without access to clean drinking water. We, in stark contrast, live in a society that’s so accustomed to an abundance of it that most of us needlessly shower on a daily ba-sis.It’s easy to find fault
with just about any-thing if we want to. I admit to initially being skeptical about this campaign and it’s po-tential to raise money, but it’s hard to argue with success.At the time of writing
this article, the haul has reached a stagger-ing $80 million. That certainly beats the $2.5 million raised in the
same time period last year.Charities all over
the world are prob-ably studying this un-expected pop culture phenomenon and wondering what they could do next. But you never know what’s go-ing to go viral.People taking issue
with this fundraiser might want to look at it from a different per-spective. If this exact same campaign was helping out a cause near and dear to their heart, they probably wouldn’t mind it at all. I know I wouldn’t.For more informa-
tion or to donate like I did, please visit ALS.caTo see my kids glee-
fully dump ice water on me, please visit LoriWelbourne.com
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THOMPSON-NICOLA REGIONAL DISTRICT 2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS
NOTICE OF NOMINATION
Public Notice is given to the electors of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District that a general local election will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014 to elect one (1) Director from each of the following Electoral Areas:
"A" (Wells Gray Country), "B" (Thompson Headwaters), "E" (Bonaparte Plateau), "I" (Blue Sky Country) "J" (Copper Desert Country), “L”, “M”, “N”, "O" (Lower North Thompson) and "P" (Rivers and the Peaks)
for a four (4) year term commencing December 2014. Nominations will be received by the Chief Election Officer or a designated person, as follows:
By hand, mail or other delivery service: Thompson-Nicola Regional District #300-465 Victoria Street Kamloops BC V2C 2A9
From: 9:00 am Tuesday September 30, 2014 To: 4:00 pm Friday October 10, 2014 Excluding statutory holidays and weekends
From: 9:00 am Tuesday September 30, 2014 To: 4:00 pm Friday October 10, 2014
Originals of faxed or emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief Election Officer by 4:00 pm on Friday October 17, 2014
Nomination forms are available for download from the TNRD website at www.tnrd.ca or from the TNRD office, 4th Floor, 465 Victoria Street Kamloops BC. Nomination forms are also available during regular office hours (except weekends and statutory holidays) from the following locations:
Village of Ashcroft, 601 Bancroft Street, Ashcroft, BC Village of Cache Creek, 1389 Quartz Road, Cache Creek, BCVillage of Clinton, 1423 Cariboo Hwy No. 97, Clinton, BCDistrict of Logan Lake, 1 Opal Drive, Logan Lake, BC Village of Lytton, 380 Main Street, Lytton, BC
until the close of the nomination period (4:00 pm on October 10, 2014).
QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE
A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria:
Canadian citizen; 18 years of age or older on general voting day [November 15, 2014]; resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers
are filed; not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from being nominated
for, being elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.
FURTHER INFORMATION may be obtained by contacting Carolyn Black, Chief Election Officer or Andrea Leite, Deputy Chief Election Officer at 250-377-8673 or by email to [email protected].
Chief Election Officer
ASHCROFT, B.C.
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FROM LOON LAKE ROADBarbara Hendricks
With every season comes renewed activitySummer at Loon Lake means free
range kids – at least to me. Some of the youngest generation
have been visiting for the last several weeks. They are city kids most of the year and it shows. At ages 8 and 10 they were afraid to go 100 meters from the house without being accompanied by an adult the first days; the noise of the wind up on the top of the plateau scared them as did any rustling in the bushes. They couldn’t tell a carrot plant from a potato plant.
In general, city children of today feel so very vulnerable and see un-known nature as threatening and full of “scary” creatures; their parents al-ways warn them about dangers out “there”. This is bad news for the natur-al environment; if the next generations do not learn to love nature they will not make any effort to preserve it. Our rural landscape is full of interesting plants and wildlife, with very little that would be a threat to a child.
When I and my brothers and sis-ter grew up here there was more wild-life, yet in all the years we wandered far and wide we were never in real dan-ger. Sometimes we were frightened by an unrecognizable sound – which usu-ally turned out to be one tree leaning on another ands groaning when the wind moved them.
At the end of 10 days at Loon Lake they had learned to dig up potatoes and garlic, collect dill to make dill pickles, harvest zucchini and identify more vegetables. They chopped melons and cucumbers with sharp kitchen knives and were generally helpful participants in the daily work of the household. They discovered leeks and that they liked to eat them and that leeks, onions and garlic were in the same “family” of plants. The idea of plant families amused them but they quickly picked it up and began suggesting family sim-ilarities between the plants. They soon became more willing to venture far-ther away by themselves and discov-ered that the rustling in the bushes was just a chipmunk eating berries. By the last day when their parents picked them up they were ready to lead their Dad off into the woods across the creek to show him a cave.
One concern I have with city chil-dren let loose in rural countryside is their interaction with wildlife – they are either terrified of it or they want to pick it up and hug it. It took several days of reminding the children that they should not run full tilt at a wild animal if they wanted to see it a bit closer. Instead, they learned to be calm and advance quietly and slowly and keep their dis-tance. Will they remember next year? I doubt it. Learning like this requires re-inforcement so that it becomes habitual – two weeks once a year just doesn’t do it, but it is better than nothing.
Water levels in Loon Lake are still high and remain a concern to property owners with lakefront homes. Several residents have been playing telephone tag with a gamut of government de-partments trying to find someone who would do something – water steward-
ship, fisheries, environment and wild-life all passed on the problem and sug-gested we contact someone else. The TNRD could do nothing about it, not even to make some phone calls.
The problem is one or more bea-ver dams at the mouth of the lake and it is up to the adjacent landowner to deal with the beavers and the government. The first thing the landowner must do is find out about all the rules and regula-tions and then get a bunch of permits – permits to have a licensed trapper come in and trap the beavers, and then apply to Front Counter BC for permits to re-move the dam and so on. The property in this case is under the jurisdiction of the Bonaparte Indian Band, and admin-istrative staff of the band has informed that they have applied for the necessary permits and they will undertake to re-move the beavers and the dams this fall once they have all the paperwork in place. This is good news and many thanks to members of the Bonaparte In-dian Band.
Once this is done home-owners along the lake “can apply for permission to repair the damage” I am told by one government official. They cer-tainly have a fascination with permits, these bureacrats. Per-haps if not so much time and energy went into dealing with permits, the staff of the re-sponsible departments could get out on the land and find out what is actually happening with water levels and wildlife.
September always means new beginnings as well as say-ing goodbye to summer. There is anticipation and excitement in starting a new activity, and returning to old ones as well.
Out here on the land, Sep-tember means finding socks again, getting the winter fire-wood split and stacked, win-terizing irrigation systems and of course for many va-cation home owners it is the time to start preparing for leav-ing Loon lake and shutting up their homes for another sea-son. Resorts close up for the winter and repairs and plans for the next season get under-way.
September also means bringing the cattle off the range and the start of hunt-ing season accompanied by the sound of heavy and light rifle shots. These sounds terri-fy my cats and they go running for cover. At least bow hunting is quieter. Somehow it seems those bucks that have been happy chewing up my plants know when hunting season
starts and they will now move to quieter pastures out of easy driving range of the city hunt-ers who drive up and down the roads looking for game.
In the garden, fall season means harvesting and taking up many of those plants that were so carefully planted back in May. The compost pile gets well fed and I am always amazed at the volume of vegetation that one lit-tle seed in the soil can produce in five months.
This year I plan to do more fall planting as my experiment with plant-ing spinach in October resulted in a good early harvest of spinach this spring. Garlic needs to be planted soon and young strawberry plants moved out. I have had good success with leav-ing radicchio roots, chard roots, and kale in the ground over the winter and then to harvest fresh growth the follow-ing spring, followed by the seeds later in the summer.
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Clinton plans work bee
Summer is slowly fading away as autumn gathers near, the wheat is ready, the fields are ripe, harvest time is here, according to Eadie Ames, and that is exact-ly what’s going on right now. It’s been a beautiful, hot, bright sum-mer. I have been at our cabin near Kelly Lake for much of August and have thoroughly enjoyed the beauty of summer and the relaxa-tion with family and friends.
Nearly every day we’ve had a wildlife sighting. One day it was a large black bear. Another time, it was a small black bear. A coy-ote passed through the yard and a cow moose and calf lingered mo-mentarily in a clearing at the edge of the forest. A gaggle of Canada geese regularly cross the road at Leighwood Lake while the loon family and a pair of eagles hold our interest at Kelly Lake.
The pleasure of a drive to the Chasm was increased by the appearance of 14 or 15 Big-horn sheep. Nearly every day
the same doe came running down Jesmond Road, turned in at our gate, and sprinted straight through the yard to the back of the cabin where she munched on red osier dogwood leaves until it was
time to get a drink of water from the creek. We came to refer to her as our pet deer. How blessed we are living in the midst of this wonderful environment...nature at its best.
We hope that you have had a relaxing, enjoyable summer, but all good things eventually come to an end, and for the Clinton Seniors Association members, that means back to business with the first regular General meet-ing of the Fall season on Sept. 18 following a Potluck lunch at the Clinton Seniors Centre, 217 Smith Ave. Come and join us! Membership fees are $15 annu-ally.
No date and time have yet been set to restore the Clinton Seniors Centre to order follow-ing the installation of the new flooring... but members will get a telephone call re: this work bee.
Happy Birthday to Diana Moulton on Sept. 15.
ROCKIN’ & TALKIN’Clinton Seniors Association
Zee Chevalier
We hope everyone has had a very restful sum-mer and are happy to get back to the Seniors’ Centre with plans for the new year.
You may have heard that Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Association president Pat Kirby has been in medical care all summer. She is coming along fine, but still needs more rest. The association’s executive has been taking care of the group’s business since June, but there is a lot to take care of. It is hoped that more members will offer to help with some of the obs of keeping the Centre going forward.
The Centre will open again on Sept. 8 for the Bridge group, and then on the 9th for Carpet Bowl-ing. Hope to see you all out for this.
The Seniors’ Association will have a table at the Fall Fair (Sept. 14). Hope to talk to you all at that time.
Summer was very eventful with hospital vis-its, for my husband Kevin, and Pat Kirby, both in Kamloops hospital. Kevin his home now and feel-ing great with his new pacemaker to keep his heart going both day and night..
We are looking forward to the 2014 Seniors Games in Langley from Sept. 9-14.
See you all at the Centre next week. Please come out and support both it and your association.
FROM THE CENTREAshcroft-Cache Creek Seniors
Muriel Scallon
Activity picks up at Seniors’ Centre
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The Gold Trail School District requires Relief/Casual workers for on-call work in all district communities for the following positions:
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Submit applications with an up-to-date resume and references to:Diana Hillocks, Human Resources AssistantPO Bag 250, Ashcroft, B.C. V0K 1A0Email: [email protected]
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Employment OpportunitiesRelief/Casual Workers
The Gold Trail School District requires a School Bus Driver for Lillooet. Please refer to the District website, www.sd74.bc.ca for details of the position.
Submit applications with an up-to-date resume and references to:Diana Hillocks, Human Resources AssistantPO Bag 250, Ashcroft, B.C. V0K 1A0Email: [email protected]
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