Serving the Creston Valley since 1948 $1.10 (includes GST) Thursday, October 23, 2014 Volume 66, No. 43 That will sure brighten up the farmers’ market! 2 Offices to Serve You! 1013 Canyon St. Creston • 106 33rd Ave. S. Hwy. 3 Erickson What Moves You? DISCOVERY REAL ESTATE 428-6594 Michael Carpenter Broker/Owner Sheldon Browell 428-6805 Tyler Hancock, ABR, PREC 428-9916 Ingrid Voigt 402-3498 Daryl Porter 402-9339 435-0071 Sara Malyk CONTACT YOUR RE/MAX EXPERT TODAY! www.remaxcreston.com Toll Free 1-877-428-2234 OFFICE 250-428-2234 100% LOCALLY OWNED AND INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED Lions club celebrates 75 years Page 3 • Legislature off to rocky start /5 • Thunder Cats win weekend game /13 WWW.CRESTONVALLEYADVANCE.CA FIND US ONLINE AT Canada Post Publications Agreement 40069240 BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor Two murals destined to brighten up the Cook Street location of the Creston Valley Farmers’ Market were unveiled last week, fittingly on Oct. 16, World Food Day. The murals were a joint project between Cresteramics Society and the farmers’ market, painted by Cresteramics clients Claire Lemaire and Laila Currie, who added colour to a design by artist and Creative Fix owner Brandy Hunt. Titled Homegrown Heart, the murals were created in memory of Beth Kastelan and Alcide Lemaire — respectively, a for- mer Cresteramics board member and father of one of the painters — and the project was a first for the two groups. “The two organizations have never worked together before, so I see this as a beginning of an important partnership,” said farmers’ market manager Comer. “We were able to pool our resources, our peo- ple, our energy and time for something that benefits the whole community.” The murals project was sponsored by Telus, Columbia Basin Trust, Home Hardware Building Centre and Pyramid Building Supplies, and couldn’t have come at a better time. “There’s been a need for a long time for something for the kids over the sum- mer,” said project co-ordinator Jesse Willicome. Along with the painters, Willicome and Comer, Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall was on hand for the unveiling, along with Cresto and Crestorina, gnomes she picked up at the Cresteramics shop. “We’re going to be able to celebrate local art, we’re going to be able to cele- brate local food at the farmers’ market, and it’s all coming together right here,” she said. Brian Lawrence (From left) Cresteramics summer program co-ordinator Jesse Willicome, clients Claire Lemaire and Laila Currie, Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall and Creston Valley Farmers’ Market manager Jen Comer cutting the ribbon at the Oct. 16 unveiling. Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes ready to be filled Page 4 BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff With a large number of candidates running for positions on Creston town council, three forums have been scheduled to help voters decide on their choices. A “speed candidating” event organized by the Nelson-Creston Green Party will be held at the Creston and District Community Complex at 7 p.m. Nov. 1. Candidates for town council and Regional District of Central Kootenay Area B have been invited to rotate around tables where small groups of voters can ask questions while sitting face- to-face. “A new style of candidate forum that is interactive, informative, up close and fun!” is how Kaitlin Viers, one of the organizers, describes it. The Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce has rented Prince Charles Theatre for two nights. See FORUMS, page 2 Greens, chamber, CVTA, CUPE hosting forums Cresteramics, market unveil murals
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Serving the Creston Valley since 1948
$1.10 (includes GST)Thursday, October 23, 2014Volume 66, No. 43
That will sure brighten up the
farmers’ market!
2 Offi ces to Serve You! 1013 Canyon St. Creston • 106 33rd Ave. S. Hwy. 3 Erickson
What Moves You?DISCOVERY REAL ESTATE
428-6594
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Sheldon Browell
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BY BRIAN LAWRENCEAdvance Editor
Two murals destined to brighten up the Cook Street location of the Creston Valley Farmers’ Market were unveiled last week, fittingly on Oct. 16, World Food Day.
The murals were a joint project between Cresteramics Society and the farmers’ market, painted by Cresteramics clients Claire Lemaire and Laila Currie, who added colour to a design by artist and Creative Fix owner Brandy Hunt.
Titled Homegrown Heart, the murals were created in memory of Beth Kastelan
and Alcide Lemaire — respectively, a for-mer Cresteramics board member and father of one of the painters — and the project was a first for the two groups.
“The two organizations have never worked together before, so I see this as a beginning of an important partnership,” said farmers’ market manager Comer. “We were able to pool our resources, our peo-ple, our energy and time for something that benefits the whole community.”
The murals project was sponsored by Telus, Columbia Basin Trust, Home Hardware Building Centre and Pyramid Building Supplies, and couldn’t have
come at a better time.“There’s been a need for a long time
for something for the kids over the sum-mer,” said project co-ordinator Jesse Willicome.
Along with the painters, Willicome and Comer, Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall was on hand for the unveiling, along with Cresto and Crestorina, gnomes she picked up at the Cresteramics shop.
“We’re going to be able to celebrate local art, we’re going to be able to cele-brate local food at the farmers’ market, and it’s all coming together right here,” she said.
Brian Lawrence(From left) Cresteramics summer program co-ordinator Jesse Willicome, clients Claire Lemaire and Laila Currie, Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall and Creston Valley Farmers’ Market manager Jen Comer cutting the ribbon at the Oct. 16 unveiling.
Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes ready to be filledPage 4
BY LORNE ECKERSLEYAdvance Staff
With a large number of candidates running for positions on Creston town council, three forums have been scheduled to help voters decide on their choices.
A “speed candidating” event organized by the Nelson-Creston Green Party will be held at the Creston and District Community Complex at 7 p.m. Nov. 1. Candidates for town council and Regional District of Central Kootenay Area B have been invited to rotate around tables where small groups of voters can ask questions while sitting face-to-face.
“A new style of candidate forum that is interactive, informative, up close and fun!” is how Kaitlin Viers, one of the organizers, describes it.
The Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce has rented Prince Charles Theatre for two nights.
See FORUMS, page 2
Greens, chamber,
CVTA, CUPE
hosting forums
Cresteramics, market unveil murals
From page 1“With so many candidates
this year we decided to divide the forum into two sections,” chamber executive director Jim
Jacobsen said. “On Tuesday, November 4, candidates for town council will appear. On Wednesday, November 5, can-didates for mayor and RDCK Area B will field questions.”
Because of the number of candidates running this year,
a new format will have the moderator read a selection of questions that have been sub-mitted in writing to the cham-ber of commerce office by Oct. 30. A committee will select questions so that a broad range of topics can be covered
in the time available. The moderator will be Myrna Nielsen (H.R. Consulting), with timing provided by the Creston Toast-masters.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. for a mix and mingle. The formal part of the forum begins at 6:30 each evening.
The Creston Valley Teachers’ Association and CUPE are co-sponsoring a forum for the four candidates for South Rural’s two trustee seats on the School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) board of education. It will be held 7-9 p.m. Oct. 30 at Prince Charles Theatre. Questions will be invited from the audience after the candidates make their introductions.
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Brian LawrenceRemembrance Day is less than three weeks away, and poppy sales kick off today — but not before Creston Mayor Ron Toyota (centre) recently received the first poppy as part of a longstanding Creston legion tradition. Presenting the pin to Toyota were legion members Maury Murphy (a 70-year member) and Ray Wright.
A closer look at one of the two mural panels
created by Brandy Hunt and painted by Cresteramics clients
Claire Lemaire and Laila Currie to add some colour to the
Creston Valley Farmers’ Market’s
Cook Street location (story on page 1).
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BY LORNE ECKERSLEYAdvance Staff
“The world is a better place because of Lions, and it needs more,” said Gary D’Orazio, an Eagle, Idaho, resident who was in town to help the Creston Lions Club celebrate its 75th anni-versary.
It takes the former international director only a few minutes to make a convincing case. Lions Club International is the world’s largest service club organization, with 1.35 million members in 46,000 clubs located in 219 coun-tries around the world.
“Our members do whatever is needed to help our communities,” he said. “We are into every-thing — sometimes too much!”
Founded in 1917, the Lions Club is best known for its work in fighting blindness, but that mission has expanded to include health issues, such as obesity, D’Orazio said.
“And we get involved with kids wherever we can, however we can.”
He has been a Lion since 1980 when he and his family resided in Elko, Nev., except for several years when they moved to Oregon. A longtime affiliation with the Albertsons supermarket chain meant the D’Orazio family moved around a lot, and a Lions membership helped him meet new, community-minded people wherever he went.
The work taken on by Lions clubs is often subtle, he said.
“We don’t go for landmarks, we go where we are needed. We are not high profile,” he said. “There is no issue that we wouldn’t address.
D’Orazio was invited to speak when local Lions gathered to celebrate the club’s anniversa-ry on Oct. 4. Creston is in District 19N, which spans the international border. Taking time to celebrate was important, he said.
“We are family. We don’t just work all the time!”
Creston Lions Club president Hugh Johnston has been a member for 20 years. He first joined when he worked in the newspaper business in Alberta, then continued his active involvement when he retired to Creston eight years ago.
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BY BRIAN LAWRENCEAdvance Editor
Christmas may be more than two months away, but it’s not too early to think about being part of a merry Christmas for a child in one of more than a dozen countries by contributing to Operation Christmas Child.
“The whole purpose is just to show the love of Christ,” said Grace Christian Fellow-ship Pastor Stephen Schneider, whose church (formerly Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church) is organizing the program in Creston.
Run by Samaritan’s Purse, a non-denominational evan-gelical Christian organization that has provided spiritual and physical aid around the world since 1970, Operation Christmas Child involves fill-ing shoebox-sized containers with items purchased locally for a boy or girl in the 2-4, 5-9 or 10-14 age ranges.
Operation Christmas Child was started in 1990, and to date has distributed over 100 mil-lion shoebox gifts worldwide.
Last year, Canadians filled 664,000 boxes.
Last year, Creston Valley residents filled just over 200 boxes, and Schneider is aiming for 300 this year, stuffed with toys, hygiene items, school supplies and treats.
“It’s something that will help them and bless them, but also something they will enjoy,” he said.
Boxes can now be picked up at Pharmasave, Your Dollar Store with More, Creston Card and Stationery,
Extra Foods, Erickson Elementary School, Creston Baptist Church and Grace Christian Fellowship.
Once filled, they must be dropped off by Nov. 20 at Pop Shoes, Creston Baptist Church and Grace Christian Fellowship, the latter of which is hosting the Assante Children’s Choir’s Sound of Hope tour that evening, fea-turing children from Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
Although none of those countries are being served by Operation Christmas Child this year, the concert and shoebox project combine to help people in the Creston Valley keep the Third World in mind as they enter the holi-day season.
In addition to the 13 coun-tries on this year’s Operation Christmas Child list, Ukraine will also receive 20,000 boxes, offering hope to children suf-fering from that country’s unrest.
“They just need hope, to know that someone cares for them, someone loves them,” said Schneider.
Operation Christmas Child boxes ready to fill
Carmen and Stephen Schneider of Grace
Christian Fellowship with some of this
year's batch of Operation Christmas
Child shoeboxes.Brian Lawrence
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From page 3Currently, he said, Creston
Lions are working on recondi-tioning the old Creston fire department mobile kitchen, which will be used at events, especially “for our famous breakfasts.”
“It’s an old army truck,” he said. “Rock solid and plenty of life left in it.”
It was the Lions club that started the Creston Valley Blossom Festival, Johnston
said, and the club remains actively involved to this day.
Women have been included in Lions since 1987, a move for-ward that Johnston and D’Orazio agree has helped the club thrive. Locally and inter-nationally, clubs are holding their own in a time when other service organizations are strug-gling and even disappearing.
“We have a lot of new faces,” Johnston said. “There have been several new additions recently.”
Members get plenty of hands-on opportunities. The
Creston club has just complet-ed a restoration project at the Highway 3A viewpoint on the way to Wynndel, which they “inherited” from the Kiwanis Club.
“And we are great support-ers of the TAPS (Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors),” he said.
Like D’Orazio, Johnston said that Lions members’ strength is not in promoting the club or its works.
“We are the worst organiza-tion in the world at blowing our own horns,” he laughed.
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BY LORNE ECKERSLEYAdvance Staff
Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall said that the provincial government does not seem well prepared for the rare fall session, which opened on Oct. 13.
“The whole purpose of the session was to introduce the liquid natural gas (LNG) tax regulations, which were prom-ised a year ago,” she said while visiting the Advance last week. “Now they still aren’t quite ready — there’s been nothing in the first week.”
Puzzling, she said, is that any mention of becoming a debt-free province, reducing tax burdens or establishing a prosperity fund has been aban-doned, when only a year ago anticipated LNG revenues were being promoted as a financial windfall for the prov-ince.
“Now they are talking to Petronas” — a Malaysia-based company that recently said the
investment might not make financial sense — “which wants to bring its own foreign work-ers,” she said. “This was sup-posed to be a job creation ben-efit for B.C.”
While the NDP supports LNG development, there need to be environmental regula-tions to ensure protection of water, she said.
“We need to learn how to be as sustainable as possible, and we need regulations to ensure that. Development is needed to provide B.C. jobs while protect-ing land, water and air, and providing fair revenues from the resource.”
Mungall also promised to continue to press the govern-ment to reverse a policy that claws back child support pay-ments from the spouse with custody.
“It affects people in Creston and all across the province,” she said. “The government has promised consultation but nothing is happening, despite the Union of BC Municipalities and members of their own party wanting change.”
The clawbacks total an esti-mated $17 million annually, less than one per cent of the budget for the Ministry of Social Development.
“It’s the kids’ money, not the parents,” she said. “And these are kids that are going to school hungry, disrupting
BY LORNE ECKERSLEYAdvance Staff
With the municipal election looming, the Oct. 14 regular town council meeting featured a short agenda and unexpect-edly small gallery of onlookers.
With nominations having closed for mayor and council-lor elections, only two candi-dates were in attendance at the start of the meeting. Mayoral hopeful Bill Hutchinson, who has appeared before council as a representative for local developers, and council candi-date Evelyn Bradford were in their seats for the entire meet-ing. Mayoral candidate Tom Mann and council challengers Arnold DeBoon and Lon Hansen, all members of the Action Creston slate, arrived
shortly before the brief meet-ing concluded.
Mayor Ron Toyota and Coun. Joanna Wilson are the only incumbents seeking re-election.
Toyota invited candidates to introduce themselves during question period, and Bradford took the opportunity to chas-tise him for mumbling during the meeting.
“It is very difficult to hear all of you from here and you can be damned sure that won’t be a problem when I am sitting up there,” she said.
•A $500 discretionary grant was approved for the Creston Valley Hospice Society. Coun. Judy Gadicke expressed concern that the grant was in conflict with a policy not to provide operating funds to organiza-tions, but voted in favour after
finance director Steffan Klassen said no such policy was in place.
•Council directed staff to conduct a southeast drainage basin study that will form a basis for future storm drainage systems.
Engineering manager Colin Farynowski said that the increasing frequency and sever-ity of short rainstorms make it important for drainage system improvements to be designed accordingly. Part of the cost will be covered by a $10,000 Columbia Basin Trust grant and the rest is in the 2014 budget, Farynowski and Klassen said.
•Council directed Creston Fire Rescue Chief Mike Moore to report back in 2015 regard-ing a proposal for a fire service that would protect the entire Creston Valley.
MLA says legislature session off to rocky startclassrooms and struggling in many ways.”
Mungall scoffed at last-minute attempts by the developer of the Jumbo Glacier Resort, which was pouring concrete in an effort to retain a development permit that required significant work be done before Oct. 12.
“The likelihood of that work meeting the building code stan-
dards is almost zero,” she said. “But I do commend the environ-ment minister for visiting the site to see for herself what has been done. And the volunteers who have remained at the site for all these months to serve as a public watch-dog deserve our heartfelt thanks. So does the Ktunaxa Nation, which has done so much work to fight this disastrous development.”
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“The government has promised consultation but nothing is happen-ing, despite the Union of BC Municipalities and members of their own party wanting change.”MLA Michelle Mungallon child support policy
Perhaps the proposal to change the Society Act is a straw dog, a plan designed to fail. Call it a manipulative win-win for the pro-vincial government.
The recent controversy about a white paper that seems to put most, if not all, of B.C.’s 27,000 in legal jeopardy could be taken at face value. Perhaps it is based on a belief within government that some of these non-profit organiza-tions act as a front to con-duct activities that really are “detrimental to the public interest,” as Section 99 says. Hard to imagine just what those activities might be, though.
Are they using their tax-exempt status to plot the overthrow of gov-ernment? Running drugs or laun-dering money? Selling stolen goods? Trafficking in humans? Hard to imagine, but even so, it wouldn’t take a change to the Societies Act to deal with any of those flagrant activ-ities. There is no shortage of laws to deal with crimes.
The proposal would allow any-one (including those phantom “peo-ple” we know as corporations) to take a society to court for carrying on undefined activities that are det-rimental to the “public good”, which is also undefined.
It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch that the white paper is a response to pressure from corporate interests in, oh, say, the liquid natu-ral gas or pipeline sectors, who have to put up with organized criticism of environmentalist groups, many of which have society status.
This is the kind of legislative ini-tiative that comes in the early years of a governing party’s mandate. Taking on the entire non-profit sec-
tor and hundreds of thousands of volunteers wouldn’t be wise when an election is just around the corner. But the government has nothing to lose at this point.
Is it a bad thing to discuss wheth-er the current Society Act is meeting the needs of our society? Of course not. No legislation is so perfect that it shouldn’t be revisited on occasion. But this white paper reeks of politi-cal interference, primarily because it so spectacularly vague. Without defining who should be able to take a society to court, what exactly the “public interest” is and what the courts might be able to do with its decisions, this is far from being an invitation to thoughtful discourse. It seems more likely an attempt to poke the bear, to strike fear into the hearts of organizations that don’t see eye to eye with the government.
It wouldn’t be politically savvy for Christy Clark to come out and say that she wants to shut up envi-ronmental groups. And it would probably be impossible to single them out in legislation. So instead, a vague and undefined trial balloon is floated. And, in large, bold print on that balloon is the word BEWARE. Be afraid, very afraid, is the true message, cleverly designed to divide and conquer. How likely is it that societies that provide social services, and have contracts
with the provincial government, are going to stand up and shout in pro-test? Are the smaller, earnest groups that spend every nickel raised to fulfill their mandate going to want
to draw attention to them-selves? Not if they are smart. Why? Because a soci-ety’s directors have a finan-cial stake on all this. Directors of non-profits have a liability for what happens in their organiza-tions, and that liability is also financial. What hap-pens to these groups when directors start to sense that
they could end up in court and face fines and legal costs?
And how many of these groups have the financial resources to con-duct a legal defense against what could be a frivolous action brought about by a person or corporation with money, for no more reason than to wreak havoc? Couldn’t happen? You can’t foresee an angry husband objecting to the advice his spouse got from a women’s centre filing an action? You can’t see rabid free enterpriser filing an action about a society that sells used items in competition with the private sector?
I said at the outset that this might well be a straw dog proposal, designed to create unease or even outrage, so that another, less blatant proposal can be slid in to replace it. Either way, the government wins. If it doesn’t sense there is sufficient outrage with the initial white paper proposal, it can simply pass it into legislation. If there is outrage, the public might be sufficiently pacified by changes that could still stifle the activities of some societies.
Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of the Creston Valley Advance.
Using fear as a weapon
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To the Editor:As a volunteer in Creston Special
Olympics, I would like to thank all the residents of Creston who supported our annual bottle drive and fundraiser.
Without the support that we received from our own volunteers and those who gave of their time, Creston Special Olympics programs could not go on. The people of Creston not only gave us their bottles, cans and plastics but also generous cash donations, as well. The staff at Columbia Bottle Recycling under the direction of Dave Fowler were won-derful to work with and made our event run smoothly.
Our organization in Creston boasts over 40 athletes. The programs that we organize include bowling, which is self-funded locally but relies on the organi-zation to pay for tournaments and trav-el, including accommodation. The ath-letes in our floor hockey program have qualified for the upcoming winter games in Kamloops this February and it is your support that enables them to partake. We are offering rhythmic gym-nastics, floor hockey and bowling this session, and look forward to a Halloween dance for our athletes.
None of this would be possible without your support and the sup-port of local United and Presbyterian
churches who donate the use of their halls for these events. We also owe thanks to Renee’s Roadhouse Diner, the former ABC Country Restaurant and Ricki’s All-Day Grill for all their cans and bottles, as well as Home Hardware, one of the provincial spon-sors for Special Olympics.
Richard M. Chlopecki, Co-ordinatorCreston Special Olympics
To the Editor:First, we want to make clear that we
have no firsthand knowledge of what unfolded regarding the Helena Lambert case and we send our sincer-est condolences to the Lambert family.
Second, we want to say a few words about our friend, Mike Ramaradhya. As a family, we have known Mike for many years. He worked with us in our pharmacy and became a good friend outside of the pharmacy. Mike is deep-ly loyal, keenly intelligent and thor-oughly ethical. As a pharmacist, he was a compassionate listener, and he is a compassionate man. We have always known him to be a consummate pro-fessional. He is well respected in and sincerely cares about his community. In short, he is a man of principle. We have the utmost respect for him and salute his many years of work and ser-vice in Creston.
Third, because the recent news seems to have neglected the need to provide a balanced portrait of the pharmacist in question, we felt compelled to speak up for him. We stand with Mike and his family during this difficult time.
Steve and Mary PoznikoffJohn and Elaine Poznikoff
EricksonMike Poznikoff
Creston
To the Editor:In September, I was travelling home
to Pincher Creek, Alta., from a short hol-iday in Nelson. I was tired and hungry, so I stopped in Creston at Tim Hortons. I ordered, paid and continued on my journey. I arrived home and heard from my mom that the Alberta Motor Association called and told her that my wallet had been left at Tim Hortons.
I called Tim Hortons and was instructed to talk to a woman called Nancy. She told me not to worry and that she personally would put my wal-let on the Greyhound bus. My wallet is at this time on the Greyhound bus and I am tracking it as I write this.
The lesson I want to tell you is that in these times, you don’t get people like Nancy Gareau.
Jennifer CampbellPincher Creek, Alta.
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This is the 15th of 16 precepts of ethi-cal behavior that guide the thoughts, words and actions of Zen students. Anger and the harboring of ill will are poisons for individuals and communi-ties. Even more corrosive is the harbor-ing of ideas of revenge. Zen cen-tre members who have conflicts or tensions with individuals or with decision-making bodies try to resolve the conflict in a spirit of honesty, humility and loving-kindness.
Anger more commonly appears when we have been crossed or vio-lated in some way, and we do not want to admit this or experience it fully. In this sense, anger is an intoxicant, a coverup for the painful hurt feelings we can’t bear to feel. Practicing this precept doesn’t require that we never be angry. That would be impossible — when the conditions for anger arise, anger inevitably appears. In practicing this pre-cept, however, we make the effort to turn toward our anger when it arises, bearing witness to it and experiencing it fully, but not grabbing hold of it, justifying it, or act-ing on it. Practicing this precept will give us the confidence and the spaciousness to stop suppressing our anger — to see that
we can feel our anger and honor it fully without being consumed by it. In practic-ing with anger we learn to allow it to be what it is. We give it space to fully express itself in our bodies and mind, without allowing it to affect our words and actions.
Anger is, in the end, a marker of our weakness, not of our strength. This is why it’s so useful. Practicing with not acting from anger but simply being present with it will show the limits of its power. Anger usually flares up in the places where we are most vulnerable and powerless. The person who doubts his intelligence will get angry when someone suggests that he has made a mistake. The person who handles fear by taking control of a situation will flare into anger when they are confronted
with an inability to control others atti-tudes, words and behaviours.
Studying our anger shows us those places where we are brittle and defend-ed. It points out those areas of our lives where we are weakest and most need to
grow. As we practice not har-bouring our anger, we come to see ourselves much more accu-rately and viscerally. Using our anger well, we can pinpoint our weak points, our personal nar-rowness, and expand there. As our practice progresses and the horizons of our personal power expand, anger arises less often and less virulently. When that happens we can begin to develop
harmonious relationships that are safe from the ravages of uncontrolled anger. That is, we can actualize harmony.
Suggested practice: The next time something angers you, instead of speak-ing or acting, observe how it affects your body and your thoughts. When the flare of anger calms down, make a calm decision about how to deal with the sit-uation that caused your anger.
Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Creston’s ZenWords Zen Centre. She can be reached at 250-428-6500.
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There are basically four trails on Mount Thompson and its slopes that are suitable to the tastes of most hikers. They are the Mount Thompson Rim Trail, the Sullivan Creek “trail”, the old Mount Thompson lookout Pack Trail, and the Rotary Connector Trail. Another trail used mostly by four-wheelers takes off from the Mount
Thompson Forest Service Road (FSR) opposite the junction of the Sullivan Creek Trail with the FSR just before the eight-kilometre marker. This one-and-a-half-hour return meanders over an old road down the northwest shoulder of Mount Thompson through dense forest dead ending in the bush. Along the way there are a couple of viewpoints overlooking the northeast shoulder of Mount Thompson.
People take an additional route through a pullout and along an old road to the north from kilometre 1 on the FSR. This trail, which may go over some private property, ends up above the CPR tracks along the Goat River, two hours return. Now back to the more popular trails.
The Rim Trail, for those of you who are not familiar with it, takes off from the north peak of the Thompson range at the end of the Mount Thompson FSR and leads along the range to the south peak, identifiable by a missile-like capsule housing some electronic equipment. The route, over several humps, one having a fairly steep ascent, would probably be rated as a one-and-a-half- to two-hour hike one way. The south peak is 2,176 metres (7,139 feet) in elevation, while the north peak is lower at about 2,137 metres (7,011 feet).
The view from the south peak is a 360-degree panoramic view from the Kootenay River valley
up to the tops of Idaho Peaks, Fisher and Parker, Creston Mountain to the west, Haystack Mount to the north and, on a clear day, Fisher Peak and the Rockies to the north east over near Cranbrook.
The Sullivan Creek route is along an old logging road that may have been built around 1948. It takes off to the right from the FSR just below kilometre 2. It immediately crosses Sullivan Creek (no bridge) following along to the south and then swinging easterly along the north facing slope south of Sullivan Creek. After a number switchbacks and a long stretch eastward, it joins the FSR around kilometre 8. The elevation gain is about 749 metres (3,113 feet).
A main feature of this trail, a much grown-in old road, is that one can hike a loop up to the end and down the road to the starting point. One could also get picked up or dropped off at the top end and still get in a good two- or three-hour hike. In good winter snow conditions, it might also make a nice ski. Somewhere near the top end of this trail, on the top side of the trail and within a kilometre of the FSR is an old concrete cis-tern possibly used as a water source for the earlier fire look-outs.
Now for some details on the historic Pack Trail: Like the Sullivan Creek trail, it begins just below kilometre 2 on the FSR at the little pullout but takes off immediately (30 feet) to the left and up. It appears that the trail proceeds straight up but the original route, at 130 feet from the trailhead, actually goes to the right, then switch-backs to the left, crossing the apparent route, and then switch-backs to the right to continue on the original trail.
See TRAILS, page 9
A look at the trails on Mount Thompson
Out There
Ed McMackin
Ed McMackin(Above) Bonnie Lake, tucked “under” the south slope of Mount Thompson’s south peak, vis-ible from the Rim Trail. (Below) Lunching on the south peak of the Thompson range in August.
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From page 8The Pack Trail, a historic sup-
ply line to earlier fire lookouts, comprises only a portion, 3.2 kilometres/two miles, of the original 1930s trail. Some of the unlocated top end was obliterat-ed by the construction of the FSR around 1958.
After a number of switchbacks up the slope, above and north of Sullivan Creek, the Pack Trail con-nects with the Mount Thompson FSR at around 5.4 kilometres. Some hikers ascend this trail and then hike down the FSR. It is also possible, on the way down, to take the Rotary Connector Trail back to the Pack Trail, intersecting it at 1.1 kilometres/0.7 miles. Either way, the jaunt would be around three hours. Near the top of the Pack Trail there is a place to have lunch with a nice view of the valley below. The trail was originally graded for pack animals, so now is a comfortable hiking slope, thanks to 17 switchbacks.
Historic aspects outside of the Pack Trail itself are remnants of the lookout telephone line and a cabin site with some stove parts. The trail passes through a shady mixed forest of large cedar, Douglas fir and giant hemlock trees. Snowberry, mock orange, mallow ninebark, Oregon grape, mountain maple, typical flowers and a few rare plants grace the trail sides and more open areas. It crosses the bottoms of several rock scree slopes topped by low
cliffs. One will come across sev-eral boulders on the trail that loosed from above since the trail was constructed in the early 1930s.
The Rotary Connector Trail, at 1.1 kilometres/0.7 miles, is a new trail connecting, from near kilo-metre 3 on the Mount Thompson FSR with the Pack Trail. The trail head may also be located as being at the second left-hand curve past kilometre 2 on the FSR. This nar-row trail, with eight switchbacks on the east portion, contours a steep slope providing, from a viewpoint, lunch spot and com-fortable bench, a spectacular view of the Creston Valley.
Any of these trails, except the Rim Trail, can, in a normal year, often be hiked right into November. They may also provide interesting jaunts in six inches of snow or, otherwise, perhaps, on snowshoes (except the Rotary Connector Trail). However, any-time of year, anybody using trails anywhere does so at their own risk and should take clothing, footwear, food and equipment suitable for the time of year and the place. Weather conditions can change pretty fast on the Rim Trail. Lack of enjoyment and com-fort on a hike is often due to underestimating the weather and length of trip!
The information about these trails is rather general, so apply accordingly. However, I hope it will be helpful.
Ed McMackin is a biologist by profession but a naturalist and hiker by nature. He can be reached at 250-866-5747.
Understanding the proph-ecy at Daniel 8:14 convinced me that the Bible is true and trustworthy.
“And the vision … which was told is true … for it refers to many days in the future.” (Daniel 8:26)
Historicist inter-pretation of prophe-cy is the traditional Protestant view. It looks at prophecy according to the year-day principle and sees a logical progression of pre-dicted events from the time of the prophet, all through the Christian era, right up to the resto-ration of all things.
In Daniel 8 and 9, God reveals the date for His final judgment to begin and power-ful prophetic clues proving Christ as the Messiah. Thus no prophecy in all of Scripture is more vital.
“For two thousand three hundred days and then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” (Daniel 8:14) We need to look at the next chapter to understand this prophecy.
Gabriel had interpreted all the vision of chapter 8 with the exception of the 2,300 days (years). In chapter 9, Gabriel came to Daniel to help him understand the time period.
“Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to
sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteous-ness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint the most holy place. Know therefore and understand that from the going
forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem to the com-ing of Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again. … And after the sixty-two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. … And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice … to cease.” (Daniel 9:24-26, 27)
Sir Isaac Newton described these verses as “the foundation stone of the Christian religion” — it gives the exact time of the Messiah’s appearance, the date of His death and a description of His saving work.
The time prophecy of 70 weeks forms a part of the 2,300 years. The 490 years were “cut
off” from this and began with the decree of Artaxerxes in 457 BC to rebuild Jerusalem.
•408 BC — The rebuilding of Jerusalem was completed.
•AD 27 — The Saviour was baptized, right on time according to the prophecy, and exactly 483 years after the command-ment to restore Jerusalem.
•AD 31 — In the middle of the seven-tieth week, the Messiah brought an end to the sacrificial service by dying for the salvation of the world.
•AD 34 — The stoning of Stephen,
the first Christian martyr, marked the close of Israel’s 70-week (490-year) probation. Judaism as a nation gives way to spiritual Israel, the church.
And by simple math, the prophecy ends in AD 1844 AD, the glorious truth of the Messiah’s high priestly media-tion in the heavenly sanctuary. The Great Advent awakening led by a Baptist, William Miller, in the 1840s preached the judg-ment message of Revelation 14:6-12. This is now preached worldwide and is now sweep-ing around the world.
The 2,300 days began with Artaxerxes’ command for the restoration and building of Jerusalem, went into effect, in the autumn of 457 BC.
See PROPHECY, page 10
LOngesT Time prOpHeCy
CrestonSeventh-day AdventistChurch
By Pastor Ian Cotton
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The fall in Creston finds a lot of gardeners enjoying the weather outside. It is my favou-rite time of year in the garden. Everywhere you look, different shades of leaf colour seemingly
changing everyday. While the seasonal weather patterns change a little every year, we can still make these basic assumptions.
It is very beneficial to water your trees and shrubs in for the winter. The reason we do this is that dry winter weather can cause plants’ cells to dry out and die. Especially at risk are evergreen trees and shrubs. If
you have moved in off the Prairies, you may be familiar with this concept but those of you from the Coast aren’t used to gardening in a climate with dry fall weather. While outside
enjoying the dry fall condi-tions, you can prune back most of your h e r b a c e o u s p e r e n n i a l s (plants that live from year to year but die to the ground every fall). It
can be nice to leave some of the grasses, sedums and such alone for now if they add to your garden’s winter architecture by catching snow on them, etc.
I like to prune my roses back some in the fall if they have any height. This keeps the winter’s winds from blowing them around in the ground, and with a good mulch on the bed to protect them from the cold,
they are sure to do better. I’ll reprune them correctly late next spring to encourage the right shape.
As leaves fall off trees they can be collected to make an amazing compost. Some dis-eased leaf items are better left out of the mix because unless you plan to monitor your com-post pile for just the right tem-peratures, the fungi and bacte-ria will still be there next year.
As leaves fall off trees they reveal a leaf scar. It is an open-ing that can potentially allow some diseases to enter into your trees. Take, for instance, peach and nectarine trees, which can become infected with peach leaf curl over win-ter. To protect them, you should keep a thorough coverage of copper spray on them (also known as a Bordeaux mixture). Wait for the leaves to fall off before beginning your treat-ment if possible. Dry weather with no wind and above freez-ing temperatures is best; how-
ever, take what you can get.There are other things one can
accomplish if the weather is less favorable. Damp weather is best for fall applications of pre-emergent herbicides for those of you with an aversion to weeding by hand. These are agents that kill seeds as they start to grow. Corn gluten meal is one some folks use in their lawns for control of broadleaf weeds like dandelion.
Fall applications of fertilizers labelled “winterizer” or similar are recommended for the lawn in the fall, too. I would say the same would be good for your trees and shrubs. These fertilizers have more
potassium in them than nitrogen, so they force your plants to stop grow-ing. While the fall season marches on there is still a good window of opportunity to plant larger trees and shrubs. Smaller plants could be subject to frost heaves later in win-ter, but the bigger ones have enough substance they won’t readily be pushed out of the earth. At this time of year, you can water the trans-plants in and not have to worry about babysitting them for the next few months.
That’s all for now. Enjoy your autumn!
Evan Davies owns Beltane Nursery at 2915 Highway 3 in Erickson.
Fall weather perfect time to prepare for winter
Nursery NotesEvan Davies
From page 9Taking this as the starting
point, there was perfect harmony in the application of all the events foretold in the explanation of that period in Daniel 9:25-27. The 70 weeks, or 490 years, were to per-tain especially to the Jews. At the expiration of this period, AD 34, the nation sealed its rejection of Christ by the persecution of His
disciples, and the apostles turned to the Gentiles. The first 490 years of the 2,300 having then ended, 1810 years would remain. From AD 34, 1810 years extend to 1844. “Then,” said the angel, “shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”
This prophecy proves to be accu-rate, telling us about Jesus and His death in the midst of the final “week” of the prophecy.
Ian Cotton is the retired pastor of the Creston Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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49 Asian Mulaqat Tehlka Sardari Punjab Punjabi Sanjha Punjab Mulaqat Made in Des-Pardes ’ 50 Football universitaire Montreal à Bishop’s. (En différé N) Sauve Pérusse La semaine verte TJ C.-B. Petite vie
2 Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson News News Hour (N) 16x9 (N) Å 54 (12:45) “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” VideoFlow Å VideoFlow Å Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson
64 (12:20) “Tea With Mussolini” (:20) ››› “Cabaret” (’72) Å (:25) ›››› “Hair” (’79) Å (DVS) Spa
81 Histoire Mixeur Tout-monde Champ Journal 21 jours Le plus grand cabaret du monde
224 Monster Jam Monster Jam Pumped Pumped Pass Tm Pass Tm Faster Faster Dangerous Drives
3 Big Bang Gold Mike Cleve Saving Hope ’ News News (:05) ›› “Murder by Numbers” (’02)
4 11 College Football Pac-12 ››› “Rudy” (’93) Sean Astin. News (:35) Castle Å Burn Not.
5 Sat. Night Live News (:29) Saturday Night Live (N) News Wolf Pain Airbrush Larry Paid
6 9 Raible’s Insider Elementary Å 48 Hours ’ Å 48 Hours (N) Å News (:35) Scandal ’ Ent
7 13 Traveler Back Myst-Laura Law & Order: SVU Sat. Night Live News (:35) Saturday Night Live (N)
8 10 MLS Soccer: Rapids at Whitecaps FC Sports SportsCentre (N) SportsCentre SportsCentre
9 19 2014 World Series Sportsnet Central Game Sportsnet Central NHL Alumni Sportsnet Central
11 12 16x9 (N) Å Elementary Å Crime Stories Crime Stories News (:34) Saturday Night Live (N)
12 22 Amazing Planet Heartbeat A Touch of Frost Å Grand Waterfront Cities A Touch of Frost
13 3 NHL Hockey Washington Capitals at Calgary Flames. (N) Post News Republic of Doyle Dragons’ Den ’ 14 8 2014 World Series Sea WWD Mod Fam Mod Fam Q13 Sea Animation Dom Anger Anger
15 This Is Life Somebody’s Somebody’s This Is Life This Is Life CNNI Simulcast
18 14 Criminal Minds ’ Criminal Minds ’ Criminal Minds ’ Criminal Minds ’ Criminal Minds ’ Criminal Minds ’ 21 (6:30) “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” ›› “The Dilemma” (’11) Vince Vaughn. Å Property “The Dilemma”
22 Funny Videos ››› “Men in Black” (’97) ’ Å ›› “Men in Black II” (’02) ’ Å “Men in Black” ’ 23 Frontline Doc Zone Å National One/One Frontline National Issue National One/One
25 › “New Year’s Eve” (’11) Halle Berry. ’ Å › “This Means War” (’12) ’ Å “Friends With Benefits” (’11)
26 15 Airplane Repo ’ To Be Announced Street Outlaws Airplane Repo ’ Fast N’ Loud ’ Moonshiners ’ 27 “Here Cm Boom” › “Grown Ups” (’10) Adam Sandler. ›› “Here Comes the Boom” (’12) › “Grown Ups”
28 18 Sex Sent Me to Sex Sent Me to Sex Sent Me to Sex Sent Me to Stories of the ER Popoff Fighting
30 Forever (N) Å Myst-Laura ››› “The Bourne Supremacy” (’04) (:15) ›› “Green Zone” (’10) ’ Å 31 “Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy” (’14) › “Scary Movie 2” (’01) Premiere. Fugget Dating “Scary Movie 3”
32 20 Girl Next I Didn’t ANT Next Wingin’ It ›› “Under Wraps” (’97) Derek Buzz Wingin’ It
33 (6:00) “Hardball” Fam Guy Fam Guy Seinfeld Seinfeld King King “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”
34 Big Bang Big Bang Just for Laughs Just for Laughs Jeff Dunham Comedy Comedy › “The Watch”
36 Guy’s Games Donut Donut Cutthroat Kitchen Guy’s Games Halloween Wars Halloween Wars
39 ››› “The Cabin in the Woods” ’ “Zombie Apocalypse” (’11) ’ Å “Rise of the Zombies” (’12) ’ Å 40 ›› “Child’s Play 2” (’90) Å › “Child’s Play 3” (’91) Justin Whalin. › “Bride of Chucky” (’98) Å 42 The Dead Files (N) Places Places Ghost Adventures The Dead Files ’ The Dead Files ’ Ghost Adventures
43 News News News News News National News National News National News National
44 Toopy & Zigby Big Max, Rby Backyard Bubble Umi Band Max, Rby Franklin Mike Waybu
45 Crime Stories Elementary Å Crime Stories News (:35) Saturday Night Live (N) World Poker Tour
48 7 Roger Concert Who in Texas Austin City Limits Artists Den Front and Center Gr’t Performances
49 Aikam ’ Taur Lashkara ’ Waqt 4 U Success theZoomer ’ Real Voodoo ’ 50 Univers Downton Abbey Dre Grey TJ Infoman ››› “Moon” (’09) Sam Rockwell.
2 Crime Stories Elementary Å Crime Stories News (:35) Saturday Night Live (N) World Poker Tour
54 › “Sorority Row” (’09) Briana Evigan. Premiere. Simpson Simpson Simpson South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk
64 “Spacehunter” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” ›› “The Invasion” (’07) (:40) ››› “Ginger Snaps”
81 Cabaret Voisins TV5 Jrnl (:40) On n’est pas couché Histoire
224 Dangerous Drives Dumbest Dumbest Pass Tm Pass Tm Car Warriors Dumbest Dumbest MotoGP Racing
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3 NFL Football Detroit Lions at Atlanta Falcons. (N) TBA NFL Football (N) ’ (Live) Å 4 11 Good Morning KOMO 4 News This Week Rescue Paid Paid Paid Clean Cooking
5 Flashpoint! Meet the Press (N) English Premier League Soccer Prem Goal Zone Edition Intellig.
6 9 CBS News Sunday Morning Nation The NFL Today (N) NFL Football Seattle Seahawks at Carolina Panthers. (N)
7 13 News News English Premier League Soccer Prem Goal Zone Action Sports (N)
8 10 NFL Countdown Å Prerace NASCAR Racing
9 19 Big Sporting Misplays English Premier League Soccer English Premier League Soccer
12 22 Kate and Upside PAW Curious Dino Dan Arthur Wild Little Little Little Animals Animals
13 3 News Artzooka Cor Cor Cor Cor Cor Market Our Vancouver Land One/One
14 8 NFL Football Detroit Lions at Atlanta Falcons. NFL Sun. Cooking Sexy Paid Motorcycle Racing
15 Fareed Zakaria Reliable Sources State of the Union Fareed Zakaria CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom
16 6 Truck Muscle ›› “The Last House on the Left” (’09) ’ (:33) ›› “Scream 4” (’11) Neve Campbell. ’ 17 23 Holmes Makes Holmes Makes Holmes Makes House Hunters Hunters Hunt Intl Bryan Bryan
18 14 Criminal Minds ’ Criminal Minds ’ ››› “The Green Mile” (’99) Tom Hanks. ’ Å ››› “Face/Off”
21 Property Brothers Will Will Will Will Will Will ›› “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past”
22 Squirrel Pet Shop Pet Shop Gruffalo Eloise ’ Å Alien Pumpkin “Dear Dracula” ’ “Scooby-Doo 2”
23 CBC News Now With Andrew Nichols From Toronto. (N) Å CBC News Now With Christine Birak (N) Å 25 Engels Lost Girl ’ Haven Å Rookie Blue ’ NCIS ’ Å “G.I. Joe: Cobra”
26 15 River Monsters River Monsters Cold Water Licence to Drill: Fast N’ Loud ’ Street Outlaws
28 18 The Big Day The Big Day The Big Day My Five Wives ’ My Five Wives ’ My Five Wives ’ 30 Flashpoint Å Missing ’ Castle ’ Å People ›› “Poseidon” (’06) Josh Lucas. ’ The Grey
31 Looney Johnny T Spies! Day My “Scooby-Doo!” Scooby “A Monster in Paris” (’11) Å 32 20 Wizards Gravity ANT Good Austin I Didn’t Dog Jessie Liv-Mad. Girl “My Little Pony”
33 Payne Atl. Eats Office Paid ›› “Just Like Heaven” (’05) ››› “Shrek 2” (’04) Eddie Murphy
34 Cash Cash Match Match Just for Laughs Seinfeld Seinfeld Big Bang Big Bang Jeff Dunham
36 Southern Contessa Comfort Food Rachael Ray’s Cutthroat Kitchen Chopped ’ Å Chopped ’ Å 37 24 Spruce Paid Spruce Meadows Shouldn’t Be Alive Shouldn’t Be Alive Shouldn’t Be Alive Shouldn’t Be Alive
38 Pawn Pawn American Pickers Cnt. Cars Cnt. Cars American American American American American American
39 “Killer Bash” (’05) Raquel Riskin. ’ Z Nation ’ Å “Rise of the Zombies” (’12) ’ Å “Zombie Night” ’ 40 (6:45) ›› “Tremors 2: Aftershocks” ›› “Tremors 3: Back to Perfection” (’01) Å “Tremors”
42 Mysteries-Museum Mysteries-Museum Mysteries-Museum Mysteries-Museum Mysteries-Museum Haunted London
43 CTV News Question Period CTV News Weekend ’ Å 44 Truck Zack Little Dora Big Toopy Caillou Cat in Little Franklin Backyard Mike
45 (6:00) Weekend Morning News (N) Block Context Osteen Paid 16x9 Å Ice Pilots NWT
48 7 MotorWk Autoline Contrary Record Group Journal Moyers Charlie Feel Aging Masterpiece
49 Cope Facts Islam Hour of Power ’ Context Living Truth Å Faith Food Study ICEJ ’ 50 Arthur Boule & Gawayn Garfield Anne Oniva Jour/Seigneur Les Coulisses TJ Verte
2 (6:00) Sunday Morning News (N) Block Context Osteen Paid 16x9 Å Ice Pilots NWT
54 Prince Prince Prince Men- ››› “The Woman in Black” (’12) Prince Prince Prince Men-
64 Filmogr. (:25) ›› “Antitrust” (’01) (:15) ››› “The Bourne Identity” “The Bourne Supremacy” ChinaSyn
81 Temps présent Kiosque Par avion Kiosque Thalassa Journal Di
224 Trucker NASCAR RaceDay (N) (Live) MotoGP Racing MotoGP Racing Best of Pinks - All Out
12 22 Waterfront Cities Park Our Part Hope for Wildlife Victorian Phar. SacWondBrit Architect/Change
13 3 Steven and Chris Figure Skating Canada’s Smartest ›› “The Haunted Mansion” (’03) ’ 14 8 NFL Football Philadelphia Eagles at Arizona Cardinals. Pregame Pregame 2014 World Series: Royals at Giants
15 CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom Anthony Bourd. Anthony Bourd.
16 6 (:06) Bar Rescue Bar Rescue ’ Bar Rescue ’ Bar Rescue ’ Bar Rescue ’ Bar Rescue (N) ’ 17 23 Rescue Rescue Income Property Holmes Makes Tackle Tackle Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Alaska Alaska
21 Ghosts Love-List Love It or List It Love It or List It ›› “The Dilemma” (’11) Vince Vaughn. Å Property
22 “Scooby-Doo 2” ››› “Coraline” (’09) ’ Å (:15) “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” (’05) “ParaNorman”
23 CBC News Now Market Doc Zone Å the fifth estate ’ Prince Harry at 30 The National (N)
25 “G.I. Joe: Cobra” ›› “Men in Black 3” (’12) Will Smith. Rookie Blue ’ “Midnight Masquerade” (’14) ’ Å 26 15 Airplane Repo ’ River Monsters Cash Cash The Unexplaine The Unexplaine The Unexplaine
27 ›› “Here Comes the Boom” (’12) Stranger--Home Handsome Devils Ex-Wives Ex-Wives Housewives/NJ
28 18 My Five Wives ’ My Five Wives ’ My Five Wives ’ My Five Wives ’ 90 Day Fiance ’ 90 Day Fiance (N)
30 (12:30) ››› “The Grey” (’12) ’ Twice in a Lifetime Flashpoint Å Missing ’ “The Grey” (’12)
37 24 Shouldn’t Be Alive Shouldn’t Be Alive Liquida Liquida Liquida Storage Mantracker Å Liquida Storage
38 Cnt. Cars Cnt. Cars Pawn Pawn American American Pawn Pawn Pawn Pawn Mountain Men (N)
39 “Zombie Night” ’ ››› “The Cabin in the Woods” ’ “Killer Bash” (’05) Raquel Riskin. ’ ›› “Silent Hill”
40 “Tremors” ›› “Tremors” (’90) Kevin Bacon. The Walking Dead The Walking Dead The Walking Dead
42 Ghost Adventures The Dead Files ’ Treasures Miracles Decoded Museum Secrets Mysteries-Museum
43 CTV News Question Period CTV News Weekend With Scott Laurie ’ Å 44 Truck Dino Umi Bubble Peg Octo Zack Toopy Big Cat in Caillou Mike
45 Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson News News Whatever 16x9 Å 48 7 Masterpiece Masterpiece Poirot ’ Å Doc Martin Å Masterpiece Masterpiece
49 Peter David Arise ’ Tom’row Beyond Hope Discov. V’Impe Jeremiah Facts Leading J. Meyer
50 Verte Regard Enquête (SC) ›› “L’Apprenti sorcier” (’10) (SC) Un air de famille TJ C.-B. Décou.
2 Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson News (4:59) News Hour 16x9 Å 54 ››› “The Woman in Black” (’12) VideoFlow Å VideoFlow Å VideoFlow Å MuchCountdown
64 “The China Syndrome” (’79) (:45) ›› “Antitrust” (’01) Å (:35) ››› “The Bourne Identity” Bourne
81 Dimanche! Tout-monde Mot Journal Ques-champion “Baby Blues” (’08) Célestine
224 Car Warriors Dangerous Drives Pumped Pumped Pass Tm Pass Tm NASCAR NASCAR Racing
3 CSI: Crime Scene Once Upon a Time Resurrection “Will” News News (:05) Castle Å Criminal Minds ’ 4 11 “Star War Rebel” Once Upon a Time Resurrection “Will” (:01) Revenge (N) News (:35) Castle Å Burn Not.
5 NFL Football News Sports Edition Paid News Paid Meet the Press Turkey
6 9 60 Minutes (N) ’ Madam Secretary The Good Wife (N) CSI: Crime Scene News News Nation Scandal
7 13 NFL Football Quarter KING 5 News (N) Dateline NBC ’ News The 206 Bensin Wen Hair
9 19 2014 World Series Sportsnet Central Canucks Sportsnet Central Sportsnet Central Sportsnet Central
11 12 16x9 Å Madam Secretary The Good Wife (N) Simpson Security News Block Paid Paid
12 22 G’graphic Presents Monarch of Glen Shetland (N) Å Shetland (N) Å Amazing Planet Monarch of Glen
13 3 Heartland (N) ’ Canada’s Smartest Janet King (N) ’ The National (N) News Canadian Figure Skating
14 8 2014 World Series Q It Up Two Men Two Men Two Men Q13 Q Sports Q13 FOX TMZ (N) ’ Å Proactiv
15 This Is Life Anthony Bourd. Anthony Bourd. This Is Life CNNI Simulcast CNNI Simulcast
16 6 Catch a Contractor Bar Rescue ’ Bar Rescue ’ Catch a Contractor Bar Rescue ’ Bar Rescue ’ 17 23 Jennie Jennie Holmes Makes Alaska Alaska Jennie Jennie House Hunters Holmes Makes
21 Property Brothers Pressure Cooker ››› “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” (’11) Property Will Will
22 “ParaNorman” Toy Pumpkin Under. Weird Young Boys Haunting Haunting “ParaNorman” ’ 23 OJ Trial Prince Harry at 30 The National (N) OJ Trial Doc Zone Å The National ’ 25 Satisfaction (N) ’ Haven Å NCIS ’ Å Satisfaction Å ›› “Men in Black 3” (’12) Will Smith.
26 15 Naked and Afraid River Monsters The Unexplaine The Unexplaine The Unexplaine The Unexplaine
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spOrTsCreston Valley Advance Thursday, October 23, 2014 www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca 13
NOTICE OF ELECTION BY VOTING
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of the Town of Creston that an election by voting is necessary to elect a Mayor, six Councillors and one School Trustee, and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are:
Mayor - One (1) to be electedSurname Usual Name Residential Address
BARTER Rhonda 318B – 11th Avenue North, CrestonHUTCHINSON Bill 1112 Alder Street, CrestonLeBLANC Jared 1026 – 36th Avenue North, EricksonMANN Tom 4210 Lower Wynndel Road, WynndelTOYOTA Ron 10573 Highway 3A, Boswell
Councillor - Six (6) to be electedSurname Usual Name Residential Address
ANDERSON Penny A.P. 8266 Highway 95, YahkBOEHMER Kevin 115 – 36th Avenue North, EricksonBRADFORD Evelyn 134 Valleyview Drive, CrestonCOMER Jen 732 Wilson Road, WynndelDEBOON Arnold 2407 Birch Street, CrestonELFORD Jim 1501 Scott Street, CrestonGEURTS Daniel 1012 Selkirk Drive, CrestonHANSEN Lon 516 – 8th Avenue South, CrestonJOHNSON Myrna Unit #17, 200 – 11th Avenue South, CrestonSNOPEK Joe 520 – 8th Avenue South, CrestonUNRUH Karen 2110 Erickson Street, CrestonVONDRACEK Ed 436 – 10th Avenue North, CrestonWILSON Joanna 907 Vancouver Street, Creston
School Trustee - One (1)Surname Usual Name Residential Address
ADVANCE VOTING will be open at the Creston Town Hall, 238 – 10th Avenue North, on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, and Wednesday, November 5, 2014, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
SPECIAL VOTING OPPORTUNITIES will be open on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at Swan Valley Lodge, 818 Vancouver Street, between the hours of 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; Crest View Care Village, 800 Cavell Street, between the hours of 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and, Creston Valley Hospital, 312 - 15th Avenue North, between the hours of 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Only those quali� ed electors who are patients or staff at the time of voting may vote at this special voting opportunity.
GENERAL VOTING DAY will be open to quali� ed electors of the Town of Creston on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the Creston & District Community Complex (Rec. Centre), 312 – 19th Avenue North, Creston, BC. Voting will be held in the Erickson Room located on the main � oor.
CURBSIDE VOTING: Where a request is made to the Chief Election Of� cer and/or Deputy Election Of� cer for a mobile voting station to be brought outside the place of voting, so that a person who has a physical disability or whose mobility is impaired to the extent that they cannot physically enter the place of voting, can vote from within their vehicle. Curbside voting will be available on Advance Voting Days at Town Hall and on General Voting Day at the Creston & District Community Complex (Rec. Centre), from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
ELECTOR REGISTRATION
If you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by completing the required application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the following quali� cations:
a. 18 years of age or older;b. Canadian citizen;c. resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding voting day;d. resident of OR registered owner of real property in the Town of Creston for at least 30 days immediately preceding
voting day; and,e. not otherwise disquali� ed by law from voting.
Resident electors will also be required to produce 2 pieces of identi� cation (at least one with a signature). Picture identi� cation is not necessary. The identi� cation must prove both residency and identity.
Non-resident property electors must produce 2 pieces of identi� cation (at least one with a signature) to prove identity, proof that they are entitled to register in relation to the property, and if applicable, written consent from the other property owners.
MAIL BALLOT VOTING
Quali� ed electors may vote by mail if they:
a. have a physical disability, illness or injury that affects their ability to vote at another voting opportunity, ORb. expect to be absent from the Town of Creston on general voting day and at the times of all advance voting
opportunities.
REQUESTING A MAIL BALLOT PACKAGE:
The Town of Creston will send out Mail Ballot packages upon request commencing on or about November 3, 2014.
To receive a Mail Ballot you must submit the following information to the Town Hall by mail (PO Box 1339, Creston, BC, V0B 1G0), telephone (250-428-2214, ext. 226 or 233), fax (250-428-9164), or email ([email protected][email protected]):
1. Full name;2. Residential address;3. Address of the property in relation to which you are voting (for non-resident property electors);4. Method of delivery of your Mail Ballot package:
i. pick up at Town Hall, ORii. regular letter mail through Canada Post to residential address, ORiii. regular letter mail through Canada Post to an alternate address that you provide when requesting
the Mail Ballot package;5. If you are not on the List of Electors, to ensure you receive the correct registration application form in your package, you
must indicate whether you are going to be registering as a resident or non-resident property elector.
The deadline to request a Mail Ballot is 4:00 p.m. on November 13, 2014.
To be counted, your Mail Ballot must be received by the Chief Election Of� cer at the Town Hall (238 – 10th Avenue North) no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, November 14, 2014, and at the Creston & District Community Complex (Rec Centre, 312 – 19th Avenue North, Erickson Room) no later than 8:00 pm on Saturday, November 15, 2014. It is the obligation of the person applying to vote by Mail Ballot to ensure that the Mail Ballot is received by the Chief Election Of� cer within this time limit.
All questions regarding the above may be directed to Bev Caldwell, Chief Election Of� cer, at 250-428-2214, ext. 226, or Donna Cassel, Deputy Election Of� cer, at 250-428-2214, ext. 233.
Dated this 16th day of October, 2014.
Bev CaldwellChief Election Of� cer
TOWN OF CRESTON2014 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION
Thunder Cats beat Dynamiters in OT
BY BRIAN LAWRENCEAdvance Editor
After losing to the Kimberley Dynamiters in their season-opener, the Creston Valley Thunder Cats turned the tables on the weekend, beating them 5-4 in overtime on Saturday.
The win helped the Thunder Cats pull a little farther ahead in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League’s Eddie Mountain Division, although, with 11 points, the Creston team is still behind the Dynamiters, who, with 19 points, are tied for first with the Fernie Ghostriders. Behind Fernie are the Golden Rockets with 17 points, and the Columbia Valley Rockies trail the division with five.
It came as no surprise to the Thunder Cats that the game played on Kimberley’s big ice was a tough one.
“Based on the conversations I’ve had with other guys in the league, we fully expect them to be one of the top teams all the way through,” said head coach Jeff Dubois.
Saturday’s game started with two Kimberley goals before the halfway mark of the first period, with Carson Cartwright responding for the Thunder Cats at 5:02.
Connor Ward followed that with a goal at 12:34 in the second period, before the Dynamiters pulled ahead 4-2 with two goals.
“There were a couple times when we went down two goals and maybe sort of hit the brakes a little bit,” said Dubois.
Forty-three seconds before the period was over, Lien Miller-Jeannotte added a third goal for the Thunder Cats.
The third period was scoreless for 19 minutes, when Cartwright set up a goal for Ward, who scored shorthanded on the one-minute mark. He scored a hat trick and the game-winner at 3:14 in overtime.
The score, Dubois said, was “probably a bit of an unfair result to Kimberley,” who played well throughout, but Thunder Cats goal-ie Brock Lefebvre kept the Dynamiters from taking over late in the game.
“In a five-four game, you don’t immediately think of the goalie, but Brock made some saves in the third period where if they scored a fifth goal, that would be it for us,” he said.
The team was shorthanded, making the victory that much more impressive. Connor Kidd was injured early in the game and sat out the rest, and both Austin Steger and Alec Wilkinson, a new acquisi-tion who scored 62 points as a rookie for the Nelson Leafs last season, were out sick.
This week, the Thunder Cats’ played a second game, visiting the Columbia Valley Rockies in Invermere on Tuesday, after the Advance’s press deadline.
On Friday, the Thunder Cats will host the North Okanagan Knights, to whom they previously lost 3-1 on a September road trip.
“It was a game we weren’t very happy with,” said Dubois. “We didn’t like the effort, so hopefully Friday night is a chance to make up for the one we let get away.”
On Saturday, the Thunder Cats will travel to the West Kootenay to take on the Beaver Valley Nighthawks, whom they beat in a pre-season exhibition game after losing four games in a row during the Kootenay Conference finals last season.
“There’s a little extra meaning because both teams were so good last year,” said Dubois. “Beaver Valley is a small, tight old barn and typically a very tough place to play. That one you circle on calendar a little bit. … You have to play a real simple, solid game in that rink to get a result.”
SOCCER STARS — Prince Charles Secondary School’s John Sommerfeld (left) keeps the ball from a Nakusp player during a tourna-ment in Grand Forks on Oct. 15. Creston won all three of its match-es, beating Nakusp 2-0, Grand Forks 5-0 and Boundary Central 2-0.Craig Lindsay/Grand Forks Gazette
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SANTA CLAUS PARADE & FESTIVAL andSHOP LOCAL DAY • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6
Now accepting entries for the 20th Annual Santa Claus Parade! Show your community and participate in the parade. Entry forms available at the Chamber of Commerce.
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Creston is no different than any other border commu-
nity. Changes in the value of the Canadian dollar versus U.S. currency have a direct affect on local shopping. But shopping habits die hard, and after a long run with our dol-lar at or near par, Creston Valley residents might not even realize that there is good value to be had right in our back yard.
“We just like to be consid-ered in people’s shopping decisions,” says Bob Vance, who owns Vance BrandSource Home Furnishings with his son, Justin. “Our furniture, almost exclusively made in Canada and the U.S., is solid wood and comes with options that Asian-made products don’t. Different coverings and wood types are commonly
available. And the price gap has shrunk, too, with the change in the value of the dol-lar and increasing standard of living off shore.”
Bob and his brother, Doug, purchased the furniture and appliance business in 1999, operating as Vance Brothers Countrywide, located on 15th Avenue South, between Canyon and Cook Streets.
Three years ago, Bob and Justin became the owners, ren-ovated the building and changed the name to Vance BrandSource Home Furnishing.
“As Creston locals, we give the service and personal touch our customers deserve. And as part of BrandSource, we can offer choice and a price guaran-tee to give you the best of both worlds.”
New customers often com-ment that the store is surpris-ingly competitive on price, especially considering the huge selection of appliances, mat-tresses, upholstered furniture, bedroom and dining room fur-niture and accessories like rugs, lamps, wall art and other home décor.
“I am never offended when I am asked to price match,” Bob says. “I am happy for the opportunity and if we aren’t able to match a price it means a lot to us that were given the chance. Shoppers shouldn’t just make the assumption that they can get better value across the border — that isn’t necessarily the case any more.”
Interestingly, he says that the number of out-of-towners who are coming to Creston to shop is increasing.
“We are getting more busi-ness from out of town than ever before. We are really enjoying a boost from the Nelson area, where people are coming from to take advan-tage of organic farm products and locally grown food. It shows how important agricul-ture can be to our entire com-munity.”
On Canyon Street, Irvin and Evelyn Sobry are enjoying
their independence as owners of Lectric Avenue Electronics.
“We love the challenge of finding our own sources for products, and getting them when we need them, rather
than running under somebody’s big banner,” Irv says.
The approach is working. Irvin and Evelyn have purchased larger premises just up the street (the for-mer Nadan Nessie Gear) and are preparing for a move by Christmas.
The relocation is necessitated, in part, by the move to become an
Apple sales and service centre. Technician Ian Richardson has now completed his Apple courses and is an officially certified repairman, making Lectric Avenue one of two businesses in the Kootenays that can do warranty work.
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From page 15“It felt like I was studying to
become a doctor or something,” Ian laughs. “They are very thorough in their training. The course was mind boggling!”
In making the transition from a franchise to an independent busi-ness, Irvin and Evelyn agree that community support has been amazing. They built up strong relationships as owners of Creston U-Brew years ago, and their easy affinity with customers shines through.
While moving a business can
never be described as fun, they look forward to giving Ian much-needed repair space, and adding to their warehousing storage.
“We even have stock at home,” Evelyn laughs. “It’s ridiculous. We go into our storage area here and we have to move ten boxes to get at one.”
More display room for Apple products and the mobile phone selection (Lectric Avenue is also a Telus outlet) can only mean a better shopping experience for customers “who have supported us from the get-go”, Irv says.
Out on Northwest Boulevard, where the only
thing missing is an ocean view, Tim’s Fish and Chips has been one the Creston Valley’s great business success stories since it opened last November.
“How many orders have we filled since our opening?” owner Tim Vogel teases. “Ten thousand? Twenty thousand? No. More than 40,000! And that’s not people, that’s orders, which might be for two or ten.”
What was once a house on the corner adjacent to the Creston Valley Mall is now a hive of activity, where eat-in and take-out customers swarm to get their regular fix of authentic fish and chips, clam chowder, poutine and even the traditional Brit favourite, mushy peas (when they are available).
From the sand in the park-ing lot to the fishing boat installed on the building to the nautical paraphernalia, Tim’s
Fish and Chips makes a lot of visual promises as it lures pass-ers-by into the shop. But those promises are fulfilled by the quality of the food served.
“You can do everything else right, but if the food isn’t good, you fail,” he says.
Tim is a trained chef but he and his wife, Jessica, travelled to England to take a fish and chips course in preparation for their opening.
“When I was working on the building the fellow who was installing the fire suppression system mentioned this course in England. The National Federa-tion of Fish Friers in Leeds was established in the 1880s,” he says. “So Jessica and I registered and took a month off to travel. For two weeks all we did was cut and fry fish. We learned a lot and had a lot of fun, meeting people who were opening restaurants in Japan, India, all over the world.”
How did he manage to take a little old house (see a photo of it taken in 1949 — it’s on the wall right beside the entrance) and renovate it into a business that advertises itself and still fits in with the neighborhood?
“I guess I’m lucky,” he laughs. “I’m a Red Seal chef and a Red Seal carpenter, so I was able to do the work myself.”
He was working as a car-penter in the mines, living in Fernie and commuting home on weekends when he decided he needed a change.
“I was away so much my kids thought I was an airplane pilot,” he laughs.
He bought the property and worked on the renovations when he was home on week-ends. He picked up a little fish-ing boat in Seattle, bought wood from a 100-year-old farmhouse that now is the wainscoting, found nautical themed items wherever he travelled. And he bought the distinctive white-brown sand that covers the drive-around parking area when the quarry at Sirdar closed down.
“I just started with an idea that Creston needed something different,” Tim says. People get tired of burgers and fries.”
He started out looking at downtown properties and lost out when he made offers on two different buildings. Then he got a call from a realtor when he was in his hotel room in Fernie and the fun started.
“The anticipation while I was working on the building was amazing,” he said about the curiosity that residents dis-played. “It got so bad I had to paper over the windows and doors so that I could get some work done — everyone wanted to come in to chat!”
It’s fitting in Small Business Week that Tim mentions the camaraderie among restaurant owners and the entire business community.
“I really didn’t expect it, but there is a really strong tie between restaurants,” he said. “We are competitors on one level, but we support each other too.
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From page 16“If one restaurant runs out
of something they need right away, all they have to do is make a phone call, and they’ve got it.
“And business owners are some of our best customers — I get a lot of static if they don’t get the first shot when we put something new on the menu!”
He admits the business has changed dramatically since he and Jessica first opened for business last year.
“We had some disasters,” he recalled. “But it was all about figuring out how to do things and learning what people want.”
He added outdoor seating in the spring, put in an ice cream shop window, got a liquor license, made some shifts in the menu and new ideas are con-stantly swirling around in his mind. This week he is antici-pating delivery of a six-burner oven, and planning how to make it fit in the kitchen.
He sets a huge stainless steel bowl on the table and says, “This is what we are going to serve our mussels in!”
Mussel nights, crawfish broils, oyster po’ boy sand-wiches and clam chowder in sourdough bread bowls are all planned for the near future.
So are Sing for Your Supper nights.
“We have heaters for the deck and we are going to do some nights when customers can sing karaoke style for a chance to win their meals,” he
said. “We already have some judges lined up. You’ve got to have fun if you are going to be in business.”
That fun includes serving up deep-fried chocolate bars, but also sourcing out products that are good quality and as local as possible. All of his potatoes come from a Grand Forks farm and he has a fishmonger that makes daily deliveries.
“The great part of this busi-ness is the people,” he says. “You get to meet locals and tourists and it’s been fun creat-ing a place that encourages people to talk to one another. It’s great fun to be part of.”
Look at any community where businesses are thriv-
ing and you will likely also find a thriving chamber of com-merce.
“And it will be the chamber that is driving the success,” Rob Schepers said.
Schepers, who owns Home Hardware Building Centre, is
president of the Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce. He admits to being a prime exam-ple of a businessman who had no appreciation of the value that chambers of commerce have to the broader communi-ty. Until he joined the board of directors three years ago.
“I’ve learned a lot in those three years, and we are only just starting to regain some of the momentum that has been lost over the last 20 years,” he said.
“As an organization, we haven’t done a good job of articulating what we do and what we can do, and that’s nation wide. In essence, we are the only real link between local businesses and the B.C. and Canadian chambers of commerce, and to all levels of government.
“If I have learned anything in my involvement it is that there isn’t any business that shouldn’t be a member. Three years ago I wouldn’t have said that, but then I got involved and have come to understand what we can accomplish.
“There is strength in num-bers. The more members we have the stronger we are, the more horsepower we have in our leverage. Who gets more attention: a group of 40 or a group of 400?”
At its peak, the Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce had 210 members. Today’s membership totals 140, but it is growing, and Schepers is confident that a resurgence is coming.
“Being able to connect with one another means everybody gets on the same page,” he said. “We can promote our town and our busi-nesses, and that leads to more job creation and a larger tax base, which benefits the entire commu-nity. We aren’t just a voice for the business community, but for the entire community.”
For evidence, people need only look as far as Nelson, where a large membership, hotel tax, ski hill and more allows it to spend $200,000 a year on advertising to promote tourism and the community. By
contrast, the Creston chamber spends about $10,000.
“We are working very hard to create a positive growth trend in membership because we are con-vinced that it will help the Creston Valley grow and thrive,” he said.
Increasing paid membership is only a start, though. Attracting members who want to become active is the key to success, he said.
“The simple fact is that a cham-ber of commerce exists to make any community a better place to live. That’s a very worthy goal.”
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Don’t let your operating costs leave you in the cold this winter. As a small business, you probably want to focus on making money. FortisBC can help reduce your operating costs with no-cost and low-cost energy saving tips to help lower your monthly natural gas bill and reduce your environmental footprint. If you’re in the position to upgrade space and water heating systems or commercial cooking equipment, FortisBC also offers rebates on high-effi ciency models.
Small actions can add up to savings Think about cutting costs where you won’t notice it. If your business uses natural gas for heating or cooking, here are some easy tips from FortisBC to help you save energy and money.
Save hot water
■ Fix leaky taps and install water-saving aerators on kitchen and bathroom faucets.
■ If running a commercial kitchen consider installing a low-fl ow spray valve to pre-rinse dishes. These devices use approximately 50 per cent less water than standard types.
■ If you can access your hot water pipes, wrap them with foam or rubber pipe insulation to prevent heat loss.
Save heat
■ Install a programmable thermostat and program it to 20 °C when at work and no more than 17 °C when no one is there.
■ Your space could stay warm for up to an hour before the heating system needs to kick in again, so why not program your thermostat to turn down the heat an hour before you close shop.
■ If you operate a street front business, don’t leave the door open on cold days as it’ll push all your heated air out the door.
Upgrading can save you two waysWhen it’s time to upgrade, check out FortisBC’s rebates for high-effi ciency boilers, water heaters and cooking equipment. In addition to the rebate, you’ll experience ongoing savings on your natural gas bill with more effi cient appliances installed. If you’re not sure what upgrade is right for your business, consider a free consultation from a business energy advisor. It’s all part of how FortisBC is helping businesses save energy and money.
Learn moreFor energy saving tips, rebate information and more, visit fortisbc.com/smallerfootprints.
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Free small business seminar, October 23
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By Rob SassClassic American cars, while full of style and presence, weren’t known for their ability to stretch miles out of a gallon of fuel. These are five of are exceptions to the rule, all capable of at least 20 miles per gallon, which was good back in the day.1976 Plymouth “Feather” Duster: The Feather Duster was an interesting and little-known response to the 1970s fuel crisis. Unlike today’s
diesel and hybrid options, it carried just a small premium over the normal Duster, a $50 “economy” option that substituted aluminum for steel in several areas that brought the weight down to about 2,700 lbs. The Feather Duster was capable of up to 36 mpg. Average price for a gallon of gas in 1976: $0.57.1950 Crosley Hotshot: The tiny Crosley Hotshot was America’s first post-war sports car. More like an MG Midget than a Corvette, the hotshot had a tiny 44 cubic-inch four-cylinder engine. And while no speed demon, the little roadster was capably of an astonishing 48 mpg. Average price for a gallon of gas in 1950: $0.27.1961 Corvair Monza: The air-cooled Corvair is best known as the target of Ralph Nader’s scorn over its unique rear suspension design. Lost in that controversy is the fact that Corvairs were damned fun to drive and quite economical. Car Life magazine got 24 mpg out of their four-door automatic test car in April 1961.Average price for a gallon of gas in 1961: $0.31.1967 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass Cruiser: It was exceedingly rare for a full-size Oldsmobile to approach 20 mpg, particularly one with a massive 400 cubic inch V-8, but the F-85 Cutlass Cruiser of 1967, with its carefully engineered GM Turbo-Hydramatic transmission and a tall rear axle ratio, was capable of 20 mpg while looking like a proper full-size American classic. Average price for a gallon of gas in 1967: $0.32.1961 International Harvester Scout: Even today, SUVs and fuel
economy are a bit of an oxymoron. But the early Scout, one of the pioneer-ing SUVs, was lightweight (just 2,800 pounds) and simple, and powered by a rugged four-cylinder engine. It could get up to 22 mpg. Average price for a gallon of gas in 1961: $0.31.Rob Sass is the vice-president of content for Hagerty Insurance. Hagerty is the world’s leading specialist provider of classic car and boat insurance. Learn more at hagerty.ca.
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TRAILS FORCRESTON VALLEY SOCIETY
Momentum is building, and the Trails for Creston Valley Society is pumped with
the work that is happening around trails and accessing water and green spaces in the Creston Valley.
Creston has a legacy of strong volun-teerism, and this continues to be true
with work on trails. The love for the valley and all that it holds is evident in the enthusiasm received from the com-munity through meetings, events and memberships.
The Trails for Creston Valley Society’s paid membership base continues to grow. The money generated will go toward the first capital project, but more importantly it shows funders and politicians that the
society has the support of the community. All are welcome to buy a membership and encourage family and friends to support this exciting initiative in the valley.
The society has taken on a signage and mapping project. As most locals know, the valley is lovely and full of hidden gems, but you often have to know someone who knows someone to find out how to get there. Through the Trails for Creston Valley Society and the Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce, a group of outdoors enthusiasts has taken on the initiative to put up signage to help all have better access to these lovely remote areas. If you know the area well or just want to learn more, stop at the chamber of com-merce and talk to exec-utive director Jim Jacobsen. You can pick up a kit complete with signs, materials and directions. When fin-ished, the society plans to compile this infor-mation into a booklet for the area.
To celebrate the progress of the last year, Community Conversations and Trails for Creston Valley Society are host-ing an event on Nov. 2. The groups will serve a free lunch at the Snoring Sasquatch at 1 p.m., which will also include an update on the Community Conversations project, as well as a slide show presentation by the trails society on what is already happening with trails and some of the visions for future projects. At 3 p.m., weather permitting, a loop walk of the new trail below the old Endicott centre is planned.
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Just A Reminder: A Warm Fuzzy is a way of letting the people of our community know about the random acts of kindness that happen on a daily basis. A Warm Fuzzy will not replace a Thank You ad. Please make sure you include your name and phone number. The Creston Valley Advance retains the right to edit or reject any or all Warm Fuzzies submitted.
… Frank Wloka for his kindness in rescuing a “damsel in tire-distress”.
… Jennifer Harder for caring about our schools.
… Bill, Marlene, Rachael and friend for searching and fi nding hubby’s Phantom II drone. You are wonderful neighbours and friends.
… Mel T., Troy M., Dean, John, Dave, Joe, Bruce, Bert and Mel M. for your contribution to the Wynndel Community Centre; the recent untimely waterline leak was effectively repaired, and unknowingly saved the day for events of the Wynndel Coffeehouse and a local wedding!
… Jennifer Shade (Harder) for the generous donation of school supplies to Erickson School. Very much appreciated.
… Joan for the cookies when Reach a Reader was over.
… Lena for good-naturedly putting up with mage RP shenanigans during the wee hours of the morning; Lok’tar Ogar or whatever, you big weird Orc player.
• At their time change, test your smoke alarm.• You have less than three minutes to escape a fi re. Having and practising an escape plan is essential.• Install one smoke alarm on every storey and inside bedrooms if you sleep with doors closed. • Ensure all smoke alarms are fully powered. • If your home has any fuel-burning devices such as a gas furnace, gas water heater, gas appliances, or an attached garage or carport, install at least one CSA-approved carbon monoxide outside all sleeping areas.• Replace smoke alarms every 10 years, and CO alarms every 7-10 years (depending on manufacturer) whether battery operated or hardwired into your home’s electrical system.
More home safety resources can be found on thewww.safeathome.ca web site.
BC turns back the clocks on November 2.Here are some timely smoke and carbon
monoxide (CO) safety tips.
BC turns back the clocks on November 2.
Fall Back to Smart Home Safety
• At their time change, test your smoke alarm.• You have less than three minutes to escape a fi re. Having and practising an escape plan is essential.• Install one smoke alarm on every storey and inside bedrooms if you sleep with doors closed. • Ensure all smoke alarms are fully powered. • If your home has any fuel-burning devices such as a gas furnace, gas water heater, gas appliances, or an attached garage or carport, install at least one CSA-approved carbon monoxide outside all sleeping areas.Fall Back to Smart Home Safety
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PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors within a defi ned portion of Electoral Area A (Riondel) of the Regional District of Central Kootenay that “Other Voting” is necessary to determine if the electors are in favour of the Regional District of Central Kootenay Board adopting Bylaw No 2420, being the “Riondel Community Centre Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2414, 2014.” The vote will be conducted in accordance with the Local Government Act. The question to be asked to obtain the assent of the electors shall be:“Are you in favour of the Regional District of Central Kootenay adopting Bylaw No. 2414 to provide for the following:
• the borrowing of up to $1,200,000 dollars, for a term not to exceed 20 years, for capital purposes associated with the renovation of the Riondel Community Centre to be requisitioned through the Riondel Recreation Facilities Specifi ed Service on the basis of taxable assessed value on land and improvements?”
GENERAL VOTING DAYThe General Voting Day will be on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Local Time for qualifi ed electors within a portion of Electoral Area A at the following location:VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA A: Riondel Community Centre, 1511 Eastman Ave., RiondelADVANCE VOTING OPPORTUNITYThe Advance Voting Opportunity shall be on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Local Time at:VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA A: Riondel Community Centre, 1511 Eastman Ave., RiondelELIGIBLE ELECTORSThe Local Government Act sets out the qualifi cations for electors entitled to vote at Local Government Voting and if you qualify, and you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by completing the required application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the following qualifi cations:Qualifi cations for a Resident Elector:Must meet all of the following requirements:(a) on General Voting Day you must be eighteen years of age or older;(b) you must be a Canadian citizen;(c) you must have resided in British Columbia in accordance with Section 52 of the Local Government Act for at least six months immediately preceding the day of registration;(d) you must have resided within the area in which the vote is taking place in accordance with Section 52 of the Local Government Act for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration;(e) you must not be disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting on General Voting Day or be otherwise disqualifi ed by law.Resident electors not on the Voters List and wishing to register on voting day will be required to produce 2 pieces of identifi cation (at least one with a signature). The identifi cation must prove identity and residency.Qualifi cations for Non-Resident Elector:Must meet all of the following requirements:(a) (b) (c) and (e) above plus(d) you must have been the registered owner of real property within the area in which the vote is taking place for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration;(d)(i) the only persons who are registered owners of the real property, either as joint tenants or tenants in common, and are individuals who are not holding the property in trust for a corporation or another trust;(f) you must not be entitled to register as a resident elector for that area;(g) if there are more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector.Non-Resident electors not on the Voters List and wishing to register on voting day will be required to produce the following:• 2 pieces of identifi cation (at least one with a signature) to prove identity;• Evidence of ownership in the real property (any of the following):
• state of title certifi cate;• registered agreement for sale;• property tax notice (last); or• property assessment notice (last).
• Written consent of a majority of the other property owners (if any) that they are entitled to register for the jointly-owned property. (Consent form may be downloaded from RDCK website at http://www.rdck.ca/assets/Government/Documents/Non-resident%20Elector%20consent%20form.pdf
Pursuant to the Local Government Act, no corporation is entitled to be registered as an elector or have a representative registered as an elector and no corporation is entitled to vote.VOTING BY MAIL:Mail ballots are available to qualifi ed elector in the following instances:(a) persons who have a physical disability, illness, or injury that affects their ability to vote at an other voting opportunity; and(b) persons who expect to be absent from the Regional District of Central Kootenay on General Voting Day and Advance Voting Day.Qualifi ed electors wishing to vote by mail ballot must apply to the RDCK before 4:00 p.m., November 13, 2014.SYNOPSIS OF BYLAW NOs 2414As required by the Local Government Act, the following is a synopsis of the Bylaw to be submitted for the assent of the electors:• tthe borrowing of up to $1,200,000 dollars, for a term not to exceed 20 years, for capital purposes associated with the renovation of the Riondel Community
Centre to be requisitioned through the Riondel Recreation Facilities Specifi ed Service on the basis of taxable assessed value on land and improvements?”
This synopsis is not intended to be and is not deemed to be an interpretation of the Bylaw.TAKE NOTICE that the abovementioned Bylaw may be inspected at the following location:Regional District of Central Kootenay Offi ce 202 Lakeside Drive, Nelson, BCduring normal working hours—8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday except statutory holidays, or is available for viewing on the RDCK website athttp://www.rdck.ca/assets/Government/Documents/Bylaw%202414%20Loan%20Authorization%20Riondel%20Comm%20Centre.pdf under the heading “Government /Elections & Other Voting /AAPs & Referenda/Riondel Community Centre”
For further information on the Bylaw or the voting process, please call:Randy Matheson, Chief Election Offi cer or Anitra Winje, Deputy Chief Election Offi cerRegional District of Central Kootenay202 Lakeside Drive, Nelson, B.C.250-352-6665 / Toll Free: 1-800-268-7325
REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAYNOTICE OF OTHER VOTING (REFERENDUM)
RIONDEL COMMUNITY CENTRE LOAN AUTHORIZATION
BY LORNE ECKERSLEYAdvance Staff
Creston RCMP responded to 70 calls for service from Oct. 13-19, Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday.
October 13•Police are investigating wheth-
er a shotgun found in the water near Goat River Bridge has been used in a crime.
October 14•Police have notified the
Ministry of Transportation and Infrstructure about a vehicle that has been abandoned for several months near 32nd Avenue South.
•The Ontario owner of a cell-phone that made a 911 call attribut-ed it to pocket dialing.
•Police assisted Kelowna RCMP by making a next-of-kin notification on 10th Avenue North.
•A Peters Road resident report-ed shooting a dog that was attack-ing his chickens and rabbits. The dog owners came and took the ani-mal’s body away but would not identify themselves.
•A minor two-car collision was reported in a Northwest Boulevard parking lot.
•An erratic four-door sedan was reported on Highway 95 year Moyie River Bridge.
October 15•Police were called to a dispute
involving three males on 11th Avenue North. Police believe alco-hol and drugs were a factor.
•A complaint about a semi haul-ing chips and driving erratically on Lower Wynndel Road was received.
•A warrant for a male who left a Calgary hospital and crossed the border at Kingsgate led to his arrest in Bonners Ferry. Police picked him up at the border and took him to the hospital.
•A Sunset Boulevard resident reported hearing prowlers, who fled when the outside lights were turned on.
•Twenty-two-calibre ammuni-tion found on Canyon Street was turned in to police.
•Police were on hand to keep the peace when a male moved property from his 18th Avenue residence.
•A warning letter has been sent to
the owner of a vehicle that was parked in a crosswalk in front of Adam Robertson Elementary School.
•A break-in to a cabin on Kootenay Lake enabled thieves to get away with two kayaks, a paddleboat and some liquor. Two suspects were arrested in Nelson a short time later.
•A Quinton Road resident reported his dog was killed by a vehicle that didn’t stop. When located, the driver told police he swerved unsuccessfully to avoid the animal.
•RCMP assisted Nelson police in a missing person investigation. When located, the female said, “I’m not missing. I just moved to Creston.”
•Five young people who were carrying large items on Highway 3 resulted in three calls to police. When located, the group was haul-ing a chair, which they said had been given to them at a fruit stand. Police had them return the item to the fruit stand until their story could be confirmed.
•A logging truck reported to be impeding traffic by being parked on Canyon-Lister Road was gone when police arrived.
October 16•Following a collision on
Highway 21 South, one driver’s third traffic incident in a year and the second at that location, police wrote the superintendent of motor vehicles and recommended the driver’s licence be reviewed.
•Police attended a Sirdar residence as a part of an assault investigation.
•A “veiled threat” by a male to his ex-partner’s new boyfriend was reported from Meadow Creek Road.
•Police are investigating a Crime Stoppers tip about a drug sale in Riondel.
•Suspicious persons were report-ed near Pioneer Villa on Ash Street, but no damage was noted by police.
•Police were called when a female refused to leave a business on Canyon Street when asked.
•A vehicle that went off Highway 3 and into a ditch had to be towed out. No injuries were reported.
•No injuries resulted when a power pole was struck by a vehicle on Highway 3A near Crawford Creek Road.
October 17•A fire in a rental suite on
Cory Road is under investiga-tion to determine the cause.
•Police assisted Canadian border personnel in the destruc-tion of seized drugs.
•A male reportedly to be attempting to open a number of mailboxes said he was unable to remember which one was his.
•A female who arrived at the police station and informed she was in Creston looking for work as a clairvoyant and hadn’t eaten for a day was taken to hospital for a checkup.
•After reporting being involved in a fight on Erickson
Road, the complainant said he didn’t want to press charges.
•A stop check of 30 vehicles on Northwest Boulevard result-ed in verbal warnings to sever-al drivers with headlight prob-lems and another for not wear-ing a seatbelt.
October 18•A dispute that led to the dial-
ing of 911 involved alcohol and two incompatible roommates.
•A wallet found on Helen Street was returned to an owner grateful to have it and the con-tents back in his possession.
•Four tires were slashed on a vehicle on MacKay Road.
October 19•Police are investigating
ongoing complaints about shots being fired in a gravel pit on Lloyd Road.
•A check stop of 15 vehicles on Northwest Boulevard result-ed in a driver being issued a ticket for driving without the correct licence classification.
•A wallet was reported lost on Canyon Street.
•A dark brown Pontiac Grand Prix was reported to be speeding and passing on a dou-ble solid line on Highway 3.
•A 13-year-old girl who was allegedly slapped by her mother on Mather Road is now in custody of a provincial ministry while an investiga-tion takes place.
Resident shoots dog attacking chickens, rabbits
BY GREG NESTEROFFNelson Star
The change in term length from three years to four for civic officials didn’t really affect the number of candidates willing to commit them-selves to public office in West Kootenay/Boundary.
Although more are seeking posi-tions on municipal councils and fewer on regional districts and school boards compared to 2011, the overall numbers are quite close, showing an increase of about 3.6 per cent.
In 2011, 223 candidates ran for the 136 available positions in West Kootenay/Boundary’s 16 munici-palities, two regional districts, and four school districts.
This time, 231 candidates are seek-ing those same positions: 38 for mayor (versus 30 in 2011), 127 for councillor (114 three years ago), 26 for regional director (32 last time), and 40 for school trustee (down from 47).
Grand Forks produced the great-est number of candidates in both
2011 and 2014: Three years ago three people ran for mayor and 12 for council; this time there are five for mayor and 16 for council. .
The greatest increase in candi-dates was in Salmo, where in 2011 the mayor and council were elected by acclamation. This time there are three candidates for mayor and 12 for council, representing a net gain of 10 candidates.
The quietest race this time was in New Denver, where the entire coun-cil was elected unopposed, repre-senting a decrease of three candi-dates from 2011. Midway experi-enced a similar drop, although it will still have a vote for council.
On the regional district side, 17 candidates are running in Central Kootenay compared to 21 in 2011, and nine in Kootenay Boundary, versus 11 three years ago.
The number of school trustee candidates was virtually unchanged in three of four districts. The excep-tion is Kootenay Lake, where there are five fewer this time.
Candidates increase
24 www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca Thursday, October 23, 2014 Creston Valley Advance
Marilyn Schelle
Marilyn Schelle (nee Avery), a resident of Creston passed away October 9, 2014 at the age of 78 years.She was born December 7, 1935 to Ruth and Abe Avery in Creston, where Marilyn received her education.Marilyn married Ralph Schelle in Creston on June 29, 1955 and together the couple raised two daughters. She was a member of the Royal Purple in Elkford, BC.She was predeceased by her parents Ab and Ruth and brother Bruce Avery.Marilyn will be sadly missed by her husband Ralph, daughters Cimone Schelle and Laurie Schelle.
The Celebration of Life Service was heldon Tuesday October 14, 2014 at 1:00 pm
at G.F. Oliver Funeral Chapel,with astor arry aberstoc of ciatin .A private Interment of Ashes followed in
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Erickson, BC
December 7, 1935 ~ October 9, 2014
In Loving Memory of
Gary Wayne Breault November 4, 1952 ~ October 16, 2014
Gary is survived by his family- Janna, Sheere, Adrian,
Christopher, and Margaret.
A loving father and adventurer with multiple bird fi ndings
in the Creston Valley.
He will be missed by all.
Stanley Albert (Stan) Sorensen
Stanley Albert (Stan) Sorensen, age 79 years, passed away October 10, 2014 at the Creston Valley Hospital with family by his side.Stan was born to Violet and Simon Sorensen on January 7, 1935 at Creston, where he received his formal education.Stan worked at many numerous jobs such as beef farming, Wynndel Potato Shed, and farmed with Ivan Staples in his early years. He operated a driver/owner business known as Stan’s Trucking, transporting many a farmer’s livestock to auction. Stan married Ethel Walton on July 16, 1966 in the Holy Cross Catholic Church, Creston, BC. He was very active in the farming community being a member of the Creston Rodeo Association, assisting with the building of the
rst rodeo grounds in Creston, president of the Creston Cattleman’s Association and was involved in the obnoxious weed program in the Creston Valley. Stan loved to ride horses and rode his favorite horse Pete, up until the age of 78 years.He was predeceased by his parents May and Simon Sorensen; brothers Carl and Dave, and sister Annie Bjarnason.Stan will be dearly missed by his wife Ethel; children Bill Sorensen, Jenny Romano and Sam Sorensen; grandchildren Adam Winn, Will Sorensen, Brian Sorensen, Daniel Romano, Nevada Sorensen, Stanley Sorensen and Tabitha Romano, Cheyanne Sorensen and Samantha Sorensen; great-grandchildren Deagan Romano and Landon Sorensen; brother Johnny Sorensen; sisters Kay Harris, Marrion MacDonald and Barbara Dollan.
A private Celebration of Life Servicewas held at the family residence.
January 7, 1935 ~ October 10, 2014
Helen Romanchuk
Helen was born in Verigin, SK on November 26, 1922 and moved with her family to Forest Lawn in Calgary where she began grade school speaking only Russian. She fondly remembered the school children teaching her English.Helen Streliaf married John Romanchuk on her 21st birthday, Nov 26, 1943 in Calgary, AB where they lived until 1982 when they retired to Creston. They were married 46 years until John’s death in Creston in 1989.Helen was working as a riveter in a steel company when she married John. They had four children and Helen enjoyed being a homemaker and mother for an active family. When the children were nally in school she worked as a clerk in a variety store, a postmistress and retired from her favourite job working for Blaine McLean pharmacy in Calgary as their ostomy specialist.She enjoyed many hobbies and interests, was an avid gardener, but her favourites which she began when she retired were cross stitch and china painting. She was a life member of the United Church and dedicated most of her spare time to the UCW's at St. Matthews Church, Calgary and Trinity United Church, Creston.Helen is preceded in death by her parents Dora and Serge Streliaf; sisters Vera and Mary; brothers William and Peter; husband John; and her son Ken.Helen is survived by her brother Edward Streliaf, Canmore; her children Gord Romanchuk, Chilliwack, Don Romanchuk, Salt Spring Island, her daughter Kate Madeloso, Wolfville NS; and granddaughters Korayne Romanchuk, Dartmouth NS, Ryan Koelwyn, Toronto ON and Trina Romanchuk Brandon, Toronto ON.
There was a Celebration of Lifeat Trinity United Church, Creston
on Wednesday, October 15 at 2 pm.The family of Helen Romanchuk wishes to thank
the staff of Crest View Village, the nurses and doctors of Creston Valley Hospital, her dear friend
June Moseanko and the members ofTrinity United Church.
Memorial donations may be given toTrinity United Church CrestonBox 87, Creston, BC, V0B 1G0.
Helen Romanchuk, 91,of Creston BC, formerly
of Calgary AB, passed away on October 11, 2014,
in Creston BC.
November 26, 1922~
October 11, 2014
Gerardus Vendrik
Gerard was born in Kockengen Utrecht, in the Netherlands. He immigrated to Canada in 1954 and settled in the Creston Valley where he worked for many years at the Sunset Seed Company.He was a gentle, sincere man that many new simply as "Uncle". Never having married, his brother Kees' children were his close family and three generations were touched by his kind, honest ways.He is predeceased by four siblings. Gerard leaves behind his remaining sister Bep in Holland as well as numerous nieces, nephews and their families. In Canada, he leaves behind his sister-in-law Wilma Vendrik of Creston; nephew Andy Vendrik of Creston; nieces Elizabeth (Dave) Bjarnason of Cranbrook and Heidi (Don) Bjarnason of Creston as well as their children and grandchildren.He was man of deep faith and longed for the day when he would be at rest in the arms of his loving saviour, Jesus Christ.
"Absent from the body, present with the Lord." II Corinthians 5:8.
No service will be held.Friends wishing to make a memorial contribution
may do so to Samaritan's Purse at www.samaritanspurse.ca.
The family wishes to extend a special thanks toDr. Griffeon for his kind care.
January 7, 1925~
October 15, 2014
Obituaries
Funeral Homes Coming Events Information Personals Obituaries ObituariesIn Loving Memory Of
GERARDUS VENDRIKPassed Away October 15, 2014
Age 89 yearsResidence Canyon
CremationA private family service to be held at a later date
CremationFriends wishing to make a memorial contribution
may do so to theSamaritan’s Purse
PO Box 3000Boone, North Carolina,
28607
In Loving Memory OfHAROLD DICKEY
Passed Away October 12, 2014Age 79 years
Residence CrestonCremation
Scattering of AshesClayton Funeral Home
Rose GardensQuesnel, BC
In Loving Memory OfHILDEGARD STENGL
Passed Away October 19,2014
Age 92Residence Creston, BC
Cremation No Service
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FACILITY MAINTENANCE 1F ll Time osition ene ted
Regional District of Central KootenayCreston & District Community Complex
The Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK), Creston & District Community Complex is currently in iting applications for the full time, bene ted position of Facility aintenance . This position will perform s illed, operational, building maintenance, grounds eeping, and janitorial wor at the newly enhanced Creston & District Community Complex. or is on an assigned shift under the super ision of the Facility aintenance Foreman. The wor primarily in ol es monitoring refrigeration plants, ice ma ing, ice resurfacing, operating and maintaining pool e uipment, grounds eeping, underta ing and performing limited construction reno ation and building maintenance projects, and performing janitorial and house eeping duties. The Facility aintenance person must exercise care in routine dealings with other employees and pro ide assistance to the public using the facilities.
Required Training and Experience Completion of rade or e ui alent alid BC Dri er’s icense Refrigeration afety wareness Certi cate B.C. ar s & Recreation ssociation e el I ool perator Certi cate or e ui alent
referred uali cations Transportation of Dangerous oods Certi cate Building er ices Training ports Field aintenance Certi cate minimum of one years experience in arena and swimming pool operations tandard First id and C R I Certi cate B.C. afety uthority Ice Facility perator Certi cate or higher uali cation
The Facility aintenance position wor s shift wor (4 hours per wee ). The successful candidate must complete a satisfactory Criminal Record Chec and Dri er’s bstract as a condition of employment. This is a union position (C ocal 4 ) and has a base wage rate of . per hour plus bene ts as per the Collecti e greement.
The RDCK may, at its discretion, hire a person at a lower le el if no uali ed/suitable candidate is found at the Facility aintenance le el.
This posting, along with the job description, can be seen on our website at www.rdc .ca under Administration, Jobs & Employment Opportunities. If you ha e any uestions about this opportunity please email uman Resources at the email below. ubmit all applications including a co er letter, proof of certi cates and training to RDCK uman Resources by email or traditional mail. pplications will be accepted until noon on Thursday October 30, 2014.
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PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors within Electoral Areas A, D and E of the Regional District of Central Kootenay that “Other Voting” is necessary to determine if the electors are in favour of the Regional District of Central Kootenay Board adopting Bylaw No 2420, being the “Regional District of Central Kootenay Local Conservation Fund Service Establishment Bylaw No. 2420, 2014.” The vote will be conducted in accordance with the Local Government Act. The question to be asked to obtain the assent of the electors shall be:
“Are you in favour of the Regional District of Central Kootenay adopting Bylaw No. 2420 to provide for the following:
• establish the ‘Regional District of Central Kootenay Local Conservation Fund Service’ within Electoral Areas A, D and E; and• annually requisition up to a maximum of $106,500 or $0.062 per $1,000 of taxable assessed value of land and improvements, whichever is greater, to be
collected by an annual parcel tax?””
GENERAL VOTING DAYThe General Voting Day will be on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Local Time for qualifi ed electors within Electoral Areas A, D and E at the following locations
VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA A: Riondel Community Centre, 1511 Eastman Ave., Riondel Crawford Bay Community Hall, 16232 Wadds Rd, Boswell Community Hall, 12374 Boswell Rd, Boswell Wynndel Community Hall, 5127 Wynndel Rd
VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA D: Argenta Community Hall, Argenta Road Lardeau Valley Community Hall, Hwy 31, Meadow Creek Kaslo Legion Hall, 403 5th St, Kaslo Ainsworth Community Hall, Hwy 31, Ainsworth
ADVANCE VOTING OPPORTUNITYThe Advance Voting Opportunity shall be on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Local Time at:
VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA A: Riondel Community Centre, 1511 Eastman Ave., Riondel Crawford Bay Community Hall, 16232 Wadds Rd Creston Community Complex, 312—19th Avenue N, Creston
VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA D: Lardeau Valley Community Hall, Hwy 31, Meadow Creek Kaslo Legion Hall, 403 5th St, Kaslo
VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA E: Balfour Senior Hall, 8435 Busk St, Balfour RDCK Offi ce, 202 Lakeside Dr., Nelson
ELIGIBLE ELECTORSThe Local Government Act sets out the qualifi cations for electors entitled to vote at Local Government Voting and if you qualify, and you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by completing the required application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the following qualifi cations:
Qualifi cations for a Resident Elector:Must meet all of the following requirements:
(a) on General Voting Day you must be eighteen years of age or older;(b) you must be a Canadian citizen;(c) you must have resided in British Columbia in accordance with Section 52 of the Local Government Act for at least six months immediately preceding the day of registration;(d) you must have resided within the area in which the vote is taking place in accordance with Section 52 of the Local Government Act for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration;(e) you must not be disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting on General Voting Day or be otherwise disqualifi ed by law.
Resident electors not on the Voters List and wishing to register on voting day will be required to produce 2 pieces of identifi cation(at least one with a signature). The identifi cation must prove identity and residency.
Qualifi cations for Non-Resident Elector:Must meet all of the following requirements:
(a) (b) (c) and (e) above plus(d) you must have been the registered owner of real property within the area in which the vote is taking place for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration;(d)(i) the only persons who are registered owners of the real property, either as joint tenants or tenants in common, and are individuals who are not holding the property in trust for a corporation or another trust;(f) you must not be entitled to register as a resident elector for that area;(g) if there are more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector.
Non-Resident electors not on the Voters List and wishing to register on voting day will be required to produce the following:
• 2 pieces of identifi cation (at least one with a signature) to prove identity;• Evidence of ownership in the real property (any of the following):
• state of title certifi cate;• registered agreement for sale;• property tax notice (last); or• property assessment notice (last).
• Written consent of a majority of the other property owners (if any) that they are entitled to register for the jointly-owned property. (Consent form may be downloaded from RDCK website at http://www.rdck.ca/assets/Government/Documents/Non-resident%20Elector%20consent%20form.pdf
Pursuant to the Local Government Act, no corporation is entitled to be registered as an elector or have a representative registered as an elector and no corporation is entitled to vote.
VOTING BY MAIL:Mail ballots are available to qualifi ed elector in the following instances:(a) persons who have a physical disability, illness, or injury that affects their ability to vote at an other voting opportunity; and(b) persons who expect to be absent from the Regional District of Central Kootenay on General Voting Day and Advance Voting Day.
Qualifi ed electors wishing to vote by mail ballot must apply to the RDCK before 4:00 p.m., November 13, 2014.
SYNOPSIS OF BYLAW NO 2420As required by the Local Government Act, the following is a synopsis of the Bylaws to be submitted for the assent of the electors:• to establish a service for the purpose of establishing a Local Conservation Fund in Electoral Areas A, D and E by collecting up to $15 per parcel of land
annually;
This synopsis is not intended to be and is not deemed to be an interpretation of the Bylaw.
TAKE NOTICE that the abovementioned Bylaw may be inspected at the following location:
Regional District of Central Kootenay Offi ce 202 Lakeside Drive, Nelson, BC
during normal working hours—8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday except statutory holidays, or is available for viewing on the RDCK website athttp://www.rdck.ca/assets/Government/Documents/Bylaw%202420%20Local%20Conservation%20Fund%20Service%20Est.pdf under the heading “Government /Elections & Other Voting /AAPs & Referenda/Local Conservation Fund Service”For further information on the Bylaw or the voting process, please call:Randy Matheson, Chief Election Offi cer or Anitra Winje, Deputy Chief Election Offi cerRegional District of Central Kootenay202 Lakeside Drive, Nelson, B.C.250-352-6665 / Toll Free: 1-800-268-7325
REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAYNOTICE OF OTHER VOTING (REFERENDUM)
LOCAL CONSERVATION FUND SERVICE – AREAS A, D AND E
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors within a portion of Electoral Area C (West Creston/Creston Flats) of the Regional District of Central Kootenay that “Other Voting” is necessary to determine if the electors are in favour of the Regional District of Central Kootenay Board adopting Bylaws No 2408 and 2409, being the “West Creston Fire Protection Area Service Establishment Bylaw No. 2408, 2014” and “West Creston Fire Protection Service Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 2409, 2014.” The vote will be conducted in accordance with the Local Government Act. The question to be asked to obtain the assent of the electors shall be:
“Are you in favour of the Regional District of Central Kootenay adopting Bylaw Nos. 2408 and 2409 to provide for the following:
• The establishment of the ‘West Creston Fire Protection Area Service’ for a portion of Electoral Area C (West Creston) with an annual requisition (including the repayment of borrowing) not to exceed $117,000 or $1.50 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements within the service area, whichever is greater; and
• the borrowing of up to $450,000 dollars, for a term not to exceed 20 years, for capital purposes associated with the construction of a building and acquisition of fi xtures, furniture, and services related to the provision of services for the West Creston Fire Protection Service Area?”
GENERAL VOTING DAYThe General Voting Day will be on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Local Time for qualifi ed electors within a portion of Electoral Area C at the following location:
VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA C: West Creston Community Hall, 1350 W. Creston Rd.
ADVANCE VOTING OPPORTUNITYThe Advance Voting Opportunity shall be on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Local Time at:
VOTING STATION—ELECTORAL AREA C: West Creston Community Hall, 1350 W. Creston Rd.
ELIGIBLE ELECTORSThe Local Government Act sets out the qualifi cations for electors entitled to vote at Local Government Voting and if you qualify, and you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by completing the required application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the following qualifi cations:
Qualifi cations for a Resident Elector:Must meet all of the following requirements:
(a) on General Voting Day you must be eighteen years of age or older;(b) you must be a Canadian citizen;(c) you must have resided in British Columbia in accordance with Section 52 of the Local Government Act for at least six months immediately preceding the day of registration;(d) you must have resided within the area in which the vote is taking place in accordance with Section 52 of the Local Government Act for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration;(e) you must not be disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting on General Voting Day or be otherwise disqualifi ed by law.
Resident electors not on the Voters List and wishing to register on voting day will be required to produce 2 pieces of identifi cation (at least one with a signature). The identifi cation must prove identity and residency.
Qualifi cations for Non-Resident Elector:Must meet all of the following requirements:
(a) (b) (c) and (e) above plus(d) you must have been the registered owner of real property within the area in which the vote is taking place for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration;(d)(i) the only persons who are registered owners of the real property, either as joint tenants or tenants in common, and are individuals who are not holding the property in trust for a corporation or another trust;(f) you must not be entitled to register as a resident elector for that area;(g) if there are more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector.
Non-Resident electors not on the Voters List and wishing to register on voting day will be required to produce the following:
• 2 pieces of identifi cation (at least one with a signature) to prove identity;• Evidence of ownership in the real property (any of the following):
• state of title certifi cate;• registered agreement for sale;• property tax notice (last); or• property assessment notice (last).
• Written consent of a majority of the other property owners (if any) that they are entitled to register for the jointly-owned property. (Consent form may be downloaded from RDCK website at http://www.rdck.ca/assets/Government/Documents/Non-resident%20Elector%20consent%20form.pdf
Pursuant to the Local Government Act, no corporation is entitled to be registered as an elector or have a representative registered as an elector and no corporation is entitled to vote.
VOTING BY MAIL:Mail ballots are available to qualifi ed elector in the following instances:(a) persons who have a physical disability, illness, or injury that affects their ability to vote at an other voting opportunity; and(b) persons who expect to be absent from the Regional District of Central Kootenay on General Voting Day and Advance Voting Day.
Qualifi ed electors wishing to vote by mail ballot must apply to the RDCK before 4:00 p.m., November 13, 2014.
SYNOPSIS OF BYLAW NOs 2408 and 2409As required by the Local Government Act, the following is a synopsis of the Bylaws to be submitted for the assent of the electors:• The establishment of the ‘West Creston Fire Protection Area Service’ for a portion of Electoral Area C (West
Creston) with an annual requisition (including the repayment of borrowing) not to exceed $117,000 or $1.50 per $1,000 of net taxable value of land and improvements within the service area, whichever is greater; and
• the borrowing of up to $450,000 dollars, for a term not to exceed 20 years, for capital purposes associated with the construction of a building and acquisition of fi xtures, furniture, and services related to the provision of services for the West Creston Fire Protection Service Area?”
This synopsis is not intended to be and is not deemed to be an interpretation of the Bylaw.
TAKE NOTICE that the abovementioned Bylaw may be inspected at the following location:
Regional District of Central Kootenay Offi ce 202 Lakeside Drive, Nelson, BC
during normal working hours—8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday except statutory holidays, or is available for viewing on the RDCK website athttp://www.rdck.ca/assets/Government/Documents/Bylaw%202408%20West%20Creston%20Fire.pdf and http://www.rdck.ca/assets/Government/Documents/Bylaw%202409%20West%20Creston%20Fire%20Loan%20Auth.pdf under the heading “Government /Elections & Other Voting /AAPs & Referenda/West Creston Fire Protection”
For further information on the Bylaw or the voting process, please call:
Randy Matheson, Chief Election Offi cer or Anitra Winje, Deputy Chief Election Offi cerRegional District of Central Kootenay202 Lakeside Drive, Nelson, B.C.250-352-6665 / Toll Free: 1-800-268-7325
REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAYNOTICE OF OTHER VOTING (REFERENDUM)WEST CRESTON FIRE PROTECTION AREA SERVICE
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This is one of five profiles on 2014 mayoral candidates for the Town of Creston. Running for mayor are Rhonda Barter, Bill Hutchinson, Jared LeBlanc, Tom Mann and incumbent Ron Toyota.
BY LORNE ECKERSLEYAdvance Staff
Rhonda Barter thinks there are a lot of things that can be done to ensure a brighter future for Creston and that she has what it takes to lead the way.
The former educator, busi-ness owner and current full-time student has plenty of cam-paign experience, having unsuccessfully challenged for the Nelson-Creston NDP nomi-nation in 2008 and finishing eighth in the race for Creston town council in 2011.
But she has continued to prepare herself for public office, earning a 4.0-plus grade point average in her pursuit of a business degree in manage-ment/leadership from Thompson Rivers University’s Open Learning program.
“I love this community,” she said. “But I have seen it decline in opportunities and sustain-ability. It would be great to have this valley a place where economically it would be via-ble for my children to move back here.”
The 18-year Creston Valley resident raised three children and operated two businesses here, and has been an active vol-unteer for many organizations.
“I would like to see this town marketed better, with a focus on it being the agricul-tural sustainable food capital of Canada,” she said.
Focusing on what we have here, and making it a good place to stay and shop, is important.
“You don’t guilt people about shopping locally — that’s a bad approach and it doesn’t work.”
Barter is not shy in taking on challenges. She was a home-school parent and her oldest
daughter never attended public school classes before starting her post-secondary education — she graduated this year with a bachelor of science in nursing degree.
“I have also taught my three chil-dren to be ethical, active communi-ty members,” she said.
Included in her personal history is a three-year Bible school diploma and work as a church minister and administrator.
The arts have always been important to her. She is a violinist and teacher, has led children’s choirs and been involved in drama and art, teaching in both areas.
“I have volunteered for thou-sands of hours in the Creston Valley, the Fraser Valley and throughout much of the world,” she said.
Courses in her business studies include marketing, accounting, economics, law, financial manage-ment, leadership, international business, change management and environmental studies. She said financial management of the town is important.
“We need to find better cost effi-ciencies so people will have a better life here,” she said. “People on fixed incomes still have to pay for food and shelter and taxes, and it isn’t easy.”
“We should also be marketing Creston as one of the most social, friendly places you will find.”
The longtime West Creston resi-dent who now lives in town thinks residency is important.
“I think you should live here — then people can tell you things that are going on. I would be visible in all areas of the community, not just the coffee shops.”
Her interests include global per-spectives and local needs.
“Injustice is very important to me. When I see people who aren’t treated equitably, I wonder how can we not get involved.”
Like many residents, Barter worries about the growing num-ber of vacancies in the business core. She doesn’t think the situa-tion is hopeless.
“I have lots of ideas about what we can do, and I know a lot of oth-ers who do, too,” she said. “We need to bring them in on the con-versation.”
Public life might put off other-wise qualified people from seeking public office, but Barter said she is up to the challenge.
“Spotlights never scare me,” she said. “Politics is all about being approachable, which I am.”
Barter running to create stability, opportunities
SubmittedCreston mayoral candidate Rhonda Barter.
Currently there are two outlets to serve the citizens of the Creston Valley and beyond.The main store sells clothing, shoes, wide selection of crafts, linens, toys, jewellery, puzzles for all ages and sizes.Gleaners Too sells a variety of housewares, collectables, books, hardware, CDs, DVDs, small and large appliances, furniture and other miscellaneous goods.
Main Store Hours:807 Canyon Street
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Gleaners Too Hours:113 - 8 Ave. N. 250-428-4106
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Food Bank Hours:807 Canyon Street(behind Main Store)
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Drop-Off Hours:(both locations) Gates Open:
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This is one of five profiles on 2014 mayor-al candidates for the Town of Creston. Running for mayor are Rhonda Barter, Bill Hutchinson, Jared LeBlanc, Tom Mann and incumbent Ron Toyota.
BY LORNE ECKERSLEYAdvance Staff
Bill Hutchinson is a familiar face around Creston, where he walks the streets with a doggy bag in hand and dog at his side, taking note of details that catch his engineer’s eye.
“I don’t always like what I see,” he said. “My wife told me, ‘You won’t let go — why don’t you just run?’ ”
Hutchinson retired as Creston’s chief administrative officer in 2006 after more than a quarter-century in the town’s employ. He first came to Creston in 1979 on a visit from North Ontario, where he was an engineer with a consulting firm.
“I worked for Stanley Engineering and travelled all over northern B.C. for them,” he said.
In 1980, the works superintendent position in Creston was advertised and he jumped at the opportunity to relocate and live in the same community as his brother.
Elidio Salvador was mayor at the time and it was Lela Irvine who hired him into the CAO’s position.
“Lela and I had an understanding — you do your job and I’ll look after mine,” he said. “When she lost her last election the community lost a great individual. …
“I worked for four mayors (Don Leben and Joe Snopek, too) and they were all good experiences.”
When Hutchinson looks at the list of candidates for mayor and council he sees a couple of areas that concern him.
“I think it is notable that some people who are running aren’t taxpayers here,” he said. “Living in town, I feel the impact of decisions at tax time. I appreciate the difficulty that some seniors have in paying their taxes and bills.”
It also concerns him that some candi-dates might not even have attended a council meeting. He suggests that all candi-dates should be required to take a pre-election course to qualify their nomination. It was an issue to Irvine, too, who took the
proposal to the Union of BC Municipalities, where it failed to gain support.
“As CAO I ran my own course for newly elected councillors,” he said.
Hutchinson has attended council meet-ings over the years, often representing local developers, and he worries that fiscal oversight isn’t always evident.
“Financial responsibility is where I see council lacking.”
He points out the recent addition of parks and amenities that are often spear-headed by service clubs, leaving the town with the responsibility to maintain them, which over the long term is more costly than their construction.
“When I was administrator it was my job to point out that it’s nice to have facili-ties but they have to be maintained after they’re built.”
The recently opened dog park is an example of questionable decision-making, he said.
“I walk my dog around town every day and there has never been a shortage of places to walk. Was there really a need for the town to provide a place?”
He objects to Mayor Ron Toyota’s trip to Creston’s sister city of Kaminoho, Japan, last year as part of an economic development trip to Asia.
“Our relationship with Kaminoho was never intended to send people over with tax money. It was a huge waste and as mayor I’ll see it won’t happen again.”
Travel to national conferences is an unnecessary expense, too, he said.
“Last year, seven people from the town went to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Lela and I went to one in Calgary and we found it interesting, but
not really valuable for small municipali-ties. I question the need, and the cost must be tremendous. This year, two town coun-cillors who went to Niagara Falls aren’t even running again.”
As he walks through the downtown core and sees empty storefronts, Hutchinson says he is thinking about how other com-munities dealt with similar problems.
“Victoria did it,” he said. “They had a downtown area that was in bad shape.”
For five years, no taxes were collected from property owners, allowing them to fix up buildings and then offer low rents.
“It was very successful and now it is a key part of their downtown, a very nice area to walk through.”
A five-year tax break for the Ramada hotel and conference centre, though, strikes him as “very generous.”
“It sends the wrong message to people who own businesses — it’s unfair to exist-ing business.”
And a downtown revitalization pro-gram that redesigned the Cook Street parking lot still rankles him.
“We lost 27 parking spots to revitaliza-tion,” he said. “It wasn’t necessary.”
Not all of his observations are negative, though. As a cancer survivor in the last year, he appreciates the work done to recruit physicians.
“We have to sustain our number of docs and do what we can to keep them.”
Although he was invited to be part of the Action Creston slate, Hutchinson opted out.
“I am glad for their interest in me, but the taxpayers will decide. I will work with anyone. I am my own man.”
He also refuses campaign donations from developers, he said.
Former administrator making run for mayor
Lorne EckersleyCreston mayoral candidate Bill Hutchinson.
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Submitted(From left) East Kootenay Foundation for Health executive director Donna Grainger accepts proceeds from the Pink Garden Tea’s Debbie Graham, joined by with Creston Valley Hospital site manager Chris Ondrik, artist Linda Panchyshyn, Creston/Fernie health service administrator Shirley Mercier, Sheilah Moore of the EKFH and artist Laura Leeder.
