Eagle Valley News, December 31, 2014

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NEWSVol. 59 No. 53 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com

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Monday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509.Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.

Every Wed. - Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for info.Every Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5.Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity

Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Sicamous Health UnitEvery 4th Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Carol 250-836-3135 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Friday - Pool Tournament at the

Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Everyone Welcome.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Lunch at noon. Everyone Welcome. At the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.Last Sat. of the Month - Ladies’ Auxiliary Dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion at 6 pm. Tickets sold until the Friday before at the Legion. No tickets at the door.Sundays - Candlelit Karma 6:30 pm. Warm & Gentle. Class by donation. Funds go towards community causes.Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 1 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 pmEvery Sat. - Morning Sicamous Royal Canadian Legion Branch 99 tailgate market – Everyone welcome – sell anything – for details call Murray @250-836-2224.

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AWARDFor all those who volunteered and attended the 2014 Sicamous Community Christmas Dinner, a special thank you to Dianna Stooshnov for all her hard work and dedication to this annual event.Thanks Dianna.

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JanuaryTen members of

Shuswap Search and Rescue extricated a snowmobile from a gully at 4 p.m. on Sat-urday, Jan. 4. The sled-der, from Drayton Val-ley, Alta., had gone into the gully about 20 kilo-metres up the Owlhead trail toward Blue Lake.

Property assess-ments in the Shuswap dropped compared to the previous year, al-though the change was modest. For Sicamous, a residential property valued at $318,000 in 2013 is now valued at $310,000.

Sicamous’ Recre-ation and Wellness pro-gram will move ahead with a $75,000 injec-tion from the Sicamous and Electoral Area E economic opportunity fund.

Doctors invited residents from Vernon, Salmon Arm, Lumby, Sicamous, Sorrento and surrounding ar-eas to answer a short survey, which includ-ed questions about whether or not you have a family doctor, or visit walk-in clinics or emergency rooms; how important it is for you to have a family doctor

and what, if any, bar-riers exist in accessing primary health care.

Anyone who knows Bob Evans knows he has a passion for comic books and superheroes. Evans had recently released his first self-produced comic book, True North.

The Sicamous Ea-gles were on the hunt for a new goaltender. Kris Joyce was taken out early in a game against the 100 Mile House Wranglers in what general manager Wayne March called a deliberate attempt to in-jure. In another contest against the Kelowna Chiefs, back-up goalie Chris Turner received a concussion from a kick to the head.

Sicamous council’s proposed grant funding cuts raised the ire of at

least one community organization, the Eagle Valley Arts Council (EVAC). In response, EVAC president Carla Krens questioned where council’s priorities are. Grant requests for the year totalled more than $64,000, while only $37,650 was budgeted for grants funding.

Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap (LASS) outreach co-ordinator. Jennifer Findlay be-gan a letter-writing campaign for ongoing program funding. She had hoped that after last year’s struggle to restore provincial fund-ing for literacy co-ordi-nators, the issue would have been resolved.

More than 500 driv-ers wound up making an unexpected stop in Sicamous during an RCMP commercial ve-hicle check.

On Jan. 22, at 3:13 p.m., police and a con-stable from BCSPCA visited a local resi-dence to check on the health of horses and a dog.

Fluctuating ava-lanche conditions shouldn’t prevent snowmobilers from enjoying the backcoun-try in the Eagle Val-ley. While avalanche danger was high in the province, Eagle Val-ley Snowmobile Club general manager Gord Bushell said all of the local sledding areas – Blue Lake, Eagle Pass, Owlhead and Queest could be enjoyed at any time, even when the danger rating is ex-treme, provided riders stuck to the meadows.

About once a month, Isabel Stadnicki re-ceived a telephone call from a man in Arizona,

a treasure hunter seek-ing pertinent informa-tion. The caller will run through a list of ques-tions, which Stadnicki answers to the best of her ability and, when they’re done, he’ll say, “the cheque is in the mail,” and the call ends. This anecdote represents an atypical request of Stadnicki’s unusual abilities. More commonly she is sought out as sort of a medical problem solver, who uses her 30-plus years of train-ing in parapsychology to heal mind and body. “I don’t like the word ‘psychic’ and I don’t wish to be referred to as a psychic. It’s intu-ition,” said Stadnicki.

The Sicamous Midget Jr. Eagles wrapped their regular season with command-ing wins of 9-3 and 9-0 in Clearwater. This brings the Eagles’ sea-son total to nine wins and three losses, fin-ishing second place in Tier 4. However, due to BC Hockey regulations and because it is a com-bined team, with play-ers from North Okana-gan and Revelstoke, the boys have been moved to Tier 3 for playoffs.

February

Firefighters received a call to put out a resi-dential fire on McLean-

This week the News reviews the headlines from January to June.

YEAR IN REVIEW

Sledder rescued from trail on Owlhead

Crystal clear: Parapsychologist Isabel Stadnicki has been using her unique skills to help people for more than 30 years. File photo

See Malakwa on page 3

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MacPerson Road. “Fortunately, though

there was smoke dam-age and a bit of a nice sized burn mark up the wall…..the residents, they were able to extin-guish it and got the kids out…” said Fire Chief Brett Ogino.

A Malakwa resident was taken to hospi-tal after being shot in the shoulder during a home invasion. RCMP spokesperson, Const. Leslie Smith says police continue to investigate what they’re calling a targeted home invasion at a Malakwa residence on Feb. 12.

In November, Si-camous’ former rec-reation and wellness co-ordinator West Martin-Patterson left the district to take on a similar position work-ing with seniors in Salmon Arm. District administrator Heidi Frank told the News that with Martin-Patterson’s departure, the programs he oversaw are on hold until a new co-ordinator can be found.

On Jan. 27, Salmon Arm Provincial Court Judge Roy Dickey sen-tenced Adam James Elford to two years less a day in prison, and Jordan Jay Thomson to 18 months. In addi-tion, they each received a two year probation

order and a mandatory firearms prohibition. The charges stem from an April 18, 2012 inci-dent in Malakwa.

The Sicamous Ea-gles managed to topple KIJHL front runners, the Kamloops Storm with a 7-5 tally dur-ing one of four games played between Jan. 29 and Feb. 2—one of the more arduous yet re-warding weekends for the Eagles in a while.

Ray Hansen said plans are on place to re-open the former Louisi-ana Pacific mill. Han-sen, who lives onsite at the mill, will be general manager for Elite Forest Products Ltd.’s Malak-wa operation. He says the property was pur-chased in the spring by Lower Mainland inves-tors who plan to have the mill up and running by mid to late spring.

On Wednesday, Feb. 12, an agriculture focus group took place to help shape the Grow Shus-wap Agricultural Strat-egy. The purpose of an agriculture strategy is to support the industry, provide protection of agriculturally-capable land and integrate exist-ing economic and land-use policies.

District council opt-ed to keep things status quo with regard to the requirements of any person or group wish-ing to use municipal property for any kind of event. This re-affirma-tion of existing policy stems from a direction to staff to draft a policy enabling the district to better assist community groups with various events.

Two organizations

that provide important social services in the Shuswap are receiving $53,000 from the B.C. government’s Commu-nity Gaming Grant Pro-gram. The Eagle Valley Community Support Society (Sicamous) re-ceived $38,000, while the Salmon Arm 4-H Advisory Council was awarded $15,000.

District of Sicamous unionized employ-ees received an 11 per cent wage increase fol-lowing a recent settle-ment of a new collec-tive agreement. Both the district and CUPE 1908 announced the completion of the six-year agreement, which is retroactive to March 2012 when the previous agreement expired.

Shea Weber and Team Canada shutout Sweden with a 3-0 vic-tory to take gold in the winter Olympics.

“Shea Weber rep-resented us like the leader he is and we’re just so proud of him,” said Trouton, adding the whole is buzzing over Weber, and already people are looking to celebrate his Olym-pic contribution when he returns home in the summer.

On Feb. 23 at 3:20 a.m., Sicamous RCMP

saw a suspicious truck and trailer traveling through the community. When officers tried to stop the vehicle, the driver drove off. Even-tually the suspect lost control and the vehicle slid into a ditch. The single occupant then fled on foot. He was then tracked by police dog to a nearby proper-ty where he was found hiding in a motorhome. The truck, trailer and sleds were registered out of Saskatchewan and stolen from Revel-stoke that morning.

The Columbia Shus-wap Regional District directors are wading into the political mine-field that involves their

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YEAR IN REVIEW

Malakwa resident shot in home invasion

See Report on page 5

Mutual support: Enderby students showed their support for the Sicamous Eagles, who tutor in Enderby. File photo


Following are highlights from Tom Fletcher’s year-end interview with NDP leader John Horgan.

TF: The B.C. Liberal government has given every indication they’re going to proceed with the Site C dam on the Peace River. What do you think?

JH: I’ve always main-tained that it’s a good proj-ect, but it’s a question of when to add another $8-9-10-12 billion onto the backs of ratepayers. First of all, go to the B.C. Utilities Com-mission and find out if this is the power you need and if this is the time to build it. The government refuses to do that, and I think that’s just an Achilles heel in this process.

TF: You voted for the liquefied natural gas income tax to provide certainty, and then you immediately said you would work to increase the LNG tax in 2017, before

any major project could be started. How is that cer-tainty?

JH: I thought it was im-portant the investment com-munity in this sector knew there was bipartisan support for LNG in British Colum-bia. But we went from a sev-en per cent [tax] to a 3.5 per cent because of a softening market. If there is a decline in return to the province be-cause of a softening market, then surely over a 25-year period – not just between now and 2017, but if the market conditions change and prices go up – I think British Columbians would want their government to make sure they were getting a fair share of that benefit.

TF: Why did you vote against the LNG environ-mental legislation?

JH: They said prior to the election that LNG would be the greenest in the world. And then when they tabled legislation they left out 70 per cent of the emissions from upstream activity.

TF: Gordon Campbell’s great goal for greenhouse gases, 33 per cent reduction by 2020, can that be reached assuming a substantial LNG development?

JH: I find it difficult to believe they’re going to achieve those results. [En-vironment Minister] Mary Polak has a different point of view, and our job as op-position is to hold them ac-countable to the numbers they passed into law, and we’re going to do that.

One of the three sectors, housing, energy and trans-portation, where emission profiles can be managed downward is transporta-tion. And the government has wasted 18 months talk-ing about a referendum on [Metro Vancouver transit.]

TF: What’s your top pri-ority for 2015?

JH: I think the public is going to increasingly find affordability issues to be the challenge. We didn’t spend as much time as I had hoped to on hydro rate increases,

ICBC. When the govern-ment balanced the budget, they did it by selling assets, and by increasing costs at their Crown corporations and then pulling that rev-enue in for budget purposes.

We’re going to have to use new technologies and means of communication to better explain to people what the government’s do-ing to them.

TF: What should happen with the agricultural land re-serve?

JH: I don’t think there was a groundswell of op-position to the ALR, quite the opposite in fact, and the commission has, in my opinion, infinite flexibility to meet the demands of de-velopment in northern areas as well as urban centres.

I’m going to make sure that [agriculture critic] Lana Popham, who as you know is fearless on this issue, is let loose on [Agriculture Min-ister] Norm Letnick, and we’re going to dog this issue up to the next election.

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Rural roads also deserve attention

OPINION

There is no question the provincial government has done a lot with the North Okanagan’s highways, when

you consider upgrades to highways 6 and 97A, as well as the upper-level route between Oyama and Winfield. But there are a lot of problems once you get off the major routes.

The Electoral Area Advisory Committee has provided the Ministry of Transportation with a list of projects it wants to see tackled over the next 10 years. The projects include the resurfacing of the Baxter bridge in rural Lumby and a traffic light at Highway 97B and Springbend Road in rural Enderby.

Vernon residents who head out to Mabel Lake Provincial Park for the summer well understand the need for resurfacing the Lumby-Mabel Lake Road.

“There are parts that should be upgraded and are dangerous,” said Rick Fairbairn, rural Lumby director.

The directors’ demands also include two projects that would improve safety at two high-profile intersections in Greater Vernon, Highway 97 and Stickle Road and Highway 97 and Birnie Road. Both have been the site of fatalities or extremely serious accidents and it is time for the ministry to take both intersections seriously.

The director for rural Falkand-Salmon Val-ley-Ranchero in the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, Rene Talbot’s longtime calls for improvements to rural roads has seemingly fallen on deaf ears.

Some may question why directors are lob-bying Victoria for action, but roads and high-ways in areas outside of municipalities fall specifically under the mandate of the Minis-try of Transportation. Residents in rural com-munities pay taxes to the province and expect a certain level of service in return. While the ministry is developing a 10-year transporta-tion plan, let’s hope that it doesn’t take that long to improve safety for motorists in the North Okanagan.

-Vernon Morning Star

John Horgan on LNG, climate and farmlandBy Tom FletcherNews Columnist


Land Act and Mines Act:Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown LandTake notice that Darin Northway of Sicamous, BC, has made application to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO) for a Crown land disposition for a license for the purpose of developing a gravel pit covering Those parts of Lots 1 and 2 Block 3 Section 5 Township 23, Range 6 West of the 6th Meridian, Kamloops Division of the Yale District Plan 1883 except plans 4832 and NEP68365 and containing 3.51 hectares more or less, located in the vicinity of Malakwa. Darin Northway has also made application for a Mines Act Permit to the Ministry of Energy and Mines to operate the proposed quarry.The Lands File Number that has been established for this application is 3412881. The Mines File Number that has been established for this application is 1620378. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Project Manager, Darin Holloran, Lands Officer, Queest Pit, at 2501 - 14th Avenue, Vernon, BC V1T 8Z1. Comments will be received by MFLNRO and MEM until January 26, 2015. MFLNRO and MEM may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit our website http://www,arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp➞Search➞ Search by File Number: insert Lands File Number for more information.Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be provided to be public upon request.

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A Sicamous resident is in custody after po-lice received a report of threats. The report was called in on Feb. 22 at 1:30 p.m., and the indi-vidual was arrested as a result of the investiga-tion.

Team Big Barge was the big winner at the Royal Canadian Legion Sicamous Branch #99 funspiel event. A event: 1st, Team Big Barge, 2nd, Team Lemieux. B event: 1st, Team Terriah, 2nd, Team Makayev.

Hockey seems to course through the veins of the Franson family, thanks, at least in part, to patriarch, Cal Fran-son, a former member of the Shuswap Totems, Salmon Arm’s first Ju-nior A franchise. The Totems were recently recognized in Salmon Arm on Hockey Day, where those Totems able to attend were hon-oured on centre ice by appreciative fans.

On Saturday, Feb. 22, a 21-year-old Si-camous man was ar-rested after police received a report of threats. Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dub-nyk said officers acted immediately and the ar-rest was made the same day.

“There was refer-ence made to a school, it was not as direct as what people believe, and that was part of our risk assessment…,” said Dubnyk. A letter was released by School District #83 superin-tendent Glen Borthis-tle, in which he stated there was no immedi-ate threat to the school, and that the police have taken actions to ensure the school’s safety. The 21-year-old does not

have a criminal and was released.

MarchSicamous Mayor

Darrell Trouton says there’s much more to lose than gain by not sending four delegates – himself, two councillors and the district’s chief administrative officer, to this year’s Federation of Canadian Municipal-ities (FCM) convention in Niagara Falls, Ont. A total of $10,431 was budgeted to cover the cost.

Work to rehabilitate Hummingbird Creek and construct a new bridge at the site of se-rious flooding in 2012 has begun. There will be 480 metres where soil will be removed from the stream and 250 metres where con-tractors will “armour” the banks on the Hum-mingbird Resort side of the creek.

The district’s finance committee is close to submitting its draft of the 2014-2018 finan-cial plan to council for approval. According to this document, residen-tial property owners can expect to see no proper-ty tax increase for 2014.

The Sicamous Ea-gles’ began their play-off series by catching the league-leading Kamloops Storm off guard and winning 2-1 in overtime. Game two ended in a 3-1 tally for the Storm. Game three saw the Storm win 5-2, and earn a 5-2 win in game four. For game five, the Eagles were back in Kamloops, where they lost 6-3 to the home team.

A Canadian Pa-cific locomotive was removed from service after it leaked 2,000 li-tres of diesel fuel on a railway siding in Mal-akwa.

“Our initial report was the spill was clear of any danger to ponds or creeks,” said CSRD fire services co-ordina-tor Kenn Mount. “The site was well looked after and CP rail staff were attending to the situation appropriate-ly.”

The District of Si-camous will continue to be partners with the organization formerly known as SLIPP.

At its meeting, dis-trict council agreed to join other local gov-ernments as a voting member of the Shus-

wap Watershed Council (SWC), the successor to the Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process’ steering com-mittee. To be a voting member, the district was required to make a financial contribution and council agreed to put in $500.

At its Feb. 26 regu-lar meeting, Sicamous council received a pre-sentation by Eagle Val-ley Community Sup-port Society (EVCSS) executive director Janet McClean-Senft, who had a grievance to air over community grants in aid. For 2014, the EVCSS submitted a grant-in-aid request for $8,000, to go towards the completion of reno-vations related to chil-dren’s programming. The district’s finance committee cut that amount to $2,000. May-or Trouton said neither he nor council take such decisions lightly.

Effective April 30, the Eagle Valley News’ office at Parkland Mall closed, with operations

moving to the paper’s Salmon Arm office at 171 Shuswap Street.

At an open house, Sicamous residents learned how the com-munity’s proposed water treatment plant jumped in cost from an estimated $4.5 million to $7.9 million. Timo-thy Phelan, a manager with consulting busi-ness Opus DaytonK-night, said the cost increase is largely due to the way filtered de-bris is handled. Coun. Terry Rysz, who was acting deputy mayor at the meeting, said the district didn’t do all its homework in arriving at the initial cost esti-mate and, what council is looking at now for the community, is a structure with longev-ity.

Charges of impaired driving and refusal to provide a breath sample are being recommend-ed against a 66-year-old Sicamous man after a vehicle crashed into a snowbank.

YEAR IN REVIEW

Report of threats results in police arrestContinued from page 3

See Eagles on page 6


SICAMOUSEAGLESJUNIOR B HOCKEY CLUB

Sicamous & District Recreation Centre

2014/2015 GAME SCHEDULE

Friday, January 2ndSicamous vs Summerland

Saturday, January 3rdSicamous vs Chase

Wednesday, January 7thSicamous vs Chase

Away Game

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SICAMOUS EAGLES PLAYER PROFILE

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It was a banner sea-son for the Sicamous Eagles Minor Hockey Atom team, having re-cently won the Okana-gan Mainline Amateur Hockey Association (OMAHA) Atom Su-per League Playoff Series in Vernon. After the regular season, the Sicamous Eagles At-oms earned first place in their division. The Sicamous Eagles At-oms had 305 goals for and 67 against, and were undefeated in 40 games, winning three tournaments in Logan Lake, Salmon Arm and at home. They won the North Okanagan Cham-pionship and went on to clinch the district finals.

School District #83 secretary-treasurer Sterling Olson told the school board that if funding from the Ministry of Education comes in as expected, the school district will have to trim $1.8 mil-lion from its operating budget.

What was supposed to be a three-week trial for convicted Malakwa drug dealer Colin Mar-tin ended in two days with a guilty plea. On March 19, in B.C. Su-preme Court, Martin entered a guilty plea on charges of produc-tion of a controlled sub-stance and possession

for the purpose of traf-ficking.

Authorities con-tinue to investigate the circumstances behind a collision involving a train and a pickup truck that resulted in a 27-year-old Armstrong man being airlifted to hospital. The incident occurred on the rail-road tracks near Sol-squa Road, about eight kilometres east of Si-camous.

April

Lawyer Jeff Rob-inson told District of Sicamous council pro-posed zoning changes being considered by the district, particularly in-creased setback intend-ed to address security, access, noise and odour concerns, could prevent Waterway Houseboats from making its former manufacturing facility available for the pro-duction of medicinal marijuana under new federal regulations.

Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo says a govern-ment policy that accom-modates spousal visits in Victoria was an influ-ential factor in his run-ning for office. A total of $125,310 was spent last year between April 1, when the province began keeping a record of these expenses, and Dec. 31. Kyllo racked up the fourth highest

among BC Liberals, at $5,182.

Cuts to district grants for community groups prompted council to refer this year’s budget back to the committee level for further delib-eration.

Medical issues were found to have been a factor behind a recent collision involving a train and a pickup truck that sent a 27-year-old Armstong man to hos-pital. CP Rail spokes-person Salem Woodrow confirmed that CP’s police service had com-pleted an investigation, and that the driver of the pickup was suffering from medical distress, which resulted in the eastbound vehicle driv-ing off Highway 1 and onto the track.

In a letter to the District of Sicamous, Canada Post’s manager for the Thompson/Nic-ola/Fraser Canyon area, Karen Plessis states the Crown corporation will be discussing with local employee representa-tives a proposed change to hours at the Sicamous branch that would see it no longer be open on Saturdays.

The board of edu-cation was to consider a motion at its regular meeting to close all con-tinuing education pro-grams in Salmon Arm, Enderby, Sicamous and Armstrong. The mo-tion to shut down the adult programs comes as the school board faces another budget process where it will be required to make $1.8 million in cuts to opera-tions.

District council agreed to use $11,000 from budgeted travel expenses to compensate for district grant-in-aid requests that had previ-ously been pared down.

Royal Canadian Le-gion Branch #99 presi-dent Murray Williams says the legion is down to its two-month cash reserve. If they should go through that, the le-gion may have to close its doors.

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YEAR IN REVIEW

Eagles Atoms earn banner in playoffsContinued from page 5

See Borrowing on page 8

Collision: An Armstrong man was sent to hospital after losing control of his truck and ending up on the railway tracks where the ve-hicle was struck by a train. File photo


Celebrate Safely, Don’t Drink & DriveBe safe on the roads this holiday season - If you’re drinking, plan ahead and � nd another way home

Parties catering to adults are often enhanced with a variety of food and beverage options, and alcoholic drinks are a common component of such gatherings. Party hosts and hostesses who will be offering the spirits to their guests should keep safety in the back of their minds.

Many party hosts are unaware that they may be held liable should a person become intoxicated at their event and then go on to injure another person while under the infl uence. This is why bartenders will stop serving customers who are visibly drunk. Although laws vary from place to place, party hosts should still keep tabs on their guests’ alcohol consumption, cutting off guests who might have had enough to drink. In addition to monitoring alcohol consumption, party hosts can employ these additional practices to keep everyone safe.

* Collect keys upon entry to the party. Ask guests who plan to drink alcohol to surrender their car keys to you when they arrive at the party. Guests may be offended at having to relinquish control of their cars, but it is a wise move to remove any temptation to drive away.

* Remain sober. As the party host, you will have a number of responsibilities, including ensuring

your guests’ comfort and safety. Having your wits about you will enable you to make better decisions for you and your guests.

* Serve plenty of food. Drinking on an empty stomach is a surefi re way to get intoxicated. Be certain to have a number of foods available and encourage guests to dine before you start serving any alcoholic beverages. This way you can reduce the potentially intoxicating effects the alcohol will have on your guests. Though a full stomach won’t guarantee your guests won’t become intoxicated, they are likely to consume less alcohol on a full stomach and the food in their stomach can counter the effects of any alcohol they do consume.

* Keep drinks simple. Some specialty drinks call for more alcohol than others. In addition, fruity drinks can mask the fl avor of the alcohol, causing a person to drink more than he or she would normally. Serve simpler drinks so guests know just how much alcohol they are consuming.

* Establish a cut-off time. Stop serving alcoholic beverages at a certain time. This will give

guests time to sober up before the end of the party. The rate at which alcohol leaves the body and enables persons to no longer feel its effects varies depending on age, gender, weight, and even race. Experts advise only having one alcoholic beverage per hour, which is the average time it takes for that drink to be metabolized. Consuming nonalcoholic drinks between alcoholic beverages will keep blood-alcohol content down.

*Make nonalcoholic beverages available, too. Giving guests options may help them drink more responsibly. Drinking water is a way to fl ush out the system and reduce the effects of alcohol.

Party hosts often make alcoholic beverages available to their guests. Use caution and monitor guests’ drinking so no one gets sick or injured.

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The results of a counter-petition pro-cess shows Sicamous residents are ready and willing to see the dis-trict borrow $4.4 mil-lion to construct a new, $7.9 million water treat-ment plant. After going over the petition results, council gave third read-ing to a bylaw to es-tablish a local service area for the purpose of providing the wa-ter treatment plant and mains, and to authorize

the borrowing of the $4,399,000, to be repaid over 25 years.

“Must CP Rail move dangerous goods through Salmon Arm, as well as 1,100 other communities? Yes, we’re required,” said Mike LoVecchio of CP Rail during a presenta-tion to the City of Salm-on Arm’s development and planning services committee. Substances such as ammonia, chlo-rine, crude oil and jet fuel are among those that the railway carries daily in Canada. LoVec-chio explained CP oper-ates under “common carrier obligation,” an obligation under Cana-dian law which says all commodities are equal. Following the tragic derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec last July, which occurred on a line owned by U.S.-based MMA Railway, LoVecchio said CP has

been providing commu-nities with an overview of emergency process and planning, to help educate the public, councils and first re-sponders.

D Dutchmen was jus one of numerous local businesses sponsoring the First Annual Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, May 2 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes an-nounced during a Con-servative gathering in Enderby on April 12 that he will not run in the next federal elec-tion. He hasn’t consid-ered his long term plans after politics.

Municipal council has passed a bylaw that increases the flat sewer usage fee per houseboat from $335 to $435. The minimum charge per billing period for me-

tered sewer rates has also increased from $167 to $210. The rea-son for the increase has to do with the strain the effluent from house-boats puts on municipal infrastructure.

Sicamous Chamber of Commerce execu-tive director Michelle Wolff said snowmo-bile gear manufacturer 509 Inc., and its movie production offshoot 509 Films, plans to come to Sicamous to hold and film its annual season wrap-up event. Between the film cov-erage, and 509’s social media connections, Wolff calls the expo-sure potential for the community huge.

The site selected for settlement ponds to treat waste from the community’s future water treatment plant doesn’t sit well with neighbours. Holly

Avenue resident Alf Bryan recently raised some dust with munici-pal council over plans to use adjacent district property for residual ponds. Bryan said when he bought his home in 1992, he was shown municipal docu-ments designating the district property park land. Since then, he continued, the lot has been dug up, trees torn out and used as a stag-ing area during sewer projects. He said it was also used by a house-boat company as a raw sewage transfer station.

May

School closures are not on the table for School District #83’s upcoming budget de-liberations but just about everything else is being considered for cutbacks to cope with a $1.8 million deficit. A portion of the budget

reductions are directly related to a decline in enrolment, particu-larly in the secondary grades, resulting in staffing and supply re-ductions of $620,000 without impacting the current level of service in the school district.

The Sicamous Chamber of Commerce and visitor information centre, the Sicamous Museum and Histori-cal Society, artists and local First Nations may one day work and thrive together in the same fa-cility if Kim Hyde has her way. Hyde is work-ing with the chamber to find and secure grant opportunities that will allow for the purchase of the former, 2.34-acre Tru Hardware property at the corner of Main Street and Highway 97A.

Less than a year and a half after joining the

district’s detachment, Sgt. Dave Dubnyk and his family are prepar-ing to move to Cran-brook, where he has accepted a promotion to staff sergeant.

Sicamous RCMP were looking for pos-sible suspects in re-lation to a fire at an abandoned trailer. On May 4 at 12:20 a.m., police received a report of a modular home on fire in the 4200 block of Blomquist Road. Investigating officers believed the fire to be arson.

Council received a copy of a letter from the Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) addressed to Premier Christy Clark and envi-ronment minister Mary Polak, urging action to prevent invasive Zebra and Quagga mussels from entering the prov-

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Passed away peacefully in Salmon Arm, BC on December 25, 2014 at the age of 79 after a long, courageous battle with dementia. It is with great sadness, and loss, that we must say goodbye to a beautiful, loving mother, sister, aunt and friend, that we will cherish forever.

She is survived by her loving daughter, Karen Swaffield (Luis Vargas), brother, Roy Rokosh, and niece and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, Frank & Alma Rokosh, and brother, Frank “Bud” Rokosh. Yvonne was born in Revelstoke, BC on October 12, 1935 and grew up in Solsqua, BC; however, she spent most of her life in Vancouver, BC.

Yvonne built a successful career in the lumber industry in Vancouver, working for more than 40 years in this field. She was an extremely conscientious professional who was highly respected by her peers.

Yvonne was musically gifted and played the piano from a young age. She played in bands in the Eagle Valley when she was a teenager, and well into her adulthood. She was unable to play the piano in the last six months of her life. Prior to that, and even with the dementia, she was always able to sit down at the piano and play beautifully for those who were listening.

Yvonne enjoyed spending time laughing with friends and family, playing the piano, knitting, playing cards, and traveling. Those of us who were lucky enough to know and love her, are much better for it. We are also forever grateful to those at Mount Ida Mews who cared so dearly for Yvonne.

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ince. Coun. Fred Busch said council should share OBWB’s con-cern, and agreed action is needed from both the provincial and federal governments.

Why did the cost increase from $4.5 to $7.9 million, and were alternative sources con-sidered? The first ques-tion surrounding Si-camous’ proposed new water treatment facility was addressed at a pub-lic information meet-ing, in the full-to-over-flowing district council chambers. As for the second question, that’s something district staff will be determining.

The Sicamous Stingers Bantam girls softball team was on fire. After a slow start to their Okanagan league play and losing their first two games to Kelowna, the Stingers reeled off five straight wins in league play and tied for second place with a five win, two-loss record. The Stingers attended the Kamloops Invitational Tournament on May 10-11.

A Shuswap man al-

leged by American au-thorities to have been the kingpin of a cross-border drug-smuggling ring will be sent to the U.S. to stand trial on conspiracy charges. In B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on Friday, May 9, Colin Mar-tin was committed for extradition to Seattle, where American pros-ecutors have charged him with conspiracy to traffic in marijuana, co-caine and MDMA.

Islands of deadheads and other wood waste could be seen from the shores of Swansea Point, while a swath of the same ran along the shoreline. The wood waste was the result of the massive May 2 debris slide in Enderby that made its way along the Shuswap River and into Mara Lake. On May 13, the Shuswap Emergency Program (SEP) issued a warn-ing to boaters and other lake users of the poten-tial hazard posed by the debris.

School District #83 is initiating a review of all schools in the area to consider poten-tial school closures for 2015/2016 school year.

As the school district prepares to make cuts to its operational budgets, school district admin-istration is attempting to counter criticism about the upcoming construction of new $8 million school board of-fices on the former J.L. Jackson school site in Salmon Arm. Budgets for operating schools, which include staff wages and school sup-plies, are separate from capital budgets, which cover the capital assets including school build-ings and properties.

Salmon Arm Busi-nessman Mel Arnold announced his intention to seek the nomination for the Conservative Party of Canada, North

Okanagan-Shuswap riding.

Just over a month after saying goodbye to the Vancouver Giants, Cain Franson slipped into a championship ring, as did his team-mates on the Allen Americans, the 2014 Central Hockey League President’s Cup cham-pions. The 2013/14 season was Franson’s last as a junior hockey player with the Giants.

District council ap-proved tenders for more than $1 million in projects, including $635,000 to replace the Highway 97A water main,

Jillian Alexander was recently hired as the District of Si-camous’ new program and events manager.

June

A collaborative ap-proach may be the way to entice physi-cians to locate in rural Shuswap communities. This approach was on display in Penticton at the Rural Emergency continuum of Care conference, where a contingent from the Shuswap, represent-ed by the Shuswap Healthy Communities coalition, was attempt-ing to sell the region and its rural communi-ties – Sicamous, Chase, Sorrento and others – to doctors.

Rotating walkouts across the province be-

gan on May 26 and the government responded by issuing a partial lock out and 10 per cent wage rollback to all teachers participat-ing in strike action.

Moose Mulligan’s received a TripAdvi-sor certificate of excel-lence award, honouring hospitality excellence.

On June 3, students at Eagle River Second-ary skipped their class-es to let the community know their thoughts on the ongoing teachers’ dispute. Approximate-ly 30 students stood on the street with signs for their own strike action.

The Ministry of Transportation and In-frastructure (MOTI) announced that re-placement of the Mal-akwa Bridge is going out to tender. Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo said the province will ante up $22 million and the federal government has agreed to contribute another $13 million, so the project to four-lane the highway and bridge deck can move forward.

Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo fully sup-ported the Liberal gov-ernment’s controversial Bill 24, which divides the Agricultural Land Reserve into two zones. Kyllo sees no down sides to the bill and maintains it will help families keep farming.

Council made yet another step towards the water treatment

plant by choosing a filtration membrane provider for the plant. The units will cost ap-proximately $1.5 mil-lion dollars.

Colin Hugh Mar-tin was granted bail in Vancouver while his extradition is appealed. He was granted bail largely because of the health of his wife, who has a heart condition, and her inability to care for the couple’s seven children.

A Sicamous girl has found her hobby and it’s a fast one. Ten-year-old Ashley Clark recently com-peted in her first, non-sanctioned drag race at the Wine Country Rac-ing Association’s rac-ing event in Osoyoos. Pitted against Jordyn Lombardi of Houston, B.C., Clark was able to keep the pedal to the metal and cross the fin-ish line first.

Sicamous mayor and councillors gath-ered at the Splatsin arbour in Enderby to sign a protocol agree-ment with Chief Wayne Christian and Couns. Jean Brown, Daniel Joe, Reno Lee and George William. The signing was part of the band’s early Aborigi-nal Day celebrations, and was marked with speeches, song and dancing.

School District #83 trustees have voted to keep all nine trustees on the board of educa-tion. They looked at

trustee reductions in response to budget cuts the district was facing; however, the board concluded there wasn’t enough time for con-sultation on the propos-al to reduce the number of trustees from nine to seven.

Sicamous woman BJ Clancy, who has been dealing with type 1 diabetes her entire life, expressed concern about the lack of fund-ing given to diabetics when it comes to insu-lin pumps.

“The pump helps me live a normal life, it’s not just a luxury,” said Clancy. “It really makes a difference.”

Clancy also noted that the BC healthcare system released a re-port in 2012, stating that they would save 5.3 million dollars a year by 2032 if they start funding insulin pumps due to the de-crease in emergency room visits.

During recent bud-get discussions, school district trustees imple-mented reductions to speech and language services for children with communications difficulties, among other cuts required to reduce the operating budget to $1.8 million. At a board meeting, it was announced that additional funding to maintain the current level of speech and language services had been approved out of a special learning im-provement fund.

YEAR IN REVIEW

Residents question $3.4 million jump in water plant costContinued from page 8

Job action: School District #83 employees and other unions workers united in support of teachers. File photo

Gone in less than 12 parsecs: Alexandra Lee decides she doesn’t want to have her picture with dad, Whit Lee and Princess Leia (Mariah Twa) during the SicaMouse Town Party. File photo

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