What was supposed to be a three-week trial for convicted Malakwa drug dealer Colin Martin end- ed in two days with a guilty plea. On March 19, in Salmon Arm Supreme Court, Martin entered a guilty plea for charges of produc- tion of a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking. Sentencing is scheduled to take place in Salmon Arm on April 9. As of press time, the trial of co-accused Jason Airey on the same two charges was still in prog- ress. He, Martin and Martin’s common-law spouse Jennifer Cahill were ar- rested in July 2010 after police raided the Mal- akwa home Martin and Cahill were residing in, as well as a workshop on an adjacent property. Investigating officers uncovered a bunker hid- den beneath the work- shop containing approx- imately 3,000 marijuana plants. Court documents state officers seized from the residence two baggies of marijuana, a paper bag containing marijuana with the name “Colin” writ- ten on it, as well as documents and emails showing Martin, Cahill and their company, Gorge Timber Ltd., arranging for the bunker’s construction, and a Health Canada application for a licence to produce marijuana prepared in Martin’s name. Martin, Cahill and Airey were initially charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking, pro- duction of a controlled substance and theft of tele- communication service. The charges against Cahill were subsequently stayed. Martin was also charged with breach of recog- nizance. Prior to his 2010 arrest, he had been out on bail while appealing a two-and-a-half year jail sentence handed to him in 2007 after he was found guilty on eight counts relating to a drug-smuggling operation between U.S. and Canada. Later this year, Martin is expected to be back in Supreme Court for a U.S. extradition hearing related to a more recent cross-border smuggling operation. EAGLE VALLEY NEWS Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Vol. 59 No. 12 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com PM40008236 Medicinal pot growers given legal reprieve Page 6 Another year of highs and lows for minor hockey Page 8 Martin enters guilty plea Take your pick: Anne Fitzpatrick plays trains with grandson Cash Knuff, visiting from Cold Lake, Alta., at the Sicamous Parent’s and Tots program held Friday mornings from 10 to noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. Fitz- patrick used to bring her own children to the program, open for kids up to age five. Photo by Lachlan Labere Man hospitalized following railway collision Authorities continue to investi- gate the circumstances behind a col- lision involving a train and a pickup truck that resulted in a 27-year-old Armstrong man being airlifted to hospital. Sicamous RCMP received word of the incident on March 18 at ap- proximately 2:40 p.m. Sgt. Dave Dubnyk said investi- gating officers found a Dodge pick- up sitting partially on the railroad tracks near Solsqua Road, about eight kilometres east of Sicamous. The train had hit the truck, its bed crumpled by the impact. “The early stages of the inves- tigation indicate the truck was ini- tially travelling eastbound on High- way #1 when it left the roadway and became lodged on the tracks,” said Dubnyk. “The train crew was able to apply the brakes, thereby slowing it down considerably prior to the impact.” Canadian Pacific spokesperson Salem Woodrow said the train crew sounded the horn to alert the truck’s driver, but was unable to stop the train in time, adding it can take up to mile or more for a train to stop. RCMP, CP Rail police, BC Am- bulance paramedics and the Eagle Valley Rescue Society arrived quickly on the scene and the driver, the truck’s only occupant, was air- lifted to hospital in Kamloops with undetermined injuries. Woodrow says CP Police Ser- vices continue to investigate the incident. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News Investigation: CP Rail workers look over the scene of the March 18 collision between a train and a truck on the tracks east of Sicamous. RCMP photo By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News Court: Colin Martin to be sentenced for drug- related charges. Colin Martin
Transcript
What was supposed to be a three-week trial for convicted Malakwa drug dealer Colin Martin end-ed in two days with a guilty plea.
On March 19, in Salmon Arm Supreme Court, Martin entered a guilty plea for charges of produc-tion of a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of traf� cking. Sentencing is scheduled to take place in Salmon Arm on April 9.
As of press time, the trial of co-accused Jason Airey on the same two charges was still in prog-ress. He, Martin and Martin’s common-law spouse Jennifer Cahill were ar-rested in July 2010 after police raided the Mal-akwa home Martin and Cahill were residing in, as well as a workshop on an adjacent property. Investigating of� cers uncovered a bunker hid-den beneath the work-shop containing approx-imately 3,000 marijuana plants.
Court documents state of� cers seized from the residence two baggies of marijuana, a paper bag containing marijuana with the name “Colin” writ-ten on it, as well as documents and emails showing Martin, Cahill and their company, Gorge Timber Ltd., arranging for the bunker’s construction, and a Health Canada application for a licence to produce marijuana prepared in Martin’s name.
Martin, Cahill and Airey were initially charged with possession for the purpose of traf� cking, pro-duction of a controlled substance and theft of tele-communication service.
The charges against Cahill were subsequently stayed.
Martin was also charged with breach of recog-nizance. Prior to his 2010 arrest, he had been out on bail while appealing a two-and-a-half year jail sentence handed to him in 2007 after he was found guilty on eight counts relating to a drug-smuggling operation between U.S. and Canada.
Later this year, Martin is expected to be back in Supreme Court for a U.S. extradition hearing related to a more recent cross-border smuggling operation.
Take your pick: Anne Fitzpatrick plays trains with grandson Cash Knuff, visiting from Cold Lake, Alta., at the Sicamous Parent’s and Tots program held Friday mornings from 10 to noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. Fitz-patrick used to bring her own children to the program, open for kids up to age five. Photo by Lachlan Labere
Man hospitalized following railway collision
Authorities continue to investi-gate the circumstances behind a col-lision involving a train and a pickup truck that resulted in a 27-year-old Armstrong man being airlifted to hospital.
Sicamous RCMP received word of the incident on March 18 at ap-proximately 2:40 p.m.
Sgt. Dave Dubnyk said investi-gating of� cers found a Dodge pick-up sitting partially on the railroad tracks near Solsqua Road, about eight kilometres east of Sicamous. The train had hit the truck, its bed crumpled by the impact.
“The early stages of the inves-tigation indicate the truck was ini-tially travelling eastbound on High-
way #1 when it left the roadway and became lodged on the tracks,” said Dubnyk. “The train crew was able to apply the brakes, thereby slowing it down considerably prior to the impact.”
Canadian Paci� c spokesperson Salem Woodrow said the train crew sounded the horn to alert the truck’s driver, but was unable to stop the train in time, adding it can take up to mile or more for a train to stop.
RCMP, CP Rail police, BC Am-bulance paramedics and the Eagle Valley Rescue Society arrived quickly on the scene and the driver, the truck’s only occupant, was air-lifted to hospital in Kamloops with undetermined injuries.
Woodrow says CP Police Ser-vices continue to investigate the incident.
By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
Investigation: CP Rail workers look over the scene of the March 18 collision between a train and a truck on the tracks east of Sicamous. RCMP photo
By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
Court: Colin Martin to be sentenced for drug-related charges.
Jennifer Cahill were ar-rested in July 2010 after police raided the Mal-akwa home Martin and Cahill were residing in, as well as a workshop on an adjacent property. Investigating of� cers uncovered a bunker hid-den beneath the work- Colin Martin
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March 28 & 29 $2 Bag sale at Sicamous United Church Thrift Shop 10 am to 3 pm 836-4390.Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays - Active After School Kidz. Ages 5-12 - to register or for more info contact Recreation and Wellness #250-836-2477 or [email protected] 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 Mon. & Fri. - Bridge, Seniors Activity Centre, 1 p.m.Every 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 Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10 am - 3 pm. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472
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. - Seniors 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 every 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 infoEvery 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.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99. 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.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99. Everyone welcome.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 or just drop in to one of our meetings where you will be welcome.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 Learning Centre LibraryEvery 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 Esther 250-836-4373 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Friday - Crib at the Legion at 1:00 pm
Every Friday - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 1st & 3rd Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Royal Canadian Legion #99 at 7:00 pm.Saturdays - Community Yoga 9:00 am Non-Heated Hatha $5 drop-in All levels Families welcome.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 pm
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A tractor-trailer unit blocks both lanes of Highway 1 east of Canoe Wednesday morning after the driver lost control and sideswiped an oncoming eastbound semi before stopping on the shoulder of the eastbound lane. Neither the drivers, out of Winnipeg (westbound) or Kamloops sustained injuries. Slushy, icy conditions contributed to the collision. Photo by Lachlan Labere
A Lumby company is voluntarily recalling its cheese products due to a possible listeria contamination.
Castle Cheese Inc. is recalling Okanagan’s Choice Cheese brand shredded cheese prod-ucts from the market-place.
Due to possible Lis-teria contamination, consumers should not consume the recalled products.
The affected prod-ucts are shredded ched-dar cheese, shredded mozzarella cheese, shredded parmesan cheese, chipped par-mesan, crumbled feta and nacho blend (ched-dar and mozzarella cheese).
“There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products,” states the Canadian Food Inspec-
tion Agency, which has issued the recall.
This recall was trig-gered by the company. The CFIA is conduct-ing a food safety in-vestigation, which may lead to the recall of
other products. If oth-er high-risk products are recalled the CFIA will notify the public through updated food recall warnings.
Consumers are urged to check to see
if they have recalled products in their home, which should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
“Food contaminated with listeria monocyto-genes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick,” said CFIA.
Symptoms can in-clude vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune sys-tems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, in-fection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
The products have
been sold in Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba.
The CFIA is veri-fying that industry is removing recalled product from the mar-ketplace.
Listeriosis suspected in Lumby cheese
Suspect sample: Above is one of the recalled cheese products. File photo
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALCHIEF ELECTION OFFICER
The Board of Education of School District No. 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap) requires the services of a Chief Election Officer (“CEO”) to manage all aspects of the upcoming Trustee election process. The election encompasses seven electoral areas which are: Salmon Arm, Enderby, Sicamous/Malakwa, North Shuswap, Armstrong/Spallumcheen, Carlin/Sorrento and Falkland/Deep Creek/Ranchero. The CEO will work with School District and municipal staff to facilitate the elections in the above electoral areas. This is primarily an administrative/clerical position requiring exceptional organizational skills.
A detailed outline of the work to be performed is available at the School District #83 Board Office or by calling Bethan Miller at 250-804-7830 or emailing [email protected]. Proposals can be submitted at the Board Office at 220 Shuswap Street NE or by email to [email protected]. Deadline for receipt of proposals is 2:00 pm on April 3, 2014.
There are problems in the forest, but nobody is talking about where they are.
An investigation of 216 bridges constructed throughout the province in the past three years, including the Okana-gan Shuswap district, has found numerous non-compliances with legislation and more than two dozen bridges that may not be safe for industrial use, accord-ing to a report released March 5 by the Forest Practices Board.
The investigation carried out last sum-mer by the independent watchdog found 19 bridges that were obvi-ously unsafe and anoth-er 13 bridges that had serious safety concerns.
Forty per cent of the bridges did not have complete plans and, in the case of 74 bridges,
the required sign-off by a professional that the bridge was designed and built correctly was not completed, states the report.
“What we found is highly disturbing, given the emphasis govern-ment and industry have placed on safety in re-cent years,” said Forest Practices Board chair Tim Ryan.
“The problem is not the lack of legislation or guidance by profes-sional associations, the problem is that some professionals are not performing to the stan-dards government and the public expect.”
While the report in-cludes photos of some of the unsafe bridges, the Forest Practices Board would not reveal their location.
“That was not the purpose of the report; the purpose was to de-termine if bridges were
being properly designed and built,” says Ryan, noting the responsibil-ity lies with the Asso-ciation of BC Forest Professionals and Asso-ciation of Professional Engineers and Geosci-entists. “When we start-ed, we involved those to organizations so they were fully aware… the organizations will take that up with their mem-bers.”
In a joint release also issued March 5, the two organizations stated their concerns and in-dicated they would be following up on the board’s investigation – and using “enforcement and discipline systems” if necessary.
“In addition the pro-fessions will update the current professional practice guidelines, identify the necessary skills and competencies required for this work, and undertake special-
ized professional devel-opment with members in this area of practice,” notes the release.
And government will be watching too.
Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Re-source Operations, Da-vid Thomson, says he is disappointed by the findings and expects the unsafe bridges have al-ready been corrected, or will be immediately.
“I have asked staff to follow-up with the two professional associa-tions and forestry asso-ciations to identify and address contributing factors to substandard bridge-building practic-es and to come up with an action plan within 60 days,” he says. “As recommended by the board, I’ve also directed ministry compliance and enforcement staff to include bridges in their inspection plans.”
The Forest Practices
Board is B.C.’s inde-pendent watchdog for sound forest and range practices, reporting its findings and recom-mendations directly to the public and govern-ment.
District of Sicamous staff have proposed zon-ing bylaw amendments to accommodate the federal government’s changing regulations for medical marijuana pro-duction.
The new Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations come into effect April 1, eliminat-ing existing licensed grow operations in pri-vate residences, in fa-
vour of larger, secured facilities, with the intent of making them easier for federal agencies to regulate and monitor.
Current licensed pro-ducers were required to dispose of their product by April 1. A federal court judge, however, has granted a tempo-rary injunction allow-ing them to continue to grow medical marijuana (See Marijuana growers get reprieve on pg. 6).
Meanwhile, local
governments across the country, including Si-camous, have been re-writing or creating their own bylaws in prepara-tion for the changing regulations and subse-quent applications that may follow.
“As a district, it’s not a matter of whether we’re for it or against it, it’s happening,” said Sicamous Mayor Dar-rell Trouton. “It’s going to happen in our district – there was an applica-
tion brought forward, and we need to get our bylaws set around it.”
District staff are rec-ommending that mari-juana production be re-stricted to lands zoned General Industrial, and Large Holdings if within the Agricultural Land Reserve. In addi-tion, grow operations must meet restrictions for emissions of odour, heat and ground vibra-tion, noise, electrical interference or any other
potential health and/or safety hazard.
Minimum setbacks of 30 metres are for op-erations on land zoned Large Holdings, unless they are adjacent to resi-dential or public proper-ties such as schools or parks, or businesses, in which case a 60-metre setback is required.
A public hearing on the proposed zoning changes will be held on March 26 at 5 p.m. in council chambers.
Medical marijuana regs spur bylaw changesBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
Legal grow: Hearing for proposed zoning changes on March 26.
Report finds numerous bridges non-compliantBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News
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The B.C. NDP leader-ship contest is officially underway, with the entry of Vancouver Island vet-eran John Horgan in a re-luctant reprise of his 2011 run against Port Coquitlam MLA Mike Farnworth.
Unfortunately for them, weekend campaign events were overshadowed by revelations of flagrant abuse of taxpayers’ money by the executive and board of the Portland Hotel Soci-ety. A pair of audits finally released last week on this network of Downtown Eastside social agencies revealed systematic looting of the $28 million a year in taxpayers’ money that has kept this supposed charity running.
Alas for the NDP, local MLA Jenny Kwan not only failed to keep an eye on it, her recently separated hus-band was one of the ex-ecutives who took part for
years, and she benefited to the tune of $35,000 in lux-ury travel. That’s what we know about, since much of the evidence wasn’t pro-duced for the auditors.
Kwan hastily paid back the $35,000 and announced she’s taking an unpaid leave of absence. Her tear-ful claim that she believed nothing was wrong is sim-ply not credible. She not only must have known of her husband Dan Small’s jet-set ways, she partici-pated in at least two trips, to Vienna and Bristol, Eng-land to do “research” and attend a poverty confer-ence from high-end hotels.
If it wants to retain any shred of credibility as it spouts misleading poverty statistics and simplistic so-lutions, the party must get rid of Kwan, who has two years left to max out her MLA pension.
MLA pensions were a factor in the 2010 ouster of Carol James, who infuriat-ed the old guard by trying
to defuse a public backlash against a generous pay and benefits package worked out in private between the NDP and the B.C. Liber-als. Kwan would later take a leading role in the caucus revolt that forced James out as leader.
Horgan became enraged last year at the reporter who took a tip from the B.C. Liberals to reveal the NDP was skimming con-stituency office budgets to pay for its own “ethnic out-reach” operation in Van-couver. Horgan had rubber-stamped the plan with a since-dismissed legislature accountant, and thought he had kept it secret after the auditor general blew the whistle. His willingness to assess its ethics remains in question to this day.
Then there is Craig Ke-ating, who took over as party president from Moe Sihota last year. Did he inherit the $72,000 salary negotiated by Sihota with the B.C. Federation of La-
bour and two of its largest unions? If so, do Horgan and Farnworth think this is appropriate?
Will the party’s joined-at-the-hip relationship with government unions even be discussed in the carefully staged leadership contest that’s about to be-gin?
Then there’s the policy shipwreck left behind by Adrian Dix. His plan to use environmental assess-ment as a weapon to tor-pedo industrial projects remains popular with the party’s urban base.
Farnworth and Horgan have paid lip service to the notion that projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion should be prop-erly assessed. Meanwhile the federal NDP fights to keep stacking public hear-ings with pre-selected pro-testers.
The party may wish to consider what would give its next B.C. leader any hope of governing.
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Convention costs add to cynicism among electorate
OPINION
Word on the street is, some residents are not happy with the District of Sicamous sending four people to
this year’s Federation of Canadian Municipali-ties’ annual conference and trade show in Niagra Falls. The district typically sends a delegation to this event, where members have an opportunity to network, pass resolutions, share with and learn from reps of other communities and, ide-ally, come back with new ideas and insight on new grant opportunities.
What’s eating at people is the cost and the tim-ing. This year the mayor, CAO and two council-lors are expected to attend. The cost to taxpay-ers: $13,900.
Meanwhile, the economy in Sicamous and the Shuswap remains far from stellar. We’re hearing about more families leaving the area (see this week’s submission from Sicamous Minor Hockey on pg. 7), because they can no longer make a living here. And on more than one occa-sion, particularly during budget-related discus-sions, Sicamous’ mayor Darrell Trouton has pointed out how difficult the times are and how the community is hurting.
At the same time, the district is working towards the construction of a new water treat-ment facility, the estimated cost of which has risen from $4.5 million to $7.9 million. Sicamous property owners will shoulder the district’s $4.3 share once the facility is built and operational (less if grant opportunities can be found – another possible outcome from FCM).
No one can deny Sicamous’ need for a new water treatment facility. Hopefully it’s comple-tion in 2016 will be a turning point for the com-munity, both economically and socially.
Until then, the hurt continues. And if residents of the Houseboat Capital of Canada have no say in who or how many they send to the Honey-moon Capital of the World, you can bet they’re going to want a lot more than words from the investment.
Kwan’s resignation may help NDP’s credibilityBy Tom FletcherNews Columnist
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� anks to very generous donations from our great community, a new Walk-In Tub is now a reality at the Lodge in Sicamous.Eagle Valley Senior Citizens Housing Society would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for their donations to our “Tub Fund”: � e Sicamous Legion and Cyril Gosse, the Sicamous Lions club, lovely ladies at the Bottle Shop, Askews, Dodie Coates, Jean Hart, Hayley Bennett, Isabelle and Barbara Stadnicki, Jack Erikson and Susan Deye. Many thanks as well to Chris Gilbert and Friends, Colleen Carr and Cindy Robertson as well as all the wonderful people who helped with the Halloween fund raiser event. As of March 15, 2014, the Society is extending the use of the walk in tub to citizens of the District of Sicamous and Electoral Area E in cases when people are unable to use
their own tubs or showers due to illness or injury. For more details about this
program, please call Kaija at 250-836-2310.
Walk-In Tub at the Lodge
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATIONApril 2, 2014
North Okanagan Shuswap School District No. 83
• Must bring child’s birth certificate (child will not be registered without it) and Care Card.
• Only the parent or direct relative of parent may register the child “A person who is a resident of British Columbia shall enroll in an education program provided by a board on the first school day of September of a school year. If, on or before December 31 of that school year, the person will have attained the age of 5 years.”
“A parent of a child may defer the enrollment of his or her child until the first school day of September of the next school year.”
- The School Act of British Columbia
General Kindergarten Registration At your neighbourhood school 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
(Please note it is extremely important for planning purposes to register your child by the above date. If you cannot make this date please come to the school any day before this, or contact your neighbourhood school.
Registration for our French Immersion Programs:On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., School District #83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap) will be accepting registrations for the Early Immersion Program. Registration will take place at the District Education Centre located at #110 - 2960 Okanagan Avenue S.E., Salmon Arm on a first come first served basis. Parents or immediate relative must register child.
A maximum of 44 Kindergarten registrations will be accepted for the Early Immersion Program.
Late French Immersion Program – after the Parent Information Meeting on March 4, there are currently some spots open in Grade 6 late French Immersion. If you are interested in signing up your child for late Immersion contact Shuswap Middle School at (250) 832-6031 at your earliest convenience.
For further information regarding these programs please contact: Isabelle Gervais, Principal, Bastion Elementary at (250) 832-3741 or Shane Corston, Principal, Shuswap Middle School at (250) 832-6031.
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Notice is hereby given of the public review period for the 2014-2024 Woodlot Licence Plan (WLP) for Woodlot Licence (WL) 2024. WL 2024 has development units located along Johnson Creek (near Mara Lake) and along Gleitz Creek (in Trinity Valley).
The WLP outlines the resource values and management strat-egies for those values associated with the Woodlot. The WLP is consistent with the Okanagan-Shuswap Land and Resource Management Plan and the Forest and Range Practices Act.
Prior to approval from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), the WLP is available for review and comment by First Nations, the public and resource users until May 26, 2014. The WLP may be viewed by contacting Jody McCall, RPF PAg for an appointment at (250) 545-9749 ext 205.
The WLP may be amended as a result of written comments received on or before May 26, 2014. Comments received after this may not be included in this plan, but may be considered
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A Vernon resident falls into the category of people who simply do not want to wear a seat-belt in a vehicle.
The man was given his 28th ticket for not wearing a seatbelt by North Okanagan Traf-fic Services (NOTS) of-ficers.
“He feels it is better not to be restrained in a crash,” said RCMP spokesperson Gord
Molendyk, adding the gentleman was given a $167 ticket and the mo-tor vehicle branch has been made aware of the situation.
“There is also the possibility of a driving prohibition from ICBC in the future,” said Mo-lendyk.
Speed is also an is-sue NOTS officers have to contend with.
On the first official day of spring Thurs-day, shortly after 6 a.m.,
NOTS officers working Highway 97 south near Westridge Road noticed a work vehicle coming at them at a high rate of speed.
The vehicle was clocked at 142 km/h in a 90 km/h zone.
“The vehicle was stopped and impounded
for seven days,” said Molendyk. “It is not a great way to start the day for the owner of the vehicle, losing your work vehicle for a week.”
Strengthening citizenship act
Canadian citizen-ship should not be simply a passport of convenience but rather a pledge of mutual responsibility and a shared commitment to values rooted in our history. The Strength-ening Canadian Citi-zenship Act, Bill C-24, will replace the anti-quated 1977 Act by in-troducing changes that will reinforce the value of citizenship while en-suring the integrity of the immigration sys-tem is protected. It will streamline Canada’s citizenship program by
reducing the decision-making process from three steps to one so that by 2015-2016, this change will bring the average process-ing time for citizenship applications down to under a year and, the current backlog is pro-jected to be reduced by more than 80 percent.
This Bill will also ensure citizenship applicants maintain strong ties to Cana-da. It will provide a clearer indication that the “residence” period to qualify for citizen-ship requires a physi-cal presence in Canada. More applicants will now be required to meet language requirements and pass a knowledge test, to ensure that they are better prepared to fully participate in Ca-nadian society.
I am pleased to see that the bill will also have new provisions to help individuals with
strong ties to Canada, by automatically ex-tending citizenship to additional “Lost Cana-dians” who were born before 1947, as well as to their children born in the first generation out-side Canada.
Included in this legislation are stron-ger penalties for fraud and misrepresentation (a maximum fine of $100,000 and/or five years in prison), as well as expanding the grounds to bar an ap-plication for citizen-ship to include foreign criminality, which will help improve program integrity.
C-24 will bring Can-ada in-line with most of our peer countries by providing that citi-zenship can be revoked from dual nationals who are convicted of terrorism, high treason, and spying offences (depending on the sen-tence received), or who
take up arms against Canada. Permanent residents who commit these acts will be barred from applying for citi-zenship.
In recognizing the important contributions of those who serve Can-ada in uniform, perma-nent residents who are members of the Cana-dian Armed Forces will have quicker access to Canadian citizenship. The Act also stipulates that children born to Canadian parents serv-ing abroad as servants of the Crown will be able to pass on Cana-dian citizenship to chil-dren they have or adopt outside of Canada.
Our government believes Canadian citi-zenship is more than a passport of conve-nience. It should pro-mote attachment to Canada and Canadian values, and it comes with rights, freedoms, and responsibilities.
FROM THE HILL
COLIN MAYES
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Medical marijuana users have won a last-minute court reprieve that allows them to keep growing their own pot at home instead of destroying it and turn-ing to new federally-licensed commercial suppliers.
Federal Court Judge Michael Manson grant-ed a temporary injunc-tion Friday for those with a personal pro-duction licence to con-tinue to grow medical marijuana, pending the outcome of a constitu-tional challenge still to be heard.
Health Canada’s new regulation outlawing personal growing had been slated to take ef-fect April 1, but the de-cision throws a wrench into the Conservative government’s pot re-form plans.
Medical marijuana users and their support-ers are jubilant.
“I’m very excited,” said Sandra Colasanti, a member of a coalition seeking to repeal the new rules who said she doesn’t use pot but her husband needs it.
“I’ve seen a lot of people who have every-thing from MS to can-cer to full-blown AIDS and I’ve seen people die if they don’t have access to this.”
She said she’s op-
timistic the action launched by Abbots-ford lawyer John Con-roy will succeed when it goes to trial. No date has been set but it’s ex-pected sometime this year.
The federal govern-ment cited widespread problems with the cur-rent system of permitted medical marijuana users growing pot at home or having other designated growers do it for them.
Colasanti said the coalition doesn’t deny there are problems with the old system, which cities say create fire risks and other safety hazards from mould to home invasions.
Health Canada could have prevented such problems had it sim-ply conducted regular inspections of permit-ted medical grows, she said.
“Whose idea was
it to have this impor-tant a program and not have mandatory inspec-tions?” Colasanti asked. “The coalition is not saying there shouldn’t be some rules. We want rules. We have asked for rules.”
Medical pot patients behind the court ac-tion feared they’ll pay commercial producers much more than it cost to grow themselves and end up with less access to the cannabis strains that work best for them.
The injunction doesn’t stop the launch of new commercial pot producers, but it throws into doubt how large their market will be if many users don’t have to immediately switch to them for their supply.
Growers licensed under the old system had been ordered by Ottawa to give written notice by April 30 that
they’d halted produc-tion and destroyed all leftover pot or face po-tential police enforce-ment.
Some municipalities had been poised to send in inspection teams or police to root out the legal medical grow-ops they were aware of come April.
But Surrey’s fire de-partment is now shelv-ing its plans to step in to remediate an esti-mated 309 buildings with medical marijuana grows within the city.
“I’m disappointed,” said Surrey fire chief Len Garis. “I guess we just simply wait.”
Garis said it’s trou-bling from a public safety point of view, referring to academic studies that show the grow operations are 24 times more likely to burn than a regular home.
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The 2013/14 sea-son has almost come to a close for Sicamous Minor Hockey, with the second Midget Rep tournament taking place April 4-6.
Sicamous will be playing host to four out-of-town teams, with the hope that one more will join this week.
There have been some wonderful highs during the year, from the atom team winning their entire season, to
the Sicamous Midgets taking second place in their league play, to pre novice and novice teams improving in great strides.
However, Sicamous Minor Hockey has been faced with many challenges this year as well. There was the loss of kids from the program due to fami-lies moving away from the community, or the costs that come with playing hockey. There
were challenges due to over-aged kids playing in house leagues due to lack of players and poli-cies from the Okanagan Mainline Hockey Asso-ciation (OMAHA) and BC Hockey that make it very tough for small communities like Si-camous to keep afloat,
and forces kids to play in other communities.
Sicamous has been fortunate enough to have a wonderful arena and staff who support the program, but if we cannot maintain hockey teams in Sicamous we are in danger of having our arena shut down
or scaled back to mini-mum hours.
Many people don’t realize the funds col-lected by registration, which ranges from $300 for the younger age groups to $650 for the midgets, do not even make a dent in the ac-tual cost to run a minor
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nor Hockey must pay a fee to OMAHA, BC Hockey and Hockey Canada. On average, Sicamous Minor Hock-ey sees about $100 per player actually coming to the bank account for the season. The aver-age monthly ice bill is between $3,000 and $5,000 dollars, and with fewer than 70 kids play-ing minor hockey at all levels, you can see there is quite a gap. Not to mention equipment upgrades, jersey re-placements, certifying coaches, refereeing and other administration costs. Raising fees is the last option Sicamous Minor Hockey wants to do, as it’s tough on all families to cover the current fees.
After the first Shea Weber/Cody Fran-son Golf Tournament, the National Hockey League Players Asso-ciation donated 25 sets of hockey gear to Si-camous Minor Hockey to help kids and fami-lies who needed the support. This was such a generous gesture; however, many parents outside of hockey don’t know we have this gear
to lend. We would love to see kids come out and try the game, and if this gear helps with the cost, please let us know. We welcome any kids to come and be a part of Sicamous Minor Hock-ey. We have parents who carpool, to help with folks who work on weekends, or have a hard time getting kids to practice due to work hours. For those who would like to have their children play, but find things tough in Septem-ber with back-to-school and other bills, we have grant money we can access for such things as kids’ sport and pri-vate sponsors. This will stay between yourself and the registrar of Si-camous Minor Hockey.
Sicamous Minor Hockey teams have fundraising goals they must face every year, and are fantastic at meeting those goals, through poinsettia sales, hockey pools and, of course, their home tournaments. Thanks go to the com-munity of Sicamous for always coming to the plate and helping our kids out in their goals. We have a wonderful community.
The next Minor Hockey fundraiser will be April 5, which will be a poker tourna-ment, upstairs at the rec centre. Doors open at 6 p.m., play starts at 7 sharp. One time buy-in of $25 dollars, with a cash bar on site. Tickets can be picked up at the Sicamous Visitor Cen-tre or through [email protected].
If you would like to be a private sponsor for Sicamous Minor Hockey, please con-tact us through [email protected].
Sicamous has such a rich hockey back-ground and the Si-camous Minor Hockey board would hate to see the community to lose its program.
Organizers are al-ways looking for those who would be willing to coach, ref or be a di-rector of Sicamous Mi-nor Hockey. The AGM is on May 26 at 6:30 p.m. upstairs at the rec centre, and all are en-couraged to attend to provide ideas, input and ask any questions you may have.
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A12 www.eaglevalleynews.com Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Eagle Valley News
Under its new regulations, the BC Government has set up an association led by big corporations to take over the local Blue Box recycling program throughout BC. If you look closely, you’ll see that of seven board members, six are executives of Toronto-based multi-national corporations, with the seventh weighing in from Montreal.
How do you like that, British Columbia?
This means, unlike the current program run locally by BC municipalities, this new program will be managed not by people whose fi rst responsibility is our local environment, but rather, their Bay St. profi ts.
That can’t be a good thing for BC.
The most perplexing thing is that we currently have a Blue Box program that works, is effi cient, and costs BC homeowners just
$35 a year on average. The new proposed system does not guarantee to keep our local environment as its fi rst priority, nor does it guarantee that there won’t be job losses here in BC.
It doesn’t guarantee service levels, or say anything about how big business will pass along the costs to you when you go to pick up a pizza or buy groceries.
Yikes!
Perhaps this is why several of BC’s municipalities refuse to sign onto the new program, calling it a “scam.” Given that, maybe it’s time you called Premier Clark to keep BC’s environmental decisions right here in BC where they belong.
What’s going on here?
Email Christy Clark at [email protected] or call 250-387-1715. For more info, visit RethinkItBC.ca. #RethinkItBC.
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The BC Government is now off-loading our recycling decisions to Toronto.
