EAGLE VALLEY NEWS Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Vol. 59 No. 47 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com PM40008236 Drug grower handed two years in jail Page 3 Shuswap crew nominated for boating rescue Page 6 Sicamous votes for change, electing all new council Team incomplete: Sicamous residents voted for change on district council, electing Terry Rysz for mayor and, for council, the candidate team of Colleen Anderson, Gord Bushell, Todd Kyllo, Malcolm Makayev and Jeff Mallmes. The unofficial election results show Janna Simons as the sixth councillor elect, narrowly beating out incumbent Fred Busch by three votes. Busch, however, says he will be asking for a recount. An anticipated recount will determine who will be joining Sicamous’ mayor and councillors when they get down to work in December. Unofficial results from Saturday’s elec- tion and the advanced vote show Terry Rysz as the community’s new mayor with 545 votes, beating out candidate Malcolm MacLeod by 200 votes. In the race for council, Gord Bushell received the most votes with 682. Next in line was Malcolm Makayev with 565, Todd Kyllo with 518, Jeff Mallmes with 492 and Colleen Ander- son with 463. Coming in sixth place was Janna Simons, who received 371 votes. However, she won by a mere three votes over incumbent candidate Fred Busch, who said Monday that he would be asking for a recount. “I guess I should try, if I still wanted to have a seat on council, and I do. So we’ll have to see,” said Busch, noting how, in the 2011 election, Coun. Don Richardson wound up being elected following a re- count. “They found 50 votes or something like that, that hadn’t been tallied properly and he ended up gaining a seat. So we’ll see.” Simons says if she were in Busch’s posi- tion she’d do the same. “I’m good either way, whether I get in or not,” said Simons. “It’s going to be what it’s going to be. It’s what the people want. And I think Fred should go for the recount because it’s so close.” On the other end, Bushell, clearly taken aback, said he did not expect to receive the most votes of all the candidates. But Bush- ell is pleased with how he and the group he campaigned with (Anderson, Kyllo, Makayev and Mallmes) were chosen to represent the community. Regarding the group, Bushell affirms they may have cam- paigned as a team, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be debate when they’re on the job. “Everybody asks us, you know, are we Not over yet: Council candidate Fred Busch to request recount. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News See Recount on page 2
Sicamous votes for change, electing all new council
Team incomplete: Sicamous residents voted for change on district council, electing Terry Rysz for mayor and, for council, the candidate team of Colleen Anderson, Gord Bushell, Todd Kyllo, Malcolm Makayev and Jeff Mallmes. The unofficial election results show Janna Simons as the sixth councillor elect, narrowly beating out incumbent Fred Busch by three votes. Busch, however, says he will be asking for a recount.
An anticipated recount will determine who will be joining Sicamous’ mayor and councillors when they get down to work in December.
Unofficial results from Saturday’s elec-tion and the advanced vote show Terry
Rysz as the community’s new mayor with 545 votes, beating out candidate Malcolm MacLeod by 200 votes. In the race for council, Gord Bushell received the most votes with 682. Next in line was Malcolm Makayev with 565, Todd Kyllo with 518, Jeff Mallmes with 492 and Colleen Ander-son with 463. Coming in sixth place was Janna Simons, who received 371 votes. However, she won by a mere three votes over incumbent candidate Fred Busch, who said Monday that he would be asking for a recount.
“I guess I should try, if I still wanted to
have a seat on council, and I do. So we’ll have to see,” said Busch, noting how, in the 2011 election, Coun. Don Richardson wound up being elected following a re-count. “They found 50 votes or something like that, that hadn’t been tallied properly and he ended up gaining a seat. So we’ll see.”
Simons says if she were in Busch’s posi-tion she’d do the same.
“I’m good either way, whether I get in or not,” said Simons. “It’s going to be what it’s going to be. It’s what the people want. And I think Fred should go for the recount
because it’s so close.”On the other end, Bushell, clearly taken
aback, said he did not expect to receive the most votes of all the candidates. But Bush-ell is pleased with how he and the group he campaigned with (Anderson, Kyllo, Makayev and Mallmes) were chosen to represent the community. Regarding the group, Bushell affirms they may have cam-paigned as a team, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be debate when they’re on the job.
“Everybody asks us, you know, are we
Not over yet: Council candidate Fred Busch to request recount.By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
See Recount on page 2
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Nov. 28 & 29 $2 bag sale Sicamous United Church Thrift Shop 10 am-3 pm Clothing and shoes only.Dec. 6 Christmas Bazaar in the Malakwa Learning Centre gym 10 am - 2 pm to book a table call 250-836-4509Monday 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 Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10 am - 3 pm. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472Every 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 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. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652
Every 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-
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STOPS YOU!!Outgoing mayor and council give thanks
Three years of mu-nicipal service con-cluded quickly and qui-etly last Wednesday for the outgoing Sicamous council.
Nov. 12 marked the � nal regular coun-cil meeting for Mayor Darrell Trouton and company. After run-ning through much of the evening’s agenda in what may have been record time, it was time for council statements, beginning with Coun. Suzanne Carpenter. She used this time as an op-portunity to thank her fellow councillors and staff. Elected in the Oc-tober 2013 by-election, Carpenter re� ected
brie� y on the past year and, as the one council-lor not seeking re-elec-tion, encouraged the fu-ture council to continue with work she’s been part of, particularly the recent community health forums.
Coun. Charlotte Hutchinson was next up. She too gave thanks to staff and council, though clari� ed this wasn’t necessarily her swan song.
“Even though we’ve had some rocky roads, I just want to thank you very much for your service over these past few years. It’s been my pleasure to work with you,” said Hutchinson.
Coun. Busch con-tinued with this theme, noting the past few
years have been pro-ductive, despite there being “some things were said that perhaps should not have been said, by me and perhaps others.” Busch went on to say the crowning jewel of the term, for him, is the water treat-
ment plant. “The next council
will be able to gather all the glory and all the honour for getting it done, getting it done on time hopefully. But it was our work that got it done,” said Busch. ”If I never see you again, then it’s been a good time.”
Couns. Joan Thom-son, Don Richardson and Terry Rysz also thanked their fellow councillors and district staff.
Trouton, who also chose not to seek re-election, had the last word. He thanked the district, its residents, and said it’s been an honour to lead and rep-resent the community.
“I never took the job
lightly and I’m proud of our community and what we have to offer and who we are,” said Trouton, thanking his family, friends and the residents of Sicamous, as well as council, who he said have offered great support and who have worked as a team.
During the pub-lic question period, council candidates Jeff Mallmes and Gord Bushell offered their thanks to council for the service they’ve pro-vided to the commu-nity.
Sicamous’ new mayor and council will be sworn in at the inau-gural meeting of coun-cil on Monday, Dec. 1. The � rst regular coun-cil meeting is Dec. 10.
By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
I never took the job lightly and I’m proud of our com-munity and what we have to offer and who we are.
Darrell Trouton
all like-minded? But everybody has their own opinions and we each voice those too,” said Bushell. “But the common goal is to move the community forward, bring in some industry and � nish up some projects that were started a long time ago. We just want what’s best for the commu-nity.”
As the only one with council experience, Rysz says he’s looking forward to the challenge of representing the community and helping the new councillors get up to speed.
“I don’t think it will take them long to get it. But bureaucracy is a little bit different than private enterprise,” said Rysz. “You’ve got regu-lations and bylaws and all of the rest to con-sider. It’s all set up so you can’t do a whole lot of corner cutting, where in the private world you can sort of do that kind of thing. That’s going to be a bit of a learn-ing curve for the new group, but I’m pretty sure they’ll be up to speed in short order.”
The mayor-elect says one of the � rst discussions he and the new council will have will revolve around the
hiring of a new chief administrative of� cer. District chief � nan-cial of� cer Kelly Ben-nett has been working double duty as interim CAO since former CAO Heidi Frank’s recent de-parture.
“She’s handled it very well, but in all fair-ness to her, she’s doing two jobs,” said Rysz. “We’re going to have to really consider how we’re going to look at this CAO thing, wheth-er it’s a full-time CAO, part-time, or if she’s go-ing to step up and take on the CAO position… but it is a concern right now and that will de� -nitely be on the table
right off the bat.”While the polls
closed at 8 p.m. on Sat-urday, Sicamous resi-dents were required to wait until the following morning to learn the un-of� cial election results, which were posted around 1 a.m. Sicamous Chief Elections Of� cer Joni L’Heureux did not return the News call be-fore presstime, but Rysz did speak to the delay, stating election of� cials wanted to make sure they “got it right.”
“They had to do a recount and so it took time,” said Rysz. “But at the end of the day, I think they got it done, they got it right, and
with that they have my respect. It’s that impor-tant… maybe the pro-cess could be improved on. I’m in discussion with Joni – she has to make a report to Elec-tions BC. I feel they did a good job regardless.”
Forty per cent of Sicamous’ 2,253 eli-gible voters attended the polls this year. That equates to 904 voters – two more than the number of people who voted in 2011.
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Colin Martin was handed a two-year pris-on sentence last Friday on charges of produc-tion of a controlled sub-stance and possession for the purpose of traf-ficking.
The Malakwa man was sentenced Friday, Nov. 7 in Vancouver Supreme Court, after pleading guilty to the charges in March.
In addition to the jail time, Martin was given one year probation and a lifetime ban on pos-sessing firearms.
Crown counsel had argued for a five-year prison sentence, exclud-ing time served (includ-ing jail time related to his May 2014 arrest on an extradition warrant).
The two-year sen-tence stems from a July
6, 2010 police raid on two adjacent properties on Northway Road in Malakwa.
Beneath a warehouse on one of the properties, officers found a bunker containing approxi-mately 3,000 marijuana plants.
Court documents state Martin’s finger-prints were found on light shrouds in the bunker. The bunker was concealed beneath a hydraulic door upon which sat “a number of electrical generators.”
In a residence on the adjacent property where Martin lived, police found baggies of mari-juana, as well as docu-ments and emails ar-ranging for the bunker’s construction, a Health Canada application for a licence to produce marijuana prepared in Martin’s name, and ne-
gotiations for the sale of the property with the warehouse by Martin to a numbered company.
“In an email cor-respondence… Colin Martin wrote that while the former registered owner ‘may be the owner on paper,’ Colin Martin was the owner ‘in reality,’” states one BC Supreme Court document.
In May, the B.C. Su-preme Court in Kam-loops committed Martin for extradition to Seattle where he faces charges of conspiracy to traffic marijuana, cocaine and MDMA (ecstasy).
The charges relate to a cross-border drug smuggling operation. U.S. authorities al-lege Martin would hire people in B.C. to load the helicopters with as much as $5-million worth of marijuana or
MDMA, then pay pi-lots to fly the choppers to pre-determined loca-tions across the U.S.-Canada border.
The haul of B.C. bud or pills would alleg-edly be unloaded by a ground crew in the U.S., and cocaine, firearms and money would be loaded into the helicop-ter for transport back to Canada.
Martin is appealing the extradition order, and it is expected he will serve his two-year sentence prior to being sent stateside, if and when he is.
In 2006, Martin was sentenced to serve two-and-a-half years behind bars after being convict-ed of Canadian charges stemming from another cross-border drug-smuggling ring.
-With files from Kamloops This Week
More prison time for drug growerBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
No go on GMO request at CSRD meeting
They listened polite-ly, but Columbia Shus-wap Regional District directors did not fulfill a request put forward by a delegation from the City of Salmon Arm’s Envi-ronmental Advisory Committee.
Warren Bell, John McLeod and Hugh Ty-son addressed the board at its Nov. 13 meeting, ending the presenta-tion with a request for a resolution declaring the regional district as a non-GMO zone and support the labelling of GMO produced foods.
The third member of the delegation to speak was McLeod, a long-time farmer in the area.
Area E Rural Si-camous director Rho-
na Martin, expressed support for labelling GMO foods and asked McLeod if all the farm-ers in the regional dis-trict would support the committee’s request, or would there be op-position. He replied that some would likely be opposed, describing them as good farmers not meaning to do harm.
“I have used every chemical known to man – it’s about how we think we can control nature,” he said, point-ing out the dangers of tinkering with food and referring specifically to how dairy farmers used to treat mastitis in cows with penicillin, and had to move to sulfa drugs when penicillin was no longer effective.
“We’ve created a
bacteria so power-ful it would kill a 2,400-pound cow in 24 hours.”
But former Golden mayor Christina Benty stated the issue is one of a federal nature.
“I deeply appreci-ate your concern. I am worried about GMOs too, but I don’t support benign resolutions that we are without the abil-ity to enforce,” she said. “And we could be held to account.”
The other directors agreed and voted unani-mously to accept the presentation as informa-tion only.
McLeod later said he was disappointed.
“If it doesn’t come from the grassroots, it isn’t likely to come from higher levels of
government where the lobbyists have more say than the electorate,” he said. “How is it that multi-national corpora-tions can take democ-racy to court, which is what they’re planning to do in Vermont and Maui over the recent resolu-tion to prevent GMO crops and have labelled food.”
McLeod also muses that if all other ingredi-ents must be listed on labels – sodium, sugar, carbs, why is a GMO designation not includ-ed.
“I’m surprised and disappointed that some directors choose to take direction from the fed-eral government rather than polling the elector-ate they represent,“ he said.
By Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News
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VICTORIA – The sad-dest manifestation of Brit-ish Columbia’s modern de-mocracy has produced its judgment, with the election of school trustees for the next four years.
There are still indepen-dent, community-minded trustees, but mostly “boards of education” have become the neglected, exploited stepchild of B.C. politics.
Teacher union locals and CUPE-dominated “la-bour councils” organize candidate forums and ask most of the questions, often to former teachers holding and seeking school board seats. Unions finance the campaigns of those who pledge to act as a bullhorn for constant demands for more provincial money, and instruct their members to vote for what should be called the Conflict of Inter-est slate.
This has been going on for so long in B.C. it is seen as normal. ] The pub-lic mostly doesn’t give a damn, since school prop-erty tax authority was cen-tralized in Victoria many years ago, largely because of this special interest pres-sure.
The classic case is in Co-quitlam, where one could almost hear the theme from The Godfather as local CUPE boss Dave Ginter appeared before the board of education in February. He informed the elected trustees their collective fi-nancial acumen wasn’t up to his standards and some of them would have to go this fall. Ginter seems to have made them an offer they couldn’t refuse on Sat-urday, with formerly union-blessed trustees turfed out in favour of a new group.
Then there’s Vancouver Island, where the 1970s survived, at least until Sat-urday night. Cowichan
school board got itself fired by the province in 2012 for refusing to submit a bal-anced budget. Two of the trustees ran again. They were joined on a slate by two others who apparently still believe the answer to every problem is to shout for “more government funding.” They didn’t get in, as voters appear to have been unimpressed by seeing their school board replaced by a provincially-appointed manager for two years.
That brings up a mod-est proposal. How about an appointed trustee for each of the 60 school districts? School boards have lost au-thority over taxation, cur-riculum and now labour re-lations. Do we really need them any more?
After the 2013 B.C. election, the Christy Clark government wasted no time taking control of union bar-gaining on behalf of school districts. Trustees were
pushed out of the bargain-ing agency, no longer trust-ed to represent taxpayers for that duty either.
The puppet role of some school trustees was evident in the recent teacher strike. When the province opted to pay parents for the disrup-tion, there was a chorus of protest from those suppos-edly elected to represent the interests of parents and taxpayers.
School tax rates are now set by cabinet order, and the B.C. Liberal government is considering a move to reg-ulate local industrial taxes. Would Education Minister Peter Fassbender and his team continue their remake by amalgamating or elimi-nating school boards? Not likely.
With a rare teacher set-tlement in place, trustees will have less incentive to grandstand. And their meetings may become something more than union beef sessions.
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Christmas is in the air – change might be too.
On Saturday, you, Sicamous, voted in a new council – as in completely new. Well, almost. When sworn in on Dec. 1, Coun. Terry Rysz takes on the title of mayor. And the three-vote difference between councillor-elect Janna Simons and incumbent Fred Busch means there will likely be a recount. Other than that, there will be all new faces on council.
Undoubtedly, the most interesting aspect of this election was the success of the team approach taken by council candidates Colleen Anderson, Gord Bushell, Todd Kyllo, Malcolm Makayev and Jeff Mallmes. This mix clearly struck the right chord with the electorate. And, given each of the team member’s respective backgrounds, the next four years may very well mark the beginning of another upswing for the community – bringing Sicamous back into the black, so to speak.
That said, it would be unfair to expect immedi-ate change. There’s quite a learning curve for newcomers to municipal council as they immerse themselves in the do’s and don’ts of local govern-ment and its bureaucracy. It typically takes a year for a council to learn what needs to be learned, and to gel as, well, a team. So, in that sense, Anderson, Bushell, Kyllo, Makayev and Mallmes are already a step ahead.
Unfortunately, one thing that didn’t change this year was voter turnout. Of the 2,253 residents eligible to vote, only 904 people, or 40 per cent, exercised that right. That’s two more people than the 902 who voted in the 2011 election.
What’s the message there? Rysz has been using the word “engaged” a lot
as of late. As in, Sicamous’ new mayor and coun-cil (as well as those who weren’t elected), need to be engaged with the community, and the com-munity with the district, in order to get some momentum going in everyone’s favour. This antipathy for apathy, if practised unwaveringly with sincerity and respect, might actually improve voter turnout, and help council help the commu-nity bring about the change that most everyone is anxiously waiting for.
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I’ve heard munici-pal politics is a thank-less job, but I know this isn’t the case.
For example, last Wednesday, I wit-nessed Sicamous’ out-going mayor and coun-cil thank themselves (as well as staff and the community).
This was during the last regular meeting of council’s three-year term, an occasion at-tended by less than 10 people (myself includ-ed).
Council candidates Jeff Mallmes and Gord Bushell, who were also in attendance, took advantage of question period to thank Mayor Darrell Trouton and
Coun. Suzanne Car-penter, who were not seeking re-election, as well as the rest of council for service to the community.
A classy gesture for sure.
I expect Trouton and council have received plenty of thanks over the past three years, as well as plenty criticism and, likely, some not-so-kind words. As they say, you can’t please everyone. And a new team of councillors was elected, so clearly Sicamous is wanting and ready for change.
During a pre-emp-tive farewell speech, Coun. Fred Busch suggested the water treatment plant will be the outgoing council’s crowning achievement. I suggest it should also be remembered for ac-tions taken during the turmoil of the 2012 flooding, including the debris flow at 2 Mile and the subsequent flooding during high water.
The first year is typically a learning
period for a new coun-cil. In its first seven months, however, Si-camous’ outgoing mayor and councillors suddenly found them-selves submerged in a state of emergency. This meant their first year was spent learn-ing (or relearning) the ropes of local govern-ment, as well as how to navigate upper-level government agencies in appealing for aid. And then there was the tension that followed, much of it stemming from the ongoing need for safe, clean drinking water.
Coun. Terry Rysz has stated he’ll be taking a hands-on ap-proach as mayor after he’s sworn in on Dec. 1. That seemed to be the way of his prede-cessor, Trouton, who impressed with his willingness to get his hands dirty if need be. Literally.
On June 23, as the debris flow was hap-pening, our photogra-pher James Murray and I were stuck at a road-
block on 97A, wait-ing to see if we could get someone to take us through so we could do our job. While waiting, I overheard Trouton was at the scene, as-sisting with the evacua-tion effort. That got me wondering how many mayors would do that, as opposed to being glued to a phone away from the danger, at-tempting to co-ordinate others to get the work done?
All in all, the outgo-ing council was dealt a lousy hand with the flood and the commu-nity appears to have pulled through. And for that they deserve some thanks.
Of course, there’s lots more work to be done, and I wish the new council all the best in moving the com-munity forward. No doubt they too will face criticism. But don’t be afraid to give thanks where it’s due. Munici-pal politics may not be a thankless, but it’s far from a stroll in the park.
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Royal Canadian Ma-rine Search and Res-cue Shuswap Station 106 station leader Rob Sutherland says two of the station’s crews have been nominated for the Canadian Safe Boating Council Rescue of the Year award. The nomi-nation is for the crews’ two-day rescue effort in response to a boating collision on Aug. 17 in Hungry Cove.
The collision is re-ported to have occurred on Aug. 16 at approxi-mately 11:30 p.m. The boat is said to have left the floating restaurant at Cinnemousun Nar-rows at around 9 p.m. and was returning to Sicamous. While round-ing Hungry Cove, the boat turned to port to miss a houseboat, and wound up crashing into a rock cliff at full speed. Darryl John Johnston of Calgary was thrown into the water, while a second man was thrown into the boat, sustaining neck and back injuries in the process. He stayed in the boat for the night and, in the morning, was able to flag down a pass-
ing vessel. Shuswap Station 106
was paged at 8:38 a.m. on the 17th, and a crew consisting of Suther-land, Barbara Birch, John Lahaie and Dave Harvey responded.
“It was amazing that the boat still floated with the amount of damage to it…,” says Sutherland, noting two dogs that were also on the vessel had been thrown from the boat uninjured.
“We found the sur-vivor standing in ob-vious shock and pain and he was treated by both RCMSAR mem-bers and BCAS (BC Ambulance Service), then packaged up and transferred to our boat while two other station members did a quick search for the second person onshore, think-ing he may have left the
boat and tried to go for help,” says Sutherland. “With nothing but de-bris and two dogs found on shore, we left taking the injured man back to Sicamous to a waiting helicopter and he was air lifted to Kelowna.”
After dropping off
the injured man, the rescue crew returned to the scene to search for Johnston. This involved a detailed shore search to see if the man had walked away. RCMP soon arrived and, when it was determined John-
Rescue effort earns recognition
Bad scene: RCMSAR Shuswap Station’s vessel is moored at Hungry Cove where another vessel, being towed, collided with a rock, killing one occupant and injuring another. Photo contributed
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Position: Forwards Home Town: Zilina SolvakiaAge: 18 Height: 6’ 0” Weight: 160 Prev Team: Knights of Columbis Midgett AAA Hobbies / Interests: Ping Pong Badminton Goals: Develop on and off the ice Favorite NHL Team: Edmonton Oilers Favorite Player: Tomas JurcoPersonal Hero: Farther Catfish Favorite Music: Luke Bryan Favorite Food: Grilled Chicken and Rice What do you like best about playing hockey in Sicamous:
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The Sicamous Ea-gles had little to cele-brate this weekend after dropping two games by the skin of their teeth.
Neither the Eagles nor guests the Chase Heat could break the 3-3 tie in overtime Saturday night. The first frame ended with the Heat leading 2-1. Devyn Myck scored the single for Sicamous (assisted by Justin Wilde) late in the frame, lifting the team’s spirit going into the second. Darien Blight tied the game at 19 in the second period with an unassisted marker. Riley Jepson added a power-play conversion at 15:05, with assists by Sam Subert and Korwin Shewchuk. Scoring stopped at the halfway point when Chase
added their final goal of the evening.
Darien Blight was named the game’s first star.
The Eagles hosted, and lost to the 100 Mile House Wranglers
on Sunday. The final score: 1-0. That single came in the last two minutes of the first period in a power play. Earning second-star honours was Sicamous netminder Patrick
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The Eagles are back on home ice on Nov. 25, when they welcome back the Revelstoke Grizzlies.
Jump: Sicamous Eagle Tyson Taylor hops from the crease during home-game action Saturday versus the Chase Heat. Photo by Lachlan Labere
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it was determined John-ston wasn’t on the shore, police conducted an air search. Again, nothing was found. Plans were made for the following day involving a police dive team.
On Aug. 18, a Shus-wap Station crew con-sisting of Jamie Brig-man, Barbara Birch, Fred Duck and Mary-
Anne Easton met and briefed the dive team before returning to the scene.
“The divers were only in the water for about 20 minutes and found the body, placed him in a body bag and he was loaded in our boat,” says Sutherland. “Our Coxswain knew the person so he iden-tified the body for the RCMP and then we
took him back to Si-camous where we met the coroner, who took him to Salmon Arm.”
A tow company re-trieved the damaged vessel as well as the dogs. Sutherland reports the survivor is doing well. As for the rescue crew, one of the attend-ing volunteers had to receive counselling for critical incident stress.
“That person has a
planned follow-up ses-sion and I have talked to her a couple of times already and she seems to be doing OK,” says Sutherland. “She has been removed from the call-out list until given clearance by the coun-sellor.”
The award cer-emony, hosted by the Canadian Safe Boating Council, takes place Jan. 15 in Toronto.
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Pat passed away peacefully at home after a courageous battle with cancer, with his loving family at his side.
Pat, and his wife Val, left Victoria in 1982, settling in the beautiful Shuswap, and making Sicamous home.
Pat is survived by wife Val, son Benjamin (Kelly), daughters Chelsea (Matt) and Katy; his latest pride and joy, his grand-daughter Emery; brothers Richard, Peter and Michael; and numerous loving family members and friends, near and far. Pat is pre-deceased by his infant daughter Carly; parents Desmond and Patricia; and sister Vicky.
Pat’s family would like to extend their appreciation to Dr. Herman Venter, the staff at Mt Ida Medical Clinic and Pharmacy, Dr. Finch and Dr. Manji, for all your care and attention.
A celebration of life will be held at a later time. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to either the BC Children’s Hospital or the SPCA.
“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew, to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you, except the Will which says to them – ‘HOLD ON!’” – Rudyard Kipling 1895
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