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Vol. 59 No. 15 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Loonies return to raise funds for fireworks

Page 3

Sicamous shuts out Calgary in

midget tourney Page 8

Up to it: Jared Nelson manages to grab some air time while performing an “ollie” Saturday afternoon at the Sicamous Skate Park. Photo by James Murray

Proposed changes to ALR prompt concern

Protecting agriculture: Shuswap agriculture advocates believe amendments to how the Agricultural Land Commission operates will put B.C.’s farmland at risk. Photo by James Murray

Shuswap agricultural advocates argue proposed changes to how the province manages farmland have little do with helping the people who work it.

On March 27, the B.C. government an-nounced how it would be improving the Agri-culture Land Commis-sion, the independent body tasked with pro-tecting farmland in the Agricultural Land Re-serve.

The changes were the result of a cabinet “core review” headed by Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett. A news release states the changes will “protect farmland and maintain the ALC’s independence.”

“These improvements achieve our goals of supporting the ALC in its role as independent decision maker, protecting our high-quality farm-land and still support farmers to get ahead,” states Bennett in the release.

But John McLeod, retired farmer and president of the Shuswap Food Action Co-op, has a different take on the changes recommended in Bill 24 – the Agricultural Land Commission Amendment Act, which, in summa-ry, he refers to with a pejorative term

approximating “bull fer-tilizer.”

“When Christy Clark won the last election, there wasn’t one word about doing a core re-view on the agricultural land reserve or commis-sion – she has no man-date to do this,” says McLeod, who believes the key changes in the amendment are to ac-

commodate the premier’s mandate to get liquid natural gas � owing – even from agricultural land.

“They don’t have plan (for agri-culture),” said McLeod. “What they have is a plan to go and frack!”

With Bill 24 the B.C. government will be dividing the ALR into two zones, Zone 1 covering everything

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

See Province on page 2

On March 27, the B.C. government an-nounced how it would be improving the Agri-culture Land Commis-sion, the independent body tasked with pro-tecting farmland in the Agricultural Land Re-

The changes were

Bill BennettMinister of Energy

and Mines

Bill 24: Food security proponents say government bill not helping farmers.

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from the Okanagan to the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, and Zone 2, which takes in the rest of the province. Another ma-jor change is that ap-plications for exclusion or subdivision from/on ALR land, normally overseen by the entire ALC, will now go be-fore one of six respec-tive regional panels – Interior, Island, Koo-tenay, North, Okana-gan and South Coast. Each panel will consist of a vice-chair and two commissioners, ap-pointed from their re-gion of responsibility. While Zone 1 panels are tasked to uphold the traditional mandate of the ALC – the pres-ervation of agricultural land, Zone 2 panels must also consider what the province refers to as, “economic, cultural and social values;” “re-gional and community planning objectives;” and “other prescribed

considerations.” This is a concern for Shuswap organic farmer, Cran-nog Ales co-owner Re-becca Kneen.

“The mandate pro-cess and what they call in government speak, “measurables,” are not by the ALC, but by the government, and that is a fairly major shift in policy,” said Kneen. “That’s a fairly major concern because, essen-tially, it removes the in-dependence of the land commission to act on behalf of the land itself and on behalf of agri-culture.

“What they’re say-ing is, ‘you can go ahead and do things the way you’ve been do-ing them, but only once we’ve told you what it is you’re supposed to be doing,’ which is a pretty major difference.”

Another goal of the province with Bill 24 is to make agricultural land more viable for farmers in Zone 2, giv-ing the ALC “broader flexibility to consider

non-agricultural home-based business.” Kneen interprets this as help-ing farmers by giv-ing them an excuse to remove land from the ALR.

“And that’s going to somehow help farmers make a living as farm-ers?” asks Kneen. “If that’s not entirely illogi-cal, I’m at a loss to de-fine illogic.”

Kneen has been working with McLeod and others on the Co-lumbia Shuswap Re-gional District’s Grow Shuswap agricultural committee, which, among other things, is looking at other ways to help farmers without sacrificing any ALR land in B.C. (which represents five per cent of the province’s land base).

“If we want to help farmers make a living at it, we can stop taking land away so that there is land – that helps,” laughs Kneen. She also suggests finding new ways for young farm-

ers to access to farm-land, not contaminat-ing farmland, having buy-local policies at re-gional and local levels, through to legislation that actually supports farmers and farmland and improving the mar-ket for local product, “so farmers can actu-ally sell what they’ve got for a decent amount of money.”

Kneen would have gladly shared her thoughts with the core review committee if there had been consul-tation, but as she and McLeod point out, Bill 24 was announced with no prior public consul-tation.

Bennett publicly ad-mitted after the fact that the committee could “have done a better job at consultations.”

The BC Food Sys-tems Action Network is calling on the prov-ince to put aside the bill and start again, this time through a re-spectful consultation process similar to what

the province did with the Water Sustainability Act.

“Not all of us might be super-excited with what they did in the end, but that was like a six-year consultation across the province,” said BCFSN co-chair Abra Brynne, noting B.C.’s gross farm re-ceipts in 2011 totalled $2.9 million – from less than 200,000 farms. “Our land base is just as important as our water.”

Kneen agrees there are issues with the ALR and related regulations, but notes most of the amendments she has seen have revolved around “taking land out of the land reserve rather than making it possible for people to continue to farm in more effective ways.

“So it may be there are ways of making it possible for more than one family to live on a piece of farmland and farm it, within the ALR and without destroying agricultural land.”

Continued from front

Province to have say in mandate of northern panels

Canada Post may be reducing hours at its Si-camous outlet to a five-day-a-week operation.

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.

“Our goal is to serve the people in your com-munity when they use the post office most,” says Plessis. “A care-ful review has deter-

mined that we have a very small number of local customers on Sat-urdays. Canada Post is therefore considering closing your post office on Saturdays only and realigning hours during the week.”

Plessis says the move is spurred in part by the decline in letter mail volumes having an

adverse effect on Can-ada Post’s “mandate to remain financially self sufficient.”

Canada Post re-cently raised the cost of individual Canadian standard lettermail stamps to $1 (85 cents when bought in bulk), to address the trend of decreasing lettermail volume.

“Rest assured that this potential change will take our customer’s and your constituent’s postal needs into con-sideration,” says Ples-sis, who assures Canada Post remains committed to “providing postal ser-vices in urban and rural communities across the country.”

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Post office may eliminate Saturday hoursCanada Post: Small number of users spurs proposed service cut.

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School District #83’s adult continuing educa-tion programs are facing a complete closure in July.

The board of edu-cation was to consider a motion at Tuesday night’s regular meeting to close all continuing education programs in Salmon Arm, Enderby, Sicamous and Arm-strong. The decision will take place after the News’ press time.

The motion to shut down the adult pro-grams comes as the school district faces another budget process where they will be re-quired to make $1.8 million in cuts to opera-tions. As it stands now, the continuing educa-tion program is being operated at a de� cit of $119,108.

Most of the students in the program do not take full course loads, so the enrolment is count-ed in the total number of courses, explains Wendy Woodhurst, the school district’s director of in-struction. For example, Salmon Arm had 14 ac-tive courses, Sicamous had eight, Enderby had 40 and Armstrong had 39 courses active.

Last year, trustees

opted to scale back the level of service for con-tinuing education and hope the service would become more widely used, rather than close the programs complete-

ly. This year, however, the student enrolment has not increased, and the program continue to operate at a signi� cant loss.

“When you are fac-ing the kind of de� cit we are facing, you need to look at every option you can to save money,” says Bobbi Johnson, school board chair. “These are not easy choices.”

While adult students in Salmon Arm have other options to � nish high school, includ-ing an adult education program at Okanagan College, students from the smaller communi-ties like Sicamous will have more of a struggle to try and upgrade their education.

“It’s the outlying ar-

eas that will feel this the most, and not everyone can get into Salmon Arm for the courses there,” says Johnson.

While some of the adult education pro-

grams operated out of the Salmon Arm Store-front School, Woodhurst stresses the storefront option for school-aged children is not being closed.

“We do not want people to think that shutting down Store-front is what is on the table. This (motion) is only affecting our adult continuing education of-

ferings.”Speaking only from

her personal view, John-son says in a time of such severe budgetary restrictions, she believes resources need to be directed into the kin-dergarten to Grade 12 programs.

“As a trustee I’d rather not cut literacy and other programs that work at an early age to improve the chances of success as children move through the K to 12 system, rather than put money into the catching up at the other end, much as I’d love to help everyone.”

Johnson says pro-gram closures can be an unfortunate reality of balancing budgets.

“If I was a parent, I would be writing letters to government and ask-ing them to take a seri-ous look at things about the education system that we can’t afford to lose.”

By Tracy HughesEagle Valley News

Continuing education may be cut

When you are facing the kind of de� cit we are facing, you need to look at every option to save money. There are no easy choices.

Bobbi JohnsonSD #83 school board chair

More bucks for the bang: Sicamous Lion Joan Thomson adds a donation to one of the loonie banks now at businesses throughout town to raise money for the district’s August long weekend fireworks display. Photo by Victoria Rowbottom


VICTORIA – Have you got one of the new B.C. driver’s licences yet?

By now most drivers have the one with the un-smiling black and white mug shot, to conform to passport standards so it could be used for border identification with the mag-netic swipe strip on the back.

About one million of us now have the newest ver-sion, with a credit-card style digital chip that proves your residence and eligibility for our famously “free” medi-cal care.

The motor vehicle office started issuing them about a year ago, as five-year li-cences expire. They replace the old “CareCard” that has no expiry date. Over the years there were more than nine million CareCards is-sued, twice the population of B.C., as people held onto their access to our defense-less, overworked medical system from wherever they

moved to.Positive identification is

only the start for this card. Each will be assigned a password that gives access to online medical records, so when patients show up at an ER, their eligibility is confirmed and any previous conditions or medications are accurately matched. (Note that medical informa-tion is not stored on the card, just an access code that goes with the password.)

Patients will be able to call up their own files at home, book medical ap-pointments and even re-new prescriptions, which is where the efficiency comes in. In-person visits for rou-tine prescription renewals are a cash cow for today’s doctors, generating guaran-teed billings but often little or no health benefit.

Most people will still think of it as a driver’s li-cence, but it’s intended as an all-purpose government ID. If you don’t drive, you

are spared the $75 licence renewal fee, and within a couple of years the cards will start providing online access to a wide range of government services.

Andrew Wilkinson, min-ister of technology, innova-tion and citizens’ services, says public consultation has shown most people are comfortable using a system they already trust for their banking.

By the end of 2015, Wilkinson says about two million people will have the new cards, roughly half of B.C.’s population. Appli-cation forms converted to online access will include student loans, birth, death and marriage certificates, voter registration and even criminal record checks.

All this will be costly to set up, but the savings from having customers do their own data entry are well known, as any banker or supermarket owner can tell you.

It also means a decline in the number of government office jobs, and the poten-tial for further outsourc-ing of services, as we have seen with Medical Services Plan administration and the back-office functions of BC Hydro.

Some older readers won’t be thrilled to hear about this. They don’t want a “smart phone,” just a phone. But they will also see their great-grandchildren becoming adept with tablet computers before they can even speak. Seniors will get the hang of it pretty quickly, and their lives will become easier.

• A correction to last week’s column on the Agri-cultural Land Commission. I erroneously said regional panel members were ap-pointed from outside the region. They are local resi-dents, and the new legisla-tion formalizes a cabinet appointment process for them.

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Greater penalties needed to curb distracted driving

OPINION

Which is more deadly – the bottle or the cell phone?

It’s remarkable that distracted driving is now causing more tragedies, on our roads than drinking and driving.

Eighty-one people were killed in British Columbia by distracted driving, compared with 55 by impaired driving, in 2012. And 51,000 distracted driving tickets were handed out in 2011.

Of course, there have been huge public educa-tion campaigns conducted over the years, designed to change society’s view of mixing alcohol and autos, not to mention that B.C. has some of the country’s toughest drinking and driving legislation. This has created a significant reduction in drinking-and driving-related deaths in the province since it was implemented.

It appears the equivalent needs to be applied to those who insist on talking on their cell phones or texting while driving. Somehow it is seen as acceptable to stay connected to a mobile device even when piloting thousands of pounds of metal on roads populated with other drivers and their passengers, as well as cyclists and pedestri-ans.

It is not acceptable. It is stupid and dangerous. Just like there are options for people who wish

to drink to find alternate transportation, there are hands-free options for those who simply can not miss a call.

The other alternative is to simply put the phone away while driving, or pull over to a safe place if you need to reply.

Currently, B.C. residents can be fined $167, plus three demerit points, for talking on a hand-held mobile device while driving.

News that Attorney General Suzanne Anton is now considering stronger penalties for distracted driving violations is welcome and appropriate. We look forward to the day when the stigma about cell phones and driving equals that to those who combine booze and cars.

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I have just read the April 2 edition of the EVN and wholeheart-edly agree with the let-ter to the editor from John Schlosar.

Community groups should be the last ones to suffer the municipal-ity’s shortfalls.

Council has set aside more than $13,000 for four (yes, four) council-lors and staff to attend a conference at Niagara Falls, Ont. This will be a fully-paid vacation for these four. When asked what good it will do Sicamous – the only explanation I have been given is that it lets us know what other mu-nicipalities are doing.

Mayor Darrell Trou-ton has been quoted as saying that previous meetings have given us our new proposed water system. This is hogwash, as it was the major � ood that caused this disaster and not any conference results.

In my opinion, we don’t have to spend $13,000-plus to see

what other districts are doing. They just have to go down the road to Enderby and Arm-strong. Both centres are larger than Sicamous and they are still settled in their historic of� ce buildings.

Not Sicamous – we had to have a multi-million ugly duckling of a civic centre rather than be like these other towns who put their funds into curbs, side-walks, water and gar-bage, etc.

Again, in my opin-ion, Sicamous seems to be empire build-ing with over-staf� ng, over-paying and over-departmentalizing our civic of� ces.

We are still a small bedroom community for Salmon Arm. There is no work in town for young people, home-for-sale signs are all over town, the mall and other of� ces have numerous vacancies, the biggest construc-tion project in town has been the tearing down

of the partly built condo project on Riverside. Even with these nega-tives, we still send four people to Niagara Falls for a holiday and make community groups suf-fer. I do not know, nor

have met Coun. Su-zanne Carpenter, but from what I have seen and heard – hopefully she will run for mayor next time.

I also note that MLA Greg Kyllo has found the government help-yourself trough.

His travel expenses of over $5,000 is tops for the provincial Lib-erals. It appears his

wife goes with him on trips to Victoria. He states that he checked on this before running.

Hogwash in my humble opinion.

I surmise that he ran for town council know-ing full well he would be running for MLA. This cost us taxpayers the election to replace him.

I can’t recall any other job that requires their wives to travel to work with them. Oil workers and tradesmen working away from home certainly don’t have their wives paid to go with them.

Of course, they don’t have the taxpay-ers’ pockets to dig into.

It is just sickening to see all the corrup-tion going on in gov-ernment. The senate, the speaker, Kwan, etc. All they have to say is they’re sorry and repay when they get caught.

If you’re not in government, you are charged with fraud and go to court. This is

probably just the tip of the iceberg and we can just wait until the next one gets caught.

Jim West

Marijuana production facility not a grow op

MAILBAG

Thank for your front page coverage of the March 26, 2014 pub-lic hearing for the dis-trict’s planned zoning bylaw amendment. As reported in your cover-age, we are in favour of permitting the respon-sible use of industrial-zoned land for federal-ly-licensed production of medical marijuana. Unfortunately, the pro-posed bylaw would se-verely restrict the abil-

ity to locate these safe and tightly regulated facilities on industrial land. We are hope-ful that our mayor and council will recognize the advantages of lo-cating these facilities on industrial land (as opposed to valuable farmland), and make appropriate changes to the proposed bylaw.

We thank you also for changing the head-line for your story as it

appears on Eagleval-leynews.com. Though it may seem appropri-ate to refer to any op-eration that produces marijuana as a “grow op,” the fact is that the federally-licensed fa-cilities we favour bear no resemblance to the illegal grow ops of the past. Unlike grow ops, licensed medical marijuana production facilities must pass � re and building inspec-

tions, and are subject to strict security and environmental regula-tions. Describing these facilities with the pejo-rative term “grow op” risks unfairly tarring legitimate businesses in this promising new industry.

We encourage any-one concerned about the potential impacts of medical marijuana production to read the federal regulations and

guidance documents prepared by Health Canada. We are con-� dent that reasonable people aware of the rel-evant facts will agree that medical marijuana production is a safe and innocuous way to grow and diversify our local economy.

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An article in the Ea-gle Valley News dated April 2, about MLA expenses and perks re-ally motivated me to voice my opinion on the matter.

The perk to bring a family member or co-worker to Victoria at the expense of the tax-payers should not be allowed.

If an MLA wishes

to bring his spouse or partner to Victoria for family harmony, that should be paid for out of the wages of the MLA.

Our local MLA, Greg Kyllo stated that his decision to run for the provincial seat in our riding was based in part on the government policy that accommo-dates spousal visits to

Victoria. I thought that an MLA would seek election in his or her riding to deal with the issues of health, se-nior citizen housing, employment, taxes, highway maintenance, environment issues and social welfare.

Spousal visits are very important to keep the families together, but not at the expense

of B.C. residents.This policy has to be

stopped – even though the policy has been around for years, ac-cording to the article.

Premier Christy Clark even stated in the news today, “That the rules on MLA expens-es need to be tightened, because the public is clearly not willing to tolerate perks that may

have been allowed in the past.”

This is one of the perks that have to be reviewed by the pre-mier’s of� ce, and make the MLA responsible for his or her spousal visits.

Gary F.T. Ferns

MLAs should be on the hook for spousal travel

Perks and priorities not benefitting taxpayers

Not Sicamous – we had to have a multi-million ugly duckling of a civic centre rather than be like these other towns who put their funds into curbs, side-walks, water and gar-

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Support for Win-dows XP may have come to an end, but that doesn’t make comput-ers with the operating system obsolete.

On Wednesday, April 8, Microsoft stopped supporting the 12-year-old operating system.

What this means is the company will no longer be provid-ing technical support or updates, including hardware and security updates, though Micro-soft Security Essentials, the company’s free anti-virus program, will con-tinue to receive support until July 14, 2015.

What this doesn’t mean, necessarily, says John Schlosar of Si-camous’ Keystroke Computer Service, is that existing XP us-ers must upgrade their operating system or computer – as is being recommended by Mi-crosoft.

“Because of this message, people are thinking I have to up-grade my computer – and I’m getting phone calls all the time – or I have to buy a new one,” said Schlosar. “I know they are phoning other computer repair places and they’re saying, ‘yes, you have to,’ just to get the business. It’s not im-perative. You have to be maybe a little more dili-gent, but you don’t have to upgrade it.”

Being diligent re-quires changing some

habits and adding new software to make sure your computer is pro-tected.

With security no longer coming from Microsoft, this is some-thing XP users need to take care of on their own. Schlosar says you can protect yourself by making sure you’ve got an antivirus program on your computer, adding you’ll eventually want to replace security es-sentials. Schlosar also recommends having an anti-malware/spyware program, which will target advertising, spy-ware, hijack and black-mail software.

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here all the time where it’s completely black-mailed or hijacked, and you’re locked out of the computer until you pay a lot of mon-ey to something,” said Schlosar, adding the free programs at supe-rantispywere.com and malwarebytes.org work well.

Another recommen-dation Schlosar has for XP users is, if they haven’t done so already, stop using Internet Ex-plorer as a web browser, as it will no longer be updated.

“Usually, if there’s (security) exploits coming in, they come through the browser,”

said Schlosar, suggest-ing XP users switch to another browser such as Google Chrome or Firefox.

Schlosar says those considering a newer Windows-based operat-ing system first need to know if their computer is compatible.

“If you go to a re-pair place and they say, ‘We can do it,’ that’s the wrong answer,” said Schlosar. “Their answer should be, ‘let me find out if your computer is compatible for you’… It may be price prohibi-tive to do that, it may not work or you may be better off buying an-other computer.”

Schlosar notes an op-erating system upgrade can cost up to $300 if done professionally, and involves backing up existing information, erasing your hard drive, installing the new disc, updating, etc. He adds older peripherals, such as scanners and print-ers, may not work with the newer operating systems.

Schlosar credits Mi-crosoft for having sup-ported XP as long it has and, while it may not work as well as newer operating systems, he says by taking a proac-tive approach, XP users can avoid the expense of major upgrades.

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There are two art forms that have always baffled me.

The first is dance. Not the art itself, but the recording of it. Ballet in particular.

In music, a sys-tem was developed (however unnecessar-ily complex, and if in-vented today could be done simpler) of writ-ing down music so that it could be duplicated by others in exactly the same way as originally composed.

However, I always wondered how dancers write down their com-plicated moves. Can you imagine having to write down where each arm and leg is at any given time, what it is doing and, in case of a pas de deux, where the four arms and four legs are and what they are doing? And the

whirls and swirls as well. I found out that, lo and behold, there is not one system. There have been attempts to develop systems, some based on the music stave where the top line is the head, then the shoulders, waist, knees and the feet. Many ballet companies have people who take dance notation, writing down the moves in this sys-tem, but it would appear there are as many sys-tems as there are chore-ographers.

Yet classical ballet works, such as Giselle and The Dying Swan have survived through lore and from pass-ing the baton from one dance group to another.

Nowadays, there are videos made but even those are not consid-ered accurate at all time. While being filmed, the dancers could be doing things wrong at the time of recording.

It is not uncom-mon for modern cho-reographers to follow their work and travel to where their work is be-ing performed to ensure accuracy.

To believe in lore is about the same as believing in the game “telephone” we played

as kids, where you start with a word at the be-ginning of a line, only to find what comes at the end of the line is something entirely dif-ferent.

The second art form I wonder about is fash-ion. Yes, fashion.

There is a debate over whether or not it is an art form. Since there are museums that display fashion, I must assume those museums consider it an art form.

For years I did not understand that while watching strange look-ing skinny females walking on the catwalk that the designer could be serious. Surely some of these concoctions could not possibly be worn anywhere. Or how could you even sit down in some of these?

It also seems that one designer outdoes another by designing more and more ludi-crous looking outfits. Here is a description of ridiculous things I found on the Internet:

A pile of lumber nailed together in front of a man’s head; how about some trees hang-ing from your dress; blue lips, striped hair, toothpicks through parts of the face; even

the curtain rod made fa-mous by Carol Burnett in her sketch of Scarlet O’Hara; or a pair of gloves at the tip of the shoes.

But what always strikes me most is how the models are abso-lutely incapable of, or not allowed to smile.

Wow – you would think that wearing the clothes they are wear-ing would at least make them smile a little, but no, it is all very serious. However, after my real-ization late in life that these fashion shows are not about wearable fashions but are an ar-tistic expression, these things all made sense.

Just as modern day paintings may not make sense, the same goes

for these designs. An expression of modern art displayed by live people. That made me change my mind about these fashion shows and I now view them with interest, rather than a look of horror that said, “You want me to wear that?”

So maybe next time you see a classical bal-let you may see it as a difficult recordable art form. And when it comes to those artsy fashion shows, don’t think of it as wearable but try looking at it as an art form. It will make a huge difference.

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The Malakwa Com-munity Centre Asso-ciation is celebrating the arrival of spring with a dinner/concert to help raise funds for the local community hall.

On Saturday, April 26, the association will be hosting the fund-raising event – dinner with live music – at the Malakwa Commu-nity Learning Centre (the former elementary school).

Tickets will soon be available at the Mal-akwa Market. Funds raised from the event will go towards a com-munity hall fund.

Association presi-dent Gord Hynek says winter hasn’t been kind to the existing commu-nity hall. Association volunteers were out in January shovelling snow off the roof, dur-ing snowfall that’s had local residents making comparisons to heavy snowfalls of winters past.

“We were very con-cerned that it might collapse,” said Hynek. “The ceiling was bend-ing so much were compelled to remove a long row of fluorescent lights.”

The association has been unable to insure the building for liabil-ity coverage since an engineering report by their insurer revealed structural-integrity is-sues with the facility.

For more informa-tion about the upcoming dinner, contact Hynek at 250-836-3776.

MurderOn Saturday, May 4,

the Sicamous Seniors Centre will be serving up roast beef, preceded by a case of murder.

The meal will be cooked by the centre’s volunteers, while the accompanying play, A Clearcut Murder Mys-tery Dinner Theatre, is being concocted by writer/director Margaret

Roberts, with assistance from producer Terry Sinton.

While there is a stage at the centre, the action will take place among the diners in this interac-tive theatrical offering. Sinton, who will also be performing in the show, says the actors are given a character study and a plot, but there is no script. How the mystery unfolds is a surprise for everyone involved.

“It can be pretty exciting because even the actors really don’t know what kind of in-teractions are going to happen,” said Sin-ton. “You don’t know what questions people are going to ask you, you don’t know how they’re going to react. It’s a little bit scary but it’s kind of fun too.”

The show starts at 6 p.m., with tickets, at $10, available at the se-niors centre. For more info, call 250-836-2446.

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The Shuswap Hos-pice Society will once again be hosting its an-nual Hike for Hospice event at the Enderby Cliffs.

This hike, sched-uled for Sunday, May 4, will be conducted in partnership with the

Shuswap Trail Alliance, and sponsored by Mar-ketplace IGA.

The annual Hike for Hospice is a unique na-tional event with hikes being hosted by various hospice societies across Canada. It’s an event that brings together

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CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20A serious issue arises this week, Capricorn. You may have avoided addressing this issue in the past, but there is no putting it off now. Approach the issue with an open mind.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18When an associate presents a problem, you are the perfect one to present a solution, Aquarius. Make the most of this opportunity and others will appreciate your efforts.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Responsibilities at work may be a bit overwhelming, Pisces. You are held to a higher standard than others, and now is the time to show why.

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NEWSPh: 250-836-2570 Fax: 250-836-26611133 Parksville St. Parkland Ctr.


The Sicamous chamber

would like to see one of the

community’s most popular

summer events held later in the

season, or doubled down.

Recently, the chamber’s

new executive director Mi-

chelle Wolff presented Si-

camous council with some-

thing of a wish list, the top

item relating to the annual

Canada Day � reworks display.

Due to last summer’s � ood-

ing, the � reworks display was

moved to the August B.C. Day

long weekend.

Wolff asked that the district

consider either moving the

� reworks show permanently to

August, or else have � reworks

shows for both occasions. By

having � reworks in August,

Wolff said the community

could look at hosting a much

larger event, even resurrecting

Moose Mouse days.

“Moose Mouse Days has

been gone for, I think, 15-plus

years, and numerous business-

es in the communities say they

still get requests for Moose

Mouse souvenirs,” said Wolff.

The chamber surveyed its

members about the idea of

moving the � reworks to Au-

gust, and of the 30 per cent

who responded, 70 per cent

were in favour, 27 per cent

asked to keep them on Canada

Day, while six per cent asked

that a plan be worked out to

offer � reworks on both week-

ends. Weighing the pros and cons

of the move, Wolff noted the

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Vol. 55 No. 15 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Seized Malakwa residence back on the market

Page 3

Students move up a notch in

belt testing Page 8

Snowmobile thefts yet to be curbed

Word of mouth wasn’t a good thing for the Si-

camous RCMP when it came to curbing snowmo-

bile theft last winter.

Upon asking Sicamous council to consider what

their list of policing priorities will be for 2013, Si-

camous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk received a tip

from Coun. Greg Kyllo as to what one priority will

likely be when he raised the ongoing issue of snow-

mobile and trailer thefts in the community.

“We’re trying to build up our snowmobiling

business and when a

guy shows up for the

weekend and has his sled

stolen, that story spreads

really quickly, and it’s

brought in a real nega-

tive view of snowmobil-

ing in Sicamous,” said

Kyllo, asking if there

was something police

could do about this.

“Absolutely,” replied

the community’s rela-

tively new RCMP de-

tachment commander,

going on to explain this

is the � rst time he’s lived

and worked in such an

snowmobiling mecca

and has actually been confronted by this issue.

Dubnyk went on to say that he’s already met with

the mayor and discussed some initiatives from an

enforcement perspective, as well as what the dis-

trict and resort owners might be able to do.

“I can tell you that over the winter we did, for

a while, try the bait sled here,” said Dubnyk. “It

wasn’t overly successful. Other than in saying

when the word had got out it was in town, we didn’t

have any thefts during that time…

“There are some initiatives we can try and I’m

glad to explore those, and we can certainly make it

one of our priorities.”

Kyllo had another question for the sergeant re-

lating to pub patrons possibly being targeted by

Bait sled: No one takes

the bait during winter

policing initiative. By Lachlan Labere

Eagle Valley News

See Sergeant says on page 2

guy shows up for the

weekend and has his sled

stolen, that story spreads

really quickly, and it’s

brought in a real nega-

tive view of snowmobil-

ing in Sicamous,” said

Kyllo, asking if there

was something police

“Absolutely,” replied

the community’s rela-

tively new RCMP de-

tachment commander,

going on to explain this

is the � rst time he’s lived

and worked in such an

There are initia-

tives we can try…

and we can certainly

make it one of our

priorities.

Sgt. Dave DubnykSicamous RCMP

Chamber asks to shift fireworks to August

By Lachlan Labere

Eagle Valley News

See Interest on page 3More bang: Councillors are favourable to Sicamous

hosting two fireworks events. File photo

Cool riders: Morgan Kerr and

Netanyel Quessy

enjoy a break in

the wet weather

by riding their

bikes at the

Sicamous skate

park.Photo by

James Murray

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