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NEWSVol. 60 No. 15 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com

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Air rescue: Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Shuswap Station 106 partnered with Vernon Search and Rescue and Wildcat Helicopters Monday morning, April 13, in their first on-water helicopter winch training exercise on Shuswap Lake. Shuswap Station Leader Rob Sutherland captained a barge carrying station members, local politicians and others who wished to watch the training – intended to lift and transport the critically injured directly from Station 106’s rescue vessel by helicopter to hospital. Despite some difficulties on the water, the rescue teams were successful in getting a rescue member to the boat on the water and completed two more landings on shore. More on-water training exercises are planned. Clockwise from top left – Sutherland briefs the crowd of arriving spectators on the day’s training exercise; Vernon Search and Rescue crew member Steve Oliver is about to touch down on the rescue vessel; Station 106 member Dennis Harris and others look on from the barge; Vernon Search and Rescue’s helicopter crew discuss the day’s first outing. Photos by Lachlan Labere

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There was a diver-sity of opinions on the best way to structure the education system in Sicamous, but one mes-sage rang through loud and clear.

Sicamous parents do not want the Grade 6 and 7 students moved from Parkview to Eagle River Secondary for the upcoming school year.

“I have a Grade 6 student, so this is very close to my heart and I’m not comfortable without a clear plan and right now there is no clear plan and yet this is supposed to hap-pen in September. That really scares me,” says Sonya Rokosh. “I think we need more time for a real plan to be devel-oped.”

Approximately 60 people attended an April 7 meeting in the ERS library, along with a majority of the school board trustees. The meeting was designed to gather public input to help the trustees make some decisions about the proposed changes. The board is scheduled to vote on recommen-dations at the May 12 school board meeting.

The current rec-ommendation on the table was to convert Parkview Elementary to a K-5 school, close a portion of Parkview and create a “middle school within a second-ary school” at Eagle

River Secondary. How-ever, the long-term fa-cilities report also indi-cates a move within the following two years to create a K-12 school at Eagle River Secondary, and that concept domi-nated discussion at last Tuesday’s meeting.

Most in attendance were resigned to the fact there needs to be changes in Sicamous due to a signi� cant de-crease in enrolment. An assessment of the capacity of the schools shows that all the stu-dents from K-12 could � t into one of the two school buildings cur-rently in use.

Enrolment is also projected to continue to decline before levelling off, however, the total number of students in Sicamous is projected to remain below 300 students for the foresee-able future. Between Eagle River Secondary and Parkview Elemen-tary, Sicamous has spaces for 719 students.

The opinion of many was also that, rather than put in the stop-gap measure of creat-ing a “middle school” within the Eagle River Secondary building, the school district should “rip off the band-aid” and go straight to a K-12 school in a year or two. It was felt this would give the school district time to in-vestigate the options, talk with other K-12 schools, like in Ash-croft, about the ways

they operate and design a plan to best bring to-gether all grades under one roof. This would also give time for prop-er playground equip-ment to be installed and renovations to be com-pleted on some class-rooms to accommodate the needs of students. It

was also suggested this would be more � nan-cially viable, as closing a portion of Parkview for a few years would not realize a signi� cant � nancial savings for the school district, who are facing budget cutbacks this year of $1.8 mil-lion.

“I’ve seen a (K-12) school work,” said Amanda VanDamme, speaking of her experi-ence in Hudson Hope. “The older kids men-tored the younger, there were opportunities for kids as young as grade 4 to get involved in pro-grams like carpentry. It was amazing, the stu-dents were safe and be-cause of the lower num-bers the kids got lots of individual attention.”

There were passion-ate opinions expressed about the need to keep a full K-12 system in place in Sicamous, rather than bus the high school students out of the community to Salmon Arm Second-ary.

“We are our own

community, we are not a neighbourhood of Salmon Arm,” said Peter Schrama, who has two daughters at-tending school in Si-camous. He added that deciding the future of the education system in Sicamous was going to create a signi� cant impact on the future vi-ability of Sicamous as a whole.

“What you decide will have a profound effect on the future. Without K-12 educa-tion available here, people are going to question whether to move here, buy a house here or move down the road to Salmon Arm where their kids can go to school all the way through.”

Not everyone, how-ever, felt the K-12 op-tion was the best one for the education of their children, as due to the small size of Eagle River Secondary, there can be fewer course options or specialized programs than at the larger high school in Salmon Arm.

Lexi Gossen, along with another small group of parents, spoke in favour of creating a K-8 school in Sicamous and busing the Grade 9-12 students to Salm-on Arm. This would put them in contact with a larger peer group, and allow them access to specialized courses or academic classes with a teacher, rather than online courses – which tend to have lower completion rates.

“Are we doing our kids the most favours by keeping them here and not giving them the educational oppor-tunities? They deserve more courses.”

Others pointed out that a signi� cant number of Sicamous students have already elected to travel to Salmon Arm for high school to access the courses they want for their future career goals. It was also sug-gested the school dis-trict make better use of technology like Skype or conference calling to increase the availability of high school courses at Eagle River Second-ary.

Parents oppose middle school modelBy Tracy HughesEagle Valley News

were resigned to the fact there needs to be changes in Sicamous due to a signi� cant de-crease in enrolment. An assessment of the capacity of the schools shows that all the stu-dents from K-12 could � t into one of the two school buildings cur-

Enrolment is also projected to continue to decline before levelling

I have a Grade 6 student, so this is very close to my heart and I’m not

comfortable without a clear plan and right now there is no clear plan and

yet this is supposed to happen in September. That really scares me.

Sonya Rokosh

Change inevitable: K-12 school option preferred over alternatives.

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Sicamous crime stats for February 2015 are up over the same period a year ago.

Non-sexual assaults climbed from zero last year to eight this Feb-ruary, and false and abandoned 911 calls in-creased from eight last year to 20 in February 2015.

“The only trend that is concerning in these statistics is that of assault complaints,” RCMP detachment Sgt. Scott West told District of Sicamous mayor and

council at last week’s committee of the whole meeting. “These events are between people who know each other and not strangers vic-timizing people in the community randomly.”

West said total calls for service jumped from 78 to 116, repre-senting a 49 per cent increase over last Feb-ruary.

He surmises the in-crease could be due to the warmer-than-nor-mal winter weather en-couraging more people to be out and about.

“Overall our crime

statistics are low at this time of year and increase as our popu-lation increases,” West said, noting Sicamous RCMP conducted pro-active backcountry and sled patrols to prevent theft of snowmobiles this winter.

“These patrols are conducted using over-time resources from a pool of dedicated local and regional of� cers,” said West in his report. “All of these patrols were received positive-ly by the public.”

At the moment, the detachment is fully staffed and RCMP members and staff are being trained in a number of disciplines, including operation of breath analysis equip-ment as well as use-of-force intervention options. Two members are currently undergo-

ing avalanche training.West’s report got a

positive reception by mayor and council.

Mayor Terry Rysz called the report “ex-tensive, well-done and well-spoken.”

Alluding to the abandoned and false 911 calls, Rysz said February’s statistics don’t really indicate an increase in crime.

“We’re not in that bad a shape in my view,” he said. “The RCMP are responding in a very positive way.”

Crime stats show small bump in assaultsBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

council at last week’s committee of the whole meeting. “These events are between people who know each other and not strangers vic-timizing people in the community randomly.”

West said total calls for service jumped

Sgt. Scott WestSicamous RCMP

COUNCIL BRIEFS

Council approved $10,000 for new play-ground equipment at Parkview Elementary School.

The school’s Parent Advisory Council made a request for funding in a March 31 letter to mayor and council.

The request required a council resolution be-cause it was an unbud-geted expenditure. But Rysz says he and coun-cil were happy to ante up the money, particu-larly since the PAC has already raised $40,000 and because the play-ground will bene� t the whole community.

As well, he said, even if the school is slated for closure, the equipment will remain in Sicamous.

Strategic planMayor Terry Rysz

and Sicamous council members have approved a list of eight infrastruc-ture strategic objectives and organization goals.

“We’re putting ev-erything on the table and within the next month we will priori-tize and work at them one by one until we tick each one off,” he said last week following the committee of the whole meeting. “We have four years and we’ve got a lot to accomplish.”

The strategic plan includes planning for and funding community infrastructure mainte-nance, encouraging and supporting business and

property development and tourism, attracting families to thrive and grow in Sicamous, tak-ing a proactive approach to the community and natural environment, making sure the district continues to run well, continuing to improve internal and external communication and ad-vocating for such things as improvements to highway infrastructure.

“This is a draft based on where we were with the previous council and a lot of things our council wants to accom-plish,” said Rysz.

Car showThe Sicamous and

District Recreation Centre Society will

have an easier time get-ting the word out about the annual car show.

Sicamous council approved $650 plus GST so the recreation society can take out a full page ad in Spectac-ular Sicamous.

In her letter to coun-cil, recreation society president Kathy Mor-rison noted the publi-cation is made avail-able throughout the Sicamous area to resi-dents and tourists.

“The car show is in its sixth season and has become one of the most widely attended car shows in the Shuswap and area,” wrote Mor-rison in her request to council.

Rysz agreed, noting

council was happy to approve the funding.

“This event brings people to the commu-nity and is something we de� nitely want to see every year,” he said. “The show is an eco-nomic driver for us.”

Parkview PAC to get $10,000 for playground


VICTORIA – The B.C. Treaty Commission and its federal and provincial financiers put on a brave show last week, celebrating a “milestone” in negotia-tions for a treaty with five Vancouver Island First Na-tions.

A regional group rep-resenting the Songhees, Beecher Bay, T’Souke, Malahat and Snaw-Naw-As (Nanoose) First Nations have reached the “agree-ment in principle” stage of negotiations with Canada and B.C., after 20 years of treaty talks.

Alas, agreement in prin-ciple is but the fourth of sixth stages. Now a platoon of lawyers takes over from the roomful of negotiators to produce the final legal text. It will be years before this treaty can be presented to the B.C. legislature and the House of Commons in Ottawa, if it ever is.

These elaborate ceremo-

nies will never be viewed the same again after the release of federal treaty ad-visor Doug Eyford’s report last month. The Te’mexw event seemed to have an extra urgency after Eyford’s observation that much of this costly activity has be-come a job creation pro-gram for those involved.

These Vancouver Is-land communities deserve credit for setting aside their own territorial disputes. It’s more than most have done. Eyford concluded after a long summer of meetings last year that many treaty negotiation teams in this province and across the country show no such incli-nation.

In B.C. and elsewhere in Canada, there is a “con-spicuous lack of urgency in negotiations” and “sharp divisions” between parties, most of which have been at the table for a decade or more, Eyford found.

This is what has come to be known as the “ab-original industry,” where

lawyers and consultants have a seemingly endless supply of lucrative work, much of it of questionable value. For some aborigi-nal participants, attending treaty meetings year after year is the best paying job they have ever had. Indeed, a common feature of the province’s dealings with ab-original communities is that their leaders demand meet-ings, and then demand to be paid to attend them.

This latest Vancouver Island treaty, assuming it is ever finalized, would at least in part replace the Douglas Treaties, signed by B.C.’s colonial governor James Douglas in the 1850s.

These treaties around Fort Victoria were quickly concluded if nothing else. The Beecher Bay Band was paid 45 pounds, 10 shillings for most of Sooke and an-other 43 pounds and change for its Metchosin territory.

One of the biggest miss-ing pieces in the latest agreement in principle is the share of federally-reg-

ulated fisheries. This has been a theme of B.C. Treaty Commission reports in re-cent years, as Ottawa holds up treaties for years because it is unable or unwilling to offer shares of salmon in particular.

Hunting and fishing rights are acknowledged even in historic treaties, and reaffirmed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Sharing these rights while maintaining conservation of fish stocks has been more than Ottawa, and in some cases neighbouring aborigi-nal communities, have been able to manage.

Eyford’s findings, and the B.C. government’s sud-den refusal to keep staffing a B.C. Treaty Commission that shows so little progress, have sent one overdue mes-sage. If participants aren’t prepared to make real com-promises and show a will-ingness to conclude agree-ments rather than drag them out, they should leave and come back when they are ready to do so.

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Education system in cross-hairs

OPINION

When Education Minister Peter Fass-bender introduced Bill 11, the Educa-tion Statues Amendment Act (2015) in

March, he showed British Columbians that major changes to the public education system are coming down the pipe.

Without consulting teachers, Fassbender said the Ministry of Education wants to develop a frame-work for “continuing professional development for teachers.” He noted there are no regulations requiring teachers to pursue ongoing training. He hinted teachers may be required to complete new programs – aimed at improving student achieve-ment – in order to keep their teaching certificates.

It has long been a burr in the saddle of provin-cial governments and many in the general public that there is no system for weeding out ineffective teachers – other than that controlled by the teaching profession itself.

While it was noted there would be consultation with teachers on professional development pro-grams, it was also apparent the education ministry would have control of making sure its desired end result is achieved.

Provincial school boards have been complaining the education ministry has been forcing individual school districts to pick up costs that were taken care of by the province in the past.

Recently, the ministry told trustees to find $29 million in savings by trimming administrative costs. There has been some balking because school dis-tricts have already been trimming this area in order to balance their budgets in the past few years.

The new amendments order trustees to enter into shared service with other boards or public sectors businesses. The ministry would have the authority to require school boards to participate in specific service delivery programs. If boards fail to comply, the amendments give the education minister the au-thority to replace school boards with an appointee.

There are other issues with Bill 11 that will have to be dealt with as the details are rolled out. How-ever, it’s pretty clear the B.C. Liberal government wants more control of teachers, its union, and the elected representatives on school boards.

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The government’s secret police Bill C-51 is reckless, dangerous, and ineffective.

The bill is reckless because it turns CSIS into a ‘secret po-lice’ force with little oversight or accountability.

It is dangerous because it opens the door for violations of our charter rights including censorship of free expression online.

It is ineffective because it will lead to dragnet surveil-lance and information sharing on innocent Canadians that even Stephen Harper has ad-mitted is ineffective.

To make matters worse, the government is trying to push this law through Parliament in record time.

Before Canadians knew what was in Bill C-51, 17 per cent opposed it. Three weeks later, they found out. Now 50 per cent oppose it.

The more Canadians learn about what’s in this bill, the less they like it – that’s why opinion is changing so fast.

If the bill passes, your sensitive private information would be shared between no fewer than 17 government agencies and even handed to

foreign governments. This includes sensitive in-

formation that can reveal ev-erything from your financial status, to your medical his-tory, your sexual orientation, and even your religious and political beliefs.

Victims of these privacy breaches wouldn’t even be in-formed. That means the gov-ernment could spy on anyone, at anytime, and we wouldn’t even know when we’ve been a victim.

Do we really want the gov-ernment to create a shadowy and unaccountable secret po-

lice force that will trample on innocent citizens’ freedoms? These new spying powers are highly unpopular: 71 per cent of Canadians don’t want to trade their privacy rights to give spy agencies more power.

More than 110,000 people have already spoken out. The government has admitted Bill C-51 is fundamentally flawed, so they must withdraw the legislation, go back to the drawing board and start over. Our MP, Colin Mayes, needs to vote against this bill.

Neil Caves

Something odd that recent-ly came to me and a few other classmates was that in Grade 12, we had not received a sin-gle class on sexual education.

Here we are, about to en-ter colleges, universities and the real world where indepen-dence and freedom would be-come endless, and we had not even brushed up on safe sex in more than a year.

Finding this extremely weird and irritating, we decid-ed to ask a favourite teacher why this was. The realities of government budget cuts and what our administration deemed “less important” sud-denly became apparent.

In the past year, school dis-tricts across B.C. have seen

major changes as the result of government budget cuts. Be-cause of this, School District #83 has made the decision to marginalize the sex ed pro-gram.

Although sex ed used to be a few weeks of classes ev-ery couple of days each year, it would now be a single day in Grades 9 and 11 for high school students.

I could not believe that de-spite rises in teen pregnancy and all of the misconceptions surrounding sexual health thanks to the Internet, the pro-gram was cut.

Abstinence is promoted greatly in high school, but is ignorant to think all kids will follow that. Students need

to be provided with proper, in-depth information about STDs, contraception, and the realities of teen pregnancy. And, in my opinion, one day every other year is not a suf-ficient amount of time to do that.

Budget cuts hurt everyone in the school district, and they are sometimes unavoidable to the school board.

The real responsibility lies in the B.C. government, who should be focusing on the well-being of students.

We are the future, and it is their job to provide us with the essential tools to make it a good one.

Samantha Schumacher

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Hard work and determination will pay off for Shea Weber in February when he suits up in the red and whites of Team Canada.

The 24-year-old Sicamous product was tagged last month to represent the nation in the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s a goal Weber had been working towards, and an opportu-nity he’s proud to be part of.

“The Olympics are a very special event, not only for hockey but for winter sports and to be able to play for your country and compete for a medal is kind of neat,” says Weber.

The 6’4”, 234 lb. Nashville Predators defenceman will be sporting the maple leaf with other big names in hockey like Scott

Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks), Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks), Chris Pronger (Philadelphia Flyers) and Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Pen-guins).

Apart from a camp held last summer, We-ber guesses the team may have a couple of days to gel in February before hitting the ice in Whistler, and he’s interest-ed in seeing how everyone fi ts. But Weber’s mom and dad, Tracy and James, don’t ex-pect Shea will have any problems.

“Whatever they want him to do, he’ll do it,” said James. “He’s a team-fi rst guy, he’s not a selfi sh player at all.”

Both parents share what could be described as a subdued excite-ment for their son and the hon-our that’s been bestowed up on him.

“Shea phoned home and said ‘I’ve been chosen

to play in the Olympics, and I said ‘okay,’” Tracy commented, explaining it’s kind of a family trait not to overreact – one that Shea

shares. But she and James who, with Shea,share roots in Sicamous minor hockey, are defi nitely excited, and are hoping to attendat least one of their son’s games.

Sicamous Eagles manager Wayne Marchis also pretty excited by the news that Shea, an Eagle alumni, will be playing forhis community and country at the Games.March says Shea has been totally focusedthroughout his career on what he wanted todo: make it to the NHL. In the process, Sheahelped the Eagles win the KIJHL West-ern Canadians in 2001-02; he helped takethe Kelowna Rockets to three consecutiveWHL Memorial Cup championship games,including the win in 2004; and, after signingwith Nashville in 2004, he helped the Ca-

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These questions are two that NDP MLA and transportation critic Claire Trevena says are unanswered as she travelled from Kamloops to Golden to get input from citizens about the Trans-Cana-da Highway upgrades promised by the pro-vincial government.

She was referring to the $650 million over 10 years the govern-ment has proposed for Kamloops to the Al-berta border.

“I’m interested in hearing what citizens think the priorities are regarding the highway and if they’re being listened to regarding that,” she said Thurs-day, April 9 during a stop in the Shuswap.

When Trevena re-turns to Victoria, she will be taking part in

the estimates debate, going line by line through the budget, where she’ll be asking for timelines and costs regarding Trans-Cana-da upgrades.

She said at this point there’s no sense of when or how much.

“That’s a spit in the wind for what needs doing,” she said of the $650 million, noting the billboards about the 10-year transpor-tation plan have been up since 2009 with the same � gure.

“It’s an important and lofty goal – it should not be wasted by throwing $650 mil-lion at it. There’s no question people agree, for safety and for the provincial and nation-al economy, we need to improve this high-way,” she said, noting she’s heard the names – ‘nightmare highway,’ ‘killer highway.’

She said although good work has been done in the Kicking

Horse Pass, the up-grades are not com-plete.

Delays on improve-ments from Kamloops to the Alberta border are often blamed on such problems as lack of federal funding, she says, except the prov-ince is going ahead and spending $8 billion on the Site C dam.

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handling more traf-� c, truck traf� c on the Trans-Canada will only increase.

“It’s good for the economy but not on a road built for 1960s traf� c.”

She said if the gov-ernment is not going to commit to the grand-scale project, it should do the smaller safety projects – the ones citi-zens are requesting.

Trevena also stopped in Sicamous to meet there with the chamber and mayor.

Safety was em-phasized by those she spoke with, she said.

If the highway isn’t safe, people don’t want to travel to the com-munity, she heard. Similarly, if the high-way closes, people will avoid visiting so they don’t get stuck.

Although winter weather is a reality, she says four lanes would mean it might be easier to keep one lane of the highway open after an avalanche or mud slide.

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Potential member-ship in the Shuswap Watershed Council is shrinking.

Both Enderby and Lumby councils decid-ed Tuesday not to par-ticipate in the Salmon Arm-based initiative that would focus on water monitoring and recreational safety and education.

“It’s not something we’re prepared to fund at this time,” said Kevin Acton, Lumby mayor.

The Shuswap Wa-tershed Council wants the Regional District of North Okanagan to participate in a five-year program starting Jan. 1, 2016. Participa-tion would cost up to $25,000 annually.

While the electoral areas were initially asked to contribute, a decision was made to see if there is interest among municipalities in the watershed.

“It’s a duplication of service we already have through the re-gional district,” said

Greg McCune, Ender-by mayor.

McCune adds that council representatives have been vague when it comes to financial figures and the opera-tional structure.

“It’s changed with the wind.”

Paul Demenok, council chairperson, recently stated the Co-lumbia-Shuswap Re-gional District would pick up 70 per cent of the council’s bud-get, while 20 per cent would come from the Thompson-Nicola Re-

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has limited financial re-sources and action has been taken to improve water quality through tighter effluent treat-ment.

“We’re doing a lot to make sure it (wa-tershed) is clean and safe.”

Spallumcheen has also opted out of the council, so that leaves Armstrong and the electoral areas to de-termine if they wish to participate in the initia-tive.

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Police are warning of a phone scam from people claiming to be government tax collec-tors.

In a news release, Revelstoke RCMP say several people have complained about the calls. In the calls, a per-son purports to be from the government and tells the target they are being charged with tax evasion and the police will show up at their

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The recent derail-ment of two grain cars on a train full of tanker cars carrying danger-ous goods in downtown Revelstoke has sparked worries of what could have been.

“Obviously there is a concern,” said Mayor Mark McKee. “It was just lentils but take len-tils out of the picture and put in propane and it becomes a different story.”

The CP Rail train derailed across the street from the Visi-tor Information Centre on Thursday, Apr. 2, at about 2 p.m.

George Hopkins wit-nessed the derailment. A retired railroader, he and his son were watch-ing the train slowly pass by when they heard a bang and it jumped the track. They both rushed to contact CP Rail.

Lorraine Beruschi and Marie-Eve Bruchig, who work in the visitor centre, said they didn’t hear anything, but right away people came rush-ing in to say what hap-pened.

The derailed cars were preceded and fol-lowed by a long line of black container cars that generally carry oil, gas-es or dangerous goods.

One car was lying on its side; one set of wheels was completely detached from the car and remained on the tracks with its load of grains spilled. It had rammed into the car in front of it before � ip-ping onto its side. The car behind it was only partially jerked from the tracks.

Numerous CP Rail personnel were on scene. Revelstoke RCMP and Fire & Res-cue Services also at-tended the incident.

Transportation Safe-ty Board spokesperson Chris Krepski said they were not deployed to the scene but monitored the situation. When asked why the TSB was not investigating a derailment within city limits, Krepski said the TSB would re-consider if there were any new developments.

Many people gath-ered on Victoria Road to watch the scene unfold. A few retired railroaders remarked it had been many years since a train derailed right downtown. Many people speculated what could have happened if one of the tanker cars came off the tracks.

It was the second derailment within city limits in the past year. A train derailed in the

Big Eddy last Sep-tember. While local emergency personnel weren’t noti� ed of the last derailment, this time it couldn’t be hid-den.

CP Rail crews could be seen replacing the section of tracks fol-lowing the derailment.

CP spokesperson Sa-lem Woodrow said this was standard procedure following an incident.

“Typically when there is an incident like this, there could be some track damage,” she said. “If there is track damage, we will replace a section of the rail and make those re-pairs before we open it to traf� c.”

Woodrow would not say what products the train was carrying.

Last month, Mike LoVecchio, the CP Rail director for gov-ernment affairs, was

in Salmon Arm to ad-dress the Columbia Shuswap Regional Dis-trict board of directors about rail safety. He said CP Rail was lead-ing the pack when it comes to rail safety, but that it was also moving more dangerous goods.

LoVecchio said crude oil is one of the more dangerous com-modities but assured directors not a lot of it moves through the re-gional district directly.

But other commodi-ties do — including various hydrocarbon liquids, propane and chlorine.

“At the end of the day, these are the prod-ucts you as communi-ties use,” he said.

“Society is using it and we are moving it, and under the Railway Safety Act, we are ob-ligated to move it safe-ly.”

CP Rail recently held a training session with Revelstoke Fire & Rescue Services to address the possibility of a dangerous goods spill.

Kathy Fox, the chair of the Transporta-tion Safety Board, ex-pressed concerns about the safety of some tank cars in an interview with the Financial Postthat was published the day of the derailment.

The CPC-1232 cars are supposed to be tougher than the ones that ruptured at Lac Megantic, but Fox called them into ques-tion after four separate oil trains derailed and caught � re in less than a month. She also said more train and track in-spections were needed.

David Wilks, the MP for Kootenay-Colum-bia, said the govern-ment was taking steps to improve rail safety, such as requiring re-inforced tanker cars.

When asked about a Financial Post article, he said that Lisa Raitt, the Federal Minister of Transport, is putting plans into action to en-sure more inspections happen.

“We’ve increased the amount of inspec-tors that will be doing that duty and we put that in the hands of the Transportation Safety Board,” said Wilks.

McKee said he was aiming to speak to CP Rail of� cials and would address the issue at the city’s administration, industry partnerships and communications committee.

“It’s a concern for a lot of people in the community and it’s something we have to be vigilant and stay on top of,” he said.

Downtown derailment sparks concernsBy Alex CooperRevelstoke Review

Numerous CP Rail personnel were on scene. Revelstoke RCMP and Fire & Res-cue Services also at-

Transportation Safe-ty Board spokesperson Chris Krepski said they were not deployed to the scene but monitored the situation. When asked why the TSB

It was just lentils but take lentils out of the picture and put in propane

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A-CHEAP, LOWEST PRICES STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated con-tainers all sizes in stock. 40’ containers as low as $2,200. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT fork-lift. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for SaleSAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT or call 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

Misc. WantedPrivate Collector Looking toBuy Coin Collections, Silver,Antique Native Art, Estates +Chad: 250-499-0251 in town.

Private Collector Looking toBuy Coin Collections, Silver,Antique Native Art, Estates +Chad: 778-281-0030 in town.

Merchandise for Sale

Misc. WantedPURCHASING scrap gold & old Canadian & American coin collections. 250-548-3670

Real Estate

Mobile Homes & Parks

Bi-weekly payment from

$47000Land and Home

Ownership250-833-4728eaglehomes.ca/listings

Best pricing for New Homes

in Sicamous

Rentals

Homes for RentSicamous. 1 yr. lease, 4 bdrm., 2 baths. Avail June 1st $1150/mo. inc., heat and wa-ter. NP, 1-604-943-7928 or 1-604-315-6944.

Transportation

Sport Utility Vehicle1998 Jeep Cherokee Sport, 260K, good cond., $2400. obo (250)836-4843

2004 Jeep Liberty Limited Edi-tion, 250,000km, good cond., heated leather seats, alloy wheels, $5400. obo (250)836-4843

Boats

WANTED: 10’ or 12’ alumi-num fi shing boat. Phone: (250)517-8087

Keep your toddler safe in the car.

Learn how to install your child’s car seat correctly. Call 1-877-247-5551 or visit ChildSeatInfo.ca

“Grandma, we’re coming to visit!”

Drive to Save Lives

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