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NEWSVol. 60 No. 16 Sicamous, B.C., 1.25 (GST included) www.eaglevalleynews.com

Group seeks to improve local labour market

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Students earn award for ALS

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Trail time: Zoey the dog leads owner Blair Randall with son Hans Randall, and Jamie Boyd with son Dyson Van Altema on a hike around Sicamous Creek Falls one of the local hikes the group enjoyed on Friday, April 17. While the creek trail is in good shape, help is wanted with trail maintenance and construction needs elsewhere. See more on page 5.

Photo by Lachlan Labere

Public urination prompts backlash from residents

Urinating in public has put a group of men in hot water with Sicamous residents and, po-tentially the police.

Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Scott West con-firmed Monday that police are investigating a series of related incidents that occurred Thursday, April 16 on Main Street in the parking lot of the former True Hardware building. The investigation so far has re-vealed an unknown man or men were reliev-ing themselves in a parking lot after stopping their vehicles, West says in a news release is-sued Monday, April 20.

Three people took exception to this and an argument ensued which developed into a physical altercation, said West. One wit-

ness captured a video of the altercation and police will be reviewing the video.

That video was filmed by Sicamous resi-

dent Brent Graf, and is posted on his Face-book page. As of Monday afternoon, it had been viewed more than 126,000 times, and

shared more than 3,000 times. Graf was picking up his daughter at Eagle

River Secondary when he saw the group of men urinating in the neighbouring lot.

I yelled at them because they were fac-ing right at the school, they were all standing their with their wangs hanging out, and the kids were literally just walking out of school, all the young girls were just walking out, said Graf. So I yelled at them, I said, Hey! And youd think they would turn towards their trucks and be embarrassed. Instead they just stood there.

Graf says moments later, one of the stu-dents confronted the men, told them to get out of here, and this led to an altercation.

The one guy was yelling at the kids and stuff, and the one kid started going over and got a little closer and closer, telling him to get out of here, we dont need that kind of stuff. And all of a sudden, the guy comes out of the truck and just hammered the kid one and jumped on him and then his buddies got

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

RCMP: Video to assist police investigation of altercation.

Altercation: Eagle River Secondary students, left, stand up to a group of men who were witnessed urinating along Main Street. Brent Graf video

See Video identifies on page 2

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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 dont have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for info.Every Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5.

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out, said Graf. They slapped the one kid for sure, at least twice.

The kids werent backing down. I was really proud of them there were six others there right away and they were all standing up for each other, tell-ing these guys thats just ignorant what youre doing. And these guys could have left any time. They could have left be-fore this whole incident started. They preferred not to.

Eagle River principal Scott Anderson gleaned the same information from his investigation and con rmed a student was assaulted, but he says that student was not injured.

There were no inju-ries or anything like that and he was at school today, and a lot of the kids are talking it up and proud of him, as well as the other kids who came to his aid, Anderson said last Friday. It was a very unfortunate inci-dent. On the one hand, Im glad to see our stu-dents sort of standing up for whats right and for our town On the other hand its not necessarily a safe thing to do. Im glad to see they did it but I almost wouldnt recommend it.

West advises that when verbal confronta-tion escalates, it is good practice to call the po-lice to mediate and/or investigate.

Graf said it wasnt until he called 911 that

the men got into two pickup trucks and left. The video clearly iden-ti es Alberta licence plates on both vehicles. West says police will be following up with the registered owners of both vehicles to deter-mine who the occupants were.

Once all the facts are in, a decision on charges will be made,

said West.While police con-

tinue their investigation, Graf hopes his video will be seen by friends and family of the men involved, and that they will be held account-able.

I would like this to get back to their families and friends so they see what these guys were like, and go I know

you and look what you did that was igno-rant, said Graf, recog-nizing Sicamous rela-tionship with Albertans is not always amicable.

Maybe it will help curb the way people in Sicamous feel about the Albertans, because the Albertans will curb it themselves and say, you know what, if youre going to go out and do that we can understand why Si-camous maybe has a little bit of resentment towards you.

Were in a ckle place where we have to cater to them because thats how a lot of our businesses run, but we shouldnt have to take abuse like that either. And thats why I was so proud of the kids.

Continued from front

Video identifies Alberta licence plates

Mayor Terry Rysz and councillors are looking for a clearer picture on waterfront development.

Rysz says district staff has been asked to look at improving bylaws to give more clarity when it comes to development on the waterfront. He notes uctuations in the an-nual high water makes it dif cult to determine where setbacks are.

We want staff to pursue bylaws and

make amendments to current bylaws so we can get clarity and cer-tainty so were not deal-ing on individual devel-opments, said Rysz.

The provincial Ripar-ian Areas Regulation (RAR) that came into effect in 2006 requires that a minimum of all areas within 30 metres of the high water mark of lakes or watercours-es be assessed for envi-ronmental values by a quali ed environmental professional.

It is this recognized professional that de-termines a stream-side

protection and en-hancement area.

A staff report to council notes that there are challenges in imple-menting RAR from the districts of cial com-munity plan policies, as activities that are deemed development according to RAR dif-fer from the activities the district considers to be development.

The issuance of a development permit through council may be considered cumber-some for smaller-scale development, notes the report. Secondly,

the RAR process is in-herently site-speci c, whereas the districts interest is to review development along the watercourses for the cumulative effect along the shorelines.

The report also notes there are components of the riparian area pol-icy that con ict with current district regula-tions.

Also pointed out in the report, is the fact the district is not ful ll-ing its obligation and does not have a legal recourse to deal with violations for unsanc-

tioned development within the 30-metre ri-parian assessment area.

Rysz says council-lors debated the is-sue fully at a planning meeting and believe they have chosen the best option to pursue.

But, he says, direc-tors will only move forward when staff brings the matter back to council with bylaws that have been tweaked and ne-tuned with all the different dynamics.

And, if they are not satis ed with the out-come, councillors can look at other options.

Development issues being addressedBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

There were no inju-ries or anything like that and he was at school today, and a lot of the kids are talking it up and proud of him, as well as the other kids who came to his aid, Anderson said last Friday. It was a very unfortunate inci-dent. On the one hand, Im glad to see our stu-dents sort of standing up

On the one hand, Im glad to see our students sort of standing up for whats right and for our town On the other hand its not necessarily a safe thing to do. Im glad to see they did it but I

almost wouldnt recommend it.Scott AndersonPrincipal, ERS

Riparian areas: District policies conflict with provincial regulation.

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The economic situa-tion may be gloomy, but plans are afoot to move the area forward in a carefully planned and positive fashion.

A flood in June 2012 delivered a blow to the local economy that, coupled with a decrease in forestry activity and the country-wide slow-down in 2008, has had devastating effects on Sicamous and surround-ing area: tourism has de-clined, jobs have disap-peared, businesses have closed, investment has gone elsewhere as have skilled workers.

And that lack of skilled workers and the decline in population is making recovery dif-ficult.

But a large group of people representing business and communi-ty organizations across the Shuswap the Com-munity Employer Part-nership Program has been meeting to discuss economic challenges.

Community Em-ployer Partnership Pro-gram Sicamous Sub-Committee has been created with a view to collecting as much in-formation as possible in order to create a custom recovery plan.

They wanted to find a way to learn about the issues and move for-ward in a more positive trajectory, says Kyle Dearing, project co-ordinator for the new sub-committees labour market and planning project to be developed by the people for the people of Sicamous and Electoral Area E of the Columbia Shuswap Re-gional District.

Successful in their request for funding through Community Futures the partner-ship sub-committee recently received a $64,000 grant from B.C.s Ministry of So-cial Development and Social Innovation.

Happy to have se-cured critical funding and to be the organiza-tion to provide over-sight on the project, Shuswap Community Futures executive direc-tor Rob Marshall says the new district council has created a positive vibe in Sicamous.

The first order of business will be to get as much information relating to community development, business activity, population/de-mographics, and other economic activity as possible to add to the information bank.

Were asking peo-ple to submit any sourc-es of information they think would be useful to have incorporated into this project and for us to know about, Dearing says. Once that is done, we have a PhD, Jason Woodman-Simmonds, who will review, summarize then host the first of three

community meetings.In phase 2 of the

project, interview-ers will be hired to get missing information by speaking to a total of 60 business owners, com-munity services and leaders, unemployed people and other com-munity residents.

As well, a down-loadable survey is be-ing developed to collect even more information. Dearing says the sub-committee would like to receive 328 complet-ed surveys, but would welcome double the number.

We want people to see how other events have impacted and how the community has ended up with few sus-tainable jobs or oppor-tunities, Dearing says. And we want to pres-ent it to the community in a way theyll be bet-ter able to understand their own situation.

After that happens, the community will be asked to collaborate in developing a planning program that will deter-mine where can we go from here and how can we do it, Dearing says.

One of my big roles is to engage the com-munity as well as I can

to get as many people involved, he says with enthusiasm, noting he is hoping to have students involved in the process. I am excited about being able to engage young people in this and for them to learn about the collaborative planning process.

The partnership is working within a seven-month window. Two reports will be released at the end of October, says Dearing one will be a compilation of all the information that has been collected. The second will be an ac-tion plan complete with timelines, specific tasks and more.

My goal right now is to get people to un-derstand and collect in-formation; if somebody has something they think would be useful, like an organization that might have a re-port or documents over the years that talk about Sicamous, labour, em-ployment, somebody who saved articles from the flood, no piece of in-formation is too small, Dearing says.

He can be reached at [email protected] or by calling 250-515-2029.

Group pursues economic recovery

Community effort: Local business leaders and organizations are working together to improve Sicamous labour outlook. Photo contributed

By Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

RCMP REPORT

Sicamous RCMP are seeking the owners of recovered stolen prop-erty.

Between October 2014 and March of this year, the detachment re-ceived multiple reports of found property and

recovered numerous items believed to have been stolen.

Most of the items were recovered from seasonal properties in and around Sicamous, and did not belong to the property owners.

Recovered items include a yellow jack-hammer, a portable arc welder, a gas-powered pressure washer, an air compressor, a portable fuel pump compressor and a pair of bolt cutters.

Police ask anyone

with information about these items, or who thinks these items might belong to you, to contact the Sicamous detach-ment at 250-836-2878, or leave a tip with Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Police in possession of stolen property

Action plan: Community input needed for reports.Correction: The photo titled, Planting with care, published in the April 15 Eagle Valley News, should have stated the daffodil plant-ing along Highway 97A was part of Sicamous Communities in Bloom effort, in support of those living with cancer. We apologize for the error.


VICTORIA The B.C. Liberal governments sale of Crown properties to help balance its election budget was the dominant story in the legislature last week, as the NDP revealed evidence of a fire sale that may have left millions on the table.

They started with Burke Mountain, the biggest sin-gle deal involving 14 view properties in Coquitlam. The buyer was a prominent developer whose array of companies happened to donate nearly $1 million to the B.C. Liberal Party since 2000.

The $85 million price tag was similar to the B.C. Assessment Author-ity value on these forested properties, but an outside appraisal concluded they could have fetched an ad-ditional $43 million if they had spent more time on the hot Lower Mainland real

estate market.The governments de-

fence of the salewent from wobbly to weak. Citizens Services Minister Amrik Virk was caught flat-footed and tried to get by on plati-tudes rather than retreat and find some answers.

Premier Christy Clark weighed in, arguing that the budget would have bal-anced without the property sale, and that some sales closed too late to help the election-year budget. Fi-nance Minister Mike de Jong stressed all these as-set sales were detailed in three successive budgets. They down-played the no-tion of land sales being rushed.

Then the NDP produced a string of emails sent be-tween senior officials re-sponsible for selling two big properties across the street from the legislature.

To be part of the sale and development of over eight acres of Victorias beautiful inner harbour

area is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. An opportu-nity that normally would warrant years of planning and preparation, wrote one citizens services bu-reaucrat. Unfortunately we dont have unlimited time our goal is to have For Sale signs up by Oct. 31 with sales proceeds in the bank by March 31, 2013.

Then came a disclosure about a property in Sur-rey that had been bought as a potential hospital site. Once the existing hospital was expanded, that prop-erty was declared surplus. Indeed, de Jong featured this property to promote the governments plan to stimulate local economies with private sector invest-ment on unused land.

The Surrey deal closed for $20.5 million on March 21, 2014, just days before the end of the fiscal year. NDP leader John Horgan pointed to an outside ap-praisal of $23.5 million,

and an assessment for tax purposes of $27.2 million.

The appraiser also rec-ommended the highest and best use for the Sur-rey land was to hold it un-til it had been rezoned for commercial, retail or office development.

De Jong cited another big health property in Van-couver that sold for more than its appraised and as-sessed value. Its only the actual market that deter-mines worth, he insisted.

But its now clear that these and perhaps other sales were done with ar-bitrary deadlines that had everything to do with the B.C. Liberals need to balance the books. When elections are a battle of sound bites, perception matters more than reality.

Surplus asset sales have a long tradition in B.C., where the government owns more than 90 per cent of all land. But after this round, full disclosure will be demanded.

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Morons. There are other, more colourful (and unprintable) words being used around Sicamous to describe the group of men resident Brent Graf captured on video last Thurs-day afternoon while picking his daughter up from Eagle River Secondary.

According to Graf and other witnesses, the men parked next to the high school, in the driveway of the former Tru Hardware store on Main Street, got out of their pickup trucks (with Alberta plates) and proceeded to urinate in public just as students were leaving the school for home.

Thats right. These men, in broad daylight, shamelessly urinated on Main Street Sicamous. Whats worse, they actually stuck around to de-fend their actions as though it was their right.

One student spoke up to the men, condemning their utterly disrespectful behaviour. An alterca-tion ensued, and Graf says one of the men struck the student. More students came to his defence. And the urinating party, supposedly grown men, stood their ground.

This is where Grafs video, posted on his Face-book page, begins. As of Monday, the video had been viewed more than 121,550 times, and had been shared about 3,000 times.

Oh, Graf also says the men had clearly been consuming alcohol.

So, lets add up the possible points against: public urination/indecency; assaulting a minor; public intoxication and maybe even impaired operation of a motor vehicle.

(Police are currently investigating, and have yet to decide on what charges will be pursued.)

Whether or not any or all the men involved were from Alberta was unknown at press time. However, its unlikely Grafs video, which clear-ly identifies two Alberta licence plates, has done anything to improve the existing love/tolerate relationship many locals have for our Albertan guests. As always, its a few bad apples who are responsible for a sour impression. Or, in this case, a few morons, who we hope are made an example of in whichever community they hail from.

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Whose responsibil-ity is it to teach morals and life skills to our children?

Having just read a students interesting letter to the editor re: the cut in funds for sex

ed in our schools, I was surprised at the notion that the parents and family have no part in the well-being of stu-dents.

Are we handing our children over to the

school boards? Dont give our youth over to the state (so to speak) by demanding govern-ment step in where the family should take responsibility and pro-vide the personal tools

to direct our youth to a successful future.

I believe the teach-ers and government shouldnt be expected to fill the gap in life skills. The responsibil-ity of grooming our

youth for the future lies with the family, school boards and the commu-nity.

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You too can be a trailblazer and you dont even have to go outside.

The Shuswap Trail Alliance is launching a fundraiser in order to build and maintain trails metre by metre.

The February Trail Party raised $38,000 and the alliance is hop-ing to just about double the fundraising total to $75,000.

Not only would the money go to the 2015 trail projects, it would allow the Trail Alliance to hire a stewardship co-ordinator.

There are many op-portunities with schools, companies and other stakeholders, who are taking care of the trails to do more building and maintenance, says Trail Alliance board chair Winston Pain. If we had someone to provide direct support to all the stewardship work go-ing on, we could engage the region on a more fo-cused basis.

Executive direc-tor Phil McIntyre-Paul notes that last year, 513 volunteers worked on 54 trail events and 3/5 were young people.

Since 2006, the Trail Alliance has completed 170 Greenway Trail projects, 11 signature trail systems, over 90 regional trails and just over 95 kilometres of new trail.

Even if you value it at $18 a metre the asset value is over $1.7 mil-lion in amenities, Mc-Intyre Paul says

Corporately, RBC called us last year and asked us to organize an opportunity and eight staff members worked

to build a reroute on a section of trail and reinforced a bridge to handle equestrian traf-fic on a multi-use trail in South Canoe, says Pain. The real focus was to decrease erosion and increase ecological management and safety. They did that and do-nated $1,000.

While no offer to help is turned down, they often have Mc-Intyre-Paul and the board scrambling to find whos available to monitor and supervise the project.

If we had a steward-ship co-ordinator, we could look for other op-portunities, follow them through and increase the number of community volunteers, Pain says. This is a huge com-ponent of how we can get things done from young to old, corporate to service groups and users, the team building side of it is powerful.

McIntyre-Paul says in 2014, 53 per cent of funding came from 38 partners such as CSRD Parks, City of Salmon Arm, Enderby, BC Parks, Community Foundation and Shus-wap Tourism.

Ten per cent of the resources came from

fundraising and 37 per cent came from in-kind and volunteer steward contributions, he says. We tracked it really closely and a conserva-tive estimate of the value towards those projects is $157,000.

Pain and McIntyre Paul are hoping to raise $30,000 by the end of May.

If we know we have the money coming, we

can go ahead and hire a person and not miss the year, Pain says.

McIntyre points out the Shuswap Trail Guide, in its sixth print-ing has become the number-one piece of tourist information, something that would not have happened with-out the many enthusias-tic and supportive part-ners and volunteers.

Thats always been a key part; a trail is only as good as people know about it, he says. By the end of the year, well be able to say col-lectively that we have leveraged about a $4 million investment in combined dollars and in-kind contributions to build, maintain and pro-mote trails.

Drop off donations for the Shuswap Trail Alliances Love Your Trails fundraiser at Ea-gle Valley IDA Pharma-cy or Skookum Cycle and Ski in Salmon Arm.

The Shuswap Trail Alli-ance is a charitable or-ganization and can issue tax receipts for dona-tions over $20.

Trail Alliance seek funds for co-ordinatorBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

Building together: Volunteer, Shirley Bates helps build a trail that will be used by equestrian riders in the South Canoe Trails Sys-tem on Sunday, April 12. Photo by Evan Buhler

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A good deed by Ea-gle River Secondarys social justice class has not gone unnoticed.

The class, con-sisting of students in Grades 8 to 12, was recently awarded the Leaders of Tomorrow award by the Amyo-trophic Lateral Sclero-sis (ALS) Society of British Columbia.

The award is in recognition of the stu-dents annual Walk and Roll for ALS fundrais-er, which to date has raised awareness of ALS in the community and $4,500 that has gone to support people living with ALS and ALS research.

It is youth like the students at Eagle River

Secondary that make our organization bet-ter, says Wendy Toyer, executive director of ALS Society of BC & Yukon. Through their advocacy and public-awareness campaigns, we are able to reach more people, especial-ly in rural regions.

ERS teacher De-siree Marshall-Peer says the social justice class organized all aspects of the annual fundraising event as part of their course, which is based on the students choice and interest.

Organizing the walk offers many learning experiences in relationships with media, stakeholders and the community, and gives the students

a sense of accom-plishment and success once complete, said Marshall-Peer. It also allows students to in-teract with the commu-nity of Sicamous and has given them a better understanding of what volunteering and com-munity service is like.

Social justice stu-dents volunteer for a variety of organiza-tions and events in the community.

The idea for the walk for ALS was in-fluenced, in part, by resident Cathy Barra-za, whose brother suf-fers from the disease.

It surprised them what medical equip-ment was needed, and how much it cost, all of which is provided through the ALS So-

ciety for free to the recipient, said Mar-shall-Peer.

There have been three Walk and Roll events to date. Mar-shall-Peer says the stu-dents goal is to even-tually raise enough money to provide a re-spiratory machine.

In the meantime, students are happy that they have always met

their fundraising goal for the year. They hope to do even better in the years to come.

As for winning the award, Marshall-Peer says it was a surprise for everyone involved, and that she and the class are very thankful and proud to represent Eagle River Secondary and the community in receiving the honour.

Social justice students honoured for initiative

Appreciation: Eagle River Secondarys social justice class was recently honoured by the ALS Society of BC & Yukon with a Leaders of Tomorrow award, recog-nizing the students for their annual Walk and Roll for ALS fundraising event. Photos contributed.


Mayor to brave channel for youthSicamous Mayor

Terry Rysz is willing to risk a drop in Sicamous Channel to help Steve OBrien help keep kids from dropping out of school.

On Sunday, April 26, OBrien will be pass-ing through Sicamous on his Canadian Relay for Youth/2015 Cross-Canada Tour. The long-time professional ath-letes goal is to share his life-experiences and raise funds to help keep kids from dropping out of school, instead pro-viding them with the tools to achieve their educational goals.

At 1 p.m. on Sun-day, OBrien will be

joined by Rysz, and the two will be traversing the channel by paddle-board. All are welcome to attend the event, and students are invited to sign up and help cheer on OBrien and the mayor as they cross the chilly channel.

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Highways 1 and 97A will be targeted this Saturday and Sun-day, April 25 and 26, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturday, May 2 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

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After the May 2 out-ing, a barbecue supper and dance with live music will be offered free to all who volun-teered in the cleanup event. To volunteer, contact Jeff Mallmes at 250-470-9987 or Gord Bushell at 250-836-3906. To get involved with Sicamous Com-munities in Bloom ef-fort, contact Kim Hyde at 250-833-8085.


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Seven children with seven unique back-grounds and seven unique backpacks will be teaching other chil-dren about understand-ing each other with-out necessarily saying a word.

Shilo, Jane, Amolak, Bernadette, Haruko, Carlos and Celeste are puppets who can help children learn about each other and about cultures different from their own.

A Backpack Kids Celebration was held at the Splatsin Teaching Centre in Enderby re-cently, where the seven Backpack Kids puppets and their unique school bus were unveiled.

The packed room witnessing the celebra-tion learned that the project emerged from the North Okanagan ta-ble of Aboriginal Early Childhood Educators, when racial tension was noticed at early childhood centres.

Rosalind Williams of the Splatsin cen-tre then proposed the Backpack Kids as an innovative way to plant seeds of curiosity rather than animosity in young children. She and puppet designer Cathy Stubington of Runaway Moon The-atre developed the cur-riculum, a project that was three years in the making.

One little seed and it grew and it grew and it grew, explained Wil-liams.

In a journey not un-like a treasure hunt, the audience learned about each puppet their ancestry, their back-ground, their parents and, perhaps most im-portantly, what they each carry in their backpacks.

Helping reveal the treasures inside were

a number of audience volunteers, includ-ing School District #83 board chair Bobbi Johnson and Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo. Also attending were a num-ber of area politicians including Sicamous Mayor Terry Rysz.

Rosalind Williams spoke about the ratio-nale for the project be-fore describing Shilo, a puppet with First Na-tions background.

Lots of times I think problems escalate when we dont know enough about each other.

Williams explained that puppet Shilos an-cestors are her ances-tors.

We have been on this part of the land for a very long time His ancestors and my ancestors have al-ways been right in this place He brings to share the things he learned from the land.

She said his story dates to a time when there were only animal people in the valley.

His music came from the land, his dance he learned from the birds and deer, his clothing came from the deer.

Like the other pup-pets, Shilo wears a wooden locket on a rib-bon around his neck, the ribbon the same colour as his backpack. Inside the locket is a picture of each of his parents.

Williams explained that when a child iden-tifies as a First Nations person, he is ques-tioned.

We wanted to show in todays time, we, and all nationalities, dont necessarily look like our ancestors.

Cathy Stubington spoke about the back-ground of the other pup-pets: Jane, whose fami-ly comes from northern

Europe and England; Haruko, whose mother is Japanese and her father of Ukrainian heritage; Carlos, with Filipino background; Amolak, whose fam-ily came from northern India; Bernadette, a Metis with Red River Cree heritage; and Celeste, whose father came from an island in the Caribbean and her mother from Canada.

The different back-grounds were chosen because they are rep-resentative of the chil-dren who were attend-ing centres in Vernon and on the Enderby and Okanagan Indian reserves. Three sets of puppets were made, one for each centre.

Rather than making assumptions about cul-tures, Stubington ex-plained that consultants were engaged who guided the way cul-tures were portrayed by the puppets. They were instrumental in design-ing the items prepared for the backpacks.

The volunteers at the celebration took turns showing the au-dience the puppets unique items. Each backpack contained a

different lunch, as well as several other items important to their cul-ture such as musical instruments, special shoes, books, toys, dress-up clothing and special treasures.

When the presenta-tions were over, the ac-colades were many and heartfelt.

Sicamous Mayor Terry Rysz said one of the most important things in life is building relationships amongst ourselves with fami-lies and neighbours.

Thats what com-munities are all about. What a wonderful way to present this.

MLA Greg Kyllo expressed his apprecia-tion, and Bobbi John-son said she would like to see the puppets and their curriculum throughout the school district.

I know I would like to have this in our schools. It would be an honour to have it there.

The celebration ended, appropriately, with the guests present being treated to a meal of foods the puppets and their families like to eat.

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Vessel for learning: Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo holds a boat be-longing to one of the puppets created to help children learn about other cultures, while joking that it didnt look much like a houseboat. Photo by Martha Wickett

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The Shuswaps Coast Guard Auxiliary is working to expand its presence with the purchase of a new boat that will possibly be sta-tioned in Blind Bay.

The Royal Canadian Marine Search and Res-cue (RCMSAR) Shus-wap Station 106, lo-cated on Shuswap Lake and based in Sicamous, has made application to its headquarters in Sooke, to add a second marine search and res-cue vessel for use on the Shuswap and Mara lake systems, says Shus-wap Station leader Rob Sutherland.

HQ approval has been granted, but funds for the purchase are needed as each station funds its own boats, said Sutherland. These funds must be found locally through public grants and private dona-tions.

A vessel suited to the task of marine rescue in the Shuswap has al-ready been located a 2007 Titan, currently assigned to RCMSAR Station 35 in Victoria.

The new (to us) boat is expected to cost at least half of the new price of $650,000, said Sutherland of the vessel he described as being in like-new condition

and completely outfit-ted with all of the latest technology in search and rescue equipment.

Sutherland spoke about the new vessel during the recent heli-copter training exercise on Shuswap Lake, at-tended by local politi-cians, including Colum-bia Shuswap Regional District Area C director Paul Demenok, who spoke favourably of the potential acquisition, and it being based in South Shuswap.

Sutherland explained the Shuswap station is one of the busiest in the province. It became op-erational in May 2012 and has since received 108 calls for medical assistance, searches and

rescues, largely during the regions busy tourist season.

We need to reduce travel/response times to the far ends of the lake (1.3 hours from Sicamous), expand our operations to the North Shuswap to include boating safety inspec-tions and accident pre-vention and promote boating and water safe-ty through our kids pro-gram said Suther-land. This can only be done with a second boat and a new Station 106 sub-station, possibly located in the Blind Bay area.

Sutherland says BC Gaming has agreed to support the boats pur-chase, but requires a

down payment to be raised locally through local government, pri-vate businesses and do-nations to show Station 106 has the support of the Shuswap commu-nity.

Donations can be sent to Shuswap Life-boat Society, C/O Rob Sutherland RCMSAR 106 Shuswap Station Leader, 1202 Sherlock Rd., Sicamous, B.C. VOE 2V1.

Shuswap Station 106 is operated by volunteers and funded through donations, grants and other fun-draising efforts. For more information, contact Sutherland at [email protected].

Second rescue boat sought for Shuswap

Fundraising effort: Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCMSAR) Shuswap Station 106 is fundraising to acquire a second boat, the 2007 Titan rescue boat pictured above. File photo



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Do you know your diabetes ABCs?

ABC

= AIC (measure of blood glucose levels over time) Recommended Target: 7.0% or below

= Blood pressure Recommended Target: 130/80 mm Hg

= Cholesterol Recommended Target: LDL: 2.0 mmol/L or lower. Total cholesterol to HDL ratio: below 4

If you have diabetes, you are at increased risk for heart disease and stroke, and other complications such as eye and kidney disease, nerve damage and foot problems. Keeping your blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol in a healthy range can reduce your risk of complications.

For more information about staying healthy with diabetes, visit: www.diabetes.ca/Section_About/healthy.asp

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eagle valley news, april 22, 2015

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