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NEWS Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Vol. 55 No. 35 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Workshop helps liven landscapes

in watercolourPage 5

Sicamous cadet honoured with medal of merit

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BC Liberal Greg Kyllo spent more on his election campaign than Premier Christy Clark — if you only count her first campaign for Vancouver Point Grey.

Kyllo spent a total of $113,280 on his successful effort to become MLA for the Shuswap according to documents released by Elections BC.

Premier Christy Clark spent a total of $108,765 on her unsuccess-ful bid for the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey.

The election spending for the candidates in the Shuswap also mirrored the eventual results. The more a candidate spent on the cam-paign, the better their ranking in the polls.

The NDP’s Steve Gunner spent a total of $36,495 on the campaign, BC Conservative Tom Birch spent $12,892, BC Green Party’s Chris George spent $9,354 and Johanna Zalcik of the Advocational Party spent $1,096.

To fund his campaign, Kyllo had $34,734 contributed from all sources and $82,763 transferred directly from the BC Liberal Party.

Gunner had a total of $4,800 in contributions, while $32,668 was transferred to his campaign from the BC NDP and the Shuswap BC NDP Constituency Association.

BC Conservative Tom Birch received contributions of $6,985 from the BC Conservative Party and the BC Conservative Party Shuswap Association, while he self-funded $4,290 and had dona-tions for the remainder.

George also self-funded a sig-nificant portion of his campaign at $3,022. The remainder was funded through donations or local fund-raisers, including a movie screen-ing at the Salmar Classic.

Zalcik’s campaign spending was listed as self-funded.

Kyllo top spender in ridingBy Tracy HughesEagle Valley News

Good news: Sharon and Jessica Kangas look on from rocks in Hummingbird Creek Tuesday morning as Transportation Minister Todd Stone announces the province will be replacing the nearby culvert with a bridge to help mitigate future debris flows. Photo by Lachlan Labere

The B.C. government has finally agreed to give Swansea Point residents what they have been calling for since last summer’s devastat-ing flooding from Hummingbird Creek.

On Tuesday, Transport Minister Todd Stone announced the province will be com-mitting $3 million to the construction of a new bridge next year along the creek over Highway 97A.

Stone made the announcement while standing next to the existing culvert beneath the highway which rapidly clogged during last year’s flooding, sending water and debris over the highway and into residential areas in Swansea Point.

Following the flood event, the province contracted the firm Golder and Associates to assess the creek and provide recommenda-tions for remedial work. Stone said Golder’s report is now public, and that it identifies the culvert as not meeting ministry requirements for flow capacity.

“So today, along with colleague Greg Kyllo, MLA for Shuswap, I’m pleased to announce the government is remedying the situation; we are going to construct a new, clear-span bridge on Highway 97A over Hummingbird Creek,”

said Stone. “This bridge will replace the exist-ing culvert right behind me here. It will result in a higher level of dependability.

“The structure will also increase capacity for Hummingbird Creek and will reduce the chance of a blockage like all of you experi-enced last year, thus ensuring that Highway 97A remains open for Shuswap residents and tourists as well.”

In addition, Stone said the ministry will be doing additional work in the creek to further improve stream flows.

“Some of the gravel bed load will be re-moved from the creek near the outlet into Mara Lake. Approximately 120 metres of creek bank adjacent to Hummingbird Creek Resort will also be strengthened,” said Stone, noting the work will be on top of the $565,000-worth of stream improvements already completed in the creek since last year.

Both works were applauded by locals gath-ered for the announcement. A number of them had attended a public meeting earlier this year, hosted by the ministry. At that meeting, MOTI district manager Murray Tekano went over re-medial work proposed for the creek which did not include what locals wanted most: a bridge or, at the least, a larger culvert.

Since then, the Swansea Point Community Association, through a Freedom of Informa-tion request, were able to acquire a 2003 re-port conducted by the province following the 1997 debris flow in Hummingbird Creek. In addition to a bridge that was proposed by the province but never built, the report recom-mends a 150,000-cubic metre debris berm with associated outlets and a retaining wall as the best option for mitigating future flood events.

The report also states the frequency of de-

Province to build bridge over Hummingbird

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

See Minister hopes on page 2

Relief: $3 million project addresses local concerns of future debris flows.

Announcement: Transportation Minister Todd Stone and Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo. Photo by Lachlan Labere

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September 20, 21 & 22 - Fungi Festival. 250-804-6496 for more infoMondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays - Active After School Kidz. Ages 5-12 - to register or for more info contact Recreation and Wellness #250-836-2477 or [email protected] 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509.Every Mon. & Fri. - Bridge, Seniors Activity Centre, 1 p.m.Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors

Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10 am - 3 pm. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.Every Wed. - Seniors Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for infoEvery Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift

Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.Every Thurs. - Malakwa Thrift Store in Malakwa by the old church. 9:30 am - 4:00 pmEvery Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.-Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99. Everyone welcome.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 to 9 p.m., Sicamous Health Unit.

Every 3rd Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:30 in the Malakwa Hall.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at Catholic Church. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Esther 250-836-4373 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Sat. in August - Church on the Beach 9006 Swanshore Rd. Sicamous. 6:30 pm Bring your own Lawn chair. St. John’s LutheranEvery 1st & 3rd Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Royal Canadian Legion #99 at 7:00 pm.Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 7 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 p.m.

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a.m., police received a report of a suspicious person in a red pickup truck hanging around Montcalm Crescent. The complainant spoke to the driver who said they were having brake problems and then sped away.

• Aug. 20 8:48 a.m, Sicamous RCMP were asked to check on the well-being of a local man. The complainant hadn’t heard from her father in several days. The man was found to be OK and said he would call his daugh-ter.

• Aug. 20, 1:16 p.m., a money box at a local business was reported to have been broken into and cash taken.

• Aug. 20, 1:33 p.m., police received a call of a boat with a life-jacket attached partially sub-merged on Mara Lake. Officers found the boat’s owner was safe and making arrange-

ments to retrieve it. • Aug. 20, 1:43 p.m,

lost trailer plate report-ed.

• Aug. 20, 2:23 p.m, lost wallet reported.

• Aug. 20, 9:44 p.m., officers were called out to a disturbance at a lo-cal residence involving a dispute over money owed.

• Aug. 20, 10:52 p.m., a loud party was reported to be happing at the North Mara boat ramp.

• Aug. 21, 3:57 p.m., a pontoon boat was re-ported to have been left parked on a beach in front of a cabin on Mara Lake.

• Aug. 21, 4:46 p.m., officers conducting a traffic check seized a small amount of mari-juana from a vehicle. No charges made due to the amount.

• Aug. 22, 8:51, p.m., report of mo-torhome with a genera-tor running parked on a street in Mara.

• Aug. 22, 11:01 p.m., two campfires in North Mara were re-ported despite a camp-fire ban.

• Aug. 23, 9:15 a.m., police received an abandoned 911 call, later determined to have been a pocket dial.

• Aug. 23, 9:40 a.m., the same pontoon boat reported on Aug. 21 was found unoccupied near Turtle Bay.

• Aug. 23, 10:07 a.m., lost wallet re-ported.

• Aug. 23, 10:15 a.m., a man pushing a shopping cart along the highway walking close to the travel portion was reported to police.

• Aug. 23, 10:14 a.m., lost licence plate reported.

• Aug. 23, 11 a.m., an abandoned 911 was received from a local campsite. Police at-tended but found no problems.

• Aug. 23, 2:20 p.m.,

two trailers on a Mal-akwa property were reported to have been broken into; nothing was stolen.

• Aug. 23, 9:13 p.m., a truck and trailer was reported to be parked along highway, partial-ly in travel portion cre-ating a traffic hazard.

•Aug. 23, 10:17 p.m., a dark coloured Dodge pickup with B.C. plates was re-ported to be driving er-ratically, braking for no apparent reason.

• Aug. 23, 10:31 p.m., fireworks were reported being set off from a beach west of Sicamous.

• Aug. 24, 9:16 a.m., vehicle with Alberta plates reported to be crossing solid lines, slowing down and speeding up.

• Aug. 24, 1:03 p.m., a cabin on a for-est service road was reported to have been vandalized with spray paint.

• Aug. 24, 4:05 p.m., hit and run accident in the Beach Park parking lot was reported.

• Aug. 24 4:43 p.m., a dark-coloured semi trailer was reported to be speeding and pass-ing unsafely.

• Aug. 25, 1:22 a.m., police received a report of an assault.

• Aug. 25, 8:07 am., a two-vehicle accident was reported. No in-jures.

• Aug. 25, 4:28 p.m. a hit and run accident in the parking lot of local marina was re-ported.

• Aug. 25, 8:40 p.m., police receive a report of a group of youths out in public drinking and possibly smoking drugs.

• Aug. 25, 11:24 p.m., an officer patrol-ling on foot in a local park located youths with a small amount of marijuana. The drugs were seized and no charges pressed.

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bris flows is expected to increase, and that by completing the above option, with bridge, the province would reduce the risk to life by 75 per cent.

On July 24, 2013, NDP safety critic Kathy Corrigan spoke to the report and the related concerns of

Swansea Point resi-dents in the legislature. “This information and the severity of the cir-cumstances were not shared with the pub-lic,” stated Corrigan. “I have talked to many of the residents. They are shocked. They have just received this. They are shocked by this report and the fact that it was withheld from them

and that the decisions that they made, and that the government made subsequently, did not include any sharing of this information with them. They are very concerned.”

Community Asso-ciation president Dan Keely said he is still concerned, though the announcement goes a long way to ease the

apprehension of local residents and property owners.

Stone said the 2003 report looked at the cir-cumstance of the day, and that since then a lot of work has been done on the creek.

“The combination of the work that’s been done to date, as well as the replacement of this culvert with a new

bridge, will provide the protection I think all the residents are looking for,” said Stone. “That all being said, we’re go-ing to continue to moni-tor and, if further action is required, we’ll assess it at that time.”

Stone says a bridge design is in the works and that he expects con-struction will be com-pleted next year.

Continued from front

Minister says government will continue to monitor creek

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Input is being sought for a strategy that will support the growth and sustainability of the ag-ricultural sector on the Shuswap.

On Monday, Sept. 9, the Columbia Shus-wap Regional District’s economic development officer Robyn Cyr and Erica Crawford of the Sustainability Solutions Group will be host-ing an open house for the development of the Shuswap Agriculture Strategy. It will run from 7 to 9 p.m. at Harmoni-ous Homestead and Mt. Ida Hall.

Crawford, the con-sultant hired to guide the strategy’s develop-ment, says one of the meeting’s key goals will be to gather a list agricultural assets in the Shuswap that could be utilized to support the industry. She says this may include assets not necessarily linked to ag-riculture.

The meeting, says Crawford, is part of an ongoing effort to engage the agricultural commu-nity, as well as the gen-eral public, to look at what mechanisms could be built on to support food security and the sustainable growth of agriculture in the region.

“From there, we’ll also be investigating best practices and ideas from elsewhere, and bringing that together to see how outside ideas can inform the already existing assets and

strengths of the industry and address the kind of issues we’ll identify,” says Crawford.

The strategy will ap-ply to Electoral Areas C through F (South Shus-wap, Falkland-Salmon Valley, Sicamous-Mal-akwa and North Shus-wap-Seymour Arm), as well as the City of Salmon Arm and the District of Sicamous, which are municipal partners through their respective representa-tive economic develop-ment bodies.

“Some of the com-munities will have of-ficial community plans. What this document will do is take that one step further and it will give us a really clear idea of where we want to go with agriculture into the future,” says Cyr. “It will comple-ment the City of Salmon Arm’s OCP, it will com-plement the District of Sicamous. Some of our rural areas don’t have

OCPs, so as they move towards that, or start to maybe revise their land-use bylaws, this docu-ment will be in place to help guide them. It’s like having a guiding policy to make sure you stay on track and make sure everybody agrees that’s where you want to go.”

Cyr says the strategy will include an imple-mentation plan with achievable goals that will allow work to be done immediately.

Asked about the is-sue of agricultural land disappearing for resi-dential or uses by mu-nicipalities, Cyr says

the strategy is not about protectionism, but to help guide best land-use practices.

“When I think of communities in the Lower Mainland, there’s been so much agricultural land taken, and there’s been subdi-visions put on it… We need to be conscious of where we’re build-ing subdivisions and, if there’s better land that could be developed for a subdivision that doesn’t have the types of soils that are very good for agriculture, then maybe we could look at shift-ing,” said Cyr, speaking hypothetically about

where the strategy is going. “It will be sort of a guide, a checklist. Are you sure this land can’t be used for this or what-ever?

“I think that’s our purpose, to insure what we have for agricultural land, stays as agricul-tural land.”

Those unable to at-tend the Sept. 9 meeting are still encouraged to provide input. The web-site, www.growshus-wap.com, has been set up for this.

Cyr says they are try-ing to make sure every sector in every com-munity is represented, and that input from Si-camous is particularly welcome as there is cur-rently no one from that community involved with the Shuswap Agri-cultural Strategy Steer-ing Committee.

Input wanted for agriculture strategyBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Land use: While much of the land in Sicamous is used for agricul-tural purposes, community representation is lacking for the Shuswap Agriculture Strategy. Photo by Lachlan Labere


Last summer I raised the issue of regulations be-ing considered that would result in the metering, and thus fees to government, of private water wells.

This summer, thanks to Nestlé Waters, the issue has moved from the “let’s try to bury this” at the munici-pal level, to provincewide awareness relating to what is assumed to be ‘unfet-tered’ use of groundwater.

Nestlé, apparently, an-nually pumps some 265 million litres out of a well in Hope to sell in bottles throughout the country, and perhaps internationally. This amount of water, by the way, is roughly equivalent to the volume of 10 Olympic-size swimming pools which, knowing how much it rains in Hope, doesn’t seem that much.

However, a huge multi-national taking ‘our water for free’ has raised a hue and cry amongst those who de-

rive their water from a city tap, though I’d also guess most of them buy bottled water too.

Why should we pay, when they get it for free is the refrain. They should be charged, and contribute to the tax stream, they say.

Let’s look at the num-bers. A bottle of water costs a buck a litre more or less at the retail level.

That means Nestlé gets about 17 cents a litre … the rest is made up of retail mark-ups (and taxes). Thus to be fair, any kind of gov-ernment levy on a litre of raw water couldn’t amount to more than a penny … a tax revenue flow of $2.65 million from Nestle. Not chump change I will admit, but by selling our water, possibly for international markets, we are placing our-selves on the proverbial slip-pery slope.

For instance, what hap-pens when one of the for-merly highly touted run-of-river hydro projects

discovers it can make more money selling ship-loads of water to foreign countries than it can by selling elec-tricity.

Whether the commercial revenue is 17 cents a litre, or more depending on who you sell it to, it equates to the price of oil at the well-head, and you know how profitable Big Oil is. Factor in that water demand will only increase, thanks to cli-mate change, and suddenly selling our water to foreign populations has great poten-tial.

If government decides it must charge Nestlé (and they are not the only ones bottling B.C. water), how can it then deny anyone else the same precedent-setting opportunity to sell our water from a private well? First Nestlé’s bottles, then tanker loads and then, perhaps, a pipeline to California?

The only way to stop all of that is simple. Ban export of our water, in any form or vessel including plastic

bottles, outside our national boundaries.

That avoids the slippery slope and negates the need for taxing and/or metering groundwater consumption (other than as a tax grab) because if large-scale com-mercial users are taxed, then individual private well own-ers likely will have to be charged as well.

Government of course, based on the premise that it is their water … like they control the rain and snow … and thus to save our water, they need to monitor, meter and charge us for it.

This, by the way, isn’t new stuff… but thanks to the Nestlé furor, owners of private wells across B.C. may soon find they don’t just own a water source but yet another revenue stream for villages, cities, regional districts and the province.

Oh, and any tax on bot-tled water will be passed on to the consumer, an option not available to the homeowner on a well.

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Pot confessional of little substance to Canadians

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It’s difficult to determine what’s more tragic: Justin Trudeau’s great pot reveal, or the moral high ground the prime minister

and his fellow Cons have taken in response. By now, everyone in the nation who cares (and

many who don’t) will have heard or read about the Liberal leader’s almost trite confession, how on the rare occasion over his 41 years, he’s smoked marijuana.

“I think five or six times in my life that I’ve taken a puff — it’s not my thing. I think I’m in more trouble for admitting that I don’t drink cof-fee on social media today,” Trudeau said while speaking to reporters in Quebec City.

Of course, this revelation from the Liberal’s prospective prime minister, who has already expressed a desire to shake up the nation’s argu-ably excessive drug laws (as have Canada’s Association of Chiefs of Police, though perhaps not to the same extent), became immediate fod-der for the Conservatives.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay says Trudeau has shown a “profound lack of judgement,” something MacKay is all too familiar with, given his own high-flying history as the nation’s defence minister, when he had no qualms about travelling executive class by air to a football game, or having a military helicopter to give him a lift from a fishing resort, all on the public dime.

As for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s response, that Trudeau’s “actions speak for themselves,” wow, talk about a case of the pot and the kettle. But as with MacKay, Harper speaks with authority, having established his own substantial list of outspoken actions which have done more to anger and alienate the nation than unite it.

MacKay wasn’t entirely off the mark: Trudeau’s supposedly calculated confessional has predictably titillated public interest, leaving the nation’s more pressing issues in a cloud of second-hand smoke.

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Graham Flatt didn’t live up to his surname when giving a water-colour workshop in Si-camous.

Last week, the Lloy-dminster artist was at the Red Barn Arts Cen-tre conducting a four-day workshop with the Eagle Valley Brush and Palette Club.

This wasn’t Flatt’s first workshop with the club, who have come to appreciate his unique style of instruction.

“When we were here last time, one of the gals gave me the nickname, the Monty Python of waterco-lour,” said Flatt, ex-plaining he has an un-conventional approach to teaching and water-colour, one that mixes a serious attention to detail with a disarm-ing sense of humour that puts students at ease and allows them to open up.

“Part of my mandate is to bring as much pos-itive energy to a work-shop as I can, make it a safe place to take risks, get rid of judgement, and just make it a place where you can be and thrive,” says Flatt. “And if you fail, so what, it’s not a big deal.”

Club member Betty Hill says there’s always something to take away

from the workshops, and that she greatly en-joys watching Flatt and learning from him.

Fellow club member Susan Miller, who spe-cializes in acrylic, oil and drawing, said Flatt had helped open her eyes to different ways of looking at colour theory.

“I think what he’s done is taken some of the intimidation out of it in terms of approach-ing it,” said Miller re-garding her foray into watercolour.

Flatt emphasizes to his students that it is the process of creation that is most important, and not the final product, which he says is only a souvenir of the journey.

“Painting, first and foremost, should be fun,” says Flatt. “It shouldn’t be intimi-dating, it shouldn’t be scary and it shouldn’t put your teeth on edge. It should be fun. If you get something you’re proud of at the end, great. If you didn’t, oh well, it’s just a piece of paper. You can try again.”

The Eagle Val-ley Brush and Palette Club meets regularly on Fridays at the Red Barn from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more infor-mation, email, [email protected], or visit http://eaglevalley-brushandpalette.com.

arts sceneHumour vital in learning processBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

How to: Lloydminster artist Graham Flatt adds chalk to a watercolour during a workshop at the Red Barn. Photo by Lachlan Labere

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Cadet Jesse Reid of Sicamous took top hon-ours at this summer’s camp at the Vernon Army Cadet Training Centre.

Reid, a member of the 2510 Royal Canadi-an Army Cadet Corps., was the recipient of the Army Navy Air Force Veterans (ANAVETS) Cadet Medal of Merit at the final parade and Sunset Ceremony at the training centre.

The training centre’s spokesperson Wayne Emde calls ANAVETS Canada’s oldest veter-ans association with a proud history dating to 1840.

“The ANAVETS Cadet Medal of Merit recognizes the top ca-det during the summer’s training at VACSTC on each of the Instructor-level courses,” Emde says in a news release, adding cadets are eligi-ble for a $1,000 bursary that can be applied to any accredited univer-sity or community col-lege.

Reid was enrolled in a six-week Advanced Military Band program.

“In addition to im-proving their musician-ship skills, school of music cadets marched

in parades in Oliver and Penticton, and played several concerts in the greater Vernon area,” says Emde. “They also performed an evening concert for the rest of the battalion and pro-vided the music for all graduation parades.”

Emde says that over the summer, 1,200 army, sea and air cadets from across Western Canada spent up to six weeks at the Vernon centre, expanding on their training while de-veloping new skills and forming friendships.

Sicamous cadet earns highest honour

Medal of merit: Reverend Ron Watson, unit padre for the ANA-VETS Branch #5, Vernon, B.C. recognizes Cadet Jesse Reid as the top cadet in the advanced musician military band course during six weeks of train-ing at Vernon Army Cadet Summer Training Centre. Photo by Wayne Emde

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Results for the event, held on Wednesday, Aug. 21 were as fol-lows:

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