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A sudden proliferation of local polling results offer more for North Okanagan-Shuswap voters to ponder before the Oct. 19 federal election.

As of Tuesday, three polls had been conducted in the North Okanagan-Shuswap riding. One was commissioned by local residents, another by the or-ganization Leadnow.ca and a third by the Liberal Party of Canada. The former two, when compared to the Liberal poll, paint a different election out-come for the Liberal and NDP positions.

The Leadnow polling results – a sampling of 755 eligible voters in the riding – are the latest to be re-leased. It suggests 37 per cent of eligible voters in the riding will be casting their ballots for NDP can-didate Jacqui Gingras, 33 per cent for Conservative candidate Mel Arnold, 22 per cent for Liberal Cindy Derkaz and eight per cent for Green candidate Chris George. Five per cent are undecided. The results of this poll are the culmination of two questions, “If the federal election were held tomorrow, which one of the following parties would you vote for here in the riding of North Okanagan-Shuswap,” and “Even though you are undecided, is there a party’s candidate that you are leaning towards.”

It was conducted by Environics Analytics be-tween Oct. 9 and 11, by telephone, using interactive voice response technology and random sampling, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 per cent, 19 times out of 20. The results can be found at https://www.votetogether.ca/riding/59020/north-okanaganshuswap/.

On Saturday, Oct. 10, polling company Main-street Technologies conducted a telephone survey in the riding funded by the local Liberal Party of Canada campaign.

To the question: “If the election were held today, which candidate would you vote for,” 38 per cent of respondents said Arnold, 22 per cent said NDP candidate Jacqui Gingras, 20 per cent said Liber-al candidate Cindy Derkaz and four per cent said Green candidate Chris George. Ten per cent of re-spondents were undecided.

To the follow-up question, If you knew your preferred candidate wouldn’t win, which candi-

Polling results add to local debateSurvey results: Divergent data adds to uncertainty of Liberal/NDP vote. By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

See Group on page 2

The District of Sicamous is taking steps to get the � re-damaged remains of the for-mer Extreme Power Sports building demolished.

Last week, municipal council supported a recom-mendation by staff to impose a remedial action requirement on the owner of the prop-erty at 1305 Rauma Ave. The building was severely dam-aged in a May 6 � re, and is considered by council to be in an “unsafe condition, which creates a signi� cant risk to health and safety.”

In a report to council, dis-trict community planner Mike

Marrs explains “written com-plaints have been received by the district about the unsightly nature of the building and the spreading of contaminated debris, ash and dust onto ad-jacent residential and commercial properties.”

“Further, despite the erected fencing, it is obvious that vandals are being attracted to the building, resulting in exposure to serious personal injury,” writes Marrs. “This exposure and safety concern will con-tinue and increase given we are entering the fall/winter patterns.”

As per the community

charter, the property owner 30 has days after receiving notice of the remedial action

requirement to demolish and remove the building, includ-ing its foundation. However, the owner has 10 days to ap-peal council’s decision.

“They have 10 days – typi-cally, the charter says 14, but because of the state of the

building, we consider it to be an urgent mat-ter…,” said Marrs. “Council can listen to their appeal and then you can decide to agree with them or to stand behind the decision you make tonight. So that decision is up to coun-cil.”

In August, Marrs said he’d spoken with the building’s insurer,

and con� rmed the demolition contract had been awarded to a local contractor.

“We’re just waiting for

District takes action towards demolition

Safety concerns: Sicamous council has issued a remedial action requirement for the demolition of the former Extreme Power Sports site at 1305 Rauma Ave. Photo by Lachlan Labere

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

See Property owner on page 3

nature of the building and the spreading of contaminated debris, ash and dust onto ad-jacent residential and commercial properties.”

“Further, despite the erected fencing, it is obvious that vandals are being attracted to the building, resulting in exposure to serious personal injury,” writes

They have 10 days – typically, the charter says 14 but, because

of the state of the building, we consider it to be an urgent

matter…. Mike Marrs

District of Sicamous

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date would you vote for, Arnold received 24 per cent, Derkaz 20 per cent, Gingras 18 per cent and George 12 per cent, while 26 per cent remained undecided.

A total of 567 people were interviewed in this survey, available at http://cindyderkaz.liberal.ca/ndp-support-fading-fast-in-north-okanagan-shuswap/, using random number selection, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 per cent, 19 times out of 20.

“The national polls make it clear that Jus-tin Trudeau is the only leader, and the Liberals are the only party who can replace Stephen Harper,” said Derkaz in a news release accom-panying the Liberal poll. “The Mainstreet survey con� rms the same trend in the North Okanagan-Shuswap. The NDP are fading fast here as well.”

Derkaz says the re-sults of the Liberal poll paint a very different picture from another poll, conducted on Oct. 5 and 6 by polling com-pany Oraclepoll. This poll, which surveyed 312 eligible voters in the riding, shows the NDP leading the Lib-erals by a much wider margin and narrowly beating out the Conser-vatives.

To the Oraclepoll question: “If a federal election were held to-day, which party and its candidate in the rid-ing of North Okangan Shuswap would you most likely vote for or be leaning towards at this time,” 41 per cent of (109 of 264) respon-dents chose Gingras. Thirty-eight per cent

(99) said Arnold, 12 per cent (31) said Liberal Cindy Derkaz and nine per cent (25) said Green candidate Chris George.

To the follow up question, “Is there a party or several parties you may be leaning to-wards,” 31.3 per cent (15 respondents) said the Liberal camp, 27.1 per cent (13) said the Conservatives, 20.8 per cent (10) said the NDP, 8.3 per cent (4) said the Green Party and 12.5 per cent (6) said they didn’t know.

The complete Ora-clepoll results can be found at http://pollokan-aganshuswap.weebly.com. It was commis-sioned by Warren Bell, and funded by a non-partisan group of 25 in-dividuals of voting-age residents in the riding.

Derkaz dismisses the Oraclepoll results, noting the non-partisan group is connected to Renewing Democracy Through Co-operation.

“The group (Renew-ing Democracy) was started by Jacqui Gin-gras and she has been very involved in it,” said Derkaz.

“The whole poll is rather dubious. The sample size is very small. Our results from 23,000 attempted con-tacts and door knock-ings show something different. We are very strong and ahead of the NDP.”

Bell, spokesperson for the residents who commissioned the poll, says some are members of Renewing Democ-racy and some are not, and the poll was non-partisan.

Gingras con� rms she was a member of Renewing Democracy,

but stepped away when the election campaign began.

“I haven’t contrib-uted any money to the poll or participated in the poll,” she said.

Bell, meanwhile, calls the Liberal poll skewed, noting its 66 per cent of female re-

spondents is well over the regional proportion, as is the 52 per cent of respondents aged 65 and over.

As for the Oracle-poll results, Gingras, said they’re an accurate re� ection of what she and her campaigners have been hearing on the hustings.

George too said the Oraclepoll results are consistent with what he’s heard, while Ar-nold says there’s no clear outcome until election day.

Bell said the group is not anti-Conservative, but wanted to make available current, lo-cal polling data for the

candidates and voters, particularly those inter-ested in voting strategi-cally.

The Oraclepoll re-sults have margin of er-ror of +/- 5.5 per cent, 19 out of 20 times. It was conducted by tele-phone using live opera-tors at Oraclepoll, using computer-assisted tech-niques of telephone in-terviewing and random number selection.

It’s this random se-lection that’s critical to a poll’s reliability, says Ron McGivern, senior lecturer and chair of the departments of sociol-ogy and anthropology with Thompson Rivers University, who teaches

“If it was based on a random sampling… You probably have rea-sonable representation there,” said McGivern.who teaches a course on survey design and analysis.

McGivern said the survey methodology of the Oraclepoll ap-pears to have followed standard protocols of telephone based surveys laid out by the Market-ing Research and Intel-ligence Association. McGivern says he and other members of the association are required to abide by a code of conduct on research.

“If we don’t abide by that, well, we’re in trou-ble,” added McGivern.

With � les from the Vernon Morning Star.

Group supports strategic voteContinued from front

per cent (13) said the Conservatives, 20.8 per cent (10) said the NDP, 8.3 per cent (4) said the Green Party and 12.5 per cent (6) said they

The complete Ora-clepoll results can be found at http://pollokan-aganshuswap.weebly.com. It was commis-sioned by Warren Bell, and funded by a non-

If it was based on random sampling…

You probably have reasonable representation

there.

Ron McGivernTRU

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signed authorization from the owner so we can issue those. It will be done fairly quickly,” Marrs told council at that time.

However, in his re-port, Marrs says ap-plication fees and a refundable damage deposit for the demo-lition permit have not yet been paid. He says staff had been advised by the underwriter/ad-juster that funds for the demolition had been requested, and the pur-chase order contract for the work issued but, upon a second in-quiry, found no funds had been issued by the insurer. The district has been unable to get a timeline from the ad-juster.

Marrs’ report also notes staff spoke with the owner of Extreme Power Sports Inc., Ja-son Stutzke, on Sept. 8, who said he also wants to see the building de-molished and cleaned up as soon as possible, “but is not in a position to fund the expense to complete the work.”

Asked who would pay for the demolition, district interim admin-istrator Tim Palmer explained when there is failure to comply with a remedial action order, the district will proceed with remedial action, and that the work would likely be tendered out. Related costs would be added to the property taxes and, should the property owner default, the property would be subject to a tax sale.

“The intent of the remedial action order is to get compliance with the demolition,” said Palmer. “Most of the time remedial action orders are issued, the landowner will comply

with that. In the event that isn’t successful at motivating, then we have those options and we’ll have further dia-logue with council at that time.”

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Property owner can appeal decision

No quick decision is expected on a proposed boat ban on sections of the Shuswap River.

It could be January or February before the Regional District of North Okanagan has a firm direction on possi-bly pursuing restrictions on motorized vessels from south Mabel Lake upstream to Shuswap Falls and from Trinity Valley Road upstream

to the eastern end of Skookumchuck Rapids Park.

“We’re waiting for the outcome of the pub-lic questionnaires to de-cide where we will go with this,” said Herman Halvorson, director.

“Absolutely no deci-sion has been made.”

While some sec-tions of the river could see motorized boats banned, it’s proposed that there be a vessel engine size limit of 10 horsepower from Mara

Lake upstream to Trin-ity Valley Road.

The ultimate deci-sion on restrictions would be made by Transport Canada if the regional district decides to pursue the matter fur-ther.

“The development of the Shuswap River watershed sustainabil-ity plan and subsequent consideration of boat-ing regulations were in response to concerns regarding the Shuswap River watershed that

have been raised within the community and with the regional board over the last 22 years,” said Anna Page, sustain-ability co-ordinator, in a report.

As part of the pro-cess, more than 2,000 surveys have been re-ceived from the public about boat regulations.

The potential future actions by the RDNO board include applying to Transport Canada for boat regulations, considering alterna-

tive regulations and not applying to Transport Canada.

The current process covers from Shuswap Falls to Mara Lake, but there is always the pos-sibility of a phase two in the future.

No quick decision expected on boat banBy Richard RolkeBlack Press


VICTORIA – There was a flurry of excitement in the B.C. legislature last week, as Delta South independent MLA Vicki Huntington released documents sug-gesting that a multinational manufacturing company continued to buy up B.C. farms for carbon offsets af-ter they said last June they would stop.

False alarm, as it turns out. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick clarified that three more farms in the Peace and Cariboo region had indeed been bought, but the company was merely following legal advice to close deals on farms that it had already agreed to pur-chase. The company, Brit-ish-based cleaning product and pharmaceutical maker Reckitt Benckiser (RB) confirmed this. A company official reiterated that its program to buy farms and replant them with trees is suspended.

By the time the B.C. government became aware of this global public rela-tions scheme, thanks to the work of NDP MLA Lana Popham and others, about 10,000 hectares of farmland were already planted with seedlings. RB initially said they were buying up aban-doned and unproductive farms, but local government officials disputed that.

RB soon realized that un-dermining already precari-ous farming communities was going to provide the op-posite of the green publicity they sought, at least in B.C. The company told me it is now looking to switch its carbon offset program to re-planting forest areas deplet-ed by pine beetle and fire.

I’ll believe that when I see it, but on the face of it, this sounds almost as ques-tionable as converting farm-land back to forests. Pine forests need fire to regener-ate, so fires have been part of the regeneration of the ecosystem since the retreat of the last Ice Age.

Beetle-kill areas are al-ready coming back, and they were never completely denuded in any case, so the notion of manual planting these areas seems imprac-tical. Most are now criss-crossed with deadfall and all but impassible.

Another situation that re-ceived little public attention was a report issued late this summer by the B.C. Forest Practices Board about forest stewardship plans.

The board reviewed 43 stewardship plans from all regions of B.C., prepared as required under provincial law by forest tenure holders on Crown land. They are supposed to deal with things like where roads go and how streams are protected.

This is the management system put in place in 2003, when the B.C. Liberal gov-ernment changed its ap-proach to “results-based” forest management, where licence holders had to pro-duce a plan showing stream protection and other values. The Forest Practices Board

has found these plans often aren’t good for much, al-though results are generally good when they follow up with on-the-ground audits of actual timber harvest ar-eas.

The investigation found that many of the plans cover “vast and overlapping areas of the province, and were written using legal language that makes them very diffi-cult for public understand-ing or review.” Little has changed since a similar finding in 2006.

During that time, the for-ests ministry was turned into Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, with greatly increased responsi-bility over wildlife, mining, gas drilling and so on.

Columbia River-Rev-elstoke MLA Norm Mac-donald, who travelled the province as NDP forests critic in recent years, says the problem now is there just aren’t enough people on the ground to assess what’s going on in our huge ex-panse of Crown land.

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Conflicting polls confound voting

OPINION

There’s been a lot of hullaballoo about polling this election.

Thanks to technology, voters can tap in daily to a whole host of polls, which appear to show everything from the Conservatives win-ning another majority government to a possible minority government.

Some polls name Harper as the future PM, oth-ers suggest its Mulcair, and still more say Trudeau is surging fast for the top job.

Locally, as well, the release of a poll commis-sioned by an ad hoc group of citizens spear-headed by Warren Bell, caused much flurry among the local camps, especially the Liberals, who then commissioned their own survey that countered some of the findings of the Oraclepoll results.

Polls can provide some interesting informa-tion, as they use a small sampling of the popula-tion to draw general conclusions about the entire riding. But the information is simply that – another element in the decision-making process.

Everyone can point to polling results which turned out to be terrible predictors of the actual outcome. The 2013 B.C. election is a case in point. Polling results through much of the cam-paigning period suggested a strong NDP win. Polling conducted a week prior to the election, however, showed the BC Liberals receiving a strong surge in voter support. This indicates how quickly and easily a political party’s fortunes can turn.

Other polling grey areas that can cloud out-comes include the margin of error and the num-ber of undecided voters, who can be leaning one way one week, another the next and, in the end, may not vote at all. (In the 2011 federal election, 39 per cent – two out of five – of eligible voters didn’t vote.)

While polls can provide useful, and even rea-sonably accurate data, it is important for voters to educate themselves about their candidates and their positions on issues that matter to you, as well as the positions of the party they represent.

Regardless of who wins, making a thoughtful, well-researched decision at the ballot box is the best thing for our democratic system.

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The Liberal Party is committed to publicly-funded universal health care. We need to make a shift from physician/hospital-based care to an integrated, primary care system which is multi-disciplinary, patient-centred, and committed to managing chronic disease within community, home, and long-term care settings.

We will negotiate a new Health Accord with the provinces and provide long-term stable funding, starting with $3 billion over four years for addi-tional and improved home-care services.

We will create new centres of excellence that will specialize in mental health, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related issues for both veter-ans and � rst responders.

Health care remains one of the leading ex-pressed concerns in this region.

Tommy Douglas pioneered public health care and NDP will defend it.

Progress on wait times has stalled. Canadians now wait longer in the ER, or to see their family doctor than in other countries. To reduce wait times, we will invest $300 million to build 200 community health clinics and hire 7,000 health care professionals. The NDP government will stop Harper’s unilateral cuts and returning to collabora-tion with provinces.

We will initiate a pharmacare plan and improve access to home care. We will invest millions in mental health.

The Greens support the Canada Health Act (CHA) and its principles. We oppose any level of priva-tized, for-pro� t health care. I would work to:

1. Identify and measure the extent of two-tier health care in Canada and strive for the elimination of two-tier health care as quickly as economically possible;

2. Use the full force of federal spending power under the Canada Health Act to oppose any steps that open the way to further two-tier health care in Canada.

3. Provide more money to hire staff to open closed beds, utilize existing operating rooms in hospitals, and purchase new diagnostic equip-ment.

I support a public health system in Canada that provides universal health to all Canadians.

B.C. alone will receive over $4.4B in health transfers this year from the federal government who is committed to ensuring that health care remains a national priority.

While parts of our health-care system are bet-ter managed at a local or provincial level, some components may be improved with support at a national level. For example, our Conservative government has implemented bulk purchasing of prescription drugs for federal programs and is working with the provinces on enhancing this program.

We will prioritize new investment in afford-able housing and seniors’ facilities as part of our 10-year investment of nearly $20 billion in social infrastructure, including $125 million annually in tax incentives to increase and renovate the supply of rental housing.

This is an opportunity for North Okanagan-Shuswap where some people have no housing and others lack affordable housing. Affordable housing is a government issue. Liberals will take action and work collaboratively with all levels of government to provide sustained funding.

Many Canadians are priced out of home owner-ship, putting pressure on crowded rental markets and on affordable housing units.

The NDP developed the Affordable Housing Act, which the Conservatives opposed. Justin Trudeau simply missed the vote.

NDP will enact the Affordable Housing Act ensuring secure, adequate, and affordable housing as a right for Canadians. The NDP will provide incentives and resources, including construction of 10,000 affordable and market housing units, incor-porating green technology in these new buildings. Over $2 billion will be invested in co-operatives/social housing and co-operative agreements will be renewed. Critical to this region are housing needs for seniors. We need to ensure that there is appropriate housing for seniors along with adequate and integrated home care.

The Green Housing Strategy addresses the continuum of needs – from social housing for those in poverty or dealing with mental health and addiction problems, to First Nation housing crises, to the market failures depriving those with even a decent income of access to the affordable housing they need. We can ensure that all housing needs are met.

We will implement a National Housing Strategy based on Housing First principles. Housing First is a proven, recovery-oriented approach that centres on quickly moving people experiencing homeless-ness into independent, permanent housing, and then providing additional supports and services as needed.

While local communities can best identify their individual housing challenges, all levels of government must work collectively on affordable housing. I will work toward expansion of existing CMHC programs like the Affordable Housing Centre providing seed money to cover costs incurred dur-ing the proposal and development stage of afford-able housing projects. Further, tax incentives for developers or landlords will affect the inventory of low-income housing within our communities. The Conservative government has underwritten nearly $1.7B in social transfers to B.C. this year, indicating that safe shelter is a basic human need – and a priority for me.

Questions: 1) Do you support a public health-care system and how do you think it could be improved?2) How would you plan to address the need for affordable housing in the North Okanagan-Shuswap?

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Fair treatment for veterans and getting rid of Bill C-51 drew some of the largest rounds of applause at Thursday night’s all-candidates meeting.

More than 150 peo-ple packed the Fifth Av-enue Seniors Activity Centre to hear the views of the four candidates vying to become the North Okanagan-Shus-wap MP.

The first four ques-tions the candidates answered, in random speaking order, came from the host Shuswap and District Retired Teachers Association, while the remaining 12 were generated by the audience.

In what was a civil debate with few barbs thrown, health care and supports for seniors and veterans were predomi-nant topics, with ques-tions also ranging from price gouging at the gas pumps to the future of the CBC.

Asked how the par-ties would meet the medical needs of Ca-nadians without extra charges or discrimina-tion, Jacqui Gingras of the NDP referred to the creation of Medicare by the “steel will and de-termination of Tommy Douglas,” and said the national health accord must be renegotiated with the provinces. To applause, she noted that 20 per cent of seniors in B.C. live in poverty

and should have univer-sal access to affordable medication, which has been put in jeopardy by the Trans-Pacific Part-nership.

Chris George of the Green Party said the Greens understand that health is about more than just health care. He noted that Canadi-ans are in the midst of a cancer epidemic that no one wants to talk about. Greens would tax the creation of toxins, he said.

Conservative can-didate Mel Arnold said the Conservatives support the five basic principles of Medicare, and have increased the amount of health care transfers by 70 per cent since 2006. He said the federal government has penalized B.C. doctors for billing separately.

Cindy Derkaz of the Liberal Party said the Liberals negotiated the health care accord that has now expired and noted the prime min-

ister has not met with the provinces since 2009 – a problem that Justin Trudeau would remedy. She said health care needs to be patient centred, keeping people healthy at home longer.

Regarding care for seniors, George pro-moted a “guaranteed livable income,” which he said would lift all Canadians out of pov-erty, including seniors. He said the plan was implemented in Dau-phin, Manitoba and re-sulted in the reduction of acute care visits to hospital as well as an increase in the number of high school gradu-ates.

A response to a question about veterans drew one of the loudest crowd reactions: “It is widely acknowledged that today’s veterans have been shabbily treated with respect to veterans of the Second World War. If elected, what will your govern-ment do?”

Arnold said while there may be some vet-erans who have received shabby treatment, he disagrees with the wide-ranging description. He said the Conservatives are responding to the needs expressed by a non-partisan committee on veterans.

Gingras drew laugh-ter when she said, “We’re clearly talking to different veterans,” noting those she’s spo-ken to are facing pro-found difficulties.

She said people need to stop believing that bombing is a way to achieve peace. The loudest applause came when she stated: “If we’re going to initiate that conflict, we need to provide appropri-ate care for our veter-ans when they return home.”

Derkaz said the Lib-erals will re-establish life-long pensions for veterans. “We’re not going to just pay out lump sums.”

More loud applause erupted when she noted that the government can spend $125 million on an election but can’t keep nine offices serv-ing veterans open.

“There’s something profoundly wrong.”

George said a num-ber of specifics have been changed for vet-erans over the past 15 years and veterans de-serve better treatment when they return.

“Greens think this is fundamentally wrong.”

One question asked the candidates about Bill C-51, which it said had sparked many con-cerns about Canadians’ rights and freedoms.

Gingras said the NDP would repeal the Draconian law. She said four previous prime ministers and Supreme Court judges, among others, have spoken against it and asked why Trudeau didn’t vote against it.

George spoke next.“At the first reading

of this bill, Elizabeth May voted against it. She didn’t put her finger in the air to see which way the political wind was blowing.”

He pointed out he is not a Supreme Court judge, but he can read – and he read that people could be held in deten-tion for five days with-out charge, and that secret trials without wit-nesses could be held.

“We have very much forgotten who we are. We are Canadians and we are not afraid,” he said to an eruption of loud applause.

Arnold said one key duty of the prime minis-ter is to keep Canadians safe.

“That was the in-tent,” he said, adding that prior to the bill, if enforcement agencies knew of a threat they couldn’t share it with

each other.“There’s a lot of

misbelief about C-51 – the main reason it was brought in was to keep Canadians safe.”

His response was met with some applause and the first two ‘boos’ of the evening.

Derkaz said the bill was going to be rammed through the house with the major-ity Harper government, so the Liberals went to work to amend it.

“We proposed 22 amendments. The NDP voted against every-one,” she said, adding that rights to protest were maintained and the number of agencies that can share informa-tion went from unlim-ited to 17.

“If the Liberals are elected, we are com-mitted to amending that bill.”

Candidates debate health care, veterans and Bill C-51By Martha WickettEagle Valley News

Vying for the vote: Candidates Jacqui Gingras, Cindy Derkaz and Mel Arnold listen as Chris George responds to a question during an all-candidates meeting held Thursday, Oct. 8 at the Fifth Avenue Seniors Activity Centre in Salmon Arm. Photo by Martha Wickett

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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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Despite receiving some critical feedback, the success of this year’s Summer Stomp enabled the organization to give back to the community.

In a presentation to municipal council, Stomp CEO/producer Steve Hammer said the non-pro� t group was able to make sev-eral donations from the proceeds of this year’s event. The Sicamous Legion received about $5,000, while $1,500 went to the Sicamous food bank. Another $2,000 went to the Salmon Arm Elks, and $1,600 was given to both the Easter Seals House and Ronald Mc-Donald House in the Lower Mainland. Ham-mer said there’s still an-other $2,000 earmarked for Sicamous.

“Whether that’s the food bank or there’s a project going on at a school or a park or something, we’d be happy to get some feed-back from the coun-cil and the staff,” said Hammer.

Number-wise, Ham-mer said there was about 1,850 people in paid attendance on the Stomp grounds this year, and he estimated between 4,000 and 5,000 people visited the community during the four-day event.

Hammer also noted the organization put $4,500 into the Main Street events, which he said don’t make any money.

“It does create a little bit of havoc on Main Street,” said Hammer.

“There are some marks that are left and some people have some is-sues with it, others don’t. I think it brings a lot, not only � nancially, to Sicamous, but also social bene� ts in getting people out. A lot of the community is out on the street.”

Hammer did refer to a “little survey” put out by the Sicamous and District Chamber

of Commerce inviting feedback from local businesses and residents on the Stomp.

“The big com-ments… the feedback that we got out of that, really, was that the ad-vertising needs to be a little bit better in town. I’m going to blame that on the Eagle Valley,” said Hammer, refer-ring to the Eagle Valley News.

A summary of the survey’s results, re-leased by the chamber, states the “commu-nity is de� nitely di-vided over the Summer Stomp and Burnout,” but respondents felt if the planning commit-tee could address key issues, they could get more people on board with hosting the event. Those issues, along with “providing more and better advertising,” include the provision

of more information to local businesses to provide customers; fo-cusing more on includ-ing the community and its businesses, adding more family-friendly events downtown, con-sidering a two-day event to make it worth it for participants, ven-dors and local business-es and sticking to the planned schedule.

“We did stick to

schedules fairly well,” said Hammer.

To the question, Overall, how would you rate the Summer Stomp and Burnout, with 1 being very poor, 2 being poor, 3 average, 4 good and 5 excellent, the total average from individual respondents was 4.1, and 3.7 from businesses. Asked, How organized did you feel

the event was, the total average from business respondents was 2.6, and 2.9 from individu-als.

Along with his re-port, Hammer made a couple of requests to council. One was to either apply to the Ag-ricultural Land Com-mission to get the Si-camous Dog Park, aka the Stomp Grounds, out of the Agricultural Land Reserve, or seek a � ve year extension with the ALC to allow the event to continue. The second request was for fund-ing for the Main Street events.

“The district did contribute $7,500 for 2015 for Main Street, and we’re asking for $10,000 to be contrib-uted to the Main Street event for 2016, along with a few… person hours for district staff,” said Hammer.

Regarding the $2,000 donation, May-or Terry Rysz said council could certainly � nd a home for it. As for Hammer’s requests, he said council will be discussing them in up-coming budget delib-erations.

Stomp gives back to communityBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Burnout: Organization asks for $10,000 for 2016.

I think it brings a lot, not only � nancially, to Sicamous, but also social bene� ts in getting people out. A lot of the community is out on the street.

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The Literacy Al-liance of the Shus-wap Society (LASS) has welcomed Darcy Calkins as the new Literacy Outreach co-ordinator for the North Okanagan-Shuswap area.

Calkins is a busy, active mum of four who loves to cook yet still � nds time to curl up with a good book.

Originally from Salmon Arm, Calkins went farther a� eld to the University of Vic-toria where she earned a bachelor of engineer-ing before heading to the University of Cal-gary to earn her Bach-elor of Education. She travelled farther still to Bangladesh to teach for a year before landing in the Sooke School Dis-trict where she taught high school mathemat-ics.

In 2012 – 20 years after she graduated from high school in Salmon Arm – Calkins returned to her home-town with her young family and will now oversee all of the LASS literacy programs and initiatives as the new Literacy Outreach Co-ordinator.

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ing over the position from Jennifer Findlay who has been with LASS for the past � ve-and-a-half years. It is with mixed feelings that Findlay leaves the organization to con-tinue her work with School District #83.

“It has been so amazing to watch this community literacy or-ganization grow over the years. Back in 2010, I was the sole employ-ee and my kitchen ta-ble, mini-van, and local coffee shops were my of� ce spaces,” remem-

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for all of the amazing people in our commu-nity who have helped support LASS and community literacy over the years – our volunteer board, LASS staff, volunteers, com-munity organizations, local businesses, local media, and government of� cials,” said Findlay. “I will greatly miss connecting, collaborat-ing and learning from them all but I plan to be a continued commu-nity supporter of LASS and all things literacy-related.”

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More students will be getting lunch this year as a partnership between the Salmon Arm Rotary Club and Askew’s Foods ex-pands.

In October 2014, the service club and Askew’s launched a school lunch program for children in need of daily lunch assistance at elementary schools.

The program pro-vided assistance to children from Falkland, Enderby, Salmon Arm, Silver Creek, Sorrento and Sicamous.

Now the program will not only continue but funds have been secured to include high

schools in Salmon Arm, Sicamous and Enderby for the com-ing year.

The idea grew from club member Kari Wilkinson’s request for $250 to support a PAC Hot Lunch program af-ter noticing the number of children who could not afford to participate in the program.

The lunch program served approximately 250 to 275 children on a daily basis from Oc-tober through June.

Kids were provided healthy foods includ-ing cheese, fruit, veg-etables, granola bars, sandwiches, juice, and milk.

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“The positive out-comes from this pro-gram included im-proved attendance, and students more focused and ready to learn as a result of not being hungry,” says Wilkin-son. “Anxiety levels decreased around food security, and a positive change in behaviour was noted in vulnerable students.”

Wilkinson says there was also no stress or stigma for students to get the lunch sup-port needed as items were made available to all children in need, including those who

might just have left their lunch at home.

As Rotary Lunch Program co-ordinator, Wilkinson is thrilled the program will not only continue but funds have been secured to include high schools in Salmon Arm, Si-camous and Enderby for the coming year.

To help raise the funds, the Salmon Arm Rotary Club will be raf� ing off a three-minute Askew’s Foods Shopping Spree again this fall.

Corporate partners are also welcome to sponsor the program. For more information, contact Kari Wilkinson, 250-832-8261 or [email protected].

Student lunch program expandsBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

LASS welcomes new co-ordinatoring over the position from Jennifer Findlay who has been with LASS for the past � ve-and-a-half years. It is with mixed feelings that Findlay leaves the organization to con-tinue her work with

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On Oct. 16 and 17, when they host the Chase Heat and the 100 Mile House Wranglers, the Eagles will be wearing specially made black jerseys with em-blazoned with a pink ribbon in support of

Megan Senn, a local youth who is battling leukemia at Vancouver Children’s Hospital.

Eagles general man-ager Wayne March said the jerseys will be auc-tioned off, and money raised will go to Senn’s family.

Bidding on the jer-seys will start on the night of Oct. 16 and finish on 17th of at the

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Tough monthOctober hasn’t been

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An Oct. 10 home game saw guests the Kamloops Storm earn a 5-4 win. Plessis was named first star for this game, after potting the final goal of the eve-ning. The following night, on Oct. 11, the Eagles suffered a 7-1 defeat to the Coyotes. Once again Plessis re-ceived first-star hon-ours, and was respon-sible for Sicamous’ single.

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Apt/Condo for Rent4 BDRM 2 bath private apt. next to high school in Sica-mous. $1300/month ref’s req (250) 833-2418

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FOR LEASE1292 Main St., Smithers. 5920 sq. ft. Available Jan. 2016. Please email [email protected] for more information.

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SICAMOUS EAGLES PLAYER PROFILE

8Braden McCarthy

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Home Town: Salmon Arm

Age: 18

Height: 5’9” Weight: 187

SICAMOUSEAGLESJUNIOR B HOCKEY CLUB

Sicamous & District Recreation Centre

2015/2016 GAME SCHEDULE

Home Game

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Saturday, October 17th Sicamous vs 100 Mile House

Friday, October 23rdSicamous vs North Okanagan Knights

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WEDNESDAY Oct. 14Public Skating: 9 am - 10:45 amLunch Bunch: 12:15 pm - 2 pmPublic Skating: 2 pm - 3:45 pm

Eagles 4:00 pm - 5:15 pmNovice 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmATOM 6:30 pm - 7:30 pmSA JUV 7:45 pm - 9 pm

tHURSDAY Oct. 15Public Skating: 9 am - 10:45 amLunch Bunch: 12:15 pm - 2 pmPublic Skating: 2 pm - 3:45 pm

Eagles 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Pre Novice 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

SA Midget T2 6:45 pm - 8:00 pmSA Midget T3 8:15 pm - 9:30 pm

FRiDAY Oct. 16Public Skating: 9 am - 10:45 amLunch Bunch: 12:15 pm - 2 pmPublic Skating: 2 pm - 3:45 pmLearn to Skate: 4:00 -6:00 pm

Chase vs Sicamous Skate for Cancer 7 pm - 9 pm

SAtURDAY Oct. 17SA Atom Div B 4:15 pm - 6:15 pm

100 Mile vs Sicamous Skate for Can-cer 7 pm - 9 pm

SUNDAY Oct. 18SA Atom Div B 11:45 am - 1:45 pm

MONDAY Oct. 19Public Skating: 9 am - 10:45 amLunch Bunch: 12:15 pm - 2 pmPublic Skating: 2 pm - 3:45 pm

Eagles Practise 4:00 pm - 5:15 pmNovice 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmAtom 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Old Timers 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm

tUESDAY Oct. 20Public Skating: 9 am - 10:45 amLunch Bunch: 12:15 pm - 2 pmPublic Skating: 2 pm - 3:45 pmEagles Practise 4 pm - 5:15 pmPrenovice 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmSA Midget T3 6:45 pm - 8 pm

Rec Centre Gym open 8:00 am to close. Full Membership: $20 a month

Oct. 16 Early Years Fair9:30 am to 11:30 am at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre. Come and enjoy the displays, fish pond, crafts, circle time and snacks. For more information, call Gwyneth at 250-836-3440.

Nov. 2 Learn to Skate Session 2 A program that teaches the fundamentals of skating to children. To register or for info contact Jamie 836-2477.

MONDAY TO FRiDAY Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446

MON., WED. & FRiSicamous Strongstart 8:15-11:15 Parkview Elementary 836-2871

EvEry TuEsdaySicamous Baby Talk 9 - 11 am Free drop-in program for parents & babies to 12 months of age. Sicamous health unit

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.

Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven.

Sicamous Strongstart 12:30-3:30 Parkview Elementary 836-2871

EvEry WEdnEsday Malakwa Parent & Tot ~ 10:00 – 12:00 pm ~ Malakwa Preschool Building. For more information call Gwyneth 250-836-3440

Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 2:15 pm at Parkview. Brownies - 3:30 pm at Legion. New members welcome! Leaders needed. 250-836-3366 or online: girlguides.ca

United Church Thrift Store Open 10:00 am to 3 p.m.

Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.

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: Bev 836-3435 or Ed 836-4133

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.

1st & 3rd WED. Parkinsons Support Group Contact Don at 250-838-0794.

1st & 3rd WED. Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.

EvEry Thursday Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.

Sicamous Strongstart 12:30-3:30 Parkview elementary 836-2871

Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5.

Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven.

EVERY 2nd ThuRSDAY Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788.

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 4th ThuRSDAY monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.

EvEry Friday Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Sicamous Resource Center. Free Drop-in program for parents & children to age 6. Active play, crafts and socialization. 836-3440.

Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Carol 250-836-3135 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpalette.com

Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pm

1st FRiDAY OF ThE MONThSicamous Seniors Ctre general meeting 11 am followed by a great pot luck lunch. We encourage everyone to join us.

2nd 3rd and 4th FRiDAY Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Everyone Welcome.

Lunch at noon. Everyone Welcome. At the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.

EvEry saTurday Indoor market at the Red Barn 10 am - 3 pm. Concession from 10:30 am - 2:30 pm

United Church Thrift Store open 10:00 am to 3 p.m.

Morning tailgate market Sicamous Royal Canadian Legion Branch 99 – Everyone welcome – sell anything – for details call Murray @250-836-2224.

LAST SAT. OF ThE MONTh Ladies’ Auxiliary Dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion at 6 pm. Tickets sold until the Friday before at the Legion. No tickets at the door.

sundays KARMA YOGA (Gentle Hatha) Sundays 5:30 pm @ I Am Yoga. 60 minutes (Studio) KARMA MEDITATION CIRCLE ~Sundays 9:30 am ~ 30 minutes (Main Street Landing green space when it shines, studio when it rains.) * Suggested $5 min. donation or pay what you can!

EVERY 4th SuNDAY Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 1 p.m.

Birthday Tea (formerly the OAPO) for members and friends at Seniors Activity Ctre 1:30 pm. Everyone is Welcome.

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PROPOSED: RURAL SICAMOUS LAND USE AMENDMENT (Shandy Cove) Bylaw No. 2062

Lakes Zoning Amendment (Shandy Cove) Bylaw No. 900-11Bylaw No. 2062 also proposes to rezone the subject property Lot B, Section 25, Township 21, Range 8, West of the 6th Meridian, Kamloops Division Yale District, Plan 13404, located at 9866 Mara West Road from RC – Resort Commercial to a proposed new CDE3 Comprehensive Development Zone 3 – Shandy Cove to support the existing use of the property, as shown hatched on the map below:

Some new defi nitions are also proposed to be added to the bylaw. What is Lakes Zoning Amendment (Shandy Cove) Bylaw No. 900-11?Bylaw No. 900 currently zones Mara Lake adjacent to the subject property is FM2 Foreshore Multi-Family 2. The FM2 zone currently limits the number of berths to 20 at a group moorage facility. The proposed site specifi c density for Shandy Cove is proposed to be 32 berths.-When?Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 6:00 PMWhere?Sicamous and District Recreation Centre, Second Floor, 1121 Eagle Pass Way, Sicamous, BCWho should attend?Anyone who believes that their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaw Amendments shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Bylaws at the Public Hearing.How can I fi nd out more about this rezoning amendment? A copy of the proposed bylaws and relevant background documents may be inspected at the CSRD offi ces, 555 Harbourfront Drive NE, Salmon Arm, BC between the hours of 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM., beginning Tuesday, October 13, 2015 and ending Wednesday, October 28, 2015 (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory holidays).How do I send a written submission? Written submissions will be received in the Regional District Offi ces until 4 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 or may be submitted until the close of the public hearing. Written submissions received will be available to the public and the applicant. Email submissions may be sent to: [email protected] Who can I speak to about this application?Dan Passmore, Senior PlannerT: [email protected]

Bylaw No. 2062 also proposes to re--designate the subject property Lot B, Section 25, Township 21, Range 8, West of the 6th Meridian, Kamloops Division Yale District, Plan 13404, located at 9866 Mara West Road, from RC Resort Commercial to Shandy Cove – Comprehensive Development Area as shown hatched on the map below:

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What is Rural Sicamous Land Use Amendment (Shandy Cove) Bylaw No. 2062?Bylaw No. 2062 proposes to introduce a revised Map A into Rural Sicamous Land Use Bylaw No. 2000, which illustrates the Shandy Cove property, as shown outlined in bold red on the map below:

Columbia Shuswap Regional District

EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTAND EXPRESS YOUR OPINION

The Shuswap Trail Alliance (STA) re-ceived financial sup-port and kudos from the Columbia Shuswap Regional District at the Sept. 17 board meeting in Salmon Arm.

Directors unani-mously approved $40,000 per year from the parks budget for a four-year term in opera-tional funding, plus an annual provincial con-sumer price index in-crease to a maximum of two per cent annually.

CSRD has been in-volved in a three-year pilot project with the alliance at the $40,000 level that expires Dec. 31.

“The STA has ex-celled in creating part-nerships with volunteer groups and organiza-tions and has collabo-rated extensively with First Nations, building strong relationships to foster trail develop-ment,” wrote Com-munity Services team leader Ryan Nitchie in his report to the board. “The STA has also built a strong contingent of volunteers and stewards whose efforts and in-kind contributions to-ward trail maintenance and development is in-valuable.”

Thanking Trail Al-liance co-ordinator Phil McIntyre Paul, who was in the gallery, Salmon Arm director Chad Eliason said the organization has done many more intangible things for Salmon Arm

and CSRD in terms of government relations, setting of standards for the province and com-munity and First Na-tions relations – “all the work he has done to make us look good and bring the province together.”

But Eliason noted he supported the four-year contract, noting that while he wanted the work to continue, it gives the next board the opportunity to continue or withdraw support.

“As the second larg-est contributor in the region, I am happy with what is being done,” said Area F North Shus-wap director Larry Morgan.

Salmon Arm Mayor Nancy Cooper said the benefits have extended beyond trail building and maintenance.

“It has resulted in a number of events being held here, and now we have the Healthy Com-munities initiative,” she said. “I do believe Salmon Arm is better for all the work that has been done.”

Area E Rural Si-camous director and board chair Rhona Mar-tin echoed the praise delivered by other di-rectors.

“I am grateful for your ability to share your knowledge when we are negotiating our way through some tricky things,” she said. “At the end of the day, we have healthier peo-ple and people are com-ing to spend their dol-lars here.”

Trail Alliance benefits from CSRD supportBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

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