eagle valley news, october 22, 2014

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NEWS Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Vol. 59 No. 43 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

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The recent dip at the gas pumps in Sicamous and Salmon Arm may not be entirely due to global mar-ket trends.

While it’s not uncommon for people to gripe about gas prices, people were out on the highway last week protesting the price at the pump in Salmon Arm. Their protest was spurred by how the cost of gas ini-tially seemed static while the plummeting price per barrel resulted in dramatically decreased gas prices elsewhere in the province, and the nation.

The price of a litre of regular in Salmon Arm has since dropped from 137.9 to 129.9. At the same time in Enderby and Vernon, it was 125.9. In Kamloops

gas was down to 112.9 at some stations, and in Ab-botsford a litre could be found for as low as 107.9.

“I’m a retired senior and these high prices can’t continue,” said Jennie Anderson, who joined other protestors Sunday afternoon on the Trans-Canada Highway near one of Salmon Arm’s downtown gas stations. “We can’t sit around. We have to do some-thing to stop these big companies from taking advan-tage of us.”

Fellow protestor Sylvia Lindgren agreed with the sentiment.

“Two weeks ago there was one guy, last week there were two people and today there’s 10 of us. We have

Protests against high gas prices gathering steam

Early education: Left – Ivan Hatch is enchanted with Barney the School Bus (operated by Kathy Keam) during the Early Years Learning Fair held Friday at the rec centre. Above – Eldon Smith checks out the BC Ambulance Service table with Amanda Van Damme, Wayne and Owen Smith; Megan and Lilian Kroeker spin the wheel at the Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society booth with the help of Jennifer Findlay. Photos by Lachlan Labere

Early education:Early education:

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News Fill up:

Vehicle owners fill up Friday afternoon at the Sicamous Shell station, where gas was at 131.9. Photo by

Lachlan Labere

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Oct. 24 & 25 $2 bag sale at Sicamous United Thrift Shop. Clothing and shoes. 10 am to 3 pm.Oct. 25 A new performing arts group is forming in Sicamous and we want to invite you to attend the organizational meeting to be held at the Red Barn Oct 25 at 2 pm.This is not just a drama group as we are encouraging performers from all disciplines to participate.We are also looking for those who want to join in the fun but don’t want to be on stage.Oct. 26 10 am, guest speaker Anne Morris @ Sicamous United Church. Local Co-chair of Kairos Ecumenical Justice Group. For information Call 250-836-4390Oct. 29 & Nov. 4 Sicamous All Candidates ForumsSicamous & District Chamber of Commerce and Sicamous & District Seniors Centre Society will be co-hosting two All Candidates Forums for the residents to get to know the candidates for this years Civic Election. Wednesday October 29th @ 7:00 pmSicamous Senior Centre, 1091 Shuswap AvenueTuesday November 4th @ 2:00 pmSicamous Senior Centre, 1091 Shuswap AvenueOct. 31 Halloween night 7:30 p.m. Malakwa Volunteer Fire Department annual hot dogs and hot chocolate by donation at the Malakwa Fire Hall, followed by fireworks at 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. Donations towards fireworks appreciated, collection jars at local businesses.Nov. 9 7 pm Sicamous United Church, Fabulous Fashion Show refreshments, entertainment & late night shopping.N/C Bring something for the food bank. 250-836-4390

Monday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every 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 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 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 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 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.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.Every 2nd Thurs. - 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 or just drop in to one of our meetings where you will be 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 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Sicamous Health Unit

Every 4th Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. 836-3440.Every Fri. - 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.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Friday - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Everyone Welcome.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Lunch at noon. Everyone Welcome. At the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.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 - Candlelit Karma 6:30 pm. Warm & Gentle. Class by donation. Funds go towards community causes.Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 1 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 pmEvery Sat. - Morning Sicamous Royal Canadian Legion Brach 99 tailgate market – Everyone welcome – sell anything – for details call Murray @250-836-2224.

Sunshine Awards are FREE of charge. 20 words per award, due to limited space. Please do not submit more than two awards per week. Recognize your friend, neighbour or loved one with a sunshine award for doing that extra special good deed!

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AWARDWindows full of sunshine to John for “coming through” for me. Great to have such good neighbours!

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The Malakwa Community Centre Association would lime to thank the Shuswap Community Foundation for their generous donation towards our stage and concession for Music in the Park.

~ Malakwa Community Centre Association

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Shovels will soon break ground for the construction of the dis-trict’s new water treat-

ment plant. The official ground-

breaking for the Mara Lake water treatment plant is scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 31.

The event will occur at the site of the future treatment facility off Highway 97A and Da-bell Street. All are wel-comed to attend.

Sicamous coun-

cil recently gave final reading to a temporary borrowing bylaw that authorizes the district to borrow up to $4.399 million towards the construction of the $7.9

million treatment plant. Earlier this month, council declared Ma-ple Reinders Inc. of Kelowna as the general contractor for the proj-ect.

Water plant construction begins Oct. 31By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Sicamous council learned it’s not alone in its concern over what potentially hazard-ous goods are passing through the community daily by rail.

At the recent Union of BC Municipali-ties conference, Coun. George Busch attended a workshop on rail safe-ty. He said the main em-phasis of the workshop was how railway com-panies are becoming more strict about tres-passing on their respec-

tive tracks. However, that wasn’t what was on the minds of most in at-tendance.

“We were re-ally more interested in the inherent dan-gers that come from a train wreck, as just happened… in Clair, Sask.,” said Busch, re-ferring to the Oct. 7 incident where 26 CN railcars derailed. Two cars carrying liquid petroleum burst into flames, forcing the im-mediate evacuation of those who live/work in the vicinity. A length of broken rail is now be-

lieved to be the cause. “This brings to mind

the inherent problem we have living here with the CPR,” said Busch, noting in the workshop it was discussed how re-mediation teams are on the ready for such inci-dents should they occur in or near large urban centres.

“A train derails be-tween Sicamous and Malakwa, how long will it be before they come to remediate any of those problems?” said Busch.

Another shared is-sue/concern said Busch,

is that rail companies will not release details of what their trains are carrying until a year af-ter the fact.

“We want to know what it is we should be ready for, and we could, perhaps based on what they’ve done in the past, we can have our fire department and first re-sponders try to be ready to do something about some of those spills,” said Busch, adding council must keep pres-suring CP to better co-operate with local fire departments and first responders.

“All we have to do is think back… to Lac-Mégantic in Quebec, and the damage it did to that community, and try to realize what it might do to us, or Salmon Arm or Revelstoke,” said Busch, referring to the July 2013 derail-ment that resulted in the deaths of 42 people. “It seems that all of the communities that are on the rail tracks, the rail-way goes right through the centre of the com-munity. If we ever had something like Lac-Mé-gantic, Sicamous would be pretty hard done by.”

Railways concerns shared by B.C. communitiesBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

to keep on putting pres-sure on these guys,” said Lindgren.

The “one guy” re-ferred to by Lindgren is Ernie Scheil, who began his own protest after growing frustrated with the way gas prices are consistently higher in Salmon Arm than in neighbouring commu-nities.

Sunday’s protest was the result of efforts or-chestrated through a Facebook group, Orga-nized Boycott of Lo-

cal Gas Prices, whose membership has soared over the past week. Group administrator Tavia Bente says orga-nizers have two goals – the second is to support shopping local, the first is getting fair pricing.

“I believe in shop-ping locally, and I want to support my local gas stations… but I have a problem with corpora-tions who have such a control over the pric-ing,” said Bente. “There is something funda-mentally wrong with the system….”

Salmon Arm Mayor Nancy Cooper briefly joined in the Sunday protest. She says she’s had numerous calls about gas prices.

“I have a feeling the type of protest we’re starting to see is prob-ably what has to tran-spire before these people listen to us,” said Cooper of the pe-troleum companies, noting she has notified petroleum company reps of the situation. “They’re putting the local people in a very embarrassing situation,

and the local gas station attendants. They’re tak-ing a lot of abuse and that’s just wrong. It’s not their fault, it’s the head offices.”

Salmon Arm Cham-ber of Commerce presi-dent Jim Kimmerly has been working on the local gas pricing issue for about a year now, attempting to bring fair pricing to Shuswap res-idents/business owners.

The next step, he says, is a scheduled meeting with a petro-leum company rep-resentative to explore

bringing an indepen-dent gas station owner/operator to the commu-nity.

“We’ll have a look at what’s been going on here, and then we’re going to have a look at some locations and kind of go from there and see if it is possible where we can get that type of operation here. Because that’s really the key to this,” said Kimmerly, noting a dealer/operator may spur the competition that’s lacking in the community.

Chamber in talks with independent operatorContinued from front

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PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of the District of Sicamous that an election by voting is necessary to elect a Mayor and six Councillors and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are:

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MACLEOD Malcolm George Sicamous, BC

RYSZ Terry Sicamous, BC

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ANDERSON Colleen Sicamous, BC

BUSCH Fred Sicamous, BC

BUSHELL Gord Sicamous, BC

HUTCHINSON Charlotte Anne Sicamous, BC

KYLLO Todd Sicamous, BC

MAKAYEV Malcolm Sicamous, BC

MALLMES Jeff Sicamous, BC

MILLER Lynn Sicamous, BC

MOUNCE Donna Sicamous, BC

RICHARDSON Don Sicamous, BC

SIMONS Janna Sicamous, BC

THOMSON Joan Ella Sicamous, BC

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There is no need to pre-register to vote as the registration of all electors for this election will take place at the time of voting. You will be required to make a declaration that you meet the following requirements: • 18 years of age or older on general voting day • Canadian citizen • resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding General Voting Day • resident of OR registered owner of real property in the District of Sicamous for at least 30 days immediately preceding General Voting Day, and • not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in anelection or otherwise disqualified by law.

Resident electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature). Picture identification is not necessary. The identification must prove both residency and identity.

Non-resident property electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature) to prove identity, proof that they are entitled to register in relation to the property, and, if there is more than one owner of the property, written consent from the majority of the property owners.

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Columbia Shuswap Regional District direc-tors happily endorsed Shuswap Tourism/Co-lumbia Shuswap Film Commission of� cer Robyn Cyr’s two-year appointment to the Thompson-Okanagan Tourism Association.

A motion was made by Electoral Area E Ru-ral Sicamous director Rhona Martin and sec-onded by Area C South Shuswap director Paul Demenok.

When asked if Cyr wanted to be on the TOTA board again, Martin laughed, “it doesn’t matter, we need her there.”

Cyr concurs.

As she begins her third term on the re-gional board, Cyr says CSRD needs to be well represented at the orga-nization that services the Southern Interior.

“Otherwise it be-comes a South Okana-gan focus,” she says. “Over the last four years, representation has been from north to south, but it hasn’t al-ways been like that.”

One of the bene� ts of being on the TOTA board is that it has en-hanced recognition of the Shuswap region as a tourism destination.

“It brought aware-ness that we are a tour-ism destination,” she says. “We are no longer being tied in with the

Okanagan.”Shuswap Tourism

just received funding from Destination BC and TOTA to engage in the next tourism devel-opment plan.

The plan will allow Shuswap Tourism to enhance marketing of the area.

“We need to start looking at where our marketing is going and really target more me-

dia tours, with expected return on investment,” she says. “Where are areas that still need im-provement and how can we move forward?”

Cyr has been work-ing with the Adams River Salmon Society to market Salute to the Sockeye to the world.

She has taken part in two media tours at Rod-erick Haig-Brown Park and has two more in the of� ng.

Cyr agrees the lack

of signage in other lan-guages is an on-site is-sue that needs to be ad-dressed.

In terms of promot-ing the Shuswap as a great place to make movies, Cyr says there is a momentary blip in the process as the cur-rent contract holders Mary-Jo Beirnes and Mike Jamon of Mojo Films Inc. are moving to the Coast to work in the � lm industry.

CSRD tourism commission’s reach growingBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

As she begins her third term on the re-gional board, Cyr says CSRD needs to be well represented at the orga-nization that services

“Otherwise it be-comes a South Okana-gan focus,” she says.

Robyn Cyr

Columbia Shus-wap Regional District directors have agreed to spend $100,000 on new bins for the future sorting of materials at the regional district’s recycle depots.

The money from the 2014 budget will be used to buy huge shipping containers to house “mega bags” at regional district recy-cling depots.

As of Jan 1, 2015, people who take their recyclable items to a CSRD depot will have to sort the material into one of six categories – glass, coloured poly-styrene foam, white polystyrene foam, plastic � lm, � bres (cardboard, paper, etc.) and containers (plastic,

metal and paper which contained liquids).

Ben Van Nostrand, CSRD’s Environmen-tal Health Services team leader, told direc-tors member munici-palities with curbside collection programs that joined the Multi-Material BC (MMBC) program in May have done so with minimal disruption to service.

The regional dis-trict’s recycling depot program is contracted to Emterra until the end of the year, some-thing Van Nostrand says has given CSRD staff an opportunity to see how the program has rolled out in other areas.

CSRD staff have expressed concerns with the use of mega bags at community depot sites and has

been working on al-ternatives with Green By Nature (GBN), the contractor who will consolidate, haul and process printed paper and packaging (PPP) collected through curb side programs. They will also and operate Salmon Arm Land� ll’s reload facility for pa-per collected from the City of Salmon Arm’s curbside program.

CSRD provides region-wide collection of recyclables at a total of 18 depots.

Eleven are located within a land� ll or transfer station and seven are operated within community lo-cations – Malakwa, Si-camous, Salmon Arm, Tappen and Sorrento.

“Wherever we have the green bins, they will shift to a requirement

to sort, and the other thing I am pushing for is the requirement for hours of operation,” says Van Nostrand, noting the bins will have to be secured af-ter hours so people are unable to dump in and around the bins. “They will be behind a fence or have doors that can be locked, so it will be less convenient for the public but compliant with MMBC, who is funding the program.”

Van Nostrand says another important as-pect is that the regional district is expanding the list of commodities that can be recycled, items that are not per-mitted in curbside pro-grams.

Electoral area direc-tors asked Van Nos-trand if public educa-tion would be part of

the Jan. 1 roll-out, with Area E director Rhona Martin recommend-ing “something fun and snazzy for schools kids, who will be going home and educating parents.”

Area D’s Rene Tal-bot suggested the sim-plest way would be for attendants to hand out an information sheet.

“I love it; that’s exactly what we’re doing,” said Van Nos-trand.

The CSRD will host an open house to discuss the ongoing re-view of the solid waste management plan at the CSRD’s main of-� ce in Salmon Arm this Saturday, Oct. 25 from 1 to 3 p.m.

An open house will also be held at the Red Barn from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3.

CSRD to require sorted materials at depotsBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News


VICTORIA – “Hands up.” That famous command is attributed to Bill Miner, an American career crimi-nal who is also credited with B.C.’s first train robbery, at Silverdale on the Mission border in 1910.

A more genteel, and of course perfectly legal, trackside transfer of wealth is underway in the B.C. leg-islature. It’s called the Cana-dian Pacific Railway (Stone and Timber) Settlement Act, and it provides for taxpayers to hand over $19 million to CP Rail to settle a lawsuit over historic logging, rock and gravel rights given to B.C.’s pioneering railway builders.

Students of B.C. history will know that while Bill Miner got the headlines, it was the early coal, lumber and railway barons who re-ally made out like bandits. And CP Rail inherited some of this by 1912 when it took

over three early railways that had been granted vast tracts of provincial Crown land.

Deputy Premier Rich Coleman revealed the set-tlement in the legislature this month. It seems that when CP Rail took over the B.C. Southern Railway Company, the Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company and the Columbia and Western Railway Company, there were some clerical errors along the way.

“I am pleased that Ca-nadian Pacific Railway and the province have recently reached an agreement re-garding the disputed own-ership and value of timber and stone rights on 145,000 hectares of Crown land and 68,000 hectares of private land in the Kootenay and Okanagan regions,” Cole-man told the legislature.

“The province granted land to three railway com-panies between 1892 and

1908 to subsidize railway construction. These railway companies reserved timber and stone rights for their own use when they sold the land to third parties in the early 1900s. These reserva-tions were not recognized in many subsequent land transactions, and were not registered in the current land title system.”

These discrepancies came to light in the early 2000s. They involve some 1,600 properties, so you can imagine the lawyer fees that would be accumulated to sort through those in court. And Coleman’s statement suggests that the govern-ment has conceded its re-cords are in error, rather than those of the railways.

For a fascinating look at this period, I recommend Barrie Sanford’s book Steel Rails and Iron Men (White-cap Books, 1990).

Sanford recounts the fateful decision of the CPR to turn north at Medicine

Hat and push Canada’s de-fining railway through the Kicking Horse Pass, leaving the mineral-rich Kootenay region open to competi-tors for rail freight service.

A key figure of those days is James Dunsmuir, who inherited his family coal fortune and served as B.C. premier from 1900 to 1902. Dunsmuir’s hard line provided a boost for a rival, James Jerome Hill, who built the Great Northern Railway in the 1890s and later quit the CPR board in a bitter feud. Hill was happy to supply coal from Fernie.

Dunsmuir took a turn as B.C.’s eighth Lieuten-ant Governor, sold his coal business and retired to his estate, Hatley Castle, which is now part of Royal Roads University. He is buried at Victoria’s Ross Bay Cem-etery. As Halloween ap-proaches, it’s easy to imag-ine a chuckle from his grave as the railway barons once again rake it in.

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Fear in the West hinders Ebola fight

OPINION

A Burnaby company is playing a small role in the battle against the newest health scourge that is tearing through

Africa and threatens to spread elsewhere.Tekmira Pharmaceuticals has linked up with

an international consortium that includes repre-sentatives of the World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Médecins Sans Frontières to advance its devel-opment of a vaccine for Ebola.

Other companies are also working on vac-cines. Some, including Tekmira’s, have report-edly already been used to treat patients, fore-shortening the often long and arduous trials and regulatory approvals process.

The need to stem the epidemic is that urgent.If the epidemic isn’t stopped, it could soon

become endemic, a disease that will be forever entrenched in a region, ready to spread in a moment’s inattention. WHO estimates there could be 1.4 million cases of Ebola in West Africa by the end of January. Meantime, there has been only a trickle of volunteers among the medical community of the western world.

The fear and stigma hearkens back to the early days of AIDS.

“We talk about stigma and ignorance in Libe-ria, but let’s be frank, there’s plenty of stigma and ignorance in our own countries, and irratio-nal fear of being on the ground. We have an obligation to counter that fear,” Sheldon Yett, the UNICEF country representative in Liberia, told the Globe and Mail.

Hopefully, more will have the courage to vol-unteer. When proper precautions are taken, there is very low risk among those working at Ebola treatment centres.

Ebola is not an awful, frequently fatal disease. But we must act quickly and decisively, and not let fear prevent us tackling what could soon become the AIDS of our era.

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One last holdup on the railway tracksBy Tom FletcherNews Columnist


Terry Rysz’s BiographyI was Born Aug 15/49 in Weyburn, SK. and my parents moved the family to Golden, B.C. when I was 6.

Like most kids then, I worked - driving tractor on my uncle’s farm at 13 during summers, putting away inventory at a parts store after school and on weekends through high-school, and then full time as that store’s manager after graduation. I took my young family North for the opportunities there. I also coached and played hockey most of my life which took me to New Zealand for a year.

I’ve always wanted to own a Pub, which took me to Revelstoke, and then led me to Sicamous when Sharon and I got together and she wouldn’t live anywhere else.

I have been here long enough to understand why. Managing the liquor store gave me the opportunity to meet most of my neighbours. Being elected to council and acting as deputy mayor and chair of finance committee these past three years has allowed me to give back. I have more to contribute.

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The 2014 UN Cli-mate Change Summit in New York was at-tended by our Minister of the Environment, the Hon. Leona Aglukkaq.

Canada is the only country in the G7 that has lowered greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2012, GHGs were down by 5.1 per cent lower than in 2005, even though the econ-omy grew by 10.6 per cent in that same time period.

Canada produces only two per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases but that does not give Canada a pass on implementing respon-sible and science-based policies that lower our GHGs.

Most people are not aware that 75 per cent of Canada’s electric-ity supply emits no greenhouse gases. Your government’s policy regulating the auto man-ufacturers to meet lower emission standards and better fuel mileage has created huge benefits for Canadians and our environment.

Our government also

set emission targets for the coal-fired electric producers, mostly lo-cated in Ontario, and they have either up-graded their coal-fired electrical plants with scrubbers or shut them down. Your government developed the Green Transformation Fund to assist the pulp and paper industry to transi-tion to biomass electri-cal generation.

I was at a meet-ing with the Greater Vancouver Transit Commission and the executives stated that our government’s in-vestment in transit in Vancouver had taken tens of thousands of

cars off the road, to the point that their rev-enues from the Tran-sit Gas Tax was down significantly because less gas was being sold in the region. This is a win for gridlock and the environment, and that is why we invest in transit in our major cit-ies across Canada.

Our government’s response to protecting the environment is to implement common-sense solutions, with-out compromising our economic growth.

Climate change is a fact. What causes at-tribute to that change is still being studied. The Government of

Canada’s scientists are studying the cause and impacts.

You must have no-ticed that activists have changed their chant from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change.’ This is because the polar ice cap has in-creased in the last two years by 40 per cent, the polar bear popu-lation is at a 20-year high, the glaciers in the Himalayas are not disappearing and ocean levels have not risen. Information from en-vironmental activists is not always accurate, and that is why your government researches the information scien-

tifically before making knee-jerk environmen-tal policy changes that could cost billions of dollars.

We take our re-sponsibility seriously -- to protect the envi-ronment on behalf of Canadians, not to get votes, but because it is the right thing to do.

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Speedy presenter: Ashley Clark waits for Tom Cook to hand her the steering wheel to attach to her dragster, The Next Force, during a presentation on Oct. 16 at Parkview Elementary. The 10-year-old drag racer, daughter of Debbie and Robin Clark of Sicamous, started racing this summer. Clark drives a junior dragster in what is called Bracket Racing in the half-quarter mile, and reaches speeds up to 80 mph. She has already earned three first-place medals and one third-place medal. The car was built by Cook, who co-sponsors Clark with his wife Debbie. Clark’s jacket, pants and gloves are all fire-proof as the vehicle runs on methanol, which is very flammable. Clark needs help getting into her dragster as it is tight-fitting, and the steering wheel has to be removed before she can get in and out. Photo by Kelly Dick

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Malcolm MacLeodRepresenting Sicamous is

a wonderful opportunity to give back to the community that has given so much to my family and I over the last three decades. It’s a chance to support those volunteers and others who make such a great difference for our town.

I want to help recognize and grow Sicamous for those concerned citizens who have asked me to help make the positive changes that are needed for us to thrive as a community and as families. We are a community that I’m proud to be a part of and want to give back to.

Mayoral CandidateColleen Anderson

Since Bill and I moved here, we’ve seen many businesses close down, we’ve seen the town looking more tired and less vibrant. The heartbeat of Sicamous seems to be stop-ping instead of fully pumping “we’re open for business,” inviting new growth and new life.

A couple weeks ago I was very excited to sit down with four other candidates that are like minded, successful Sicamous businesspeople who want to make a difference and address chal-lenges the town faces. I would welcome being part of that dynamic team with one common goal: positive change.

Council Candidate

Gord BushellSicamous cannot afford

the loss of another business, the loss of a retired doctor, or have another year of declining school enrolment.

To move this town forward in a positive and vibrant direc-tion, we need a uni� ed work-ing council that wants to grow this community.

Sicamous has amazing potential and I feel with a strong like-minded team on council, we can en-gage the community, work with the existing busi-ness and attract new business so our young fami-lies have jobs and our seniors are cared for.

The team I have chosen can make the difference.

Council Candidate

Malcolm MakayevI came home to retire in

Sicamous, bought a house across the street from my mom (Sonya Makayev). I see huge potential for Sicamous that has just not been re-alized, and after speaking with four like-minded, strong business-orientated candidates who also want to make a positive change, I decided to join this dy-namic team. I offer my 35 years of public service and project management experience in transpor-tation and infrastructure. As a councillor, I would love to serve as the transportation committee chairperson. It would be an honour to represent Sicamous and our long-standing transportation and infrastructure needs.

Council Candidate

Charlotte Hutchinson

Sicamous is coming out of a prolonged recession. The community has worked hard to maintain the level of services and activities to keep vibrant and desirable. I believe, with the right team on council, com-bined with input and energy from both the busi-ness sector and the volunteer, community-based services, Sicamous is poised for growth. As the results from the community forums recently held have proven, we have much to offer both families and business alike. I am excited about the poten-tial for Sicamous in the next four years and wish to lend my voice to encouraging its growth.

I believe, with the right team on council, com-

Council Candidate

Jeff MallmesWhat motivated me to run

for municipal of� ce is an awareness that there are residents in our community who have expertise to offer, and I feel their knowledge and life experience could bene� t any council.

As a businessman, I feel it is important to get more community involvement in all aspects of Sicamous, including major capital expenditures.

Council Candidate

Fred BuschIn 1993 I became a coun-

cillor because Sicamous needed a sewer system. We then accomplished Phase 1, and now, with the completion of the Westside system, 90 per cent of Sicamous is con-nected.

I really want to see the completion of the water treatment plant on time and on budget.

I want a revitalization of Sicamous’ economy. That is a most important goal. We not only need tourists, but we also need to attract new busi-nesses, big and small.

We are on the TCH and the CPR mainline, that is an attractant we must use.

Council Candidate

Todd KylloI was motivated to run for

council after many conver-sations with a high-energy group that were all willing to take on the challenge.

As a business owner and one of the major employ-ers in Sicamous, I feel there is great potential for the community if a uni� ed council such as our team is elected.

To help existing businesses, expand seniors programs, attract new year-round businesses and engage the community to attract young fami-lies is just some of the positive direction this team and I look forward to.

Now is the time for change.

Council Candidate

Terry RyszI believe it is the right thing

to do. In my current position as

deputy mayor and chair of the � nance committee, I feel that I have an obligation to this community to step up and bring forth the continuity necessary for the work we are currently involved in. eg. the water treatment facility, acquiring and developing the rail corridor to Enderby for rec-reational use, developments, business incentive plan, local job creation, plan to convince two doc-tors to work and live in Sicamous, an emergency response plan, infrastructure, highway improve-ments, resident engagement and much more.

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Donna MounceI wanted a challenge. I also

wanted to work from within the system to try to make some things happen here in Sicamous.

Council Candidate

Joan Thomson I’ve been on council for

three years and have enjoyed every minute of it.

I would like to see the wa-ter treatment plant � nished and running because I feel I had a part in the planning.

My passion is to see the sidewalks on Main Street, the pavement trails throughout the rest of the town, and the trail to Bayview be � nished. There are many other plans that were started, but not � nished. I would like to see them to fruition for the betterment of our community.

I feel I can continue to serve the community for the next four years.

Council Candidate

Don RichardsonI have been motivated to

run for council in the District of Sicamous because I feel our community has great potential for future respon-sible development. This will enhance the very well-being of all the citizens of our community.

In being a part of Sicamous for a number of years (since the mid ’80s), I have become aware of the many issues and concerns we all share.

I would like to have the opportunity to continue being part of a team effort, to move our communi-ty into a positive direction for the very well-being of all.

Council Candidate

Janna SimonsMy motivation for running

for municipal of� ce is the po-tential progress that I can see for this town.

After attending council meetings throughout the past, it just didn’t seem that all of the council members wanted to see change for the community.

Progress happens with change and sometimes a change in council is what it will take to make a positive impact for Sicamous.

I am hoping to be part of a better Sicamous, one that puts the needs of the residents in the forefront, but also balances the need for jobs and business creation for a year-round community.

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Lynn MillerSicamous is like a wound-

ed bird, she needs help. Each term, council worked

to build a great project for Si-camous, for example, the wa-ter park. Building boom hit. Bylaws changed, costs and projects went crazy. Boom ended, rules stayed.

I believe it is going to take a strong, tough team to make the changes. It is time to level the playing � eld, restore accountability, communication and respect the rights of our community. Thirty-four years has shown me Sicamous is an extraordi-nary community. I am asking to be part of this new chapter for Sicamous.

Please vote Lynn MIller.

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Last fall, during a particularly cold and cloudy grey day, I was scouting around town for the easy leaves that fall from the trees to the streets and sidewalks. To my delight, I spotted a municipal crew who had just raked up big piles of them. We were all smiles with this sud-den win-win scenario, for they had been spared the additional work of removing them and I only had to bundle and bag them to take them home to my waiting cherished little chipper!

So I got hoppin’ before the rain started droppin’ and began stuffing my little Suba-ru.

I was pretty much on my own on that misty morning road, save for my old doggie in the back of the car having a snooze after his walk, or an occasional pass-ing car or woollied-up walker.

One pedestrian actu-ally paused to enquire as to why I would want so many of those lovely leaves and for what pur-pose, so I launched into a overly-long and enthu-siastic lesson as to their nutritional value in our composts and mulch covers, which most like-ly left her cold and sorry that she ever stopped in the first place.

So there I was, zoned out and alone while busy raking and bag-ging, when the deep throaty throttle of a macho-sounding motor-cycle slowly entered my brain as it approached me from behind and rumbled to a stop just steps away. I instantly snapped to attention, forcing myself to re-sist my natural female fight-or-flight instincts, but was nevertheless on high alert. I stood up to face this unexpected stranger, squared my shoulders to appear con-fident and instinctively took a step back. Sure as suspected, he was a burly, bearded brute straddling a black Har-ley hog, with eyes hid-den behind dark glasses. “Was he some kind of hoodlum?” I could hear in my head, and maybe I should be calling the cops, I thought.

As his muscle ma-chine sputtered and

stopped, the sudden si-lence became unsettling with only the occasional amplified sound of a leaf hitting the ground and my breathing. A quick glance down the street showed that it was deserted, that my deaf dog was still deep in sleep and that it was clear I was here to deal with this dude on my own with the rake be-ing the only means of defence. Just why had this guy have to stop to see me, when there were so many others that he could’ve bugged instead?

Up to this point, not a word had been spoken between us, so while he was hassling with his helmet strap, I began preparing myself for the three likely scenarios that were about to take place the minute I got wind of what kind of person had paid me a visit: 1) that I would try to pull off faking I was a foreigner who didn’t understand English; 2) that I would be having a good jaw with a jaunty and friendly fellow; or

3) engaging in a cool and crispy conversa-tion with a Cro-Magnon type male.

As I waited, I won-dered what it was that he would want with a middle-aged, grubby-looking gardener like me?

Was he a bloke sell-ing coke, or some stud with the duds? Did he need directions or a bathroom or perhaps somewhere to dine? Was a he a creep from the deep or was he hopefully just fine?

To my surprise and secret relief, I was greet-ed with a great big grin and hearty hello and that he had only stopped by in case I happened to know, about his cotton-wood leaves and would they be OK to go into his compost because he had heard that there was too much tannin in them and that the mi-crobes won’t like it. It was the last thing that I expected to come from a guy looking like that! So the moral of this story is ya never know when you’re going to

meet a sheep in wolf’s clothing and a gardener in disguise.

So in case you’re wondering yourself, cottonwood leaves are best shredded because their texture is tougher to break down and they do indeed have lots of tannin in them which is fine, but they’re best mixed with other leaves, along with what-ever else you can get your hands on such as grass clippings, wood chips (a little cedar is OK), clean ashes, rotten apples, needles, easily digestible-sized plants that you’re pulling out of your garden, kitchen waste and anything else tasty and nutritious for your compost crit-ters. Always make sure there’s enough mois-ture and cover it up to keep the rain and snow out. After all, variety is the spice of life, along with all the interesting people that might come along during your day! Happy fall everyone.

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Revitalization a work of civic pride

Prior to buying it, Deb Heap had a fairly low opinion of what is now the Riverside Landing mobile park on Martin Street.

So did her kids. “I was driving by

with my kids and I said, ‘I think I’m going to put an offer on this,’ and they said, ‘oh my God, what a dump. What the hell are you thinking?’” said Heap. And I went, ‘I can fix that.’ I get kind of excited about things like that.”

Heap’s revitaliza-tion of what is, techni-cally, a grandfathered, non-conforming mobile home park, began at the end of June. After pur-chasing the property, one of her first tasks was to approach the owners at that time and inform them an inspection was required.

“You’ve already had one fire in the park. I want to make sure they’re actually safe to

live in. And of course, it was also my chance to check them out and see what I was dealing with,” said Heap.

“I think it was fairly obvious from looking at the outside but they were all just a mess. And there was also what I’d heard in terms of some of the issues with some of the tenants.”

Heap promptly be-gan addressing per-ceived concerns.

“The previous own-ers really hadn’t man-aged things, so as much as I’m not afraid of evicting people for cause, it’s one of these things where if they never had realistic ex-pectations imposed on them or any kind of real rules, you can’t go in and say you’re breaking rules you never knew about. So I just decided that buying them out was the best opportunity to make changes and make them quickly,” said Heap.

The project has been ongoing since June, dur-

ing which Heap says she has only heard positive comments from neigh-bours who are happy with the transformation.

Heap too is proud of what she’s accom-plished to date, driven in part by a desire to make Sicamous a more affordable and desirable place to live.

“I like the idea of having good, attractive

affordable housing in Sicamous. I wouldn’t rent to somebody or sell it to them if I wasn’t willing to live in it my-self,” said Heap. “That’s partly a personal thing but partly, I want Si-camous to look better. There’s pockets of it that really need a little TLC, or somebody to come in and say, ‘we can make this better.’”

BUSINESSUrban renewal: Deb Heap stands next to the sign of her recently renamed mobile park on Martin Street. Her project to renovate and revitalize the park has been driven, in part, to improve the look of the community. Photo by

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PROPOSED: RURAL SICAMOUS LAND USE AMENDMENT(0802419 BC LTD.) BYLAW NO. 2061

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Sicamous and District Recreation Centre, Second Floor, 1121 Eagle Pass Way, Sicamous, BC

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.

A copy of the proposed bylaws and relevant background documents may be inspected at the CSRD of� ces, 781 Marine Park Drive NE, Salmon Arm, BC between the hours of 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM., beginning Tuesday, October 14, 2014 and ending Monday, November 3, 2014 (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory holidays).

Written submissions will be received in the Regional District Of� ces until 4 p.m. on Monday, November 3, 2014 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]

Dan Passmore, Senior PlannerT: [email protected]

When?

Where?

Who should attend?

How can I � nd outmore about this rezoning

amendment?

How do I send awritten submission?

Who can I speak to about this application?

iv. Hotel v. Machine Shop vi. Motel vii. Sale, rental, service and repair of motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, mobile

homes, boats, farm machinery and implements viii. Repair shop ix. Retail sales x. Storage of recreational vehicles and boats xi. Welding shop xii. Owner operator dwelling, permitted in conjunction with the uses listed in

subsections 2.15 (3) (a) i to xi inclusive xiii. Accessory use

The Bylaw amendment is proposed to recognise existing uses on the site, and include some uses that are not currently existing, and to eliminate some uses that would ordinarily be available within the HC zone. The amendments would limit permitted uses on the site to the following:

i. Automotive Parts supplyii. Campgroundiii. Contractor and tradesman of� ce and works yard

What is Lakes Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 900-1?The CSRD has initiated an amendment to the Lakes Zoning Bylaw No. 900 to create a new Foreshore Industrial (FI) Zone and to rezone 3 existing log booms on Shuswap Lake (Two Mile, Wilson Creek and Cape Horn) from Foreshore General (FG) to Foreshore Industrial (FI) and 1 existing log boom on Shuswap Lake (Lee Creek) from Foreshore Residential 1 (FR1) to Foreshore Industrial (FI). The new zone would permit uses related to log storage and distribution. Bylaw 900-1 also proposes the addition of new de� nitions and general text amendments to improve the readability of the bylaw. The properties that this new use would be applicable to is shown here:

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Scotch Creek Fire Hall, 3852 Squilax Anglemont Road, Scotch Creek at 2:00 PMSicamous and District Recreation Centre, Second Floor, 1121 Eagle Pass Way, at 7:00 PM

Anyone who believes that their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaw amendment shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Bylaw at the Public Hearing.

A copy of the proposed bylaw and relevant background documents may be inspected at the CSRD of� ces, 781 Marine Park Drive NE, Salmon Arm, BC between the hours of 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM., beginning Wednesday, October 22, 2014 and ending Wednesday, November 5, 2014 (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory holidays).

Written submissions will be received in the Regional District Of� ces until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 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: cle� [email protected]

Christine LeFloch, Development Services AssistantT: 250.833.5957cle� [email protected]



Visit our website at www.csrd.bc.ca 781 Marine Park Dr. NE • PO Box 978 V1E 4P1 Salmon Arm

250-833-5950 Toll Free 1-888-248-2773

FREE residential metal & organic waste

DISPOSAL EVENTOctober 11-November 23(Except Seymour Arm)at CSRD Land� lls and Transfer StationsDuring regular hours of operation

ORGANIC WASTEGrass Clippings • Leaves • Prunings • Brush & Weeds• Tree limbs up to 8” in diameter

WHITE GOODSFridges • Air Conditioners • Freezers • Hot Water Tanks• Bath Tubs • Stoves • Clothes Washers & Dryers

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS• Barbecues • Lawn Mowers • Angle Iron • Bed Springs• Propane Tanks • Metal Doors • Metal Window Frames• Plate Steel (small pieces) • Metal Roo� ng • Metal Siding• Old Plumbing • Bicycles • Metal Toys (wagons, etc.)• Swing Sets • Metal Yard Tools

NO wood attached. NO auto parts. NO auto bodies. NO commercial wastes, NO � uids such as oil and gas and NO Prohibited wastes.

All other refuse delivered to the refuse disposal site on these days will be assessed the applicable refuse disposal fee. All commercial loads are subject to disposal fees.

Fridges, freezers, water coolers, air conditioners, etc. that contain FREON will be subject to a $15/unit Freon removal fee


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CSRD Solid Waste Management Plan Review

OPEN HOUSE The CSRD is seeking the publics input on new garbage and recycling services.

Please plan to attend to voice your opinion regarding services such as: • Food Waste Collection • Permanent Hazardous Waste Depots • Expanding and Enhancing Curbside Collection Programs • Changes to the Recycling Depot Program

For more information, please contact:Ben Van NostrandTeam Leader, Environmental Health ServicesT: 250.833.5940or TF: 1.888.248.2773E: [email protected]

Sicamous Monday November 36:30-8:30pm

Red Barn1226 Riverside Ave


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All residents of the Swansea Point Fire Suppression Area are encouraged to attend. This meeting will provide an opportunity to answer any questions you may have about � re department activities, its equipment and the cost of the function as it relates to your taxes. DATE: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 TIME: 2:00 PM LOCATION: FIRE HALL (632 Davidson Drive) AGENDA: Minutes of the 2013 AGM Reports Election of Of� cersThis is a volunteer function - it takes a community commitment to keep costs down and to ensure that the � re service is the best that it can be.PLEASE become involved and plan to attend.

SWANSEA POINT FIRE SUPPRESSION COMMITTEEANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The CSRD is reminding residents that if they are not around for the general election on November 15th there are other ways to get their vote counted.Advanced voting days for election will take place on November 5th and 12th, or residents can request a mail in ballot. The packages can be requested until Friday,

November 7th online or in person at the Regional District Of� ce. Those with disabilities or illness that affects their ability to visit a voting location may also apply for a mail in ballot.Completed mail-in ballots must be returned to the Chief Election Of� cer at the Regional District Of� ce by 8:00 p.m. on

Election Day, Saturday, November 15th.

Visit the www.csrd.bc.ca for all Election

information.

MAIL IN BALLOTS OR ADVANCED POLLS AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS

Sicamous Eagles fans attending last Fri-day night’s game were treated to one heck of a first period when they dominated the ice ver-sus the Revelstoke Griz-zlies to earn a 5-4 win.

There was plenty of friction between the rival teams throughout the evening, but there was also plenty of scor-ing, though mostly in the first frame and mostly by the Eagles, who where on fire when they potted five back-to-back goals before the buzzer.

The first two mark-ers of the evening were by Revelstoke just be-fore the halfway mark. Less than a minute later, Korwin Shewchuk pot-ted his first goal of the evening off an assist by Tyson Taylor. This goal seemed to trigger a message to the rest of the team, “this is our ice – you’re going down.”

After this, the goals kept coming, fast and furious. Seconds af-ter Shewchuk’s goal, Darien Blight took the rebound and rippled the mesh assisted by Scott

Robinson and Carter Hansen. The next single was by Samuel Subert, who wound up in a brief, testy encounter with a Grizzlies for-ward before celebrating the goal, assisted by Ri-ley Jepson and Darien Head.

The Eagles’ fourth goal was scored from a tight angle from the half boards by Shewchuk, assisted by Jepson and Arlyn Semeschuk. Jepson potted the final marker of the frame,

with an assist by Subert and Bradley Whitehead.

For the first half of the second period, the Sicamous crease was a lonely place as net-minder Olivier Cha-rest’s teammates kept on bombing the Revel-stoke end. None of their shots found the back of the net though, even with the power-play ad-vantage. Eventually, the Grizzlies made it back to the Sicamous end on a power play and brought the score up to

5-3 before the buzzer. In the third frame, it was Sicamous on the defen-sive, and the Grizzlies

SPORTSFive goals earn Friday night winBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Grizzly encounter: Sicamous Eagle Samuel Subert gets into a brief tangle with Grizzlies forward Jeff Bochon after scoring the first goal of five delivered by he and his teammates in the first period Friday night at the rec centre. Photo by Lachlan Labere

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Coffee Break

CLUES ACROSS 1. 1st, 2nd & 3rd in baseball 6. Sew up a hawk’s eyes 10. N’Djamena is the capital 14. Be a connector 15. To accustom 17. Cornflower 19. Former CIA 20. Bark sharply 21. Actress Barkin 22. Cathode-ray tube 23. Shallowest Great Lake 24. Surface of a plane figure 26. Bird of prey 29. A large number 31. Chums 32. Express pleasure 34. Capital of Yemen 35. Sanctify 37. Hyperbolic cosecant 38. Central Standard Time 39. Seed of the legume family 40. Drove in golf 41. Without difficulty 43. Without (French) 45. Politicians (informal) 46. Not happy 47. Spiritual being 49. Male child 50. The cry made by sheep 53. Handheld image enlarger 57. Inventiveness 58. Column style 59. Impudence 60. 33 1/3 records 61. Berkeley’s sister city CLUES DOWN 1. Lymph node plague swelling 2. Freshwater duck genus 3. Dog attacks 4. Eilat Airport

5. Visualize 6. A young pig 7. Wyatt __, OK Corral 8. Point one point S of due E 9. Those who give freely 10. Small slice of meat, especially veal 11. Dislike intensely 12. Egyptian sun God 13. Animal lair 16. Dutch flowers 18. A Greek harp 22. O. Twist’s author’s initials 23. Periods of time 24. __ Claus 25. Actress Lupino 27. Green regions of desert 28. Any competition 29. Salem, MA, teachers college 30. Container for display 31. Ink writing implement 33. Hogshead (abbr.) 35. As much as one can eat 36. Puts in a horizontal position 37. Cotangent (abbr.) 39. Vitamin H 42. Book hinges 43. Voiced musical sounds 44. In the year of Our Lord 46. Japanese entertainment firm 47. Comedian Carvey 48. Bird reproductive bodies 49. Rests on a chair 50. River border 51. Largest continent 52. Plural of ascus 53. Prefix for ill 54. Small bark 55. Geographic Information System 56. Mauna __, Hawaiian volcano

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, you begin the week with enthusiasm, but excitement begins to wane quite quickly. Find a way to rally your energy levels so you can complete tasks.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Rein in your emotions as much as possible this week, Taurus. You will feel passionate about a project in the coming days, but you still must remain calm as you tackle the tasks at hand.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, commitments at work may keep you from your plans, even if you have had a special event on the calendar for some time. This obligation is unavoidable.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Expect to have some serious feelings about love and romance this week, Cancer. You are empowered by the sweet feelings and what they mean for your future.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, you are quite adept at maintaining a stoic outer appearance, but inside your emotions are churning. Find a healthy release and you will be glad you did.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, test the waters before you share a secret. This way you can get an idea of how a small group of people will react before you spread the word.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Libra, use your natural gift for diplomacy to resolve a conflict at work. It is easy to find common ground and steer the conversation toward a reasonable resolution.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, grab some friends’ attention as you attempt to garner support for a coming project. Once you have the floor, make the most of this opportunity.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, everything in your life seems to be in order. Now might be a great time to schedule some well-deserved rest and relaxtion with loved ones.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, listen to your sixth sense as it guides you in a particular direction. Your instincts rarely steer you wrong. Resist the urge to follow what everyone else is doing.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18The first step toward change at work is to take the initiative, Aquarius. Once you make the decision to forge ahead, everything will fall nicely into place.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Pisces, don’t worry if you have to give up something you desire when negotiating with others. The chips will fall into place.

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OCTOBER 22Zac Hanson, Singer (29)

OCTOBER 23Taylor Spreitler, Actress (21)

OCTOBER 24Charlie White, Athlete (27)

OCTOBER 25Andrew Basso, Magician (29)

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Richard (Dick) Garossino passed away peacefully at home in North Vancouver with his wife, Virginia, and family by his side, on October 10, 2014. Dick was a long time summer resident of Sicamous and enjoyed the friendship of many. All the family will forever hear, in our hearts, Amazing Grace on the harmonica while we sip wine on the porch overlooking the lake.

Heartfelt thanks to the care providers who helped fulfill his desire to remain at home. In lieu of flowers, donations to St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation, Vancouver, in Memory of Richard Garossino would be appreciated.

GAROSSINO RICHARD (DICK)Oct 2, 1932 - Oct 10, 2014

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were once again able to convert the power play into their fourth and fi-nal goal. Shewchuk was named the game’s first star.

Saturday evening, Oct. 18, the Eagles earned a 3-2 win versus guests the Beaver Val-ley Nighthawks.

Sicamous goalten-der Patrick Kasper was a busy man in the first period, stopping 12 shots on net in a frame that ended scoreless. He was named the game’s first star.

Eagle Garrick Heath-cote lit up the board early in the second pe-riod with the assist from Semeschuk. Teammate

Braydon McCarthy fol-lowed up a subsequent Nitehawks marker with one of his own, assisted by Shewchuk.

The Eagles main-tained their 2-1 lead through most of the third period until the Nitehawks tied things up at 2:58. The game wound up going into overtime, where Ben

Campbell sealed the win for Sicamous with an assist by Subert.

On Sunday, Oct. 19, the Eagles were raked by guests the Nelson Leafs, though nowhere near as badly as what could have been.

The end tally was 3-2 for Nelson, despite their having 47 shots on net (to Sicamous’ 21)

throughout the evening. Sicamous’ goals in-

cluded Riley Cardinal’s single in the second pe-riod (the only goal in the frame) off of Campbell and Devyn Myck, and Justin Wilde’s marker at 8:28 in the third pe-riod assisted by Bradley Whitehead.

Myck was named the game’s first star.

For each of these games, the Eagles were wearing their new pink jerseys, to be auctioned off now to raise money for cancer research.

Auction results can be found on the Si-camous Eagles fans Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SicamousEagles-Fans.

Eagles fans bid generously in pink jersey auction Continued from page 11

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Vol. 59 No. 37 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Parents rally for

resolution in

labour disputePage 3

Sturgis lawsuit

against chamber

still activePage 7

Farmhand: Two-year-old Aubrey Neu beams with delight while feeding a young calf at D Dutchmen Dairy. Photo by Evan Buhler

Rysz to make bid for mayor’s seat in coming election

A Sicamous councillor has decided to

challenge for the top job at the municipal-

ity. Terry Rysz, who has served three years

with the current council, announced he will

be seeking the mayor’s chair.

“I’ve made the decision because one of

my main concerns is continuity going for-

ward. There’s things we have been working

on for three years and are partially done and

I’d like to see them completed.”

Rysz says his experience as both deputy

mayor and chair of the � nance committee

has provided him with the im-

portant background needed to

make a bid for mayor.

“I think it is important to

have spent time on council,”

says the recent retiree, “It’s

a four-year commitment this

time round, so now I’m at a

place where I can give the job

my full attention, if I am elect-

ed.”Nomination packages for the November

municipal election are currently available

at Sicamous City Hall, but a number of the

current members of council remain on the

fence about their intentions.

Coun. Joan Thomson says

she’s still debating whether to

put her name forward again,

while Coun. Don Richardson

is doing the same.

“At this time I’m indeci-

sive. I have mixed feelings, but

I think there are great things

coming up for this community,

so I’m weighing my options,”

Richardson told the News.

Coun. Suzanne Carpenter, who was

elected in a by-election in September 2013

after Greg Kyllo was elected as MLA, is

also undecided.

“I have not committed to run at the mo-

ment, there are a few outstanding issues

that I am looking into personally so I will

not know for a couple of weeks,” she said.

But there’s going to be a pair of familiar

names on the ballot — Coun. Fred Busch,

who has been part of municipal leadership

at the district since 1996 and Coun. Char-

lotte Hutchinson, who has served for four

years, one following a byelection and three

with the current council.

November will mark the end of his sixth

term in of� ce, but Busch says he’s still in-

terested in the job.

“I had never intended when I � rst ran in

1996, that it would be for this long, but it

By Tracy Hughes

Eagle Valley News

See Nomination on page 2

has provided him with the im-

portant background needed to

“I think it is important to

have spent time on council,”

says the recent retiree, “It’s

a four-year commitment this

time round, so now I’m at a

place where I can give the job

my full attention, if I am elect-Terry Rysz

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