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Local support is in place, now it’s up to the province as to whether or not it will fund an Early Years Centre in Sicamous through which licensed child care would be provided.

District of Sicamous coun-cil has joined School District #83 in supporting an applica-tion by the Eagle Valley Com-munity Support Society for funding from the Ministry of Children and Family Devel-opment.

If successful, the fund-ing – approximately $52,000 annually for up to � ve years – would go towards the es-

tablishment of an Early Years Centre at Parkview Elemen-tary. The centre, explained the Society’s Janet McLean Senft, would serve as a hub for services and supports ben-e� tting families and children.

“In our vision, we would locate family supports, ear-ly years programs such as Strong Start, Parents and Tots kinds of programs… and then licensed child care, preschool, food security and nutrition all in one hub,” said McLean Senft. “Health services thera-pies, recreation would all be able to offer services…

“I know there’s no one in this room that has not heard and agreed that a lack of li-censed childcare is one of the

reasons families � nd it dif-� cult to live here. We know that as a business venture, childcare is not an easy way to make a living in a seasonal economy. The best bet we have to provide safe, reliable, year-round childcare, is for it to be provided by a non-prof-it…”

The ministry’s website states there are currently 26 Early Years Centres in the province, offering “one-stop” access to information, servic-es and referrals for families and young children ages 0 to 6. Key to the success of these centres is access to early years programs, the quality of these programs and services and af-fordability.

The support society’s Gwyneth Gau emphasized the importance of the licensed childcare component.

“I’ve talked to lots of moms here and ones that have left our community – child-minding was a big thing, es-pecially licensed child mind-ing…,” Gau told the News. “I think what it will mean is when people are looking at our community, it will be a big asset to say yes, we have licensed childcare here.”

Parents would be charged a fee for childcare, with a goal that it would eventually become self-sustaining. Gau says the province is expected to announce the successful applicants in January.

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NEWSVol. 60 No. 43 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com

Unusual events noted during

federal electionPage 2

School parents reach goal for

playgroundPage 8

Retiring MP defends pension

Under one roof: Sicamous Strong Start program facilitator Cori Miller lets Ryker Trotter take a play cookie while Jeshannah Foster and Azalea McMillan await their turn. Strong Start is one of the local programs that would continue to be offered through an Early Years Centre at Parkview Elementary. Photo by Lachlan Labere

Early Years Centre to include licensed daycareBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

North Okanagan-Shuswap’s retiring MP is put-ting his compensation package in perspective.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says Colin Mayes, who was in of� ce for almost 10 years, will receive an annual pension of $47,126 and a lifetime pension of $1,365,686.

“I have to live a long time to collect that money,” said the 67-year-old.

“I hope I do but Jim Flaherty (former � -nance minister) didn’t. They could do that with an RCMP of� cer or a teacher or anyone with a pension. It doesn’t make me special.”

Mayes also points out that he paid into the parliamentary pension program for almost a de-cade at about $117,393.

“You go into a job and they say, ‘It’s your compensation package.’ It was the contract for employment.”

For MPs who retired or were defeated on Monday, the CTF says taxpayers contributed $17 for every $1 put into the plan by an MP towards their pension.

After Jan. 1, 2016, the ratio will gradually shift to a ratio of $1.60 in taxpayer contributions for ev-ery $1 put in by an MP or senator.

“These pension changes are a welcome step to-wards broader public sector pension reform,” said Aaron Wudrick, CTF federal director.

“We encourage the new government to take the necessary steps to ensure government employee pensions are more in line with what the vast ma-jority of Canadians working in the private sector expect to receive.”

By Richard RolkeBlack Press

I have to live a long time to collect that money… They could do that with an RCMP of� cer or a teacher or anyone with a pension. It doesn’t make me special.

Colin Mayes

Colin Mayes: Okanagan-Shuswap MP to receive $47,126 annually.

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They weren’t dirty tricks by a long shot, but a couple of unusual circumstances occurred during the 2015 elec-tion campaign in North Okanagan-Shuswap.

Dan Shields, owner of McGuire Lake Con-gregate Living facility in Salmon Arm, con� rms that a mobile voting poll came to the facility on election day, Oct. 19.

“Typically they come and set up a temporary polling booth, and so they came and made ar-rangements to do so like they always do. They were coming from 9 a.m. to 10:30.”

He said a sign was put up announcing when the poll would be open.

“On the day of the election, most of the residents were there right when it opened, just � nishing breakfast and they’re eager…”

However, one person came by at 10:15 and,

on the sign, the ‘three’ in 10:30 had been re-placed by a zero.

“He said, ‘That’s not right’ and handed me his registration card.”

So Shields phoned Elections Canada who said they would send the employee back. Then Elections Canada called back to say the polling person had spo-ken to one of Shields’ employees who said the poll didn’t need to be there the whole hour and a half.

“Realistically, no one had that power” to shut down a polling station early, says Shields, par-ticularly when all the residents received voter information cards out-lining when and where to vote. He then called Elections Canada staff back and told them the resident was pretty up-set. They said they’d see what they could do.

In the meantime, the resident “went up-stairs and apparently called his lawyer,” says Shields.

The person staff-ing the polling station returned after a short while and took the sta-tion right to the resi-dent’s room, where he voted.

“It was a bunch of running around,” says

Shields. “The only thing going through my head was, every vote counts and if you put a card out saying 9 to 10:30 then you’re there 9 to 10:30...

“And everybody in the end got their vote.”

At Elections Canada, spokesperson John En-right said he can’t com-ment on individual poll-ing stations at this time, as he doesn’t know if there were any extenu-ating services.

However, he says, “if the hours are posted, those are the hours.”

At Cindy Derkaz’s Liberal campaign of-� ce, an oddity occurred regarding phoning.

Volunteers would be in the of� ce and would receive calls. They would be from people who had just received a call from the of� ce number and it would be a hang-up, with no one there, and they didn’t know why they’d been called.

However, no one in the of� ce had called them, explained Derkaz.

She said Telus was unable to provide an answer.

“I think it will re-main a mystery,” she says.

To be proactive, Derkaz’s campaign of-� ce send out an alert.

“It appears that our Vernon of� ce number 250-549-8420 has been hijacked since Oct. 14 and some unknown source is making un-authorized calls to sup-

porters... If you did receive a call from this number since Oct 14, please accept our apolo-gies and know that we are deeply concerned and doing all we can to � nd the source and stop them.”

Derkaz said the con-cern arose based on dirty tricks in the 2011 election, where, in one Toronto riding, for in-stance, donors were getting phoned at 2 a.m. just prior to the election demanding money for the Liberal candidate.

Nothing like that happened in the North Okanagan-Shuswap.

“We don’t know if it was an individual or a glitch… In some way once it stopped, we didn’t feel it was worth pursuing,” Derkaz says.

Asked about the oc-currence, Election Can-ada’s John Enright said the only explanation he can think of offhand would be an automatic dialler that is usually generated from a third-party location.

Unusual occurrences reported in ridingBy Martha WickettEagle Valley News

said they would send the employee back. Then Elections Canada called back to say the polling person had spo-ken to one of Shields’ employees who said the poll didn’t need to be there the whole hour

“Realistically, no one

running around,” says

Cindy Derkaz

The B.C. govern-ment is making licence plates mandatory for quads, dirt bikes and other off-road vehicles starting Nov. 1, re-quiring helmets and restricting use by chil-dren under 16.

The B.C. legislation imposes a $230 � ne for driving an unlicensed off-road vehicle, and a $368 � ne for careless operation. For some offences under the Off-Road Vehicle Act re-lated to reckless use or

environmental damage, penalties can go as high as a $5,000 � ne and six months in jail.

Forests Minister Steve Thomson said the $48 licence fee applies only once when a ve-hicle is purchased, and was set to recover the costs of the program administered by ICBC. Once startup costs are paid for, a portion of the licence revenue will go to off-road clubs to use for trail improve-ments, Thomson said.

The province esti-mates there are 200,000 off-road vehicles that

require licensing, in-cluding snowmobiles that have been licensed since the 1970s. About 35,000 of those have registered voluntarily since the new licences were offered a year ago.

The licence system also allows police to track stolen vehicles, even if they are taken out of the province. B.C. is the last Cana-dian province to imple-ment a licensing sys-tem.

Licence plates mandatory for quads and sledsBy Tom Fletcher Black Press

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Colin Mayes has control of his life again.

After almost 10 years of assistants and party of� cials dictating his schedule, the newly retired North Okana-gan-Shuswap MP has time in his workshop.

“I always used to rush with projects be-cause I had to be back on a plane to Ottawa,” he said.

“Now if I don’t feel like working on it, I take the day off.”

The former mayor of Salmon Arm was � rst elected to Parlia-ment in 2006, but de-cided last year not to seek another term dur-ing the recent election.

He’s pleased with his record in of� ce.

“It’s been so re-warding to see the four-laning of Highway 97 from Armstrong to Kelowna and key work to the Trans-Canada Highway. And then there were projects like the new pool in Arm-strong,” he said.

“You’re there to help the community build. Coming from a municipal background, I appreciated the struggles communities experience with infra-structure.”

Some issues were personal, including pushing to have parole ineligibility for sexual assault, abduction and murder go from 25 to 40 years.

The motivation came after talking to

Armstrong resident Marie Van Diest, whose 18-year-old daughter Taylor was murdered in 2011.

“She didn’t want to relive it,” said Mayes of potential parole hear-ings for the individual convicted of the crime.

Mayes’ private member’s bill wasn’t approved before Parlia-ment was dissolved for the election.

Among his toughest decisions was voting to extend the Canadian military’s mission in Afghanistan in 2007.

“You are taking re-sponsibility to put them (soldiers) there. When someone came back in a box, you thought about that.”

During his tenure, Mayes was a lightning rod for residents criti-cal of the Conservative government.

“It’s part of the job. If you are bitter, it will eat you up. If you are professional and keep cool, things will work out.”

Mayes came under � re last year for com-ments he made at a vigil for homeless indi-viduals in Vernon. City of Vernon of� cials sug-gested Mayes had stat-ed that homelessness isn’t a federal issue.

“What I said was the government didn’t cause homelessness. There’s addiction or tragedies in people’s lives that caused that,” he said.

For Mayes, a change in the last decade is what he believes is an

increase in conspira-cies fed by social me-dia.

“I get people talk-ing about big agricul-ture taking over seeds and vapour trails after planes. Why would we do that? With Bill C-51

(anti-terrorism legisla-tion), people said the government was go-ing to take over con-trol. Why would we do that?”

His faith gave him great strength, and par-ticularly the weekly prayer breakfast on the Hill.

“It put everything in context of what’s im-portant in life. What’s important is how peo-ple remember you.

Were you honest, do you have integrity? I was just a citizen with the privilege of serving in this position. You do your best but you don’t get wrapped up in the position.”

One thing he won’t miss is Question Pe-riod.

“It’s an insult to your intelligence. The opposition takes cheap shots and the govern-ment doesn’t necessar-ily respond in a respon-sible way. It was a real struggle to see men and women degraded that way,” he said.

“I worked with op-position members who did great things and were good friends. Elizabeth May is a close friend but we are way apart in our poli-tics.”

Beyond his next project in the shop, Mayes hopes to speak to area students as a way of creating aware-ness about government and democracy.

“I love that. They ask great questions,” he said.

His wife Jackie and their children

have decided that he’s done with politics, but Mayes isn’t closing the door completely. A constant rumour is that he will run for Salmon Arm mayor again.

“You can’t relive the times of glory. I left as mayor on a high and left as MP on a high so it’s hard to relive those days,” he said.

Mayes reflects on career in OttawaBy Richard RolkeEagle Valley News

Mayes’ private member’s bill wasn’t approved before Parlia-ment was dissolved for

Among his toughest decisions was voting to extend the Canadian military’s mission in

“You are taking re-sponsibility to put them (soldiers) there. When someone came back

It’s part of the job. If you are

bitter, it will eat you up. If you are professional and keep cool, things

will work out.Colin Mayes

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The three happiest people in the country Oct. 20, were probably Justin Trudeau, the Governor Gen-eral and Brian Mulroney, says my favourite source for political information.

Trudeau, because he just pulled off a win that nobody expected.

The Governor General, because the unexpected win ensured that he wouldn’t have to wade into the fray, and sort out any problems that would have followed a minority government that nobody would support—you know, like calling an-other election Canadians would hate him for calling.

And Brian Mulroney, because he is no longer the most hated ex-prime minis-ter in Canada.

Ah, Brian Mulroney.It’s a name that’s been

vilified for as long as I can remember, although my vague recollection of what

happened in politics while I was a teenager isn’t nearly as searing as what Google offers.

My favourite result from searching for this country’s “most hated prime minis-ter” came courtesy of noted Canadian historian J.L. Granatstein.

He said Mulroney “was seen as a Gucci-shod glad-hander in bed with the Yan-kees, the man who failed so dismally in his constitution-al gambits and left office so hated by the Canadian public that it promptly de-stroyed his party.”

Ouch. I can’t imagine what’s in store for Harper.

The man who embraced ugly, divisive, lie-laden American-style campaign-ing like no other before him was taken out this election, as Canadians took his cue and ran him through with it. In the end, I was even a bit rattled by the blood lust shown by friends and fam-ily.

I mean, I understood it.

But, like you understand why the cheetah has to tear apart the antelope, you don’t enjoy watching.

Harper went down in an inglorious blaze of hel-met-hair memes, vilifying news features from across the globe and even a few cringe-making moments of musical malfeasance caught on video. Until the last moments of this elec-tion, I wasn’t even aware of his band the Van Cats and I deeply wish it could have remained that way.

All of them were aimed at pointing out, simply, that Stephen Harper is a bad man. He hates mother na-ture, has no tolerance for ethnic minorities and wants to make Canada into a para-noid police state.

Whether it’s true or not can be debated in history books, but there could not be a more damning depic-tion of the leader of a demo-cratic nation and he was crushed under the weight of those criticisms, taking

along with him his party.There is no doubt in my

mind that Ron Cannan’s local loss was collateral damage. He’ll be fine. In addition to a swish pen-sion for nine years of work, he’s walking away from political life well-liked and well-respected for being a decent, hard working MP who chose the wrong team.

But, Harper? If the writ-ing on my Facebook wall is true, short of starting a cult, I can’t see what his future career options are. Nor do I really care.

What I do care about, however, is that he and all politicians who follow take a cue from what happened this election. That whole “you reap what you sow” thing isn’t just an adage to spew thoughtlessly.

Canadians deserve bet-ter. Whether it’s with policy or campaigning we deserve to be dealt with honestly and that’s what the crimson wave across this country was about above all else.

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Deleted emails add new scandal

OPINION

With the federal election done and over, it would have been nice to have received a bit of a break, a breath of air not tainted

by news of political wrongdoing and/or scandal. No such luck here in B.C., where residents are cur-

rently receiving an education on the process of “triple deleting” emails and the ramifications this has when done by those in power who at one point, offered some semblance of promise to be more transparent.

The gist of the story is how the B.C. government, particularly staff in the Ministry of Transportation, thoroughly deleted their email history related to the infamous “Highway of Tears.” This is a stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Ru-pert, from which 19 women are reported to have dis-appeared between 1969 and 2011. Thirteen of those women were found to have been murdered. One of the homicides has been directly linked through DNA to serial killer Bobby Jack Fowler, and Fowler is sus-pected to have had a hand in two of the other murders.

Fowler, however, was arrested in 1995 and died in prison in 2006. And, since four of the disappearances and one of the homicides occurred in that time period, the RCMP’s investigation continues.

As for the significance of the deleted emails, while there is no longer a record of their contents, their dele-tion constitutes a violation of B.C.’s Freedom of Infor-mation and Protection of Privacy Act. Privacy Com-missioner Elizabeth Denham has also asked police to investigate a former ministry assistant for allegedly lying under oath after deleting emails related to an in-formation request pertaining to the Highway of Tears.

In response, Transportation minister Todd Stone nonchalantly admitted to having triple deleted his own emails from time to time, noting that is “how all Brit-ish Columbians manage their email.”

Of course, most British Columbians aren’t paid by the taxpayer to serve the province.

Premier Christy Clark has since ordered all political staff and cabinet ministers to save all emails, pending the completion of a review of problems relating to freedom of information.

In the meantime, British Columbians wait to see if and when Prime Minister designate Justin Trudeau comes through with a promise to launch an inquiry into the deaths and disappearances of aboriginal women from Highway 16.

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

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

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.

LAST WEdNESdAy OF THE MONTH Autism Support Group (October 28, November 25. CLOSED December, January 27) 6:00-7:30pm at Sicamous Health Unit

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. Closed for the season.

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.

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.eaglevalley-brushandpalette.com

Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pm

1st FRidAy OF THE MONTHSicamous Seniors Ctre general meeting 11 am

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

Lunch at noon. Every-one Welcome. At the Si-camous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.

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

Morning tailgate mar-ket Sicamous Royal Ca-nadian Legion Branch 99 – Everyone welcome – sell anything – for de-tails call Murray @250-836-2224.

LAST SAT. OF THE MONTH Ladies’ Auxil-iary Dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion at 6 pm. Tickets sold until the Friday before at the Legion. No tickets at the door.

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According to urban-dictionary.com, if you’re a parent or grandpar-ent and addressing an ungrateful child, the answer is typically 10 (or 16 kilometres). As in, “When I was your age, I had to walk 10 miles to school, through the snow and without shoes.”

Obviously, the exces-sive repetition of this seemingly common his-toric phenomenon has created a bit of skepti-cism, especially when it’s coming from, say, your uncle Ed, who is in his mid-40s and grew up in Kitsilano.

Myself, though I did have to walk to school, it wasn’t anything like the shoe-less journey of our forefathers. My East Vancouver elementary school was only about half-a-mile from home. affordable shoes were readily available and snow days weren’t ex-actly plentiful.

I’m not sure what the story would have been if

my elementary school had been four kilome-tres away from home as is the case for Melissa Fallis’ daughters, Nata-lia, 8, and Ella, 6.

Because they live within four-kilometres (3.9 to be exact) from their elementary school, Natalia and Ella do not technically qualify to ride the school bus. This means their parents, Melissa and Chris Ev-ans, are responsible for arranging transportation, or the girls are expected to walk.

More on that in a mo-ment.

Despite School Dis-trict #83’s busing policy, the school bus has, and continues to stop near the Fallis’ Two Mile residence as a courtesy. This is a positive as, due to health, work and oth-er reasons, Melissa re-lies on the bus to safely transport her children. A route change this year, however, now requires the girls to cross High-way 97A to catch the bus. This is a problem. For one, Natalia suffers from seizures, which makes having to cross the highway a hazard for her and others (as stated in a letter from her doc-tor). And then there’s the highway itself. Even if there were a marked crosswalk of some sort, it would still be a risk for any child to use, let alone one who suffers seizures. A combination of tight, blind corners and typically speeding

traffic sees to this. Which brings me

back to the school policy and walking distances. Obviously, not all routes are created equal. For Natalia and Ella to walk to school, they would have to travel along a curvy stretch of the highway, sandwiched between Mara Lake and a rock face, where acci-dents can and do occur. I know, having reported on a many of them. They’ve included an in-dustrial medical vehicle colliding with the rock face, and a semi that lost a load of lumber on the lake-side shoulder.

One I’ll never forget involved an SUV going off the highway and into the lake. A dive team was required to retrieve the driver’s body which, when brought ashore in a body bag, remained frozen in a seated posi-tion.

Anyone with any concern for public safety would tell you this is not a suitable walking route for children. Thank-fully, Sicamous council agrees and has asked the school district to review its policy.

As for the busing change, Fallis submit-ted a request to amend the route to the school district’s Transporta-tion Committee. It was turned down. A letter in response from transpor-tation committee chair and trustee, Chris Co-ers, states that while the board is responsible for

the safety of students while being transported on the bus, it is not re-sponsible for the safety of the route the student may travel to and from the school or bus stop.

The fact school dis-trict policy determines walking distances with-out discerning the safety of available routes was, apparently, irrelevant.

Now, Melissa is tak-

ing her appeal to the next level – the school board itself. If trustees are unwilling to grant an amendment, hopefully they will at last advocate on Natalia and Ella’s be-

half, and lobby the Min-istry of Transportation and Infrastructure for whatever changes are needed to ensure resi-dents in Two Mile can cross 97A safely.

Safe solution needed if children must cross the highway

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On Friday night, Oct. 23, the Sicamous Eagles were in Arm-strong to do battle with the North Okanagan Knights. Despite being outshot in regulation play, the Eagles were able to go home with a 4-3 overtime win and their share of bruises.

The game stayed civil until 13:16, when the Eagles’ Alex Asta-siewicz lit up the board with a marker off of Scott Robinson. Penal-ties started racking up soon after, starting with an interference call on the Knights’ Drayton Martin, followed by a roughing call for team-mate Trent Redschlag. The Eagles’ Cameron Flinton received the same for his involve-ment. Minutes later, Eagle Darien Head wound up in the sin bin

for a game misconduct and head contact.

Both teams added singles in the second frame, with the Eagles’ marker delivered at 15:15 on the power play by Scott Robin-son off of Nicholas Cuglietta and Nathan Plessis. The Knight’s goal came at 3:03, also on a power play. Both teams continued to rack up penalty kill time through the frame, right up to the buzzer.

The Knights added two more goals in the first half of the third. It looked as though the hosts would take the game until 1:40, when Eagle Bailey Shaver found the back of the net with an un-assisted marker. The goal kept Sicamous in the remaining 100 seconds of the game and pushed the con-test into overtime. At 2:31 in overtime play, a pass from Bradley Whitehead was inter-

cepted by Shaver who once again was able to ripple mesh and earn Sicamous the win. Shaver was named the game’s second star.

The Eagles had little time to recover, hosting the Revelstoke Griz-zlies Saturday night, Oct. 24 at the rec cen-tre.

After a scoreless first period, second pe-riod saw the Grizzlies’ Kyle Berry score an early marker assisted by Aaron Aragon. About a minute to the halfway mark, team-mate Ethan Waitzner potted a single off Kyle Donaldson and Louie Federico.

Halfway through the third, Plessis potted one for the Eagles with assistance from Asta-siewicz and Braydon McCarthy. Grizzlies goalie Aidan Doak denied all further at-tempts before the final buzzer. Final score: 2-1 for the Grizzlies.

Sicamous netmind-er Patrick Kasper was named first star, stop-ping 28 out of 30 shots on net.

The Eagles aren’t back on the ice until Friday, Oct. 30, when they once again take on the Grizzlies.

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A community effort has helped Parkview Elementary parents raise the finances re-quired to replace the school’s playground equipment.

Thanks to the sup-port of community businesses, groups, lo-cal government, par-ents and numerous student fundraising efforts, the school’s parent advisory coun-cil, the target amount

of $65,000 has been raised for playground equipment.

“The students and staff of Parkview are very excited that we have reached our fun-draising goal to build a new playground,” said principal Carla Schnei-der. “I am personally so very thankful to the parents and community of Sicamous for raising these funds in such a short period of time – another example of the generosity and com-munity spirit found in

the Eagle Valley.”Schneider said the

PAC is reviewing its equipment selection, and individual pieces may be purchased soon for installation. That equipment will replace the current wooden structures in the two play areas. In 2012, those structures were

assessed by the school district and found not to meet current regu-lations for health and safety. The structures were supposed to have been removed in 2014, but the deadline was extended another year to give the PAC time to raise funds for replace-ment equipment.

Financial contribu-tions to the playground include a $10,000 grant from the District of Sicamous, $9,500 through the Shuswap Community Founda-tion, a $7,500 grant from the Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union, as well as nu-merous donations from

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At play: Children play on one of the wooden playground structures that is to be replaced at Parkview Elementary. File photo

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Sicamous and Columbia Shuswap Regional District Area ELabour Market Assessment and Planning Project

LABOUR MARKET SURVEY

FINAL COMMUNITY MEETINGSNovember 17 & November 24.

The project and this Survey is driven by one question:

• What can Sicamous and CSRD Area E do to be a more successful place to work and do business?The purpose of this survey is to identify labour market needs in Sicamous and CSRD Area E.

QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT:Kyle Dearing, Project Coordinator

Phone: (250) 515-2029Email: [email protected]

Jason Woodman Simmonds, Lead ResearcherPhone: (250) 517-0197

[email protected]

YOUR INPUT IS VITAL TO THIS ACTION PLAN!In the meantime, if you have any questions please ask or contact us.

The Employment Program of British Columbia is funded by the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia

THE SECOND MEETING will be a day-long planning session, hosted by our workshop and planning facilitator. The goal of this meeting will be to create a detailed action plan around what Sicamous and Area E can do to make the area a better place to live, work, and do business given the research results. The end result will be an action plan with speci� c tasks, timelines, and people to involve. A map, if you will, that de� nes the needed steps and outlines how to begin working towards them as a community.

November 24. Doors open at 8:30 AM. Meeting starts at 9:00AM. Meeting should run to around 4:00 PM with lunch provided as well as refreshments/snacks provided.

THE FIRST MEETING will be a presentation that outlines all of the information that has been collected, and helps people to understand the relevance/importance. In addition to the � ndings being presented, there will be some time for discussion. Speci� cally around, given the � ndings, what are some strategic actions Sicamous and Area E might take to improve their situation? In addition to the information shared and discussed during this meeting there will also be a hard-copy � nal report that people can have (both paper copies and also available online at www.sicamouslabour.com). This will be an evening meeting, held at the Sicamous Arena.

November 17. Doors open at 5:45 PM. Meeting starts at 6:00 PM. Meeting should run to around 8:30 PM. Refreshments/snacks provided. Free Child Care Services provided by Sicamous/

Malakwa Early Childhood Development Committee. Call (250) 836-3440 to register

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