keremeos review, may 07, 2015

Tara Bowie Review Staff

A former Keremeos Irrigation District trustee claims the orga-nization works under a current of self-interest.

It was announced Thursday night at the district’s annual general meeting that Bob Thurston would not seek re-election.

Thurston served just one term.He spoke to the Review several

days after the meeting.“The democracy in Keremeos

has been completely annihilated,” he said, while talking about issues he claims arose regarding munici-pal water decisions over the last three years.

In 2011 Thurston was prompted to run for KID trustee because of the controversy surrounding the construction of a reservoir.

The reservoir, which cost about $1.4 million, was completed last year.

“I was against the reservoir right from the start... There was a lot of

showing for me (at the election) because I was against the reser-voir,” he said.

Thurston said the night he was elected the room was packed with people. Subsequent meet-ings surround-ing the building of the reservoir also drew large crowds.

It was quite a stark contrast the night of the annu-al general meet-ing last week when he official-ly said he would not be returning as trustee. Only four people sat in the audience, a reporter, Thurston’s wife and two members of the public.

Thurston claims the lack of public interest reflects the lack of

respect members of the KID have shown voters.

“That’s why I left instead of sticking it out for another three

years because I couldn’t stand being on there with people that are there for their own self-interest,” he said.

Issues surfaced in 2010 when the KID attempted a public approv-al process for the construction of the reservoir, as is required when

borrowing money for projects.

In an alternative approval process, more than 10 per cent of voters stated they had concerns or were against the building of the res-ervoir.

Between that process and the ref-erendum that was to come, the Village of Keremeos received a $300,000 grant to help fund the res-ervoir.

A referendum was held and the

project was voted down.“That should have been it. But it

wasn’t,” Thurston said.The KID then held a special

meeting. Thurston said the public was told the reservoir was going ahead, and they could only decide on how it would be funded.

“It was basically they were going to like or lump it,” he said.

The choice given during the vote was whether landowners wanted their water bills to increase to pay for the system within a few years, or if they wanted to borrow the money and pay it back over a long term.

“That isn’t much of a choice,” he said.

Thurston also charges that although the public was told the reservoir would improve access to water for firefighting during power outages, the KID recently learned it wouldn’t make a difference.

“Now that I’m not a trustee I can say we were told that no matter what we do over the next five years it won’t create better fire flow,” he said.

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Councillor rocks the vote on 12k expenditureTara Bowie

Review Staff One councillor isn’t happy

with the way a $12,000 decision was made regarding placing rocks around the village trail.

Longtime councillor Jeremy Evans refused to vote during a motion Monday to approve the hefty price tag of placing rocks around the trail. Most of the rocks were placed by contractors several days before the council meeting after CAO Laurie Taylor circulated an email to council regarding the issue.

“I didn’t respond to the email. It should have went to council for discussion. I realize the CAO has some spending power up to a cer-tain limit but when it doesn’t come to council first it doesn’t give us time to discuss it and hash it out,” he said.

The CAO can approve expendi-tures without council’s approval in emergency situations.

Evans questioned whether or not this scenario met that criteria.

“It is important to have this done as soon as possible before the main influx of farm workers arrive,” the report to council stated.

When taking over the license of occupation for the trail one of the contingencies was that no motor-ized vehicles would be allowed on the trail.

The rocks also stop that from happening.

Evans said he wasn’t against the large rocks being placed at intervals to limit vehicle access and discour-age camping, but he wasn’t neces-sarily for it either.

“I don’t know. These are things we need to talk about as council to decide,” he said.

Originally village staff thought they would be able to access rocks at no charge and use existing equip-ment. But the rocks were not the right size and there was a concern that the box of the village’s dump truck might be damaged.

“Replacement of the truck box would ultimately cost more than having the rocks hauled and dumped at convenient intervals by contractors,” the report to council stated.

In an attempt to save some money the village staff did use the loader for final placement of the rocks.

Despite Evans refusal to offi-cially vote on the issue, the rest of council voted in favour of the expenditures on the trail and the motion was carried.

The money was taken from the village’s contingency reserve.

Tara BowieCouncillor Jeremy Evans spoke out against the lack of council discus-sion around the decision to spend $12,000 on placing rocks around the trail that runs through the village.

Trustee drained by irrigation district decisions

Bob Thurston, a former Keremeos Irrigation District trustee claims the organization works under a current of self-interest.

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School District No. 53(Okanagan Similkameen)

The Board of Education of School District No. 53 (Okanagan Similkameen) invites community members to attend a budget meeting at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, May 13 in the School Board Annex (dark green building). The school district’s 2015/16 annual budget will be presented, after which we invite your input, comments and questions. We appreciate your valuable input and hope you will attend.

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Campfire discussion heats upTara Bowie

Review Staff A decrease in the allowable size of

backyard campfires was a hot topic at vil-lage council.

Councillor Jason Wiebe voted against a resolution to adopt provincial legisla-tion regarding a number of fire related issues. The rest of council voted for what CAO Laurie Taylor called a “housekeep-ing issue.”

The amended fire regulation bylaw lim-its the size of backyard camp fires to half a metre by half a metre and also states they must be located a minimum of five metres from adjoining property lines and buildings.

“I think the legislation is too prohibi-tive,” Wiebe said following the meeting.

Wiebe said many people have small lots in the village and depending on how their

yards are designed might not be able to have a fire at all under the amended bylaw.

“Of course we want responsible use of fire. We want to promote responsible use of fire but this might be too limiting,” he said as he tried to think about his own yard. “I might have to move some things around in my yard.”

He also took issue with the size of the fire half a metre by half a metre.

“That’s not a very big fire,” he said. Mayor Manfred Bauer threw his full

support behind the amendments in his exchange with Wiebe during the council meeting.

“When we’re looking at the cost of fighting fires it costs millions and they are most often caused by human error,” he said. “I’m completely in agreement with this.”

Bauer suggested anyone with concerns

regarding the fire regulations write letters to the province who determined the leg-islation.

File art Campfires can now only be 50 centime-tres by 50cm.

The Keremeos and Area Ambassador Program will be holding their pageant on Rodeo Weekend to proclaim their new Ambassadors. Please come out to support the program. Date: Sunday, May 17th, 2015 Time: 7p.m. (Doors open at 6:30pm) Place: Victory Hall. Tickets: Adults $15 Children 6-12 $8 Pre-purchase tickets from the Ambassadors and Candidates or available at the door. *Bring your money for the Silent Auction to help raise travel funds for the Ambassador Team.

Village receives climate grant

Keremeos received almost $900 from the prov-ince for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

“This is a great example of the province and local governments working toward the common goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” Boundary-Similkameen MLA Linda Larson said. “Our govern-ment is committed to communities that take the lead in the field of climate change.”

The Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program provides conditional grants to communities that have signed the Climate Action Charter and supports their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Communities that report publicly on their progress toward meeting their climate action goals are eli-gible to receive a grant equivalent up to 100 per cent of the carbon tax they pay directly.

In March 2015, $6.4 million was provided to BC communities.

Since 2008, the B.C. government has provided more than $25 million through the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program. Currently, 96 per cent of communities in B.C. have signed the Climate Action Charter.

To learn about the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program, please visit http://www.cscd.gov.bc.ca/lgd/greencommunities/carip.htm.

Other recipients included Grand Forks $7,866, Midway $2,584, Oliver $5,509 and Osoyoos: $10,533.

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VICTORIA – After the first few glum lines of his speech, it was difficult to tell anything had changed for B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker as he took his familiar place before the TV cameras last week.

Iker droned on about how B.C. schools are under-funded by hundreds of millions of dol-lars, echoing demands from the disastrous strike he led the union membership into last year.

The B.C. Court of Appeal had just overturned a bizarre trial court decision that tried to give the union everything it wanted: a trip back in time to the NDP wonderland of 2001, a constitutional spanking for the B.C. Liberal government and a $2 million bonus of taxpayers’ money.

The BCTF must now pay back that $2 million and scrape up whatever is left of its mem-bers’ compulsory dues to plead for an appeal at the Supreme Court of Canada, continuing the executive’s self-righteous fantasy of controlling educa-tion spending in B.C.

The appeal court didn’t just overturn the judgment of

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin. It shredded her legal reason-ing and bluntly corrected her, over and over, on evidence she ignored or mis-interpreted.

The appeal court confirmed at great length what I said when Griffin’s second decision came down in early 2014: it was far worse for B.C. schools than when judges decided in 2005 that teachers can bring union propaganda into classrooms.

Did the government bargain in bad faith? No. Did they con-spire to provoke a strike? No. Did they illegally strip work-ing conditions from the teacher contract? No. Turns out our kids are not just “working con-ditions” for teachers, and pub-lic policy still matters.

And it turns out that making special needs assistants dash between classes to deal with two kids here and three over there was a lousy idea. Now there’s even a credit course

offered in high school for students with learning dif-ficulties, which probably has some BCTF minion crafting a pile of grievances about segregation.

In the negotiated settlement reached last fall, teachers shared $105 million to make thousands

of baseless griev-ances go away, after the union filed one for student numbers in every class in the province. This bloated perpetual protest machine drains the public purse in more ways than taxpayers realize.

Parents understand the strikes, though. They remem-ber a union that scrapped report cards, disrupted administra-tion and forced schools to shut down at graduation time.

The strike then dragged into the fall, as the government held the line on public service spend-ing. And what was the key issue that kept schools closed? It wasn’t special needs support, where student performance has continued to improve. No, it

was the BCTF demanding a raise twice as big as other pub-lic sector unions had already accepted.

In the end, their paltry strike fund long gone, the union grudgingly accepted the going rate. They figured they had the elected government on the run in court. Wrong again.

Next up for the ministry is taking control of profession-al development. A bill before the legislature will enforce standards, once the NDP is done denouncing it. Singing Solidarity Forever around a campfire and calling it paid professional development (a real example, by the way) will soon go the way of the union-controlled College of Teachers – onto the scrap heap of history.

There are BCTF members who understand how ill-served they are by their union. They are looking critically at the performance of their leaders, who are too often distracted by grandiose “social justice” campaigns as far away as the Middle East.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: tfletcher@

It’s not a sexy sub-ject, but it’s an important and timely one.

Welcome, Keremeos, to Lyme disease season.

Incidents of Lyme disease are on the rise across the country, and those who live in Southern British Columbia are at even greater risk, as the region hosts an active population of blacklegged ticks that can carry and spread the illness.

Those who spend time in the outdoors for work or play are the most susceptible. If you golf, hike, camp or garden, keep reading.

If not identified and treated early – and it is unfor-tunately difficult to diagnose – Lyme disease can result in devastating health issues. Untreated, symp-toms can last months to years. They can include recurring arthritis, neurological problems, numbness and paralysis. Although not common, fatalities from Lyme disease have been reported.

Ticks are very active in the spring. Their bites are small and usually painless, so the keys to protection are awareness and attention.

Take simple steps to cover up when spending time in the outdoors:

• Wear closed-toe shoes, long-sleeved shirts and pants

• Pull socks over pant legs to prevent ticks from crawling up legs

• Wear light-colored clothes (makes it easier to spot ticks)

• Use insect repellents that contain DEET (active ingredient to keep bugs away) or Icaridin

• Shower or bathe within two hours of being out-doors to wash away loose ticks

• Do a daily “full body” check for ticks on your-self, children and pets

•If you find a tick on your skin, removing it within 24-36 hours of the tick bite usually prevents infection

Symptoms of Lyme disease can include one or a combination of the following with varying degrees of severity:

•Fatigue•Fever or chills•Headache•Spasms, or weakness•Numbness or tingling•Swollen lymph nodes•Skin rashAdditional symptoms can include:•Cognitive dysfunction (brain fog) or dizziness•Nervous system disorders•Arthritis and arthritic symptoms (muscle and

joint pain)•Abnormal heartbeatIf you develop symptoms of Lyme disease, con-

tact your health care provider right away, as the ear-lier you receive a diagnosis, the greater the chance of a successful treatment.

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Thurston claimed the reservoir project was driven by development interests that were represented on the KID.

He is so disenchanted with the experience he plans to sell his home and move out of the KID area.

“I’m out of the picture now. I’m done with politics. The stress wasn’t too much for me... I would have loved to stay in there another three years but I felt every time I came home I needed a shower,” he said.

Roger Mayer, current chair of the KID painted a different picture of how issues surrounding the KID have been handled.

Mayer said the referendum failed because it didn’t include all eligible voters of the KID just those that live within the village.

He said when the referendum failed the KID decided to hold a subsequent vote on how members would fund the project so all people could vote.

He stated that if the public had voted to pay for the reservoir them-selves by raising rates substantially over five years the project would have been on hold.

“If we didn’t go back to the commu-nity and ask that question the money would have been gone. The $300,000 would have been gone. The taxpayers would have had to pay for the whole

thing down the road,” he said.Because more than 70 per cent

voted for a loan, Mayer takes it as the community was in support of the project.

“There was 73 per cent in favour of doing the reservoir. I don’t know if that’s not listening to our customers or not,” he said.

Mayer said some concerns and opposition about building the reservoir surrounded future plans to chlorinate the water. He said Interior Health has told the KID that by building the res-ervoir there is a better chance that they will not have to chlorinate the water in the future.

Prior to the reservoir being built the KID had two 25,000 US Gallon holding tanks to serve the area. Pumps were used to pump water from wells to the holding tanks. The system was built around 1968.

“The problem was during peak times like summer when everyone is using the system to water lawns or when the power goes out the system would be empty in minutes,” he said. “That doesn’t happen now.”

Mayer acknowledged he does own property in the irrigation district but stated it has nothing to do with this involvement with the KID.

“What I do on the development side of things the reservoir’s got noth-ing to do with that. I don’t see an issue there,” he said.

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The Thursday Night Jazz Band provided a great evening of enter-tainment at the Cawston Hall last Thursday evening.

Dave Brunelle leads the talented and versatile group of 18 musicians from Penticton. They played in sup-port of The Cawston Community Hall, a heritage site serving the Lower Similkameen since 1922.

“We enjoyed our evening, as the hall was intimate and the audience appreciative,” said Brunelle.

In their Cawston appearance Thursday Night Jazz Band played a broad selection of jazz, featuring tunes from The Big Band Era as well as Steeley Dan, 70s tunes from the Tower of Power through to Chick Corea’s La Fiesta. A highlight was stylish vocal renderings by Debi Johnson.

Steamsville, was the concert closer featuring Chris Manual on the trom-

bone, Paul Henbury on the guitar and Larry Crawford on the alto sax.

The encore was an Earth Wind and Fire band chart that exemplified the horn bands of the 70s and 80s.

The Cawston audience was wowed by the musicality, the energy and the virtuosity of the band.

Thursday Night Jazz Band has been performing for non-profit com-munity groups for the past 25 years.

Amidst candle-lit tables, with wine supplied by Forbidden Fruit and Cerelia wineries plus cider from Twisted Hill, a real club like atmo-sphere took over The Cawston Hall.

The Cawston Community Hall Society extended thanks to the Band, Gerald Partridge and Board members Doe Gregoire, Elaine Stewart, Cory Van Heck & Bob McAtamney who organized the event, plus numerous other people who contributed food, time and energy.

Jazz band rocks Cawston Hall

Art Martens Submitted

For Graham Gore, pastor of the Hedley Grace Church, April 22 was no ordinary day.

He and church treasurer Peggy Terry signed legal papers by which the Cawston United Church has sold the church build-ing to the local congregation for $1. At this time the land still belongs to the Crown.

From its earliest days, during the gold mining boom in Hedley church work here was a collab-orative effort.

Historian Harry Barnes wrote that “afternoon services were conducted in a tent in Hedley by Rev. E.E. Hardwick. He was employed by the mine.”

In 1902, the Methodists sent J.W. Hedley (not the Hedley the town is named for) and he held evening services, initially in the hotel and then in a tent.

A year later, in 1903, a church building was constructed by Rev. Hedley on donated land. M.K. Rodgers, general manager of the Kelowna Exploration Company, gave considerable assistance to this project. They also built a home for the minister. Workers at the Stamp Mill supported the project financially, and also with labour.

Rev. Hedley regularly visited the families at the town site on Nickel Plate mountain.

In 1903 Hedley’s first school was opened, located in the rear of

the church. The church building also served as headquarters for the Twentieth Century Club and the Library.

The United Methodists joined with other denominations in 1925 to establish the United Church. A further coalescing happened in 1969 when various denomina-tions drew together to become the Keremeos Ecumenical Parish.

It was not until 2001 that a septic system was installed and water lines were brought into the church for the kitchen and bath-room.

Local Extras in the Jack Nicholson movie, The Pledge, donated some of their earn-ings toward this project. The Mennonite Disaster Service and the Kamloops United Church

joined up to refurbish the interior and exterior of the church.

In 2008, the congrega-tion joined the Congregational Christian Churches of Canada and adopted the name, Hedley Grace Church.

Now, as in earlier years, the church is deeply involved in the life of the community.

Each year it holds a bottle drive, with considerable support from the community, to raise funds to send Hedley children to camp. At Christmas it cooper-ates with The Country Market to provide hampers to needy fami-lies and individuals. Most of the adherents are also involved in other organizations in town. It’s still a collaborative effort.

Cawston, Hedley reach church deal

Submitted Graham Gore pastor of the Hedley Grace Church and church treasurer Peggy Terry signed legal papers by which the Cawston United Church has sold the church building to the local congrega-tion for $1. Bud Best from Cawston Church shakes Gore’s hand.

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Report a bee swarm Review Staff

The Beekeepers of the South Okanagan are asking residents to report any sightings of bee swarms.

Bees swarm in later April or early May, but can occasionally swarm later in the summer. A swarm occurs when the queen bee leaves a colony with a large group of worker bees to establish a new colony.

Up to 60 per cent of the bees in the hive, which could total thou-sands of bees, will leave the old colony at the same time. Swarming is the natural means of reproduction that allows for new colonies to be established.

“Seeing a swarm in flight is incredibly impressive,” said Tim

Bouwmeester, local beekeeper, in a press release. “It is something you will remember for the rest of your life.”

Swarms are not dangerous. Without larvae to protect the bees are unlikely to sting. The bees will often form into a large ball on trees or overhangs.

This protects the queen and keeps the bees warm until they can find a new home. This is the best time to capture a colony as the bees are often sluggish and easy to handle.

Bouwmeester thinks captur-ing swarms is best for bees and homeowners. A new bee colony can cost well over $100 to purchase. Capturing swarms is an affordable

way for beekeepers to get a new colony. Swarms that aren’t captured can also cause problems for home-owners.

“Bees have been known to find small openings in roofs. If they establish a colony in the roof they can cause a mess and often need to be exterminated. Having bee keepers capture them and take care of them is the best alternative for everyone,” Bouwmeester said.

To report a swarm anywhere around Penticton, Summerland, Oliver, Osoyoos or the Similkameen please contact Tim Bouwmeester at [email protected] or 250-770-1434 who will then con-tact a local beekeeper to pick up the swarm.

Tim Bouwmeester with a bee swarm. The Beekeepers of the South Okanagan are asking residents to report any bee swarms they spot.


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• Make a meal to remember. Mom deserves a night off from dinner detail, and while dining out is an option, a home-made meal may come across as more intimate and heartfelt. Thanks to kitchen appliances that make it easier than ever to prepare gourmet meals at home, you can now make restaurant-style meals in your kitchen without sacrificing restaurant-quality taste. For example, new tacook Rice Cookers from Tiger Corporation do more than just perfectly steam rice. They also incorporate synchro-cooking to cook two different items at once. Present mom with her favorite Asian-inspired poultry-and-rice dish or use the cooker to easily bake bread or steam a side of vegetables. Pair the meal with her favorite wine and make sure you handle all the cleanup. While mom waits for dinner to be served, a soothing cup of tea can set the tone for a relaxing evening. The Tiger Hot Water Kettle boils water in seconds. With three temperature settings and a de-chlorination cycle for removing chemical tastes and odors, the kettle allows mom to quickly enjoy a cup of her favorite brew. These kitchen essentials are available at Bed, Bath and Be-yond.• Plan a Mother’s Day picnic. Busy moms may look forward to a break from the bustle of daily routines. An afternoon picnicking outdoors can be the ideal way to enjoy a special Mother’s Day. Plan an easy menu of foods that have portability. It’s easy to transport hot or cold foods when you have Tiger Stainless Steel Thermal Wares on hand. A refresh-ing fruit salad can be kept cool for about 8 hours. If mom pre-fers pasta primavera, the thermal container can keep it warm and ready until it’s time to enjoy.Gifting is made easy when you tap into the things mom likes.

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This Sunday, Mother’s Day, May 10th the 32nd Annual Mother’s Day Walk will convene on the lawns of the US-Canadian Customs at Osoyoos-Oroville.

Canadians meet at Haynes Point Provincial Park at 12:30 for the walk to the border and Americans meet at noon at The Oroville Library. The gathering runs from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Authorities on both the US and Canadian side have been coopera-tive in making the annual event possible amidst the many changes to border security.

The Mother’s Day Walk all

started with the Canadian testing of US Cruise Missiles at Cold Lake Alberta.

On Mother’s Day 1983 Peace activists in the Lower Similkameen met Okanagan County Americans at the border for a ceremonial “give back” of a mock-up of a cruise mis-sile, which was then taken by the US activists to a Seattle naval base in protest.

The Cruise Missiles were a stealth device through which NATO intended to penetrate Soviet defenc-es when occasion arose in Europe.

The Mother’s Day Walk has continued annually and many of

the old-timers meet year after year at the border to discuss the issues of the day, sing songs, hear speeches, share poems and revive the spirit of unity in opposition to war making. Young families are now a major contingent.

The Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, the Dukhobors, arrive by bus from Grand Forks.

Canadians from the Boundary, Okanagan and Similkameen make the trek. Visitors attend with causes ranging from war resistance to larg-er geopolitical concerns affecting refugee migrations, human traffick-

ing and the arms trade.

The envi-ronment and the impacts of human activ-ity on the air, water and soil have become a major part of the two-hour obser-vance at the US-Canadian Border.

Mother’s Day US-Canadian Walk this weekend


ARE YOU DOING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR CHILDREN

I used to feel a little inadequate and guilty because baking goodies for the kids and keeping their rooms neat and tidy wasn’t what turned me on. I felt I should want to do more for my children, even if it wasn’t what I wanted to do – and on top of that, I should enjoy it! I let go of that guilt, however, when I discovered that I didn’t have to be Super Mom and do it all for my family. In fact, hon-oring me and what I loved to do left space for others to step up to the plate and contribute - and to my delight, they actually enjoyed it sometimes! Here’s a story to show you what I mean. You may recognize it from “9 Ways to Bring Out the Best in You & Your Child.”Revitalized and invigorated after my long walk in the hills, I burst into the house. The enticing aroma of freshly baked cake greeted my nostrils and like a character in the cartoons, I followed the wafting scent right up the stairs and into the kitchen. I was starving! A piece of cake was just what I needed – or so said my salivating taste buds anyway.I found my 14-year-old son just removing a marvelous chocolate cake from the oven. “Oh, that smells good, Tyler!” I bent my head directly over the cake and inhaled deeply. “Ahhhhhhhhh…” I patted the top with my finger and it sprang back immediately. “Perfect,” I said. “Tyler, you’re such a wonderful baker.”Tyler smiled wanly and I continued, “So Tyler, can we have some now? Can we?” The thought of sinking my teeth into a piece of cake was so exciting that I found myself doing a little jig right then and there. Tyler turned to face me, an oven mitt still on one hand and the other hand on his hip. “Mom,” he said sternly, “don’t you think there’s something wrong with this picture? I mean, isn’t it supposed to be the other way around? Aren’t I supposed to be the one dancing around begging for cake and you the one baking it?”

There was a split second of silence as we each captured a comic snapshot of this scene in our mind, and then we both burst into laughter. I gave Tyler a big hug and a peck on the cheek and replied simply, “Not if we really expect to eat cake!*”

I often hear from parents that they just give and give and give to their children and their children don’t even seem to appreciate it! Have you ever thought that your children may actually want you to take time for yourself, and stop doing everything for them? On another occasion where I’d come in from a walk right before dinner, during the meal blessing one of my kids said, “And thank you God, for giving Mom the hills to go and walk in because she is always so much easier to live with when she comes back!”

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Review StaffMother’s Day is around the corner

and while scammers may love their moms too, they’ll think nothing of scamming anyone out of their cash.

“Mother’s Day is one of the big-gest spending times of the year after Christmas,” Evan Kelly, Senior Communications Advisor for the Better Business Bureau.

“Flower shopping online is fast and convenient, but not without its risks. While the vast majority of people are thrilled with their purchases, others have learned these transactions can lead to profound disappointment.”

The Better Business Bureau offers up info and tips for this Mother’s Day.

Flowers:• Start with trust. Check out the

company with Better Business Bureau at www.mbc.bbb.org to see what other

consumers’ experiences have been. You may end up saving yourself a lot of grief and disappointment.

• Allow time for shipping. Check with the retailer to make sure that you have allowed enough time for delivery by your specified date. Make sure that this date is specified clearly and guaranteed when you order. If you order ahead of time, delivery and other charges may be less than a last minute order.

• Ask around. Recommendations from friends are always a good bet.

• Search for location. Does the online flower shop have a brick and mortar store to contact if there is a problem?

E-Cards:• Don’t open any e-cards that don’t

have your children’s name in them. • E-cards with generic “From your

kids!!” could be fake.

• Opening non-specific e-cards can subject your computer to malware.

• Call your kids to see if they did in fact send an e-card.

• Look for spelling mistakes like ‘Congratulation!’ or if names are spelled wrong.

• Any doubts, just delete it.Gift Card Scams:• Don’t purchase gift cards from

pop-ups in social media. • Go to the website or the store

where you wish to purchase the gift card.

• Make sure the code on the back has not been revealed.

• If buying online, makes sure your anti-virus programs are up to date.

• Point of purchase website should begin with https://

• They should have no expiration date.

Scammers have moms too

Put the life back into your life. If you are living with chronic pain,

come to a free workshop at the Keremeos Branch Library on Friday, May 15 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. This fun and practical one-hour workshop will help people with

chronic pain learn to live healthier and happier lives.

The program, offered by Self-Management BC, will also provide infor-mation about other free self-management workshops offered throughout the Interior

Health region to adults and their family members living with any type of chronic health issue.

Please call the library at 250-499-2313 to register for this free program.

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The story of the Allisons of the Similkameen Valley has the flavour and deep fascination of a great saga. It began when John Fall Allison, at age 12, emigrated with his family from England to the U.S. in 1837. As an adult he became infected with gold fever and was enticed to B.C. by news of gold on the Fraser River. Governor James Douglass, evidently impressed by John Fall, appointed him to investigate the Similkameen area.

As happened so often with European men, he took a young aboriginal woman as his wife. Nora Yakumtikum, according to a great granddaughter, came from a royal blood line going back 16 generations. She was 15 at the time.

It was Nora who initially stirred my inter-est in this story. She has gained considerable attention due to her pack train venture. Nancy Allison of Hedley, another great granddaugh-ter, says she hauled groceries and mining supplies from Hope to Greenwood. Nancy thinks she had about 40 horses and employed people to help her. Rugged and mountainous, the trail required physical endurance and strength of character. Nancy suggests it was likely Nora who made John Fall aware of the

Allison Pass route. John Fall and Nora had 3 children, Lily,

Albert (Bertie), and Charles (Enoch). She later bore another son, “Wichie”.

According to B.C. historian M.A. Ormsby, in the 1860s Allison found placer gold, cop-per and coal on the Similkameen River. He claimed 160 acres at the junction of the Tulameen and Similkameen rivers.

The relationship between John Fall and Nora ended sometime after the birth of their third child. Information concerning Nora’s life after this is sketchy. We do know though that she has numerous descendants from one end of the Similkameen Valley to the other.

In 1868, at age 43, John Fall married Susan Moir who he had met in Hope. Their honeymoon, according to Ormsby, consist-ed of a horseback ride from Hope to the Similkameen Valley. It must have been a steep learning curve for the 23 year old Susan. She had received a good education in England, having studied French, Latin and Greek. They settled into a log home which John Fall had built. He bought a number of Durham cattle and in time his herd of 100 swelled to 1000. At times he also prospected and explored.

In this wilderness setting little medical help was available. Ormsby says “when Susan delivered her first child, only her hus-band and an Indian woman were present.”

Although accounts vary as to where Nora was during these years, we do know that her daughter Lily stayed with John Fall and Susan and helped with raising the children and household chores. In “A Pioneer Gentle Woman in British Columbia”, Susan speaks highly of the a s s i s t a n c e provided by Lily. At times John Fall was away for many weeks on cattle drives to New Westminster. Without Lily, life for Susan would have

been extremely difficult. In total Susan gave birth to 14 children.

In the severe winter of 1877-78, John Fall lost half his cattle due to the cold. Then, in the winter of 1880-81 a heavy snowfall col-lapsed the roof of their house. While John Fall was away on a cattle drive in April, 1882 their house burned down. The family tem-porarily moved into the cowboys’ shack. He rebuilt the house. In 1884 the Similkameen River flooded, destroying their home and 14 outbuildings. They converted a cattle barn into a home.

John Fall caught pneumonia in 1897 and died at age 72. M.A. Ormsby says his dis-coveries had laid the basis for the great gold mining boom of the 1890s which resulted in mining towns like Hedley.

“A Pioneer Gentle Woman in British Columbia” provides an interesting account of the pioneering life as Susan and John Fall experienced it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t mention Nora. She lived until 1939 and was likely interred at the Mission Chapel just east of Hedley.

Due to space lim-itations, this account is incomplete. Also, there isn’t total agreement on all details. My purpose is to help keep alive a fascinating piece of Similkameen his-tory. Certainly both Nora and Susan, and also John Fall, played a significant

role in the settlement and development of our beautiful Valley.

Family saga dominates the settling of the Similkameen

Nora (left) and her granddaughter Maggie (Allison) Terbasket,

Susan Allison

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In the same way that Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, Mother’s Day celebrates the birth of EVERYBODY.

Feelings are mixed as Mother’s Day approaches.

This is irony. A woman who has with malice and aforethought committed parenting four times should be unqualifiedly enthusi-astic about Mother’s Day. Tea and soggy toast for breakfast, shells in the scrambled eggs, then a nice basketful of goodies; plants from the garden centre and a knick knack of some kind followed by dinner out without the children.

Those are good things to look forward to, about Mother’s Day.

Over the years I’ve also enjoyed the handmade gifts that made their way home in the back-packs. My favorites were the ones the kids just couldn’t wait till Sunday to pass over…the ones they were so excited about they just had to present them Friday afternoon when they got home from school.

With the oldest DeMeer child preparing to graduate from Queen’s University and the youngest almost ready for high school, my days of tissue paper daffodils and macaroni necklaces are, sadly, over.

For many years I struggled with the pressures and expecta-tions surrounding Mother’s Day. Pretty sure the wedding vows went something like this: I prom-ise to love and honor you, take care of buying all gifts for your family, sending all greeting cards and generally maintaining the social calendar.

Many Mother’s Day after-noons were spent in the car, trav-elling to visit a mother-in-law and then a stepmother, when all I really wanted to do was put on a bathing suit, lounge in the sun in the backyard and contemplate my stretch marks.

I would have liked Ann Jarvis. She’s the West Virginian woman

who petitioned for recognition for the first official Mother’s Day in 1908. The day was originally planned to honor her own moth-er’s memory.

I would have liked Julia Ward Howe as well. She used a day of motherhood to attempt to bring an end to the Civil War. She got the size of motherhood. She thought it was possible to convince moth-ers of the futility of sons killing other sons.

Howe wrote this:In the name of womanhood

and humanity, I earnestly askThat a general congress of

women without limit of nation-ality

May be appointed and held at some place deemed most con-venient

And at the earliest period con-sistent with its objects

To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,

The amicable settlement of international questions.

The great and general interests of peace.

That’s a pretty fantastic Mother’s Day message for the world, and pretty fantastic one for the home, as well.

Mother’s Day is best spent sunning in the backyard

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ANDREA DEMEER

Tom FletcherBlack Press

The B.C. government is add-ing new trades seats to 12 post-secondary institutions, to allow students to sample different trades.

The “trades discovery” pro-gram runs 10 to 12 weeks, pro-viding hands-on experience. Those who complete the program can then enrol in a “foundation” program for the trade or seek an apprenticeship place with an employer.

Premier Christy Clark donned her hardhat and joined high school students in new secondary trade programs for the announce-ment at the B.C. legislature this week. Jobs Minister Shirley Bond said the government has made progress in the Skills for Jobs Blueprint, launched a year ago to redesign the B.C. education system from elementary to post-secondary to match education up with high-demand jobs in the future.

The additional funding of $727,500 is to provide 68 seats at Camosun College, 32 at College of New Caledonia, 32 at College of the Rockies, 16 at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 16 at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology, 12 at North Island College, 40 at Northwest Community College, 32 at Okanagan College, 16 at Selkirk College, 30 at Thompson Rivers University, 16 at University of the Fraser Valley and 16 at Vancouver Island University.

Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson said the blue-print assigns 25 per cent of post-secondary funds to in-demand jobs, to fill positions left vacant by a wave of retirements in the coming decades. New or expand-ed trades facilities are underway at Camosun College, Okanagan College and Nicola Valley.

According to the Industry Training Authority, more than 41,000 participants are now involved in an adult, youth or foundation trades program. Shane Simpson, the NDP’s critic for labour and skills, said the prob-lem is not getting students start-ed in trades, it is finding them apprenticeship places that put

them on the job.The B.C. Federation of Labour

has called on the government to put apprentice requirements into contracts for public construction projects. Simpson said there are also few apprentices in the public service.

Bond said in the legislature last week that she is concerned about the low completion rates in trade programs, and she expects to make an announcement soon about placements in government activities.

“That work is nearly finished,” Bond said. “My goal is to ensure that we have incremental growth of apprentices on projects that are funded by taxpayers.”

More trades positions added at colleges

Don Craig/B.C. governmentStudent carpenters demonstrate their skills at the B.C. legislature April 29.


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Tara Bowie Keremeos Mayor Manfred Bauer presented departing CAO Laurie Taylor with a small token of appreciation at Monday night’s meeting. That was Taylor’s last Keremeos meeting before starting her position Nakusp.

Submitted Artists Jill Leir Slater, left, from Penticton and Lee Simmons from Keremeos are highlighted at the spring art show at Tree to Me. Their art will be on display for several weeks. The opening was held at Tree to Me over the weekend.

Tara Bowie For a donation patrons of the Elks Community Sale could take spin of a wheel to try and win a prize.

Tara Bowie The second annual Elks Community Sale and Craft Show held over the weekend was a resounding success.

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