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By Jo Anne Malpass Frank Burns of Anglemont will be one of the 83 paddlers representing Canada at the International Va’a Federation World Sprints May 5-15, 2016 on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. With 35 invited countries and around 4,000 competitors, the Va'a World Sprints 2016 will showcase the world's fast-est Va'a (outrigger canoe) pad-dlers with 1 person (V1), 6 per-son (V6) and 12 person (V12) events. Team Canada will be represented in all age categories from 16 to 70+ years and also two para-canoe pad-dlers from Calgary. Frank qualified for the national team by winning all his assigned time trial heats included two back to back ‘A’ event finals, giving him a solo V1 seat

and assignments to two Canada 1 V-6 crews, masters and senior masters. He will also be part of the V12 races, which use two six-man outrigger canoes attached side by side and has been offered a seat with the Canadian National Elite V-6 crew, pending event scheduling that doesn’t conflict with

his solo racing. Va'a is a word in

Samoan, Hawai-ian and Tahi-

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ship. Records show that from the

beginning there were Va’a races, mostly be-tween fishermen, fami-

lies and small Polynesian and Melanesian villages. Later, teams from different islands were competing against each other and to-day, paddlers from all over the world come together to race in Va’a. (Continued on page 3)

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past August in the solo event, which he won.

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Frank became involved with the Ca-nadian Outrigger Racing Association (CORA) in the spring of 2014, after at-tending an open house in Salmon Arm for the Shuswap Association for Rowing & Paddling (SARP). In the 18 months since he picked up an outrigger paddle, he has won the Harrison Iron Small Boat Chal-lenge in the solo event, and along with Wade Turner from the Kamloops club, won the Dual In the Desert two men’s (OC2) event in Penticton and two men’s event (OC2) at the Canadian Nationals at Spanish Banks. They will be defending that title this coming August at Gibsons Howe Sound/English Bay. In order to be ready for his first world event, Frank has been training six days a week. Along with running and strength training, the decent weather has allowed him to get out on the lake once or twice a week. “It becomes a labour of love.” Diet and exercise becomes part of your life-style, he said, and sometimes all the disci-pline and training can be frustrating. “The excitement on race day is so worth it though…it’s an adrenaline rush!” Most of the Iron races in the 6 seater outriggers are around to 25-28k. “When you’re at English Bay doing 28k out in open water going as hard as you can go for as long as 2 to 2 ½ hours, you need to

be mentally and physically prepared. It takes an amazing level of fitness and a mental toughness….then the next day we’re out for the small boat events and we do a 9 to 11k race…as if you haven’t pad-dled enough.” During the summer, racing events are held in BC about every second week. Even during the winter months, there are a few events at the coast. His next race will be the double hull event Lotus Icebreaker V12 in Burnaby on January 16 and then the Jericho Winter Series Race in Vancou-ver on January 23. Frank said getting the opportunity to race for Canada in the solo was quite a surprise for him in the time trials, needing to qualify in top 3 and placing 2nd. “It’s a sport of technique and endurance and the best paddling in this country is generally in the Master age categories. This is where Canada usually wins its medals and I hope to win one of them.” Frank has made Anglemont his home for the past eight years. Being able to work from a home office allows him a little bit of flexibility, he said but what really helps is having the lake here. “This will be my first world event and I will think about doing the World Cham-pionships Tahiti in 2018. You can only do this for so long, it’s a total commit-ment.”

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The Columbia Shuswap Re-gional District is in the process of devel-oping a new zoning by-law for the entire North Shuswap, from Lee Creek to Sey-mour Arm. There will be public consul-tation during 2016 and plans to institute the bylaw by or in 2017. Zoning requires that all property owners relinquish some of their individ-ual property freedoms for the common good. It can prevent the mixing of in-compatible land uses (such as exotic dance clubs and schools), can allow potential nui-sance uses to be located away from residential neighborhoods or other sensitive areas, can pro-tect recreational areas and can conserve environmen-tally sensitive areas. It can also discourage development in some lo-cations, increase the cost of building new struc-tures, work against histor-ic mixed use neighbor-hoods in older communi-ties and limit the development potential of previously existing land uses. Enforc-ing a zoning bylaw involves a long-term commitment to a certain level of com-munity spending. The basic purpose of zoning is to divide an area into residential, commer-cial and industrial zones with the use of property within each zone being reason-ably uniform. This is maybe where the saying “the devil is in the details” comes from. Ad-ditional restrictions can be quite detailed -- including specific requirements as to the type of buildings allowed, re-strictions on accessory buildings, build-ing setbacks from the streets and other boundaries, size and height of buildings, minimum lot area, off-street parking requirements and limitations for home businesses.

Once zoning is implemented there is no forgiveness for existing uses. If you want to make any changes on your property, you must rectify anything that doesn’t conform to the zoning bylaw. “A structural alteration or addition must not be made in or to a building or other structure while the non-conforming use is continued in all or any part of it. If a building or other structure, the use of which does not conform to the provi-sions of the bylaw is damaged or de-

stroyed to the extent of 75% or more of its value above its foundations, as determined by the build-ing inspector, it must not be repaired or reconstruct-ed except for a conform-ing use in accordance with the bylaw.” For example, if the eaves of your house en-croach into the setback from property lines, you would have to apply for a development variance permit before you can

make any changes on your property. This can be an expensive and lengthy process, having to be approved by the CSRD Board and often brings involve-ment of other government agencies, especially for waterfront properties. Right now, there are zoning by-laws in Scotch Creek/Lee Creek, Magna Bay and Anglemont. There are a few differ-ences in them; an obvious one is Angle-mont’s exclusion of stand-alone campsites. The CSRD wants a uniform bylaw for all so either Anglemont would lose that restriction or all areas would have to include it. It is a good idea to pay attention to this process, to make sure your property is correctly zoned and to understand how it may affect your property.

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Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue

Rob Sutherland, Station Leader Shuswap Station 106, and Bruce Weick-er, President Shuswap Lifeboat Society, made a presentation to the Board about the operations of the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, Shuswap Station 106. Formed in 2012, they are stationed in the Sicamous channel to better access all arms of Shuswap Lake and operate from the long weekend in May to Labour Day long weekend. The Royal Canadian Marine Search and Res-cue asked for the Board’s support for a yearly grant of $25,000. The Board will consider this request in its deliberations of the budget in the New Year.

Milfoil Control The Board endorsed the 2016 budget for the Milfoil Control Program as pro-posed by the Milfoil Control Planning Committee for consideration during the budget process. Further, the Board will write a letter to the Federal Minister of Environment regarding the new Federal Aquatic Invasive Species Regulations and the need for funding in support of education, awareness, and tools to curb the spread of invasive species.

Shuswap Emergency Program The Board endorsed the 2016 budget for the Shuswap Emergency Program as proposed by the Shuswap Emergency Program Executive Committee for con-sideration during the budget process.

Support for the City of Salmon Arm’s “Hotel Room Tax” Application

At the November 19, 2015 Board meeting, the Board received correspond-ence from the City of Salmon Arm re-questing the Board’s support for the City’s application for Municipal, Re-gional and District Tax (MRDT) – “Hotel Room Tax”. At the November Board meeting the Board referred it to the Shuswap Tourism Advisory Commit-tee that met on November 26, 2015. The Board supported the Shuswap Tourism Advisory Committee’s recommendation to write a letter of support for the City of Salmon Arm’s Municipal, Regional and District Tax application.

Grants in aid The following applications for Grants-in-Aid were approved by the Board. Area F - $1,000 for SAS Dry Grad celebration 2016.

Other Funding Landfill Computer Software Up-grade - $40,000 plus applicable taxes, from the All Electoral Areas Community Works Fund to acquire new landfill scale software.

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by Alison Elmes Thank you to our great community for the tremendous outpouring of food, gifts and funds to help those in our area in need this Christmas season. Your generosity has enabled the fill-ing and distributing of 33 hampers to those who find themselves in difficult circum-stances at this time of the year. The ham-pers are very much appreciated and many heartfelt thanks are expressed when they are being picked up. The Christmas Hamper Program would not be possible without the volun-teers who help in so many ways. Our sin-cere thanks go to: Scotch Creek/Lee Creek Fire Department for canvassing at Super-Valu and raising $739.40 from anonymous donors; the Anglemont Firefighters who donated funds and muscle to help with transporting the donated food and filling the hampers; the North Shuswap Lions for once again donating $1000; Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union for their dona-tion of $1000; Century 21 Lakeside Realty

Sorrento for their donation of $500; all the private donors who sent cheques and cash; St. David’s Church for again donating 23 turkeys; Ross Creek Country Store for raising $520.50 from their used book sales; Scotch Creek SuperValu and Ross Creek Country Market for acting as drop off centers for food donations; the NS Community Hall for the donated use of the community hall in Celista to assemble and distribute the hampers; to Tim and Annette Brausse for storing the collected food at SuperValu; to Amanda Jackson for her hard work getting the best prices she could for items bought to fill any gaps in the hampers; to SuperValu suppliers who do-nated milk, cheese, bacon, pop and bread; to the fundraising efforts of Yummies; to the churches in our area for their support and to the staff at the CSRD for their do-nation of non-perishable items; to all the volunteers who helped sort the donated food and gifts to make up the hampers assuring that they were ready for pick up

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By Jo Anne Malpass Defence arguments for unreasonable delay in the Leon Reinbrecht case will be heard in Kamloops BC Supreme Court on March 2 and 3. Ken Brown was killed and eight others injured when a speedboat operated by Reinbrecht crashed into his houseboat on Magna Bay fol-lowing a July 2010 Canada Day fireworks display. It took 17 months for charges to be laid and there were several delays before the trial began in

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at the appointed time; to the South Okanagan Humane So-ciety and Sharon Nichol for the donation and packaging of pet food; for the donations of toys and wonderful hand knit-ted scarfs, toques, gloves and afghans in all sizes and col-ours, many of which were put on the giving tree at Ross

Creek Country Store. Finally thank you for putting your SuperValu till receipts into the Food Bank box at the store. The work behind the scenes is done by President Janice Fisher, Secretary/Treasurer Alison Elmes, direc-tors Annette Brausse, Rhonda Ryall, Shelly Bouchard and Cindy Nakazawa.

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On December 6th, Chase RCMP received a report of an attempted fraud through cell phone communications. The intended victim reported that while attempting to do finan-cial transactions on his smart phone, he received a pop-up message from the “Cyber Po-lice”. The message directed the intended victim to go to a gas station or Canada Post out-let, purchase a pay card and send $250, or face prison for various crimes. The cell carri-er has stated that this scam is based on a computer virus. The RCMP reminds cell phone users that financial scams are common, and not to respond to these types of pop-up messag-es. If you receive suspicious communications that includes any personal banking infor-mation, contact your financial institution to ensure no fraudu-lent transactions have occurred and to receive information on how to protect your accounts.

Seasonal Checkstop On the evening of Decem-ber 24th, Chase RCMP con-ducted a traffic checkstop in Celista. Approximately thirty vehicles were checked. One violation ticket was issued for driving without insurance, one breath demand was made which resulted in a “pass” re-sult, and numerous verbal warnings were issued for mi-nor Motor Vehicle Act offenc-es. The results of this check-stop demonstrate that many drivers are heeding the mes-sage about seeking alternate transportation, and deciding not to take a chance on drink-ing and driving.

Single Vehicle Accidents On December 26th, Chase RCMP attended a single vehi-cle accident on Highway One near Planter Road Chase. A Ford pick-up truck with a male driver was eastbound when he

suddenly en-countered black ice. The driver lost control of the pick-up, hit the ditch, and bounced back onto the road. The driver’s wife and son were also in the vehicle at the time. BC Ambu-lance attended the scene, and there were no serious injuries. On December 27th Chase RCMP attended a single vehi-cle rollover on Highway One near Little River Road, near Sorrento. The female driver had lost control of her Ford Escape in the heavy snow con-ditions. The vehicle slid out of control at a curve in the road, and rolled onto its roof in the ditch. BC Ambulance attended the scene, but the driver, a male passenger and their dog were not injured.

Suspicious Occurrence On December 28th, at about 6:00 am, Chase RCMP received a complaint of a prowler in the 400 block of Coburn St in the Village of Chase. The homeowner found one set of large footprints alongside his house and lead-ing to his garden shed. The shed door had been opened, and a grey bicycle had been stolen. The homeowner then found several movie discs with the name “Tyler” written on them that had been left behind by the thief. No suspects have been identified in this theft, and police are asking for any-one with knowledge of this crime to call Chase RCMP at 250-679-3221 or Crimestop-pers.

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Submitted by Shuswap Watershed Council With the Columbia Shus-wap Regional District’s recent approval of a new service to support the Shuswap Water-shed Council (SWC), there are now three organizations providing long-term funding to the SWC thereby enabling it to begin implementing its pro-grams. At their most recent meet-ing on November 25th, the SWC authorized its program managers, housed within the non-profit Fraser Basin Coun-cil, to update the five-year program that was approved in May 2015 and begin imple-menting its programs for water quality and recreation safety education in January 2016. “The Shuswap Watershed Council has the unique man-date of bringing together dif-ferent agencies across four

orders of government to build relationships, share infor-mation and discuss issues. Without the SWC, this coordi-nation and sharing would not occur and we would not have the opportunity eliminate waste and duplication,” says Paul Demenok, Shuswap Wa-tershed Council Chair and CSRD Area ‘C’ Director. “In effect, the SWC is an im-portant advocate for all resi-dents of the Shuswap who are interested in seeing our water-shed’s water quality main-tained or improved.” “The Shuswap Watershed Council is an action group, not a regulatory body,” says Erin Vieira, the SWC’s program manager. “It has a water quali-ty program with two initia-tives. One of the initiatives relates to water quality moni-toring: coordinating monitor-


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On three occasions RCMP officers extinguished the fires with extinguishers as local volunteer FD was called out to assist. Officers made continu-ous attempts to negotiate with the man to leave the residence peacefully each time that the man briefly exited the home threatening RCMP officers with knives. Eventually the man did set a large fire which quickly engulfed the residence. RCMP officers had to make several attempts to pull the uncooperative man from the blaze and succeeded when the man tried to crawl out of a very small window. The man was taken into custody physically uninjured then immediately transported to a medical facility in order to receive any required medical attention. None of the officers were injured as a result of the incident.


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Instead of featuring one business this month, we want to recognize all the businesses that not only support the Kick-er, but also make a big differ-ence in our communities. Whenever there is a fund raising event on the North Shuswap, Chase, Sorrento or Blind Bay, local businesses are the first ones called upon to contribute. The major events each year would not be possible without their sponsorship. Our community halls, recreation buildings and local charities all benefit from businesses. Many support the North Shuswap Community Hall and Lakeview Centre with donations of their ser-vices as well as financially and with gifts for events. Business donations went a long way in the purchase of the North Shuswap Health Centre.

Local grocery stores sell tickets, are a drop off location for donations to many causes and give generously them-selves. Our businesses face the extra challenge of operating in a seasonal environment, scal-ing back business during the winter months while still keep-

ing people em-ployed. We encourage everyone to shop locally. When you shop with local mer-chants, more of your

money stays close to home; supporting the things that make this community a great place to live. The Kicker appreciates the advertising support and com-munity support from all our businesses and wishes all of you every success in the fu-ture.

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ing across the watershed, sup-plementing agencies’ monitor-ing programs where necessary to ensure the whole watershed is monitored; and reporting on water quality results, among other activities. There is also a water protection initiative that is focussed on better under-standing phosphorus pollution in the watershed and undertak-ing actions to reduce it.” The five-year program is posted online at www.shuswapwater.ca. The document describes all of the SWC’s activities, including its water quality program, its rec-reation safety education pro-gram, communications and administration. The cost and timeline for each of those ac-

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I wrote to the CSRD Di-rector of Planning in early October on behalf of the Chamber Board expressing how important Short Term Vacation Rentals are to our local economy and seeking an update on what our local gov-ernment is planning. The fol-lowing is an excerpt from the response from Gerald Christie, Manager Development Ser-vices. I certainly appreciate the comments that have been pro-vided by the Chamber ….communicating the im-portance of vacation rentals to the economy of the North Shuswap. As you know, the CSRD is undertaking a project to create a new Zoning Bylaw for the entirety of Electoral Area 'F'. The vacation rental topic that you have identified is certainly one of many that will require additional consultation with residents, business owners, community groups and organi-zations such as the Chamber of Commerce. First steps in that project are to bring a draft bylaw and report for-ward to the CSRD Board for its consideration. Through the consultation process with resi-dents, and including referral consultation with other agen-cies (e.g. Interior Health, Min-istry of Forest, Lands and Nat-ural Resource Operations, applicable First Nations, etc.) we expect the bylaw to under-go several changes... As noted in your letter, vacation rental regulations

that are supported by the Chamber of Commerce, such as adequate parking, noise control, building code compli-ance, and provision of an ade-quate sewage system, are the types of regulation of which we can look to include within the draft of the new Zoning Bylaw. Consultation and changes to the draft bylaw is anticipated to take the better part of 2016; therefore, land-owners wishing to utilize their property as a vacation rental in the near term, or wanting to legalize such an existing use now, should be considering the above-noted issues at a mini-mum, and make an application to the CSRD to either rezone their property or to have granted a Temporary Use Per-mit (TUP) for such use. It is important to note that zoning regulations have been in place in some areas of the North Shuswap for the past ten to eighteen years and thus vaca-tion rentals started during this time may not be a legal use of the property. For this reason, property owners should con-tact Development Services staff to find out what regula-tions may pertain to their property and discuss options if a there is a desire to change the land uses on the property. As I am sure the Chamber of Commerce can appreciate, the CSRD has received several complaints about the opera-tion of some vacation rentals, and have also witnessed the noise and parking issues, and the health (sewage) and safety (fire) risks, that can be associ-ated with such use; for these reasons we will be proceeding with diligence in addressing this matter as the Zoning By-


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law project moves forward. We look for-ward to the Chamber's participation in this process. There are a few points to taken from this response. First, our local government does believe that unregulated vacation rentals are a problem. This is also evi-denced by recent actions by Bylaw en-forcement staff. I am aware of a number of letters that have been written in the South Shuswap informing property own-ers that vacation rentals are not an allowa-ble use and instructing them to stop or face bylaw enforcement action. A local realtor was also contacted this fall to see if a property was being marketed as a va-cation rental. The second point is that we now have a schedule for implementing the new zon-ing bylaw for the North Shuswap. It sounds like consultation will take most of 2016 and we should see a new bylaw adopted in 2017. The Chamber intends to be very involved in providing our local government with feedback on all aspects of the new bylaw, not just vacation rent-als. If you have a property you are using for vacation rentals, here are the dates zoning was introduced in the various are-as. If your rentals preceded these dates, the use is grandfathered as long as you rented every year. Anglemont – February 19, 1998 Magna Bay – October 16, 2003 Celista - not zoned so no vacation rental restrictions

Scotch Creek/Lee Creek – November 17, 2005

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If you have a property that is used for vacation rentals, it is important to remem-ber that bylaw enforcement is limited to written complaints. Keep your neigh-bours happy and you won’t have prob-lems. It is also important that our local gov-ernment keeps in mind that “noise and parking issues and the health (sewage) and safety (fire) risks” are not exclusive to vacation rentals. We live in a recreational community and it’s not just tourists that can cause problems for neighbours. We want our tourists to be welcomed to the North Shuswap, have fun, and help sup-port our local businesses.

Chamber Dinner/Dance "We are also pleased to report that we had another successful Chamber of Com-merce Christmas party held at the Quaaout Lodge on December 5th, 2015. 122 tickets were sold to this year's event. A big thank you to Team Equip-ment who donated the band, "The Petty Four" from Kamloops. They played a great range of music that seemed to keep everyone dancing and having fun all night. A special thank you goes out to the Chef and catering staff of Quaaout Lodge for a fabulous dinner and venue. We are very fortunate to have such a fine estab-lishment in our community. With ticket sales, wine/spirit and 50/50 draws, the event raised just over $3,200.00. As al-ways the funds raised from this event go towards the summer wages of the Tour-ism Office. We would also like to make a note of thanks to Kris Jensen for being the master of ceremony for the evening, Su-per Valu for donation of the Spirit Draw and Spooner Electric for the donation to the Wine Draw. Thank you to everyone that came out for an evening of fun."


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to make the process simpler with more information given to applicants at the beginning of the process. Passmore said some issues, such as the boat house in this case, aren’t discovered until later. He said to email him with any ideas, com-ments or concerns. The members of the APC voted unanimously to support granting the de-velopment variance permit. Passmore said it would probably be on the agenda of the CSRD Board in January but Christmas may set it back to February. Notice to neighbours within 100 metres of the prop-erty, must go out 10 business days before board meeting.


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Anglemont Volunteer Fire Department once again re-ceived a call out for wires down on the Squilax-Anglemont Road. This tends to be a common issue and we have responded to several calls this year. We appreciate the closure of our major roadway is hard on traffic; however we must ensure the safety of eve-ryone in these types of inci-dents. It sure is nice to have some new recruits and it gives our fire members a chance to men-tor and relearn many of our training programs and duties. We are structured in a way that allows us to provide a thorough orientation program for our recruits and enables them to easily fit in with our fully trained fire members. Our Fire Department held a very valuable Live Fire train-ing session in November. Members were able to practice forcible entry, building search-es, ventilation techniques, hose handling and protection of ex-posures. Check us out on Face-book. The Santa Claus Parade was another success and we had fun building a float and while our feet are a little sore, it was all worth the effort when we see the smiles on all the little faces. It was again a pleasure for our Fire Department to be a part of the North Shuswap Food Bank. Five of our mem-bers assisted in transporting, sorting and distributing food for the hampers. Thanks to the volunteers, your help was much appreciated.

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By Carol Lepsoe The Celista Coffee House wishes all of you the best for this New Year! May it be full of music and magical moments! Our Christmas Coffee House was lively, yet small. Kudos to Judy Weller, our wonderful emcee, for keeping the crowd entertained with her good humor and willingness to engage the audi-ence with Christ-mas carol sing-a-longs. We were delighted to have John Clinch back as one of the open mic performers. He has a new CD available with some very big Nashville names helping him out. Thanks to Jane and Larry Stevenson for making the trip across the lake and to Ruben Carter, from Chase. Another surprise, from Chase, was Carolyn, who recited two lovely poems. We are always grateful for all the musicians who come out and share their talents. Next Coffee House will feature the very talented Mar-git Sky Project, from Kam-loops. This duo will surely get your toes tapping and fingers snapping. If you have never heard them, then come on out and enjoy an excellent concert for the bargain price of $4.00 a ticket. Bring a friend, and

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By Jo Anne Malpass The North Shuswap saw many improvements this year, mostly thanks to community members who were generous with their time and money. A call went out to the community in June to raise $130,000 to purchase the Health Centre building. By the end of the year, $115,000 had been raised. This allows the Health Centre to re-main open while the Society keeps up its search for a doctor. The Shuswap Trail Alliance completed a hiking trail above Anglemont to Evelyn Falls. Members of the Historical Society restored the original Ed and Dorothy Riley cabin and opened it to the public in July. Several citizens stepped up to help when the First Respond-ers, an amazing group who are there when needed most, asked for new members. A group of community members worked together to clean up an eyesore at Scotch Creek, referred to as Heroin Hill. Local businesses showed their generosity by donating to many fund raising events. One of the largest fund raisers was the

Poker Run sponsored by the Lions Club and Captains Village Marina. It sold out for the first time and raised $12,500 for local charities. The Chamber of Com-merce completed its signage for the en-trance to the North Shuswap and each community from Lee Creek to Seymour Arm. Local fire departments and citizens, along with Wildfire Management Branch, managed to keep us safe this dry hot summer. Each of our fire departments dealt with at least one wildfire and kept it from spreading and threat-ening homes. Private citizens at Seymour Arm dealt with a fire there until a Wildfire team arrived. Anglemont Fire Department put on a Canada Day event at Ross Creek store, inviting the pub-lic for a barbecue, music and displays by the departments and safety organizations in the area. Scotch Creek/Lee Creek held a successful Halloween party and fireworks. The North Shuswap Lions Club is involved in an incredible

number of events; weekly meat draws, silent auction, poker run, garage sale and Christmas party for the kids, to name a few. The Lions established a Community Youth Fund this year to finance North Shuswap youth in arts, athletic and cultural activ-ities. They donated funds to the Shuswap Hospital Foundation that will support the purchase of much needed equipment, gave out two $750 bursaries to North Shuswap students graduating from Salmon Arm Secondary, helped with the hot lunch pro-gram at the school and collected eyeglasses for the international Saving Sight program, again just to name a few. North Shuswap Community Hall continued to be the social centre of the community with many local groups and organiza-tions holding their monthly meetings, exercise classes, Coffee Houses, Mother’s Day Breakfast, Father’s Day prime rib and lobster dinner, its new event of Wine, Stein and Dine, Wednes-day Farmers’ market, a dance to raise funds for ALS in memory of Barney Bischoff, pottery and art sales. Volunteers pitched in to put the finishing touches on the picnic shelter, which is now landscaped and fitted with water and electricity. Lakeview Centre drew crowds for its wide variety of enter-tainment including the Pig and Whistle, Kenny Rogers, Re-membrance Day Service, monthly breakfasts, Elvis Evolution, Divas, Canada Day and murder mystery dinner. It also has a wide variety of weekly activities from carpet bowling to crib-bage. Some of our local residents represented us and did well. Petra Simpson and Sacha Lutjen-Labelle took first place in their age groups at the Word on the Lake Contest, Ben Bischoff finished the international off-road Baja 100, Be Teased Food Truck took third prize at Launch-a-Preneur and four local chil-dren raised $1,000 for the SPCA and Earth Rangers. Other events of note on the North Shuswap this year in-clude: North Shuswap Elementary was converted to a K-8 school, keeping more students in our school. Local internet providers received provincial grant money to improve service to all areas of the North Shuswap by next sum-mer.


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A prior permission required airstrip at Magna Bay held its first annual fly-in in June. The trial of Leon Reinbrecht, after the speedboat he was driving crashed into a houseboat at Magna Bay in July 2010 and killed owner Ken Brown, started in February. Reinbrecht was found guilty in October but the defence filed an unrea-sonable delay application, which will be heard in early March. Warm weather and low water was blamed for the large reduction in Sockeye salmon returning to spawn at Scotch Creek and Adams River. A landslide in February washed out Vickers Trail in Anglemont and knocked a home off its foundation. The Columbia Shuswap Regional District passed the Shuswap Watershed Council Service Establishment Bylaw which allows the CSRD to raise $180,000 annually through a parcel tax. The CSRD made changes to its recycling pro-gram, adding several new items that could be recycled after being sorted into six categories.


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Barry Tannock Thank you for your continuing sup-port for the Meat Draw. It has been a great year thanks to all of you. 2016 draws will start Saturday, Jan. 9 at the Scotch Creek Pub @3PM. Our annual Farrells Field skating party will be Jan. 9 from 8 to 2, hot dogs and hot chocolate supplied. Let’s hope for cold weather. The North Shuswap Lions send a warm Thank You to the following for helping to make the Children’s Christmas Party on December 13th such a success: The North Shuswap Kicker, Butch and Shelley Bouchard, Donna Gallant, Joan Bristow and Lenai Brama. To have prizes for the adults, we thank Red Truck Foods, Super Valu, and Sharen’s Hair Studio for donating gift bas-kets for the raffle and our own Lion Di-anne Fisher for putting together the three baskets donated by the Club. The Lions club members had a great time and we hope you did too. Merry Christ-mas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!

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By Bev Shea Last month I wrote about the 7 Day Mental Diet. All that positive thinking should have gotten us ready for a pros-perous new year. The advertising agen-cies believe that we have all made New Year’s resolutions to change our lives and I am willing to go along with the conventional wisdom that this is a good time to makes some changes, so here is my program for a Prosperity Diet. I am using the definition of prosperi-ty as “feeling good about your life and having all your needs met. The first thing you have to do on this diet is give up poverty (negative) thinking and replace it with prosperity (positive) thinking. There are four important elements to this diet: 1) Appreciation. Begin to appreciate prosperity. Take stock of what you have been blessed with and appreciate it. Learn to enjoy life. Practise an “attitude to gratitude”. This may be a good time to start a Gratitude Journal. Take time each day to write down 3 things for which you are grateful. 2) Familiarity. Become Familiar with prosperity. Think, talk and dream about being prosperous. Take time each day to read a chapter in a book about being prosperous. There are lots of them avail-able. I went to the chapters.indigo.ca website and searched positive thinking and had 71 hits. I like to go back to my

old favourites when I need a booster shot on my prosperity diet. I can always count on Norman Vincent Peale, Joseph Mur-phy, Emmet Fox and Catherine Ponder to give me the encouragement I need. 3) Expectation. Look forward to becom-ing prosperous. Act upon your goals immediately, as if you were destined for it. Remember to us visualization and affirmation repeatedly. If your emotions are involved in your prosperity diet you will find it easier to reach your goal. 4) Sharing. You need to share your pros-perity. The old proverb that it is better to give than receive has been around for a long time for a reason. If you don’t share you won’t get the enjoyment that you deserve. And remember that sharing does not always involve money. One of the most important gifts you can give is the gift of your time. The beginning of a new year is a good time to see what you can do for your community. there are a num-ber of worthwhile groups in our commu-nity that can use some of your time, ex-perience and skills. The North Shuswap First Responders, the Volunteer Fire De-partments, the North Shuswap Lions are just a few who would be happy to have you join their teams. I hope that you have a Prosperous 2016. Live in the awareness that miracle follows miracle and wonders never cease - and that’s the way it is!

Sorrento Lions Club Senior’s Christmas Party And Silent Auction

The Christmas party in November brought seniors together for an evening of entertainment and fun. Typically the Sorrento Memorial Hall is packed with 175 seniors who come to enjoy the local 35+ member Glee Club choir. Donations to the silent auction were made by local businesses and the total dollar value of these donations was $4,158.50. The Club provided snacks in the form of trays of meat, cheese, sandwich-es and vegetables as well as coffee and tea. The Club makes a donation to the Glee Club for their performance. This year the silent auction raised $2,260.00 and the 50/50 draw raised $240.00. Proceeds from the Silent Auction

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how to get the pictures off of their smartphones and onto their computers. Smartphones typically do not contain a great deal of storage space and so tend to fill up rather quickly. There are a couple of ways to empty your smartphone when it gets full. One way is to connect it to your computer using the charging cable that came with it. The folder that contains your smartphone pictures will show up in File Explorer on your computer allowing you to drag and drop your pictures from your smartphone into your Pictures library. Another, more modern way to transfer your photos from your smartphone is to use cloud storage. Cloud storage is space allocated to you by the company that built your smartphone. Both Apple and Android smartphones are ca-pable of syncing all of your pictures and videos to the cloud. Apple uses iCloud and Android uses Google Drive for this purpose and both provide a certain amount of space for free. The way it works is that whenever you take a picture or video using your smartphone, it is automatically uploaded to your personal cloud storage. When the upload completes, that picture or video becomes instantly available to all of your devices, whether it be a computer, tablet or even an-other smartphone. You can then download the item to the internal storage of the new device, remove it from your smartphone and the transfer is complete. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to get in touch.

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WE DID IT! We are now officially a Charity, recognized by Reve-nue Canada, and able to issue Charitable Tax Receipts! It's been a long process. Over 2 years of effort by a number of hard working board members. Thanks to Anita Misseghers and Evelyn Isley who got it started, Ted Danyluk who worked through the final documents and spent much time on the phone with Revenue Canada. And the rest of the board through the last couple of years for the work and dedication to this goal, as well as the Health Centre So-ciety in general. We're now into our 5th year as a society running the clinic, and every year brings new opportunities and chal-lenges. Now that we own the clinic itself (not quite mort-gage free), we plan on re-dedicating ourselves to two major initiatives: 1) Making sure the clinic is viable and sustainable for the long term. This basically means remaining in a positive cash flow. To do this we want to find other services to occu-py the clinic for a day, a week, a month, whatever. Like Massage, Chiropractic, Optometry, Tarot and Palm reading etc. This will provide rental income and more ser-vices to the community 2) Physician Recruitment. This is where we get creative, to get a doctor to look at us,

and actually choose to make their home here. Competition is fierce and our research says it's mainly money/benefits, with lifestyle a ways back in second place. We may have to 'buy' ourselves a doctor. The board is trying to figure out how this is all go-ing to get done. We are vol-unteers after all and these two goals require time, energy, creativity, meetings, creativity (yup, lots of creativity). We are debating the merits of finding a part time person (a Business Development Man-ager) to take on some of these tasks. As you can imagine, there are reasons to, and rea-sons not to. Our concern is that without one person, who can dedicate the necessary time, energy and focus to make this happen, the volun-teer board may not be able to do what is needed within a reasonable time. Anyway, as you can see, challenges and opportunities. We continue to say THANK YOU to the amazing generosity of the people and businesses of the North Shus-wap. Our community doesn't always agree on solutions, but with the Health Centre we all seem to be pulling in the same direction. That's amazing. Have a great 2016! And if you have any problems with a bit too much income, I know of a marvellous local charity....! Call me, 250-377-5462 ...Jay

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enjoy their energy and toe tapping music. A huge thank-you to Jim and Carol for their work putting this evening together and to Lorrie in the kitchen and Dolores Beck who was scooping out ice cream floats. The variety of goodies brought by every-one was staggering – thanks everyone. Also thank you to Ross Creek Store for sending a tray of treats. Thanks to Louie, Fay and Germain for setting up and tearing down. Thanks also to our awesome cleaner uppers: Melanye, Dolores, Mrs. D., Darla, Vern and Ted. Thanks Ron and Jack in the sound booth. I know I’ve missed some helpers but you are all appreciated and we couldn’t do these events without you. We aren’t sure of the date of the next Coffee House but by the response we received we would like to have another one real soon! • Christmas Craft Fair: Marianne Brama and friends worked very hard to bring the first ever Christmas Craft Fair to the Lak-eview Centre. The upstairs hall had the crafters and artists and downstairs the small business operators displayed their mer-chandise. Louie Trentin was busy helping out and selling 50/50 tickets. Thanks to the kitchen helpers who sold baked goods and light lunches; they are Ann, Marilyn, Dolores and Shirley. Thanks to the community for supporting this event. A special time for all. • Anglebay Entertainers Hosted Christmas Party: Lake-view Community: The Theme for the Christmas Party was A Winter Gala. The beautiful winter scene wall decorations by Linda Mead set the scene of blue, white and silver. Darla Wil-kinson crafted the beautiful centerpieces set on cobalt blue ta-blecloths. Ann Chow cut-out many, many snowflakes, trees and snowmen to pin onto the black stage curtains. It indeed looked “wintery”. A huge thank you to Ann Chow for all the work that went into coordinating the meal. She has it down to a science and the meal was hot and tasty. Thanks to Dennis for his behind the scenes help. Again the potluck dessert table was full of treats – thanks everyone. Jo Groves and the Anglebay Entertain-ers entertained us with Christmas songs while Brenda Shabbits played piano – she can sure tickle those ivories. After dinner we danced to Birchbark – love that band!! Thanks to everyone who came out to support our party. • Christmas Parade: A huge thank you to Jack and Frank Lewis for the use of their flatbed truck for our float this year. Thanks to Dale Cundy for the lighting plant. We met at Steve and Linda Brasier’s yard to decorate and had a great time. Thanks everyone from the decorators to the lusty singers. • Renos: During the Christmas break Ian Robertson of IRRR painting will be busy painting and installing white subway tiles in all the bathrooms. New bathroom fixtures will be installed and the handicapped bathrooms will be fully outfitted. The flooring contractors will be installing vinyl plank flooring throughout the upstairs hall. The plan is to run vinyl plank flooring downstairs as well. The contractors are trying to get this work completed in this very small window of opportunity so that the regular activities aren’t interrupted. • AGM and Elections: Please plan to attend the January 12, 2016 meeting as Elections will be taking place. Our hard work-ing President Fay Begin is stepping down as is Vice President Lorrie Schrader and Treasurer Ron Schrader. Please plan to attend the meeting as there are a lot of items to discuss. • Memberships are Due: The cost is $20.00/per person. Shari Aichholz is our Membership Chair and she will collect your dues.




By Kelly Christian We all look to January as the time to clear our slate of the prior year, makes plans for what we want the New Year to look like and to set goals for our business/career, health, lifestyle and finances. While some are success-ful carrying out their plans, sadly most are not. The 3 tactics below will help you finally be successful this year if you integrate them into your planning. 1. Create a new habit around your goal Setting a goal such as losing 20 lbs, paying off debt or getting your business finances in order are awful goals! Yes, you heard right. They are awful be-cause they do not involve any type of plan to change your habits that caused these issues in the first place. The best bet for success is to create a measurable & realistic goals, supported by a new habit in a time period that is long enough to have it become part of your routine. Following this advice I was finally able to start and continue a daily plan of flossing at 42 years old. For all you dentists out there I know I should have been doing it forever but I never seemed to have time. I came upon Dr. BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits website and found some great advice and studies about habits. One of his main premises is that you need to make it impossible not to do the activity that you want to become a habit. Re-frame, think outside the box, add triggers....whatever it takes. In the business world this might look like creating a money date with yourself to review your numbers and update your bookkeeping, or setting scheduled times each day/week to write or handle your social media. Whatever it is, make the habit smaller than you first choose and think outside the box for ways, places and times that will help you to maintain the new habit for long enough that it becomes a part of your daily routine. 2. Don't plan more than 90 days ahead You can even start with 60 days instead of 90. The theory behind this is well documented by numerous studies that reveal if you can start and keep up a new habit for 90 days then you are

likely to maintain it for the long term. Missing a day here and there is not habit ending. The people who are successful pick up the next day and keep moving forwards. Be sure to have a system to track your progress, such as a calendar where you mark off each day that you com-plete the new habit, a journal where you record your habits or even an elec-tronic app that helps you track your progress. Whatever system you use, it needs to show you how much progress you have made with a running total of your performance. This makes it so much harder to skip a day when it will break your streak of success! 3. Accountability This piece of the puzzle is huge for most of us. We try to tell ourselves that we don't need to be externally motivat-ed to reach our goals or to create our new habits. This is true once we get past the critical point in the habit for-mation process but when we are start-ing out, why not use peer pressure or loving reminders we can get from a friend, group or spouse to keep us mov-ing in the right direction? I look at it as if I were fighting a fire; would you choose to only use a fire extinguisher if you had a whole fire truck at your dis-posal? Same thing applies here. Many entrepreneurs are missing the accountability piece as they are too busy and end up working alone in their home offices with little or no outside support. Be sure to seek out support in a form that works for you; Chamber of Commerce, local meetups, regular cof-fee dates with another business owner, online programs etc. The form it takes does not matter. Doing it does! I am currently offering an online Business Financial Bootcamp Program starting in January which will help you with creating your money habits and provide ongoing accountability to make sure you create the habits needed to make 2016 your most successful year ever! www.kellychristianandcompany.com

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Skwlax Fireman’s Ball 2015

By Keith Power Fire Chief Skwlax V.F.D. November 21 at the Quaaout lodge was the first of what will be an annual event held by the Skwlax Volunteer Fire department. A dinner dance along with a silent auction was held as a fund raiser for the vol-unteer Fire Department that provides fire protection, suppression, educa-tion and medical first response to the Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band and roads and rail lines that pass through Quaaout reserve #1 and Chum Creek reserve #2. From the many comments we have received a fabulous night was had by all those that attended, we were entertained by the Fab Four-ever, a Beatles tribute band out of Vancouver and the dance floor was full from the first to last song. If you ever get chance to hear these guys play you will think that you are lis-tening to the Beatles, what a really fabulous group. In keeping with the "British" theme Quaaout lodge served up many British favourites including fish and chips and bangers and mash along with other great choices, again we received many positive comments on the quality of the food, great staff, great service and great location. As mentioned along with the dining and dancing a silent auction was held with some great items up for auction, we would like to thank all of the companies and individuals who donated items to this auction and made our first to be annual "Fireman's Ball" a tremendous suc-cess. Thank You! Save the date for the next Skw-lax Fireman's Ball - November 19, 2016 at Quaaout Lodge.

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By Jan Penner We had a few guesses for this month's item. And the winner is…. Vickey Bischoff! She correctly named the mys-tery item as pelt stretchers. Trapping in order to col-lect furs for trading was a major draw for early settlers arriving in Rupert's Land. Many who first settled in the North Shuswap set trap lines that they maintained throughout the winter months, harvesting rich pelts which were trad-ed for supplies and money which allowed them to develop home-steads and raise families. Trap-ping and selling furs is still in prac-tise and though monitored and with more humane trapping tools available the prep-aration of pelts has changed little. These pelt stretchers are an example of one of the tools used to prepare the pelts for market. Once an animal is skinned out, the hide is placed over an appro-priately sized stretcher to begin curing. The apparatus does not actually "stretch" the pelt, but keeps it from shrink-ing and shriveling as it dries. If it is stretched out too much, the pelt is out of shape and in some cases it will actually tear, making it useless. After being placed on a stretcher, the pelt is secured

with pins or tacks and is then hung in a cool area that has good ventilation. Pelts should never be against a wall or touching each other. If the area is too warm, the pelts can shrivel and spoil. Pelts need to hang until they are hard which can be anywhere from

a few days to a week, depending on the size and thickness of a pelt. Larger animals such as fox and coyote can be stretched fur in for the first few days, and then turned fur out to complete the drying process. Further prep-aration of the pelt is

dependent on the buyer's specifica-tions. While many do not condone harvesting of furs, it is a huge part of our coun-try's history. To-day, carefully monitored trap-ping is similar to hunting practises with permits is-sued for trap lines and quotas and limits established

by conservation. It is one way to maintain healthy popu-lations in the wild and many still eat what they catch, no matter what it is. Above is next month's item. Be sure to submit your guess by January 22nd for the chance to win our $20 prize! HINT: Diameter is approxi-mately 6” to 8” .

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By Claudette Carlsen The results are in from our Christmas Bird Count held on Dec. 15, 2015. The counts from year to year never fail to amaze me. For instance, we had less species of birds but way more individuals. Because of more open water, the waterfowl count was very high, 964 indi-viduals of which the majority were Canada Geese and Mal-lards. Our overall species count was 55, down from last year’s 62 and the number of individuals was 3635, up from 3176 last year. The yellow Evening Gros-beak count was down from 98 to 37, but the Black Capped Chickadees and Nuthatches were about the same. In the East of Canada, the Evening Grosbeak has been put on the endangered list so I hope this

is not an indication of where we are headed. We had great weather and a great Potluck afterwards and I am thanking all the people who helped us this year, six-teen counters plus Ted Gough, who every year counts the Blake Point area for us. Jack and I logged 110 kms doing the Magna Bay to Celista area and it took us about four hours so it isn’t hard to do, and we meet all kinds of people who feed the birds like we do. Next up is the Swan and Eagle Count on Jan. 17. We will have the St. Ives to Sor-rento route so if you know of any swans in your area, you can call me at 250-679-8148 and we can put them on our count. Have a great 2016 and if you love Nature, consider joining us.

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Eileen Peters MA, Certified Professional Counsellor “You will do as I say, young man,” Ralph hollered as his 14 year-old son slouched past him. As the door to his son’s room slammed shut Ralph felt his fists clench as he fought the urge to stomp into his son’s room and let him know who was boss! Only the knowledge of his oldest daugh-ter’s soon arrival stopped him. Ralph slumped into an easy chair, his brain taunting him with the words, “Do as I say, not as I do! Do as I say, not as I do!” And a memory he had never shared with any-one came flooding back, un-bidden. He was a little younger than his own son when he had gone with his dad to pick up some parts for the quad. As they were walking out of the shop, Ralph saw his dad reach for a small tool that was lying near the door. His dad glanced around and then slipped it into his pocket. No one said any-thing on the ride home. A few years later when Ralph and his friends were caught walking out of a mall with two sets of headphones they hadn’t paid for, Ralph’s dad went ballistic and slapped him repeatedly as he yelled, “What is wrong with you? Didn’t I train you better than that?” Integrity seems to be a rare find nowadays. We are quick to denounce countries, corporations, business, and anybody else who doesn’t “walk the talk”. And yet we ourselves so often expect oth-ers (especially our children) to live up to a higher standard than we are willing to do. Sadly, a lack of integrity destroys trust. Children find it confusing and become suspi-

cious when parents tell them to be honest, and then turn around and tell a lie. When dad prom-ises to take his kids to the movies on a Saturday after-noon, but instead decides to play golf, or mom promises a special shopping trip and then gets an invitation for coffee that “she just can’t refuse” children begin to learn to live with the pain of inconsistency. Robert Subby says, “Many of us who experienced these inconsistencies…came to be-lieve as children, that we really weren’t good enough and did-n’t deserve our parent’s love. Unable to get our parents ap-proval, we sought out new ways of getting attention. Con-scious or otherwise, our goal is to manipulate others to give us validation and love. Who we are inside is not good enough or deserving enough, so we hide this unacceptable part and learn to do those things which will bring us approval from others. The most destructive part of this particular rule is that by doing only what we think others want us to do, we deny ourselves and become divided inside.” As Ralph sat in the quiet-ness, he began to realize that there were areas, such as his own anger, and his habit of turning up late for supper with-out bothering to phone ahead, and forgetting his son’s games, that he tolerated in himself, but would not allow in his son. “I really need to change some things,” he muttered as he got out of his chair and headed to his son’s room. If you would like more information or to find out about counselling services in Scotch Creek please feel free to contact me at 250-793-2202. www.northshorecounselling.net

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I have heard it many times, buyers have told me there is no harm in trying a lowball offer. I disagree. What I have seen is if a seller sees a buyer’s first offer as insulting then the sellers resistance goes up and the seller will be more resistant of any offer from that buyer. In the end the buyer will have paid more for the property than if their first offer price was respectful.

In the last year I have seen buyers first offer price at half the list price with the buyer miffed at the sellers being upset. There is no reliable definition of lowball. I have seen buyers consider their offer at $1,000 off the list price as a low ball and I have seen a seller consider a buyers offer at $1,000 off the list price as lowball. By my definition neither is a lowball, but I’m not the buyer or seller. Very seldom will a buyer and seller agree to terms if the seller thinks they are being lowballed. It’s a ploy that seldom works.

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING South Shuswap Chamber of Commerce AGM together with a complimentary wine & cheese will take place Thursday Janu-ary 28th at 6:30 pm. at the Cedar Heights Centre, 2316 Lake-view Drive, Blind Bay. All members in good standing are invited to attend this event. Please RSVP to Chamber Manager Karen Brown by call-ing 250.515.0002.

Submitted Darcy Calkins The Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society (LASS) and many community organiza-tions are inviting families to participate in Unplug & Play Family Literacy Week from January 23th to 30st, 2016. Children (ages 8 – 18) use an average of 7.5 hours of enter-tainment technology per day. There are many negative health factors, as well as negative impacts on social and emotion-al development that are being linked to the large number of hours children are spending in front of screens. In order to encourage students and fami-lies to reduce their amount of screen-time (TV, video games, computers, etc.) Unplug & Play Passports have been printed for

every elementary school stu-dent in the district. On each passport, there is a daily check-list to record screen-free activi-ties and a schedule of events for families throughout the North Okanagan-Shuswap. All events are free and some of the planned activities include: skat-ing and buddy reading with the Salmon Arm SilverBacks and Sicamous Eagles, family game nights, Early Years Fairs, mag-ic shows, family skating, spe-cial library storytimes, family yoga night, sliding parties, fam-ily art afternoon, Jam the GM Children’s Book Drive, free family swim, indoor soccer, curling, and much more! For more information, please go to www.shuswapliteracy.ca .

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By Pat Danforth This friendly, full day family event for both recrea-tional and competitive skiers will take place on Saturday, January 16, 2016. Almost $400,000 has been raised for the Heart and Stroke Founda-tion over the past 31 years. Families, friends and neigh-bours from 2 to 82 are invited to gather together at Salmon Arm's Larch Hills to enjoy the pristine, rolling trails followed by a BBQ beef hot lunch, pool

time, "appy hour" and a family dance. Online registration closes on Thursday, January 14, 2016 and final registration is from 3 to 8 p.m. at the SASCU Recre-ation Centre on Friday, Janu-ary 15, 2016. Entry forms and addition-al information is available on-line at www.SkiLarchHills.ca or from local nordic ski clubs.

32nd Annual “Reino Keski-Salmi” Loppet

Thank you to Firefighters

We would like to give a huge shout out and heartfelt thanks to the awesome team of volunteer fire fighters at the Scotch Creek station for saving our “Happy Place” during a devastating house fire on Christmas day…great job guys!!

Rick & Donna Foster

All the Best from Shuswap Trails Wishing you all the very best of the Season and a Happy New Year from the Shuswap Trail Alliance! 2015 has been quite a year marking the 10th anniver-sary of our collaborative work together under the Shuswap Trail Alliance banner. Thank you to all the partners, spon-sors, stewards, volunteers, leaders, trail users, businesses, communities, individuals, organizations, donors - you - who have made it all possible! Together - we have built new relationships, entered a new era of accountability within Secwepemc Nation Territory, pooled our knowledge, time, and resources, become even more strate-gic in our planning together, begun to look for better ways to manage ourselves on the land, and yes - built, main-tained, and promoted even more trails throughout the Shuswap. Thank you all!

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Youth Sports

By Mike McManamna Basketball

Youth Fun Basketball for ages 8 and up at North Shuswap Elementary on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. Free, drop in and bring water and indoor shoes etc. Players are invited to bring their "tunes" for the Rockin Warmup!

Football The Peewee Chargers (ages 10-11) had a really good season and managed to make the first round of playoffs, but were defeated in a tragic 28-26 loss...what a great effort for a team made up of 90% first year players... Great work team! The Junior Bantam Chargers (ages 12-13) had a stellar season, registering only one loss to the Vernon Magnums. The Chargers, featuring local boys Simon Wiebe, Jonah Rivette and Vaughn McManamna finished the season off with a record of 7-1, scoring 228 points while only giving up 46. Note that the Chargers and Shuswap Minor Foot-ball show great respect for their opponents and after going ahead 30 points in a game, we will stop scoring by running out of bounds and or taking knees. There were a few instances where we had no choice but to score, but didn’t take the points. The 2nd place Chargers entered the playoffs heavily favoured to beat the 3rd place Kelowna Lions (who we quite handily beat twice in the regular season) but as the saying goes "on any given Sun-day", we were defeated in the "most ex-citing game of the year" as quoted by the officials. The Chargers held the lead until 27 seconds left with the Lions at 3rd and 20 in their own 45 yard line, when they executed a "Disneyish" Hail Mary long bomb and managed to score to take the lead. The Chargers fought back and in 2 plays made it back down to the Lions 10 yard line but, with no time left on the clock were unable to score. Our 15 year head Coach Andrew VanDokkumburg said it was the hardest loss he’s ever had

to bear...but all in all it was a great season with a great group of players. The Bantam Chargers (ages 14-15) had a great season as well and finished the season with an 8-1 record. Their only loss of the season came against the West Van Warriors who they played twice in the regular season with each team win-ning one game. The Bantam Chargers were forced to play this season in the Fra-ser Valley Football league as the other interior bantam teams ended up playing in Junior Varsity (high school) leagues. This caused a great hardship with travel ex-penses as over 1/2 their games were at the Coast. A huge thank you to The North Shuswap Lions for their donation to the Bantams to help offset travel costs. All

that travel time on the bus may have helped because the Bantam Chargers won the Fraser Valley champi-onship and met and defeat-ed their nemesis, the West Van Warriors, to win the BC Provincial Champion-ship. Congratulations to the Bantam's and our own North Shuswap boys, Har-per Hokenson and Luke Rivette who play for the Bantam's and might be showing off some champi-onship bling soon... If you see either one of these play-ers, ask them for their auto-

graph! Great work guys for a once in a lifetime season!

Baseball North Shuswap Minor Baseball will star registrations very soon. Nothing like getting a jump on things... So if you have players interested in playing some North Shuswap Minor Baseball, look for regis-tration forms coming home from school or at Super Valu. Shuswap Minor Sports would like to thank all our supporters and wish a happy New Year to all. Remember... "Given a choice, a kid would much rather steal 2nd base than your car" ...quote Babe Ruth. If you have players (boys or girls) interested in playing some Shuswap Mi-nor Sports, please call Mike at 250-819-0522.

SA Bantam Chargers Win!

On December 6, 2015, the Salmon Arm Bantam Chargers (ages 14-15) won the B.C. Provincial Cham-pionship in Langley, beat-ing the VWWMF Warriors of Vancouver by a score of 47 - 13. In addition to the game trophy awarded to the team, each player will be receiving a commemo-rative ring. Congratula-tions to all the players and staff on your impressive season.

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By Jenn Szabo It's January, and if you're in the ma-jority you've probably made a New Years resolution this year that will improve your life in some way. As a Transforma-tional Wellness Coach I'm a sucker for all positive change, especially when it comes to wellness and self development, so I love the idea of New Years resolutions. The trouble is, I know that many people set a goal for the year with great enthusi-asm, only to have their shimmery and well intentioned plan fall to the wayside a week or month later. Many of these goals fizzle out for a few main reasons; they aren't carefully planned out, they are tak-en on without a support person/group, or we just don't have the knowledge or skill to make our plan a reality. I would like to help my readers with this dilemma. This year let’s achieve well being together! A wise mentor of mine once

said figure out a way that you can help the largest amount of people, and touch the most hearts, and then you will feel alive and fulfilled in your career. I've made a point of following this advice, and I've chosen careers that have allowed me to train and assist clients in skill de-velopment and obtaining personal success in their careers, relationships and health and fitness journeys. This work makes me tick, and I feel a huge sense of accom-plishment when I see others growing and succeeding. I've found the most effective way to help people create change in their lives is by working in groups. This gives clients a supportive environment where they are encouraged and motivated by other group members and held accounta-ble. So, how can I help you achieve your New Years resolution? I'm offering a FREE online community wellness chal-

lenge to all my readers starting in Janu-ary. The challenge will include various body mind and spirit techniques that will boost your energy, help with weight loss, induce peace of mind and so much more. I will offer different challenge options for all health and fitness levels, and you will find our daily challenges are fun and practical. Do you want in on the action? Simply "like" my Facebook page: Jenn's Wellness Group, and await instructions for your first daily challenge. I look for-ward to working with you. Let's make this year a happy, healthy new year.

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School News By Jan Penner As we start our January schedule, staff and students are looking forward to our upcom-ing Ski/Skate days. Intermedi-ates will be heading off to Sil-ver Star for 3 days of downhill skiing, while the Primary stu-dents will be busing to Art Holding Arena in Chase for skating in the morning of the same days. Parents, please check the school newsletter for times and dates and pay close attention to departure times for the ski bus, as timing is tight and the bus must leave on time. Congratulations to both the boys and girls volleyball teams. Each won their zone championships in early De-cember, bringing home ribbons which will be added to the trophy case. Well done! During our last week of December classes we had the annual Christmas concert. Way to go Ms. Auger! Our band was excellent and the classes all did a lovely job with their songs from other coun-tries. I myself really enjoyed the whole concert, but I espe-cially loved the "booming" in Six White Boomers.

The last week of Decem-ber also had the "Snow Ball" as a highlight. Multi-aged groups (students from K-8) moved from room to room participating in Christmas themed activities. We have a wonderful student population and the interaction between older and younger students was fabulous. A huge amount of responsibility and empathy

develops and is demonstrated through such activities and

a good time was had by all!

A quick reminder to everyone that our chil-

dren often walk along our roadways on the way to and from bus stops. Please be cau-tious and slow down when you see them. Depending on weather conditions, the roads can be slippery or slushy and in many places, there is very little room on the road shoul-ders. Parents, please advise your children to walk on the left side of the road facing traffic when possible, to make eye contact with drivers, to wear clothing that can be seen easily, and to be prepared to get off the road quickly if need be. Let's have a safe return to school!

By Darcy Calkins The Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society (LASS) is currently recruiting volun-teer computer tutors in Salmon Arm and in the South Shuswap (Blind Bay) to work with local seniors who are in need of basic computer support. If you are interested in this rewarding community volunteer oppor-tunity, please contact: Darcy Calkins, Literacy Outreach Coordinator, at 250-463-4555 or [email protected] . If you love to read and are

interested in working with children, consider becoming a volunteer with the One to One Children’s Literacy Program. Volunteers read with 3 chil-dren in grades 2 to 5. All tu-toring is done at the school during regular school hours. A three hour training ses-sion for all volunteers in basic reading strategies is mandatory as well as a criminal record check. A training session will be held on Tuesday, January 12th from 9am to 12noon at Salmon Arm West Elementary School in Salmon Arm.

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NORTH SHUSWAP • Annual Farrell’s Field Skating Party - Jan 9,

8am to 2pm at Farrell’s Field in Celista located at 5051 Meadow Creek Rd. Hot dogs, Hot Chocolate. Fun for the whole family! FMI Barry 250-955-0559

• Winter Carnival - Friday, Jan 29, 5pm to 7:30 at NS Community Hall, Celista. Slingshot snowball, flying icicle toss, hockey shoot, rein-deer hunt, snow bowling and much more. Fun for the whole family. Prizes, concession. FMI 250-955-0071

SOUTH SHUSWAP • South Shuswap Chamber AGM - Thurs Jan

28, 6:30pm at Cedar Heights Centre, 2316 Lakeview Dr. Blind Bay. Wine and Cheese event. Please RSVP Karen 250-515-0002

• CHCA annual Chinese Dinner and board/card games night. - January 29th at Cedar Heights Community Centre on 2316 Lakeview Drive in Blind Bay. Cash Bar (wine & beer) at 5 pm. Meal at 5:30pm Games at 7 pm. Please contact Gloria for info, price and arrangement for payment. [email protected] or 250 675 0036

CHASE • Chase Curling Rink Pancake Breakfast -

Sunday January 10th. 9am to 11am. We look

forward to the continued support of you and your families!! Come in and enjoy a GREAT breakfast. Drinking coffee and hanging out with friends and family is a great way to start the day!! Enjoy all you can eat pancakes, sausages and eggs served with real orange juice and coffee/tea. Best deal in town!! All proceeds go directly to help pay bills for our struggling Curling Club!

• Chase Fish & Game Annual Banquet - Sat Feb 6 at Adams Lake Rec/Conference Centre. Happy hour 5:30pm. Banquet 7pm. Dance to Brendan Methot Music. For tickets and info call Vickey 250-955-2374 or Ben 778-220-0507

OTHER AREAS • 32nd Annual “Reino Keski-Salmi” Loppet -

Salmon Arm. January 16 at Larch Hills. Friendly, full day family event for both recrea-tional and competitive skiers ages 2 to 82! Enjoy the pristine, rolling trails followed by a BBQ beef hot lunch, pool time, "appy hour" and a family dance. Entry forms and additional information is available on-line at www.SkiLarchHills.ca or from local nordic ski clubs.

• Unplug & Play Family Literacy Week - Jan 23 to 30. Multiple free events throughout the

Shuswap including skating and buddy reading with the Salmon Arm SilverBacks and Sicam-ous Eagles, family game nights, Early Years Fairs, magic shows, family yoga night, sliding parties, family art afternoon, Jam the GM Chil-dren’s Book Drive, free family swim, indoor soccer, curling, and much more! For more information, please go to www.shuswapliteracy.ca

• Shuswap Trail Party & Auction - Feb 5, 7pm at Salmon Arm Recreation Centre. A new decade of Shuswap Trails! Live Music with the Whiskey Danglers, DJ with Patrick Ryley, Dance, Buffet Appies featuring locally grown and prepared foods by Blue Canoe Bakery Cafe, Cash Bar, Silent Auction, and the Best-Of Shuswap Trail Photo Footage. FMI go to www.shuswaptrails.com and click on events or call (250) 804-6451

• The Snowed In Comedy Tour Returns - Sat, Jan 23, 8:30pm at Salmar Classic Theatre in Salmon Arem. Four international comedians come together to create one amazing show with each bringing a unique and hilarious take providing something for everyone. Don't miss out on the comedy show the Kelowna Daily courier called "Better than the Just for Laughs tour". www.snowedincomedytour.com

JPW Road Maintenance 24hour hazard Reporting line

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Working Together To Prevent Crime

Chase Detachment Office 250-679-3221

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CRIMESTOPPERS 1-800-222-8477

TRANSFER STATION HOURS Scotch Creek

OPEN Fri - Tues 8am - 2pm

Closed Wed & Thurs Christmas, New Years &

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Seymour Arm

OPEN Saturday 1pm - 5pm

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Anglemont Waterworks

After Hour Emergencies 1-877-996-3344

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Sunday, 11am 5518 S-A Rd, Celista

[email protected] Rev Brian Smith

Catholic Services Our Lady of the Lake

Blind Bay Sunday, 11: 15 am Chase Sunday, 9:00 am

Shuswap Community Church Sorrento Campus Sunday, 10:30 am

At Sorrento Memorial Hall 1159 Passchendale Rd.

250.835.4004

North Shuswap Christian Fellowship

Worship & Sunday School, 10:30 am Potluck 3rd Sunday after service Soup Day Wed. 11 :30 - 1:30

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Another Successful Christmas Kids Party By Jo Anne Malpass The Lions Club Kids Christmas Party and awarding of prizes for The Kicker’s 18th colouring contest drew another large happy crowd to the North Shuswap Community Hall on December 13. This year we gave out 116 gifts. The children had their faces painted with Christmas designs or to look like Rudolph the Red Nosed Rein-deer, they fished for a gift at the fish pond and had their pictures taken with Santa, to be sent free of charge before Christmas. Hot dogs, hot chocolate, treats and coffee were available free of charge. All this was thanks to the North Shuswap Lions Club. Along with seeing the joy on their children’s faces, the adults had a chance to win Lions’ raffles for one of the six gift baskets donated by local businesses. Four colouring contest winners in each of the four age categories chose their prizes and then the rest of the children attending were called to select gifts. Debbie Seymour, Bobbie See, Patti Hubner and I took on the difficult task of trying to select only four winners in each age group when there were so many artistic entries to choose from. Thank you judg-es for all your help. The Kicker staff of Jan and Tracy Wojciechowski, Cindy Korchinski, Jan Penner and I are thankful for the help with the gift giving at the party from Don Laframboise, Janice Fisher and Ian Bell. We are very grateful to Super Valu for the gift donations, allowing us to display some of the prizes in the store and accepting donations on behalf of the Kicker. The Kicker appreciates the assistance from busi-nesses, volunteers and donors. Without your gener-ous support, this popular community event wouldn’t be possible

Age 11 – 13 Winners 1st – Siena Zanders 2nd – Taylor Bochek 3rd – Fiona Hammer-

Ziegler 4th – Cassidy Peterson

(missing)

Age 9 – 10 Winners 1st – Madison Lagore 2nd – Tressa Bailey 3rd – Petra Simpson 4th – Christian Zanders

Age 6 – 8 Winners 1st – Ella Kendall 2nd – Dominic Manual 3rd – Taylin Orr 4th – Kane Bochek

Age 5 & under Winners

1st – Josia-Daniel Fraser (missing) 2nd – Enia Morosi 3rd – Jayla Oliphant 4th – Jayciana Campbell


NORTH SHUSWAP CELISTA COMMUNITY HALL

• Celista Coffee House - Live entertainment, 3rd Saturday (NEW) of the month, Oct to May. $4 admission. Set-up and pot-luck dinner, 5pm. Doors open 7pm, Open mic; 7:30-9pm, feature act to follow. Refreshments. FMI 250-679-2174

• Community Association - meeting 3rd Tues of the month, 7pm.

• Craft & Needlework every Wed, 10-2. FMI Gerry 250-955-6279

• Historical Society - meeting 2nd Thurs of the month, 2pm.

• Lions Club - meetings 2nd & 4th Thurs of the month, 7pm. Meat Draw at the Copper Island Pub, Saturdays 3-5pm

• Naturalist Club - meet 2nd Tues of the month, 1:30 pm. (Summer outings) FMI Claudette: 250-679-8148

• NIA Dance Fusion Classes - Tues & Fri 10:30am -11:30am. FMI Nancy Parkinson 250-679-8233

• NS First Responders Society - meet 2nd Wed. of the month at 2pm

• N.S. Players - meet 2nd Tues. of the month, 7pm. • NSHCS - meet 2nd Thurs of the month, 10am in the Hall Club Room

• Zumba and Yoga - Classes for Zumba are on Tues & Thurs 9am to 10am. Yoga on the beach Wed 9am FMI Jenn 778-988-1459

LAKEVIEW CENTRE ACTIVITIES • Achy Breaky Body Parts Line Dancing - Every Wed, 10am for beginners (pls call Donna), 10:30am for advanced. FMI Donna Gallant 250-679-2419

• Anglebay Entertainers Chorus practice - Wed. 1pm, Jo 250-955-2282

• Arts and Crafts Club - Tues. 10am to 2pm. Bring your lunch. Everyone welcome. FMI call Alison @ 250-955-2588

• Bible Study - Group meeting at 7:00 Thursday evenings at Lakeview Center. Everyone Welcome.

• Bridge Night - Wed evening, 7 pm. Coffee and Treats, Everyone welcome.

• Carpet Bowling - Mon & Thurs 10-12. FMI Blair Scranton 250-955-0032. Spares list call Ann Chow 250-955-2899

• Drop in Yoga - Wed & Fri. 9 to 10am with Jenn Szabo

• Community Prayer Group - 3rd Thurs of the month, 7 pm. FMI Val 250-955-2117 or Sharlee 250-679-2120.

• Cribbage - Thursdays 1 pm • Country Gardener’s Club - 3rd Wed of the month, 7 pm. FMI Chris 250-955-6467

• Hostess Program - Tues, Wed, Thurs, 1pm to 4pm

• Rise & Shine Breakfast - 2nd Saturday of every month at the Lakeview Community Center. 8-11am. Great food, come hungry

• Table Tennis - Mon. 1pm and & Thurs. 1 pm to 3pm. Dennis 250-955-2899

OTHER NORTH SHUSWAP ACTIVITIES

• Chamber of Commerce Meetings - 4th Mon of the month, Location to be announced

• NS First Responders - meet 1st & 3rd Thurs, 7pm at Celista Fire Hall.

• Lions Club Meat Draw & 50/50 Draw - at the Copper Island Pub. Saturdays, 3-5pm. Ten draws for the various cuts of meat purchased from SuperValu. 50/50 Draw

• Pickleball - Tues. & Fri. at 10 am, Sat. at 1 pm. at the Tennis Courts in Scotch Creek. FMI Heather 250.833.8069

• Soup Day - Wed. 11:30 to 1:30pm at North Shuswap Christian Fellowship Church. 4079 Butters Road. Scotch Creek

• Fitness classes at Quaaout Lodge - Mon, Wed, Thurs - Yoga at 8:30am and Aquacise at 10am. FMI 250.679.3090

SOUTH SHUSWAP • Alcoholics Anonymous AA - St. Mary’s Church

in Sorrento - 7 pm Sundays. FMI 250-679-3945 or cell 250-833-2117

CARLIN HALL To book call Marcha, 250-835-8577 or Jane 250-675-5426. web: carlinhall.net

• Tues: Beginner acoustic jam - 7pm to 9pm. $5/person

• Wed: Intermediate acoustic jam - 7pm to 9pm, $3/person

• Coffee House 1st Saturday- October - May, 7:30pm. Beginning in February we begin at 7pm to allow junior performers to take the stage. Come support local talent. Coffee & goodies avail. (coffeehouse cancelled Jan 2016)

EAGLE BAY COMMUNITY HALL • Quilting Mondays 10-2 (Bring Lunch). FMI call Inez: 675-4531

• Crafts Wednesdays 10-2 (Bring Lunch). FMI call Dot: 675-4282

• Fitness - Tues. & Thurs. 9-10. FMI call Sharon: 675-2408

• Darts Fri evenings at 7:15 pm. FMI call Alan: 675-5403

• Coffee House 4th Sat of the Month, except Dec, June, July & Aug. 7:30 pm. Performers always welcome! Gaetane 675-2178

• Notch Hill Town Hall Assoc. - meet 1st Monday of month at 7pm (bank holiday 2nd Mon) Watch for special events all year. Info 250-675-4174

• Probus Copper Island - meets at Cedar Heights Community Hall in Sorrento on the second Thurs./mo. at 10 am Coffee at 9:30. For details call Mr. Doug Brown 250-803-8930

• Shuswap Rock Club - First Tues of the month (Sept - June) 7:30 pm at Toad Hall in Sorrento. Saturday workshops 1-4 pm. FMI Pat 250-675-2849.

• Shuswap Wood Carvers - Meet Wed 9am to noon at Sorrento Drop in Centre. FMI Ken 250-675-3316.

SORRENTO DROP IN SOCIETY • Mon: AA & Alanon - 8pm, Glee Club - 9:30am • Tues: Crib -1:30pm, Snooker (men) - 1:00pm, Meals to Wheels 2nd & 4th Tues. at noon

• Wed: Snooker 6:00pm, Cards - 1:00pm • Thurs: Foot Clinic (call for appt. 250-675-0065), Quilting - 10:00am Snooker (men) - 1:00pm

• Fri: Ladies Snooker- 2pm • Sat: Scottish Country Dancing 9:30. FMI 250-675-3518

SHUSWAP LAKE ESTATES COMMUNITY CENTRE: FMI call 250-675-2523

• Mon: Line Dance - intermediate 1:00 - 2:30, Sponge Ball 9:30 - 12:00

• Tues: Ladies Bridge 1:00 - 4:00, Good Time Quilters 1st, 3rd, & 5th

• Wed: Line Dance - beginners 10:00 - 11:30, Advanced 1:30 - 3:00. Lego Club - every 2nd Wed.

• Thurs: Play Group 9:00 - 12:00 • Friday: Sponge Ball 9:30 - 12:00, Youth Group - Grade 7 & up 7:00 - 9:00. Family Move Night - 1st Fri. of month 6:00 - 8:00

• The Ta'Lana Twirler's Square Dance Club Meet Thursdays (starting Sept.26), at the Blind Bay Hall, 2010 Blind Bay Rd. 7:30pm to 9:30pm. Round & Main Stream dancing. FMI Betty at 250-675-4408

• The Piecemakers Quilt Group - Thurs. 10 - 2pm at the Sorrento Drop In Centre. FMI 250-955-2393

• TOPS Sorrento #4369 - meets every Wed from 8:15 to 10:00 am at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church. 2740 Fairway Hills Rd. Blind Bay BC (lower level). FMI Gail 250-675-2849

CHASE Chase Duplicate Bridge - Thurs in St. Andrews Church (rear door) Zoë 250-679-8488

CHASE CREEKSIDE FOR SENIORS FMI Sharron 250-679-1183 • Mon: Exercise for guys/gals, 8:30am / Bridge (with lessons), Canasta & Snooker, 1pm

• Tues: Bingo, 1pm • Wed: Exercise for guys/gals, 9am / Canasta & Snooker, 1pm / Jam session 7pm

• Thurs: Wood carving, 9am (lessons & help avail.) • 2nd Thurs: Monthly General Meeting, 1pm • Fri: Cribbage, 1pm • Exercise for guys/gals, 9am • 2nd Fri: Mini-Crib, 10:30am register, 11am start • 3rd Fri every other month (starting Oct 2015): Full course meal, 5pm. Happy hour, 4:15

Movie Night - Chase Community Hall, every Thurs, minimal admission, concession available. FMI 250-319-6302. Parkside Estates - Public Bingo Wed. 1pm, FMI 250-679-4477 Ext. 5

ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION 250-679-3536

• Tuesday Pool- 3:30pm, meat draw - 4 - 6:30pm • Wednesday - 3rd Wed of every month Branch General Meeting 7 pm.

• Saturday Meat Draw, 50/50, Fun Darts - 2pm • Sunday - Giant Crib on the first Sun. of every month, 10:45 am. All other Sundays closed.

• Taoist Tai Chi - Chase Community Hall on Tuesdays from 10-11am and Thursdays from 9:30-11:30 am. FMI Judy 250-679-5425


Regularly Scheduled Events Please No te : Many o f t he regu la r schedu led events t ake a b reak dur ing the summer .

To add a meeting/event call 250-955-0534, Fax 250-955-0515 or email [email protected]



Regularly Scheduled Events continued Please No te : Many o f t he regu la r schedu led events t ake a b reak dur ing the summer .

SUNNYBRAE COMMUNITY HALL

• Tues & Thurs: Karate 6pm (250-835-8875) • Mon & Fri: Badminton (250-835-4625) • 2nd Sat: Coffee House (except June to Sept)

• 4th Wed: General Meeting 7:30pm SENIORS HALL

• Sunnybrae Painters Tues 10am (250-835-4625) • Needle Arts Guild 1st & 3rd Thur: 10am (250-835-8842)

• Wed Quilters 1st & 3rd (250-835-8255) • Potluck dinner and Meeting 3rd Tues, 5:30 pm

(except July/Aug) • Shuswap Needle Arts Guild meet 1st & 3rd Thursday, 10am to 4 pm at Sunnybrae Seniors Centre (Sept. to Jun) FMI are Jo (250)-832-9308 or Sharon (250)-832-4588.


Adams River Salmon Society.. Sheila Empey 250-253-2598 Anglemont Estates Waterworks

After Hours emergency 1-877-996-3344 Regular hours 250-832-8194

Anglemont Ladies Golf.. Bev Shea 250-955-0365 Anglemont Men’s Golf Club.. Rob MacDuff at 250-505-2781 Artistic Community.. Lynn Erin 250-955-6234 Arts Council for the South Shuswap.. Karen Brown 250.515.3276 AWE Society.. email: [email protected]. Baseball Club.. Mike McManamna.. 250-819-0522 or 250-955-

0688 Camp Grafton.. Judy MacPherson 250-374-5115 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

North Shuswap - Dave Cunliffe 250-851-6852 South Shuswap - Karen Brown 250-515-0002 Chase - 250-679-8432

Coffee House.. Jim Leduc 250-679-2174 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS

NS Community Association.. Toby Alford 250-955-2978 Hall Bookings – Deb 250-253-5954 or Lynn - 250-679-4017

Seymour Arm Comm. Assoc.. Bob Reimer 250-833-7610 Country Kids Play School.. Alanna Stearns 250-679-3005 Country Gardens Garden Club.. Chris Trueman

250-955-6467 CRIMESTOPPERS.. 1-800-222-8477 Crowfoot Snowmobile Club.. Martin & Julie Lucas

250-955-2246 CSRD - Area F.. Larry Morgan 250-955-2567 FIRE DEPARTMENTS

Anglemont - Graham Lucas - 250-833-8997 / 250-955-2173 Celista - Roy Philips - 250-517-0540 S.C./L.C. - Art Stoll - 250-955-2422 / 250-517-0098 Skwlax - Keith Power - 250-679-4472

FIRST RESPONDERS NS First Responders.. Andrea Carter 250-679-7746 NS First Responders Society.. Catherine McCrea [email protected] SS First Responders.. Debbie Edwards - email: [email protected].

Girl Guides .. 1-800-565-8111 Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon..

Cynthia Bentley 250-955-2222 HEALTH SERVICES

NS Health Centre Society.. Pat Robertson 250-955-2999 and Jay Simpson 250-377-5462 Scotch Creek Clinic - 250-955-0660 Chase Medical Clinic - 250-679-1420 Chase Health Centre - 250-679-1400 SS Health Services Society - Sue McCrae

250-675-3562 Historical Society.. Loretta Greenough 250-955-6431 Imai Ball Park Foundation.. Brian MacDuff 250-955-0981 JPW Road Maintenance.. Attendant 1-877-546-3799, Main office (Armstrong) 250-546-3765, Celista yard

(answering machine) 250-955-2231 Karate Club.. Dale Cundy 250-682-3094 Lakeview Centre.. Fay Hadden 250-955-2488 Lions Club.. Ted Danyluk 250-955-6384 Meadow Creek Park Assoc.. Don Grimm 250- 955-0262 Naturalists Club.. Claudette Carlsen 250-679-8148 Needle Bugs Club.. Gerry Kendall 250-955-6279 NS Cemetery.. Doug Prigmore 250-955-6454 or

Loretta Greenough 250-955-6431 NS Christian Fellowship.. 250-955-2545 NS Craft & Needlework Club.. Gerry 250-955-6279 NS Elementary School.. Rob Ellis 250-955-2214 NS Players.. Judy Weller 250-955-0744 Okanagan Regional Library.. North Shuswap.. Lee Carreiro 250-955-8198 South Shuswap.. Leigh Schaffer.. 250-675-4818 Parents Advisory Committee.. Angela Simpson 250-377-5406 Parks Commission Contact.. CSRD

1-888-248-2773 Police Advisory Committee.. Lynda Sutton 250-319-7797 RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION

Anglemont - Marian Zackery 250-955-0359 Magna Bay - Alan Nunn 250-679-2565 or 604-522-3346 Scotch Creek - Mary Stewart 250-955-2967 Saratoga - Aileen Brand 250-955-6123 St. Ives - Dave King 250-955-0573

School District # 83 North Shuswap Trustee.. Larissa Lutjen email [email protected], 250-803-1587

Seymour Arm Snowmobile Club.. Wilmer Marks 778-785-2032 Shuswap Environmental Action Society.. Jim Cooperman

250-679-3693 Shuswap Hospice Society.. 250-832-7099 Shuswap Volunteer Search & Rescue.. Tara Stanley 250-308-9248,

shuswapsar.org Shuswap Needle Arts Guild.. Marleine 250-675-2507 or Sharon

250-832-4588 Shuswap Rock Club.. Pat or Gail Bowden 250-675-2849 Shuswap Waterfront Owners Association (SWOA)

[email protected], web: www.SWOA.ca Skmana Ski club .. George 250-679-3688 / John 250-679-8600 South Shuswap Canada Day Committee.. Reuben Pauls 250-

675-6852 Taoist Tai Chi .. Judy 250-679-5425 Victim Services.. Brandi Nakazawa 250-679-8638 Whittlers Club.. Marian Zackery 250-955-0359






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VACATION RENTALS

at Crowfoot Mountain at St. Ives Resort

(Lakefront condos only 20 min. away) Fireplaces, sled parking, dry racks & games room 250-955-2525

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$6 up to 20 words, 20¢ ea. additional word. $1 for box-around. Single column Classified Dis-play Ads are $2.00 per 1/4 inch. Drop ads along with cash or check (made out to the KICKER) at drop boxes, e-mail ad to [email protected] or mail to 7320 Estate Place, Anglemont, B.C. V0E 1M8. Ads must be received 12 days prior to the paper hitting the stands.

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Ian Bischoff 250-955-2340 250-833-6073

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927 Shuswap Ave. Chase 250-679-8456

Tues to Sat 10ish - 5:30ish (Shuswap Time!)

Celista Hair Studio Helga Terwoort

For all your hair-care needs call 250-955-6195

5205 Tallington Rd, Celista

Celista Esthetics Courtney Meier

Manicures, Pedicures, Waxing, Facials

250-955-2149 5205 Tallington Rd, Celista

Linda’s Security Checks Worried about break ins? We do

house checks, walk arounds. References available. Lived here since 1981

250-955-2500 Cell 250-819-2500 [email protected]

Dock Doctor We will help keep you afloat. Re-

pairs and maintenance of docks, new wood docks, used docks.

250-955-2500, Cell 250-318-2890 [email protected]

THOMPSON RIVERS APPRAISALS REAL ESTATE APPRAISALS

Magna Bay

www.trappraisals.ca

250-682-5995 250-372-2599

• Pre-purchase and Pre-sale appraisal reports

• Mortgage Refinancing? • Estate or Division of Family Assets? • Depreciation Reports for Strata

Properties

Fully Accredited Appraisers and Depreciation Report Planners

(AACI, CRP)

Shuswap Piano tuning and restoration . Call or text

250-517-7717

Ship Shape Shelter Indoor Boat and RV Storage. Call Gary or Michele at 250-835-4224 or email: shipshapeshelter@ hotmail.com for rates

STRUCTURAL DESIGN CIVIL CONSTRUCTION

CONSULTING / INSPECTIONS PROJECT MANAGEMENT

SEWAGE SYSTEM REGULATION

ABCEngineeringService.com

250-318-0088

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PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER

Debi D’s Cleaning Services Serving the Shuswap

Residential & Commercial New Home Construction Cleaning

Quality Guaranteed Property Checks

Insured

Bonded ▪ References Available 250-833-6087 250679-8384

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Dance Fitness

Low Impact - Great Energy - Body Fun Drop-in’s welcome

10:30am Tuesdays & Fridays

at Celista Hall $8 Drop - in rate

10 Sessions for $65

Nancy Parkinson (250) 679-8233

BdebClean Year round cleaning services.

Excellent references Call 250-679-2164

New & Used Medical Equipment Scooters, walkers, wheelchairs,

bathroom safety, stair-lifts, hospital beds. Free Screening for obstructive sleep apnea, treatment

and follow-up. CPAP masks, parts, and accessories. Respiratory

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and Vernon www.lakesidemedical.ca or

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Enclosed and secure storage for all your toys. Contact Dave for

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out shelf. Size is H-49.5”, W-64.5”, D23”. 250-955-0534

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De-clutter, De-stress any un-wanted garage sale items, good-used furniture and household items. Donations greatly appreci-ated call or text for pick up. Hid-den Treasures Thrift Shop in Scotch Creek next to Jimco 250-299-3299

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622 Shuswap Ave Located in the Chase Veterinary Clinic

250-679-7889

Paying cash for old coins, collections, Royal

Canadian Mint products.

Call 250-517-8472.

Biofuel Car $1000 Firm. 1995 Mercury Sable, some rust but good working order. Winter

tires, Propane Auto-gas and gasoline = 35% fuel savings.

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It is with regret we announce Dorothy May Spelay, 82, of Magna Bay BC passed away on November 13th 2015, with her family by her side. Dorothy was born January 17th 1933, in Sicamous BC to Signe and Kalle Kingelin. Survived by Paul Spelay her husband

of 62 years, daughter Patricia (Gerry) Bischoff, son Nick (Dawn) Spelay, grandchildren, great grandchildren and older sister Maire Spelay of Salmon Arm BC. Dorothy was predeceased by her parents, and brother Leo Kingelin of Clearwater BC in 2010. In the early days, Dorothy enjoyed a good life living in Terrace BC and fishing the Skeena River. Then moving to Magna Bay BC, enjoying a wonderful life in the Shuswap with family and friends. A family gathering will be held at North Shuswap Cemetery in Celista BC, this spring on a sunny day.

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