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Rodeo re-homing not fast enough

Above, Ayden Arnett, 6.5 years old, tries out one of the children’s game sites set up at the HVC mine open house on Monday. Right, the Mine Rescue competition team was giving demonstrations and practicing for the Western Canada competition in September. Back, l-r: Sean Davies, Neal Rideout, Dustin Kamps, and Dave Maddocks. Front, l-r: Dave Potter and Dale Konowalchuk. Missing: Brian Klohn.

by Wendy CoomberAlthough it’s less than two months since the

Ashcroft Rodeo was cancelled, time is running out for plans to keep the rodeo alive in Ashcroft according to association members.

Ashcroft Council held a special closed meet-ing on July 29 with Rodeo Association execu-tive. Everyone else was turned away.

“The Village still has some irons in the fire, but we are definitely looking elsewhere,” said association spokesperson Heather Philpott. “The time element is getting very short and we need to put fenceposts in before freeze up.”

“It’s not a dead fish in the water yet but it’s on it’s last gasp,” she added.

After many years of holding rodeos on the grounds north of Ashcroft, the property owners, the Porter family of Desert Hills Ranch, told the rodeo association they could no longer hold the rodeo on their property out of insurance con-cerns.

The association approached the Village, ask-ing to use municipal property on the Mesa. The Village held a public information meeting but has not responded to the request.

In all fairness to the Village, said Philpott, there is a shortage of space.

Mayor Jack Jeyes said the holdup is the property that was set aside for a new school years ago.

He said once the Village finds out whether the school board is willing to release the land and what the constraints are that go with it, the matter has to go to Education Ministry for ap-proval and then to Crown Lands for release to the Village.

“I think the Association understands how we have been working on their behalf,” said Jeyes. “It’s not going to be a fast process.”

Philpott said the insurance scare is hurting the community. The rodeo weekend is a bene-fit to many of Ashcroft’s businesses who depend on that annual income - the drugstore, the gro-cery store, the liquor store, the hardware store and Ashcroft Work Wear.

She said Vernon asked the BCRA for the Father’s Day weekend slot this year and got it, but they couldn’t get the sponsorship needed to put on a rodeo. If the matter isn’t settled soon, she said, others will be given the slot.

Philpott said all of the association’s mem-bers want the rodeo to stay in Ashcroft, but if there’s no land, they’ll look elsewhere.

Crowds welcome back HVC mine’s Open House by Wendy CoomberIt was a great day to hold an outdoor

Open House at Highland Valley Copper mine.

Billed as “celebrating 29 years of success”, the popular event was back this year after an absence in 2014 - one of three uneventful years since the open house began.

Hundreds of people flocked to the open house to tour the mine, the mill, the lab and other areas of the giant cop-per/molybdenom operation.

Children enjoyed the “Copper Chal-lenge Games” and the giant equipment, the science booth and the magic shows with Uncle Chris the Clown. Adults joined in at the prospecting area where minerals glittered in rocks that were strewn around the front of the tourist trailer, the concession stands with pro-ceeds that went to many service groups in the area, and the mine rescue demon-strations.

HVC’s Mine Rescue team has close to 100 members, but there are only sev-

en on the competition team. This year, they’ve won the zones and the prov-incials and are looking forward to the Western Canada competition in Fernie next month.

Gerry Wong, one of the organiz-ers of the Open House, says the event takes a lot of work to prepare for, such as looking over the grounds beforehand for safety hazards that are part of an in-dustrial work site, but as the event un-folded, everyone was starting to relax and enjoy it.

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Ashcroft rcMP DetAchMent

POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber

Gold Trail welcomes new Minister

Meeting to decide new development

by Wendy CoomberA new building on Railway Ave. needs a De-

velopment Variance Permit before it can pro-ceed, so a public meeting will be held Aug. 10 at 6 pm in the Village Office, followed by a spe-cial public Council meeting at 6:30 to consider granting the permit.

Ashcroft Council reviewed the permit at its July 27 meeting. Ashcroft developer Henry Dahms has proposed a contained retail/residen-tial complex to be built in the empty lot between the Central Cafe and Sun Country office. The complex will consist of two separate retail units each having their own entrance from Railway. The complex is a two storey structure with a sin-gle living residence on the second floor and an entrance off of Railway.

However, the area falls within Ashcroft’s Development Permit Area, which means that any developer must follow a detailed set of rules about how the structure will be built, what materials will be used, where features will be placed on the structure, etc.

The Zoning Bylaw allows commercial buildings a setback maximum of one metre, but the building plans propose 1.5 metres.

“The DPA bylaw is outdated,” Administra-tor Michelle Allen told Council, “and many of the requirements are no longer reasonable due to changes in Provincial safety legislation.”

She said that having the proposed 1.5m building setback allows the doors to open out-wards and a reduced possibility of hitting a ped-estrian, but because of the current bylaw, it re-quires a Development Variance Permit.

There are several differences between the bylaw and the proposed building plans that in-clude facades, canopies over sidewalks, roof slopes and roofing and facade materials.

Allen said after the meeting that the DPA by-law ties in with the Zoning Bylaw and Official Community Plan, all of which are scheduled for updating in the coming year.

“I think it will be a nice addition to Rail-way,” said Coun. Barbara Roden. “It will fill up one of our empty lots and be in harmony with buildings on either side of it.”

Mayor Jack Jeyes agreed that it would be a welcome addition to downtown Ashcroft.

Pushing boundariesJuly 28 at 1 pm police were

called to the Chevron station in Cache Creek for a panhandler who was disturbing customers outside. Police attended and located the 36 year old Cache Creek man who was in a wheelchair. The man apologized for his behaviour and said he would leave.

At 1:40 pm police received more complaints about a man in a wheelchair on the highway near the Subway, im-peding traffic. He was gone before po-lice arrived.

At 8 pm police were called to the Cache Creek pool where an intoxicat-ed man in a wheelchair was causing a disturbance and refusing to leave when asked to by staff. He left prior to police arriving, but the incident is still under investigation.

At 10 pm police received a com-plaint by the same man, still intoxicat-ed, saying that he had been assaulted near the apartment building on Col-lins Rd. He said he’d been punched in the face, but he could not provide a de-scription of his assailant. He gave the name of a possible suspect, but the sus-pect no longer lived in the area. There are no other suspects.

Accident halts trafficJuly 29 at 8:05 pm police were

called to downed power lines on Hwy 99 after a tractor trailer hauling heavy machinery brought down several over-head lines and two power poles. One of the poles landed on a vehicle travelling on the highway. No one was injured but the highway was closed to traffic for three and a half hours while BC Hy-dro and Telus worked to reassemble their lines. BC Ambulance was called to check on the people involved in the accident. Commercial Vehicle Safe-ty and Enforcement (CVSE) attended and determined that the load dimen-sion exceeded height restrictions on the highway. The driver of the truck, a 61 year old Lillooet man, was issued a $115 fine. The occupants of the other vehicle, a 67 year old male and 66 year old female from California were un-injured. Their rented vehicle has vis-ible damage but they were able to con-tinue driving.

Family member assaultedJuly 30 at 9:20 am police were

called to a residence on the Ashcroft Reserve after a 46 year old woman re-ported that a 25 year old family mem-ber had assaulted her. Police located the male suspect and arrested him. He is facing charges of assault and mis-chief. A telephone was reported broken during the incident.

Disturbance at motelJuly 31 at 1:15 am police were

called to a Cache Creek motel af-ter a guest called to report he had just been threatened by another guest. Po-lice attended and spoke to the suspect, who reported that he had been woken up several times during the night by the “victim” next door, a 52 year old Kamloops man, who was “yelling and such” and making quite a bit of noise. The suspect was warned about mak-ing threats and the victim was asked to keep the noise down.

Collectible daggers stolenJuly 31 police were called

to the Castle Inn in Cache Creek after the owner reported the theft of about 10 collect-ible daggers from a storage room. The theft had taken place about two weeks pri-or but the report was delayed as the owner determined what was missing. Anyone sus-pecting that they might have seen one of these daggers is asked to contact the RCMP at 453-2216.

Motorcycle and rider assaulted

July 31 at 5:30 pm police were called to the Chevron in Cache Creek after a report of assault and mischief. The vic-tim, a 69 year old Vancou-ver man, reported that while stopped there, a black Dodge Ram pulled up behind and bumped his motorcycle. Then

the passenger got out of the truck, kicked and dented the motorcycle and head-butted the victim. The truck’s license plate was passed on to the RCMP who identified it as belonging to a 63 year old Coquit-lam man who was travelling at the

time with his 26 year old son. The mat-ter is still under investigation.

Too much of a hurryAug. 1 at 8:30 am police received a

report of a Honda travelling at a high rate of speed on Hwy 1 near Venables Valley Road. The vehicle was locat-ed travelling at 126 kph in a 100 kph zone. It was stopped and a 40 year old Abottsford woman was issued a ticket for speeding.

Asleep under the starsAug. 3 at 8:30 pm police were

called to assist BC Ambulance after a report of an unconscious man lying next to Hwy 97 by the Petro Can. The intoxicated 24 year old Prince George man was woken up and a family mem-ber in the area came to retrieve him.

by Wendy CoomberGold Trail School

District is welcom-ing the appointment of Mike Bernier, MLA for Peace River South to Cabinet as the new Education Minister.

Premier Christy Clark announced a small Cabinet shuffle on July 29 that made former Minister Peter Fassbender the Min-ister responsible for TransLink, and gave

Bernier his first Cabinet assignment.Board of Education co-chair Carmen Ranta

said the Board’s first choice would have been the area’s own MLA Jackie Tegart because of her background on the school board, but that wasn’t to be this time.

“Minister Bernier seems to be a very caring person, coming from a rural community [Daw-son Creek],” said Ranta. “We hope that will be reflected in his decision making.”

She said the Thompson Okanagan Branch of the BC School Trustees Association is hold-ing a conference in Osoyoos this September and they’ve invited someone from the Ministry to attend. She says she hopes it will be the Minis-ter himself.

Ranta said there is a lot of interest from the local board of education in speaking to the Min-ister. At the top of their list, they would like to discuss funding for capital projects and capital planning in the District. She said there are still projects Lillooet and Lytton that are on hold, waiting for money.

She said they have already invited the new Minister to come and visit the district to they can build a good relationship with him.

Mike Bernier, Education Minister

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Councils past and present gathered on Friday to celebrate the announcement that the Village had received $5,725,356 in provincial and federal grants for the new water treatment plant. L-R: former Coun. Jerry Fiddick, former Mayor Andy Anderson, Mayor Jack Jeyes, MLA Jackie Tegart, Coun. Barbara Roden and former Coun. Alice Durksen.

MLA Jackie Tegart with members of Cache Creek Council after announcing that Cache Creek would receive $133,332 in provincial and federal funding. L-R: Coun. Lisa Dafoe, MLA Tegart, Mayor John Ranta and Coun. Herb Hofer.

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$5.7 million announced for new plantPressure system gets funding

Flood fund applications outby Wendy CoomberApplications are ready for vic-

tims of the May 23 flood in Cache Creek to access the funds raised by donations and collected by Black-Press4Good.

Over $261,000 has been raised since the sudden debris flood swept down on the town, washing away possessions and infrastructure, damaging homes and leaving be-hind massive amounts of mud from the surrounding hillsides.

The Cache Creek Flood Re-lief Committee has issued separ-ate application forms for residents and businesses affected financial-ly. This is an opportunity for those people recover at least a little more of the money they’ve spent on put-ting their homes, businesses and lives back in order.

Application deadline is Tues., Sept. 1 and the completed form must be handed into the Village of Cache Creek by the end of the day in order to be considered. The com-mittee will review the applications and determine how best to distrib-ute the donated funds.

Applicants may not receive the full amount they asked for, be-cause the funds are limited, but it is hoped that the money they do get will assist them to return to their pre-flood lives.

Forms are available at the Vil-lage of Cache Creek, the Cache Creek Library and the Cache Creek Liquor Store.

Anyone still wishing to donate to the fund may do so at the Vil-lage Office or online at www.ca-checreekvillage.com .

The South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society (E Fry) offers coun-selling at their office in Ashcroft for flood victims who are feeling overwhelmed, either financially or emotionally.

Those who wish can make an appointment with the Family Sup-port Worker who will talk to them to see what their needs are, said manager Yoriko Susanj. If E Fry can help them, they will. If they can’t, they will refer them to out-side resources, whatever their needs are.

by Wendy CoomberAshcroft’s new Water Treatment Plant got a

$5.7 million boost on Friday when MLA Jack-ie Tegart, on the behalf of the Ministry of Com-munity, Sport and Cultural Development, an-nounced that the Village’s grant application had been accepted under the New Building Canada Fund’s Small Communities Fund.

Under the infrastructure grant fund, the provincial and federal governments both con-tribute a third of the the project’s costs, leav-ing the Village to come up with the remaining $2,862,678. The total cost of the project is ex-pected to be just over $8.5 million.

Present and past Council members, Staff and the Public Works crew were on hand to hear the announcement.

MLA Tegart thanked the Village Council and Staff for submitting an application that both

important and well-written, making it an easy pick from among the many applications submited.

She also read out a brief message of con-gratulations from MP Mark Strahl (Chilli-wack-Fraser Valley) who sent his regrets.

“We are proud to invest in projects like the Ashcroft Com-munity Water Treat-ment Plant that will benefit our com-munity by improv-ing much needed lo-cal infrastructure,” he said.

Building the new treatment plant will contribute to the local

economy and create jobs, she said.“These kind of jobs don’t happen without

leadership at the local level,” said Tegart.Plans for the new water treatment plant

began under the previous mayor and council and culminated under the current government. Former Mayor Andy Anderson and councilors Alice Durksen and Jerry Fiddick joined cur-rent Mayor Jack Jeyes and councillor Barbara Roden in the announcement.

Mayor Jeyes thanked the former Coun-cil and Staff for starting the process. The new plant, he said, would eliminate turbidity and provide clean, safe drinking water.

The Village of Ashcroft will use the fund-ing to construct a new drinking water treat-ment plant, including an upgraded water main pump station, to accommodate increased water demands within the community. It will access raw water from an existing water supply pipe-line without impeding the water flow rates of the Thompson River, and generate ample pot-able water for residents and businesses for years to come.

The 55 projects approved for funding in British Columbia under the Small Commun-ities Fund so far include 24 drinking water pro-jects, 22 wastewater projects, four major roads projects, two disaster mitigation projects, two brownfield remediation projects and one solid waste management project.

by Wendy CoomberCache Creek received official

word last week that it was receiv-ing $133,332 from the provincial/federal infrastructure program-ming for its new Pressure Reduc-tion System (PRV) Relocation and Safety Upgrade.

MLA Jackie Tegart made the announcment in Cache Creek on Friday.

“It’s extemely helpful when we get project [applications] that are well planned,” she said. “We look forward to a ribbon cutting!”

Mayor John Ranta thanked the MLA for “going to bat” for the Vil-lage.

The grants represent two-thirds of the project cost. The Village is responsible for the rest.

The PRV system comes as a

pre-engineered building which houses the entire system, and is ex-pected to be located on Stage Rd. next to the cemetery. It would even out the pressure around Cache Creek and keep a consistent flow from the reservoirs. That would re-duce bacterial build up inside the reservoirs and reduce maintance costs for the tanks. It would also ensure sufficient water pressure to all fire hydrants around town and prevent pressure collapse.

The system was recommended to the Village by former Super-intendent of Public Works, Deb Channell, whom Mayor John Ranta acknowledged, as well as grant writer Gayle Olson.

The project’s design and con-struction are expected to cost around $200,000.

The Journal omitted that Ashcroft May-or Jack Jeyes voted against Council’s decision to send a letter to the school board and Minis-ter of Education to expressing disappointment and displeasure with the Board’s choice of a new name for the only remaining school in the community. Both he and Coun. Alf Trill voted against the motion to send the letter.

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V I E W P O I N T SThe Editor’s DeskWENDY COOMBER

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A GLOBE THISTLE begins to blossom near the Cache Creek Cemetery

What a way to put the binders on a per-fectly good summer! Thank you Prime Minister for thrusting your presence yet again into the forefront of the news.

Perhaps it’s the fact that for the past year, press releases on my desk that for dec-ades read “The Government of Canada” have been reading “Harper Government...” Did you know that he and his government discovered Franklin’s ship, The Erebus, last year? That was after his government declared nearly 1,000 lighthouses around Canada “surplus”, and after the Parks Can-ada workforce was severely downsized.

Still, I don’t suppose there were any lighthouses in the Northwest Passage in 1845, and with a few thousand less employ-ees, maybe Parks Canada needed help in raising Franklin’s ship.

But I digress. I suppose the longer one remains Prime Minister, the more actions they’re going to take that people don’t agree with. Like making Veterans fight for their benefits and taking them to court.

Last week Harper requested writs of election for a federal general election from Governor General David Johnston on Aug. 2. The date of the vote is determined by the fixed-date Canada Elections Act.

This comes just a week or two after lo-cal voters in the new Mission-Matsqui-Fra-ser Canyon riding (us) find out their Con-servative candidate has been disqualified. At this point, voters have only Liberal can-didate Jati Sidhu (Abbotsford) and Green candidate Arthur Green (Hope) to choose from. But one would hope that an impend-ing election will cause the riding officials in at least one of the seven national parties fielding candidates to get their act together before Oct. 19 and provide us with at least one - hopefully two - more candidates.

Kelowna-Lake Country has five candi-dates including one from the Pirate party and one from the Libertarian. Good choice!

In Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, in-cumbent MP Cathy Mcleod (Cons.) will be on the ballot with Liberal candidate Steve Powrie and NDP candidate Bill Sundhu.

Variety and choice is always key to vot-er turnout. Let’s hope our riding isn’t short-changed.

Dear EditorWhat do I say and how do I even

begin this thank you?I had recently reached out to The

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal after being deployed with the Red Cross in your community for the flood. The rea-son I asked for help was because my tablet with some very special pictures had gone missing.

I received a special gift in the mail - that had all of the special pictures that were not replaceable along with the tablet. It almost brings tears to my eyes how grateful I am. OK in all honesty, it did

So I say a super huge Thank You, whoever you are, and to The Journal for publishing my letter. We all stand together when disasters happen and I am so glad that I was able to come to my community where I grew up when there was a need.

Debbie BlumauerAbottsford

Dear EditorHere we are, halfway through our

Summer Break already, and still the temperatures are rising! This is when we really appreciate air-conditioning indoors and the shady spots outdoors.

The other day we were on our way to the Bonaparte when we were

amused to see a flock of sheep all hud-dled together in the shade of a lone tree. Who said that sheep were stupid?

I must admit that my inclination in these temperatures has been to sit around in the “cool” and watch all the athletes at the PanAm games exerting themselves in the heat and humidity of a Toronto summer. They were all so energetic, agile and (almost all!) gra-cious in their various successes and losses - they are wonderful examples of what our young folks are.

I have also been reading the news-papers and finding myself taken back to our arrival in Ashcroft at 6pm at 106 degrees F in the shade! There has been much talk of “staycations” - what a wonderful creation that word is! - and this took me back to our first years in Ashcroft, when our time off was in the height of summer when the schools closed and the price of airfares and ho-tels soared with the temperatures! We compromised by travelling locally and exploring close to home, when we were not at the swimming pool, down by the river and the old bridge, and the kids were learning to swim.

We discovered Cornwall Moun-tain in the early summer when the snowdrifts had gone and all the wild-flowers were blooming in profusion, and experienced “Alpine coffee” cour-tesy of the Forestry Fire Watch Of-ficer. We found Loon Lake, Pavil-ion Lake and Barnes Lake where John loved to fish and teach our kids how to catch and clean fish ready for the pan. We took drives along the back-

roads locally and were stunned by the vistas that appeared before us. In Fall we went through Back Valley to Dead-man Creek and were amazed by the gold and blue pictures we saw, just like a calendar and we had always thought calendar pictures were too perfect to be true!

Close to hand are Spences Bridge, Logan Lake, Merritt, Savona, Clinton, 70 Mile House and Green Lake. Later we would visit further away spots like Barkerville - a marvellous reconstruc-tion, Radium Hot Springs in the Koo-tenays, the salmon run at Adams Riv-er, Manyberries in southern Alberta, to name a few. There are so many spots close at hand as well as within a day’s journey, just waiting for us to discov-er them. Taking our visitors to see just what we have here always renews our pleasure in this area when we had for-gotten how much we really enjoy it all, and makes us aware that we should re-visit some of the old haunts before they disappear.

Another thing that seems to slip our collective memories quite often comes to mind when we read the list in The Journal of the clubs and organisations and groups of supporters we have here. Who would have believed that a com-munity our size could support so many talents and interests?

There does seem to be an ebb and flow to many clubs, though. They ap-pear and, with a hard working mem-bership, thrive for a few years, then

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LETTERS

Let’s suppose you’re run-ning late for an appoint-ment and you’ve been caught speeding in a 30 km/h zone in Ashcroft.

You’re pulled over and a police officer hands you a fine for $196.

What a way to start your day!

But have you ever won-dered what happens to the money you and thousands of other British Columbians pay to resolve traffic tickets?

You might be surprised to learn a portion of your fine comes back to B.C. commun-ities twice a year in the form of a grant to fund policing in-itiatives and community safe-ty projects.

There’s more. As com-munities with a population of less than 20,000, Ashcroft and Cache Creek also qualify for twice-yearly Small Com-munity grants. Since March 2011, Ashcroft has received

$2,101,105 in Small Commun-ity grants, including $277,925 just last month. Cache Creek has received 1,837,483 since 2011,

including $248,064 last month.

These grant programs are great for local governments because they pay for munici-pal projects without affecting local taxes.

This is how they work:· The Small Commun-

ity grant program provides unconditional grants, mean-ing local governments can spend the funding according to their needs and priorities. The grants apply to commun-ities with fewer than 20,000 people and are used for infra-structure, administration and services.

· Traffic Fine Revenue funding comes from ticket fines and court-imposed fines on violation tickets. The pro-gram returns 100 per cent of net traffic fine revenues to communities that are respon-sible for policing costs. Rural communities and municipal-ities with populations under

5,000 who do not pay directly for policing participate in the program through a reduction in the police tax.

There is a third grant pro-gram as well. Regional Dis-trict grants are also applied twice a year and, like Small Community grants, are un-conditional and can be spent however each regional district sees fit to assist with admin-istration costs. The Thomp-son-Nicola Regional Dis-trict received $95,707 from the program last month, and $721,411 since 2011.

Since 2009, the Traffic Fine Revenue, Small Com-munity and Regional District grant programs have provid-ed more than $792 million in funding to communities throughout B.C., to help pay for local projects.

Unlike other grants that go toward a specific purpose, these grants can be used at each community’s discretion on local projects that might otherwise go unfunded.

Our government under-stands there is no standard formula for addressing prior-ity projects in individual com-munities. These programs al-low decisions to be made locally to help pay for pro-jects that build safer, strong-er communities – without bu-rdening local taxpayers.

Jackie TegartMLA, Fraser Nicola

VICTORIA REPORT

Traffic fines put to good use

die through at-trition, and some

new ones start up instead, taking in dif-ferent interests and talents. One organi-sation that has stood the test of time dis-plays the variety of talents available here, the event of the Fall, The Ashcroft Fall Fair. There is such a great deal of work that goes into the production of such an event that is never seen by the public, and we should all be sure to let the commit-tee know how much we appreciate their

efforts, even if only by turning up at the event on Sept. 13.

Our own Seniors group will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 12:30pm for carpet bowling and card games. No doubt there will be exchanges of summer adventures and talk about all the places we have been to and the things we have seen and done! Why not mark us on your calendar and join us at the old Lady Minto build-ing, that now holds the Village Offices, to share your adventures? You would be most welcome!

Joyce WestAshcroft

Dear EditorKen Platz, whom I’ve known for a

number of years and consider a good friend, is down there three times a week at MLA Jackie Tegart’s office, with a placard. People honk as they go by, ex-pressing agreement with what he is doing - protesting our lack of medical doctors and the gradual dismantling of our once beautiful hospital. Ken is a quiet, very sensible man, not inclined to protest or

writing letters to the editor (like yours truly). But he is down there, reminding us all of what we do not have.

I read in our Journal newspaper, that our MLA is doing everything she can to bring attention to our plight. Ken himself, appreciates the time and the effort that the Wellness and Health Action Coalition group are making to get us some doctors.

The point is, none of this is working.

As to the oft stated, ‘But there are no medical doctors available’, I wonder.

Why does the town of Lillooet (which is about the same size as Ashcroft) have five permanent medical doc-tors? Have a beautiful hos-pital with all the resources

which Ashcroft once had?Why does the village of Lytton, much

smaller than Ashcroft have at least two rotating doctors (who come from Lilloo-et)?

Perhaps we are negotiating with the wrong people. Perhaps we should be ne-gotiating with the people who first set-tled this country. Both the Ashcroft Band and the Bonaparte Band have functioning medical clinics.

Federal money may very well be in-volved. Both communities mentioned have large native Indian populations.

Ashcroft has the hospital, the lab, the medical offices. What we don’t have are the doctors to keep them running.

When I called the Ashcroft Medic-al Clinic for an appointment to renew my prescriptions this week, I was told that there was no one there to do so. I was ad-vised to go to ER, which was open from 6 pm on Friday, until 8 am on Monday, and ask for a prescription renewal.

I find this bizaare. Everyone working so hard to get us what other nearby com-munities have. Calling in the Health Min-ister, negotiating with Interior Health, etc. doesn’t seem to be getting us any-where.

Two doctors in seven months, may be available? Fresh out of medical school? That’s a pretty dim vision to contemplate when you need a prescription filled.

Esther Darlington MacDonaldAshcroft

Change in tactics needed to find doctorsContinued from p. 4

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Desert Daze music festival this weekend in Spences BridgeBob Seger tribute at MITP

Winding Rivers Arts & Performance Society pre-sents ‘Music in the Park’ Outdoor Concert on Wednes-day Aug. 12 with Sabrina Weeks and Mike Hilliard. Opening set starting at 6:30pm features Local Singer/Songwriter Nadine Davenport.

Sabrina and Mike will be pre-senting a special show called ‘Re-flections of Bob Seger.’ The night will be a celebration of the music Bob Seger. Sing along. Dance all night, Take a stroll down memory lane...

Sabrina’s voice is a ménage à trois between Etta James, Fae West and Doris Day writhing beneath black satin sheets. Add Mike Hilliard who is by far one of the most underrated yet insanely talented guitar players in Canada and you have something exciting and fresh.

These popular evening Concerts on Railway Ave are held throughout the Summer in June, July and August and are every second and fourth Wednesday night from 6:30 - 9:30pm. Bring your family and friends, a comfy lawn chair and a blanket and prepare to enjoy wonderful live music in a relaxed, family friendly venue. Admission is free, but pass-the-hat donations are encouraged.

Desert Daze Music Festival this weekend

Spences Bridge is gearing up for its sixth an-nual Desert Daze Festival Aug. 7-8. Two days of music and workshops, shopping, and fun and games!

Friday kicks off at 2 pm with the Siska Drummers. This group of Indigenous drummers opens the festival with a prayer and a welcome song.

Some highlights of the music schedule in-clude Merritt-based Bobby Garcia and Six More Strings, who played at the fall dance in Spences Bridge last year, and also graced the stage at this summer’s Music in the Park in Ash-croft. Bobby Garcia and Six More Strings is playing on Friday night and will have you sing-ing along and dancing to their country style. If country isn’t your thing, Bluesfoot from Kam-loops will close off Friday night with rock-ing dancing favourites! Bluegrass anyone? The Honkey Tonk Dilettantes hail from Vancou-ver and this bluegrass trio pluck and harmonize some of the good old tunes. Murfitt and Main, also from Vancouver, have played in this region before, and their country harmonies are not to be missed. For something completely different, Kara Kata! This is a 15 piece Afro Beat band not to be missed – with horns, backup singers, drums….sure to be a lively jumpin’ set!

Closing the festival Saturday night is George Leach and his amazing blues trio. Leach is a Juno award winner, and hails from Lillooet; his blues guitar style of playing is amazing and not to be missed!

Of course our little festival would not be complete without our very talented local musi-cians; Spiritus Mundii, Flat Busted, John Kid-der, Jennifer Ferguson, Nadine Davenport and more!

You can find links to theses musicians’ web-sites or YouTube on our website in order have a listen to them.

Vendors and volunteer are needed for this event; please go to the website for details www.desertdaze.ca . It’s also on Facebook.

Beside from the canning and pickling work-shops there will be a drumming workshop facili-tated by Dave Dumont, so bring your djembes, hand drum, rattles and shakers! Yoga yoga! with that the very talented yoga instructor Maya Na-dine. There is a workshop with “Doug the Hug” the quirky guitarist! as well as an Indigenous traditional art workshop with local Indigenous artist Carolyn Lytton.

Tickets are very reasonable for a weekend pass! For further information please go to www.desertdaze.ca or call 250-458-2282

Moonlight Movie features Big Hero 6

Interior Savings presents Ashcroft Moonlight Outdoor Movie featuring Big Hero on Wednesday, Aug, 26. The

event starts at 7pm with concession and activities. The movie starts at dusk which is roughly 8:30pm. Admis-sion is by donation. All donations are going to Desert Hills Tri Club.

Big Hero 6 is an animated movie about the special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra Dinner ConcertThe Grand Central Station will co-host a Dinner

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TMO has cycled through far-flung influences and youthful forays into sounds from all over, finding new vistas of creativity that bring them closer to their own beginnings, to the people and places that have shaped them. Discover Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra for yourself Thursday, Aug. 27 here in Ashcroft.

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FROM LOON LAKE ROADBarbara Hendricks

Too much talk, too little action on weedsAt least once a year Loon Lake residents are re-

minded that they are either in no-man’s land or a frontier territory. According to service providers like Telus and BC Hydro, Loon Lake Road is in Clinton. According to Canada Post, Loon Lake Road is in Cache Creek. So when we ask Telus to mail us a telephone directory, which is something all customers are entitled to, we can’t get one because our post office address is Cache Creek but we are asking for the Williams Lake book which includes our exchange. Telus will apparently only send those dir-ectories through the Clinton Post Office.

Of course, we are told nobody uses telephone books anymore as everyone uses the internet to look up a num-ber. Um – No, we don’t and many of us do not have in-ternet. If we ask for one through Yellow Pages we are either told they are not available or they say “Yes, they will send one”, but it never arrives. It is impossible to get anyone in Telus to do anything about this as their com-puter apparently overrules the people. Canada Post staff has tried to help but have run into roadblocks from Telus.

The latest no-man’s land situation is the confusion regarding where Loon Lake Road is concerning the Provincial Fire Centres. While it may seem most logical to many that Loon Lake Road would be within the juris-diction of the Kamloops Fire Centre, it is not; it is the Cariboo Fire Centre that makes the rules for Loon Lake Road. So while there is a campfire ban in the Kamloops district, there is no campfire ban in effect at Loon Lake Road as I write this (Saturday Aug 1). This situation can change any day and if you want the latest update on our situation regarding campfires it is the Cariboo Fire Dis-trict you look to for the information. You can find that online at bcwildfire.ca – Cariboo or call the office in 100 Mile at 250 395-7831.

While we may be a no-mans land or a “border” area, we still pay plenty of taxes. I read recently in The Jour-nal someone suggesting that property owners at Loon

Lake did not pay school taxes.Just to set the record straight, the provincial assess-

ment authority has no difficulty in finding Loon Lake Road and all properties are taxed for schools, and this means that those who have summer and vacation homes here and a home elsewhere in the province actually pay two sets of taxes for schools.

Even property owners living outside of BC must pay school tax on their property. In the same way we also pay hefty taxes for hospitals and policing even though these services are centred in not-so-nearby towns.

The suggestion that townspeople are the only ones paying for these services is incorrect. Every year the property owners of Loon Lake Road send many thou-sands of dollars to governments in towns and cities for services based there which we can only access intermit-tently, if at all.

I frequently write about gardening and plants in this column as I enjoy time spent in a garden much more than time spent in front of the TV. Besides, sitting is very bad for your health.

Associated with my joy of gardening and plants is my concern about the loss of plant diversity in nature as invasive weeds take over roadsides and forest lands. In BC we have a law regarding noxious weeds and while millions of dollars are given every year by the govern-ment to various invasive species councils across the province, it seems to be a losing battle about the weeds while the councils multiply and grow like bad weeds.

The literature put out by the Invasive Species Coun-cils shows we have now up to five categories of undesir-able plants – according to them. There are: provincial noxious weeds, regional noxious weeds, invasive plants, invasive horticulture plants and “unwanted” horticulture plants – in total adding up to about 120 plants. Most lo-cals can’t identify 10 plants, so good luck with that. For-tunately, many of these cannot grow in the cold climate

and alkaline soils around here but still enough is

enough, and this is too much. I would much prefer to see these councils target a handful of the most problematic weeds and develop strategies to get them under control, including getting BC Ministry of Transport to accept that they must do more to prevent the spread of these weeds along roadsides and into adjacent range lands.

Where I live annual cornflowers, Mountain bluet, Russian olive, Evening primrose and several others are valuable plants that do not spread beyond the cultivated garden. In fact, it is darn hard to get some of these plants to produce seeds and there is no danger that they will in-vade the neighbouring land. Meanwhile contractors for the BC Ministry of Transport continue to accidentally spread the seeds of knapweed, Dalmatian toadflax and other, more harmful weeds along roadsides. I have seen beautiful mountain meadows that once flowered with showy daisies and penstemons completed overtaken by knapweed.

I think the way to go is develop a list of the “10 most wanted weeds” and concentrate on eliminating these from crown land and roadsides, then target another 10 when that is accomplished. This would be much more effective although the approach requires that someone would actually have to go out on the land and pull weeds, and physical labour is to be avoided it seems, except at the gym. For example, if all knapweed was eliminat-ed from lands held by the provincial government, this would go a long way to improving the diversity of plants and property owners would not have drifts of knapweed seeds moving in from the roadsides every summer when they are mowed.

As summer progresses there are signs that early fall is just around the corner. Suddenly a few days ago most of the hummingbirds left. I will miss those little entertain-ers. After cleaning all the berries off the Nanking Cherry, the robins, tanagers and various warblers have moved on to another garden. The squirrels are busy cutting down fir cones for their winter stockpiles. (They really seem to like to drop those cones from the tree tops onto some kind of metal roof or storage tank and the sound echos across the valley.)

It is time to start collecting seeds for next year and it looks like there will be enough to share at various seedy events next spring. Already the first fall bulb catalogue has come in the mail and it is indeed time to start think-ing of where to plant some and where the ones already planted are hiding.

Coming ComingEvents

MEMBERS & BONA FIDE GUESTS WELCOME

Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday • 12 pm - 5 pm Thursday - Friday • 12 pm - 11 pm

Saturday • 12 pm - 8 pm Sunday • 12 pm - 6 pm

Ashcroft Legion General Meeting3rd Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m.

(no meeting July and August)

Euchre fi rst, second & third Sundays of every month1:00 to 4:00 pm, beginners welcome

MEAT DRAWEvery Saturday ~ 3:00 pm

Ashcroft Royal Canadian LegionFRI., AUGUST 7th • 6:30 - 7:15 pm

Chicken & Ribs $10/plateServed with Potato Salad, Coleslaw,

Dinner Buns and Dessert

* Legion Crib Tournament last Sunday of the monthOpen 10 am starts 11 am sharp - 12 games * Free Pool Daily

Crib every Thursday at 7:00 pmDarts every Thursday at 7:30 pm

Bingo 1st & 3rd WednesdayDoors open 6:00 pm, games start 6:30 pm.

Hamburgers & Chicken burgers served every Wednesday from Noon

Aug. 7/8: Desert Daze music festival in Spences Bridge. Two days of music, arts, culture and agriculture.Aug. 12: Music in the Park with Sabrina Weeks and Mike Hilliard with special guest Nadine Davenport. Music begins at 6:30 in Heritage Park. By donation.Aug. 14-16: Clinton Art & Cultural Society Annual Art Show and Sale at Clinton Memorial Hall.Aug. 17: Cache Creek Council meets at 7 pm in the Village Of� ce. Everyone welcome to attend.Aug. 22/23: CMDRA Race featuring North West Street Outlaws at the Eagle Motorplex on Hwy 1 south of Cache Creek.Aug. 26: Music in the Park with Paisley Groove and special guest Kirk Watson. Music begins at 6:30 in Heritage Park. By donation.Sept. 4-6: Twelfth annual Lytton River Festival. Free event featuring music, arts, crafts, plays, and much more. www.riverfestival.caSept. 13: Ashcroft & District Fall Fair, 10am-5pm at Dryland Arena.Sept. 19/20: NHRA King of the Track! Last race weekend of 2015 for Eagle Motorplex on Hwy 1 south of Cache Creek.Every Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm. The Cache Creek Market is open at the main intersection in Cache Creek, next to Chums Restaurant, until October.

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Lillian MartinAugust 29, 1918 - July 24, 2015

It is with great sadness that the family of Lillian “Lily” Martin (Aie) announce

her passing on July 24, 2015. Lily was born on August 29, 1918 and grew up in Ashcroft, BC.

She was the second of eight children and is predeceased by parents Wong Du Dai Aie and You

How Lim Aie, sister Betsy, brother Edward and her husband Donald.Lily is survived by siblings Betty

Wong, Loyd (Renee) Wongs, William (Chui Chu) Aie, Renay (Cort) Larson and Jerry

Aie. She is also survived by grandchildren (great) and numerous nieces and nephews. It is with deep gratitude and heartfelt thanks to her granddaughter Pam and husband Kyle (Klumpp) for their dedication and loving care of Lil during recent years.

Lillian attended Lady Byng Elementary School. She travelled to China with her family and later returned to Canada in 1938 to work in Red Deer, AB. In 1942 she enlisted in the C.W.A.C. as a nurse in Yorkton, SK and was the � rst Chinese lady to join in that province, and perhaps in Canada. Lillian was posted to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Upon returning to Saskatchewan, she later met and married Donald Martin in 1944 who in 1945 was discharged when the war ended. They returned to Ashcroft in 1952.

Lillian was widowed in 1969 and was left to care for her granddaughter. She worked locally at the area fruit stands from Cache Creek, the Ashcroft Manor, and as far as Spences Bridge. She was very involved with family and community, which included baking for church teas. Her hobbies included crocheting, playing scratch tickets and reading romance novels. She loved � ower and vegetable gardening, canning and cooking. Lily was famously known for her butter tarts and daily walks to town, where many of the locals would often pick her and her groceries up and help her home. Her kindness, graciousness and loving ways will be greatly remembered by her family and friends. May you rest in peace, Lily.

Funeral Services were held in Ashcroft on Saturday August 1st from Zion United Church where burial followed at the Ashcroft Cemetery.

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It is with great sadness that the family of Lillian “Lily” Martin (Aie) announce

her passing on July 24, 2015. Lily was born on August 29, 1918 and grew up in Ashcroft, BC.

She was the second of eight children and is predeceased by parents Wong Du Dai Aie and You

How Lim Aie, sister Betsy, brother Edward and her husband Donald.Lily is survived by siblings Betty

Wong, Loyd (Renee) Wongs, William (Chui Chu) Aie, Renay (Cort) Larson and Jerry

The Journal Thursday, August 6, 2015 www.ash-cache-journal.com A 9COMMUNITY

Clinton rolls out the flowery carpet for judges

After the delightful picnic lunch in the museum grounds the judges posed with Clinton CiB members and mayor: (l-r) Roger Younker, Christine Johnstone, Yvette May (in front), Susan Swan, Bonita Lundberg, Alice Crosson and Mayor Jim Rivett.

CiB Judges Tour ClintonIn spite of flight delays and be-

ing re-routed, the National CiB judg-es finally arrived in Clinton after 9 p.m. on July 28. Thankfully, nothing had been planned for them that evening so they were able to settle into their mo-tel rooms and prepare for the next day.

Judges Roger Younker of Charlotte-town, PEI and Bonita Lundberg of Sas-katoon, Sask. were escorted around town the following day. Tour guides Christine Johnstone and Susan Swan had people at each of the stops to ex-plain what they were seeing.

The judges visited Robertson Square and the community garden, sewer treatment plant and lagoons, the Pioneer Cemetery, the new water treat-ment plant, museum, Village Office and fitness room, Reg Conn Centennial Park and proposed dog park location, Kings Lake Cemetery, David Stoddart School and Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band Native Cemetery.

Following the official stops the judges were driven around to view some of the Funky Flowerpot entries and Scott’s Miracle Gro winning prop-erties. During the tour a picnic lunch was held in the museum grounds with the judges, museum society members, CiB committee members, mayor, coun-cil and village staff.

An informal dinner comprised of local foods was held at the Memor-ial Hall on Wednesday evening and a working breakfast with the judges, CiB members and CAO Tom Dall was held on Thursday morning prior to the judg-es being returned to Kamloops.

The Village of Clinton was the last of four communities with population under 1000 that these judges evaluat-ed. The results will be announced at the CiB National and International Sympo-sium in Kamloops on Oct. 1. The judg-es seemed to be very impressed with the community and the friendly people they met along the way. Let’s hope that translates into a good evaluation.

Scotts Miracle Gro WinnersThe Village of Clinton was invited

once again to enter the Scotts Mir-acle Gro Best Garden Competition. Members of the Clinton Communities in Bloom Committee had the un-enviable task of selecting 10 properties to receive the awards.

The categories included Best Residential Flower Gar-den, Best Residential Edible Garden, Best Business Flower and Edible Garden and Best Youth-Run Edible Garden – youth 14 and under. Win-ners receive a gift pack of two Scotts Miracle Gro products and a sign for their yard.

The winners in Clinton were Amanda Mercer - Lagoon Court “Flowers and Edible combined”; Mar-nie and Bernie Nieuwenhuis – Lagoon Court “Edible Garden; Melanie Nichol-son – Lagoon Court “Perennial and Herb Gardens”; Catherine Marcoux and Bill Holt – Soues Street “Potted Flowers on fence”; and Bernice Beeds – Lebourdais Avenue “Flower Gar-dens”. Also among the winners were John and Fran White – Engeman Lane “Flowers, Edible Garden and Land-scaped Yard”; Nancy McMinn/Cordova Farm – Pavilion Road “Edible Garden”; As the Crow Flies/Brenda Slade – Cariboo Hwy. “Best Business Improve-ment of building frontage and grounds with flowers and ed-ibles”; and the Government Li-quor Store/Tracy Fallstrom – Cariboo Hwy. “Best Business for unique flowers and edible garden frontage.”

The Cloverbuds – Clinton 4-H Young Horticulture Club won the “Best Youth-Run Ed-ible Gardens”. Eight young gardeners showed off their flower gardens, hanging bas-kets, vegetable plots and gar-dens. They learn to cook with herbs from their gardens. Con-gratulations to Cale Townsend, Colton Wedler, Rachel Miller, Mattie Miller, Cade Allison, Tate Allison, Colton McCor-mick and Jesse Fletcher and their leader, Linda Allison.

Well done everyone. Your efforts make our community so much better.

Summer Fine Art Show & Sale

The Clinton Art and Cul-tural Society are hosting a Fine Art and Artisan Show and Sale from Friday, Aug. 14 to Sun-day, Aug. 16 at the Clinton Memorial Hall.

Friday evening is from 6-9

p.m. while Saturday hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is by donation and attendees will be asked to vote for their “pick of the show” and best “wildlife themed” selections.

Some of the artists/artisans will be giving demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday. There will also be a children’s table so dress the young people in old clothing and let them try out various artists materials.

There will be a silent auction going on throughout the show and winners will be notified to pick up their items at the end of the show. If you would like to donate to the silent auction please contact Rebekah Bowen at 250-459-2519.

The theme this year is “Wildlife”. Anyone wishing to display their work can contact Nancy McMinn at 250-459-2976 before Aug. 7 when entries close.

This is an open show and entry of original works in all mediums is en-couraged. This includes works by pho-tographers, artists, artisans, sculptors, authors, musicians, and video makers.

The Society’s mandate is to pro-mote and support area cultural activ-ities. They welcome your best effort if you are a beginner and have never dis-played your work as well as the skilful pieces of mature and professional art-ists.

The Society members invite you to come and meet others who are inter-ested in the wonderful world of art and artistry.

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River Fest shares a rich cultureArts Summer Camp will be bigger and

better. It is designed for students entering Kindergarten through to Grade 12. Ele-mentary students will sing with Sabrina Weeks and Mike Hilliard, paint with Jo Petty, play music with David Dumont and act with Mavourneen Varcoe-Ryan.

New this year: High school students will have the opportunity to work on a special week-long project with Gareth Smart.

The camp will be held at Cache Creek Elementary School Aug. 17-21, where classes run from 9:30am-2:30pm. Regis-ter by phone, email, or online by Aug. 7. Phone: 250 453-0036 or e-mail windin-

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Lytton River Festival – Labour Day Weekend

Each year the Lytton River Festival pays tribute to the Thompson and Fras-er Rivers and celebrates Lytton’s vibrant community and First Nations culture. This free, family-friendly three-day event is the largest of its kind in the canyon with live bands and street dances, chil-dren’s activities such as face painting and a climbing wall, farmers markets, organ-ized hikes into the Stein Valley, First Na-tions artisans, and a traditional Pow Wow.

For a complete list of the weekend’s

activities, visit http://riverfestival.ca/events/

Friday morning kicks off with a stroll along the Fraser at 8:30 am after meeting at the Visitor Centre. The Farmers Market opens at 10 am Friday, Saturday and Sun-day. Visit the Museum at 3 pm for story telling - Lytton Legends. Have dinner at the Legion, 5:30. The Pernell Reichert Band takes to the stage at 5:30 and starts off an evening of music, capped off by Ritchie and the Fendermen at 9 pm.

Start Saturday morning off with a Pan-cake Breakfast at the Parish Hall. 8-10:30 am. At 10 am the Festival officially opens with a Lytton hand drum welcome. The Welcome Booth opens at 10:30 am and signals the beginning of many activities including live music, new geo caching re-leases from Gold Country, the Two Riv-

ers Art Show (11-6), Mr. Bubbles the Clown (noon-3 pm), Circus West per-formances, magic shows and workshops (1-3:30 pm), and the climbing wall (2-4 pm). Spiritus Mundii takes the stage at 5 pm, followed by Ten Souljers at 7:30. They’ll stop for the Fire Dancer perform-ance at 9 pm and resume playing at 9:30.

Sunday is a little more laid back: the local First Nations artisans conduct workshops and demonstrations starting at noon and First Nations cultural per-formances take to the stage, first with the Tuckkwiowhum Heritage Inerpretive Vil-lage (1-2:30 pm), followed by Kevin Lor-ing’s Savage Society perform “Songs of the Land” (2:30-4 pm), the Interactive First Nations Experience (4-5 pm), end-ing with First Nations blues performer, Gerald Charlie from 5-7 pm.

Current from p. 7

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NOTICE OF REZONING APPLICATION AND PUBLIC HEARING

The Village of Ashcroft has received an application to amend existing C-1 (Commercial Mixed Use 1) Zone for 110 Railway Avenue (Lot AM5, Block 23, Plan KAP189, District Lot 423, Kamloops Division Yale District, except Plan KAP 47433, See DD 252981F, PID: 012-631-761). The proposal is to permit the following on a site specific basis only:

• Boutique Manufacturing: A Use that involvesthe manufacturing of small tools and other hardware, and assembly in buildings occupying small footprints and not requiring outdoor storage

This application is a proposal is being considered under Bylaw 737, the Village of Ashcroft Zoning Bylaw, 2005. Public HearingDate: Monday, August 10th, 2015Time: 6:00 PM to 6:30 PMPlace: Village of Ashcroft Council Chambers 601 Bancroft Street, Ashcroft

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Contact: Michelle Allen, CAO admin@ashcroftbc.ca tel: 250-453-9161Village of Ashcroft 601 Bancroft StreetAshcroft, BC

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