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Vol. 55 No. 14 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

FortisBC offers opportunity for

natural gasPage 2

Guides, Sparks and Pathfinders hike for hunger

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Governments committed to water plant

The federal government has joined the B.C. government in a commitment to fund two-thirds of a $4.5 million water treatment facility for the District of Sicamous.

Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trouton received word Friday morning (March 28) from Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes that the federal govern-ment will be providing $1.5 million for the facil-ity’s construction. The funding comes through the Provincial-Territorial Base Fund for infrastructure under the federal Build-ing Canada Plan.

The federal funding was announced Friday afternoon as part of a joint commitment with the B.C. government, which is also contribut-ing $1.5 to the project

“That’s pretty darn exciting… it makes it all possible now,” Trou-ton said in a News inter-view.

In October, Trouton announced the province was committed to pro-viding one-third fund-ing. This was after a visit by Sport and Cultural Development Minister Bill Bennett, who present-ed a cheque for $50,000 to fund a pilot project to test the � ltration technology proposed for the new treatment facility. The pilot was to span six months, while the province worked with its fed-eral counterparts to come up with funding options for the $4.5 million plant, to replace Sicamous’ current water treatment infrastructure that was severely compromised as a result of the June 23 debris � ows in Two Mile and Swansea Point, as well as the subsequent � ooding.

“So, it’s been a lot of work behind the scenes by everybody, and I’m just happy everybody has come to the table and has committed to this,” says Trouton. “It’s looking very positive for us into the

$3 million: Provincial and federal governments funding two-thirds. By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

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District ups fight against quarry permit

Neighbour pains: Bryant Laboret is angered by a gravel quarry proposed to go directly above residential lots he is selling along Old Town Road. The mining operation would include drilling, blasting and screening. Photo by Lachlan Labere

The District of Si-camous is taking on an uphill battle with the B.C. government over an application for a gravel pit along Old Town Road.

Back in December, district council agreed to submit a letter voic-ing their “unequivocal objection” to a referral from the Ministry of Energy and Mines re-lating to a mines permit application for a � ve-year-permit to operate a rock quarry at 200 Old Town Road. Accord-ing to information re-ceived by the district at that time, the applicant, Murray Hillson, is pro-

posing an excavating pit, crushing, screen-ing and blasting of materials. The applica-tion also states that ap-proximately 300 cubic metres of timber would be removed to facili-tate the work. Council agreed with staff that the project would be in contravention to the municipality’s of� cial community plan and zoning bylaws.

District staff has since learned, how-ever, that not all the information relating to the application had been received in the original referral. And the additional informa-tion has only increased community planning of� cer Mike Marrs’

concern about the proj-ect and the impact it will have, not only on nearby properties, but on the community as a whole. But Marrs also

recognizes the commu-nity may be powerless to prevent the ministry from granting the per-mit.

“The big reason I brought this forward tonight… is that further

discussions with our solicitor con� rm my feelings that we abso-lutely have no control over the ministry rela-tive to them making a

decision, even though this mine would be in contravention of our OCP, our zoning by-law, and to the detri-ment of the community and those properties surrounding it, par-

ticularly the properties that are situated below, to which the applicant has already encroached upon and has not made any effort to rectify,” Marrs explained at the March 23 regular coun-cil meeting.

S u b s e q u e n t l y , council agreed to two recommendations by Marrs, the � rst asking that the ministry hold a public meeting and to “adjudicate its deci-sion process based on the expressed will of the residents, the po-tentially negative net bene� t to he commu-nity and the fact that the community is well served by existing lo-

The federal funding was announced Friday afternoon as part of a joint commitment with the B.C. government, which is also contribut-

“That’s pretty darn exciting… it makes it all possible now,” Trou-

inter-

In October, Trouton announced the province was committed to pro-

That’s pretty darn exciting… it makes it all possible now.

Darrell TroutonSicamous mayor

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Powerless: Municipalities have little input on mines applications.

See Council to on page 3

proximately 300 cubic metres of timber would be removed to facili-tate the work. Council agreed with staff that the project would be in contravention to the municipality’s of� cial community plan and

District staff has since learned, how-

If his past behaviour is any indication of what his future behaviour is going to

be, then we’re all in trouble

Bryant Laboret

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Every 1st & 3rd Tuesday- Sicamous Lions Club meets at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre, 1090 Shuswap Ave, Sicamous. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm. Everyone Welcome. For info contact Joan at 250-836-4876 or Kathy at 250-836-3267

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future.”One of the next big

hurdles for the district will be finding it’s $1.5 million share. Trouton said he and council will

be looking to the 2013 budget and future bud-gets for the amount.

“We have to be care-ful in our community of not overspending in each budget year and making it viable

for people to live here and to move here,” says Trouton. “It’s excit-ing and we’ll make it work.”

The district did put out a request for pro-posals for engineering

the new water treatment facility, and staff have since forwarded a rec-ommendation to coun-cil that OPUS Dayton Knight Consultant Ltd. of Kelowna be awarded the $523,921 contract.

As of Monday, council had still not approved the recommendation, awaiting both the fed-eral/provincial funding commitment and data from the completed pi-lot project.

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Contract ready to be awarded for engineering of facility

FortisBC proposes delivery of natural gas

FortisBC has a plan to bring natural gas to Sicamous; the next step is to see if there’s enough demand.

In May 2012, the News reported that the energy provider was exploring ways to de-liver natural gas to the community. The con-clusion of their analysis was delivered to district council Wednesday, in a presentation by For-tisBC spokesperson Ruth Sulentich.

The plan, explained Sulentich, would in-volve trucking com-pressed natural gas from Salmon Arm to Sicamous (with ap-proximately six, 53-foot trailers, potentially powered by natural gas), and developing a distribution system in the community through which to service busi-nesses and residents on the east side of the Bruhn Bridge.

“The customer would be responsible to bear the cost of the meter as well as con-version of their appli-ances, depending on what they’re using… the good news is with customers on propane, there’s very minimal changes required to convert to natural gas

so the cost would be fairly low,” said Sulen-tich, noting the cost of conversion would in-clude meters (between $200 and $800 depend-ing on property size), as well as changing over relevant appliances in-cluding furnaces, hot water tanks, fireplaces, etc. The payback, says Sulentech, will come in reduced energy costs. She said customers currently on propane could see savings of 30 to 40 per cent, and that electricity is also no-tably more expensive than gas.

Fortis would be required to purchase property in the com-munity, and would own and operate the distri-

bution system. Council passed a

resolution allowing FortisBC to proceed with their plans to bring natural gas to the community. Sulentich said this involves going through regulatory pro-cedures, including an application to the BC Utilities Commission. But this would come after a public consul-tation process, vital to determine if there is ac-tually enough demand in the community to warrant the cost.

“We are gauging our numbers on getting all the commercial busi-nesses, there’s about 33, having them sign up, as well as approxi-mately 600 homes that

we would need to sign up…,” said Sulentich.

The consultation process, Sulentich ex-plained, would not only educate the public on FortisBC’s intentions, but also provide differ-ent scenarios breaking down what residents can expect based on converting from their current energy/heating source.

“Our intention is to lay it all out, show what cost will be up front and over five years what your payback will be,” said Sulentich. “If we don’t attain that vol-ume, that yearly vol-ume that we’re looking for, we can’t move on.”

If the numbers are there, and approvals

come through, the goal would be to have natu-ral gas coming into the district by winter 2014.

Sulentich explained how trucking com-pressed natural gas from Salmon Arm is the only financially vi-able method available to Sicamous. She said FortisBC looked at a number of options, including a propane distribution system, a liquid natural gas plant, and a pipeline from Salmon Arm.

“One of the routes that was looked at was… the railway line,” said Sulentich, referring to the decom-missioned line along Mara Lake. “Unfortu-nately, when the num-bers were crunched to bring the pipeline to Sicamous, it would be ranging from $15.5 million all the way to $26 million. So not very economical, and in order to make it work, the district would have to contribute, as would all the recipients of natural gas.”

As for bringing gas to the west side of the Bruhn Bridge, it was explained this might be possible after Si-camous’ distribution system is established and there proves to be enough demand.

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Future energy option: FortisBC has proposed trucking natu-ral gas to Sicamous, where the required infrastructure would be built to service homes and businesses. Photo by Lachlan Labere

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cal quarries.” The sec-ond recommendation is for council to pur-sue amendments to the Mines Act so as to give “greater weight to local government involve-ment and ability to con-trol such permits within their jurisdiction.”

On Monday, April 1, Hillson told the News he had not yet received Marrs’ written report, and that he did not wish to comment at that time.

In his report to council, Marrs stated he had found a number of errors with Hillson’s initial application, and found other points that were question-able, and that he hoped these points would act as “ammunition” for council in seeking po-litical avenues to ad-dress the matter.

Among Marrs’ con-cerns is the scope of the proposal – steps carved into the mountainside that will be 10-metres wide and approximate-ly 110 metres (360 feet) high. He notes the proximity to the near-est existing residence is approximately 160 me-tres, not 460 as stated in the application. In addition, Marrs notes there one-acre lots ad-jacent to (below) the subject property that have been encroached upon, and which are currently on the mar-ket, and “when resi-dences are constructed thereon, they could be somewhere between 70 to 100 metres from the excavation.”

Marrs also calls a $10,000 security de-posit for reclamation of the site “unreasonable.”

In addition to his criticisms of the ap-

plication, Marrs also noted how truck traf-fic generated by the quarry would further diminish the already limited lifespan of the S icamous-So l squa Road bridge. He added how a bridge failure might also impact the water and sanitary sew-er connection that runs along the bridge, and suggested the district lower the load capac-ity allowed to cross the bridge.

Mayor Darrell Trou-ton supported Marrs’ recommendations, and took issue with the applicant not having consulted with the dis-trict, as well as other concerns raised by the planner.

“If this were a log-ging cut block, they’d have to at least take all of these considerations into (account),” said Trouton. “So I think

it’s a total disregard to the community and our legislation.”

At the end of the council meeting, Bryan Laboret, who owns the adjacent lots mentioned by Marrs, thanked council for taking action, and then expressed his own frus-trations with the appli-cant.

“When he first built that road up the hill-side, he did not survey his property, he came onto my property. He logged straight, right below his to the tune of about anywhere from 25 to 75 feet, cut down trees, dumped debris,” said Laboret. “Told me that he would clean it up and that his plan was to plant trees the next spring and cover up the bare spot on the hillside. If his past be-haviour is any indica-tion of what his future

behaviour is going to be, then we’re all in trouble.”

Marrs says it may be another several months before the ministry makes its decision on the permit.

The brief era of the harmonized sales tax ended in B.C. Mon-day, with a last-minute scramble by thousands of businesses to regis-ter as collectors of the revived provincial sales tax.

About 100,000 busi-nesses in B.C. are re-quired to register and collect PST from cus-tomers. By the Easter weekend, about 80,000 of them had done so, said Naomi Yamamoto, B.C.’s minister of state for small business.

“I think what most

consumers will be do-ing is looking at their receipts,” Yamamoto said Sunday. “In most cases they’ll be paying the same as they did prior to April 1, unless you’re getting your hair cut, or buying a ski ticket or you’re paying your golf membership or going to a restaurant, or buying a bike.”

The good news for barbers, bike shops, restaurants and other labour service provid-ers is that they see a seven per cent tax re-duction. The bad news

is that they have to ad-minister two sales tax-es, the PST and the five per cent GST, which continues to apply to goods and services.

There are a few anomalies, such as in-sulation and weather-stripping, where sales tax falls by seven per cent as historic PST ex-emptions resume Mon-day, but most retail purchases will remain subject to both GST and PST at a combined rate of 12 per cent.

Yamamoto said businesses can reg-

ister online by go-ing to www.pstinbc.ca or www.gov.bc.ca/pst and selecting the registration link. Busi-ness owners who don’t register immediately can still correct trans-actions made after the deadline.

NDP finance critic Bruce Ralston said a statistically average family will be about $350 ahead with the removal of the HST, which was rejected in a mail-in referendum in June 2011.

Ralston acknowl-

edged that low-income people will lose the increased HST rebates that have been paid quarterly since the HST took effect in 2010. But he said that will be bal-anced by the reduced sales taxes they pay in restaurants and other service purchases.

A separate seven per cent tax on private used vehicle purchases also remains in place. It was imposed along with the HST to make private sellers subject to the same taxation as car dealers.

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VICTORIA – The Pacif-ic Carbon Trust orchestrated a months-long campaign of calls and letters to discredit a report from B.C.’s Auditor General on its first two big carbon offset projects, be-fore it could be released.

Just as the audit re-port was about to be made public, the trust, a Crown corporation created at tax-payer expense, participated in the leaking of selected critical letters to media out-lets.

Then the Speaker of the B.C. legislature, Bill Bari-soff, made a final, clumsy effort to delay the release of the report.

As soon as it was out, Environment Minister Terry Lake tried to discredit it by blustering about all the highly paid experts who swore up and down that a forest reserve near Koote-nay Lake, and a gas flar-ing reduction project near Fort Nelson, were bona fide carbon offsets worth $6 mil-lion of taxpayers’ money.

The audit states in plain language, with charts and timelines, that the $6 mil-lion was basically given away for nothing. I look forward to further audits on this carbon offset scheme, assuming it survives after the May election, because these two projects aren’t the only boondoggles.

The Pacific Carbon Trust was set up in 2008 as part of former premier Gordon Campbell’s climate change program. To make the B.C. government’s operations “carbon neutral,” the gov-ernment and all of its agen-cies were required to pay the trust $25 per tonne for their carbon dioxide emissions from fuel use.

In 2011 alone, B.C. uni-versities paid $4.46 million to the trust. B.C.’s 60 school districts paid a total of $5.36 million the same year, and the province’s six health au-thorities paid $5.79 million. The money is supposed to go to projects that capture carbon, thus “offsetting” the heating of schools, the fuel burned by ambulances and so forth.

The 55,000-hectare forest reserve is known as Darkwoods. The audit shows that the Nature Con-servancy of Canada decided in 2006 to buy it, using $25 million of federal taxpay-ers’ money. The deal closed in 2008, the same year the Pacific Carbon Trust was formed.

From 2008 to 2010, the trust bought 450,000 tonnes of carbon offset, based on independent evaluations that all rested on the as-sumption that Darkwoods would be clear-cut logged. Since the forest was already owned by Canada’s leading conservancy, this assump-tion makes no sense. Was the conservancy going to log it, or flip it to someone who would, after accepting $25 million in tax money to acquire it? Legally, it could not. (I would add that the assumption that logging re-leases all of the carbon in a forest is also false. Lumber actually sequesters carbon for longer than trees, which eventually die and rot.)

The audit found a similar case against EnCana’s flare

reduction program, which the company used on many wells before the trust started offering money. EnCana was saving money as well as reducing emissions without collecting offsets. There-fore, the audit concluded, neither of these projects was a credible offset because the emissions savings would have occurred anyway.

Here’s the next Pacific Carbon Trust project that should be audited. In a com-plicated transaction, the trust bought offsets from something called the Great Bear Carbon Credit Lim-ited Partnership. Yes, this is the world-famous forest on B.C.’s North Coast that was subject to a preservation deal hammered out between the Coastal First Nations, the B.C. government and three U.S.-backed environ-mental groups.

That was in 2006. The offset purchases were in 2009 and 2010, years after detailed preservation areas were mapped and codified in law. Again, the trust paid for forest that was already preserved.

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Days of austerity over for Canada’s parliamentarians

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In his recent budget speech, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made it clear there are still tough times ahead for Canada. Though

it appears members of Parliament were excluded from this sentiment.

The days of austerity, if they ever truly existed, for the nations backbenchers, cabinet ministers, the Opposition leader and other parliamentarians came to an end just before the Easter break, when it was revealed they’d be receiving a raise.

As of Monday, the base salary of MPs jumped by 1.6 per cent – the first pay increase MPs have seen since the House initiated a three-year freeze.

For many Canadians, a 1.6 per cent raise would barely register in their bi-monthly paycheque. However, it will bring the base salary of MPs up by about $2,500 to $160,200. The prime minis-ter’s pay jumps $5,000 to $320,400. And cabinet ministers like Flaherty – whose budget speech warned Canadians of how the world economy remains fragile, global growth remains fragile and Canada is not immune – will see their pay jump by $3,600 to $236,900.

It must be nice. A January StatsCan report helps put this wage

increase into context with what the rest of Canadi-ans have, and generally continue to experience. The report shows median incomes nationally saw little change between 1982 and 2010. Things actu-ally worsened in B.C., where median income dropped from $31,500 in 1982 to $27,500. Not surprisingly, those above the median income did much better. The top one per cent of the 25.5 mil-lion who filed their taxes accounted for 10.6 per cent of Canada’s total income.

The same report also shows the nation’s wealthy paid more in taxes in 2010 than they did 30 years earlier.

As for our MPs, their wage gains may be offset by changes to the parliamentary pension plan, that will see them contribute 50 per cent, as opposed to the current 14 per cent. (Taxpayers cover the rest.) But this doesn’t kick in until 2017 – after the 2015 federal election.

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The District of Sicamous will be commencing a water main flushing program on the Mara Water System beginning April 8th, 2013 until April 12th, 2013 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. The District of Sicamous apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause but water main flushing is very necessary work to maintain water quality within the distribution system.Water main flushing may create pressure fluctuations and turbidity events within the system. High turbidity levels may impair the effectiveness of the disinfection treatment system. If disinfection is impaired, disease causing micro-organisms may escape disinfection resulting in an increased risk of intestinal illness. People with undeveloped or compromised immune systems are at greatest risk, i.e. the elderly, newborn babies, pregnant women and their unborn and people undergoing immune suppressing medical treatment.Due to the above concerns, the District of Sicamous recommends that those water users with underdeveloped or compromised immune systems and those wishing to take extra precautions, boil all water (a rolling boil for one minute) or use bottled water. Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, brushing teeth, making ice and for food preparation.If you are experiencing discoloration or cloudiness in your water, run your taps until the water clears.Any questions or concerns regarding these works may be directed to the District of Sicamous Public Works Department at 250-836-4105 or the Municipal Office at 250-836-2477.M. McLean, Public Works Foreman District of Sicamous

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Alex is a certified dental assistant plus a registered licensed hygienist. Nina, brings her fine arts education plus business experience to her position as receptionist. Valerie is an experienced registered nurse as well as a certified dental assistant. Dr. Bruce is an experienced well-educated dentist taking pride in offering Sicamous and surrounding area a new standard of excellence in dentistry.

Hip hop artists will be raising the roof and food bank dona-tions when they play Sicamous later this month.

Fattikus is not the name of some comical-ly obese Roman gladia-tor, but the teaming of Vancouver hip-hop vet-erans Attikus and Fatty Down. The Wandering Works label artists will be delivering their fu-sion of boom-bap blue-collar lyricism and soul singing to a Sicamous audience as featured performers at a gig taking place Saturday, April 20 in Pinz Board-

shop at 314 Finlayson Street.

Sponsored by Pinz and presented by West

Ave Productions, the show Fattikus and Friends will also fea-ture dubstep/glitch hop artist Abstrakt Sonance and Salmon Arm’s DJ Grimekeepa.

This Saturday, all-ages event will run from 7 to 11 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door (women admitted two for one), or $8 with a food dona-tion, to go to the Eagle Valley Food Bank.

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Rhyme-ready: Fattikus artists Attikus and Fatty Down will be performing on April 20 in Sicamous. Photo contributed

communityLab ready: Shuswap Hospital Foundation presi-dent Joe Johnson cuts a cake celebrating the opening of Interior Health’s new Sicamous lab collection site during an open house held March 25. Joining Johnson is IH Board Chair Norman Embree, profes-sional practice leader Christine Drewe, Labs Manager IH West Iwona Szczepanski, lab as-sistant Fran Wiens, and Labs Manager IH Central Terry Brent. The foundation contrib-uted $10,000 towards the new lab service. Photo contributed


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Two carbon capture projects that were the largest beneficiaries of B.C.’s multi-million-dollar “carbon neutral government” program did not provide cred-ible carbon offsets for emissions from govern-ment operations, Audi-tor General John Doyle concludes.

In a report released Wednesday, Doyle said a West Kootenay forest reserve called Darkwoods and a flar-ing elimination project by EnCana Corp. at its Fort Nelson natural gas operations accounted for nearly 70 per cent of carbon credits paid by the government’s agen-

cy, the Pacific Carbon Trust.

“Encana’s project was projected to be more financially benefi-cial to the company than its previous practices, regardless of offset rev-enue, while the Dark-woods property was acquired without offsets being a critical factor in the decision,” Doyle’s report states. “In indus-try terms, they would be known as ‘free rid-ers’ – receiving revenue ($6 million between the two) for something that would have happened anyway.”

Darkwoods, a 55,000-hectare prop-erty near Kootenay Lake, was purchased as a forest reserve by the Nature Conservancy of

Canada in 2008. Doyle notes that the decision to buy the land was made in 2006, and a carbon offset feasibility study was not complet-ed until January, 2009.

EnCana’s project di-verted gas from flares to drilling. The audit found that “the com-pany started the project in 2008 and had already converted many gas wells by the time they met with the Pacific Carbon Trust in 2009.” The offset payments “were not a factor in the decision to proceed.”

B.C.’s “carbon neu-tral government” ini-tiative has been con-troversial since it was launched as part of former premier Gor-don Campbell’s climate

change program in 2008. Provincial and lo-cal governments, health authorities and school districts were required to buy carbon offset credits equal to the greenhouse gas emis-sions from their build-ings and vehicles, with the money invested in carbon-reducing proj-ects.

According to the Ca-nadian Taxpayers’ Fed-eration, B.C. universi-ties paid $4.46 million into the Pacific Carbon Trust in 2011. B.C.’s 60 school districts paid a total of $5.36 million the same year, and the province’s six health authorities paid $5.79 million.

Environment Min-ister Terry Lake said

the government “fun-damentally rejects” Doyle’s conclusions, and stands by the out-side experts who were called on to validate the carbon offset invest-ments.

NDP environment critic Rob Fleming said the report adds to earlier criticisms of a program that diverts taxpayer funds from schools and hospitals to finance industrial projects by profitable companies.

The government responded to earlier criticism by diverting $10 million taken from school districts in the past two year into a fund to improve energy efficiency in school buildings and vehicles.

B.C. carbon credits siphon public dollarsBy Tom FletcherBlack Press

Okanagan Shuswap MP Colin Mayes stuck with the party line on a bill that attempted to add discrimination against the transgen-dered to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code.

Mayes joined the majority of his fed-eral Conservative col-leagues and voted no on Wednesday to Bill

C-279, a private mem-ber’s bill put forward by the NDP’s Randall Gar-rison.

Mayes is recorded as being absent during the bill’s previous readings.

But not all Conser-vatives voted against the bill. One of Mayes’ Par-liamentary neighbours, Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod was among 18 Conservative members to go against her party –

and Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper. McLeod voted yes to the mo-tion, telling reporters she was compelled to cast her vote in favour after hearing about the profound discrimina-tion that demographic suffers.

Also in the House of Commons this past week, Mayes presented a petition from some of his Okanagan-Shuswap constituents calling on

Parliament to support an upcoming motion to condemn sex-selection.

“Millions of girls have been lost through sex-selective abortions, resulting in a global gender imbalance,” said Mayes. “Ultrasounds are being used in Cana-da to determine the sex of the unborn so that expecting parents can choose to terminate the pregnancy if the unborn child is a girl.”

Mayes opposes anti-discrimination billBy Tracy HughesEagle Valley News

New stamps celebrate Armstrong centennialArmstrong’s centen-

nial has officially been stamped.

Kelowna stamp col-lector and designer Pete Lepold has arranged with the city and Can-ada Post to print two special commemorative stamps which honour the anniversary.

“Six or seven weeks ago, I was visiting some friends in Armstrong and read in the paper about the centennial. I thought maybe that was a good idea for a stamp,” said Lepold, who has been collecting and designing stamps for 10 years.

The stamps were printed under Canada Post’s Picture Postage Program.

The pair of stamps are a limited issue and are not available at the local post office.

The first stamp, cre-ated with the co-opera-tion of the city, displays

Armstrong’s centennial logo. That stamp can be purchased at city hall. The second stamp displays Armstrong’s post office building. That stamp is available through Lepold.

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Sicamous site of second frontier boomtown

While the story of the Shuswap’s first town of Seymour City (Og-denville) that was built and mostly abandoned in just one year, 1866, is fairly well known; fewer people are aware that in that same year the town Eagle Pass Landing was also built at the mouth of the Ea-gle River. The story be-gins in July 1885 when Governor Seymour was concerned about the need for a trail from Ogdenville to the Big Bend gold fields on the Columbia River.

He selected Walter Moberly, who was in charge of the Lands and Works Depart-ment for the colony, to survey and blaze a trail and survey the country east of Shuswap Lake to determine the best location for a wagon road. Moberly, along with four surveyors, Perry, Green Turnbull and Cowan and some First Nations guides and packers left the Kamloops fort in two bateaux to get to the Hudson’s Bay Com-pany outpost at the head of Seymour Arm, where he left his assistants to survey two possible

routes, while he went with two guides to ex-plore the lake.

At the northeast of the Shuswap Arm of the lake they ventured up the river as far as pos-sible by boat and then headed upstream on foot where they climbed up a mountain to get a view of the area. From on top of the moun-tain, Moberly observed eagles flying into what appeared to be a unbro-ken wall of mountains before disappearing, and thus he determined that there must be a pass through the range.

He then returned to Ogdenville to join his crew and hike to the Big Bend along the shortest trail they surveyed, where they built a dugout canoe and headed down the Columbia River. From near where Revelstoke is today, they journeyed through the pass the eagles had used to re-turn to Shuswap Lake and somewhere near where Craigellachie is today, he blazed a small cedar tree and wrote the words, “This is the pass for the Overland Rail-way.”

Moberly used Eagle for the name of the river, the pass, and the mountain. When the miners learned about the better route to the Columbia from near the mouth of the Eagle Riv-er, many of them head-ed there and once again another boomtown was built in a few months. Eagle Pass Landing was a ramshackle commu-

nity with crude tents, shacks, log cabins and a few board saloons and gambling dens with false fronts, along with wooden sidewalks. And there was a depot for shipping provisions, a general store and a blacksmith’s shop. But this first town was short-lived, as when the gold ran out, the miners left and fire consumed many of the structures.

As the trail to the Co-lumbia became a tote road, the town contin-ued to barely exist un-til it was determined in early 1882 that the rail-way would go through Eagle Pass instead of the Yellowhead route. When the survey and land-clearing crews be-gan to arrive, the town boomed once again. There were two or three hotels, stores, dance halls, livery barns, and even a police bar-racks and jail. It was a common sight to see upwards of 100 cattle disembarking from one of the lake steamers and driven up the tote road to Revelstoke and the construction camps

along the way.Morley Roberts

worked for the CPR building the railway and wrote about his experi-ences in a book about his adventures in British Columbia. He described Eagle Pass Landing as a rough and tumble town filled with intoxicated men gambling and fighting. But he also en-joyed some of the same summer pastimes of today, swimming, and touring around the lake in an old dugout canoe.

The first person to pre-empt land in Sicamous was Civil War veteran George Murdock who, upon realizing the stra-tegic importance of this area, managed to claim 332 acres surrounding the Eagle Pass Land-ing. From 1882 until 1892, Murdock and his partner, Hill, had a ho-tel, store and whiskey saloon and their farm produce was sold to the railway. The CPR originally planned to run the tracks through Eagle Pass, but since the lake was too deep for a bridge and Mur-dock had title to the

land, it chose to bridge the channel instead and build the tracks on the south side of the Eagle River.

When the railway was completed in 1885, Eagle Pass Landing slowly withered away as the town of Sicamous grew. Eagle Pass Land-ing, now known as Old Town Bay, became the site for a sawmill and years later the bay was used for booms of logs.

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Programs are offered for boys and girls aged 5-19 years old. Softball is a great character and team-building sport

for all ages, and can be played throughout life.

The first registration for minor softball was held in early March. The final registration will be on April 4, from 5 to 6 p.m. at Diamond #3 in Finlayson Park.

After the final reg-istration, teams will be formed for league play. Sicamous plays in the North Okanagan league with Salmon Arm, Enderby, Kelowna and Vernon.

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a great way to keep healthy and socialize, softball can provide many positive experi-ences in life. Former Sicamous minor soft-ball players Christine Dewitt and Morgan Ce-derholm are excellent

examples as they are currently away at col-lege in the U.S. on soft-ball scholarships.

For more informa-tion on Sicamous Mi-nor Softball, contact Jake Dewitt at 250-836-4976.

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Great haul: First Sicamous Sparks, Guides and Pathfinders recently held their an-nual Hike For Hunger, a door-to door collec-tion of food for the Sicamous Food Bank. Shown is a small part of the estimated 350 pounds collected in two hours. Volunteering in the community goes towards the girls’ Com-munity Service Badges.Photo contributed

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The District of Sicamous has set the stage

to host the Summer Stomp.

At the request of council, district staff re-

searched the steps required of Stomp organiz-

ers to bring the event to Sicamous July 18 to

21, in co-ordination with the community’s

own motorcycle burnout event.

The end result was a recommendation to,

and by council that the Stomp apply for a Spe-

cial Events and Facility Use Permit.

Specifically, council’s recommendation

was that “staff be directed to receive and re-

view separate Special Event Permit appli-

cations to hold the proposed Stomp and the

Burnout Events between July 18th and 21st,

2013, with the commencement of prepara-

tions to begin on or after 7 a.m. Monday, July

15… and final clean-up and restoration work

to be completed on or before 6 p.m. Wednes-

day, July 24th, 2013 and further, that staff be

directed to issue the Special Event Permits

upon receipt of all required applicable secu-

rities, insurance coverage confirmation, fees

and charges, and any other applicable bylaw

requirements.”

However, because this permit doesn’t allow

for bylaw variances, council agreed to amend

the district’s noise bylaw, to allow resolutions

EaglE VallEy

NEWS Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Vol. 54 No. 11 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Mayor honoured with Diamond Jubilee medal

Page 2

North Okanagan knocks Eagles

out of playoffsPage 7

Public suggest BC Transit study include Revelstoke and Vernon

District clears path to host Stomp event

See Public hearing on page 3

By Lachlan Labere

Eagle Valley News

Fun to strum: Sicamous Three Chord Ukulele Band members Gordon Mackie, Wally and Frieda Sorge and Alice and Fred

Duck have fun learning and playing new tunes at their weekly lessons held Monday afternoons at the Red Barn Arts Centre.

Photo by James Murray

A BC Transit feasibility study into a po-

tential system for the Sicamous area may

need to be expanded to include Revelstoke

and Enderby.

The study is being done in partnership

with the Columbia Shuswap Regional Dis-

trict and the District of Sicamous. Its goal,

according to BC Transit, is to explore the

sustainability of a system that would connect

Sicamous, and potentially Malakwa and

Swansea Point, to the Shuswap Regional

Transit System.

A community open house was held

March 4 in Sicamous council chambers.

About 30 people attended, and the feedback

was surprising,

at least to Caro-

lyn Black, the

CSRD’s deputy

manager of cor-

porate administra-

tion services.

Black says

the thinking be-

hind the feasibil-

ity study was that

it would explore

a connection

between the Si-

camous area and Salmon Arm. But what she

learned at the meeting was that residents are

more interested in going elsewhere.

“There were

people interested in

Salmon Arm, but

there seemed to be,

at least from those

in attendance, more

interest in travel

between Sicamous

and Vernon, linking

up with the North

Okanagan’s transit

system that does an

Enderby to Vernon

run on a regular

basis. And also, a lot of positive comments

about getting up to Revelstoke,” said Black.

“Folks are working in Thee Valley Gap and

the Enchanted Forest, and there were some

comments about the great shopping in Rev-

elstoke….”A survey tied to the study was available

online and at the Eagle Valley Resource

Centre. Subsequently, the resource centre’s

executive director, Janet McLean Senft, sent

out emails to get the survey out to as many

people as possible, as she views transit as be-

ing potentially transformative for Sicamous.

But this, she says, would involve a big-pic-

ture approach, one involving numerous part-

ners (non-profits, business, education, etc.).

“It needs sort of outside-the-box, in-

novative thinking to make a transit system

as diverse as this area would need to really

By Lachlan Labere

Eagle Valley News

See Transit would on page 2

It needs sort of outside-the-box,

innovative thinking to make a transit

system as diverse as this area would

need to really accomplish the goal of

helping with community growth and

stability…

Janet McClean Senft

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