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EAGLE VALLEY
NEWS Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014
Vol. 59 No. 2 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236
2013The Year
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Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays - Active After School Kidz. Ages 5-12 - to register or for more info contact Recreation and Wellness #250-836-2477 or [email protected] 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509.Every Mon. & Fri. - Bridge, Seniors Activity Centre, 1 p.m.Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10 am - 3 pm. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472
Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.Every Wed. - Seniors Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for infoEvery Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99. Everyone welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652
Every Thurs.-Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99. Everyone welcome.Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788 or just drop in to one of our meetings where you will be welcome.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 to 9 p.m., Sicamous Health Unit.Every 3rd Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:30 in the Malakwa Hall.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at Catholic Church. 836-3440.
Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Esther 250-836-4373 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery 1st & 3rd Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Royal Canadian Legion #99 at 7:00 pm.Saturdays - Community Yoga 9:00 am Non-Heated Hatha $5 drop-in All levels Families welcome.Last Sat. of the Month - Ladies’ Auxiliary Dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion at 6 pm. Tickets sold until the Friday before at the Legion. No tickets at the door.Sundays - Candlelit Karma 6:30 pm. Warm & Gentle. Class by donation. Funds go towards community causes.Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 1 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 p.m.
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On their way to victory: Sicamous Eagles #23 Carter Hansen, followed by #10 Curtis Witney, maneuvers the puck past a Chase Heat player during the Jan. 3 win. The Eagles started off the new year with two wins against the Heat and Revelstoke, but dropped Sunday’s contest against the Heat by a score of 4-1. Their next home game is Saturday at 7 p.m. Photo by Sharon Thibodeau
Search team hauls sledder to safetyTen members of Shuswap
Search and Rescue extricated a snowmobiler from a gully at 4 p.m. Saturday.
The sledder from Drayton Valley, Alta. had gone into the gully about 20 kilometres up the Owl’s Head Trail toward Blue Lake.
The team reached the in-jured man high above Si-
camous at 6:15 p.m. and placed him on a backboard before the ropes team hauled him out of the gully.
“He was playing around, jumping a little knoll or some-thing of that nature and ended up flying through the air,” says SAR search manager John Schut. “As he flew through the air, he parted company with his snowmobile and slammed into a tree without his snow-
mobile, which is a good thing. Otherwise he would not have been taken to hospital,” said Schut, referring to the likeli-hood of a fatality.
Once back on the trail, the sledder was taken down the trail on a toboggan towed by a snowmobile, arriving at a waiting ambulance at 7:30 p.m. The crew transferred the man to Shuswap Lake Gen-eral Hospital. Schut says SAR
team members who respond-ed to the call suspected the sledder sustained rib injuries when he hit the tree.
He notes SAR members were grateful to local snow-mobile club members and a trail groomer who remained with the injured sledder until they could extricate him. SAR is a volunteer organization whose members pay for their own gear.
By Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News
Sicamous property assessments drop slightlyProperty assess-
ments in the Shuswap dropped compared with the previous year, although the change is modest.
For Sicamous, a residential property valued at $318,000 in 2013 is now valued at
$310,000. For Salmon Arm, a residential prop-erty valued at $325,000 in 2013, is now valued at $319,000.
Homes are assessed by BC Assessment on July 1 of each year.
“Most homes in the North Okanagan are remaining stable com-pared to last year’s
assessment roll,” said Tracy Wall, deputy as-sessor. “Most home-owners will see modest changes in the plus-five to minus-five per cent range.”
Overall the North Okanagan’s assess-ment roll, which in-cludes the areas of Armstrong, Enderby,
Revelstoke, Greater Vernon, Salmon Arm, Sicamous and Lumby, has decreased slightly in value overall.
Property assess-ments can be affected by many variables, so owners are advised to contact BC Assessment as soon as possible if they feel their property
assessment does not reflect market value of the property.
None of the prop-erties in Salmon Arm cracked the top 100 highest valued resi-dences.
The vast major-ity of these properties were waterfront land in Kelowna.
By Tracy HughesEagle Valley News
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YEAR IN REVIEW
Kyllo resigns from district councilThis week the News
reviews the headlines from July to Decem-ber.
July• District staff will
be assessing the need for the speed dips on either side of the Sol-squa Bridge over the Eagle River. Coun. Ter-ry Rysz said the speed dips don’t slow traffic down because they are too far away from the bridge. Council voted that staff assess alter-nate options for speed reduction and the pos-sibility that the cur-rent speeds are slow enough.
• Newly elected MLA Greg Kyllo has officially resigned from Sicamous council. Council officially ac-cepted his resignation at the June 26 regular council meeting.
• At the regular meeting, district coun-cil addressed citizen in-quiries about where to take dogs while the dog park is being utilized by Summer Stomp-go-ers from July 18 to 21. Bylaws prevent anyone from walking their dog in Finlayson park and will still apply when the dog park is closed.
• The devastation felt in Alberta trickled to B.C., even with-out its own overflows. Tourism took a hit and concerns are that the effects could extend through the summer. Sicamous Mayor Dar-rell Trouton is optimis-tic, however. Sicamous could likely be a retreat for victims and could still see a great sum-mer, he said.
• Despite how it looks, the province says there’s still quite a bit of life left to Si-camous’ 55-year-old Bruhn Bridge. This was the word received from the Ministry of Trans-portation and Infra-structure, in response to questions raised by resident Bea Herzog, who is concerned with the structural integrity of the aging infrastruc-ture. The current state of the bridge’s pillars is a result of the work
done by the ministry in 2011. MOTI spokes-person Cindy Cousins says the bridge is still in good shape, with many years of service remaining.
• Two tech upgrades for town hall estimated to cost in the thousands are on hold, at least until next year. Coun. Terry Rysz said it was good to have informa-tion but suggested the cost be considered later during council’s 2014 budget deliberations. Council concurred.
• Sicamous Minor Softball hosted the U12B Squirt Girls Pro-vincial Softball Cham-pionship in Finlayson Park. The host D Dutch-men Dairy Angels have been busy preparing for the provincial cham-pionship by attending several tournaments in the Lower Mainland.
• Two Edmonton residents sustained se-rious injuries after the motorcycle they were riding collided with a pickup truck. The collision occurred on July 14 at 10:12 a.m. near the intersection of Highway 97A and Paradise Avenue. Si-camous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk says the motorcycle, ridden by Edmonton residents, ages 59 and 60, was travelling north along the highway when a pickup truck driven by a Sicamous resident pulled out of the in-tersection and into the bike’s path.
• On July 10, a Sas-katchewan resident re-ceived severe, non-life
threatening injuries af-ter the motorcycle he was riding drove into the side of a semi-trail-er unit.
• Approximately 50 derelict, abandoned docks will be removed from the Salmon Arm section of Shuswap Lake and from Mara Lake. Derelict and abandoned dock re-moval is part of the SLIPP shoreline resto-ration program.
• Reports from or-ganizers behind the community’s inaugural Summer Stomp and Burnout Charity Party indicate the event was a success for all in-volved. The Summer Stomp Committee’s Steve Hammer says the event, which has relocated from Silver Creek to Sicamous, exceeded expectations, and he credited the Dis-trict of Sicamous, the Sicamous chamber, lo-cal businesses and all the volunteers for help-ing to make this hap-pen. As for the future, Hammer is hopeful the event will continue to call Sicamous home.
• On July 22, at around 1:30 p.m., Si-camous firefighters were called out to an unoccupied Larch Av-enue residence. Fire-fighters were able to control the blaze, but not before it did some damage inside the house, as well as to the shed behind the place. There was also some heat damage to a neigh-bouring residence.
• SLIPP may be slipping out of control
and there are fears lo-cal dock owners are being targeted by the province. This was the message put forward by Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trouton at dis-trict council meeting in response to a letter from White Pine Cres-cent residents Rick and Jean Ellithorpe, who are upset with what they call the “bullying approach” the Minis-try of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is taking to waterfront property owners regarding exist-ing docks.
• Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue crews based in Sicamous were coming alongside boats offer-ing a free safety check under a new program supported by Transport Canada. The RCM-SAR 2013 Vessel Safety Survey program received $150,000 through Transport Can-ada’s Boating Safety Contribution Program, which promotes safe boating practices by pleasure craft opera-tors and aims to reduce deaths and injuries from boating accidents.
• Columbia Shus-wap Regional District directors supported rec-ommendations to move forward with the pro-cess of acquiring the Malakwa School facil-ity and develop a draft Community Property Acquisition Policy.
AUGUST• In past years, or-
ganizers of the Antique and Classic Boat Show
were able to moor the majority of the partici-pating craft along the Main Street dock. This year, however, they were forced to seek additional dock space from neighbouring ma-rinas on account of the Main Street dock being about 15 feet shorter. This, according to Dis-trict of Sicamous oper-ations manager, Randy Hand, has to do with a nautical hit and run that occurred at the end of May. Hand said the last section of the dock had to be removed after be-ing struck by a presum-ably larger boat.
• The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Re-source Operations is trying to quell the in-creasing wave of oppo-sition over the issue of docks in the Shuswap. Steve Thomson, Min-ister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations wrote a letter to the editor of the Eagle Valley News. Thomson maintains his ministry has no inten-tion of removing docks “today, tomorrow or anytime soon.”
• The route to this year’s Roots & Blues Festival began in Mal-akwa with hikes in Yard Creek and the Eagle River Nature Trail. These hiking ex-cursions, conducted in partnership with the Shuswap Trail Alliance were followed later in the day with a supper served at the Malakwa Community Centre, which was followed by a hot musical per-formance by Fernie’s
Serviceable: Despite residents’ concerns, the Ministry of Transpor-tation says the Bruhn Bridge is structurally sound.
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VICTORIA – Here are a few things I’d like to see in B.C. political life in the coming year, but won’t.
An orderly schedule of legislature sittings, one in the spring and one in the fall.
I canvassed this topic with Premier Christy Clark in our year-end interview, and got the usual runaround about how it’s always been optional since old Gordon what’s-his-name set the schedule of sittings and elections more than a de-cade ago. Spring is for the budget and MLAs sit in the fall if they need to discuss legislation. They need to all right, but what govern-ments want to do is ram it through as fast as they can, so that’s what they do. The last couple of years of this have been a sham worthy of a South American banana republic, with three cham-bers running simultaneous-
ly and opposition members trying to prepare as they run down the hallways. It leads to mistakes in new laws and adds to the public’s cyni-cism, but it gets things done with minimum exposure of the government to criticism. Stephen Harper would ap-prove.
A political debate about real issues, rather than just a competition to score points in an endless election campaign.
I appreciate that this is hopelessly naive, but setting aside enough time to con-sider issues could, at least in theory, lead to that happen-ing occasionally. Certainly the mock combat of our leg-islature today isn’t winning new friends for any political party.
An opposition with ideas.
The B.C. NDP will have another leadership contest in 2014, and they’d better bring more modern policy to the table than they had in the last one. Remem-
ber the big issues in that pillow-fight? Me neither. I had to look them up. Health care? Local organic carrots into the hospital food. For-est industry? A job protec-tion commissar to force the mills to stay open. Resource development? They’re for it, unless you’re against it.
These guys need a Tony Blair-type makeover. They need to be for something, and they need to leave the past behind.
Media that care about more than conflict.
News organizations are in bad shape these days, and the competition for a rap-idly fragmenting audience is having some ugly effects.
One thing that needs to go is obsessive coverage of who’s winning and who’s losing. If the news media are going to be interested mainly in the gaffes and got-cha moments, is it any sur-prise that’s what politicians try to provide?
The Canada Post an-nouncement that it has to
wind up home delivery of-fers a recent example. Is it really so outrageous for the CEO to suggest that walk-ing to the corner is good exercise? When there’s a 24-hour news cycle to fill, it’s a scandal!
How many people know that Canada Post’s unfunded pension liabilities amount to $6.5 billion, as it continues to pay a dwindling work-force to hand out mostly advertising flyers? Should they just keep doing that un-til they run out of cash?
Facts to go with opin-ions.
Whether it’s the govern-ment’s fantasy figures on job creation or the opposi-tion’s arithmetic-challenged child poverty claims, seri-ous problems can’t be un-derstood, much less solved, without defining them accu-rately. Submitting govern-ment advertising to scrutiny by the Auditor General to make sure it is accurate and non-partisan would be a good place to start.
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It’s one of the many magical characteristics of mankind that we have this self-resolve around this time of year to look into the future and imagine that, maybe, just maybe, things are going to be bet-ter.
Tobacco, alcohol, lack of exercise and poor diet are the four major contributing factors to poor health outcomes. Addressing any one of these results in impressive gains in the ways that people feel and engage with others, benefiting both mental and physical health over the long term. Weight loss, eating better, and regular exercise are the most common resolutions that people make in the new year. Unfortunately, they are also the most difficult to keep.
Often, the challenge is that we’re pretty good at maintaining our resolutions for the first month and then, come end of January, early February, the shiny “new self” starts to feel unsustainable. In fact, old habits rear their ugly heads and where one was once diligent, concessions and compromise start to become more and more common place. The question often posed is, “how do we sustain long-term lifestyle change that keeps us motivated and engaged?”
Self efficacy is the confidence of one’s ability to achieve the desired behaviour change, particularly in the face of barriers or setbacks.
Goal-setting is one effective way to achieve self-efficacy. Making clear and precise goals that are realistic and achievable often leads to better confi-dence and maintains motivation to continue.
For example, setting an exercise goal of moder-ate activity for 10 minutes a day for a month and succeeding is far better than setting a goal of vigor-ous activity for 20 minutes a day and feeling like it’s too much or setting a generic goal of “doing more exercise.”
Another way to achieve resolutions is to plan ahead. A little bit of forward thinking can set the conditions for long term success.
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Shred Kelly.• Whether Cody
Franson will be suit-ing up for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2013/14 NHL season remained to be seen. Franson, a restricted free agent, was up for contract renewal.
• A Sicamous man was charged for utter-ing threats following an altercation with an off-duty officer. Sgt. Dave Dubynk reported the confrontation occurred on Aug. 9 at 7:34 p.m., and that the subject was ultimately arrested and taken into custody.
• On Aug. 10 at 1:59 a.m., police received a report of boat that had crashed onto the rocks on Mara Lake. The in-cident occurred near the beacon at Turtle Bay.
• Police are rec-ommending charges against truck driv-ers from Calgary and Burnaby following an Aug. 3 road rage inci-dent. The incident oc-curred east of Sicamous and was reported to po-lice at 9:58 a.m.
• Living in the Shus-wap, one must be ready to bear the odd bear en-counter. This goes for urban neighbourhoods in Sicamous, as much as for the region’s more rural communi-ties. Since April 1, the regional conservation office has received 28 complaints of black bears in Sicamous.
• Sicamous RCMP continued to gather details relating to the death of a 49-year-old local man whose body was found lying on Main Street. A lo-cal woman, Christina Laforge, 46, has been charged in relation to the Aug. 14 death of Troy Charlton.
• The Sicamous Fire Department made fairly quick work of a brush fire near Bayview Es-tates. Fire Chief Brett Ogino says the depart-ment received the call-out at 7:30 p.m. Smoke was spotted by some-one across Highway 97A at the Legacy.
• Shuswap politi-cians are buying into a movement to pursue regional parity at the gas pump. Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trouton has already expressed interest in pursuing the issue. In Jan. 2012, Si-camous council (which at the time included Kyllo), raised the is-sue of gas prices in that community typi-cally being higher than those in Salmon Arm. A week later, the price of gas in Sicamous was on par with Salmon Arm, and has been that way since.
• Canoe Forest Prod-ucts is one of seven companies in the Okan-agan timber supply area to be granted an increase in their harvest levels. The company will see an increase of about three per cent, an amount that translates into about 10 produc-tion days in the ply-wood mill.
• The Okanagan Film Commission has confirmed that Walt Disney Pictures will begin filming Tomor-rowland in the Ender-by, Grindrod and Arm-strong areas. The film, which stars George Clooney and Hugh Laurie, will be shot off and on locally until mid-September. Parts of Tommorrowland are also being filmed in Vancouver and the movie is expected to be released in December 2014.
• The B.C. govern-ment has finally agreed to give Swansea Point residents what they
have been calling for since last summer’s devastating flood-ing from Humming-bird Creek. Transport Minister Todd Stone announced the prov-ince will be commit-ting $3 million to the construction of a new bridge next year along the creek over High-way 97A. In addition, Stone said the ministry will be doing addition-al work in the creek to further improve stream flows.
• BC Liberal Greg Kyllo spent more on his election campaign that Premier Christy Clark – if you only count her first cam-paign for Vancouver Point Grey. Kyllo spent a total of $113, 280 on his successful effort to become MLA for the Shuswap according to documents released by Elections BC.
• Cadet Jesse Reid of Sicamous took top hon-ours at this summer’s camp at the Vernon Army Cadet Training Centre. Reid, a mem-ber of the 2510 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps., was the recipi-ent of the Army Navy Air Force Veterans Cadet Medal of Merit at the final parade and Sunset Ceremony at the training centre.
• The Tod family cleaned up at this year’s Junior Tournament at the Eagle River Golf and Country Club.
SEPTEMBER• An additional two
days of searching has proven unsuccessful in the search for the body of Kevin Boutilier, a missing 25-year-old Calgary man who is presumed drowned in Shuswap Lake. Boutil-ier dove into the wa-
ter off a houseboat on Aug. 24 in an attempt to retrieve a hat. He was seen in distress and did not resurface.
• Three candidates were vying for the vacant councillor po-sition: Suzanne Car-penter, Lynn Miller and Terry Sinton. The Sept. 28 by-election was needed after new-ly elected MLA Greg Kyllo resigned his seat on council
• A transportation re-port completed through the regional district will be making its way to Sicamous council for deliberation. The re-port, presented recently to the Columbia Shus-wap Regional District board, represents the findings of a feasibil-ity study by BC Tran-sit, which looked at providing public tran-sit between Sicamous, Malakwa, Swansea Point and Salmon Arm. Sicamous Mayor Dar-rell Trouton notes the options are very costly, and council will have to look at the practical-ity of paying for the service and whether enough residents would actually use it.
• Approximately 35 people showed up at the Malakwa Com-munity Hall to discuss the referendum ques-tion concerning the former Malakwa El-ementary School build-ing. The building is
YEAR IN REVIEW
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Jayce DavisPosition: Defense Home Town: Chandler, AZAge: 18 Height: 5’11” Weight: 190Prev Team: Phoenix Coyote U18 AAAHobbies / Interests: Golf, WakeboardingPersonal Hero: My FatherGoals: Play Division HockeyFavorite NHL Team: Chicago BlackhawksFavorite Player: Drew DoughtyFavorite Music: EverythingFavorite Food: Fish TacosWhat do you like best about playing hockey in Sicamous:The atmosphere, the fans and the team
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WEDNESDAY JAN 8Public Skating: 9 - 11 amLunch Bunch: 12 - 1 pmSchool Hockey: 1 - 3 pm
Public Skating: 3:15 - 4:30 pmNovice & Pre Novice: 5 - 6 pm
Atom: 6 - 7 pmMidget: 7:15 - 8:15 pmEagles: 8:30 - 10 pm
THURSDAY JAN 9Public Skating: 9 - 11 am
Lunch Bunch: 12 - 2Public Skating: 2 - 4:30SA Midget: 4:45 - 6:15
Sicamous Midgets: 6:30 - 8Eagles: 8:15 - 9:15
FRIDAY JAN 10Parkview 9:15 - 10 amLunch Bunch: 12 - 1
Hockey School: 1 - 3 pmPublic Skating: 3 - 4:30 pm
SATURDAY JAN 11Eagles vs. Columbia Valley: 7 - 9 pm
SUNDAY JAN 12Novice Game: 9 - 10:30 am
Sicamous Midgets Game: 11 am - 1 pmSA Div 2 Game: 2 - 4 pm
MONDAY JAN 13Public Skating: 9 - 11 amLunch Bunch: 12 - 1 pm
Public Skating: 3:15 - 4:30 pmNovice & Pre Novice: 5 - 6 pm
Atom: 6 - 7:30 pmOld Timers: 8:15 - 9:45 pm
TUESDAY JAN 14Public Skating: 9 - 11 am
Lunch Bunch: 12 - 2Public Skating: 2 - 4:30Figure Skating: 5 - 7:30
Eagles: 7:45 - 9:15
Rec Centre Gym open 8:00 am to close.Full Membership: $20.
now referred to as the Malakwa Community Learning Centre. It is a rental property that is currently renting to the Malakwa post of-fice, the Eagle Valley Community Support Society, the Malakwa Community Learning Academy as well rental for pottery classes and family fun nights.
• The Eagle River Golf and Country Club’s 2013 Ladies Wind-up Golf Tourna-ment was held on Sept. 10. Low gross winner was Helene Shaw with a 44. Low net cham-pion was Dianne Stul-berg.
• Rhona Martin, Co-lumbia Shuswap Re-gional District board vice-chair and director for Electoral Area E Rural Sicamous, was acclaimed president of the Union of Brit-ish Columbia Munici-palities for the 2013/14 term.
• Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue #106 Shuswap
Station leader Rob Sutherland says marine search and rescue vol-unteers and the RCMP plan to return to the Cinnemousin Narrows on Sept. 28 and 29 to try again to locate the body Kevin Boutilier, who went missing in Shuswap Lake on Aug. 24 and is presumed drowned.
• Eagle River Sec-ondary’s social justice class is once again rais-ing money for ALS with the Walk and Roll fundraiser. Last year, ERS social justice stu-dents raised more than $1,000.
• On Sept. 20, the Eagles were in Fernie where they had an op-portunity to make up for an 8-2 defeat suf-fered recently at the hands of the Ghostrid-ers. Sicamous didn’t disappoint, winning the contest 3-1. On Satur-day, Sept. 21, the team was in Creston, where they faced a 5-2 defeat to the Creston Valley Thunder Cats. Sun-day’s game (Sept. 22) versus the Kimberly
Dynamiters could eas-ily have gone in either team’s favour, though it was the hosts who picked up the 2-1 win.
• Vernon tennis player, Jeremy Bell, and his men’s doubles partner, West Martin-Patterson of Sicamous are undefeated in the 2013 outdoor tennis season. Bell and Mar-tin-Patterson claimed their sixth Men’s A Doubles Tournament title at the Salmon Arm Open Tennis Tourna-ment.
• The District of Sicamous continues to struggle with B.C., government to recoup costs associated with last year’s debris flow and flooding. Council discussed two letters concerning expenses relating to costs in-curred during the emer-gency and after. One was from Emergency Management BC, stat-ing the district’s recov-ery plan that describes recovery work required to restore infrastructure to pre-event condition had been approved to a
maximum of $356,050. But while all the works noted in the plan total exactly that amount, Emergency Manage-ment BC (EMBC) states the district is only eligible for 80 per cent of the accepted claim that exceeds the first $1,000, meaning Sicamous will be re-ceiving $284,040. Per-haps a greater sore spot for council, however, is EMBC’s unwilling-ness to consider the $169,698 the district spent to provide po-table water during the disaster to residents and tourists an eligible expense.
• A maintenance plan has been recom-mended for the Fin-layson Park sports fields that would set the district back ap-proximately $9,000 annually. Earlier in the summer, Sicamous resident Craig Mitchell expressed his concerns for the condition of the fields to Sicamous council. In August, following another ap-pearance by Mitchell
in council chambers, district operations manager Randy Hand, Mayor Darrell Trouton and district administra-tor Heidi Frank walked the field, with Mitchell pointing out a number of depressions in the field that were a con-cern. Hand says those spots have since been filled in with soil and topped with grass seed.
OCTOBER• Sicamous voters
have chosen Suzanne Carpenter to be their sixth representative on municipal council. Preliminary election results for the Sept. 28 by-election show Car-penter handily winning a seat on council with 208 votes. Lynn Miller came in second place with 90 votes, followed by Terry Sinton with 61.
• Brennan Clarke, spokesperson with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Re-source Operations, said the province is looking into allegations involv-ing Waterway House-
boats and recent work that was done in the creek. Clarke says it is illegal under the B.C.’s Water Act to conduct work in and about a stream without a permit from the province.
• Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk said search crews had an-other day on the water looking for the body of Kevin Boutilier, who went missing in Shuswap Lake on Aug. 24 and is presumed drowned. Dubnyk says there will prob-ably be one more out-ing, though this would be more of a wrap up, and “for all intents and purposes the search has been suspended.”
• A referendum was held in Malakwa, giv-ing residents an op-portunity to vote on a proposed Columbia Shuswap Regional Dis-trict bylaw that would have allowed the re-gional district to enter into a five- to 10-year lease agreement with School District #83 to be responsible for the ongoing maintenance
and operation of the former school which currently serves as the Malakwa Community Learning Centre. The result was 57 in favour, 152 opposed.
• The Eagles had back-to-back games versus rivals, the Rev-elstoke Grizzlies. At Friday’s game, the host Eagles were on the los-ing side of a narrow, 2-1 tally. The following night, on the bruin’s home ice, the Eagles earned a 5-4 win in overtime.
• The Sicamous Midget Eagles started their 2013/14 season by hosting Merritt and Kelowna. Their home-opener started off with a commanding win over the Merritt Cen-tennials. Final score: 7-2. Sicamous hosted Kelowna Tier 4 team, who they will play throughout the season. Kelowna notched an empty netter to win 6-4.
• District council has compiled a wish list of
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projects it’s hoping to fund with grant money through the Economic Opportunity Fund. The projects decided upon include the following: as requested by the Eagle Valley Snow-mobile Club, coun-cil will be asking for $50,000 to go towards the completion of an emergency shelter on Eagle Pass; $75,000 is being sought to help fund the district’s rec-reation and wellness programming (as op-posed to funding it through taxation); and an additional $75,000 is being sought for white lights that would be strung on trees in the community and along the highway to entice drivers to turn off and visit. Additional fund-ing is also being sought for reader boards to let residents and visitors know what’s happening
in the area. • A Combined effort
by the Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process (SLIPP) and three other partners saw the removal of 26 der-elict, abandoned docks from the Salmon Arm portion of the Shuswap Lake and the Sicamous
area over the summer. Up to 16 more derelict, abandoned docks are planned to be removed this fall from Mara Lake.
• It’s safe to say Dudley is one lucky duck. Dudley, a call duck, belongs to K9-1-1 Animal Rescue and
Service owner Debbie Fortin. She says the duckling lost his foot in an attack by some “vi-cious chickens.” Fortin says she was comfort-able letting Dudley follow his own path. But her son, Brandon Schweitzer, thought of a way to help the
duckling get back on both feet. He contacted friend Terence Loring, a mechanical engineer who recently started his own company in Kamloops, 3 Pillar De-signs. Loring said he could see that it was causing the duckling pain to walk around on the injured stump, and decided to take on the challenge of creating a prosthetic leg/foot us-ing 3D printing tech-nology.
• Sicamous coun-cil has agreed to work with the Splatsin First Nation for the better-ment of both communi-ties. Council received a visit from Splatsin Chief Wayne Chris-tian and band council members Daniel Joe and Reno Lee. They were there to explain a protocol agreement proposed by the band to the District of Si-camous. “We’ve been trying to find a way to
re-establish ourselves back here in this area because it’s quite sig-nificant to our people,” said Chief Christian.
• Bad news from their insurer has put the Malakwa Community
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Derelict docks removed from Shuswap, Mara lakes
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Centre Association in the precarious position of having to replace the community hall. The association’s president, Gord Hynek, says their insurance company will no longer provide liability insurance for public use of the struc-ture for fear the roof might collapse.
• At a public meet-ing held Oct. 3 in Swansea Point, rep-resentatives from the Ministry of Transporta-tion and Infrastructure revealed preliminary designs for a $3 million project that will see the bridge’s construction along Highway 97A. The bridge will replace the culvert – something residents have been seeking for years.
• In between doing trade shows with Shus-wap Tourism, Eagle Valley Snowmobile Club general manager Gord Bushell has been busy preparing for the coming sledding season, with a goal of bring more sledders to the area to enjoy one or all of the four groomed trail systems – Blue Lake, Eagle Pass, Owlhead and Queest – maintained by the Eagle Valley Groom-ing Society, as well as numerous businesses/services. “After eight years of waiting for ap-proval (from the prov-ince) to build an Eagle Pass cabin and shelter,
we were able to get the approvals to start the cabin this spring,” says Bushell, noting a re-quirement was that the shelter be built in the backcountry in a loca-tion accessible only by foot, snowmobile or air. He says the end result will be a maintenance-free, metal-clad shelter that will be available for use by sledders in the winter and ambi-tious hikers in the sum-mer.
• Sicamous residents and businesses will likely be waiting until 2015 before they have a clean, reliable source of municipal water. Dis-trict operations man-ager Randy Hand ex-plained there have been several delays getting started, and that the dis-trict is doing its best to get on track. Hand said he wouldn’t expect the plant to be up and run-ning until 2015, add-ing staff do not want it starting up during peak season (summer), so as to allow time to work out issues around train-ing, staffing, etc.
• Electoral Area E director Rhona Mar-tin will be looking for grant funding to help keep the Malakwa Community Learning Centre in operation. At a District of Sicamous committee of the whole meeting, the Columbia Shuswap Regional Dis-trict director for Rural Sicamous-Malakwa of-fered her support to Si-
camous council on four proposed applications to the Economic Op-portunity Fund admin-istered by the regional district.
• Malakwa Learning Academy student Trin-ity Shaw was thrilled when she learned she has won an opportunity to be fire chief for a day. She received a ride to school in the fire truck, a fire extinguisher, two smoke detectors, a real firefighter’s hat and a T-shirt.
• The Sicamous Midget brought home the first-place hardware from Clearwater. The team went 3-1 for the weekend. First game versus the Kelowna Rockets was a tough one, losing 8-2. The team rebounded after
that winning, 8-1 over Clearwater, 5-1 over 100 Mile House and, facing Kelowna again in the finals, winning 4-1.
• On Oct. 24, the Malakwa Community Centre Association held its monthly gen-
eral board meeting. Typically, these are attended by about 10 people. But association president Gord Hynek said there was at least six times that number this time around. The majority showed up for one thing: to discuss
the fate of the hall in which they were gath-ered. To address the matter of the commu-nity hall, Hynek said a 20-member committee was formed.
• Okanagan-Shus-wap MP Colin Mayes is standing firmly be-
hind Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Em-battled Senator Mike Duffy alleged that Harper was directly in-volved in discussions around expenses. Harp-er has stated a former employee acted alone when Duffy was pro-vided $90,000.
• The Sicamous Eagles were back on home ice where they had mixed results. On Oct. 23, the team faced a strong Kamloops Storm, who wound up taking the game with a 6-3 win. On Oct. 26, the Eagles overcame the determined Kim-berly Dynamiters with a 3-1 victory.
NOVEMBER• Sicamous Sgt.
Dave Dubnyk an-nounced the RCMP have called off the search and recovery effort for 25-year-old Kevin Boutilier. He says the search spanned
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The cat came back: Noted children’s entertainer Fred Penner put on a show for an en-thusiastic audience at Parkview Elementary.
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two months and in-volved three search and rescue groups and members of three RCMP detachments.
• Interior Health will be changing the day for its outpatient lab collection service in Sicamous to better ac-commodate residents. The move by Interior Health to reschedule from the current date and hours of operation, from 8:30 am to 12:30 p.m., is due to statutory holidays often falling on a Monday.
• The three-year Shuswap Lake Inte-grated Planning Pro-cess pilot project will end on March 31, 2014. The majority of the members of the SLIPP steering com-mittee agreed to move ahead with water-quality monitoring and a lake safety program for the entire Shuswap Watershed. But Colum-bia Shuswap Regional District Area F North Shuswap director Larry Morgan is vehement in his opposition – as is the president of the North Shuswap Cham-ber of Commerce Dave Cunliffe.
• The District of Si-camous’ finances are now in the hands of Kelly Bennett. Bennett has a strong audit back-ground dealing with not-for-profit organiza-tions, municipalities, care homes, insurance companies, profes-sionals, manufacturing companies and credit unions.
• It won’t look the same, but a successor to the Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process (SLIPP) will move forward. Five of six Columbia Shuswap Regional District elec-toral area directors vot-ed to approve funding up to $240,000 for the successor organization that will address water quality and safety is-sues in the Shuswap Watershed.
• The District of Si-camous is raising funds for victims of the recent typhoon in the Philip-
pines, and challenging other municipalities to do the same. Sicamous Deputy Mayor Terry Rysz called the event, and the impact it has had on the Philippines, “absolutely horren-dous,” and he recom-mended that council try to help out. He sug-gested putting out a challenge to other mu-nicipalities (with a pop-ulation of under 5,000), come up with $1,000 each to support the Ca-nadian Red Cross’ Ty-phoon Haiyan fund.
• The District of Sicamous is seeking bids for the demolition of the former munici-pal hall on Riverside Avenue. The building suffered significant flood damage in 2012, resulting from high wa-ter from Shuswap and Mara Lakes.
• Santa will be roll-ing into Sicamous once again aboard the Canadian Pacific Holi-day Train. Perform-ers scheduled for this year’s train ride include Juno Award winner Melanie Doane and jazz pianist Matt Dusk.
• It has been 20 years since the United Church Thrift Shop opened its doors. The shop has just under-gone an addition that has added more space and a more efficient sorting area.
• The District of Si-camous is going for gold. Municipal coun-cil has approved spend-ing $4,500 to verify the municipality’s $4 mil-lion civic centre, which was officially opened in July 2011, meets a gold standard in Lead-ership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). This is a rat-ing system for sustain-able design, construc-tion and operation of a building.
• Sicamous council will be contesting the honour of the district having one of the worst roads in the province. The Sicamous-Vernon Highway, aka Highway 97A is identified in BCAA’s Worst Roads Survey for 2013. Coun.
Suzanne Carpenter said the report made her laugh, as she has a dif-ferent take on the high-way’s condition. “That road rocks right now..... We’ve got lines every-where,” said Carpen-ter, who recommended council send a letter to BCAA suggesting they check it for themselves.
• Columbia Shus-wap Regional Dis-trict directors recently voted unanimously to approve $50,000 in funding to build the emergency shelter at Blue Lake. Information relating to a request for funding from the Eagle Valley Snow-mobile Club has been sent to the District of Sicamous Council for approval.
• After many years of outstanding vol-unteer service, Mike Melnichuk has retired as the fire chief of the Swansea Point Fire Department. Janet Mc-Quhae was appointed as the new chief for a one-year term.
• The Sicamous Ea-gles saw a narrow win and narrow loss when they hosted teams from 100 Mile House and Creston. In the game versus the 100 Mile House Wranglers, a goal at 2:45 into over-time for a win of 3-2. On Nov. 23, the Eagles wound up on the losing end of a 2-1 tally ver-
sus the Creston Valley Thunder Cats.
DECEMBER• CUPE Local 523
workers, who represent 1,150 custodians, bus drivers and other edu-cation support workers were in a legal posi-tion to walk off the job Tuesday but a tentative contract was hammered out before strike action could commence.
• A Surrey resident is facing charges after a pickup truck collid-ed with an on-coming semi on the Trans-Can-ada Highway. At 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov., 27, Sicamous RCMP were called to the scene of a two-vehicle acci-dent west of town on the highway. Investi-gating officers found the driver of an east-bound pickup truck had lost control of the vehi-cle, which proceeded to hit a guardrail and then drive into the oncom-ing lane and the path of a semi. Police say the driver of the pickup truck is being charged for driving in winter with bald summer tires, and may face additional penalties through their insurance company.
• The Eagle River Bridge in Malakwa was closed to traffic Tues-day morning follow-ing a multiple-vehicle incident involving a truck and three semis.
No one was injured in the incident, which occurred on Monday, Dec., 9 at approximate-ly 9:41 p.m., reported Sicamous Sgt. Dave Dubnyk. One of the semis wound up block-ing traffic, while an-other became engulfed in flames. Columbia Shuswap Regional Dis-trict fire services co-ordinator Kenn Mount said the fire was hot enough to cause dam-age to the bridge.
• On Dec., 4, Shus-wap Lake Integrated Planning Process reps from three regional districts, the City of Salmon Arm, the Shus-wap Nation Tribal Council, along with SLIPP advisory com-mittees and technical teams, approved the terms of reference for a new program that will focus on water quality and safety on the water. Sicamous Mayor Dar-rell Trouton, who did not attend the meeting, was quick to condemn the new program and associated funding. Motions to approve up to $240,000 to fund the developmental year of the water-quality pro-gram and $50,000 for a feasibility study were approved by the major-ity of directors, with only Trouton and Mor-gan opposed.
• To anyone intent on trying their luck steal-
ing a snowmobile, Sgt. Dave Dubnyk warns the odds are stacked against you. Dybnyk announced that over the winter, the RCMP will plant ‘bait sleds’ in popular sledding areas along the Trans-Can-ada Highway – from the Shuswap to Golden – with a focus on curb-ing theft. “We’re going to totally mix it up, “ responded Dubnyk on what will be happening where and when. “The bait program in gen-eral has had tremen-dous success and the conviction rates on it as well have been very good,” says Dubnyk. A bait sled was used last year. Word got around the community and ar-rests resulted. On the flip side, notes Dubnyk, there were no thefts. Dubnyk says he is also working with the Eagle Valley Snowmobile Club on establishing a secure lock-up area for vehicles at the Owl Head trailhead.
• A Transportation Safety Board investi-gation into a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of three people near Terrace last year is citing sudden loss of visibility as well as a lack of instruments and instrument training as the cause of the crash. The Bailey Helicop-ters’ Eurocopter AS350 crashed onto the back side of Sleeping Beauty Mountain – 11 nautical miles west of Terrace – around 8:40 a.m. June 1, 2012. Its three male occupants, company assistant chief pilot Pe-ter Bryant, 44, of Ter-race, relief pilot Blake Erickson, 48, of Si-camous and company aircraft maintenance engineer Arnold Jolo-bois, 44, of Banff were confirmed dead hours later.
• The Eagles were in Kamloops, where they were shut out by the Storm with a 4-0 tally. On Saturday, Dec. 14, the Eagles played host to the Princeton Posse, who went home with a 3-2 win despite a strong effort by the
home team. • Sicamous council
plans to put pressure on the Agriculture Land Commission to get around its application process to use local agricultural land for a motorcycle event. An-ticipating this will be an annual event, district community planning officer Mike Marrs says that district is working with the ALC to figure out a way around hav-ing to make an annual application. He did not state the district is seek-ing to remove the land from the reserve.
• District grant-in-aid requests for this year totalled $64,000, the second highest amount received since 2010, when requests were over $68.000. Though the 2014 bud-get has yet to be for-mally approved, district council’s select finance committee has been de-termining who should receive what in grant funding.
• The Shuswap Community Futures Foundation is in the midst of acquiring lo-cal government support to undertake a $35,000 report measuring the health of Shuswap communities. A Com-munity Foundations of Canada program, Vi-tal Signs would iden-tify trends and assign grades to 10 or 12 areas critical to a communi-ty’s quality of life.
• Attempting to un-ravel the complexities of conflict in the Mid-dle East can be frus-trating and heartbreak-ing, as Pastor Juanita Austin discovered in a recent visit to the area. In November, the pas-tor of Sicamous United Church was part of a educational pilgrimage that took her to Jeru-salem, where she met with Palestinian Chris-tians and Muslims, Jewish Israelis and in-ternationals. The group had an opportunity to learn from a perspec-tive North Americans are seldom exposed to through mainstream media.
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Milestone: The United Church Thrift Shop marked 20 years of serv-ing the community.
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Louise MabelWaterson
Mrs. Louise Mabel Waterson passed away at Bastion Place, Salmon Arm on Wednesday, December 25th, 2013 at the age of 91 years. A memorial service for Louise will be held in Sicamous in
the spring of 2014 with interment of her cremated remains in the family plot of Mountain View Cemetery, Revelstoke.
Louise was born in Erpingham, England on February 14, 1922 and had been a longtime resident of Sicamous. Her gardens were her pride and joy. Spring through fall found Louise tending numerous flower beds as well as a vegetable garden. Many friends and neighbours reaped the benefits of her gardening expertise. In the winter months Louise was into crosswords and many types of needlecraft.
Louise is survived by her husband of 67 years, Rusty of Sicamous; two sons: Ralph (Judy) of Sicamous and Harley (Livia) of Surrey; two step grandchildren: Don (Angela) Waterson of Revelstoke, Dennis (Robin) Peterson of Vanderhoof and one sister, Margaret Graham of Armstrong.
Messages of condolence may be sent to the family by visiting Louise’s obituary notice at
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Cremation arrangements are in the care of Brandon Bowers Funeral Home, Revelstoke.
It is with great sadness that the family of Larry announces his passing in Salmon Arm, BC on January 4, 2014 at the age of 59 years.
A celebration of life service will be held on Friday January 10, 2014 at 2:00 pm from Bowers Funeral Chapel, Salmon Arm. A reception will follow in the mountainside room allowing friends and family to continue sharing memories.
Online condolences may be sent through Larry’s obituary at www.bowersfuneralservice.com
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Complete the grid so every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively. (For solution see Today’s Answers in this paper).
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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Now may be the time to try something new, Aries. You are not one to shy away from anything, but right now you’re a bit apprehensive about things. Take a leap of faith.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, many people look to you as a leader, and they are wise to do so. You are especially trustworthy, and you will be asked to solve a few problems this week.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, there won’t be much time to enjoy recreational activities this week, so you may have to find a new way to let loose. Rest assured there will be more time for fun down the road.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Cancer, a new opportunity comes your way but you’re not quite sure if you’re ready for such drastic changes. Take your time before making a final decision.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, no matter how hard you try, some people just can’t see things from your point of view. Don’t take this personally, as everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, sometimes it seems like you have all of the answers, while at other times, you might not know how to approach a situation. Take some time to analyze your approach.
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Feeling homesick, Libra? If so, make some post-holiday plans to visit with friends or family you didn’t get a chance to see during the holidays. Enjoy this time spent with loved ones.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, you like to stay busy. But you sometimes feel overwhelmed with all that you have to do. Stop biting off more than you can chew and take things one task at a time.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, now is a good time to make resolutions and reconnect with distant friends. It is good to rekindle relationships and commit to spending more time with friends and family.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20After time away for the holidays, getting back into a routine can be challenging, Capricorn. But you like to stick to a schedule, and getting back on track is the way to do it.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, although you have many friends, you recently have only spent time with a select few. This week is a great time to reach out to those friends you haven’t seen in awhile.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Your competitive juices will be flowing this week, Pisces. Enjoy the competitive atmosphere but don’t take things too far.
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