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NEWS Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014

Vol. 59 No. 5 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

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Birthday boy: Sicamous Eagles general manager Wayne March was in the spotlight Friday night as friends and fans wished him a happy 70th birthday. The celebration not only kicked off the game, but also Sicamous Snow Days activities that continue into March. See more Eagles action on page 8. Photo by Lachlan Labere

Jennifer Findlay has a writ-ing assignment for the Shus-wap.

“We need polite letters re-minding funders how well we do so they don’t forget about us,” said the Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap (LASS) out-reach co-ordinator Friday.

Findlay says she had hoped that after last year’s struggle to restore provincial funding for literacy co-ordinators, the is-sue would have been resolved.

But, once again, Decoda Literacy Solutions, the agency that receives funding from the Ministry of Education and

disburses it to literacy groups throughout the province, has only $1 million to spend.

It takes $2.5 million annu-ally to properly fund the 102 literacy co-ordinator positions in the province.

Mike Leland, Decoda’s director of communications, says the organization usually receives notice of funding in December but has yet to hear from the province.

“We are working with the ministry; we’re angling for it, but the budget hasn’t been set yet,” said Leland Monday. “The ministry has been totally co-operating. We’ve been in talks with them and we were very optimistic.”

Leland says Decoda offi-cials have asked groups to go to their local MLAs and make them aware of the importance of literacy and the good things they do in the community.

For Findlay, that meant a meeting with Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo.

“I met with him to talk about all the programs and lit-eracy issues,” Findlay says, de-scribing Kyllo as being super supportive. “He was surprised by some of the statistics and really valued and honoured the work that we do and all the community partnerships, volunteers and how it links to other donations.”

Findlay says the $30,000

LASS receives is leveraged for other grant opportunities, in-kind contributions and com-munity donations, effectively tripling their budget.

“We can make a lot of good things happen, but if we don’t have the guaranteed co-ordinator funding, everything falls apart,” she says, pointing out that last year, LASS’ fund-ing was initially cut just two weeks after then-MLA George Abbott presented a premier’s award and a speech about how critical a literate workforce is to the economy.

On a positive note, Findlay says the Select Standing Com-

Fate of Literacy Alliance again in questionBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

See Planning on page 3

Funding cut: Shuswap residents encouraged to write local MLA.

Arts council anxious over grant funding

Though district council has yet to approve grant-in-aid requests for 2014, proposed grant funding cuts have already raised the ire of at least one com-munity organization.

In a presentation at last week’s council meeting, Eagle Valley Arts Council (EVAC) president Carla Krens questioned where council’s priorities are. She commented that council can consider spending $50,000 on Christmas lights/decorations, yet cut grant requests for local non-profit organizations. She was referring to recommendations made back in November by council’s select finance commit-tee, which has been deliberating the 2014 budget, including grant requests which total more than $64,000. According to minutes from the committee meeting of Nov. 20, the district has only $37,650 for grants (one per cent of taxes). Subsequently, the committee wound up cutting several of the request-ed amounts, including the arts council’s request for $3,500. The committee recommended reducing that amount to $2,000.

Krens explained the district grant, to be used for operations and programming, is matched by the BC Arts Council, meaning a $1,500 cut will actually amount to $3,000.

“We feel that asking for a mere $3,500 to facili-tate a fully operational arts centre in a 90-year-old building, which is a landmark in our history, is not too much to ask,” said Krens.

Couns. Suzanne Carpenter, who was absent from the Nov. 20 meeting, said she felt council needs to support the EVAC’s grant request.

“It seems like it’s the one place we can go in the winter and have entertainment so I would like to support Ms. Krens in her endeavours,” said Car-penter.

Coun. Fred Busch, who also missed the Nov. 20 meeting, reminded Krens that council has yet to make a final decision on grants.

“So I think there is some very good hope that will be reconsidered,” said Busch.

Coun. Don Richardson said he understands the importance of the arts in the community, but

Budget: Recommendations a concern for non-profit organizations. By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

See Council on page 3

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More than 500 driv-ers wound up making an unexpected stop in Sicamous during an RCMP commercial ve-hicle check.

The traffic stop, primarily focused on commercial vehicles as well as vehicles pull-ing snowmobiles, was conducted Jan. 14. Si-camous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk says daylong initiative in-volved 16 enforcement officers, including 12 RCMP from Sicamous, Revelstoke, traffic ser-vices, the integrated safety road unit and po-lice dog services from Kamloops, as well as officers from Commer-cial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement and from WorkSafe BC, who focused on logging trucks.

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• 23 commercial ve-hicle defects detected,

• Five commercial vehicle log book infrac-tions detected,

• Two commercial vehicle insecure loads detected,

• 1 roadside screen-ing performed,

• 1 driving prohibi-tion served,

• Three drug sei-zures,

• Nine violation tick-ets issued for various infractions, including no driver’s licence, no insurance and vehicle defects,

• Nine notice and orders issued for repair on personal vehicle de-fects,

• One concealed weapon seized,

• 16 logging truck inspections resulting in 17 non-compliance or-ders issued.

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Sicamous RCMP re-ceived a request from the Calgary Police Ser-vice to check on the well-being of a local person. The person was found to be OK.

• Jan. 20, 7:54 p.m., police responded to a neighbourhood dispute.

• Jan. 21, 6:38 p.m., police received a request to check on well-being of a local individual. Officers at-tended, spoke with the individual and there were no issues.

• Jan. 22, 9:28 a.m., officers were asked to assist in a report of a single-vehicle incident where a vehicle went into a ditch.

• Jan. 22, 3:13 p.m., police and a special constable from BCSP-

CA visited a local resi-dence to check on the health of horses and a dog. No follow-up was required.

• Jan. 22, 4:52 p.m., police received a report of threats.

• Jan. 24, 2:25 p.m., two pickup trucks, one white and one black, both with Alberta plates, were reported to be passing unsafely on double solids, tailgating and driving erratically.

• Jan. 24, 4:06 p.m., police received a re-quest from an indi-vidual wanting to turn in ammunition for de-struction.

• Jan. 24, 11:55 p.m., a man called 911 to report a break-in. The call was cut off. Officers attended the caller’s residence, but could not see any at-tempt of break-in and were unable to locate caller or homeowner that evening. The fol-lowing day, officers

spoke with the home owner, who said he woke up and thought he heard someone try-ing to break in. No foul play was discovered.

• Jan. 25, 12:14 a.m., Sicamous RCMP received a request from Vernon RCMP to check the well-being of a local resident. Si-camous officers were unable to find the indi-vidual. Vernon RCMP later called to say they found the person and all was well.

• Jan. 25, 1:33 a.m., police found a person in breach of court-or-dered conditions.

• Jan. 25, 4:30 p.m., police received a re-quest from BC Ambu-lance to assist with a patient.

• Jan. 25, 9:29 p.m., fireworks were report-edly being shot off from a local residence.

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explained a lot of the grants were reduced.

Later in the meeting, district administrator Heidi Frank explained the finance commit-tee’s purpose is to come up with preliminary recommendations for which council can then seek public input.

Resident Pam Beech questioned why the committee is agreeable to giving the Summer Stomp Committee a $7,500 in-kind grant.

“It’s still money, it’s still worth value to them,” said Beech. “I guess whether you’re giving it in kind or cash, it’s still coming out of somewhere, there’s somebody working for free for the district for that. It doesn’t look

great, and the public is wondering.”

Coun. Terry Rysz, speaking as deputy mayor, explained coun-icil, in doing the budget, is tasked with finding a balance between fiscal and social responsibilty.

“We can give out another couple hun-dred thousand dollars in grant in aid if we want to, but boy there’s going to be people scream-ing if we jack up their taxes,” said Rysz. “So that’s where we stand as a council. We adjust the pie for every specific group, the amount that we give them and help them get on their feet.”

Rysz emphasized that the finance com-mittee is still fine-tun-ing the budget, includ-ing the grants portion.

“We’ve still got three months to fine-tune this budget and… things can change. And, obvi-

ously, from some of the direction tonight, we’ll bring it back to the ta-ble.”

mittee on Finance has recommended the $2.5 million be included in the budget annually so literacy groups don’t have to “beg, borrow and plead every year.”

“We can’t plan long-term because we never know if we’re going to have funding,” she says. “And the work needs to be valued. It’s not like

we’re raking in the big bucks; we do it for the community because we believe in it.”

Findlay encourages Shuswap residents to show their support by writing letters to Kyllo at [email protected] or in hard copy to Greg Kyllo, MLA, East Annex, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4, with a

copy to Education Min-ister Peter Fassbender at [email protected] or PO Box 9045, Stn Prov. Govt., Victo-ria, B.C., V8W 9E2.

As well, Findlay says people can email their letters to her at ad-min@shuswap literacy.ca and she will forward them.

“Time is of the es-sence as the final budget

decisions will be made at the beginning of Feb-ruary,” Findlay says. “If we can secure annual provincial funding for community literacy co-ordination, this should hopefully be the last time we need to go through this type of let-ter-writing campaign.”

For more informa-tion, call Findlay at 250-833-2095.

Fluctuating ava-lanche conditions shouldn’t prevent snow-mobilers from enjoying the backcountry in the Eagle Valley.

Last week, accord-ing to the Canadian Av-alanche Centre (CAC), the avalanche danger in the Eagle Valley’s pop-ular sledding areas – Blue Lake, Eagle Pass, Owlhead and Queest – dropped from high to low.

However, Eagle Val-ley Snowmobile Club general manager Gord Bushell says all of the mountain areas can be enjoyed at any time, even when the danger rating is extreme, pro-vided rider stick to the meadows.

“Just because the av-alanche rating has gone

from considerable to high, you can still enjoy snowmobiling, espe-cially in the Shuswap, because our trails that go to our cabins are very safe – you don’t have to worry about any kind of sliding or anything like

that going to the cabins in the alpine area,” says Bushell. “It’s when you go past the cabin and you get into the extreme areas, the mountain ar-eas where you have to make the choices your-self.”

Bushell says the club makes sledders aware of the day’s conditions and any CAC advisories at the trailheads.

“We also make sure everybody has their beacons and probes, and we have beacon checkers to make sure the beacons are all working at the bottom of the hills,” said Bush-ell.

Despite recent ava-lanche conditions, Bushell says the num-ber of people using the local sledding areas is up. And to date, there have been only four incidents requiring search and rescue, and despite one where inju-ries where involved, all turned out OK.

As for those who might be tempted to venture into more un-stable terrain when avalanche conditions

are bad, Bushell says it’s up to people to use their own discretion.

“That’s a decision everybody has to make and is why we try to ed-ucate them… And the Canadian Avalanche Centre has really been pushing hard and fo-cusing on that,” said Bushell.

Logging is currently going on at Queest and there are restrictions for recreational use on logging roads. For more information, visit www.sledsicamous.com.

Eagle Valley offers safe sledding options

Ready to ride: Cheryl Widmeyer of Courtney, B.C. starts up a sleds before she and her partner head out for a ride on Owlhead. Photo by Lachlan Labere

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Planning difficult without commitmentContinued from page 2

Council has until March to complete budgetContinued from front


Premier Christy Clark has set off a storm of protest by imposing a referendum on new Lower Mainland transportation improve-ments, timed with the prov-ince-wide municipal elec-tions on Nov. 15.

Even if you don’t live in Metro Vancouver, you’re not immune from this long-running saga. Provincial and federal governments use your tax dollars for the big stuff, including the Sky-Train Canada Line to Van-couver airport and the South Fraser Perimeter Road, a new truck route to port fa-cilities at Tsawwassen.

Clark has promised a bridge replacement for the George Massey tunnel un-der the Fraser River, which may or may not be tolled like the Port Mann bridge. The patchwork of Lower Mainland tolls is a grow-ing political liability for the B.C. Liberal government,

and if further tolls are avoid-ed, major works elsewhere in the province may be de-layed as the budget is eaten up by the big cities.

Clark announced the Massey replacement in a September 2012 speech to the Union of B.C. Munici-palities. In the same speech, she also pledged to com-plete the four-laning of the last 240 km of the Trans-Canada Highway from Ka-mloops to the Alberta bor-der. The province’s cost was estimated at the time to be $650 million over 10 years. Time will tell if that promise is kept.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone inherited the mess left behind by former minister Kevin Falcon, who took transit authority away from Metro Vancouver politicians. He appointed a board of experts and set up a toothless “mayors’ council” to rubber-stamp their deci-sions, after forcing through the Canada Line ahead of a long-promised transit exten-

sion to the east.Local politicians wran-

gled for years over that east-ern extension. They finally settled on surface light rail, only to be overruled by the province, which wanted the vastly more expensive Sky-Train.

The latest rebuke to the mayors’ council was when they decided not to proceed with a costly new electronic fare card system. Falcon re-versed that one after taking a junket to London and fall-ing in love with their “Oys-ter card” subway system.

Speaking of reversals, Stone is now demanding the mayors come up with their list of priorities for new projects. They are expect-ed to believe their choices won’t be overruled again.

Stone correctly notes that Vancouver wants SkyTrain on Broadway, Surrey wants new surface light rail, and other Lower Mainland com-munities want new road and bridge works. Local govern-ments have a long history of

parochial squabbling, get-ting their pet projects done and then suddenly develop-ing the urge to rein in spend-ing once it’s time to dig deep for their neighbours.

Lower Mainland tax-payers are weary and con-fused by all this reorganiz-ing and in-fighting. Many likely believe that it is their regional government that has imposed the Port Mann bridge tolls, when in fact that is a provincial high-way project over which they had no say.

Clark has made it clear there is no going back from a November referendum on new regional transportation financing tools, a promise explicit in the B.C. Lib-eral election platform. She hopes it will increase the dismal voter turnout for lo-cal votes.

If it does that, it may be worth it. Right now, civic elections are dismal af-fairs, with voter turnout and awareness of local issues drifting from bad to worse.

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Local officials could hardly contain their enthusiasm after hearing that WestJet will begin offering direct flights between

the Okanagan and Fort McMurray, Alta. in the spring.

“We have a lot of buyers in Fort McMurray looking at Vernon’s residential market to live here for the lifestyle,” said Kevin Poole, Ver-non’s economic development manager.

And there is logic to that excitement.After all, oil patch workers and executives

could bolster a lagging construction industry by placing orders for new homes. Through their siz-able incomes, they will support families and that means groceries, new vehicles, trips to restau-rants and signing kids up for sports and cultural activities.

Those children will also take up spots in schools that struggle with enrolment.

However, becoming the suburbs for Fort McMurray isn’t the ideal answer to the North Okanagan’s economic challenges.

What we need is a concerted focus by govern-ment leaders to encourage a strong financial climate that creates jobs here, instead of sending spouses and children north.

That is not only better for the overall health and well-being of individual families, but for the community as a whole.

There is a lot of talk about establishing indus-trial land, whether it is in Spallumcheen, Lumby, Coldstream or parts of Vernon, but the time for talk is over.

There needs to be an effort to reverse the career options of leaving town or accepting a minimum wage position.

There’s no question that some benefits will spin-off from direct flights between the Okana-gan and northern Alberta, but there has to be more to the valley’s long-term survival, and that means keeping parents and young people here so they can establish positive futures.

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Pre-School: 10:30 - 11:30Lunch Bunch: 12 - 1

Hockey School: 1 - 3 pmPublic Skating: 3 - 4:-0 pm

Sicamous Midget Playoff: 7:30 - 9:30 pm

SATURDAY FEB 1Atom Game: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Salmon Arm Game: 2 - 4 pmSalmon Arm Game: 4:15 - 6:15 pm

SUNDAY FEB 2Atom Game: 9 am - 10:30 pm

Salmon Arm Novice: 11 am - 12:30 pmEagles vs. 100 Mile: 2 pm - 4 pm

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MONDAY FEB 3Public Skating: 9 - 11 amLunch Bunch: 12 - 1 pm

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Atom: 6:00 pmOld Timers: 7:45 pm

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Lunch Bunch: 12 - 2Public Skating: 2 - 4:30Figure Skating: 5 - 7:30

Eagles: 7:45 - 9:15

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The word “heart” and “earth” are interchange-able and perhaps there’s a reason for it, or at least a message in it.

In her book, Working With Nature – Shifting Paradigms, Heide Her-mary, author and cre-ator of the Gaia College, writes, “Our societies have entered a period of intense change. As we become aware that our actions are affecting the equilibrium of our plan-et, it becomes clear that many things need to be done differently. More and more consumers are willing to pay a premium for goods and services that are guaran-teed to embody ecolog-ically-sound practices, and more and more pro-ducers and service pro-viders are able to meet those needs.

“For businesses and consumers alike, this involves a shift in val-ues. We are not talking about a little change in pricing, but a para-digm shift – a shift in fundamental, underly-ing values, a shift in what we value most in life. Our current land management practices are based on the as-

sumption of mankind’s superiority over nature. Somehow this world view then resulted in a perception of nature as imperfect and in need of improvement.”

Perhaps it’s also a consciousness shift to make positive changes in our gardening and farming practices. A phenomenon discov-ered in the 70s and written about by biolo-gist Lyall Watson, goes something like this… Japanese primatologists were studying wild Ma-caques monkeys in the ’50s on the outer islands and mainland, and had been feeding them an introduced sweet po-tato, but they didn’t like them when dropped in the sand, until a mon-key on one of the is-lands eventually solved the problem by washing them in a stream. This cultural innovation and social improvement was gradually learned by almost all of the oth-ers in the troupe over a period of six years except for just a few more, then suddenly – almost overnight – it was all of them. It was as though the added en-ergy of those last couple of monkeys somehow created an ideologi-cal breakthrough, and it didn’t stop there. The learned habit of washing potatoes then jumped over the sea to the isolated colonies of monkeys on the other islands just as quickly.

Thus, it was discov-ered that when a cer-tain critical number

achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind and dis-tance does not affect it. Mr. Watson proposed an arbitrary figure of 99 monkeys and said that one more, the so-called ‘100th monkey,’ would then provide the critical mass of consciousness necessary to trigger this effect on the others. So what this phenomenon means is that if enough minds tune in to each other, a field is strength-ened so that this aware-ness is picked up by al-most everyone.

Marla Spivak, a bee expert who recently spoke on TEDtalks said: “Every one of us needs to behave a little bit more like a bee or insect society, where each of our individual actions can contribute to a grand solution – an emergent property – that’s much greater than our mere individ-ual sum of our actions.”

So what will be the driver of large-scale change to stop using poisons and harmful substances on our gar-dens, lawns and farm-land? Our purchases of organic and natural products, including the seeds that you sow, that will send a clear mes-sage to those compa-nies who manufacture toxic and deadly prod-ucts that we refuse to use them? Will it be a profound paradigm shift in our values as Heide talks about? Or perhaps the 100th mon-key trigger, where it

will simply become un-thinkable or unconscio-nable to use toxic pes-ticides, herbicides and fertilizers that would damage and destroy all the micro and macro inhabitants that rely en-tirely on a healthy eco-system to survive – just as we do?

Nature provides us with all the knowledge and methods we need to sustainably manage our plants, water needs and soils – we need only to observe from it. Nature provides us with an amazing abundance of free organic and nutri-ent-rich materials to use in so many wonderful ways to keep our gar-dens and farms healthy

and alive with life forms – we need only to gath-er and use them. Nature also has an amazingly powerful toolbox and medicine cabinet to re-store damaged places back to a healthy state – we need only to learn about them.

We make our own garden beds, so-to-speak, but it’s whether or not we want to lie in them is the question we may want to ask our-selves. Perhaps a great New Year’s resolution for 2014 would be to embrace the motto of ‘I will do no harm’ to this precious planet in the universe known as Gaia, and that we all call home.

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Sat., Feb. 1stSNOWMAN’S PANCAKE BREAKFAST & BUILD A SNOWMAN FOR A SENIOR DAY! 8 am -12 pm Senior’s Centre, FREE for Families, Youth and Seniors, sponsored by your local Lion’s Club. Everyone welcome!

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Sun., Feb. 2ndLITERACY AWARENESS WEEK – Jam the GM @ the Junior B Eagles Game, bring your gently used books to the game – start time 2pm.

Pirates away: Parkview Elementary School students Scott Rokosh, bib #664, Connor Schmitz, #669, and Mikki Horsfield #670 head out at the start of the annual Larch Hills Student Pirate Loppet held Friday, Jan. 24 at Larch Hills. Photo by James Murray

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and other dementias can leave family caregivers feeling isolated. Howev-er, Sicamous residents are not alone, thanks to support groups pro-vided by the non-profit Alzheimer Society of B.C in nearby Enderby and Salmon Arm.

The free monthly group offers family caregivers the chance

to exchange informa-tion and friendship with others affected by de-mentia, access the most current information, and learn and share practi-cal tips for coping with change.

The Salmon Arm support group meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon, and the Enderby sup-

port group meets on the first Thursday of each month from 10 to 11:30 a.m. To register, con-tact Barb at 250-833-1044 for the Salmon Arm group or Mae at 250-838-6118 for the Enderby group.

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About once a month, Isabel Stadnicki re-ceives a telephone call from a man in Arizona, a treasure hunter seek-ing pertinent informa-tion.

The caller will run through a list of ques-

tions, which Stadnicki answers to the best of her ability and, when they’re done, he’ll say, “the cheque is in the mail,” and the call ends.

This anecdote rep-resents an atypical re-quest of Stadnicki’s unusual abilities. More commonly she is sought out as sort of a

medical problem solv-er, who uses her 30-plus years of training in parapsychology to heal mind and body.

“I don’t like the word ‘psychic’ and I don’t wish to be re-ferred to as a psychic. It’s intuition,” says Stadnicki.

Seated comfort-

ably in a sunroom in her Sicamous home, on a road that shares her family name, Stad-nicki holds in her hand what looks like a small weight on a chain – her pendulum. Beside her are shelves packed with books, binders and other items and, laid out on a table in

front of her, some of the tools of her trade, so to speak. These in-clude various pieces of coloured glass, crystals and a multi-coloured schematic of the hu-man brain. There are also letters of apprecia-tion from those she has

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Reprogram: Healer Isabel Stadnicki, a practitioner of colour therapy, holds a piece of red coloured glass, used specifically for issues relating to the “computer brain.” Photo by

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helped.Stadnicki picks up a

piece of dark red glass, stressing its impor-tance as it is linked to the brain, or “computer brain” as she calls it. She uses the red glass to reprogram the brain, when and as needed, through her practice of colour therapy, or chro-motherapy, in which light and colour are used to help balance energy lacking in the body.

“The brain is the most fabulous comput-er of them all and you are the programmer,” says Stadnicki. “Con-sequently, if you know someone who is for-ever kicking the gong on the wrong side, bitching, bellyaching, whatever, they are pro-gramming their brain with negativity. And they will just continue to get worse and sick and sick.”

Stadnicki picks up

another piece of glass, light blue in colour, and explains how this colour was used to treat someone who was los-ing her eyesight. An-other shade, salmon in colour, she says used to treat a bed wetter. She says each speci� c shade represents an energy and, when a person comes to Stad-nicki for help, she will � nd which energy is missing. She will then prescribe a colour that the patient must be ex-posed to for a certain length of time in order to get well.

“You have to know… that every organ in the body has its own energy level. You have to pick out the missing energy and you have to match it up with the rainbow co-lours,” says Stadnicki. “So we’ve managed to, in times past, get rid of parents’ frustrations with bed wetting, some-times in as little as two or three weeks, simply by putting coloured bed

sheets and pyjamas on.”Longtime friend and

author of, Art of Heal-ing: A Biography of Isabel Stadnicki, Paul Chelli describes Stad-nicki as a “medical dowser” who uses nat-ural remedies to heal

people. “You know how wa-

ter dowsers � nd water and they locate wells and whatnot, well, she does that medically on the body by using a pendulum,” Chelli told the News. “And it’s quite common, it’s been around for centuries… probably older people or farmers

would relate to that ter-minology much better than ‘psychic,’ which is so broad, it encom-passes way too much.”

Stadnicki says there is nothing mystical or mysterious about what she does, which is, sim-

ply put, helping people � nd answers.

Born in Enderby in the mid-1920s, Stadnicki had three brothers and two twin sisters. She says her in-terest in parapsychol-ogy – a study of psy-chological phenomena such as telepathy, clair-voyance and telekine-sis – was kindled by

the twins, who in later years came to reside in Grindrod.

“They were both young marrieds, and Grindrod was like a lot of other places, six people on a party line, and the women had nothing better to do than you-know-what,” laughs Stadnicki. “So these two, when they had something to say to each other, they got in the habit of doing it mind to mind. And that stimulated my curios-ity.”

Between 1945 and 1949, Stadnicki trained to become a nurse. In 1948 she met Jan Stad-nicki. The two married the following year and bought a small farm near Sicamous.

A turning point for Isabel was when she came across the book, How To Make ESP Work For You, by Har-old Sherman. Thinking of her sisters, Stadnicki picked up the book and soon after attended a

Body, Mind and Spirit workshop in Little Rock, Arkansas. Later that year, acceding to Chelli’s book, Stad-nicki attended a series of lectures on parapsy-chology at the Okana-gan College campus in Salmon Arm. The lecturer, Andrew Schneider, agreed to host future lectures in Sicamous, which led to the formation of a local meditation group. Over the course of their meetings, would share a number of strange, unexplainable experi-ences.

“There are people around here who can do all kinds of weird and wonderful things, it’s just we don’t talk about it,” says Stad-nicki, explaining her unusual passion led to something of a falling out with her church.

“I had to leave the church eventually that I had supported for God knows how many years because I didn’t

have a place to hang my pointy hat and park my broomstick…,” laughs Stadnicki. “You’re talking about the love of God, you’re talking about sharing love with people, and it has nothing to do with, I mean, we’re all hu-man beings and if we can share our love, our knowledge, our food, our homes – we’re in big trouble right now if people will not get busy to learn and share. And I don’t care which way you crumble the cookie, just don’t get hung up on words.”

Stadnicki is an hon-orary life member of the Canadian Society of Questers, an orga-nization of individuals who seek enlighten-ment through investi-gation of the paranor-mal. The Shuswap Chapter of Questers meets in Salmon Arm on the third Wednes-day at 6:30 p.m. in the Downtown Activity Centre.

She says each speci� c shade represents an energy and, when a

nicki for help, she will � nd which energy is missing. She will then prescribe a colour that

posed to for a certain length of time in order

“You have to know…

The brain is the most fabulous computer of the all and you are the

programmer. Consequently, if you know someone who is kicking the gong on the

wrong side… they are programming their brain with negativity.

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Interest in paranormal piqued by bond between twin sisters

SPORTS

Possession: Sicamous Jr. B. Eagle Nicholas Astasiewicz pushes a Revelstoke Grizzly for-ward out of the way for possession of the puck during Friday’s home-ice contest that saw the Eagles earn a 6-5 win in overtime. Tyson Taylor potted three of Sicamous’ markers, including the tie-breaker in overtime, while singles were scored by Astasiewicz, Matthew Maetche and Nathan Grieve. On Saturday, the Eagles wound up on the losing side of a 5-3 tally versus guests the 100 Mile House Wranglers. Maetche, Hayden Orton and Stephen Hawco scored for Sicamous. Photo by Lachlan Labere

The Sicamous Midg-et Jr. Eagles wrapped their regular season this past weekend with commanding wins of 9-3 and 9-0 in Clearwa-ter.

This brings the Eagles’ season total to nine wins and three losses, � nishing second place in Tier 4. How-ever, due to BC Hockey regulations because it is a combined team, with players from North Okanagan and Revel-stoke, the boys have been moved to Tier 3 for playoffs.

As this decision was just made by BC Hock-ey, the Okanagan Main-line Amateur Hockey Association had to seed the team in the Tier 3 playoffs by their win percentage. Sicamous’ win percentage of 75 per cent had them tied with Kelowna’s Tier 3 team. However, the Eagles’ two wins from this weekend sealed the

deal, putting them in second place in Tier 3 as well.

Knowing this may happen, the team at-tended the West Kelow-na Tier 3 tournament in early January. The boys lost in the semi-� nals 4-2 to the Vernon Tier 2 team, who went on to win the tournament.

During. the tourna-ment, Sicamous went 2-1 in the round robin play, and two weeks ago won 4-1 over the West Kelowna Tier 3 team.

Sicamous’ coaches are con� dent that if the boys continue to play the way they have been, they should do very well in Tier 3, and can make a good playoff run.

The ultimate prize would be the boys win-ning playoffs and ad-vancing to Provincials in 100 Mile House in March.

Samantha Dunnett, President of Sicamous

Minor Hockey, says the boys have even more to be proud of as this team has not received one high-risk player warn-ing this year, and is the least penalized team in the Midget Tier 4 league, and fourth least penalized team in all of Midget for OMAHA.

The boys should be very proud of how far they have come, says Dunnett. They had a short bench to start with – 14 skaters and two goalies – and have been plagued with inju-ries this year, but have overcome it all.

The Midgets start their playoff run this Friday night at 7:30 p.m. in Sicamous versus Summerland. Game 2 will be in Summerland on Sat-urday and, if needed, game 3 will be back in Sicamous on Sunday at 4:30 p.m.

Come down and cheer on the boys.

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TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21A loved one needs some help, Taurus. This week you will have to figure out a way to assist this person and still tend to your own pressing affairs.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21Gemini, focus your energy on someone important. This may be a friend, family member or even a romantic partner. Brush up on your relationship skills in the meantime.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22You have a natural charm that immediately puts others at ease, Cancer. If you are wooing a client, they will be putty in your hands. Just open your mouth, and you will win them over.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, your stubbornness comes into play this week, and it could cause a rift with friends or colleagues. Try to see their point of view, and put off any serious disputes for another time.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, spend a little time this week plotting your next getaway. You tend to be happiest when you’re on the move and exploring. Everyone needs an escape now and then.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Enjoy some local culture this week, Libra. Take in a concert, an art show or a theater performance. Just enjoy anything that will educate and entertain at the same time.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, you may find that someone you thought was weak is much stronger than they appeared. This person may not need as much of your assistance as you initally thought.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, analyze any problems you may have by breaking them down into smaller tasks. Then you can tackle one thing at a time and come to a happy resolution.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, your children or the youngsters in your life will be the center of your universe this week. Make the most of this time and enjoy kids’ carefree natures.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18This week may be a little boring, Aquarius. Make the most of your down time, as you could use a few slow days to recharge your batteries and plan your next move.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20You are bubbling with energy, Pisces. Make the most of this energy by exercising, partying or taking a day trip.

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Daryl Hughes, loving husband, dad, grandpa, brother, son, and friend, was born in Regina, Sask. on May 25, 1952 and passed away at home, in Sicamous BC, on January 22, 2014 with his family by his side.

He was an RCMP Officer for almost 36 years. He practiced his job fairly, with good judgement, and common sense. He always made a point of becoming a part of the community in which he lived. These included Kelowna, Keremeos, Dawson Creek, New Hazelton, Sicamous, Salmon Arm, and Revelstoke.

Family was the priority in Daryl’s life. He shared love, humour, strength, and kindness with those around him. He is remembered as an animated story teller and great listener. He kept us laughing and smiling around dinner tables, fires, and soaks in the hot-tub. Daryl embraced life as an avid outdoorsman who found peace and happiness while fishing and hunting the beautiful waters and lands of Western Canada. If you spend any time on Shuswap Lake, Daryl will be with you. Through the years he delighted in travelling throughout Canada with his family as well as Europe, Hawaii, Mexico, and the Oregon Coast with his wife.

We love you and miss you greatly. The path you walked in life is an inspiration to all of us. You live in our hearts and minds forever. Just as you wanted, we will have as much fun as possible in our lives. As you always said, “It’s A Beautiful Thing.”

Daryl is survived by his loving wife Donna-Lynne, cherished children Jenna(Jordie), Tyler, Jarrett(Colleen), grandchildren Triton, Toby, and Lincoln, parents Fred and Beatrice Hughes, mother-in-law Evelyn Koch, sisters Dianne and Darlene, brothers Stacy and James, numerous sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, and nephews. He is pre-deceased by his father-in-law Ernest Koch.

Daryl requested no public funeral service. There will be a private celebration of life when the sun begins to warm the lake. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to The Shuswap Hospital Foundation at 601 10 St NE, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4A8 www.shuswaphospitalfoundation.org or the charity of your choice.

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ARLENE NANCY EVANS and YVONNE MARIE MORRISS, EXECUTORS OF THE ESTATE OF WILBURN HERBERT DOUGLAS EVANS ALSO KNOWN AS WIBERN EVANS ALSO KNOWN AS DOUGLAS EVANS, DECEASED

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