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NEWS Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Vol. 55 No. 30 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236
Safety advocate questions state of Bruhn Bridge
Page 2
Ladybugs part of district arsenal
against pests Page 3
Pulling together: Twenty-three canoes including those of the five local bands, Adams Lake, Neskonlith, Splats’in, Little Shuswap and Kamloops, along with guests including Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo, pictured in the canoe above, left Mara Lake Saturday morning on a 15-kilometre trip to Old Town Bay for the first leg in the 2013 Pulling Together Canoe Journey. This floating cultural exchange will end Friday when the canoes travel from Pritchard to Kamloops, where they will be part of the Grand Entry at the Kamloops Pow Wow. Photo by Martha Wickett
Planned dock removal raises ire of residents and mayorSLIPP may be slipping out of control and
there are fears local dock owners are being targeted by the province.
This was the message put forward by Si-camous Mayor Darrell Trouton at last week’s district council meeting in response to a letter from White Pine Crescent residents Rick and Jean Ellithorpe, who are upset with what they call the “bullying approach” the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Opera-tions is taking to waterfront property owners regarding existing docks. In their letter, the Ellithorpes ask that council intervene on the behalf of all affected dock owners.
But the ministry’s Steve Tomson, Minis-ter of Forests, Lands and Resource Opera-tions, says they are not planning on remov-ing docks this summer and is working on processes to make licence acquisition much easier. He says the ministry plans to use edu-cation to get compliance
Derelict docks are being cleaned up in the Salmon Arm area through SLIPP, the Shus-
wap Lake Inte-grated Planning Process. Marcin Pachcinski, Co-lumbia Shuswap Regional District Parks and Rec-reation manager, says the latest data reveals there are a total of 2,700 docks total on Mara and Shus-wap lakes, and more than 90 per cent are able to get tenure by applying for a licence.
Trouton said council is planning discuss the issue with the provincial ministers at the upcoming Union of B.C. Municipali-ties Convention. This, however, was after he laid into SLIPP, reiterating concerns he ex-pressed as a director on the Columbia Shus-wap Regional District board.
Recently, the CSRD board deferred a de-cision to allocate $50,000 to explore the fea-sibility of continuing to fund SLIPP.
“The whole SLIPP thing is basically taboo in Sicamous,” Trouton told the board, noting that at a SLIPP stake-holders’ meeting in that commu-nity in June, he agreed with con-cerns about wa-ter quality with
regard to drinking water and recreation, but heard from one government agency their perspective was to protect � sh. “I won’t sup-port this until we as directors decide that we even want it.”
Trouton expressed frustration at the way he says SLIPP, a body that proclaims it has no compliance powers, did a catalogue of docks on the lake and promptly handed it over to the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Resource Operations, which has plans to remove several docks in the Sicamous area.
“We paid them to do the studies and now the ministry is going ahead with compli-ance,” he said.
Even with the CSRD board approving the deferral, Trouton told Sicamous councillors that he still felt he had been ignored, explain-ing how, even after the board’s decision, Area C South Shuswap director Paul De-menok, the SLIPP steering committee chair, still plans to make his own presentation at UBCM to garner the premier’s support.
Trouton wants SLIPP to focus solely on water quality, with clear language de-� ning its mandate. As for the province us-ing SLIPP’s data for enforcement purposes, Trouton says there needs to be greater trans-parency in what SLIPP is about and working towards.
“At the director level, we’re getting asked to support this, these types of initiatives, es-pecially through SLIPP… but we’re not get-ting clari� cation,” said Trouton. “It has to be set up better so there’s not a misrepresenta-tion of what we’re trying to accomplish, and that’s what I feel has been done.”
By Lachlan Labere and Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News
It has to be set up better so there’s not a misrepresentation of what we’re trying to accomplish, and that’s what I feel has been done.
Darrell TroutonMayor
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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 250-836-5472Every 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.Every Thurs. - Malakwa Thrift Store in Malakwa by the old church. 9:30 am - 4:00 pmEvery Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every 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 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 Sat. in August - Church on the Beach 9006 Swanshore Rd. Sicamous. 6:30 pm Bring your own Lawn chair. St. John’s LutheranEvery 1st & 3rd Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Royal Canadian Legion #99 at 7:00 pm.Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 7 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 p.m.
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Bob Edwards is not confident in the structur-al integrity of the Bruhn Bridge.
To change that, the province would have to provide a current, thor-ough engineering study on the bridge, and/or guarantee the 55-year-old structure will not fall before replacement. But, he says, the prov-ince has yet to provide either.
A recent EVN story detailing Sicamous resi-dent Bea Herzog’s con-cerns about the bridge prompted Edwards, a former Sicamous resi-dent and Salmon Arm’s representative on the Revelstoke for a Safe Trans-Canada Highway committee, to voice his thoughts on the struc-ture and its current state, which does not impress.
“I used to live in Si-camous, I did for about 17 years… and we’d walk under the bridge twice a week, and never did we see any dete-rioration like this,” says Edwards. “I was out there last year and I did see this so I went to the highways ministry of-fice in Salmon Arm and I talked to an engineer about it.”
In particular, Ed-wards referred to the numerous areas under-neath the bridge where, in 2011, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, chipped away patches of con-
crete after a three-foot by three-inch thick piece fell from the bridge into a boat passing beneath. After removing any areas showing cracks, the ministry treated ex-posed rebar to prevent rusting.
“Having been in construction for many years, when you see rebar like this, it’s not what you see, its what you don’t see,” says Ed-wards, noting he raised his concerns with a MOTI engineer. “The real deterioration is down, maybe even three metres below. Concrete is very porous, and his statement was the fact that it was water and salt leaking down off the bridge….
“So I asked him, will you give me a written guarantee that bridge will be standing in 10
years. He said, ‘no.’ So, does it inspire con-fidence? No, absolutely not.”
The province, how-ever, maintains the bridge is in good condi-tion with may years of service life remaining.
“As with all of our structures, it is inspected annually by our techni-cal staff and no serious issues have been identi-fied,” MOTI spokesper-son Kate Trotter states in an email. “The most recent inspection was in summer 2012, and included a detailed in-spection using a special-ized lift called a ‘snoop-er truck’ that allowed inspectors to access all parts of the bridge. A similar inspection is planned for this Octo-ber.”
Trotter says all bridges in the province
are inspected on an an-nual basis, receiving “routine” and “detailed” inspections. The for-mer, she says, involves a combination of hands-on and visual inspec-tion. The frequency of these inspections is determined by the area manager of bridges based on the condition of specific structure, “but not less than once every calendar year.” Detailed inspections in-volve a close-up, hands-on look at all parts of the structure, sometimes supplemented by physi-cal testing.
“The frequency of detailed condition in-spections varies based on age and condition of the structure but a maximum of 60 months (five years) interval is assumed to be appropri-ate in most cases,” says
Trotter. “In the case of Bruhn Bridge, a detailed inspection has been per-formed by our technical experts with the use of the snooper truck each of the last two years.”
What would satisfy Edwards, however, is an engineering study that includes X-rays or ther-mographic resonance imaging to detect weak points.
“I know darn well, when you start seeing rusty rebar, that un-less you actually take it down to bare metal and treat it, rust comes back. But it takes a long time for the rust to appear like this,” says Edwards. “Concrete itself doesn’t support the bridge; it’s just bulk. What supports the bridge is the rebar, and it’s been compro-mised. So I think, at the very least, instead of someone going around with a chipping ham-mer saying everything is fine, or a spokesper-son, you’ve got to get an engineers report saying that bridge is OK.”
District of Sicamous administrator Heidi Frank says staff have no reason to doubt the ministry’s response re-garding the safety and longevity of the Bruhn.
Trotter reiterated there are no immedi-ate plans to replace the bridge, and that its re-placement would be de-veloped in future work on the Trans-Canada Highway four-laning program.
Advocate calls for engineering reportStable structure: Province says many years of service remain.By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
Public concern: Shuswap resident Bob Edwards questions the structural integrity of Bruhn Bridge. Photo by Lachlan Labere
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As of Thursday, campfires will be pro-hibited in the Shuswap until further notice.
Confirmation was received Tuesday from Sicamous’ Fire Chief Brett Ogino and an official at the Salmon Arm Rapattack base that the Kamloops Fire Centre will be issuing a campfire ban, begin-ning Thursday and last-ing until further notice.
The current fire dan-ger rating in the Shus-wap ranges from high to extreme, where new fires start easily, spread quickly and challenge fire suppression efforts.
A campfire ban re-fers to piled material no larger than half-a-metre in height and width, used for recre-ational or ceremonial purposes.
An open fire ban was
put in place on June 15, prohibiting the burning
of waste, as well as the use of fireworks.
When it comes to controlling local pest populations, Kayleena Taylor prefers to fight fire with fire or, more specifically, bugs with bugs.
Recently Taylor, a gardener and inte-grated pest manage-ment (IPM) specialist with the District of Si-camous’ public works department, released hundreds of ladybugs throughout the com-munity. These “benefi-cial bugs” she says will target less desirable in-sects including aphids, or plant lice, and other “bad bugs” that are de-structive to plant life.
Taylor says the use of ladybugs falls within the IPM program.
“We’re trying to get away from using pes-ticides because what’s happening is, when you spray pesticides… it kills your bad bugs plus your beneficial bugs,” says Taylor. “We introduce beneficial bugs to help control the nasty bugs that we’ve got out there. In the last few years we’ve had lots of aphids, white flies, centipedes and
stuff like that.”Taylor says her job
involves regular moni-toring to keep a handle on what insects are present, along with lev-els of infestation should one exist. Knowing this is crucial to the effec-tive use of other insects for pest control.
“We identify pest insects and determine from there what we re-quire and we release the beneficial bugs at the proper time, preferably when pest populations
are low to medium. Re-leasing beneficial bugs isn’t an instant cure. It takes sometimes four to six weeks in order to see the benefits.”
The District of Si-camous does not have a pesticide use control bylaw. Taylor says she would like to see one in place, and endeavours to use environmentally-friendly pest manage-ment practices when-ever possible.
“I try to stay away from all the pesticides,”
says Taylor. “We do use herbicide, we do use Roundup, but that’s pretty much strictly it. I use insecticidal soaps or just dish detergent with water, that’s about it.
“When you’re using pesticides, the insects, they become immune sometimes, and then it’s not effective.”
While results may not be immediate, Tay-lor says using ladybugs and other insects has proven to be an effec-tive means of pest con-trol. Another species that has been helpful is the green lace wing.
“I got the green lace wings just because dur-ing the larvae stage, the green lace wing eats aphids, mealy bugs, spi-der mites, leafhoppers, caterpillar eggs, scales, thrips and white flies,” says Taylor. “And these bugs can eat up to 200 aphids and other pests each week for two to three weeks. So it’s nothing but good.”
Taylor purchases the bugs through the Bug Factory (www.bugfactory.ca), which specializes in the local production of “natural enemies as alternatives to chemical insecti-cides.
District pits good bugs against badBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
Pest control: Kayleena Taylor releases ladybugs to control unwanted insect populations. Photo contributed
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VICTORIA – B.C. NDP president Moe Sihota says an external review of the party’s performance in the May election will “look very much at the DNA of the NDP.”
Early signs are not en-couraging. Start with the five-member panel an-nounced to conduct the review. The required “la-bour” representation is in the person of Cindy Oli-ver, president of the union representing college and university instructors, and Andy Ross, ex-president of COPE 378, which repre-sents BC Hydro employees among others.
Another appointee is NDP MP Jinny Sims, a for-mer president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. If the party wants to further so-lidify its image as a lobby group for pension-subsi-dized government unions, it’s off to a great start.
The terms of reference defy parody. In addition to
unions, the panel required “more than one woman.”
Once they finally get down to business, the list of election campaign details they must examine is long. In addition to that, they must review “stakeholder relations including com-munity leaders, business, social movement, ethnic communities, environ-mental movement, affili-ated unions and the labour movement.”
One of the excuses of-fered by leader Adrian Dix for the party’s defeat was the loss of 40,000 jobs in the B.C. forest industry. The suggestion is that those people left for Alberta, and if they were still here, they would have voted NDP.
That presumed solidar-ity has never existed in the private sector, and in fact the highest-paid union workers have good reason to vote for lower taxes. To confirm B.C. and Canada’s “progressive” tax system, all they have to do is look at their pay stubs.
The mandate for this
review mentions not one actual public policy issue. Here’s one the committee might kick around.
Having lost the 2009 election campaigning against the carbon tax, the NDP is now calling for it to be increased and extended to greenhouse gases pro-duced by industrial process emissions.
A simple example is a cement kiln, which burns fuel to reach the tempera-ture at which the compo-nents are partially burned and cement is produced. Cement manufacturers pay carbon tax on the fuel, whether it’s natural gas or shredded tires, but not on the process.
B.C. cement makers are already pleading for relief, because the fuel-intensive process puts them at a price disadvantage with U.S. and Chinese producers.
Further unilateral tax action by B.C. would only further increase imports, and potentially push B.C. firms out of business. Goodbye unionized private
sector jobs.Dix’s last foray in ques-
tion period before the sum-mer legislature session ad-journed was a demand for the government to order BC Ferries to build its next three ships in B.C.
Leave aside the NDP’s uncritical zeal for state control, and their ill-fated experiment with aluminum fast ferries. The most like-ly bidder for this work is Seaspan, with shipyards in Esquimalt and North Van-couver.
Seaspan is hiring almost 2,000 people to build ships for the Royal Canadian Navy and Coast Guard. It will be flat out to get that done, and the company president can’t yet say if it has the capacity and skilled labour to bid on BC Ferries ships too.
Seaspan has to operate in the real world of lim-ited resources. So does the NDP, but it’s not clear if they can find a way out of their thicket of special in-terests and stale economic notions.
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Province needs to put families first sooner
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With Christy Clark firmly back in the premier’s seat, it would be wonderful to see a “families-first” philosophy
kick into overdrive. Much of what is found in the rhetoric-heavy B.C.
premier’s Families First Agenda for Change are tar-gets revolving around job growth. But if you’re part of a family with two working parents who are still just scraping by, Clark’s families first commitments to harmonize approval processes between federal and provincial governments, extend the Oil and Gas Road Improvement Program and harmonize bio-energy strategies offer little hope of immediate improvement. And, for many, improvement is needed sooner rather than later.
Case in point: B.C. continues to have one of the highest child poverty rates in Canada. This is according to First Call BC Child and Youth Advo-cacy Coalition, as well as recent Statistics Canada figures that show the number of children living in poverty rose from 87,000 in 2010 to 93,000 in 2011.
The poverty rate for children living with a single parent (mother) rose from 16.4 per cent to 24.6. A low annual income for this category, according to StatsCan, is $23,498, based on living in a large city.
While Clark has followed through on her promise to finally raise the province’s minimum wage (which previously was another national low), another recent Statistics Canada report shows how median incomes have been stagnant since 1982. Meanwhile, the annual cost of living, particularly for families, has risen. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alterna-tives states that families (two parents, two children) in the Okanagan need to be pulling in $75,000 (gross) annually in order to make a “living wage,” a wage that reflects what a family must earn in order to afford the actual cost of living in a specific com-munity.
On average, B.C. families with parents age 25 to 34 are working more and earning less. Gambling the province’s economy on the future of liquid natural gas may pay off down the road, but it does little to quell the struggle families face now.
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It has been more than a month since July 1, but I still want to mention that Canada Day was a huge suc-cess for the arts.
There was, of course, the successful annual art show in the Red Barn Arts Centre, but for the first time, there was the Chil-dren’s Art Day. The turnout was exception-ally good and the Eagle Valley Arts Council will definitely do this again next year and even expand a little.
Over the years, there have been many ama-teur artists featured in the Eagle Valley News. One sector that has not been touched on much is that of the amateur actor. This month, I would like to tell you about two of our local actors: Dawn Hoover and Lori Waugh. They joined the Sicamous Amateur Drama Club in the fall of 2003 with their first production of A Christmas Carol, and they did that for six years in different roles. Then came 12 plays and five Remembrance Day tribute shows.
Neither Dawn nor Lori had ever acted be-fore but, after 10 years and 70 performances, they have honed their acting skills.
I sat down with both of them and my first question was, “how did it all came about?”
Dawn: “I was asked to act but I did not think I could do it, so I was then asked to run the concession during the play. Then someone dropped out of the show and I did a read-ing and was told I had the part of the Ghost of Christmas Past, and then later I was the Laundress and finally Mrs. Cratchit.”
Lori: “You (Carla) came into the credit union and I was known to put together little skits for our awards nights, so you… said, ‘Any of you girls want to act? Because we are looking for actors.’ And the staff all went ‘talk to Lori.’ So I talked and you assured me that it would be amateur and a small part. So I showed up at the next meet-ing where the cast and production were still being put together. In A Christmas Carol I started as Martha, and later played the neph-ew’s wife Clara.
Carla: “So do you feel like an actor now, after having done all these productions?”
Lori: “Yes, still an amateur, especially af-ter seeing professional theatre just recently… I thought we could be this good, but we need to kick it up a notch.”
Dawn: I feel com-fortable doing com-edy because it is nice to make people laugh
but feel self-conscious about doing drama and do crying etc. But I do want to go into that direction. It would be nice to do a challeng-ing part where I would have to use my full act-ing capabilities.
Carla: “You both did dramatic parts in the Remembrance Day productions and did very well.”
Lori: “I loved that and would like to do more.”
Dawn: “I too would love to have an op-portunity to do some drama.”
Carla: “Has acting helped you in your dai-ly life?”
Dawn: “I spoke in front of people at a fu-neral and I never would have thought about do-ing that before my act-ing days. And to think I used to be scared to put my hand up in school.”
Lori: “It helped in my job; I am not a shy person, but the acting experience gave me more confidence to be in front of people.”
Carla: “Which was your favourite part?”
Dawn: “My part in the Houseboat Va-cation, where I was dragged around all over the stage which is something I always wanted to do. Don’t ask me why. And the part in Now Boarding. There were a lot of good lines in that one.
Lori: “For me the Houseboat Vacation, in which I got to play a drunk, and that is so much fun to play. But I also loved the Camping Trip because the per-sonality of my charac-ter was so me.
Carla: “Most em-barrassing moment on the stage?”
Lori: “I froze in the play, The Park Bench… totally forgot where I was, and some-one backstage tried to prompt me but I could not hear her. So I turned towards the curtain and said, ‘Pardon me?’ to the curtain. And the last play I was stuck and going round and round until one of the actors on stage hinted at my lines and I was back in. But the feeling of freezing up is terrify-ing. But I have always made it through.”
Dawn: “I think mine was in The Bed and Breakfast. I went on-stage when I was not supposed to be there. So I had to find my way off stage again.
Of course, after so
many plays and shows there were many sto-ries, but these were some of the highlights of the last 10 years of acting. And I know many of you have en-joyed Lori and Dawn’s escapades onstage, and I am also sure they have made you laugh.
Next month I hope to feature another artist or artists living in the Eagle Valley.
If you would like to have a good time, come to the Red Barn Arts Centre on Mon-days at 1 p.m. and join the Sicamous Three Chord Ukulele Band. They are going through the summer. All you have to do is bring your own ukulele, and you can buy one in every music store or on line. No need to read mu-sic. There are now 25 members and it keeps growing. Join the fun, because that is sure what it is.
For art informa-tion, call Carla Krens at 250-836-4705, or email [email protected]
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Opening a mu-sic store in Sicamous would seem to be a natural transition in the chord progression that is John Guilbeault’s ca-reer.
Anyone who has passed by the former bowling alley on Main Street and Shuswap Avenue as of late will have noticed signs for the Music Man on the window, and maybe seen Guilbeault setting up a slew of stringed instruments – electric and acoustic guitars and banjos – and amplifiers below.
Some might be sur-prised to see a music store opening in Si-camous, though those who already know Guilbeault might not. For starters, he’s cur-rently a member of the Sicamous-based band, Lead Painted Toys. Then there’s the fact that he’s been a part of the Shuswap music scene (and behind the scenes) for more than two decades. His last music-based business venture was Blue Water Music in Salmon Arm, though his clientele was largely from out-of-town.
“The majority of my customers came from Sicamous and Revel-stoke,” says Guilbeault.
The guitar is Guil-
beault’s instrument of choice. He says he began playing profes-sionally at age 14, and at 58 he’s still rocking. Thirty of those years were spent working at, or running music stores and, in that time, he picked up a few other instruments.
“I’ve learned to play the keyboards, the drums, the percussion, wind instruments, brass instruments – you have to learn them all,” says Guilbeault. “The only one I cannot play is the violin. I can demo it for you and you’ll think I know how to play but I don’t. Banjo, mandolin, ukulele, I can play them all.”
The reason for learn-ing all these instruments has to do with customer service.
“When somebody wants to know some-thing, I can answer the question properly,” he says. “Why not show it well and be able to ex-plain things, like how to properly tune a set of drums. A lot of people don’t know that.”
Lessons will be a big part of the Music Man’s offerings. As for the in-struments, Guilbeault says he has deliberately picked low-priced mod-els and brands to get help get beginners play-ing.
“There’s nothing like seeing that little
guy getting his first guitar, and that smile. It pays off, man,” says Guilbeault, adding that for the higher-end stuff, he’s partnered with Lee’s Music of Kam-loops and Wentworth Music in Kelowna.
“So any big brand our students want… I can call them up and
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Guitars and more: The Music Man’s John Guilbeault strums on one of the guitars for sale at his new shop on the corner of Main Street and Shuswap Avenue. Photo by Lachlan Labere
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Though still in the process of setting up and bringing in inven-tory, Guilbeault says the Music Man should be officially open for busi-ness soon.
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preneurs have brought a taste of neighbour-ing community coffee houses to downtown Sicamous.
Named for the near-by round-about at the east end of Main Street, the RoundAbout Coffee House opened its doors on July 18, and has al-ready established a fol-lowing.
The specialty coffee house was initially the vision of Brian Ander-son who, in the process of acquiring the lease for the former Channel House Café, picked up a couple of partners: fellow coffee lovers Shawna and husband Kevin Koll.
“He was talking about it and because we lease the building from The Marina, and I actu-ally do all the account-ing work over there, so when we were negotiat-
ing the lease for it back in October and he was telling me about his con-cept, I was like, wow, because my husband and I had been thinking of this for a very long time,” says Shawna, explaining how she and Kevin would go to coffee shops in Revel-stoke, Salmon Arm and Kelowna.
“We just really felt it was something that was needed here, be-cause why are people travelling out of our community to get it? And there’s sort of a group of us that love this whole concept of a community meeting place where you can get some good coffee and a little treat… and that was sort of how it evolved.”
Coffee is number-one at the Round-About. Shawna says that, after some enjoy-able research, they set-tled on Nelson’s Oso Negro micro-roaster to provide the espresso – developed specially for the RoundAbout, a me-dium roast from Revel-stoke’s Stoke Roasted Coffee Co., and a bold by the Shuswap Coffee Co.
Food is also avail-able – a small assort-
ment of baked goods along with a breakfast wrap in the morning and soup in the eve-ning. Shawna explains the menu is kept delib-erately small to keep costs down. But she says what they do pro-vide, they make from scratch, using only the highest-quality ingre-dients.
“That’s the only thing that’s going to differentiate us. It’s not a SnowCap or a GFS
truck rolling up with pre-made goods,” says Shawna. “It’s some-thing truly believe in and we’re trying to evolve it more. We’re trying to use as many local products as we can.”
The building the RoundAbout is in was completely renovated, Shawna explained, to provide a coffee house environment that is comfortable, while be-ing true to the house’s heritage as well as the town.
“The house is a 1937 house, and actu-ally, Brian Anderson is a partner in Bayview Homes,” says Shawna. “So they did a beautiful renovation. It took a lot longer than expected because they are busy as well… but yeah, it’s gorgeous, and we’ve had a lot of comments on it.”
The RoundAbout is open seven days a week, 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Satur-day, and 6:30 to 4 p.m. on Sundays.
RoundAbout fills need for coffee houseContinued from page 6
Fine brew: Nicole Kremer and Shawna Koll prepare a latté at the RoundAbout Coffee House. Photo by Lachlan Labere
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Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue crews based in Sicamous will be coming alongside local boaters offering a free safety check under a new program supported by Trans-port Canada.
“We’re doing something new this boating season,” says Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) president Jim Lee. “While we’ve always promoted boating safety with shore-based programs, this year our search and rescue crews will offer safety checks for pleasure craft that are away from the dock and out on the water.
“Our search and rescue crews on Shuswap and Mara will have even more opportunity to connect with the boating pub-lic, help boaters ensure they have all the safety gear they need and promote what we call search and rescue prevention.”
The Vessel Safety Survey Program is strictly voluntary and will be provided as a courtesy to boaters who request it. Crews will approach vessels and offer to check items such as personal flotation devices, signalling devices, fire
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RCM-SAR crews are search-and-rescue specialists and do not provide enforcement.
The RCM-SAR 2013 Vessel Safety Survey program will receive $150,000 through Transport Canada’s Boating Safe-ty Contribution Program, which promotes safe boating prac-tices by pleasure craft operators and aims to reduce deaths and injuries from boating accidents. There were more than 560 boating-related deaths in British Columbia between 1991 and 2008. During the past year, RCM-SAR crews were called out on more than 690 missions to assist people on the water in British Columbia. In 2012 on the Shuswap there were 44 calls alone and so far in 2013 we have had 19 incidents including one death.
“This will be a great way for us to make contact with boaters on the water and help them make sure their vessels are safe,” said Station 106 RCM-SAR station leader Rob Sutherland. “The waters in our area can be dangerous, and these safety surveys will reduce the likelihood of people needing us to rescue them. It also allows us to spend more time on the water in addition to our regular training. The more we are out there, the quicker we can respond in an emergency.”
Malakwa is two steps closer to a per-manent community centre.
Columbia Shuswap Regional District direc-tors supported recom-mendations to move forward with the pro-cess of acquiring the Malakwa School facil-ity and develop a draft Community Property Acquisition Policy.
Area E Rural Si-camous director Rhona Martin says a report prepared by Suda Man-agement was well-done and well-received.
“Dave Morris (of Suda) presented the report and thinks it’s a worthwhile project,” said Martin Friday. “Part of that was put-ting forward a sug-gested policy because we don’t have a policy for taking over other people’s agencies.”
Following closure of the school by School District #83 in 2010, the Malakwa Commu-nity Centre Association leased the building us-ing $150,000 from the electoral area’s Eco-nomic Opportunity Fund as seed money – money that has been used up.
The facility current-ly houses the Malakwa Learning Academy, Eagle Valley Commu-nity Resource Centre,
post office, school, pottery classes and they just started having drop-in floor hockey for the kids about six weeks ago, says Mar-tin.
A number of poten-tial community uses and opportunities were expressed at a meeting with current users of the building:
• Expanded student base – currently limited by transportation
• Okanagan Com-munity College – need for community learn-ing programs
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• Transportation – link with school bus-ing.
Feedback Suda ac-quired from the school district officials indi-cated an appreciation of the facility’s value to the community and the potential for a long-term lease arrange-ment, although they would rather sell the property.
Martin says the next step will be to take the matter to Area E resi-dents in a referendum to be held at the end of September.
“We will be going to the public to ask them if they would be will-ing fund the centre,” she says. “We’ll have to make sure we have accurate information to go out to the public first.”
Community centre closer to reality for MalakwaBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News
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Columbia ShuswapRegional District
The Columbia Shuswap Regional District is inviting quotes for the repair and construction of three (3) Lake Access Parks in the Swansea Point area of Mara Lake, in Electoral Area ‘E’.
Sealed quotes clearly marked “Quote – Swansea Point Lake Access Parks – Repair and Upgrade” will be accepted until 11 AM local time on Thursday, August 15, 2013 at the office of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, 781 Marine Park Drive NE, P.O. Box 978, Salmon Arm, BC, V1E 4P1.A detailed description of the Services required can be found in the Quote documents. There will be a mandatory on-site meeting held on Thursday August 8, 2013 at 9 AM, starting at Cambridge Road.Quote documents and further information are available online at the Columbia Shuswap Regional District website at www.csrd.bc.ca on the BC Bid website at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca, Civic Info website at www.civicinfo.bc.ca and at the office of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District at the above address during regular office hours.The Columbia Shuswap Regional District reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Quotes and to waive any informality in the Quotes received, in each case without giving any notice. The Columbia Shuswap Regional District reserves the right to accept the Quote which it deems most advantageous.Faxed submissions will not be accepted.The lowest or any Quote not necessarily accepted.
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A12 www.eaglevalleynews.com Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Eagle Valley News
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