Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, January 01, 2015

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Two die in head on crash south of town

Doves still increasingThe CP Holiday Train rolled into Ashcroft earlier this month, much to the delight of young and old. The Ashcroft and Area Food Bank was able to raise 405 lbs of food and $382 in local cash donations and $5,500 from CP Rail. Top: E. Fry manager Yoriko Susanj accepts the donation from CP Rail, below

Jim Cuddy from Blue Rodeo entertains.

A father and son were killed in a firey crash on Hwy 1 near the entrance to Ashcroft Ranch after their pickup collided head on with a trans-port truck hauling food. Both vehicles burst into flames, but the truck driver was able to free him-self. Attempts by passers by to free the two oc-cupants of the pickup truck were unsuccessful.

On Dec. 23 at approximately 5:30 pm, Ash-croft RCMP, Central Interior Traffic Servi-ces Ashcroft, B.C. Ambulance and Ashcroft Fire Department attended to the report of a two vehicle head on collision just south of Ashcroft.

According to RCMP, the northbound pickup truck with two occupants collided with a south-bound tractor trailer unit with one occupant in the southbound lane of the highway. Both vehi-cles were engulfed in flames. The driver of the transport truck was taken to hospital in Kam-loops with non life threatening injuries.

Central Interior Traffic Services Ashcroft continues to investigate this collision and are as-sisting the B.C. Coroners Service with the iden-tification and next of kin notification of the de-ceased. It is unknown at this time why the pick-up truck crossed into the path of the commercial vehicle. A witness prior to the collision ob-served the pickup truck having difficulty stay-ing within the northbound lane.

Roads were bare and dry at the time of the collision.

The RCMP wish to remind motorists that traffic volumes are increasing with holiday trav-elers and road conditions can change in an in-stant. Please slow down, drive to the conditions of the road, don’t drink and drive and stay off of your cell phone if you are driving.

If you’re wondering when those pesky Eur-asian Collard Doves are going to disappear, the answer is “not very soon.” In fact, their numbers are still increasing, according to the results of the Christmas Bird Count held on Dec. 23.

Bald Eagle numbers were up, and Canada Goose numbers were way up thanks to sever-al huge flocks flying overhead that day. Over 800 Bohemian waxwings were counted by the eight volunteers, who spent the day driving and walking around the area, counting everything on wings.

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Jan. 4: The Ashcroft Secondary School senior girls’ basketball team will be holding a bottle drive on. If you would like to drop off any bottles, call Priscilla at 250-457-7696.

Jan. 6: UCW meets in Church Hall; 2:00pm (401 Bancroft Street, Ashcroft). All United Church ladies are welcome. Planning for 2015 - Friendship Tea, World Day of Prayer, Bean Supper, etc. Come and be a part of these events and enjoy our fellowship.

Jan. 12: Cache Creek Council meeting, 7 pm in the Village Of� ce.

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A Toketic Road adventure

by Esther Darlington MacDonaldIf you have ever glanced across the

Thompson River as you are driving north of Spences Bridge, you will see what looks like a narrow road running along the benches, and through the can-yons. Not a road for contemplation, to be sure. The eyes through that circuit-ous passage above the Thompson River must fasten on the highway.

The Toketic Road across the Thompson is on Indian land. The land of the Nlaka’pamux people of the Thompson River corridor. Years ago, it serviced the native people liv-ing on the benches, high above the riv-er. Most, if not all, the original homes of the families are gone. But I can re-call a time when some of them stood in pristine isolation against the backdrop of a mountain, apparently nameless. A mountain as ageless as time itself, its surface sheered off during the Ice Age. Left to the evolution of nature.

Anyone who has ever traversed the Toketic Road will vouch for its perilous descent and ascent along those alluv-ial fans sparsely covered with juniper and pine eroded by the weather. In the book, Early Indian Village Church-

es, by John Veillette and Gary White, published by the University of Brit-ish Columbia in 1977, they describe the Toketic Road, thus: “Only the poor, narrow, winding road from Spences Bridge and the equally poor and longer road from Ashcroft, make Pokhaist ac-cessible by automobile.”

The object of the authors was to photograph and study a tiny wood-en church at the base of a monumen-tal rock slide. The Anglican church of St. Aiden lies at the bottom of the slide in what the authors describe as “splen-did isolation”. Truer words were never spoken. But for the few who have done so, if permission was granted, the ad-venture of travelling the Toketic Road is one that will never be forgotten.

St. Aiden’s has become a landmark for travellers on the highway across the Thompson River. The church sits in-tact, just high enough above the river to make it safe from the periodic flood-ing that occurs. But the wonder of it be-ing there at all, with the massive slide of rock and gavel immediately behind it, seems a kind of miracle. The wood-en structure seems as frail as any wind blown, weathered relic from another age. Yet it still stands, and the basic structure must have been soundly built in the 1880’s by the devout residents of those lonely benches.

I’ve been told that farm wagons pulled by horses, travelled the Toketic to attend St. Aidens church whenever an Anglican priest visited. The area is broad, and the churches that sprinkle the river corridors of the Thompson and Nicola Rivers are few and far be-tween. Then, and as now, the church-es all along the Canyon are visited by a priest or vicar.

The book describes St. Aiden’s church, thusly: “Everything about the church is plain, except for the hint of the Gothic style of the windows,” and the “shallow pointed arch above the four paneled door.” The authors were allowed to enter the church, but the description is all too brief. The walls are”sheathed in unstained tongue and groove cedar.”

From across the Thompson Riv-

er, I painted plein air, St. Aiden’s in its “splendid isolation”. The painting was exhibited in Merritt and purchased by a resident there. I have since seen photo-graphs and perhaps a painting of this landmark done by others, attracted not only by the tiny church against the mountain, but the scope and strength of the total setting.

In Spences Bridge itself, the church of St. Michaels and All Angels sits on bench of the Thompson River. Unlike St Aiden’s, this church is accessible by highway and road. But the survival of St. Michael’s and All Angels is another miracle, when, in 1905, every house in the native village was destroyed by a monumental landslide. The log houses were simply swept away into a corner against the embankment.

An account of the slide reads: “So complete was the destruction that not two boards, nor two logs held togeth-er with the one exception of the roof of the church, which carried far from its original site, surmounted the debris and wreckage” (Inland Sentinel, 15 August, 1905).

A new village and a new church began almost immediately after the landslide. The exterior of St. Michaels and All Angels has shakes covering the original cove siding. The church tow-er roof is octagonal, which is somewhat unique, and is mounted on a square tower in what the authors describe as “an extremely original manner”. There are two windows on each side of the building. The completion of the church’s erection took place in 1906.

The Toketic Road was, for many years, the only means of transport for those living on benches above the Thompson between Ashcroft and Spen-ces Bridge. We could, therefore, call it a historic road. Trips into Spences Bridge to shop at the general store were made by horse and wagon. It must have been a grand sight to see such wagons filled with family members on those occa-sions, as well as those when worship, funeral and other services were held at St. Aidens.

It might be difficult to imagine those times before motor vehicles tra-

versed our highways, and even our by-ways, like the Toketic Road. Despite what seems a perilous journey, people made the jour-ney weekly or month-ly, the horses stolidly plowing up and des-cending into the can-yons, slowly, with horse bells perhaps, ringing as they went.

But history is full of anomalies, and, re-calling the words of Father Tierney, an Anglican priest of an-other St. Micheals and All Angels, in Winni-peg’s Fort Rouge dis-trict, “The strength of man is not known.”

The old Anglican Church of St. Aiden on the Toketic Road near Spences Bridge.

Photo: Andrew Joseph Sutherland, 2012

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Teddy bears make the season brighter

Local lawyer gets Q.C. appointment

Providing a Christmas feastThe Ashcroft & District Lions gave a large financial donation to the Community Resources Society for this year’s Christmas Hampers, which were distributed before Christmas. L-R: Lions Ernie Kristoff, Nick Lebedoff, and Moe Girard, CRS members Shirley Dobson, Esther Lang, Vivian Edwards and CRS president Jerry Fiddick and Lion Bob Williams.

Ashcroft Liquor Store staff Patty Newman and Michelle Beckett were delivering teddy bears before Christmas. Above: nurses Jacquie McMahon and Leanne Davies get first snuggle with the Share-A-Bear bears. Below: BC Ambulance Unit Chief Blake Kendon and paramedic Doreen Maday were very happy to accept their bears.

Raymond Derrick Phillips is one of four lo-cal lawyers who have been appointed the honor-ary title of Queen’s Counsel, Attorney Gener-al and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton an-nounced on Dec. 22.

Phillips is duty counsel with the First Na-tions court in Kamloops, and travels to Pember-ton Valley, Nicola Valley and in between to pro-vide legal services and assistance.

He is a member of the Nlaka’pamux Nation and the Lytton Indian Band. He was the found-ing board member for Nzen’man Child and Family Development Centre. He also lectures as a guest for Thompson Rivers University, fund-raises and champions local activities and caus-es, and is a dedicated volunteer and coach for local youth basketball. Among the appointees are lawyers who have prosecuted high-profile criminal cases as well as family, civil and com-mercial law cases.

Also appointed were David Michael Rush from Kelowna, a founding partner of Rush Ihas Hardwick LLP and recognized as one of the top civil litigators in the interior of B.C; Dennis Katsumi Hori, a partner with Fulton and Com-pany LLP, where he practices civil litigation; and Mary Elizabeth MacGregor, who has been practicing law in the Kamloops area for over 40 years.

The Q.C. designation is an honour conferred annually on members of the legal profession to recognize exceptional merit and contribution.

The successful candidates have been mem-bers of the B.C. bar for at least five years. A call for Q.C. nominations from the public was made in August. The appointments were made by cabinet through order-in-council.

BC Liquor Stores’ 25th annual Share A Bear campaign provided dozens of children in the lo-cal area with a furry hug over the holidays as staff as the Ashcroft Liquor Store once again provided bears to the nurses at the Emergency Room station of the Ashcoft hospital and to the ambulance attendants, who will give them out as needed.

The bears are available through any BC Li-quor Store for purchase. Its ‘twin’ teddy bear is then donated to a local community charity. Each year, BC Liquor Store employees select char-ities in their communities that help families in need – from children’s charities to shelters and hospitals – and deliver donated Share-a-Bears over the holidays.

This year’s Share-a-Bears are plush white-and-black teddy bears dressed in bright red, puffy vests featuring a sparkling snowflake on the lapel.

Last year, BC Liquor Stores customers pur-chased more than 24,000 Share-a-Bears, and more than 575,000 bears have been donated to charities helping children and families in need since 1989.

“The annual Share-a-Bear campaign is near and dear to the hearts of our customers and staff,” said Liquor Distribution Branch general manager and CEO R. Blain Lawson. “The holi-days are a time for us to show others less for-tunate that we care – so I encourage shoppers to make a difference and buy a ‘Share-a-Bear’.”


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TWO DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS and not a snowflake to be found around Ashcroft and Cache Creek

Take the time to complain to your politiciansHere it is the beginning of win-

ter and I find myself stewing over noxious invasive plants, poor quality road marker paint and bio solids be-ing spread on fields in the Big Bar Area.

Let’s start with the invasive plants. Every load of sand that Inter-ior Roads spreads on the highway comes from a MOTI (Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure) pit. If there are weeds or invasive plants in those pits that have gone to seed (extremely likely) then those seeds are included in the sand that makes our roads safer to drive on each winter. The seeds end up on the roadsides, germinate and there we have more weeds each year.

Instead of trying to treat the weeds on the roadsides every year with varied success, why aren’t we treating the weeds in the Ministry’s pits? I encourage you to request that answer from your MOTI Minis-ter Todd Stone, Kamloops - South Thompson Constituency Office, 446 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2A7, or email:Todd.Stone.MLA@

leg.bc.ca . You could also try the Minister of Environment, the Hon-ourable Mary Polak, PO Box 9047 Stn Prov Govt, Victoria BC V8W

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Next, I’m sure that we’ve all noticed that the

marker paint on our roads is inad-equate in both the reflective quality and longevity.

When MOTI Minister Todd Stone was asked why on earth we are using a product that is not only inferior but is endangering the lives of the travelling public, he passed the responsibility of the choice of road marker paint to the Feder-al Ministry of the Environment. So please, write or email MP Cathy Mc-Leod and let her know that you are not satisfied with guessing where the centerline or edge of the road might be when travelling on rainy nights in unfamiliar areas. Write to MP Cathy McLeod, Room 406 Justice Building House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A6 or email [email protected] .

On to Bio Solids being spread

on fields in the Big Bar area, I have brought the subject to the attention of TNRD Environmental Services staff and the TNRD board of direc-tors will be presented with a dele-gation to explain the process at our next workshop. There is great dis-satisfaction coming from a group in the Nicola area as well, so I look for-ward to a very interesting workshop.

All is not gloom and doom though: it is the season for celebra-tion and sharing and soon it will be the season of diet and exercise! I wish you all success in all your en-deavours.

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Doing something new is just a fact of life when you’re young because everything is new.

The sum of everything new is experi-ence. We gain experience as we go along and try new things. We can try it again after that, but it isn’t “new” anymore.

Remember the thrill of riding a bike for the first time? Travelling to another prov-ince? Starting a new grade in school?

Sadly, some of us get into a rut at some point once we leave school and start work-ing for a living. Those thrilling new experi-ences are fewer and farther between.

When was the last time you tried some-thing new? The older you get, the more “in-convenient” it becomes to stretch that brain or that imagination or that hamstring and try something new. Why? Because we don’t have to. Because we know everything and do everything that we want to do.

I must get bored easily, because I can’t stand the thought of it. It may take some planning, and it may happen only every other year, but this old dog still has a new trick or two left.

Years ago I decided that I wanted to learn how to quilt before I turned 50. So I did, with the help of the ladies in the lo-cal quilters guild and the assistance of You-Tube. After that, I found a like-minded fellow musician and dusted off the recorder that I hadn’t played for 30-some years.

Now I’m wondering what new thing I might try in 2015. I’m pretty sure I’m past sky-diving. Falling from great heights have never appealed to me. I’ve often want-ed to visit the Yukon, but that’s not the sort of lasting experience I’m looking for these days.

I’m more in the market for increasing my skills so that I can make a difference for myself and perhaps my community.

Experience changes the things that mean the most to us, and the New Year is a good time to look back and take stock. Decide how we want to proceed and what we need to do it.

This world keeps changing and you either change with it, or you get left behind.

So, what changes are you going to wel-come in 2015?

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Pre-New Year’s Family fun..Movie Night with Frozen & Zumba!

Come and have fun with on Tues-day, Dec. 30 from 6pm with Zum-ba with Krystal Kettle and then enjoy the movie Frozen at The Cache Creek Community Hall. Admission is free. Concession by PAC.

Celebrate the end of 2014.This is a family event and you are welcome to wear your pjs and bring your favorite stuffie!

The movie Frozen will be given away at the end of the night.

Spences Bridge New Years Dance

Ring the New Year in style! SBCC is again hosting a party with fantastic dance music, fabulous snacks all night, party hats and noise mak-ers (and bubbly) at Midnight, door priz-es. Tickets on sale at The Packing House, The Inn, the Spences Bridge Post Office, Ashcroft Bakery and

Ashcroft UniTea! For more info call the Packing House at (250) 458-2256.

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Sounds like fun! Call (250) 453-2230 for more info.

Ashcroft Legion New Years Dance

The Ashcroft Legion offers

a New Year’s Celebration starting off with a Potluck Supper (call ahead for a list of items needed) at 6:30pm fol-lowed by live music from 7 pm until 2 am. Music by ‘Sleepless Nights’. For more info or pick up your advanced tickets, call (250) 453-2423. Get ‘em quick as this night usually sells out!

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Oasis Pub in Cache Creek Cele-brates 2015 with a Live DJ and prizes. Starts at 8pm. For more info call (250) 457-6232.

The Best of the Christmas SeasonThe Sage Sound Singers Choir drew about 250 people to their annual Christmas concert on Dec. 20 in Cache Creek. Above, L-R: Faline Franes, the Choir’s musical director Michelle Reid, Sharon Ambler and Theresa Takacs perform Mary Sat A-Rockin. Top Left: Desert Bells Handbell Choir member Ray Shindell reads out the dedication of Bell A6 to Anne Bonter and the Second Time Around Society for all of their help. Bottom Left: Barbara Roden did an awesome job of emcee-ing the concert.

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Deck the HallsIt was looking a lot like Christmas on Dec. 14 when the Cache Creek Garden Club sponsored a workshop on making Christmas table centrepieces at the Cache Creek School. The class was taught by Carmen Ranta and several masterpieces were created. L-R: Marcie and Amy Down, Carmen Ranta, Janet Appleby, Sandra Mueller and Karen Harris.

Christmas spiritTracey Brown and Santa spread the Christmas Cheer during the Holiday Train’s stop in Ashcroft.

Non-residents favoured in new hunting regulations

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to protest regulations giving guide-outfitters and their out-of-province clients a larger share of big-game permits, the provincial government argues that the shift is being exag-gerated.

The latest increase in the share of guide permits to hunt moose, grizzly bear and other restricted animals in limited-entry hunting areas of B.C. totals 618 “hunting opportunities” across the province per year, says a statement from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. Based on the success rate of hunts for different species, “this mod-el represents a transfer of approxi-mately 186 animals from residents to guides.”

The B.C. Wildlife Federation’s estimate that the wild game allo-cation policy could result in 5,000

fewer hunting permits for resident hunters under limited entry hunt-ing rules is “not accurate,” the min-istry says.

Forests Minister Steve Thom-son said in an interview he made the decision on the latest allocation after a long consultation where the BCWF and the Guide Outfitters Association of B.C. couldn’t agree. The decision was to provide cer-tainty for guide businesses, but also took away guides’ rights to pool regional game allotments and hunt in vacant guiding territories.

“There are arguments over the number, depending on which base you use, and I expect those argu-ments will continue,” Thomson said. “At the end of the day we all want the same thing, which is healthy wildlife populations.”

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B.C. hunters are concerned that the share reserved for guide-outfitters is now higher than anywhere else in North Amer-ica. Under the latest policy, that share is 20 per cent for elk, 20 or 25 per cent for moose depending on the re-stricted region, 35 per cent for mountain goat, and 40 per cent for grizzly bears.

Open season areas for moose and other animals remain in the southern Interior and northeast, where any-one can buy a license and tag to hunt. Abun-dant species such as mule deer, white-tail deer and black bear have no hunting quotas in any part of B.C.

Zeman said for prized species such as Roosevelt elk on Van-couver Island, win-ning a resident tag in the lottery is rare enough to be a once-in-a-lifetime oppor-tunity. As hunter num-bers rebound, they in-creasingly face the choice to aim for an-other species, drive long distances to an unrestricted region, or hire a guide.

The latest changes include returning Koo-tenay bighorn sheep to a general open season for guided hunting. The restriction that only full-curl rams can be hunted remains in place.

Thomson said the population will be closely watched, and harvest limits returned if necessary. Zeman said the BCWF is con-cerned that this iconic Rocky Mountain tro-phy could once again be over-hunted.

The popularity of hunting in B.C. con-tinues to increase, from about 81,000 li-cences issued in 2003 to more than 100,000 last year, which means

more resident hunters are losers in regional hunting lotteries.

BCWF compiled statistics

for moose, the most popular big-game target. Moose populations have declined in some areas

while both applications from resident hunters and the share reserved for guides has risen.

In 2005 there were 56,000 applications for moose, with only one out of five success-

ful. By 2013, there were nearly 67,000 would-be resident moose hunters, 54,000 of whom were refused a moose tag.

Hunting from p. 6

It’s that time of year again when I start talk-ing about making a list of New Year’s resolu-tions and my husband starts declaring his dis-dain for them. “The majority of

people making them fail,” he’ll say. “So why bother?”I did some internet

research and study af-ter study con� rmed he was right. That still didn’t dampen my enthusiasm for them though.As far as I can tell,

one of the biggest rea-sons most of us don’t succeed with our reso-lutions is because we have an all-or-nothing mentality, and we tend

to view our � rst set-back as absolute fail-ure, rather than a mere obstacle to overcome. For example, if one

of my goals is to get in better physical shape, I can’t give up just because I consumed an entire box of Oreo cookies in one sitting. I have to acknowledge I didn’t make the wis-est decision in getting closer to reaching that particular goal, and prepare to make better choices going forward. A well-developed

plan that allows for

these occasional mis-steps can make the dif-ference. We shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves by expecting to be per-fect. Instead we should aim to be persistent. I’ve looked at some

of my lists from years past and I can see that the more thought I put into each goal, the better my results have been.From experience I

now know that “write a book” is too broad and vague as is - it needs a detailed strat-egy. To accomplish this objective I must tackle it in more manageable bite-sized chunks. Author E.L. Docto-

row once said: “Writ-ing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” This analogy doesn’t just apply to best sell-

ing historical novels, but to any lofty goal. Breaking down our

big ambitions into smaller, more achiev-able tasks can keep us from getting over-whelmed and feeling stuck. Another important

element to realizing our dreams is our will-ingness to seriously fo-cus on them – not just when we create our lists, but when our mo-tivation dwindles and we lose our way. That’s when we need to take some time to re-focus and re-commit. In the past year, I

found myself needing to do that often. Life

can get messy and be-coming distracted can easily blur our vision and take our eyes off the prize. For that reason I’m a

sucker for fresh starts. The � rst of a new

year is my favourite, but a new month, new week or even a new day is also a great op-portunity to re-ener-gize. And just think-ing about what I want to accomplish is never enough. I need to per-sonally document my intentions to solidify and prioritize their lev-el of importance.New Year’s resolu-

tions, to me, are sim-ply a written list of

attainable goals that I plan on achieving in the following year. Im-perfection will inevita-bly play a part, as will persistence and a con-stant re-focusing as I go along.But to avoid working

for the future rather than living in the pres-ent – a mistake I’ve made before – I will be sure to include the following as one of the most important goals on my list: “Enjoy the process.”Life is too short to do

it any other way.Lori Welbourne is a

syndicated columnist. She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com

January • Week 1ARIES - Don’t be afraid to embrace your lighthearted side this week, Aries. Laughter is the best medicine, and those around you will enjoy your sense of humor.TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, embrace your desire to be close to friends this week. Spend as much time as you can with your friends, especially those you have not seen in awhileGEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 A great week with regard to matters of the heart is on the horizon, Gemini. If you have been in a relationship for some time, now is a great time to talk about the future of that relationship.CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 You harbor desire to spend some time alone this week, Cancer. You are a social person, but even you need some moments to retreat into your own mind for a while.LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 You may be noticing all of the good vibes surrounding you this week, Leo. Expect some positive changes in the days ahead. It may just be a new romantic relationship or friendship.VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, a work opportunity could spring up this week if you are willing to expand your horizons. It may be a bit outside of your comfort zone, but you can handle it.LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you are in a relatively optimistic frame of mind this week as you try to see the bright side of things. You may � nd that many new opportunities are headed your way.SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Don’t spend too much time lost in your own fantasies, Scorpio. You need to maintain your focus on the tasks at hand, both at home and at work.SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, resist the urge to take yourself too seriously. Instead, lighten up and embrace the “class clown” role for a little while. This departure from the norm is a breath of fresh air.CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, your mind is running a mile a minute this week, but do your best to maintain your focus. This breakneck pace will only last for a little while.AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Jump into a situation without restraint, Aquarius. You may � nd it’s refreshing to let go for a change and not worry about the potential outcomes.PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 You may receive happy news relating to your partner’s � nances this week, Pisces. It could be a salary increase or a good bonus. It’s time to celebrate.

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Ashcroft and District Fall FairContact Person: Janna 250-457-6614Contact Person: Jessica 250-457-7128

Second Time Around201 Railway Ave., Ashcroft BC Anne Bonter 250-457-9781

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Having a Merry ChristmasSome of the guests at MLA Jackie Tegart’s Christmas Open House at her Ashcroft office: Andy Anderson, Ashcroft Mayor Jack Jeyes, Nicole Tattum, Dale Johnson, MLA Tegart and Ashcroft Coun. Al Mertens.

Have you ever had one of those nights when you wake up in the wee sma hours and your brain will NOT go back to sleep?

Recently I did, and my mind went round and round about things we do at the year’s end and begin-ning and why. These celebrations are as old as time itself. Back in prehistoric times, bonfires were lit and rites of worship were per-formed at the winter solstice.

Our month of January is sup-posedly named for the Roman god Janus whose two faces looked backwards and forwards at the same time - you’ve heard someone call someone else two faced, and it wasn’t a compliment, but Janus was all seeing, both past and fu-ture.

In rural areas, farm workers often ended their term of service at the end of December, and used the slow time to move to another job, and/or to get married!

In the Shetland a more recent invention is the ceremony of Up Helly Aa, probably based on folk tales from long ago. A wooden ship is set alight and sent sailing away to the afterlife with the souls of heroes and warriors.

I remember the Oddfellows Pa-rade through our village, led by the youngest, that is the newest, mem-ber, sitting backwards on a horse

which was led by his friends all dressed up and disguised, and carrying flaming torches! Even now it is an exciting event, and the buses are stopped

at both ends of the village to let the parade run its course.

It has even been suggested that the date of Christ’s birthday was made to coincide with the more ancient and pre-existing rites, like many other dates as civilizations change and swallow up their pre-decessors. You can access infor-mation about Oddfellows and Up Helly Aa and other similar topics on the internet, and it is very inter-esting to read the information they give.

Today, Jan. 1 is seen as a good time for new beginnings and for making resolutions to help us im-prove in one way or another by starting off the New Year with a clean slate. Whatever has gone wrong before is to be forgiven and forgotten, and a new beginning is established. Now is a good time to start afresh in whatever area you want to be better in, in the coming year.

Our group starts up again on Jan. 5 with Bridge and follows the regular program of events from there, so that will be a good chance to start afresh and join in our fun!

I wish everyone success in whatever realm they seek success in 2015. May you all find health, happiness and friendship in 2015!

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Get ready for a new yearJanuary dreams its

heart in snow,twirling, swirling,

off the flakes go,powdering the

earth in whiteon this sparkling

winter’s night. - Emma Payne Didn’t we see a dump of snow

in December? That’s the heav-iest snowfall we’ve seen at one time since we moved here nearly 12 years ago. Blue sky, bright sun, sparkly snow – Christmas card per-fect. Wonder how the rest of the winter will be?

The Foot Care Clinic will be in Clinton, Friday, Jan. 16 at the Clin-ton Seniors Centre 217 Smith Ave. Colleen Thom, RN, CAFCN will be happy to assist you. To discuss your foot health or to book an ap-pointment call 250-374-1735. A treatment will be adapted to suit your individual needs and con-cerns.

The next regular meeting of the Clinton Seniors Association is Thursday, Jan. 15 following a noon lunch. Come and join us!

“Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst...Hark, it’s midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!” from Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On. It’s that time again. New year’s resolutions are upon us. A New Year resolution is a com-mitment that an individual makes to one or more lasting personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit. This lifestyle change is generally interpreted as advanta-geous and what sets it apart from other resolutions is that it is made in anticipation of the New Year and new beginnings.

A new approach for you may be considering 12 months of well-ness starting with nutrition in Janu-ary; a resolve to eat healthy af-ter the indulgence of the holidays. The Canadian Cancer Society ad-vocates healthy eating as one of the top ways to prevent cancer. They recommend limiting the num-ber of fast foods, salty foods, red meats and processed meats, avoid-ing sugary drinks and eating plenty of non starchy fruits, veggies, and legumes. Similar recommenda-tions are made by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Can-adian Diabetic Association, mak-ing it clear that a healthy diet is key for prevention of chronic diseases.

A few simple meal planning and preparation tips will help you prepare healthy, delicious food that you and your family will love. Take a few minutes each week to plan your menus. To keep control of your meal portions, think of the “space on your plate.” A well-bal-anced plate will consist of one-quarter protein (chicken, fish), one-quarter starch (rice/pasta). and one-half vegetables. Add milk to drink and fresh fruit for dessert and you will be well nourished at a moderate calorie expense.

I resolve to remember to make resolution suggestions for each month of the year!

Happy Birthday to Zee Cheva-lier Jan. 29.

The trick is to grow up without getting old. - Frank Lloyd Wright

ROCKIN’ & TALKIN’Clinton Seniors Association

Zee Chevalier

In early 2014 several of our Pioneers gath-ered together to share their memories. A New Horizons grant for Seniors enabled these stories to be captured on film. The Village of Ashcroft invites you to view the “Memories Project”.

We hope you will join us Sunday after-noons at the Ashcroft Community Hall, locat-ed at 409 Brink St. Show time is 1:30 and our feature films include: Jan. 11: “The Cannery” and Trucking; Jan. 25: “Sports” “Business” and “Railway”; Feb. 8: “First Nations” and “Ranch-ing/Rodeos” and Feb. 22: “Mining” Sawmill/Logging” Community Events” and “The Hos-pital”.

Please RSVP to Kristine at the Village Of-fice, at 250-453-9161 or [email protected] Refreshments will be served at intermission, admission is free!

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L-R: Phyllis Gray, Gina Stewart and Donna Walch share stories of May Queens, picnics and dances with Memory Project coordinator Kathy Paulos (2nd from left).

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That was the Year That Was - Pt. 1

Brink St., Ashcroft, c. 1914 looks deceptively peaceful during daylight hours.

It’s time for the annual “year in review” col-umn, a chance to look back and see what was mak-ing news in Ashcroft and area. My memory not be-ing what it was, I took a look back through the pages of The Journal, and found a number of stories that stood out. The weath-er was, as always, a sub-ject dear to the hearts of locals, as was the state of the roads. Their poor con-dition did not, however, deter some drivers from going faster than the law allowed, prompting pieces in the paper about police cracking down on speed-ers and the annoyance of joyriding on village streets.

There were fears for the future of the curling club and annoyance about an out-of-hand Halloween prank, while burning within village limits came up once more, and a historic property went up in � ames. Steps were taken to be more inclusive of immigrants and make them feel at home in their new country, and the future of the Ashcroft library was discussed. There was dissatisfaction with the government in Ot-tawa over the slow pace of a federally funded build-ing project, and with the provincial government for skirting around, rather than addressing, a matter vital to the hearts of many in the province. Near the end of the year there was consternation when Canada found itself embroiled in a war thousands of miles away.

If any or all of these events seem familiar, but you can’t quite place when you read about them in The Journal, don’t worry. Everything listed above did happen; but the year in question was 1914, not 2014. As Sherlock Holmes noted in The Valley of Fear (published in 1914), “The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It has all been done be-fore, and will be again.”

Take the weather. American writer Charles Dud-ley Warner famously wrote “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” and quite a few curlers, during the winter of 1913–1914, doubtless wished they could do something about the unseasonably mild weather that rendered the newly-

built Ashcroft curling rink almost useless until Feb-ruary 1914, when temperatures � nally dipped below

freezing. Dissatisfaction with the temperature continued in the summer; a long hot spell (“one of the real old time summers - hot and dry”) was � nally broken for a short time in August, but not before it had wreaked havoc on the Cariboo Wagon Road, which was de-scribed as being in a “deplorable condition. The surface seems to be entirely gouged out of it in some places, and the holes are � lled with dust.”

The state of the roads did not stop some people from enjoying the still fairly newfan-gled “automobiles” that were an increasing sight in the Interior. In May 1914 The Jour-nal reported that while an “auto” was very useful in its place, out of its place it was a nuisance: “And it is certainly out of place at one o’clock in the morning. The practice of

racing a snorting automobile down Brink St. and up Bancroft during the small hours of the night should be discontinued unless in cases of absolute neces-sity.” It wasn’t just Ashcroft that suffered; in August it was noted that “some automobiles have been speed-ing through Clinton considerably faster than the law allows.” The speed limit was 10 miles per hour, and a party of miners exceeding this limit through town were stopped at 59 Mile House and returned to Clin-ton, “where they were � ned $20 and allowed to pro-ceed on their way.” One wonders if Mr. W.S. Sloan was stopped for speeding at any time during his trip from Fort [now Prince] George to Ashcroft in May 1914; he completed the 453 km journey in a record time of only 19 hours, leaving Fort George at 5 am and arriving in Ashcroft at midnight the same day.

Fire was in the news in 1914, beginning in February, when Dr. George Sanson, Health Of� cer, asked Ashcroft residents to ensure a “thor-ough cleaning up of their premises”. He advocated “the burning and haul-ing away of all rubbish” in yards and lanes, and it seems clear that more than one Ashcroftonian decided that burning was the easiest option. This

prompted a letter in The Journal from a disgrun-tled resident, published under the headline “A Smoke Nuisance”: “I wonder if you would spare me a space in your valued paper to ask the readers, friends, and neighbours to take pity on those poor unfortunates who are trying to get what fresh air they can . . . have the refuse removed before burning, so that the smoke will not penetrate the houses, let alone the lungs of the public. Hoping that anybody who reads this will try to remember other springs which have been so disagreeable on account of the smoke.”

Later in 1914, a potentially dangerous Hallow-een prank involving � re drew the wrath of an editor-ial in The Journal, which reminded readers that Hal-loween pranks were supposed to be “harmless tricks on the unwary. The practice of stuf� ng a stove pipe with a piece of oiled sacking, and thereby endanger-ing property by exposing it to risk from � re, is not a Halloween trick, it is a crime . . . the boys in Ash-croft who resorted to this means of amusing them-selves should bear this in mind.” The origin of a Box-ing Day � re was a mystery, but the devastation it wrought was immense: H. Blair’s garage, along with two large trucks, a Cadillac passenger car, and a valu-able collection of tools, was burned to the ground. The � re threatened James Haddock’s nearby ware-house and other buildings, but “the tact and bravery displayed by our volunteer brigade saved a large por-tion of the town”, including Haddock’s premises.

To be continued

Documents

Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, January 01, 2015