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Derelict building given deadline

Board accepts school closure recommendations

See PLAZA on p. 3See SCHOOL on p. 3

The Oasis Plaza in Cache Creek will either be brought up to standards or action will be taken, Council decided at its Sept 23 meeting.

Council decided after reviewing a report from outgoing administrator Leslie Lloyd to issue the owner of the empty Oasis Plaza – the storefronts and apartments to the south of the Oasis Hotel – with an order to give the Village access to the building in order to carry out an in-spection.

The building’s owner, Joe Carhoun, will be sent a letter demanding entrance by Oct. 23 so that it may be inspected by the building inspect-or, the Cache Creek Fire Chief and the Public Works supervisor in order to determine the con-dition of the building and whether remedial ac-tion is needed. If consent is not given by that date, the Village will apply to the court for an entry warrant to conduct that assessment.

If the owner consents to fix any problems identified by the assessment, he will be given another deadline to complete the repairs.

Lloyd wrote in her report: “The building has been vacant for approximately three years and is a constant source of complaints from resi-dents and from neighbouring property owners with concerns related to the upkeep of the prop-erty and escalating deterioration of the building, as well as health and safety concerns and poten-tial fire hazard as a result of its current condition and abandoned nature.”

In March, Cache Creek residents com-plained of dead and dying pigeons that had been trapped in one of the storefronts.

Lloyd’s report included correspondence with Carhoun since November 2011, just af-ter she stated working for the Village. Most of it was trying to arrange access to the building for an inspection. The owner who lives in West Van-couver, had repeatedly failed to conduct neces-sary maintenance on the property and refused to let anyone in to inspect the premises.

“Staff is of the view,” she concluded in her report, “that the Oasis Plaza continues to remain a serious risk for health, safety and fire haz-ard. Staff has devoted a significant amount of time dealing with the property owner in an at-tempt to resolve this matter. Conducting a safe-ty and compliance inspection to properly assess the initiation of requirements for remedial ac-tion is recommended. Remedial action require-

School District 74 trustees have ac-cepted the recommendations by staff to close the elementary school build-ings in Ashcroft and Lytton and cre-ate a K-12 school in the existing high schools.

“We would like to see Ashcroft Ele-mentary stay open,” said Juanita Lit-tle, president of AES Parent Advisory Committee, addressing the trustees be-fore they discussed the recommenda-tions at their Sept. 17 open meeting. “If that isn’t possible, we are ready to move forward and look at the K-12 op-tion.”

The recommendations were con-tained in a report written after last year’s Community Conversations which Gold Trail conducted around the region.

Chief Financial Officer Lynda Min-nabarriet went through the 22 page re-port, The Future of Gold Trail Schools and Programs for the 45 or more mem-bers of the public who attended the meeting.

While Ashcroft Elementary’s en-rolment is projected to increase slight-ly next year, it needs $5.7 million in renovations to bring it to modern stan-dards. And while the high school’s en-rolment is projected to decrease again, it has sufficient space to accommodate all Ashcroft students as it is currently operating at less than 20 per cent cap-acity.

Schools in Cache Creek and Gold Bridge were left alone to allow com-munities to keep at least one school operating.

Minnabarriet noted that Cache Creek Elementary would also allow Ashcroft parents the option of sending their children to an elementary-only if they wished.

Motion – Ashcroft Secondary be renovated into a K-12 school. Carried unanimously.

“I would just like to say that no-body likes the prospect of closing schools,” said Ashcroft trustee Christo-pher Roden, “particularly when it is in

one’s own community. I think we have to realize with age and impending costs of improvements, we have to seriously look at this.”

Motion – Ashcroft Elementary be closed effective the transition of Ash-croft Secondary to a K-12 facility. Car-ried unanimously with the amendment that it be contingent on the previous motion.

“The community does want to see this done right,” said Roden – “ a top grade K-12. We would want to post-pone opening if it’s not ready.”

Motion – A new elementary school be requested for the community of Lil-looet as part of the five year capital plan. Carried unanimously.

Motion – George M. Murray and Cayoosh Elementary be closed upon the opening of the new school. Carried unanimously.

Motion – Kumsheen Secondary be renovated into a K-12 facility. Carried unanimously.

Trustees, staff and members of the public wait to find out whether school closure recommendations will be accepted.

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Ashcroft rcMP DetAchMent

POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber

Utility trailer stolenSept. 17 at 3 pm RCMP re-

ceived a report of the theft of a gray utility trailer parked behind the Dairy Queen in Cache Creek, some time between 9 pm the night before and 3 pm. The 2007 Sterling trailer had wood panels on it, and a BC plate UNJ 33S. The matter is still under in-vestigation.

Any bed will doSept. 18 at 3:30 pm RCMP attended

the hospital after a complaint of an in-toxicated man refusing to leave. The 53 year old Cache Creek man was not in need of medical attention – he just wanted a bed. A full mickey of whisky was seized from him and he was given a ride home.

Fire in the ditchSept. 19 at 10:30 am while on rou-

tine patrol along Hwy 1 east of Cache Creek, an RCMP officer noticed a car pulled off by the side of the road with two men standing near what appeared to be a fire. The officer pulled over and discovered that the Kamloops men had stopped when they observed a small fire in the ditch. The three of them man-aged to extinguish it. It was speculat-ed that it may have been started by a cigarette butt thrown from a passing vehicle.

Disturbing the familySept. 19 at 5 pm RCMP responded

to a disturbance at a residence on the

Ashcroft Reserve where the partner of an intoxicated 52 year old man didn’t want him in the house while he was in that state. The man agreed to stay with other family members until he was so-ber.

Burning rubberSept. 19 at 6 pm police received a

complaint about an erratic driver on Hill St. in Ashcroft by the elementary school. The complaint stated that the black Pontiac Sunfire was speeding and squealing its tires. The car was locat-ed on the Mesa Vista, parked at a resi-dence. The driver, a 21 year old Ash-croft man, told police that he missed a gear as he was driving the borrowed car and that’s why his tires squealed. He apologized for the disturbance.

Marijuana seizedSept. 21 at midnight a Traffic Servi-

ces officer stopped a vehicle on Hwy 97 north of Cache Creek near 3 Mile Lake. The officer detected an odour of ma-rijuana in the pickup truck and seized a container with 25 grams of mari-juana in it. The driver and passengers, all from the Lower Mainland, were al-lowed to continue on their way.

Long way home without a carSept. 22 at 6 pm a Traffic Services

officer stopped a vehicle on Hwy 1 at the bottom of Jackass Moun-tain for excessive speed. The 2003 Mazda Protege was travelling at 145 kph in the 90 kph zone. The 23 year old Edmonton man was issued a ticket for excessive speed and his

car was impounded for seven days.

Down but not outSept. 22 at 7:30 pm police were

asked to help locate an 18 year old Cache Creek man who was reported to be depressed and possibly suicidal. The man was located on Stage Rd. and al-though he said he was fine, he was ad-vised to seek a medical opinion the fol-lowing day. He was given a ride home.

Bear pavementSept. 22 at 9:15 pm police attended

a single vehicle accident on Hwy 99 just west of the Hwy 97 turnoff. The driver, a 75 year old Cache Creek man, said he swerved to avoid hitting a bear on the road. Instead, he lost control on the gravelled shoulder and flipped into the ditch. The man was not injured, but his 2009 Volkswagen Jetta had to be towed.

Gas and dashSept. 23 at 10 the OK Stop in Ash-

croft reported a gas and dash in the amount of $60. Police were told that the 27 year old Ashcroft man came into pay for his gas but didn’t have his wal-let with him. Payment has since been made.

by Jeff NagelBlack PressB.C. communities won’t push to

lower the default speed limit to 40 kilo-metres per hour on residential streets.

Victoria councillors argued that pedestrian safety is paramount, but delegates at the Union of B.C. Munici-palities convention defeated their mo-tion Friday.

Cities can still vary lo-cal speed limits from the 50 km/h default on a street-by-street basis, but proponents of the lower limit also hoped the province would cover the cost of changing signs.

Advocates had warned that unless cities sign every alley and laneway at lower speeds, drivers can legally roar through them at 50 km/h.

Opponents said enforce-ment is the real problem.

“You can reduce the mu-

nicipal speed limit to 10 kilometres per hour – it’s not going to help,” said Thompson-Nicola Regional District director Ken Gillis.

He said B.C. cities need a differ-ent way to ticket traffic violators with-out using costly and highly trained po-lice officers.

Comox Mayor Paul Ives said it was “wishful thinking” to believe the prov-ince would pay for sign change costs and said the shift to a 40 km/h default would confuse drivers.

“We don’t want this. I’m sure many other municipalities don’t want this,” Cache Creek Mayor John Ranta said.

“If you take it to extreme, if we keep going slower and slower and slower in the name of safety, eventually we will all grind to a halt.”

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Loon Lake hosts popular fundraiser

Action may include demolition AES PAC waiting for more information

Sid Ward (left) receives the grand prize Princecraft boat, motor and trailer from Ron Hanson at the Marigold Resort in Loon Lake. The boat and other prizes were raffled off as a fundraiser for the Loon Lake Volunteer Fire Dept.

Royden Josephson and Tom Moe had to run fast to catch up to to some energetic children who led the pack in Ashcroft’s Terry Fox Run.

ments, if deemed neces-sary and appropriate in

the circumstances by council, would be the best approach for the Village to take con-trol of the matter and force action from the owner. Remedial action requirements could encompass demolition of the building, either by the owner completing the job by a deter-mined deadline, or by placing the Village in the legal position to complete demolition and forcing sale of the property for recovery of costs (if unpaid by the owner).”

“I’d just like to reiterate what trust-ee Roden said, that

no one likes to close a school,” said trustee Mavourneen Varcoe Ryan, who is responsible for Lytton. “But we have to enter into discussion first if we want to know why it won’t work.”

“I’m looking forward to getting into the communities to talk about the fu-ture of community schools,” said Lil-looet trustee Valerie Adrian.

“This is a decision to look at possi-bilities, not necessarily closure,” said chair Carmen Ranta, trustee for Cache

Creek.The board has 60 days to prepare

the community consultations. No dates have been given yet.

Facilities Manager Mitch van Al-ler presented his annual 5 Year Cap-ital Plan to the board, which included $12,250,000 for the Lillooet elemen-tary replacement, and $8,287,434 for Kumsheen renovations.

He said Ashcroft Secondary has had many upgrades over the past three years and he doesn’t feel it will require major work to turn the building into a K-12 facility. He said the 5 Year Cap-

ital Plan only includes projects that will cost $1.5 million or more.

The parents need more informa-tion, said PAC president Juanita Little after the meeting. What will the cost be of running the school, she asked. What would a K-12 look like? Another con-cern, she said “is how will the move to K-12 affect the staff? We have great teachers, principal and support staff, so we want to know will they move over with us? What does that look like?”

She said when the school board first broached the idea of closing the ele-mentary and creating a K-12 school

in Ashcroft, the parents were very upset.”

But since then, parents have heard that the district has only so much money to support its aging schools, and enrolment figures just don’t justify keeping the buildings open.

“It’s a real struggle,” she said.

In those two years, Clin-ton moved to a K-12 school, with the parents actively en-gaged in its planning.

Last year, said Little, ele-mentary students attended the high school several times for concerts and special occa-sions like Remembrance Day, and the students all seemed to interact well.

“Once the consultation meetings are set,” she said, “we’ll discuss how to get in-formation out to people, and gather data on what sort of questions they want an-swered. “We’ll encourage everyone to take part and do what’s best for the kids.”

The Loon Lake community celebrated its annual fall dance and fire department fundrais-er on Aug. 31 at the community hall. The event was attended by approximately 100 community members and guests who enjoyed dancing and visiting.

The highlight of the evening was the draw for our summer long raffle. Sally Watson (TNRD rep) drew the winning ticket and Sid and Cheryl Ward were the grand prize winners of a Princecraft boat, motor and trailer. The win-ning ticket was sold by Kevin and Linda Len-nox. Second prize was a 40” TV won by Ron and Louise Hanson and third prize was a barbe-cue won by Tom Godmendson.

The event was made possible through the organizing efforts of Ron and Louise Hanson and a number of volunteers who assisted them. A large number of sponsors greatly assisted in-cluding: Norah and Lorne Nicholson, BOSA Developments Inc., Dusty Rose Pub, Galaxy Promotions, Rivershore Estate and Golf, Cop-per Classics, White Moose Resort, Marigold Resort, Evergreen Resort and AnuYou Resort.

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Is Harper sellling out Canada with CETA?by Gus Van Harten,

Professorwww.troymedia.comTORONTO, ON/ Troy

Media/ - Is Canada’s consti-tution and solvency less im-portant than Europe’s?

I’m asking that question because the pending Can-ada-Europe trade deal (or CETA) is leading to little-known discussions in Eur-ope - but not in Canada - about the deal’s constitution-al and fiscal implications.

As planned, the deal will allow investor-state arbitra-tors, outside Canadian or European courts, to award vast sums of public money to a special class of private litigants: foreign owners of assets.

In light of this, the feder-al government and the prov-inces need to clarify, as the Europeans are doing, how they plan to protect federal-ism and public budgets from the ravages such open-end-ed liability could have on our economy.

While the role of invest-or-state arbitrators is opaque, it is more powerful and far

riskier for voters and taxpay-ers than other internation-al forums such as the World Trade Organization. For ex-ample, the arbitrators can award large amounts to for-eign investors without giv-ing a government the oppor-tunity to avoid liability by al-tering the decision which it condemns. More worrying, the arbitrators are not judg-es, and even have an appar-ent interest to favour invest-ors because, unlike in other forms of arbitration, only one side - the investors - can sue and, in turn, create future lucrative work for the arbi-trators.

Put simply, under CETA, foreign investors will enjoy powerful rights under a lop-sided process, without as-suming any responsibilities that are actionable by gov-ernments.

Since the arbitrators began using their power over the public purse in the late 1990s, Canada has paid out about $160 million under NAFTA to U.S. companies. The U.S. has paid nothing to Canadian companies. Other

countries under similar treat-ies have been ordered to pay billions and, although feder-al trade officials downplay the risk, the trade deal with Europe undeniably height-ens the prospect of dubious yet costly awards against Canada.

For their part, the Euro-peans have recognized that investor-state arbitration raises important constitu-tional and fiscal concerns. For example, who should pay - the European Union or individual European coun-tries - if Europe is told to compensate a foreign in-vestor because of a member state’s implementation of a European Commission dir-ective that required tighter environmental regulations? How can governments avoid liability when the arbitra-tors have interpreted simi-lar treaties in widely varying ways and are not subject to fulsome appeal?

The European Commis-sion, Council, and Parlia-ment have engaged in ex-tended negotiations about these issues. The Commis-

sion has reportedly told European member states that it will not complete the in-vestment negotiations with Canada until an agreement is reached within Europe about the division of legal and fi-nancial responsibility for in-vestor-state arbitration.

It is vexing that, while commentators have flag-ged the same issues in Can-ada since NAFTA, our gov-ernments have done virtual-ly nothing to resolve them, at least publicly. Likewise, it remains a mystery why Canada, having fared far worse than the U.S. in in-vestor-state arbitration under NAFTA, reportedly asked to include investor-state arbi-tration in the Europe trade deal.

Under NAFTA, the fed-eral government, without seeking provincial consent, accepted an investor-state arbitration process that be-came the first - and practical-ly the last - such process ever agreed between developed countries with mature court

Do you remember what it was like to be anonymous? Known only to your immedi-ate family, if you wanted to be famous - or infamous, you had to earn it.

That was before Facebook and Twitter and Classmates and all the rest of the “con-nect with the world” wireless computer ap-plications.

Imagine growing up before the inven-tion of television or radio, or mass tran-sit such as trains. Or even the use of horses as transportation. The world extended only as far as you could walk in a day, and your only care was finding your next meal.

But we can’t go backwards, unless you intend to go live in the Amazon jungle, and I suspect most of us wouldn’t last too long there. And I’m not referring to the lack of a computer signal.

As information becomes more wide-ly available, government authorities come up with new ways to keep secrets - which often we only find out about when their at-tempts fail. As they do, and will, now that all data is stored on computers.

My personal mantra is: if you don’t want it repeated, don’t speak it in the first place. So it goes without saying (or it should) that if you have information you don’t want circulated around the wold 50 times before breakfast, don’t post it on the computer.

Have you ever “googled” your name? It might surprise you to find out what in-formation about you is available to anyone who cares to look.

And if that isn’t enough, we have high-way cams, traffic cams and surveillance cams to record our comings and goings, and Google Street View so that we, and others, can view our house - or any house we have an address for, our yard, our car. Perhaps it even caught us coming out of the house on the day the picture was taken.

Anonymity is a thing of the past, but pri-vacy shouldn’t be. We all have a right to privacy, unless we go commiting acts that will put our names in bright flashing lights all over the planet.

Because once lost, privacy is hard to re-gain. Perhaps it’s time to turn off all of the devices that record our personal data.

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tiki lounge reopens in Ashcroft at the riv for live local music

Dear EditorEarlier this year, I received a heart-

warming letter of “thanks” from Mr. Roly Fox, father of Terry Fox, for the donations I collected last year for the Terry Fox Foun-dation. His words were such an inspiration to me that I decided to set my goal for this year even higher. With the support and un-believable faith of so many friends, neigh-bours and family, my goal of $1,500 was achieved.

What words can I use to express my gratitude to each and every one of you? Your generosity amazing and inspires me! Thank you! You know why are are.

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ritt Vintage Car Club of Canada, we real-ly appreciate the support we received from the Ashcroft community, especially Cam and Debra Tedford and Ron Matkea and the others who helped with the parking.

Thank you,Marguerite Lund, secretary

Tiki Lounge is back at The RivA favourite local Ashcroft music

night that was first started by local musi-cian and organizer Llynn Kellman (with thanks.. Llynn !) is back and has re-turned to The Riv Pub. In its new incar-nation, Nadine Davenport will be your host - with possible guest hosts along the way as well. Starting on Friday Sept. 27, The Tiki Lounge will offer a place for lo-cals to come down and enjoy some of our great local musicians perform. Everyone welcome!

This Friday, Sept. 27 we’ll start off with an Open Mic and rotate every other week with a Feature Act. Come check out the Tiki Lounge, every Friday from 7:30-10 pm. Pass the hat donations encour-aged. For more information (250) 457-1145.

Family Movie Night..features EPICThe Village of Cache Creek presents

another fun Family Movie at the Cache Creek Community Hall. The feature movie this month is the fabulous animat-ed kids movie - EPIC. Bring the whole family to see this funny fantasy-adven-ture comedy-drama movie on Saturday, Sept. 28. Admission at the door. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the Movie starting at 7 pm.

There will be popcorn and good-ies available for purchase at the conces-sion supporting Cache Creek Elemen-tary School’s Parent Advisory Coun-

cil. No outside food or drinks, please. Chil-dren must be supervised and remain seated and quiet dur-ing the movie please.

In the mov-ie, a teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group char-acters in order to save their world - and ours.

Guitar Idol 2011 winner in town!Winding Rivers Arts & Perform-

ance Society begins its fourth season of concerts at St Albans in downtown Ash-croft. The first show of the season will be on Friday, Oct. 4 - with Vancouver-based finger-style guitarist, Don Alder. Tickets are now available in Ashcroft at the Ash-croft Bakery and Natures Gifts, and in Cache Creek at The Jade Shop.

Alder’s unique style of playing incor-porates finger picking with simultaneous percussion to create a wall of sound. His music is a unique combination of deeply textured melody and rhythm. He has been featured in Guitar Player Magazine and all of the other main guitar publications.

As winner of the 2011 World-wide Guitar Idol (held in London, UK), 2010 Guitar Superstar con-test (LA, USA) and the 2007 Inter-

national Fin-gerstyle Cham-pionships, often referred to as the Hendrix of acous-tic guitar, Don Alder has earned his place as one of the top acoustic guitarists in the world and is the only guitarist to

win all of the top prestigious guitar com-petitions armed with just an acoustic gui-tar.

Don is also recognized as one of the of the world’s top harp guitarists.

He is often referred to as sounding like a four piece band. Don’s music is his own unique weave of deeply tex-tured melody and story. Lyrical and compelling, his original songs are notes of exploration - some pas-sionate and haunting, some hard-driven, others light and teasing. In quiet pieces or pushing right to the edge, Don’s phenomenal finger style playing and rich voice captiv-ate - not to be missed!

You can look forward to six Dessert Concerts this season. Plus - an opportunity to buy tickets for all six shows as a package for some great cost savings. This offer is only available via phone - so call today at (250) 453 9100 to get all six shows for a great musical deal! Tickets are now available in Ash-croft at the Ashcroft Bakery and Natures Gifts, and in Cache Creek

at The Jade Shop. Look for a full 2013/14 Season line up, videos, show dates and bio’s of all performers on WRAP’s web-site – www.windingriversarts.ca

Clinton Arts & Artisan Show

The 8th Annual Clinton Arts & Arti-san Show runs Friday, Oct. 4 to Sunday, Oct. 6th. Opening night is Friday, from 6-9 pm. The Show continues Saturday and Sunday, 1-6 pm. The event is held in Clinton Memorial Hall at 306 Lebourdais St.. in Clinton. As well as all the fabulous art displayed on the walls there will be artisans selling crafts at tables. Musicians and dancers will be performing intermit-tently throughout the show. Call Sandy Reed at 250 457-9560 to reserve space. If interested in performing just come out.

Generosity is inspiring

Thanks for car show help

The Ashcroft and District Fall Fair would like to thank everyone that made the 2013 Fall Fair a success

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2013 TAX SALEIn accordance with Section 403 of the Local Government Act, the following proper-ties will be sold for taxes by public auction on Monday, September 30, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers of the Village of Cache Creek, 1389 Quartz Road, Cache Creek, B.C. unless the delinquent taxes now owing plus interest are sooner paid by cash, certified cheque or money order. Information regarding any of the properties must be obtained at the Village Office prior to the Tax Sale:

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Pavilion Triathlon continues to grow and gain popularitySunday Sep 14, once again we held

the Pavilion Triathlon.Outside temperature in the 30’s, and

the water temperature was 19C. These two things alone were telling me that this years event was going to be spectacular.

A few more registered than last year - the event is growing as more people hear about it, with people coming from as far away as Sooke on the island and Cal-

gary and Winnipeg for the event. But most of the tri-athletes were from the local area of Kamloops, Ashcroft and Cache Creek. A lot of the comments I get about the event is that it’s considered to be a grassroots race, and of course everyone likes the swim in Pavilion Lake.

Maurice Maher from Kamloops led the race all the way from the swim to the run taking First over-all with a time of 1:09. Linsey Emberly from Kamloops won First Place Female last year and won a free entry to this years event. This year she came back and beat her own time by another four minutes with a time of 1:13 and she also fin-ished Second overall.

This summer we organized the kids triathlon and there were a few teens who seemed to really enjoy the event. There was some money left over from sponsorships, so we made up two relay teams, one of boys and one of girls and entered them into the Pavilion Tri. All the kids were from the Ashcroft area. With all six of them being very com-petitive, I knew it was going to be good. In the end though, the “Boy Beaters” team of Haley and Leeza Schroeder and Allie Aie were fast-er than the boys team consisting of Griffin and Hayden Aie and Solo-mon Wiebe. Not only will they have to hear about that for the next year, they had to do the chicken dance across the finish line!

The Relay team idea seems to be really catching on. It’s a very easy way to enter the world of tri-

athlon. There were five relay teams this year - two were from Kamloops, and three from the Ashcroft area. Our other relay team consisted of Denise Tapia, Tracy Ku-bik, and the ever in-spiring Merv Mc-Kague, although at this event Merv was no match for the lightning quick Allie Aie during the run!

Some other locals tackled the event solo including Vicky Trill, Briggy Schroeder - who finally completed her first full triathlon, and Alf Trill - who has discovered that if he actually trains for a triathlon, he’s pretty darn good at it.

Another icon in the triathlon com-munity is Bruce Butcher from Kamloops,

who showed up this year. At 79 years old and having raced over 150 triathlons in his life, it was quite a com-pliment when he said I did a good job organizing the race.

We had an unexpected spectator this year, a black bear. Up in a tree right beside the run course, he seemed

very uninter-ested and calm with what was go-ing on. Even still I sent in super vol-unteer Ste-ven Aie with an air horn to scare him off if there

was any problems. Steven is still alive, so there were no problems.

It’s really amazing how the locals at Pavilion have taken to the event, with their family relatives using the event as way to come and visit, and Frank Smith’s manpower. I mean really, the guy put in about five or six hours of labor into help-ing me out.

I’d like to thank the volunteers and parents who came out to show their sup-port, members of the Kamloops Triathlon club, Megan Marlow, Eddie and Steve Aie, Heidi McCall, and Deanna Horsting.

Next year’s Pavilion Triathlon will be held on Sept. 14, 2014. If you are inter-ested in competing, volunteering, spon-soring, spectating or just showing some sort of support, shoot me an email.

Wayne Littleminer1098@gmail.com

Living Well

Maurice Maher from Kamloops, just coming out of the water. Maher led the race all the way from the swim to the run taking 1st overall with a time of 1:09. Photo by Gary Winslow

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Family Day at Desert Hills RanchOctober 12th • 9:30 am to 5:00 pm

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Teas and bazaars have seniors busy

The first meeting of the Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Asso-ciation since June was held with some of the faithful members at-tending. Welcome back for another ses-sion of fun and games.

First on the list of upcoming events is our Over 80 Tea to honour our old-

est members. Please come out and say ‘hel-lo’ and give them a hug. This is happen-ing Oct. 10 at the Sen-iors Centre. Doors open at 11:30 am, with photos at 11:45 for all of the over 80 members. Hope to see you there.

Our Christmas Dinner is booked for

Dec. 12, so anyone wanting to attend will have to see Pat Kirby to let her know ahead of time.

We are starting our plans for the next ba-zaar and tea on Nov. 16. We need ticket sellers for this. Please help out by buying or helping us sell them. All of our commit-tee reports were read and we need some more members out to help on some of our events. Bingo, Bridge, and Carpet Bowling

are some of the most popular means of fun.

A letter was read from Carmen Agati-ello, thanking us for her bursary. We all wish you well, Car-men.

Jones were read by Donna Tetrault;

Birthdays for September: Dor-othy Colebank, Fran Hellad, Ashley Lind-seth, Mary Lomond, Binky Nichel and Lois Petty, Edna Spelay, John West and Ronald Richardson.

FROM THE CENTREAshcroft-Cache Creek Seniors

Muriel Scallonsystems. This was a his-torical departure from the usual practice of Western

countries, at least when on the receiving end of capital flows from another country, to re-quire foreign investors to accept the exclu-sive authority of their own legislatures and courts.

Since NAFTA, the constitutional issues have been left to simmer, made possible part-ly because no investment treaty conclud-ed by Canada since NAFTA applied to sub-stantial inward investment in Canada. Also, the amounts paid by Canada to U.S. invest-ors under NAFTA thus far have been man-ageable.

These issues now loom large as the arbi-trators increasingly flex their muscle and as the Harper government prepares to quad-ruple-down on investor-state arbitration by committing us, for decades, to three new trade or investment agreements with major economies. These include the Europe trade deal, the Canada-China investment treaty (or FIPA), and the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Part-nership.

The main worry is that the Harper gov-ernment is so intent on delivering rapid-fire deals that it is shunting aside important con-cerns. If the Europeans can take time to work through the constitutional and fiscal impli-cations and report publicly, why are govern-ments in Canada not doing the same?

Governments need to anticipate and man-age their fiscal position in the brave new world of foreign investor rights, especially as the Harper government is poised to make Canada the most locked-in Western country, long-term, in investor-state arbitration. Can-adians at least need to know who is respon-sible if this rushed deal turns out badly.

Gus Van Harten is a professor at Os-goode Hall Law School. His research focus-es on international investment law and is freely accessible at www.iiapp.org.

Haste leads to sloppy deals

Greg Howard and Vi Turner wait for the start of the second annual dog show for the Extended Care Residents at Ashcroft hospital on Sept. 12.

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October 2013 • Week 1ARIES - A blue mood is nothing to worry about, Aries. It is just your body telling you that you may need to slow down a bit. Take heed and you’ll recharge in no time.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, you are beginning a contemplative phase of life right now, but you won’t have to sacrifice your social life to do so. Take a few days off from socializing and then return.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Try to avoid any deep conversations or controversial topics this week, Gemini. Right now it’s best if you focus on more trivial matters and enjoy yourself.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, give yourself more time to figure everything out if you are feeling indecisive about someone. Don’t forge ahead without feeling entirely comfortable with the person.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, don’t drop everything you’re working on to address a developing issue at home. Others can handle the situation just as well as you, so keep your focus on preexisting tasks at hand.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, listen to friends and family members when they encourage you to try something new this week. Trust your instincts, as they seldom turn you in the wrong direction.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 You have no time for gossip this week, Libra. Your plate is already full at work and at home, so avoid getting caught up in anything that compromises your focus.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, though it may feel like others are flying past you while you’re slowly plodding along, eventually things will even out and you’ll end up where you need to be.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Create some plausible plans for the future this week, Sagittarius. Keep a journal to help you keep track of your ideas and make sense of your plans.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, your generosity finds you devoting much of your time t ending to the needs of others this week. Enjoy your time helping others and don’t be afraid to accept their gratitude.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Don’t get too hung up if your week is all work and little play. While your schedule might be hectic in the coming days, some relaxation time will arrive this weekend.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, now is the time to redirect some of your professional ambitions to your personal life. It’s an effort worth making.

Clinton Art And Cultural SocietyArt and Artisan

Show and SaleOctober 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2013Community Hall in Clinton, BC.Show times: Friday - 6 pm to 9 pm

Saturday 10 am to 5pmand Sunday 1 pm to 5pm

Admission by silver collection. Enjoy a varied display of local artists,

leathercrafts, carvers, authors, jewellery artists and exhibits by local 4-H clubs and local students. There will be ongoing demonstrations

of carving, leather work, clay creations and painting throughout the weekend.

Enjoy music provided by local musicians and check

out our silent auction

Ts’kw’aylaxw First NationBox 2200, Lillooet, B.C. V0K 1V0Ph: 250-256-4204 Fax: 250-256-4058

Economic Development OfficerTs’ky’aylaxw First Nation is looking for an energetic and experienced Economic Development Officer who is responsible for facilitating, promoting and ensuring community and economic development. This includes securing economic opportunities and business development ventures that increases local employment for the Ts’kw’aylaxw community.The economic development officer reports to the Administrator and is responsible for facilitating community and economic planning and initiatives; identifying and fostering community economic development activities. This position will also be responsible for improving current businesses and expanding the business base for Ts’kw’aylaxw and will promote Ts’kw’aylaxw as an important business partner and/or an important developer of new business.Experience and Qualifications:

• Innovative leader, creative thinker, a self-starter, a person who is sensitive to our culture and a person who is motivated and eager to assist our community moving forward with economic development growth.

• Work effectively with all stakeholders in the community, different levels of government, businesses, general public, and have excellent communication skills.

• Ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in business and economics.

• Successful record of doing funding proposals and grant applications. Some travel is required for this position and you must possess a valid BC Driver’s license.

• Strong knowledge in business planning and market analysis.

Deadline for receiving applications for this position is Oct. 4, 2013, at 12 noon. Please note only candidates who are short listed will be invited for interviews.Please send your resume along with three references to:Sharon Edwards, AdministratorP.O. Box 2200, Lillooet, B.C. V0K 1V0 Fax; 260-256-4058

From homeless to happy

LORIWELBOURNEloriwelbourne.com

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The first time I met my friend Mike Har-vey, he was homeless. He wasn’t living out of his car, or so sick that he wanted to die any-more, but he was still very much what society would consider ‘on the skids.’It was at a local soup

kitchen where we first spoke a year and a half ago. I was on location at the Kelowna Gospel Mission covering a fun-

draising competition between local chefs for Shaw TV, and he was working as the dish-washer and living there as well. I saw him, and many of the mission’s residents that week, as well as the hungry people who came in for a hot, healthy meal. It was both heart-breaking to see people needing the help, and heartwarming to wit-ness them getting it.

In so many countries around the world, this wouldn’t happen.Once my week of cov-

ering that story was over, Mike and I ex-changed email address-es and vowed to stay in touch. I went back to my life with a new-found gratitude for the roof over my head and the love of my family, and he continued his journey of self-healing and the rebuilding of his life.As depressed as he

was when he first ar-rived at the mission, he wasn’t content doing nothing, and accepted a volunteer position working as their dish-washer. For about nine months he worked in the kitchen all day, sev-en days a week, while starting up a “Law of Attraction” support group that promotes emitting positive en-ergy to attract more of the same.“Mental attitude con-

trols our thought pat-terns,” he said. “And I needed to change mine.”He also needed to

change his eating hab-its and had accom-plished that.Years prior Mike had

contracted Lyme dis-ease, which damaged his brain and left him feeling crazy. Unable to work for a long pe-riod of time, and liv-ing alone in his car in the U.S., his daughter eventually kidnapped him and brought him back home to Canada.“I’m lucky she did

that,” he said. “At that point I wanted to die.”Extremely sick, and

initially not knowing the reason, Mike had also developed an ex-treme sensitivity to MSG, which he found to be in almost every-thing. “It wasn’t until I started making juice with organic produce that I started to feel better,” he said.He also discovered

he had lead poisoning which he believes he got from the drinking water where he grew

up. Ridding himself of that allowed him to improve his physical state, and the work he was doing on his men-tal health increased his possibilities. He was offered a job

at a restaurant, afford-ing him the ability to move out of the shel-ter. He later applied his skills working at

Home Depot and then started up his own handyman and con-tracting business in Calgary, where he had moved.I had coffee with

Mike this week while he was in town for his daughter’s wedding. He had just come from a volunteer shift at the Kelowna Gospel Mis-sion where he visited some of his old “in-mates” as he jokingly calls them.“I think all these

shelters should offer some kind of ‘Law of Attraction’ program,” he said. “And educate people on the chemi-cals they’re probably consuming. It could change their lives like it

did for me.”People become home-

less for a variety of rea-sons, and they all have a story to tell. Thank goodness for shelters and food banks and all the wonderful people in the community who donate time, money or food. And thank good-ness for someone like Mike Harvey, brave to share his experience. He’s a good reminder of how easy it can be to lose everything, and how important it is for us to help each other when needed. To contact Mike visit: Call4Mike.caLori Welbourne is a

syndicated columnist. She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com

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Nice Lot in Clinton, walk to town, mountain view. Water, sewer, hydro, telephone at lot line, cul-de-sac. Lots of Sunshine, Doctors, Ambulance Service, RCMP. 40 minutes to Ashcroft or 100 Mile House. You can also put a mobile home on this lot. $29,900.00

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2013 TAX SALEIn accordance with Section 403 of the Local Government Act, the following properties will be sold for taxes by public auction on Monday, September 30, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., in the Village of Clinton Council Chambers, 1423 Cariboo Highway, Clinton, BC, unless the delinquent property taxes owing plus interest are sooner paid. Information regarding these properties or Tax Sale procedures may be obtained at the Village Office prior to the Tax Sale.

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Cadwell, GerryOur dad, Gerry Cadwell, aged

71, passed away peacefully on September 18, 2013. Dad is survived by his loving wife Jo-Ann, mother-in-law Sharon, his brother Allan (Donna), brother-in-law Gordon, and his son Duwayne (Tammy), daughters Sherri and Lorelei (Craig), grandchildren Lindsey (Chris), Brittley (Travis), Riley (Serina), Tyler, Clayton, Kylee, August, Alexis, Kayla, Jennine, and Becca, and numerous nieces and nephews. As well as many relatives and friends; dad is predeceased by his father Ralph, mother Edna, sisters Amy and Irma and brothers Gordon and Don.A reunion of family and friends will be held at the Ashcroft

Community Hall on Saturday, October 5, 2013 from 1:00 - 5:00. Should family or friends desire, donations may be made to

Parkinson Society Canada, Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home, or Royal Inland Hospital Foundation in dad’s name.We’ve been so fortunate to be able to call you dad. We love

you always and forever. Love Duwayne, Sherri, and Lorelei.

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Here I am on the first day of Fall, looking out on a lovely warm sunny day. We’ve had a good stretch of sum-mer-like weather for September, but it looks like things are about to change – but no need to feel housebound; there are lots of events to keep us busy!

The Community Club held its AGM on Sept. 11. Elected to executive pos-itions were: President Yours Truly, Vice Pres. Craig Watson, Secretary Caro-lynne Terry, four Directors: Jim Ryan, Arnie Oram, Pat Jackson, and Oliv-ia Watson. TV Chair - Jim Ryan, Vice Chair Arnie Oram, Secretary / Tres. Carolynne Terry. Thanks to all for let-ting their name stand!

The next regular meeting is Oct. 9 at 7 pm. Please consider joining us.

There are many events coming up, starting with the usual Halloween party – on Oct. 31, of course. There will be arts and crafts, games, prizes, wiener roast, fireworks – all the good ghoulish stuff!

Then Nov. 30 will see the hall transformed for our Christmas Bazaar. This event is still looking for an organizer – so anyone out there interest-ed in taking on this fun and ex-citing task? There are always lots of volunteers will-ing to help out. If in-terested please con-tact me.

Then in Decem-ber the Ham and Turkey Bingo is always a popular event – scheduled for Fri., Dec. 13. It’s a lucky Friday, folks!

The New Horizon’s Sen-ior’s program has continued hosting activities over the sum-mer and has many plans for the fall and winter.

Last week saw the first community pot luck dinner with presentations. There was a great turnout of folks that enjoyed a wonderful meal, a cute little skit, a traditional jin-gle dance demonstration, and of course the pleasure of each other’s company!

The Elder’s Vision Coun-cil has planned a paper mache mask workshop – just in time for Halloween. Two Saturdays; Oct. 12 and 19, 10:30 to 3:30 - all supplies provided as well as lunch! Open to everyone in

the community. Wear grubbies or bring a smock – it’s messy.

The next Elders Vision Council meeting is scheduled for Oct. 22, 10 am, along with another community pot luck with presentations. New members are very welcome.

The new stage is ready to put in Cleme’s Hall – on top of the existing one, so no demolition required – whew. Soon everything that was listed on the “to do” list will be completed, and the hall will be looking great. (Until the next renovation idea comes up – it real-ly is never ending….)

The Community has made it offi-cial; there will be a Desert Daze 2014! It was decided at the Sept. 11 meet-ing and the planning committee will be preparing for our 5th Festival! Anyone wishing to get involved with the plan-ning committee is more than welcome – give me a call or shoot me an email.

Our Fire Chief reported to the Spences Bridge Community Club that we have two new volunteer firefighters, more training is being done, and they have purchased another set of turn out gear. Thanks to all you volunteers!Mavourneen

Varcoe-Ryan

COMINGS & GOINGS ON

in Spences Bridge

Fall and winter full of activitiesThe New Horizon’s Senior’s program community pot luck dinner on Sept.19. Photo by Jean Burgess

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Land Act:Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that TM Mobile Inc. of Burnaby, BC, intends to make application to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO) Southern Service Region – Thompson Okanagan Service Centre, Crown Land Adjudication office, for a Right-of-Way for Communication Site and Power line purposes Section 8, Twp. 16, Range 25, W6M, Kamloops Division Yale District (KDYD) situated on Provincial Crown land located in the vicinity of Spences Bridge. The Lands File Numbers that have been established for this application are 3412820. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Section Head, Crown Land Adjudication at 441 Columbia St, Kamloops BC V2C 2T3. Comments will be received by MFLNRO until November 4, 2013. Please refer to our website:http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/search.jsp --> Search --> Search by File Number: insert Lands File Number for more information. Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be provided to be public upon request.

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60 METRE SELF SUPPORT TOWER STRUCTUREPROPOSED STRUCTURE: As part of the public consultation process required by Industry Canada, TELUS is inviting the public to comment on a proposed telecommunications facility consisting of a 60-meter guyed tower and ancillary radio equipment situated on Provincial Crown land off of Highway 8 northeast of Spences Bridge, BC. LOCATION: 10165 Merritt-Spences Bridge Hwy No 8, Thompson-Nicola Regional District COORDINATES: 50° 25’ 32.4” N, 121° 18’ 8” WANY PERSON may comment by close of business day on November 4, 2013 with respect to this matter.TELUS CONTACT: Further information can be obtained by contacting: Hermanjeet Kaur Kahlon TELUS - Real Estate and Government Affairs 2-3500 Gilmore Way, Burnaby, BC V5G4W7 Email: Herman.Kahlon@telus.com

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InformationAL-ANON ASHCROFT: Does someone’s drinking bother you? Meets Tuesdays, 8:00pm at St. Alban’s Church, 501 Brink. Tracey 250-457-3368.

AL-ANON ASHCROFT: Does someone’s drinking bother you? Meets Tuesdays, 8:00pm at St. Alban’s Church, 501 Brink. Tracey 250-457-3368.

AL-ANON: Does someone’s drinking bother you? Meeting Wed at 8:00pm at the Cache Creek Elementary Sch Library. Contact: Val 250.457.1117

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Gold Country presents... Past, Present & Beyond

GOLD COUNTRYBARBARA RODEN

Winter of 1936/37 was a bad one for in� uenza in the B.C. interior. Hard-ly a week went by without the Ash-croft Journal reporting another case, more often than not fatal. Those who could remem-ber the � u pan-demic of 1918-20, which had killed up to 100 million people worldwide, shivered at the thought that it had come again.

The Na-tive community had been espe-cially hard hit. There had been so many burials in the cemetery on the Cornwall [now Ashcroft] Reserve that the grave-diggers had had to resort to burying the dead in haste, without a proper burial.

In mid-February 1937 Matilda Sampson, the 30-year-old wife of Johnny Edmonds of the Cornwall Rancherie, or Reserve, came into Ash-croft with a friend to help deliver a load of hay. She and her husband were longtime residents of the area, and were familiar � gures in town. With-in a short time of her visit she fell ill, and it was at � rst suspected that she had caught a chill. Her condition soon worsened, however, and it was clear she was suffering from � u. Then it de-veloped into something more serious, and on Feb. 16 she was brought to the hospital in Ashcroft. It was clear that she needed medical assistance; but the local physician, Dr. Drummond, was in Lone Butte, stranded there by poor road conditions. On the mor-ning of Feb. 17 she died, of pneumonia brought on by � u.

The cemetery on the Cornwall Re-serve had, at the time, a number of

family plots; burial areas kept for the use of one family and its members, each surrounded by a neat wooden fence. In February 1937 there were two spaces left in the plot in which Matilda

and Johnny were to be bur-ied, and there were doubt-less many people present at her funeral who had not expected a grave to be dug in that plot for many years.

Johnny, the widower, was only 35, and there was no reason to think that he would not live a long life. A few months later, however, tragedy once again struck the Edmonds family; and this time it was to lead to a mysterious, and grisly, discovery.

On Friday Aug. 20 1937, Edmonds got into an

argument with Henry Madson of Pa-vilion over a jug of wine. The alter-cation ended with Edmonds knocking out the other man, then riding away from town. At 20 minutes before mid-night he arrived at the home of Chief Frank Harry, about three miles west of town. Two men who were staying at the house that night – Willie Harry and Jimmie Burke – said that Edmonds was considerably under the in� uence of alcohol when he arrived, and that he asked to see the Chief. Edmonds was taken into another room, where the two visitors heard him tell Chief Harry that he was in great trouble and would be put in jail in the morning. He plead-ed for help, but was apparently told that there was nothing Chief Harry could do.

At midnight Johnny Edmonds left the house and mounted his horse. It was the last time he was seen alive.

An hour later CNR passenger train No. 1, heavily loaded, was a mile west of Ashcroft heading towards the coast. It had been an uneventful trip to that

point, and there was no reason to think the remainder of the journey would be any different. The engineer looked ahead down the track, expecting to see nothing but darkness. Instead he saw what he thought was a piece of white paper between the rails some 10 pole lengths (55 yards) ahead. When the train was approximately four pole lengths (22 yards) away he realized that the white form was a body lying between the rails, its legs over the north rail. The engineer threw on the emergency brakes, but it was too late to halt the train. The engine and two cars had passed over the body before the train stopped, and it was clear there was no hope he had survived.

The unfortunate victim was placed on a stretcher, and the engineer and an-other man lifted him into the baggage car. Then the engineer began the slow process of backing CNR passenger train No. 1 the mile into Ashcroft. As he did so, he noted that a saddle horse was near the scene of the accident, tied to a fence a few yards from the track. At some point in the night the horse broke its reins, and was found next morning running in a nearby � eld. The horse was identi� ed as belonging to

Johnny Edmonds.When the train reached Ashcroft

the police were summoned. The body was quickly identi� ed as that of John-ny Edmonds, and an inquest was held � ve days later, after a short delay so that the train engineer could return and give evidence. A verdict of accidental death was brought in, with no blame attached to anyone.

Before the inquest, however, came the grim task of digging a � nal grave in the Edmonds plot, many years before anyone had reasonably expected such a thing to be needed. Jimmy Antoine was the man who carried out this duty, and he it was who made a complete-ly unexpected discovery. While dig-ging Johnny Edmonds’ grave, a short distance from where his wife lay and in the only area of the enclosure that had been undisturbed, Antoine came across what appeared to be another grave, unmarked, within the plot. For a foot below the surface of the sandy soil, in a narrow hole some three feet long, he uncovered the skeleton of a woman, huddled in her crude grave as if she had been hastily and carelessly deposited there.

To be continued

The Shallow Grave - Pt. 1

The cemetery on the Ashcroft Indian Reserve, where Matilda Sampson and Johnny Edmonds are buried, as it looks today. Photo by Barbara Roden