Eagle Valley News, February 11, 2015

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NEWSVol. 60 No. 6 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com

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Snow in the sunshine: (Clockwise from top) Eric Kutschker, Layla Kutschker (front) and Tracy Kutschker tackle the job of carving their “cat” during the snow sculpture contest held as part of Sicamous Snow Days; Sachi Kutscher joined the family for the final display; Lily Hatch and Violet Mae Scholtz spritz color onto the turtle sculpture and Ali Logan chips away at her horse sculpture. The unseasonably warm weather on Sunday made the event more of a challenge than usual. Snow Days events are planned to run until March 1. See the schedule on page 5.Photos by Victoria Rowbottom

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Feb. 17 Shrove Tuesday supper at Sicamous United Church, 5 pm. After dinner music & song. Tickets $5 call Doreen 836-2509, 836-2300 Bernice or Sicamous Thrift Shop 836-4390.Feb 18. Ash Wednesday Service 12 pm Sicamous United Church.Monday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group Contact Don at 250-838-0794.Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.Every Wed. - Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors

building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for info.Every Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5.Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please

feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Sicamous Health UnitEvery 4th Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Carol 250-836-3135 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 1st Fri. of the month –Sicamous Seniors Ctre general meeting 11:00am followed by a great pot luck lunch. We encourage every to join us.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.

Everyone Welcome.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Lunch at noon. Everyone Welcome. At the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.Last Sat. of the Month - Ladies’ Auxiliary Dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion at 6 pm. Tickets sold until the Friday before at the Legion. No tickets at the door.Sundays - KARMA YOGA (Gentle Hatha) Sundays 5:15-6:15PM @ I Am Yoga. Minimum $5 donation supports community cause of the month. No experience required. Drop-ins welcome!Open Meditation Circle by donation Sundays 4-5PM @ I Am Yoga - February 8th to March 15th. Familiarize yourself with mindfulness techniques. No experience required. Drop-ins welcome!Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 1 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - Birthday Tea (formerly the OAPO) for members and friends at Seniors Activity Ctre 1:30 pm. Everyone is WelcomeEvery Sat. - Morning Sicamous Royal Canadian Legion Branch 99 tailgate market – Everyone welcome – sell anything – for details call Murray @250-836-2224.

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Over 10,000 ads - updated daily bcclassified.comWeather prompts flooding, landslides

Warm weather, heavy rain and melting snow has resulted in flooding in pockets of the Shuswap.

Witnesses say a section of road at the upper end of Vickers Trail in Anglemont Estates gave way on Sunday, Feb. 8, de-stroying a seasonal home on Hudson Road.

The house was pushed about 12 me-ters and turned sideways by the mud.

Along with the house, power lines were downed by the landslide of debris.

The Anglemont Volunteer Fire De-partment was called in because of trees burning over the electrical lines. Barriers have been put up to stop traffic from en-tering the area.

Cliff Doherty, Shuswap Emergency Program co-ordinator, cautions people not to travel past the road barricades as portions of the road have disappeared.

On Monday, Feb. 9, Highway 97A was closed in both directions near Two Mile, between Swansea Point and Si-camous Creek, about 4:30 p.m.

Janet McQuhae, fire chief of the Swansea Point Volunteer Fire Depart-ment, said a minor mud flow came down a driveway and flowed onto the highway.

A Drive BC update noted the mud-slide meant the highway was reduced to single-lane, alternating traffic while a loader removed the debris.

The road was partially closed for about two hours.

In Silver Creek, residents are also dealing with flooding.

Doherty said residents near the Silver Creek town centre have asked for sand-bags and sand to put between their hous-es and the hillside to divert water.

As well, three other calls to the emer-gency program had been received by press time Tuesday regarding flooding along the Salmon Valley Road caused by plugged ditches or culverts.

He suggests that if property or struc-tures are prone to high water, residents may wish to take precautionary steps.

“Make sure swales are clear, and wa-ter is flowing into nearby ditches rather than water starting to pool and collect.”

He said if the public is in urgent need of sandbags to protect property or struc-tures, some have been placed in the park-ing lot to the south of the SASCU Sports Complex at Little Mountain on 30th Street in Salmon Arm. A truckload of sand has also been dumped there.

He says if residents call the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s Emergency

Program, they will be directed to that parking lot.

The warm weather responsible for some of the flooding is definitely warmer than usual.

Environment Canada reports that two long-standing temperature records were broken in Salmon Arm in the past few days.

On Friday, Feb. 6, the mercury soared to 11.1 C at the Salmon Arm Airport, breaking the record of an even 10 C set in 1963.

The sun raised the temperature to 11.5 degrees Sunday, beating out the old re-cord of 9.5 C set in 1978.

“For the meantime, temperatures are going to be five and six degrees above normal,” said Environment Canada me-teorologist Matt MacDonald on Monday, noting normal high temperatures are in the neighbourhood of plus 2 C, not the plus 8, expected this week. “Starting Sunday, there is a cooling trend.”

MacDonald says the southwest weath-er pattern will shift to the northwest, bringing cooler air and the possibility of snow in surrounding mountains.

It won’t be a cold snap, but will bring more normal temperatures through the second half of February compared to the mild start to the month.

Shuswap: Minor mudslide closes highway near Swansea Point.By Martha Wicket and Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

Sign debate sent back to council committee

A recommendation by District of Sicamous staff on a $7,500 con-tract for signage was greeted with silence at the council table.

At the Jan. 28 meet-ing, council received a recommendation by staff to award the con-tract for the preparation of a district highway entrance sign to Knight Signs of Vancouver at a cost of $7,500 plus fees, taxes and related

charges. The related motion, however, failed to receive a seconder, leaving council speech-less on the matter.

This was the second time that this recom-mendation had come before council. At its previous meeting, coun-cil tabled the matter, wanting more informa-tion. At that meeting, however, there was discussion, including an explanation of the RFP process that led to the selection of Knight Signs.

District operations manager Randy Hand explained the proposals were evaluated by staff. Knight’s, on the $7,500 stipulated project bud-get, came in first place. In second was Sinclaire Design Associates of Calgary, also on budget at $7,500. In third was a proposal by Revel-stoke’s Selkirk Plan-ning & Design, which came in over budget at $8,050.

Hand said Knight provided a “one-stop shopping option” in

that they would design, construct and install the sign. Some councillors, however, questioned the process, with a shop-lo-cal philosophy in mind.

Coun. Jeff Mallmes was concerned with how the final sign would look and thought the district would get better results from a company in closer proximity.

“You’re going to have better results of getting a local com-pany in closer proxim-ity to come here,” said Mallmes. “That way,

I think we’re going to get a truer definition of what we’re looking for.”

Coun. Malcolm Makayev noted there might be issues in not going with the recom-mended option.

“There’s some con-tractual issues and transparency and evalu-ation, and the other two proponents could ques-tion the process.”

Mayor Terry Rysz said the matter will now go back to a committee of the whole meeting for discussion.

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

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Council explores curbside recyclingWaste options: Illegal dumping problem prompts call for change.

Ongoing illegal dumping at Sicamous’ downtown recycle de-pot has sparked interest in municipal council looking at alternatives, including a curbside program.

At its Jan. 28 regu-lar meeting, council received a presentation by Columbia Shus-wap Regional District operations manager Darcy Mooney and en-vironmental services team leader Ben Van Nostrand regarding re-cycling in the regional district.

Mooney provided some background on the process that led to the development of curbside collection pro-grams, for recycling and garbage, in Salmon Arm, Revelstoke and Golden (Sicamous had an opportunity to part-ner with Salmon Arm but declined). For com-munities without curb-side programs, recy-clables are collected at landfills and 18 CSRD-run depot sites through-out the regional district, including Sicamous’ at the Main Street/High-way 97A intersection.

Nostrand explained how Multi-Materials BC has since taken over the collection of recy-clables, resulting in the cost of related programs being shifted from the taxpayer to industry.

“Historically, we had green bins at 18 sites… material was collected there and hauled back to Kamloops for pro-cessing. That was to the tune of about $120,000 a month,” said Van Nos-

trand. “That was en-tirely borne by taxation. All of those costs have now been transferred to MMBC.”

MMBC taking on recyclables required changes at the depots. Hours of operation were instituted and staff hired to ensure materials are being sorted.

“I think, in general, the public support has been fairly positive,” said Van Nostrand. “I’ve been talking to the fel-low here in Sicamous. For the most part, peo-ple have been receptive to the new categories.”

That said, Van Nos-trand confirmed there have been problems with illegal dumping at the depots, Sicamous’ included.

“I think in time, if the site doesn’t im-prove, then we pull the site,” said Van Nos-trand. “We’re banging our heads against the wall trying to make this work.”

Coun. Jeff Mallmes pressed for more infor-mation on the curbside program that had been proposed for Salmon Arm and Sicamous (one bag of garbage for $2 a month, and unlimited recycling every second week for $8 a month).

Mooney said the council opted out of the program due to the percentage of seasonal residents who would have been on the hook year round. That was before MMBC, how-ever. Mooney went on to explain MMBC will review its program ev-ery five years, and if Sicamous were to estab-lish a curbside collec-tion program for recy-

clables within that time, it could be absorbed by MMBC.

Shifting the conver-sation back to the loca-tion of the Sicamous depot, Coun. Malcolm Makayev asked if any consideration has been given to relocating the bins. Van Nostrand said the CSRD is open to discussion, understand-ing council’s concern with the aesthetics of the current location. Mooney, added, how-ever, that in the past, when the bins were at the curling rink, there were even more inci-dents of illegal dumping and vandalism.

“What we’ve found was the more isolated it becomes, the more prone to these bins catching fire and be-ing vandalized in other ways,” said Mooney.

Mayor Terry Rysz said he wants to see the bins moved from Main

Street without question. Regarding the refuse being illegally dumped, Rysz asked if another bin could be placed at the local depot site.

“Respectfully, I don’t think that solves the issue,” replied Van Nostrand. “I go back to some of our sites, when the bins were open 24/7, people would dump the craziest things in and around (them). So if there’s another garbage bin, it’s just another excuse for someone to illegally dump, unfortu-nately.”

Van Nostrand point-ed out how a curbside program reduces the need for the downtown depot. Detecting interest in this option, Mooney encouraged council to consider integrating with Salmon Arm’s pro-gram so as to achieve greater savings.

“Salmon Arm re-cycling and garbage

pickup is not a five-day-a-week job, so I remem-ber that with Sicamous combined, that would provide a full, five-day-a-week job to service both communities,” said Mooney. “And at the time, Sicamous re-ally received the biggest win, because they could get in on the economy of scale on those larger numbers. I think there’s an opportunity.”

Depot: The CSRD-run recycling depot continues to experience problems with improper dumping of materials. Photo by Lachlan Labere



VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark’s push to “re-engineer” the B.C. education system is mov-ing ahead aggressively in B.C.’s 25 post-secondary institutions.

One of the first tasks for Andrew Wilkinson in his new role as advanced education minister was to outline the shift in operat-ing grants for colleges and universities to in-demand occupations. By 2017, a quarter of the money for post-secondary institutions will be directed to areas where labour force surveys forecast a need.

This was greeted with some alarm when it was announced last year. Simon Fraser University presi-dent Andrew Petter at first downplayed the coming skills shortage as “relatively small” and warned against pushing post-secondary in-stitutions into a “zero sum battle for dollars.”

Petter has since come on board, as his approving comments were featured in the ministry’s Jan. 26 news release detailing the shift. He and others have been as-sured that in spite of Clark’s rhetoric, suggesting trades training is in and university is out, the news for SFU and other universities isn’t all that bleak.

Wilkinson is completing a province-wide tour of all post-secondary institutions this week, and I reached him at his visit to Thomp-son Rivers University in Kamloops.

“The response to this has generally been pretty good, because the students are putting this pressure on institutions themselves,” he said. “Some of the insti-tutions are … shrinking things like teacher educa-tion and putting more ef-fort into the science-based, quantitative fields that are often related to these in-demand occupations.”

The surplus of teacher graduates has been notice-

able for some time, but that’s largely a function of oversupply, much of it in urban areas. In the Cariboo, for example, teaching jobs are projected to have the highest number of openings by 2022, followed by nurs-ing and retail and wholesale trade managers. Then come heavy duty mechanics and electricians, but also para-professional jobs in legal, social, community and edu-cational services.

Province-wide, it’s part of a broader demographic shift to fewer children and more retirees. In fact the government started this targeted funding a decade ago with health care, forc-ing universities to produce more doctors, nurses, lab techs and so forth.

The retiring baby boom is expected to account for more than half of the open-ings in the next decade, which will expand the skills demand across most fields, beyond the trades training for the anticipated lique-fied natural gas industry

and other high-demand in-dustrial areas such as truck driving.

Key to this shift is mea-suring the performance of courses offered at colleges, universities and techni-cal schools. Each year, the ministry surveys about 30,000 graduates to find out whether their studies helped them find a related job.

The results are available on a website that breaks them out by institution and general study area. To find it, do a web search for “BC student outcomes” and se-lect the “executive dash-board” to check the results for courses and schools in your region.

The site provides charts showing the percentage of students who land relevant jobs. Not surprisingly, it tends to be higher for tech-nical programs and lower for fine arts.

It also shows grads’ av-erage wages, a sobering but useful bit of information for high school students and their parents.

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Library needs to avoid a self-fulfilling prophecy

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Okanagan Regional Library is obviously try-ing to exhibit fiscal prudence and equity by en-suring communities receive services in line with the taxes they contribute.

And that should be commended as the public’s ability to financially support the agency is lim-ited.

However, there is the potential that this pro-cess, no matter how well meaning, could create an endless cycle that negatively impacts branch-es across the North Okanagan and Shuswap.

As an example, if there is reduced staff through retirement and fewer programs, branches may attract fewer people through the doors. If that oc-curs, then there is a reduction in books and other items being circulated and ORL administration and the board could make the case that even fewer resources are required.

One just has to look at the decision to change the hours of operation at the Cherryville branch. While the new schedule may work for some people, there are others who go to school or work that won’t be able to access the library because it’s only open Wednesdays from 4 to 8 p.m. and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“There is less opportunity for people to access the library so circulation goes down, so they (ORL) then look at the service,” said Hank Cam-eron, Cherryville’s electoral area director.

ORL’s commitment to financial prudence has already cost City of Vernon taxpayers $21,000 or Sunday openings at the Vernon branch would have been lost.

Similar pleas are being made to other munici-palities in the region.

As has been previously stated, ORL, as a pub-lic agency, deserves praise for looking at opera-tional changes that could reduce the bottom line and create equity among communities.

However, ORL needs to be cautious that it doesn’t create a situation that gets out of hand.

-Vernon Morning Star

Post-secondary re-engineering beginsBy Tom FletcherNews Columnist


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Before the current government came to power in the early 2000s, a cost estimate was made as to the cash required to four-lane the remaining pieces of the Trans-Canada Highway from Kamloops to the Al-berta border.

That figure was over $2 billion or $200 mil-lion of targeted spend-

ing per year for 10 years.

Fast forward to to-day. That figure is now $3 billion. The $650 million our premier set aside for the Trans-Canada Highway was lost a long time ago due to inflation and procrastination, as very little highway con-struction was done.

The cost of construc-

tion escalates approxi-mately 10 per cent per year.

The cost and losses to the people of B.C. are going to rise year after year until the government of the day abandons the excuses and makes an effort to effect solutions.

The loss of life has grown from an aver-age of 10.5 per year in

1999 to almost 16 per year today. Since early 2000, we have lost more people on this stretch of the highway to accidents than we lost in the entire Af-ghanistan conflict.

Statistics tell us that four-laning and divid-ing the highway will reduce accidents by 50 per cent.

The premier can’t

put a stop to the loss of life but at least she can slow down the number of vehicular homicides to a more realistic lev-el by improving the maintenance, design and the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Does she have the will?

R. A. (Bob) Edwards

MAIL BAGWhere’s the political will on the TCH?

I can’t believe that I’m reading this. It sounds ridiculous. The B.C. government is going to slaughter 184 wolves to save 18 caribou. Once again the B.C. government is launching a war on wolves. What’s worse, is that the government knows it won’t work.

In the B.C. wolf man-agement plan, they stat-ed themselves that “The ultimate reason that caribou have declined is likely habitat frag-mentation and loss...To date, B.C.’s wolf-management actions have not been success-ful in meeting mountain caribou recovery objec-tives.”

The government has tried before to save caribou populations by

culling wolves and it hasn’t worked before. It won’t work now. That’s because wolves are not the problem and defi-nitely not the cause of the declining caribou population.

Habitat degradation is the leading cause in the population decline. Things like clear-cut-ting, logging, pipelines, oil sands and recre-ational activities such as snowmobiling are to blame.

Caribou are adapted to living in areas where no other ungulates can survive. This choice of habitat is an impor-tant predator avoidance strategy. When there is so much habitat loss, it pushes the caribou into smaller areas but higher concentrations which

makes them easy targets for predators. Not to mention that clear-cut-ting and road-building certainly makes hunting easier for the wolves.

In addition to this, wolves are highly in-telligent creatures with very complex social relationships, much like humans. When a pack member is killed it dis-rupts the entire pack, and research shows that as a result, it can increase reproductive rates in wolves and de-stabilize pack structure causing more predation of livestock and other non-native prey.

The B.C. government will continue to use scientifically unsound reasons to scapegoat the wolf in order to di-vert attention from the

fundamental problem of ongoing habitat de-struction and displace-ment caused by human encroachment due to the advancement of in-dustry. There are other ways to protect and help ensure a future popula-

tion for the caribou, but shooting wolves from helicopters isn’t one of them. Please write to your government to voice your opposition to this barbaric plan.

Ashley Gribble

Province’s wolf cull plan not based on scientific evidence


SICAMOUS EAGLES PLAYER PROFILE

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Position: Defensemen Home Town: Kelowna, BCAge: 18 Height: 5’ 11” Weight: 160 Prev Team: Kelowna Minor Hockey, Midget AAAHobbies / Interests: Gym & friends Personal Hero: My fatherGoals: To play at the next level and eventually obtain a scholarship Favorite NHL Team: Vancouver CanucksFavorite Player: Paul CoffeyFavorite Music: IndieFavorite Food: RibsWhat do you like best about playing hockey in Sicamous:

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Fairy tale attraction goes on the market

After 25 years, Rocky and Juliet Ehlers have put the Enchanted Forest and Sky Trek up for sale.

“It’s been very en-joyable years and it’s time we move on,” said Rocky, 69.

The popular tour-ist attractions, located on the Trans-Canada Highway about 25 kilometres east of Si-camous, are listed for sale for $2.7 million.

“It’s been a reward-ing 25 years and we grew the business quite a bit,” said Rocky. “It’s an attraction for peo-ple of all ages and we made it that way.”

According to its website, The Enchant-ed Forest opened on July 1, 1960, as a place for Doris Needham to showcase her fairy tale figurines. She and

her husband Ernest searched for a location before finding the spot on the highway about half way between Rev-elstoke and Sicamous.

They slowly added attractions over the years, capitalizing on the increase in traf-fic that came with the opening of the Trans-Canada Highway through Rogers Pass in 1962.

The Ehlers pur-chased the attraction in 1990 and continued to add to it, most notably building the wetlands boardwalk and the three-story treehouse, the tallest in British Columbia.

They also added the Sky Trek Adventure Park next door, a series of ropes courses built amongst the treetops.

“Building SkyTrek and learning how to climb trees and work in the treetops was an ad-

venture,” said Rocky.Rocky was a forester

and Juliet was a nurse before they bought the attraction.

Rocky said that on a busy day about 1,000 people will stop at the

Enchanted Forest and Sky Trek.

“I think the fact we get as many people coming shows they want to be in the forest, so that’s what we did,” he said.

Castle for sale: The long-time B.C. highway tourist stop is on the market because the owners are ready to retire. Photo contributed.

Enchanted Forest, Sky Trek: Asking price set at $2.7 million.By Alex CooperBlack Press

Councillors take on areas of expertise

Residents with issues or input pertaining to, say, highway transporta-tion, tourism, seniors or health care now have a point person on district council.

Last week, District of Sicamous council ap-proved the assignment of “research portfolios,” that will see each coun-cillor take a lead on dif-ferent focus areas.

Coun. Malcolm Makayev is the lead for

the portfolio of trans-portation and infrastruc-ture, with a focus on highways. Alternatives on this folio are Mayor Terry Rysz and Coun. Gord Bushell.

Makayev is also lead on a seniors folio with Coun. Jeff Mallmes and Rysz as alternates, as well as a health care folio, with Coun. Janna Simons and Rysz as al-ternates.

Mallmes is the lead on a public works/wa-ter treatment/waste wa-

ter folio (Couns. Todd Kyllo and Gord Bushell alternates), and a wa-terfront folio (Bushell/Kyllo alternates).

Kyllo is the lead on an economic develop-ment folio (Coun. Col-leen Anderson alter-nate). Anderson is the lead on a tourism folio. The folio of parks and recreation campground was assigned to Bush-ell (Kyllo/Mallmes al-ternates), while Simons was assigned school/education (Anderson/

Mallmes alternates). Along with the as-

signed portfolios, coun-cil also approved a re-lated research protocol system.

This document states the system provides no formal authority to councillors assigned a portfolio. What it does, however, is provide the councillor “an oppor-tunity to develop and maintain a heightened level of knowledge and leadership in a special field.”



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DISTRICT OF SICAMOUS

2015 UTILITY BILLINGS HAVE BEEN MAILED

District of Sicamous Ph: 250-836-2477 Fax: 250-836-4314 446 Main Street. Box 219 Sicamous B.C. V0E 2V0 • www.sicamous.ca

Property Owners (especially new owners) who have not received their utility notice should contact the District of Sicamous Office at 836-2477.

WHETHER OR NOT YOU RECEIVE A UTILITY NOTICE, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS THE PROPERTY OWNER TO PAY YOUR UTILITIES BY THE DUE DATE IN ORDER TO AVOID A PENALTY.FLAT RATED BILLING

• A 10% discount is available on payments received on or before March 2, 2015• A 10% penalty will be applied to outstanding balances at the close of business

on July 2, 2015JANUARY METERED BILLING

• January metered billing payments are due on or before March 2, 2015• A 1% penalty per month will be applied to outstanding balances at the close of

business on March 2, 2015• Meters are read twice a year June 30th and December 31st, with billings

processed the following monthPAYMENT OPTIONS

• To avoid waiting at the Municipal Office, you are encouraged to pay your Utility Bill early

• Post-dated cheques and partial payments are welcome• Payment is accepted at the Municipal Office, 446 Main Street, Monday to

Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except Statutory Holidays• Payment may be cash, cheque, debit card, or your bank’s telebanking/online

bill payment service• A drop box is located beside the door of the Municipal Office, Main Street

entrance• Payments can be mailed to PO Box 219, Sicamous, BC V0E 2V0. Please note

that postmarks are not accepted as proof of payment

If you have any questions, please contact the District office at (250) 836-2477.

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Avast ye mateys: Parkview Elementary School student Jasmine Gossen practices before the start of the Pirate Loppet at Larch Hills on Friday, Jan. 30. Photo by Evan Buhler

With playoffs looming, it’s not a good time for a pair of Sicamous Eagles’ losses in action over the past week.

On Tuesday, Feb. 3, the Eagles came out flat against the Revelstoke Grizzlies with a 3-0 final score.

Then on Wednesday, Feb. 4, The Kamloops Storm blew by the hometown Sicamous Eagles by a 5-1 marker in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action.

Sicamous opened the scoring midway through Wednesday night’s tilt, but it would be the only goal the Eagles would get past Kamloops starter Jacob Mullen. The Storm outshot the Eagles 35-16.

The Eagles will get a chance to redeem them-selves with two home games this weekend, facing Spokane on Friday, Feb. 13 and Princeton on Sat-urday, Feb. 14. Both games are at 7 p.m.

SPORTSEagles struggle, post two losses

In celebration of the Shuswap Trail Al-liance’s 10th Anniver-sary, the Build-a-Me-tre-of-Trail campaign is back to raise $50,000 in support of regional greenway trail projects.

At an average of $15 - $20/metre, that equals over 2,500 metres of new trails for walking, cycling, equestrian, and winter nordic use in the Shuswap.

“We’re building on the circle of partners now committed to cre-ating serious greenway solutions for walk-

ing, cycling, and other forms of healthy active travel throughout the region,” says Winston Pain, Shuswap Trail Alliance board chair-person.

Every dollar raised goes toward building new trails and taking care of existing ones. They help to lever-age partnership fund-ing, hire seasonal trail crews and support vol-unteers.

In 2014, regional partners worked with the Shuswap Trail Al-liance to leverage over

$100,000 in in-kind support for new and upgraded trails, trail signs, maintenance, and planning for new projects. Trails and communities in every part of the region ben-efited.

To support the work of the Shuswap Trail Alliance and regional partners, visit www.shuswaptrails.com and follow the Build-a-Me-tre links on the home page.

All contributions are charitable and tax de-ductible.

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“When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.”

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out our Christmas tree from under the deck, I discovered to my dis-may that a squirrel had found a way in and built a big messy nest near the door. Not only that, but every open box and boot was overflowing with pinecones bits and pieces, creating a colos-sal clean up for me to tackle at some point. We decided that the furry little fellow could keep

his cozy home for now, (because who were we to condemn it to certain death without winter digs). But the rest of the mess had to be swept, so while silently cussing the critter when clean-ing away, I had to admit to myself he had given me an opportunity to dejunk by recycling, re-gifting and retiring stuff to the landfill that had been in there for years. This not only gave me a sense of a fresh start to the new year, but it also allowed me some time while toiling away to contemplate and re-evaluate my values and how I live my life and where I could make some changes.

According to the ancient texts and pre-dictions of the Mayans, Egyptians, some fa-mous fortunetellers, the Zodiac and even some religious writings, this is the time – the age – in

human history that will make room for the new values of love, unity, integrity and to live har-moniously with nature. However, a lot of poop will have to hit the fan first because everything will be exposed and taken down – govern-ments, corporations and individuals – and the world will appear to be in chaos.

This fear and futility for our future can be extremely deflating, de-pressing, dis-empower-ing and even down right dangerous, because it may indeed lead to so-cial and environmental chaos if we choose to throw our hands up in the air and give up on it.

Last year, our young teenager was one of hundreds of local and international students who spent a day at UVic to listen to speakers of varying backgrounds. The last one to talk –

a syndicated columnist - stated as a fact, that this run-away global roasting, if not entirely arrested and reversed, would render all the lands near the equator uninhabitable within the next 10 to 20 years with the rest of the world following right behind it. Basically life was a done deal because it was unlikely that it was do-able. This deeply rattled them and the mood on the bus going back was sad and subdued, which made me stew, because who was he to dim the hopes and dreams of all those bright lights in the room? I agree that we’re in a planetary pickle in plenty of ways, but I’m not buying into his negative news of doom, because if there’s one thing my lessons from the Gaia College taught me, was that nature’s got some pretty power-ful tools to tinker with,

which would take care of a lot of our problems before this time bomb stops ticking and our poor old planet spins out of control.

Heide Hermary, co-founder and president of the college, says this in her book: Working With Nature - Shifting Paradigms: “Our soci-eties have entered a pe-riod of intense change. As we become aware that our actions are af-fecting the equilibrium of our planet, it becomes clear that many things need to be done differ-ently. More and more consumers are willing to pay a premium for goods and services that are guaranteed to em-body ecologically sound practices, and more and more producers and ser-vice providers are able to meet those needs.

We are not talking a little change in pric-ing, but a paradigm shift

in fundamental, under-lying values, a shift in what we value most in life. The human species didn’t intentionally set out to destroy this planet and itself in the process; these are the results of actions based on sim-plistic assumptions.

It’s time for a change. If our actions are to

be inclusive and sup-portive of Nature’s needs, then we must al-ready integrate Nature’s needs into our ques-tions.

We need to think in terms of ‘we’ instead of ‘me’, and deliber-ately set out to cooper-ate rather than exploit. All change starts with intent. Perhaps we can start by intending to co-operate with Nature to make this planet – or our little piece of land – a healthy and pros-perous place for all its inhabitants.”

These predictions

also say that this im-portant (albeit unpleas-ant) period of time is part of our own evo-lution in consciousness and we are each being asked to make a choice: we can cling to the old outdated values and ways we live or em-brace the new evolving ones, with the ultimate outcome depending on those choices.

The Pope has just pleaded to his billion-strong flock to help stop the crumbling away of creation and the UN is harping on Harper and other countries to clean up their act. Now I say (if I may) that it’s “all hands on deck” to us tenders of the earth to step up to the plate and take on some of these troubles!

Poop happens, but ‘shift’ happens too - and it starts with one garden, farm, landscape and choice, at a time.

My gardener’s message for the year ahead

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FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

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Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all

sizes in stock. Trades are welcome.

40’Containers under $2500!DMG 40’ containers under $2,000 each. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift.

Wanted to buy 300 size hydraulic excavator.

Ph Toll free 1-866-528-71081-778-298-3192 8am-5pm

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SAWMILLS FROM only$4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

STEEL BUILDINGS/metalbuildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.

Misc. WantedPrivate Collector Looking toBuy Coin Collections, Silver,Antiques, Native Art, Estates +Chad: 778-281-0030 Local

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Homes for Rent3 BDRM 2 BATH SicamousHouse $1,000/mo + utilities. Avail Mar. 1/15. House is also for sale. If sells, last mo. free. Call 604-945-5882.

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Breathe through a straw for 60 seconds. That’s what breathing is like with cystic fibrosis.

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Happy Birthday Canada:

Sicamous once again celebrated Canada Day

in style with a variety of activities and en

tertainment, complete with fireworks on the

water. Clockwise from top left: Boaters light

up the water below as fireworks light up the

sky; Paige Blair shows her national pride on

her cheek; Katrina Dubs focuses on her art

Kayla Hill shares a cupcake with son Ryan;

Gwyneth Gau brings balloons to the party.

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