Eagle Valley News, May 15, 2013

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Kyllo dominates Shuswap voteB.C. election: Liberals retain grip on the riding, Sicamous businessman heading to Victoria.

Just one word – “Wow!”That was BC Liberal Greg Kyl-

lo’s reaction to winning last night’s election with slightly more than 48 per cent of the vote.

In the unofficial count with 165 of 166 polls reporting, Kyllo got 11,342 votes, followed by NDP Steve Gunner with 6,972 votes, Conservative Tom Birch with 3,045 Green candidate Chris George had 2,186 and Johanna Zalcik of the Advocational Party took 62.

Both Kyllo and the Liberal Par-ty defied pre-election polls that had the NDP forming the next govern-ment.

“I am looking forward to work-ing in government, not opposition,” he said after several congratulatory hugs from ecstatic supporters.

Kyllo’s campaign office was in-fused with a party atmosphere less than an hour after the polls closed, when the Liberals were already leading in 46 polls.

Supporters were gathered around a TV set, reacting to results with loud cheers and laughter. In a quieter corner, Kyllo described himself as being cautiously opti-mistic. He credited his campaign team for the win, saying no one person could have done it alone.

“I am absolutely humbled by the number of volunteers who have come forward,” he said, noting his first move as MLA will be to reac-quaint himself with his wife and four daughters. “This has been all-consuming, 24-7.”

Beyond the short break, Kyllo says learning the ropes and creat-ing jobs will be priorities.

“Only with a strong economy can you have the dollars to ad-equately fund needed social pro-grams,” he said.

With the youngest of four daughters now 18, and his Si-

camous businesses in good hands, Kyllo said the time is right for mov-ing into the new challenges a politi-cal career will offer.

“I have extremely big shoes to fill and lots to learn,” he said. “And I’m up for the challenge.”

The big shoes belong to outgo-ing MLA George Abbott who held the post for 17 years.

Also playing a supporting role, a delighted fundraising manager Mel Arnold, said the Liberal win will “keep B.C.’s economy moving forward.”

Kyllo will move into the politi-cal arena with strong family sup-port as well.

“I am extremely proud of him, he worked hard and I am excited we can carry on this journey to-gether,” said wife Georgina, who noted she had been nervous early in the day. “I would have been proud of him either way.”

At NDP campaign headquar-ters, a subdued group of volunteers watched as the Liberal lead in B.C. grew.

Candidate Steve Gunner, not one to blurt out unreasoned an-swers during the campaign, held true to form on Tuesday night.

“I would hate to look at the big picture just yet. It would take more analysis than we can do at the mo-ment,” he said, adding, “Obviously this is a fairly surprising result for British Columbia, not what we would expect to be getting. I think it’s going to make people a little more skeptical about polls. At the same time, it also says a lot about what can go on in a person’s mind between the time they make a deci-sion and the time they sit in a poll-ing station and have to put pen to paper.”

Gunner was highly complimen-tary of his team and the work they did for him.

“I did not think it would be pos-sible to get so many people to work together for so long… It was ab-

solutely humbling and inspiring to see how hard people worked.”

Long-time NDP supporter, Vic-tor Toy, admitted to feeling sick-ened by the results.

“I’m shocked and dismayed that despite the NDP running a very positive campaign of hope, it was lost… It now makes me re-ally question polls. Right down to the very last days the polls were reflecting the exact opposite of what’s happening…,” he said.

Despite the disappointing loss, Gunner, who operates an organic turkey and chicken farm with his spouse Andrea, won’t be taking time off to ponder his fate.

As she gave him a hug at the end of the evening, she reminded him that there were chickens to be looked after in the morning.

Conservative Party candidate Tom Birch landed in third place.

Birch was confident heading into the preliminary count and felt good about the campaign. Prior to the re-sults, he said he thought it would be a close three-way race, saying that the high voter turn out and good advanced voting turnout favoured the political right. However, as the votes came in, he was slightly sur-prised at the gap.

“Well, I’m obviously disap-pointed with the way it broke,” Birch said. “Greg Kyllo ran a good campaign. I’ve just called him and congratulated him and we’ll see what happens next time around.

“I still feel good. I learned a lot going through the whole process. This is democracy, it’s more impor-tant than who wins.”

Birch hopes the winner takes se-riously the fact that they represent 100 per cent of the people.

“I’m sure I’ll be a little more

down tomorrow but it’s all the way it has to be, people have spoken,” he said.

Green Party candidate Chris George wound up in fourth, saying the results were on track with his predictions.

“Pretty much what I was expect-ing,” he said. “We obviously don’t have the deep pockets of the other parties. We relied on town halls, getting out on door steps, making phone calls and a pretty stiff Face-book campaign.”

George was happy to see Green Party candidate Andrew Weaver win his riding, Oak Bay-Gordon Head, saying these steps are the foundation for a political party.

“It’s much of a truism that much of our politics is based on fear and the way that the other parties ran their campaigns, that was very evi-dent,” George said.

By Barb Brouwer, Martha Wickett and Jessica KlymchukEagle Valley News

Reaction: BC Liberal candidate Greg Kyllo receives a congratulatory hug from his daughter Saman-tha as Shuswap riding results roll in Tuesday night. Photo by James Murray.

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Two people are fac-ing multiple charges in relation to a Malakwa marijuana grow opera-tion from which police seized more than 400 plants, as well as nu-merous firearms.

On May 9, Si-camous RCMP execut-ed a search warrant at a

Mizon Road residence. Sicamous Sgt. Dave Dubnyk says the war-rant was obtained for theft of electricity. Upon entering the residence, investigating officers found two “large mari-juana grow operations,” and multiple firearms including two shotguns and three rifles.

“The residence had a licence to produce

medicinal marijuana,” reports Dubnyk. “How-ever, the quantity of plants was two-and-a-half times the amount authorized by Health Canada.”

Three people lo-cated at the residence, one from Malakwa and the other two from the Okanagan, were taken into custody. They were later released, with two

facing charges for pro-duction of marijuana, theft of electricity and unsafe storage of fire-arms.

Dubnyk adds further charges are pending against two additional suspects. The case re-mains under investiga-tion.

Stolen propertyAlso on May 9, Si-

camous RCMP execut-ed a second warrant on Cambie-Solsqua Road.

The warrant was obtained as part of an investigation into sto-len property. Investigat-ing officers found and seized a Caterpillar skid steer and a flat deck trailer.

This matter also re-mains under investiga-tion.

Firearms, plants seized in grow op bustBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Unlike the provincial election candidates in the Shuswap riding who have been civil and re-spectful with each other, some supporters are anything but – when it comes to political signs.

In the Shuswap, it seems to be equal-op-portunity nastiness.

Overnight on Wednesday, May 8, more than 50 signs were taken from homes on Lakeshore Drive, in the Raven subdivision back towards downtown.

One of the those thefts traumatized a young person, accord-ing to his father.

Nine-year-old Justin Schielke was awoken about 3 a.m. on May 9 and went to his window. There he saw a man in a black coat on the lawn.

“He said he was outside his window,” explained father Chris Schielke later that morning, adding that his son was afraid and crying. “He was really

frightened. This morn-ing when he got up to walk the dog, he didn’t want to do it. He was afraid to go outside.”

Although a check of the house that morning didn’t reveal anything missing, when Schielke left for school he no-ticed the NDP sign was gone, along with ev-eryone else’s along his route.

While he under-stands the political as-pect of it, he is shocked that someone would stoop to such tactics.

“Now I have a son who is afraid of what’s going on outside his windows because of someone’s ignorance.”

Joy Orr, local NDP campaign manager, said well over 50 signs were stolen and broken, some of them defaced with nasty graffiti, and then they were dumped in Klahani Park in South Canoe. Up until this in-cident, there had only been minor vandalism throughout the cam-paign, Orr said.

“I was deeply con-cerned to hear that people who had placed election signs on pri-vate property had their privacy invaded in this manner.”

Salmon Arm RCMP Sgt. Carlos Tettolowski said officers were being asked to do additional patrols, and he would appreciate hearing from anyone who has infor-mation regarding the thefts.

BC Conservative candidate Tom Birch was facing a similar situation in Sicamous, where all of his signs were stolen. He said Thursday if he can’t find them, he won’t be able to replace them. He calls the thefts ‘stupidity.’

“If the signs are de-faced or ripped up but they’re there, that’s van-dalism. If they’re miss-ing all together, that’s sabotage,” Birch said.

In the Liberal camp, campaign manager Brian Cowan said about 100 signs have gone missing. He said that’s not unusual, however.

“It happens every election.”

About half of them have been found.

Cowan said such be-haviour ends up looking bad for all the parties, and he notes that people can be fined $10,000 for such acts.

Sign thefts rampant in last days of electionBy Martha WickettEagle Valley News

Replacement: Chris Schielke and his son Justin place another sign on their lawn after the first was stolen. Photo by James Murray

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The B.C. Conserva-tion office has initiated an investigation into the dumping of various materials on a Cambie-Solsqua property

Conservation officer Mike Richardson con-firmed last week that complaints were re-ceived through the Min-istry of Environment’s RAPP (Report All Poachers and Polluters) line relating truckloads of material being depos-ited on a property along Cambie-Solsqua Rd., near the Eagle Valley and District Cemetery.

“The Conservation office has launched an investigation; it’s just in its initial phase right now,” said Richardson.

The property is cur-rently listed as a court sale and, according to the listing, includes a residence on 117 acres. The property is within the Columbia Shus-wap Regional Dis-trict’s Electoral Area E (Sicamous-Malakwa) and CSRD develop-ment services’ Chris-tine LeFloch says it is zoned agricultural, and is within the province’s Agricultural Land Re-serve.

LeFloch notes the zoning allows for the

operation of a home business, but the op-eration of a “waste re-cylcing depot or any other form of wrecking yard or metal fabrica-tion would not be sup-ported.”

“As this property is also within the ALR, it is subject to the Agri-cultural Land Commis-sion Act,” says LeFloch. “The CSRD has no his-tory on this property making application to the ALC for a non-farm use.”

The property’s cur-rent owners did not wish to comment to the Eagle Valley News aside from encourag-ing any neighbours with concerns to speak with them directly.

Some of those neigh-bours did speak with the News, expressing con-cerns with what they’ve seen happening on the property and how that might have an impact.

Anushka Cowan said she her partner were interested in the property as a possible investment, but were put off by the piles of material along a back road along the proper-ty’s north side.

“What if the ground is now contaminated or, I mean, it’s going to cost more than $100,000 to clean it up?” questioned

Cowan. “So, when all is said and done, whoever is buying it isn’t getting such a good deal. And if the ground is con-taminated, now this new owner is responsible for it.”

Cowan claims the property is frequented by dump trucks, going in full and coming out empty. And she is wor-ried that if the ground is contaminated, how that might impact the water table for the neighbours, who draw their water from wells.

“It’s not just people

coming along with a pickup load of garbage here and there,” said Cowan. “It’s dump trucks… there’s whole buildings smashed up in piles in there.”

Ivan and Marilyn Munro share Cowan’s concerns.

“There have been a lot of trucks going in and out for quite a while, some big stuff, and they go in full and come out empty… ,” said Marilyn. “Per-sonally, I don’t think it’s appropriate that it be dumped on private

land like that, where it should have gone to the

dump and be sorted up there.”

Ivan says he is con-cerned about local wa-ter quality, not only for the human population, but also for painted tur-tles that call the boggy area home.

“It was kind of strange that I came across a small Canadian painted turtle trying to get into the water,” said Ivan after coming home from an afternoon walk. “It was almost dead. So I threw it in the water and I realized the Ca-nadian painted turtle, I don’t know if they’re actually protected, but they’re endangered.”

Ivan reiterated Mari-lyn and Cowan’s story about the trucks going into the property, and for the materials they’ve

been carrying.“I know they had

what they call a tub grinder in there, and they started off just grinding up stumps. That’s not too bad. Now he’s into building ma-terials…,” he said. “It doesn’t look like it’s be-ing used for agricultural land, I’ll tell you that. That’s what it’s sup-posed to be.”

The Agricultural Land Commission has been notified and is looking into the situa-tion.

The CSRD’s waste management co-ordina-tor, Ben Van Nostrand, said that because the report pertains to pri-vate land, complaints are being forwarded to the ALC and the RAPP line.

Province tipped off to waste collection on farm landUnder investigation: Neighbours say dumptruck loads of material being deposited on site .

Waste: A pile of metal waste can be seen from a gated back road to a Cemetery Road property that is currently being investigated by the Conservation office after it received reports through the RAPP (Report All Poachers and Polluters) tip line. Photo by Lachlan Labere

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

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VICTORIA – Another election campaign has come and gone, with the ritual posturing of political par-ties and most news media searching for anything they can portray as a conflict.

Now comes the time to wonder why not enough people cared, or informed themselves about the real problems of running this $40 billion corporation called the B.C. government.

Why would they, when the whole thing is presented as a combination of beauty contest and sports event, with endless discussion of polls and “attack ads” and who’s ahead and what’s the score?

Again we have seen the truth of former prime min-ister Kim Campbell’s obser-vation that elections are no time to talk about serious is-sues. Indeed, there are some things you can’t speak of at all. Peace River North MLA Pat Pimm caused a stir at a candidates’ debate when

he referred to constituents’ concerns that disabled chil-dren can cause difficulties in classrooms.

He didn’t say classrooms should be segregated, al-though that’s a discussion worth having. He didn’t deny the need for more sup-port for special needs kids. But his opponents immedi-ately portrayed it that way, and media seized on the conflict despite the factual inaccuracy.

West Vancouver-Cap-ilano MLA Ralph Sultan had a similar experience when he referred to his study of poverty in that af-fluent area. He noted that there was a high correlation between single parenthood and kids in poverty. Picking on single mums, his detrac-tors exclaimed, and that’s what got reported.

The B.C. Conservatives kicked their Boundary-Si-milkameen candidate out of the party because he wrote an article saying women shouldn’t choose to be sin-gle mothers.

You can talk about child

poverty, as long as you only discuss it based on federal statistics that do not mea-sure poverty. Christy Clark started doing this as soon as she became B.C. Liberal leader, one of several issues where she dispensed with the facts and tried to copy a popular NDP stance instead.

She was all about fami-lies, which can of course be single people, single parents or pretty well anything you want them to be.

In fact the decline of the traditional family and the abdication of responsibility by many parents, fathers in particular, are central factors in the problem of poor and neglected children. But you can’t talk about that, at least not during elections.

Whole areas of political discussion have devolved into euphemisms that are chosen because they can’t be defined. Everybody’s in favour of “affordable hous-ing,” for instance. What they won’t admit is that this is code for subsidized housing, because then they would have to talk about

how much the subsidy is, and who has to pay for it.

Good grief, that might raise the question of wheth-er the state should be taking money away from some people and giving it to oth-ers so they can live where they otherwise couldn’t af-ford to live.

We even have rules pre-venting the media from reporting polls on election day. People might be in-fluenced by this, you see. If you tell them Party X is far ahead, they might stay home and mow the lawn in-stead. If you tell them some-one is making a comeback, they might change their vote because they want to be on the winning side, or the one that has “momentum.” Just like any other sport.

The news media are steadily losing influence with the public. There are many factors involved, in-cluding the vast array of information sources that are available at most people’s fingertips.

Another factor is treating the public like they’re idiots.

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Let’s try to side-step fire season in the Shuswap

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With the advent of summer-like weather in the Shuswap comes another season —fire season.

Despite initial cool spring conditions, the fire season has quickly jumped into full swing with the danger ratings climbing, including one section between Salmon Arm and Enderby that is already ranked high.

Since April 1, the Kamloops Fire Centre, which encompasses our region, has responded to 43 human-caused wildfires, the largest of which has grown to about 1,400 hectares in size.

The Salmon Arm Fire Zone will become subject to an open burning ban on June 15, when all open burning will be prohibited throughout the Kam-loops Fire Centre.

This prohibition does not ban campfires that are a half-metre high by a half-metre wide (or smaller) and does not apply to cooking stoves that use gas, propane or briquettes.

That being said, it is critical that residents and visitors alike be vigilant in conducting any burn-ing in a cautious manner — and this includes cigarette smokers who might be tempted to toss a butt before being certain it is entirely extinguished.

This was the situation a few years ago near Falk-land, where a cigarette thrown form a car window ignited a huge swath of forest.

Anyone found in contravention of an open fire prohibition may be issued a ticket for $345 or, if convicted in court, be fined up to $100,000 and sentenced to one year in jail.

If the contravention causes or contributes to a wildfire, the person may be subject to a penalty of up to $10,000 and be ordered to pay all firefight-ing and associated costs.

To report a wildfire or unattended campfire, dial *5555 on a cellphone or call 1 800 663-5555 toll-free.

This area has seen its share of forest fires and the devastation they cause. After the flooding crisis last year, it would be nice if Sicamous could avoid smoke and flames this summer.

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Sicamous man a victim of fiery crashThe BC Coroners Service

has con� rmed the identities of two men who died after a mo-tor vehicle crash near Chase on May 6.

The men are Michael Spencer, 24, from Sicamous and Christopher Thomas Bo-man, 24, from Salmon Arm.

The coroner states that Spencer was the driver and Boman the front-seat passen-ger in a pick-up truck, which

police report ran head-on into a semi-trailer on the Trans-Canada Highway in the Hoff-man’s Bluff area near Chase.

The crash took place short-ly after 9 p.m. Both men died at the scene.

Chase and Kamloops RCMP, as well as � re and rescue crews from Pritchard and Chase, were called to the scene where witnesses report-ed the pick-up truck crossed the centre line.

The truck drove into the

west-bound semi which was transporting butter.

The pick-up truck then burst into � ames, igniting the semi, as well as some sur-rounding trees and brush.

RCMP say they think alco-hol and speed were contribut-ing factors in this collision.

A male passenger was able to escape the wreckage after being pulled from the truck by people at the scene. He is reported to have been taken to Royal Inland Hospital in Ka-

mloops for treatment of seri-ous injuries.

The driver of the semi-truck suffered a broken leg and was transported to Shus-wap Lake General Hospital for treatment.

The Trans-Canada High-way was closed in both direc-tions for approximately six hours.

The BC Coroners Service and RCMP continue to inves-tigate the deaths.

Mayes makes ‘media monitoring’ list

By Martha WickettEagle Valley News

North Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes is among those MPs who have cap-tured the attention of the prime minister.

What that will mean for him remains to be seen, but one thing is certain – it has come at a cost to taxpayers.

Federal government expenditures on media monitoring between April 1, 2011 and March 20, 2013 show that Mayes is one of 65 backbench MPs whose presence in the media the government has been watching.

Mayes (misspelled as Colin ‘Mays’) is listed as one of more than 400 search terms the Privy Council of-� ce contracted Cision Canada Inc. to monitor.

Cision Canada’s website describes the company this way:

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products to help man-age all aspects of their brands — from iden-tifying key media and in� uencers to connect-ing with audiences; monitoring traditional and social media; and analyzing outcomes.”

The Privy Council of� ce spent $2.4 mil-lion on media moni-toring, which included keeping an eye on the 65 MPs. Government-wide, more than $23 million was spent mon-itoring media over the same period.

The monitoring was news to Mayes, who learned about it late last week.

He told the Eagle Valley News he is aware the Prime Minister’s Of� ce does some monitoring because there have been a few instances in the past seven years he has been contacted regarding different articles in the newspaper.

“Not many, but a couple where they said,

‘do you really want to say this?’ and we talk-ed about it,” explains Mayes.

However, he wasn’t aware his name is one of 65 backbench MPs on a list of ‘search’ terms.

“It just came up be-fore I left (Ottawa), and

so actually I haven’t had a chance to ask some speci� cs on it, why they picked the 65,” he said Monday. “It’s hard to say. The prime minister might have said, he just wants to see 65 people and how they’ve dealt with the media because he’s looking to put them in a

higher position – wants to know how they han-dle media… I don’t know.”

He’s not bothered by being watched.

“The public is al-ways monitoring me. People who maybe don’t agree or who are critical, they’re looking for me at my weakest point. It doesn’t bother me at all. If you don’t like con� ict and don’t want to live in a glass room, then don’t run for politics.”

He said most com-munications are open to monitoring.

“In this world of modern communica-tions, tweeter and Twit-ter and Facebook and all the rest of it, basi-cally everything you put down on a comput-er is open. I’ve found the best way, if I have something really pri-vate that I don’t want to be repeated, I just phone directly to the person… Anything I put on line I expect it to

be public at any time.”Among those people

being monitored by the Conservative govern-ment is Liberal MP Justin Trudeau. Mayes isn’t sure how he feels about being in his com-pany.

“I don’t know if that is a compliment or not. That’s yet to be told,” he laughed.

Liberal MP John McCallum, who re-quested the media monitoring contracts and their search terms from the feds, is not im-pressed.

“I think it’s a prepos-terous waste of money,” he said, adding that it demonstrates a certain contempt on the part of the government for its own members.

“To monitor every word they say… there are lots of more press-ing matters.”

He noted Google searches are free.

“Why you have to spend all this money is quite beyond me.”

By Martha WickettEagle Valley News

toring, which included keeping an eye on the 65 MPs. Government-wide, more than $23 million was spent mon-itoring media over the

The monitoring was news to Mayes, who learned about it late last

Colin MayesMember of Parliament

ERS students choose Kyllo, SAS goes with Gunner

Students at Eagle River Secondary and Salmon Arm Second-ary cast their votes in a mock provincial elec-tion on May 13 for Stu-dent Vote BC 2013.

Eagle River stu-dents would have elect-ed Liberal candidate Greg Kyllo while SAS students would have elected NDP candidate Steve Gunner.

At SAS, Gunner took 32 per cent of the votes followed by

Chris George with 31 per cent, Greg Kyllo with 19 per cent, Tom Birch with 14 per cent and Johanna Zalcik with four per cent. A total of 837 students cast ballots and 47 were spoiled, with around an 80 per cent voter turnout.

Graham Gomme’s Civics 11 class and Celia Dyer’s Social Studies 10 class ran the election, which was open to Grades 9 to 12.

“It’s mainly (about) the process, it’s the idea of voting,” Gom-

me said. “It’s the idea of thinking of who you want to vote for, so that students make an educated vote. That’s the main purpose. We participate every time there’s an election. I think it’s quite bene� -cial.”

At ERS, Kyllo took 34 per cent of the votes followed by Tom Birch and Steve Gunner with 24 per cent each, Chris George with 10 per cent and Johanna Zal-cik with zero. There was a 76 per cent voter turn out and two

spoiled ballots. Voting was only open to Grade 11 and 12 students.

In the past couple of weeks Kyllo, Birch, Gunner and George each visited the Social Studies 11 class at ERS and addressed the stu-dents so they were able to make an educated vote.

Candidates didn’t visit SAS but candidate posters with platform highlights were posted outside the library for students to see. They were also encouraged to attend all-candidates

meetings. “I think Student

Vote BC and the Feder-al student vote � nd that if students do it within the school there’s a bet-ter turnout at the polls. I don’t know if they’ve tracked it,” Gomme said. “If you can get them out between 18 and 30 the odds of them voting are a lot better.”

Fifteen students from Gomme’s class worked as polling clerks for Elections BC in the provincial elec-tion.

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The beats are coming back. On Saturday, May 18, Pinz Boardshop

in Sicamous will once again be playing host to a number of DJs for a multi-purpose fundraiser. The all-ages show will run from 1 to 4 p.m. at Pinz, and then relocate to the skate park at Finlayson Park for the best trick contest.

The event is being co-ordinated by West Ave. Productions’ DJ Grimekeepa, aka Matty Bibbs of Salmon Arm – the second he’ll have been involved with in Sicamous over the past couple months.

Food will be collected at the event for both the Sicamous food bank as well as the Salvation Army in Salmon Arm. In addi-tion, a portion of the proceeds will go to the food banks, and towards a fund to improve the community’s skate parks.

“Right now, they have absolutely no ac-cess to water… on 30-degree days, there’s going to be kids getting heat stroke,” says Bibbs of the Salmon Arm skate park. “There’s also no covered areas whatsoever, and there’s no seating for the parents. So

when parents come to hang out with the kids and watch them skate and stuff like that, they’re actually sitting on parts of the skate park, which causes as safety concern and takes away areas from the kids to play on.”

Bibbs says these all-ages, drug and booze-free fundraisers are a way of reach-ing out to younger audiences and their par-ents. It’s also a way of giving back to com-munity non-profit groups.

“I’m going to be trying to get all our events to be happening in both towns, be-cause I find the youth in Sicamous really get forgotten about,” says Bibbs.

The May 18 event will include vendors TNT Dynamite Gourmet Foods and Doug’s Ice Cream from Salmon Arm. And a face painter from Vancouver Island will be of-fering her services as well.

In addition, there will be prizes and a silent auction, for which Bibbs is seeking donations.

Anyone wishing to donate, or wanting more information, may contact Bibbs at 250-517-9701, or visit https://www.face-book.com/events/437190603044506/.


Two turntables: DJ JLee is one of the artists performing in Sicamous on May 18.

Camp at camp: The Sicamous Amateur Drama Club’s Camp How 2 completed its successful run last week. Clockwise from top left: The Whiskey brothers’ (Gord Mackie and Fred Busch) etiquette lessons fail to impress tipsy students (Terry Sinton, Dodi Thoms;) campers Sue Simmonds, Mina Mat-thews and Karen McPhail give Joan Chafe a hand reporting the weather; Mina Mathews deep in detergent op-tions; Alexei Hoover, Mariah Twa, Ni-cole Wilde,Victoria Kaiser and Aiden Twa try their hand at an ABBA number. Photos by Lachlan Labere


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After 22 years in School District #83 Joan Chafe is saying goodbye. Chafe will be retiring as principal from Parkview Elemen-tary at the end of the school year.

“Kids keep you young and they bring joy to you and they’re so honest. So, I will miss that greatly,” Chafe said. “We have a wonderful staff here that care about kids and it’s nice to be part of a community where everybody works together.”

In her time with the district she has only spent three years out-side of Sicamous. Chafe spent 15 years at Eagle River Secondary where she taught French, held a position as career co-ordinator and vice prin-cipal. She did postgrad-uate studies in school management and lead-ership studies before making the transition to elementary school. Af-ter three years as Prin-cipal of Grindrod El-ementary, she returned to Sicamous as principal of Parkview Elementary and has been there for the past three years.

“I live in the com-munity so I’ve been very happy to have had all the opportunity to be either at the high school or elementary

school,” she said. Chafe has seen her

high school students be-come parents and says it has been a neat experi-ence seeing their chil-dren come to Parkview.

“I go out into the community and I see the parents that I taught, I see the kids that I now am the principal for. I’ll miss that sense of com-munity,” Chafe said. “Hopefully I’ll still be able to be a part in some way, but in a lesser way.”

It was one of her ex-students who provided the cow for her to kiss in October when the

students met their fun-draising goal for the Terry Fox Foundation, something she says the school had a lot of fun with.

Chafe fondly re-members her many trips to France and Quebec with her French students at Eagle River Second-ary and the fundraising that went in to each trip.

She also enjoyed the opportunity to teach the elementary school teachers French and hopes that it might be something she could do again to give back to the schools once she

is retired. She is also proud to see the Explo-ration Program develop after being a part of its creation at Eagle River. The program offers elementary school stu-dents the opportunity to do four half days at the high school before mak-ing the official transi-tion from Grade 7 to 8. Chafe is happy to see the program is still run-ning in Sicamous and Enderby.

Chafe looks forward to having the time to pursue her bucket list, including theatre and Spanish classes. She

also hopes to make a trip across Canada with her husband. Although she is leaving, she hopes to still be involved with the schools in some way.

“My heart is in Si-camous, it truly is in the schools in Sicamous.”

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Moving on: Parkview Elementary principal Joan Chafe is retiring after spending much of her career with the school district in Sicamous. Photo contributed.

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The Sicamous Twin Anchors U14 Sting-ers girls fastball team continues to look im-pressive in league play, running their record to six wins, zero losses this week.

On Thursday, May 2, the Stingers travelled to Vernon to play Sum-merland.

Sicamous pitcher Niah Laroy was in total command, striking out six batters and not al-lowing any runs in two innings.

Sicamous poured on the offence, with Julia Wilby and Alyssa Clark scoring three runs each. Final score: Sicamous 20, Summer-land 1.

On Tuesday, May

7, Sicamous travelled to play Kelowna. Once again, the bats were hot and the Stingers of-fence pounded out the hits. The offence was led by Jordann Carr, who hit her first home-run of the season and went three-for-three batting.

Laroy also went three-for-three scoring three runs, and Fallon Todd was two-for-two, scoring twice and driv-ing in three runs.

Madison Dewitt was dominant on the pitching mound, allow-ing only one run and striking out eight in three innings.

Final score: Si-camous 18, Kelowna 6.

Thursday, May 9, saw the Stingers play their first home game

of the season in Fin-layson Park against the Vernon squad.

It was a great game, with the lead changing hands several times before Sicamous came out on top 11-9.

The offence was led by Clark, Carr and Wilby with two hits a-piece.

On defence, pitchers Niah Laroy and Madi-son Dewitt were strong, with Dewitt striking out eight batters and allow-ing only three runs.

Next up for the Stingers will be the Kelowna May Days Tournament on May 18-20.

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The 15th Annual Twin Anchors Ladies Open Fastball Tourna-

ment will be held again this year on the May 25-26 weekend in Fin-layson Park.

Sixteen ladies teams from all over B.C. and Alberta will be battling it out for $2,500 in prize money.

Teams are coming from Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary, Kelow-na, Vancouver, Surrey, Delta, Langley, Port Coquitlam and Co-quitlam.

Games start at 8 a.m. Saturday. There is no admission and Sicamous ball fans are welcome to come out and watch the top teams in Western Can-ada compete.

For information, call Jake Dewitt at 250-836-4976.

Stingers off to a winning start

U14 fastball: Left - Sicamous Stingers’ Julia Wilby slides in safe at home in U14 fastball action against Vernon Thursday night. Above – Niah Laroy lets loose with the pitch. This was Sicamous’ first home game of the year, and the team earned an 11-9 win. Photos by Lachlan Labere


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Nick Martynook passed away in Shuswap Lake General Hospital on the evening of Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at the age of 93 years.

A family graveside service will be held at a later date in Solsqua Cemetery with Jack Bowers theFuneral Celebrant, with honors by comrades of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Born in Dunkirk, Saskatchewan on May 28, 1919. Nick was a Veteran of WW 11, having servedoverseas with the Tanker Corp both in Holland andScotland. He met his lovely war bride in Scotland, married Nan on January 4, 1946 in Dumfries,Scotland.

They arrived in Sicamous in 1952, later moved to Canoe, then back to Sicamous. Nick worked inthe Logging industry, with Jack Carmichael and Shuswap Timber, and later with Federated Co-op.As a result of a fire at work, he spent 6 months incritical shape in the burn unit at Vancouver General Hospital, this was 1973; he returned to work andcontinued active work well into his 70’s. Nick is wellremembered, and respected, for his zest for life,love of family, and being a true gentleman. Nick andNan always had an open door policy for family and friends, with the gift of making all feeling special. FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS DAD, WE LOVE YOU.

Nick leaves his loving and dedicated family, wife, Nan; children, Connie (Gareth) Prosser of Sicamous, Doug (Kim) Martynook of Fort McMurray, and Vivian (Steven) Shaver ofArmstrong; several grandchildren and great grandchildren.

The family extends a special thanks to all the Nursing staff of Level 2 at Shuswap Lake General Hospital.

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The whole community of Sicamous has been very generous and supportive during Carley’s long battle with cancer.

We leave Sicamous now with heavy hearts, but we need to continue this battle and in lieu of that we need to be closer to Children’s Hospital, but as we leave

the vacation in Disneyland has left us all with wonderful memories to reflect upon. The community of Sicamous has been wonderful and will always be called home for Carley and myself.

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Lowest Prices Guaranteed!Laminates - $0.59/sq ftEngineered - $1.99 sq ftHardwood - $2.79 sq ft

Overnight Delivery in most of BC!www.kingoffl oors.com

1.877.835.6670

Painting & Decorating

& Area for 20+ Years Serving Sicamous

$$Discount

Painting

$$• Residential & Commercial

• Interior/Exterior

Cell 833-8009Home 836-4154

For Free Estimate call Lorraine

• Wallpapering • Drywall Repair• Professional Workmanship

• Seniors Discounts

Merchandise for Sale

Garage SalesMAY 18, 8 AM, moving/gar-age sale. Computer desk, book shelves, microwave ta-ble, leaf blower, misc hand tools, small wares. everything must go. 1418 Amhurst Rd.

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53 in stock.SPECIAL

44’ x 40’ Container Shopw/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!40’ Containers under $2500!

Call Toll Free AlsoJD 544 & 644 wheel loaders

JD 892D LC ExcavatorPh. 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB

www.rtccontainer.com SCRAP PAPPY Will pay cash for oversized scrap steel, cats, yarders, saw mill equipment, farm equip-ment, etc. All insurance in place to work on your proper-ty. 250-260-0217

Misc. for Sale1999 SLUMBER QUEEN 8’ camper, immaculate condition hardly used, 3 way fridge/stove/furnace, queen bed, toilet, many extra’s. $5900 OBO. Inquiries - Greg (250)804-39364 STAINLESS STEEL beer barrels, good for camper stands. (250)836-4432AT LAST! An iron fi lter that works. IronEater! Fully patent-ed Canada/U.S.A. Removes iron, hardness, smell, manga-nese. Since 1957. Visit our 29 innovative inventions online; w w w. b i g i r o n d r i l l i n g . c o m . Phone 1-800-BIG-IRON.

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Help Wanted

Merchandise for Sale

Misc. for SaleSAWMILLS FROM only $3997 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

STEEL BUILDING - Blowout clearance sale! 20x22 $4,188. 25x26 $4,799. 30x34 $6,860. 32x44 $8,795. 40x50 $12,760. 47x74 $17,888. One end wall included. Call Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. Or visit online: www.pioneersteel.ca

Misc. WantedPURCHASING old Canadian & American coin collections & accumulations. 250-548-3670True Coin Collector Looking to Purchase Collections, Accu- mulations, Olympic Gold and Silver coins, Bills + Not melting down, Serious Collector. Call: Coin Couple 1-778-281-0030

Real Estate

For Sale By OwnerTO view information on our house, please visit our BLOG today. Simply copy and paste this url into your browser win-dow. www.afi nehouseforsale.blogspot.ca

Mobile Homes & Parks

RETIRE IN Beautiful Southern BC, Brand New Park. Af-fordable Housing. COPPER RIDGE. Manufactured Home Park, New Home Sales. Kere-meos, BC. Spec home on site to view. Please call 250-462-7055. www.copperridge.ca

Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent2 BDRM apt. Sicamous. $550/Mo. No indoor smoking. Util. not included. No Pets.250-804-3380.

Homes for Rent4 BDRM. 2.5 BATHS, house located in a rural setting in Sicamous. C/w washer/dryer. 250-836-4556.

SICAMOUS: 2 1/2 BDRM house. $800/mo. plus hydro. Avail. May 1, 2013. Pets ok. Plse. call 250-814-7032 for in-fo.

Help Wanted

Transportation

Auto Financing

Transportation

Auto Financing

Transportation

Auto FinancingDreamTeam Auto Financing

“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK - Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals

1-800-961-7022www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

Beaters under $1000

1996 Toyota Camry dlx 282,272 kms. Needs engine $500 250-517-8311 eves

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Eagle Valley News, May 15, 2013