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4 HCS ON TO NEW HORIZONS

HCS will continue its ef-

forts despite recent grant

losses.

11 A LITTLE SPRING CLEANING

Hope Mountain Centre

volunteers rolled up their

sleeves at the new Bike

Park.

5 NDP OPPOSITION AT THE BLUE MOOSEOpposition leader John

Horgan and New Demo-

crat finance spokesperson

Carole James visit Hope. Throness addresses budget concernsThe Hope RCMP sqaured off against an ad hoc student basketball team at Hope Secondary School on Friday, March 20th. The RCMP won the battle with a score of 50-40, but spirits remained high as students and teachers cheered in the stands.

RCMP takes on students at Hope Secondary SchoolERIN KNUTSON/THE STANDARD

Erin KnutsonThe Hope Standard

At the recent Hope and District Chamber of Commerce Meeting MLA Laurie Th roness gave an insightful and thorough presenta-tion on the latest Provincial Bud-get, demonstrating through fi scal realities that the B.C. budget is in a healthy state of aff airs.

We have a balanced budget and Saskatchewan is the only other province with a balanced budget this year we dont know about the feds yet, but Ontario has a

defi cit of about 12.5 billion dol-lars this year and Alberta will have a deficit of 500 million, said Throness. We are doing quite well and we have forecast three more balanced budgets, so weve had three and were forecasting three more, including a surplus this year of $879 million dollars.

An economic forecast council will predict the next fi ve years and is seen as measure of prudence by Th roness. Th e Ministry of Finance will take about three tens of a per-cent lower than that and so con-fi dence is high that offi cials will

forecast budget concerns in a dili-gent manner.

Our exports have grown in October 2008 we had exports of about 3 billion dollars, they fell by about a third at the bottom of the recession and they are almost back up to where they were in October 2008. Figures are up by 6.3 per cent compared to 2013, said Th roness.

B.C. employment is up according to modest political terms 12, 800 jobs were created last year, which is about 40 or 50 thousand jobs above what it was in June 2008, followed by population growth.

Our job growth has not beenstellar, which is why we have a bigjob fi guring out diff erent strategiesto create jobs across the economy,said Th roness. But, we maintain abudget when the spending linecurved a little bit, we curved spend-ing. We held it down to three percent and our revenue was up a littlemore than that. By continuing tohold expenses down the govern-ment is forecasting a little higherrevenue, which means that therewill be surpluses in every year.

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Dummy Downhill skiing took place at Man-ning Park Resort on Sunday, March 22nd.

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MLA assesses budgetTh ats how we get surpluses, it is by con-

trolling spending and we are going to be re-ally careful about that, he said.

A few other levels of contingency for pru-dence include the forecasting of an allowance, or certain amounts of growth and theyve gone below, ensuring the accruement of $950 million dollars, totaling surpluses of about 1.059 billion dollars. Th ere are contingencies on top of that which amounts to another bil-lion dollars or so according to Th roness.

Th e summation of the fi gures including surpluses for this year equals about a 4 mil-lion dollar cushion over the next three years.

I like that, that is the kind of a measure of prudence that I feel comfortable with we have not counted on a penny from LNG and really LNG fully developed without any risk to the taxpayer, he said. Its only the upside right now, its not on the downside and weve also assumed that gas prices are going to be very low in the lowest twentieth percentile of the private sector forecast.

According to Th roness there are fi ve or six levels of prudence that have been built into the budget. We want to be really careful because we never know what will happen.

Th roness spoke of good debt and operat-ing debt as two diff erent sides of the same coin. He likened operating debt to expendi-tures at the grocery store with a credit card and proceeded to defi ne the operating debt B.C. has incurred and is restructuring over the past couple of years.

Operating debt a couple of years ago was 10.2 billion in three years it will be down to 4.8 billion, thats what were doing with our surpluses, were paying down the operating debt and we think thats another measure of prudence and that it will be at the lowest point since 1991.

Th e total taxpayers supported debt is 45 billion dollars, 4.8 for operating debt and the rest will be for infrastructure.

Capital spending will be utilized for ed-ucation and things like seismic upgrades for schools, advanced education, adding on to universities. Th ere are big dollars for UFV and there are hopes for money for Seabird Island College and healthcare. Hospitals are being built and transporta-tion plans are in the works.

We have a big new transportation plan for about 300 million dollars were building the stuff that we need.

B.C.s debt to GDP is a quarter of Que-becs debt load, its half of Canadas and its about a third of Ontarios, while America

is at 72 per cent. America is scary. Th is year the debt is

485 billion dollars and the White House has a defi cit going into 2025 of 687 billion dollars and the debt will be 20 trillion dol-lars just an astronomical amount and thats why weve diversifi ed what weve been doing, said Th roness.

B.C. has a very diversifi ed economy, which puts it a step ahead of other provinces.

Our economy is highly diversifi ed and thats why were not doing the same thing as Alberta and going into an immediate reces-sion when the oil crisis hit, because were not as dependent on one commodity as they are.

In 2001, 70 per cent of exports were to the States. To date 51 per cent of exports are to the States

Weve expanded into Asia and China especially to reduce our dependence on the U.S. and when we look at their debt defi -cit I feel good about that, because one little shove from the States and the whole thing could be back to 2008 Im really worried about that and I say that wherever I go, he said. When you look at dependency, were at 51 per cent compared to other provinc-es. Alberta is 90 per cent dependent on the States and Ontario is 80 per cent, thats a huge dependency on the States so I feel good that were fi rst.

Healthcare crowds out everything else in the budget. I talk to stakeholders all the time, were always pressed for funds because health care is consuming so much of the bud-get. Baby boomers retiring in 2011will hit age 75 in 2021 and thats when they will begin to experience their greatest health problems, so healthcare spending is going to go up for the next three years, and its going up three billion dollars a year by 2017-18 thats a massive amount of money, but if you dont do that people are going to suff er, so we feel the populace wants that so thats what weve done, he said.

576 million dollars will fulfi ll the terms of the education settlement decided upon.

Were spending more and we have fewer students in the public system. Th e indepen-dent school system grew by six per cent aft er the strike, so that would mean about 3000 fewer in the public system so were spend-ing more on fewer students and that amount per student is growing all the time and hiking by an appreciable amount, said Th roness.

Th e tax decrease for earners making $150,000 and over was clarifi ed by Th roness who spoke directly of policy toward high in-come achievers.

We dont believe in penalizing people

who work hard and are good entrepreneurs and create jobs for other people and they pay a 16 per cent tax rate anyway, while someone whos making about thirty thousand a year will pay a fi ve per cent tax rate, so its a hugely progressive system already.

Supports are fi rmly in place for those who need it most. Community Living B.C. has a $789 million dollar budget ev-ery year and they look aft er 14,000 severe-ly disabled people.

Were adding $150 million over three years to that budget, because there are pres-sures and there are people coming on who have real needs. We are going to exempt all child support payments from income and disability. Th at will be a raise for about 3000 single parent families, who will experience an increase in this way and it will cost us about ten million a year to do that we would like to increase welfare and disability rates across the board.

Th ere are about 135,000 people on these programs and to increase them by $100 a month would cost $160 million a year, so it is a sum, chosen to try to get people to pay child support according to Th roness.

Were also spending $20 million on growth and income assistance to help single parents get trained and back into the workforce and that really is the answer to a low income jobs. It has been decreed that anyone earning less than $19 000 will not pay B.C. income tax and that is another way of benefi tting people who are lower in-come earners. Th is is a way for tax credits to help people get more fi t and for preventative health measures as well.

Th e early childhood tax credit has been issued. If you have two young children, you will get $11, 500 a year in benefi ts for those two children and thats for someone making thirty thousand and it goes down, as you make more.

We have the lowest income tax rates in Canada, were tied with Alberta, but you can see that were almost half that of Que-bec add in other taxes, consumption taxes, property taxes, and even healthcare premiums and were still one of the lowest tax burdens in Canada. Were pretty proud of that and we think people are going to want to move here and invest here. B.C. is in an excellent fi scal situation and hoping that LNG will say yes.

People are very serious were going to grow the economy thats really the way it is. We think we can get out of our bud-get pressures and grow the economy, so were working hard to do that.

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HCS on to new horizonsErin KnutsonThe Hope Standard

Since its inception on December 21st 1978, Hope Community Ser-vices (HCS) has made its presence known in Hope and surrounding areas.

Aft er 36 solid years and strong partnerships with the Fraser Health Au-thority, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Fed-eral Restorative Justice, the Ministry of Children and Family Development, as well as a host of local groups the non-profi t society lost out on a bid with the Ministry of Chil-dren and Family Devel-opment, losing some key pilot programs and key people along with it.

Unfortunately HCS was not successful in its bid for this reason, several of our programs will no longer be run by us, said Michelle LaBossiere, pres-ident of HCS board of directors.

Among the programs they will no longer be operating due to insufficient funds to cover costs are the Excel Student Program (for at risk children), the Youth Drop In Centre, Childcare Resource and Referral, Trauma Intervention (for sexually abused children who suffer from complex trauma), Family Support and Family Therapy, Strengthening Families, and the Youth Suicide Prevention program.

Th e Youth Suicide Prevention Program has also ended, but this was a fi ve year pilot project, which ran from September 2009 to 2014, said LaBossiere. In February the Ministry of Children and Family Development posted a new contract they are ap-parently going from area to area presenting a con-tract pertinent to certain programs, quite a list of programs, but the budget went down from about

$500,000 to $300,000.Subsequently, HCS placed a bid for the imper-

ative contract in an effort to sustain their practi-cal and invaluable programs.

We were not successful some of the programsthat we do are federally funded and we will contin-ue with those, but we lost our pilot projects to theother bidder who won the grant, she said. We willcontinue to do as much as we can we have an in-terim executive director Michele Th ornhill, who isdoing her best and the board is doing the best theycan to support the staff .

Many of the qualifi ed staff are moving to otherwork because of the lack of funding. HCS will havea slightly diff erent profi le in Hope and will continueto serve the community out of their main offi ce atthe Th rift Store on Wallace Street and their buildingon Hudson Bay Street (Better Beginnings, FamilyPlace and Family Resource Programs).

We only have fi ve people working in communityservices, instead of nine or eleven and we are apply-ing for other programs that we can run, while con-tinuing the programs involving babies and youngmoms, said LaBossiere.

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HCS is located in the building of the Hidden Treasures thrift store it manages for the com-munity, which is located on Wallace Street in downtown Hope.

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The Fraser Valley Regional District ("FVRD") is seeking proposals from quali ed proponents for the provision of professional forestry management services as they relate to the management of the Cascade Lower Canyon Community Forest situated in and around Hope, B.C., said management services to be provided for a contemplated one year term. It is anticipated that management services will be delivered by the successful proponent, if any, on a part time basis, 2-3 days a week, during the term of the contemplated agreement.

The Cascade Lower Canyon Community Forest (CLCCF) is a corporation jointly owned by three General Partners: the District of Hope, the Yale First Nation and the Fraser Valley Regional District.

The FVRD anticipates some of the services will include but will not be limited to the following duties and deliverables with particular consideration being given to the value the successful proponent, if any, will bring to the overall management of the CLCCF once the Services are delivered:

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RFP Documentation and details are available on the FVRD, District of Hope, Yale First Nations, BC Bid, Civic Info and BC Community Forest websites.

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Safe farming starts with you!If you have pipelines on or near your land, its important to contact the pipeline operator prior to conducting any ground disturbance activities greater than 30cm (12 in.) in depth.

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NDP opposition for coffeeNew Democrat Leader

John Horgan and Finance Spokesperson Carole James met a captive audi-ence at the Blue Moose Coff ee house during their post-budget tour on Wednesday, March 18th.

Th e opposing forces, listed reasons for their discontent with the cur-rent budget and boldly off ered reasons for their disapproving appraisal of the situation.

Id like to start with the fact that this budget tells British Columbians that even though theyre stretched to the limit, even though theyre al-ready paying more in fees and rate hikes, with Bud-get 2015, theyre actually going to have to pay even more, said James.

Th e Finance Minister and all of the B.C. Liberals on that side decided in this budget that theyd give a tax break to B.C.s highest-income earners, the top two per cent in our province that was a choice, a line item of over $200 million that is going to di-rectly to the top of two per cent of income earners.According to James and Horgan this type of activ-ity puts pressure on middle-class families.

Th ey get more pressure, they get more costs, but

dont worry, theres a break for those at the very top theyll get a break, but not the rest of of British Columbians, she said. Broken promises are on the minds of the NDP opposition.

All we need to say to the public is HST, LNG, a doctor for everyone and debt-free B.C., this is just a very short list of a long list of promises that have not been kept by this government but, oh dont worry when it comes to the top two per cent of income earners.

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Grants are a necessity to stay-ing afloat and HCS will contin-ue to apply for them and pro-grams as they come up, but in the interim they will continue with the Thrift Store and the Food Bank,

Were still running lots of programs we didnt just throw our hands up in the air and go, LaBossiere told The Hope Standard. The Youth Suicide Prevention pilot project was let go, so there is no fund-ing for that. Our main office is out of the Better Beginnings

Building by the recreation cen-tre thats where we run our programs for new moms and stuff for little kids and kids with behavior problems and that kind of thing.

Th e current and remaining employees all have experience in social work, excluding the tire-less board of directors, which consists of a retired teacher, a re-tired town employee and another member who works as a matron in the local lock up, according to LaBossiere.

With Michele Thornhill as interim executive director and a few of the rest of our excel-lent staff, the board of HCS will

be able to continue to serve our community in new and excit-ing ways and to expand those services in the years ahead, and to boldly go where we have not gone before.

Recognition of the important work that the staff of HCS has done for the community and the acknowledgement of their dedicated and tireless efforts to the Society is imperative.

The message, Id like to get across to everyone is for the townspeople to keep support-ing us, keep supporting the Food Bank and to just say hi to us we definitely need some strong encouragement.

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Weathering the storm

NDP opposition leader John Horgan (right) and Mayor Wilfried Vicktor discuss important matters at the budget discussion tour at Blue Moose Coffee house.

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The Council of the District of Hope will be holding an Open House to present the 5 year Financial Plan to the Public.

The meeting is scheduled for:MONDAY, March 30, 2015

District of Hope Council Chambers325 Wallace Street at 6:30 p.m.

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Abbott dumped as BC Treaty Commission head

Th e B.C. cabinet has refused to appoint George Abbott as the next Chief Commissioner of the B.C. Treaty Commission, leaving the position vacant as of April 1.

Cabinet ministers were tight-lipped about the reason for the sud-den reversal on appointing Abbott, who was approached about the job six months ago by Aboriginal Rela-tions Minister John Rustad.

Rustad issued a statement saying only that a search will begin for a new appointee, emphasizing the critical importance of the Treaty Commissions work towards doz-ens of unresolved land claims ne-gotiations.

Health Minister Terry Lake told Kamloops Th is Week that he and his colleagues are bound by cabinet confi dentiality on the reasons for the last-minute decision. Abbotts appointment had already been ap-proved by the federal government and the First Nations Summit, who share jurisdiction over the Treaty Commission with the province.

Outgoing Chief Commissioner Sophie Pierre, who agreed to a three-year extension of her term to keep the 20-year-old treaty talks moving ahead, praised Abbott as a man of integrity, intelligence and extensive experience who was pre-pared to make progress.

Th is retraction of the Chief Commissioner selection aft er months of agreement, expectation and reliance by other parties, raises questions about B.C.s commitment to the treaty negotiation process, Pierre said.

In recent years, Pierre criticized the B.C. governments emphasis on interim resource agreements to push mining and gas development. Fellow commissioner Dave Hag-gard has warned that abandoning the slow and costly treaty talks with Ottawa means going back to court on unresolved treaties.

Th e offi cial silence over the sud-den reversal has fueled speculation by Abbott and others that it was due to Premier Christy Clarks bit-terness from the 2012 B.C. Liberal leadership contest, where Abbott fi nished third behind Clark and Kevin Falcon. Both Falcon and Abbott left politics aft er clashing repeatedly with Clark about the handling of the harmonized sales tax referendum and other issues.

Nearly all MLAs from former premier Gordon Campbells gov-ernment endorsed either Falcon or Abbott in the leadership contest.

OpinionPublished at Hope, Boston Bar, Yale and surrounding area by Black Press

Recognizing the sustainability of a green future

Erin KnutsonThe Hope Standard

Th e Minister of Forests recently recognized the International Day of Forests, which was set aside to honour the planets overall health the theme for 2015 Forests and Climate Change hones in on forest-based initiatives to encourage sustainable development and address climate change and it looks like it will, according to tree specialists.

As we celebrate the fi ft h annual International Day of Forests, British Columbians can take great pride in our position as a world leader in growing trees and sustainable forest management, said Steve Th om-son, minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. We can be equally proud of our environmental track record; B.C. produces more lumber certifi ed to environmental standards than any other re-gion in the world.

On the back of that achievement, British Columbias forests are rec-ognized globally and have set a precedent for other preservation so-lutions. 224 trees were planted in 2014 and 240 million seedlings are slated to be planted in 2015.

As one of the most heavily forested jurisdictions in the world, its no surprise that over 40 per cent of the B.C. regional economies are based on forestry activities in more than 7,000 businesses, provid-ing direct employment for more than 60,000 British Columbians in 2014, said Th omson.

As an economic driver, its important to keep the system healthy, and B.C. is on the leading forefront of this initiative with 75 per cent of B.C. s annual timber harvest coming from operations that meet at least one of three internationally recognized sustainable forest man-agement certifi cation standards.

Th e forest industry continues to be a major economic driver in 2014, the value of B.C. forest product exports rose to $12.4 billion, an increase of 63 per cent from 2009, and accounted for 35 per cent of the provinces total exports by value, he said.

With International Day of Forests setting the stage, British Columbi-ans can feel secure about the maintenance and continuity of the health of local forests, while keeping up with environmental standards, pro-viding jobs and creating economic security for thousands of families around the province.

B.C. VIEWSTom Fletcher

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Mineral exploration to strengthen economyWe are living in a competitive investment

world where investors look very closely at the effi ciency and fairness of government regula-tory and permitting systems before they expose their capital to risk.

Th is is a prudent and sensible approach for any investor in any venture, but particularly so for the mineral exploration and mining sectors which have a higher level of inherent risk than most sectors.

Mineral exploration activities, and the min-ing activities supported by a healthy level of exploration activity, collectively generate hun-

dreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year for various levels of government in the form of fees, taxes and royalties as well as from income and corporate taxes.

We should also never forget that our province and economy is driven by exports and that chief among these exports are the mineral products from our mines; everything from gold to coal. In 2013, gross mining revenues in B.C. were $8.5 billion, and 2013 was a slow year! If our province can stay the course with an effi cient, science-based approach to environmental as-sessments, and continuously look for ways to

improve mineral exploration and mine permit-ting processes, it stands to reason that we will succeed in capturing an appropriate share of global venture capital and in turn create the conditions for our province to reach its full mineral exploration and mine de-velopment potential. Everyone in B.C. benefi ts when our economy is strong, and ensuring that we have a strong mineral exploration and mining sector will help to keep our economy strong and growing.

In a competitive investment world, sup-porting mineral exploration is not only

prudent, it is also very sensible.

Jimmy Pelk

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Finding a needle in a haystackI was surprised to hear that there are only

nine operating metal mines and fi ve operat-ing coal mines in B.C. Th e way people talk, you would think there were thousands. I was

also surprised to fi nd out that all of the mines and mineral exploration projects in B.C. past and present would cover less than 0.05% of the province 944,700 square kilometres than

an area smaller than Greater Victo-ria 540 square kilometres. To put these numbers into perspective, I would invite your readers to take a quick look at a map of BC.

Aft er they do, they should con-sider the millions upon millions of dollars that fl ow, and have fl owed to the province from the minis-cule amount of land area devoted to mining and exploration.

Those dollars pay for health-care and education and trans-portation and other government services that meet the needs and wants of the people of B.C.

However, if we want B.C. mineral resources to continue providing for our needs and our wants, we are going to have to address a loom-ing problem. As working mines are

mined out and restored back to their nat-ural state we need to fi nd new deposits of minerals so that new mines can open up and fi nding mineral deposits is not as easy as it sounds.

It really is like fi nding a needle in a hay-stack to fi nd the mineral deposits that lead to the development of new mines, which will keep the dollars fl owing to the people of B.C.

It is literally going to take ten times the cur-rent level of investment in mineral explora-tion and prospecting.

In terms of the actual dollars required to discover and develop a major new de-posit of metal-bearing minerals it repre-sents an investment of at least $100 mil-lion per mine and takes 15 to 20 years from discovery to production.

So clearly, the sooner we get on with ramp-ing up and supporting mineral exploration eff orts in B.C. the better off we will be, be-cause the clock is ticking and there is no mak-ing up for lost time.

Jessica Marte

Demand Harper renew TB ReachTh e ancient scourge of mankind, Tuberculosis (TB),

is back in new, drug resistant forms. It is an extremely high risk of, once again, becoming an out of control, global epidemic - the slow, agonizing death of millions of people. TB is an airborne bacterial infection which has killed more people than any other infectious dis-ease in history. Anyone can catch it. Th e only vaccine is decades old with limited and unreliable protection and, if you are lucky enough to be cured, you can catch it again the very next day.

It costs about $1M to cure one case of XDR-TB. One breakout can bankrupt a provincial health system. Eliminating TB now may be the most profi table invest-ment in the world. Th e key is eff ective detection, early enough, with a wide enough net to catch every case while there is still time. And time is running out.

Five years ago, Canada funded TB REACH : A new, spunky, inexpensive, technology incubator program with the mandate to introduce and implement inno-vative and ground-breaking techniques, interventions, approaches and activities to TB detection. But, with an excellent track record, impressive wins and successful technology transfer, renewed funding for TB REACH is long overdue. TB REACH is getting ready to shut down for good.

You can save TB REACH by calling, writing and vis-iting your MP to demand that they sign the Barce-lona Declaration on TB and renew funding for TB REACH .

Leo Joy

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MARCH 1975

Boston Bar Recreation Committee sponsored a public meeting at the Community Hall, for all groups and individuals interested in working toward opening up Boston Bar Swimming Pool.

Smoking awareness pro-grams were being presented to British Columbia school chil-dren by the B.C. Tuberculo-sis-Christmas Seal Society to familiarize them with the ef-fects of smoking on the body.

There were no known wit-nesses to a head-on collision, in which two tractor-trailer driv-ers lost their lives five miles north of Boston Bar. The col-lision was apparently caused by two horses on the road.

A 23-year-old transient was committed under the Mental Health Act following R.C.M.P investigation of an incident in which someone threw a rock through the windshield of a westbound transport truck.

Franchise for the Miss Hope Pageant was in jeopardy with a candidate coming forward to take on the job of co-ordina-tor. Hope branch of the Royal Canadian Legion was search-ing vigilantly for a hopeful.

It was the longest fatal-ity FREE period on highways around Hope in many years, but ended after six months and one day when Milton T. Nel-son, 25, of Vancouver died in a collision six miles east of Hope.

MARCH 1985

Hope Search and Rescue members gave the community close to 4,000 hours of vol-unteer service in 1984, their 21st year of operation. Their goal was to assist all people.

An Alberta man who stole the grand prize in the Hope Chamber of Com-

merce 1984 dream car raffle was sentenced to five years in prison. He pleaded guilty to charges of auto theft.

More than fifty for-mer Carolin Mines workers were waiting for the green light that would give them company shares in lieu of wages and benefits owed.

Julie-Anne Hussey said Hope turned her into an Aus-tralian ski bum. The 17-year old Rotary exchange student had never skied a day in her life back home in Australia.

An accident was wait-ing to happen with children crossing the railway tracks to get to school in North Bend. Parents and school district staff had their hands tied on a possible solution, due to it being privately owned.

Hopes new, larger li-brary led the field in Fra-ser Valley Regional library circulation sweepstakes in January. Circulation at Hope soared 14 per cent above the same month in 1984.

MARCH 1995

About 20 CP Rail employees from Hope who maintained the tracks were on strike. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way members were summarily locked out until the dispute was settled.

Hope school district received over $50,000 to develop partnerships between businesses and neighboring school districts by implementing a plan to improve the Hope districts computer technolog y.

The Hope and District Chamber of Commerce was planning its third fundraising auction for April 1st and it promised to be one giant tropical success.

Students of the graduating class of 1997 were to be the first group to graduate under new requirements set out by

the British Columbia Ministry of Education, which included having credit for thirteen Grade 11 and 12 courses.

Hope speed skater Sheryl Leger took a bronze medal at the Canada Winter Games in Grand Prairie Alberta and was off to Ottawa to try out for Canadas national team.

The HSS Senior Boys Basketball team finished their run for a provincial berth by losing two of three. Even though the boys didnt make the provincials, they played strong all through the playoffs.

MARCH 2000

An early Saturday morning break-in at a residence on Hemlock Avenue sent police on a whirlwind of searches throughout the community, leading to two arrests and other charges.

A surprise $2 million dollars in additional funding from the Ministry of Health would be used to meet the needs of a growing population of seniors within the Fraser Valley health region.

The District of Hope Volunteer Fire Department Established a Fire and Safety Regulations Bylaw No. 1006, which was adopted by council on February 28, 2000.

The third annual report card on British Columbia Secondary Schools by the Fraser Institute saw Hope Secondary rated 15th from the bottom of the Institutes list of 271 schools throughout the province.

A local family remained desperate for information on their missing son, brother, and uncle months after he mysteriously disappeared last Fall. Hope Search and Rescue and community volunteers put fourth a search in their honour.

Hope Interfor was shut down on a Friday, after fallers picketed the main offices protesting the hiring of a west coast contractor, while local fallers remained on layoff.

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Were going to make sure that that promise is kept, were going to make sure were follow-ing through on that, never mind all those other people in British Columbia who are strug-gling and having a hard time, said James.

The Finance Minis-ter is just letting the tax increase expire stated James. Inferring that the increase was expiring on its own, as though the Finance Minister wasnt deciding anything was a bone of contention for opposing forces.

Id like people to take a look a the budget speech by the Finance Minister, because in fact, theres an entire section in that budget speech thats called Tax Credit Extension, Carole said. Th ey certainly did choose to extend a num-ber of tax measures. Th ey certainly could have chosen the tax measure of keeping the increase on high-income earners it was a choice to give a tax break and to use over $230 million of taxpayer dollars.

Horgan was just as adamant about the disregard for the rest of the populace, citing the vulnerability of lesser fortunate groups of B.C. citizens and maintaining that his party was aggressively rallying to rectify the situation on behalf of the more vulnerable of the population including, championing womens issues, and just the general lack of funds for the truly disparate in society.

What does that say to the person who works in the local supermarket whose husband passed away she had to go back to work, she lost her house because they didnt have a pension and he had a heart attack and died shes in her 60s, what does this budget have to her and her family, Horgan, told The Hope Standard.

The NDP strongly illuminated their thoughts stating that the message B.C. Liberals are sending to the populace is that you dont matter, its the people earning top dollars that mat-ter, its those people that we care about and that we have found money for.

Other points made by the NDP to concerned coffee goers were the inability for the B.C. government to to see reality and an inability to handle the truth about whats going on with British Columbia.

Its the government inability to see the truth we know that this Premier made a risk bet a bet on LNG, all the time, every moment of every day, for the last number of years, thats what weve been hearing from this Premier, and its not panning out the way this Premier had told all of us, said James.

New Democrat finance spokesperson Carole James (centre) spoke candidly to attending patrons at the post budget dis-cussion tour, which was hosted by the Blue Moose Coffee house on Wednesday, March 18th. The tour was an opportunity for the opposition party to go over concerns with budget developments.

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Th e B.C. government has made its most signifi cant moves in decades to address the needs of some of the provinces poorest people.

Th e largest fi nancial commitment is for a new program to help single parents escape from the welfare trap. Th ere are 16,000 single parents in B.C. receiving provincial income assistance or disability payments, most of them women.Even if they could fi nd an entry-level job, it wouldnt pay enough to cover the child care they would need to go to

work. Worst of all, the current system requires that if they enrol in train-ing, they lose their income assistance, including dental and extendedmedical care for themselves and their children.

Th at is the welfare trap, one of the most perverse government policiesto have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era. Th e newprogram takes eff ect in September. It will not only continue income as-sistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, it prom-ises to cover their child care and transportation costs for an approvedtraining program of up to one year.

Medical and child carecosts will then be cov-ered for up to a year aft ertraining, to allow a transi-tion to employment. Ap-proved training meanstraining for jobs that areidentifi ed as in demand,requiring high school andoccupation-specifi c train-ing that can be completedin a year or less. Th ey in-clude retail sales, generaloffi ce work and assistancejobs in health services.Another overdue policychange is to double theallowable earnings for allincome assistance recipi-ents from $200 to $400 amonth. Th is gives peoplea chance to improve theircircumstances by takingwhatever part-time or ca-sual work they can man-age, without having thatlittle income cut fromtheir already meagre wel-fare cheques.

And then there wasthe recent decision toend the claw-back ofparental child supportpayments from incomeassistance payments.

Th e province has formany years run a costlychild maintenance en-forcement program totrack down (mostly)deadbeat dads and forcethem to pay at least a to-ken amount to supporttheir children. Now whenthey pay child support toa single parent on incomeassistance, they will atleast have the satisfactionof knowing the childrenactually receive the extrabenefi t. Th ese harsh, his-toric policies were builtaround a philosophy thatwelfare is a temporarylast resort, to be with-drawn as soon as someother source of income isidentifi ed. Th at is a validif unfashionable positionto take on behalf of work-ing taxpayers who pay forall this, but it only makessense if the income assis-tance recipient has a real-istic option.

For those who are al-ready in the entry-leveljob market, the minimumwage goes up 20 cents anhour in September, from$10.25 to $10.45. Th is isthe beginning of an an-nual review that will tiethe wage to the consumerprice index. A paltry sum,to be sure, but anyonewho still thinks jackingthe minimum wage upto $15 an hour is a magicsolution that wont costsome entry-level jobsis clinging to a socialistdream world.

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Hope Mountain Centre volunteers were out in force at Hopes new Bike Park on Saturday, March 21st, braving the rain to clean up branches and debris left by Januarys ice storm. The clean-up is in preparation for the return of park designer Jay Hoots and his team of builders who will be completing the park later this spring.

Heroic clean up

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Natural gas. Good for shaving expenses. Heating water accounts for about 20 per cent of your homes energy use. With natural gas rates at some of their lowest in a decade,1 a high-efficiency natural gas water heater can save up to $270 a year for a family of four, compared to an electric model.2 Rebates are also available.

Discover the benefits and savings at fortisbc.com/gasisgood. 1FortisBC commodity rate history since January 1, 2006.

2Based on the difference between approximate annual costs for water heating in FortisBCs Mainland service area. Calculations compared a high-efciency natural gas storage tank water heater with equivalent electric model, using FortisBC and BC Hydro rates as of January 2015. Savings may vary and do not include rebates or incentives. Estimate your savings at fortisbc.com/energycalculator.

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Stringing of the transmission line (conductors) along the new transmission towers for the Interior to Lower Mainland Transmission Project has begun.

Helicopters are required for this work. The contractor has obtained the necessary permits and permissions and is in compliance with Transport Canada requirements.

Conductor ends will need to be joined with the use of an implosive connector that is a metallic sleeve with a small charge in it for each conductor. Using safe and controlled methods, the sleeves are detonated which compresses (welds) the conductor ends together. This split-second process will create several ashes with smoke and very loud bangs.

Trafc control measures will be in place as needed. Work hours will conform to municipal bylaws.

The new 247 kilometre, 500 kilovolt transmission line between Merritt and Coquitlam will expand the capacity of the system that brings power to businesses and homes in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.

For more information please visit bchydro.com/ilm or contact BC Hydro at stakeholderengagement@bchydro.com or at 604 623 4472, toll-free 1 866 647 3334.

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CommunityTrail adventures

A birds eye viewThe Hope Lookout trail features some of the most stunning vistas known to the Hope area.It was built in the mid-1990s and quickly estab-lished itself as one of the most sought after hiking trails in the region.Close to downtown Hope, it reaches a stellar height of 470 metres up the side of Mount Hope. The 2.4-km trail steeply follows the pristine coastal forest, finishing at an unfor-gettable vantage point. Locals familiar with the trail often call it Hopes Grouse Grind, for its heady ascent and spectacular views.The accessible trail offers locals, tourists, and photog-raphers an adventure and a breathtaking opportunity to see the city from an elevat-ed state of mind.

At Bees and on the courtFeatured on the opposite page from above: Mike Wilson and his dog Buddy enjoy some quality time in front of Bees Food Market on Wallace Street; The RCMP battled it out with Hope Secondary School students in a basketball game that showcased a combination of brains, brawn, and skill are a tried and true winning combination.

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JENNIFER HOWE, AT CHARTWELL SINCE 2007.

Jennifer hasnt slowed down since moving to her Chartwell community. Now you too are invited to meet new people and join in our activities. One visit is all it takes to write the rst lines of a new chapter in your life.

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E-mail: Shawn.Clough@gov.bc.ca447 Columbia Street, Suite 127

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Britton Creek Rest AreaThe Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is seeking proposals for a seasonal commercial vending operation at the Britton Creek