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Layoffs have begun among Shuswap business-es feeling the strain of the slowdown in Canada’s oil industry.

Sicamous’ TA Structures, which builds mobile living quarters for worksite camps, has had to lay off up to 40 employees in response to the sud-den apprehension in the energy resource sector at home and abroad.

TA Structures manufacturing manager Nigel Watson says the company isn’t alone – that other worksite accommodation providers are feeling the pinch, including Horizon North Logistics in

Kamloops where 130 employees were recently served layoff notices.

“It’s unfortunate, we have had to make some layoffs coming in to the new year here,” said Watson. “Traditionally at this time of year, it’s a little quiet for businesses like ourselves and the oil patch. But I think there has been a slowdown somewhat, and I’m sure you’re aware Northern (Logistics) got laid off a few weeks ago and the price of oil is obviously affecting the industry somewhat regarding budgets and capital expen-diture.”

That slowdown is also having an impact on businesses in Salmon Arm’s industrial park. One owner, who declined to have his name used, said

his company is “hurting hard,” and that he may be considering layoffs in the near future.

Salmon Arm Mayor Nancy Cooper says she, along with the Salmon Arm Economic Develop-ment Society, has been in communication with some business owners in the industrial park, and confirmed there have been a few layoffs already. But she’s also heard from businesses who are do-ing OK because they don’t have all their eggs in the oil-sector basket.

“My understanding is there would be some (layoffs) but, because of the diversification, they

Pirates in actionn Bastion Elementary School student Sara Chubey’s pirate hat falls down while skiing an uphill section of the course during the Pirate Loppet at Larch Hills on Friday, Jan. 30. More than 400 students participated. For more images from the event, see page A14.

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Oil price leads to Shuswap layoffsEconomy: Some businesses feel the pinch, diversification helps others shift gears.By Lachlan LaberemarkEt nEws staff

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have other markets,” said Coo-per.

Watson says this is the case for TA Structures, which is in the process of shifting back to houseboat construction.

“Fortunately for us, we have three 60-foot houseboats com-ing into our plant and the first stages are in the welding shop now, the first boat,” said Watson. “We have two houseboats we’re building for Ontario and we have one houseboat we’re building for California. So we’ve seen a little shift in the market.”

Watson said the company hasn’t built houseboats on a large scale since 2010, but having this ability gives TA a competitive

edge that will keep things mov-ing forward and bring people back to work in about six-weeks time.

“The last thing we want to do is lay people off in the communi-ty… but we’ll certainly be bring-ing them back as soon as these boats roll through the shop. It’s a positive thing coming out of it and hopefully that diversification will keep us working and keep the people in the community working too.”

Asked how the slowdown might impact the local tourist industry this summer, Cooper suggested the area may see more visitors from the U.S. this year on account of the low value of the Canadian dollar.

“I mean an 80-cent dollar… that’s a really good deal for an

American tourist coming up here,” said Cooper. “They can take in some really great tour-ist spots, come to the Roots and Blues, come to the lake and the houseboat industry. We really need to be focusing energy down there.”

Sicamous Mayor Terry Rysz is also optimistic, suggesting the community’s annual Alberta guests will benefit from the drop in gasoline prices.

“From my point of view, when it comes to the community, I ac-tually see where it could be very positive because gas now is less than a dollar…,” said Rysz.

“People, I think, may have the time and also still can afford to come here. I don’t think it’s go-ing to have that big of an impact, negatively, on Sicamous.”

n The slowdown in the oil industry has hit Sicamous’ TA Structures, where up to 40 people have been temporarily laid off. Work is expected to pick up in about six weeks.

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Tourism industry may benefitContinued from front

Possible school closure worries councillors

Don’t close our schools.This is the gist of what Si-

camous council suggested be written in a letter to School Dis-trict #83, in response to a request for input on a proposed long-term facility plan.

Sicamous Coun. Malcolm Makayev expressed concern about a possible closure.

“There’s a report coming out… March 10 from the school board with recommendations, and some of these recommen-dations could be consolidation of schools in (School) District #83…,” he said. “The capacity of our high school is about 25 per cent right now. The school is probably being considered, but that’s just my opinion.”

Coun. Janna Simons and Coun. Jeff Mallmes encouraged

the public to get involved. “We’re going to write a letter

suggesting we don’t want any schools closing,” said Mallmes, “but by all means, the more let-ters they get, the more weight it has. Feel free, run out of ink.”

A copy of School District #83’s long-term facilities plan backgrounder can be found on the District of Sicamous website. Input is being accepted by email at [email protected].

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A Sorrento woman has been identified as the person killed in Sunday’s collision between an SUV and a semi-truck on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Salmon Arm.

Mary Gould, 55, died at the scene of the col-lision. She was a realtor in Sorrento for Royal LePage Access Real Estate.

The collision, which occurred by the Trickle Inn in Tappen, involved a semi trailer with Al-berta plates and Gould’s sport utility vehicle.

The driver of the semi-truck suffered mi-nor injuries.

The badly damaged SUV ended up in the ditch on the eastbound side of the highway fac-ing east and the semi lay tipped over on the same side of the road, further west and facing towards Kamloops.

Members of the RCMP traffic analyst team were at the scene and are still conducting an investigation into the cause of the colli-sion. Weather and win-

ter road conditions are expected to be factors. Snow was falling heav-ily at the time of the col-lision.

The Trans-Canada Highway about 15 kilo-metres west of Salmon Arm opened to single-lane alternating traffic about 3:30 p.m. Sun-day, Feb. 1 and was re-opened completely by 6 p.m.

Insurance Corpo-ration of BC (ICBC)

reports that six fatal accidents occurred on the Trans-Canada in the Tappen area in the past decade – two in 2004 and one every year from 2007 to 2010. There were no fatalities in the stretch between Pierre’s Point Road and Sunnybrae-Canoe Point Road between 2011

and 2013, which is the most recent data avail-able.

But the number of ac-cidents is much higher. ICBC reported 34 crashes in the section of the highway between Tappen Valley Road and Sunnybrae Canoe Point Road between 2009 and 2013, with a total of 21 of those resulting in injuries to one or more people.

At a Ministry of Transportation and In-frastructure forum held

in February 2013, the Trans-Canada Highway at Tappen was not listed

for upgrades, nor was any project in the plan-ning stages.

Trans-Canada: Mary Gould, 55, died at the scene of the collision.By Tracy HughesMARKET NEWS STAFF

n A Salmon Arm Rescue Unit volunteer inspects a semi-trailer tipped on its side facing west in the eastbound lane following a collision with an sport utility vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway near the Trickle Inn on Sunday, Feb. 1.

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Salmon featured on bridge

“A thousand sockeye swim towards you. As they get closer the im-age expands so that the fish continue to swim over your head and con-tinue upstream into the city buildings behind you.”

These words come from an e-brochure for Uninterrupted, a cine-matic spectacle planned to take place beneath the Cambie Street bridge in Vancouver. It will fea-ture Adams River sock-eye salmon, with im-ages underwater, above water and both at once.

Lana Fitt, Salmon Arm’s economic devel-opment officer, told the city’s planning commit-tee Monday of the proj-ect being put on by Net-tie Wild’s Canada Wild Productions, in concert

with the Pacific Salmon Foundation.

Fitt explained that Wild visited the Adams River salmon run and was moved by it – and wanted to bring it to a wider audience.

Although a six-min-ute video on the run she produced through the National Film Board, which includes the voice of respected el-der Mary Thomas, can be found on the Inter-net, this project is of a much larger scope. The brochure explains the multi-projector spec-tacle will convert the underside of the bridge into a canvas that can be viewed by an estimated 4,000 people at once.

The show is expected to unfold in July, August and September of 2017, with its continuance de-pendent on funding.

Council members

saw a brief preview in council chambers – and responded with much enthusiasm. And what they saw used just one projector, while the spectacle beneath the bridge will involve six.

“Wow, I had goose bumps. That’s fan-tastic,” Coun. Louise Wallace Richmond re-marked.

Others were equally complimentary.

Fitt requested a letter of support from coun-cil, one she said Canada Wild Productions will use to seek funds from other agencies. She said a meeting was held in early January to discuss local opportunities re-garding the project.

“I think the project really speaks for itself. We’re quite excited about the uniqueness of this and the opportunity it holds for our region.”

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A new policy will tighten up park-land dedication deferral at the Co-lumbia Shuswap Regional District.

Directors voted unanimously to adopt Policy F-16 and include it in the regional district’s policy manual to level the playing field for develop-ers and ensure CSRD does not lose out on investment income.

Jodi Kooistra, the regional dis-trict’s manager of Financial Ser-vices, says legislation requires that when developers have a subdivision of more than four lots, they must provide parkland or cash in lieu.

“CSRD works with the developer to see if there is suitable parkland and, if there is not, they must pay five per cent of the appraised value of the total property,” says Kooistra.

That money is deposited into a parkland acquisition reserve fund that can only be used for purchasing parkland.

So, when a developer defers, usu-ally citing financial hardship, and promises to pay down the road when the properties in question sell, they get the benefit of not having to pay up front while the regional district loses the interest. As well, Kooistra told directors at the January board meeting that each application for a deferral agreement takes a sig-

nificant amount of staff time and resources.

Kooistra says it’s not fair to the developers who hand over their cash right away, while others hang onto their funds without penalty.

With more and more developers going to the board to ask for deferral, Kooistra worked with staff in Devel-opment Services and Parks to create a policy that will charge interest on deferred cash-in-lieu payments for as long as they remain outstanding.

So, a developer who defers for say, $50,000 for three years, will have to pay the amount owing plus three years worth of interest.

The fee for a deferral application is consistent with the development variance permit application fee, and the interest is the same as currently exists in CSRD’s subdivision servic-ing bylaw.

On another matter, Kooistra says members of the public are allowed to attend CSRD budget meetings as advised by a notice posted on the re-gional district’s website and bulletin board.

No member of the public showed up at the Jan. 29 day-long budget considerations and Kooistra reminds people of the next budget meeting on Friday, Feb. 20.

“A the end of the workshop, we will be doing public consultation,” she says.

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Oh my starsn Debbie Carew and Gracie Lein marvel as the foam star given to them by magician Leif David has somehow multiplied during a spe-cial Unplug and Play week performance Tuesday night at the Salm-on Arm branch of the Okanagan Regional Library.

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In last week’s column, I discussed some of the facts regarding the B.C. govern-ment’s planned cull of 184 grey wolves from the South Selkirk Mountains and South Peace region.

On one hand, you have the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations which says the cull is needed in order to protect dwindling herds of mountain caribou in both of these areas. A ministry state-ment, dated Jan. 15, 2015 says, “the evidence points to wolves being the leading cause of caribou mortality” in these areas. It also says that while “other caribou recovery efforts, including habitat protection and resto-ration, are already in place… if we wait for these measures to have an impact it will be too late.”

On the other hand, you have a fair number of critics who have been quick to say the government’s plan is ill-conceived, unscientific and shortsighted, not to men-tion simplistic, cruel and politically motivated. Critics of the cull point to habitat degradation, fragmentation

and loss as being the major contributing factors in the decline of caribou numbers. They also say that wolf culls carried out in the past have done little to stabilize cari-bou populations.

In spite of mounting criti-cism, the government ap-pears to be standing by its commitment to carry out the planned cull of 184 wolves by shooting them from a he-licopter.

While some critics see the wolf as being a scapegoat for the government’s lack of foresight when it comes to habitat protection, others view the cull as being sim-ply cruel and barbaric. They point out wolves are highly intelligent creatures with

complex social structures not unlike humans. Then there are those who suggest these particular herds of caribou are doomed anyway you look at it, and say that right or wrong, the wolf cull is little more than an exercise in futility.

There is one other way of looking at the wolf cull. Ac-cording to the government’s own estimates, the cull will cost somewhere in the neighbourhood of $575,000. That works out to about $3,125 per wolf.

Not an insignificant amount of money. I cannot help but feel all that money might be better spent on for-mulating a long-term plan to protect all the animals, in-cluding at-risk species such as the mountain caribou, which have been adversely effected by man’s incursion into their natural habitat. And then there’s those crea-tures that will be affected by such things as proposed oil and gas pipelines in the north, or hydro-electric dams such as the one the province just agreed to on the Peace River.

Granted, the dam site is

not in the South Peace re-gion where the wolf cull will take place, but you get my drift. Where is the incentive for this or any other govern-ment to create and imple-ment long-term wildlife pro-tection policies and establish protected habitat areas when there is a distinct possibility there will be mineral extrac-tion, development and/or oil and gas pipelines running through the same areas?

All we know for sure is the provincial government is willing to destroy 184 grey wolves in order to buy a little more time for two herds of mountain caribou that exist on the edge of oblivion.

In this instance, the prov-ince does indeed appear to be caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. The problem is the government has created the hard place – not just for themselves but for all the wildlife in the province -– by not having a proper wildlife protection policy.

More than ever before, we really do need a proper, realistic, long-term wild-life protection policy in this province.

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This Shuswap Market News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, the input from both the news-paper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent within 45 days, to B.C. Press Council, P.O. Box 1356, Ladysmith, B.C. V9G 1A9.

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THE GREAT OUTDOORS

James Murray

Government between rock and hard place

To be a player in the oil game, it appears wise to either hedge one’s bets or not play at all.

If Canada was getting too big for its big-oil britches, Saudi Arabia took care of that, proving who truly holds all the cards in the global oil market.

Despite a recent bump, oil prices are expected to stay low until summer when demand picks up. Per-haps by then the energy sector in North America will return to what it was and Canadians can resume their patriotic duty of paying exorbitant prices at the gas pump.

One lesson, or reminder, picked up locally from this slump is the importance of diversification. While there’s clearly big money to be earned supporting the oil sector, in the end, the industry is like any other – potentially unstable and, ultimately, out of our con-trol.

The federal and B.C. governments have invested a lot of effort and tax dollars into supporting oil and gas extraction as though they’re the only thing keeping the nation afloat.

Oh, wait, maybe they are. And that’s our fault. And now we’re seeing the apparent risk of this.

We’ve all heard stories about the economic pros-pects of a “green economy” and how new jobs could be created, building and supporting cleaner energy options and related infrastructure. However, there still appears to be little appetite to make that shift.

Incidentally, it was recently reported the Canadian wind-energy sector experienced a record-breaking year in 2014, with capacity to power up to three mil-lion homes annually. And we’re not talking about a lot of wind farms here.

It’s unlikely the wind industry will supplant the oil industry as an energy resource or mass provider of employment.

The point is, it is folly to rely entirely on oil. Invest-ing more in alternatives would help further diversifi-cation and establish greater energy independence. The nation could stand to gain from both.

Diversification key to future growth


Colin Mayes’ col-umn (Shuswap Market News Jan. 30: “Zero tolerance for barbaric practices”) shows how out of touch the Harper Conservative govern-ment is with ordinary Canadians.

Grim news on the economy: a precipitous drop in the Canadian dollar (22 per cent in 2 months); oil trading at $45 per barrel; federal

and provincial govern-ment revenues plum-meting (17 per cent decline in Alberta); jobs lost and contracts cancelled locally due to downsizing in the oil patch (1,000 jobs at Suncor).

Mr. Harper could be telling us how the Con-servatives intend to deal with the economic crisis. That’s what Pre-mier Jim Prentice is

doing for Albertans. Instead, the federal budget has been post-poned to “sometime in April,” after the fis-cal year end. This is akin to heading off on a hike without looking at the map.

Instead, the Conser-vatives are concerned about “foreign cultural values that will not be accepted as Canadian values.” Apparently,

there is a plan for pre-election messaging but no plan for the econ-omy. Mr. Mayes and the North Okanagan Shuswap deserve bet-ter communiqués from the PMO.

Time for a change in Ottawa.

Cindy Derkaz, Liberal candidate,

Okanagan-Shuswap

VIEW POINTMP avoids economic issuesPolitics: Candidate wonders about federal budget.

Other reports refute child poverty claimRecent data pub-

lished by the Confer-ence Board of Canada states more than 15 per cent of children in Canada are living in families whose in-come is below the pov-erty line and that this percentage has been increasing since the mid-1990s. According to OECD data cited by the Conference Board, Canada ranks 15th among 17 peer coun-tries.

This data appears to

refute Colin Mayes’ claims that the Con-servative government’s economic policies have addressed child pover-ty in Canada. Like all Conservative govern-ment claims, it is dif-ficult to determine fact from political spin.

Canada’s record in addressing child pov-erty during the past 20 years is unaccept-able, and the present Conservative govern-ment’s approach to micromanaging tax

benefits for selected groups will not address the issue. Given how the Conference Board relates child poverty to family income, it is crucial to increase the financial well-being of Canada’s middle- and lower-income families through meaningful macro-economic poli-cy, precisely the focus of the Liberal Party of Canada.

This upcoming elec-tion will be critical for Canada’s future and,

for the first time in more than a decade, Canadians have a clear choice in the polling booth.

Doug McDonaldPolicy Chair, Lib-

eral Party of Canada in North Okanagan-Shuswap

So long for now, John BairdApparently John

Baird, Canada’s Minis-ter of Foreign Affairs, is getting out while the getting is good.

In spite of what he may say to the con-trary, Baird has prob-ably decided to put his political aspirations on hold until the current

prime minister, Ste-phen Harper is forced – by the electorate or by the Conservative party – to relinquish his tena-cious and divisive grip on power.

No doubt, John Baird would revel in a job where his accom-plishments are openly

acknowledged and ap-preciated. Nothing is more tiresome than working for a bully-boy boss who takes no responsibility for mis-takes but quickly lays claim to other people’s successes.

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The new term for your local elected of-ficials is off and run-ning with a number of programs and projects requiring immediate attention.

Here’s a quick up-date on my agenda:

1. 2015 Budget – The single item that Columbia Shuswap Regional District staff spend the most time on in any given year is the budget.

Preparations began several month ago and, after internal re-views and approvals, the board reviewed the budget on Jan. 29 and will continue on Feb. 20.

The sessions usually require a full day for each review.

Staff priorities are discussed by depart-ment, and every budget line item is open for re-view and discussion.

These sessions are among the most im-

portant meetings held each year, as budget approvals determine staff activities and pri-orities for the upcom-ing year, as well as your local government taxes.

2. Sorrento/Blind Bay sewers – At the January board meet-ing, approval was giv-en to release gas tax funds to cover costs of ad-ditional drill-ing required to evaluate the suitability of a property for a rapid in-filtration site. Should this site prove to be appropriate, a service area plan with prelimi-nary costing will likely be the next step.

This new plan, once approved, would re-place the plan current-ly posted on the CSRD website.

3. Shuswap Water-shed Council – Our consultant has pro-vided the CSRD board with her report and recommendations con-cerning governance, legal authority, organi-zational structure and funding model.

At the last board meeting, the decision was made to refer this report to all program

partners for their com-ments. Once the gover-nance model is sorted out, the plan is to then review and approve the new five-year budget.

There will be sev-eral meetings of the Shuswap Watershed Council steering com-mittee over the next few months to discuss these pivotal docu-

ments which will set the course of the coun-cil for years to come.

4. Area C Parks Plan – Following an extensive public con-sultation process, a preliminary discussion document has been prepared and circulat-ed for comments.

A final parks plan will be developed in the weeks to come.

5. New Recycling Program – We’re still in the early days of this program, but so far, the feedback has been quite positive.

People are reporting the sorting required is

quite easy to do, they like being able to re-cycle new items such as Styrofoam, aero-sol containers, plastic bags, and disposable drink cups. In addition, they feel good about minimizing the impact of their solid waste on the environment. As seasonal residents return home we will

likely need to continue our efforts to edu-cate and in-form the pub-lic. This will be a primary role for the onsite staff at each depot.

If you would like to suggest topics for future articles, or participate in our com-munity advisory panel surveys, please contact me at [email protected].

-Paul Demenok is the Area C director for the Columbia Shuswap Regional District.

Editor’s Note: Mem-bers of the public are welcome to attend the Feb. 20 budget work-shop to be held in the boardroom of CSRD’s Salmon Arm office. A public consultation session will follow.

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River of Life Community Church hosts a Family Day Carnival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9 at Shuswap Lake Estates, fea-turing bouncy toys, 50-cent carnival games and a concession. This is a fundraising event for the church’s Mexico missions. For more information, call 250-675-3943 or send an email to [email protected].

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It has become the perfect all-occasion gift and the subject of much celebration – especially at Salmon Arm’s an-nual Death by Choco-late, which takes place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14 at the Seniors Fifth Avenue Activity Centre.

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ganza is a fundraiser or-ganized by a committee that makes local perfor-mances by the Kam-loops Symphony pos-sible. Joyce Henderson, Cilla Budda, Lynne Wickett, Jeannetta Zorn and Erika Allwood fun-draise to pay for the symphony’s transpor-tation to Salmon Arm and give the performers a meal.

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Bid in the silent auc-tion and enjoy a drink from the cash wine bar.

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R.J. Haney Heritage Village & Museum and the Mall at Piccadilly celebrate “Main Street: At the Heart of The Community,” from Feb. 16 to 21.

The Heritage Week celebration at the mall starts Monday, Feb. 16 with pioneer displays and demon-strations by the village, City of Salmon Arm Heri-tage Commission and many others throughout the Mall at Piccadilly.

This major fundraiser for the village and museum has more than 100 items that have been donated by local businesses and individuals for a silent auction from Feb. 19 to 3 p.m. Feb. 21.

Independent appraiser Peter Blundell will ap-praise household curiosities and art items for $14 per item from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Feb. 20 and 21.

Start Family Day on Feb. 21 with a pioneer breakfast at 8:30 a.m. at Jane’s Place.

Take the kids to the gold panning sluice at the

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Organizers are “calling all pies” for the 19th an-nual Best of the Shuswap Pie Baking Contest.

Judged by appearance, authenticity, texture and taste, the apple, fruit or berry pies must be made from scratch.

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The Best of the Shuswap Pie Auction will be-gin at noon featuring pies baked and donated by winning-pie contestants from past years and celeb-rities. After the judging, slices of the pies may be purchased for $2.50 each.

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Jocelyne Baker was born and raised in the Okanagan. She has a BSc in Ge-ography. In 1999 Jocelyne and her hus-band Phil moved to the Gardom Lake area to start their family and timber framing business. After her husband’s death in 2007, she pursued a dream

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Fitness has always been a huge part of my life. As age has come rushing-in I started to run through my brain just what I was going to do with myself in these last 40 years of working. Tada, I went back and got re-certi� ed for group Fitness and am teaching Step-aerobics at Shuswap Fit-ness and fully intend on teaching outdoor group � tness in the near future. I wanted to do some-thing about the excess weight I always battled with and found Venice Nutrition. Mark Macdonald and his team with their philosophies have taught me body con� dence. I am now ready to take on clients who are looking for life changes, I do not hand out diets, I teach through meal planning and exercise, how you too can learn body con-� dence. Call me if you’re tired of talking about things you haven’t been willing to change - lets change them.

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Over the past few years I have received emails regarding ben-efits refugees receive at a cost to taxpayers. Moreover, that those benefits have been more generous than those provided to Canadians, especially, seniors.

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Swapping storiesn Makena Gervais, left, and Brooklynn Stockbruegger read novels during Family Yoga and Sto-rytime at Hillcrest Elementary School on Friday, Jan. 30. This was one of the last events in the Unplug and Play Week hosted by the Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap and School District #83.


Volunteers needed to read with studentsIf you love to read

and are interested in working with children, consider becoming a volunteer with the One to One Children’s Lit-eracy Program.

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munity volunteers are needed to support our students with their read-ing. The commitment is 1.5 hours per week for 12 weeks starting in mid-February. A three-hour training ses-

sion for all volunteers in basic reading strate-gies is mandatory as well as a criminal re-cord check. Training sessions will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 4 from 9 a.m. to noon at South

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Contest focuses on diversity Students with a feel

for film are invited to enter a video contest on inclusive communi-ties.

The North Okanagan Shuswap Community Council of Community Living BC is looking for short videos that demonstrate the ben-efits of hiring people with disabilities.

The goal is to get students thinking about how important it is to have a diverse commu-nity and workforce and that people with dis-abilities can do just as

good a job as anyone. The video contest

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The Shuswap Pie Company on Alexan-der Street will be fea-tured on Food Network Canada’s hit TV show You Gotta Eat Here!, on Friday and Satur-day, Feb. 6 and 7.

The show follows John Catucci around Canada, on his quest for the most delicious comfort food that made restaurants famous in

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Pie Company for fo-cusing solely on pies, and says it has paid off.

“They have really hit the nail on the head with both their sweet and savoury pies,” he says.

The first airing is 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6 and again at 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday.

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CHASEBeach foreshore to be restored

Shuswap Lake sal-monid will have im-proved habitat, thanks to a partnership be-tween the Little Shus-wap Indian Band and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

With $18,000 in funding provided by the BC Conservation Foundation through the federal Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program, 25 linear metres of the Shuswap Lake fore-shore at Silvery Beach are being restored.

But like an iceberg, a larger problem is hid-den beneath the waves.

On-shore, an aban-doned house, chunks of concrete and an es-timated 200 tires are being removed from Silvery Beach, which is located beside the Trans-Canada High-way just west of the Squilax-Anglemont turn-off.

Sean Bennett, a se-nior restoration biolo-

gist with Fisheries and Oceans, says many years ago, a breakwa-ter was built in the lake and other tires were used to shore up the beach.

“We’ve partnered with the band to re-move the tires and con-crete and tear down the house,” Bennett says of work that began Monday, Jan. 26. “We will re-slope the bank, make it a more natural slope and plant willows and cottonwoods.”

Bennett says the tires and concrete are on the foreshore where the lake floods every year during freshet, an area frequented by adult sockeye and juvenile fish of all types.

“We estimate there’s a few hundred tires in the bank and a few thousand in the lake itself,” said Bennett. “We have to figure that out. There could be a few thousand, or there could be 20,000; we don’t know for sure.”

In order to gauge the size of the problem,

Bennett says funding will have to be found to carry out an under-water investigation fol-lowed by removal.

Little Shuswap Indi-an Band fisheries man-ager Aaron Arnouse says the Silvery Beach project is one the band has long wanted to fix.

The abandoned house is owned by a band member, whose approval was sought for the demolition.

Arnouse was work-ing with Fisheries on

another area of concern on Scotch Creek when he was asked to partner in the Silvery Beach clean-up.

“Scotch Creek changes its flow every year with the high wa-ter,” he said of the river that flows alongside the Squilax-Anglemont Road. “And there’s one part where the bank started to fall into the creek.”

Rock is already be-

n As well as a project at Silvery Beach, the Little Shuswap Indian Band and Fisheries and Oceans Canada have been working to prevent further degradation of the bank of Scotch Creek beside Squilax-Anglemont Road.

Project: Improvement of habitat for salmon. By Barb BrouwerMARKET NEWS STAFF

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With the month of January behind us, the Chase Heat have five games left in their KI-JHL regular season schedule.

After losing to the Kamloops Storm 5-0 on Saturday the 30th, they sit second in the Doug Birks standings.

Kamloops has a six-point lead in first and three games in hand.

Chasing the Heat are the Sicamous Eagles (-2), 100 Mile Wran-glers (-5) and Revel-stoke Grizzlies (-11).

Other than the Kam-loops total team snooze festival, the Heat have been hot in their last 10 with seven wins, two losses and an overtime loss.

The Heat went into

the last weekend hav-ing come off a 4-3 home-ice win over their closest rival the Eagles.

Tied in the standings, this victory provided a small gap between the two.

Nic Bruyere got his first start between the pipes since Dec. 4 and provided excellent sup-port, stopping 33 of 36. Bruyere’s broken digit is all healed up and he now gives the team a superb trio between the pipes entering the playoffs.

Kaleb Boyle in the first on the power play got his team on the board, assisted by Cody Hodges and Trevor Okino.

In the second, the Heat got two: Hayden Orton from Alex Dur-beniuk and Zach-

ary Fournier and then Kolten Moore on the power play from Travis Beaubien and Boyle. In the third, Spencer Farstad scored the game winner from Tra-vis Churchill.

Balanced scoring from throughout the lineup as the first play-off round starts Feb. 20.

Ice Chips: Next up the Nelson

Leafs in Chase on Fri-day, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.

The boys then travel to 100 Mile House for a Saturday night road tilt. Family Day the 9th finds us back in the big city of Kamloops for a 5 p.m. start.

Logan Mostat, Mitchell Walters, Spencer Farstad and Nic Bruyere have all returned to the lineup

from injuries, while Braden Hughes and Wesley Matsuda are

both hampered by low-er body woes and Eric Austin is close to re-

turning from a serious upper body injury.

The players have

thoroughly enjoyed the large fan support that has come out recently.

ing dropped near the site so four channels can be built to divert the creek, and rip rap will be placed to stabi-lize the bank.

Arnouse says the

work is being com-pleted with Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure approval and several funding sources, including Fisheries and Oceans and the Swecepemc Fisheries Commission.

Back at Silvery

Beach, Arnouse says the tires could be any-where from 10 to 60 feet below the surface and the initial clean-up now underway is the first of three phases.

Phases two and three are still in the planning stage, he adds.

Continued from pg. 23

Buried tires to be removed

Playoffs on horizon for second-place Heat

n Chase Heat #16 Kaleb Boyle celebrates with teammates #7 Trevor Okino and #19 Cody Hodges after adding another power-play goal to his growing record. The Chase Heat beat the Sicamous Ea-gles by a final score of 4-3.

What’s on in ChaseChase and District

Fish & Game Ban-quet, Saturday, Feb. 7 at 5:30 p.m., Adams Lake Indian Band Rec-reation & Conference Centre. Tickets avail-able at Naramata Video, 250-679-3332.

Family Day Car-nival, Monday, Feb. 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Shuswap Lake Es-tates, 50-cent carnival games, bouncy tent, facepainting, conces-sion. Hosted by River of Life Community Church as a fundraiser for Mexico Missions. Contact: [email protected], or Sandi at 250-675-3943

Hasta la Pasta, Fri-day, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. at Shuswap Lake Estates. Full pasta dinner with dessert and entertain-ment. Admission by donation. Fundrais-ing event for River of

Life Mexico Missions. RSVP to [email protected], or Sandi at 250-675-3943.

Chase Royal Cana-dian Legion, Variety Club Telethon Mixed Triples Dart Tourna-ment, 12:30 to 12:45 p.m. Toe the line $5 per person plus a new wrapped gift for auc-tion. All auction pro-ceeds to Variety. If you don’t wish to play darts, feel free to donate or come bid on a gift. Sign up your team at the le-gion. For more infor-mation, call Val at 250-679-8527.

An indoor commu-nity garage sale will be held at the Chase Community Hall on Saturday, Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hot dogs for sale by Chase Dry Grad committee. Tables available for $15; email athottalie@

gmail.comor, or phone 778-257-9989.

Chase Excellence Program, Saturday, Feb. 28, Pasta Dinner 5 to 6:30 p.m., adults $10, children 10 and under, $5; banner presentation 7 p.m.; silent auction and live apron auction to follow, Chase Com-munity Hall, tickets available from candi-dates, royalty, People’s Food & Drugs, Safety Mart Foods and at the door.

Pig and Whistle, Britain or Bust on Thursday, March 5 at Lakeview Community Centre, 7703 Squilax-Anglemont Rd., Angle-mont. Tickets at Su-perValu, Scotch Creek, Ross Creek Store, Mag-na Bay, online at www.lakeviewcoummunity centresociety.com or call Lorrie at 250-955-0835.

Chamber executive to be set Feb. 16The Chase & District Cham-

ber of Commerce board mem-bers for 2015 are in place.

Elected are: Tracy Holloway, Linda Kynoch, Carmen Miller, Joan Anderson, Tristan Cav-ers, Darlene Trowsse, Donna

Smith-Bradley, Brock Endean and Barbara Maher

On Feb. 16, a new executive will be elected from this group of volunteers. Chamber man-ager is Elena Markin who can be reached at 250-679-8432.

“We are all eager to begin fo-cusing on how we can enhance and support our business com-munity, which in the end cre-ates a ‘successful’ community,” remarked Markin in a post to members.

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Hired Equipment Registration

The Okanagan Shuswap District of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is creating its list of registered Equipment for Hire for the fiscal year of 2015/2016, which begins April 1, 2015. This district geographically covers the area from the United States border, east to Osoyoos, west of Princeton and north of Salmon Arm.

All individuals or companies registered in 2014 will have received invitations by mail to re‑register hired equipment for 2015. If you have new equipment to be added to your profile, you can register online at www.bcbid.ca or contact the District Office in Kelowna to obtain the appropriate forms. Any individuals who were not registered in 2014, but wish to have equipment listed are hereby invited to contact the District Office, either in person or by phone, to obtain the appropriate registration forms.

Note that while you do not need to have Commercial (Comprehensive) General Liability Insurance or up‑to‑date WorkSafe BC coverage to register, you will have to meet these requirements prior to working on any ministry projects.

Only owned or lease‑to‑own equipment is eligible for registration. Equipment may only be registered in one area in any given year. Seniority is not transferable from area to area.

The deadline for new registrations is midnight on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Late registrations will be accepted, but may appear at the bottom of the open list. Note that there is no charge for registering new equipment, or for changing or deleting equipment information already listed.

Register through the Okanagan Shuswap District Office at:1358 St. Paul Street, Suite 300, Kelowna, B.C., V1Y 2E1

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Globe moves into ‘peak everything’

Peak oil is so last year. Now we can wor-ry about peak every-thing: peak food, peak soil, peak fertilizer, even peak bees.

Let’s start small. We depend on bees to polli-nate plants that account for about one-third of the world’s food sup-ply, but since 2006 bee colonies in the United States have been dying off at an unprecedented rate. More recently the same “colony collapse disorder” has appeared in China, Egypt and Japan.

Many suspect that the main cause is a widely used type of pesticides called neo-nicotinoids, but the evidence is not yet conclusive. The fact remains that one-third of the American bee population has dis-appeared in the past decade. If the losses spread and deepen, we may face serious food shortages.

Then there’s peak fertilizer, or more pre-cisely peak phosphate rock. Phosphorus is a critical ingredient of fertilizer, and it is the eightfold increase in the use of fertilizers that has enabled us to triple food production worldwide from about the same area of land in the past 60 years.

As with peak oil, the really important date is not when there are no economically vi-able phosphate rock reserves left, but when production starts to fall. Peak phosphate is currently no more than 40 years away – or much less, if fertilizer use continues to grow. After that, it’s back to organic fertilizers, which mainly means the urine and feces of 10 or 12 billion hu-man beings and their domesticated animals.

Good luck with that.Peak soil is a trickier

notion, but it derives from the more concrete concept that we are “mining” the soil: de-grading and exhausting it by growing single-crop “monocultures,” using too much fertil-izer and irrigating too enthusiastically, all in the name of higher crop yields.

“We know far more about the amount of oil there is globally and how long those stocks will last than we know about how much soil there is,” said John Crawford, director of the Sustainable Sys-tems Program in Ro-thamsted Research in England. “Under busi-ness as usual, the cur-rent soils that are in agricultural production will yield about 30 per-cent less... by around 2050.”

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 25 percent of the world’s soils that are currently under cul-tivation are severely degraded, and another eight percent moder-ately degraded. (Even “moderately degraded” soil has lost half its ca-pacity to store water.)

And the only way to access new, undam-aged soil is to deforest the rest of the planet.

All of which brings

us to the issue of peak food. And here the concept of “peak” un-dergoes a subtle modi-fication, because it no longer means “maxi-mum production, af-ter which yields start to fall.” It just means “the point at which the growth in production stops accelerating;” it’s the peak rate of growth, not actual peak production. But even that is quite ominous, if you think about it.

During the latter part of the 20th century, food production grew at around 3.5 percent per year, comfortably ahead of population growth, but the dramat-ic rise in crop yields was due to new inputs of fertilizers and pesti-cides, much more irri-gation, and new “green revolution” crop variet-ies.

Now those one-time improvements have largely run their course and global food pro-duction is rising at only 1.5 percent a year.

Population growth has slowed too, so we’re still more or less keeping up with demand, but there are signs that food pro-duction in many areas is running up against what researchers at the University of Ne-braska – Lincoln in a report last year called “a biophysical yield

ceiling for the crop in question.” Production of the food in question stops rising, then may even fall – and extra in-vestment often doesn’t help.

The “peak” in this context is an early warning that there will eventually be a complete cessation of growth, possibly fol-lowed by an absolute decline. Peak maize happened in 1985, peak rice and wild fish in 1988, peak dairy in 1989, peak eggs in 1993, and peak meat in 1996. (The numbers come from a recent report by scientists at Yale, Michigan State University and the Helmholtz Centre in Germany in the journal Ecology and Society)

More recent peaks were vegetables in 2000, milk and wheat in 2004, poultry in 2006 and soya bean in 2009. Indeed, 16 of the 21 foods examined in the Ecology and Soci-ety report have already peaked, and produc-tion levels have actu-ally flattened out for key regions amounting to 33 percent of global rice and 27 percent of global wheat produc-tion.

So we are already in trouble, and it will get worse even before cli-mate change gets bad.

There are still some

quick fixes available, notably by cutting down on waste: more than a third of the food that is grown for hu-man consumption nev-er gets eaten.

But unless we come up with some new “magic bullets,” things will be getting fairly grim on the food front by the 2030s.

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Recently, our lo-cal CBC Radio West provided coverage of the new Oxfam report on income inequality that the 85 richest are nearly as wealthy as the poorest half of the world, by interviewing two professors whose commentaries were anything but helpful.

One, an obvi-ous apologist for the wealthy, claimed in-equality was a result of higher share prices for some companies like those that make cell phones and thus was not a big deal. The oth-er professor claimed that while inequality was real, the poor are

doing better. Listening to these

so-called experts was so irritating it prompt-ed me to do some re-search and write this column.

As one can find few examples of extreme wealth in the Shuswap, other than the few os-tentatious vacation homes on the lake-shores, it is necessary to examine the antith-esis of wealth, which is poverty.

Many of the same factors that allow the wealthy to amass yet more wealth, also contribute to fostering greater poverty.

Chief among these are government poli-cies that direct tax dollars into corporate subsidies instead of social programs, mini-mize assistance to the poor and create a tax structure that is steadi-ly becoming less pro-gressive as user fees increase and the taxes paid by the corpora-tions and the wealthy

decrease.The most obvious

way to gauge the level of poverty in the Shus-wap is to look at the food banks. For con-text, it is important to understand that the first food bank in Can-ada was not established until 1981, a direct re-sult of the recession then and the resulting government cutbacks which put the pressure of aiding the poor upon local community orga-nizations.

In B.C., the numbers of people using food banks has increased by 24.7 per cent since 2008, and nearly 30.8 per cent are children.

In Salmon Arm the primary food bank is run by the Salvation Army and is open five days a week.

Its manager, David Byers, reports the need for dietary help has doubled in the last four years. To provide a per-spective of the factors behind the increase, David keeps track of

who is requiring help. The largest group,

58 per cent, is either on income assistance or receives disability pay-ments. The next largest group, which has been on the increase, is the 16 percent who are un-deremployed, meaning they work for mini-mum wage and often simply part-time.

The other groups are split between those on fixed incomes, those who are self-employed and those that receive other types of govern-ment assistance.

Salmon Arm’s other food bank, Second Harvest, is managed by a group of churches through Neighbourlink Shuswap. When they began in 2001 there were about 130 people per week receiving help. Now the number is fairly steady at 200 per week, and more than half receive dis-ability assistance. Vol-unteer Diana Mangold blames this need for di-etary help on the high

price of living here, especially the lack of affordable housing.

She adds the govern-ment denying assis-tance to those who are trying to eke out a liv-ing by finding ‘some’ work exacerbates the problems.

Adding to the woes is the observation that

wealthy neighbour-hoods are less gener-ous than the poorer ones for making do-nations, because she believes that well-off people cannot relate to the issues of need.

Shuswap Family Re-source Centre execu-

tive director Patricia Thurston reports that food security is high on their list of concerns in their efforts to provide help for approximately 12,000 people through-out the region.

In just one year, the number of people re-quiring assistance in-creased by 11 per cent.

They are only able to provide food boxes for one quarter of the peo-ple that arrive daily in need of food, and some have been directed to their office by the B.C. government ministries that are supposed to be there to help.

Another indicator of poverty in the Shuswap is the effort made in lo-cal schools to provide dietary assistance for children who arrive hungry.

Most of the schools in the district run a breakfast program that at the minimum in-cludes granola, fruit and yogurt thanks in part to funding pro-vided by the Rotary

Club. Some schools also provide a lunch program. The number of students in each school requiring help varies day by day from 5 to 25 and, in some cases, could be a result of parents too busy or too rushed to provide breakfast.

Over the last five years, the need has increased and as the Director of Student Services Morag As-quith explained, the priorities have shifted from math, reading and writing to wellness and healthy food and life-styles.

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At the Eastern Ca-nadian Championships on the weekend at the Nakkertok Ski Club in Ottawa, Larch Hills racers garnered a great number of podium fin-ishes and in many races had a considerable number in the top 10.

In the Midget Girls race on Saturday, Larch Hills had four of the top six finishing posi-tions. With competitors from all across Canada – Hollyburn to White-horse to Blow Me Down in Newfound-land – the field in these races was over 45 rac-ers deep.

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saying, “Where is Larch Hills?”

Great showing by these 16 Larch Hills Ju-nior Racers back in Ot-tawa, completing their exchange with the kids from Nakkertok who came to Salmon Arm in December.

A couple of weeks ago, I came into the

chalet to change my boots and there was a lively group of folks sitting at one of the ta-bles having lunch – and speaking in a variety of accents.

Turns out this was a group of 10 first-time skiers from differ-ent parts of the world (see photo page 34): Chile, Ukraine, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Uzbekistan taking part in an Okanagan Col-lege program ESLSAP – English As a Second Language Settlement Assistance Program – helping new Cana-dians to improve their English skills and learn about Canada through participation in English

Practice Groups and field trips.

This was one of their field trips. After all, be-ing Canadian – espe-cially in Salmon Arm – means snow and its enjoyment.

Co-ordinator Olia Bullen reports the group was very im-pressed with this outing and that it was a great team-building experi-ence.

In talking to a num-ber of them I can tell they will be back! Wonderful to know there is this free pro-gram in Salmon Arm through the College.

I’ve had the most ter-rific staycation this past two weeks.

With Vic Emery vis-iting us and wanting to train up for his 10th crack at the Norwegian Birkebeiner in mid-March – as one of more than 80 competitors in the 80-89 age category – we have been skiing up a storm in the Larch Hills. We’ve skied 14 of 15 days, with a rest day halfway. Never ran out of set track, cover-ing most of the Larch Hills trails both direc-tions.

Took a wonder-ful backcountry trip with the Geezers up to Cec’s Cabin and over a number of the bogs on the Bog Route be-fore heading down Greenway – magical

experience with pow-der snow, cozy trail with trees laden with snow. As the snow and trail conditions became more challenging with the warmish weather we turned to skating and had a superb day on the South Loop where the Ginzu groomer had done its magic. Sentinel was beautiful with its coating of hoar frost. Can’t beat Larch Hills for such variety of experiences!

The Pirate Loppet is unique among ski events. Vic had never seen anything like it. Kids, parents, teachers, volunteers all dressed up as pirates for a won-derful day of celebrat-

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Elsie Irene Tweeddale Paterson passed away January 23, 2015 at the age of 96 years.

A true pioneer of the Eagle Valley, Elsie was born on June 23, 1918, in a log house at Solsqua, B.C. Her parents, William and Elizabeth Hollett, immigrants from England, were some of the first settlers in the area.

Our mother lived a full and active life in Salmon Arm for over 80 years. She became a Teacher’s Aid where she enjoyed working for the School District until her retirement at age 65. She was a devoted volunteer with many organizations, particularly the Canadian Cancer Society and the Parkinson Society, and truly believed in giving back to the community.

Maintaining an active lifestyle, Elsie loved to dance, hike the Rockies, cross-country ski and travel the world. During her travels over four continents she met with members of her extended family and new friends that she made along the way. Australia was a favourite destination to visit with her eldest son, Lyle, and his family.

Elsie was predeceased by her parents, her first husband E.A.C. (Gus) Tweeddale in 1969, her sister, Phyllis Thomas in 2004 and her son, Ned Tweeddale in 2005.

Elsie is survived by her loving and dedicated family; husband Gavin Paterson, daughters Judy Birkhiem (Vic) of Salmon Arm, Mary Lougheed of Langley, Cathy Mitchell (Kevin) of Langley and son Lyle (Margaret) of Brisbane, Australia; grandchildren and great grandchildren. Also survived by Gavin’s children; Ralph (Joan) of California, Phillip (Tammy) of Calgary, Ken (Donna) of Salmon Arm, Elaine of Vernon and their children.

Friends and family are invited to attend the celebration of life that will be held when the weather allows easier travel for the distant family. Public notice of the arrangements will be published in April.

Arrangements are in the care of Bowers Funeral Home and Crematorium for cremation with interment to follow in the family plot in Mt. Ida Cemetery.

The family wishes to extend a special thank you to the staff at Piccadilly Terrace and Piccadilly Care Centre, her daughter Judy Birkhiem, dear friend Irene Rogers and Dr. Cindy Malinowski, for the wonderful care that our mother received.

In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Elsie may be made to Parkinson Society British Columbia, Attention: Susan Atkinson, 600 – 890 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6C 1J9

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ELSIE IRENE TWEEDDALE PATERSON

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Bernadette Dansereau into the care of her Savior on Thursday, January 29, 2015. She died peacefully at her home in Sorrento, BC surrounded by her family.

Bernadette was born on March 8, 2008 in Salmon Arm and was very much looking forward to her seventh birthday because she was going to have her first big birthday party with friends. She was extremely shy but sweet and was a ray of gentle sunshine wherever she went. She loved to dance ballet, play at the beach and make sandcastles with Daddy, play video games with Johanna, play everything with Catherine, rough house with her brothers, and bake with Mommy.

She will be greatly missed by her loving parents, Marc and Patti; brother Paul (Christina) and niece Ruth from Revelstoke, brother Joseph and sisters Johanna, Catherine and Zoe all from Sorrento, grandparents, Andre and Suzanne Dansereau of Sorrento and Mary and Larry Scherr of Ottawa, numerous aunts, uncles, and 22 cousins.

A prayer service will be held at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Salmon Arm on Friday, February 6 at 7:00 pm followed by Mass of Christian Burial on Saturday morning at 10:00 am, with Father George LaGrange, OMI, the Celebrant. Interment will follow in Mount Ida Cemetery. Reception will be held in the hall at St. Joseph’s.

If so desired, contributions in memory of Bernadette may be made to the Children’s Hospital in Vancouver or Canuck Place also in Vancouver.

Online condolences may be sent through Bernadette’s obituary at www.bowersfuneralservice.com

Arrangements are in the care of Bowers Funeral Home, Salmon Arm.

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Born in Vermilion, AB on July 11, 1936 and raised in Edmonton as the oldest of four children. Charlie and Doreen (nee Roeder) married in June, 1956 at Galahad, AB. Together, they raised four children: Janice, Donna, Bill and Patty.

Job opportunities took the family to a variety of communities in Alberta and British Columbia. Charlie took work seriously and tried numerous ventures both as an employee and as an entrepreneur.

Charlie had a short but valiant fight against cancer and passed away with his wife and daughters by his side on January 30, 2015.

Charlie was predeceased by son, Bill, in 1996. He is survived by his wife, Doreen and their daughters and families.

Thanks and appreciation go to his medical team (Dr. Levins and Dr. McLellan) as well as the nurses and care aides who provided excellent care.

“There was a man who had a calf, and that’s half. He took it from the stall, and tied it to the wall. That’s all! Goodnight!”

Arrangements entrusted to Fischer’s Funeral Services & Crematorium Ltd., Salmon Arm (250) 833-1129. Email condolences and share memories through Charlie’s obituary at www.fischersfuneralservices.com.

STONE, CHARLES (CHUCK/CHARLIE) HERBERT POWELL

It is with sadness we announce the passing of Richard Szafranski on January 25, 2015. He was a loving husband to Audrey; stepfather to 9 children, Susan (Henri), Brad (Marna), Scott, Ronni (Randy), Jayne-Anne, Jeff (Barb), Missy (James), Robert, Audra (Sheldon); 25 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Dick loved his sports, which included golfing and bowling with his wife. With respect to his wishes, no service will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Richard can be made to Salmon Arm Stroke Recovery Support Group, 1341 – 20 St. SW, Salmon Arm, BC, V1E IT4.

Online condolences can be sent through Richard’s obituary at www.bowersfuneralservice.com

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RICHARD SZAFRANSKIDec. 9, 1923 - Jan. 25, 2015

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Born in Vermilion, AB on July 11, 1936 and raised in Edmonton as the oldest of four children. Charlie and Doreen (nee Roeder) married in June, 1956 at Galahad, AB. Together, they raised four children: Janice, Donna, Bill and Patty.

Job opportunities took the family to a variety of communities in Alberta and British Columbia. Charlie took work seriously and tried numerous ventures both as an employee and as an entrepreneur.

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Charlie was predeceased by son, Bill, in 1996. He is survived by his wife, Doreen and their daughters and families.

Thanks and appreciation go to his medical team (Dr. Levins and Dr. McLellan) as well as the nurses and care aides who provided excellent care.

“There was a man who had a calf, and that’s half. He took it from the stall, and tied it to the wall. That’s all! Goodnight!”

Arrangements entrusted to Fischer’s Funeral Services & Crematorium Ltd., Salmon Arm (250) 833-1129. Email condolences and share memories through Charlie’s obituary at www.fischersfuneralservices.com.

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SICAMOUS Medical Clinic regrets to announce the de-parture of Dr. Rosemary Kelsall from the Sicamous Medical Clinic practice effec-tive March 1st 2015. This will be a great loss to the medi-cal clinic as we have en-joyed a long professional re-lationship and she has provided much needed women’s health services to our local communities. Dr. Beech and staff wish her well on her new journey.The sicamous Medical Clinic wishes to reassure, that a replacement plan is already in place to provide continued care to Dr. Kelsall’s patients after she leaves. The provi-sion of women’s health ser-vices will remain a high pri-ority with this clinic and every effort is being made to ensure that these needs are met until a suitable replace-ment physician can be found.Thank you for your under-standing.Sicamous Medical Clinic

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Here Today – Here Tomorrow

There is no better way to create an everlasting tribute than by

making a memorial donation to the Shuswap Community

Foundation. Every tax receipted gift ensures that the name of your loved one

will be remembered in perpetuity.

Office: 250-832-5428 www.shuswapfoundation.ca

Information

Cards of ThanksJAMEE formerly of Sportsmans Barbershop wishes all of her clients a happy 2015. I look forward to seeing you in Canoe. 778-489-0131

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Obituaries

Announcements

Cards of ThanksA very grateful thank you to the gentleman who found my family ring, which I lost in Sal-mon Arm on Dec 8 and re-turned to me on Wed Jan 28. I don’t know where you found it, but I know it wasn’t the Sica-mous thrift store. I really ap-preciate getting it back, as it was given to me by our chil-dren for our 25th anniversary. As the reward was not claimed which was offered in the lost and found, I’m donating it to the Salmon Arm S.P.C.A.Again, I say thank you Grace Kennedy

Sports & RecreationHUNTING Firearms Safety courses. C.O.R.E. & P.A.L. required for Hunting/Firearms Licences. Call Trevor Holmes at (250)832-4105 www.huntingandfi rearms.com

Employment

Drivers/Courier/Trucking

HIGHWAYOWNER OPERATORS

$3500 SIGNING BONUSVan Kam’s Group of Compa-nies requires Highway line-haul Owner Operators based in our Kelowna ter-minal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and moun-tain, driving experience/ training.

We offer above average rates and an excellent

employee benefi ts package.

To join our team of profes-sional drivers, email a detailed resume, current driver’s abstract & details of your truck to:

[email protected] Call 604-968-5488Fax: 604-587-9889

Only those of interest will be contacted.

Van-Kam is committed toEmployment Equity and

Environmental Responsibility.

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We require 5 qualifi ed Cana-dian Drivers Immediately. We are an Okanagan based transport company looking for qualifi ed drivers for the West-ern Provinces. All picks and drops paid. Assigned units company cell phones and fuel cards. Regular home time. Direct deposit paid every sec-ond Friday with no hold backs.We offer a rider and pet policy.All applicants must have reliable transportation and a positive attitude. Please fax resume and abstract to 250-546-0600 or by email to [email protected] NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

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We require qualifi ed US capable Class 1 drivers imme-diately: We are an Okanagan based transport company looking for qualifi ed drivers for US loads we run primarily in the Pacifi c Northwest, Utah, Arizona and Nevada. We offer a new pay rate empty or load-ed. All picks and drops paid. Assigned units company cell phones and fuel cards. Regu-lar home time Direct deposit paid every second Friday with no hold backs. We offer a rider and pet policy. Company paid US travel Insurance. All applicants must have reliable transportation and a positive attitude. Please fax resume & abstract to 250-546-0600 or by email to [email protected] NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

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Employment

Help WantedCommunity Health Nurse

sought in Port Hardy, BC. Re-quest job description or apply to [email protected] by Feb 22. Competitive salary offered. Tel. 250-949-6625EXPERIENCED Care Worker for 2 day shifts per/wk, private home, Tappen area, non-smoker, $18/hr. to start, (250)835-0145 ask for GwenFABRICLAND Want to work in a busy, fun environment? Drop off your resume at the Salmon Arm Store. Must be able to work some weekends and have sewing experience.

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Help WantedLOCAL business is looking for an experienced Travel Consul-tant. Resumes by email ONLY: [email protected]

SKYLINE TRUCKSTOP is now hiring a gas attendant & waitress. Email resume to [email protected] or fax to 250-836-4950.

SMALL ENG/SAW/OUTBOARD MECHANIC WANTED.

Exp required. Wage/benefi ts negotiable. Send resume to

[email protected]

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Employment

Help WantedVernon Service Company requires F/T Journeyman Plumber/Gasfi tter. $36/hr. Call 250-549-4444 or email: [email protected]

WANT time and fi nancial free-dom? Looking for enthusiastic motivated individuals to join our new expanding team! Call or text (250)309-5429

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Salmon Arm Observer Friday, February 6, 2015 www.saobserver.net A31

SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Several Data Entry positions available in a fast-paced offi ce environment

• Strong computer skills a must• Reliable, hardworking self-starters• Focused to complete tasks with minimal supervision• On job training• Hours Monday through Friday

Please forward your email resumes [email protected]

or drop off your resume to290 Alexander St., Salmon Arm, B.C.

No phone calls please.

COPPER ISLAND PUB IN SORRENTO, B.C.is hiring one fulltime permanent Food Service Supervisor. Location: #1277 Trans Canada Hwy, Sorrento, BC V0E 2W0

Education: Secondary School Education Experience: 1 to 2 years experience

Good communication and leadership skills mandatory.Job Description: Supervise, co-ordinate and schedule the

activities of staff who prepare, portion and serve food. Estimate and order ingredients and supplies required for

meal preparation, establish methods to meet work schedules, maintain records of stock, sales and wastage. Train staff in

job duties, and sanitation and safety proceedures, ensure that food and service meet quality control standards.

Salary would be $12.50 per hour for 40 hours/week Please email your detailed resume to:

[email protected] or by mail to 1277 Trans Canada Hwy, Sorrento, BC V0E 2W0

Contact: Paramjit Chahal Tel: 250-675-2254

Full-Time Seasonal Employment Opportunities

**Shipping and Receiving Clerk**

The Twin Anchors Houseboat Team is searching for a self-motivated, energetic individual to work in the shipping and receiving area of our operations. The

successful candidate will have proven abilities in both mechanical and electrical fields, specifically relating

to the marine industry. A minimum of three years experience with shipping and handling parts utilizing

quality control systems is a requirement. Above average computer skills and programs

knowledge is mandatory. Knowledge of the houseboat industry, Mercury and Volvo parts is necessary.

Complete job description available upon request. The position requires a good communicator and

proven abilities in customer service and is responsible to the procurement officer. Lifting is a component of

this position due to the nature of the parts and supplies dealt with on a daily basis.

This position is at our Sicamous operation, however does require the candidate to possess a valid driver’s license.Wages relative to experience and knowledge.

Applicants email resumes to [email protected] Or fax to 250-836-4824 Attention Human Resources Manager.

Our website at: www.twinanchors.com, may provide more information to those interested. Only successful candidates will be contacted. Resumes must be received by midnight 27 Feb 2015.

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PET GROOMING With Michelle

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Employment

Help Wanted

Program Coordinator Cross Country BC, the pro-vincial sport organization for cross-country skiing in BC (located in Vernon) is seek-ing to fi ll the position of Pro-gram Coordinator. This posi-tion is responsible for a wide range of administrative du-ties pertaining to coaching and offi cials development.

For more information: http://www.crosscoun-

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Help Wanted

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED

To distribute the Shuswap Market &

Lakeshore NewsAREAS AVAILABLE

SALMON ARM-Appleyard NE 54 papers-Auto Rd. 12 St. SE 69 pp-15 St./15 Ave SE 70 pp

CHASE-Brook Dr./Leighton 95 pp-Whispering Pines/Okana-

gan Ave.74 pp-Cottonwood 87 pp

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Irrigation/Sprinkler Systems

CLEAN CUT RENOVATIONSAND REPAIRS

Small reno’s and repairs,Interior painting and trim

Irrigation Design, Install & RepairLicensed & Insured

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Pet Services

Misc. for Sale

Services

LandscapingHOOK Tender available for tree climbing on my days off or while fi re rating is high (250)253-7702

Misc Services

Home & Yard

250-253-4663

• Fencing• Decks• Patios

• Renovation• Repair• Maintenance

SNOW REMOVALDriveways, Parking Lots. Shuswap Pro Roofi ng.

(250)833-7523

Pets & Livestock

Lessons/Training

• CLASS 1 – 4DRIVER TRAINING

• AIR BRAKE COURSE

4406C 29th St. Vernon250-542-61221-855-549-6122

www.taylorprotraining.com

PetsCKC REG CHAMPION sired

chihuachua puppies micro chipped ready to go

[email protected](250)309-5429

Pet Services

Misc. for Sale

Pets & Livestock

PetsStd POODLE pups, CKC, M/F, 16 wks, trained, all shots, health guar’t, exc. pedigree, $1800. Camaraderie Kennels, Victoria (250)381-0855

Merchandise for Sale

$200 & UnderBLACK & Decker convection counter top oven, $50., Double hide-a-bed, smoke & pet free, clean, both used very little $125. (250)832-2663

FirearmsCanadian Firearms Safety

Courses (PAL) Downstairs at Chase Legion

Feb 21 & 22, 9am-5pm Cost $100 includesmanual & exams

Pre-registration requiredCall Ivan: (1-250)679-2758

Firewood/FuelFIREWOOD 61/2 cord/ld starting at $372 delivered

phone (250)832-6295

FurnitureTWO recliner rocker chairs prime condition leather 1yr old $350 upholstered (brown) 4 yrs old $150 (250)832-7750

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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Misc. for SaleAccordian, Crucianelli, magic-vox, 120 bass,black, electric pickups with sidearm switches, great condition $1500, Yamaha Bass amplifi er extra cost 250-832-1522

MATCHING loveseat & chair $75. entertainment centre fi ts a 32”tv inside or 55”tv on top 52”h x 20”d x 59”w $150., chrome kitchen table w/4 chairs $125. 2 hand fuel pumps for fuel tidy tanks $75. ea (250)832-9256

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

Musical InstrumentsBUNDY Alto Saxophone withhard case $500. obo (250)832-9256

Free ItemsBIG (not fat) & BEAUTIFUL orange calico cat. Male, neu-tered, healthy, smart, good companion cat or mouser (250)833-4228

Real Estate

LotsLAKEVIEW LOT $118,000.See Kijiji for pict & more info.(250)835-8680

MortgagesTEKAMAR MORTGAGESBest rate 5yr-2.84%OACServing the Columbia-Shuswap

since 1976. www.tekamar.caRates Consistently better than banks

(250)832-8766Toll free 1-800-658-2345

Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent1Bdrm across from City Hall. Adults, N/S, No pets. Ref’s required. $710/mo. Call 250-833-0420 after 6pm.

1BDRM view, priv level entr., f/s, quiet pet ok, $830, avail. Mar 1, 1070 1St SE 833-2129

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A32 www.saobserver.net Friday, February 6, 2015 Salmon Arm Observer

In the Supreme Court of British Columbia

Robert Douglas HancockRespondent: Monica DiBenedetto

AKA: Monica DiBenedettoNOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

To: Monica DiBenedetto

TAKE NOTICE THAT on January 29, 2015 an order was made for service on you of a notice of family claim issued from the New Westminster Registry.

Registry of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in family law case number: E 047762 by way of this advertisement.

In the family law case, the claimant daims the fol-lowing relief against you: Divorce

You must file a response to family claim within 30 days after the date of the publication of this notice [OR, if the court orders a different period, within 30 days after the date of the publication of this notice] failing which further proceedings may be taken against you without notice to you.

You may obtain a copy of the notice of family claim and the order for service by advertisement from the New Westminster Registry, at 651 Carnarvon Street, New Westminster BC, V3M 1C9.

Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent2 bedroom apt. ground fl oor quiet building, adult oriented,

avail. Feb. 1, on bus route, walk to DT & hospital, heat/hot

water incl., AC in suite, coin laundry, NS, NP, across from McGuire Lake in Salmon Arm

$825/mo. plus ref’s & DD (250) 309-2254 (250)546-1970

(250)938-2043

3 BED apt. near Buckerfi elds for rent March 1st. Newly Re-no’ed, non smoking property. Small pet considered. $1200./mo + util. References mandatory (250) 804-8421

Bright, spacious2 bedroom apartment

Close to town, family owned & operated.

Includes F/S, DW, A/C, H/W NS, NP.

Lake & Mountain views.Available Mar. 1st

$825/mo (250) 803-1694

HousesittingLOOKING to rent or house sit, quiet gentleman, ref’s avail., (250)517-7429

Modular HomesMARA: 2bdrm. mobile, addi-tion, deck, creekside, new fl oors, electric & plumbing, f/s/w/d/ac, elec. heat, $700/mo. + DD Avail. Mar.1. (250)838-7670

SORRENTO: Mobile Home beside Frankie’s Pizza, avail. for rent $650./mo + util.,refs & DD, NS (1-250)675-4104

Homes for Rent1BDRM home on fi shing lake in Skimikin Valley. Long term, mature couple preferred, avail. immed. (250)679-3950

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

Suites, Lower1BDRM suite close to Uptown Askews & high school incl. util, internet & tv, $750/mo., NS (250)804-0399

2BDRM. on 4acres, near Mall, priv. ent., W/D, garage, patio area, NP, $800/mo. incl. util., refs req’d, looking for long term renter (250)804-2854

BRAND new legal executive suite 1 bdrm. 6 appliances. Nat. Gas F/P. Ground level within newly built contempo-rary home. 630 sq. ft. of luxu-ry. $1000/mo + util. avail. March 1st. 740 4th ave. SE (250)463-2063

Suites, UpperHILLCREST: bright 2bdrm. main fl oor, NS, NP, 5appl., large deck & yard, $1200/mo. incl. util., avail immediately, (250)833-7840

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Rentals

Want to RentRESPONSIBLE employed 27 years old female looking for level entry bright clean 1 bdrm bsmt suite with gas fi replace. NP, NS, $800-$850 incl. util. March/ April 1st call Jenn (250)253-7581

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Cars - Sports & Imports

2003 Jeep Liberty Renegade.4 W.D., PS, PB, PW, auto, low mile, 4 off road lamps. $5500. OBO (250) 804-2005

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You Deserve the Home of Your Dreams

Everyone deserves a beautiful place they can call home. Shuswap real estate agents firmly believe in that and will strive to make it happen for you and your family. Check out their ads in our real estate section and call any of them today and make your dreams come true!

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Call us at 250-832-2131, drop in to our offi ce, or use our new, easy to use calendar online. See below.

Out on the TownMUSIC • VISUAL ARTS • BAR SCENE • ENTERTAINMENT • PERFORMANCE ARTS

You can now upload your own events on our website…AND IT’S EASY!! Simply go to www.saobserver.net,go to CALENDAR, and click on Add Your Event.

ONGOING…SALMON ARM ART GALLERY – presents Game On, the

annual juried members’ exhibition on the theme of sports and recreation. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SHUSWAP FLY FISHERS – meet every second Thursday of the month at Yan’s Restaurant at 6 p.m. Supper, meeting, � shing report. For information, contact Al: 250-832-0430.

SHUSWAP LIFE DRAWING GROUP – invites new members and drop-ins from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. most Tuesday evenings in the Jackson campus art room. Call 250-832-9993 for information.

TO FEBRUARY 15COURTYARD GALLERY – is pleased to announce

their current open exhibition of new works by nine local associate and gallery artists. Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 907 Belvedere Street, Enderby.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6WATOTO CHILDREN’S

CHOIR – Oh What Love live tour makes a stop in Salmon Arm at 7 p.m. at Five Corners Church, 3160 - 10th Ave. SE. Admission is free but choir CDs and African crafts will be available for purchase and a “love offering” will be taken. For more information, call 250-832-3121.

NAMASTE YOGA AND WELLNESS CENTRE – hosts an information night on the science of chronic pain and how gentle yoga can help people move towards life with less pain, from 5:30 to 6:30 at 310 Hudson Ave. NE. Classes will begin Feb. 11. For more information, call Madeleine Eames at 250-833-6652.

THE FOOD NETWORK EPISODE OF YOU GOTTA EAT HERE! – that was � lmed at the Shuswap Pie Company Oct. 26 will air on the Food Network at 6 p.m. Friday, and 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, February 7.

FIFTH AVENUE SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE BIRTHDAY LUNCH – starting at noon, is a celebration of members having birthdays in the month of February. Birthday members are phoned to invite them to enjoy a special full course meal at a reduced price, and they are welcome to bring family and friends. Tickets must be purchased or reserved by Wednesday of that week as seating is limited.

GRANDMOTHERS TO GRANDMOTHERS SALE – will be held the � rst Friday of the month at the Mall at Piccadilly. New members are welcome. Contact Marg 250-804-2919 or Marlene 250-832-8718.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 STEELSTRING ACOUSTIC JAM – All ages are welcome to

this fun event, from 2 to 4 p.m. at 248 Shuswap St. For information, call Ross at 250-515-1585 or email ross@

steelstring.ca.

TURKEY DINNER – Everyone is welcome to attend this dinner at Silver Creek Seniors Hall, 3048 Hornsberger Road, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 for adults, and $6 for children 7-16, and are available at Silver Creek Store, or call Donna 250-833-0123.

SHUSWAP FILM SOCIETY – will present Two Days One Night, a Belgium/France/Italy � lm, with subtitles, at 5 p.m., rated 14A. The � lm centres on Sandra (Marion Cotillard), a working-class Belgian mother who has just lost her job. Her foreman has agreed she can get her job back if the majority of her co-workers vote yes to her return, in exchange for losing their own new bonuses.

NO-COST DENTAL HYGIENE –

will be

available to members of the public who are otherwise unable to access oral health care, from registered dental hygienists from all across Canada. The Smile People dental hygiene clinic will be participating in the Gift from the Heart event in our community for the sixth year in a row. For more information, call the Smile People dental hygiene clinic at 250-832-6692.

FIFTH AVENUE SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE PANCAKE BREAKFAST – will be held from 8 a.m. to noon, so just drop in.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10SALMON ARM LIBRARY – presents fun stories followed by

the opportunity to create something relating to the story using Lego from 3 to 4 p.m., for ages � ve to eight and siblings. Registration is required, call 250-832-6161 or email [email protected] to register.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 BC GOV’T. RETIRED EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION – A luncheon,

followed by an update on activities of interest to seniors, will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at the Fifth Avenue Seniors Activity Centre. For information, call Doug Ibbitson at 250-832-1374.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 THE JAZZ CLUB – presents The Dharma Dolls, at 7 p.m.,

featuring vocalists Tanya Lipscomb, Melina Moore and Judy Rose, with Jim Leonard on keyboards, in the banquet room of Shuswap Chefs Restaurant, 551 Trans-Canada Highway. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission by donation. The Dharma Dolls will seamlessly combine their musical styles to sing their way through the worlds of opera, jazz, pop and original compositions for one unforgettable display of song, surprises and sass.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 THE HIDEAWAY PUB – presents a fundraiser for the Snow

Blazers at 6:30 p.m. at the pub, featuring burger, beer and a band. The evening features the return of the Whiskey Danglers. Door prize, 50/50 and prizes. If you explore Fly Hills during the winter, summer, spring or fall, come out and support the Snow Blazers club. Tickets are on sale at the Hideaway Liquor Store now. No minors. For further information, call 250-833-4833.

THE WICKED SPOON – presents comedian Tim Hutt at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the Wicked

Spoon or from the Barley Station Brew Pub.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 THE SALMON ARM COMMITTEE OF THE KAMLOOPS SYMPHONY – presents Death By Chocolate, an evening of romantic music and heavenly desserts, to raise funds for transporting symphony players and their instruments to Salmon Arm, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fifth Avenue Seniors Activity Centre, 170 Fifth Ave. SE, featuring live music, silent auction and cash wine bar. Tickets are $25.

BAREFOOT BOOKS – will hold a fundraiser to support Raf� ’s Child Honouring initiative from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mall at Piccadilly. Raf� has created an anthology of essays by leaders in the � elds of such areas as emotional intelligence, conscious parenting, self-regulation, etc. For more information, contact Joan Sturdy at 250-804-3008 and visit www.childhonouring.org. Both Raf� and Barefoot books will be available.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 OKANAGAN COLLEGE’S CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS AT THE

CLASSIC – runs to the end of March. Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums will be featured at 5 p.m. The � lms are open to the public. For more information, email Tim Walters at [email protected].

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 THE CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (CMHA) –

will present Living Life to the Full, a seven-week program in which tools will be provided to reduce stress and boost moods, improve motivation and problem-solving skills and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. The � rst session is from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the amenities room at Clover Court, 51 Ninth Ave. SE. For more information, or to register, contact co-ordinator Denise Butler at 250-832-8477 or by email to [email protected].

FEBRUARY 20-28 THE SHUSWAP FILM FESTIVAL – presents its 26th annual

International Film Festival, featuring 13 � lms, opening night gala, closing night festivities and prizes. Buy single tickets and passes at the door or at Wearabouts. Reserve tickets on the 24-hour line at 250-832-2294.

People dental hygiene clinic at 250-832-6692.

FIFTH AVENUE SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE PANCAKE will be held from 8 a.m. to noon, so just

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The Shuswap Grade 8 Boys’ Basketball Team re-mains undefeated in the North Okanagan League af-ter competing in three league games last week.

On Tuesday, Shuswap de-feated Kalamalka, from Ver-non 44 to 24.

Jackson Mayes led all scorers with 10 points, while Alton Neid hauled in 10 re-bounds.

On Wednesday night, Shuswap returned to Vernon and played their best game of the year against an athletic and physical Seaton Second-ary, downing the Sonics 56 to 24.

Evan Smith led all scorers with 13 points, Mayes added 12 points and Neid chipped in eight to go along with his

team-leading 13 rebounds. On Thursday night, Shus-

wap hosted Vernon Second-ary and defeated the Pan-thers 38 to 27.

Smith and Mayes led the team in scoring with 11 points apiece, while Neid led Shuswap once again in rebounding with 10 boards.

Shuswap has the next two weeks off and won’t play until Feb. 13 / 14, when they host their eight-team Barry Dearing Invitational.

Shuswap will play two games on Friday the 13th, with their first game against KLO (Kelowna) at one o’clock Friday afternoon, and their second game against Fulton (Vernon) at 7 p.m.

Friday night’s game will

be Shuswap’s last league game before heading into the play-offs.

On Saturday the 14th, Shuswap will play Dr. Knox Middle School at 3 p.m. and OKM at 7:30 p.m. (both teams are from Kelowna).

Shuswap heads into their home tournament with 15 wins and six losses on the season. All six losses came before Christmas at tourna-ments in Kelowna and Pent-icton. As of late, Shuswap is playing much better and they are looking forward to com-peting against their rivals from Kelowna, who they played earlier in the season.

Shuswap will host their first play-off game on Feb. 17 at Shuswap Middle School. Game time is 5 p.m.

Taking to the hillsn A group of 10 first-time skiers from different parts of the world such as Chile, Ukraine, Sierra Leone, South Korea and Uzbekistan take part in an Okanagan College program, ESLSAP – English As a Second Language Settle-ment Assistance Program, helping new Canadians improve their English and learn about Canada through practice groups and field trips.

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Cupid’s ChoiceChocolate historically more than just food

Many cannot resist chocolate, that be-loved creamy, sweet confection derived from cocoa beans, milk and sugar. All over the world peo-ple love to indulge in chocolate, especially

come Valentine’s Day.According to data

from Leatherhead Food Research, Swit-zerland consumes more chocolate per capita than any coun-try in the world. Ireland, the United Kingdom, Austria and Belgium round out the top � ve.

Despite its apparent popularity in Europe, chocolate was � rst popularized among the Olmecs of Mex-ico, who used the cocoa beans more than 3,500 years ago. However, it wasn’t until the last 200 years that chocolate turned into the sweet

treat that is known and loved today.

Aztecs believed cocoa had aphrodi-siac properties, and chocolate contains a chemical called phenylethylamine, which is released naturally in the body when a person falls in love. The aroma of chocolate can induce relaxation, and choc-olate also contains dopamine, a natural painkiller.

While chocolate is now used primarily as a food, over the years it has had many other uses - some of which are quite unique. Here are some of the

many ways people have used chocolate throughout history.

· Money: The May-ans once used cocoa beans as a form of currency, as did the Aztecs. In this in-stance, money actu-ally did grow on trees.

· Dental health: Ar-man Sadeghpour, a researcher at Tu-lane University, says an extract of cocoa powder could be an effective alternative to using � uoride. Chocolate-enhanced toothpaste may be the next big thing.

· Fuel: Chocolate has been used to feed bacteria that produce

This past weekend, the Sel-kirks swim team travelled to Kelowna along with 15 other teams, and the small local team of 13 swimmers managed to fin-ish fifth, once again capturing the top small team category. The team had every swimmer make it to finals and captured 19 first-place finishes.

Chantal Jeffrey and Maggie Manning won all their events, Jeffrey in the 12- and 13-year-old girls and Manning in the para-events. Jeffrey also set two meet records in the 100 and 200 fly.

Molly Fogarty had six top-five finishes including an amaz-ing five-second improvement to win the 100 backstroke. Lauren Gridley-Haack returned to com-petition in her first meet in three months and had several top per-formances including winning the 11-and-under 100 butterfly,

and finishing in the top three in the 50 free, 200 fly and 400 free. Emma Pyle continued her strong comeback to the sport making it into four finals in the 16-and-over girls, with two sixth-place finish-es in the 50 and 100 breaststroke,

The boys were once again led by young guns Jacob Rambo and Ethan Pyle. Rambo had five top-three finishes including sec-ond place in both the 100 fly and 200 back while Ethan Pyle won the 50 breaststroke and finished third in the 100 breaststroke. Ty Webster-Locke finished third in the 100 backstroke and 100 free while battling his teammates Ethan Quilty, Olin Mosher and Torrey Mckee for top five spots in all the 14- and 15-year-old boy events. Quilty had a terrific meet with several best times and an outstanding 100 free swim to capture second. McKee, in his

first meet of the season, made two finals with a top finish of fifth in the 50 Fly.

One of the highlights of the meet for the Selkirks was Mosher becoming the sixth Salmon Arm swimmer to break the magic 1:00 barrier in the 100 free when he had a spectacular fifth-place swim with a 59.7 time.

Webster-Locke, Pyle and Mosher finished second, third and fifth in the glamour event of the meet (100 free) as the three Salmon Arm swimmers took three of the top-five spots. Thomas Flahr and Logan Pilias had strong results, competing in the very competitive 16 and over boys’ category. The highlight was their respective second- and third-place finish in the 50 free. Flahr had four top-three finishes, while Pilias made finals (top eight) in all his events.

Sun skin At the Nickel Plate Nordic Centre in Penticton on Jan. 30 and Feb. 1 for the 2015 Teck Okanagan Cup series, Brian May, from Larch Hills, took first in the men’s 15-kilo-metre race with a time of 38:53. Larch Hills’ Abbigail May and Randi Ostby finished first and sec-ond respective-ly in the master women’s 10-km race.

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· Medicine: Choco-late is full of antioxi-dants, which serve all sorts of disease-� ght-ing bene� ts in the body. Dark chocolate provides the great-est number of health bene� ts, as it con-tains � avonols, which stimulate the brain and support the cir-culatory system.

· Fashion: Design-ers and chocolatiers worldwide collabo-rate to make sweet out� ts at Le Salon du Chocolat’s fashion shows.

· Special effects: Before the days of computer-simulated special effects, mov-

iemakers had to em-ploy other methods to produce realistic results. Legend has it that Bosco brand chocolate syrup was used as blood in the famed shower scene in the classic horror movie “Psycho.” Bo-sco was used because it showed up great in black and white.

· Skin care: Cocoa butter, a component of chocolate, has long been used to moistur-ize and soothe dry skin. Many spas now incorporate organic chocolate into their healing and beauty therapies.

· Perfume: Choco-late produces more than 400 distinct smells and has been

used to make per-fume more fragrant.

· Mood enhance-ment: Chocolate may help to improve mood, as it is a mild stimulant and can af-fect serotonin levels, which govern those feel-good feelings, in the brain.

· Postage: In 2013, Belgium’s post of� ce sold limited-edition stamps that were

varnished with 40 percent of a cocoa product. The stamps smelled and tasted like chocolate.

Chocolate has been tempting taste buds for thousands of years. It’s also been used in some very unique ways, even if, come Valentine’s Day, the majority of people would be con-tent just to eat it.

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Salmon Arm Observer, February 06, 2015