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Santa arrives on time

The popular Santa Claus Parade made its merry noisy way along Railway Ave. on Friday, much to the delight of the dozens of children lining the street, waiting to catch a glimpse of the man in red. They weren’t disappointed!

by Wendy CoomberThe Four Wheel Drive Association of BC is

in negotiations with BC Parks to take over the Cornwall lookout, which was decommissioned earlier this year and scheduled for destruction.

They should know by this spring if negotia-tions were successful.

“One of our members in the area read about the fate of that lookout tower (in The Journal),” said Kim Reeves, president of the association.

The group already has partnership agree-ments with the province for the Nahatlatch Fire Tower and the Mt. Lavina Fire Lookout Tower.

Reeves says it fits right into his association’s mandate.

“We advocate for public access to public lands,” he says. “When a tower is threatened with decomissioning, the access road is lost and everything connected to it.”

Hikers, fishers, hunters and geocachers are among the many people who would use those roads.

“These are all terrific pieces of BC history,” he says.

He and his wife visited the Cornwall site in September and were happy to see that it wasn’t in bad shape. And the view was outstanding, he said.

Association member Wes Kibble from Kam-loops brought the Cornwall decomissioning to the attention of the association.

“All sides are confident that we will be able to save this important piece of history,” said Kibble.

“The tower is a true piece of BC back coun-try history that needs to be saved,” he said. “From my understanding, it is one of the last manned forest lookout station in BC, if not the last. It was closed in the early 1990’s. We are very lucky that one of our members is the last full time employee of the lookout and his in-sight to the project has been incredible.”

Overall, he said, the lookout is in great shape. A few weekend work parties with a good group of volunteers will make it look like new. There has been a lot of support from other out-door enthusiasts in the Ashcroft - Cache Creek area, as well as Kamloops, 100 Mile House and points beyond. Kibble says the association will be looking for assistance in the future for ma-terials, labour and dollars in order to give the lookout a face lift and continue ongoing main-tenance.

Reprieve likely for Cornwall lookout

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Dec. 11 - Turkey Bingo in Spences Bridge, 6 pm in the Community Hall.

Dec. 11 - The fourth annual Cache Creek Winter Lights/Sing-along at the Cache Creek Community Hall, 7pm. Free event. Music by the hand bell choir and other local musicians, hot beverages and snacks and a visit from Santa. Everyone welcome.

Dec. 11 - Zion United UCW Church Family Christmas Social; 5:30 PM. Begins with a potluck supper. A relaxing, social evening.

Dec. 13 - Kinsmen Christmas Turkey Bingo, Cache Creek Com. Hall. Doors open at 10am Bingo at 11am.

Dec. 14 - Cache Creek Council holds its next meeting at 7 pm in the Village Of� ce.

Dec. 15 - Savona School’s Christmas Concert at 1 pm and 6:30 pm.

Dec. 16, 17, 18 - 9:00 am to noon - volunteers to pack Christmas Hampers - Ashcroft Community Hall.

Dec. 17 - CP Holiday Train in Ashcroft at 8:50pm in the CP yard on Railway Ave. Bring donations for the local food bank.

Dec. 18 - Sage Sound Singers Community Choir’s Christmas Concert, 7 pm at the Pentecostal Church in Cache Creek. Admission by donation.

Dec. 19 - Christmas Hamper Pick Up and Delivery date (morning)

Dec. 20 - A Service of Lessons and Carols will be held at St. Alban’s at 10 am. Everyone is welcome to attend this and any other of our regular services which are held every Sunday at 10 am.

Dec. 23 - The area’s annual Christmas Bird Count. Meet at the Grand Central Station in Ashcroft 8-8:30 am and dress warmly. Call Wendy at 250-457-9587 for information.

Dec. 24 - St. Alban’s Christmas Eve Service is at 7 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Dec. 24 - Zion United Church Christmas Eve service at 4 pm. A service of carols and lessons with Rev. Ivy Thomas. 401 Bancroft St. Ashcroft. All are welcome.

The Cache Creek Indoor Market is held the � rst Saturday of the month over the winter, except for January.

Community Vegetarian Potluck Desert Sands School every 2nd Tuesday of the month 6:00pm. Bring your favourite Vegetarian Dish and join the fellowship.

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POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber

Christmas Tree permits available

Police Telephone #s

Ashcroft: 250-453-2216Clinton: 250-459-2221Lytton: 250-455-2225

Interior Roads1-800-842-4122

MLA Jackie Tegart rides with Cpl. Andrew West, Central Interior Traffic Services, to lead the Santa Parade in Ashcroft last Friday.

Gas siphoned from truckDec. 1 at 11 am police

received a complaint about the theft of gas from their vehicle on the mesa in Ash-croft. The complainant said one of the two gas tanks on the vehicle was nearly emp-ty even though they had just

filled it.

Winter drivingDec. 4 at 4:30

am police attended a single vehicle rollover on Hwy 1 near the Basque Ranch af-ter a 32 year old Likely man

lost control on the icy road and hit the ditch in his Dodge pickup, which ended up on

its right side. The vehicle was winter tires. There were no injuries.

Minor injuries

Dec. 4 at 6:41 am po-lice attended another single vehicle rollover, this time on Hwy 99, after the 24 year old Clinton driver lost control of her Toyota pick-up truck on slip-pery roads and

hit the ditch. She was treated for min-or injuries. The truck had winter tires.

Truck damagedDec. 4 at 8:28 am

police received a report of a truck-deer collision on Hwy 1 near Venables Valley Rd. The front end of the Nissan pickup had severe front end damage and had to be towed for repairs. The driver, a 35 year old Richmond man, was not injured.

Rolled down the hillDec. 7 at 8 am police at-

tended a single vehicle acci-dent on Hwy 9 at Hubert Rd. after a Dodge pickup slid off the road, hit a power pole and rolled down the hill another 25 feet. The driver, a 62 year old woman from 100 Mile House, appeared uninjured. Interior Roads was called to sand the road.

Black PressFree use permits to cut a Christmas tree on

Crown land are available from forest district and FrontCounterBC offices in most areas of the province.

Local district offices can identify areas of Crown where one tree may be legally cut for personal use. Permits are not available for the Chilliwack and South Island forest districts due to population density and tree demand.

The ministry’s Christmas tree website at www.for.gov.bc.ca/mof/xmastrees.htm has links to offices that offer tree permits for desig-nated areas, with online permits available in some regions. The website has links and phone numbers for FrontCounterBC and forest district offices.

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Minister announces new farm expansion plans

Ashcroft connection helps Bifuka adventurer

All of Sayaka Takahashi’s Ashcroft-Cache Creek homestay families gathered in the Dairy Queen last week to say good bye.

Rolgear receives award for technical innovationRolgear owner Rob Suter is congratulated by Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart for the award in innovation he recently received from the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of BC (ASTTBC). Rolgear received the award for Suter’s ratcheting screwdriver patent. Rolgear manufactures a line of ratcheting screwdrivers in Ashcroft and sells them world wide. Locally they can be found at Ashcroft Building Centre.

by Wendy CoomberSayaka Takahashi came to Can-

ada to improve her English, but the 23 year old native of Bifuka, Japan - Ash-croft’s sister city - learned much more about Canadians during her two and a half month stay.

Takahashi said her goodbyes last week to her new families and friends before travelling to San Francisco to visit family friends, but she will return for a short visit in April.

Ashcroft artist Jo Petty helped to arrange her stay here. Petty says she met Takahashi’s grandmother, Misako Noraki, “in Bifuka probably the first

time I went there” in 1997. When Takahashi decided that she

wanted to visit Canada, Noraki asked her old friend to help arrange it.

“I put on Facebook I was looking for home stays for her,” said Petty. “It took a little while, but I managed to get about six different homestay families. Each home had a unique experience for her.”

“Little windows and doors would open up for her,” Petty said. “She got to do so many cool things,” like go backstage with Anne McKague dur-ing My Fair Lady to help out with hair, makeup and other things; no surprise

that she did a lot of physical activities while staying with the Trills and wants to see and work in Banff; and the Howards took her to Vancouver to see the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

“The little kids loved her,” said Petty. “She has a special spark or something. As soon as you meet her you instantly like her.”

Takahashi stayed with the Pettys for a few days and she and Jo “played in the studio. She was incredibly cre-ative,” Petty said. “She’s an expres-sionist right now, exploring every-thing.”

Takahashi took a year’s leave from her job, dealing with the public in one of Japan’s large air-ports. This was only her first stop.

Petty said last week she left for San Francisco where she will be working in a Japanese bakery owned by family friends for three weeks. All of her homestay families and friends gathered at the Dairy Queen in Cache Creek to say goodbye.

“She was abso-lutely delightful,” said Petty. “We all had a hard time say-ing goodbye to her. She’s missed al-ready.”

Takahashi will be back in April for two weeks and will no doubt bring her new extended family members up to speed on all of her adven-tures in Canada since leaving them in De-cember.

By Tom FletcherBlack PressThe B.C. Liberal government and oppos-

ition MLAs both want greater success for the province’s farmers, but they don’t see eye to eye on how to achieve it.

Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick re-leased the government’s latest strategic growth plan Wednesday, raising the target for 2017 value from $14 billion to $15 billion. Total revenues from farm and food products reached $12.3 billion last year, a record.

The plan suggests that as climate change creates warmer conditions, B.C. may benefit even as tropical food production declines. The province also expects new trade deals with Korea and the European Union, and the pend-ing Trans-Pacific Partnership, to increase farm and food product sales.

Letnick said one strategy the government is pursuing to increase the amount of product-ive farmland in B.C. is to improve access to ir-rigation.

An opposition agriculture committee chaired by NDP critic Lana Popham and in-dependent Delta South MLA Vicki Huntingon released its own report Wednesday after a province-wide tour to consult farmers.

Their report says the high cost of farmland is a major deterrent for new farmers to enter the industry. It calls for the establishment of a provincial trust to buy and preserve farmland for new B.C. farmers, as well as new rules to restrict sale of farmland to foreign buyers.

Popham and Huntington said they heard criticism from farmers about the decision to divide the Agricultural Land Reserve into two zones, with more non-farm uses allowed in the Interior zone. They renewed their call for the government to return to one zone and hire more compliance staff to make sure farmland isn’t being inappropriately used.

Letnick said it’s too early to tell what effect the two-zone ALR system is having on farm-land, and he will report in the spring on the re-sults of the new system.

Despite the B.C. salmon farm industry be-ing targeted for years by environmental cam-paigns against it, B.C.’s top export food prod-uct is cultured Altlantic salmon, followed by “food preparations for manufacturing,” blue-berries, baked goods and crab.

Farmed salmon is also the third most valu-able product in total B.C. sales, after dairy and poultry products. Farmed salmon sales were $504 million, compared to $554 million for dairy and ahead of greenhouse and field vege-tables, which had revenue of $449 million in the province’s latest figures.

The B.C. government’s plan also includes “supporting international media missions to increase awareness of the B.C. aquaculture in-dustry and increase demand for B.C. seafood products to key markets.”

The province announced four new net-pen salmon aquaculture tenures this past July, after federal permits were issued, then an-nounced no more tenures will be granted until a review of application and approval proced-ures is completed.


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Taking risks and finding treasure

Fond memories of My Fair Lady

Thanks to all of My Fair Lady set builders

Baby steps for climate reversal

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A HOUSE SPARROW RESTS on a branch during last year’s Christmas Bird Count in Ashcroft

Dear EditorI have often walked down these

streets before and the pavement al-ways stayed beneath my feet before until last week end, when for a mo-ment in time, a small stage in Ashcroft was transformed into the streets of ear-ly 20th Century London..

I would truly like to thank and ap-plaud those people involved in the pro-duction of “My Fair Lady”. Those who chose to avail themselves of the opportunity to witness an excellent theatrical production were treated to a magical evening.

It requires a huge commitment of both time and energy by many folk to bring something of this magni-tude together. Just as in sport, a team must be formed, consisting of a pro-ducer, a director, costume designers, set designers and of course the actors. I am sure that there are times when they wonder if it will all come together and then suddenly it is opening night. A certain amount of stagefright must be overcome, as all of the hours of re-hearsal are replaced by a live audi-ence. And then just as suddenly you are totally immersed with those around you portraying a cast of characters and living the moment.

Friday evening I had been in Kam-loops watching the production “Mary Poppins” and it was wonderful. My ex-pectations coming home to Ashcroft for our local production of “My Fair

Lady” on Saturday evening were not overly high, but was I surprised. Both were musicals and both were set in a similar period of time in England. This is only one man’s opinion, but I was equally impressed with both, and per-haps more so with My Fair Lady be-cause it was an amateur production. I can only say, in the words of Bob Hope, “Thanks for the memories”.

Mike BaldwinAshcroft

Dear EditorI would like to thank all the work-

ers who helped build the set for My Fair Lady and made it such a success. People congratulate me for such a great set and the way the seating was arranged, but it wouldn’t have been possible without everyone who helped. For a good part of the set construction I had a cast on my wrist, and could only work with one hand. There were build-ers, painters, scene painters, and our curtain maker all hard at work from the middle of October.

Looking forward to working together with you again in the spring of 2016 . . .

Jim DuncanAshcroft

Dear Editor.Tom Fletcher (Journal, Dec. 3/15)

scoffs at the idea that we humans may be contributing to climate change. Our best efforts, he tells us (on the basis of some meager math, which could be countered by dozens of other less Republican-flavoured environment-al maths), would enable us to reduce global warming by a mere 0.2 degrees by the year 2100.

His point: why, then, bother? It evidently doesn’t occur to Mr.

Fletcher that if in the coming decades we manage to keep the heat down by ANY amount our poor earth would be gushing with gratefulness and we would consider ourselves very very lucky indeed.

He reminds me so much - Mr. Fletcher does, bless his innocent heart - of the fellow who, bent on denying the harm of cigarette smoking, kept mentioning his grandpa who, though a heavy smoker, had lived to be a ripe old seventy, forgetting that had Grand-pa not smoked he just might still have have been around to enjoy life!

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I bought myself an early Christmas present.

I’ve been checking Ebay daily for months, looking for a deal and I finally found it last Sunday.

According to the picture, it’s a real beauty - a nice little Moeck Rottenburgh soprano recorder. If you don’t know, the Moeck Rottenburgh is a pretty good name - way better than 95 per cent of the recorder manufacturers out there.

So, if you believe the photo - and I will until I see otherwise - I got it for one-fifth the brand new price. And as a used instru-ment, that’s how it should be.

(Don’t tell Tool Man, but there goes my Christmas budget. He’s getting the gift of music this year!)

I’ve been watching for a good deal for months - yes, I learned patience from my cats. And it’s amazing how many people will try and sell a used item for a brand new price. Or sell something that is clearly dam-aged for way more than it’s worth.

The thing that makes me chuckle are the pictures of musical instruments put togeth-er backwards. Maybe it’s a ploy to make everyone believe the seller doesn’t know what he’s got. It doesn’t stop them from putting an outrageous price on it.

Yes, I know, most of you are thinking: “She’s taking a chance.”

You’re right. But the price was also right. It was cheap enough that if it falls apart in my hand the moment I take it out of the box, oh well...

You can’t get anywhere without taking chances. Earlier this summer I made my first Ebay purchase and lucked out with a beautiful rosewood recorder made by a re-nowned Dutch instrument maker. It plays so sweetly that I can’t put it down.

I play it to amuse myself and drive my cats crazy. Strangely enough, I find that the really high notes send spiders running in the opposite direction. At least, it worked on the one spider. I haven’t seen any others since then. I may have stumbled onto a new chemical-free “spider blaster”.

So I have my good recorder and now I have a back up recorder. I have no more reason to watch Ebay for another deal. But..

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Left: MLA Jackie Tegart leads the Ashcroft Santa Parade last week with Cpl. Andrew West of the Traffic Division.

The first snowfall of the season has arrived and with it our thoughts turn to the holidays and spending time with family and friends.

The holidays are also a time when we open our hearts to those less for-tunate in our communities. That’s why I’m pleased to be riding and sup-porting the CP Holiday Train again this year.

The CP Holiday Train arrives at Ashcroft’s Railway Avenue on Dec. 17 at 8:50 p.m. Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy will be performing along with his son Devin Cuddy and Kelly Pres-cott. The concert is free but donations of food and cash are encouraged, with all donations remaining in our local

communities.I hope to see you there

but if you can’t make it out and want to be part of this holiday tradition, please note the train will also stop in Lytton on Dec. 18.

Another wonderful way to help out local families in need is through the Ash-croft and Area Community Resources Society. Again this year the society is ac-

cepting donations of non-perishable food items and cash to help fill 120-130 Christmas hampers for families from Spences Bridge north to Clinton. Please give generously.

If you are looking for a fun way to give, check out the Kinsmen Family Christmas Turkey Bingo, which will be held at the Cache Creek Com-munity Hall on Dec. 13. Doors open at 10 a.m. and bingo starts at 11. All proceeds go to the Variety Club Chil-dren’s Charity.

While you’re thinking of others this season, remember to keep tabs on your own well-being. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed at this time of year so it’s important to make your health a

priority.There are a variety of services and

supports available that are easy to ac-cess for those that need them, and the people on the other end of the phone are always ready to listen and help.

Here to Help (heretohelp.bc.ca) is a provincial mental health and sub-stance-use website with information on how to manage mental illness and maintain good mental health, includ-ing self-management resources and screening self-tests. You can also con-sult a network of direct and contracted services for individuals suffering from substance-use problems including counseling.

Christmas is a time for family, friends and giving a helping hand to those in need. In my case I’m look-ing forward to welcoming my kids and their families this Christmas for a wonderful time of joyous chaos. I hope you take advantage of all the great events and services our com-munity has to offer so your holiday season is memorable for all the right reasons.

From my family to yours, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Jackie TegartMLA, Fraser Nicola

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CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENTSGarbage PickupResidential garbage pickup:Friday, December 25, 2015 will be picked up on Thursday, December 24, 2015Tuesday, December 29, 2015 will be picked up as usualFriday, January 1, 2016 will be picked up on Thursday, December 31, 2015Commercial garbage pickup:Will be picked up as usual every Monday and Friday

Reminder: Please have your garbage on the curb by 8:00 am as usual.Of� ce HoursThe of� ce will be open Monday to Friday with regular hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except for:

Thursday, December 24 CLOSED at 12:30 pmFriday, December 25 CLOSEDMonday, December 28 CLOSED Tuesday, December 29 CLOSEDWednesday, December 30 CLOSEDThursday, December 31 CLOSEDFriday, January 1, 2016 CLOSED

Regular Of� ce hours resume on Monday, January 4, 2016.Any payments received Monday, January 4, 2016 will be dated

December 31, 2015.Dog LicensesJust a reminder that on January 4, 2016 you will be able to purchase your 2016Dog License.License fees are as follows: $15.00 – Spayed or Neutered $30.00 – Un-spayed or Un-neutered

2016 Council Meeting ScheduleCopies of the 2016 Council Meeting Schedules are available at the Village Of� ce and on the Village website.

Building InspectorThe TNRD Building Inspector will not be in Cache Creek on Tuesday, December 29th, 2015. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, January 5, 2016. Please call the TNRD of� ce directly at 1-877-377-8673 if you have any questions regarding inspections.

Council and Staff wish everyone a Merry Christmasand all the best in the New Year!

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Laura Martin accepts a cup of tea from Fran Helland while talking to Joyce Deering, Marge Corneillie and Ines Lopez at the Seniors Christmas Tea.

The men at the Christmas Tea & Bazaar also enjoyed their time to sit and catch up with friends over a cup of tea and the Christmas sweets on the tables.

Joyce and John West and Bob Nishiguchi at the Christmas Tea.

Seniors wrap up the year with lunchLooking across

my livingroom, I can see Christmas cards reminding me that we are now in Decem-ber, a time when the days seem to flash past and that there are many more things still to be done. In a vil-lage like ours, there are so many organisa-tions and events at this time of year that it is almost impossible for them not to coincide, but somehow, every-thing manages to fit in.

Last Saturday the Ashcroft Cache Creek Seniors held their an-nual Christmas Bazaar and we are pleased to say that we had as many, if not even more than previously, family and friends who came to enjoy an afternoon with us and each other over a delicious afternoon tea. Many of the attendees spent time in Kathy’s enchanted room across the hall and were thrilled to see the clever and entertaing things she produces with Christmas gifts in mind.

Part of this event is the finding out who won-

sall the prizes for the various draws, so here are the results.

Every year Kevin holds a raffle and this year there were two prizes. The first was for a very useful electric pan and was won by Ernest Baatz, and the second was for a beautiful quilt, won by Laura Martin.

The door prize was won by Ozzie Conner; the Christmas Draw for which we have been selling tickets for quite some time had three prizes was won by Olga Roath (food basket), Sharlyne Morrison ($75) and Dorothy Mak-symiw ($50).

Thank you again to all our friends and neigh-bours who help to make our ongoing ventures such a success! Thanks also to our members who work so willingly to dress up our function and prepare the food they serve us with such happy smiles - your enthusiasm is infectious!

Just a few last minute reminders - the day this paper is delivered will be Dec. 10, the same day our Christmas Lunch will be held in the

Legion. Doors open at 11:30am, lunch at noon.

The last Business Meeting will be on Dec. 17 and will be held after a potluck lunch, so we hope lots of members will be there to wrap up our year.

The last Bingo for 2015 was held Dec. 5. It will start up again on Saturday, Jan. 9.

The centre will be open for business on Jan. 4 for Bridge, and Tuesday the 5th for carpet bowling and cards.

We wish everyone a happy and joyous Christmas season, and a Guid New Year in 2016 - long may your lum reek (with other folk’s coal!) If this seems strange, just ask me - I’ll explain! All the best to you all.

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Seeing the world through a Rotarian’s eyes

Left: Rotary members (Back row, L-R): Henry Dahms, Pache Denis, Jim Merkel, Mark Armstrong, Ron Hood and Shirley Dobson. (Front row, L-R): Karin Magnuson, Cami Lindseth, Karma Kubbernus and Barb Hood.

by Wendy CoomberRotary “is not about patting yourself on the back, it’s

about doing something that makes a difference for someone else,” says member Pache Denis.

“It’s a mindset,” says Karma Kubbernus, president of the Ashcroft & District Rotary Club. “It’s getting involved and doing something.”

The local Rotary Club will celebrate its 25th anniversary this summer.

To the local Rotarians, that means 25 years of good ser-vice to their communities as well as to the world. On the lo-cal scene, there is the sponsoring of high school students every year to attend a one-week Youth Excellence Society (YES) camp on Vancouver Island, recognizing outstanding citizens through the annual Citizen of the Year award, part-nering with the Lions Club to maintain and improve the Chi-nese Cemetery in Ashcroft, purchasing defibrillators (AEDs) for public facilities in Ashcroft and Cache Creek, donating funds they’ve raised to the Cache Creek Flood Relief, the Christmas Hampers, scholarships, new playground equip-ment in Ashcroft and more.

One of the Ashcroft & District Club’s founding mem-bers, Ron Hood has been a Rotarian for 35 years, joining when he was a credit union manager in Salmon Arm. He was at a meeting one day with Ashcroft and Cache Creek Village administrators Gordon Berdan and Hugh Stephenson when the topic of Rotary came up. They wanted to know how to start a local club and the three of them had it up and running in four months with 35 members.

“The community started to shrink and we shrank with it,” says Hood.

“I was ‘voluntold’,” Kubbernus says, after she became manager of the Interior Savings Credit Union in Ashcroft. “What kept me there has nothing to do with my job,” she says. “For me, it was immersing myself in the community and getting to know people, and the longer I was involved the more I understood what we are.”

Kubbernus says her long term goal is to become more active in the international side of things “so I can bring that to my children” - but it’s the community service like the Hampers and the events that really brings the club members together.

“There’s what Rotary does,” says Hood, “and then there’s what Rotarians do.”

“I think the whole thing about being a Rotarian is dealing with what makes a good citizen,” says Denis, “and I don’t mean that in a community sense but also international. We’re part of an organization that looks at the world and how we can make it a better place.”

Rotary International works towards eliminating polio, providing potable water around the world, providing medic-al supplies to those who need them.

“It’s hard for us as a small group to get involved in those because they’re time consuming,” says Kubbernus.

“But we do it terms of how we contribute to the inter-national fund,” says Denis.

There are Rotary Clubs in every country of the world, so the contributions from all of those clubs - even small contri-

butions - accumulate.Rotary has a reputation for attracting influential people

who are in positions to affect policy and make the changes needed.

“It’s the only club that has a permanent seat in the United Nations,” says Shirley Dobson.

Rotary Club memberships used to be quite exclusive, says Hood. “There is still a reputation out there that we’re a little group of rich white men and it’s certainly not the case anymore.”

“Here, we’re all sort of down to earth,” he says. “I don’t think we have any rich people in our group.”

Although most of the money raised by the Ashcroft & District Club stays close to home, they do donate to inter-national projects like the Shelter Box project - a self-con-tained emergency kit with tents and sleeping bags, food and water purifiers, solar ovens - “All packed into a nice little box about the size of a table,” says Hood. “It’s the first thing to show up at an international disaster.”

Partnerships with other com-munity groups, such as with the Lions over th Chinese Cemetery upkeep, has yielded more benefits than first expected.

“In small communities, service clubs are dying out,” says Dobson.

Other benefits of partnerships, says Kubbernus, is staying in touch with groups outside the normal realm of Rotary, to see what they do and hear what they are hearing, and so they get to know what Ro-tary is.

“The biggest advantage of part-nering is it brings all sorts of people into the project,” says Hood.

“We need members,” says Kubbernus. “We have a lot of ex-perience here and a lot of great ideas, we don’t have a lot of physical manpower. It’s getting members who are enthused about what Rotary does and can do and then we can get out and do more in the community.”

Hood recites their creed: “Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?”

He says that creed has been around now for almost 100 years, and it still sums up how Rotarians look at the world, and anyone look-ing to make the world a better place for everyone would most likely be welcomed as a Rotarian. They are invited to attend a meeting and see.

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First the moustache...Above, Kat Chatten winces at a painful-looking red area where the wax - and hair - used to be on Lewis Kinvig’s leg. The minor hockey coach and Ashcroft Building Centre employee said it was the price his female co-workers exacted for helping him raise over $1,500 for Movember.

by Wendy CoomberSanta Claus wasn’t the only

one attracting attention last Friday night in downtown Ashcroft.

Already downtown to see the parade, a few dozen friends and family members crowded into the hardware store to see Lewis Kin-vig make good on his promise and have his legs waxed.

Throughout the month of Nov-ember, Lewis Kinvig was raising money for the Movember Founda-tion, which raises money for men’s health issues. As the waxing para-phernalia came out, so did the cell phone-camers and everyone had a chuckle.

Minor hockey coach and Ashcroft Building Centre em-ployee, Kinvig said his female co-workers helped him raise over $1,500 for Movember. “The ladies at work said that if they raised $1,500 they could

wax my legs,” he said. “Well they reached their goal so I had to stick to my part of the bargain..”

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Left: Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart (centre) with some of the residents taking te community bus to Lillooet to see the new doctors. The Thursday program is being used as a temporary measure to help residents access doctors until the new doctors arrive in February. L-R: WHAC members Dave and Alice Durksen, MLA Jackie Tegart, Flo and Sonny.

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Looking for a small piece of art to bright-en someone’s Christmas? A whole selection of Ashcroft Art Club member’s work as well as other local artists is on display during Decem-ber at Sidewalk Gallery in the Rolgear building right across from Safety Mart.

Club members have had a good time with art activities at their Wednesday get-togethers, from 10 until 2, at St. Alban’s Hall, 701 Brink St. Weekly painting times will resume on Jan. 6 after a December break.

All members and newcomers who wish to take part in the April Art Show are reminded to make sure their dues are paid by Dec. 31 to be eligible to take part. Check out the club’s web-site at ashcroftartclub.ca for more information.

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Much more than another voice in the choir

Michelle Reid, musical director of Sage Sound Singers Choir

by Wendy CoomberFrom Bach to Queen and Bach again, there’s never a

quiet moment in Michelle Reid’s life. And she wouldn’t have it any other way.

Reid is the musical director of the Sage Sound Singers Choir, a group she put together five years ago because she was “lonely”.

“When I was at the coast,” she says, “I was part of an 85 person choir - for 17 years!”

Music has been part of her life forever, she says. Her par-ents were both musicians - the violin for her mother, piano for her father.

Reid says she can’t imagine a life without music. “I think I would wither away,” she says. “I’m going to do it until I drop. Music has been my life. Even raising kids, there was always guitars in my house, pianos, you name it.”

It was a big part of her life in the French Canadian com-munity she grew up in on the prairies. She directed their community choir at Expo in 1969 when she was 16.

“I’m not formally trained as far as education goes,” she says, “but as far as being taught the right way, I’ve learned with the best of the best.”

Always part of a choir, Reid says the directors would ask her advice on occasion, ask her to fill in for them sometimes.

“I really, really am humble when it comes to music,” she says. “I know so little compared to a lot of people, so little. But I do know that if I tackle something I’m going to do it well. I don’t like doing things half assed.”

The Reids moved back to the area when they retired. “I was lonely,” she says, “and I joined the chorus one winter in Kamloops, but I was not happy. I thought, ‘This is too much like Lawrence Welk’, I couldn’t do it.”

She had a book of choir music accumulated from years of singing in choirs, and she approached Nadine Davenport be-cause of her connection to Winding Rivers Arts and Perform-ance Society (WRAPS). Nadine became her first recruit.

“I had such big aspirations,” she said. “Like major aspira-tions - maybe a little too much.”

She asked Nadine and her friends to spread the word, and that’s how it started. Carmen Ranta was recommended as a conductor, and Ranta recommented Dimiter Terziev as their pianist.

Balance in the choir is everything. When you have a cir-cle of musical acquaintances, they know just about everyone in the area who has any aspirations to sing.

“But I can’t accept 400 people in my choir,” says Reid. “It has to be balanced. If I don’t have a balanced choir, it’s

not going to sound right.”Not everyone is cut out to be a part of the

choir. “If you’re made to sing in the shower or by

the campfire and it makes you happy, then that’s what you do,” she says.

“I look at the choir members and how far they’ve come and it just gives me so much joy,” she says. “I enjoy every rehearsal, I enjoy every minute. It’s the journey.

“Like My Fair Lady,” she says. “It was very beautiful, and I enjoyed the end product but it was the journey.

“I have learned so much from My Fair Lady,” says Reid. “When they asked me to be musical director for the play, I went to Vegas and bought a digital piano.” She and her hus-band were in the US already on vacation.

She had the musical score for the play, but it was all too high for the choir.

“I didn’t think I’d be able to do it,” she said. She went through all 274 pages of music,

page by page. It was an education, she said. It taught her what to focus on. Even her older sister, Paulette, who has a Masters in Music, was impressed.

Reid moved parts around, gave them to other members of the choir, and all in all, manipulated over 1,000 hours of music just to make it all balance.

She recruited Gerald Young af-ter hearing him sing in the back of a business machine office. She was looking for a photocopier af-ter burning out two printers while copying music for the play. She told someone that they were doing My Fair Lady “and all of a sudden, I hear a voice in the back singing. He’s singing On the Street Where You Live.”

She introduced herself and after a brief conversation, asked him to audition, which he did and won the role of Freddy.

She recruited a car salesman for the choir in the same way. He was singing to himself in the car lot while they were looking for a new car. “I said to him, ‘I’ve got this choir and I’m really looking for some high tenors’ and he starts singing Ave Maria. I said ‘Don, if I buy a car you join the choir’ - and he did.”

“My whole intention of this choir was to have fun,” says Reid. “I didn’t want people to feel that they had to work to death to achieve a certain level, but that be-ing said, I wanted them to reach their potential.

“Music lifts people. I see people come to the rehearsal and when they leave they are jubilant. It’s just unbelievable what music will do to a person and to a com-munity.”

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ously mauled him. Neighbours frantically threw bricks at the vi-cious animals trying to get them to stop, but they kept biting off pieces of flesh from the little boy’s body until the police arrived and shot them multiple times. The precious child was rushed to the hospital where he tragi-cally succumbed to his catastrophic injures.

Xavier Strickland is the 25th person to be

killed by pit bulls in the U.S. this year so far. He is the 193rd fatal vic-tim since 2007, the year NFL player Michael Vick was convicted on dog fighting charges and pit bull propa-ganda kicked into high gear because of cor-rupt organizations like Best Friends Animal Society, Animal Farm Foundation, ASPCA and the Humane Soci-ety of the U.S., among others. Pit bull attacks have increased 773% since then, with the number of pit bulls involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks on people rising from 78 to 603.

After this gruesome story was published online, the pit bull fa-natics did what they always do: they posted pictures of their own “adorable” pit bulls all over social media and repeated their usual rhetoric such as “It’s all how you raise them” and “Blame the deed not the breed.” This is pure fiction.

Pit bulls were bred over hundreds of years for blood sport - for bull and bear baiting and then for dog fight-ing. This isn’t an opin-

ion, it’s historical fact. Pit bulls were bred with a killing instinct and a killer bite, and about half their human vic-tims are attacked by a trusted family pit bull raised in a loving home.

In this particular case the owner was an opportunistic backyard breeder who wasn’t there at the time of the slaughter. The sole sur-vivor of the killer dogs was pregnant, and even though she was merely acting on her genetic insticts, she should have been humanely shot to death as well.

Over 3000 unwant-ed pit bulls are eutha-nized daily in shelters across the U.S. and Canada due to ram-pant overbreeding, and that is the fault of the pit bull lobby promot-ing them as safe family pets when they’re not. 1

in 107 fatally attack an animal and 1 in 6000 attack a human. How dare anyone champion a breed of dog that puts the public at such a high risk when there are hundreds of safer breeds that do not.

Canada and the U.S. are the only countries in the world that legally import pit bulls. The majority of our SPCAs and rescue groups reck-lessly adopt them out, never informing the adopters of the genetic heritage of pit bulls, their unpredictability or the shocking statis-tics that would alarm anyone who cares about the lives of them-selves or others.

Breed specific leg-islation (BSL) is des-perately needed for the protection of all, including the pit bulls who are victims as well. They are the most exploited, abused, ne-glected, abandoned,

tortured, raped, over-bred and euthanized dogs in North Ameri-ca. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has been pushing for manda-tory sterilization for pit bulls for many years to protect them from be-ing born into these hor-rors in the first place.

The only ones who won’t benefit from BSL are dog fighters, breed-ers, those profiting from their existence and pit bull owners who don’t want to comply with reasonable regulations to keep the public safe. People, pets, livestock, tax payers, first re-sponders, animal con-trol and rescue workers would all be better off without the existence of pit bulls in our soci-ety. Shelters would no longer be over flowing, so safer breeds of dogs would have a better chance of being res-cued, and euthanasia rates would plummet.

Less than 3 percent of the population owns pit bulls, yet these are the dogs responsible for killing, mutilating and severely injuring more humans and animals than all other breeds combined. It’s time we stop catering to this vocal minority and the multi million dollar

funded pit bull lobby groups and start de-manding public safety.

The U.S. Army, Marine Corps and Air Force ban pit bulls from all their bases as well as privatized hous-ing. It’s a travesty the rest of us aren’t offered the same protection.

At least 475 people have been killed by pit bulls so far, and thousands more dis-gfigured. Hundreds of thousands of animals have also been fatally attacked. How many more pit bull assaults resulting in life flights, surgeries, psychological counselling and burials are we going to toler-ate? The answer should be zero.

When dog fight-ing was outlawed, the breeding of pit bulls should have been out-lawed too. They were never meant to be household pets.

GoFundMe Ac-count to help with Xavier’s funeral ex-penses.

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Lori Welbourne is a syndicated columnist. She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com

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Hard to depend on memory without subjectivity interferingHow things have changed from

one month ago. Nature has covered the land with a nice blanket of snow and the spruce trees are looking like some super Christmas decor-ator has sprinkled them with lots of snow and sparkles.

I have no need to make up a Christmas tree or two – I can enjoy the view of hundreds from my window – all unique and very beautiful. The shimmer-ing frost flakes blown in the breeze add to the festive atmosphere.

Poor city people - they need to hire a super yard decorator and pay as much as a thousand dollars for the service. At Loon Lake Road nature does a better job for free.

In the middle of the snow and frost, the paving contractor finally moved in to pave portions of Loon Lake Road. Snow, ice and -15 degree temperatures were not the best conditions for laying down pav-ing and I had great sympathy for those doing traffic control, standing still in the cold and holding up a sign with only the deer, coyotes and one vehicle to direct.

To finish the shoulder work they had to scrape away layers of snow and ice to spread the gravel abutting the new layer of pavement. Residents are grateful for the work done and I am sure the contract-or crews are grateful to move on to warm-er conditions.

This time of the year at Loon Lake Road, winter outdoor activities begin and those who enjoy them hope for plenty of snow. We have had a good start so far but people await the lake to freeze over.

It is also a time for moving the quiet enjoyment and relaxation indoors, al-though a nice outdoor fire with mulled wine still goes over well. I have been pulling out my boxes for Christmas orna-ments that I have collected over the years with the intention of reducing the volume down to about half of what I have now. So my first idea was to just keep those items I have used in the past several years.

As I held out many of the items that would then have gone in the recycle box, memories of the time when the item was either acquired or used came back to me and I couldn’t put it away.

While I have the idea that material things are not so important – the mem-ories of people and places that they some-times represent and bring back are still important to me and so I have six boxes of Christmas stuff collected over the past 50 years from all the places I have lived or visited. But why is memory important?

There are people I know who seem to start each day with a blank memory and they seem quite happy. In fact, hav-ing a good memory at my age can result in simply more work and effort. It is so much easier when someone asks for in-formation to say you can’t remember than to remember and pass it on to them – once, twice or maybe even three times; of course without any suggestion that you have told this to them once already.

I don’t have a really good memory; things that aren’t important or of inter-est to me go away really fast. I am an ab-solute disaster at playing various board games that require knowledge of sports or of entertainment figures. Don’t ask me about TV shows or movies, I know noth-

ing of them. Of course memory can also be quite

misleading if you expect that memory can reproduce an event as it really hap-pened. We will only remember how we experienced the incident or event but it will not be accurate description of what went on. Sure I can remember snippets and specific incidents and even the taste of my grandmother’s chokecherry cordial and that she often served us warm milk with coffee when we visited her in the win-ter. Then I try to picture her kitchen in my memory and find that a number of the cor-ners are quite blank.

I read an article yester-day about a young family in Alberta who have decid-ed to eat only (or mostly) the foods that they themselves can grow on their farm. Their goal was to try to eat as their ancestors did in 1900s on the Canadian prairies. That can be a very good learning ex-ercise and I would expect one that would result in the family involved learning to value quality in food.

For example we recent-ly had a discussion about sauerkraut in our family. I make my own and do quite willingly put up with the odour of fermenting sauer-kraut because the result is so delicious. Others pointed out that a large bottle of manu-factured kraut is not so cost-ly and is much more conven-ient.

True enough, but I per-sonally do not like the taste of the pickled cabbage that the manufacturers try to pass off as sauerkraut. In fact the majority around the table ad-mitted that the only time they will eat sauerkraut is when I serve my homemade stuff. Then they can’t get enough of it. Authentic sauerkraut never has vinegar added – it is just shredded cabbage and a bit of salt with a six week fermentation period – done. Simple and so good.

There is a special qual-ity to many of the foods pro-duced and prepared or pre-served in traditional ways but I appreciate that some special foods brought from far off lands are really a wonderful contribution to both variety and taste in our meals. I do try to grow or source much of my food locally but I would never agree to do without spices like vanilla, cinnamon and

nutmeg, or forego coffee, teas or citrus fruits.

I can quite easily do without a trip to Tim Horton’s for a coffee but let me buy my coffee beans and grind them my way. I have tried chicory root “coffee” and it doesn’t do much for me nor does the bar-ley coffee substitute.

Beside I don’t think I would want to eat the same way as our forbearers did in 1900 – it really wasn’t all that healthy a diet. Sure the vegetables, fruits, egg, dairy and meat were locally sourced but ways of preserving them were limited, with a lot of sugar, salt and fat used as preserv-atives.

The lean times were the early spring months when the winter stores were near-ly used up, the vegetables in the root cel-lar turning limp and sprouting, and warm-er weather made it difficult to keep meat. Young shoots of stinging nettles became the first “spinach” of the season and rhu-barb was eagerly greeted. We would pull up a stalk out in the garden and eat it right there. Dandelion and other wild greens were used in salads.

Ah, the good ole days. I wonder what the grandkids will consider as good old days when they hit 70 years or more?

Merry Christmas and happy mem-ories to all.

From Loon Lake RoadBarbara Hendricks

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• Powerful 68 HP ProStar HO engine features 13% more power• 2000 LBS Class-Leading Towing Capacity

• On Demand True AWD/2WD/Versa Trac Turf Mode• Smooth and Robust 10” Dual A-Arm Suspension

• 11.3 “ Ground Clearance •Seats 6

2015 Polaris Ranger 900 CrewMSRP $16,499

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• Powerful 45HP ProStar Engine• Electronic Fuel Injected • Light Weight Transmission

• 9” Superior Front Travel• True All Wheel Drive • 1500LB Towing Capacity

2016 Polaris RZR 570MSRP $11,799

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• Polaris 44 HP ProStar 570 Engine • 11” Ground Clearance• Legendary Independent Rear Suspension with 9.5” of travel

• On-Demand True All-Wheel Drive• Huge 1,255 LBS Towing Capacity • Electronic Power Steering

•EBS (Engine Brake System)

2016 Polaris Sportsman 570MSRP $7,599

SALE PRICE $5,995*

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New AXYS® RMK®Instantaneous LiftRider Balanced™ ControlImmediate Response

Class Leading Horsepower

Lightest in Class 408 LB

SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS. *Plus freight and PDI of $585, plus tire levy, plus applicable taxes. All pricing net of rebates, dealer keeps rebates. In stock units only, call dealer for details. Some units shown with additional charge options (like winches), these accessories are not included in prices shown unless otherwise stated.

www.spectrapowersports.com770 North Broadway, Williams Lake • 250-392-3201 • [email protected]

Getting You Out There!

Warning: The Polaris RANGER and RZR are not intended for on-road use. Driver must be at least 16 years old with a valid driver’s license to operate. Passengers must be at least 12 years old and tall enough to grasp the hand holds and plant feet � rmly on the � oor. All SxS drivers should take a safety training course. Contact ROHVA at www.rohva.org or (949) 255-2560 for additional information. Drivers and passengers should always wear helmets, eye protection, protective clothing, and seat belts. Always use cab nets. Be particularly careful on dif� cult terrain. Never drive on public roads or paved surfaces. Never engage in stunt driving, and avoid excessive speeds and sharp turns. Riding and alcohol/drugs don’t mix. Check local laws before riding on trails. ATVs can be hazardous to operate. Polaris adult models are for riders 16 and older. For your safety, always wear a helmet, eye protection and protective clothing, and be sure to take a safety training course. For safety and training information in the U.S., call the SVIA at (800) 887-2887. You may also contact your Polaris dealer or call Polaris at (800) 342-3764. ©2015 Polaris Industries Inc.

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• Polaris 44 HP ProStar 570 Engine • 11” Ground Clearance• Legendary Independent Rear Suspension with 9.5” of travel• On-Demand True All-Wheel Drive • Electronic Fuel Injection

• Huge 1,255 LBS Towing Capacity • Electronic Power Steering• EBS (Engine Brake System)

2015 Polaris Sportsman 570 EPSMSRP $8,499

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• Proven and reliable, air cooled 200 engine• Automatic PVT Transmission with forward, neutral and reverse

• Dual A-Arm Suspension• Long -Travel Rear Suspension

• Includes 1 Youth Helmet

2015 Polaris Phoenix 200MSRP $4,099

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Above: Darci Andersen, Damian Couture (in disguise), Sharla Dubroy and Jason Blain on the Ashcroft Esso Travel Centre float. What this year’s parade lack in numbers, it made up for in enthusiasm. The mild weather brought out more people that the parade has seen in recent years and Railway Ave. was lined with adults and children from ReMax down to the credit union. As always, Santa was the biggest draw and there was a crowd lined up to see him even before his float pulled up in front of the Fire Hall. Below, Peoples’ Drug Store staff with owner Victor Ikari (left) and their float with the Frozen theme.

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Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, December 10, 2015