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Residents escape Clinton house fire

Ashcroft’s garbage collection rates expected to rise

The Clinton RCMP received a request from the Clinton Fire Department to assist with a residential house fire at located at 6715- 26 Mile Frontage Road, Hwy 97 on Dec.7 at 4:19 am.

Initial reports indicated that all three occu-pants escaped the duplex style residence un-harmed.

Local Emergency Services including the Clinton Fire Rescue and BC Ambulance were on scene. Police investigation determined that there were no other occupants.

A 65 year old male was transported to the Ashcroft Hospital for observation where he was treated and released.

The fire quickly engulfed the residence and appeared to have originated from the unoccu-pied side where electrical renovations were tak-ing place. The cause of the fire is believed to have started from the renovations. No foul play is suspected in this matter.

Ashcroft residents will see an increase on their utility bill in the new year, as the newly adjusted price for garbage pickup is intro-duced.

Council introduced Bylaw 785 at its Dec. 9 public meeting. The bylaw “to establish a system of solid waste removal” sets out fees and charges, types of waste not accepted, offences and other de-tails for the mechanized system of weekly garbage removal that was introduced last January.

At that time, Council asked staff to undertake a cost analysis of the new system to see if the costs would have to be modified.

The service remains the same as it has been for the past year, but home owners will notice a differ-ent rate on their next utility bill of about $30 as the cost goes from $70 to $100 per cart. Another $17 per cart addition is planned for

2015.The

solid waste portion of the utility bill will be included in the 10 per cent discount that the Village offers for residents and businesses pay-ing their bill before March 31, and seniors can get a 25 per cent dis-count as long as they qualify for the Home Owners Grant.

Residential containers are 240 Litres. Businesses pay $176 per (360 L) cart and $538 for commer-cial sized (1100 L) carts. There is no increase scheduled for those.

The Bylaw also outlines re-placement costs for damaged carts - $75 plus taxes for the entire unit or $35 for just a lid, $20 to replace the wheels - for a residential cart. Replacement of a Business cart costs $100 plus taxes; a Commer-cial cart costs $600 plus taxes.

The Bylaw will be presented at Council’s first meeting in January for discussion and adoption.

Solid waste collection rates have remained the same since 1996.

Santa’s checking his listIt was Ashcroft’s usual rockin’ good time of a Santa Claus Parade last Friday night, and despite the frigid temperatures, adults and children lined Railway Ave. just to catch sight of the Christmas couple, Santa and Mrs. Claus.

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Ashcroft rcMP DetAchMent

POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber

Police Telephone #s

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

Dec. 3 in the afternoon, RCMP were called to a single vehicle accident on Hwy 97 just south of 16 Mile when a 1999 Dodge Dakota left a slippert sec-tion of the highway and went off road. Both occupants were from 100 Mile House. Neither the driver, a 30 year old man, nor his 24 year old female passen-ger were injured. There was extensive damage to the front end of their truck.

Crashed into snowbankDec. 4 between 7-8 am, police

were notified of a single vehicle acci-dent on Hwy 97C, approximately 5 km this side of Highland Valley Copper. The 28 year old Ashcroft man wais he swerved to avoid a stopped vehicle in his lane and went off road right and into a snowbank. He was not injured, but there was front end damage to his 2014 Chevrolet Cruze.

Slippery roadsDec. 5 at 3 pm police attended a sin-

gle vehicle accident on Hwy 1 near the Spatsum Creek area after a Ford pickup driven by a 71 year old Spences Bridge man hit some ice and went off the road. He was not injured.

On the runDec. 6 at 4:30 am police were called

to a single vehicle accident on Hwy 97 south of Maidencreek Rd. after a Ford F250 went off road to the left, flipped and landed upside down in the ditch.The driver, a 26 year old Salmon Arm man, was taken to the 100 Mile House hospital with a possible head injury. He was released later the same day and arrested by RCMP for being in pos-session of a stolen vehicle. The truck had been reported stolen in 100 Mile House. It was destroyed in the accident.

Drive by fruitingDec. 6 police were called to mediate

a neighbour dispute in Cache Creek af-ter a resident discovered that someone had thrown rotten oranges at his door. The move appears to be retaliation for a previous incident in which the victim returned a pile of dog feces to the sus-pect’s yard. He was told it was not a po-lice matter, yet.

Following too closelyDec. 6 at 6 pm police attended a two

vehicle accident on Hwy 1 by Thomp-son River Estates after a 2003 Toyota Matrix driven by a 22 year old Ashcroft woman, drove into the back of a Honda Civic, driven by a 55 year old man from

the Thompson River Estates, just as he slowed down to turn off the highway into the subdivision. The woman was issued a ticket for following too close-ly. Both drivers were taken to the hospi-tal for examination.

Prohibited from drivingDec. 7 at 8 pm police stopped a

2008 Ford Fusion at a road check on Hwy 99 near the Hwy 97 intersection. The 44 year old Kamloops driver was found to be prohibited and was arrested and charged with driving while pro-hibited. His vehicle was impounded for a minimum of 30 days.

At 8:20 pm at the same road check, Traffic Services officers stopped a 2000

Infiniti and discovered that the driver, a 26 year old man from Duncan, was driving while prohibited. He was ar-rested and charged and his vehicle was impounded for seven days.

N for NumskullDec. 9 at 1 pm Traffic Services of-

ficers stopped a speeding vehicle on Hwy 1 in Cache Creek at the south end of town after watching the 2000 Toyota Echo travelling at 101 kph in the 70 kph zone. The 30 year old man from 108 Mile Ranch was issued a ticket for fail-ing to display his N and he was served a two-month driving prohibition. His vehicle was towed.

The RCMP is pleased to announce that Summit Brooke Construction of Abbotsford has been awarded the con-tract to construct the new RCMP De-tachment in 100 Mile House. As gener-al contractor, Summit Brook Construc-tion will begin preliminary construction in December 2013.

The exterior façade of the new De-tachment will be a mixture of corru-gated metal panels, textured concrete blocks and prefinished metal windows. The roof is a sloping gable style, fin-ished with prefinished metal panels and dormer windows that allow natural light into the public and administration areas of the main floor.

The Detachment will have a total floor area of approximately 1500m2.

The main floor will have the police functional areas, the administration and clerical areas, and public entrance. There will be a separate mezzanine area where the mechanical and electric-al services will be housed.

With 18 Members and nine civil-ian staff and volunteers, we have out-grown this facility. says Sergeant Don McLean. The overflow from the De-tachment is currently being housed in a trailer attached to the north end. This new RCMP Detachment will be a trib-ute to the community for years to come.

It is anticipated that the Detach-ment will be completed by the spring of 2015.

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New Detachment for 100 Mile

A Merry Hamper ChristmasJerry Fiddick accepts a $1,000 donation for the Christmas Hampers from Doreen Lambert and the Second Time Around in Ashcroft.

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Safety Mart gets Best Bloomin Business Award

Loyalty reward points banned

Ashcroft Novices and PeeWees gaining

Several Communities in Bloom commit-tee members were on hand to present Ed Lee and Victor Paulos of Safety Mart Foods with the Best Bloomin Business award for 2013.

The Communities in Bloom committee se-lects and presents this award to a deserving Ashcroft business each year. The criteria used to select the recipient include street appeal, cleanliness, use of colour and improvements to the business. New landscaping, completed at the end of last year, improved the look of this highly visible corner of our community. Xeri-scape-type plants and materials were combined to provide an easy care, climate correct choice that looks great in all seasons.

Congratulations Safety Mart Foods!Submitted

It was the Ashcroft Ninja’s (Novice) first meeting this year with Lillooet’s Novice team last Saturday in Ashcroft.

It was another exciting game. Our players are showing lots of improvement and team work every time they step on the ice. It was great to see all the smiling faces on the ice and all the support of Family and Friends in the stands!

We have a rematch next week-end in Lillooet, Saturday Dec. 14 at 2 pm

The Peewee Girls traveled to Kelowna last weekend for two games. They played hard and pulled together as a team!

The first game was a loss 2-0, but the game on Sunday was a tie 3-3 with Gracie Antoine scoring her first goal! Nice work team!

They are off to Lillooet this weekend as are the Bantams and

Atoms! Wish all of the players luck!Submitted

Left: L-R: Jordi Flaherty, Marijke Stott, Andrea Walker, Ed Lee, Victor Paulos and Lorna Delling.

by Jeff NagelSurrey North Delta LeaderB.C. pharmacies are now banned

from handing out loyalty reward points to customers for prescription drug purchases.

The measure – effective Dec. 2 – is already drawing outrage from shoppers and has sparked a legal challenge from Canada Safeway and Thrifty Foods, both arms of the Sobeys group that offer popular loyalty card points.

The College of Pharmacists of B.C. first proposed a ban in 2012 but shelved it amid strong public oppos-ition.

However, the college’s board re-examined the issue after the provin-cial election and unanimously ap-proved the ban Sept. 20, arguing loyalty points are a powerful lure that can alter some shoppers’ buying hab-its and potentially harm their health.

The bylaw prohibits various gifts, rebates, refunds and other incentives, not just loyalty points.

The college says such incentives are inappropriate “kickbacks” to cus-tomers.

“After careful consideration, the College still firmly believes that pay-ing patients for prescriptions is un-professional, unethical and unsafe,” it states on its website.

The college argues some patients may go without their medicine until they can fill a prescription on a loyal-ty point bonus day.

It also believes patients with third-party insurance who don’t pay out of pocket may keep refilling a prescrip-tion after they no longer need it just to collect more points.

The college calls that a drain on limited health care dollars and says drugs not used by the intended pa-tient may be abused by others or di-

verted to the illegal drug trade.It says paying customers a kick-

back undermines pharmacists’ integ-rity and the credibility of the profes-sion.

“Patients do not expect to receive payments for other health services they receive, and drug therapy should not be the exception to that rule.”

The college hopes a points ban will result in patients choosing a pharmacy or pharmacist on their own merits, not inducements.

Some patients on Canada Safe-way’s Facebook page said they may switch to closer pharmacies as a re-sult of the ban on issuing Air Miles points for prescriptions at Safeway.

Victoria senior Randy McEwen said he doubts anyone would delay filling prescriptions for the sake of a bonus.

“Most Canadians are smart enough to make rational decisions,” said McEwen, who uses prescrip-tion points to fly his children in from Edmonton. “This ban discriminates against the elderly and the chronic-ally ill. Why would you let me collect points on gas or banking but not on prescription drugs?”

Canada Safeway and Thrifty Foods were slated to be in court Tues-day seeking an injunction.

They argue the incentives ban mainly targets larger chains and un-fairly props up smaller independent pharmacies.

“There is no evidence that in-centives pose a risk to patient care or safety, or that they undermine the ethical conduct of pharmacists,” said the Sobeys petition in B.C. Supreme Court.

Exempted from the ban are free or discounted parking or delivery ser-vices, and payment by credit or deb-it cards that generate loyalty benefits.

Above: Novice players Lyric Antoine and Waylon Hoggard hold off Lillooet’s play; Below: Holden Kinvig and Goalie Dallon Tomey wait for some action.


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Ottawa puts on pipeline push

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B.C.VIEWS

ICICLES FROST A SPRUCE TREE in Ashcroft after a water line break during abnormally cold weatherVICTORIA – The federal govern-

ment stepped up its sales pitch for new pipelines to the B.C. coast last week, as it prepares for the imminent release of the federal review panel’s report on the feasibility of the Enbridge Northern Gateway project.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver arrived in Vancouver to release an ex-pert panel’s report on the current state of tanker safety on the West Coast. It was the first of two reports that tell the Stephen Harper government in blunt terms how steep a hill it must climb to enable energy exports to Asia.

Oliver gave a speech to the Vancou-ver Board of Trade the following mor-ning, where he vowed to implement one of the panel’s key recommenda-tions. Legislation is coming to ensure that polluters, not taxpayers, must pay for any environmental damage from re-source development and transport.

The panel was chaired by Gor-don Houston, a former Prince Rupert harbourmaster and CEO of Port Metro Vancouver. Its report details the little-noticed fact that coastal waters around Victoria and Vancouver are already congested with shipping traffic, includ-ing Alaska oil tankers, and are at “very high risk” of an incident.

Of course that “very high risk” should be seen in the B.C. context, where there has never been a serious oil spill at sea in a century of continuous petroleum shipping.

The report calls for potential pol-luters to show they are prepared for a “worst case” discharge like the 1989

Exxon Valdez grounding in Alaska. It tells Ottawa the Canadian Coast Guard must be properly funded to serve as in-cident command.

Oliver recounted efforts made so far, including annual tanker inspec-tions, increased aerial surveillance and marine markers. And he reminded his audience that Canada’s only energy ex-port customer, the U.S., is about to sur-pass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest petroleum producer.

The second federal report was from Doug Eyford, a lawyer who has been meeting for months with aboriginal communities in northern B.C. and Al-berta.

He found, as Enbridge has reported, that many aboriginal communities are working with energy producers to get the economic activity they so desper-ately need. (Most urban people likely don’t believe this, because the conflict-addicted media report mostly protests.)

Eyford’s report is no whitewash either. It reminds Ottawa that B.C.’s un-resolved aboriginal title and a general lack of trust of both the energy industry

and the federal government are key obstacles to the largest eco-nomic opportunity in the world today, the rise of Asia.

Eyford was dealing with the profusion of gas pipeline projects that are set to cross northern B.C., as well as the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan Canada oil proposals. The en-trenched opposition is against oil, particularly heavy oil in tankers.

Politics and protesters aside, these are the facts for B.C. The prosperous provinces in Canada today are Alberta, Saskatchewan and New-foundland, based mainly on energy de-velopment. The rest are struggling.

B.C. continues to lose skilled work-ers to Alberta, where oilsands develop-ment continues to expand despite the continuing chorus of U.S.-financed misrepresentation of its environment-al impact.

It’s a key moment in Canadian his-tory. This is where we see if we can go beyond our status as a client state of the U.S.

This year’s B.C. election, where pandering to urban protest backfired on the NDP, suggests a new seriousness in the public mood.

More people understand today that our comfortable modern society with free-access health care is a fragile thing. We have it better than most of the world, for now.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature re-porter and columnist for Black Press.

I’m all for freedom to do as you choose - as long as it doesn’t impinge on my - or anyone else’s - freedoms.

For example, get hammered if you like, just don’t get behind the wheel of a car and drive into me. Or visit a casino and gamble until your money is gone - don’t expect me or others to reimburse you for your missing mortgage payment.

We’re only human. We often use that phrase, but what does it mean? In many cases, it means that we cannot withstand the devious marketing techniques that are carefully designed to get inside our heads - and into our wallets.

If there is money to be had, the greediest among us will figure out how to pry it from our fingers - and then blame us for giving it to them. The worst among them look for our weakest points and exploit them. Like casino operators. Alcohol manufacturers. Cigarette companies.

It’s a long list that includes many prod-ucts that are illegal at this time. And why are things like euphoric drugs illegal if not to disuade the general population from using them?

Many years ago, my home city put it one of the first casinos in Canada. Easy money. They made the art gallery move, of all things, so they could inhabit that prime location. Suddenly a hand full of pawn shops grew into a booming industry; offices sprang up around the downtown area adver-tising gambline addiction services.

It’s what everyone knew would hap-pen, but... well, the economy was dragging and there’s nothing like a casino to attract people into town.

Our governments are among the worst. Build a casino and make a truckload of cash. What about the harmful effects on the general population? Well, they should just know their limit and play within it. If they can’t, that’s just too bad.

Now the BC government is thinking of ways to make liquor more accessible. Gro-cery stores? Why not gas stations, like they do in the US? It’s easy money. If people can’t control themselves, we can just hire more police.

And ignore the growing social problem and hope it goes away.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear EditorWhenever I pick up my copy of

the Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal the first thing I do is scan through the pages to see if there is anything written by either Barbara Roden or Esther Darlington MacDonald on local history. If there is I save it for my weekend reading pleasure.

Some people like to do cryp-tic crossword puzzles – I like to try to unravel genealogical puz-zles. The article by Esther Darling-ton MacDonald in the Nov. 28 issue was great and her suggestion that there was a mystery surrounding the grandchildren of Charles Au-gustus Semlin, local rancher, MLA and BC’s 12th Premier, aroused my curiosity.

When Semlin died in 1927, he willed his estate worth about $50,000 to his grandchildren; how-ever most biographies list Semlin as a bachelor or unmarried – so where do the grandchildren come from?- asks Esther. She mentions that Caroline Williams and Mary were listed as living with Semlin in the 1881 census and using Semlin as a surname. Esther assumes that Mary was adopted by Semlin and that Caroline Williams was her mother, an assumption which follows with the entry made by Jeremy Mouat in his biography of Semlin in the Dic-tionary of Canadian Biography.

Well, maybe; but we need to be careful about assumptions.

There are some good clues avail-able to solving the “mystery” of the grandchildren. I have come to be fascinated with the detailed infor-

mation one can find on the BC Ar-chives website run by the Royal BC Museum. The birth, death and mar-riage certificates reproduced there can supply some very interesting leads and help follow family ties.

These records are not as dry as it might first appear. In my search last week I found that Mary Elizabeth Semlin was born in 1867 in Cache Creek.

Semlin had arrived in Cache Creek a few years earlier – without family or any other ties or connec-tions. Many settlers arrived alone and it must have been quite a diffi-cult and lonely life. In 1867 Semlin was still trying to establish himself. BC was still a colony and provincial politics was still based on a coloni-al government. A daughter, a baby girl, can give a lot of meaning to the backbreaking work of establishing a home in a new land.

In 1884 Mary Semlin of Cache Creek married Tom Walker. Through the archive search function I was able to find an image of the actual marriage certificate for Mary Semlin – age 17 - and Tom Walker, dated 12/24 1884. On the marriage certificate, on the line for parents are the words: “Charles A Semlin, Indian woman”.

Presumably in 1884 Mary’s mother was no longer alive and it seems strange that Mary did not know the name of her mother, so perhaps Mary’s mother had been dead for some time. It would seem unlikely from this record that her mother was Caroline Williams who was living in the Semlin household in 1881 according to the census re-port. Mary would have known of Caroline.

Okay – some mystery here. Was her mother unknown or was some-one being protected by not making her name public?

I cannot find further records on Tom Walker and I presume he died quite young, and there does not ap-pear to have been any children born of that marriage.

Records show that in 1893 Mary Semlin/Walker of Cache Creek married again, this time to Charles Tremble (spelling as on certificate) or Trimble, the spelling varies on different documents.

Charles Trimble is listed in the 1893 Cache Creek directory as foreman, Galpin and Co (stockrais-er).

I found birth or death certificates for five children born in Cache Creek to Mary Elizabeth Semlin and Charles Edward Trimble who was born Ohio US about 1860 with occupation listed as rancher, Cache Creek. These children were: Gladys May (1892-1931), Charles Augus-tus (1897-1948), George Edgar (1901-1962), Florence (Floria) Isa-belle (1903-?) and Richard Claude (1905-1981). As the birth records on the archives website go no later than 1903, it was on the 1911 cen-sus that I found another child, Car-rie, born in 1906. These, therefore were Charles Augustus Semlin’s grandchildren.

Of interest to me is at least three of the births (all those where I could examine a reproduction of the birth certificates online) were not registered until early 1928, two months af-ter the death of Charles Semlin, and the in-formant to the registry was Miss Gladys Trimble in all cases.

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Charles Semlin’s living legacy

Ranching and painting on the range

Desert Hills Ranch owner Randy Porter (right) receiving a print from Ashcroft artist Frederick Seher (left).

Charles Semlin died in November 1927; unfortu-

nately there is no reproduction of his death certificate online so I could not find out if he was listed as having been married on the certificate; however his biographers are very definite about him being unmarried. Mary’s mother does remain a mystery that will unlikely be revealed, and in my mind whether or not Mary was adopted or was Semlin’s biological child is unimportant; the important thing was that Semlin con-sidered Mary to be his daughter, cared for her and her children and that the children cared for him.

Looking through the wonderful book put out by the Ashcroft Museum, Bitter-sweet Oasis A History of Ashcroft and District 1885 to 2002, I found on page 85 a photo of Mary and Charles Trimble with their children Gladys and Charles. Charles is a baby and it looks like he is in a chris-tening dress. He was born in March 1897, so the photo was likely taken in 1897. The caption on the photo says that the Trimbles

were from the Semlin Ranch and that Mary has previously been married to Tom Walk-er.

Over the page in Bittersweet Oasis is a photo taken in 1933 at the Semlin ranch – six years after the passing of Charles Sem-lin Sr.; the owner of the ranch is stated as Leslie Cameron.

In her article, Esther goes on to tell about her experience in 1981 in Kamloops when she interviewed Alma Loyst, who nursed Semlin before he died. By coinci-dence at least one of Semlin’s grandchil-dren, Richard Claude Trimble, was living in Kamloops at that time; he died in RIH in March 1981, his son living in Coquitlam signed the death certificate. It was most un-fortunate that Esther missed interviewing him as he surely would have been able to shed some light on any mystery surround-ing Semlin’s grandchildren.

Thank you, Esther and The Journal for some enjoyable reading and a puzzle.

Barbara HendricksLoon Lake

Letter from p. 5

Frederick R. Seher ranched and farmed all his life, became a Message Therapist in this area for many years after uni-versity in that field. Retired and enjoying a hobby that was on hold.

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Father Christmas chills out in front of Clinton’s Village Office Yvette May photo

some of the hardy souls who braved the elements to take part in the Christmas Caroling and Tree Light Up on Dec. 7

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STRIKING A BALANCE

Curling Club PotluckThe Clinton Curling Club hosted

a potluck dinner and a ‘draw to the button’ contest on Friday, Dec. 6.

It was open to everyone and sev-eral non-members attended as well as curling club members. Although I wasn’t able to make it, I’ve been told there was a good turnout and every-one had fun. And isn’t that really what it is all about?

Clinton’s Victorian Christmas Weekend

“Wow! Isn’t it cold out there?” is the refrain that was heard time and time again on Saturday, Dec. 8 as people braved the cold to take part in the Victorian Christmas Week-end activities in Clinton.

Numbers were down from last year but I’m sure the

cold had a lot to do with it. Who could blame people from staying indoors when the therm-ometer dipped below –20 (without factoring in the wind chill)?

A few brave souls dropped by the Museum Open House and many more enjoyed the hot soup lunch available at the Legion Craft Sale. Merchants noted fewer shoppers but welcomed all those who did venture into their stores.

Several hardy souls braved the cold to sing carols around the Village Christmas Tree as Mayor Jim Rivett ‘threw the switch’ to light it up for the season. Special thanks to Tracy Fall-strom and the kids for leading the singing and to Tony Carron for bringing his propane heaters to give some warmth to the event. Also thanks to Greg and Mark Swan for providing the tree, Village public works staff for setting it up so securely and Bernie Nieuwenhuis, Christine Johnstone and Greg Swan for working with me to put the lights up.

The complementary Christmas Banquet pro-vided by Bethel Pentecostal Tabernacle on Sat-urday evening (Dec. 7) was enjoyed be many.

A larger number of people than usual showed up and there was lots of food for all.

The singing and Christmas message all contributed to a love-ly evening. Thanks to all those who prepared the food, set up the hall (and did the clean up af-ter) and all who took part. This is truly a delightful beginning to the Christmas season and one I personally look forward to every year.

Christmas Light Up ContestThe judges will be out and about on Saturday, Dec. 14 to

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Commercial 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.

Office HoursThe office will be open Monday to Friday with regular hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except for:

Tuesday, December 24 CLOSED at 12:30 pmWednesday, December 25 CLOSEDThursday, December 26 CLOSEDFriday, December 27 CLOSEDMonday, December 30 CLOSEDTuesday, December 31 CLOSEDWednesday, January 1, 2014 CLOSED

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Any payments received Thursday, January 2, 2014 will be dated December 31, 2013.

Dog LicensesJust a reminder that on January 2, 2014 you will be able to purchase your 2014Dog License.License fees are as follows: $15.00 – Spayed or Neutered $30.00 – Un-spayed or Un-neutered

2014 Council Meeting ScheduleCopies of the 2014 Council Meeting Schedules are available at the Village Office.

Building InspectorThe TNRD Building Inspector will not be in Cache Creek on Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 and Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Please call the TNRD office directly at 1-877-377-8673 if you have any questions regarding inspections.

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There is a $50 prize in each of the

two categories, residential and com-mercial. There are already lots of resi-dential lights up but the commercial ones are lagging a little. Come on folks, let’s Light Up Clinton!

The Clinton Communities in Bloom Committee and the 150/50 Committee jointly sponsor the contest.

Integris Stuff a Stocking’ Campaign

For the third year in a row Integris Credit Union and Insurance Services is organizing a ‘Stuff a Stocking’ Cam-paign.

Integris supplies the Christmas stockings, which can be picked up from either the credit union of insurance of-fice. Each stocking is labeled with an age and gender and those picking them up fill them with appropriate items. They are then returned to Integris so they can be delivered for Christmas.

If anyone knows of someone who would appreciate one of these stock-ings please submit their name to Integ-ris. You can also ask to fill a stocking for a specific person and Integris will see that it is delivered as well.

This is just one more way that Integ-ris gives back to the community. Their goal is to make everyone’s Christmas a little brighter.

Clinton Quilting GroupA group of Clinton quilters has de-

cided that, rather than driving to 100 Mile House one a week to quilt with

the quilting group there, they would set up their own group in Clinton. To that end they have secured the use of a room at the Clinton Sen-iors Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesdays.

A ‘meet and greet’ and ‘show and tell’ has been planned for Wednes-day, Dec. 11 for any local quilters who would like to join them. It is an oppor-tunity to share projects that you have been working on, sit and enjoy coffee and goodies and talk ‘quilts’.

Beginning the first week of January the group will meet every Wednesday. The drop in fee for the use of the Sen-iors Center is only $2 per person per week with payment only on the weeks that you actually attend.

Anyone interested in quilting, re-gardless of your level of ex-perience is welcome to come and see what it is all about.

Clinton Council MeetingsDue to the Christmas holi-

days the final regular council meeting of the Village of Clin-ton Council will take place on

Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. in Coun-cil Chambers. Members of the public are welcome to attend.

Since the Village of Clinton Office will be closed the first week of January (reopening Jan. 6), the January coun-cil meetings have been scheduled for the third and fifth Wednesdays of the month instead of the usual second and fourth. This means the January meet-ings will be held Jan. 15 and 29. Again, members of the public are welcome to attend.

Susan Swan and Father Christmas at the Country Squire Gift Shop in Clinton Yvette May photo

The 2014 Grads did a great job of organizing the Skate with Santa which was held on Sunday, Dec. 8.

Clinton quilters form their own groupClinton from p. 7

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December 2013 • Week 3ARIES - Aries, handle some unfinished business and establish clear priorities. Otherwise, you may turn what could be a productive week into something frustrating.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, when you wear your heart on your sleeve for everyone to see, you cannot be shy about expressing your emotions. Friends may be skeptical of you though.

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CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, you will ride a creative wave for the next several days. Inspiration will strike when you least expect it. You should have some time for play.

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PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, it can be easy to get swept away by other people’s agendas when you attempt to lend a helping hand. Do your best to pitch in.

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For the last few years, every time I talked to my friend Kay Brown, I could see pain in her eyes. The physical suf-fering she had endured since her whiplash in-jury 17 years prior had become too much for her to manage, and the quality of her life was deteriorating at the same rate as the bone alignment of her dis-eased spine.As much as she want-

ed to distract herself with the company of friends, the agony she was in made her with-draw once it became all-consuming.Having normal con-

versations felt next to impossible.“I’d be talking to

someone, already feel-ing terrible, and sud-denly I’d get a jolt of unbearable pain that I wouldn’t be able to hide,” she explained. It became easier for her to just stay home than to try to be social.After years of being

told nothing could be done, a surgeon named Dr. Kim in Houston, Texas, said the words

she’d been praying to hear: he could fix her.“I sat across from

that nice Asian doc-tor with his cute Texas accent and listened to him tell me that he could immediately eliminate 75 per cent of my pain with an op-eration he could do in his sleep,” she said.“He claimed the oth-

er 25 per cent would diminish over time. I was in shock.”Her friends and fam-

ily were overjoyed at the news, and Kay was hopeful, but she couldn’t wrap her head around the staggering cost.“A one night stay in

the hospital would be $80,000,” she said. “I couldn’t imagine com-ing up with that kind of money on top of the surgery and travel expenses.”Loved ones urged her

to get the operation and figure out the fi-nances later. Her new friends whom she had just met at the hotel in Houston, managed to get the hospital charges decreased.

Now $30,000 would be required upfront, and an additional $20,000 afterward.Within one day some

friends back home completely astonished her by coming up with the hefty loan for the down payment.Overwhelmed with

emotion, Kay laid down on a lounge chair at the hotel. “When I opened my eyes a couple min-utes later, three black swans were beside me,” she said. “They stayed with me for 40 minutes. It felt magi-cal - like some kind of omen. At first, I didn’t want to Google the meaning of it, just in case it meant the

kiss of death or some-thing.”According to the In-

ternet, the black beau-ties symbolized an epic event. That felt right to Kay. She went ahead and had the op-eration, and it was a huge success.Talking face to face

with my friend is a dif-ferent experience now. Her eyes still well up easily, not from shoot-ing pain or despair,

but from the love and support extended to her by her friends and family, and even com-plete strangers during her time of need.Her physical and

mental transformation has come at a high price though, and her friends are now try-ing to help her pay the debt back.“Kay’s a

hard work-ing single mother of three daugh-ters, and a re-spected busi-ness owner in our com-munity,” said Dr. Dave Manns, her friend and c h i ro p r a c -tor. “This woman has a heart of

gold. I just hope that we can help her the way she would try to help any of us if the roles were reversed.”A fundraising event

for her is being held on Saturday, Decem-ber 7th at the Holiday Inn in West Kelowna. Auction items and cash donations are being gratefully ac-

cepted, and there are a few tickets left for sale. It is sure to be an epic event. The black swans from Texas confirmed it.To donate or read

more information: CashMobForKay.comLori Welbourne is a

syndicated columnist. She can be reached at LoriWelbourne.com

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Our much-loved mother, nana and gran-nana Georgette Bewza passed away peacefully after a short illness at Jackson House, Ashcroft, BC on December 1, 2013. Predeceased by her husband Stanley, and brothers Armand, Rene and Joe Belanger, Georgette will be sadly missed by son Raymond Bewza of Ashcroft, daughters Helen Bewza of Kamloops and Barbara Hassall (Dale) of Campbell River. She was devoted to her grandchildren Aaron, Michael (Karen), Jill, Suzanne (Shane), Ian (Krysta), Cameron (Aisling), Leah (Dave), Sarah and Michael, and took great delight in great grandchildren Enger, Kaleb, Preston, Priscilla, Alyse, Chelsea and Dawson. Also mourning Georgette are her remaining seven brothers and sisters and many, many nieces and nephews. Her absence will be keenly felt by her dear friend William Munro and his children and grandchildren who treasured their “Auntie Georgette”.

Georgette was an honorable and gracious lady, admired for her generosity and “can do” attitude. She was a pioneer and an artist combined, talented bread and pie baker, tomato juice and perogy maker, seamstress, woodworker, quilter and gardener. One had to get up very early for a project with Nana, or the fruit would be picked, jars sterilized and jam already cooking. She regularly and effortlessly produced family dinners for twenty-five from her garden, larder and freezer.

The family wishes to express their gratitude to Dr. Kitshoff and the caring staff at Jackson House for their kindness and compassion throughout Georgette’s two and a half years of residence there.

A celebration of Georgette’s life was held on Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 10:00 am at the Ashcroft River Inn.

Should friends desire, donations in Georgette’s memory may be made to Jackson House or a charity of your choice.

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Georgette Bewza1925 - 2013

Our much-loved mother, nana and gran-nana Georgette Bewza passed away peacefully after a short illness at Jackson House, Ashcroft, BC on

daughters Helen Bewza of Kamloops and Barbara Hassall (Dale) of Campbell River. She was devoted to her grandchildren Aaron, Michael (Karen), Jill, Suzanne (Shane), Ian


Loon Lake gathers for Christmas feast

The Loon Lake Community Christmas Dinner was held on Dec. 7 at our Community Hall and was attended by approximately 80 residents despite the cold temperatures. (-25 !) Santa was in attendance and a wonderful Christmas buffet dinner enjoyed by everyone.

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Prizes from Peoples(Left) Gaynor and Gordon Aikenhead of 16 Mile were the happy winners of the wide-screen TV during the Ashcroft People’s Drug Mart grand re-opening in November. Store owner Victor Ikari and store manager Irene Dumont presented the draw prizes to the Aikenheads and (below) Roseanna Nielsen, who won a Christmas ornament.

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Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, December 12, 2013