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Landfill revenue down, taxes up
Lytton sites receive Chinese Heritage designationby Bernie FandrichThere is no disputing the import-
ant role that the Chinese have played in Lytton’s past.
Heritage BC just announced that the Chinese Historic Places Recogni-tion Project has announced special rec-ognition for two Lytton sites: the Lytton Joss House site and Rip Van Winkle’s Flats & Brownings Flats, (Chinese pla-cer mining sites along the Fraser Riv-er), have been selected from 77 distinct Chinese sites from all over BC. Ten sites were recognized throughout the province.
The Lytton Joss House - or Joss Temple - is probably the site of the old-est Chinese Joss House in BC. It was located in the heart of Lytton for half a century. Dorothy Dodge, curator of the Lytton Archives and Museum for many years, is excited about the special designation.
“Lytton has such a rich past and has played a very important role in the ear-
ly days of our province,” she says. “The Chinese were a very important part of Lytton’s history.”
The multi-purpose building was officially opened with much fanfare in 1883. Chinese visitors from Vic-toria and New Westminster steamed to Yale on the sternwheeler Reliance, then by rail and stagecoach to Lytton. It was quite a celebration with balloons, music and firecrackers.
The Joss House housed two deities and provided spiritual, emotional, and physical support to the Chinese railway workers, gold rush mining labourers, local merchants and farmers.
It represented hope during a time often filled with suffering and despair for the Chinese.
One of the purposes of the Joss House was to take care of sick and in-jured workers. When Chinese Work Camp 37 was attacked by a gang just south of Lytton in 1883, resulting in the murder of one worker and injury
to seven or eight others, one of the in-jured was carried three miles to the Joss House so other Chinese could care for him.
The structure remained under Chi-nese control from 1878 until 1928. From 1901 until 1928 it became a mat-ter of national importance involving the Dominion of Canada, the Chinese Con-sulate General, Chinese businessmen, and local residents.
In 1933, a fascinating account of the earlier turmoil surrounding the po-tential sale of the Joss House property to a neighbor was written in the Van-couver Province newspaper.
A copy of the intriguing news story – “Gods in a Lytton Woodshed” - was in the possession of Joe Chute, a teach-er, principal, and former Lytton may-or. He gave a copy of the story to Lorna and Bernie Fandrich who, in 1980, had purchased the vacant lot that had once housed the Joss House.
by Wendy CoomberCalling it a “transitional period with the
landfill,” Cache Creek Council held a public meeting on Jan. 25 to present upcoming plans and projects to the public as well as the 2016/17 budget with its tax and utility increases.
“People appeared to be reasonably comfort-able with where Council was going,” said May-or John Ranta after the meeting.
Council is considering a utility increase of approximately $75 per home and a tax increase that will amount to approximately $100 per home.
“We need to do that to balance the budget,” said Ranta, who added that Council considered borrowing from its Landfill Legacy reserve up to $71,000, but are reluctant to.
“We don’t want to keep using the Landfill Legacy to balance the budget,” said Chief Fi-nancial Officer Sheila McCutcheon at the pub-lic meeting.
She told the meeting that the rising costs were all “catch up” to make up for declining landfill revenues.
The landfill is scheduled to close at the end of 2016 and it will likely stop accepting garbage well before then. For many years, royalties from the landfill provided $2-$3 million per year for the Village.
Ranta said if the landfill had never existed, residential taxes would probably have gone up by 75 per cent of what they are today.
“We are in uncertain times,” he said, “but hopefully we can establish the Extension. If it doesn’t get going, there will be additional hard decisions to be made by Council.”
The Extension is waiting for the province to grant it an Operational Certificate. The Village is hoping that will come before the landfill clos-es so that the jobs and customers aren’t lost.
“Landfill revenues in previous years have subsidized a lower tax and user fee regime,” said a document prepared for the public meet-ing. “However, with the closure of the landfill at the end of 2016, a new financial strategy is required to ensure the sustainability of services and future development.”
Ranta said the Village was anxious to get this year’s budget approved so it could proceed with plans for any capital projects that need to be done this year.See LYTTON on p. 3
Nicole Hampton-Montgomery (right) and Adrienne Baker Teague put on a well-enjoyed puppet show at the Cache Creek Library last week. Close to 100 children and their parents took part in the Family Literacy Week events around the area last week.
Robert (Bob) William Goode
Dad passed away suddenly at Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home with his family by his side.
Dad was born in Cloverdale BC, moving to Westwold BC in 1947 and then to Kamloops BC in 1983.
Dad is survived by his children Tami (Sheldon) McKim, Thomas (Benita) Goode, Teri (Jeff) DeMarni. Grandchildren Dustan, Leevi, Brandon McKim. Adaira, Makaila, (Taylor), Payton Goode. Dylan, Colby, Jacey DeMarni. Sister in Law Joan Goode, as well as many relatives and friends.
Dad was predeceased by his
June 22, 1941 ~January 27, 2016
parents Carroll and Jean, his son Tate and then his brother Jack.
Dad’s passions in life were sports, traveling, animals, meeting people and trap shooting.
He worked all of his life building businesses, with his last busi-ness being Rivers Workwear in 2012.
A celebration of life will be held at the Westwold Community Hall on February 21st, 2016 at 2pm.
The family would like to thank the staff in ICU at RIH as well as the staff at Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home.
In lieu of fl owers please make a donation to Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home.
Schoening Funeral Service 250-374-1454www.schoeningfuneralservice.com
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Ashcroft rcMP DetAchMent
POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber
No appointments just yetYou will
have seen the press re-lease from Interior Health an-nouncing that Dr. Obu and Dr. Zake will be joining Dr. Go-vindasamy in the Ashcroft Family Medical Practice begin-ning on Tuesday, March 1.
Currently the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Interior Health are completing the required paper work for their BC Licenses to be issued. Once the paperwork is com-pleted the clinic will be able to begin booking appointments for the patients at the clinic. If you are wanting an appoint-ment, please call the clinic after Feb. 22.
We want to thank the Village of Ashcroft, BC Transit, In-terior Health and the First Nations Health Authority for all their work and support to allow us to conduct the Outreach Clinic in Lillooet for November, December and January. This was not an ideal solution, however, it did allow us to create some continuity of care for patients.
Thanks to the wonderful support from our Regional Medical Director, Dr. Nancy Humber, we are working with two project coordinators. One is assisting to create an as-sessment of the current situation in each community in our catchment area, looking at the identified needs and priorities of each community and creating a plan to assist us in mov-ing towards creating a new model of rural health care deliv-ery. The second project coordinator is assisting in develop-ing strategies for the medical personnel to improve support to clients in long term care and creating a catchment area ap-proach to locum coverage to support all the doctors in our area.
Our current priority is integrating our doctors into our community and helping them and their families make this home and a place they want to stay. We continue our recruit-ing efforts and will keep the community informed as de-velopments happen.
The Wellness and Health Action Coalition will be supporting the Princeton Support Our Health Care group with a community consulta-tion in February and if a group at UBC Okanag-an receives the funding for their research grant we will be helping them define ways that com-munity groups are best able to create and sus-tain better levels of health care in rural areas.
We are slowly developing a rich resource and reference section on our website www.whac-chb.ca . We also post our minutes and other relevant information on the site. If you are not a member please consider joining, the mem-bership form is on the website or can be picked up at People’s Drug Mart in Ashcroft.
OUR HEALTH MATTERSWellness and Health Action Coalition
Alice Durksen
Forced off roadJan. 25 at 6:30
am police attended a single vehicle acci-dent near the Husky in Cache Creek. The driver, a 53 year old Ashcroft man, was northbound when he drove over the right-hand curb and down an embank-ment towards the Bonaparte River. He claimed that he was run off the road by a beige coloured Camaro. The vehicle was towed for inspec-tion. Road conditions were fine at the time of the accident.
Firearms stolenJan. 25 at 4 pm police were
notified of a break and enter at a residence on the Bonaparte Re-serve. Stolen were two firearms,
a hand made First Nations drum, a camera, laptop, a Nintendo and N64. A witness said they saw a fe-male at the residence around 11:30 am and that she left in a black car. Anyone have any further informa-tion is asked to call the RCMP.
Windshields damagedJan. 26 at 10 am police re-
ceived notice of damage to vehi-cles parked at Roadhouse Towing on Hwy 1 by the Hwy 97C junc-tion. The windshields of two ve-hicles, one a company truck, were damaged by what appeared to be a
pellet gun some time overnight.
Arrested for assaultJan. 29 at 6 am po-
lice were called to a domestic assault on the Ashcroft Reserve. A 33 year old man from the Bonaparte Reserve was arrested and held until sober. He was released on the promise to have no contact with his victim and to appear in court on Feb. 11. The 27 year old female victim suffered bruises.
Words came to shoveJan. 30 at 1:30 pm police at-
tended a domestic dispute at an Ashcroft residence. It appears that the 72 year old man and 67 year old woman were having an argument that escalated into a physical alter-cation when he allegedly shoved her onto a chair. The male was ar-rested and will appear in court on Feb. 22. There were no physical in-juries reported.
Helped out of townJan. 31 at 6 pm police were
called to the PetroCan in Cache Creek by a tow truck operator who was towing a vehicle that was part of an impaired driving investi-gation. The vehicle’s owner was there, demanding that the oper-ator pay for his motel room. The 61 year old Vancouver man had calmed down by the time police ar-rived. He was trying to get to Ques-nel but didn’t have enough for the bus. One of the PetroCan attend-ants kicked in the rest of his bus fare.
Storage lockers broken intoFeb. 1 at 1:30 police received
a report that 26 storage lockers at Semlin Valley Golf Course had been broken into again, some time between Jan. 31 at 3 pm and the time of the report. It is unknown what was taken. The lockers were broken into last November as well.
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Although in-trigued by the
mystery surrounding the lot af-ter reading the Province story, it took until now for circumstances to allow them to develop of the lot. Lorna has plans to build a replica of the original structure and oper-ate it as the Lytton Chinese History Museum.
The Chinese community in BC is fascinated by the project and has provided support and publicity.
“The special designation by Heritage BC and the media cover-age that the project has already re-ceived in Canada’s largest Chinese newspaper, Ming Pao, has further stimulated interest in the Chinese community,” Lorna said.
Fandrich has been invited to
speak at the Historic Temple Con-ference, an international confer-ence held in Marysville, California in March.
“I’m honored to be a speaker at the conference,” she says. “Sharing ideas with those who are already successfully operating Chinese Museums and Temples will bene-fit my project.
“Completion of the Museum should attract many Chinese tour-ists to Lytton,” she added.
Look for details about the Browning’s Flat and Rip Van Win-kle Flats Gold Rush Landscapes in an upcoming story.
Site preparation and construc-tion of the building is scheduled to begin early in March.
Lytton’s former mayor Joe Chute (left) and museum curator Dorothy Dodge (rt.) discuss plans for the Chinese Joss House site with Lorna Fandrich.
Photo: Bernie Fandrich
Winning postersThese students placed in our Nicola Thompson Zone Legion color or black and white Poster contest. Our Zone has seven different towns competing for this honor. In Cache Creek Cori Patterson won 2nd place. In Ashcroft Monique Kopanyas received an Honorable mention; Moria Kopanyas won 3rd place; Reyvin Ells won 3rd place; and Keycee Kennedy won 1st pace and her poster is in Ottawa to compete for 1st place in Canada. Congratulations to our winners, and a big thank you to all the students who participated and to their teachers who got them going.
by Wendy CoomberCrowdfunding is making it easier for
friends, family - and complete strangers - to do-nate money to a business, group or project they think is worthwhile, and Community Futures thinks it will be a good way for businesses and groups to raise capital.
The Stuart Nechako Community Futures (SNCF) has launched InvestLocalBC.ca for lo-cal nonprofits, the arts communities and busi-ness startups to create online forums to fund, support and evolve their initiatives and projects.
Deb Arnott, local Community Futures man-ager, says she thinks it’s a great idea and has been looking into it further so she can start a similar program for local businesses. She says she’s just learning about it, herself.
According to her research, she says, if a business was looking at crowdfunding, a client who would like to, perhaps, launch a new prod-uct would have a choice. Depending on the busi-ness, they might offer some of that new product in return for a donation.
Or the business could say they were ac-cepting pledges for startup capital. Depending on the amount of the pledge, the donor could be-come a shareholder of the business. If the busi-ness was not comfortable with that, they might offer something else in return for the pledge.
The business can be as creative as they want, say Arnott. And it left her wondering:
“Who could I approach because I’d real-ly really like to try to do one just to see how it would work,” she says. “I think I’m going to have a chat with some of the businesses.
“I’d really like to do a pilot and kind of see how it works and benefits the business and what the process was like for the business and what it was like for those who are pledging - those kind of things.”
She’s put it on her To Do list for the Spring.“I see an opportunity for our small business-
es, I really do,” she says, “and for our non-prof-its.
The project was initiated by Tom Bulmer, SNCF’s Community Economic Development co-ordinator, for their area. Arnott says that he
wants to get local clients up so people can go to the site (www.investlocalbc.ca) and see what’s out there and how it’s going to work.
They don’t have to be a client, she says, but she needs to have dialogue with anyone want-ing to get on the site. Such as dialogue about the paperwork that needs to be done before getting onto the site.
The whole idea is also a marketing tool for Community Futures, she says, to raise our pro-file about how we’re trying to support not only the non-profits but the businesses through this crowd funding.
Once a group or business is on the site, they have up to 90 days to raise their funds.
“I’m quite excited about this project,” says Arnott. “Running a private business and making a living - it’s pretty tough. And that’s why when this crowdfunding came out I was excited be-cause I haven’t seen an initiative like this before to support small businesses.”
by Wendy CoomberIt seems like yesterday that Cache
Creek’s new $2.2 million water treat-ment plant went online. Not long after-wards, the Village spend endless hours and money dealing with repairs and restoration caused by last May’s un-expected flood.
Now Interior Health is telling the Village to undertake a plan to safeguard its drinking water at the source.
Cache Creek’s drinking water comes from an aquifer that collects at 20 Mile and flows to Cache Creek. In recent years, IH has ordered the town to decommission its five shallow wells and use only its two deep wells.
Health Protection Officer Rob Fleming attended the Jan. 25 Cache Creek Council meeting to talk about the latest requirement for a Source As-sessment and Protection Plan.
Council wasn’t overly receptive of the idea.
“We shut down our five shallow wells that we felt were fine but Interior Health didn’t want us using,” said May-or John Ranta, “got a small grant for our water treatment system and had to dig in our jeans to pay for it. It opened in 2012 after we had endless numbers of consultations and studies to deter-mine what we needed... It seems like just a heartbeat ago, and now this. I feel like much of the work has been done al-ready.”
“The thing that got my attention,” said Ranta, reading from a letter, “was that we need to ‘schedule an initial source water meeting with the Health Protection Officer and the Village’s hy-dro-geological consultant to establish scope of the next phase prior to issu-ance of next phase...’ ”
Ranta said the consult-ants would cost upwards of $24,000 per visit “That’s big money for us.”
Fleming acknowledged the cost, but said he thought the Village could find a consultant for less, considering that much
of the information needed for the plan has already been recorded.
The Source Protection and Assess-ment Plan is one of the seven modules from the Drinking Water Protection Act and Regulation.
“We’re talking the bigger picture,” said Fleming.
Ranching, mining, highway events could impact the aquifer, he said. “At some point you will have to have a technical monitoring committee.”
“It’s a legislative piece,” he said. “I’m here to help you get through some of these pains. We have to think about the future - 100 years from now. I’m willing to listen to how you want to break this down.”
“There are potential hazards if there is a truck spill or something near the aquifer,” said Ranta after the meeting.
IH is asking the Village to identify a wellhead protection plan and gener-ate relationships with those using near-by land for mining, feedlots, and other activities that might impact the water.
The next step, he said, is sitting down with Fleming and administration and having a conversation about time-lines for compliance.
Chinese Museum planned
Crowdfunding for business capital
IH engages town in water source protection
Lytton from p. 1
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Dear EditorI would like to comment on the
spending of $10 million, could be $15 million with cost overruns and material costs going higher or the 40 per cent loss of buying power because of the games being played by the stupid market forces. With our small population and vast re-sources our money should be the highest in the world.
First, let’s look at why we are doing this. The head waters of our supply is a fairly big lake that gets lots of sun. The rays do a good job of treating the water. Then it flows over rough areas and this adds oxy-gen, making it fresh.
I was really disturbed by the re-port from Interior Health. First of all, he did not give any evidence that our water is dangerous only that there was a potential of proto-zoa. I take exception to his state-ment that Interior Health could or-der the village to go more than $4 million in debt on the whim of some civil servant. Civil servants
are misnamed. They are seldom civil and agree to be your servant. Interior Health are the same people that gutted our hospital and made us travel an hour or more in the case of an emergency. Also the same people that cannot organize the parking at the Kamloops hospital.
I would like to also say that I be-lieve it should go automatically to referendum before village coun-cil can put the village in debt for 30 years. Is someone putting pressure on them not to put it to a vote? We should not have to jump through a
bunch of hoops to get a vote on this serious issue.
Having said all this I realize that
there is potential for a problem. It cannot be too serious as the $10 million plant will not be up and run-ning until 2018 or 2019.
Let’s look at other options. We have water suppliers in the area that even deliver to your door if need be. The treatment plant that is proposed has to be big enough to handle all the water and it is not realistic to treat the water used for washing and irrigation. But we could cut holes in
Rethink this expensive water treatment plant LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RUSTY THE GROUNDHUG uses all means of prognostication to determine whether it’s safe to go out
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My own resident groundhog, “Rusty the Groundhug”, refused to be budged from his bed underneath the coffee table on Feb. 2.
I believe, in keeping with the traditions of Groundhog Day, that means that Spring is at least six more weeks away.
We go through this every year, Rusty and I. I figure that he’s got to be just as accur-ate as the celebrity groundhogs who get the news. And, after decades of disappointing useless weather forecasts, I figure that this one has more truth to it because it’s literally right outside my front door.
The groundhog sees his shadow, we get six more weeks of Winter. Doesn’t see his shadow, Spring comes “early”.
So, technically, since he didn’t even make it to the door, Rusty didn’t see his shadow. So, an early Spring, right? What’s early?
The Vernal Equinox, also known as the first day of Spring, is March 20 this year. That is six weeks and three days from today.
Last year we were still getting frost in early April. But, the tulips and bleeding hearts were poking through their mulch by the first week of March, and I found time to do some yardwork on March 8.
And how would I know that? you mut-ter. Because I write it down in my garden journal. How else would I remember that on March 9, 2014 it was 17C! Last year it was 16C on the same day. Something to look forward to! Only five weeks away!
This year the Groundhug’s prediction is backed up by the early arrival of snowdrops in my flowerbed - two weeks early - and the curious fact that I’ve had a varied thrush at my bird feeders for the past week. This is a bird that I normally only see around April, if I see it at all.
As for the forecasters out there who flog their predictions on the rest of us each year, once again they are unanimous in predicting “mild and dry” for the next two months and “above normal” temperatures for the sum-mer.
Is it true? It’s a coin toss, but either way, I love living in BC. And I’ll trust my Rusty over any groundhog back east any day!
And yes, that is a bear in our backyard that Rusty was looking at in the picture!
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the top of the water tanks and put in UV lights. This would give a longer
exposure than the plant hs to offer. If there is turbidity in the spring, a filter for your drinking water will clean it up. We use a britta filter and change it three or four times a year - cost about $20.
The salesman from Urban Systems did not seem very knowledgeable about the bunch of junk he is try-ing to unload on the village council. It is questionable if the filter system will work. We only have his say so. I heard him say that his equipment would last 20 years. So we would have to replace it before it is paid for. He said the river water quality is good, making it easy to treat. If there are protozoa, and we oly have their word for it, why are we waiting two or three years to do something about it? We only ave their word that giv-ing a quick exposure to UV light will do the job. If that is the case, UV lights on top of the water tanks should do a better job, and could be done for less than one year payment on the system being offered. We are always being advised to be aware of scams, this looks like a big scam to me.
Why are the federal and provincial governments pushing this? It is a make work project and not about water quality. If they were concerned about water qual-ity, why are they allowing fracking that is destroying the ground water and causing earthquakes?
A writer for the Vancouver Sun wrote that he came from a small town in Saskatchewan where they could not afford a village idiot to everybody had to take their turn. Let’s not all take our turn at the same time and let them put us in debt. We all heard about the troubles in Greece when they let their leaders borrow huge sums to build a bridge from one island to another and put them so far in debt that they cannot pay it back so they have to borrow more to keep going. We don’t want to end in the same way.
Go to the village office and file your disapproval. Make sure this scan promoted by the paraside, preda-tor money lenders is put to a vote. We will then know if they can get away with putting the village in debt for 30 years and may have to keep going back for more loans as the people of Greece have to.
Charles Allen WinslowAshcroft
Dear EditorJoyce West’s letter in the Jan. 28 issue of The Jour-
nal may have echoed the concerns of many of us.
It is well and good to open your doors to people who have suffered civil war that destroyed their cities.
The hope I have is, that they have not brought their sectar-ian hatreds and race hatred with them. Will Sunni Mus-lims accept Shite Muslims as equals, for example? Will Muslim immi-grants accept Cop-tic and other sectar-ian Christians? The
immigrants are coming from countries that do not. That is one of the main reasons for the strife and deadly de-struction of whole cities in Syria and Iraq.They have not learned to live with one another.
We hope for the best with open hearts. But the grow-ing incidence of vandalism and arson in Montreal against Jews, and the attempt to ferment race hatred on campuses; are conditions unparalleled in the history of Canada in the last 75 years.
We can only hope that the vetted immigrants turn out to be responsible citizens of one the finest coun-tries in the world, and add to the ‘cultural mosiac’ in the same spirit as those generous Canadians who wish to offer them sanctuary, and an opportunity for a new life.
Esther DarlingtonAshcroft
Dear EditorIncreased turbidity and the presence of bacteria -
this is the prerequisite to spend literally millions of tax dollars and increase local taxes, based on lot size and zoning.
Chewing at my conscience are phrases like “acqui-sition of”, and “required by”, and, “legislative missions”, and “additional costs associated”, and “compliance authority”, and “conditions of acquisition” and... must I go on?
What about freedom of choice? What about the democratic system? This is now being lost unto this forced col-lective.
This legislation is being forced on us, and as usual with-out prejudice notice or care to the gallant entrepreneur and the capitalist creators delivering their services house to house for less cost than this socialist col-lective could even come close to. Deferred are the individual man’s right to free choice, this forced dependence calls for col-lective servitude of the group.
So mostly only American parts are available? With our
Hoping for the best with Canada’s most recent immigrants
Where is democracy and freedom of choice in forced compliance?
Conditions and costs of water treatment questionedLetters from p. 4
dollar at 60 cents to American dollar! Just continue if the cost goes up, smile at us and exclaim the extra cost will be usurped in accordance with the living documents in-volved with the collective. These types of ideologies have been around before and more than once accepted by an empire of blind followers.
So if the water quality is good, it’s well balanced and usually clean as stated and easy to treat, then why? I do ask. Get ready to spend millions of our money without ex-ploring the human action which is freedom of choice involving personal action. This is the ability to choose any household product that will safely reduce the small chance of contact with the said evil bugs and turbidity. Heck if every house was granted $2,000 for installation of private systems, this would still be far less than half of the proposed cost for this malfeasance, endeavour.
Albert DrinkwaterAshcroft
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Agenda includes a brief review of projects completed, in progress, and planned for 2016. Elections for 2016 Board of Directors.
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Volunteer AppreciationIt was brought to may attention (thanks Jim!) that I
neglected to say where the Volunteer Appreciation and Citizen of the Year Reception is going to be held.
So here is the information again. The Annual Vol-unteer Recognition event will be held on Saturday, Feb.
13 at the Clinton Memorial Hall. The door opens at 6:30 with the evening events com-mencing at 7 p.m.
This will be a wine and cheese reception and there will be door prizes as well. May-or Rivett will be the Master of Ceremonies and local dignitaries have been invited.
All citizens of Clin-ton and area are welcome to attend to celebrate the contributions that the many volunteers make to the community.
Wild Sheep Town Hall MeetingAn important meeting regarding
the health of wild sheep in BC is being held on Sunday, Feb. 7 from 7-9 p.m. in the Clinton Memorial Hall.
The BC Wildlife Federation, Clin-ton and District Outdoor Sportsmen Association, Guide Outfitters of the Thompson, the Wildlife Stewardship Council and the Wild Sheep Society of BC have come together to host this meeting.
Wild sheep numbers are dropping. When wild sheep come into contact with domestic sheep, goats or llamas they encounter pathogens to which they are not immune. When wild sheep come into contact with pathogens to which they have never been exposed before the risk of widespread popula-tion die-off is extreme. Wild sheep and domestic sheep need to be kept separ-ate from each other.
Plan to attend the meeting to see what you can do to help prevent more massive die-off of wild sheep.
Integris BBQ & Broomball
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Credit Union and Insurance, Clinton Branch invite the community to a free barbecue and broomball evening on Family Day, Monday, Feb. 8 at the 47 Mile Sports Com-plex in Clinton.
The doors open at 5 p.m. with a Kids Skate with the Integris mascot, Moola from then until 6 p.m. This will be followed by Kid`s broomball from 6-7 and then adult broomball from 7-8 p.m.
Integris will be serving free hamburgers, hotdogs and goodies. There will also be door prizes. The event is to thank the community for helping raise the funds for the new time clock in the arena.
Everyone is welcome to attend but helmets must be worn for events on the ice.
Clinton Health Care Auxiliary MeetingThe next meeting of the Clinton Health Care Aux-
iliary is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. at the Clinton Health Centre.
New members are welcome and anyone who would like to learn more about what this group does for the community is welcome to attend.
Appreciating Clinton volunteers and the Citizen of the Year
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Elected leaders must protect people
The year just start-ed and there are over 35 media reports of people attacked by pit bull type dogs in Canada and the U.S. In addition to that, three precious children have been torturously mauled to death by pit bulls: nine-year-old Ty-ler Trammell-Huston on Jan. 3, one-year-old Payton Lyrik Sawyers on Jan. 8 and seven-year-old Talan Nathan West on Jan. 24. In a day or two there will be another attack, in a week or so another kill-ing.
The latest prevent-able tragedy happened in Robeson County, North Carolina, where there have been three fatalities from pit bulls since 2012. What kind of feeble lawmakers al-low such heartbreaking mayhem to continue?
In stark contrast to the appalling apa-thy of the legislators in Robeson, a town coun-cil in Quebec just made headlines for voting unanimously to ban pit
bulls even though they haven’t had any local attacks reported. Rath-er than risk their citi-zens, they decided to be proactive and ban the inherently danger-ous dogs on the advice of their police. “You know, these dogs are strong, and they will not let go of their prey,” Mayor Pauline Quinlan of Brompton explained to the press. She is cer-tainly right about that. Pit bulls were bred for hundreds of years to bite, hold, shake and tear — in� icting max-imum damage to vic-tims as large as a bull. Through no fault of their own they were cre-ated for bloodsport, not
to be household pets.Mayor James Mel-
� of Girard, Ohio, also received recent media attention for not suc-cumbing to the relent-less lobbying to end their city’s 30-year ban on pit bulls. “I have done some investigat-ing and the fact that most insurance compa-nies won’t insure home owners if they have a pit bull is one reason we are not interested in lifting the ban,” said Mel� . “That means if a pit bull harms some-one or somebody else’s dog they are not insured to pay the victim any damages incurred by that particular dog.”
He wondered who’d
want their kids play-ing outside if a pit bull was living next door. “That’s not breed dis-crimination,” said Mel� . “You really don’t see in the news where they say, some-one was killed by a bea-gle, or a golden retriev-er, or a schnauzer, so there is plenty of evi-dence speaking to this result. The bottom line is that elected leaders must protect people.”
If only they all would. As it stands now, only some of them care enough about the pub-lic to enact breed spe-ci� c legislation (BSL).
Some claim it can’t be done, but of course it can. The entire prov-ince of Ontario, many Canadian cities, 292 U.S. military bases, 935 American cities, and 41 countries have implemented BSL to great success wherev-er it’s enforced. In these areas, lives are saved, crime rates are reduced, and tax dollars are not squandered on the var-
ious resources required after pit bulls attack.
With all the positive changes a BSL brings, why aren’t citizens ev-erywhere receiving protection? One theo-ry is that elected of� -cials are intimidated by the vocal minority. An-other is that the well funded pit bull lobby is paying them off. There is also the probability that some are unaware of the pit bull crisis or don’t realize it’s easy to � x.
Outlawing the breeding of them would be a sensible start. The “jobs” pit bulls were created to do are a fel-ony in every province across Canada and ev-ery state across the U.S. Unless we plan to legal-ize dog� ghting again, there is no reason to keep producing these gripper/� ghter canines.
Halting the importa-tion of pit bulls would also be pragmatic. Can-ada and the U.S. are the only two countries in the world that even al-low this.
BSL is not compli-cated and there’s noth-
ing to fear. People who already own pit bull-type dogs would be able to keep them if they abide by safety regula-tions and have liabili-ty insurance. Acquiring new pit bulls should be stopped, and the adop-tion of safer breeds should be encouraged instead. Currently shel-ters are over� owing with pit bull-type dogs and a million of them are euthanized every year. We can end this annual mass killing with mandatory spay and neutering. This hu-mane solution has been recommended by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for years.
A national BSL would improve our fu-ture tremendously. Without it, things will get worse. In just the last decade, over 3000 people were attacked by pit bull-type dogs; over 2000 were dis� g-ured, disabled or se-verely injured; and 247 were killed. The seri-ous and fatal attacks from all other breeds combined did not come
close to the horrors in-� icted by the pit bull-type dogs.
Prime Minister Trudeau and President Obama should honour these victims and the thousands before them, and they should help to prevent victims in the future. This is easily ac-complished with an en-dorsement for BSL to protect their citizens. Pit bull owners only make up one per cent of the population, so sup-port from their elector-ate would not diminish in the least.
As Mayor Mel-� asked, who would want their kids play-ing outside if a pit bull was living next door? Surely Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama wouldn’t want to en-danger their beloved children, and neither would the vast majori-ty of us.
Lori Welbourne is a syndicated colum-nist and public safety advocate. She can be contacted at LoriWel-bourne.com or Nation-alPitBullVictimAware-ness.org
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AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Try not to take the easy way out, Aquarius. When faced with some tough questions, stay strong and true to yourself. You will be happier in the long run if you do so.PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, take some time off if your job seems like a headache this week. If you have the time, enjoy a long weekend or a short jaunt during the week. ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, if you assumed you were right on track, you soon will see why it isn’t safe to as-sume. Do not take anything for granted and consider all potential outcomes.TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Interpersonal dynamics are constantly changing, and you may have a challenging time wrangling in your relationship to where it feels comfort-able, Taurus.GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, even if you are un-certain about someone’s intentions, it is best to give that person the benefi t of the doubt. However, an ounce of skepticism never hurt anyone.CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, it is better to make your choices sooner rather than later this week. Putting deci-sions off only complicates matters. It may be an anxious time, but you will pull through.LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Stop worrying about how others see you, Leo. This week own up to your beliefs, even if they seem to go against the norm. You may be surprised at the support you receive.VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, a hectic week leads to lots of demands on your time. Take things one task at a time and do not be afraid to say no if you feel you are overwhelmed. LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, frustration at work may not be directed at any one person, and you can’t let it con-sume your life. Make the frustration work to your advan-tage instead. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Romantic thoughts this week will have you on a mission to spend quality time with a loved one, Scorpio. You may do everything in your power to be near your signifi cant other. SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Don’t try to erect barri-ers, Sagittarius. This week you have to let someone in and unburden some of the problems or thoughts that have been weighing you down. CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Accomplish something important based on what you learn this week, Capricorn. Keep your eyes and ears open to all of the possibilities around you.
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It is time to turn over the first page on the calendar for 2016. I’m still not accustomed to call-ing the year 2016 and it’s over eight per cent used up.
The longer hours of daylight mark the passing of time and movement of the planet, even here in the valley, where it takes the sun an extra hour to get over the mountain in the morning. In my estimation it has been a good winter so far but I could have ap-preciated fewer days of shov-elling snow. But then I would have had to do some other exer-cise – so perhaps nature is wiser than I am.
Now seasonal changes are happening faster. By the time you read this the groundhog will have or have not seen his shadow and winter will continue until about mid-March as it usually does. Buds on shrubs and trees are thickening and its time to prune fruit trees. As soon as the snow layer gets thinner I will be out checking spots in the garden looking for shoots of snowdrops and crocuses in my impatience for signs of spring.
The past month several items in the news have caught my attention and my concern. The first one is the rising costs fresh fruits and vegetables.
Costs always increase over the winter here in central BC and many of us prepare for that by preserving and storing as much of our own home grown and local vegetables and fruit as we can. Fortunately I have the space to have several freez-ers and a good size cold room and took the time in late summer and fall to stock up and preserve many different foods that we like. That means that when I go into a grocery store now and see some produce that I think is too expensive I can easily say “no thanks I will do without.”
In season I bought the most delicious blueberries at $2/lb – and they are (some of them) cooling themselves in my freez-er still. In a store last week I saw a small bag of frozen blueber-ries, size about 450 g (1 lb) for over $11. It sure pays to do a bit of thinking ahead and planning for the colder months.
Sometimes I feel I have squirrel genes with the compulsion to gather and store whatever is grow-ing in the garden. However, I know not everyone can do that.
In the past, com-munities had com-munity freezer hous-es where townspeople could stock away in season produce and
meats even though they could not afford a freezer or have space for a freezer. I think it is time to revisit the idea of such facilities, including community cold stor-age rooms. It could go a long way to help keep down the cost of eating healthy, local food.
Worrying stories about people being attacked by dogs in BC underlines the need for careful training and care for pets and working animals. Dogs are a popular pet and I understand why, but they also have the po-tential to do harm if improperly handled or something goes hor-ribly wrong with them.
I have lived much of my life around dogs who also had jobs to do – guard dogs, hunting dogs and so forth. In fact, most dogs were originally kept for work and in rural areas they still per-form various functions.
The TNRD introduced a dan-gerous dog bylaw several years ago and have just announced that it has been expanded to cov-er several more of the rural elec-toral areas. So far we have no need for such a by law here on Loon Lake Road and there have been rare reports of problems with dangerous dogs. People have also been very good about stepping up and helping a lost dog get back to its home.
The year 2016 has been de-clared as the International Year of the Pulses.
The what? you might ask. Pulses are the family grouping of peas, beans, lentils and chick peas. They are among my fa-vourite food and are an excellent way to save money.
Just about everyone knows hummus, made from chickpeas, beans in tortillas and chilies, and of course pea soup with or with-out ham. But there is so much more – all kinds of soups, stews and salads.
I cook up larger amounts and freeze them, then take out
what I need to mix into a salad or hot dish. For example, Italian style white bean
with tuna make a wonderful quick meal when you don’t feel like a lot of cooking.
Pulses provide a good source of protein, are high in fibre with vitamins and minerals – and are quite inexpensive. Did you know that Canada is one of the major producers of pulses? Can-ada produces about 35 per cent of world’s pulses and as of 2011 (last census info) just under $3 billion worth of these little gems were exported to about 130 countries.
The crop is nowhere the size or importance as wheat; how-ever more farmers are turn-ing to growing pulses as part of their rotation cropping. The lar-gest volumes are grown in Sas-katchewan but some also grown in Alberta, Manitoba and On-tario. I always feel good picking up a bag of lentils marked with “product of Canada” knowing I am supporting Canadian farmers and getting a wholesome prod-uct.
One item I picked up from the latest TNRD meeting notes is a letter from Minister of Transport and Infrastructure on nox-ious weeds in gravel pits.
He writes to the TNRD: “Management of invasive plants in gravel pits is critical to ensuring that in-vasive plants are not spread through the accidental use of contaminated gravel.”
You bet it is, Todd Stone, and it is time you did something concrete about it or we will know that the spreading of weeds through contaminated gravel on roads is not accidental but carelessness.
For example, if I saw covers over the gravel stockpiles in the summer when the knapweed seeds are being blown about then I would believe that
the Ministry was really serious about preventing the spread of invasive weeds. But when they stockpile gravel next to hectares of weed-filled fields – and no cover – well, seriously?
Last summer was a good year for seed production in my garden and I have harvested and sorted out quite a number of plants that do well here in our higher elevation Zone 3 climate.
Seedy Sat-urday in Cache Creek on Feb. 6 is a good place to go for local seeds and I will have those seeds that I don’t need avail-able for people who are interest-ed.
While I col-lect seeds, I do not practise a lot of isolation or protection to en-sure seeds are not cross pollin-ated and I am no expert in grow-ing seeds, so no guarantees on these seeds but
they usually work for me.Seedy Saturday is a day-long
celebration of gardening and growing your own food, talks on chemical-free pesticides, back-yard chickens, starting vege-tables from seed and more, seed vendors, demonstrations, a seed swap table and much more. Ad-mission is free and it starts at 9 am in the Cache Creek Com-munity Hall and runs until 3 pm.
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UniTea offers new Movie NightEnjoy a Movie Night at UniTea Tea
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This month’s movie is Ruby Strange-love Young Witch. When a young witch discovers her long lost mother was ab-ducted by evil forces, she sets out to use all her magical powers to get her back.
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Other games available are Dominos, Monopoly, Chess, Checkers, Cards, Crib and lots of fun and simple games for kids of all ages! Bring down the whole family, challenge your neighbours to some fun! Lots of toys as well. A free event at UniTea Tea Room. (250) 453 9345 for more informa-tion.
Flat Busted on Valentines DayEnjoy a romantic night out with
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via phone 250 453-9345. Combining upright bass, guitar,
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Featuring Colin Cowan (Dan Man-gan/ Analog Bell Service) on upright bass, Chris Russell on guitar, Jacob Russell on mandolin and Devon Wells (Clumsy Lovers) on banjo.
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soul on Mar 23 UniTea Tea Room presents a mind
blowing evening of soulful music and beat box poetry on March 23 with a double bill from C.R. Avery and Lexie Marie.
Avery’s genius lies in many genres - blues, hip-hop, spoken word and rock & roll, while Marie’s music combines the essence of folk and soul, with a hip-hop sensibility.
Lexi Marie is a prolific poet and vocalist currently based out of Lillooet, who combines the essence of soul and folk with an R&B kiss. She will be per-forming at Verses Festival Of Words, in Vancouver this Spring.
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Crimson Rich Duo featuring Caroline McKay March 26
Winding Rivers Arts and performance Society presents Crimson Rich Duo fea-turing Caroline McKay featuring Harp/Vocalist extraordinaire Caroline MacKay on March 26 at the Crossroads Pentecost-al Church in Cache Creek.
Tickets on sale at Natures Gifts, The Jade Shop and UniTea Tea Room - look for posters around town soon. For more info call (250) 453-2053.
Easter concert with Celtic harpistCelebrate the Easter
weekend with the beautiful and transcendent music of extraordinary Celtic Harpist and Vocalist Caroline Mc-Kay.
This Kelowna musi-cian creates a space where the mystery of harp and the
magic of voice become one. Tender Celt-ic ballads, soul-stirring Spirituals, lively Latin rhythms, original works and clas-sical arrangements are all part of her di-verse repertoire.
Artists celebrate
5th Annual Plein Air paint-outWinding Rivers Arts & Performance
Society is busy making plans for the 5th Annual Ashcroft Plein Air Paint Out; scheduled for May 27, 28 and 29.
Ashcroft and the surrounding area, will once again see a number of painters creating works of art from various van-tage points around our community. The event saw more than 30 artists vist our community last year and more are ex-pected this year.
The Society looks forward to wel-coming those from near and far to cele-brate the beauty of what is often de-scribed as a “stunning and unique land-scape” where inspiring views and vistas abound. Artists of all levels of experience are welcome. Once again, the focus will be on gathering like minds to enjoy the sheer pleasure of painting. There will be plenty of opportunities to paint as well as gatherings for meals and conversation.
Award winning artist John H. Bur-row commented, “While the scenery was beautiful and inspiring, the thing I will al-ways remember about that weekend was the warm welcoming reception from the people of Ashcroft.”
Whether you’re a seasoned painting pro, a beginning artist, or a creative indi-vidual looking for a new challenge, come and have fun. In true plein air style, the challenge will happen rain or shine.
To register or for more info please vis-it www.windingriversarts.ca or email or to register email [email protected]
Shirley Valentine - WRAPS
next theatrical performance Winding Rivers Arts & Performance
Society is happy to announce its next pro-duction: the fantastic one-woman show, Shirley Valentine, starring that wonderful actress from Spences Bridge, Mavourn-een Varcoe-Ryan!
Mavourneen has directed the last few WRAPS productions. Barbara Roden will take on directing duties. It will be her first time as a director, after several goes on the boards as an actor, thus allowing her to be that cliché: the actor who has al-ways wanted to direct.
Pencil in March 11, 12, and 13 on your calendars, if you want to see what is sure to be an amazing show. Yeah Bar-bara - Yeah Mavourneen!!
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A 12 www.ash-cache-journal.com Thursday, February 4 , 2016 The JournalCOMMUNITY
I’m not a gambler, but I’ve often used one of their sayings: “Put your money where your mouth is.”
I like it, the words re-mind us to get into action, to not be hypocritical and the words say, “prove it!”
Here we are just over a month into 2016 and I won-der how you are doing with your New Year’s resolu-tions?
Some of you just said to yourselves, “I don’t make New Year’s resolutions.” However, I’m not sure that’s a good thing. Isn’t it good to reflect on the past and then
plan to better yourself at least once a year?
You have no doubt heard about my friend Wayne Little. You may hear words describing him like, “dedi-cated,” disciplined,” “amaz-ing,” “inspirational,” and
yes maybe even “fan-atic.” Whatever adjective you use to describe him, you’ll have to admit, he knows how to “Put his
money where his mouth is.”Every year around this
time I see some email or fa-cebook post from Wayne outlining his fitness goals for the year combined with his plan for how he will real-
ize those goals. Last year his goal was to complete the 100 km moun-tainous Death Race and to qualify for the Boston Mara-thon. He real-ized both of those goals.
Just last week, I read his public post de-
scribing his 2016 goals and his plan, and what I notice is that when he posts the goals, he also tells us which races he’s already signed up for.
Every new year Wayne asks me: “Which races have you signed up for this year?”
He reminds me that al-though I may have set a goal to run faster this year, I will not realize this goal unless I set concrete plans to do it. One of the best ways is to sign up for an event, so just last week I signed up for the April 24 half marathon at Boogie the Bridge, Kam-loops. Now I will need to start training.
You can improve your health and fitness too. Join the club and learn to run a 5km or improve your stam-ina by training for a 10 km. Sign up now for a race and then put those shoes on and start training!
It is easy to say you will do this or that, but until you “Put your money where your mouth is,” it’s probably just “all talk.”
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Vicky and Alf after they completed the Cultis Lake Triathlon in Sept. 2015.
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