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by Wendy CoomberAshcroft Council announced to

a public meeting for the new water treatment plant last week that it would be borrowing $4.129 mil-lion for its share of the new water treatment plant as well as increas-ing frontage taxes by $1.12 per foot.

The Village will go to an Al-ternative Approval Process for the borrowing, the same method it used for borrowing money for the fire truck. If 10 per cent or more of the residents file their disapproval through the AAP, the Village will go to a public referendum.

About 40 members of the pub-lic attended the meeting last Thurs-day at the Community Hall. Coun-cil and staff were present along with Rob Fleming from Inter-ior Health and Peter Coxon from Urban Systems.

After the scope of the project was explained, public questions ranged from how to lower costs to why water consumption in Ash-croft is so high.

Ashcroft’s drinking water is taken from the Thompson Riv-er and treated with chlorine. Known as “surface water”, Inter-ior Health’s concerns relate to tur-bidity and protozoa. Chlorine only deals with viruses in the water. The water plant’s upgrade will create proper filtration and disinfection.

Only one person in the audi-ence questioned the need for a new water plant. Fleming, who is a Health Protection Officer for IH, replied that if education in the need for an upgrade did not convince people, Interior Health would most likely order the Village to do it.

Fleming said IH oversees 1,929 water systems in BC, and most of them are small with 14 or less con-nections. Ashcroft has 800. Of the 1,929, he said, 426 are currently on advisory.

He said Ashcroft’s water qual-ity is vulnerable to environmental changes and water quality fluctua-

tions. “Does the Village of Ashcroft

meet treatment objectives?” he asked. “No.”

“Ensuring suppliers comply with Drinking Water Protection Act and Water Sustainability Act and all associated Regulations and Guidelines - this is what I do,” he said.

Fleming said his office uses a “progressive compliance ap-proach” - education, administrative action, and enforcement. Most of their work is done using education.

The drinking water scandal in Walkerton, Ont. in 2000 shift-ed everyone’s thinking about water treatment and more money was in-vested in water systems. Fleming said Ashcroft’s $5.7 million grant was the third largest funded pro-ject out of 50-some that were ap-proved.

Peter Coxon from Urban Sys-tems described two types of water treatment plants and showed pic-tures of some more recent ones. He said the new plant will likely go in Legacy Park near the current pump house, and one option is to put it near the public washrooms and to combine the two facilities under one roof. The building to house the new treatment plant is expected to cost 25 per cent of the overall pro-ject.

He said the river water qual-ity is good. It is well balanced and usually clean, making it easy to treat. It does contain protozoa, he said, which is bad for children, seniors and people who are im-mune compromised.

The two treatment options are direct (sand) filtration and mem-brane filtration.

After Fleming and Coxon finished their presentations, Mayor Jack Jeyes announced that the Vil-lage would be going to the Alterna-tive Approval Process for the Vil-lage’s one-third share of the pro-

Village plans to borrow $4 M

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Kirkpatrick receives French Legion of Honour medal

Clinton’s hard work pays off

Jack Kirkpatrick lays a Remembrance Day wreath in Ashcroft, 2007.

World War II veteran John West-ley (Jack) Kirkpat-rick was recently honoured with the French Legion of Honour for his ser-vice during WW2. Kirkpatrick land-ed on Juno Beach with his comrades during the Allies’ D-Day invasion of France.

Kirkpatrick was nominated for the medal by his son-in-law, John Des-rosiers.

Kirkpatrick is a pioneer of Ash-croft and his ances-tors were found-ers of this town. His father had the first claim of min-eral for Highland Valley, Claim No 1, and his moth-er Reta was the daughter of Oliver Evans who was one of the town’s three founders.

This distinction is the highest national order of France and illus-trates “the profound gratitude that France would like to express to you.

It is awarded in recognition of your personal involvement in the liberation of our country during WWII. Through you, France remem-bers the sacrifice of all of your compatriots who came to liberate French soil,” read a let-ter from the French ambassador that accom-panied the award.

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POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber

Close callJan. 14 at 4 pm police received a report of

a pickup truck straddling the guard rail along Cornwall Rd. coming into Ashcroft. The driver was located walking down the road. The 53 year old Ashcroft man had no explanation for the ac-cident, but was issued a ticket for driving with-out due care and attention and given a 24 hour driving suspension. His vehicle was towed.

Intoxicated ramblingsJan. 14 at 4:50 pm police received a report

of an intoxicated man staggering on the high-way near Cache Creek. The 56 year old Ash-croft man was located and given a ride to family members in Ashcroft.

Break and enterJan. 16 police received a

reported break and enter to a residence on Semlin Dr. in Cache Creek that is thought to have occurred between Jan.

13-16. The suspect entered through a doggy door and took a Mickey Mouse watch and a life-sized alien. It appears that the entire house was searched. The owner of the house is out of town and it is unknown if anything else is missing.

Sudden deathJan. 18 at 11 am police were called to an

Ashcroft residence to assist with the sudden death of a 76 year old woman. Her 70 year old husband was with her at the time.

Suspicious footprintsJan. 18 police were notified of a suspicious

occurrence. The caller said she saw footprints in the snow leading up her driveway on Collins Rd. and into her neighbour’s backyard and was concerned. Given the number of break and en-ters lately, police advise residents to keep their houses, shed and cars locked

Hit and run identifiedJan. 18 police received a report of a hit and

run in the Husky parking lot that occurred on Jan. 16. Witnesses identified a gray Ford pickup truck as the vehicle that hit one belonging to an elderly gentleman from Maiden Creek. Video surveillance from the service station identified the driver, a 52 year old Cache Creek man. He was issued a ticket for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

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Feb 2: The monthly UCW meeting will be held at 2:30 pm in Zion United Church Hall. Any interested ladies are welcome to come as a visitor or to join us.

Feb 2: Alzheimer Society of BC - Understanding Demen-tia workshop 1:00-4:00 pm at the Ashcroft HUB, 711 Hill St. (formerly Ashcroft Elementary). Cost: by donation. Pr-registration is required, call Tara Hildebrand 1-800-886-6946 or e-mail thildebrand@alzheimerbc.org.

Feb 6: Seedy Saturday at the Cache Creek Community Hall, 9 am to 2 pm. Admission free.

March 1: Alzheimer Society of BC - Understand-ing Dementia workshop 1:00-4:00 pm at the Ashcroft HUB, 711 Hill St. (formerly Ashcroft Elementary). Cost by donation. Pre-requisite for this workshop is the “Understanding Dementia workshop”. Pre-registration is required, call Tara Hildebrand 1-800-886-6946 or e-mail thildebrand@alzehimerbc.org.

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Lucas, Celine Marie Alexina Solange

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Celine Marie Alexina Solange Lucas on Friday, January 15, 2016 in Kamloops, BC at the age of 64 years. Celine had fought a brief, but valiant battle with cancer, and passed with her family at her side.

Celine is survived by Francky, her loving husband of 44 years, sons Eric and Jean Michel, and her grand daughters Anika and Nathalie.

Celine was a very kind hearted woman by nature. She was a very family oriented person, and loved being a Mother and a Nana. She adored her grandchildren, and spending time with them. She had a love of animals, her and Francky always had dogs and cats, and she also had a deep appreciation of nature and the out-doors. She enjoyed being in the sunshine, and camp-ing with her family. She was always active behind the scenes in the community and would never hesitate to go out of her way to help others.

A celebration of Life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 113 in Ashcroft on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 1:00pm.

Donations would be gratefully accepted to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Canadian Diabetes Association.

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Clinton’s hard work pays off

Auxiliary buys new equipment for ER

by Wendy CoomberClinton is known for being a

small but active town, and that ac-tivity in 2015 is producing great benefits for the residents.

Clinton’s new water treatment plant was completed last year and this is the first year that residents will enjoy the newly treated water.

Boil Water Advisories were common in the past, says Clinton Mayor Jim Rivett. The new treat-ment will remedy that. Also, he says, the water tastes better be-cause there’s less chlorination in the new system.

This is also the first year of har-vesting logs in the new commun-ity forest. Rivett says the town was approved by the province in 2014. The forest is 62,000 hectare and the Annual Allowable Cut is 20,000 cubic metres. Rivett says that, de-pending on the price of wood and harvesting costs, “There is the po-tential for a significant amount of money” for the community.

After three years of lobbying, Rivett says Clinton was also given a seat on the Southern Interior Bee-tle Coalition (SIBAC). He says Clinton was looking for a clos-er relationship with its neighbours to the north, and as a board mem-ber, they can participate in “devel-oping, supporting and funding pro-jects and initiatives that will stimu-late and advance rural development in the southern interior” with them.

Proponents of the water bot-tling plant are still moving forward and are hoping to break ground in April, says Rivett. That could mean up to 40 new jobs for Clinton and area residents.

“They’re just waiting for prov-incial okay,” he says, adding that this may create a challenge for the town: “We may have to look at residential development to accom-modate growth,” he said.

Council has also worked to complete more mundane tasks set out for them by the province that might not have the same econom-ic impact, but is important for the health of the community.

About four years ago, says Rivett, local governments told the province that infrastructure fund-ing was inadequate. The province

created the position of munici-pal auditor general, and one of the things that are positive about the position is the creation of an asset management strategy in order to make decisions on infrastructure spending. If municipalities aren’t developing an asset management plan, infrastructure grants will no longer be available to them.

“We initiated asset manage-ment planning via a provincial grant,” he says, and have the basis of a plan. Clinton has incorpor-ated roads, water, the Public Works building and parks already. It is still working on sewer and water systems. “We’re well on our way,” he says. “It takes a lot of time.”

Clinton Council also began up-dating their Official Community Plan last February. The OCP is a framework for the community of zoning, vision statements, bylaws, policies and strategies that assist the town in planning for the future.

Rivett says they’ve been receiv-ing input from stakeholders and will seen be presenting it to the public for general iput. He says it should be completed later this year.

Clinton also has a new web page and logo, created by a local committee who also came up with a new tagline to promote the town: Where history meets adventure. “There was a lot of thought put into it,” Rivett says, “and I hope people like it.”

The town is also planning for a new dog park in the Spring. Last year they received a $20,000 grant for it from the province. The new park will go behind the Clinton Emporium on a “brownfield” lot - a former gas station property. Rivett says it will have pathways and benches and will hopefully appeal to people travelling through with their dogs, persuading them to stop and vis-it more of Clinton.

“I’m quite happy with what we’ve been able to achieve,” he says. “I’ve seen more new faces around town lately.

“I’m hoping for a good year,” Rivett says. “2018 is election year and I’m hoping that I’ve made Clin-ton a better place.”

L-R: Kelly Henderson, Kasha Mitton, Kitty Murray, Irene Trueman, Elsie Howard, Shirley Holowchuk, Marg Corneillie, Mavis Putnam, Fran Helland, Mary Holgate, Nancy White, Shirley Dobson, Isabel McGrath, Angie Pigeon.

Mayor Jim Rivett

Filling the hampers with hopeThe Ashcroft and District Lion Club donated $500 to the local Christmas Hampers last December. Volunteers collected donations for, and filled, 149 hampers that went our to families and individuals in the Ashcroft-Cache Creek-Clinton-Spences Bridge area. L-R: Lions Nick Lebedoff and Orval Trueman with Hampers’ volunteers Esther Lang and Shirley Dobson.

Recently members of the Ashcroft Health Care Auxiliary met with Kelly Henderson, Ash-croft Health Site’s Programme Director, and staff to formally present two new pieces of ER equipment; the Broselow Pediatric Cart and the Vital Signs Monitor.

The Broselow Cart gives our Emergency Room a well-organized and efficient way of providing information and equipment for use by the physicians and the nursing staff when caring for a sick child. All the requirements for emer-gency resuscitation are contained on this colour coded cart. The colour coding gives the staff a handy quick referencing for size specific items.

Having the cart makes it easy for doctors and nurses to use and replace equipment as needed.

The Welch Allyn Connex Vital Signs Mon-itor is an advanced, touch screen monitor fea-turing vivid colours which display blood pres-

sure, pulse rate, pulse oximetry and temper-ature. This machine is capable of continuous monitoring, has a paper printout and a memory. The advantage of the memory on the machine is that care providers can see what the patients trend is like with vital signs – this is critical in the emergency as it gives a time sensitive pic-ture of trends with how the patient is actually doing over time. It creates a high level of ease and accuracy when monitoring vital signs.

During the past two and a half years the Auxiliary has donated in excess of $85,000 to our Local Health Site, Royal Inland Hospital and several other Health Care facilities that our community members now need to use.

All this made possibleby the great and gen-erous donations of the community to our Thrift Shop.

Irene Trueman

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The Editor’s DeskWENDY COOMBER

Taking care of business is expected

In the early days of this new year, readers have advised me to do several things. I’ll go with one that seems rela-tively painless, embracing the “sunny ways” of our new federal government and seeking optimism in these fragile times.

For starters, we have a building boom going on in the southwest. Here in Victoria, cranes dot the skyline as new residential-commercial projects emerge from bedrock, and hardhats are mostly on construction workers, scratched and backwards, rather than shiny and for-ward on politicians.

Shipyards are busy, with Royal Can-adian Navy work and cruise ship refits to reduce their emissions, plus work on fer-ries, tugboats and barges.

Most of the activity is private invest-ment, much of it in a hot housing market. Surrey has just recorded its second-high-est total for building permits in history, a value of $1.46 billion nearly matching the pre-recession peak of 2007.

Thousands of provincial employees get a small raise in February, based on stronger than forecast economic growth in 2014. It works out to $300 a year for a medical technologist and $346 for a teacher.

Health care costs are rising less dra-matically. That should ease the crisis atmosphere at provincial and federal health ministers’ negotiations over the funding formula, taking place this week in Vancouver.

Health Minister Terry Lake an-nounced last week that the province is increasing funding for a promising pro-

gram in cancer research, using genetic analysis to improve targeting for drugs to treat the hundreds of different cancers diagnosed in B.C. patients each year.

The B.C. Cancer Agency’s new dir-ector, Dr. Malcolm Moore, oncolo-gist Dr. Janessa Laskin and Dr. Marco Marra, director of the agency’s Genome Science Centre, described a world-lead-ing centre of research that is reaching out to specialists and their patients across the province and attracting international funding and talent for ground-breaking research.

Outside the urban regions, where re-tail sales and real estate mainly drive the economy, sunny ways are harder to find. The mining and natural gas sectors are in the grip of a slump in commodity prices, with more temporary mine clos-ures expected.

The forest industry is being helped by the low Canadian dollar and a steady recovery in the U.S. economy, and tour-ism is expected to have another strong year as Americans take advantage of a discount on visits to B.C.

Central 1 Credit Union broke down

the regional employment num-bers for B.C. in 2015, and found job growth in every region ex-cept the Cariboo. Province-wide employment grew 1.2 per cent last year, ahead of the nation-al rate. That may not sound like much, but compared to Al-berta’s oil-dependent economy, it’s pretty good.

Construction of a new dam on the Peace River is expected to ramp up this year, bringing

workers home from Alberta, and the fed-eral government is planning to fast-track its promised infrastructure spending to create work across the country.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Ben-nett was in Toronto last week to ring the opening bell at the stock exchange with B.C. mining industry representatives.

Not much sun on mining stocks these days, but Bennett’s sales pitch to an investor luncheon included reference to two more mines under construction in northwest B.C., the province’s Pacific Rim trade advantage, and revenue shar-ing with First Nations that is attracting attention of other provinces.

The Conference Board of Canada has forecast that B.C.’s economy will “lead the country by a wide margin over the near term,” with unemployment de-clining in 2016.

We’re at the mercy of global forces, but things could be a whole lot worse.

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

Things that are going well

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FROSTY RABBIT BUSH stands out against the brown hills along the Thompson

Fifty-eight days left until the Vernal Equinox - the first day of Spring, March 20.

The misty, moisty weather earlier this week with temperatures above zero that turned all of our snow into messy, mooshy puddles made me think about it. I’ve been reminding myself that I have to get busy and do some online ordering for any vege-table seed that I can’t buy locally, because they sell out fast at this time of year.

I’ve also been reminded of Spring’s re-turn by others this week who have noted the hazards that lay beneath the ice and snow every year, waiting for The Big Thaw - dog poo.

It’s been the same in most of the towns and cities I’ve lived in, from the east coast to the west: The wind changes direction and gives you that first whiff of fresh, Spring air, followed seconds later by the aroma of warmed up poop. It’s not a nice way to wel-come Spring.

Times change. It used to be okay to in-dulge in a lot of bad habits that we can’t do anymore. Letting dogs and cats run free to mess in your neighbour’s yard, on the side-walk or in the park without cleaning it up is one of those things that is changing.

Ninety-nine per cent of our pets are fed commercial food, full of preservatives and other additives. Their excrement may break down and disappear on its own over time, but I shouldn’t have to look at it and smell it - and risk stepping in it - for the weeks that it takes to disappear naturally. At this time of year, make that months.

You’re being a good pet guardian by walking your dog; be a good neighbour by picking up after her. If you’re letting your dog or cat run free, you don’t know who you’re upsetting until they tell you. If you think your free-roaming pet is holding it in until they come home, think again.

I’ve cleaned up my share: cleaning it up before I step in it, before I mow the grass, before I water my garden. It really shouldn’t be my job.

Bag it or bury it, the point is that it’s your job to Clean. Up. After. Your. Pet.

Then we can all look forward once more to the sweet smelling arrival of Spring.

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Make your own music or enjoy the pros

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Devin Cuddy at the Packing HouseDevin Cuddy has always made

music his way, and some might argue, the hard way. As the son of one of Can-ada’s most beloved singer/songwriters, Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy, country rock has been the soundtrack to Devin’s en-tire life - he was born the same week Blue Rodeo began recording its 1987 debut album, Outskirts. But from the moment Devin was drawn to play-ing music, he was determined to get as close as possible to the sources of all the sounds he loved, whether they were made by rock and roll’s founding fath-ers, the Grand Ole Opry’s honky tonk heroes, or Jelly Roll Morton and the kings of jazz.

Watch and hear Devin Cuddy at the Packing House restaurant in Spences Bridge on Jan. 24. Reserve your table now at 250-458-2256.

New Drum Circle Nightat UniTea Jan 28

The Community is invited to a new event at UniTea (100-210 Railway Ave. - beside Peoples) - Drum Circle Night on Thursday, Nov. 28 at 7pm.

Bring your favourite drum or per-cussion. No experience necessary - some extra drums will be on hand to lend out so everyone can join in on the fun. Drummers of all ages and experi-ence welcomed.

UniTea offers new Movie NightEnjoy a Movie Night at UniTea Tea

Room on Feb. 4 from 7-10:30pm, with a late night (optional) showing of The Band in ‘The Last Waltz’.

This month’s Movie is Ruby Strangelove Young Witch. When a young witch discovers her long lost mother was abducted by evil forces, she sets out to use all her magical pow-ers to get her back.

There will be popcorn!! food from our menu. For more info (250) 453 9345.

Mandala workshop

at UniTea Feb 7Join us on Feb. 7 at UniTea Tea

Room from 11:30am to 3:30 pm for the “All You Need Is Love” Heart Healing & Opening mandala workshop. Heart healthy lunch included. All art materi-als provided. No art experience needed.

Tickets at UniTea or reserve via phone. Contact UniTea Tea Room to confirm your day workshop of Man-dala Heart Opening at 250 453-9345. Deposits or pre payment accepted.

Community Charades Feb 11UniTea will be hosting another fun

and hilarious night of charades at our Family Fun Games Night on Feb. 11 from 7-9:30pm.

Other games available are Dom-inos, Monopoly, Chess, Checkers, Cards, Crib and lots of fun and sim-ple 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 information.

Bluegrass QuartetMar 4 in Ashcroft

UniTea Tea Room presents a toe tapping evening of great bluegrass music on Friday, March 4 with The Tishomingo String Band. Doors open at 7pm - Concert starts at 7:30pm. Tickets at the door or reserve via phone 250 453-9345.

Combining upright bass, guitar, mandolin and banjo, the Tishomin-go String Band from Vancouver keeps things lively and unpredictable. These guys are equipped with all the right gear to perform original and traditional ma-terial that runs the gamut from tender ballads to barn-burning instrumentals.

Featuring Colin Cowan (Dan Mangan/ Analog Bell Service) on upright bass, Chris Russell on guitar, Jacob Rus-sell on mandolin and Devon Wells (Clumsy Lovers) on banjo.

Beatbox Poetry and R&B acoustic soul ib Mar 23

UniTea Tea Room pre-sents a mind blowing even-ing 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. Doors

open at 7pm - Concert starts at 7:30pm. Tickets at the door or reserve via phone (250) 453-9345.

Avery doesn’t just bend genres, he twists them into funny balloon animals. His re-cent album “The Great Can-adian Album” blasts ahead with an electrified bluesy vibe, with songs such as the Lou Reed-esque “Folk Singer,” the

rap-overdub-meets-bluegrass “Town to Town” and the meditative and bit-ter “For Gangsters of the Highway”. Mind, for this show, Avery will like-ly focus on his poetry, but with an art-ist this unpredictable, you never know what will happen.

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.

Crimson Rich Duo featuring Caroline McKay March 26

Winding Rivers Arts and perform-ance Society presents Crimson Rich Duo featuring Caroline McKay featur-ing Harp/Vocalist extraordinaire Caro-line MacKay on March 26 at the Cross-roads Pentecostal 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.

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Home owners - Learn how to make yourproperty “FireSmart”.

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Start planning for this year’s annual Plein Air paint out in AshcroftEaster concert

with Celtic harpistCelebrate the Easter weekend with

the beautiful and transcendent music of extraordinary Celtic Harpist and Vocalist Caroline McKay.

This Kelowna musician 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.

For 20 years, Caroline has played a multitude of venues from great Concert Halls, Cathedrals and Festivals to intim-

ate House Concerts, Galleries and Chap-els. Her tours have taken her through Canada, the US, England, Switzerland and New Zealand. Currently, directing the 10-member Okanagan Harp Orches-tra and playing in a Harp & Cello duo are her inspiration for arranging new music.

Artists celebrate

5th Annual Plein Air paint-outWinding Rivers Arts & Performance

Society will be busy making plans over the next few months 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.

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Families play together for Literacy WeekNext week, Bridging to Literacy will host a week of family fun nights in Ashcroft, Cache Creek and Spences Bridge to

raise awareness of the importance of literacy and engaging in play-based literacy activities as a family. The event celebrates Family Literacy Week (Jan. 24-31), an annual

campaign that honours family literacy in BC. Family Literacy Week builds on ABC Life Literacy Canada’s Family Literacy Day, a national awareness initiative created in 1999 and celebrated annually across Can-ada on Jan. 27.

Literacy is important for all British Columbians – including children and families. Families who engage in play-based literacy activities when children are young see positive effects on both the children and parents/caregivers. Simple activities offer rich opportunities for interaction and learning. These activities help create healthy relationships and help pre-pare children to enter school.

The week of fun starts on Monday in Ashcroft at the HUB (old AES building). On Tuesday, Deanna Horsting is hosting story time and a craft at the Cache Creek Community Hall. Wednesday, the fun will be in Spen-ces Bridge (location to be determined). Thursday the Cache Creek Li-brary is hosting a puppet show and on Friday there will be a games and story night at the Ashcroft Library. All of these events are 5:30-6:30 pm.

The week ends with a free public skate, thanks to the Village of Ashcorft, on Saturday from 2:15 to 3:45pm. There will be prize draws at each event with a final draw at the free skate. Come out and enjoy an evening of fun with your family and support Family Literacy.

In addition, Decoda Literacy Solutions is celebrating family literacy with a province-wide online Photo Contest (#FLW2016) to encour-age people to share their family literacy activ-ities. Decoda has also developed free “Let’s Play Together!” activity sheets for families and programs that work with young children.

To learn more about family literacy, get in-formation on the #FLW2016 Photo Contest, or to download “Let’s Play Together!” activity sheets, go to www.decoda.ca .

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To celebrate last year’s Family Literacy Day, Ashcroft Elementary School set up the gym so parents, students and staff could enjoy time with books, blankets and board games. L-R: students James Cook, Connor William and Leith McLean.

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GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 You may not be in a practical mood this week, Gemini. Fortunately for you, there isn’t much of importance that needs to be done, so you are free to let loose a little bit.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 This isn’t a week to take a walk down Memory Lane, Cancer. Focus on the future rather than getting lost in nostalgia. However, let your past guide your actions a bit.

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SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Now is not the time to begin a new project, Scorpio. Rather, keep a low pro� le and � nish up any tasks that you did not get to � nish last week.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, it’s dif� cult to get a good read on any associates or friends, which could impact your plans moving forward. You may need to make a few assumptions and back track later.

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Lazy at laundryMy 12-year-old

daughter had an as-signment for her home economics class that required her to do two loads of laundry from start to � nish, and have a parent rate each step on a scale from one to � ve.

Overseeing Daisy’s eight steps of home-work made me realize I’m lazy at laundry, and I’ve been doing it

all wrong. First on the list was

sorting piles, check-

ing labels, emptying pockets and choosing which loads to wash � rst. Normally I do none of that. My idea of sorting is dumping all the towels on the ground and throwing the rest in the wash-ing machine until it’s full, but not so full it will break.

Second entailed going through the clothes to look for stains, and pre-treat or soak wherever needed. Pre-treat and soak with what I wondered? There used to be a bottle of Spray ’N Wash on the shelf, but someone must have used it because it hasn’t been there for ages.

Third was select-

ing the water tempera-ture and level, and ad-justing the size setting so no water would be wasted on a small load of wash. I can’t even fathom a small load of wash. Not since I had children, anyway. Also mentioned was the task of separat-ing darks from lights. I do remember doing that once upon a time. I’m not sure why or when that stopped, but I don’t recall noticing a difference in the re-sults.

Fourth was instruc-tions about measur-ing detergent. That re-

minded me of the time when I was a kid and I put in way too much powder and the laun-dry soap started over-� owing out the top and sides of the ma-chine and all over the � oor, � lling up the room so high I had bubbles up to my neck. Or that might have been an episode of Brady Bunch. It’s all a blur.

Fifth was about loading clothes with the right side out, un-less Daisy was want-ing to protect a print design. Normally I do not give this any

thought whatsoever. I scoop out the con-tents of the hamper, throw it into the ma-chine, put in the Tide gel pod, turn it on at the largest load setting and leave. At some point I will remember to take the wet clothes out - hopefully before

it smells weird. Sixth was adding

fabric softener - either to the wash or dry-er. I’ve never used the liquid kind, but I of-ten use a fabric soft-ener sheet. I ran out a couple months ago and miss them enough to think about adding them to the shopping list, but not enough to actually write it down so they’re remem-bered once I get to the store.

Seventh said to dry the laundry as soon as the wash was � n-ished, and to shake the clothes out before put-

ting them in the dry-er. Apparently that makes them dry faster with fewer wrinkles. If only I could do that to my face.

Eighth was the last on the list and in-structed Daisy to fold or hang the clothes as soon as they’re dry to

avoid wrinkling. My strategy has always been to throw the en-tire load into an emp-ty hamper and wait until a few more ham-pers are full of clean clothes that everyone can rummage around in for days looking for whatever speci� c item they’re wanting. I rec-ognize that immedi-ately folding, hanging and putting the clothes where they belong is another way to go.

I gave Daisy an outstanding grade be-cause she’s far better at this laundry thing than I am. She even re-

m e m -b e r e d to emp-ty the lint col-l e c t o r before u s i n g the dry-er.

I t h i n k i t ’ s t i m e to pass t h e t o r c h f r o m

the lazy laundress to the livelier one, and I look forward to her next home economics assignment.

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Cinnamon buns and historyby Wendy CoomberIt’s a little old building, sitting by it-

self on 3rd St. in Ashcroft, but every-one knows where the Ashcroft Bakery is. That little old building may hold the most character (or is that the most characters?) and the most heart in town.

Deb Tuohey has spent most of her life in Ashcroft, working at one job or an-other, but most people know her as the owner of the Bakery. Possibly because she makes it her business to talk to every-one who comes through the front door.

It’s a rare occasion when customers aren’t jammed into the tiny shop, shoul-der to shoulder and trapped against the glass display cases full of pastries and cookies and freshly made bread.

When the Tuoheys, Deb and Bob, bought their house on Brink St. in 1999, the bakery was empty. It had been a bakery since 1961, changing hands a few times. The last owners couldn’t make it profitable and closed it two years after buying it.

Tuohey looked at the little gray emp-ty building every day from her house, thinking “It looks so sad. Such a sad little building.”

The house behind it was built in 1932, the storefront was added following year.

After months of looking at it, she and her sister Rayla bought it in 2000. They spent three months cleaning it and opened in 2001.

But as neither one of them had owned a bakery before, they contacted the bak-ing supply company who sent out a repre-sentative to give them lots of tips on how to start and run a bakery.

They gathered recipes from their family. They learned how to use the equipment, most of which had been left behind by the former owners.

The bread slicer and mixer were pretty straightforward, she says. The slicer was made in 1938 and worked fine but it con-sistently produced one fat slice - a trade-mark of their bread. The dough shaper was took some getting used to. The great big 60 quart mixer is still in use.

Tuohey says there was another big old mixer which was used until parts could no longer be made for it.

“It’s across the street in Bob’s gar-age with the old slicer,” she says. “Can’t get rid of them - they’re a piece of hist-ory, right?”

The bakery’s history is almost as im-portant as her customers who, by the way,

aren’t customers - they’re friends. When she eventually sells the business, she wants to new owners to know its proud history.

They started with bread in those ear-ly days.

“The first loaf was sad,” she says. But Laurie Webster, their realtor, was also their first customer, and he bought it. “The community was so good to us.”

She says while they were filming An Unfinished Life in Ashcroft, Robert Red-ford would come in for his jelly donut. He liked his jelly donut, she says, and Mor-gan Freeman, too. Jennifer Lopez didn’t like the coffee and had hers flown in.

And everybody likes cookies and donuts, so that’s what they offer.

Their mother and grandmother were bakers. Grandma had a specialty called lily cookies with cream cheese in the dough.

In the years since, the bakers has de-veloped its favourites - the peanut butter, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and ginger snaps are keepers. Other cookies come and go, depending on popularity.

Other cookies, that is, other than David’s Mom’s. “Which was from David’s mom,” she emphasizes.

David was a paramedic here about 12 years ago.

“He came in one day and said ‘My mom makes the best cookies - can I bring you her recipe?’”

They told him to bring the recipe. If they liked it, they would need his mom’s permission to reproduce it.

“Because, you know, people can be pretty tight with their recipes.”

David returned with the recipe and his mother’s blessing.

“It’s a chocolate chip cookie with pe-cans and oatmeal and they are delicious,” says Tuohey. “And they’re one of our best sellers.

“And one day after probably five years in comes this lady, and she comes up and she says ‘I’m David’s mom’. He told her that we called them David’s Mom’s cook-ies, and she was quite pleased,” Tuohey says, her eyes twinkling. “I’m sure they have some other name but for us they’ll always be David’s Mom’s.

Anyone who’s had one of their cinnamon buns won’t be surprised to hear that it’s their best seller.

“We usually sell out of those every day ,” she says.

“We had a cinnamon bun go all the way to Amsterdam,” Tuohey says.

When Marijke Stott’s cousin was visiting from Amsterdam, he developed a liking for the bakery’s cinnamon buns. So when the Stotts decided to return the visit, “they took one freshly baked, and they wrapped it up and they did a quick freeze on it and then they wrapped it and wrapped it and wrapped it so it was all frozen really solid, put it in their luggage, got to Amsterdam and gave them their fresh cinnamon bun!”

Rayla retired from the business a few years ago, but before they opened, they worked on a business plan with Com-munity Futures. Although she had a plan in her head, putting it down on paper made things clearer and showed her how to keep her head above water when the cash was flowing the wrong way.

It’s not all cookies and jelly donuts at the bakery. She says they wanted to offer quick lunch fare for the office workers to either take away with them or to sit and eat. That’s how they came to offer soups, sandwiches, salads and other grab and go items. That was a part of the business plan that wasn’t in her head.

She considers the bakery a sucess. “You never do anything thinking this might fail,” she says. In the early days, they visited all of the bakeries they could find to see how they operated. She and Bob still visit the local bakeries when-ever they’re travelling. “Bob doesn’t even

complain anymore,” she laughs.Somewhere along the way, she took

a little course in cake designing in Kam-loops. After that, it was “practice, prac-tice, practice.”

“Some of my first cakes weren’t that beautiful,” laughs Tuohey.

But she loves the challenge. In recent years she’s taken on some big cake pro-jects like the HOG Run’s 25 anniversary, and the 25th anniversary of Highland Val-ley Copper.

“I come up with some of my own ori-ginal ideas,” she says, “but lots of the time I get inspired by looking at other things and then I go ‘Oh dear, I can do that,’ and I’m dumb enough that I don’t think I can’t.”

Her most recent cake is a fish that looks like a salmon.

She and Bob went to a baker’s con-vention four years ago in Las Vegas where she got to meet Buddy from Cake Boss (HGTV) - something that still thrills her.

“People from out of town think it’s cozy and it’s cute and ‘wow, we offer a lot for a small town’” but people come back because it brings back memories - not to mention the food is delicious.

Some of them remember the bakery from their childhood, some come back because they were hooked on the first vis-it.

“It’s about talking to people, and knowing what they want,” she says.

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Water conservation this year

Vacations no excuse not to stay fit

Many of the vacations I have taken with my family over the last few years incor-porate some sort of event.

We went to Las Vegas in 2011 for the Long Course Tri-athlon world championships.

We went to Maui, so I could ride Haleakala. Halea-kala has the highest paved climb in the world with over 10,000 feet of climbing in under 50kms.

We went to Europe and I ran around and through some of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, like the Eiffel tower, the Louvre, and Notre Dame Cathedral.

Some people think it’s stupid to take a vacation and race an event, or even exer-cise during a vacation at all. I think it’s awesome. You could

argue that tak-ing a vacation to go golfing or to see a con-cert would be equally silly.

I have friends who ONLY go on vacations that have some-thing they

can do that is fitness relat-ed. Some go to Arizona to get some spring cycling miles in. I have friends who go to Iron-man world championships in Hawaii every fall. Some head to Boston to run the famous marathon.

Combining a vacation and fitness to create a goal is a spectacular idea. For in-stance, Run Disney has a four day weekend of running in and around their parks. You run a 5k, 10k, a 21k then a full mara-thon if you want, and each one gives you a medal, pic-tures with the characters, plus you can actually go on rides while running the marathons! This weekend is crazy popu-lar and sold out in 48 minutes last year.

There are cycling gran fon-do’s and cycling vacations all over the world. Tour compan-ies will rent you a bike and either guide you or set you free on your own, taking care of all the food stops and hotel stays for you.

Travel Italy, France, Thai-land, even New Zealand, you name it. You stay in shape, with all the cappuccino stops you want and get to sightsee at 20km/h.

One of my friends mothers has been running marathons all over the world through a tour company. She’s run on the Great Wall of China as well as in the African Serengeti. The race organizers actual-ly go ahead of the racers and throw out animal carcasses so the predators won’t attack the racers, phew!

Do a bit of research on the internet, and you’ll find that choosing something like a week long cycling trip in Eur-ope may just be better for you than that all-inclusive week of buffets and all your liver can handle of endless pina colada’s and daquiris in Mexico.

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borrowed over 30 years.For the first 10 years, he said,

it’s like a mortgage with annual in-terest payments fixed at $118,082 and annual principal payments fixed at $29,929 for an annual total of $198,061.

The Village will pay that by $40,000 from the Gas Tax Fund and increasing frontage rates. For a typical residence, this would mean an increase of $67 for a total of $145, starting on the 2017 prop-erty tax notice. The frontage tax is expected to raise $85,000 per year that will go towards the loan.

Some people questioned how the size of the plant was deter-mined.

“The building will be sized based on current demands which are quite high,” said Coxon. “Ash-croft’s per capita consumption is

the second or third highest in the country.”

Monty Down questioned the logic of that, pointing out that the Village has just enacted regulations to reduce water.

Jeyes answered questions about farm consumption, saying Desert Hills gets its irrigation water dir-ectly from the river.

Why is consumption so high, asked Frank Mireau.

Jeyes replied that the Village can track usage. He said consump-tion goes up in May and comes down in September.

He reminded the audience that this will be first year of the Vil-lage’s new water conservation by-law. Starting in May, watering is restricted on a house number basis. Further on into the summer, de-pending on drought conditions, the Village may enact harsher restric-tions.

Jeyes said the Vil-lage is expecting the report from Urban Systems at the end of February and will de-cide after that which filtration system they want. Construction of the plant isn’t ex-pected until 2017.

Water from p. 1

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ON NOW AT YOUR BC GMC DEALERS. BCGMCDEALERS.CA 1-800-GM-DRIVE. GMC is a brand of General Motors of Canada. Offers apply to the lease of a 2016 Terrain SLE-1 AWD (3SA), and purchase or finance of a 2015 Sierra 1500 Double/Crew Cab and Sierra 2500HD. License, insurance, registration, administration fees, dealer fees, PPSA and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offers which may not be combined with other offers, and are subject to change without notice. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in BC GMC Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer order or trade may be required. †† Lease based on a purchase price of $31,010, including $670 Loyalty Cash (tax exclusive) and $500 lease cash for a new eligible 2016 Terrain SLE-1 AWD (3SA). Bi-weekly payment is $182 for 48 months at 0.9% APR, on approved credit to qualified retail customers by GM Financial. Annual kilometre limit of 20,000 km, $0.16 per excess kilometre. $0 down payment and a $0 security deposit is required. Payment may vary depending on down payment or trade. Total obligation is $18,912, plus applicable taxes. Option to purchase at lease end is $12,886. Price and total obligation exclude license, insurance, registration, taxes and optional equipment. Other lease options are available. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited-time offer, which may not be combined with other offers. See your dealer for conditions and details. General Motors of Canada Company reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. * Offer valid to eligible retail lessees in Canada who have entered into a lease agreement with GM Financial and accept delivery between January 5 and February 1, 2016, of a new or demonstrator 2016 model year GMC model excluding Canyon 2SA. General Motors of Canada will pay two biweekly lease payments as defined on the lease agreement (inclusive of taxes and any applicable pro-rata amount normally due at lease delivery as defined on the lease agreement). After the first two biweekly payments, lessee will be required to make all remaining scheduled payments over the remaining term of the lease agreement. PPSA/RDPRM is not due. Consumer may be required to pay dealer fees. Insurance, license and applicable taxes not included. Additional conditions and limitations apply. GM reserves the right to modify or terminate this offer at any time without prior notice. See dealer for details. ^ Offer available to qualified retail customers in Canada for vehicles delivered between January 5 and February 1, 2016. 0% purchase financing offered on approved credit by TD Auto Finance Services, Scotiabank® or RBC Royal Bank for 84 months on select new or demonstrator 2015 GMC Sierra 1500 Double Cab 2WD 1SA / Crew Cab 2WD 1SA and Sierra HD’s 1SA 2WD with gas engine. Participating lenders are subject to change. Rates from other lenders will vary. Down payment, trade and/or security deposit may be required. Monthly payment and cost of borrowing will vary depending on amount borrowed and down payment/trade. Example: $45,000 at 0% APR, the monthly payment is $535.71 for 84 months. Cost of borrowing is $0, total obligation is $45,000. Offer is unconditionally interest-free. Freight, air tax ($100, if applicable) included. License, insurance, registration, PPSA/movable property registry fees, applicable taxes and dealer fees not included. Dealers may sell for less. Limited time offer which may not be combined with certain other offers. GM Canada may modify, extend or terminate offers in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ®Registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia. RBC and Royal Bank are registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. † $12,000 is a combined total credit consisting of $1,000 Loyalty Cash (tax inclusive) and a $11,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for a 2015 Sierra HD gas models (excluding 1SA 4x2), which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $11,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ‡ $10,380 is a combined total credit consisting of a $3,000 manufacturer-to-dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) $5,195 Cash Credit (tax exclusive) available on 2015 GMC Sierra Double Cab 1SA 4WD models, $1,000 Owner Cash (tax inclusive), $750 manufacturer-to-dealer Elevation Package Discount Credit (tax exclusive) for 2015 Sierra 1SA Elevation Edition with 5.3L Engine and a $435 manufacturer-to-dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) on any 2015 GMC Sierra Elevation Double Cab AWD with a 5.3L engine, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $5,630 credit, which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ¥ Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 Sierra or 2016 model year GMC SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between January 5 and February 1, 2016. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on eligible GMC vehicles (except Canyon 2SA, Sierra 1500 and HD); $1,000 credit available on all 2015 and 2016 GMC Sierra models. Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Company to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GM Canada dealer for details. 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