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New full-service gym coming to the Ashcroft HUB
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BARBARA RODENThe Journal
The man charged with shooting RCMP Cpl. J.R. Michaud, a former Ashcroft resident, in Kamloops in December 2014 has been sen-tenced to 16 and a half years in prison for at-tempted murder with a firearm.
Kamloops resident Kenneth Knutson, aged 38, pleaded guilty to attempted murder in court in Kamloops on March 17. In the early hours of Dec. 3, 2014 he failed to stop for Michaud, who had identified the vehicle Knutson was driving as one that was being used to deal drugs around the city. Michaud flashed his lights but Knut-son kept driving, finally stopping in the Batch-elor Heights area. When Michaud approached the car, Knutson fired six shotgun blasts through the vehicle’s rear window, two of which struck Michaud.
The prompt actions of Const. Steve Mar-cil, who was fresh out of depot, helped save Mi-chaud’s life. Marcil returned fire, then adminis-tered first aid to Michaud until emergency ser-vices arrived on the scene, for which he will receive official recognition.
Michaud sustained injuries in the abdomen and elbow, which caused one of his lungs to col-lapse. He underwent 12 surgeries over more than 100 days in hospital, and was not able to return to full-time duty for 13 months.
Knutson fled the scene, but was appre-hended after a 13-hour manhunt. His sentence will be reduced by 2 years for time served, and he will be eligible for parole when he has served one-third of his sentence.
Michaud was head of the Central Interior Traffic Services at Ashcroft de-tachment from 2009 to 2012, and served as the de-tachment’s Com-mander between the departure of Sgt. Dave Pren-tice and the arriv-al of Sgt. Michel Grondin. He was transferred from Ashcroft to Kam-loops in the sum-mer of 2012.
Guilty plea for man who shot Mountie
Cpl. J.R. Michaud in 2010.Photo by Wendy Coomber
Members of the Ashcroft and District Health Care Auxiliary presented a donation of $20,000 to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation’s Radiothon on March 4. (from l) Heidi Coleman (CEO of the RIH Foundation); Auxiliary executives Fran Helland, Elsie Howard, Irene Trueman, Kitty Murray, and Shirley Holowchuk; and Alan Gazda, RIH Foundation Board Chair. For more about the Health Care Auxiliary, see the story on p. 3. Photo courtesy of Lisa Novak Photography
BARBARA RODENThe Journal
Thanks to a donation of $5,000 from Interior Savings Credit Union, the Ashcroft HUB Society will be opening a full-service gym at the site (the for-mer Ashcroft Elementary School on Hill Street) on April 1.
“They wanted the funds to go to-wards something that would give us sustainability,” says site manager Vicky Trill. “They said ‘Do something you can bring money in with,’ so we sat on it for a while and tried to decide what to do.”
People had been asking about the possibility of a gym for some time, so the society negotiated the purchase of gym equipment from a local business-man. Merv McKague was the man re-sponsible for bringing it to the site and reassembling it; something that was
easier said than done in some cases, given the complexity of the equipment and the state some of it was in.
“It took four hours to assemble the universal gym,” he says. “We had no pictures to go by, so ended up tak-ing it apart two or three times. And we moved things around a lot.”
The set-up took almost a week in total, says Trill, but the work is almost done; something that seemed almost impossible when they began work on the project in February. “I said ‘Let’s try to be open by April 1’,” laughs Trill. “And the response I got was ‘Are you kidding?’ ”
Now, however, all they have to do is paint the walls and install a security system. There will also be a key fob or key card entry system, which will allow gym users to access the facility—locat-ed in the former District Training Cen-tre rooms on the Government Street
side of the building—to gain access to the gym at any time between 5:00am and 11:00pm.
Trill says that staff will be on site during office hours (9:00am to 5:00pm), and that between those times gym users will have access to showers near the gymnasium. Outside those hours they’ll have access to nearby washrooms.
“There’s pretty much all you would expect in a gym here,” says McKague. “You can do pretty well all you can in most gyms.” Weightlifters will find chin-up bars, squat racks, bench press-es, and free weights, and there’s a wide range of cardio equipment. “There are a lot of options,” says Trill.
Membership is $40 per month for seniors, youth, and the disabled, while adults will pay $55 per month. All gym
See GYM on p. 6
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POLICE REPORTBarbara Roden
NEWS
404 Not FoundOn March 15 police received a report of a
break in at a residence on Stage Road in Cache Creek. Someone entered an unlocked basement suite at the residence and took a laptop computer, which was the only item reported missing. There is no evidence to indicate who was responsible.
Fast food fender benderOn March 16 at 1:00pm police were called to an accident in the parking lot of the
A&W in Cache Creek. The driver of a 2012 Nissan Titan with Alaska plates backed into a trailer owned by a driver from Quesnel. There was minor damage to the trailer. No charges were laid.
Animal crossingOn March 16 at 2:30pm po-
lice responded to a report of an ac-cident near Juniper Beach, east of Cache Creek on Hwy. 1. The driv-er of a 2005 Ford pick-up truck swerved to avoid an animal in the road, causing him to go into the ditch. The vehicle suffered exten-sive damage and had to be towed from the site.
No bunking at bankOn March 17 between 9:45 and
10:45 PM, police received three calls regarding a potentially intoxi-cated causing a problem in cache
Creek. He was located at the Husky station and de-cided to be cooperative when police arrived. The 40 year old male from Clinton, who is known to police as a collector of bottles and cans along the Hwy. 97/Hwy. 1 corridor, was determined not to be sufficiently intoxicated to be taken into cus-tody, and agreed to move along. Next morning he was found sleeping in the ATM lobby of the Royal
Bank branch in Cache Creek. Police attended and told him to move along.
Rototiller stolenOn March 18 police received a report concerning the theft of a rototiller from a
storage shed at a property in Frontage Road in 16 Mile. It is unknown when the roto-tiller—a red Troy-Bilt worth approximately $1,000—was stolen. There are no leads in the case.
Plates and fuel stolenOn march 20 at 1:00pm police received a report of a theft from a vehicle parked in
the Roadhouse Towing lot on Hwy. 1 at Boston Flats. The licence plates of a 1991 Nis-san Maxima had been stolen, and approximately $45-worth of fuel had been siphoned from the tank. The theft could have occurred anytime between March 18 and 20. The stolen plates are from B.C., licence number CK1 09F.
No snoozing at poolOn march 20 at 9:45pm police were called to the Cache Creek pool after receiv-
ing a report about someone trying to break into the pool building. A 55-year-old male of no fixed address was located at the scene and appeared to have been looking for a place to sleep for the night.
Return to senderOn March 21 a wallet was dropped off at the Ashcroft detachment after it was
found in the mailbox at the Ashcroft post office. Identification in the wallet allowed police to communicate with the owner, a resident of Langley. He indicated that he would be back in town in a few days and would collect the wallet.
Volunteers with the Ashcroft and District Health Care Auxiliary at the Thrift Store in Ashcroft.Photo by Barbara Roden
BARBARA RODENThe Journal
A Spring Break Day Camp will be operating from March 29 through April 1 at the Ashcroft HUB, giving area children aged five to 13 an opportunity to take part in crafts, cooking, physical activity, and more during Spring Break.
“We heard feedback from people saying that they want-ed activities for their children when there was no school,” says Vicky Trill, site manager of the HUB. The Spring Break camp is a first step in that direction, with the HUB society hoping to provide events on future non-instructional days, as well as a summer sports institute that would allow children to explore different sports.
The Spring Break camp is a partnership with Desert Sands Community School—which received United Way
funding for active after-school programs—and BC Hydro. “The combined grants made it all work,” says Trill.
Heather Minnabarriet will be doing the food portion of the camp, with a focus on healthy eating. Deanna Horsting will be doing various crafts with the children, while Trill will be overseeing the physical activity component. Each day every child will do an hour or so of each activity in different groups, and once each day all the children will come togeth-er for a green practices/PowerSmart session.
The registration of $40 per child includes all the activ-ities as well as snacks, which the children will make them-selves (lunch is not included). The camp runs from 9:00am to 3:00pm each day, and registration forms can be obtained by e-mailing [email protected] or visiting the HUB’s Facebook page (Ashcroft HUB Society). Completed forms can be dropped off at the HUB (711 Hill Street) in Ashcroft.
Spring Break Day Camp offers lots for kids to do
BARBARA RODENThe Journal
B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak made her first tour of the Cache Creek landfill on March 21, in company with MLA Jackie Tegart (Fraser-Nicola), Council and Staff of the Village of Cache Creek, and representatives from Belkorp. The visit was an opportunity for the Village to ex-plain to Polak the importance of receiving an operational certificate for the proposed landfill extension.
The current landfill is scheduled to close at the end of 2016. The liner for the extension cannot be built until the cer-tificate is received, and unless that happens soon there will not be time to construct it this year.
“June would be the latest to start to get the liner built be-fore the landfill closes,” says Cache Creek Mayor Jon Ranta, adding that option would be dependent on a long summer or late winter this year. “If we could get [the certificate] in April that would be fantastic in allowing lots of time.”
Polak said that the Cache Creek landfill certainly stands in contrast to the types of landfills she’s seen in the Lower Mainland.
“The most significant difference is the small face off it, the fact that they’ve been able to keep it so small. The [land-
fills] I’m used to are much more diffuse.” She also admired the design of it and the way the land has been reclaimed, so that people driving past on the highway would not even know a landfill was there.
Polak understands the importance of obtaining the ne-cessary certificate, but points out that it is a staff decision, not hers. “The modern way with the Ministry of the Environ-ment is not just a yes/no; it’s a more collaborative process.” However, she says that she is confident that staff are working to the appropriate timeline, and does not anticipate any dif-ficulties.
“If staff get to the point where they feel they need more information, they’ll ask.” She also notes that Belkorp is a company that wants a longterm relationship with the local communities.
Ranta says it’s a good sign that Minister Polak, with the assistance of MLA Tegart, came to Cache Creek to view the landfill.
“We’re not just building a garbage dump; we’re building the best landfill for municipal waste in North America,” he says, noting that the Cache Creek landfill produces as much leachate in a year as the landfill at Burns Bog in Delta produ-ces in half-a-day. “I’ll be proud to have Ministry of the En-vironment approval of such an important project.”
Minister of Environment visit to landfill “good sign”
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Fraud costs small businessesNEWS
BARBARA RODENThe Journal
For more than a century, the Ash-croft and District Health Care Auxiliary (ADHCA) has been raising funds for lo-cal healthcare. In the past the organiz-ation held dances (a fund-raiser in 1913
raised $150; more than $3,500 in today’s dollars), raffles (a Ford motorcar was do-nated as a prize by a local dealership in the 1920s), movie nights, and education-al presentations to raise money to help the Lady Minto Hospital in Ashcroft and other healthcare initiatives in the region.
In June 1963 Dollie Norrie founded a
Thrift Store on Railway Avenue. It now operates out of the Ashcroft Village Of-fice building on Bancroft, which stands on the site of the original Lady Minto Hospital.
It’s run by some two dozen volun-teers, who operate the store on Wednes-days and Fridays from 12:00 to 4:00pm.
However, a lot of behind-the-scenes work goes on outside those hours, with volunteers arriving early to sort through the donations, price them, and get them on display.
“People can drop items off at any time in the box outside,” says Thrift Shop Coordinator Sandra Moon. “The box” is the size of a small shed, and Moon says that when she arrived at the store that morning it was full, even though it gets emptied regularly.
“Our donors go way be-yond just being donors,” she says. “They care about what they send us. For a small community, people are so generous with their dona-tions.”
Moon says that they sometimes get requests from people or organizations.
“They’ll say ‘Will you watch for some-thing for me?’, and we will.” The Thrift Store has donated many items to the Winding Rivers Arts & Performance So-ciety for their productions, and also do-nates clothing to women’s shelters and the Elizabeth Fry Society. “They’ll call up and ask for things, and if we have them they get them.”
A report in The Journal on Aug. 22, 1913 noted the foundation of the ADH-CA, and stated that “We trust that the good work thus so pleasantly and unani-mously begun will continue throughout the existence of the Lady Minto Hospi-tal.” Today the ADHCA has a mandate to provide funding for healthcare in the area, and in the 103 years since its incep-tion has raised more than $1 million (in today’s dollars) for that cause.
Today the Thrift Store is their main fund-raiser, with the group also main-taining a showcase of handmade goods for sale at the hospital. The ADHCA re-cently donated $20,000 to the Royal In-land Hospital Foundation. Moon says that after the donation made the news, “everyone who came in the next day said ‘Way to go!’ to us.”
The Thrift Store has its monthly Bag Sale going on through March 25. “You get all the clothes you can stuff into a Safety Mart bag for $3.00,” says Moon. “And you’d be surprised how much you can get in there!”
Volunteers with the Ashcroft and District Health Care Auxiliary at the Thrift Store in Ashcroft.Photo by Barbara Roden
Health Care Auxiliary still going strong after more than a century
BERNIE FANDRICH
About three years ago, Denise Haugen was prodded—over and over again—by the local president to join and become involved in Lyt-ton’s Royal Canadian Legion Branch 162.
Haugen is the owner of Lytton’s Suncatch-er Crafts, and the popular store on Main Street is “grand central station” for locals who regular-ly drop in and discuss the latest local events and goings-on in town. The president felt Haugen would be the perfect person to spread the word about the dire state of the Legion’s finances.
A lifelong resident of Lytton, Haugen finally attended her first meeting. It proved to be pivot-al for the cash-strapped organization.
“I’ve always had fond memories of the Le-gion,” Haugen confessed, “especially since my first visit, about 25 years ago, was an exciting
one. Everyone was dancing and having a great time, and I saw important people from town in a totally different light after that.
“When I joined the Legion I was shocked to learn that they were $7,000 in arrears in their taxes and had other debt. The BC Liquor store that had rented half the building for decades cancelled their lease and pulled out of town. Not only that, there was about $23,000 that some-how had vanished from the coffers. No one knew where it had gone.”
Also at that first meeting were several friends who were determined to keep the Le-gion alive, and instrumental in doing so: Betty Charlie, Karen Haugen, and Denise MacIntyre. For many years, Charlie was dedicated to keep-ing the licensed bar operational. As bartender she donated hundreds of hours of her time, and
Lytton Legion digs itself out of a hole
BARBARA RODENThe Journal
Fraud cost small Canadian businesses an average of $6,200 each in 2015, according to a re-cent Canadian Federation of In-dependent Business (CFIB) report. It found that one-third of small businesses have experienced one or more fraud attempts in the last 12 months, and one in five have fall-en victim. Only 8 per cent of de-frauded businesses recover their full financial costs.
Aaron Aerts, an economist in the B.C. office of the CFIB, says that one of the most important things small businesses can do is identify frauds. “Staff need to be trained, but most small businesses don’t spend enough time training. It’s much easier to prevent fraud than to follow it up.”
He said that the number one fraud employed against small busi-nesses is payment fraud, where someone tampers with the credit card processing terminal. Another one is attempted e-mail scams. “Always be sure to check out your e-mails, and ask questions,” he says. “Frauds are getting pretty so-phisticated.”
Another fraud that small busi-nesses fall victim to is directory fraud, where businesses receive what looks like an invoice for a ser-vice, such as a Yellow Pages list-ing. Aerts advises businesses to be wary of any invoices that look sus-
picious. “Definitely be aware of directory fraud. The invoices can look legitimate, but they aren’t.”
People phoning small business-es to say that they are not compli-ant with health and safety or work-place bullying policies are another big fraud, says Aerts. “The caller will say that the business needs to get something in order to comply, and will say they can provide it for a certain amount of money per em-ployee.” Aerts says that businesses end up paying for information that they could get for free from places such as WorkSafe BC. “If you need a written policy regarding, say, workplace bullying you can get a free template from the provincial government website.”
Aerts notes that the “non-com-pliance” fraud is a very prominent one when it comes to small busi-nesses. “It works because the busi-nesses want to be in compliance but don’t always have the time or manpower to investigate options.”
Many small businesses don’t report fraud because it’s time-con-suming and stressful, says Aerts, preferring just to swallow the loss. However, he notes that it’s import-ant to report fraud, and to make sure staff are aware of the various types of fraud out there.
“Don’t just take things for granted. If it smells fishy, check it out.”
For more information about preventing fraud go to www.cfib.ca/BeFraudFree.
The core group who rescued Lytton’s Royal Canadian Legion branch are (from l) Ruth Dunham, Denise Haugen, Karen Haugen, Betty Charlie, and Rowena Lannon.
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What’s in a name?Have you ever encountered the phenomenon
whereby you read or hear about something that you’ve never encountered before, and then sud-denly it’s everywhere, to the point where you can’t read a newspaper or magazine, or turn on the tele-vision, without coming across it? Something like quinoa, which went from obscure South Amer-ican grain to darling of the North American food world faster than you can say “hot new super-food”. One day I’d never heard of quinoa; the next day I couldn’t move without stumbling across arti-cles about it and recipes for it.
So it is with “name-stealing”, a phenomen-on which is apparently plaguing our neighbours to the south. It has nothing to do with identity theft, which is a very real and serious problem; in-stead, it refers to a situation wherein one expect-ant mother settles on a name for her child, only to find that a friend or relation who is also expecting settles on that same name for her offspring. A vari-ant is where one person already has a child with a certain name, and a friend or relative chooses it for her own child.
Now, this seems the very definition of a “First World problem” (and one would think Americans would have rather more serious things to worry about these days). It also seems rather frivolous, something to be laughed off with a shrug. I had never heard of name-stealing until a few days ago, and now it seems to be everywhere; and to those involved, it is anything but frivolous.
A well-documented case concerns women I’ll call Mary and Anna, partly because I real-ly enjoyed Downton Abbey and partly because I suspect the women involved are more than em-barrassed enough at this stage. Mary and Anna, in Mary’s account, had been firm friends for 30 years, each an integral part of the other’s life. Mary had a daughter, whom she named Elsie; and was appalled when Anna gave birth to a daughter some time later, and named her Elsie as well.
Mary details her reaction: “My daughter’s name was very special to me. . . . Why would [Anna] do this? There are so many names to choose from, so why would she choose my special name? And if she wanted my name, why wouldn’t she at least ask me if it was okay—out of respect?”
One senses that the feeling of entitlement is strong with Mary, who seems to labour under the misapprehension that names can be copyrighted. She waited a month, then wrote to Anna and told her of her disappointment. Anna responded “hate-fully”, in Mary’s words. That was three years ago, and the two have not spoken since.
If you think this is an isolated incident, think again. The Today show recently ran a poll about baby-naming, and more than half of the 12,000 re-spondents said that “baby-name stealing is a real phenomenon, and that if parents-to-be know an-other couple has plans for a name, they shouldn’t use it.”
I do hope that the “name-stealing” non-story flames out quickly, so I don’t have to keep seeing articles about it. And I’m extremely glad that my baby-naming days are behind me.
LETTERS TO THE EDITORDear Editor,You have to ask yourselves: who makes the rules and
regulations that make life a little harder for people? Rules that would deprive volunteers at facilities like our Extended Care of a cup of tea or coffee? We could easily get around this niggardly, parsimonious order from a bureaucracy in an-other city three hours’ drive away. How? By simply ignoring the order. By supplying our own tea, coffee, etc., and enjoy-ing it with the people we love serving, asking nothing in re-turn but the pleasure we get from doing so.
As long as we are willing to comply with orders like this, we support them, and get what we deserve. We don’t have to be victims; we work around it. Which leads to another issue.
Ashcroft doesn’t even have a gas pump. We have to go to the Ashcroft Band facility to get gas, or go to Cache Creek. Dozens of houses are for sale throughout the village. Small businesses are suffering or closing their doors. Our once beautiful hospital has been dismantled. We have vacant lots like a mouthful of missing teeth in our downtown core. Yet we are contemplating and eagerly awaiting (it seems) per-mission to get ourselves into a debt that would take us more than a generation to pay for, because of “orders on high”.
Ashcroft is blessed with clean water. There have been no outbreaks of intestinal or gastric problems in our commun-ity. Our water is soft, clear, and drinkable from the tap. We have been drinking it for years without consequence. Some have inexpensive filter systems attached. Some had them, and stopped using them, feeling them to be unnecessary.
Advice and orders that have not made people a prior-ity are becoming all too fre-quent. Like the New Yorkers did with Robert Moses’s free-
ways that destroyed dozens of neighbourhoods, that tore the heart out of the city, one man’s madness came to an end. Urban activist Jane Jacobs was instrumental in ending this senseless destruction.
The moral of this letter? Ignore any order that ignores people.
Esther DarlingtonAshcroft
Dear Editor,I would like to discuss two School District No. 74 poli-
cies which concern me. The first is already in place and is found in the district policy book under Policy 1.60: “Policy development, adoption, review, revision and deletion”. This Policy states that “The Board’s governance policies provide effective direction and guidelines for the action of the Board, Superintendent, Secretary Treasurer, staff, students, electors and other agencies. Policies also serve as sources of informa-tion and guidelines to all who may be interested in or con-nected with the operation of the District. Adoption of new Board governance policies or revision of existing policies is solely the responsibility of the Board.
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Advice and orders that have not made people a prior-ity are becoming all too fre-quent. Like the New Yorkers did with Robert Moses’s free-
ways that destroyed dozens of neighbourhoods, that tore the heart out of the city, one man’s madness came to an end. Urban activist Jane Jacobs was instrumental in ending this senseless destruction.
The moral of this letter? Ignore any order that ignores people.
Esther DarlingtonAshcroft
Dear Editor,I would like to discuss two School District No. 74 poli-
cies which concern me. The first is already in place and is found in the district policy book under Policy 1.60: “Policy development, adoption, review, revision and deletion”. This Policy states that “The Board’s governance policies provide effective direction and guidelines for the action of the Board, Superintendent, Secretary Treasurer, staff, students, electors and other agencies. Policies also serve as sources of informa-tion and guidelines to all who may be interested in or con-nected with the operation of the District. Adoption of new Board governance policies or revision of existing policies is solely the responsibility of the Board.
Concern over District policies
Upcoming programs at Ashcroft Library Any parents or caregivers of children aged 1 to 3
years are invited to the new “Babes and Tots” program at the Ashcroft Library on March 29 from 10:30 to 11:00am. Branch Head Deanna Porter says the drop-in program, which will take place on the last Tuesday of the month, will consist of “stories, songs, and fun”.
On April 16 the library will be offering another com-puter session, covering the new Windows 10 operating system. Participants will learn all about the new system, including how to use the Start menu, organize titles, and search for files, apps, and settings. This program, like the Babes and Tots one, is free. For more information contact the Ashcroft Library at (250) 453-9042.
Free Disposal Day in ClintonClinton residents can get a jump on spring clean-
ing and save money by taking advantage of the TNRD’s Free Disposal Day at the Clinton Eco-Depot on April 16,
from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Each household can bring in one load of material for free, with fees being waived for such items as household garbage, cooling appliances, tires on rims, mattresses and furniture, wood waste, and more. Throughout April the Clinton Eco-Depot will also be accepting household hazardous waste for safe and free disposal. Examples include items marked corrosive, poisonous, ignitable, or toxic.
Change to Old Age Security eligibilityIn a move that rolls back a change made by the Con-
servative Government of Stephen Harper, Prime Min-ister Justin Trudeau has announced that all Canadians will be able to begin collecting OAS payments at age 65. In 2012 Harper announced that as of 2023, Canadians would need to be 67 in order to start collecting. Trudeau said that he considered Harper’s decision “a mistake”.
“Fix-it Fund” for B.C. schoolsB.C. school districts have until April 15 to apply
for money from an annual “fix-it fund” from the Min-istry of Education. The fund is targeted at projects costing $100,000 or more, such as heating and ventila-tion upgrades, roof repairs or replacement, and plumb-ing and boiler replacements. Lynda Minnabarriet, Secre-tary-Treasurer of School District No. 74 says that SD74 “will definitely be applying”. A maximum of five pro-jects per District will be considered, and Minnabarriet says that they’re trying to figure out what projects to apply for.
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFSBarbara Roden
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Seasonal Labourer The successful candidate will report to the Public Works Foreman and perform duties as assigned including, but not limited to, municipal infrastructure, grounds & park maintenance including semi-skilled construction and maintenance tasks.
Required Qualifications:• Valid Class 5 Drivers License
Preferred Qualifications:• Able to carry out oral & written instructions and work
independently or with others• Able to safely operate & maintain a variety of hand &
power tools and equipment• Experience with automatic irrigation systems• Good physical condition, adequate to perform the
various labour duties• Able to work outdoors in all conditions, including
inclement weather• Able to work with minimal supervision• Grade 12 or equivalent combination of education and
experience
Seasonal position is required on a regular basis of less than eight (8) months; represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 115.
Current rate of compensation: $23.92 per hour (2016 rates) with $1.00 per hour in lieu of benefits.
Applications, with drivers abstract, must be received no later than 4:30 pm Wed April 6, 2016, as follows:
by mail or in person to:Village of Cache Creek
Box 7, 1389 Quartz RoadCache Creek, BC, V0K 1H0
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members can have unlimited ac-cess to the fitness classes in the HUB for an additional $15 per month. Each member has to have an orientation session, and youths under 15 years of age must be ac-companied by an adult gym mem-ber.
Trill is proud of the new fa-cility, and excited that it’s soon to be up and running. “Everything we have here is because of donations, from organizations and individ-uals, and there are so many more
things we want to do. The gym will help the sustainability of other pro-grams at the HUB.”
She admits that the society has had some growing pains, but they’ve learned as they go along. “It’s great to see the building used; it would have been a shame to have had it boarded up.”
Memberships can be purchased at the HUB from Tuesday, March 29; there will be someone at the site from 8:30am to 3:00pm. For more information call (250) 457-7038, or e-mail [email protected].
Moving OnMeghan Urquhart, the nurse who has been
the face of health care in the Clinton Health and Wellness Centre, is moving on to a more chal-lenging job.
In order to thank her for the time she has been in Clinton, the Clinton Health Care Aux-
iliary is hosting a Farewell Tea in Meghan’s honour on Thursday, March 24 beginning at 1:00pm. The tea will be held in the Health Cen-tre, and everyone is welcome to come and enjoy some refreshments and wish Meghan well in the next leg of her professional career.
Spring Art Show and SaleThe Clinton Art and Cultural Association in-
vites everyone to come to their Spring Art Show and Sale at the Clinton Memorial Hall. Hours are Friday, March 25 from 5:00 to 8:00pm and Saturday, March 26 from 11:00am to 4:00pm.
Come and check out the work of local artists and see just how much talent there is in the area.
Easter Egg HuntBring the kids for some fun at the Annual
Clinton Easter Egg Hunt at Reg Conn Centen-nial Park at 1:00pm on Sunday, March 27. If you would like to help with set up, or during the event, call Sandi Burrage at (250) 459-7013.
Happy EasterI’d like to take the opportunity to wish
everyone who celebrates Easter a happy one in the company of family and friends. For those who don’t celebrate Easter, I hope you have a good holiday. Just be careful out there on the roads, everyone. There will be a lot of extra traffic. Arrive safe!
Farewell Tea for departing Clinton nurse
Susan Swan459-2224 or [email protected]
STRIKING A BALANCE
Gym will help sustain other programs at the Ashcroft HUB
New gym from p. 1
The new gym at the Ashcroft HUB is set to open on April 1, and offers something for everyone.Photo by Barbara Roden
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along with the president loaned money to the Legion to keep the bar supplied and the heat and electrical utilities paid.
MacIntyre’s capable mom, Ruth Dunham, had recently sold her restaurant and had moved to Lytton. She was keen to become involved in the community, and several fundraising ideas were bandied about by the group. First, how-ever, the interior of the building needed paint-ing, cleaning, and some minor renovations. MacIntyre, Charlie, and Karen Haugen volun-teered many hours to do the work.
Then monthly community dinners under Ruth Dunham’s expertise were initiated. Be-cause of regulations, these had to be pot-luck-like dinners for which everyone made a
donation to the meal. Money began trickling into the Legion coffers, one dinner at a time. Each one attracted about 40 people who came to enjoy a beverage and a delicious meal, and to socialize with friends.
This fund-raiser, complemented by sever-al others, proved to be a successful commun-ity-wide effort. Many other volunteers became involved, such as Rowena Lannon, who regular-ly drove from Armstrong to help out and visit family on dinner nights. With everyone’s help, the financial tide of the Legion slowly turned.
Then came two huge bonuses: the estate of local resident Daryl Webster donated $1,000, and Dave Richardson donated $500 in memory of a relative. By the end of the first year the core group had enough funds to pay off the Legion’s debts—all of them.
Today the Legion has no debt, and more than $5,000 in the bank. Additionally, $65,000-worth of major building renovations were recently completed, and an additional $85,000-worth are planned in the next six months.
Part 2 will be in next week’s paper.
JOYCE WEST
We had a very amicable meeting on St. Pat-rick’s Day, with 14 members and our May-or present. After a potluck lunch we were all fuelled up and got down to business, with re-ports from various members. Everything seems to be going nicely, especially the Bridge group, which is growing by leaps and bounds.
Carpet bowling is also thriving, with the competition between the men and the women creating much good-natured banter and lots of fun. Sometimes we think you might hear the laughter out on the street! There is a bowl-ing tournament coming up on April 5 at Cache Creek hall, and several of our friendly neigh-bouring seniors’ groups will be attending and competing. It will be another day of friend-ly banter and camaraderie and enjoyment of friendships. The centre will be closed that day.
On Saturday, April 26 we will be holding our Strawberry Tea. Instead of having a bake table we will have a Silent Auction. We already have several items, and hope you will all come and participate. Donations to the Telethon and a bursary to our local school were reported on and discussed. These are annual events that we are very proud to be able to support.
After the business was over, we had a pres-entation from Mayor Jack Jeyes regarding the somewhat controversial upgrading of Ash-croft’s water supply. He made some interest-ing points and left us with handouts and some things to think hard about. Thank you for taking
the time to clue us in, Mayor Jeyes!I recently watched a Celtic Thunder con-
cert on TV, and one of their songs really struck a chord for me (please excuse any errors—I be-lieve there are several different versions). The words go something like this:
All God’s children have a place in the choir Some sing low and some sing higher Some sing out loud from the telephone wire Some just clap their hands, oh!There is room for everyone in every organ-
ization, and the seniors’ group is no excep-tion. We have many members—and non-mem-bers, too—who work away quietly on our be-half. Today I would like to call to your attention the staff of the Cache Creek Post Office, who willingly accommodate our ticket sellers and provide a place to let the public meet us and be aware of our group. Both of our local Post Of-fices allow us to post messages on their notice boards where everyone can see them.
We have some steadfast members who labour away quietly behind the scenes at every seniors’ event. Every week we are helped with the set up and changing of tables, chairs, and games equipment. We also have one gentle-man—who shall be nameless, but we all know who he is!—who works quietly doing odd jobs every day, from mopping up to taking photos for our records, always with a smile!
We all have much to be thankful for, and we all have a place in the choir that makes it so, and helps our hearts to sing and be happy. Come and join us in our song!
BARBARA RODENThe Journal
Distracted driving has now overtaken impaired driving as the second leading cause of car crash-es on British Columbia roadways, with ICBC estimating that distract-ed driving contributes to an esti-mated 81 deaths in crashes every year in the province.
While distracted driving can include anything from adjusting a GPS unit or tuning a radio to hav-ing an unsecured animal in the car, the most common offence is using an electronic device, such as a cell-phone, for calling or texting. BC law states that drivers cannot send or read text messages or e-mails while driving; make or receive calls unless using a hands-free de-vice; or hold or operate any elec-tronic device while driving.
Despite the laws, and fines starting at $167 and three points for a violation, the message is not sink-ing in with many drivers. During a two-hour traffic enforcement blitz on March 17 at the intersection of Vedder Road and Luckakuck Way, for example, Chilliwack RCMP issued 37 violation tickets, or one
just over every three minutes.“It’s instilled in people to be on
the phone all the time,” says Cpl. Mike Rail, Media Relations Of-ficer for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment. “We need to get the message out about enforce-ment. We’re trying to stop distract-ed driving, which is a danger on our highways.”
The RCMP have some simple tips to avoid being distracted by your cellphone while you’re driv-ing. These include asking a passen-ger to make calls or answer texts if you can’t wait; pulling off to the side of the road to make or re-ceive a call or text; and letting your calls go to voicemail, to be checked when you stop. If your phone is still too much of a temptation, turn it off or put it in the trunk.
The provincial government has recently announced that after a re-view period, fines for distracted driving, and the attached points, will soon be rising sharply. The government plans to have the new fines in place by the end of the cur-rent session.
“No call or text is so important it’s worth risking your life,” says Rail.
Distracted driving contributes to an estimated 81 deaths in crashes in B.C. every year. The provincial government is introducing stiff new fines to try to deter drivers from using their electronic devices while driving.
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Financial tide slowly turns for LegionLytton Legion from p. 3
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Chris Magnuspassed away peacefully at her home in Cache Creek, BC on March 13, 2016 at the age of 82 years. A Celebration of Life will be held at 1487 Stage Rd., Cache Creek on Friday, March 18, 2016 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Chris was born on June 28, 1933 in Wainright, AB and spent her younger years in Joussard, AB. She married her husband of 65 years, Ross Magnus in Vancouver, BC on Feb. 17, 1951 and had 4 children, 6 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. Candice (Gene) Chester of Spruce Grove; grandchildren: Tina (Clay) Genge and their children Jennifer & Tyler; Tammy Dmyterko (Toby Perrill) and their children Reiley & Cassie. Terry Ann (Mark) Temrick of Cache Creek and son-in-law Terry Rysz of Sicamous; grandchildren: Barry Rysz (passed May 17, 2005) and his children Jordan and Danny Matthieu; Karri (Chris) Brinnen and their children Courtney, Emily, Jamie, & Riley. Len (Carol) Magnus of Fort St. James; grandchildren: Kyle (Erica) Magnus and their children Dakota, Abby, & Carter; Keith (Victoria) Magnus and their children Shawntae, Lakota, Drayton, & Greyson. Glen (Sheila) Magnus of Spruce Grove. Chris and Ross moved throughout BC and Alberta in their early years until � nally settling in Golden, BC to raise their young family. They were co-owners of Magnus Trucking with the late Sumner & Irene Magnus. In the early 1980’s, they spent a couple of years in Spruce Grove, AB before � nally moving back to BC and setting up home in Cache Creek. Chris will be forever remembered for her unbelievable generosity and hospitality. Her door was always open with a fresh brewed pot of coffee and a meal on the table. Ross has always credited Chris for making his lunch every day for 65 years. She will be sadly missed by Ross and all of their family, extended family, and dear friends. Arrangements are in the care of Thompson Valley Funeral Home in Ashcroft, BC.
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The Journal Thursday, March 24, 2016 ash-cache journal.com A9COMMUNITY
“The Board shall be guided in its approach to policy by ensuring adherence to the requirements ne-cessary to provide public education and compliance with the School Act and provincial legislation. Fur-ther, while reserving unto itself the authority and responsibility to de-termine and adopt governance policies, the Board may encourage interested groups and individuals to provide feedback. . . .
“3. Adoption of Policy: ‘All governance will be considered at an open meeting. The Board may distribute a draft governance policy for public feedback prior to adoption. Should this occur, the policy will be placed on the District website for a minimum of twenty-eight (28) days. To be adopted, a policy must be approved by a ma-jority of the trustees present. . . .’”
Please note the “shalls” and “mays” in the above policy.
The second is Policy 9.80, “The naming of District Facilities”. It reads “The naming of schools and facilities is the responsibility of the Board and final choice for a name rests with the Board.
“Limitations and Constraints:“A committee shall be appoint-
ed to act as a liaison between the school community and the Board in a naming process.
“The committee will be com-prised of appropriate individuals as determined by the Superintendent and/or Secretary Treasure and may include the following:
- Appropriate local trustee(s) representatives
- FPEC representative(S) from local nation
- Parent Advisory Council rep-resentative(s)
- Principal(s)- Teacher representatives- CUPE representative- Student representative“The committee shall present a
minimum of three potential names and a rationale to the Board.”
Policy 9.80 is presently up for consideration at the April 5 Board of Trustees meeting. It has not ap-peared on the Board’s website, as I was informed, because of the words “may distribute a draft gov-ernance policy” in Policy 1.60, which means that policies up for adoption appear only when the District staff and/or Board feel that it is in their interest. Please also note the words “may include” in the committee selection.
This appears to be another at-tempt by the Board to pass a policy without including the pub-lic. I would not have known any-thing about this policy, had it not appeared in The Journal. It is def-initely not on the District website “Policies under Review” section.
Apparently this is the way the Board has chosen to represent us: by eliminating any input that the public might wish to impart in fu-ture name changes for schools and facilities within the district. It sad-dens me to see the District staff and Board of Trustees excluding the public until they are ready to decide on issues; and then only if someone happens to notice poli-cies on the agenda of the month-ly meeting will they come to the attention of the public.
Mike BaldwinAshcroft
Letters from p. 4
Naming policy excludes public
Looking for back issues of The Journal?
Whether you’re doing research, want to take a trip down memory lane, or just want to see what was making news in this area over the last four
decades, we can help! Bound copies of the paper going back to 1979 are available in The Journal
office; so come on in and take a look!
Easter Egg hunt in Spences Bridge this weekend
donation to the meal. Money began trickling into the Legion coffers, one dinner at a time. Each one attracted about 40 people who came to enjoy a beverage and a delicious meal, and to socialize with friends.
This fund-raiser, complemented by sever-al others, proved to be a successful commun-ity-wide effort. Many other volunteers became involved, such as Rowena Lannon, who regular-ly drove from Armstrong to help out and visit family on dinner nights. With everyone’s help, the financial tide of the Legion slowly turned.
Then came two huge bonuses: the estate of local resident Daryl Webster donated $1,000, and Dave Richardson donated $500 in memory of a relative. By the end of the first year the core group had enough funds to pay off the Legion’s debts—all of them.
Today the Legion has no debt, and more than $5,000 in the bank. Additionally, $65,000-worth of major building renovations were recently completed, and an additional $85,000-worth are planned in the next six months.
Part 2 will be in next week’s paper.
the time to clue us in, Mayor Jeyes!I recently watched a Celtic Thunder con-
cert on TV, and one of their songs really struck a chord for me (please excuse any errors—I be-lieve there are several different versions). The words go something like this:
All God’s children have a place in the choir Some sing low and some sing higher Some sing out loud from the telephone wire Some just clap their hands, oh!There is room for everyone in every organ-
ization, and the seniors’ group is no excep-tion. We have many members—and non-mem-bers, too—who work away quietly on our be-half. Today I would like to call to your attention the staff of the Cache Creek Post Office, who willingly accommodate our ticket sellers and provide a place to let the public meet us and be aware of our group. Both of our local Post Of-fices allow us to post messages on their notice boards where everyone can see them.
We have some steadfast members who labour away quietly behind the scenes at every seniors’ event. Every week we are helped with the set up and changing of tables, chairs, and games equipment. We also have one gentle-man—who shall be nameless, but we all know who he is!—who works quietly doing odd jobs every day, from mopping up to taking photos for our records, always with a smile!
We all have much to be thankful for, and we all have a place in the choir that makes it so, and helps our hearts to sing and be happy. Come and join us in our song!
Spring is sprung! Trees are budding, the forsythia is blooming, the days are getting longer; next thing we’ll be com-plaining about the heat!
Hopefully the weather will be just right next weekend as Sunday, March 27 will see the annual Easter Egg Hunt and community picnic. The Spences Bridge Fire Depart-ment, with the assistance of the community club, will host this popular event. It all starts at 11:00am at the school, with the children looking for choc-olate eggs; then there will be lots of games (three-legged races, egg toss, sack races, etc. ), face painting, a bake sale, and fun for every-one along with a wiener roast. Special thanks for the financial assistance of Cook’s Ferry, the SBID, the Log Cabin Pub, Bait’s Motel, and all the individ-uals who made donations!
Don’t forget Talent Night on March 31 at 7:00pm at the hall. Bring your singing, skits, poetry, or musical talents for a night of low-key, no-pressure fun and entertainment!
Bingo continues on the first Mon-day of each month. Doors open at 5:30pm, and there are lots of games and chances to win all evening. The con-
cession is always open! Come try your hand at winning a few dollars and have some fun with friends and neighbours.
It’s very exciting to see the support and enthusiasm for developing a park at the old school. With park status, grants are available to develop the site with all sorts of ideas: a play-ground, a band shell, walking paths, and many other amen-ities for the whole community!
Thanks to everyone who is committing time and energy to make this park idea a reality for Spences Bridge.
Soup Day is continuing every Wed-nesday at noon at the hall. There’s no charge; just come have a bowl of soup and mix and mingle with friends and neighbours. If anyone would like to make the soup one week, sign up at the Post Office. Thanks to everyone who works to keep this weekly event going!
Zumba will be continuing Fridays at 10:00am at the hall, with a $7.00 drop-in charge. It’s a wonderful way to improve your level of fitness and bal-ance, suitable for young, middle, and old ages; you can work it at your own level; and it’s FUN!
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COMINGS & GOINGS ON
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Golden Country presents... Past, Present & Beyond
GOLDEN COUNTRYBARBARA RODEN
Ashcroft Before Ashcroft: Tracking the town’s shifting nameBefore 1862, there was no Ashcroft to travel to;
and between 1862 and the late 1890s, when people spoke of Ashcroft as a destination they meant the roadhouse (and adjacent houses and businesses) that we now know as Ashcroft Manor. The place on the Thompson River where the town is now located was referred to as Tuk-tuk-chin by First Nations people, and after the Can-adian Paci� c Railway went through in 1884 it was known variously as St. Cloud, Barnes Station, and Ash-croft Station.
In order to explain the confu-sion, we need to go back to 1856. The place is the con� uence of the Nicoamen and Thompson Riv-ers, south of what is now Spences Bridge, where a First Nations man noticed a large yellow pebble in the gravel. It was soon realized that there was money to be made by dig-ging up the gold, which was sent to the nearest mint, located in San Francisco. When the mint Super-intendent there saw the size of the � rst shipment of gold from B.C. he informed friends in California that the next “excitement” would be to the north.
News of the strike on the Thompson provoked a good deal of interest. A small group of miners left San Francisco and headed north, where they found gold near Fort Yale. News soon spread, and within months some 30,000 would-be miners � ooded into the area, changing the history of the B.C. Interior for-ever.
The in� ux of people prompted the British Gov-ernment to create the colony of British Columbia in 1858, in order to maintain formal control over the area. It was a wise move, for in 1861 gold was dis-covered near Barkerville, prompting another wave of gold-seekers.
They soon found that while getting to the vicinity of Yale was dif� cult enough, getting to Barkerville was far worse. Between 1861 and 1862 the govern-ment built a road north from Port Douglas on Har-rison Lake to Lillooet, which then followed the old Hudson’s Bay Harrison Trail trading route north to the gold� elds. However, the route was arduous, and a new route that was more friendly to stagecoach-es was sought. Beginning in 1863 the government pushed another road north from Yale, following the
Fraser and Thompson Rivers and meeting up with the original road in Clinton. It was an engineering marvel, considered by some to be the eighth wonder of the world.
In October 1863 two English-men—Dr. Walter B. Cheadle and William Fitzwilliam, Viscount Mil-ton—became what were prob-ably the � rst “tourists” in the Cari-boo, as they completed a journey across Canada that was documented in their book Northwest Passage By Land. Their experience on the still-under-construction Cariboo Wagon Road south between Ash-croft and Yale gives some idea of what travellers encountered:
“From Cook’s Ferry [what’s now Spences Bridge] the road con-tinues to follow the eastern bank of the Thompson to its junction with the Fraser at Lytton; it is then con-
tinued along the same side of the Fraser within 13 miles of Yale, where it crosses the river by a beautiful suspension bridge [the � rst Alexandra Bridge, com-pleted in 1861 and washed away in 1894]. The road from Cook’s Ferry to Yale, especially the part below Lytton, is probably the most wonderful in the world. Cut out of the mountain-side of the gorge, it follows the hills as they recede in “gulches,” or advance in bold, upright bluffs, in constant windings, like an eternal letter S.
“At [some] points the road is partly blasted out of the solid granite rock, and the width increased by beams of rough pine, which pro-ject over the precipice; but it is yet too narrow for vehicles to pass each other, except at certain points. There is, of course, no protecting wall; the road overhangs the precipice, and nothing is to be seen supporting the platform on which you stand—a ter-rible place to drive along, as we after-wards found.
“The Bishop of Columbia gives a very graphic description of his jour-ney along the old trail, in which he compares his position to a � y upon the face of a perpendicular wall, in this case between 2,000 and 3,000
feet high. Many a miner lost his life at Jackass Moun-tain and places of this kind.”
Enterprising businessmen soon realized there was more secure money to be made by catering to those seeking their fortunes than to go panning for gold. Thus it was that in 1862 two British emigrants—brothers Henry and Clement Cornwall—purchased land adjacent to where the new Cariboo Wagon Road would go. It was a level spot some two miles or so from the Thompson River, with plenty of room for ranching and for the businesses they planned to start. They began by building living quarters, and then a roadhouse, naming it and the property Ashcroft, after their home in Gloucestershire, England.
When the CPR came through in 1884, it made sense to establish a town where their depot was, near the Thompson. The name St. Cloud was sug-gested by the CPR’s William Cornelius van Horne, while others felt that Barnes Station—after pioneer J.C. Barnes, who had owned much of the land on which the town was built—was appropriate. Ash-croft Station was also suggested, to differentiate the town from the Cornwalls’ Ashcroft. A penny-pinch-ing Federal Government, however, had the � nal say. The Cornwall brothers had a post of� ce at their site, called Ashcroft. Ottawa decreed that the post of� ce be moved to the new town, taking its name with it, which undoubtedly saved the government some money. The Cornwalls protested, but soon learned the hopelessness of going up against Ottawa. They thus added “Manor” to the name of their property, to distinguish the two places; and the modern Ashcroft was left in possession of the name the brothers had brought with them from Gloucestershire.
The Roadhouse at Ashcroft (now Ashcroft Manor) in the 1880s, when the building was only one storey high.
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Current rate of compensation: $23.92 per hour (2016 rates) with $1.00 per hour in lieu of benefits.
Applications, with drivers abstract, must be received no later than 4:30 pm Wed April 6, 2016, as follows:
by mail or in person to:Village of Cache Creek
Box 7, 1389 Quartz RoadCache Creek, BC, V0K 1H0
Or FAX: 250 457-9192 Or Email: [email protected]
• Servers • First Nation Guides• Maintenance • Housekeeping
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Send resumes to: PO Box 878,
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The Village of Cache Creek is accepting applications for the following seasonal aquatic positions required from May to September 2016:
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• JUNIOR LIFEGUARD/INSTRUCTOR - NLS, WSI, CPR.• LIFEGUARD - NLS or Bronze Cross, CPR.Copies of all current qualifications MUST be included with your application.For full details please visit: www.cachecreek.ca/content/employment-opportunities
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Or Fax: 250-457-9192
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Farm Workers
BAKERHorsting’s Farm Market in Cache Creek, BC requires a Baker for part-time to full-time work. Position is available now. Wage is dependent on experience.
Submit applicationby mail to:
2540 Cariboo Hwy #97, PO Box 716, Cache Creek,
BC, V0K 1H0or email:
[email protected] or by fax 1.604.792.7766
FARM worker required. Basic farm duties including Irrigation, weeding, hoeing, moving hand pipes etc. Work in all types of weather. Hours may vary from day to day. $10.50 /hour. Don 604 904 7833 [email protected]
Medical/DentalMEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: Care-erStep.ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career today!
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HAVE YOU been denied Canada Pension Plan disability benefi ts? The Disability Claims Advocacy Clinic can help you appeal. Call 1-877-793-3222 www.dcac.ca [email protected]
Merchandise for Sale
AuctionsBUD HAYNES & Ward’s Fire-arms Auction. Sat., April 2, 10am, 11802 - 145 St. Edmon-ton, Alberta. Modern & col-lectible fi rearms and accesso-ries. Over 400 lots - Online budding. To consign phone Linda 403-597-1095; Brad 780-940-8378; www.budhaynesauctions.com; www.wardsauctions.com.
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Misc. for SaleCache Creek: Fabric Sale On going at 1103 MacLean Cres. Open Daily 10am-3pm
POLE BARNS, shops, steel buildings metal clad or fabric clad. Complete supply and in-stallation. Call John at 403-998-7907; [email protected].
REFORESTATION Nursery seedlings of hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelter-belts or landscaping. Spruce & Pine from $0.99/tree. Free shipping. Replacement guar-antee. 1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca
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Rentals
Duplex / 4 PlexASHCROFT- Spacious and Private. 2bdrm. Mature trees & Landscaped, Excellent family unit and location. W/D, Fridge, Stove, A/C, NS, NP. 250 453-2037or 780-292-4131
Homes for RentCache Creek: 16 Mile 2 bdrm, Mobile N/P N/S $700/mo + Utilities Avl May 1 Ref Req. call 250.457.0000 for more info
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