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Variety of activities planned for Festival

Cache Creek Farmer & Flea Market opensThe Cache Creek Farmer

& Flea Market is getting ready for Opening Day on Saturday. Besides free tables for vendors for this special day, organizers are also planning to have plant swaps and draws for both cus-tomers and vendors.

Something new this year, says organizer Judy Davison, is that the Market will be issu-ing a regular newsletter with news about the market, up-

coming upcoming specials from vendors and a chance for local gardeners to let others know that they have a bump-er crop of vegetables or fruit to sell or give away.

The Market invites anyone with plants, vegetables, fruit, crafts or flea market items to come and set up a table. It’s free for opening day. For the rest of the year, it costs $5 per week.

The Cache Creek Farm-er & Flea Market is held every Saturday from now until mid-October, from 9 am until 1 pm. Vendors are asked to come at 8:30 am to set up. Customers are invited to come any time between 9-1 pm.

The Farmer & Flea Market is located at the main intersec-tion in Cache Creek, on the old Esso property next to Chum’s restaurant.

As summer draws closer, so does the Ash-croft Wellness Festival (July 19-21) being or-ganized by the Ashcroft branding committee. They made a presentation to Ashcroft Council on Apr. 22 to update the councillors.

The committee has held two fundraisers since November, Deb Arnott told Council, and raised just over $7,000. It makes for a shoe-string budget, she said, but the committee was adamant from the beginning that it would not ask local businesses for money to fund the Fes-tival. She said part of the point of having the Festival is so the businesses can benefit from the hundreds of people coming in from out of town to enjoy the event.

Because the group is a little shy on funding, each of the committee members has agreed to kick in $100 each to make it all happen.

May 31 is the deadline for vendors and plan-ning. The group already has heard from several interested vendors and has lined up music from local band Flat Busted and Elvis impersonator Steve Elliott.

They also have plans for plenty of tours, hikes, workshops, demonstrations such as yoga and tai chi, a mini-geocaching event, a mini-triathalon, children’s activities, free swimming and many more activities, all free.

“We’re not trying to sell Ashcroft to the world,” said committee member Jack Jeyes, “but to bring our brand alive to Ashcroft resi-dents.”

Much of the activity will happen downtown along Railway Ave., which the group is hoping Council will agree to close to traffic for the weekend.

Something newThere’s a whole lot more to Desert Hills Ranch in Ashcroft this year. Fresh cut flowers, houseplants, fertilizer, pots, seeds and so much more in addition to the bedding plants in the spring and the delicious products of their labour in the summer and fall. The store was bustling with people during their Opening Day last week.

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Written questions will be accepted from the floor.

Everyone is encouraged to attend, meet the candidates, and hear their view on the issues important to area residents.

TOWN HALL MEETINGPROPOSED FIVE YEAR

FINANCIAL PLANAll members of the public are invited to join Council and staff at a Town Hall Meeting to review the Village’s proposed five year financial plan.

The meeting will be held in the Ashcroft Community Hall, 409 Bancroft Street on Monday, May 6th 7:00 – 8:00 pm. Comments are welcome at this time.

This notice is issued pursuant to Section 166 of the Community Charter.

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POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber

Thieves caughtApr. 25 at 5 am police

were called to the Cache Creek Husky for a suspect-ed impaired driver. Police ar-rived and found a male and female in the store and dis-covered that they were act-ing strangely because they were stealing merchandise. The Prince George pair were not only to be in possession of stolen merchandise (sun-glasses, hats, etc.) but were also on condition not to have contact with each other be-cause of alleged previous thefts together. Jesse Bird, 31 and Ursula Monk, 29, were arrested and charged with possession of stolen property and breach of con-ditions not to associate. Two other people with them were not arrested as they were sit-ting in their vehicle and did not appear to be involved directly with the incident.

Looking for a bedApr. 25 at 4:30 pm po-

lice were called to the Ash-croft hospital where an in-toxicated male was causing a disturbance and refusing to leave. Police arrested the 53 year old Cache Creek man and lodged in cells until he was sober.

Shouting matchApr. 26 at 8:40 pm police

were called to the Ashcroft Reserve for a fight in prog-ress. Officers arrived and found a shouting matching among four men occuring outside a residence, with a few of the neighbours shout-ing at them as well. There was a report that one of the four involved had a gun, but

he was searched and no

weapon or any sort was found. All parties in-volved were from

the Reserve, aged 26-54.

Felt slowerApr. 27 at 10 am police

stopped a 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer on Hwy 1 by the mushroom plant travelling at 148 kph in the 100 zone. The driver, a 49 year old Lilloo-et man, said he thought he was only doing around 120 kph. He was issued a ticket for excessive speed and his car was impounded for sev-en days.

Items stolen from roomApr. 27 at 7 pm a Cache

Creek woman called to re-port the theft of a laptop, a bike, cigarettes and mari-juana from her motel room in Cache Creek. She sus-pected a trusted friend, a Kamloops man, whom she’d

left to look after the room while she was away for a few hours. An investigation determined that there was no evidence to support any charges.

Snooze and loseApr. 28 at 10 am po-

lice received a report of a man passed out in the Cache Creek Community Park. Po-lice attended and found that the 26 year old Cache Creek man was just sleeping. He was woken up and left the area on his own two feet.

At 1:45 pm police were called to a Cache Creek resi-dence where a family mem-ber was causing a disturb-ance by being disruptive and disrespectful. An inves-tigation revealed that he was already known to police for actions other than being asleep in the park. The inves-tigation is ongoing and char-ges are contemplated against the 26 year old Cache Creek man.

More tennis for studentsAshcroft high school students were totally focussed as they took in tennis lessons with the Tennis Pro, George Lea. Teachers, Ms. Parsons and Mr. Beckett brushed up on their skills as well. The program was provided by a grant from Viasport. Two portable nets will be purchased for the High School so indoor winter tennis can be played. The Elementary programs will begin in May. If interested in lessons for all levels, call 250-453-9391.

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Students use their business sense

Incineration becomes an election issue in Lower Mainland

The grade 6/7 students in Mrs. Patterson’s class at Cache Creek Elementary have been busy working on their businesses for the up-coming Spring Into Action Fair that will be held on May 4, from 10 am – 2 pm at the Cache Creek Community Hall.

The class has recently completed the A Business of Our Own course by Junior Achieve-ment, instructed by Marcie Down. They are putting their newly acquired business skills to work in starting their own businesses from book sales, clothing, cupcakes, artwork, Ductopia, to video games!

Come and support the students and pick up a good read for your summer vacation. Sales of the books go towards the Grade 6/7 end of the year field trip to Silver Lake. If you have some books to donate for the book sale please bring them to the Cache Creek Elementary School by the end of the school day on Friday.

While you’re in the area, plan to bring your hazardous waste to the TNRD’s annual Haz-ardous Waste pickup in the Community Cen-tre’s parking lot in front of the InfoCentre just off Hwy 97.

And plan to take in the Opening Day of the Cache Creek Farmer & Flea Market next to Chum’s restaurant.

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Strawberries and teaThe Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Association held their annual Strawberry Tea last weekend. A good crowd of local strawberry shortcake-lovers turned up to enjoy the friendship and goodies that are always part of the special events held at the Ashcroft Seniors Centre.

Fly In event getting biggerDon’t miss the annual Mother’s Day Fly In and Pancake Breakfast at the Campbell Hill Regional Airport on May 12. Entrance is free, but bring some money for raffle tickets and the ever popular Lions’ pancake breakfast.

The Abbotsford NewsWhile the economy is one of the bigger issues up for

debate during B.C.’s election campaign, garbage incin-eration is surfacing as an important topic in the Fraser Valley.

The BC Conservatives have already announced they will oppose the construction of a waste-to-energy (incin-eration) plant in the Lower Mainland.

The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) has been opposing the incinerator from the beginning, say-ing it will negatively impact the local airshed.

Local candidates are taking similar positions.Liberal Darryl Plecas (Abbotsford South) has al-

ready spoken against the idea, saying “only an idiot” would support incineration if they lived in Abbotsford. He said other technologies should be explored.

Aird Flavelle (Abbotsford-Mission) and Stephen O’Shea (Abbotsford West), both representing the Green Party, agree that incineration is not an option in the Fra-ser Valley. However, O’Shea said he could see inciner-ation being a possibility in a different location, such as Vancouver Island, as an alternative to trucking waste to

Cache Creek.Sukhi Dhami (NDP candidate in Abbotsford West)

said his party “will not support approval of incinerators in the Lower Mainland region.”

Liberal candidate Simon Gibson (Abbotsford-Mis-sion) said based on the information he’s seen, construc-tion of a plant “would not be in the best interest of the health of our community.”

Abbotsford-Mission candidate Preet Rai (NDP) said he is against an incinerator, calling it a “significant issue.”

Independent John van Dongen (Abbots-ford-South incumbent) said he’s been “active-ly opposing the garbage incinerator for the past year.”

When asked if he supported incineration in the Lower Mainland, Abbotsford West in-cumbent Mike de Jong (Liberal) said “not un-less we’re certain air quality isn’t adversely af-fected.” As for incineration outside the Lower Mainland, de Jong said “the same test applies.”

Moe Gill (independent candidate for Abbotsford West) said he has voted against in-cineration as a member of Abbotsford council and the FVRD.

Lakhvinder Jhaj, NDP candidate for Abbotsford South, said she would not support anything that impacts the local airshed.

Conservatives Don Stahl (Abbotsford-Mis-sion) and Paul Redekopp (Abbotsford West) both agreed with their leader, stating they were against incineration in the Lower Mainland. Both are open to a plant being built outside of the area.

Marcus Halliday (Excalibur Party in Abbotsford-Mission) is opposed to incinera-tion, saying he’d rather protect the air, not pol-lute it.

Only Independent candidate Roman Bojc-zuk (Abbotsford-Mission) said he had no opin-ion on the issue. He said it doesn’t matter what he thinks – he follows “the will of the people.”

Wendy Bales (independent candidate for Abbotsford-Mission) and Kerry-lynn Osbourne (Excalibur candidate for Abbotsford West) could not be reached by press time.

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VICTORIA – NDP lead-er Adrian Dix has finally rolled out his “fully costed” election platform.

Major policy announce-ments had been released pre-viously, but there was plenty more spending added to the total.

The NDP’s health care plan is surprisingly modest – more money for home sup-port, residential senior care, mental health and addiction services and a rural acute care initiative totaling $159 million over three years.

As health critic Mike Farnworth points out, the residential care increase will allow seniors two baths a week instead of one. Full marks to the NDP for this part of the platform.

Increases to Commun-ity Living B.C., children and families programs and ab-original friendship centres are also commendable.

Other NDP proposals don’t inspire as much confi-dence.

Raise welfare rates $20 a month and index them to in-flation. Index the minimum wage to inflation too, at a time when inflation can only rise.

Set up a new child bonus program to send $70

per month for each child with family income under $25,000. Lesser payments would go to families with in-come up to $66,000.

This ’70s-style family al-lowance scheme is based on a “child poverty” claim that misrepresents federal statis-tics of relative income distri-bution. The program is opti-mistically budgeted at $210 million a year. Dix insists it isn’t a “big new social pro-gram,” which makes me wonder what would qualify.

It would be partly fund-ed by cancelling a B.C. Lib-eral plan to establish edu-cation savings accounts for kids born after 2006. Out with self-reliance, in with the nanny state.

Another $100 million is added to hire more teach-ers, to address the teach-ers’ union’s often-repeated

but false claim of “a decade of cuts” in educa-tion.

An-other $100 mil-lion goes to student grants, much of it further

subsidizing the oversupply of English, education, soci-ology, women’s studies, journalism and other uni-versity grads who eventual-ly discover there is little de-mand for their degrees. As with welfare, increasing support for bad choices can only yield more bad choices.

On a related note, the NDP will revive a ministry of women’s equality, “to promote social and econom-ic equality to all government programs....” As with female candidate quotas, the NDP keeps the flame of ’70s so-cialist feminism alive.

The party totals up its new program spending to $988 million over three years. That’s exactly the amount Dix estimates will be raised by tax hikes on corporate income, bank cap-

ital, personal income over $150,000, carbon tax on oil and gas drilling, and cancel-ling the B.C. Liberals’ RESP and child tax credit plans.

As for deficits, the NDP claims that the B.C. Liber-al budget hides a deficit of $800 million this year and similar deficits in the next two years. The B.C. Liber-als point to an impressive string of “net zero” wage settlements with public sec-tor unions, the core of their spending control record.

Would the NDP continue to hold the line on public service wages, as the B.C. Liberals have done?

Dix’s NDP caucus and staff is stocked with for-mer government union of-ficials. Party president Moe Sihota is essentially a dir-ect employee of the same unions. The B.C. Federation of Labour has shaped the NDP’s Labour Code chan-ges, which we won’t see until after the May 14 vote.

And how much money does the “fully costed” NDP plan set aside to pay wage increases for its government union brothers and sisters? Zero.

Tom Fletcher is legisla-tive reporter and columnist for Black Press

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Oh yes, Spring in the interior desert of BC - now you see it, now you don’t - oh wait, it’s back again... Don’t you love it?

I was just leaving Cache Creek on Mon-day, mid-morning. Driving past Wastech I was thinking to myself: “Time to make an appointment to get my tires changed oh wait is that a snowflake?”

Yes indeedy. A wee bit of snow in Cache Creek, in Ashcroft, a little bit more in Loon Lake and Kamloops. Probably a lot more in Clinton and Logan Lake.

I call it Spring Rain.I also call it unspeakable names, be-

cause I’m walking around Ashcroft in ear-ly springtime gear and my coat, which I’d rather have, is back home in Cache Creek.

I’m just thankful that I didn’t succumb to the temptation to ditch my sweater, which I was considering just two days pre-vious to that.

Isn’t it wonderful? Every part of the country has its own characteristics of spring. Way up north it was the tornado-force winds, the geese arriving back and the green glow around the poplar (cottonwood) trees. In southern Ontario (trying to remem-ber back that long ago) it was dad trying to force the roto-tiller though the still half-fro-zen soil in the garden at the start of May. Here, it’s the return of the hummingbirds and the osprey.

I have to admit, I feel sorry for them the most when spring decides to slack off and let a bit of winter creep back in. They came for the great local weather, not for the win-tery garbage that they can experience pretty much anywhere in Canada.

Of course, it would happen just after I finally got all of my vegetable seeds plant-ed (in trays) after weeks of procrastina-tion: Six variety of tomatoes (not as bad as last year’s eight varieties), three varieties of peppers, and the singletons of zucchi-ni, cumbers and the rest. Then, on plant-ing day, four varieties of beans, two of peas, two more of carrots, and on and on.

But it’s okay. If I’ve done nothing else over my five-plus decades of existence, it’s to learn that Spring will come when it’s ready.

It’s the anticipation that makes it special.

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letters to the editor

Dear editorWhat Adrian Dix needs

to think about He shouldn’t be making irresponsible statements to get votes

The KinderMorgan pipe-line is over 60 years old. It needs to be replaced.

This pipeline carries most of the Fuel that is used to fuel all of the cars, trucks, ferries, boats and airplanes in Vancouver and most of BC and on Vancouver Is-land, gas stations, truck stops, marinas and airports.

If the pipeline isn’t re-placed the fuel will need to brought from Alberta by railway and trucks. Is this safer than a pipeline?

Vancouver needs more fuel than 60 years ago, therefore maybe the new pipe-line needs to be a lit-

tle larger.There may be some fuel

shipped offshore. Is that so bad? The pipeline technol-ogy and safety is much bet-ter than 60 years ago.

Should Adrian really be against the pipeline just to get votes or should he wake up and be more honest?

Paul WhiteheadThompson River Estates

by Esther Darlington MacDonald

Clarence Stephenson was one of the earliest team-sters on the Old Cariboo Road. As the stagecoach-es gave way to mechan-ized transport, Clarence and his brother-in-law, Norman Glover of Ashcroft, bought a Dodge sedan and called it the IT Stage, or Interior Transportation Company.

As the late Jack Glover, a teamster himself, and son of Norman, tells it, “They jitneyed their way into the transportation industry.”

A jitney, for those who are not familiar with the word, is a taxi. The driver approached the passengers as they came off the trains, offering to take them up the Cariboo Road as far north as Prince George. It didn’t take long for Clarence and Nor-man to realize that it would become a lucrative business. There was no other means of transport after all. And most people in the 1920s and 30s didn’t own cars. The Pacific Great Eastern Railway had come into the country after the first World War, but this

line went through Clinton, a good 40-odd miles from Ashcroft, and connections weren’t that reliable. A trav-eler might find himself wait-ing for hours, even a full day, at the small station house on the ridge high above Clinton. So it made a lot of sense to get into the IT Stage vehicle at Ashcroft if you were head-ing north any distance.

It was a big day in Ash-croft when the IT added five new Studebakers “straight from the factory”. People of the town gathered around the station to look over the handsome new vehicles, like they do today when vin-tage vehicles are driven into Ashcroft and Cache Creek at Graffiti Days. You might think Clarence and Nor-man were taking their chan-ces, making such a size-able investment. But the two men knew that they were on to something big. The de-mand was immediate, and the passenger trains came in like clockwork every few hours. In those days, trains stopped at every whis-tle stop, picking up passen-gers say, from Whitecourt,

Alberta, to Prince George. People boarded the trains with loads of groceries and other supplies and they were dropped off where required. Those smoke belching steam driven locomotives chugged across the Cariboo, the uni-formed conductors tak-ing the tickets as passen-gers tucked themselves into wicker or horsehair seats.

But Stephenson and Glover weren’t the only teamsters on the Cariboo Road. In the early 1920s, the late Thelma Haddock of Ashcroft, and later, of Wal-hachin, was interviewed by the writer. She told me that she drove a 1916 Buick sedan taxi right up until the mid 20s. At that time, mech-anized transport had to com-pete with horses on the Cari-boo Road, and the vehicles had to wait to let the horse and wagons go by before proceeding. Maybe, hors-es, like pedestrians on city streets, had the right of way in those days. Thelma said she was often times precar-iously perched on the side of the road.

The IT hauled express

freight as well as passen-gers. All mail was hauled free of charge. (How times have changed!) And the pick up of these letters was kind of tricky. Jack Glover re-called that people would stick their letters on the end of a willow, and the stage would come by without stopping, plucking the let-ter off the stake and putting it into a canvas bag. Jack ad-mitted, if it was snowing or raining, the mail might be a little soggy. You couldn’t be too fussy in those days about things like that.

The Studebakers were used throughout the winter, except when snows became too heavy and high to trav-el through. And it seems, old timers told the writer, that there was more snow then, and winters were definite-ly much colder than they are today. Still, our improvising pioneer teamsters clamped runners on the car wheels to get through the snow. From Ashcroft, the IT went to Williams Lake, and another driver would take passengers to Likely, B.C., then, a thriv-ing mining town.

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COMING EVENTS

MEMBERS & BONA FIDE GUESTS WELCOME

Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday • 12 pm - 4 pm Thursday - Friday • 12 pm - 11 pm

Saturday • 12 pm - 8 pm Sunday • 12 pm - 6 pm

Ashcroft Legion General Meeting3rd Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m.

(no meeting July and August)

Euchre, first & third Sunday of every month1:00 to 4:00 pm, beginners welcome

Contract Bridge, beginners welcomeEvery Tuesday 1:00 to 4:00 pm

MEAT DRAWEvery Saturday ~ 3:00 pm

Ashcroft Royal Canadian LegionFRI., may 3 • 6:30 - 8:00 pm

BBQ’d STEAK $12.00/plate

Visitors Welcome

* Legion Crib Tournament last Sunday of the month - Open 10 am starts 11 am sharp - 12 games * Free Pool Daily

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CHaNGE OF DaTE: may 3 - Movie Night at Zion United, 401 Bancroft Street, Ashcroft. Showing Journey to the Centre of the Earth at 7 PM. FREE admission; refreshments by donation. Come and join your friends and neighbours. may 4 - Spring Into Action on Saturday May 4 at the Cache Creek Community Hall! Come see local talent and products, home businesses, demonstrations, and visit the concession. Open 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. Admission by donation to the Food Bank. To book a table contact Marcie at (250) 826-6957. may 4 - Cache Creek Farmer & Flea Market Opening Day, 9 am to 1 pm. Next to Chum’s Restaurant in the old Esso lot at the main junction on Hwy 1. Seed Swap. Vendors tables are rent free for Opening Day only. May 7th: United Church 2:00 pm meeting to plan for upcoming activities. All interested ladies welcome. may 13 - Next meeting of the Cache Creek Council, 7 pm in the Village Office. Everyone welcome. may 22-23 - 2nd Annual Ashcroft Plein Air Paint-Outmay 23 - Plein Air Art Show & Sale open to the Public. 6:30-8:30 pm at St. Alban’s Church Hall.The BC Cancer Agency’s Screening Mammography mobile service will be visiting Ashcroft Hospital JUNE 21-22, 2013. Women ages 40-79 can book an appointment by calling 1-800-663-9203 or visiting www.smpbc.ca.Every Friday - Soup’s On from 11 am to 1 pm at St. Alban’s Anglican Church in Ashcroft. Soup, buns and dessert by donation.

To celebrate our 150th year and to honour our long history as a bustling transportation centre for passenger, freight and service industries, we are hosting a GATHERING OF WAGONS, STAGECOACHES and PRE-HORSELESS CARRIAGES on May 25th and 26th, 2013.

We invite you to represent and promote your town, business, association or family by bringing your wagon, buggy or stagecoach to our Clinton 150/50 anniversary celebration.

Location: Palace Hotel grounds on the Cariboo Highway, in the centre of Clinton, BCWagon gathering: Saturday & Sunday, May 25th and 26th all day

For more information or to reserve a patch of grass for your wagon, call Doug Carnegie at 604-816-9760 or email doug@vanprop.ca

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IT Stage from p. 6Clarence Ste-

phenson didn’t drive the regu-

lar stage. He drove a special sedan that catered to the travelling salesmen. These salesmen were frequent travel-lers, taking orders for all kinds of mer-chandise from not only individuals, but from hotel keepers, merchants, clothing stores and restaurants. Clar-ence drove these salesmen all the way to the Chilcotin. Getting into the Chil-cotin country in those days was an ex-cruciatingly difficult exercise. The ter-ritory was so isolated, and the ranch-es and the odd general store so far between. A major breakdown was al-ways a possibility. When Clarence left for the Chilcotin he’d be gone for about two weeks.

Described by the late Julia Ste-phenson, Clarence was a tall, hand-some man with dark eyes. She was smitten while she was living with her family at Soda Creek, then a hub of river boat transportation. The village held hotels, school, a flour mill, and several hundred residents. But Clar-

ence was driving a horse driven stage when Julia caught sight of him. The couple married some years later in November of 1920.

The roads weren’t “highways” by any means back then. And in win-ter, “They were just skating rinks,” Jack Glover told the writer in 1980, when she interviewed Jack, Julia and Jimmy Strand about transportation on the Cariboo Road. The good old buf-falo robe and the hot water bottle and a few hot bricks helped keep travel-lers tucked in and warm enough to keep from being frostbitten. And, Jack had to add, the buffalo robe could al-ways serve in a pinch when needed for traction on a particularly icy spot. The mufflers on the vehicles were lost with monotonous regularity, Jack recalls, and some times, a piece of straight pipe was a substitute. (O! those impro-visational pioneers!)

The pioneer teamsters remembered grimly that the Road north of Margeur-ite, B.C. at Alexandria Flats, between Soda Creek and Quesnel, was a mire of thick gumbo mud. Another treach-

erous spot was “Hogsback” overlooking the Soda Creek canyon. This road is still in use and overlooks the Fraser River. In that period between the First World War and even up to the 1940s, an era hov-ering between horse drawn transport and mechanized, the challenge was doubled by the passing of cattle and horses over the road.

Sometimes it wasn’t just the condition of the roads and the animals that posed the hazards for the IT drivers, it was the passengers. The late Jimmy Strand, an IT Stage driver for many years, recalls a Chinese gentleman who be-came car sick, and instead of opening a window, opened the door and fell out and injured his head. Jimmy took the in-jured passenger to the hospital in Williams Lake.

Liquor, that all important commodity was definitely a popular stage item.

“We used to take orders from every rancher on the road,” recalled Jimmy. “There

was no liquor available from Ashcroft to Williams Lake in those days. They would give you the order and pay you on delivery.”

In the case of one well known rancher, now departed this life, but in our history books, Jimmy was asked to “Just leave the bottle in the barn”, lest his good woman spot its delivery.

Naturally, vehicles broke down pretty frequently with roads being in the rough condition especially in the spring, which is referred in the Cari-boo as “Break Up”. A broken axle was the most usual problem. So the IT Stage packed what Jack Glover called, “Axles with bearings” and when an axle broke, a new one was installed, “Just like you pack a spare tire in your car today.”

The Lac La Hache plateau was the worst for drifting snow, the pioneer teamsters recalled. Drivers “punched their way” through the drifts, by back-ing up, and taking a run at the drift. Little by little, they made it through. Glover recalls that Lac La Hache could have a temperature of 60 below. The IT sedans were all equipped with heaters, a hot water type from the en-gine under the front seat. The back seat passengers suffered some discomfort, no doubt. The drivers shuddered when scantily clad ladies boarded the stage, clad in attire more suitable for a coast-al winter than a Cariboo one.

In 1937, the IT purchased a fleet of DeSotos and the old Studebakers were put to rest. And, at the height of the de-pression the company also used five passenger Ford vehicles.

The vehicles were serviced by Nor-man Glover. The garage was situated at the corner of First Avenue and Rail-way Street, became a favourite hang-out where the fellows would sit around the stove and talk, probably about the adventures on the Road.

Clarence Stephenson passed on in 1955, and Norman too, in 1966. Both men had retired some years earlier. The IT Stage was sold to Greyhound Bus Lines in 1943. Greyhound used the DeSotos until 1945. The cars were then sold to the CPR and shipped to Hope. After the Second World War, the stages were replaced by busses. Thus ended the pioneer era of the first mech-anized transport vehicles on the Old Cariboo Road.

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The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Fraser-Nicola for the 40th Provincial General Election.

Fraser-Nicola Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

Michael BeauclairBC Conservative Party

Alan GroomePO Box 1244, Ashcroft, BC, V0K 1A0

John KidderGreen Party of BC

John Kidder1 Old Mill Rd PO Box 882, Ashcroft, BC, V0K 1A0

Harry LaliBC NDP

Dean MorrisonPO Box 1728, Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8

Jackie TegartBC Liberal Party

Debra Arnott4141 Mickey Frontage Rd RR 1, Cache Creek, BC, V0K 1H1

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70 Mile House Comm Hall2585 N Bonaparte Rd, 70 Mile House, BC

Ashcroft Comm Hall409 Bancroft St, Ashcroft, BC

Cache Creek Comm Hall1270 Stage Rd, Cache Creek, BC

Clinton Memorial Hall306 Le Bourdais Ave, Clinton, BC

Coldwater Comm Hall109 400th St, Merritt, BC

Coldwell Residence10780 Jesmond Rd, Clinton, BC

Eastgate Fire Hall140 Airstrip Rd, Eastgate, BC

Edward Billy Memorial Hall4 Meadow Lake Rd, Dog Creek, BC

Elders Complex600 Sk’il Mountain Rd, Shalalth, BC

Gold Bridge Comm CentreGun Lake Rd, Gold Bridge, BC

Hayes Creek Fire Hall3950 Princeton-summerland Rd, Princeton, BC

Lac Le Jeune Resort Lodge5665 Lac Le Jeune Rd, Lac Le Jeune, BC

Lillooet & District Rec Centre930 Main St, Lillooet, BC

Logan Lake Pentecostal Assembly237 Jasper Dr, Logan Lake, BC

Lomond Residence1559 Steelhead Rd, Walhachin, BC

Loon Lake Comm Hall1705 Loon Lake Rd, Cache Creek, BC

Lower Nicola Band Hall85 8 Hwy, Lower Nicola, BC

Lower Nicola Comm Hall2383 Aberdeen Rd, Lower Nicola, BC

Lytton First Nation Memorial Hall918 Main St, Lytton, BC

Merritt Civic Centre1950 Mamette Ave, Merritt, BC

Old Headstart Bldg2221 Village Rd, Douglas Lake, BC

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church5A Hwy, Quilchena, BC

Royal Canadian Legion 56172 Bridge St, Princeton, BC

Shackan Comm Hall4943 Potatoeillshie Rd, Canford, BC

Shumway Lake Rowing Club5A Hwy, Kamloops, BC

Skeetchestn Rec Centre330 Main Dr, Savona, BC

Spences Bridge Elem School4800 School St, Spences Bridge, BC

Tulameen Comm Centre2595 Otter Ave, Tulameen, BC

West Fraser Comm Hall2090 Peters Rd, Lytton, BC

Xaxli’p Admin Office1433 Fountain Valley Rd, Fountain, BC

Ashcroft Comm Hall409 Bancroft St, Ashcroft, BC

Cache Creek Comm Hall1270 Stage Rd, Cache Creek, BC

Lillooet & District Rec Centre930 Main St, Lillooet, BC

Logan Lake Pentecostal Assembly237 Jasper Dr, Logan Lake, BC

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Kamloops’ Harley Owner’s Group plans big for 25th anniversaryThe members of Kamloops Chapter

Harley Owner’s Group (H.O.G.) would like to invite your family to view The Parade of Flags being held on June 1 at 2 pm, as part of this year’s annual HOG Run. We will be starting the parade on Railway Ave. near Heritage Park and travelling throughout the local streets.

This street will be blocked off for safety and your entertainment. Please be sure to get your viewing spots before 1:30. Bikes will start to arrive in Ash-croft around noon. Please note Railway Ave. will be blocked off to traffic after noon, no public parking between 3rd and 8th streets.

We have invited the children of Ashcroft Elementary in Grades 1-6 to participate in a show n shine with their bikes. There will be separate classes for girls and boys. The winners of these two classes will

be decided by vocal response from the crowd. (Yes, we will have a decimal reader on site.)

There will also be other games for the children to participate in, includ-ing a unisex slow race and a unisex ride the plank race, and the winners will be determined by stop watch. Winner plaques for these two categories will be awarded and all participants will re-ceive a certificate of participation.

As to the Adult participation in this event, there will be a biker show ‘n shine and only one plaque will be pre-sented. This plaque will represent the Citizens of Ashcroft Favourite Bike. Voting will be limited to non-rider crowd participants and this plaque will

be awarded at the end of the games, to enable you to see the winner of your choice.

Biker participation will involve two separate singles unisex events, two separate couple events and one unisex Chapter Challenge event. All of this is being designed for your entertainment. The events will end at 4.

Kamloops Chapter would like to thank The Village of Ashcroft, Ashcroft Firefighters and the citizens of Ashcroft for your 25 years of dedication to help-ing make our poker run the success is has been. We look forward to seeing you at our event rain or shine!

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The Harley Owner’s Group (HOG) have several activities planned to mark the occasion of their 25th annual HOG Run - a fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy that always winds up with a banquet in Ashcroft.

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FROM LOON LAKE ROAd

Barbara Hendricks

Open waterThe water birds could happily swim

on Loon Lake again on April 19 with most of the ice gone. It is a sad sight to see Canada Geese standing on the ice rather than swimming. Of course the Loons, who have difficulty with walk-ing on hard surfaces, had gathered in the small areas of open water.

The first hummingbird at my feed-ers was on April 26. I was really glad to hear their familiar hum and cheerful chirp. April 29 brought a fresh blanket of snow for all the flowers and young shoots just beginning to peek out and made glittering icicles near the irriga-tion systems.

In addition to the grebes, golden eyes and loons, other recently returned residents include many seasonal people who are busy setting their homes to or-der for the summer. Boats and docks are being touched up and put back in the water; people are busy raking up all the fallen tree debris. These are part of the Loon Lake Road spring routine. Ranchers are getting out their irrigation systems and fields are being prepared for a new growing season. The water in Loon Creek, Hihium and the Bonaparte is quite high for early spring but no sign of flooding.

First Aid StationThe Loon Lake Road First Aid sta-

tion is closed. For the past 38 years Ethel Smith has operated the station on a volunteer basis and it has been a great benefit to the community and those passing through. A big bouquet

of thanks to Ethel for her many years of dedicat-ed services to the residents and visitors of Loon Lake Road.

Dangerous Dogs

On Apr. 18 the TNRD approved the first trial year of a Danger-ous Dog By-law. Our area is not among the areas ask-ing for the service and I do hope that

those areas feeling the need for such a bylaw find that this pro-posal works for them.

The cost will be $.0621 per 1,000 dol-lars of assessed property value in the four areas in the programme. Reading through the draft bylaw, the plan seems quite reasonable and I am looking for-ward to reading about the experience of the first year.

Even though the Loon Lake Road residential area is about as high density living as you can find on the Bonaparte Plateau, we live in large enough spaces that it is not so difficult to avoid other dogs and I don’t think we need this additional tax or service. I could fore-see the dangerous dog label being mis-used when two neighbours get into a dispute over something else, but to be fair I think the bylaw has tried to ad-dress this issue.

I know many residents and guest regularly walk Loon Lake Road for ex-ercise and a dog running out at them could be an irritation. However most owners of larger dogs are quite respon-sible and would take action anyway if their dog was aggressive.

TNRD websiteThe TNRD has made some changes

to its website and some of them have resulted in easier and improved access to information on the web. Well done, TNRD.

Once again there will be no Haz-ardous Waste Round up held at Loon Lake. However, residents of Loon Lake Road can take advantage of one held in Cache Creek on May 4 at the Visitor’s Info Centre (at Hwy 98 and Stage Rd.). Examples of hazardous materials in-clude: adhesives, aerosols, antifreeze, batteries, corrosive/toxic liquids, gas-oline, kerosene, mercury and mercury containing items (i.e. old thermostats), paint, paint thinner, PCB ballasts, pesti-cide/herbicides, pool chemicals, pro-pane tanks, oil, oil filters & plastic oil containers, cleaners, compact fluores-cent (CFL) light bulbs, fluorescent light tubes, fertilizer, expired fire extinguish-ers, grease and tar.

Health service for Loon LakeIn talking with residents of Loon

Lake Road, many indicate their prime concern regarding access to services is the issue of local medical services and

a local hospital. While the new doc-tors in Ashcroft are welcomed, it is still a big concern that when discussions about local health services in Ashcroft occur, it is with the mayors of Ash-croft and Cache Creek, and the 1000-plus year-round and seasonal residents of Loon Lake are not considered in the picture. We are paying taxes for hospi-tal improvements but they are happen-ing elsewhere. Now would be a good time for more residents of Loon Lake to call, write or speak to candidates in the current provincial election about this issue.

Seed savingAmazingly, a great number of

the kale plants and Swiss chard over-wintered and are sprouting again. This is not supposed to happen here but I am glad for it, as I will let these plants go to seed and save them for next year’s planting.

Since reading Susan Swan’s (Strik-ing A Balance) article last fall on sav-ing tomato seeds, I have decided to try and save more seeds. Last year I saved seeds from my tomatoes and they all germinated well this spring, so with that success I am encouraged to try for more. Other easily saved seeds are dill, coriander, asparagus, radish, calendula, hollyhock, delphinium, marigold (ta-getes), larkspur and corn flower.

Some little surprises found in the garden this week include self-seeded tulips and flowering alliums and I will watch those for seed to be gathered as well. Both the native clematis and pul-satilla (pasque flower) set seeds here but they are best planted fresh in the fall when they are gathered, so anyone who wants seeds from these can contact me to arrange to get some in the fall.

Local seed exchanges give me even further opportunity to pass on what I don’t need and find something new and locally hardy. There will be seed ex-changes in both Cache Creek and Clin-ton this weekend, which is a great idea - however, I think there should be some seed exchanges before April, especially for those seeds that need a six to eight weeks head start. This would allow gar-deners to make plans and assemble the seeds they plan to grow.

The Loon Lake Garden Club is planning to make garden ornaments as well as hold a plant exchange. Some Loon Lake Road gardeners will be at the Farmer and Flea Market in Cache Creek on May 4 and I will bring my ex-tra seeds for the seed exchange there.

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By Tom FletcherBlack PressVICTORIA – Relief

from carbon tax on farms and promotion of B.C.-grown agricultural products are key promises in the cam-paign for the May 14 provin-cial election.

The B.C. Liberal Party and the B.C. NDP have argued for a decade about the best way to promote lo-cal food consumption. The NDP platform promises to reinstate the “Buy B.C.” pro-gram that identifies products grown anywhere in the prov-ince.

The B.C. Liberal govern-ment ended that program, and in 2012 it committed $2 million to regional “Buy Lo-cal” promotions that they say

are more adaptable to local needs. The party’s current platform promises to double that funding to “promote 50- and 100-mile diets.”

Neither party is specific about assistance for tree fruit growers. The NDP pledg-es to “help orchardists with replanting and other costs,” while the B.C. Liberals offer to “begin work on a perma-nent and sustainable tree fruit replant program, to be implemented following the current three-year, $2 mil-lion program.”

In its pre-election budget, the B.C. Liberal government has offered $20 million in carbon tax relief for green-house and flower growers, in addition to an exemption for coloured gasoline and diesel

used on farms.The B.C. Green Party

proposes major reforms, in-cluding phasing out synthet-ic chemical pesticides, ban-ning genetically modified crops such as canola and re-moving taxes on value-add-ed B.C. products such as juices and wines.

Platform highlights:• The B.C. Liberals

promise a new meat inspec-tion system by 2014, includ-ing a new “Certified B.C. Beef” brand. The party also wants to create a “Centre of Excellence for Agriculture” at the University of the Fra-ser Valley.

• The B.C. NDP prom-ises $8 million per year start-ing in 2014 for agriculture programs. Plans include pi-

lot programs to use B.C. produce in hospitals and long-term care facilities.

• The B.C. Conservative platform promises only to “introduce policies that sup-port, farmers, ranchers and others.” The party emphasiz-es its pledge to phase out the carbon tax on all fossil fuels, citing its role in poor finan-cial performance by B.C. agriculture relative to the rest of the country.

• The B.C. Green Party would prohibit further re-lease of top-rated land from the Agricultural Land Re-serve, and “provide small grants to support municipal-ities and school boards that wish to maintain and expand community gardens and urban agriculture.”

Few things more important than Mothers Day

Agricultural policies from the main parties For news items or events, call Wendy at 250-453-2261 for or email her at

editorial@accjournal.ca

M is for May and Mothers. How important is Mother’s Day?

More than 60 countries celebrate Moth-er’s Day on the second Sunday of May.

On this day it is common for moth-ers to be remembered with presents and special attention from their loved ones.

Mothers are honoured and thanked by millions of people the world over for their efforts in giving them life, raising them and being their constant support and well-wisher.

My Mother’s Day gift came ear-ly this year. On April 15 our Toron-to daughter was running the Boston Marathon. Her husband was with her but did not run this race. We could track her time on the computer and knew that she had finished the race but we couldn’t communicate with her. Calls were not getting through on their cell phones. Often runners will hang around the finish line waiting for their fellow competitors to get in, taking pictures, etc. We did not know where she was. It was hours before we learned that she had crossed the fin-ish line about 40 min-utes before the bombs exploded; hours be-fore I heard the sweet-est words “Hi! mom” over the ‘phone. She was alive and well and safe. What a gift in-deed.

We think of May as the start of sum-mer but it’s really still Spring. We won-der aloud when will Mother Nature de-liver up warm, sunny days. May is looked forward to as a time for renewal in the gar-den, a time for plan-ning our summer ac-tivities, and just get-ting outdoors without half freezing.

In Clinton it is the month to cele-brate Heritage Week beginning with the Victoria day week-end. Many sen-iors are involved in the staging of ac-tivities that week and also enjoying the various events. The Annual Ball, this year is May 18. The Old Timers’ Tea is well attended and the visiting and chat-ter will happen May 24. The May Pa-rade starts off Saturday, May 25 fol-lowed by the Lions Beef on a Bun and Rodeo.

Some of the seniors have been help-ing out with the school lunch program.

Thank you to the businesses and establishments who have supported the Canadian Cancer Soci-ety’s Daffodil Campaign in the month of April with boxes and

daffodil pins available for their clients. April 27 was Daffodil Day to spread awareness of cancer and the work of the Society which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

The next regular meeting of the Clinton Seniors Association is May 16 following noon lunch in the Clin-ton Seniors Centre at 217 Smith Ave. Come and join us!

Chairperson of the Clinton Sen-iors Association is moving away this month and our thanks and good wish-es go with her for her efforts to head up our organization. Helene Cade will be Chairperson until the Annual Gener-al Meeting in November. Thank you, Helene.

Have a Happy Birthday, Sharon, on May 29. Happy Birthday also to Bud Cade on May 9.

Rockin’ & tAlkin’Clinton Seniors Association

Zee Chevalier

May 2013 • Week 1ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you may feel like you need to move faster to get ahead, but the opposite is true this week. Slow down and focus on the details and you will bene� t.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, though the � rst few days of the week may seem disastrous, hang in there and you will � nd things will turn around quite quickly.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, sometimes you have to make some noise to be heard, which may seem out of character for you. If the cause is that important, you will do what is necessary.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, you can’t get enough of a certain thing, but you may need to pace yourself. Otherwise your interest may start to wane. A surprise situation arises on Thursday.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, there are things you need to say to a particular person in your life. But you do not know how to express your opinions in a way that’s easy to understand. Speak from the heart.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 You may be feeling a bit under the weather this week, Virgo. It’s likely due to you pushing your schedule to the limits. Schedule some recovery time for yourself.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you need to rely on someone this week for a big project, but you don’t know who to choose. Make a list of your best prospects, and then you can narrow it down from there.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 You can use a break from the daily grind, Scorpio. It might be time to plan a getaway. You may want to make this a solo trip so you can fully recharge.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 The truth can sometimes hurt a bit, Sagittarius. But a dose of honesty this week provides the reality check you have been needing. Make some changes.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, an event this week gets you � red up and excited. It could be the news you have been waiting to hear from work or from a signi� cant other.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, knowing when to keep quiet can be dif� cult, especially when you suspect something is off-kilter. This week you will be put to the test.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, the week may begin somewhat aimlessly, but things will all come together by the middle of the week.

LORIWELBOURNEloriwelbourne.com

ON A BRIGHTER

NOTE

No need to be picture perfectLooking through old

photos from when my kids were young, I’m hard-pressed to find very many of myself in there. The reason for this is because I was too busy being the photographer and I would forget to hand the camera over to someone else. The other reason is that I typically didn’t feel presentable and preferred being behind the lens rather than in front of it.On the rare occasion

that I thought I looked good enough, and I actually remembered to ask, my husband would snap a few. Unfortunately, I didn’t keep many of the pictures he took because I’d invariably find fault with my

appearance and throw them out.Good grief. I kick

myself for that now. It shouldn’t have mattered how I looked. Photographs of me, especially with my children, are important.“There’s hardly

any of you,” Sam and Daisy have complained when looking through our scrapbooks and

photo boxes. I know exactly how they feel since I’ve felt the same way about the lack of pictures of my mother.But it’s our own

fault. Like my g r a n d m o t h e r s , we were too self-conscious to pose, and we probably didn’t want to waste money getting photos developed that would just wind up in the

garbage.When I first met my

husband he’d attempt to take my picture, but he was rarely successful. Trying to get snapshots of someone who is uncooperative and camera-shy gets tiresome. Thank goodness for my mother-in-law who obviously didn’t care and knew better. Perusing her photo

albums is an entirely different experience because there aren’t just prints of my husband and our kids, there are actually some of me in there too. Even p r e - p a r e n t h o o d pictures, which Sam and Daisy love.“Is that you?”

my nine-year-old

daughter asked, pointing to an image of me from 19 years earlier when I first started dating their daddy. “You look so young, Mama.”I did look young.

Young and thin. Ironically I didn’t want to get my picture taken back then because I felt too plump. What was I thinking?It’s obvious looking

through her album that my size fluctuated dramatically over time, particularly during the first few years after my kids were born and I wasn’t quick to lose the extra baby weight. But seeing photos of me with my children at various stages of their lives, no matter

how I looked, isn’t just a treat for them, it’s a treat for me as well.Since turning 40 I

haven’t objected to getting my picture taken like I used to. It’s not that I think I’ve become more photogenic, I just care more about capturing moments and less about looking perfect. I still feel like I

should be doing way more of it though.My brother has

always snapped a ton of his family, and I’ve noticed my dad doing the same as he’s become more sentimental. I need to follow their lead.In this digital age we

can take an unlimited number of pictures

and not worry about getting rolls of photos developed and ending up with a bunch we don’t want.Now when we have

images printed, we can hand-pick exactly what we want and save or trash the rest. There’s no such thing as taking too many pictures anymore.There also should

be no such thing as waiting to look perfect.That kind of attitude

might work in the modeling world, but in the real world where memories matter, it doesn’t make sense.

Lori Welbourne is a syndicated columnist. She can be contacted

at LoriWelbourne.com

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There are many ways to find inspir-ation. From people on TV, friends, family, co-work-ers, or people you read about. Many people I meet in the fitness world inspire me, but I met a young boy a few months ago who really inspires me.

We were out for a group run one Saturday with the club and this young boy named Sam Ad-amson joined in for a 10 km run. At only 9 years old, I was very curious to see how well he would do. I carried his water bottle for him, but it turned out he didn’t really need it, I’m not sure he even broke a sweat keeping up with rest of the group. In fact, after watching him tie up his loose shoe-lace and then sprint to catch up to the group, I knew that they were in actually slowing him down.

I had a chance to do an inter-view with him for this month’s arti-cle and is is what he had to say.

LW: Congratulations on run-ning the 10k at the boogie the bridge on Sunday. What was your time?

SA: 52 minutes, 30 seconds.LW: That’s a great time. I know

many adults who struggle to get under one hour for the 10k. How

did the race go for you? What was your favourite part?

SA: The music.LW: How long

have you been run-ning?

SA: Four years.LW: How did you

get into running?SA: Wanted to

spend more time with my father Dave, who is also an avid runner.

LW: Who inspires you?

SA: My dad.LW: What other

sports do you do?SA: Soccer, karate

and I also swim.LW: What do you

enjoy about soccer and karate?

SA: Soccer is great exercise, great sports-manship and teamwork. Karate, to defend myself and because I enjoy it.LW: What are your

plans in the future?SA: By the time I’m 12 I would

like to do a full marathon, and maybe a triathlon.

LW: What is your opinion about so many children in US and Canada being obese?

SA: I thinks it’s very sad and parents should be getting their kids to exercise at least an hour a day.

LW: Do you agree that the Ash-croft area is a great community to enjoy recreational activities like trail running, etc?

SA: Definitely, because of the hills and great weather.

LW: Anything else you would like to say?

SA: Running is awesome!!LW: How do you feel when

your running?SA: Like I’m invincible and I

could go forever.

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Living Well

Art throughout the summer

Energy and inspiration

Sam Adamson, 9

Another painting year has come to a close for th Ashcroft Arts Club. We welcomed new members, new and exciting art, as well as our long time members.

The Art Show this year (Apr. 20-23) was a resounding suc-cess, featuring painting, photog-raphy and very funky sculptures.

The first place winner of the Peoples Choice is Wet Spring by Pauline Ogilvie. First place in Students Choice is Leopard by Kobus Kitshoff. Second place pick in both catagories is Bob-cat/TotemPole by Doug Tucker of Clinton.

Next up in our art world is the 2nd Annual PleinAir Paint-Out on May 22nd-23rd. Every-one is welcome to sign up for a fun time.

July and August will once

again see our annual ArtWalk around Ashcroft. Lots going on this summer in our area.

Sharon Rennie

Bobcat and totem pole - Doug Tucker

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Legal Notices

PLEASE TAKE NOTE that in accordance with the

Warehouse Lien Act the following vehicle will be

sold by Chanor Truck and Auto Repair, 1323 Highway

97, Cache Creek, BC on May 31, 2013:

1993 Chrysler Intrepid Vin#2C3EH56T8PH507672belonging to Kashia Moore

of Terrace BC. Amount owing is $6724.50

NOTICE TO CREDITORSRE: The Estate of Anton

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Community Volunteer GroupsThe Royal Canadian Legion #113301 Brink St., Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0Phone: 250-453-2423 Fax # 250-453-9625

South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society601 Bancroft St. Box 603, Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0250-453-9656

Ashcroft and District Fall FairContact Person: Janna 250-457-6614Contact Person: Jessica 250-457-7128

Second Time Around201 Railway Ave., Ashcroft BC Anne Bonter 250-457-9781

BC Lung Association Carolyn Chorneychuk,Director 250-453-9683 Email:carelee67@gmail.com

Ashcroft & District Rodeo AssociationPhone: 250-457-9390

SCI Thompson River, B.C. ChapterKen Brown - Phone: 250-453-9415

Ashcroft Yoga GroupCall Marijke - Phone: 250-453-0050

Desert Bells Handbell ChoirCarmen Ranta 250-457-9119

Sage Sound Singers Adult Community Choir Michelle Reid 250-457-9676

Cache Creek Communities in Bloom Committee Carmen Ranta 250-457-9119

Cache Creek Beautification Society(and Farmers Market) Judy Davison 250-457-6693

Ashcroft and Masonic LodgeZarthan Lodge No#105Contact Person: Fred Dewick Phone 250-453-2415

Canadian Red Cross - Health Equipment Loan Program (H.E.L.P.)Ashcroft Hospital - 250-453-2244

Ashcroft & District Tennis AssociationContact Person: Maria Russell MartinPhone 250-453-9391

Ashcroft & District Lions ClubContact Person: Lion Vivian Phone 250-453-9077

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Assc.601 Bancroft St., Ashcroft, BC Phone 250-453-9762

The Ashcroft & District Health Care Auxiliary Thrift Store601 Bancroft St., Ashcroft, BC Phone 250-453-9944

347 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet CorpContact Person: Lt. (N) Curran 250-319-3461Alexine Johannsson 250-453-2661email: darrin.curran@cadets.gc.ca

Sage & Sand Pony ClubDistrict Commissioner: Marcie Downsageandsandspc@hotmail.com

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Rotary ClubContact Person: Denise Fiddick Phone 250-453-9547

Desert Spokes Cycle SocietyPhone 250-457-9348

Ashcroft Curling Club Phone 250-453-2341

Ducks Unlimited CanadaAshcroft/Cache Creek Volunteer ChapterPhone 250-374-8307 Ashcroft Volunteer Fire Department

Phone 250-453-2233

Cache Creek Volunteer Fire DepartmentPhone 250-457-9967

Bridging to LiteracyContact Person: Ann Belcham 250-453-9417

Ashcroft Royal Purple Phone 250-457-9122

The “Purpose of Sunday” Car ClubPresident: Tom Lowe 240-457-6564

Cache Creek Recreation SocietyContact Person: Jackie Phone 250-457-9122

Winding Rivers Arts and Performance SocietyContact Person: Nadine 450.453.9100

South Cariboo Sportsmen Assc. #3366Attn: Marian Pitt, Box 341, Ashcroft BC V0K 1A0

Soccer AssociationContact: Sandi Harry Phone 250-457-9366

Minor Hockey AssociationContact: Lewis Kinvig Phone 457-7489 or 299-3229lewis.kinvig@rona.ca or lewiskinvig@hotmail.com

Historic Hat Creek RanchContact: Jack Jeyes Phone 250-453-2259

Soups OnSt. Alban’s Anglican Church Hall, 501 Brink StreetTel: 250-453-9909 or 250-453-2053 - All Welcome

Ashcroft Communities in BloomContact Persons: Andrea Walker 250-453-9402 or Marijke Stott 250-453-0050

Taoist Tai Chi Contact Person: Danita HowardPhone 250-453-9907 e-mail: dangre@telus.net

Ashcroft Hospice ProgramShirley 250-453-9202 or Marijke 250-453-0050

Kinsmen Club of South CaribooContact Person: Dave 250-453-9062

May 7th and 8th, 2013NAOSH Days Timetable

Day Time EventTues. 7th May 10:00 am Indoctrination with School Students 10:30 am Flag/Banner raising, Welcoming, Prayer Declaration of NAOSH week 11:00 am Mine Rescue Demo Health and Wellness Fair includes: Diabetic (Blood/sugar) testing Blood Pressure & Cholesterol testing Healthy Eating Habits/Fitness 11:30 am Fire Extinguisher Demo - Nutech 12:00 noon Bar-B-Que Luncheon: Hamburgers/ Hotdogs 12:30pm Injured Olympics/Fatal Vision Goggles Race Safety Demo’s: Personal Protection Equipment Fundamental Safety Rules Lock Out Tag Out 1:00 pm Prizes drawn Closing Speeches

Wed. 8th May 9am-Noon Health and Wellness Fair includes: Diabetic (Blood/sugar) testing Blood Pressure & Cholesterol testing Healthy Eating Habits/Fitness 12:00 Noon Bar-B-Que: Salmon, Chicken, Salads 1:00 pm Closing Speeches

Injured Worker Talks at Ashcroft, Lillooet and Lytton Senior Secondary Schools

Pavilion Ts’kw’aylaxw Plant 1306 Highway 99 Halfway between

Cache Creek & Lillooet

The Journal Thursday, May 2, 2013 www.ash-cache-journal.com A 15COMMUNITY

Child care and early education policiesby Tom FletcherBlack PressVICTORIA – Child care

policies offer a clear choice be-tween the B.C. Liberals and the NDP in the May 14 provincial election.

Premier Christy Clark wants to take a provincially fund-ed savings account set up for each child born since 2007, and hand out $1,200 to parents who open a Registered Educa-tion Savings Plan to begin sav-ing for post-secondary training. Former premier Gordon Camp-bell established the fund when the B.C. government was enjoy-ing budget surpluses, before the 2008 downturn in the world economy.

That’s added to the B.C. Lib-eral “early years strategy” that includes full-day kindergarten, $142 million for child care sub-sidies, $34 million for “Success by Six” programs in 225 com-munities, and an additional $32 million promised over three years to help create new licensed child care spaces.

NDP leader Adrian Dix has promised to cancel the RESP and other new spending, and re-direct it to a “Family Bonus Pro-gram,” a direct subsidy of up to $70 per month, per child for low-income families starting in

2014.The NDP plan would pay the

full amount to families with an-nual income of $25,000 or less, with payments decreasing on a sliding scale to families with income under $66,000. Apply-ing to all children under 18, the bonus program is projected to cost $210 million a year.

Platform highlights:• The B.C. Conservative

pre-election platform offers no specific programs for child care or early childhood education. Its September 2012 policy docu-ment supports “the principle that parents are the child’s first and most important teachers.”

B.C. Conservatives also sup-port a school voucher system, “ensuring that taxpayers’ dol-lars follow the student to provin-cially approved educational op-tions,” and the principle that so-cial services be “delivered by community-based organizations rather than directly by govern-ment.”

• The B.C. Green platform promises to create “local child care trusts” monitored by the provincial government. Prom-ised services include “child care, in-home support, emergency and crisis services, a guaranteed livable income and safe and ad-equate housing.”

The B.C. Green platform of-fers no costing estimate for any of its programs.

• The B.C. Liberals would require school districts to pro-mote use of school property by licensed child care providers from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on week-days, and create a province-wide child care registry.

• The B.C. NDP would im-mediately double earnings exemption for employable in-come assistance recipients, and allow a further exemption for child maintenance payments.

Children play in the Cache Creek park

Change for the Better Means$45 Million to rebuild rural healthcare.

Vote Change for the BetterVOTE Harry Lali

authorized by dean Morrison, financial agent, 250-378-6697

XHarry Laliharrylali.bcndp.caAshcroft 250-453-9253

A 16 www.ash-cache-journal.com Thursday, May 2, 2013 The JournalCOMMUNITY

The first hospital for Ashcroft & District was offi-cially opened in August of 1913 and the hospital aux-iliary was formed. In 2000, the name changed to the Ashcroft and District Health Care Auxiliary.

The Thrift Shop opened and in 1974 moved to its present location. The Auxiliary has a dedicated team of volunteers that give generously of their time to work at the Thrift Shop. Other members visit the long term care residents twice a week as well as participate in and assist with their recreational activities. The Auxiliary funds many of the programs of entertainment and re-creation for the residents.

The Auxiliary, as well as most members of our com-munity, have with reluctance acknowledged that the small rural hospital can no longer provide the special-ized medical care that is necessary in today’s world of medical treatment. It is with this in mind that we not only support the Ashcroft Hospital and Community Health Centre for the purchase of medical equipment – we also support the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation, BC Children’s Hospital, Variety – the Children’s Char-ity, and BC Cancer agency for cancer research.

We now have three doctors in the community which gives us a better opportunity to have extended emer-gency room hours. We believe a well equipped rural hospital is able to provide better care and emergence treatment with modern up to date equipment that meets the standards of the electronic age and is able to transmit medical information to our regional hospital.

At the request of the manager of the Ashcroft Com-munity Health Site, we have budgeted to purchase two Cardio-Vital Signs monitors, as well as participate in the purchase of a new cardiac defibrillator and an Ultra-sound.

It is our goal to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Auxiliary by donating $100,000 to the health care facilities and agencies that provide health care to all the members of our community.

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Ashcroft Mayor Andy Anderson presents members of the Ashcrot & District Health Care Auxiliary with a plaque to mark their 100th anniversary. Irene Trueman, Shirley Holowchuk and Fran Helland made a short presentation to Council at the Apr. 22 meeting where they received the plaque.

ADHCA sets $100,000 goal