Eagle Valley News, December 19, 2012

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Vol. 53 No. 51 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Proposed work complete on

Two Mile CreekPage 2

Regional district urged to act on climate change

Page 7

Holiday Train: The CP Holiday train rolled into Sicamous Saturday night with entertainers Doc Walker and Miss Emily Brown providing a musical dose of Christmas cheer, and CP Rail a cheque for $2,000 to the Eagle Valley Food Bank. Those attending the show also helped out the food bank with $820 in cash donated as well as 1,090 lbs of food. Photos by James Murray and Victoria Rowbottom

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December 21 & 22 - $2 Bag Sale at Sicamous United Church Thrift Shop. 10 am - 3 pm. Clothing & Shoes. The shop will close Dec 22 at 3 pm and re-open Jan 2nd at 10 amDecember 24 - Candlelight Services at Sicamous United Church. 7 pm. All are welcomeDecember 24 - Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. 6 pm at the Sicamous Bible Church, Corner Hwy 97A and Kappel StreetDecember 24 - Christmas Eve Service. 7 pm at the Shuswap Community Church, 905 Parksville St.Every 1st & 3rd Tuesday- Sicamous Lions Club meets at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre, 1090 Shuswap Ave, Sicamous. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm. Everyone Welcome. For info contact Joan at 250-836-4876 or Kathy at 250-836-3267Every 1st & 3rd Wed.- Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509.Every 1st & 3rd Wed. Eagle Valley Photography Club starts on Oct 17. Everyone welcome. 7 pm at the Red Barn.Every 4th Mon.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99

general meeting, 7 p.m.Third Sunday of the month -Regular meeting of the Eagle Valley Artisans Guild. 3:30 pm - Red Barn, Sicamous. Guests welcome. For info contact Terry Sinton: 250-836-4613.Every Monday and Thursday -Chairbiotics (low impact exercise) Seniors activity Centre 10:00 am. Join us. $2 each.Every Mon. & Fri. - Bridge, Seniors Activity Centre, 1 p.m.Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10 am - 3 pm starting September 5. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472

Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.Every Wed. - Seniors Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for infoEvery Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.-Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal

Canadian Legion Branch #99. Everyone welcome.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 to 9 p.m., Sicamous Health Unit.Every 3rd Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:30 in the Malakwa Hall.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at Catholic Church. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club, Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! Every Sat. - Outdoor market – back parking lot of Sicamous Legion $10/space. No booking required. No required start or end times. Every 1st & 3rd Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Royal Canadian Legion #99 at 7:00 pm.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 p.m.Last Saturday of every month -Sicamous Royal Canadian Legion #99 Ladies Auxilliary dinner 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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Province commits $1.5 million for water

It appears Sicamous is $1.5 million closer to a new water treatment plant.

At last Wednes-day’s council meeting, Mayor Darrell Trou-ton read a letter from B.C. Community, Sport and Cultural Devel-opment Minister Bill Bennett which, among other things, related to his Oct. 17 visit to the community when he presented to the district a cheque for $50,000. The funding was ear-marked for a pilot proj-ect that would test pro-posed water treatment technology over about a six-month period as the province works with its federal partners to come up with funding options for construction of a new water treatment fa-

cility for Sicamous. After reading the let-

ter, Trouton had some good news for council and members of the community present. The mayor said he had since been in contact with Bennett, and that the province has “come to the plate with $1.5 million,” for construc-tion of a new water treatment facility.

What’s been pro-posed, Trouton con-tinued, is a one-thirds funding approach, with the B.C. government, the federal government and the District of Si-camous each kicking in $1.5 million towards the plant.

“At this point I be-lieve it is a 100 per cent commitment – where they’re going to get it from, I’m not sure,” Trouton later told the News. “They felt they

have avenues not ex-propriated in the bud-get, and that they could come up with that.”

Trouton said he’s also contacted Okana-gan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes on the matter.

“So the federal gov-ernment hasn’t neces-sarily come forward yet, and they’ve asked us to apply for gas tax fund-ing through UBCM for the million and a half. We’re applying now,” said Trouton.

Adding to this, the mayor said the federal government is also look-ing at trying to help the district with its share.

Bennett’s letter makes note of a com-mitment made by Pre-mier Christy Clark at this year’s Union of B.C. Municipalities conven-tion to set Sicamous’ water issues right.

“Darrell, I want

you to know this, be-cause Bill (Bennett) has asked me to make sure we set this right. I know you need that water supply fixed, and we are going to help you do it,” said Clark.

Asked for his thoughts on the pro-posed three-way cost sharing, Trouton was appreciative.

“You always hope for more; because it’s a disaster situation – a lot of the funding is covered 100 per cent, depending on what’s happening. But as a major infrastructure part, we need a wa-ter treatment facility,” said Trouton. “So, with them coming forward with one-third… it’s pretty good as well. So I’m pretty happy with the outcome.”

As for the federal side of things, Trouton

says they’re trying to do all they can for the district.

“We’ll continue to work at it; its a work in progress,” he said.

Regarding the pi-lot project, district works services man-ager Grady MacDon-ald said that so far, indications are that the membrane technol-ogy being tested will work for Sicamous. He expects to have all the necessary data by March. With a com-mitment for funding, and approval from Interior Health, Mac-Donald suggested the final $4.5 million project could go out to tender by the end of August 2013. Con-struction would con-tinue throughout the winter, with the facil-ity brought online in May or June of 2014.

Cost sharing: District may pay one-third of $4.5 million facility.By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Residents will receive no break in January water billing

Sicamous residents will see no break on their water billing in the new year.

When given the op-tion to amend the dis-trict’s water schedule by pushing ahead by a year, a scheduled, 10-per cent increase for metered accounts (ef-fective July 1, 2012), as well as unmetered ac-counts – to be reflected on the Jan. 2013 bill-ing, or proceeding with the increases as planed, council chose the latter.

District financial services director Ruth

Walper, explained the options were brought forward in response to a request by council to see what could be done for residents whose wa-ter service was severely impacted by the June 23 debris flow in Two Mile Creek, and subsequent flooding from Mara and Shuswap lakes.

“Right now, we’re showing $150,000 was paid out for potable water, and that funding, if it isn’t covered, will come from the water fund eventually. So that would mean there’s ad-ditional costs involved over and above what we

normally experience,” Walper explained, add-ing that could be offset by surpluses. But she then went on to explain, the district could see revenue losses in 2013 of up to $60,000 as a re-sult of residents taking up water metering.

“We were hoping that would be offset by the 10 per cent in-crease, said Walper. “Of course, that depends on how quickly people convert to the metered accounts.”

Mayor Darrell Trou-ton brought forward the motion to keep the water fee schedule as

is. He said there is still uncertainty as to wheth-er or not the district’s expense of bringing in potable water for flood victims will be covered by the province. He also said the district will re-quire the funding for a proposed water treat-ment facility, estimated to cost $4.5 million.

“We’re going to need these reserves to move forward,” said Trouton. “We also, through our public works, did a fab-ulous job of maintain-ing and having water to the areas for washing clothes, fire safety, you name it. So, I have a

hard time bringing any other option forward.”

Coun. Terry Rysz concurred, stating the public recognizes the need to improve water in Sicamous.

“So, at the end of the day, it doesn’t seem like anybody is that concerned about the fact that they’ve got to dig into their pockets a wee bit more to support that,” said Rysz.

Council unani-mously supported the mayor’s motion, though Coun. Fred Busch warned council to be prepared for negative feedback.

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The work is done at the mouth of Two Mile Creek, but whether or not the district will be on the hook for mainte-nance and monitoring remains to be seen.

On Aug. 3, represen-tatives of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure hosted a public meeting in Dis-trict of Sicamous coun-cil chambers, during which they proposed a fix for Two Mile Creek. What the ministry wanted to do, as ex-plained by MOTI dis-trict manager Murray Tekano, was armour the sides of the creek up 1.8 metres from the bed with large angular rock. This armouring would run from the creek mouth up to the highway bridge.

“The benefit of this channel – over just leaving it the way it is – is that the chan-nel is armoured, riprap armours the channel, it reduces the likeli-hood the river is going to move itself out…,” said Tekano. “If it’s not done, there are areas which, unfortunately in the future, flow events are going to erode.”

Tekano emphasized the fix would go further to help remedy dam-

age from future flood-ing events, such as the June 23 debris flow that saw the creek shift and devastate a large part of the Two Mile area. He also explained the $250,000 project would be completed only if the district agreed to take respon-sibility for monitoring and maintenance of the armoured portion.

To date, the district has not signed any agreement with MOTI,

which proceeded to complete the works anyway.

“Work to repair the highway following the flooding event has es-sentially wrapped up, and the highway has been restored,” MOTI spokesperson Kate Trotter explained in a Dec. 3 email. “Work to armour the Sicamous Creek channel down-stream below the high-way bridge was com-pleted in September.

The costs for these works have been borne by the province.

“A maintenance agreement for the downstream works on Sicamous Creek has been proposed, and is with the municipality for review.”

District administra-tor Heidi Frank says she cannot comment on the matter as it is in camera.

“All I can tell you is that the proposed agree-ment has been forward-

ed to legal for review,” Frank explained in a Dec. 6 email.

MOTI’s proposed fix had several critics at the Aug. hearing, one being Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trouton, who warned of potential li-ability concerns, and called the proposal a “Band-Aid solution.”

“Why would the district ever want to get involved in this at this point in time?” asked Trouton.


MOTI completes work on Two Mile Creek

Floodgates: MOTI district manager Murray Tekano explains plans for armouring at the mouth of Two Mile Creek during an often heated public hearing held in August. Tekano said the work would be done provided the District of Sicamous agreed to monitor and maintain it. File photo

District’s call: Sicamous still on the hook for maintenance costs.


VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark has com-pleted the traditional round of year-end interviews with legislative press gallery re-porters. Here are excerpts from my discussion with her, dealing with the En-bridge oil pipeline proposal and the balanced budget her government has promised to present in February.

TF: On the Enbridge project, are you getting the answers you want on safety?

PCC: No, we’re not. We’ve set out our position. The five conditions need to be met, period.

[B.C.’s conditions are “world-class” land and ma-rine spill prevention and response, meeting legal obligations for aboriginal consultation, passing feder-al-provincial environmen-tal assessment and a “fair share” of financial benefits.]

PCC: We need the oil-patch producers, the Alberta government and the federal

government to come to the table. We’ve been cross-examining Enbridge. We have not been getting any of the answers that we hoped to get. We haven’t gained a lot of comfort from that pro-cess. And none of the other conditions are even close to being met.

We are doing our own study of marine traffic. We want to understand the total number of ships that are out there plying our coast right now. Because all of them have fuel in them, and some are cargo ships that are big enough to have enough [bunker] fuel as a mini-tanker would.

Part of this is trying to understand where our level of Coast Guard protection needs to be today, in order to protect us should there be a spill from the existing traffic.

TF: Balancing the bud-get: the finance ministry’s current projections call for an upturn in natural gas roy-alties in the coming year. With the current glut of

gas, isn’t that kind of far-fetched?

PCC: It is going to be dif-ficult to present a balanced budget, but I think, because we’re going to build in some [forecast] allowance, as we always do, and because we’re going to be complete-ly transparent about the as-sumptions that have led us there, and because we aren’t going to fiddle with any of the assumptions that we receive from the experts in the Ministry of Finance, it’s going to be quite clear that we have done it. We have come by a balanced budget honestly.

So when it comes to natural gas, you know that the assumption we use in the budget is based on a fairly complex formula that the Ministry of Finance has relied on for probably a de-cade now. We don’t fiddle with that. There are those who would say we should artificially lower the [reve-nue projection] number that we use. But if you artificial-ly lower it, what’s to stand

in the way of artificially raising it? You either accept the advice of your experts or you don’t. And they’re the experts, not the politicians.

TF: Right now we have a deficit gap of more than a billion dollars. Can that be closed without significant spending cuts, or tax in-creases, or both?

PCC: You will see when we get to the budget. And it will be absolutely trans-parent how we got there. [Laughs] Nice try.

TF: If the B.C. Liberals form a government in May, will the election date be changed so we don’t have to have this discussion about questionable spring election budgets?

PCC: It’s not part of the plan today, but I’m sure it’s a discussion we’ll have in the next four years. I know that people have talked about it. I’m open to it. I’m not wed-ded to this particular date.

Next week I’ll have high-lights from my year-end in-terview with NDP leader Adrian Dix.

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One could just imagine the complaints and claims of discrimination if a male premier decided to meet only with men

and closed the doors to members of the other gender.

But it’s apparently OK for Premier Christy Clark to get together only with women, as she did in Vernon Friday, and leave men sitting on the sidelines.

The explanation from Clark’s office is “she works in a man’s world,” and these women-only sessions provide her with a different point of view.

Now there is no question that the political and business worlds continue to be dominated by men, and women may focus on some different issues of importance than their male counterparts. But there are also likely a number of similar con-cerns, including the economy, job creation, edu-cation and health care. Those topics go beyond gender.

Clark has suggested that half of the population isn’t well represented when it comes to access to the premier, but how many male residents in the North Okanagan feel their needs have been repre-sented by this government?

And if Clark truly wants to address issues of concern and open dialogue with constituents, shouldn’t her local representative be involved? But because of his gender, MLA Eric Foster had to leave the room.

Despite the image Clark is trying to portray, these gender-based, invitation-only meetings are more indicative of a government in trouble. The Liberals only have the support of 21 per cent of women in B.C., according to a recent poll, while the NDP has 52 per cent.

Clark is trying to prop up her popularity before voters head to the polls in the spring.

Ultimately, it will be interesting to see if the premier’s actions resonate with women or if women just see this as another case of politicians pandering to them.

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mailbagHarper selling out nation’s resources

What kind of gov-ernment favours selling out the long-term sus-tainability of its own country’s natural re-sources, the long-term health of its environ-ment, the health and employment oppor-tunities of its people over providing in-house jobs through refinement and manufacturing?

For what reason, you say? All for a short-term economic gain? What about the long term costs to exporting jobs, environmental clean up after the fact?

What kind of a gov-ernment ignores the expressions of concern and requests for pub-lic and parliamentary consultation by tens of thousands of Canadians in regards to the Nexen Oil sell-out to state owned Chinese Oil corporation CNOOC? What kind of govern-ment also refuses public consultation and/or par-liamentary debate on the final ratification of a foreign trade protection treaty or FIPA with Chi-na? This pending trea-ty will lock Canada into a contract for an unprec-edented 31 years with China, providing un-precedented access to Canadian raw resources and unprecedented power to secretively sue Canadians at any level of government or orga-nization for blockage of access to these resourc-

es or the ecosystem holding them. What kind of a government systematically prepares for such invasive for-eign investment by first watering down envi-ronmental and endan-gered species protection laws, slashing envi-ronmental protection policy, scientific moni-toring capabilities and departments like the Pa-cific Coast Guard?

Did you know that just recently our gov-ernment lifted the pro-tection on all but 62 rivers across this broad and beautiful country? What kind of a govern-ment refuses to learn from the pitfalls of the NAFTA treaty with the U.S.; a treaty already costing Canadian tax-payers yearly in legal fees and payouts for Ca-nadian governments re-fusing access to natural resources and sensitive ecosystems that are sud-denly threatened by for-eign exploitation? The pending China-Canada treaty makes Canadi-ans, their resources, their environment and jobs far more vulner-able then the NAFTA agreement has, yet al-ready we are hurting because of NAFTA.

The answer to all the above questions would be the Harper-led, Con-servative government, a government looking and feeling more and more like a dictator-

ship as each day passes with their refusal to en-gage parliamentary debate and the behind-the-scenes, purpose-ful policy changes and de-regulation around environmental pro-tection and monitor-ing. This government is dragging tens of thousands of Canadians against their will, in the opposite direction to most civilized, environ-mentally conscientious countries. Is that what you want as a Cana-dian?

What can the aver-age Canadian do to take back their power to self determine; to provide for the safe and healthy future of their children and grandchildren? We can write Prime Minister Steven Harper and our local Conservative mem-ber of Parliament to let them know that we don’t feel they are act-ing in the best interest of our country or our people and that they won’t have our vote in the next election. Copy your letters to all feder-al party leaders so that they know what your stance is. Copy your letter to our provincial leader, Premier Chris-ty Clark and MLA

George Abbott and to all provincial party leaders so that they too, can be held ac-countable for what is their responsibility to us provincially. Make it an election issue in B.C. as well. Support organizations like the Council of Canadians, David Suzuki Founda-tion and Leadnow.ca as they campaign for the rights of Canadi-ans, the protection of the our resources, our ecosystems and home grown jobs. Support a government that puts our environment first and recognizes that our sustainable future, eco-nomic and otherwise, lies in the development of green-energy sys-tems and industrial ini-tiatives.

Most of all, we need to pay attention to what our governments are doing. The Canada-China FIPA could be ratified before Christ-mas or anytime after, when it is long gone from your mind and if it is ratified, the recent sell out of Nexen to CNOOC of China will take on a whole new life!

Think about it and don’t be fooled by the fact that so many criti-

cal government ma-nouevers are happening at a time when most people have their heads in a haze of Christmas activity and plans.

There is nothing up front or honest about this federal Conserva-tive government and it is time for Canadians to take back the destiny of this country. Do it for your children and their children, please. As a grandmother, I fear for the future of my grand-children and so should you.

Pam Beech


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SICAMOUS EAGLES PLAYER PROFILE

Nathan Grieve

Position: Forward Home Town: Salmon Arm, BCAge: 18 Height: 6’ 4” Weight: 205Prev Team: Sicamous EaglesHobbies / Interests: Golf, video gamesPersonal Hero: My ParentsGoals / Objectives: Get a scholarshipFavorite NHL Team: Vancouver CanucksFavorite Player: Sidney CrosbyFavorite Music: Hip hopFavorite Food: LasagnaWhat do you like best about playing hockey in Sicamous:

Being able to live at home

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communityUnearthing the roots of the poinsettia

One of the Christ-mas traditions we all love is to own or give a beautiful poinsettia.

I still catch myself calling it a ‘poinset-tia,’ which is a hard habit to break from my childhood days when I couldn’t pronounce it properly.

It had never occurred to me that this plant actually turned into something else until I visited a private garden in Kenya years ago and there before me stood a 12-foot high poinset-tia tree! That was news to me, and I confess I haven’t learned much about them since. So I’ve dug out some more interesting points about the poinsettias.

The poinsettia (Eu-phorbia pulcherrima) is a plant species of the diverse spurge family that is native to Mexi-co and (yet to be con-firmed by botanists) in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. They are popu-lar and widely grown in subtropical climates such as Australia, South America and Af-rica.

It derives its name from Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first U.S. Minister to Mexico, who introduced the plant in the states in 1825, which now cele-brates a National Poin-settia Day on Dec. 12.

It is a shrub or small tree, typically reaching

a height of two to 16 feet, and to date there are more than 100 cul-tivated varieties. The plant bears dark green dentate leaves and the coloured bracts – which are most often flaming red, but can be orange, pale green, cream, pink, white or marbled — are often mistaken for flower petals because of their groupings and co-lours, but are actually leaves. The colours of the bracts are created through photoperiod-ism, meaning that they require darkness (12 hours at a time, for at least five days in a row) to change colour and at the same time, the plants require abun-dant light during the day for the brightest colour. The flowers of the poinsettia (cyathia), are grouped within small yellow structures found in the center of each leaf bunch, but are unassuming and do not attract pollinators.

The Aztecs used

the plant to produce red dye and as an anti-pyretic medication. To-day it is known in Mex-ico and Guatemala as “Noche Buena,” mean-ing Christmas Eve.

The plant’s asso-ciation with Christmas began in 16th century Mexico, where legend tells of a young girl named Pepita who was too poor to provide a gift for the celebration of Jesus’ birthday, but instead was directed by an angel to gather weeds from the road-side and place them in front of the church altar. Crimson “blos-soms” sprouted from the weeds and became beautiful poinsettias. From the 17th century, Franciscan friars in Mexico included the plants in their Christ-mas celebrations. The star-shaped leaf pattern is said to symbolize the Star of Bethlehem, and the red colour repre-sents the blood sacrifice through the crucifix-ion of Jesus. In Spain it is known as “Flor

de Pascua, ”meaning “Easter flower,” and in both Chile and Peru, the plant became known as the “Crown of the An-des.”

In 1900, a German immigrant named Al-bert Ecke landed in Los Angeles and started selling poinsettias. His son, Paul developed the grafting technique, but it was the third genera-tion, Paul Ecke, Jr. who advanced the associa-tion between the plant and Christmas. Until the 1990s, the Ecke family had a virtual monopoly on poinset-tias by having created a bushier plant by graft-ing two varieties to-gether. However, their method was eventually discovered and pub-lished, which allowed competitors to move in.

Paul Ecke III, de-cided to stop producing plants in the U.S., but as of 2008, they still serve about 70 per cent of the domestic market and 50 per cent of the world market.

With care, the poin-

settia can be induced to ‘reflower’ after the initial display when purchased. They pre-fer a well-lit room with moist but well-drained soil.

Poinsettias are sus-ceptible to several dis-eases, mostly fungal, but also bacterial and parasitic, and has a mild toxicity level.

I kept one of these plants years ago and it grows like a tall bonsai by my kitchen win-dow, still healthy and happy. Most of us keep them for the season, so when it ends, don’t just chuck it out in the gar-bage. Honour it by cut-ting it up and putting it into your compost so it can contribute to a healthy soil supply for this coming gardening season.

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The Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) is inviting residents of Electoral Ar-eas ‘A’, ‘C’, ‘D’, and ‘E’, who wish to serve on their Community Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, to complete and return an Expression of Interest Form. The Expres-sion of Interest Form and related information is available on the CSRD website at www.csrd.bc.ca, or by contacting the Environment & Engineering Services Department as listed below. CSRD staff will review all submissions and will schedule meetings with all applicants beginning in January 2013.

The Commission will assist the CSRD by en-suring it receives thoughtful and comprehen-sive advice from a representative group of individuals with local knowledge and interest in the parks and recreation needs of the com-munity.

Commissioners are required to meet a mini-mum of four times per year. Terms are two years in duration, concluding December 31, 2014.

Individuals who best satisfy the following re-quirements will be recommended to the CSRD Board of Directors for appointment:

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• Desire to share knowledge and experi-ence in a range of subjects relevant to community parks and recreation plan-ning, management and development (e.g. parks management and operation, recreational facilities and programming, construction and engineering, environ-ment, youth, seniors, business, geogra-phy, education, arts and culture).

Please submit a completed Expression of Interest Form by Friday, January 4, 2013 to:

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The Shuswap Agriculture Strategy project is meant to support the growth of the agriculture sector of the Shuswap region in order to create a sustainable agriculture economy, promote protection of agriculturally capable land, and to integrate existing economic and land use policies into future CSRD strategic plans. Tasks of the Committee and members include:

• To develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) and select a Consultant to work in collaboration with the Committee to complete the Shuswap Agriculture Strategy;

• Attendance at SASSC meetings (approximately once per month) and to assist and guide the development of the Shuswap Agriculture Strategy; and,

• Attendance at community consultation meetings and to assist in soliciting public comments during the development of the Agricultural Strategy.

Expression of Interest forms is available on the CSRD website at www.csrd.bc.ca.

Interested individuals in the City of Salmon Arm, the District of Sicamous, the CSRD Electoral Areas C, D, E, and F that are interested in participating are requested to forward a completed Expression of Interest form by email, post, and fax or in person before 4 PM on Friday January 4, 2013 to:Robyn Cyr, Economic Development Of� cerColumbia Shuswap Regional DistrictPO Box 978Salmon Arm BC V1E 4P1Email: [email protected]: 250-833-5928 Fax: 250-832-3375

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mental Action Society president Jim Cooper-man took his group’s concerns about climate change to last week’s Columbia Shuswap Regional District board meeting.

“Our goal today is to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change and the need for precautionary, adapta-tion measures to protect citizens, property and natural values,” he said.

In his presentation, complete with graphs and photographs, Cooperman provided an overview of devas-tating global weather events over the past year.

He told directors some of the possible impacts of climate change in the Shuswap include: insect infesta-tions that destroy for-est stands and lead to greater snow accumula-tion and faster run-off; increase in the number and severity of forest fires; increased fre-quency of floods and droughts and massive storms that cause flood-ing and erosion.

Cooperman then turned his focus to this year’s debris flow and flooding in the Si-camous area.

“At Swansea Point, the big question in mind was how could this happen again,” he asked. “Why didn’t government learn from the 1997 Hummingbird slide and take action to prevent future slides?”

Cooperman’s next question was directed to the regional district.

“Is the CSRD lob-bying the provincial government to build the debris basin and bridge they promised in 2004, or will you wait until the next flood?”

Cooperman offered directors and staff a number of suggestions to reduce the impact of climate change in the regional district, some of which, he pointed out, were provided in 2007 by Sarah Weaver of Living By Water.

These included pro-tecting shorelines, im-

proving storm water management, develop-ment planning, public education and com-munity dialogue, deter-mine where flood plains are located and improve drainage systems, iden-tify and protect high-elevation water sources, interface fire planning and risk-reduction strat-egies and ongoing dia-logue with government and the scientific com-munity.

CSRD development services manager Ger-

ald Christie took issue with some of the con-tent of Cooperman’s presentation, noting it made it sound like there is a lack of regulation in regards to protecting water quality, the lakes and development from things such as flooding and septic systems.

“The point I would like to make is we do have development per-mits in place around most of the lake or they are imminent such as the Area C (South

Shuswap) OCP which is about to be imple-mented,” says Christie. “For Mara and Shus-wap lakes, and White Lake and Little White Lake, there are, or will be, development permit requirements.”

The 30-metre riparian area regulation develop-ment permit deals with

development proposed within 30 metres of any water course.

There is also a hazard-ous area development permit requirement for any development pro-posed on slopes greater than 40 percent.

In addition, Area F has building inspection, which considers all the above points.

Christie says the ac-tion taken following the 1997 Hummingbird slide was not a CSRD decision.

“The CSRD does not approve subdivisions – it is the Ministry of Transportation and In-frastructure,” he said. “Certainly, we continue to liaise; we are always in consultation with the province on a variety of issues, including Swan-sea Point .”

CSRD on defensive for environmental policiesBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

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The Sicamous Ea-gles are one game away from wrapping up 2012 on a nine-game win-ning streak. And the odds that they’ll do it look good.

Sicamous’ last game of the year will be an away contest versus the Chase Heat. The Heat were only lukewarm when it came to scor-ing Friday night when they suffered a 10-3 loss on home ice to the Sicamous Eagles.

Sicamous’ Nathan Grieve turned the pow-er play into the sole goal in the first frame, with the assist going to Jamie Gallo. Things heated up in the second

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In the first minute of the third, Taekema upped Sicamous’ lead to 7-2, with assists by Devries and Alex Dartnall. Minutes later, Opel potted his second of the evening off Dart-nall. Devries followed suit soon after on the power play off Opel. Goal number 10 came just after the halfway mark courtesy of Mar-cotte, aided by Opel and Taekema.

Chase did not give up, however, and put in their final goal at the 14 second mark.

The Eagles’ Sunday

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STEEL BUILDINGS /metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or online:www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 250-863-3082 in TownPURCHASING old Canadian & American coin collections & accumulations. 250-548-3670

Real Estate

Other Areas20 ACRES FREE! Buy 40-Get 60 acres. $0-Down, $168/mo. Money Back Guarantee. NO CREDIT CHECKS. Beautiful Views. Roads/Surveyed. Neaer El Paso, Texas. Call 1-800-843-7537.www.sunsetranches.com

Rentals

Homes for Rent2 bedroom loft on farm in MARA, $650./mo includes utilities. 1-(250)838-6630ONE BDRM. COTTAGE on waterfront acreage near Mal-akwa. $500/mo plus hydro and D.D. 250-836-2829.

SICAMOUS: 2bdrm. walking distance to schools & stores, avail. immed. $650/mo. (250)832-2850 (250)832-8510

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Eagle Valley News, December 19, 2012