Eagle Valley News, January 02, 2013

EAGLE VALLEY

NEWS Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013

Vol. 54 No. 1 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

2012 in Review

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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 250-836-3267

Every 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 welcome

Every 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 info

Every 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 @ 250-836-3652

Every 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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Man and sons killed in residential fireThis week the News

reviews the headlines from January to June.

January

A fire in a mobile home on Green Road south has claimed the lives of three Sicamous residents. Daniel Vol-lans, 28, and his two sons, Devlin, 4, and Lealan, 3, perished in the fire. Sicamous fire-fighters responded to the fire about 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 1 to find the residence fully en-gulfed. Kara Wagner, the 25-year-old fiancée and mother of the two boys, was working the late shift at the local Tim Hortons at the time of the fire.

Police do not believe the fire to be suspicious.

Amazing is how Bri-anna LaRoy describes the outpouring of gen-erosity she has seen for her friend Kara Wagner. Since then, support has been pouring in from all over B.C. and Alber-ta, says LaRoy, noting a family in Toronto made a donation after seeing the story in the news. And a woman in Cali-fornia, she adds, is do-nating a percentage of all the money she earns this month. Calls of support and donations have also been coming for a benefit auction or-ganized by LaRoy and Niki Stelmak, at the Si-camous Legion Friday, Jan. 20.

Property values in Salmon Arm and Si-

camous are decreasing. A property in Salmon Arm valued as of July 1, 2010 at $342,000 on the 2011 assessment roll, went down to $336,000 on the 2012 roll. In Si-camous, a $364,000 property dropped to $351,000.

Sicamous RCMP confirm that unscrupu-lous scammers are try-ing to take advantage of people hoping to help Kara Wagner.

Reports recently sur-faced that someone has been calling residents in the region trying to take credit card numbers un-der the guise of making a donation to Wagner.

Salmon Arm and Si-camous spent Decem-ber and now into Janu-ary with much drier

weather than usual. At the Shuswap Lake re-cording station, Decem-ber temperatures aver-aged -1 degrees C while the normal average would be -3 degrees C. In addition to the warm temperatures there has been a lack of moisture.

The Sicamous Ea-gles are determined to bring home a banner in the new year, though they’re not exactly off to the best of starts. They played and lost a trio of home games against the North Okan-agan Knights (4-3), the Revelstoke Grizzlies (5-3) and the Osoyoos Coyotes (4-2).

Administration at the District of Sicamous has undergone signifi-cant change, starting

with council’s termina-tion of the district’s con-tract with former chief administrative officer Alan Harris, and the re-tirement of deputy man-ager Mary Geall. Asked about the position the new council now finds itself in, Mayor Darrell Trouton says there will be challenges ahead, but assures he is up to the task. Trouton said the district is already adver-tising for an interim ad-ministrator, and council has agreed to undertake an assessment of district operations.

Coun. Fred Busch recommended that let-ters be written to the gas companies, asking why the price is so high in Sicamous compared to neighbouring com-munities. As of Jan. 16, gas prices in Si-camous were 123.9 and 124.9. Gas was also 124.9 in Revelstoke. It was 116.5 in Enderby, 119.9 in Salmon Arm and 117.5 in Vernon.

Sicamous continues to rank among the top snowmobiling destina-tions in the province. Snoriders West maga-zine has released the results of its 13th An-nual Rider’s Choice awards. Sicamous is once again recognized as a premier destina-tion by sledders, cap-turing 14 awards in 12 categories.

The Sicamous Nov-ice Predators travelled to Chase on Saturday, Jan. 14 to do battle in

the Chase Colts Novice Tournament. The Pred-ators’ first game was against the Kamloops Hawks. The Predators came away with an 18-0 win versus the Ka-mloops Hawks in nov-ice tournament action Saturday. The Predators then beat Logan Lake 13-2. Game three pitted the undefeated Chase Colts. The Preds came away with the champi-onship with an 8-4 win.

The squeaky wheel appears to have trig-gered a break at the pumps. Less than a week after Sicamous council committed to do something about lo-cal gas prices, the price at the pumps dropped from 124.9 to 119.9, putting Sicamous on par with Salmon Arm.

Thirty-three thou-sand dollars was raised at an auction/dinner/dance fundraiser at the legion for Kara Wagner, who recently lost her family and home in a fire. Brianna LaRoy, a friend of Wagner’s and one of the event’s orga-nizers, was awed by the success of the auction. The auction puts the to-tal raised for Wagner at more than $48,000.

The Sicamous Ea-gles went from heroes to heartbreak over the weekend with an OT win against the Rev-elstoke Grizzlies fol-lowed by a 5-1 loss to the Kamloops Storm.

Sorrow: Kara Wagner poses with sons Lealan and Devlin, who died in a fire on Jan 1. File photo

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ice Predators held their annual tournament on Jan. 20-21. Ten teams from throughout the Okanagan attended and the hockey was outstanding. The Preds conquered the Lumby Rock Stars with a de-cisive 4-0 win. The Predators’ second game was against Merritt Warriors, with Mer-ritt winning 5-1. The third game against West Kelowna Thunder was a 6-4 win for Sicamous.

February

Malakwa volunteer firefighter Cam Sal-mond was left homeless after a fire destroyed his Delaney Road mobile home on Jan. 29. Sal-mond admits his fire-fighter training had not prepared him, mentally, for a fire in his own home.

As he was head-ing out the back door, Salmond’s fire pager went off – he was being paged to attend the fire at his own home.

“I’ll never quit” Sal-mond says of the notion of leaving the fire de-partment after his per-sonal loss. “It just gave me a better understand-ing of fire.” Various fundraising efforts were held to help Salmond.

Mayor Darrell Trou-ton announced that on Jan. 24, council had hired Doug Ruttan as

interim district admin-istrator.

Don Richardson would like an oppor-tunity for him and his fellow Sicamous Coun-cillors to seek divine guidance at the start of district committee of the whole meetings.

“I’m not saying church and state mix-ing. What I’m saying is we set up a process that recognizes a divine power that in my mind, would help direct us,” said Richardson.

A bench will be set up in the Finlayson Park playground to honour the memory of Devlin, Lealan and father Dan-iel Vollans, who died in

a Jan. 1 residential fire. On Friday, Feb. 4,

the Sicamous Eagles enjoyed a hard-earned 5-2 win against the Kimberley Dynamiters. A similar scene played out on Feb. 5, when the Storm evaporated be-fore the Sicamous audi-ence, and wound up on the losing end of a 6-3 tally.

Three Buoy’s Todd Millar says there’s al-ready been a lot of buzz behind the scenes about the company’s stalled resort development on Riverside Avenue becoming a post-sec-ondary institution. Talk moved beyond closed doors when Millar, at the district committee

of the whole meeting, formally announced Three Buoy’s intentions to make Mara Lake College a reality.

Crossing Highway 97A at Parksville Street should be a little safer with the addition of a pedestrian-activated signal.

Recently released

figures from the 2011 Statistics Canada cen-sus show Sicamous bucked the provincial trend of population growth. Instead, Si-camous’ population dropped by 8.8 per cent since the 2006 census from 2,676 to 2,441. The population of Elec-toral Area E, Sicamous-Malakwa also dropped. From 2006 to 2011, the numbers declined by 12.6 per cent, from 1,528 to 1,335.

By the end of 2011, the Sicamous Eagles were flying high, win-ning games and grow-ing stronger as a team. And then they had a two-week break. What emerged from that was a team that seemed to have gone back to square one.

Team manager Wayne March ques-tions whether a two-week break was in the best interest of the team. Regardless, the Eagles have since got it togeth-er to earn a spot in the payoffs.

The B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) awaits a ruling from the B.C. Labour Rela-tions board on whether it would be allowed to walk off the job for eight days over a two-week period. In the meantime, BCTF is preparing to vote on the strike action. Teachers in the Okanagan-Shus-wap were out on the streets protesting Edu-cation Minister George Abbott’s decision to proceed with legislation that would bring an end to the year-long teach-ers’ contract negotia-tions.

The Sicamous Chamber of Commerce has proposed something of a partnership with the District of Sicamous, in the form of a district-funded position that would be responsible for the maintenance and management of a community events cal-

year in review

Firefighter escapes blaze in own home

Daring escape: Malakwa volunteer firefighter Cam Salmond recalls his experience escaping a fire in his own home. File photo

Continued from page 2

See Eagles on page 5


The Conservative gov-ernment’s decision to plod forward with legislation that will compel unions to reveal to all how and where they spend their money is, naturally, making unions angry.

Union officials have argued Bill C-377, which passed the House of Com-mons and will become law if and when it passes the Senate, is an unnecessary, unconstitutional invasion of privacy that treats union finances differently from other private corporations that benefit from similar tax breaks with respect to tax-deductible donations.

The House of Commons finance committee also learned mandating union fiscal transparency won’t come cheap. The Canada Revenue Agency estimates it will cost $2.4 million to administer the bill for the first two years and about a million dollars per year thereafter.

Of course, that figure is a

very rough estimate, based on fewer than 1,000 sub-missions, a number even the Parliamentary Budget Office concedes is likely too low.

On a scale of 1 to 10 among issues that are of crucial importance in Can-ada right now, this private member’s bill on the cusp of becoming law sits at about 11.

However, on a scale of 1 to 10 on the hypocrisy meter, Bill C-377 and its supporters are No. 1 with a bullet.

Consider the Conserva-tive MP who created this contentious bill — South Surrey-White Rock-Clo-verdale’s Russ Hiebert, who spends your tax dollars with as much frugality as a dip-somaniac at closing time.

“I believe there is a genuine public purpose served by requiring finan-cial transparency in all institutions that receive a substantial public benefit,” Hiebert said during the bill’s debate.

This is the same politi-cian who was anything but

transparent when asked to explain his obscenely high expense tab as an MP in the 2008-2009 fiscal year, when he charged $637,000 to the taxpayer — the high-est of any MP in B.C. and second-highest among all MPs across Canada.

He claimed the rich fig-ure was related to his deci-sion to fly his family back and forth to Ottawa (a prac-tice that, while allowed, is nonetheless a grotesque waste of public funds), yet the fact much of the spending ($400,000 of the total) came from other ar-eas prompted many on his election district association to resign last year.

It’s not only Hiebert being the author of Bill C-377 that makes the pro-cess so odious.

It extends to Conserva-tive party MPs who voted in favour of this legislation — and only five Conserva-tives voted alongside oppo-sition parties to oppose it.

These would be the same Conservative MPs who in 2010, along with their Liberal and NDP

counterparts, vociferously opposed allowing then-auditor general Sheila Fra-ser to audit their spending habits.

Transparency in how unions spend their money? Absolutely.

Transparency in how MPs dish our cash? Are you crazy?

The vast majority of MPs reveal superficial in-formation regarding how they spend your money and are still not required to reveal detailed receipts.

In the 2011-2012 fiscal year, Canada’s 308 MPs spent a collective $121.3 million, which is a 34 per cent increase from about a decade ago, when 301 MPs spent a collective $90.1 million.

The dollars have in-creased; information linked to those loonies have not.

When it comes to union spending, our governing MPs demand the transpar-ency of air; when it comes to how they spend your money, they cling to the transparency of lead.

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Politics putting school districts in lousy position

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Anyone questioning the sincerity of Christy Clark’s families-first agenda need only look at the province’s latest

demand on B.C.’s school districts. B.C. Education Minister Don McRae has asked

school boards across the province to submit sav-ing plans by mid-January detailing how they will cut 1.5 per cent from their budget to cover the cost of wage increases. This includes their 2012-13 budgets, passed earlier this year. Furthermore, the cuts must not negatively impact programming for students.

“To be clear, generated savings obtained by boards must not negatively impact the delivery of education programming for students,” states McRae in a letter received by school boards, including North Okanagan Shuswap School Dis-trict #83.

Not surprisingly, school boards are displeased with what McRae is calling merely a “request” to meet a 1.5 per cent “target.” That target, for SD#83, amounts to $600,000 this year alone, and is expected to double in the coming year.

“We have closed schools, cut staff, re-done our transportation system — we run a pretty tight ship. There’s really nowhere to turn without cut-ting programs and that means taking away ser-vices from kids,” responded SD #83 board chair Bobbi Johnson.

A Sunshine Coast trustee has called the letter “the most inflammatory piece of correspondence we have ever received from the ministry.”

The reaction is warranted. For McRae’s request could easily be construed as an egregious piece of politically motivated government downloading.

One of the ugliest battles faced by the prov-ince annually is that between teachers and gov-ernment over wage increases. What better way to circumvent this – before the looming May provincial election – than shifting the burden to school districts? In doing so, the B.C. Liberal government comes out smelling like a rose, right?

It smells pretty rotten from here.

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I, Robert Earl, would like to take a moment to write a letter to express my thanks to the people that helped me to put my mother’s home back together. She has asked me to write on her behalf as well, so here it goes.

On June 23, 2012 we were faced with one of life’s greatest challenges, how to replace a home with nothing. We were told an act of God took our home. I don’t

believe that for a minute. The act of God I experienced came from the kindness of people. Thank God for good neighbours. Mike Whitehead was here right away al-though he was faced with the same kind of losses. He was needed in such a big way to fix the creek, but yet lent us equipment and was there to help when he found spare moments.

For putting your trust in me, I thank you. I will scratch operating an excavator off my bucket list. Haha! We would like to thank Darin Northway for being there right away when we needed our gravel and being patient with us. We would like to thank Sicamous Electric, Bruce Krahn, you and your men do awesome work. Thank you for your patience as well. To our neighbours, Dave and Susan, thank you and your girls for helping us through our time of need, and for helping Esther Erickson set up a relief fund for Mom. And to those who donated, thank you. Thank you Bruce Alexander for helping with repairs and putting some humour in my life at that point.

We would like to thank the Baptist Church for their generous donations. To the wonderful ladies from the Bible Church, thank you for generous donations and your awesome goodies. To the Mennonite community, thank you ladies for the goodies and to the men, well done! I’ve never seen anything so amazing as the way you work together and your generosity is overwhelming. Thank you. Tarnow Homes for all your patience, understanding and all the extras that you provided. We love the new home. So happy we chose your company.

Thank you to Shea Weber and Cody Franson for donating funds to the community for disaster relief, and to Corrinne Cross, Diane Whitehead, Joan Thomson and all the others involved in forming the committee to look after funding, thank you. Thank you to my brother Les, Beth and Cathy for looking out for Mom and I love you lots. Thank you for the disaster relief funds from the government. If not for that we would not have a home. Last but not least, we would like to thank the Red Cross for coming to our community and helping with all our needs. You really made me smile...Kudos to everyone and may God speed for you all.

Yours truly,

Robert Earl and Dolly SjodinIf I have missed anybody, my apologies.

Leave the past, the future is here. Let us welcome a happy New Year.


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The odds may have been stacked against the Sicamous Eagles going into the payoffs versus the Revelstoke Grizzlies. But after two significant wins and one narrow loss, the Eagles are at the top of their game, and their division. Sicamous took a 5-1 win in their first playoff game. The Eagles clinched a 8-5 win in another game on Revelstoke ice. Si-camous hosted game three of the playoffs. A good crowd showed up to support the home team, but the Grizzlies still managed to take the game with 4-3 win.

March

Teachers carried signs of protest as they walked up and down Main Street, smiling and waving as people drove by. A lack of funding has already led to the closure of one school in the area and, Sicamous teachers are concerned what will happen as resources

continue to decline.“It’s beyond ridicu-

lous the amount of ser-vices that have been cut from our schools in the last five years, let alone the last 10,” says ERS math/science teacher Desiree Marshall-Peer.

Shuswap Emergency Program co-ordinator Cliff Doherty confirms that a new rescue boat is expected to arrive in April or May. This will be operated by the first freshwater crew of the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary, whose mem-bers have been training steadily since Novem-ber. The boat and crew will be stationed in Si-camous.

The Eagles toppled the Revelstoke Griz-zlies 4-0 in game seven of the payoffs, held ear-ly Monday morning in Revelstoke.

Jessie Kennedy hopes to embark on the ultimate field trip, one that will expose her to an utterly foreign way of life, while open-ing her eyes further to the power of positive change. Kennedy has been selected to take part in a Me to We trip to Kenya. Kennedy’s journey will begin on

March 16, 2013, when she flies with Me to We to Nairobi, Kenya. Over 11 days, she will travel to the Me to We camp on the outskirts of the Masai Mara wildlife reserve. To be a part of this rare opportunity, Kennedy needs to raise $5,000 by December. The Sicamous Lions Club have already helped Kennedy with a $400 payment to guar-antee her spot on the trip. The Lions will be working with Kennedy on other fundraisers, throughout the year to get her on her way.

On Monday, the Lib-eral government ended debate in the legislature over Bill 22, the Educa-tion Improvement Act. The bill, expected to be passed with a vote in the legislature on Thursday, will bring about an end to the B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s ongoing job action that escalated with a three-day walk out.

Total grant-in-aid dollars being doled out by the District of Sicamous in 2012 amounts to $65,788 almost $10,000 more than budgeted

The Ministry of Community, Sport and

Cultural Development is writing a cheque to the District of Sicamous worth $314,989. The money, funded through the ministry’s Com-munity Recreation Pro-gram, will go towards a number of projects at the curling rink, and to upgrades in Finlayson Park.

They didn’t win the Okanagan Confer-ence, but the Sicamous Eagles certainly didn’t give it away. The Ea-gles’ battle for the re-gional title ended in a 4-3 double-overtime defeat by the Kelowna Chiefs at Kelowna’s Rutland Arena.

April

Shuswap residents

should not feel pow-erless when it comes to pulling the plug on smart meters. So says District of Sicamous Coun. Don Richard-son who, with council, agreed to draft a letter to BC Hydro calling for a moratorium on the controversial wireless devices.

Mary Geall can look forward to re-retirement now that she has re-turned to her former administrative duties with the District of Si-camous.

Teachers in School District #83 have voted to recommend the re-moval of all voluntary services, including

year in review

Eagles come back to make playoffsContinued from page 3

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Pre-Novice: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmAtom: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Lunch Bunch: 12 pm - 2 pmPublic Skating: 2 pm - 4 pm

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SATURDAY JAN 05Pee Wee Game: 9:00 am - 10:30 amAtom Game: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm

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Regional District is inviting Expressions of Interest from individuals interested in participating on the Shuswap Agriculture Strategy Steering Committee (SASSC) for the term of January, 2013 – March, 2014. The SASSC will consist of up to 10 volunteers who will participate in the development of the Shuswap Agriculture Strategy.

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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were required to utilize resources of the Pro-vincial Emergency Pro-gram twice in response to two reports involv-ing snowmobilers. The first report came at 5:25 p.m. It involved a man who had broken his leg after his snowmobile went over a 30-foot cliff on the Bjorn Glacier, 25 kilometres north of Sicamous. The second report, received five minutes later, was of an Alberta man missing in the Owlhead sled-ding area, southeast of Sicamous. Police say the man was uninjured, but tired from having walked all night in deep snow.

April 22 to 28 is BC Arts and Culture week. It is when hundreds of arts organizations and schools across the prov-ince will be participat-ing in celebration of the arts. Together with the Eagle Valley Arts Council, the Eagle Val-ley Brush and Palette Club launches their an-nual Art Walk during Arts and Culture Week. The Art Walk is a favou-rite of our community and there is lots of local merchants who display

art work by our local artists. Art, in one form or another, be it music, film, books, visual and media arts or theatre, is part of our daily lives.

With a zero per cent tax increase in 2011, the district’s 10-year finan-cial plan had projected a tax increase of 2.5 per cent for 2012 and 2013. “We came in at 1.25, and we still accom-plished a lot of things that we wanted to get done,” says Mayor Dar-rell Trouton.

Sicamous has an active 4-H club in its midst. There is a strong enrolment for a first-time club, with multiple projects. The club’s seven juniors have been lent heifer calves from both DeWitt Holsteins and the Dari Delte farm. All of the juniors and all

of the Cloverbuds have gardening projects.

While executing a search warrant at a Larch Avenue home on Wednesday, April 18, investigating officers discovered a marijuana grow with about 1,000 plants in various stages of growth. The inves-tigation actually began earlier this month after RCMP heard from con-cerned residents. Then, on the 18th, Salmon Arm RCMP officers assisting the Sicamous detachment pulled over a vehicle associated with the residence. Fur-ther investigation led to the arrest of the ve-hicle’s sole occupant, a 41-year-old Surrey man. As a result of this arrest, investigating of-ficers were able to ob-tain the search warrant.

While the need for food banks remains strong, they alone are not the answer when it comes to providing Canadians in need with accessible, nutritious food. Pam Beech, presi-dent of the Eagle Valley Community Support Society, which over-sees the operation of the food bank in Sicamous, is concerned with the growing reliance she sees on the food banks in B.C. She believes the provincial govern-ment needs to address the matter through the creation of a poverty re-

duction strategy.

May

Gwen Stead was awash with pride in her community Friday morning, April 27 af-ter an army of family, friends and folks she didn’t know worked through the night to keep her Kerr Road res-idence from flooding.

The rain was relent-less Thursday, April 26, pouring heav-ily throughout the day. This, combined with higher temperatures, re-

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sulted in a rapid rise in stream and river levels in the region, includ-ing Owl Head Creek, which runs right behind Stead’s.

A 36-year-old Mal-akwa man was shot in the neck early Saturday as he tried to stop the rip-off of a marijuana grow operation. Po-lice say the man drove himself to Vernon Ju-bilee Hospital about 3:30 a.m. Saturday for treatment of a single gunshot wound. There, hospital staff noti-fied police. Police say they’re confident the shot was a drug-related, targeted attack.

From May 31 to June 3, the Sicamous Amateur Drama Club will stage its annual comedy. This year’s piece is a two-act play entitled, The Blue Bon-net Sisterhood.

FortisBC has be-gun looking at what it can do to bring its infrastructure into the District of Sicamous. FortisBC spokesperson Neal Pobran says the company is in the early stages of determining whether the delivery of natural gas to the dis-trict is feasible. Mayor Darrell Trouton and district interim admin-istrator Doug Ruttan met with the FortisBC reps when they were last in town. Ruttan and the mayor see the avail-ability of natural gas as giving the community a needed edge in attract-ing new business.

The temperature’s rising – and so are wa-ter levels. Flooding on the Eagle River could become an issue if high temperatures continue into the following week. And residents who live in areas that have flood-ed before, should buy and stack sand bags to protect their properties.

Malakwa’s Co-lin Martin was one of four men arrested last month on U.S. extradi-

tion warrants. It was reported last week that Martin, James Gregory Cameron, Sean Doak and Adam Christian Serrano were picked up by the RCMP for a court appearance. The four are facing charges in Washington State, where authorities first uncovered a cross-border drug smuggling ring that eventually lead to nine arrests and the seizure of marijuana, cocaine, firearms and helicopters.

North Okanagan mayors are among those demanding marijuana be decriminalized. A coalition of eight B.C. mayors is urging Pre-mier Christy Clark, NDP leader Adrian Dix and B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins to support the strict regulation of marijuana and taxation. Sicamous and Salmon Arm may-ors, Darrell Trouton and Nancy Cooper are not part of the coalition.

The standards may have changed, but the water remains pretty much the same. Or so said Sicamous staff in council, in response to a question why the dis-

trict has been seeing so many water-quality ad-visories of late.

“They’re not boil wa-ter advisories, they’re water-quality adviso-ries, and they’re due to the turbidity with runoff and that type of thing,” said district works ser-vices manager, Grady MacDonald. “It’s some-thing we have to do; it’s an Interior Health requirement. Until we get a filtration system in Sicamous, we will con-tinue to do that.”

The Malakwa Learn-ing Academy is proud to acknowledge Brook-lyn Mohr and Owen Willey for their contin-ued participation in the Legion Poster Contest. This year, Brooklyn’s poem and Owen’s co-lour poster were award-ed first place at both lo-cal and zone levels.

The Sicamous Lions Club held the Winter-fest awards dinner on March 20. Congratula-tions to the 14 riders who raised more than $8,500 for Children with Disabilities in B.C.

Curbside garbage pick-up was a reality in Sicamous, but only

for two days, only for certain waste, and it didn’t cost residents a thing. The District of Sicamous followed through with a recom-mendation of its Eco-nomic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC) to initiate a volunteer-run cleanup day, where residents could dispose of metal and yard waste free of charge, in an attempt to help beautify the com-munity for residents and tourists.

Summer-like tem-peratures are forcing rapid snow melt and that has local residents on alert.

“Now is the time to be ready,” said Brent Watson, with North Okanagan Emergency Management, which oversees emergency preparedness in the re-gion. “We don’t expect catastrophic flooding but we shouldn’t be sur-prised either. It happens every year.”

Declining enrol-ment and associated revenue for the coming school year look to put the School District #83 short more than $1 mil-lion. The School district

is projecting to be down another 250 students next year.

The Sicamous Pee-wee boys baseball team, now known as the Yel-low Jackets travelled to their first game on May 10 to play Salmon Arm 2. Salmon Arm edged out the Yellow Jackets 7-5.

A TV crew was in Sicamous May 11 to film an episode of ex-treme houseboating – extreme luxury that is. Powderhouse Produc-

tions was on location in the Sicamous area film-ing one of a six-episode series on houseboating, which will be featured on the Travel Channel this fall.

Sicamous was well represented in Canada’s largest street hockey tournament, Hockey Night in Canada’s Play On!, held in Kelowna. There were two teams from Sicamous, includ-ing the Sicamous Whal-ers and the Siccy Swag. The Whalers wailed on the competition, taking first place in their divi-sion, while the Swag pulled through with a respectable third-place showing in their divi-sion.

The Sicamous An-gels ladies fastball team hosted their annual Ladies Open Fastball Tournament on May 26-27 in Finlayson Park. This 16-team, “A” calibre tournament is a favorite for competitive ladies fastpitch teams throughout Western Canada and is free to

the public.

The District of Si-camous is stepping up its mosquito control program this year, treat-ing areas of concern that, in the past, were considered off limits. Sicamous council has agreed to instruct the district’s mosquito con-trol contractor, BWP Consulting Inc., to treat with larvicide certain “grey areas” near the waterfront, where water rises during freshet and drops again later in the summer.

On May 23, at 5:03 p.m. Sicamous RCMP were called out to the single-vehicle incident south of Sicamous near Hummingbird Beach Resort. Police say a woman’s vehicle was seen travelling northbound when, for unknown reasons, it veered left, went off the highway and even-tually came to rest on its roof in the lake. She was take to hospital in

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The volunteer crew of the Shuswap’s new emergency rescue boat finally had an opportu-nity to put their exten-sive training into ac-tion over the May long weekend.

While the boat wasn’t to receive its official certification of operation until Friday, May 18, crew members were promptly ready Thursday when they received their first call-out. They were ready and the boat prepared to depart in less than 10 minutes. But as it was leaving the dock, a second call came in to stand down, the call out

had been cancelled.

June

Efforts have escalat-ed to bring medical lab collection services to Sicamous and alleviate wait times in Salmon Arm. An unsigned letter is being publicly circu-lated, appealing to Kari Prasad, regional man-ager of LifeLabs Medi-cal Laboratory Ser-vices. The letter claims that in January 2011, LifeLabs applied for a licence to provide lab collection services in the Eagle Valley area. A competing application, however, was submit-ted by Interior Health’s lab services. The letter says IH won the licens-ing rights in May 2011, and has held the licence

since then. “ They have recently informed Dr. (Jack) Beech in Si-camous that they will not be honouring the licence and placing ser-vices in Sicamous and area. The letter states there is now an oppor-tunity for LifeLabs to pick up the licence, and encouraging them, on behalf of all Shuswap communities, to do so.

A Sicamous resi-dent has been identified as one of the thre men who were killed in a helicopter accident near Terrace. The BC coro-ners Service confirmed Blake Erickson, 48, died on June 1 at 9 a.m., when the helicopter he was on a Eurocopter A-Star 350, went down above the treeline west

of Terrace on Sleeping Beauty Mountain.

A sterling medal of national significance has been awarded to Sicamous’ Jerry Silva for his contributions to Canada. Silva is one of 60,000 Canadians to receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, an hon-our bestowed upon those who have “made a significant contribu-tion to a particular prov-ince, territory, region or community within Canada, or an achieve-ment abroad that brings credit to Canada.”

With the melt-ing snowpack and the pounding rains, normal-ly quiet creeks became torrents rushing towards

the Eagle River, which overflowed its banks in numerous spots along its winding path to Shuswap Lake. Resi-dents along Cambie Solsqua Road received the worst of it. Wednes-day afternoon, what’s known as Ylisto Creek rose, while the culvert going under the road became plugged. The end result was a mas-sive washout that closed that end of the road for a few days.

Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trouton formal-ly announced that Heidi Frank has been hired to take on the CAO posi-tion from interim CAO Doug Ruttan. Frank, who currently serves as the Village of Clinton’s

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State of emergency declared for District of SicamousCAO, is expected to begin work with the District of Sicamous as of Aug. 1.

There’s no need to drive to

Banff or Jasper to hike when there are similarly breathtaking trails right here in the Shuswap. The Si-camous area alone has a wealth of unique trail systems that cater to a range of hiking expertise. Perhaps the most well-known trail in the area is the Larch Hills Traverse, which can be hiked, biked or skied from Salmon Arm to Sicamous.

Sandbags were going up fast along the foreshore of Mara and Shuswap lakes to hold off the high water that’s expected to continue to rise over the next week. Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trouton said 10,000 bags had been distributed through the district public works yard off of Sicamous-Solsqua Road. Most of those, he adds, have been used in areas just outside of the dis-trict, such as Cambie-Solsqua. There are another 11,000 bags still at the public works yard, and 12,000 more are on the way, all of which are provided by the Shus-wap Emergency Preparedness pro-gram. The district continues to make progress on bylaws that will allow for temporary commercial or industrial endeavours. These per-mits allow a property to be utilized for a commercial/industrial use that is currently not permitted by its zoning.

To wrap up the first successful year for the Community Karate & Kickboxing schools in Sicamous and Salmon Arm, the Provincial Martial Arts Association hosted a karate tournament for these clubs Saturday, June 16 in Salmon Arm. According to instructor Holly Rac-zynski, they couldn’t have per-formed better.

A state of local emergency has been declared for the Two Mile and Swansea Point areas, and an evacuation order is being enforced by RCMP, following simultaneous debris flow events on June 23 in Si-

camous and Hummingbird creeks. The District of Sicamous has

also issued a notice asking that residents not use water from the Mara water system. This is a man-datory order as boiling water will not make it safe for consumption.

Heavy rainfall on the evening of Saturday, June 23, caused Si-camous Creek to burst its banks and create a new channel, subse-quently impacting residents and businesses in the Two Mile area.

Corey Paiement, information officer in the Emergency Opera-tions Centre (EOC) of Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s Shuswap Emergency Program,

says some 40 homes are affected by the evacuation order.

Mayor Darrell Trouton, who was on the scene in Two Mile Sun-day at noon, said the devastating flood had already destroyed two or three homes.

“The water flow couldn’t go down to the lake, so it diverted and changed direction, flooding the Waterway Houseboats parking lot,” he says. “If that wouldn’t have happened, the water would have continued flowing to Mara Lake. It might have been frightening, but we wouldn’t be eyeing the devasta-tion we are now.”

Trouton says there are now con-

cerns about the highway bridge and area septic systems.

But, he adds, people are safe and the houseboat companies, RCMP, Shuswap Emergency Pro-gram and District of Sicamous are pulling together.

“People are safe, we’re getting them out of there.”

Following an inspection by helicopter of Hummingbird and Sicamous creeks, the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s Shus-wap Emergency Program (SEP) rescinded the evacuation order for the Swansea Point Subdivision. SEP warns in a June 26 news re-lease that an evacuation alert re-mains in place for Swansea Point. As for Two Mile, SEP states the evacuation order stands. Evacuees will be given an extension to the support they’ve received for ac-commodation, food, lodging, etc.

Interior Health medical health officer Dr. Trevor Corneil said while the water is still not safe to drink, the mandatory “Do Not Use” order is being downgraded to a “Do Not Consume” order, adding this applies in Sicamous as well as Swansea Point. Corneil explained public works has to keep water flow going for emergency support (fire), and to keep the city’s water system from collapsing.

The Shuswap Emergency Pro-gram is asking boaters to be aware of the height of the wake caused by their vessels and the impact they can have. Boaters should also be cautious of the masses of debris currently adrift on both lakes.

Sicamous’ annual Canada Day celebrations, including the fire-works show, were cancelled. May-or Darrell Trouton said the event will be held on the August long weekend as a community appre-ciation celebration. Also cancelled is the Classic Car Show and Shine that was to take place in Finlayson Park on June 30th.

However, the craft fair will still be taking place inside the arena that day, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. as well the Louisiana Hayride concert that evening.

The Malakwa Learning Acad-emy’s second school year came to a close. Sixteen students attended. And next year looks even better. Michelle Mohr is a special-needs teacher at the academy, which her own daughter has been attending. Mohr has been very impressed with what she’s seen at the acad-emy; the interaction between age levels and the high degree of aca-demic performance, with students going above and beyond provincial requirements.

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Paddle around the barn: A kayaker paddles around the Red Barn Arts Centre during this summer’s flooding. File photo

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Eagle Valley News, January 02, 2013