Invermere Valley Echo, December 02, 2015

ALLEYV CHOEThe Invermere

BREANNE [email protected]

The results of the 2015 BC Child Pov-erty Report Card suggests that the East Kootenay Regional District has one of the lowest child poverty rates in the province, according to First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition.

But at 20.4 per cent (just over one in fi ve children), the child poverty rate in B.C. is higher than the Canadian aver-age of 19 per cent.

“On one hand, (the East Kootenay region) has some of the lowest pov-erty rates that we have data for,” said Adrienne Montani, First Call provincial co-ordinator. “Cranbrook is the only municipal area that we have separate data for out there, but for the East Koo-tenay region, we have data that shows a 15.5 per cent poverty rate, which is up two tenths of a per cent from 15.3 in last year’s report card.”

There are some other numbers for the region that also stand out in the study, Ms. Montani added.

“Cranbrook’s (child poverty rate) is higher than the regional district overall at 15.5 per cent,” she said.

In 1989, the House of Commons passed a resolution to eliminate child poverty in Canada. Since that time, B.C.’s child poverty rate has risen from 15.5 to 20.4 per cent.

The regional dis-tricts with the high-est child poverty rates were the Central Coast Regional District (50.6 per cent); Mount Wadding-ton Regional District (35.1 per cent); and Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District (33.0 per cent).

The ones with the lowest child pover-ty rates were the East Kootenay Region-al District (15.5 per cent); Peace River

Regional District (15.8 per cent); and Northern Rock-ies (15.9 per cent).

“(The East Kootenay is) below the provincial aver-age, about fi ve percentage points roughly overall in that region, as is most of the

eastern p a r t of the p r o v -ince,” said Ms. Montani. “Most of (B.C.) from Fort St. John down that

eastern side is a lower rate, (but) not dramatically in some places.”

The East Kootenay region’s child pov-erty rate does not compare families and single parents, and Ms. Montani believes a provincial trend of single parents suffering from poverty would be signifi cant if counted.

“Children in single par-ents, overall in the prov-ince, have a poverty rate of 50 per cent,” she added. “It’s very high… there are probably more children in that 15.5 per cent who have single parents because 1) there is one earner and if their wage is low, they’ll still be in the poverty and 2) ob-viously, if you’re going to go

to work, you need child care and if you don’t have family support, or somebody else to help, then the lack of child care is an issue that often keeps people from working — even in couple families as well as in single parent families.”

She added that low wages for the “working poor” has become a trend spanning B.C. However, Ms. Montani is working towards reducing pover-ty with the First Call team by making

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recommendations to the federal, provincial and lo-cal governments on a wide variety of areas that re-quire government action.

The recommendations include ideas such as en-couraging the provincial government to raise the minimum hourly wage to $15 to ensure the lowest paid workers earn more than a poverty wage if they work full-time throughout the year; urging the fed-eral government to enhance maternity and parental leave to enrich the lives of family by extending the

duration to 18 months while reserving additional months for fathers; and, lastly, calling on all three levels of government to pay a living wage that al-lows people to meet their basic needs, support their children and avoid chronic stress whether they are working regular or contract hours.

“We have made 21 recommendations in the back of the 2015 BC Child Poverty Report Card and most of those are focused on the provincial government, while some of them are federal policies that would also help,” said Ms. Montani. “We have focused our attention on both levels of government.”

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The growing popularity of craft beer prod-ucts have prompted BC Liquor Stores to ex-pand local offerings on their shelves.

As of November 30th, BC Liquor Stores are accepting up to 12 non-listed products from breweries closest to their location.

“The new BC Liquor Stores (BCLS) pro-gram takes effect on November 30th,” said Rocel Ramilla-Siquijor, BC Liquor Distribu-tion Branch spokesperson. “That said, it will be up to microbreweries to decide whether they would like to participate and when, and which products they choose to propose at their local BCLS.”

The new program, which is coming into ef-fect during the start of BC Buy Local week, offers microbreweries the opportunity to gain expo-sure. There are currently 102 microbreweries in B.C. that are eligible to par-ticipate in this program — which has almost doubled in the past fi ve years from a mere 57 locations in 2011.

Arrowhead Brewing Com-pany is currently sold at BC Liquor Stores stores in Invermere, Radium and Fairmont, and will soon be sold in Kimberley.

“We will be contacting other government stores in the East and West Koo-tenay to start carrying our beer as well,” said Jess de Groot, Arrowhead spokes-person. “The changes make it so much easier for small breweries to get their beer into the government stores. (Be-fore) it was very diffi cult if you were a small brewery with small production to get into those stores because of the process of ship-ping and distribution, especially for those of us on the eastern side of the province. With these changes, small breweries can now get into their local shops without hav-ing to deal with the struggle of province-wide distribution.”

It is estimated there are close to 200 BC Li-quor Stores throughout the province.

“We do know that each BCLS location will accept at least one product from each of the interested microbreweries that meets the

requirements,” said Ramilla-Siquijor. “The way it works is each BCLS is paired with the six B.C. microbreweries closest to their lo-cation that don’t currently have products listed with BCLS. If the microbreweries wish to have up to two of their un-listed products sold in the BCLS, they can apply to the store for consideration.”

Microbreweries are considered to be those that produce 15,000 hectolitres (1,500,000 li-tres) or less annually.

The goal, according to the BC Liquor Distri-bution Branch, is to help ensure there’s ad-equate shelf space for local microbreweries, which, in turn, helps the BC Liquor Stores introduce their customers to new, unique products. However, the government will oc-casionally be reviewing their offerings to en-sure that products available on the shelves

align with consumer demands.According to De Groot, the local com-

munity’s ongoing support for Arrowhead products has helped the business gain mo-mentum, and she remains optimistic it will continue in the future.

“A lot of store managers bring in what peo-ple request,” she said. “So if people through-out the East and West Kootenay ask their local government liquor store managers for Arrowhead, it helps get us in there tre-mendously. Local support goes a long way when you’re trying to get shelf space in such a competitive market, such as the B.C. craft beer scene.”

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At the Village of Canal Flats’ November 23rd coun-cil meeting, council was alerted to a looming prob-lem related to the closure of the Canfor sawmill — a loss of volunteer firefighting capacity and firefighting equipment in the village.

In his September and October Canal Flats Fire Res-cue report, fire chief David Ferguson noted that the village’s already-small fire department is getting even smaller, with attendance varying from nine to just three members present over the course of the past nine weekly meetings.

Upon reading the news, Coun. Paul Marcil suggested council meet soon with the fire chief to find out how serious the problem is, and how many regular mem-bers the department needs to operate effectively.

Chief administrative officer Brian Woodward also noted the Canfor mill itself poses a fire hazard, and that there’s no guarantee Canfor will keep its own fire suppression equipment on site at the mill.

He added that, by his count, the volunteer fire depart-ment has lost seven members, many of whom are still living in Canal Flats, but are now working out of town and unable to spare the time to attend the meetings.

The fire department had a total of four callouts over the past two months. In each case, it was a first aid call rather than a fire to be dealt with.

Worker transition continuesA special hire funded by the Columbia Basin Trust

will work on helping to develop ideas generated by the Canal Flats working group that’s seeking to find future directions for the village in the wake of the re-cent mill closure.

The new employee will be concerned more so with flushing out ideas rather than general economic de-velopment, Columbia Basin Trust director of special initiatives Kindy Gosal told group members on the November 5th worker transition call.

The conference calls, held roughly twice a month since the mill closure was imminent, include repre-sentatives from the provincial Ministry of Jobs, Tour-ism and Skills Training, the Ministry of Advanced Education, the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation, College of the Rockies, the Indus-try Training Authority, WorkBC, Canfor, Family Dyna-mix, and Canal Flats mayor Ute Juras.

Also in the November 5th call, Canfor informed the group that it has opened up three to four production positions that were slated to begin at the company’s Elko mill on November 14th. Former Canal Flats mill employees were to be offered transfers to Elko based on an undisclosed selection process.

The next Worker Transition Call will take place on January 5th. There’s no agreed-upon end date as to how long these meetings will continue.

Business liaison on deck A business expansion and recruitment specialist for

Canal Flats is one step closer to reality after council authorized the preparation of a request for an expres-sion of interest to fulfill a $50,000 position to be funded

through the Columbia Basin Trust.The contractor would assist the Vil-

lage of Canal Flats in screening po-tential new businesses, investigating

public-private partnership opportunities and imple-menting an economic development strategy with a community visioning process for the village.

Tree of Lights to shine for weeks

Canal Flats residents will get a chance to reflect and remember community members who passed away this year thanks to a special Tree of Lights event that will start in December and last for six weeks.

While the Hospice Society of the Columbia Valley began putting on the Tree of Lights event in Inver-mere last year, a difficult year marked by more than half a dozen deaths in the close-knit Canal Flats com-munity led to the idea of creating a tree in the vil-lage (to be erected outside the Columbia Discovery Centre building that houses the council chambers) as well.

“The Tree of Lights is a way to honour their mem-ory and help with the grieving process,” said Dane-ve McAffer, a Hospice Society volunteer from Canal Flats. The idea arose after a member of the Canal Flats seniors group suggested it to McAffer. The vil-lage saw two brothers pass away in the same year, a man drown in the Findlay Creek, and other unfortu-nate events.

The Tree of Lights is similar to a Christmas tree, ex-cept the eight-foot tall tree is decorated with white lights and name cards of those who have passed away. The tree stays lit day and night, starting on Fri-day, December 11th.

A $10 name card can be purchased before Decem-ber 4th by contacting www.hospicesocietycv.com, emailing [email protected] or calling 250-688-1143. All proceeds are used to support Hospice Society programs such as bereavement support groups, home visits and “walk and talk” groups.

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The new Columbia Valley Advisory Com-mittee, which is comprised of the same people from the former Columbia Valley Directed Funds Committee, has picked up right where the old committee left off.

The advisory committee met on Tuesday, October 19th at the Windermere Communi-ty Hall and, during the meeting, earmarked funding for two major projects — $120,000 for the third phase of the Columbia Valley Marketing and Branding initiative ($86,000 of which is ready to be dispersed as the project moves forward), and $40,000 for the Columbia Valley Affordable Housing Plan being implemented by the Family Dy-namix Association.

There were several updates given by committee members, or group representa-tives, on various valley-wide projects in-cluding one from Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Area F director and ad-visory committee chair Wendy Booth on

the marketing and branding initiative and another from her on valley-wide visitors services; from Invermere mayor Gerry Taft on the Columbia Valley Resident Retention and Attraction Plan; and from Family Dy-namix Association executive director Pat Cope on the Affordable Housing Plan.

In addition, several valley-wide initiatives that did not have formal updates, but were still of possible interest to the advisory committee, were discussed, including the Westside Legacy Trail and the new multi-use centre.

Also during the meeting, the advisory committee revisited the Columbia Valley Community Priorities Plan, which was the guiding document used by the former Di-rected Funds Committee to help it decided on project funding requests.

The advisory committee expressed con-sensus that the priorities plan, which was formalized in 2013, is still valid.

The committee decided to revisit it again in another two years to determine if it is still up to date then.

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The most recent Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) board of directors meeting touched on a few items of interest to the Upper Columbia Valley.

During the Friday, November 6th meeting, the direc-tors decided that the Lake Windermere Whiteway will receive $7,500 a year in operational funding starting in 2016, with the money coming from the Columbia Valley Recreation Service Area pool of money.

“All the directors could see the value of sustaining and maintaining the Whiteway, both for local resi-dents and for drawing visitors to town, so the deci-sion was unanimous. It’s fantastic for the club,” said Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club president Lyle Wilson, adding that $7,500 a year from the RDEK combined with the $4,000 a year the club receives from the Dis-trict of Invermere operating costs covers about 60 to 70 per cent of the annual operating expenses of the

Whiteway. “So for us, it’s huge.”The club will be offering $20 four-use Whiteway

ticket booklets this year (in past years, it has sim-ply asked for a $5 donation per use) to help cover the rest of the operating costs associated with the world record-breaking Whiteway. The booklets will be available at Crazy Soles and other local retail out-lets. Memberships to the club also include unlimited Whiteway use (visit www.tobycreeknordic.ca).

The ice on Lake Windermere was four inches thick as of press time, and it needs to be at least eight inch-es for the club to be able to take its grooming equip-ment out on the ice.

“As soon as it’s thick enough, we’ll be plowing, groom-ing and getting the Whiteway ready,” said Wilson.

In the meantime, the club will likely be grooming the Nordic ski trail around Lake Lillian sometime within the next two weeks (Lake Lillian, being a small lake, tends to freeze enough for grooming much sooner than Lake Windermere). The club also plans

to groom a Nordic track on the Junior Johnson trail near Lake Lillian.

More upgrades to Windermere reservoirThe RDEK board of directors, at the meeting, also

voted to spend $350,000 worth of surplus funding from the Windermere reservoir project (which stems from cost-saving measures during construction) on further upgrades for the new reservoir.

Construction on the new reservoir (which is nec-essary no matter what long-term solution is finally chosen for Windermere’s water issues) began a few months ago and is expected to wrap up soon.

The additional upgrades that the $350,000 will be spent on include secondary chlorination and press-reducing valve (PRV) remote monitoring instrumenta-tion. Both upgrades are within the project’s scope and can be completed within the project’s time constraints.

two new regional parksThe RDEK has now officially amended its

regional parks plan to include both the West-side Legacy Trail and the proposed Edgewa-ter school path as regional parks. An applica-tion has been submitted by the RDEK to the provincial Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to construct and maintain the proposed school path within the road right-of-way along Sinclair Street in Edgewater.

Grant in aidThe board of directors gave a discretionary

grant in aid to the Fairmont Hot Springs Lions Club. The grant is for $6,000 and is meant to help fund the club’s recycling operation and garage sale storage building.

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Invermere councillors have given second and third reading to the district’s financial plan.

The plan, which is Invermere’s budget, extends from 2016 to 2020 and outlines a 1.5 per cent general tax in-crease starting next year, with the extra funds generated from this being used to help pay for the new multi-use centre. That increase will come on top of a parcel tax increase in 2016 — also to help fund the multi-use centre — that will average out to around $100 per parcel.

The district, prior to the Tuesday, November 24th council meeting, carried out public consultation on the budget in the form of a public meeting and by distribut-ing budget surveys to local households. The district re-ceived 73 of those surveys back with comments, with 20 per cent of respondents saying their most preferred option was no tax increase (and, correspondingly, no increase in services); 14 per cent choosing a one per cent increase; 29 per cent choosing a two per cent in-crease; 13 per cent choosing a three pre cent increase; four per cent choosing a four per cent increase; and 20 per cent choosing a five or more per cent increase.

“It was quite a split. There are a significant number of people who don’t want any increase, while an equally significant number of people are right at the other end of the spectrum, saying they are okay with a relatively large increase, but that they really want to see some improved services for that,” said Invermere mayor Gerry Taft, speaking after the meeting.

“There were also a lot of questions or comments about development at the Crossroads, and it’s clear from the comments that many people are not aware of where the district boundaries are,” he said.

The district boundary ends at the Athalmer bridge. Once past the bridge, the land north of the Athlamer road belongs to the Shuswap Indian Band, while south of the road is Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Area F.

Accuracy of visitor statisticsDuring the November 24th meeting, council members

received a report outlining summer visitor trends over

the third quarter of the year (July to September) from the Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce.

The report showed a drop in 2015 compared with 2014 in terms of both number of visitors and number of parties stopping in at the Crossroads Visitor Centre (5,975 visitors this year compared with 7,119 last year, and 2,676 parties this year compared to 2,965 last year) as well as at the Downtown Visitor Kiosk (3,547 visitors this year compared with 5,138 last year, and 1,615 par-ties this year compared to 2,148 last year). The report authors did, however, point out that their own statistics seem to be at odds with almost all anecdotal evidence.

“Although the total number of parties is down by 15 per cent across all the locations we operate, we have received feedback from local businesses that summer 2015 was quite strong and that visitor numbers ap-peared to be up,” wrote chamber president Amanda Robinson and executive director Susan Clovechok in the report, adding that measuring the number of par-ties is typically a more reliable indicator of how busy the valley is, since some parties will send a represen-tative into the visitor centre who may not share the number of people in their party.

The lack of experienced staff may have contributed to skewed visitor statistics, according to Robinson and Clovechok.

“This year’s staff were all new and competent. How-ever, it is our experience that returning staff typically are more confident in asking the questions that elicit more detailed information which result in improved ac-curacy of our statistics,” they wrote in the report, later adding “we believe that statistic capturing impacted this year’s result to some degree and, as a result, we will be increasing the training and review of the data entry in 2016.”

The report also pointed out that the total number of hours the downtown kiosk was open was down in 2015 compared with 2014 (1044.5 hours this year compared with 1100 hours last year), and attributed this trend to high temperatures this summer, as the kiosk was several times more than 30 C inside, even with the air conditioner running, meaning the kiosk had to be then shut down as per WorkSafe BC regulations.

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Climate change needs action, not wordsNICOLE TRIGG

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With the Paris climate conference un-derway, people around the world are wondering what, if anything, world lead-ers from the 150 or so nations in atten-dance will actually be able to accomplish. The 12-day negotiations are expected to deliver a global plan to reduce emissions, and some of the planet’s most advanced and populous countries have committed to developing clean energies, including India, and the United States, as well as Canada, South Korea and France.

We currently have a civilization here on Earth that is almost completely dependant

on burning fossil fuels to produce energy, a process that is one of the major contribut-ing factors to climate change. And since Big Oil turned to unconventional oil and natu-ral gas, there are a whole new slew of prob-lems that people are waking up to. A mas-sive amount of water is needed for fracking (hydraulic fracturing that releases oil and gas from rock formations deep below the earth’s surface), and this water is being di-verted from public use to enable the frack-ing boom. This is depleting water supplies in some of the United States’ driest areas. Here in B.C., with our abundance of water, drought is the last thing on anyone’s minds, but the dangerous chemicals mixed with the water ought not to be. Fracking renders the

water essentially useless, filling it with toxic contaminants that can’t be removed in stan-dard water treatment plants. One method is to simply “dispose” of the fracked water, by injecting it back into the ground below the aquifers that supply drinking water. This notion, that below the earth’s surface exists a static environment ideal for storing toxic waste, discounts all science and, in terms of ignorance, is on par with the belief that the earth is only 6,000 years old. Until govern-ments, including here in B.C., crack down on the oil and gas industry through stricter regulations that protect air and water, and eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, their pledges to set targets and do more aren’t going to amount to much.

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It has been a few weeks now since the mill has

closed and it has made our little town very quiet.

The Worker Transition Team is still meeting and will continue to provide in-formation and support for all of the displaced workers.

In the meantime, council is working very hard on eco-nomic development to pro-vide future opportunities and keep our community going.

We have established a Canal Flats Eco-nomic Development Working Group, which includes staff from the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training, and the Ministry of Forest, Land and Natu-ral Resources. We are also joined by MLA Norm Macdonald, representatives from

CBT, Canfor, Ktunaxa First Nation and RDEK. We are cur-rently developing a work plan that will help guide us through the process of becoming eco-nomically viable and sustain-able. Thanks to a $50,000 grant from CBT, we will be able to hire an Economic Develop-ment/Business Liaison who will help guide us through the process and proposals we are

faced with following the mill closure.Councillor Sterzer recently attended

the BC Economic Development Associa-tion Workshop in Richmond. This group started the Economic Disaster Recovery Project, which has helped various com-munities in British Columbia to recover after a natural or economic disaster.

Due to cost restraints, they were unable

to send a team to Canal Flats. However, they used Canal Flats as a case study for part of the workshop. The result is a report that will contain recommenda-tions for how the Village of Canal Flats can recover from this economic blow of the mill closing. Council has also started the annual budget process and is very cognizant of the current situation while making decisions on your tax dollars. We have already passed a resolution suspending council’s pay increase for 2016. We have also added a line item for economic development to the budget.

This will allow us to move any money that is not needed for a project at this time, or grants coming in, towards eco-nomic development.

Ute Juras is the mayor of Canal Flats and can be reached at 250-489-9070 or by e-mail at [email protected].

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TREETSTHES

Are you excited for the Lake Windermere Whiteway to open this winter?

“We live in Fairmont Hot Springs and don’t actually get out on the Whiteway that much.”

Pam Waddell

“I’m super excited. I absolutely love skating and cross country skiing.”

Taylor Hart

“Yes, I am. We plan to hold an awesome circuit event — not a competitve race, but more just an event — on the Whiteway this year, with three-kilometre, 10-kilometre and 15-kilometre distances.”

Amira Elwakeel

Leave some days of the year alone!

Dear Editor:

With Black Friday ending, followed by the impending Christmas season, I begin to worry about my days. I am fully in support of various causes and events of awareness, but 24-hour slots are quickly being consumed by “special days.” Failing to stem the tide, we risk fi nding ourselves with a day shortage.

Cyber Monday, Toonie Tuesday, Superbowl Sunday and Seniors Thursday leave only Wednesday, Friday and Saturday unclaimed. “Floater” days remove a vast number more. Boxing Day, Halloween, Valentines Day, Worldwide Celebration of Weights and Measures Day, Wookie Life Day and others are quickly eliminating ordinary 24-hour stretches.

Weeks are also falling prey to unilaterally declared causes. Week of Prayer for Chris-tian Unity, Global Entrepreneur Week, Worldwide Breast-feeding Week are examples. With fewer weeks available, confl icts are arising.

The UN-declared World Space Week fi nds itself at odds with the Marijuana Users Associa-tion, which wants to use the same time slot for World Spaced Week. However, Geography Awareness Week organizers have gone into talks with their counterparts at the Direction-ally Challenged Week offi ces. Both groups are hoping for a mutually productive collabora-tion.

Months are no exception to the onslaught. October was declared 4-H Month, as well as American Cheese Month and Menopause Month. November’s competition sees Banana Pudding Lovers, Pecan Eaters and Novel Writers all vying to have this same slot as their own. Future confl ict can be assured.

I submit that we end this penchant for special days, weeks and months. To have a simple Saturday where there are no concerns other than sitting would be satisfying. A mundane Monday where I do no more than mumble about the morons around me would be marvel-ous. Weeks without World Alliance groups waving placards and months devoid of declara-tions of various sorts seems desirable.

Act now before the days, weeks and months of your calendar are as gone as your choices!

RYAN LENGSFELD NELSON

ETTERSL PINIONO

There are few places in British Colum-bia that are more connected to power

generation than Columbia River- Revel-stoke. Home to considerable power proj-ects like the Revelstoke Dam, and part of the affected area of the Columbia River Ba-sin, we understand this industry and live daily with its benefi ts and consequences.

British Columbians have long benefi t-ted from being owners of much of the power generated within this province, and through BC Hydro, a Crown corporation that has traditionally provided signifi cant dividends to the public purse, we have received access to consistent, low-cost power.

Unfortunately, over the last 14 years under the BC Liberals, British Columbians have watched the cost of hydro skyrocket as govern-ment forced our Crown C=corporation to make decisions that were not in the best interest of either BC Hydro or B.C. ratepayers.

It is time for British Columbians to make a new choice; a choice for better management of this precious resource, and a better energy policy that protects ratepayers, manages for sustainability, protects farmland, and moves us toward a green energy future.

Put forward by the BC NDP, PowerBC is a better plan for a brighter future for British Columbia.

I believe that B.C.’s energy policy must be bold and progressive. We can protect BC Hydro customers from rising rates, produce good-paying jobs close to home, respect First Nations land title and launch careers in clean energy and retrofi t construction, mainte-nance, manufacturing and high-tech engineering.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2ND • 7 p.m.: Wilmer Community Club AGM at Wilmer Hall. Come celebrate the life and times of Conrad Kain through the lens of Pat Morrow.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3RD

• 11:45 a.m.: The Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce has invited Ingrid Jarrett, Vice Chair of Slow Food Canada to provide a luncheon presentation: Slow Food - What does it mean to our economy? held at Lions Hall, Crossroads. Lunch prepared by From Scratch A Mountain Kitchen. To register for the luncheon presentation, please visit events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=l4sfp5dab&oeidk=a07ebt36dit2c57ca3b.

• 10:30 a.m.: Invermere Public Library Pre-school Story Time. Join us for stories and a craft.

• 3:30- 4:30 p.m.: Invermere Public Library Drop-in Lego Club. Build our theme or create your own. Kids under 8 should bring an adult.

• 7 - 8:30 p.m.: Hospice Society information night: How to help someone who is grieving, at the Canal Flats Community Centre. For more information email [email protected] and call 250-688-1143.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4TH

• 6:30 p.m.: Stuffed Pork Loin Dinner at the Invermere Legion. $15/person. Reservations Recommended. Call 250-342-9517. Meat draw and 50/50.

• 7 - 10 p.m.: Fresh Fridays Open Mic at Pynelogs. Showcasing young talent from the valley. All ages, licensed bar. First Friday of every month.

• 7 p.m.: Valley Voices A Ceremony of Carols at Christ Church Trinity. Tickets $10, students $5. Available at Tiffany’s Threds in Invermere, Meet On Higher Ground in Radium and The Purple Cow Gift Shop in Fairmont Hot Springs.

• 7:30 p.m.: CV Rockies vs. Fernie Ghostriders at Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena.

• 7:30 p.m.: Bob’s Your Elf - A Christmas

play at Windermere Community Hall. Tickets $6 for children under 16, $13 for adults. Available at Circle Cafe and Windermere Family Pantry. Doors open a half hour before showtime.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5TH

• Panorama Mountain Resort Opens Early. Visit www.panoramaresort.com.

• 10 a.m.: Radium Public Library Christmas Storytime & Crafts.

• 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Santa’s Cabin. Come get a photo with Santa, and don’t forget to tell him what you want for Christmas at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort.

• 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.: December 5th and 6th: ‘Twas the Book Sale Before Christmas, at Home Hardware. Gently used, winter themed books will be available for purchase in support of Friends of the Invermere Library.

• 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Invermere Thift Store Extravaganza.

• 12 - 5 p.m.: Turkey Shoot at the Invermere Legion. Smokies, Brats, and more available at concession.

• 7 p.m.: Valley Voices A Ceremony of Carols at Christ Church Trinity. Tickets $10, students $5. Available at Tiffany’s Threds in Invermere, Meet On Higher Ground in Radium and The Purple Cow Gift Shop in Fairmont Hot Springs.

• 7:30 p.m.: Bob’s Your Elf - A Christmas play at Windermere Community Hall. Tickets $6 for children under 16, $13 for adults. Available at Circle Cafe and Windermere Family Pantry. Doors open a half hour before showtime.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6TH

• 12 - 7 p.m.: Feed the town at Copper Point Clubhouse. Bring a non-perishable food item or cash donation to support the Columbia Valley Food Bank. Santa will be in attendance from 1 - 6 p.m.

• 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.: Ladies only Climb-ing Wall session at the J.A. Laird Elementary school gym. All abilities welcome. For more information call Herb at 250-688-5228.• 1 - 3 p.m.: 5th Annual Santa in Fairmont at Smoking Water Coffee Co. Free cookie decorating, hot chocolate, christmas carol sing along with local band, goodie bags, and a draw for Kootenay Ice Tickets. Kids and adult can visit with Santa by the fi replace. Bring food bank donations.

• Turkey Spiel: For more information visit www.curlinginvermere.ca, or email [email protected] or call 250-342-3315.

• 2 p.m.: Bob’s Your Elf - A Christmas play at Windermere Community Hall. Tickets $6 for children under 16, $13 for adults. Available at Circle Cafe and Windermere Family Pantry. Doors open a half hour before showtime.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7TH

• 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Drop by the Women’s Resource Centre for an Open House to talk to staff and volunteers, enjoy snacks and mingle.

• 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Purple Light Campaign Drop In at Women’s Resource Centre in Frater Landing. Women’s rights advocates are invited to drop by to talk to staff and volunteers and enjoy some snacks.

• 7 p.m.: Lake Windermere District Lions Club meetings every 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at CVCC/Lions, Hall Highway 93/95, Invermere. Contact 250-345-0171.

• 7 p.m.: Bingo at the Canal Flats Civic Centre, 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8TH

• 7 p.m.: Cinefest fi lm series featuring the fi lm Jimmy’s Hall by fi lmmaker Ken Loach. Tickets $12 at the door.

WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9TH

• 6 - 8 p.m.: Invermere library Adult Craft Night. Join us for an evening of holiday crafting for adults.

• 7:30 p.m.: Invermere Library Christmas Silent Auction closing. Invermere Library Christmas Silent Auction Closing. Be sure to make your fi nal bids before the Friends of Invermere Library close the auction. Wonderful selection of useful, creative and beautiful items that will make perfect Christmas gifts.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10TH

• 12 p.m.: Senior’s Lunch at the Invermere Legion. $5 at the door. RSVP by calling 250-342-9281 ext 1227 or emailing [email protected]

• 7 p.m.: Crib and Texas Hold Em tournaments at the Invermere Legion. $35 poker buy in.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11TH

• 2nd Annual Butterfl y Tree of Lights.A lovely way to commemorate our loved ones who have passed on. Join us for this special evening of remembrance and connection. We hope that this event becomes a beloved tradition for your family. This event is held annually on the second Friday of December. Offi ce is open Daily 12-4pm in Frater Landing, (250)-688-1143.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12TH

• 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Santa’s Cabin. Come get a photo with Santa, and don’t forget to tell him what you want for Christmas. Fairmont Hot Springs Resort.

• 4 p.m.: Panorama Mountain Freeride Club AGM at Jackpine Pub in Panorama.

• 7:30 p.m.: CV Rockies vs. Grand Forks Border Bruins at Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13TH

• 4 - 6 p.m.: Radium Hot Springs Fire Department Children’s Christmas party at Radium Hot Springs Fire Hall. Visit www.radiumhotsprings.com for details.

• 5:30 p.m.: Christmas Dinner for Seniors at Best Western Invermere Inn. Call 250-342-5566 to register.

• 7 p.m.: Blue Christmas Service at Christ Church Trinity. A special service for those who’ve lost loved ones, pets or are dealing with diffi cult circumstances, with a lighting of candles for remembrance. For more information, call 250-342-6644 or email offi [email protected].

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RADIUM LIBRARY

• Tuesday: 6 - 8 p.m.• Wed - Thursday: 1 - 4 p.m.• Saturday: 10 a.m. - 1p.m.

WINDERMERE VALLEY MUSEUM

• Tuesday: 12 - 4 p.m.

INVERMERE THRIFT STORE• Thurs - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

RADIUM THRIFT STORE

• Thursday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.• Fri - Saturday: 12 - 4 p.m.

SUMMIT YOUTH CENTRE

• Tuesday: 5 - 9 p.m.• Wednesday: 4 - 9 p.m.• Thursday: 5 - 9 p.m.• Fri - Saturday: 6 - 11 p.m.


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� e Hospice Society wishes you all a peaceful and joy-� lled holiday and we remind you, if you or someone you love is dealing with end of life or bereavement issues, we

are here to support you.

If you are interested in supporting us, it has never been easier. Please go online to www.hospicesocietycv.com for a one-time

donation, a donation in memory of a loved one or to acti-vate a monthly pledge. Your generosity is greatly appreci-

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A Book Under Every TreeThe Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy is running our annual book drive to collect adult, youth and children’s books to place in Christmas hampers.

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Please place your donation of new or gently used books in collection bins until December 14, 2015:

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This holiday season about 60 per cent of Canadian adults are expected to donate approximately $5 bil-lion between now and the end of the year, according to Imagine Canada.

This annual tide of generosity is essential to thou-sands of charities and the communities they serve. According to Statistics Canada, Canadians give just under $13 billion annually to charities and non-prof-its, meaning that approximately 40 per cent of all do-nations take place in the last six weeks of the year.

Statistics Canada identifies “compassion for those in need” as the top reason Canadians donate (89 per cent), followed by “personally believe in a cause” (85 per cent) and “contribute to our communities” (79 per cent). Six-in-ten (61 per cent) are motivated by being personally affected by the cause.

These motivations underscore the holiday sea-son’s importance as an opportunity for caring individuals to strengthen their communities in ways that are important to them.

“Holiday giving is crucial to strengthening our social fabric,” says Bruce Mac-Donald, president and CEO of Imagine Canada. “By taking a more strategic ap-proach to giving, people can make their gift more meaningful and enhance the sat-isfaction that comes from making a highly personalized contribution to helping oth-ers and transforming communities.”

Here are Imagine Canada’s top five sug-gested strategies for holiday giving:

1. Align your gift with your passion: When making a donation, consider the sort of world you want to build. Ally yourself with charitable organizations that reflect your ideals and invest in the future you want to see unfold. Charities welcome dia-logue, so connect and communicate. Even better, volunteer.

2. Model giving for your children, peers: nothing builds a child or teenager’s char-acter like helping people in need. By engaging your children and even peers in your philanthropic activities and priorities, you pay forward the spirit of giving and gen-erate long-term momentum for support of charities. Research shows clearly that

many people give because philanthropy was mod-elled for them by their parents. Inspiring young peo-ple to give back is fundamental to building strong, caring communities.

3. Focus on impact, not overhead: Evaluating or ranking a charity solely on how much it spends on overhead can be misleading. The bottom line on ef-fectiveness is what the organization accomplishes, not necessarily what it spends on infrastructure or fundraising. Wise spending and being account-able and transparent are important criteria, but we need to remember that without investment, ser-vices would be impossible to deliver – real impact requires real investment.

4. Be flexible about donation amounts: Research shows that donations have been generally flat for the past five years. This is a serious challenge be-cause costs facing charities continue to grow. Peo-ple begin supporting charities in their youth even if they don’t have a lot of resources, but their giv-ing often does not to grow along with their income.

Part of a sound giving strategy is being flexible about the size of your gift and basing the amount on what you can afford.

5. Leadership matters: A charity’s success is always linked to how well it is led and managed. Strong leadership, efficient administration and good governance are key qualities to look for when evaluating a charity. One important sign of

sound management is accreditation by a third party. Some are eligible for accredi-tation for a specific type of work, such as health care, but all charities can be accred-ited through Imagine Canada’s Standards Program. This initiative involves rigorous peer review of board governance, finan-cial accountability and transparency, fun-draising, staff management and volunteer

involvement. Although the program is relatively new, 160 charities display this program’s Trustmark and many more are going through the process.

Visit imaginecanada.ca for a complete listing of accredited charities along with a comprehensive Guide to Giving to help with charitable decision making.

Imagine Canada is a national charitable umbrella organization whose cause is Canada’s charities and non-profits.

Holiday giving expected to hit $5 billion

According to Imagine Canada, the next six weeks will account for 40 per cent of all charitable donations made in 2015. Six-in-ten Canadians will donate and this year’s holiday giving is expected to hit $5-billion, bringing total gifts to charities and non-profits to about $13-billion for the entire year.


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Outdoor enthusiasts in the Columbia Val-ley are encouraged to book early for cus-tomized trips through the backcountry next summer.

A Bar Z - Backcountry Mountain Adven-tures owner and guide Brent DuBois will be offering trail rides, pack horse trips and horse-assisted hiking to tour the al-pine between mid-May and September. He has been working as a guide in the family-owned business for his entire life.

When Ted Zinken converted the Timber Ridge boy’s camp into a tourism venture, a working relationship began with the Du-Bois family.

“That is just how our brand originated,” ex-plained DuBois. “Dix Anderson was an outfit-ter with my grandfather and they owned the Elk Horn Ranch. Then Dix and Ted became partners at the boys’ camp to form A/Z Out-fitters. Then my dad and Dix partnered in the Dutch Creek Valley (and) my dad and I in Dutch Creek. Now, it’s just me in Dutch Creek and Toby. A/Z is still my name.”

The tours offered through A Bar Z vary in length, ranging from hour-long rides in Fair-mont to full-day rides in the alpine of the Pur-cells. Other adventures involve trips span-ning between three and 10 days in total.

DuBois recommends horse-assisted hik-ing for some, as it helps when the animals can carry some of the camping equipment to a location. During the trips, it is com-mon to see elk, goats, moose and bear.

A Bar Z - Backcountry Mountain Adven-tures keeps 40 horses on site, 20 guides and it also rents out 15 cabins during the summer. For more information, visit http://abarz.ca/about-a-bar-z/.

Some of the scenes that await outdoor enthusiasts planning to head into the alpine with A Bar Z - Backcountry Mountain Adventures next summer. Photos submitted

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On November 27 the roofline atop the East Kootenay Regional Hospital will welcome the annual lighting of stars as part of the 8th annual Starlite Campaign. The Starlite Campaign is the signature holiday event of East Kootenay Foundation for Health.

Donna Grainger, Executive Director for EKFH reports that the pre-holiday fundraising drive is having a re-markable impact already with a record breaking start of $54,526 in donations.

These donations are lighting seven large stars to kick off the campaign, thanks to several businesses, individuals and organizations, including the Kimberley Dynamiters.

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The idea began with “maybe we can take a

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Then I got the phone call… Nigella Lawson is coming to Vancouver on her book tour to promote her cookbook Simply Nigella. The timing was perfect — we closed our restaurant, booked accom-modations, packed up, then drove 11 hours, only to find Vancouver at her best with the sun shining!

It’s been four years since I was in Vancou-ver; 10 for my husband. We spent a few years living and working in Vancouver after we got married, which was an amazing time in my life. I was fortunate to work at Barbara-jo’s Books to Cooks. It was the best job I ever had as I was surrounded by cook-books full of knowledge while I worked with fa-mous chefs and food writers who came to Vancouver to promote their book. I learned about the publishing business, got into some writing, became a bit more mature (in a good way) and grounded my love for cooking.

It was the Books to Cooks chef, Adrienne O’Callaghan, who en-couraged me to go to Ballymaloe Cookery School for training, which I completed five years ago. That period in my life set the stage for where I am today.

Now, where does Nigella fall into all of this? She wrote a book called How to Eat, which turned out to be the very first cookbook I ever read from front to back. Nige-lla does not call herself a professional chef, but a home

cook. Her passion developed while cooking for her family and friends, as well as over years of being a journalist and dining in restaurants. One day, a friend encouraged her to write a cookbook and she took the leap.

As years have gone by, she has written eight more cook-books — all of them on our shelves at home and work. What I admire about her recipes is that they can be cooked at home or applied in restaurant settings. There is a comfort yet sophistication to all her recipes.

After dressing up for the evening, we walked into the Vancouver Club where the ambience was set for Nigella’s arrival — elegant, comfortable with a touch of sparkle. Simi Sarah conducted the interview, which, in a few words, was entertaining and insightful with great advice.

Nigella stepped in the room looking beau-tiful and her sense of humour kicked in the minute she began talking — she had the whole room laughing.

Nigella discussed what she called mind-ful cooking as, after all, her cookbook Sim-ply Nigella is about feel-good food that is cozy yet serene.

This is something many of us can relate to as we are dashing around to feed our kids and, in our case, restaurant guests. She mentioned how we should all be more present in that mo-ment of preparing food and, as repetitive as it may be, focus on what we are doing. Enjoy the moment; savour the smell, the movement and the tex-tures. When you cook, it should feel good and

be pleasurable. None of this feeling guilty about what you are eating. In Nigella’s words: “Relish it!”

She shared a lot about herself during the conversation. Nigella has a love for salty sweet flavours and always car-ries her own Maldron salt everywhere she goes.

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The Rockies held the Dynamiters to a stalemate until Columbia Valley slowed halfway through the game.

The Kimberley Dynamiters edged out the Columbia Val-ley Rockies 6-2 at the Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena on Friday, November 27th.

Rockies player Doan Smith scored the fi rst goal of the game in a power play during the fi rst period with assists from Quinn Sobus and Nigel Swab. Within the next two minutes, Dynamiters player Sawyer Hunt scored a goal and tied the game, with assists from Tyler Van Steinburg and Mitch Traichevich.

But when Connor McKay took a penalty for the Rockies during the second for spearing, emotions began to run high for the Junior B team.

“We took a kind of dumb penalty and Kimberley is a good enough team that they could hold us to it because they’re going to make you pay for it,” said Rockies coach Wade Dubielewicz. “We couldn’t seem to gain our com-

posure after that and the rest of the game was downhill.”Kimberley gained three more goals during the second

to boot when Dynamiters Brodie Buhler, Jordan Busch and Jared Marchi each scored a goal.

During the third period, Rockies player Nolan Menard scored the team’s second and fi nal goal of the game be-fore the Dynamiters gained by two more goals.

“Kimberley seems to be a bit of our Achilles heel, com-posure-wise,” said Dubielewicz after the game. “I think we get really fi red up for the games and sometimes, when things don’t go your way and you’re that emotional, sometimes you go the other direction. We’ve done quite a bit better at the last four or fi ve games, so we’ll just get back on the horse tomorrow (against the Nelson Leafs).”

The Rockies have yet to defeat the Dynamiters this season.

“They’re a good team and we have to start playing 60 full minutes against them,” said Mr. Dubielewicz. “If you’re going to lose composure and take a bad penalty here or there, they’re a team that will make you pay and that’s what happened tonight so it’s just too bad.”

Rockies player Nolan Menard (#23) manoeuvres the pucks with two Dynamiters hot on his heels during Columbia Valley’s game against Kimberley at the Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena on Friday, November 27th. Photo by Breanne Massey


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It was a night of two triumphs for the Rock-ies last Saturday.

The Columbia Valley Rockies won 4-2 against the Nelson Leafs at the Eddie Mountain Me-morial Arena during the Fill the Eddie for Alan fundraiser on Saturday, November 28th.

“I thought the Leafs came out really strong in the first two periods, really physical and we tried to match their physicality,” said Rockies coach Wade Dubielewicz. “They had a short bench and I think they ran out of gas a little bit in the third.”

While there was no scoring for either team during the first period, there was no shortage of excitement during the second and third.

Rockies player Micheal Cardinal scored the team’s first goal while the team was short-handed early in the second.

Leafs player Tyler Garcia evened the score when he moved down the ice with an assist from Kyle Chernekoff and Levi Hulston. With-in minutes, Rockies players Nick Hoobanoff scored the team’s next goal with assists from Cardinal and Smith.

But before the end of the second, the Leafs evened the score when Sam-uel Weber joined forces with Kyle Chernekoff and scored another goal.

“I kind of liked it, to be honest,” replied Dubielewicz when asked about the referees making minimal calls during the game tonight. “It gave the kids a chance to play some rough hockey and I think they enjoyed it.”

During the third, Rockies fans went wild as the final two goals of the game brought the game to a close — one of the most memorable wins of the season, according to some fans.

But the night was far from over for some, as the Hann family had ar-ranged to put an additional 20 minutes on the clock to wrap up the Fill the Eddie for Alan auction that took place during the Rockies’ game against Nelson — giving the Hann family’s friends, family and commu-nity one last opportunity to beat the buzzer and make a bid to help save Alan’s life.

The Hann family is trying to raise $20,000 to cover the costs of living, eating and travelling associated with Alan Hann’s double lung transplant in Edmonton

“Alan helps me out on a daily basis so it’s nice that we can give him back a little bit because we had a great crowd,” concluded Dubielewicz. “This is a benefit for him here, and I really hope it works out for him.”

The fundraiser netted a total of $13,700.

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The Columbia Valley Rockies entertained their fans with a 4-2 win against the Nelson Leafs at the Eddie Mountain Memo-rial Arena on Saturday, November 28th. Photo by Breanne Massey

Many people from the Columbia Valley took part in the “Fill the Eddie for Alan” silent auction last weekend to support Alan Hann and his family in their quest to raise money for a double lung transplant for Alan. Photo by Breanne Massey


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PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20It may seem like getting others to open up is a struggle this week. Find a way to communicate as best you can, Pisces.

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

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Little things infl uence how others look at you, Taurus, so make sure you get all of your ducks in a row -- especially at work. Focus on some fi ner details.

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20Aries, you can be quite generous when you choose to be, but sometimes you can overlook the needs of others. Pay as much attention to others’ needs as possible this week.

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VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Ambivalence will get you nowhere fast, Virgo. It can be diffi cult to make decisions, but that’s something you have to do this week. Once you do, you can forge ahead.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, your calendar is fi lling up quickly, but you cannot add any days to the calendar. Divide your responsibilities so you can better handle everything on your slate.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, you may feel yourself pulled in two different directions this week. There’s a part of you that is focused on home, and another that knows work beckons. Find a balance.

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

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2007 — A pair of female bighorn sheep in Radium admire the

statue of a buck.

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55 years ago (1960): C o n s t r u c t i o n

began on the new Red-streak Campground in Kootenay National Park. The planned 87-acre campground was meant to have space for up to 200 tents and replace the old, crowded Red Rock campground

50 years ago (1965): After much lobby-

ing from the local RCMP and local residents, the provincial Department of Highway � nally agreed to add a footbridge, sepa-rated by a barrier, to the Athalmer bridge. Pedes-trian safety on the bridge had been a concern for many years.

45 years ago (1970): Upgrades on the

section of Toby Creek Road up to Panorama Mountain Resort were carried out, including drilling some corners so they could be blasted to make the road wider. At the time lift tickets to Panorama and Fairmont Hot Springs ski resort could be used inter-changeably.

40 years ago (1975): A front page

story in the Valley Echo clari� ed for readers that the sewer system up-grade work then under-way would be complete ahead of schedule, by the end of January 1976. Re-paving of the streets was to take place the fol-lowing spring.

30 years ago (1985): Large billboards

north of the crossroads on Shuswap Indian Band land were the source of consternation of several prominent Invermere business owners, who voiced complaints dur-ing an Invermere Busi-ness Committee meet-ing. The business owners maintained that the bill-boards took away from the area’s scenic beauty and made the approach to town aesthetically un-pleasant.

20 years ago (1995): Kootenay Colum-

bia Reform MP Jim Ab-bott was outraged over the passing of Bill C-68 (the gun control bill). He expressed particular dis-may that Conservative

senators let the bill pass after they had suggested they wouldn’t unless it was amended.

15 years ago (2000): Lake Windermere

got a clean bill of health from a study that showed its waters were relatively clear with little algae and weed growth. The study, paid for by the District of Invermere, Columbia Basin Trust and other groups, rated the lake’s water quality as good to excellent.

10 years ago (2005): The 2006 federal

election (held in late January) was called — meaning it would run over the Christmas holi-day — and Kootenay Co-lumbia candidates began campaigning. Incumbent Conservative MP Jim Abbott and NDP chal-lenger Brent Bush were almost immediately out on the campaign trail, but the Liberals had not yet nominated a can-didate for the riding. A provincial election cam-paign exactly 30 years prior to also run through the Chrismas holiday.

LET’S from A7

PowerBC is about retrofi tting public buildings, homes and businesses for en-ergy effi ciency, resulting in reduced energy costs and community-based jobs.

PowerBC is about maximizing current capacity in existing dams such as the Revelstoke Dam. Forward-thinking engineering built this structure for fu-ture capacity. We can still add one more turbine in Revelstoke Dam, which would generate 500 megawatts of new capacity and create 390 person-years of skilled trades employment.

PowerBC is about making signifi cant investments in clean energy. British Co-lumbia is particularly well-suited to produce renewable energy and could be an exporter of not only renewable energy, but of renewable energy technology.

Columbia River-Revelstoke has already embraced a diversity of energy pro-duction options that range from the SunMine in Kimberley to the bioenergy facility in Skookumchuk. Across British Columbia, there are tremendous op-portunities for geothermal, wind, tidal and solar generation.

With the right leadership, we can build the energy future we want. If you want to learn more about PowerBC, go to www.bcndpcaucus.ca/powerbc.

Norm Macdonald is the NDP MLA for Columbia River Revelstoke. He can be reached by phone at 1-866-870-4188 and by email at [email protected].

A SIMPLY from A16

She loves Italian food, is inspired by Asian with its playfulness of fl avours, and is curious about Korean cooking. Her must-have kitchen ingredients include chilli pastes, ginger, lemons, garlic, butter, extra virgin olive oil, non-extra virgin olive oil, bacon fat (a must have to fry fi sh in it!), coconut oil, duck and goose fat.

As we stood in line to have a few minutes with her, I pondered what to ask her. After all, this is a woman who has become a part of my family and business in an indirect way. Her cookie cutter sugar cookie recipe is used almost every holiday with our children, our guests in our restaurant have adored her chocolate cake, and her roast chicken recipe has been go-to for last-minute entertaining.

We had a lovely conversation. Nigella was very genuine and thoughtful in the few minutes we had with her. As for my question, I asked “What’s next?” She laughed and said, “Who knows? Just enjoying the moment!”

Simply Nigella is published by Random House for $45 and is available at From Scratch — A Mountain Kitchen.

Lara McCormack is one of the owners of From Scratch – A Mountain Kitchen in Fairmont Hot Springs where one can savour fabulous, seasonal food, sip from a se-lection of BC wines and enjoy the views of our gorgeous valley landscape.

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SMITH, Dorothy (Dot) (nee Worsley)

August 13th, 1932 - November 20th, 2015

Long-time valley resident, school teacher, Lake Windermere Player, curler and tennis player, world traveler, 3rd place fi nisher in the 1985 Stockdale Square Husband Calling Contest and long-suff ering cook. Dot passed away peacefully surrounded by her family at Columbia House after a lengthy battle with dementia. Dot leaves behind her husband, Roger, her sons, Graeme (Nancy) and Doug (Mercy) and grandchildren, Grady and Emma.

Private remembrance to be held at a later date.

E mail condolences may be sent to the family through Dorothy’s obituary at

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FORTIN,LORRAINEGWENYTH

1930 – 2015

Lorraine was born February 21, 1930 in Duncan, BC.Surrounded by loving fam-ily members, she passed

away peacefully at Shuswap Lake General Hospital in the early hours of November 26 at the age of 85 years. Left to grieve are her husband Frank; children Mary Ellen Schacke, Lyle Fortin, Cathy Spence (Ken), Bar-bara Rogers (Brian); grandchildren Jocelyn Meadows, Christopher Schacke (Erin), Ashley Meadows, Lindsay Brown (Nat), Kevin Rogers, Stephanie Schacke (Mike), and Kirsten Spence; her sister Patricia Tindle as well as many nephews and nieces. Lorraine was also blessed with seven great grandchildren; Alex and Seamus Fin-nan, Isabella and Oliver Schacke, Eleanor Simpson and Keith and Nina Brown.Lorriane’s greatest joy was sharing life with Frank, her loving husband, with whom she spent 74 wonderful years, 67 of them as a married couple. Th ey went on many trips and enjoyed spending time together and with family at their summer home on Shuswap Lake.Lorraine will be sadly missed by all who knew her.A celebration of her life will be held at 2 p.m. on Satur-day, December 5 at Fischer’s Funeral Services, 4060 1st Ave. SW, Salmon Arm.

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An Upper Columbia Valley backpacking trail, which is one of the Koo-tenay region’s premiere — as well as one of its least used — routes, got a much-needed touch up late this summer and is set to be in prime shape next hiking season.

The Earl Grey Trail extends some 60 kilometres (some sources say 61, some say 63, others 64) from the upper reaches of Toby Creek down to Argenta, on the shore of Kootenay Lake, a four- to five-day hike through some truly remote and wild backcountry. The rugged natural state of the trail and relatively few number of hikers it attracts means it is usually in rough condition and is not-well defined in many spots, with thick vegetation, rock slide debris and plenty of big blow-down (fallen trees), making it difficult going even for the hardiest of hikers. At least five creek crossings need to be made by hand-pulled, suspended cable cars. However, every several years or so, BC Parks tries to clear things up as best as possible, and this summer a crew of four BC Parks rangers did just that.

“It’s probably as good as it ever gets right now. It’s a pretty advanced trail and it’s a steep, narrow valley so it gets impacted a lot by (rock and debris) slides,” said BC Parks ranger Ryan van der Marel, one of the four do-ing the trail work. “It’s certainly intense to do it (the hike) all in one go, east to west. Really, it’s for experienced hikers prepared to do some of their own route finding, but it is absolutely spectacular.”

Van der Marel and and fellow ranger Jim Grey teamed up with rangers Dave Gottdenker and Robbie McClary and spent four days in early August clearing the western portion of the trail, up to the Earl Grey Pass, the trail’s high point. Then, a few weeks later, van der Marel and Grey spent three days on their own working

on the eastern portion of the trail.“It was really tough,” said van

der Marel, adding the rangers were hefting 70 to 80 pound (31 kilogram to 36 kilogram) packs and clam-bering up steep climbs, all while carrying chainsaws. In places, the trees across the trail were so large that they were impossible to cut through, so the rangers would in-stead cut footholds and notches in them to help future hikers get over.

The route has a heritage aspect, being a former First Nations trade route and having the cabin of former Governor General Earl Grey on the trail. The cabin was built by the Earl in 1909 and his whole family used it as a holiday retreat that summer. The remains of the cabin are still standing, not far from the start of the eastern trailhead.

“(The cabin) is falling into disrepair, which is unfortunate because its a pretty cool structure, but it’s definitely still there,” said van der Marel.

There are natural splendours aplenty on the trail as well, with views of the Toby Glacier and Lady MacBeth Glacier from Earl Grey Pass, which van der Marel calls “a stunning spot,” and huge old growth trees on the western side of the trail.

“They are the kind of trees you don’t see often in the (B.C.) interior. It’s more what you’d expect to find on the coast,” said van der Marel.

The trail gets maintained every few years despite a lack of many hikers, prin-cipally because of its historical significance, said van der Marel, adding that al-though it’s a great route, cleaning it up a greater degree might prove fruitless, given its remoteness.

“To make it less rugged would cost quite a lot of money and you don’t have any assurances that you wouldn’t have to be in there every single year, maybe even more often, to keep clearing up the latest blowdown or the latest slide debris,” he said. “It really would be a lot of work.”

Clearing the trail to a greater degree, according to van der Marel, would also impact the remote, wild feeling of the trail.

Rangers touch up Earl Grey TrailOMMUNITYC

The Earl Grey Trail is multi-day hike through remote Kootenay backcountry. Photos submitted


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