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PHOTO BY STEVE JESSEL/THE ECHOInvermere's Light Up Night wowed locals and visitors alike on Saturday (November 17) when a parade of brightly lit and festive fl oats made their way down 7th Street, kicking off the holiday spirit for everyone who attended. For more Light Up Night images, turn to page A15.

'Tis the seasonGreen light for Jumbo Resort

� e Columbia Valley Community Foundation (CVCF) is poised to continue its work in the com-munity for years to come now that a former Canal Flats resident has left approximately $2 million to the foundation in his will.

“It’s a huge deal for the foundation,” CVCF vice-chair

In an exclusive interview with Minister of Com-munity, Sport and Cultural Development Bill Ben-nett on Monday (November 19), � e Valley Echo learned the B.C. government has issued letters pat-ent for a new mountain resort municipality in the Jumbo Valley by the name of Jumbo Glacier Resort.

"As is the custom with a new municipality like this,

$2M donation to bene� t valley

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Mountain Resort Municipality status created, mayor and council appointed

Long-time Canal Flats resident bequeaths money to foundation

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� e life and times of a local legend

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Parks Canada sta� have begun an investi-gation after two elk car-casses were discovered near the highway in the south end of Koo-tenay National Park on Sunday (November 11) and are appealing to the public for more information.

“We’re still investi-gating but it appears as though they were killed some place else and dropped in the park; wheth-er they were killed

someplace else in the national park we don’t know,” said Parks Canada Public Relations and Com-munications O� cer Ross MacDonald.

Hunting is not per-mitted in a national park under the Na-tional Parks Act and Parks Canada sta� are assuming the animals were shot, but wheth-er it was with bul-lets or arrows is not known. � e two car-casses — full grown

bull elk — were miss-ing antlers and much of the meat had been taken as well. Mature bulls can weigh up to 1,000 pounds.

“If anyone knows

anything more about this we’d like to know,” MacDonald said.

While the elk popu-lation in Kootenay National Park has dropped compared to

numbers recorded in the 1960s and 1970s, there is still a “fair number” in the Co-lumbia Valley, he said.

For B.C. registered hunters, open hunt-ing season on elk with six-point antlers or bet-ter closed throughout the valley on October 20. � at the elk were lawfully hunted re-mains a possibility as aboriginal rights allow First Nations hunting outside the open sea-son on traditional ter-ritories, said Invermere Conservation O� cer Greg Kruger.

“So if we get a com-plaint about an animal being harvested and remains found, that’s always a part of our investigation as well,” he said. “At the end of the day, it may have been a lawful harvest even if it was shot after October 20, but driv-ing it into the park and dumping it is wrong.

“Whoever did it, it was a contravention of the National Park Act.”

If any member of the public has informa-tion related to this in-cident, they’re asked to called 1-888-WAR-DENS (1-888-927-3367), and they may remain anonymous, if they wish to do so.

"Wardens have found no evidence that the animals were killed in the national park and the � nd re-mains a mystery," Macdonald told � e Valley Echo on Mon-day (November 19).

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PARKS CANADA PHOTOParks Canada staff are appealing to the public for information on the remains of two bull elk found in Kootenay National Park.

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we are appointing a major and two councillors," Bennett said.

The $450-million high elevation glacier based ski resort is planned in three phas-es and will ultimately include 5,500 bed-units in a 104-hectare resort base area. It is projected to provide approximately 3,750 people years of construction employ-ment and create 750 to 800 permanent full-time jobs. Its newly appointed mayor is Greg Deck, and councillors are Nancy Hugunin and Steve Ostrander. Hugunin is a well-known local entrepreneur, mother and grandmother, and serves as the Koo-tenay Regional Chairperson for the BC Ski Association. Ostrander, a retired profes-sional forester, is currently a director for the Columbia Valley Food Bank, the Lake Windermere District Lions Club and the Columbia Headwaters Community For-est Initiative.

Deck was the first mayor of Radium Hot Springs when it incorporated and held that position for 18 years until re-tiring from office in 2008.

"He also sat on the regional district board and was chair for many years so he has experience," said Bennett. "He's also very credible and is known for his personal integrity."

He stressed that Deck will not be working for either the developer or the Province. Retiring chief administrative officer from the town of Golden Phil Taylor will be the interim corporate of-fer, and will spend the next few months creating an original set of bylaws for the new community and ensuring that the municipality is operational by its official

incorporation date of February 19, 2013.

"He'll work with Greg and the two councillors and it will operate the same as any mayor and council," Bennett said. "Everything they do will be subject to the Local

Government Act and the Community Charter."

While the mayor and council will be responding to the developer's requests for zoning and rights to build roads, streets and other infrastructure, the de-veloper — Glacier Resorts Ltd. — will deal largely with the Province in terms of the access road, con-struction of lifts, gon-dolas and so forth on Crown land.

"I think it's impor-tant for me to say that the Regional District of East Kootenay passed a resolution in 1996 to ask the Province to create a mountain resort municipality," Bennett said. "That resolution has stayed on their books for ten years, there was a brief period of a couple of years when they changed their mind and then back in 2009 they passed another resolution go-ing back to the original one where they asked government to create a mountain resort municipality as the form of gover-nance for this project.

"So we are in step with local govern-ment; we're going with what they have asked us to do, we agree with local gov-ernment that mountain resort munici-pality is the most effective way to deal

with this project."When asked if mountain resort mu-

nicipality status would permit Jumbo Glacier Resort to apply for provincial infrastructure funding for a new access road, Bennett replied that the B.C. gov-ernment would not entertain an appli-cation from council for infrastructure support until there had been a demo-cratic election with people residing in the resort municipality.

"The dealings that the proponent will have with the Province over the access road and over infrastructure and all those kinds of things will be exactly the same as any proponent in the same circumstanc-

es," he said. "So in oth-er words, the propo-nent here is not going to get any special deal on the access road. Whatever is the normal arrangement between a ski resort developer and the Province is the

arrangement that we'll have here."Bennett was quick to point out that over

a dozen municipalities around the prov-ince were created when mines or dams were being built to provide a form of gov-ernance for the workers living there.

"And if (Jumbo Glacier Resort) goes ahead," he said, "it will be a game changer for tourism in British Colum-bia… we will have something in British Columbia that does not exist anywhere else in North America."

He equated Western Canada's single biggest tourist attraction — the gondola in Banff — to Glacier Resorts Ltd.'s proposed gondola to the top of Glacier Dome over-looking the Lake of the Hanging Glacier.

"(It) will be about as spectacular an at-traction as there is anywhere in North America," Bennett said.

"I'm not in the business of predicting whether a proponent's going to be suc-cessful, whether we're talking about a mine or a resort or any other type of business venture," he continued, "but if this does proceed, it definitely does have the potential to employ hundreds and hundreds of local people and to be a game changer in tourism."

With respect to the widespread oppo-sition the proposed resort has met from local First Nations, environmentalists and Kootenay residents as well as fur-ther afield, Bennett said the government would work through any sort of protests, including road blockages, should they happen to come up.

"We're hoping that the opponents of the project will respect the law, and we're also hoping that they will respect the due process that has led over the past 22 years to the Environmental Assessment Certificate in 2005, to the Master Devel-opment Plan in March 2012, and now to the incorporation of the mountain resort municipality," said Bennett. "It's a due process, everyone has had their chance to say what they think; the proponent has done what governments have over the years have asked of them, and now there's a decision and the proponent now has a right to build the project."

The Valley Echo was granted an embar-goed media interview with Bennett the day before his formal public announcement on Tuesday (November 20) just prior to Mon-day's press deadline. Check www.inverme-revalleyecho.com and next week's issue for ongoing coverage and interviews.

The Ktunaxa Nation is following through on its July announcement that it will contest the B. C. govern-ment’s decision to approve the devel-opment of Jumbo Glacier Resort.

Friday, November 30th will be the filing date for the Ktunaxa’s applica-tion for judicial review of the resort’s approval, which will be submitted in Vancouver with the BC Supreme Court. The filing will coincide with a protest rally in Cranbrook, where court proceedings are expected to be held.

“Ktunaxa have been on record as be-ing opposed to this resort since it was first proposed,” Ktunaxa Nation chair

Kathryn Teneese said in a media re-lease. “Our opposition is based prin-cipally on the spiritual importance of the Qat’muk area for Ktunaxa people, as well as the concerns for the protec-tion of wildlife populations, biodiver-sity and water quality.”

The Ktunaxa maintain that the in-tended location for the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort is at the heart of one of their main sacred sites called Qat’muk (GOT MOOK), which is home to the spirit of the grizzly bear and is of vital importance to their traditional culture. Their arguments in court will include how approval of the resort represents a desecration of a principal Ktunaxa sacred site, the likely undoing of Ktunaxa traditional spiritual and re-ligious practices, and consequently a significant and unjustifiable violation of Ktunaxa constitutional rights.

“The resort was approved despite the strong evidence of the critical impact it would have upon our spirituality and

culture,” said Teneese. “We now have no other choice but to challenge the B.C. government’s decision-making process. We feel that this decision will not stand in a court of law, and will be found to show that the B.C. government did not make the correct decision in approving the resort in the heart of Qat’muk.”

Efforts by Ktunaxa to convey the cultural, spiritual and religious sig-nificance of Qat’muk included the re-lease of the Shaffer Economic Report, which concluded the resort would have no net economic benefit to B.C. because it was based on outdated market growth forecasts.

"What I'd like to encourage people to do is inform themselves as much as possible about the issues," Teneese said, "and also offer up us as being available to discuss this if anybody is interested in hearing more from us."

For more information on the Ktu-naxa Nation's campaign, visit www.beforejumbo.com.

Ktunaxa sets filing date for judicial review applicationFirst Nation challenginggovernment's approval of Jumbo Glacier Resort


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Bill Bennett

“The proponent here is not going to get any special deal on the access road.”

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Water conundrum in Canal Flats

An attempt by the Village of Canal Flats council to force the issue of up-grading the Eagle’s Nest water sys-tem has been waylaid. At its regular meeting on Tuesday, November 13, council learned its request to adopt a bylaw that would permit the village to borrow $1.24 million at a cost to property owners without their assent in order to upgrade the system has been denied.

“It’s difficult communicating with the residents,” said Village of Canal Flats mayor Ute Juras, who noted only two people showed at a meeting held the August long weekend.

The Eagle’s Nest water system has been on a boil advisory since 2003 and is in contravention of the prov-ince’s Drinking Water Protection Act. A $400,000 Towns for Tomorrow infra-structure grant awarded to the village to upgrade the system has a deadline of March 2013 and council has so far identified two viable options to apply the funds towards. Both options — linking the Eagle’s Nest system to that of the village or creating a brand new standalone system — ring in at $1.6 million. As the grant represents just 25 per cent of this total cost, council proposed to all the owners of the 62 lots in the Eagle’s Nest area that it bor-row $1.24 million at a cost of roughly $1,100 per property owner per year for 25 years. Opposition to this pro-posed bylaw came in at 66 per cent, thus defeating it.

“The tank is in a state of dis-repair,” said Juras. “It’s in re-ally bad shape.”

In an effort to resolve the problem by overriding public opinion, council requested that Interior Health (IH) issue an order to expedite the pro-cess. IH complied by imple-menting a deadline of September 30, 2013 by which time potable drinking water must be provided.

“It was indicated to us that the order would eventually be issued, but we requested it in order to speed up the process,” Juras said.

Armed with this legal requirement to upgrade the system, council sent the order to the Inspector of Municipali-ties (IM) of British Columbia along with a request to have the borrowing bylaw approved, but was informed on November 8 that approval of the bylaw will not be granted without the Eagle’s Nest property owners’ assent.

“Council cannot move forward until we have approval of the bylaw which has to be done by the assent of the owner electors,” said Village of Ca-nal Flats chief administrative officer Brian Woodward. “It’s a very difficult circumstance.”

As it stands, if the Village of Canal Flats fails to comply with the order under the Drinking Water Protection Act, penalties upon conviction can be as much as $200,000 per day as well as up to 12 months imprisonment.

Council can request that IH with-draw the order, but it would still re-main in effect during the review peri-od until such time that the Provincial Health Officer decides enough new evidence supports otherwise. In the meantime, council has requested yet another extension on the grant — for the third time — to March 30, 2014.

One way around this is to hold a referendum, said Woodward, in which only B.C.-registered voters would be eligible vote.

“If they go to referendum, and it passes, then the IM will approve the bylaw,” he said.

According to Juras, only seven to 10 property owners would be able to vote in a referendum.

“It virtually eliminates almost every-body who own property out there from voting,” agreed Woodward. “I’ve talked with many of them; they come 10 times a year, and they stop to pick up a cou-ple jugs for the three days they’re going to be there, it costs them $10, and they have water for flushing their toilets and showers and everything.”

“It’s only costing them $300 per year as a user fee and a very small amount of money for the drinking water,” he said. “We’re proposing to them that it will be $1,100 (per year) for the debt for 25 years plus also on top of that whatever the user fees are going to be, between $300 to $1,000 a year as well, so they’re faced with a substantial increase.”

That a majority of the Eagle’s Nest property owners don’t live in the area full-time and are content to purchase their drinking water on an as-needed basis doesn’t factor into IH policy, said IH health protection team leader Ron Popoff.

“The Drinking Water Protection Act and regulations doesn’t make stipula-tions for those considerations,” Popoff said. “This is an illegal water system that needs to comply with the legisla-tion so that the water consumers can be entitled to safe drinking water.

“The fact that this is also in support of the village so that they can leverage that money going forward, so be it. It’s time that it goes forward.”

Council at a standstill regarding Eagle's Nest water system upgrade

NICOLE [email protected] Ute Juras

AgPlan in the works for East Kootenay

In an effort to buck the province-wide trend of di-minishing agriculture and farming, the Ministry of Agriculture has partnered with over 41 communities across B.C. to develop ag-ricultural area plans, and the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) is close to having one to call its own.

At the Windermere Lions’ Hall on Tuesday, November 12, RDEK agricultural con-sultant David Struthers held

the fifth in a series of seven public consultations to gath-er information and feedback on the planning process to date. Implementation of the RDEK Agricultural Plan is set for March 2013.

“What does agriculture mean to you? What actions can be taken to e n h a n c e , p r o m o t e and protect agriculture in the region?” Struthers asked the 30 or so people in attendance. “We’re bound-ed by the geography we have to work with; relative to oth-er areas in the province, we don’t have large urban cen-tres right on our doorstep.”

An action-oriented docu-ment that makes recom-mendations to all levels of government, an agricultural area plan focuses on a com-munity’s farm areas and identifies solutions to press-ing issues as well as oppor-

tunities for s t r e n g t h -ening the c o m m u -nity’s long-term sus-tainability.

An agri-cultural land use inventory for the East Kootenay was completed back in 2011, fol-lowed by a background re-port. Public consultation is the next step in the process before development of the plan is finalized and imple-

mentation begins.During the meeting,

Struthers provided a snap-shot look at the background report, revealing that de-velopment, inflated land prices, and heavy regula-tions have all put pressure on the local agriculture in-dustry. Only about 10 per cent of the total land base in the East Kootenay is agri-cultural with the number of farms having dropped from 474 to 396 since 1996. While an increase in the number of nurseries and green-houses has been noted, a decline in cattle livestock isn’t surprising considering the challenges the livestock

Agricultural plan to be implemented in early 2013


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“We're bounded by the geography we have to work with.”

david struthersRDEK agRicultuRal consultant

Dr. Don Miller said. "It's nice to see the community get better, and that's our mandate."

The donated funds come from the estate of Arnold Ellis, who passed away at the age of 85 in Cranbrook in January. As directed in his will, the money is intended to help those seek-ing education or training at any level — whether it be in the trades, at tech-nical schools, college or university — and who require financial assistance that is not otherwise available. Ellis had formerly set up what is known as the Arnold Ellis Scholarship Fund in 2004 with a small donation, and upon receipt of his estate assets, the fund will now exceed $2 million.

"It's for anything that has to do with education, we'll in-terpret that as liber-ally as we can just to spread it around," Miller said. "It won't just all go to the high school, or the college; we'll be liberal with what we can find."

The way the community foundation works is its principal donations are never actually used. Instead, interest made from investing those funds is doled out to community projects, or-ganizations and individuals through the course of the year. The CVCF has two application cycles and after receiving applications the volun-teer board of directors determines where to allocate the funds. Prior to this donation, the CVCF had roughly $800,000 on hand, which in a good economic climate would allow them to spend about $20,000 per year. With this new donation, Miller esti-mates they'll be able to increase their yearly funding by $50,000, allowing them to focus on a wider breadth of community-based initiatives.

"The foundation is in a position of doing some very good work with the community, as it has in the past,"

said CVCF board member Emile Mo-rin. "This gives us even greater room for growth and involvement in the community. I think it's a wonderful thing that he did."

Beyond allowing the foundation to give away more money each year, there are other benefits that arise from the donation as well. One of the bigger challenges the foundation has faced over the years has actually been receiv-ing enough applications for the fund-ing, and Miller said that wIth the pub-licity this donation brings he hopes the total number of applications grows.

Another potential bonus is on the administrative side. The foundation does keep a small percentage of accu-mulated interest in order to pay for ad-ministrative fees such as advertising and office space, and former founda-

tion chair Seona Helmer said the board might look into hiring a part-time employee to help take some of the burden off the volunteer direc-

tors. The board already plans to set up a committee solely for the purpose of distributing the Ellis funds, and is also looking for additional board mem-bers to join the foundation to help with that process.

"(The donation) will raise aware-ness and our profile in the commu-nity, and it will also give us the ad-ministrative flexibility to grow, that we haven't had," Helmer said. "It'll be a real great boost for the board."

The CVCF was formed in 2000 and Helmer estimates over $250,000 has been given away since that time. Past recipients include the Columbia Val-ley Food Bank, Pynelogs Cultural Centre, the Columbia Valley Arts Council, ICAN, and the Invermere Hospital Auxiliary. For more infor-mation on the CVCF, including ap-plication forms, visit the website at www.valleyfoundation.ca.

For a special historical feature story on Arnold Ellis, turn to page A17.

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industry has been facing, Struthers said.

“Where have we been, where are we now, what are favourable conditions for agriculture in the future?” he asked the group. "What specific actions are needed to create this vision?”

Strengthening the con-nection between those producing the food and

those consuming it with public education emerged as a common theme.

Other suggested ideas included branding, ag-ritourism and bolstering agricultural clubs outside the school system.

Partnering with the local Chambers of Commerce to encourage local busi-ness people to see possi-bilities within the agricul-tural sector also came up, as did improving the local

food processing capacity, the challenges of meeting consumer demands, and having the Columbia Val-ley declared organic and GMO-free.

“RDEK recognizes that agriculture is a sleeping giant,” said Area G direc-tor Gerry Wilkie.

To stay informed about the plan’s progress and to par-ticipate, visit the dedicated page for the Agricultural Plan at www.rdek.bc.ca.

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Sewer service mucked up

For most people, paying their monthly utility bills is second nature, but one In-vermere woman hasn’t received the sew-er service she’s been paying for over the last 25 years.

Former Calgary resident Burdette Coates Storey has been paying into the district sewer system ever since buying a second property at 1602 1A Avenue in Invermere in 1987 as a vacation home. Having moved to Invermere full-time a number of years ago, Storey had a back-up of what she thought was grey water this past summer. After having a plumb-ing service resolve the issue, the service also recommended the sewer line be in-spected by camera. The inspection indi-cated a problem with the line and Storey had where she thought the sewer line on her property ran excavated.

That’s when they discovered that in-stead of being connected to the town sewer line, the property was only con-nected to a septic system.

“I was pretty aghast, because the (dis-trict service card) actually showed me connected as well as the (realtor) listing sheet,” Storey said. “So even if at the time I bought it I had searched it out more

carefully, it still would have shown me as connected.”

Storey estimates she has paid some-where near $5,000 in sewage fees over the years, and as such is appealing to Invermere council for a solution. Sto-rey said she is willing to forgo asking the district for reimbursement of those fees, provided the district foots the bill for connecting her property to the village sewer line.

“I don’t know exactly where we go from here, but it’s kind of worrisome, because I definitely am going to have to have something done,” Storey said.

To this day, Storey still has the original realtor listing sheet, which clearly indi-cates that the property is connected to the town sewer line. Furthermore, at the Invermere council meeting on Tuesday, November 13, Chief Administrative Of-ficer Chris Prosser told council members that the district service card from 1975 for the property also shows the property is connected.

The reality, he noted, is that the sewer line runs up to the edge of the property.

Citing the need for a fair solution for all the parties combined, council has now directed staff to obtain an estimate on the cost of installing a line, and an esti-mate on the amount Storey has paid in sewer fees over the years.

As the weather is quickly turning, Sto-rey has since has the excavation on her property filled with the expectation that any decision or action likely wouldn’t take place until next spring.

“This gives us even greater room for growth and involvement in the community.”

emile morincvcf board member

Invermere resident discovers she's been paying for nothing for 25 years


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A Jumbo complex

So there you have it it. The word has come down from the top that Jumbo Glacier Resort is to be incorporated as British Columbia's newest moun-tain resort municipality, just 50 kilometres from the District of Invermere and right in the heart of what many consider to be their own personal backyard. And it is — all of us who reside in the beautiful province of British Columbia can essen-tially consider themselves a stakeholder in this chunk of Crown land that has been the focus of so much contention for so long.

And what a cantakerous bunch we are. Climate change is melting the glaciers — what's the point of having a glacier-based ski resort when we should be protecting it as a water supply? The valley needs an economic stimulator — Jumbo Glacier Resort has the potential to attract tourists from around the world. Wildlife are already los-ing enough habitat — we have to stop develop-ment so they have somewhere to live! It's far from a pristine valley — just look at the scars years of logging and mining have left behind. But First Nations claim its of utmost spiritual importance to their already decimated culture which they are trying so hard to revive. But younger generations growing up in the valley need more opportunity and the promise of exciting, well-paid jobs that will entice them to stay and raise their families. And on and on it goes.

Friends sit on opposite sides of the fence, couples are split on the issue, and a community at large that should be working towards solutions on every identifiable issue is divided and rife with conflict, making it near impossible for other projects to be tackled without the old bitterness creeping in and getting in the way of productive, good work.

Jumbo Glacier Resort is less about building a ski resort than it is about competing ideologies and value systems. But in the words of U.S. President Barack Obama in his victory speech: "These argu-ments we have are a mark of our liberty. We can never forget that as we speak people in distant nations are risking their lives right now just for a chance to argue about the issues that matter."

Keeping this in mind will definitely help us navigate the unchartered waters ahead. Heck, we may even decide as a group of impassioned stakeholders to take a time out and celebrate our freedom to argue — together.

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Dear Editor,The Columbia Valley Chamber of

Commerce (CVCC) board of direc-tors is right; we should all be working together to have a robust and thriv-ing business environment, and to make this valley the best place that it can be for residents, property owners and visitors.

In order to make this area the best that it can be, we have to look beyond the political lines on the map. It is the responsibility and obligation of local governments to look not just within their boundaries, but also consider the overall regional picture — espe-cially if changes to that regional pic-ture could threaten future co-opera-tion from occurring.

I apologize if my October 17th let-ter to The Valley Echo offended any-one. Perhaps I was a little too imagi-native in names for the proposed “town” in Jumbo and in suggestions of future council members. I do not, however, apologize for being wor-ried about the long-term impacts of an undemocratic local government within our region, which would not be accountable to local residents, neighbouring local governments, or even local businesses purported to

be represented by the CVCC.Despite the critique from the CVCC

board, I will continue to be a strong advocate to maintain their current funding from the District of Inver-mere (DOI). I also believe the same relationship exists between local government and the Province; you can sometimes raise concerns about specific policies or decisions, but at the end of the day our tax dollars should be distributed based on need and merit not along political lines.

Hopefully the board will consider my offer to present at a future meeting about the positive work DOI council is trying to do within our boundaries and on a regional basis, and how the CVCC can be part of that work.

Gerry TaftMayor, District of Invermere

Dear Editor, In politics when someone continually

spends time reporting on what they say others are not doing, it usually means that they are actually reporting more on their own lack of accomplishment.

Sound familiar? If so, then you know I am talking about Norm Macdonald’s MLA reports. In his regular “reports” his only rhetoric is what he thinks the BC Liberal government is or is not do-

ing and he never talks about what he is doing as far as his work goes within the riding; his most recent attack be-ing on the BC Jobs Plan, which is actu-ally working very well.

What then should a responsible MLA report look like? I offer a report on some of my recent accomplishments, work that is ongoing while the current MLA continues to play at politics.

Together with Golden Area Director Gary Habart, I am working on an issue associated with the seasonal occupants of Cosway Island. We have been able to get extensions for the occupants’ ten-ure on the Island and we continue to work with Minister Steve Thomson to-ward a longer term solution.

I continue to work with the presi-dent and CEO of Edgewater-based WoodEx Mill to secure fibre from Canfor and the Akisqnuk Band. I continue to work with the residents of the Community of Meadowbrook, just outside of Kimberley, toward a solution for the Cherry Creek Falls issue. I continue to work with repre-sentatives from the Dry Gulch devel-opment near Radium on potable wa-ter issues. I continue to work with the developer of the Painted Ridge sub-division on a solution for their water

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www.invermerevalleyecho.com A7The Valley Echo Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Community Calendar

WED NOV 21•Scrabble Night, Invermere Public Library, 6 - 8 p.m.

NOV 2324•Invermere Legion Winter Wonderland Market, Friday 7 - 10 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Satur-day tea from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

FRI NOV 23•ICAN dinner and comedy show, Invermere Commu-nity Hall, 6 p.m.Tickets 250-341-7888

SAT NOV 24•Headwaters Arts Society Show, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Canal Flats Community Hall•Library Christ-mas Silent Auc-tion. Friends of the Library kick off the auction with a bake sale 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Pick up some deli-cious goodies and browse the variety of auction off er-ings. Auction closes Saturday, December 8 at noon•CV Rockies play Nitehawks, 7:30 p.m.

MON NOV 26•MLA Meeting Day with Norm Mac-donald, call 1-866-870-4188 to make appointment

TUES NOV 27•Green Drinks gathering to discuss Gross National Hap-piness in the Valley. 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Angus McToogles

NOV 30DEC 1•BIG Christmas Craft Sale, Inver-mere Commu-nity Hall, $2 entry or food bank item, 4 - 8 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Saturday

SAT DEC 8•Windermere Health Care Aux-iliary Christmas

Luncheon and Bake sale from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Windermere Hall. Christmas entertainment and raffl e. Admission $5. All proceeds going to Invermere Hospi-tal, Columbia House and the Palliative Care Suite

EVERY SUNDAY•Public Indoor Rock Climbing, Laird School, 5-8 p.m., $5.•Radium Seniors’ Carpet Bowling, 1:30 p.m., Seniors' Hall

2nd SUNDAY•LW Alliance Church Sing and Celebrate, 7 p.m. For more informa-tion call Clarence Stauff er, 250-342-9580

EVERY MONDAY•Gentle drop-in carpet bowling, 1:30 p.m., Seniors' Centre•Cadets, 6:30-9 p.m. for boys and girls, ages 12-17. Cost: FREE (includes uniform). Info: Rick Dendy 250-341-1509.•Beavers (5-7 year olds) weekly meet-ings, JA Laird 6 -7p.m.•Duplicate Bridge, 6:30 p.m., Invermere Seniors’ Hall, $2/person. Visitors welcome•EK Brain Injury Support Group, 1-3 p.m., Family Re-source Centre. Info: 250-344-5674

1st & 3rd TUESDAY•OPT clinic, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Inv. Health Unit, 850-10th Ave. Confi den-tial service: low-cost birth control, and STI testing

1st TUESDAY•Invermere Camera Club 7 p.m. Tanya, [email protected]

EVERY TUESDAY•Yoga THRIVE- Yoga for Cancer Sur-vivors. Hot springs

studio, Fairmont Village Mall. For info call Jan Klimek at 250-342-1195•Shuswap Bingo at the Shuswap Indian Band Offi ce down-stairs, doors open at 5:30 p.m., early bird at 6:45 p.m., regular games at 7 p.m. • Cubs (8-10 year olds), JA Laird 6 - 7 p.m.

1st & 3rd WED•Scrabble Night at Invermere Public Library. 6 - 8 p.m. Bring your boards! Call 250-342-6416

2nd & 4th WED•Seniors' Day at theInvermere Library. Bus transportation provided

EVERY THURSDAY•Cadets, 6:30-9 p.m. for boys and girls, ages 12-17. Cost: FREE (includes uniform). Info: Rick Dendy 250-341-1509•Children's Air Rifl e Program, with the LWDRGC, Inv. Com-munity Hall, 7 - 8:30 p.m., free of charge, ages 6-15. Learn safety, marksman-ship, equipment provided

EVERY FRIDAY•Baby Goose pro-gram for parents and babies up to 18 months. 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Eileen Madson Primary. [email protected]•Public Indoor Rock Climbing, Laird School, 5-8 p.m., $5.•Preschool Story Time at the Inver-mere Public Library, 10:30 a.m. For info visit invermere.bcli-brary.ca

EVERY SATURDAY•Public Indoor Rock Climbing, Laird School, 5-8 p.m., $5.

THRIFT STORE•Th ursdays 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 1 - 4 p.m.

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Th e American election may be over but for me, the fun of American politics never really ends.

After Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated Republican Mitt Romney (or Mittens, as I aff ection-ately refer to him as) in the November 6 presidential election, the American Re-publican party is attempting an about-face, but without really changing anything at all. One might think that after getting lambasted in the national media over opposition to basic human rights such as contraceptives (which the United Nations named as a universal hu-man right last week) and abortion (which is legal across the vast majority of developed nations), the par-ty might consider a change of some of their policies.

Wishful thinking, perhaps.Instead, the Republicans

have turned on everyone but themselves, attempting to lay the blame at anyone’s feet but their own. Romney’s running mate, former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, took to blaming voter turnout in “urban areas” (read: black and hispanic)

while Ohio Secretary of State and Republican Jon Hus-ted suggested a new elec-toral system that would have given Romney a win in the crucial swing state of Ohio.

Not to be outdone, after Obama won the election, American citizens from more than 40 states have now fi led petitions with the United States government asking to offi cially secede from the country. Does anyone remember the last time states tried to secede from the union? Th e last time that happened was in 1861, and it ignited a small war that you might have heard of in high school history class, known as the American Civil War.

Among the seven states that have reached the 25,000 signature threshold for the White House to of-fi cially craft a response is Texas, which at the time of this writing had amassed over 100,000 signatures on an online petition (hilari-ously enough, the capital of Texas — the city of Austin — has also started a peti-tion to withdraw from Texas and remain a part of the United States). Texans com-plain that “the U.S. con-

tinues to suff er economic diffi culties stemming from the federal government’s neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending” and go on to say that “given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to with-draw from the union.”

Far be it from me to judge other people based on their religious or social ideas, but the fact that there are over 100,000 people in Texas who feel that leav-ing the United States of America and forming their own sovereign nation is really their best option is ludicrous (insert manda-tory Quebec joke here). Instead, how about working with your neighbours, and working with the political party across the aisle, to co-operate and build the best possible community and country that they can?

Wishful thinking, perhaps. O� the Record is a new

column that gives � e Val-ley Echo's editorial team an informal platform for personal opinion on current a� airs and other topics.

Texas, the next QuebecO� the Record — Steve Jessel

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issues with the Village of Canal Flats. In each situation, I am working to create a better work-ing relationship for all.What we have been able to accomplish on be-half of this constituency over this past year is because of bench strength and ability — the strength and ability to bring issues directly in front of each Minister responsible. I have host-ed the Honourable Steve Th omson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations to talk about forestry, land management and access issues. I organized a fi rst-ever meeting between the Honourable Terry Lake, Minister of Environment, and golf course owners and superintendents from across B.C. to discuss the use of cosmetic pesticides. While in the riding, I introduced Minister Lake to our ranching com-munity, which discussed the need for predator control with him. I arranged visits from the Hon-ourable Ministers Dr. Moira Stilwell, Bill Bennett and George Abbott to discuss advanced educa-tion and building better communities. I am cur-rently arranging visits for Mary Polak, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, to discuss the Trans-Canada Highway with leaders from Revelstoke and Golden, Minister of State for Seniors Ralph Sultan to talk with seniors and Fi-nance Minister Mike de Jong to talk about the fi -nancial status of B.C. I have also had the distinct pleasure of presenting Premier Christy Clark in

this riding three times. So there you have it; my report — and it spoke nothing about politics but rather of accom-plishments and work in progress with constit-uents to solve problems and I am not even the MLA; at least not yet!Doug ClovechokBC Liberal CandidateColumbia River Revelstoke

Dear Editor, We are beginning to understand the forces of na-ture even though we can do little in its more vio-lent phases, if at all. Th e beauty and presumable endless delights that nature aff ords visitors and residents alike, in the East and West Kootenays, are so often taken for granted, but there is grow-ing awareness that human activities cause dam-age that starts a chain of events that are, or can be, irrevocable. Not always visible to the naked eye but nevertheless altering the landscape and whatever lives in it that nature, over eons, has pro-duced. Nature cannot compete with machines that are taken for granted for recreation purpos-es. As a senior, with a wheeled walking aid, I have become aware of how grasses and wild plants are fl attened, not to spring back for days, if at

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Backcountry plan a good idea


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The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Board of Directors is considering the adoption of a Campground Bylaw and associated amendments to the Upper Columbia Valley Zoning Bylaw.Bylaw No. 2403 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Campground Bylaw No. 2403, 2012” will introduce regulations related to the development of new campgrounds or the expansion of existing campgrounds.Bylaw No. 2412 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Upper Columbia Valley Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 1992 – Amendment Bylaw No. 275, 2012 (Campgrounds / RDEK)” will facilitate the implementation of Campground Bylaw No. 2403 by repealing existing campground regulations and substituting sections enabling Bylaw No. 2403.Bylaw No. 2416 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Upper Columbia Valley Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 1992 – Amendment Bylaw No. 276, 2012 (Fairmont Beach Resort/ RDEK)” will amend the zoning designation of the subject property to enable completion of an in-process development which has been partially constructed under the current regulations.A public hearing will be held at: Windermere Community Hall

4726 North Street Windermere, BC Monday, November 26, 2012 at 7:00 pm

The Board has delegated the holding of this hearing to the Directors for Electoral Area F and Electoral Area G.If you believe that your interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw, you may prior to the hearing:• inspect the Bylaw and supporting information at the RDEK office in Cranbrook from 8:30

am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, excluding statutory holidays;• mail, fax or email written submissions to the addresses/numbers shown below; or• present written and/or verbal submissions at the hearing.

Submissions cannot be accepted after the public hearing.All written submissions are public information pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This notice is not an interpretation of the Bylaw. For more information, contact Matt Gunn, Planner, at 250-489-2791, or toll free at 1-888-478-7335.

PUBLIC hearIng nOTICeByLaws 2403, 2412, and 2416 - Area F & G Campground Bylaws

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:00pm - 8:00pm Wilmer Community Hall

9179 West Avenue, WilmerResidents of Wilmer are encouraged to drop by the Hall. There will be representatives from the RDEK and Wilmer Waterworks District (WWD) onsite to discuss the project and answer questions.

For more information, please contact Elizabeth Ahlgren, RDEK Project Supervisor at [email protected] or 250-489-2791 or Karen Reisle, WWD at 250-342-3501.

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SUBMITTED PHOTOMP David Wilks was in the Columbia Valley on Friday, November 16 to announce funding for local playground im-provements under the Government of Canada’s Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF). Above, Columbia Ridge Community Association (CRCA) director Wendy Coombs, her children Sky and Teddy, and CRCA secretary Tom Symington greet Wilks at the Columbia Ridge community playground (funding unknown at press time). Below, Vil-lage of Radium Hot Springs mayor Dee Conklin welcomes Wilks at the Radium council chambers. Federal funding of nearly $78,000 for the Village of Radium Hot Springs will help install new playgrounds and complete landscaping at two popular community parks — Central Radium Park and Kirk Street Park. Western Economic Diversifi cation Canada (WD) is delivering the fund in Western Canada with an allocation of $46.2 million over two years.

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Chamber is Calgary bound

� e Columbia Valley is set to receive some much-welcome exposure this December, as the Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce (CVCC) along with a number of local busi-nesses will be setting up shop in one of the busiest Plus 15 walkways in Calgary.

"For us, this made a lot of sense to support,"

CVCC executive director Susan Clovechok said. "It's not typically a chamber mandate to do mar-keting outside of the community, but it's certain-ly something that we feel is important enough that we can step out of our boundaries… and support this initiative. Wherever we can help our members, obviously we're going to do that."

Taking place from December 3 to 6, a group of Columbia Valley businesses including Big-horn Meadows, High Country Properties, Copper Point Resort, Casavino Wine Bar, Ca-nadian Tire, Panorama Mountain Village,

New marketing strategy for local Chamber of Commerce


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all, by my wheels. And how birds and wild animals take fright by my appearance by not sticking to established trails. How much more damage is done by motorized vehicles in backcountry areas, I hate to think. The Co-lumbia Valley Recre-ation Advisory Coun-cil is a smart move.

Margaret O’SullivanInvermere

Dear Editor,As I write, the com-

modification of the environment is quite advanced in the U.K. with the proper bu-reaucracy and an in-spiring new lexicon in place. A Natural Capi-tal Committee with an Economic Task Force refer to “Natural Capi-tal” instead of nature. Natural processes have become “ecosys-tem services.” Hills, forests and river drain-ages have become “green infrastruc-tures” while biodiver-sity and habitat are “asset classes” within

the “ecosystem mar-ket.” All of them will be assigned a price to be-come exchangeable.

And while nature is being commodified, our democratic rights are being eroded.

Forty four years ago I remember that there were immeasurable tracts of undeveloped and unmanaged pub-lic lands worldwide. During those years if we encountered a “No Trespassing” sign or a fence we’d sim-ply roam onto new turf albeit a bit more remote. However Garrett Hardin, in his now famous 1968 ar-ticle “The Tragedy of the Commons” which appeared in the jour-nal Science, saw the closures of the com-mon lands differently. Simply put, it’s the in-ability of people in a local area to manage their shared resources because individuals want to exploit them rather than to co-op-erate and share them.

Thinking globally, it is easy to see how

the commodification of the natural world and the closure of the Commons every-where fits the agenda of nearly all govern-ments and the multi-national corporations.

Now, focusing and acting locally, the sum total of the pro-posed closures of the Jumbo area Com-mons in order to fa-cilitate the B.C. gov-ernments deal with Glacier Resorts Lim-ited (GRL) is 5,967 hectares called Con-trolled Recreation Area (CRA) for resort use proper. And an-other 52,000 hectares of Wildlife Manage-ment Area (WMA) to mitigate the dam-age the resort will inflict upon the CRA and surrounding environment.

That is 57,967 hect-ares or 143,840 acres or 224 sq. miles of closed Commons to the Central Purcells. This all neatly ar-ranged by our B.C. government in collu-sion with GRL, both

of whom are financed by various corpora-tions (with vested in-terests) and others of the world’s wealthy. While the enclosures will benefit finan-cially our govern-ment and the inves-tors, they will exclude non-paying and un-authorized citizens. The paying guests are most frequently from the many lands of high rises and finan-cial districts.

The desired result of this agenda item is to keep us citizens out of the area we love and cherish but don’t pay for while the world’s wealthy invests in hitherto Crown Land Com-mons. Meanwhile the private sector and the banks are swallow-ing up governments and bending national constitutions to their favour by decreasing the roll of govern-ments and limiting our rights as citizens.

In conclusion I defer to Garrett Hardin who says, “while I think

that mass economic consolidation may be a stage in the evo-lutionary destiny of the planet, I also be-lieve that the world’s people are equally impelled to organize as a countervailing super power to put

these raging market forces in check. The world’s people must create new political accountability struc-tures to protect our shared resources and to restore the prom-ise of freedom and equality that is rapidly

fading from our lives.” Surely this is an idea

whose time has come. So let’s keep on keep-ing the Jumbo Com-mons common!

Rowena Eloise, West Kootenay Coalition for Jumbo Wild

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Taking a stand

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MovemberTo date we are in the area of $1,600.

Still have lots of time to go to this web site http://mobro.co/columbiavalleyrcmp and make a donation. Reach our goal and I am going to colour streak some of the hair I have left. Many thanks to fam-ily, friends and members of the com-munity for contributing to our efforts. Not normally pushy when it comes to raising funds but any and all donations to go to cancer research is worth being pushy. We all know too many family and friends that have fought and lost this battle and some who are continu-ing to fight. We will reach our goal.

Male charged with assaultOn November 8 at 1:34 a.m., Colum-

bia Valley Detachment members re-sponded to a complaint of domestic assault in the 5000 block of Riverview Road in Fairmont Hot Springs. Evi-dence of an assault was visible and as a result a 23-year-old male was arrested

at the scene and charged with assault. The male is to appear in Invermere Pro-vincial Court on January 14.

Mental Health ActThe Detachment this last week had

been called on a couple of times to deal with persons who have been distraught. I will not mention the incidents as pri-vacy is of importance in many of these situations. I will however explain how the Mental Health Act, a provincial stat-ute, allows the police the authority to in-tervene. We can determine on our own from conversation and observation that a person may be a danger to themselves or others and if no other statute is appli-cable to the situation before us, we have the authority to apprehend someone under this act and bring them before a doctor. A doctor may also complete documents that will authorize the po-lice to apprehend and take them before a doctor. In many instances once a doc-tor has seen the person and other family members are involved, the person may be released. In the more severe instanc-es where immediate care cannot be pro-vided, the doctor may order the person to be taken to another facility to be seen by a medical person better trained to provide help.

Subway disturbanceDetachment members were called out

to a disturbance at the Subway restau-rant in Radium when an ex employee attended and refused to leave when re-quested. By the time police attended the person had already departed. No further request was made of the police.

Deer killed on highway On November 16 at 9:30 a.m., the

detachment received a complaint of a truck hitting a deer on Hwy 93/95. No damage or injuries were received by the driver of the truck. The deer however was severely injured and had to be de-stroyed by the attending officer. A simi-lar accident happened on November 17 at 2247 Hwy 95 near Prospector Ave. in Radium. No serious damage or injury to the driver in this instance either.

Noise complaintOn November 17 at 11:40 p.m., de-

tachment Members responded to a loud party in the 5000 block of Vermil-lion St. in Edgewater. One male at the house was spoken to by the police who co-operated with the police and had the party tone down.

Possible reporting of fraudA citizen had called the detachment

to advise that she had received a call from someone reporting to be from Air Canada and wishing to confirm a flight to Toronto. The local person made no reservations.

Police files from the Columbia Valley RCMP detachment

STAFF SGT. MARKO SHEHOVACSpecial to The Valley Echo

Male arrested in Fairmont for assault

An adventure of a lifetime is in store for a group of David Thompson Secondary School (DTSS) students when they travel to Africa in March to volunteer their time in Ghana. The group was originally headed to Kenya to help build a school but the coun-try's political unrest forced the students to choose Ghana as their new destination.

Anyone wanting to help with fundraising efforts for the trip can now do so the next time they swing by Invermere's Bottle De-pot located in the Industrial Park. When you bring in your bottles for recycling, just let the staff there know that you want the money for the bottles to go onto the account for the DTSS Ghana trip. The funds will help pay for mandatory immunization shots, the students' visas, air ambulance fees if any of them require medical assistance, and general supplies. The cost for each student to participate is approximately $4,300. For more information, contact the trip's leader Kerrie Purdy at [email protected].

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Five years ago, the Regional District of East Kootenay pledged it would save as many greenhouse gas emissions as it

spends by the time 2013 rolled around.

But last week, the board of directors de-cided to wait on the final step in achiev-

ing that goal.In 2007, the Re-

gional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) signed the Climate Action Charter, pledging to be carbon neutral in 2012. It was joined by the regional districts of Kootenay Boundary and Cen-tral Kootenay and initiated the Carbon Neutral Kootenays (CNK) project.

At a governance committee meeting on Thursday, No-vember 1, CNK proj-ect manager Dale Littlejohn gave the RDEK board of di-rectors an overview of how the regional districts have worked towards carbon neu-trality since 2007.

The Kootenay gov-ernments spend about $11 million a year on energy — to heat buildings, pow-er lights, and move their vehicles be-tween 388 buildings and 995 vehicles.

Energy assessments in municipal build-ings, wastewater treat-ment plants and rec-reation facilities have saved the govern-ments about $750,000 in energy savings.

“We understand how much energy and emissions we’ve got, we’ve estimated the offset costs and total GHG emis-sions we have to take responsibility for. Now is the time we start thinking about greenhouse gas off-sets,” said Littlejohn.

He explained an offset is generated by a combination of reducing greenhouse

gas (GHG) emissions, avoiding GHG emis-sions, and sequester-ing GHG emissions.

Planning manager Andrew McLeod ex-plained to the board that after all of the energy savings, the RDEK still has to ac-count for 730 tonnes of GHG emissions.

“In order to call ourselves carbon neutral and meet the Climate Action Char-ter commitment, the purchase of offsets is going to be neces-sary,” he said. “If the board chooses not to pursue that, we can do any number of other things with that money in our community, but we will not be able to call ourselves carbon neutral and carry that designation.”

In time, the regional district may be able to balance its emissions through community-based projects such as energy-efficient building retrofits, vehicle fuel switch-ing, solar hot water, household organic waste composting and low emission ve-hicles. But the RDEK does not yet have these projects ready

and, regardless, is un-likely to save enough GHGs to reach car-bon neutrality.

“(These projects) are never going to achieve carbon neutrality for your government,” said McLeod. “They are only going to help chip away at that to-tal liability which for the regional district is 730 tonnes, so the purchasing of car-bon offsets is almost guaranteed to always be a requirement to achieve carbon neu-tral local government.

“That piece of the puzzle is always go-ing to be there, it just depends how many actions you can take along the way to reduce that total liability.”

Both Littlejohn and McLeod rec-ommended that the board purchase car-bon offsets at $25 per tonne, for a total of $18,250 in the Dark-woods conservation project near Creston. Then the regional district would be able to call itself carbon neutral for 2012.

“We are recom-mending this for

offsetting your 2012 emissions, and you would do that in spring 2013,” said Littlejohn. “This is a way to achieve car-bon neutrality in the timeframe that lo-cal government has committed to, while keeping the money in the Kootenays.”

But the board was split on the validity of purchasing carbon offsets.

“I’m dead against buying offsets,” said Area A Director Mike Sosnowski. “In my mind, it’s unreason-able that you put the money in the bank – you might as well burn it.”

He said that since the federal govern-ment isn’t committed to carbon neutrality, it seems unreason-able for local gov-ernments to make the commitment. He said he would rather spend the $18,000 on local projects that would result in GHG emissions.

However, Invermere Director Gerry Taft pointed out that lo-cal projects would be much more expensive.

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JA Laird Grade 7 stu-dents Aviva Rosenfeld, 12, and Kayla Bernichot, 11, scored books and erasers at their school's Book Fair on Wednesday, November 14. Proceeds from the book fair will go to-wards purchasing more books for the school's library.

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Regional district grapples with carbon neutrality2012 target for carbon neutrality in RDEK proving to be a difficult goal to realize

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Editor’s note: � is is the � rst instalment of a two-part series by guest writer Kate Gibbs on the Alberta Children’s Hospi-tal in Calgary and how it helps local children and youth who live in the Columbia Valley.

� ere is something about the Alberta Children’s Hos-pital that makes it feel like a home away from home for every child who walks through its doors. It may be the bright colours on the walls or the fact that it was designed by kids just like them that makes each kid en-ter the building with a smile on their face.

Whatever it is, it makes all the fears go away for each child entering the hospital for procedures. It does this for Kiera Neal and her family.

At age one, Kiera was diag-nosed with Rhabdomyoscar-coma, a cancerous tumour of the muscles that are attached to the bones. Now, at the age of six, Kiera visits the Children’s Hospital quite frequently, and has been through almost ev-ery department, from oncol-ogy to vision.

She has had great experi-ences with each of the doc-tors she’s met. Kiera’s mom, Daphne Neal, has nothing

but good things to say about the hospital and the sta� who work there.

“In each area that Kiera has been through, the doctors are completely there for the kids,” Daphne said. “� ey give them the time they need to become comfortable prior to a test or procedure.”

� is special hospital puts Kiera and her family at ease each time they go. � ere were times where Kiera and her older brother Ryan would spend 12 to 15 hours there and still they felt alright about the situation. � e two siblings spent time in a centre called Child Life — a play centre within the hospital that gives sick children and their sib-lings who accompany them activities that make them happy. � ere were so many things to do there to keep them busy.

“� ey try to make things as normal as possible for the families,” Daphne said.

� ere were times where Ki-era had so much fun at the hospital, playing and making new friends, that she didn’t want to leave. “It became like a home away from home,” said her mother. “It didn’t seem like a bad place. We also have some great friends there, from doctors to nurs-es that feel very much like family because we’ve spent so much time with them. I can’t say one negative thing about any one of the sta� there. � ey were all tremen-dous in every way.”

Not only does the family have good things to say about the Alberta Children’s Hospi-tal, but also about the nearby Ronald McDonald House as well. � e Neals stayed there for six weeks while Kiera was going through treatment.

It had just opened six weeks prior to them being at Chil-dren’s. When asked about the family’s stay at the Ronald McDonald house, Daphne said: “It was a great place to land and be close to the hos-pital when we needed it the most. I am a huge supporter of the Ronald McDonald House for sure.”

Kiera’s experience and that of her family’s at the Alberta Children’s Hospital was so positive in fact that it made it hard for them to say goodbye.

“We were in Calgary one time for something else (and) we drove by the children’s hospital and Kiera thought we were going there again,” said Daphne. “She was sad we weren’t.”

Alberta’s Children’s Hospi-tal is a special place for Kiera and her family as it is for ev-ery family that goes there. Ki-era’s story is an inspiring one and gives good reason for the Columbia Valley to help and support the hospital that makes kids in this valley hap-pier and healthier.

David � ompson Secondary School student Kate Gibbs is a work experience student writ-ing for � e Valley Echo. Check back next week for part two of this story.


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THE MEMBERS OF INVERMERE FIRE RESCUE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORTED US IN MAKING OUR 2012 FIREMAN’S BALL SUCH A SUCCESS. WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT

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Lake Windermere TRIBUTARY Pulse Check #1www.lakeambassadors.ca

Heather Leschied collects bugs in the downstream site in Windermere Creek.

Windermere Creek is the second largest tributary to Lake Windermere, second only to the Columbia River itself. Once a year, we take an in-depth look at water quality, bugs, and sediment in an upper, middle, and downstream location in Windermere Creek. � ese things let us know about the health of the creek. � e information we collect is sent to a national database and contributes to creek science.

In November 2011, the downstream site was full of coarse sand and we didn’t � nd any bugs. � is year, the creek bed has reappeared. It is now lined with large and medium stones, and we found bugs! � ese water-loving bugs are one of the favourite foods for � sh. In the middle site, just down-stream of the Gypsum mine, we found stone� ies, may� ies and caddis� ies — bugs indicative of a healthy stream. A more in-depth laboratory analysis will be completed soon. Contact the Lake Windermere Ambassadors if you want to know more about this Lake Windermere Tributary at [email protected].

Alberta Children's Hospital helps kids from B.C. too

KATE GIBBSSpecial to The Valley Echo

SUBMITTED PHOTOKiera Neal at 15 months old being checked in by nurse Jenny for her amputation surgery in September 2007 at the Alberta Children's Hospital.

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of carbon you can decrease, but it’s definitely going to be higher than $25 a tonne.”

Cranbrook Director Bob Whet-ham said it would take too long to identify a local project to offset this year’s carbon emissions.

“We’re not going to be able to chase around all over the region for something that’s going to give

us the offsets we need to qualify. We are better off just dealing with the $18,000 and continuing to proceed with all the efforts we have, whether they qualify for eli-gibility or not, and just move on.”

Eventually, the board decided to wait before making a deci-sion on purchasing carbon off-sets, to allow staff more time to

identify East Kootenay projects for the investment.

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Norm Gagatek is an inspiration to ev-eryone in town who knows him. He is a great example of someone who has overcome the chal-lenges of a life-al-tering event and al-ways sees each day through with a smile on his face.

Norm has lived in Invermere his whole life. He was born here and attended David Thompson Secondary School as a teenager. As an adult, he went on to become an electri-cian, and also a fire-fighter. Life was go-ing very smoothly for Norm, until the one day that changed his life and his family’s life forever.

Four years ago, Norm suffered from a brain stem stroke. When his family saw what was happening, they quickly rushed him to Calgary Foot-hills where he was taken to the Inten-sive Care Unit. There, he went into sep-tic shock twice, and wasn’t expected to

live, and if he did live, he wasn’t expected to have the same quality of life he once had.

Lying in his hospi-tal bed, with family around him, he lis-tened to the nurses and doctors telling his wife Kim to put him in a home be-cause all Norm was going to be able to do was lie in a hospi-tal bed for the rest of his days. Kim didn’t listen to the nega-tive doctors, though. She told her family, “No, don’t give up. The doctors don’t know Norm. Norm is a strong man. If any-one can get through this, he can.”

“He was a relatively healthy man in his thirties, and he was completely indepen-dent. Because of the stroke, he has had to learn everything all over again, walking, talking, everything,” Kim said. “Now he is dependent on people to help him with sim-ple tasks.” The Gagatek family house had to be completely redone to accommodate Norm’s

needs. It was a big change for the chil-dren, especially the oldest one, Braeden, who is nine years old. He still remembers the “old daddy” that used to be able to play Lego with him. They still work on Lego build-ing today, but it’s more difficult.

Other challenges Norm and his fam-ily have are social in nature. They find that when people are introduced to Norm, they are kind of scared or they as-sume things. People assume that Norm is fragile and has some-thing wrong with his brain because he can’t talk. Norm’s stroke didn’t affect his brain; it affected his brain stem, the con-nection between his brain and his body. All his knowledge and education is still in his brain. He’ll recognize people on the street who he’s known his whole life, but they assume he doesn’t. They also assume he can’t do the things he actually can.

“I say to them, ‘He can do them, he just does them different-ly’,” said Kim.

Norm has come a long way since he first had his stroke. When asked how far he feels he has come,

with the help of Kim as a translator, Norm said, “I didn’t think I would make it this far, but with the great support of my family, I have done real well.”

Norm has a strong will. Most of the time he is determined to do anything and when he isn’t, he’ll say something like, “I’m disabled” or “I have a brain injury.”

Kim then reminds him that is no excuse.

“You have to try, and if it doesn’t work the first time, think about it, rework it, and try again,” she said. “That is how our family works.”

Norm is doing every-thing he can to be as independent as pos-

sible. He is starting to walk more; he moves around his house, holding a hand.

“I only need a little bit of help,” he said.

Norm has inspired his family in many ways. His infec-tious smile always makes them look at life more positively.

“He is always saying I love you," said Kim. “When he was in the hospital, he would al-ways say, I’m gonna come home soon."

Norm’s strength has inspired Kim to con-tinue to fight for Brain Injury Rehabilitation in British Columbia.

“I think it’s part of our family’s makeup to make sure that we are still helping oth-ers,” she said. “We want to give others the strength they need to fight their own fight.”

That being said, the entire commu-nity was encouraged to attend Braeden’s birthday party at the Invermere Commu-nity Hall on Saturday (November 10) which raised money for the Brain Injury Society and celebrated the miracle family that lives on 6th Street.

Kate Gibbs is a DTSS student writing a se-ries of stories about local residents with diversabilities for The Valley Echo.


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Born and raised Invermere resident surrounded by loving family and community

SUBMITTED PHOTOThe Gagtek family (l-r): Kim, Quinn, Norm and Braeden. Norm suffered from a brain stem stroke four years ago that changed his and his family's life forever.

PHOTO By STEvE JESSEl/THE EcHODebbie Gudjonsen with the East Kootenay Brain Injury Society accepted a check for $1,286.79 from Invermere resident Braeden Gagatek on Monday (November 19). The funds were raised from Braeden's Community Birthday party earlier this month, where instead of asking for presents, he asked for donations to the Society.

Editor's note: The following is a let-ter written by Dasho Kinley Dorji, the Sec-retary of Information and Communications for Bhutan who gave a special presentation on Gross National Happiness in Inver-mere on October 29.

A headliner with David Suzuki at this year's 2012 Banff Mountain Film and

Book Festival, it was Dorki's time in In-vermere that left the strongest impres-sion. Here is his let-ter, which he titled "A Happy Connection."

“I’m going to Inver-mere.”

“Where?”“Invermere.”“Where’s that?” “I don’t know.”It was late October

and well-meaning

friends had directed my karma towards this year’s Banff Film and Book Festival in Canada. I was asked to take part in some dis-cussions about Gross National Happiness. While this was a year I had decided to limit overseas travel to the minimum, this event was one I could not miss for a number of reasons. And, after a week in the area, it is the Invermere folder that I choose to save in my memory.

I was both excited and apprehensive about the trip, excited because this was an opportunity to discuss and get input from some insightful minds into Bhutan’s initiative to draft a “new devel-opment paradigm” and apprehensive be-cause GNH is work in progress and I worry about the concept be-ing seen by people as a product ready for sale. But GNH is a vi-sion I’m happy about and I’m always ready to talk about it.

I went to Canada with no expectations, as a 54-year old man with a Buddhist per-spective intuitively does. I absorbed what I could but did not look for “the other side” that a trained journalist normally does. So I don’t know the impact that deci-sion-makers in and around Invermere will have on this spec-tacularly beautiful and peaceful valley where Mother Nature appears to be keeping well. But the people I met re-assured me that there is hope and also that there is such a thing as “the best of two worlds.”

We began the visit with a dinner in Wind-ermere in a creatively designed straw bale house which was ex-actly the colour of my own mud house in Thimphu. A friend brought me a deli-cious bottle of milk

that he had milked from his own goat. An-other gave me a bottle of her own honey. Many people I met ate organic vegetables from their own gar-dens. One grew wheat in his own little field. Everyone seemed to be growing their food and keeping animals. Students taking cook-ing classes at Da-vid Thompson High School prepared the school lunch, which was one of the nicer meals I had in terms of the atmosphere.

The view from my friends' house in Wilmer offered its own version of happiness, particularly the har-mony of life forms that

is an essence of GNH. The full glass partitions overlooked a scenic and — by Bhutanese standards — vast ex-panse of a valley where a rich variety of wildlife bustled day and night. It was busy along the meandering Colum-bia River on the valley floor as bald-headed eagles, flocks of ducks, geese, and swans, shared the habitat with otters, beavers, and as our own national bird, ravens, circled over-head. The deer, moose, bear, and elk that fill the forests around are not immediate pests that the boar, deer, and monkeys are for Bhu-tanese farmers.

A packed town

hall wanted to know about Gross National Happiness and we were able to discuss Bhutan’s vision, our successes and, equal-ly important, what was yet to be done. There are Bhutanese people, especially the older generation, who live GNH in a natural inter-dependent ex-istence with all sen-tient beings. There are some of us who are agonizing over the clarity that we need to give GNH thinking and values, includ-ing the importance of defining happiness as the deep and per-manent sense of con-tentment that comes from learning to need less rather than want more. This is particu-larly important at a time when millions of people go to Disney-land to seek the tem-porary “happiness” of the fleeting senses.

Invermere appreci-ated the GNH per-spective that places responsibility directly on the government to implement a GNH-inspired develop-ment process. This meant prioritizing the sustainability of the earth’s finite re-sources. I gathered that Prime Minister Stephen Harper does not look at governance

through a GNH lens.The expectations

of the international community, now with Bhutan spear-heading the drafting of a “new develop-ment paradigm” to be submitted to the UN next year is both inspiring and worry-ing. As we also dis-cussed in Invermere, Bhutan successfully proposed a UN reso-lution on happiness, held a vibrant inter-national conference in April, inspired an International Day of Happiness, and then overwhelmingly lost a vote for the UN Secu-rity Council to cash-rich South Korea.

In Invermere and the neighbouring val-leys, there is a haunt-ing sense of the past when people did live in close harmony with the natural environ-ment. Sharing a panel in Banff with native Indian leader Leroy Little Bear, I felt we were expressing ex-actly the same view of life in different words. I also sense that the native Indian commu-nity is lacking strong and visionary leader-ship and, therefore, suffering the social ills that plague aboriginal people everywhere.


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Submitted photo by pat morrow(l-r) DTSS teacher Alison Bell with Leadership students Megan Kinley, Lea Rollinger and Jelena Emrich with Dasho Kinley Dorji (centre) and Dorji's niece Ugyen Dema (far right) at the Invermere Community Hall on October 29.

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Arnold’s father, Walter Ellis, was born in 1891 in England. When Walter was fi fteen, he travelled across the Atlantic Ocean to central Canada where he worked in a bank and later signed on with the North-West Mounted Police. After leaving the police force, Walter worked a variety of jobs at Pincher Creek, Crowsnest Pass and Bull River. He fi nally settled on a ranch near Skookumchuck where the Tembec pulp mill is now located.

Arnold’s mother, Simone Theresa Chenuz, was born in 1901 at Montricher in Switzerland. An accomplished pianist, she came to Canada in 1918 at seventeen years of age to join her father and brothers in Skookumchuck, where she met Walter Ellis.

Arnold had one sister — Evelyn, born in 1927, lives in Edmonton — and one brother, Camille, who was born in 1933 and lives in Arizona. Arnold’s mother passed away on route to the Cranbrook hospital in 1963 at age 62. His father passed away in the Kimberly hospital in 1968 at 77 years of age.

Arnold Walter Ellis was born on February 26, 1926 in Cranbrook. He attended school in Cranbrook until 1934 and then the one-room Larchwood School in Skookumchuck. In 1941, at the age of fi fteen, he completed Grade 8 and, since that was the limit of schooling available at the Larchwood School, he set out to earn his living in the world. Young and energetic, he had no diffi culty fi nding work at the many portable sawmills located throughout the valley.

He fi rst came to Canal Flats in 1943. In those days the countryside was overrun with wild (feral) horses and a bounty was being paid to shoot them. Arnold thought this was an easy way to earn a living and to see the country at the same time.

Arnold joined the Canadian Army at Cranbrook in the fall of 1944. He took his basic training at Maple Creek in Saskatchewan. There he had his fi rst painful encounter with cactus, which he had never seen before. Much later he still marvelled at how sharp the spines were and how beautiful the cactus fl owers could be. Later, he transferred to Calgary for advanced training at the end of which he became quite ill with polio. He was moved to the convalescent hospital in Gordonhead near Victoria. When he recovered, he was sent to Nanaimo to join the King’s Own Rifl es. The war ended about the time he decided to become a military policeman, but Arnold had no interest in staying with a peace-time army and he decided to return to his father’s ranch in Skookumchuck to help with the haying. Although released in 1945 — too late to help with the haying — he was not formally discharged until 1946.

Arnold mentioned that every young man has certain days that are cause for celebration. For him, those days were VE Day (victory in Europe), VJ Day (victory in Japan) and becoming 21 years of age (the legal age to enter a bar). He laughingly said that on VE Day he was in the hospital at the Currie Barracks site in Calgary; on VJ Day he was in a convalescent hospital in Gordonhead; and when he turned 21 he was in the Cranbrook hospital because he had pulled off his thumb.

Arnold and Millie Ellis were married in Cranbrook on November 14, 1948. Arnold recalled that the marriage took place on “Sadie Hawkins Day” — an annual celebration of the 1930s to 1960s when the ladies traditionally pursued the men.

Emilie (Millie) Elizabeth Schettler was from Winnipeg where she had worked in the payroll department of the famous Winnipeg Grain Exchange as a comptometer operator. A comptometer was an electro-mechanical calculator that preceded the widespread adoption of computers. She had come to Canal Flats to visit her friend Marjorie Agnew and, as these things happen, Arnold met her there and eventually they were married.

From 1948 to 1953, Arnold worked at Camp 12 near Canal Flats, twelve miles up the Findlay Creek valley. His employer during that time was Bannister and Taplin. Before he was married, he lived in a bunk house with the other crew. After marriage, he and Millie moved to a two-room cabin.

While at Camp 12, Arnold worked on the opposite end of a manual cross-cut saw with Elmer Gustavson. Elmer was determined “to do him in,” but Arnold survived. Later, he became all too familiar with the use of a broad axe to face opposite sides of a log for use as a railway tie. During this time he visited a chiropractor for a sore back. After he removed his shirt, he was told his problem was “overdeveloped back muscles.”

Eventually he graduated to a two-man,103-pound (dry-weight) chain saw. The trees were skidded out of the bush with horses. A portable sawmill was used to cut the logs into decking for railway fl at cars.

In 1953, Arnold moved to Canal Flats town site and travelled to work at a logging camp on Old Baldy (Mount Sabine) north of Canal Flats. In 1956, he started work with the engineering division of the BC Forestry Service. Initially, he was cutting trees and clearing slash for the road to Whiteswan Lake. Later he worked on building bridges and culverts. The years that followed were fi lled with building bridges and other road work for the forestry service based in Canal Flats. Arnold was hired by Crestbrook in 1962 as manager of the forestry division where he remained until 1970.

For a few years Arnold also owned and operated bulldozer equipment that he used for clearing land and other ‘dozer work. During the summer of 1976, Arnold travelled to Atlin in northwest B.C. to investigate the gold mining opportunities there. After evaluating his options, he

purchased four placer gold claims during the winter of 1976-77. At the time buyers were paying a premium price of $200 per ounce for this jewellers’ quality gold. Arnold spent the summer of 1977 in Atlin preparing equipment for his mining operations and working for other operators. The next summer Arnold retuned to

Atlin to start mining his claims. Because of the frozen ground in winter, the mining season at Atlin lasted only from early June to late October. During the winter months, Arnold and Millie returned to Canal Flats where they kept a permanent home. At Atlin, Arnold and Millie’s home was a trailer. Arnold had rigged-up a Pelton wheel that used the power of a nearby fl owing creek to generate electricity for lights, which provided the added benefi t of a quiet campsite at night. Some of the visitors and workers from Canal Flats to the Atlin operations were Walter McKersie, Noel Wallenger, George Engstrom and Yvonne Marchand. Arnold normally had a crew of two to help with the mining.

Arnold fi nished mining at Atlin in 1993. He returned to Atlin during the summer of 1994 to sell the remaining equipment and the leases.

By 1994, Arnold was 68 years of age. He and Millie retired to their home on McGrath Avenue in Canal Flats that they had purchased in 1967. They never had children.

After retirement, Arnold started more seriously investing in the stock market. He had dabbled in the markets starting in the 1950s but membership in a Canal Flats investment club and the need for something “to keep me from going nuts” helped him develop his skills as an investor. Arnold was a keen observer of the markets and world events that infl uence them.

In 2005, ill health necessitated Millie going to live at Columbia Garden and later the Columbia House in Invermere. She has since passed away.

Arnold lived in Canal Flats until about 2008. Failing eyesight curtailed his activities but he still checked the stock markets daily and loved to visit with neighbours. His home was well-decorated with fl owers and decorative shrubs. Arnold had always enjoyed and taken in a deep interest in the wildlife

around him. In winter, the birds and squirrels could always fi nd seeds and bread crumbs to eat and warm water to drink in Arnold’s yard.

Arnold passed away on January 16, 2012 while living in Cranbrook in a seniors’ home. He was a little more than one month shy of his 86th birthday.

as told to Emile MorinArnold’s father, Walter Ellis, was born in 1891 in England. When Walter was fi fteen, he travelled across the

Atlantic Ocean to central Canada where he worked in a bank and later signed on with the North-West Mounted Police. After leaving the police force, Walter worked a variety of jobs at Pincher Creek, Crowsnest Pass and Bull

accomplished pianist, she came to Canada in 1918 at seventeen years of age to join her father and brothers in

born in 1933 and lives in Arizona. Arnold’s mother passed away on route to the Cranbrook hospital in 1963

military policeman, but Arnold had no interest in staying with a peace-time army and he decided to return to his father’s ranch in Skookumchuck to help with the haying. Although released in 1945 — too late to help with the haying — he was not formally discharged until 1946.

Atlin to start mining his claims. Because of the frozen ground in winter, the mining season at Atlin lasted only from early June to late October. During the winter months, Arnold and Millie returned to Canal Flats where they kept a permanent home. At Atlin, Arnold and Millie’s home was a trailer. Arnold had rigged-up a Pelton wheel that used the power of a nearby fl owing creek to generate electricity for lights, which provided the added benefi t of a quiet campsite at night. Some of the visitors and workers from Canal Flats to the Atlin operations were Walter McKersie, Noel Wallenger, George Engstrom and Yvonne Marchand. Arnold normally had a crew of two to help with the mining.

remaining equipment and the leases.

Flats that they had purchased in 1967. They never had children.

around him. In winter, the birds and squirrels could always fi nd seeds and bread crumbs to eat and warm water to drink in Arnold’s yard.

Arnold passed away on January 16, 2012 while living in Cranbrook in a seniors’ home. He was a little more than one month shy of his 86

Someone asked me, “Do you think

that the global pow-ers, and the capitalist

world, will take to the concept of GNH?” My spontaneous an-swer is a resounding “NO.”

I remember last April, when we were preparing for the new development paradigm meeting in New York, I was given some alarming but realistic views: “For-get it. � e powerful capitalists will write you o� as leftists and socialists and even as communists. � ey might come and say the right things be-cause they do not want to antagonize

the growing num-ber of people inter-ested in happiness but they’ll go back to business as usual.”

But that does not mean we give up. With the “interna-tionalization” of GNH, Bhutan is drawing on the high quality research and profound thinking done around the world on GNH-relat-ed concepts like sus-tainability, climate change, and well-be-ing. And this diaspo-ra is expanding. � e discussions in Inver-mere clearly showed that we are thinking, if not heading, in the right direction.

What I would call Invermere’s “GNH population” also brings out another important question. Humankind is char-acterized by a short memory and the in-ability to learn from

mistakes. Bhutan, taking advantage of its late start on the road to moderniza-tion, has the oppor-tunity to learn from the mistakes that have been made in abundance. But the pressures of mod-ernization are dis-tracting people from living the traditional subsistent life. Glo-balization and media tell us that we do not have enough; there’s more to be bought out there.

� e one question I have no answer to is: “Just as we see it happening in many societies, do we need to lose something be-fore we truly appreci-ate it?” Will we forget how to milk our own cows even as Cana-dians are re-learning how to milk their own goats?

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Summer may be over, but there is still plenty to do at the Pynelogs Arts and Culture Centre this upcoming winter.

“What we say is, the gallery is closed but we’re still open for business,” said Pynelogs manager Jami Scheffer.

First off, the always-popular Cinefest film series is still going strong and is now entering its ninth year. Originally a mainstay of the Toby Theatre, Pynelogs has run the series for the past few years, and strives to bring interesting and thought-provoking independent films to Invermere. Usually hosting Cinefest on the second Tuesday of each month until April, Pynelogs provides a perfect venue to relax, have a drink at their licensed bar and maybe get a little something to eat.

The next film in the series, The Lady, shows on December 4 beginning at 7 p.m. The Lady comes from acclaimed di-rector Luc Besson, and follows the story of Burmese democracy activist, political prisoner and Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

“They are independent films, so they’re definitely different,” Scheffer said.

Pynelogs will also play host to the open mic series for the second consecutive year. Hosted by local musician Oso Sim-ple, Open Mic Night takes place on the first Friday of every month until June. Appropriate for all ages, open mic gives valley residents first look at some of the best and brightest musicians that the Co-lumbia Valley has to offer. The next Open Mic Night takes place on December 7, and any and all musicians and specta-tors are welcome to take part.

Finally, Pynelogs is also hosting a new series of watercolour classes this winter, taught by painter Carol Gordon. Regis-tration for the first set of classes has al-ready wrapped up, but for anyone inter-ested a new session begins in January.

For more information about Pynelogs events this winter, visit the Columbia Valley Arts Council website at www.co-lumbiavalleyarts.com.


A reason to head to Headwaters

The Village of Canal Flats becomes alive with art this week, as the second annual Headwaters Art Show returns to the Canal Flats community centre on Saturday (November 24).

“(Last year) was great,” organizer Dodie Marcil said. “I think the best part of it was that a lot of the artists in the area had never shown their work to their peers or the public before, and they had such great feedback.”

Seventeen artists in a variety of disci-plines will be proudly displaying their work from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with work ranging from a wide selection of paint-ings to photography, pencil drawings and carvings. A local pianist and their students will also play some light mu-sic during the show, and there will be free refreshments provided.

Marcil said one of the main reasons this particular weekend was chosen for the event was that the Canal Flats arena is booked as well, and that they had great success appealing to people in between hockey games last year.

“It’s kind of a captive audience,” Mar-cil laughed. “At this point we’re trying to get the artists to come and partici-pate because we have some amazing talent in the valley.”

One of the artists whose work will be shown is Canal Flats carver Len Brunin. Brunin specializes in bone and antler carvings, and says he got his start some 15 to 20 years ago when he took over his father’s trap line.

“The idea of trapping, killing animals for fur so that somebody could wear an expensive coat didn’t sit well with me,” Brunin said. “When I took over the trap line it was sort of with this idea of learn-ing how our forefathers were able to sur-vive that way. So I learned how to tan my own hides… and how to use bone and antler to make your own scraping tools, and it just sort of kept evolving.”

Brunin won’t be able to attend the show in person as he is currently re-covering from back surgery, however two of his larger carvings will be dis-played along with some smaller deer antler candleholders.

He said the larger carvings take about a month for him to complete, and while carving may have started out as an artistic pursuit, it now pro-vides a nice supplement to his income every once in a while.

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submittEd PhotoHeadwaters Art Show will feature the work of Canal Flats carver Len Brunin, who is known for his antler carvings.

submittEd imAgELake Windermere by painter JR Goldsmith, whose work will be on display at Headwaters.


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“When I first started my first moose antler carving, I did some etching on a moose horn and I made a clipboard out of it, with the idea that I would have a moose antler clipboard,” Brunin said. “Well when my fa-ther saw it, he took it home. So

I made another one, and when my brother saw it, he took it home. So the next one I made I put a pricetag on, and that again was sort of the evolution, it took me a while to realize that this kind of work had value.”

Brunin uses a dremmel tool with a range of bits to carve both antlers and bone, and said

the uniqueness of each piece of antler really keeps him from getting bored.

“Every piece is different and every antler is different, so it’s not a repetitive thing where you’re doing the same thing every day,” he said. “You’re cre-ating something new, and I al-ways find that encouraging. If I

had to push a pencil nine to five for the rest of my life I’d go nuts.”

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Career as a carver came gradually

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Invermere duo to challenge for X-Alps supremacy

For Invermere resi-dents Max Fanderl and Penny Powers, their relationship will play a key part when they take part in the Red Bull X-Alps ad-venture race together for the third time as a team next July.

"I would say about 30 to 40 per cent of teams, they don't look eye-to-eye the same way as when they started," Fanderl, a native of Germany explained. "You get right down, you start to halluci-nate, that's the kind of exhaustion you get. When you get to this point and you don't really achieve what you wanted to achieve, then it's easy to point the finger at somebody else."

"It strengthens you for sure," Powers agreed. "When you're relying on each other to do such intense sit-uations… you're put-ting everything on the line for each other."

The Red Bull X-Alps

is known as one of the toughest adventure races in the world, and for good reason. 31 teams from 21 dif-ferent countries will take to the air and to the mountains in July of 2013, as they attempt to cover 900 km of mountainous terrain from Salzburg in Austria to Monaco as quickly as they can. Participants must cover every kilometre either by foot or by paragliding, and the race ends 48 hours after the first com-petitor finishes. All participants are re-quired to enter as a team of up to three, with one athlete and no less than one sup-porter. Fanderl has participated in the last three consecutive events (2007, 2009 and 2011), while Pow-ers accompanied him in 2009 and in 2011.

"It's phenomenal," Fanderl said. "For me, it's almost like a men-tal break, because we stimulate our minds

all the time with music, television or whatever, and when you are in that race you don't need any music. Even if you hike for this amount of time, you're com-pletely focused on what you have to do."

Fanderl, a paraglid-er of over 25 years first heard of the race

through friends, and initially had no idea he would ever take part. After a Cana-dian pilot was forced to withdraw due to injuries, Fanderl was convinced to put his name forward, and to his surprise he was invited to take part. Fanderl had only three months to pre-

pare for the race, and after eight days of fly-ing and hiking was forced to withdraw. For some people, that might be the last time they would ever par-ticipate in something as risky as the Red Bull X-Alps, but not for Fanderl.

"I thought, "wow, I can do way better,"

Fanderl said. "I want-ed to show myself, and prove to myself that I can do better."

Another contribut-ing factor to Fanderl returning to the race was Powers, as the pair had a 10-month old child at the time of the first race, leav-ing her unable to participate. An ad-

venture enthusiast herself, Powers asked Fanderl if he wanted to do the race again.

"… Because I want-ed to do it so badly," Powers laughed.

The pair would par-ticipate in the 2009 edition of the race,

Local couple returns to Europe to compete in adventure race for the third time

Submitted pHotoAn image from last year's Red Bull X-Alps —competitors are tasked with travelling 900 km as the crow flies, over some of the most treacherous ter-rain in the world in the Alps mountain range.

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If there were odds-makers in the KIJHL, few, if any would have given the Columbia Valley Rockies much of a chance when they played host to the

league-leading Nelson Leafs on Sunday, No-vember 18.

Coming o� an 11-0 drubbing at the hands of the Sum-merland Steam the

night before, the Rockies looked prime to once again be on the losing side of a blowout, and early on Nelson was in com-plete control. Crisp passing and strong body checks left the Rockies decidedly on the back foot as they struggled to match the Leafs intensity, however Rockies goalie Stewart Pratt was outstanding in net, and it payed massive dividends as the period went on. It took the Rockies nine and a half minutes to record their � rst shot, and after nearly scoring on that op-portunity, they would seize the momentum and score just under a minute later when forward Ryan Hen-derson clanged one o� the post and in from a sharp angle. Pratt continued his strong play the rest of the period and just like that, the Rockies took a 1-0 lead into the dressing room through one period of play.

"I guess in a way, it's easier for them to be motivated and focused (after an 11-0 loss)" Rockies assistant coach Scott Dubielewicz said. "� ere's nowhere to go but up after a game like that."

� e Rockies opened the second period on the penalty kill, but continued strong goaltending and a persistent forecheck meant that the Leafs had trouble getting into their o� ensive groove as the period went on. Despite that, giving a high-powered team like Nelson too many opportunities on the powerplay is never a good thing, and on another Rock-ies penalty kill the Leafs � nally cracked Pratt to score their � rst goal of the night. Nel-son scored two more goals before the end of the period and took

a comfortable 3-1 lead to the dressing room.

"We took too many penalties, and that was probably the dif-ference in this game, of us winning or not," Dubielewicz said.

� ings looked grim for the Rockies enter-ing the third, as they were being badly outshot and contin-ued to get into pen-alty trouble. Pratt was the only reason the score was as close as it was, as time and time again he stoned Nelson shooters from every conceivable angle. � e Rockies were running out of time, and with about seven minutes left in the game the Leafs looked to be well on their way adding to their league-best re-cord. � e Rockies had other ideas however, and leading scorer Jake Fardoe drew them team within a goal when his shot from the point drew the Rockies within a goal with six minutes remaining. � e Rock-ies took what looked like a back breaking penalty with about three minutes left, but managed to kill it o� ,

and with under a min-ute left Nic Hoobano� would pounce on a loose puck to score his � rst goal of the season and send the game to overtime with the score tied 3-3.

"It's good to see the kids bounce back and have a good game against probably the best team in the league," Dubielewicz said. "We de� nitely had them looking nervous."

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"(Pratt) earned that point for us, no doubt," Dubielewicz said. "He was the di� erence."

� e overtime loss gives the Rockies 16 points through 24 games, as they pre-pare to visit the divi-sion-leading Fernie Ghostriders on Friday, November 23. � e Rockies then host the reigning KIJHL cham-pion Beaver Valley Nitehawks the follow-ing night, on Saturday, November 24.


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finishing in 13th place, 297 km from the finish. Two years later, the pair would once again compete, this time finishing in a tie for 14 with 305 km to go.

This time, Fanderl would ideally like to fin-ish the race by reaching Monaco, however only a total of four teams have reached Monaco in the last two races combined — the reigning champi-on, Switzerland's Chris-tian Maurer has come in first in each of those years, and Alex Hofer of Switzerland and Toma Coconea of Romania are the only other athletes to reach Monaco in that time.

If Fanderl doesn't reach Monaco, he said he would like to at least fin-ish in the top 10 this year, which will very likely be his and Power's final X-Alps event.

"I have to say, I'm re-

ally one of the most con-servative (competitors)," Fanderl said. "I'd rather do my walking, lose a cou-ple ranks and still be able to come home again."

There are a couple dif-ferent strategies that the top athletes use in order to shave valuable hours off of their total times. Risk-taking is a major factor especially when it comes to paragliding, as some participants will take to the skies even in terrible weather in an at-tempt to make up time.

Other athletes have been known to forgo the flying as much as they can and simply run the entire course — up to 1,000 km in a single week.

Fanderl doesn't run and prefers flying to hiking, and so he has come up with his own strategy for the race.

"They have to run around these mountains, and what I do is I just go straight," Fanderl explained.

The pair wakes up

around 3 a.m. each morning during the race, and plan out their route for the day.

While some competi-tors follow the roads around the mountains, Fanderl and Powers in-stead spend the morning hiking to the highest el-evation they can find.

Once at the top of a mountain or similar fea-ture, Fanderl unpacks his paraglider and attempts to ride the thermals as far as he can. Powers then hikes back down the mountain, carrying all of the extra gear, gets in her car and then meets Fanderl wherever he has landed, and they do the whole thing again the next morning. Between flying and hiking, the pair can can cover up to 100 km per day.

"The most important part for me, is actually liv-ing the moment," Fanderl said. "When you hike, and it's exhausting and painful to some extent;

just enjoy that moment, because you will never get that moment back."

The course details will be released in the spring, and the pair plans on ar-riving a month before the

competition to give them time to scout the region.

Fanderl said that they actually plan on running the entire race two weeks before the event at a re-duced speed to further

prepare themselves. For more information

on the event, and to track Fanderl and Powers as they compete, visit the X-Alps website at www.red-bullxalps.com.

photo by steve jessel/the echoPenny Powers and Max Fanderl will be taking part in the X-Alps race for the third time as a team.

Pair aim to reach Monaco in their last X-Alps competition

Unique opportunity for local Panorama skier

As part of a groundbreaking partnership between Alpine Canada and the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, lo-cal Panorama skier Keegan Sharp has just returned from a Rising Starts Camp in Vail Colorado, and Alpine Canada's manager of ath-lete development Nigel Cooper couldn't say enough about the 15-year-old skier.

"(Sharp) is a rockstar, and he's a rockstar in so many different ways," Cooper said. "Most of all, he has a literacy of our sport, and a knowledge of our sport… he's

what I call a student of the game."The Rising Stars Camp ran from

November 1 to November 11, and featured a total of 15 athletes and seven coaches from the two ski associations. Ten girls and five boys aged 14 and 15, eight from Canada and seven from the U.S. took part in the camp, where par-ticipants we able to learn from their peers and from an outstand-ing group of coaches.

The program was originally start-ed by Alpine Canada's Mark Sharp and Ken Read, and after taking a bit of a hiatus during the Vancou-ver Olympics is back in full force this year, with plans to include more athletes in the future.

"I think the groundbreaking part of it, bringing kids of that age together from two different nations, maybe it's not the first

Keegan Sharp benefts from Rising Starts Camp in Colorado

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submitted photoA total of 15 athletes from the U.S. and Canada participated in the Rising Stars Camp, including (l to r) Frédéric Cour-ville, PQ, Keegan Sharp, AB, Sam Mulligan, BC, Alexandra Lacasse Courshesne, PQ, Georgia Willinger, AB, Tori Hislop, MB, Stephanie Currie, ON, and Mikayla Martin, BC.

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AND FOOD DONATIONSCheques can be mailed to Box 2141, Invermere, B.C.

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spaghetti sauce; soup and peanut butter.Please check the expiry dates of your donation.

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� e colder months are here and that means it’s time to start thinking about how to keep up your activity level throughout the winter season. Since so many valley residents make the most out of winter activities, it’s not only impor-tant to maintain your � tness level so that you can continue partaking in the snowy sports you like, but it’s also important to keep up the habit of exercis-ing. If that habit gets left on the back burner, it’s going to be tricky to pick it up again when the snow starts to melt!

For those who are looking to move their workouts in-side, there are several ways to keep your program interest-ing. If you are working out in your home and have minimal e q u i p m e n t , focus on body weight ex-ercises. No matter what your cur-rent � tness level may be, you can al-ways � nd a suitable modi� ca-tion that will ensure that you stay challenged. For example, some may � nd squats to be challenging, while others may need to turn to one-legged squats or jump squats. � e same is true for push-ups, planks, or lunges. � ere are several di� erent ways to do each of these exercises; it’s just a matter of � nding which one is suitable for your level. You never want to over challenge yourself, but rather push your-self just slightly outside of your comfort zone. � at way you will build strength and prop-er form, allowing yourself to move up to the next level over time. It’s always best to start small then work your way up; this will help in avoiding in-juries. If working out alone is not your style, try out a group � tness class. � ere are a vari-ety of di� erent classes o� ered throughout the valley ranging from 30 to 60 minutes includ-ing Ski-Fit, Metabolic Train-ing, Yoga, Bootcamps, and Spin classes, just to name a few. Each of these will get your heart pumping and help build strength and endurance.

For those who are looking to continue exercising in the great outdoors, there are a few things to keep in mind as the season changes. Since snow and ice are major factors to take into consideration, it’s a good idea to give yourself as many advantages as possible. If you’re a runner, consider wearing appropriate footwear including shoes with a good tread and socks that have wicking properties. If your feet aren’t happy, you won’t be either! As far as clothing is concerned, your best bet is to dress in layers. By doing so, you’ll be able to better control body temperatures as you start to warm up or cool down. Start by wearing a wicking fabric shirt as your base layer. You’ll

want to avoid cotton be-cause once it gets wet it takes a long time to dry and as a re-sult will also keep you

cold. A toque and mitts or gloves are always a good choice and can easily be stu� ed into a pocket when no longer need-ed. For your outer layer, make sure it is either bright in colour or has some visible re� ector strips. � e daylight hours are getting shorter which means you are more likely going to be exercising in the dark from time to time so make sure others can see you. Last but not least, make sure someone knows that you’re heading out to get some exercise or better yet, bring a friend along! � e more prepared you are, the more likely you are going to enjoy exercising outside.

Warming up to the idea of be-coming a healthier, � tter you? Give one of Fitness 4 life’s certi-� ed Personal Trainers a call! We o� er personal training in your home or at the gym, as well as several Group Fitness classes. Did you know that we are cur-rently o� ering a discounted afternoon rate? Take a look at our website for our current rates and current schedule at www.� tness4life.tv or call Kate 250-688-0221 or Hayley 250-688-0024 for more information.

Winter workouts

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“If that habit gets left on the back burner, it's go-ing to be tricky to pick it up again when the snow starts to melt!”

PHOTO BY STEVE JESSEL/THE ECHORockies Guest Service Girls (l to r) McKenna Nelson, Hunter Pietrosky, Lauren Phillips and Jazlyn Oaks all wore mustaches to a recent Rockies home game in support of Movember and the Canadian Cancer Society.

Mustached misses

Camp gave kids time with ski stars

time ever in the history of the world but I think these kinds of experiences are special," Coo-per said. We're really trying to use this camp to make an impact nationally."

As part of the camp, the athletes would have a set schedule that included studying for an hour after breakfast, skiing for two and half hours and then studying more in the afternoon.

Included was three days of slalom training, and at the end of the slalom block the kids were able to go bowling with Canadian Al-pine Ski Team stars Ben � omsen, Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Robbie Dixon and Conrad Pridy, who were training nearby.

"It was really fun, and it was a great experi-ence," Sharp said. "� ey were an awesome group, we all had fun together."

Athletes were chosen by their respective sport organizations to take part, and in Sharp's case he was actually representing Alberta Al-pine, of which Team Panorama is a member.

Sharp said he'd be glad to return should the opportunity present itself, but Cooper said that wasn't necessarily the goal of the program.

"We like to look at these things not necessari-ly as an open door to get you to the next one all the time," Cooper said. "Often what happens at this age is you open the door for a bunch of kids, and then that same door keeps open-ing for the same kids. What we really used this camp for was to kickstart the idea of this pro-gram... over time, over the next year we want to go broader and wider."

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Hazel Jean Gillespie (nee Su� ern) was born April 26, 1926, in Penhold, Alberta. She worked as a registered nurse before meeting her husband Edward Rex (Ted) Gillespie in Turner Valley, Alberta. � ey were married in 1952 and had two children, Roy and Maureen.Hazel and her family started coming to the Invermere area in the

1960s. � ey fell in love with the area and decided to build a summer home. In 1984, she and Ted retired to Invermere. She enjoyed working in her garden and spending time with her wide circle of friends, when she wasn’t walking her little dog.Hazel passed away at Columbia House on November 16, 2012. She was predeceased by Ted in 2005 and is survived by her son Roy Gillespie (Rose) and daughter Maureen Hummel (Rick). She is also survived by her nephew Hugh Su� ern and his family, and Ted’s brother Roy (FKR) Gillespie and his family. Many heartfelt thanks to the sta� of Columbia House Long Term Care Facility for their loving care of Hazel.In lieu of � owers, donations may be made to Columbia House Long Term Care.

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WINDERMERE VALLEY SHARED MINISTRYANGLICAN-UNITED

250-342-6644100-7th Avenue, Invermere

www.wvsm.ca Reverend Laura Hermakin

9 a.m.: Worship at All

Saint’s, Edgewater. (1st, 3rd and 4th Sunday)9:30 a.m.: God’s Breakfast

Club10:30 a.m.: Worship at Christ Church Trinity,

Invermere. (Every Sunday)

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Roman Catholic ParishPastor: Father Gabriel

250-342-6167 Invermere250-344-6328 Golden

Confession: 1/2 hour before MassCanadian Martyrs Church

712 - 12 Ave, InvermereSaturday at 7 p.m.Sunday at 9 a.m.

St. Joseph ChurchHighway 93-95, Radium Hot Springs

Sunday at 11 a.m.Sacred Heart Parish

808 - 11 Street, GoldenSunday at 5 p.m.

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Sundays at 10 a.m.

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Thursday 6:30 p.m.

LAKE WINDERMEREALLIANCE CHURCH

326 - 10th Ave. 250-342-9535REV. TREVOR HAGAN

Senior Pastorwww.lakewindermerealliance.org

Sunday, November 25th

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“K.I.D.S.” Church, for children Age 3 to Grade 1; and Grade 2 to Grade 5, during the Morning

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Pastor:Murray Wittke

Sunday Service10 a.m. Worship & Word

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Call the office at 250-342-9511for more information.

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Pastor Rev. Fraser ColtmanPastor Rev. David Morton

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Available Dec 1.Call Judy 250-345-0225

or 250-341-1903

Radium: Furnished 2 bdm condo for rent. Newer, attrac-tive, 1 block from hwy. All ap-pliances incl. Underground parking, N/S, N/P. Avail now. $900/mth. Long term lease available call 403-860-1740

Radium - Two units Pinewood W building. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, un-derground parking, nicely, fully furnished. All inclusive. Avail now. $900/mth/$1100/mth. Call Lina @ 403-239-6389 or 403-264-2782

Commercial/Industrial

FOR LEASE: 1900 sq. ft. of prime space in Invermere In-dustrial Park. Presently used as a wood working shop. Lease rate is $7.50 per sq. ft., plus triple net, HST and Hydro. Available Jan 1st. Call Gerry (250)341-1202

Homes for RentDOUBLE WIDE mobile home 2/3 bdrms incs f/s, w/d, d/w. woodstove, air, storage shed, waterfront on Cameron Lake w/mountain views, located in small well maintained 7 unit mobile home park in Wasa, on-site manager, solid refs only $750/mo.+dd, Call (250)422-3445

Rentals

Homes for RentLarge 4 bdrm, 2 bathroom

house, large yard, downtown Inv, W/D, DW, MW, N/S, fi re-place, internet, $1200 + util,

Avail now. 250-341-1650 [email protected]

Suites, Lower

Wilder subdivision: 1-bdrm + den, lower suite of renovated home. Includes kitchen, W/D, fenced yard and shed. Avail immediately. $700/month plus utilities. 250-341-7701.

Suites, UpperWindermere: 2 bdrm 4 plex. W/D, fridge, stove. Separate entrance, lg yard & driveway. Only a few blocks from beach

with lake view. Can be furnished or not. Pets

considered. $725/mth. Call or text 250-409-7435 or email

[email protected]

Transportation

Auto Financing

DreamCatcher Auto Loans“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK -

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Cars - Sports & Imports

Dodge Grand Caravan SE 2004. Regularly serviced. New summer + winter tires on rims. Asking $3500. 250-342-9247.


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Building Your Wealth

Home ownership needn’t be taxing� ere are ‘doomsayers’ all around, telling us

we are going to su� er unpleasant consequences because of our failure to ‘do things the way they should be done.’ Often, this is another way of say-ing something entirely di� erent, like, ‘Do things the way I believe you should do them.’ In among the doom and gloom, however, there are some gems to be picked up and enjoyed. If they can help you get what you want, they’re worth investigation.

� ere are many changes facing us and we know the way forward is not to go backward. We need to be positive in the situations we face and see oppor-tunities around us to create a new future that will move us forward, not backward.

Among the examples of what I mean, one is what many of us are doing, which is to set money aside when we can to buy a house.

� e most common reason for wanting a house is the belief, which we learn as we grow up, that this is the way it should be done. It’s our proof of suc-cess. But there are other reasons. One is to have a private place to do what we want, or to have a place for more possessions than renting will allow. And, the most common reason is to house our children where there is more room for them to play freely.

It’s no news to say we have been going through a tough time, and some have lost a lot. One of the more constant warnings we receive is about our personal debt, which means all the ways we bor-row money other than for mortgages. � is usually means such things as credit cards, bank loans, and lines of credit. It doesn’t mean the mortgage unless we take on more than we can service when rates go up. When we’re careful, and don’t get caught up in bad economic news, and don’t get carried away, there are opportunities. Real estate is an example.

� ere are a lot of “For Sale” signs on lawns ev-erywhere. � ose signs can help you get what you

want, and, the good part, you can do it while help-ing someone else out. It’s a way that doesn’t con-� ict with our values, but can be a good thing for all.

Some of those “For Sale’ signs represent a family in deep hardship, working to clear their � nances before they go down. For them, your purchase of that home may be their way out of a bad situation.

It can actually help to relieve them of the burden of mortgage payments they can no longer make. Letting a house go is a hard and painful loss, but it can ease a major worry. � at’s not being either opportunistic or crass. In fact, people often feel enormous relief when the burden is taken from their shoulders.

� ere are � nancial incentives that may be avail-able in the Income Tax Act which can help save thousands of dollars. � ey are intended to make home ownership easier, so if you are thinking about a house purchase, there are things you

should know. Here are some that might be useful. Home Buyer’s Tax Credit (HBTC): � is was ini-

tially introduced in 2009, and provides � rst-time home buyers a credit towards purchase of a home. Remember, this program targets “� rst-time” home-buyers only, but it is still possible you may qualify if you haven’t owned a home for several years. If a family member has a disability this credit may be available anytime.

Home Buyers’ Plan (HBP): If you have an RRSP, the HBP allows � rst-time homebuyers to withdraw up to $25,000 each from their RRSPs without incur-ring tax. Again there may be a way around the ‘� rst time’ concern.

Property tax refund: Depending on your prov-ince, you may be eligible for a tax refund or a tax credit for property taxes paid during the year.

Mortgage interest deduction: Your mortgage in-terest is not tax deductible in Canada. However, many Canadian homeowners take advantage of tax deductions available on investment debt by converting their mortgages into investment loans.

Home o� ce expense deductions: If you operate a business out of your home, you may be able to deduct a portion of your housing expenses.

Principal Residence Exemption (PRE): Perhaps the biggest tax incentive provided homeowners, the PRE exempts capital gains on the sale of a prin-cipal residence. You can even use a vacation home, as long as both homes are "inhabited" sometime throughout the year.

Most of these methods are complicated to work out, and require special expertise. All of them re-quire careful thought available from a professional and are certainly not something you just do your-self. But with that said, one or several of these plans may help get what you have long wanted.

If we can help, that’s what we enjoy.


Business ProfileNew stylist and new tanning booth for local salon

Scizzor Sisters in In-vermere celebrated their one-year anni-versary this past sum-mer, and with a new stylist and some new equipment the salon is well-equipped to continue to serve the community.

"The first year went well," said Meka Jensen, who owns the salon with her sister Britt. "It was busy, we're still try-ing to figure things out. There were a few bumps in the road, but nothing major."

Originally from Vancouver where they went to school, the two sisters took decidedly different paths to Invermere. Meka moved to the Columbia Valley in 2005 after finishing school to be with her fiancee, who played for the Columbia Valley Rockies at the time, while Britt, after attending the same school a year later opened her own salon in Halifax. Fast forward a few years,

and the two sisters are reunited once again, this time in the comfy confines of their very own salon,

located at 519 13th St. "We always wanted

to have a salon to-gether," Meka said.

Recently, two big

changes for the sa-lon could mean an increase in business. Scizzor Sisters has recently purchased a

spray tanning booth that uses an all-natu-ral solution, and fel-low local hairdresser Jeanelle Reynolds has recently joined the fold after oper-ating her own sa-lon in Radium for a number of years. For Meka, having such an ideal location in

Invermere is part of what allows them to continue to grow and expand, and she said she doubts she would be so lucky if she were to relocate back to Vancouver.

"I think about if I were to go back to Vancouver and start

all over again, it wouldn't be like this at all," Meka said. "My salon would probably be half the size."

During their first year of operation Scizzor Sisters have also made their mark in the community by getting involved in

a number of differ-ent causes, events and initiatives. They regularly do the hair of models for the thrift store fashion show, and love to get involved with events like Light-Up Night and Hallow-een. Meka said doing

hair styling for those kinds of events re-ally allows the styl-ists to express their creativity, as their normal clients usu-ally don't want some of the more unique hairstyles.

"We like to do dif-ferent things outside the salon, because

you're so confined to weddings (and other events)," Meka said. "You can't really be that creative, so if they're doing fashion shows or something like that… it's fun to be creative and show people what we can do."

Scizzor Sisters is expanding it services and continuing to grow

STEVE JESSELThe Valley Echo

Behind the WheelUpdate your DrivingSkills and Knowledge

Of� cial Vehicles: The Tow TruckThe tow truck is a bit of an orphan when it comes to being an “of� cial vehicle” as de� ned in our slow down, move over laws. Drivers happening across a tow truck working at the side of the highway must slow down and move over if possible just as they would for an overtaken police vehicle, � re apparatus or ambulance. The latter three types of vehicle are easily identi� ed by the colour of their � ashing lights but the tow truck blends in with all the other � ashing yellow light equipped vehicles on our highways.

It goes without saying that a defensive driver will slow down and move over if possible for any type of vehicle displaying � ashing lights stopped on the shoulder. This would even include a broken down car with the hazard � ashers showing. However, there are those who will not unless mandated by law.

Perhaps a tow truck should be given the authority to use a combination of amber and white � ashing lights to more easily identify it as being part of the group of of� cial vehicles that we must slow down and move over for. Rather than wondering if we need to until we are quite close, this would allow drivers to make the identi� cation from a distance and take action well ahead of time.

Remember, slowing down for stopped of� cial vehicles at the side of the road is mandatory under all circumstances. Not moving over is only an option if you cannot do it safely. The rule was enacted to protect emergency workers when they are looking after us. Let’s look after them too.

The author is a retired constable with many years of traf� c law enforcement experience. To comment or learn more, please visit www.drivesmartbc.ca.

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Photo By steve jessel/the echoScizzor Sisters Meka Jensen proudly shows off her new tanning booth, sporting the results of a morning tanning session herself.

“It's fun to be creative and show people what we can do.”meka jensenscizzor sisters

Target is 4,000 people per day

Toby Creek Adventures and others will join the CVCC to give Calgarians a taste of the Colum-bia Valley by distributing the Columbia Valley Map Book. In addition, Clovechok said they're also planning on decorating their piece of the walkway with pictures of places such as the Sinclair Canyon and the Hoodoos.

"The vision is that when you enter one end of the walkway, it will be like you're entering the valley," Clovechok said.

For Clovechok, the goal of the event is to raise the profile of the Columbia Valley, and maybe let

some people know about it who might not other-wise. She said that the walkway they are targeting, which is adjacent to the Banker's Hall Mall, aver-ages almost 4,000 people per day and as such pro-vides a perfect opportunity to advertise the valley.

"Our biggest goal is to make sure that when people are planning their winter holidays, that the Columbia Valley is at the top of minds of Calgarians," Clovechok said.

Clovechok is still looking for more businesses to join the contingent, and is also looking for anyone with creative ideas or props that could help with the decoration of the walkway. Inter-ested businesses are asked to contact Clove-chok at the chamber by calling 250-342-2844.

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Answer to November 14:

Brain Games

CrosswordNovember 21, 2012

HoroscopeARIES Aries, while there’s much about a situation that you don’t understand, you will quickly be � lled in on all the details you need to know to get the job done.

TAURUSTaurus, confrontation will get you nowhere. It is better to avoid any troublesome parties and simply go on with your days. No need to put monkey wrenches in the plans.

GEMINITake some time to re� ect on what you need to get done, Gemini. Things are about to get more hectic, and it will help to know what is on your schedule in the coming days.

CANCERThere is no need to put off romantic endeavors, Cancer. Make time to further relationships, and you will be happier for having made the additional effort.

LEOLeo, a casual encounter with an old friend goes by like no time has elapsed at all. Agree to keep in touch and spend more time together going forward.

VIRGOVirgo, there are too many messes to clean up, so instead of digging in you may just decide to procrastinate a little longer. Just be sure to make up the time later on.

LIBRAYou may � nd that things that are bene� cial for others may not always be bene� cial for you, Libra. But often you have to make sacri� ces for the bene� t of the entire group.

SCORPIOCertain challenges may be tough to conquer, Scorpio. But with the right help you can get the job done. Gemini may be your shining light this week.

SAGITTARIUSThere is no point in speculating about your � nances, Sagittarius. Keep track of your deposits and withdrawals so you have a handle on all accounts.

CAPRICORNNow is not the time to leap without looking, Capricorn. You have to be cautious with your choices and actions this time of the month. Don’t make waves so close to the holidays.

AQUARIUSAquarius, although you do plenty, someone around the house could really use some more assistance from you. It may take some juggling of your schedule to accomplish.

PISCESUsually your outpouring of creative juices is unstoppable, Pisces. This week you could have a little trouble thinking up new ideas.

Fourth week of November

Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fi ll each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can fi gure out the or-der in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

Last week’s Sudoku answer -->:

Columbia ValleyWeekend Weather

FridayNovember 23

SaturdayNovember 24

SundayNovember 25

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Remember When

5 years ago: Panorama Mountain Village held its biggest event yet. Fe-male skiers met at Panorama to com-pete in the ladies slalom race for the FIS World Cup. On November 25, 2005, women from all over met at Pan-orama to race down the hill together. The World Cup at Panorama gave In-vermere a lot publicity and turned the owners of Panorama into celebrities.

10 years ago: A Calgary developer wanted to build a 64-unit luxury con-dominium at Radium Hot Springs, where the old water slide property used to be. The now famous Radium Resort is a popular place for dining or an overnight stay.

25 years ago: David Thompson Sec-ondary School students were invited to attend the leadership summit of ’87 in Vancouver. They got to discuss issues that they thought were the most pressing in Invermere and how they could fix them. This gave the students

the power of speech, and the power to help contribute to making their town a better place.

35 years ago: A Valley Echo story was covered on the CBC news. The interview was held at Toby Benches. People expressed concerns about the camp sites on Toby Creek and the new hydro line that was going up. With that story, the little town of Invemere put itself on the map.

45 years ago: Invermere held a Pio-

neer Dinner, congratulating all the pioneers of the valley. Medals were given out at the dinner to honor these men and women.

50 years ago: The Invermere Valley Echo reported on the famous chil-dren's television producer, Mr. Pen-guin, who was visiting British Colum-bia to be part of a moose hunt. Mr. Penguin hoped to turned the footage he captured of the hunt into an educa-tional show for kids and adults as well.

A look back at what's happened in the valley over the last 50 years


Echo filE photoNovember, 2007 - Ryker Tallis puts the finishing touches on his gingerbread house as part of a workshop at Quality Bakery in Invermere.

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to that special someone

this holiday season.

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Christmas Dinner for Seniors

Sunday, December 9 • 5:30 p.m. Call 250-342-5566

Monday to Thursday between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

to register, prior to Thurs, December 6Best Western Invermere Inn

Brought to you by the Rotary Club of Invermere

Right now at Selkirk:

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We’re ready... are you?

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Open All Year!! 10am – 6pm

Winter Blues? Book an hour massage for $70+hst and $65+hst for seniors!

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Looking for Holiday ideas? Gift certificates for loved ones!

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Winter Blues? Book an hour massage for $70 +hst and $65 +hst for seniors!

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Did you know we have huuuuge Seniors' discounts?


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To advertise, call: 250-342-9216

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Office: 250-342-6452 • 250-342-3773 Cell: 250-342-5833

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