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Vol. 10 Issue 4—2012 • March 23 to April 20 • SPIN NEWSMAGAZINE • www.SunPeaksNews.com • 250.578.0276
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HISTORY IN THE MAKING
by Kim [email protected]
It’s been two years since parents in Sun Peaks cre-ated the Sun Peaks Educa-tion Society (SPES) and launched a mountainside school. It was no easy task, but for parents whose chil-dren get to stay in the resort for their education, having a school in Sun Peaks is priceless.
While many in Sun Peaks help support the school, complaints have been voiced that it will attract more people to the mountain, ex-
posing Sun Peaks’ secret ski runs to a wider population.
“How much is said in jest is hard to measure,” says Kim Holman, a Sun Peaks homeowner with two daughters enrolled at the Discovery Centre for Bal-anced Education (DCBE). “But I think it’s great for the community to grow and one of the ways to do it is through the school.”
Mayor Al Raine concurs, and has been lobbying on behalf of SPES for funding through School District 73 (SD73) and the Province.
“I think it’s fair to say that SD73 would receive at least double the funding from the Province than it costs to run the kindergarten through Grade 6 school using the facilities we’ve provided,” says Raine.
Having a school in the community attracts young families and for Raine, keeping those families here means taking care of their education needs.
“If we wish to keep people working in the resort we need to make sure their children can be educated,”
he says.Without a community
learning facility, a Sun Peaks child could expect to attend four different schools, in four different communities, before graduating from high school. With a school on the mountain, students don’t need to be making those progressively long journeys away from their community.
“People should know that 75 per cent of the parents, currently, are employed in the resort,” explains Barb Kupferschmidt Linder, president of the SPES. “These are people working in the community and want-ing their kids to also stay in the community. For our en-rolment for 2012-13, it rep-resents over 30 families, not including the inquiries.”
For the 25 per cent of par-ents who work off hill, the draw of a school made an attractive community a pos-sibility.
“My wife stumbled upon a story by the BBC about the Discovery Centre,” explains new Heffley Lake home-owner Mike Adams. “Had there not been a school here, we wouldn’t have been able to consider (living here), but we’ve decided this is going
to be our permanent home.” He counts the school as a
fundamental drive for resi-dents, which in turn bolsters the local economy.
“Look at the small busi-nesses here. If you don’t have permanent residents then the businesses that are there aren’t supported 12 months of the year,” he says.
Holman, too, believes a school is a key economic driver of a community.
“It helps real estate val-ues, there’s more property taxes being collected that the municipality can turn around and (use to) get us some great infrastructure. It definitely helps businesses not only in the busy time, but in the slow time as well,” she says.
Proponents of the school also argue that local schools build a sense of community.
“Schools are often the heart of the commun-ity,” says Raine. “When we did the (facilities) survey, people said they wanted to have social rooms, places to meet, a gymnasium, and all those things are often a function of a school in the community.”
While many agree the school is an asset, funding it
is no small task. One chal-lenge of funding through donations is the need to ask for support from the same community of donors.
“You have to raise a big amount and because the community is small you’re going to the same people all the time asking for more money and it’s hard to al-ways have your hand out asking for support for the school,” says Holman. “As a parent, I’m really grateful for the many residents that sup-port the school. We really do have a great support system out there.”
In Raine’s mind, having the Discovery Centre fund-ed through tax dollars makes the most sense.
“I would understand why (some people) question having to raise $125,000 through donations when we pay $1.6 million in (school) taxes,” says Raine. “It’s about time we got something back for our $1.6 million.”
Those for and against the school can continue the debate, but one thing is cer-tain: a lot of residents want the school and are willing to support it whether or not they have children enrolled in the Discovery Centre.
Building a school to benefit a community
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wElcoME INvITATIoN: Discovery Centre students, staff, and Nancy Greene partnered with Sun Peaks Resort to welcome Westmount Elementary’s Grade 4/5 class to their mountaintop learning centre. The DCBE could see approximately 50 students in the centre in 2012-2013, representing 30 local families.
The Sun Peaks Health Association, on behalf of the 2012 TELUS Nancy Greene Corporate Challenge, extends a huge THANK YOU to all event sponsors and participants in enabling us to bring a dream closer to reality.
Over $27,000 was raised in support of the Sun Peaks Health Association, Sun Peaks Alpine Club and Royal Inland Hospital Foundation.
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Over 65 dedicated volunteers helped out to make this event another great success, THANK YOU!
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“Crisis, what Crisis? — Supertramp album.
When a political junk-ie like me is feeling over-whelmed by the news, I can’t help but think that those who are generally unaware or unconcerned about the interest-ing world beyond their daily reach might be on to something. After all, most of the words, TV clips and videos repeat one hard luck story after another interposed by ads urging us to improve life by using a particular shampoo or non-street (officially) drug.
What you may be thinking is, “Why doesn’t he get off the net, change the radio to music and unplug the tube?”
To quote Mark Twain about tobacco, “Quit-ting is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times.” Somehow, for whatever oddball reason, we’ve all become so wired that without recurrent in-formation input, most people get antsy. It’s becoming hard to re-
member the last time I rode the chairlift with-out someone tweeting, texting or talking into a gadget. We’d be screwed if there were no such thing as electricity any more. Just wait for the upcoming BC Hydro rate increases that are going to be announced. The political firestorm will bring down the Christy Clark Liber-als if they aren’t very careful, which of course they won’t be. Things will soon get interest-ing provincially, given high priced teachers and nurses wailing for more of whatever never satis-fies them.
Was I on politics again? Oops. In that case, let’s Google Earth over to Syria where, who knows how many, women, children and Korans have been shred-ded today. Russia and China have success-fully pleaded their case for arms sales and have effectively stuck their finger into the West’s nose by betting that
the civil war will go on. Good news—they can have Syria. Obama, for a change, is smart enough to stay out of this mess.
Moving eastward into Iran via Streetview, one can easily discern that the folks there aren’t really too interested in the peaceful uses of the atom; otherwise there’d be transmission tow-ers being erected for the electrification of the countryside and labs being readied to accept medical isotope manufacturing. Iran, if it wants to be a nuclear na-tion, needs to tone down the rhetoric and grow up diplomatically.
While we’re on the topic of fossil fuels or
not, one may or may not like the methods of extraction or transpor-tation, but really who amongst us doesn’t take the car whenever we feel like it? Our fruits and vegetables travel by diesel but none of the expert nutritionists rec-ommend cabbage and carrots only this winter for proper anti-oxidant qualities to ensure (or is it insure?—wait, I’ll look it up) a gentler global footprint.
But where have I been, the tickertape thing just rattled the latest—robo-call mini scandal. “What, me worry?” Al-fred E. Neuman (the gap-toothed David Letterman looking guy from MAD magazine) would say. Let’s see, some machine calls and interrupts you, blath-ers stupidly about no brainer dumb stuff and, if you don’t have the lowest percentile brain function possible to hang up, Parliament will spring into action. How have we come to this?
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After decades of hear-ing locals’ ranting about how Sun Peaks Resort Corporation (SPRC), Tourism Sun Peaks (TSP), Sun Peaks Utili-ties Company Limited (SPUCL) and now Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality (SPM-RM) should do this and that to improve this, that and/or the other in our community, I feel compelled to let those that rant about these bodies know how it works around here.
Firstly, SPRC isn’t an omniscient big brother to all that is Sun Peaks Resort, but merely a wholly owned subsid-iary of Nippon Cable of Japan, a privately held company with re-sort holdings in vari-ous parts of the world. SPRC’s role in Sun Peaks is to operate the ski hill, golf course and other resort features within the Controlled Recreation Area (CRA) as well as to develop real estate land in the
base area of the CRA as visitor numbers grow. This is all structured and governed under a 50 year Master De-velopment Agreement (MDA) with the Prov-ince of B.C.
TSP isn’t a little brother of SPRC as many people think, but a non-profit member-ship-based Destination Marketing Organiza-tion (DMO) that’s governed by a member-based Board of Direc-tors. Membership is based on real estate or business holdings in Sun Peaks and, like any DMO, TSP is bound by the Society Act of B.C as a non-profit organi-
zation and by the Re-sort Associations Act of B.C. with regard to the fees and dues it charges it members, of which SPRC is the largest contributor.
TSP’s mandate, some-what vaguely described, is to use their members’ fees and dues to market Sun Peaks Resort to the rest of the world to in-crease visitor numbers.
SPUCL, on the other hand, is a wholly owned subsidiary of SPRC and is a private water, sewer and gas utility com-pany that’s governed by the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) and the Water Utility Act (WUA).
Now throw the rela-tively new local govern-ment of the Sun Peaks Municipality (property taxes, roads, bylaws, etc.) into the mix and who does what in Sun Peaks may get confus-ing, unless you either pay close attention to these types of things or just ask the right
questions of the right people.
Do the SPRC, TSP, SPUCL and SPMRM business lines cross from time to time? Abso-lutely. Does any one en-tity have control of any other’s business model or mandate? Absolutely not, unless you’re talk-ing SPRC and SPUCL. So, to all those that still think the SPMRM is controlled by SPRC and that TSP is in con-trol of the MDA as a DMO within the CRA, then you might want to study what SPM-RM has to do with the BCUC or the WUA before spouting off that SPRC should plow the roads and that TSP should get the SPMRM to lower the gas prices at SPUCL so they can better market the resort.
You’ll only be as in-formed as you care to be and should you really care about your com-munity, you’ll inform yourself about what re-ally happens in it.
inform thyself
it keeps coming back to politics
Adam EarlePUBLISHER’S NOTE
Gerald AllgaierPOLITICAL
POINT OF VIEW
OPINIONS • WE SAY | YOU SAY
yOu SAY
Castor bean toxicityI think you should know something about the green ski equipment article (Gear companies think, and act, green, Vol. 10 Issue 2). The article talks about plastics from the castor bean plant. Ricinus communis, or castor bean plant, is a highly toxic plant, in fact that’s where the poison ricin comes from. I can only imagine the oil refined from this happens in some third world country where safety standards are low. Keith Lyall, submitted online
Local support valued by Adaptive SportsOn behalf of our students and instructors, the Adaptive Sports at Sun Peaks Society (ASSP) wish to publicly acknowledge the support shown to our sit-ski students at the Friday Race Series recently. Ilene and Don and their team from the Rosedale on Robson Friday Races went out of their way to include our students with a disability in the popular, weekly event. This was a highlight for them and a fitting culmination towards the end of their winter lesson program here at Sun Peaks. The interest and inclusiveness demonstrated by people like Ilene and Don and others from the Sun Peaks community shows that skiing, and racing, can indeed be for everyone. Thank you to all involved.ASSP also wishes to acknowledge SPIN Newsmagazine for its support over the past several years. We certainly appreciate and thank you for all that you have done for our students and for the adaptive program here at Sun Peaks. Dick Taylor, President Adaptive Sports at Sun Peaks Society
GOOd FOrTuNE: Ida Chong awarded Sun Peaks Municipality a
$400,000 grant for a new recreation facility. Photo: SPIN
COVEr SHOT
WEATHER FOrECASTThe Old Farmer’s Almanac 2012
weather conditions for B.C. March 23 to April 20
March 23 to 28 Sunny, nice.
March 29 to 31 Showers.
April 1 to 5 Showers, then sunny, cool.
April 6 to 13 rain and snow, cool.
April 14 to 20 Sunny, then showers, cool.
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Truth or consequencesIn the early days of TV there was a show called “Truth or Consequences.” If contestants failed to get the right answer to the clev-erly disguised question they faced a bizarre consequence such as having to ride a unicycle or balance above a pool of whipped cream.
As I was reflecting on how our thinking works and the amazing power of thought I was reminded of that show. In many ways it can be seen as a metaphor for our expe-rience.
When we’re feeling gripped by a point of view or an idea it’s as if we’re see-
ing the reality or the truth. Instead, what we’re truly seeing is our personal per-ception of reality and truth. It’s as if life is a cleverly dis-guised mystery much like the questions on “Truth or Consequences.” What we make of it is up to us. And what we make of it is what we experience.
There is, within each of us, a beautiful radar that tells us when our thinking is tak-ing us away from our true wisdom. The feeling that accompanies every thought is our signalling device. When we feel anxious or urgent, angry or judgmental,
worried or fearful, we can be sure that behind the feeling is some thinking that’s cre-ating this experience. We’ve interpreted an event, either past or present, through in-secure lenses.
Our thinking tricks us be-cause it appears to be right, to be real, to be important. There often seems to be genuine logic supporting our thinking. For example, if we’re attending an event at which we know very few people, it could seem quite natural to feel some anxiety. But is it really?
It’s only when we step back and allow our minds to
get quiet that we’re able to recognize the true imper-
sonal nature of thought. We’re then able to see all the choices available to us. In the example above, it’s not necessarily natural or logi-cal to feel anxious or fearful in a group of strangers; it’s possible to feel excited, curi-ous, calm or any number of responses.
As we become more sensi-tive to those feelings, which are our moment-to-moment experience, we realize that they’re the “consequences” of our thinking. They’re the inevitable outcome of a thought. We cannot have an anxious feeling without an attached anxious thought.
Similarly we cannot have a calm feeling without a calm quiet mind.
In order to live in a calm feeling more of the time we need only recognize the feeling for what it is—our interpretation of a particular thought and a reflection of our state of mind. If I’m an-gry or upset it’s my response not the response, to a given event or situation.
We all have the gift of choice. We all have in-nate resiliency and wisdom. That’s a truth that promises consequences we all seek—to live in well-being more of the time.
MIND & BODY
IN BRIEF
June EarlePSYCHOLOGY
June graduated from Antioch University with a Masters in
Counselling Psychology. She is a graduate of U of T in Physical & Occupational Therapy and has a B.Sc in Rehabilitation from UBC.
by Kim [email protected]
In Canada, the winter sea-son typically signals an in-crease in emergency rooms visits by children with head injuries from winter activ-ities. Helmets reduce the risk of head injury, but a re-cent study by the University of Ottawa and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute found not all helmets are created equal and some offer better pro-tection than others.
Currently, there’s no certi-fied winter recreational hel-met available, and as a result, parents use whatever’s avail-able or no helmet at all. The
study compared the protect-ive characteristics of three types of helmets currently used by children under the age of seven. Ice hockey, alp-ine ski and bicycle helmets were impacted at varying
speeds on both the front and side to replicate the impact a child might experience while recreating.
“We defined helmet safety performance by the ability of a helmet to reduce ac-
celeration of the head dur-ing impact,” explains Blaine Hoshizaki, professor at the University of Ottawa’s Fac-ulty of Health Sciences and co-author of the study.
The research found that while there’s no one helmet built to protect in every situ-ation, depending on impact velocity, different helmets of-fer better protection against brain injury. Ice hockey hel-mets offered the most pro-tection for lower velocity impacts, while the bicycle helmet was a better choice
for high velocity impacts. Alpine helmets had limited effectiveness in both low and high velocity impacts.
“Helmets are designed and tested to mitigate the risk of an injury,” says Hoshizaki. “They are not designed to eliminate head injuries.”
While there may not be one helmet suitable for all winter activities, a study by the Canadian Ski Council found that 83.1 per cent of Canadian skiers and snow-boarders now wear helmets on a regular basis, up from
79.9 per cent last year.“This remarkable increase
in helmet usage reflects the efforts of the Canadian ski and snowboard industries and other stakeholders to educate skiers and board-ers about the benefits and the limitations of helmet usage,” says Colin Chedore, President of the Canadian Ski Council.
Results from a 2010/11 National Consumer Survey also showed 95.5 per cent of children under 14 now wear helmets.
Book sale supports cancer research Bill Stoner and Joanne Foster’s Ride to Conquer Cancer Book Sale sold over 700 books, raising $1,500 towards cancer research. The pair collected more than 1,500 donated books for the sale and those that weren’t sold have been donated to various Kamloops charities. The Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer is a two-day, 250 kilometre bicycle ride from Vancouver to Seattle June 16 and 17, 2012. With the proceeds from their book sale Stoner and Foster are halfway to their fundraising goal.
Demand for women’s clinic highAlthough just a few weeks old, the Women’s Clinic at the Sun Peaks Health Centre is quickly booking up, proving there’s a need in Sun Peaks for a clinic dedicated to women’s health issues. Marg Kosolofski, manager of the Health Centre is pleased with the community response to the clinic. “It’s going really well, it really is,” she says.The clinic, which is run by a nurse practitioner, is open alternate Mondays
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with eight half-hour appointments available each clinic day. Since its opening, six of the eight available appointments have been filled each day. Appointments must be booked in advance by calling the Health Centre during regular business hours (4 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily). Those with a scheduled appointment will receive a courtesy call the day before to confirm their appointment.
To support the ride, click on “donate” at:
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Study finds not all helmets offer the same protection
Call 250-578-5380 or visitwww.sunpeaksresort.com/tourism
Tourism Sun PeaksCommunity Update: April
Tourism Sun Peaks (TSP) recently attended both the Vancouver Bridal Fair and the Vancouver Outdoor and Travel Show. More than 2,500 brides attended Vancouver’s largest Wedding Fair and a follow-up e-blast from TSP was sent to over 1,500 attendees who received additional information promoting Sun Peaks as a wedding venue and summer destination.
As the grand prize of the SBC Media Showcase video competition, TSP attended the Canadian Shield Slopestyle Tour at Blue Mountain, Ontario, handing out resort brochures and speaking to potential guests. TSP also conducted sales calls and training with key Ontario tour operators.
The TSP Central Reservations contract as the call centre for the Golf Kamloops consortium has commenced for the 2012 golf season. The courses and properties attended three golf shows in March and featured an enter-to-win golf getaway and a ‘scratch and save’ for a 2012 package.
March Music Madness had a successful second year with restaurants and venues full of people out enjoying live music throughout the resort. April 1 brings Sun Peaks’ very fi rst Caesar Challenge sponsored by Mott’s Clamato, taking place on Masa’s Bar + Grill’s patio.
Summer regional advertising plans have begun, with media executions beginning in May. Regional markets of focus include Kamloops, Shuswap, Cariboo region, Okanagan and the Fraser Valley. With festivals and events taking place every single weekend in July and August, this will be the primary message in advertisements and promotions.
In partnership with Sun Peaks Resort Corporation, Tourism Sun Peaks wrapped up fi lming of what will be a new winter promotion video for the resort. The video will launch early May in conjunction with the ski shows in Australia.
Tourism Sun Peaks is recruiting a Media & Marketing Coordinator. The role has been modifi ed to include an increased responsibility and focus on a social media engagement strategy for the resort, with a continued focus on traditional Media Relations.
Please note, as of March 29 the Adventure Centre hours will be 8:00am to 6:00pm daily with all activities still available to book.
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If you love music festivals but you’re not feeling the mas-sive lineups, crowded stages, or hefty ticket prices of popular events like Coachella, Sasquatch, and Shambhala Music Festival you’re in for a treat this summer. B.C.’s music festival scene is expanding to offer music lovers a host of small festivals with big personalities.
While big head-liners are arguably
the reason people attend most festi-vals, smaller festivals often have a more laid-back atmos-phere, more space for dancing and chill-ing, and offer better views of the artists without the sardine-effect of some music audiences. If you’re looking for some-thing different to try out this summer, look into these five B.C. music festivals.
Welcome in sum-
mer on Vancouver Island at Tall Tree Music Festival, June 21 to 23. Held just outside Port Renfrew, at Browns Moun-tain, Tall Tree show-cases live talent from genres including surf and folk rock, and electronic dance music. The ocean views and old-growth forest setting are draw enough, though the remote location also makes for a some-what primitive festi-val—bring cash with you because there’s no ATM on-site. Acts for Tall Tree 2012 haven’t been released yet, but previous art-ists have included Jets Overhead, Neon Steve, and Long- WalkShortDock.
Another excellent festival in June is The Groove Music Fes-tival, June 22 to 25, at the GT Paradize Adventure Ranch in Midway, B.C. Ac-cording to organizer Jon Larson, the fes-tival was created in honour of his friend, Casey Crawford, who
passed away in 2009. Larson aims to con-tinue showcasing only Canadian music talent as the festival continues to grow—this year’s docket includes electronic dance music artists Freddy J, Yan Zom-bie, Bryx, and Deeps.
Back on the Island, another great festival, held July 20 to 22, is the Kulth Music Fes-tival in Coombs, B.C. This folk fest with an edge, as its name implies—Kulth is short for Kulth-Ka-Choolth, meaning jagged face—is a film festival and music festival combined. Feature films A Small Act and Sunflower Hour will be screened throughout the day and night, followed by musical acts like The Boom Booms and Georgia Murray. The electronic music stage has yet to an-nounce confirmed artists.
If you love the atmosphere of “hippie fests” like Shambhala Music
Festival, but want something smaller and more intimate check out Bass Coast, in Squamish August 3 to 6. This riverside festival is capped at 3,000 attendees, and is a weekend ex-hibition of the arts, dance, and yoga. Although the 2012 lineup hasn’t been released, previous artists like Dub FX, Erica Dee, Kyrian, and EPROM, shows that this festival is well worth the ticket price.
There’s also a new festival popping up
on the west coast this year: Wanderlust.
This yoga-music festival is taking place in Whistler August 23 to 26 and is fea-turing celebrity yogis like Baron Baptise and Eoin Finn, and excellent musical acts like Michael Franti and Thievery Cor-poration. While this is Wanderlust’s first year in Whistler, the production company, part of the group that organizes Austin City Limits and Lollapa-looza, has a proven track record of pro-ducing great events.
These music festi-vals are among the many popping up all over B.C. With so much great local tal-ent, and so many am-bitious event organ-izers targeting B.C.’s picturesque potential festival venues, there’s no need to travel long miles and spend loads of cash on massive festivals where time is often wasted wait-ing in line, and trying to get a better vantage point of the stage.
Rikki MacCuishMUSIC DIVA
Rikki is a frequent concert-goer who always has one ear to the ground
and the other to the speaker. Always looking out for new and innovative artists, she loves everything Indie and keeps a close eye on what’s going on in music locally and
internationally.
Sun Peaks RecyclesEver since the TNRD set up the recycling program at the Sun Peaks Solid Waste and Recycling Transfer Station in 2008, residents, guests and property managers have done a great job of reducing, reusing and recycling. Instead of recyclables ending up in the landfill, they are being made into new materials which saves landfill space and conserves energy. Thank you for recycling!
Convenient hours for winter and summerStop by our Sun Peaks Transfer Station located at 1320 Industrial Way and place your mixed recyclables in the green bin and the garbage that’s left in the blue bin free of charge.
Help keep our site clean, and reduce the impact on wildlife. Please place in the correct bins and do not leave garbage or recycling outside the gates.
December 1 to April 1 (Winter Hours)Monday thru Sunday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Open Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day
April 2 to November 30 (Summer Hours)Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
For more info visit www.tnrd.ca or call toll-free 1-877-377-8673 or email us at [email protected] For more info visit www.tnrd.ca, call toll-free at
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New B.C. music festival line-up
Tall Tree Music FestivalJune 21 to 23
Browns Mountain, Port Renfrew, B.C.
$129 advance purchase; $159 at gate
talltreemusicfestival.com
The Groove Music FestivalJune 22 to 25
GT Paradize Adventure Ranch, Midway, B.C.
$50 - $60 advance purchase; $75 at gate;
$100 and up: VIP packages
Kulth Music FestivalJuly 20 to 22
Coombs Rodeo Grounds Coombs, B.C.
Prices not yet availablethekulth.ca
Bass Coast ProjectAugust 3 to 6
Squamish, B.C.$195 advance purchase;
$220 at gatebasscoast.ca
WanderlustAugust 23 to 26
Whistler, B.C.$99 to $475 USD
whistler.wanderlustfestival.com
B.C. festivals offer beats without breaking the bank
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MIN BRIEF
Children’s story contest announcedThe Writer’s Union of Canada is seeking submissions for its 16th annual Writing for Children Competition. Writers of previously unpublished children’s and young adult literature are invited to submit a story of up to 1,500 words. The Writing for Children Competition welcomes submissions for picture books to young adult stories. A $1,500 prize will be awarded and entries of the winner and
finalists will be submitted for consideration to three children’s book publishers.Canadian citizens or permanent residents who have not been published and do not have a publishing contract may make written submissions of up to 1,500 words, along with the entry fee of $15 per submission to The Writers’ Union of Canada at 90 Richmond St., East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1P1. Submissions will be accepted until April 24, 2012 and the winner will be announced in July.
Movies for the non-traditional romantic
My unofficial anniversary is coming up. I don’t know if other married couples con-sider the date they met as an “anniversary” but my hus-band and I like to take time on that date to reminisce about our lives together. So when it turned out that not one but two of the movies I watched in the last few weeks were love stories, I thought it was a bit of serendipity worthy of ink. This edition of Rave Reviews looks at Like Crazy and J. Edgar.
Like Crazy starts off as a typical college romance: a British exchange student (played by Felicity Jones) and an American classmate (played by Anton Yelchin) fall madly in love. Facing the prospect of a summer apart, they decide instead to spend it blissfully together. However, complications rear when the Brit finds that overstaying her student visa has consequences and she’s put back on the plane. The ensuing ups and downs of this love affair may seem, to some, implausible but for me, and I imagine for anyone who’s had to spend time away from the one they love, the longing that Jones and Yelchin portray shine through with convic-tion. Director Drake Dore-mus makes the most of the sparse script, teasing out very raw emotion from his star-crossed lovers in the long pauses between lines. And, unlike many movie roman-
ces, the happy ending is not a guarantee. This relation-ship is quite real (or as real as you can get in less than two hours), with passion, indif-ference, affection, and rough words. If you’re looking for a romance that doesn’t leave you feeling like you’ve over-dosed on cotton candy, Like Crazy is sure to please.
Now, you might be think-ing—how can an autobiog-raphy about J. Edgar Hoover, one of America’s most laud-ed crime fighters, be a love story? I was surprised myself as the film unfolded to find such tenderness behind the gruff, egotistical bully who ran the FBI for 50 years. J. Edgar fol-lows the course of Hoover’s life, from when the Bolshevik R e v o l u t i o n rocked the U.S., to his directorship
of the FBI, to the Nixon ad-ministration. But it’s his rela-tionship with Clyde Tolson, an associate director at the FBI and Hoover’s confi-dante that underscores just how delicate his impervious façade really was. Leonardo DiCaprio is stunning, slip-ping into Hoover’s skin with ease. However it was Armie Hammer as Tolson that truly delighted me. I’ve been a fan of Hammer’s since he played the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network. In J. Edgar, he delivers with a charm and vulnerability that’s as believable as it is disarming. Although the film drags a bit towards the end, it’s a fas-cinating biopic with enough meat to keep any history buff entertained.
If you’re feeling a little ro-mantic, but can’t abide the sugar-coated love stories melting off the shelf at your local video store, I encourage you to pick up Like Crazy or J. Edgar. Though neither of these movies rocked the box office or brought in a shelf full of hardware, they both contain enough truth to keep you guessing right up until the credits roll.
Amanda WintersRAVE REVIEWS
Amanda loves movies—she particularly adores indie and horror films. When she’s not
reading, Amanda spends a lot of her time looking up
previews for upcoming releases.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
For complete contest rules visit: www.writersunion.ca/cn_
writeforchildren.asp
Wretched writers wanted“It was a dark and stormy night . . . .” So began the opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1830 novel Paul Clifford, known as one of the worst opening sentences of any novel. In honour of that wretched opener, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) Library System is hosting its own Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Writing Contest.“The town of Lytton was actually named for Bulwer-Lytton when he was the Secretary of State for the colonies,” says Andree Beauchemin, TNRD reader’s advisor. “He’s perhaps best known for that opening sentence which is the genesis for this
contest.”The TNRD is seeking submissions from residents of the region aged 13 or over who believe they can compose a worse opening sentence. Writers may submit multiple single-sentence entries (without profanity) that don’t exceed 60 words. Thompson Rivers University English professor George Johnson will evaluate the entries. The deadline for submissions is 4 p.m. on April 15. Winners will be announced April 30. Entrants are asked to include their name, address and phone number.
Drop submissions at any TNRD library or e-mail them to:
PUBLIC MEETINGMarch 31, 2012
3 p.m. Municipal Office
A short review of the five-year plan will be followed by
the public’s input on ideas and suggestions for upcomingprojects and/or programs.
For more information contact: [email protected]
MusicWorks piano lessons at Heffley Lake
A GUIDED TOUR: Guests at Sun Peaks gather en masse each weekend to ski with Canada’s Athlete of the Century, Senator Nancy Greene Raine. Nancy sits in the Senate Chambers of Ottawa from Monday to Thursday and tours visitors around Sun Peaks Resort as Director of Skiing when back in the resort each weekend.
Skiing with Olympian Nancy Greene
Music lovers can now take piano lessons close to home. Catharine Adams of MusicWorks is offering one-on-one instruction beginning in April and September.“Music should be fun,” exclaims Adams. “If students are having fun and love the music they’re learning, it’s much easier to get them to practice. It’s about exploring with the student a variety of musical styles.”
Adams’ instruction encompasses a variety of genres including pop, dance, and Royal Conservative of Music curriculum.The tentative schedule for classes is Monday evenings for children and Monday daytimes or evenings for adults. Weekly lessons are $20 per 30 minute session.
Contact Catherine Adams at: sunpeaksmusicworks
@gmail.com or 250-578-8119
PHOTO: CATHY EARLE/SPIN
www.SunPeaksNews.com8 Vol. 10 Issue 4, 2012IN PICTURES
TThis month I’d like to introduce you to a really fun, creative and exciting com-puter program called Photomatix Essen-tials 3 that will help you control the ex-posure levels in your images. This stand-alone program avail-able for Windows and Mac OS X can be purchased for $39 US which is a small investment when you start processing your digital photo-graphs as high dy-namic range (HDR) images. If $39 is still a little out of your budget, no wor-ries—it’s available as a trial version as well.
We’ve all been in situations where the subject we want to photograph is in
contrasting light and we fail to record the scene as we see it. It can be very frustrat-ing when the high-lights are blown out or the shadows are extremely dark and the camera just can’t seem to record them both accurately.
HDR imagery allows you to get the best out of the shadows and high-lights of an image. Photomatix gives us the tools to use mul-tiple exposures of the same scene and combine them into one image. The end result is rather extra-ordinary as you’ll see for yourself after using the program a few times.
I recently took a step back and re-
visited the basics with my own per-sonal photography and exercised my exposure technique on a few Ring-billed gulls and crows at a local park. I like to photograph gulls in practice due to their white plum-age and crows be-cause of their black plumage—both can be tricky to expose properly in changing light and nearly im-possible on bright sunny days when the sun is at its highest.
Some of my expos-ures were a little off so it was Photomatix to the rescue. As you can see in the im-age above, I brack-eted three different exposures of a gull that I purposely cre-ated in camera with the plan of merging
them in Photomatix. One image was shot at a normal expos-ure, one under-exposed and the third overexposed. When I imported all three exposures into Photomatix and merged them into one image, I ended up with a HDR photograph.
Photomatix is very easy to use and is intended for those photographers new to HDR im-aging. The software includes informa-tion on bracketed photographs, a video tutorial and user manual.
It also allows you to take your image one step further into the creative process by allowing you to adjust contrast, colour, brightness, sharpness and more goodies that I’ll let you discover on your own.
HDR software like Photomatix are tools that can be used by professionals and amateurs and will certainly find a place in your digital pho-tography workflow. You won’t be dis-appointed by down-loading Photomatix Essentials 3 today.
Discover Photomatix
Peter SulzleWILDLIFE PAPARAZZO
Peter has been contributingto SPIN since 2009. His unique wildlife
images have been used by many conservation
organizations in North America.
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The Andertons and the Blackburn, from Kelowna, celebrate St. Paddy’s Day. Globe Café and Tapas Bar — Sun Peaks Resort
Bill Stoner and Joanne Foster sold $1,500 of books for the
Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer.
Yvonne Timewell was the overall winner of the North Face Dirty Feet Fun Run finishing
the course in 1:06:50. Photo: Phil Hiom
The Sabrina Weeks Trio rocks Powder Hounds during March Music Madness.
Artist Kendra Dixson presents Anne and George Terwiel with a custom painting at
her 10th Sun Peaks Art Show.
Charlie Bruce, from the Overlander Ski Club hit the trails for the Holy Cow Loppet
in February. Photo: Hayden King
AJ Ellsay entertains the spring break crowd on a bluebird Sunday.
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Barriere arti st Katherine Semrick is just winding down her fi rst solo show at the Wilson Gallery in Kamloops; Out My Backdoor runs unti l March 28.“Last year, a friend talked me into doing the juried show at the Kamloops Art Gallery and they encouraged me to have my own show, and I did,” says Semrick.Semrick, who works with acrylics and airbrush, has no formal training, only the inspirati on of Robert Bateman and plenty of practi ce.“I’m totally self-taught and it was about 10 years ago that I fi rst att empted painti ng. I think (Robert) Bateman is a huge inspirati on, because he started his career later in life and look where he’s gone! I don’t expect to go that far, but he’s an inspirati on.”Semrick’s art depicts wildlife found in the North Thompson Valley, and adorns both canvas and drums. “Some people believe I have the gift to bring the spirit helper into the drum,” she explains, “and so they’ll come to me with what they believe in their mind’s eye it should look like and then I go home and create it.”The aboriginal drums are on done commission, but Semrick’s original and limited editi on prints are available at an aff ordable price.“I’ve tried to keep everything very reasonable so that people in my world can aff ord to buy them,” she says, noti ng that prints start at $30.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
EVERY TUESDAYBottoms Locals Nights
Oronge prizes, drinkspecials & FREE pool.
250-578-0013
Yoga in the MountainsDelta Sun Peaks Resort5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
$12 per person.
EVERY SUNDAYChurch Service
Christian service 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Last service is March 25, Hearthstone Lodge.
Roman Catholic Mass. 4 p.m. Nancy Greene's
Cahilty Lodge Mid-mountainChapel ServiceStarts at 1 p.m.
Lift pass not included.
TO MARCH 28Katherine Semrick’s Out My Back Door
“True life” airbrush and acrylic wildlife paintings
by this Barriere artist. Presented at
Wilson House Gallery, 115 Tranquille Rd.
katherinesemrick.com
MARCH MUSIC MADNESS
FRI, MARCH 23Terry Strudwick3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Cahilty Creek Bar & Grill.
Margit Bull7:30 p.m. Globe Cafe.
Terry Strudwick & Peter Ernst
8:30 p.m. Powder Hounds.
SAT, MARCH 24Terry Strudwick3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Cahilty Creek Bar & Grill.
The TSE Band8:30 p.m. Powder Hounds.
SUN, MARCH 25Bohemia Bakery Band
3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.Outdoor stage between Masa’s and Bottom’s.
THURS, MARCH 29Dave Coalmine
& Friends7:30 p.m. Globe Cafe.
FRI, MARCH 30Terry Strudwick3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Cahilty Creek Bar & Grill.
Terry Strudwick & Peter Ernst
8:30 p.m. Powder Hounds.
SAT, MARCH 31RIPE
3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.Cahilty Creek Bar & Grill.
The Grand Finale:The TSE Band
8:30 p.m. Powder Hounds.
MARCH 23 & 24Alcan Nancy Greene
Snow Star FestivalMedley of ski comps for
tomorrow’s most promising skiers. Sun Peaks.250-578-5542
SUN, MARCH 25Sun Peaks Wonder
Weekend SocialA traditional après with
beverages and barbecue. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Burfield Lodge Deck.For tickets, call:250-578-6930
FRI, MARCH 30Margit Bull
Local folk rock favourite Margit Bull plays Chances
Barside Lounge & Grill. 7 p.m. No cover. margitbull.ca
SAT, MARCH 31Adventures in Antarctica
Justine Wild presents her Antarctic experience.
At the Big LittleScience Centre.
1:30 p.m.www.blscs.org
SUN, APRIL 1Bluebird
Banked SlalomSun Peaks Resort and Oronge Boardshop
launch a new racing tradition!
Molson after party at Bottom’s Bar and Grill. Registration limited to 100 competitors. 19+
APRIL 7 TO 9TOD MOUNTAIN DAYS AND RETRO WEEKEND
SUN, APRIL 8Dummy DownhillBuild your life-sized
dummies to ride, and fly, for gold in this
Sun Peaks tradition.
SUN, APRIL 8Easter Egg BonanzaEaster Bunny has been
hiding eggs at Sun Peaks. Meet for the egg hunt at
the top of OSV at 11 a.m.
MON, APRIL 9Slush Cup &
Top to Bottom’s RaceCostume clad contestants risk it all to cross a frigid
pool of slush at Sun Peaks. Race from the TOTW to ring the bell at Bottom’s.
MON, APRIL 9Closing Day for
Winter OperationsLast day of skiing at Sun
Peaks for 2011-2012. 250-578-5474
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THURS, APRIL 12Raw Food Seminar
and FeastRaw food chef
Julie Bayman will offer a raw food seminar and
meal at 6 p.m. at the Cahilty Creek Bar and
Grill. Tickets are $49 plus tax. Phone Yolanda,
reservations required.250-574-6660
THURS, APRIL 12John K. Samson
Singer-songwriter for The Weakerthans premiers his new album, Provincial,
at Hero’s Pub, TRU campus. 8 p.m.
APRIL 14 TO 28Symphony Used
Book SaleNew books are put out every day for this major
fundraiser for Kamloops Symphony.
Sahali Mall. sahalimall.com
Event Listings Visual arti st inspired by local wildlife
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Free dump day at Heffley Creek landfillSpring cleaning time is here, and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) is offering Free Dump Days on upcoming Sundays throughout the region.Area residential customers may bring up
to $20 worth of household waste to the sites for free on these days. Waste over the $20 limit, and waste from commercial, business, and municipal loads, is subject to regular tipping fees. Free Dump Day at the Heffley Creek landfill is Sunday, April 22. Barriere landfill’s free day is Sunday, May 6, and Clearwater landfill’s is Sunday, May 13.
IN BRIEF
NEWS
Hansen relay makes a stop in Sun PeaksOn Friday, March 30, Rick Hansen’s Anniversary Relay will be making a stop in Sun Peaks, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the historic Man in Motion World Tour. The public is invited to come out to the Village Day Lodge to hear an inspiring message from the man in motion himself, and learn more about adaptive ski
programs in Sun Peaks.“We’ve got Rick Hansen making comments not only on the 25th anniversary of the relay, but also on accessibility for everybody,” says Christopher Nicolson, president of Tourism Sun Peaks.The event kicks off at 9 a.m. in front of the Village Day Lodge. Hansen is scheduled to speak at 11 a.m. and afterward will join Sun Peaks’ Director of Skiing, Nancy Greene for a few turns on the mountain.
Meeting with Little Shuswap Band
Season’s end events take over Sun Peaks from April 7 to 9 with Tod Mountain Days.
Events kick off on Satur-day, April 7, and everyone’s encouraged to dig deep in their closets and don 60s in-spired ski gear before hitting the slopes. New this year are a series of prizes for best 60s costuming.
Not to be missed is the Dummy Downhill race on Sunday, April 8 where groups create, then launch,
life sized dummies off a near vertical jump to explode on impact. Points are awarded for originality, design, ap-pearance and explosiveness upon touch-down.
The infamous Slush Cup is back again on Monday, April 9 for costumed contestants to risk life, limb, and humil-ity in their attempt to cross a freezing slush pool on skis or boards. The Slush Cup winner will be rewarded with
a 2012/13 season’s ski pass. Lastly, the 2011/2012 ski
season comes to a close on Monday, April 9 with the annual Top to Bottom’s Race. Costumed competitors race from the Top of the World to ring the bell at Bottom’s Bar and Grill. The first person to cross the finish line has the distinction of being crowned Top to Bottom’s champion.
To register, or for more information, visit:
sunpeaksresort.com
Wind down to winterby Adam Earle
While it was extremely dis-appointing to all involved to have to cancel the 2012 Subaru Velocity Challenge and FIS Speed Ski World Cup due to sponsorship funding issues, the sport of speed skiing at Sun Peaks Resort is long from dead, buried and gone.
For the last 20 years the Ve-locity Challenge speed ski-ing race has been organized and run under a corporate sponsorship model in which sponsors and suppliers pro-vide money and product to the event organizers. The or-ganizers then plan, advertise and execute the event on the sponsors’ behalf, which in turn provides local, regional and international exposure for Sun Peaks and the events sponsors and suppliers.
Inherently there’s noth-ing wrong with this organi-zational model. But, in this time of global economic flux, finding corporate sponsor-ship funding to meet ever increasing event costs has become more difficult. With the cancellation of the 2012 event the Velocity Challenge crew felt it was time to turn our lemons into lemonade, and that freshly squeezed change came in the form of the Sun Peaks Speed Skiing Club (SPSSC). The SPSSC
is a newly incorporated non-profit society that will now take over all aspects of the Sun Peaks Velocity Chal-lenge from the current orga-nizer, Peaks Media Inc.
In realizing that we needed to look at new organization-al models the SPSSC was formed to allow the Velocity Challenge group access to additional revenue streams and funding opportunities that were never available un-der the old corporate spon-sorship model. In turn this will help secure the necessary funds to host this iconic an-nual event at Sun Peaks year after year.
The SPSSC will be run by the same group of speed ski-ers and volunteers that have been involved in the event over the past 20 years and will be made up of racing, n o n - r a c i n g
and corporate members. As a non-profit society the SPSSC can also apply for lo-cal, provincial and even fed-eral funding grants to host the FIS Speed Ski World Cup at Sun Peaks and also help support local speed ski athletes in their racing en-deavours locally and abroad.
The SPSSC looks forward to working with the com-munity of Sun Peaks and the many corporate spon-sors and suppliers that have been involved over the past 20 years. We’ll also strive to raise enough money through these various new channels so that the terms “Sun Peaks Velocity Challenge and FIS Speed Ski World Cup” and “cancelled” shall never be spoken in the same sentence in the years to come.
To get involved with the SPSSC e-mail Adam Earle at:
From lemons to lemonade
Sun Peaks Municipality and the Little Shuswap In-dian Band recently met to address each other’s needs in relation to future develop-ment within Sun Peaks.
“There’s been a long and strong relationship between the Sun Peaks Resort Cor-poration (SPRC) and Little Shuswap and we thought it was important to establish that same kind of relation-ship, community to com-munity, with the munici-pality,” explains Mayor Al Raine.
Little Shuswap’s Chief Felix Arnouse believes the meetings opened the door for greater understanding.
“I know non-native busi-nesses do business differ-
ently than we do and I think that was an eye-opener for Sun Peaks,” says Arnouse. “We have to deal with In-dian Affairs, the Provincial government, the Federal government, environmental issues and archeological as-sessments before we can do economic development and that was an eye-opener for Al and his group.”
Members of Tourism Sun Peaks, SPRC, Sun Peaks Municipal Council, Chief Felix Arnouse, and mem-bers of the Little Shuswap Indian Band participated in the meetings at Squilax and at Sun Peaks.
“We went over and visited their health centre and we talked to them about . . . areas
of mutual benefit we could work together on, espe-cially with their golf course and lodge,” says Raine who envisions each community helping the other in promo-ting their tourism products.
The Little Shuswap meet-ings are the first of what Raine hopes will be an on-going dialogue with First Nations communities.
“(The Little Shuswap band) want to continue to build their relationship with Sun Peaks,” says Raine. “We’ve said we should be meeting at least every four months and I think the general consensus is it’s al-most overwhelming all the things we have in common interest.”
by Adam [email protected]
The heavy snow falling during a recent funding an-nouncement ceremony from the Province of B.C. didn’t dampen the spirit of the five communities involved in re-ceiving grant funding from Ida Chong, minister of com-munity, sport and cultural development.
Kamloops, Barriere, Chase, Clearwater and Sun Peaks all received grant monies under
the province’s Families First Community Recreation Pro-gram. The $30 million pro-gram aims to help commu-nities around the province with recreation projects that support healthy living, sport and recreation.
Sun Peaks Mountain Re-sort Municipality (SPMRM) received $400,000 towards a new multi-plex building cur-rently being planned in the community. The new build-ing will house a covered
hockey rink, as well as a soc-cer field, and running track. It will also act as a venue for trade shows, indoor concerts and other activities needed to increase visitor numbers to the resort, especially in the shoulder and summer sea-sons when the resort visitor numbers are low.
Sun Peaks’ mayor, Al Raine, was on hand to re-ceive the funding and was very positive about the move forward.
“I’m very pleased but we still have a lot of work ahead in getting this started,” said Raine. “We’re looking at a recreational multi-plex and this is really the first step. Once we have a roofed facil-ity it’s really going to open the door for a lot of new things in Sun Peaks.”
Mayor Raine wasn’t the only Sun Peaks representa-tive that was beaming after the funding announcement was made. Tourism Sun
Peaks President Christopher Nicolson shared the mayor’s enthusiasm about the new project.
“This is certainly a great step forward, especially for the businesses of Sun Peaks. A covered building will al-low for weatherproof op-portunities for Sun Peaks such as tradeshows, conven-tions and tournaments espe-cially in the shoulder seasons and summer months,” said Nicolson.
While Mayor Raine ac-knowledged that this fund-ing is a step forward there’s still much work to do. The project is projected to cost more than $2 million, and is planned to be constructed in two phases. It will be funded from grants, surplus munici-pal reserves and municipal borrowing if necessary. A community referendum will be held should the SPMRM need to borrow funds for the project.
Funding brings multi-plex closer
Advisory Bodies have been established to inform and engage residents, business owners and non-resident property owners on any public consultation or approval process and to advise the Municipal Council on issues that impact the community.
To keep current on municipal issues, log on to the website sunpeaksmunicipality.ca where you will find direct links to the advisory bodies, bylaws, meeting schedules, agendas and minutes. You may also sign up for the automatic E-mail notification of municipal issues and events on this site.
Council values your interest in the Sun Peaks community and welcomes your com-ments on issues as they arise.
Advisory Bodies
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by Kim [email protected]
There’s been over $500 million of real estate de-velopment in Sun Peaks since 1992. Between Feb-ruary and March, 2012,
another six million dollars was added with the land-mark sale of two high profile properties on the mountain. That’s good news for Sun Peaks, but not all resorts in B.C.’s Interior are enjoying
the same upswing.“When you look around
the other resorts in the province, mainly in the In-terior at Silver Star or Big White, my understanding is they haven’t had a sale of
that magnitude in the recent past,” says Peter Nixon who manages real estate develop-ment for Sun Peaks Resort Corporation (SPRC).
Lark Frolek-Dale, owner-broker at Re/Max Alp-ine Resort Realty recently closed the second largest real estate deal in Sun Peaks’ his-tory with the sale of a $2.5 million dollar home. She be-lieves confidence in the rec-reational real estate market is on the rebound.
“The recreational market’s the first one to be affected and the last to recover, so these significant sales mean that the consumer is con-fident again and hopefully it will stimulate additional sales,” she says.
Although the most re-cent sales have been both high profile and high priced properties, other listings are selling too.
“It seems right now the high end and lower priced stuff seems to be moving,” says Nixon who notes that homes priced from $500,000 to $1 million aren’t moving as quickly.
Past investors in Sun Peaks real estate have mainly come from south of the border. With the U.S. economy slowly recovering, SPRC sees an opportunity to gain greater U.S. exposure, and Frolek-Dale anticipates future sales to the grow-ing market of new visitors discovering Sun Peaks this season.
“It’s been years since (we’ve seen) an influx of new visitors at the resort, but this past year it’s been all new visitors predomin-antly from B.C. and Alberta and I’m starting to see that Washington visitor again. That tells me that in six to 12 months a lot of those first time visitors will be buyers,” she says.
With mortgage rates hov-ering around three per cent and a variety of inventory available, buyers are striking while the iron’s hot. Nixon believes Sun Peaks’ munici-pal status also makes it an attractive choice.
“Everybody can say they’re a four season resort, but we’re actually a municipal-
ity and we have a mayor, a council, we have opportun-ities for growth that other resorts don’t have,” says Nix-on. “I think the fact that we have a school is something a lot of people are looking at, especially the young families that want to relocate here. It’s always been a challenge to get them to live at the mountain (if ) they’ve got to bus the kids to Heffley for school, so I think that’s a big plus as well.”
Even with a real estate market on the mend, there’s still plenty of room for fu-ture development in the re-sort. While SPRC has sold over 50 per cent of its avail-able property for develop-ment, future development is on hold until they’ve cleared the current inventory.
“Our direction right now is to try to sell what we’ve already got,” says Nixon. “If you look at us, compared to other resorts, we’re in very good shape, we don’t have a lot of inventory and we want to make sure we’re well sold on that stuff before we look to do new projects.”
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New protection for sled dogs in B.C.The sled dog industry, veterinarians, B.C. SPCA and the Province have created Canada’s first Sled Dog Code of Practice, establishing sled dog standards of care for sled dogs in British Columbia.Taryn Rixon, owner of Mountain Man Dog Sled Adventures in Sun Peaks provided input into the new guidelines.“We helped out and we were able to see a rough draft along the way,” she says. “We were pleased with everything and feel like it will be an acceptable guideline that most operators or sled dog owners should be able to follow.”The new regulations will protect sled dogs in B.C. under the Province’s Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, and establishes legal requirements for their containment, health and working conditions. Allowing time for sled dog operators to transition to the new guidelines, the standards will come into effect by Oct. 1, 2012.British Columbia has amended the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, giving B.C. the toughest animal cruelty penalties in Canada. Changes under the Land Act were also implemented to ensure sled dog companies with Crown land tenures are inspected annually by the B.C. SPCA or a veterinarian.
Commit to take action for the EarthEarth Hour is coming up on March 31, and the Delta Sun Peaks Resort is taking notice. Local artists will play live acoustic music during a special candlelit dinner, featuring Farm to Fork sustainable menu items. “Community engagement is an important part of Delta Greens,” explains David Bird, senior vice president of operations for Delta Hotels and resorts. “We’re excited to provide these unique energy-saving services in addition to joining millions of people around the world in turning off lights.”Delta Sun Peaks is one of Delta’s 43 properties across Canada that will be turning off lights in support of Earth Hour. Just in time for Earth Day 2012 on April 22, Earth Day Canada is imploring Canadians to Take it Up for Earth Day by taking on new actions that are healthy for the environment and for themselves. The campaign offers tips and resources to help people make better decisions about their environmental footprint including what they eat and drink, how they move and the products they use.The Take it Up campaign tracks individual and group commitments showing that healthier alternatives, even in the short-term, can lead to lifelong thinking about environmental impact. The campaign is the brainchild of Earth Day Canada, a national charity that provides Canadians with practical advice and tools to support a healthier environment. Participants can register their commitments in March and April and can commit to one to four weeks of action.
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Home show pros offer advice to homeownersTwenty-five hundred consumers visited Kamloops’ sixth annual House and Home Show in March. The event, hosted by the Canadian Home Builders’ Association, Central Interior focused on home building and renovating using energy efficient and green building initiatives. One of the show’s most successful elements was “The Pro Knows” an opportunity for the public to consult one-on-one with builders, renovators, contractors and suppliers.“’The Pro Knows’ really provided a unique forum for people to get some sound advice in a professional setting,” says Darcy Franklin of Meranti Developments. “Hopefully the public found the event as beneficial as we did.”Close to 60 exhibitors showcased their products at the annual show.
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by Alex HandyIt’s a Thursday mor-ning in Grenoble, 1968. The atmosphere is tense as Nancy Greene shapes up for her final run down the Chamrousse slopes. Firmly clamped into her super-straight Rossignol skis, Nancy charges to Olym-pic gold by an enor-mous margin of 2.64 seconds.
Skiing has morphed into a very different animal between the 1960s and today, with transformation in al-most every area of the sport from fashion, to equipment, to types of competition.
In place of limb hug-ging all-in-one’s skiers today are more often found in brightly col-oured baggy ensem-bles complete with the latest high tech design features. Mur-ray Merkley toques have been replaced by helmets, and skis now come in all shapes and sizes from the di-minutive snowblades to fat powder skis.
Where and how
people go skiing has also been revolution-ized, and perhaps the biggest develop-ment is the rise of terrain parks. Boxes, rails, halfpipes and jumps bigger than your house give skiers a lot more to do than just make turns. This change up has brought new skiers and rid-ers to the industry, as well as new gear com-panies, sponsors and viewers. It’s pretty safe to say the freestyle in-dustry is now almost as lucrative for energy drink companies as for traditional ski manu-facturers.
These changes are as obvious in Sun Peaks as anywhere else. My own background is in ski instructing and I’ve been lucky enough to be one of this year’s coaches on the first ever freestyle program for local kids. The in-terest in this program has been huge with over 40 kids signing up for the 10 week program. This comes off the back of recent local success with
Emma Whitman competing on the Dew Tour and Kieran Nikula currently win-ning Newschoolers.com “Best Skier on the Internet” compe-tition. These athletes should be celebrated and their expertise should be made avail-able to the other local kids who look up to them.
Now of course it’s important to recog-nize that freestyle
skiing introduces new hazards to what’s al-ready a dangerous sport. Yet it’s for this very reason that em-bracing freeskiing and establishing a freestyle club supported by trained coaches and locals is so important. Ultimately kids are going to try this stuff whether it’s regulated or not. Better to edu-cate them on the dan-gers and teach them core skills rather than
let the trial and error approach prevail.
It’s pretty clear that skiing is more diverse than ever before and can be enjoyable to people in many differ-ent ways. The result is more rounded skiers who, on powder days, might be off hiking Gil’s but when the sun is out and the snow is marginal, can be found lapping the park.
That’s a good thing for skiing and for Sun Peaks.
Many more people will be attracted to the sport from a whole host of backgrounds. No longer do you need to be living on a ski hill to enjoy ski-ing. Take a look at J.P. Auclair’s street seg-ment from the film All I Can and you’ll understand.
Hopefully Sun Peaks will continue to get behind these new areas of skiing rather than hark back to the days when the slopes were filled with skiers wearing neon bright onesies whilst making “nice” turns.
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With the increased interest in Nordic skiing at Sun Peaks, a meeting was recently held to discuss the formation of a cross-country ski club.“It was an introductory meeting to see if people were interested in a Nordic Club at Sun Peaks,” explains Phil Youwe, coordinator of the recent Holy Cow Loppet race. “We had 45 people show up, so that was really encouraging.”The organizing group has made an application to be recognized by Cross Country B.C., but in the meantime, organizers will go ahead with forming a local club, and invite all interested to attend the next meeting at Bento’s on Sunday, April 1 at 3:30 p.m. “Something we’re looking at is trying to get some coaching clinics for parents and adults in the community who’d like to be involved, providing a club structure for a weekend program for kids, which is nice for any of the kids in the Nancy Greene racing program; it’s nice cross-training for them,” explains local Nordic skier Jillian Schmalz.“We’re looking for something that can have a variety of different activities in the community,” she continues. “We’d have a kids program and general social club programs for families and anyone who’d like to be involved in midnight skis, races, picnics at McGillivray Lake cabin, that sort of thing.”
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April 1: The First Annual Bluebird Banked Slalom A brand-new Sun Peaks tradition hits the alpine this April Fool’s Day! Pre-register today at Guest Services. This race is limited to 100 entrants, $35 race fee.
April 8: Easter Egg Bonanza Join the Easter Bunny on the slopes of OSV for an Easter Egg Hunt, Sun Peaks style.
April 8: Dummy Downhill An annual spectator favourite—what gets dragged up, must come hurling down… themed dummies take to the air before imploding on impact! Bonus points awarded for ‘crash factor.’
April 9: Final Day of Winter Lift Operations This is your last chance to get that sweet goggle tan while enjoying spring skiing at its finest.
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Even without a Velocity Challenge speed skiing event this year, thrill seekers will have a chance to giver at the inaugural Sun Peaks Resort Bluebird Banked Slalom on Sunday, April 1.
Oronge Boardshop and Sun Peaks Resort (SPRC) have been discussing establishing a local tradition of banked slalom racing on home turf for a few years, and 2012 is the year to get it going.
“We’re going to build a banked slalom course off the Crystal Chair,” explains Devin Knopf, events co-ordinator for SPRC. “We wanted it to be in the spring, be warm, and have a real fes-tival atmosphere.”
And, a banked slalom does
inspire excitement from a broad range of skiers and rid-ers.
“All of the events that we always put on . . . are all really heavily freestyle oriented and this opens up a whole dif-ferent type of rider for the banked slalom,” says Kent “Koach” Thiessen, co-owner of Oronge Boardshop and vice president of the Bluebird Day Fund. “The (skiers who don’t ride the park) basic-ally don’t really have an event besides the Velocity, and it’s a bummer that the Velocity didn’t get to run this year. Definitely, that excitement is rolled right into the banked slalom.”
The course will begin at the top of Blue Line run, and flow into Crystal lift line, giving Crystal Chair riders a
prime spectator’s seat to the event.
Seth Worthen, slopes man-ager for the resort, explains that building the course in the alpine, rather than lower on the mountain makes sense for a spring event.
“Consistency up in the bowl is always quite good in the springtime and we have lots of (snow),” says Worthen. “Anywhere we can use the natural terrain we will, and a large section of (the course) will be cat built.”
This will be the first of what event organizers hope will be a long history of banked slal-oms at Sun Peaks.
The race’s after-party will be sponsored by Molson Can-adian, and will be held on the
patio at Bottom’s Bar and Grill.
“The fun factor on this event’s just going to be through the roof,” says Thiessen. “There’s a whole bunch of chirping going on now too, which is deadly, about who’s going to be faster than who, so it’s going to be exciting for sure.”
Registration for the event is open until Saturday, March 31, but is limited to 100 com-petitors.
Waiver signing and bib pick-up will occur in the Vil-lage Day Lodge from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 31. En-trants must be 19-years or older to compete.
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Adaptive program enjoyed strong seasonThe team at Adaptive Sports Sun Peaks (ASSP) ended the season on a high note. With record numbers of students with a disability on the slopes this season, many plan to return next winter for another 10 week lesson program. Twenty-five new instructors were trained at the recent ASSP-hosted Canadian Association Disabled Skiing (CADS) Level 1 instructor course—a record number for the resort. The ASSP encourages local students with a disability to register for next season’s program promptly as spaces are limited. This year also introduced Sno-Limos to the slopes. Grandmas skied with grandkids, families skied together, and people who otherwise couldn’t ride the mountain got to find out just what’s “up there.” The Sno-Limo team also took Fondue Night diners back down the hill whilst enjoying the stars and night sky. Proceeds from limo rentals benefit the ASSP.
Dirty Feet fun run forty-five competitors strongForty-five competitors came out for the March 4 North Face Dirty Feet Snowshoe Fun Run at Sun Peaks. Women swept the competition with Yvonne Timewell of Kamloops finishing first overall in 1:06:50 in the 10 kilometre event, beating out Kamloops’ David Takahashi, winner of the men’s 10 km race, who finished in 1:07:30. Elise Desjardine of Kamloops placed first in the 5 km women’s race and Todd Downie of Kimberly, B.C. was first in the men’s 5 km.Brad Maki placed second and David Graham third in the men’s 10 km event, while Jennifer Elfenbein finished second and Nancy Hudson third in the women’s 10 km race. Rob Wiebe was second and Roberto Klarich third in the men’s 5 km race; Deanna Stout finished second and Daniella Doebler third in the Women’s 5 km event.
Racing’s a funny thing; it changes everything. You can a ski run a thousand times, but the moment you decide to race, nothing’s the same. You get anxious before the start, the adrenalin starts flowing, your body tightens up, your mind starts focusing, the nerves show up, every-thing seems enhanced, and then boom, you shoot out of the gate or off the line and all that disappears and is re-placed with the desire to go as fast as possible and win. It’s a beautiful thing. It’s a high that’s hard to replace.
Even as a ski coach, I still get nervous when one of my racers leaves the gate. I ask myself, “Did I do everything I could to prepare my racer for this moment?” The highs of winning are incredibly high and that’s why we do it, but the lows are comparably low,
and in some cases the lows can be devastating. For Nick Zoricic, it was deadly.
I had the pleasuring of knowing Nick for a long time and I coached him for a year when he was trying to make it back onto the Canadian World Cup Alpine Ski Team in 2006. We spent the sum-mer training in Chile and the winter chasing Europa Cup points around Europe. I can tell you, Nick was one of those guys that loved life, he loved to ski and even more so, he loved to compete.
When it seemed that his alpine ski racing career was over, Nick didn’t quit. He moved over to the ski cross side of things and had almost instant success. His tall lanky body was built for absorbing terrain and his lifetime of training to go fast on skis was a perfect fit.
Nick was on the podium a few times but was still search-ing for that ultimate high, winning on the World Cup circuit, and being the best. I can honestly say that Nick was working as hard as he could and risking everything because that was who he was. It’s pretty cliché to say that
Nick died doing what he loved, but that’s exactly what he did. He was pulling out to pass and going for the win.
I’m very sad that he’s gone and that we’ll never get to share stories of the crazy times we had, I’m even sad-der for his family that has to go on living without him. I know his father Bebe very well—he’s a ski coach himself, who’s been a rock through this whole ordeal. My heart goes out to Nick’s family, his friends, and all of his teammates past and present who’ve all lost a great son, a brother, a friend, a teammate and person. Nick, I know why you did what you did and took the risks that you took. You were a competitor, and the thrill of the race was the ultimate high. Some will never understand this but a lot of us do. RIP Zoro.
In loving memory of Nick Zoricic
France takes home Wacky World CupThe fourth Wacky World Cup returned to Sun Peaks in February with 100 racers, in 10 teams, competing for the title of “world champion.” Each team was assigned a nation to champion. Team France’s Claire Madill, Jackson Phillips, Halle Smith, Markus Rauch, Sarah Baughan, Felicie Langevin, Brent Elias, Tyson Ross, Jocelyn Orr and Aiden Kramer claimed the world champion title, while Team Australia placed second and Switzerland third. Honourable mention was awarded to Team USA for costumes, and the best spirit honourable mention was tied between Austria and Sweden.The Wacky World Cup is run by the parents of the Sun Peaks Alpine Club.
Holy Cow Loppet successAfter a seven year absence the Holy Cow Loppet returned to Sun Peaks with than 40 Nordic skiers coming out for the event.“It was a great day,” says race coordinator, Phil Youwe. “We were very happy with the turnout.”The 24 kilometre race was open to classic and skate skiers. Elizabeth McKenzie-Case and Kevin Hunt placed first in the 14 to 17 age group. Chera Rasmussen and Greg Johnson won the 18 to 45 year old categories and Doris Brakop and Bruce Mitchell won their respective over 45 categories.“Everyone we talked to seemed to be really happy with the experience,” says Youwe. “We’ll hold more races next year and our plan is to run a full Loppet (in January) with all the categories and 30 kms. We’ll run the Holy Cow around the same time (as this year).”
SPORTS
John CrichtonCOACH’S CORNER
John has been involved in ski racing for 31 years and coaching for 23.
He is currently the Program Director for the Sun Peaks Alpine Club and the Manager of the Nancy Greene
International Training Center.
IN BRIEF
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Beware the Ides of MarchThe “Ides of March” usually brings to mind Julius Caesar’s unlucky choice to ignore warnings that ultimately lead to his death on March 15, in Roman times, but tradition-ally, the term “ides” simply meant the 15th day of the month.
Unlike Caesar, backcountry skiers should heed the ides, since March (and spring, generally) can be a time of large avalanches, as successive storm loads build on deeply buried layers, which is the current situation. Weak layers of surface hoar and facets de-veloped in early February are now buried one to two meters deep. Adding to the complex-ity of the current snowpack are layers of sun crust, also
common during the warmer months of spring.
The Canadian Avalanche Centre Public Avalanche Bulletin described the current conditions well.
“Recent avalanche ac-tivity builds on what’s
been a very active period of avalanche activity since the beginning of March. On (March 11) a fatal avalanche incident south of Revelstoke occurred. Other human-triggered avalanches were re-ported up to size two and nat-ural avalanches were reported up to size three on a variety of aspects and elevations.”
It’s not just skiers that need to take caution; a natural ava-lanche recently buried two transport trucks in Rogers Pass.
With conditions as they are, due diligence and caution should be applied. A good
strategy is to manage conse-quence rather than try to “out guess” the snowpack. Choose terrain that has little chance to do harm, such as broken steeps, avoiding large open planar slopes and terrain traps such as creek draws. And, while caution helps avoid both injuries and death, the situation isn’t critical every-where in the Monashees. The stability varies from area to area according to weather pat-terns. Choose terrain wisely and take time to investigate the snowpack in the specific area you are skiing for persis-tent February weak layers.
Aaron CoopermanMONASHEE
BACKCOUNTRY SKI REPORT
Aaron is a qualified ACMG Ski Guide, CAA Professional & Owner of
Sol Mountain Touring
www.solmountain.com
Check these advisories before heading into the mountains: avalanche.ca/cac/bulletins, acmg.ca/mcr and
powdercloud.com/public/report
For more on upcoming Dirty Feet races visit: www.dirtyfeet.ca
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