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Vol. 10 Issue 5—2012 • April 20 to May 18 • SPIN NEWSMAGAZINE • www.SunPeaksNews.com • 250.578.0276
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TOURISM • GET OUT THERE
by Adam [email protected]
As the snow slowly melts after a great winter season and the greens of summer emerge from hiberna-tion a buzz is grow-ing around Sun Peaks Resort as to what lays ahead for the 2012 summer season.
As with any ski area or ski resort town that offers year round hap-penings, getting tour-ists to ski resorts during the summer has always been a challenge. That challenge has just be-come a much smaller hurdle due to summer event funding provided by the provincial gov-ernment through the Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality (SPMRM).
When the munici-pality was formed sev-eral years ago one of its first steps was to source funding to drive more summer, or off-season, traffic to Sun Peaks. The summer ahead looks like a home
run. With 35 events planned between June 30 and Sept. 29, Sun Peaks will see a 100 per cent increase in sum-mer events this year for tourists and locals alike.
With a $300,000 boost from SPMRM, Tourism Sun Peaks (TSP) has now em-barked on a mission to make Canada’s Alpine Village a destination
for summer travellers. New to the event lineup this summer are several large outdoor concerts, a Beer and Scotch festi-val dubbed HopScotch, a Women’s Wellness Weekend and a full blown Oktoberfest just to name a few. Re-cently announced was a free outdoor concert by Hollywood superstar Kevin Costner and his
band Modern West to be held July 7. Rumour has it that guests can pay extra to meet the silver screen legend in person.
TSP president Chris-topher Nicolson views the many new events this summer as a way to “woo” n e w g u e s t s and first
time locals to the resort. “Events offer a spe-
cific reason to come to Sun Peaks (during the summer months). Most people that visit in summer have an excep-tional experience and return,” said Nicolson. “The scented air, the vi-brant colours, an invig-orating village and ac-tivity draw people back but we needed to find a way to entice guests for their initial visit.”
Whether you’re into hiking, running, biking, golf, wine and food, quilting, classic cars, acres of alpine flower blossoms, or checking out the local farmers’ market vendors, Sun Peaks has expanded its repertoire of events and attractions in efforts to cater to a wide audi-ence in the summer and off season months. For Sun Peaks Mayor Al Raine focussing on the summer season was
one of the first orders of business when the municipality was incor-porated.
“In council’s opinion, improving the summer business climate was a critical issue so the municipal focus is cer-tainly on the summer, or the off season, and whatever we can do to increase business dur-ing those periods,” said Raine.
“It’s going to be a few years to get us where we want to be, but our goal
is that you can arrive at Sun Peaks for any pe-riod between mid June to late September and find a whole myriad of interesting and enter-taining functions and events.”
With funding in place and a jam packed event schedule booked for the 2012 summer season it appears that Sun Peaks has found the recipe for summer success to follow their 50th Anniversary win-ter season.
Let the summer party begin
Survey says, 50 was a
great yearLooking back at the 50th anniversary ski season at Sun Peaks, there were enor-mous powder days, lots of sunshine, great results from some local racers and freerid-ers, a boom in the cross-country arena, successful new and returning events and some pretty big announcements from the municipality. The golden year shone pretty bright.
For both residents and guests, there were lots of things to smile about, but at the end of the day, many people polled came back to the white stuff as the high-light of their season.
Between mid-January and mid-March there was considerably greater snowfall than during the same period of 2011, and the spans between significant snowfall dumps were shorter. This made the resort an exciting place to be, occupancy in the hotels went up and the weekends were packed with locals from Kamloops and other areas.
“Not going to lie, the end of the season was good,” said Jarrad Clay about some of the highlights of his season.
Loads of powder, great friends and some famous Sun Peaks “bluebird days” made a contagious atmosphere were peo-ple wanted to be. Here’s looking ahead to next year, and the next 50, for more great snow and great growth for this mountain resort municipality. Until then, grab the golf clubs, and get the bike ready for a great mountaintop summer.
Call 250-578-5380 or visitwww.sunpeaksresort.com/tourism
Tourism Sun PeaksCommunity Update: May
The TSP Events Team has been busy preparing for a record breaking line-up of summer events, festivals and camps—over 30 in total! Saturday, July 7 brings one of Hollywood’s biggest stars to the resort, as Kevin Costner and Modern West play a free outdoor concert to kickoff the summer.
The TSP Director of Sales, along with hoteliers, attended Mountain Travel Symposium in April. It’s the world’s largest trade show dedicated to ski and winter mountain vacations. During 35 scheduled appointments with current and new tour operators, the team promoted Sun Peaks and generated opportunities for 2012–13.
The sales team is growing with the addition a second In-Market Regional Sales Representative. Courtnay Sedgwick, a previous TSP Sales Coordinator, will hold a role similar to TSP’s other In-Market Regional Sales Representative, Louise Bermudez, who is based in the Lower Mainland. Together they are responsible to deliver qualifi ed leads from key regional markets in BC, Washington and Alberta to business members.
This past winter Central Reservations increased its number of accommodation bookings by 6%. But the value of total sales dropped by 7% due to shorter stays and lower rates.
Regional summer advertising will hit the geo-markets of Kamloops, Shuswap, Okanagan Valley, Cariboo, Prince George, and Fraser Valley starting in May. The advertising message will focus on the breadth and diversity of events, festivals, and camps taking place this summer.
TSP is excited to announce that Brandi Shier will be joining the marketing team in May as the Media & Marketing Coordinator. This role is responsible for traditional media relations together with an increased focus on social media engagement and strategy. Brandi brings a background of resort marketing, communications and journalism experience to this position.
Please remember, May through June the Adventure Centre is located at the Tourism Sun Peaks offi ce from 9:00am to 4:30pm daily and will re-open at the Village Day Lodge location on Saturday, June 23.
What was the highlight of your skiing and/or boarding season
at Sun Peaks Resort?
yOU SAY
Bryce HumphreysSydney, Australia
“Definitely the big pow days we got. . . . March (was) amazing in
terms of snow.”
Jarrad James ClaySydney, Australia
“Thirty centimetre day in the middle of January, definitely.”
Jaimie Larson Kamloops, British Columbia
“Pretty much just the people I met up here, I got to meet some pretty
awesome friends.”
For a full events listings visit: sunpeaksresort.com
FeSTIvaL SeaSOn aHeaD: Kevin Costner and Modern West are one of the many exciting summer draws to Sun Peaks. Thirty-five events are planned for the season.
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“Cuts like a knife” — Bryan Adams.
Except for Quebec university students, Canadians are being remarkably quiescent about the recent fed-eral budget. It just may be possible that the PM’s majority govern-ment adequately rep-resents the wishes of the electorate. It’s a rare achievement given the usual rough and tumble of parliamentary de-mocracy.
The (supposedly) big news is that the fed-eral government is try-ing to bring the deficit, and thereby the fed-eral debt, under con-trol. Nothing could be further from the truth. The year to year short-fall is set to decline but the debt is inexorably growing like a malig-nancy. For a country that’s supposedly one of the world’s best in regard to disciplined spending, this is a dis-grace. Successive gov-ernments, be they Lib-eral or Conservative, aren’t going to change. They’ll continue the expensive expanse of intrusive bureaucracy
that will continue to be determined to micro-manage people’s lives with more and more silly rules.
The four levels of government (federal, territorial, provincial and municipal) are hooked, as is a can-cer cell, on growth for growth’s sake. When the mainstream me-dia speaks of “cuts” it’s saying that the rate of expansion may slow, but the government’s take is always increas-ing. Loan sharks should have it this good.
Sure, the Canadian Food Inspection Agen-cy, International Devel-opment Agency, Border Services Agency, the Armed Forces and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) are seeing some reductions in their size, but so what? They’re all useless and/or incompetent. My food doesn’t need an inspector. Foreign aid simply takes my hard earned dollars to waste on some ingrates. The military didn’t ex-actly win the Afghan war—where was the victory parade? Bor-
der services leaks like a sieve and the CBC, for all its highbrow programming, depends upon a subsidy instead of listenership.
Provincially, the teachers want more money for their illit-erate and innumerate students who, in Grade 12, read, write and fig-ure at a rate common to Grade 6 students of my generation.
Translink bureaucrats feel they deserve a fat bonus for running a bus company; how hard can that be?
In Kamloops, we’re supposed to feel grate-ful that the taxes are only going up two per cent instead of six per cent. Why are they go-ing up at all? You don’t suppose that it’s for the benefit of the people
working there, since $100,000 salaries are becoming the norm rather than the excep-tion.
I have no doubt that civil servants are de-cent people and all, but one could remove half of the jobs and no one would really notice. Fisheries and Oceans botched both seacoasts; Indian Af-fairs is a chronic disas-ter; the Privacy Com-missioner’s a waste; the Military doesn’t need F-35’s; the Ministry of the Environment’s a drain on productiv-ity; most universities teach useless non-technical courses; Inte-rior Health’s famous for lousy results; the courts still have only convicted one (count’em) Stanley Cup rioter in a year; etc., etc. ad nauseam.
While lots of morons like to hate capitalism, the inescapable fact re-mains that if you don’t like your new Walmart toaster, you can return it for a refund. Too bad we can’t ever get the same accountabil-ity from our politicians and bureaucrats.
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As a lifelong skier, the end of the ski season is, for me, both a sad time and one of renewed vi-gour with the thought of biking, golfing, fish-ing and other summer sports that lay in the months ahead. No lon-ger do the end of season blues hit me because I can’t ski in my back-yard anymore. No, it’s more from what’s been left behind by all those folks that don’t really seem to care about this place in which they live, work and play all win-ter long.
Yes, that’s right, it’s spring and all that litter that’s been discarded by those that just don’t care, or had no role models in their early lives, is about to come out of hibernation. For years I’ve written about the people behind the problem, but unfortu-
nately that’s seemed to have fallen on deaf ears as each spring is the same. I’m totally dis-gusted by the amount of litter, empty cans and bottles, cigarette butts and the multitude of full dog poop bags that have been chucked into every corner of this resort community.
Am I missing some-thing, or are young people being taught these days to just fling their trash in the bush or the snow bank and let someone else pick it
up? After all, once it’s out of your hands, who really cares anyway, right?
Guess what? I care and so do lots of other Sun Peaks workers and residents. Unfor-tunately now it’s the job of those that live and work in Sun Peaks year round to go out on our own unpaid time to clean up the bloody huge mess left by oth-ers.
Well enough yelling at litter bugs, who’ve probably already left the mountain anyway, and time to move to what we can do as a community about this scourge. While we all understand the litter on our streets or in front of our businesses was not our doing (I hope), the fact is it’s now really our responsibility to it clean up. Those areas are the
first impressions our guests or customers get of our homes, our busi-nesses and Sun Peaks as a whole, and frankly these days it’s not much of an impression.
So, as the snow melts please do your part and pick up any litter you see around your home, or anywhere else, and put it where it be-longs—in the garbage. If we all chip in just a little as the snow re-cedes then this com-munity can return to the natural beauty it should enjoy all year. Let’s all be part of the solution and not part of the problem and please mark Wednesday, May 16 on your calendar, as this is when the whole community comes out for the 14th annual Sun Peaks Trash Bash; the day we take back our town.
under the cover of snow
trimming the federal fat
Adam EarlePUBLISHER’S NOTE
Gerald AllgaierPOLITICAL
POINT OF VIEW
OPINIONS • WE SAY | YOU SAY
yOu SAYRe: Stay focused, be positiveI moved (to Sun Peaks) from the Lower Mainland last June. The city had become a noisy, polluted, over-crowded sprawl. People didn’t connect. It was always sit in traffic to go somewhere to sit in line behind people to get something. Sun Peaks was our goal and it took some time and some planning and some sacrifice but our lives are better for being here. We’ve made some terrific new friends. We’re contributing within our new community although we still have to pinch ourselves, on occasion, when we step out the front door. Sun Peaks is a magical place and our attitudes reflect that back to the visitors and guests we serve. It doesn’t get better than this, and I’m grateful every second of every day. Katherine Coleman, submitted online
Re: MusicWorks piano lessons Correction NoticePlease note, Catherine Adams’ phone number was published incorrectly in the Vol. 10 Issue 4 SPIN. Please phone Catherine at 250-578-8199 for more information about her MusicWorks piano lessons at Heffley Lake, or e-mail her at [email protected].
ThumBS uP SumS IT uP:
Skiers and boarders celebrate the last day of the winter season at
Sun Peaks Resort. Photo: SPIN
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WEATHER FORECASTThe Old Farmer’s Almanac 2012
weather conditions for B.C. April 20 to May 18
April 20 to 24 Sunny, then showers, cool.
April 25 to 30 Sunny.
May 1 to 8 Showers, cool.
May 9 to 15 Scattered showers, warm.
May 16 to 18 Sunny, cool.
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Re: In loving memory of Nick ZoricicI just returned home from Nakiska (nationals, and ski testing), and finally had a chance to read John Crichton’s Coach’s Corner. I just wanted to say thanks.After all of the other articles, stories, and editorials we’ve all read in the last month, his words touched all of us quite deeply. We are all lucky to have had Nick as a friend, and I’m sad that I won’t be able to share the crazy times the two of us had also, seeing as he was one of the only people I could really share those stories with anyways (ha ha). So, thanks for that John.Rod Honey, Canada Ski Cross
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My reality or yours?“We are all captives of the picture in our head . . . our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.” — Walter Lip-mann, American writer and political columnist.
We’ve often talked about separate realities, a term Sydney Banks used to describe the differ-ence in each individual’s response to any given situation or event. There have been many studies to support the idea that we all really do see the world through different lenses.
The clearest example of this phenomenon may be seen in witness’ accounts of an accident. There are often vastly different in-terpretations of what oc-curred. One witness may
swear the car involved was a blue Ford while another will be sure it was a gray Chevy. One driver may be described by some as 5’8’’, heavy set, mid 20s, by others as 5’11’’, muscular, mid 30s.
Another amusing ex-ample is a family’s re-sponse after watching a television show together. Depending on their line of work, ages, hobbies, etc. the viewers will no-tice different things. A teenage boy will com-ment on the racy sports car while grandma may not even notice the car. Dad might pick up on the clever advertising or the dynamic between boss and employee while mom may notice people’s body language and how they communicated.
Same movie, different lenses.
As we notice these subtle differences in how we each view events, a door is opened to greater acceptance and under-standing of another’s point of view, and being “right” takes on a whole new meaning. Maybe there are many sides to every question. Perhaps there’s something to be learned by another’s point of view, something worth considering.
That’s not to say we must bow to every opin-ion or perspective. We each have personal val-ues and codes of conduct based on our life expe-rience and our innate wisdom. We all have is-sues about which we feel strongly. What under-
standing about separate realities does, however, is allow us to see the other persons perspective as simply that—another perspective. It deperson-alizes the situation.
We’re then able to move from an adversarial position of reactivity and “need to be right” to one
of deeper innate wisdom and common sense.
For example, when we observe what we believe to be injustices or an abuse of power it’s far more effective to address it from a position of re-solve and calm than from a position of anger and judgment. Remember, we’re smarter when we’re calm.
There’s a profound freedom that comes with seeing that we are all creating our own reality moment to moment. It’s testament to the amazing power of thought and to the abundant choices available to us at any giv-en time. “My reality or yours,” both attempts to interpret the world, each one our own movie. Let’s make it a good one.
HEALTH • MIND & BODY
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.
B.C. women aged 19 to 21 eligible for one-time HPV vaccine
The Ministry of Health has terminated its gen-eric drug pricing agree-ment with the B.C. Phar-macy Association and the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores, in order to offer consum-ers lower priced generic drugs.
“Our 2010 agreement on generic drugs prom-ised significant savings for B.C. taxpayers and the health care system,” says Michael de Jong, B.C.’s health minister. “Much of those savings did not ma-terialize and at this time we don’t have confidence we’ll see the savings. We need those savings now, more than ever.”
Under the current plan generic drugs cost 40 per cent of the brand name price. New legisla-tion to be introduced at the spring sitting of the legislature proposes drop-ping generic drug costs to 25 per cent of the brand
name cost by April 1, 2013.
The savings consumers will realize from this new legislation are not insig-nificant. For example, a 30-day prescription for a brand name drug may cost $55, excluding phar-macy dispensing fees. The current generic version costs 40 per cent, or ap-proximately $22. Under the proposed new plan, the Province aims to low-er that generic cost fur-ther to roughly $14, or 25 per cent of the brand cost.
B.C. is one of the few provinces to provide an extensive drug coverage program, PharmaCare, where every British Col-umbian is eligible for as-sistance with prescription costs. B.C. is often held up as a model for the rest of Canada in terms of pharmaceutical policy and health outcomes, accord-ing to the Canadian Cen-tre for Policy Alternatives.
Cheaper drugs benefit patients and system
A one-time human papil-lomavirus vaccine (HPV) program is being offered to women in British Columbia who were born in 1991, 1992 and 1993 to protect them from cervical cancer.
“We’ve been offering the school-based HPV vaccina-tion program since 2008, which has helped to protect thousands of British Col-umbian girls from cervical
cancer,” explains Dr. Perry Kendall, provincial health officer. “I’m pleased that with this program we can expand that to ensure that all B.C. women aged 21 and under will have had an opportunity to protect themselves.”
HPV infections are the cause of almost all cases of cervical cancer. It’s estimated the vaccine can prevent up to 70 per cent of these can-
cers, as well as a number of pre-cancerous changes to the cervix that require treatment.
It’s hoped that the vaccine will be available at the Sun Peaks Health Clinic, and a determination should be made by the end of April. However, HPV vaccine is available from pharmacists, physicians, sexual health and youth clinics, post secondary institution student health
services and public health units.
B.C. began offering the HPV vaccine to grade six and nine girls in 2008. Girls born in 1994 and later have been offered the vaccine in the school based program. Until now, those born in pre-vious years have been ineli-gible for the publicly funded vaccine. After studying the data on the vaccine and its
cost-effectiveness, the B.C. Communicable Disease Policy Advisory Committee recommended that B.C. of-fer a one-time program for young women.
“The HPV vaccine is a safe and highly effective vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer,” said Dr. Monika Naus, medi-cal director
of immunization programs, BC Centre for Disease Control. “We recommended this one-time program so that we could protect more young women from cancer and provide coverage for those who missed the school program.”
IN BRIEF
For more information visit: www.immunizebc.ca or www.healthlinkbc.ca
Summer schedule for Sun Peaks health clinicWith the change of seasons comes change of schedules. The Sun Peaks Health Clinic will now be open Mondays and Thursdays from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. The women’s health clinic will continue on a monthly basis on the last Monday of each month with appointments being scheduled between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.Patients are advised to always check the website to ensure a physician is available prior to visiting the clinic. Additionally, women wanting to make an appointment for the women’s clinic should phone during operational hours on Monday or Thursday to schedule. The Health Society enjoyed a positive response for their services this winter, and will maintain the summer schedule through October. They will return to their winter schedule in November.
Reach the Health Clinic at: sunpeakshealth.com or
250-578-2014
by Kirsten [email protected]
In attempts to stave off the development of skin cancer later in life, the B.C. govern-ment has banned commercial tanning bed use by persons under the age of 18. Nova Scotia was the first province in Canada to adopt a similar regulation, in May 2011.
“After a great deal of con-sideration of clinical evi-dence, commissioning a re-port to provide options and listening to what local gov-ernments had to say at the Union of B.C. Municipalities Convention last year, govern-ment has decided to restrict access to tanning beds for young people under the age of 18,” explained Michael de Jong, minister of health.
The government cites stud-ies that show tanning before the age of 35 increases risk of melanoma by 75 per cent. However, Bill Sanesh, owner of Kamloops swimwear store and tanning salon Bikini Bill’s, finds fault with those statistics.
“In fact, the data in the
report didn’t actually study indoor tanning salons, but rather sunbed usage,” states Sanesh. “Half of the subjects making up the World Health Organization’s 75 per cent figure were home tanning bed users or used medical sunbeds in dermatology of-fices.”
Different user groups fall into different risk groups, and lumping them all to-gether can be misleading.
“The indoor tanning salons had a statistically insignifi-cant six per cent increase in risk. The home tanning units had a 40 per cent increase in
risk. The medical photother-apy sessions had a 96 per cent increase in risk,” says Sanesh. “It was the total of these fig-ures that resulted in the 75 per cent figure.”
The government offers no regulation for the use of home tanning units or pho-totherapy to mitigate in-creasing melanoma rates. For Sanesh, this is problematic.
“This legislation will ban all under 18’s, including those using UV for the treatment of acne, pso-riasis, eczema and depression, from using tan-
ning salons that showed the lowest melanoma risk and will move them to unregu-lated home units and medical phototherapy which showed the highest increase in mela-noma incidence,” he says.
The proposed regulation under the Public Health Act will ban the use of commer-cial indoor tanning beds by youth under the age of 18, unless they have a medical prescription. It is anticipated to take effect fall 2012.
Teen tanning taboo
The report is available at: http://bit.ly/HvaXya
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The students are focusing on spring and approaching summer holidays, but the Sun Peaks Education Soci-ety (SPES) is planning for the third year of the Dis-covery Centre for Balanced Education.
The community formed distributed learning centre, which resembles a regular school in most ways, had grown from 17 students enroled in its first year, to approximately 49 students
registered, and 11 expressing interest, for its third year.
“The numbers show that the need is here,” says Barb Kupferschmidt Linder, president of the SPES. “The forecast of 60 is for kids who are already residents of the community, not incoming. Sixty’s not out of the ques-tion, and that’s without pro-moting (the centre). If we did that, the numbers would go even higher.”
Those growing numbers
pose a financial challenge for the society and community, but the board affirms that schooling on the mountain will have a long and success-ful future.
The SPES, in partnership with the Sun Peaks Muni-cipality, have been lobby-ing government to have the Discovery Centre adopted as a public school to ease the local fundraising burden of covering operating costs.
“The proposal is for full
funding and teaching sup-port for our kindergarten to Grade 6 program, and a continued @KOOL model for the Grades 7 to 12,” ex-plains Maria Cannon, direc-tor with the SPES.
However, even if pub-lic status isn’t granted, the learning centre will continue to operate and be managed by the SPES, as it’s been do-ing since 2010.
“We are fully confident,” says Cannon. “There’s such
huge support from the whole community to see this school continue because it’s been such a great success, it’s the heart and the soul of the community and it’s going to move forward. We’re mov-ing ahead, we’re going to continue to lobby for public support.”
To facilitate planning for the upcom-ing year, the SPES re-quests that all
new and returning students complete 2012-2013 appli-cation forms as soon as pos-sible. The forms are available on the DCBE website.
The society also asks resi-dents with, or knowing of, children in the community under the age of five to con-tact the SPES for their long term planning.
As North Americans we seem to struggle with parent-ing comparisons. Look at the infinite blogs, websites, chat groups and books that ex-plain to us how it should be done, whilst also giving all of us the opportunity to com-ment, wisely or otherwise, about what parenting tactics and philosophies work, what don’t and why.
A few months ago this col-umn addressed Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and how Amy Chua speaks to micro-managing children’s upbringing in favour of aca-demia so as to ensure excel-lence in the adult arena.
Now there’s a new best seller, Pamela Druckerman’s Bringing up Bébé, interest-
ingly endorsed by Chua, that champions the routine driv-en, albeit often laissez faire, parenting style of the French.
I admit, I had to read the book once I heard Drucker-man interviewed. It tells of infants who sleep through the night, toddlers who don’t negotiate through mealtimes, and children who address adults with eye contact and a polite “hello.” Sounds de-lightful, and that’s the au-thor’s punch line.
The French, Druckerman reports, can’t explain their parenting philosophy because they just do what they do. As a culture they know that chil-dren must say bonjour to fam-iliar adults, always try what’s on their plate, and endure the
pause when they cry at night. The result of these strategies, the author affirms, are cour-teous kids, explorative diners, and independent sleepers.
The consequence for parents is independent kids who aren’t taxing or embarrassing to spend time with.
Although her book doesn’t stall in the kitchen, Drucker-man’s exploration of chil-dren’s eating habits resonates with the popularity of both sneaky and flashy kid cuisine.
Annabel Karmel was a forerunner in jazzing up meals to appeal to kids, as per her bagel snakes, baked po-tato mice and sausage hedge-hogs. More recently Jessica Seinfeld’s cookbook Decep-tively Delicious, and Missy Chase Lapine’s The Sneaky Chef started me wondering if Druckerman’s French col-leagues weren’t onto some-thing by simply requesting
their children eat regular food. Seinfeld and Lapine endorse hiding vegetables and beans, and anything else that’s healthy, in the foods a child already favours rather than regularly encouraging them to try the less desired foods.
One problem with this tactic is that children who aren’t taught to try new things, won’t try new things. Another problem is that the dinner chef will be acting as a short order cook, preparing specific meals for each head at the table.
And then, amidst consid-ering all the best practices proclaimed of these authors, I received an e-mail encour-aging me to Google “hot dog
octopuses.” Google them for yourself;
it’s baffling. Are these dinner plate entertainers intended to liven up a meal, or an attempt to make the hot dog more appealing. Frankly, if your kid doesn’t like hot dogs, count that as a culinary victory, and move on.
In the end, all of the au-thors mentioned above have some diamonds in their phil-osophies. If we scoop a good idea here, and blend it with another from there, we’ll have the ingredients needed to get through not only the meals, but other facets of parenting life too. Just don’t be swayed by one size fits all solutions, or the dubious allure of hot dog octopi.
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Kirsten FlinnOBSERVATIONS OF A
TEACHER-MOMKirsten has a Bachelor of Arts from McGill, and a BEd from TRU. She started the teaching program when her daughter was six months old, and finished it while she was pregnant with her son. In lieu of teaching in a classroom, she spends most of her time being a mom.
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What are some draws of the Korean martial art taek-wondo? It develops strength, balance, and flexibility, it’s a lifelong skill that requires no external equipment, and it develops confidence and independence in its students.
Ryan Oevermann’s a second degree black belt in the martial art, and an in-structor with the Northern Taekwon-do Academy, the body under which 23 Sun
Peaks youth are learning South Korea’s national sport.
“This was something that was on the back burner of my brain, and it worked out timing-wise,” explains Oevermann. “The Delta Hotel was accommodating in making sure we had a place for training, so every-thing fell into place. The kids tried it and were enthusias-tic; the parents are very ex-cited about it.”
Each Tuesday and Thurs-day, for one hour sessions, Oevermann and 23 kids gather to work on the art and sport of taekwondo. On top of learning the skill, and the discipline, Discovery Centre students enrolled in Oevermann’s class receive credit toward their physical education curriculum. The distributed learning model that governs their school-ing allows students to apply
extracurricular classes such as music or sports to their school reporting, explains Jil-lian Schmalz, teacher at the centre.
Dan Yano’s son Kiyomi takes the classes, and despite only being in kindergarten, he enjoys the activity, while his father appreciates the eti-quette it brings.
“He loves it for sure. Five is quite young, but he really digs it,” says Dan. “He calls Ryan sir; it’s discipline.”
The group warms up, prac-tices the set of movements, or patterns, that are specific to each level, they spar, and they work on self defence techniques, all while main-taining the discipline inher-ent to the art.
When the class deals with self defence, Oevermann frames scenarios in every-day applicable situations such as encountering a bully, or be-ing approached by a stranger.
“The parents get a peace of mind that their kids are learning basic techniques about how to say, ‘Hey this is a stranger . . . or this person is trying to take me somewhere and he’s not my dad.’ These
are really important things you have to think about,” ex-plains Oevermann. “I might even say that there are more life skills involved than exer-cise (in taekwondo) but exer-cise is a key foundation that goes all the way through it.”
This session of instruction will wind down in June, to be resumed in the fall. Oever-mann is eager to see the re-turning students, as well as some new faces, in Septem-ber.
“There’s the potential for an adult’s class in September so we’ll be looking at that
and keeping track of people who want to try that out,” says Oevermann. “I recom-mend (people) come out and try a couple classes and make sure it’s something they enjoy before they register.”
Dan, for one, is keen to give taekwondo a go.
“(I’d do it) to do something that (my son) does. It’s more or less if he does it, it’s some-thing he and I can work on together,” says Dan. “There’s been lots of people asking if they can do it too, as adults.”
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T
FChristmas for vinyl fans
Iron women worth watching
For anyone who considers themselves a true music fan or vinyl collector Record Store Day is like Christ-mas, but better.
Record Store Day is an annual celebration of in-dependent music vendors and vinyl. This is the event’s fifth year, and independent records shops from all over the world are participat-ing, including Kamloops’s Spinners Sound Centre.
Carrie Colliton is one of the founding members of Record Store Day. For her, the day is about the culture of these small businesses and the role they play in their communities.
“We’re trying to draw attention to, and celebrate, the independently owned local record stores and their place in the community, year-round,” she explains.
Record Store Day was started by a group of rec-ord store owners, inspired by Free Comic Book Day’s celebration of comic book stores and their custom-ers. From there it became an international holiday of sorts, with music fans
lining up outside stores for the opportunity to purchase limited releases, singles and entire albums created espe-cially for Record Store Day.
This year fans will find special releases by The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Civil Wars, Thievery Corporation, Paul McCartney, David Bowie and more. Singer/song-writer Feist also teamed up with metal band Mastadon for a special release featur-ing each band covering the other’s material.
Sure, you may have cata-logues from your favourite artists on your iPod, but purchasing a record and listening to it on a turn-table is a much more in-timate experience. It seems more people are realizing this—according to Nielsen SoundScan vinyl LP sales increased by 36 per cent last year. Whether it’s the romanticism of placing a record on a turntable and listening to the crackles and pops as it plays, or the more personable appearance of a record sleeve, having a rec-ord collection is appealing to more and more people.
Colliton reached out to fans on Facebook to in-quire into the phenom-enon. Replies from Record Store Day Facebook fans stated that people prefer the sound and style of vinyl.
“A lot of them were ada-mant that the sound is just better on vinyl . . . others like the fact that they have this artefact that they could hold on to, the artwork, the lyrics, everything—they just feel a closer connection to it,” she says. “Others like
the actual process of put-ting vinyl on the turntable and concentrating on the listening experience, which is different than listening to music in a digital form, there’s no question.”
A quote from Damon Albarn (Blur, The Gorillaz) on the Record Store Day website explains his posi-tive outlook for local music shops:
“I think independent re-cord shops will outlive the music industry as we know it because, long-term, their value to people is far great-er, because even in our era of file-sharing and blogs, you can’t replace the ac-tual look on someone’s face when they’re playing some-thing they really rate and think you should listen to it too. It’s special.”
Join the world in cele-brating local music stores and vinyl April 21, and keep the tables turning. This annual event takes place the third Saturday of April, but some good vinyl and good vibes are available from a local record shop any day.
There’s a great deal of tumult and controversy facing women in our current political land-scape. Women face challenges, great and small, some shared with men, some uniquely fe-male. I’ve spent much time reflecting on these issues—they’re close to my heart and never far from my thoughts. It’s through this lens that I approach this edition of Rave Reviews; two films about women, their stories vastly dis-similar, yet with great lessons both because of
their fiction and because of their truths. Read on about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Iron Lady.
Rooney Mara, who stars in the title role of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is one of those stunning young ac-tresses who’s currently taking Hollywood by storm, and not because she looks like a Barbie doll. On the contrary, Mara is what could be described as plain look-ing. But in order to play Lisbeth Salander, Mara needed to adopt not
just Salander’s icy at-titude and indifferent demeanour, she needed the intensely fierce, punk-goth look too. Something ill-suited to the Paris Hilton type. Playing Salander isn’t a gig that most young actresses could handle: portraying vulnerability and malice isn’t easy, not to mention acting out an extremely graphic rape scene. Mara is seamless. Leading man Daniel Craig, and sup-porting actors Christo-pher Plummer and Stel-lan Skarsgard pale in
comparison. This movie is both easy and hard to watch. I got sucked into the story and the lives of
the characters, but the horrors that Salandar and Craig’s character, Mikael Blomkvist, face are daunting. Now that I’ve been mesmerized by the world created by au-thor Stieg Larsson, I’m looking forward to div-ing into the series on the printed page.
Unlike Salander, Mar-garet Thatcher was a flesh and blood woman who faced real chal-lenges as the longest serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century. Thatcher, the daughter of a shop clerk,
rose through the ranks of the British Conserva-tive party to become the most powerful woman in the world. Regardless of what I may think of her politics, she was an incredible woman and her personal accom-plishments are inspir-ing. Thatcher is embod-ied by Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady. In spite of the film’s sentimen-tality and overreliance on flashbacks, Streep is high-voltage, bring-ing snap to Thatcher’s step and crack to her parliamentary retorts.
Streep’s delicate dance between Prime Minister Thatcher and the elder Mrs. Thatcher makes it clear why this year’s Best Actress Oscar ended up her hands. While the film itself is no great epic, Streep’s portrayal is riveting and worth every penny of the rental price.
These two incredible women, one small and one giant, one ficti-tious and one real, are both a delight to watch. Their stories make great film. Bring one of them home tonight and you’ll see what I mean.
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.
IN BRIEF
The Shuswap Association of Writers (SAW) is presenting its ninth “Word on the Lake” festival May 25 to 27 in Salmon Arm, B.C.The event brings together writers, both published and not, readers, editors and publishers through skill development workshops, open forums with notable authors, book readings and presentations. Live music, book sales, food and a raffle are some of the other draws to this well established Shuswap tradition. Shuswap Association of Writers’ is a non profit organization whose mandate is to organize events to enrich cultural life in the B.C. Interior, especially the written and spoken arts.
REVIEWS • ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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.
For presenters, times, ticket prices and locations, visit:
www.saow.ca
A festival for readers and writers
IVAN COYOTE: Award-winning author of six collections of short stories, one novel, three CD’s and four short films, Coyote will be performing and storytell-ing at Word on the Lake.
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www.SunPeaksNews.com8 Vol. 10 Issue 5, 2012IN PICTURES
IIf you’re anything like me, you take great delight in get-ting new photog-raphy accessories. The bad news about getting caught up in the hoopla of out-door photography is that purchasing all that alluring new photographic equipment can leave you a little light in the wallet, to say the least. The good news is that there are some al-ternatives to buying some of that expen-sive gear by using items commonly found in the home or at the local hard-ware store.
Here are a few items that have worked well for me and will save you a bit of money. I’ve added a very low-end price of each “real deal” item if you were to buy it from a photo sup-plier.
Aluminum foil and cardboard: If you enjoy shoot-ing close-ups of flowers or insects, a little aluminum foil wrapped around a piece of cardboard makes a sturdy re-
flector. This simple trick provides a neat way to lighten the shadows on your subject. The real deal will cost in the $40 range.
Garbage bag: Plastic garbage bags can be used to cover your camera and lens in the rain. They come in many sizes so it won’t be hard to find one to suit your needs. I carry a large one so I can lay it down to stay relatively clean while shoot-ing at ground level. In a pinch, a big bag serves as a raincoat as well. The real deal will cost you $20 at the very least.
Umbrella: A small compact um-brella can be used to
diffuse harsh light. A white or clear umbrella works best. The real deal will cost you ap-proximately $95.
Pipe insulation and duct tape: Wrap the legs of your tripod in foam pipe insulation and secure it with duct tape. These days duct tape is avail-able in many differ-ent colours and pat-terns. This will help when handling your tripod on cold days and will provide a cushion while walk-ing with the tripod slung over your
shoulder. The real deal will usually cost between $50 and $65, or even more.
Beans, cloth and velcro: A home-made bean bag can be made from these items combined with a few sewing skills. Use it to sup-port your lens when shooting from your car window. The real deal will cost you $50 at least.
If you’re lucky, you may have everything on this list kicking around your home. If you have any tips of your own to share please do.
Gear for the budget minded
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Man in Motion, Rick Hansen, greets the Discovery Centre students during his 25th Anniversary Man in Motion tour — Sun Peaks Resort.
Tyler Meade and Dom Koric show off mini keg trophies — Bluebird Banked Slalom.
Erin, from Globe Cafe, wins the Mott’s Clamato Caesar Challenge — Masa’s.
Joan, Dayle, and Monica show off their retro style — Tod Mountain Days.
Bluebird Banked Slalom winners Todd Collier and Carl Cowton hoist the trophy.
Representatives from Sun Peaks and TRU sign Memorandum of Understanding.
The Sun Peaks Aquatics crew man the portable hot tub — Slush Cup.
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EVERY SATURDAYBig Little Science
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Kamloops Farmers’ Market
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UNTIL MAY 6Nordic Skiing Open
at Sun PeaksVista, McGillivray Lake
and Great Grey trails loop open for Nordic Skiing. Trails will be groomed
intermittently. No ski passes required.
APRIL 14 TO 28Symphony Used
Book SaleNew books every day for this major fundraiser for Kamloops Symphony.
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SAT, APRIL 21Turkey Dinner & Dance
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BoogieJoin Jo Berry and
thousands of others to walk, run or stroll the 5, 10, or 21km
routes for Big Brothers, Big Sisters.Registration’s open until
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MON, APRIL 30Women’s Health ClinicSun Peaks’ women’s health
clinic, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.sunpeakshealth.com
MAY 1 TO 31Lynda Jones and
Lance Weisser Jones’ fire smoked pottery,
and Weisser’s watercolours will be on
display at the Old Courthouse Gallery
for the month of May. Opening reception May 1, 2 to 4 p.m.
Gallery open Tuesday to Saturday.
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SUN, MAY 6Scotiabank MS WalkThe Scotiabank MS Walk
is the largest national fundraiser for the
MS Society of Canada. This 1, 2, 5, or 10km
walk begins at 10 a.m. at the
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Juniper Ridge Garage Sale
This popular community event has been going on
for over 30 years. Come out and find your
treasure. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
MON, MAY 7Committee of the Whole Meeting
Sun Peaks Municipality’s monthly CoW meeting
takes place in Municipal Council
Chambers at 7 p.m.sunpeaksmunicipality.ca
MAY 10 AND 11Cities for Fit Children
Provincial SummitThe Summit emphasizes
local partnerships, strategies and successes
which contribute to healthy cities for families.kamloops.ca/
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SUN, MAY 13Mother’s Day Celebration
Take mom to the B.C. Wildlife Park on her
special day. Enjoy the animals, Uncle Chris the
Clown, and the melodies of Margit Bull.
Open 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.bczoo.org
Mother’s Day BrunchEnjoy a tasty Mother’s
Day Brunch at the Heffley Creek Community Hall.
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MON, MAY 14Regular Municipal
Council MeetingMeeting takes place in
Sun Peaks Municipality’s Council Chambers
at 7 p.m.sunpeaksmunicipality.ca
WED, MAY 16Trash Bash at
Sun PeaksTime for spring cleaning
at Sun Peaks. Come out and do your
part to tidy up the village. sunpeaksresort.com
FRI, MAY 18Powder Hounds
Recording Studio PartyJoin local musicians Peter,
Terry, Jon and Kelly as they record live at Powder Hounds
8:30 p.m.
FRI, MAY 25Treetop Flyers opens
for the seasonGet ready for a wild ride
on Chase’s newest eco-adventure—the Flying
Fox and Canyon Tour ziplines.
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Event Listings Chairlift’s new album is a lot of good things
While the winter’so� cially over, Chairlift—actually a non-skiing in-spired name—is breaking ground with their new al-bum Something.
Even though Chairlift’s song “Bruises” was fea-tured on an iPod commercial in 2008, it’s taken a few years for the band to make its way on to iPod playlists. Something, while still every bit as synth-pop as their debut album Does You Inspire You, is a little more � ow-ery and arty. It’s full of heartbreak and emotion, catapulted by vocalist Caroline Polachek’s breathy, soaring lyrics.
Since Does You Inspire You, band member Aaron Pfenning left the band to pursue a solo disco project called Rewards, Chairlift has adopt-ed a little more edge to their pop style. It can be inferred that much of the heartbreak sung on Something is due to Polachek and Pfenning’s ended relationship—their
loss is the listener’s gain. Something, a Polachek and fellow band member Pat-rick Wimberly pro-ject, has an edgier, more experimental side to it.
“A m a n a e m o -nesia,” the � rst single released from Something is an addictive upbeat track with mysteri-ous lyrics. Polachek seems to delving into the healing rituals of amanae, “� ere’s a system of symbols that no one will vouch for, everyone uses and no one believes.” If you can say the song title three times fast you win extra fan points.
Other highlights on this album in-clude; “I Belong in Your Arms” and “Sidewalk Safari,” which show the artists’ abilities to portray emotions and characters. In the gasping “Cool as a Fire” Polachek’s mourning over love lost, “the look in your eye says you don’t love me any-more,” bares her soul in an ethereal musical accompani-ment.
Overall Something is a diverse set of 80s-esque tracks that are fun to lis-ten to, interesting to think about, and di� erent enough to sound like nothing
but Chairlift. It’s a little retro with some modern tech-nique. Keep your � ngers crossed they make a British Col-umbian appearance this summer.
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The Ministry of Jobs, Tour-ism and Innovation has a number of economic invest-ment pilot projects on the go in the North Thompson, including the Harper Creek mining project, a large copper, gold and silver deposit near Vavenby, B.C. The project is in pre-application phase of the environmental assessment process, but its potential to contribute to the area’s econ-omy has the North Thompson abuzz.
Yellowhead Mining has 100 per cent interest in the Harp-er Creek project and Ron
Handford, the company’s ex-ecutive vice president recently travelled to Asia on the Pre-mier’s trade mission.
“They all think B.C. is a great destination for their investment and for partner-ships,” he says. “We think we’ll see more investment coming from Asia to this province.”
The Harper Creek project is just one of several develop-ment pilot projects in south central B.C. expected to bring jobs and families to the re-gion. Typically, for every job created in a mine, there are
three jobs created in the sur-rounding area.
Once the Harper Creek project gets underway, the company will be hiring to fill 350 full-time jobs for the mining operation and up to 500 jobs during the construc-tion phase.
Another economic invest-ment pilot project covers the corridor that runs through the North Thompson and Robson valleys, between Barriere and McBride. A winter forum in Valemount re-vealed three key needs for the re-
gion: more secure access to power for big projects, access to fibre optics for bioenergy development and the oppor-tunity to develop a year-round ski resort.
“We just think the area is beautiful for raising children,” says Valemount resident Ri-ette Kenkel. “We hope that by building up the economy, more young families will come to the area and discover the richness of the people and the outdoors.”
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Terry Lake, minister of envi-ronment, recently announced that Skaha, the world-class rock-climbing destination and provincial park in Pent-icton, B.C., will soon be big-ger thanks to a land transfer to B.C. Parks from the Na-ture Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and the Land Con-servancy of British Columbia (TLC).
The park will grow from 178 hectares to almost 500
hectares with the recent ac-quisition of a parcel of land adjacent to the park. The $5 million purchase ensures that important landscape will re-main part of B.C.’s ecological reserve.
Access to the Skaha Bluffs had been in question for many years as the only avail-able means of approach or parking for the area was on private land, although the Bluffs themselves are on
Crown land. Within this popular park is
a series of canyons with cliffs of up to 80 metres on either side, and with over 650 estab-lished rock climbing routes. The area is known for its sport climbing, but does have tradi-tional climbing routes as well.
The lands contain conifer-ous forest, riparian areas, rug-ged terrain and some shrub-steppe grasslands. This habitat also helps support up to 15
species-at-risk, including big-horn sheep.
TLC is a non-profit land trust that engages people in protecting and caring for B.C.’s natural areas and NCC is the nation’s leading not-for-profit private land conser-vation organization, working to protect important natural areas and the species they sus-tain. Since 1962, NCC and its partners have helped to pro-tect one million acres in B.C.
Sport climbing centre, Skaha, expanding
Sun Peaks is now home to a new club, and it’s already been busy planning for this year and next.
The Sun Peaks Nordic Club was formed on April 1, 2012, electing a board comprised of four executives and five direc-tors. Gunner Rasmussen was elected president of the club.
“Twenty plus people at-tended the meeting,” explains director Phil Youwe. “Nancy and Al Raine were the first two members to sign up. (We’re) sitting in the 40 to 50 range (for members. That in-cludes) people who’ve shown an interest and will be sending in those registration forms.”
The first order of business
for the fledgling club was to pass a motion to approach the municipality for funding to keep the Nordic trails open until May.
“Three members of the Nor-dic club made a presentation to council asking to provide funding to the corporation to help offset the tracking costs,” says Youwe. “Unfortunately, although the municipality supported the idea in prin-ciple, (it was) not wanting to set a funding precedent; they were reluctant to approve.”
However, access to the Vista, McGillivray Lake and Great Grey trails loop will remain open, and will be groomed periodically throughout April
by Sun Peaks Resort’s groom-ers.
Access to the trails is com-plimentary, but Youwe cau-tions that the area will be unpatrolled in April, so ski-ers are advised to avoid skiing in the early mornings when conditions are icy, ski with a friend, and contact 911 in case of distress.
And, looking toward the fu-ture for the new Nordic club, members are anticipating a busy year of events and de-velopment.
“We’re looking forward to an exciting year next year with the number of events and pro-
grams starting and espe-cially the number of people interested in coaching,” says Youwe. “We’ll get a coach-ing program going for the local rabbit program for the young children that will get started up in the fall. We’ll be coordinating some clinics up here with the Overlander Ski Club, we’ll have oppor-tunity to be on snow in early November so we’ll have some clinics then and we’ve got a number of events happening next year too. It’ll be an excit-ing year for Nordic.”
New Nordic ski club in town
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Fifty-five years of Daffodil DayIn support of the Canadian Cancer Society, Sun Peaks Municipal Council has proclaimed April Daffodil Month and April 27th Daffodil Day. The municipality is encouraging everyone to wear a daffodil to show support for persons living with cancer. Daffodils were first used by the Canadian Cancer Society in
Security contract imminentIn response to an increase in property crime at Sun Peaks, the municipality tendered a request for proposal to local security companies interested in establishing an office on the mountain. That tender has now closed, explains Byron Johnson, chief administrative officer for the municipality. “We received a number of competitive bids,” says Johnson. “Within the next month (the contract) will be announced.” Residents and guests are always encouraged to be safe with their possessions and property. Suspicious activity should be reported to the local RCMP detachment by calling 911.
Planning for summer road workThe Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality will meet with Argo Road Maintenance and the Ministry of Transportation to develop a summer repair and maintenance plan for roads at Sun Peaks. “If any residents know of any significant issues with the roads or drainage on the roads, (for example) if there’s big pooling, they should report it to the municipality,” says Byron Johnson, chief administrative officer for the municipality. “We’ll take a look at some of those areas and make sure we get everything on the work plan for Argo.” Argo has been patch repairing potholes in the community this spring, but those have been short-term remedies to improve driving while conditions are still not optimal for permanent repairs.“Unfortunately when you just use the cold mix repairs during the colder season, it’s very temporary,” states Johnson. “But (Argo will) come in and do more permanent hot repairs over the summer.”The municipality will report the biggest problem areas to Argo, to be completed during the summer months.
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Controlled burns to commence with meltContractors to the Sun Peaks municipality will begin controlled burns in selected areas once the snow has melted. “We’re being assisted by RPF (Registered Professional Forester) Bruce Morrow,” explains Byron Johnson, chief administrative officer for the municipality. “(He’s) done a lot of the forest fuels planning management up here; he’s been involved quite a bit in the past.”Morrow will be the municipality’s representative for this forest fire prevention project.The project is funded by the Operational Fuel Treatment Program, a grant provided by the Union of British Columbia Municipalities Strategic Wildfire Prevention Initiative.
Report on nightly rentals completeThe Whistler Centre for Sustainability has completed their preliminary report and recommendations on short-term nightly rentals at Sun Peaks.The report came before council at the Monday, April 16 council meeting. Mayor Al Raine and council voted to hand the report to the select committee on zoning and bylaws which will then make recommendations back to council as to what direction should be taken on this community issue. Council will weigh all the options presented before them and may look for more public input should it be warranted.
Registration’s open for women’s wellness weekendThe much anticipated women’s weekend of relaxation and amelioration at Sun Peaks, coming up September 14 to 16, is open for registration. The lineup of events includes a welcome reception, four workshops, dinner with keynote speaker Isabelle Hamptonstone, and yoga. Also available, independent of the organized weekend events, are sessions at the Sun Peaks Spa
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1956 as hand-outs to spread the message about cancer. When recipients wanted to pay for the flowers, the society realized they could be used as a fundraiser, and in 1957 the first “daffodil days” fundraising began. The society is now the world’s largest purchaser of daffodils.
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and resort activities available through the adventure centre. Individual workshops are available for $16 to $55, but the whole weekend package starts at $126 per person, making it the best buy.“If you book the package with your workshops,” explains Janice Nankivell, events coordinator for Tourism Sun Peaks, “you actually get to attend the welcome reception and the yoga for free.”
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An innovative new partner-ship was recently established between Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and Sun Peaks. The memorandum of understanding binds Sun Peaks Resort, Tourism Sun Peaks (TSP), and Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Munici-pality with TRU in the Alli-ance for Mountain Environ-ments.
TRU’s Faculty of Adven-ture, Culinary and Tourism (ACT) and the Faculties of Science and Arts will join the Sun Peaks entities to work toward building mu-tually supportive initiatives in the study areas that in-clude ecosystems, cultures, and leisure, tourism, and wellness activities associated with mountain environ-ments.
“Through the Alliance for Mountain Environments, we plan to conduct inter-disciplinary academic and applied research, and pro-vide education and training,” says Harold Richins, dean of ACT. “Our research activ-ities will engage people and broaden access to moun-tain areas and promote an
understanding of the social, cultural, environmental, and economic impacts of human activity in mountain areas.”
Christopher Nicolson, president of TSP, views the partnership as beneficial to all.
“Sun Peaks feels very for-tunate to work closely with TRU. For many years, this relationship has meant things such as Sun Peaks hiring TRU graduates, and providing students with training opportunities,” he explains. “Recently new op-portunities have developed such as cooperating on higher level research. Such integration can be a com-petitive advantage for Sun Peaks in the mountain resort industry.”
The new alliance is also expected to support TRU’s Academic Plan that seeks to establish the institution’s reputation for having gradu-ates who are flexible and adaptable.
“The signing of the (memorandum of under-standing) with Sun Peaks exemplifies what TRU is about,” states Ulrich Scheck,
provost and vice-president academic for the university, “namely to build on that strength through programs and courses that generate interdisciplinary connec-tions between academic themes. TRU will be known for being profoundly inter-disciplinary.”
Kathleen Scherf, professor of communications at TRU, sparked the discussion be-tween TRU and Sun Peaks to formalize these research and learning opportunities. As professor of a course on mountain culture and author of Sun Peaks: An Evolution of Dreams, she sees many long-term benefits of this new relationship between the mountain and university
“The research and learn-ing opportunities involve academics from 15 depart-ments across the entire cam-pus, and offer opportunities for interdisciplinary teach-ing, research, and commun-ity outreach initiatives,” says Scherf. “This is a new chap-ter in TRU’s relationship with one of the top moun-tains resort communities in Canada.”
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Burn 600 calories per hourDitch the workout, join the party. Zumba classes have come to Sun Peaks Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Burfield Lodge. Classes will run month by month and be instruced by Shalen Curle’s Shift Enterprises, a company that offers an array of trending dance and fitness options
including Zumba, hoola hoop fitness, and Dance Dance Party Party. All ages and skills levels are invited to try out the Sun Peaks Zumba classes; the cost is $35 per month or $11 per drop in. Cheques should be made out to Shift Enterprises.
March Music Madness feedback appreciatedTourism Sun Peaks (TSP) is asking for March Music Madness feedback. Anyone who would like to respond to the online survey is welcome to complete it; there’s no
expiration date on the survey.“It helps in planning for next year,” explains Janice Nankivell, events coordinator for TSP. “It helps (TSP know) what worked, what didn’t work, what people like and what people want to see next year.”
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Calling all know-it-alls to competeThe Discovery Channel’s program Canada’s Greatest Know-It-All is looking for Canada’s best and brightest minds to compete in their challenge-based competition that will test a broad range of expertise, experience and skill-sets. Applicants need not have doctorates or perfect grade point averages, just a broad and esoteric knowledge of the world around them.
The casting researchers for this program welcome Canadian applicants, 18 years and older, of all backgrounds, and they encourage anyone to apply or nominate their best candidate.Applications should be submitted as soon as possible to give the applicant a chance to hold this season’s title of Canada’s Greatest Know-It-All.
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Helping heavy equipment companies go greenThe Prince George-based Carbon Offset Aggregation Cooperative (COAC) has received $2 million in funding from the Province. COAC helps heavy equipment operators and trucking companies lower their carbon emissions by offering a framework for owners to reduce operating costs and create, aggregate and sell carbon offsets that are produced through a reduction in diesel consumption. Presently COAC represents 25 B.C. companies. The recent funding will allow COAC to provide more members with low-interest loans to retrofit heavy duty diesel trucks and equipment. It’s expected to provide financing to retrofit 100 units per month,
resulting in emission reductions of approximately 13,400 tonnes over the first three years.“This co-op demonstrates that being environmentally responsible can save companies money. It also shows how our Climate Action Plan benefits rural communities by helping business owners save money, reduce emissions and participate in a program that benefits B.C. families and helps create jobs,” says Terry Lake, minister of the environment.Reductions in fuel consumption and greenhouse gasses emitted will produce carbon offsets, which are then aggregated and sold, transferred or traded by COAC. The proceeds of the sales are returned to the member as a dividend. The offsets are sold as made-in-B.C. greenhouse gas offsets.
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Preventative action to safeguard against firesA smoke alarm campaign has been recently launched to ensure that every home in B.C. has a working smoke alarm. This is part of a broad initiative to reduce fire-related deaths and injuries. Research done by Surrey Fire Services, in partnership with the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), shows that in 11,000 residential fires in B.C. from 2006 to 2011, nearly 70 per cent of the fire scenes examined either had no smoke alarm or the smoke alarm wasn’t functioning. The research predicts that working smoke alarms could reduce annual fire deaths by as much as 32 per cent.“This is a very poor report card on the state of functioning smoke alarms in our
province and country,” states Len Garis, president of the Fire Chiefs’ Association of B.C. “As a fire service, we now have the opportunity to work together and make a real difference on this important safety issue. We’ve tackled this issue before, but this time we’ll be looking for permanent, sustainable solutions.” Some components of the campaign are a national injury reduction forum to be held this fall, a call to action on behalf of local fire departments to address this issue in their communities, exploring the potential to develop a school-based curriculum for fire prevention, and encouraging federal politicians to focus on design changes to smoke alarms to address design deficiencies that enable them to be disconnected.
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Online booking tool for B.C. Parks campsites enhancedWhether you’re hiking, camping under the stars or hauling an RV, the Discover Camping website makes it easier to search and reserve a campsite in any of British Columbia’s 125 provincial park campgrounds.The website now allows park visitors to
make up to three reservations in one transaction as well as view amenities and availability at B.C.’s campgrounds.Reservations for group sites are available up to 12 months in advance. The system also offers mobile web services, making it easy for smartphone users to make and change plans from the road.
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Awake again, after a long winter’s napAs the bears are up and about again, it’s time to be bear aware.The provincial government is helping spread the Bear Aware message, providing $225,000 over the next year to bring the message to more B.C. communities.“This support will help to expand and continue community programs that teach people how to avoid conflicts with wildlife,” says Frank Ritcey, Bear Aware co-ordinator with the B.C. Conservation Foundation. “We encourage communities to contact us to see how we can bring a Bear Aware program to your community.” Bear Aware is an educational program focused on reducing human-bear conflict in residential neighbourhoods. It’s administered by the B.C. Conservation Foundation and has proven to be an effective tool to decrease conflicts. Last
year, 22 communities, including Kamloops, participated in the program. The most effective way to prevent conflicts with bears is to put away food attractants such as garbage, bird seed, compost and fruit. In communities where attractants are managed properly, there’s been a decline in related human-bear conflicts and in the number of bears that have had to be destroyed. The Conservation Officer Service (COS) is the primary responder to human-wildlife conflicts where there’s a risk to public safety, conservation concerns or where significant property damage has occurred. In 2011/12 the COS received approximately 23,800 regarding human-bear conflicts. Over the past five years in B.C., on average, 600 black bears were destroyed each year, while 93 were relocated.
For more on Bear Aware visit: www.bearaware.bc.ca
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They say we’ll all have our 15 minutes of fame. Some of us will take longer than others to achieve it, but it didn’t take long for Sun Peaks freeskier Kieran Nikula to gain his 15 minutes, especially with the help of all his skiing buddies and the Internet.
Nikula entered “The Best Skier on the Internet” contest last fall as a way to progress his freeski career. Being surrounded by film-making friends who also hap-pened to be roommates and ski buddies certainly helped his cause.
“The Best Skier on the Internet” contest featured seven rounds of Backyard Jib Jam, Urban Rails, Park Rails, Park Jumps, Back-country/Big Mountain, Halfpipe and Slopestyle. Skiers uploaded videos of their best skiing in each specific category, and the News-choolers ski community voted to determine the most well-rounded skier.
To win, skiers needed to enter at least five of the seven rounds. The contest was run in the same format that the Association of Freeskiing Professionals (AFP) uses to crown their champions, where the skier’s best five results count towards the win.
Nikula, entered six of the seven rounds, and won five of them. That earned him a pre-
qualified spot for both slopestyle and halfpipe at the AFP World Championships during the Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival in Whistler, B.C., and gives him a full gear setup from The House, one of the contest sponsors.
“It was a ton of work,” said Ni-kula. “We were out filming every day we could and it burned up my winter season really quickly. All the filming and editing we did was insane and I really want to thank the crew, Caleb Weston, Andrew Paul, Cory Baker and Liam Hall for all their hard work and support.”
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Wow, what a fantastic winter—nearly 6 metres of the lovely white stuff combined with our Golden Anniversary celebrations made a great season. Going through withdrawal already? It’s okay, we understand. The good news? 2012–13 ‘Best Buy’ Season Passes and Value Cards are available for purchase starting May 1. Check our online store for details.
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Epic winter conditions marched into April in most of B.C.’s mountain ranges. A northwest flow of cool unstable air provided fresh light snow and cool temps into the Easter weekend. Large avalanches con-tinued to occur through March, both naturally and skier triggered, on the per-sistent Feb. 12 surface hoar layer and March 27 sun-crust layer.
Warm temperatures and sunny skies hastened spring conditions to the Monashees by Easter Monday giving good op-portunities for sledding and ski traverses in the high alpine and glaciated
terrain. With an often predicta-
ble spring pattern of freez-ing at night and melting during the day avalanche hazard can be managed and anticipated with good
planning. Utilizing firm frozen snow in the morn-ing can provide great trav-elling on skis or snowmo-biles. Keep in mind that sun affect will rapidly change the snowpack stability—be alert to avoid cornices and slopes overhead. The heat of the day will often trig-ger deep instabilities, such as the March 27 suncrust layer, and produce large natural avalanches to val-ley bottom. Consider the affect of daytime warming when planning your route home in the afternoon, or c o n s i d e r staying put if you’re committed
to a ski traverse through large terrain.
Be extra cautious when there’s no overnight freeze—this often initi-ates widespread natural avalanches capable of run-ning full path and creat-ing new paths. Spring also brings more snowfall in the mountains, often cre-ating storm slabs over new suncrusts.
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Managing spring avalanche hazards
After a difficult Nor-Am in Colorado in December, para-Alpine skier Pramod “Promo” Thapa is ready to come back next season and enter all the Western Canadian Nor-Am races. He spent this season building up his legs to handle the regulation 185 centimetre GS skis, and 165 cm slalom skis on which he’s required to ski, as per FIS rules.“The kid’s 100 pounds and five foot,” explains Jim Knowles, Thapa’s coach. “To try to get a stiff, men’s 185 to work, to bend that ski, you need muscle, you need weight. So what we’re working on now is building up his legs so he can handle these skis. He does fairly well on them, he’s come a long way this
year, I’m really happy with where he is.”Presently, Thapa is dry land training twice per week, and looking forward to spending more time on his bike.“He’ll be doing the Gran Fondo Highwood Pass in Alberta in the beginning of July, which is 157 kilometre, 7,000 foot climb,” says Knowles. “This year we’re taking a Sun Peaks team—Alain Cordonier, Blair Jones wheelchair athlete, and Promo. Our training rides consist of Kamloops to Logan Lake and back.”The Gran Fondo Highwood Pass race takes place on Canada’s highest paved road, between Longview and Morley, Alberta, on July 7.
Switching up the skis for wheels
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Crowds, comedy and calamity for closing weekendSun Peaks’ two signature end of season events, the Dummy Downhill and Slush Cup drew crowds, comedy and calamity. In the Dummy Downhill, contestants built, sculpted and otherwise haywired their “dummies” together before launching them down a steep ramp, and over a jump only to explode upon impact. This year “The Coffin” by the Sawers family of North Vancouver was the crowd favorite, earning a huge roar from the crowd. Slush Cup, skiers and boarders once again dressed in all manner of outfits, or lack thereof, vying to make it across a 60-foot pond of bone chilling water. Although no one made it all the way, that didn’t diminish the spectacle. Sun Peaks Aquatics was on scene with a hot tub to warm contestants’ blue skin. The Slush Cup top three were Vincent Burkholder, Bob Zyrd and Jan Marschner. Top Costume: Madeline Ferguson; Best Style: Sebastian Fischer; and Crowd Appeal: Jack Punshon.
Third time Top to Bottom’s win for ApplegathApril 9, 2012, the last day of the season for winter operations at Sun Peaks Resort, dawned without a cloud in the sky as many end of season revellers enjoyed the warm weather, great snow conditions and fantastic spring season atmosphere. For one group at Sun Peaks the last day means only one thing—The Top to Bottom’s race. This “last run down the slopes” is an all out Chinese downhill from the Top of the World to Bottom’s Bar and Grill via the 5 Mile run. The first person to ring the bell on Bottom’s patio is crowned champion. This year saw 70 racers take part with proceeds donated by event organizers to the Sun Peaks Education Society. To add something else for the kids, Olympic legend Nancy Greene played Pied Piper skiing with the kids all the way down after the adults had finished racing. In the end it was Kamloops’ Daimion Applegath who took 1st place. It was the third 1st place win for Applegath since the race started many years ago. Dom Koric and Kate Schmidt were also awarded fastest boarder and fastest female skier.
Sun Peaks slalom racing phe-nom Elli Terwiel managed to juggle travel, school and racing pressure this season, and came out on top.
With four World Cup races under her belt, Elli returned to school at the University of Ver-mont and the NCAA Cham-pionships, helping her team claim their first NCAA Cham-pionship title since 1994.
Terwiel finished the season strong and claimed the overall Nor-Am slalom crown which guarantees her a FIS World Cup starting spot for the 2012-2013 seasons.
“The University of Vermont won the NCAA champion-ships, which was a pretty big deal,” said an excited Terwiel. “As NCAA champions we got to meet the President of the United States . . . something as a Canadian I never thought I’d get to do.
“As well, I just finished the last Nor-Am race of the year and I won the overall slalom
title which means that I’ll have my own FIS World Cup spot in slalom next season,” Terwiel continues. “I’m very excited and it was a great way to finish the season. I want to thank every-one back in Sun Peaks for all the support they have given to help me realize my World Cup dream.”
SPORTS
IN BRIEF
It’ll be a busy summer at the Dick Hart Memorial Park be-tween dog shows, campers, disc golf and slow pitch. Teresa Crawford, of the Heffley Creek Slow Pitch Association explains that there are only two weekends this summer when the park isn’t booked.
But before the park opens for ball season and everything else, it’s clean up time.
“Every spring, all of the teams will go down and clean up the park,” says player, Leslie Albert. “The clean up weekend’s sched-uled for April 21 and 22. Earth Day’s on the Sunday (which is) good and that’s free garbage day at the dump. People are always encouraged to come to that.”
Once the park is ready to go, the slow pitch season begins on April 23, and runs until the year end tournament on July 7 and 8.
Ten teams, from Rayleigh to Sun Peaks, are in this fun league, and they play at the Dick Hart Memorial Park Monday through Friday at 6:15 p.m. The league also host tournaments through-out their season.
“We’re having a fundrais-ing tournament on June 9,” says Crawford. “It’s not a league event, so anyone can put a team together. We do try to keep it to eight teams because there’s just the one field. All the money raised goes back into the park for upkeep.”
Players and organizers are looking forward to another fun season of slow pitch at the park, and encourage spectators to come and cheer on any of the games.
“Players really like it because, number one, it’s a really nice field, facility, and two, it’s just about fun,” says Crawford.
To register for the Fundraising Tournament, call Shane Dekkers at:
250-578-8598 For park bookings, or to join a league team,
call Teresa Crawford at: 250-578-8165
Wind up to ball season
It seems like just yester-day we were hanging nets on the OSV. It was, in fact, November 10. Now, after 65 days training, 10 competitions, highlights, lowlights, tons of hours pulling and re-setting nets, the season’s over!
The Sun Peaks Alp-ine Club hosted some awesome events and the whole community came together nicely to show-case what a wonderful place Sun Peaks is. We have to thank Sun Peaks Resort for providing the best racing venue in B.C.
Seven of our Sun Peaks Racers just competed in the 20th annual Whistler Cup. The Whistler Cup’s an international juvenile ski competition with par-ticipation from over 20 different countries—360 of the world’s top kids under 14 years old showed
up to strut their stuff in three days of competition. Claire Madill, Zanna Farrell, Kenzie Duff, Sara Kate Smith, Jackson Phil-lips, Evan Monroe, and Brian Buffel all repre-sented Sun Peaks, British Columbia and Canada at this year’s event. Evan and Zanna both had top 20 results and everyone else had solid runs and a great time skiing against the best in the world in their age groups.
Sun Peaks Racer Dan-ielle Cowburn returned to competition last week in Panorama, B.C. Dani, who was ranked second in the country in down-hill, blew out her knee last March at the Na-tional Championships Downhill at Nakiska. She underwent surgery in May and has been re-habilitating ever since.
We had to start slowly with her return to snow in November and grad-ually build up her amount of time and intensity on snow over the season.
We decided to start Dani racing again in April at the Miele Cup FIS Spring Series in the slalom. Let me tell you, standing in the start after more than a year off after a major injury, months of crutches, pain, doc-tors’ appointments, rehab, training, and not really knowing if you still have what it takes to race, is mind blowing. On top of that, everyone’s watching to see if you’ll perform again. That’s what Dani was facing.
Of course, Dani crashed in warm-up, slamming her shoulder. Yet, in typ-ical Dani fashion, she shrugged it off and got
down to business, hand-ling it like a true cham-pion.
We had a game plan to go in, race as hard as she felt comfortable do-ing and then push a lit-tle harder than that. It’s wasn’t about results so I told her not to even look at the timing board. She was to challenge herself
and focus on the process, skiing well. I had more butterflies then she did as she came out of the start gate. She skied great and we had a very successful weekend. Now she’s off to train with the HPP (High Performance Pro-gram—B.C.’s best 16 and 17 year olds) all summer long. If you don’t know Dani yet, you soon will. She’s a great ambassador for the mountain and the sport.
The Alpine Club, doesn’t shut down for the summer, in fact we’re starting the new season right now. We’re organ-izing equipment, going to summer camps, fund-raising and training for another great ski season. Thanks to all of you who support this great team, we really appreciate it! Ski Hard, Ski Fast.
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 the blink of an eye
Sun Peaks Resort Nordic host Mike Stewart-Smith recently competed in the Canadian Masters National Champion-ships for Nordic skiing in Golden, B.C. He finished 10th in the 20 kilometre race, and ninth in the 10 km event.
“It was very hilly and very hard and very icy,” Stewart-Smith recalls. “It was very challenging. I was pleased with my
performance; that was a highlight.”
Stewart-Smith is mem-ber of a master’s group who train together and organize speakers to discuss performance en-hancing training and foods. Laura Kalina, a registered dietician and author of Low G.I. Meals in Minutes, addressed their group at Sun Peaks in March. Stewart-Smith credits her advice as one
contributor towards his success.
“I learned about low glycemic diet from (Kali-na) and eating for perfor-mance,” he says. “It was a huge change. I seem to have way more energy to get going, my energy lasts longer and I can train better and harder through eating properly.”
The location of the 2013 Canadian championships has yet to be determined.
Stewart-Smith takes top 10 in Nordic championships
Fun runs with the Friday race seriesThe Rosedale on Robson Friday Race Series was a resounding success this year with a total of 586 recreational racers competing over the nine week racing series. Each week racers competed in a giant slalom race down the Sundance Run for bragging rights, medals and prizes at the end of the day. Sponsored by the Rosedale on Robson Hotel and Okanagan Spring Brewery, this weekly fun race was run by the Sun Peaks Snow Sports School with the help of many long-time Sun Peaks volunteers.
happy TRaIlS: Stewart-Smith competed in the 10 and 20km skate ski events at the Canadian Masters in Golden this spring.
PHOTO: ROYCE SIHLIS PHOTOGRAPHY
Terwiel wins Nor-Am slalom title
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