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Holiday train: The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train rolled into Sicamous Monday night, bringing music, festiv-ity and funding for the local food bank. Above, musician Jim Cuddy performs from the Holiday Train Stage. Bottom left to right: Santa takes some time to greet the crowd and Pam Beech of the Eagle Valley Community Support Society raises her arms in joy for CP’s $5,500 donation to the local food bank – in addition to the donated food collected during the event. Photos by Victoria Rowbottom

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Saturday, Dec. 20th $2.00 bag sale at Sicamous United church Thrift Shop. Enjoy free coffee and cookies for all our volunteers and patrons - compliments of the congregation Sunday, Dec 21st 10:00 AM Special Christmas service at Sicamous United Church with music by the Black & Bluez Band.Wed. Dec 24th 7:00 PM All Ages Christmas Eve service at Sicamous United Church - 705 Trans Canada Frtg Rd. E.Wed. Dec 24th Christmas eve service, 7 p.m. at the Sicamous Bible Church. All welcome. Contact 836-5430 for info.Monday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals

provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10 am - 3 pm. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509.Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.Every Wed. - Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for info.Every Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group

meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5.Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Sicamous Health UnitEvery 4th Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette

Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Carol 250-836-3135 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Friday - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Everyone Welcome.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Lunch at noon. Everyone Welcome. At the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue.Last Sat. of the Month - Ladies’ Auxiliary Dinner at the Royal Canadian Legion at 6 pm. Tickets sold until the Friday before at the Legion. No tickets at the door.Sundays - Candlelit Karma 6:30 pm. Warm & Gentle. Class by donation. Funds go towards community causes.Every 4th Sun.- Royal Canadian Legion Br. #99 general meeting, 1 p.m.Every 4th Sun. - OAPO Birthday Tea for members & friends, Seniors Activity Centre, 2 pmEvery Sat. - Morning Sicamous Royal Canadian Legion Branch 99 tailgate market – Everyone welcome – sell anything – for details call Murray @250-836-2224.

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Several derelict docks are being re-moved from three Shuswap lakes.

But concerned dock owners can relax. The work is being done to improve fish habitat and remove potential navigational hazards – not to impose regula-tions.

Matthews Environ-mental Consulting is co-ordinating the proj-ect, acting on behalf of the Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program that consists of provin-cial and federal agen-cies, including Fisher-ies and Oceans Canada, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, the Habitat Conserva-tion Trust Foundation and BC Conservation Foundation.

“The key thing here is that this project is focused only on docks that have no claim of ownership and no tenure,” says consul-tant Steve Matthews. “These are abandoned, derelict docks in poor condition.”

Matthews says ev-ery effort is made to de-termine ownership or tenure before the docks are dismantled.

A tidal wave of pro-test erupted last year over the province’s plans to remove illegal docks from Shuswap Lake, and Matthews’ work crews have been

challenged on several occasions.

“We have had this problem since the be-ginning – it rears its head time and time again,” he says with frustration. “I don’t know how many times we’ve tried to make that clear to people. We have nothing to do with compliance and enforcement, this is en-tirely to do with restor-ing fish habitat.”

Matthews says the first phase of the proj-ect involved removal of derelict docks on the shoreline between Salmon Arm and Si-camous.

Since then, it has ex-panded to include der-elict docks on the north and south shore of the main arm of Shuswap Lake, Mara Lake and Little Shuswap Lake.

“The obvious thing is when you have a dock on shore, you’re taking habitat away from Kokanee, rain-bow, sockeye, lake trout and chinook that at one time or another are utilizing shoreline habitat,” Matthews says. “When you have a structure over top, it changes the circulation pattern along the shore-line and causes deposi-tion of fine sediments into the substrate that can impact the area, particularly for spawn-ing.”

Because funding is largely dedicated to fish habitat, Matthews says the work is being done according to very high or high habitat values as identified on the Shuswap Water-shed Atlas (cmnmaps.ca/SHUSWAP).

“That said, it’s in-efficient when you go out and target high-values if you’re going right by (docks in) me-dium ones so we take them out too,” he says. “We’re still providing value in fish habitat.”

Matthews points to the navigational hazard created when docks are floating out in the lake – either floating out from shore during an-nual high water or after being released by own-ers who no longer want them.

He says there’s real problem with people letting docks go.

“They need to pull them themselves, in-stead of letting oth-ers take responsibil-ity,” Matthews says. “I hope people will get the message and make the necessary repairs to

meet the requirements or take responsibility and destroy them.”

Matthews’ crews take the derelict docks apart, separating and recycling every com-ponent they can.

To date, some 70 docks have been re-moved and Matthews believes there are as many as 50 or more that need to be ad-dressed.

“I think we’re mak-ing a real dent, we’re getting a handle on it,” he says, noting he thinks funding sources should be broader-based, not on the shoulders of fish habi-tat restoration funding sources. “We hope to be doing some more, but don’t have ongoing funding.”

On Nov. 15, Okana-gan-Shuswap MP Co-lin Mayes, on behalf of Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea, announced that under the second round of the Recreational Fisher-ies Conservation Part-nerships Program, the Government of Canada is providing $31,300 to the British Columbia Conservation Founda-tion to conserve fish habitat in Shuswap Lake.

But Barb Waters, manager of the BC Conservation Founda-tion’s northern region, says she is awaiting confirmation of match-ing funds before any additional derelict dock removal can be done.

Program targets derelict docks on ShuswapBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

Abandoned: A multi-agency program is seeing to the removal of docks in derelict condition. Photo contributed

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A recently com-pleted assessment of the Eagle River Bridge has confirmed there’s another five years of service left to the struc-ture.

At its regular meet-ing last Wednesday, council received a re-port from All-Span engineering, accompa-nied by a memo from district staff, which confirmed All-Span’s earlier estimation re-garding the expected life of the bridge on Si-camous-Solsqua Road.

A capacity re-as-sessment of the bridge was conducted, the fi-nal piece of which was a recently completed condition assessment by Onsight Engineer-

ing Ltd. of timber pile bents during lower river flows. Summariz-ing the results, the staff memo states pile in-spection “revealed the presence of some rot but not to a degree that significantly impacts the bridge.

“In general, the in-dividual structure com-ponents of the bridge are in satisfactory con-dition.”

All-Span is recom-mending the district begin planning for a replacement bridge that meets legal high-way load levels and highway bridge design guidelines.

In response, council passed a resolution to forwarding the assess-ment to the 2015 finan-cial plan discussions.

As for the speed

dips, the engineering report states they are not needed, though load restrictions are. Recommended is sig-nage at the bridge indi-cating a maximum load limit of 48,000 kilo-grams, with restrictions

on tandem and tridem axle weights of 17,000 kgs and 20,000 kgs re-spectively.

In September, coun-cil agreed to the post-ing of weight restric-tions but opted to leave the speed dips in place.

Another five years for Eagle River BridgeBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Dips: Vehicles pass over speed dips located at both ends of the Eagle River Bridge. An engineering report says dips will have no impact on the bridge’s re-maining lifespan, estimated to be five years. File photo

Council moves regular meetings to 6 p.m.

Sicamous residents will be able to grab a bite to eat before at-tending district council meetings.

Last Wednesday council approved its regular meeting sched-ule for 2015. As in the past, these meetings will typically be con-ducted every second and fourth Wednesday

of the month. What will be differ-

ent in the new year is the meeting start time, which has been moved from 5 to 6 p.m.

The time change was decided upon by coun-

cil at that morning’s committee of the whole (COW) meeting.

COW meetings will be scheduled, as needed, at 9 a.m. on the second and/or fourth Wednesdays.

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

North Okanagan residents are being urged to embrace a vi-sion and not become fixated on the big-ticket price of a rail corridor between Coldstream and Kelowna.

Brad Clements, with the Okanagan Rail Trail Initiative, told the Vernon Rotary Club Wednesday that a deal among municipalities to purchase the Cana-dian National line is a positive move.

“Yes it’s $22 mil-lion, but there are tre-mendous benefits,” said the college economist.

“At some point, someone in Vancouver had the foresight to keep Stanley Park for future generations.”

Among the ben-efits of purchasing the 49.9-kilometre corri-dor, according to Cle-ments, are access to 24 kilometres of water-front, protecting the en-vironment, encourag-

ing a healthy lifestyle among residents and bolstering the economy through tourism.

“By ensuring the corridor remains as a transportation pathway, it will attract people,” he said, adding that a trail could generate $10 million in economic revenue within a de-cade.

“This is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity. We as a society are bet-ter to give up $22 mil-lion compared to the benefits that will go on forever.”

The track is within 500 metres of 23 parks and 23 points of inter-est.

While the Greater Vernon Advisory Com-mittee, Lake Country and Kelowna work out specific details for the purchase, the Okana-gan Rail Trail Initia-tive is looking towards the $7 million needed to actually develop the trail infrastructure.

“We will raise the

money. We don’t want to put that burden on taxpayers,” said Cle-ments referring to the need for a campaign for donations and grants.

“There’s enough will in the commu-nity that we’ll make this happen. We have people who are very eager to donate. We have one person who has given us a cheque for $250,000.”

There has been some media focus on the fact that a portion of the rail line goes through Okanagan In-dian Reserve at Duck Lake. However, Cle-ments isn’t convinced that will block trail de-velopment.

“The common vi-sion is there,” he said of discussions between his group and the band.

A portion of the rail line along Kalamalka Lake is also part of the Okanagan Indian Band’s Commonage land claim.

“We can help them

(band) find a solution with the federal gov-ernment,” said Cle-ments.

In the Shuswap, work continues behind the scenes to secure a similar corridor along the decommissioned CP Rail line from Si-camous to Armstrong. If successful, this would link to the Okan-agan Rail Trail.

The Shuswap Trail Alliance continues to be an advocate for the Shuswap/North Okan-agan Rail Trail. For more information, visit http://www.shuswap-trailalliance.com and view the public call to action.

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A year-end interview with Premier Christy Clark.

TF: Are you still confi-dent that we’re going to see a major LNG project ap-proved by the end of 2014?

PCC: We’re still in ne-gotiations with Petronas and Shell, so I don’t know if it will be by the end of 2014, but I’m hoping in the next few months.

[Days after this inter-view, Petronas announced a delay in their investment decision until 2015.]

TF: I talked to a couple of SFU climate mitigation specialists, and they agreed that it’s unlikely to the point of impossible to have a ma-jor LNG industry and still meet Gordon Campbell’s ambitious greenhouse gas target of a 33 per cent re-duction by 2020. What do you think?

PCC: I think that we may prove them wrong.

Many of these facilities, not all of them, will be partly or fully electrically powered up, so that reduces those impacts, and there’s going to be a real incentive to invest in new technology to minimize that as well.

I think the bigger pic-ture is what really matters, which is that in shipping 82 million tonnes of lique-fied natural gas to Asia, we help them get off coal and other dirtier sources of oil, and that is the biggest con-tribution that we’ve ever made to reducing climate change.

TF: Ontario and Que-bec have taken a page from your book. They have seven conditions for an oil pipeline, Energy East, which involves conversion of gas pipelines and tak-ing Alberta oil to the East Coast. What do you think?

PCC: I think they took our five conditions and elaborated on them. So you’ve got British Colum-bia, Alberta, now Ontario

and Quebec, all signed on to some version of the five conditions. And of course Enbridge and Kinder Mor-gan as well.

TF: What about the con-ditions they have added?

PCC: One of the things they say they want to pro-tect against is a shortage of natural gas coming to Ontario and Quebec. These are the same two provinces that have put a moratorium on extracting natural gas. They want to make sure that we do it here, good enough for us to do, and send it to them, but they won’t do that themselves. I look at their last two condi-tions, and I roll my eyes a little bit.

TF: All the way to New Brunswick, they’ve basi-cally bought the anti-hy-draulic fracturing myth?

PCC: Yes. Somehow they all watched an Ameri-can mockumentary or whatever you call it, and believed it. Here in British Columbia we do fracking

better than anywhere in the world. It is the gold stan-dard.

TF: Finance Minister Mike de Jong says we have a surplus estimated at more than $400 million for this fiscal year, and he suggest-ed that much of that would have to go to pay off defi-cits from previous years. Of course the opposition is interested in welfare rates and in particular ending child support clawbacks. What’s your view?

PCC: Like any family that’s been through tough times, the first thing you need to do when you get back to finding a job and making an income again, is to pay off your credit cards. And that’s what we’re go-ing to do.

We are going to see if we can find ways to improve some of the programs over time, but can’t do that un-til we can afford it. It’s typical, the NDP want us to spend the money before we have it.

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Drop in oil price will have impact

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The plummeting price of oil may have a big impact on the Canadian and B.C. economies in the next year or

two.Some of that will be positive, but it is likely

that it will be mainly negative.The price of gasoline (but not diesel fuel) is

falling, and that means more money in the pockets of consumers. This helps them meet other obligations, such as rent, credit card bills and child care. If the provincial and regional governments can avoid the temptation to tax this newly-found money out of people’s pock-ets, the fall in prices will be a good thing.

One other bright spot may be a boost in exports if the dollar remains low.

The negative implications are widespread. There will almost certainly be a fall in eco-nomic activity, and particularly jobs. Many well-paying jobs are concentrated in the oil-sands. Many of our residents either work there or work for companies that supply the oil-sands.

There will be no new construction projects in that area, as long as oil prices stay at the $60 to $70 per barrel level. It simply costs too much to produce oil from the oil sands. As economic activity is reduced, it impacts taxa-tion to the federal and provincial governments. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and B.C. all are dependent on revenue from oil and natural gas.

In B.C., one LNG project has been delayed by the falling price of oil, as Asian natural gas prices are tied to oil prices. More could be delayed or even cancelled. It is significant that none of the major LNG players are ready to commit.

A fall in economic activity likely means that 2015 will see much lower growth than antici-pated, which won’t help the overall Canadian economy.

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Our government in-troduced a new phase of the Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS). Despite false claims that funding has been cut, we’ve re-newed funding under

this program for the next five years, with a focus on a “Housing First” approach.

Through this re-newed commitment, communities will con-tinue to receive the same amount of fund-ing for programs to prevent and reduce homelessness as they did previously.

Housing First is a proven, evidence-based model and will deliver better results for the most vulnerable. It worked internationally and has shown clear success where it has been tried in pilot proj-

ects here in Canada. Housing First in-

volves moving home-less individuals from the streets and short-term shelters into im-mediate and permanent housing, while offering support for addictions, mental illnesses and life skills development.

Evidence has shown that it’s more effective to address issues, such as lack of education and training and men-tal health or substance abuse issues, when the individual is first in stable housing.

While Housing First will be the cornerstone

of our new HPS, com-munities will retain flexibility to invest in other proven approach-es that reduce home-lessness at the local level, such as shelters and transitional hous-ing.

The Opposition fre-quently criticizes our Conservative initia-tives, including Hous-ing First, in spite of the international evidence of its effectiveness. But that’s because – aside from raising taxes and legalizing marijuana – they don’t actually have any ideas of their own.

Our government makes no apologies and is proud to be en-suring hard-working taxpayer dollars are directed to where they will have the largest, long-term impact.

Breakfast with the big guy: Left, Aspen Dupuis is thrilled to have her picture taken with Santa Claus during the Breakfast with Santa event held Dec. 7 at the Sicamous and District Recreation Centre. Above, Carol Schlosar paints Lucille Patrick’s face. Photos by Victoria Rowbottom

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I heard a bird singIn the dark of De-

cemberA magical thingAnd sweet to re-

member.‘We are nearer to

SpringThan we were in

September,’I heard a bird singIn the dark of De-

cember. -Oliver Herford, I

Heard a Bird Sing.

Wow – it’s winter al-ready and now we can finally call it a wrap!

Late fall/early win-ter is like a spring movie in reverse, when everything we had put out – hoses, ornaments, flower pots, porch swings, tools, etc. – has to be put away again. Then we batten down the hatches before the ice and snow arrive.

This year we had a bit of a temperature swing thing happening, so the stinkbugs didn’t know whether they were coming or going and neither did I.

My mantra is always

“the more I do now, the less I have to do later.” So before my trip to Maui, I was ‘mak-ing hay while the sun shines,’ busily working on my garden projects in the cold. I figured that was it for the year, but I still had another week when I got back to gather about 100 bags of leaves, 60 more buckets of road sand and take four full truck- loads of branches to the dump after my tree guy came to top off all the leaders to give us our beautiful view of the lake back.

When it’s truly time for me to call it quits, I clean and vacuum out my poor old car out, which is usually full of sand, granite dust, grass, leaf bits, dirt and soil. (Thankfully, I have a very tolerant husband.)

Now we can chill out and enjoy the beau-ty of the snow on red berries, the swans on the lake, the warmth of the fire and flake out on the couch with a nice cuppa tea and a good book or magazine. But winter – as we all know – can be a bit of a trial too, dealing with snow, slippery ice, squirrels moving in, lines freez-ing up, power outages, damaged plants and having the possibil-ity of a heart-stopping ‘near ditch or dip’ ex-perience like I did this

month coming along Mara Lake on a slushy road – yikes! There’s something to be said about being a snow-bird.

Christmas arrived a little early when an unexpected gift was mailed to me (a little garden columnist perk) in the form of a brand new book titled, Down To Earth – Cold Cli-mate Gardens & Their Keepers, written by a couple of gals from the Elk Valley region in B.C. So I will read that one first. (I always make a little joke that scientific opinions are so polarized about climate change and whether we’re going to roast or freeze in a mini ice age, that I don’t know whether I should be planting cactuses or buying a greenhouse.) The one book to me that’s a must-have, is the Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul, which has so many beautiful and touch-ing stories in it that truly capture the spirit of those who care and tend the earth’s plants and soil, as well as their fellow human beings. So make sure you have a box of hankies handy if you get one.

When we were lit-tle kids growing up in North Van, our parents would always take us to the Park and Tilford Brewery near the Sec-

ond Narrows Bridge on Christmas Eve to take our minds off Santa and see their beauti-ful display of lights on the trees, the seemingly hundreds of poinsettias and to hear the musi-cians sing and play mu-sic with crystal glasses, which made a lovely ‘tinging’ sound.

My favorite big girl thing to do now is to linger as long as I can in our lovely garden stores, which are so pretty and full of good-ies and tools that I can buy for my gardeny friends and family and also to make a wish list for myself. My circle need not look any far-ther than a bookstore and one of those places to buy something for me to put under the tree.

This season has so many great things about it – the socializ-ing and yummy food, pretty lights, excited children, Christmas performances, beauti-ful music and displays, sleigh rides and hot chocolate, and all else in between. It’s also a time to be thankful, and, for me – and I’m sure for so many others – I’d like to express my thanks, appreciation and gratitude (once again) to all of the gar-deners, farmers, horti-culturists, landscapers, landscape maintenance people and municipal

crews, along with the countless others who own or are involved in the nurseries, florist shops, farmers mar-kets, seed supply, food, soils, plants and bee keeping, the garden stores, hanging bas-ket suppliers and our educators for giving us your gifts of fresh food, flowers, plants, knowledge, seeds, cre-ativity and skill to this beautiful and bountiful place we call home in the Shuswap.

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A piece of Sicamous wound up being part of a Hollywood produc-tion filmed recently in the North Okanagan.

To be exact, there are eight pieces, painted by Eagle Valley Brush and Palette club members, which were selected for an interior setting in the film Go With Me, star-ring Sir Anthony Hop-kins, Ray Liotta and Julia Stiles. Also in the movie is former Shus-wap Totems player Lo-chlyn Munro.

How did the paint-ings – largely scenics and florals – come to be in the film? Club member Amy Bout-well explained the club displays its paintings in various places, and one of them happens to be Enderby’s River Rocks Bistro. Someone with

the production saw the paintings and decided they were right for the film. Next thing, club members received a visit by a production-team member, asking for permission to use their work.

Boutwell says none of the artists whose work was chosen wish to be singled out, that this is an honour shared by the club.

“It’s a very small deal. Yes, they’re using our paintings, but it’s just part of their sets,” says Boutwell.

“It’s a great honour for us, of course it is.”

Another perk of having he club’s work selected was the oppor-tunity it provided to sell Sicamous to the visit-ing production member, who Boutwell said was very impressed by what she saw.

“She had never been here and didn’t realize how beautiful it was, and she said can I come live in your basement and that sort of thing. I said, well for Heaven’s sake, promote it to the people who are doing the filming,” exclaimed

Boutwell with a laugh. “Sicamous has a lot to offer compared to Enderby and Lumby. We’ve got the lakes and much more scenery… so anyway, I did talk it up to her.”

Go With Me was produced by Enderby

Entertainment’s Rick Dugdale, a native of that community.

Boutwell says she and her fellow Eagle Valley Brush and Pal-ette Club members will be sure to see the film when it comes to the silver screen.

Local artists’ work picked for productionBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Brush with fame: Sir Anthony Hopkins was recently in the North Okanagan for the filming of the movie Go With Me. File photo

SPORTS

Eyes wide shut: Sicamous’ Riley Cardinal goes in for the kill on Chase Heat goalie Michael Byer during Wednesday night’s home game that saw the Eagles earn a 4-0 win. Photo by Lachlan Labere

Strong week for Sicamous

The Sicamous Ea-gles put a chill on the Chase Heat last week, earning a 4-0 win on

home ice.It wasn’t for a lack

of effort that the Heat were shut out last Wednesday, Dec. 10. The team managed 27 shots on net, all

stopped by Sicamous’ Patrick Kasper, who currently ranks num-ber four among the KIJHL’s best goalten-ders. Kasper earned the

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

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SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, things are set to go your way and you couldn’t be happier. You thrive on being in control, and that’s right where you will be this week. Good things are ahead.

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CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, your love of travel continues this week, and you won’t be content until you hit the road. If you have the chance to travel, make the most of this opportunity.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, now is a great time to aim for a promotion at work or make some changes to make yourself more marketable. It’s time to push ahead in your career.

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game’s first star. On the scoring front, Riley

Cardinal was first to light up the board at 16:12 in the first period, assisted by Mathew Deveau and Nathan Grieve. The other three goals were delivered in the second half of the second period. Ben Camp-bell potted the first off an as-sist by Samuel Subert, Carter Hansen the second off Nathan Plessis, and Korwin Schew-chuk the third off Subert and Riley Jepson.

As for the third period – it’s best left forgotten, being a bit of a gong show with re-

peated trips to the sin bin for both teams.

On Friday, Dec. 12, the Ea-gle made a run for the border, or at least Fruitvale, to take on the Beaver Valley Night-hawks. The end result was a 3-1 victory for the home team, with Sicamous’ single com-ing in the second frame from Owen Rowsell off Braden Lozinski.

Sicamous goalie Olivier Charest – who currently ranks number 10 among his KI-JHL peers – was kept busy throughout the contest, stop-ping 40 out of 43 shots and earning the game’s second star. Penalties weren’t the is-

sue they were on Wednesday. Saturday night, Dec. 13,

the Eagles were at the Grand Forks arena where they bat-tered the Border Bruins with a 4-1 win.

The Bruins’ netminder, Ja-cob Mullen, was a busy man throughout the game, during which he stopped 50 shots on net. The first one to get by him was delivered half-way through the first period by Justin Wilde off Devyn Myck and Ben Campbell. In the second period, Myck added his second goal of the night off Wilde and Braydon McCarthy. The Eagles’ final two markers were scored at

the halfway mark of the third period. The first came from Grieve off Rowsell and Car-dinal. The second was from Hansen, assisted by Bradley Whitehead and Plessis. Wilde was named the game’s second star.

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Misc. WantedA Collector wants to buy your silver coins, Ingots, collectors coins, old money, o ld stone carvings, sculptures. Todd, 250-864-3521

Private Coin Collector BuyingCollections, Accumulations,Olympic Gold & Silver Coins +Chad: 778-281-0030. Local.

PURCHASING old Canadian & American coin collections & accumulations. 250-548-3670

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also buy rads, batteries, con-verters, alternators, copper, starters, aluminum & electric

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An old fashioned tradition that even the Grinch can’t resist!

‘SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY FIRST’

Through December 20 Sicamous Eagles Boxes of HopeNon-perishable food bank donations accepted at

home games:Dec 10 vs Chase at 7pm, Dec 20 vs Kamloops at 7pm @ Sicamous and District Recreation Centre

Through December 25 Christmas Hamper and

Gift ProgramFood and monetary donations and gifts gratefully accepted at the Eagle Valley Community Resource Centre/Food Bank. Monetary donations should be made directly

to the Eagle Valley Community Support Society.

Hamper Applications now available at the Resource Centre/Food Bank at 1214

Shuswap Ave. Sicamous & the Malakwa of� ce, Malakwa Learning Centre (school). Call 250-836-3440.

December 1-December 31 Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union ATM CampaignThroughout December every time you use a SASCU ATM, SASCU contributes 10 cents to our local food bank. You could even be one of the lucky people who get a random $50.00 dispensed to you - just because! “Happy Holidays from SASCU!”

Wednesday, December 17 Parkview Elementary Christmas Concert 6pm @ Parkview Elementary School

Friday December 19 Cambie Old

Fashioned Christmas Concert7pm @ Cambie Hall For concert submissions call Lexi Gossen at 250-836-3223

Sunday December 21

Christmas at The Hub5-7pm @ The Hub

Tuesday December 23

Christmas Skate7-9pm, FREE @ Sicamous and District Recreation Centre

Wednesday December

24 Candlelight Service7pm Everyone welcome @ Sicamous United Church

Thursday December 25 Community

Christmas Dinner1pm By donation @ Sicamous Seniors Center

Wednesday December 31 New

Year’s Eve Dinner and Dance6pm, cost TBA @ the Legion

Christmas in Sicamous

There are few holiday traditions as time

honoured as wrapping and preparing gifts for loved ones. More and more creative do-it-yourselfers are taking this special tradition a step further by adding a personalized touch to their gifts with handmade wrappings and cards. In fact, creative types are even organizing “wrapping parties” to take advantage of this special time to connect with friends and family.

According to “When people get together to be creative, wonderful things happen, says Shelli Gardner, cofounder of Stampin’ Up!, a crafting and décor company. “And it’s not just because they are stamping. Although our products definitely

make creativity easy and fun, the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories are only the vehicle for the real magic that happens—the connecting. Whether we’re getting together to make cards, create decorations, or have a wrapping party, reaching out to others is what makes the great memories.”

To help create these memories Gardner adds that there are some beautiful new and exciting materials to help create personalized cards, décor, and packaging to make the holidays merry and bright. Here are a few of this season’s popular trends:

Tasteful treatsOffering homemade

festive cookies and

treats is a great way to show someone you care, but they become even more heartfelt when packaged in handmade gift wrapping and boxes. With the Under the Tree Tag a Bag accessory kit by Stampin’ Up! you can wrap treats, desserts and gifts in handmade coordinated gift bags and boxes decorated with your choice of designer series paper, ribbons and fabric in fun festive colours such as cherry cobbler, crumb cake, garden green and pistachio pudding.

Personalized DIY greeting cards

According to Gardner, options also abound for those looking to put a personal touch on their holiday cheer with handmade greeting cards.

“You can choose the stamp set, the colour palette, and the eye-catching accessories as you create a unique, customized card that reflects your personal taste, style, and even greeting.”

To give your family Christmas cards a timeless feel you can try the Filigree Frame Textured Impressions Embossing Folder to create that classic design look.

You can create your own festival of trees with the versatile two step stamp set with tree punch where cards, tags and gifts can feature different variations of tree designs.

For the comedic person on your list, add a dash of whimsy for an offbeat take on the traditional holiday season with the

Santa & Co, Visions of Santa and Get Your Santa On product sets. These fun designs will surely brighten spirits.

D o - i t - y o u r s e l f e r s looking for new

techniques and more inspiration can visit www.stampinup.ca to book an appointment with a local demonstrator.

www.newscanada.com

DIY gift wrapping parties help connect friends, family

eagle valley news, december 17, 2014

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