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EAGLE VALLEY

NEWS Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014

Vol. 59 No. 7 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

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Cool creations: Competitors in the Sicamous Snow Days Downtown Snow Sculpture Contest were busy on Sunday putting together their frosty creations. Left – The Sicamous Dental Clinic’s team of Alexandre Li, Emily Liu, Shirley Schandelle, Dina Spelay and Jeanette Mack take five after building Garfield the cat, complete with dental floss. Right – Sam McKellar, events co-ordinator for the Lodge/Haven, gets the snow flying as she sculpts away. Photos by Victoria Rowbottom

Thawing out: The former Louisiana Pacific Mill, under new ownership, is expected to be up and running by mid-April. Photo by Victoria Rowbottom

Preparations underway to re-open Malakwa mill

Rumours about the former Loui-siana Pacific Mill in Malakwa re-opening are true.

Citing economic reasons, Loui-siana Pacific closed the sawmill in 2005, resulting in the layoff of 91 employees. The mill was last opera-tional about four years ago under a different owner.

Since then, there have been a number of attempts get the mill go-ing again. This time, however, Ray Hansen says it’s the real deal.

Hansen, who lives onsite at the mill, will be general manager for Elite Forest Products Ltd.’s Malakwa operation. He says the property was purchased in the spring by Lower Mainland investors who plan to have the mill up and running by mid to

late spring.“We are going to start readying

the mill next month and bring in the mechanics and stuff,” said Hansen. “We figure it will take anywhere from one to two weeks.”

Hansen says the mill’s new own-ers have already invested about $100,000 in upgrades and improve-ments, in addition to securing their own timber licence.

“We did some upgrades last fall. We didn’t get them all finished, but we upgraded the electrical, we up-graded the chipping system and so, you know, they have spent a con-siderable amount of money,” said Hansen. “And the wood licence was of course, those are very expensive nowadays, we’re talking millions.”

Initially, Hansen says about 15 to

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This is a FREE listing of community events for not-for-profit organizations and paid advertisers.

Ph: 836-2570 Fax: 836-2661Email: [email protected]

DEADLINE: 2pm, Fridays

February 21 & 22 - Royal Canadian Legion Funspiel. Register at the Legion before February 16Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays - Active After School Kidz. Ages 5-12 - to register or for more info contact Recreation and Wellness #250-836-2477 or [email protected] 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 Mon. & Fri. - Bridge, Seniors Activity Centre, 1 p.m.Every 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 250-836-5472

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. - Seniors 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 every 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 infoEvery 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.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99. 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.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99. Everyone welcome.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 or just drop in to one of our meetings where you will be welcome.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 to 9 p.m., Sicamous Health Unit.Every 3rd Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:30 in the Malakwa Hall.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at Catholic Church. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Esther 250-836-4373 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Friday - Crib at the Legion at 1:00 pm

Every Friday - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 1st & 3rd Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Royal Canadian Legion #99 at 7:00 pm.Saturdays - Community Yoga 9:00 am Non-Heated Hatha $5 drop-in All levels Families welcome.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 p.m.

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A month-long RCMP initiative crack-ing down on distracted drivers is underway.

Throughout Febru-ary, RCMP officers around the province – including from the Ver-non-North Okanagan detachment – will tar-get distracted or inat-tentive drivers, mainly those drivers insistent on using a cell phone.

Distracted driving is one of the major driv-ing behaviours that contribute to fatal and serious injury motor vehicle collisions.

“Last year, 27 per cent of collision fa-talities in B.C. were caused by distracted or inattentive drivers, de-spite more than 40,000 violation tickets being issued for use of elec-tronic device or driving

without due care and attention,” said Cpl. Robert McDonald of E Division Traffic Ser-vices in Vancouver.

“The public needs to be part of the solu-tion by separating the activities of driving and electronic device use.”

On average in B.C., 91 drivers per year are killed as a result of distracted driving, and leading the way is the Southern Inte-rior with an average of 34 distracted driving deaths per year, three more than in the Lower Mainland.

Locally in Febru-ary, drivers may see RCMP at intersections phoning ahead to a colleague after they’ve seen a driver talking on a cell phone or texting while driving. Officers may even catch drivers in the act.

“There are lots of people who drive and still use their cell phones,” said Ver-non-North Okanagan RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk.

“This month-long campaign is an initia-tive of the RCMP, gov-ernment and ICBC.”

To be clear, you can drive while using a cell phone as long as it’s a hands-free device, i.e., a bluetooth.

You can not text while at a stop sign or stop light.

“If you pull up to a stop sign and an officer sees you talking with a cell phone up to your ear or texting, you’ll be ticketed,” said Mo-lendyk. “You can’t text while stopped because your attention is away from your driving. You should be focused on the stop, the lights and

the traffic beside you.”If you need to send

or check a text or e-mail, you must pull over, off of the traveled portion of the roadway, and bring your vehicle to a complete stop.

The fine for using an electronic device with-out hands-free device while driving is $167. As well, drivers who text or e-mail while driving are subject to three driver penalty points in addition to the fine.

Drivers in the Grad-uated Licence Program (GLP) are not permit-ted to use any electron-ic device, even hands-free devices. The fine is $167 and three demerit

points.Drivers who are ob-

served using an elec-tronic device while committing other mov-ing violations that put themselves and oth-ers at risk will face a charge of driving with-out due care and atten-tion, which carries a fine of $368.

Police are giving motorists plenty of no-tice that one of the days they will, for certain, be targeting distracted drivers is Valentine’s Day.

“That is a day offi-cers will be out because we want to make sure everyone gets home safely to their Valen-tine,” said Molendyk.

RCMP initiative targets distracted driversBy Roger KnoxBlack Press

20 people will be hired, excluding manage-ment, with the intent of hiring locally. And while some key people are already lined up, he says there is still a need for operators, etc.

Hansen says the mill will be manufac-turing hemlock, some from the company’s own logging and some purchased, locally, if possible.

Asked why the mill is reopening, Hansen says it has to do with the demand from Asian markets.

“Apparently, it’s go-

ing to China – they’re the big buyers now,” said Hansen.

The current plan is to get the mill opera-tional and keep it going until freeze-up, says Hansen.

“That’s at least, if the markets are good and the things are go-ing well and we’re able to ready the mill to run in the winter,” said Hansen. “Then we will run in the winter in a limited amount, but that’s only if things re-ally improve from the first year.”

Though initial em-ployment numbers may not be the same as

in 2005, Hansen recog-nizes the important role the mill still can play in the local economy.

“This mill was re-ally the backbone of the employment of this area for so many years,” said Hansen. “And then, when it shut down, boy, oh boy, it’s a rough road to hoe here employment wise…”

Anyone wishing to contact Hansen can do so by calling 250-836-3996.

Asian market prompts re-openingContinued from front

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Columbia Shuswap Regional DistrictNOTICE OF PARCEL TAX ROLL

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District has prepared the 2014 parcel tax roll as required by Section 202 of the Community Charter. The parcel tax roll lists the parcels eligible to be taxed for the following services and will be available for inspection commencing February 11, 2014:

Electoral Area B• Galena Shores Waterworks• Trout Lake Electric

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Management• Saratoga Waterworks• Seymour Arm Liquid Waste

Management• St Ives Street Lighting

The parcel tax roll may be viewed at the Columbia Shuswap Regional District of� ce, 781 Marine Park Drive NE, Salmon Arm BC, Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm.

Property owners may request a correction to the parcel tax roll only with respect to their own property and only for the following reasons:

1. there is an error or omission respecting a name or address on the parcel tax roll;

2. there is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of a parcel; 3. an exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.

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WHETHER OR NOT YOU RECEIVE A UTILITY NOTICE, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS THE PROPERTY OWNER TO PAY YOUR UTILITIES BY THE DUE DATE IN ORDER TO AVOID A PENALTY.

FLAT RATED BILLING • A 10% discount is available on payments received on or before March 3, 2014 • A 10% penalty will be applied to outstanding balances at the close of business on July 2,

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The clock shows five to noon, and Barb Lay-ton is announcing the day’s menu, a steam-ing hot chunk of home-made meatloaf, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots and salad.

“It’s comfort food,” Layton, the cook, com-ments prior to Thurs-day’s Meals to Wheels lunch commencing.

With food prepared for 50, Layton returns to the kitchen where she, co-worker Irene Mahringer and vol-unteer Amy Boutwell start plating up. As vol-unteer servers Eileen and Stephen Hill carry the plates to the tables, the friendly chatter, and laughter is soon re-placed by the sound of utensils digging in.

It appears to be an-other successful meal.

Sicamous’ Meals to Wheels program is something of an institu-tion in the community – every Tuesday and Thursday at the Haven, for six bucks anyone can have a generously-portioned hot lunch, complete with dessert. As per the program’s name, lunches are also delivered to those un-able to attend.

Eagle Valley Seniors Meals Society, the or-ganization which over-sees the program, has planned something dif-ferent for this month. On Valentine’s Day,

Friday, Feb. 14, they’ll be serving a roast beef dinner with all the trim-mings at the neighbour-ing Sicamous Seniors Centre. The event is a fundraiser for the meals program whose future, according to EVSMS board president Regina Forry, is hazy at best. If left at is, she says, the program may stop serv-ing lunches by Decem-ber.

“We can make it through the year, and then there’s a few peo-ple who have given cash donations which has been excellent. Ev-ery dollar helps,” says Forry.

EVSMS board vice-president Shirley Hol-comb says that finan-cially, the program is in

a bit of a mess. There is an entirely new board in place now, however, and its members are doing what they can to turn things around.

“We’re not giving up – we could just say, ‘oh, well gee, we’re in trouble, we could just fold it.’ But we’re not doing that… we’re out there trying to think of anything that we can do,” said Holcomb.

One of those things is a lunchtime 50-50 draw. And Holcomb would like to organize a big garage sale. But, of course, the lunch is the centrepiece of the program, and Forry says the goal is to raise money without having to raise the cost to the public.

A lot of people are under the impression that it’s for the seniors; well no it’s not,” em-phasizes Forry. “Any-body can come out and have a meal. And a lot of people use it just as social time. But we’ve had people come in with kids. That’s just fine. For six bucks you get a decent meal.”

Volunteer help is ap-preciated, says Forry, explaining most of Si-camous’ churches cur-rently provide two vol-unteers to help serve at each meal.

Anyone wanting to attend a Meals to Wheels lunch is asked to call Dorothy in advance at 1-250-836-2437, so that enough food can be prepared.

Plating up: Barb Layton and Amy Boutwell prepare lunch for Meals to Wheels at the Haven. The program runs Tuesdays and Thursdays and is open to the public. Photo by Lachlan Labere


Fundraiser: Valentine’s Day dinner planned.

Meals program at risk of closing


VICTORIA – On April 1, medical marijuana grow-ing licences expire across the country, and only li-censed commercial growers will be able to legally fill a prescription for pot.

Ottawa is moving to clean up the mess it cre-ated by issuing medical li-cences all over the country. Since then, municipalities have complained that small-scale medical licences have been greatly exceeded, with many used as fronts for a criminal drug trade that has made B.C. infamous around the world.

How big is the problem? There are about 38,000 Ca-nadians licensed to carry marijuana for medical pur-poses, and half of them live in B.C. Their permission to grow their own or buy it from designated small-scale growers is withdrawn in a couple of months.

Here’s a look at the com-

munity level. Police in the Fraser Valley suburb of Maple Ridge estimate that it alone has 500 proper-ties licensed to grow pot. No, Maple Ridge is not a world hotspot for glaucoma or arthritis. It is historically known for its secluded properties and as a base for B.C.’s prison system and the province’s Hells Angels.

Police have only an esti-mate because Ottawa’s bun-gled medical pot scheme conceals the location of licensed growers from pro-vincial and local govern-ments.

The police and fire de-partment have proposed an amnesty or grace period, allowing people to disclose their location and have it properly dismantled with-out penalty, to help deal with the volume.

This mess was created by Ottawa in response to a court ruling that forced them to make medical pot available. The Harper gov-ernment remains trapped

in a failed war-on-drugs mentality that prevents any innovation or even com-mon sense. Then there is the circus in Vancouver, where self-styled princes of pot exploit the confusion of the medical marijuana law to run an Amsterdam-style re-tail trade.

Cannabis Culture, the pot and propaganda empire built by Marc Emery before he was jailed in the U.S., rants about the govern-ment’s “war on patients,” amid garish ads for “pot by post” and exotic weed vari-eties.

“By Health Canada’s own estimate, the cost will increase from $5 per gram to $8.80 per gram – going up by nearly 400 per cent,” its website warns. Appar-ently smoking lots of weed really is bad for your math skills.

Dana Larsen, who spear-headed the ill-conceived and failed decriminalization petition last year, heads up the serious-looking “Medi-

cal Cannabis Dispensary.” It has done so well at its location in the drug bazaar of East Hastings Street that it’s got a branch office on Vancouver’s west side. Its official-looking forms have a long list of conditions where only a confirmation of diagnosis is required. In addition to genuine condi-tions such as side effects of chemotherapy, it includes anxiety, psoriasis, spinal cord injury and even “sub-stance addictions/with-drawal.”

And did you know you can get a vet’s note to buy medical pot for your pet?

Larsen has boasted about the exotic offerings of his stores, including “water-melon hash oil” at $150 for 2.5 grams. Wow man, that’s like 400 million per cent higher!

Fittingly, this farce goes back underground on April Fool’s Day. Medical users can only order shipments from an approved commer-cial producer.

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Olympic Games opens discussion of human rights

OPINION

In the lead-up to the Games, we focus a lot of our attention on the host country and how well we think it will welcome the world. We talk

about how prepared it is to host a flood of athletes, sports fans and international media in its spit-shined venues, and we learn about the social and political problems unique to that country.

Then the opening ceremony begins and we don’t think about location again until we’re comparing their spectacle to previous host countries.

The Olympics are, for all intents and purposes, an event that can be replicated anywhere there are enough sport venues and hotel rooms to accommo-date the event. With that in mind, why, then, does the International Olympic Committee bestow the hon-our of hosting the Games on a country embroiled in human-rights controversies?

We remain deeply troubled by Russia’s newly implemented anti-gay laws, which allow that coun-try to arrest or fine anyone who “promotes nontradi-tional sexual relations.”

The IOC is governed by the Olympic Charter, which completely prohibits discrimination. IOC president Thomas Bach has repeatedly said he’s been assured by President Vladimir Putin that Russia will respect the Charter while the Games are happen-ing. The fact those assurances are necessary should have been reason enough not to award Russia the Winter Games.

But with the competition already underway, that’s a moot point.

Instead, we urge our fellow Canadians to continue having an open dialogue about these injustices through the course of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Take pride in Canada’s athletes as we watch them perform in the coming weeks, but don’t get so swept up that the discrimination being perpetrated in the host country is forgotten.

Canada’s notion of true patriot love must extend beyond our borders. The pride we feel on home soil from being glorious and free should be felt by the citi-zens of every country, especially at the Olympics, when we’re highlighting fellowship among all.

-Victoria News

Prescription pot pretense coming to an endBy Tom FletcherNews Columnist


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SICAMOUS EAGLES PLAYER PROFILE

Tyson TaylorPosition: Forwards Home Town: Kelowna, BCAge: 17 Height: 6’2” Weight: 180Prev Team: Okanagan Hockey AcademyHobbies / Interests: WakeboardingGoals: Junior A/NCAA ScholarshipPersonal Hero: Favorite NHL Team: Toronto Maple LeafsFavorite Player: Patrick KaneFavorite Music: Kings of LeonFavorite Food: SteakWhat do you like best about playing hockey in Sicamous:Great hockey town and a beautiful region

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WEDNESDAY FEB 12Parkview: 9 - 9:30 am

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Public Skating: 3:15 - 4:30 pmNovice & Pre Novice: 5 - 6 pm

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THURSDAY FEB 13Public Skating: 8:30 - 10 am

Lunch Bunch: 12 - 2Public Skating: 2 - 4:30SA Midget: 4:45 - 6:15

Sicamous Midgets: 6:30 - 8 pmEagles: 8:15 - 9:15

FRIDAY FEB 14Parkview 9:15 - 10:30 am

Lunch Bunch: 12 - 1Hockey School: 1 - 3 pm

Public Skating: 3 - 4:30 pmChase vs. Eagles: 7 - 9 pm

SATURDAY FEB 15PreNovice Game: 9 - 10:30 amAtom Game: 11 am - 12:30 pm

SA Atom Div 3: 2 - 4 pm

SUNDAY FEB 16Novice Game: 9 am - 10:30 amAtom Game: 11 am - 12:30 pm

MONDAY FEB 17Public Skating: 9 - 11 amLunch Bunch: 12 - 1 pmSchool Hockey: 1 - 3 pm

Public Skating: 3:15 - 4:30 pmNovice & Pre Novice: 5 - 6 pm

Atom: 6 - 7:30 pmOld Timers: 7:45 - 9:15 pm

TUESDAY FEB 18Public Skating: 9 - 11 am

Lunch Bunch: 12 - 2Figure Skating: 5 - 7:30

Eagles: 7:30 - 9 pm

Rec Centre Gym open 8:00 am to close.Full Membership: $20.

It’s academic: Eagle River Secondary student Mallory Todd paints one of four panels that will eventually adorn the school. The pieces, designed by Todd, Gina Selfe and Sarah Palmer, represent academic pursuits. Separate panels are being painted representing elective school courses.Photo by Lachlan Labere

Agriculture strategy meeting planned

Residents of the Eagle Valley interested in the future of local agriculture may wish to attend an upcoming meeting at the Malak-wa Learning Centre.

On Wednesday, Feb. 12, from 2 to 5 p.m., an agriculture focus group is taking place to help shape the Grow Shus-wap Agricultural Strat-egy.

The meeting is one of several organized by the Columbia Shus-wap Regional District to gather input for the strategy.

The strategy will apply to Electoral Ar-eas C through F (South Shuswap, Falkland-Salmon Valley, Si-camous-Malakwa and North Shuswap-Sey-mour Arm), as well as the CSRD’s municipal

partners, the City of Salmon Arm and the District of Sicamous.

The focus group meetings, according to Grow Shuswap, are in-tended to help identify mechanisms to support food security and the sustainable growth of agriculture in the Shus-wap region including regional differentia-tion, collaboration be-tween organizations, community engage-ment, research and ed-ucation and marketing.

The purpose of an agriculture strategy is to support the industry, provide protection of agriculturally-capable land and integrate ex-isting economic and land-use policies.

To get a better idea, visit www.growshus-wap.ca. To attend the Feb. 12 meeting, contact Robin Cyr at [email protected].


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I can jump on my high horse and type away about the benefits of tending the land or-ganically and why to strive for a toxic-free world. Garden foo-foos and fails are always fun to write about, along with fleshing out facts on flowers and plants, meandering down the nostalgic path of time to childhood memories and returning to those interesting places that I’ve seen and traveled to.

I also get to grumble if I want to. My hubby wryly describes me as ‘an architect of time’ – an attribute I feel I fine-tuned during my earlier office days, and then as a mother holding up a hundred balls in the air.

I do admit I pride myself on my ability to organize, prioritize and orchestrate my day in such an efficient man-ner that I don’t waste a single moment of it.

This I feel, allows me to get as much done as possible within the nat-ural daily restraints of sunrise and sunset and it also gives me some flexibility when those unexpected and inevi-table interruptions inter-fere with my day when I’m digging around the daffodils.

However, whether these forced interludes are fun or frustrating, I still grapple with that “just go with the flow” warm and fuzzy feeling and instead let fly an ex-pletive or two under my breath when my mo-mentum gets mucked up. What really gets my goat is lost and wasted time - you know, that one-step-forward-two-steps-back feeling.

For example, how much lost time do I spend every year wres-tling with hoses that twist up while I drag them around, that in-evitably catch on some-thing that will pull it out or over. Then on the sprinklers that sprinkle everywhere except the place I want it to, taking countless adjustments to get it right.

Precious time has been wasted when the motors on my machines wouldn’t start and many more minutes are lost again while my handy hubby is hassling with them.

Hunting down hand tools I had just put down and had somehow mysteriously vanished, like some invisible lit-tle elves had gleefully made off with them, seems to be an every day time-stealer too.

We gardeners al-ready need to deal with the annual scramble of planting, seeding,

weeding, watering, har-vesting and storing as it is, let alone all those extra jobs in between which need doing, re-doing, rearranging or repairing. And no sea-son is excluded from it.

In my life for exam-ple, springtime is doing firewood, taking at least a whole week out of my garden schedule.

Summer means school is out when there’s lots of involun-tary time out for playing and entertaining, and no time for gardening.

Fall time is comb-ing the community for bags and bags of ma-terials for my compost containers, leaving little time for much else. And now it’s winter-time, when all I can do is watch the seen and unforeseen casualties inflicted by the weather.

The first cuss to cross

my lips was caused by that measly one inch of wet snow that fell in December that busted up my big butterfly bush, which will now require a great deal of surgery and pruning in the spring.

The second to slip up was when an entire 40-foot length of post-and-rail fence – along with the perfectly placed rocks surrounding it – was oops-identally taken out by the exca-vator that was pressed into service for snow removal.

Perhaps a tree will topple onto the garden shed or trash my nice new trellises, or maybe my shrubs and bushes will be completely squashed and suffo-cated under the moun-tains of piled up snow. Will my beautiful red climbing rose finally

succumb to a vicious freeze/thaw/freeze cy-cle?

Who knows what the winter will wreak upon my landscape and what my fix-it list will look like by spring. All I can do about it in the meantime, I guess, is grumble.

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The Shuswap Food Action Co-op will be serving food for thought, hoping to re-ceive the same in order to develop a local food security policy.

On March 11, the Shuswap Food Action Co-op (SFAC) is host-ing the community fo-rum, Food for Thought, with partner Okana-gan College to discuss “strengthening our lo-cal food economy.” The forum, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Salmon Arm campus, includes a dinner prepared with local food.

According to the society, food security exists when “all com-munity residents obtain safe… nutritious food through a sustainable food system that maxi-mizes healthy choices, community self-reli-ance and equal access for everyone.”

With the Food for Thought forum, the group wishes to gather

community organiza-tions and any local citi-zens, especially those with an interest in pro-ducing, warehousing, processing and supply-ing food, to share ideas to strengthen local food security, with the ulti-mate goal of develop-ing a local food policy.

“To do that, we need local citizen input, whether it be the per-son who volunteers to share their backyard, or the person who has an acre they’re willing to rent/lease or share, to a person who has a farm. Whether it be veg-etables, fruit, chicken, pork, beef, all of these things can be produced locally,” said SFAC spokesperson John McLeod, explaining a point of food security is supporting reliable, local independent food sources and not be de-pendent on imports and reliance on what he re-fers to as the “industrial agri-complex.”

“ H i s t o r i c a l l y , Salmon Arm had the Salmon Arm farm-

er’s exchange,” said McLeod. “That started because some orchard-ists wanted to mar-ket some apples, and it grew into a hugely successful economic driver in our commu-nity. And in 1940, the Salmon Arm Farmer’s Exchange paid a divi-dend of $40,000 to its shareholders.

“If a community like Salmon Arm be-came shareholders in their own food co-op, we could all benefit and keep the money that’s generated in our com-munity.”

For McLeod, one ideal outcome would be the establishment of a community com-mercial entity similar to Nelson’s Kootenay Co-op. It opened in 1981 (though the co-operative was founded in 1975) as a small retail outlet staffed by volunteers, and is cur-rently located down-town on Baker Street, where it pulls in more than $6 million an-nually in gross sales.

McLeod says this is one of a number of co-ops in B.C. in various stages of development. He views Salmon Arm as being ripe for one of its own.

“We’ve got the dirt, we’ve got the expertise, we’ve got the man-power,” said McLeod. “What we’ve got to do is put all those things together. But it needs a consumer, and the way to become the consum-er is to become part of the invested commu-nity where we agree to support each other.”

Anyone wishing to attend the Food for Thought forum is asked to RSVP to Margaret Hardy at [email protected] or John McLeod at 250-832-7518, or by email at [email protected], by March 4. For more information about Food for Thought, con-tact Margaret Hardy at [email protected], or Laura Kalina at [email protected], or at 250-851-7424.

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Eagles drop two on long weekend

The Sicamous Ea-gles were short on goals over the long weekend.

When they last met, the Eagles overcame the Kamloops Storm with a 7-5 win. But the KIJHL’s leading team prevented a repeat per-formance when they hit Sicamous’ ice on Fri-day, Feb. 7.

Following a score-less first frame, the Storm potted three second-period markers, giving the team a solid lead going into the third. The Eagles came back stronger in the third period, but were only

able to find the back of the net once, during a power play in the last six seconds of the frame when Riley Jepson was able to ripple the mesh. He was assisted by Na-than Grieve and Nicho-las Astasiewicz.

Kris Joyce was back in net for Sicamous, stopping 36 shots.

Saturday night, Feb. 8, the Eagles suffered a difficult defeat to guests the Summerland Steam.

Once again, the first period went by with neither team lighting up the board. That didn’t happen until the second half of the second peri-od, when Summerland chipped in the game’s

first goal, adding two more in a matter of min-utes. With 56 seconds left, Owen Rowsell was able to put Sicamous on the board, assisted by Hayden Orton.

In the third frame, Summerland earned a power-play marker, with Grieve earning the rebound seconds later off of Colin Blake and Stephen Hawko.

The Eagles’ backup netminder Ryan Fisher was in for the whole game and made 24 saves.

The Eagles are back on home ice on Valen-tine’s Day to face off against the Chase Heat. Game time is 7 p.m.


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Apt/Condo for RentTOWNHOUSE, adult only, 2 bdr, 2 bath,2 car garage, fi re-place, central air, cable tv, avail. immed. (250)837-5774

Homes for RentMalakwa-3bdrm home $650 +utils. 2bdrm $600.+utils, 250-836-2928 or 250-309-0975

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Suites, LowerSICAMOUS Lrg fully furn 1bdrm in newer home. Priv ent parking walk to ammen NS $700/mo util sat & wifi incl avail immed (250)253-1038

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