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NEWS Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014

Vol. 59 No. 1 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

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Mondays, 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 250-836-5472Every 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 Thurs.- Steve Nash Youth Basketball Parkview Elementary 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Oct. 17-Dec.5 call 778-930-0534.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 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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Dudley has taken to walk-ing on two legs like other ducks would to water.

On Wednesday, Dec. 18, Dudley the call duck’s right limb was fitted with a pros-thetic leg and foot. By Friday, Dudley’s owner and caretaker, Debbie Fortin of K9-1-1 Ani-mal Rescue and Services, said the little water fowl was walk-ing on both legs as though he had them his whole life.

“He also thinks now that he has a leg, he can run away,” laughs Fortin. “When we go to get him now for his bath, because he still has to have rehab, instead of just sitting there and letting us pick him up, he’ll try and run away, and he’s very successful at it but he’s in a confined area. It’s really good to see that happen because before he couldn’t.”

Dudley lost his foot and part of his leg when he was a wee duckling. Not long after, For-tin’s son, Brandon Schweitzer contacted his friend Terence Loring, a mechanical engineer who recently started his own Kamloops-based company 3 Pillar Designs. Loring, who specializes in 3D architecture and design, paid the duckling a visit and decided to take on the challenge of designing a prosthetic leg.

Loring came up with a few different designs and two models, with the actual print-ing of prosthetics being done by Canadian company Pro-to3000. The first, he says, was at a wrong angle and more complex than needed.

“I thought I’d try to make it very realistic, but it just made it super cumbersome, so I de-cided to go back to something very simple and build on that,” says Loring. “At least we got

him walking, and if need be we can do something a little more complex. But at this point, at least he’s got his bal-ance and everything.”

Loring and Proto3000 do-nated all of their time and materials for the project, for which Fortin is grateful.

Dudley is still getting used to moving on the new leg, with some surfaces and ob-stacles that he was used to go-ing over with one leg posing a

bit of a challenge. But, in gen-eral, Fortin says he’s getting around better and his health is improving as a result.

“He also now is using his wings more because he’s more upright so he’s able to flap them fully open,” says Fortin. “We had to clip his wings so he doesn’t fly, but he has his flight wings so spreads them and flaps them because he can stand up and be like a real duck. He seems pretty proud.”

A remaining challenge is the fastening of the prosthetic to Dudley’s stub – something more secure is needed.

“We’re looking into a strap or something to hold the actu-al leg on his stump,” says For-tin. “That’s a transition we’re making too, but we’ve got several people trying to come up with ideas that won’t stop circulation… you can see it’s doable.”

When news of his humane design project broke, Loring said he received calls from other people with injured animals, including someone with an emu that had lost its leg. Loring was interested in taking on the project; how-ever, due to other complica-tions, the animal had to be put down. And while his cur-riculum vitae includes much larger design projects, Loring is enthusiastic about his work with Fortin and Dudley, and how he was able to have an positive impact on both their lives.

“A lot of people say it’s trivial, and in some ways it might be, but a lot of people really care for this little ani-mal, so I guess that’s why I really wanted to take this on,” says Loring. “If they think it’s important enough, well, why not?”

As someone who cares for animals professionally, Fortin says her eyes are now wide open to the world of 3D print-ing and the potential benefits the technology can offer ani-mals and humans alike.

“There’s lots of possibili-ties and I know we can’t look at funding those things be-cause we don’t have the finan-cial backing, but just knowing that it is possible to do that gives us a lot more insight as to what we can do,” says For-tin.

Prosthetic gives duckling leg up in lifeBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Quack on two feet: Dudley the duck takes his first steps on his new prosthetic leg. Photo contributed

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This week the News reviews the headlines from January to June.

January

• Greg Kyllo, a councilor with the Dis-trict of Sicamous, gar-nered strong support for his bid for the Lib-eral nomination in the Shuswap riding, win-ning on the first ballot. Kyllo claimed 330 of the approximately 600 ballots cast. He will replace longtime MLA and Sicamous resident, George Abbott, who is retiring.

• Sicamous RCMP appealed to the pub-lic for information re-garding a Christmas Day robbery at the Sicamous Husky. The suspect was described as a man, approximate-ly five-foot-two to five-foot-five in height with a stocky build.

• A total of 26,200 mouse clicks brought the Eagle Valley Food Bank nearly $3,000 and second place in the Kraft Food for Families contest for the Pacific region.

• Most property owners received their property assessments showing slight drops in estimated property values for most regions of B.C. Sicamous saw higher decreases than the other communities included in the North Okanagan region.

• The Sicamous Ea-gles were near the top of their division, but not at the top of their game. Since returning to the ice on Jan. 4 fol-lowing the Christmas break, the Eagles have dropped three games and won two, including a narrow 3-1 overtime decision versus the Grand Forks Boulder Bruins. Two of those losses were to rivals the Revelstoke Grizzlies, including a 7-4 defeat.

• Columbia Shus-wap Regional District directors are resolute in their belief that flood management remains a provincial responsibil-ity.

• The Salmon Arm Fall Fairgrounds and

Sicamous are options being considered by Summer Stomp orga-nizers for the event’s home in 2013.

• Jan. 2, 2:35 pm., a local resident reported her credit card was stolen and in excess of $3,000 was racked up on the card. A lo-cal 45-year-old male was identified, and has subsequently been charged.

• Sicamous council agreed to voice its op-position to an unex-pected gravel pit appli-cation referral from the province, and proceed with a bylaw to control such activity.

• The application is for a five-year-permit to operate a rock quarry at 200 Old Town Road. Council agreed to ex-press to the province their “unequivocal” objection to the appli-cation, and have staff continue with the cre-ation of a soils removal and deposition bylaw.

• RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk left Elk Valley to join the Sicamous detachment. He re-placed Sgt. Carl Vinet, who left for Nanaimo to become an RCMP professional standards investigator with the detachment there.

• The Sicamous Eagles gave their fans a reason to cheer, and cry, during a trio of home games. Friday’s guests, the Summer-land Steam must have evaporated on the bus ride to town, as the team was shut out in a 6-0 loss to Sicamous. The Eagles saw a re-versal of fortune Satur-day when they wound up on the losing side of a 7-1 tally versus the Kelowna Chiefs. Sun-day’s game was a tight-er affair versus rivals the Revelstoke Griz-zlies, with a 5-3 victory for Sicamous.

• Sicamous coun-cil will be looking at whether or not the dis-trict should take own-ership of the communi-ty’s curling rink. Club president Bruce Ritchie expected the proposal to come before council at their regular meeting

on Feb. 13. This pro-posal, says Ritchie, was prompted by declining membership and in-creased costs of main-tenance and upkeep.

• Eagle River Sec-ondary student, Adam Bird recently com-pleted his 90-hour pro-bationary period ap-prenticing with Twin Anchors Manufactur-ing/TA Structures. Adam, who is enrolled in School District #83’s apprenticeship pro-gram with TAS, will now continue his ap-prenticeship as a paid employee.

• In five years time, Brad Gibbard has pro-gressed from an award-winning carpentry student to a red seal carpenter and owner of Rigid Construction. He was also named Young Entrepreneur of the year in the Sicamous

Chamber of Com-merce’s 1012 Business Excellence Awards. Gibbard says his expe-rience at Eagle River was a positive influ-ence for him and where he’s ended up.

February

• A woman was hos-pitalized after being disarmed by Sicamous RCMP during a stand-off. In the early hours of Feb. 3, police re-sponded to a report of a woman with a knife threatening to harm herself in a residence on Eagle Pass Way.

• Sicamous RCMP will be working with the public to encourage a preventive approach to snowmobile thefts.

• The District of Si-camous is warning the water advisory level may be changing again

in response to fluctuat-ing turbidity levels.

• It is a sad time as the Sicamous Old Age Pensioners Organiza-tion recently folded. The traditional socials and favourite chari-ties will be continued by the Sicamous and District Senior Centre Society.

• While recent changes to the Si-camous Eagles’ lineup may not have been for the best, the team ap-pears playoff-bound. Wins outnumbered losses 3-1 for the Eagles, including a surprise, come-from-behind 2-1 victory versus the Revelstoke Grizzlies. Despite be-ing inundated with in-juries throughout the year, the Eagles persist and manager, Wayne March expects there’s lots of good hockey still to come.

YEAR IN REVIEW

Kyllo wins bid for Liberal nomination

See Province on page 5

Congratulations: Shuswap MLA George Abbott shakes hands with the riding’s new Lib-eral candidate Greg Kyllo.


In 2005, Conservative leader Stephen Harper de-clared he would “stand up for Canada.”

It was the start of the federal-election campaign and the country was still di-gesting the many truths of the Gomery Commission, that federal body that spent months looking into the fed-eral sponsorship program in Quebec, the albatross that involved the federal Liber-als and which had firmly wrapped itself around for-mer Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien’s neck. One of the major findings of the report by retired justice John Gomery was the need for protection for whistle-blowers in the federal public sector who went public with government wrongdoings.

Among the platforms Harper would use for his campaign were proposals to address government ac-countability and transpar-

ency, things like fixing the broken system of award-ing government contracts, being truthful in budgets, strengthening access-to-in-formation laws, improving auditing and accountability in government departments and providing protection for whistleblowers.

In 2006, as he prepared to take over as head of the federal government, Harper declared one of his govern-ment’s first acts would be to create an accountability law that would be in line with Gomery’s recommenda-tions.

Fast forward to 2013 and the revelation recently revealed through an anony-mous source — who pro-vided documentation to back the information — that the government will now require all staff for mem-bers of Parliament to sign a lifetime confidentiality agreement. So much for the public knowing the public’s business.

It makes sense to protect

the government and Cana-dians, but this new require-ment by the Conservative government is designed simply to protect a political party. It’s spelled out in the second clause of the one-page agreement, the need to protect “the politically sen-sitive and partisan environ-ment” in which they work.

Break it and it can mean immediate termination. Don’t sign it and there go any pay raises or chances at promotions or transfers.

It’s been decried as a bla-tant attempt to stop whistle-blowers within the federal government. So, just to put it into perspective, here’s a list of some of those gov-ernment staffers who have taken their issues public — and why:

• Sylvie Therrien re-vealed Employment Insur-ance investigators had been assigned quotas to achieve, which led to harassment and wrongful penalties on Cana-dians;

• Michele Brill-Edwards

was the senior physician with Health Canada who went public with the influ-ence pharmaceutical com-panies exert on approvals of drugs;

• Joanna Gualtieri went public with all the lavish spending by the federal for-eign-affairs department;

• Richard Colvin re-vealed Canadian troops handed over Afghan de-tainees to that beleaguered country’s authorities to be tortured;

• Linda Keen, head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, went public with her concern the government wanted to re-open its Chalk River atomic plant, even though it had not met safety standards;

• Allan Cutler is the man who blew that first whistle that led to the Gomery com-mission.

My hubby refers to our prime minister as Stephen Stalin.

I used to laugh.It’s not funny anymore.

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Canada Post cuts come without public input

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One can’t help but wonder if the CEOs of BC Ferries and Canada Post came from the same school of business.

Both quasi-crown corporations recently made major decisions with minimal consultation about their proposals. Neither the post office nor the ferry system seem to care about the impact their decisions to help pay the bills will have on the taxpayers. While both groups need some busi-ness-model restructuring, both seem to have gone the “fire sale” route, cutting as deep as they can.

Pretty much the only mandate of the Canadian postal service is to get the mail to the people of Canada. And yet, instead of corporate restruc-turing (perhaps doing away with some of their 22 president and vice-president positions) and/or reducing administrative costs, Canada Post, out of the blue, announces that they will no lon-ger be bringing mail to your doorstep and will be cutting thousands of mail carrier jobs in the years ahead.

It’s simple to say that people can now go to a central mailbox location to get their mail, and the reality is most people can without too much of a problem. But Canada Post’s plan fails to take into account the thousands of Canadians for whom this will not be just a problem, but a major hindrance in their day-to-day life.

I’m talking about those who face mobility challenges, be it as a result old age, some sort of accident or a lifelong disability. On one hand, the government is doing what it can to encour-age seniors to live in their homes as long as pos-sible, while on the other hand, the government is making it much more difficult for them to do so.

Is Canada Post really going to ask senior citi-zens who may barely be able to move around the house, let alone drive, to make their way around town in order to pick up the mail?

Oh wait, BC Ferries is in the midst of doing just that.

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• Swansea Point residents are feeling cautiously optimistic that work will finally be done to repair Hum-mingbird Creek and alleviate the risk of further flooding. On Feb. 6, Tina and Dan Keely and other Swan-sea Point residents received a letter from Christy Clark’s execu-tive officer, Cameron Lewis, assuring work would soon begin to re-pair the creek, left full of debris from a flash flood that occurred over the summer.

• The penny is being phased out of existence – reason being the coin costs more to produce than it’s worth. But the copper-coloured coin is still highly valued at Eagle River, where stu-dents have been pinch-ing pennies for the non-profit humanitarian organization Free the Children.

• A familiar com-munity voice is now silent. Bob Crouse, morning news anchor at EZ Rock Radio died after a long illness. Crouse worked at the station for 30 years and was best known for his strong voice, excel-lence in reporting and love of the job.

• Swansea Point residents are far from content with the prov-ince’s plan for flood mitigation along Hum-mingbird creek. MOTI

district manager Mur-ray Tekano said work would begin Feb. 18, to restore the creek to the condition it was in prior to the June 23, 2012 flash flood. What the ministry will not do is replace the cul-vert, which was iden-tified by the majority of residents as neces-sary to mitigate future debris flows similar to the one in June, when the culvert was rapidly plugged forcing the torrent over the high-way and through resi-dential areas.

• Cage fighter Ryan Allen, who currently trains out of Gracie Barra Salmon Arm and Gracie Barra Ver-non, will be stepping into the octagon for the sixth time in Penticton. With a record of 4-1, Allen will put his Bat-tlefield Fight League Amateur Middleweight

title on the line when he meets Jared Revel.

• Hogs will go to the dogs if the Sum-mer Stomp committee is successful at mak-ing Sicamous their new home. Sicamous coun-cil directed district staff to begin the process of looking at the legalities and necessary arrange-ments to accommodate the motorcycle rally.

• With their regu-lar season wrapped up with a 5-2 win, the Si-camous Eagles are rar-ing for playoff action.

• Georgina and Sar-ah Kyllo are on a mis-sion to bring yoga to Sicamous. The mother and daughter team are the founders of I Am Yoga studio. Their long-term mission is to run the studio on a full-time basis, offering different styles of yoga, and other activities re-volving around person-

al growth and wellness, to teens and adults.

• The Sicamous Midget Junior Eagles finished their season with the best game of the year versus the first-place Lillooet Pistons.

• A replacement for Bruhn Bridge is not among the province’s planned four-laning projects for sections of the Trans-Canada between Kamloops and the Alberta border. Not yet, anyway. Local projects planned so far include replacing the Eagle River and North Fork bridges.

• At the request of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, BC Transit is conducting a feasibility study to

assess the viability of linking Falkland to the Vernon transit system, and the potential for regional service from Sicamous, Malakwa and Swansea Point to the Shuswap Regional Transit System.

• It may not hurt to ask, but it’s unlikely the province will find the Columbia Shus-wap Regional District receptive to taking on responsibility for ongo-ing flood mitigation on Hummingbird Creek. CSRD administrator Charles Hamilton says the regional district would require a man-date from the electorate to enter into an agree-ment with the ministry regarding Humming-bird. Hamilton, how-ever, says the CSRD board has made it clear that responsibility for creeks, streams or lakes is with the Crown and province.

March

• Interior Health an-nounced that lab ser-vice will commence on Monday, March 11, and will continue Mondays from 8:30 am to 12:30 p.m. at the Sicamous Health Centre. “We’ve been working on bring-

YEAR IN REVIEW

Continued from page 3

See Firefighters on page 6

Province ready to repair Hummingbird

Creek concerns: Swansea Point residents express their concerns about Hummingbird Creek to BC NDP safety critic Kathy Corrigan.


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SICAMOUS EAGLES PLAYER PROFILE

Brady CrabtreePosition: Forward Home Town: St. Louis, MissouriAge: 18 Height: 6’0” Weight: 190Prev Team: St. Louis AAA U18 BluesHobbies / Interests: Golf, NHL14, NetflixPersonal Hero: Goals: Play College HockeyFavorite NHL Team: St. Louis BluesFavorite Player: TJ OshieFavorite Music: Rap, CountryFavorite Food: SteakWhat do you like best about playing hockey in Sicamous:Hanging with the boys

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• At 2:04 p.m. on March 2, Sicamous RCMP received a 911 call from a residence in the Cedar Ridge Mo-bile Home Park. The investigating officer found one of the units fully engulfed and con-tacted the fire depart-ment. Fire Chief Brett Ogino said it took three hours for his crew to contain and knock out the fire.

• Council agreed to once again contract BWP to manage the district’s mosquito control program, bud-geting $160,000 for the program.

• The Jr. B Eagles met their match in the North Okanagan Knights. Sicamous suf-fered a frustrating 5-6 overtime defeat at the hands of their Arm-strong hosts in game one of the division fi-nals.

• The chamber asked that Sicamous council consider a three-year fee-for-service agree-ment worth $20,000 annually, that would enable the chamber to continue being the “go-to organization for the co-ordination of special events with the District of Sicamous.” Council deferred a de-

cision on the matter to budget deliberations.

• The past couple of months have been very busy for Michelle Wolff, as she’s settled into the position of ex-ecutive director for the Sicamous Chamber of Commerce.

• The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board has elected real-tor Karen Singbeil of Sicamous as its new president.

• It only takes one more goal to win. This is something the Si-camous Eagles roster likely won’t forget af-ter being knocked out of the KIJHL division finals by the North Okanagan Knights. The knights succeed-ed by being one goal ahead in all four games on the series, including a 6-5 overtime win, fol-lowed by tallies of 4-3, 2-1 and 2-1.

• Terry Rysz was racking up the kilome-tres, driving between Sicamous and Prince George, where he was running as the B.C. Conservative Party candidate for Prince George-Mackenzie.

• If anyone is aware of the value of a Grade 12 education, it’s the Sicamous Learning Centre’s Tim Lavery. While there are plenty of avenues for upgrad-ing available online, Lavery says adults tend to get more out of the learning centre’s face-

to-face approach.• At the May 1

Southern Interior Local Government Associa-tion meeting in Salmon Arm, Sicamous council will be seeking support for a resolution urging the province to review its Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) pro-gram, with a “view to allow all property owners, regardless of principal or secondary occupancy, to qualify.”

• Eight people were taken to hospital with minor injuries follow-ing a series of crashes on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Rev-elstoke.

• While the writ was yet to drop, Premier Christy Clark made a brief stop by the News office to promote Shus-wap BC Liberal candi-date Greg Kyllo. “With Greg, as someone who is a really prominent, well known, very suc-cessful business per-son, I think we’ve got a real opportunity to communicate how im-portant our economy is to the province,” the premier said. “I’m ex-tremely excited about working under Chris-ty’s leadership in the next government,” said Kyllo.

• The Sicamous Mi-nor Hockey Associa-tion received 25 sets of gear, from helmets to skates and everything in between, estimat-ed to be worth about

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• Revelstoke’s Ban-tam hockey team made the long trek to Daw-son Creek, B.C. for the provincial champi-onships March 17-21. The Revelstoke Ban-tam Grizzlies, which included Sicamous’ Hayden Gjaltema, Liam Sutherland and Brayden Fairley, rep-resented the city well, being awarded the Fair Play Award, given to the team who best rep-resented themselves on and off the ice.

April

• FortisBC has a plan to bring natural gas to Sicamous; the next step is to see if there is enough demand. The conclusion of their analysis was delivered to district council, in a presentation by For-tisBC spokesperson Ruth Sulentich. “Our intention is to lay it all out, show what costs will be up front and over five years what your payback will be,” said Sulentich. “If we don’t attain that vol-ume, that yearly vol-ume that we’re looking for, we can’t move on.”

The brief era of the harmonized sales tax ended in B.C., with a last-minute scramble by thousands of busi-nesses to register as collectors of the re-vived provincial sales tax.

• The federal and B.C. governments commit to funding two-thirds of a $4.5 million water treatment

facility for the District of Sicamous.

• Okanagan Shus-wap MP Colin Mayes stuck with the party line on a bill that attempted to add discrimination against the transgen-dered to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. Also in the House of Commons, Mayes pre-sented a petition from some of his Okanagan-Shuswap constituents calling on Parliament to support an upcom-ing motion to condemn sex-selection.

• The chamber’s new executive direc-tor Michelle Wolff asked that the district consider either mov-ing the fireworks show permanently to August, or else have fireworks shows for both occa-sions. Couns. Greg Kyllo and Terry Rysz were supportive of hav-ing fireworks shows on both of the long week-ends.

• The palatial Mal-akwa residence that serves as home to con-victed drug trafficker Colin Martin is back on the market, though the

sale remains subject to the federal seized prop-erty management act.

• Storefront schools in Sicamous, Salmon Arm and Enderby are being cut back as the North Okanagan Shus-wap School District attempts to meet a projected $1.8 million budget shortfall. Prin-cipal and vice-principal time will be reduced so they can teach more, and there will be 12 teachers lost as a result of dropping enrolment. Storefront schools, which assist adult learners, were targeted because of rising costs and a decline in adult student enrolment.

• On Tuesday, April 9 at 6:53 p.m., Sicamous RCMP re-ceived a report of four snowmobilers getting socked in on Owl Head Mountain, and being unable to find their way out. The snowmobilers were located at around 1:30 am, and off the mountain by 2.

• A Sicamous man identified by RCMP as a dangerous, pro-lific offender is now in police custody, fac-

ing new charges of as-sault with a weapon and pointing a firearm. The arrested man had his first appearance in the Kelowna Supreme Court on April 12.

• Work completed on Hummingbird Creek to prevent future flooding amounts to short-term gain and long-term pain for some Swansea Point residents.

• The district hosted a Spring community clean-up event on April 22 and 23.

• The 2013 Stur-gis North jamboree proposed for Silvery Beach near Chase won’t be moving for-ward, according to in-formation supplied to police.

• Sicamous residents will see a 2.75 per cent tax increase for 2013.Mayor Darrell Trouton said council began their budget deliberations facing an 8.9 per cent tax increase. He says the end result reflects a local government at-tempting to live within its means.

• The District of Sicamous may look to outsource munici-

pal work in the fu-ture if savings can be achieved. The sug-gestion to do so came from Coun. Greg Kyllo who, during coun-cil’s budget delibera-tions, was concerned with the $150,000 the district will be spend-ing in-house on meter reading. “I think, if we could contract out for fifty-grand, and save $100,000 just on this one item, I think it would be worth consid-eration...,” said Kyllo.

• Political differ-ences aside, the audi-ence at the all-candi-

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dates forum in Sicamous seemed united in their appreciation for the calibre of the event. About 50 people attended, and offered an intriguing array of questions that touched on a range of issues, in-cluding national foreign trade to transportation, funding for private schools and bringing industry to the Shuswap.

• On April 29th, four local citizens’ groups sponsored a spe-cial all-candidates forum on the environment at the Fifth Avenue Senior’s Centre in Salmon Arm. Greg Kyllo did not respond to the invitation. Kyllo told the News that he’s already committed to six all-candidates meetings, and that each takes a lot of time to prepare for.

May

• During a visit by B.C. Pre-mier Christy Clark, Shuswap MLA candidate Greg Kyllo’s spoke briefly to a 2010 court de-cision against developers of Old Town Bay for the alteration of fish habitat used recently by the can-didate’s critics, and opponents, as ammunition against him. “There was a misunderstanding with re-spect to the regulations that were in place…,” said Kyllo. “What’s really important is we’ve done full restoration of the area and we’re moving forward. I’ve certainly learned from that and I think that’s made me an even stronger candi-date in moving forward.”

• The applicant behind a con-tentious quarry proposal along Old Town Road aims to clear the air with the public. Murray Hill-son, a Salmon Arm logger, hopes to one day transform the lot into a residence. Building on this moun-tainside, however, will require the removal of rock, and plenty of it. Which is why he currently has before the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Resources an application to operate a gravel pit over a 20-year period.

The Twin Anchors Peewee Stingers girls softball team was off to a hot start in Okanagan Girls softball league play. The Sicamous girls played Vernon in their first league game in Vernon. Final score: Sicamous 18, Vernon 3. The Stingers travelled to Ver-non, this time to play Kelowna. Final score: Sicamous 15, Kelow-na 4.

• Malakwa’s Lake Country Log Homes completed its part of a 26,000 square-foot log home, that is expected for further the reputation of the family-owned and operated business stateside.

• Two Sicamous men suffered serious but non-life threatening

injuries in a single-vehicle ac-cident on a forest serviced road. Both occupants were taken to hos-pital, one by ground and the other by air. One remained in hospital following surgery for internal in-juries and the other was mobile soon after.

• The Sicamous Lions Club held its annual Winterfest, a fun-draiser for children with disabili-ties, in January. The awards din-ner was held March 26, and 11 riders were recognized for raising $8,445.

• Sicamous and Salmon Arm Provincial Martial Arts karate students travelled to Kelowna to compete in the Tae Kwon Do In-ternational Open Canadian Cham-pionships. Mother/son team, Cynthia and Nicolas Michaud of Sicamous, participated in the com-petition. Cynthia brought home a well-deserved bronze medal in her sparring division. Nicolas did not place this time, but says that he is eager to compete again.

• In the unofficial count, with 165 of 166 polls reporting, Greg Kyllo received 11,342 votes, fol-lowed by NDP Steve Gunner, with 6, 972 votes, Conservative Tom Birch with 3,045 Green can-didate Chris George had 2,186 and Johanna Zalcik of the Advo-cational Party took 62.

• On May 9, Sicamous RCMP executed a search warrant at a Mizon Road residence. Sicamous Sgt. Dave Dubnyk says the war-rant was obtained for theft of electricity. Upon entering the residence, investigating officers found two large marijuana grow operations, and multiple firearms including two shotguns and three rifles.

Also on May 9, Sicamous

RCMP executed a second warrant on Cambie-Solsqua Road. Inves-tigating officers found and seized a Caterpillar skid steer and a flat deck trailer.

• Conservation Officer Mike Richardson confirmed that com-plaints were received through the Ministry of Environment’s RAPP (Report All Poachers and Pollut-ers) line relating to truckloads of material being deposited on a property along Cambie-Solsqua Rd., near the Eagle Valley and District Cemetery.

• North Okanagan Shuswap MP Colin Mayes is among those MPs who have captured the at-tention of the prime minister. Mayes told the News he is aware the Prime Minister’s Office does some monitoring because there have been a few instances in the past seven years when he has been contacted regarding different ar-ticles in the newspaper.

• Students at Eagle River Sec-ondary and Salmon Arm Sec-ondary cast their votes in a mock provincial election on May 13 for Student Vote BC 2013. Eagle Riv-er Students would have elected Liberal candidate Greg Kyllo.

• After 22 years in School District #83 Joan Chafe is say-ing goodbye. Chafe retired from Parkview Elementary at the end of the school year.

• The Sicamous Twin Anchors U14 Stingers girls fastball team continues to look impressive in league play, running their record to six wins, zero losses.

• The Sicamous and District Chamber of Commerce and the Stomp committee heard positive feedback at their public forum held May 13. About 30 people at-tended the town hall meeting to

update themselves on the events slated for July 18 to 21.

• Columbia Shuswap Regional District directors supported rec-ommendations to move forward with the process of acquiring the Malakwa school facility and de-velop a draft Community Proper-ty Acquisition Policy. The facil-ity currently houses the Malakwa Learning Academy, Eagle Valley Community Resource Centre, post office, and pottery classes, and they just started having drop-in floor hockey for the kids.

• Reports of a structural fire on Ward Road started coming in around 10:30 Monday morning, and when the Malakwa firefight-ers arrived on the scene, the two-story building was fully engulfed. The blaze is being considered suspicious.

• Columbia Shuswap Region-al District directors approved $17,000 to install a Radio Over Internet Protocol (ROIP) system to replace a problematic 911 fire dispatch system.

• After being advised by the province that Victoria is not plan-ning to install a new bridge or culvert at Hummingbird Creek members of the Swansea Point Community Association appealed to the CSRD directors to write a letter to Transportation Minis-ter Mary Polak on their behalf. Directors agreed unanimously to send a letter to the minister of transportation.

• The Sicamous Firemen’s Club wants a place to display a piece of Canadian history. The club owns a 1928 Gotfredson fire truck that is currently being housed in an old building that will soon be demolished.

• Canada Day in Sicamous

may not be the same now that dis-trict council has decided to move the annual fireworks display to the August long weekend.

• A million dollars may not have been enough to tame Si-camous Creek. Excavators could be seen strategically stacking large rocks in specific areas along the creek, further enhancing pre-vious restoration work done by the province following the June 23 debris flow.

• A Sicamous man is facing several charges including sexual assault, unlawful confinement, as well as weapons-related charges following a recent police search of a Martin Street residence. Quincy Jerrod Kazakoff, 40, is currently in police custody as a result of an RCMP investigation.

• Sicamous’ West Martin-Pat-terson and Vernon’s Jeremy Bell were the team to beat at Kelow-na’s Lakeview Heights Tennis Club Tournament. The two were this year’s reigning team in men’s open doubles, making it five years in a row they’ve taken the top spot at this annual tournament.

June

• Sicamous’ sewer extension projects are expected to be com-pleted within the district’s $10 million budget, which includes a contingency worth close to $1 million. The district was able to borrow the funds in February, 2010, after receiving public con-sent through an alternate approval process.

• In a sight Sicamous residents may have never before witnessed, a large crowd of people, repre-senting all ages in the community, appeared in front of the munici-pal civic centre to protest coun-cil’s decision to move the Canada Day fireworks display to the B.C. Day long weekend. The vote has sparked criticism and dissent in the community, and through so-cial media and email list servers.

• Psychic abilities may give an edge to prospective candidates seeking to take over the role of district deputy corporate officer from soon-to-be-retiring Mary Geall. The ad was written by district chief administrative offi-cer, Heidi Frank, who had taken a somewhat unconventional ap-proach to attracting the right can-didate. While Geall may not claim to have psychic abilities, Frank is hoping to hold on to her at least until the byelection to replace out-going councillor Greg Kyllo.

• A new program offered by the district may appeal to parents stuck for a child-care option after school hours. The Active After

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Forum: Shuswap Liberal candidate Greg Kyllo takes a turn at the mic as Steve Gunner (NDP), Chris George (Green) and Tom Birch (Conservative) listen on at the Sicamous all-candidates forum.


School Kidz program kicked off with an open house at its home, up-stairs at the Sicamous and District Recreation Centre.

• Compromise seems to have quelled the public furor over a council decision to move the Canada Day fireworks event to the August long weekend. At a special meeting, council voted to rescind the previous decision and move the fireworks display back to Canada Day. Afterwards, coun-cil voted in favour of another motion, to split the $20,000 the district has budgeted for fire-works this year so as to hold two shows, with 75 per cent of the fund-ing going towards one on Canada Day, and 25 per cent towards a sec-ond in August.

• Rookie Shuswap representative Greg Kyllo will start his provincial political career getting his feet wet as an MLA. In an announcement, Kyllo, who had been touted by some for a cabinet post, was not among those named to a di-rect portfolio by Chris-ty Clark. Kyllo was named parliamentary secretary for the BC

Jobs Plan, reporting to Shirley Bond, the min-ister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training.

• Terry Rysz doesn’t deny his recent unsuc-cessful run for the B.C. Conservatives in the Prince George-Mack-enzie riding has made him a stronger council-lor for Sicamous. Rysz describes the election as a humbling experi-ence, but highly educa-tional.

• Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo continues to hold a seat on Si-camous council, but not for much longer. “I’m going to be far too busy with provincial matters to resume my duties as a councillor for Sicamous,” he said. “I can not give my fair attention to both, so I will be stepping down.”

• SLIPP may not be sliding away after all. At a SLIPP steer-

ing committee meet-ing held June 10 in Sicamous, members agreed in principle to recommend the Thompson-Nicola , Columbia Shuswap and North Okanagan Regional Districts con-tinue to work together on water quality and safety issues in the Shuswap watershed in 2014 and beyond.

• Corbin Selfe’s DIY approach to his

sport, slope-style free-ride mountainbiking, helped him get through school, though his jour-ney to be among the best is still just gaining traction. He received numerous bursaries and scholarships relat-ed to his planned post-secondary pursuits, as well as his athletic pas-sion.

• The annual Si-camous Angels Ladies fastball tournament

was once again held in Finlayson Park. Si-camous Minor Softball was chosen to host the U12B Rep Girls Pro-vincial Championship.

• A low-pressure area that brought tor-rential rains to the Shuswap had sucked up precipitation from southern U.S., say Environment Canada warning preparedness meteorologist Doug Lundquist. “The storm

is coming at the normal time of the year, but two or three times what you’d normally get in a storm,” he said, noting the Shuswap as a whole received a month’s worth of rain or more.

• Alcohol was likely a ‘contributing factor” when a man was struck by a Canadian Pacific train in Sicamous. He had been walking east in the middle of the track when a west-bound train sounded its horn. He moved off the track but got too close to the train as it passed by.

• It’s a busy place and it could get a lot busier. Columbia Shus-wap Regional District directors unanimously approved $105,000 for the operation of the Malakwa Community Learning Centre.

• Citizens on Patrol is in search of volun-teers for July and Au-gust. The program has three components: pa-trol, speed watch and marine patrol. Volun-teers patrol the town in pairs looking for problems and suspi-cious situations to re-port to RCMP, while speed watch volunteers record information on traffic with specialized equipment.

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