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Vol. 59 No. 30 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

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Burning rubber: The Summer Stomp and Burn-out got underway Friday on Main Street with high-flying stunts, music, vendors, the burnout competition and more. Clockwise from top left – Craig Latimer of the daredevil duo, the Eh Team, high fives the crowd while steering by foot; Darcy Backman burns rubber during the burnout event; Sicamous’ Serge Miller works on his traditional burnout smiley face on the road; Kris Foster of Global FMX reaches for the smoke-filled skies during his stunt performance; Kelly Norwood of Kelly’s Kustom Pinstriping of Westwold draws an appreciative crowd as he carefully details a splash guard. See page 2 for more on the Stomp. Photos by Lachlan Labere

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July 25 & 26 - $2 Bag Sale Sicamous United Church Thrift ShopWednesday, July 30 Chase Lion’s Bingo, Chase Community Hall. Walk-Ins 6:30 pm, Early Birds 7:00 pm. Pay-outs based on attendance and gaming regulations. Loonie Ball $200.00Monday 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 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. - 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 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 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-

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The name ‘Darrell Trouton’ will not be on the ballot for mayor in November’s municipal election.

Sicamous’ incum-bent mayor announced Monday that he will not be seeking re-election, opting to focus on per-sonal projects and fam-ily.

Trouton told the News this decision re-sulted from re� ection with family, includ-ing his wife Jeannette, about his current vol-ume of commitments, noting “you can only take on so much for so long, then you need to downsize, regroup, get grounded, before taking on projects again.”

“Jeannette and I are at the stage in our lives where our kids are on their own now – We are downsizing our home, simplifying our lives and will be able to spend more time with our family.”

Trouton describes

himself as a focused and dedicated person who never took the role of mayor lightly, treating it as a full-time commit-ment.

Re� ecting on his time as mayor, Trouton says his greatest chal-lenge and accomplish-ment resulted from the � ooding of 2012 that put the District of Si-camous into a state of emergency.

“Taking on a new role and having to deal with everything, that would be it – dealing with the � ood, the fact that nobody was seri-ously injured and trying to make a positive out of something that most de� nitely wasn’t a posi-tive.”

Trouton says he’s proud of how council and staff have come to-gether in terms of work-ing with, and respecting one another, and he’s en-thusiastic with the direc-tion they are moving in. This includes the work being done on what is currently the biggest un-dertaking in the district,

development of the new water treatment facility.

“Before you move forward with a project, you need to do the work � rst, and we’ve done that work. We’ve got a really good team, we’ve

looked at all the aspects of it, we have a project management team hired to do that for us… we have the right people looking after it,” said Trouton. “Would I have liked to have had one more year, complete a few more things? Sure. Of course, that’s the downside. There’s al-ways a downside.”

Asked if the new four-year term the next mayor and council will be facing was a factor

in his decision to not run again, Trouton said no, though he would have liked to have had four years this term. He said there are lots of projects, beyond the water treatment facility that he would like to continue working on, such as the Sicamous -to-Armstrong rail trail, various highway up-grades including the Trans-Canada/High-way 97A intersection and the dredging of the channel. He noted one of things he tried to do as mayor was make each of these projects front and centre before the right people in the provincial and federal governments.

To the upcoming candidates for mayor and council, Trouton says experience in busi-ness, especially as a business leader, is cru-cial.

“You’re the business leaders, basically, for the community,” said Trouton. “You have professional staff, but they also rely on you to

give them direction as a council for the commu-nity. We need business leaders to step up and help out for the direc-tion of the community, and I don’t think there’s enough of that.

“It needs to be run as a business, it needs to be accountable, you need to be held � scally re-sponsible, and you have to take all the informa-tion in before you make decisions on moving forward. In any busi-ness, that’s what you need to do.”

Trouton is grateful for all the support he’s received over the past three years, and is ap-preciative of the oppor-tunity, the people he’s met and experiences he’s had. He says he will make himself available to upcoming candidates for mayor or council to discuss all that he can with them about the work ahead.

“There’s de� nitely positives to it and it’s a good experience,” he said.

Mayor Trouton not seeking re-electionBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

lenge and accomplish-ment resulted from the � ooding of 2012 that put the District of Si-camous into a state of

“Taking on a new role and having to deal with everything, that would be it – dealing

Darrell TroutonMayor

Police pleased with this year’s Summer Stomp

Solid organization, great music, good times and no major incidents.

This is a taste of the feedback local of� cials have received regard-ing this year’s Summer Stomp and Burnout Charity Party.

From a policing per-spective, apart from the odd arrest for intoxi-

cation and a couple of noise complaints, the weekend event in Si-camous came and went without a hitch.

“Basically, we didn’t have any calls of note, everyone was pretty well behaved,” commented Sicamous RCMP Const. Dusty Miller, who is pleased with how the event went. “It was de� -

nitely well-organized and well-planned out, so any issues that did come up in the Stomp didn’t make it to us. I’m glad everyone had a good time.”

There was an inci-dent in Salmon Arm where one of the rid-ers in the Stomp poker run, a 44-year old Manitoba man, was seriously injured after

a Subaru driven by an 86-year-old Salmon Arm woman turned left in front of him. Police report his injuries are not life threatening and the woman is being charged for failing to yield the right of way.

Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trouton also had only good things to say about the week-end and the work done

by the Summer Stomp Committee, the district and all the volunteers who helped make the event happen.

“It was just great music all weekend, it was very well run and organized and patrolled, and every-body did what they’re supposed to do on a weekend like this,” said Trouton.

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Retaining the rail-way right of way from Sicamous to Armstrong received strong support at the July 17 Colum-bia Shuswap Regional District.

Chief Administra-tive officer Charles Hamilton brought a letter from Electoral Area E director Rhona Martin to the board’s attention at the July 17 board meeting in Salm-on Arm.

Martin, who was away on UBCM busi-ness, told Hamilton she had arranged for a meeting with the may-ors of Vernon, Arm-strong, Sicamous and Council, RDNO, Shus-wap Trail Alliance and a representative from the Splatsin Band.

“At the meeting yes-terday (June 25), each gave a brief comment on their thoughts on moving forward and, although we are not quite sure how to do this,, it was determined that we must first speak to our own local gov-ernments to receive the mandate to be engaged in discussion about the rail line and what our next steps should be,” Martin wrote.

Hamilton told direc-tors that Martin had been involved in initial discussions in 2009, talks that had stopped after the District of Si-camous determined the railway wanted more money than they were willing to pay.

“Work is now un-derway, the track mate-rial is being salvaged,” said Hamilton, noting the work was the im-petus to get discus-sions back on the rails and Martin wanted the board to be aware and authorize her to repre-sent CSRD. “She real-

izes the “rails to trails” concept is attractive but is also cognizant that we just don’t have the discretionary funds.”

Salmon Arm Coun. Debbie Cannon was enthusiastically on-board.

“I think all regional districts and munici-palities need to show huge support for this. It would attract tour-ists from all over the world,” she said.

Sitting in for Mayor Darrell Trouton, Si-camous alternate Terry Rysz, agreed.

“We have been working on this for about six months and we are sending a reso-lution to UBCM,” he said. “With the prov-ince and community support, we may be able to pull this off.”

The resolution states the UBCM should become the owner of these transportation corridors and should ask the province to in-

stitute a province-wide parcel tax, similar to that levied by the Mu-nicipal Finance Au-thority on property tax notices, to help in their purchase and mainte-nance.

Area C South Shus-wap director Paul De-menok called the trail a “brilliant and large op-portunity.”

“I think we should get a committee struck, involving the CSRD, RDNO, municipalities and First Nations,” he said. “I think we need to be organized at our end before we enter negotiations – not do it piecemeal fashion.”

Mayor Nancy Coo-per pointed out that the Healthy Communities Coalition and Shus-wap Trail Alliance are also supporting this “healthy option.”

“I certainly will sup-port whatever we want to do going forward,” she said.

The board voted

unanimously to sup-port board member participation in future meetings to discuss the possibility of protect-ing the abandoned rail line for future transpor-tation opportunities.

Last Monday, Salm-on Arm council added to the push to preserve the rail line between Sicamous and Arm-strong.

Council agreed to write to the province in support of local gov-ernment acquisition of the deregulated rail corridor for the estab-lishment of a hiking/biking greenway.

Coun. Chad Eliason championed the mo-tion, arguing council has to look to the fu-ture of the region and sustainable transporta-tion. He said that while the rail line wouldn’t impact Salmon Arm directly, it could have positive ramifications of the region.

“That railway can

take you right to Ender-by, Armstrong, all the way through to winer-ies, the Kettle Valley Railway with the tres-tles and tunnels,” said Eliason. “It is part of a bigger picture and al-though it isn’t directly within our territory, it’s definitely within our tourism area, it’s within our economic area and it’s really im-portant, I think, that we need to preserve this in the short-term and do what we can to lobby to protect it for the long-term. Maybe for rail transportation, but long-term rails and gre-enways for sure.”

The Shuswap Trail Alliance is also sup-porting this Sicamous to Armstrong corridor rail to trail campaign, and the work being done by local partners to make it happen.

Rail to trail campaign picks up steamBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

Opportunity: CSRD directors and City of Salmon Arm council view the decommissioned CP Rail line between Sicamous and Armstrong as regional tourism opportunity. Photo by Lachlan Labere

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VICTORIA – When the audited public accounts confirmed a $353 million surplus for the last fiscal year, B.C. Liberal political staff were quick to remind reporters of the NDP’s main theme from last year’s elec-tion campaign.

Pages of election quotes from almost every NDP MLA were waiting to be distributed. It was a “bogus budget,” one of the more polite tags applied to the government’s pre-election fiscal plan.

Skeena MLA Robin Austin targeted health care in the budget debate: “Bear-ing in mind that our popula-tion is actually increasing, bearing in mind that our population is aging, I think it’s very unrealistic to think we can actually limit health care expenditures to 2.7 per cent.”

As it turned out, health care spending grew by just

over two per cent. It still went up by $360 million from the previous year, but after annual increases of six or seven per cent had be-come the norm, this is quite an achievement. New agree-ments remain to be negotiat-ed with doctors and nurses, so we’re unlikely to see the same cost control results for the current year.

Ottawa’s health care transfer payment formula has changed, and increases are to be capped at three per cent a year by 2016, so this is the kind of spending restraint all provinces are expected to produce.

Education was the only other ministry to receive significant extra funding last year, up $299 million despite continuing enrol-ment decline. Like health, the education budget goes up every year, and these in-creases, along with strong student performance results, expose the rhetoric of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation about a cash-starved system

for what it is. But the biggest fabrica-

tion of last year’s election was the “debt free B.C.” slo-gan emblazoned on the side of Premier Christy Clark’s campaign bus.

The public accounts con-firm that the province’s total debt rose to just over $60 billion, the latest of a series of increases since 2008. The much-touted balanced bud-get is on the operating side, while the province contin-ues to pile up debt to pay for the Port Mann mega-project, hospitals, schools and other big infrastructure.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong emphasized the dif-ference between capital and operating expenditures.

“We’re borrowing to build as opposed to paying for the groceries,” he said.

“Debt free B.C.” was not an outright misrepresenta-tion, merely one of the most far-fetched promises ever delivered in the history of B.C. politics. The legisla-ture is to convene in Octo-

ber so the B.C. Liberals can pass a taxation framework for the nascent liquefied natural gas industry, which the government hopes will generate the revenues to ultimately pay off the prov-ince’s $60-billion mortgage.

Meanwhile, there is more capital debt ahead. The cabinet is expected to green-light the Site C dam on the Peace River this fall, a decade-long project esti-mated to cost $8 billion.

Along with the public accounts, the finance min-istry released a list of sur-plus land sales. The sale of 50-odd properties, some of them closed schools, net-ted the provincial treasury about $310 million, which accounts for most of the surplus.

Was this “selling off the family silverware to try and balance the books,” as now-NDP leader John Horgan termed it before the elec-tion? It’s certainly not a rev-enue source to be matched next year.

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If you knew your community would be rocked by natural catastrophe in your first term as a local politician, would you still

seek to be elected?Asked this question in an interview earlier this

week, Mayor Darrell Trouton answered ‘yes’ without hesitation, explaining that while the 2012 flood represents the greatest challenge he faced during his first and, apparently, only term as mayor, the fact that no one was seriously injured and the way it brought the community together, also made it one of his most positive experiences.

Regardless, it was a heck of a way for a new mayor and council to get their feet wet. Year one typically revolves around learning the ropes of municipal government – policies, procedures, bylaws, etc., while developing a working rela-tionship with one another and municipal staff. The abrupt need of an education in disaster man-agement and relief couldn’t have made the job any easier.

Who can say for sure that the next mayor and council won’t face similar drastic circumstances? Hopefully not, but you never know. This possi-bility, however, does highlight an important point – running for office is not something to be taken lightly – even in a small and generally disaster-free community such a Sicamous.

As has been mentioned in the past, the job of mayor and council is pretty much a full-time commitment (with part-time pay). It is almost guaranteed that, as an elected representative, you will come up against adversity, controversy and the frustration associated with typically time-consuming processes that are beyond your con-trol.

And, try as you may, it is doubtful you will ever make a decision that will please everyone. But such is life.

Obviously, there are rewards to being a mayor or councillor – perhaps the greatest being the opportunities these positions offer to give back to your community and help in shaping its future for the greatest good. Disaster or no, that’s still one heck of a job.

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Accusations that the federal New Democrat-ic Party has used parlia-mentary resources for partisan mass mailings has raised questions about other parties’ use of taxpayer-funded pro-motions.

In May, the House of Commons Board of Internal Economy or-dered the NDP to repay Parliament $36,000 for partisan mailings and a further $1.13 million to Canada Post.

In turn, the NDP has asked the Federal Court for a review of the deci-sion.

A report from Com-mons Board staff is quoted as saying they “were not messages from the individual members as members, but rather were pre-pared by and for the bene� t of the NDP as a political party and to advance electoral pur-poses.”

Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes sends information to his con-stituents. He says he sends two types: one, a ‘householder,’ and the other, a ‘ten per cent-er.’

He said there are two reasons the NDP has been taken to task. Firstly, they used the NDP logo and, sec-

ondly, they asked for money.

The household-ers Mayes sends out are larger documents, while the 10 per cent-ers, which are so named as they can be sent to 10 per cent of an MP’s constituents, are 8.5 by 11 sheets.

The most recent one states: “Our Conser-vative government is standing up for hard-working Canadian fam-ilies.”

Further down the page is what looks like a small survey – the same format that was on a sampling of four other Mayes’ 10 per cent-ers.

The most recent one asks: “Who’s on the right track to support Canadian families?” Below the question on one side are the names of four parties: the Greens, the Conserva-

tives, the NDP and the Liberals, with a box to be marked beside each one. On the other side is a space for the reader to � ll out their name, ad-dress, telephone num-ber and email address.

Mayes said the 10 per cent-ers are made by a Conservative sup-port group which is paid by the party to put them out.

“It gives me an indi-cation whether people feel we’re doing the right things as govern-ment.”

Mayes says he doesn’t distribute all of

the 10 per cent-ers he could.

“Some in my opin-ion are a little offensive as they have pictures of Mr. Mulcair or Mr. Trudeau… If you look at my budget from the last three years, I hardly sent out many.”

He said the com-munication is political, nonetheless.

“We’re de� nitely political – good things the government is do-ing. I’m sure the NDP says the bad things the government is doing.”

Mayes admits he

got in a little trouble himself a couple of years ago when he used a Conservative ban-ner with political an-nouncements.

“The Liberals com-plained about it.”

Another general is-sue was when some mail-outs went to rid-ings other than Conser-vatives, he said. The Liberals and NDP were not happy, the Conser-vatives agreed and the rules were changed – politicians can no lon-ger send mail-outs to outside ridings.

By Martha WickettEagle Valley News

Mayes explains legality of mail-outs to ridingondly, they asked for

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Colin MayesOkanagan-Shuswap MP

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Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?

I’ve been up to Lon-don to visit the Queen.

Pussycat, pussycat, what did you there?

I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

I came across a car-toon a few years ago, where this guy was feeding his mutt and in the dog’s thought bub-ble was that his master is always so kind and addressing his every need and want, and that the man must be some kind of god.

The next frame was the fellow now feed-ing his feline, with the thinking the same ex-cept that it was himself that must a god. For those of us who cater to them, I’m sure that’s not too far off the mark. So if Fluffy figures his human is here for his every whim, then surely he must think that nature is here for his own personal play-ground for the palate – a veritable feline feast where anything that moves is a munchie.

Let’s face it folks, your cat may be cud-dly and cute, but that lounge lizard on your lap is really a killer kitty.

Cats can do a lot of harm in a hurry around you and your neighbor-hood, devouring birds,

mice, moles, voles, bugs, butterflies, bun-nies, frogs, snakes, squirrels, chipmunks and all else in between. It’s impressive (in a morbid sort of way) to watch a cat in action when it’s zoned in on a target. The approach is almost imperceptible, the eyes unblinking and tail ever so slight-ly twitching until the little wiggle before the launch. I’ve seen one catch a bird in mid-flight by leaping at it from a distance of 10 feet, pinning it against a fence then trotting away with the doomed thing still flapping away in its mouth.

Cats can also have a warped sense of fun with their victims by sometimes indulging in a little playtime first, like pouncing or flip-ping them into the air a few times, or simply chewing on them here and there before the fa-tal bite.

One of my child-hood memories was of our family cat, Rudy, using a big, curled up wolf spider as a soc-cer ball on the dining room floor for a few minutes until he fi-nally decided to dine on it. I don’t think any of us will ever forget those gross crunching sounds and the long hairy legs sticking out of his mouth before it went down the hatch. Eeeeyuck!

Paul Gallico, author of the book Honour-able Cat, defends them by saying: “It all boils down rather to who eats whom. Since the bird lover will sit down to a tasty dish of par-tridge, quail or pheas-ant, while his heart

bleeds for the sparrow or the robin, the situa-tion is likely to become confused. The cat is a hunter for food and the instinct has never been bred out of it.

“Games with an in-jured prey have nothing to do with the will to cause it pain or suffer-ing. There are two main objectives; to keep the hunting muscles and speed and timing sharp,

or to bring a no longer dangerous specimen to its kittens for similar exercises.

“Almost all of a cat’s ‘play’ is not play at all, but practice. There are the hunter and the hunted, and let the hunted beware in the inexorable hierarchy of Nature. The cat stalk-ing the field mouse in the meadow should not forget the eagle hover-

ing in the sky.”True enough, but

they can still wreak havoc where they hang out.

We had some fam-ily members stay on the property for a year a while back, and in short order their two uncontrolled cats had wiped out everything around here, leaving

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The � rst CIS (Ca-nadian Inter-University Sport) edition of the Thompson Rivers Uni-versity WolfPack men’s soccer team once again boasts players with roots in Sicamous.

The WolfPack have a number of play-ers returning from the club which captured the PACWEST title and the silver medal at the Canadian Colle-giate Athletic Associa-tion championships in 2013-14.

Head coach John Antulov and the Wolf-Pack have welcomed

back two veterans. Mid� elder Colton Walker and defender Austin Schneebeli, both Salmon Arm Sec-ondary grads, have re-joined the team.

“I’m thrilled to be coming back to TRU,” said Walker, who took last season off to trav-el. “The year away from school and the game helped me refo-cus.”

The 5’11” Walker initially committed to the WolfPack in August 2012.

“I had such a great experience my � rst year and I look forward to hopefully having

another stellar year,’ adds Schneebeli. He was forced to sit out the 2013-14 campaign because of an injury. “Soccer is the big-gest part of my life. Not being able to play at all for the past year was extremely tough. I missed training, I

missed being with the lads but most of all I missed playing.”

Both players come back to the fold with both experience and youth on their side, and are looking for-ward to testing their skills against the coun-try’s best soccer play-ers in the Canada West and CIS this year.

Antulov is ecstatic to have both back in the fold for 2014-15.

“Colton is a solid box-to-box central mid-� elder with lots of energy. His skill, ener-gy and ability to play at this level will be vital. He will be an impor-

tant part of the program moving forward.”

“Austin is a solid outside back with good skill and quickness that can jump into the at-tack and also get back quickly to defend. His experience playing for us previously will be vital moving forward.”

back two veterans. Mid� elder Colton Walker and defender Austin Schneebeli, both Salmon Arm Sec-ondary grads, have re-

“I’m thrilled to be coming back to TRU,” said Walker, who took last season off to trav-

Austin SchneebeliTRU Wolfpack

TRU Wolfpack welcome back Schneebeli and Walker

Cody Franson’s fu-ture is no longer an unknown following the signing of another one-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Leafs VP and gen-eral manager David Nonis announced on Monday that the club had agreed to terms with the 26-year-old d-man for his third one-year contract with the team, this one valued

at $3.3 million US. The last-minute deal kept the two sides from go-ing into arbitration.

“Toronto is obvious-ly where I want to be,” he said in a conference call with reporters on Monday.

Franson’s contract has been in limbo since last summer when his previous contract, worth $2 million US, came to and end, leav-ing him a restricted free agent. Franson

was rumoured to be looking for more than $4 million a season. The Leafs, however, were said to have about $6 million to spend, prior to penning a one-year deal valued at $2 million with team-mate Mark Fraser. The stalemate between the Leafs and Franson led to speculation the team may look to trade the 6’5”, 213-lb. Sicamous product.

“I’m always hope-

ful there wasn’t a ton of truth to all those rumours. But it’s busi-ness,” said Franson.

Franson played 322 career NHL games with Toronto and the Nashville Predators, posting 28 goals, 105 assists, 133 points, 106 minutes in penalties and a plus-eight rating. He was acquired by the Leafs along with Mat-thew Lombardi from the Predators in 2011. He was originally se-

lected by Nashville in the third round, 79th overall, in the 2005 En-try Draft.

On the heels of the recent Sicamous Shootout, Franson and fellow NHL’er Shea Weber will be back in Sicamous between Aug. 10 to 17 to once again participate in the annual Sicamous Hockey School. For more details, visit http://sicamoushockey-school.ca.

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By Martha WickettEagle Valley News

Franson signs $3.3 million deal with LeafsBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

body bits and feath-ers all over the place. I was choked because ours is restricted to a couple of hours of ‘run-around time’ in the late evening and, it took years for the critters to re-establish themselves again.

There was a story about a fellow in New Zealand who wanted to

rid the country of cats due to their threat to native bird species, but defenders argued that it was a two-sided coin because they said that cats actually helped the birds by reducing the population of rodents, which sometimes fed on bird eggs. That may be so, but the guy had a point.

Statistically, cats kill as many as four billion

birds, along with up to 21 billion other mam-mals in the U.S. each year alone, which is a lot of carnage.

We can’t knock them for what just comes naturally, but we can do our part as own-ers when it comes to damage control. Keep them indoors when the birds are active during the day and locate your birdbaths and feed-

ers out in the open, so there is no sneaking up on them. Your fe-line friend might think that having a � eld day of stalking birds and other critters is the cat’s meow. However, while they might have nine lives, everything else only gets one.

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Directors derailed an attempt by Colum-bia Shuswap Regional District staff to intro-duce policies on ex-pense accountability and giving grants prior to elections – with elec-toral area directors ask-ing for time to discuss the issues among them-selves.

Jodi Kooistra, man-ager of � nancial ser-vices, brought forward a policy to amend travel and expense re-imbursement for staff and directors and a second one that would prevent directors from giving grants in aid in the three months prior to a municipal election.

Kooistra told di-rectors at the July 17 board meeting in Salm-on Arm that the travel and expense policy was adopted in 1981 and has not been amended since.

“There are currently no guidelines that set limits on meal expendi-tures, room upgrades or partner programs,” she said. “We have been paying out previously on the basis of submit-ted receipts, but there was a lack of consisten-cy in how we process expense claims within the organization.”

Kooistra explained that some submitted receipts have shown total amounts, but no itemized details of the expense.

“Policy F-14 pro-vides guidelines for consistency and ac-countability when travelling on regional district business, rep-resenting the regional district or attending conferences, seminars and other training op-portunities,” wrote

Kooistra in her report. “It is essential to have a clear and concise pol-icy supported by sound procedures that clearly de� ne the authority to attend, the permitted expenses, the payment limits and the reporting requirements.”

CSRD board chair David Raven supported the report, speaking to both policies imme-diately following the meeting.

“Over the past sev-eral years, it has be-come apparent that the regional district needs to clarify and revisit their policies around expenses and grants in aid to ensure they’re consistent, fair and transparent,” he said. “In the case of the ex-pense claims, the is-sues in the Senate and other levels of govern-ment provide a lesson that our expense claims must be reasonable and administered within de� ned policies.”

He said prior to the last municipal election, the board of the day wanted a clearer policy on grants in aid that would prevent what could be perceived as electioneering.

“It’s the same with expenses; if one direc-tor claims questionable expenses, it brings the whole board into disre-pute,” Raven said. “Our opinion of the Senate, and all the honourable members that sit in it, has been tainted by the actions of a couple of people. I don’t want that on my watch.”

While they didn’t say they opposed the policies, electoral area directors clearly did not have an appetite to en-dorse the amendments in the public meeting.

Area D Falkland/

Silver Creek/Ranchero director René Talbot and area F North Shus-wap director Larry Morgan asked that the policy be deferred, with Morgan saying it affects electoral area directors and needs ex-amination and “sorting out” before getting ap-proval.

Despite Golden Mayor Christina Ben-ty’s observation that the policy is “pretty standard” for other mu-nicipalities and organi-zations, Area C South Shuswap director Paul Demenok supported Talbot and Morgan’s suggestion to defer the policy to the Electoral Area Directors (EAD) meeting.

“I applaud your move, Jodi; we shouldn’t have let this sit around so much since 1981,” he said. “But I support bringing it up at the EAD meet-ing for a robust discus-sion.”

This did not sit well

with chief administra-tive of� cer Charles Hamilton, who ques-tioned taking a policy issue that belongs before the board to a committee that has no role in creating policy.

“While I respect it may impact electoral

area directors more, we did a lot of work on this and the problem is, we saw some serious, serious issues with our current policy,” he said. “By deferring this, is the � awed policy going to be in place until a new policy is adopted,

or is it going to fall on the chair and admin-istrator to decide what will and will not be ap-proved?”

Hamilton said his recommendation would be to pass the policy, let the EAD directors have their

discussion and then amend it at the board level if needed.

Benty then sug-gested the discussion take place at the board meeting. But the EAD directors were not of a mind to do that and the majority of the directors

voted to defer the mat-ter.

Following the meet-ing, Salmon Arm Coun. Debbie Cannon voiced her opposition to the deferral.

“It was clearly an old policy from the ’80s and we need to look after the dollars better – and we have to have limits on what expens-es can be,” she said, expressing her belief that, like Salmon Arm councillors, CSRD di-rectors’ remuneration and expenses should be posted on the regional district’s website where it can be accessed by members of the pub-lic. “I totally stand be-hind Charles and the policy � nance brought forward. I don’t think there is a need for it to go to the area directors. I don’t understand why we couldn’t discuss it ...”

Area E Rural Si-camous director Rhona Martin was absent from last Thursday’s meet-ing, but the other rural directors were basically of the same voice on the need for further discus-sion at the Aug. 7 Elec-toral Area Directors meeting.

“Although it does pertain to board and staff, it has great impact on area directors and I think it requires some clari� cation and further discussion,” said Area B Rural Revelstoke direc-tor Loni Parker, follow-ing the meeting. “We’re having our EAD meet-ing in August; it’s not like it’s gonna be held up for any length of time, given that it’s so outdated.”

Morgan said he just needs to better under-stand the policy.

“I just got the mate-rial a week ago in the

agenda package and was surprised at the di-rection of the policy,” he said. “I felt I needed an opportunity to meet with other directors be-fore approving it at the board level.”

“The feeling was the policies were really electoral area director-related and the pro-cess should have these policies go through the directors before being rati� ed by the board,” added Area C South Shuswap director Paul Demenok.

Talbot called the ex-pense policy too vague on a number of points and wanted to make sure the regional dis-trict policy is in line with other districts and municipalities.

“What they brought to the board was, ‘this is what we want to do,’ with nothing to show comparisons,” Talbot said. “I agree that we have to be accountable, but let’s make sure we are in line with others.”

Talbot, Demenok and Morgan expressed similar concerns about amending the policy on handing out grants prior to elections.

“It is an electoral area director program and we did not yet get a chance to discuss it at the meeting before it came to the board,” said Demenok.

Talbot added that some mechanism should be in place in case a group has an emergency and needs a grant in aid during the three-months prior to an election.

“We don’t need to do this right away; it’s not a big deal, the di-rectors are not going anywhere,” he said. “And it’s not a big deal.”

CSRD board to mull over accountability policyElectoral areas: Directors defer decision to update guidelines for travel/expense reimbursement. By Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

There are currently no guidelines that set limits on meal expenditures, room

upgrades or partner programs. We have been paying out previously on the basis of submitted receipts, but there was a lack of consistency in how we process

expense claims within the organization. Jodi Kooistra

CSRD � nancial services

SCHEDULE OF REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES – 2013

Elected Officials Remuneration ExpensesBENTY, Christina $15,288 $2,935CANNON, Debbie $13,746 $151COOPER, Nancy $13,746 $219DEMENOK, Paul $24,981 $11,021HABART, Gary $21,344 $7,519MARTIN, Rhona $26,884 $10,443MORGAN, Larry $24,970 $11,923PARKER, Loni $23,282 $13,312RAVEN, David $37,899 $2,649TALBOT, Rene $28,400 $14,286TROUTON, Darrell $15,200 $942TOTAL $249,248 $76,675

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