eagle valley news, september 17, 2014

EAGLE VALLEY

NEWS Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Vol. 59 No. 38 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236

Sicamous Eagles back in regular season action

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Phillips wins gold in world games event

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Magic under the big top: Dr. Von Houligan’s Carnival of Calamities rolled into town for shows Friday and Saturday night in Finlayson Park. Clockwise from top right – ringmaster and performer Allister Denton juggles machetes with assistance from audience member Vanessa Gualdieri, Daisy-May Munro tries to keep her eye on the ball; Trevor Vandenberg makes sure the straight jacket is secure on escape artist Llaw Grimm, and contortionist Kailaa Payne finishes passing her body through a folding chair. Photos by Lachlan Labere

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CALENDAROF EVENTS

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

Ph: 832-2131 Fax: 832-5140Email: [email protected]

DEADLINE: 2pm, Fridays

Sept. 19, 20, 21. Fungi Festival in Sicamous at the Red Barn.Oct. 31 Halloween night 7:30 p.m. Malakwa Volunteer Fire Department annual hot dogs and hot chocolate by donation at the Malakwa Fire Hall, followed by fireworks at 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. Donations towards fireworks appreciaated, collection jars at local businesses.Monday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every Wed. Wednesday Arts for Everyone. 10 am - 3 pm. For info contact Juanita at 250-836-3019 or Gail- at 250-836-5472

Every 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 @ 250-836-3652

Every 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-

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

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Council is back-ing a borrowing bylaw for the $4.39 million needed to construct a new water treatment facility.

The temporary bor-

rowing bylaw was given third reading by council, authorizing the district to borrow up to $4.39 million for build the facility, estimates to cost $7,92 million. The B.C. and federal gov-ernments are contribut-ing $3 million towards

the project. Coun. Suzanne Car-

penter said the bylaw will allow the district to borrow only what it needs, when needed. District chief financial officer Kelly Bennett confirmed this, stating the bylaw will allow

the district to borrow in “chunks” through the Municipal Financing Authority.

“If we only need $500,000, and then an-other million, we can borrow it in chunks and we’re only paying in-terest on those chunks.

And once the project is all completed, then we flip it into long-term borrowing,” explained Bennett. “That’s what this bylaw is doing, it’s allowing us to borrow on a short-term basis.”

Carpenter called this an excellent approach.

Borrowing bylaw for water plant flows through third reading

Work started: Swansea Point residents applaud (outside of the frame) as contractors for the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure remove the top half of the controversial culvert that allowed Hummingbird Creek to flow under Highway 97A. MOTI expects a new bridge, intended to improve water/debris flow and road safety, will be completed later this fall. Photo by Dan Keely

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

“Cautiously op-timistic” is how the president of the North Okanagan-Shuswap Teachers’ Association described her reaction Tuesday morning to news of a tentative deal in the teachers strike.

Just a few hours earlier, about 4 a.m., veteran mediator Vince Ready emerged from an all-night bargaining

session in Richmond between the B.C. Pub-lic School Employers’ Association and the B.C. Teachers Federa-tion, announcing the tentative agreement.

“It’s so hard for me to say more until I get more detail,” NOS-TA president Brenda O’Dell told the News, explaining that teach-ers will vote on the deal Thursday.

Although it’s not known what form the voting will take local-

ly – whether via poll-ing stations or a large meeting, for instance – O’Dell said the re-sults of the vote would be known by the end of that day.

Meanwhile, Ready said Tuesday morning that the parties were going to be meeting later in the day to final-ize a few outstanding details, and both sides had agreed to with-hold details until a final document was ready to present.

In School District #83, Superintendent of Schools Glenn Bor-thistle and board chair Bobbi Johnson con-gratulated all sides for negotiating together to get students back to school. However, they weren’t able to pre-dict, if the deal is rati-fied, whether schools would open Monday, a decision which was ex-pected to be made pro-vincially. A statement from the school district said it hopes to update

parents today (Wednes-day) with a plan of what will happen if the tentative agreement is approved.

Regarding missed instructional days, Ed-ucation Minister Peter Fassbender has said a plan will be developed to make up the days, which could involve re-scheduling Christmas and spring break.

Picket lines will re-main in place, O’Dell said, until an agree-ment is ratified.

Tentative deal reached to end teachers’ strikeBy Martha WickettEagle Valley News

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DISTRICT OF SICAMOUS

JOB POSTING: ACTIVITY LEADER

District of Sicamous Ph: 250-836-2477 Fax: 250-836-4314 www.sicamous.ca

446 Main Street. Box 219 Sicamous B.C. V0E 2V0

In compliance with Article 10.01 of the Collective Agreement, applications are invited by the undersigned for the position of

ACTIVITY LEADER

Applications will be received in the office of the undersigned for this position.

NATURE AND SCOPE OF WORK

Under the direction of the Program and Events Manager, the Activity Leader will assist in the planning, implementation and supervision of recreational activities for children, youth, adults and seniors. These activities may include, but are not limited to, outdoor recreation, arts, crafts, sports, games, music, dance, play and day trips.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Promote and deliver safe, healthy, positive interactions, communications,

diversity and learning opportunities• Ensure equipment is maintained with respect to safety and sanitation

standards• Set up and clean up activity area, and ensure the safety and general well-

being of all participants at all times• Set up, organize and maintain appropriate equipment, materials and supplies• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with participants,

parents and staff• Responsible to oversee sign in• Problem solving minor issues independently conferring with supervisor

regarding progress concerns and recommendations

QUALIFICATIONS• Completion of grade 10• Current First Aid and CPR• Customer service and public relations skills• Experience working with children and youth is an asset• Ability to work independently and in a team environment• A clean and current criminal record check is a condition of employment, and

is the financial responsibility of the successful candidate

WORK CONDITIONS• Physical ability to lift up to 75lb• Hazards associated with working with children and outdoors• Potential prolonged standing, walking, lifting, squatting and bending• May be required to perform work in adverse weather conditions, including

heat, cold and inclement weather

$18.50/hour plus 4% vacation pay- Activity Leader

Hours of work- Various hours, based on registration. Must be able to work pro-d days, evenings and weekends.

Kelly Bennett [email protected]

DO YOU WANT TO BE A SCHOOL TRUSTEE?

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT #83(North Okanagan – Shuswap)

If you are considering running for the office of school trustee in any of our 7 electoral areas we

invite you to attend our

PROSPECTIVE TRUSTEES INFORMATION MEETING

September 25, 2014,7:00 pm

District Education Centre#110, 2960 Okanagan Avenue E., Salmon Arm

For more information contact Bethan Miller, Deputy Chief Elections Officer

at 250-804-7830 or [email protected]


PUBLIC NOTICEIn an effort to create optimal drainage conditions and mitigate the unnecessary damage to the residential road network, the District of Sicamous Public Works Department will be implementing a residential shouldering program along the edges of the District roadways. The buildup of grasses and soils along the edge of residential roadways will be shaved to a level that promotes effective positive drainage.

Please note that excess materials will be removed by District staff and that re-seeding of these areas will occur as needed upon completion of the shouldering process.

District of Sicamous Ph: 250-836-2477 Fax: 250-836-4314

www.sicamous.ca 446 Main Street Box 219 Sicamous B.C. V0E 2V0

Eye ExaminationsEye Glasses/Safety Eyewear/Sunglasses

Contact Lenses Refractive Surgery Assessment

Sicamous Vision Care CentreOptometrist ❙ Dr. Shelley Geier

217 Finlayson St. PO Box 542 Sicamous, BC

Ph: 250-836-3070 Fx: 250-836-2359

District to begin planning for bridge replacement

The dips stay while the bridge is on its way out.

Once again, district council debated remov-ing the speed dips on either side of the Eagle River Bridge. This stemmed from a rec-ommendation by staff to have them removed in order to take advan-tage of paving that will be occurring soon at the bridge in relation to recent water and sewer line upgrades. Staff notes that All-Span En-gineering, the company conducting a site inves-tigation of the bridge, is of the opinion that the speed dips are irrelevant to the lifespan of the bridge, which they esti-mate to be another five years provided no rotted or distressed piles are uncovered.

“The results of the pile inspection will not change the comments in our report regard-ing the dips… the re-sults will only allow or deny us to presume five more years life for the bridge.”

Coun. Suzanne Car-penter, however, cited an earlier report by an-other engineering firm that argues the dips are necessary to reduce the speed and impact on the failing bridge.

“Now we have a new report from a different engineering company that will make a few councillors happy, and they say that the speed dips are useless,” said

Carpenter. “I truly be-lieve that no amount of traffic speed signs will slow people down, but the dips definitely do. And I believe that they slow down the dete-rioration of the bridge, and I’m wishing tonight that we leave the speed dips.”

While council sup-ported a motion to re-strict load limits on the bridge, another to remove the dips was defeated, with Couns. Terry Rysz and Don Richardson opposed. Following this vote, Richardson spoke against the decision, ar-guing council was wast-ing money.

“This is getting to be nonsense, we’re play-ing around with speed dips… We better start becoming prudent with what’s going on here,” said Richardson, who was then reminded by Ryzs, acting as deputy mayor, that the motion was defeated and the speed dips stay.

Council was of like

mind, however, regard-ing the bridge itself, and how the district needs to begin making plans for its replace-ment.

“I think one of the things that we do have to realize is this bridge does have a very lim-ited lifespan,” com-mented Coun. Fred Busch. “They’re talk-ing about hoping to get another five years, so I think it would only be good governance for us to pursue how we’re going to replace this bridge and where we’re going to replace it.”

Busch made not of past discussion between the district and the Min-istry of Transportation and Infrastructure about aligning the bridge’s replacement with High-way 97A.

“We have to keep in mind that to replace this bridge is perhaps five or six million dol-lars, which I don’t think we have stored away in our bank account or in our reserves, espe-

cially since now we’re also paying for a wa-ter treatment plant,” said Busch. “But if this bridge should, at some time, fail, we would be in very seri-ous trouble, the District of Sicamous, because there is a lot of traffic that goes across there on a daily basis, not just commercial traffic.”

Rysz agreed with Busch, and said council shouldn’t be waiting for MOTI to start making plans. Rysz noted he had spoken with Shus-wap MLA Greg Kyllo, who is in agreement. Rysz also suggested council pursue the mat-ter with the province at this month’s Union of BC Municipalities convention, adding there might also be fed-eral funds available for the project through the Building Canada fund.

“We will be getting a fairly substantial re-port… probably some-where around Janu-ary 2015,” said Rysz. “Once we get that re-

port, it’s going to give us an indication of how much it’s going to cost us to replace. At that particular time, then we can probably really seriously go after the funding to get this thing done.”


Slow down: Vehicles pass through speed dips located at both ends of the Eagle River Bridge. The dips were intended to prolong the life of the bridge, which is estimated to last another five years. Photo by Lachlan Labere


VICTORIA – Whatever cease-fire emerges from the latest round in the war for control of B.C.’s pub-lic school system, the next court battle is ready to pro-ceed.

Lawyers for the provin-cial government and the B.C. Teachers’ Federa-tion have filed their written submissions to the B.C. Court of Appeal. At issue is whether legislation remov-ing union contract terms that dictated class size and teacher staff levels was a violation of members’ con-stitutional rights to freedom of association.

When B.C. Supreme Court justice Susan Griffin found that it was, the gov-ernment changed legislation again. The same judge or-dered that struck down and the 2002 contract language reinstated retroactively for every contract since then,

imposed or negotiated.The government

says that would create cha-os as well as billions in ex-penses, pushing out full-day kindergarten and other allo-cations of space and money that have proceeded since union control was removed.

Griffin’s order is stayed pending this appeal. If you think the latest strike has been disruptive, you don’t want to see what this judge’s vision would look like.

Government lawyers argue that the BCTF’s constitutional right claim is “wrong in law” and amounts to a veto that blocks the province’s ability to legislate in response to changing conditions.

“According to the BCTF, legislation may improve on collective agreement entitlements but cannot re-move them over the objec-tions of the union without violating [the Charter of Rights and Freedoms],” the government’s submis-

sion says. “On the BCTF’s theory, collective agree-ment entitlements become constitutionally protected in perpetuity.”

What that would mean to voters is when they throw out an NDP government that handed the keys to the treasury to public sector unions, the unions can veto that too. And when man-dated minimum teacher-li-brarians sitting in rooms full of paper books become the equivalent of buggy whip weavers, they must remain as long as the union wants.

BCTF’s lawyers sub-mit that the government is wrong in fact as well as law. Its arguments are technical, dwelling particularly on the fact that the government didn’t appeal Griffin’s first ruling.

For instance, there have actually been two negoti-ated deals since 2002. The one in 2006 provided five years of raises and a bonus to get the government past

the 2010 Olympics, and in 2012 there was a pre-election truce negotiated with the help of mediator Charles Jago.

The government argues that re-imposing 2002 conditions would overturn other contracts that were agreed to by the BCTF. BCTF’s lawyers say, in ef-fect, the deleted terms cov-ering working conditions weren’t there to negotiate.

It’s been obvious for many years that the BCTF doesn’t function like a nor-mal union, and isn’t much interested in starting to do so.

Its leadership sees itself as an agent of “social jus-tice,” a belief demonstrated by its promotion of flawed poverty statistics and pro-nouncements on everything from U.S. labour law to conflict in the Middle East.

Its decades-old instruc-tion to government is blunt: raise taxes and give us the money.

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EAGLE VALLEY

NEWSNEWS

Blame falls on Gordon Campbell

OPINION

It appears the B.C. Teachers Federation strike may end soon.

It is easy to blame the provincial government, or the union for the toll this labour dispute has had on both students and parents. However, the real architect of this unmitigated disaster for students and parents is former premier Gordon Campbell.

Policies enacted during his government’s first term, when he had a 75-seat majority in the provincial legis-lature, led directly to this situation.

The BCTF likes to blame Premier Christy Clark, who for much of the Campbell government’s first term was education minister. However, she was not the developer of education policy. Campbell, a former teacher, was. He was well-known to be a micro-man-ager, and he had pronounced views on what was wrong with the education system and how best to fix it.

The BC Liberals’ “New Era” campaign document, which they brandished as they went into the 2001 elec-tion, states that they wanted “excellence in education.” It stated the following: “The NDP’s rigid ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to education has hurt students, forced schools to cut services and diverted program funding to government-imposed labour contracts.”

The “government-imposed labour contracts” referred to is a contract the BCTF brokered with the province under the Glen Clark NDP government. That contract contained fixed class sizes, and was imposed on school districts against their will.

Campbell decided the contract had to be changed. So his government removed portions of it unilaterally, tak-ing out class size limits.

That is the contract that Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin twice ruled was illegally altered by the government. She said the province acted illegally in its unilateral actions, breaking a legal contract, and called on the government to come up with solutions. The government is appealing her latest decision. Given the contract-breaking is unconstitutional, it is time to acknowledge that the Campbell government went too far.

The provincial government would be far better off to come to an agreement with the BCTF on class size and composition and drop its appeal of Griffin’s decision.

There must be a movement away from the nastiness between the two sides which has reached a zenith in this dispute.

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Labour fight continues in the courtBy Tom FletcherNews Columnist


THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap)

2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS

NOTICE OF NOMINATIONPublic Notice is given to the electors of the following electoral areas for nominations for the office of SCHOOL TRUSTEE for: • Trustee Electoral Area 2: Enderby (One [1] to be elected)

(City of Enderby & Regional District of North Okanagan Area F) • Trustee Electoral Area 3: Sicamous/Malakwa (One [1] to be elected)

(District of Sicamous & Columbia Shuswap Regional District Area E) • Trustee Electoral Area 4: North Shuswap (One [1] to be elected)

(Columbia Shuswap Regional District Area F) • Trustee Electoral Area 5: Carlin / Sorrento (One [1] to be elected)

(Columbia Shuswap Regional District Area C) • Trustee Electoral Area 6: Falkland/Deep Creek/Ranchero (One [1] to

be elected) (Columbia Shuswap Regional District Area D)

for a four year term (commencing December 2014). Nominations will be received by the Chief Election Officer or a designated person, as follows:By hand, mail or other delivery service: The Board of Education of School District #83 PO Box 129, 220 Shuswap Street N.E. Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4N2 From: 9:00 am Tuesday, September 30, 2014 To: 4:00 pm Friday, October 10, 2014 Excluding statutory holidays and weekendsBy fax to: 250-832-9428 By email to: [email protected] From: 9:00 am Tuesday, September 30, 2014 To: 4:00 pm Friday, October 10, 2014Originals of faxed or emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief Election Officer by 4:00pm on Friday, October 17, 2014. Otherwise, the person nominated is deemed to have withdrawn.Nomination forms are available at the Board of Education of School Dis-trict #83 (N. Okanagan-Shuswap) from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Statutory Holidays, and also available on the Board’s website at http://www.sd83.bc.ca.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICEA person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria: • Canadian citizen; • 18 years of age or older on general voting day [November 15, 2014]; • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately

before the day nomination papers are filed; • not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other

enactment from being nominated for, being elected to or holding the office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

FURTHER INFORMATION on the foregoing may be obtained by contacting: Teresa Wren, Chief Election Officer 250-832-2157 Bethan Miller, Deputy Chief Election Officer 250-804-7830Teresa Wren Chief Election Officer

DAVE STEAD SR. MEMORIAL Golf Tournament of Helping Close to Home

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 at EAGLE RIVER GOLF COURSE

Thank you for your past support. We are hoping and appreciate any support you can

offer in making our tournament in memory of Dad another success.

How you help and what is included: Grandad Sponsorship $250.00 Hole Sponsor

Includes: Recognition on Hole of choice, event guide, appreciation gift and thank you recognition. Sweetheart Sponsorship $150.00 Hole Sponsor

Includes: Recognition on hole and event guide , thank you recognition. Prize Donation - Donate prize for tournament prize draw

Includes: Recognition in event guide and thank you recognition.

Team Entry Information: Tournament Fee: $80 Includes 18 Holes, dinner and gift. Teams of 4 Best Ball. 11:00 AM Shot gun start.

Theme: Plaid Just like Dad & Suspenders!

Prizes for First Place: $250.00 & Team Name on Trophy

Second and third place: Pick of the Prize table & Name on Trophy.

Live Music by Band Dos, Win a Week Long Houseboat Trip with Twin Anchors Houseboats and great live and

silent auction times.

All Funds Raised will go back to our local community and donation to the Shuswap Canadian Mental Health

Association

Please call Rick at 250-836-4454 for Team Registration. Call Georgina 250-804-3833 or Angela 250-804-5083 for more information. Email:

[email protected].

Local organizations we donate to: Eagle Valley Resource Centre, Sicamous Preschool, Sicamous Hockey

School, Eagle River Secondary Bursary, Sicamous District Kids Camp or after school

program.... And those who need a helping hand.

Follow our event on Facebook!

DAVE STEAD SR. MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

Helping Close to Home

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014EAGLE RIVER GOLF COURSE

Thank you for your past support. We appreciate any support you can offer in making a success in Memory of Dad. A Special Memorial will be also held for JJ.

How you help and what is included:Grandad Sponsorship $250.00 Hole Sponsor

Includes: Recognition on Hole of choice, event guide, appreciation gift and thank you recognition.Sweetheart Sponsorship $150.00 Hole Sponsor

Includes: Recognition on hole and event guide , thank you recognition.Prize Donation - Donate prize for tournament prize draw


Team Entry Information:Tournament Fee: $80 Includes 18 Holes, dinner and gift. Teams of 4, Best Ball. 11:00 AM

Shot gun start.Theme: Plaid Just like Dad & Suspenders!

Prizes for First Place: $250.00 & Team Name on TrophySecond and third place: Pick of the Prize table & Name on Trophy.

Live Music by Band Dos, Win a Week Long Houseboat Trip with Twin Anchors Houseboats and great live and silent auction times.

All Funds Raised will go back to our local community and donation to the Shuswap Canadian Mental Health Association

Please call Rick at 250-836-4454 for Team Registration. Call Georgina 250-804-3833 or Angela 250-804-5083 for more information. Email: [email protected].

Local organizations we donate to: Eagle Valley Resource Centre, Sicamous Preschool, Sicamous Hockey School, Eagle River Secondary Bursary, Sicamous District Kids Camp or after school program, Junior Golf Member-

ship.... And those who need a helping hand.

Follow our event on Facebook!XXXXXXXXX XXX

DAVE STEAD SR. MEMORIAL Golf Tournament of Helping Close to Home

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 at EAGLE RIVER GOLF COURSE

Thank you for your past support. We are hoping and appreciate any support you can

offer in making our tournament in memory of Dad another success.

How you help and what is included: Grandad Sponsorship $250.00 Hole Sponsor

Includes: Recognition on Hole of choice, event guide, appreciation gift and thank you recognition. Sweetheart Sponsorship $150.00 Hole Sponsor

Includes: Recognition on hole and event guide , thank you recognition. Prize Donation - Donate prize for tournament prize draw


Team Entry Information: Tournament Fee: $80 Includes 18 Holes, dinner and gift. Teams of 4 Best Ball. 11:00 AM Shot gun start.

Theme: Plaid Just like Dad & Suspenders!

Prizes for First Place: $250.00 & Team Name on Trophy

Second and third place: Pick of the Prize table & Name on Trophy.

Live Music by Band Dos, Win a Week Long Houseboat Trip with Twin Anchors Houseboats and great live and

silent auction times.

All Funds Raised will go back to our local community and donation to the Shuswap Canadian Mental Health

Association

Please call Rick at 250-836-4454 for Team Registration. Call Georgina 250-804-3833 or Angela 250-804-5083 for more information. Email:

[email protected].

Local organizations we donate to: Eagle Valley Resource Centre, Sicamous Preschool, Sicamous Hockey

School, Eagle River Secondary Bursary, Sicamous District Kids Camp or after school

program.... And those who need a helping hand.

Follow our event on Facebook!

Sicamous Minor Hockey

Is looking for kids, referees, coaches and volunteers to help keep the great sport of

hockey alive in our community!We are having a “come out and try it” night

Kids ages 4 and up from Sicamous and surrounding communities are invited to come and skate

September 18th from 6-7pm.

(Please bring a helmet and stick if you have one!)

Hockey Practice begins Monday, September 22

WE NEED: Coaches!!If you: enjoy coaching kids, love hockey,

have your coaching certificate (or are willing to complete One), have a valid criminal record check,

and want to positively impact this community! Please send your application and contact information to:

Sonya Rokosh: [email protected]

Shuswap MLAGREG KYLLO

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Suite 202A 371 Alexander St. NESalmon Arm, BC V1E 4N7Telephone: 250-833-7414Toll Free: 1-877-771-7557

www.gregkyllomla.caE-Mail: [email protected]

Public input wanted to make Sicamous a healthy community

The District of Si-camous received a $5,000 grant from Healthy Communities BC to conduct a com-munity study with the purpose of determin-ing what the residents of Sicamous need to become a healthy com-munity.

A healthy communi-ty involves health care, education, community

infrastructure, eco-nomic development, employment, seniors, youth, First Nations, immigrants, arts and culture, the environ-ment, water, transporta-tion, trade and meeting the needs of both our permanent and part-time residents.

We are so lucky already to have doc-tors, dentists, holistic health professionals, the Sicamous and Dis-trict Chamber of Com-merce, the Eagle Valley Community Support Society, an active se-niors community, good schools, arts and cul-ture, lakes, rivers, trails, sustainable food and good, clean air.

As a community, we have to work to-gether to protect these

assets. We have to pay attention to the needs of those who live here, we have to listen to our seniors, our youth, our businesses, encourage new business and work together as one to make Sicamous a better place to live.

I was just read-ing a book by Doug Griffithes and Kelly Clemmer (rural com-munity advocates), which notes how one of the fastest ways to kill a community is to not have good drink-ing water. By this time next year, we should have some of the best drinking water in the province.

The Healthy Com-munities funding will be used to host commu-nity meetings with vari-

ous sector groups and the general community to gather the thoughts and vision of what a healthy Sicamous would be, and how we can work together to make it happen.

When all the ses-sions have been com-pleted, the information gathered will be com-piled into a report and a document that priori-tizes the outcomes in a way that will provide clear guidance from the community to the next council.

Please look for posters, check your lo-cal paper or go on the District of Sicamous’ website for the upcom-ing dates and times of these meetings. Do not miss your opportunity to have your say.

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In accordance with Section 405 of the Local Government Act, notice is hereby given that the properties described hereunder shall be offered for sale by Public Auction in the Council Chambers, Sicamous Civic Centre, 446 Main Street, Sicamous, B.C. on Monday, September 29th, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. unless the delinquent taxes with interest thereon are sooner paid.

No further information will be given out by telephone or otherwise, except such as will be posted on the District of Sicamous City Hall Office bulletin board or at www.sicamous.ca

Purchasers should be aware that they are liable for Property Purchase Taxes under the Property Transfer Tax Act once the transfer is in effect following expiration of the one year redemption period. Purchasers may also be subject to GST depending on circumstances of individual properties.

Kelly Bennett, CA

Chief Financial Officer/Collector


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SPORTSParkinson walk: Members of the Sicamous Eagles Junior B hockey team walk with seniors in the BC Parkinson SuperWalk at McGuire Lake Park on Saturday, Sept. 13. Photo by Evan Buhler

Season start dampened by Storm

The Sicamous Ea-gles have begun their season in the red fol-lowing losses at home and away.

Saturday night’s sea-son opener was wound up being a come-from-behind victory for guests and rivals the Revelstoke Grizzlies, who took the game with a 4-3 win.

Scoring commenced with an early first-frame marker by Eagle Eric Austin, assisted by Scott Robinson. The Grizzlies potted two goals in the frame’s second half, giving them a 2-1 lead moving into second pe-riod.

Returning Eagle Ste-phen Hawco found the back of the net early in the second period, as-sisted by Justin Wilde and Darian Blight (on AP duty). Sicamous went on to dominate the frame, with Eric Austin adding a fourth goal for the team off Ben Camp-bell and Braydon Mc-Carthy.

Eagles rookie net-minder Liam Banks was especially busy in the third period as Revel-stoke attempted a come-back. Despite a deter-mined effort by Banks, Bruin Steven Fiust was able to convert a power play late in the frame to tie things up, with the kill coming on an unas-sisted shot by teammate

Carter Huber. On Sunday, the Ea-

gles were in Kamloops where they were shut out with an 8-0 tally for the Kamloops Storm. Eagles general manager Wayne March joked he’s not sure if his boys even got off the bus. But in seriousness, he said the Storm only managed two real good goals, the rest were the result of re-bounds given up around the net and scrambles in the net. And while the Storm may have been a bit intimidating, March expects that will change in no time.

“With them being a bigger, older team, they kind of push our young guys around,” said March. “In saying that, I would say a few weeks down the road, it will be a lot different. They won’t be pushed around.”

Players to watch for this season include for-wards Devyn Myck, formerly of the Ed-monton Thunder Cats, St. Albert native Ben Campbell and Nathan Plessis, who March lik-ens to a young Shea We-ber (who plays forward as opposed to defence).



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PUBLIC NOTICE is given to the Electors in Electoral Areas ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’ and ‘F’ of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District for the nomination of a person to represent each Electoral Area as “DIRECTOR” on the Board of Directors for the Columbia Shuswap Regional District commencing December 2014 and ending in November 2018. Nomination packages may be obtained from the Chief Election Of� cer at the Columbia Shuswap Regional District Of� ce in Salmon Arm, or from the locations below from Friday, August 22, 2014 during regular business hours, local time. (Excluding statutory holidays and weekends) until 4:00 PM local time on Friday, October 10, 2014 or on the CSRD website: www.csrd.bc.caNomination papers will be received by the Chief Election Of� cer or a designated person, between 9:00 AM, Tuesday, September 30, 2014 and 4:00 PM on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014, during regular business hours, local time. (Excluding statutory holidays and weekends) as follows: By hand, mail, fax, email, or other delivery service: for All Electoral Areas Lynda Shykora, CEO Columbia Shuswap Regional District 781 Marine Park Drive NE Box 978 Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4P1 [email protected] Fax: 250.832.9774

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or for Electoral Area ‘E’ only Joni L’Heureux, CEO Sicamous District Of� ce 446 Main Street Box 219 Sicamous, BC V0E 2V0 [email protected]

Note: Originals of faxed or emailed nomination documents must be received by the Chief Election Of� cer by 4:00 PM local time on Friday, October 17, 2014 or the person nominated is deemed to have withdrawn from being a candidate in the Election.

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from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding of� ce.

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The Sicamous Fungi Festival returns Sept. 19 to 21 at the Red Barn Arts Centre.

The festival offers an assortment of activities and events celebrating local wild mushrooms, including musical enter-tainment, presentations, displays and delicious food.

There will be mush-room hunting tours with expert guides. An all-day tour and free access to all presentations is $75. Otherwise, it’s $10 per presentation. Two-hour walking tours are $25 per person. Access to beer garden and live music is free.

Food will be avail-able on Friday from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday from 1 to about 10 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to about 4:30. Mushroom Meals will be offering schnit-zels with a chanterelle cream sauce, lobster mushroom vegetarian lasagna and a smoked tomato and wild mush-room chili, $5 per meal.

Register to ensure your place on the tour of your choice. Payment can be taken upon ar-rival. For more informa-tion, call 250-804-6496, or visit http://www.fun-gifestival.com.

Trail blitzHelp the Shuswap

Trail Alliance and the District of Sicamous trim, clip and clean the Eagle River Nature Park for winter play on Satur-

day, Sept. 20.Lunch and transpor-

tation is provided for the trail blitz, which will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meet at the rec centre.

For more informa-

tion and to register, visit the Sicamous Civic Centre at 446 Main Street Monday to Fri-day, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or call 250-832-0102.

Kids invited to give hockey a trySicamous Minor

Hockey is inviting any-one who might be inter-ested in playing to come out and give it a try.

SMH is hosting a “come and try it” night on Sept. 18 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the rec cen-tre. This is the second of such events, open to kids ages four and up from Sicamous and sur-rounding communities.

Participants are en-couraged to bring their own helmets and sticks if they have them.

SMH is also look-ing for coaches. Pre-

requisites include a love for coaching kids and the game of hockey, a coaching certificate (or be willing to complete one), a valid criminal record check and a de-sire to have a positive impact on the commu-nity.

Applications and contact information can be sent to Sonya Ro-kosh at [email protected].

SAMHAWith the task of

evaluating players for the development and

rep teams out of the way, Salmon Arm Mi-nor Hockey (SAMHA) recreation teams are set to hit the ice on the week of Sept. 22. Check the SAMHA website for the practice schedule.

The director for each division will be contacting the recre-ation and players and sharing information about the start up.

Those wishing to coach at the recre-ational level, and do not have their coaching certification, can at-

tend the Hybrid clinic in Salmon Arm on Oct. 18. Please advise your division director of your interest.

The first of 15 SAMHA tournaments being held in Salmon Arm and Sicamous will take place on the week-end of Oct. 3rd.

The Salmon Arm Jiffy Lube Bantam Tier 3 team and the Salmon Arm RONA Midget Tier 3 team will host their home tourna-ments in Salmon Arm and Sicamous respec-tively.

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Terrance Arthur (Terry) Bach passed away in Shuswap Lake General Hospital, Salmon Arm, on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at the age of 66 years.

Born in Vernon, B.C on June 18, 1948, Terry has been an active resident of the Sicamous and Shuswap area for many years, well remembered for his zest for life and his love of aviation, both as a pilot and instructor. His work allowed him to live in a variety of communities, which also allowed him a variety of occupations to go along with his flying. Saw Mill worker, Biologist, Commercial flying, and teaching guitar to name a few.

Predeceased by his parents, Art in 1974 and Nellie in 1999 and his wife, Carol in 2006.

Terry is survived by his daughter, Sally Parrot, a step daughter, Jamie (Al) Verez of Dog Pound, Alberta and her children, Chet and Arden; 4 sisters, Eleanor Bach of Sicamous, Diane Vanderburg of Sicamous, Joan Barker of Lumby and Sharon Thibodeau of Sicamous, a host of nephews, nieces and friends.

A Celebration of life service will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Sicamous on Saturday afternoon, September 20th at 2 p.m. with Jack Bowers the funeral celebrant. Friends are welcome to bring along your musical instruments to partake in a jam session during the reception, which is being catered by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Legion.

“He could fly higher and he knew it was time to go home”

Funeral arrangements are in the care of Bowers Funeral Home and Crematorum, Salmon Arm.

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Hard work and determination will pay off for Shea Weber in February when he suits up in the red and whites of Team Canada.

The 24-year-old Sicamous product was tagged last month to represent the nation in the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s a goal Weber had been working towards, and an opportu-nity he’s proud to be part of.

“The Olympics are a very special event, not only for hockey but for winter sports and to be able to play for your country and compete for a medal is kind of neat,” says Weber.

The 6’4”, 234 lb. Nashville Predators defenceman will be sporting the maple leaf with other big names in hockey like Scott

Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks), Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks), Chris Pronger (Philadelphia Flyers) and Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Pen-guins).

Apart from a camp held last summer, We-ber guesses the team may have a couple of days to gel in February before hitting the ice in Whistler, and he’s interest-ed in seeing how everyone fi ts. But Weber’s mom and dad, Tracy and James, don’t ex-pect Shea will have any problems.

“Whatever they want him to do, he’ll do it,” said James. “He’s a team-fi rst guy, he’s not a selfi sh player at all.”

Both parents share what could be described as a subdued excite-ment for their son and the hon-our that’s been bestowed up on him.

“Shea phoned home and said ‘I’ve been chosen

to play in the Olympics, and I said ‘okay,’” Tracy commented, explaining it’s kind of a family trait not to overreact – one that Shea

shares. But she and James who, with Shea,share roots in Sicamous minor hockey, are defi nitely excited, and are hoping to attendat least one of their son’s games.

Sicamous Eagles manager Wayne Marchis also pretty excited by the news that Shea, an Eagle alumni, will be playing forhis community and country at the Games.March says Shea has been totally focusedthroughout his career on what he wanted todo: make it to the NHL. In the process, Sheahelped the Eagles win the KIJHL West-ern Canadians in 2001-02; he helped takethe Kelowna Rockets to three consecutiveWHL Memorial Cup championship games,including the win in 2004; and, after signingwith Nashville in 2004, he helped the Ca-

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Being a world cham-pion is a new experi-ence for Will Phillips, but one the gold-medal martial artist seems to be taking in stride.

Between Sept. 3 and 7, Phillips, from Si-camous, and 14 other members of Provincial Martial Arts Associa-tion (PMA) Shuswap were at the Olympic Oval in Richmond B.C., taking part in the first TAFISA (The Associa-tion For International Sport For All) World Martial Arts Games. There, Phillips com-peted in three events in his division: kata, con-tinuous sparring and point sparring. It was in the latter competition, a difficult match ver-sus a competitor from the U.S., that Phillips earned gold.

“Will had a lot of tough competition from the USA and Canada, and managed to pull out an overtime win by landing a roundhouse kick to the head of his opponent,” said PMA Shuswap head coach Holly Raczynski. “This was one of the clos-est and most exciting matches of the tourna-ment.”

Phillips concurs with Raczynski about the calibre of the competi-tion, noting the medal-winning bout has left him with a sore chest, and a little out of breath. It’s also resulted in him receiving a new nick-name among his co-workers with the Dis-trict of Sicamous.

“I am very humble, but my co-workers are bugging they heck out

of me, they’re calling me the champ. And I’m going, ‘would you leave it alone please,’” laughed Phillips.

There were more than 300 competi-tors from seven coun-tries taking part in the Games, which were granted official patron-age by the International Olympic Committee.

“It was amazing to be part of the opening ceremonies if you can imagine, and it was amazing to be standing on the 2010 Olympic podium, it was pretty cool,” Phillips added.

Of the PMA Shus-wap contingent, Rac-zynski led the way earn-ing gold medals in the four divisions she com-peted in, point sparring,

kickboxing, Korean patterns and Traditional Japanese katas.

Raczynski says stu-dents Evan Fankhouser and Rena Kakuda both showed amazing efforts at their first internation-al event, noting each just missed the podium by coming in fourth place in both kata, and kickboxing divisions.

“Although they did not medal, Evan and Rena put forth incred-ible effort and show-cased amazing martial art skills that did not go unrecognized,” said Raczynski. “Fourth place is a difficult plac-ing to accept and they should both be very proud of their perfor-mances. They are both true fighters!”

Mother and son team Danette and Houston Rampton are both world champions in their tra-ditional Japanese Kata divisions, with Danette also earning second in point sparring and Houston the bronze in point sparring.

Cassidy Hughes won the gold in the women’s colour belt division for point sparring, and also got silver in the kick-boxing division.

Salmon Arm’s An Mei Andreassen de-feated teammate Rena Kakuda in the 15- to 17-year-old colour belt division to win the bronze medal, while Brandy Allison brought home a bronze medal in the 15- to 17-year-old point sparring division,

beating out competitors from Great Britain and Canada.

Brother and sister, Garrett and Brianna Marshall of Salmon Arm, both green belts, competed in open co-lour belt divisions against students with many more years of ex-perience and fared very well, said Raczynski. Garrett took first place in kata, making a huge comeback in a point-fighting match to attain the bronze medal.

“He was down 0-6 but ended up winning the match 7-6,” said Raczynski. “Brianna placed second in kata and lost her first kick-boxing and point spar-ring matches to a very strong German con-

tender who won first in both of those divisions.”

PMA’s other broth-er/sister combo from Salmon Arm was Ben and Elyssa Eddy. Ben brought home silver in katas and fought some very tough competi-tion from Great Britain, Germany, and the U.S.

Elyssa, his younger sister, placed second in ki`ckboxing. This was her second time com-peting in this type of event.

Lindsey Christian-Hack was competed in the 15- to 17-year-old Black Belt divisions.

“This was one of the most talented and toughest divisions at the event,” said Rac-zynski. “Lindsey fought her heart out to win the

bronze medal….”Cole Desautels, a

new member with PMA Shuswap also competed in katas, point sparring and kickboxing.

“Although he did not medal, Cole did a great job for his first inter-national competition,” said Raczynski.

Phillips credits the amount of hardware the Shuswap contingent earned at the Games to Raczynski’s instruction. Raczynski is a third degree black belt who has been instructing for about 15 years, but only the last three-and-a-half of those has been in the Shuswap.

“There was 15 from the Shuswap area who qualified in different age groups and we won 19 or 20 medals, so this was an effort by all of us and it’s pretty im-pressive for a fairly new membership,” said Phil-lips, who is now work-ing towards his black belt. What happens af-ter that remains to be seen.

“I’ll be 46 in No-vember, so the next time there’s a worlds, if it’s anywhere near I’ll try to go, but that will be a different competition again because 45 was the cut off for my divi-sion, so the next will be 46 to God knows what age, so it will be even more interesting,” said Phillips. “And once you get your black belt, my goodness, those guys are crazy.”

Anyone wanting more information about the PMA Shuswap program may contact Raczynski at 250-253-2406, or by email at [email protected].

Sicamous man wins gold at World Martial Arts GamesBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Best in division: Left -Will Phillips wears the gold medal he won for point sparring at the World Martial Arts Games held earlier this month at Richmond Olympic Oval. Phillips fights U.S. opponent Music James. Photos contributed

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