Changes to how Canada Post serves Salmon Arm, and the province, are cre-ating uncertainty as to how long the city will be served by a government postal outlet.

Canada Post says the Salmon Arm government post office on Hudson Street is doing very well, but its hours do not cater to those who need to use the service after hours and on weekends. So the Crown corporation has begun a process, in consultation with the Cana-dian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), of looking at setting up another private outlet in the vicinity of the downtown postal outlet.

“Because it’s doing well, we see there’s possibly a need…, “ says Can-ada Post spokesperson Anick Losier. “We’re considering possibly adding a dealership, and the starting point of about 0.5 kilometres away, because there’s more like a retail area, there’s a Rexall there… so there’s a few possible businesses which we could potentially look at.”

Losier says a private outlet will al-low Canada Post to provide improved access and convenience, and is more cost-effective than expanding hours at the corporate post office.

But post office employee and CUPW local 823 (Salmon Arm) president Dale Wereschuk is not entirely comforted by

the information he’s received to date from Canada Post.

“All we know is that Canada Post has applied to put a sub-post office on the corner of Sixth Street and Hudson Av-enue NE, which puts it on that corner, but they’re not actually saying which facility it’s going in,” says Wereschuk, adding union officials suspect the long-term goal for Canada Post is to do away with Salmon Arm’s corporate office.

“Traditionally, that’s what happens. They open the franchise close to a cor-porate outlet and then they shut down the corporate outlet.”

But Losier stresses this is “just a

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Reprieve for literacy programs?

Change of procedure: Local businessman Gary Osborne sorts letters destined for out-of-town delivery from those to be taken inside the government post office to be sorted and mailed locally.

Postal union fears closureExpansion: Canada Post looking at new downtown outlet.

Shuswap MLA George Abbott is quite sure Education Minister Don McRae’s March 25 an-nouncement means co-ordinator funding will be restored to the Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap (LASS).

The alliance was one of 55 community orga-nizations whose co-ordinator funding was with-drawn by Decoda Literacy Solutions, the agency that receives funding from the Ministry of Educa-tion and distributes it to literacy groups across the province.

Decoda made the cuts March 1 after the minis-try reduced funding by $1 million for the second year in a row. Using its own reserve funds last year, Decoda kept its funding at the same level but said it was unable to do so this year.

The irony of the $30,000 loss in funding to LASS was that two weeks before the mid-Febru-ary announcement, the organization was singled out by the premier with a Council of the Federa-tion Literacy Award for outstanding achievement, innovative practice and excellence in literacy.

Abbott, who had praised the alliance for its work and accomplishments, went to bat for LASS, di-recting his appeals directly to McRae.

The minister met with Decoda reps early in March, promising he would “do his best to find some savings and efficiencies.”

McRae’s announcement, made Monday at a Decoda conference in Vancouver, confirmed $1 million in funding will be restored to the organi-zation.

“The funds will be used to further support 102 community literacy task groups in B.C.,” says a Ministry of Education press release. “These com-munity organizations make an important contribu-tion to the development of individual and family literacy skills through the delivery and co-ordina-tion of literacy programs.”

Ministry officials referred specific information on where funding would be restored to Decoda,

Province: MLA says restored funding should reverse cut to LASS.By Barb BrouwerOBSERVER STAFF

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which had not respond-ed to calls from the Ob-server by press time.

But Abbott was firm in his belief LASS will soon be in receipt of the $30,000 to sup-port co-ordinator Jen

Findlay’s position for another year.

“I don’t speak for Decoda either, but I know the people at Decoda and I am com-pletely confident that with the additional re-sources, she can look forward to having the

same literacy initiative as last year,” he said Tuesday. “There’ll be hell raised if there isn’t, but Decoda is a good organization and I have no doubt now that they have the funding, they will restore funding to the Shuswap.”

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Local letters leave townstarting point” in the consultation process, and “there’s actually no guarantees there will be a dealership there.”

“It’s not to threaten the corporate post office – it’s doing quite well. It’s just to complement it,” says Losier.

While Salmon Arm’s government outlet may be doing well, Losier says Canada Post last year experienced its first financial loss in 16 years, and that it’s see-ing two million letters less a day compared to last year.

This, says Losier, has a lot to do with technol-ogy and changes in the way people commu-nicate. Subsequently, Canada Post is chang-ing how its letters are handled, moving mail sorting away from small community outlets to centralized locations. Salmon Arm residents may have noticed the

impact of this locally with the removal of the “Local” destina-tion mailboxes from the community this past weekend. Now, says Losier, if a letter addressed to Salmon Arm is dropped off in a Salmon Arm mailbox, or at a private outlet, it will be sent to van-couver, where it will be sorted and returned to Salmon Arm for de-livery. However, if the same letter is delivered to the corporate post of-fice, it will stay in Salm-on Arm for delivery.

Wereschuk is encour-aging residents to bring their local mail to the post office counter, stat-ing it will have an im-pact on jobs.

“We lost a position effective today, a full-time position, which happens to be a wicket position,” Wereschuk said Monday. “It’s re-ally important, that’s the message we want to get out. If you bring the

letters over the counter to Salmon Arm, those will stay in town and be sorted.”

Losier says the posi-tion Wereschuk referred to was a retirement, and that no one lost their job. However, she adds the position will not be replaced.

“Quite frankly, we would rather stay status quo, but the status quo is not viable for us,” says Losier.

Wereschuk says the union and Canada Post will be monitoring mail sorted in vancouver, to ensure it comes back for delivery in two day’s time, as per corporation standards. And while this system is now un-derway, he says the union still plans to fight it.

“We’re going to be getting petitions and we’re asking city coun-cil to send letters to their MPs and send a letter to Canada Post opposing these changes,” he says.

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Earlier this month, the BC Liquor Dis-tribution Branch con-firmed the Salmon Arm government liquor out-let would be moving from the Shuswap Park Mall to the Centenoka Park Mall. On Tuesday, Shuswap Park Mall co-owner Don Blisher confirmed there is al-ready a prospective ten-ant lined up to take over the space – a private li-quor outlet.

“I think it will be an excellent fit and not only that, the clientele is used to going to that area so I imagine a lot of people would con-tinue to go there,” says Blisher.

“And certainly, it will have extended hours, which the present one doesn’t have, and it will offer a bit more in the way of variety I would think.”

Blisher says the pro-spective tenant has al-ready submitted a letter of intent, and is expect-ed to have their permits in place by April 15.

Dixon’s Liquor Store offered “no comment” to the rumour that they would be moving to Shuswap Park Mall.

At city council’s Monday meeting, the

topic of the government liquor store’s move was raised once again. It had first come up dur-ing the March 11 meet-ing, when Coun. Alan Harrison made the mo-tion that a letter be sent to the liquor branch “re-questing the decision to relocate the liquor store be put on hold and that city council be consult-ed about any consider-ation to relocate outside the immediate down-town core.”

Mayor Nancy Coo-per said the day after this motion was passed, she’d heard there were already plans in place at the Shuswap Park Mall for a new tenant, and that the Down-town Salmon Arm or-ganization is OK with the change, calling it a “positive movement.”

“I have the letter ready, I’ll send it out like this if you want, but I am wondering if we really want them to reconsider their relocat-ing the liquor store?” asked Cooper.

Harrison was disap-

pointed the letter had not been sent 14 days after it was approved by council, and main-tained the letter needs to be sent.

“My very point is that there was not con-sultation,” said Har-rison. “So, if the lease comes up in three years on that place and the government liquor store is going to move somewhere farther out of the downtown core, this just reinforces us

not hearing it until it’s done. Is that what we want? I certainly don’t.

“I still don’t want the liquor store moving out of the immediate down-town. And I was fully aware of the informa-tion before I made the motion, so I stand by it.”

Coun. Chad Eliason concurred with Harri-son, suggesting the let-ter be sent by courier so that it arrives sooner.

Couns. Denise Re-imer and Ken Jamie-son, who supported the March 11 letter, were absent.

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A significant change in one category was the catalyst for Salm-on Arm’s substantial decline in the annual MoneySense Magazine Best Places to Live in Canada edition.

Last year, Salmon Arm’s ranking was 61 out of 190 cities rated across the country. Salmon Arm was also fifth-highest ranked city in B.C., behind Saanich, Victoria, Ka-mloops and Vancou-ver and beat out our southern neighbours, Kelowna and Vernon.

This year is a differ-ent story. Salmon Arm has dropped to 122 out of 200 cities, with Kamloops, Kelowna and Vernon all ranking above us.

Last year, Salmon Arm also made the list as the 13th best place to retire in the country. In 2013, the city did not even make that list.

The main question is why the sudden slide?

MoneySense senior editor David Hodges attributed the drop to one major factor – pop-ulation growth.

“When you are in the middle of the pack, the cities are packed so highly together in the rankings that a change in one category has the potential to make a ma-jor shift,” says Hodges.

Salmon Arm’s popu-lation change for the 2012 ranking was an increase of 9.1 per cent. The growth curve was dramatically low-ered in 2013. While there was still a popu-lation increase of 2.39 per cent, this indicates a significant slip.

“A slip like this shows a community that isn’t growing as robustly as it was and certainly not as ro-bustly as communities in Alberta. We have seen a real rise with the Albertan cities and their economic growth has brought people into those areas,” says Hodges.

Mayor Nancy Coo-per says she is increas-ingly aware of the rise in “single-parent” families in the city

— not because people are getting divorced, but because one parent is going to work in Al-berta or Northern B.C., while the other spouse remains in Salmon Arm.

She also doesn’t disagree that the com-munity is losing young families.

“I’ve just said good-bye to friends with three children under age 6 who are moving to Edmonton. They say they hope to come back some day, but right now, for economic rea-sons it’s pretty tough.”

Cooper says that’s why the city is work-ing on the five-year economic development action plan.

“We want better pay-ing jobs, we’re really trying,” she said, point-ing to the expanded college initiative as a project with the poten-tial to bring additional well-paying jobs to the city. “We need to stem this flow.”

When readers were asked on the Observ-er’s Facebook page why they thought Salmon Arm had slipped so significant-ly, two themes were clear — a lack of shop-ping and jobs.

“No good jobs, lo-cal merchants goug-ing us, and if you are lucky enough to own

your house it’s likely not worth even close to what you paid for it because nobody wants to move here!” writes Michelle Moore.

Candace Lea Howes is one of those who moved away from the city.

“We left in Oct 2012. No good paying jobs and tired of having to drive to Vernon to do my shopping!” she wrote.

“No decent jobs, lacking lots of shop-ping choices and those that are present cost extra. Best way to go broke is to work and spend in Salmon Arm only,” writes Rachel Ross.

The MoneySense rankings themselves have nothing to do with retail opportuni-ties in each communi-

ty. The closest thing to a retail category would be looking at the per-centage of people who drive new cars.

“Shopping doesn’t factor into our meth-odology,” says Hodg-es. “So it has nothing to do with how a city might place in our rankings.”

Salmon Arm saw a rise in the magazine’s rankings for housing prices, which means housing prices are becoming more af-fordable. But this has a flip-side. If people purchased homes at higher prices, the val-ue of their homes has likely dropped, leav-

ing them worth less than they paid.

Household income has remained relative-ly constant from last year, with the average

household bringing in a total income of $65,146. This income level puts the city in the lower quadrant of the rankings.

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Premier focuses on leadershipWhile Premier Christy Clark was passing

through Salmon Arm en route from Vernon to Kamloops, she made time for a look at the Salmon River Bridge.

Joined by Salmon Arm Mayor Nancy Coo-per and liberal candidate Greg Kyllo, Clark was briefed on how an upgrade to the bridge is an important issue to local citizens.

Many were dismayed when Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure preliminary plans for upgrading the Trans-Canada High-way over the next 10 years indicated some four-laning both east and west of the bridge, but no plans to upgrade the bridge itself.

“We took her out and showed her around. She knows it’s on our priority list. We told her how people here feel about it,” said Mayor Nancy Cooper.

Kyllo took to Facebook and Twitter to reas-sure voters that the Salmon River Bridge proj-ect is high on his radar.

“Your concerns have been heard and build-ing a larger, safer bridge will be a priority if elected,” he writes. “The B.C. government is committed to improving the safety and reli-ability of, and the movement of people and goods on the Trans-Canada Highway with a $650 million investment over the next 10 years.”

Even though the Shuswap has voted Lib-eral since the ’96 pro-vincial election, B.C. Premier Christy Clark isn’t taking anything for granted.

While the writ has yet to drop, the premier made a brief stop by the newspaper’s office Thursday morning to promote Shuswap BC Liberal candidate Greg Kyllo.

“This is a riding where it’s always been a close fight,” said Clark, noting how cur-rent MLA George Ab-bott has put the area on the map with millions in hospital, school and college improvements.

“But more impor-tant, I think, what we’ve done is we’ve really worked hard to secure the economy here,” said

Clark, who brought Kyllo along for the in-terview. “With Greg, as someone who is a really prominent, well known, very successful business person, I think we’ve got a real oppor-tunity to communicate how important growing our economy is to the province.”

Asked about the im-portance of bringing new faces into the Lib-eral fold, Clark said ev-ery party benefits from new eyes and fresh thinking, particularly of those “engaged in the economy.”

“What often happens is you get causative in Victoria and you’re not dealing in economy… You’re not putting peo-ple to work on a daily basis and meeting a bottom line and trying to balance a budget and those kinds of things,” said Clark.

“So it’s really impor-tant to bring some new faces in and Greg is one of our star candidates.”

Regarding the chal-lenges the premier has been facing of late, scandals involving gov-ernment interference or use of the public purse for partisan affairs, the premier’s message stayed positive, citing what the government has accomplished in terms of job creation and economic growth.

“Not everything has been perfect for 12 years, for heaven’s sake, the government’s made mistakes,” said Clark. “But we’ve sure gotten the big things right in growing the economy across the province, keeping taxes low, balancing our bud-get, which wasn’t easy to do. It took a lot of tough decisions to get there.”

“This election is go-ing to be about leader-ship… And leadership is about telling people where you stand and I am very clear with peo-ple where I stand and not everybody agrees with me. I get that and I accept it,” said Clark.

Kyllo, who takes leave of his duties as a District of Sicamous

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“I’m extremely excit-ed about working under Christy’s leadership in the next government,” says Kyllo.

Bridge upgrade to be ‘a priority’By Lachlan Labere

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Endorsement: B.C. Premier Christy Clark made a brief stop in Salmon Arm last week and offered her support to Lib-eral candidate Greg Kyllo’s campaign.

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CITY OF SALMON ARM - NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Salmon Arm will hold a Public Hearing in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, 500 - 2 Avenue NE, Salmon Arm, BC, on Monday, April 8, 2013, at 7:00 p.m.

1. Proposed Rezoning of Lot 16, Section 24, Township 20, Range 10, W6M, KDYD, Plan KAP78820 from R-1 (Single Family Residential Zone) to R-8 (Single Family / Secondary Suite Residential Zone)

Civic Address: 1861 – 23 Street NE

Location: Lakeview Meadows Subdivision

Present Use: Single Family Dwelling

Proposed Use: Single Family Dwelling with Secondary Suite

Owner / Applicant: S. & G. Chhokar

Reference: ZON.985/Bylaw No. 3956

The file for the proposed bylaw is available for inspection between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays from March 26 to April 8, 2013, both inclusive, in the office of the Corporate Officer at the City of Salmon Arm, 500 - 2 Avenue NE. THOSE WHO DEEM THEIR INTEREST AFFECTED BY THE PROPOSED BYLAW ARE URGED TO REVIEW THE FILE AVAILABLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT (OR TELEPHONE 803-4000) TO OBTAIN THE FACTS OF THE PROPOSAL PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING.

Corey Paiement, Corporate Officer

CITY OF SALMON ARM NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of Salmon Arm will hold a Public Hearing in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, 500 - 2 Avenue NE, Salmon Arm, BC, on Monday, April 8, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. 1. Proposed Rezoning of Lot 16, Section 24, Township 20, Range 10, W6M, KDYD, Plan KAP78820 from R-1 (Single Family Residential Zone) to R-8 (Single Family / Secondary Suite Residential Zone)

Civic Address: 1861 – 23 Street NE Location: Lakeview Meadows Subdivision Present Use: Single Family Dwelling Proposed Use: Single Family Dwelling with Secondary Suite Owner / Applicant: S. & G. Chhokar Reference: ZON.985/Bylaw No. 3956

The file for the proposed bylaw is available for inspection between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays from March 26 to April 8, 2013, both inclusive, in the office of the Corporate Officer at the City of Salmon Arm, 500 - 2 Avenue NE. THOSE WHO DEEM THEIR INTEREST AFFECTED BY THE PROPOSED BYLAW ARE URGED TO REVIEW THE FILE AVAILABLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT (OR TELEPHONE 803-4000) TO OBTAIN THE FACTS OF THE PROPOSAL PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING. Corey Paiement, Corporate Officer Advertise Salmon Arm Observer: March 27 & April 3, 2013 OUTDOOR BURNING

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Campfires also require a permit, the fee is $10.00 and they are valid for the current year in which they are issued.

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OFFICE CLOSUREThis office will be closed March 29 and April 1 inclusive (Friday & Monday) to observe Easter. City Hall will reopen Tuesday, April 2, 2013.

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Times are changing, there’s no doubt. But adapt-ing to change shouldn’t mean throwing out the baby with the bath water.

A few decades ago, not many people envisioned themselves communicating via email, text mes-sage, Facebook or any of the other ways available to reach out at hyper speed.

Snail mail, as it has been dubbed, definitely no longer holds the place it once did in everyday life. Canada Post reports it handles two million fewer letters a day countrywide than it once did. Clearly, it makes sense that the Crown corporation would make changes to adapt.

But some of these changes don’t make sense. At least not for the reasons we’ve been given.

Canada Post has been removing mail boxes because they’re under-utilized. Now, we’re told,

any local mail destined for a local address that’s placed in a mail box will go to Vancouver for sort-ing, then will be transported back to Salmon Arm.

Apparently that’s the way it’s happening across the country. Centralization. Cost-savings.

If a resident wants their local mail that’s headed to a local address to be sorted locally, they must take it to the post office. Nowhere else.

In an era where shopping locally, 100-mile diets, sky-rocketing fuel prices, scarce resources and environmental devastation make up our current reality, is Canada Post serious?

Then there’s the Crown corporation’s interest in setting up a retail-style postal outlet half-a-kilome-tre from the current one.

Hmmm. It certainly sounds like that baby in the bath could have been the intended victim all along.

Future of post office facing threats

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Those are the sage words of Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald, offered in the context of distracted driving, and the decision by police to release a disturbing video of a pedestrian being hit by a distracted driver.

Think about what MacDonald said.While we’re driving, how often do we truly reflect upon the

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Striking a solid object, or worse, a human body, at even half that speed, will have devastating results. Metal twists, plastic crumples. And the human body ... well, it tears, and breaks, and ruptures.

Yet, how often is that cold reality in the forefront of our minds as we cruise along, cocooned in our comfortable cars, listening to music, or refereeing the squabbling kids, or blabbing on the phone, handheld or otherwise?

Compared to the hours spent driving, the time spent thinking about it would be measurable in fractions in the tens, perhaps hundreds of thousandths.

It’s more than a little frightening.Especially when you think about how many times you’ve been

driving while distracted. Never mind the occasions you did so deliberately, like juggling a coffee and a muffin on the way to work. Or, in the case of the woman in the video featured by the police – a glance at her purse.

There are holier-than-thou proclamations by some on social media, who are quick to condemn her and all others who make errors of such serious consequence. And I’m not here to defend her. But neither am I here to pass judgment without admitting there have been times where I have been behind the wheel, looked away for a scant second or two and back again, to have the icy realization that, in another second, or a half or a quarter – in another 30 or 20 or 10 metres ... it could have been disaster. For me, maybe for my passengers, and maybe for someone else.

No one who has spent considerable time in the driver’s seat can say they’ve not had such a moment.

And that’s what the police are trying to do with the video.Get us to think of those moments. Frequently. Maybe starting

at 0 kilometres per hour – when we turn the ignition key.We can’t help what other people are doing, or not doing, on the

road. We are, however, responsible for what we do.Watch that video. Watch it again.And say to yourself, not only, “There’s a bad driver,” but “There

but for the grace of God, go I.”And hopefully, you’re not depending on such divine interven-

tion when you’re in control of a vehicle.

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View PointThe Observer asked:Why do you think Salmon Arm slipped in MoneySense’s Best Places to Live rankings?

Barb Angrignon“Lack of jobs and places for family shopping.”

Bill Coldwell“It’s probably the perception that Salmon Arm doesn’t want growth.”

Ernie Arsenault“Lack of jobs in general.”

Irene Campbell“Lack of shopping, especially for children’s stuff.”

June Stewart“Maybe it was spillover from all the negative coverage of the flooding in the Shuswap area last summer.”

One could be mistaken to be-lieve that the latest scandals in-volving the Liberal party in the case of the ethnicgate inquiry and the flip-flopping of Christy Clark basically paint all politi-cians with the same brush.

Let me point out that when it came to ethnicgate, the “inqui-ry” (if it could actually be called that) was done by a member of the Liberal party.

In retrospect, that would be akin to Richard Nixon’s staff investigating the Watergate scandal, then dusting their hands and quoting “Well, we found that the president did nothing wrong, but there were

some shenanigans that hap-pened because of communica-tions staff.”

Would you believe it? Add to this debacle Christy tell-ing all that no taxpayer dollars had been spent, only to write a cheque a week later. Christy has stated in media that if there needs to be more payments she will write another cheque.

According to a story in the Globe and Mail, a team led by Clark was in negotiations to bring the International Film Academy Awards (IIFA) to British Columbia for $15 mil-lion –  IIFA was held in To-ronto in 2011. But there was a

glitch. The IIFA were in June while a provincial election was schedule for May. Instead, the Liberals went with the less prestigious Times of India Film Awards, which will be staged at Vancouver’s B.C. Place on April 6. Those awards will cost taxpayers $11 million.

And finally, there is the swing vote scandal which has now been linked to ethnicgate. I would suspect that Christy’s chequebook will be nearly empty by the time she is fin-ished writing cheques… and the Liberals will be bankrupt.

K. Blake Newton

BC VIEWS

Tom Fletcher

VICTORIA – The B.C. election cam-paign that’s about to get underway will feature lots of talk about skills training. It will be everyone’s top priority, along with a dozen other top priorities.

But since elections are no time to deal with serious issues, don’t expect much frank discussion about ways to redirect our increasingly soft, urban society toward useful work. Somebody might be offended.

The B.C. Liberals see lots of skilled, technical jobs on the horizon, but they cut their skills training budget and many of their MLAs are also looking at a career change. The B.C. school sys-tem, like that of other provinces, still pushes kids to university programs that lead to coffee-serving jobs and the need for another round of training.

This has been going on since the 1970s, and it’s not confined to B.C.

The B.C. NDP apparently expects to coast to victory with the same empty rhetoric about “income inequality” and student debt that they’ve been using for years.

Their only discernible intent is to re-turn control over how many apprentices can be on a job site to industrial unions, which severely restrict it, squeezing out small business. This team’s ideas are mostly left over from the last industrial revolution.

Fortunately there is a mid-term fed-eral government that has acted. Last week’s federal budget launches new programs that the next B.C. govern-ment will have to go along with.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government didn’t claw back post-secondary funds from B.C. and other inept provinces, as some had feared. What we got from Ottawa was social engineering, Conservative style.

The centrepiece is the “Canada Job Grant,” a $5,000 grant to employers willing to match it and train an unem-

ployed person. To qualify, the province has to match as well, for a total $15,000 commitment to one worker who will have a job to go to.

Delta-Richmond East MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay was one of the Con-servatives out to promote the budget. She said when the Canada Job Grant is fully rolled out, it will fund training for 130,000 people a year. Some will be young people, but there will also be older workers whose skills need up-grading.

“If they’re willing to look at the jobs that are available and understand that that’s their best shot at making a liv-ing and being able to support their own families some day, we want to be sure that the opportunities are there,” Find-lay said.

The difference is that it has to be what an employer needs, not what the student might prefer. It’s a public-pri-vate partnership, as we have seen with modern public works.

Findlay acknowledged that even with a big push on training, Canada will still need to import foreign workers.

In B.C. we are bracing for an unprec-edented resource boom, much of it in the B.C. Interior and north. That’s one reason for a $241 million increase over five years to the federal Income Assis-tance Program for aboriginal reserves. The new money is available only if the community leadership commits to a mandatory training component. They didn’t call it Idle No More, but that’s the gist of it.

Of course, no worker or province or band council is required to participate. They have the option to leave the fed-eral money on the table. But the NDP should note that the Canada Job Grant applies to union-run apprenticeship schools as well as those in community colleges and technical institutes. Say-ing no isn’t much of a choice.

Whatever grand promises the B.C. Liberals and NDP have written into their yet-to-be-released election plat-forms, they will need to find the money to participate.

NDP strangely silent on policy plans

Interesting timeline for balanced budget

Time for the premier to pay up

One of the strangest political provincial elections in B.C.’s history is just around the cor-ner. The crystal ball is not giv-ing up any secrets. I think this election is going to take the first-place ribbon, for being the only election in B.C. his-tory that placed a government in power that didn’t even run a campaign. 

Not that it’s a bad thing but the NDP is unbelievably quiet. It sounds strange, but think about the following: the Conservatives have a chance – about as good as getting a ride to the moon and back – but they will still receive votes from those who would like to try and get that ride anyway.

The Greens, well, they keep

getting greener. But the paint can is still fairly small.

The once enlightened Liberal saviours are evaporating quick-er than gasoline in the sunlight. But they will still receive votes from those diehards who would be willing to check the fuel lev-el in the tank with a lighter.

The famous fudgit budget NDP, its leader, Quick Pen Dix, must ask Motor Mouth Moe, what to tell the good folks of B.C. and keep his charming looks lurking about with the hopes that you don’t remember.

For a party that never has anything constructive to say, it must be a difficult task to have all the early polls indicating that, due to the prediction of a split vote, wanted or not, the

NDP get’s the job.I almost feel sorry for them.

Their old tricks would be hard-er to use again and a lot of their new tricks just got used by the Liberals. It kind of puts them in a tight spot.

Maybe Dix can use Carol James, 2009 comment – af-ter she was asked to detail her plan, she responded with, “we have three years to develop it.” Yeah, that was a good one.

I guess we can look at it from the other bright side: Susan Lambert is gone and we still have Jim Sinclair and Moe Si-hota to keep things in good or-der.

Bryon Every

Federal cabinet ministers are criss-crossing Canada to ‘sell’ their government’s latest budget. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty chose British Colum-

bia to kick off his unique song and dance routine. According to Mister Flaherty, the 2015 feder-al budget will be balanced. That just happens to be the year the

despotic Conservatives will be shamelessly sucking up to Ca-nadians for their vote.

 Lloyd Atkins

Ottawa leads on training

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1923 The new dredge for Shuswap Lake was nearing completion, and the first work planned was a 100-foot channel and turning basin at Salmon Arm. The proposed dredging was expected to be sufficient to make the channel suitable for the steamboat.

1933 Delegations from the city council, chamber of commerce and the rate-payers’ association met to hear officials from the Okanagan Telephone Company relative to their appeal for reduced rates. The com-pany’s representatives declined to consider a decrease in rates.H.G. Gee, city watchmaker and jeweller, moved to the corner opposite Beer’s Men’s Store.

1943 The district council decided the tax rate would remain at 31 mills. School costs were up to $19,440 and social services were expected to cost $2,400.A hydro-electric committee to study the fea-sibility of rural electrification was announced by Premier John HartBill Wilcox, director of the Pro-Rec organiza-tion in the Okanagan, visited Salmon Arm to arrange for a youth hostel in the city.

1953 The provincial government announced that a five-mile section of the Trans-Canada Highway west of Salmon Arm to Tappen, and a four mile stretch from Larch Hill to Canoe, would be reconstructed.The library moved from its location on Third Avenue to one of the classrooms in the old elementary school, now the new city hall.

1963 Salmon Arm’s share of the local school budget was $48,801 more than 1962.A committee was formed to study the feasi-bility of a flood control and irrigation project on the Salmon River.

Tatjana Schmidt-Derstroff’s exotic travels are over, but the explorer/

scientist/photographer/artist has many ad-ventures stored safely away in her extraor-dinary memory bank.

Schmidt-Derstroff has explored plac-es, many of which remain well off

the beaten track, made significant scien-tific contributions, created awe-inspiring art from her photographs and collected artifacts and mementos along the way.

Born in Berlin, Germany, she entered university to study medicine and journal-ism – pursuits that were interrupted by the Second World War.

Now 92, Schmidt-Derstroff married and raised four children before pursuing a passion for anthropology and archaeology that had simmered in her soul since she viewed rock engravings at the age of eight.

It is a passion that vibrates palpably when this remarkable woman spins her tales of travelling the world on her own, “following Aborigines wherever they might have left their trails.”

Schmidt-Derstroff viewed many cave paintings in France, including the world-famous Lascaux Cave, which is no longer open to the public. She also visited the Al-tamira cave in Spain, considered to be the Sistine Chapel of the Stone Age.

“I saw many wonderful engrav-ings, paintings and chiffres (sym-bols) on rock walls in North and East Africa,” she says. “I also visited

many similar sites in India, Malaysia, In-donesia and New Zealand.”

But it was Australia, the land she first visited in 1972, that captured her mind and heart, and drew her back over a period of 27 years.

Schmidt-Derstroff flew to many oth-erwise inaccessible areas with a flying bishop as he made parish calls in his vast Australian diocese.

The photographs she took from his small aircraft, through often-dirty win-dows and with a simple camera, provided her with spectacular “Earth art.”

“These timeless landscapes afford form and colour without need of dramatics, without fantasy,” she says in her artist’s statement. “There is no illusory alienation, just nature as a wonderful designer in wa-tercolours, sculpture and graphic design.”

Dressed in long, cotton pants to pre-vent mosquito and snake bites, her hair cut short and her bosom under wraps, Schmidt-Derstroff further camouflaged her womanhood by carrying a rifle, ma-chete, bush knife and camera when she ventured into remote areas.

“In areas inaccessible, remote and of-ten untouched by explorers, I viewed and photographed the prehistoric galleries of engravings and petroglyphs of early man,” she says. “These ancient images are archives on stone and act as textbooks or diaries of tribal events, and tell of their cul-tural history and creation myths.”

Some of the stories were explained by Aborigines using sticks to make pictures in the sand.

Schmidt-D e r s t r o f f carried out her Australia fieldwork for four to seven months a year, publishing her find-ings in scientific papers and popular Ger-man magazines.

Over the years, she documented her work in 38,000 slides and shared her ex-periences and expertise at many German universities, and made radio and television appearances, including a weekly hourlong educational radio broadcast in Australia.

In 1992, Schmidt-Derstroff and her hus-band emigrated to Salmon Arm, where she continues to reside.

Now a widow and survived by only one of her children, Schmidt-Derstroff has en-deavoured to make sure her priceless col-lections are well cared for and accessible to many. She has chosen to keep them in Canada, a country she says has been good to her.

Schmidt-Derstroff made her first big contribution, a collection of Australian ar-tifacts to the University of Saskatchewan’s archaeology department.

Her second donation was an earth art collection that hangs in Vernon Jubilee Hospital. Next came the sale of her paint-ings in a silent auction, with proceeds go-ing to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Most recently, Schmidt-Derstroff has given “Architects Under Water,” to the Salmon Arm campus of Okanagan Col-lege. She calls this collection a “side ef-fect” of her real work, because she took the photos in Indonesia or Fiji, places she went to relax and snorkel or dive after long stints of scientific fact-finding in Australia.

Through her curiosity, passion and dedication, Schmidt-Derstroff collected knowledge and artifacts that continue to excite and educate.

By Barb BrouwerOBSERVER STAFF

Sharing an extraordinary life

Life & Times

Artifacts: Tatjana Schmidt-Derstroff holds a turtle shell; top, a pic-

ture of an ancient petro-glyph and right, artwork she designed for a banner.

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Ford trucks targetedWatch out if you drive a Ford F350 truck. Police responded to a theft of vehicle complaint on Sunday, March 24, from a resident on Fourth Avenue SE. A gray 2004 Ford F350 bearing BC licence 8333FX was stolen from the driveway of a residence sometime between 10 p.m. and 5:45 a.m. There have been several thefts and attempted thefts of Ford F350 trucks in Salmon Arm recently, most likely to commit other offences such as the theft of snowmobiles and ATV units. There was a similar pattern of thefts last year that led to the arrest of several known individuals. Police are seeking the assistance of the public in the most recent thefts but are pursuing proactive enforcement tools such as the use of bait cars and targeting known offend-ers in the area.

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There’s a hope that Ottawa’s financial plan will put Canadians to work.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty revealed his new federal budget Thursday and it in-cludes a focus on  skills training to bolster the workforce and econo-my.

“There are chal-lenges with skills train-ing. It wasn’t seamless and there was a lack of money for people need-ing those skills,” said Colin Mayes, Okana-gan-Shuswap MP.

“Businesses have work but they are un-able to find skilled people.”

The budget calls for a maximum $5,000 in federal funding per per-son for training. That money will be matched by the provinces and employers.

There is also $241 million over five years for First Nations Cana-dians to pursue skills training.

Mayes defends fund-ing for training when there are concerns about First Nations communities not hav-ing basic infrastructure.

“We have been ad-dressing those things. We have built 30 schools and addressed water issues,” he said.

“We have spent bil-lions on reserve and off-reserve housing. We are looking to the future and we must make First Nations communities viable. We must engage ab-original youth in the economy.”

The $5,000 in federal money for an individu-al wanting to pursue skills training must be matched by the prov-ince and employer. 

Nick Hodge, Okan-agan-Shuswap NDP president, isn’t sure if that will be possible.

“It’s difficult to get three parties orga-nized,” he said, add-ing that employers and provinces may not have the money to par-

ticipate in the new pro-gram.

“Personally, I am pleased that the jobs strategy is so success-ful. I have three of them.”

The Liberals are not impressed with the budget.

“There’s some shifts of training from the federal government to the provinces,” said Janna Francis, riding

association spokesper-son.

“It’s a business as usual budget. There is nothing concrete and no details. The devil will be in the details.”

Federal budget designed to boost job prospects

There are challenges with skills training. It wasn’t seamless and there was a lack of money for people needing those skills.

Colin MayesOkanagan-ShuSwap Mp

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‘The way to a happy life is to find something you love to do and then find a way to make money at it.’

It’s this lesson from Sandy Boucher’s father that made saying good-bye to two established careers seem possible – and helped open the door to the Blue Canoe.

Seven years ago Sandy was working as a certified management accountant while her husband Al Boucher was making a good liv-ing as a plumber/gas fitter. They lived in Cal-gary and shared a pas-sion. Food.

“Food came naturally to me – I have a French background,” explains Al. “I cooked all my life, but I didn’t realize I had a passion for it until I was 23.”

He began buying fine ingredients for his cre-ations.

“That’s what Al and I would do as fun time,” agrees Sandy. “He would cook, I’d bake. We enjoyed going to nice restaurants, and just enjoyed food.”

Visiting Salmon Arm in 2007, the couple no-ticed Rahn’s bakery was for sale. They’d also no-ticed how much good locally grown food and wine was available.

“We saw this place for sale and thought, ‘How hard can it be?’” smiles Sandy.

Adds Al: “We had no background in it; I’d never baked bread in my life… I threw out a lot of dough learning how to make bread,” he laughs.

They’ve learned a lot over the past six years and have continuously focused on funnelling their belief in healthy food and a healthy plan-et into their menu.

They use local, or-ganic produce, local chicken, local eggs, lo-cally grown and milled flour and grain, local cheese. Their food is not shipped long distances. Their suppliers include Kazy Farm Organics, Roots and Greens Farm

organics, Wolfgang’s Grain and Flour, Little Red Hen Artisan Bak-ery, Farmcrest Foods, Shuswap Coffee Com-pany, Highland Farm and D Dutchmen Dairy.

“Everything is pur-chased from farmers. If I can’t get it from farm-ers, it’s purchased from Askew’s, who has been a huge support of ours for the past six years,” Al says.

Scraps get saved and turned into compost or go to feed the chickens at Highland Farm.

“I can control the in-gredients from the seed to the plate, from the farm to the plate,” says Al. “That’s my passion, to be able to provide a taste of the Shuswap. When you come to the Blue Canoe, that’s what you get. A taste of the Shuswap.”

The restaurant recent-ly expanded from 24 to 50 seats. Among Tracy Kutschker’s paintings which adorn the walls

is one of the Bouchers’ back yard, with its ever-expanding garden.

Al still specializes in the savouries while Sandy enjoys baking. Since the birth of their son Loic she comes to the restaurant less, but she experiments at home with new recipes. Sandy’s CMA designa-tion means she can do the food costing, payroll and the books, while Al’s training means he

can fix the equipment – the oven, bread proofer and mixers.

After the years of hard work on produc-tion, Al is pleased to have a great staff who likes working with food – and which allows him more time to have fun with his creations.

Recently, for in-stance, he’s been mak-ing his own pastrami, which sits in a brine for three weeks and then

is dried, seasoned and smoked – right at the restaurant.

Although family members were skepti-cal from time to time when the couple bought the premises, that’s all changed.

“My grandpa was so mad,” smiles Al. “Now, he’s quite proud. He sees how well we’ve done in a small town and in an industry that’s tough to do well in.”

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Following their passion: Al and Sandy Boucher, owners of the Blue Canoe restaurant, pose with son Loic, a chef in waiting.

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The Columbia Shuswap Regional District is engaging a consultant to investigate options for a Community Sewer & Water System Plan for the community of Scotch Creek in Electoral Area ‘F’.An Advisory Committee is being established to work collaboratively to review and provide feedback on a draft and final report delivered by an engineering consultant, provide input into the public consultation component (Communication Plan) of the process and incorporate community objectives. The Advisory Committee will consist of CSRD staff, the Electoral Area Director, a representative from the Ministry of Environment, a representative from Interior Health, up to four members representing the public, and a member representing First Nations. The Committee will meet approximately 3 - 4 times throughout the term of the project, which is expected to be complete by the Fall of 2013. The role of the individuals representing the public is as follows: • Participate in meetings of the Advisory

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A12 www.saobserver.net Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Salmon Arm Observer

Some Salmon Arm Secondary students aim to paint the town, or part of it, so as to improve school relations and stave off graffiti.

Representing the SAS Interact Club, a delegation let by student Aria Sholinder recently made presentation to council, seeking the city’s support for a couple of proposed art projects along routes used by students.

One of the projects is to paint footprints linking the Jackson and Sullivan campuses, not only geographically but in spirit as well.

“As you guys know, our cam-pus is a dual-campus system, and for a long time there’s been a lot of animosity between the campuses, in terms of school spirit and division…,” Sholinder explained. “And so we’re propos-ing a project to try and unite the campuses in a physical way. And it includes some painting and getting some school spirit going, with some footprints between the campuses.”

The footprints, painted in the school’s colours of blue and gold, would go along 11th Avenue NE and 30th Street.

The second project involves painting the hexagonal wall near the highway underpass by the Jackson campus, as well as the underpass. The students want to transform the underpass into an underwater-themed mural, emu-lating the transparent, underwater tunnels at aquariums.

Sholinder hopes the mural will help bring an end to ongoing is-sues with graffiti.

“I know that since I’ve been at high school, they’ve had to repaint over the graffiti at least four times, and as soon as they paint it over it just gets graffitied right away. So we’re hoping that having a mural will incite some respect for this space…,” said Sholinder.

The proposed projects would be done by volunteers, and the students will be fundraising to buy the needed paint. The stu-dents were asking for council’s approval, and some maintenance in the tunnel.

Coun. Chad Eliason said he admired the students’ tenacity, cautioning that they’ve taken on a lot of work.

“I know you’re going to do a great job, but I hope you respect the amount of work that’s re-

quired,” said Eliason. As principal at Bastion El-

ementary, Coun. Alan Harrison empathized with the struggle the students have with graffiti, as his students use the underpass at 20th/21st streets.

“We have the same challenges so hopefully your project will spur on other youth to look at the tunnel that my students travel through because it does seems to be a never-ending graffiti-and -cover,” said Harrison.

Coun. Ken Jamieson ques-tioned what the students would do if the graffiti continues. Sholinder says she is aware of a product that will repel graffiti, and its cost and availability is be-ing looked into.

Council supported the project and commended the students on their initiative. Jamieson was particularly impressed with how their plan included a way of pay-ing for most of the work.

“ All you’re really asking for is our endorsement of a good idea, and maybe we’ll have to spend a little bit of money and I think that would be money well spent,” said Jamieson.

Sholinder said the projects will get underway after spring break.

Plan to unite campusesInteract Club: Students to link sites, reduce graffiti.By Lachlan LabereOBSERVER STAFF

Salmon Arm Observer Wednesday, March 27, 2013 www.saobserver.net A13

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A section of road in Canoe will remain closed as a new prob-lem with stability has come up and further engineering assess-ments are needed to determine how it can be fixed.

Canoe Beach Drive between 70 Avenue NE and 72 Avenue NE was initially closed when

city workers spotted signs of sloughing.

Traditionally, this road has issues with spring run-off and has been closed in the past until drier weather ar-

rived. This year, how-ever, there is a new section of damage that will require more than a monitoring approach.

“There’s not just one, but two failure

areas. It is worse than we were anticipating,” says Rob Neiwenhui-zen, director of en-gineering and public works. “Unfortunately it is not going to be a

quick fix.”Geotechnical engi-

neers took a look at the two areas of con-cern and advised the city to close the road as a safety precaution.

Now the engineers will be conducting a more thorough assessment of the site and will rec-ommend what work needs to be done.

“Then we’ll have to

take a look at the op-tions and the cost,” says Neiwenhuizen.

There are no esti-mates on how long the road may remain closed.

Canoe Beach Drive to remain closed

Come March 29, provincial roads and bridges in the Okana-gan-Shuswap will be maintained by JPW Road and Bridge Inc.

The service area in-cludes Vernon, Arm-strong, Spallumcheen, Falkland, Enderby, Salmon Arm and Si-camous.

JPW Road and Bridge Inc. has pur-chased the assets of Argo Road Mainte-nance in the area.

All of Argo’s union-ized staff in the area, represented by the B.C. Government and Ser-vice Employees’ Union (BCGEU), will be of-fered jobs with the new maintenance contrac-tor, states a government press release.

Argo’s staff, the Ministry of Transporta-tion and Infrastructure and the BCGEU were formally advised of the change on Jan. 31, 2013.

Joe Wrobel, president and general manager of JPW Road and Bridge Inc., has extensive ex-perience in the industry, states the release.

JPW Road and Bridge Inc.’s contract for Okanagan-Shuswap expires on March 28, 2019.

Argo Road Main-tenance has contracts to maintain roads and bridges in two other service areas – South Okanagan and Thomp-son – and will continue to operate there.

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A section of road in Canoe will remain closed as a new prob-lem with stability has come up and further engineering assess-ments are needed to determine how it can be fixed.

Canoe Beach Drive between 70 Avenue NE and 72 Avenue NE was initially closed when

city workers spotted signs of sloughing.

Traditionally, this road has issues with spring run-off and has been closed in the past until drier weather ar-

rived. This year, how-ever, there is a new section of damage that will require more than a monitoring approach.

“There’s not just one, but two failure

areas. It is worse than we were anticipating,” says Rob Neiwenhui-zen, director of en-gineering and public works. “Unfortunately it is not going to be a

quick fix.”Geotechnical engi-

neers took a look at the two areas of con-cern and advised the city to close the road as a safety precaution.

Now the engineers will be conducting a more thorough assessment of the site and will rec-ommend what work needs to be done.

“Then we’ll have to

take a look at the op-tions and the cost,” says Neiwenhuizen.

There are no esti-mates on how long the road may remain closed.

Canoe Beach Drive to remain closed

Come March 29, provincial roads and bridges in the Okana-gan-Shuswap will be maintained by JPW Road and Bridge Inc.

The service area in-cludes Vernon, Arm-strong, Spallumcheen, Falkland, Enderby, Salmon Arm and Si-camous.

JPW Road and Bridge Inc. has pur-chased the assets of Argo Road Mainte-nance in the area.

All of Argo’s union-ized staff in the area, represented by the B.C. Government and Ser-vice Employees’ Union (BCGEU), will be of-fered jobs with the new maintenance contrac-tor, states a government press release.

Argo’s staff, the Ministry of Transporta-tion and Infrastructure and the BCGEU were formally advised of the change on Jan. 31, 2013.

Joe Wrobel, president and general manager of JPW Road and Bridge Inc., has extensive ex-perience in the industry, states the release.

JPW Road and Bridge Inc.’s contract for Okanagan-Shuswap expires on March 28, 2019.

Argo Road Main-tenance has contracts to maintain roads and bridges in two other service areas – South Okanagan and Thomp-son – and will continue to operate there.

By Tracy HughesOBSERVER STAFF

Argo sells assets

IndexOpinion ....................... A6View Point .................. A7Life & Times ............... A8Time Out ................... A12Sports ............... A21-A25Arts & Events ... A26-A29Vol. 106, No. 12, 48 pages

This weekThe SilverBacks have to win to

stay alive in the playoffs. See a

recap of the action on A22.

The mission to rescue 15

donkeys from Vancouver Island

is underway. See more on A8.

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En gardeRyan Schmitt practises his fencing footwork with an épée as fellow fencing student Aiken Webster

trains in the background. The pair travel down the valley to Vernon and Armstrong to participate in the

sport, which dates back to the 18th century. For more on their exploits, see the story on A21.

Police nab charity scammerArrest: Kelowna man

also linked to reports of

fraud in Salmon Arm.

A 22-year-old Kelowna man has been charged

with multiple counts of fraud, theft, impersonation

and using false pretenses after he was arrested in

connection with a credit card skimming operation

that took place in Kelowna, and may be linked to

similar cases in Salmon Arm.

On March 16 at 1:30 p.m., the Kelowna RcMP

responded to a complaint of a possible fraud.

A man wearing an Id card and stating that he

was collecting donations on behalf of the Ron-

ald Mcdonald House charity had apparently just

taken money from a resident with the use of a por-

table debit device.

The resident immediately phoned Ronald Mc-

donald House and was advised that this was an

ongoing scam. She provided police with a de-

scription and the suspect was taken into custody a

short distance away. This story is strikingly simi-

lar to the reports from Salmon Arm.

The man was identified as James Alexander

Graham, who is known to police and remains in

custody to appear in court on Tuesday, March 19.

neighbourhood inquiries indicated that Graham

had canvassed the area and there were further vic-

tims. Subsequent investigation also revealed that

this may be the tip of the iceberg, with more than

47 victims in just a few days in both Kelowna and

Salmon Arm.

On the weekend of March 2 and 3, a number of

residents in the lakeview Meadows subdivision

were targeted. The scam continued into the next

week at various locations in the city, with local

RcMP issuing a public warning about the charity

credit skimming scam.

Graham has been charged with four counts each

of fraud under $5,000, theft under $5,000, imper-

sonation and using false pretences. More charges

may be recommended pending further investiga-

tion.RcMP are advising people that may have been

a victim of this scam to call the Salmon Arm de-

tachment, and report any compromised credit

cards to your financial institution.

City to add stop signs

A new three-way intersection will be

established at the Marine Park drive rail-

way crossing in response to safety con-

cerns raised by Transport canada.

city council approved the intersec-

tion as recommended in a report by en-

gineering and public works director Rob

niewenhuizen. This will result in the

placement of three new stop signs where

Marine Park drive connects to lakeshore

– one leaving Marine Park, another to the

north-east side of Marine Park drive for

traffic coming into town, and

the third directly across from

Marine Park drive for traffic

heading northeast up lake-

shore. The three-way stop is one

of four recommendations

from a traffic impact analy-

sis conducted by the city in

response to a May 3, 2012

letter of notice from Trans-

port canada railway safety

inspector dennis Maskell.

In the letter, Maskell raises

a number of safety concerns witnessed

during a March 22, 2012 in-

spection of the intersection,

including an “ever-present

possibility of a vehicle be-

ing hit by one or more trains

while trying to engage this

T-intersection without the

right of way,” adding there is

“virtually no road storage ca-

pacity after the railway tracks

for vehicles trying to access

lakeshore drive.”

niewenhuizen said the

Marine Park crossing: Safety concerns prompt intersection changes.

By Lachlan LabereOBSeRVeR STAFF

See Drivers on page A2

JAMEs MurrAy/OBSeRVeR

Rob

Niewenhuizen

Public works

By Tracy HughesOBSeRVeR STAFF

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The season ended sooner than they would have liked, but the Salmon Arm Silver-Backs still feel pretty good about the 2012-13 campaign and their prospects for the year ahead.

Salmon Arm was swept 4-0 by the Pentic-ton Vees in their Interior Conference semifinal matchup but with Bran-don Mistal the only player graduating due to age, the Gorillas have a solid group forming their foundation for next season.

The SilverBacks will also have forward Riley Hunt back in ac-tion next season. The Revelstoke native and Harvard recruit missed all of this season due to injury. Evan Anderson, a high-end talent who missed the playoffs due to a concussion, recently got a clean bill of health and should be a major factor for the ’Backs next season.

Given the season be-gan with just one win in the first seven games and just seven goals scored in that span and a coaching change from Troy Mick to Scott Robinson in late Sep-

tember, things turned out pretty well.

“We had a lot of work to do, made a couple of good acquisitions but we had a ton of teaching to do,” said Robinson, looking back on the season. “To the credit of the players in the room, Troy made sure we had character and we got a ton of mile-age out of that. It was a very enjoyable season. We didn’t like how it finished, but how (the players) elevated their play and competed was good.”

By average age, Salmon Arm was the youngest team in the BCHL this season to post a winning record and get back to the playoffs, so Robinson sees big things ahead for some of his young returning players.

“I look at Harlan Orr, Jordan Levesque will eventually score more, Ryan Schwalbe will score more,” said Rob-inson. “There’s a half-a-dozen guys you could pick out.”

That’s all just poten-tial. Robinson says it won’t come to fruition if the players don’t follow their offseason guide-

lines given to them by the team.

“Our team will be better next year on pa-per but if they don’t do the work over the next four or five months, we won’t be better and that won’t be acceptable.”

Though young enough to return, de-fencemen Shane Hanna and Brayden Sherbinin appear set to head to the college ranks next sea-son at Michigan Tech and Quinnipiac respec-tively. Forward Steven Iacobellis is fielding of-fers from some schools but may return for his 20-year-old season. Those are few of what Robinson terms “on-hold situations” that may go either way.

What he does seem sure about is the team’s goaltending. Adam Clark will be back for his 20-year-old season and Angus Redmond comes back after a solid rookie season that didn’t begin until half-way through the season when he joined the team from the Junior B ranks.

“That’s a definite strong point for us,” said Robinson. “Clark… re-ally didn’t have the sec-ond half that he wanted

to. Angus earned his starts and didn’t have a weak outing. We’re very happy in that po-sition, and they’re two great kids.”

Team directives to all players are to hit the gym with the goal of putting on 10 pounds each and to come back with a more assertive mentality on the ice.

Robinson also talked to each of the players about learning from watching the game on TV, rather than watch-ing idly as a fan.

Overall, the results were above what Rob-inson had in mind.

“I would say better than expected… we’re optimistic,” he said. “But we know we just

started something. It’s really important to bet-ter the franchise and all the pieces in it.”

The SilverBacks will conduct their spring evaluation camp from May 3 to 5, which will be open to the public.

“We’re looking for those few that will make

our roster and trying to target those kids for the future,” said Robinson.

• In other news, gen-eral manager Mick is headed to Calgary this week for meetings cen-tered around getting a new ownership group in place.

SportsFuture’s looking good for SilverBacks

Tough to the end: Above, despite losing a stick, SilverBack Shane Hanna teams up with goalie Adam Clark to block a shot. At right, ’Backs head coach Scott Robin-son and Vees head coach Fred Harbinson shake hands after the season-ending loss.

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Three Salmon Arm Secondary Golds foot-ball players rubbed shoulders with Cana-dian Football League players, coaches and trainers during the 2013 Senior Bowl camp held in Coquitlam last week.

After practising with the BC Lions Thursday, the week of training culminated in the 2013 Senior Bowl, where Team East met West. Also capping the camp were individual award presentations that saw Salmon Arm’s Eric Borthistle come home with quarterback MVP award for the week.

“We’ve won an

award like that seven times now,” said Varsity Golds head coach Rob Neid of the team’s re-cord. “We’ve had some good teams over the years but even when they’re not great teams, we have some great players. It’s a great op-portunity for them to get recognized and re-cruited.”

Jordan Goertzen, who attended the camp, has signed with NCAA Div II Simon Fraser University and will join former-Gold Cody Penner there next fall. Ryan Willett has com-mitted to play for the Calgary Colts Junior

Football team.In other football

news, on Wednesday, April 3, SAS Golds Football is doing a Ce-lebrity Server Night at Boston Pizza. Neid and Junior Varsity head coach Andrew Vandok-kumburg will be serv-ing dinner to help sup-port the school teams.

Also, Sign up Your Kids week is now tak-ing place at Centenoka Mall until March 30. People can register at the mall for either flag or tackle football. The response to flag foot-ball last year was so great that the program is expanding to include

the Pee-Wee (2002 and ’03) and Junior Bantam (2000 and ’01) levels.

Registration forms

will also be distributed through all the district elementary schools in April.

He may be a coach for one of the most se-rious soccer clubs in Germany, but Marco Toppmöller is all about fun.

Toppmöller was in Salmon Arm as part of the European Foot-ball School camp, offer-ing his ex-pertise as a professional player in elite Ger-man leagues and as a coach for FC Bayern Munich.

A total of 42 play-ers between the ages of eight and 18 registered for the camp, run by EFS head coach Saibo Talic.

EFS ran a summer soccer school last year and will return to Salm-on Arm again in July.

As the Salmon Arm players scrimmaged during the spring break session, their eager-ness was evident as

Toppmöller encouraged them to, “Come on, at-tack!”

The game remained tied as Toppmöller tried to end the game, but the group of 14- to 18-year -olds begged for more until Toppmöller grant-ed them an extra two minutes of play.

“I like to see that,” he said in a post-coach ing interview. “I think it is important for kids to come out and have fun. If it is fun, then they come

back.”He stresses the need

for young people, both in Germany and in Canada, to get out on the field.

“That’s why they need to have fun, so that at eight, nine, 12, 13, they don’t just play the Playstation,” he says gesturing as though he is holding a video game controller. “That’s what

they do now, these kids. That is why they need to have fun playing soc-cer.”

If he were to give ad-vice to upcoming Ca-nadian soccer players, Toppmöller says the Canadians need to fo-cus on building endur-ance and co-ordination before they step onto the pitch.

“Everyone likes to play games, games, but

so much happens be-fore you start.”

In Germany, he says, players focus on dis-tance running before every workout and extensive work on co-ordination and balance.

“That is so important, especially to prevent in-juries. Where you pre-vent injuries in games is in training.”

Toppmöller says the children he trains in

Germany, where soccer is revered, are playing at a higher skill level than the Canadian chil-dren he has seen during his first camp coaching experience in B.C., but he was impressed to hear of the number of soccer players in this city.

“To have 17,000 people and 1,200 kids playing soccer. Those are good numbers.”

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Howard excelsOut of an international field of nearly 80 horses and riders, Salmon Arm’s Rebecca Howard and her steed Riddle Master placed sixth at a high-level eventing competition in Fontainebleau, France last week. The pair performed an excel-lent dressage test, a clear cross-country round and just one rail down in the stadium jumping.

Big week for LipsettSalmon Arm’s Erica Lipsett will be perform-ing in Frederiction next week at the 2013 Tim Hortons Canadian Ringette Championships as a member of BC Thunder, the National Ringette League defending champions. To see her and her team’s progress, go to http://www.national-ringetteleague.ca.

still time to register Shuswap Youth Soccer Association is still accepting registrations in all divisions. Go to shuswapsoccer.com and visit the Programs page for information as well as to register online to guarantee your child’s placement on a team. You may also phone 250-833-5607 or email: admin@shuswapsoccer.com.

trail running series set to go In light of the overwhelming response that was generated last year at the Wild Soles Trail Run-ning Series, the series will go again this year. The series consists of four events, each offering distances of approximately two and five kilome-tres in local parks on four consecutive Mondays in April and May. With endorsement from the Shuswap Trail Alliance, the trail systems used will be: Little Mountain – April 22, Park Hill – April 29, South Canoe – May 6 and Skimikin – May 13. Register at Cool Running downtown on Lakeshore Drive or via email: WildSolesInfo@gmail.com.

Winning bridgeMarch 10: 1. Lynne Storey & John Parton, 2. Yvonne & Gordon Campbell, 3. Peggy Fet-terly & Ona Bouchard, 4. Nan Blackburn & Carol McGregor. March 12: A special evening as a charity game was played and all affili-ated clubs around the world played the same hands. For Salmon Arm, 1. Judy Harris & Tom McNie, 2. Ona Bouchard & Peggy Fetterly, 3. Barb Grier & Gene Demens, 4. Doreen & Dennis Roberts. March 14: Social bridge - 1. Len Magri, 2. Nick Mason, 3. Peggy Fetterly, 4. Bob Bruce.

Learning from the best

Injection of fun: Westlee Bischoff and Xian Chang follow the play as Katie Harding carries the ball during a scrimmage.

Marco Toppmöller

FC Bayern muniCh

By tracy HughesOBSERVER STAFF

James murray/OBSERVER

Quarterback Borthistle recognized

top notch: Jordan Goertzen, Eric Bor-thistle and Ryan Willett attended the 2013 Senior Bowl Camp in Coquitlam, where Borthistle was named quarterback MVP.

pHoto contrIButed

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Fast: Larch Hills’ John Connor, second, speeds to first place in the Boys Challenge team event with teammate Thomas Hardy.

Hardy, Connor fly to finish line

Crowds of specta-tors turned out on a bluebird day to watch the 2013 Haywood Ski Nationals’ first race, the team sprint, at Whistler Olympic Park in Callaghan Valley, and they were not dis-appointed. There was a total of 173 teams of two racers across six categories.

In the Challenge Boys category, Larch Hills’ Thomas Hardy and John Connor dom-inated, finishing almost four seconds ahead of the field with a total time of six minutes, 55 seconds.

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Skiers secure spots at Red Mountain

Rock on: Hall #4 team skip, fire-fighter and former Capt. Jerry Jones watches his rock on the way to win-ning the C Event of the 53rd Annual Firefighters Bonspiel in Salmon Arm.

at the Fireman’s Bonspiel held March 22 to 24, the curling sizzled. Results were:

• a event win-ner – Retired RCMP team with skip Dave Williams, third Jim Beecroft, second Cliff Hosker and lead Chris Williams.

• B event – eagle Bay Fire Depart-ment made up of skip Chuck Layton, third Tom Hewitt, second Joe Wallin and lead ken Beyer.

• C event – Salmon arm Fire Department Hall #4 made up of skip Jerry Jones, third Tim Thurston, second Larry Petryshen and lead Marty Bootsma.

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The Revelstoke Ski Club sent six ski racers to the U16 Provincial Championships at Red Mountain in Rossland March 21 to 24, including two Salmon arm skiers. The race format allowed each skier two sla-lom races and two giant slalom races over the four days.

“The courses were good and the snow conditions were excellent,” reported head coach Ned Lazarevic. “The kids had fun and both our boys and girls did a great job.”

although Salmon arm’s Max Scharf didn’t get on the podium, his 10th place finish in one GS and 17th in the other were enough to maintain a berth on Team Canada at the up-coming Whistler Cup, the preemi-nent international ski racing compe-tition for young skiers in Canada.

Teammate Mitch Smith had a po-

dium and two top-10 results in these provincial championships, placing third in one of the slalom races, sixth and ninth in the two GS races. These results, combined with his overall performance over the season, have earned Smith a place on Team BC for the Whistler Cup. Both Scharf and Smith have had very strong sea-sons and hopes are high for their per-formance at the Whistler Cup, com-ing up april 5 to 7.

Many of the club’s younger rac-ers attended the Sun Peaks Nancy Greene Festival at Sun Peaks Resort near kamloops on March 22 and 23. More than 500 competitors from all over the province gathered for fun events aimed at skiers U6 – U12.

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Fourteen teams con-verged at Shaw Centre last weekend to battle for the Shaw Cup.

When it was all over, Newbrook A&A’s, led by the Lega clan, de-feated Kamloops Ro-totillers 5-3 in the A championship final.

Both teams met ear-lier in round robin play and Kamloops won the opener 4-2.

Former Vancouver Canuck Mike Brown and former Kamloops Blazer Blair Rota were key to Kamloops’s of-fensive attack but the father and son duo of Len and Scott Lega shut the former pros down in the final game.

Brown toiled for the Canucks during the Mark Messier era.

In the B division, Sunnyvale Snipers, out of Kamloops, defeated the Grand Forks Dust-ers in the final champi-onship game 5-3.

It is expected that 16 recreation teams will be at Shaw Centre for the Second Shaw Cup challenge on the April 5 weekend.

Hosts extraordinaire

Salmon Arm Silver-tips Tier 2 Pee Wee hockey team hosted a fantastic provincial tournament last week,

according to those at-tending.

Nine of the top teams in B.C. trav-elled to Salmon Arm to determine who was B.C.’s best.

As the host town, the local team could par-ticipate and had a good showing.

The Podallan Inn Silvertips finished the provincials with a 2-2 record, losing to Vancouver and Pent-icton and picking up two wins against Fort St. John and Prince George.

Third place in the Provincials went to Penticton, second place went to Vancou-ver and the winning team was the Burnaby Winter Club.

A lot of work went into making the four-day event a success. The team is grateful to all those involved for showing B.C. what a great place Salmon Arm is. Thanks go to the coaches, players and all the parents and volunteers for a job well done.

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The Salmon Arm Lakeside Printing Midget Recreation Tropics were victori-ous at the Brad Beckett

Memorial Midget tour-nament in Chilliwack from March 15 to 17.

In the round-robin portion of the tourna-ment, the Tropics de-feated Chilliwack #4, Ridge Meadows, Chill-iwack #1 and #5 to take first place in their pool. 

In the final, the Trop-ics played  the winner of pool B  Surrey and came up with a 5-1 win to become the tourna-ment champs and bring

home the champion-ship trophy.

Congratulations go to the Midget Tropics team members: Daniel Atsma, Travis Bruce, Jeremy Dewick, Jus-tin Downie, Lukas Hodges, Keith Minnis, Adam New, Chet No-tenborner, Brad Rithal-er, Ron Samson, Bryce Sandau, Jorian Sandau, Medeleine Scott, Cody Stepura, Jacob Wallace and Brady Zappone.  

The team is coached by Mark Sandau, as-sisted by trainer Miles Minnis and managed by Lynda Stepura.

Challenge continues April 5

Battle of the blades: Salmon Arm Barley Station player Dan Renaud tries to check the puck away from Sicamous Old Timer Gary Sweetnam during the Old Timers’ win at the annual Wood-choppers Spring Hockey Tournament held at the Shaw Centre.

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Participants and vol-unteers are welcome. For further informa-tion, contact Hellen Byron at 250-832-3372.

One of the many sports featured at the Games will be soccer,

one of the most popu-lar and beloved games in the world. But it isn’t just for the young; it is also for the young at heart.

Danny Nikolic is the zone 8 event coordina-tor for the B.C. Seniors Games soccer event and loves to play soc-cer as a senior.

“I have played all my life and in the old days I used to play professional soccer. I play because I just love sports,” he says.

He loves to score goals and it is not sur-prising that he prefers to play an offensive position.

“I play any position,” he says, “but I like to play midfield or for-ward.”

Soccer at the B.C. Seniors Games is played on a regulation

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“We play on a full-size field but a 35 min-ute half-time, so it is a 70-minute game,” Nikolic says.

Making the game 20 minutes shorter allows for a good competition without the games be-ing overly exhausting.

“It is very com-petitive and friendly,” Nikolic says. “During games you make lots of friends… We like the competition, but as soon as the game is over we are friends and we will go for beers.”

The soccer event at the B.C. Seniors Games features two separate round-robin tournaments for teams consisting of play-ers aged 55-60 and 60

and up. Each team will play a minimum of four games during the event and medals will be awarded for first, second and third place in both age categories.

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He encourages any-one who would like to play to come out and give it a try.

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Imagine an actor in a period piece like Jane Eyre sporting a Mohawk, or a 1920’s flapper with Marie Antoinette ringlets.

Allan Marchand cannot.That is why the hair stylist to

Shuswap Theatre researches the hairstyles of the period in which a production is set – on the Internet, and in magazines and books.

“I read the script first and then have a meeting with the director to talk about the hair and the period the play is set in,” says Marchand, who volunteers considerable time and talent to the theatre. “I meet the cast and check out the heads to see if they need wigs, hairpieces, colours, etc.”

A week before the production, Marchand reassesses to see if there are any changes to be made, draw-ing raves from longtime theatre member Cilla Budda, who has worked with him on many shows.

During the run, he is at the the-atre about an hour to 90 minutes before every production in order to get the actors ready.

“I’ve met a lot of people and I feel like I am creating something you don’t normally do,” he says of period hair-styling. “It’s an oppor-tunity to explore your creativity.”

Marchand has been a hair styl-ist for 45 years, the past 20 at Tar-now’s Hair & Day Spa, where he has worked since he and his family moved to the Shuswap. He has also been the hair stylist on every Shus-wap Theatre production since then.

His connection with the theatre began when he was cutting long-time Shuswap Theatre member James Bowlby’s hair. The conver-sation segued into Marchand shar-ing his experience with Vancouver theatre and culminated in an invita-tion by Bowlby to work on a play he was doing.

Marchand, who has dressed a

lot of heads and wigs for Shus-wap Theatre productions, has fond memories of the late Steve Heal, and the very-much-alive Danielle Dunn Morris, among others. 

Marchand got his start in theat-

rical hair-styling with Vancouver’s popular summer Theatre Under the Stars in 1993 when Sweet Char-ity was being performed one night and Carousel the next.

His introduction to the business

of make believe came at the re-quest of a friend who was already working on the set and would later invite him to work on Wings of Courage, an Imax production being filmed in Kamloops.

Describing himself as being “more into the arts and design,” Marchand had already decided on his career path in Grade 10.

Trained at Bruno’s Hair Acad-emy in Toronto, Marchand com-pleted a one-year apprenticeship, followed by two years in a Toronto salon before following the path of many easterners to the gentler climes of the lush West Coast.

After working in Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay, Marchand fol-lowed his employers to a salon in West Vancouver where they made him a partner instead of giving him a manager’s fee.

“I managed the salon for 17 years and eventually bought them out and made it my own,” he says.

Marchand sold the successful but high-stress salon and went to work for Tom McIntyre, the man who introduced him to the theatri-cal world.

Ready to escape big-city life, Marchand and family moved to Salmon Arm in 1993.

“It took a while to adapt to a more rural lifestyle. At the begin-ning, I did fancy hairstyles and they said, ‘this is all very nice, but I’m just going out to feed the chickens,’” he laughs. “In Vancou-ver, it’s very structured and high-end hairstyling.”

Marchand says the theatre opened up the community for his whole family.

His wife, Glenda, often works front-of-house at the theatre and his daughter Rebecca got her be-hind-the-scenes start about four years ago at the Red Barn in Si-camous. She has since graduated to stage managing and aced a small part in Shuswap Theatre’s most re-cent production.

Marchand has many thank-you notes from cast members, but says his real reward is in giving back to the community in a way he really enjoys.

Giving back, one hairstyle at a time

Clip artist: Top, Allan Marchand is surrounded by cast members of one of the first Shuswap Theatre productions he worked on. Below, Marchand works at his day job.

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a documentary that charts the rise of the AIDS crisis from its earliest days, at 5 p.m. at the Salmar Classic.

THURSDAY, MARCH 28GREEN THUMBS – A Shuswap Garden Club meeting takes place at 7 p.m. at

Scout Hall, 2460 Auto Rd. Sharon Bailey from Mayfair Farms will demonstrate how to make moss hanging baskets.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29GOOD FRIDAY – Five Corners Church presents the fourth annual “Singing

Cross” Easter Cantata at 7 p.m. For information, call 250-832-3121.SATURDAY, MARCH 30SPRING FLING – The annual Easter Spring Fling will be held from 10 a.m. to 3

p.m. at the Mall at Piccadilly and will include activities for children in the morning and an Easter bonnet contest and spring fashion event in the afternoon.

SHUSWAP SEEDS – Shuswap Seed Savers will have garden seeds for sale at the Mall at Piccadilly from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

FUNDRAISER – Nel Peach will be outside the liquor store at Shuswap Park Mall from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to raise funds for her entry into the Amsterdam Team Diabetes event in October.

FILM FARE – Shuswap Film Society presents Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os) the story of the unlikely relationship between a disabled woman and an emotionally stunted man at 5 p.m. at the Salmar Classic.

SUNDAY, MARCH 31BALLET – Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet performs Esmeralda at 1 p.m. on the big

screen at the Salmar Classic. Tickets at $22 for adults and $11 for youths, are available at the Salmar Grand.

TUESDAY, APRIL 2PROBUS – Probus Club of Salmon Arm meets from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the

Downtown Activity Centre. A representative from the Columbia Shuswap Regional District will be guest speaker. For more information, call Milford Berger at msberger@shaw.ca or call 250-804-0977.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4JAZZ CLUB – The Eric St. Laurent Trio performs elements of Afro-Cuban

rhythms, rock guitar and blues at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Anglican Church. Suggested donation of $15 at the door.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5SPCA – Fundraiser takes place Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mall at Piccadilly. Donations of books may be dropped off at the Shuswap SPCA, 5850, Auto Rd. SE to April 1. For more information, call Celia at 250-832-3057.

EXHIBITION – SAGA Public Art Gallery presents “Mary Plein Aire,” an exhibition of paintings by Mary Letham, with a reception at 7 p.m.

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BIG BIKE – Register your team now for the 20th annual Big Bike Ride, which will be in Salmon Arm Thursday, May 30. Call Lianna Jansen at the Heart and Stroke Foundation at 250-372-3938.

SHUSWAP EXCELLENCE – If you or your organization would be supportive of a youth ambassador/excellence program for young women of Salmon Arm and area to learn skills such as community leadership, time management, poise, deportment and public speaking, contact haleygerlib@hotmail.com or call 778-443-0434.

HEALTHY BABIES – The Healthiest Babies Possible drop-in program runs Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at a new location – Crossroads Free Methodist Church, 121 Shuswap St. SW (group entrance at the end of First Street SW between Dixon Liquor Store and the Safeway fi eld). Activities include: April 2 – Easter craft; April 9 – RESPs; April 16 – movie day; April 23 – clothing day; April 30 – dietitian, healthy home environment.

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Camera captures four cornersThe Shuswap Photo

Arts Club invites you to sit back in your seat and travel to the four corners of the world as captured through the camera’s lens.

The photographic voyage begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7 at the Salmar Classic The-atre.

Join members of the club as they share pho-tos and experiences of their travels to France, China, Australia and a cruise from San Diego to Peru.

The presentations are set to music and last approximately two-and-one-quarter hours.

Henry and Teri Schnell lived in France for several years. Teri will give you a glimpse into some of the less-er know picturesque French scenes. Paris may be the most-visit-ed city in the world, but the couple discovered many other parts of the country to explore, such as Carcasonne, Colonges la Rouge, the fascinating village of the Hameau de la Re-ine.

Martin and Myrtle Kyllo have travelled to China several times in recent years.

Their presentation records a visit to the

southwest area of Yu-nan province during the Chinese New Year.

Included are photos of two tribal groups on their home ground and the Red Earth country, as well as several cities and a historical village still using traditional agricultural practices.

Jerry Linowski and Carol Pierce have em-barked on many cruise- ship adventures. They will share their cruise from San Diego to Peru, featuring ports of call in Mexico, Guate-mala, Nicaragua, Pana-ma, Ecuador and Peru.

Ian and Wendy Clay spent 10 weeks in

southeast Australia in late 2011, including exploring Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

They will show pho-tos of some familiar sights and landmarks, as well as lesser-known ones. Scenic walks and hikes, ferry rides, inter-esting places and archi-tecture are just some of what you will see.

This event is a club fundraiser for a new digital projector.

A minimum dona-tion of $5 is requested.

For more informa-tion, contact Ian and Wendy Clay at 250-832-2350 or iwclay@shaw.ca.

World tour: This image of a Chinese woman and child are part of a Shuswap Photo Arts Club photographic voyage and fundraiser at the Salmar Classic April 7 at 2 p.m.

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“It is a true representation of the band’s performance on any given night,” explains St-Laurent, a key objective for this third album.

With no over dubs or studio tricks, the album exhibits the true talent and professional-ism of the artists.

The album opens with the title track featuring the clas-sic trio sound that fans have come to anticipate from this

inventive group. Expect to be bounced along

from the positively sunny sounds of Pepper Sea to the reggae rhythms of Skinny Liz-zard, with classic bass bits from O’Connor meshed with groovy licks from St-Laurent, distortion and all.

Then proceed with the ec-

centric, alternative pop-jazz sound of Tribox with seam-less solos from St-Laurent and exhilarating percussion from DeQuevedo, and the boisterous juxtaposition of Iglibu.

Most exciting is the amaz-ingly complex Uxulo, where St-Laurent again takes his au-

dience away to another world with a quirky melody and ex-citing use of live electronics.

Dale provides a perfect showcase for the formidable Michel DeQuevedo, whose inventiveness both in solos and accompaniment is un-paralleled; the virtuosity and agility of Jordan O’Connor, one of the most dextrous bass players around today; and Eric St-Laurent whose care-fully crafted ability is at the heart of the group.

The Eric St-Laurent Trio brings their elements of Afro-Cuban rhythms, rock guitar and blues to create a dis-tinctive new sound at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4 at St. John’s Anglican Church.

Admission is by a suggest-eded minimum donation of $15 at the door.

On Thursday, April 11, the Jazz Club presents The Cook-ers from Toronto, with their own unique blend of bop, soul, jazz and blues. The con-cert plays at 7 p.m. at the art gallery.

Next up, on April 18, it’s the Worst Pop Band Ever, and on April 25, the Jazz Club presents the Tiefenbacher Mayr Duo.

Trio takes new CD on tour

Jazz pizzazz: The Jazz Club presents the Eric St-Laurent Trio with their fresh and exciting composi-tions and magical improvisations, April 4 at St. John’s Anglican Church.

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Mall celebrates Easter with fun and fashionDust off your Easter

bonnets and head over to the Mall at Piccadilly next weekend.

The annual Easter Spring Fling will be held Saturday, March 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include

Easter activities for chil-dren in the morning and an Easter bonnet contest and spring fashion event in the afternoon.

Entertainment in-cludes, Bop the Bunny, story time, child identi-fication station, arts and

craft station and free photos with the Easter bunny from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

At noon the Easter bunny will lead the chil-dren on an Easter egg hunt through the mall.

The Easter bonnet

contest gets underway at 12:30 p.m. A mer-chants fashion show struts out at 1.

For more informa-tion, visit www.pic-cadilly.com or contact the mall administration office at 250-832-0441.

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KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATIONApril 3, 2013

North Okanagan Shuswap School District No. 83

• Must bring child’s birth certificate (child will not be registered without it) and Care Card.

• Only the parent or direct relative of parent may register the child “A person who is a resident of British Columbia shall enroll in an education program provided by a board on the first school day of September of a school year. If, on or before December 31 of that school year, the person will have attained the age of 5 years.”

“A parent of a child may defer the enrollment of his or her child until the first school day of September of the next school year.”

- The School Act of British Columbia

General Kindergarten Registration At your neighbourhood school 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

(Please note it is extremely important for planning purposes to register your child by the above date. If you cannot make this date please come to the school any day before this, or contact your neighbourhood school.

Registration for our French Immersion Programs:On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., School District #83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap) will be accepting registrations for the Early Immersion Program. Registration will take place at the District Education Centre located at #110 - 2960 Okanagan Avenue S.E., Salmon Arm on a first come first served basis. Parents or immediate relative must register child.

A maximum of 44 Kindergarten registrations will be accepted for the Early Immersion Program.

Late French Immersion Program – after the Parent Information Meeting on March 5, there are currently nine spots remaining in Grade 6 late French Immersion. If you are interested in signing up your child for late Immersion contact Shuswap Middle School at (250) 832-6031 at your earliest convenience.

For further information regarding these programs please contact: Alan Harrison, Principal, Bastion Elementary at (250) 832-3741 or Shane Corston, Principal, Shuswap Middle School at (250) 832-6031.

Shuswap Chiropractic Clinic would like to say Thank You to all their patients who attended their Patient Appreciation Day, and made donations to Camfed. We are excited to announce that we raised a total of $1564.00. With this donation, Camfed will be able to send 62 girls to school for one year. Camfed is a non-pro� t organization dedicated to providing schools, education and supplies to girls in rural Africa.

Community Spirit salutes those businesses and organizations whose members go above and beyond to make their community a better place, either through donation campaigns or volunteer efforts. Has your business or organization participated in an effort to better your community or help others who are less fortunate? Tell us about it! Send the details and photos if you have them to the Salmon Arm Observer.

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Shuswap talentSinger-songwriter Herald Nix performs on stage to a full house at the Shuswap Songwriters Show-case held Friday evening at the Shus-wap Theatre. The next showcase in the spring series of three is set for Friday, April 26 at SAGA Public Art Gallery.

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SLIPP meeting open to publicregistration is open for the

shuswap Lake Integrated Plan-ning Process (sLIPP) all-com-mittee meeting to be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 24.

The purpose of this meeting is to bring together sLIPP’s public advisory committees and techni-cal teams, the steering committee and the public to hear about the 2012/13 program, accomplish-ments and what is proposed for the third year of the pilot project.

registration, which closes at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, can

be accomplished by visiting www.surveymonkey.com/s/JW-ZZ7Tr.

If you are not on a sLIPP com-mittee, you are invited to attend the morning plenary session to hear an overview of sLIPP ac-complishments in 2012/13, work planned for this year, and ideas for sLIPP beyond this year. You are also welcome to stay for lunch. 

In the afternoon, the com-mittee members will be having closed working meetings.

other sLIPP opportunities for the public later in 2013 include: 

• open houses in summer to allow seasonal residents to par-ticipate

• recreation Management Plan feedback – the draft plan will be posted on www.slippbc.com and feedback will be welcome throughout the summer.

Anyone seeking information or a presentation about sLIPP, or with questions about the organi-zation, may contact info@slip-pbc.com. 

Former club open for worshipLakeside Community Church opens the doors to

their new space easter sunday and invites salmon Arm to see what they’ve done with the place.

It’s not that difficult to find stories of church buildings being transformed into nightclubs. It’s rarer to find stories of nightclubs being turned into churches.

In January, Lakeside Church began the process of transforming the old LiveWire nightclub in down-town salmon Arm into a space that will serve as a meeting place for the church and ministry to the community.

It was a challenge to take a space that lay unused for several years, with much of the equipment from its former use still in place and transform it to serve a new purpose.

Pastor Ken Dryden says when church members first looked at leasing the space it took some time to see beyond the initial impression to what it could be.

renovation of the old nightclub has prompted curiosity in the community and more than one hu-morous comment about how the church could in-corporate the bar equipment into their plans.

As the work has progressed, the transformation has been dramatic. The aim has been to create a space that feels welcoming and where people feel at home. but the vision for this space goes far beyond just providing a home for a congregation that has spent the last few years meeting in a school gym.

“Lakeside has always been a church that values strong connections with our community,” says Dryden. “It’s why we regularly do things like a free Christmas dinner, services at the wharf and down-town on the street last year and an annual food drive for the salvation Army. We exist not just for our-selves but hopefully to make salmon Arm an even better place to live. That’s why we are so happy to be able to open up our new home in the heart of downtown.”

open house week will begin with an easter cel-ebration at 10 a.m. sunday, March 31 and will in-clude a lunch reception for tenants of the Andover building on Tuesday, April 2, a multicultural dinner on Thursday, April 4 and a concert on Friday, April 5. More information can be found on Lakeside’s website at www.lakesidecommunitychurch.ca or by calling 250-832-9142.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Expect lots and lots of changes during a Full Moon in your own sign. Your most vital relationships will have to undergo major alterations. You will want to put your best intentions forwards and receive only what you deserve best. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will need to let go of something in your life if you need to move forward. Rid yourself of past resentments and of unrealistic expectations you might have held in thus far. Your office situation may change drastically and your course of action might take on a different approach. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You seem to get closer to one of your most desired wishes. This Full Moon can also change your mind about your envisioned future and aspirations. You might have to work harder when it comes to giving and receiving within one of your closest friendships. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your career and your professional standing might take quite on a drastic turn during this time. You might see the rewards of your realizations and finally see something come to fruition. Be open to a culmination of events that will affect you both personally and publicly.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may find that you are deeply stuck to your higher consciousness and that you are more emotionally involved in the pursuits of your studies. Legal matters may finally reach a conclusion.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will undergo a deeply rooted transformation that will affect you to the core. You might decide to actively rid yourself of a persisting problem and cope with it directly. Your finances and a committed relationship may require a major review.

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Bill passed away peacefully at his home on Shuswap Lake with his wife, Shirley and his family at his side.

An Avid fisherman and outdoorsman, Bill spent many enjoyable hours fishing and hunting with his sons and friends on Shuswap Lake and at the Coast. He could often be seen sitting at the end of the dock at his home enjoying his morning coffee and watching the sunrise. Dad said, “I love to be on the water, I nevertire of it.”

Bill spent his working life with BC Telephone and was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America. He really enjoyed his long retirement, spending many years travelling with Shirley. Mostsummer weekends would find him surroundedby his extended family enjoying barbeques with the wine flowing. There are lots of good times toremember.

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There is an urgent need for more Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPN), particularly outside the urban areas of the province. And with the workforce aging – the average age of a Registered Psychiatric Nurse in BC is 47 years – the number of retirees from the profession is exceeding the number of graduates. Entry-level earnings start at $30.79/hour to $40.42/hour.

Train Locally – The only program of its kind in BC, students can learn within their local communities via distance education, local and/or regional clinical placements, and some regional classroom delivery. This 23 month program is accredited by the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC (CRPNBC). Government student loans, Employment & Labour Market Services (ELMS), band funding & other financing options available to qualified applicants.

Toll Free: 1-87-STENBERG

www.stenbergcollege.com

Become a Psychiatric Nurse in your own community

Shuswap Optometric Centre is looking to fi ll a full time “sales/reception” position in Salmon Arm.

Please bring resume in person and ask to speak with Frankie or Dianne.

#3 - 160 Trans Canada Highway NE Salmon Armwww.shuswapoptometric.ca

HOME SHAREPROVIDER

Share your home and/or your time providing support to adults with disabilities in Vernon, Armstrong, Enderby, Salmon Arm, Lumby & Lavington.Home assessments and/or training will be provided.Send Expression of Interest letter to:Attention: Home Share CoordinatorKindale Developmental AssociationP.O. Box 94Armstrong, BC V0E 1B0Fax: 250-546-3053Email: kindale@kindale.net

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

Kindale Developmental Association

The City of Salmon Arm has immediate openings for Seasonal Labourers for an approximate 7 to 9 month term. These positions will perform heavy manual labour in the construction, maintenance or excavation of sidewalks, streets, laneways, boulevards, storm and sanitary sewers, water mains, parks, and recreational facilities. Candidates with previous related work experience in the construction, utility and/or landscaping industry and possessing a valid clean BC Class 3 drivers licence with air endorsement will be given preference. Candidates must also possess the physical ability to carry out heavy manual labour work for lengthy periods of time.

The rate of pay for this position is $24.33 per hour plus 14% in lieu of all vacation and fringe benefits.

Qualified candidates should submit their resumes and cover letters prior to April 7, 2013 to Human Resources, City of Salmon Arm via post to Box 40, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 2A1, in person to City Hall, 500 – 2nd Avenue NE, via fax to 250.803.4041 or via e-mail to humanresources@salmonarm.caWe sincerely thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

SEASONAL LABOURERS

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYHarvesting Supervisor

Canoe Forest Products Ltd., located near Salmon Arm BC has an immediate fulltime opening within the Woodlands Department for a Harvesting Supervisor.

Reporting directly to the Woods Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of Timber Harvesting and Road Maintenance operations. This position requires a self-motivated individual with excellent organizational, communication and leadership skills.

The ideal candidate will be a graduate from a recognized Forestry Program and be eligible for registration with the Association of BC Forest Professionals. A minimum five (5) years’ experience with interior harvesting systems, log scaling, safety and environmental programs is required.

Canoe Forest Products Ltd. offers a competitive salary and benefits package based on experience and qualifications.

If you possess the skills and qualifications for this position, please submit your resume with cover letter, in confidence, by April 15, 2013 to:

Human Resources DepartmentCanoe Forest Products Ltd.Box 70Canoe BC V0E 1K0E: hr@canoefp.comF: 250-833-1211Canoe Forest Products thanks all applicants for their interest;

however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

DINOFLEX® Group LP – Retail Sales Representative

We are looking for one good person… Dinoflex Group, a leading manufacturer of recycled rubber products is looking for a dynamic sales staff member at our Salmon Arm factory. If you are customer service driven, love to multi task and want to support a product you can believe in this job is for you.

Your first task will be the Summer Sale that runs from May to August. You will assist customers by providing service and product knowledge; outside work is required as well as heavy lifting. For the right candidate, an opportunity exists to move into wholesale sales. Our sales team provides service and support to distributors worldwide.

This position requires a Degree or Diploma majoring in Business and 1 to 3 years previous customer service experience working with inbound and outbound phone and Internet inquiries. Candidates with excellent communication skills, strong customer service and inside sales skills with a mathematical aptitude should apply. Experience in flooring is not essential but experience with people is a must. For more information on our company or our products visit www.dinoflex.com.

Dinoflex Group offers in-house training, benefits and competitive salaries. To be considered e-mail your cover letter and resume by April 1, 2013 to: info@dinoflex.com or by fax to (800).305.2109 or mail to Dinoflex Group P.O. Box 3309, Salmon Arm BC V1E 4S1. Please include in the subject line: RSR14.

Dinoflex Group thanks all candidates for their interest, however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

QUALIFIED TRADES PERSON – CARPENTER

Under the supervision of Manager of Facilities, provides trained carpentry services to the School district in the areas of Maintenance and renovation of physical plants.QUALIFICATIONS: Certification as a journeyman as set out in the B.C. Apprenticeship Act for Carpentry T.Q., or equivalent Inter-provincial Technical Qualifications preferably combined with Locksmith certification; Three years’ working experience as a tradesperson in maintenance within the specified trades; Working knowledge of related maintenance trades connected with physical plant servicing, preferably with some joinery certification or experience; Demonstrated ability to take direction, carry out assigned duties independently; and work as part of a team with other trades persons; Demonstrated physical ability to perform assigned duties (including climbing ladders and scaffolds); Working knowledge of other related maintenance trades connected with physical plant servicing; Have a good working knowledge of the National Building Code of B.C. and be proficient in reading and interpreting blueprints; Hold a valid B.C. Driver’s License.This is a temporary Union. Salary is $27.89 per hour. Effective date and length of term is to be determined.Please submit applications and resumes to School District #83, attention Darlene Chambers, Human Resources Officer, Box 129, Salmon Arm, B.C. V1E 4N2 or fax 250-832-9428 by April 5, 2013.

is inviting applications for the position of

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF S.D. NO. 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap)

RESPITE PROVIDERS

We are currently recruiting people to provide respite services, either in their home or in someone else’s home in Vernon, Armstrong, Enderby, Salmon Arm, Lumby & Lavington. If you or someone you know wants to apply to become a respite provider, they can call the Kindale office at 250-546-3005 and ask to speak to a home share coordinator.

What is a Respite Provider?A Respite Provider is a person who wishes to provide respite supports to individuals with a developmental disability, including FASD, or Autism Spectrum Disorder. Respite supports may be provided in the caregiver’s home, the home of the respite provider, and/or in the community. You may be asked to provide respite for 1-2 hrs, a weekend, or even longer. The choice of respite provider is the decision of the caregiver and they are responsible to ensure that the respite arrangements and environment are safe and appropriate for the individual receiving care. Terms and conditions of service and payment are negotiated between the caregiver and the respite provider. A written contract is not required, but is recommended.

Kindale Developmental Association

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OWNER OPERATORS$3500 SIGNING BONUS

Van Kam’s Group of Compa-nies requires Owner Ops. for our Kelowna based terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving exp. / training.

We offer above average rates and an excellent

employee benefi ts package.To join our team of Professional drivers, email a resume, current driver’s abstract & details of truck to:

careers@vankam.com or Call Bev: 604-968-5488or Fax: 604-587-9889

Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.We thank you for your interest, however only those of interest to us will be contacted.

Help Wanted

Education/Trade Schools

Employment

Drivers/Courier/Trucking

Required Immediately:Experienced Class 1 Drivers with at least 3 years verifi able experience for the following positions: Part Time Canada/ US capable; Full Time Drivers for future scheduled runs. Please indicate on your re-sume position applying for. Please fax resume to 250-546-0600 or by email to parris@ricknickelltrucking.com No phone calls please.

Help WantedCANADA’S LOG PEOPLE of 100 Mile House BC is looking for log home builders. Email resume to:office@canadaslogpeople.com Call 250-791-5222 or fax 250-791-5598.

Salmon Arm seeking Part Time

Housekeeper/Desk ClerkMust be able to work weekends

Apply with resume2401 T.C. Hwy, Salmon Arm

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Career Opportunities at Piccadilly Care Facility

in Salmon Arm, BC

“Pride in Caring” isAdvoCare’s philosophy and we welcome you to become

a part of our team!

We are currently recruiting• CARE AIDES

• MULTI SERVICE WORKERS (Dietary & Housecleaning)

• Competitive Wages• Benefi ts

• Flexible Shifts• Ongoing education

• Employee Recognition• Programs & Advantage

Offers

You must be able to work variable shifts, including

weekends.

For more info and to apply please visit our website

www.advocarehealth.com, e-mail Jenni.Hicks@

advocarehealth.com or fax resume to 250-803-0515

GUARANTEED JOB Place-ment: General Laborers and Tradesmen For Oil & Gas In-dustry. Call 24hr Free Record-ed Message. For Information 1-800-972-0209.

HOOKTENDER, F/T.- Dun-can, BC. Wages as per USWcoastal agreement. Loader &processor experience an assetor be willing to learn to run these machines. Fax resumeto 1-604-736-5320 or email tokenfraser@telus.net

Lake Country Truss is accept-ing resumes for a Truss As-sembler. Experience pre-ferred. Drop off resume in person from 8am to 2pm at #60 Udy Place in the Spallum-cheen Industrial Park.

SHOP HELPER/DETAILER. Autobody, marine or RV exp. an asset but will train. F/T in SA. Email: marinerv@shaw.ca or fax (250)833-1164

SORRENTO chicken farm needs people to help move chickens on April 7th, 13th & 14th. Please leave message with name, phone number and age (250)675-5072

WELDER - Join us at a busy metal manufacturing shop in Salmon Arm. REQUIRED: Good welding skills; ability to read and understand drawings; good knowledge of safety; good math and measurement skills; experi-ence with basic hand tools, portable power tools, etc.; excellent work ethic; team player; pride in work, ability to meet deadlines. Overtime necessary at times. PRE-FERRED: Experience with Aluminum welding an asset. Wages assessed on experi-ence and qualifi cations; INQUIRIES: MARGARET MCMASTER, ADAM INTE-GRATED INDUSTRIES, VIA PHONE: 250-832-3480; FAX: 250-832-4530; EMAIL work@adamintegrated.ca

Trades, TechnicalLANDSCAPE Company seek-ing F/T employee. Experience with pavers, blocks, irrigation an asset. Competitive wage. Shuswap Area. Contact randy@letsrock.ca

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DAN DEGLAN EXCAVATINGProfessionally Beautifying Properties for Over 27 Years.

981 - 16th Street N.E., Salmon Arm V1E 2V2

250-832-0707

• Rock Walls• Terracing

• Utility Services• Drainage

• Site Prep • Pools

www.dandeglan.com

REIMER’SFARM SERVICE

250-260-0110 or 804-3030

WeDeliver

• Bark Mulch• Shavings• Sawdust

Bland’sFARM SALES

Stanley Bland 832-6615 or 833-2449

PICK-UPOR

DELIVERY

• Shavings, Sawdust, Bark Mulch, Wood Chips (bulk/mini bags)

• Well Rotted Manure• Soils• Extra Clean Wheat Straw

271A Trans-Can. Hwy. N.E. (across from KFC) • 250-832-0604

Appointments necessary.

All Breeds including Cats & Large Dogs

PET GROOMING With Michelle

Monday to Friday

1983 - 2013

Harvey’s AUCTION SERVICE

Ph/Fax 250-376-7826 Cell 250-319-2101

General AuctionsPlan Your Spring Auction

FREE CONSULTINGAuctioneer

Harvey Hantula

Merchandise for Sale Merchandise for SaleEmployment

Work WantedCARPENTER with 45yrs. ex-perience, new houses, renova-tions, drywall, painting, tiling & fi nishing. Excellent references (1-250)878-4460

Services

Esthetics ServicesPERMANENT Laser Hair reduction. Call for a free con-sultation. Sada (250)832-4266 Shuswap Laser Clinic or email: info@shuswaplaser.com

Financial ServicesDROWNING IN debts? Help-ing Canadians 25 years. Low-er payments by 30%, or cut debts 70% thru Settlements. Avoid bankruptcy! Free con-sultation. www.mydebtsolution.com or Toll Free 1 877-556-3500

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.

www.pioneerwest.com

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: It’s That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is not an issue. 1.800.587.2161.

M O N E Y P R OV I D E R . C O M $500 Loan and +. No Credit Refused. Fast, Easy, 100% Secure. 1-877-776-1660.

Legal ServicesCRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certifi -cation, adoption property ren-tal opportunities. For peace of mind & a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

Medical HealthLPN (Licensed Pratical Nurse) will provide private care. Sal-mon Arm Area 250-253-5087

HandypersonsHANDYMAN FOR HIRE

Reliable semi-retired

gentleman will do any household fi x-its. (250)675-3456

email: millwright94@hotmail.com

HELPING HANDS to help you with LAWNS, GAR-DENS and YARDWORK. “Husband/Wife team.” Mow-ing, edging, trimming, blow-ing, washing, Dump runs. Have 25 years experience in painting interiors, exteriors, fences. Reasonable rates and free estimates!Jim or Gwen 250-803-0019

Home Improvements15 boxes of solid Goodfellow Pacifi c Ash semi gloss 3/4x31/4 solid wood hardwood fl ooring. Each box covers 20sq.ft. $60/box 778-489-2844

Landscaping250-309-2751 Double Dia-mond Landscape Maintenance *Lawn maintenance *Garden care *Hedge and small tree pruning *Spring and Fall Clean up * Commercial sites. email dddiamond@shaw.ca Call Martin @250-309-2751

Spring cleanup. Hedge tree repair. Lawn Care. Haul Away. Brian 250-832-7660

Misc Services

HOME RenovationRepairMaintenance

250-253-4663

Services

Painting & Decorating

& Area for 20+ Years Serving Sicamous

$$Discount

Painting

$$• Residential & Commercial

• Interior/Exterior

Cell 833-8009Home 836-4154

For Free Estimate call Lorraine

• Wallpapering • Drywall Repair• Professional Workmanship

• Seniors Discounts

Pets & Livestock

Feed & HayA horse quality orchardgrass, 2nd crop $5 , & 1st crop $4 Al Fritzel (250)832-90701st Cut alfalfa grass, 2nd cut grass. No rain. Shed stored. $3/ 65lb bales. 250-307-8633ALFALFA/grass 1st cut, small squares, 1 rain, good feed, $2/bale J.Lepine (250)832-2962

Alfalfa Grass Hay 1st Crop $4 2nd $6 65lb bales Volume dis-counts 250-832-2455Excellent 2nd & 3rd crop, grass hay, nutrient analysis avail. 250-546-6158.GRASS/ALFALFA 1st crop $4.50, 2nd crop $6.25, last years hay $3.50, straw $4.00, oat hay $3.50. good for horses (250)832-4160 (250)803-8298Shavings or sawdust 150 yard loads.Cedar or Fir.Bark mulch. Delivered. 1 (250)838-6630

PetsN&T CANINE CARE

Daycare, boarding, grooming. Visit our webpage:

www.nandtcaninecare.ca 250-835-0136

With Dignity & Understanding. N&T PET CREMATION

SERVICEScall 250-835-0136

Merchandise for Sale

AuctionsLARGE AUCTION of hard-wood fl ooring (fi nished & un-fi nished), pallet racking equip-ment, offi ce furniture. Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m., 9370 - 48 St., Edmonton, Al-berta. Phone 1-888-453-6964.

SPRING AUCTIONSunday, April 14, 12pm

Visit: carlinhallauctions.comNo Buyer Fee(250)835-2126

$100 & Under25 MoE, Forestry & Forestry recreational maps of SE BC, $25 for all (250)832-6550

Garage SalesBLIND Bay: 2595 Golf Course Dr., Sat. Mar 30, 9-1, misc. household, red hats, golf carFriday & Saturday Mar 29,30 9am-1pm Downsizing after 37 years in home. Lots of hshld, tools 3280 28th Ave NE

MOVING Garage sale: 2268 Lakeview Dr. in Cedar Heights, Mar. 30-31, 8am-3pm. Lots of stuff

Financial Services

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Garage SalesPUBLIC ESTATE SALE

of the Estate of Laurette Frances Page.

Sat/Sun/Mon, March 30, 31 and April 1, 2013.17-780 10st SW

(Braeside Place)Across the street from the old Zellers/new Canadian Tire store at Picadilly Place mall. *Please park on the street or in the mall parking lot across the street.Hours are 8am-4pm dailyNO EARLY BIRDS PLEASE

SATURDAY April 30 8am-1pm “Guy Stuff”/Household 451 23st NETAPPEN: 674 Bolton Rd, Fri/Sat, Mar. 29/30, 9-3, some collectibles, no early birds

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53 in stock.SPECIAL

44’ x 40’ Container Shopw/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!Also Damaged 40’

$1950 Call Toll Free AlsoJD 544 & 644 wheel loaders

JD 892D LC ExcavatorPh. 1-866-528-7108

Free Delivery BC and ABwww.rtccontainer.com

SCRAP PAPPY Will pay cash for oversized scrap steel, cats, yarders, saw mill equipment, farm equip-ment, etc. All insurance in place to work on your proper-ty. 250-260-0217

Misc. for Sale20’ American shuffl e board, solid wood $1000., Arctic snow plow $2000., Weider weight bench $50., (250)253-0509

FRAMUS 5-string resonator banjo, mint condition with hard shell case.$3506-STRING acoustic guitar, amazing volume and sound, beautiful wood, built in pick-up, complete with hard shell case. $475ALLAN and Heath 16 Chan-nel mixer, high-end British built, lots of effects. $650Phone 250-833-1976

or 250-517-8087***HOME PHONE recon-nect*** Toll Free 1-866-287-1348 Cell Phone Accessories Catalogue Everyone Welcome To Shop Online at: www.homephonereconnect.caSAWMILLS FROM only $3997 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

SPRING AUCTIONSunday, April 14, 12pm

Visit: carlinhallauctions.comNo Buyer Fee(250)835-2126

STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or check us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Misc. WantedLocal Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Coin Guy: 778-281-0030

Financial Services

Merchandise for Sale

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

WANTED: Used kayak or small aluminum boat (250)517-8087

Musical InstrumentsUPRIGHT Heinzman piano(250)832-9256

Excavating & Drainage

Garden & Lawn

Merchandise for Sale

Musical InstrumentsFRAMUS 5-string resonator banjo, mint condition with hard shell case.$3506-STRING acoustic guitar, amazing volume and sound, beautiful wood, built in pick-up, complete with hard shell case. $475ALLAN and Heath 16 Chan-nel mixer, high-end British built, lots of effects. $650Phone 250-833-1976

or 250-517-8087

Excavating & Drainage

Garden & Lawn

Pet Services

Auctions

Misc. for Sale

Pet Services

Auctions

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HOME BUYING MADE EASY• New home on its own 50 X 100 lot• All landscaping c/w underground sprinklers• Concrete drive & walkway

Ask how to get $10,000 back from the government.

www.eaglehomes.ca

$149,900All for only

$699or

per month OACplus HST

250-833-4728 1-877-60HOMES(604-6637)

Merchandise for Sale

Plants /NurserySpring clearance. Landscape trees, wholesale prices, Blue Spruce/Pine, 5-7 feet. Excel-lent privacy source or yard fo-cus. Discount on 5 or more. Pick your tree now. Digging May 1st. Valley Tree Farm. 250-832-7742

Free ItemsFREE: 3.5 month cute brown tabby female kitten to a good home (250)832-2670FREE: 4.5yr. old Rottweill-er/Lab Cross to a good home, neutered, tattooed, excellent with small dogs & cats, loves kid, high energy (250)679-3570 (250)679-8817FREE: Older, white GE Elec-tric stove in good working cond. except clock does not work (250)832-6550FREE: semi-tame cats, would make perfect barn cats, spayed & neutered. Call Pat (250)515-6016

Real Estate

Houses For SaleCare-free living!

2 bedroom, 2 bath + dentownhouse with a garage.

All one level.Overlooks green space and

has a lovely porch area. New fl ooring, paint, fridge,

stove and water heater. $215,000.

Call (250)832-6765

MortgagesTEKAMAR MORTGAGESBest rate 5yr-2.89%OACServing the Columbia-Shuswap

since 1976.Rates Consistently better than banks

(250)832-8766Toll free 1-800-658-2345

TownhousesSHUSWAP RIDGE - Quality Townhomes. 2 styles and a demo unit. Great location. 2751 15th Ave NE Near SAS and Askews. Call or text Dane. 1-250-808-2400

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Apt/Condo for Rent1BDRM. across from Askews DT W/D, parking, Call Colin (1-604)858-8176 or Jeremy (1-250)253-2404 Avail Apr. 1st2BDRM apt. ground fl oor in quiet building, adult oriented, avail. Now, on bus route, walk to DT & hospital, heat/hot water included, AC in suite, coin laundry, NS, NP, DD, $825/mo. (250)546-3066 (250)546-19702BDRM avail April 1 NS, NP, kids welcome $750/mo + util. . 191 4th St. SE (250)804-9627

Bright, spacious 2 bedroom apartments

Close to town, family owned & operated.

Includes F/S, DW, A/C, H/W & HEAT, NS, NP. Available May 1st

$825/mo.(250)803-1694

DANBURY MANOR 791 Okanagan Ave. completely re-no’d 1bdrm., $700. NS NP Call Robin (250)833-5458

LAKEVIEW MANORBeautiful fully furn. Apts.Viewing Shuswap Lake & McGuire Park. Close to all

amenities in quiet adult NS, NP building starting at

$700-$825/mo. + Hydro Ref req’d (250)833-9148

Misc for Rent2 Bedroom, 1 Bath

Condo in Salmon Arm2 Bedroom, 2 Bath + Den

4 plex in Salmon Arm

Call AL BINGHAM(250)804-6216

OLDER Agricultural machinery for sale, storage space for rent, R.V. campsites avail. May 250-835-8588

Small ads, BIG deals!

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Mobile Homes & Pads

MHOME in Tappen, 1 person, 2 sm bdrms, NS, NP, $650/mo + util & ref’s, DD. Avail Apr.1 Call Bev (250)-835-8840

Homes for Rent2 Balconies! Executive 3 Bdrm Lovely lakeview home in an adult only High end community. 2 levels. 1500 sq. ft on each fl oor. NS NP $1400/mo plus util & DD ref’s req’d. 250-832-3864

2BDRM 1bath semi-waterfront in Blind Bay, NP, NS, 5appl Sat TV Mature couple pref. refs req 1yr. Lease $1000/mo+ util. Avail now (250)832-42323Bdrm + Den 1 1/2 baths, top level, Hillcrest, quiet pet OK, garage, large deck, 3 appl. Own hydro meter shared laun-dry NS Avail Apr 16 $1300 250-833-2129420 Sumac Rd. Tappen BC 3Bdrm 2bath 2 level house. Just up from Tappen Fire Hall. View of Shuswap Lake. Back onto crown land. Pets OK DD req’d $1200 250-938-2941CHASE: modern 3bdrm., 2.5bath, 5appl./central vac, enc. 2 car grg., large sun-deck. Walk to beach Avail. Apr 1, $1000/mo. discount for long term lease (250)679-3695 (250)318-1393Executive home, top level, 3bdrm, 1bath,5appl. N/S,N/P,covered carport, close to all amenities, on bus route. $1350/mo. incl utilities, refs & D/D req’d. Call 250-832-7659NEWER 2000sq 5 bed: 2 bed upstairs; 3 bed down, 3 bath. Walking dist. to lake/beach. A/C, fridge, stove, 15min from town. $1450/mo. Sunnybrae. Avail now. No smoking. No pets preferred. 250-938-2941 email Lee_bull@msn.com showing Sundays onlyNEWLY reno’d great for fami-ly, 3bdrm, 2car parking, 4appl., AC, near elem. school, store & beach, NS, NP, $800/mo + DD (250)833-4332SUNNYBRAE, 2 bdrm + den, 5 appli., wood stove, private acreage, energy effi cient home, unique, 2 blocks from lake, pets neg, $900/month May 1st. 250-835-8236Sunnybrae Semi Lakeshore 2bdrm 2bth 15 min to SA NS, No Parties, $1000/mo+util. working couple desired, avail mid April (250)835-2170TAPPEN: 3bdrm., 1.5bath, 4 outbuildings on 5.5acres, AC, NS, pets neg., 5appl., 12 min to SA, avail. May1, $1600/mo. + util. (250)803-6475

Rooms for RentROOM for rent in large farm house $400/mo + DD, On bus route that stops on Wed to go into town. Nice/Quiet and pri-vate. Call 250-832-7710 for in-quiries or email: katejful-ton@gmail.com

Rooms for rent in Enderby. $375/mo plus DD No Pets 250-838-0587

Suites, Lower1Bdrm bright level entry near DT NS NP W/D DW util cab WiFi incl. $750 250-832-59191BDRM new, large, bright, open concept. lots of parking large yard Util incl. NS small pet ok $900 text 250-804-49741 bedroom. 1 person. Includes w/d, f/s, utilities, satellite. Non-smoker. No pets. References. Near Field of Dreams. $625/month. 250-832- 8099.1 Bedroom + Den Bsmt suite. 900sqft near Bastion school. Large bedroom, walk-in closet, full bath, large kitchen/dining area. $850 incl utilities. NS (250) 517-96172 bdrm above ground bsmt suite, brand new. W/D, F/S, util & cable incl. N/S, N/P $1000/mo. Avail April 1st. 250-803-16702bdrm suite, private entrance, utils. and cable inc. Near schools and rec centre. $950/mo. Avail. April 1. (250)832-85503bdrm or 2bdrm, 5appl, near 4 schools, rink, NS, NP, back yard, a/c $900-950/mo. + DD, avail. now (250)295-5498BLIND Bay 1bdrm available now. Walk-out suite. Utils. in-cluded. $700/mo DD & Ref’s req. N/P, N/S (250)675-2710

Rentals

Suites, LowerBrand New 2Bdrm Bright 1block to college, own laundry $900+util 250-833-2796

Enderby (rural) 1bdrm $650. incl all util, satellite TV & inter-net., 250-558-9171.

NEWLY renovated 1,100 sq.ft daylight basement suite, town & mall close. A real must see! $1,100/mo. incl. util. Available now. 1 yr.lease. 250-833-8966

RANCHERO/Mellor’s Store area: 2bdrm. $750/mo. + utils. avail. now, NP, W/D/F/S & parking. (250)546-3717

Suites, Upper3BDRM., 1.5bath, $800/mo + $250/mo. utilitites, incl. water, gas, power, sat. tv, garbage p/u, NS, 15km to SA, avail. May 1st (250)832-5376

3BDRM in Salmon Arm, avail. immed., NS, NP, $750/mo, (250)463-9777

3BDRM SA.Reliable, respon-sible, working tenants. N/S, N/P. Washer/dryer, lge kitchen Above D/T business. Serious inquiries only. Avail. now. $900. Aaron (250)463-9777

4093 Hacking Road. 3 Bdrm No dogs. 260ft of lake front property. Just past Sunnybrae Bible Camp. All util incl $975 250-938-2941

GLENEDEN 2bdrm, with loft, own yard, F/S, NS, NP, gar-den, avail. now, $850/mo. + util. (250)832-6975 (250)517-7674

Transportation

Antiques / ClassicsEstate Truck 1967 White compact cab cover, no deck 6 cyl 5 spd, split axle, original 139,872 km Ideal Sign truck only 20’ long. runs. Float set to high in brakes. 250-376-7826

Vernon Sun Valley SwapMeet @ Village Green Hotel 4801 27 St, March 29 & 30. Starts 8am . Call Reg 250-308-4701

Auto Financing

Auto Financing - Dream Catcher, Apply Today! Drive Today! 1.800.910.6402

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Cars - Domestic2001 Buick Century Ltd, great cond., leather, loaded, all ac-cess. working, winter & sum-mer tires incl. $3800. (250)832-3334 after 6pm

Transportation

Cars - Domestic2003 CTS Cadillac driven by white haired lady to Starbucks 131,000km $10,900. obo ALSO 1999 Saturn 3dr. coupe 93,000km $2900. obo both with since new service records (250)833-5585

2006 Buick Lucerne CX only 35,000 km. as new cond. not driven in winter. Smooth quiet luxury. $12,000 or best offer. 250-832-8352

2006 Infi niti G35X Fully Load-ed lots of extras 108,000kms Very clean good looking car$17,000 250-833-1081

Cars - Sports & Imports

2005 Diesel Smart car & 2006 Dodge 3/4 ton $10,000/ea. OBO 250-675-2592

Recreational/SaleThinking About Selling Your RV, Car or Truck? Tesko Auto Sales Park & Sell Program. 250-938-1258 www.teskovernon.com

Trucks & Vans1995 Ford F150 short box su-per cab $2500. (250)253-05091999 Ford F250 4x4, 5spd., new tires, 174,000km, immac. shape $7500 . (250)804-27802003 FORD F 150 4X4 Triton V8 5.4 l runs but needs work $3000 OBO 250-833-0616

Houses For Sale

Transportation

Utility Trailers

Boats1999 Sports Malibu 20 1/2’ New motor C/W trailer $13,500 OBO 250-675-2592CEDAR STRIP CANOE refur-bished new gunwales, seats and yoke $3000 250-832-8383

Houses For Sale

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DT203A

SYNC, Leather heated seats, rear parking camera, satellite radio. Save $20,000 from new

2012 Ford F150 4X4 Harley Davidson Edition

$45,987

DC230A

40,954 km. Leather, sunroof, nav., Sports package.

2010 Volkswagen CC Passat Sport

I028

Sat., dual climate, 5.7L V8, full load TRD package.

2011 Toyota Tundra 4WD

0P6148

Full load, only 47,000 km.

2010 Ford Taurus SEL

0P6153

Supercrew, air, sat., anti-theft, leather, 67,402 km. 5.4, roof, pwr. bds.

2010 Ford F150 4x4 Platinum

0P6161

Nav., tonneau cover, Leather, sunroof, 5.4L., 50,144 km.

2010 Ford F150 4x4 Lariat

CT409B

Sunroof, manual, leather.15,335 km.

2010 Hyundai Genesis

0P6102

SYNC, auto., air, cruise,67,320 km.

2010 FordFusion SEL

package.

Now

$30,987$215Bi-weekly

$363Bi-weekly

67,402 km. 5.4, roof, pwr. bds.

Now

$39,987Now

$31,987Now

$21,888

Now

$17,987Now

$23,987

Now

$14,988$307Bi-weekly

$246Bi-weekly

$169Bi-weekly

$139Bi-weekly

$186Bi-weekly

$118Bi-weekly

0P6124

Manual, air, 4 dr. Supercab,47,089 km.

2010 Ford Ranger 4x4

0P6130

Fully loaded, SYNC, panoramic sunroof, 4 dr., 49,089 km.

2009 Ford FlexLimited AWD

Now

$17,988Now

$24,988$139Bi-weekly

$219Bi-weekly

I020

Air, cruise, alloy wheels, 2 dr. coupe, 22,504 km.

2009 Honda CivicCoupe DX-G SI

0P6020

Hatchback, leather, moonroof, 18,000 km.

2011 Ford Fiesta SES

Now

$13,988Now

$13,888$125Bi-weekly

$128Bi-weekly

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