salmon arm observer, october 16, 2013

IndexOpinion ....................... A6View Point .................. A7Life & Times ............. A11Sports................A15-A18Arts & Events ... A19-A21Time Out ................... A22Vol. 106, No. 42, 40 pages

This weekThe undead had their day in downtown Salmon Arm Saturday. See A11 for more.

Salmon Arm’s cross-country runners continue to post strong showings. See A15 for details.

WednesdayOctober 16, 2013

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Fire chief for a dayGuided by assistant fire chief Rod Macfarlane, James Cook of Salmon Arm West holds onto the fire hose, while (left to right) Tyson Keehn from the Shuswap Seventh Day Adventist School, Carson Blair of North Canoe Elementary, Daniel Neil from King’s Christian School, Riley Paetsch of South Broadview Elementary, Jakob Lasser from the Education Outreach Program, Joseph Prince of Hillcrest Elementary and Noah Dollack from Bastion Elementary wait their turn.

Dinoflex resumes work after fatality

dinoflex Group has been authorized by WorkSafe Bc to resume full operations in their Salmon Arm Industrial Park plant following the death of an employee on Aug. 28.

The orders include lifting the restrictions on six of the company’s seven power presses, which are used to compress recycled rubber into block, bricks and matting.

Shane Mackenzie Gorner, 19, died after getting caught in machinery at the manufacturing plant. The Bc coroner is still conducting its investigation into the fatal accident.

dinoflex was previously ordered to cease all use of any of the recycled rubber

processing machinery including rubber block cutters, a laser-guided water cutter, rubber compound blender and mixer units, and a rubber block handling unit.

The orders were later modified a number of times to allow for the use of a slicer, paper press, tile press, tile mixer and paver mixer. The stop-use order had also been lifted for the water cutter on an interim basis to fabricate 18-panel specialty cuts for a trade show, subject to a series of guidelines.

One of the power presses was also authorized to begin operations on Sept. 20 after additional safeguards were fitted; however, the remaining six presses were still not permitted to be used.

“The point of operation of the #2,3,4,5,6, and 7 power presses, used to make rubber blocks at this workplace

are not safeguarded to prevent injury to the operator or any other worker,” reads WorkSafe Bc Inspector Jim Saunders’ report.

This is the order which was lifted effective Sept. 26.

WorkSafe Bc, however, has issued notice to dinoflex of possible penalties for unsafe operations during the safety upgrade period.

A report issued by Saunders on Sept. 25 states: “during a follow-up inspection of this work site, a worker… was observed completing installations on the high pressure water cutter. This equipment was not properly locked out (i.e. the worker did not have his lock applied to the equipment’s disconnect switch.) This employer has failed to ensure the health and safety of other workers present at the

workplace at which the employer’s work is being carried out.”

The report goes on to say WorkSafe Bc has determined that there are grounds for imposing an administrative penalty on the company; however, this remains under consideration by WorkSafe Bc. no penalty or other enforcement action has been issued.

dinoflex ceO Mark Bunz said a representative from the manufacturing company who supplied dinoflex with the water cutter was installing a safeguarding light curtain on the unit but did not have his lock-out applied.

“dinoflex personnel did, however, have the unit locked out with our lock-out procedures, which eliminates any power

WorkSafe BC: Additional safety measures put in place, company may still face penalties.By Tracy HughesOBSeRVeR STAFF

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cocaine, guns seizedThe Salmon Arm RCMP put a damper on the welcome mat for a 41-year-old man Sunday.The man, a recent arrival to Salmon Arm, was arrested Sunday, Oct. 6 after police searched a home in the 100 block of Lakeshore Drive. Police discovered a quantity of cocaine and two firearms, including a fully loaded sawed-off shotgun. The man was arrested at the scene and is now facing drug and weapons charges.

Television theft thwartedA thief took the brazen approach in attempting to nab a new television on Wednesday, Oct. 20. At 1:30 p.m., on Wednesday, Oct. 9, an em-ployee at Sears in the Mall at Piccadilly noticed a man in the back storage area of the business. He had a new television in his hands. When he saw the worker, the man dropped the television and fled out the rear door. The suspect was last seen driving a grey Ford F150 pick-up truck with a cover over the truck bed.

Suspicious activityAt 2 a.m., on Wednesday, Oct. 9, police re-ceived a report of a tall, slim male rummaging through unlocked vehicles on 15th Avenue NE. Salmon Arm RCMP officers conducted foot patrols of the area but were unable to locate the male. There were no reports of anything stolen.

to the unit. We have since reviewed our procedures to ensure contractors comply with WorkSafe BC lock-out regulations.”

WorkSafe BC defines administrative penalties as fines for health and safety violations to motivate employers to comply with all relevant health and safety regulations. The organization will weigh the circumstance of each case as well as the seriousness of the violations and the size of the operation in determining the amount of the penalty.

The maximum fine is $579,648.

Dinoflex Group would be given an

opportunity to appeal any penalty orders.

In the wake of the tragedy, Dinoflex Group enlisted the services of an industrial

engineering and design company specializing in safeguarding to assist in complying with the WorkSafe BC orders.

“It’s important to point out that WorkSafe BC conducted a prior audit as a normal course of business and safeguarding of the presses was not highlighted as a safety concern at that time,” Bunz wrote in a previous statement to the Observer.

Dinoflex Group employs more than 25 people. None of the staff members were laid off during the period when stop-work orders were in effect.

Company complies with all WorkSafe BC orders

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Blackburn Park has risen to number one on the charts.

After much research and public input, a draft strategic plan for the city, meant to guide decision-making about significant projects over the next 10 years, is ready for the public’s review.

The plan divides 25 projects into short-, me-dium- and long-term priorities, with ‘Black-burn Park upgrades’ listed at the top in the short-term priorities list.

Short-term is defined as 2014 through 2017.

Also included in the nine-project, short-term list is the Ross Street un-derpass; sanitary sewer main replacement at the foreshore; and transit improvements.

The project overview for Blackburn Park notes that upgrades already completed in-clude field one, the skate park, washrooms and the playground, as well as some fill added for redevelopment of the southwest ball dia-mond and field two.

Future upgrades for Blackburn Park include:

construction of field two; a spray park; con-struction of ball fields; multi-use field space and realignment of 5th Street SW, along with new parking.

Nine medium-term priorities from 2018 to 2020 include: airport improvements; a down-town parking plan; en-vironmental protection

bylaws and develop-ment permits; a sewage treatment plant reloca-tion assessment; and a water metering cost/benefit analysis.

In the long term – 2021 to 2023 – pri-orities include the Auto Road connector; Canoe waterfront public access redevelopment and ex-pansion plan; CPR 17th Avenue NE pedestrian overpass; industrial park servicing; Klahani

Park redevelopment plan; and Little Moun-tain Park development plan, including reloca-tion of the public works yard.

Corey Paiement, the city’s corporate officer, explains that the strate-gic plan focuses on the “key big-picture proj-ects” for the next 10 years as the city doesn’t have the capacity to un-dertake all the projects that have been identi-fied. The plan, he says, is not static. Thought has been given as to how it will continue to be used.

“I think it’s fair to say it will take some dili-gence from council and staff to carry on into the future.”

To express your input on the draft document, go to the city website to find the strategic plan at: http://www.salmonarm.ca/index.aspx?nid=292 and then click on the word ‘here.’ Then click on ‘draft corporate stra-tegic plan 2014.’

If you wish to see the projects in more detail, click on ‘draft corpo-rate strategic plan proj-ect plans.’ Input must be received by 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21.

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Deadline: Public invited to provide input on strategic plan by Oct. 21.By Martha WickettOBSERVER STAFF

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Mark Hanson knows all about the power of the pitch.

Hanson and his com-pany’s new, improved garbage dumpster were featured on the Oct. 9 episode of Dragon’s Den, the show where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts and products to a panel of Canadian business moguls.

His 40-minute pre-sentation taped in April was whittled down to about three minutes for last week’s broadcast.

Hanson, who grew up in Silver Creek, was not allowed to di-vulge until after it aired whether he received a favourable answer.

As it turned out, he was one of the lucky – or astute – ones.

Hanson was asking $150,000 for 10 per cent of his garbage compactor business, which features the Bin-Pak. The BinPak will compact six times the amount of garbage, as opposed to a three-to-one ratio for a standard dumpster. The door is only two feet off the ground and it’s sealed, so no porblems with wasps, rats, seagulls, bears and raccoons, he says.

Instead of trashing the BinPak idea as they often do with pitches, the dragons were re-ceptive – except for

Kevin O’Leary. The chairman of O’Leary Funds frequently be-littles participants with his harsh, no-nonsense approach to their busi-ness ideas. Hanson’s was no exception.

After hearing how many BinPaks Mod-ern Waste Products Inc. had sold in a year, O’Leary said: “You haven’t defined your business plan... I’m out.”

He also asked what sound a racoon makes being compressed six to one.

Hanson quickly re-plied, “We don’t know, because they can’t get in.”

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Chilton offered Han-son $150,000 but, in-stead of a share of the business, asked for $1,000 a unit until he gets his money back and then $300 a unit after that.

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The final deal be-tween Hanson and the two dragons was – $150,000 for nine per cent royalty.

“It was a terrific op-portunity, and it will help us create aware-ness of the BinPak,” a happy Hanson said fol-lowing the broadcast.

Surviving the dragonsTV broadcast: Entrepreneur escapes the den’s heat.

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The offences were so serious provincial court judge Mayland McK-imm could not agree on a joint submission from Crown and defense of a two-year sentence less time served for a Ver-non man facing mul-tiple counts of crimes against children.

McKimm sentenced Connor Michael Tyson Dee, 28, to a global sentence of 42 months for luring, invitation to sexual touching, sexu-al interference with a person under 16, pos-session of child por-nography and extortion in Vernon Provincial Court Thursday. He was also given three years’ probation upon release from prison.

The offences oc-curred between 2009 and 2011 with five vic-tims aged 11 to 17.

“I can’t agree with the joint submission,”

said McKimm. “That is inadequate based on the severity of the crimes.

“I believe a sentence of two years less time served would bring the administration of jus-tice into ill repute.”

McKimm sentenced Dee, who moved to Pritchard from Yel-lowknife in 1995 and attended Chase Sec-ondary School, to 53 months but considered the fact Dee pleaded guilty to the counts, sparing the five victims having to relive their ordeals in a trial.

Dee will serve 24 months in jail with McKimm giving him credit for 18 months already served. He was originally arrested in Vernon in October 2011, released, then arrested again in April 2012 for breaching his conditions.

Dee will serve the two years in a federal prison.

The court heard how Dee, who was a five-year resident of Ver-non at the time of his arrest, would strike up relationships with his victims through the In-ternet and social media websites, along with text messaging.

One of the most disturbing facts of the case came from a vic-tim, 11, who said she had unprotected sex with Dee. When Dee was arrested, police seized his cell phone and computer and found hundreds of folders and sub-folders with pictures of nude females.

One pre-sentence report assessed Dee at a high risk of “sexual violence recidivism,” and that he “lacked empathy for the vic-tims – though he did feel shame for what he had done to his family – and lacked remorse.”

“In my view, the as-sessment of Mr. Dee as

a high risk to reoffend is sound,” said McK-imm.

Upon release from prison, Dee, who showed no emotion during the sentencing, must have no contact with the victims.

He was given a 10-year prohibition upon release from attending a public park or swim-ming area where per-

sons under the age of 14 are present or can reasonably expect to be present. That also in-cludes daycares, school grounds and commu-nity centres.

In a decision McK-imm struggled with, Dee is not allowed to possess a cell phone, pager or portable tele-communications de-vice.

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City News and Public Notices

CITY OF SALMON ARMPUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to Section 227 of the Community Charter, this is Notice that Bylaw No. 3994 which provides for property tax exemptions for the following properties is scheduled for adoption at the Regular Meeting of Council on October 28, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 500-2 Avenue NE, Salmon Arm, BC. The proposed property tax exemptions shall be for gross land and improvement assessments for the taxation years 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Draft Corporate Strategic Plan is available for public review and comment.

This year the City has been working to create its first ever long-term Corporate Strategic Plan. The plan will guide City Council and staff toward more effective decision making about significant projects anticipated to be undertaken over the next 10 years.

The draft Corporate Strategic Plan, including the list of 25 priority projects, is available for public review and comment between October 2 and October 21, 2013. The plan can be viewed on the City’s website at www.salmonarm.ca/strategicplan or in hard copy at City Hall at 500 2 Avenue NE, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4N2.

Written comments will be received until 4:00 p.m. Monday October 21, 2013. Written comments can be dropped-off or mailed to City Hall or emailed to [email protected].

City Council will consider approving the Corporate Strategic Plan in November 2013.

For more information please visit www.salmonarm.ca/strategicplan or contact Corey Paiement, RPP, Corporate Officer, at (250) 803-4029 or [email protected].

CITY OF SALMON ARM STRATEGIC PLAN

Legal Description

Properties Used for Public Worship

Lot A, Plan KAP51918, 18-20-9

Lot A, Plan 32114, 9-10, 20, 10

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3151 6 Avenue NE

4590 10 Avenue SW

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First Regular Baptist Church of Salmon Arm

Salmon Arm Mennonite Church

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2014 2015 2016

$14,723 $15,017 $15,317

$10,141 $10,344 $10,551

Total $24,864 $25,361 $25,868Municipal Portion $13,257 $13,522 $13,792

Other Governments $24,864 $25,361 $25,868

Dr. Megyesi and Dr. Plessis are pleased to inform their patients that they are moving their practices to the new Shuswap Providence Medical Clinic, located at #1100-2991A, 10th Ave. SW (inside Wal-Mart), phone (250) 832-3377, effective Nov. 8, 2013.

Patients wishing to remain with Dr. Megyesi and Dr. Plessis will automatically have their charts transferred to the new clinic.

Patients not wishing to have their charts transferred may establish themselves with a new physician and request their records be transferred to their new physician.

If patients have not had an opportunity to transfer their records to another physician by Nov. 8, 2013, they may request to do so after this date at no extra charge.

We thank you for your patience during this transition and look forward to serving you in our new location.

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On the list of things humans need to lead a happy life, surely a well manicured, green lawn must be near the very bottom of the list. Yet, here we are, more than 50 years after Rachel Carson stunned the world with the publication of her book, Silent Spring, and the use of cosmetic pes-ticides continues.

Earlier this week, the B.C. Liberal government trumpeted changes to the rules regulating the use of cosmetic pesticides. The bottom line is the changes still permit cosmetic pesticides.

Why ban the use of cosmetic pesticides?Because the evidence is mounting that the use

of pesticides, including herbicides, can increase the risk of cancer, from leukemia and lymphomas to brain cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer and a few more. A study by Bassil et al., published in

2007 in the Canadian Family Physician, reviewed the scientific literature on the potential effects of pesticides on human health. Based on the review, the authors recommended a reduction in the use of pesticides, and based on the results of the study, the Ontario College of Family Physicians recommended everyone, especially children and pregnant women, reduce exposure to pesticides.

The Union of B.C. Municipalities, led by then-mayor of Kamloops, Terry Lake, passed a resolu-tion supporting a ban on the sale and use of cos-metic pesticides.

Today, Lake is minister of health.What happened to the vision?What happened to the conviction?Silent spring, silent minister.-Penticton Western News

New pesticide regulations fall short

Foundation of givingThe Shuswap Community Foundation certainly has impec-

cable timing. Thursday night, just as people were getting into the spirit

of Thanksgiving, the gratitude was flowing at the foundation’s annual community meeting.

For those unfamiliar with the Shuswap Community Foun-dation, it is a tremendously beneficial group which provides funds for Shuswap-area groups through the power of invest-ment.

The concept is simple; the foundation has a pool of capital assets and from there the interest generated from the fund can be used to support a diverse range of projects.

Currently the foundation has a financial base of nearly $5.8 million, allowing them to disburse $155,000 in the 2012-2013 fiscal year.

The room at the Prestige Inn was filled to capacity in cel-ebration and honour of the giving, which has assisted 24 differ-ent organizations with their wishes – often providing funds for things that can be so critical to a non-profit group’s survival.

It may seem small, like providing funds to the Seymour Community Centre to help replace its 30-year-old chairs, or to put a roof on a homestead building at the Salmon Arm Muse-um or to purchase a dishwasher for the Eagle Valley Resource Centre kitchen.

It was heartwarming to see the volunteers who work so dili-gently to manage the foundation, and the patrons who have created endowment funds often in memory of a loved one, wit-ness the outpouring of appreciation. Each recipient was able to briefly discuss what the funding would mean.

Another powerful message of gratitude comes not just from the fine work of the foundation, but from the knowledge that there are so many groups in our region, made up of mostly volunteers, doing so much, in so many areas to enrich our lives. The foundations’ money helps tremendously, but it rests on the passion and dedication of citizen involvement.

How much poorer would our community be without art, or theatre, or the preservation of our history? What a loss if groups that support childrens’ education or the care of seniors or the assistance to those with physical or mental challenges were to cease operating.

Sitting in audience, one could not help but feel that the gratitude was not one-sided. It did not just extend from the foundation to the recipient. The foundation’s donors were also expressing gratitude for the work done by these community groups.

Chris Lind, of the Sorrento Centre, drew applause for neatly summing up the contribution of the foundation, not only to his own organization, but to all.

“It’s not just about a grant to the community of Sorrento, it’s a grant enabling the establishment of community in the Shus-wap.”

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View PointThe Observer asked:What did you give thanks for this year?

Ben Harrison“Peace in Canada, sunshine and living in the Shuswap.”

Jamie Peters“Family and friends.”

Liam Heckrodt“Having my weekends to do what I want.”

Mark Greenhalgh“Family and good health.”

Mark O’Dwyer“Having a great job.”

‘VICTORIA – As the B.C. Teachers’ Fed-eration executive moseys back to the bargain-ing table after a summer off, I’m reminded of former education minister George Abbott’s thoughts on his time trying to establish a civil discussion with the province’s most militant union.

It started with a lecture.“In my first meeting with the BCTF, and I

gather this is characteristic of all first meetings with education ministers, the TF advises that yes, they are a union, but first and foremost they are social activists and agents of social change,” Abbott recalled.

Their buzzword is “social justice,” which is portrayed by leftists as superior to plain old justice, in ways that are seldom defined. So what exactly are the goals of this “social change?” Here’s some of what I’ve gleaned.

Parents may recall the 2008 introduction of an elective high school course called Social Justice 12. This was mainly the result of in-tense protest by a couple of gay activist teach-ers, and the ministry curriculum describes its emphasis on inclusion of racial, cultural and sexual differences.

That’s all good, and it’s now bolstered by urgently needed anti-bullying and empathy ef-forts at all grades.

Then there is the BCTF version. It’s not just a battle against “racism, homophobia and sex-ism” but also “poverty and globalization.”

The BCTF has a quarterly “Social Justice Newsletter” filled with predictable economic assumptions. Readers of the latest issue are reminded at length that the United Nations takes a dim view of Canada’s record on hu-man rights, including a right to housing. Un-defined “poverty” statistics are cited, although Statistics Canada has nothing but incomplete relative measures.

One article describes a social justice club for Grade 2 and 3 students, with activities that include collecting food bank donations and “writing to the premier asking for a systemic

plan to address child poverty.”Leaving aside whether eight-year-olds can

understand what “systemic” means, this rhet-oric is taken directly from the tired old NDP policy book. It rests on the cherished myth that poverty is imposed by right-wing gov-ernments that refuse to double the minimum wage and pile more taxes on “the rich.”

And what about that darned “globaliza-tion”? The BCTF still has a 2001 teaching guide on its website promoting the claim that Nike is uniquely guilty of making shoes and exercise gear in Third World sweatshops.

Teachers are to instruct students how to organize a boycott of Nike, thus passing the received wisdom of campus radicalism to the next generation.

This was all debunked years ago. Are Adi-das, Reebok, Apple and Microsoft any dif-ferent? Has nothing changed in 12 years? A quick web search will show this is a stale old tale with a convenient villain, to avoid com-plex questions.

A BCTF official assures me this unit is be-ing updated. Once that one is done, maybe they could check over their teaching unit on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal, an-other labour of the union’s “social justice” truth team.

Entitled “What We Stand To Lose With Pipelines and Supertankers,” it boasts wildlife photos and “key sources” from the left (Ca-nadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) to the far-left fringe (Pipe Up Network). It is another protesters’ guide designed around a pre-deter-mined viewpoint.

BCTF bosses love to talk about the impor-tance of “critical thinking.” These one-sided caricatures of Nike, Enbridge and other fa-miliar villains seem designed to produce the opposite.

They remind me of George Orwell’s clas-sic novel 1984, where loyal party members are required to focus on selected enemies in a daily ritual called the Two Minutes Hate.

Perhaps this is a clue to why our school sys-tem produces so many students lacking in em-ployment skills and bursting with demands for government-imposed wealth redistribution.

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Teenager deserves peace prize

Fostering change‘Social justice’ education as student indoctrination Sometimes kids need

a safe place to live for a little while.

A foster home can be that place. Foster par-ents provide a secure and nurturing environment through which kids can regain hope and begin a healing process. Struc-ture, routine and com-passionate understanding all contribute to the safe atmosphere in which kids can begin to thrive. Fos-ter parents connect kids to vital services such as school, doctors, counsel-lors and therapists.

Specialized training

enables foster parents to provide supervision and positive parenting all within the guidelines of the Ministry of Children and Family Development. Whenever possible it is important for kids stay connected to their family. Foster parents work hard to provide that necessary support for the kids to return home or else tran-sition into another perma-nent alternative.

Building healthy re-lationships and making pleasant memories are all part of the goal of re-building young lives and

preparing them to become contributing members of our society.

It is truly a privilege for me to work with foster parents in the Shuswap Community – the ‘super heroes’ of our fostering system. Anyone inter-ested in becoming a foster parent can check out the website at www.okfoster-parents.ca.

Foster parents do make a difference – one child at a time.

Judy Flintoff, Shuswap Foster Parent Coordinator

BC VIEWS

Tom Fletcher

Pay special attention Greg Kyllo. Now is the time to rise and shine.

Christy Clark just made a totally frivolous propos-al to replace the Massey Tunnel by 2017.

Please remind the pre-mier that right in your home community, Si-camous, the Bruhn Bridge across the channel is long overdue for replacement.

As a very important link in the Trans-Canada Highway system it is ob-solete and dangerous by today’s standards. Unlike the Lower Mainland, we don’t have numerous al-ternate routes. I am sure the community would go all the way with you on this issue.

Colin Mayes, as the federal member for this

riding, is equally respon-sible for a trans-continen-tal highway.

If the new bridge cost was shared by both gov-ernments the total ex-pense wouldn’t be as ex-orbitant. Either way, it is still from our pockets, but at least the major benefit would be to our area.

Alli M. Graham

Even after being shot in the head by brutal Taliban terrorists, Ma-lala Yousafzai still has no room for malice. The Pakistani teenager’s soul is filled to the brim with compassion, confidence and commitment. Her de-

termination inspires girls around the world.

When the Taliban shot Malala, they inadvertently unlocked the frustrations of countless people who want the fulfillment that comes from a modern education. In my opinion,

Malala Yousafzai would have been the right choice for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It would have increased the momentum of her cause and benefited millions.

Lloyd Atkins


Harvest timeAgnes Evans and Cecilia Roy collect the last of this year’s vegetable crop from their raised bed gardens over the weekend at the Community Garden on Shuswap Street and 10th Avenue SW.

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Check out transit changesThe City of salmon

Arm and bC Transit are holding public in-formation sessions in the city on oct. 30, to let the public know about upcoming ser-vice changes for the region.

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An open letter to patients who received the recent mail out from Salmon Arm Medical Clinic, as well as our physician colleagues:

We apologize for any confusion this recent letter has caused. We did not write nor did we

authorize this unsigned letter. We were not given an opportunity to review the distribution list. It appears many people who are not our regular patients have received this letter in error.

We especially apologize to Dr Marietjie du Plessis and her patients as the letter did not clearly differentiate Dr Angela Plessis from Dr Marietjie du Plessis. Dr Marietjie du Plessis is NOT moving her practice and will remain at Maple Tree Medical Clinic.

Please direct any inquiries regarding the letter to the management at Salmon Arm Medical Clinic.

We look forward to serving our valued patients in our new location (2991A 10th Ave SW) as of November 8, 2013.

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The Shuswap Com-munity Foundation’s nest egg keeps on grow-ing, now up to $5.8 million, allowing for $168,000 in disburse-ments for this fiscal year.

Since its inception in 1995, the founda-tion has distributed $1.5 million to community groups from Malakwa to Seymour Arm.

At the annual com-munity meeting, past president Karen Ang-ove announced the es-tablishment of 10 new family funds during the year, as well as seeing the memorial walkway at McGuire Lake come to fruition. The walk-way allows for people

to “purchase” a brick to be inscribed with a personal message of re-membrance.

Angove passed the reins to Dave Wood, while acknowledg-ing the contributions of retiring directors Joanne Mason and John Schlossar.

Lana Fitt is joining the board as a new di-rector.

Angove is not leaving the foundation entirely, as she will continue as director and will be working on developing a report to identify ar-eas of need within the region, to assist with the grants process.

The foundation also announced that in addi-tion to their fall grants program, they are ini-tiating a second grant

cycle in the spring for those groups whose summer projects may clash with the tradition-al deadlines.

Recipients: Representatives from 24 groups gathered Thursday to acknowledge funding from the Shuswap Community Foundation.

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As a parent or grandparent, you want to pass your wealth to your children or grandchildren in ways that are the most effective and useful to them – and the most tax-ef� cient way. By purchasing a whole life or universal life policy on the life of your child or grandchild, you can invest money on a tax-deferred basis inside the life insurance policy and guarantee the insurability of your child or grandchild. As well the policy is transferred tax free and outside the grandparents’ estate to the child or grandchild.

In addition, while you’re alive and contributing to a permanent life insurance policy, the cash surrender value (CSV), grows as you contribute – for their needs later to buy a house or fund an education after your death. The child can access the CSV of the policy in three ways: withdrawals, policy loans or as collateral for a loan. Each type has its own issues and taxation.

The policy also guarantees the child’s insurability for the amount purchased and is under the control of the parent or grandparent during their lifetime.

Here’s a speci� c example of creating a cascading effect of wealth through life insurance:

You’re a grandparent, age 60, and you purchase a 20-pay whole life participating policy on the life of your 5-year old grandson with an initial face amount of $500,000. The annual premium with maximum allowable deposit is $6,865 a year. The CSV at age

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1913 The dominion government piledriver was towed in to begin the work of extending the wharf.The machine used to show moving pictures at the opera house arrived in Salmon Arm. It was said to be the very latest, being identi-cal to the one being installed in the Bijou and other of the big moving picture houses in Calgary. The movies were to start as soon as the electric plant went into operation.

1923 A survey done by Dr. Sutherland, minister of public works, showed there were 39,000 automobiles in British Columbia , or about one car to every 13 people. It noted that as recently as 1916 there were only 8,000 automobiles in the province.

1933 Single men and women on unemployed relief were receiving 40 cents a day, paid by the federal and provin-cial governments.City workmen were busy trimming the trees on Hudson Street.

1943 Miss Zola Riddle left for Rockcliffe, Ont., where she was to receive basic training with the RCAF.Lieut. Hans Jacobi, Sgt. C. E Bingham, Pte. T. Taylor, Lac Bob Currie and A.C. Jack Hautala were home on leave.

1953 The Okanagan Telephone Co. completed one of the � nal stages of its three-year, $3 million expansion and mod-ernization program begun in May, 1950, with the installation and testing of its opera-tor toll dialling equipment.A.E. Mcmanus, formerly of New Westmin-ster, was appointed manager-projectionist of the Salmar Theatre by the Salmon Arm Community Association.

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Music makerIt’s never too late to pursue that musical bent and it could make you healthier.EZee Piano is coming to Salmon Arm and is being led by resident Lou Conron. The learning style of the program was devel-oped with adults and seniors in mind, with a focus on chords and improvisation. “Most adults, especially seniors, just want to play and have fun and make music,” says Con-ron, noting the program provides health benefits such as mental agility, hand-eye coordina-tion, relaxation, better concentration, and is an avenue for social contact with others who share similar interests.EZee Piano is set up for beginners and, in total, includes five eight-week sessions. Right from the first session, students play with their hands together, she explains.Ages of students in the ‘made-in-the-Okanagan program’ have ranged from 40 to 83. To learn more, go to: www.EZeePianoSystems.com. To contact Lou Conron, email: [email protected] or phone 250-832-7733.

Contest seeks the dusty truthChris Bartsch, franchise owner of Modern Purair Salmon Arm, is searching for the dirt in people’s homes. The Western Canadian-based air quality company is running a contest for people with dirty vents. Modern Purair will be rewarding 10,000 Airmiles reward miles to the customer with the most dirt, debris or dust in their house ducts. Any Modern Purair customer who has an indoor residential vent-cleaning service performed between now and Nov. 15 will be eligible to enter. Full contest details are avail-able at www.thedustytruth.com. Clients can book an appointment with Bartsch by calling 250-804-8686.

Sinking feelingCaryn Stewart, Karen and Anne Morgan, Reta Moerike and Jan Lacko bid on everything including the kitchen sink during the Family Resource Centre’s silent auction and fundraiser held recently at the Hideaway Pub.

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In the house: Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes presents members of the Salmon Arm Curling Club with $130,000 in fund-ing from the federal government.

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Friday, Colin Mayes, Member of Parliament for Okanagan-Shuswap, announced support for the replace-ment of the ice plant at the Salmon Arm Curling Centre under the federal government’s Community Infrastruc-ture Improvement Fund (CIIF).

“Our government is committed to creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity in our communities across Canada,” said Mayes. “By making these investments in local infrastruc-ture, we are helping boost economic activity and maintain a high quality of life for Canadians.”

With the funding of $130,286, the Salmon Arm Curling Club has been able to remove the existing refrigera-tion plant and install a new, environ-mentally-friendly system.

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Protecting island habitat

A Salmon Arm man is determined to restore ecological balance to the world’s islands.

Founder of Coastal Conservation in 2010, Chris Gill’s organiza-tion is focused on the natural restoration of island ecosystems by removing introduced invasive species.

Gill says that while islands occupy less than five per cent of Earth’s land mass, they are home to 15 to 20 percent of the planet’s plant, reptile and bird species.

They also account for an astounding 64 per cent of recorded species’ extinctions – two-thirds of which are caused by introduced species.

“After habitat loss and degradation, intro-duced invasive species are the second largest cause of biodiversity loss in the world,” he says.

Gill was off to Haida Gwai recently to over-see an aerial program to destroy the Norway and black rats that call two remote islands in Gwai Haanas National Park home.

Norway rats were in-troduced in the 1700s by early Spanish ex-plorers and black rats later through logging operations – all by boat.

It only takes one preg-nant female to ignite a population explosion as rats reach maturity and begin breeding at five weeks of age – and they can have multiple litters per year.

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Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site represent extremely important habitat for a variety of marine birds dur-ing the breeding and non-breeding seasons, says Gill, whose or-ganization partnered with Parks Canada, the Haida Nation and California-based Island Conservation.

Voracious predators, Gill says rats impact a variety of species and habitat, from plants and seedlings, sea birds and song birds.

“They will impact species right down to intertidal flora and fau-na,” he adds. “Remov-ing rats can change eco-systems at all levels.”

In a project that was three years in the plan-ning, helicopters were used to set poisoned bait on the islands im-pacted by the rodents. Testing is done to make the bait accessible to the entire rat popula-tion.

Bait pellets are dyed blue green, a less at-tractive colour to grain-eating birds, says Gill, noting eradications are timed in fall when the breeding season is over and some birds have al-ready flown south.

“There’s always a short-term risk to other animals, but we’re sure it’s on an individual basis, not population-wide. We balance risk with the need to eradi-cate the invasive spe-cies,” he says, pointing out he worked on the Haida Gwai project with Parks Canada staff five days a week for the past year. “It’s labour

intensive and technical-ly challenging, but also extremely rewarding.”

Invasive species re-moval is a powerful tool for conservation, says Gill, noting that some 450 eradications have occurred worldwide in the past 30 years.

This is the first “aer-ial broadcast” in Can-ada and experts were brought in from around the world.

“The world is watch-ing and we want to do it right,” he says, not-ing the first broadcast was done at the begin-ning of September and the second three weeks later. In that time 800 hectares of island land was “treated” in ap-proximately 11 hours of flying.

Gill says mitigative methods are used to minimize the impact of the operation and crews walk the islands to pick up the dead rats in or-der to protect predators such as ravens. All the carcasses are frozen and tested to determine the cause of death.

A biologist with a masters in environ-

mental toxicology, Gill notes Coastal Conser-vation is also involved in two other large proj-ects: Sydney Island in Gulf Islands National Park where introduced European fallow deer have been destroying one of Canada’s rarest ecosystems, and the Scott Island Archipela-go off the north end of Vancouver Island.

The site of the largest sea bird colony south of Alaska, the culprits are mink and raccoon that were introduced in the 1930s as a part of a failed fur farm.

“They ate all the sea birds on two of the five islands and right now on that archipelago, 1.5 million birds are nest-ing on essentially 150 hectares,” Gill says, noting the rest of the 1,400 hectares are bird-less and eerily silent.

Although Salmon Arm is more than 600 kilometres from the nearest ocean, Gill says that thanks to technol-ogy, he can work any-where as long as he is close to an international airport.

Restoration: Biologist guides invasive species removal.By Barb BrouwerOBSERVER STAFF

Mapping it out: Chris Gill works on the protection of island ecosystems from his of-fice in landlocked Salmon Arm.

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It was third time lucky – although there was clearly more than luck involved.

In his third half-marathon ever, Salmon Arm’s Matt Mead ran faster than more than 1,200 racers, placing first in the BMO Okanagan Half-Marathon held in Kelowna on Sunday, Oct. 13.

Mead completed the 21.1-kilometre race in one hour, 19 minutes and 22 seconds, putting him first overall and first in his men’s 30 to 39 year category. His 10-k time was 37:08.

Mead grew up running in Salmon Arm years ago when he was in high school, but only got back into it about three years ago. This year he upped his training in the eight weeks prior to the race, crediting it for the win – a win he wasn’t expecting.

“I’d have to say my hard training. I have to give a lot of thanks to my family for putting up with me... There were lots of long days

and nights where I didn’t get off the treadmill till 10 o’clock at night, but they stuck with me and supported me the whole way.”

He said he took the lead in the first five kilometres and stayed there, but lost his pace around the 17-kilometre mark. When one man began gaining on him, Mead picked up the pace.

“After holding the lead for that long, you don’t want to give it up, so you give it your all and he couldn’t keep up in the end.”

After the race Mead was a bit sore, but not bad.

“I went for a 12-k run this morning,” he said Monday, “just to loosen things up and keep active. I’m a little sore but I did pretty good.”

SportsBig win for Mead

They’re off: Above, Salmon Arm Secondary Cross-Country Running Team members Taigan Radomske and Elena Bruns, in middle, head off in the Oct. 9 race at Little Mountain. Below, James Hardy leads the pack with Alexander Corbett three back.

Once again two Salmon Arm Sec-ondary Cross-Coun-try Running Teams placed first in a high school meet, this one hosted by SAS at Little Mountain on

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runners in both the Senior Girls and Ju-nior Boys categories to field teams.

In individual re-sults in the girls di-

visions, Glynis Sim, a junior, was first overall. Emmy Sim, fourth overall, was second in the seniors category. Sixth over-all and third in ju-nior girls was Rachel

May. Gabby Jackson claimed seventh in se-niors, Taigan Radom-ske sixth in junior girls, Elena Bruns, eighth in senior girls,

Going the distance: Matt Mead com-petes in his second half-marathon, this one in Vancouver last spring.

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She might be the new kid on the UBC Okana-gan Heat cross-country team, but in her first couple of months San-dy Kilmartin is already burning up the track.

Right from the start Kilmartin impressed UBCO coaches Nikki and Nate Reiter with her speed and endur-ance in various pre-season events.

“She has been some-thing of a surprise dur-ing her time training with the team thus far,” said Nikki Reiter earli-er in the season, adding that Kilmartin, “with very little training un-der her belt” had post-ed some impressive times: 1:39:59 half-marathon PR (personal record), and 11:35 for a 3,000-metre time trial.

Kilmartin was active while she was at Salm-on Arm Secondary but hadn’t done a lot of running since graduat-ing in 2011.

“At school I did badminton, rugby, cross-country, gym-nastics, house soccer, mountain biking and dance. I have awesome parents who drove me everywhere,” she says laughing. “After Grade 12 I had two years off. I did no training and then in April this year I went in a half-mara-thon. I kind of wanted to do that so I started training in March. I ran with the (SAS) A.M. Fitness class.”

At the time Kilmar-tin was attending Okanagan College in Salmon Arm.

SAS and SAS teacher Tricia Martin, who was teaching the A.M. Fitness class, en-couraged her to go to Kelowna so she could be part of the universi-ty cross-country team.

“I hadn’t thought about it; I didn’t think I’d be able to make a sports team,” she says, but kept training throughout the sum-mer. “I ended up do-ing well, and now I’m the fastest girl on the team.”

The season opener took the UBCO Heat team to the Univer-sity of Washington’s Sundodger Invita-tional where Kilmartin placed 87th out of 209 in the Women’s Open 6-k run with a time of 23:43. The fastest time

was 21:12.The UBCO women’s

team bested all Canadi-an Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) teams at their next meet in Edmonton, the Grand Prix #3, hosted by Concordia Univer-sity of Alberta.

The objective of a cross-country team is to produce the lowest combined score of the four top runners. With four UBCO Heat run-ners placing between sixth and 15th, the Heat took top team ranking. Kilmartin continued her role as front-runner with a time of 20:16.

“The course in Ed-monton, although very hilly compared to the terrain the Heat had grown accustomed to, did not seem to alter the team’s strategy as they ran a very tight race, with six Heat run-ners travelling the first

kilometre, with only a five-second spread from the first to the sixth Heat runner,” says Reiter.

The hills aren’t so difficult for Kilmartin who is used to them from her summer train-ing in Salmon Arm, but the longer distance courses are her chal-lenge.

“All my runs (in Salmon Arm) included at least three hills… but the 6-k is hard for me. In high school it was a 4-k race, but I’m getting used to it.”

The collegiate racing season keeps a steady pace, with races almost every other weekend. Their next race is in Bellingham, followed by provincials in Ab-botsford and nationals in Toronto.

Although Kilmartin isn’t too far from home, her race schedule, on

top of her homework for her science cours-es, as well as constant training, doesn’t allow for a lot of free time to return.

“Mondays and Wednesdays we have easy runs, 40 to 60 minutes; Tuesdays and Thursdays are harder with interval. We have Fridays off, and on Saturday and Sunday training is in the morn-ing. We do strength training twice a week and sometimes we do pool running.”

Being away from Salmon Arm, Kilmar-tin has learned to ap-preciate that although she’s faster, everything else is slower, especial-ly the traffic.

“I miss being able to get anywhere in five minutes. I have to leave 25 minutes early and I waste my day travelling.”

Bike the canyonThe Shuswap Outdoors Club will be biking Kootenay Valley Railway’s Myra Canyon on Sunday, Oct. 20. Call 250-832-6522. The club will also be participating in the Larch Hills ungroomed ski trail clearing on Sunday, Oct. 27, call 250-832-6522. The club’s annual potluck social & show and tell takes place Saturday, Nov. 16. Call 250-832-8729.

Lawn bowling concludesThe lawn bowling season as finished for this year and a general meeting will be held on Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. followed by a potluck supper.

South Canoe trailsSouth Canoe Trail Stewardship update and meeting will take place Wednesday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. in Room 1 of the SASCU Recreation Centre. For all friends of the South Canoe trails system.

Inter-city junior curlingThe junior curling scene in the Thompson-Okanagan region is ramping up.The Hilltop Toyota Inter-City Junior Curling League starts on Oct. 20 in Kelowna and will make three visits to Salmon Arm - Dec. 8, Jan. 5 and Feb. 2. The league is open to any athletes currently a part of a junior curling program. On each Sunday of league play, teams play two games. The cities involved are Armstrong, Chase, Enderby, Kamloops, Kelowna, Lumby, Salmon Arm and Vernon. The curlers enjoy travelling to different venues and meeting new friends.

Winning bridgeOct. 3: Social bridge - 1. Nick Mason, 2. Dickie Motherwell, 3. Isa Ellis, 4. Bob Bruce. Oct. 6: 1. Peggy Fetterly and Len Mag-ri, 2. Peggy Petersen and Carol McGregor, 3. Orville Cooper and Dave Duncan, 4. Bar-bara Grier and Geoff Collins. Oct. 7: 1.Mary Mackenzie, 2. Georgina Marshall, 3. Isa Ellis. Oct. 10: Social bridge, 1. Eileen Tiedeman, 2. June Scott, 3. Noreen Ockley, 4. Mary MacK-enzie. Oct. 13: Sunday Duplicate - 1. Edie and Jack Swanson, 2. Lynne Storey and John Parton, 3. Dan Quilty and Gerry Chatelain, 4. Al Christie and Eugene Ogino.

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Lisa Petterson, ninth in seniors, and Jessica Brown, eighth in junior girls.

In the boys division,

Jon Bakker and John Conner came second and third respectively, both overall and in the seniors category.

Seventh overall and fourth in the juniors category was Alexan-

der Corbett, with An-drew Nash sixth. Seth Van Varseveld was 10th in juniors.

Taking 11th overall and first in the Grade 8 category was Tyson Stewart of Shuswap

Middle School, with Aaron Plessis of SMS placing third in the same category.

Sebastien Archam-bault of SMS placed fourth in the Grade 8s, while Bryant Cum-

ming, Aiden Hepburn and Kevin Henz, all of SMS, placed seventh, eighth and 10th respec-tively.

The North Zones go Wednesday, Oct. 16 at Kal Park in Vernon.

Continued from pg. 15

North Zones go next week at Kal Park

Speed draws UBCO attention

right on track: Sandy Kilmartin has produced impressive results as the newest mem-ber of the UBC Okanagan Heat cross-country team.

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It was a successful weekend for the midget Silvertips.

The Brick Salmon Arm Tier 2 Midget Sil-vertips hockey team was in action this week-end with a pair of league games, where they went one-and-one.

On Saturday they travelled to Penticton where they scored a 6-1

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The game was close-ly contested throughout when Vernon scored a third-period power play goal to break a 3-3 tie.

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Salmon Arm, the Vipers held on for the 4-3 vic-tory.

Zach Fournier, Peter Grimm and Jason Hay scored for the Silvertips in a losing cause.

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By taking care of business last week against the Trail Smoke Eaters, the Salmon Arm SilverBacks earned themselves a few days off and hope to be refreshed for a tough schedule ahead this coming weekend.

The ’Backs downed the Smokies 7-2 at home on Thursday and followed up with a 5-1 road win in Trail the following night.

The four points earned are huge in a tight Interior Division where the SilverBacks currently hold third place.

Trail is at the bottom of the division at the moment, but Salmon Arm associate head coach Brandon West said the team did a good job of not looking past their opponent.

“We knew that they’re a hardworking hockey club and we re-member last year when they came back to win a number of games and pushed teams late in the game,” said West. “I felt we put a clamp down on their systems and it gave us a chance

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winning both this weekend and we ac-complished that. We were successful in a lot of areas this weekend.”

Salmon Arm went 2-for-8 on the man ad-vantage and held Trail to one goal on the pow-er play in 12 chances. The SilverBacks’ pen-alty killing is currently a BCHL-best 89 per cent.

Add in another stel-lar weekend by the top line of Evan Anderson, Landon Smith and Alex Gillies and it re-sults in a dominant pair of wins.

Anderson, with three goals includ-ing the game-winner on Thursday at Shaw Centre, was particu-larly prominent.

“He’s been tremen-dous for us all year but he hadn’t been re-warded so much on the points side of things,” said West. “He had a great summer and came into camp ready to go and he’s been re-warded with ice time. He’s a hardworking guy and that’s what we

expect from our top-line centre.”

In goal, Angus Red-mond played at home and Adam Clark got the start in Trail. Both were sound and ben-efitted from a better-organized team in front of them, especially in the defensive zone.

West and head coach Troy Mick have spent extra time covering each player’s responsi-bility in their own end and it seemed to pay off against Trail.

“We challenge guys to play within our sys-tems and I felt we did that for 120 minutes,” said West. “We stuck to the game plan and guys were excited to play after the (Oct. 5) loss to Vernon, to work hard and reward our fans and we did that on Friday.”

It was also a nice pair of games for Ri-ley Hunt and Brendan Kennedy. Both players missed the start of the season with injuries.

Hunt got his first point of the season Thursday with an assist on a Cole McCaskill tally, while Kennedy had a helper in each game, includ-ing one on a Thomas Plese power-play goal Friday.

The weekend ahead will be tough with a game in Merritt Friday at 7:30 p.m., a home date versus Coquitlam Saturday at 7 p.m. and a road game in West Kelowna Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

SilverBacks tally four points

Domination: Salmon Arm SilverBack Evan Anderson scores the ’Backs third goal in the team’s 5-1 win over the Smoke Eaters in Trail on Friday.

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The air may be cold, but the atmosphere will be warm and inviting when old

friends get together to make music.Like old-time kitchen parties, the annual

appearance of folk-masters Valdy and Gary Fjellgaard at Carlin Hall draw full-house audiences.

And, as in other years, the two well-known Canadian artists invite good friends and popular local duo, Blu and Kelly Hop-kins, to the party.

Fjellgaard and Valdy share a long history and many similarities.

They’re both family men. They both live on small islands off the coast of British Co-lumbia. They are both singer-songwriters with an eye for memorable tunes and finely-honed images.

And, they’re both road warriors who tour, and tour and tour.

Not only are they committed Canadians, their love of the country and her people is reflected in their “western roots” music – songs that paint images of mountains and the sea, cowboys and fishermen, oil well roustabouts and loggers.

Born Valdemar Horsdal in Ottawa, Valdy has been part of the fabric of Canadian pop and folk music for many years. He’s a song-writer who catches the small but telling mo-ments that make up life.

Remembered for Play Me a Rock and Roll Song, his bittersweet memory of find-ing himself, Valdy has sold almost half a million copies of his 16 CDs, albums and 8-tracks, and has received two Juno Awards (from a total of seven Juno nominations), and four gold albums to his credit.

Along the way, he’s taken his music to a dozen different countries, from Den-mark to Australia, been an invited perform-er for five years in a row at the prestigious Kerrville Festival in Texas, and even played a lead role in an episode of The Beachcomb-ers.

Like Valdy, Fjellgaard arrived in the Gulf Islands well into his 25-year career. The island’s peaceful calm can make it dif-ficult for him to leave.

It is not only a haven from the road, but a place to write the sort of songs that lovingly recall the past, take an affectionate view of the present and look optimistically into the future.

As a songwriter, he’s a storyteller – and the stories he tells come from his two de-cades in the logging industry, his annual stints as a trail-riding cowboy, and his trav-els back and forth across Canada.

His reputation has been earned in the country music field and he has had more than his share of successes – and has a shelf-full of awards to prove it.

Together, Valdy and Fjellgaard are a near-perfect team. The songs they’ve written for Contenders touch their common ground with the familiarity and warmth only old friends can share.

They are both experienced entertainers who know how to earn the respect of their audiences and deliver shows, night after night, that send people home with smiles and the feeling that they’ve experienced something special and heartwarming.

Wrapping up a busy month, Blu and Kelly have completed a four-day Vancouver Island and a closer-to-home appearance set for Blind Bay Oct. 17 with Larry and Jane Stephnenson.

An award-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Blu has been trav-elling in true troubadour fashion, writing songs and performing them for more than 30 years.

His influences include Bill Monroe and Woody Guthrie, Gordon Lightfoot and Stan Rogers. He has been nominated 16 times for Okanagan Music Awards (winner in 2007)and BC Interior Music Awards (winner in 2008) in both the songwriter and folk artist categories, and with his band Silvercreek as Folk Roots/Bluegrass band of the year.

Kelly is an accomplished multi-instru-

mentalist and song-writer, her songs ranging from rollick-ing fun to heartfelt and poignant ballads.

In between their warm harmonies, the pair, like the long-married couple they are, entertain their audiences with their af-fectionate banter.

Catch the warmth and fun Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Carlin Hall. Tickets are available at Acorn Music.

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Always contenders: Singer-songwriter and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee Gary Fjellgaard (top left) performs on stage, with Valdy, Friday evening at Carlin Hall.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 17MOON AND MUSIC – An evening of acoustic music featuring Blu & Kelly

Hopkins and Larry & Jane Stephenson takes place at the Shuswap Lake Estates Hall starting at 7:30. Tickets are $15 at Acorn Music.

FRIDAY, OCT. 18HARVEST MOON DANCE – Local band Birchbark and friends present a Harvest

Moon Dance at 7 p.m. at First United Church. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and children under 10 are free when accompanied by a parent. Get tickets at Acorn Music or call 250-833-1187.

JAZZ OVER EASY – Shuswap Hospice Society hosts a fundraising dinner and jazz at the Log N’ Hearth Restaurant in Blind Bay. Cocktails at 6 p.m. Dinner at 7. Tickets are $40 each and are available at Log N’ Hearth, Fair Realty in Sorrento or Acorn Music in Salmon Arm.

HIDEAWAY – Abstrakt Sonance, aka Tyler Myroon, appears at the Hideaway Pub. Dine with the artists and crew at 6 p.m. Music starts at 9.

SATURDAY, OCT. 19GUN SHOW – Gun and antique show takes place at the SASCU Rec Centre

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

SILVER SCREEN – Shuswap Film Society presents The Hunt, a thriller from Denmark/Sweden, at 5 p.m. at the Salmar Classic.

BOOGIE DOWN – Salmon Arm Couples dance at the Legion. Dance from 8 to 11 p.m. to music by Jens Goerner DJ. Cost: $25 per couple.

THEATRE SPEAK – Shuswap Theatre script writing workshop with Peter Blacklock takes place Saturday and Sunday. Cost is $20. Seating is limited. Register and pay online at http://shuswaptheatre.com/events/current/. For more information, call Peter Blacklock at 250-675-3004.

LIVE MUSIC – AnDiamo Restaurant hosts singer Shelby Babakioff from 6 to 9 p.m.

FREE APPRAISALS – Get books and ephemera assessed at Hidden Gems Bookstore on Alexander Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SUNDAY, OCT. 20BALLET – The Salmar Association presents the Bolshoi Ballet’s Spartacus live

from Moscow via satellite at 1 p.m. at the Salmar Classic.

GOSPEL COFFEEHOUSE – Salmon Arm Gospel Music will host a coffeehouse at the Seniors Drop In Center, 31 Hudson Ave. at 2 p.m. Come and play for free or enjoy listening to the music for $2.

MONDAY, OCT. 21ART SHOW AND SALE – The Mount Ida Painters Guild is hosting a show and

sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Tuesday, Oct. 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Seniors Drop-In Centre, 31 Hudson Ave. Admission by donation.

THURSDAY, OCT. 24SHUSWAP GARDEN CLUB – Meeting at Scout Hall, 2460 Auto Rd. at 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCT. 25ELVIS – Direct from Las Vegas, former world Elvis tribute champion Darren

Lee performs in an all-new, multi-media concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Salmar Classic. Tickets are $30 and are available at Acorn Music.

SIP & SNACK – Salmon Arm Rotary hosts the Shuswap Wine Fest from 7 to 10 p.m. at SASCU Rec Centre. Advance tickets only are $50 at the Hideaway Liquor Store or Piccadilly Liquor Store.

SATURDAY. OCT. 26OPERA – Live from the Met, it’s Shostakovitch’s The Nose at 9:55 a.m. at the

Salmar Classic. Tickets are available at the Salmar Grand.

HALLOWEEN DANCE – Salmon Arm/Enderby Manthers Rugby Football Club is holding a fundraising dance at the Seniors Activity Centre. Tickets are available at Rafael’s Stitchery and Torbram Electric Supply, or contact James Cookson at 250-515-0342.

CHILLS & THRILLS– R.J. Haney Heritage Village “Spooktacular” Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $6 per person. Gates open at 4:45 p.m. For more information, call 250-832-5243.

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Get your � ll of chills and thrills and come and explore the spooky side of R.J. Haney Heri-tage Village for the 19th Annual Spooktacular on October 26 and 27.

Admission is $6 per person and gates open at 4:45 p.m. for this fun (and spooky) family Halloween event.

As dusk falls, the village casts strange shadows from every corner and ghostly � gures ap-pear and the spell-casting magic commences. Courageous chil-dren and the faint hearted can wander the not-so-scary “Story Book Path.” Sponsored by the Linda Howarth Memorial Pre-school, this trail promises to entertain and enchant the little spooks. When you’re ready for a break, visit the � re pit to warm up and enjoy your hot chocolate or rest your brooms and visit the “Colouring Room” and have your face painted or get artsy and make a fun Haney craft or colour a picture to take home.

Don’t miss the haunting sto-ries and ghastly adventures in Mt. Ida Church which has been transformed into “Legends from the Crypt.” Local storytellers will spook you senseless with mysterious tales for the little and big spooks. Author Kay McCracken will read from her children’s book, A Spooktacular Halloween, a story set at Spook-tacular.

Wander through the eerie cemetery and beware of the Grim Reaper, skeletons, witch-es and other ghastly ghouls. You never know what supernatural spirits or hocus-pocus will ap-pear.

Wondering what your future holds? A stop at the mystical

fortune teller will answer all your secrets. Test your skills of chance at the “Spell Casting Midway.”

While venturing through the village, stroll down Front Street. All the menacing displays will lead you to Ristorante Fraser, aka The Haunted House.

Beware of the murder and mayhem that has spoiled the dinner reservations for its guests.

Take heed not to linger too long – the house is the gateway to the Spook Trail where your

spine-chilling journey through the forest beckons. There are haunts around every corner and sinister ghouls awaiting.

R.J. Haney Heritage Village is located at 751 Hwy. 97B, next to the Salmon Arm Camp-ing Resort.

For more information, call 250-832-5243, visit our web-site www.salmonarmmuseum.org or facebook.com/Haneyher-itage.

Ghouls and ghosts under 16 must be accompanied by an adult over 21.

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Spooky story: Shuswap author Kay McCracken will read from her children’s book, A Spooktacular Halloween.

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Time OuTARIES (March 21-April 19): If you haven’t put your life in intermission mode yet, then it’s time to do so. This week will bring to your attention the necessity to slow down from whatever you are doing and to take some time just for yourself. Own your moments of surrender. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your ticket to your fantasized future vision and big dreams is being processed by the Universe. You will be quite anxious to start living one or most of your sweetest dreams and you will persevere on bringing them to fruition. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On the career front and on a social standing, it appears that you will gain reassurance from the credit you get now. A business project or a position in your chosen vocation will reap some well-deserved rewards. Hard work and unwavering ambition surely pays off!CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are ready to step out of your shell and embark into the adventure of your lifetime. This week would open up your eyes to certain facets of your life to which you were blind to or refused to believe in. Giving your life another chance will liberate you in more ways than one!LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This week’s celestial prognosis signals emotional tides coming your way in abundance. Put your safety jacket on and try to come ashore safely. Intensity will prevail. You could also see a financial return finally coming to realization. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One-on-one relationships will steal your usual focus, making you either swept off your feet by your one and only or by realizing that the two of you are not exactly an item. Adjustments will be necessary to achieve that give and take balance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t wait till the end of the year to start thinking and working on your health resolutions. This is your week where you will have to care for your mental and spiritual wellbeing. Enough procrastination and enough of those hard to resists late night snacks. Reconsider some of your unhealthy daily habits. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have been waiting way to long for this kind of opportunity where you can unleash your creative side. Just as an artistic project or a hobby comes to fruition, romance can blossom now as well. A new love can suddenly sparkle in you a well-known curiosity!SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you have been ignoring your family life more than you should, now you need to turn your attention towards domestic issues. Your family or close relatives may need your assistance in bringing some changes around the house.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Important news are headed your way. Stay tuned and receptive to what you hear and learn this week as this could be quite significant. You may finally bring up an important conversation or put the final touches to a document. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Material needs come to the fore for you this week for you. Your self-awareness for what makes you feel or could make you feel much more comfortable is heightened now. New ways of increasing your cash flow can suddenly unveil themselves to you.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): This is your week to shine, dear Pisces. A surge of confidence and self-assertion kicks in making you the ultimate star of the zodiac. Speak up and let others know just how daring and creative you can be. A new you will resurface.

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German Painter - Master’s business owner, is not a regular painter like many others. Norbert started as an apprentice in 1973 in Germany, and after three years, he went to a special painter school where he got his Master’s Degree in Painting. He has worked in countries like Saudi-Arabia and Egypt as painter supervisor, and since 2007 he has worked for big companies where he has been responsible for very exclusive buildings. Now, Norbert has his own company, which started last year and has moved to the Shuswap area. With more than 35 years as a painter, you can expect very fast, precise, and truly professional work; Norbert does every kind of painting and he also is an expert in professional wallpaper hanging. You can contact him at 778-220-2776 or email him at: [email protected]

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GARY BRANDON FISKE August 14, 1933 - October 7, 2013

Garry passed away on Monday, October 7, 2013 at Salmon Arm, BC at the age of 80 years. He was born at Loreburn, SK on Aug 14, 1933

He was predeceased by his parents, Fred and Betty Fiske and his brother Burrel.

Garry is survived by and will be sorely missed by his loving wife Donna, daughters Leigh Fiske (Gavin) and Rhonda Warren (Cam), son Jody (Brenda), brothers Glen (Evelyn), Ronnie (Shirley), Gerald (Sylvia) and Al (Bernie), sisters Fern Peardon (Lyman), Kae Holmes, Max Hicks (Bob), Marj Russel, Helen Reiger and Wendy Cafferata (Barry) andgrandchildren Meagan Wright (Rob), Lauri O’Reillyand Justin O’Reilly.

Garry grew up in a family of 12 children in ruralSaskatchewan where life was not always easy butthe family was close and have plenty of stories andmemories of childhood times. According to hismother’s diaries, he was an independent, smiley boy who was a favorite with the girls. Garry was a hardworking man his whole life and began work atthe young age of 16 at a variety of jobs includingworking on the pipeline and CPR tracks in Elbowand helping with the harvesting at Don Book’s farm.Garry joined the Air Force in 1953 where he was stationed in Macdonald, Manitoba for 3 years. He quit the airforce briefly then rejoined in early 1958where he was stationed in Gimli, Manitoba. He married Donna Ward from Craik Saskatchewan onJune 28th, 1958 and they started their home andlife together in Gimli in one of Kelly’s Cabins, a tiny summer cabin close to Winnipeg Beach. Leigh wasborn in 1960 and Jody followed in 1962. Garry was sent to Africa in 1966 under a government programto train the Tanzanian airforce. It was a long way fromhome but Garry returned in 1967 with lots of storiesand photos of his time there. He was then stationed in Comox, BC and Rhonda was born there in 1969. Garry worked on Labrador helicopters and Searchand Rescue – a role he very much enjoyed and spokeof fondly. In 1975 the family transferred to Trenton,Ontario and in 1982 Garry was sent to Ottawa. He retired from the Air Force as a Master Warrant Officerand went to work for Garrett of Canada in Torontoin 1987 until 1989 when he and Donna retired to Blind Bay, BC. They enjoyed a wonderful retirement together where Garry had time to golf, fish andparticipate with the Lions Club; activities he trulyenjoyed. Thankfully he experienced good healthand an active and busy life up until he passed away on October 7, 2013 in Salmon Arm, BC. He was awonderful husband, father, son, brother and friendand he will be fondly remembered for his sense of humour, great laugh and generous nature.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the ShuswapHospital Foundation.

Many thanks to the physicians and nurses at Shuswap Lake Hospital for their care and attention toGarry in his final days.

A memorial service was held on Friday, October 11, 2013 from Fischer’s Funeral Services with Rev. GloriaChristian officiating.

Arrangements entrusted to Fischer’s FuneralServices & Crematorium Ltd., Salmon Arm (250) 833-1129. Email condolences and sharememories through Garry’s obituary at www.fischersfuneralservices.com.

DEANNA MARGUERITE CHRISTENSEN(KLOTZ) (MARTIAN) (CAMPBELL)

1937 - 2013It is with sadness that

the family of Deanna Christensen announces her passing on October 8th, 2013 in Vernon, BC, after 76 amazing, jammed packed years full of life. Deanna was born in Allan, Saskatchewan; she spent her early years in Burns Lake, BC, where she had 5 children before moving to White Rock, BC

where she had her sixth child.

There was not much Deanna did not do and there was nothing she wouldnot try.

Deanna moved to the Okanagan later in life where she loved to dance and smile, love and laugh. Herbright spirit and enterprising ways will always beremembered by her children; Lynn (Gary), Rod(Wendy), Blaine (Trish), Shannon and Colleen (Bruce);sixteen grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Deanna is now with many family and friendsincluding her parents George and Marguerite Klotz , her sister Gerry, her daughter Laurie, grandson Blake,great

granddaughter Greta and an embrace of friends and loved ones.

Memorial services will be held at 2:00 P.M. onSaturday October 19, at Columbus Court, 3003Gateby Place, Vernon BC. A graveside service will be

held in private.Deanna had become an advocate for the Heart

and Stroke Foundation in Vernon, BC and would appreciate in lieu of flowers, memorials be sent to them in her memory.

The family requests those that can attend herservice to wear something red, it was her favoritecolor and she was an amazing woman built of manymany colors.

Arrangements entrusted to Fischer’s FuneralServices & Crematorium Ltd., Salmon Arm, BC. As Deanna was also a master on the computer, condolences and memories may also be shared through Deanna’s obituary at www.fischersfuneralservices.com.

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In Memoryof my loving wife and

best friendGLORIA JOAN CAIRNSJune 18, 1945 - October 20, 2010You are remembered

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so you took your angel home.You are with me every day, Gloria.Thank you. Forever and ever, Amen

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In Memoriam

Here Today – Here Tomorrow

There is no better way to create an everlasting tribute than by

making a memorial donation to the Shuswap Community

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In Loving MemoryRay

1928-2011

Love Never Dies

In MemoryDouglas James Jupp

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One smile for all,One heart of gold, One of the best

The world could hold.Never Selfi shAlways kind. What a beautiful memoryTo leave behind.

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Sports & RecreationGUN & Antique Show, Sal-mon Arm Community Centre, Oct.19 9-5, Oct.20 9-3, Buy sell or browse.

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GM AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANSalmon Arm GM is able to offer an exciting career move for only the best Automotive Service Technician to join this dynamic winning team. With leading sales and service processes and a reputation for outstanding customer relations, the successful candidate will need to be self-driven in their desire to be Number One.

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The City of Salmon Arm is currently looking to fill several vacancies for Aquafit Instructors. These positions are part time (including evening and week-end shifts). Applicants must possess BCRPA Fitness Theory and Aquafit certification. 3rd Age Certification is preferred. Please forward a cover letter, resume and a copy of all certifications by 12:00 noon on Monday, October 28, 2013 via e-mail to [email protected], via fax to 250-803-4041 or via mail to Human Resources, City of Salmon Arm, Box 40, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4N2.

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Help WantedAn Alberta Oilfi eld Company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing re-quired. Call (780)723-5051 Edson, Alta.

FULL-TIME line cook needed immediately at Home Restau-rant- Sorrento. Apply in person to Doug.

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Help WantedSKIMIKIN Nursery Tappen BC requires Tree Sorters for 2013 Fall Harvest. $11.50/hr-Bonus-40hr weeks. Submit resume to Rob by fax: 250-835-8633; email: [email protected] or in per-son-Weekdays 8:00-4:00 Ph 250-835-4541 (Ext 27)

Wearabouts is looking to hire a Full Time Sales Associate. 5 days/week Tues-Sat. Also P/T positions available. Apply in person 350 Alexander St.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYSystems Administrator

Canoe Forest Products Ltd., located near Salmon Arm BC has an immediate fulltime opening for a Systems Administrator. Reporting directly to the Controller, the successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of computer systems.

Requirements and Qualifications:• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a

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communication skillsCanoe 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 Wednesday, October 23, 2013 to:Human Resources Department Canoe Forest Products Ltd. Box 70 Canoe BC V0E 1K0 E: [email protected] F: 866‐514‐8773Canoe Forest Products thanks all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF S.D. NO. 83

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MECHANIC

We are currently seeking qualified applicants for Mechanic T.Q. – Operations Division.

The applicants must provide services to the School District for the repair and servicing of school district vehicles. Other comparable or transient duties which are within the areas of knowledge and skills required may also be assigned.

Applicants must hold a Certificate of Proficiency as a commercial transport mechanic and automotive technician T.Q. pursuant to the Apprenticeship and Tradesman’s Qualification Act (required for mixed fleet). Four years relevant work experience with similar fleet.

This is a regular position. Salary of $27.89 per hour. Effective date is to be determined.

Further information with respect to this position can be obtained by contacting Frank Marasco, Operations Manager, at (250) 804-7892.

Interested individuals are invited to submit their resume with full supporting documents (proof of qualifications must accompany application), including three professional references to Human Resources Department, Box 129, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4N2 or email [email protected] by Friday, October 18, 2013.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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SNOW REMOVAL QUOTATION PROCESSThe Board of Education of School District No. 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap) is advertising for interested parties to submit a quotation for Snow Removal Services for the 2013-2014 school year.Quotation documents, addendums or corrections for this quote can be obtained from the School District No. 83 Works Complex located at 5911 Auto Road SE., Salmon Arm, BC or downloaded from the School District #83 website at www.sd83.bc.caQuotation process closes at 12:00 PM October 18, 2013.Further information can be obtained via email to [email protected].

Notice to Creditors and OthersRe: The estate of Eva Florence Compton, deceased,

formerly of Salmon Arm, British ColumbiaCreditors and others having claims against the estate of Eva Florence Compton are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the Executor c/o Landmark Law Group 780 – 1333 West Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 4C1 on or before November 29, 2013, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.

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WOOD PELLETS delivered

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Heavy Duty Machinery

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Home & Yard

250-253-4663

• Fencing• Decks• Patios

• Renovation• Repair• Maintenance

2 wooden single bed frames $30 each. (250)832-9256

Houses For Sale


Misc. for Sale8’x10’ Quad trailer Holds 3 Quads/sleds etc Must see to appreciate health forces sale (250)832-4652 (250)517-7985CLEAR PLASTIC TARPS, ap-prox. 40’x40’, $25.00/tarp, Days (250)835-4541 Even-ings/Weekends (250)833-2118LIVE Trees. Douglas fi r trees for landscaping. 6’+ starting at $80. We dig by order or ap-pointment only. For more info, please contact 250-832-2314, [email protected] D90 Digital Camera Body. 12 Mega Pixels. Excel-lent cond. $300 250-517-8087RECONDITIONED wood heat-ers, birch lumber & saw guides (250)835-8466STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.caTOYOTA 15” rims, set of 4, fi ts Yaris, Prius, Corolla 4x100mm bolt pattern, like new $110. (250)832-5029

Misc. WantedGenuine Coin Collector BuyerCollections, Olympic Gold &Silver Coins etc 778-281-0030PURCHASING old Canadian & American coin collections & accumulations. 250-548-3670

Musical InstrumentsBUNDY Alto Saxophone with hard case $500., Upright Heinzman piano $350. (250)832-9256

Free ItemsMother hen with 8 baby chicks. 250-833-4395

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

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Rentals

AcreageFOR Rent: updated 2bdrm mobile on 20 acres, Grand-view Bench area. Set up for horses, detached shop, 3 stall barn, paddocks, fenced, avail. immed., (1-250)862-6249

Apt/Condo for Rent1BDRM. across from Askew’s DT, W/D, parking, Call Colin (1-604)858-8176 or Jeremy (1-250)253-2404 Avail now1BDRM. apartment, close to down town, adults, NS, NP, references req.(250)833-68552Bdrm quiet SA bldg. 6 month lease (terminal) NP NS ND Cable/int incl. Hydro extra $680/mo 250-832-4429 or 250-804-25473BDRM in Salmon Arm, avail. immed., NS, NP, $750/mo, (250)463-9777

Bright, spacious2 bedroom apartments

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$825/month (250)803-1694

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HUGE 1 bedroom, $850/mo. inc. utilities, garbage. NP, avail. Nov 1st. Call Bonnie (1-250)871-6000

LAKEVIEW MANORBeautiful unfurnished and

fully furnished Apts. Viewing Shuswap Lake & McGuire Park. Close to all

amenities in quiet adult NS, NP building.

*Short term rates avail. Ref’s req’d (250)833-9148

Cottages / Cabins2 BDRM. COTTAGE in Sica-mous. $595/mo. int.&cable incl NP NS ND Refs. req. 250-832-4429 or 250-804-1457.Gleneden small 1 bdrm cabin for quiet single person, country living F/S $475/mo plus util Oct 15 250-832-0218

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Cottages / CabinsBRIGHT, clean fully furn. cot-tage, Paradise Point, past Sunnybrae, 1bdrm., Kitchen living & dining room, laundry $750/mo., incl. hydro, sat tv & internet. (250)835-8236

Homes for Rent2BDRM home w/basement on shared acreage, North Canoe NS, NP, avail. Nov. 1st, $950/mo (250)833-45154BDRM. furn. 1500sqft. water front town home w/boat slip in Scotch Creek, avail. Oct - end of June 2014, $1100/mo + util. NS, NP, 1mo. free rent if re-leased in 2014 (1-866)389-5253 or www.shuswaplake.net

StorageBOAT & RV storage in secure building close to town. Rea-sonable rates. (250)832-4966INDOOR STORAGE SPACE available for RV’s, boats and vehicles (250)832-3442PRIVATE, covered 90x60 ft quonset storage, pwr/wtr. RV/Boat/Car/Trailer. 10mins outside of Salmon Arm. Year round short or long term at $4.00 linear ft. Outside storage also avail. Call Thomas at 250-804-1115, 250-804-6730, or [email protected] POST AUTO MUSEUM

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Suites, Lower1 Bdrm Close to town Self contained W/O W/D DW gar-age & Workshop NS Ref’s $850+Util 250-833-93831BDRM HILLCREST: Level entry, util. Wifi and cable incl., laundry, NS, NP, avail. immed. $650/mo. (250)832-20521Bdrm inc Util Cable 5 appl. Uptown close to College & Shopping Private Entr & Park-ing $800 Avail Nov 1st250-832-93412BDRM great location no stairs. avail. immed, walk to town, lakeview, cable incl. util. extra. NS/NP, DD req’d, $800/mo. 250-832-6684. Avail Sept 15thBachelor suite Sunnybrae Lakeview . NS / NP. $475/mo. Private patio, quiet & serene. 250-832-9179BRIGHT, modern 1 bdrm legal suite in walkout with patio & yard in Hill-crest area. Includes, fr, st, micro, w, d, cable, wifi , utilities and 2 parking spaces. Perfect for single profes-sional with no pets for long-term lease. Available Oct 15th. $850.00/mth plus dd. To view please call (250) 804-0095.

LARGE bach, own ent, F/S, shared W/D, all util/cab/int. incl. NS, $650.(250)804-3001QUIET Hillcrest area, 1bdrm, gas f/p, above ground suite. $750/mo. inc. util. ref’s req. N/P, N/S (250)804-0980

Suites, UpperBlind Bay

Newer large 2 bedroom, ground level, available now, lake & Mt. views, 5appl., sat TV, wifi , util., lots of storage,

Lease, DD & ref’s req., NS, NP, steep terrain

with no play area$900/mo.

(250)675-3250

Rentals

Townhouses3BDRM. townhouse, 1.5bath, full bsmt., W/D, walk to DT SA, availability fl exible, No Dogs, $950/mo. (250)819-6966

Transportation

Auto Financing

Cars - Domestic1995 Oldsmobile Cutlas, lowkms, fully equipped, winter tires. $1200 or will trade for scooter (250)832-9990

1995 Pontiac Firefl y, runs good, needs muffl er $500. obo (250)517-7365 after 6pm

Cars - Sports & Imports

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IndexOpinion ....................... A6View Point .................. A7Life & Times ............. A18Sports................A19-A23Arts & Events ... A24-A26Time Out ................... A28Vol. 106, No. 41, 48 pages

This weekDowntown is getting more

colourful with the addition of

some new operations. See A4.

One minute made a big

difference to the SilverBacks

this weekend. See why on A23.

WednesdayOctober 9, 2013

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Bountiful harvestVineyard worker Cara Paula pours a bucket of freshly picked grapes into a collection bin Friday

afternoon during this year’s harvest at Larch Hills Winery. Grape growers across the Okanagan and

Shuswap are expecting an abundant payoff thanks to a long spell of warm, dry weather this summer.

An appeal of a decision

involving a marina in canoe

has been dismissed because

of missing money.

In the Bc court of Appeal

in Vancouver on June 18, Jus-

tice nicole Garson had ruled

that Willy’s Wharf Inc. and

clare’s cove Marina ltd.

must post a total of $32,000

– $12,000 as security for the

costs of the appeal as well as

$20,000 for security for the

judgment in the original trial.

On Sept. 13 in the Bc court

of Appeal in Vancouver, Jus-

tice John Hall dismissed the

action because the required

securities had not been post-

ed. Writes Hall in his reasons

for judgment: “The time for

posting the ordered security

expired over one month ago

and no security has been post-

ed. I gathered from what Mr.

MacIsaac stated at the hear-

ing that it was most unlikely

security could or would be

posted. Given this situation,

it appears clear to me that it

should be ordered that this ap-

peal ought to stand dismissed

as abandoned by reason of

the failure to post the required

security. That disposes of the

appeal…”The appeal followed a de-

cision on April 2 in Bc Su-

preme court in Kamloops,

when Justice Geoff Barrow

ruled against clare’s cove

Marina ltd., Willy’s Wharf

Inc., Jiro Adventures ltd. and

William MacIsaac, who were

claiming more than $2 mil-

lion in damages from the city

of Salmon Arm and Brooke

Jackson downs law firm. The

lawsuit arose from a failed

attempt by MacIsaac and the

companies he controls to pur-

chase and redevelop the ma-

rina.Involved was city-owned

land on 75th Avenue ne,

which runs along the lake

side of canoe Beach drive

and the railway tracks, as well

as an aquatic lease. MacIsaac

had envisioned expanding the

72 boat-slip limit at the site

to 200. MacIsaac’s claims

against the city included

breach of contract and neg-

ligent misrepresentation.

He told the Observer previ-

ously that restrictions the city

placed on a new lease were

not business friendly.

Time may become a crucial factor in the court

case involving a fatal boat crash in 2010 on Shus-

wap lake. during a pretrial conference last week, Ken

Walker, defence lawyer for the accused, leon Mi-

chael Reinbrecht, said he might apply to have the

charges thrown out because of time delays.

Reinbrecht stands charged with criminal negli-

gence causing death and criminal negligence caus-

ing bodily harm, following the crash in Magna Bay

on July 3, 2010 that left an 18-foot campion Run-

about speedboat fully embedded inside the cabin of

a houseboat. The owner and operator of the house-

boat, 53-year-old Kenneth William (Kenny) Brown

of chase, was killed in the crash. eight other people

were taken to hospital in Kamloops, where two re-

mained for treatment and six were released the next

day. The crash took place as boats were leaving the

bay following the annual canada day weekend fire-

works display.

crown counsel don Mann confirms that at the

pretrial conference, defence counsel indicated “they

may be bringing a charter application related to that

(time delays)… They were just advising us and the

court.”Reinbrecht was charged in december 2011 fol-

lowing a 17-month investigation carried out by the

chase RcMP detachment with the assistance of

investigators from Transport canada and the Bc

coroners Service. The decision regarding charges

took 17 months because of the copious quantities of

evidence to sift through, police said.

More recently, the trial date was pushed back

from September of this year until January of next

in order for the defendant to try to secure legal

aid funding. If an application under the charter of

Rights and Freedoms is made to drop the charges,

both sides would present their arguments and evi-

dence regarding the delays and a judge would be

asked to decide. The trial is set for Jan. 6, 2014.

James murray/OBSeRVeR

Delays could toss trial

By martha WickettOBSeRVeR STAFF

Fatal speedboat crash:

Defence considers

application for dismissal.

Willy’s Wharf appeal stallsBy martha WickettOBSeRVeR STAFF

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