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October 30, 2013 edition of the Salmon Arm ObserverTRANSCRIPT
IndexOpinion ....................... A6View Point .................. A7Life & Times ............... A8Time Out ................... A11Sports................A16-A19Arts & Events ... A20-A23Vol. 106, No. 44, 40 pages
This weekIt’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a pumpkin. Check out the scene of flying gourds on A14.
There was cause for celebration in the SilverBacks dressing room. See A16 for more.
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A scream of a good timeThe ear-splitting shrieks of patient Hailey Munroe and the surge of the electric chair powered by mad scientist Adrien Astill greet travellers along the Spook Trail Saturday during the R.J. Haney Halloween Spooktacular. For more scenes of ghouls and goblins, check out the photo essay on page A3.
City initiates action on cell towerslAchlAn lAbere/ObServer
Policy: Concerns from Hillcrest residents prompt council to seek improved consultation.
The city of Salmon Arm will be pursuing a policy to guide the future placement of cell phone towers.
responding to letters of concern over a possible cell tower going up in the Hillcrest area near the school and residences, coun. Marg Kentel told council Monday that she had spoken with Industry canada and learned the city could have a policy that might give council more say in where
cell towers go in the community. currently, Industry canada only requires council’s input for towers taller than 15 metres.
“What he said was that we can have a guideline and they will listen to the guideline if it’s realistic,” said Kentel. “I think just even saying, OK, there’s another location, put it further back on the property so it’s further away from schools and day cares and families, that certainly would be logical.”
Kentel questioned why rogers hasn’t responded to
public complaints or the city. development Services director Kevin Pearson confirmed staff have no idea yet as to what’s being proposed.
He told council the city of langley has a policy that requires 80 per cent approval of neighbours within 500 metres of a proposed tower site in order to get the city’s endorsement.
couns. Ken Jamieson, denise reimer and Alan Harrison were enthusiastically supportive of a policy that would give council, and residents, some input.
Harrison suggested the policy target towers under 15 metres.
“I do think that if we are able to have some say on cell towers that are less than 15 metres, between 10 and 15 metres, I think we should seize that opportunity,” said Harrison, “because they’re not suitable in all places, in my view… and the lyman Hill one is a perfect example. It was in the sight line of everybody who lived on lyman Hill.”
Kentel argued council shouldn’t be complacent in this matter and said she liked the langley policy.
She suggested that rogers might back off a bit knowing the city is putting its own policy in place.
“As far as the community members that have called me, there is another location, just like there was in canoe,” she added.
Harrison suggested the policy could create a win-win situation for the city where cellular service could be provided with towers in more acceptable locations.
For more on a neighbourhood protest regarding a proposed cell tower on 20th Ave. Se, see A2.
by lachlan labereObServer STAFF
Residents protest cell tower
A small group of citizens concerned about the effects of a cell phone tower planned for the Hillcrest area blocked an easement Thursday morning, complicating access for crews trying to work at the site.
“We are doing this because we do not believe people are informed about the hazards of these towers and the frequencies and electromagnetic radiation they emit,” said Jean Olsen, who has lived in the neighbourhood since 1983. “I’m concerned about the effects on my grandchildren and all the other little people who go to school and live near here and do not have a voice.”
The Rogers Communications tower is proposed to be sited on private property on 20th Avenue SE, which is owned by Don Gona.
Hillcrest Elementary school is located a few blocks away from the Gona’s acreage property.
“In an effort to bring better service to the Salmon Arm community, Rogers has been investigating the property at 2391-20th Ave. SE. The proposal has not been finalized,” says Luiza Staniec, a spokesperson for Rogers.
While the neighbours believed the cell transmitter was being installed that morning, Gona told the Observer the crews were there to check on the siting plans. Gona said the cell tower would not be a new addition to the area, but would be placed on the current BC Hydro steel tower already in the neighbourhood.
Gona attended a meeting Wednesday night regarding the erection of cell towers in Canoe and Hillcrest. He said the meeting was entirely one-sided against cell towers.
“I’ve studied this myself and from what I have read, the emissions
are less than radio or TV towers. If I thought there would be any health problems from this, I wouldn’t live this close to it myself or allow it to be on my property.”
Gona has not yet made a deal with the company, he said, acknowledging that he would be compensated financially if the tower is placed on the hydro easement on his land. He would not comment as to when he might make a decision or when the proposed installation might take place.
“My neighbours have turned against me,” he said. “And if they are going to push me, I’m going to push back.”
Staniec also told the Observer it is too early in the process for Rogers to put a time frame on it.
The location of cell stations or towers is governed under federal legislation, administered by Industry Canada.
She confirms Rogers C o m m u n i c a t i o n s will be following the Industry Canada antenna siting and approval procedures process, which does not provide for the City of Salmon Arm to give input into where cell towers are located as long as they are under 15-metres high.
This particular cell station would be under
the 15-metre limit.If higher than 15
metres, the city would be asked for input, but the authority ultimately resides with Industry Canada, not the municipality.
Olsen would like to see the city bring in its own bylaws to require due process on proposed cell tower sites.
She says the city needs to look to other places like Toronto and Collingwood, Ont., which have placed regulatory controls on the location of cell towers through bylaws.
The protesters say they are not against cell phones or cell towers, but believe there should be more consideration and consultation about where they are located.
“I’m not saying don’t bring them in, but they need to do it where it is safer, in isolated areas.
This would be much better up on the side of the mountain,” said Olsen, gesturing to the
back side of Mt. Ida in the background.
“This is not the right place for this,” she said.
Hillcrest: Rogers Communications says agreement not finalized.By Tracy HughesOBSERVER STAFF
Statement: Neighbours of a planned cell tower at 2391-20th Ave. SE gathered Thursday morning in protest of the proposal and used their cars to limit access to the site.
Tracy HugHeS/OBSERVER
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Halloween at Haney: Kai and Lucas Hansen and mother Kim Johnston wait on the Story Book Path to share Halloween riddles with passersby Saturday during the R.J. Haney Halloween Spooktacular. A witch with sparkling hair, Megan Brooke greets travellers along the Storybook Trail. Jessica Brown waits for fortune teller Terilee Schnell to reveal what the future has in store. Nicole Blackburn and son Ryder stop to solve one of the riddles. Daisy Leard lets out a therapeutic scream for the mad doctor, Dennis Zachernuk
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BCSA says trailers pose safety risks
They may look great, but their safety is being called into question.
The BC Safety Authority (BCSA) issued a press release last Wednes-day in an attempt to locate all own-ers or occupants of “park homes” manufactured by Riske Creek Trail-ers of Tappen.
The organization says 27 Riske Creek mobile homes have been re-ported to them so far that do not comply with gas or electrical certifi-cation standards and may be hazard-ous for occupants – and they believe there may be more that have not yet been reported.
While the Riske Creek’s website advertises their homes as “hand-crafted units using superior con-struction techniques and quality materials,” BCSA says some units have not been properly certified by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), while some others have un-authorized CSA labels, or none at all.
“Uncertified installation of gas appliances creates risks such as fire or carbon monoxide poisoning, which can be fatal,” says BC Safety Authority provincial gas manager Wayne Lock.
Lock says the independent orga-nization mandated to oversee safe installation of technical systems and equipment in the province, put out a call for owners or occupants of Riske park models because owner Andy Tower has ignored repeated requests since 2011 to provide his records.
But Tower says he has addressed all deficiencies, sent required docu-mentation on units that have been worked on and “plans of attack” for what will be done in the future to rectify any other issue.
“We have new units at the shop and we are doing our due diligence to make sure anything we deliver is over and above what is required, us-ing the necessary inspection.”
He says his company, which cur-rently employs four people, has been inspected by another “reputable” in-spection company, one whose name he will not reveal.
But Lock points out that unlike most home construction where each phase of the building is inspected, manufactured homes are construct-ed in a plant and not inspected until they are in a mobile home park.
“What we’re finding with these park mobiles is that they are going out without decals, and when we don’t see them it raises questions for us,” he says, noting Tower is prohib-ited from using the CSA label. “We don’t feel the records are complete, that’s why we’re asking people who live in them to get in touch with us.”
CSA did not respond to a request last week for an explanation as to why Tower is no longer permitted to use their certification.
Nor will Tower say why he is no longer getting accreditation from CSA, but he adds he has not deliv-ered a single unit in the past year in order to make sure they comply with all safety regulations.
“All units (owners) have largely been behind me and stood behind me, and new customers have faced delays to make sure it’s right.”
Lock maintains that’s something Tower should be telling CSA and says that, in the meantime, the safety authority is asking anyone with in-formation regarding the existence of any trailer manufactured or sold by Riske Creek or Andy Tower to contact the safety authority at 1-866--566-7233, or by sending an email to [email protected].
Out of the tunnelWyatt Bland explores the hay bale tunnels at DeMille’s Farm Market Saturday during annual fall festivities that included the firing of the pumpkin canon.
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Youth arrestedPolice responded to a disturbance in the area of 30th Street NE and 15th Avenue at 11:41 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 and arrested a 16-year-old youth with 30 grams of marijuana, scales and more than 70 grams of psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, in his possession.
Mental healthWhen Salmon Arm RCMP responded to an assault in progress in the 300 block of Beatty Avenue NW at 7:21 p.m. Oct. 26, they found a business owner restraining a man who had broken a glass door in order to break into the business. The suspect, who continued to resist as he was arrested and removed from the scene, appeared to be suffering from an acute mental illness. He was taken to hospital and held for assessment.
Drug delivery stoppedAlso on October 26, the Salmon Arm RCMP General Investigation Section stopped a vehicle leaving a known drug house and arrested the female driver and male passenger of the vehicle after a search located individually-packed crystal methamphetamine. The man and woman are both well-known to police and charges of trafficking will be submitted to Crown for their approval.
car stolenA1993 burgundy Oldsmobile Cutlass was stolen from Fourth Street SE Oct. 26. The vehicle has not been recovered. Anyone having information on the stolen vehicle is asked to call Crime-Stoppers or the Salmon Arm RCMP.
Accident nets suspectPolice attended a single-vehicle accident on Sunnybrae-Canoe Point Road Saturday, Oct. 27. A vehicle had left the roadway and slid down an embankment coming to a stop on a beach. The driver of the vehicle was issued a violation ticket for driving without due care. The driver was also found to be wanted by police and was arrested for the outstanding charges.
Vandals attack schoolPolice are seeking information from the public following vandalism that occurred overnight Sunday at Shuswap Middle School. Soccer goal posts were moved, graffiti was sprayed on walls and a smashed pumpkin left in the school driveway.
Man held in drug caseAt 10:45 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, police stopped a suspicious vehicle on Third Street SE. People within the vehicle are known for drug and prop-erty crime. One person fled and was arrested by police following a foot chase. A small quantity of ecstacy was seized. This man remains in police cells and investigation continues into con-nection to local property crime matters.
Impound appeals denied
A couple whose Ford Explorer was im-pounded for 30 days under the provisions of a B.C. Government policy remain without their vehicle, despite not having broken any law themselves.
Tom and Janice Granger’s vehicle was impounded Oct. 12 af-ter they loaned the car to their grandson who, in anticipation of drink-ing, left the keys with a friend. Without his knowledge, two people took the keys and the vehicle. The driver was then pulled over by the RCMP in downtown Salmon Arm for sus-pected impaired driv-ing.
The driver received a 90-day roadside pro-hibition and the Grang-er’s vehicle was im-mediately impounded for 30 days, as part of a Ministry of Justice pro-gram that requires the immediate impound of vehicles being operated by unlicensed, unsafe or impaired drivers.
The vehicle was re-ported as taken without consent the following morning, but by then it had already been towed and impounded. In ad-dition to being without the vehicle for 30 days, it will cost the Grang-ers about $672 in tow-ing and impound stor-age fees.
They appealed to the Superintendent of Mo-tor Vehicles but were denied, although they have still not been told why. The ministry said the reasons will be presented to them by a mailed letter, which they have not yet re-ceived.
The Superintendent
of Motor Vehicle’s of-fice also declined to re-veal the reason the ap-peal was denied to the Observer, citing pri-vacy legislation. They indicated, however, that the RCMP could also authorize early re-lease of the vehicle un-der the Motor Vehicle Act. They also say the Grangers could try to recoup their financial losses through the court system.
Following com-plaints to MLA Greg Kyllo’s office and the media, the Grangers received a call at 11 a.m. on Oct. 24 from the RCMP indicating the vehicle would be released early.
But at 3 p.m., an-other call from the po-lice indicated this was a communication error between the RCMP and the Superinten-dent’s office and the vehicle would remain impounded.
The Grangers were visited by the RCMP later that evening. They say it was made clear to them that the only way the car would be released early was if their grandson agreed to make another state-ment to police and sign a document indicating he would appear in court as a witness.
Janice says her grandson, who has a prior criminal record, would not agree to ap-pear in court, and indi-cates she can not force him to do so.
“I’m at my wits’ end with all the stress of this. I feel like the RCMP are holding my car hostage. We’re the registered owners here. The only one being penalized right now is us.”
Sgt. Carlos Tet-
tolowski of the Salmon Arm RCMP denies the Granger’s allegation.
“The release of the vehicle was not can-celled because of the
grandson, nor is it necessarily tied to his appearing in court,” Tettolowski said in an
email to the Observer. “I suppose if we look
on the positive side in this, the police took an impaired driver off the road and located their
vehicle before it was seriously damaged/de-stroyed; plus, nobody was seriously injured
or killed. The cost would have been much higher if we had not.”
In the meantime, the Grangers say a fam-ily member of the pas-senger in the car has stepped forward to of-fer some financial help with a portion of the towing and impound costs. Despite this, the couple are frustrated and say this could hap-pen to anyone.
“We are totally in-nocent. The car was taken and yet we are being treated like the criminals here. It’s not right.” says Tom.
The RCMP say the investigation into the situation is continuing.
B.c. policy: Couple frustrated as their vehicle remains confiscated.
We are totally innocent. The car was taken and yet we are being treated like criminals here. It’s not right.
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Editorial
Our municipalities and province likely won’t be using Internet voting to help determine election results anytime soon. That doesn’t mean we won’t eventually be using such a method.
An independent panel tasked by Elections B.C. to study Internet voting has recommended that such a system not be implemented in time for the upcoming municipal election, nor the next B.C. vote. But it did suggest that a technical committee be struck to look into the matter further and that the legislature should support jurisdictions that wish to pursue the option in future.
The preliminary report offered less than luke-warm support for the idea. It confirms that making voting easier for people in this way has not been shown in other jurisdictions to significantly increase voter turnout. As for the large group of
people who feel their vote doesn’t matter, or don’t care enough to vote in the first place, they present another challenge altogether.
That said, the world is fast becoming an all-digital environment, where computers and cell-phones can be used for virtually any transaction.
While the report states the current system of vot-ing is trusted by those who vote, that factor will become less meaningful as time goes on and gen-erations that have grown up with technology become our communities’ core voters.
We may not have the most efficient or system-improving Internet voting experiences to draw from yet, but now is the best time to begin inves-tigating this option, to be ready for when it is the best alternative.
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Online voting an eventual reality
The fall back bluesGet ready for the annual time change this Sunday, when ev-
eryone turns their clocks back one hour before they go to bed Saturday, Nov. 2 and gets to enjoy an extra hour of sleep on Sunday. Sounds perfectly pleasurable, right.
Not if you are a parent of a young child.In that case, your liable to be heard yelling, “Fall back – to
sleep please!”People with kids don’t get an extra hour of sleep. Instead
they get to get up at 5 a.m. instead of the usual 6 a.m. and try to convince their offspring that their biological clock is all wrong and they actually need to follow the seemingly arbitrary rules set up by people generations ago.
How well do you think that goes? These are the same kids who then fight going to bed earlier
than their usual bedtime, and, especially if they can read the clock, are willing to dig in hard against any shut eye before the appointed time.
Then, instead of waking up the next morning ready for the day and pleased to have an extra hour of zzzs under your belt, you get the pleasure of dealing with sleep-deprived kids, which is a well-known recipe for crankiness.
I’m starting to think Saskatchewan has it right by bucking the trend and holding fast to one time setting, year-round. (Al-though, I suppose the winter temperatures would be enough to keep me in good old time-change B.C.)
That being said, the time change also signals another mildly depressing change. The arrival of my “polar night,” as it were.
This is when I arrive at work in the dark morning hours, to spend the lion’s share of my day in a windowless office, only to leave again once the sun has set.
For a while there, daylight becomes a pretty rare commodity and I start to resemble a mole, looking confused and blinking wildly when I venture out on a lunch hour.
While we in Salmon Arm can not, for the most part, com-plain about the severity of our Canadian winter, the lack of bright daylight in the perennially overcast Shuswap does start to make one yearn for the sunny beaches of Cancun or the des-erts of Arizona.
For my first few years in Salmon Arm I suffered through the blahs that a good dose of sun might have cured, until I hit upon the most effective winter treatment for me —cross country ski-ing.
Not only is it excellent exercise, but even better, a lot of the time when you make the drive up to the Larch Hills Ski Area, you emerge from the clouds into glorious sunshine, with the sun glistening like diamonds off the snow and the reflection sometimes so bright you might even want sunglasses.
Snowshoe trails are also an option for those who might find slippery skis daunting.
So if you are feeling the weight of the grey clouds on your shoulders this winter, try heading for the hills.
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View PointThe Observer asked: What is your Halloween costume?
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VICTORIA – With the B.C. and fed-eral governments once again struggling to climb out of deep operating deficits, it’s a good time for the release of Mark Milke’s book Tax Me, I’m Canadian.
An update of the same title published 12 years ago, the book retains the his-tory of taxes in Canada, detailing how Canada’s tax system was initially built to mimic the United States system in the late 19th century.
Beyond the history, it is mostly new material. Included are chapters on the global meltdown of 2009, the surge of pension liabilities as the baby boom-ers retire and the flawed logic behind the “Occupy” and “Idle No More” pro-tests.
Some readers will immediately note that Milke works for the Fraser Institute and was previously B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation. But the book is not just an argument for cut-ting taxes. It also dismantles persistent myths that income taxes are illegal, and launches a broadside on what Milke calls “Canada’s corporate welfare car-nival.”
Many people will be able to identify some top names in the government sub-sidy game: Bombardier, General Mo-tors, even poor old Rolls Royce Cana-da. Some will also be well aware that our supposedly tight-fisted Conserva-tive federal government has continued to pour out “regional development” and other funds to every part of the country.
But I did not know that Industry Can-ada grants were handed out to pizza parlours (including the remote pizza-starved village of Kamloops), or to help open gas stations or convenience stores in Kelowna, Vernon and Chilliwack.
Milke makes a useful point for B.C. about royalty rates for timber, natural gas and other resources. They are re-source rents, and if they are too high the tenants will move out. Reducing them
isn’t a subsidy, especially if it leads to big revenue gains as B.C.’s unconven-tional shale gas incentives have done.
On the Occupy movement: The in-famous “one per cent,” who in Canada earn $250,000 a year or more, earned 10 per cent of all income and paid 20 per cent of all taxes in 2010. The bot-tom 73 per cent of tax filers paid just 17 per cent of all taxes. About a third paid no tax at all.
On Idle No More: When Attawapis-kat Chief Teresa Spence played to the Ottawa media with her soup strike, for-mer Liberal leader Bob Rae suggested a nearby diamond mine should share more revenue.
Milke omits the substantial sup-port and employment that mine pro-vides, and glosses over the misguided blockades that disrupted that and other job-creating enterprises. But he does detail the disastrous effects of passive resource wealth bestowed on impov-erished aboriginal communities, and contrasts it with the success stories of reserves that build their own enterprises through hard work.
On public sector pensions: Milke notes that historically, public employ-ees traded higher wages for better ben-efits and job security.
Now their wages are generally high-er, and taxpayers have to cover their personal pension contributions (as a portion of those wages) as well as the employer contributions, plus the “de-fined benefit” payout, which has to be subsidized far beyond what the pension fund can support.
On the debt-financed welfare state, there are memorable observations, like this one: “For the record, the generous Quebec welfare state and its ostensibly more progressive model are paid for in part with the taxes of other Canadians; Quebec is merely the North American equivalent of Greece.”
The recent B.C. political crisis over adoption of the harmonized sales tax showed that there is too much emo-tion and too little knowledge about how taxes work. This book is a step towards addressing that.
Harper plays patronage game
Already a wireless worldPerils of entitlementThese few people protest-
ing about a planned cell tower are better off to stay inside a remote cabin where there are no communication towers.
Towers are located all around town and the prov-ince that you would have no idea existed, used for various departments of government, public and private companies for communication. Without towers planes could not fly safely, emergency personnel could not do their jobs, and teenagers would go crazy be-
cause they could not text each other.
There are thousands of them already out there, and there is going to be even more. Stay away from Hudson Avenue where Telus has their central office where unbeknownst to you, there is a cell tower on top of it.
Don’t go to the uptown Tim Hortons because there’s a tower there too. Stay away from Piccadilly Mall. Don’t go up Fly Hills or Bastion Mountain for a hike.
Two people protesting to the federal government, the corporation and a property owner isn’t going to do much.
Grab your tin foil hats and throw out your cordless phones, baby monitors, mi-crowave, cell phones, tablets, e-readers, your Chevrolet truck with OnStar, wireless Internet, computers, the list goes on. Technology is here and it isn’t going away.
Dan Faulks
Remember the Stephen Harper of yesteryear, a populist who believed in a triple-E Sen-ate and an open, accountable government?
The events of the last week have likely destroyed that im-age once and for all. But the most troubling conclusion from the scandal has largely gone unrecognized.
It is no secret that prime min-isters use patronage appoint-ments, such as Senate seats, to reward party insiders. In spite of a lot of talk about Senate re-form in his past, Harper has ap-pointed more senators than any prime minister in Canadian history. In exchange for these
plum positions, senators like Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin knew that their job was to use their public image and their or-atory skills to raise money for the Conservative party.
Mike Duffy alleges that Harper, in a secret meeting, told him, “The rules are inex-plicable to our base.” In other words, “You and I both know that senators are eligible for lavish entitlements but the optics are bad.” This would mean that Harper has known that senators can make lucra-tive expense claims and has done nothing in seven years to change the rules. Moreover, the implication is that the public,
especially Conservative voters, are too stupid to understand the complex role of a senator.
Duffy and Wallin held up their end of the bargain. They raised a lot of money and they acted as Harper’s bulldogs in the Senate and media. But when the truth of their unspo-ken quid pro quo became an embarrassment, Harper has turned on them with charac-teristic viciousness. If once he had the appearance of a man of high principles, today he looks more like the poster boy for deceit, condescension and cor-ruption in Canadian politics.
Larissa Lutjen
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Tom Fletcher
I just recently had knee sur-gery, so before and after this I walked with the aid of a walk-er, cane or crutches.
I want to say how pleased I am with the young teens of this town. They opened doors for me, picked up my cane when I dropped it and made sure not to bump me as they went past.
Twice, in different fast food restaurants, when my friends and I couldn’t find a big enough table, a pair of young gents would offer to give us their table while they moved to a smaller one.
Also, my husband and I walk past the skate park every day. At first I was nervous when a
skater would come toward me on the sidewalk, but they al-ways got off their board to pass me, smiling and often offering a “Good day.”
It’s wonderful to live in a community where the youth are so caring and polite.
Darleen Greentree
Teens put good manners on display
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FROM THE
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1913 The city electric power plant was turned on and the � rst movie was shown at the Salmon Arm Opera house. Prices for this were 20 cents for adults and 10 cents for children.
1923 Winnifred Bishop, Lily Page, Annie Prescott, Mary Helen Glasgow and Stuart McGuire entertained at a club dance held in the Institute Hall.
1933 The Liberals under T.D. Patullo, swept to power in a provincial election. The old Conservative party was temporarily wiped out of existence, not hav-ing one representative among the elected. R.W. Bruhn, who ran as an independent, was returned in this district.Election results were posted at the Observer as quickly as they came in, and a crowd gathered in the muddy street to await results. Through the courtesy of C.C. Barker, a large Deforest Crosley radio was placed in the upstairs room of the Observer and provided splendid music all evening.
1943 Mrs. S.E. Beech received word that her son Pte. S.E. (Ted) Beech had been wounded in action. He was in the Sea-forth Highlanders. In a cable to his mother he stated that the wound was not serious.Capt. A.B. Ritchie of the Canadian Forestry Corps, Sgt. L. Robinson, LAC Bob Hautala and Jack Hautala were home on leave.
1953 An increase of three cents an hour across the board went to all lumber employees of Salmon Arm Farmers Ex-change, Salmon Arm Planing Mills Ltd. and Saskatchewan Federated Co-operatives Ltd., Canoe Sub-local 1-417.Hon. W.K. Kiernan, minister of agriculture, spoke at the annual meeting of the Farmers’ Institutes at Grindrod. He stressed the neces-sity of a strong farmers’ organization.
LIFE & TIMES
It was a labour of love that took more than a year to complete, but
Salmon Arm Secondary student Reese Ambler is now the author of his very own comic book, The Ancient Wars.
The colourfully illustrated 10-chap-ter comic book is about an evil rabbit who wants to take over the world. The hero, Link, with help from his friends, stops the “Mad Bunny” and sends him off to prison.
Ambler who is in the Individual Achievement Program at SAS, has always enjoyed creating and drawing characters. One day Karen Beggs, a certi� ed education assistant (CEA) in the class, suggested that he take his creations and make them into a book, which he could share with others.
The idea picked up steam and pretty soon Reese’s teacher, Norma Jean Gomme was working with computer teacher Chris Harrington to set it up so his hand-drawn pencil sketches and writing could be scanned into a computer. Then Reese would go to the computer lab and bring the drawings to life with colour. In order to do this he had to learn to use a computer pro-gram called Photoshop. It is very de-tailed work and Reese said it took him up to a couple of months per page.
“Reese is a wonderful artist and is good on the computer,” commented Gomme. “Mr. Harrington has said that Reese can take computers ev-ery semester throughout the high
school years. Reese is learning lots about working with computers and gaining skills that he can use in the workforce.”
Harrington is very impressed with Reese’s work and dedication. “Reese is an amazing young man, his perse-verance, imagination and talent have enabled him to create a wonderful story. Reese’s book is truly one of the most amazing examples of a student’s work that I have seen in 22 years as a teacher.”
Gomme comments Harrington is a master at discovering a student’s indi-vidual passion and bringing that pas-sion into a personalized curriculum
in his digital communications class. “This allows students with a wide va-riety of needs to learn and succeed in a fully integrated classroom.”
“Reese is showing genuine pride in his accomplishment, and has been very happy to share his book with friends, peers and staff at SAS,” she adds.
Four copies of the comic were pub-lished, with one going to the library, one staying in the IAP classroom at SAS and two for Reese.
Reese adds that he is thinking about doing a sequel to the comic book – Ancient Wars Part II: The Mad Bunny Returns!
By Alice HuculOBSERVER CONTRIBUTOR
Addition to the collection: Teacher-librarian Tammi MacAulay accepts a copy of Salmon Arm Secondary student Reese Ambler’s comic book for inclusion in the school’s library collection.
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Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes is standing firmly behind Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper.
Embattled Senator Mike Duffy has alleged that Harper was direct-ly involved in discus-sions around travel and living expenses. Harp-er has stated a former employee acted alone when Duffy was pro-vided $90,000.
“The prime minis-ter has been up front all along,” said Mayes after the Conservative
caucus meeting in Ot-tawa Wednesday.
“The prime minister has never said, ‘The perception wasn’t good or we have to do this for public scrutiny.’ He said, ‘If there is inap-propriate spending, it must be repaid.’”
Mayes insists that a Conservative prior-ity has been expanding transparency within government.
“People have to re-member whose gov-ernment uncovered this and asked the RCMP to investigate,” he said.
“The general pub-lic recognizes that the
prime minister has said we are going to make government more ac-countable and we’re doing that.”
Duffy’s allegations have led to rapid-fire criticism from the NDP and the Liberals and the controversy has domi-nated national media. However, Mayes says he isn’t concerned that the reputation of the federal government is being damaged.
“I don’t think we should all be broad-brushed. The opposi-tion is saying we are all bad guys and that’s not true,” he said.
Prepared for snowAsh Brooks and Zev Tiefenbach look over the cross-country skis still available at the popular Larch Hills Ski Club Ski and Board Swap Saturday at the Gathering Place.
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Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes is standing firmly behind Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper.
Embattled Senator Mike Duffy has alleged that Harper was direct-ly involved in discus-sions around travel and living expenses. Harp-er has stated a former employee acted alone when Duffy was pro-vided $90,000.
“The prime minis-ter has been up front all along,” said Mayes after the Conservative
caucus meeting in Ot-tawa Wednesday.
“The prime minister has never said, ‘The perception wasn’t good or we have to do this for public scrutiny.’ He said, ‘If there is inap-propriate spending, it must be repaid.’”
Mayes insists that a Conservative prior-ity has been expanding transparency within government.
“People have to re-member whose gov-ernment uncovered this and asked the RCMP to investigate,” he said.
“The general pub-lic recognizes that the
prime minister has said we are going to make government more ac-countable and we’re doing that.”
Duffy’s allegations have led to rapid-fire criticism from the NDP and the Liberals and the controversy has domi-nated national media. However, Mayes says he isn’t concerned that the reputation of the federal government is being damaged.
“I don’t think we should all be broad-brushed. The opposi-tion is saying we are all bad guys and that’s not true,” he said.
Prepared for snowAsh Brooks and Zev Tiefenbach look over the cross-country skis still available at the popular Larch Hills Ski Club Ski and Board Swap Saturday at the Gathering Place.
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Mayes backs up Harper on growing Senate scandalby richard rolkebLACK PRESS
Time OuTARIES (March 21-April 19): Your impulsive nature may come to the fore this week where you will want to make a sudden change, which could be against your initial principles. An important authority or father figure will enter into the picture. You seek an ultimate solution for personal liberation. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you are one of those Taurus natives that are still holding onto their past, then you know who or what you need to let go of if you want to progress in life. You may be stuck into an outdated pattern that simply won’t allow you to find yourself. It’s time for some closure.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are in the quest for finding out how much of your personal life you are willing to share with the outer world. Sometimes, you may feel divided between devoting yourself entirely to your private affairs and towards how much you could actually reveal to others. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may seek total liberation from a romantic or even a business partnership that seems to keep a tight rein on you. Pressures are high on the career front, especially where your image depends on someone whom you have entrusted your full loyalty to.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may feel retrained and overwhelmed by the ongoing stress at work or due to a higher than normal amount of chores in your everyday life. This tension seems to get to you and your stress levels are mounting. Do the best of your abilities without surpassing your capacity levels.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are roaming around like a busy bee. Your social sphere skyrockets while your romance sector may be throwing you some curveballs this week. Don’t play their game and instead, insist on an open, truthful, heart-to-heart connection.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may start receiving uninvited advices from your family. One of your parental figures has more than one thing to say about your current union and you strive hard to please both parties. Don’t let others influence you or dictate how to run your own life. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You need a serious assessment where your lifestyle is concerned. You may need to implement new procedures, new methods or just a new fresh thinking into how you could easy your everyday activities. It’s time to bring a more efficient streamline and a new attitude at work. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may have become overly obsessed about making money or you may have become totally indifferent about it. Don’t get discouraged so easily and give yourself a chance to express yourself through a creative endeavour. Artistic skills will come to your rescue.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are no longer who you used to be and others can easily observe that. You have undergone through a transformational journey that has changed your entire identity. Your role within your personal life and in your domestic realm will push you alterate yourself as well.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Search for new ways to bring extra closure and healing into your psyche. With a new set of thinking and a new way of seeing things, you may strive to successfully to implement some unconventional procedures into your wellbeing. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Fluctuations on the monetary front may cause you some headaches especially if you are depending on someone else’s support and continuous devotion. You may feel that your dreams are stagnating due to a lesser than expected flow of money.
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Facing down a dragon: Marilyn Harford, a partner in Finch and Company LLP, won a contest to ask a question of business guru Arlene Dickinson.
Curiosity pays off for accountant
Not all dragons are scary. Just ask Marilyn Harford.
A partner in Finch and Company LLP on Alexander Avenue, Harford was one of five winners of Sco-tiabank’s national “Q&Arlene Contest.”
Her question to Ar-lene Dickinson, mem-ber of the TV program Dragon’s Den was: “how do you effec-tively get through the files on your desk; with each one being equally important, which one do you complete first?”
It won Harford a trip to Toronto in Septem-ber to meet Dickinson, an entrepreneur, TV personality, author and Scotiabank Business Champion.
“Basically, what she said is, “which one is going to give you
the best return, $500 as opposed to $5?’” says Harford, noting it was something she had pondered before becoming a partner in Finch and Company. “You want to foster relationships with the best return on the mon-ey.”
Harford was one of five winners and her question one of 4,000 submitted to the Sco-tiabank contest that al-lowed entrants to ask up to three questions that were relevant to the success of their small business.
Harford, who took colleague Anne Casey along as her guest, also had the opportunity to be part of a roundtable discussion with the dragon herself and the other four winners.
This gave the win-ners the opportunity to share their challenges and best practices for
growing a successful small business.
Finch and Company LLP provides account-ing services for small businesses in the com-munity.
Services include bookkeeping, file com-pilations, review en-gagements and audits of not-for-profit orga-nizations as well as corporate and personal tax returns.
Harford began her career as a receptionist and book clerk, mov-ing into file prep then personal and corporate tax preparation before moving to Williams Lake, where she earned her CGA through cor-respondence courses.
Harford began work-ing with Allan Finch as a partner this year.
“It’s very excit-ing and rewarding,” she says of her career. “And that’s what I was looking for.”
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Industrial Park tax break reviewedThe possibility of a
tax incentive for the Salmon Arm Industrial Park is being investi-gated.
At the city’s oct. 21 meeting of the devel-opment and planning services committee, Mayor Nancy Cooper reported that econom-ic Development has begun researching a tax incentive as part of its five-year action plan.
She said she would like council’s view on such an incentive.
Councillors agreed they would like to hear a preliminary report in order to have some of their questions an-swered.
“Providing a tax incentive in the short term, yes, we want to say we’re open for business, but getting that strategy in place
will take some time. There is also the prop-erty at the west end of town… There are a lot of questions, it’s easy to say, yes, let’s do a tax exemption,” remarked Coun. Chad eliason.
Cooper said she would work with Lana Fitt of economic De-velopment to prepare a preliminary report for council.
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Sonic pumpkin boom(Above) Dan Hopkins and Glen Paul of Otter Lake Farms release another pumpkin projectile from the Pumpkinator Saturday at De Mille’s Farm Market. (Below) Cousins Lucas Dekelver and Kayden Dekelver cover their ears while watching the pumpkin cannon fire another gourd off into a big field.
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Gorner, the teen who died this summer in a workplace accident at Dinoflex, has es-tablished a memorial scholarship fund with the shuswap Commu-nity Foundation.
once the capital of the fund reaches $10,000, income earned on the
Fund will be disbursed annually to the board of education of school District # 83 for a bur-sary which will be pro-vided on an annual ba-sis to a Grade 12 student attending salmon Arm senior secondary who, among other things, demonstrates talent in the arts, particularly the
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Almost half of the material going into the Salmon Arm landfill should be going else-where.
A two-week waste audit performed by Tri Environmental Con-sulting Inc. Sept. 3 to 18 at four Columbia Shuswap Regional Dis-trict reveals that while there has been some improvement since the 2006 waste audit, the landfill is still at risk of contamination and a shortened lifespan be-cause of items that don’t belong in the landfill.
Columbia Shuswap Regional District waste management co-ordina-tor Ben Van Nostrand said the recent study looked at loads from the residential curbside program, residential self-haul, the industrial commercial sector and the rural transfer sta-tions.
Auditors took 26 samples, each weigh-ing about 100 kg of the various loads that arrive at the landfill.
“They go through that with a fine tooth comb, breaking it down into more than 100 primary, secondary and tertiary categories,” says Van Nostrand,
“Overall, when you look at all the categories and streams that came in, about 24 per cent of that is compostable organics. We need to move ahead with a compostable food waste system.”
Paper and plastic at 17.4 per cent and 17.2 per cent respectively were the next largest categories.
Collectively, paper
and compostable organ-ics form almost half of the waste stream arriv-ing at the Salmon Arm landfill.
Building materials such as dirt were the net largest contributor at 9.8 per cent, most of which was self-hauled, followed by electronic waste at 9.1 per cent.
While electronic waste was found in all waste streams, the greatest quantity was from the industrial, commercial and institu-tional sector (ICI).
Household hazardous wastes were also found in all waste streams, arriving at the landfill, primarily from residen-tial curb side program, ICI and residential self-haul, mainly consisting of paint and automotive products.
“There appears to be higher proportions of compostable organics in the residential curb-side program, building materials in the resi-
dential self-haul sector, electronic waste in ICI, bulky objects in mate-rial brought in from transfer stations and paper in the ICI and res-idential curb program,” says Tri Environmental Consulting’s executive summary. “The waste composition for resi-dential self-haul and ICI sectors show a larger standard deviation for all primary waste cat-egories than the resi-dential curb side and transfer station sectors.”
Van Nostrand says the findings are in line with other CSRD land-fills and other jurisdic-tions.
CSRD plans to re-view its 2009 solid waste management plan next year and will in-volve the public.
“We want to see how the CSRD is doing with the five-year review of the solid plan,” says Van Nostrand, pointing out the biggest gain will be through the organic
waste sector, something that will coincide nicely with Materials Manage-ment BC taking over curb side collection of printed paper and pack-aging.
“We’ll potentially be putting the savings towards a curbside or-ganic waste system, with the hopes of imple-menting something like that in 2015.”
Van Nostrand says the regional district will also work with agencies to better capture items included in various stewardship programs.
“Electronic power tools and batteries are free to take back to Bill’s Bottle Depot. There’s no excuse,” he says. “They’re causing contamination at the landfill and shorten its life.”
Van Nostrand sees a need for more public education and audits of incoming loads.
Is it an education thing or is it an enforce-
ment issue?” he asks. “We try to educate, educate, educate, but at the end of the day, sometimes monetary penalties are needed to change the behaviour.”
The full report will be available at www.csrd.bc.ca.
Recyclables crowding landfillBy Barb BrouwerOBSERVER STAFF
Collecting data: Environmental technicians Christine Tether and Reece Anderson sort through refuse while environmental biologist Leandro Torrella makes an inventory during a waste audit conducted at the Salmon Arm landfill site.
James murray/OBSERVER
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SportsSilverBacks bring their A gamePair of wins: Coach Troy Mick praises effective power play and defence going on the attack.
With as many as five affiliate players in the lineup this past weekend, Salmon Arm SilverBacks head coach Troy Mick wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.
What he got was outstanding performances from the young additions and two important wins on home ice with a 4-2 triumph Saturday over Penticton and a 5-2 victory Sunday over Merritt.
Max Becker, moved to the top line, scored on a penalty shot 5:32 into the first period against the Centennials and the ’Backs never trailed. Alex Jewell earned first star after scoring two goals in the second period, including the game-winner.
Affiliates Paul Biegel, Brady Crabtree, Logan Mostat, Rory Neary and Aiden Silzer-Hooker all saw action and acquitted themselves well.
“We brought in some good AP players (affiliates),” said Mick. “I though all of them were good. Neary got his first BCHL point, we had local in Mostat and Biegel from the (Junior B) North Okanagan Knights played well on the back end.”
Top goalscorer Alex Gillies has been summoned to the Team Canada West selection camp in advance of the 2013 World Junior A Challenge so lines were adjusted a bit but rather than suffer, the team’s performance was as sound as at any point this season.
“This weekend was probably
our most complete weekend of the year,” said Mick. “Against Penticton, they’re a very complete hockey team year in year out but that was probably our best 60 minutes, start to finish.”
Power-play goals from Thomas Plese in the first and Evan Anderson in the second gave them a 2-1 edge after 40 minutes, with defenceman Mark Whitely providing the winner in the third and the final tally from Landon Smith. Mitch Ferguson, another blueliner and recent commit to the University of Vermont, assisted on both man-advantage goals. That production highlights two positives for the club – power-play effectiveness and offence from the defencemen.
“If there’s one thing we want to continue to work on, it’s the power play,” said Mick. “It’s nice to go 2-for-3 on the power play; we’re just keeping it simple. You can’t score if you don’t get pucks on net and I think we were trying to be a bit too cute before.”
With the graduation of Shane Hanna and Brayden Sherbinin last season, Mick is pleased with the current defence corps’ ability to chip in on the attack.
“We challenged Ferguson to take on that role and he’s shown it,” said Mick. “He’s now at that go-to level. Blake Box as our captain has come a long way in that too, Brendan Kennedy, Andrew Farny has been better than advertised and a nice surprise is 1996-born Cole
McCaskill from Kamloops. He’s been really good… getting lots of ice time and being rewarded.”
Mick is also pleased his charges rewarded the fans at Shaw Centre as well.
“We’re at the top (of the Interior Division) in scoring goals; we’ve got to be better at not letting them in, but we want to be entertaining,” said Mick. “We want to get more fans in the rink and I think we’re generating more excitement. We believe in this community.”
Salmon Arm visits Vernon Friday at 7 p.m. and hosts Victoria Saturday, also a 7 p.m. start.
Wins: (Top) Jack Berezan celebrates as he leaves the ice af-ter the ’Backs victory over Merritt. (Above) Max Becker gets in front of a Vees forward during the 4-2 win over Penticton.
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Girl powerThe Salmon Arm female Midget Tier 1 team had a solid 3-0 win over Kelowna on the weekend. The team is prepping for a trip to Richmond for a tournament this weekend.
Froehlich’s a keeperA first-place finish in the regular season has translated into Salmon Arm Secondary grad and TRU WolfPack keeper Travis Froehlich being named best goalie in the PACWest playoffs.
Last bike raceThe Shuswap Bike club presents Shuswap Cross 2013, the final race of the BC Interior Cross Series, on Sunday, Nov. 10. Registration starts at 9 a.m., B Race at 10 a.m. Kids Race (under 12) at 10:45. A Race at 11:15 a.m. Kids race free and run bikes/pedal bikes are all welcome.
Hybrid hockey clinicSalmon Arm Minor Hockey hosts a hybrid clinic Nov. 2 at Enderby’s A.L. Fortune School. All those interested in coaching at the recreation level in Salmon Arm must pre-reg-ister BC Hockey (see website) prior to attend-ing. There will be an on-ice session as well. Take proper attire, including helmet. Contact co-ordinator Darby Boyd at 250-833-1006 for further information, or contact the minor hockey office at 250-832-0095.
Curl for a causeThe Canadian Cancer Society’s 18th Annual Fun Spiel, Black and White, takes place Sun-day, Nov. 3 at 9 a.m. Entry forms are available at the Salmon Arm Curling Club or the Cana-dian Cancer Society office in Askew’s Mall. For more information, phone Val McKay at 250-804-0232.
Trail talkA Shuswap Trail stewardship planning work-shop and celebration takes place Saturday, Nov. 9 from 1:30 to 7 p.m. Location is yet to be announced. For information, call Phil at 250-804-1964.
Snowmobile clubSalmon Arm Snowblazers meet Nov. 14 in the back room of the Hideaway Pub. The meetings are open to anyone interested in snowmobiling or volunteering to help out. Call Robin at 250-838-2668 for more information.
Jersey challengeThe top politicians from each of the 16 cities with BCHL franchises are taking part in a jer-sey challenge. Participating mayors will wear the jersey of the team that wins the 2014 Fred Page Cup at a subsequent council meeting.
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running on all cylindersEmmy Sim sprints along a track in an Oct. 16 race. At Valleys on Oct. 22, two Salmon Arm cross-country runners were in the top 20 for both boys and girls. Glynis Sim was sixth and Emmy Sim 20th, while Jonathan Bakker was 14th and Alexander Corbett 20th. Both senior teams finished third, qualifying them for provincials next week. The Junior boys team was first overall.
’Tips on upswingBantam Tier 2 Silvertips posted back-to-back
games against their rivals from Kelowna on the weekend. Saturday’s game started out a little slow but picked up as the game progressed.
The ’Tips were down 2-0 at the start of the sec-ond period and slid to a 3-1 deficit at the end of the frame. The energy level rose in the third but the ’Tips gave up the game in a 5-3 finish. Goals for Salmon Arm came from Evan Hughes, Trent Thompson and Tyler Chartier.
The Silvertips showed up for Sunday’s rematch with a vengeance. The first period was marked by penalties, giving the boys an opportunity to show off their power-play skills. The second period brought a couple of unanswered goals against the team and the period ended 3-2 for the Tier 2 Bantams. The battle ensued in the third, with a late-game goal for Kelowna tying the game.
peewee Tier 3The A&W Peewee Tier 3 Silvertips played a pair
of home games at the Shaw Centre on the weekend, ending up with a 6-1 loss to Kelowna and a 10-7 win over Vernon.
On Saturday, the ’Tips fell behind 2-0 in the first period. The team gave up another goal just 44 sec-onds into the second frame, but got on the board when Ethan Lans tapped in a feed from Caden Sherman. That would be as close as the ’Tips would get, falling to the visitors 6-1.
Sunday’s game versus Vernon ended in a decisive win. A blocked shot breakaway deke for Lans came just before a Kai Fazan point shot set up by Henry Lenarduzzi and Damian Earl. Dominic Barbosa’s hat trick and Taylor Howard’s first of the game rounded out the scoring for the Tips in the second. Tyler Bushell had a strong game for the home team with three assists.
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Shuswap swimmers began the season with remarkable results on the weekend.
Thirty-two Shuswap Swimming members travelled to Penticton to attend the KISU Iron Pentathlon at the Pent-icton community cen-tre.
Some 280 swimmers from the B.C. Interior attended the three-day event, which marked the season opener for the Salmon Arm-based team.
The challenging meet format gave participants the opportunity to swim in 15 events and to be scored in three sepa-rate pentathlons of five events each according to their total time in those events.
The events were in each of the five swim-ming disciplines, but-terfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and individual medley.
Ethan Skofteby, 10, led the 10 and under cat-egory, placing second overall with second-place finishes in each of the three pentathlons.
Skofteby is currently ranked second in Can-ada in the 200-metre
butterfly for 10-year-old boys.
Lauren Gridley-Haak was the top Shuswap performer for the girls in this age category, and is also currently ranked second in Canada for 200m butterfly for 10-year-old girls.
Chantel Jeffrey, 12, won all three pentath-lons for the 11 to 12 girls category on the way to early season rankings of number 1 in
Canada in six events. Jacob Rambo, 11,
placed second overall for the boys and is cur-rently ranked first in Canada in the 200m butterfly.
Stephen Moore, 11, placed third in Friday’s pentathlon and won the breaststroke events in impressive fashion, currently ranking first in Canada in the 100m and 200m breaststroke events.
Jeffrey and Moore have stepped up their game moving from the Sockeye summer pro-gram into year-round swimming.
In the 13 to 14-year-old category, Paige Coutlee, 14, placed third; Morgan Ras-muson,13, placed seventh; and Lauren Hemburrow, 13, placed eighth.
On the boys’ side, Ethan Quilty, 14,
placed third; Ty Web-ster-Locke, 13, placed fourth; and Olin Mosh-er, 13, placed ninth.
Bree Cooper, 16, won the women’s category and posted times rank-ing her number 1 in Canada for 16-year-old girls in the 50 and 200m butterfly.
On the men’s side, Bryce Molder, 15, and Josh Rota, 16, placed sixth and seventh re-spectively. Both Molder and Rota are recent transfers from summer swimming in Revel-stoke.
“This was an out-standing debut of our fall season,” said head coach Jana Montgom-ery. “It is a very en-couraging start, and the swimmers are feeling confident.”
Shuswap Swimming next competes in a dual meet versus the Sum-merland ORCA Swim Club, at 10 a.m. Sun-day, Nov. 3 in the SAS-CU Recreation Centre Pool.
Swimmers prove mettle at meet
Recognition: Swimmer Chantel Jeffrey receives a certificate of achievement from Mayor Nancy Cooper during a presentation by city council honouring her success in the Aug. 13 provincial cham-pionships.
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When Randy Brooks joined the Shuswap As-sociation for Rowing and Paddling (SARP) he couldn’t have imag-ined that one day he would be competing in the world’s most presti-gious outrigger canoe-ing event, the Molokai Hoe Race, and standing on a podium to receive a bronze medal in the Golden Master’s divi-sion.
Brooks’ team, Kana-ka Canucks, did the 42 miles of open ocean from Molokai to Waiki-ki beach on Oahu in six hours, 25 minutes.
“Most teams paddle all year round and prac-tise all year round. As a complete team we never paddled together until a week before the race. That’s the reason we’re so proud of what we did.”
The winning team came in at four hours, 57 minutes, and the last one landed in eight hours.
“Out of the 99 boats 35 came in behind us. For a seniors’ master crew, we’re the oldest guys there. The Golden Masters are 60-plus. To have 35 younger crews come in after us – it felt really good.”
Brooks’ team of 12 was made up of top Ca-nadian paddlers, some former Team Canada members, as well an American from New York and two from Hawaii, including Ki-mokeo Kapahulehua, an elder who teaches paddling and canoe cul-ture. Brooks had met Kimokeo when went to Hawaii a year ago for a paddling clinic.
“My wife, Michelle, and I had gone to Maui and spent a couple of weeks. I spent every day with Kimokeo learn-ing to become a better paddler. He taught me about the history of Ha-waiian culture, being one with nature and the water. It made me more confident and gave me an inner strength in ‘the big water.’”
At the time, Brooks asked Kimokeo if he
would consider put-ting a team together for the Molokai race. “He never really re-sponded to that. When we came back I sent him a couple of SARP T-shirts and emailed him. He emailed back and said ‘Let’s go for it. See what you can do for crew members from Canada and what you can’t put together, I will from here.’”
Brooks had agreed to be logistics manager while a paddler in Cal-gary was organizing a team but he had a lot of training to do.
“Only three of us had never done the Molokai before. Some of them had done it six, seven, eight times, and they’d come in second a cou-ple of times but never first.”
Brooks had started doing 10-kilometre pad-dles and these quickly turned into 20 km and then 40 km. He would paddle to Sicamous and back, working at keeping up his pace and stamina. He went in a few team races around B.C., always ranking in the top few spots.
The race began at 7:50 a.m. Each of the 99 canoes had an es-cort boat to carry food, water and extra crew members. Crews in the 50 years or younger cat-
egory had nine mem-bers, those over 50 have 12. Six paddle at a time and when they’re ready to change, they give a 10-minute signal. The escort boat races ahead and those crew mem-bers jump into the wa-ter and position them-selves. When the canoe comes alongside, they grab on and get in as the others go in the water.
“We tried not to change that often; we were changing about every hour.”
As it happened, Brooks was in the canoe for the last part of the race. Those last miles, they gave it their all.
“When we crossed the finish line, I had nev-er been more drained in my life. There was nothing left. I was to-tally numb.”
But as they crossed they heard the announc-ers call out “Team Can-ada” and that made it all worthwhile. “It was pretty cool; it was one of those moments I’ll never forget.”
Even though they were the oldest racers, they’re not ready to rest on their laurels, or even rest at all.
“We’re already start-ing to talk about next year – what we can do to be better and faster. I’ve already started to train again.”
Bronzed in MolokaiOutrigger canoe: Randy Brooks paddles to a medal.
Paddling effort: Outriggers line the Hawaiian beach be-fore the race, which was 42 miles from Molokai to Waikiki. (Right) Randy Brooks, second from left, celebrates with his team.
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A group of talented young musicians has taken their show on the road for the experience of playing in an orchestra.
Carmen, Andrew, Cherish, Madelyn and Nathan Stoney, along with Lara May, Holly and Linden McCallum are all members of the Youth Symphony of the Okanagan (YSO), which practises weekly in Kelowna. Robyn and Antony DeWet are also players in the YSO, but are currently out of the country.
In the Stoney family, Carmen plays the viola, learning it speci� cally to � ll a need in the orchestra. Cherish is a vio-linist, Madelyn a cellist, while Andrew and Nathan play percussion. In the Mc-Callum family, Lara May is a violinist, Holly a cellist and Linden plays percus-sion. The boys all play piano, but have transferred their skills to percussion, which was needed in the orchestra.
“The piano really helps with the or-chestra, because some of the most dif-� cult things are reading the music and knowing the proper timing,” says Lin-den. “You also have to be able to switch instruments, which is not something you do with most of the other instru-ments.”
The young Shuswap musicians are passionate about their craft and the ability to play in a group setting, de-spite the need to travel down the valley.
“It’s a lot different than any other type of music I’ve done.
Usually it is just you on your own, but to hear all the different instruments all together, it becomes like a team sport. You work together and you don’t want
to let the other play-ers down,” says vio-l i n i s t Cherish, 17.
The group of Shuswap musicians is mixed, some have played in the orches-tra in previous years, for oth-ers, this is their � rst season. All, however, are pleased with the chance to play in such a professional setting and in larger venues, like Kelow-na’s performing arts centre.
“Because of the repertoire, you have to push yourself out of your usual comfort zone, to take on music that you could never attempt as a soloist,” says cellist Madelyn, 13.
Under the direction of Dennis Col-pitts and Rosemary Thomson, each member of the YSO learns pieces to be played by the orchestra, as well as receiving specialized teaching in their particular instrument. In order to par-ticipate, each musician must take part in an annual “meet the conductor” ses-sion, where the conductors listen to each musician and make determina-tions about their role in the YSO.
“It is run very much like a profes-sional orchestra. Rosemary and Dennis
do a wonderful job with challenging each musician to take their skills up a notch,” says Carmen, one of the most experienced members, who is also a registered music teacher.
One of the most popular aspects of the program for the Shuswap students is the side-by-side program, which pairs the young musicians with their counterpart player from the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra. This includes practice sessions with the professional players, as well as the opportunity to perform certain selections at special Okanagan Symphony performances.
“To hear the professional players right next to you, they know the music
so well and can show you things, dif-ferent bow strokes or ways to extend yourself in your music that you never would have got if you learned the mu-sic yourself,” says Lara May.
This is the youth orchestra’s 25th an-niversary and it will open the season with performances on Nov. 3 in Kelow-na at 2 p.m. and in Vernon at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door and are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and youth and $5 for children 12 and under. More information is available at www.youthsymphonyokanagan.com.
Musical collaboration: Carmen Stoney, Lara May McCallum, Holly McCallum, Cherish Stoney, Andrew Stoney, Madelyn Stoney and Linden McCallum are part of the Youth Symphony of the Okanagan.
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THURSDAY, OCT. 31HALLOWEEN DOWNTOWN – The annual Treat Trail runs in the downtown area
from 3 to 5 p.m. The Mall at Piccadilly hosts a treat trail of their own at the same time.
SPOOKY TRAIL – The Silver Creek Community Park will be the site of the popular annual spooky trail and � reworks from 6 to 9 p.m.
FAMILY MASQUERADE – this all-ages family event takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. with obstacle course, games, candy and prizes for the best dressed Bible character costumes at Five Corners Church 3160 10 Ave. SE.
HORROR PICTURE – Student Life Committee sponsors of Okanagan College presents a free screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight at the Salmar Classic. Free but take donations for the food bank.
FRIDAY, NOV. 1FINE DINING – First United Church Men’s Club annual turkey dinner takes
place in two settings – 5 and 6 p.m. Tickets at $15 each are available at the church of� ce.
SILVER SCREEN – The Shuswap Film Society presents the Reel Weekend Film Festival Friday through Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Salmar Classic. Tickets at $7 each or $35 for a gold pass are available at Wearabouts.
SATURDAY, NOV. 2DINE & BID – Ducks Unlimited hosts their annual banquet and auction at 7
p.m. at Elks Hall on North Broadview, featuring live and silent auctions and raf� es. Tickets are $35 and include a book of raf� e tickets.
SUNDAY, NOV. 3BALLET – Live via satellite from London’s Covent Garden, see the Royal
Ballet’s performance of Don Quixote at 1 p.m. at the Salmar Grand. Note the change of venue this month.
SOUL MUSIC – The Salmon Arm Gospel Music Coffeehouse takes place at 2 p.m. (also on Nov. 17) at the Seniors’ Drop in Centre on Hudson Avenue. Admission is $2.
MONDAY, NOV. 4BEE BUZZ– The Shuswap Bee Club meets at 7 p.m. in the Askew’s Uptown
Community Room. The club meets on the � rst Monday of the month from September to May. Call Beckie at 250- 679-8861 for more information.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6SAFETY FIRST – Salmon Arm Community Response Network presents Let’s
Be Safe Together to mark National Seniors Safety Week from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Seniors’ Fifth Avenue Activity Centre, featuring free lunch, guest speakers, door prizes. To reserve a seat, RSVP by Nov. 4 to Marilyn at 250-832-9616.
WRITE STUFF – Shuswap Writers’ Group meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the boardroom at the Mall at Piccadilly. Drop-ins are welcome. Call Shirley at 250-835-4544.
THURSDAY, NOV. 7COUNTRY CALLING – Shuswap Music Hall presents Canadian country star
Brett Kissel with special guest Jesse Mast at 7 p.m. at the SASCU Rec Centre. Advance pricing is available until Nov. 2. For tickets, call 250-832-4044, or stop by the SASCU Rec Centre.
FRIDAY, NOV. 8WILD RIDE – Larch Hills XC Jr Race Team presents Warren Miller’s Ticket To
Ride at 7 p.m. at the Salmar Classic, a fundraiser for the more than 60 local Nordic racers. Tickets are available at Skookum Cycle and Ski. Door prizes.
SOCIETY SCREENING – Shuswap Film Society presents The Spectacular Now, a coming-of-age � lm, at 7:30 p.m. at the Salmar Classic.
SATURDAY, NOV. 9DINNER MUSIC – Shelby Babakioff performs from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at An
Diamo Italian Restaurant; also on Friday, Nov. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Chiang Mai Orchid Restaurant and Saturday, Nov. 16 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Shopper’s Drug Mart.
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Contest to challenge studentsAt noon on Saturday, Nov. 16, scores of budding
authors will gather on all four Okanagan College campuses to test their writing talents in the fourth annual Three-Hour Short Story Contest.
Open to students in grades 11 and 12, and to all current Okanagan College students, contestants are given 180 minutes to create an original literary piece that incorporates a word, phrase, or object re-vealed at the start of contest.
“Having the surprise element meant I couldn’t plan,” says Samantha Wex, last year’s winner. “I went in cold, and got to really see what I can do. It was fun.”
Five prizes are up for grabs. Each campus de-clares a regional winner who receives a $250 Okan-agan College tuition credit. A grand prize winner is then selected from among the four regional win-ners and awarded an additional $250 tuition credit, plus a chapbook publication of their story created
by Okanagan College Writing and Publishing di-ploma program students and Kalamalka Press.
“The contest gets students excited about writ-ing,” said contest organizer and Okanagan College professor Sean Johnston. “It’s an act of courage for many of the younger students to take part, but they walk away from the experience happy and sur-prised at what they were able to produce in such a short period of time.”
“The contest is also an introduction to the great diversity and strength of the college’s creative writ-ing faculty,” said Johnston. “We have a program-ming and instructional focus on creative writing, with many successful working authors teaching university transfer courses and the two-year Writ-ing and Publishing program.”
Registration is free. Visit www.okanagan.bc.ca/3hourwriting to sign up before the Friday, Nov. 15 deadline.
Fun friendsSherry Everett and Jean Walker of Jenuyne Treasures peer through a pile of Walker’s creations while chatting with a potential customer during the Royal Purple Craft Fair held Saturday at Elks Hall.
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Do you have an unusual approach to home repairs?
Do your “improve-ments” raise everyone else’s eyebrows?
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Mountain Road is producing an HGTV Canada Special to be hosted by Steve Pat-terson of CBC Radio’s The Debaters.
The special will be a celebration of the completely unique and utterly outside-the-box approach to home maintenance, and Mountain Road is looking for home-owners with an eccen-tric, unconventional “kooky” approach to home repairs.
The goal is to un-cover great characters
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A Canada-wide homeowner hunt to uncover the strang-est wackiest, most
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Five sets of home-owners are being cast and as part of the spe-cial they’ll have an op-portunity to get their
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Photos record history of Salmon ArmSalmon Arm Art
Gallery, in partnership with the Downtown Improvement Associa-tion, presents “Down-town in Focus: Photog-raphy Then and Now,” featuring historical and contemporary photo-graphs of downtown Salmon Arm.
The exhibition in-vites visitors to tour both the gallery and the downtown exploring the art and architecture of Salmon Arm’s core.
The historic photo-graphs are supplied by Salmon Arm Museum & Heritage Associa-tion and the contem-porary photographs were taken by Vickie Maurer.
The opening recep-tion is Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. and the exhibi-tion runs Nov. 2 to 29.
“We are immensely pleased to bring this retrospective yet for-ward-thinking photo exhibit to our com-
munity,” says Cookie Langenfield, president of Downtown Im-provement Associa-tion. “The black and white photography is just beautiful; it helps us better understand the story of our down-town.
“We believe the ex-hibit will be both in-teresting and thought-provoking to look through the lens of a camera at all the changes our down-
town community has gone through over the last 100 years, and to contemplate where we want to go in the fu-ture.”
The Coffee Break is on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 2 p.m., and some of the presenters will be in attendance to dis-cuss the project.
The artist trad-ing card session is on Tuesday, Nov. 12 from 3 to 4 p.m, with a “make & trade” table.
Celebrate with Samhain feastCrannóg Ales and
Shuswap Chefs are hosting a special Samhain feast.
Each course will be paired with beers from Crannóg Ales.
The chefs and brewers have se-lected ingredients, cooking styles and ales to enhance spe-cific flavours. “It’s a great opportunity to see how the beer and
food work together to make each aspect more interesting,” says Kneen.
David Shiner of Shuswap Chefs says he will feature unusu-al ingredients.
Alesmith Brian MacIsaac has created a new seasonal ale which will debut at the dinner.
“Maniacal Jack Pumpkin Ale is full
of organic pumpkin, squash and spices. It’s really aromatic, spicy and it has a bit of a kick too – this is most definitely not the over-sweetened pie-in-a-glass pump-kin ale other brewer-ies make.”
Tickets at $60 each, are all inclusive and available by calling Shuswap Chefs at 250-832-5019.
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Get a film fix this weekend as the Shuswap Film Society pres-ents a Reel Weekend Film Festi-val at the Salmar Classic Friday, Nov. 1 to Sunday, Nov. 3.
Join the fun in a pre-film cele-bration that will feature refresh-ments, music and door prizes beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Schedule:• Kon-Tiki – Friday at 7:30 and
Sunday at 10:30 a.m. – Based on the true story of legendary Norwegian explorer Thor Hey-erdal’s epic 8,000 kilometre, 101 day crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1948 to prove that it was possible for South Americans to have settled in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
This action/drama explores the origin of the idea, the prepa-rations, and what it was like to be the six people on an uncon-trollable raft in the middle of the ocean.
• Twenty Feet From Stardom – Saturday at 10:30 a.m., Sunday at 3:30 p.m. –
A documentary, this is the story of back up singers, most of them female, black and thrust into prominence in the 1960s. They tell their stories, while the audience hears of past vocal glo-ries and smoothly-mixed music clips with remarks by stars like Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jag-ger, Sting, Bette Midler, Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow and oth-ers with whom they worked.
A behind-the-scenes look at the talent and expertise backing up the stars.
• Unfinished Song – Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. – This film is about sweet old people who brighten their retirement years by singing in the community choir.
Vanessa Redgrave and Ter-ence Stamp feature as the long married couple whose abiding love is never in question.
• Teddy Bear – Saturday at 3:30 p.m. – Directed by Mads Matthiesen, this simple film fea-tures 38-year-old body-builder Dennis (Kim Kold) who still lives with his mother in Copen-hagen.
When his uncle marries a woman from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck at finding a wife.
As he knows his mother would never accept another woman in his life, he lies and tells her he’s going to Germany.
• Much Ado About Nothing – Saturday at 7:30 p.m. – This modern version of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy maintains its humour, its depth of characterization and innova-tive use of text and landscape.
Shot in glamorous black and white, director Joss Whedon uses one main location, his house, the perfect setting in a
story where everyone is eaves-dropping on everyone.
• In a World – Sunday at 1:30 – In this comedy/drama, direc-tor Lake Bell plays Carol, a vo-cal coach and expert mimic of accents.
She aches to break into the male-dominated universe of the voice-over industry, where specialized artists – never seen, only heard – ply their trade.
Carol’s father, a titan in the industry, believes that voiceover work is a man’s job. When she becomes a frontrunner for a gig, a tense father-daughter dynamic ensues.
Coffee and conversation will be featured in a closing night event following the showing of Unfinished Song.
Stop by the Art Gallery Satur-day and Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a “Reel Lunch.”
Tickets are available at Wear-abouts or at the door (cash only) at $7 for a single admission, $30 for a five-film pass or $35 for six films.
BreakawayCali Zupancic makes a run for it as Roxy Roth rewards mother Brea and sister Ava for their incredible Incredibles outfits at a costume contest Saturday at the Mall at Piccadilly.
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Enjoy a reel weekend
Festival opener: Based on a true story, Kon-Tiki will be on the Salmar Classic screen Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
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It is with great sadness that the family announces Jimmy’s sudden passing on October 23, 2013.
He is survived by is wife Barbara, children Michelle and Shawn, grandchildren Jordan, Noah and Autumn. Broth-er Alex, niece Jodie, husband Tom, children Jessica, Riley, Bryden, sister-in-law Lorraine.
He was born in Mel-ville, SK and spent his life involved with hockey. Taking in billets, work-ing at the concession at the rink. Transferred to Winnipeg, MB with theCN but his passion for hockey continued, watch-ing his friend’s children play, going back to SK to watch the Millionaires play. An injury preventedhim from playing, but he knew his hockey. No oneknew hockey like him, he knew the players, their stats. He may have moved to MB but his heart re-mained in SK with the Melville Millionaires and theSK Roughriders, always wearing the green to theirfootball games.
Uncle Jimmy, as he was called by many, will be missed by many in the three provinces.
A celebration of life will be held at the United Church on Wednesday at 11am. Refreshments to follow.
His ashes will be taken back to SK for him to belaid to rest in his home town of Melville.
A service will be held in Melville in the summer,date to be arranged.
Many thanks to the hospital and staff. Specialthanks to Dr Darren Lorenz.
On line condolences may be sent to James Obit-uary at www.bowerservice.com
In lieu of flowers, donations can to made inJames name to the Canadian Cancer Society.
JAMES R. MOTTER December 20, 1943 - October 23, 2013
At the age of 68 years, after a lengthy illness, Les passed away peacefully surrounded by family at Shuswap Lake General Hospital.
Born in Camrose, Alber-ta, he was the youngest of seven children born to Charlie and Viola Erickson.
Later, the family moved to Fort Assiniboine, Al-berta, where he went to school then went on to work in the oil fields. In1963 he came to BC doing road construction workthen on to drilling and blasting. In 1967, Les joined the Rock and Tunnel Workers Union Local 168 and worked in many areas of BC. He continued thiskind of work until he was severely injured in 2007 in northern BC.
Les was predeceased by two sisters, Esther Baumle and Dorothy Stockman. He is survived andwill be missed by his loving wife Elsie and step chil-dren and grandchildren and by his siblings Stanley (Joan) Erickson of Daysland, AB, Clarence Erickson of Barrhead, AB, James (Elaine) Erickson of Sica-mous, BC and Shiela (Nick) Komisar of Winfield, BC as well as many nieces and nephews.
The family would like to thank the staff at Shuswap Lake General Hospital for making his lastdays comfortable.
There will be no formal service by request.Arrangements entrusted to FISCHER’S FUNER-
AL SERVICES & CREMATORIUM LTD., Salmon Arm (250) 833-1129. Email condolences and sharememories through Les’ obituary at www.fischersfu-neralservices.com.
LESTER ROGER ERICKSONDecember 22, 1944 - October 25, 2013
It is with heart felt sad-ness that the family of David C. Born announces his passing on October 26, 2013 in Bastion Place, Salmon Arm BC.
David is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Shirley and their five chil-dren: Guy (Peg) Ian (Judy), Kevin, Paula (Rob), Tanya and their eight grandchil-dren: Kristina, Jason, Al-yssa, Molly, Craig, Jordan, Cindy (Matt), James and one great grandchild: Al-exandria.
David was born in Manitoba and moved to BCat the age of twenty where he worked in the airline and travel industry, and where he became a gentle-man farmer. David & Shirley built their retirementhome in Sorrento in 1999 where they enjoyed hob-by farming, gardening etc.
The family wishes to express their sincere grat-itude to the many friends & family who have sup-ported them through this difficult time.
Thank you to the many caring & compassion-ate Healthcare Workers at Shuswap Lakes Gen-eral Hospital, Kelowna General Hospital & BastionPlace.
Special thanks to Dr. Marc Lourens & Dr. Richard Currie for their care & concern.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, The MS Society or the charity of your choice.
A celebration of David’s life will be held at 1:00p.m. on Sunday, November 10, 2013 at Fischer’sFuneral Services with Chaplain Bill Kiesman offici-ating.
Arrangements entrusted to Fischer’s FuneralServices & Crematorium Ltd., Salmon Arm (250) 833-1129. Email condolences and share memories through David’s obituary at www.fischersfunerals-ervices.com.
DAVID C. BORN January 6, 1935 - October 26, 2013
R.I.P. BROTHER
Soar through the air let your spirit fly free, and with the catch of an angel this is where you want to be.
You are lifted up with grace and taken high above, you are showered with peace and protection but most of all showered with love.
For now you have no anger no tears, fear or pain, these feelings you held are released and now happiness is all you will gain.
So take their hands of freedom your new life is not to fear, and remember we’ll never forget you as your love will always be near.
Stew was born on July 20th, 1953 in Wetaski-win, Alberta (the month the first man landed on the moon) then Stew passed away suddenly on Octo-ber 19, 2013 at the age of 60 in Chetwynd, British Columbia. He will be sadly missed by his daughter Jolene Eggleston, granddaughter Angela, father Ron Eggleston, his two sisters Jackie Nolan (Gar-ry, Sean, Liam and their children), Rhonda Prud-en (Ralph, Douglas, Gordon and all of their chil-dren) all of his cousins, aunts and his Uncle Keith.Stewart was pre-deceased by his Mother MarilouEggleston.
Life will not be the same without Stewart in thisworld.
EGGLESTON, STEWART LESTER
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OLGA AMESSEPTEMBER 10, 1924 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2013Olga Ames peacefully passed away in her sleep
on September 7, 2013. A longtime resident ofSalmon Arm, she was an active contributor to thecommunity through her tireless volunteer work.
She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Alfred Ames, daughter Shelley Hopkins and husbandFred, son Howard, seven grandchildren, and onegreat grandchild.
ALICE JANE McNINCHJanuary 20, 1935 - October 5, 2013
On Saturday, we lost our best friend and family member of our hearts. Of a most loving and gener-ous nature, she shared those traits with us.
Deeply missed by Ralph, Dee-Dee Trefry andfamily; Jim, Vicki Richardson and family. Survivedby daughter Marty Lamb and family, son Roy Dahleand siblings, brother Woodrow Wilson and family.Predeceased by her son, Robert Dahle.
No service by request. Cremation.On November 2, 2013 in Chase, a gathering
of family and friends will be held overa pot-luck high tea to sharememories of Alice.
Phone 250-679-7794.
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WESTCAN - Interested In Be-ing Our Next Ice Road Truck-er? Haul liquid, dry bulk or freight to the diamond mines on the winter road (ice road) from mid-January to mid-April. Not Interested in driving on the ice? Drive resupply from southern locations in Alberta to Yellowknife, NT. Apply on-line at: www.westcanbulk.ca or Phone: 1.888.WBT.HIRE (1.888.928.4473) for further details.
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Stan passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 at his home in Tappen at the age of 85 years. He was born in Wetaskiwin, Alber-ta on Nov. 24, 1927.
He was predeceased by his parents, Eugene and Freda Pinyon.
Stan is survived by his loving family. His wife of 61 years, Margaret, daugh-ters Alvina Gooch (Jamie), Vi Smith (Ken), Lorraine Snoek (Nick), Dolores Gooch (Ron) and son GenePinyon (Kandy); his brothers Norm (Irene), John(Annie) and Gordie (Margie), sisters Vi, Eve (Jim), Chris, Marge and Betty (Jim) and 10 grandchildrenand 11 great-grandchildren and numerous otherrelatives.
Stan grew up in rural Alberta, the oldest of 9 chil-dren. He was very dedicated to his family and leftschool at the end of grade 8 to help out on the fam-ily farm. He milked cows and did field work. Driving teams was one of his favourite jobs. He later start-ed breaking horses for extra money.
In 1951 he met Margaret Bodenham. They weremarried August 29, 1952. In the first years Stan worked hard; logging, farming and selling firewood to make a living. Their first 3 daughters were born in1953, 1954 and 1956. Then in 1957, Stan moved hisfamily to BC and worked in various logging camps until they settled in Lone Butte in 1959. In 1960, their 4th daughter was born. In 1961 they movedto 100 Mile House and lived there for several years.Stan worked in various sawmills as a sawyer and their son was born in 1968. The following year theymoved to Tappen, a favourite holiday spot wherethey built their house on a 15 acre farm.
Stan worked as a millwright and sawyer at a localmill. In 1978 he worked for Gentry Farms deliveringeggs and grinding grain until he retired in 1992.
Stan enjoyed many camping, fishing and hunt-ing trips with his family and summers spent on his brother’s farm in Alberta putting up hay with horses.
Over the years as his family grew, getting togeth-er at reunions and other special occasions madehis life complete.
Though our husband, dad, grandpa and greatgrandpa has left, he will always be with us in our hearts.
On Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 there will be a Celebra-tion of Life at 3:00 at White Lake Hall.
If you would like, contributions in memory of Stan may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 729 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2B5.
Arrangements entrusted to Fischer’s FuneralServices & Crematorium, Salmon Arm (250) 833-1129. Email condolences and share memories through Stan’s obituary at www.fischersfuneralser-vices.com.
STANLEY FREDERICK EUGENE PINYON Novemger 24, 1927 - October 22, 2013
Supporting children through Change and Loss
Workshop being held onSaturday, November 16, 2013
9:30 - 12:30 p.m. at the Mountainside Complex(across from Bowers Funeral Home)
To pre-register orfor more information,
call Naomi at 835-2244 orBowers Funeral Service at 832-2223
This workshop will be helpful for any adult supporting a child or teenager who is grieving. The
ideas and suggestions can be used and adapted with loss from any life change, such as: death, illness,
separation, divorce or moving.Parents and other caregivers (grandparents, etc.)
are all welcome to attend this practical and informative session. Handouts will be available. There is no charge. The facilitator, Naomi Silver,
has 25 years experience working with grieving children and families.
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Adams Lake Indian BandINFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSISTANT
Adams Lake Indian Band is a progressive and dynamic First Nation Government Organization. The Adams Lake Indian Band is a member of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation that is located between Kamloops and Salmon Arm, along the Trans-Canada Highway #1. We are currently recruiting for the position of Information Systems Assistant. The company offers comprehensive employee benefits and pension plans to the successful applicant.
NATURE & SCOPE OF WORK:The assistant would be responsible for performing technical duties for the Adams Lake Indian Band’s Information Systems Department. Duties include, but not restricted to help desk, onsite maintenance, and network administration support.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Trouble shoot, assess software, and hardware problems for end-
users;• Answer, evaluate and prioritize incoming telephone, voicemail, e-mail,
and in-person requests for assistance from end-users experiencing problems with hardware, software, networking and other computer-related technologies;
• Install, assemble and configure computers, monitors, network equipment, and peripherals such as printers, plotters, scanners, and related hardware;
Please submit cover letter, resume to: Fay Ginther, Human Resource Administration trainee Adams Lake Indian Band PO Box 588 Chase, BC V0E 1M0 Email: [email protected] Fax: 250-679-8813
Deadline for Applications: November 12, 2013 at 4 p.m.
Applications received after this time will not be accepted. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Appointment to this position will require a formal criminal record check, the details of which may preclude an offer of employment being finalized.
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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.
ARBOR Lodge Independent living in beautiful Salmon Arm is seeking a part time Recrea-tion Aide. Responsibilities in-clude, create & carry out rec-reation programs incl., but not limited to, outings, exercises, crafts, social events, entertain-ment, games, music, etc. Ap-plicant should have a two year recreation or equivalent diplo-ma; or at a minimum a Resi-dential Care Aide with a rec-reation/activity certifi cate. Previous exper. preferred. Please email your resume to [email protected]
EXPERIENCED Seamstress / Alterationist Wanted Apply with resume at Rafael’Stitch-ery 91 Hudson Ave NE
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Help WantedNorth Enderby Timber is looking to hire Lumber Pilers. We offer competitive wages along with a comprehensive benefi t package. Please fax resume to 250-838-9637.
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Help WantedSPECIAL needs group home hiring casual/on call staff, must have related certifi cate/diplo-ma, must be avail. for wkend/evening shifts. email:[email protected]
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Community Developer/Program Coordinator required by Shuswap Regional Better at Home Program.
Duties will include connecting to community stakeholders, developing community advisories, completing inventories of community assets and needs, and the set up of a seniors non medical support services program for April 1st, 2014 that meets the needs of individual communities within a centralized system for intake, monitoring and evaluation.
Strong knowledge of Shuswap communities and cultures will be an asset, as will a solid background in program and community development. Wage range of $25 to $28. per hour dependant on education and experience. Hours per week will be from 24 to 32 dependant on development stage. This position will be a permanent position with a 3 month probation period.
Please forward resumes or enquiries to:
[email protected], Attention Janet McClean Senft. Closing date November 20th, 2013
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYJunior Accounting Clerk
Canoe Forest Products Ltd., located near Salmon Arm BC has an immediate casual part‐time opening, approximately 20 hours a week, for a Junior Accounting Clerk to join our Canoe team. We are a forest harvesting and plywood manufacturing company located on Shuswap Lake and are a proud component of the Gorman Bros. group of companies.Reporting directly to the Divisional Accountant, the Junior Accounting Clerk duties include: reception, data entry, filing and organizing, and basic accounting knowledge. The successful candidate will have a minimum of two (2) years experience in an office support role of reception and accounting activities with a strong working knowledge of Excel. The candidate should be a motivated team player with the ability to problem solve and emphasis on attention to detail. They should also be able to multi‐task and adapt to a fast‐paced environment.Preference will be given to those applicants who have post secondary education in accounting and/or administration from a recognized educational institute.If you possess the skills and qualifications for this position, please submit your resume with cover letter, in confidence, by Friday, November 8, 2013 to:Human Resources Department Canoe Forest Products Ltd. Box 70 Canoe BC V0E 1K0 E: [email protected] F: 866‐514‐8773 www.canoefp.comCanoe Forest Products thanks all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
We are currently seeking a Casual / On Call person to cover shifts for all CMHA Shuswap- Revelstoke Branch programs. Programs include Rehabilitation, Hudson Thrift Shoppe and Housing.Qualifications:
• Undergraduate degree in Social Sciences, Human Service Worker Diploma or combination of education, training and recent related experience
• Valid Class 5 license
• Current First Aid & Non-Violent Crisis Intervention & Food Safe Certificate
Please Submit Resume and Cover Letter by November 4, 2013 to:Dianna Churchill, Program Manager Box 3275 433 Hudson Ave, Salmon Arm BC VIE 4S1 or email: [email protected] those selected for an interview will be contacted. Thank you
Please call with your resume or fax to 832-2194 stating clearly the
position you are applying for.1880 30th Street SW, Salmon Arm, BC V1E 3J9
We are now hiring permanent full-time positions
• Industrial Butchers and Meat Cutters, Poultry Preparers and related workers. Duties include slaughtering,
trimming, cutting and packaging poultry.
Wage rate $11 - $16 per hour depending on experience.
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SOUTH SHUSWAP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
is looking for a General Man-ager. Duties include mem-bership recruitment & reten-tion, acting as liaison between the Board of Direc-tors and trade & commercial sector, distribution of infor-mation to Chamber mem-bers, attending board meet-ings, drafting minutes, preparing grant applications, generating monthly newslet-ter, maintaining Chamber website, some event plan-ning and liaising with the Visitor Information Centre. Successful candidate should be profi cient in MS Word, MS Excel and website main-tenance, possess light ac-counting duties and be com-mitted to serving one’s community. This is a part-time position, salary TBD. Anticipated start date Nov. 12th. Posting closes Wed. Oct. 31st. Send resume to: #3 - 2676 Fairway Hills Road, Blind Bay, BC V0E 1H2. Only those to be con-tacted for an interview will be notifi ed.
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Help Wanted Help Wanted Help WantedAre you looking for a great new career opportunity? We are seeking a live-in
attendant for an Independent Living facility located in
beautiful Salmon Arm. This mature individual should have hospitality experience, great people skills, a passion for service excellence and the
skills to manage and maintain quality within an Independant
Living facility. email: [email protected]
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Merchandise for Sale
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Home & Yard
250-253-4663
• Fencing• Decks• Patios
• Renovation• Repair• Maintenance
4 like new Toyo G-02 winter tires, 15” on steel rims, used one winter $600. (250)832-76057YR. old clothes dryer $70., Calvert wood stove (not Wett certifi ed) $60., 5gal. fi sh tank & access. $10.(250)832-0265ANTIQUE high back piano $500., hardly used queen du-vet & cover $100., roll top desk $200. (250)832-5060CLEAR PLASTIC TARPS, ap-prox. 40’x40’, $25.00/tarp, Days (250)835-4541 Even-ings/Weekends (250)833-2118Large white kitchen cupboard size 73”x41”x14” HxWxD Two doors and shelves. Lots of storage space $60 OBO 250-832-1976NIKON D90 Digital Camera Body. 12 Mega Pixels. Excel-lent cond. $300 250-517-8087Oak Dining room set. Table w/leaf. 4 chairs 2 arm chairs + China Cabinet $1000 Brand New ceiling fan in box $60 250-832-6689PERFECTO 2 series oxygen concentrator model IRC 5902 $800. OBO. Portable Simply Go Phillips Respironics, all accessories, 2 batteries, used 2 hrs, new cond. $3200. OBO (250)832-4613PTi1 Segway, personal trans-porter, Need wheels? Get mo-bile! Save those steps at home, on the job. Used 2yrs. $2800. obo Cell (250)517-9552 or (250)832-3615RECONDITIONED 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.caWingback chair custom brown as New $75 Single Bed $75 Exterior doors: Steel (32)$40 Wood (36) $80 250-832-8643
Houses For Sale
Legal Notices
Merchandise for Sale
Misc. for SaleUSED DOCKS for sale at Shuswap marina. Good condi-tion. 6’x23’ docks and 18’ fi n-gers. No reasonable offer re-fused. Drop by to check them out 250-675-2250 in Blind Bay
Misc. WantedLocal Coin Collector Buying Collections, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins etc 778-281-0030PURCHASING old Canadian & American coin collections & accumulations. 250-548-3670WANTED : SINGER 5-12 YEARS OLD FOR XMAS RE-CORDING. 250-832-3338
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Real Estate
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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)833-6855
1 Bedroom Apartment near Fletcher Park,
fridge, stove, coin laundry & hot water included,
No Pets $650/mo.
(1-855)852-5660
Bright, spacious2 bedroom apartments
Close to town, family owned & operated.
Includes F/S, DW, A/C, H/W & HEAT, NS, NP. Available Nov 1st
$825/month (250)803-1694
Ask about Senior’s Discount
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
SICAMOUS, 1 bedroom $750/mo. w/utilities + DD. Six appliances. 403-272-0382 or [email protected].
Commercial/Industrial
R E C E I V I N G / F O R WA R D / STORAGE warehouse SA Industrial Park 250-253-6642
Cottages / Cabins2 bdrm cottage, furnished, 5 appl & pellet stove. $900 + util. Caretaker preferred w/ref. 250-836-3131 or leave mess.GLENEDEN small 1bdrm cab-in for quiet single person, country living, F/S $475/mo plus util, avail. immed. (250)832-6975 (250)832-0218
Rentals
HousesittingHOUSE sitter, looking for an opportunity in the Salmon Arm area, avail. immed., respon-sible woman, reliable, animal lover, has own transportation (250)833-2701
Misc for RentDAILY, weekly, monthly meals can be incl., single or double private bdrm, living room, bath, incl. sat tv, wifi , & laundry (250)804-5545
Homes for Rent1BDRM house, full unfi nished base-ment, large yard, 331 5th Ave SE, ref. required. $800.00 call 250-803-4600
2BDRM, 1bath by Hillcrest School, F/S/W/D incl., large yard, lots of parking, pets ok, avail. Nov 15, $1150/mo. + util. (250)832-5954
3Bdrm hse SW $900. 3 bed twnhouse S.E, $850. NS, Sheila 250-832-2494
CHASE: 2bdrm, large lot, fruit trees ideal for elderly couple or single person ref’s req., avail. immed (250)981-1757
Eagle Bay Furn or unFurn 2Bdrm W/D NS Pets neg Avail immed Ref’s. $800 incl. Sat. Wood Stove 250-675-5231
GORGEOUS 3/4bdrm w/view 1.5 acres, W/D, util, int, sat incl., avail. Dec1st smoking outside $1350 (250)832-7809
Malakwa-3bdrm home $725 +utils. 2bdrm $650.+utils, 250-309-0975.
SORRENTO: bright 2bdrm. as new, 5appl., NP, no parties, NS, 1bay garage $1100/mo. (1-250)808-9145
Super clean, gorgeous sm house, Shuswap Lk, Sunny-brae, avail now til Jun 30/14. Ref’s req’d. $800/mo. $300 DD incl everything but phone & internet. N/S N/P. Resp. tenants only.Call Jackie 250-835-4800
Suites, Lower1BDRM., 1car garage, stor-age, NS, near downtown, appl., gas & hydro incl. (250)549-9471 (250)838-9394
1 Bdrm Close to town Self contained W/O W/D DW gar-age & Workshop NS Ref’s $850+Util 250-833-9383
1Bdrm GROUND level, suitable only for 1 person, $500/mo. Also Larger 1Bdrm suitable for 2 $800 Util incl for both. NS NP (250)675-3656 Avail Nov 15.
1BDRM HILLCREST: Level entry, util. Wifi and cable incl., laundry, NS, NP, avail. immed. $650/mo. (250)832-2052
1BDRM self contained, over-looking McGuire Lake, near hospital. $680/mo. util incl. NS, NP (250)832-9875
3bdrm or 2bdrm, 5appl, near 4 schools, rink, NS, NP, back yard, a/c $900-950/mo. + DD, Or will rent the whole house Avail. now (250)295-5498
BACHELOR suite, private daylight entr., Util. incl, $600. per mth. Raven subdvs. NS Avail. Nov. 1 (250)832-6494
BLIND Bay 1bdrm available now. Walk-out suite. Furn. or un furn. Utils. included. $700/mo DD & Ref’s req. N/P, N/S (250)675-2710
DT Salmon Arm large 2 Bdrm W/O. Yard, parking W/D F/S $950 inclusive Avail Nov 15.NS inside or out 250-832-6296
LG. 1bdrm walkout near beach, own patio, 6appl., walk in closet, gas FP, furnished NS NP, Blind Bay avail Nov15, $745 util incl. (250)675-5054
Suites, UpperGARDOM LAKE 2Bdrm+den 2bath Lakefront Gas F/P, 5 appl, N/S, N/P. $695/mo+util 250-804-6027
Looking for a mature respon-sible person or couple to rent our top fl oor 1 Bdrm suite. This home is ten min out of town with absolutely no Bus service. $750 incl util NP NS and No Parties 250-832-6268
Townhouses3BDRM. 1.5bath C/W full Bsmt Close to DT SA W/D avail now, No Dogs, $950/mo. + Util (250)819-6966
Transportation
Auto Financing
Cars - Domestic1982 Camaro Z28, 305 auto, all factory stock, t-tops, no rust/dents, never winter driven, needs battery $3000.(250)832-0560
Cars - Sports & Imports
2007 Toyota Corolla LE, load-ed, 90,000km, $11,500. obo (250)832-8418
Off Road Vehicles1993 Yamaha Kodiak 400 ATV. Nice cond., 1400 km, new battery, new 5’ HD, snow plow, hunting case $4000. (250)832-7886
Sport Utility Vehicle2006 H3 Hummer, Harley Davidson AWD, fully loaded, heated seats, new brakes & rotors, ex. cond., $13000. obo (250)803-4650
Trucks & Vans2001 Chevy Silverado, 2WD, V8, good shape $2300. obo (250)832-3615
SPECIAL on Rebuilding Diesel & Gas Engines. Full warranty. Call AGC at 250-832-1903
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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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