Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, February 28, 2012

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Saving the best game for last Ashcroft Peewees help goalie Kolten Southwick defend the net in an exhibition game against Logan Lake last weekend: Hayden Aie, Allie Aie, Kyla Hosting-Minnabarriet and Tyler Antoine keep their eye on the puck. They beat the visiting Logan Lake team, 13-5. See details of the game on p. 11.

B.C. heritage designation for McAbee fossil site VICTORIA - The Province announcing last week that it will formally recognize the McAbee fossil beds east of Cache Creek as a Heritage Site. The McAbee beds are known worldwide for their incredible abundance, diversity and quality of fossils. The beds are unique for their exceptionally preserved fossils from the Eocene epoch (56 to 34 million years ago). Many fossils being discovered there are entirely new to science. The beds, however, are privately owned and fossils from the site have been sold to private collectors as well as the general public, who are invited to dig for their own fossils. Fossils in B.C. are protected through the Fossil Management Framework, which outlines the policy, procedures and guidelines for fossil collection, use and reporting. In October 2008, a voluntary Memorandum of Understanding was negotiated with the owners to accommodate scientific interests in the fos-

sils while allowing ongoing commercial activities. The agreement has not proved sufficient for resolving long-term protection of the fossils at the site. Last week’s decision will provide a much stronger protection and management regime of this important resource, situated on what was once the shore of an ancient lake, said Steve Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. That ideal environment has left behind a fossil record that includes a variety of leaves, twigs, cones, nuts, flowers, pollen and spores, as well as insects, fish, crayfish and even a bird and feathers. “B.C.’s McAbee fossil beds contain diverse and exquisitely preserved plant and animal fossils that are changing our understanding of life in the Eocene epoch,� said Dr. Richard Hebda, curator of botany and earth history, Royal BC Museum. “The designation of the beds as a Provincial Heritage site will

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ensure that the world will learn more from these remarkable fossils for decades to come as British Columbians assume their vital stewardship role of this globally exceptional natural heritage.� Formal notifications are going out to local government, stakeholders and First Nations within whose traditional territory the land to be designated lies. Formal notification is required under the Heritage Conservation Act, before the site can be legally designated. Feedback from the notification process will also help inform future management plans for the site.

“For the past 12 years, BC Liquor Stores customers and employees have raised funds to encourage high school students across British Columbia to celebrate grad in a safe, responsible manner,� said Minister Rich Coleman as he launched this year’s Support Dry Grad fundraising campaign. “One hundred per cent of all donated Support Dry Grad funds go back to local communities.� The money collected has been turned over to the local high schools for their Dry Grad celebrations. However, Lytton no longer has a BC Liquor Store, prompting the Gold Trail Board of Education to decide at it’s Jan. 17 board meeting to take the money raised by the stores in Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Clinton and Lillooet and distribute them to the high schools, including Lytton, based on the number of students taking part in the Dry Grad. Cache Creek has a liquor store but no high school. Donations are given to Ashcroft, which also has a liquor store. “I’m just kind of amazed,� said trustee Mavourneen Varcoe-Ryan. “I thought it would be a no brainer that of course it would be split four ways.� Trustee Nancy Rempel wondered if the stores could post signs notifying patrons that donations would be spread among the district rather than going straight to the local school. Superintendent Teresa Downs replied that it was the BC Liquor Branch’s program, and all they could do was request the notices. BC Liquor Store donationss supplement the fundraising done by the Grad classes. Lytton’s Dry Grad did not receive any BC Liquor Store funds last year because donations went to the local Dry Grad planning committees. From Feb. 25 until March 31, BC Liquor Stores customers can donate $1 or more to Support Dry Grad celebrations. The money collected is used by local high school Dry Grad planning committees to plan alcohol-free high school graduation events and activities such as boat cruises, ski trips and dances. This year, 55 school districts are participating in the campaign. The contributions by liquor store customers top up funds raised by parents, students and teachers who work all year to raise funds for dry graduation activities. Last year, BC Liquor Stores customers throughout the province donated a total of $512,604 in support of Dry Grad events.

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