Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, September 20, 2012

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Raising money in his name It was a beautiful September morning for a run, walk or just a trudge as several people came out to participate in the annual Terry Fox Run in Ashcroft. The event has been raising donations for cancer research for 32 years. See p. 5 for more information on the Ashcroft event.

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Ashcroft Council is looking for answers to the pesticide dilemma and wants more public input before making a decision.

Ashcroft Administrator Michelle Allen noted at the Sept. 10 Council meeting that the provincial Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides report released in May recommended restricting cosmetic pesticides, but not banning them.

“It’s a pretty complex issue,” agreed Coun. Jackie Tegart.

She suggested making it a topic for public discussion at an upcoming Town Hall

meeting in November.

Mayor Andy Anderson wondered what similar-sized communities were doing.

Coun. Helen Kormendy wanted to know if there was a correlation between high pesticide use and high rates of cancer.

“It’s on everyone’s radar,” said Tegart. “We need to help people think aobut it in a bigger way. It’s a huge health issue.”

Coun. Alice Durksen agreed: “We need to give our citizens a chance to discuss it before we made a decision.”

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Ashcroft RCMP received a report on Sept. 11 of a dog carcass in a plastic bag left by the Thompson River in an area known as Muscle Beach, across from Ashcroft.

There was no sign of the remains when police arrived, just an empty plastic bag with blood stains on it.

Police suspected that if it was in fact the remains of a dog, that it may have been related to an ongoing SPCA investigation into the beating death of a dog on the Ashcroft Reserve earlier this month.

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Sept. 12 at 5:25 pm police attended a two-vehicle accident on Hwy 97 at Stage Rd. in Cache Creek between a German tourist driving a motorhome and a 47 year old Cache Creek woman, who was sitting at the stop sign in her Ford Escape. The 27 year old German man pulled off the highway and clipped the Escape. He was issued a ticket for his driving. No one was injured.

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lice received a report of gunshots being fired near the bridge in Ashcroft. A short investigation revealed that the sound was made by “warning torpedos� set off by the train to let railway workers on the tracks know that a train was approaching.

Sept. 15 at 1 am a Traffic Services officer stopped a vehicle on Hwy 12 near 2 Mile Rd. in Lytton for a sobriety check. The driver Failed a roadside sobriety test. The 46 year old Lytton man was given a 90 day suspension and his 2005 Jeep Cherokee was impounded.

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Sept. 14 at 1:30 am RCMP were called to a disturbance at the Husky where an intoxicated man was being annoying. He was located wandering down the street and became very co-operative at the sight of the police. The 23 year old Anahim Lake man was escorted to his hotel room and there he stayed.

Sept. 15 at 8:15 pm Traffic Services stopped a 2008 Chevrolet Malibu at a roadcheck in Clinton on Hwy 97.

The officer noted a strong odour of burnt marijuana and gave the driver sever-

al sobriety tests, which he failed. The 53 year old Port Coquitlam man was given a 24 hour driving suspension.

Care and handling of the car was released to a sober passenger.

No right to be driving Sept. 16 after 10:30 pm Traffic Services stopped a 2006 Buick Allure at a roadcheck on Hwy 97 at the north end of Cache Creek. A check on the driver showed that she was already prohibited from driving under the Motor Vehicle Act. The 27 year old Cache Creek woman was charged with driving while prohibited and also charged for having an improperly restrained child in the vehicle.

Kicked off the bus Sept. 14 at 2:40 am police were asked to deal with an intoxicated man who had been kicked off the Greyhound bus in Cache Creek.

Police located the 33 year old Penticton man and arrested him for being drunk The wind storm of Sept. 10 knocked down trees in Ashcroft in a public place. He was and Cache Creek, including the old spruce in front of The lodged overnight in cells Journal ofďŹ ce.

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GCCS completes launch of new sites Dozens of new local geocache sites take you to beautiful views with fantastic stories to make your visit even more memorable.

The Gold Country GeoTourism program was first released in 2009 and in 2012 a brand new set of 72 new sites were released throughout the summer. The first phase of geocaches are still available to be found, so there is now a grand total of 144 Gold Country Geocaches.

The final launch took place in Lytton during the Lytton River Festival.

“Our program has been getting phenomenal recognition throughout this summer!” said GCCS Marketing Manager Terri Hadwin.

“Gold Country’s GeoTourism Program was recently mentioned in articles in the New York Wall Street Journal as well as the Seattle Times.

We are incredibly proud of this fantastic program that brings in visitors from all around the globe!”

Business owners, Roy and Donalene of Willowsprings RV Park in Clinton, praise the program: “We tell everybody about it when they ask us what there is to do and see in the area.

Some people who have been geocaching stop in and ask us about camping here next year. One lady wants to have a family reunion here!”

Cachers including Dawnelle Guenther from Aldergrove and Gayle Combes from Kamloops rave about their finds. Dawnelle writes on her online blog about coming to the Clinton launch of new caches on her birthday.

“The thirteen new caches we were given that morning took us to amazing vistas, historical sites and even filming locations - a new twist in Phase 2 that I absolutely love!” she blogged.

“Every cache was well researched and well written and fun to find.”

Gayle, an avid geocacher who has found all 144 Gold Country Geocaches stated: “This was the best summer ever. We just had so much fun!”

If you have an interest to learn more about geocaching, Gold Country Communities Society staff will be conducting six free geocaching workshops in the Gold County region this Fall.

The first will be held in Ashcroft on Sept. 22 at 10:30 am in the Ashcroft Community Hall.

Dates and locations for the rest of the workshops can be found on www.goldtrail.com Submitted

Dancing to support local firefighters Loon Lake residents celebrated their annual Labour Day dance fundraiser for the volunteer fire department on Sept. 1. Funds from the event support the fire department in its valuable community volunteer work throughout the year. The western-themed event was sold out. Shannon Borri photo

Regional Eco Depots opening this Fall Construction is underway on the new Clearwater and Louis Creek eco-depots to replace the Barriere and Clearwater landfills - due to close in the fall of 2012 - as the regional facilities for the North Thompson area.

Scheduled to open this Fall, the new eco-depots will be built with easy access from the Yellowhead Highway and convenient-

ly located for North Thompson residents. In the South Thompson, an archeological assessment is underway to ensure any potential areas of cultural significance are protected during construction.

Eco-depots accept recyclables, including paper, tin, aluminum and cardboard, and waste such as household and commercial garbage.

To encourage waste re-

duction, you can recycle as much as you like free of charge. Weight-based tipping fees will only apply when you dispose of refuse and other materials such as demolition waste that cannot be recycled.

Eco-depots and transfer stations are more environmentally-friendly than landfills as no waste is buried on site.

New Eco-depots in Clearwater and Louis Creek will be completed in 2012.

Facilities in Clinton, Logan Lake and Lytton are currently being upgraded to ecodepots for 2012. New ecodepots at the Lower Nicola and Heffley Creek landfills will be completed by 2013.

Site locations are also being developed for eco-depots in Blue River and Little Fort.

Pavilion plant awarded Best Overall for NAOSH Week

Ira Harry (standing), Production Supervisor for Graymont’s Pavilion Plant, gives Clinton students a rundown of plant safety before they go for a tour during NAOSH Week last May.

For the second year in a row Graymont Western Canada Inc. - Pavilion Plant has received recognition for their contributions to North America Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) week.

This year they received the BC award for the mining category and the national Best Overall award from the NAOSH Week Steering Committee and the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering.

The dedication for making the workplace safe and healthy for the community, as well as the workers on site was successfully demonstrated in the planning and execution of the NAOSH week events.

They informed the areas young workers on the dangers of workplace hazards through education

sessions, as well as games that demonstrated what it would be like to play their favorite sports if they were permanently injured at work.

The mine team utilized their training to demonstrate how they would successfully lower an injured worker from one of the highest points on site. They utilized ropes and pulleys to secure and lower rescue team members.

For the community they had an open house where local health workers reviewed diabetes risks, cholesterol and nutrition with the workers on site and community members that came to the open house.

Join us in congratulating Pavilion plant in a job well done!

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Raising a reader can be easy You don’t need to be a genius to get ahead in life. You don’t need to read and write at university level to have a successful and fulfilling life.

But it helps.

Gold Trail School District works hard to make sure all of their students meet and beat the provincial literacy goals. It’s the aim of all schools across the country. In fact, it’s the aim of most countries to make sure their population is literate.

If you never have to sign your name or read a document, you’re one of the unusual ones. Most people don’t have that option.

Not being able to read or write cuts down on a lot of opportunities in life, because it’s the way we communicate.

Children who communicate well do better, and families have a lot of influence over that early reading and writing skill development.

Raise a Reader is a once a year fund raiser in which newspapers are handed out for a donation. Those contributions go towards materials which encourage families to reader together and to help run family literacy programs.

The past two years, the Ashcroft, Cache Creek, and Spences Bridge area have taken part in Raise A Reader, using donations of newspapers from The Journal. Bridging to Literacy has used these contributions to purchase books for free book draws during Family Literacy Week and at the Rodeo parade.

This year, Bridging to Literacy also used Raise a Reader funds to purchase story books for participants in the Mother Goose program held at the South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry office on Monday mornings.

Raise A Reader will be held on Thursday Sept. 27. There will be volunteers in each of the communities handing out The Journal for a donation. These small contributions can make a big difference in the lives of the children in our communities.

Donations for Raise a Reader are important, but don’t forget that reading starts at home. Make reading fun for your children; encourage both reading and writing.

Literacy is the most important life skill tool you can give them.

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THE PEACEFULNESS of Big Bar Lake on a beautiful day in late Summer Farmer Steven Farming has an incredible aura that envelopes the growing process. Little marblesized green tomatoes become ripe red softballs overnight. Observing the process on a daily basis is amazing. You have raised them from seed in your hothouse for months, placed them in their dirt homes and watched them grow into to healthy, hearty globes of goodness.

After picking these wonderful “globes of goodness” for two months in the blazing heat of summer you ask yourself what the hell have you done! Anyways, I think it is the 6,000 plants that became an issue. Maybe about 5,900 less wouldn’t have been such a big deal.

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Walhachin is now officially up and running with their new system taking water from the Thompson River. Though not without start up issues, Walhachin has been off a Boil Alert for the first time in many moons. We are still work-

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All directors are given the opportunity to meet with Ministers to discuss topics important to their constituency. To this end I have asked for a meeting with minister Steve Thomson (Natural Resources) to discuss the vitally important Steelhead issue. You have 15 minutes to get your message

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I have filed my brief with staff and will be on point when meeting with Minister Thomson (not easy for motor mouth me) as my bullet form brief covers interception, habitat, closed policy, live bait, First Nations, hatchery.

If anyone has other input on this, please let me know.

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Tait as he was instrumenIn addition, we have retal in bringing this project to ceived significant funding to fruition during his time with establish a web-based platthe TNRD. form, including a database Spences Bridge has also started the process of movSee STICK on p. 5 ing from Murray Creek water LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (and an ongoing Boil Alert), and We invite all Letters to the Editor on relevant or topical matters, but we reserve towards the well the right to edit submissions for clarity, brevity, legality and taste. All Letters water of the new express only the opinions of the Author and should in no way be construed as system. A his- being endorsed by The Journal. toric agreement was reached be- All Letters must be signed and bear the Author’s name, address and telephone tween the Cooks Ferry Band and number for reference purposes. No unsigned Letter will be printed. the TNRD to share costs and Email: editorial@accjournal.ca or Drop off: 130-4th Street, Ashcroft BC, V0K work together 1A0 or Fax to: 250-453-9625. Deadline for the following issue is Friday 10 am

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Local volunteers are the best STICK from p. 4 that feature local folks who would be interested in being extras when a movie crew comes into the area.

We are also talking with TRU in an effort to partner with them in certain media arenas.

Community hall renovations Last but not least the Archie Clemes Community Hall in Spences Bridge will be getting a significant “Green Upgrade�.

The project includes a new energy efficient furnace and heat pump, low flow sinks and toilets, insulation, and new energy efficient doors. TNRD funding for the project was approved last month and will come from the federal gas tax fund that provides for green initiatives.

I am also hoping to leverage the TNRD funding with NDIT funding to complete the hall upgrades as this would cover nongreen initiatives. The next intake is November for NDIT and with approval the entire project can get underway when the Spences Bridge wish list committee so determines.

Kudos to the volunteers

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Shout outs go to a number of events this summer and their volunteers: Ashcroft Rodeo Parade what a great time. My first time in a parade! Incredible organization, overwhelming, enthusiastic

crowd, spectacular floats, classic cars, top notch entertainment...

These volunteers begin planning next year’s event as soon as the current one is over. Great job!

Ashcroft Fall Fair - well done, great reviews and what a huge undertaking. A true reflection of what rural living is all about - including the volunteers!

Lytton River Festival - It just keeps getting better - the fire dancers, great music, pow wow... Another great effort by great volunteers!

Desert Daze Music Fest blazing hot was the weather - and the music. Lots of vendors, a kite flying gala, seed spitting, apple bobbing, drumming, yoga, guitar workshops, a pickling class, First Nations drummers... and the big horn sheep. And let us not forget the legion of incredible volunteers. Kudos!

Ashcroft Indian Band should also be congratulated on another great racing season and the new addition of an exciting, challenging dirt bike track. Most excellent!

I am sure I missed somebody or some event but to all the volunteers who form the foundation of our rural communities - a gigantic Thank You!

Gone ďŹ shing Steelhead season approaches May the fish be with you!

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Desert Daze Music Fest fundraiser promises a night of fun Jam at Monkey In The Garden Organic Bistro There will be an Acoustic Music Jam at Monkey in the Garden Restaurant Bistro on Sept. 23 from 1-4 pm.

Nestled in the canyons of the Nicola river, Monkey in the Garden is a farm-to-plate, organic food experience. Just a short 15 minute drive south from Spences Bridge on scenic Hwy 8, Monkey in the Garden offers delicious, homegrown, wholly organic, vegetarian food and de-

licious, handmade desserts and coffee creations.

They are open year round by reservation for catered events, private parties or even a romantic dinner for two. Be sure to drop by and say hello if you are in the area. Call (250) 458-2420 or email thegourmetmonkey@ gmail.com

Desert Daze Fundraiser at Clemmes Hall

tin Bentall, Romi Mayes, Boom Booms, Maria in the Shower, Andrea Ramola...

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Supper is available for a great deal and will include your choice of cheeseburger, veggie chili, or beef on a bun served with choice of side salad and Spences Bridge melons for desert! Beer, wine and coolers are available.

The cost to enjoy this fine evening is is by donation, but remember, dig deep if you can - this is a fundraiser after all.

There will also be the auction of many fantastic items: music cds, a Canucks couch throw, Lavender Basket, gift certificates for restaurants, haircuts, and much more. See you there!

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Log Cabin Music Jam in Spences Bridge Spences Bridge Log Cabin Pub Jam Nights have started up. You never know what you’re going to find at these jam sessions on Wednesday nights (not Thursdays as previously reported).

Check out a variety of amateur and professional entertainment every Wednesday night from 8 pm on.

There’s a full drum set always waiting for a drummer, next to the Hammond organ (also waiting). There’s a PA system, too! Bring your music maker and help fill the room with harmony or just sit and take in the tunes. For more info call (250) 458-2215

Get a belly full of moves Try something new and bring out your inner goddess. Belly dance classes are starting again in Ashcroft. The classes are taught by Denise Tapia-Benner and are a great way to connect with your body and have fun.

Beginning belly dance starts Thursday, Sept. 20 at 5:156:30 pm in Ashcroft Elementary School. Denise will also be teaching school-aged girls on Tuesdays from 3:30pm-4:30pm beginning Sept. 25. If you need more info call Denise at 250453-9044, evenings.

Desert Bells Handbell Choir still looking for members The Desert Bells Handbell Choir practices on Thursdays starting Sept. 20 through to mid-December. New ringers are needed. The practices will include instruction on music reading and basic theory, ages 10 years to seniors - an intergenerational dynamic group!

The Choir meets at Cache Creek Elementary, evenings.

There will be a very small fee for fall term. Please call Carmen Ranta for more information (250) 457-9119. They are close to full, please call very soon if interested.

Clinton Art Show The Clinton Arts and Cultural Society presents the annual Art & Artisan Show and Sale from Oct. 5-7. Opening Night is Friday night from 6-9 pm. Weekend hours on Saturday and Sunday are from 1-6 pm. The event takes place at the Clinton Community Hall at 306 Lebourdais Avenue.

Besides the art on display, there will be artisans selling crafts at tables. Musicians and dancers will be performing intermittently throughout the show.

Sundays can tend to be a little quiet so if anyone wants to come and perform, feel free.

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The little cottage by the horse chestnut at the end of Brink Lane

by Esther Darlington MacDonald An enormous horse chestnut tree in full blossom is a sight to behold. Especially in a desert like ours. And put a wooden fence beside it, weathered but still upright, and a fence across the lane from the tree, with a kitchen garden and a handsome woman on her knees weeding and gathering kale for the noon day soup, and the cottage on the corner with its garden of shrubs and flowers (where the library sits today), and you have a glimpse of the end of Brink Lane as it was 30 years ago.

Across Brink lane there was another cottage. It was the home of Henry and Ruth Leong. In Henry and Ruth Leong’s yard, where the horse chestnut grew, a long patch of fragrant Lily Of The Valley grew along the cottage wall.

The light was just right for them. Shadey, with patches of sunlight in late afternoon. The front of the cottage faced the long view of the river and the bridge. And alongside the cottage facing the creamy white fans across the river, perched a weather-blackened shed. “The garden shed,” Henry called it, where the rakes and shovels and pitchforks were stored.

And near the backdoor of the cottage, stood an oil drum for garden litter.

Una Godau was the handsome woman, then middle aged, working in the kitchen garden. And one day, while watching me watch her working in the patch, she suggested I have a garden. But she knew I could not have one where we were renting at the time.

“Let me ask Henry if he would let you use his backyard for a garden.” And she did.

Henry at that time was just under 6 feet tall. There was a dignified bearing in this man who had been born in Ashcroft 70-odd years before. Retired now, Henry had been a trucker, transporting vegetables to the Lower Mainland’s larger centers. He’d worked for his father and he’d grown up in the village’s China Town. A village within a village. But the Chinese village was just two blocks long and stood with its high board fences and its simple frame houses and cottages, sheds and garden patches, on either side of Railway St., the town’s main street.

Henry was the youngest son of his father’s youngest wife. If I remember correctly, Henry’s father had four wives. And they all lived together in China Town. Yes, it was a different age altogether. The Chinese kept pretty much to themselves, because they more or less had to. They bonded together in mutual enterprise. Farmers, merchants, laborers. They had their own graveyard. The graveyard in recent years restored. It sits beside the CPR rail track on a bit of a bench. In 1973, the graveyard was a forgotten patch of weeds, cracked earth, cactus and sagebrush.

Anyway, back to the request for a garden for Esther.

“I’ll have to have a look at her.” Henry’s exact words. In other words, he’d size this little woman up and determine in his own judgement, with no mind to being polite about it or saying the right thing, whether he wanted to have a stranger taking over his backyard with its twist of old plum tree on the edge of it.

I walked down Brink Lane a short while later, to be “looked over” by Henry. I was nervous. Had caught a glimpse of Henry every once in a while, but had no idea who he was. I opened the gate to the yard, and found Henry standing nearby, under the shade of the horse chestnut. We talked a little, Henry puffed now and then on a cigarillo, his eyes on mine as we talked.

“What did you have in mind?” he asked.

“O, just a patch large enough to grow some tomatoes, carrots. You know.” I hesitated, because I hadn’t given any thought to what I wanted to grow. I just wanted to grow things.

Like a father in manner. Strict. No nonsense. He warned, “You’ll have to keep it weeded. I won’t have a yard full of weeds.”

I assured Henry that I would be most diligent with the weeding.

He paused for what seems more than a minute. Looked at the yard thoughtfully.

“Come with me.” He nodded toward the cottage, the garden litter barrel. I followed him, and he led me into the garden shed perched on what seemed to me a perilous edge.

The floor of the shed, made of wooden slats, blackened with age, seemed equally fragile. But I followed Henry in.

Found neatly stacks of garden tools in open bins.

“No need for you to bring tools. You can use these”.

I had passed muster.

Pleased and relieved, I eyed the tools, “You’ll have to dig that soil yourself,” Henry said, adding hopefully. “It’s good soil though. It’ll grow anything.”

The Leong yard was barren, weedless. Henry showed me where the hose was, the water spout. The sprinklers.

I’d have my work cut out for me.

For three glorious summers, I worked that garden. Spent blissful, mindless hours, cultivating, weeding, watering. I shared half of what I grew with the Leong’s, and on several occasions, Ruth Leong would rap at the kitchen window pane, and beckon me in to have lunch. String beans, carrots, beets, tomatoes, even cauliflower, though the latter did not do well.

Picture two cottages behind wooden fences. The tall horse chestnut tree with its wide trunk of knots and furrows, its thick branches offering shade in that corner at the end of that gravel lane. And the cottages nearby behind their wooden fences. And voices heard over the fence, as I worked in my garden.

And the odor of warm earth and soil moisture and grass mowed to the edge of the Lily Of The Valley, and faint whiff of Henry’s smoke from the cigarillos. And the voice of Henry calling for Ruth. He called her “Mama”, in a voice as gentle as any I have ever heard. Gentle with love, no less than that.

There are some things you can never forget. Some sights you will see forever in your mind’s eye. Some stories you will hear that you will pass on to others. Stories about a time and a place in old Ashcroft, when China Town was a bustling business place where people lived and died.

At the end of Brink Lane, China Town across the road and up a block or two, (where Safety Mart is today), was just such a place. A place of wood stoves and shops with false fronts and verandas that hung over the street, a place of highboard fences and woodsheds and garden sheds. And giant horse chestnut trees that shaded the streets and lanes.

A place full of stories.

Katie, 2, takes her owner Wilma Bone out for a stroll at the recentlyheld dog show at the Long Term Care residence in Ashcroft.

THE CORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE OF ASHCROFT 2012 TAX SALE In accordance with the requirement of Section 403 of the Local Government Act, on the 24th day of September, 2012, in the Council Chambers of the Village of Ashcroft at 10:00 a.m., the following parcels of real property shall be offerred for sale by public auction unless the delinquent taxes plus interest are sooner paid: ROLL NO.

STREET ADDRESS

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

UPSET PRICE

00379.106

1423 Pine Avenue

Lot 6, Plan 28260, DL 378

$ 4,842.91

70480.164

16-1000 Mesa Vista Court

MHR #12631

$ 1,118.61

Linda Howika, CMA Collector Please note that tax sale procedures and purchaser’s responsibilities are available at the Village Office, 601 Bancroft Street, Ashcroft, BC during regular office hours as well as from the Village’s website at www.ashcroftbc.ca.

Village of Cache Creek 250-457-6237

2012 TAX SALE In accordance with Section 403 of the Local Government Act, the following properties will be sold for taxes by public auction on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers of the Village of Cache Creek, 1389 Quartz Road, Cache Creek, B.C. unless the delinquent taxes now owing plus interest are sooner paid by cash, certified cheque or money order. Information regarding any of the properties must be obtained at the Village Office prior to the Tax Sale: STREET ADDRESS

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

UPSET PRICE

971 Collins Road

Lot A, Plan KAP65269, District Lot 103, K.D.Y.D.

$2,391.81

Mobile Home at Bay #61 Sage & Sands Mobile Home Park 701 Trans Canada Hwy S

Bay 61, Lot A, Plan 29044, District Lot 103, K.D.Y.D.

$1,661.54

Lori Pilon, Collector

2012 TAX SALE In accordance with Section 403 of the Local Government Act, the following properties will be sold for taxes by public auction on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., in the Village of Clinton Council Chambers, 1423 Cariboo Highway, Clinton, BC, unless the delinquent property taxes owing plus interest are sooner paid. Information regarding these properties or Tax Sale procedures may be obtained at the Village Office prior to the Tax Sale.

Legal Description

Location

Upset Price

Lot B, Plan 4194, DL1 Clinton Townsite

1526 Cariboo Hwy Roll: 00064.000

$1,162.64

Lot C, Plan 4194, DL1 Except Plan B6351 Clinton Townsite

1528 Cariboo Hwy. Roll: 00065.000

$1,140.14

Parcel A, Plan B6351, of Lot C, Plan 4194, DL1 Clinton Townsite

1530 Cariboo Hwy. Roll: 00066.000

$6,549.45

Lot A, Plan KAP89570, District Lot 2, Group 5 MHR #54386

1611 Tingley Street Roll: 00175.350

$3,874.05

Lot 86 Clinton Townsite

210 McDonald Avenue Roll: 00175.400

$4,876.40

Lot 3, Plan 27618 District Lot 962

1418 Carson Street Roll: 00240.030

$7,879.95

Lots 39, Plan 11945 District Lot 7

402 Spruce Avenue Roll: 00373.190

$4,484.13

Lot 2, Plan KAP46478 Group 5 DL 2 Clinton Townsite

1615 Tingley Street Roll: 00605.055

$ 6,848.96

Joanne Molnar, Collector

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Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, Zip-a-dee-ay

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orty years ago I saw a side of my grandmother I’d never seen before when my younger brother and I were invited to spend a day with her at work.

I was five at the time and she was nearly 10 times my age. I hadn’t imagined that she had a real job beyond simply

being our grandmother, but she did. She was the beloved grade one teacher to a room full of children who called her Mrs. White rather than Gammy, as my brother and I did.

I remember at one point during that

day looking over at Jeremie who was watching her play the piano, leading her class in a fun Disney classic. He looked exactly how I felt: in awe and in love.

Fast forward four decades and that’s how we’re still looking at her.

WUZZLES

“Is Gammy going to zipline?” my nine-year-old daughter asked earlier this year, when my dad treated us all to a day at Grouse Mountain to celebrate his 65th birthday.

A wuzzle is a saying/phrase that is made up of a display of words, in an interesting way. The object is to try to figure out the well-known saying, person, place, or thing that each wuzzle is meant to represent. Answers below.

“Probably,” my 20-year-old cousin replied. “She was just quading at Jaime and Jennifer’s wedding.”

The thought of my little ladylike grandmother riding around on a muddy all-terrain vehicle at my other cousin’s wedding was surprising at first, and then I thought of her motive: to make her family smile.

As our large group got suited up in harnesses and helmets I asked my nervous-looking grandmother how she was feeling.

“I’ll be okay,” she laughed. “If the little ones can do it, I can do it too.”

of pain in her life, but she’s never let it get the best of her.

She’s risen to every challenge and has decidedly come out stronger than she was before.”

ON A BRIGHTER NOTE

I used to think that I learned how to be an optimist from my father, but I now know that I also learned it from my grandmother.

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Refusing to play the victim and taking charge of her destiny is one of the many valuable examples she set for me, and I thank her for that as often as I can.

“I could have done things better,” she will always say when receiving any kind of praise. “If I knew then what I know now, I would have done things better.”

It was a thrilling day for many reasons and my grandmother’s act of courage made the festivities even more memorable. The amazing vision of her zipping down the mountain was only a small example of the bravery she’s displayed most of her life.

Suddenly faced with raising two young sons all by herself, she had to be strong, even if she didn’t always feel it.

ANSWERS: 1. Piggy Back Ride 2. Side by Side 3. Laptop Computer 4. Parallel Bars 5. 40 Days and 40 Nights 6. All Hands on Deck 7. Daybreak 8. All Things Being Equal 9. Always by my Side

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LORI WELBOURNE

Despite her grave concerns for the state of modern civilization and her habit of worrying about others, I have only ever seen her full of hope and gratitude for her life and the lives of her loved ones.

And do it she did.

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Of course she would have. We all would. But she was always brave in the moment, and she always did her best.

No longer 10 times my age, Gammy turned 89 this week. Less than twice my age now, it feels like she’s getting younger as I’m getting older, and we’re eventually going to meet somewhere in the middle and be the best of friends.

In actuality, we reached that point years ago. And I, along with the rest of my family, remain in awe, and in love.

More columns, blogs, cartoons and videos can be found at LoriWelbourne. com

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New Stoddard school off to a running start School Open House

tion or a registration form to be part of this event can contact Susan at 250-4592224 or email countrysquire@bcwireless.com.

The students and staff of David Stoddart School hosted an open house barUBCM becue and tour of I won’t have a colthe school on Thursumn next week as, like day, Sept. 13. most regional and muniIt was a chance cipal elected officials in for invited guests BC, I will be attending the to see the improveUBCM convention in Vicments that have toria. been made to the According to their webschool to make it a site, “The Union of Britsuccessful KinderDave Stoddart School fed the community and showed off its new look ish Columbia Municipalgarten to Grade 12 at a community open house. ities (UBCM) is an organschool. ization that has served and It was also a represented the interests of local govchance for parents, students, ernments in BC since 1905. staff, elected officials and ...UBCM initiates, monitors, inothers to mingle and tour the terprets and reacts where such chanfacilities and grounds. There ges could have an effect on local govhave been significant chanernments and the communities they Susan Swan ges since my sons graduated serve.” from David Stoddart in 2006.

459-2224 or 2325 The annual UBCM Convention Thank you to those hard countrysquire@ brings local politicians and Cabinet workers who cooked up the bcwireless.com Ministers together to discuss the impact burgers and hot dogs. of provincial policies, funding, etc., on ety will host their annual Art and Arti- local issues. And municipal politicians Terry Fox Run Don’t forget to join the students and san Show and Sale from Friday, Oct. 5 from all over the province also get to staff of David Stoddart School from (opening reception) to Sunday, Oct. 7 meet and network with each other to talk about their towns and cities.

10:45 a.m. to noon on Sept. 27 for the in the Clinton Memorial Hall.

It gives communities a voice. Many Come and see just how much talent Terry Fox Run. there is in the area and support the ef- municipalities send resolutions to the forts of the artists and artisans as they convention to be debated and voted on Clinton Art Show by your electThe Clinton Art and Cultural Soci- display their works. ed officials.

Those that Annual Fall Craft Sale The Clinton CiB Garden are endorsed Club members are busy plan- are then forning their Fourth Annual Fall warded directCraft Sale for Saturday, Oct. ly to the Provincial Govern27.

Anyone wishing informa- ment.

Call Terry at 250-453-2261 for the best advertising in town or email her at sales@accjournal.ca

Come and Join the Clinton Economic Development Society for its

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING November 6th, 2012 at 6:30 pm at the Clinton Community Hall Guest Speakers: s$ON 2EED .!3! 2ECAP AND Future Plans s6ICTORIA 7ELLER &ILM )NDUSTRY IN 4.2$

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STRIKING A BALANCE

THE CORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE OF ASHCROFT OPEN BURNING IMPORTANT CHANGE Pursuant to Bylaw No. 777, Open Burning of dry garden refuse only will be allowed from October 1-14, 2012 inclusive provided that a Burning Permit is obtained from the Village Office at 601 Bancroft Street in the usual manner. Burning Permits will be issued beginning October 1st, 2012.

Responsive, Reliable, Professional

Village of Cache Creek 250-457-6237

Bonded, Insured & Licensed

ACTIVITIES PROGRAMMER THOMPSON VIEW MANOR SOCIETY Community Manager Thompson View Manor Society is accepting applications for a Community Manager for our Assisted Living facility. The Community Manager ensures exemplary service delivery, life quality and peace of mind for residents within the assisted living residence. This person would provide managerial leadership and direction to staff, coordinate human resources, liaise with the client and deal with community relations. The Community Manager will be responsible for some payroll and scheduling duties and must have some computer skills. The Manager leads the team in ensuring quality programs and services are delivered according to resident needs and makes choices to uphold life quality and resident/family peace of mind. The Community Manager will report to the General Manager of Thompson View Manor Society. Applicants must have Assisted Living Worker or similar certificate.

Starting wage would be $20.00 per hour with some benefits.

Qualified applicants please submit your resume to elang123@telus.net or Thompson View Manor Society Attn: E. Lang P.O. Box 736 Ashcroft, B.C. V0K 1A0

The Village of Cache Creek has an opening for a one year contract for Activities Programmer Services. This contract position will be directly responsible for the day-to-day planning, coordinating and scheduling of recreation activities for the Village of Cache Creek.

The Village of Cache Creek’s objectives for the Activities Programmer is to engage youth, adults and seniors in a variety of activities, events and programs that promote the use of Village facilities and encourage a healthier community.

Required Qualifications: • Valid Class 5 Drivers License Preferred Qualifications: • Strong organizational skills along with excellent customer service skills • Experience working with the public, staff and external agencies • Experience in recreation, marketing or a related field • Completion of Grade 12 or equivalent • Emergency First Aid The rate of pay for this contract position is $15 per hour, not to exceed 40 hours per month.

Contact the Village office for the “Terms of Reference” for the Activities Programmer Services.

Please send your resume along with a covering letter to: Village of Cache Creek Box 7 1389 Quartz Road Cache Creek BC V0K 1H0 FAX: Email:

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24 Hour Emergency Service

Business Commercial Industrial

Kamloops Branch Office:

250.828.7939

Applications must be received on or before Friday, October 5th, 2012.

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Community Volunteer Groups The Royal Canadian Legion #113 301 Brink St., Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0 Phone: 250-453-2423 Fax # 250-453-9625

South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society 601 Bancroft St. Box 603, Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0 250-453-9656

Ashcroft and District Fall Fair Contact Person: Janna 250-457-6614 Contact Person: Jessica 250-453-2352

Soups On

Sage & Sand Pony Club District Commissioner: Sandy Agatiello sageandsandspc@hotmail.com

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Rotary Club Contact Person: Denise Fiddick Phone 250-453-9547

Desert Spokes Cycle Society Phone 250-457-9348

Ashcroft Curling Club Phone 250-453-2341

St. Alban’s Anglican Church Hall, 501 Brink Street Tel: 250-453-9909 or 250-453-2053 - All Welcome

Ducks Unlimited Canada Ashcroft/Cache Creek Volunteer Chapter Phone 250-374-8307

Ashcroft & District Rodeo Association Phone: 250-457-9390

Ashcroft Volunteer Fire Department

Ashcroft and Masonic Lodge Zarthan Lodge No#105

Phone 250-453-2233

Contact Person: Fred Dewick

Cache Creek Volunteer Fire Department

Phone 250-453-2415

Ashcroft & District Tennis Association Contact Person: Maria Russell Martin Phone 250-453-9391

Phone 250-457-9967

South Cariboo Sportsmen Assc. #3366 Attn: Marian Pitt, Box 341, Ashcroft BC V0K 1A0

Ashcroft & District Lions Club Contact Person: Lion Vivian Phone 250-453-9077

Soccer Association Contact: Sandi Harry

Phone 250-457-9366

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Assc.

601 Bancroft St., Ashcroft, BC Phone 250-453-9762

The Ashcroft & District Health Care Auxiliary Thrift Store

Minor Hockey Association Contact: Lisa Tegart Phone 250-453-9881 Email: lisamteg@hotmail.com

601 Bancroft St., Ashcroft, BC Phone 250-453-9944

Historic Hat Creek Ranch

Royal Canadian Sea Cadet

Contact: Jack Jeyes

Contact Person: SLt. Curran 250-453-2082 Patty Newman, Navy League President 250-457-9575 Email: admin@347avenger.ca

Kinsmen Club of South Cariboo

Ashcroft Communities in Bloom Contact Persons: Andrea Walker 250-453-9402 or Marijke Stott 250-453-0050

Phone 250-453-2259

Contact Person: Dave 250-453-9062

Cache Creek Recreation Society Contact Person: Jackie

Phone 250-457-9122

Taoist Tai Chi Contact Person: Danita Howard Phone 250-453-9907 e-mail: dangre@telus.net

Ashcroft Royal Purple Phone 250-457-9122

Ashcroft Hospice Program

Bridging to Literacy

Shirley 250-453-9202 or Marijke 250-453-0050

Contact Person: Ann Belcham 250-453-9417

Winding Rivers Arts and Performance Society Contact Person: Jessica 250.453.2352 or Nadine 450.453.9100

Canadian Red Cross - Health Equipment Loan Program (H.E.L.P.)

The “Purpose of Sunday” Car Club President: Tom Lowe 240-457-6564

SCI Thompson River, B.C. Chapter Ken Brown - Phone: 250-453-9415

Ashcroft Hospital - 250-453-2244

Desert Bells Handbell Choir Carmen Ranta 250-457-9119

Ashcroft Yoga Group Call Marijke - Phone: 250-453-0050

Sage Sound Singers Adult Community Choir Michelle Reid 250-457-9676

Second Time Around

Cache Creek Beautification Society

Cache Creek Communities in Bloom Committee Carmen Ranta 250-457-9119

(and Farmers Market) Judy Davison 250-457-6693

201 Railway Ave., Ashcroft BC Anne Bonter 250-457-9781

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Village of Lytton PO Box 100, 380 Main Street, Lytton B.C. V0K 120 Phone 250-455-2355 Fax 250-455-2142 hotspot@lytton.ca ANNUAL TAX SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, the 24th of September 2012, in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Hall, located at 380 Main St, Lytton, B.C., the Collector of the Village of Lytton shall offer for sale by public auction each and every parcel of real property within the Village of Lytton upon which any of the taxes are delinquent. The Collector may also offer for sale the other improvements on the real property as are taxable under this Act and on which taxes are delinquent.

The annual property tax sale shall be in accordance with section 403 of the Local Government Act. The properties that shall be sold at the tax sale if the delinquent taxes thereon are not paid before 10:00 a.m. on September 24, 2012 are:

Photos by Wendy Coomber

Ashcroft & District Fall Fair 2012

Street Address 141 4th St

Legal Description Lot 3 & 4, Block 10 Townsite of Lytton

181 Main St

Lot 3 & 5 Block 13, Section 1 Township 15, Range 52, Meridian W6, Kamloops Div of Yale Land District

223 Main St

Lot A Plan KAP87172, Section 1, Township 15 Range 27, Meridian W6, Kamloops Div of Yale Land District

Enid Keir Collector Village of Lytton September 7, 2012

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Metro considers burning hazardous waste in new incinerators Surrey North Delta Leader A planned new waste-toenergy (WTE) plant for Metro Vancouver might burn not just regular garbage but also special wastes that are now shipped out of B.C. That’s the thinking of some Metro directors who argue an advanced new plant might be able to handle dangerous hospital waste, foreign waste from cruise ships or airlines and maybe even oil-contaminated soils or other materials.

“If we can deal with special waste in a state-of-the-art incinerator that would be a smart move to make,” Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan argued at Metro’s waste committee last Thursday.

He said it wouldn’t make sense to keep trucking special waste to Alberta – emitting more carbon with each trip – if it can be handled here.

“I know we’re trucking out thousands and thousands of tonnes of soil with oil contained in it,” Corrigan said.

Surrey Coun. Marvin Hunt also likes the idea of looking beyond municipal solid waste to see if a new incinerator can end the need to export special waste elsewhere.

“I think we should be dealing with our waste in our own region instead of putting it off to somebody else,” he said.

The idea was raised as Metro directors agreed they need 370,000 tonnes per year of new waste-to-energy capacity after the region stops trucking waste to the Cache Creek Landfill in 2016.

That would be the minimum size of the new WTE plant – about 30 per cent bigger than the existing incinerator in south Burnaby but less than the 500,000 tonnes per year Metro officials previously envisioned.

But it could be bigger if the region decides it could take more fuel from other sources, possibly garbage from communities on Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast or Fraser Valley.

Corrigan said building in

some extra capacity now may be cheaper and more efficient than having to expand later.

That talk worries directors like Vancouver’s Andrea Reimer, who wants to keep Metro’s disposal capacity as low as possible on the basis much more recycling will be possible.

The 370,000-tonne size is based on waste-flow projections and assumes Metro Vancouver’s population will grow to 3.4 million by 2040 and that each resident generates 10 per cent less garbage by 2020.

It also counts on the region hitting its 70 per cent waste diversion target by 2020 – up from 55 per cent now – although officials warn a higher recycling goal of 80 per cent may prove impossible.

Directors also decided the plant must be publicly owned, which could allow a Metro partnership with a local city and a private developer/operator, but not one where the company owns and profits directly from the sale of energy.

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There’s been talk before the plant could go to New Westminster, Burnaby, Surrey or the Tsawwassen First Nation within Metro, or to out-of-region sites like Gold River or Powell River, solving the air pollution concerns of opponents in the Fraser Valley.

But the regional district is far from choosing a site.

Metro will ask land owners interested in hosting the plant to step forward next year and would make the list public next September.

A decision on locating it inside or outside the region wouldn’t come until at least mid-2014.

Meanwhile, Metro aims to short list six WTE firms capable of building the plant and then winnow that further to three finalists who would be evaluated based on their technologies and sites.

The winner would be picked in 2015 and the environmental assessment and permitting would take until late 2016 before construction could start.

The plant wouldn’t open until late 2018.

Part of the long timeline is to allow extensive consultations with the Fraser Valley and any other affected communities.

Hunt said the “extreme” timeline is unavoidable but added he doesn’t like pushing the final decision beyond the 2014 civic elections, when a new board might unravel the project.

The wait doesn’t sit well with Covanta Energy, the operator

of the Burnaby incinerator that has been working since 2007 to build a new incinerator at the former Gold River pulp mill and hoped for a speedier decision.

“The timing is a disappointment,” Covanta vice-president Christopher Baker said.

“We have to sit back and assess the process and determine if we want to be a part of it or not, based on the timing. It’s financially draining.”

Other firms that are likely proponents include U.S.-based Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., which is owned by Waste Management Inc. and has partnered with Urbaser of Spain, as well as Vancouver’s Aquilini Renewal Energy, which has had site talks with the Tsawwassen First Nation.

More than a dozen other firms were informally surveyed

by Metro this summer and most intend to propose alternative technologies other than conventional mass burn incineration.

Five incineration firms told Metro they’ve already secured undisclosed sites – one within Metro and four outside the region – while two alt-tech firms said they are looking at possible in-region sites.

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Second Time Around in Ashcroft is pleased to announce that Anne Bonter is our new manager.

Congratulations Anne. She has been Warren Bellamy a long-time, hard 1944-2012 working volunteer It is with great sadness the at the store. family announces the Thank you passing of Warren Bellamy. everyone for all Warren was born in your support over Didsbury, Alberta on the summer making July 10,1944. He passed away on September this our best ever.

5, 2012 at his home in Grant applications Cache Creek. have been slow over Warren is survived by his daughter Sherry (Andy) the past two months, Bellamy, his granddaughter but we are comCarrie, sisters: Vivien Joss, Marilyn (Gord) Biggar, Janet et ing up to the busi(Guy) Alden, Yvonne Bellamy, Deanna est time of the year (John) Rudolph, Patricia (Mutsuo) Teshima, as for grants, so please well as numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews. keep to donations Warren was predeceased by his parents Norman coming. We are in and Mary Bellamy, his son Jaime and sisters Mary, need of quality furCatherine and Margaret.

Until his passing Warren was employed at School niture. If you have District #74. One of Warrens greatest joys were any you would like all the children who rode his bus. In his spare time Warren enjoyed working with different types of to donate, please wood, crafting some beautiful Jewellery, picture call Anne at 457frames, and table tops. He also loved spending time in nature and capturing beautiful photos of scenery 9781. and animals.

Watch for our Warren will be sadly missed by all who knew him.

A Service will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, Christmas sale September 15, 2012 at the Ashcroft Secondary on Nov. 17! Store School Gymnasium. hours are WednesArrangements under the direction of Thompson day and Friday, 9-3.

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Antoine does well at high school rodeo Kamloops This Week

Creek, 20.09; The Kamloops and 3. Tylee CoopDistrict High School er, Vernon, Rodeo was held on Sat23.6. urday, Sept. 8, at Deadman’s Creek Rodeo Jr. Cinch Grounds.

Boys Goat Cole Churchill of Tying Falkland was named 1. Owen the weekend’s allPerry, Kamaround cowboy and loops, 21.1; Maddy Mill of Kam- Harley Antoine 2.

Wyatt loops was the all-around cow- Armes, Williams Lake, 21.5; 3. girl.

Lincoln Yarma, Chase, 23.4.

The all-around junior cowboy was Owen Perry of Kam- Jr. Cinch Girls Pole loops, while Tylee Cooper of Bending Vernon won the junior cowgirl 1. Taneesha Beaupre, award.

Princeton, 24.45; 2. Harley AnHarley Antoine of Cache toine, Cache Creek, 24.72; 3.

Creek did well, placing in the Tylee Cooper, Vernon, 28.44.

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21.44; 2. Amy Pozzobon Merritt, 21.44; 3. Lane Will, Quesnel, 21.49.

Sr. Girls Barrel Racing 1. Vanessa Leggett, Kamloops, 15.83; 2. Fallon Fosberry, Merritt, 15.84; 3. Amy Pozzobon, Merritt, 16.17.

Sr. Girls Breakaway Roping 1. Maddy Mills, Kamloops, 2.4; 2. Samantha Kerr, Kamloops, 6.2; 3. Kirsten Bell Vanderhoof, 14.9.

Sr. Boys Steer Wrestling 1. Cole Churchill, Falkland, 8.1; 2. Matt Armes, Williams Lake, 18.1

Sr. Boys Tie Down Roping 1. Cole Churchill, Falkland, 14.1; 2. Chad Braaten, Williams Lake, 15.2; 3. Kyle Bell, Vanderhoof, 19.64.

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1. Nevada Dynneson, Rock Creek, 16.6; 2. Brook Wharry, Langley, 18.7.

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1. Harley Antione, Cache Creek/Owen Perry, Kamloops – 24.3.

1. Madison Stoltzfus, Merritt, 74; 2. Rachel Kerr, Kamloops, 72; 3. Bianca OlsenStyLes, Armstrong, 68.

Sr. Team Roping 1. Tara Perry, Kamloops/ Matt Armes, Williams Lake, 10.7; 2. Troy Gerard, Savona/ Kyle Bell, Vanderhoof, 1.6; 3.

Kirsten Bell,Vanderhoof/Amy Pozzobon, Merritt, 16.6.

Jr. Cinch Girls Goat Tying 1. Brook Wharry, Langley, 13.2; 2. Harley Antoine, Cache

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