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Vol. 53 No. 41 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (HST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com
A moo-ving experience: Parkview Elementary Principal Joan Chafe plants one on Katie, a jersey cow brought into the school gym Wednesday so that Chafe could live up to her end of a challenge she put out to students (and they met) to raise $400 for the Terry Fox Foundation. Be sure to check out the video at www.eaglevalleynews.com, or on the EVN Facebook page. Photo by James Murray
Arts Council receives good news on disaster assistance Appeal: Province upholds appeal against decision denying flood repair funding for Red Barn. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Being a squeaky wheel may soon pay off for Carla Krens and the Eagle Valley Arts Council, who have been trying to secure disaster financial assistance for flood damaged caused to the Red Barn Art Centre. Last week, Krens and the arts council received a lengthy letter from Rebecca Denlinger, the province’s fire and emergency management commissioner and Provincial Emergency Program director, explaining why they are now considered eligible to receive disaster financial assistance. Denlinger’s letter is in response to an appeal by the arts council, which had applied for, and was subsequently denied, financial aid through Emergency Management BC’s Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) pro-
gram. The funding was sought to help with the cost of repairing damage caused by this summer’s flooding. According to an Aug. 17 letter from Emergency Management BC, the arts council was denied funding on the grounds that it doesn’t qualify as a “charitable,” volunteer organization. “My dispute is with the fact that since we have income of any kind through the rental of the Red Barn, we’re disqualified,” Krens, the arts council’s treasurer, explained to the News. “I don’t see why income equates to non-charitable, because the Red Cross is definitely a charitable organization and they raise funds. And we raise funds through rental, so I don’t see the reason for us being disqualified.” Work in progress: Eagle Valley Arts Council treasurer Carla Krens takes Krens raised the point that the regulation in the work being done by volunteers to repair the damaged caused to the Red See George Abbott on page 3 Barn Arts Centre during summer’s flooding. File photo