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Boundary area RCMP detachments were successful in apprehending two men believed to be responsible for a robbery with violence at the Evening Star Motel in Greenwood early in the morning on Monday (Dec. 17).

According to Staff Sgt. Jim Harrison, NCO of the Boundary Regional Detachment, Midway RCMP received a report of a robbery and forcible confinement at around 1:37 a.m. On arrival investigators spoke to a female employee at the motel. The suspects had tied the woman up during the robbery; however, she was otherwise physically unharmed.

Other Boundary area detachments were notified of the incident and at approximately 2 a.m. members from the Grand Forks RCMP stopped a grey Nissan Pathfinder that was eastbound on Hwy 3 and arrested two males matching the description of the suspects in this case.

The police investigation is continuing with members from Midway, Grand Forks, Kootenay Boundary GIS and Forensic Identification Services working on the case.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Friday, Dec 21: Singing Kettles Christmas Concert at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Kettle Valley at 7 p.m.

Monday, Dec 24: Community Candlelight Carol Service, 7 p.m. at the United Church in Greenwood. Everyone welcome.

Tuesday, Dec 25: Free Christmas Dinner at 1 p.m. in McArthur Centre in Greenwood. Call Nora 445-2216 to book a seat.

Reservations are a must as they are planning for 60.

Tuesday, Dec 25: Free Christmas Dinner, Midway Community Hall at 2 p.m. (see our ad in this week’s paper).

Saturday, Dec 29: Greenwood Inn Pre-New Years Eve Party - live music by Undercover, steak & crab leg dinner.

Call 250-445-6623 for tickets.

Monday, Dec. 31: New Years Dinner & Dance at McArthur Centre. $25 per person (dinner & dance) at 6 p.m. or $15 (dance only) at 8 p.m. Call 250-443-4124 or 250-445-6645. Proceeds to McArthur Centre kitchen reno.

Monday, Dec. 31: New Years Family Fun Skate from Family at Midway arena from 4-6 p.m. Sponsored by RCMP Community Consultative Group and the Village of Midway.

Tuesday, Jan. 1: New Year’s Day Brunch at Mile 0 Diner in Midway from 10 am - 1 pm. $11.99 Great selection. Reservations recommended. Call 250-449-2789 REGULAR EVENTS: Mondays - Nov 26, Dec 10 and Dec 17: The Community Learning Place free, drop-in at Greenwood Public Library. Learn about computers, IPhone, reading, math, etc. Times vary so check at the library.

Mondays: Rock Creek Guiding Unit from 3:30 to 5. Info Linda Sheppard 250-445-6718.

Mondays: Midway Art Club meets from 2 - 4 p.m. Info: 250-449-2673.

Mondays: Pokino at the Greenwood Seniors Centre, starts at 1 p.m.

Mondays: Legion drop in crib at the Greenwood Legion 7 PM start. $3 for the evening.

Monday - Saturday: Drop-in social at the Greenwood Seniors Centre, Mon/Wed/Fri - 9-11 a.m., Tues/Thurs/Sat - 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Monday & Thursdays: Free Yoga Classes, 6 – 7:30 pm at Greenwood Elementary. Must register with Selkirk College. For more info call Diane 250-445-6364 First & Third Monday: Midway Village Council meeting; 6:30 p.m. with a delegation or 7 p.m. if none.

First & Third Monday: The Bridge Drop-in Centre in Midway is open from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Second Monday: The Bridge Drop-in Centre sorting day 10-2 p.m. All helpers are appreciated.

Second & Fourth Monday: Greenwood City Council meeting at 7 p.m.

Third Monday: Bridesville Women’s Institute meets at 11 am. Info: 446-2210 or 446-2121.

Third Monday: Frolicking Fancies – the Greenwood Red Hat Ladies Group meet monthly in Greenwood. Information Francine 250-445-6734; or Shirley 250-445-9908.

Third Monday: Discover Rock Creek Society meets in the WBES library at 6:30.

Last Monday: Kettle River Recreation Commission meets at the Rock Creek Trading Post at 7 p.m. Info: 250-446-2624.

Tuesdays: AA Meetings at McArthur Centre in Greenwood at 8:00 pm.

Tuesdays: January 8 through February 12: Bible study and study The Sermon on the Mount at Rock Creek Medical Centre 7 to 8 p.m.

Tuesdays & Thursdays: Taekwondo 6-7 p.m. West Boundary Elementary Gym. $55 for uniform; lessons are free. Instructor Bo Macfarlane.

Tuesdays and Thursdays: Kettle River Art Club meets from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. In McArthur Centre.

First Tuesday: Elks #493 monthly meeting at the Slavonic Hall in Grand Forks at 7pm. Info: 250-442-2856 or 250-442-4276.

Second Tuesday: Greenwood Board of Trade meets at 7 p.m. upstairs at City Hall.

Wednesdays: Boundary Guiding Unit Midway. Info Elaine Fromme 449-2309 or Sue Fielding 250-445-9955 Wednesdays: Greenwood & District Business Assoc. meeting. Anglican Church at 7 pm.

Wednesdays: Drop in Bingo at Greenwood Seniors Centre, starts 5:30 pm.

Wednesdays: Belly Dancing at Bridesville Hall from 6:30 – 8 p.m. No experience necessary. Free. Info: 250-446-2942.

Wednesdays: Midway Crib Tournament – Bored Room Bistro 607 Eighth Avenue, Midway at 6:30 p.m.

Second Wednesday: Boundary Citizen’s Patrol meets at Midway Senior’s Centre from 7 - 8 pm. Info: Wayne 250-449-2191, Paul 250-445-2111, or Wolfgang 250-446-2455.

Third Wednesday: Rock Creek Women’s Institute meet for a potluck lunch at 11:45. Info: 250-446-2454 or 250-446 -2608.

Third Wednesday: Main River Women’s Institute meets in Westbridge at 10 a.m. Info: 250-446-2616.

Third Wednesday: Kettle Valley Wildlife Association meets at the range in Rock Creek at 7 pm.

Third Wednesday: Greenwood Seniors Centre meeting. Info: 250-445-2290.

Third Wednesday: Rock Creek & Boundary Fair Assoc. meets at 7 pm at the pavilion from March through November. Info: 250-446-2465.

Last Wednesday: West Boundary Senior Housing Society meeting at 7 pm in Parkview Manor Midway.

Thursdays: Singing Kettles choir group meets for practice - 4 p.m. at St Mary’s Church in Kettle Valley Thursdays: Kettle River Art Club Thursdays: The Riverside Artists meet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Kettle Wildlife Hall.

First Thursday: Rock Creek Medical Society meets at 7 p.m. in the boardroom of the clinic.

First & Third Thursday: Food bank at the Evangel Chapel at 11 a.m. Donations welcome. Info 250-445-2125.

Second & Fourth Thursday: Kettle River Lions Club meets at 7 p.m. in the Medical Clinic boardroom at Rock Creek.

Thursdays: Art of Balance at West Boundary Elementary 4 to 5 p.m. – drop in fee.

Thursdays: Pirana Poker Tour BC Tournament – Bored Room Bistro 607 Eighth Avenue, Midway at 6:30 p.m.

Thursdays and Fridays: Midway Summer Reading Club at the library. 10–11:15 a.m. – Age 4 to 10.

Fridays: Bingo at Greenwood Community Hall. Doors open 5 p.m., early bird 7 p.m.

Progressive jackpot.

Fridays: Coffee at Midway Seniors Centre from 9:30 - 11.

Fridays: Greenwood Legion 8-ball Tournament at 7 p.m. $2 per person - $1 to Legion & $1 to the pot, winner take all.

Fridays: Overeaters Anonymous 11 a.m. - 12 noon at St. Jude’s Church in Greenwood.

Fridays: Greenwood Legion Darts Night at 7 pm $3 drop in fee.

Third Friday: Movie nights at Midway Community Hall; 7 p.m. Bring your own travel cup. $2 includes movie, drink and a popcorn.

Saturdays: Lion’s Club Meat Draw, at Prospector Pub in Rock Creek. Starts at 3 p.m.

Saturdays: Greenwood Royal Canadian Legion Canteen open 1-6 pm. Meat draw 3:30 p.m.

Saturdays: Christina Lake Indoor Public Market 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Christina Lake Village. Info: 1-866-460-9447.

Saturdays: Rock Creek Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

First Sunday: Royal Canadian Legion Br. #155 meets at 2 p.m.

Greenwood Public Library: Open Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat. Opens at noon.

Greenwood Seniors Centre Thrift Store: Open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday 11 a.m.- 3 p.m.

Bylaw gets redraft At the Dec. 10 Greenwood Council meeting, a 10-page report on the four options for garbage collection was made public. There were 88 surveys returned.

Option 1 – raise bag tag fees was favored by 19.

Option 2 – flat charge of $50 by 15 respondents.

Option 3 – flat charge of $80 was preferred by 43.

Option 4 – combination of 1, 2 and 3 was chosen by 10 people.

One survey was returned detailing an additional option.

Chief Administrative Officer Robin Dalziel told council that his calculation of the number of businesses and residents utilizing the garbage service shows that the original proposal of $80 per year would have resulted in a surplus of $15,000 per year.

Council spent an hour discussing the impact of charging the flat-fee for the garbage service.

Council directed staff to redraft the bylaw

charging residential customers $65 per year, and that there be a maximum of two bags.

Because the amount of commercial garbage generated was seen to vary from business to business and it would be difficult for some businesses to be limited to two bags, it was decided that business and commercial rate classes would remain on the bag tag system at a cost of $1.50 per tag.

Councillor Barry Noll told council that regional district staff warned him the new fee structure would be abused. “You will find that your tonnage is going to go up and you will pay more of a fee,” he said.

Council also wants to see a 10 per cent discount applied to water, sewer and garbage bills if paid by the end of February.

The new bylaw also has provisions for spring-cleaning and defines maximum sizes for garbage bags and cans.

The city will refund residents with bag tags when the tags are presented at City Hall after the bylaw has come into effect.

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Greenwood Council and staff meeting for their final regularly scheduled meeting for 2012.

Council hands out $1,300

Greenwood council was in a MIDWAY LIBRARY 2013 Councillor Barry Noll reported giving mood at their regular meethe had attended his first regional ing Dec. 10. They voted to provide district meeting representing the a $600 grant-in-aid to the Phoenix city. The regional district will keep Alpine Ski Society payable in Janu$1 million in the Greenwood Heriary 2013, $600 grant-in-aid to the Boundary Weed Management Committee and tage Credit Union. “I thanked the board and the $100 to Greenwood’s Santa’s Helpers. regional district on behalf of the citizens of GreenA request from the Boundary New-Years Free- wood and expressed how important the service is Skate at Midway was turned down though after to our community,” said Noll. *** Councillor Darla Ashton told council the GreenThe regional district has chosen a new animal wood Recreation Commission had already docontrol officer. Rick Smith from rural Grand Forks nated $200. was awarded the contract. *** *** Ashton reported that the Recreation CommisMayor Kettle announced council appointments sion is planning a dummy toboggan race at “Adventure Playground” by Copper Vista on British for the coming year. Ashton argued they needed to be ratified by council but Kettle said those are Columbia’s first Family Day on Feb. 11, 2013.

She asked that it be advertised on the city web- appointments that the mayor makes because they page that the rec commission is looking for new are standing committees under section 141 of the community charter. “It is one of the few powers members; those interested, contact city hall. that you do have as a mayor,” said Kettle. *** Cudworth asked to withdraw as city representaCouncillor Lee Cudworth read a report prepared by City Works Foreman Randy Smith. Wa- tive on the Community Forest. Kettle announced ter leaks were repaired on Dundee and Boundary that Councillor Colleen Lang would take his place. *** Creek Lane.

Council remuneration was increased by $100 Additional security has been put in place on the water reservoir lid and they have an engineered for each member. Effective Jan. 1, 2013 the mayor hatch coming in the next few weeks. If it passes receives $7,800 per year and councilors $5,400. *** IHA inspection it will be purchased and installed.

Annual maintenance and repair of fire hydrants Bylaws for water and sewer rate increases anwas completed, as was ditching on Gowry and Al- nounced at councils’ previous meeting were given three readings. Water rates for residential users will corn Avenue.

Greenwood hosted a Worksafe BC confined increase by 20 per cent (three per cent for other space training seminar that included Greenwood users). Sewer rates will increase by three per cent and Midway public works employees as well as across the board. Sewer went up $5.85 and water members of the Midway Volunteer Fire Depart- by $48.80 for residential properties. The new resiment. More training is scheduled for spring of dential rate for both water and sewer is $493.10.

GREENWOOD COUNCIL REPORT

FREE chRistmas Day DinnER Midway Community Hall 2:00 p.m.

DECEMBER 25, 2012

Everyone Welcome If you would like to HELP with the dinner call Elaine 250-449-1977 or Martin 250-449-1978 If you need TRANSPORTATION from Rock Creek area or Midway call Rick: 250-446-2810 or Martin 250-449-1978

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McMynn honoured with Queen’s medal James McMynn served the Village of Midway with distinction as its Mayor from incorporation in 1967 to his retirement in 2005. Mr. McMynn has the prestigious title of being the longest serving Mayor in Canada - 38 years. His leadership contributed to the development of Midway’s economy and its necessary services and amenities. His leadership and involvement in the wellbeing of the community set an example for others to follow and has made Midway a better place to live.

Jim was a University of B.C. commerce grad (1954) and also served as a Trustee on Midway’s school board for a decade. Jim was also one of the founding members of the volunteer fire department.

James McMynn was the proprietor of James G. McMynn Agencies since 1966, when he took over the insurance business from his father who started the business in the 40’s. Today his son Doug McMynn runs the agency.

Jim still lives in Midway and stays involved with the community especially with the re-opening of the Midway Mill, which has been integral for the community and has brought families back to Midway.

The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal is a tangible way for Canada to honour Her Majesty for her service to this country. At the same time, it serves to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.

During the year of celebrations, 60,000 deserving Canadians from across the country and various walks of life will be recognized.

McMynn is the third West Boundary resident to be honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Honoured in September were Marge Maclean and Bob Hatton.

(Right) James McMynn from Midway receives the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from MLA John Slater along with Mr. Slater’s nomination submission for Mr. McMynn.

(Below) Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal recipient James McMynn (centre) with MLA Slater and four generations of the McMynn family.

Ring in the

New Year

and benefit your community with FOTGIS’ fundraising dinner & dance.

December 31, 2012 Greenwood Community Hall Tickets: $25 per person (dinner & dance) at 6:00 pm or $15 per person (dance only) at 8:00 pm Roast Beef dinner with double stuffed baked potato, caesar salad, veg, roll & dessert Dance to Kucher Sound Champagne & party favours at midnight. designated drivers available Call 250-443-4124 or 250-445-6645 for tickets.

Proceeds to rehabilitating the kitchen at the McArthur Centre

FOTGIS

Saving Taxes through the Right Investments

“I’d rather hide my money in a mattress than give the government more income tax!” How many times have you thought about that statement when it comes to making investments outside of a tax deferred investment such as an RRSP? Many people want to invest outside their RRSP but are reluctant to give up the deductible contributions and tax deferred compounding. They also know that any money earned outside their RRSP is subject to taxes in the year it’s earned—even if it isn’t received in cash. These types of investment earnings may be just enough to push you into the next tax bracket, or worse, reduce any social benefits that you may be receiving or qualify for.

Most investors today will utilize investment vehicles such as Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GIC’s) and Mutual Funds.

With a GIC, you deposit the funds with a bank or investment company and they agree to pay you a set rate of return. The interest that you earn on this investment is 100% taxable. With Mutual Funds however, there is no set rate of return that the fund will pay, but from time to time the fund will declare dividends and capital gains which, more tax favourable than GIC’s, you will still have to pay income tax on. With both these types of investments, you will receive a T-slip at year end to declare on your taxes.

Now what if you could be in control of when to pay income tax on your non-registered portfolio? You can. Some investment companies today have come up with a version of mutual funds called Corporate Class Funds. Corporate class funds are a version of traditional mutual funds except that they are held within a corporation. Within this type of fund, income distributions are minimized and capital gains are deferred until the investor redeems from the corporation. As long as you leave your money invested,

you do not pay income tax until you actually take money out of your account.

Corporate class funds allow the investor to adjust their portfolio to capitalize on changing market trends, gains in specific industries, or regional and economic developments. Too many times I’ve seen clients hang on to a fund due to the negative tax consequences of making a change. With a corporate class fund, this is alleviated as all switches to other funds within the corporation will not trigger a taxable event. This feature makes rebalancing an investment portfolio all the easier as investment decisions are made based on the clients objectives not tax consequences.

With a corporate class fund you get to control when to claim capital gains and losses. This would be especially beneficial for taxpayers who are confined to a nursing home which bases their per diem rates on net income. Similarly, publicly funded drug payment plans are also often based on the size of the taxpayer’s income and being able to control your net income would help in the level of funding received.

Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the prospectus before investing. Mutual fund securities are not insured or guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.

Robert J. Ogloff is a Certified Financial Planner in Grand Forks. His office is located at 245 - 72nd Ave. across from Your Dollar Store With More and can be reached at 250-442-3164.

LIFE’S BRIGHTER under the sun.

Robert J. Ogoff, CFP

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City keeps services IHA will meet to talk about lab services At the Dec. 10 meeting of Greenwood city council, Mayor Nipper Kettle said lab services in the city might be in danger of being cut from its current schedule every Monday for one hour at the Medical Center at the corner of Centre and Government Streets in Greenwood.

According to Mayor Nipper Kettle the office is not wheelchair accessible, has no refrigerator to store blood and lacks a second exit.

“The cost to make this accessible would be expensive so we looked around and since it is only for one hour per week we talked about options.

Two options that have been identified: move the service downstairs to Dr. Ajaero’s office or move it to McArthur Centre Community Hall.

“We cannot afford to lose this valuable service

CRTC grants extension for LTSS program A request by Shaw Communications for an extension of the eligibility period for the Local Television Satellite Solution (LTSS) for 12 months to Nov. 30, 2013 has been granted by the CRTC. Under LTSS, people who lost local television service when analogue rebroadcast towers were shut down last summer may be eligible for free satellite equipment.

Cynthia Rathwell, vice-president regulatory affairs Shaw Communications, also received permission to allocate tangible benefit funds towards the administration and marketing of the program during that period.

As part of the purchase of Canwest Global Communications Inc. (Canwest), Shaw allocated a portion of its tangible benefits package to the provision of free local or regional services, and the necessary satellite receiving equipment and installation services, for up to 31,500 households that have lost access to one or more local over-the-air stations as a result of the digital television transition.

According to Shaw, subscriptions to the LTSS program have increased 77 per cent since July 2012, and indicated that households continue to request access to the program. Call 1-888-7827602 for more information.

Know route before you go Motorists heading out for the holiday season can get all the information they need for a safe and informed trip by visiting: www.driveBC.ca Current highway conditions, travel advisories and closures are always available on the DriveBC website. The site is updated continuously to reflect the latest highway conditions throughout the province.

A new Plan Your Route feature has been added that provides DriveBC information along your chosen route and is available for both the desktop and mobile DriveBC websites. Drive BC also features route-specific weather forecasts, and, with over 250 highway webcams strategically placed around the province, motorists can also see the real-time highway conditions.

DriveBC updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook and motorists can register for text messages and email to receive up-to-date information on their desktop or mobile device.

for our residents. They depend on this and many do not have the ways and means to travel.”

By Friday Kettle was able to report that lab services will not be leaving the community.

He said he had received a call from Ingrid Hampf, Interior Health acute area director, as well as an email from Dr. Robert Halpenny, CEO of Interior Health. They both said that IHA would meet with the city early in the new year to talk about the issue.

Times Get with the

Thursday, December 20, 2012 Boundary Creek Times A5

MEET OUR OPERATORS Jeff Fraser – Midway Jeff has been a professional equipment operator in the highway maintenance industry for 15 years.

Jeff’s Safety Tip: “Pavement can stay more than 5º colder than air temperature.”

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A6 Boundary Creek Times Thursday, December 20, 2012

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Slippery slope A new day has dawned. Next February municipal governments will, for the first time, be required to purchase carbon credits to offset the greenhouse gases that are produced by their operations.

They have been moving toward this day since signing the Carbon Action Charter. In 2008 three regional districts - East Kootenay, Kootenay Boundary, and Central Kootenay – opted to work together with five First Nations groups and the Columbia Basin Trust to achieve the goal.

Carbon Neutral Kootenays was created with the task of measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of each community. Many greenhouse gas reduction opportunities were identified and acted upon.

But the day has now come when local government must buy credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions and this month Midway and Greenwood were asked to choose where they would like to buy their credits. They were given two choices – buy from the Darkwoods Conservation Project near Kootenay Lake or from Pacific Carbon Trust – a carbon offset broker.

Darkwoods has credits to sell because they own 50,000 hectares of forest that has been placed beyond the reach of loggers or developers - therefore the carbon stored in the trees is counted as on the positive side of the carbon balance sheet.

Questions came up at both council tables – what exactly are they buying?

What is a tonne of carbon? What does it look like?

How big is it? Can you taste it, can you see it, or can you feel it?

Neither community will know how many tonne they need to buy until their 2012 inventories are completed. Nor were they told what the price would be.

Asking elected officials to commit to spending tax dollars without complete understanding of how much it costs and what they are getting in return is not a good way to do government. It’s a slippery slope.

Letters Policy The Times welcomes letters to the editor that are of interest to our community.

Whatever the subject, there are a few basic guidelines to follow before The Times will publish your comment.

– Letters must be received by 4 p.m. Friday for the following week’s paper.

– One letter per person per month.

– Letters should be typed or neatly written and present the issues as clearly as possible in 350 words or less.

– All letters must contain the name, address and signature of the writer, and a phone number where they may be reached during business hours.

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– The editor reserves the right to edit for length, clarity or reject letters over matters of libel, legality, taste or style.

Letters published do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy or belief of this newspaper.

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Weatherman says look outside!

It looks like we’re going to have a white Christmas in the But I can’t put in a video without running a cartoon first Boundary this year. and my favourite is a PIXAR animation called Boundin’ I have been getting harassed almost weekly to write an that is at the front end of the Incredibles video. article about the upcoming weather. There I’ve done it.

The film features a sheep that lived in the American If you want a more detailed weather report – open the West whose elegant dancing is very popular with the other door and step outside. animals. One day the sheep-shearers arrive and shear all *** his wool.

Special K made a great salad for my dinner Having lost his coat, the sheep becomes shy A LITTLE the other night. It had cucumber, tomato, garlic and loses all confidence – after all, without his and onion, pork from those barbeque skewers PERSPECTIVE wool the other animals now laugh at him and you buy at the super market – it even had some say he’s ridiculous, funny and pink. olives.

While sitting there in a deep funk a jackI was very impressed. I hadn’t expected the alope comes across the little lamb and teaches presentation to be so fancy. him the merits of “bounding” rather than But as I was chowing down I noticed one dancing (that is, getting up whenever you fall piece of lettuce that looked just a little “off ”. down). The jackalope tells him: Pat It wasn’t wilted and brown – it was shiny.

Sometimes you’re up and sometimes KELLY Turns out a piece of plastic wrap had somehow you’re down made it into my salad.

When you find that you’re down well just That reminds me of a Thanksgiving dinner I look around was invited to several years ago.

You’ve still got a body – good legs and fine feet Dinner was over with and it was time for the pie. I cho Get your head in the right place and hey you’re comse pumpkin. It was quite tasty. But there was a bit too much plete! fibre in my diet that night. *** It seems that the piecrust was a pre-made one that you Andy Shelton stopped by the newspaper this morning buy by the stack at the grocery store. to find out a name he’d forgotten. He never did get that Between each pie crust there is a piece of waxed paper to name he was looking for. But, judging by the story he told keep them from sticking together. me, he was lucky to have made it as far as he did that mornMy host had neglected to take the paper liner out before ing. pouring in the pumpkin.

He said that when he’d left the house he couldn’t for the I think special K has been borrowing recipes from Do- life of him find his car keys. He said he always keeps them reen Lyle. in his jacket pocket – but they weren’t there. *** He ran around for over 30 minutes searching for the Special K and I have started moving back toward the blasted things – looking high and low – until he realized he television in the living room. It’s Christmas and we have the was wearing his wife’s jacket. tradition of watching a few movies over the holidays. We’ll *** definitely watch It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve as Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas – may you and we do whenever we are home for Christmas. yours be safe this holiday season and beyond.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 Boundary Creek Times A7

Issue not the fair – it’s the finances!

Editor, The Times:

Re: Fair board has worked very hard Naleen Barchuk; Director (BCT Dec. 6, 2012) The board has refused the legitimate request, of six members, to view the financial information since Feb. 2012; for the fiscal years of 2010, 2011 and now 2012.

Three of the requesting members have been wrongfully stripped of their membership for one year. This dismissal

does not conform to bylaw provisions as suggested by Schedule B of the Society Act No financial information has been made available to view by the membership, or the community regarding the fair on Sept. 15/16, 2012.

A few concerns are: no provision for proof of payment for the yearly land lease from the government for the fair grounds property, or by whom is paying the lease for the past three years.

Has the insurance been paid up to date? With so many missing documents and no financial statements for 2010

HUGS S and G U L S

and 2012 has the GST and HST been paid? And many more unanswered concerns.

The fair was a great success in 2012.

Volunteers are the backbone of the success of the fair. It appears there needs to be more volunteers in the office to look after the business of the fair and safekeeping of the records, and accountability, and up-to-date ledgers for the members to view.

On behalf of concerned citizens and volunteers Faye Hansinger, Westbridge

Grand Forks Gazette Reporter

School District 51 (SD51) board trustees and staff discussed the topic of middle schools during the Dec. 11 school board meeting.

Hutton Elementary School teacher Claire Naylor and Grand Forks Secondary School (GFSS) teacher Sean Anderson were amongst nine other teachers who visited in Aldergrove, B.C. to look at the middle school system earlier this month.

Paid by the district, teachers spent the weekend Dec. 8 and 9 at Betty Gilbert Middle School to look at the middle school model and to determine whether it would work in Grand Forks. Teachers were unable to attend last year due to ongoing job action.

The trip itself cost the district $5,500.

Both teachers returned from the trip with positive impressions of the middle school format, which would resemble the proximity of what the schools in Grand Forks would change into. Perley Elementary School would switch to a middle school for Grades 6 to 8, while GFSS would remain as high school from Grades 9 to 12.

Naylor noted the middle school had an elementary school feel and was very orderly.

“Another great thing about it is it’s kids focused and based,” she said. “It is an elementary school where people see you and recognize your talents. The school is very, very personal and it feels very homey. The child is really respected. They aren’t lost in a crowd and it’s not too big for them.”

The main issue raised was the amount of accessible resources available to the Aldergrove schools in comparison to Grand Forks, Anderson pointed out.

“This system works really well in Aldergrove but they also have access to the resources to really put all the building

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Hugs: To the truck drivers who keep goods moving up and down the highways for us.

Hugs: (and a plate of cookies and glass of milk) for Santa.

Teachers investigate middle school

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purchase of four new school blocks where they need to put them to really MIDWAY LIBRARY buses as part of a $14 million investment by the Provmake it work,” he added. ince of British Columbia.

The teachers will be The school district will presenting their thoughts receive $540,523 for the about the middle school system to their colleagues, and the in- four buses, which was requested in the formation gathered by teachers will be district’s five-year plan.

As previously mentioned, in order included in the board’s decision-making to qualify for a replacement bus from process.

The school board will be discussing the government, the bus needs to be on the middle school system on Tuesday, a regular school route and have met or Feb. 12 at its regular board meeting in exceeded criteria regarding age and distance driven. For a 78- to 84-passenger the school board office in Grand Forks. bus, it has to be 15 years old or driven Quebec Exchange A plan is in the works for Grade 10 400,000 kilometres. For a 24- to 72-pasand 11 GFSS students taking French senger bus, it has to be at least 12 years class to participate in an exchange pro- old or driven 325,000 kilometres, and for a minibus, at least 10 years old or gram.

Teacher David Reimer is organizing driven 250,000 kilometres.

Hanlon noted now that the bylaw has the trip and is applying to the Society for Educational Visits and Exchanges been passed, the buses could be purCanada (SEVEC), a national non-profit chased.

She added the buses would most likeorganization, for an exchange with a francophone group in Quebec next fall. ly arrive later next year.

Board Representatives SEVEC will cover most of the costs for 2013 of the trip through funds from Heritage Board trustees have elected Teresa Canada, though a $50 application and $50 individual student application fee Rezansoff to remain as board chair for will need to be submitted if the applica- 2013.

Trustees also elected Cathy Riddle tion is accepted.

Participants will begin fundraising as provincial councilor for the British this year to cover the costs of activities Columbia School Trustees Association, when the partner school visits Grand with turstee Dave Reid as the alternate.

Trustee Cindy Strukoff was elected as Forks. the representative to the British ColumSD51 Finances Secretary-treasurer Jeanette Han- bia Public School Employer’s Associalon noted an update on the 2012/2014 tion, with trustee Ken Harshenin as the school budget in the January board alternate.

For the Okanagan Labor Relations meeting (Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013).

The amended budget will need to be Council, which is the delegated bargainapproved by the school board at Tues- ing authority and labour management day, Feb. 12, 2013 board meeting or lat- activities for the Okanagan, Reid was elected as the representative, with Hanest by Feb. 28. lon as the alternative.

New Buses Purchased The next SD51 school board meeting Board trustees passed the Capital Project Bylaw No. 114932 for four new will be on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 at the Boundary Learning Centre in Midway school buses.

SD51 has received funding for the at 6 p.m.

SD 51 NOTES REPORT

You are invited to our annual

Community Candlelight Carol Service at the United Church

Dec. 24 ~ 7:00 pm ~ St. Columba 101 S. Government St., Greenwood The United Church and the Evangel Chapel will be doing a joint service.

Everyone is welcome to come to this special evening of carols and service

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That’s right!

We’re launching 2013 early!

Saturday, December 29

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Happy Pre-New Year’s

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 Boundary Creek Times A9

Christmas Greetings 2012

Times

An eight-page special supplement to

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Action – Adventure Fine Dining Entertainment Travel – Romance — And Lots of Laughter!

Wishing You A Newsworthy Season!

May your holiday season contain all the makings of lasting memories for you and your loved ones.

We appreciate your readership and look forward to your continued support.

Times THE BOUNDARY CREEK

Featuring memories and traditions of the season and Letters to Santa

May your Christmas be wrapped in joy and filled with love, best wishes for peace, health and happiness throughout the coming year.

Season’s Greetings

from the Council and Staff of the Village of Midway

A10 Boundary Creek Times Thursday, December 20, 2012 Dear Santa, How are you to day. haws Routolph? The red nose rain deer. Can I have robot cat for Christmas. I want some more easy bake oven stuff.

By Dakota Dueck Age 7 years old

Dear S anta...

Dear Santa, My wish is an ipod. Santa, please bring me that present.

To Santa, from Gabriel Tomashewsky.

I also like Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Merry Christmas. Fly careful.

Dear Santa, I would like Some New Dolls that Come with a house and furniture and doll clothes. I think I’ve been good all year except when me and my brother �ight. A leap from pad would make a good gift xxo.

From Isabella Tomashewsky

We appreciate your support & wish you a very Safe & Happy Holiday

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Wishing everyone the best of the holiday season!

Mayor Nipper Kettle Greenwood, BC

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

With thanks for your valued business this past year. Have a great holiday and we look forward to serving you next year.

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Dear Saanta How are you doing? and How is Mrs. Claus doing at The North pole to day. Waw is the reen deer feeling to day?

Santa, you are Nise I wont a dsi I wont books and I wont a col aring sheets with sticrss and a teeihr soot thank you Santa Yours truly, Nikhita Hollihn Age: 7

Dear Santa what does Rudolph have for dinner? Santa what does wour elfs make for Christmas? I wish you marre Christmas Santa? Can I have a rell musicll instrumint? Wat cind of coockese do you want? I want a Dvd player? I want new movies? and I want a play sdashine.

Yours truly, Trinity Grif�iths Age: 7 Dear Santa.

How are you. can I please have a note book. and big doll, and paint set. then I want a �ish Tanck. and a reale camra. and a angel doll to. and a phone. and a puppy with spots.

Yours truly, Zoe Sharpe Age: 7

Dear Santa How are you doing Santa. How are rudoff and dasher and Donner and blitsen and pranser. Can I please have some lego sets I think you no what I mean and a xbox 360 and a tablet. thats not it can I please have a wooden toy truck and a puppy. yours truly, Lucas Davies age 8 Dear Santa How are you? Is Rudolph’s nose still red? For Christmas I want a lot of Lego star Wars building sets. but it doesn’t have to be Lego it but it still has to be star wars. I also Want a x box360 and my own Lego Starwars3 the video game. I also want a Nintendo 3ds. I hope you enjoy my cookies Yours truly Jacob Colin Age: 8

Dear santa.

How du yu like yon cukes? I wud like a nu bik and a barbea and I wont a teaset and a blue stuffea and a hors book.

Yours truly, Izzy Marie Bineau Age: 7

Dear Santa What tipe of cookies do you want. How is roodof doing Santa?. How are the other raindeers doing?. Are the raindeers fun?. I want for Christmas is a alorm clock. I wont for Christmas is a playstashon Yours truly Ayden Colin Age: 8

Dear Santa, Here is a snack for you and ruddolph. Happy xmas to the randear and you and Mrss clos and aspeshely roddolph the red nose randear. I hope you have a happy xmas. Can I have a phone and a ipod and a 3d nentendow ds for xmas.

Yours truly Sarah Nelaon age 7 Dear Santa How are your reindeer? Can you pleas give me a new Hannah Montana phone for me and a new song set and lots of new toys for me and my sister but not to much and Santa how is Rudalph? How are your elves? and my dad wont’s a book about the army my sister rely wont’s a new DS game and my mom wont’s new purse and my cat needs a new toy to play with.

Yours truly Mia Jenifer Faminoff Age: 8

Dear Santa, How are your reindeers? and how are you? I would like to have a phone and the decorations is horses and I would like to get a suitcase with a big make up set and a diary. That note you sent me I tried to be good but I could not because my sister cept getting me mad.

Yours truly Taylor Rae Marie Cudworth Age: 7 Dear Santa, wet wud you like for Chrismas. I want to send sumthing to you this time. I will give you cukees. I want for Chrismas a ganing cumbyoter.

by Sean Davies Age: 7

Dear Santa What kind of koocees would you like? I will give you a apll for roodof and I will give you sum kerits. and this time I will give you sam milk. I wont a komputr for crismis and I wont a ipod and a ring for mom.

Yours truly, Anna Smith Age: 6 Dear Santa What do you want for Christmas? I want a lap top and same zooballs. I hop you have a hape Christmas. I love roodof the red nose randar. Wat tip of coces do you want?

Yours truly, Rayanne Goddard Age: 7

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We appreciate your local support.

Happy Holidays!

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 Boundary Creek Times A11 Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! I want a red skateboard. Please. Do you like smoothies?

I do like smoothies. My Mommy wants snowshoes and my daddy wants a shovel.

My dog Ella wants red snowshoes.

From Noah Age 2 Dear Santa, I hope you had a good year! I wundrd how you are I wot to nuoo how you go to all thoss houses all that nutt.

You are the best uvv all I Love You I do not get it how yo go to all thoss houses you are the best.

From Katie Benbow Grade 1, Midway Elementary Dear Santa, I love you. How do you feel? I want a toy air plane. I love you.

From Roan Kindergarten, Midway Elementary

Dear Santa, I love you so so so much. I wish you could bring me play blade. I wish you could bring me a math book. Thank-you.

From Boone Kindergarten, Midway Elementary Dear Santa, what do you want for Christmas? I want a Barbie house. you are the best!

From Divjot Grade 1, Midway Elementary

Dears Santa, I like you. Please give me a police car and an ambulance. Can you please come to my house?

From Zack Kindergarten, Midway Elementary

Dear Santa, I love you. What do your elves look like? What do you want for Christmas? you are the best.

I want a booke that you rite in pleess. I hope you have a good Christmas.

From Elise Grade 1, Midway Elementary

Dear Santa, I want an air place for Christmas. Santa, have I been a good boy? Santa what do your elves look like in real life? Santa, what does your workshop look like in real life?

From Brayden Grade 1, Midway Elementary Dear Santa what do your elves look like? Can I have a felt marker air brush?

From Harlan Grade 1, Midway Elementary

Dear Santa, I want a lizard and a sword. I want a dog.

From Colby Kindergarten, Midway Elementary

Dear Santa, I love you. What do your elves look like? Do they have a green hat? Can I have a toy of you? What do the elves shoes look like?

From Melissa Kindergarten, Midway Elementary

Dear Santa, I hope you feel good and I hope the reindeer are happy.

I want a toy truck.

From Ayden Kindergarten, Midway Elementary Dear Santa, I want a toy that has reindeers and a sled with Santa in the sled.

I love you Santa.

I want a new bed set for my mom.

Thank-you.

From Melanie Ki ndergarten, Midway Elementary

Dear Santa, C ould you please bring me a Barbie house?

I love you.

Santa could you please bring me little guy pet shop. How do you feel?

From Lilliana Kindergarten, Midway Elementary

Dear S anta...

Dear Santa, I would like to have a ride in your sleigh. I would also like to meet all of the reindeer and �igure out what the reindeer

games are all about. In the future, I would like to work with your elves. For Christmas this year, please make certain that I get an x-box 360.

Yours truly, Tyson Lautard Age 10

Dear Santa, I have been a very good girl this year.

I was wondering are your elves kids? Do you use a whip to guide the reindeer? Is Rudolph real?

I hope that you like peanut butter, marshmallows and milk because that is what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to leave for you.

Sincerely, Bailey Rose Patterson Age 11

What is Christmas?

It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.

It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~ Agnes M. Pahro

Wishing you and your loved ones a safe and happy holiday season.

Bill Baird

Area E Director

A12 Boundary Creek Times Thursday, December 20, 2012 Dear Santa, I was wondering if you could ever retire your reindeer to buy some cows to �ly your sleigh. For Christmas, I would like an ipod touch, farm, and hockey stuff. I hope that you have a Merry Christmas.

Yours truly, Rylonn Elliott Age 10

Dear S anta...

Best Wishes this Holiday Season Thank you to all our neighbours and friends for your support this past year.

We look forward to seeing you again next year.

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Dear Saint Nick, Some of the things that I would love to have for Christmas are an ipod5th gen, an Xbox 360 controller, halo 4, black ops 2, and especially a laptop. The meaning for Christmas is for people to give and take from each other and enjoy lots of food with their families. Another meaning for Christmas is joy and love through out the whole world.

Yours truly, Elijah Leavins Age 11 Dear Santa, The holiday season is going very well for me. We just got our Christmas tree yesterday evening. But �irst, I want to ask you how things are going up in the North Pole? Is businesses running smooth? Do you still have the money?

Or are you just so stressed that you wish there was no Christmas at all?

The last one I was joking about by the way. If you have been too busy to check up on us I want to let you know that I have been excellent. Well maybe I have been a little rough. But you can count on me that I will be asleep on Christmas evening.

These are also a few things I would like for Christmas. I don’t want to stress you or anything but these are only a few things anyway. An IPod, A good pair of goalie gloves, an a good book are what I want I’ll let you choose this time because you know what I like.

Well that’s my message.

Sincerely, Matthias Bergendahl P.s. hope your reindeer still �ly… just kidding!

Dear Santa, I want a toy train Santa. I can’t believe how many houses you can go to Santa.

I love you Santa, you’re the bestest guy in the world.

Love Evan Kindergarten, Midway Elementary

Dear Santa Claus My name is Mya Nakatsu I am 5 years old and live in Westbridge.

The �irst wish on my list is health and happiness for everyone in my family and the whole wide world. The next is a real live kitten with longer hair and a spot on her eye. Next is a Merida Barbie doll from the movie Brave and Merida PJ’s.

A Super Mario Bros DS game that I can share with my brother Devon also if you have any Mario Bros PJ’s that would �it my brother he is 19 and a lot bigger than me. I would also like princess felt pens, princess towel, princess playdough and princess little people. If you could also get a new toy for my dog Woo�ie and treats for my mommy’s kitties Freaky and Lil Baby, they have a special tree outside. Thank you so much.

I have tried my best to be a very good girl this year. I have gone through all my toys and am giving away lots so that kids who don’t have much can enjoy the toys. I hope you have a safe trip. I love you Santa you are the bestest in the whole wide world. Please give the elves hugs from me and thank them for working so hard so all the kids in the world can have a Merry Christmas.

I have been baking with Mommy, so please enjoy the cookies and chocolates I will leave you on Christmas Eve. Oh and the chocolates have coffee in them so you won’t fall asleep I also will leave hot chocolate and Marshmallows to keep you warm. Oh and please give the reindeer the carrots and grain. Thank you again and have a Merry Christmas and have a nice holiday once your work is all done.

Love forever, From Mya

Dear Santa I know it’s not even close to Christmas or anything but I just wanted to ask you some questions. I was just wondering if you could drop the presents off in the snow fort in the front yard of my house. Don’t worry, I will have the roof on by Christmas. I was also wondering how many elves you have, like seriously, everytime I ask the question the only answer I get is “Millions”. But I want to know the exact answer, please. Oh by the way do you want me to leave some milk and tasty chocolate cookies for you or will you already be full? Hope you have a good trip around the world.

Sincerely, Colin Grob Ps: Do you ever shave your beard?

Dear Santa…

As I sit at my desk in West Boundary Elementary I write the following: Dear Santa, I’m sorry to bother you when I know you’re so busy.

But I would really appreciate it if you stopped world hunger. There are children and adults out there who are dying or suffering from starvation.

I know it is a lot to ask but I was raised to believe that it only takes one person to make a difference.

I am thankful for what I have but I want every child of the world to have what I have to. I still have hope.

Sincerely Hanna Harpur.

I �inish my letter and tuck it into my sweater pocket. Soon afterward I hear the bell ring. I collect my stuff, pack my bag and head out the door. On my walk home I stop by the post of�ice. I open the door and walk inside.

“Can I please have a stamp for my letter?” I ask.

“Of course” The lady behind the desk replied.

Two Days Later “HO HO HO,” said Santa rubbing his belly.

“Look here, my young elves. This is the best letter I’ve ever got! The Elves stepped on there tip toes and peered at the letter “Ooooo!!” They said exitedly.

“I will make a start to her wish but I will need help!” replied Santa.

I still hope that my wish will come true.

Hanna Harpur, Age 10

Dear Santa, I have many questions to ask you: • Do you have any kids of your one? If you do how many?

• What inspired you to give toys to kids all over the world?

• Why did you choose December 25th to come visit. Why knot May 30th?

• How many elves do you have and what are their names?

• Is there a Rudolph the green nosed reindeer?

• Is there a Mrs.Claus? If thare is what does she do?

As you can see I am very interested in your life.

Love, Aven Duncan, Age 10 P.S. For Christmas I would like a…well I don’t know what I want any way merry Christmas.

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Dear Santa, I hope you have a great trip!

Only have one thing what I want it is an Apple I pad I’ve always wanted one because theya re the coolest thing to me.

I think the true meaning of Christmas to me is not toys not food but family being together.

I also think the meaning of Christmas is putting the star on the Christmas trees.

Sincerely, Brendan McGonigle Age 12

Dear Santa, As I write to you this evening, I am next to my �ireplace where the heat from the �ire is stinging my face, but I know that all around the world right now, there are people who are out in the biting snow, living there, so I just have to suck it up and be thankful for what I have.

I know you are very busy, you know with trying to answer all of the children’s letters, so I am only going to ask for one thing. I am asking for world peace. I know that if we have world peace, then we will saving millions of people’s lives. With the war that is going on in Afghanistan, if you could stop it, then next year, I will give you all the cookies you can eat, and I will leave food out for your reindeer. I know you can do it, if you have faith in yourself.

Sincerely, Yolanda Fenwick-Wilson Age 10

Dear Santa, I think that the holiday is a time when the family comes together for laughter and joy.

You get to have a nice turkey dinner and play outside with your family. You can go make snowmen and snow angles.

Then you come inside, and have some hot chocolate, look at the Christmas tree, and open Christmas presents as a family. I know Christmas isn’t just about presents but family and the love that you share.

I really �ind it great that you can set up Christmas lights on the roof and even round your deck with snowmen and a tiger with a hat on it. We even have a decoration of you, Santa. I hope that you like my letter!

Merry Christmas Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, and even the elves!

Yours truly Jordyn McQueen Age 10

Dear Santa, Ever since I can remember I have always wanted my Mom to be there for my graduation, my wedding, and even my children’s birth. Recently, my Mom passed away from cancer so I would like to have her back. I know that you don’t have that kind of power but you’re my only hope because I really miss her.

Also, for Christmas, I would like world peace, A Manchester United soccer ball, the complete Sonic Comic encyclopedia, Amy Pond 5 inch action �igure and lots and lots of Pokemon cards.

Most of all, I want my Mom back.

Sincerely, Jack Williamson Age 10 Elizabeth is a 7-year-old girl that is so cute. I hope she gets what she wants for Christmas.

Dear Santa, Hi, I’m Elizabeth and I’m 7 years old and I would like an IPod and a $100 gift card. However, what I would really like is for all the soldiers that are deployed in the world to come back and spend Christmas with their families. I would also like you to make it so that there is no more war on the earth and peace can stay.

P.S. I hope you will eat the peanut butter cookies and some kind of �lavor of milk that I left for you. Also you may be too busy to eat my baking but I hope to hear from you.

“Elizabeth!” her mother continued, “Are you ready to go and mail this?”

“Yes, Mommy can we get a Santa stamp? And a…Map so Santa can �ind our house?” Elizabeth asked curiously.

Her mom replied, “Yes, Elizabeth thank you Mommy”.

Reise Cornell Age 11

your reindeer have enough room. I also hope they like the reindeer food that we make.

The reindeer food is mixed with oatmeal and a bit of carrot in it. For Christmas I would like a IPod touch with a camera and a snow mover like they have on the ski hills. Have a good Christmas.

Yours truly, Aiden Scheider Age 10

Dear Santa, I am writing this for you. Is there a son of yours named Steve or Author? I asked that because I seen a movie called Arthur’s Christmas! Do you still use the Reindeer, and is there a special call you do like on Dancer and Prancer on Comic and Cupid Donner and Blitzen?

Something like that?

Are there special areas in the workshop where the elves do the wrapping, or present making? Santa would you like cocoa, tea, milk, or chocolate milk? Do you want homemade cookies?

And what type? I read this book every Christmas with my family, It is called The Night Before Christmas! A classic that one is! Santa for Christmas I would like snow.

Snow everywhere. Please?

And maybe a webkinz. Have a wonderful Christmas!

Oh year, I moved so make sure you come to my new house. Happy Christmas!

Shea Waller Age 11 Dear Santa, Christmas is my favourite holiday. The snow is white and sparkly. It is fun to play in the snow and make snowmen on Christmas Eve. I �ind it hard to sleep that night with all the excitement of knowing that you are about to visit that night. I hope that you have a

Dear Santa, I hope that you’re doing good at your workshop and your Christmas 2012: elves are doing good too. I like you Wishing you all the trimmings so much that of a very merry season.

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Yours Truly, Colby Dynneson Age 10 Dear Santa, I have many questions for you Santa. Where you live is it pretty there and do you like all of the snow that you get? What is your favourite colour? Is it lime green like mine or hot pink? Do you have any children?

Would you like something different this year when you visit my house? I can serve you cupcakes instead of cookies if you need a change.

I’m looking forward to your visit

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Sincerely, Brandi Mamye Age 10

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A14 Boundary Creek Times Thursday, December 20, 2012 On Christmas Eve I always sleep in the living room beside the tree with my cat and dream of the nut cracker and the little fairies dancing around with sugarplums. Every year when I wake up my mom makes hot coco with lots of marshmallows.

Each year my mom gets me a gift and leaves a note with it that

Christmas Riddle Last Christmas my sisters and I woke up really early and opened our stockings.

We waited for my parents and grandparent to wake up so we could open our presents. My sisters and I had to open this one special present last. It was so much fun because it was a puzzle that showed what we were going to do for the Christmas holiday. We all got one to build and the �irst one to �inish the puzzle got to guess �irst what we were doing. After we all had a guess my mom and dad told us the answer to the riddle. We went to Phoenix, Arizona! It was really fun! We stayed in a big hotel, swam at the water park, saw a parade, saw a Seattle Seahawks football game, saw a Phoenix Coyotes verses the Boston Bruins, watched Cirque de Soleil Michael Jackson Show and just hug out for seven days.

By: Malcolm Age: 12 Grand Forks *** Some good moments of With warm wishes to you and your family for a happy festive season.

Christmas We thank you for your support and look forward to serving you in the New Year.

On Christmas Eve our family goes out to my James G. McMynn poppa’s place and have a Insurance Agencies Christmas Eve dinner out Ltd. there. Last year we got to go for a sleigh ride using my poppa’s neighbors’ horses and sleigh. There was one point were I got to control the sleigh. It was

Season’s Greetings

says its from my cat and dog.

One year I got a brand new pair of boots from my pets. Every year we have a huge dinner with mashed potatoes, stuf�ing, veggies, BY. Noah S.K age 11 Midway BC ***

from all of us!

McMynn’s

McMynn’s

a really fun time. We had some friends and family out to our place and my aunt came down from Halifax and celebrated with us. The best part of Christmas Eve was spending time with my family.

BY: Portia-Dagg Age 11 Greenwood BC *** My Christmas Every year my family go sledding and snow boarding.

On the day before Christmas we open a present and have clues hiding everywhere with words to sort out. We make gingerbread houses. We make presents for my pets to play with. We go to our cousin’s house and have dinner and play.

by Lucas Drinkwater Age 11 Greenwood BC *** For Christmas I always wait until the minute after midnight to open my presents. My mom makes Ukrainian food because my family is part Ukrainian. I sometimes give my cats presents

like catnip and cat toys.

We always share each other’s presents and we have family snowball �ights. The meaning of Christmas for me is spending time with my family!

By: Shayla Age 11 Midway BC *** Wonderful Winter Wonderland Oh, feel the winter breeze on your face as you build a snowman in the beautiful snow. As the winter owls �ly away in the cold of the winter night the people might say, “Listen for the call of Santa in his sleigh pulled by eight �lying reindeer.”

Wait for him on Christmas night and be quiet because you might just hear the clip clop of the hooves on eight �lying reindeer then you might hear the steps of one jolly man but be quiet or he’ll hear you. If you’re lucky you will see Santa with his bag of gifts so full thtat even a ring would not �it.

If you were good he will leave you a gift and if not you may receive some coal. But soon he will leave the way he came up through the chimney and you will hear Santa’s footsteps as he walks to his sleigh. Then he will be gone back to the North Pole where the elves make toys and Mrs. Claus bakes cookies.

Well the feeling of winter is cold you know what to do go inside and drink hot cocoa.

Emily Davison ***

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Christmases of Yesteryear, seen in the images of vintage postcards

north— south— east— west— Wishing everyone a Safe and Happy Holiday!

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—We’re sending you all our best! For your support this past year we are deeply grateful.

Seasons Greetings from the

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May your Christmas be a happy and safe one.

Thursday, December 20, 2012 Boundary Creek Times A15 Every Christmas, when I lived in Thailand, we would go to Hua Hin. Hua Hin is a place on the sea.

Every Christmas Eve we get to open a present of our choice.

On Christmas morning we go to the beach and play in the sand with my cousin and make sand castles then have a competition on who had had the best sand castle. We would also try to get the parrots to talk and also the cockatoo. My little cousin kept putting her hand in the cage. We would go swimming in the sea. We would also ride horses around the beach and have roasted corn that was slightly burnt but it was very good.

That is my Christmas tradition in Thailand.

By Solomon Age 12 Greenwood *** The Tibetan New Year is called Losar. The celebration for the Losar begins in the twentyninth day of the twelfth month.

Its 15 days long we don’t really get presents or gifts and stuff like from Santa. The custom that day is to make a special noodle. Also dough balls are given out with various ingredients hidden in them such as chilies, salt, wool, rice and coal. The ingredients one �inds in one’s dough ball are supposed to be a lighthearted comment on one’s character. If a person �inds chilies in their dough ball, it means they are talkative. If white-colored ingredients like salt, wool or rice are inside the dough it is considered a good sign. If the person �inds coal in the dough it means you have a black heart.

Losar was celebrated since the �irst king’s enthronement celebration. It started with the �irst king. Losar is the most important holiday in Tibet.

KJ, Age:12 *** My tradition is the day before Christmas my family and I always decorate the Christmas tree together and drink eggnog.

On Christmas Morning we wake up and go to the kitchen so we don’t see the presents then we wait for everyone to get up. We all go in to the living room so we could see all the presents and the colourful tree all lit up. The �irst thing we open up is the stockings and then we go around the living room in a circle and open presents till were done and then we just talk and enjoy what we

got and have hot coco with mini marshmallows.

Name: JT Age: 11 Midway B.C. ***

For my Christmas tradition my family goes to Mexico each year. We go to the beach, the market and restaurants. On Christmas we light up our tree, open gifts then �inally...EAT! Olivia Age 12, Midway *** My family’s tradition for Christmas is on Christmas morning we wake up, we go downstairs and eat breakfast.

After breakfast we open the presents. When we are done that we go to my Grandma’s house and open the presents there.

When we are done we hang out there for a bit then we go to the McArthur Center for the Christmas event. After we �inish there we go back home and we go on with the rest of our day.

Duncan Age:12, Greenwood BC *** When I wake up I get out of bed and go look at all the presents then I go wake up my parents but on Christmas eve we always go sledding.

The graveyard road is the best sledding place in midway. We always go with my parents and the Vandendools but they moved to Merrit so we are going to Denisons instead it will be fun to because they got lots of snowmobiles. When we get home we have lots of hot chocolate and then at night we have a big giant turkey with lots of stuf�ing and potatoes. We bake cookies and lots of milk in a jug we use every year. We end up going to bed around 10:00 PM but it is really hard to sleep with knowing its Christmas the next day. When we get up we all have breakfast and

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we cant touch the presents until we are all �inished breakfast.

After we �inish opening all the presents we have a dinner that is normally roast beef.

Robert McLaren Age: 11 Midway *** Every year on Christmas Eve my brother and I decorate the Christmas tree together. We usually decorate it with these nick knacks we made when we were 8 and he was 11, most of the stuff is homemade. My mom puts up some red white and blue ribbon stuff around the tree and then we all put up the lights. Once that is done my mom puts up the star and we are �inished. We go to bed and wait for Christmas.

When I get up from my sleepless slumber, I wake up my parents and at 8.00 a.m. we open up our surprising presents. At about 11.00 a.m. I go to my Uncle’s big blue house and the whole family gets together. When everyone gets to his house we usually eat lunch. After we eat the tasty food we eat some dessert. We open up presents and then spend quality time with each other by playing games and talking until everyone leaves. Overall it’s usually a fun Christmas tradition.

My Christmas traditions are important to my family and I so would feel terrible if we had no traditions at all and if they were illegal. If they were illegal I would probably wait until I got older and then once I was old enough I would probably march up to the government of�ice with my lawyer and bring followers with me and make them sign a petition saying that Christmas tradition are what make humanity and if you take them away there will be no more humanity and war, sign here if your against no traditions. If they accepted that would be great and if they didn’t ‘’they would have themselves to blame for the war that will probably happen’’ Ronnie: age12, Greenwood *** My Christmas traditions are important to me and my family.

Every year we open up presents and then we go and we do a family activity. Last year we went down Boundary Creek and went sledding. When we got home we had hot chocolate and watched a movie.

by Levi Age 11, Greenwood *** During the holidays, my family celebrates with a turkey

Wishing You a

Happy & Healthy 2013 With warm wishes to you and your family as we celebrate this special time of year.

Thank you for putting your trust in us.

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dinner. Our cousins come over that is what I believe in. I love and we go outside and play. After being with family too. My family I we eat we clean up and visit. usually go downstairs and makes

by Calvin, Age 11, up a song or something for the Greenwood Elem older people. Last year, I kind of *** knew what one of my presents On Christmas Eve we go to one I got because my mom kind of of our aunties houses or stay at hinted it to me. All I am saying is our house. We have supper and that the stuff we do is fun. open gifts from the elves and open By Antonia Bergendahl Christmas crackers. On Christmas *** day my brother and I wake up My Favourite Christmas and open the present in my My favourite Christmas was brother’s room that is for the two over a year ago. We had a friend of us. We play with that present over and we had a wonderful Nerf until my parents wake up and gun�ight. That Christmas also was my grandparents arrive. When the best ever, I received games, everyone’s there, we empty our toys, clothes, stuffed animals and stockings and open the presents! the best thing of all was that my Shane i am 11 years baby brother Larkin was born. *** This year, I hope will be the same On Christmas.......... if not better. Shh, don’t tell Larkin My family goes to my but he has a scooter and some grandma’s. other fun toys for his Christmas We wrap up in coats scarves and birthday this year. and bandanas.

Darren Masse Out in the snow we march with *** pride, My Christmas To go get a tree in the icy My mom loves the holidays outside. because she can see all her When we �ind the tree that is children for a couple of days. She just right lets us open one present. It is all We take it home and make it ways pj’s for us to wear to sleep bright. then we wake up in them and wait All the colours green and red for my sister to wake up. Then After that we go to bed, the next day my grandma makes But when I wake to my a turkey dinner for all of us. Mom surprise. makes the holidays so joyful.

I dreamt of sugar plumbs By: Axle AGE: 12 years old dancing before my eyes.

Greenwood Christmas is great that’s for sure.

With Thanks All the love For Your Patronage strong and pure.

Stephanie Dayley —And a generous serving of warm wishes to our customers and friends for a memorable and 11 years old satisfying holiday season. For your friendship and goodwill we are sincerely grateful.

Midway *** Holiday Fun During the week of Christmas, we PACIFIC GRILL and staff wish you all season greetings usually relax and and happy holidays. We will be closed Dec 25, 2012 to take our time with Jan 31, 2013. Thank you for all your support. Jim & Ric. our cousins. We have a routine. If our cousins come to our house on Christmas we go to one of our cousins house All the best to our for New Years.

Do you know customers, friends and what is funny neighbours this holiday season. my mom making our supper in the Cathy & Kevin morning before our big dinner? It KETTLE VALLEY is yummy!

What Christmas VILLAS means to me is Rock Creek 250-449-8323 the birth of Jesus

HAPPY

HOLLYDAYS!

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As we prepare for the holidays we’d like to express our appreciation to all the people who have helped make this past year a successful one for us, and wish you all a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

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A16 Boundary Creek Times Thursday, December 20, 2012 The following writing was done on a fun night that we provided for our members where we had pizza and movies, had a scavenger hunt and went canvassing in Midway for non-perishable food items for the Lions Christmas Food Hamper Drive.

Two questions were asked:

WHAT DOES CHRISTMAS MEAN TO YOU?

The following thoughts about Christmas come from our BCSS Spirit Club members. Spirit Club exists in our school to promote empathy, school spirit and a positive school environment. We provide many fun events for the entire student body and staff. Some of the many student driven leadership activities we have done in the past five years this very popular club has existed include: • Fundraising for local as well as global charities • Many school based fun events to encourage school spirit and positive cross-grade student relations • Thank you gifts to those who really need to be thanked for all they do for us: custodians/bus drivers, educational assistants, teachers etc • Working in conjunction with community to provide assistance for community events and fundraising

Season’s Greetings Thank you to all my clients in Grand Forks, Greenwood and Midway

1. I t’s a time for family to get together and have funIt means a lot of joy with both receiving and giving. And you can’t forget the Christmas dinner!

2. It means coming together with family and friends to enjoy each other’s company.

Christmas means a lot to me! Whether with family or friends….its always a wonderful time of the year!

3. When you get to spend more time with your family and celebrate the holidays together with the people you care so much about!

4. Christmas means that the family comes together on a joyous day laughing together and having fun!

5. Christmas is a time to finally see all of the relatives I never get to see during the year (and a time to shop!!)

6. It’s a time when my whole family gets together and celebrates and gives gifts and if we have been fighting …..everyone just stops it….and we have lots of fun!

7. Christmas for me means being with my family and celebrating the birth of Jesus 8. It means family and going out to play in the snow!!

9. Christmas means a lot to me. Family gathers around and spends time together. We open presents and there are lots of smiles and laughter. Families forget their problems and their worries. My family and I are thankful for everything we have and especially that we have each other. The atmosphere around the room is so bright and cheerful with the snow outside and the Christmas tree that we decorate being so beautiful.

10. Christmas means gratitude, happiness and love!

11. It’s a time to remember family, sacrifices and joy throughout the year!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS MEMORY?

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1. When I am the first one awake and I get ready for a wonderful day with my family.

2. When my grandma comes and we all get to have fun with her.

3. When my uncle showed up at four in the morning to surprise us! He lives very far away.

4. I went to my Dad’s place last year for Christmas day, and my older brother showed up.

So we went back to my Mum’s place to surprise her. When we showed up….she cried….

Happiness!!

5. Every year, Sushi Christmas!! This is a time when all of the relatives get together and eat 6. It was the night before Christmas and I was five years old . I was upset because my grandma couldn’t make it for Christmas dinner. So I was pouting beside the window and then I looked out the window and saw big snowflakes falling from the sky. It made me happy to see the snow and made me feel better!

7. When I was really little, my mum organized a treasure hunt to find my presents…I loved it!

8. My most favorite Christmas memory is having a Birthday ceilidh (party) for Jesus. I also love reading and singing with my family before opening presents.

9. I do not have one special Christmas memory…every moment means so much me and each one is truly special.

10. Opening gifts at our house and then going to visit my grandparents and spending time with them.

11. My favorite Christmas memory is waking up at 6:00 am and sneaking downstairs to open presents early. Eating pancakes is a highlight and enjoying the whole day worry-free!

12. Singing Christmas carols with my family and staying up late 13. My favorite Christmas memory was when my dad cam home for Christmas and I hadn’t seen him for a whole year!

14. My favorite Christmas memory was when I had Christmas with my dad for the first time in nine years!

15. It was celebrating my mum coming home from the hospital in time to set up the tree with her and being with her at home on Christmas!

16. Every year my grandpa gives me fuzzy PJ’s. I love them!!

17. My favorite memory is more of a family tradition. Every year we try to find our tree near out house and one year we had to combine two little trees and cut holes for extra branches and shove them in!

18. When my grandma came and we had so much fun with her!

Peace on earth!

May we break boundaries, tear down walls, and build the foundation of goodness inside each of us.

May we look past differences, gain understanding, and embrace acceptance.

May we reach out to each other, rather than resist, May we be better stewards of the earth, protecting, nurturing and replenishing the beauties of nature.

May we practice gratitude for all we have, rather than complain about our needs.

May we seek cures for the sick, help the hungry, and love for the lonely.

May we share our talents, give our time, and teach our children.

May we hold hope for the future very tenderly in our hearts and do all we can to build for bright tomorrows.

And may we LOVE with our whole hearts, for that’s the only way to love.

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Best wishes for a safe & Happy Holiday Season !

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Theory Two Raising Raising Raising Raising News 30 Rock Sunny TMZ (N) Medium Medium Medium Medium Medium Medium Long Island Me Medium Medium “Christmas Song” “Baby’s First Christmas” ›› “A Golden Christmas” “Little Rascals” ››› “Les Miserables” Liam Neeson.

(10:15) › “Big Daddy” Jessie Deck ANT Dog Raven Really Lizzie Suite Deck Derek Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam Guy Fam Guy Amer. ›› “This Christmas” Delroy Lindo.

Dunham Just for Laughs: All Access Jeff Dunham Jeff Dunham Dunham Dunham Man ››› “Come to the Stable” ››› “Auntie Mame” Rosalind Russell.

The Next Iron Chef Diners, Drive Sweet Genius The Next Iron Chef Restaurant: Im. Storage Storage Storage Storage Destination Truth Storage Storage Ghost Hunters Canadian Pickers Canadian Pickers Canadian Pickers Mankind The Story of All of Us Treasure Island (HDTV Part 1 of 2) Treasure Island (HDTV Part 2 of 2) ›› “Timeline” “Miracle on 34th Street” “Christmas Eve” ›› “Prancer” Sam Elliott.

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G.I. Joe Road to Avonlea A Christmas Carol Holiday Special God’sGreatest TimePopoff Independent Lens Celtic Thunder Celtic Woman Choir Christmas Celts Charlies Love Vampire Diaries Will Sex and the City Vampire Diaries Paid Museum Secrets Museum Secrets Museum Secrets Museum Secrets Museum Secrets

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Back Edition News News KREM 2 News at 6 NFL Football: Browns at Broncos Simpson Simpson Simpson “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” News (5:59) News Hour What’s That?

Arctic Victorian Farm Queen’s Palaces Frontiers of CMA Country Christmas Hollywood Cel News ABC News Explorer Ink Master Ink Master Ink Master Ink Master Ink Master Holmes Makes Hazards Hazards House Hunters Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Four Houses Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Panic 9-1-1 CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom CNN Presents Piers Morgan Sponge.

“Home Alone” (1:30) “Home Alone 3” ›› “Home Alone 4” Beauty & Beast “The Christmas Heart” Teri Polo. ›› “Alvin and the Chipmunks” MythBusters Cash How/ Auction Auction Yellowstone Strip the City (N) Project Runway Project Runway Project Runway Project Runway Project Runway The OT Paid Trout TV Theory Two (1:00) NFL Football Regional Coverage. (N) Toddlers & Tiaras Toddlers & Tiaras Sin City Rules Sister Sister Sister Wives (N) “Any Christmas” ›› “Jack Frost” Michael Keaton. ››› “Elf” Will Ferrell.

(3:35) “An American Tail” “An American Tail” Babe (1:50) ››› “My Dog Skip” Gravity ANT Good Random Jessie Dog Shake It Austin Good Really Theory Theory Theory Theory The Closer ›› “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” Theory Theory Russell Peters Dunham N’Radio N’Radio Seinfeld Gas “3 Godfathers” ››› “Fitzwilly” Dick Van Dyke. ››› “The Bishop’s Wife” Iron Chef America Iron Chef America Iron Chef America Iron Chef America Iron Chef America Liquida Liquida GetS Liquida Liquida Liquida Mantracker Mantracker Pawn Pawn Pawn Pawn Ice Pilots NWT Pawn Pawn Ameri Ameri Face Off Face Off Face Off Face Off Face Off Miracle (2:45) ›››› “Miracle on 34th Street” ››› “Miracle on 34th Street” “Tootsie” (1:30) ›› “Fletch” ›› “The Goonies” Sean Astin.

Santa Claus, Town Santa Parade Toopy Cat in Santa Claus, Town Toopy Mike C’mas Carol Choir Christmas-Bel Tonic Sol-Fa Doc Martin Triathlon Paid Meals NFL Football Football Night in America (N) Sugar Surprise ›› “Miss Congeniality” Giuliana & Bill TMZ (N) Law & Order Law & Order Criminal Minds Criminal Minds CSI: Miami “Together Again for the First Time” News News “Christmas at Maxwell’s” Andrew May. 30 Rock Funny Videos Bloopers Bloopers Mother Mother Mother Mother Mother Chris Chris News Dr. Rules Rules Two Two Two Two He-Man and SheBugs & Tweety Garfield Looney Fl’stone Jetsons Gadget Gadget Arise Tom’row Prince Hope Discov.

V’Impe Jere Facts J. Hagee J. Meyer Tree Lighting Moyers-Comp Cat-Christmas Masterpiece Nature Bring It Hollyw’d Love Sex-City Sex-City Sex-City Sex-City Sex-City “Shakespeare-Lv” Dog Whisperer Dog Whisperer Holy Spear Vatican: Museum Secrets

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Record Motorcycle Racing SportsCentre SportsCentre (N) (Live) SportsCentre (N) Ent ET “Christmas on Chestnut Street” The Kennedys CHBC News Final News News Flashpoint ›› “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Shia LaBeouf.

George Cor Dragons’ Den Festival on Ice National News George Inside Access The 35th Kennedy Center Honors News Late Sh. Elementary Ent ET “Christmas on Chestnut Street” The Kennedys News Hour Final Frontiers of Guge: Lost King Window Frontiers of A Night in Vienna (N) Ent Insider Middle Neigh Mod Suburg.

News Nightline Nashville Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Holmes Makes Holmes Makes Holmes Makes Holmes Makes Holmes Makes Shipping Shipping Shipping Shipping Duck D. Duck D. Duck Dynasty Shipping Shipping Anderson Cooper E. B. OutFront Piers Morgan Anderson Cooper E. B. OutFront One Direction: Up All Night One Direction: The Only Way Direction Weird Weird Splatalot › “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” ›› “Clash of the Titans” Sam Worthington.

Oddities Oddities Oddities Oddities Oddities Oddities Gold Rush Gold Rush (6:00) “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” › “A Guy Thing” Jason Lee. ›› “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” Theory Two Ben Ben Ben Ben News 30 Rock Sunny TMZ (N) Cheer Perfection Toddlers & Tiaras Cheer Perfection Best Funeral Ever Toddlers & Tiaras Youve Birdcage ›› “Serendipity” John Cusack. ›› “Two Weeks Notice” “Seventh Sign” Mixed (9:50) “St. Elmo’s Fire” ›› “Real Genius” Val Kilmer.

Good Good Austin Gravity Wingin’ Warth Lizzie Raven Cory Princess Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam Guy Fam Guy Amer.

After ›› “After the Sunset”, Salma Hayek Theory Theory Theory Theory Theory Theory The Comedy Central Roast Rose “Maverick Q.” Moon (8:15) ›› “The Violent Men” ›› “Trooper Hook” Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Storage Storage Storage Storage Repo Repo Storage Storage Ghost Hunters Swamp People Swamp People Swamp People Swamp People Swampsgiving “Scorpion King” Sinbad Sinbad ›› “The 7 Adventures of Sinbad” Four Big Trble ››› “Casino” Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone.

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Gadget Spider Tintin Hercules Batman He-Man She-Ra Ninja Trans.

G.I. Joe “Past Perfect” Con I Pro Super Popoff ›› “Ms. Bear” Ed Begley Jr. MI-5 Titanic-Len Smiley MI-5 MI-5 Charlie Rose (N) “What Women” Vampire Diaries Will Sex and the City Vampire Diaries Paid Destroy Destroy Destroy Destroy Destroy Destroy Destroy Destroy Destroy Destroy

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Basket 2013 IIHF Hockey SportsCentre NBA Basketball: Nuggets at Clippers Muppets: Letters The Kennedys CHBC News Final ››› “The Polar Express” etalk Bieber News News Flashpoint › “Borrowed Hearts” Roma Downey.

(6:30) The Nativity National Celebration ›››› “Miracle on 34th Street” Inside Access NCIS: Los Angeles News Late Sh. NCIS Vegas Muppets: Letters The Kennedys News News ››› “The Polar Express” Child’s Xmas Chapel Emma (N) Emma (N) “Persuasion” Sally Hawkins.

Ent Insider Grinch “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” News Nightline Entou (5:30) ›››› “GoodFellas” ›› “Lucky Number Slevin” Josh Hartnett.

House Hunters Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Piers Morgan Piers Morgan Piers Morgan Piers Morgan Top 10 of 2012 Young Young Boys Star The The The The Weird Splatalot ›› “The World Is Not Enough” Pierce Brosnan. ››› “GoldenEye” Pierce Brosnan.

Highway Thru Hell Highway Thru Hell MythBusters MythBusters MythBusters Keas Keas Keas Keas Theres ›› “There’s Something About Mary” Theory Two New Girl New Girl New Girl New Girl News 30 Rock Sunny TMZ (N) Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss ›› “It’s Complicated” Meryl Streep.

(9:25) ››› “As Good as It Gets” “Free Willy 3” “Mask of Zorro” ››› “Rush Hour” (9:40) ›› “Rush Hour 2” Good ANT Jessie Really Shake It Derek Lizzie Raven Shake It Really Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam Guy Fam Guy Amer.

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G.I. Joe “Homecoming” Child’s Xmas Won Bells Dame Edna TimePopoff Smiley Gr’t Performances Magical Frontline (HDTV Part 2 of 2) Charlie Rose (N) Oh So Oh So Vampire Diaries Will Sex and the City Vampire Diaries Paid Apocalypse Apocalypse Apocalypse Apocalypse Apocalypse

THURSDAY EVENING % ∂

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NFL Football Motoring SportsCentre (N) SportsCentre SportsCentre (N) Fam Guy Amer.

Candy Cane Lane News News › “Deck the Halls” Danny DeVito.

News News ›››› “The Sound of Music” Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer.

Frosty Frosty National News fifth est. ››› “Elf” Will Ferrell.

NCIS: Los Angeles The Good Wife The Mentalist News 5th 60 Minutes (N) Fam Guy Amer.

Candy Cane Lane News News › “Deck the Halls” Danny DeVito.

Science of Babies Beatles Rocked New Tricks (N) Lewis A young woman is murdered.

News V’Impe ›››› “The Sound of Music” Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer.

Tattoo Rescue Bar Rescue Bar Rescue Ink Master Ink Master House Hunters Holmes Makes Four Houses Urban Urban Hazards Hazards Storage Storage (8:01) Be the Boss Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage CNN Newsroom CNN Presents Piers Morgan CNN Newsroom CNN Presents “Home Alone” Star Star Gift of Giving 2012 Pick Splatalot The Splatalot ›› “Die Another Day” Pierce Brosnan. (DVS) ››› “The Polar Express” Auction Auction Strip the City Yellowstone MythBusters MythBusters (N) Project Runway Project Runway Project Runway Project Runway Project Runway Theory Two Simpson Burgers Fam Guy Amer.

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Alien Bloopers Honeym Tintin Tintin Hercules Hercules Jetsons Fl’stone Smurfy Casp.

C. Bears C. Bears Osteen Beyond Cana Popoff Christ Armor V’Impe Tom’row Super Tribal Masterpiece MI-5 “A Walk in the Clouds” Downton America Chang (6:00) “Shakespeare in Love” Love ›› “Bring It On” Kirsten Dunst.

Herod’s Lost Tomb Holy Spear Vatican: Museum Secrets Herod’s Lost Tomb

TUESDAY EVENING % ∂

23 DECEMBER 2012

7:30

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27 DECEMBER 2012

Basket SportsCentre NBA Basketball: Celtics at Clippers SportsCentre (N) Ent ET The Kennedys CHBC News Final “Holiday Switch” Nicole Eggert.

Shame Shame News News Flashpoint ›› “Camilla” Jessica Tandy.

George Cor Nature/ Things National News George Doc Zone Inside Access Theory Two Person of Interest (10:01) Elementary News Late Sh. Ent ET The Kennedys News Hour Final “Holiday Switch” Nicole Eggert.

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Ent Insider Charlie Brown Grey’s Anatomy (10:02) Scandal News Nightline Jail Jail Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior Ways Entou Income Income Income Income Income Property Income Income Income Income Beyond Scared Beyond Scared (9:01) The First 48 After the First 48 Beyond Scared Anderson Cooper E. B. OutFront Piers Morgan Anderson Cooper E. B. OutFront Splatdown Splatalot Splatalot Weird Weird Weird Weird Weird Splatalot › “Resident Evil: Afterlife” ››› “Live Free or Die Hard” Bruce Willis.

Sons of Guns Sons of Guns Sons of Guns Sons of Guns Sons of Guns The Mis The Mis The Mis The Mis “The Bucket List” ›› “The Bucket List” Theory Two Mindy Mindy Mindy Mindy News Sports Sunny TMZ (N) Wives With Bee Four Weddings Wives With Bee Sin City Rules My Big Fat (6:30) “Two Weeks Notice” (10:35) “Kate & Leopold” (8:35) ›› “The Money Pit” “The Flintstones” ›› “Lions for Lambs” (9:35) ›››› “The Deer Hunter” Dog Dog Good Wingin’ Wingin’ Warth Lizzie Raven Cory Princess Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam Guy Fam Guy Amer.

Blond › “Delta Farce”, Bill Engvall Gags Gags Gags Gags Gags Gags Gags Gags Gags Gags “Return-James” (10:15) “Where the Sidewalk Ends” “The Left Hand of God” The Next Iron Chef The Next Iron Chef The Next Iron Chef The Next Iron Chef The Next Iron Chef Storage Storage Storage Storage Liquida Bggg Storage Storage Ghost Hunters Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men “Almighty Thor” › “Thor: Hammer of the Gods” ›› “Stargate” Kurt Russell.

“Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil” SilvrBullt ››› “Predator” Arnold Schwarzenegger.

All/Fam. All/Fam. All/Fam. All/Fam. All/Fam. All/Fam. All/Fam. All/Fam. All/Fam. All/Fam. Caillou Cat in Big Max, Back Dora...

Umi Band Max, Thomas Power-Parkin Foyle’s War Independent Lens New Tricks Charlie Rose (N) J’pardy!

Wheel 30 Rock All Night Office Parks Rock Center News Jay Tia & Tamera Chelsea Cirque TMZ Chelsea Tia & Tamera Tia & Tamera News Ent Seinfeld Office Office Insider Law Order: CI South Pk ’70s Two Two Vampire Diaries Beauty & Beast KTLA 5 News Friends Friends News at Nine Funny Videos Rules Rules 30 Rock Scrubs 30 Rock Sunny PIX News at Ten Seinfeld Seinfeld Friends Friends Jim Chris Fam Guy Amer.

Gadget Spider Tintin Hercules Batman He-Man She-Ra Ninja Trans.

G.I. Joe (6:00) “Ms. Bear” Con I Pro Super Popoff ›› “Grizzly Falls” Daniel Clark.

MI-5 Saving the Titanic Smiley MI-5 MI-5 Charlie Rose (N) Love Love Vampire Diaries Will Sex and the City Vampire Diaries Paid Border Wars Border Wars Border Wars Border Wars Border Wars

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A20 Boundary Creek Times Thursday, December 20, 2012

Pupils taught art of “ploughing”

of 3,500 lbs. Butter has also agricultural district, it is BLASTS been unobtainable in Greenstrongly to be questioned Chronicles of Boundary Country FROM THE wood and Anaconda for sevwhether children who are from the pages of PAST eral days.” taught the chemical propThe Boundary Creek Times erties of manure and other ➤ The First Street Lights.

Volume 11, No.6 – April 17, 1897 branches of learning apper“The first step towards electaining to scientific farming tric lighting of the streets of ➤ A Times Editorial - “Last week, in schools, and who clean Greenwood has been taken the pupils of Greenwood public school stables, cut wood and milk by the establishment of street were instructed in the art of ploughing cows at home derive nearly lamps in front of the Windsor (on the black-board). Of all the absurd as much practical benefit and Pioneer hotels.” things, the teaching of agriculture in pub- from the former as they do ➤ Advertisement. The lic schools - particularly so in a mining from the latter. . .”

Windsor Hotel is advertisdistrict - ‘takes the bun’. Even in a rural ➤ La Grippe. “Owing to a severe epi- ing, in a square-sided notice, “first-class demic of la grippe among the chil- accommodation with a Square house, dren attending Anarchist Mountain School, the school has been temporarily closed. One death has already occurred, ‘Bert’, the 8 year Midway resident Helen old son of Mr. E. Cudworth, having Warrington has been succumbed to the disease.”

GREENWOOD dressing up for Christ➤ Townsite Expansion. “The mas for a few years, but Sacred Heart Catholic Church Dundee section of the Greenwood this year she had this Rev. Marcel Cote townsite is being cleared of stumps beautiful outfit custom 326 Church Avenue and brush and there can be no made for the season and Mass - Saturday 5 pm doubt but that lots in this southern she decided to wear it St. Jude’s Anglican Church of Canada part of the town will find ready sale whenever the opportuRev. Simon Shenstone 250-442-5808 directly they are placed on the marnity came up. She was 145 S. Kimberley ket. The ground is level and the site in Rock Creek for the Services at 4pm (1st, 3rd & 5th Sunday) admirable for business purposes.”

Christmas Tree light-up, at the Midway Senior’s ➤ Sugar Shortage.

“There was Evangel Chapel Christmas Dinner at Mile nearly a sugar famine in GreenInterim Pastor Martin Fromme 0 and she’ll be at Boundwood this week, but fortunately 250-449-1978 ary Community Church Charlie Brandt, one of the GreenFood Bank 250-445-6571 on Dec. 23 when they are wood Mercantile Co. ’ s teamsters, 410 N. Kimberley putting on a Christmas arrived on Thursday night from Service - Sunday at 10 am play.

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Square meals, Square prices and Square treatment.” ➤ A Beautiful Townsite. “There is quite a building boom at Midway at the present time, new businesses are being established and a number of handsome private residences are also in course of construction. The majority of the residents are fencing in their property, planting gardens and preparing the ground for lawns.

When the flat is supplied with water from the irrigation ditch, now nearly completed, Midway will be as beautiful a spot and as desirable a site for residential purposes as can be found in the province.”

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Times It’s really what’s eating you

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As one man said, “I milk a lot of cows, but I churn my own butter.”

ROCK CREEK St. Mary’s Anglican Church Kettle Valley Service - 2nd & 4th Sunday at 10:30 am BRIDESVILLE Sidley Mountain Cowboy Church Pastor Ed Brouwer 250-495-4877 Service at 7 pm last Sunday of month Bridesville Hall

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We’ve all heard the old adage ‘you are what you eat’, but have you ever stopped to think that you are really what is eating you?

If healthy eating is the key to wellbeing. Then healthy thinking is the key to wholeness of mind.

Food affects all of our body cells, and by extension, every aspect of our being. Just like food what we allow our mind to dwell on affects our mood, energy levels, food cravings, thinking capacity, sex drive, sleeping habits and general health.

Just like when you feed on junk foods, stinking thinking will cause you to become low in energy, even low in brain power. It’s Not What You’re Eating, It’s What’s Eating You Let’s talk for a minute about anger. It’s a proven fact that anger is an instinctual and biological response to threat. In other words, when something threatens us in some way, we begin to feel anxious . . . a rather smaller version of, you guessed it, anger.

Andrew Lester, who wrote a book called Coping With Your Anger, reports that your biological response to threats includes a rise in blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, tensed muscles and increased perspiration. Your body gets biologically prepared to defend yourself or try to escape.

Lester reports we also have mental and emotional responses to threat. We become more alert and our mental processes sharpen as we try to figure out our next course of action. And emotionally . . . emotionally, we feel two things: fear and anger.

Two important aspects of anger are; what is it

that motivates our anger and what we do with the anger we feel. What do you get angry about? Is what really makes you mad when you don’t get your way, when you are not the recipient of deserved praise? Or do you most often find yourself feeling angry about the thousands of children who will die of starvation in Africa today?

Are we angry for selfish reasons or are we angry for reasons bigger than ourselves? When we get angry because we’re selfish and self-involved, that anger begins to destroy the peace in and around us.

Anger can exhibit itself in an unhealthy way in our lives: either vast, far-reaching destruction, like sprayed gasoline and a lit match, or slow, corrosive destruction that can eat away holes in our hearts. Either way, we have destruction.

But healthy anger, a healthy outrage at a breaching of righteousness and justice in this world, well, that can fuel the engine of change in a way nothing else could.

Paul tells us, get angry but don’t sin. I knew taking a close look at this sin would mean more than resolving not to slam the door the next time I got mad.

The bottom line is that when our egos become our primary concern there’s no limit to the damage we can do. There are times when we just have not been angry enough, angry enough to face the injustice in our world and to have the courage to make a change. Spend some time this week thinking about your anger. What action is it fueling? What destruction is it creating?

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Santa’s Helpers party at McArthur Centre in Greenwood last Saturday.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 Boundary Creek Times A23

Each year Santa gets a bit of help from an extraordinary group in Greenwood – Santa’s Helpers.

They decorate and set up the community hall at McArthur Centre. They set out craft stations; another table was the shortbread cookie decorating post and best of all were the decorations set up so Santa and Mrs. Claus could visit with each of the kids.

The annual community event is free to all children, young and old.

Santa’s Helpers were: Girls’ Eye View, Lisa Viscount, Deborah Baker, Midge Darroch, Debbie and Lisa Black, Colleen Lang, Linda Timmins, Ron and Ev Sather, Cathy Straume, Beth McDonald and Andy Shelton.

Others were in the background, helping the Santa’s Helpers so to speak: Greenwood Seniors #55, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 155, Heritage Credit Union, Greenwood Board of Trade, City of Greenwood, Greenwood Community Association, Copper Eagle, Mark Seymour, Greenwood Fire Department and various businesses of Greenwood.

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A24 Boundary Creek Times Thursday, December 20, 2012

GOOD PEOPLE OF THE K.W.A. Please take notice that the Annual General Meeting will be held at the Clubhouse on Sunday, January 6, 2013, beginning at 1:00 pm.

This is an important meeting at which we shall discuss, and vote upon, a recommendation from the executive to raise the association subscription by $20 per year, across the board.

The increase is necessary to ensure that our individual insurance covers the individual members of each family.

The executive concluded that this was the best course, considering that our fees have remained static for many years and are the lowest in the province.

The decision was also influenced by our conviction that the insurance, by the National Firearms Association, is the right policy for our members.

PLEASE ATTEND AND VOTE MANY THANKS. KWA Executive

Raine delivers water

The Honourable Nancy Greene Raine delivered three cases of bottled water from Greenwood, British Columbia, the Senator’s home province, to the prime minister’s residence, which was received by Mrs. Harper.

The senator is impressed with the very quality of the water. “The City of Greenwood, produces great quality drinking water from wells tapping into a pristine aquifer 35 metres under the city,” Raine said.

In 2011, a sample of Greenwood’s water was sent to the Berkeley Springs International Water

Tasting in West Virginia where it competed against cities from 22 countries and all across the U.S. On Feb. 25, 2012, after a blind taste test, the water from Greenwood, the smallest city in Canada, was declared the Best Tasting Municipal Water in the World. Within a few months the city was bottling the water and people passing through town were taking it home as a souvenir.

The senator was in Greenwood in early September to present Greenwood resident Marjorie Maclean with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

CAO Henke officially retires

STOCKING STUFFERS!

Congratulations were the order of the day last Friday for retiring Greenwood CAO Gerry Henke as he finished his last day of work for the city.

Council and office staff gathered in council chambers to thank him and bid him farewell.

Henke, who came to Greenwood from Montrose, has been in the municipal field for 36 years. He called Greenwood a great place to raise a family.

“I’ve appreciated my time in the community,” said Henke. “My kids finished their schooling here and coming here was a real benefit to my entire family and we really appreciate the opportunity to be here.”

Henke said he and his wife plan to stay in the Boundary.

Kettle River Lions Club

411 Hall St Nelson

(250) 352-6261

vincedevito.com A family business built on a history of over 85 years of service and quality. Providing the people of Nelson and area with some of the finest footwear available.

Membership: 250.528.0055 – Tom Donations: 250.446.2096 – Les Suggestions: 250.449.2291 – Margaret Information: 250.446.2455 – Wolfgang SERVING THE WEST BOUNDARY FOR OVER 25 YEARS

Internationally in 206 countries/areas with over 1.35 million members!

Meet 2nd & 4th THU at RC clinic www.kettleriver.lionwap.org

S21 Regional Points Stats Boundary Region

Rank

PlayerNum

Player Name

1 2 3 4 5

8861 9533 8515 8537 6433

Betty Paulett Lorna Sargent Gerry Shaw Ed Smith Diane Chernoff

Region

Team Name

BSK BSK BSK

Straight Shots OZ KMA-2

Points 7,910 5,508 4,860 4,588 4,546 Points 6,409 5,863 5,666

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