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Snow has city on the go By lachlan labere OBSERVER STAFF

Salmon Arm’s public works staff were going full tilt last week to keep the roads clear of white stuff.

Engineering and public works director Rob Niewenhuizen says he has a crew of 13 who have been working around the clock, along with contractors, doing their best to keep city streets clear of snow.

“It’s kind of a collection of all hands on deck when you get one of these events,” laughs Niewenhuizen.

City staff shifts run 21 hours daily during heavy snowfall events.

“Typically, when we have a snow event like

this, nobody really goes home,” says Niewenhuizen. “We just keep rotating the crews through. So we’ve got some guys who basically work their shift and work overtime to complete the snow route priorities.”

Those priorities are the main arterial and collector routes first, the downtown core second, and third are local streets and subdivisions. Niewenhuizen says this order can be upsetting to some.

Rene Vanderkraats is particularly frustrated with the attention the city has given 20th Ave. SE, where his business, the Inn on the Ninth Hole is located. Vander-

kraats explained last Wednesday that a large part of the road was solid ice and in need of sanding, while the highway entrance to the road was blocked by up to 11 inches of snow.

He says he’s been losing business as a result.

Niewenhuizen expects the snow at the entrance are windrows from the province’s contractor. As for the road, it’s one of those identified as lower priority..

“Unfortunately, in a snow event like this, people have to have patience,” says Niewenhuizen. “That’s the biggest thing. We can’t be everywhere; we’ve got limited resources.”

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Aftermath: An ambulance travels southbound on Highway 97 following an accident at Wood Lake on Dec.19.

Wood Lake crash claims city woman

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A 58-year-old Salmon Arm woman died Dec. 19 after her Jeep TJ lost control along Highway 97 and veered into Wood Lake.

Her name had not been released at press time pending notification of her next-of-kin.

Lake Country RCMP received a report that a vehicle had gone off the highway into the lake at 1:10 p.m.

Witnesses reported the jeep was travelling northbound on Highway 97 when it began to fishtail. The driver was unable to regain control of her vehicle before it left the roadway and became submerged in Wood Lake.

A group of passing motorists attempted to pull the vehicle from the water with the use of ropes and chains attached to a commercial truck, but the ropes snapped, causing the jeep to roll back into the icy water.

The chains were again attached to the vehicle as RCMP members arrived on scene. The vehicle was stabilized while two

police officers entered the freezing water and made several unsuccessful attempts to extricate the driver.

With continued assistance from the motorists, police were able to remove the driver and transfer her to a waiting ambulance. She was rushed to hospital, but could not be resuscitated.

Highway 97 between Winfield and Oyama was closed in both directions for the duration

of the investigation.

According to an undisclosed report, the vehicle was about 90 per cent submerged in the water about 15 feet off the Wood Lake shoreline, opposite Ponderosa Road. At least two others were reported to be getting treatment at the scene for hypothermia. Central Okanagan Traffic Services members continue to assist the BC Coroner’s Service in this investigation.

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Strengths key to economic plan 2013-2017: Investigating scheduled flights one of priorities.

By Martha Wickett OBSERVER STAFF

Building on existing strengths is a key theme in a new five-year economic development plan for Salmon Arm. “Salmon Arm has a lot of strength that directly ties into its ability to attract the creative class,” said Lana Fitt, manager of Salmon Arm Economic Development.

She explains that the ‘creative class,’ coined by author Richard Florida, is everything from engineers and educators to health-care professionals and people in the arts.

“Their primary economic function is to create new ideas and new technologies. The concept relates to the shift from what we’ve seen in the global economy – from farms to factories to innovation.”

Another common thread in the plan that covers 2013 to 2017 is the Alberta marketplace, she explained, both in terms of opportunities and challenges.

Along with the two common threads, the plan focuses on three key areas: skill development, a sustainable economic base and service delivery.

The number one priority in skill development is the downtown community campus project. Acquiring a site is the next step.

Another is implementing a talent-attraction strategy, Fitt said, with luring longdistance workers to live here as one focus.

“We’re seeing that happen already in our community.

We’re looking at things to support that kind of worker – investigating scheduled flights, looking at developing our existing airport so it meets the needs of residents and businesses. Our focus will be on helping the airport society and the city develop that strategy…”

The need for a scheduled flight at the airport has been brought up by a number of businesses, particularly in the in-

dustrial park, Fitt said.

Under the ‘sustainable economic base’ category in the plan, Fitt said five categories are listed. They are: 1. facilitating growth in the manufacturing sector by strategies which include developing the airport, creating an industrial taxation incentive program that the Salmon Arm Economic

Lana Fitt Economic dEvElopmEnt Development Society would like to see council adopt next year, finalizing signage and a directory of the industrial park, working on infrastructure and programs to support the industrial park such as public transportation, and investigating joint marketing and collaborative bidding.

2. Developing local agricultural opportunities, which include partnering with the Columbia Shuswap Regional District in pre-

paring a regional agricultural strategy – with the downtown campus a key part, and implementing a Product of the Shuswap marketing campaign. For instance, stickers for apples have been created.

“We’ve just started rolling it out on the retail side. We’re now looking to expand to other sectors of our economy. “ 3. Positioning Salmon Arm as a retail and commercial destination.

“That speaks to the need for both big-box stores and smaller independents,” Fitt said.

“Our goal is to minimize consumer leakage as well as attract out-oftown shoppers.”

She said EDS has looked at items missing such as household goods and children’s clothing and has been “doing specific retail attraction with specific retailers.” She declined to say which retailers, but said the efforts have not yet been successful.

4. Increasing tourism activity, which includes supporting existing organizations and focusing on the need for partnerships and package development.

5. Developing an investment attraction marketing strategy, with two focuses. One is

identifying businesses that complement existing ones. The second focus includes developing a DVD, prospectus, location guide and website enhancements.

Fitt said the earlier plan to develop a DVD with the Today in America show was dropped, but the plan for a DVD remains.

The final key area outlined in the plan is service development, which includes the continuation of EDS’s ongoing projects and services. Under communications, EDS is planning to utilize media such as Facebook, Twitter, an e-newsletter and presentations.

Overall, Fitt says she’s pleased with the new plan.

“There is a lot of

great work going on in economic development within the community.

Our focus is to support and build on our strengths. Most notably, our community strength is quality of life.”

EDS developed the new five-year plan in collaboration with one of the largest economic development consulting firms in Canada, Fitt says, which brought a global perspective and experience with communities of a similar size. The consultants charged $20,000.

The society also gathered local input and reviewed many existing reports.

The new plan will be on the society’s website in the new year. The last five-year plan covered 2007 to 2011.

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Paiement becomes city’s new corporate officer

By Martha Wickett OBSERVER STAFF

The city’s current director of development services, Corey Paiement, is moving to a new position in city hall.

Come March, Paiement

will become the city’s corporate officer, so the city is now advertising for a new director of development services.

His new position includes many of the statutory duties of the municipality, explains Carl Bannister,

the city’s chief administrative officer. “It used to be called city clerk… Any city the size of Salmon Arm will have a separate position for that and maybe two. So it’s all kinds of things: bylaws, administration, freedom of information inquiries, coun-

cil meetings – keeping a record of all council meetings, elections, risk management (insurance claims). Those are just some of the main ones. It’s a long list.”

Applications for the director of development services job close on Jan. 7.

The job description outlines it as “a significant public relations role in the community with responsibilities for the official community plan, as well as other major planning documents. As the approving officer, the incumbent is an independent

decision-maker concerning subdivision applications.

This senior management position is responsible for planning, bylaw enforcement and building department staff, including recruitment, training, performance assessment and motivation.”

City News and Public Notices

2013 ANNUAL UTILITY BILLS

GUIDELINES FOR THE MOTORING PUBLIC

Annual utility bills for water and sewer have been mailed. To During winter months, public safety is one of the main goals at the City of Salmon Arm. To meet qualify for the 10% discount, payment must be received at City Hall on or before 4:00 pm February 15, 2013. Post marks are not these goals the Operations Department follows policies and procedures established and reviewed over several years to provide snow and ice control. accepted as proof of payment.

The motoring public can help meet these goals by following a few winter driving guidelines: Please note other dates to keep in mind as shown.

Dog Licences – discount date February 15, 2013 Annual Utility – discount date February 15, 2013 Annual Utility – to avoid penalty July 2, 2013 Metered Utility – to avoid penalty 15th of the month following billing Property Tax Notices Mailed Third week of May Property Taxes – to avoid penalty July 2, 2013

Always stay back of snow clearing equipment 15 meters even when they are stopped at intersections;

You can pay your property taxes and utility bills by internet and telephone banking services. You no longer need to stand in a line-up or carry cash. We readily accept post-dated cheques, and have a drop box to the left of the front doors of City Hall.

The City of Salmon Arm has in excess of 200 kilometers of roadway to maintain. The main routes are cleared in an established priority, followed by local streets, subdivisions and laneways.

Do not pass snow clearing vehicles, as often sand and salt will be thrown and may damage your vehicle; Remember that snow and ice control is not a substitute for defensive driving in the winter.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:

2013 PROPERTY ASSESSMENT NOTICES

The 2013 Property Assessment Notices will be mailed by the B.C. Assessment Authority in early January 2013. Please contact the B.C. Assessment Authority’s Kelowna office at 250763-8300 or 1-800-990-1192 if you have not received your 2013 Property Assessment Notice by January 20, 2013.

2012 PROPERTY TAX AND UTILITY NOTICES

Pursuant to Section 245(1) of the Community Charter, outstanding balances in property taxes and annual or metered utilities at December 31, 2012, will be transferred to arrears taxes effective January 1, 2013. Arrears taxes are subject to interest at a rate prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council in accordance with Section 11(3) of the Tax Act. HAVE YOU MOVED? Remember to advise City Hall of your new mailing address. Each year, many undeliverable utility and property tax notices are returned to the City, often resulting in late payment charges.

The cost of removing windrows of snow from thousands of driveways every snowfall would be too costly to citizens if the City provided the service.

When clearing snow from your driveway place the snow to the right as you look at the street.

This will help prevent extra snow from being pushed back into your driveway.

The streets are plowed wide to provide storage for future snowfalls.

JUST A REMINDER: The placing of snow on the traveled portion of the roadway is not permitted. This regulation helps to ensure that potentially dangerous situations are avoided.

It is recommended that the parking of unattended vehicles on the roadway during winter months be avoided if possible. This enables efficient and economical snow removal for City crews, provides safe driving room on winter streets and prevents potential damage from snow removal operations occurring to your vehicle.

The Operations / Public Works Department thanks you for your patience and understanding during the winter months.

CHRISTMAS HOURS

The Municipal Office and Fire Hall will be closed from December 24, 2012, to January 1, 2013, inclusive for the Christmas Season.

Payments received by 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 2, 2013, will be processed with a payment date of December 31, 2012. Postmarks ARE NOT accepted as date of payment.

For your convenience, a drop box is located to the left of the entrance doors to the City of Salmon Arm office.

BUSINESS LICENCE RENEWALS 2013 Business Licence Renewal Notices have been mailed. Any business that did not receive a renewal notice should contact the Business Licence Department at 250-803-4003.

Season’s Greetings

My childhood memories of Christmas are of excitement, laughter, being together and Mom’s pumpkin pie. While I am certain we received many gifts, the one I remember well is a toboggan, dropped off by Santa Claus one snowy Christmas eve. This was the perfect gift for children who lived at the top of a hill. How did he know? This toboggan received countless hours of use as we all piled on at once, tallest to smallest. Flying down the hill, tumbling off, then running back up the hill to do it all again. A scenario which continued until exhaustion and the northern cold drove us indoors. Snow covered, laughing munchkins calling to mom for hot chocolate. I smile as I remember those days.

My wish for you this Christmas is that you smile and make happy memories that last a lifetime. Merry Christmas and the all Best in 2013.

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Tracy Hughes

Some wishful thinking Dear Santa, Yes, it’s me again, asking for a few holiday wishes for the citizens of Salmon Arm to enjoy in the year to come.

Not sure how much you had to do with it, but I certainly appreciate that left-turn signal light which was installed on the TransCanada Highway at Shuswap Street this year. I use that intersection nearly every day and it has made a huge difference to traffic flows into downtown — keeping the driving frustrations and blood pressures of both locals and tourists at much lower levels.

But there still is the matter of that Salmon River Bridge. I’ve been asking for some time to see if you could use a little of your magic to get some improvements to that portion of our highway.

It’s really a dangerous spot. (Not sure if you’ve ever had to manipulate your sleigh through there, but it might open your eyes.)

Make sure you keep all the Rotarians in Salmon Arm on your nice list. We want them all to be in good spirits, as they worked very hard fundraising for the children’s playground at Blackburn Park. You should be aware of how much the local kids were enjoying the new equipment, and there’s hopefully more to come as the Daybreak Club is still working to generate funds for the development of a spray park at the site.

The addition of a walking track and stationary fitness equipment is still in the works for Blackburn Park as well, and would provide a tangible and affordable fitness boost for the numerous seniors in the area. So please add that to the wish list too.

Another thing Salmon Arm could really use is improvements to our swimming pool. It’s a nice facility, but aging and in need of some upgrading. Ideally, Santa, we’d love to be able to develop a bigger pool with more amenities — and a switch from chlorine-based disinfecting would be great. Being of the whitehaired persuasion, you know how hard those chemicals are on your hair.

I was also wondering about an endorsement deal of sorts. I know you use elves for labour, but what about lending your (considerable) weight to efforts encouraging people to support local merchants? You’ve got a great reputation, Santa. With you as the face of a buy-local campaign, how could it go wrong?

If you could do something about the weather, it also wouldn’t hurt. I know by July, you’re probably basking in a well-deserved rest, but we could use a few more of those spectacularly sunny Shuswap days, with no signs of floods or fires that drive visitors away from our shores — and a special request to keep the skies clear on Roots and Blues weekend. It’s one of the biggest draws of the summer, put on with the effort of so many volunteers. The kiss of sunshine helps ensure big, enthusiastic crowds.

Speaking of volunteers, these are the people who deserve a little something extra in their stockings this year. In our increasingly fast-paced, high-stress world, the people who give so freely of their time are the backbone of our city. They deserve our appreciation.

Merry Christmas.

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Something rotten in education Anyone questioning the sincerity of Christy Clark’s families first agenda need only look at the province’s latest demand on B.C.’s school districts.

B.C. Education Minister Don McRae has asked school boards across the province to submit saving plans by mid-January detailing how they will cut 1.5 per cent from their budgets to cover the cost of wage increases. This includes their 201213 budgets, passed earlier this year. Furthermore, the cuts cannot negatively impact programming for students. Not surprisingly, school boards are displeased. For SD#83, this amounts to $600,000 this year alone, and is expected to double in the coming year.

“We have closed schools, cut staff, re-done our transportation system — we run a pretty tight ship. There’s really nowhere to turn without cutting programs, and that means taking away services from kids,” responded SD #83 board chair Bobbi Johnson.

The reaction is warranted. One of the ugliest battles faced by the province annually is that between teachers and government over wage increases. What better way to circumvent this – before the looming May provincial election – than shifting the burden to school districts? In doing so, the B.C. Liberal government comes out smelling like a rose, right?

It smells pretty rotten from here.

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The Observer asked: What’s on your Christmas list this year?

Kai Wilson “Lego.”

Lauren Crossman “A puzzle for us to put together.”

Linden Walters “A present for me and my brother.”

Neroli Ladner “A real cat – just a baby one.”

Payton Wess “A Monster High doll.”

Dix seeks balance Shuswap Trail Alliance inspires with their efforts with business sector BC VIEWS

Tom Fletcher

VICTORIA – NDP leader Adrian Dix has completed year-end interviews with members of the legislative press gallery.

Here are highlights from my discussion.

TF: On the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion proposal, federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair says the federal environmental process would have to be strengthened before a project like that could get a thorough enough hearing. Do you agree?

AD: The B.C. Liberal government has signed an equivalency agreement that says that the federal decision is the provincial decision on these projects. If it applies to Enbridge Northern Gateway, presumably the B.C. Liberals would apply it to Kinder Morgan. They could have done a joint process, where [the final decision] would have gone to both cabinets. They chose instead to give up jurisdiction. They were so afraid of making any decision on Northern Gateway that they sent it over to the federal government. So what we’ve said is within a week of coming to office, we would end that equivalency agreement, and British Columbia would make decisions about both Enbridge Northern Gateway, which applied in May 2010, and any other pipeline, including the Kinder Morgan proposal, for which no application has been made.

Obviously it would have been desirable for everyone had they chosen a true joint review, as they have in Site C [dam proposed for Peace River], as they did with Kemess North [rejected mine expansion proposal] and other cases.

TF: You don’t want duplicated review processes here, you just want a provincial cabinet say in the decision?

AD: That’s right.

TF: On your relationship with the B.C. Federation of Labour, your caucus is considering a proposal that B.C. should once again do away with secret ballots for union

certification.

AD: The B.C. Fed makes a case to the government on a series of issues on employment standards every year. Labour law, every year. WorkSafeBC, every year.

Trades and training, every year.

With respect to [accepting signed union cards for certification], it is a democratic process that the Newfoundland Conservative government just put into place a few months ago. So it’s a proposal from the labour movement and we’re looking at it.

For most of B.C.’s modern history, since World War II, we’ve had that cardcheck system in place. The question would be whether [returning to that system] is a priority for this term in government.

TF: So those kinds of things will be made clear in your platform?

AD: Absolutely.

TF: You picked up some serious money from the business community at a fundraiser in October. Is that some kind of a record for the NDP? AD: [Laughs.] It might be a record, I don’t know. I think the business fundraiser we did at the Hotel Vancouver netted $350,000. I think what it reflects is, this year I’ve had about 230 meetings with the business community. The purpose of it has been principally to build understanding, particularly on issues of skills training. With the priority I give to skills training, I think I’m much more attuned to their concerns than the government has been.

TF: I suppose that kind of success in fundraising might make it more difficult to follow through with your pledge to ban corporate and union donations.

AD: I don’t think so. The B.C. Liberal Party has a very high level of corporate donations as a percentage of its total. We’re overwhelmingly dependent on individual donations. We get support from unions, but it’s not even close to what people think.

TF: So you’ll campaign for that, as you have before?

AD: Yes.

As a long-time advocate for community development through not-for-profit work, I would like to give kudos to the Shuswap Trail Alliance and the leadership that has made it a successful model for regional planning around trail building.

Regional planning is not an easy accomplishment, even between local governments sharing interests, needs, economy and a physical environment such as Shuswap Lake and watershed and the benefits and challenges that come with it.

The Shuswap Trail Alliance has literally, from the ground up, brought every community and culture in the Shuswap/North Okanagan together to create the following: a network of trails that provide opportunity year-round for healthy family activity, a reconnection to our natural environment, a heightened sense of responsibility for the environment, an enhancement to the local tourism economy, a template for not-for -profit, government and aboriginal community partnerships, as well as widespread

volunteerism around a common purpose.

Provincial and federal governments increasingly recognize the critical role played by not-for-profit societies and charitable organizations in developing services for and around communities.

The fact that not-for-profit organizations can access a variety of funding sources, including private and corporate-sponsored donations not available to regional and municipal governments, makes them huge assets to development in all communities.

Organizations like the Shuswap Trail Alliance have provided, and will continue to provide, significant employment locally with the support and co-operation of local governments.

I wish to thank Phil McIntyre-Paul and his team of hard-working, passionate volunteer leaders for the amazing work they have done in our regional district and local municipalities. You are an inspiration to many.

Pam Beech

Hockey fan offers advice to ’Backs Hello SilverBacks, Merry Christmas.

Young men, I have enjoyed watching the progress of your skills, realizing it takes hard work. You have to know it takes time to get to know your team and all the moves each player makes; after all, it is near the start of the season. You men have improved a lot and will continue to improve as the season continues.

What separates the player who makes it and those that don’t is the mental discipline each possesses, no matter what the sport, team or individual. Mental preparation applies to all sports.

If you are a goalie, visualize yourself following the puck leave the stick and straight into your glove. As a forward you hear the applause that your teammates will receive after a great play by you and your line. As a defenceman and defending a two-on-one play. When your coach says “Don’t take dumb penalties,” he is asking you to be

mentally prepared as you control your emotions. Generally dumb penalties occur after an interaction with another player, a hard hit or a slash behind the play. Have you visualized what you would do in that situation, besides losing your temper and retaliating?

A player in control of their emotions will always outperform a player who does not have control.

In closing, don’t neglect your mental preparation. Be the best you can as you progress in your hockey career. You will see that the physical abilities of the players are not different. The successful ones will have worked on and developed their mental aspect to the greater degree than those who are not successful.

Remember the 4 D’s: desire, determination, dedication and discipline.

Good luck on the last half of the season.

J. R. Motter

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Archives

1933

All councillors for the District of Salmon Arm were returned to office. Serving another term were Coun.

Ritchie, Coun. Monteith and police chief Pat Owens.

In 1933 B.C. had 130,000 phones in use – just a little fewer than one for every five people.

1943

A military call-up notice appeared in the paper this week. A proclamation issued by the Governor General required that every single man born between 1902 and 1923 must fill out a form and stand by to report for medical examination under compulsory military service.

The siege of Leningrad had been lifted, and clothing and supplies were needed for her citizens. Salmon Arm’s contribution to the Canadian Aid to Russia surpassed its goal.

1953

A new insurance and real estate firm was incorporated in Salmon Arm under the name Shuswap Agencies Ltd. Principals in the firm were T. Harold Marks and Howard Moberly.

Meat inspection began in 1953. It became necessary for all meat sold in shops and restaurants to bear either the city’s stamp or the federal government’s.

Mr. and Mrs. Phil Fraser and daughter Gail, Hamiota of Manitoba were the guests of Mrs. Fraser’s sister, Mrs. B Maber. They have purchased the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey of Tappen.

1963

As a result of the opening of Rogers Pass, 2,100 cars stopped at the information booth run by the chamber of commerce in 1962.

A speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon meeting warned of a one-third drop in Canadian wheat prices if Great Britain entered the European Common Market.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Salmon Arm Observer

Neighbours put time into clock

By Barb Brouwer OBSERVER STAFF

A passion for working with wood brought two neighbours together to create a beautiful one-of-a-kind grandfather clock.

In 2011, retired school teacher Bill Ferguson told next-door neighbour Richard Goodall he needed a project.

Because he is a talented woodworker, Goodall suggested his neighbour of 23 years build a replica grandfather clock and convinced him they would be able to find a suitable movement on the Internet.

“Bill decided to go ahead and so some time was spent studying pictures of old long-case clocks from the 1700 and 1800s,” says Goodall. “In the meantime, I watched eBay and found a very desirable movement from circa 1760.

It was rare because, not only was it a moon phase and calendar dial, but it was made

by John Wyke, one of the most famous 18th century clock makers in England.”

Ferguson, who began carving wood at a very young age, has always loved working with wood.

And while he began by carving small items like boats and airplanes, his talent for much larger, intricate pieces is on display in his home and in all the beautiful accoutrements he has crafted for the Salmon Arm Freemasons hall, of which he is a member.

“The beauty of the wood is something outstanding, and then the challenge is bringing ideas from my mind to the finished project,” he says, noting he researches the works of others, but only for ideas.

“You’ll never see a clock

like this anywhere else in the world. I wanted and 18th century clock, not a replica.”

Ferguson handpicked

work as the spirit moved him, putting in long hours one day and doing nothing the next.

“A lot of time was spent thinking

time well-spent: Bill Ferguson and Richard Goodall with the 18th century grandfather clock they built together. the walnut boards for the body and chose a piece of weige, a dark and very pricey hard wood from Africa for the inlay on the front of the clock.

Between the wood and clock workings, Ferguson says he laid out more than $10,000.

“If I included my labour, then it becomes extremely ridiculous,” he laughs, noting he would never be able to turn his hobby and charitable work into a paying business. “Even at minimum wage it would be ridiculous.”

Ferguson says one of the marvellous things about retirement is that he could

about what I was going to do and how I was going to do it,” he says.

“I don’t follow directions, I make my own, which is the reward of the whole thing, because when you’re finished, it’s yours.”

Along with the beautifully carved furniture, shelves and candlesticks Ferguson has made for the Masonic Hall over the past 30 years, hang two portraits he has painted of early hall officials.

Ferguson credits his painting abilities to a very good art program in his high school in Nelson.

He says that while woodworking requires total concentration, as it requires working with some potentially dangerous machinery, painting is relaxing.

“You become very absorbed with what you’re doing and there’s a beautiful sense of accomplishment once you’re finished,” he says of his painting efforts.

Goodall, an accomplished guitar-maker and antique furniture restorer, did all the finishing work on the clock.

“Getting a first-class finish is not easy and I do not use anything found on the shelf of the hardware store,” says Goodall, noting he has been restoring antiques and building guitars for the past 35 years.

“Guitars have to have a super-gloss finish and fine antiques often have what is called French polish. Both finishes are unsurpassed in brilliance.”

Goodall says his antique restoration business grew when people would take pieces of furniture to him for repair or restore.

“The guy who builds guitars, maybe he can fix this,” was the attitude, he says, noting a Vancouver Island store found him and shipped items to his Salmon Arm home.

Like his neighbour, Goodall is a consummate artist with wood, making high-end guitars that would cost anywhere from $5,000 to $12,000 should he consider selling them.

He calls his hobby fun but exacting work and says he usually puts a couple of hours into his guitars every day.

In terms of future projects together, Goodall says he’s now suggested his neighbour build himself a high-end liquor cabinet – something he says Ferguson is mulling over.

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Alcohol and drugs impair driving ability in many ways

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says almost 30 people in the United States die each day in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcoholimpaired driver. That equates to 1 death every 48 minutes.

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Dear Santa for christmas I would like is a snowboard + some more hamster stuff and a shocking for my hamster and a IPad. love: Brooklyn Sewell Dear Santa, How are you doing? This year I would like to have Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Saga, Lego Star Wars mini figures, and Lego Star Wars sets. Also, please bring the force (from Star Wars).

Finally, I was wondering if your elves can make something in one second?

Merry Christmas.

Evan Reed PS. I would like a Lego Harry Potter Set Dear Santa, How are you doing? This year I would like a new DS game, candy, and an ipad touch. Also, can the world have peace? (like Canada.) I hope I’m the nice list!

Sincerely, Marcus Limber P.S. You’re the best!

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Finaley, I was wondering if your reindeer could walk on water.

Sincerely, Katie P.S. Also, remember to bring love for my family.

P.P.S. Thank you for being Santa Clauws!

Merry Christmas!

Dear Santa, How are you and Mrs. Claus? This year I would love to have a picture of Rudolph, a bell from Rudolph’s harness, and your magic flying dust. Finally my friend Chelsey would like a real Pokeman! One more thing… am I on the good list?

Love, Meghan Ackerman P.S. can you say hollo to the Raindeer for me please? to: Santa Claus For Christmas i wod Liek 1. a Pet PuPy 2. Fer Rile Fred 3. i Pod tuch 4. i Pod 5. Barbies 6. Phon 7. The Prinsesse and the Pop Star 8. Justin Beiber poster 9. Pupy 10. Books 11. Ferie Books 12. Star Wars Movis

13. a Pet Leserd 14. Amarkin Doll with close and aleaf 15. Hire Die all Jereret colers 16. My one Colerin Cet 17. a i tunes card 18. a cekin avin from Simone Mare Chrismes N.P. Dear Santa I’ve been a very good girl this year. So these are some of the things i’d like to ask for 1. Barbie reporter kit 2. Bed & Breakfast (american Girl) 3. camper from our Generation 4. Lego friends house (Olivia) …and for my pet Lizzy sould she get 1. plastic igloo 2. red beads thank you for everything!

Love Aspen Ambler Dear Santa.

I wish for a LEGO cabin. I wish for an iPod Touch and a little robot machine with a fake laser. Merry Christmas.

Love Bretton Dear Santa, My name is Mason and I am 6 years old. For Christmas I would like a remote control Bad

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Thank you Mason Dear Santa, My little brother Oliver would like play teeth, a new play car and some socks.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas!

Love, Oliver (18 months old, and his big brother, Finnlay) Dear Santa, I have been good. I am

nice to my brother Oliver.

I help him with toy baskets and I give him a hug when he gets hurt. I’m wondering, what do the elves ghelp you with? How do the reindeer shake their bells? For Christmas I would like hockey tape and a fire truck with a ladder. I will leave you milk and cookies and carrots for the reindeer and elves.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas!

Finnlay P.S. I turn 4 tomorrow!

Dear Santa How are you? I am doing fine.

I just moved to Sicamous, BC and I am in a new school and a new dance studio. In school I am in grade 4. Did you make any new changes to the workshop this year because that would be so cool!!!!

This year did any of the elves do anything wrong?

This year for Christmas we will not be in California we will be in Silverstar it is only 45 minutes away from our house and my cousins Lexii, Danai and Jaycie will be going too. But this year for Christmas I would like a white iphone4s please.

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Love, Devyn, age 7.

Dear Santa, Please bring me a bumble bee helmut. I will put some cookies and eggnog out for you and some carrots for the reindeer.

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I really like Ponies, books about ponies and a Llama Llama book, a stuffy pony, a ducky and a dolly.

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Love Paige, Age 4 Dear Santa: I hope you are doing good and are youmaking Lots of Presents in the Northpole.

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I hope that Rudolphs red nose doesn’t run out. Did you see any polar bears and penguins?

Ho-Ho-Ho Santa I love you you are my best friend I have ever had.

Merry Christmas Dear Santa: I hope you make cookies.

Thank you for the leso last year. Santa, can you get me an Ipod? Thank you. Hunter wants a snowboard.

Love, Kaiden (Love you Santa) Dear Santa Claus: I hope the elves or wrcin hord and I hoope youre doing good. thank you for the frog aquarium that you got for me last Christmas.

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I like to eat Aero Buttons…

They are Aeros that are chocolate.

Do you have hot chocolate at the North pole? I like to drink that.

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Your friend, Alyssa Dear Santa Claus: Does your Christmas tree look good? I bet my tree will look good too! Thank you for the transformer that I wanted. Santa, please can I have paper Mario Sticker star for 3DS and can you give Tanner a parrot?

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Can you please bring another golder retriever dog and can you please bring my friend a dress?

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Love, Samantha Dear Santa: Hello. How are the elves?

Are They still Making toys? Thank you for that Lego set. I Like IT. I want a donkey kang stuffy, please.

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Dear Santa, How are you Santa? From Brayden to Santa.

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Dear Santa Love, Mackenzie Keating P.S. I have a hole in muy sock. Mom says I blew a tire.

Dear, Santa How are you? I’m exited beause Christmas is coming soon.

Thank you so much for the gifts last yer. FOr this year I would like a furby a elf on the shelf and surprizes. You are very Happy Jolly and nice. Have a very Mery Christmas.

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Thank you for my cellphones and our ping-pong table, They are super fun.

We don’t have the pingpong table up yet. Can you please bring a kitten?

Hi. My name is Anina. I am in grade 3. I am 8. I hope you have an awesome trip.

I have goodies. I want to Meet one day. I want monster High. I want a dog and cat. I want a monster car.

Dear Santa.

Is it hard to deliver all those presents? Is it? I want a 3DS and I want a Lego game and I want to see you and why I want a 3DS is because I want it.

From Ryley, age 8 Dear Santa, Hi. My name is Grace. I am 7. Is your name really Saint Nick and do you really say Ho Ho Ho? And how is the reindeer doing? Can i have a furbie? Love Grace Dear Santa, My name is Sierra. I want a white cat. I want to meet you and I have 3 sisters. Merry Christmas!

Love Sierra Dear Santa Hi. My name is Lola. Do you really have magic reindeer? How are you?

I wish for a I-Pod and a Lap top for Christmas! because I really want it and it is awesome! And because my mom has a Lap top and a I-Pod Do you know me now? And can you leave me a letter for Christmas? And leave some presents I am

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How old are you, do you really have reindeer?

Love Rayna. Merry Christmas Santa.

Dear Santa, I believe in Santa. You are awesome. My name is Joseph. I will give your reindeer carrots. I want a Halo 3and4. Can you say Hi to Misses Clause.

From Joseph Dear Santa My name is Ashley. I am in grade two. My school is called Salmon Arm West.

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Opening students’ eyes in India

by Martha Wickett OBSERVER STAFF

Calvin White describes it as probably the most unique school trip in the province.

A former teacher, White has led two student trips to India since 2008 and left on his third on Dec. 17.

He, several parents and about a dozen students in grades 10 to 12 will be returning on Jan. 7.

“It’s intended to expose the kids to travel in budget style rather than to insulate them.

We don’t use a tour company, we don’t go on pre-arranged buses, we take local transport – and kids really come back with a direct experience of what it would be like for them to travel on their own.”

White says he likes India because, “for lack of a better word, the fullness, realness of it... You walk into the heartbeat of life when you go to India. There’s no defending against it.

You’re just in it.”

He says it’s a difficult place for students to go, but they adjust.

“They get over the culture shock and the fears – and then they get it. And all of them want to go back. I’ve never had a kid who didn’t want to go back. They feel alive there.”

While White takes care of the emotional and personal needs of the students, he has a friend in India who takes care of transportation, accommodation and more.

Emotions sometimes run high, White says, with the group away over Christmas in a country very different from their own.

This time the students are going to a leper colony, taking a camel trek in the desert and possibly doing some volunteering at Mother Theresa’s enterprises.

Steven Petterson was part of White’s trip to India in December 2009. Although he’d only left B.C. once before on a trip to Hawaii with his family, he described it as amazing.

“It was an eye-opening experience for sure

and I’m really glad I did it.”

For him, there were many highlights, but one that seemed to stand out for every member of the group was a camel trip, he says.

“One of the days we got to go way out into the desert and ride camels to this little tiny village and we had lunch with them. That was really cool, sitting on the ground eating this incredibly spicy food – we couldn’t handle it.

There were a bunch of little kids and we got to play with them. We couldn’t really talk with them but we could communicate. It was really cool.”

Another highlight for Petterson was in the city of Varanasi when the group went out in a boat and watched from the river as people cremated their dead. Cremation in Varanasi, which has special significance in the Hindu religion, takes place at special burning ghats located along the riverbank.

“It was definitely an eye-opening experience. We sat in silence and watched.”

Although a few times he felt stressed and missed home, and he became sick near the end of the trip, overall,

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Up close: A group of Salmon Arm students is now experiencing life in India. This photo is from a previous group’s trip. he says, it was a good experience.

“It seems kind of silly to say it – it was only three weeks – but I felt it helped me mature a bit, for sure.”

It inspired him to go on other trips; a year ago he spent six months in South America.

“Even after being in South America, seeing a bunch of countries there, if ever I was to go back, I would still go to India. I don’t know what that place did to me, but I’d sure go back.”

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New $20 polymer bills enter circulation Canada’s new $20 polymer bank note has now begun making its way into banks, stores and wallets across the country. It is the third Canadian polymer note to enter circulation.

The $20 note is the most popular denomination — accounting for about half of all bank notes circulating in Canada. You will now be much more likely to come across a polymer note at your grocery store or ATM. When you spot one for the first time, chances are you will see and feel the difference immediately.

So what makes polymer so special? Why did the Bank of Canada choose polymer notes over cotton-paper ones? And what about the story of polymer notes melting—is there any truth to this?

Why go with polymer?

The most important reason for a central bank to re-design notes is to help stay ahead of counterfeiting. The Polymer series is the most secure series of bank notes ever issued by the Bank of Canada.

They will also have a reduced environmental impact, as fewer notes will need to be manufactured and transported over the life of the series.

Our new notes have innovative security features, including a unique combination of transparency and complex holography. They expand the frontiers of bank note security, as they are the most advanced ever issued in Canada and among the most secure in the world.

Polymer is a unique, smooth, and durable film specifically designed for bank notes.

Our new polymer notes will last at least twoand-a-half times longer than paper notes.

And while polymer is new for Canadian bank notes, it has been used by over 30 countries around the world, some since the 1980s.

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and rigorous testing of the new polymer notes prior to issuing them.

They were tested in extremely cold temperatures (-75°C/103°F) and extremely

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www.saobserver.net A17

Braby Motors It’s A Wonderful Ride Holiday Event!

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Economy tops MP’s priorities

By Roger Knox BLACK PRESS

Colin Mayes plans to keep an eye on the 2013 B.C. election.

It’s because it will mark the first time in more than a decade that Mayes, the former mayor of Salmon Arm and now MP for the Okanagan-Shuswap riding, won’t be collaborating with longtime provincial politician counterpart, Shuswap MLA George Abbott.

Five people are vying for the right to replace Abbott as the Liberal candidate in the provincial vote. Abbott is retiring from politics.

“I try to keep out of provincial politics but there is a changing of the guard in the Shuswap riding,” said Mayes, 64, the MP for Okanagan-Shuswap since January 2006.

“George has either been a critic of a ministry or has been a cabinet minister of many things, and he has served the riding well.

“It will be interesting to see who we have as a new MLA.” Mayes pointed to working with provincial partners on improving the Highway 97 corridor in the riding, as well as the TransCanada Highway, as key highlights.

He also said it would be interesting to see which party wins the provincial election in the spring. Abbott’s Liberals are supposed to be on the way out, losing to the NDP, if you believe polls that suggest such a thing.

Mayes, for one, puts no stock in political polls.

“The polls were completely wrong in the last federal election (2011),” he laughed.

“The polls said the Bloc (Quebecois) would stay the same, the Liberals would gain, the NDP would lose ground and we’d never get our majority. “Wrong on all four counts.”

Because Mayes’ Conservative party now has a majority govern-

ment, it made things easier to move forward on a number of items, which he said the party did in 2012.

“A number of our bills came forward, such as cracking down on crime, we were happy to get that bill through. Our budget

Colin Mayes Okanagan ShuSwap Mp bill to deal with the economy was a great one.”

Ah, the economy.

Mayes said it’s the No. 1 topic among constituents.

“A lot of initiatives in our budget cut red tape and will ensure government is not in the way of businesses doing well,” he said. “We’ve

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“I’ve talked to a few small business people who have said it’s been a tough fall and they hope things pick up through Christmas.”

On a personal level in 2013, Mayes wants to get back to the constituency more often.

“I found last year because we’re trying to get as much of our legislation through as possible, it hasn’t given me the chance to be home as much as I’d like,” said Mayes.

He also wants to relax more in 2013.

“I’d like to get out and play the championship course at the Salmon Arm Golf Club,” said Mayes. “I haven’t

been there in two years and, as a member, that’s not very good. I have to make those decisions to say ‘no,’ and take some time. I’m going to try and do more of that.”

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Lipsett invited to try out for national team Salmon Arm’s Erika Lipsett has been invited to try out for Team Canada’s Ringette Team.

Lipsett is currently attending UBCO in Kelowna, playing in

champs: Erika Lipsett poses with her team’s National Championship 2012 trophy. the National Ringette League for BC Thunder out of Vancouver. BC Thunder are the reigning national champions.

BC Thunder’s head coach Chris Wakefield told the Observer that Lipsett deserves the honour.

“I’m very proud she’s earned this op-

portunity. She’s always been an elite player, having played for Team BC in the Canada Games,” he says, noting she was a very important part of BC Thunder when the team won the national championship last year.

He notes that the national association has been scouting players for the last year-and-a half, with about 55 invited to try out. Eight of those invited are from the BC Thunder team.

The try-out camp takes place in Ottawa in February, he says.

At that point the team would be named – likely about 30 players.

The World Championship will take place in North Bay, Ont. in November 2013.

Currently Lipsett’s BC Thunder team is in first place in the Western Conference, working their way to represent B.C. at the Canadian National Championships in Fredericton, New Brunswick in April.

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Larch Hills is once again adorned with JackRabbits trying out their skills on Saturday mornings. The Lantern Ski goes Dec. 27 and the Full Moon Ski or Snowshoe & chalet pot luck is Dec. 28.

Salmon Arm chosen for U16 BC Cup BC Hockey has announced that Salmon Arm has been selected as the host site for the 2013 Male Under 16 BC Cup. The event will take place at the Shaw Centre from April 18 to 21, 2013.

The top 160 male hockey players born in 1998 from B.C. will be attending this prestigious event.

“The Shuswap Recreation

Society is proud to have been selected as the hosts for the 2013 Male U16 BC Cup at the Shaw Centre in Salmon Arm,” said David Knight, events coordinator for the recreation society. “We are excited to be hosting this wonderful event that will showcase some of the most amazing young talents from this great province of ours.”

Players will be selected to attend the U16 BC Cup based on performance at the U16 region camps. Four region camps are being held in the beginning of April, in which 160 players will be selected to compete. The BC Cup is a jamboree-style tournament so the 160 players are mixed to make eight teams.

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silvertips split pair On Saturday, Dec. 15, the host ScotiaBank Silvertips Bantam Rep Tier 2 team hosted the OMAHA first-place team from Westside. In a high-paced and exciting game, the Westside team held on to a two-goal lead late into the third period. After pulling the goalie with about 95 seconds left in the third, a turnover led to an empty net goal: final score 3-0. Strong goaltending by Jayden Jensen was instrumental in keeping things tight. Next day, the host Silvertips played the Okanagan Hockey Academy from Penticton. The Silvertips outshot and outplayed the competitors to a final score of 4-0.

Goals were scored by Tyler Collins, driving the net to shove in his own rebound, Alex Astasiewicz with a pair with assists from Shane Minnis and Tyler Collens, and Joey Guerra from Shane Minnis and Tristan Ferguson. Shutout, with Keenan Starkell in net. The players visited their neighbourhoods this past week to collect nonperishables for the food bank. With help from Santa Claus and supporters, the team collected more than 100 pounds of food.

take the icy plunge The annual Polar Bear Swim takes place at the Canoe Beach boat launch at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 1.

Family soccer on Jan. 1 Shuswap Youth Soccer presents a Free Family Footy fun soccer day on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1 from noon till 3 p.m. at the SASCU Indoor Sports Complex. This event is for the whole family to participate in together, with fun games of parents versus children. The six- to nine-yearolds are invited to participate from noon to 1 p.m., 10- to 13-year-olds from 1 to 2 p.m., and 14 years and older from 2 to 3 p.m. The SASCU Indoor Sports Complex is located at 351 – Third St. SW, by Safeway. For more information, email admin@shuswapsoccer.com or call 250-833-5607.

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Head coach claims world’s top spot Intrepid MMA head coach Richard Dubois is a world champion.

Dubois recently attended the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) No-Gi Submission Grappling World Championships in California along with three students.

He had just recently received his brown belt in association with West Coast BJJ and competed as a brown belt at the worlds. Finding there were no entrants in his weight category, he moved up a weight class to compete against bigger men. There he won gold in his division.

Dubois also entered the absolute class where there are no restrictions on size and he did a repeat performance – winning gold in that division as well.

“Needless to say, we are extremely thrilled to have a world champion here in Salmon Arm to instruct us,” said student Ryan Hunniford.

Marcus Blair, one of Intrepid’s blue belts, recently went to Vancouver to compete. He chose to challenge himself by entering the purple belt division. Belts in jiu-jitsu can take years to earn and each gradation can denote a large difference in skill. Blair took a big step up and proved himself when he won gold in his division.

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On the subject of blue belts, Intrepid MMA recently promoted several members and now have six blue belts to help welcome and work with newcomers.

The club trains adults from 7 p.m. onwards Tuesday and Thursday and can be reached on facebook.com/ IntrepidMMA or Dubois can be reached at 250-804-6516.

’Backs trades The Salmon Arm SilverBacks have been busy lately making trades.

The ’Backs traded forward Troy Petrick to the Battleford North Stars of the SJHL in exchange for future considerations. Petrick, a 19-year-old native of Castlegar, tallied one goal and one assist in

14 games with the SilverBacks this season.

In addition, the ’Backs have signed 17year-old goaltender Angus Redmond.

Redmond is a Langley product who appeared in 16 games during his rookie season for the Junior “B” Port Moody Panthers of the PIJHL.

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Call us at 250-832-2131, drop in to our office, or use our new, easy to use calendar online. See below.

MONDAY, DEC. 31

HAPPY NEW YEAR – Silver Creek Community Hall hosts a New Year’s Eve

dance and fundraiser featuring music by Rock’n Randy, potluck appies, a silent auction and door prizes. Tickets at $15 per person or $25 a couple are available at the Silver Creek Store prior to the dance. Tickets must be pre-purchased. Funds will be used for renovations and maintenance of the hall. To donate items, call Jamie Felhauer at 250-804-8813 or Bernice Hebert at 250-833-4081.

LET’S GO – An Diamo Ristorante italiano on Ross Street serves up a New Year’s Eve party featuring a four-course meal with a choice of entrées and live entertainment. Limited seating. Book beforehand at 250-832-9949.

TUESDAY, JAN. 1 ICY DIP – Shuswap Swimming hosts a polar bear swim at Canoe Beach

boat launch at 10:30 a.m.

FAMILY FOOTY – Shuswap Youth Soccer presents a free and fun event with games between parents and kids. Noon to 1 p.m. is for children six to nine years of age, 1 to 2 p.m. for kids 10 to 13 years, and 2 to 3 p.m. for kids 14 years and older and their parents at the SASCU Indoor Soccer Arena.

All equipment will be provided.

FRIDAY, JAN. 4

FIFTH AVENUE SENIORS – Monthly birthday lunch at noon. Reserve tickets,

seating is limited. Dance to the Jammers Jan. 6 at 7 p.m.

DEADLINE – Last day for submission to the 15th Annual Okanagan Short Story Contest, which is open to all Southern Interior writers. Stories should be previously unpublished works and range from 1,000 to 4,000 words. Each entry must be accompanied by a $15 entry fee, either a money order or cheque payable to the University of British Columbia. See contest rules and submission address at www.okstorycontest.org.

SATURDAY, JAN. 5

OPERA – Salmar Theatre’s Live at the Met program presents Les Troyens at

9 a.m. at the Salmar Classic Theatre.

BOTTLE DRIVE – Shuswap Variety Club hosts a bottle drive to raise funds for

Variety The Children’s Charity of British Columbia. Drop off recyclable beverage containers at the Salmon Arm Legion, or call Brenda at 250-8323157 for bottle pick-up.

TUESDAY, JAN. 8

PROBUS CLUB – Monthly general meeting takes place from 10 a.m. to noon

at the SASCU Downtown Activity Centre. Doors open at 9:30 for coffee and social.

BABY BITS – Healthiest Babies Possible program features handprint crafts from 10:30 to 1 p.m. at the Shuswap Family Resource Centre. Door prizes and lunch provided.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9

RETIRED TEACHERS – Meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m. at the SASCU

Downtown Activity Centre. Topic of discussion will be age-safe communities. Call A. Waters at 250-832-9973 for information.

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Grumpy Grinch

Grinch Aidan Sparks delights children of all ages in Shuswap Theatre’s Christmas production of The Grins Who Stole Christmas, while Improv Group members Randy Brogden, Erin Leek and Gloria Cox sing shame on him.

Writers Union hosts prose competition The Writers’ Union of Canada has launched its 20th Annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, which invites writers to submit a piece of fiction or non-fiction of up to 2,500 words in the English language that has not previously been published in any format.

A $2,500 prize will be awarded to an unpublished Canadian writer, and the entries of the winner and finalists will be submitted to three Canadian magazines for consideration.

The deadline for entries is March 1, 2013.

The Union initiated the Short Prose Competition in 1993 in honour of its 20th anniversary. The Competition aims to discover, encourage, and promote new writers of short prose.

“Every year the Short Prose Competition has yielded some superb entries,” notes the union’s executive director John Degen.

“Previous finalists and winners have included such luminaries as Alexander MacLeod, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, and Lewis DeSoto.”

The union is proud to announce an esteemed group of jurors for this year’s short prose competition.

A previous finalist herself, Ami McKay went on to publish the bestselling novel The Birth House, which was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Her latest novel, The Virgin Cure, was inspired by her greatgreat grandmother, who was a female physician in 19th century

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Rosemary Nixon is the acclaimed author of two short story collections, including The Cock’s Egg, which received the Howard O’Hagan Short Fiction Award. Her debut novel, Kalila, was released to strong reviews in 2011.

Satirical and speculative fiction writer Mark A. Rayner has written novels, short stories, humorous fiction, and plays. His 2005 novel, The Amadeus Net, was longlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award.

His latest release, Pirate Therapy and Other Cures, is a collection of short stories, essays, and flash fiction.

The competition is open to Canadian residents who have not had a book published by a commercial or uni-

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Submissions should be sent along with a $29 entry fee per submission to The Writers’ Union of Canada at 90 Richmond St. East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1P1,

by March 1, 2013.

The winner will be announced in May. For complete rules and regulations, go to http:// www.writersunion.ca/ short-prose.

The Writers’ Union of Canada is the national organization representing professional book authors.

Founded in 1973, the union is dedicated to fostering writing in Canada and promoting the rights, freedoms, and economic wellbeing of all writers.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Salmon Arm Observer

By Barb Brouwer observer sTAFF

In 1988, Tony beeftink got the Christmas gift of his life.

It was, literally, the gift of life in the form of a heart transplant.

“The doctor came in and said ‘what do you want for Christmas?’” says beeftink. “I said, ‘you’ve got to be kidding!” but the doctor wasn’t kidding and very early in the morning of boxing Day, beeftink received his brand new ticker that has kept the beat for 24 years.

Acquisition of the heart was organized by Pacific organ retrieval for Transplantation (PorT) after beeftink had been on chemical life support for four months.

“I suppose at that time I had the right blood type and the biggest need,” he says.

Unlike the U.s. where transplant patients are made aware of their donors, beeftink says information is kept strictly private in Canada. beeftink was back in the hospital last Wednesday – not as a patient, but to say thanks to shuswap Lake General Hospital doctors and nurses on behalf of operation Popcorn. every December, bC Transplant arranges for transplant recipients and living donors to visit intensive care units, emergency and operating rooms in the province, delivering decorative tins of popcorn to staff for the critical role they play in the transplant process. beeftink says not only do the nurses and doctors provide great care, they have the tough job of identifying if a dying patient might make a good donor, and talking to a grieving family about the possibility of their loved one becoming a donor after death. so far this year, staff in acute-care facilities have helped save 300 lives through the transplant process.

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Seasonal warning: Nurse Kelly Pettus and heart transplant

recipient Tony Beeftink share a laugh and some popcorn, provided through Operation Popcorn, outside the intensive care unit at Shuswap Lake General Hospital. but more than 400 british Columbians are currently waiting for a transplant.

“A lot of people are waiting and a lot of people are dying,” says beeftink, urging people to enroll in the transplant program. “It might do a family some good to know something good comes out of

a terrible tragedy.”

While most british Columbians, a reported 85 per cent, support the concept of organ donation, only 18 per cent have registered as organ donors. visit the bC Transplant society website at www.transplant.bc.ca and take their message to heart says beeftink: “Don’t

take your organs to heaven – heaven knows we need them here.”

And it’s not just hearts that are needed – lungs, kidneys, liver, pancreases and retinas can give someone a new lease on life. beeftink continues to give thanks and does so by counselling other patients when required.

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Codes Ten

by Bernice Rosella and James Kilner

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21-April 19): Utilize this energy towards achieving what you had truly hoped for. You possess the right amount of bravery and zest. You are closer to your dreams than you realize. Domestic issues will come into focus during this Full Moon.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your hard work and courage will be observed. During the Full Moon you will feel very comfortable opening up about your innermost concerns. This experience will ask you both to let go of something in order to unify your partnership.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You might be working towards a matter involving travel overseas. Or, you may find yourself determined in some academic pursuit or dealing with a legal affair. The Full Moon will demand your attention towards your house of earned income.

ACROSS 1 0 for ____ ; or role for Walter 6 Animal examiner 9 Francis and Ablonzi, to friends 12 Italian city 13 Curling surface 14 Dutch ___ disease 15 Buzz off 16 C for ____ ; or good time guy 18 Immediately 20 And the rest 21 Severn tributary 23 Word element denoting ear 24 Ordain 25 Equestrian game 27 Construct 29 Leverage, so to speak 31 Q for _____ ; or Duceppe’s domain 35 Ionian Island 37 Legendary Roughrider George 38 Mischief maker 41 Dawdle 43 Observe 44 Famous NHL-er Sid 45 Pharynx and stomach connector 47 F for _____ ; or ballroom boogie 49 Drama awards 52 Sup 53 Jimenez hurray 54 B for ____ ; or burst of approval 55 RC honourees 56 Pals of ands and buts 57 Shoe parts

DOWN 1 Titaness 2 Student org.

3 Plant parts 4 Perfume obtained from flowers 5 R for ____ ; or Shakespearean lover 6 V for ____ ; or mousetrap manufacturer 7 E for ____ ; or reverberation 8 Potable 9 D for _____ ; or Fraser floodplain 10 Major artery 11 Small fry?

17 Tenant 19 Wrangler’s nemesis 21 Steno’s keyboard speed 22 Not I 24 European money 26 Hidden 28 Peer 30 Sever 32 Inhuman 33 Shoe size 34 Letters between B and F 36 Grooves 38 Bistros 39 WWII shipping threat 40 Writings 42 Dollops 45 G for ____ ; or Weir’s game 46 Spanish river 48 Louis XIV, for one 50 Adam’s other 51 Sig. for the shipwrecked

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Exercise some self-discipline when it comes to money. The Full Moon will emphasize your identity and indicate a greater need to take care of yourself. Powerful creative ideas or even support from your children will be of the greatest assistance to you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are motivated to bring your relationship a step further and possibly, make a big move at this time. This fresh energy will spice you up. At the Full Moon, stress is likely to get to you now, therefore, keep things as light as possible at this time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There will be lots of movement at your workplace. You will prove of your efficiency and productivity. You will be asking yourself which dreams will make you genuinely happy and what is it that could bring you security and the sense that you are being taken care for.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will be in the mood to attend gatherings and just have fun. The Full Moon will light your reputation sector. Work might drain you or

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you will see some obstacles on your ladder of success.

Fortunately, you have a second plan: a strategic solution.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will want to settle a property issue and bring some domestic projects to fruition. You are pumped up. Matters involving travel overseas will come to a completion. This is a time when you will be more connected to your inner wisdom or the pursuit of some higher learning. Your persistence can win anybody over. Believe in yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Money has flown easily out of your pockets and this coming Full Moon will bring forward issues about your personal wealth.

The allocation of your finances needs to be reassessed and evaluated further. You will open up to anything exciting and stimulating. You will become a very resourceful individual for others at this time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A relationship will demand your attention and you will undergo a blend of emotions which will push you to insist on getting clear answers. Yet, you have promising opportunities that will assist you in getting closer to your ideals. There’s nothing standing in your way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are self-reliant and charismatic. You have tremendous support from people in power or from those who are simply testing your unique talents. Keep yourself in great shape in order to carry out all the beautiful assignments you’ve been working so hard for.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will be more motivated to work in seclusion, out of the limelight. You might find yourself with a very active subconscious mind. A Full Moon will occur in your new love sector. You might plan on bringing this new relationship to an entire new level.

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(For solution see Today’s Answers in this paper).

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Every tax receipted gift ensures that the name of your loved one will be remembered in perpetuity.

Office: 250-832-5428 www.shuswapfoundation.ca

Coming Events LOOKING TO SERVE? Outdoors person? Fit? Team player? Check out our group: Shuswap Volunteer Search & Rescue Recruitment information night: Wed. Feb 13/2013, Salmon Arm. See http://shuswapvsar.org for details & registration

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The Classifieds reserves the right to reject any advertisement and to repay the customer the sum paid for the advertisement.

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Lost & Found FOUND: 3 gold keys on a plain ring stuck in a parking meter across from the Salmar Grand on Dec.18, can be picked up at the SA Observer LOST: Woman’s purple knit hat, Save on Foods parking lot on December 5th (250)8320687

Sports & Recreation HUNTING Firearms Safety courses. C.O.R.E. & P.A.L. required for Hunting/Firearms Licences. Call Trevor Holmes at (250)832-4105 www.huntingandfirearms.com

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Help Wanted An Alberta Construction Company is hiring Dozer and Excavator Operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfield road and lease construction. Lodging and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Construction at 780-723-5051.

DISHWASHER/PREP Person needed. Call Andiamo Restaurant (250)832-9949 EXPERIENCED Journeyman Carpenter for framing & exterior siding (250)515-2996 North Okanagan Beef Ranch is looking for person to calve 200 cows, night shift starting about January 10th to approx end of March. Previous experience an asset. (250)838-7392, 250-838-7529

Obituaries

KATO, MARJORIE (nee Tsujimura) Marjorie Kato (nee Tsujimura) passed away peacefully with family at her side on December 15, 2012 at the age of 88.

Marjorie, born Jan. 20, 1924, was raised in Vancouver, moving to the New Denver internment camp in 1942. She married George Kato in 1948 in New Denver from where they moved to Albert Canyon then to Sicamous and, finally, Salmon Arm in 1965. Here Marjorie worked at the Salmon Arm Motor Hotel and raised their two daughters, Gail and Terri (Kate).

Marjorie was predeceased by her husband George in 1990. She is survived by her daughters Gail Strudwick (Ron) and Terri (Kate) Horne (Darryl), and 5 grandchildren Christi Chung (Horne), Tiana Strudwick, Jordon Strudwick, Megan Horne, and Micah Strudwick.

To her dear friends in Salmon Arm whom she spoke of fondly, thank you for bringing joy to her life. Marjorie’s family would also like to thank care aides, nurses and staff at Mount Ida Mews who with tender care allowed Marjorie a dignified and peaceful last chapter.

A celebration of life service was held on Saturday December 22, 2012 at 11:00 am from Bowers Funeral Chapel, Salmon Arm, BC Online Condolences can be sent through Marjorie’s obituary at www.bowersfuneralservice. com Funeral arrangements are in the care of Bowers Funeral Service, Salmon Arm, BC

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You can remember someone special with your gift to the Canadian Cancer Society To donate In Memory or In Honour: online: www.cancer.ca or mail to:

Salmon Arm Unit Office 111 Lakeshore Dr. N.E, PO Box 3451 Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4S2 Please include: Your name & address for tax receipt; Name of the person being remembered; Name & address to send card to.

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Whether you’re considering pre-planning or have lost a loved one, you can trust our professional and friendly team to support you with meaningful grief services. We provide individualized funeral, memorial and celebration of life services, as well as grief counselling and an aftercare program.

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Residential Care Aides Chase B.C.

Applicants must possess a Recognized RCA certificate and Be registered with BC CACHWR. Shifts include full time, part time, Full time night shift and casual on call.

While we appreciate all applications, Please note only those short listed will be contacted.

CONSIDER A CAREER WITH Help Wanted

As a Welcome Wagon Representative you will work flexible hours, provide a valuable community service and get paid while having fun!

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please call OJ Boissoneault 250-379-2829

CANADIAN TIRE Salmon Arm Location IS NOW ACCEPTING RESUMÉS FOR A

SERVICE ADVISOR Do you have experience in automotive repair?

Must be committed to providing excellent customer service.

Experience is an asset.

WE PROVIDE: • Competitive wages and benefits • Extensive training program • Profit Sharing Apply in person and drop off your resumé to: The Auto Service Desk 2090 10th Ave. S.W. Salmon Arm, B.C. Attn: Mark Sandau e-mail: service482@shaw.ca

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NOW accepting resumes for 2013. F/T, P/T year round cashier, stocker & management positions at Mara & Salmon Arm location. Apply in person with resume to: DeMille’s in Salmon Arm

Required for an Alberta Trucking Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a minimum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be willing to relocate to Edson, Alberta. Fax resumes to: 780725-4430

CLEAN CUT RENOVATIONS AND REPAIRS Home reno’s and repairs, Interior painting and trim Licensed & insured Frank Cell 250-515-3637 250-832-8153

Ready to take the next step in the food industry?

Come join Red Seal Chef Che Langevin and his culinary team at Moose Mulligan’s and break out of the ordinary.

Currently hiring all positions; Line Cooks / Chef’s Assistant See what you would help create at moosemenu.com Apply in person Attn: Che or email thepub@moosemulligans.com

Resumes complete with supporting documentation can be emailed to ruby@nfbg.ca or fax to 250-434-8566.

Welcome Wagon is currently seeking individuals for Welcome Wagon Representatives in the communities of Salmon Arm & Sicamous.

Employment

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CERTIFIED CARPENTER The City of Salmon Arm has an immediate opening for a Certified Carpenter.

Reporting to the Supervisor of Roads & Transportation, this position provides carpentry and general maintenance services related to the repair, alteration and construction of municipal buildings, fixtures and equipment as well as the alteration or development of municipal infrastructure including, but not limited to, sidewalks, manholes, and retaining walls. He/she may also direct various employee classifications as required.

Requirements for this position include: • BC certified Journeyman Certificate as a Carpenter.

• Grade 12 education or equivalent.

• BC Drivers License minimum Class 5; Class 3 with air brakes endorsement preferred.

• Ability to read and interpret drawings and specifications.

• Thorough and current knowledge of the standards, practices, regulations, methods, tools and equipment of the trade.

• Good basic knowledge of painting, finishing and concrete framing/forming.

• Ability to perform a variety of skilled carpentry tasks in the construction and maintenance of municipal facilities.

• Ability to communicate effectively using courtesy, tact and discretion in dealing with requests, complaints and clarification of information from various departments and the public.

• Good understanding and comprehension of the BC Building Code requirements.

• Good basic knowledge of level, transit and laser equipment.

This is a unionized position with a wage of $28.67 per hour and the City offers a comprehensive benefit package. Reply in writing enclosing resume, cover letter and references prior to January 15, 2013 to Human Resources City of Salmon Arm Box 40 (500 – 2 Avenue NE) Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4N2 Fax: 250.803.4041 E-mail: humanresources@salmonarm.ca We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Misc Services DRIVER avail. Anywhere in North America. All travel cost & fuel involves your vehicle.

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• Shavings, Sawdust, Bark Mulch, Wood Chips (bulk/ mini bags) • Well Rotted Manure • Soils • Extra Clean Wheat Straw

Stanley Bland 832-6615 or 833-2449

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Wednesday, Wednesday,December December26, 26,2012 2012 Salmon SalmonArm ArmObserver Observer

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Rentals

Rentals Mobile Homes & Pads

Feed & Hay

Firewood/Fuel

Misc. Wanted

Apt/Condo for Rent

A horse quality orchardgrass, 2nd crop $5 , & 1st crop $4 Al Fritzel (250)832-9070

FIR DRY Cut split and delivered. (250) 832-2401

NEPTUNE POOLS & SPAS We want to buy: Good used Hot Tubs

BRIGHT 2 bdrm apt. available immed. Central loc. Mature adults.

Pet negotiable. $795/mo. 1 bdrm available Jan 1, $695/mo. Phone 250-8326490

A1 GRASS hay, no rain. barn stored, excellent quality, delivery available (250)803-8353

Heavy Duty Machinery

GRASS/ALFALFA lst crop $4.50, 2nd crop $6.25, last years hay $3.50, straw $4.00, oat hay $3.50. All good for horses.

(250)832-4160, (250)803-8298

Will pay cash for oversized scrap steel, cats, yarders, saw mill equipment, farm equipment, etc. All insurance in place to work on your property. 250-260-0217

HAY Alfalfa/grass mix 1st cut $4.00 second cut $6.00 Rick 250-833-4523

Misc. for Sale

Shavings or sawdust 150 yard loads.Cedar or Fir.Bark mulch. Delivered. 1 (250)8386630

Pets N&T CANINE CARE Daycare, boarding, grooming.

Visit our webpage: www.nandtcaninecare.ca 250-835-0136 With Dignity & Understanding.

N&T PET CREMATION SERVICES call 250-835-0136

Merchandise for Sale

10-15 used portable toilets $50. each, need some repairs Attention: Orchard Growers.

Reliable Septic Services (250)832-8404 APPLE iMac: silver 20” Core 2 Duo, 4 gigs ram, wired apple keyboard, wireless mighty mouse, clean install of OSX. Great shape, no issues $650 Call 250-832-6765 FUTURE STEEL BUILDING Still in Crate 35’X70’, Profile Shaped Never assembled Phone (250)546-6114 RECONDITIONED wood heaters and F/P insert. Pellet stove and Dry Birch Lumber 250835-8466

Willing to pick-up old, unwanted units

(250) 832 3378

Cambridge Court, 2 bdrm 2 bath, in suite ldry, gas f/p, covered prkg, new carpet & ktchn floor Np/NS. Long term lease with mature adults $900 incl gas/hydro. biggarf@gmail.com 1-778-255-4599

Real Estate Mortgages TEKAMAR MORTGAGES

Best rate 5yr-3.09%OAC

Serving the Columbia-Shuswap since 1976.

Rates Consistently better than banks

(250)832-8766

Toll free 1-800-658-2345

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent 1bd apt. across from City Hall.

Adults, N/S, pets negot., $690.

250-833-0420, 250-253-0606

Misc. Wanted

FARM Fresh free range brown eggs $3/dozen (250)832-8918

I like to buy $100 coins, coin collections & specialty foreign coins. Todd 250-864-3521

2BDRM avail.immed NS, NP, kids welcome $750/mo + util. .

191 4th St. SE (250)804-9627

Pet Services

Pet Services

3BDRM., 191-4 St. SE, parking spot, coin laundry, NP, NS, $895/mo. avail Jan 1.

(250)804-9627

PET GROOMING With Michelle

Monday to Friday

All Breeds including Cats & Large Dogs

Appointments necessary.

271A Trans-Can. Hwy. N.E. (across from KFC) • 250-832-0604

Misc. for Sale

Misc. for Sale

LGE 1 & 2 BDRM. BRIGHT apts. In suite storage, green space, live-in manager. Cable incl. Sicamous, 250-836-4516.

Misc for Rent

1BDRM. across from Askews DT W/D, parking, Call Colin (1-604)858-8176 or Jeremy (1250)253-2404 Avail now.

Food Products

DOUGLAS MANOR 2-bdrm. $825/mo. incl. f/s, d/w, a/c, heat, h/w. N/S N/P. Avail. Dec 1. 250-803-1694

2 Bedroom, 1 Bath Condo in Salmon Arm 3 Bedroom, 1 Bath Basement Suite in SA 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath + Den 4 plex in Salmon Arm 1 Bedroom Condo in Salmon Arm 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath House in Gleneden

Call AL BINGHAM (250)804-6216

AVAIL immed, large. 2bdrm.

DT SA, Res or Comm use. $850 +DD ref’s, 250-307-2431

Houses For Sale

Houses For Sale

HOME BUYING MADE EASY

Rentals

MARA: 2bdrm. mobile, addition, deck, creekside, new floors, electric & plumbing, f/s/w/d/ac, elec. heat, $700/mo. + DD avail. immed.

(250)838-7670

Homes for Rent

Homes for Rent

Suites, Upper

TOP floor of executive home w/panoramic view of lake, Appleyard Sub., 2bdrm, 2 full bath, covered carport, all util. incl., ref’s req. $1200/mo., NP (250)832-5041

1250SQFT. 3BDRM upper floor house in Hillcrest, 4appl., fabulous lakeview, avail. immed, $1000/mo. (250)8032921

Shared Accommodation

10 min to SA 2+Bdrm, 2bath, 2 decks priv. fenced yard. f/p, a/c, sm. pet ok, $950/mo. + util., DD 5appl. Avail. Immed.

(250)836-0034 (250)833-2236 1BDRM waterfront cottage, Sunnybrae, quiet, bright, clean, gas F/P, garage, storage, NS, NP, ref’s req. $795/mo. (250)804-9706 2BDRM Home w/half basement in Canoe incl FS Hydro NS NP $900 250-833-2518 2 bedroom loft on farm in MARA, $650./mo includes utilities. 1-(250)838-6630 3 bdr/2bath rancher 5 appl, carport, RV prkg, 12x12 wired shop, NS NP DD & ref’s req’d. $1300/mnth +util. Avail immed.

250-832-4115 3BDRM. 2bath Heritage Home near DT SA, NS, NP, DD & ref’s req., avail. immed., $1100/mo. (250)833-6972 3BDRM., .5acre in SA, double carport, rec room in bsmt., approx. 2400sqft., $1200/mo. + util. & DD (250)832-3348 (250)804-9039 PRIVATE 2 Bdrm cottage min to town pet neg $900 incl util 250-804-2934 Avail Jan 1 SORRENTO nice 3+bdrm house, 2bth, lakeview, near beach/town, , lrg rec room W/D/F/S incl., avail. immed, $1100/mo + util. DD req.

(250)803-1081

BETWEEN SA & Enderby, nice big farm, pets and/or livestock welcome $600/mo. + DD, (250)832-7710 or email ateka77@fastmail.fm

Mobile Homes & Parks

Mobile Homes & Parks

Suites, Lower 1Bdrm close to Safeway Heat & Light incl. Avail Now. Reas Rent for NS, ND Npartying person/s without a dog 250804-4780 or 250-253-2464 1BDRM., W/D, No Pets, NS, near college, $700/mo. incl. util. (250)832-8962 2BDRM. newly reno’d, appl., NS, avail immed., $775/mo. util. incl. (250)832-0013 BACH shared lndry util incl.

Ranchero area 5 min to industrial park $425 250-804-4895 CANOE: Spacious 2bdrm. in quiet area. NS, NP, $650/mo. for right person (250)833-5029 LARGE 2-BDRM. walk-in basement suite newly renowned, in SA. incl. cable and util. $900/mo. 250-803-1946 RANCHERO/Mellor’s Store area: 2bdrm. $750/mo. + utils. avail. now, W/D/F/S & parking. (250)546-3717

plus HST

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250-833-4728 1-877-60HOMES

10 minutes to downtown Vernon.

www.eaglehomes.ca (604-6637)

Boat launch, Spallumcheen Golf & Country Club, O’Keefe Ranch – just a few mintues away!!

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250-832-6699

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Sport Utility Vehicle Underground Services Installed. Individual Wells, Lots of Water.

INCREDIBLE LAKEVIEWS Ready to Build your Dream Home

5+ Acres ................ $249,000 ........ MLS® 10051042 6+ Acres ................ $249,000 ........ MLS® 10051041 7+ Acres ................ $309,000 ........ MLS® 10051043 15+Acres ............... $469,000 ........ MLS® 10051037 Steven Lewis - Personal Real Estate Corporation

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A great way to start your day!

171 Shuswap St.

Auto Financing

2008 Red Pontiac Wave 12,182 Kms power windows cd player auto sunroof All weather tires w/Car cover.

Want quick sell $7,500.

per month OAC

Throughout the Columbia Shuswap and Okanagan Area

Transportation

2001 Buick Century Ltd, great cond., leather, loaded, all access. working, winter & summer tires incl. $4000.

(250)832-3334 after 6pm

All for only

149,900

Townhouses 3 bedroom 2 full baths for immediate possession. Garage, hardwood floors, natural gas fireplace. Private deck backing onto green belt. Please call 250-423-0160 or 250-5179786 for more info. This is a must see!!

Suites, Upper Newly Reno’d ONE BDRM suite util incl. $675/mo, Avail Immed NS. (250)804-0399

• New home on its own 50 X 100 lot • All landscaping c/w underground sprinklers • Concrete drive & walkway Ask how to get $10,000 back from the government.

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Rentals

250.832.2131

Work: 250-832-9997 Cell: 250-804-8244

2003 Nissan Murano AWD, fully loaded, leather, moon roof, 2 sets tires/rims, brand new winters, serviced locally.

Won’t last at $5999. (250)8044355 or (250)833-8535

Trucks & Vans GMC SIERRA 1500, 2002 4X4 pick-up. Ext. cab, 5.3L V8. Clean, reliable, well maint., no accidents, full load, heated leather seats, A/C, CD, AM/FM., remote start, on star cap., rocker panels, nerf bars, box rails. $10,000. Call Steve-oh eve. (250) 804-1728

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The SASCU Indoor Sports Complex is located at 851-3rd Street SW,

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• Fir Bark Mulch • Shavings • Sawdust

250-260-0110 250-804-3030

• ICBC Repairs • Glass Replacement • Painting • Sand Blasting • Private Insurance Repairs • Frame Straightening

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• Fischer’s Funeral Home • Ben’s Towing

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250-832-8947

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• Fully Insured • Chimney Sweep • Stove Installs & Maintenance • WETT Inspections Call Robert Babakaiff 250-803-2168 Salmon Arm

SNOWPLOWING • Driveways • Parking Lots • Residential/ Commercial CALL (250) 833-7523

Tree Services

Custom Meat Services

Your one stop for custom slaughter Now booking into January 2013.

HURRY! Dates are filling up!

(250) 832-0012

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Fun Soccer Day

Shuswap Youth Soccer presents “Free Family Footy” fun soccer day on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2013 from noon ‘til 3pm at the SASCU Indoor Sports Complex.

This event is for the whole family to participate in together, with fun games of parents vs children. We invite the 6-9 year olds to participate from noon-1pm, 10-13 year olds from 1-2pm, and from 2-3pm children 14 years and older.

So, think you can get a goal past ol’ Dad, or, Mom, are you ready to show your child that you’ve still got moves on the pitch? Dress warmly and come on down to welcome in 2013 by kicking the ball about with some of your favourite people, your family!

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Consume alcohol in moderation – set limits for yourself and stick to them, drink slowly, alternate alcoholic with non-alcoholic beverages, and eat before and while drinking.

Simplify – it’s ok to say “no” to avoid taking on too much; share responsibilities with others.

Take breaks – take some time for yourself.

Reach out – trust how you feel and reach out if you need support, advice or information.

Some resources that support mental health and well-being: Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre: Information and resources on mental health and substance use for children, youth and families, or call 604875-2084 or toll-free 1-800-665-1822.

Mindcheck.ca: Information, resources and interactive quizzes designed specifically for youth and young adults to help them identify and understand mental distress they may be experiencing, including anxiety and depression, and link them to sources of help.

At Your Service

Keeping spirits up this time of year may sound easy with all the festive sights, sounds and activities, but for some, the holidays may bring unwanted stress, anxiety or depression.

“The holidays can be stressful for people, even more so for those dealing with mental health challenges,” said Dr. Connie Coniglio, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services.

“Keeping a healthy routine and reaching out for help if things seem overwhelming can help you balance the demands of the season and maintain mental well-being.”

Here are some tips for mental well-being during the holidays: Stay positive – try to think in a healthy/positive way, and have a positive attitude about activities, friends, family and those around you.

Socialize – if feeling lonely, join friends, clubs or groups for social activities that you enjoy, or try volunteering.

Plan ahead – take some time to plan for holiday activities and stick to a budget.

Maintain a healthy routine – eat nutritious-

SHUSWAP YOUTH SOCCER presents the inaugural NEW YEAR’S DAY FREE FAMILY FOOTY

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➢ Provincially inspected ➢ Quality guaranteed ➢ Delivered to your

cut shop or farm

➢ Accepting orders for goats,

lambs and sides of beef

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ON NOW AT YOUR BC GMC DEALERS. bcgmcdealers.ca 1-800-GM-DRIVE. GMC is a brand of General Motors of Canada. */**Offers apply to the purchase of a 2013 Terrain FWD (TLF26 – 1SA), 2013 Sierra Ext 2WD (1SA) equipped as described. Freight included ($1,500). License, insurance, registration, PPSA, administration fees and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Offer available to retail customers in Canada. See Dealer for details. Limited time offers which may not be combined with other offers, and are subject to change without notice. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in BC Buick GMC Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer order or trade may be required. GMCL, Ally Credit, TD Auto Financing Services or Scotiabank may modify, extend or terminate this offer in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See Buick GMC dealer for details. **Offer available to retail customers between December 17th, 2012 and December 30th, 2012. Applies to new 2012 Chevrolet Sonic and Cruze and 2013 GM vehicles excluding 2013 Chevrolet Camaro, Corvette, Volt, Spark, Orlando, Express, Traverse, and Trax, GMC Savana and Acadia, Buick Enclave and Encore, and Cadillac ATS and XTS at participating dealers in Canada. Employee price includes freight and PDI but excludes license, insurance, registration, fees associated with filing at movable property registry/PPSA fees, duties, marketing fees and taxes. Dealer may sell for less. Limited quantities of 2012 models available. Dealer order or trade may be required. Offer may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without notice. See dealer for details.†To qualify for GMCL’s Cash For Clunkers incentive, you must: (1) turn in a 2006 or older MY vehicle that is in running condition and has been registered and properly insured in your name for the last 3 months (2) turn in a 2006 or older MY vehicle that is in running condition and has been registered and properly insured under a small business name for the last 3 months. GMCL will provide eligible consumers with a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) to be used towards the purchase/finance/lease of a new eligible 2012 or 2013 MY Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra, or Chevrolet Avalanche delivered between October 2, 2012 and January 2, 2013. Incentive ranges from $1500 to $3,000, depending on model purchased. Incentive may not be combined with certain other offers. By participating in the Cash For Clunkers program you will not be eligible for any trade-in value for your vehicle. See your participating GM dealer for additional program conditions and details. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate program in whole or in part at any time without notice. ^^Whichever comes first. Conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. Comparison based on latest competitive data available. †*Comparison based on 2012 Wards segmentation: Middle/Cross Utility Vehicle and latest competitive data available, and based on the maximum legroom available. Excludes other GM brands.

All library branches closed for season

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Christmas story in song

You may want to stock up on some reading for the holidays.

All branches of okanagan regional Library including salmon Arm, silver Creek, sicamous and sorrento will be closed from Dec. 24 to Jan. 2. branches will reopen Jan. 3 or thereafter, depending on their normal operating hours.

During the holiday closure, all book bins will be locked for security reasons.

Any items damaged or missing as a result of being left outside of branches will be the customer’s responsibility. However, items will not be due over the closure period.

Members of Shuswap Singers perform in concert to celebrate the season at First United Church.

James murray/observer

EMPLOYEE PRICING FROM DECEMBER 17th - 30th

MSRP*

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Call Salmon Arm Chevrolet Buick GMC at 250-832-6066, or visit us at 3901 - 11th Avenue NE, Salmon Arm. [License #10374]

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Jacobson Ford’s

Silent Sale

December 23rd to December 27th

All of the vehicle’s prices are clearly marked for this event! You can cruise our lot or surf the website and register your bid. Make us an offer on any new or used vehicle.

No reasonable offer refused!

Merry Christmas from all of us at Jacobson Ford

We are closed from December 23rd to December 26th

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