news To preserve and to honour... Cormack Marsh Page 1 & 12
Community A life giving goal is achieved Page 5
SPORTS
Athletic awards presented at PSS Page 7
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The Similkameen
Volume 64 Issue 25
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Princeton Secondary School athletic awards
Princeton Posse moving forward A renewed interest in our Princeton Posse Junior B Hockey team has seen several new and returning volunteers come forth so that our community can have a team competing in the 2013/14 KIJHL season. Coaches are being interviewed and the KIJHL is supportive of a reinvigorated volunteer base. Lyle Thomas, Assistant Coach Dave Clare and former Director, Larry Legault have formed an Interim Advisory Committee to deal with immediate business aspects and they will disband at the next general meeting. The Posse players have always been very active in the community, whether helping with the school reading programs, volunteering at various charity events or helping younger players learn to skate and enjoy hockey. We look forward to this year’s team continuing to do this. As has been mentioned in various news articles, volunteers are the backbone of our community and thanks must go to all former Boards of Directors and executives through the years for all the time and energy they have contributed to the operation of the Princeton Posse Hockey Club. This includes those many people behind the scenes and without them all, there would be no Posse.
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Wendy Bentley/Spotlight
Students at Princeton Secondary School received Athletic Awards last Wednesday from their coaches for Most Valuable Player, Most Improved, Best offence, Best Defence in Basketball, Volleyball Soccer & Golf.
An introduction to Cormack Marsh Lisa Carleton lisa@similkameenspotlight.com
There is a special and almost unique area in Princeton that requires the attention of all residents. The reason the attention is required, is because this area, important in maintaining balance within our environment is in danger of being destroyed. It is a wetland, an area of approximately 3 hectares beside Old River Road, right alongside the Similkameen River. Wetlands are crucial to the environment as they provide space for wildlife to live and reproduce, offer protection from flooding (space for flood run-off) and can act as a natural water purification system - filtering pesticides, sediment and other pollutants.
Wetland areas also provide recreational opportunities and a place to study nature. Wetland losses are becoming a great concern in British Columbia. In the South Okanagan, losses have soared to 85 percent. In the Fraser Vancouver Island, it is estimated that up to 70 percent of the original wetland habitat has disappeared. Wetlands are lost due to the acts of drainage, filling, dyking and changes within wetland environment. Most wildlife in the province use wetland habitat at some point in their life cycle, and many red-and blue-listed species are wetland-dependent. Red List: Includes any ecological community, and indigenous species and subspecies that is extirpated, endangered, or threatened in British Columbia.
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