I’d join you, Jason, but my feet don’t reach the pedals!
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ON KEY — Creston piano teacher Audrey Johnson (rear left) looks on as two of her students, Dempsey McKenna and Ben Collison perform during a concert on Saturday afternoon. Along with Alec Hammond (not pictured), the students each played a movement of the Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major (K. 414) and were accompanied by Symphony of the Kootenays members Wendy Herbison and Vic Neufeld (violins, Nelson), Penny Long (viola, Cranbrook) and Creston’s Sophia Smith (cello).
LKB chief cycling for diabetes awareness BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
TODAY'S WEATHER
Members of his family and friends have suffered and died from the complications of diabetes and Lower Kootenay Band Chief Jason Louie wants to help put a stop to the suffering. On Friday morning, Louie will climb on a bike in Bonners Ferry and start out his ride home by crossing the bridge over the Kootenay River and making the long uphill climb toward Three Mile.
He won’t be raising money, just awareness. “This ride was inspired as tribute to my mentor, Chief Raymond Abraham of the Kootenai Tribe in Bonners Ferry,” Louie said on Friday. Abraham, a hereditary chief, died five years ago from diabetes complications. “It was a huge loss for our nation,” he said. “For me, personally, he took me under his wing. I know now that he was mentoring a future leader.” Louie witnesses the effects of diabetes
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every day. His wife, Angie, is one of many Lower Kootenay Band members to suffer from the disease. “It requires a huge lifestyle change,” he said. “A more active life and better diet, for instance.” In the 1970s, Louie said, Abraham declared a peaceful war on the United States in an effort to bring attention to the appalling conditions many First Nations people lived, and continue to live, in. “It will be very meaningful for me when I ride across the Bonners Ferry
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bridge, then start up the hill,” Louie said. “That hill is very symbolic of the uphill climb that occurs when a person is diagnosed with diabetes.” For symbolic reasons, too, he said cool, rainy weather would only add to the message he wants to deliver. On his ride, Louie will be joined by two others from Lower Kootenay, and he said the support from the Creston business community has been heartening. See JASON, page 5
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