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Vol. 90 Issue 45 • Wednesday, November 6, 2013 • www.arrowlakesnews.com • 250-265-3823 • $1.25 •
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Nakusp Minor Hockey heats up in the arena stephanie dieterman Arrow Lakes News
The leaves are falling off the trees and the weather is cooling down, but in the Nakusp Arena things are heating up with hockey season in full swing. With a promising start to the season, Nakusp Minor hockey is really excited about the great turn out of kids this year. There are three teams to come out and cheer for, starting with the Bantam House team, the oldest of the teams, with 11 players coached by Pat McCrory, Ryan Bateman and Shea Weighill and with team manager Carla Trenholm. They have played three games so far, two in Beaver Valley and one home game against Castlegar. A home tournament is set for November 22–24 and you can come out and
New players get used to being on the ice. Stephanie Dieterman/Arrow Lakes News
support them at their next home game Nov. 9 at 11 a.m. Carla has said that they have a new player who has never played hockey before who is improving everyday thanks to the hard work and dedication of our coaches. The Atoms team has 12 players, four of them being brand new to hockey, plus two affiliate players from the Senior Novice team. Coached by Mike Smith with assistant coach’s Wayne Hascarl and Mitch Hascarl, Trainer Shawn Coates and team managers Andrea Coates and Kristy Robins. The atoms have played four games with a 4-4 tie in Boundary. You can catch up with the Atoms for their home games Nov. 9 at 5:15 p.m., Nov. 10 at 12:15 p.m. and December 8 at 11 a.m. The home tournament will be January 24-26, 2014. The youngest Team of the bunch would be the Novices. With both a senior team of 12 players and a junior team of 16 players, the ice is full of laughs, learning and a few falls. They are coached by Ryan Fehler and assisted by Hans Suhr, Jarrod Teindl, Mark Macaulay, Paul Tithecott and Shea Weighill with Susan Fehler as team manager. The seniors are set to play a game in Revelstoke in late November, and a Novice tournament will be in Nakusp in December. Hope everyone can come out to support the local teams! With all the talent in town there are also a few Nakusp kids playing out of town this year. Grayson Reitmeier is playing Junior A hockey in Trail, B.C. for the Smoke Eaters. Colton Dachwitz is playing his second year for the Junior B Rutland Chiefs, who are first
Coach Ryan Fehler oversees novices Katie Teindle and Tatum Dieterman. Stephanie Dieterman/Arrow Lakes News in their division at the moment and third overall in the K.I.J.H.L. Ashlee Herridge and Kira Streliev are playing for the Wildcats, a B.C. Major Midget female Rep team based out of Nelson, with players from the east and west Kootenays. Logan Hascarl, AJ Hughes and Zac Friedenberger are all playing T3 Midget Rep hockey out of Nelson. Colby Nishida, Brody Herridge and Jackson Herridge are playing T3 Bantam Rep
hockey out of Nelson. Hailey Herridge, Reese McCrory and Raven Atherton are all playing on the West Kootenay Female Bantam “Wildcats” rep team based out of Castlegar. Adam Volansky, Devon Coates and Wyatt Petterson are all playing T3 Peewee Rep out of Castlegar. To the parents of hockey kids, good on you for the commitment of traveling, the volunteering and dedication to your children.
Single dad takes on government census-takers Claire paradis Arrow Lakes News
Wendyle Jones joked that he had won the governmental lottery. On Oct. 31 Jones was in court facing a charge of furnishing false, unlawful or incomplete information resulting from his refusal to fill out a census form. Jones said he had told the census taker he wasn’t interested in participating. But that first visit was only the beginning. The Nakusp man said he was visited by half a dozen more people after that, and eventually received a notification that he had been charged.
“In my opinion it’s a giant waste of taxpayers’ money,” Jones told the Arrow Lakes News. “The government already has all my financial and medical information. I can’t see what they’d want to know that they don’t know already.” But the cost of not filling out the form – up to three months in jail, $500, or both if proven guilty – is too high for the single dad who needs his passport to help his daughter take part in the Rotary exchange. Statistics Canada said 98 per cent of Canadians did complete and send in their surveys, but 54 cases where the individual twice
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refused to complete a census form were referred for prosecution. So far, no person has ever been sentenced to a jail term for failing to complete a census form. Stats Canada stressed that census information is very important and that it is “critical” that everyone be included. For example, the population count is used to determine transfer payments from the federal government to the provinces, or from the provinces to municipalities. Population figures are also used in the determination of the number and boundaries of electoral districts. Information collected is also used by
all levels of government and businesses to make informed decisions, and communities also use census info to plan public services like schools, housing, and transportation, Gabrielle Beaudoin, Director General of Communications at Statistics Canada told the Arrow Lakes News. That may be so, said Jones, but he doesn’t trust the government will take good care of his information. “The government doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to taking care of personal info,” Jones said. He pointed to recent reports in the news such as the loss of a
Vancouver Coastal Health laptop containing personal information in a taxicab, and a report about rising numbers of complaints from people believing information collected by the Canada Revenue Agency was being accessed inappropriately. A lifetime oath of secrecy keeps Stats Can employees from releasing any info they collect, and the penalties if they break it is twice what Jones was facing, as well as more routine security such as physical access and encryption of files. But the single father has learned to pick his battles, and intends to fill out the census form, this time.
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