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Sicamous waste collection in CSRD’s sights

By Barb Brouwer Eagle Valley News

When the Columbia Shuswap Regional District reviews its waste management plan next year, the results of a recent waste audit at the Sicamous landfill will be up for discussion.

The results of a Tri Environmental Consulting Inc. waste audit completed at the landfill between Sept. 7 and 9 revealed that about 70 per cent of the material going into the landfill, which serves some 3,500 residents could be recycled.

A total of 10 waste samples, each weighing approximately 100 kilograms were collected and analyzed.

Each sample was classified according to one of the following sources – residential curb side program, resi-

dential self-haul, industrial, commercial and institutional or from transfer stations.

All Samples were then sorted into 12 primary categories, 46 secondary categories and 59 tertiary categories.

Analysis of the overall waste composition entering the Sicamous landfill revealed that 35.7 per cent is compostable organics – including yard and garden waste, food scraps and clean wood.

Plastic and paper were the second and third largest categories at 16.9 per cent each.

Glass and metals contributed six per cent and 5.1 per cent respectively.

The greatest quantity came from the residential self-haul sector where 3.4 per

cent of the total mass was electronic waste – three times more than the residential curb side sector, which in Sicamous, is subscription based.

Most of the electronic items found in the audit are included in various recycling programs in B.C., including computers, audio equipment, small appliances, power tools and lighting equipment.

Small household batteries, oil containers and paint thinners, which are also recyclable in this province, accounted for 1.5 per cent.

CSRD waste management co-ordinator Ben Van Nostrand notes there is a slight (“and slight is being generous”) increase in the percentage of re-

cyclables entering the Sicamous landfill compared to other landfills in the regional district.

“Maybe people are doing the right thing by taking it to the depot, which costs way more than a curbside program,” he says.

Van Nostrand points out that because the District of Sicamous turned down a curb side recycling program in 2011, they are too late for the cost-saving Materials Management BC program that will be implemented across the regional district next year.

“They were the only municipality not to get on-board with what was in the waste management plan,” he says.

“We have said we’ll run the depots, but there will be changes.

It won’t be like the big

green bin.”

However, Van Nostrand says that those who now pay for private curb side pickup service will see no changes.

CSRD staff made a presentation to Sicamous’ committee of a whole meeting Oct. 9, explaining the MMBC program, why Sicamous isn’t in and how they could get in by implementing a curb side program over the next couple of years.

“You had to have a plan in place in 2012 in order to get on. But MMBC will review the program within a couple of years, at which point they may say whoever has a curb side plan now may be included in the program that will give them the financial incentives,” Van Nostrand says.

Regional district to fund SLIPP successor with gas tax

By Barb Brouwer Eagle Valley News

It won’t look the same, but a successor to the Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process (SLIPP) will move forward.

Five of six Columbia Shuswap Regional District electoral area directors voted last week to approve funding up to $240,000 for the successor organization that will address water quality and safety issues in the Shuswap Watershed.

Funding will be taken from the regional district’s joint gas tax

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pool, and not from individual electoral area gas tax funds or from taxpayers’ pockets.

Area F North Shuswap director Larry Morgan was vehement in his opposition to SLIPP before last Thursday’s meeting in Salmon Arm and the only one to vote against continuing the program in any form.

But on Friday, Morgan said he had aired his concerns and was now “toning down the rhetoric.”

“After discussion with some people there that work with me on the North Shuswap, I

decided to work with the decision that’s been made,” he said. “I will work with the directors regarding SLIPP and will do what we can to help make this work.”

Morgan said his decision is based on the fact it would be counterproductive to continue opposing SLIPP and that he wants to ensure some of the North Shuswap’s core needs can move ahead.

Area C South Shuswap director and chair of the SLIPP steering committee, Paul Demenok says he is looking forward to collaborat-

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ing with all stakeholders to develop the best possible plan of action for the Shuswap Watershed.

Demenok says the proposal has yet to be approved by the whole CSRD board, something he hopes will take place tomorrow.

As well, he says the plan itself needs to be approved at the Dec. 4 SLIPP steering committee.

Demenok said the reason the proposal had to be brought forward at last Thursday’s electoral area meeting was because of upcoming

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budget considerations.

In terms of the amount of money to be taken from the gas tax fund, Demenok said it could be less, depending on what other funding partners come forward.

Work can now begin on a successor organization to SLIPP to be designed to take water quality and safety coordination in the Shuswap Watershed to the next level including remediation. It will be made in the Shuswap Watershed, for the Shuswap Watershed, with broad public input.

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Growing concern: Agriculture advocates in B.C. are worried a costcutting exercise being done by the province will target the protection of agricultural lands.

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Documents suggest ALC at risk

Core review: Municipal governments back commission.

By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News

Advocates for B.C. agriculture are concerned the province may do away with the Agricultural Land Commission in an attempt to save $50 million from the 2014/15 budget.

B.C. Energy Minister Bill Bennett, who oversees a cabinet working group with a mandate to find ways of cutting back government spending, says the province has no intention of “blowing up the ALC or bringing it inside government,” and assures the commission will continue to decide on applications to amend the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), established 40 years ago to protect farmland from development.

Bennett’s comments are in response to cabinet documents leaked to the Globe and Mail, in which a strategy is outlined for Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm to facilitate giving greater control over what happens on agricultural land to local governments and the BC Oil and Gas Commission.

Moving the commission into the Ministry of Agriculture so that it would no longer be an independent body is one of the key components of the strategy that concern BC Food Systems Network co-chair Brent Mansfield. Another is the proposed division of the province into two agricultural zones, one that takes in the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley

and Okanagan, and the other everything north of the Okanagan. In this second zone, the Oil and Gas Commission would supposedly play a greater role in deciding on applications for land removal from the ALR. Mansfield says the documents would appear to reflect the B.C. government’s priority commitment to liquid natural gas, and places resource extraction on top of the food chain.

“The way we support agriculture is pitiful,” says Mansfield. “Yes, we need an independent commission, but we also need a Ministry of Agriculture that’s not promoting LNG, exploration of non-farm use on agricultural lands.”

Mansfield calls any move to dismantle the ALC and prioritize oil and gas over food security “shortsighted.”

He also takes issue with the lack of opportunity offered to the public to provide input on the core review (announced Sept. 24, ended on Oct. 16), and the fact that the B.C. Liberal government cancelled the fall sitting of the legislature, thus preventing debate.

Which is why he says it’s excellent that local governments, such as the City of Vancouver and, most recently, the City of Salmon Arm, are writing to the province, asking that the ALC not be touched.

Salmon Arm council’s decision to speak out in the ALC’s defence stemmed from an Oct. 28 request by the city’s Agricultural

Advisory Committee to write Bennett and ask that the ALC be left out of any possible budget reduction actions.

Coun. Chad Eliason said Bennett won’t care and suggested council not support the committee’s request. But Couns. Ken Jamieson, the committee’s chair, and Alan Harrison were able to sway opinion in favour.

“The budget of the Agricultural Land Commission, compared to other budgets in the province, is minute, it’s extremely small, and I know in our dealings with the ALC, they are trying to be proactive, but in fact, I found they can only be reactive…” commented Harrison.

In light of the leaked documents, Shuswap agriculture advocate John McLeod, who sits on both the city committee as well as the Columbia Shuswap

Regional District’s Shuswap Agriculture Steering Committee, hopes the city’s letter will stress the need to preserve both the ALC and agricultural lands.

He argues that even land of low soil quality in the ALR is still suitable for agricultural use, noting the rocky terrain in the Okanagan being used for vineyards, and says that poor soil is better than no soil.

“The ALR and ALC are now under attack behind closed doors, with no democratic process of public input or process. I thought, wrongly I guess, that democracy was for the people not the few,” says McLeod. “When we work to defend the core review beliefs of a few, we risk becoming blind to the evidence that could tell us we’re wrong.”

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Agriculture gets back seat to rodeo grounds

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ritish Columbians can be forgiven for believing their provincial government may not be entirely sincere when they claim to support local agriculture.

Energy Minister Bill Bennett stirred up suspicion a while back when he hinted the Agricultural Land Commission may be looked at in a core review he’s heading up to find $50 million in savings. The future of the ALC, the independent body tasked with overseeing the protection of agricultural land, became increasingly cloudy last week when cabinet documents leaked to the media were made public. These were reported to reveal a strategy drawn up for Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm to bring the ALC under the ministry’s jurisdiction and break up the province into two agricultural zones, including a vast northern zone where the province’s Oil and Gas Commission would have greater say in applications to remove land from the Agricultural Land Reserve.

Bennett has denied all of this, stating there are no plans to do away with the ALC and noting the current budget includes $4 million to help the ALC make better decisions when determining what is good agricultural land. Ironically, Pimm is now under fire for attempting to interfere with the ALC for doing just that.

The agriculture minister, a former oil and gas man of 25 years, tried to intervene in an application to turn a parcel of viable farmland in the ALR into rodeo grounds and a campground.

Pimm and his staff contacted the ALC on more than one occasion during the decision-making process to support the application, arguing the land should be removed from the ALR. The commission turned down the application and, in its decision, took the Peace River North MLA to task, suggesting he was trying to politically influence their decision.

It should be no surprise then, that Pimm and B.C. government would seek to put the ALC out to pasture and open up the ALR to a future where local food security ranks even lower than rodeo grounds, never mind liquid natural gas extraction.

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Untangling B.C.’s oil pipeline politics

By Tom Fletcher News Columnist

VICTORIA – Reaction was swift and scattered after the “framework agreement” on new oil pipelines announced last week by B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford.

First, here’s what it doesn’t mean.

“B.C. blinked,” according to one Toronto commentator, based on the popular notion that B.C. gave up its claim to a share of Alberta’s resource royalties from heavy oil. Clark never made such a claim, so it would be difficult to give it up.

Her often-repeated condition of a “fair share” of revenues from any new oil pipelines is purposely vague, but after repeated protests from Alberta, Clark clarified as far back as last June that provincial royalties are not on the table.

There is no constitutional

way to make such a demand, a point Redford has made several times.

NDP leader Adrian Dix and the usual chorus of professional protesters claimed that Clark flip-flopped, opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal before the election and then embracing it once she was re-elected.

This is also inaccurate. Clark’s five conditions were set out before the May election, demanding approval by a federal environmental review, “worldleading” spill prevention and response capability on land and at sea, meeting legal requirements to consult and share benefits with aboriginal communities, and the undefined “fair share” for B.C. Clark said numerous times during the campaign that the conditions have not been met, and made pessimistic noises about Northern Gateway, but she very carefully did not campaign

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against it. The B.C. Liberal platform also endorsed a Kitimat-area oil refinery proposed by this newspaper’s owner, and Clark repeatedly referred to that sort of industrial expansion as one of the potential “fair share” components for B.C. The B.C. Liberal government made its opposition to Northern Gateway “as currently proposed” official on May 31, two weeks after the election, in its final submission to the federal review panel. If Clark had wanted to jump on the antipipeline bandwagon for political gain, that move could have been made earlier.

Redford accepts B.C.’s five conditions, provincial royalties excluded, and Clark endorsed Redford’s proposed “Canadian Energy Strategy,” which B.C. rejected last year.

A draft of the strategy released last summer contains no specifics on how it would facilitate a pipeline project from Alberta to B.C. It talks

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about developing Canada’s energy reserves and at the same time somehow reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and promises a final version next spring.

Ottawa has sole jurisdiction over inter-provincial projects such as Northern Gateway and the proposal

by Kinder Morgan Canada to expand the 60-year-old Trans Mountain pipeline.

If there is to be some extra revenue for B.C. from oil traffic, it could theoretically take the form of a toll on pipelines. Redford pointed out the problem with that idea in her speech to an energy forum in Vancouver last week. She noted that 42 per cent of B.C. natural gas is piped through Alberta to markets. If B.C. can toll Alberta oil, the same could be done with B.C. gas.

None of B.C.’s five conditions has yet been met.

Legally, they don’t have to be, except for the one about accommodating aboriginal title.

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Amidst these emperor-like moves comes the view from many provincial and federal politicians that citizens who raise environmental concerns are somehow anti-progress and anti-business.

I would love to buy into the notion of oil and gas as saviour.

Unfortunately, though, it’s one where damage to the air, water and, indeed, the planet that sustains us, will escalate. It should be difficult, I think, particularly for anyone with children or grandchildren, to accept.

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B.C. Finance Minister Michael de Jong has been spreading his message, which he brought to Salmon Arm last month, telling business groups about the provincial budget, explaining that B.C. will prosper with LNG – liquefied natural gas – but only if the province acts quickly.

I would love to relax in the knowledge that he is right – and the province and all its natural bounty and all of its treasured citizens will indeed flourish under the plan. But, in order to agree with him and his colleagues, it’s necessary to ignore evidence to the contrary.

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more fossil fuels. Why aren’t we pushing hard for more widespread use of proven technologies like geothermal, solar power and wind power? Jobs and environmental protection are not mutually exclusive. In fact, it will cost billions in the future to repair environmental damage done today – if it’s reparable.

Last week we also saw B.C. government plans leaked about diluting the power of the Agricultural Land Commission and placing it partially under the domain of the Oil and Gas Commission.

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Agriculture minister called on to resign

By Jeff Nagel Black Press

A non-partisan government watchdog says B.C. Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm must resign from cabinet for directly lobbying the Agricultural Land Commission.

IntegrityBC argues Pimm crossed a clear line requiring cabinet ministers not interfere with the independence of judges or quasi-judicial commissions like the ALC when he urged the commission over the spring and summer to reverse its decision against allowing a rodeo grounds and campground as a non-farm use on a parcel of Fort St. John farmland in the Agricultural Land Reserve.

“When a minister crosses that line, the minister resigns,” Integ-

rityBC executive director Dermod Travis said.

“He didn’t cross it just once. He crossed it a multitude of times.

Pimm first wrote to the ALC on the issue May 17 as an MLA elect – two days after the provincial election – to express “concern” with the initial decision and in late May personally intercepted the ALC’s on-the-ground visit to the 70-hectare site to register his strong support for reversal.

Pimm’s staffers contacted the ALC once more in June and twice on July 25, when his ministerial assistant said Pimm wanted to know the outcome of the ALC’s reconsideration.

That led the ALC to issue a July 26 policy statement scolding Pimm’s representations as “not appropriate” lest it lead to an impres-

sion of the commission being politically influenced.

The ALC also said in its final Aug. 19 decision rejecting the rodeo use that any MLA who thinks a decision before the ALC is too significant to leave as an independent decision can try to persuade cabinet to take that file out of the commission’s hands.

It said the ALC exists as an independent entity to avoid basing farmland decisions on “the politically expedient, the crisis of the day or short-term profit that sacrifice agricultural land forever.

“The Commission exists precisely to prevent the British Columbia public waking up one day and asking ‘what happened to our agricultural land?’”

Pimm told CKNW

Monday he has stopped making direct interventions in files with the ALC, but feels he did nothing wrong and was merely acting in his advocacy role as an MLA on an issue of local concern.

Travis said he clearly continued to act on the file after becoming minister in June.

Earlier this year, federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan resigned his post for inappropriately writing a letter in 2011 on behalf of a constituent regarding a case coming before the federal tax court.

Travis said Duncan quit quickly and honourably and Premier Christy Clark must insist Pimm do the same.

“If you have ministers running around thinking that it is okay to lobby judges, then

we’re going to have a serious problem maintaining the separation of the two institutions.”

Travis said Pimm’s interference with the ALC also taints the government’s leaked plans to consider major changes to the commission, including potentially bringing it under the direct control of the agriculture ministry.

“Any changes that they consider will be looked at as Mr. Pimm trying to get back at the Agricultural Land Commission for rapping him on the knuckles,” Travis said. “The entire process is now suspect.”

Bill Bennett, the minister in charge of the government’s core review, last week insisted the province isn’t considering dismantling the ALC or bringing it within government.

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Salmon Arm supports ban on neonicotinoids

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Salmon Arm city council is supporting in principal a ban on the agricultural use of neurotoxic pesticides, including neonicotinoids, provided action is taken at the provincial and federal levels.

In October, council was asked by the city’s Environmental Advisory Committee to move toward a bylaw banning the use of pesticides which kill insects by targeting their nervous system. These

have been found to have a neurotoxic effect on mammals as well.

Salmon Arm Mayor Nancy Cooper said council agreed to support a ban in principal, but made no motion to take action locally.

“We talked about it, and it’s really higher levels of government who would have to decide on that particular issue…,” said Cooper.

Studies, including one by the University of Washington’s Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, indicate neu-

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rotoxins may contribute to neurodegenerative disorders in humans, particularly Parkinson’s disease. The neurotoxin Glysophate, used in the herbicide Roundup, has been linked to Parkinson’s, autism, infertility and cancer.

Neonicotinoids, a neurotoxic insecticide similar to nicotine, is commonly used in Canada to treat corn and soy crops. In September, Health Canada proposed tighter restrictions on the use of neonicotinoids following a study of bee mor-

tality rates in Ontario and Quebec, where 70 per cent of affected dead bee samples tested positive for the insecticide.

Cooper said a letter will be sent by the city to the Union of B.C. Municipalities, as well as the ministry’s of environment and agriculture, stating the city supports a ban.

“So, when they’re looking at it they know the City of Salmon Arm does have some concerns and would like to see something done there.

Operation Christmas Child is a practical way to plant a seed of hope in children living in countries ravaged by war, famine, extreme poverty or natural disaster.

Since 1993, 10 sponsoring countries have contributed 103 million gift-filled boxes to children in 130 countries. Generous families in the Shuswap over the last dozen years have sent, on average, 1500 boxes each year to countries of West Africa, South and Central America and Haiti.

You can get involved locally by picking up shoe boxes and explanatory brochures at the following locations: Mall Arkey Financial in Centenoka Park Mall Your Dollar Store with More in Piccadilly Mall The Royal Bank of Canada at 340 Alexander Street Loonie & Toonie & More in Sicamous Shoe boxes can be returned at any of the above locations up until November 24.

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Come ye thankful people, come Raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin. (Hymn) A mother and daughter gardening team that I’m lucky to know, had just recently brought in their last harvest of the season when I stopped by the other day, and the yield from their gardens surrounding their home had brought in quite a haul. More than 250 pounds of potatoes as well as the same for tomatoes, plus squash, pumpkins and corn filled their spare room and garage floor. Earlier pickings were berries and the apples off their trees with a whole load of other fresh and

nutritious vegetables in between. All this food throughout the growing season is eaten fresh, processed, frozen or stored for the year, giving them lots of free and nourishing food for the winter months as well as enough to share with friends and donate to the needy.

Carefully selected new and heritage varieties of flowers grace the property with beautiful colour and the lawn becomes a delightful meadow of blooming bulbs in the springtime.

They have a deep and respectful connection to nature and the earth, so no chemicals, toxins or poisons are ever used on the plants or soil.

In Des Kennedy’s book, Crazy About Gardening, he says: “Gardeners have lessons to teach the rest of our race about how to touch the earth with affection and dexterity.”

These two are certainly my teachers and I strive to garden like them.

Like all committed organic gardeners, they have a couple of good composting bins working away in the back-

yard, making precious soil that’s loaded with microbes for next year’s growing season. Composting is not rocket science, but there are good techniques and tricks to learn to maximize nutrient levels and speed of decomposition as well as what not to do.

For example, there is a yard in town that sports a round wire compost cage filled with big rough materials such as thin branches and heavy viney plants, and it’s been sitting there for years, looking exactly the same. This is a total compost fail because the materials were too big and coarse and there hasn’t been enough moisture getting through it, so the process is pitifully slow if any at all.

The rule of thumb is that the smaller the pieces, the easier it is to be munched on and digested by the worms and microbes. The moisture content in the compost heap should be the equivalent of a wrung out sponge, so make sure you sprinkle the layers with water and flipping the pile once or twice if you

can will significantly increase the decomposition process.

Diversity of organic materials is important because there will be all kinds of nutrients for the plants to take up, and make sure there are at least two parts carbon (or browns) to one-part nitrogen (or greens).

This recommended ratio can vary considerably and can be confusing when leaves can be either or, so don’t sweat it too much – the important thing is to make it! You can layer in (one- to three-inch thick) all kinds of materials, such as leaves (better if shredded), grass, manures, kitchen waste, wood chips, sawdust, needles, wood ashes, rotten apples, chopped up yard waste and even a sprinkling of dirt or clean sand between the odd layer for added minerals – whatever you can get a hold of.

Keep the compost bins covered, so that the rains and snow don’t wash away the nutrients and drown out the microbes and worms. Those rubber mats work well be-

cause they’re easy to remove and they don’t blow away.

It’s too difficult for me to flip my big bins, so I rely on time to do the job of decomposition and it works just fine once I get a good rotation of composted materials in different stages cooking away throughout the year.

I’ve been taking advantage of this dry weather to stuff as many leaf bags as I can (over 200 so far!), because every full bag shreds down to less than half of a bag at best and a full bin of organic materials composts down to about half the size when it’s finished. In other words, it takes loads of materials to get any amount of soil or mulch, so you may want to take the time to get a couple of more bins going so you’ve always got plenty.

If I were you, I’d ask Santa for a chipper or leaf shredder for Christmas, because they’re a gardener’s best friend and there’s nothing like that earthy black leaf mould to use in the gardens and compost bins.

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Malakwa Community Centre Association Deflection: Midget Eagle Louis Federico’s puck gets deflected over the net by the 100 Mile House netminder during tournament action Friday at the Sicamous and District Recreation Centre. The Eagles took a 6-1 win against 100 Mile and tied 2-2 against Calgary and 0-0 against Langley.

Bow Valley took the tourney with a 6-3 win over Langley.

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Eagles drop Rockets with 3-2 win

By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News

The Sicamous Eagles didn’t disappoint home fans Saturday when they earned a 3-2 win versus guests the Golden Rockies.

Scoring began about midway through the first frame with a power-play conversion by Nathan Grieve, assisted

by Bobby Jo Love and Nicholas Astasiewicz.

A couple minutes later

Golden replied with a marker by Salmon Arm product Brett Hanna.

The Rockets added another goal at the halfway mark in the second frame. But, with 43 seconds left on the clock, Braby Crabtree converted the power play to tie the game before the buzzer. Assists were

by Riley Jepson and Hayden Orton.

With less than five minutes left in the third

period, Orton potted the final marker of the game, assisted by Crabtree and Jepson, giving Sicamous the win.

The previous evening, the Eagles were in Invermere where they came out on the losing end of a 3-2 tally versus the Columbia Valley Rockets.

Sicamous’ single was scored at 3:37 in the third frame on a power play by Matthew

Maetche, assisted by Darien Head and Carter Hansen.

The Eagles will be on the ice tonight, Nov. 13 in Armstrong to take on the North Okanagan Knights. They’ll be back in Sicamous on Nov. 15 to face the Kamloops Storm. After that, their next game won’t be until Nov. 22, back in Sicamous to do battle with the 100 Mile House Wranglers.

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, seek the advice of a mentor or confidante when a puzzling situation presents itself this week. Another person’s perspective might be all you need to solve this problem.

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You always need to get it done to the best of your ability and that’s why others find you so reliable.

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Cherish this trust and think carefully before making decisions that affect your loved ones.

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Figure out a time when you have the most energy, and dive right into the task at hand.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, get behind a cause that will benefit your community. You have been interested in giving back to others, and this week presents a great opportunity to do just that.

Your Suduko Complete the grid so every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

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ELLEN JOAN ASPESLET (HEYLAND) Born 27/02/34 - Turner Valley, AB Passed away in Salmon Arm, BC 15/09/13 Joan Aspeslet (Heyland) passed away on September 15, 2013 at 79 years of age. She is survived by her husband Douglas, brothers, James (Carol), Dalton (Gail), and sister Bonnie (John). She also leaves behind four children Roderick (Lynn), Gordon, Pamela (Michael), and Carolyn (Harvey), 23 grandchildren and 22 great-grand children and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents Jack and Viva Heyland, and brother Bob Heyland as well as sisters-in-law Sharon (Bob) and Gloria (James).

Active in whichever community she was a part of, Joan was a member of the Oil Wives and spent time on the Town Council of Whitecourt. An artist in many mediums; seamstress, painter, weaver, knitting & crocheting and volunteered many hours with the Brush and Palette Club in Whitecourt and the Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club in Sicamous.

Joan also gave of a lifetime of service to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

COATES, GEORGINA EVELYN “DODIE” (nee Munn) Georgina Coates, born on September 24th 1925 in Chase BC, a long-time resident of Sicamous since 1968, passed away peacefully with her family by her side on October 23rd at the age of 88 years.

Dodie graduated Nursing School in 1947 which allowed her to serve one of her lifelong passions, helping those in need, until her retirement in 1987 A caring mother and world class grandmother and loyal friend, she will be lovingly remembered by her 6 children Lynn(Angus), Vicki(Christian), Jill(Neil), Janice(Jack), Robert(Mya) and Sherry(Jas), 8 grandchildren Trevor, Tyler, Cristian, Lara, Michele, Dillon, Robert and Sean, and 8 great-grandchildren, as a woman so tough she once drove herself to the hospital, in labour to give birth, with her hand slammed in the car door, thinking nothing of it. With a sparkling smile that will never be forgotten it was often said that Dodie was the only family member of which a bad picture does not exist.

As per her request, no formal service will be held, with a family remembrance scheduled for summer 2014

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ROBERT STEWART TULLY Born February 9, 1946, passed suddenly on October 16, 2013 at the age of 67. Rob or ‘R.T. moved to Sicamous in 1973 where he owned his own auto body shop and worked for Dept of Highways. He is survived by his wife of 48 years Shelley, daughter Kim Bentley (Darren) grandson Tyson ( Hayley), granddaughter Danniella (Sawyer) and great granddaughter Zoey. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to Parkview Elementary School.

KATHLEEN MARY ARNEVICK (NEE BISCHOFF) 1927 - 2013 Kathleen Mary Arnevick (nee Bischoff), beloved wife of the late Einar Arnevick, passed away at Hillside Village in Salmon Arm on October 30, 2013 at the age of 86.

She will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her children: Linda (Doug) Wigglesworth, and Larry; 4 grandchildren; 1 great grandson; and many other relatives and friends.

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TO GIVE AWAY: Black metal futon frame in excellent condition. Call 250-836-3652.

Local Coin Collector Buying Collections, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins etc 778-281-0030

Heavy Duty Machinery

PURCHASING old Canadian & American coin collections & accumulations. 250-548-3670

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Community Developer/Program Coordinator required by Shuswap Regional Better at Home Program.

Duties will include connecting to community stakeholders, developing community advisories, completing inventories of community assets and needs, and the set up of a seniors non medical support services program for April 1st, 2014 that meets the needs of individual communities within a centralized system for intake, monitoring and evaluation.

Strong knowledge of Shuswap communities and cultures will be an asset, as will a solid background in program and community development. Wage range of $25 to $28. per hour dependant on education and experience. Hours per week will be from 24 to 32 dependant on development stage.

This position will be a permanent position with a 3 month probation period.

Please forward resumes or enquiries to: evcrc@telus.net, Attention Janet McClean Senft.

Closing date November 20th, 2013

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Misc Services GOING ON HOLIDAY? We take care when you’re not there. Home Watch Service.

250-838-7371.

MATURE Semi-retired professional available for casual/on call work. Cover sick/vacation leave, absences for a reasonable hourly fee.250-8364613

Legal Services CRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certification, adoption property rental opportunities. For peace of mind & a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

Painting & Decorating nt iscou $D ting$$ $ ain P • Residential & Commercial • Interior/Exterior

• Wallpapering • Drywall Repair • Professional Workmanship • Seniors Discounts

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GROCERY STORE AUCTION November 16 @11am, Burnaby Hobart meat equipment & dishwashers, True coolers & freezers.

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SPECIAL Trades are welcome.

40’ Containers under $2500!

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Misc. for Sale HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/ newspaper?

MOVING SALE. Scooter, walker, commode. Antique oak side board, 2-3 ft solid oak end tables, storage cabinets-assorted sizes, other misc items.

Call for Appt. (250)836-2695 STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-4572206 or visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca WOLFERMANS’ TREAT Your Friends and Family!

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Homes for Rent Malakwa-3bdrm home $725 +utils. 2bdrm $600.+utils, 250836-2907.

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