Creston Valley Advance, March 20, 2014

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Thunder Cats are division champs for first time

Justice Ministry warns of Beaudry release

BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

For the first time since the Creston Valley Thunder Cats took to the ice in 2000, the team will advance to the third round of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoffs, having become the Eddie Mountain Division champions after defeating the Kimberley Dynamiters in game 7 of round 2.

The series was a nail-biter for fans, who watched the Thunder Cats win the first game at home, then lose the following three.

They won the next three, with Saturday’s game 7 win seeing them swing from being down 4-1 to winning the game 5-4.

“We have a group of guys in our room that really believe in themselves,” said head coach Josh Hepditch. “They’re working hard and it’s coming together for them” The Thunder Cats lost game 4 6-3 to the Dynamiters on March 11, despite outshooting Kimberley 38-24.

“Their goalie was unreal,” said Hepditch. “He stole them the game.”

Thunder Cat Colby Livingstone started the game’s scoring, with an unassisted goal midway through the first period.

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The Creston Valley Thunder Cats celebrate after defeating the Kimberley Dynamiters to win the division title on Saturday.

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Frequent criminal offender Jason Beaudry has been released from jail and is the subject of a public notification by the Ministry of Justice.

Creston RCMP Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said he was notified by the Corrections Branch on Friday that Beaudry, who is described as aboriginal, five feet, 11 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds, intends to return to his Creston residence.

“It is one of our top priorities to keep a close watch on high risk offenders and we will do so with Jason Beaudry,” Gollan said.

Routine checks in the past have led to several arrests without him having committed major crimes.

The Corrections Branch describes Beaudry, 36, as a high-risk violent sexual offender who has a lengthy and varied criminal history that includes violent and sexual offences. He has used weapons. As well, “he has offended in an opportunistic manner against males, females, strangers and acquaintances,” the notification says.

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A 29-year-old Crawford Bay man was killed in an avalanche March 11 on Gray Creek Pass.

Creston RCMP received a complaint around 2:30 p.m. of a missing man near Gray Creek Pass, where two men were snowmobiling when they were caught in an avalanche.

“One subject was able to make it out,” said Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan, but the man was unable to find the other.

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Creston Valley Public Library chief librarian Aaron Francis is making a CD of children’s songs and nursery rhymes to be donated to new parents in the library’s Books for Babies package, and he visited Lorraine Doeleman’s Adam Robertson Elementary School Grade 3/4 class to record the students singing some tunes that they learned for their Roots of Empathy baby, Miya Takeda Fischer.

Roots of Empathy programs recently ran at ARES, Erickson Elementary School and Crawford Bay ElementarySecondary School.

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www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca 3 Cara Waddle (left) won the 2014 edition of Creston’s Best Singer on March 13, after trying unsuccessfully in 2012 and 2013. Tamara Leavitt (centre) placed third and Taya Blackmore placed second. All three will compete in the Kootenay competition, to be held in Creston in June.

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Cara Waddle wins singing contest

BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

Cara Waddle proved that the third time really is the charm when she placed first in the March 13 finals of Creston’s Best Singer.

She had previously placed in the top five in 2012 and the top 10 last year, but her rendition of Just Like Jesse James in the final round put her over the top with judges Charlene Burdett (Fort Macleod, Alta.), Carla McDonald (Cranbrook) and Bev Anderson (Kootenay Lake).

“That’s one I always want to sing but never get to,” said Waddle. “And it’s so damn tricky to get the timing on it.”

In the top five, Waddle competed

against Taya Blackmore, Tamara Leavitt, Kyran Grant and Erin Collison, who faced off after the judges named them the top five out of 20 singers the audience chose at a Feb. 20 audition. Each singer performed once in the semifinal round that started last week’s contest, with the top five singing again.

Waddle started out with I’d Rather Go Blind, made famous by Etta James.

“It’s my grandma’s favourite,” said Waddle.

In the first round, Leavitt sang I Don’t Believe You, followed by No Place That Far in the finals. The 11-year-old Blackmore performed Angels Among Us for her first song, and followed that up by belting out the Academy Award-

winning Let It Go, from the film Frozen.

“I was pretty sure I was going to lose to her,” said Waddle.

This isn’t the end of the line for the three winners, all of whom will move on to compete in the Kootenays’ Best Singer regional; contest, which will be held in Creston in June. They will be joined by the top two from Nelson’s Best Singer (held in November), and the top five from each of the upcoming east and west Kootenay contests.

“The judges didn’t have an easy job with this contest,” said producer Vern Gorham. “But they made excellent choices, and I’m so proud to have these local singers show their talent when they take on regional competitors.”

Town council asks RCMP for increased downtown presence

BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

Increased police presence in the downtown core, partnerships with community groups and drug awareness were the priorities town council set for Creston RCMP when Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan gave his quarterly report at the March 11 regular council meeting.

The latter point grew out of Coun. Judy Gadicke’s comment that she smells marijuana whenever she walks around town.

“Just about every vehicle we stop, we find pot in,” said Gollan.

He said that the website webehigh. org rates Creston at 4.5 and Nelson at 5, on a scale where 1 is “very illegal” and 5 is “virtually legal”.

Gollan’s report combined the second and third quarters of the RCMP fiscal year, covering July through December.

During that time, checkstops resulted in a total of 36 charges: 14 for impaired driving, 13 90-day suspensions, three 30-day suspensions, five 24-hour suspensions and one drug charge.

Gollan also gave a brief overview of the financial difficulties the detachment faces. With a quarter of the fiscal year left, he has spent 49.52 per cent of the municipal budget from the Town of Creston, and 98 per cent of the province’s $74,300 budget.

The province currently gives the

detachment only $6,000 per year to spend on gas for three vehicles, working out to about 60 cents a litre, while the town’s portion is $17,000. And when it comes to vehicle maintenance, the town’s contribution is $14,000, while the province gives $4,000.

Gollan said he is working with the RCMP’s Southeast District to address budget shortfalls or underfunding.

Funding from the town is to be used for Creston-related expenses only, and cannot be used to cover shortfalls in police coverage of outlying areas.

Council Briefs •Council received a report from the Creston Spirit Committee regarding the 2013 Santa Claus Parade, which had 18 entries. Twenty-four volunteers staffed the day’s events leading up to and including the parade, but an extra 12 volunteers assisting with traffic control would be helpful at the 2014 parade.

Suggestions from the committee for this year’s parade included increasing daytime offerings to make it a larger event, finding a way to prevent large Christmas parties from being scheduled at the same time as the parade to avoid traffic safety concerns, having the Creston and District Community Complex expand its gingerbread decorating event and encouraging more downtown businesses to enter the parade.

•The town received a notice asking for the renewal of its Union of BC Municipalities membership for a cost of $3,551.12.

•A letter from Calgary’s Seniors Alpine Ski Club expressed its appreciation to Creston Fire Rescue, the BC Ambulance Service, the Creston Valley Thunder Cats and the Creston and District Community Complex, all of which pitched in when the Brewster Travel Canada bus they were in went off the road east of Creston on Feb. 17.

Fire Chief Mike Moore drove the Thunder Cats bus to pick the seniors up and bring them back to Creston, and Brewster intends to reimburse the town for the cost of the bus that day.

“They were very impressed, and they didn’t think the municipality should have to pay for the expense,” said Mayor Ron Toyota.

•Council approved an pre-budget expenditure of up to $380,000 for an Erickson Street water main upgrade, which was identified as a capital project in the 2010 water master plan, intended to address fire flow deficiencies at the Columbia Brewery and improve hydraulics for more reliable water distribution in the south part of Creston.

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IBET office at Creston RCMP station closing

BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

The Creston RCMP detachment regains use of the police station basement at the end of the month.

The Integrated Border

Enforcement Team (IBET) is no more.

The Creston IBET office that occupied the space included three RCMP constables, a Canadian Border Services Agency member and a halftime clerical worker. All IBET groups

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FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL PLAN A Public Meeting will be held in Town Hall Council Chambers, 238 – 10th Avenue North, Creston, at 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, March 25, 2014.

Public input will be received on the Proposed ‘Five Year Financial Plan (2014 – 2018)’.

The proposed Five Year Plan will be available on-line at www.creston.ca on Monday, March 17, 2014.

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HYDRANT FLUSHING Please be advised that Town Crews will be carrying out the annual hydrant flushing program starting March 24, 2014 and continuing for approximately 4 weeks.

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in the province have been reorganized into a federal service organized crime unit. The nearest, in Osoyoos, will take on larger border security projects all the way to the Alberta border, Creston RCMP Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday.

According to the RCMP, “IBETs enhance border integrity and security along the shared Canada/U.S. border, between designated ports of entry, by identifying, investigating and interdicting persons, organizations and goods that threaten the national security of one or both countries or that are involved in organized criminal activity.

“IBET units protect both Canada and the United States from potential threats of terrorism and impede the trafficking/smuggling of people and contraband.”

“It actually makes sense,” Gollan said. “The IBET teams were really too small to take on major projects. Locally, there isn’t much change. We (the Creston RCMP detachment) were always responsible for the first attendance on any file. It should be a better system.”

Two senior officials flew in to Creston last week to meet with Mayor Ron Toyota to brief him on the change.

“We knew it was coming,” Toyota said. “It has no impact on our local budget, but it’s unfortunate that we lose some local jobs.”

Police Beat In other police news, Creston RCMP responded to 58 calls from March 10-16, Gollan said.

March 10 •When police checked on a driver reported to be sitting in his vehicle in a Helen Street parking lot for a long period, they found no problems.

•No entry was gained in what appeared to be an attempted break and entry to a Northwest Boulevard business.

•An 11th Avenue North resident reported an attempted Internet scam in which payment is requested to set up a firewall on the resident’s computer.

•When contacted about an apparently abandoned vehicle on Nick’s Island Road North, the owner reported the vehicle had broken down and he was making arrangements to have it towed.

•A driver stopped on Leadville Forest Service Road for driving suspiciously was found to have had his licence suspended for medical reasons.

He said he was unaware of the suspension. The vehicle was towed.

•One driver suffered only minor injuries in a bizarre three-vehicle crash on Northwest Boulevard. A female

driver crossed into the oncoming lane before bouncing off a concrete wall and hitting an eastbound vehicle and a parked vehicle. The driver was found to be intoxicated and was issued a 90-day roadside driving suspension. Her vehicle was impounded for 30 days.

•When is a reported break and entry to a vacant home not a break and entry? When police investigate and find the Canyon Street residence was not vacant and the owner was returning home from walking the dog.

March 11 •A vehicle went off Nick’s Island Road but no injuries were reported.

•Creston RCMP were notified that frequent violent offender Jason Beaudry has been released from prison and plans to return to live in Creston. (See story on Page 3.)

•A complaint was received about an erratic driver on Northwest Boulevard.

March 12 •A barking dog complaint was made from a Highway 3 residence.

•Police were asked to assist Cranbrook RCMP in the investigation of a historic assault.

•An elderly female driver ran through a stop sign on Vancouver Street and collided with another vehicle, causing minor damage but no injuries.

Police have sent a letter to the superintendent of motor vehicles recommending her ability to drive be reassessed.

•Police co-operated with the Bonners Ferry sheriff’s office in investigating a complaint stemming from the sale of a horse saddle.

•Following up on an anonymous call from Erickson about a prohibited driver operating a vehicle, police contacted the driver and warned him about the possible consequences.

March 13 •The first of several untraceable 911 calls through the Riley Road cellular tower was received.

•When police investigated a 911 call from Canyon-Lister Road they determined that the residential phone line had been disconnected. They could find no explanation for the call and the occupants were not home at the time.

•Police attended a Meadow Wood Road residence to keep the peace while a female retrieved some belongings.

March 14 •An erratic driver reported on Highway 3A in Crawford Bay was not located.

•A vehicle went off Highway 3 and rolled over in slushy road conditions near Blazed Creek.

No injuries were reported.

•A suspicious vehicle reported on 11th Avenue South was not located.

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•Police served a summons to a Goat River Road resident on behalf of a provincial ministry.

•Conducting a well-being check at the request of a female on Canyon-Lister Road, police found her 90-year-old husband outside pruning trees.

•Police did not locate rocks reported to be on the railway tracks near Canyon Street. A short time later, a caller reported four people were standing at a fire beside the railway tracks near Cook Street. The group scattered when police arrived and only one, a 23-year-old, was caught for questioning.

•Police were unable to locate an erratic driver on Highway 3A but the plate was traced to an 87-year-old owner.

•Police attended a 38th Avenue residence to assist Cranbrook RCMP with an assault investigation.

•A black Mustang, reported to be speeding and swerving on Northwest Boulevard, was not located.

March 15 •Police notified the appropriate provincial ministry after an incident on Sixth Avenue North in which the male resident caused a disturbance.

Alcohol was a factor and children were in the residence.

•A subpoena was served to a 25th Avenue South resident on behalf of Cranbrook RCMP. •No injuries resulted in a single vehicle accident on Thompson Road.

•Three males were reported to be running through backyards in the 500 block of 12th Avenue North.

•An erratic Ford F-150 reported on Devon Street was not found.

•Police responded to a 911 call from a 16th Avenue North residence, where the caller said she dialed the emergency number in error. A short time later, they were called back to the same residence, where an intoxicated male was refusing to leave. He was found to be in breach of his curfew, arrested and held in police cells until sober. At the same location, police found a small outdoor fire in which clothing was being burned.

March 16 •A male was arrested on 24th Street for breaching a restraining order.

•A female in medical distress at a Highway 3 residence was taken to hospital.

•Tires, apparently taken from a nearby business, were set out on 10th Avenue North.

•A male was arrested, charged and released with a court appearance pending after a complaint of harassment was made from a Northwest Boulevard residence.

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From page 1 The Dynamiters scored two goals late in the period, and then two in the second before Livingstone scored his second goal at 4:56. It was a similar story in the third period, with Kimberley scoring twice before Trevor Hanna scored the Thunder Cats’ third of the night, assisted by Carson Cartwright and Livingstone, who earned three points that evening.

“That was the best game I’ve ever seen him play,” said Hepditch.

The action returned to Creston on March 13 for game 5, giving the Thunder Cats a boost of confidence.

“Our backs were against the wall,” said Hepditch. “I don’t think there was one guy in the room that didn’t think we could come back in the series.”

Thunder Cat Jesse Collins scored the first period’s only goal, and Kimberley followed that with two in the second period before Hanna tied the score at 2:45. Colton St. John

Alliance opposes provincial recycling program

BY JEFF NAGEL Black Press

An alliance of business groups opposed to the new Multi Material BC recycling system are demanding the province halt the planned May 19 launch and go back to the drawing board.

MMBC, an industry stewardship group, is poised to take responsibility for curbside blue box collection – with more containers and material types collected than before – while charging businesses for the recycling of the packaging and paper they generate.

But it's been in a bitter fight with small business groups that complain they are set to pay punishingly high fees, which will then be passed on to consumers.

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CFIB provincial affairs director Mike Klassen predicted job losses and some business closures as a result of the MMBC regulations and fees.

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scored the game-winner at 13:12 in the third period, and Collins scored again, with an empty-netter at 1:05.

“It was nice to see our 20-year-olds step up in a game like that,” said Hepditch.

With game 6 played Friday on the Dynamiters’ home ice, the Thunder Cats had to dig deep in order to stay on track.

“We had to play with pure desperation,” said Hepditch.

“It was really do or die for us.

We knew that it was going to be biggest game of the series for us.”

It was another 4-2 victory for the Thunder Cats, whose scoring started with a power-play goal by Tyler Podgorenko five minutes into the game.

Livingstone (power play) and Seth Schmidt scored in the second period before penalty trouble resulted in two Dynamiters goals. Collins added a fourth goal for the Thunder Cats with just over seven minutes left in the game.

For Saturday’s game in Creston, the John Bucyk Arena was “packed before warm-up,” said Hepditch, with the attendance eventually topping 1,000. the pause button on its reckless and red tape-laden program."

BC Agriculture Council vice-chair Stan Vander Waal said farmers can't readily stop packaging strawberries and blueberries in plastic clamshells, because retailers insist that's what consumers want.

"We have to wear the cost," he said, adding MMBC fees will cost his Chilliwack farm $60,000 to $100,000 a year. "It goes directly against growing agriculture."

Canadian Newspaper Association chair Peter Kvarnstrom, who is publisher of a paper in Sechelt, warned that the new system will be “catastrophic” to B.C. community and daily newspapers, resulting in job losses in an already challenged industry and reduced service to communities.

The opposition groups say they support the aim of the program — to make generators of packaging pay to recycle it — but they dispute the fees and say multinational consumer goods firms like Unilever and Wal-Mart control MMBC and are manipulating it to their benefit, not that of local businesses.

Most of the fees for container waste are double or even quadruple what businesses in Ontario pay to a similar agency.

Newspapers say they face a $14-million-a-year bite out of their operations because of the 20 cents per kilogram they will pay on newsprint, compared to less than half a penny in Ontario.

Environment Minister Mary Polak said most businesses are exempt from the fees if they have under $1 million of retail sales, generate less than a tonne of material or operate out of a single retail outlet, while generators of one to five tonnes per year pay flat fees of $550 or $1,200.

LocaL/B.c. News The game started with a good first period, which saw Cartwright score on a power play at 9:43, with Kimberley tying the score a few minutes later. A weaker second period saw the Dynamiters take the lead, scoring one unassisted and two power-play goals.

“We melted,” said Hepditch.

“We got outplayed and outshot.”

In the third period, he capitalized on one of the Thunder Cats’ strengths, the ability to roll a few lines to keep players from tiring. And it worked, with Andrew Hodder, Collins and Logan Styler scoring to tie the game 4-4.

A Dynamiters penalty at 2:27 proved timely for the Thunder Cats, whose power play stepped up, with Schmidt scoring the game-winner at 2:06.

“You couldn’t have written a better script for this,” said Hepditch. “It was unbelievable. I’ve gotten texts and emails from people who said it was the best sporting event they’ve ever seen in their life.”

With only three days of rest

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between games, though, the Thunder Cats were back at it on Tuesday and Wednesday, hosting the Beaver Valley Nitehawks — who topped the Neil Murdoch Division by beating the Nelson Leafs in six games — as they compete for the KIJHL’s Kootenay Conference title. The Nitehawks and Thunder Cats both earned 80 points in the regular season, with the Thunder Cats 39 wins, com-

pared to the Nitehawks’ 38, giving them home-ice advantage.

The Nitehawks have a half-dozen really skilled players, plus strong defence and goaltending, so the series should be an exciting one.

“After our last series, we’d say nothing’s impossible,” he said. “We definitely don’t think it’s going to be a walk in the park. … It’s going to take a lot of hard work and sticking to our game plan.”

Retirement Dinner for

Harold Standen from Creston Fire Rescue

After nearly 50 years of involvement with the Fire Department, Creston Fire Rescue is hosting a dinner and dance for Harold!

March 29, 2014 at 6pm

In the Creston Room at the Creston & District Community Complex

Dinner is $20.00 per person No Host Bar Contact Creston Fire Rescue 250.428.4321 to RSVP for Dinner

PUBLIC NOTICE CRESTON LANDFILL WASTE SCREENING PROGRAM Please be advised that the RDCK is conducting an on-going Waste Screening Program at the Creston Resource Recovery Facility. The objective of this process is to educate the public about what is accepted for disposal at the site and to encourage recycling and waste diversion. All loads and household garbage bags will be inspected as part of the waste screening process.

All Waste Screening activities will be undertaken to ensure compliance with the Resource Recovery Facilities Bylaw (RDCK Bylaw 2174). At this time waste screening events will be for the purpose of education only; no penalties will apply for non-compliant loads during this period of time. In the future, customers found to be non-compliant with RDCK Bylaw 2174 will be subject to appropriate fees & penalties.

The RDCK Resource Recovery Bylaw is available on our website: http://www.rdck.ca/EN/main/services/waste-recycling.html

Jason Beaudry

Beaudry

From page 1 Beaudry’s release is accompanied by 13 court-ordered conditions, including orders not to possess, own or carry weapons, not to attend establishments where alcohol is the primary commodity for sale, to abstain completely from the possession, purchase or consumption of alcohol or drugs and to remain inside his residence between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Gollan asks that anyone witnessing Beaudry breaching any of these conditions should call the RCMP immediately at 250-428-9313.

FOR THE RECORD In last week’s story, “Eightweek Mindfulness Course Part of Training Program,” the prerequisite training program that Kuya Minogue took to prepare was actually 10 days, not eight weeks.

For more information about the waste screening program contact: Nicole Ward Environmental Services Coordinator PH: 250-352-8192 / 1-800-268-7325 Email: nward@rdck.bc.ca

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My weekend plans didn’t include taking in a hockey game, but on Saturday night I found myself checking out the KIJHL website to see how the Creston Valley Thunder Cats were making out. At about 10 p.m. there was no score posted on the site. A while later, the news I was looking for finally popped up. Not only had the Thunder Cats bounced back from a 3-1 game deficit in the semifinal series against the Kimberley Dynamiters, they had overcome a 4-1 score going into the third period.

I could only image what the sound of a thousand fans was like as the home side roared back with four unanswered goals to earn a 5-4 victory. The Cats might have finished the season 20 points up on Kimberley, but the Dynamiters have a very nice history of playoff season victories against Creston.

In fact, Creston fans and players alike have had reason to build up a pretty good dislike for the Dynamiters. Since the Cats joined the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League in 2000-2001, Kimberley has ended their season six times, all in the semifinals, or first round of the playoffs. It has been left to an even bigger nemesis, the Fernie Ghostriders, to dispatch the Thunder Cats in the three previous times that they moved on to the second round, in 2007, 2010 and 2011. In only one of those series did the team even manage to win a game. That came in 2011, when Creston forced the series to a seventh game before bowing out.

As the Cats move into uncharted territory this week, I am happy for the players and fans, of course. But even

more, I am thrilled for the executive and for head coach-general manager Josh Hepditch. The executive gets credit, as it always should, for keeping junior hockey alive in the Creston

quality of players they have been able to attract. The organization puts a high value on character, and it has paid off.

In the past two years, Thunder Cats players have participated in the Reach a Reader program, a fundraiser and awareness program for local literacy efforts. Each player I have met and chatted with while they sold our newspapers on the street has been friendly, enthusiastic and quick with a smile. I have heard only positive comments from the many groups that Lorne Eckersley have benefited from the team’s volunteer efforts.

On Sunday morning I chatted Valley. Each year seems to present a with my son, Ryan, on the phone new financial challenge, one that isn’t from his home in Calgary. He played helped when the team doesn’t host goal for the Thunder Cats for two many playoff games. Teams budget years and has continued to follow for the season and a long run in the the team. Like me, he was checking playoffs can result in a very healthy for scores on Saturday night. addition to the bottom line.

“When I checked I saw they were Having been able to keep Hepditch down 4-1 after two periods and I on this long has certainly been the thought, ‘Too bad, but they had a biggest factor in this year’s success. great run.’ ” He, too, had experiWhen I wrote a feature story about enced the frustration of losing a him early in his first year I described him as a young man who gave me the playoff series to the Dynamiters.

“Then I checked for the final sense that one day I would be saying, score this morning when I got up “I knew him when…’ ” Hepditch had and I couldn’t believe it!” he said. great success as a two-way player “What a comeback!” with national champion University of Minor and junior hockey played a New Brunswick teams, and cites curhuge role in Ryan’s development. rent Buffalo Sabre coach Ted Nolan as He’s great father and husband, a a mentor. Everything about his manrespected RCMP officer and kind, ner exudes quiet competence and decent man. I know the parents of strength. He isn’t likely to remain in today’s Thunder Cat players will be Creston much longer, especially after saying the same things in years to this great season, one that will guarcome. And they will have great memantee that he will attract attention from other teams in other leagues. But ories of their sons’ great 2014 season, which saw their team advance to the we are a better community for having third round of the KIJHL playoffs for had him among us. the first time ever.

Another sure sign that Hepditch Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of and the Thunder Cats executive have been doing all the right things is in the the Creston Valley Advance.

This is the Life

Library depends on funding

The industrialist Andrew Carnegie once said, “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”

Like all great social enterprises, a strong and vital public library depends on stable and adequate funding and this, in turn, depends on the support of both the public and those empowered to make decisions for the public good.

Approximately 75 per cent of the operating budget of Creston Valley Public Library is funded through the local tax base for the Town of Creston and Regional District of Central Kootenay areas A, B and C. This funding covers book purchases, computers, staffing costs, building maintenance and other needed equipment and supplies.

Another 15 per cent is funded through the libraries and literacy branch of the Ministry of Education.

This funding supports collaboration with regional and provincial libraries. It is what allows folks from Riondel and Crawford Bay to use the Nelson library without paying the $90/year non-resident fee. It allows you to borrow books from any library in the province, either while travelling or through interlibrary loans. It also helps support our ebook, audiobook and other electronic databases.

The remaining 10 per cent is raised through miscellaneous grants, donations and library-generated revenue, such as overdue fines and photocopy charges. These funds support special

Solving America's Reading Problem”) in Forbes magazine pointed out, when you do the math, the public library is a great deal.

As we’ve seen with some privatization initiatives in recent years, lower taxes do not always mean lower costs to citizens. Having a well-managed and publically accountable social service — a service that provides significant value to a broad cross section of the community — is, in my opinion, a worthy investment for my tax dollars.

We are extremely fortunate in Creston to have elected officials who understand the value of the public library. Mayor Ron Toyota and area directors John Kettle, Larry Binks and Garry Jackman, as well as Lower Kootenay Band Chief Jason Louie, have been strong supporters of the library over the years, and our beautiful, spacious facility is a testament to their advocacy and hard work.

With local elections on the horizon, it is a good time to remind our leaders and would-be leaders of the value and importance of a vibrant, well-equipped public library. Ask them if they will support stable funding for the library during their next term. Your children and grandchildren will thank you.

Aaron Francis is the chief librarian at the Creston Valley Public Library.

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Aaron Francis projects, such as the community access program, Summer Reading Club, construction of the Lawrence Lavender Reading Garden and many others.

I’ve written here before about how the public libraries provide a significant net economic benefit to the community. Simply put, the value that the community receives through pooling and sharing our resources far exceeds the financial outlay required to maintain the library.

Families in this community rely on the library’s high quality resources and programs, seniors depend on our free computer training, community groups rely on our public meeting spaces and people from all walks of life depend on the library for their recreational and lifelong learning needs. As a recent article (“How Public Libraries Are

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Ugly forces take stage regarding Osprey clinic To the Editor: (Re: “Owner’s Silence a Test of Integrity,” March 13) To Erin Carr, there are two things I would like to tell you. First, I know you and your partner have the support of many positive, understanding citizens of this valley. They are the silent majority. Take heart.

Secondly, in your letter you mentioned this beautiful valley several times. Yes, it is a beautiful valley, but it also has an ugly side. The beauty is wrought by nature, the ugliness is wrought by humans.

Unfortunately, the ugly, negative forces in this community are always front and centre on every issue: the initiative to give the Pet Adoption and Welfare Society a little tax money, the initiative to obtain fire protection for West Creston, the proposal for a referendum to determine once and for all the issue of daylight time and, now, the legal and ethical rights of your business partner under fire because of his refusal to publicize his private business dealings.

The negative people with their nasty actions and threats are always ready to do their bashing, to try to intimidate and ridicule others as a means of forcing others to do what they want.

I think it is time that the positive, silent majority takes a stand, makes an effort to counteract the growing negativity that will eventually spoil not the natural beauty of this valley, but definitely the beauty of a good reputation, as a “nice” place to live.

Gail Bosgra Creston

Graham follows Tory party blindly To the Editor: (Re: “MLA ‘Against Rural Ridings in B.C.,’ ” March 6) In the letter by Wes Graham, a town councillor and assistant to a Conservative MP, he renders a personal attack on me for my position on Bill 2, the Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act presently before the legislature. As we know, personal attacks are left to those who lack substantive reasons for their position and prefer to bully their way through an argument. It seems that is the case here.

For those not familiar with Bill 2, it is the Liberals bill that interferes with the Electoral Boundaries Commission’s independence to work directly with the public in drawing our electoral boundaries. Because governments are in conflict of interest when deciding electoral boundaries, this independence is paramount and protected by the constitution. Nevertheless, the Liberals are once again ignoring the laws of the land — this time by directing the commission to preserve the boundaries of a select number of ridings.

Why would they only look at 17 rather than all rural ridings if this was about protecting rural representation, which is something determined between the com-

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mission and public anyway? Taking a look at how it all shakes out, their selection is where they have the most to gain.

If you are interested in seeing what I had to say about this bill, please visit my YouTube channel where I’ve posted my speech for you to watch anytime.

You can also read or view the Hansard transcript anytime at www.leg.bc.ca.

It is a shame that a local elected official thinks this type of legislation is acceptable, making it clear that Mr. Graham’s blind obedience to his chosen provincial party outweighs his respect for democratic laws.

Michelle Mungall Nelson-Creston MLA

Valley needs Pacific time year-round To the Editor: Daylight time has started once again.

I believe the Creston Valley should be on Pacific time year-round. I hate watching TV an hour later all winter.

I hope the men and women in authority in this valley will make the right decision, to stay on Pacific time year-round.

Why wait until November to decide.

Please, let’s use Pacific time yearround. I am an elderly senior and trust you will agree with me.

Ross Hadden Erickson

Mediation needed in doc situation To the Editor: My husband, Wolfgang, and I are patients of Dr. Suzanne Hopkins and we are very grateful to her for accepting us as patients when we moved here in 2012.

She had also just relocated with her family to establish herself here. We can only imagine how she must feel now.

We have no insights in the legal dispute between the doctors and the owners of the clinic. All we know is that the doctors were locked out of their offices in January. That in itself has to be unprecedented and was done with total disregard for people’s lives and well-being, in our opinion. Without taking sides in this matter, we think this has gone on long enough and it needs mediation from the Ministry of Health or other outside sources.

We are also puzzled and find it ironic for Mr. Gadicke to suggest to hug our doctors (“Doctors Still Able to Access Patient Records,” Feb. 27) and buy them chocolates or flowers. Mind you, we have no problem doing that, but we would rather do it at their offices where they are able to do what they love and want to do, namely, looking after their patients without restrictions, hurdles and with the necessary peace of mind. We hope, at this point, they can keep on doing just that.

We are sure we speak for many when we assure our doctors that we appreciate them, and we hope many more patients will voice their concerns and support, also. We assume they have enough on their minds and do not need to be bombarded by their patients, unless they are in need of medical attention, but hopefully it will make them feel better to know that they are truly appreciated.

Ursula Blessing Creston

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Time change a smooth one in valley To the Editor: We are lucky to live in the Creston Valley!

There, now wasn’t that nice? It happened so quietly, so smoothly, so seamlessly that, in fact, no one even noticed.

And no one had to do anything, not even click a mouse. It happened by others, long ago, and it is done for our own convenience and pleasure. What a treat it is, and it’s free too!

We have “endured” a change of time once again, by gloriously doing nothing. We have endured no stress, no dysfunction, no bleary eyes, no being late for work, no confusion, no doubts — nothing but a peaceful mind.

We don’t change time. In the summer, we live in Pacific time, and in the winter, we live in mountain time.

So what? It’s among the reasons I love living in the Creston Valley: glorious weather and no stress!

Bill Cook Lister

Age is no excuse for rudeness To the Editor: In response to the letter “Community must look after seniors” (Feb. 27), I felt a compelling need to share my most unpleasant encounter with one of Creston’s senior citizens.

Having grown up here, I realize that the majority of the residents are, in fact, seniors. However, this does not give the right for anyone, no matter what their age, to treat another human with less respect or decency.

My four-year-old daughter and I recently stopped by Paul’s Superette to purchase some scratch tickets as part of an upcoming anniversary gift. She didn’t comprehend what the scratch tickets even represented, only that she was so excited to be able to assist me in picking them out. There were no other customers in the building when we entered and the cashier was polite and ready to assist us.

Within a few moments, an elderly gentleman (I too use the term “gentleman” loosely, as I do believe his actions were anything but) entered the store and proceeded to walk to the cooler in the back to grab a bag of ice. The elderly man approached the counter with his ice and stood in line. Knowing there was someone waiting, I hurried my daughter and myself along with our purchases.

Apparently, “waiting” and “patient” were not vocabulary the elderly man was familiar with. Within a few seconds, he angrily turned, stomped to the back of the store and threw his bag of ice into the cooler, slamming the door afterwards. He then trudged out of the store. The cashier and I were astonished by his actions.

I collected my tickets and my daughter and I left the store only to be yelled at as we walked toward our vehicle. The elderly man had paused long enough to roll down his window and yell obscenities at my daughter and myself.

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Watershed 101 Canadian Geographic Society

No matter where you stand on the planet, you are on a watershed, a landscape feature also referred to as a catchment or drainage basin.

A watershed is defined as an area of land where all the

surface water drains into the same place, whether it’s a creek, a stream, a river or an ocean. Therefore, all precipitation, such as rain or snow, that falls on a watershed ends up flowing to the same

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There are two major types of watersheds, open and closed. An open watershed eventually drains into the ocean, whereas water in a closed watershed can escape only by evaporating or seeping into the earth. With the exception of some small watersheds in the Prairies and British Columbia, most

When you travel in the back country, be sensitive to the fact that you may be in someone’s watershed.

Treat every water source as though it were your own drinking water.

Town of Creston

Proclamation

Water Week: March 17-23, 2014

WHEREAS the National Organizing Partners for Canada Water Week Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, World Wildlife Fund Canada and Living Lakes Network Canada - have identified the third week in March as Canada Water Week; WHEREAS Canada is home to some of the largest, most beautiful and most economically important rivers and lakes in the world; WHEREAS residents in our communities have an important and celebrated connection to rivers, lakes and waterways; WHEREAS a week profiling the importance of clean water would increase public awareness that we need to take care of, protect and restore freshwater ecosystems in and near our communitites; WHEREAS public opinion surveys continue to reveal that a clear majority of Canadians consider fresh water to be the nation’s most important natural resource; WHEREAS March 22nd is internationally recognized as World Water Day. NOW I, Ron Toyota, Mayor of the Town of Creston, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM the third week in March as “Water Week” Signed this 14th day of March, 2014

Ron Toyota, Mayor

Watersheds have variety

Watersheds can be urban, rural, wild or anywhere in between. Toronto, for example, contains seven river

watersheds, each draining into Lake Ontario, which itself is part of the Great Lakes Basin watershed. So watersheds come in all shapes and sizes and cross provincial and international boundary lines.

They are populated with freshwater features such as lakes, ponds, reservoirs, groundwater aquifers, snowpacks, glaciers and icefields.

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watersheds in Canada are open. The rain that falls in the St. Lawrence River watershed, for example, winds up in the St. Lawrence, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Will Koop - “The Arrow Creek Community Watershed Reserve: A Case History”

In the south-most region of the Purcell Mountains, and along the western flank of the Moyie Range, is the 7,900 hectare Arrow Creek watershed. The Arrow, which flows from north to south, is wedged between the Duck Creek watershed to the west, another source of domestic water supply, and the Goat River watershed tributary complex to the east and north.

Arrow Creek flows into the Goat River, the confluence of which is located beside highway 3 and the Canadian Pacific Railway track on

the northeastern edge of Erickson, an agricultural and fruit-growing community of about 2,000 people.

From here, the Goat River flows w e s t w a rd and below the town of Creston, population of about 5,000, to join the Kootenay River, 10 kilometers north of the United States border.In early 2000, the provincial government forced the Erickson Improvement District.

After applications from local residents and incorporations, the Minister of Lands, T.D. Pattullo,

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reserved the water rights of Arrow Creek for domestic use of the Creston area on February 16, 1923.

Incorporation of the village of Creston took place the following year in 1924. In 1929, the East Creston Irrigation District was formed, and a final water license given to draw water from the Arrow on July 4, 1929.

The East Creston Irrigation District supplied water to Creston through their distribution system, and continues to do so. The Erickson Mutual WaterUsers Community was incorporated, under the Water Act, on May 27, 1920, which later became the Erickson Irrigation District, incorporated on May 26, 1953. The Erickson Irrigation District received its water from Sullivan Creek until 1981, when it amalgamated with the East Creston Irrigation District to form the Erickson Improvement District. Sullivan Creek water is now only used for 5 or 6 months of the year, from mid-Spring to the end of summer, in addition to water from Arrow Creek.

Nearby, the community of Canyon received its water license for the Camp Run (Association) Creek on November 1, 1908, and formed the Canyon Mutual WaterUsers’ Community, incorporated on February 28, 1922. This later became the North Canyon Improvement District, with water licenses on Thompson and Camp Run Creek The Wynndel Irrigation District (WID), just to the northwest of Creston, began in 1932 and received its domestic and irrigation water from Duck Creek.

Concerned about logging in Duck Creek, the WID obtained a Watershed Reserve designation from the provincial government in 1947.

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Newspapers: 24/7 | What’s Changed?

Newspapers Canada repeated its study from two years prior with a goal of understanding the changes in readership by device and time and day.

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Canadians continue to read printed newspapers and it maintains its position as most used.

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Readership has grown across all demographics.

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Read the news by phone.

This has grown +32% in the last two years.

Total Readership Remains Strong and Stable!

More people are embracing technology to read newspapers, and they do this while maintaining print readership.

Read by tablet. This has grown by +19% and is the #4 most used device.

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Creston Valley Advance Thursday, March 20, 2014

Let’s be realistic about grannies

I listened to an interview on CBC Radio with actor Hugh Bonneville, who plays the Earl of Grantham on the Masterpiece Theatre drama Downton Abbey. The interview was about the series and why it attracts huge audiences. Mr. Bonneville said Downton Abbey is family entertainment; you can watch it with your mother or your grandmother.

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He said you wouldn’t sit down with Granny and watch Breaking Bad. (This American series is a dark story about a terminally ill teacher who turns to selling drugs in order to leave his family financially secure).

I wondered why Mr. Bonneville would imply that grandmothers don’t deal well with harsh subjects, especially given that Downton Abbey’s grandmama is very much a realist. And contemporary English grandmothers, the ones I’ve met, are pretty feisty.

It made me think about whether people see (or saw) their grandmothers as retiring and in need of shelter from the world.

I admit to a teenage impression of my two grandmothers: they wore oldfashioned dresses and oxford shoes and stayed in their rooms a lot of the time. Later I learned more about their lives.

My father’s mother raised five children through war and Depression. She kept a scrapbook of news clippings about the unholy happenings of the Second World War, complete with her condemnatory comments. My mother’s mother, who immigrated to Canada from Scotland, lost her 20-year-old son on a bombing mission during that war. He was buried in North Africa, and to remember him she had the black and white photographs of the military cortège in the desert.

Many of us can count in our family trees grandmothers who lived a dusty existence in isolated, poorly insulated houses on the Canadian Prairie, and they didn’t have vacuum cleaners. They raised many children in basic uncomfortable conditions.

Grandmothers are still doing what needs to be done. Recent studies show that grandmothers are increasingly taking on the role of caregivers to their grandchildren, mainly because of the changing fabric of family and work.

There have always been grandmothers who have stepped up to be caregivers.

Today they take that role to a new level. They form groups and raise funds to help African grandmothers, through the Stephen Lewis Foundation, to care for grandchildren orphaned by AIDS. Creston’s GoGo Grannies are a shining example, having raised $60,000 since their inception in 2005.

In Argentina grandmothers called Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have worked effectively together for three decades searching for “disappeared” children, who were taken from families of dissidents — and given to other

families — by the military dictatorship of the time.

The grandmothers I know get involved, work, challenge their brains, have great imaginations, follow their passions. A grandmother who is related to me is currently exploring the Andes in a van, with the ultimate goal of driving around the entire South American continent. (I know she has faith that there are actual roads that will get her from Brazil to Venezuela.)

We can’t all be Dora the Explorer, but the grandmothers I know can be formidable. They hike up mountains, ride horses, run in marathons, manage orchards, create art, paddle kayaks, sweat at the gym and even shovel snow.

Grandmothers are a creative bunch.

Some of them can still crawl on the floor; they make up stories and build hiding places. They take direction really well, and they can choose from their arsenal of exciting games, such as “Hiding from T. Rex” or “A storm is coming!” And, yes, they bake superior cookies. One fabulous grandmother of my acquaintance not only teaches her grandsons how to prepare traditional recipes but attends every single one of their hockey games.

It’s only in their downtime that grandmothers knit and play bridge and read books by the fire.

And not incidentally, grandmothers do watch Breaking Bad. Some grandmothers even catch the odd episode of the edgy fantasy series, Game of Thrones, if only to root for the Mother of Dragons in her quest to win back the Iron Throne.

Betsy Brierley lives beside Kootenay Lake.

She used to write for the Advance a long time ago.

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Behaviour

From page 7 I responded by asking him if he was a grandfather and if he knew what the word “patience” meant. He screamed, “No, I hate kids! And now I know why I never have had a wife either!”

Shaking my head in disbelief, I turned to my daughter only to see the frown on her face and to hear the question, “Mommy why was that man so mad at me? What did I do wrong?” I explained that she hadn’t done anything wrong and that there are, unfortunately, some very angry people in the world we live in.

Within a moment, he sped off out of the parking lot, narrowly missing another car on his way.

How does one explain such immature behaviour from an adult, a senior citizen, to a four-year-old child? I believe we all know who the real child was in this situation.

I was quite upset with how this man misbehaved, but realized by the time that I returned home that I should actually feel sorry for him. Being the age that he was, he was obviously so miserable with his own insecurities and his own failures in life that in order to feel better about himself, he needed to verbally attack a woman and child.

So if you are the elderly man I am referring to from this incident reading this letter, I hope you find some peace within yourself before it’s too late. I’m pretty sure your bag of ice would have stayed frozen during your wait in line, given the current weather and time of year. You couldn’t possibly use the excuse, “My ice was melting” — besides your cold heart could not have thawed that bag!

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Green Ride and Drive, which Canadian automotive industry puts you at wheel of the latest and representing more than 30 Blair Qualey eco-friendly vehicles. Another distinct brands from the world’s feature is the Exotics, which is leading manufacturers. a selection of truly exhilarating automobiles – Canadians purchased a record-setting 1.74 you can dream! million cars last year: a four per cent increase Visitors at this year’s show will also get to exover 2012 and just the second time in history perience a bit of automotive history at Hagerty that the market has ever surpassed 1.7 million Classic Alley, featuring beautiful cars from the units.

1950s and 1960s, including a special salute In British Columbia alone, new car dealers to the Ford Mustang and its 50th anniversary account for more than $10 billion annually in celebration. economic activity. This makes it an important Two classic cars will also be auctioned off, with industry for entire province where our dealer

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One for all in the truck revolution

Ford has been on a roll here in Canada; finishing out 2013 as the top selling brand for the fourth consecutive year.

There are some very big products coming from Ford over the coming year that will make a big impact on its sales and image, and you will get a peek at some of them at the Vancouver International Auto Show.

The first is the biggest introduction of any automaker this year, the all-new 2015 Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck.

The F-150 isn’t just the best selling truck in Canada for almost 50 years; With a lighter truck, a smaller engine it is the overall sales champ, selling can do the work. A smaller 2.7L turbomore than any other nameplate. charged EcoBoost V6 is also going to Period. be introduced with an auto start-stop Ford isn’t merely introducing an upfunction that switches off the engine dated model. No, they went to town, when the truck is sitting still. Official developing a entirely new manufacfuel economy ratings have not been turing process that will released but Ford revolutionize the full-size executives tell me truck space. they hope to have The body of the next F-150 best in class gasoline is built of an aluminum fuel economy. alloy material that Ford Other enhancements claims is 318kg lighter to the F-150 include a but stronger than the new stepladder that Ford is doing outgoing model. In addiintegrates into the well here in Canada tion, the frame is made tailgate. Ford was the of thinner, lighter and first to have this feaand with all-new stronger high-tensile steel ture but it has been products; it will that combined with the improved for 2015. body, produces the weight have a good chance The rear tailgate savings. This is an industry of staying number also has a soft-open first, and a revolutionary feature that prevents one. approach to building the tailgate from trucks. In addition to a slamming down, plus Zack Spencer lighter body, the engineers a light switch near have developed two new engines the back of the truck to eliminate the to compliment the existing 3.5L bed with new LED lights.

EcoBoost turbocharged V6 model and The second vehicle that will have a big 5.0L normally aspirated V8 engine. The impact of Ford, but more of an image first is a new 3.5L V6 engine, replacing car, is the all-new 2015 Mustang. the outgoing 3.7L model base engine.

Interestingly, about 25 percent of all Mustangs are sold here in British Columbia, so this is a big deal for us.

The 2015 Mustang is now going to be sold around the world and developed as part of the “One Ford” approach to making cars they can share

Years ago, we would see a pickup truck at an Auto Show (a rare find) and think this would be perfect on the farm; it has a bench seat that would fit all three of us!

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My how things have changed, stepping into a pickup today is like stepping into a luxury home with even more technology.

Trucks are now outselling cars, so manufacturers must

keep looking for innovative designs to entice the consumer into selecting their vehicle over the competition. There are many trucks on the road today but let’s

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Confessions of a Curber in every market. This means the Mustang will be sold, for the first time, with right hand drive for countries like the UK, Australia and Japan.

The stance of the new Mustang is lower, wider and more muscular, with the wheels pushed out to provide better stability. The fastback has a steeper rake and a bigger trapezoidal grille has enhanced the shark nose design.

Initially the Mustang will be sold as a coupe and convertible with the base and GT trim, the higher performance models will come later.

Inside is another clean-sheet design, featuring real aluminum switches and dials, with two large gauges behind the steering wheel. The interior looks more upscale than any Mustang before.

Under the hood the GT trim continues with the 5.0L V8 with improved valves and cylinders helping to pump out over 420hp. The base 3.7L V6 is also carried over but now with 300hp. The big news is the introduction of a 2.3L turbocharged EcoBoost 4-cylinder with an estimated 300hp and 300 lb.-ft. of torque.

For years, the criticism has been the lack of independent rear suspension in the Mustang but this is no longer the case. A fully independent rear suspension will help get all the power down to the ground from all three engines plus provide improved handling. Ford is hoping with this new platform and available engines, this new model will provide as many thrills as any German sports model and for less money. Pricing has not been finalized but expect it to be in line with existing 2014 Mustang pricing.

Ford is doing well here in Canada and with all-new products; it will have a good chance of staying number one. zack.spencer@drivewaybc.ca

My next vehicle came from a used car wholesaler*.

There was nothing wrong with it, but he couldn’t find a dealer who wanted it. I gladly took it off his hands.

How hip was I? I had a new source of newer vehicles that would come right to me.

“Two-year-old car for sale. No previous accident history reported, only 35,000km on it. Call with offer.”

Shortly after, I got a call from a young man.

His car had just broken down, and he needed a new one fast. He agreed to meet me at the local construction site where he worked.

He was just finishing up his lunch when I arrived. He was wearing his construction uniform and I immediately noticed his tired eyes.

I felt bad for the poor fellow, and I was glad that I was selling him a reliable vehicle. He didn’t need another headache on top of everything. I even knocked $500 off the price I wanted.

It was a smooth transaction. The guyy looke looked edd happy h and thanked me immensely ely forr all the help. I beamed back at him.

Around 5:00 a.m. the next morning, I got a call. It was the construction ructioon worker, yelling so loudly that I could barely ely uunderstand him.

“THEY TOOK IT AWAY,” ” he said over and over again. “REPOSSESSED!” !”

I hung up on him and triedd to make sense of the situation. Why would the ld th he car be taken away in the middle of the he night? n Who’s “they”?

Liens. Of course. The car ha had ad a lien on it.

That’s why it wouldn’t sell ell on a lot. The bank must have seized it due to an unpaid balance.

As before, I panicked. I didn’t idnn’t want to get involved in this right now. w. Sure, S I sold him the car, but how was I supposed seed to know it had

a lien on it? I realized the wholesaler* had scammed me! If that fellow had asked for a CarProof history report or even a provincial lien search, I’d be the one screaming.

Over the next several hours, I kept letting my phone go to voicemail – I couldn’t bear speaking to the young man. I knew I had to switch phones again.

I felt a bit ashamed. But I needed to be selfish about this. At this point, the best thing for me was cash. And lots of it. *Wholesaler – Vehicle sellers may call themselves auto brokers or wholesalers to sound legitimate and cheaper. But if they’re selling to private buyers, they must be licensed as a dealer. Like any curber - an individual posing as a private seller but selling vehicles as a business – wholesalers and brokers offer none of the protection the law provides for purchases from a Vehicle Sales Authority licensed dealer. Walt learned that lesson, sson, but his buyer paid the price.

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look at the three domestic brands, all of which will be represented at the Vancouver International Auto Show.

Ram introduced the EcoDiesel V6 engine in its 2014 1500 model and the consumer frenzy was on. A ½ ton pickup with 420 lb ft of torque and 4182kg (9200lbs) max towing capabilities, great! Better fuel economy, where do I sign.

Ford announces the 2015 F150 with an aluminum body and a completely new design, this had Ford customers holding off on their new purchase until this comes out, which I do not think was Ford’s intention.

GM changes not only the design of their truck but much of their drivetrain. So much so, that it was named North American Truck of

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Consumers are So what’s driving sales, demanding what do pickups have these changes, over cars and why they want better are they so popular? fuel economy Versatility, you can but still are able transport large items, to tow just as haul your favorite ‘toy’, much. They want Stepping into a take your family in more comfort comfort to the cabin, but still have a pickup today is like practical intestepping into a luxury get out and play in the I am not saying rior. They want home with even more mud. you can’t do this in a comfortable suscar but with a truck pension but still technology. there are no limitaperform off-road Ian Harwood tions and that’s what if necessary. intrigues people into this type of Manufacturers have to consider vehicle. all this when designing a new You can do so much more with a truck. They set up focus groups truck, the possibilities are endless. all around the country asking The truck is just the beginning, how they can improve and what

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Ten years ago, I would have said things are slowing down and there might be a change coming, but it didn’t happen and things picked up and it keeps picking up. I now think it will continue and in another ten years, we will see even more choices, enabling us to take the time to enjoy life on and off road.

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SNAP keeping population low To the Editor: A friend sent me a YouTube link on the Animal Advocates of BC, featuring the rescue of an abandoned and starving female dog with puppies (this society rescues abandoned, abused, starving and sick animals). Even though very difficult to watch, I could not help but think how responsible we all are in some way for the hundreds and hundreds of dogs and cats born that no one wants.

Here in Creston, fortunately, we have the Central Kootenay Spay Neuter Animal Program (SNAP) Society. A group of very compassionate and concerned people started SNAP in November 2008. Their mandate was and is to assist in the population control of domestic, stray and feral dogs and cats in our valley. To date, SNAP has helped to spay/neuter 1,000 animals in our area, approximately 200 cats and dogs per year.

According to BC SPCA’s “sex and the kitty”, a single unspayed cat can produce 470,000 offspring in just seven years. Yikes! One can sure see just how valuable spaying/neutering is in unwanted population control.

Here at SNAP, we all wish to express our appreciation to all of our supporters for their caring, donations, footwork and fieldwork, and all you out there for using our valuable service.

For more SNAP information, call 250-428-2811.

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Gov’ts trying to alter weather To the Editor: Who has not talked about the strange weather phenomenona that have been happening around the world and, yes, in our own country too?

Droughts, extreme cold, floods, snow where there has never been snow before, tornadoes and hurricanes. Southern Alberta has always been known for its high winds, and just lately they have had a wind like they have never had before since records were kept over 100 years ago.

In conjunction with this strange weather, I am sure that everyone is aware that the rise of neurotoxic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s and Lou

Gehrig’s disease are going off the charts.

Respiratory problems are also way up there.

“What is the connection?” you will rightfully ask.

Governments and corporations are deliberately manipulating and altering the Earth’s climate, and in the process are endangering the lives of people all over the world. Intense spraying of dangerous chemicals from planes has been reported in at least the U.S., Canada, Germany, England, Australia, Mexico, South Africa, Bahamas, Puerto Rico and Croatia. We are being sprayed by aluminum, barium, cadmium, chromium, nickel, strontium and other toxic chemicals that go right into our red blood cells. Over 100 patents have been granted to corporations like Monsanto for aerial spraying of these chemicals that can disrupt your mental capacity, cause you to become sterile and even cause premature death.

In some areas, the aluminum level is so high that certain crops and trees are struggling to survive. The U.S. Department of Agriculture receives royalties from GMO crops, recently Monsanto was granted a patent for seeds that can grow in soil with high aluminum content.

This travesty is called, geoengineering, a.k.a. chemtrails, stratospheric aerosols or solar radiation management. You can see these chemtrails very often on a reasonably clear day. I saw many of them last summer and fall. On one occasion over West Creston, these trails crisscrossed like X and O games. These are different from jet trails in that a jet trail quickly disperses and disappears; a chemtrail, on the other hand, spreads out and stays there, and is not “airy” like a natural cloud, becoming like a solid mass.

There are many reasons why the powers that be are doing this, one of them being to block out the sun to prevent global warming, but the lack of sun is affecting every living thing upon our planet.

By now you may be thinking that I am a raving lunatic. You don’t have to believe a word I’ve said, but please find out for yourself.

Google “stratospheric aerosols” or “geoengineering”, or see the documentary, Why in the World are They Spraying on YouTube. If you don’t have a computer, I’m sure you have a friend who has one. Please get together and get informed. The future of our world is at stake.

Bill Vander Zalm is making an issue about this at the Coast. Another point of interest: You will remember the severe droughts Australia had not too long ago. Hundreds of farmers were driven out of business, Monsanto bought up thousands of acres of land, and all of a sudden rain has started to fall and Monsanto’s genetically modified crops are flourishing.

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Over 10,000 birds found during Christmas count CRESTON FIELD NATURALISTS

The 2013 Christmas Bird Count was a challenge. First, winter couldn’t decide if it was going to arrive. The birds couldn’t decide if they really wanted to dine at feeders and other easy handout stations with all their natural food areas clean up much of the valley’s surrounding mountainsides relatively uncloaked by snow and accompanying waters unclogged of ice.

Not only on CBC day, Dec. 27, but all season leading up to the big event has been one of feathered hide and seek. Then to top it off, fog at the starting line!

But our feathered friends didn’t know who they were dealing with and again undeterred, this year’s collaboration of 48 dauntless fielders and 56 persistent feeder watchers was amazing. This collective assault on our feathered friends accumulated 104.15 party hours (six of which were nocturnal) with a total distance of 1148.3 kilometres on foot, car and snowmobile.

Climate conditions included calm local fog in the morning, and it was partly clear in the afternoon with open running water, partly frozen still water, up to a maximum 2 inches of snow, and a span of -6 to 1 degree Celsius.

The bald eagle (left), and bufflehead and common goldeneye were among the birds seen during the Christmas Bird Count.

The results were: Canada ern goshawk (2), red-tailed hawk blue jay (16), black-billed maggoose (3,717), gadwall (3), (97), rough-legged hawk (70), pie (50), American crow (666), American wigeon (count week), American kestrel (27), merlin (2), common raven (201), blackmallard (318), American green- prairie falcon (count week), capped chickadee (490), mounwinged teal (1), redhead (count American coot (15), rock pigeon tain chickadee (1), chestnutweek), bufflehead (39), common (926), Eurasian collared dove backed chickadee (36), redgoldeneye (51), Barrow’s gold- (214), mourning dove (96), great breasted nuthatch (55), brown eneye (3), hooded merganser (2), horned owl (27), northern creeper (3), Pacific wren (3), common merganser (7), ring- pygmy owl (7), barn owl (5), American dipper (1), goldennecked pheasant (45), ruffed belted kingfisher (5), downy crowned kinglet (25), Townsend’s grouse (5), wild turkey (142), woodpecker (31), hairy wood- solitaire (2), American robin (15), California quail (6), pied-billed pecker (6), American three-toed varied thrush (5), European stargrebe (2), great blue heron (24), woodpecker (1), northern flicker ling (1,116), Bohemian waxwing bald eagle (34), northern harrier (184), pileated woodpecker (12), (390), cedar waxwing (3), (35), sharp-shinned hawkRN (count northern shrike grey - jay American sparrow (count 0426 RPGP Individualized Program Ad - Jan(5), Zacharias Size 10.33in Wide x tree 7in High week), Cooper’s hawk north(count week), Steller’s jay (36), week), song sparrow (71), darkCMYK - 02(1), Press Ready PDF

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eyed junco (165), red-wing blackbird (67), Brewer’s blackbird (1), brown-headed cowbird (6), house finch (245), red crossbill (2), common redpoll (38), pine siskin (30), American goldfinch (308) and house sparrow (75).

Including those seen during count week (three days before and after the count), watchers counted 73 total species (down from 86 in 2012 and 76 in 2011), with 10,288 birds in total (up from 10,180 in 2012 but down from 12,881 in 2011).

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ARC Ensemble performance concluding concert season CRESTON CONCERT SOCIETY

It’s hard to believe, but spring is here and so is the final performance of the 2013-2014 Creston Concert Society lineup.

On March 24, the society is presenting ARC Ensemble at the Prince Charles Theatre.

Over the last 10 years, the ARC (Artists of the Royal Conservatory) Ensemble has become one of Canada’s preeminent cultural ambassadors, raising international appreciation of the Royal Conservatory and Canada’s rich musical life.

Its members are all senior faculty of the conservatory’s Glenn Gould School with guest artists drawn from its most exceptional students and graduates. The ARC Ensemble has performed throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia, and its first two CDs, On the Threshold of Hope and Right Through the Bone (devoted, respectively, to the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Julius Röntgen) were both nominated for Grammy Awards in the best chamber music recording category.

The ARC Ensemble has collaborated with a range of artists, includng pianist Leon Fleisher, novelist Yann Martel, actors Saul Rubinek and R.H. Thompson, and composers Omar Daniel and Vincent Ho. It is playing a leading role in unearthing repertoire ignored due to political changes or shifts in musical fashion, and its work has received unanimous acclaim from the world’s cultural press.

Its concerts and recordings are meticulously researched and assembled with rich supporting materials and are often augmented by lectures on their musical, political and social context, or included as part of larger-themed festivals.

Currently ARC Ensemble is touring with the acclaimed Music in Exile series, which explores the music of composers forced to flee Europe during

the 1930s, and has been presented to huge critical acclaim in Tel Aviv, New York, London, Budapest, and Toronto. They were dismissed from their jobs, forced into exile, often imprisoned and killed. They are the composers who suffered and died under Hitler and Stalin, and the Royal Conservatory of Music plans to establish an inhouse institute to help retrieve their suppressed works.

The ensemble’s recordings enjoy regular airplay on networks around the world and its concerts have been broadcast on CBC Radio, National Public Radio in the US and on public radio throughout Europe. It’s most recent release is dedicated to the chamber music of another émigré, the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim (née Frankenburger) who left Germany in 1933. The recording features his Quintet for clarinet and strings and an unpublished Piano Quartet last performed in 1932.

ARC ensemble includes: •Benjamin Bowman, one of Canada’s most dynamic and versatile musicians, who has performed to critical acclaim throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He performs regularly as a soloist, and is a member or frequent guest artist for some of the country’s best chamber music ensembles.

Most recently, Bowman was featured on the 2013 Juno Award-winning album Levant.

He holds the position of associate concertmaster with the Canadian Opera Company orchestra; •Steven Dann, whose career has covered a wealth of violistic possibilities as principal viola of some of the world’s leading orchestras, as a veteran of the string quartet and chamber music world, as soloist and recitalist, and as a dedicated teacher. Born in Vancouver, he has held the position of principal viola in Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich,

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Martial arts convention back for second year DEEP WATER MARTIAL ARTS CONVENTION AND TOURNAMENT

From March 21-23, Creston will be hosting the legendary George Xu (Xu Guo Ming) at the second annual Deep Water Martial Arts Convention and Tournament, sponsored by Red Jade Martial Arts and the Kootenay Chin Woo Martial Arts Association.

Xu began training in 1966 and is one of the most highly regarded martial artists in the world, in constant demand to give seminars all over the U.S., Europe and China.

Coming to us from San Francisco, Calif., Xu will be providing world-class instruction and demonstration at the Creston and District Community Complex.

In addition to Xu, the convention also has guest instructors from Edmonton, Okotoks, Nelson, Creston, Cranbrook and Trail. Students and competitors from both the U.S. and Canada will be attending to take part in this international event.

The Deep Water Martial Arts Convention and Tournament is an open-to-allstyles meeting for competi-

tion, learning and discussion.

The weekend is filled with opportunities to have fun and learn new skills with reputable teachers in different styles.

The tournament portion of the weekend will run on Saturday from 9 a.m.-noon in the Creston Room.

Everyone is welcome to enjoy the masters demonstrations and friendly competitions. Anyone with an interest in health, martial arts or physical fitness is encouraged to come and participate, regardless of skill level or age. This year will include workshops on traditional Chinese medicine bone setting techniques, piercing cloud Chinese sword and spear, Bujinkan ninjutsu, Japanese sword, qigong, rokushaku bojutsu (ninja staff), jiu-jitsu, judo, Shaolin drunken boxing and so much more.

Saturday evening will offer the public the unique opportunity to take part in a panel discussion featuring some of the most highly regarded martial arts masters of our time at the Master’s Tea, which will be hosted at the Snoring Sasquatch.

For more information, visit www.DeepWaterCon.com.

Attendees at last year’s Deep Water taking part in one of the convention’s several workshops.

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Canadian Cancer Society volunteer pinned a daffodil to Creston Mayor Ron Toyota on Tuesday to kick off Daffodil Month.

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Every three minutes, another Canadian will be told, “You have cancer.”

A cancer diagnosis can be daunting, which is why the Canadian Cancer Society is asking everyone to buy a daffodil pin and wear it during

April, Daffodil Month, to show their support for those living with cancer.

“Wearing the daffodil pin is a simple gesture, but it brings a powerful message of hope to families fighting cancer,” said Canadian Cancer Society volunteer Darlene Wood. “When families facing cancer see the pin I hope they know that they are not alone, and that we’re all in this fight together.”

The daffodil is a bright symbol in the fight against all cancers and brings hope to a difficult experience. The Canadian Cancer Society kicks off Daffodil Month by selling live bunches, which will take place in Creston at Overwaitea Foods on March 28 and 29.

The daffodil pin will be available to purchase by donation at various locations in Creston throughout April.

Canadians are encouraged to buy the pin and wear it during April to visibly unite everyone in the fight against cancer.

“It makes me feel good when I see people wearing the pin,” said annual giving coordinator Allison McCarthy.

“It’s like a badge of honour saying yes, I will join thousands of other Canadians who want to fight back against the devastating impact of cancer on our lives. Cancer changes everything, unless we change cancer together.”

The money raised during Daffodil Month funds life-saving research and vital support services and programs for people living with cancer in B.C. So join the fight — buy fresh-cut daffodils and the daffodil pin, make a donation or become a Canadian Cancer Society volunteer. To find out more, visit cancer.ca.

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anada Water Week is a week-long celebration of water from coast-tocoast-to-coast, held annually in the third week of March to coincide with World Water Day on March 22. Canadian Geographic defines a watershed as “an area of land where all the surface water drains into the same place, whether it’s a creek, a stream, a river or an ocean.” That means that no matter where you are in Canada, you’re standing in a watershed!

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Warm Fuzzies to...

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Sgt. Bob Gollan for taking care of precious football cargo.

Kerri and Scott for caring for me and being angels themselves.

Yvonne Richardson for always being there.

Leah and Dr. Mackay for being so caring.

Barb (1), Barb (2) and Hannah of the Go-Go Grannies for their great support in a trying time.

Del Campbell for a needed plough-out.

Jimmie A. for being the best neighbour ever.

Dave Fowler for always looking after the snow and grass; I really appreciate it!

Rick and Lisa at Rick’s Iron Kettle for providing the opportunity to salute Fred Mawson. What an icon he is to this community!

Kevin Hedlund for making us aware of the strip of shingles missing on the roof so we could prevent further damage!

Ron Buchy for his prompt service to fix the missing shingles on our roof; you are the best!

My husband C.R. for making me feel like a princess on my birthday; I love you to the moon and back!

Joanne P. for the awesome and much appreciated handwarmers.

The Valentine’s Bonspiel committee for putting on such a great event!

Warm Fuzzies may be submitted to: production@crestonvalleyadvance.ca or classifieds@crestonvalleyadvance.ca

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WAREHOUSE LIENS ACT

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Notice is hereby given to Tim Webb, Creston, B.C. that steps as per the Warehouse Liens Act are in effect for the collection of monies on UNIT #15 at JC’s Self Storage.

The deadline for a response to this matter is on or before April 21, 2014 at 5:00 pm.

Signed, JC’s Self Storage, 620 Payne Street, Creston, BC V0B 1G6 250-428-9933 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

Notice is hereby given that creditors and others having claims against the estate of JUNE ELLA BOURDON, deceased, late of Creston, British Columbia, are hereby required to send them duly veriÀed to the undersigned executor: Harvey Bourdon, Box 152, Creston, BC, V0B 1G0 on or before the 14th day of April, 2014, after which date the assets of the said estate will be distributed, having regard only to claims that have been received.

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Notice is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Johannes Franciscus Meekes, of Creston, BC, who died January 30, 2014, are hereby required to send the particulars thereof to the undersigned Executor c/o Bernadette Doll, 2716 2B Street South, Cranbrook, BC V1C 5G2 on or before the 31st day of March, 2014, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

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Volunteer help keeps seniors program vibrant

March: In like a lion, out like a lamb? Well, things have been hopping at the Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors all month with weekly programs in full swing and it’s not likely to slow down soon.

Welcome and thanks go out to Joanna Wilson, who is volunteering her piano and personality to the TAPS band and choir practices every Thursday. You are a wonderful addition, Joanna.

On looking back through the files I discovered that March 22, 2005, heralded a new era for the TAPS program. On that date, it officially came

under the auspices of the Creston and District Community Resource Centre. It had been under the Interior Health Authority’s wing since 1991.

Tips from TAPS Maureen Cameron Determined supporters rose to the occasion championing the value of and continuation of the program with great success as TAPS is in existence because of them. Thanks to IHA for its annual contribution to the Daybreak program.

Not-for-profits offering direct and indirect services to all sectors without core funding must commit resources for proposal and grant writing and fundraising efforts on an annual basis. It demands and makes organizations clear on the purpose for their causes, as well as creative approaches to programming and operations.

Three cheers for all those who do that heavy lifting and to the organizations that offer funding choices as well as all who support in other ways!

Where would our community be without Creston Valley Gleaners Society support? And for TAPS it’s not just a one-way relationship.

Financial support from them has allowed us to continue developing and running programs.

Seniors and youth from the special needs program or those on work experience regularly get “jobs” to do for Gleaners. Recently, 14 students from Wildflower joined in on a work day, and as I didn’t get the photo in on time, you’ll just have to imagine the scene with all the youth and the seniors working together washing and dressing a few dozen dolls of all sizes, and ripping bags of rags into strips for them.

Projects like this save volunteer time at Gleaners and are part of their at home volunteer program.

Krafy Kronys making pies to raise funds for TAPS.

The resulting products are sold and more money generated to further their mission of helping the community. In addition the benefits of the intergenerational exchange and the sense of contributing to a good cause are values beyond mere measurement for all involved. Have a look at the Gleaners website for opportunities to help them continue their good work of 29 years for our community.

Thank you!

Did you say pie? Nope, I said pies — the Krafty Kronys were at it again making their famous fruit pies this month. Under the efficient guidance of Mabel, 68 apple and 10 cherry pies were whipped up, packaged and frozen amidst much merriment. Notwithstanding the hours already put in with youth from Cresteramics and our seniors peel-

Maureen Cameron

ing and cutting apples one day and the finishing of the pies the next, I did hear Mabel saying, “Well, we really should do some more soon.”

Now that’s a passionate person!

Thanks to Margo Beaudry for her donation of apples and to Harvest Share and other donors whose fruit last summer was prepped and frozen. Have you got yours? Watch for notices about the Krafty Kronys craft sales and, of course, you can always get a pie at TAPS. In April, TAPS will be having volunteer appreciation days at the centre with good food and fun activities, as usual. For more information, call TAPS at 250-428-5585.

Maureen Cameron is the community liaison development co-ordinator for the Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors.

CDCC broke training record, will host free skating, curling

Whoops — missed another anniversary. This one I actually didn’t know about as Heather dropped off a pamphlet that announced March 13 was World Kidney Day.

sleep, and you have the foundation of a great personal health program.

Speaking of personal health, we broke another record here (as we are all about statistics and trying to break records here) with February being our best month since we opened in 2010 for personal training hours. Personal training is a service we offer patrons where you can have a qualified trainer meet with you as an individual or with a partner or even in groups of three to six in to have a custom designed Neil Ostafichuk order fitness program created to specifically suit you and what goals There is probably a World Something you would like to achieve.

Day for everything you can think of but It is interesting as there is a definite these special days bring the spotlight to movement (hey, a pun) toward more bear, if even just for a short while, on personalized service in all walks of life, various subjects we should be aware of. exercise being a key one. While lots of The common thing with many of these people still like group exercise and the various days is that they are all intend- energy created with many like-minded ed to get you to live healthier and lon- sweaty souls in the same room, there is ger — admirable goals. a trend towards more “me” stuff, like World Kidney Day was simple — training programs and service tailored just raise awareness of kidney disease specifically to “my” needs in all aspects and follow some simple rules: start of customer service. your day with a glass of water, reduce Another form of exercise, which in this your salt intake, check your blood pres- case is free, would be our Free Skate and sure regularly and do 30-60 minutes of Curl Day on March 23 at 3:30 p.m., which, activity a day — simple, achievable if you hadn’t heard, is free. We have been items that apply to so many other areas doing this for a number of years and it is of keeping yourself healthy. Toss in a great opportunity to try and throw some regular checkups and getting plenty of curling rocks or just go for a spin around

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the hockey rink. Who knows, you might find you have a knack for one or the other and will pursue it further!

Another cool thing happening is the fundraiser on April 12 at 7 p.m. up in the Creston Room, ABBA Again, an ABBA tribute band. Hey, I know you either openly like ABBA or secretly still do — I have, in fact, found myself involuntarily humming along to them as I have been hopelessly lost in the bowels of Ikea and have even heard manly-men loggers singing Does Your Mother Know and Super Trouper back in the bush when no one is around. This fundraiser is part of the Creston Concert Society’s effort to raise money to help the Creston Community Auditorium Society change out the seats in the Prince Charles Theatre, which are actually refurbished seats from the old Tivoli Theatre and given new life back in March 1987. Boy, if those seats could talk… butt I digress.

That seating has performed above and beyond but has reached the point where you would start fidgeting halfway through Mamma Mia with Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan, which is all the more reason to check out this group and bring relief to the community. Tickets are available at Black Bear Books or for more info call 250-428-2711 or email info@crestonconcertsociety.ca.

Neil Ostafichuk is the recreation supervisor at the Creston and District Community Complex.

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Democracy under attack in Ukraine and Canada March 29th, 2014 @ 7:00 PM Intersections Spring Tour 2014 and press were widespread,

Many of the headlines this over for centuries. You could past month have read, “Crisis concerns of corruption and look at the unravelling of the “INTERSECTIONS” is the theme of this year’s spring tour. Intersections roads meet, choices in the Ukraine”.

I have been electoral fraud were real, and are where Soviet Union and how Crimea made, collisions happen andimprisonment directions change. of Wethe depend on Godwas to guide through life’s following thesearestories closely. the oppoa us gift to Ukraine under intersections: Sixteen months ago, I was in sition leader, Yulia soviet leader Nikita Ukraine, part of Canada’s mis- Tymoshencko, was politically Khrushchev. And while that is God, teach me lessons for living sion to observeso Ithe national all relevant, at the heart of the can stay the course. motivated. election. AlongGive with 500 soother Today, current situation is the peome insight I can do what you tell me— many people of my whole life one long, obedient response. and Russian ancesCanadians, we formed Ukrainian ple’s drive for a democratic Guide me down the road of your Canada’s largest observation trycommandments; — like my husband’s grand- society.

I love traveling this freeway! mission in history. father — have made Canada In my observations, I saw a Give me a bent for your words of wisdom, their home. people with a deep desire for and not for piling up loot.

They are democracy. Parents took their Divert my eyes from toys and trinkets, invigorate me on the pilgrim way. (Psalm 119:33-37 The Message) the watching children to the polls to show news, worried them democracy in action, nonCLBI students will utilize music, drama, movement and visual art to explore intersections in our lives. for the welfare governmental organizations of their families took part in the democratic disand friends. As course and election workers at clashes increase the local level were diligent in and become their tasks. There was no doubt more intense, in my mind that people wanted Michelle Mungall as Crimea votes democracy. to secede and That is what brought people Our role there was to help as western powers express to the streets this winter — the citizens grow and strengthen their opposition to Russia’s ongoing movement for a demotheir 20-year-old democracy by military moves, we all wonder cratic government and a demobeing experienced outside eyes what is to come. cratic society. They were in to their electoral relationship So what started all this? those streets and the Maidan with those in power. It was sad You could go into a long his- day after day to have what I do to finally report that the elec- tory of imperialism in eastern every day, which is freely tions were not free and fair. Europe and how this part of debate and disagree with othIntimidation tactics of public the region has been fought ers in government. I don’t have

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to agree with Christy Clark. You don’t have to agree with Christy Clark, and we won’t go to jail for that disagreement.

So when local students recently came to see the legislature and told me how they enjoyed the debates, I was reminded that for good or for worse, our democracy is the envy of many people in this world. Right now, it is the envy of many Ukrainians.

Yet, it is also a work in progress and comes under attack here too.

In B.C., the Liberals are attempting to influence the electoral boundary distribution for their political gain. Nationally, the

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Harper Conservatives are systematically disenfranchising many people with the Fair Elections Act. Thankfully, we all still have the right to debate and disagree with these pieces of legislation.

Thankfully we have the right to vote and choose a new government if we don’t like the current governments’ records.

However, democracy isn’t a spectator sport. They get that in Ukraine. With 50 per cent voter turnout, do we?

Michelle Mungall is the member of the legislative assembly for the NelsonCreston provincial riding, and is the Opposition critic for social development.

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Heads: you get a worse recycling program.

Tails: you get to pay more for it.

The BC Government is proposing to offload the province’s world-class recycling programs, run by local municipalities, to an association led by big multi-national corporations.

The idea is that we’ll get a better, more efficient program that costs taxpayers less.

Unfortunately, what we’ll really end up with is anyone’s guess.

The association isn’t guaranteeing that we’ll get a better program, or even one as good as the current Blue Box program already in place. Since the association is led by big businesses outside of BC, many of whom are not even headquartered in Canada, one could presume that profits will come before environmental stewardship. They usually do. They also won’t guarantee that there won’t be any job cuts here in BC. And how is this supposed to make things better for BC?

Currently, BC homeowners only pay, on average, $35 a year for curbside recycling. Under the proposed regime, you’ll pay more. Every time you bring home a pizza, buy toilet paper, or pretty much anything else that comes in a package, businesses will be passing their increased costs on to you.

How much more? Well, nobody’s saying.

Here’s the only thing anyone does know: we already have a Blue Box program that works, is efficient, managed locally and puts the BC environment first. So why is the BC government flipping a coin, bringing in a questionable recycling program that some of our local elected officials are already calling a “scam?”

It’s time to contact Premier Clark and ask her.

What’s going on here?

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