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Harrison Memorial Hall was alive with the sound of happy children Tuesday afternoon, as it filled with families, daycares and preschoolers for the 11th annual Children’s Development Fun Fair. Parents and caregivers could visit interactive booths, play games and enjoy the Rosie Ribbonstar show on stage.

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Fraser Cascade schools closed next Monday as teacher job action escalates Jessica Peters THE OBSERVER

There will be no school on Monday, May 26, in the Fraser Cascade school district, as teachers across the province move into the second stage of strike action.

The B.C. Teachers' Federation announced this Monday that they would escalate their strike action, with rotating strikes from May 26-29. Fraser Cascade is one of 16 districts that will be on strike next Monday. Chilliwack school district will strike on Thursday, May 29.

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BCTF president Jim Iker said Tuesday the bonus doesn't make up for the government's wage offer of 6.5% over six years. A simultaneous threat to cut teacher wages 5% or more because of strike action is "just so disrespectful, so unnecessary, and we'll be dealing with it at the Labour Relations Board," Iker said.

Unless there is some compromise on major issues, one-day strikes with picket lines will be staged at one group of school districts in each of the first four days next week, with teachers returning to work across the province on Friday,

management. Rotating strikes were also authorized by the BCTF membership in a March vote, and beginning to shut down schools could result in an effort to cut teacher pay by 10%.

Cameron said last week the union's latest wage demand amounts to 15.9% over four years, far beyond what other provincial public service unions have received.

The BCTF maintains its wage proposal is 13.25% over four years, including cost-of-living increases based on each year's inflation rate.

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Peter Cameron, chief negotiator for the province's 60 school districts, informed the union last week that a 5% pay cut will be put in place "soon" in response to the first phase of strike action.

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The Chilliwack Progress is looking for a part-time Substitute Carrier to deliver open routes in the Agassiz/Harrison area, two days per week. Must have a reliable vehicle and be available Wednesdays and Thursdays for approximately 3-4 hours per day.

Seabird seeks woodlot access

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking to supplement their income.

Band continues with application to remove road from Sasquatch Park boundary

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Seabird Island’s plan to have a roadway removed from Sasquatch Park is still in the works, Ted Holtby from Tamihi Logging said this week.

Currently, Holtby and Seabird are waiting to hear from BC Parks regarding stage one of their application process. They are hoping to have a piece of the roadway removed from the park to allow timber to be moved from a proposed woodlot on First Nation land that is otherwise landlocked. The road travels through Sasquatch Park and connects to Rockwell Drive, a route Holtby said is the only way to access the area.

The first application is a simple one, he said, which allows BC Parks to decide if they will consider a more in-depth application for further study. Upon approval, the applicant would put together a more detailed plan.

“That’s still where we’re at, at this point,” Holtby said on Tuesday. He said they’re planning for a public information session next week to meet with community members, hear their concerns and answer questions.

They’ve booked the Agassiz Agricultural Hall for Thursday, May 29, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the session, and will be booking a room for a similar event in Chilliwack the following week.

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“From all of that, we will gather more information and synthesize it and gather it up for the stage two application to the Parks branch,” he said.

Their application is not without controversy. Several members of the public have spoken out against the removal of the road from the park boundary, and a petition titled Help Save Sasquatch Provincial Park is making its way through the community.

Holtby said the plan’s detractors don’t believe parks should be “tampered with in any way.”

The petition says Sasquatch is “under threat” from the boundary adjustment application, and that an adjustment will “violate the principals that parks should be safe from development,” and impede access to and enjoyment of the park. The petition, circulated by local resident John Coles, suggests that Seabird and Holtby find alternatives for logging trucks.

Holtby said there are no other routes, and they will continue to seek approval for the boundary adjustment.

“The government has created a means to have a boundary amendment to use parks, and in this case, it’s just for access on an existing road,” he said. “They (Seabird) just want to drive down the road, which was a logging road by the way, originally.”

Seabird wants access to their land and the ability to remove timber from their woodlot.

Holtby said there is no other access to the area, and helicopter logging is not feasible due to the close proximity of hydro lines, roadways, the communities and parks.

“The cut would be very minimal, a woodlot has a very small cut,” he added.

There is no end date for the logging activity, he said, as a woodlot would be selectively harvested over a period of time.

And while the logging activity wouldn’t employ a large number of people, it would give the Seabird Island band a chance to train people in forestry.

“It’s not the case of employing a lot of people, but for them it’s a good source of revenue and it’s an opportunity to work with their youth and some training on how to work in the industry,” he said.

At a presentation to Harrison council last year, Holtby also stated that if the road were to be removed from the park, any licensee would be able to transport logs down the road.

He said they received “a blitz” of letters from residents following that presentation, but that it’s quieted down recently.

“We had all kinds of emails and not many that were in favour of the plan, but that’s to be expected,” he said.

The Observer has contacted the Ministry of Environment for comment on the application process, and is awaiting a response. news@ahobserver.com

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Innergex is building a run-ofriver power project at Big Silver Creek, about 40 kilometers up the East Harrison Forest Service Road. They’ve hired a contractor (CRT-ebc) to build a construction camp, a project which will need 40-60 people over the next two years.

Positions include a wide range of skills and experiences, including administrative assistants, crane operators, certified heavy duty equipment operators, drillers, labourers, truck drivers, carpenters, first aid attendants, cooks and housekeepers, civil engineers, field technicians and surveyors.

A job fair is being held at the Agassiz Legion on May 31, from 9 a.m. To 4:30 p.m., where Innergex's The Big Silver Creek Project is a proposed run-of-river hydroelectric power generating facility which will have an estimated yearly energy output of 139.8 Gwh. Once construction begins, the project should take two years to complete, said Innergex environmental manager Isabelle Deguise.

Innergex’s website states that the project will feature: • An intake structure, comprising a weir to create a headpond, and an intake to divert a regulated amount of water from the stream.

• A penstock and/or tunnel to convey the water downhill to the powerhouse.

• A powerhouse to enclose the

electricity generating equipment.

• A tailrace to return the diverted water back to the creek.

In the case of Big Silver Creek, the tailrace will be designed to remain wetted at all times and/or to eliminate the risk of potential fish stranding.

• A switchyard to transform the generated electricity to the desired transmission voltage.

• A transmission line linking the project to the point of interconnection to the provincial electricity grid.

• Access roads, including existing forestry roads, deactivated forestry roads that will be reactivated, and new roads.

• Temporary land and water use for construction purposes.

To learn more about the jobs available, visit the job far May 31, or call 604-793-8645.

Applications wanted for New Horizons for Seniors Program Mark Strahl, MP for Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon, is encouraging local organizations to apply for funding under the New Horizon for Seniors Program (NHSP).

“Seniors have a lot to offer. Through the New Horizon for Seniors Program seniors are encouraged to get involved in their local community and share their knowledge, skills and experiences,” said Strahl.

Under the NHSP organizations may receive up to $25,000 in grant funding for projects. Eligible recipients include not-for-profit organizations, community-based coalitions, networks and

committees; for-profit organizations, provided that the nature and intent of the activity are noncommercial, do not generate profit and fit within the program objectives; municipal governments, band/tribal councils and other Aboriginal organizations, as well as public health and social services institutions; and research and educational institutions, including school boards, school districts, universities, colleges and CEGEPs. The current call for proposals will close on Friday, July 4, 2014. To learn more, please visit: www.esdc. gc.ca/seniors.

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Teachers ‘care deeply about our students’ From 1

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Three young children run through the grassy fields beside the tulip farm in Seabird Island during the recent Tulip Festival, as their mother snaps a candid photo.

Minister eyes fee break for small-scale miners

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VICTORIA – The B.C. government has heard the protests and is re-thinking its plan to impose new fees on placer mining operations, Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett says.

In an interview to mark Mining Week in B.C., Bennett said he has heard the criticism from the mining industry about introducing permit fees under the Mines Act that could apply to all mining activities, including placer mines that search for gold and metal ores in the loose rock around rivers. “I’m determined to make sure that we’re not discouraging the ju-

nior level exploration with fees,�

Bennett said. “That’s certainly my goal, that they wouldn’t be charged any fees, but we’re going to have to see where this settles out.�

Placer mining has come a long way from its roots in the waves of gold fever that swept over the Fraser Canyon, the Cariboo and the Klondike in Yukon. Larger placer mines can expect to pay for licensing and regulatory costs of their industry, as forest and other industries do on Crown land, Bennett said.

When the fees were proposed in February, the industry response was swift and negative from the industry. NDP mines critic Scott

Fraser said he was getting letters as soon as the legislation was presented, and small operators were the most worried. “They’ll get hit by this, and according to them, they’ll be pushed right off their claims,� Fraser said.

The larger picture of B.C. mining remains bright, Bennett said. Red Chris copper and gold mine is set to open this summer with the completion of a new electrical transmission line to northwestern B.C. Copper Mountain near Princeton and Mount Milligan north of Prince George are up and producing metal ore, adding to mine activity that has tripled in terms of value to the economy since 2001.

have been legislated two years of Lynne Marvell, president of zeros."

"Last week we were hopeful the Fraser-Cascade Teachers' Association, said the second stage when we saw the government and strike action is "not something we BCPSEA put out an olive branch by backing off the unrealistic 10do lightly."

But she added they have been at year term," she said. "But then the the bargaining table for 16 months employer announced a series of and are "still a long way off from a threats around wage rollbacks, lockouts, and attempts to divide fair deal." teachers, parents, Teachers will be on and students." the picket line in this She emphasized school district next “The B.C. government that teachers "do not Monday, she added, has to begin want to be taking job and any extension action." reinvesting in our of the rotating job "We care deeply action will depend kids and their future� about our students, on events at the and many of us are bargaining table. parents too. We "The provincial Lynne Marvell empathize with government and parents who have the BC Public to re-work their School Employers’ Association still refuse to offer any schedules, and that is why we have improvements to class size, class taken the unusual step of giving composition, and other important between six and 10 days’ notice in learning conditions for students," advance," she said.

"But we are firmly convinced Marvell said. "B.C.’s per student funding is $1,000 less than the that we need to take a strong stand national average. It’s not fair to now to convince Christy Clark’s your kids, our students. The B.C. government to reinvest in B.C.’s government has to begin reinvesting students. It is time for government to make education a funding in our kids and their future."

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Six-time Olympic medalist Clara Hughes was in Hope on Monday to talk about mental health issues.

Cycling and speed skating certainly changed the life-path of Clara Hughes, a sixtime Olympic medalist and the only athlete ever to win multiple medals at both the summer and winter Olympic games.

Now, as she transitions into retirement from competitive sport, Hughes is using her celebrity to help shine the light on a topic that has put a dent in her life: mental illness.

Hughes, her husband Peter Guzman and friend Ina Teutenberg cycled from Vancouver to Hope on Monday, as part of “Clara’s Big Ride for Bell Let’s Talk” — a 12,000 km, 110-day ride around Canada, to talk about mental health issues and help put an end to the stigma, or shame, that people attach to mental health.

Hughes spoke to over 100 people in the Hope Secondary commons room on Monday night, then came back to talk

to the students on Tuesday morning, before heading for Merritt.

The evening gathering was titled “Riding to Hope and Beyond” and was championed

by Amanda Jackson, case manager for Hope Mental Health. It was a celebration of local dancers, musicians, comedians and graphic artists, forming a backdrop for Hughes’ talk.

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Hope was his first event and he warmed up the crowd with a lively repartee on mental health issues.

Quoting statistical references, he said, “The people who are struggling with mental health have a harder time dealing with the stigma, than the actual illness itself.”

And later: “Here’s the best part, perhaps this is the most promising part of stigma… we made it up! It’s fake! It’s a thing that through miseducation or misunderstanding or ignorance… is just there.

“So, if we collectively decide that’s it’s over: guess what, Hope? It’s over! It’s done — and that’s what tonight is all about.”

When Hughes arrived on the stage, she exuded an easy confidence — and her trademark smile — as she talked about her life as a troubled teen in Winnipeg. She was into drugs, alcohol, smoking and skipping a lot of school… generally going nowhere — then she happened to see TV coverage of Canadian Olympic speed skater Gaétan Boucher’s last skate and she was inspired to take up the sport.

“I knew in my heart of hearts that I was going to be a speed skater and I was going to skate for Canada,” said Hughes.

Her first attempts at her new sport — in hockey skates — didn’t go well… but they left Hughes with a lesson on how to treat others.

“I went to my first practice with my ringette helmet and nobody laughed at me.

And I tried and I got left behind because I didn’t have those 17-inch blades — but the key was: nobody laughed at me. Nobody ridiculed me. Nobody made fun of me because I wasn’t like everybody else.”

While she carried on with speed skating and eventually won four Olympic medals (one of them gold) in that sport, it was road cycling that brought Hughes her first medals, at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

From that high, she soon swung into a deep low.

“All of a sudden, I was giving people hope — but I felt so hopeless

inside. And within two months, those medals and that ultimate ‘thing’ that I wanted… that I thought was going to make me complete… cracked me wide open and left me in a state of depression that lasted two years.

“For two years, I refused help. I quit my sport because I felt it was sport that did it to me,” said Hughes.

“All I was doing was eating, sleeping, crying.

“The only thing that brought me back was finally realizing that showing my weakness was actually a part of being strong. Showing my weakness was actually allowing people to come in and help me.”

Speaking about mental health access to care and resources, Hughes said, “It’s pretty mindblowing, in a small community, what you guys have. I can say that you guys have a lot that big cities don’t have — and it’s very, very impressive.”

The Hope Mental Health Centre is located in the former nurses’ quarters, just north of the emergency ward of Fraser Canyon Hospital.

Amanda Jackson said the centre works in concert with the emergency ward. Outpatients are seen at the centre and there are monthly group meetings for patients and their friends and families. To contact the centre, call 604-8607733.

Back to the tour: with their gear being carried in support vehicles, the trio was able to maintain a 25 km/h pace on Monday, said Guzman.

Tuesday’s Coquihalla stretch wouldn’t see the same tempo, surely.

“We average 150 kilometres a day, six days a week,” he added.

The ride began in Toronto on March 14 and will conclude in Ottawa on Canada Day. Now that they’ve covered the north country, Guzman hoped the worst weather was behind them.

“Surprisingly, it’s been a full-on winter ride until we arrived in Victoria and were wearing T-shirts and shorts,” he said.

“The riding part has actually been the easiest,” said Hughes. “It’s the amount of events…

168 events in 67 days so far.”

July 2 will be a great day of rest.

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Masks line the Spirit Trail, a project taken on secretly by Harrison resident Ernie Eaves about five years ago. He began building the trail on his own, but will now receive help from Tourism Harrison and the local Chamber of Commerce to remove hazardous trees.

Ernie Eaves: Caretaker of the Spirit Trail

Secret ceramics project getting help from tourism office Jessica Peters THE OBSERVER

Ernie Eaves knows almost every nook and cranny along Harrison Hot Springs’ mystical Spirit Trail. He knows the forest floor and its flora, the tall timbers and their exposed roots, and the swampy recesses that swell every spring.

For five years, he has been both creator and caretaker of the small patch of forest.

His connection with the land began when he and his dog, Pearl, got lost on a hike. He decided to clear the overgrown trails, marking them with tape and maintaining the paths to allow for safe travels. Around the same time, Eaves had retired from his career as a woodshop and drama teacher at AESS. With

time on his hands, and his creative energy needing an outlet, he soon delved into pottery.

Not long after, Eaves’ love for the trail he was building merged with clay work, and he hung his first ceramic mask in the woods.

So became the Spirit Trail.

Walking through the trail on a spring morning, he wonders out loud what the first few people thought when they noticed that mask.

Or the ones that followed.

Thrilled with the concept of a massive, natural art gallery, Eaves kept creating masks. But, other than his wife, he never told anyone what he was doing.

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Summer sadness preventable With the May long weekend behind us, the Upper Fraser Valley has firmly moved into its most dangerous season.

Oh, how we long to have a season with no tragic news stories. No crashes, no fires, no deaths, no crying parents and teens filled with regret.

However, if history offers any clue to the future, there will likely be ample drunk and stoned drivers, loud and obnoxious partiers, lost and possibly injured hikers, tipped canoes with cold paddlers, and wayward boaters.

Not only do these problems overtax the emergency workers and volunteer rescuers who run to help in times of trouble, they put the entire public at risk.

Yes, there will be extra police presence, and more road blocks to help deal with the influx of troublemakers, from the purely naive who don't think anything could happen to them, to those who carelessly put others' lives at risk.

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season, as sun worshippers and thrill seekers flock to Agassiz and Harrison in search of a little downtime, we hope that calm heads will prevail over those who wish to cause trouble. We hope that visitors and locals alike keep safety a priority, even in times of spontaneity.

Because when it comes to summertime safety, the rules were not made to be broken.

Drive and operate watercraft sober.

Wear a PFD when boating.

Stay hydrated.

Hike with others, know your travel plans and pack safety gear.

Know your limits when swimming, biking and enjoying the outdoors.

Using just a bit of caution and care can keep your beautiful summer from becoming a tragic news story. Most of these tragedies are preventable, and all of them start with one person making a decision.

This summer, make the right ones.

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B.C. VIEWS Tom Fletcher VICTORIA – The B.C. School Trustees’ Association is calling for a mandatory high school course on the history of residential schools set up to assimilate aboriginal children into European culture.

Trustees propose a 25-hour course required for all graduating students, using interviews with residential school survivors, presentations by aboriginal leaders and discussion of current events.

This would build on aboriginal courses already in offered in B.C. schools, and a public education effort that began with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s 2008 apology and compensation for Canada’s residential school policy.

B.C. Teachers’ Federation vice-president Glen Hansman gave a speech on the need for

mandatory education to a 2012 teacher conference. He said current aboriginal culture courses are poorly attended, and went on to denounce a school system he said is still based on “colonialism” and a “settler construct” of history.

“We need to acknowledge that racism is the norm in public schools – still today,” Hansman said.

Is it really? He also claimed that the purpose and legacy of the residential schools have been “deliberately hidden” from school curriculum.

In lieu of evidence, Hansman recounted old anecdotes of American-style stereotyping from his own schooling in Ontario.

But mostly he demanded social engineering in schools that must of course include more funding, more teacher professional development time and an affirmative action program to recruit more aboriginal teachers.

Do Hansman’s allegations reflect the kind of attitude that would lead

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to truth and reconciliation? Or are they signs of another unfortunate legacy, that of the victim studies mentality that permeates our universities?

Here’s a suggestion for this mandatory course. Students could

“Do Hansman’s allegations reflect the kind of attitude that would lead to truth and reconciliation?” spend a couple of hours on one of the definitive works of B.C. aboriginal history, A Stó:lo Coast Salish Historical Atlas. A long-term project of the Stól:lo Nation, the atlas has meticulously documented chapters on European contact and residential schools, and others that piece together oral histories and what few written records there are of B.C. First Nations life at the time of European contact.

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A journal kept at Fort Langley from 1827 to 1830 documents some of the raids between aboriginal communities on the Fraser River and Vancouver Island, corroborating elders’ accounts.

During those three years, Cowichan men attacked the Chilliwack Stó:lo community four times. In the same period, the journal records 30 incidents of inter-community violence, some reaching down to present-day Washington state.

Atlas editor Keith Thor Carlson summarized the research this way: “Viewed from the perspective of the aggressor, raids and attacks appear to have been motivated primarily by a desire to obtain quick wealth (in the form of slaves and property such as dried and smoked salmon) or to exact revenge for previous insults.”

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of this as warfare. British colonial authorities had some “settler constructs” about these activities: they saw them as assault, robbery, abduction and murder as well as slavery. This is the seldom-discussed backdrop for the European settlement of British Columbia, the imposition of British law and the later establishment of church-run residential schools.

None of this is to excuse the forced removal of aboriginal children from their families, the horrendous abuse and neglect or the multi-generational damage to a culture already weakened by waves of smallpox. This 1928 plan to fix what was called the “Indian problem” deserves to be understood by everyone.

But glossing over historical context and presenting a guilt trip to students would serve no one well.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Mailbag Organization thanks community for support Agassiz Elementary Secondary School had the first alumni field hockey game on April 26.

This first-time event was different than any other alumni game in the past, as all participants brought goods to help support local women and children in shelters operated by the Women’s Resource Society of the Fraser Valley (WRSFV).

The WRSFV works to support women, children, and youth who have had or are currently experiencing violence in their lives. The WRSFV offers 13 programs from 10 locations in the Mission and Abbotsford communities including but not limited to: Outreach Support Services; Stopping the Violence Counseling; Children Who Witness Abuse Counseling; Transition Houses (battered women’s shelters); and Pregnancy

Outreach Program. The WRSFV provides services to a sufficiently large number of new clients on a monthly basis, last year the WRSFV supported over 6000 clients, that number increases significantly each year.

With the help of local supporters Harrison Watersports, Shoreline Tours, Matsel Hair Salon, Sunset Holistic Therapies, Project K, Bridal Falls Golf Course, and Lafarge a total of $350 in non-perishable goods and a cheque for $900 will be donated to WRSFV. Thanks again to all the participants and supporters for your contributions.

The day was full of fun focused on getting together and demonstrating team work, staying active, and most importantly creating awareness for a local nonprofit organization.

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Today, there are more than 40 masks hanging high on the cedar trees throughout trail. It’s a huge achievement for Eaves, and one he’s proud of. But Mother Nature is a cruel canvas, sometimes.

High winds and rotting trees may be great for renewing the forest, but his masks are living a perilous existence.

Some have already been ruined by falling trees, others have been narrowly missed.

When Tourism Harrison heard the Spirit Trail could be in jeopardy, they took it upon themselves to find a way to save it.

They gained approval from the Village of Harrison to bring in an arborist, and Scott’s Tree Care is assessing about 13 hazardous trees

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this week. The costs are being covered by Tourism Harrison and the Harrison Agassiz Chamber of Commerce.

When the work is complete, the local hiking group and the Communities in Bloom volunteers will assist Eaves in cleaning up the trail.

Robert Reyerse, executive director of Tourism Harrison, said they couldn’t stand the thought of seeing such a popular trail succumb to nature.

As for Eaves, he isn’t done creating the unique masks that hide high above.

“There are still all kinds of trees that are just screaming for faces,” he said.

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Even though Justice Bruce Cohen, warned that the continuing of open-net fish farms could lead to the ruin of the Fraser River Sockeye, the Harper Governments appetite for the $800 million dollars it receives each year from salmon farms, is just too much for it to resist.

Not only has the Harper Government thrown the environment to the wind, again, they are giving away our natural resources, instead of developing our own industry, the BC Fish Farm Industry is 98 per cent owned by Cermaq of Norway, of which the Norwegian Government is the largest share holder.

Now the Federal Governments has plans for expanding open-net fish farms and this means ripping up Section 36, of the Fisheries Act, even though it's a detrimental threat to the Fraser River Sockeye. This basically means the fish farm companies, the largest of which, led the charge, in the Commercial extinction of the North Atlantic Cod, can add any sort of treatments they like to the ocean. Like perhaps, adding iron sulphate to the sea to grow salmon.

Why the Federal Government stays on this self destructive course is incredibly short sighted. Why it doesn't steward our natural fishery and move and promote fish farming in contained facilities, rather than open-net, is just bad Government.

One of the inland fish farm companies that does quite well without poisoning the sea, is locally owned Swift Aquaculture of Agassiz, which grows Coho Salmon. This is where the Federal Government should be expanding its Aquaculture Industry, not in the environment.

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Long before colonization of Canada, First Nations people from across Canada and North America held games.

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Community Note: Last week, Agassiz resident Vera Striker celebrated her 100th birthday. In her honour, her grandaughter Tuesday has written the following biography, detailing Vera’s early childhood in Saskatchewan, memories of the Great Depression, and her adult life spent in Agassiz.

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To ask 100-year-old Vera Striker about her life, she will most likely be very humble and tell you: “I am just a plain ol’ farm girl from the Prairies.”

Ask her family and friends, and they would agree that while Striker is humble, the spirited lady is far from being plain.

Vera Striker was born May 14, 1914 to Oxford-educated, English-born Richard Barton, and Quebecborn Ella McGillivary on their homestead in Saskatchewan, between the town Leross and Kelliher. The eldest of six children, she grew up in a two-room log house. Growing up on a homestead in Saskatchewan at that time was a simple and secluded life. She and her siblings playing simple games which needed their imagination, as they did not have much.

They used their dad’s shoes or a piece of wood wrapped in cloth as a doll, or they would ride miles on their “horses” – a stick with a piece of a string. They also played a game called “Laws”, in which they lined up all their chairs in a row and jumped from seat to seat.

At the time, their father

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was the local Justice of the Peace.

Two of Vera’s earliest memories go back to 1918, the time of the Spanish flu epidemic that devastated her community. The other memory is of the First World War, and waiting for the boys to come home from the front. These boys would be her uncles, Clifford and Roland. The year 1921 was also a big one for Vera, as the homestead got their first phone, and she started school with her sister, Jane.

She attended a oneroom school house in Eskdale. Often, she would talk about taking the horse and buggy two and a half miles to school and how the horse just knew the way. The school year started after Easter, and ended just before Christmas, as it was too expensive to heat the school. She adored her teachers. The Eskdale school was the hub of the community, hosting concerts, dances, church and political meetings.

She attended there until Grade 10, and finished high school at Nutana Collegiate.

In 1923, Vera got her first taste of city life, as her father took the three eldest children to the Regina Exhibition. For the first time in their lives, they ate at restaurants, rode in elevators and saw running water. During this visit they saw their first motion picture film starring Charlie Chaplin.

She would often tell us this story, as it was the

most memorable trip she ever took.

Living through the Great Depression influenced Vera’s life greatly, living in the dust bowl of the Prairies was tough and reward for living on a farm was grim.

Her father and mother worked hard, yet only got $2.32 for 15 turkeys, or $21 for five cows. As a result of living in that era, Vera would be very resourceful all of her life, using every single scrap of material to make clothes or quilts. Leftovers were never thrown out and everything could be used or recycled for a different purpose.

In 1934, she finished Grade 12 and her sister Jane graduated from normal school. Upon graduation, Jane was offered a job to be a teacher at the Alert School outside of Biggar, Sask.

Their father would not allow Jane to go alone as it was “dry, hilly country, the whole place was Russian thistle, and when the wind blew that Russian thistle would come rolling over the hills like thousands of wild animals.”

So, Vera went with her to be the school janitor.

Little did she know that this would set her course for the next 80 years.

Upon arriving at the Alert School District, Vera would meet a sweet-talking charmer and a smooth dancer – Fred Striker. They were married on Dec. 10, 1935 (his 21st birthday) – a union that lasted 69 years.

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rented from William Striker until 1948. During this time, they had six children, Lloyd, Clarence, Gwellyn (Gub), Stanley, Valdeane and Ted. The farmland in Biggar never rebounded after the drought of the '30s and Saskatchewan was still in economic depression in the '40s. Fred left the family in late 1947 to find work and found his way to Agassiz, where he was employed as a CAT operator in the forest industry. A year later, the rest of the family joined him here.

They traveled by train with all their worldly possessions including one cow, one dog and two horses. They rented the Bulyea farm on McCallum Road. Fred was comfortable with renting a farm, however Vera wanted a home to call their own. In 1952, she convinced Fred that they were buying a dairy farm on Ashton Road.

With Fred gone 10 days at a time working in the bush, Vera would take care of her beloved cows and ran the farm with military precision. Cows were milked twice a day, meals and lunch prepared, huge gardens were tended to. Everyone’s clothes were sewn or mended, produce and meat canned for winter months, 13 loaves of bread baked every third day and an immaculately kept house.

As well, the kids earned extra money picking hops, strawberries and raspberries.

Somehow after getting everything

done she still managed to enter baking contests and flower exhibits at the Agassiz Annual Fall Fair, winning many gold ribbons for her efforts.

In 1962, Vera and a contractor designed and built their new house on Ashton Road. Vera was so proud of that house and when it was time to move in she would not, as she was afraid to get it dirty.

One evening after supper, while Vera was snoozing in her rocking chair, two of her boys picked up the chair – and Vera – and moved her in.

As the kids started moving away from home, Vera reluctantly came to the decision that she could not run her dairy farm by herself.

She sold her beloved cows, however would remain living on Ashton Road into the late 1990s.

Vera was one to never sit still and worked for Fraser Vale in Chilliwack for many years.

Even in retirement, Vera did not slow down.

She volunteered at the Agassiz-Harrison Museum and the Thrift Shop, and was an active member of the United Church and the Friendship House. In the evenings, she would often be found playing cards, Scrabble or floor curling and quilting with the ladies. Vera loved her garden and flowers.

Her main pride and joy are her grandchildren, and was always excited when they came to visit, often making dozens of cookies, teaching card games, knitting, crocheting, sewing and schooling them in Scrabble. She also made every grandchild several sets of pajamas, and quilts for their beds.

These quilts are a prized possession for all the grandchildren. She would often travel to Kitimat, Terrace, Kamloops and Saskatoon to see her other grandchildren who didn’t reside in Agassiz.

Vera’s passion has and always will be her family with six kids, 16 grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren.

Her legacy is of being humble, honest to a fault, and giving back to the community. Vera is the glue that binds the past, present and future of the Striker family.

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Short story: Little Dead Lover Best-selling Hungarian author visiting Harrison Hot Springs

Searching for moment of peace in the raging storm of my life, I used to go to the graveyard of our hometown. Walking among the ashes of the countless of past lives, watching the worn epitaphs, lopsided tombstones, faded names, and tried to recall the memories of those who passed long before I was born. Those who have been forgotten decades ago – I tried to conjure up their image, the way they must have lived, and fathom the mystery of the darkness they faded into. Some of the dates under names only showed a couple of years between birth and death, filling me with dismay as I wondered with clenching heart about the people in their short little lives, unaware that, in a remote, hidden corner of the graveyard, in the shadow of an immense silver pine, I would find your childhood picture on one of the little graves... ...How could I forget, as you would remember also, the devotion with which our shy,

nable to you have stirred in your former schoolmates’ soul, inspiring those fleeting yet wonderful moments which, looking back heavy-hearted with the knowledge of their passing, used to make us tremble. Those glorious feelings we experienced, becoming more majestic with every fleeting moment – those unknowable emotions and desires your eleven-year-old self was so shamefully robbed of. What heartless cruelty. It’s inconceivable, unfathomable that you’ve never got feel this, even as I struggled my way through them all to grow up – you shall remain eleven forever, the same cheerful girl who used to throw pebbles onto the road with me, or call out to strangers, names made up on the spot, the one with whom we used to pretend being newlyweds for the other kids... You were a young childwife when you suddenly didn’t come anymore to play. Whom I, with clenched heart and a little boy’s indignation, fighting everything in my way, kept searching for... Whom, fearing adults finding out about my love, I could only find again as an adult myself, and the reunion fazed me with the endless pain of passing weeks and months which fate, in a cruel

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Please submit your desires as to why you want to participate on the Board and how your entrepreneurship background and training can contribute to the success of the Society. Along with some of the existing Board members, you will be helping to create a new vision for Kilby.

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moment among the troubles of my life, revealed before me: the mystery of my shyly blushing love’s disappearance.

If you lived, we could be laughing – maybe as members of two distinct families – on the childish things we used to do: you would remember the day I fell from the railings, wanting to stand on one foot on their top... But why am I remembering at these things alone, the memories drowning in pain, when you, robbed of the chance of growing up, are unable to reminisce about our childhood deeds? Only I got to experience that which would have seemed impossible being together day by day as children: past hopes and dreams turning to bitter sorrow, giving birth to the quiet, untouchable and unchangeable, motionless hours beside the stone slab which has condemned you to eternal silence.

That day, I was given what I used to dream about as a child, still obliged to go home before sunset; in my lonely room I thought about being with you every Christmas Eve, and here the silver pine towered over us like a solemn Christmas tree among the snowy graves, in the company people perished long ago, dissolving and fading into

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nonexistence, who watched, unseeing, unfeeling and silent, the way I gave a small package to you.

For years, I kept the secret of this unconscious life as I, an adult, was pining away for an eleven-year-old girl. But suddenly, on a gloomy early afternoon in August, a strange event strengthened my evergrowing, ever-waning resolve to put an end to this perilous state, in which I tried to convince myself that the circumstances of your death and everything that happened since were insignificant compared to your absence.

You may not believe it, my little love, how many remember you still, you who, on the street crossing before the church was hit by a careless driver... and the medical mistake which took

your life twenty one years ago.

It turned out that the painter I knew through my parents was your uncle, and his selfless help enabled me to find those you had left behind.

You know, Szilvi, I couldn’t take it anymore. After much soul-searching, I went to see your mother for I hopelessly desired, unable to imagine the bereavement, the bleeding of the badly healed wound at the injustice and the pointlessness of your death. I wanted to know everything, everything...

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To Szilvi Tóth, who couldn’t live to be twelve

pure children’s hearts loved each other, and how joyous the moments were when we could meet on the playing ground between your grandparents’ house and ours? The multitude of memories, unforgettable yet so few for a lifetime, became a searing pain: the confessions whispered between us, our eyes closed, heads turned aside... No, don’t fear, Szilvi – I shall not breathe a word, I would not give away the secrets we have shared. Your plans, your dreams, by foreign ears will not be heard. Oh, how I shuddered with the joy of hearing you talk of tales of future times, a future we both created there, among the dreams and hopes forever unfulfilled. To all that you made me an heir, and for brief moments of bliss, your sky-blue eyes would fall upon my face, with childish innocence, an angel’s smile that would soon freeze, lying upon unfeeling, solid marble, hidden away for twenty-one years among the silent, uncomprehending graves.

How many worthless years have passed with uncompromising ruthlessness since then, tearing millions of hearts with agony and spreading joy, dissolving in the depths of human hearts, while changes unimagi-

sold in 2002.

The following short story, Little Dead Lover, was translated from Hungarian by Anna Kovacs.

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Little Dead Lover

by Laszlo Malota

ager Mel Dunster and her family.

Malota has 11 books to his name, and his debut novel, Sanctuary of the Guilty, was a bestseller in Hungary with 100,000 copies

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Laszlo Malota, a bestselling author from Hungary, has been calling Harrison Hot Springs home for the last few months, a guest of Harrison Festival of the Arts general man-

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We will visit with family and friends, go for walks and picnics, bumber around, sit on the deck and smell the roses.

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Mind summer and you, I do not have an award think it is a night in the “psycho story”, fall! There you paranormal, have it, Ruthy perhaps, would always has an be the beteasy answer, ter word, so it doesn’t she? will have some Ruthy, of scary parts in course, is my RUTH ALTENDORF it. But then, Harrison fun ego as what will you most of you do about your Happenings know.

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YOUR COMMUNITY YOUR CLASSIFIEDS Phone: 604.796.4300 Toll Free: 1.866.865.4460 email: classified@ahobserver.com

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OBITUARIES

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AGM Fraser Heritage Society is holding it’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday May 29, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. at the Harrison Mills Community Hall.

For more info call Mel 604-796-0414

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS IN MEMORIAM GIFTS

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Born 1935 passed away peacefully to be with his Lord on Saturday May 10th, 2014.

Philip spent his working life in Vancouver and on his retirement volunteered for eleven years at the Agassiz Thrift Shop. He had many friends in the town he came to love.

Philip will be dearly missed and is survived by two of his seven sisters, Pearl and Adeleine, his many nieces and nephews including Camille, Joanne, Pamela and Charles.

A special thank you from the family for the love and care shown to Philip by Julie Davey, Jim and Bonnie Johnson, Dr. Sean Larsen who became a trusted friend, Eunice Royle and all those will deeply miss Philip. A celebration of Philip’s life will be held on Sunday May 25, 2014 at 2pm at the Agassiz Legion.

Our sweet uncle, brother and friend, in our hearts forever.

Online condolences may be left at: www.mcleansfunerals.com

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Cunningham, Ingrid Eleanor

October 31, 1949 - May 13, 2014

Ingrid died on Tuesday, May 13 in Harrison Hot Springs, the place she loved. Even though Ingrid traveled to many places, she always enthusiastically returned to her home amidst the mountains, lake and scenery in Harrison. Ingrid spent all her teaching career at Agassiz Secondary School, a brilliant teacher, admired by her students. She was passionate about sport and the outdoors.

Having a great eye for the perfect photograph she captured the life of Harrison as well as involved herself in the community. She will be sadly missed by family, colleagues, friends, and students.

Ingrid’s family extends an invitation to a Farewell Reception which will be held at the Harrison Memorial Hall on Sunday, June 15 from 2 to 4 pm.

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Sasquatch Park Proposed Boundary Adjustment Please be advised that Seabird Island First Nation will be holding a public information meeting to discuss a proposed Boundary Adjustment to Sasquatch Park. Location of the meeting will be at the Agassiz Agriculture Building at 6800 Pioneer Avenue, Agassiz. Meeting time will be 4 pm to 8 pm on Thursday, May 29, 2014. The purpose of the meeting is to consult with interested parties and environmental and community organizations.

COMING EVENTS 25th, 10am-3pm. Croatian Cultural Commercial Dr. Adm $5.

The purpose of the boundary adjustment is to allow for Seabird Island First Nation’s use of existing access roads so that logging equipment can develop and harvest timber in an area to the south of Sasquatch Park. The boundary adjustment would remove the existing access roads, estimated to be an area of 12 hectares, from the Park.

Seabird Island First Nation representatives would be pleased to meet with interested parties to discuss details of this boundary adjustment proposal.

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Public Notice Flushing of Water Mains The Village’s Drinking Water Assurance Program requires the flushing of water mains throughout the Village. Flushing of water mains is a key component to maintaining the highest level of water quality throughout the distribution system.

Water main flushing may cause a brief reduction in pressure, possible sediment and/or discoloration of your tap water; none of which are a health concern.

These changes to your tap water are temporary and will dissipate over time.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Home Occupation, Licenced Kennel, Off-Street Parking, and Park Recreation and Open Space Zone Amendments What: Public hearing on proposed District of Kent Zoning Bylaw 1219, Amendment Bylaw No. 1504, 2014.

When: Please join us at 7:00 p.m., Monday, May 26, 2014 when Council will be receiving input from the public on the proposed Zoning Bylaw amendments. You can speak in person at the hearing or by providing a written submission to the Director of Development Services, District of Kent, PO Box 70, 7170 Cheam Avenue, Agassiz, BC V0M 1A0 or dkohuch@district.kent.bc.ca before 4:00 p.m., May 26, 2014.

Where: The public hearing is to be held in the Centennial Centre of the Municipal Hall, 7170 Cheam Avenue, Agassiz, BC. What is it?

A Zoning Bylaw amendment to address housekeeping items with respect to home occupations and licenced kennels and to include a dwelling unit auxiliary use in the Park, Recreation and Open Space (P2) zone.

What are the proposed changes?

In general, the proposed changes in the Zoning Bylaw Amendment will: Home Occupation Amendments • provide a construction contractor definition • allow a resident of a property to have a home occupation without being the registered owner • exclude smaller home occupations such as hair salons and home business offices from having to register a Section 219 Covenant • allow for an additional home occupation on lots with specified home occupations that were previously limited to one (1) home occupation • better describe the limitations of a construction contractor office use Licenced Kennels Amendment • remove the requirement to hold a public hearing if proposed kennel is within a zone that allows a kennel use and all requirements are met Off-Street Parking Amendments • correct the maximum amount of non-resident employees for specified home occupations to 4 Park, Recreation and Open Space (P2) Zone Amendment • allow a dwelling unit auxiliary use to accommodate a resident caretaker for security purposes as a stand-alone structure or recreational vehicle

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To the members of the Agassiz, Seabird and Popkum Fire Departments who came to our aid in our time of need, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being such caring, kind individuals. It gives us peace of mind to know you are all just a call away, bless each one of you.

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2009 TOYOTA COROLLA 4 dr sedan, loaded. No trade.

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2008 JEEP COMPASS 4 door, auto, low km, only 83K kms, ST#447. $11,900.

2006 FORD F350 XLT quad cab, 4X4, auto, diesel, only 156K ST#17. $12,900.

2010 DODGE JOURNEY 4 dr, auto, loaded, 7 psgr. ST#428. $13,900.

2007 FORD F350 XLT Crew cab, diesel, 4X4, auto, short box only 162K. ST#126. $14,900.

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I’ve seen a mother who has been wasting away from the pain of twenty one years.

You truly died for me on that fateful afternoon. I felt, as an adult, the indescribable horror of a child’s death – the agony of the shock your close and not so close relatives must have felt on May 21, 1981. It was on a Thursday, half past five... I’ve learned of the pair of slippers that you found in the window of a shoe shop, that you wanted so much but never got to wear... I can imagine your From 11

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‘I finally understood what it meant for a mother to lose her child’ excitement as you brought the package up to your grandpa’s, then ran home to your little flat behind the town’s marketplace to try them on... never getting past the church. It wasn’t even five o’clock yet.

Then you’ve been brought to an old hospital with outdated equipments, among adults struggling with illnesses and themselves, and put in a bleak room radiating anxiety, and the bruised swelling on your forehead kept growing, and your mother, in utter despair, fearing that which was impossible to imagine, trembling with horror, kept stroking it gently, murmuring comforting words...

Your mother, in her despair, drew comfort from the words of the doctors, who had said it was not serious, that you only had to stay in for observation...

And at nine o’clock, the phone rang suddenly, a shrill sound without empathy, and she was told that you, the vulnerable barely-teenage girl was taken to the emergency hospital with unexpected developments, your state deteriorating quickly, and you had to get a tracheotomy, and after a night spent

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