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Last weekend the judges for the annual Communities in Bloom competition arrived in Barriere. They spent a whirlwind two days getting to know the community, its residents, and our heritage.

The local Communities in Bloom Committee joined with Thompson Valley Players to present an evening of Heritage in Bloom, with the theme being Barriere’s 100th anniversary celebration this year.

From the music, to the ‘dear dairy’ readings; the history of the community and its lifestyle unfolded for the audience. A special performance by the Thompson Valley Players and Barriere Literacy and Learning’s summer youth theatre camp participants was a highlight for everyone in the audience.

This was followed by a dedication to Manna Salle, who turned 100 last December, and has been a Barriere resident and supporter all of that time.

Refreshments were served, and everyone was excited about the judging that would take place the following day.

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Communities in Bloom committee members for the District of Barriere turned out in period costumes for their Heritage in Bloom presentation to Communities in Bloom Judges at the Fall Fair Hall last Sunday evening. Pictured (l-r): Val Stamer, Barbara McManus, Virginia Smith, and Jordan Froste who participated in the Thompson Valley Players presentation.

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A 50-year-old man from Louis Creek was in custody Monday, and had been charged with breaching his conditions after police were called to his home early Monday morning.

On July 21, at 8:44 a.m., the Barriere RCMP responded to a report of an assault at a residence on the 600 block of Stone Road in Louis Creek.

The suspect had apparently hit a 47-yearold woman and threatened her life.

The woman was eventually able to escape from the residence while police surrounded the home.

Due to the circumstances of the incident and the potential danger to both the responding police officers and the public, the Southeast District Emergency Response Team was requested to attend.

An RCMP Crisis Negotiator began communicating with the suspect by telephone and was able to successfully de-escalate the situation.

The man was taken into custody without incident shortly after 10:00 a.m. that morning.

During the negotiation, police shut down Stone Road. Those residing on that road were unable to leave the area by vehicle until the standoff had come to a conclusion.

Police report the woman sustained minor injuries, and that the investigation is ongoing.

As of Tuesday morning, Richard Gerald Potvin remained in custody, and had been charged with two counts of Breach of Undertaking.

He was scheduled to appear in Court that same day.

Police report Potvin could face additional charges pending further investigation.

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Police vehicles blocked Stone Road in Louis Creek last Monday while negotiating with a man to surrender from his home on that road.

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B.C. budget surplus $353 million

By Tom Fletcher Black Press The B.C. government finished the fiscal year in March with a surplus of $353 million by keeping overall spending growth below one per cent, according to audited public accounts released Tuesday.

It’s the first official surplus budget for B.C. since the 2008-09 recession, and a bigger surplus than what was promised by the B.C. Liberal government in last year’s election campaign.

Total program spending increased only 0.4% during the year, which Finance Minister Mike de Jong credited mainly to a hiring freeze and restrictions on discretionary spending in ministries. Health care spending rose $360 million over the previous year, which was more than $500 million lower than the forecast in the government’s postelection budget.

Education spending was up $299 million, while spending in natural resource ministries fell $337 million.

The province stayed in the black despite taxation revenues coming in $402 million less than the budget forecast. Natural resource revenues to the province exceeded forecasts by $109 million.

NDP finance critic Mike Farnworth said the surplus budget was achieved “by picking the pockets of hard-working British Columbians” with higher fees and increases to BC Hydro, ICBC and other rates. Farnworth estimated B.C. residents are paying an extra $300 million a year in such fees, not counting the latest increases to BC Hydro and Medical Services Plan rates.

De Jong noted that the province’s total debt continues to rise, topping $60.8 billion including debt of BC Hydro and other Crown agencies.

“We are borrowing to build instead of paying for the groceries,” de Jong said of the additional debt, which includes $3.2 billion for schools, highways, transit and hospitals.

B.C.’s debt stands at 18.2% of gross domestic product, about half of the level of Ontario and the federal government’s debt-to-GDP ratio.

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Finance Minister Mike de Jong presents the audited public accounts at the B.C. legislature Tuesday, showing the province is back in the black as promised in the 2013 election.

Government won’t stop September school strike

By Tom Fletcher Black Press VICTORIA – The B.C. Teachers’ Federation had better not expect an imposed settlement to keep the beginning of the school year from being disrupted, Finance Minister Mike de Jong said Tuesday.

Every other sector of the public service has been able to find agreements within the government’s balanced budget mandate, but the teachers’ union might be expecting a legislated settlement as has taken place in the

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past, de Jong said as he presented the public accounts that show B.C.’s budget balanced as of this spring.

“You cannot send negotiators into a bargaining session with other public sector workers, hammer out agreements that include very modest settlements, and then because another group decides to make a little more noise, provide more, because you are taking from one group in order to satisfy the demands of another within the context of a balanced budget,” de Jong said.

The BCTF strike for the last two weeks of June saved the provincial treasury about $12 million a day, while year-end studies and exams were disrupted. The two sides haven’t communicated since early July, when B.C. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kelleher said they are too far apart for mediation to be effective.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender said the BCTF has to reduce its demands, in particular improved benefits he said represent an additional $225 million a year.

Those include increases to preparation time, pregnancy and parental leave, extended health and dental care and substitute teacher compensation.

De Jong said the lesson of imposing settlements is that they haven’t worked.

“Every other sector of the public service is able to negotiate an agreement,” he said.

“What is it about this one area, and is it the expectation that the government will step up and simply legislate an agreement? I hope that’s not the expectation, because that’s not the plan.”

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By Monique Tamminga Black Press

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B.C. Lottery Corporation is still ‘waiting with baited breath’ for someone to claim the winning $50 million lottery ticket sold in Langley nearly four months ago, confirmed a BCLC spokesperson.

Time is ticketing by without anyone coming forward to claim the large prize that came from matching all seven numbers on the March 14 Lotto Max draw.

A person could live on the interest alone, said BCLC. Lotto Max winners have one year from the draw date printed on the ticket to claim their prize.

“In the absence of anyone coming forward to claim the massive prize, we continue to hear some incredible theories and rumours about the winner from lottery players,” says Kevin Gass, vice-president of lottery gaming. “The truth is, until the winner comes forward, we don’t know their story or why

they may have waited so long.”

“We estimate the winner would have accrued more than $150,000 in interest over the last two months had they already collected their prize.”

As for the rumour that a 17-yearold won and hasn’t been able to claim the prize because they are underage, BCLC said that isn’t true.

Someone under the age of 19 can purchase lottery tickets. If that person wins, the winnings would be held in trust by an adult and the funds released to them when they are legal age, confirmed BCLC. BCLC can’t reveal the location where the winning ticket was purchased because that is all part of the review process when the winner comes forward, said BCLC. BCLC always announces winners and where the winning ticket was purchased after the winner comes forward.

No top lottery prize won in B.C. has ever gone unclaimed.

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Lumber, pellet mills still have dust problems Black Press Sawmills have improved their control of combustible dust, but non-compliant wood product manufactures are still being found by stepped-up inspections since two fatal explosions in northern B.C. in 2012.

Jobs Minister Shirley Bond has promised to implement all recommendations of a new report recommending continued inspections and penalties for mills, and a separate investigative unit for WorkSafeBC that will seek prosecutions for unsafe conditions.

Bond released the report Tuesday, showing that sawmill compliance with dust control standards has gone from 58% to 84% in the latest round of inspections.

Inspections of 15 pellet mills, pressboard and oriented strand board manufacturers showed they are still lagging behind.

“Their 40% com-

pliance rate was a disappointment, especially in the wake of all that’s been said and done to this point,” Bond said.

The B.C. industry has hired five independent advisors to help mills comply with WorkSafeBC health and safety rules, and the Council of Forest Industries has agreed to make membership in the outside audit program a condition of membership in the industry group.

Two workers died and 20 others were injured when an explosion and fire tore through the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake on Jan. 20, 2012. On April 23, a similar explosion killed two workers and injured 22 more at Lakeland Mills in Prince George.

Babine Forest Products has appealed fines totalling more than $1 million imposed by WorkSafeBC. Crown prosecutors declined to charge companies and

individuals in the two mill incidents, saying some evidence from the WorkSafeBC investigation may not be admissible in court.

Prosecutors also concluded that mill operators would likely be acquitted using a “due diligence” defence.

Bond said WorkSafeBC investigators will be reorganized into two teams as a result of the sawmill findings.

“It means that the

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Thursday, July 24, 2014 North Thompson Star/Journal Unit 10 - 4353 Connor Road, Box 1020, Barriere, B.C., V0E 1E0 250-672-5611

by Tom Fletcher

B.C. back in black, deep in debt VICTORIA – When the audited public accounts confirmed a $353 million surplus for the last fiscal year, B.C. Liberal political staff were quick to remind reporters of the NDP’s main theme from last year’s election campaign.

Pages of election quotes from almost every NDP MLA were waiting to be distributed. It was a “bogus budget,” one of the more polite tags applied to the government’s pre-election fiscal plan.

“It underestimates the costs in a whole bunch of ministries and we’re going to have to review that because all of the decisions that we propose in our platform will have to be implemented,” said then-leader Adrian Dix, describing the NDP’s plans to tax and spend more.

Skeena MLA Robin Austin targeted health care in the budget debate: “Bearing in mind that our population is actually increasing, bearing in mind that our population is aging, I think it’s very unrealistic to think we can actually limit health care expenditures to 2.7 per cent.”

As it turned out, health care spending grew by just over two per cent. It still went up by $360 million from the previous year, but after annual increases of six or seven per cent had become the norm, this is quite an achievement. New agreements remain to be negotiated with doctors and nurses, so we’re unlikely to see the same cost control results for the current year.

Ottawa’s health care transfer payment formula has changed, and increases are to be capped at three per cent a year by 2016, so this is the kind of spending restraint all provinces are expected to produce.

Education was the only other ministry to receive significant extra funding last year, up $299 million despite continuing enrolment decline. Like health, the education budget goes up every year, and these increases, along with strong student performance results, expose the rhetoric of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation about a cash-starved system for what it is.

But the biggest fabrication of last year’s election was the “debt free B.C.” slogan emblazoned on the side of Premier Christy Clark’s campaign bus.

The public accounts confirm that the province’s total debt rose to just over $60 billion, the latest of a series of increases since 2008. The much-touted balanced budget is on the operating side, while the province continues to pile up debt to pay for the Port Mann mega-project, hospitals, schools and other big infrastructure.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong emphasized the difference between capital and operating expenditures.

“We’re borrowing to build as opposed to paying for the groceries,” he said.

“Debt free B.C.” was not an outright misrepresentation, merely one of the most far-fetched promises ever delivered in the history of B.C. politics. The legislature is to convene in October so the B.C. Liberals can pass a taxation framework for the nascent liquefied natural gas industry, which the government hopes will generate the revenues to ultimately pay off the province’s $60-billion mortgage.

Meanwhile there is more capital debt ahead. The cabinet is expected to greenlight the Site C dam on the Peace River this fall, a decade-long project estimated to cost $8 billion.

Along with the public accounts, the finance ministry released a list of surplus land sales. The sale of 50-odd properties, some of them closed schools, netted the provincial treasury about $310 million, which accounts for most of the surplus.

Was this “selling off the family silverware to try and balance the books,” as now-NDP leader John Horgan termed it before the election? It’s certainly not a revenue source to be matched next year.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @ tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

Canfor says public consultation ongoing To the editor; On behalf of Canfor, I would like to ensure the community understands that our planning work in the Upper Clearwater is ongoing and we have been working with the public through the Upper Clearwater Referral Group to design our harvesting activities in a way that is respectful of the Guiding Principles for forestry as they apply to the area.

Our company manufactures 240 million board feet of lumber a year at our Vavenby facility, employing 175 people and contributing more than $54 million to the regional economy every year. Our business runs on harvesting trees and regenerating forests – and we know that we need to conduct our operations respectfully and sustainably. We firmly believe that we can run an economically viable operation while respecting the environment. To do that, we need the help and support of the community, and your collabora-

tion as we plan our activities.

Letters sent to us and the media let us know the public is concerned about our plans, and while we take those concerns seriously, these letters don’t provide us with the level of information we need to make progress. We ask that concerned residents engage with us in the detailed work of reviewing plans that support the economy and our business while respecting the environment in the region.

As a next step in the planning process, Canfor staff and consultants are conducting terrain stability, hydrologic and block specific assessments needed to ensure we can carry out harvesting and road building activities in a responsible manner.

The results of this work will be communicated to engaged residents as it becomes available.

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Community Gaming Grants can make good things happen for community organizations

To the editor; Every year, gaming revenues generate hundreds of millions of dollars that the Government of British Columbia invests in providing key services, including health care and education, for all citizens and communities throughout the province.

The Government of British Columbia dedicates a $135-million portion of the total annual gaming revenues to communities as gaming grants for non-profit organizations. These organizations provide invaluable services in most B.C. communities.

Eligible organizations apply to the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch for gaming grant funding distributed by sectors, including Arts and Culture, Sport, Environment, Public Safety, Human and Social Services, Parent Advisory Councils and District Parent Advisory Councils.

In 2012, Premier Christy Clark increased the annual base budget for community gaming grants by $15 million, from $120 million to $135 million per year into the future. Every year, over 5,000 local organizations representing virtually every community in British Columbia benefit from this funding.

These organizations accomplish amazing things for British Columbia’s communities. The diversity of their work is astonishing: sports leagues for kids; community arts centres and festivals; organizations that help animals in distress and protect the environ-

Keep cats indoors To the editor; I am a volunteer at Elizabeth’s Wildlife Center in Abbotsford.

It is such a good feeling when you know you are helping an animal or bird on the road to recovery. And there are many birds and small animals that come through the centre at this time of year.

About 90 per cent have sustained injuries due to cat attacks.

This can be prevented if owners keep their cats indoors, particularly during the season when there are fledglings learning to fly.

Fluffy may seem like an innocuous, lovely, sweet pet, but in reality, your cat is a predator and a hunter acting on its normal basic instincts. As owners, it is our responsibility

to ensure that Fluffy isn’t given the opportunity to maim, mutilate and kill.

The ones that survive an attack and are found are brought to the centre.

But it is discouraging when you know that most of these injuries could have been prevented just by owners being more responsible for their cats.

Please, if you own a cat, keep it indoors during this season.

Not only will this prevent a lot of needless suffering for the birds and animals that Fluffy injures, it will also prolong Fluffy’s life.

Outdoor cats are more prone to disease, being hit by cars, or becoming prey themselves to other larger predators.

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ment; agricultural fairs that celebrate B.C.’s rural heritage; parent advisory councils working with schools; organizations dedicated to public safety, including volunteer fire departments, community policing groups, search and rescue societies.

Volunteers play an important role in communities throughout British Columbia. Gaming grants help community organizations create wonderful opportunities for volunteers to share their time and experience with their local community.

I encourage your non-profit organization to consider applying for a community gaming grant. To find out how, visit: http://www. gaming.gov.bc.ca/ Upcoming gaming grant application deadlines are: Aug. 31, 2014 - Applications must be submitted for the environment and public safety sectors. Nov. 30, 2014 - Applications must be submitted for the human and social services sector.

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Remesz second to seek federal Liberal nomination

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Niki Remesz wants to be the federal Liberal candidate in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo. What does she like about leader Justin Trudeau? “What you see is what you get?”

A Kamloops business and marketing consultant with extensive volunteer experience is seeking the nomination of the federal Liberal party.

Niki Remesz told KTW she has filed paperwork with the party and has been active selling memberships before a nomination meeting expected in late August or early September.

She chairs Thompson Rivers University’s alumni association and has been on the board since 2009.

Remesz is also a past coordinator of Theatre B.C.’s Mainstage in Kamloops and volunteers as an usher with Western Canada Theatre Company.

She and husband, Steve, a high-school teacher, have an 11-year-old son and have lived in Kamloops since 1995.

Remesz joined the Liberal party recently.

Niki Remesz “Liberal is where I’ve always identified,” she said.

“I find life is not black and white. Small changes make big differences.

“I’m in it to have a greater impact on the city — where I already do lots of volunteer work.”

Remesz declined to say how long she has been active selling memberships prior to the nomination meeting.

She has a head start on Steve Powrie, a Kamloops elementary-school teacher who earlier this week made the decision to

run for the Liberal nomination.

A party official expects three or four people to contest the nomination, in part based on the excitement brought by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

Remesz said she was inspired by her own convictions and ideas to run, but believes Trudeau is a natural leader who will garner support in non-traditional areas.

“I like that he doesn’t build a calculated facade — what you see is what you get.”

She said the Stephen Harper government is not representing Canadians as a whole.

“What’s happening in government today doesn’t make the majority of us happy,” Remesz said.

“Canadians need to be heard and Canadian values need to take the forefront.”

Incumbent Conservative MP Cathy McLeod has been acclaimed and will defend her seat for the Conservatives, while Kamloops lawyer Bill Sundhu is seeking the NDP nomination.

No word on whether the Greens have anybody interested in seeking the nomination.

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Upper Clearwater Valley tour looks at land use planning controversy

By Keith McNeill Clearwater Times More than 60 people took part in a tour of Upper Clearwater on Saturday, June 28, to learn more about concerns that logging might have on the region’s economy and other values.

The tour was organized by the Wells Gray Action Committee, a group of Upper Clearwater, Clearwater, Barriere, Kamloops and Vancouver residents who are concerned about plans

by Canfor to log in the First, Second and Third canyons area.

They also have become concerned by roadbuilding and/or logging underway now on the west side of the Clearwater River.

Those who took part included MLA Terry Lake.

“It’s all about listening,” he said. “The message is that this is part of a process. There has been lots of good input and I appreciate that.”

The tour began at the Spahats lookout, then Third Canyon, and finished up at Upper Clearwater Hall. First to speak was Tay Briggs, a registered professional forester (RPF) who formerly worked for Weyerhaeuser and who now operates a hut-to-hut tour guiding business with her husband, Ian Eakins.

Briggs recalled that, when she was working for Weyerhaeuser, her supervisor advised her not to buy a house in Clearwater because the forest company was only planning to stay in the area for a limited time.

She and her husband did stay, however. When they started their business, there were only two bed-and-breakfasts in Clearwater. Now there are 27 plus more hotels, motels and other touristbased businesses. Only four per cent of the visitors coming to Canada

are from Europe but 48 per cent of those coming to Clearwater and Wells Gray Park are European.

“Why? Because it’s wilderness. There’s a feeling that it is as it was,” Briggs said.

The corridor from Clearwater to the gateway to Wells Gray Park near Hemp Creek contains only a small portion of this area’s wood basket, she said. However, it is critical to the area’s tourist industry and needs to be protected.

Trevor Goward, a longtime Upper Clearwater resident and one of the world’s leading lichenologists, began his talk with a brief history of Wells Gray Park, starting with its founding 75 years ago.

In 1955 the W.A.C. Bennett government extended the park southwards to include Battle Mountain, which was important winter range for caribou.

The Bill Bennett government established the Trophy Mountain Recreational Area in 1986.

That was a hard fight but most now recognize it was a good decisions, Goward said.

In 1995 the Mike Harcourt government set up Caribou Mountain Provincial Park, which forms a connection between Wells Gray and Bowron Lakes parks, creating a huge nature reserve.

Logging in the corridor between Clearwater and the park gateway would sever the connection between the town and the park.

If that happens, Goward predicted that Upper Clearwater would become the tourist destination while Clearwater itself would simply be a road junction.

That would be something that neither the residents of Upper Clearwater nor those of Clearwater would like, he felt.

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Tay Briggs, a registered professional forester (RPF) who formerly worked for Weyerhaeuser and who now operates a hut-to-hut tour guiding business with her husband, Ian Eakins, was the first to speak. She noted that visitors come to the area, “Because it’s wilderness. There’s a feeling that it is as it was.” the decline in the mountain caribou. Some feel it is not enough food, others blame predation.

The truth is likely more complex, he said.

Capturing pregnant female caribou to protect them during and after they give birth has no science behind it, he said.

“They’re doing this as a desperation measure,” Goward said.

Other approaches, such as caribou transplants and eliminating wolves, are similarly flawed.

Battle Mountain, the Trophies and even Raft Mountain were formerly important winter caribou range.

This no longer the case, probably because nearby logging increased the deer and moose populations, which in turn brought in more predators.

The caribou are now mostly using the northern end of the park.

The trees in some of the areas that burned in the 1926 fire (which burned most of the

Clearwater River Valley) are now getting old enough that they are beginning to have some lichen on them – the caribou’s favorite foot – and some caribou are returning.

Goward noted that the fire before the 1926 fire was probably 500-600 years ago, and another major fire is therefore not likely soon.

Cathie Hickson gave her talk at Third Canyon.

Formerly with the Geological Survey of Canada, she did her Ph.D. thesis on the volcanoes of Wells Gray Park and area.

“From a geological perspective, this is quite an interesting place,” she said.

The lava people had been standing on at the Spahats lookout was about 500,000 years old, Hickson said, while that that makes up the Sheep Track Bench that the First, Second and Third Canyon creeks drain is about 300,000 years old.

Buck Hill, a small volcanic cone next to the

bench, is about 10,000 years old.

“We are here for only a short period of time, but this area gives a window into a far longer period of time,” she said.

“It has incredible potential. We need to unleash that.”

The geologist noted that the area is steep and the soils are an unstable mix of volcanic and glacial types.

“Any change will increase the probability of debris flows,” she said.

Tay Briggs spoke for a second time when the tour met at the Upper Clearwater Hall.

She had sat at the table when the Local Resource Management Plan (LRMP) for the Kamloops region was implemented, she said.

She was also involved in developing a local use plan for the Upper Clearwater, now called the Guiding Principles.

Both processes took about 2 1/2 years, she recalled.

Two woodlots were set up as a result of the Guiding Principles, plus a liaison committee to keep communications open.

About two years ago Canfor came to the committee with its logging plans.

“We had some concerns,” Briggs said.

These included water quality, quantity and reliability, slope stability, caribou, and tourism.

The forest company has since come back with new logging plans that include a 20 per cent increase and a clear-cut near the turnoff to the Trophy Mountain flower meadows.

The plans as presented did not include a hydro-geological report, she said.

“Maybe we need to step back from industrial scale logging and look at other processes,” she said.

Tay Briggs’ father, George Briggs, spoke

about the possible impacts of logging.

A RPF like his daughter, he formerly managed two National Forests in the U.S. before moving to a ranch in Upper Clearwater in 1976.

Canfor’s new plans show big logging blocks extending over the escarpment where they will be visible and more likely to cause debris flows, he said.

“It’s inevitable that there’s going to be serious repercussions from this logging,” Briggs said.

Biologist Nancy Flood, a senior lecturer at Thompson Rivers University, said she has been involved with the research and education center in Upper Clearwater since before it began.

Over the past 15 years the center has averaged about 6,000 users per year. The university is presently in the process of developing a new research and education center to replace the existing building (a former schoolhouse), which Flood described as “rustic.”

When a washout at First Canyon stranded travellers and residents

for several days a few years ago, the centre served as an emergency headquarters where food and water were distributed.

The university is not opposed to logging, she pointed out. Many of the students who use the center are in natural resource management and so cut down trees as part of their education. “We are here for the long term.

We’ve been here for the long term. This is TRU’s place,” Flood said.

Trevor Goward wound up the tour by saying that if Wells Gray Park could achieve UNESCO World Heritage or GeoPark status, it would benefit the whole region.

Residents of the Upper Clearwater had felt honored to be involved in the process that led to the development of the Guiding Principles, he said.

Since then two areas have been arbitrarily taken out of the area covered by the Principles without consultation, he said.

“When there’s duplicity like that, people feel angry,” Goward said.

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Call for National Youth Aboriginal Entrepreneur of the Year to win $10,000 Submitted Now is the chance for young Aboriginal Entrepreneurs to further their business interests with an infusion of potential capital.

CCAB and ESS is calling for self-nominations for the National Youth Aboriginal Entrepreneur Award. This award recognizes an up-and-coming Aboriginal Entrepreneur under the age of 35. The recipient will receive a $10,000 financial award and be recognized at CCAB’s 2015 Toronto Gala.

Eligibility for National Youth Aboriginal Entrepreneur Award • Applicants must be Canadian residents of First Nation (Status or Non-Status), Inuit or Métis ancestry and between the ages of 19-35.

• Self-employed for a minimum of one year.

• Submit a 30-60 second video about themselves and their business.

• Fill out the online application form (Before doing this the video must be completed. Applicantscannot save their application form so the application process must be filled out in one sitting).

• Deadline to apply is Aug.25, 2014 by 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The recipient will be chosen by a selection committee in the fall. The successful applicant will be notified by late October.

For more information contact Andre Morriseau, Senior Manager Awards and Communications 647-970-7661 amorriseau@ccab.com Every Monday we bring you the NEWS and the VIEWS from the Lower North Thompson Valley.

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Heat stroke is a very serious medical emergency that occurs when the body cannot regulate its internal temperature. Body temperature rises rapidly, the sweating mechanism doesn’t work so the body can’t cool down. Body temperatures can rise above 105 F (40 C).

Other warning signs are rapid pulse, throbbing headache, dizziness, nausea, confusion. Keep the person cool and seek medical help.

We’re in the middle of the barbecue season and red meat is a very strong attraction to many people. There is a worry that cooking meat on a high flame produces chemicals thought to promote cancer. Marinating the meat in a non-oil vinegar or lemon juice mixture reduces these chemicals. Also keep the servings down to about four ounces in size per serving.

Ospreys scheduled to face eviction from nest?

By Jill Hayward North Thompson Star/Journal

South of the McLure Ferry, and just off Westsyde Road there is an island in the river where Neil Duggan and his family make their home.

Duggan says they aren’t the only ones who live on his island.

“We have bear, coyotes, deer, golden and bald eagles and plenty of other birds,” says Duggan, “We really enjoy all the wildlife that shares the island with us.”

The most recent residents to set up shop on the island are a pair of ospreys who arrived a few weeks ago and have set up housekeeping already with the construction of a large nest.

It’s that nest that is the problem. It’s sitting on top of a hydro pole.

During all the hot weather and dry conditions experienced last week, Duggan says he contacted the Ministry of Environment with concerns that the nest might catch fire, or that a bird might be electrocuted while using the nest and that would start a fire.

The rep on the telephone told him that was a valid concern and they would contact BC Hydro and inform them of this.

Duggan says that BC Hydro then called, and he told them he was prepared to build a platform for the birds to have their nest moved to instead of living on a live power pole, and that he would also have the hole dug for a solitary pole for the nest if the utility company could donate the pole.

A few days after the call Duggan says a BC Hydro rep arrived at his farm, looked at the nest and said it was definitely a fire hazard, and they would “dump it on the ground unless their was eggs in the nest”. The Hydro rep then said the birds have to be moved off in order to install protectors on the pole so they cannot nest there again.

“I used to work for Alberta Fish and Wildlife,” said Duggan, “I certainly don’t want to turn any beautiful birds out. I want to give them a chance to nest here but not on the power pole, so again I offered to build the platform, dig the hole for a pole, and even put the pole in if Hydro could supply an old pole.”

But according to Duggan the BC Hydro rep just answered, “Ugh. We have to abide by the regulations.”

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The osprey is provincially protected and it is illegal to destroy and established nest.

Duggan says he now sits wondering what day the crews will come in to evict his beautiful birds?

“I won’t know until the day comes,” said Duggan, “But if they want to dump it they have to check for eggs first, and if there are eggs there they are required to move it so the eggs are intact and the birds can still care for them.”

Duggan says he understands the fire hazard, but that as a land owner he is very disappointed that the power company had no interest in helping to move the nest.

“I’m disappointed,” said Duggan, “I thought they would be a little more interested in preserving our natural wildlife resources rather than just “dumping the nest”.

In the past BC Hydro r has stated that once an osprey nest is established, BC Hydro cannot destroy it because the birds are provincially protected. At that point the Crown corporation has to install specialized platforms next to the original location.

If the nest is not established and is at the earliest stages, they are able to remove it in the hopes that the birds will rebuild in a tree instead.

BC Hydro often puts triangular fibre glass protectors over power poles that ospreys are trying to nest on, and they note it’s important for residents to understand that BC Hydro is not destroying established nests.

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Fall Fair wants photos from past

By Jill Hayward North Thompson Star/Journal

Key to the city for centenarian

STAR/JOURNAL photo: Jill Hayward

(L-r) Mayor Bill Humphreys presents 100-year-old Manna Salle and his wife Geordie, with a key to Barriere for all that Manna has done for the community over the years. The event was part of a dedication to Manna which was read by District of Barriere councilor Ward Stamer during the Heritage in Bloom event at the Fall Fair Hall July 21. This key is the first one that has been presented to an individual by the municipality.

Planning for emergency situations a top priority I have had my other political hat on at various times over the past weeks. On Wednesday, July 16, I was informed by Sukh Gill, CAO for the Thompson Nicola Regional District that the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) was recommending an evacuation order for the Murray Lake area. The fire in that area was threatening approximately 35 structures in the area and was growing in size very quickly.

The first step in the procedure is to declare a local State of Emergency for Area “N” (Beautiful Nicola Valley South) and then issue the required evacuation order. The RCMP was tasked with the evacuation and the security of the area. In the more rural and remote areas this can be a real challenge due to the network of back roads through the province.

On Thursday, July 17, Mr. Gill and I were informed that there was another fire in the Lytton area that was now out of control, and a tactical evacuation was already underway. We were both at a function in Kamloops close to the EOC so we attended to issue the required local State of Emergency, Evacuation and Alert orders this time for Area “I” Blue Sky Country). The fire was in the Botanie Creek Road area and approximately 50 homes were in the evacuation area.

On Friday, July 18, Mr. Gill, TNRD Emergency Services Supervisor Jason Tomlin, and myself travelled to Lytton to attend a community information meeting at 5 p.m. This meeting was called within 24 hours of the evacuation order to provide information to the residents that lived in the Botanie Creek and surrounding area. The RCMP provided us with a fact finding tour of the fire area. We needed to know firsthand what the situation involved. We then planned for future meetings to give further updates.

All of us that live in the North Thompson know the fears, worries and anger issues that come with being evacuated. One of the most valuable lessons learned from the horrible 2003 fire season was that information to the public is critical. I am not talking about coffee shop rumours. I am talking about proper information from those that have been on site, are knowledgeable of the situation, know how to properly assess the information and how to give it out to the public in a timely and meaningful manner.

As it states on the TNRD website:

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Bill Humphreys The TNRD Emergency Program does not take the place of the Emergency Management B.C. (EMBC), nor does it address emergencies that are normally handled at the scene by the appropriate first responding agencies such as police, fire or ambulance. The TNRD program will provide the direction and coordination required to respond and recover from major emergencies or disasters in the rural (i.e. electoral) areas of the TNRD. To support the program, an emergency operations centre (EOC) will be established at the TNRD Civic Building at 465 Victoria Street in Kamloops. Technical assistance, direction and training will also be given to sub-regional emergency response teams in defined areas of the Regional District. The TNRD program is in place to assist incident commanders when emergencies exceed their response capabilities, training or available resources.

Each member municipality within the TNRD is responsible for providing for the safety of its residents. Here in Barriere we are not immune to the destruction created by a horrific forest fire or other disaster should one occur. We need to do what we can to protect our community. Preparations for a reliable water source during emergency situations and having on hand essential fire equipment are well within our means and should be acquired and provided for in a timely manner.

Safety of our residents and protection of essential infrastructure are a primary mandate and responsibility of local government. The planning for emergency situations is complicated and the costs involved are not small. The allocation of resources and funding must be attended to as soon as possible.

The fact of the matter is that the situation in our surrounding forest lands no longer allows for the supposed cost savings of renting generators and borrowing fire equipment.

There are no cost savings big enough to pay for shattered lives and lost dreams.

This will be the 65th year that the North Thompson Fall Fair has been held, and organizers are working hard to catalogue and scrapbook its history.

Over the years the organization has created a large number of scrapbooks filled with photographs of each event. There are photos of the parades, the pageant, the rodeo, the kids, the visitors, the entertainers, the animals, and people having fun all over the fairgrounds.

There are also behind-the-scenes photos of work bees, meetings, awards, individuals, and photographs of events at the fairgrounds held throughout the years.

A number of boxes with photographs and newspaper clippings that have sat in storage for many years are currently being placed into albums and scrapbooks, and the lady doing the compilation says she has time to lay down more if she had the photographs to do it with.

If there are any folks out there who might have unwanted photographs from past years of the North Thompson Fall Fair and Rodeo, photos from the association’s events or noteworthy moments, or even old catalogues and programs that are still in good condition from years prior to 2000 the organization would love to have them.

If you might have some photos or items you would consider donating to the North Thompson Fall Fair and Rodeo Association, you can drop them off at the North Thompon Star/Journal office in Barriere, or call Jill at 250-319-8023.

All of the photo albums and scrapbooks will be on display in the North Thompson Agriplex banquet hall during the fair this year. Everyone is invited to take a moment to stop by, sit down with a scrapbook, and see how many folks you can identify who are pictured attending the fall fairs of the past. You might be surprised who you will find in these pictures from days gone by.

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Heritage in Bloom scrapbook

(L-r) Jordan Froste and Virginia Smith in a skit written by Froste about 100 years in the area for First Nations and the settlers.

(Below) Therese McKirdy on the piano.

Youth from the Thompson Valley Players and Barriere Learning and Literacy Summer Camp perform a skit that they wrote the words to and learned their parts in just three days.

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Elementary School heritage fair projects told the story of Barriere’s residents and their history.

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Through the smoke The smoke that collected in the North Thompson Valley last week from numerous wildfires being fought around British Columbia has been hard on people with respiratory problems. This photograph was taken on Friday, July 18, from Poison, overlooking McLure in the direction of Kamloops.

Submitted photo: Therese McKirdy

2014 BC Summer Games come to a close in Nanaimo

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Submitted The 2014 BC Summer Games came to a close on Sunday in Nanaimo. Over 3200 athletes, coaches and officials from across B.C. competed in 19 sports during the four day event.

The rain held off at the Closing Ceremony and the audience was treated to entertainment from local talents, Mikaila Tombe and dancers from Vibrant Dance Studios and Tempo Dance Academy as well as 13 year-old Ian Perry and his band from Gabriola Island.

Four time Olympian and BC Games Society Board member, Dave Calder, spoke to the athletes and reminded them that medals and sucesses are not the only things to be taken from these Games. “Remember that you learn lessons from all your successes and failures and each experience is important.”

Port Alberni Wrestler, Nolan Badovinac was recognized with the W.R. Bennett Award for Athletic Excellence. With two gold medals at the 2014 BC Summer Games and an impressive resume of sport and leadership success, Badovinac receives a $2500 bursary to support his future sport or educational expenses.

The City of Nanaimo was a suberb host with over 3200 volunteers working on every detail of the planning and staging of the Games. Local businesses contributed in excess of $900,000 as to support the Games.

Her Honour the Honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia was present to speak to the audience and officially close the Games.

The next BC Games will next be hosted in the City of Penticton for the 2016 BC Winter Games. Penticton Box Lacrosse athletes, Travis Hamilton and Michael Maclean, accepted the BC Games flag from Nanaimo 2014 BC Summer Games President, Jeff Lott to take back to their city.

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Thursday, July 24, 2014 North Thompson Star/Journal

Different world at night

By Leslie Stirling Hot town, summer in the city…Back of my neck feeling dirty and gritty. Been down, isn’t it a pity? Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city. But according to the Lovin Spoonful… at night it’s a different world!

Twenty-seven ladies suffered the heat and were rewarded with a lovely evening on the patio when a light breeze came up as the sun went down July 15.

For some of us it was just a challenge to complete all nine holes while others did an excellent job. Flight 1 winners (Thompson Valley Awards) were Carol Hindle and Ilke Marais tied with identical scores of 44 but the low gross prize went to Carol by retrogression. Ilke took home the low net prize.

Flight 2 was sponsored

by Ron Wallace Trucking. Linda Ransome had a 48 to win low gross and Evelyn Lucas won low net with a 50.

Joan Streadwick took the low gross prize for Flight 3 with a score of 57. Ilke Marais, Evelyn Lucas and Linda Ransome split the birdie pot three ways.

As far as pin place-

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Ladies Golf Report ments went we had a large number of multiple winners. Ilke Marais took home prizes from Val Bella Studio (long drive in 2 on Hole 2), EBL Ventures (KP on Hole 6) and Pottery by Ramona (long drive on Hole 9). Joan Streadwick won prizes from Country Store Antiques (short drive on Hole 8) and Rainer Custom Cutting (long putt on Hole 9). Visitor Nicole Carswell had a KP on Hole 4 (Carl’s Market Garden) and a long drive on Hole 5 (Barriere Massage). Debbie Pearce had a long putt on Hole 5 (Barriere A & W) and a KP in 2 on Hole 7 (Crystlee’s Hair Design). Betty Baillie doubled up with a long drive in 2 on Hole 2 to win the AG Food certificate and used her putter the most (23) to win the Interior Savings Credit Union prize.

Debbie Winiski took the Bondar Forest Planning prize for KP on Hole 4 and the Barriere Timber Mart certificate for long

putt on Hole 5.

Single prize winners were Carol Hindle (least putts - Interior Savings Credit Union), Barb Smith (long drive in 2 - Shais Designs), Sandy Hultman (closest to the golfer - Station House Restaurant), Rose Seymour (long putt - Armour Mtn Office Services). Babes Shanko (KP - Campbell & Company), Linda Ransome (KP - Stamer Logging), Brenda Carl (closest to the sand Estylo Hair Design), and Evelyn Lucas (long drive - Knights Inn). A few ladies received new balls courtesy of Barb and Carman Smith. I was quite surprised that Susan Mitchell wasn’t one of those ladies but you will have to ask her why.

I have just come across some new rules that apply to us seniors.

This one was my favourite. Rule 2.d.6 (b) A ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree. This is simply bad luck and luck has no place in a scientific game. The senior player must estimate the distance the ball would have travelled if it had not hit the tree and play the ball from there.

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As temperatures remain high across our region, many people are hitting the water to keep cool. Interior Health would like to remind the public that it’s important to be safe when in, near or on the water.

More people die from drowning in the Interior region than in any other area of the province. So far this year, there have been 25 deaths in B.C. due to accidental drowning, 15 of which have occurred in the Interior.

“Water activities like swimming and boating can be a lot of fun and a great way to cool down, but drowning is a real danger,” said Dr. Lizette Elumir, resident public health physician with Interior Health. “Drowning can happen fast, sometimes in less than a minute.”

Dr. Elumir stresses that prevention is the key to reducing drowning deaths in our region. She offers the following tips: • Always swim with a buddy.

• Do not go beyond your abilities. Do not go farther or into deeper water than you can handle.

• Never dive into unknown water. Underwater objects may appear deeper than they are.

• Don’t mix alcohol or other drugs with water activities; these substances can affect judgment, coordination and the ability to self-rescue.

• Always supervise children when around water; a child can drown in seconds in only a few inches of water.

• Install four-sided fencing around pools with a gate that cannot be opened by a child, and child proof or lock doors that open directly to a backyard pool area.

• Learn life-saving techniques including CPR and artificial respiration.

• Take a marine safety course.

• Always wear a life-jacket when on a boat, personal water craft (such as a Jet Ski), paddle board or any other water craft; nearly 90 per cent of all boaters who drown are not wearing a life-jacket or not wearing it properly.

• Always have a spotter when towing people who are skiing, wake boarding or riding on an inflatable.

• Use caution when near water. Falling into a pool or other body of water can be very dangerous.

If you hit your head and become unconscious, you can drown very quickly.

Drowning is almost always preventable. July 1926 is National Drowning Prevention week – a week dedicated to reducing the number of water-related fatalities and near drowning incidents through increasing awareness of water safety.

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Permablitzing earthship-style in Darfield The Burkholder/Newton family over the past three years have constructed an earthship on their property in Darfield. An earthship is a sustainable home built from dirt-packed used tires and stacked pop cans. Its hallmarks are passive solar heating, rainwater catchment and sustainable energy use and consumption. The family is now moving into the next phase of their sustainable living plan.

North Thompson Star/Journal Permaculture BC and Elements Eco-Design dynamos Javan Bernakevitch and Gord Heibert descended upon the Burkholder/Newton property in Darfield, B.C. on June 14 and 15. They were there to join 23 plus participants taking part in a workshop titled ‘Earthships and Permaculture: Applied Techniques for Cold Climate Food Production’, and to help install half of Zone 1 of the Darfield earthship’s permaculture design.

Sandra Burkholder says, “This is what happens during a weekend of hugelkulture, Sepp Holzer-style high beds and hours of connecting with like-minded people.

“I can’t begin to describe what a wonderful experience this workshop was for us. We had 23 diverse and capable people who came to learn about compost tea, fungi, hugelkulture, perennials, Sepp Holzer-style high beds –arguably the first installed in Canada – raised garden beds, bone salve, food forestry and a number of other interesting topics that popped up outside the weekend’s agenda.

“There is nothing like a permablitz for making fast friends. We are grateful to all who came for giving up a weekend to learn and help us build something better, even if it was in the rain!”

The project has been five years in the “starting” for Chris Newton, Sandra, and their children.

Sandra says that what made the event especially exciting for the family was that the first steps of that five year plan to reclaim this industrial land for

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Workshop facilitator Javan Bernakevitch, of Permaculture BC and Elements EcoDesign, shows his happiness as the new permaculture project in the area just in front of the earthship home in Darfield starts to take shape. food production have now been taken. For the first time in about 50 years a family is living on land that had been used as a sawmill, and making a home on it.

Although the earthship is not yet fully completed inside, it has always been the family’s plan to eventually become food self-sufficient on their property as soon as possible.

“Chris and I, and our children, first met Javan when we visited O.U.R. Ecovillage on Vancouver Island in November 2009, just after we began building our earthship,” says Sandra, “Javan gave us the tour of OUR, and I knew then that one way or another we would be seeing him again!

“Last summer, as our family finished hiking the West Coast Trail we met with Javan in Victoria, B.C., to see if he would be interested in working with us to realize our ‘permie’ plans. We had just moved into our earthship a few months before, and we

were ready to take modern homesteading ‘earthshipstyle’ to the next level.”

Sandra says that husband Chris is an engineer, and she is a former journalist and PR consultant.

Javan gave the couple “lots of leeway in the early planning stages”.

“With minimal help from him we put together our holistic goal, a guiding document of our dreams and desires for our land, and by extension an everchanging road map for our lives,” tells Sandra, “Chris and I each had strengths in data collection, parsing information, writing and evaluation so this task was within our abilities. We also took on the job of finding climate data and site specific information. We used our own resources to map our property, calling on a forestry ‘friend of a friend’ who taught us how to use a compass, clinometer and tight chain to map our land.”

The couple say that when working with a permaculture designer you

have the option to do as much as you want. This can often save you in fees, and there really is no better way to learn then doing it yourself. They highly recommend taking a deep breath and diving in!

Sandra explains that as they proceeded further into the process, “Javan spent a lot of last fall and part of the winter doing some amazing things overseas in Cuba and Kenya, so in early 2014 he introduced Gord into the planning process and together they came up with an initial design. We made very few changes, although the design shown does not include the hugelkulture bed that quickly became a ‘must’ for the area just south of our main entrance.

Sandra says she became the “workshop organizer”, and with input from Javan and Gord accumulated all the materials – topsoil, manure, cardboard and a variety of other things necessary for a successful workshop.

She also lined up Dustin

(Top) Many helpful hands were needed over the two days to bring the permaculture design into reality. (Above) Some of the 23 people who participated in the workshop and helped to establish the permaculture site on the property show their enthusiasm by jumping for joy at the completion of the event.

Rainer to do the excavation work, bought topsoil from Mitchell’s Cattle Company since the soil on the property “needed help”, and worked with a nursery to ensure the family had all the edible perennials, fruit trees and herbs that were indicated on their list.

During the permablitz event more than 200 individual plants were installed and the hugel bed was seeded with more than 100 packets of seeds.

“The two-day work-

shop was so much fun.

It is pretty heady stuff to be surrounded by 20 plus like-minded people, who wonder about the same things and who each have their own set of very unique skills and knowledge,” says Sandra, “We feel quite lucky to have met everyone who came – one person from as far away as Whitehorse – and lots of new friendships were formed.

“Would we proceed with the next phase? Yes, but first we need to ‘own’

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this very new space we helped to create.”

You can find more about the earthship and sustainable living plan by referring to the Star/Journal’s May 8, 2014 issue’s ‘Permaculture for earthship family in Darfield, B.C.’, or by going to http:// www.darfieldearthship. com. Please respect the privacy of the earthship family and their property.

You can contact them via Facebook or their website for more info or to inquire about a future tour.

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A fun day photographing the Pritchard Rodeo Making Pictures with

John E n ma n Every year I look forward to spending a dusty, fun-filled day pointing my camera lens through the arena rails at the Pritchard Rodeo.

My wife dropped me off and I walked down the dirt road to the arena. Events had already begun, and as I looked around at lots of familiar faces I spotted Karl Pollak, his Nikon cradled in one arm waving at me.

Karl had driven four hours that morning from the big city of Vancouver to attend our small rural community rodeo.

He had brought another photographer, Meko Walker, and this was her first time at a rodeo. As we were introduced, happy as I was to see Karl, meet Meko, and shoot with the two of them, I wondered how these photographers from the moderate humid climate of a coastal city were going to cope with the sunny, cloudless, windless, extremely dry, 40° degree Celsius day?

There was a lull in the action as we talked, and the Pritchard fire department’s water truck drove around the arena spraying water. We moved aside continuing our conversation (protecting our cameras from the water), but two young girls ran rail side laughing as they danced around in the wet, cooling spray.

While we waited, sitting on the edge of the hill that ran down from the bandstand, I asked Karl why he would come all the way when there were other rodeos closer to Vancouver. He replied, “I like the wild location. Look at the

hills, and trees, and all the open space.” And after snapping a wide angle shot of the arena he added, “Everyone is so friendly, they say hello even though they don’t know me, and there is a beer garden with people drinking, but no one is getting drunk, being loud, or causing trouble.”

The Pritchard Rodeo grounds are perfect for photographers. The arena is enclosed with a strong metal fence that’s safe to stand close to and doesn’t restrict the view.

Of course, one has to be careful when excited horses are getting ready for the barrel race, but heck, it is a rodeo and one must remember that the animals, like any other athletes, are focusing on what they are about to do, not some silly person with a camera.

I like that rodeo, and as I wrote, every year I look forward to photographing it.

I like capturing things that move fast, it challenges me to think and I enjoy the test of wills between animals and riders. Photographing any action event is fun, and one can be sure there will be action at a rodeo.

This year they added children’s sheep riding. I don’t know who is more bewildered, the poor kids being coaxed along by their parents, or the sheep trying to figure out why there is something on their back and why some big human is trying to persuade them to leave the enclosure they were just herded into. When the sheep finally were cajoled to move, the young rider would usually slide off, and fall to the ground

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Rodeos are easy to photograph. One just has to pay attention to where the action is coming from and take up a position that allows everything to move towards the camera. pretty quickly. After all, wool is slippery.

Another addition this year was the trick riders. Although I really like the saddle bronc, bareback, bull riding competitions and, of course, barrel racing, I must admit those trick riders were amazing. I was actually requested to stand center arena so I could photograph them as they performed in a wide circle around me.

Gosh, it doesn’t get much better than that.

When they beckoned Meko and I into the riding arena I was briefly worried that my 70-200mm lens would be too long, but as it was I had lots of room to move around and it was just fine.

Rodeos are easy to photograph. One just has to pay attention to where the action is coming from and take up a position that allows everything to move towards the camera.

Then choose a fast shutterspeed and start shooting. I prefer to use shutter priority; I select the shutter, and the camera chooses the aperture. All I need

to do is follow the action as the camera’s computer handles the rest. Yep, it’s all pretty easy.

There should be a note saying, “No animals, cowboys, cowgirls, or photographers were hurt during the process of having a great time.”

These are my thoughts for this week.

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Coconut Cloud Cake

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Directions: Preheat the oven to 350º.

With a fine sieve, sift together flour and 3/4 cups sugar four times. In the bowl of a stand mixer on medium speed, beat together egg whites and water until foamy. Add salt, cream of tartar, and vanilla; beat until soft peaks form.

Increase speed to medium-high and sprinkle in remaining sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time. Beat until stiff but not dry.

Transfer to a large bowl. In six additions, sift dry ingredients over meringue, folding in quickly but gently. Pour batter into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan with removable bottom. Smooth top with an offset spatula. Run a knife through batter to release air bubbles. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until golden brown and springy to touch. Invert pan on its legs or over the neck of a glass bottle, and let cool completely, about 1 hour. Make the frosting: In the heatproof bowl of an electric mixer set over a saucepan of

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Most of the bigger plaques are sold (still a commemorate Barriere’s Anniversafew To though so if you or your100th business wants ry in 2014, a legacy piece is planned for the south in...HURRY!!) but there is still a decent side wall of the Bandshell. selection the green, Celebration $100 plaques avail100th of Anniversary organizer Tasha Buchanan tells about steadily the project, able, but they ARE selling so“From don’t Barriere Town Road, one will see a nine foot, wait too long. aluminum tree in the shape of the District of

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Buchanan says there are 126 plaques available for purchase in various shapes and locations, and that they have been color coded on the diagram to indicate the price point of each piece (the actual aluminum plaques will not be colored). The purchase price of a plaque includes personalized engraving. Whether a simple family name occupies the plaque, the names of multiple family members scattered throughout the plaque, a family crest, a ranch brand, a business logo, a business name and establishment date, community group name or agency with or without current/past presidents or chair members, a memorial of a loved one, recognition of a Citizen of the Year and the year of title… the opportunities are endless!

Opportunities are endless, but as Buchanan points out, not the number of plaques.

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simmering water, combine egg whites, sugar, water, and cream of tartar. Cook over medium heat, whisking frequently, until sugar is dissolved and mixture is foamy, about 5 minutes. Attach the bowl to a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat the mixture on high speed until glossy and voluminous, about 7 minutes. Beat in the vanilla.

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This is an artist’s rendition of a nine foot tall, aluminum tree in the shape of the District of Barriere’s logo, which will be comprised of over 100 pieces of individual engraved aluminum plaques, and is to be mounted on the Bandshell in Fadear Park in commemoration of Barriere’s 100th anniversary.

The plaques will be available for purchase starting June 9, at 9 a.m., for those wishing to be a part of the art piece and the commemoration.

This coloured rendition of the art piece shows the 100 individual plaques that are available for purchase. The colour coding designates the price of each office to reserve the plaque of your choice.

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October 23– November 21

Your imagination The tiniest of ischanges readymake to run wild a vast this week, improvementScorpio. in a Enjoy this burst of project. A rejection is creative and a blessingenergy in disguise. put it to good use.

Be grateful for what Encourage you’re given,others Scorpio.to participate as well.

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Ads may be submitted by phone if charged to a VISA, MC or an existing account.

CHECK YOUR AD! Notice of error must be given in time for correction before the second insertion of any advertisement. The paper will not be responsible for omissions or for more than one incorrect insertion, or for damages or costs beyond the cost of the space actually occupied by the error.

Advertisers are reminded that Provincial legislation forbids the publication of ads which discriminate against any person because of race, religion, sex, color, nationality, ancestry or place of origin or age, unless the condition is justified by a bona fide requirement for the work involved.

Readers; in ads where ‘male’ is referred to, please read also as ‘female’ and where ‘female’ is used, read also ‘male’.

NOTE: When ordering items out of province, the purchaser is responsible to pay provincial sales tax. Do not send money in response to an advertisement without confirming the credentials of that business, and be aware that some telephone numbers will be charged for by the minute Free Ads: Lost, Found, Student Work Wanted Free ads maximum 15 words will run 2 consecutive weeks.

Cards of Thanks A Special Thank You to our neighbours in the sharing of their condolences on the sudden passing of Ron Quall, husband to Gail Gosslin and brother to Reg Quall.

Gratefully appreciated Gosslin & Quall families

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Information Barriere A-A Meetings Every Tuesday at 7:30pm Pentecostal Church 818 Amnesty Road 250-672-9643 250-672-9934 CANADA BENEFIT Group Do you or someone you know suffer from a disability? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian Government. Toll-free 1-888511-2250 or visit us online: www.canadabenefit.ca.

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STEEL BUILDINGS. Summer meltdown sale! 20x20 $5,419.

25x26 $6,485. 30x30 $8,297.

32x34 $9,860. 40x48 $15,359.

47x68 $20,558. Front & back wall included. Pioneer Steel 1800-668-5422 or visit online: www.pioneersteel.ca

Clearwater: Completely renovated 2 bdrm hm, 6 appl, high efficiency furnace w/heat pump. Lots of prkg, on bus route, $900/mo + util. Avail immed. NS, NP. Free Sat TV. Ph 250-674-2677

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Home Repairs FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1800-573-2928.

Merchandise for Sale

Furniture Brown leatherette love seat and chair in good condition. $300. Ph. 250-587-6300

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Steel Stud Framers required for project in Clearwater, BC. Contact Carrie at Ivory Interiors Ltd. 250-672-5682

Work Wanted HAFI GRANTS Notice to low income seniors and persons with disability.

You may qualify for a grant up to 20,000. to modify and adapt your home for improved safety and accessibility. For details contact your local HAFI expert Hans Ounpuu, Building contractor @ 250-674-3875.

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Drop stamps off at front counter of the Star/Journal in Barriere, or call Margaret at (250)672-9330.

Clearwater: Upper 3bdrm suite in tri-plex. Priv deck, central location. Avail Sept. 1. $800/mo + DD. Call Julie 250-674-0188

Transportation Auto Loans Guaranteed or We Pay You! 1-888-375-8451 or apply at: www. greatcanadianautocredit.com

Auto Accessories/Parts

Mobile Homes & Parks

1995 Rustler 5th wheel, 24.5’, sleeps 6, very well maintained, $5,500.00, hitch neg. Tows beautifully. Ph. 250-587-0004

Auto Financing

14’ Prince Craft aluminum boat. No leaks. Excellent condition. $1000 obo. 250-6729207

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Modular Homes Very attractive 2-bdrm manuf home, stove, fridge, washer dryer, central air, office area, carport. $800/month now available. Thompson Crossing Blackpool, Clearwater 250587-6151

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE ABOVE JOBS PLEASE GO TO

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Skill Development: If you have been on Employment Insurance in the past 3 years (5 years maternity) & are currently unemployed, you may be eligible for re-training dollars. Book an appointment to see one of our counselors for information.

Free computer & Internet access • Free resume help • Free info on many services The Employment Program of British Columbia is funded by the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia In Partnership with Barriere & District Chamber of Commerce and Yellowhead Community Services

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Thursday, July 24, 2014 North Thompson Star/Journal Thursday, July 24, 2014 North Thompson Star Journal

Living every moment and having no regrets

Submitted photo: Keith Moore

Keeping cool This robin might have a bird sized brain, but it is a smart one. When the outside temperature was cooking this bird went to the the water features in Keith Moore’s back yard.

CHURCH DIRECTORY CHURCH DIRECTORY

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CHURCH OF ST. PAUL A worshipping community of

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All Are Welcome

A worshipping community of Anglicans, Lutherans the Rev.United Brian&Krushel

Close your eyes, reach into the future and imagine you are at a funeral. Now realize the funeral is yours. Walk down the aisle and examine the faces of friends and relatives as they remember your life.

What do you see in those faces?

Take a seat. Listen to the service and pay attention to what is being said. What important memories about you, the deceased, do people share now that you are gone?

As you watch and listen to your ceremony, do you feel comfort in what you see and hear or are you filled with sadness?

If such an exercise gives you a sense of well being you are lucky.

You have lived life fully, without regret.

If the exercise brings up pain or guilt, relax. You are not dead yet and

Pause For Thought

By April Sanders there is still time to change your destiny.

The sad truth is that everybody dies, but not everybody lives.

The Dalai Lama said it best. When asked what surprised him the most about humanity, he answered “Man.” Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.

And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies

having never really lived.

With such a statement in mind, what then, constitutes living fully?

My definition is simple. It involves showing up and being an active participant in the only life you have.

Psychologists call living fully self-actualization and I see shining examples of this in the everyday lives of those around me. Whether it is a 72-year-old widow starting a university education, a blind kayaker running the rapids, a grandmother raising her grandchildren after her daughter’s death, an 80-year-old gentleman on the summit of Everest or children at play in the midst of third world squalor, they are individuals who inspire me simply because they have shown up and are en-

gaged in the life they have been given.

Mercifully, today is not my funeral and neither is it yours. It is instead a day to reflect upon an ordinary life lived, the only one we are given, and a second chance to choose whether today will be lived as a spectator or a participant.

When today is done I will have no regrets if I choose a few conscious steps.

I will spend time with my husband and tell him that I love him.

I will connect with my children whose absence is sometimes an ache. I will give silent thanks for my great luck, health and family before I spend time outdoors and simply, live.

Dr. April Sanders writes on a variety of issues for The Vernon Morning Star. She is a physician at Sanders Medical Inc. Vein and Laser in Vernon, B.C.

Office: 672-5653 All Are250Welcome www.norththompsonpc.ca the Rev. Brian Krushel

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December 12, 1935 – July 16, 2014 Dale Franklin Brown of Barriere, British Columbia, passed away after a lengthy illness, at his home on July 16, 2014. He was 78 years of age.

Dale was born in Edmonton, Alberta, to parents Raymond and Cecelia (nee Caza).

Dale is survived by his son Keith (Butch Brown), five daughters, Jo-Anne Massicotte (Leonard), Roxanne Taylor (Dan), Diane Brown (Darrel), Rae-Anne Dickie (Jim), Lianne Hamblin (Brent). Nine grandchildren,15 great grandchildren, brother Wendall Brown (Jaunita), sister Donna Primrose, brother in law Maynard Miller (Carole), sister in law

Clarece Dyson. He will be missed by many nieces and nephews as well as by his many friends.

Dale was predeceased by his wife, the love of his life Lylet, and his parents Raymond and Cecelia Brown.

After all the facts Dale has

gone fishing. He is a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend.

Private family burial will be held at the Barriere Memorial Cemetery.

Celebration of Life for family and friends will follow at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, July 26, 2014, in the lower part of the Barriere Legion Branch #242.

Donations in Memory of Dale Brown can be made to the Barriere Hospice Society, Box 201, Barriere, B.C., V0E 1E0.

Condolences may be sent to the family via www.NorththompsonFuneral.com. Funeral arrangements entrusted to North Thompson Funeral Services, Barriere, BC, 1-250672-1999.

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West Nile virus risk increases as the summer heats up Interior Health

As temperatures rise so does the risk of West Nile virus. The mosquito species most likely to carry the virus is more active and more likely to spread the virus towards the end of July and into August.

West Nile virus is a disease that is spread from infected corvid birds (crows, ravens, magpies, and jays) to humans through mosquito bites. It was first detected in B.C. in the South Okanagan during the summer of 2009. To date there have been four cases acquired in B.C. – all in the Okanagan.

Last year, the Okanagan reported one human West Nile virus case while several parts of the Canada and the U.S. reported significant increases in West Nile virus activity.

Though 80 per cent of people infected with West Nile virus will not get sick, about 20 per cent of people will have mild to moderate illness that starts three to 14 days after being infected.

Symptoms of West Nile virus may include fever, headache, body aches, fatigue, swollen lymph glands, and sometimes a rash on the body.

These symptoms generally last about one week, but they can last much longer. Less than one per cent of people infected with the West Nile virus can experi-

ence more serious illnesses and in very rare cases West Nile virus can result in death.

“We’d like to remind people to continue to take steps both here at home and when travelling to avoid mosquito bites,” said Dr. Lizette Elumir, resident public health physician with Interior Health. “While the risk of becoming seriously ill from West Nile virus infection is low for many, it can be higher for the elderly and those with compromised immune systems. It is important to remember there are things everyone can do to reduce the risk of infection.”

Any activity that prevents mosquitoes from biting or breeding can help to reduce the risk of becoming infected with West Nile virus. Dr. Elumir offers the following tips: • Avoid outdoor activities at dusk and dawn. This is the time of day the mosquitoes that can carry West Nile virus are most active.

• Wear protective clothing.

If you are in an area with lots of mosquitoes, wear loose fitting, light coloured, full-length pants and a long-sleeved shirt.

• Use mosquito repellent.

Apply mosquito repellent to exposed skin. Check the product label for instructions on proper use. Repellents containing DEET are safe for those over six months of age when used

according to the directions on the label. DEET-free products are available, but may not provide long-lasting protection.

• Prevent mosquito breeding around your home. Anything that holds water can be a mosquito breeding area.

Identify and remove potential breeding areas on your property – empty saucers under flowerpots; change water in bird baths twice a week; unclog rain gutters; drain tarps, tires, and other debris where water may collect; and install a pump in ornamental ponds or stock them with fish. Stagnant backyard pools can be a big source of mosquitoes and should be maintained regularly to prevent mosquito growth.

• Install screens on windows.

Screens will help prevent mosquitoes from coming indoors.

Interior Health works closely with the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and Canadian Blood Services to monitor West Nile virus activity. Surveillance includes screening the blood supply, and reporting human, animal and bird cases. Members of the public can help with surveillance by reporting dead corvid birds using BCCDC’s Dead Bird Report Form (http://westnile.bccdc. org/). West Nile virus surveillance reports will be posted on the BCCDC website.

Smart tips for a safe summer North Thompson Star/Journal Now that we are in the thick of the “fun in the sun” season, residents across the region are planning road trips, hitting the beach, or heading to the hills. Nobody wants to spend the summer season in a hospital bed, so Interior Health is reminding the public to take a few simple steps to stay healthy this summer: • For non-urgent care during office hours, call your family doctor or the doctor on call for the local practice or clinic.

• If your community has one, consider using a walk-in clinic. Call ahead to check the clinic’s hours.

• Try to see your doctor before he or she takes holidays if you have any developing health concerns.

• Note the summer/holiday hours of your local pharmacy or drug store, and ensure your prescriptions are up to date and filled. Remember to pack medications while traveling.

• Call HealthLink BC at 8-1-1 for confidential health information and non-emergency services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For deaf and hearing-impaired assistance (TTY), call 7-1-1.

• If you are concerned about a possible poisoning or exposure to a toxic substance, call Poison Control at 1-800-567-8911.

• If at any time you feel that you require ur-

gent medical attention, do not hesitate to go to the emergency department or call emergency services at 9-1-1.

• Some hospitals may experience higher than normal volumes over the holidays. A triage system is used at the Emergency Department to ensure priority is given to those patients requiring the most urgent care.

More simple tips for staying safe and healthy: • Stay hydrated by drinking lots of water.

Limit sun and heat exposure by wearing a hat and seeking shade. Wear SPF 30 or higher sunscreen and lip balm and be sure to cover-up when you can; • Wash hands often with soap and water, or use an alcohol-based hand rub; • Get regular exercise and fuel your body with healthy and nutritious foods; • Everything in moderation, including alcohol; • Never leave children or pets in the car. Even when parked in shaded areas with the windows cracked open the temperature of your car can increase rapidly. Leave your purse or phone in the back seat next to your child or pet to ensure you don’t forget them in the car; • Take care driving especially during dawn and dusk. Keep your eyes on the road, leave the phone alone and never drink and drive; · Be safe around water and monitor children when out enjoying lakes, rivers and pools.

Touring

STAR/JOURNAL photo: Jill Hayward

(L-r) Barriere Communities in Bloom chair Virginia Smith, with committee member Barbara McManus, participated in a tour of the North Thompson Fall Fair facility with the Communities in Bloom judges last Monday. The theme for Barriere this year was Heritage in Bloom, so the ladies wore period costumes for the days events. The tour was conducted by NTFFRA vice-president Karl Rainer and past president Donna Kibble. Everyone rode on one of three golf carts that the organization was able to purchase thanks to a New Horizons for Seniors grant received earlier this year.

Power outage safety tips North Thompson Star/Journal Many British Columbians are on high alert this week as wildfires burn in the north and central regions of the province.

As wildfires can spread rapidly and potentially threaten power lines, it’s important that you know, in advance, how to help your family cope with a power outage: * Do not barbecue indoors.

Charcoal and gas barbecues, as well as camping equipment, release carbon monoxide, an odourless and colourless gas. It can be a silent killer if allowed to build up in enclosed areas. * For the same reason, if you use a generator, make sure it’s outside. * Avoid using candles as they can be a fire hazard. If used, always extinguish candles when leaving a room and be sure the candle-holder is on a stable surface. * Turn on your portable radio for instructions and news reports to ensure you’re able to cooperate with instructions from public safety officials. * To stay connected longer, run as few apps on your phone as possible, turn down the screen brightness to conserve your mobile phone’s battery. * Make a list of emergency contacts, including 1 888 POWERON

(1 888 769-3766) to report a power outage. * Unplug non-critical electronic devices to avoid damage due to a power surge when the power returns. Alternately, use a power protection surge bar approved by the Canadian Standards Association. * If you encounter a downed power line, stay at least 10 metres away and call BC Hydro immediately. If your vehicle makes contact with an energized line, stay inside the vehicle until help arrives. An essential part of surviving a power outage involves having an emergency kit that will support your entire family for at least 72 hours.

Include these supplies in your kit: * A battery operated flashlight * Extra batteries * Bottled water- two litres of water per person per day * Battery or crank operated clock and radio * Non-perishable foods * Medication or other special needs items * First aid kit * Warm clothing and blankets * Games and books to keep everyone busy For up-to-date information, evacuation orders and public safety notices, visit: www.EmergencyInfoBC.gov.bc.ca

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Thursday, July 24, 2014 North Thompson Star/Journal

Cyclists for clean water pedal into Vavenby

By Robyn Rexin The Times Four cyclists and one RV driver (sometime cook, logistics/ planning person, intermediate and communications person, and photographer all rolled into one) decided to celebrate turning 60 years old by teaming up with Global Aid Network to cycle 8,500 km across Canada to raise awareness for the need of clean water and to raise funds to build 60 deepcapped water wells in 60 rural villages in the countries of Benin and Togo of West Africa, Tanzania, and Ethiopia.

The wells would be hand-pumped as there is no electricity. Each well would service 1,000 villagers with disease-free water.

The journey began in Victoria on

July 1 where the cyclists dipped the front wheels of their bicycles in the Pacific Ocean, took the ferry and cycled to Abbotsford, then Lytton, then Kamloops.

Karen Moilliet and John Gerber on their bikes and Ian Moilliet met the group – Mike Woodard, Rob Montgomery, Richard Blaschek, Timo Itkonen and all purpose person Jacquie Blaschek – at the Yellowhead Highway turnoff into Vavenby on the evening of Friday, July 4.

Everyone went to Vavenby Christian Church where the cyclists set up camp.

The church was also hosting a potluck supper that night for the group.On Saturday morning the group left for Valemount. Their aim is to cycle approximately 180 km per day to cross Canada to St.

John’s Newfoundland in 60 days.

The team’s RV, which was donated

by Fraser Way RV, has a picture of an African boy holding a bottle of clean water in one hand and a bottle of dirty water in the other.

Beside the picture it says “Help us give the gift of clean water – $8.50 gives one person clean water for a lifetime.”The group is very thankful for all the other donations that it has received.

They were given 40 energy bars and money for gas and food. When passing through Clearwater they stopped at the ice cream parlour at the corner into the business section of Clearwater and the owner donated some sausages. He had heard the radio interview with the team that morning on the

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Vavenby residents John and Valerie Gerber (r) meet four cyclists who are cycling across Canada to raise money for water in Africa and lead them into Vavenby recently.

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When staying in Victoria and discussing with their hosts the purpose of the trip the hosts’ children – ages six and eight – listened in and came downstairs to give Woodard $8.50 that they had taken from their piggy banks.

This is the first time that a cycle trip has been done for this purpose and for this age range. There have been no health issues other than a couple of wipe-outs.

The men trained for the trip for a year, very extensively for the last six months.

They have not had to ride in the rain yet.

These people are really getting to know each other well by living together in the RV. Most of them met on the computer. Woodard and Richard and Jacquie Blaschek are from Abbotsford, B.C., Montgomery from Ottawa, Ontario, and Itkonen is from Mission, B.C. After reaching St. John’s they will all fly back home. For more information and/ or to donate to this cause visit cycling4water.ca or cycling4water@gmail.com

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Clearwater Fire Zone campfire ban rescinded North Thompson Star/Journal

KAMLOOPS – Effective at 12 noon on July 23, campfires remain prohibited in all areas of the Kamloops Fire Centre except the Clearwater Fire Zone.

This partial rescind of the current campfire ban is due to rain received over the last several days, which has resulted in a decreased wildfire risk in the Clearwater Fire Zone. The campfire ban remains in effect for all other fire zones to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety.

A map of the area covered by the revised campfire ban is available online at: http://bit. ly/1rwRqsa This prohibition does not apply to cooking stoves that use gas, propane or briquettes, or to a portable campfire apparatus with a CSA or ULC rating that uses briquettes, liquid or gaseous fuel, as long as the height of the flame is less than 15 centimetres.

Category 2 and 3 open fires remain prohibited for the entire Kamloops Fire Centre, including the Clearwater zone. This prohibition applies to open fires larger than a half-metre high by a halfmetre wide, fires with a burn registration number, industrial burning, fireworks, sky lanterns and burning barrels.

These prohibitions cover all BC Parks, Crown lands and private lands, but do not apply within the boundaries of a local government that has forest fire prevention bylaws and is serviced by a fire department. Please check with local governments for any other restrictions before lighting a fire.

Anyone found in violation of an open fire ban, including campfires, may be issued a ticket for up to $345. Anyone who causes a wildfire through arson or recklessness may be fined up to $1 million, spend up to three years in prison and be held accountable for associated firefighting costs. This prohibition will remain in place until the public is notified otherwise.

For the latest information on current wildfire activity, burning restrictions, road closures and air quality advisories, go to: www.bcwildfire.ca