Hope Standard, December 18, 2014

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PROVINCIAL GRANT The district has been awarded $20,000 to help support seniors initiatives

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The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was in Yale Tuesday morning after a woman was found dead on a property at the corner of Front and Yale streets. The woman’s identity has not yet been released.

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Woman found dead in Yale Homicide investigators were in Yale this week searching for clues in the death of a woman in the 31200 block of Front Street.

Hope RCMP was called to the property at about 11:20 p.m. on Dec. 15 after receiving a 911 call requesting police check on the well-being of a woman.

When officers arrived on scene and discovered the woman’s body outside the home, they quickly called for assistance.

cide Investigation “Our investigators in partnership “This is a remote area Team (IHIT). with members “This is a reof the UFVRD and we have very few mote area and we RCMP and the have very few dedetails available at Lower Mainland`s tails available at this point.”

Forensic Identifithis point. Further cation Section are information will Sgt. Bari Emam in the preliminary be communicated stages of conto the media once ducting a crime more details emerge in the comscene examination,” said Sgt. Bari ing days.”

Emam of the Integrated HomiPolice have not confirmed the

identity of the woman. IHIT is asking anyone who was in the area, between the early evening hours of Dec. 14 to 11 p.m. on Dec. 15, who may have witnessed or heard anything suspicious to call the IHIT tipline at 1-877-5514448 or email ihittipline@rcmpgrc.gc.ca.

To remain anonymous, call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or leave a tip on their website at Solvecrime.ca

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DECEMBER 2014

District News Council Briefs Transfer Station Operating Hours: The District of Hope Transfer Station, operated by First Class Waste Services and located at 22970 Trans Canada Highway, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 8:30am - 4:30, (closed statutory holidays).

Collecting Yard Green Waste in plastic bags puts an incredible strain on the taxpayer and the environment. In an effort to reduce this, the District of Hope Transfer Station now only accepts Yard Green Waste (Leaves, Clippings, Pine Needles, Plant Materials, Stalks and Prunings up to 1/4” in diameter) in containers or biodegradable paper bags, provided they are approved for organic materials (which are available at local retailers).

Pick up your FREE Yard Green Waste decals at the District Hall and affix to the containers you wish to reuse each time.

Containers should be no larger than the standard 32 gallon size to minimize the health and safety risk of heavy lifting to collection staff.

Please try and limit your Green Waste to 5 containers a week.

The District of Hope thanks you for your consideration and contribution to our environment.

November 24, 2014 Council Meeting Staff Reports: Hope Transfer Station Council ratified the change in Transfer Station hours of operation. The Transfer Station will now be open Tuesday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Permissive Tax Exemption Council received a report that property located at 345 Raab Street will not be exempted as the use no longer conforms and was not intended to be included in the current bylaw.

Certificates of Appreciation Mayor Johnston presented Certificates of Appreciation to Shari Carratt and Teresa Williams to thank them for their many hours of volunteer dedication.

Permits: Development Permit – 66527 Kawkawa Lake Road Council approved a Geotechnical Hazards Development Permit and a Flood & Erosion Hazards Development Permit be prepared to allow the construction of a single family dwelling and permitted accessory structures.

Development Permit – 66706 Kawkawa Lake Road Council approved a Geotechnical Hazards Development Permit and a Flood & Erosion Hazards Development Permit be prepared to allow for the construction of an accessory structure.

Correspondence: Council endorsed a recommendation from AdvantageHOPE regarding 2015 AdvantageHOPE Board Appointees.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The District is currently seeking a professional community planning consultant or consortium which is experienced and creative at preparing Official Community Plans (OCP) for small BC communities. The District’s intent is to achieve a superior document that will illustrate improvement, innovation and enhancement of the existing land use policies. The OCP review must include considerations of sustainability, demography trends, viability of existing and proposed policies, appropriate land use planning and “form and character” design guidelines. The subsequent OCP Bylaw shall demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency without complications to staff, council and more importantly the general public. The entire Request for Proposal package may be viewed on the District’s website or copies picked up at the municipal hall.

Delegations: 50th Wedding Anniversary - Mayor Vicktor presented Mr. and Mrs. George Truax with a plaque and congratulated them on this momentous occasion.

Hope Idol - Mr. Terry Brewer thanked the community for their support of the Hope Idol Contest, and advised that the 12 week competition will end on Saturday December 13, 2014 with the top five singers being judged and one of them crowned “Hope Idol”.

Arrival Agency – Messrs. Gomez, Anselmi and Fazio of the Arrival Agency explained their plans for an Arts and Culture Festival to be held in Hope in August, 2015.

Our Lady of Good Hope Cemetery Mrs. Mary Lou Jacobs addressed Council regarding past and future practises at Our Lady of Good Hope Cemetery

Official Community Plan

December 8, 2014 Council Meeting

Staff Reports: 2014 Election Results Council received a report from the Director of Corporate Services/Chief Election Officer regarding the 2014 Election Results.

2015 Grant-in-Aid Applications Council directed staff to re-work the Grant-in-Aid policy to budget $10,000/ year for the next five years and also include Hope Arts Council, Hope Crime Prevention Society, and Hope Care Transit Society, as separate line items in the budget.

Council further approved the following Grant-in-Aids for 2015, totalling $9,100.00 Mount Hope Senior Citizens Housing Society ...............................$2,200

Hope Community Choir ..............$ 400 Fraser Canyon Hospice Society ..$2,000 Read Right Society ..........................$2,000 Hope Association for Community Living – Tillicum Centre .................$1,500 Hope Performing Arts Community Theatre .......................$1,000 Permits and Bylaws: Application to Rezone and Official Community Plan Amendment Council gave first and second reading to District of Hope Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 1357, 2014 and District of Hope Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1358, 2014 in order to re-designate and rezone the property located at 22100 Ross Road from L-1 Limited Use to CR-1 Country Residential.

The Community Development department will follow the necessary procedures in order for a Public Hearing to be held and further consultation be undertaken with Chawathil First Nations, School District #78 and the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.

Committee of the Whole Meeting: The Chief Administrative Officer addressed Council to review the management structure of the District of Hope; the role of Mayor, Council and Chief Administrative Officer; Council/ Staff interactions; best practices; Committees of Council; core business values; and challenges.

Next Meeting: Monday January 12, 2015 7:00 p.m. in the District of Hope Council Chambers

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News Stuff the Cruiser Const. Francois Lewis (right) loads Stuff the Cruiser donations into the back of an RCMP truck on Saturday in front of Boston Bar Kal Tire.

The annual event, which kicked off with a free pancake breakfast, raised 959 pounds of food and $1,914.05 in cash for the local food bank.

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Law Society takes action against unauthorized practitioner A judge has found Brian Carlisle of Abbotsford in contempt of a court order after he advertised legal services online for money.

On June 5, 2002, the B.C. Supreme Court ordered Carlisle and his business All Business Paralegals of Hope be prohibited from practicing law, preparing court documents and giving legal advice. Carlisle has never been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia, nor is he a licenced paralegal. It was alleged at the time that he offered to prepare and file court documents in Small Claims Court for a civil proceeding and offered to appear in court in both a civil and criminal matter.

Between 2002 and 2010, the Law Society received several complaints alleging that Carlisle had engaged in the unauthorized practice of law, but it took no steps to bring contempt proceedings during this period. One of those complaints was that in 2004, Carlisle provided

legal advice and drafted documents for a civil proceeding.

In 2013 and 2014, the Law Society conducted an investigation into Carlisle’s activities. They discovered that his services were advertised on public Facebook pages and on a website, carlisleconsulting. ca. These services involved the preparation of documents for individuals seeking exemptions under the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) and the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR). Under the MMAR, individuals could be granted permits to grow and possess medical marihuana. The MMAR was repealed in March 2014 and replaced with the MMPR. Under the MMPR, individuals can no longer grow their own medical marijuana but are required instead to purchase it from a licenced producer.

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According to court documents, Carlisle offered his services for a fee to clients wishing to make court applications for exemptions to the MMPR and presented himself qualified to do so. In addition to these advertised services, the Law Society contacted four individuals in Ontario in respect to services provided by Carlisle for a fee and also conducted an undercover investigation in B.C. The Law Society’s undercover investigation involved a private investigator who posed as a potential client seeking Carlisle’s services to apply for a MMPR exemption for a relative.

During his trial last month, Carlisle said he didn’t deliberately disobey the terms of the order. He didn’t think it applied to court proceedings outside B.C. and pointed out that he did not offer document services for a fee to B.C.

residents. Carlisle said that any advice he provided was based on the expertise he has gained from his own personal experience applying for and obtaining exemptions under the MMAR and MMPR, and most of this was directed to applications to Health Canada, not to court.

He also noted that the main area in which he provides advice for a fee relates to applications under MMPR for production licences, which are not court applications.

However, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barbara Fisher pointed out that Carlisle’s Internet postings between Sept. 17, 2013 and Jan. 18, 2014 establish that he offered services that are clearly prohibited in his previous order, and that many of the other postings, when considered in context, establish that he also held himself as being qualified to do so, which is also prohibited. She also stated

that the postings clearly show Carlisle did this, at least for some applications, in the expectation of receiving a fee.

With respect to the Law Society investigation, Fisher found that Carlisle was prepared to provide document services that included those required for a court exemption for a $2,000 fee, he gave legal advice about the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and the medical marijuana regulations and how to obtain exemptions under the MMPR from the courts, and he accepted a fee of $150 for giving this advice. Both of these activities were clearly prohibited by the June 5, 2002 order.

The court fined Carlisle $500 and awarded the Law Society its special costs. Fisher reminded Carlisle that he is not qualified to give legal advice or prepare documents and he should not be doing this in the expectation

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Fraser Valley Regional Library waived $2 from overdue charges for every item donated to the food bank.

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BELOW: Anita Parker (left), president of the Legion Ladies Auxiliary, presents meat vouchers and non-perishable food items to Maclynne Bourquin, executive director of Hope Community Services, on Dec. 12. The donations will be used for holiday food hampers this year. The Legion Ladies Auxiliary is sponsoring two families for Christmas.

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Hope receives provincial age-friendly grant Hope has been awarded a $20,000 age-friendly community planning and project grant to help support local strategies to help seniors stay mobile, physically active, socially connected and healthy.

Funding will be used by the district for its age-friendly community needs assessment.

Through this program, the district will determine how to become a more age-friendly community where seniors can age in place.

“I think most people prefer

to stay in their own community rather than locate elsewhere to receive proper service,” said Chilliwack Hope MLA Laurie Throness. “I am looking forward to the results of this assessment.”

The age-friendly community planning and project grant program is a partnership between the provincial government and the Union of British Columbia Municipalities.

For the 2015 grants, local governments were encouraged to consider projects that com-

plement Accessibility 2024 and other provincial priorities for seniors such as dementia, elder abuse prevention and nonmedical home supports.

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Of the 28 funded projects, 12 projects include a focus on accessibility. Other successful applicants will specifically address issues facing seniors in rural communities.

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Growing pains for police investigation unit Tom Fletcher Black Press

B.C. police forces have undergone a “sea change” in the two years since a civilian-led unit was put in charge of investigating police-involved deaths and serious injuries, says the man in charge of the Independent Investigations Office.

But the road to a new system that is moving away from police investigating other police has not been smooth, former U.S. prosecutor Richard Rosenthal acknowledged in his report to a committee of B.C. MLAs. The office started up in the fall of 2012 with 36 investigators, about half and half civilians and former police officers. Its mandate was to move to all-civilian investigations, and Rosenthal said progress has been made, with two thirds of staff in the two investigative teams being people who have never worked as police officers.

This year four former officers were fired from the IIO, and five more resigned, Rosenthal told the committee. Two civilian staff also quit this year after three civilians resigned in 2013. Another former officer was “separated from the organization” in 2012, Rosenthal said. He cited three reasons for the high turnover: “cultural conflicts,” the struggles of a new organization and evolution of jobs that causes people to look for something

new. A one-time Los Angeles deputy district attorney who worked on the 1999 Rampart case involving violence and drug dealing in the city’s police force, Rosenthal set up independent police oversight in Portland and Denver before coming to B.C. He was asked about a survey of his operation that referred to a lowerthan expected case load.

Rosenthal said that was done before the office dealt with four fatal officer-involved shootings in less than three months.

Rosenthal said video cameras for police dog handlers, general-duty officers and police Tasers would help in some cases, but that is a decision for police services due to cost and privacy concerns.

The B.C. government committed to a civilianled agency after a string of incidents involving RCMP and city police forces. The office was recommended by inquiries into the 2007 deaths of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver airport, and Frank Paul, who was removed from the Vancouver Police drunk tank in 1998 and left unconscious in an alley. The 2005 gunshot death of Ian Bush at the RCMP detachment in Houston, B.C. was another case that pushed the B.C. government to end the practice of police incidents being investigated by other police forces.

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Hope Standard Thursday, December 18, 2014 A5 Effective January 1, First Class Waste Services will be transitioning to collecting Yard Green Waste in reusable containers or biodegradable paper bags ONLY. Pick up your FREE decals that identify your reusable containers for Organic Waste at the District of Hope hall. Limit of 5 containers a week that are no larger than 32 gallon in size.

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Opinion

A6 Hope Standard Thursday, December 18, 2014

Published at Hope, Boston Bar, Yale and surrounding area by Black Press

Be careful on the roads It’s a familiar refrain this time of year.

No, not the holiday wishes. Rather, the plea to motorists and pedestrians to take special care while they’re on the streets.

This week two pedestrians died in separate incidents in the Lower Mainland.

They join a stark and growing statistic: Every December in B.C., an average of seven pedestrians are killed and another 269 are injured.

The dark rainy weather, slippery streets and poor visibility all conspire to make driving more difficult.

There’s little we can do about that. But what we can do is make the extra effort to see and be seen.

ICBC has a few suggestions. They’re made every year, but they’re worth repeating.

To motorists, remain attentive at all times. Not only is it illegal to use a hand-held device while driving, the consequences can be deadly.

Pay particular attention around intersections where 75 per cent of all pedestrian incidents occur. Watch while turning left or right for pedestrians who have already begun to cross.

And remember that the rain makes the roads more slick. So build in a bit more braking time.

For pedestrians, never assume that just because you see the vehicles, their drivers see you. Headlights, traffic and other distractions compete with your visibility. Fight back by ensuring you are dressed to be seen; wear reflective clothing, a reflective arm band, or carry a light.

Keep your eyes and ears open and focus on what’s happening around you. That means pulling out your headphones, or putting the phone away while crossing a busy street.

But the most important point is to never assume a driver sees you.

Make eye contact and always err on the side of caution; the consequences of an accident are far graver for the pedestrian than for the driver.

The holidays are a hectic time of year. We all have places to be and things to think about.

But they’re also meant to be a happy time; don’t let an accident or injury spoil that.

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Horgan on LNG, climate and farmland B.C. VIEWS Tom Fletcher Following are highlights from Tom Fletcher’s year-end interview with NDP leader John Horgan. For an extended version, see the Opinion section at hopestandard.com TF: The B.C. Liberal government has given every indication they’re going to proceed with the Site C dam on the Peace River.

What do you think?

JH: I’ve always maintained that it’s a good project, but it’s a question of when to add another $8-9-10-12 billion onto the backs of ratepayers.

First of all, go to the B.C. Utilities Commission and find out if this is the power you need and if this is the time to build it. The govern-

ment refuses to do that, and I think that’s just an Achilles heel in this process.

TF: You voted for the liquefied natural gas income tax to provide certainty, and then you immediately said you would work to increase the LNG tax in 2017, before any major project could be started. How is that certainty?

JH: I thought it was important that the investment community in this sector knew there was bipartisan support for LNG in British Columbia. But we went from a seven per cent [tax] to a 3.5 per cent because of a softening market.

If there is a decline in return to the province because of a softening market, then surely over a 25-year period – not just between now and 2017, but if the market conditions change and prices go up – I think British Columbians would want

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their government to make sure they were getting a fair share of that benefit.

TF: Why did you vote against the LNG environmental legislation?

JH: They said prior to the election that LNG would be the greenest in the world. And then when they tabled legislation they left out 70 per cent of the emissions from upstream activity.

TF: Gordon Campbell’s great goal for greenhouse gases, 33 per cent reduction by 2020, can that be reached assuming a substantial LNG development?

JH: I find it difficult to believe that they’re going to achieve those results. [Environment Minister] Mary Polak has a different point of view, and our job as opposition is to hold them accountable to the numbers that they passed into law,

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and we’re going to do that.

One of the three sectors, housing, energy and transportation, where emission profiles can be managed downward is transportation. And the government has wasted 18 months talking about a referendum on [Metro Vancouver transit.]

TF: What’s your top priority for 2015?

JH: I think the public is going to increasingly find affordability issues to be the challenge. We didn’t spend as much time as I had hoped to on hydro rate increases, ICBC. When the government balanced the budget, they did it by selling assets, and by increasing costs at their Crown corporations and then pulling that revenue in for budget purposes.

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Disappointed in ‘power politics’ Thank you for the Nov. 27 story about the community forest board firings.

There is/was a core of volunteer board directors who have persisted in their efforts and kept the Community Forest corporation developing for 13 years while the ‘partners’ sorted themselves. In recent times, as you noted, they distributed the available profits of community logging operations to the community as per their mandate.

Then the ‘partners’ decided

to review the process. Some of these ‘partner’ representatives had yet to attend their first, ever, meeting with the directors.

As the article tells it, the directors waited, and waited and waited, calling on the partners to meet with them and enable the community forest board to continue doing what it was created to do, that is - to create local wealth via local logging and distribute designated profits locally via their grant application process.

So, the partners finally got involved and acted. They fired the champions of the community forest who contributed countless volunteer hours for more than a decade to bring it to where it is today- a viable, local forestry operation that serves its own community.

Full disclosure: our agroinnovation company, You Grow Food Aquaponics, applied for and received a grant that helped us purchase heatefficient technology that now enables our Hope greenhouse

operation to produce organic greens and herbs throughout the winter. We remain grateful for the helping hand this provided our start-up business.

We are disappointed in the power politics that has kneecapped the directors of the Community Forest board. This action was disrespectful, hasty and ill-considered, carried out by elected folks who do not appear to be acting in the interest of the community they were elected to serve.

Rudy Kehler

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Missouri shooting a result of impulse you only have seconds not minutes to retreat. He said as a result of impulse and no time, it is almost certain you would shoot more than once. This officer should know, he was shot in the shoulder on duty.

Fifty years ago, I went hunting in the Princeton area. There were lots of deer that year. I went over a hill and saw a herd of deer grazing.

My heart was thumping. I shot my rifle four to five times, killing three deer. Wow, what had I done? I was shaking badly. I had one tag (licence) to shoot one deer that year.

The very best holiday to you and yours.

Hang loose in 2015. Always think positive.

You will live happier.

Dick Gardner, The new Steve D.

Climate deniers willing to risk our future The absolute nonsense that is being peddled by the climate deniers about the proven science of climate change really irked me. The range of tactics these people with opinions not based on facts use is as broad as their understanding of science is appallingly thin.

Climate deniers are willing to risk the future of all of us on their ridiculous theo-

ries, conspiracies, propaganda “experts” on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry, quoting other internet trolls like themselves who pass on ill-informed opinions as facts, and, like it or not, those who want to use their evangelical religion as a shield against the reality that our planet is on the brink of a manmade disaster.

The ultra-conservative think tanks, like

the Fraser Institute and others funded in part by those lovable Koch Brothers, have done so much damage to the world through their screwed-up ideas on politics, economics, and their attacks on those who want a sustainable future and a viable planet. Their goal to sow doubt on climate change has been done with disastrous effectiveness.

I’m fed up with the

lot of the deniers and their ludicrous ideas because they aren’t just innocent opinions on things that they know nothing about. Their anti-science ideas are undercutting those of us who understand that we must move past all the unnecessary noise and doubt that these deniers are creating as a distraction.

If ever there was an enemy of the state

(and by extension the planet) it is not the environmentalists, as claimed by our prime minister, but the deniers, including Harper, who reject logic, reason, and all the sciences in favour of pseudoscience, internet troll opinions, and even religion itself.

The time for debate has long passed. It is time for action on the environment.

Robert T. Rock

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I find it incredibly frustrating in how influenced the general population has become on the use of traditional sources of energy. If one was to take heed from the more prominent producers of traditional energy, it wouldn’t be totally out of context, to arrive at the conclusion that the very economic fiber of our country depends on the continued use and production of fossil fuels, such as oil and gas.

Though these natural resources are currently the backbone and driver of our resource economy, it is only because that we have structured ourselves that way, as a resource exporter, and have placed our manufacturing sectors on the back burner.

Unfortunately, this exportation of our resources, is just not limited to energy. We, as a Canadian society, have a tendency, to export everything. In fact, compared to our past, we rarely, do any of our manufacturing and processing ourselves, and in not doing so, export most of the technical aspects of these employment resources with them. We export mineral resources such as ore, raw logs, agricultural products, as well as energy. At one time in B.C., 70 cents out of every dollar came from forest products.

Last year (2013) it was less than $800 million. It is this complicit and complacent attitude, that has driven us to become harvesters and merchants of all our natural resources, including the energy sector. It is just too easy to cut down our trees and throw them on a boat for Japan, as also it is, to stick a straw into the ground and suck out the oil and gas, and then ship it to Asia.

With our present rate of natural resource exportation, and our temptation to drastically increase it, we are leaving lessened amounts of resource for our future generations, not to mention, what this increase of resource extraction, is doing to our ecology and the environment.

Not only are we depleting our resources, we are doing it in a discount fashion. Currently, we are subsidizing the Alberta Tar Sands at a phenomenal rate of $1.8 billion per year, this is the amount of taxation subsidy that is excused some of the richest corporations in the world, this subsidy then allows these corporations to pay their employees exorbitant wages, which actually competitively strains other industries and jurisdictions.

Now, finally all this easy economy is about to bite us in the rear.

Though scientists have been warning us for years, it is only in the last decade or so that the alarm bells have really started to ring.

Global warming, climate change, rising sea levels, and the chronological prediction of mass extinction. Though these scientific facts may be quite real, how do you get Joe Average to believe, or even take one seriously, that we are sitting on the brink of the apocalypse. Especially, if it threatens your incredibly high paying job, your winter vacation, and your new four wheel drive SUV. What really makes all these new predictions of imminent doom harder to swallow, it is usually orated by those people who don’t rely or have any immediate stake in resource employment.

Scholastic types, environmentalists who understand science, academics, and not generally the type you find on an oil rig, or in a logging camp, and generally those more modernly known as nerds. The most common reference I receive is that, “the only thing you guys are going to accomplish is shutting down the whole damn country!” Though this analogy may seem a bit far fetched to the converted, it isn’t totally incomprehensible for those who are economically challenged.

The Green Party, and our ally’s in the environmental movement, honestly believe all this can be averted and the economy can survive as well. We believe that with a concerted effort toward renewables and clean energy, and moving in this direction, would develop it into the largest economic catalyst the world has ever seen. So not only would we clean and refurbish our environment, we could do so with great economic prosperity. Moving in this direction, including solar highways, wind farms, hydrogen fuel cells, and other new under developed technologies, we could produce ample amounts of energy, with comparably little hydro carbon pollution. All these technologies combined, could produce energy at a fraction of the cost of fossil fuels, and producing cheaper and more abundant energy, making us ultimately more productive in primary and secondary manufacturing.

Would we shut down current energy productions, such as the oil patch or the tar sands? Absolutely not! What we would do, is immediately stop expansion of these highly subsidized fossil fuel projects, and invest in the transformation to alternatives.

Instead of throwing good money after bad, we can start cleaning the planet while developing new systems of producing energy, then slowly start taking fossil fuel energy off line as its need diminishes, until we get to the point of no longer needing it for energy production, and save it, for what it’s needed most – manufacturing. If we want to survive as a species, if we care to create a future for our children and grand children, then we must stop emitting hydro carbons into atmosphere and into the seas. If we fail, our very existence, is at stake.

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Ruling on police search of phones raises questions Jeff Nagel Black Press

A Supreme Court of Canada decision granting police wider powers to search cellphones after an arrest raises troubling questions for privacy and fails to take into account the power of the devices most people carry in their pockets and purses.

That’s the response of SFU criminology professor David MacAlister to the high court’s 4-3 ruling last Thursday.

“The court has taken a fairly naive view of what a cellphone is,” he said Friday.

“No doubt police are going to push the boundaries a little bit and see what happens.”

The ruling allows a warrantless search of a phone provided it’s carefully documented and limited to the immediate reason for the arrest.

MacAlister said that appears to limit the search to recent texts, emails, photos and calls,

not older ones or an exploration of data that may be in various other smartphone apps.

A deeper search of a smartphone could still be done, but would require a warrant.

MacAlister said it’s unclear exactly where the line would be drawn between recent information related to the arrest – like a photo from a crime scene or a text to a crime boss confirming a job was done – and older data, including unrelated

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personal texts or intimate photos officers might stumble upon.

“Are police really going to be careful to just look at the last one or two photos taken? That causes me concern.”

MacAlister said the ruling appears to run contrary to a 2013 court ruling that all computer searches require a warrant because of the intrusiveness of searching all the private and personal information they contain.

He questions whether the cellphone or computer rules would apply to tablets.

MacAlister said technological lines between

computers, phones and tablets have become increasingly blurry and there’s no logic in the law attempting to redraw them.

“There’s a real grey area now between what constitutes a phone and what constitutes a personal computer,” he said.

“I personally use my cellphone for pretty much everything that five years ago I would have done on a computer.”

Investigators could potentially gain access to everything from contact lists to web browsing histories to GPS location information through smartphones.

Also unclear is how police officers would enforce the new power to search phones, especially in cases where users have password protection to access their phones.

“I’ve got one of the new iPhones with a thumbprint reader,” MacAlister said. “What about those?

Can they force people to actively facilitate a search against them?”

The decision dismissed an appeal of the 2009 armed robbery conviction of a Toronto man who argued police violated his charter rights when they searched his phone without a warrant and found a “we did it” draft

text. The court ruled warrantless searches are allowed if the arrest is lawful, the search is related to the arrest and based on a valid law enforcement purpose.

That would include preserving evidence, discovering new evidence and locating additional suspects in situations where the investigation will be significantly hampered without a prompt search of the phone.

Three judges dissented and argued all such searches require a search warrant, except in rare cases where there’s a danger to the public, police or evidence.

A look back on region’s top issues this year

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Here’s a list of the Top 5 issues that made headlines in the Lower Mainland this year.

1. Transit tax referendum (December) Metro Vancouver mayors decide to go to referendum on a 0.5 per cent sales tax increase within the region to finance an ambitious expansion of rapid transit and bus service. The referendum, expected to take place in April of 2015, is a provincial condition for new taxes for TransLink. Mayors unveiled their plan for proposed upgrades in June. The choice of a PST increase was a switch from their original preference – a share of the provincial carbon tax, which was rejected by the government.

2. Kinder Morgan (November) More than 120 people were arrested attempting to block survey work by

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Kinder Morgan on Burnaby Mountain. Anti-pipeline activists won a victory when a court threw out most charges against protesters and refused to extend an injunction, prompting the company to pull out early. The civil disobedience followed a series of legal challenges led by Burnaby and underscored the challenges the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will face on the ground. National Energy Board hearings are expected to begin in 2015. Most participants will be limited to written statements.

3. Medical marijuana (March) Licensed home growing of medical marijuana is supposed to end April 1 in favour of a new commercial distribution system. But the federal government’s strategy is disrupted when medical pot users get a court

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injunction, pending a constitutional challenge expected in 2015, that allows them to temporarily continue growing their own medicine. The shifting marijuana rules divide doctors on whether to prescribe pot, while cities worry about how to handle a rush of wouldbe commercial pot producers. Marijuana reform advocates, coming off the failure of their signature campaign to trigger a referendum in 2013, were more upbeat in 2014 after legal pot shops opened in Washington State and ‘Prince of Pot’ Marc Emery was released from a U.S. prison.

4. Metro waste (October) Environment Minister Mary Polak refuses to approve Metro Vancouver’s new bylaw banning waste shipments out of the region. The move delights opponents of the regional

district’s plan to build a new waste incinerator, which may be thwarted as a result. Metro leaders say the region’s recycling system is threatened because garbage firms that haul waste out of the region will avoid paying regional tipping fees or complying with bans on the dumping of recyclables. Polak assigns MLA Marvin Hunt to study the issues involved.

5. Health shakeup (April) The province terminates Fraser Health board chair David Mitchell amid a probe into budget overruns at the health authority and by June CEO Nigel Murray also resigns. The findings of the review launched in 2013 are released in July, recommending a new strategy to reduce overuse of hospital ERs and expand primary and community care.

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- Raj Lalli, Senior Operations Engineer, Kinder Morgan Canada

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Winners announced in holiday decorating contest Judging for the Best in Hope Christmas House Decorating Contest took place on Monday night.

Plaques were handed out to winners in six categories: Best Traditional Decor, Best Light Show, Most Creative, Festive Neighbours, Best Business Window, and Judges’ Favourite.

The contest was sponsored by Canyon Cable, Mario’s Towing, Canyon Carpets, Pharmasave, Kingpin Lounge/Sunshine Lanes, Gold Rush Pub, Hope Brewing and Hope-Com Tech.

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Cindy Mackin at 527 Yale Street won the Best Light Show category. She may not have had as many lights as others, but judges noted that she had them hung beautifully and flashing in time to great holiday music.

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Hope Studio of Dance, Music and Theatre on Sixth Avenue was Sharon’s Deli on Wallace Street received the Best Business awarded Judges Favourite. In addition to the window display, Window award. The staff created a peaceful Christmas village with hand stitched buildings. members performed a Burlesque rendition of “Santa Baby.”

Kerry and Claudette Krahn at 307 Seventh Avenue won the Best Traditional Decor award.

Judges pointed out that their lighting scheme was “gorgeous and tastefully done, but their huge, Clark Griswald tree tipped the scales in their favour.”

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Becky Perey and Keith Carter at 585 Fort Street received the Most Creative award. Their property is filled with hundreds of lights, inflatables, still life figures and a Christmas tree complete with gifts from Santa.

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Arnold McEwen and Bob James at 1175 Seventh Avenue were the winners of the Festive Neighbours award. Their decorations include hundreds of lights, a house that twinkles, and a Santa on an ATV.

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Kelly Chow doesn’t look like Scrooge.

But his cautionary words would clamp shut the wallets of even the most frenzied Christmas shoppers.

Chow is a trustee in bankruptcy for BDO Canada.

He’s the guy people get sent to see when they’ve spent too much money and can no longer pay their bills.

Unfortunately, said Chow, the weeks and months after the holiday buying binge are often his busiest.

According to the Bank of Montreal, Canadians will spend an average of $1,517 this Christmas, a lot of it on credit. That will be added on to the $20,000 the average Canadian already owes, not including their mortgage.

When those credit card bills start arriving in January’s mail, it can be a tipping point for some, said Chow. They make the minimum monthly payment and figure they’re on top of things. They start using credit cards to pay off other credit cards, or they borrow against the equity they’ve accumulated in their house.

But there’s a price to be paid for such bad habits, said Chow. Often that’s an appointment with him.

“Credit cards divorce the pain of spending with the pleasure of buying,” said Chow. “It makes it easy to fall into a bad cycle.”

Chow said we’re conditioned to spend money.

Shopping is pleasurable. Never more so than during the Christmas season; gifts make people happy.

“It strokes your ego,” said Chow.

But not managing expectations and exceeding a budget can bring dire consequences.

“Credit can be a short-term fix,” said Chow. “But like most things in life, it will only get worse.”

Chow said most people with debt problems will do anything they can to avoid a meeting with him, including accumulating even more debt.

“We’re like the undertakers of the economy,” said Chow. “Nobody wants to see an undertaker.”

To avoid that fate, Chow has several simple suggestions: • Resist online shopping. It’s too easy and makes the consequences of that spending seem too remote.

• Track income and expenses. Spend only cash you have on hand. Debt is like spending your future.

• Make a budget for holiday spending, and stick to it. Chow said a good way to start is by examining “needs and wants.”

• Be open and frank about money.

“The money discussion should not be taboo at any time of year,” said Chow.

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B.C. urged to end ‘shadow system’ of foster care New call for government action from children’s rep Turpel-Lafond Jeff Nagel Black Press

B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth has issued yet another stinging rebuke to the province for allowing substandard conditions in 31 cases where youths in care ended up critically harmed or dead.

Mary Ellen TurpelLafond latest review of children in care focuses on those with complex medical, psychological or behavioural needs and paints a tragic portrait of a system she says is “in disarray” because of government’s failure to fund an adequate model.

“We’re compounding their challenges by isolating them and giving them this kind of substandard treatment,” she told reporters last week.

One youth dubbed Dean came from a violent, unstable family and mentally ill mother who considered killing him, according to the new report.

He was diagnosed with various behavioural disorders and hospitalized for selfharm before entering government care and being placed in a foster home at age 15.

The foster father didn’t want his own kids exposed to Dean so the youth was kept in a separate rental home that the dad staffed with workers he met through Narcotics Anonymous or the local coffee shop, with no criminal record

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Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is B.C.’s Representative For Children and Youth. Her latest report titled ‘Who cares?’ is critical of the province’s handing of children in care with complex needs.

checks conducted.

One night worker turned out to be a sex offender who abused the boy, Turpel-Lafond said, calling it an example of a “shadow system of care” where kids who need the most attention are cast aside.

“When we put the neediest kids in these ad hoc group homes that are one-offs where someone can hire someone from the Starbucks lineup or from their Narcotics Anonymous group to care for a child, that’s not good care.”

It’s particularly troubling the province knew of that care plan and agreed to it, Turpel-Lafond added.

Of the cases reviewed, seven children were sexually assaulted, eight were physically assaulted, while others were suicidal, had drug overdoses or self-inflicted injuries.

Two died.

She noted the Ministry of Children and Family Development continues to use hotels in all regions of the province to house some children in care who have not been

placed elsewhere.

“You basically go to sleep in a hotel with one worker and wake up with another worker,” said TurpelLafond, who wants the province to disclose each time hotels are used.

“Sometimes the kids sleep overnight in the after hours office [of the ministry], which isn’t even as good as a hotel – they’re sleeping in an office.”

Her chief recommendation is the province stop putting children with complex needs in inappropriate placements and that new residential services be created that aim for a loving familystyle environment, not institutionalization.

Letting at-risk kids drift toward poverty, homelessness, jail, abuse and untreated mental illness is much more costly than a comprehensive, fully funded and properly supported residential care system, she said.

She’s also urging a hybrid approach of shared guardianship that lets parents and other family continue to participate in the upbringing of a child who must be in government care.

Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux issued a statement saying the review doesn’t reflect her ministry’s latest improvements, including the new six-bed Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre in Burnaby.

Cadieux called Turpel-Lafond’s proposed three-month timeline for action “unrealistic” because the ministry is tackling other priorities, including the hiring of 200 more frontline child protection staff.

Turpel-Lafond said

the government has had adequate time to act – it’s been nearly two years since she issued similar recommendations after an 11-year-old boy with complex needs was tasered by police.

“I’m certainly not happy that I continue

to see children in this state,” she said. “They need to get on this.”

Of B.C.’s nearly 9,000 children and teens in care, 1,300 have complex needs and nearly 900 of them are in contracted placements that often have inadequate oversight.

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This is the latest design for the Site C dam near Fort St. John, the third dam on the Peace River, would create a reservoir 83 km long and about twice the width of the existing river.

Site C dam construction to start next summer

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The B.C. government has given the go-ahead for BC Hydro to start construction on a third dam on the Peace River, with a delay of six months to try to work out settlements with area aboriginal communities and landowners whose properties will be flooded or cut off.

Energy Minister Bill Bennett said Tuesday a review of construction costs upheld the $7.9 billion estimate for the Site C dam that was developed in 2010, but the overall price tag has risen.

Delaying the project six months from its original start date adds inflation and interest

costs, and calculating the effect of the provincial sales tax replacing the HST brings the total to $8.34 billion.

The province is establishing a “project reserve” of $440 million to bring the total estimated cost to $8.77 billion. The project reserve is in case of unforeseen events such as a rise interest rates during the eight-year construction period.

BC Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald said the six-month delay provides time to work out compensation agreements with Treaty 8 First Nations who have declined settlement offers. The federal-provincial environmental review panel gave the

go-ahead for the project in May, but noted its unavoidable impacts on aboriginal hunting, fishing and trapping rights that are assured by the 1899 treaty.

A group of Peace valley landowners has already started legal action against the project, having refused offers from BC Hydro to buy their land. Aboriginal groups in Alberta, downstream of the project, have also started court action against it.

NDP leader John Horgan called the decision “a $9 billion gamble” and repeated his call for a review by the B.C. Utilities Commission to see if the additional power is going to be needed by the time

the dam is operating in 2025.

The BCUC will determine BC Hydro rates in the years ahead, and how much they will go up to pay for the most expensive public construction project in B.C. history. The government plans to mitigate BC Hydro rate impact by reducing the dividend the government takes from the power company’s operations each year.

Bennett said a review of alternative clean energy sources, including wind, solar and geothermal power, showed they can’t compete on price because they are intermittent sources that would require backup power.

Medical pot users score another win in court Jeff Nagel Black Press

The federal government has lost another round in a legal battle over whether medical marijuana users can continue to grow their own pot in their homes.

The Federal Court of Appeal on Monday rejected the government’s appeal of a March 21 court injunction that has temporarily allowed previously authorized medical marijuana patients to continue growing their own, or have pot grown for them, despite new federal regulations that outlawed home grows as of April.

A full trial on the constitutional challenge lodged by various medical marijuana patients is

slated to begin Feb. 23 now that the court injunction has been upheld, Abbotsford lawyer John Conroy said.

The appeal ruling also requires the court to clarify the status of some patients who were left out of the injunction because their authorizations weren’t valid at the time it was issued.

Conroy said he’s optimistic about the trial but isn’t reading too much into the latest ruling, which keeps a continued legal cloud over the new federal system of medical pot being provided only through licensed commercial producers.

“It is an indication that a judge looked at the facts and decided if we did not have an injunction

people would suffer irreparable harm,” Conroy said. “But the trial judge gets to revisit the whole situation.”

Thousands of B.C. medical marijuana grow operations were legally being run by or on behalf of federally licensed users when the injunction was granted last March allowing them to continue until the challenge is heard.

Other legal actions are also pending on behalf of medical marijuana users, including one that seeks a court order that medical marijuana users are entitled to obtain their cannabis in the form of oil or other extracts, not just the dried bud that is the only form allowed under the new mail-order production system.

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The province has terminated its authorization for what would have become B.C.’s first faith-based law school at a Langley Christian university.

Trinity Western University president Bob Kuhn said he’s disappointed with the decision of Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk to revoke the government’s consent granted a year ago.

The move follows a referendum decision by the Law Society of B.C. earlier this fall to revoke its accreditation for the law school.

Opponents in the legal community say TWU discriminates against gays and lesbians because of its controversial community covenant that bans sex outside of traditional marriage between a man and a woman.

Kuhn said TWU law, in British Columremains committed bia,” Virk said. “This is to launching the law a significant change to school and must now the context in which I carefully consider its made my original decioptions. sion.”

“It is difficult to conThe Law Society ceive of a justifiable of B.C. voted 74 per basis for the cent against minister to recognizing have revoked the new law his approval school in the of the school referendum, of law prowhich was gram,” he said. confirmed in “We believe in a 25-1 vote of diversity and the society’s the rights of board of govAMRIK VIRK all Canadians ernors. to their beliefs The referand values.” endum was ordered Virk said in an after thousands of lawemailed statement his yers demanded the law decision to revoke ap- profession’s regulatory proval means TWU body reconsider its can’t enrol any stu- earlier decision. dents in the proposed The law school was law school. approved by the pro“The current uncer- vincial government in tainty over the status December 2013 but the of the regulatory body law society controls approval means pro- who can practise as a spective graduates may lawyer in B.C. not be able to be called Virk had indicated to the bar, or practise he was reconsidering

the province’s earlier consent, which followed the recommendation of the Degree Quality Assessment Board and the preliminary approval of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.

The law school was to open in the fall of 2016.

TWU’s law school is also being blocked by law societies in Ontario and Nova Scotia and the university has mounted court challenges that could end up before the Supreme Court of Canada.

TWU previously won a Supreme Court of Canada victory in 2001 on grounds of religious freedom over its faith-based teacher training program, which the B.C. College of Teachers had refused to recognize.

Virk indicated TWU may be able to renew its request for consent if it wins in court.

Slow down and move over

Motorists in B.C. will be required to slow down and switch lanes to give more room to any vehicle they encounter with flashing red, blue or yellow lights under a regulation change taking effect Jan. 1.

The Slow Down Move Over rule previously only applied to “official vehicles” like emergency

responders, tow trucks, park rangers and conservation officers. The simplified rule will also apply to all other vehicles with those flashing lights – including those operated by highway maintenance workers, surveyors, garbage collectors and animal control workers – reducing the risk of those workers then being hit

by passing vehicles.

When those vehicles are present drivers must slow to 70 km/h when in an 80 or higher zone, or 40 km/h in an under-80 zone. On multi-lane roads, drivers are to switch lanes where safe to do so to give more room. Violators face a $173 ticket and three penalty points.

BC Ferries ends fuel surcharge as oil falls BC Ferries is ending its 3.4 per cent fuel surcharge, effective Wednesday, in the wake of the plunge in the price of crude oil in recent months.

President and CEO Mike Corrigan cited the drop in the cost of diesel for the decision.

“With the current favourable market conditions, we have been hedging our diesel fuel costs and are now in a position to eliminate the fuel surcharge,” Corrigan said. “We know that fare affordability is an issue for our customers.”

Fuel surcharges were originally added when oil prices spiked to record levels of around $150 in 2008 and have been on and off since then, depending on fuel

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BC Ferries has eliminated its 3.4 per cent fuel surcharge due to a drop in the cost of diesel.

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Between community groups, homegrown theatre companies, and touring performances, Chilliwack is a cornucopia of art, theatre, and culture.

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Meet CPASS – the theatre-lover’s new best friend.

Think of CPASS, or Chilliwack Performance Arts Sampler Series, as a choose-your-own-experience for local performance. The $99 “pass” is actually 10 separate vouchers, each of which translates into a ticket. It’s up to the patron to decide which show they want to see with each voucher, creating limitless opportunities.

Buying these tickets through the CPASS package saves you a bundle – working out to less than $10 per voucher, when the face value of the tickets would range anywhere between $15 and $32 if bought separately.

Each voucher is linked to a different community group and is good towards a selection of their upcoming shows.

One of three Chilliwack Art & Cultural Centre Society vouchers, for instance, can turn into a ticket for The Comic Strippers, The Cheesecake Burlesque Show, I am Woman! Hear Me Laff ! or The Amazing Kreskin. The UFV Theatre voucher can be traded in for either a ticket to Julius Caesar or four tickets to Director Festival performances in the spring.

You’ll find the same flexibility holds

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Fraser Valley Shrine Club No. 11 recently made a $10,000 donation to the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation in support of Hope and Chilliwack. Part of their gift will go to fund a Blood Pressure Machine for the maternity unit at Chilliwack General Hospital, while the rest will go to fund a Live 5-2-1-0 education forum in Hope, and to continue the program there. The Shriners have been supporting hospitals and health care services in the upper Fraser Valley for as long as the Foundation has been around (almost 15 years).

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true with the rest of the vouchers in the CPASS bundle, giving patrons the ability to tailor their tickets to fit personal preference. Comedy, drama, musical theatre, classical orchestra, indie films and more are all on tap through the 10 event vouchers. The selection gives audiences a chance to pick their favourites, but may also inspire them to try something new and different.

“We think it’s a great way to allow our community an opportunity to sample Chilliwack’s diverse arts,” said Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra conductor Paula DeWitt. “We look forward to having many CPASS patrons at our future concerts!”

Vouchers aren’t attached to one person; you can purchase the CPASS to share the cost with other theatre-lovers, or give the vouchers away as gifts.

The recipient can pick the show, the date, and where they’d like to sit.

CPASS is available at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre box office, and also at The Art Room (until Dec. 19 and again after Jan. 5) in a limited run. Groups participating in CPASS include the UFV Theatre Department, Secondary Characters, Chilliwack Community Arts Council, Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra, Chilliwack School of Performing Arts, Chilliwack Players Guild, Chilliwack Arts & Cultural Centre Society, and SimPhoney Improv. For more information, visit or call The Centre box office at 604-391SHOW(7469), or The Art Room at 604-769-ART(2787).

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History in Hope Taken from The Hope Standard archives DECEMBER 1994 • The most damaging fire Hope has probably seen in more than a decade is linked to arson and causes an estimated $500,000 damage to five Wallace Street businesses • A new sign depicting Hope’s chainsaw carvings to Highway 1 travellers is in the works and will replace the now-faded Dogwood sign • A two-vehicle accident on the Hope-Princeton Highway, about one kilometre west of Allison Pass, sends six people to hospital • B.C. Crown Lands gives Kawkawa Lake Park to the District of Hope • Holly Days raises close to $12,000 and mountains of canned goods for Christmas hampers • Boston Bar parents vote 39-2 against condoms in the elementary/ secondary Boston Bar school, with many feeling that condoms in washrooms sends the wrong message to children DECEMBER 1999 • Aquila Enterprises of Kelowna is awarded a $1 million contract for complete renovations of the Fraser Canyon

Hospital emergency ward • After two years of determined fundraising, the Yale Elementary School playground improvement project is now complete • Hope speed skater Brian Leger, skating for the Sardis Flyers, races his way into the B.C. Winter Games after qualifying in the Zone 3 finals • Over 1,000 hits of the drug Ecstasy are confiscated from a vehicle on Old Hope-Princeton Way, and a Lower Mainland man and woman are charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking • A row of six diseased maple trees in Memorial Park, stretching from Wallace Street near the bear carving to the Memorial Park gazebo, are slated for the chopping block • Y2K fears prompt one last meeting of the District of Hope emergency operations committee as staff check with all departments and agencies one last time before the clock ticks over to the year 2000 DECEMBER 2004 • Council recommends continuing the popular Spring Clean Up program

• A Hope man is killed when his pickup truck plunges over the edge of a Lougheed Highway bridge near Mt. Woodside and lands upside down in the creek below • Police are on the lookout for a cache of weapons – five rifles, a shotgun, two hand guns and eight hunting knives – stolen from a Laidlaw home • Six people are vying for a seat in the school board byelection • Thieves steal $200 in Christmas lights, which were part of a fundraising campaign for the Fraser Valley Child Development Centre, from the Quality Inn on Old Hope-Princeton Way • Aaron Allison of Boston Bar brings home two first place trophies in his seven- to eight-year-old age category at the Provincial Tae Kwon Do Championships DECEMBER 2009 • Hope is chosen as one of only 11 communities across Canada to be a celebration community for the Paralympics Torch Run • The 160-kilometre Experience the Fraser project, which would create one network of trails on both sides of

the Fraser River from Vancouver to Hope, is underway thanks to $2.5 million from the provincial government • Fraser Cascade school district and Hope Web Development Firm pair up to bring students Hi(R) GRND, an anti-drug website complete with content created for teens by teens and with stories from rock bottom from peers they can relate to • Hope Memorial Park is officially rededicated back to the community during an official ribbon cutting ceremony marking the end of a renewal project, which saw the addition of a new performance shelter and pathways, rehabilitation work on the stand of Douglas Fir trees, a new community square and cenotaph, and new tour bus shelter • Former Hope councillor and local business owner Ray Zervini launches a petition against the borrowing of up to $5 million for a new Kawkawa Lake Road Bridge • Hope Rotary Club makes an $8,000 memorial donation to the Hope and Fraser Canyon Hospice Society, which will use the funds for a much needed patient lift in the hospice wing of the hospital

COMMUNITY CALENDAR MONDAY Hope Al-Anon Group: Al-Anon supports friends and families of problem drinkers.

Monday, Dec. 22 8 p.m.

Fraser Canyon Hospital meeting room 1275 7th Ave. 604-869-7078 hopebcalanon@gmail. com

TUESDAY Senior keep fit: This fitness class is designed for seniors, and uses weights and bands for strength training.

Chairs are also used to support the participant. This class has been ongoing for 15 years. It runs Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m. Golden Ager’s Hall 560 Douglas St. 604-869-8435 jilllast1@gmail.com Hope Scrabble Club: Queue, quixotry, zymurgy. If you are a

serious Scrabble player looking for a challenging game, this is the group for you. Tuesday, Dec. 23 10 a.m. Hope Library 1005A 6th Ave. 604-869-2313 deb.ireland@fvrl.bc.ca Conversation Circles: If you’re learning English and want to practice speaking with other people in a friendly, casual place, come join us for coffee! There will be guided weekly discussions about Canadian culture, food, current events, and a variety of other topics. Tuesday, Dec. 23 10:30 a.m.

Hope Library 1005A 6th Ave. 604-869-1363 larissa.readright@gmail. com Transformation Tuesdays: A drop-in motivational group focusing on personal growth and development! Tuesday, Dec.

16 12 p.m. Read Right Lounge 869 3rd Avenue Unit F. 604-869-1973 shauna.readright@ gmail.com Tops Meeting: Powerful support group for weight loss and lifelong health. Weigh-in 5:306:50 p.m. Meeting 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23.

Anglican Church Hall 681 Fraser St. 604-869-2204 eyesee55@telus.net Boston Bar Book Club: Join us to discuss what we’ve finished reading, and pick up the new book to read. Tuesday, Dec. 30 4 p.m. Boston Bar Library 47643 Old Boston Bar Rd. 604-867-8847

preparing for holiday expenses, and making smart food decisions.

Learn to get the best bang for your buck, and how to stretch a dollar a little further!

Please pre-register by contacting via email or telephone! Wednesday, Dec. 24 1 p.m.

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Tops Meeting: Powerful support group for weight loss and lifelong health. Weigh-in 8:159:10 a.m. Meeting 9:3010:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 19. Anglican Church Hall 681 Fraser St. 604-869-0323 gramelapamela@yahoo. com

$how Me the Money: A beginner’s financial literacy program that looks at creating and maintaining budgets,

Friday Afternoon at the Library: Book a 1/2 hour for an uninterrupted “Help!” ses-

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SUNDAY Happy Knit Group: Bring your knitting and share in the conversation about patterns and projects, ideas and yarns. Beginners and all abilities are welcome to attend, so head on down to the library to spend some time chatting with other knitters at this cozy fireside knitting circle. Sunday, Dec. 21 1:30 p.m. Hope Library 1005A 6th Ave. 604-869-2313 deb.ireland@fvrl.bc.ca

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Join us in Worship

Community of Hope Church Directory CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION

ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA & National Historic Site CONSECRATED 1861

Invites you to worship

SUNDAYS 10AM

Christmas Eve Service 10:00pm

Welcomes you to

Sunday Worship at 10am Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 7pm 888 Third Ave.

THE REV. GAIL NEWELL Rev. Don Gardner www.anglican-hope.ca 604-823-7165 Corner of Park & Fraser St. Anglican Network in Canada 604-869-5402 Local info: 604-869-1918

Grace Baptist Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Church Corner of 5th & Fort 10:30am Morning Worship Christmas Eve & Children’s Sunday School Service 7pm

HOPE PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY

Christmas Eve Service 6:30pm

Pastor Jim Cornock

604-869-9717

MT. HOPE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1300 Ryder St.

SATURDAY MORNING Study Hour 9:15 a.m.

Worship Hour 11:00am Prayer Meeting - Tuesday, 7pm

Pastor Michael Hope 604-792-8471

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A20 Hope Standard Thursday, December 18, 2014

Sports Local bodybuilder training for provincials

Barry Stewart Hope Standard

If someone came up with a rule that people should stop reaching for the stars at a certain age, Lee Naylor would likely ask for an extension.

The 67-year-old Canadian military veteran placed fourth out of eight at a recent body building competition, in the age 55+ class — and now he’s looking to improve that result in the B.C. provincial championships in the spring of 2015.

“It’s like the fountain of youth, working out here,” said Naylor on Monday, at the new Snap Fitness facility at the corner of the Evans and Yale Road West in Chilliwack.

“It’s all new equipment, that is scientifically designed to hit the muscles in a certain place — but the older equipment and free weights hit the muscles at different angles, so I like to use both.”

Naylor splits his six-days-a-week training schedule between the Snap gym and Hope’s Reflexions gym at the local rec centre.

During his 27-year career with the Canadian Armed Forces, Naylor was stationed in Europe for much of his time, where he earned a black belt in judo. He also took part in three body building competitions in Germany in the 1980s, winning his division and the men’s overall title at the Armed Forces National Competition in 1988.

“They told me to go back to Canada and compete in the seniors division,” recalled Naylor. He was in his early forties at the time but the dream lay dormant for over two decades, with Naylor having to pull himself out of a downward spiral before he could come back to the sport.

“In 1993, I had surgery on my right arm and almost lost it, due to infection.”

During the long recovery, he said, he became addicted to prescription pain medication and eventually sought help to get out of the addiction cycle.

Naylor said a six-week pain clinic helped him get off the medications and develop tools to deal with the pain, including the arthritic pain that limits his range of motion in many of his joints.

He and his wife have lived in Hope for about six years and — once his pain was under control —

DAVID FORD PHOTO

Sixty-seven-year-old body builder Lee Naylor of Hope placed fourth out of eight in the age 55+ class at the recent 2014 Sandra Wickham Fall Classic, in New Westminster. Naylor earned a berth in the B.C. provincial championships, which will be held in May or June 2015.

his renewed path to fitness started with swimming and working out at the rec centre.

“Then I started getting input from body building competitors and they said I should try it. I was

going to try to compete at age 65 but I didn’t.”

Early this year, he heard of the 2014 Sandra Wickham Fall Classic, Nov. 8 at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster. Naylor was

ready for the challenge.

“Six months out, I set my goals and worked toward the competition… still not committed to taking part,” said Naylor.

“I did it on my own, with my old

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materials from before, including the journal I had kept. All of my dieting was from back then.

“I was going to give up — but Jane (head trainer) and the gang here said ‘You have to compete!

We’re going to get tickets!’

“But it was sold out,” added Naylor, grinning.

Still, the encouragement helped him get over the internal voices that were telling him to give up.

After all the work and the dieting, you’ve got to be able to show the judges what you’ve got. That’s where the tanning spray and the oil come in, as it helps accentuate the musculature, explained Naylor.

“One guy was all white and you couldn’t see his muscles,” he said.

“It’s $125 for the spray and the oil but it’s well worth it. They have the spray booths outside and it was sunny but cold that day. My legs were still shaking when I got inside for the competition.”

Having prepped himself without the help of a coach, Naylor figured he lost points on his posing, choreographing and facial expressions.

“You have to make it look like you’re having a good time up there… even though you’re dying inside,” he said, laughing. “I was really dehydrated!”

In preparation for the provincials, Naylor has contacted a coach out of New York State and is now waiting on personalized videos so he can start working on his presentation.

“This guy is like a drill sergeant,” said Naylor. “He breaks down every move. I told him ‘You find me the music and send me a choreographed routine.’”

In the meantime, Naylor has embarked on a bulking program, to beef up his calf and thigh muscles.

“Three months out, I’ll go into a higher rep program and cut back the weights a bit. I’ll also do cardio for 20 minutes a day. Three or four weeks out, I’ll get even stricter on the diet, going for proteins and salads.”

A good result at the provincials would give Naylor a berth in the Canadian Nationals in Edmonton on July 11 — but even if he doesn’t make it there, he said it’s the process that motivates him.

“Anyone who gets to the stage is a real winner,” he said. “It takes so much work, dedication and discipline. The respect among competitors is immense.”

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Call Janice at 604.869.2421 to advertise on the Business Services page.

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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IN MEMORIAM GIFTS

Jean (John) went home to heaven, from Fraser Canyon Hospice after a long battle with cancer. He was born in France and immigrated to Ontario, moving to the Lower Mainland in 1986. He always dreamed of retiring in the mountains and from the friends he made here to the business people in town to teen Manny who cut his grass, this community gave him that dream and almost five years of immense joy.

He is survived by his wife Janet, daughter Jennifer Eddy, grandsons: Jonathan and William of Alberta, son James, brothers: Christian in France, and Yves of Surrey, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins. Remembering him will be friends and family in France, Ontario, Alberta, the United States and B.C. who valued, loved and respected him.

The family would like to thank Dr. Raymond Green who was such a blessing during this time, the wonderful Home Health Nursing Team, and the nurses and on duty doctors of Fraser Canyon Hospital/Emergency and Hospice who took such good care of Jean. Special blessings to the church family of Grace Baptist Church and Pastor Jeff Kuhn who gave such loving support, encouragement, and prayer during this challenging time.

God’s answers were the solid ground under our feet.

A Service of Remembrance and Praise will be held at Grace Fellowship Baptist Church, Hope BC, Saturday, December 20th, 2014 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers , a donation to a church ministry or charity of your choice is requested.

FUNERAL SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Mrs. Mary Romano of Hope passed away on Monday, December 15, 2014 at the age of 88 years.

A Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 am on Monday, December 22, 2014 at MARTIN BROTHERS CHAPEL OF HOPE FUNERAL HOME.

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PERSONAL SERVICES

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2003 HONDA CIVIC 4 dr, auto full load. STK#615 $2,900.

2007 DODGE CARAVAN 7 psgr, auto, fully loaded. Only this week! STK#546. $3,900.

2002 HONDA CIVIC 4 dr auto, fully loaded. STK#547. $4,900.

2007 DODGE CALIBER, 4 dr, auto. STK#602. $5,900.

2007 JEEP COMPASS, 4 dr, auto, full load, STK#603 $7,900.

2008 HONDA CIVIC, 2 dr, auto, sunroof, fully loaded.

STK#642. $9,900.

2009 JEEP COMPASS, 4 dr, auto. STK#606. $10,900.

2009 KIA SPORTAGE, 4 dr, auto, full load, runs good.

STK# 624 $10,900.

2012 NISSAN SENTRA, 4 dr auto, sedan, full load, black.

STK#614 $12,900.

2011 NISSAN ALTIMA. 4 dr, auto, sedan, fully loaded, sunroof. STK#641. $14,900.

2013 TOYOTA COROLLA, 4 dr, auto, fully loaded, standard STK#639. $15,500.

2008 CHEV 1500 LT. Crew cab, 4 X 4, auto, short box, fully loaded. STK#600. $16,900.

33166 South Fraser Way DL# 40083 778-908-5888

GOLF CLUBS, Top Flight, full set hybrids # 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9.

Woods Adams Redline RPm 460cc 11o, Taylormade #3 burner wood, Taylormade #5 steel wood, Malby GW wedge, Console sandwedge, Easy air TB putter, 2 umbrellas, tricycle cart plus accessories. $150 for all. Call (604)860-3327

Catsass Country Cattery

AUTO SERVICES

HOPE AUTO BODY, complete collision repair & restoration. www.hopeautobody.ca Call (604)869-5244

The Scrapper

Full Service Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service.

Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area.

1-800-573-2928

HOMES FOR RENT

.CAN-PRO Paint and Drywall. Over 25 yrs of quality service. 3 ROOMS, $250. Insured. 604-771-7052

CANYON CARPETS, 549 Wallace St., Hope. For all your floor covering needs! Call 604-869-2727

2459 McCallum Rd. Abby.

WOOD PELLETS

GAS FURNACE, hi-efficiency (95.1). For manufactured homes/modular buildings. Intertherm M7RL single stage.

Brand new - was replaced with electric furnace. List price $1400 asking $999 obo. Located in Hope. Call Paul at 604-837-3232

CONTRACTORS

TRUCKS & VANS

30255 Cedar Lane DL# 31038 604-855-0666

560

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HOPE, Silver Hope Mobile Park.

Cabin, Mobile homes, and R/V pads for monthly rentals, cable included.

Call (604)869-1203 or (604)860-0652

FUEL

20305 Flood Road, Hope

NUTRITION/DIET

BARCLAY FLETCHER CONTRACTING, complete home reno’s, additions & more. (604)869-1686

733 MOBILE HOMES & PADS

KEY TRACK AUTO SALES

Eagle Valley Premium

Need CA$H Today? Own a vehicle? Borrow up to $25,000. Snapcarcash.com 604-777-5046

TRANSPORTATION

HOPE, 2 vacant pads for rent in senior’s community. First 3 months free pad rent.

Call Gordon 604-240-3464

545

3 rooms for $299, 2 coats any colour

FLAGGERS NEEDED. No Certification? Get Certified, 604-575-3944

UNDER $200

DROP LEAF TABLE & 2 chairs, solid wood, great for an apt. $120.

604-869-7176

(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Maid Services.

RENTALS

• All Prices • All Situations • • All Conditions • www.webuyhomesbc.com 604-626-9647

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION

1998 ACCURA 1.6 EL. 4 dr, auto, loaded. STK#651 $1,900.

2003 FORD FOCUS 4 dr, auto, Aircared, STK#545, $3,900.

2002 FORD EXPLORER 4X4, auto, full load. ST#585 $5,900.

2007 DODGE Caravan 7 psgr, Aircared, STK#524 $5,900.

2003 HONDA ACCORD 2 dr, auto, full load, ST#586 $6,900.

2007 FORD Fusion 4 dr auto, loaded A/cared ST#321 $6,900 2007 KIA RONDO 4 dr, auto, 7 psgr, leather, runs good, STK#424. $10,900.

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

STK#504. $10,900.

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

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

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

2007 FORD F350 LARIAT crew cab, diesel, 4 X 4, auto short box. STK#275. $16,900.

Financing Available

in need of caring homes!

All cats are spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed.

Visit us at:

www.keytrackautosales.ca

fraservalleyhumanesociety.com or call 1 (604)820-2977 GOLDEN DOODLE puppies, born Nov. 29. Mom is a sml reg. Golden & Dad is a sml Std Poodle (both 50 lbs). We have bred this litter special to create ideal family companions (intelligent, gentle, easy to train, people pleasers, happy indoors/outdoors, good with kids/animals, and low/no shed). Our dogs are part of our home/life and we wish the same for our pups. Please consider the time/commitment needed to raise a dog and you will have our support & guidance for life. 1st Shots/deworming. $1200. Ph: 604-820-4827 NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com OUR BOUVIER got her first puppies! The parent bouviers (imported from Holland) are purebred and have excellent pedigrees. They are gentle, intelligent, energetic and very loyal animals. We enjoy their constant companionship on our family operated cattle ranch. Price: $1150. More info: alberscreekranch@hotmail.com Yorkshire Terrier, 10 week old male Shots & dewormed. Vet checked Black & tan. $900. 604-828-2806 Yorkshire Terrier to re-home, 4 yr old intact female, CKC reg, champion lines, serious inquires only $1000. (604)858-9758

New SRI *1296 sq/ft Double wide $94,888. *New SRI 14’ wide $69,888. Repossessed mobile homes, manufactured homes & modulars. Chuck 604-830-1960.

ANSWERS FOR DECEMBER 11 CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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3 bedroom townhouse, 5 appl., soundproof, radiant heat, blinds, fenced yard, patio, 658 Coquihalla St., sunny side of town, N/S, no pets, D/D & Ref’s req.

Available now.

Call (604)869-6599 HOPE

Coquihalla Courts 1030 3rd Ave. 2 Bdrm Apt. $650 Pet negotiable F/S, cable tv incl. u/g parking, coin laundry in building Ross Fullbrook Royal LePage 604-792-0077 pick a part

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Phone:

604-792-2724

Toll Free:

1-866-HONDA-88

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As your new mayor, and spokesperson of your new council, it is my pleasure to wish you all of the best for the Christmas season. Whatever the season means to you and your family I hope and pray that many cherished memories will be created for you and your family. I sincerely hope that the new year brings in much health, happiness and prosperity for you and your loved ones.

As I look forward to 2015 I see many exciting but challenging times. I have very clearly seen over the last few months that expectations of your new council are very high and we will all have to work very hard HOPE MAYOR to respect those expectations. The first couple of WILFRIED VICKTOR meetings of the new council have encouraged me very much as to the open-mindedness and willingness of your new team to lead this community for the next four years! I am proud to sit with such an amazing team of men and women!

It is probably an ideal time for me to thank the employees of the District of Hope for their hard work in our community and I want each and everyone of them to know that their time and effort is very much appreciated. Many of the tasks that our employees do on a daily basis are not flashy, glamourous tasks but are essential for our community to move forward. To the men and women of the district hall, public works and the RCMP – job well done!

To the literally hundreds of volunteers in our community – amazing work yet again in 2014! Your tireless efforts to make life in Hope extra special has worked well. You are the secret weapon that Hope has for a successful and vibrant future. It is my hope that in the new year many new volunteers will feel the calling to employ their diverse talents in our community. The more people we have volunteering the more our quality of life will be enhanced.

May this season and your 2015 year be the most memorable one yet.

MLA LAURIE THRONESS

I’ve just gotten used to writing ‘2014’ and 2015 is almost here!

The years pass by so quickly, and this one will never come again.

That reality encourages me to look forward to something positive in 2015, and also to squeeze the most I can out of every moment.

So let’s seize the day – why not Christmas Day – to get close to family and friends, think about spiritual things, and give more than we receive.

My staff and I want to thank you for the privilege of serving you for another year.

We wish for you and yours all the blessings of the holiday season, and a healthy and prosperous 2015!

It is my pleasure as your Member of Parliament for Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon to wish you the very best at this special time of year.

Many of us will be blessed with the opportunity to join friends and family in celebrating the season of peace and goodwill, some may be mourning the loss of a loved one, and others will find themselves half a world away from those they care about most.

This Christmas members of the Canadian MP MARK STRAHL Forces will be in harm’s way defending the very values that we will celebrate. I hope you will join with me in remembering their service and sacrifice this holiday season. Please keep them in your thoughts and pray for their safe and swift return home.

As Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Immanuel –“God with us” – my hope is that regardless of your faith or your circumstances, you will feel the peace, joy and love of the Christmas season this year.

From my family to yours, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thank you for giving me the privilege of serving you over the next four years.

I’m excited to work together with residents to help move Area A forward.

I would like to take AREA A DIRECTOR this opportunity to TERRY RAYMOND wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and also that you have a safe, healthy and prosperous New Year.

SCHOOL BOARD CHAIR RON JOHNSTONE AND PAST CHAIR LINDA MCMULLAN

I just want to thank everyone in Area B for their continued support and look forward to working with the new council to provide good governance for the area.

Merry Christmas from my family to yours. Have a safe holiday season and a prosperous New Year.

Best wishes in 2015.

AREA B DIRECTOR DENNIS ADAMSON

During this family season, our thoughts turn to our children and their formative years. We want a future for them that is better than our present is. We want them to be happy and successful. In short, we want them to have a positive start with a good education and a desire to continue their training after graduation so that they become fulfilled adults (and stay out of our basements!).

As a board of education, we collectively want the same things. We know it is a joint effort between home and school, and we applaud those parents who recognize this relationship and support it. We value our teachers, administrators and support staff that welcome children and their parents, and respect their influences to the total.

Our district motto is “everyone pulling together.” It exemplifies the contributions we know everyone makes in their own roles.

This Christmas, when you are counting your blessings, please include the various people you know in the school system that are helping to make your children’s future as bright as it can be.

On behalf of School District 78 and the Fraser-Cascade board of education, we wish you a very happy Christmas.

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Best of the On behalf of the Hope/Boston Bar RCMP, I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy and safe Christmas.

Although I have been here for a short period of time I HOPE/BOSTON BAR STAFF SGT. BRUCE appreciate the warm welcome from the community. During this time ANDERSON of year it is important to remember that although celebrations are numerous, to have a successful celebration we must arrive safe. Please do not drink and drive.

I would also like to thank the members and staff of the Hope/Boston Bar RCMP for their dedication and commitment to your communities.

I am very proud of being a part of this detachment.

Fires during the holiday season injure British Columbians each year and cause thousands of dollars in property damage.

Here are some simple life-saving steps that can prevent fires: T Keep Christmas trees, wrapping and decorations away from heat sources.

T Keep your real Christmas tree fresh by watering it often or use a fire resistant artificial tree.

T Use only lights which have been tested and labelled by an approved testing laboratory and always turn tree lights off before leaving home or going to sleep. Consider using apHOPE FIRE CHIEF TOM DESORCY proved timers to preset the on and off times.

T Use non-combustible containers for tea lights and votive candles.

T Place candles in a location where they can’t be knocked over or come in contact with combustible items and blow out all candles before leaving the room or going to bed T Ensure you have working smoke alarms on every level of your home and in each sleeping area. In fact smoke alarms make excellent gifts but remember they don’t last forever, so replace yours if they are more than 10 years old.

When preparing your holiday meal remember that a stovetop fire can start in a flash. Stay in the kitchen when something is cooking and keep all combustible items a safe distance away from the stove. This includes tea towels, wooden or plastic spoons and paper towels. Also, keep a lid near the stove to smother flames if a fire starts in a pot. From all of us at the District of Hope Fire Department have a safe and happy holiday.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Recreation, Culture & Airpark Services

1005-6th Ave 604-869-2304 leisure@fvrd.bc.ca

Holiday Facility Schedule

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Arena Monday Dec. 22 & 29

Tuesday Dec. 23 & 30

Wednesday Dec. 24 & 31

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Friday, Jan. 2 (closed Dec. 26)

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Senior Mondays 6am-5pm

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Hope Winter Carnival The annual Winter Carnival in downtown Hope on Dec. 6 featured a variety of activities for families, including Christmas karaoke, kids games, a hockey tournament, ice carving with Harry Takeda, and hayrides and pictures with Santa.

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KERRIE-ANN SCHOENIT / THE STANDARD

SHANON FISCHER PHOTO

JOHN FRIESEN PHOTO

May the holiday season bring all the happiness and good fortune you deserve.

Thank you for your continued business and friendship

Happy Holidays

FROM THE WHOLE TEAM

Thank you for your kind and generous support throughout the year.

We truly appreciate your business.

from all of us at

CANYON AUTOMOTIVE LTD. 535 WALLACE ST 604-869-9030

BARCLAY FLETCHER CONTRACTING LTD.

The Staff and Board of Hope & Area Transition Society would like to thank all the organizations, tradespeople and individuals who give so generously of their time, resources and talents to our services and programs.

We appreciate this all year round and especially at Christmas, which is generally a high stress time for the people that we serve.

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SHANON FISCHER PHOTO

KERRIE-ANN SCHOENIT / THE STANDARD

Thank You for your kind and generous support this past year. We truly appreciate your business and wish you all a festive season of peace, joy and good will!

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The entire team would like to wish one and all a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a Happy New Year.

Th k friends Thanks f i d & customers t for your support throughout this past year.

Kevin, Laurie, Derek, Mike, Steve, Vicky

TAKING RESERVATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS PARTIES & HOLIDAY GATHERINGS

CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY & NEW YEARS DAY • OPEN BOXING DAY 11am - 9pm

377 Old Hope Princeton Way, Hope, B.C. 12/14H_HS18

604-869-8484

Through the spirit of friendship & in appreciation of the support you have given us over the year, we would like to wish each and everyone of you a Merry Christmas & all the Best in 2015!

Toy’s Pharmacy

308 Wallace St. 604.869.5654

We will be: • Closed December 22 - 26 • Open December 29 - 31 • Closed January 1 & 2

HOPE AUTO BODY LTD.

604-869-5244

966 - 6th Avenue, Hope | www.hopeautobody.ca

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Community Christmas Music Festival

PHOTOS BY KERRIE-ANN SCHOENIT

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THAT COFFEE LOVER ON YOUR LIST!

To all the residents of the

Lismore & Windmill

COMMUNITIES...

322 WALLACE STREET (ACROSS FROM DOWNTOWN PARK)

Gordon & May Liske & Management G & M LISKE DEVELOPMENTS LTD.

May your holidays be a delightful mix of good friends, good food and good cheer, at this most festive time and throughout the entire year.

Merry Save 5% Christmas ON ALL BEER & WINE KITS

until Jan. 31, 2015

from Glen, Evelyn, Tammy, Susan, Lisa & Verna.

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We wish you and yours a happy holiday season filled with love and plenty of Christmas spirit.

We feel so blessed to be a part of these caring communities. Thank you for your friendship and for the care each of you take with your place.

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www.bluemoosecafe.com

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Ready your home for guests Six reasons to host a holiday

T

he holiday season is about more than just rushing to stores to stock up on presents. Socializing and hosting friends and family members to catch up on a year’s worth of news also makes this time of year so special.

The following home prep plan can make relatively easy work of tidying up the house and ensuring it is inviting to guests.

Start with the entrance Hosting can motivate homeowners to finish certain home improvement projects that enhance the appearance of their homes. Tidy up your home’s entryway to make it more welcoming. Be sure the front door and walkways are well lit. Remove obstructions and trim back bushes and other plant life. Festive decorations can brighten up the space. Don’t forget a welcome mat to reinforce to guests that they truly are welcome at your home.

Quick cleaning Sometimes the joy of hosting can be overshadowed by the task of preparing for your guests. Although a thorough cleaning of the home is great if you have the time, it may

not be necessary. Go from room to room identifying spaces that are in need of a thorough cleaning. Spend time in the kitchen clearing clutter from the counters and make sure the dining space is clean and the table is presentable. A table runner and a centrepiece of festive flowers can brighten up the space instantly.

Fluff cushions on sofas and give floors or carpets a quick vacuuming. Always be sure the bathrooms are clean and fresh, with laundered hand towels at the ready. Children’s bedrooms and other areas of the house may not require such a critical eye. Simply keep doors closed in off-limits rooms.

Create a guest sanctuary Overnight guests should have a designated space they can use as a retreat. If you do not have a guest room, consider having children bunk with one another and designating one of the kids’ rooms for your guests. Fresh linens, an alarm clock, a television, and Internet access are nice touches.

A guest room also can be set up in a den or office with a pull-out sofa bed. Provide access to a nearby bathroom so guests can enjoy some privacy. Hosting children is

easier than hosting adults because they won’t require the same level of privacy and space. An extra mattress tucked under the bed in your child’s room can be an impromptu place for kids to retire.

Stock up on supplies Purchase extra travel-sized toiletries at the drug store so your guests’ needs are covered in case they forget something. Store them in a zip-top bag and let guests know where these items are kept.

Purchase a guest set of towels, sheets and pillowcases. Keep these in an air-tight storage bag or bin, so when guests arrive, they will have their own set of linens.

Stock up on food Ask guests which foods and beverages they prefer and try to have some on hand. Use your spare time to prepare some meals and freeze them. This way if someone drops by unexpectedly, you can simply defrost a meal and have it ready in no time. Keep a tin of cookies and tea bags ready for those who pop in for a snack and conversation. With the holiday season in full swing, holiday hosts must ready their homes for overnight guests.

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n many families, holiday hosting duties are shared by one or two family members. Some host out of a sense of obligation, while others do so because they truly love providing a place for their loved ones to get together during such a festive time of year. Those undecided about whether or not to take on the role of holiday host should know there are a bevy of reasons to do just that.

1. No travel time: If you despise sitting in traffic or waiting in line at the airport for a delayed flight, hosting the holidays is your way around such headaches. While you’ll certainly deal with a number of people in your home, it will pale in comparison to the crowds holiday travelers must deal with.

2. New traditions: Hosting the holidays presents an opportunity to try out your own unique ideas and establish new traditions for your family. Over time, traditions become integral parts of family celebrations. A new host can impart fresh concepts and breathe new life into the festivities.

3. Time management: Hosting the event allows you to set the pace of the day. You may find the holiday is less stressful when you know what is coming next and can exercise control over the schedule. You may not have to wake

up as early to account for travel time and could feel more relaxed.

4. Give older relatives a break: Perhaps grandma or an aunt has always hosted the big holidays. Over time, the scope of the event can prove too much for an older person, whether it’s physical or financial constraints sparking such difficulties. Stepping up to take over hosting will relieve someone you love of the work, allowing him or her to enjoy the festivities even more.

5. Sense of pride: Hosting a holiday is a significant undertaking, especially if you will be following in the footsteps of a successful party host or hostess.

This can be your proving ground and a chance to show that you are up to the task. It can give you a confidence boost and the inspiration to try other things you may have thought were beyond reach.

6. Food: Hosting also allows you to customize the menu so the foods you and your immediate family like best make it on to the holiday menu. You may open others’ eyes to new culinary treats and show off your culinary skills along the way. Once the festivities have ended, you may even have enough leftovers to free you from cooking for a few days after the holiday, giving you a chance to relax and recuperate.

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he holiday season is rife with tradition, from Christmas trees to lighting displays to visits with Santa Claus at the local mall. Families reunite come the holiday season to exchange gifts, enjoy meals together and do a little catching up along the way.

As this is a season of celebrating, it’s good to remember that no holiday party is truly complete until eggnog has been served. Enjoyed almost exclusively during the holiday season, eggnog is as much a staple of holiday celebrations as stockings hung by the chimney with care. This year, impress your holiday guests with the following recipe for “Excellent Eggnog” from A.J. Rathbun’s “Good Spirits” (Harvard Common Press).

Excellent Eggnog Serves 8 8 large eggs, preferably organic 21/4 cups superfine sugar 8 ounces brandy 8 ounces rum 4 ounces bourbon 1 quart milk Freshly grated nutmeg for garnish 1. Separate the egg yolks from the egg whites, setting the whites aside for a moment.

2. In a large mixing bowl, beat the

yolks with a hand mixer until completely combined. Add the sugar and beat until it reaches a creamy consistency.

3. Add the brandy, rum and bourbon, and then the milk, beating well.

4. In a medium-size mixing bowl, beat the egg whites with a hand mixer until soft peaks form (be sure before beating the whites that you have cleaned and thoroughly dried the beaters).

5. Fold the egg whites into the yolksugar-alcohol mixture. Refrigerate the mix until well chilled (at least 3 hours).

6. Stir to recombine as needed. Serve the eggnog in mugs, topping each serving with some nutmeg.

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oasted turkey is the centrepiece of many holiday feasts. That glistening, golden skin and moist meat beneath is the perfect companion to potatoes, string beans and any number of side dishes.

Many holiday chefs have received compliments on the appearance of a freshly prepared turkey sitting on the holiday serving platter. But those same chefs may not know how to properly carve up their masterpieces after the grand presentation has been made.

1. Place the turkey on a large, sturdy cutting board. Do not cut the turkey in the pan you used to cook it. Remove the string that may be tying the legs together. Turn the board so that the back of the turkey is facing you.

2. Choose a sharp knife to carve the turkey. A long, narrow knife may work best. Serrated knives may tear the tur-

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3. Cut through the skin on a leg and gently bend the leg as you slice through to expose the joint. Cut through and re-

move the entire leg. Then separate the drumstick from the thigh. Repeat on the other side.

4. Cut the thigh meat parallel to the thigh bone and place on your serving platter.

5. To slice the breast meat, insert your knife in the centre of the breast

bone and cut down until you reach the ribs. Then slice the breast meat in toward your initial cut so you are cutting across the grain of the meat.

This will keep the meat tender. Another idea is to remove one side of the breast and slice across it to produce smaller pieces for serving.

6. Find the wish bone and place it on the side to dry. Children typically like to break the wish bone.

7. Find the joint of the wings and remove them in a similar fashion as you did for the legs. They are small enough that they should not require extra slicing and can be placed whole on the serving platter.

8. Drizzle the sliced meat with any reserved cooking juices to keep the turkey moist and flavorful.

Since turkey is usually the star of many holiday meals, it pays to know the correct way to carve turkey for celebrations.

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Strategies for last-minute shoppers H oliday shoppers tend to fall into three distinct camps. There are those people who have completed all of their shopping and wrapping even before November ends. Others shop in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Finally, many people wait until the last minute.

Waiting until the last possible second to purchase a gift may not prove much of a problem when shopping for birthday gifts. But come the holiday season, such procrastination may find shoppers perusing limited inventories and dealing with other frantic procrastinators.

But even those shoppers who still plan to put off their holiday shopping can make the most of such stalling this holiday season.

T Consider eGift cards. Many retailers offer digital gift cards that can be emailed in a matter of minutes. Purchase the card from the online retailer and email the redemption code to the gift recipient.

Time the email to arrive on Christmas morning or include all of the necessary information in a holiday card.

T Ship to store. Some shoppers like the convenience of ship-to-store services. This enables a person to purchase a gift online but avoid shipping charges by having the item made available at a store location.

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T Avoid gimmick gifts. Skip the “as seen on TV” aisle at the store or trendy infomercial gifts. Such gifts may suggest to their recipients that you waited until the last minute to buy the gifts and then really didn’t have any good ideas.

T Expect extra charges and factor such charges into your budget. Procrastinating may work for your schedule, but expect to pay more if you shop online and require shipping. You will probably need to expedite shipping if you expect to have gifts delivered on time. Verify the delivery date before making any purchases. Paying more for shipping may outweigh the hassle of driving to store after store searching for gifts. Online retailers like Amazon may even offer selective delivery on Christmas Eve. T Check store hours. Some stores offer extended shopping hours to meet the needs of last-minute shoppers. You may be able to visit early morning or late at night to skip the crowds. Certain department stores time sales with these extended hours, such as “early bird” or “night owl” specials, so you may even be rewarded for procrastinating.

T Shop smaller retailers. One way to avoid the hassles that often come with holiday shopping is to patronize smaller, independent shops. Chances are the crowds will be smaller at these shops and you may have access to a more unique selection of gifts than you would find at the nearby mall.

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ere’s a look at some of the toys that have made their mark over the last several decades.

Rubik’s Cube: The Rubik’s Cube reached the height of its popularity during the 1980s, when the colorful game puzzle was mass-marketed to the public. Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik actually invented what he dubbed the “Magic Cube” a decade prior. Since the product’s inception, millions of Rubik’s Cubes have been sold across the globe.

Cabbage Patch Kids: Designed by art student Xavier Roberts in the mid-1980s, Cabbage Patch Kids began as dolls called “Little People.” The dolls were marketed with a fantastical story about a cabbage patch in a magical valley, where dolls were born and awaited their adoption into loving homes.

Cabbage Patch Kids have been produced by a number of different toy manufacturers through the years, and shoppers can still find new incarnations today.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started as a comic designed to parody established popular comics of the early 1980s. The concept of genetically mutated turtles who possessed ninja skills quickly caught on and the TMNT franchise expanded to television shows and scores of complementary merchandise.

Beanie Babies: Ty Inc. introduced a series of plush toys filled with tiny plastic pellets instead of traditional polyester stuffing in 1993. These pellets made the dolls flexible and cuddly, which played a role in their popularity. Throughout the 1990s, children collected as many of the Beanie Babies as they could, though some of the dolls were more coveted than others. Ty ceased production of Beanie Babies in 1999 with a bear called “The End,” but it wasn’t

long before new Beanie Babies were manufactured for a new generation of children to collect.

Tickle Me Elmo: The hottest toy of the 1996 giving season was Tickle Me Elmo, a plush doll based on the beloved Sesame Street monster. When prompted, Elmo would laugh, giggle and gyrate to the delight of kids and adults alike. Tickle Me Elmo caused mass frenzy at stores during the 1996 holiday season, as shoppers swarmed toy stores to get their hands on the top toy of the year.

Nintendo DS: The Nintendo DS, first offered in 2004, was the first Nintendo console released in North America before it was released in Japan. With its dual screens and portability factor, the handheld device became one of the most popular gifts.

Zhu Zhu Pets: Interactive, robotic hamsters, Zhu Zhu Pets first appeared on the scene in 2009. Their name was derived from Mandarin Chinese and translates to “little pig.” These small toys could be set to explore their environment or simply emit cooing sounds in the “nurturing mode.”

Nintendo Wii: In addition to the Sony Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii became the latest in a history of must-have video game consoles in the early 21st century. Games on the Wii were interactive through the use of motion-sensing hand controllers and other gaming interfaces. The later release of the Wii Fit package made the Nintendo Wii even more popular.

Monster High Dolls: With their ghoulish good looks, Monster High action figures were one of the most gifts of 2012. The dolls are based on a series of young adult novels modeled after “Twilight,” though the Monster High dolls are targeted to younger children than items associated with the wildly popular “Twilight” series.

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Christmas tunes spread holiday spirit S

ome stores start stocking Christmas decorations and wrapping paper as early as the end of October, and some families begin decking their halls in holiday finery in late November.

However, for many people, the holiday season has not truly begun until the music synonymous with this festive time of year has hit the airwaves.

Few things can make a person feel as festive as the holiday songs they know and love. Many families have a favorite musical artist whose music they consider synonymous with their holiday celebrations. While families have their own unique holiday traditions, over time certain holiday songs have emerged as favorites.

These are the tunes you’re likely to hear played over and over on the radio. Billboard, which tracks the music industry’s most popular songs, compiled its own list of the most popular Christmas songs. The list measures the

volume of people who have been exposed to the song on the radio, and is based on ranking rather than exact figures of listeners, and the following are the 10 most popular songs based on those parameters.

10. “Happy Xmas (War is Over),” by John Lennon. This song debuted in 1971 and was written by Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono. Performed with the Harlem Community Choir, the song was originally a protest song about the Vietnam Warm before it eventually became a Christmas standard.

9. “Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24),” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. According to Nielsen, this instrumental mash-up of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” and “Carol of the Bells” is one of the best-selling Christmas digital singles in SoundScan history.

A combination of full, classical orchestra and rock, “Christmas Eve” is a memorable and powerful piece of music.

8. “White Christmas,” by Bing Crosby. Crosby crooned

this tune in 1942 in the movie of the same name, and Irving Berlin’s song soon became one of the most popular holiday tunes of all time. It has been covered innumerable times and has become a holiday season standard.

7. “It’s the Most Wonder-

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ful Time of the Year,” by Andy Williams. This popular Christmas song was written

by Edward Pola and George Wyle in 1963. The song celebrates the traditions and feelings of the Christmas season.

6. “Feliz Navidad,” by Jose Feliciano. This Span-

ish-English pop song is recognized by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers as one of the 25 most-played and recorded Christmas songs around the world. Puerto-Rican born Feliciano has said that the song has always been a bridge to the cultures that are so dear to him.

5. “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” by Burl Ives. This song was written by Johnny Marks, an American songwriter. Ironically, Marks was Jewish, but he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many of the holiday standards people love, including this upbeat tune and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

4. “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),” by Nat King Cole. Believe it or not, this song was actually written in the summer when composers Bob Wells and Mel Torme were trying to cool off with winter imagery. Snowcovered images and phrases eventually turned into lyrics for this popular song that was

most memorably recorded by Nat King Cole.

3. “Jingle Bell Rock,” by Bobby Helms. This song has been performed by many, but Helms’ version of the song is perhaps the best known. The song highlights the crossover style known as “rockabilly” and merges the classic “Jingle Bells” with rock n’ roll references of the 1950s.

2. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” by Brenda Lee. Brenda Lee was a charttopping female vocalist of the 1960s who owes much of her success to this beloved holiday classic. Despite the mature sound of her voice, Lee recorded this version when she was only 13 years old.

1. “All I Want for Christmas is You,” by Mariah Carey. This up-tempo love song has become a Christmas classic and one of Carey’s most popular hits. She co-wrote and co-produced the song with Walter Afansieff. It is one of the few, modern, original Christmas songs to stand the test of time and become an official Christmas standard.

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This 1954 song-anddance film stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as a pair of longtime friends and ex-military men who fall in love with a sister act team that includes famous singer (and aunt to George Clooney) Rose-

mary Clooney. Crosby and Kaye join forces to save the failing Vermont inn of their beloved former commander.

T “Miracle on 34th Street”: Natalie Wood stars in this 1947 classic that follows the trial of

Kris Kringle, who claims to be Santa Claus and must prove otherwise to avoid being institutionalized.

Nominated for Best Picture at the 1948 Academy Awards, “Miracle on 34th Street” won three of the prestigious statuettes, in-

cluding a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Edmund Gwenn, who played the jolly old man in the red suit.

T “Bad Santa”: Though not quite as heartwarming as many holiday films, this 2003 black comedy stars Billy Bob Thornton as miserable, alcoholic con man “Willie,” who poses as a mall Santa Claus so he can rob a department store safe on Christmas Eve. But in spite of its rather raunchy take on the holiday season, the film is ultimately a story of redemption as Willie befriends a bullied youngster and begins to turn his life around.

T “A Christmas Carol”: Those looking for a more traditional take on holiday films need look no further than this 1951 adaptation of the Charles Dickens novella, which tells the tale of bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge as he is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

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he phrase “Happy Holidays” is uttered millions of times across the globe between the end of November and the beginning of January.

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• Danish: Glade feriedage • Dutch: Gelukkige Vakantie • French: Joyeuses Fêtes • Italian: Buone Feste • Portuguese: Festas Felizes • Romanian: Sarbatori Fericite • Spanish: Felices Fiestas • Swedish: Trevlig Helg • Turkish: Mutlu Tatiller

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any families have their own unique holiday traditions, but some traditions transcend familial lines to become an integral part of many people’s holiday celebrations.

One of the more popular traditions during this festive time of year is to watch a favourite holiday film with family and friends. With that in mind, the following are some of the most beloved holiday movies ever to make it onto the big screen.

T “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Perhaps no holiday film is more beloved than this 1946 Frank Capradirected classic. Screen legend Jimmy Stewart plays a desperate businessman contemplating suicide during the holiday season. But a guardian angel helps him realize all the good fortune in his life by showing him what life might have been like if he had never existed.

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orth Americans may be singing “Auld Lang Syne” and toasting to good fortune with a glass of bubbly on New Year’s Eve, but elsewhere traditions can be somewhat more eccentric.

In some spots of South America, for example, revelers put on brightly colored underwear to ring in the New Year. Red underpants signal a person looking for love, while yellow means they’re seeking money. The following are some other unique New Year’s traditions.

T Tossing the dishes: In Denmark, individuals toss dishes at other people’s front doors. Those who end up with the greatest number of broken dishes at their home’s threshold are considered lucky, as they have an abundance of loyal friends.

T Right foot: Start off the new year on the right foot by literally stepping forward with your right foot at exactly 12 a.m. in Argentina.

T Burning in effigy: People in Ecuador burn photographs and paper-filled scarecrows at midnight. This is to look away from the past and bring good fortune for the future.

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ew Year’s Eve festivities peak when the official countdown of the clock begins. After the ball drops and midnight has arrived, revelers cheer to the new year and exchange kisses and well wishes.

Once such wishes have been exchanged, many people begin to sing “Auld Lang Syne.” But few know what “Auld Lang Syne” means or why it is sung on New Year’s Eve. Confusion regarding this song is almost as notable as the tradition of singing it. Many people mumble through the lyrics because they never bothered to learn them.

“Auld Lang Syne” is a Scottish composition that is well over 200 years old.

Written by Robert Burns in the 1700s, the author never intended for the song to become a staple of the holiday season. It was originally a poem that was later put to the tune of a traditional folk song. The title translates roughly in English as “old long since,” or “long, long ago.” The song pays homage to times gone by and past experiences.

The song has been performed at group jamborees, funerals and other special occasions all over the world, but it is best known for its affiliation with New Year’s festivities.

The man behind that affiliation may be Canadian musician Guy Lombardo, whose band used “Auld Lang Syne” as a bridge between two radio programs during a live New Year’s Eve performance in 1929. Coincidentally, the song was played directly after the clock struck midnight, laying the groundwork for a New Year’s Eve tradition. Now “Auld Lang Syne” has forever been tied to well-intentioned resolutions and sappy slaps on the back. Despite selling millions of records, Lombardo became more famous for his New Year’s Eve song than anything else.

Confusion over “Auld Lang Syne” remains to this day. It has been the butt of jokes in popular culture, even earning a nod in the movie “When Harry Met Sally.” Harry laments to Sally that he never quite understood what the song meant and ponders whether it is about forgetting about friends or remembering them. Sally sums it up by saying the song is simply about old friends.

That is the interpretation many New Year’s Eve celebrants embrace as they toast to the new year and sing their hearts out. For those who never bothered to learn or have forgotten the words to this staple of New Year’s celebrations, here is the popularized English translation sung most often.

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mouths at midnight. If they are successful, they are expected to achieve good luck for the next year.

T Dressing in white: Residents of Brazil dress all in white on New Year’s Eve to ward away bad spirits. Many also gather at the beach to toss floral offerings into the water to appease the goddess Yemaja, in the hopes she will grant them requests for the upcoming year.

T Good travels: In Columbia, people walk around their blocks with empty suitcases to encourage traveling in the new year.

T Ringing bells: Japanese ring all of their bells 108 times in accordance with the Buddhist belief that this will bring cleanliness. People in Japan also believe it is good luck to begin the new year smiling.

T Putting up your dukes: Every year at the end of December, people in a small Peruvian village engage in fist fights to settle all of their differences. Afterward, they begin the new year with a clean slate.

T First foot: Immediately after the clock strikes 12, the people of Scotland start first-footing.

This means being the first person across a friend or neighbor’s threshold bearing gifts of food, whiskey and financial prosper-

ity. People in Greece celebrate in much the same way via the tradition of Pothariko.

T Molten tin: In Finland, residents find the nearest piece of tin to melt. The molten tin is poured into a horseshoe-shaped ladle and then dropped into cold water. The random shapes that form are interpreted in various ways to indicate what’s to come in the year ahead.

T Feats of skill: Single women in Belarus spend New Year’s Eve hoping to increase their odds of getting married. Ladies compete in games to see who will be the next to get hitched. These games may include seeing who will be the first to be approached by a rooster. The winner is the next person to become betrothed.

T Appliance toss: In downtown Johannesburg, South African locals throw old appliances out of their windows to ring in the new year.

T All things round: Roundshaped foods are served and consumed in the Philippines. Filipinos believe round shapes that represent coins symbolize prosperity.

From fistfights to eating round fruits, the traditions of welcoming the new year are varied around the world.

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Make your New Year’s resolution come true of January, as part of your resolution, then you are building in some measuring sticks along the way, and meeting those measuring sticks can motivate you to stay on course and realize your resolution by year’s end.

T Don’t go overboard. If you traditionally find resolutions hard to live up to, then stick to a single resolution this year. This allows you to focus your efforts more effectively and ensures you won’t be overburdened, which could negatively impact your ability to realize your resolutions.

T Use technology.

Saving more money is a popular New Year’s resolution, and now men and women looking to save more can employ technology to help them realize their financial goals.

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T Enlist a friend. If your New Year’s resolution is one that others can apply to their own lives, then by all means enlist a friend.

For example, men and women who want to find more time to exercise in the coming year can enlist a friend or family member to exercise with them.

The buddy system is a great motivating tool, and enlisting the help of a friend or family member provides the added benefit of seeing that loved one more often in the year ahead.

T Don’t let setbacks derail your resolution.

Resolutions too often fall by the wayside when men and women experience setbacks directly related to their

resolutions.

If you resolved to save more money but had a month when that simply was not possible, don’t allow that to

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Setbacks are nearly inevitable, but they’re never an excuse to give up on a resolution.

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Old habits can be hard to break, which can make it difficult for men and women to stay committed to their New Year’s resolutions.

But a new year marks a new chapter, and the following are some ways you can ensure this year’s resolutions don’t go unresolved.

T Be specific. A resolution that’s too general may ultimately prove ineffective. For example, if you resolve to lose weight this year, you probably hope to lose a substantial amount of weight over the next 12 months, as opposed to just one or two pounds.

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