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Easter Fun (Clockwise from top) Emma-Lee Braun hops over a tree stump in search of Easter eggs during the Easter Egg Hunt at Finlayson Park in Sicamous Saturday, April 4; Braia Widen waves hello to the Easter bunny before giving him a hug; Lilian Krocher spots the Easter bunny; Lilly Bandura finds an egg; Connor and Rhys Dang search for eggs; Alaina Rich runs to pick up her next Easter egg; Kids make a mad dash for eggs during the start of the Easter egg hunt; Jance Franoeur finds an egg to put in his Thomas the Train basket as he spots another. Photos by Evan Buhler
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Covering the puck: Carter Anderson makes a save for the Sh*thawks from a Hank’s Heroes team member, while defenceman Kaylen Kerr stands guard during a Rec Hockey Tournament held Easter weekend at the Sicamous Arena. Hank’s Heroes won the game 5-3.
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Sleeping driver hits parked trailer A Vernon man might be feeling a little foolish after falling asleep at the wheel on Wednesday, April 1 and colliding with a portable trailer parked at the Sicamous-Solsqua Road turnoff from Highway 1. Sicamous RCMP received a report of the single-vehicle crash at approximately 4:23 p.m. Officers responding to the call found a 25-yearold Vernon man was travelling west on the TransCanada Highway when he fell asleep. His vehicle, a black Chevy Silverado with a snowmobile in the bed, drove over a concrete boulevard and into a TA Structures trailer on a lot adjacent to the highway. Police say neither the driver nor his two passengers were seriously injured, though both the truck and trailer sustained significant damage. The driver was issued a violation ticket for driving without due care and attention.
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Sicamous RCMP are attempting to locate two small dirt bikes reported stolen from a local property between March 9 and 12. The bikes are described as GIO 50 CC models, one orange and one blue, valued at approximately $350 each. Anyone with information about this theft or the location of the stolen bikes is asked to contact the Sicamous RCMP detachment at 250-832-2878, or Crime Stoppers at 1-222-8477.
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Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome. Every Thurs.- Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5. Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788.
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Even when you’re doing everything right when sledding in the backcountry, things can still go terribly wrong. Curtis Johnson, Gord Bushell, Bruce Moores and Dan Morin learned this during a recent outing at Blue Lake. The four experienced snowmobilers (Morin and Moores are past presidents of the Eagle Valley Snowmobile Club, and Bushell is the club’s current general manager), were out for a day’s sledding in the backcountry above the club’s chalet and groomed trails. While the avalanche rating was high, the snow conditions were good in the early morning. But, as it warmed up, conditions started to degrade and snow started sloughing. “So we went to that area where there’s not a big incline or anything like that,” said Bushell, who noted Johnson was recording their trip with his helmetmounted camera. “We were just playing it safe and, unfortunately Curtis, if you watch his video, he ended up getting bumped uphill, which got him up on a side hill. As soon as he started on the side hill it let go and swallowed him up.” In the video, posted at https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=4ErgflozT38, more than two minutes pass before the cam-
era’s lens is uncovered. But Bushell says it was a matter of seconds before Johnson’s face was dug out and they could confirm he was OK. “Curtis was able to get his hand up, just his glove came up… and Bruce was right there to dig him out, dig his helmet and face out,” said Bushell, adding it took about 10 minutes to free Johnson completely. “He couldn’t move. It’s like concrete when it sets up on you after it stops. He was pretty twisted up and everything… We had to be careful to figure out where his feet were. His feet were behind him and the sled was about three or four feet away, and it was completely buried too.” Calls to Johnson were not returned by press time. Bushell can be seen in the video digging, with Morin on his left and Moores off camera on his right. “That was a scary moment,” said Bushell, who estimates the slide was about 20 metres wide. After Johnson was freed, Bushell said he wanted to carry on, so the four men did just that, stopping for lunch soon after. “He wasn’t very talkative so I said, ‘It’s time to go, we’re going home.’ So I took Curtis home and Bruce and Dan carried on and finished the day up,” said Bushell. Despite their exten-
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a screen shot from the video, Gord Bushell and Dan Morin work to dig out Curtis Johnson, who was buried after his snowmobile got caught in an avalanche at Blue Lake near Sicamous. sive sledding experience, Bushell says the incident was educational for all involved. “It’s a real wake-up call to how little of a slope can slide,” said Bushell. “We see it all the time, but when you’re actually in it, it’s a different story. I think we all came away from that learning something – just a little avalanche like that – different things you could have done.”
The incident also highlighted the importance of sledding with friends when in the backcountry. “You’ve got to be prepared and you’ve got to watch your fellow sledders,” said Bushell. “You can’t be wandering off. People that wander off don’t usually have sledders who want to sled with them. When you wander off, things like that happen all the time.”
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s new drivers, we’re taught the left lane is for passing, getting ready for a left turn and moving out of the way of an obstruction. It’s the right lane that’s meant for general travel. Drivers are supposed to be aware of what’s going on around them, anticipate being overtaken and keep right. When a driver uses the left lane and remains oblivious to other vehicles around them, we get frustrated – angry, even. That does not give anyone the right to drive aggressively or use our vehicles to bully drivers. The provincial government’s recent edict that it plans to crack down on left-lane hogs is a reaction to this frustration. It will, however, do little to solve the problem and help perpetuate aggressive driving. We are taught not to be angry or overly emotional when getting behind the wheel of a car. Yet, if we’re told left-lane hogs are a problem, there’s the chance some people will feel justified in more aggressive tactics. What the campaign will do, potentially, is cause an increase in road-rage incidents, simply by empowering drivers who think they are in the right and act in ways they feel are justified against the so-called left-lane hog. If the goal was to educate drivers to help decrease crashes and aggressive driving, putting the blame on slower drivers isn’t the way to do it. Consider, rather, driver education that lasts a lifetime. Once someone has their driver’s licence, they may never improve. In fact, bad habits are all too likely to occur. Why not make it a requirement that drivers must, at intervals, recertify or refresh their driving skills and knowledge? Perhaps if more people were reminded about the rules of the road more regularly, left-lane hogs – and road rageaholics – would take a back seat. – Peninsula News Review
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B.C.’s labour market goes global By Tom Fletcher News Columnist
VICTORIA – The labour situation in B.C. is showing increased signs of strain, even before a long-promised boom in heavy construction gets set to ramp up this summer. Jobs Minister Shirley Bond announced last week that B.C. is suspending its “provincial nomination” program for 90 days. This allows the province to recommend people for federal immigration, based on skills in demand in B.C. The B.C. provincial nomination program saw its number of applications triple to 1,200 for the month of December, as the federal government cracked down on the temporary foreign worker program. Thousands of temporary foreign workers who have hit the fouryear deadline are being sent home, with many of them turning to the provincial nomination track. Bond has been pleading with Ottawa to raise B.C.’s
annual provincial nomination quota from 5,000 to 7,000 or more. The threemonth pause is so her ministry can add staff and speed up processing time. Backlogged applicants will still be considered, and exemptions for health-care workers and a northeast pilot program are being maintained. Even with the current slump in energy prices and before anticipated pipeline and liquefied natural gas projects start, the labour shortage in the northeast is near crisis. The last time I was in Dawson Creek, radio ads were offering signing bonuses for qualified truck drivers. In Fort St. John, grocery and hardware retailers have come to depend on foreign workers. While supposedly educated young people work part-time and refuse to leave the comforts of southern city life, this is the reality up north, and it’s only going to get worse. This summer, work is scheduled to start on the Site C dam on the Peace River,
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the most costly construction project in B.C. history. And a union vs. non-union battle reminiscent of the old Expo 86 labour wars is underway. The B.C. and Yukon Building Trades (BCYT) are demanding a project agreement that requires all workers on Site C to be paid their rates, and are warning of chaos on the huge project if they don’t get their way. BC Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald told me that’s not all they want. They are also seeking quotas for members of their unions on a project that will be a small city of 1,700 people at peak construction. BCYT executive director Tom Sigurdson says that while all sides acknowledge the need for foreign workers for Site C, he wants to control that too, working with their affiliated unions in the United States. There will be non-union construction firms, some of them owned by aboriginal communities in the north. There will be contractors
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affiliated with the Christian Labour Association of Canada. The BCYT hopes to set wages and conditions for them all, and influence Ottawa’s temporary foreign worker program to boot. McDonald and Premier Christy Clark have politely told them to pound sand. Their formula would add millions in costs to the project, driving up BC Hydro rates even more than they are already rising. BC Hydro has already done dam upgrade projects using a “managed open site” model and it’s not inclined to return to the era of W.A.C. Bennett as Sigurdson demands. Sigurdson makes a valid point that when two concrete masons compare paycheques on the Site C project and one sees he’s making $5 an hour less, he won’t be happy. He will want the higher rate, and the BCYT is taking BC Hydro to court to ensure they can recruit new members. It looks like a hot summer ahead.
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Just like Willie Nelson’s song “On The Road Again,” so were we in March to San Francisco for our daughter’s spring break. Our last road-trip adventure was my mom’s bucket list to the Grand, Bryce and Zion canyons, and she had so much fun that she hitched a ride on this one too! The welcome warmth of the sun greeted us every morning and served to brighten the visual splendor of the vibrant spring colours of newly growing green grass and leaves, as well as the blooms of purple magnolias, red camellias, bright orange poppies, yellow daffodils, white and pink fruit and nut trees and the soft mauves of wisteria vines. Bee-lining it down I-5 to southern Oregon, we passed many farm valleys, towns and cities as well as the whitecapped whoppers of Mt. Baker, St. Helens, Rainier and Hood (plus
Shasta coming home), that not only dominated the horizon, but stood as a reminder that nature rules the roost and the earth is never static. Branching southwest at Grant’s Pass, we crossed into California and arrived at the coastal community of Crescent City, seeing low dunes, surfers and rocky bluffs heading south to Eureka then inland again through the magnificent – and world’s tallest – redwood forests. We were treated to awe-inspiring sights when the sun’s rays and mists mixed together to stream through the tremendous trunks and high-reaching branches and a slight diversion off the highway took us through an incredibly narrow corridor, driving for jaw-dropping miles through the Avenue of the Giants where we pulled over to listen to the hush of those wondrous woods. We junctioned off at tiny Legget onto a crazy, windy road that finally popped us out at a now much more rugged coastline, but which also boasted some beautiful beaches and charming little communities such as Mendocino, then back up and over the rolling hills through the open California hills of grass, madronas, oaks and vineyards. After an
overnight stay in the fairgrounds at Cloverdale, we strolled around the streets that were dotted with flowering trees and plants, palms, cactuses and succulents, then loaded up bags of unplucked lemons, oranges and grapefruits that hung over the fence line in the parking lot. San Fran and area is approximately 50 square miles and is the second most densely populated city in the U.S., home to 8.5 million and located right on top of the ominous compressive stresses of the Pacific and North American plates. Seeing the famous sites, street life and neat neighbourhoods such as Sausalito was made fun and easy by their hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour buses, which allowed us a fresh air, 360-degree bird’s eye view. To boot, our 30-minute ferry ride in from our RV site in Marin County not only gave us a daily cruise of the shorelines, homes, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge, but docked at a huge farmers’ market that housed some of the best growers and wine makers in the area.
Every day began with a delicious toasted bun with a freshly picked and sliced avocado, drizzled with organic olive oil and herbs – yum! Traveling home now on the two-lane, famous and gorgeous Napa Valley/Sonoma County wine growing area was another visual treat, featuring hundreds of vineyards, treelined streets gracing the charming late-1800 towns of Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga, a vintage wine train that chugged up and down the valley and the lavish and humble homes and wine-tasting buildings that dotted the countryside. Some of these beauties were built of stone, which looked like a page right out of a Tuscany tourist guide. The last stop was the new, first-class Evergreen Aviation Museum located in a pretty farm valley at McMinnville, Oregon. It not only houses the Spruce Goose inside one of their two giant hangers, but also hundreds of old and new fighter and biplanes, helicopters and an IMAX theatre too. Wow – what a way to end the holiday!
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bypass the chamber has been exploring. Clark, in response, said highway safety is a problem facing many smaller communities on major transportation routes across the province. She said the province, ICBC and the City of Salmon Arm are working on signalizing some intersections in the downtown core. She noted the province is in the process of making “big investments,” but it has to make sure they’re ones that will work for the community. “We do want to make sure that our transportation investments connect communities, not bypass communities, because we know the impact that that change can have. But we do want to make sure that it’s done safely,” said Clark. Question number three had to do with improving wage parity between women and men – equal work for equal pay. Clark said this is not something the B.C. government is thinking of legislating, but is a situation that will improve with the creation of more jobs and greater competition. She also said the province needs to make sure women are getting the training they need, emphasizing “non-traditional areas” for women, including mining, technology and trades. This was a point Clark spoke to in her presentation – that, in this year’s provincial budget, the B.C. government is reducing financial barriers to single parents
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Opportunities are abundant for smaller communities like Salmon Arm in Christy Clark’s LNG vision for the future of British Columbia. The premier champions Salmon Arm’s Valid Manufacturing as a company already positioning itself to become a leader in that future, but she says the scope of who could benefit is potentially greater – provided businesses are proactive. “It’s an endless list, from catering to lawyering to welding to temporary housing to training to environmental expertise, you name it,” Clark explained to a room of 127 people last Wednesday, during a luncheon arranged by the Salmon Arm Chamber of Commerce at the Prestige Harbourfront Resort. “Lots of B.C. companies are already benefitting,” Clark continued. “If people in this room want to find a way to hook in, we really want you to go to the BuyBC LNG site, register and become a part of that, and we are really actively… trying to connect small- and mediumsized B.C. companies.” The comments were in response to one of three questions the chamber had an opportunity to ask of the premier following her presentation. Another related to the chamber’s concerns over commercial truck traffic rolling through town, related safety concerns and the concept of a highway
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that might prevent them from pursuing needed education. “Starting Sept. 1, if you’re a single parent in B.C. and you want to go get training for a job that’s needed in our province, we’re going to let you stay on social assistance for a year, we’re going to let you keep your health and dental benefits for your kids and for yourself, we will pay you for your transportation, we will pay for your tuition, and we will pay for your child care so there are no barriers for you to be able to get the training to get that job,” said Clark. She also took a moment to praise Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo, and the work he’s doing on behalf of his constituents. “You don’t know the half of the work Greg Kyllo does for you and for all British Columbians in this community,” said Clark.
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Agencies review environmental damage By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Recent environmental damage from mud boggers in Old Town Bay has provided an educational opportunity for enforcement agencies. On Tuesday, Compliance and Enforcement staff from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources, a ministry soil ecologist and Sicamous RCMP met at the foreshore in Old Town Bay. Their focus – a site that was used by mud boggers in late February. Sicamous Sgt. Scott West says he attended to be educated on what the ministry considers damage. “The RCMP was out with them – they were looking at damage done to the sensitive ecosystem along
the beach,” said West. Ministry spokesperson Greig Bethel called the outing a “joint field review” of the recently impacted site – “part of a training exercise designed to assist members of both organizations to understand the nuances of the Forest and Range Practices Act, Section 46 (1.1) – Environmental Damage.” “Natural Resource Officers from the C&E branch enforce Section 46… and the RCMP also expressed an interest in learning how it is applied as there may be instances in which they could also enforce this statute,” said Bethel in an email. The job of the soil ecologist on hand was to help explain how the “change in soils that adversely affects
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West said the RCMP and the ministry are looking at options for the Old Town Bay foreshore, such as signage, and emphasized there are applicable charges for the destruction of sensitive ecosystems.
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Assistance is available to qualifying homeowners, residential tenants (renters), small business owners, farm owners, charitable organizations and local government bodies that incurred more than $1,000 of uninsurable damage during the period February 2-23, 2015, and that are situated within the geographic boundaries of: • Regional District of North Okanagan including Spallumcheen, Enderby, Coldstream, and other smaller communities • District of West Kelowna • Thompson Nicola Regional District including Blackpool • Columbia Shushwap Regional District (Electoral Areas C, D, E, F)
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The driver of a speedboat that slammed into a houseboat on Shuswap Lake in 2010 was drinking beer and smoking marijuana before the crash, a judge has been told. Leon Reinbrecht is on trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops, facing one count each of criminal negligence causing death and criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Ken Brown was killed on July 3, 2010, when the houseboat he was piloting was struck head-on by a speedboat following a fireworks display in Magna Bay. Taking the witness stand on April 1 was Britney Sundberg, one of three people aboard Reinbrecht’s speedboat when the crash occurred. Sundberg, now 21, was 16 at the time and involved in a romantic relationship with Reinbrecht’s son Robert. Sundberg said Reinbrecht was on the beach with a beer in his hand when she first saw him. “Shortly after that, we went on the boat because we were going to go on the lake and watch the fireworks,” she said, noting about six people were on the boat for the display. “He gave me and
Robert a six-pack of Palm Bays,” she said. “Did you see anybody else consuming alcohol before you got on the boat?” Crown prosecutor Neil Flanagan asked. “Everybody who got on the boat,” Sundberg replied. Sundberg said Reinbrecht rolled a joint while watching the fireworks. “He grabbed the bag that had scissors, paper and marijuana from the glove compartment in front of where he sat,” she said, explaining Reinbrecht shared the joint with her and his son. After the fireworks, the court heard, Reinbrecht returned to the shore and dropped off his girlfriend, his daughter and his daughter’s boyfriend. “Everybody got off the boat except me, Leon and Robert,” Sundberg said. She said Reinbrecht continued drinking beer when they were back on the lake. “I don’t remember the exact amount, but it was a fair amount,” she said. “Me, being 16 at the time, he was just fun. “I was 16. He was fun. Now I look at it and I’m an idiot.” Sundberg said the speed of the boat started
to increase and Reinbrecht began making sudden turns. According to Sundberg, her boyfriend had to hold onto her so she didn’t “fly out of the boat” while Reinbrecht sped across the lake. “I remember the boat skipping back and forth and holding on to the boat.” The court heard Reinbrecht was showing the effects of alcohol.
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“He got more oblivious, he got louder,” Sundberg said. “Because he was drinking, he probably didn’t know his speed. He was just really loud.” Sundberg said Reinbrecht was trying to get back to the campsite where his family was staying when the collision occurred. “We were looking at the lights along the shore, trying to figure out where we were,” she said. “We were looking for the campsite. He [Reinbrecht] looked
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back at me and then we hit the boat. Previous witnesses have testified the houseboat was dimly lit and difficult to make out in the dark of night. “There was no lights,” Sundberg said. “The houseboat lights turned on a few moments after we crashed into the houseboat.” After the collision, Sundberg said, Reinbrecht rinsed out his blood-filled mouth with a swig of beer. Sundberg said Brown, the houseboat operator, somehow ended up in the speedboat. “I remember Ken crawling towards us — trying to crawl,” she said. “At that point, there was nothing we could do for him. It looked to me like he had no legs. There was blood everywhere.” A few days later, Sundberg said, Reinbrecht gave her and his son a ride from Kamloops to the Shuswap to pick up their vehicle. “He said if we stick together, everything will be OK,” she said. Previous witnesses have also said Brown had been drinking and smoking marijuana prior to the crash. The Crown expects to wrap up its case by the middle of this week.
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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Patience is a virtue you must have this week, Aries. Others may not be able to maintain your pace, so exercise patience with those who need it.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, lend a helping hand to a loved one who could use some words of encouragement. Your efforts will be both effective and very much appreciated.
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SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, anxiety about starting a new chapter in life is normal. Fear of the unknown can worry anyone, but look forward to all of the positive changes that are in store.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Embrace the competitive nature of a coworker this week, Gemini. This person might just motivate you to reach heights you have yet to reach, and this may lead to a promotion at work. CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, a heart-to-heart talk with a loved one has you feeling confident as you move forward. Embrace this chance to communicate for the opportunity it truly is. LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, allow someone close to you to enjoy his or her space this week. Find a way to keep busy as this special someone does some soul-searching.
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All ad packages include a 15 word FREE classified ad that runs in the paper each week
Many other sizes and prices are available!
Contact Terry Sinton 250-836-4613 today! A convenient and affordable way to advertise your small business. 171 Shuswap St. Salmon Arm EAGLE VALLEY Email:tbl@cablelan.net
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