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Happy birthday to Barriere babies of 2014

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Fifteen lovely babies were in attendance at the Success By Six Barriere Babies of 2014 Birthday Party held on Tuesday, May 12, in the Barriere Seniors Hall. The families received a gift bag of goodies for their little one, and many also went home with a door prize thanks to area sponsors. Lunch was served, and of course birthday cake for all. A number of speakers took a few moments to give brief overviews of the programs available in the area for parents and caregivers with young children, and Interior Savings Credit Union presented one lucky draw winner with a $100 term deposit for their baby. Pictured (l-r with baby’s name first) are: Lily and Robyn Jackson, Emily and Lindsay Fontaine, Rhys and Karen Evans, Wyatt and Tabithia Sabyan-Betrand, Zoey and Sydney Williams, Heidi and Diana Fraser, Hunter and Lisa Young, Eleanor and Kayla Holowaychuk, Gauge and Jennifer Parish, Declan and Jennifer Nystoruk, Lilly and Chelsea Young, Jason and Angie Rainer, Goe and Alison Eustache, Aria and Lacey Kaduk, Eli and Carlea Dunn. Find more photos from the event on page 10.

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TNRD board to be asked to vote on motion of support for pipeline plan

By Adam Williams The Thompson-Nicola Regional District’s board of directors will decide later this month whether to lend its support to the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline.

Sun Peaks Mayor Al Raine said he plans to ask the board to vote on a motion of support for the project at its May 28 meeting.

“My motivation is, really, as I said — I’m looking at it and saying, in the foreseeable future, petroleum products are going to be brought through the corridor,” Raine told KTW. “I think we have a responsibility to express an opinion on what is the safest and most appropriate way to do it.”

In Raine’s mind, that’s the twinning of the pipeline.

It was in Dallas recently that Raine noticed at least 50 per cent of rail cars passing were oil tankers.

“It’s happening whether we like it or not,” Raine said of petroleum transport through the corridor.

“For transporting it through the TNRD,

the pipeline makes sense.”

For the Sun Peaks mayor, rail is a concerning method of transportation.

After disasters like that which occurred last year in Lac-Mégantic, Que., Raine said it’s obvious transportation by rail and truck comes with risks.

The Trans Mountain pipeline has already been operating across the province for 60 years, Raine said, with minimal problems.

Kinder Morgan made a presentation to the TNRD board almost two months ago, after which many of the district’s communities signed benefit agreements with the energyinfrastructure company.

Sun Peaks was not one of those communities, which is why Raine is taking it upon himself to broach the issue for the district.

He is not bringing forward the motion on behalf of his council, but in the interests of the region in general.

“I felt I’m in a good position to bring this forward, completely unbiased, because we’re not a benefitting community,” he said.

Raine expects there to be healthy debate on the issue.

While he hopes the future is of a world less dependant on burning fossil fuels, he said that’s not what’s at debate here.

The issue today concerns the safest way to move the product.

“It’s going to impact our communities and environment if the wrong decision is made,” Raine said.

TNRD Area P director Mel Rothenburger told KTW he will be recusing himself from the discussion and vote regarding the pipeline, due to a conflict of interest.

Rothenburger is in discussions with Kinder Morgan as the proposed pipeline would go through his property.

He, therefore, has a direct financial investment in the issue.

During his election campaign for Area P, Rothenburger told KTW Kinder Morgan “should ante up for a major contribution toward the cost of a $1.3-million upgrade to TNRD’s Black Pines water system.”

On Feb. 26, Black Pines received $150,000 from Kinder Morgan for drinking-water infrastructure.

Adam Williams writes for Kamloops This Week.

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Former North Thompson MLA Krueger among five to receive honorary degrees from TRU

By Kamloops This Week

Former Kamloops-North Thompson Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger is one of five people who will receive honorary doctorates at the upcoming convocation ceremonies at Thompson Rivers University.

Krueger will receive a doctor of letters designation on June 10. He is being citied for his career of service and community representation, including lobbying for financial help after the 2003 wildfires.

Others being recognized include local philanthropist Ken Lepin, who has donated more than $2.5 million to the university for student awards, sharing his charitable donations with Royal

Inland Hospital. He will be recognized with a doctor of letters on June 11.

Judge and humanitarian Thomas Berger will receive a doctor of laws on June 12.

He is being honoured for his work on aboriginal rights and land entitlement.

Cindy Blackstock, an internationally recognized researcher and advocate for aboriginal rights, will receive a doctor of letters on June 11.

Michaela Pereira, a broadcast journalist who has spoken out on adoption and identity struggles, will receive a doctor of laws on June 10. Pereira has won Emmy, Mark Twain and Radio and Television News Association awards for her work.

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By Tom Fletcher Black Press The B.C. government has “released” Agricultural Land Commission board chair and CEO Richard Bullock, and will pay out his five-year contract until it ends in November, Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick said Thursday.

Bullock will be replaced effective immediately by long-time Saanich mayor Frank Leonard, who was voted out after nearly 20 years in last fall’s civic elections.

Letnick said with new regulations taking effect to manage the Agricultural Land Reserve with two zones, it was time to make a change and let Leonard and the board choose a new CEO. The B.C. government has been at odds with Bullock since early in his five-year term, when he stopped appointing commissioners to six regional panels around the province.

Energy Minister Bill Bennett, who pushed through the two-zone system under the auspices of his “core review” of government services, said a year ago that Bullock found the regional panels to be “a pain in the ass” and preferred to run the commission from its head office in Burnaby. So the government mandated regional appointments in legislation along with the two-zone concept.

Leonard takes over as the ALC deals with a vast Interior “zone two” with relaxed rules for second residences and non-farm activities. Commissioners are also expected to deal with appli-

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Agricultural Land Commission chair and CEO Richard Bullock is out, with six months to go on his five-year contract. cations by a British manufacturing giant buying B.C. Interior farms to turn back to forest for European Union carbon credits.

Letnick said the regional panels are up and running, and he doesn’t expect the change at the top to cause delays in making decisions on farmland use or exclusion.

Amateur photographers from around B.C. can bring their unique perspective to the Black Press 3rd Annual “Your Best Shot” contest.

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encouraged to send it in. Contestants can submit up to five of their favourite photos for a chance to win some spectacular prizes.

The contest, which is being presented by London Drugs, Black Press and the Abbotsford International Airshow, is open now and runs until July 3rd, 2015. All photos will be judged on subject, composition, impact and other criteria.

To find out more or to submit an entry go to: http://abbynews. upickem.net/engine/Welcome. aspx?contestid=172078

Clearwater residents to cycle for global warming petition Keith McNeill Can the editor of the Clearwater Times keep up with Jean Nelson on a bicycle?

That's the central question to be answered when Nelson and I cycle from Toronto to Ottawa May 23 – June 2.

Mind you, anyone who knows Jean and who know me already knows the answer.

Jean might be an 80-year-old grandmother, but she's also remarkably fit.

This editor, on the other hand, spends way too much time behind a computer and in the office.

I haven't done much cycling for many years and I have never done a long bike trip.

Of course, there's also the question of promoting a global warming petition that I have posted online at Care2. The petition calls for a Canadawide referendum on carbon fee-and-dividend.

So far it has collect-

Clearwater Times editor Keith McNeill gets ready for a training ride with longtime North Thompson resident Jean Nelson recently. The pair plan to cycle from Toronto to Ottawa soon to promote a petition on global warming. Nelson was Mrs. Chatelaine in 1970 and the former chair of School District 26 (North Thompson).

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ed more than 28,000 names.

Carbon fee- anddividend is a proposed method to control human-caused global warming.

A fee would be charged on fossil fuels at the wellhead, mine or point of import similar to a carbon tax.

Unlike a tax, however, the money collected would not go into general government revenues.

Instead, it would be distributed in equal and repeating dividends to everyone.

As stated on the petition, a Canadawide fossil fuel fee set at the same level as

B.C.'s carbon tax ($30 per tonne of carbon dioxide produced) would generate about $20 billion per year.

Assuming there are about 20 million adults in Canada, that would mean each person over age 18 would receive carbon dividends totalling close to $1,000 per year.

We know carbon taxes work in reducing carbon dioxide production. A fossil fuel fee should work as well or better.

The carbon dividend would be important in reducing the economic inequality.

Those getting the lowest 10 per cent of income would collect 150 per cent more in carbon dividends than they would pay in fossil fuel fees.

In fact, two-thirds of Canadians would collect more or at least break even.

"Why ask for a referendum?" is a question sometimes asked.

In my opinion, this question is altogether too important to be left to the politicians.

In Switzerland, the citizens have the right, through a petition with 100,000 signatures, to bring forward any important question to a national referendum.

Canada has about four times the population of Switzerland and so the online peti-

tion calls for 400,000 names.

We don't really expect to get that number and, even if we did, it would not be legally binding.

Still, it's a worthwhile goal and it does get the idea out there that we need more democracy, not less, if we are to solve the problems that face us.

Jean and I plan to start our trip from the Rouge Hill GO station northeast of Toronto on Saturday, May 23 (at 10 a.m., if you have any friends or relatives there who might want to see us off).

That day will see a relatively short ride to Oshawa.

May 24 - Coburg.

May 25 – Trenton.

May 26 – Napanee.

May 27 – Kingston.

May 28 – spend a day Kingston.

May 29 – Rideau Lakes, stay at historic Hotel Kenney.

May 30 – Smith Falls.

May 31 – Carleton Place.

June 1 – Ottawa.

At noon on June 2 we will meet Citizens Climate Lobby – Canada national manager Cathy Orlando at the Centennial Flame in front of the Parliament Buildings.

There we will give her six memory sticks containing the names on the petition as of that date.

Orlando then will pass them on to the leaders of the six parties in the House of Commons: Conservative, New Democrat, Liberal, Green, Bloc Quebecois and Force et Democratie.

If you want to add your name to the petition, the URL is www.thepetitionsite. com/850/161/365/petition-for-a-referendumon-carbon-fee-anddividend-for-canada/ (or Google: Care2, petition, carbon fee, Canada).

Please get others to sign as well.

We may not save the world, but at least we intend to have fun trying.

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OPINION Editorial;

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by Tom Fletcher

Sacrificing farmland for climate change It was 2008 when word first surfaced that B.C. farmland was being bought up to grow trees as a European carbon offset.

Reckitt Benckiser Inc., a British-based global manufacturer of household products such as Lysol spray and Calgon laundry soap, bought 1,500 hectares east of Vanderhoof and planted aspen. For comparison, that’s about the size of downtown Vancouver from 16th and Oak to Stanley Park.

Since tree growing is permitted in the Agricultural Land Reserve, a use intended for fruit, ornamental or nursery trees, no permission was needed. And to meet the carbon offset rules of the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change, a 100-year restrictive covenant against harvesting trees was issued by B.C.’s land titles office.

Goodbye farmland.

After that deal, the B.C. government changed legislation in 2011 to require permission from the Agricultural Land Commission to make these covenants valid. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick says he is waiting for that process to be tested.

It likely will be soon. Reckitt has bought another 7,000 hectares of cleared farmland from Prince George down through the Cariboo to Quesnel. NDP agriculture critic Lana Popham has been tracking these acquisitions, and she says there are more deals in the works.

Last fall, the Bulkley Nechako Regional District wrote to Victoria Wood, Reckitt Benckiser’s “global head of sustainability,” telling her that “the planting of trees on centrally located and productive agricultural lands is not appropriate” and would weaken local farm economies.

Wood responded that the RB Trees project targets only “marginally productive” land such as pasture, abandoned farms or those that have been up for sale for long periods.

Former Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson raised the issue in the legislature in 2008, noting that Crown land near Vanderhoof had been sold for farming, bought by a numbered company and then “flipped” for around $1 million to RB Trees.

Now mayor of Quesnel, Simpson takes issue with the company’s claims with his usual shyness. “It’s bull----,” he told me. “This isn’t marginal land.”

He said it includes prime alfalfa fields and historical ranch and forage crop lands. In one case, neighbours found out about the new use when they saw a helicopter spraying herbicide to prepare the area for tree seedlings.

In the Cariboo as in other rural B.C. areas, aging farmers want to retire and young people keen to work seven days a week are in short supply. So naturally there is pressure to sell.

Perhaps Letnick is right, and the ALC will stop productive farmland from being turned back into forest. While we’re waiting for that, here are a couple of other questions.

What happens when these forests burn? The first big forest fire of 2015 grew out of control near Prince George last week. And since aspen doesn’t last 100 years, what is its real carbon offset value?

How’s that European carbon trading market doing? It’s a mess, with the cost of emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide fallen far below what’s needed to be effective, and Interpol investigating various schemes to game the system.

Remember B.C’s own Pacific Carbon Trust? This Gordon Campbell brainchild to sell carbon offsets was quietly greenhouse gassed after the Auditor General revealed its first two big projects were of questionable value to say the least.

Finally, does anyone really think that returning B.C.’s scarce farmland to forest is a good way to change the weather? Would it offset the loss of local production and trucking in farm produce from elsewhere?

And where are B.C.’s tireless food security advocates on this dubious scheme?

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Wake up over waste To the editor; I read with great interest the May (14) article on using the waste wood in our forests.

Everyone knows the abysmal pollution in the fall is a direct result of this terrible process.

Ten years ago, a buddy of mine had some Swedish clients out in the forest and they looked at our slash piles with disbelief.

In their country, they said, people would be in jail for wasting so much lumber.

Sadly, instead of our government expanding power generation with this readily available source of energy, the B.C. Liberals are hell-bent on flooding more farmland and putting us another $10 billion in debt with yet another mega-project with the Site C dam.

When will we wake up?

Kevin Bonell Kamloops, B.C.

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Where’s the dough?

To the editor; Another May long weekend to enjoy family and friends, camping and parties, gardening and puttering.

The promise of summer is around the corner and even now we enjoy the long languishing light as we approach the longest day of the year.

Ahhhh that’s the life!

Not so for too many people around the globe!

As we approach the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July 2015, Canada can play a key role in ensuring that the Global Financing Facility, which will be housed at the World Bank, is both effective at leveraging funds and ensuring that those funds reach those who need them most.

In the coming months, while Canada negotiates the structure and priorities of the GFF we must urge the government to commit to accountability, equity, and innovative and sustainable financing!

Connie Lebeau Victoria, B.C.

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The North Thompson Fish and Game Club Society held a fun clay pigeon shoot at their gun range on May 11. It was reported “...a great day was had by all”.

Up in smoke forest policy has to stop

To the editor; Re: May 14, 2015, Logging ideas on the value of wood waste.

I am pleased to see the discussion around wood waste in our area and province starting again.

In 2008, our Unifor Local 10-b (CEP Local 10-b) moved forward with a wood waste information campaign to bring the wasting of our forest resources to the attention of the province and the public.

This campaign included a rally in front of then-MP Betty Hinton’s office and meetings with then-MLA Kevin Krueger. We posted photos of piles of usable wood fibre. The length of the logs were anywhere from 40 to 80 feet and between 8 and 24 inches at the base, all piled and ready for

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the fall slash burn.

But, this was not slash waste. It was clearly usable fibre being purposely wasted.

Burning of usable wood fibre continues today. This past weekend, I witnessed evidence of this in the Roche Lake area. on the border of the provincial park boundary line (see photo to the right).

We have to find a better way of dealing with the wasting of our forest resources. We have to find better ways of giving access to this usable fibre.

The practice of allowing usable wood fibre to go up in smoke has to stop.

Rene Pellerin Kamloops, B.C.

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$1,795 raised on annual Hospice Walk

By Elli Kohnert North Thompson Star/Journal “We made $1,795.00,” said a happy Jane Milburn who oversees the Barriere Hospice Society which services the community and surrounding area.

Milburn was reporting on the May 10th annual Hospice Walk held in Barriere which is the only fundraiser the society holds each year.

“The money will go to help train our volunteers and to keep our loan cupboard current,” said Milburn, “It was a lovely warm evening for

walking. We all enjoyed it. We saw a little deer on route, first eating in a vacant lot then crossing the road in front of us.”

A total of 14 turned out to participate in the walk along with three canine companions.

“We would like to thank all who walked for us and supported us,” said Milburn, “And we very much appreciate everyone who helped.”

If you would like to learn more about Barriere Hospice, the loan cupboard, or how you can become a volunteer, please call Jane Milburn at 250-672-9391.

STAR/JOURNAL photo: Elli Kohnert

(Above) Barriere Hospice walkers and three canine companions of the 2015 walk gathered for a group photo. Front row: (l-r) Jane Milburn, Rejean Coallier, Dorothy Walton, Audrey Rilcoe, Audrey Deveau, and Linda Fourier. Back row; Rick Weik, Heather Proulx, Georgia Dewey, Val Aylward, Carol Keating, Irene Wassing, Marnie Pfeifer. Missing from the photo is walker Elli Kohnert who took the photo.

(Right) During the walk; (l-r) Marnie Pfeifer, Irene Wassing, Linda Fourier, Audrey Deveau and Audrey Rilcoe.

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EWC is one of the many acclaimed programs of Historica Canada, and is recognized and endorsed by the Ministry of Education in every province and territory. The program also receives generous funding from Canadian Heritage, Veterans Affairs and others. Participation in the EWC program is also officially recognized by the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award program.

The Encounters Canada website states, “We believe introducing Canadian youth to our country’s diverse cultures, heritage, beliefs, contemporary issues, institutions and leaders opens their eyes to the vast potential of their own lives, as well as that of their communities, their nation and the world.

Providing a platform where Canada’s youth voices are valued and heard leads to a strengthening of these voices, of youth leadership in Canada, and of our nation, as a whole. This is an opportunity like no other.”

Participating in the unique experience of forming a mini-Canada forum with other youth sharing this fantastic bilingual adventure, was not wasted on our three area teens who attended. Madison, Jacob and Tyler have shared with the Star/Journal some of their experiences.

Madison Kerslake: “Encounters With Canada is a program where you fly to Ottawa for a week with 150 other students from across Canada. It was a wonderful experience where I met lots of new people and participated in many activities. The theme of the week that I went was sports week. I did activities such as ...continued on page 8

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Fall Fair and Rodeo receives gaming grant for $25,000

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The North Thompson Fall Fair and Rodeo Association (NTFFRA) has received $25,000 from the B.C. government’s community gaming grant program. The grant will be used for the association’s annual fall fair and rodeo held in Barriere on the Labour Day weekend.

“This grant supports the fall fair and rodeo’s 66th year celebrating agriculture in the North Thompson region,” Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake said. “This long-standing community event brings many visitors to Barriere, with more than 10,000 people supporting local businesses during their visit.”

“We really appreciate this financial support,” said NTFFRA president Jill Hayward, “It annually costs us at least $20,000 to start up the fair, long before we even open the gates. This grant helps immensely.”

About $7 million in grants is being distributed this month to approximately 200 sport and arts and culture groups around the province.

The community gaming grant program allows non-profit organizations to apply for provincial gaming revenues to support direct delivery of a program that benefits the broader community.

Full application information for B.C. Community Gaming Grants is available online at:http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/gaming/grants/forms-guidelines.htm

Nieuwkerk was the happy winner of a brand new wheelbarrow that was piled high with all manner of gardening tools, seeds and other goodies courtesy of the May 9 annual Yarden Sale at the North Thompson Museum.

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Having seen the consequences of lawn mower accidents all too often, The War Amps is this month launching a summer-long push to pass on a potentially life or limb saving message to kids – that they should never be near lawn mowers.

“Every year we see children enrolling in our CHAMP Program due to lawnmower accidents that could have been prevented,” said War Amps PLAYSAFE Director Rob Larman, “These accidents can happen so quickly and lead to life altering consequences.”

Roan’s accident took place on the family’s farm when he was riding with an adult on the lawn mower and fell off. Zoe was running on the grass and slipped beneath a riding lawn mower.

Roan’s Mom, Jolene, reiterates how important it is for kids to stay away from lawn mowers. “It doesn’t matter how capable someone thinks they are with machinery, accidents can happen in the blink of an eye. I would never want anybody to go through what Roan and our family went through.”

The War Amps is spreading the message by featuring it on its PLAYSAFE parade floats, in presentations and safety blitzes to kids’ groups, and in hard-hitting public service announcements on TV and YouTube which feature Roan and Zoe’s stories.

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Roan Heck and Zoe Gottwald are in The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program as a result of lawnmower accidents. sources including a SafetyWalk kit to help children spot the dangers in their neighbourhoods before they play.

2015 marks the 40th anniversary of CHAMP! Generations of child amputees have benefited from The War Amps financial assistance for artificial limbs, regional seminars and peer support. From the time they are infants through to adulthood, children grow up knowing the CHAMP Program will be there every step of the way.

Solving crossword puzzles has always been touted as a way of keeping the mind sharp. But new research says that learning a new skill like digital photography or quilting can result in better memory improvement. If the new digital skills include photo-editing on a computer, results were even better.

In the world of nutrition and health, certain products move in and out of popularity when looked into further. Selenium was one of those minerals that everyone was taking ten years ago to help reduce risks of heart attacks. Many studies proved there is no evidence selenium lowers the risk of heart attacks.

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Barriere Secondary students Madison Kerslake, Jacob Peterson and Tyler Schilling are pictured waiting at the airport for their April trip to Ottawa to take part in a week long Encounters With Canada Program.

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Students attend program in Ottawa break dance, gymnastics, swimming, and rock climbing. I would very much encourage other students to go on this trip if you have a chance, it will be an experienec of a lifetime.”

Jacob Peterson: “My experience at Encounters With Canada was truly amazing. In April, I had the opportunity to meet with many kids from across Canada with similar interests, which in my case was sports. There were many cultural activities such as going to Parliament Hill and visiting multiple museums. Some of the highlights of my trip were attending a Junior league Hockey game, playing Ultimate and attending Boot Camp.

I met students from communities both big and small and hope to stay in touch with many of them. All in all, EWC was a great opportunity and I strongly recommend Encounters With Canada to all the high schoolers in Barriere!”

Tyler Schilling: “From April 11 to 18, Jacob Peterson, Madison Kerslake and myself went to Encounters With Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. This program is for students age 14 to 17. We had an opportunity to tour Parliament, go to a hockey game, and do many fun and new activities.

We also met many new people from across the country.”

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The Darfield Earthship will be hosting two-hour tours showing the inside of the first permitted earthship in B.C., on May 30 and 31. The tours will also show the Zone 1 food forest and other permaculture features on the site.

Tour the Darfield Earthship North Thompson Star/Journal After two days of sold-out tours last fall, the Newton and Burkholder family of Darfield is opening its earthship doors to the public again in May. On May 30 and 31 the Darfield Earthship will be hosting two-hour tours of the inside of the first permitted earthship in B.C., as well as showing off its Zone 1 food forest and other permaculture features on the site.

Darfield is located 15 kms north of Barriere, on the Yellowhead Highway.

Due to this year’s early spring, the family says they have been spurred on to increase the growing areas in front of the earthship – a sustainable home made from used tires and pop cans.

One can already see garlic and other early plants have sprouted up in the hugelkultur, a type of composting mound gardening technique. Oregano, peas and wildflowers have been seeded into the berm of the building to improve the soil, control weeds, encourage bee visitation and to provide more colour to the landscape.

Sandra Burkholder says her hip replacement in mid-March slowed some projects down, including the start of several bee hives on the property, but this project has been shelved until next year.

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Inside the alternative home, Chris Newton has been implementing monitoring systems to assess current on-grid usage with an eye to phasing in solar or other alternative energy sources in the next few years. He says that a solar hot water system will be the first project over the upcoming summer.

Newton has also been teaching online robotics courses for B.C. high school credits, and a few of his students have been integrating technology in projects to save energy and to monitor soil temperature and moisture to encourage optimum plant growth.

Burkholder says summer projects at the earthship may include starting the garden pergola, applying the colour plaster to all interior cob walls, and beginning to set up the interior greenhouse and growing areas.

You can find more information about The Darfield Earthship at their Facebook page: The Darfield Earthship, or go to; www.darfieldearthship.com Tickets to the May 30 and 31st tours are available online at Brown Paper Tickets http://www. brownpapertickets.com/event/1438485.

For more information you can email sandra@ darfieldearthship.com, or call 250-672-2420, or see The Darfield Earthship ad on page 11.

Last week, Member of Parliament Cathy McLeod, on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council, announced an investment of $120,000 over the next two years for a new project in Kamloops, British Columbia, as part of the Species At Risk Part-

nerships on Agricultural Lands (SARPAL) initiative.

This SARPAL project provides support to the British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association to plan, coordinate and initiate a pilot program to fund Beneficial Management Practices for species at risk on agricultural land, specifically for the Lewis’s Woodpecker and Yellow-breasted Chat.

The Government of Canada is funding the project as part of the National Conservation Plan, which includes

$50 million over five years to support voluntary actions to restore and conserve species and their habitats.

Investments under SARPAL go towards projects that are focused on working with the agricultural community to conserve habitat that supports species at risk.

“Our Government is pleased to support the conservation efforts of the British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association. This investment will encourage partnerships and

Lewis Woodpeckers, a species at risk, are frequently seen in the Exlou and Louis Creek area. improved coordination in conservation for species at risk,” concluded McLeod.

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Author Joel Sutherland, from Ontario, makes a presentation to Barriere Secondary grade 8 students at the Barriere Library on May 6 during the 38th annual TD Children’s Book Week.

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Author Joel Sutherland from Ontario visited Barriere on May 6 during the 38th annual TD Children’s Book Week held May 2-9.

Sutherland is a Librarian, and holds a Masters Degree in Library and information Studies from the University of Wales.

He is involved with a number of children’s programs that contribute to what he comments is his greatest professional satisfaction – which is getting children involved in and experiencing the pleasure of reading.

As a young person he was fascinated with ‘ghostly stories’ in history, which eventually led him to become an author of five books of Canadian “Terrifying True Stories.”

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Barriere Secondary grade 8 student, Samantha Jones, was one of a group from her class who attended a stimulating presentation made by author Joel Sutherland at the Barriere Library on May 6. story, especially those who had visited the place recently since it became a museum. It was surprising to see the excitement and participation of the students when Sutherland told them about how he came to find that story, and how studying the details of history of that place was at times quite gruesome. It would not be surprising to now see many of these young teens signing out the book from the library.

Part of Sutherland’s presentation introduced the students to story writing. He offered a written outline of a story that was not known to the students with spaces left to insert words. The group was asked to give adjectives and other

parts of speech to be inserted into the story.

What fun that was for all concerned.

When this activity was completed, Sutherland then read the new story which had been titled ‘A Halloween Party’.

The group laughed and commented with great enthusiasm on what they had helped to write.

Author Joel Sutherland certainly captured the young teen’s interest in reading books and perhaps even kindled the urge to write stories themselves some day.

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Scrapbook: Barriere Babies of 2014 party

(Above) Barriere Success By Six coordinator Adrienne Pullen (l) serves up the birthday cakes while Kathy Campbell waits to takes some back to her daughter and grandson.

(Above right) During the party, Miette Koeneman (third from left) led moms and caregivers in a learning interactive rhyme with the babies. Koeneman is the facilitator of a free drop-in Parent Child Mother Goose Program at the Ridge, held every Friday from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. The program is sponsored by Success By Six, Barriere and Area Literacy Outreach and Yellowhead Community Services. Some of the other services and programs available in the community for young children are: Fun Fit For Tots, the After School Program, Healthy Beginnings and Families First, Child Care (starting in September), a Public Health Nurse for early childhood screenings, and the Lift The Lip program for dental health. For more information about these programs contact Yellowhead Community Services at 250-672-9773.

(Above) Young rock star Goe Eustache, 5 months, with his mom Alison.

(Above) Zoey Williams, 11 months) had a great time on the Aboriginal Engagement Success By Six connection circle carpet.

(Right) One year old Wyatt Sabyan-Bertrand just loved the granny and grandpa puppets.

STAR/JOURNAL photos Jill Hayward (Left) Learning some interactive songs and rhymes courtesy of the Parent Child Mother Goose program in Barriere. Pictured (l-r) Lily Young, Hunter Young sits on mom Lisa’s lap, and Heidi Fraser with her mom Dianna.

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Chamber will be taking part in a Business Walk Summer is fast approaching with the Barriere and District Chamber of Commerce wrapping up our meetings until fall. We had a couple of great luncheons this past spring, one with Mayor Smith, and the other with Community Futures.

We will be hosting more of these come fall, and advise our members to watch your emails for invitations. And book your seats early, these book up fast!

The Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission (COEDC) has created a Business Walk Program. The Chamber will be participating in this Business Walk on June 11, and we will be contacting the businesses ahead of time to setup a time with the owners/managers.

How does a Business Walk work?

Business Walks involve a partnership facilitated by the COEDC with local municipalities and/ or service providers.

“Walkers” (teams of business leaders) walk from business to business asking a few conversationally structured questions that capture the pulse of the business community.

Why do a Business Walk?

The Business Walk program offers an excellent opportunity to listen to the local business community, identifying common themes for action while bringing

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together educational resources, municipal services and representatives of the business community for specific action plans.

The Business Walks program allows visitation to numerous businesses in a short amount of time in order to gather industry intelligence to foster business growth.

The objective of the Business Walk is to identify successes and obstacles the local business communities face within the Central Okanagan Region and then track that information over time.

We look forward to participating in this initiative with many of our local businesses.

As many of you may know, I went on an inspection trip to China in April. This is the same trip that the Chamber will be hosting in October.

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This trip is offered to the Chambers as a form of Fundraising, while offering their members a great deal on a great trip.

The trip itself is nine days, six of which you are touring. The Forbidden City, The Great Wall of China, Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace are just a few of the many historical sites we visited.

We also got to experience a traditional Chinese lunch at the residence of a Chinese family following a Rick Shaw ride down the narrow streets.

Later we took a ride down the canal and visited the local market. We went to the Jade, Silk, Pearl Factory and more.

Our rooms were outstanding, food excellent, new buses with exceptional drivers, and the tour guides were so much fun and informative!

If anyone is interested in attending this trip on October 9th, 2015, registration deadline is June 25. Final payment is due July 20. Cost for Chamber members is only $2499, nonmembers $2649.

Our next fundraiser for the Barriere Chamber will be held on November 14, this will be a dinner and entertainment event.

Semi-formal, magic, music and lots of fun!

Watch for more information.

For more information about the Chamber and events please call Marie at the Chamber office 250672-9221, or email: bcoc@telus.net, or visit our website: www.barrierechamber.com.

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It’s ice cream time again Warm weather always brings out the ice cream lovers, and so much so that Purcha’s ice cream stop beside Yvonne’s Flowers and Gifts Dollar Store is expanding their space. Ice cream server Antoon Houben says the new addition will soon be housing a soft ice cream machine, and the space will also give them the opportunity to serve up a number of other yummy ice cream and sherbert fixings.

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Success by 6 and Yellowhead Community Services would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all of the very generous individuals, businesses and organizations that supported the Babies of 2014 Luncheon that was held at the Barriere and District Seniors Society this May 12th. Your generous contributions, volunteer time and efforts made it possible for all the families of babies born in 2014 to come together, enjoy a wonderful lunch, and leave with some great gift bags, door prizes and information about the services available in our community.

The event would not have been possible without your generous support. Our most heartfelt thanks go out to; The Barriere and District Seniors Society, Barriere Interior Savings and Credit Union, Barriere I.D.A. Pharmacy, AG Foods, Aboriginal Engagement Success by 6, Barriere and Area Literacy, Healthy Beginnings, The North Thompson Star/Journal, Interior Health, and all of the amazing volunteers who helped make this event possible.

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Sun Peaks gets nod for 2016 national downhill mountain biking championships

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By Kamloops This Week The Canadian Mountain Bike Downhill Championships will return for a third straight year to Sun Peaks Resort in 2016.

Cycling Canada made the announcement on April 22.

The 2015 national championships will be held on the challenging and picturesque trails at Sun Peaks on July 11 and July 12.

“With successful organizer Henry Pejril at the helm, Sun Peaks Resort boasts a solid reputation in downhill racing,” a Cycling Canada press release said.

“The venue offers all the amenities onsite at the mountainbase village, featuring over 7,000 beds minutes from the chairlift,

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The 2015 national championships will be held on the challenging and picturesque trails at Sun Peaks on July 11 and July 12. restaurants, boutiques and artisan markets on the weekend.”

Cycling Canada also announced the host sites for four other events.

The Global Relay Canadian Road Championships will be held in Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., from June 25 to June 29; the 2016 Canadian Mountain Bike Cross

Country Championships will be held in Baie St. Paul, Que, from July 14 to July 17; the Canadian BMX Championships will run in Calgary from Sept. 2 to Sept.

5.; and the Horseshoe Hustle Canadian XCM Championships, an endurance event, will be held in Horseshoe Valley, Ont., on Sept. 11.

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100 Mile U12 team take home 2 wins

There were plenty of happy faces from the 100 Mile U12 Boys team in the dugout at Barriere Ball Parks on Saturday, May 16. Stamer Logging U12 Boys team hosted 100 Mile for two games, with 100 Mile taking both games handily. On May 24, the local team will be travelling to Enderby for three games. Other teams attending will include Sicamous, Enderby and Merritt.

Fun and fashion for the ladies

By Leslie Stirling

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Tuesday night, May 12, was fashion night at Chinook Cove as the ladies were treated to a display of the newest clothing for sale at the golf course.

The colours and styles were wonderful and many of the ladies went home with something new to wear next week.

Tuesday night the weather was gorgeous and 40 ladies took to the links.

Most of us stayed for dinner and the prize presentation.

The ladies take turns bringing dessert and this week we thank Barb Smith and Darlene Nickull.

Flight one winners sponsored by Hub International were Carol Hindle (low gross with

Ladies Golf Report a score of 43) and Deb Legaree (low net with a score of 48).

Flight two was sponsored by Ron Wallace Trucking and the winners were Jeannie Webber (low gross with a score of 51) and Betty Baillie (low net with a score of 53).

Flight Three was sponsored by Stamer Logging with first place going to Marie Hakes with a score of 52 and second place to Wanda Amos with a score of 53.

Carol Hindle and Deb Legaree shared the birdie pot while the deuce pot was carried over to next week.

Carol Hindle had a KP in Three (AG Foods) and a long drive (Barriere Timber Mart). Bernice Randrup had a long drive (Armour Mountain Office Serv) and a KP (Carl’s Market Garden). Irene Beeton had a long drive (Barriere A&W) and a KP (Campbell & Company).

Trudy Forsythe had a KP (EBL Ventures), a long putt (Rainer Custom Cutting), and a long drive (Sam’s Pizza). Single prize winners were Sandy LeBourdais (long putt - Barriere Massage), Val Alyward (long putt - Crystlee’s Hair Design), Fiona Clare (long putt - Country Store Antiques), Deb Legaree (KP - Bondar Forest Planning), Babes Shanko (long

putt - Estylo Hair Design), Vreny Kempter (long putt - Knights Inn), Audrey Deveau (KP in two - Pottery

by Ramona), Betty Baillie (long drive Station House), Betty Baillie (long drive Station House Restaurant), Marnie Pfeifer (long drive - Val Bella Studio), Sue Paulhus (most putts - Interior Savings Credit Union) and Jeannie Webber (least putts - Interior Savings Credit Union).

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Train wreck shatters Avola’s peace and quiet Eleanor Deckert PART ONE: A reenactment – Thursday, May 28, 1942, 3 p.m., Mile 34 CNR engine 6058, the eastbound daily ‘Number 2’ scheduled for Wednesday, May 27, was delayed by repairs to a bridge near Mile 34, which had been damaged by the spring runoff.

Over 24 hours late, on Thursday afternoon the engineer had orders to proceed.

Superintendent Gough was on board and with him enjoying the sights through the windows of the observation car were officials from the National Film Board of Canada (a division of the War Services Department) and several representatives of a Hollywood film company. In the other passenger cars local residents returning home to Blue River, long-distance travellers destined for Toronto, sightseers from the USA and the

CNR Number 6058 was the engine pulling the first train. A mountain class 4-8-2 locomotive, it was commonly used to pull passenger trains (4-8-2 means there were first four small pilot wheels, then eight large main drive wheels, followed by two small trailing wheels). As a point of interest, the sister engine 6060 was featured at Expo ‘86 after it was restored. Later the 6060 steamed through the North Thompson Valley. Photo submitted

usual train crew staff.

At the controls of the Thursday daily passenger train, CNR engine 5123, a second ‘Number 2,’ was D. A. (Stub) McKenzie. He was instructed to follow the first ‘Number 2’ at 35 miles per hour, the usual speed, leaving a 20 minute interval between them.

Without a speedometer, like other engineers at the time, he measured with his pocket watch how much time it took to pass the telegraph poles and calculated his rate of speed knowing that is was always 40 poles to one mile.

Without a radio, like other engineers at

CNR Number 5123 was pulling the second passenger train. The Pacific class 4-6-2 type was a standard, common engine of its day. This engine was repaired after the accident and was in service until the 1950s. Photo submitted

the time, he had only the last train orders he received from the telegraph operator at the last station to tell him what he was to do.

After the delay, messages had to be conveyed to each train.

Attempting to return to normal schedules after such a complex interruption took a lot of coordination.

Since the beginning of World War II, trains were being used to move young soldiers headed towards Europe. Fresh recruits filled the Thursday ‘Number 2.’ Norman Moxness was serving in the air force, travelling to Edmonton. He didn’t know his life would be in danger on May 28, 1942.

3:35 p.m., Avola Train Station Engine 6058

required more water for its boiler after such a long delay. The Avola Station water tower at Mile 24.8 was a necessary stop. The dining car was late with lunch or early with the evening meal and weary travellers were making their way forward from the tail end observation car.

At the head-end, new train orders for the engineer were available from the telegrapher at the Avola Station. Brakeman Kelly stepped off the rear-end to routinely walk back along the gently curved tracks with red flags to ‘protect the train.’

Up the hill in Avola, Thomas and Agnes Craig were about finished planting their large vegetable garden. Their daughters Vernetta,

Evelyne, Molly and Bernice, were just home from school.

Royce Gibson, a 17-year-old who lived right beside the tracks, and his buddies, Ivor and Elmer Lundeburg, knew all about the trains. On-time or late, there were usually about four freight trains per day and two passenger trains each way. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday the boys made a point of meeting the Way Freight coming from Kamloops with local stops to deliver groceries, mail, coal, grain and shopping orders from catalogues. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, the same train returned from Blue River south to Kamloops making stops at each town and section crew headquarters. The boys knew the names of the engineers and crew and repeated stories they heard. One train travelled from Wire Cache to Avola (a distance of 5.2 miles) in three minutes! That calculates to be a speed of about 75 miles per hour! Another tale of unusually high speed that the boys told was of a train going from Avola to McMurphy (a distance of nine miles, much of it curved track) in 13 minutes.

Ever alert to the train whistle signals, the boys knew the meanings of the short and long blasts used to communicate between the front and rear end of a train, to the station master, warning forward or reverse movement, and to let

workers know to begin or finish their assignments. On this particular afternoon, Royce was riding on a wagon with his dad, on their way to Messiter to finish a logging project.

Thursday, May 28, 1942, 3:52 p.m.

Superintendent Gough had been talking to Gordon McKenzie, both riding in the observation car at the end of the train. When the train stopped he stepped out the door and looked around the curve to see the tender at the head-end of the train taking on water.

Behind the train, he could see Brakeman Kelly walking back around the curve with his red flags.

Unexpectedly, one long blast was heard signalling the approach of a train just passing the onemile board before the station! Kelly started to run, waving frantically. Seated on the right side of the engine cab, the counterclockwise curve of the tracks blocked Engineer McKenzie’s view of the stationery train. Brakeman Kelly’s flags would be his only warning.

But the flags were only 10-15 car lengths down the track when the second ‘Number 2’ passed Kelly.

Engineer McKenzie saw the flags, shut off the steam valves, set the brakes and, realizing the collision was inevitable, jumped off.

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By Tom Fletcher, Black Press Premier Christy Clark revealed some unexpected allies when she unveiled her “climate leadership team” to go beyond a carbon tax in reducing B.C.’s greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to mayors, climate experts, aboriginal leaders, representatives of the natural gas and forest industries and environmental activists surrounding Clark at an announcement last week, red-coated scientists gathered in front of a strange machine with radiating steel arms.

It’s a prototype of a nuclear reactor being built in Burnaby by General Fusion, backed by venture capital funds including those run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the Malaysian government.

Conventional reactors use nuclear fission, in which large molecules of radioactive material are broken apart to produce heat. Fusion reactors attempt to compress hydrogen atoms to create a helium atom, releasing enormous energy in the process that powers the Sun and other stars.

Even after a tour of General Fusion, Clark wasn’t anxious to describe the project. She laughed off a question by comparing it to the “flux capacitor” used for time travel in the Michael J. Fox movie Back to the Future.

Nuclear fusion has been a holy grail of clean energy for decades. Stable, efficient fusion reactors would revolutionize energy production, upending the economics of coal, oil and natural gas-powered electricity.

General Fusion has competitors, none bigger than a 34-country collaboration called the ITER project, under construction in southern France. That machine covers an area equivalent to 60 football fields, with the same goal of re-creating the reaction at the core of the Sun. General Fusion chief scientist Michel Laberge described his project in a recent TED Talk, comparing his design with ITER and other efforts. “We are almost there,” he said.

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When things get tough – focus When things go sideways what is your “go to� thing to do?

Is it to hide under your pillows and try to pretend like nothing is happening?

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I hate when someone has a house fire or a car accident, but when there is too much going on it actually feels good to be able to help someone else.

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The same is true when someone comes

to me with struggles I can genuinely help with. The world may be falling apart, but we can put some small part of it back together.

Joseph was sold into slavery, thrown into jail and accused of terrible things. He chose to put himself to work and to do the best he could to even help the people who oppressed him. In the end he was given authority and the ability to help his own family who betrayed him.

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Todd English is pastor at the Open Door Fellowship in Barriere.

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The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, along with the Honourable Candice Bergen, Minister of State for Social Development, on behalf of the Honourable Pierre Poilievre, Minister of Employment and Social Development, last week highlighted increased financial support proposed for individuals taking care of family members facing a significant risk of death.

Compassionate care benefits, which are provided through the Employment Insurance (EI) program, are available to individuals temporarily away from work to care for a sick family member with a significant risk of death. Effective January 3, 2016, the proposed enhanced benefit will allow claimants to collect up to 26 weeks of benefits, up from the current 6 weeks.

The benefits can also be taken within an expanded period of 52 weeks (up from 26 weeks) and can be shared between family members.

The enhancements being made to compassionate care benefits through Economic Action Plan (EAP) 2015 reaffirm the Government’s commitment to helping families receive the support they need as they care for loved ones at end-of-life.

Today’s announcement is

one example of what the Government is doing to help Canadians. To help hard-working families, the Government is also enhancing the Universal Child Care Benefit, introducing the Family Tax Cut and making improvements to the Child Care Expenses Deduction and the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit.

EAP 2015 proposes to invest up to an additional $37 million annually to extend the duration of compassionate care benefits from the current six weeks to six months, as of January 2016.

Through this enhancement, the Government is ensuring that the EI program continues to help Canadians when they need it most.

Since March 24, 2013, the Helping Families in Need Act has allowed parents to suspend the payment of their EI parental benefits if they become ill or are injured, to collect EI sickness benefits and to resume collecting the balance of their parental benefits thereafter, if needed.

Under EAP 2014, the Government allowed additional flexibility to claimants in receipt of EI compassionate care benefits or EI benefits for parents of critically ill children to convert to EI sickness benefits if they become ill or are injured, and to resume collecting the balance of their parental benefits thereafter, if needed.

Between 2006 and 2013, the federal government invested more than $43 million in palliative care research through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Economic Action Plans 2011 and 2013 committed $3 million to the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association for the development of community-integrated palliative care models and $3 million to the Pallium Foundation of Canada for palliative care training to front-line healthcare providers, respectively.

EAP 2015 includes a further $14 million over two years to support the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement.

One of the Foundation’s priorities for the funding will be evaluating and disseminating data about best practices in palliative care services.

The Universal Child Care Benefit would increase from $100 to $160 per month (totalling up to $1,920 per year) for children under the age of 6, and parents would receive a new benefit of $60 per month (up to $720 per year) for each child aged 6 through 17.

To learn more about compassionate care benefits, please visit: http://www.servicecanada. gc.ca/eng/ei/types/compassionate_care.shtml

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New research shows habitat loss driving South Peace caribou towards extinction Submitted by Valhalla Wilderness Society Eight environmental groups, Valhalla Wilderness Society, Pacific Wild, Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Wilderness Committee, Wildlife Defence League, The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals, Wolf Awareness Inc., and Bears Matter, applaud a recently published scientific report that reveals how much habitat the caribou in the South Peace region have lost.

The title of the report says it all: ‘Witnessing Extinction - Cumulative impacts across landscapes and the future loss of an evolutionarily significant unit of woodland caribou in Canada’ (Johnson et al., 2015).

“The findings of the report are shocking, but this is the very first time that, for a rapidly disappearing caribou population, we’ve had actual measurements of the amount and kind of habitat they’ve lost,” says Anne Sherrod, spokesperson for the Valhalla Wilderness Society. “Now that we know the habitat loss is severe, it puts a heavy responsibility on government to do something about it.”

Two University of Northern BC (UNBC) scientists and a government biologist who authored the peerreviewed report emphasize that the South Peace caribou herds constitute “a unique and irreplaceable component of Canada’s biodiversity”.

They hypothesize that “this generation

of resource managers and conservation professionals” may observe the extinction of these unique caribou herds if industrialization continues at current rates.

Historically, vast numbers of caribou, described by the First Nations as “a sea of caribou” roamed the South Peace region, when the large areas of intact wilderness and old growth that caribou need to survive still existed.

Today, hydroelectric projects, cutblocks, roads, seismic lines, open pit coal mines, as well as widespread oil and gas activity in the South Peace region have severely fragmented the landscape and reduced the old growth forests.

The authors of ‘Witnessing Extinction’ studied five herds (Moberly, Burnt Pine, Quintette, Narraway, B e a r h o l e – Re dw i l low) over 11 years and found that caribou are displaced from clearcuts by distances of 0.5 to 5.5 kilometers. Caribou also avoid pipelines and seismic lines by distances from 0.5 to 13.5 kilometers and based on data showing industrialization over 22 years had experienced “extreme reductions in habitat valued as high (0.6–52.9%) and very-high (0.2–65.9%) quality”.

This extreme habitat loss wiped out the Burnt Pine herd, while the Moberly herd “is declining at an annual rate of 12.7%”: its numbers dropped from 191 animals in 1997 to just 16 in 2013.

The other herds have

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Some scientists believe that culling wolves, bears, wolverines and cougars will buy time to restore habitat and save the caribou; but even scientists who believe that are starting to recognize that culling predators without sufficient habitat protection is futile. also suffered sharp declines.

In 2014, these herds were listed as “Endangered”. To save the caribou from extinction, the authors of ‘Witnessing Extinction’ recognize “the immediate need for habitat protection and restoration.”

Some scientists believe that culling wolves, bears, wolverines and cougars will buy time to restore habitat and save the caribou; but even scientists who believe that are starting to recognize that culling predators without sufficient habitat protection is futile.

Chris Genovali, executive director of Raincoast Conservation Foundation, explains: “The wolf cull is a consequence of industrial logging and other human activity, which have transformed areas of the caribou’s habitat into a landscape that can no longer provide the food, cover, and security these animals need to survive. Rather than address the real problem, i.e., the destruc-

tion of life sustaining caribou habitat, the B.C. government has chosen to scapegoat wolves.”

Ian McAllister, Pacific Wild’s director, stressed that: “This year 73 wolves were killed from helicopters in the South Peace alone.

Killing top predators will harm the whole ecosystem and not miraculously save the caribou in the absence of habitat protection. This report is damming evidence of chronic government negligence over many years in protecting these endangered herds.”

The provincial and federal governments must stop the sham caribou conservation and the wolf cull in the South Peace region.

They must take the necessary radical measures to immediately arrest caribou habitat destruction, which will also serve to mitigate climate change caused by fossil fuel extraction and logging.

The undersigned environmental groups

McLure firefighters looking at Playbook training standards The McLure Fire Department and Recreation Society held a general meeting on May 6 at the fire hall.

Thompson Nicola Regional District Area ‘P’ director Mel Rothenburger attended.

Discussion took place regarding ongoing training requirements for unpaid/volunteer fire departments in order to meet the new minimum training standards set out in the new BC Fire Service Structure Firefighters Competency and Training Playbook.

It was reported the recent bottle drive fundraiser was successful and new fire gear is now being purchased.

Firefighter training is ongoing, and there is kick boxing being held at the fire hall on Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

The next meeting is on June 3 at the fire hall.

Information submitted by Monica Ireland.

demand that the provincial and federal governments do not allow the caribou to go extinct on their watch by permitting more industrialization and by failing to restore critical caribou habitat: • Association for the Protection of FurBearing Animals • Bears Matter • Pacific Wild • Raincoast Conservation Foundation • Valhalla Wilderness Society • Wilderness Committee • Wildlife Defence League • Wolf Awareness Inc. The report, “Witnessing Extinction” may be downloaded from: http://www.researchg at e. n e t / p ro f i l e / Dale_Seip/publication/274320654_Witnessing_extinction__ Cumulative_impacts_across_landscapes_and_the_future_loss_of_an_ evolutionarily_significant_unit_of_ woodland_caribou_in_Canada/ links/552403780 cf2caf11bfca3f8.pdf

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Option to purchase at lease end is $7,070/$9,834. Price and total obligation excludes license, insurance, registration, taxes, dealer fees, optional equipment. Other lease options are available. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offer which may not be combined with other offers. See your dealer for conditions and details. General Motors of Canada Limited reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. †† Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 model year Chevrolet car, SUV, crossover and pickup models delivered in Canada between May 1st – June 1st, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $500 credit available on Chevrolet Spark, Sonic, Cruze, Volt, Trax, Malibu (expect LS). $750 credit available on others Chevrolet vehicles (except Colorado 2SA, Camaro Z28, Malibu LS, Silverado Light Duty and Heavy Duty). Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any Pontiac/Saturn/SAAB/Hummer/Oldsmobile model year 1999 or newer car or Chevrolet Cobalt or HHR, Avalanche, Aveo, Orlando, Optra, Tracker, Uplander, Venture, Astro, Blazer, Trailblazer, GMC Safari, Jimmy, Envoy , Buick Rendezvous and Terraza that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 model year Chevrolet car, SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between May 1st – June 1st, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive): $1,000 credit available on Chevrolet Spark, Sonic, Cruze, Volt, Trax, Malibu (expect LS) ; $1,500 credit available on other eligible Chevrolet vehicles (except Chevrolet Colorado 2SA, Camaro Z28 and Malibu LS). Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GMCL dealer for details. GMCL reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice. ~Visit onstar.ca for coverage maps, details and system limitations. Services and connectivity may vary by model and conditions. OnStar with 4G LTE connectivity is available on select vehicle models and in select markets. Customers will be able to access OnStar services only if they accept the OnStar User Terms and Privacy Statement (including software terms). OnStar acts as a link to existing emergency service providers. After the trial period (if applicable), an active OnStar service plan is required. † Based on GM Testing in accordance with approved Transport Canada test methods. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. > Based on WardsAuto.com 2012 Upper Small segment, excluding Hybrid and Diesel powertrains. Standard 10 airbags, ABS, traction control and StabiliTrak. ^*Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar. gov). + Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded 2015 Trax and Equinox the 2015 Top Safety Pick Plus Award when equipped with available forward collision alert. ‡ Purchase prices include a cash credit of $2,500 and $446 Owner Cash and apply to new 2015 Chevrolet Trax LS FWD models at participating dealers in Canada. Purchase prices of $17,495 (LS FWD) include Freight, Air Tax but exclude license, insurance, registration, dealer fees and taxes. Dealer may sell for less. Offer may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without notice. See dealer for details. ‡‡ Purchase price includes a cash credit of $4,200 and $670 Owner Cash and apply to new 2015 Chevrolet Equinox LS FWD models at participating dealers in Canada. Purchase prices of $22,995 (LS FWD) includes Freight, Air Tax but excludes license, insurance, registration, dealer fees and taxes. Dealer may sell for less. Offer may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without notice. ¥¥ Comparison based on 2013 Polk segmentation: Compact SUV and latest competitive data available and based on the maximum legroom available. Excludes other GM brands. **The 2-Year Scheduled Lube-Oil-Filter Maintenance Program provides eligible customers in Canada, who have purchased or leased a new eligible 2015 MY Chevrolet (excluding Spark EV), with an ACDelco® oil and filter change, in accordance with the oil life monitoring system and the Owner’s Manual, for 2 years or 40,000 km, whichever occurs first, with a limit of four (4) Lube-Oil-Filter services in total, performed at participating GM dealers. Fluid top offs, inspections, tire rotations, wheel alignments and balancing, etc. are not covered. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives available on GM vehicles. General Motors of Canada Limited reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ^^Whichever comes first. See dealer for details.

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