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Weekend celebration: Sicamous celebrates the August long weekend with a parade on Saturday, preceded by Uncle Terry Danielson’s famous pancake breakfast – a fundraiser for the family of Britton Hutchinson. Later in the day community residents gathered at Beach Park for a picnic. Photos by Kelly Dick

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Rescue leader calls for use of propeller guards Houseboat rentals: Industry rep stresses education best option.

By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News

A recent boating fatality on Shuswap Lake has prompted a request to houseboat companies to consider additional safety measures.

Rob Sutherland, station leader for Shuswap Station 106 of the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, said he will be talking with houseboat companies about using propeller guards and other safety devices, in order to help reduce the risk of propeller-related injuries or deaths.

Sutherland says Shuswap Station has responded to three propeller-related accidents in the past two years, two of which occurred last year over the course of a few days. In one, a man’s ankle was slashed by a propeller on a speedboat. The other involved a woman swimming behind a houseboat. Sutherland said someone had started the engine and the woman ended up losing her leg.

The third accident happened on July 10, and resulted in the death of a 22-year-old Alberta woman.

“I was going to talk to (local houseboat companies) about propeller guards and/or cameras at the back, like back-up cameras in cars,” said Sutherland. “It would be a good idea, especially, you know, because of the severity of accidents with propellers and that.

“It’s just something they should be looking at.”

But Todd Kyllo says the industry has thoroughly looked at the use of propeller guards.

And, while he doesn’t deny one might have prevented the recent fatality, the owner/operator of Twin Anchors Houseboat Vacations says use of the guards can open opportunities for a variety of other accidents to occur.

“The reason a prop guard can’t be utilized, not just on houseboats but on most boats, is if there’s a log strike or a ground strike on that

prop guard, it pushes it into the prop itself, and now the whole boat is disabled,” said Kyllo.

“So then you’re looking at bigger and more accidents.”

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already in use, but Kyllo says they would not have prevented the recent accident. He noted there are other safety devices available too, such as a gate for the back that, when open, disables the engine. Again, he said, it becomes a matter where one preventative measure can lead to other trouble.

“The only thing that I see us doing is education,” said Kyllo. “There are issues back there, there are dangers behind

the boat. No difference from anything else we get in that’s motorized.”

Kyllo said he expects he’ll see about 16,000 people on his boats alone this summer, adding about 85 per cent of those who end up in the captain’s seat have already acquired their pleasure craft operators licence.

“They’re more educated on how their boats work and what they do,” said Kyllo. “A few years ago we didn’t have that.”

Additionally, there’s mandatory training/orientations provided at the local level by the houseboat companies.

“We as an industry promote that education, even if you have your boating licence. So we give it to you again,” said Kyllo.

Asked if cost might also be a factor as to why propeller guards aren’t used, Kyllo commented on one houseboat rental company in the U.S. that does use them. He said that company is repeatedly having to replace the

guards because of damage.

“They probably have about 400 of them piled up because they were bent and smashed in certain areas and they’re not re-usable. So you throw them away and you put another one on…,” said Kyllo. “Last week… on one day alone, I changed out 15 props because of the low water. If you’re thinking I’ve got to change out 15 prop guards, then the cost does become ridiculous.”

But Kyllo stressed there are many more reasons for not using prop guards.

“As a company, we’ve researched all this and looked at the different issues of having them and not having them…,” he said.

“You certainly can’t use the cost of a prop guard over a person’s life.

Don’t get me wrong there, because there’s no cost for that. But we have to make sure the boat can run at all times, and with a prop guard, that could not happen.”

Police release photo of suspect in SASCU robbery

By Martha Wickett Eagle Valley News

Police have released an image of the man who held up the downtown Salmon Arm branch of the Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union on Monday, July 27, in hopes the public may be able to help

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The man entered the bank at 4:15 p.m., wearing a black balaclava, a long-sleeved, black cotton shirt and dark jeans that were equipped with a make-shift holster taped to his right leg. He was described as thin and possibly 6 ft. 3 in. tall.

Police report the man approached the teller counter with what witnesses described as a sawed-off shotgun in hand and demanded money. An undisclosed amount of cash was turned over which he placed in a black sports bag.

The man then fled

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Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous.

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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

in providing any information about anyone matching the suspect’s description who may have been seen around downtown on July 27.

You are asked to call Salmon Arm RCMP at 250-832-6044 or, to leave an anonymous tip, call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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Council members who stepped up this past weekend to make things happen.

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It is amazing what can happen when we work together! ~ Terry Hats off to the Mayor and Councillors who went the extra mile to get the Aug. 1st Pancake Breakfast and the Parade put together pretty much last minute after the Sicamous Chamber was unable to do it this year. Happy trails to the volunteers who stepped forward to help and a special thank you to Terry Danielson, the head Pancake man.

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Funding: Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes, Sicamous Mayor Terry Rysz and Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo announce Sicamous will be receiving up to $1,233,333 in federal and B.C. government funding for wastewater infrastructure upgrades.

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Sicamous will be on the receiving end of up to $1.2 million for needed upgrades to the district’s wastewater treatment plant.

The announcement was made last Wednesday, July 29 that the federal and B.C. governments are each kicking in one-third of the estimated $1.85 million cost of the upgrades.

The funding is being delivered through the Small Communities Fund.

The remaining third is to be covered by the District of Sicamous.

“I’ve been doing so many announcements,

trying to get this money rolling out before they drop the writ,” Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes said Wednesday morning during a special presentation at the wastewater treatment facility site. Mayes credited the work of district staff, the mayor and council for getting their application in.

Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo said one factor that helped Sicamous’ application is the fact that it’s home to “such a large houseboat industry, and the need of providing the opportunity for all that effluent from the houseboats to actually be treated here within the municipality.”

In January, district council received a presentation on the district’s wastewater treatment plant from Terry Underwood of True Consulting.

Underwood explained what upgrades would be needed to bring it into compliance with the district’s waste management permit, as the amount of waste being discharged into the system, particularly organics, had at peak times exceeded allowable capacity. He said the largest contributor on peak flow days was blackwater from houseboats – a point contested by some councillors.

Underwood recommended several up-

grades that would allow the plant to meet the needs of the community until 2025.

Initially, the district was looking at an estimated $1.56 million in upgrades: however, collection system generators were later added for the application to the Small Communities Fund, bringing the total to $1.85 million.

District chief financial officer Kelly Bennett said the district’s third will be covered largely through reserves from development cost charges, so no money will need to be borrowed. As for a timeline, she estimated the majority of the work will be done in 2016-17.

Public persuasive on request for new dog park

By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News

Sicamous dog owners may soon have another option for their daily dog walk.

Resident Lorri Chmilar has asked that municipal council consider making a portion of Lions Park a dog park. In a letter to council, Chmilar says she brought a petition to the district in the past, seeking support to allow

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“The dog owners I meet would like to have an area to meet and socialize (dog owners and owners), and not have to stand on the side of the road or paths,” wrote Chmilar, adding

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her vision is to have a fundraising campaign to fence a small area in the northwest corner of Lions Park, with two gates and a paved area for scooters and wheelchairs, as well as a couple of benches.

“This area need not be large at all, just provide shade for owners and dogs, and an area to be off leash.”

Mayor Terry Rysz said council is amenable to the request, and

has asked staff to come back with a report. He said council’s only concern has to do with the size of dogs coming into the park.

“The location will assist seniors with pets and whatnot,” said Rysz. “We’ve left it in the hands of staff to look at the legalities behind that dog park, but the general consensus with the council is that they’re in favour of that…”

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Early election call uninspiring

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t’s on.

The race to Canada’s 42nd federal election is officially underway.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lived up to the speculation he’d be paying a visit to his appointed Governor General, David Johnston, to seek permission to dissolve parliament.

Many, we’re sure, are looking forward to casting their vote on Oct. 19. Many more, undoubtedly, are not.

According to Elections Canada, more than 14.8 million people cast a ballot in the 2011 federal election, while about 7.5 million did not. That’s more than the number of votes received by any one party, including Harper’s 5.8 million-vote majority.

More than a quarter of those who didn’t vote said they simply weren’t interested. Another 23 per cent said they didn’t have time, while 7.6 per cent said they didn’t like any of the candidates.

This is a problem. Well, except maybe for the Prime Minister.

Last year, the federal government amended the Elections Act, effectively stripping Elections Canada of its ability to promote voting. Those sections removed from the act had authorized the chief electoral officer to inform the public about “the democratic right to vote,” and to “make the electoral process better known to the public, particularly to those persons and groups most likely to experience difficulties in exercising their democratic rights.”

This amendment, according to Conservative democratic reform minister Pierre Poilievre, was based on his party’s belief political candidates are better at inspiring Canadians to vote than government bureaucracies.

Based on the prominent percentage of eligible voters who didn’t cast a ballot in 2011, it’s arguable neither Elections Canada nor political candidates did a very good job at inspiring the electorate.

Now, with our federal leaders once again preoccupied with contrived photo ops, touting party platforms and attacking the competition, it is unlikely we’ll see any objective advocacy from them for voting in the coming election.

It is possible the early election start will only end up putting off more potential voters.

There appears to be a pattern here.

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Prospects for B.C.’s biggest investment

By Tom Fletcher News Columnist

VICTORIA – Now that the political back-and-forth is over, there are two questions left about the Petronas-led proposal to make the biggest private-sector investment in B.C. history.

Will it actually happen, and is it a good deal or a bad one?

Premier Christy Clark ducked the first question on the day the project agreement for Pacific Northwest LNG was approved by the B.C. legislature.

“After many predictions about the Canucks and the Alberta election, I don’t make predictions any more,” Clark said. “But I can say that this project has gone farther than any of our critics said that it would.”

For what it’s worth, my prediction is on record: it will go ahead. The latest evidence is the company’s continued, costly effort to gain federal and local approval for a suspension

bridge to Lelu Island to minimize the marine impact. Lax Kw’alaams Band members could not have had details on that change from an underwater pipeline when they voted to oppose the project in May. Is it a good deal? The mayors of Prince Rupert and Port Edward have made their views clear – they see it as a lifeline for an area that has struggled for years with a faded forest and fishing industry.

The B.C. NDP is also now clear, having voted against the project agreement in the brief summer session of the legislature that concluded last week.

NDP leader John Horgan and other MLAs made much of the lack of job guarantees, pointing to similar projects in Australia.

Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman issued a statement with excerpts from the state of Western Australia’s agreement for the Gorgon

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LNG project. The so-called guarantees contain qualifiers like this: “... except in those cases where … it is not reasonable or economically practical to do so, use labour available within Western Australia.”

Obviously there were no job guarantees, which could only exist in a command economy, in other words a communist dictatorship.

Everyone agrees specialized trades such as welding alloys for lowtemperature operation will be brought in. And LNG processing trains will be shipped in pre-fabricated from places like South Korea, as they have been in Australia and elsewhere.

Pacific Northwest LNG is on record with federal regulators that in the latter stages of construction, the use of foreign labour for the project could reach 70 per cent. Does that make it a bad deal?

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liance, the question is how many large LNG projects, pipelines and all, can be managed at the same time as the Site C dam is being built. It was skilled labour shortages, and particularly a shortage of supervisors, that caused Australia to lose some of its proposed projects.

Keane said all LNG proponents here want to use as much local labour as they can, because it’s less expensive and it builds local support. And he disagrees that B.C. is a sweet deal for the industry.

Among other things, pipelines have to be built across two mountain ranges.

Not only that, B.C. producers would pay an LNG income tax, which is a first in the history of the industry. Add to that PST, GST, payroll taxes, municipal taxes and federal and provincial corporate income taxes. Add aboriginal revenue sharing, and we have a deal.

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Conservatives can weather extended campaign

By Jeff Nagel Black Press

Federal election lawn signs will soon sprout now that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has fired the starting pistol on what will be a 78-day campaign, the longest in modern history.

The prime minister visited Governor General David Johnston at Rideau Hall Sunday morning to dissolve Parliament and begin the election set for Oct. 19.

The voting day had been fixed in legislation and party leaders had been in campaign mode for weeks, but dropping the writ this far ahead means spending limits will be in force for much longer than the typical 36 days.

That will give a financial advantage to Harper and the Conservatives, according to SFU political scientist Patrick Smith.

“They certainly have the largest war chest,” Smith said. “Money matters in politics.”

He predicts the Tories will far outspend their rivals and might be in a position to blitz advertising channels late in the campaign when NDP and Liberal coffers may be nearly exhausted.

A campaign more than twice the usual length means a spending limit twice as high – more than $50 million per party – that only the Tories have a realistic shot at fully exploiting.

“They have more money than the other parties so they can withstand a longer race.”

The early writ drop means third-party advertising – such as union-funded anti-Tory attack ads by Engage Canada – will now be subject to a tight $200,000 spending limit, largely clamping

down on their influence.

That was a key motivation for starting the campaign now rather than waiting, Smith said.

“It shuts up third party advertising and at the moment they see that as problematic.”

A long, financial war of attrition on the hustings could have ramifications beyond who actually wins the election.

Smith currently predicts a Conservative minority. In that scenario, he says, a cashdepleted or possibly indebted opposition will be less inclined to topple a minority Tory government and force a new election.

“They’re not going to likely to try to trigger an election in the first six months, so that helps stabilize a Conservative minority,” Smith said. “So people who think about the longer game will be thinking about those

kinds of things.”

The longest campaign in more than a century will also mean higher costs to taxpayers.

Elections Canada’s costs will be higher to mobilize staff earlier.

And more spending than usual by the parties would translate into a higher government subsidy back to the them for use in future campaigns.

As for significant issues, Smith expects the federal push for new oil pipelines across B.C. will hurt the Conservatives in this province.

But he said the slowing economy will be the dominant issue on voters’ minds in deciding which party to support.

Another month of economic contraction could make a suspected recession official by September.

Smith isn’t sure that would necessarily be bad for the PM.

“If the economy is bad, do we have to stay with Harper because he’s the best man to manage it or does he get the blame?”

The bigger danger for Harper is that “once people start humming the change tune, it’s pretty hard to reverse it.”

For the Conservatives to win even a minority, the Tories may need the anti-Harper vote split as evenly as possible between the Liberals and NDP, Smith said, with as many votes as possible bled off by the Greens.

He thinks the Conservatives will struggle to hold onto their seats in B.C. and the Greens may take another seat or two from the NDP on Vancouver Island.

“These things could become more significant if we end up in a minority government with different permutations and combinations.”

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A non-profit organization is hoping you will be reminded of the effects of climate change every time you gas up your car.

Matt Hulse, the BC campaign director of Our Horizon, approached the directors of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District with a request for its member municipalities to require climate change labelling on all gas pump handles, similar to the warning labels placed on cigarette packages.

“We are hoping the labels will be a tool towards a greener economy,” he told directors.

“These labels locate responsibility for climate change in the palm of your hand.”

Hulse added that currently when people buy gas they are not thinking about he impacts of fossil fuels.

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The initiative has already received the backing of the municipality of North Vancouver, who passed the label law in June with implementation scheduled for fall.

He said the group will be approaching the Union of B.C. Municipalities and the Federa-

tion of Canadian municipalities for support.

Hulse, however, did not leave the meeting with the CSRD’s formal support of the climate change labels or any commitments from member municipalities.

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Drought conditions close fisheries

By Barb Brouwer

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Anglers will have to reel in their rods on the Middle Shuswap River.

Following on the heels of a federal Fisheries and Oceans ban on salmon fisheries, the province has suspended angling from July 30 through to Sept.

30.

The area affected is the Middle Shuswap River, downstream of Shuswap Falls to Mabel Lake.

“The closure has been put in place to protect fish stocks at a time when they are vulnerable due to high water temperatures and low flows,” notes a July 29 media release from the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

“Trout may also congregate in refuge pools at these times, making them more vulnerable to angling pressures.”

A graph on the BC River Forecast Centre website shows the

streamflow on the Shuswap River near Enderby on July 22 was 45 cubic metres per second – the lowest in records that date back to 1911.

River Centre hydrologist Tobi Gardner says the river is very low for this time of year and the Shuswap River is included in a low streamflow advisory announced last week.

The land is also extremely dry and in a drought level 4 – the driest level.

A 2010 BC Drought Response Plan describes level 4 as being “extremely dry with water supply insufficient to meet socioeconomic and ecosystem needs,” and calls for maximum reduction in water use.

“Without a fair bit of rain, we don’t see conditions improving anytime soon,” says Gardner.

B.C. government fisheries biologists are monitoring approximately 40 other key an-

gling streams throughout the province, and if conditions warrant, additional closures are possible.

On the Coast, early summer sockeye stocks

A half a degree is fairly significant…

A degree can be the difference between life and death as lower water temperatures mean lower oxygen levels.

Stu Cartwright are slowly entering the lower Fraser River in low numbers, says Stu Cartwright, acting area director of Fisheries and Oceans for the B.C. Interior.

There is still a delay of two to four days compared to other years.

“It looks like the samples are very low,” says Cartwright. “On

Sunday (July 16), 38 sockeye were caught in a gill net test fishery and out of 38 fish, 42 per cent (14) were early summers and 55 per cent were summers.”

Cartwright says the water temperature upstream of Hope was 18.4C on Monday, well above the annual average of 17.9C, and a forecast predicting as high as 19.9C by Sunday.

“A half a degree is fairly significant, particularly when approaching the 20 degree mark,” says Cartwright.

“To a fish, it is quite a difference. A degree can be the difference between life and death as lower water temperatures mean lower oxygen levels.”

Cartwright meanwhile, says officials are closely monitoring environmental conditions in the Southern Interior as the adult salmon migration is already underway and there are always juveniles in the system.

Fassbender shuffled out of education ministry

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impressed with Bernier’s appointment.

“We always hope to see an education minister that has some knowledge or firsthand experience of our school system, but once again, that hasn’t happened,” she said.

“We have to ask, why would Bernier, an LNG expert and advocate, be chosen as the education minister? It’s a confusing move from Christy Clark.”

The B.C. Teachers Federation says it will reach out to Bernier to establish a working relationship on key issues like the curriculum redesign for kindergarten to Grade 12.

Coralee Oakes has gone from community

development to small business and red tape reduction while Naomi Yamamoto is minister of state for emergency preparedness.

The removal of TransLink from Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s portfolio comes in the wake of the defeat by Metro Vancouver voters of a plebiscite on the creation of a 0.5 per cent regional sales tax to fund transit expansion.

Jordan Sturdy is now parliamentary secretary for energy literacy and the environment under Environment Minister Mary Polak – Bernier’s previous post. He’ll also chair the province’s Climate Leadership Panel.

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Peter Fassbender is no longer B.C.’s education minister but Vernon-Monashee MLA Eric Foster insists that isn’t a sign of dissatisfaction.

Premier Christy Clark shuffled her cabinet Thursday, shifting Fassbender from education to community development, and naming backbench MLA Mike Bernier to the education portfolio.

When asked if Fassbender was moved because of recent conflicts with teachers, Foster stated, “absolutely not.”

“He’s a hero in our room for the way

he handled the B.C. Teachers Federation and the work stoppage,” said Foster.

Beyond community development, Fassbender is now responsible for the Lower Mainland’s TransLink program. As a former Langley mayor, he was heavily involved in TransLink.

“Mike is a good guy, hard working and a diplomat and he will be able to steer that for a while,” said Foster of the challenging education ministry.

Bernier is a former Dawson Creek mayor and a first-term MLA for Peace River South.

Lisa Laboucane, Vernon Teachers Association president, is not

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Garlic Festival returns to Grindrod The organizers of the 6th annual Grindrod Garlic Festival on Aug. 16 invite you and your family to join local growers for a taste of everything garlic and more.

Enjoy a day of live music, art, crafts and local produce by the river.

Stock up your winter’s supply of your favourite garlic varieties.

Sign up for the popular (and free) garlic braiding and growing workshops, or learn about raising small flock chickens. Create an ode to garlic poem to be read aloud at the festi-

val. Combine the fresh ingredients provided in the garlic cooking contest into a delectable dish, or dare to enter the garlic-eating contest. Come join the fun!

The community section features activities for children such as felting, a StoryWalk about a bear and a bee, bubbles and chalk drawing.

New this year is a People’s Choice art competition coordinated by the CourtYard Gallery in Enderby.

Submit an original garlic-themed drawing or painting by 9 a.m. at the information booth

on festival day, Aug. 16. The works of art will be displayed at the festival for voting, and the winning piece will be used for next year’s Garlic Festival poster.

From Most Unusual Shape to Most Varieties Grown, there is a garlic class to fit everyone.

Festival organizers are looking for submissions for the following contests: Garlic, Vegetable, Fruit and Herb Show; and Photography: “Anything Garlic!” “Life on the Farm” or “Pets and People.”

Bring your contest entries to the informa-

tion booth before 11 a.m. on festival day, August 16, then enjoy the festival and workshops. A list of the competition classes and other details are available at the Grindrod Garlic Festival Facebook page.

This year’s Grindrod Garlic Festival happens on Sunday, Aug. 16, from 9 to 4 at the Grindrod Park, Highway 97A North of Enderby. Admission is $3 per person.

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Hard work and determination will pay off for Shea Weber in February when he suits up in the red and whites of Team Canada.

The 24-year-old Sicamous product was tagged last month to represent the nation in the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s a goal Weber had been working towards, and an opportunity he’s proud to be part of.

“The Olympics are a very special event, not only for hockey but for winter sports and to be able to play for your country and compete for a medal is kind of neat,” says Weber.

The 6’4”, 234 lb. Nashville Predators defenceman will be sporting the maple leaf with other big names in hockey like Scott

Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks), Roberto “Whatever they want him to do, he’ll do Luongo (Vancouver Canucks), Chris Pronger it,” said James. “He’s a team-first guy, he’s (Philadelphia Flyers) and Sidney Crosby not a selfish player at all.”

(Pittsburgh PenBoth parents guins). share what could Apart from a be described as a camp held last subdued exciteThe Olympics are a very summer, Wement for their special event, not only for ber guesses the son and the honhockey but for winter sports team may have a our that’s been and to be able to play for couple of days to bestowed up on gel in February him.

Shea Weber before hitting the “Shea phoned Team Canada ice in Whistler, home and said and he’s interest‘I’ve been chosen ryone fi fits Olympics and I said ‘okay,’” ed in seeing how everyone ts. But Weber’s to play in the Olympics, mom and dad, Tracy and James, don’t ex- Tracy commented, explaining it’s kind of a pect Shea will have any problems. family trait not to overreact – one that Shea

shares. But she and James who, with Shea, share roots in Sicamous minor hockey, are definitely excited, and are hoping to attend at least one of their son’s games.

Sicamous Eagles manager Wayne March is also pretty excited by the news that Shea, an Eagle alumni, will be playing for his community and country at the Games.

March says Shea has been totally focused throughout his career on what he wanted to do: make it to the NHL. In the process, Shea helped the Eagles win the KIJHL Western Canadians in 2001-02; he helped take the Kelowna Rockets to three consecutive WHL Memorial Cup championship games, including the win in 2004; and, after signing with Nashville in 2004, he helped the Ca-

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SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 You know what needs to be done, Sagittarius. You may not have enough manpower to get everything accomplished, so put out a few feelers to see who is up to helping.

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ERIKSON, ESTHER We are sad to let you know that Esther Erikson, our amazing mother and longtime resident of Sicamous, passed away from a stroke on Monday July 28th, 2015. She is survived by her children, Marilyn (Bob), Jack (Jan), Eric, Brad (Lise), Todd, her 9 grandchildren, one great grandchild and many close extended family members as well as her brother Art ( Beryle) and her sisters Alvina and Jane. She was predeceased by her brother Walter, her brother in law Bob her nephew and neice, Robert and Tracey.

Esther was born to Jake and “Betty” Block on Nov 20,1934 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan. She lived in many prairie towns growing up, and ended up in Armstrong and Sicamous for high school, where she met and married Emil Erikson (1954 – 1978) and settled down.

Esther gifted her children and grandchildren with her deep love of family, laughter, music, good food, games and service to others. She took many into her home, treating them like they were her own.

Esther has been a dedicated contributor to the community throughout the years, from starting a kindergarten in Sicamous in 1959 when she had a young family, running the PTA, coaching sports, director at Camp McKenzie and singing in choirs, to her more recent interests of the Art and Palette Club, running the Crib night, cooking for Meals on Wheels, driving for COPS, and providing cinnamon buns and baking for any event.

One of Esther’s many legacies was spearheading the creation of the Community Plaque honouring the passing of young people from the Sicamous area. She was also well known for her cooking and baking, her beautiful scarves, grand earrings and glittery outfits.

Esther has always been involved in the United Church congregation and was the President of the Cambie Hall Association for many years. She was passionate about keeping the hall active and vibrant in her mission to bring people together in community. She will be well remembered and deeply missed by many. The family would to thank her dear friend Gus Jensen for his love and care, Dr. Beech and the hospital staff for their excellent care and guidance.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on Friday August 28th at 3 pm in the Sicamous Seniors Center, 1055 Shuswap Ave. In lieu of flowers, please feel free to make a donation to the Cambie Hall Association at the Sicamous branch of the SA Credit Union or at the service.

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