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This festival doesn’t stop for rain David Dumont (red shirt) drums with a group of children at last Fridayss Children’s Festival in Ashcroft, put on by Make Children First. The Festival was a HUGE success despite the cooler, wet weather, said co-ordinator Deanna Horsting. “I was thrilled to see such a great turnout of locals and families from Clinton, Lytton and Cache Creek.” Make Children First has supported families of children 0-6 in Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Clinton and surrounding areas for close to 10 years.

Ashcroft intends to borrow $500,000 for fire truck

by Wendy Coomber Ashcroft Council hopes to borrow $500,000 to purchase a new fire engine.

Council agreed to the alternate approval process, whereby eligible voters register their disapproval of the process by signing an Elector Response Form if they are opposed to the Village borrowing the money.

If 148 or more voters register their disapproval by Oct. 13 at 4 pm, the Village would have to look for authorization by taking the question to a public referendum.

The truck will take up to 12 months to outfit from the time it’s ordered until it’s delivered.

Administrator Michelle Allen said staff spoke to various suppliers “and we expect that the cost of the truck will be around $390,000 US or $450,000 [Canadian funds]. However, with the fluctuation in the exchange rate we are seeking approval for $500,000 Cdn.” Council had the choice of borrowing the entire amount, or supplementing it with money from the Fire Dept. Reserve Fund. They chose to borrow the full amount and leave the $192,041 in the Fund for new equipment.

Allen said the truck will come with limited equipment; equipment will be transferred from the old truck. She said the department will require a new sup-

ply of Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA), as well as a compressor to fill them. The current SCBA’s must be inspected on a regular basis and they are currently reaching the end of their usable life.

“As there are other additional purchases that the fire department will be facing,” she reported to Council, “Administration recommends that the Village opt for a 20 year amortization on a loan of $500,000 as the payments can be modified or additional funds applied to the loan if the fire dept. budget has a surplus.”

The loan will be financed through BC’s Municipal Finance Authority.

by Wendy Coomber Ashcroft residents will be getting a new water treatment plant in the near future. They’ll also be seeing a hike in water and sewer rates as well as the elimination of the seniors’ 25 per cent discount.

“We committed to this in the grant application for water system,” said Mayor Jack Jeyes as Council discussed it at the Aug. 24 meeting.

The water master plan (WMP), which provided the base of the Village’s application for the $5,725,356 grant, indicated that Council would increase user fees by 15 per cent annually over the next five years.

The utilities aren’t paying for themselves as they should be, said Jeyes, and operating costs will increase with the new upgrades.

The last time sewer and water rates were adjusted was 2006.

Council agreed to a motion that water user rates be increased by 15 per cent for the period 2016-2020, sewer user rates be increased by 10 per cent per year from 2017-2021 and the additional discount for those eligible for the additional home owner grant be phased out at five per cent per year from 2017-2021.

“It’s a horrible thing to have to do and I hate suggesting it, but what percentage of our taxpayers are seniors?” said Coun. Barbara Roden.

“We’re foregoing a lot of income.”

Mayor Jeyes said most seniors today are in better financial position than they were 40 years ago when this policy was implemented. “But as a senior, I’m not looking forward to paying more.”

“It’s going to be a hit for some people,” stated Coun. Al Mertens.

Administrator Michelle Allen said if people wished to make a complaint, the bylaws that will put the changes into effect won’t be finalized until October.

However, she said, “staff believes we did a thorough job in our investigation and the information is there.”

Coun. Alf Trill said he didn’t like it either but hoped that it would even out for everyone in the end.

A staff report reminded Council that the water rates will no doubt change prior to 2020 with the installation of water meters. There is no plan in place for them but meters are also mentioned in the WMP and will be required in due course.

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Break in at John Bundus

Aug. 22 at 3:40 am police responded to an intruder alarm at John Bundus and Sons in Ashcroft. Police arrived to find out that suspects had broken into the building through the front door and left with several Stihl chainsaws, estimated value of $4-5,000. Surveillance film from across the street showed a dark-coloured pickup truck outside the building at the time. The matter is still under investigation and evidence left at the scene is being examined for identification purposes. Anyone noticing a dark truck in the area at the time, or who have been approached about buying a brand new chainsaw are asked to call police at 453-2216.

Hit and run and causing a disturbance

Aug. 22 at 9 pm police received a report of a hit and run at the Castle Inn in Cache Creek after a white pickup truck backed into a red car and left. Police attended and found residents of the Inn arguing with a male whom they believed was driving the truck. An investigation by police showed that he was likely the suspect and he was issued a ticket for failing to remain at the scene. Having concluded the matter, the male was asked to leave but refused to do so, continuing to argue with everyone and cause a disturbance. He was arrested and placed in cells overnight, released the next morning when sober.

Police Telephone #s Ashcroft: 250-453-2216 Clinton: 250-459-2221 Lytton: 250-455-2225 Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) for

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Autumn officially starts on Sept. 23. Clinton Seniors lunch is at the Cariboo Lodge on Sept. 3.

Sept. 13 is National Grandparents Day. How many people know that?

The regular General meeting of the Clinton Seniors Association is Sept. 17. The meeting will follow a Potluck lunch at the Clinton Seniors Centre 217 Smith Ave. Plan to be there!

The September Foot Clinic has been cancelled. The next opportunity to have foot care is Oct. 16 and 17. To book an appointment or to discuss your foot health call Colleen Thom, RN CAFCN at 250374-1735.

Keeping to our year of resolutions, this month let us consider identifying bad habits and breaking them. Focus only on one or two behaviours you would like to alter.

It may help you to track how many times a day your bad habit happens. Your goal isn’t to judge yourself harshly and feel guilty about doing something unhealthy or unproductive. The only goal is to be aware of when it happens and how often it happens. A pattern may emerge that will help you to deal with it.

Breaking bad habits takes time and effort, but mostly it takes perseverance. Many people who end up breaking a bad habit fail multiple times before they finally make the new behaviour work.

You might not have success right away. Be patient. Don’t beat yourself up if you get off track - just start all over again!

Ask yourself some questions: When does this bad habit actually happen? How many times do you do it each day? Who are you with? and What triggers the behaviour and causes it to start?

Think of this habit. When did it first appear? Why? Remember when you didn’t have it. You just need to return to your former self.

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Think - “I don’t need to quit smoking. I’ll go back to being a nonsmoker.” “I don’t have to transform myself into being a health freak. I just need to return to being healthy.”

Use the “but” word to overcome negative self-talk. “I’m overweight and out of shape, but I could be slimmer a few months from now.” “I’m a failure, but everybody fails sometimes.”

Cut out as many triggers as you can. If you smoke when you drink, then don’t go to the bar. If you munch on cookies when they’re in the house, stop having cookies on hand.

Pairing up with someone often helps. Quit stuff together. Since you’re both trying to diet, hold each other accountable and celebrate your victories together. Knowing that someone else expects you to be better is a powerful motivator.

You don’t have to ditch all your old friends, but surrounding yourself with people who live the way you want to live can be a positive influence.

Visualize yourself succeeding.

Visualize building a new identity.

For example, if you smoke when you get stressed, then it’s not a good idea to “just stop smoking” when that happens. Instead, you should try to come up with a different way to deal with stress, like taking a few deep breaths or having a cup of tea and insert that new behaviour instead of having a cigarette.

Recognizing the cause of your bad habits is crucial to overcoming them. All the habits we have – good or bad – are in our lives for a reason. Sometimes stress and boredom drive bad habits. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can teach yourself new and healthy ways to deal which you can then substitute in place of your bad habits.

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OUR HEALTH MATTERS Wellness and Health Action Coalition

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Team-based health care discussed The Wellness and Health Action Coalition met on July 20 and Aug. 17 in the Hospital Board Room. To date we have 51 paid members plus 31 supporters.

The majority of our meeting involved an update on our Action Plan followed by round table discussions of how things are going and what we can do to prevent unintended consequences that arise as a result of our current physician shortage.

Contrary to what some are saying, we are moving forward in our quest for sustainable health care in our area.

Physician recruitment activity for the Ashcroft Family Medical Practice is ongoing. There are also ads in the system for a part-time doctor to service the Clinton Clinic.

Both the Premier and the Minister of Health have identified primary health care as a provincial objective, and that continues to be our objective as well. At our August meeting we discussed the team based approach health care that we are seeking for our local clinic.

Continuity of care continues to be our immediate focus. The Practice Ready Assessment program will soon be underway and is expected to provide Ashcroft with two doctors in February. For continuity of care in the meantime, Dr. Humber, the Interior Health Medical Director for our catchment area, has negotiated permission to have an outreach clinic staffed by doctors in Lillooet to service patients from the Ashcroft Family Medical practice who are currently without doctors. The process is underway to provide a bridge for doctor coverage for Ashcroft patients over the winter with residency doctors she will be supervising.

We were honoured to have MLA Jackie Tegart and her Constituency assistant, Lori Pilon, as well as Ashcroft Mayor Jack Jeyes in attendance at our August meeting. We discussed how all levels of government are important to solving rural health care needs. MLA Tegart has arranged for local mayors and Interior Health representatives to meet together in early September to discuss local health needs. The Wellness and Health Action Coalition has been asked to present an update to the group on our work to date. Shirley Dobson and Ron Hood will do this on our behalf.

The WHAC will have a booth at Ashcroft Fall Fair on Sunday, Sept. 13 and we are looking forward to meeting you and answering your questions. You, too, can become a member.

Membership fee is $5 and forms are available at People’s Pharmacy.

Check out our website at www.whac-chb.ca for further information or to leave a comment or question. Next meeting is Monday, Sept. 21, 2-4 pm in the hospital board room.

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School ready for the buzz of students

by Wendy Coomber Bright in both colour and sunshine, Ashcroft’s new K-12 school is freshly painted and scrubbed, the floors have been waxed, the boxes unpacked (mostly) and ready for the return of students.

The new elementary classrooms are situated close to the main office, bright with primary colours and big windows.

The new K-1 classrooms are connected with shared bathrooms and food prep areas.

The Strong Start and pre-school rooms are also adjacent with their own playground right outside the classrooms.

“It used to be the metal working room,” says principal Colleen Minnabarriet.

The change, she says, is astonishing from what it used to be, a dirty, grimy room, to a clean and spacious area.

She credits the architects for their use of natural light throughout the reconstructed areas.

Retired teacher John Savage worked with senior students last year to refurbish the trades equipment and now woodworking, welding and metal work are all in the same room. It makes sense, she says, to have them together rather than having the teacher run back and forth to different rooms.

The art room was the mechanics room and has space for desks and large equipment.

The high school students have a new common area and just off of it are the grades 6-9 classrooms that make it easier for those students to work on integrated studies.

“We wanted to make sure the high school

students felt there was a space for them,” says Minnabarriet. She says she’s been getting requests for a pool table and air hockey.

The library, like the gym, will have a divider so both elementary and high school students can enjoy using the rooms at the same time or alone. Minnabarriet says there will be plenty of opportunity for young and old students to interact, but they also need the time to be with their own classmates.

There is also one spare classroom without a designated use, giving staff a room to play around with.

The favourite part for her, she says, is that it’s a community approach. The student are all right there and if any of them need extra help, it will be easier to spot them and assist them.

“There’s so much empty space in here,” says Minnabarriet, “We were just rattling around.”

She says she’s Renovations from around Ashcroft’s new K-12 school: the Strong Start room, the art “Looking forward to room, a new playground, a food prep area joining two classrooms and new coat the buzz of students” hooks for the young ones. again.

River society gets $10,000 for banks

by Wendy Coomber The Pacific Salmon Foundation has announced $10,000 for a Pacific salmon project in Cache Creek. The total value of the project including volunteer time and community fundraising is $95,000. The project is by the Bonaparte Watershed Stewardship Society (BWSS), with the funds going towards restoring three large, eroding stream banks that are contributing sediment and decreasing salmon production.

BWSS volunteers have been monitoring the river around Cache Creek since 2000. The Bonaparte River provides important salmon habitat and any changes such as bank erosion or higher water temperature affects the chinook, coho and pink salmon, as well as rainbow and brook trout, kokanee and steelhead that live there.

The Society has completed over 130 projects since it began.

“When you look along the banks of the Bonaparte through Cache Creek, you can see the thousands of dollars - private and public that has gone into stabilizing those banks,” says BWSS president Al Midgley, “and to many of us, past and present, a lot of memories and exercise in getting it done.”

From Loon Lake to Cache Creek, the river runs through farmland and the Society works with the land owners to repair and restore the banks where needed. The creeks also receive work.

“All the way up Back Valley at each road crossing of Cache Creek,” said Midgley, “is more of this type of fish migration improvements, this time paid for by Dept. of Transportation.”

He says the Society has an interpretative project planned for Hat Creek and the Bonaparte at Hat Creek, but it hasn’t received funding for it yet.

“We are pleased to support the Bonaparte Watershed Stewardship Society, as their water-

shed restoration work will be play a critical role in increasing local salmon stocks,” said Dr. Brian Riddell, president and CEO of the Pacific Salmon Foundation.

The Foundation’s Community Salmon Program supports habitat stewardship, Pacific salmon enhancement and watershed education across the province. Community groups, volunteers and First Nations give countless hours each year to monitor watersheds, develop and implement habitat rehabilitation projects, and educate communities about the conservation and protection of salmon. The program requires grantees to find matching funds for projects.

On average, grantees raise an additional six dollars for every dollar they receive through additional fundraising for donations of in-kind and money at the community level.

The majority of funds for the Community Salmon Program were generated through sales of the federal Salmon Conservation Stamp. The Salmon Conservation Stamp is a decal that must be purchased annually by anglers if they wish to keep Pacific salmon caught in saltwater off of Canada’s West Coast. Currently all proceeds from the $6 dollar stamp are returned to British Columbia through the Foundation, generating about $1 million for community grants annually.

In addition to funds generated from the sales of the federal “Salmon Stamp”, the grants are made possible by Pacific Salmon Foundation fundraising dinners, auctions and donations from individuals, foundations and businesses.

Several businesses and foundations also contribute to the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s community salmon program.

“The Community Salmon Program captures the essence of what we are trying to do at the Foundation,” concluded Riddell. “Government, business, First Nations and volunteers all working together - that is the best way to ensure the future of wild Pacific salmon.”

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Conversations to make you happy When was the last time you talked to a stranger?

That’s not all that easy when you live in small towns like ours. Even the people you don’t know by name aren’t really strangers.

A UBC professor found that talking to strangers “can boost your happiness level and instill a greater sense of belonging”, and Vancouver has an annual campaign called Say Hi To A Stranger!

I can sense a lot of cringing out there as people read that. We spend the first dozen years of our awareness being told NOT to talk to strangers. And then there are the moderately shy folks who have a hard time being in the presence of strangers, and the introverts who just don’t want to be bothered.

After studying hundreds of couples and how they interacted with strangers, the professor concluded that talking to strangers can reverse a bad mood - basically because you put on a happy face to communicate with someone you don’t know. And that’s all it usually takes to break a bad mood.

Or, to put it in other words, someone told me once a long time ago that their first job as a teenager was to deal in a helpful manner with the public. They were told to smile and be polite. So that’s what she did, day after day, even though she didn’t feel like it. She did this for months before she realized that she didn’t need to remind herself to smile anymore, and she enjoyed helping strangers with their problems.

Talking to a stranger is like a puzzle: you dump all of the pieces out of the box and prod and poke them around, trying to get a picture in your head. Talking to someone you don’t know means you actually have to communicate. You have to carefully speak and listen because you don’t know how they’ll react to what you say. They might just reach into their vest pocket and pull out a million dollars!

At the very least, random interaction keeps the thoughts and ideas flowing. It makes our brains work. And, apparently, it makes us happy.

So find a stranger. You may have to go to Kamloops for this, but strike up a conversation and lift your mood.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Time spent protesting could be better used Dear Editor It saddens me to see a local demonstrator spending hours in the hot sun, with his placards when he could be putting his energies to better use. I completely understand and share the concerns of Mr. Platz and others regarding the shortage of doctors here in Ashcroft but I strongly disagree with their tactics and the absence of accurate information.

I had the good fortune to attend the meeting that MLA Tegart organized last year with activists from Princeton. Their message was clear to me. Confrontational tactics did not work and were harmful to the community. They were able to achieve success with physician recruitment only when they started to work cooperatively and collaboratively with both the Ministry of Health and Interior Health. Through that work they were able to articulate a new vision of health care for their community and with that vi-

sion in place to attract doctors to practice in Princeton. I believe that we can do the same work here and that our Wellness and Health Action Coalition is well on its way to accomplishing this work.

Rural communities all across Canada are experiencing difficulty in attracting and keeping physicians. BC has shown leadership with several successful initiatives including; funding and incentive programs, providing opportunities for physicians to train in rural areas at the University of Northern BC

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and through the Southern Medical program in Kelowna, doubling the number of medical spaces between 2003 and 2011, and through partnering with Doctors of BC to help recruit physicians to rural communities. Between 2011 and 2015 the number of doctors working in rural communities in B.C. has grown from 2,260 to 2,441. This is evidence that things are getting better.

Our difficulty in keeping doctors is not new. It has been an issue during the entire 11 years that I have lived in this area. I believe that we need to work with our doctors and our government representatives to

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One thing they said they wanted in a name was something that represents all communities, including our native communities. I have emailed asking how this name represents all communities and have not received Dear Editor Dear Editor an answer. I have resent it many times This letter is in regards to the Isn’t it ironic the museum is putschool name and the trustees. As most in hopes for some type of answer and ting on an Open House on the Chihave only received and email detailof you know I am not in favor of the nese history in Ashcroft? Yet, in one name or the process taken to pick the ing their process in picking the name, sweep of the paint brush, the fire hynot a word on how it represents the name. Our comnunity school should drant at the Library depicting a Chihave had the community as a whole to communities involved in our Ashcroft nese boy reading a book is gone. It school. How is this right, to ignore a decide on if the name should change was a tribute to honour the Chinese. simple question asked by a communand what it should change to. The Go figure it all!

Dolly Lowe and only places to vote were on facebook ity member wanting to understand better on decision they made? Maybe Andea, Jared and Angela Ogden on the schools pages, one which is if they were to explain the reasoning Ashcroft a closed group meaning not anyone behind choosing the name that didn’t could access it. This is not putting it have the most votes people could out there, in my opinion, better understand. and many did not even Geocaching is a great way for a family to Considering the top name voted know about the change experience what my grandchildren refer to for was added on to the list after until asked to sign the peas a “scavenger hunt” with all the treasures put in place by someone else. tition, which was ignored, people started voting and some statWe have spent wonderful hours, somemy opinion, by the school ed that it is the one they would have times an afternoon and often whole days voted for if it was there from the bedistrict trustees, even searching and exploring the Gold Coungining I’m still trying to figure out though there were more Jackie Tegart try region looking for geocaches. If you’ve signatures than votes, and how they feel the process was done MLA, Fraser Nicola never tried it, you should. It is educational, a right and fair. Also those who didn’t I never did hear directgreat way to see B.C. and so much fun! ly from them on their de- see the voting online who signed the Cache for Gold has a gold rush theme petition also stated they would have cision even though I was with entertainment, games, vendors and all voted for that name. So, in my opinone of two who dropped kinds of family fun in addition to the treasion, they never intended to go by the the petition off and asked With the great weather and low Canadian ure hunt. Join in for as many or as few of the votes, they had decided before hand to be contacted. I didn’t dollar, it’s not surprising that many people in four days as you wish. Full details are at www. find out that they were not and had to cover their butts by having Ashcroft and Cache Creek are choosing to goldcountry.com . some type of vote no matter how hidGold Country is the name given to the considering the petition stay close to home and enjoy the wonderful den the vote was. tourism region that covers roughly the area tourism experiences in their own backyards. until it was in the paper “Staycations” give us a chance to enjoy our around the communities of Clinton, Cache Trisha Lambert, Ashcroft like everyone else.

articulate a new vision for what health care can look like in our community.

This might involve doing some things differently than we have in the past.

This could include taking advantage of e medicine opportunities, using nurse practitioners, or other para-professionals.

I would encourage people to join and support the Wellness and Health Action Coalition and work with them to be part of a new vision for health care in Ashcroft and area. Let’s work together and be constructive, respectful and pro-active.

Shirlee Johnson Ashcroft Letters from p. 4

Fire hydrant original Answers for the school painted over name not given

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Looking for Gold - at home

province’s world-class travel experiences firsthand. They also keep your vacation dollars circulating in B.C.’s economy.

By visiting regional events and attractions, you’re supporting local businesses and helping sustain important jobs in the tourism sector.

In Fraser-Nicola, one such experience worth checking out on the Labour Day weekend is the Gold Country GeoTourism Program’s geocaching event called Cache for Gold, in which participants have a chance to win prizes including a genuine gold bar worth $1,500!

Geocaching is a modern-day treasure hunt that leads hundreds of new and repeat visitors to dozens of sites of historical and cultural interest, beginning in Lytton on Sept. 4 and ending in Merritt on Sept. 7.

Creek, Ashcroft, Lillooet, Lytton, Logan Lake and Merritt.

The Gold Country Communities Society was established in 1991 after the mayors of Clinton, Cache Creek, Ashcroft and Lytton got together to address the significant loss of tourism traffic that occurred after the opening of the Coquihalla Highway.

Today, Gold Country is successfully promoting tourism and economic development in the region. In the face of adversity, the founders turned a troubling situation into a sustainable regional tourism industry.

Our region has stunning natural beauty and is rich in history. I encourage everyone to visit an area of Fraser-Nicola you haven’t visited before – and maybe even go home with a bar of gold!

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of William Shakespeare’s King Lear at the National Arts Centre.

His Savage Society’s production is the culmination of a month long community project that involved his team and dozens of participants from the community.

“It’s great to be back home,” said Kevin.

The Battle of the Birds will take place on Sunday Sept. 6 at 2:30pm.

Based on a traditional Nlakap’amux story about a community confronting the issue of domestic violence, Battle of the Birds is a story set in A mini course in juggling and balance given by the CircusWest performers at last year’s River Fest. the mythical time before time, when animals appeared like humans with animal attributes and spoke a It’s only a week away and one of balls, rings – and balance games suitsimilar language. The BC’s best little festivals begins it’s able for all ages.

Bird nation is alarmed because Bald twelfth season in Lytton on Labour Everyone who joined in the work- Eagle is abusive to his wife. Golden Day weekend. shops last year was truly delighted with Eagle convinces the bird nation to conWith two Saturday afternoon stage the performances and with how quickly spire with him to rescue Bald Eagle’s performances followed by basic work- they were able to pick up basic juggling Wife from him, but this means war. shops, Circus West from Vancouver is skills in the workshops.

Battle of the Birds is a communback by popular demand. Best known Lytton is also excited about a new ity engagement theatre creation. This for its youth training and performance First Nations event this year, and they theatrical premiere is comprised of acprogram in the lower mainland, Cir- are especially proud to see a popular complished and award winning cast cusWest of- celebrity back in town. Award winning and is full of songs derived from colfers children, playwright and actor Kevin Loring has laborations with professional artists teens, and come home to Lytton for this year’s alongside community members. adults an op- festival.

Created and Directed by Kevin Lorportunity to Born and raised in Lytton, Kevin’s ing, with Renae Morriseau, Sam Bob, explore Cir- prestigious writing awards include the Ron Dean Harris, Sandy Scofield and cus Arts in an Governor Genera’s Award for Eng- Kieran Wilson, and with the support encouraging, lish-language drama, Herman Voaden of the Lytton Tribal Council and Westnon-competi- Playwriting Competition and the Jessie ern Canada Theatre (Kamloops). Suptive environ- Richardson Award for Outstanding ported by the BC Arts Council, Canada ment.

Original Script for his play Where the Council for the Arts, and First Peoples The mini- Blood Mixes.

Cultural Council Aboriginal Arts workshops As an actor, his credits include roles Awards and New Pathways to Gold Sothat follow in the television series Da Vinci’s In- ciety. their stage quest, Arctic Air and Health Nutz, and Three wonderful days of enjoyment performances the film Pathfinder, as well as stage and entertainment are only a scenic are an intro- roles including Michel Tremblay’s hour away from Ashcroft. duction to Saint Carmen of the Main, George Look for your copy of the Lytbasic juggling Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Ed- ton River Festival brochure in today’s scarves, mund in an all-First Nations production Journal.

Loring play premiers at River Festival

Richard Rolke

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11 members and they now play about five concerts a year, including one in Kamloops.

“The ringers are very enthusiastic,” says Ranta.

“Most didn’t read music when they joined.”

But with hand bells, you’re always playing a line note or a space note, she says. As long as you know your own note, you just have to wait for it.

“That is an interesting way to put it,” says longtime Choir member Maria Russell Martin, - ‘waiting’.

Yet, you are so focussed on ‘waiting’ for your note that at times it feels like nano seconds.”

She says the ringers are reading reading everyone else’s notes so the brain is working furiously.

“At least mine is,” she says, “physically and mentally. Some songs may feature your note so you play it more frequently and of course the timing/counting can be tricky.

“We are like a human piano and Carmen is tinkling our notes. We need to be in that moment or we lose our chance to

The bells ring out proudly for Choir

by Wendy Coomber The Cache Creek and Ashcroft area can rightly boast of it’s enthusiastic and varied music and entertainment groups, made up of talented local members.

The Cache Creek Desert Hand Bell Choir began in 2011 as a mother’s way of providing for her child’s happiness.

Hand Bell director Carmen Ranta said it started when she, her husband and daughter Elizabeth attended a Christmas Symphony in Kamloops one year.

“I had hoped she would fall in love with an instrument that she could learn,” says Ranta. “But instead of the violin or cello which I had hoped for, she fell in love with the hand bells.”

Ranta said she didn’t want to be driving her daughter into Kamloops for rehearsals, but she wanted to give her a way to learn the musical instrument of her choice. That’s when her husband John looked at her and said, “Why don’t you start your own handbell choir?”

The school district had an old set of hand bells that were housed in Lillooet.

They were used in the 1970s but had fallen silent.

Only one person answered her call to start a hand bell choir at first. She held practices and the numbers grew slowly.

Ranta said she was ready to throw in the towel, but one of her ringers, Maria Russell Martin refused to take ‘no’ for an answer and brought two more people with her.

Their first concert was Christmas 2013 at St. Albans. Six ringers played three Christmas carols, one single note at a time.

Ranta says they invited the audience to come up and try the bells after the concert was over and they added six more ringers to the choir.

They used the borrowed bells for almost a year and a half. Then others became interested in them and the choir didn’t always have access to them.

Then word came of a used set available from a seniors centre in Lower Mainland. Ranta said it’s almost unheard of to find a full set of used bells for sale. She went to look at them and brought them home.

“We thought we’d be without a set of

bells so this was perfect timing,” she said.

But it didn’t end there. Retired Lillooet teacher Lynn Albertson had always supported the group. Her mother, Helene, had been a hand bell director for many years and Albertson provided the choir with music and other items that had belonged to her mother.

After purchasing the Lower Mainland hand bells, Ranta realized they were Helene’s old bells.

Ear issues are quite common occurrence in “That was such an amazboth cats and dogs. They can be highly irritating co-incidence,” says ing for both pets and their owners with constant Ranta. “Hand bells and scratching, head shaking or unpleasant odor music were re-united.” from the ears. Ear infections can also be quite Since then, the 33 bells painful. have been back to their oriA trip to the vet is generally necessary to propginal makers, Schulmerich erly diagnose your pet’s ear problem.

By far the most common problem in cats is inCarillons in Massachusets festation with ear mites. These creepy little bugs for overhaul. The group has are almost impossible to see with the naked eye also added mallets to their (though they look like really impressive under repertoire, and Ranta says the microscope). Ear mites are quite contagious they will be adding a set of between cats and they feed on blood, which is hand chimes next. why the debris from ear mites looks like coffee She says they add a grounds. Cats with ear mites often scratch their sound that’s both mysterious ears frequently and may also shake their head. and mellow and can accomTreatment requires medication to rid the cat of the adult mites and must be followed up with pany the bells with a differa second treatment at the proper time so the ent melodic line. mites hatching from eggs will also be eliminatThe school district’s bells ed. If there is more than one cat in the houseare back in Lillooet. Ranta hold, treatment for all the cats is usually recomsays she hopes that another mended so infestations do not persist. group will form there, and Unlike cats, dogs rarely get ear mites. Though the Desert Bells has donated the symptoms can appear quite similar--scratchfoam for the tables that the ing at ears and head shaking--the cause is very different. Ear infections in dogs are often caused bells sit on. by an overgrowth of the yeast and bacteria that Hand bell groups are few normally lives in small numbers in the ear caand far between in BC and nal. Foreign bodies, such as weed seeds or grass most are seniors groups that awns (foxtails) cause pain and can be extremeare based out of churches. ly irritating. When this happens, your dog may The Desert Bells are open to everyone and have had CARIBOO Compassionate members from 9 years old to COUNTRY PET CARE 80.

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make that note ring!”

Hand bells are descendants from the tower bells in England. Around the 16th Century, the art of tower bell ringing was becoming established: a set of five to 12 bells was rung in a numerical sequence as opposed to melodic pattern. This was called “change ringing”.

It took hours of practice of pulling on the ropes that caused the bells to ring in different orders, creating the intricate patterns of melody. All of this practice was disturbing the neighbours, so smaller bells were created to practice on. It had the added benefit of allowing the ringer to practice in a warm hall rather than a cold bell tower.

Eventually, this type of bell ringing became an art in itself and larger sets of hand bells were cast. “Tune ringing” came into vogue around the middle of the 19th Century and it gradually made its way to North America.

“I love the practices,” says Russell Martin, “especially when we get ‘it’ all together. There is such a sense of accomplishment and joy that only music can bring.”

Vancouver will host the 2016 international hand bell conference, bringing thousands of hand bell ringers together, many of them playing. Ranta says that’s exciting for choir members. The event is being organized by the BC Guild of English Hand Bell Ringers and the Desert Bells have been asked to volunteer at it.

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Dogs and cats have an L-shaped ear canal (ours is straight). Because of is anatomy, objects are difficult to remove without special equipment.

Your veterinarian may also want to sedate your pet for a thorough assessment or treatment of ears. Like small children, you cannot explain to a pet that if they just hold very still for a moment, it will be all done. All they know is that their ear hurts and they don’t want you near it. If you have had an ear infection yourself, you will totally understand their point of view.

One of the most common causes of repeated or chronic ear infections in dogs is a food allergy.

The medical term is “allergic otitis”. If you find yourself constantly needing to clean your dog’s ears, or if the problem keeps coming back, it is worth investigating this issue with your pet’s veterinarian. Dogs with allergies often lick or chew their feet (because they itch, not because they are cleaning or grooming themselves). Issues with anal glands that cause your dog to scoot on their back end is another common sign of allergies. Table foods or treats or chews are common allergens for many dogs. Eliminating these items from your pet’s menu for a minimum of thirty days may help to identify those triggers and provide relief for those itchy and uncomfortable ears.

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Sept. 4-6: Twelfth annual Lytton River Festival.

Free event featuring music, arts, crafts, plays, and much more. www.riverfestival.ca Sept. 13: Ashcroft & District Fall Fair, 10am5pm at Dryland Arena Sept. 13: Ashcroft Annual Show and Shine from 10am to 2pm, Heritage Place Park.

Sept. 19/20: NHRA King of the Track! Last race weekend of 2015 for Eagle Motorplex on Hwy 1 south of Cache Creek.

Sept. 20: Terry Fox Run. Starts at 9am with signup just prior to that, Heritage Place Park Gazebo. 2km, 5km or 10 km -- walk, run, bike ... whatever you enjoy.

Water, juice and after ‘run’ snacks provided.

Every Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm.

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It’s amazing how most triathletes chose to much inspiration can participate in the TRYathbe drawn from a child. lon Race which began with Whether it’s the cute a swim at the Ashcroft pool, things they say or the followed by a bike ride downamazing tenacity and retown and finished with a run.

Vicky Trill silience they have, they Victoria was one of the triathcan really be inspirationletes who was registered for trills@telus.net al. This summer the Dethe TRYathlon race. I chatsert Hills Triathlon Club ted with her Dad the day beran a triathlon trainfore the race to suggest that ing camp for kids aged 5-12 years old. Dur- as Victoria was new to riding the two-wheel bike she may ing the training camp, kids learned the sports be better off putting the training wheels on for the race esof swimming, cycling and running as well as pecially given the more than 2 km ride down hills to downhow to put these three sports together to com- town. Her Dad said, “I don’t think that she will let me!” She plete a triathlon. Camp began each day at 9 hasn’t stopped riding her bike since she learned to ride a twoam and finished at 3 pm. Kids in wheel.” She won’t the camp were active all day long let me put the trainwith a few breaks to fuel, water ing wheels back on!” and rest. There are many highI left it up to her Dad lights from the week long triathand saw little Viclon training camp, but I’d like to share one story toria ready to race the of a child who inspired me. Her name is Victoria next day with her twoBixby and she is 5 years old. wheel bike.

Victoria and about half a dozen other kids I didn’t get to see began triathlon training camp with training Victoria’s swim or her wheels on their little bicycles. The first day I bike ride downtown, asked Victoria if she would like to take the trainbut I was waiting at ing wheels off her bike and try to learn to ride the finish line and without them. She declined and had fun pedalsaw her bright smile ling around with the other kids around the cones coming! Not only did doing bicycle drills, the following day however, she finish her first trishe was ready to take the training wheels off athlon and after just and give two wheels a shot. We found a grassy learning to ride on two hill in the park and practiced coasting downwheels, but she also hill. The first time Victoria tried the glide, she came in first place in exceeded expectations by pedalling farther than her age group! I had just a coast. It took only a few trips down the tears in my eyes, as I grassy hill before she was ready to try riding on thought about her tenthe paved parking lot on her two-wheeler. She acity to try and her was a little shaky with the steering at first, but Above: Victoria Bixby finishes the bicycle sweet happy attitude was all smiles. At the end of the day, she was section of the Kids Triathlon. Top, Left: (Back) to finish well. It seems pleased to tell her Dad that she could now ride a Maddy Hiltz and Leader Willow Winwood at simple and yet her extriathlon training camp. (Front) Victoria Bixby, two-wheeler. ample is a great one to At the end of the Triathlon Training Camp, Gary Gross and Reggie Morton. follow for all of us.

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Clinton gets their fill of barbecues of the 100 Mile House Detachment dropped in to visit as well.

It was a great way to foster good relations between the public and the RCMP.

West Fraser Picnic

On Saturday, Aug. 22 West Fraser Mills hosted a Community Picnic in Reg Conn Centennial Park to celebrate their 60th anniversary.

There was a Mayor Jim Rivett and Cpl. Brandon Buliziuk manned the BBQ delicious barbefor the Clinton RCMP Open House. cue with two of Clinton’s volunteer fire fighters (and Chasm Mill employees) flipping burgers and wieners.

In addition to the compliSusan Swan mentary barbecue, there were 459-2224 or 2325 bouncy castles, face painting, countrysquire@ cotton candy and games for the bcwireless.com kids.

Integris Credit Union sponsored a dunk tank to raise RCMP BBQ The Clinton RCMP held their funds for the arena’s time clock. SeverSecond Annual Community Barbecue al people braved the cold water for the at the detachment last Tuesday. The cause and Chasm Mill Manager Adpublic was invited to enjoy hotdogs, rian Plante announced that West Fraser would match the funds raised by the hamburgers, salads and snacks.

Mayor Jim Rivett and Cpl. Brandon dunk tank as he took his turn.

There was a terrific turnout and Buliziuk did the honours at the barbecue. There was a good turnout from the even the weather cooperated. The earcommunity with people of all ages at- ly morning frost gave way to sunshine tending. The elders gathered under can- all day. I’m sure that those who got opies and visited while the youngsters dunked found the wind cold but it was enjoyed face painting, colouring and all for a good cause. games.

Community members had a chance Clinton 4-H Day The Clinton 4-H Club will hold to meet Gordie Jones, the newest members of the Clinton Detachment and any their Achievement Day at the Clinother members that they had not yet ton Rodeo Grounds on Saturday, Aug. had the opportunity to meet. Cst. Jeff 30 beginning at 11 a.m. Members of McMichaels, who is now working out the public are welcome to attend as

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the members show all of their projects.

Come and show your support for the activities and projects the kids have worked so hard on.

GWRRA Run

(Above) Ron Mitchell

Plan to and John Engelhart be in Clinton did a great job of on Saturday, cooking the burgers Sept. 5 for the and hotdogs the West Gold Wing Fraser Picnic.

Road Riders Association Fun Run. In addition to the light parade through town (which is always enjoyable for the spectators) the Spirit of Clinton Committee is working to have Music in the Park that day as an added attraction. Watch for more details next week.

Celebration of Life for

Julio Marcelino Friday, August 28 1:00 p.m. Clemes Hall

Members of the public are invited to meet at the Fire Hall and join the Fire Department and First Responders in forming a procession from the Fire Hall to the Community Hall where we will hold a Celebration of Life for Julio Marcelino (Aug. 17, 1958 - April 11, 2015) Everyone is welcome, please bring a pot luck dish.

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Have you been working on your soap box derby entry? The Second Clinton Soap Box Derby will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12.

The derby will once again be held on Cariboo Avenue (on the hill beside David Stoddart School) with check in at 10 a.m. Registrations are available at the Village of Clinton Office.

There will be a concession and fun activities to follow the derby.

For information call Sandy Burrage at 250459-7012 or Diana Guerin at 250-4597756.

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Ashcroft HUB hoping to turn AES into centre for local user groups

by Wendy Coomber Ashcroft HUB is hoping that the old adage, “when one door closes, another opens,” will ring true for Ashcroft Elementary School. They are hoping to turn the building into a multi-purpose centre for community user groups.

Ashcroft Council approved a $500 grant for them at the Aug. 24 meeting, even though they had already spent $8,045 of their $8,000 budget for community grants.

Coun. Al Mertens asked Council “to find a way of accepting the request for $500 even though we’re overbudget. I believe believe they’re a valuable asset.”

Mayor Jack Jeyes noted that going overbudget wasn’t a good message to send out to the public, “but I think it’s important that this group be given every option to succeed.”

Mertens noted that Coun. Doreen Lambert would not be attending the annual UBCM conference this year even through there was money in the budget to do so, implying that the money could be taken from surplus funds there.

“Anyone who’s seen Clinton Elementary ‘ugly-ing’ itself away up there knows we have to act fast,” said Coun. Barbara Roden. “It will be a benefit young and

old.”

HUB’s president, Juanita Little, says the idea came up at a community forum last April, hosted by the Village of Ashcroft. After that, a group of residents started looking into repurposing the building to avoid a derelict building and to provide services for the community.

“Closed schools devalue the neighbourhood and are targets for vandalism,” she told a committee of the whole meeting of Ashcroft Council on Aug. 24. “By repurposing AES immediately, the community can avoid the pitfalls of an abandoned building.”

The HUB’s mandate is to keep the doors of the building open, to provide accessible, affordable space for clubs, groups and small entrepreneurs and support programming or events that build social connectedness through opportunities in wellness, recreation and the arts.

Other schools have done this, Little said, in Kamloops, Clearwater, Yale, Princeton and Spences Bridge.

The group has already met with school district and has a verbal agreement to lease the building. They would be responsible for heating and electricity costs as well as snow removal. The district would maintain the grounds. If

they wanted to keep the playground, they would need to carry extra liability insurance.

Little said the group will work in stages to make the entire building available to the community as they work with the school district to develop the terms of the lease. The first stage (Sept. 2015-Dec. 2016) is to make the gym available for the current user groups who will be displaced come September.

Stage 2 (Jan.-Aug. 2016) will be to open up the use of front office spaces and rooms that can be most efficiently heated in the main hall to user groups, and work on the front facade and entrance area.

Stage 3 (Sept. 2016-Aug. 2017) will be to open up the main hallway of classrooms and library space, and look into facility upgrades.

Stage 4 (Sept. 2017-Aug. 2018) will be to open up other areas as needed while enhancing the outside grounds.

Little said the group was seeking a partnership with the Village.

“We would like the Village to act as a supporting partner in our grant applications and provide letters of support,” she said.

She suggested an in kind donation from the Village of snow removal from

parking lot. In return, she sid, the Village could use the grounds to dump excess snow from around town.

She said the $500 grant from the Village would help with start up costs to get going before it’s boarded up.

“I think the biggest hurdle is the $30,000 per year operating cost,” Gloria Mertens commented from the public.

She suggested the group can look at two models of funding: try renting out space to cover costs, or persuade the Village to add a small parcel tax to tax notices that would be collected and forwarded to the group.

“It’s important to keep that $5 million asset in our community,” she said.

Coun. Doreen Lambert said she’d heard that the roof was in bad shape.

Little said they were aware of the building’s problems as outlined in a recent facilities report. She said through grants and fundraising, the group would hopefully find the money to repair it.

HUB member Susan McLean said the HVAC, as well, was cited for eventual replacement although it is still functioning.

Little said the group is currently developing the criteria of who they would like to rent the space out to.

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Golden Country presents

... Past, Present & Beyond Summer Staycation Pt. 6: Heritage and History The summer travel season is nearly at an end for and at least two of the elm trees another year. There’s time, however, for one more standing beside it were brought set of staycation recommendaover from England tions, for those who want to as seedlings by the travel and see some sites durCornwall brothers, ing the day, but return to their and are now well own beds each night. This time over 100 years old. out we’re going to visit some One of the few Garof the historic sites in our area; bage Gobblers still everything from ancient First on active duty in the Nations sites to places that province stands outspeak of the pioneering past. side the Manor beThe Clinton Museum is side Hwy 1.

The original Ashcroft Manor in the 1880s. The second storey was added well worth a visit. It was built Take a detour some 40 years later. in 1892 of local brick which into Ashcroft and was provided by a short-lived visit the Museum, The Soldiers Memorial Hall in Walhachin was business in the area, and is the constructed as a public building which constructed in 1912, and while it was used as a fruit GOLDEN COUNTRY only surviving brick buildoriginally housed the post office, tele- packing house it also served a more vital function to BARBARA RODEN ing in the town. The museum graph office, Customs agent, and tele- the town’s residents: a central place for entertainment began life as a schoolhouse, phone exchange in 1917. There are fas- in the community. Walhachin was becoming known and was also used as a courtroom when need arose. cinating exhibits that allow you to walk through Ash- for its large gatherings, and the hall - with its spruceIt became a museum in 1956, and houses a large croft’s past, and don’t miss the mining display on planked floating dance floor set on springs - was very collection of artifacts and documents, records and the second floor. The Chinese cemetery to the east popular with residents and guests. A stage extended photographs, about Clinton and the surrounding area of town beside Hwy 97C has recently been restored, across the full width of the hall, with actors’ dressgoing back to the Gold Rush days. Further exhibits with a large display board describing Ashcroft’s ing-rooms (now the washrooms) behind. The name are in a wooden building on the museum grounds. once-thriving Chinatown and the importance of Chi- was bestowed on the hall after World War I, which Historic Hat Creek Ranch almost certainly needs nese immigrants to the province and our area. saw 97 of the 117 men living in Walhachin at the no introduction. It’s one of the few surviving examAncient burial sites, and preserved cave paintings, time enlist; few of them returned. The hall, which is ples of the roadhouses which were spread along the are at the summit of Savona Mountain, which over- currently undergoing extensive renovations, contains Cariboo Wagon Road, providing food, drink, and ac- looks Kamloops Lake. The caves were not used for a museum which explores the short but eventful life commodation (for people and their horses), and has burials; the Secwepemc people believed that harm- of Walhachin, the not-quite-ghost-town. been beautifully restored and preserved. Stepping ful spirits known as “land mysteries” lived in them.

The Packing House in Spences Bridge is now a back into the roadhouse, where interpreters in period However, remains of burial sites in more open land popular restaurant, but it started life more than 100 costume regale you with stories of the property and are evident on the side of the mountain near the sum- years ago as exactly what the name says: a packing some of the larger-than-life people who lived there, is mit. The cave paintings were made by “the people of house for the fruit (mainly apples) produced by Jessie like stepping back into the 1860s. Ask about the resi- long ago” and are painted in red, the colour of life, Smith, better known as Widow Smith of Spences dent ghosts: there are several (more about them an- good luck, and virtue.

Bridge, whose apples were specifically requested by other time). A tour of the grounds is well worth your Scattered throughout the area are the features King Edward VII of England at the Royal Horticultime: you can visit the blacksmith shop and see the known by First Nations people as “coyote rocks”; tural Fair in London. The apples from Mrs. Smith’s smithy at work (and maybe try your hand at pound- the most well-known one is probably the “Balan- orchards were carefully graded and sorted, with any ing a horseshoe), see how good you are at archery, cing Rock” between the top of Six Mile Hill and Sav- long stems trimmed so they would not cause bruisride in the famous BX Express stagecoach, and visit ona, to the north of Hwy 1. These columns or pillars ing (one bruised apple could ruin an entire box); then a First Nations interpretative centre, where members with a rock balanced atop them are formed when a each apple was carefully wrapped in cotton batting of the Secwepemc FN will explain their history, cul- “cap” rock of hard material sits on top of softer sedi- and placed in a wooden packing box, for shipment all ture, and way of life. mentary rock and silt, which gradually erodes, leav- over the world.

A few miles down the road is Ashcroft Manor, ing the harder material perched on top. According to “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” wrote another former roadhouse, built by early settlers Secwepemc legend these markers were created long Shakespeare. It seems no time at all since this sumHenry and Clement Cornwall. The main building by ago by the Old One (Creator) and his main assistant, mer’s series started; I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much the highway is the original roadhouse built in 1863, Coyote, to mark Secwepemc territory. as I have!

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