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Constantia moving ahead to Phase 2

Bonaparte elders John Pierro, Leroy Antoine and Ralph Sandy congratulate Constantia Resources Ltd. president Steve Hodgson (second from left) last Spring on the company’s start up in the region. The company just announced that it will be starting Phase 2 later this year.

by Wendy Coomber Constantia HDI is looking for workers, suppliers and contractors to help them complete Phase 2 of their drilling exploration next month.

The exploration company has new property in the 16 Mile area to take core samples from, plus it plans to do more testing on the property it already holds.

Jason Quigley, Executive Vice President for Constantia HDI said Phase 2 will likely start in October, but they’re still looking for employees who will be trained on the job.

“During the last phase, we had 30-40 contractors,” he sid. “We’re hoping to have more during this phase.”

He said the operation will be on the same scale as the first phase, but over a shorter period of time. He expects Phase 2 to last two to three months.

The results of the copper and molybdenom testing confirmed the historical data recorded in the 1960s.

“We want to examine how far the data extends,” he said. “It’s kind of like an underground treasure hunt.”

Quigley said what they do in Phase 3 will depend on the results of Phase 2.

They’d hoped to start Phase 2 this Spring, but financing took longer than expected.

“We’re exactly where we’d hoped to be at this stage,” he said.

Five candidates for Oct. 19 Ashcroft and Cache Creek residents will be voting in the federal riding of Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Valley on Oct. 19, and they will have a choice of five candidates.

Conservative candidate Brad Vis lives in Abottsford. He has been diligently working to develop and promote new opportunities in the agribusiness sector.

Liberal candidate Jati Sidhu lives in Abottsford and is the current CEO and president of the Sidhu Group, which focuses on housing and business development. See more information at www.jatisidhu.liberal.ca NDP candidate Dennis Adamson is director for Electoral Area B in the Fraser Valley Regional District.

Green Party candidate Art Green lives in Hope. He has worked in the forestry sector as well as oil and gas. He now runs his own bookkeeping and income tax firm. See more information at www.greenparty.ca/en/candidates/bc Independent candidate Wyatt Scott (Mission) owns and operates a small manuracturing business in Mission. See more information at www. wyattscott.ca

Federal candidates for Mission Matsqui Fraser Canyon, L-R: Liberal Jati Sidhu, NDP Dennis Adamson, Green Party - Art Green, Independent Wyatt Scott and Conservative Brad Vis. Photo: Anne Sjoden

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Local Black Powder event still going strong NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 86 and Section 175 of the Community Charter that the Council of the Village of Ashcroft proposes to borrow funds by way of financing through the Municipal Finance Authority (MFA) for a replacement primary fire engine.

The amount proposed to be borrowed is not to exceed $500,000. The amount borrowed will be paid back over a term not exceeding 20 years.

The area to which this Alternative Approval Process applies is located within the Village boundaries.

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by Wendy Coomber There’s a lot that goes on in the hills around Ashcroft and Cache Creek that not too many people know about.

The Black Powder competitions aren’t a secret, they’re just... a little peculiar.

Ken Brown is vice president of the local South Cariboo Sportsman’s Association (SCSA) and director for the Black Powder event. Along with Jim Moon, 80, the two men form the gun club’s Black Powder group.

“It’s something I’m very passionate about,” says Brown, also known as Mountain Man 49 at Black Powder events. “We have a council fire and everyone sits around it and tells stories.

It’s great to let all the modern stuff go.”

There are provincial competitions

as well as national ones, and regulars who attend as many events as they can.

In fact, there is a 10 day national event at Heffley Creek, the Black Powder Rendezvous, which has been an annual event since 1985.

Brown says the Black Powder groups keep in touch with each other.

The Black Powder Association of BC is very active. Apart from the local Thanksgiving Shoot, his favourite event is Heffley Creek. He’s also been to events in Quesnel, Prince Rupert and Merritt.

The SCSA is hosting its third annual Black Powder Thanksgiving Shoot on Oct. 9-11 at the gun range above the Cache Creek Landfill.

Brown says it’s a family affair in the Black Powder tradition. They’ll be using Black Powder rifles, pistols, tomahawks, knifes and wooden bows and arrows in Mens, Ladies and Juniors categories.

The event has grown each year, he says, with as many as 52 participants coming from Sept. 4-6: Twelfth annual Lytton River Festival.

BC and Alberta. Last year a Free event featuring music, arts, crafts, plays, and much more. www.riverfestival.ca young competitor from Prince George, 10 years old, showed Sept. 13: Ashcroft & District Fall Fair, 10am-5pm everyone how to throw the at Dryland Arena tomahawk and knife.

Sept. 13: Ashcroft Annual Show and Shine from “Some of these guys, they 10am to 2pm, Heritage Place Park. take it to heart,” Brown says.

“We dress up in our garb, our Sept. 19/20: NHRA King of the Track! Last race leathers and hats. There are weekend of 2015 for Eagle Motorplex on Hwy 1 south of Cache Creek. people who camp NOT using modern things. I hope the fire Sept. 20: Terry Fox Run. Starts at 9am with ban’s been lifted by then or signup just prior to that, Heritage Place Park they’ll be eating their supGazebo. 2km, 5km or per cold. We have a primitive 10 km -- walk, run, bike ... whatever you enjoy. camp and a tin camp (trailers).

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They love living the lifestyle that mountain men and women Every Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm. The Cache lived.

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shoot,” he says. “We don’t do any damage, we just have a good time.”

Brown says he saw the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972) in the 1980s and decided he wanted to be a mountain man. He says he got to have coffee with the star of the movie, Robert Redford when he was in Ashcroft shooting An Unfinished Life in 2006. “I told him how much of an influence he’d had on my life,” he said. “I think he got a kick out of that.”

Brown says he has the movie on CD and tape and still watches it several times a year to get re-inspired.

Spectators are welcome to attend the Thanksgiving Shoot, and that includes anyone who may have questions about Black Powder or be thinking of joining the club. He says the gates at the gun club will be open for the weekend.

One event that’s more geared towards spectators is the trapshooting at the clubhouse because of its stationary nature. It will get going around 2 pm on Saturday afternoon. There will be muzzleloaders as well as hammered rifles at this event. There will also be traders present over the weekend, selling items like flints and clothing.

Participants rack up points throughout the event for their clothing, for their skill in the events. The points count towards prizes and overall title.

One of the events is a trail walk with 21 different stations for the various weapons. One of the targets is a blade of straw. Some people think that a Black Powder rifle is not an effective rifle, says Brown, but he has used it to bring down big game. He has also sliced playing cards in half at events with his rifle.

Weapons can be purchased at most hunting and outfitter shops, he says, but they tend to the expensive side and they require a lot of maintenance. The clothing is made to order by a lady in Heffley Police Telephone #s Creek, but you have to supply the skins.

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Crime Stoppers “I like to think 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) that it’s not a trend,” says Brown. “If two Interior Roads people here can make it work, either you’re 1-800-842-4122 into it or you’re not.”

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Open House draws a crowd

by Wendy Coomber Twenty-five people crowded into the small upstairs office of the Ashcroft Museum on Aug. 28 for a presentation on Ashcroft’s early Chinese population.

Ashcroft had a Chinese population of over 700, many of them former CPR workers who came north in the late 1800s after working on the Trans Continental in the U.S. Fifteen thousand Chinese worked on the CPR for $6 per month. Approximately four Chinese died for every one mile of track laid.

Ashcroft had one of the largest

Chinatowns in the west. Resident Loyd Wongs recalled the strings of fireworks that used be be hung from the Nabob building to Campbell’s Ice Cream Parlour for Chinese New Year.

In 1925 the cannery opened and many Chinese farmers focussed on growing tomatoes. The cannery held 30,000 cans of tomatoes to be shipped out.

The Wing Chong Tai Co. had large market gardens behind their store and delivered fresh vegetables to their customers. The Wing Wo Lung Co. operated a large orchard and sold fresh fruit.

Doctors top question list

by Wendy Coomber Ashcroft Council has accepted an invitation from Interior Health’s CEO Dr. Robert Halpenny and board chair Erwin Malzer to meet with them at the Union of BC Municipalities annual convention in Vancouver later this month.

Besides the regular business goes on at the convention, municipal representatives have the opportunity to meet with politicians and representatives of many other quasi-political bodies as well. Interior Health’s invitation was extended to all municipal and regional district politicians in the IH area.

Council had to submit a list of topics to be discussed and a list of councillors who would be attending the Sept. 21 30-minute meeting.

Doctor recruitment, suggested Coun. Al Mertens at an Aug. 24

committee meeting, “and what happens if that becomes not likely in the near future.”

Emergency hours, said Coun.

Barbara Roden. “A lot of people are convinced that cutbacks in the hours are a precursor to everything being closed,” she said.

“At WHAC’s meeting last month there was no nurse at the nursing station,” said Mayor Jack Jeyes. “It was disappointing. In my opinion, if we’re looking at improving nursing services, now’s the time to do it before the new doctors arrive.”

“Nurse practitioners?” suggested Roden.

“E-medicine?” contributed Coun. Doreen Lambert.

“I’d like to know how unavailability of doctors will affect our lab and imaging departments,” added Coun. Mertens.

TNRD battles grasshoppers

by Adam Williams Kamloops This Week Ken Gillis has seen firsthand the scourge of the grasshopper.

Last year, it was a field in Ashcroft, a ruler-straight line marking where the healthy, green alfalfa gave way to the grasshopper-ravaged crops.

This year, Gillis, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District’s Area L (Grasslands) director, has seen the pests destroy properties in Pritchard and take over land across his region outside of Kamloops.

“In some areas of our regional district, certainly in my area, the grasshoppers have reached plague proportions,” he said.

It’s the plague of the grasshoppers that has Gillis seeking a meeting with Minster of Agriculture Norm Letnick at next month’s convention of the Union of B.C. Municipalities, in hopes of reinstating the Grasshopper Control Act. Gillis said the Act, which was repealed in 1998, applied a grasshopper tax to rural areas where the pests had been shown to be a problem. Money collected each season by the provincially managed pro-

gram gave landowners the resources necessary to deal with the insects in problem years.

“It strikes me that, because of that, it should be self-funding,” Gillis said.

“I can’t imagine why it was repealed in the first place.”

Without the Act, Gillis said landowners are left with little recourse for managing growing grasshopper populations, which can easily get out of control in drought-like conditions.

Throughout the summer, a number of Alberta counties have declared agricultural disasters because of minimal rain and largerthan-normal grasshopper populations.

Gillis hasn’t yet sought the support of other regional districts, but will, if necessary.

“I remember reading about the locusts in the drought years of the 1930s and the damage that was inflicted on the Prairie provinces,” Gillis said.

“I can understand it now,. I’ve seen it with my own eyes,” he said.

“They can absolutely devastate an area.”

The early history of Ashcroft’s Chinese residents drew a small crowd to the Museum’s open house last week.

Dog Park recommended by committee

by Wendy Coomber The six-member Off Leash Dog Park (OLDP) Select Committee of Council presented their final report to Council, concluding that a dog park would be beneficial to the Village of Ashcroft.

The park “would be beneficial to many people: not only residents, but visitors,” said the report. “It would tie in with Ashcroft’s ‘Wellness Awaits You’ brand, and increase our attractiveness to potential residents and visitors.”

Several of the members were present at Ashcroft Council’s committee of the whole meeting on Aug. 24, including Coun. Barbara Roden who steered the committee.

The group, she said, met several times over the summer, visiting and studying other off leash dog parks.

“It’s difficult to prove a need,” she said, “but the general feeling is, if you build it they will come.”

She said the committee determined that dog parks bring people together and add a sense of community. It would also be a draw to tourists who plan their travels around places which offer dog friendly facilities.

A dog park would be a safe place for Ashcroft dog owners to let their dogs off leash, she added, and would be a good place for dog owners with mobility issues, enabling them to let their dogs off leash to get proper exercise while providing these dog owners with a chance to sit and socialize with others.

Roden said there are already “several de facto dog parks in town,” including one that doesn’t allow dogs. The

feeling of the committee is that a a dog park would alleviate traffic in these other places.

They recommended against a multi use park, saying that their research into other dog parks concluded that most were single use and definitely not a place for children.

The group recommended that a Stewardship group be formed to be responsible for the park, and it would be this group who would enter into discussion with the Village about the eventual use of the north end of the lower pool park for the dog park.

This group would also look for ways of funding it.

“This would make use of a currently underutilized piece of park land,” said the report, “with minimal impact on those who do use it, if the soccer posts can be moved to the other end of the field. It would impact few residences, and would not impede students on their way to school via Western.”

Of the seven sites the committee looked at, the north end of lower pool park seemed to be the best location. The original proposal asked for the south end.

“Who’s going to police it?” asked Coun. Doreen Lambert.

Based on their research, it would be the people who use it, said committee member Kitty Murray. “We think it would mean more dogs would be licensed if they wanted to use the park.”

Member of the public, Gloria Mertens asked how many people they expected to use the park.

Roden replied there were 112 dogs licensed in Ashcroft last year, but there were cer-

tainly more than 112 dogs in town. She said they spoke to people who said they’d never heard of dog park plans but thought they might use it once it was available.

Mertens asked why they discarded the idea of placing the park on the Dunes.

Roden said it was the potential for residential development that eliminated the Dunes.

Committee member Jessica Clement added that the Dunes would take the most amount of physical labour to turn it into a park.

The pool park is close to the Assisted Living units, said Murray. Many of those residents have dogs but can’t walk them for long periods of time.

The park, she said, will also be attractive to tourists.

Other areas looked at included Legacy Park, the former rodeo grounds, the ‘cemetery’ site on the mesa, and the elementary school grounds.

The report also suggested raising the cost of dog licenses.

Ashcroft currently charges $5 per year for a license for a spayed/neutered dog, and $20 for an unspayed/unneutered dog, and these rates have not been undated since 1990. Cache Creek and Lillooet charge $15/$30 said the report, while Kamloops charges $30/$65. “An increase in costs, with a portion going to an OLDP Stewardship group, would seem in order.”

“The Stewardship group should have a plan setting out a timeline, funding initiatives, and a proposal for a formal agreement with the Village regarding the construction and maintenance of an OLDP,” the report recommended.

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Learning isn’t limited to schools Summer vacation is over and school is back next week. Can you believe it?

I am not going to say Where has the summer gone?, but I know you’re all thinking it.

It started with a bang on May 23 for people in Cache Creek, and then a quick progression to full blown drought and heartbreaking wild fires. I wonder if anyone has had a peaceful summer.

Thinking of how we react to the end of our own summer holidays, we expect students to reluctantly give up their summer freedom for the classroom.

Au contraire! As any teacher can tell you, the first day of school is usually a happy occasion for most as students meet up with old friends and relish a day of relief from two months of nothing to do. Or worse - summer jobs!

There are smiles everywhere you look, faces bright with expectation.

I always looked forward to going back to school. Learning was never a chore, although I was never a fan of homework, and some days were better than others. Math sucked; English rocked! The universe was an open book in those days.

And we didn’t even have computers!

No World Wide Web (www.). No Google.

No smart phones. I remember my Grade 2 teacher took the time during one class to teach us all how to use a telephone - rotary dial. Sometimes I kinda miss the whirling clicking noise those dials use to make.

How did we ever survive? I wonder if I could have accomplished more if I’d had access to the information that our children have now, but I doubt it. The latest issue of Mad Magazine was enough of a distraction - surfing the internet would have been the end of my days in the classroom.

But these days I welcome that “distraction”. Thanks, in part, to the internet, I continue to learn. I’ve taught myself to sew something I skipped as a teenager. I’ve reacquainted myself with music and headed off in a different direction.

I still ask myself: What am I going to learn today? because learning keeps us moving forward and open to new ideas. It’s not contained to classrooms anymore.

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There may be a new dynamic in this election

by Mark Rushton Abbotsford News In most Lower Mainland federal electoral districts, the First Nations vote is relatively insignificant. Not so in the new riding of Mission-MatsquiFraser Canyon.

It wouldn’t surprise me if aboriginals represent the largest ethnic bloc in the riding; their numbers large along the north bank of the Fraser from Mission to Agassiz and perhaps the majority in the Fraser and Thompson canyon areas.

First Nations are also predominant in communities such as Lytton, Ashcroft and Lillooet so if a candidate in this riding wants to win, he (only “he” candidates are running) best be courting the native vote, because Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde is urging all indigenous people to get out and cast a ballot.

There are 51 electoral districts across the country where First Nations can make the difference, and MissionMatsqui-Fraser Canyon is one of them. “(These) ridings can make a difference between a majority and a minority government. People are starting to see that,” Bellegarde told a general assembly of the AFN in Montreal recently.

“Show that our people count. Show that our people matter. Show that we can make a difference. Show that our

issues will not be put to the side.”

If that battle cry is taken up, what might have been seen as a relatively safe Conservative seat elected by Abbotsford and Mission residents will be up for grabs.

Bellegarde also points out that native youth are the fastest growing segment of Canada’s population, and he obviously wants them, along with the rest of First Nations to be heard loud and clear this election.

I’m also certain that Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, who has long been a powerful voice in B.C. politics and First Nations relationships, will be mobilizing the vote, particularly in those ridings in our province where natives can make a difference.

Along with the electoral district in which I live, B.C. ridings targeted by the Assembly of First Nations include five on Vancouver Island, two in central B.C., one in South Okanagan/Kootenay and two in Surrey.

Only one has an incumbent Conservative, seven have no incumbent running.

And lest anyone dismiss the potential electoral strength of First Nations, remember they have been recently empowered by the so-called Roger William decision that granted historic land title to the Nemiah band of the Chilcotin, along with other court decisions that now require governments and any-

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one else to “consult and accommodate” them.

Such massive projects as the Site C power dam on the Peace and Petronas’ LNG plant near Prince Rupert also await First Nations approval or rejection before they can attempt to proceed.

Aboriginals, long overlooked in Canadian politics, now certainly have the potential to become an electoral force.

It’s anyone’s guess at this time if Bellegarde’s call to ballot box arms will resonate with First Nations to cast ballots in greater numbers than ever before, but if I were running in Mission-Matsqui-Etc. I’d certainly be out there combing the reserves (with permission, of course) for votes.

From what I can gather, the current government is not held in the highest regard by First Nations leadership, while both Mulcair and Trudeau have committed to improving relationships should either form government.

One way or another, the Assembly of First Nations wants to make a breakthrough in a culture that has traditionally shied away from federal and provincial politics.

I think they may just do that this time around, and conceivably have a significant role in who will represent me, and everyone else, in Ottawa come October 19.

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Thank you for community support Dear Editor To the beautiful town of Ashcroft, your outpouring of support in my time of need fills my heart with so much love and gratitude. Thank you all so much for contributing to a mother and son in a time of need.

Cecilia de Groot Ashcroft

Peaceful protest is a democratic necessity Dear Editor Protest takes many forms. The violent forms we watch on our TV screens that seem to take place almost weekly, are, to write an understatement, counter productive.

The peaceful demonstrations that have taken place over the last three or four generations, protests that included hundreds of thousands of persons, achieved enormous progress in terms of civil rights, education, and freedom. Indeed, if it were not for peaceful protests, the world would be a lot less desirable place to live.

Recalling Gandhi in India. Mandela in South Africa. Dr. Martin Luther King in the U.S. The dozens of Anglican clergymen in S. Africa who were jailed because they broke the Apartheid law.

The authors who wrote novels of revelation about conditions in their respective countries, a form of protest in their own way. Alan Patton’s Cry The Beloved Country and Nadine Gordimer’s novels revealing how peaceful behind the scenes activity of white and black, helped achieve the goal of freedom from the yoke of a system that made itself pariah to the rest of the civilized world. All were protests of one kind or another.

I don’t see peaceful protest as something to excoriate. On the contrary.

To upbraid a single senior who stands with a sign reminding us of a medical situation in this community, and assume a righteous posture of defense for those doing what they think best is, well, it’s kind of sad.

The loss of a functioning hospital where babies were born, operations performed, the list of doctors in our waiting rooms who would provide service for us, these are losses that have had a profound impact. For those of us who’ve lived long enough here to have seen the

COMMUNITY deterioration, decade after decade, because of the decisions of those the Wellness Coalition is negotiating with year after year, is it any wonder that people are asking questions?

I am relieved to hear that plans are being made to have doctors from Lillooet visit Ashcroft on a rotating basis, and that nurse practitioners are being considered.

I’m sure many of us are grateful for these efforts.

In the meantime, let’s not be so defensive that we find the peaceful demonstration of one of the finest men in this community, cause for telling him he could use his time for better things.

Esther Darlington MacDonald Ashcroft

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Backyard grapes stolen from senior Dear Editor I have given a lot of thought to writing this letter. I would like to warn the good people of Ashroft that times are changing and we no longer can go off and leave our homes unprotected by locks and vigilant neighbours.

My husband and I are senior citizens and he is unwell. I had to take him to the R.I.H for a CT scan on Sunday, Aug. 16. when we returned home I took a peek at my grapevine that was getting close to picking time only to discover to my wondering eyes that every bunch of grapes was gone.

If you know anything about grapevines you will know that it takes several years before you will have a full crop.

They take a lot of work in those years and much T.L.C., and this was our year for a big crop [we thought].

Someone had entered our yard and stole every grape even though they were not totally ready for picking yet. They must have thought they could make wine with them. If they had only stolen a few bunches we may not have noticed but they didn’t even leave us a taste. The grapes were probably wasted as these are not wine grapes they are table grapes and I don’t think anyone could have eaten that many before they went bad.

I really hope that you enjoyed them because if you had left them another week they would have been much better tasting.

Pat Brown Ashcroft

Community should have chosen name

Desert Sands for the renovated school.

It is not too late to listen to the people and include them in this endeavor. The name Desert Sands is not etched in stone and it could be reviewed.

Please consider the ridicule that you could easily be subjecting our students to when they travel representing our communities in athletics, as well as any other co-curricular or extracurricular activities. It certainly would be difficult identifying the name Desert Sands Community School, with Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Spence’s Bridge, Loon Lake, Walachin, 16 Mile, 20 Mile, Upper Hat Creek or Back Valley, all areas that while they are semi-arid, bear little resemblance to an actual desert.

I do understand that many retirees travel to the desert regions of the southwestern United States to escape the cold of winter and are often referred to as “Snow Birds”, but our youth are certainly not ready for such pursuits. They would much prefer, snowmobiling, snow-boarding, skiing and hockey, activities not often found in the desert, however very accessible to our area.

Dear Editor This week we are approaching the end of summer and I have decided that it was time to appeal to the members of the board of trustees SD 74 Gold Trail, especially those from the outlying areas who are not directly affected by the renaming of the school in Ashcroft. I ask you to consider what you might do if you were confronted with the dilemma of having to name a school within your community.

I hope that you would seek input throughout the community, not only through the school websites but through the local media, such as the local newspaper, and radio station, as well as handouts given to students, to be shared with parents and the community at large. I would hope that you would invite the community at large to a meeting, enSee LETTERS on p. 6 abling them to express their views, and that it would happen far earlier in the process than the renaming of Ashcroft Secondary School did as it transitioned from a secondary school to a K-12.

For a community like Ashcroft, a notice in the post office and at Safety Mart would have certainly given the community a greater opportunity to participate in the process. We must remember that while the school is primarily for the students, it is used by many other local groups, and therefore should reflect the will of the entire community.

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Friday morning kicks off with a stroll along the Fraser at 8:30 am after meeting at the Visitor Centre. The Farmers Market opens at 10 am Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Visit the Museum at 3pm for story telling - Lytton Legends. Have dinner at the Legion, 5:30. The Pernell Reichert Band takes to the stage at 5:30 and starts off an evening of music, capped off by Ritchie and the Fendermen at 9pm.

Start Saturday morning off with a Pancake Breakfast at the Parish Hall.

8-10:30am. The Festival officially opens at 10am with a Lytton hand drum welcome. The Welcome Booth opens at 10:30am and signals the beginning of many activities including live music, Gold Country’s new geocaching releases, the Two Rivers Art Show (11-6), Mr. Bubbles the Clown (noon-3 pm), Circus West performances, magic shows and workshops (13:30pm), and the climbing wall (2-4pm).

Spiritus Mundii takes the stage at 2 - 8, 2015 5pm, followed by Ten Souljers at 7:30. They’ll stop for the Fire Dancer performance at 9pm and resume playing at 9:30.

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World music comes to Ashcroft Sept. 6

Rio Samaya thrilled crowds at the Spences Bridge Desert Daze Music Festival last week, they are coming back to play a few shows in the area.

UniTea Tea Room presents the Rio Samaya Band - a special and magical night of uplifting world folk music and dance with influences from around the world on Sunday, Sept. 6. Doors at 6:30pm - shows starts at 7:30pm.

Rio Samaya (Pancho and Sal) are based in Vancouver. Their compositions reflect the influences of flamenco and other folk rhythms.

Born in Argentina, Pancho moved to Europe as a young man to play guitar. He traveled throughout Europe, learning different styles of music and writing original compositions. Sal, born in England and raised in Canada, met Pancho in Cuzco, Peru. With their children grown up, Pancho and Sal spend much of their time traveling, seeking out new sounds and styles and playing their music around the world.

Over the last two years Pancho and Sal have created “The Rio Samaya Band” with the concept and project to tour Canada and the world as a duo and join with local musicians using the Rio Samaya Band Signature. Joining them from Ashcroft will be bassist Kirk Watson and percussionist Jan Schmitz.

Rio Samaya Band has already played with incredibly talented musicians across Canada, as far away as Beijing and most recently Goa in India.

Their style flows through the folkloric traditions of Central and South America. The audience in Ashcroft will get to hear musical selections inspired

by Pancho and Sal’s latest travels to India, Mexico and the Netherlands.

Tickets at the door or reserve your by calling (250) 453-9345 - limited to the first 30 people only.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Throughout my travels this summer, as I have shared the new school’s name with people both in Canada and the US, I have not heard one positive comment regarding the name. Most of these people have no affiliation with our community or school district. Both young and old alike have asked the same question, why that name? The only answer I can give is that our school district trustees have chosen it.

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Bee Inspired at the Ashcroft Fall Fair Sept. 13

Everyone loves a fair. Sample a variety of food on the grounds, catch some of the live entertainment, visit with the animals on display or take a stroll through the various exhibits and entries. There is something for everyone.

This year’s volunteer-run Ashcroft Fall Fair will be held on Sunday, Sept. 13 from 10 am - 5 pm at Drylands Arena. With this year’s theme in mind, Bee Inspired!, the Fall Fair booklet can help you decide on what you’d like to make and enter. It can be viewed online at www.ashcroftfallfair.ca .

The entertainment lineup promises to have something for everyone. The Fair Stage runs from 10:30 am to 4 pm.

Acts throughout the day include John Kidder and friends, Kamloops Old time Fiddlers and Filetta Fish.

Up next for WRAPS - My Fair Lady and Concert Series

WRAPS has had a very busy but fun summer presenting a stellar lineup for this season’s Music in the Park, along with being a major sponsor and supporter of the third Annual Ashcroft Wellness Festival, the Spences Bridge Desert Daze Music Festival, the Ashcroft Plein Air Paintout, and the Fine and Dramatic Performing Arts Camp for kids and teens.

The Society would like to thank all of the patrons in Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Spences Bridge and the Thompson-Nicola Region for supporting these successful activities.

There is more great entertainment being queued up for the Fall and Winter seasons, including the classic musical theater production of My Fair Lady in November; The Nautical Miles, a rollicking seven piece folk/rock band; a Vegas-style tribute to an incredible vocal stylist (Eva Cassidy - How Can I Keep From Singing); The Crimson Rich Duo with their beautiful music performed on Celtic Harp and cello, and a virtuoso presentation of classical piano music by award winning artist Sarah Hagen.

WRAPS will also be reaching out to the citizens of Cache Creek by hosting two of these events in their town.

WRAPS has entered into an agreement with the Elders and congregation of the Crossroads Pentecostal Church on Stage Rd. to present two musical shows in this wonderful facility. For those who have not been in this building, it is an ideal venue for presenting music and artistic performances - with a large stage, stage lighting, musicians green room, an overhead AV display, and 32 channel sound board along with seating for up to 300 souls, a large kitchen/ dining area and spacious lobby.

They are absolutely stoked about the upcoming play and the Winding Rivers Concert Series. Please check out this website (www.windingriversarts. ca) and our Facebook page for more information about dates and times and ticket prices.

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by Wendy Coomber beans and deciding Do you sip or slurp how to bring the flayour coffee in the vours out,” Durksen morning? Can you desays. tect the earthy taste of The small spea good Sumatra? or cialty roasters favour the chocolaty afterthe lighter roasts that tones of an Ethiopian? bring out the unique There is much more flavours of the bean. that goes into a good “Most people are used cup of coffee than just to dark roast,” he says. beans and water.

“In the specialty cofThere’s an unfee industry, we call assuming little buildthat ‘Starburnt’.” ing on Vista Heights He picks out the in Ashcroft that looks lighter coloured beans much like a garden from a batch of their shed with a chimfreshly roasted brethney. The smoke rising ren in the cooling tray from it smells more - they’re called Quaklike burnt grass than ers because they reburning firewood. sist the roasting proWhere there’s cess for whatever reasmoke, there is David son. He says a study Durksen roasting cofby expert tasters fee. showed they devalued After seven years Dave Durksen picks through a batch of the price of a pound of freshly roasted coffee, picking out unroasted of roasting and study- beans. (Top Left): his roasting shack overlooks roasted coffee by 15 ing coffee, Durk- Ashcroft. per cent. sen has it down to a While growing, ing and lowering the temperfine art. But the crethe bean is contained ation of art isn’t a smooth pro- ature, speeding up the process inside a fleshy fruit called cess. The day that I visit him in and then slowing it down. His the cherry. There are differhis roasting shack, he is divid- laptop contains roasting pro- ent methods of processing the ing his time between his laptop files for all of his beans, and if bean once it’s been picked. computer and his Ambex batch he doesn’t pay attention as the Ethiopian beans go through seconds tick by, he could over a semi-wet process where roaster.

“The coffee bean is a roast and waste two pounds of the cherry is soaked and ferchemistry test tube,” he says, perfectly good beans. It takes mented, after which the skin “and you’re creating a chem- him about six hours to roast 30 and pulp is removed. Sumaical reaction inside the bean. pounds. tran beans use a dry process Today he is roasting a blend - everything is dried first and You’re converting cellulose into sugar and bringing out the of Ethiopian and Sumatra for then put through a machine flavours the bean has pulled up The Packing House in Spen- to remove the dried skin and ces Bridge. It’s a little tricki- pulp. from the ground.”

Durksen roasts 15 types er than normal because he has Too much chaff is a probof coffee, identified by their adjust his timing to account for lem when roasting because it country of origin. He wants to the drought in Ethiopia that catches fire inside the roastchange the chemical compos- left the beans with less mois- er and burns the beans. High ition inside the bean by rais- ture than normal and the mon- quality beans minimizes the soons in Su- chaff. matra that He roasts four varieties of had the op- decaffeinated. Decaf is made posite effect. by soaking beans in water that It takes pre- caffeine has been added to, and cision timing, then running an electrical curbut he man- rent through the water to draw ages it. out the caffeine. He says he Durkroasts his decaf first while the sen takes the roaster is still heating up. Afbeans up to ter soaking, the decaf beans the first crack are redried which makes them and lowers more fragile. They need a lowthe temper- er roasting temperature or else ature.

He they turn to dust.

Sept. 8 (Tues) & Sept. 10 (Thurs) doesn’t want Barometric pressure is anStart up on Sept. 8 to bring the other factor that affects the oil out be- roast. He says he asked an6:00 pm for 8 to 12 years cause it other roaster about it, and they 7:30 for 13 & over makes the said they’d purchased their Ashcroft Community Hall bean go ran- own weather station to track cid quickly the pressure.

AGE: when it hits “I roast any time,” he says.

Practice Times 8 years & over the air.

“I just adjust the roast profiles Tues & Thurs FEE: “My real by spring/fall, summer and 6:00 - 7:30 pm $35 per month love is dowinter.”

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TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Many fun things are expected to unfold this week, Taurus. With so many people to see and errands to run, try to make some time to relax so you don’t fall victim to fatigue.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 You have a desire to take in the great outdoors this week, Gemini. Enjoy boating, swimming or even just lounging around a lake. You will return home feeling recharged.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, expect to expend a lot of energy sorting out your calendar and getting things organized this week.

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LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Goals and friendships at the workplace evolve this week, Leo. This may be a time of new beginnings for you, and you find yourself enjoying all the new opportunities.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, this week you will learn to work with any limitations you may have instead of feeling boxed in by them. There is much you can accomplish when you give it a try.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you have a number of items on your plate right now. It may seem overwhelming, but if you work though things one task at a time, you will get through it all.

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CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, you are feeling confident and capable this week. Things at work are moving along smoothly, and you can focus more of your attention on affairs at home.

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PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, take a measured approach to tasks this week. Do things in moderation so you can make progress with all of the projects on your plate.

Thursday, September 3, 2015 The Journal

COMMUNITY

Community club prepares for another season I think I’m slowly coming out of the daze….Desert Daze and Tomato Red Movie daze all had the summer flying by – and suddenly here we are preparing for Fall.

The Desert Daze Festival went very well this year; I’m hearing lots of comments that indicate that it was the best festival in six years. There was such a diverse mix of music, many vendors with a wide variety of goods, and enough folks to give off a nice festive atmosphere! Thanks to all who attended – I hope you enjoyed it! I simply cannot express my gratitude enough to all those volunteers that worked tirelessSome of the audience members at this year’s Desert Daze get ready to enjoy the Honky ly to make it all happen!

Many folks from Ashcroft Tonk Dilettantes. bership dues ($2) must be paid before and other areas really helped folks can run and/or vote. Please come to supplement our own Spenand consider a position on the execuces Bridge small but dedicattive. The SBCC needs some new voled group – all your help is very in Spences Bridge unteers and fresh ideas! We put on a much appreciated! Of course lot of fun events – Bingos, Halloween we wouldn’t be able to put on party, Christmas Bazaar, Fall dance, this Festival without the generMavourneen New Years, Easter Picnic and egg hunt, osity of our sponsors. I’d like to Varcoe-Ryan Desert Daze, and we have applied for thank Canada Heritage Grant, another New Horizon’s Senior’s grant.

Cantex, Second Time Around, If we are successful in receiving the Teck, Belkorp, CN, Winding out all that there is to offer. Harvest grant, there will be lots of activities for Rivers Arts & Performers Society, KGHM International, TNRD, time is really here, and there are lots of all our Elders and Seniors. Hope to see Frontier Power, ASC Automotive, vendors selling their bounty. There are lots of faces new and familiar on WedCook’s Ferry, The Packing House, Ar- also plenty of arts, crafts, baking, and a nesday, Sept. 9 at 7 pm in the hall. row Trucking, Ashcroft Timbr Mart, trove of second hand treasures!

The first Bingo of the Ashcroft Safety Mart, People’s Drug Mart Lytton, Lytton First Nations, fall will be held on Sept. 7 in Work World Ashcroft, Rocky Moun- Clemes Hall on Hwy 8. Doors taineer, Little House Lodge, Fraser Open at 5:30, Game starts River Expeditions, Kumsheen Rafting, 6:30. Loonie pot $50. Come Make Children First, and Community out for some fun. There will be Futures! I hope I didn’t leave anyone a concession selling snacks.

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Our AGM is Sept. 9 and out – my apologies if I have.

Joyce West The SB Farmer’s / Flea Market con- elections will be held for all tinues through to October every Sunday executive positions for both Here we are at the beginning of Septem10 am – 2 pm in Clemes Hall. Check the hall and TV society. Member. So, Ladies and Gentlemen, are you all revving up your engines to be ready to go when the Seniors Centre opens up on Tuesday Sept. 8 at 12.30pm for Carpet Bowling? Card games will start up after bowling at about 2pm. Bingo starts up again on Saturday, Sept. 12.

On Sunday, Sept. 13 you can visit our table at the Fall Fair. Have you any ideas for different avenues you would like to see us pursuing?

If so, come and see us and we’ll see what can be done - we are open to suggestion! For a toonie you can have an afternoon with friends old and new, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and a tasty bite or two. Where else could you find such a good deal?

Some of our members recently attended the Seniors’ Games in North Vancouver. I have not been able to get any results yet - my fault! - but i am sure they were all good competitors and came home with medals and, more importantly, good memories.

We also look forward to seeing members old and new at our business meeting on Thursday, Sept. 17. At noon we have a potluck lunch and then the business meeting starts at 1pm. After the meeting we have a refreshment break for tea or coffee and goodies, then we go on to whatever you would like to do. There may be some surprises in store, so do come and find out what they are. You can be sure of a warm welcome, so come and bring your ideas with you!

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Fall Craft Sale has Clinton crafters buzzing STRIKING A BALANCE Susan Swan 459-2224 or 2325

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Soap Box Derby Postponed

Steve “Elvis” Elliott at the Wellness Festival

Due to unforeseen circumstances the Clinton Soapbox Derby that had been scheduled for Sept. 12 has been postponed. It will take place some time in October. Time and date will be announced. That gives you more time to work on your entry.

Inter-faith group started It seems like so many things come a community of worshippers. have happened since our third An- And we would like to invite all nual Wellness and Music Festival other faith traditions to join us. Are this July. It was a fantastic event there any Muslims or Buddhists or with “Elvis”, aka Steve Elliott, other faith traditions practicing in headlining the event and other lo- our communities who are interestcal and imported musical groups. ed in being part of this event? We’d Remember Company B Jazz En- love to have you join us! semble? They were a fantastic We will be meeting again in group of Vancouver musicians and September to begin that part of our were much enjoyed by the people journey together, as well as at least in attendance as were Flat Busted two more times before the Spiritfrom Spences Bridge and Richie ual Gathering next July. Please call and the Fendermen from Lytton.

250 453-2022 for information and We organize a great variety of the meeting date, and let’s move musical acts and workshops and and grow in Love together! wellness and children’s’ activities Martina Duncan at this Festival which is a free event for all Miyagishima, Makoto (Mak) who attend. Chris the Nov 3, 1923 - Aug 23, 2015 Clown was a big hit with the children and Mr. Makoto performed for them Miyagishima of Ashcroft, BC three times throughout passed away that Saturday. There peacefully of were many activities, age- related too, in the Children’s complications at the Nikkei Home tent that Jessica had in Burnaby. He organized for their enwas 91 and was joyment and painting predeceased by with Jo is always a hit! his devoted wife Hisayo in 2005.

And then there is He leaves sons Edward (Calgary) and Dennis the Spiritual Gath(Kamloops); Siblings: Etsuko Horiba, Kazuko ering that happens Takei, Fumiko Watanabe, Akira Miyagishima on the Sunday mor(Japan) and Tadashi Imai (Los Angeles). ning of the FestiMak was a long-time resident of Ashcroft val. We have people and known in the area for his beautiful, from the First Naproductive garden at the top of Tingley Street. During his career, he worked in tions, the Hare Krishthe orchards of Vernon, sawmills in the na, the Baha’I and area, railways with CP and then mining several Christian comat Bethlehem Copper where he retired. munities who come Throughout his life, gardening was his together to plan and pleasure where the fruits of his labour were shared with the community. His longevity celebrate the spiritual speaks to his generosity and active life component of wellwhich included his other favourite pastime, ness. It is a well-refishing... especially for salmon and steelceived and lovely exhead at Spences Bridge. perience worshipping The Miyagishimas extend their thanks to in the outdoor setting. the staff in Ashcroft health care, the Nikkei Home in Burnaby, the Thompson Valley And it is followed by Funeral Home and to all friends who have Steve singing a set assisted over the years. of Gospel music that The family would like to postpone a Elvis made famous. memorial tea and will be announced at a To deepen our future date. spiritual community, we are planning to gather throughout Thompson Valley Funeral Home Ltd. the year to get to know Ordinary people. Extraordinary care. our traditions and be250-453-9802 ~ 1-800-295-5138 liefs better and to be-

I have also been told that Cache Creek has challenged Clinton in the soapbox derby so come on Clinton. Let’s show Cache Creek how it’s done!

Communities in Bloom

The Clinton Communities in Bloom Committee met earlier this week to plan new projects for the coming year while waiting to hear how they were judged this year - that will be announced at the national CiB awards banquet in early October. This year it’s being held in Kamloops!

The committee meets at noon on

the first Wednesday of each month in the Clinton Council Chambers if anyone would like to join or see what this group is all about.

Fall Craft Sale

The Clinton Fall Craft Sale is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 24 in the Memorial Hall. Area crafters are asked to contact Susan Swan for information by phoning 250-459-2224 (during regular business hours or leave a message to get a return call) or by emailing sscountrysquire@gmail.com Space is limited and previous vendors will be given first chance to book a spot.

Community Volunteer Groups The Royal Canadian Legion #113

301 Brink St., Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0 Phone: 250-453-2423 Fax # 250-453-9625

South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society

601 Bancroft St. Box 603, Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0 250-453-9656

Ashcroft and District Fall Fair Contact Person: Janna 250-457-6614 Contact Person: Jessica 250-457-7128

Ashcroft Soup’s On

Sage & Sand Pony Club

District Commissioner: Marcie Down mleedown@yahoo.ca.

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Rotary Club

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Desert Spokes Cycle Society Phone 250-457-9348

Ashcroft Curling Club Phone 250-453-2341

St. Alban’s Anglican Church Hall, 501 Brink Street Tel: 250-453-9909 or 250-453-2053 - All Welcome

Ashcroft & District Rodeo Association

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Ashcroft Volunteer Fire Department

Ashcroft/Cache Creek Volunteer Chapter Phone 250-374-8307

Ashcroft and Masonic Lodge Zarthan Lodge No#105 Contact Person: Fred Dewick

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Ashcroft & District Tennis Association Contact Person: Maria Russell Martin Phone 250-453-9391

Ashcroft & District Lions Club

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Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Assc.

601 Bancroft St., Ashcroft, BC Phone 250-453-9762

The Ashcroft & District Health Care Auxiliary Thrift Store

601 Bancroft St., Ashcroft, BC Phone 250-453-9944

347 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corp Contact Person: Lt. (N) Curran 250-319-3461 Alexine Johannsson 250-453-2661 email: darrin.curran@cadets.gc.ca

Ashcroft Communities in Bloom

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Taoist Tai Chi Contact Person: Danita Howard

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Ashcroft Hospice Program Shirley 250-453-9202

Winding Rivers Arts and Performance Society 250-453-2053

Canadian Red Cross - Health Equipment Loan Program (H.E.L.P.) Ashcroft Hospital - 250-453-2244

Desert Bells Handbell Choir Carmen Ranta 250-457-9119

Sage Sound Singers Adult Community

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Cache Creek Volunteer Fire Department Phone 250-457-9967

South Cariboo Sportsmen Assc. #3366 Attn: Marian Pitt, Box 341, Ashcroft BC V0K 1A0

Soccer Association Contact: Tom Watson

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Thompson Cariboo Minor Hockey Association Contact: Lewis Kinvig 250-457-7489 Lewis@thompsoncariboominorhockey.com

Historic Hat Creek Ranch Contact: Jack Jeyes

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Kinsmen Club of South Cariboo Contact Person: Dave 250-453-9062

Cache Creek Recreation Society Contact Person: Jackie

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Bridging to Literacy

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The “Purpose of Sunday” Car Club President: Tom Lowe 240-457-6564

SCI Thompson River, B.C. Chapter Ken Brown - Phone: 250-453-9415

Ashcroft Yoga Group

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Second Time Around

201 Railway Ave., Ashcroft BC Anne Bonter 250-457-9781

Cache Creek Market and Cache Creek Garden Club Marcie Down 250-457-9630

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Unconventional roasters ized adjustments for things like that, he says. They come with a lot of different features and can roast from three ounces to one pound at a time.

Durksen’s Ambex can roast three and a half pounds, or two kilos, at once. The roaster came with the business that he bought from Ed van Thienen in 2008.

“Roasting coffee had been a bit of a passion of mine for decades,” said van Thienen. “I built my first coffee roaster out of a scrap bread maker.”

After that he considered going to an open fire, “but it was too dangerous for Ashcroft.” He researched articles on the internet and bought a hot air popcorn popper.

“It held only two ounces at a time,” he said. “It was too small. I like things big!”

The bread maker roasted two pounds at a time.

“I get into these things and go really fast,” he laughs. “People tell me I go overboard on everything I do. Then there was the chicken rotisserie - was a really good one because it looked like a real coffee roaster!”

He said he built a drum around the spit to hold the coffee beans and could watch them going around.

From there moved on to the family Beans from p. 10

barbecue. He could roast five pounds at a time. “The quality was outstanding but hard to control for consistent batches.” And the weather could be cold and unpleasant. Once he tried moving the barbecue into the house, but he says that didn’t turn out so well.

He purchased the Ambex and used it for two and a half years before selling it to Durksen.

“I’m just grateful that someone with David’s passion came along and said ‘I want it’,” he said. “I’m ecstatic that a non-coffee drinker not only took on the business, but became a mas- Some of Durksen’s coffee beans, before and after roasting. ter roaster!” taste, dark and sugary; Ethiopian usualThe other key to bringing out the taste Durksen offers local tastings from time to time, also known as ly has flowery notes and chocolaty after- in coffee is having the right ratio of cof“cuppings,” and can talk enthusiastically tones; Costa Rican usually has a fruity, fee to water, with the water at the proper and intimately about the farms where his berry flavour. It all depends on how the temperature. These will always give you a great cup of coffee, he says. How great beans come from. He’s even visited a few sugars form in the bean.

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