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Lady curlers hold bonspiel

Workers get reward

Siarah Arndt shows plenty of concentration as she throws a stone during the ladies curling bonspiel held at the Sportsplex last weekend. For more about the bonspiel, see page A11 inside. Photo by Keith McNeill

Danalee Baker (l), United Way executive director for Thompson-Nicola-Cariboo , serves lunch to CanforVavenby employee Hieth Weninger at the sawmill Wednesday, Feb. 24. The lunch was a reward for the division winning the Polar Cup. For more about the story, see page A2 inside. Photo by Keith McNeill

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Map shows the location of a small scale hydro project proposed for Mud Creek east of Blue River. The proponent is seeking an investigative license only. Blue Water Power graphic

Blue Water Power Corporation of Abbotsford is proposing a 15 MW (megawatt) run-of-the-river waterpower project on Mud Creek, which is located east of Blue River.

A referral from the provincial government on the proposed project was received for information by the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board of directors during its Feb. 18 meeting.

Staff would bring the proposal before the board again for resolution prior to a permit being issued.

The proposed power project would be located upstream from Mud Lake and Mud Lake Delta Provincial Park.

In addition, there would be a

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transmission line roughly 15 km long to carry electricy back to the main powerline north of Blue River.

The project proponents are seeking an investigative license that would enable evaluation, sampling and feasiblity studies of the site to assess the viability of water power generation there.

The provincial government indicates minimal disturbance on the land is anticipated during the investigative license stage.

TransAlta has operated a 19 MW small scale hydro plant on Bone Creek, which is about 20 km north of Mud Creek, since 2011.

Many other streams in the Blue River area have small scale hydro projects proposed for them but most are still in the concept stage.

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Friday opening time at Clearwater Library to shift one hour

CanforVavenby wins Polar Cup

Times Staff Hours at Clearwater Library on Fridays are being changed from 1 – 7 p.m. to 12 – 6 p.m.

The shift was approved by the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board of directors during a meeting held Feb. 18.

During the library system's strategic planning process, the public and library staff had requested that hours be changed to better match when people want to use some TNRD libraries.

The request resulted in a survey held at the end of 2015 to gather public input on changing the hours.

The survey results for the Clearwater Library were clear, with 69.1 per cent of respondents wanting the time change on Fridays.

The TNRD board also approved changing the hours for the Lytton Library from Saturdays, 10 – 2, to Tuesdays, 2- 6.

The survey results for the Barriere Library were ambiguous, although it was clear that residents there would like the library to entertain other options for opening hours.

A public meeting will be held in Barriere to get better feedback.

Senior Canfor executives congratulate the employees at Canfor-Vavenby for winning the company's Polar Cup – given for raising the most donations per employee for the United Way of any of the company's divisions. Pictured are (l-r, front) Stephen Mackie, senior vice president operations – Canada; Danalee Baker, executive director United Way, Thompson-Nicola-Cariboo; Steve Planeta, plant manager, Canfor-Vavenby; Samantha Braaten, human resources administrator, Canfor-Vavenby and employee campaign coordinator for United Way; Duncan Smith, regional human resources manager, Canfor; (l-r, back) Chris May, quality control, Canfor-Vavenby and David Ash, sawmill supervisor, Canfor-Vavenby (both are on the employee campaign committee). The event took place during a luncheon for employees on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in the sawmill. The division raised $34,000 for the charity.

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Inset: Canfor's Polar Cup is given out each year to the division that raises the most donations per employee out of all the company. The trophy is named for the company's Polar sawmill north of Prince George which began the competition.

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Community gaming grant going to Yellowhead Community Services Times Staff Yellowhead Community Services Society is receiving a $37,000 community gaming grant from the provincial government, according to information released on Monday.

The grant is part of nearly $25 million in grants being given during fiscal year 201516.

"British Columbians who face challenging personal situations count on the compassionate support of the human and social service organizations in their local communities,” said Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Peter Fassbender.

“Every year, these organiza-

tions receive the largest portion of approximately $135 million in community gaming grants approved by the B.C. government. I commend them for the wonderful work they do to help people in need."

Barriere and District Food Bank is also receiving a grant of $6,500.

Community gaming grants benefit food banks, hospital auxiliaries, hospice societies, wellness providers, service clubs, counselling services and organizations that assist people coping with challenging life situations, including addictions, serious injuries or disabilities.

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nity gaming grants approved in 2015-16, visit: http://ow.ly/ YI6KQ Every year, the government of British Columbia approves community gaming grants distributed among specific sectors, including arts and culture, sport, environment, public safety, human and social services, parent advisory councils and district parent advisory councils. The human and social services sector receives the largest share of annual gaming grant funding.

Over 5,000 local organizations representing virtually every community in the province receive community gaming grants annually from the B.C. government.

Free garbage disposal day coming in April at eco-depot Times Staff Thompson-Nicola Regional District will hold a free disposal day on Saturday, April 23 at the Clearwater eco-depot, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Also on April 23 there will be a free disposal day at the Little Fort transfer station, 12 noon – 4 p.m.

The following day, Sunday, April 24, there will be free disposal days at the Blue River eco-depot, 12 noon – 4 p.m., and at the Vavenby transfer station, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The free disposal days in the upper North Thompson Valley were several of more than two dozen approved by the TNRD board of directors during a meeting held Feb. 18.

During a free disposal day, residents can bring in one free load per household to their local eco-depot or transfer station.

One load is defined as one eight-foot pickup truck box or one eightfoot trailer.

Previously, the maximum load limit for free disposal days was $20. However, this created additional work for attendants plus some users thought they could bring in as much as they wanted for $20.

Last year the rules were simplified so that only one load per household will be allowed at no charge, with one load being defined as a reasonably loaded pickup or utility trailer.

No business or commercial loads will be accepted as free.

Free disposal days are a good opportunity to get rid of items such as cooling appliances, tires on rims, mattresses, furniture, demolition/ construction waste, wood waste, roofing shingles and household garbage.

Dispose of hazardous waste during April The TNRD board also approved a household hazardous waste (HHW) round-

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up for the month of April, to be held at the Clearwater ecodepot and Heffley Creek, as well several other locations outside the North Thompson Valley.

Hazardous waste is material that is labelled corrosive, poisonous, ignitable or toxic. Examples include adhesives, paint thinners, chemicals, cleaners, mercury, antifreeze, herbicides, pesticides, paint, oils and gaso-

line These materials should never be put in the garbage.

However, the majority can be disposed of yearround at all TNRD eco-depots as they are accepted through extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs.

As with the free disposal day, business and commercial waste will not be included in the HHR roundup.

Request for Local Forestry Contractors From the Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation.

The Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation is a local licensee that is presently creating a directory of services and capabilities that local contractors can provide for 2016.

Applicants must have their principal place of business located in Electoral A. All aspects of forestry work are being considered: Development, Silviculture, Road Building and Harvesting operations.

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Recreation officer stepping down Members of Wells Gray Outdoor Club hold a luncheon at Wells Gray Inn on Wednesday, Feb. 24 to honor Elaine Gillette, the former recreation officer for this area with Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources. Gillette, who is now retiring, was instrumental in helping the club develop its Candle Creek cross-country ski trails. Responsibility for the area's recreation sites and trails on Crown land is being taken over by Sandy Mackenzie. Pictured are (l-r) Sandy Mackenzie, Elaine Gillette, WGOC president Wes Bieber and treasurer Hazel Wadlegger.

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Opinion

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“ Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes — obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.” Victor Hugo, writer editorial by tom fletcher

Bowing to the power of judges

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Former Upper Clearwater resident calls for return to old-time philosophy Editor, The Times:

I'm writing in regards to the ongoing conflict over the use of the old Upper Clearwater Community Hall.

I'm going to stick my neck out at the risk of being thought an "outsider" because I feel I have a unique perspective to offer, having lived in the Upper Clearwater valley from my birth in 1955 until the mid1980s.

By the 1950s, I believe the CCF (which had built the hall in the 1930s) had

morphed into the NDP. The majority of the valley's men, through the Farmers Institute, held ownership to the hall.

I guess women weren't considered farmers in those days, even though many of them worked as hard as the men on their respective farms!

Some of the women had formed the Upper Clearwater Women's Institute, which supported the men and was instrumental in organizing most of the myriad of memorable events that took place

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at the hall.

I have extremely fond memories of those times, and I have no recollection of there ever being conflict over who was or wasn't welcome to use the building, whether they were members or not. The hall was simply there for the entire Upper Clearwater community, to enjoy and use as they wished.

Guests from Clearwater and beyond were always welcome, but I'm fairly certain they didn't hold memberships.

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I'm getting the impression that today some long-standing valley residents don't feel welcome to use the hall.

If this is indeed the case, it's a terrible shame, and certainly not what was originally intended.

In my later years in the valley I was a young mother and helped to organize events in the hall. I don't recall ever having to ask permission from the Farmers Institute – it was as simple as picking up the key and going for it.

Everyone in the valley attended, and everyone had a whole lot of fun. Perhaps it's time to revisit that "old-time" philosophy ... all-inclusive, friendly, and simply open to all those who inhabit this beautiful valley I used to call home.

Nancy Shook Lillooet, B.C.

One of the enduring legacies of Pierre Trudeau’s time as prime minister is the legal supremacy of the individual, as articulated in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We are seeing this played out with greater force than ever today, by an activist high court that swatted aside Stephen Harper’s attempts to restrain it, and now orders a meek, politically correct Justin Trudeau government to do its bidding.

The Federal Court decreed last week that people have the right to grow their own “medical” marijuana. This ruling is unlikely to be appealed, given that Trudeau the Younger is committed to legalizing marijuana for everyone.

There are conditions that show measurable relief from marijuana products, such as glaucoma or the nausea and loss of appetite associated with cancer treatments.

But much of the so-called medical marijuana industry is based on unsubstantiated claims about an inconsistent herbal remedy that hasn’t been studied much because it’s been illegal.

The Federal Court case involves four people from B.C., which boasts more than half of the contested medical marijuana growing licences issued across the country.

One of the petitioners suffers from a vaguely defined condition known as “chronic fatigue syndrome,” which led to a disability pension from a federal civil service job at age 45.

The judge cited no research to support the claim that sitting around smoking dope all day relieves this condition. Indeed it defies common sense that a set of symptoms with no identified cause, which might be confused with what we used to call laziness, would be alleviated by chronic consumption of a drug that promotes eating chips and watching TV. But we peasants aren’t supposed to question our monarchs, especially those in ermine-trimmed red robes at the Supreme Court of Canada.

That court has decreed that our charter, which in Section 7 protects the “right to life, liberty and security of the person,”

includes a right to have a doctor’s help to commit suicide.

Euthanasia has been re-branded as “assisted dying” by all the most “progressive” countries, and Canada has been given a firm deadline to join the club.

(Meanwhile, the term “right to life” is all but banned from university campuses, to minimize the risk of a coarse literal interpretation that it means, you know, a right to life.)

A Liberal-dominated committee of MPs and senators has recommended full-throttle implementation, not restricted to terminal illness and including mental conditions such as depression and dementia. The majority suggested even “mature minors” should have this new right.

The politicians support allowing doctors to opt out of cases they won’t condone, as long as they provide a referral to another doctor.

In Belgium, one of the pioneers of this brave new world, most of the growing number of euthanasia patients have had cancer. But as The New Yorker magazine reported in a ground-breaking article last summer, others have been euthanized because of autism, anorexia, partial paralysis, blindness with deafness, manic-depression and yes, chronic fatigue syndrome.

B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake expressed the hope that Canada ends up with a consistent policy on doctor-assisted suicide, rather than a provincial patchwork.

The closest Lake came to politically incorrect criticism was to caution that “deep discussion” is needed around the court’s notion of a “competent minor,” someone not yet entrusted with the vote or access to a liquor store.

Three dissenting Conservative MPs went so far as to say the recommendations don’t adequately protect seniors who might be coerced into checking out and passing on their estates. How oldfashioned.

– Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress. ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

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Question of the Week

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Do you think Justin Trudeau has been doing a good job as prime minister?

Allison Schulte (with Sara):

He's young but he's doing the best he can do. He's human too.

Ken Scheetz:

I haven't been keeping up with what he's been doing but I just don't like the name Trudeau.

Ralph Horton:

He hasn't been given enough time yet.

He's heading in the right direction, to sum it up.

Chuck Gallagher:

Joan Streadwick:

I think he's made promises that he can't follow through with.

Give the man a chance.

He's one of the youngest prime ministers we've ever had. I think some people think he's following in his father's footsteps, but it's early in his term.

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Editor, The Times:

Unfortunately, the good people of Upper Clearwater and surrounding areas have been victims of continued misinformation and emotive untruths.

It is time to set the record straight.

For more than 12 months, directors of the Upper Clearwater Farmers Institute have asked and offered to meet with disgruntled neighbours who have, for their own reasons, decided to leave the UCFI, the Upper Clearwater Community Hall and to make their demands to terminate the ‘lawfully’ enacted grant-inaid that supports the hall.

All requests, offers and attempts to resolve our differences, many made via Area A director Schaffer, (the emails prove it) have been rebuffed.

By the way, we have never been given a list of their grievances or told what they are.

Instead, I have been told by a neighbour that if I and the rest of the UCFI board resign, then he and his friends would rejoin the Farmers’ Institute.

I should mention that the UCFI has democratic elections every year to elect the board of directors.

These are held in a manner I believe subject to Canadian law, documented within the Farmers' and Women’s Institute Act Regulations.

From that board, Institute members elect the president and vicepresident.

As demonstrated at the TNRD board meeting, voting is by a show of hands.

In the spring of 2014, Tim Pennell (then the Area A director) and Tom Dickinson (Thompson Rivers University) kindly adjudicated the voting process at the annual general meeting. At that time, one of those now opposing the grant-in-aid was secretary, another was elected vice-president and a third was elected a director.

Don’t be further misled by claims that this dispute goes back to 2004. Nonsense.

The ‘dispute’ was engineered by a few people who wanted to take over the Farmers’ Institute and the Upper Clearwater Hall for their own reasons.

When they were unable get their own way, (by way of a democratic vote) they left.

Those that walked away from the UCFI and the Community Hall want their own facility in Upper Clearwater and have started to use a TRU building (the former schoolhouse) in Upper Clearwater.

Canada Day celebrations were held at the TRU schoolhouse and there have been various other parties and gatherings.

This new meeting hall is by no means a

community hall. None of the broader Upper Clearwater community knew of its existence or has been invited to any events.

Since director Schaffer's surprise opening salvo on the UCFI and the grantin-aid in February 2015 in the form of a survey, the UCFI has given her full access to the books, shared fact and reasoning as well as answered all her questions with truth and candour.

The UCFI had hoped that by doing this she could, as the Area A director, represent all of us in Upper Clearwater.

You know, any “rift” will mend much faster when director Schaffer stops pouring fuel on the flames and gives both sides fair representation.

At the TNRD board meeting in January 2016, the delegation from Shane McGrath did not represent all the residents of Upper Clearwater. He represented just some residents – not all.

At that same meeting, the UCFI presence was not there to argue in favour of the grantin-aid. The ‘declared’ purpose of the presentation to the TNRD, made on behalf of the UCFI and Upper Clearwater residents, was to thank them for their tremendous support for the hall over the past years with the Gas Tax funding programs.

Further, the UCFI presence was there to ask the TNRD board of directors to continue that support for the generations to come

Wells Gray Community Forest (2010) Society Now accepting Grant Applications $100,000 grant money available Funded by Wells Gray Community Forest Corporation

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by providing a letter to will show again that acknowledge the wonthe residents of Upper BaseJournalRONA2007_Ang 2/26/07 3:44 PM Clearwater want to derful facility that had keep their Community been built, available Hall available for everyto all. I hope director Schaffer’s new survey one.

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Please use the online form. purpose oF the society: To promote the economic and social welfare of the residents of Wells Gray Country (including the District of Clearwater), including the provision of support for the benevolent and charitable enterprises, federations, agencies and societies engaged in furthering these purposes.

Andrew Nelson, president Upper Clearwater Farmers Institute

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YEARS AGO:

The Auxiliary was asking for parents' cooperation in the matter of uniforms for the Central North Thompson Band. Mr. Lambert agreed to stand in for Mr. Shepard when the band only had to play one melody at a function.

Ambulance driv-

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YEARS AGO: Clearwater Improvement District was preparing to get into the garbage collection business. The district would charge tolls to everyone within its boundaries, and then tender out the pickup service. A dump belonging to Clearwater Timber Products was being turned over to the CID, but new ones were

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YEARS AGO: A show of hands at a meeting approved holding a referendum to decide if Area A should have mosquito control. Estimated cost would be $17,000.

The CID requested a meeting with MLA Rafe Mair concerning construction of a new bridge over the Clearwater River.

Improvement district chairman Bill Mattenley presented Jack Foote with a silver tray to mark his eight years of service as a CID trustee.

Liz Clarke of Helmcken Lodge hid behind a cottonwood tree for about a half hour while her two pet dogs battled with a bull moose. She had met with the animal while returning home from cross-country skiing.

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YEARS AGO: The design of a new bridge across the Clearwater River had been completed, reported Reg Small, chairman of the bridge committee. The new crossing for Old North Thompson Highway would allow a straight approach on both sides.

The new bridge would enable a further water supply to the business center developments on the west side, he added.

Clearwater Chamber of Commerce decided to retain its television license, administered by the TNRD parks and cemetery committee.

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YEARS AGO: Clearwater Chamber of Commerce approved a motion to turn over its television license to the TNRD. Paul Caissie, regional district director for Area A, told the chamber that the owners of CFJC had acquired a new site on Mt. Lolo near Kamloops that would allow them to transmit a top quality signal to the Brookfield repeater site.

Little Fort residents met with representatives of the TNRD regarding supporting the community hall through taxes.

Raising $5,000 a year would cost 20 cents on each $1,000 of assessment, they were told.

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YEARS AGO: Members of the RCMP Emergency Response Team surrounded a home on Webber Road in Clearwater following a shooting at a cottage on Village Road. After an all night standoff, a local man gave up without a struggle and was charged with the attempted murder of another local man.

Blue River residents Sonia Dobson, Angie Swan, Rainer Wolf and Lisa Hitchman won medals in luge events at the B.C. Winter Games at Duncan/North Cowichan.

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YEARS AGO: B.C. Parks was seeking public input to deal with an application by the Friends of Wells Gray Park to have personal watercraft in the Clearwater River lim-

ited to a maximum 10 hp motor. The environmental group had made the request the previous summer, stating that jet boats and personal watercraft were incompatible with existing uses such as fishing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming and rafting.

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YEARS AGO: Clearwater SnoDrifters and Clearwater Ski Club combined their efforts to host a hill climb event at the Ski Hill. This was the third year the clubs held the event and the first time it was sanctioned by the B.C. Snowmobile Federation, forming the first competition in a series leading up to provincial championships in April that year.

Licensed practical nurses working at Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital received $13,500 in grants to upgrade their skills in preparation for working in Clearwater's longawaited multi-level health care centre.

TNRD manager of environmental health services Terry Kress recommended the regional district defer a decision on a proposed garbage transfer station in Blackpool. It was predicted at the time that Clearwater's landfill only had enough room to cover material for eight to 10 more years.

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YEARS AGO: Murtle River Nordics hosted its eighth annual Birchleg in Wells Gray Park in bright sunshine and -18 degrees Celsius temperature.

Mabs Allison was honored by the Royal Purple for 55 years of service to the non-profit organization.

Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Kevin Krueger announced

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resurfacing of a 15.8 km section of Highway 5 North starting 19 km north of the Highway 24 junction and extending past Clearwater to the Raft River Bridge.

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YEARS AGO: Forests Minister Pat Bell credited efforts by the provincial government to market lumber in China with contributing to Canfor's decision to reopen its Vavenby division. Bell also credited the Steelworkers union and members of the Vavenby sub-local for working with the company on the reopening.

A total of 119 registered for the 13th annual Birchleg cross-country ski event in Wells Gray Park. Jerry the Moose was on hand to cut a birthday cake to commemorate BC Parks' 100th anniversary.

After Hours Theatre was preparing to present two plays. The community group was rehearsing W.S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth while the after school program was working on an adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

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YEAR AGO: Clearwater SnoDrifters' groomer created excitement as it arrived for the first time at the club's East Raft Cabin on Feb. 8. “Some snowmobilers have been waiting years for this,” said one person.

A total of 15 teams took part in the Ladies Bonspiel at the Sportsplex. The Larissa Hadley rink won the A event.

Clearwater Black Hawks won the 35+ division at the Old Timers Tournament in the Sportsplex, while 100 Mile House Old Sports won the 45+ division. check out your weekly horoscope on line at www. clearwatertimes. com

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TNRD takes centre stage in new video Barbara Roden – Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal Dozens of movies and TV shows featuring many famous actors have been filmed in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD). Now, however, the TNRD has taken a starring role itself, in a promotional video called “The Region of B.C.’s Best”.

The TNRD asked the Thompson-Nicola Film Commission (TNFC) to produce the video, meant to showcase the best and most significant attributes of the TNRD. “The TNRD’s Economic Development, Tourism, and Regional Parks committee first discussed making the video, and then the TNRD Board approved it,” says TNFC Commissioner Victoria Weller, noting that they wanted to create a distinct identity for the Thompson-Nicola region.

“We’re part of the Thompson-Okanagan Tourism Association, the ThompsonOkanagan Porsche Club. When you watch the weather on TV we’re under ThompsonOkanagan. We wanted to show what makes the ThompsonNicola area special, different, and remarkable.”

Weller adds that other regions of the province—such as the Okanagan, Cariboo, and Kootenay areas—have their own distinct identities.

The video is an attempt to put something out there to build awareness of the ThompsonNicola area.

The TNFC was able to obtain some existing video footage from other groups, businesses, and organizations in the region, but had to do much of the filming themselves. Then came the process of editing all the footage together, which took almost five months.

Approving the final version also took some time. “The video was vetted several times: by senior staff, the committee, and the TNRD Board,” says Weller. “We went through several starts, and had to ask questions such as ‘Do we need narration?’”

The vastness of the region meant that not every iconic attraction made it into the sixminute video. “For example, we couldn’t show all the guest ranches in the TNRD, but we showed a few different styles,” says Weller.

The video was produced by Kamloops-based Joy Factory Films, and showcases the TNRD’s attributes, such as culture, tourism, technology, natural resources, and agriculture, throughout its 11 municipalities and 10 electoral areas.

TNRD residents can have fun spotting what was filmed in their area, and see all that the region has to offer.

The Thompson River near Spences Bridge is one of many locations in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District that is spotlighted in a new video.

Photo courtesy of TNRD

Weller says that the video can be used at trade shows and conventions, on websites and social media, by anyone who wants to, free of charge.

“Economic development agencies, tourism agencies, local governments, businesses—we

encourage anyone who wants to share the video.”

“The Region of B.C.’s Best” can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=4j4qFi8lSbo, or by searching “Thompson-Nicola Regional District”.

Merritt RCMP makes first possible contact with fentanyl Michael Potestio – Merritt Herald Merritt RCMP believe they have come across their first fentanylrelated drug overdoses in Merritt.

Two people overdosed at the Coldwater Hotel on Tuesday evening, Feb. 23, and police suspect the synthetic opioid fentanyl to have been involved.

RCMP Const.

Derrick Francis told the Herald the two individuals were given Naloxone — an antidote to fentanyl — by ambulance workers.

He said they told police they were using crack cocaine, but there is no evidence that is the case.

Francis said the antidote that brought the two around only works on opiates such as fentanyl, heroin and morphine — but not on crack cocaine.

The amount of Naloxone needed to treat the two points to fentanyl as the cause.

Francis said police are confident enough that these were fentanyl overdoses to warrant a public safety risk.

“We want people to be aware that it’s

in our community,” Francis said. “We haven’t proven anything yet, but we’d rather be safe than sorry.”

The individuals who were at the Coldwater Hotel were in the same room with others who called for help when the two overdosed.

“Fentanyl overdose tends to be very instant and you’re unresponsive, so you’re just hoping that you have friends around with the wherewithal to call and, yesterday, luckily, there was,” Francis said.

Naloxone is available in take-home kits at various sites around B.C. The closest ones to Merritt are located in Kamloops.

Fentanyl is known to be 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine and has been responsible for many deaths in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island last year.

There have been confirmed cases of fentanyl overdose deaths in Kamloops so far in 2016.

Merritt RCMP staff Sgt. Sheila White said the RCMP are constantly on the

lookout for signs of fentanyl in Merritt.

Francis said that the drug is known to show up laced in heroin — a drug he noted as on the rise in Merritt.

“We’ve had other overdoses recently,” Francis said noting police are starting to hear rumours that there have been a few more.

Francis said police don’t respond to every incident of drug overdoses.

“Some of these people are very well versed in the use of heroin, and they’re overdosing, so it’s something new to them, it’s something different, something stronger,” Francis said.

The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) released

a bulletin last August saying that according to the RCMP, fentanyl is finding its way into the illicit Canadian drug market in two ways.

One is the the diversion of pharmaceutical fentanyl products — primarily fentanyl patches, which are often given to cancer patients to treat chronic pain — from domestic supply and distribution channels.

The other mode is via smuggling fentanyl powder into the country, most notably from China.

Fentanyl powder is either pressed into pills by drug dealers in illicit labs or sold, or mixed with other drugs.

Fentanyl is often misrepresented on the street as the common street level painkiller OxyContin and the

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Appointment Andrew Franklin, Director of Digital Development is pleased to announce the appointment of Laura Baziuk as B.C. Digital Editor.

Laura graduated from Carleton University’s journalism program in 2007. She worked in various newsrooms, including the Peace Arch News, the Province, the Canadian Press, and most recently, CKNW Radio. She spent four and a half years there, as a reporter and anchor, and was sent to Tofino to cover the whalewatching boat capsizing in 2015.

Laura grew up in south Surrey and lives in Vancouver.

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Medical Services Plan premium assistance: Do you qualify?

Ministry of Health VICTORIA - With more people than ever to qualify for assistance with Medical Services Plan premiums next year, B.C. seniors advocate Isobel Mackenzie joined Health Minister Terry Lake to remind seniors to check if they are eligible.

A recent survey by the seniors advocate showed just 39 per cent of seniors knew about MSP premium assistance and 66 per cent pay full premiums when the number should be fewer than 50 per cent.

The Province is also launching an information campaign to help raise awareness with seniors about premium assistance.

"For many of our loved ones - our parents and grandparents - MSP premium assistance can make a difference in their financial picture by reducing the amount they pay each month," said Lake. "Through work by the province's seniors advocate,

we now know many seniors who could be receiving assistance with premiums have not applied.

We want to ensure everyone who could be benefiting from this assistance does."

Budget 2016 announced changes to MSP and premium assistance effective Jan. 1, 2017 which will help lower-income families, individuals and seniors with the cost of living. The Province is investing an additional $70 million annually to enhance premium assistance.

About 335,000 people will see their premiums reduced, and an additional 45,000 people will no longer pay premiums at all in 2017.

"I welcome the opportunity to work with the government to increase awareness of the subsidy for MSP that is available for low income seniors," said Mackenzie.

"When you are struggling financially every penny counts and this subsidy will be very meaningful."

As a result of enhancing premium assistance in 2017, a single senior earning up to $45,000 may qualify for reduced premiums.

A senior couple earning up to $51,000 may qualify for reduced premiums. This translates into a savings of up to $480 per year for a senior couple and $324 per year for a single senior.

"MSP premium assistance can make a big difference for any British Columbian who is in financial need," said Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors Darryl Plecas. "Prudent fiscal planning means we're able to invest in priority programs like premium assistance for the families and individuals in B.C. who need it most including older British Columbians on a fixed income."

A calculator is also available on the government website to help British Columbians estimate whether they could qualify for premium assistance now and in 2017. This can be found at:

https://extranet.gov.bc.ca/forms/ gov/health/msppa.html MSP premium assistance is based on a household's net income, adjusted for age, family size and disability status.

Currently, a single senior can qualify for assistance with net income of $33,000 a year or less.

For a single senior with income less than $25,000, the premium is waived. In 2017, a single senior could qualify for premium assistance with net income of up to $45,000 a year, and pay no premiums with net income less than $27,000. These thresholds are higher for single couples.

A one-time application must be filled out specifically for the premium assistance program.

Retroactive assistance may be provided for up to the previous six years.

Once the MSP changes from Budget 2016 are implemented Jan. 1, 2017, nearly two million British Columbians will pay no premiums.

The premium assistance program is just one support for lower income seniors. The recently released 11th edition of the BC Seniors' Guide provides information on a variety of programs and supports to help seniors in communities throughout B.C. Learn more: For more information on MSP premium assistance, visit: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ health/health-drug-coverage/msp/ bc-residents/premiums/regularpremium-assistance For further information on provincial supports for seniors, visit: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ family-social-supports/seniors The BC Seniors' Guide can be found at: www2.gov.bc.ca/ assets/gov/people/seniors/aboutseniorsbc/guide/bc-seniors-guide11th-edition.pdf For more information on the seniors advocate, visit: www. seniorsadvocatebc.ca/

Court backs home marijuana growers Tom Fletcher – Black Press The Federal Court of Canada has struck down regulations requiring licensed medical marijuana users to buy from Ottawaapproved growers, giving people the green light to continue growing at home.

The ruling is suspended for six months, but the four B.C. residents who launched

the court challenge had their growing licences protected under an earlier interim order. Thousands of people in B.C. and across Canada received licences to either grow pot themselves or designate someone else to do it, before the Conservative government attempted to restrict production to large commercial growers who sent it by mail.

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With the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intent on legalizing recreational marijuana use, Kirk Tousaw, a lawyer for the four, says the latest ruling should "once and for all end the stigmatization and criminalization" for medical users and their providers.

"And in addition, all pending criminal cases against medical cannabis producers,

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This is the 119th anniversary of the discovery of Aspirin (ASA). The original source of the drug, salicylic acid, was the bark of the willow tree, known and used by the Sumerians about 5,000 years ago. Salicylic acid was isolated from this bark in 1763 but it was too irritating to the stomach. Finally, in 1897, the Bayer company in Germany patented acetylsalicylic acid and the rest is history.

People with pets know the joy and comfort they bring to their life and research has shown that they do improve mental and physical health. This is especially true with dogs who take you for a walk every day and help decrease the feelings of loneliness, fatigue, stress and social isolation and even reduce depression.

March is Help Fight Liver Disease Month in Canada. The liver is the largest internal organ and most complex. It’s the only organ that can regenerate itself so someone needing a liver transplant needs only a portion from a living donor. The donor’s liver will grow back to its original size while the transplanted portion will grow to the appropriate size for the recipient.

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We are always encouraging exercise in this column ... usually at least 30 minutes per day, five times weekly. This suggestion is good for those who have a cancer diagnosis. Evidently those who remain active after their diagnoses have a better chance of living longer.

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patients, growers and dispensaries should be immediately terminated," Tousaw told CTV Wednesday. "There is absolutely no reason in this day and age to continue to prosecute people for helping people improve their quality of life with medical cannabis."

Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan ruled that preventing people from growing marijuana for medical purposes violates section seven of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees "the right to life, liberty and security of the person."

The court challenge was brought by: • Neil Allard, 61, of Nanaimo, a former counsellor for Veterans

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• Tanya Beemish and David Hebert, a couple from Surrey aged 29 and 34.

Beemish suffers from type one diabetes and gastroparesis, and smokes or vaporizes two to 10 grams of marijuana a day to relieve nausea, pain, lack of appetite and insomnia. Hebert received a Health Canada license to be

her designated grower.

• Shawn Davey of Abbotsford, 39, suffered a brain injury in a motor vehicle accident and receives a federal disability pension. He held licences to grow for himself and as a designated grower for others, authorizing him to produce 122 plants indoors and store 5,490 grams at the site of production.

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Taking another look at that logging debris Cam Fortems – Kamloops This Week To a hiker or hunter, the row of logging debris lined across a clearcut looks like a mess left on the forest floor, waiting for a match and the right weather.

But a University of B.C. scientist told a gathering of foresters in Kamloops last week the piled windrows of branches, twigs and tops provide a home for small mammals — in some cases more attractive habitat than the uncut forest itself.

“There’s a whole range of species that will disappear from a clearcut,” warned Tom Sullivan, a professor in forest science.

“They’re gone for decades or centuries.”

Sullivan was part of a panel looking at alternatives to the longstanding practice of scraping up, piling and burning debris left over by logging operations.

Alternatives to the practice — which a recent study found contributed to poor air quality in Kamloops in November (when so-called slash piles are burned) — include utilizing it to create power, heat, pellets or even to produce industrial chemicals.

“A whole bunch of that stuff doesn’t need to go into the night sky,” said Walt Klenner, a habitat biologist who moderated the panel at a Southern Interior Silviculture Committee meeting at the

Coast Kamloops Hotel & Conference Centre.

Sullivan outlined a series of projects in the Southern Interior that compared clearcuts, uncut forest and a variety of piling logging debris across clearcuts as habitat for fisher, martin and weasels.

Those predators won’t cross open clearcuts due to threat from hawks and owls above.

But they thrive in windrows, particularly if they are used as a bridge between wildlife forest patches and riparian areas.

Their prey — mice and voles — also thrive in the windrows.

“The windrows are better than the forest,” Sullivan said.

Other foresters made presentations showing there is economic value in what is today treated as waste and burned at roadside. The Thompson Rivers Forest District has undertaken a study to look at value and amount of woodwaste being burned in forests.

Dominik Roser, a research manager at FPInnovations, highlighted success in Nordic countries in which woody debris is used to fire community heating. Twothirds of renewable energy in those countries comes from biomass versus solar or wind power, for example.

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Windrows can offer valuable habitat to small animals, researchers say.

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cally only capture 30 per cent of energy, while those that channel waste heat to local municipal and commercial buildings are 90 per cent efficient.

Panelists said under B.C.’s current tenure system, major forest licencees have no incentive to change their current practice of using the best and burning the rest, warning it will take government regulation in some cases.

ship” in university that provides education on everything from obtaining fibre in the forest to engineering systems that provide heat and electricity in communities.

B.C. is beginning to see more use of woodwaste to create power.

Plants in Merritt and Fort St. James will create energy for the B.C. Hydro grid. But Roser said those plants typi-

New penalties coming to B.C. mine regulations Tom Fletcher – Black Press The B.C. government is adding administrative fines and strengthening permit requirements for new mines in response to investigations into the Mount Polley tailings dam failure.

Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett said the new fines will be available to provincial officials to compel compliance with safety orders, even when inspectors find conditions that are not officially permit violations.

The size of the new fines will not be determined until amendments to the Mines Act pass in the B.C. legislature, but Bennett said they will be in the range

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of what is available in forestry and oil and gas regulations.

Administrative penalties for high-risk conditions in oil and gas operations range from $2,000 to $500,000.

Bennett said such penalties wouldn't have prevented the

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August 2014 dam failure, which was caused by a weak glacial layer under the dam that was not detected when the mine was built.

But they would have allowed inspectors to require establishment of "beaches" to protect the dam from

erosion by water held inside the tailings, or to lower the water level even if it was within permitted limits.

Legislation introduced Thursday also gives the Environmental Assessment Office authority to require different designs for tailings storage at new mines, then to specify which option it will accept for each proposed site.

Bennett said the existing Mines Act gives inspectors only three options to regulate a mine: order it shut down, revoke a permit or prosecute the company.

The changes also increase maximum penalties for prosecution, with maximum fines increased from $100,000 to $1 mil-

lion and possible jail sentences increased from one year to three years.

Mount Polley's owner has spent $170 million so far to restore Hazeltine Creek, which was washed out as a torrent of water and mine tailings poured down into Quesnel Lake. Water monitoring continues at the lake, with water continuing to test within regulations for fish habitat and human consumption.

Two engineering reviews of the dam failure have been completed, with no permit violations discovered. The B.C. Conservation Officer Service is expected to report later this year, and may recommend charges related to damaging fish habitat.

The NORTH THOMPSON COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is now receiving applications for Funding Proposals for projects from organizations within the area from Blue River to McLure.

Organizations should have a Federal Charitable Number, or be sponsored by another group that has a number.

DEADLINE for receiving applications: March 31, 2016

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Application Forms may be downloaded from the WEBSITE: www.ntcommunitiesfoundation.com FOR INFORMATION PHONE: Sandy: 250-674-3774 Hazel: 250-674-1674 • Cheryl: 250-674-3260 FAx: 250-674-3538 or E-MAIL: mikesandy11@hotmail.com Sandy Wetterstrom Grant Committee Chair, NTCF

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Above: Randy Hedlund (second from left) and the other members of the Clearwater Hosers hockey club present Debbie Mayer with $1,300 to put towards the Success by 6 splashpark initiative. The proposed water facility would be located in Weyerhaeuser Park behind the new Buy-Low store.

Photo courtesy of Kim Pendergast

Hosers help Splashpark fundraising Submitted

224 athletes from the Thompson - Okanagan competed at the 2016 BC Winter Games bringing home 92 medals.

Thank you to the coaches, officials, volunteers, and families who support these growing champions.

The Clearwater Hosers hockey club is proud to have the opportunity to support the Success By 6 splashpark initiative.

This donation was made possible by having the strong support of North Thompson men (and a couple of women) who like to be boys (and girls) for a couple of hours twice a week.

The team happily boasts having donated to a number of worthwhile causes over the years, including the installation of a heart defibrillator in the North Thompson Sportsplex, funds for relief of tsunami victims in India in 2005, the Clearwater Food Bank and minor hockey.

All donations are determined through a vote of team members.

The Hosers hockey club meets each Wednesday at 8:35 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m., September – March to play no-hit hockey with most of the emphasis on fun. We welcome all those over 35 to come out and do your knitting in the stands or bring your gear and play! We currently boast players aged 35 to 69 with talents ranging from professional to severe amateur.

For more information, see the team's Facebook page at “Clearwater Hosers Hockey.”

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Ladies Bonspiel at Sportsplex Times Staff A total of 10 rinks took part in the annual Ladies Bonspiel hosted

by Wells Gray Curling Club at the Sportsplex last weekend. Winners were as follows: A Event – 1, Hadley Rink: Left: Curlers (l-r) Cathy Sauer, Mitch Miller, Jennifer Vincent and Kristen Brennen dazzle with their 1970s finery on Friday evening as they take part in the ladies bonspiel at the Sportsplex last weekend. Theme for the bonspiel was the letter 'H', hence the hippy attire.

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Skip Larissa Hadley, third Jan Johnston, second Rowena Muglich, lead Joan Streadwick.

2, Graffunder Rink: Skip Shelley Graffunder, third Leslie Downs, second Lori Redman, lead Kyla Morrison.

B Event – 1, Sauer Rink. Skip Cathy Sauer, third Jennifer Vincent, second Mitch Miller, lead Kristen Brennen. 2, Anderson Rink. Skip Gwen Anderson, third, Lynda Dunkley, second Hazel Wadlegger, lead Carol McNeil.

C Event – 1, Hamilton Rink from 100 Mile area. 2, McJasper Rink from McBride and Jasper.

(L-r) Kristen Brennen (l) and Mitch Miller wear more subdued clothing on Saturday as they polish the ice in front of a stone thrown by Jennifer Vincent. The rink placed first in the B event. Photo by Keith McNeill

“I feel strongly that by listening to people, we are making better project decisions.”

- Lexa Hobenshield, External Relations Manager, Kinder Morgan Canada

For more than four years, we’ve worked together with our neighbours and local communities to hear what they have to say about our proposed pipeline expansion.

By listening closely and having an open dialogue, we’ve been able to create a stronger, safer and more responsive project. We are working to meet all the requirements of the regulators, as well as consulting with communities, Indigenous people, government agencies and municipalities – and we’ll continue to work with them throughout development, construction and operations. We know how critical it is to get this right. Most importantly, we’re acting on what we hear with significant changes to the Project.

How feedback has resulted in a stronger, safer and better project: • • • • • • •

A $100 million investment in the West Coast Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC) for marine safety enhancements.

A commitment to offset any greenhouse gas emissions resulting from construction.

An increase in safety valves along the pipeline from 94 to 126.

An increase in pipeline wall thickness in sensitive areas, such as urban locations and at river crossings.

Routing of the pipeline to avoid 22 crossings at fish-inhabited rivers including the Fraser, upper North Thompson, Albreda, Coldwater and Coquihalla.

Routing to avoid environmentally sensitive areas, such as Cheam Wetlands and three BC Class A parks.

Routing of the pipeline to minimize community impacts to the Westsyde neighbourhood in Kamloops and the Westridge neighbourhood in Burnaby.

For more information, go to TransMountain.com/engagement Email: info@transmountain.com · Phone: 1-866-514-6700

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Sports Recognizing some of the race helpers

Two of the people responsible for the success of the elementary school cross-country ski races held in Blue River on Thursday, Feb. 18, were heli-ski operator Mike Wiegele and Rachelle Brasseur, the teacher at Blue River School. For more about the races, see last week's issue or www.clearwatertimes.com.

Clearwater Hacker #17 Jesse Wallin takes a shot on the Quesnel goal as teammate #16 Ken McKay moves in for the rebound. They were taking part in an Old-timers hockey tournament at the Sportsplex last weekend. Clearwater Blackhawks won the 35+ division while the 45+ division was taken by Winfield.

A total of eight teams took part – three from Clearwater, two from Salmon Arm, plus one each from 100 Mile House, Winfield and Quesnel.

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Old-timers battle on the ice

Three men who helped prepare the new course for the Blue River cross-country ski races were (l-r) Jesse Crawford, Austin Hardy and Dennis Pearce.

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Hacker Brad McKay takes the puck around a Quesnel opponent during Saturday's game.

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Hacker Tyler McGill takes the puck behind the Quesnel net during a game in the 35+ division on Saturday.

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MP McLeod highlights Status of Women call for proposals Submitted OTTAWA – Cathy McLeod, Member of Parliament for KamloopsThompson-Cariboo recently highlighted a new call for proposals entitled Support for Women’s Empowerment.

The Department for the Status of Women is inviting organizations to propose projects that increase women’s participation in democratic and public life.

Projects under this call for proposals will fall under two streams: Stream 1: Empowering Indigenous Women for Stronger Communities will support projects that will empower indigenous women to engage with their communities to address issues affecting them or hindering their advancement in all aspects of life.

Stream 2: Empowering Women for Political and Community Action will focus on two themes: 1) Empowering Women for Political Action will promote the participation of women in political life;

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2) Empowering Women for Community Action will improve conditions for women by amplifying women’s voices and enhancing their civic participation.

The deadlines for applications under this Call for Proposals are: June 1 for projects that fall under Stream 1 – Empowering Indigenous Women for Stronger Communities; and April 20 for projects that fall under Stream 2 – Empowering Women for Political and Community Action.

Please note a second wave of applications received by Nov. 1 may also be considered if there are funds remaining for Stream 1.

Organizations can apply for funding by visiting www.women. gc.ca

Isaac Moilliet entertains at Vavenby Christian Church luncheon Robyn Rexin The monthly potluck luncheon at Vavenby Christian Church was on Feb. 24. Twenty-nine people attended. There was a large variety of delicious food to feast on. People with smiles moved around constantly to visit with each other.

Colleen Rothwell introduced "resident comedian" Isaac Moilliet. His act was all about respect. He impersonated various celebrities such as Marlon Brando.

Moilliet was very funny and had everyone laughing. Some people were saying that they might want to use his skill at future events.

The next potluck lunch at the church will be on March 30, 11 - 2. At this time no entertainment has been announced.

Linda King of the Vavenby Trails and Recreation Society thanked everyone who had come to the Valentine's Day breakfast at the community hall. It was a huge success.

Photo by Robyn Rexin

No more boil water order Vavenby residents were finally notified by the TNRD that the boil water

order has been removed. It has been downgraded to a water quality advisory.

Isaac Moilliet's expressive face takes on the looks of famous people he impersonates during a luncheon at Vavenby Christian Church on Feb. 24.

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That means that seniors, the very young, and those with health problems should still boil their water.

World Day of Prayer March 4 Submitted This World Day of Prayer 2016 article was written by the World Day of Prayer committee of Cuba “Receive children. Receive me.”

Christian Women in Socialist Cuba The national flower of Cuba is the white butterfly jasmine. Cuban women have used the flower not only as an adornment for their hair but also to transmit mes-

sages during liberation wars and as a sign of their being Cuban.

There can be no better emblem for the 2016 World Day of Prayer service written by the World Day of Prayer committee of Cuba.

The service transmits their witness and experience of being Cuban and Christian, even when their faith meant isolation within the country they love.

With the triumph of the revolution, a trade embargo

Clearwater Christian Church Non-denominational congregation in fellowship with the broader Christian community in the area.

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Meeting at: 11 Lodge Drive Wayne Richardson (Pastor)

Sunday Worship Service 10 am On the Web: www.clchch.com For information 250.674.7073 or 250.674.2912

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3083 Capostinsky Rd. • Service 11 a.m.

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324 Clearwater Village Road 1-250-372-2581

by the United States brought Cuba economic isolation and material scarcity. Within Cuba a similar isolation formed around people of faith in the officially atheist state.

Now the embargo is lifting but uncertainty remains for the Cuban people. What can these women tell the rest of the world about how faith endures in a secular world, of material and social challenges, and of hope?

On March 4, 2016

Your places of worship Clearwater Seventh-Day Adventist Church Pastor John Masigan Saturday Service - 10am Clearwater Christian Church Ph. 250-674-3468

TRINITY SHARED MINISTRY Anglican, Lutheran & United Meeting at St. James Catholic Church

Worship Sunday 9am

Rev. Brian Krushel

Office: 250-672-5653 • ntunitedpc@gmail.com www.norththompsonpc.ca

Christians in more that 170 countries and in 2,000 communities across Canada will gather to learn about, pray for, and celebrate Cuba in solidarity with the women of Cuba through the World Day of Prayer.

Please join us and invite your friends and family to attend the World Day of Prayer 2016.

A local World Day of Prayer service will be held at Clearwater Christian Church on Friday, March 4, 2016.

Church Directory Clearwater Living Streams Christian Fellowship Meeting at New Life Assembly every Sunday 4:00pm

Contact Dave Meehan 250-674-3217 email: livingstreams@hotmail.com Clearwater Community Church open to everyone - all denominations

CLEARWATER NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY Dan Daase - Pastor Sunday Morning Worship 10:30am

(Kids church during service) Wednesdays Am Ladies Bible Study

Phone: 250-674-2345

308 W Old N Thompson Hwy

CLEARWATER COMMUNITY BAPTIST 24E Old North Thompson Hwy

Worship Service 10:30

Pastor Doug Spinney 250.674.3624 www.ccbaptist.ca

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Tourism taking off in B.C. “

By Tom Fletcher, Black Press

New direct flights from Paris and Tokyo and a decline in the Canadian dollar helped push international tourism near five million in 2015, a 7.9 per cent increase over the previous year.

A relaunched "Super, Natural B.C." marketing campaign has also proven effective, gaining attention from global tourism publications, Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Minister Shirley Bond said Tuesday, releasing 2015 visitor totals.

Bond hit some of the highlights of the tourism results, showing improved results far from Vancouver International Airport.

The gold rush town of Barkerville

"Super, Natural B.C." marketing campaign has also proven effective, gaining attention

” Marsha Walden, CEO of Destination B.C.

near Quesnel welcomed 60,000 visitors between May and September last year, a 20 per cent increase from the year before.

Sun Peaks resort near Kamloops saw a 20 per cent increase in room nights last July, demonstrating success in efforts to

expand mountain resorts beyond the ski season.

Hotel occupancy was up 8.8 per cent in the province, and restaurants saw a 7.3 per cent increase, said Marsha Walden, CEO of Destination British Columbia.

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largest percentage increase at 33 per cent to 29,000 visitors, after Air France added a direct flight to Vancouver. Visits from Japan were up 15.5 per cent, and South Korea and Mexico visits rose 9.5 per cent.

Visits from Asia Pacific countries rose 4.5 per cent and European visits rose 3.8 per cent.

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Province's new chief forester announced Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations VANCOUVER - Diane Nicholls becomes the province's newest chief forester, Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson said Feb. 26.

Thomson confirmed her appointment and promotion to assistant deputy minister at the Association of BC Forest Professionals Annual General Meeting.

Nicholls, who is the province's 17th chief forester, has been acting in the position since November 2014.

As chief forester, Nicholls is responsible for determining timber harvest levels for each timber supply area and tree farm licence in the province.

Reporting to the deputy minister, she will also provide key strategic guidance and direction on forest stewardship to forestrypractitioners in the ministry and industry.

She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in science in forestry and is a registered professional forester.

She has almost 30 years experience working in different capacities in the forest sector. She joined the B.C. government in 2006 as director of the then Forest Practices Branch and has held positions with increasing amounts of responsibility ever since.

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Thought of the week You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

~ Cecil Baxter

HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

POSTPONED for 2-weeks to start Anyone interested in this program we need a couple more students, awesome opportunity to take training in your own community This 27 week program is designed to prepare the graduate to function, under supervision, as a Health Care Assistant. Learned skills will be applied in the community utilizing care facilities, assisted living facilities and private homes. The focus will be on training the health care worker to assist the older adult in meeting his/her basic physical, emotional, environmental and social needs.

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March 29 – May 13, 2016 • 7-week hands-on program • Opportunity to obtain OFA First Aid Level 1, WHMIS, WorldHost fundamentals, H2S Alive and Foodsafe Level 1 certificates • Training will be experiential using guide sheets and menus to prepare orders. Students will learn to use successful time management. There will be constant supervision to ensure safety and quality of food products.

• All students will participate in setup, menu planning, inventory, budgeting, etc.

• All cook apprentices/students will receive a nutritional education including use of deep fryers, cooking with a balance of protein, starch, and vegetables, make soups from scratch and cook recipes from other countries.

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March 4: Figure Skating Carnival @ North Thompson Sportsplex

March 4: World Day of Prayer, Clearwater Christian Church, info Joan Mumford 250-674-3695 March 5: Volunteer Fair at the Elks Hall, 11am – 2pm. Open to all Nonprofits. For details contact Cheryl Thomas at cheryl.thomas24@gmail. com or leave a msg at 250-674-3260 March 5: Legion Dinner, Legion Branch 259 – 257 Glen Rd, doors open 5 pm, dinner 6 pm. Adults $15; children 7-12 yrs, $6; 2-6 yrs, $3.

March 5/6 & 19/: Clearwater Sno-Drifters Annual Trophy Mountain Ride, Info – Tom Meland 250-674-3228 March 9: National Forest Week committee meeting, info Abbey Bates 250-674-2127 or email 3bates@telus.net March 9: Raft Mountain Skating Club Annual General Meeting, 4-5 pm, NT Sportsplex. Info 250-587-6234 Mar 17-20 - Kamloops Cowboy Festival

March 19: Legion Dinner and live music, 257 Glen Rd, doors open 5 pm, dinner 6 pm. Adults, $15; children 7-12 yrs $6, 2-6 yr

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March 23: Hockey Game. Russian Women’s hockey team vs local players. 5:15 pm @ NT Sportsplex.

April 2: North Thompson Women In Business Expo, at Clearwater Lodge foyer. Info Fay 250-674-2700 or email ntwomeninbusiness@gmail. com April 5: Career and Job Fair, 3-7 pm, Dutch Lake Community Centre April 9: 10th Annual Seedy Saturday, 10am – 2 pm, Clearwater Ski Hill Lodge, info at 250-674-3444, schoolcreekfarm@gmail.com April 9 - True Grit Big “4” Rodeo and Dance. Rodeo 6pm, dance 9pm NT Agriplex, for more information call 250-832-3561 Mt. View High School, Victoria, BC 1966 - 50th Reunion - grads send contact info to mtview1966@gmail.com or call Dave Hutchings 250-477-4505

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT • Indoor Market: Every Saturday May – Oct, 9 am – 12 noon, Elks Hall.

• Tuesday Morning Coffee (TMC): Meets 10am – 11:30 @ Clearwater Community Baptist Church. All women and children welcome.

(9:30-10 am Bible Study). Info 250-674-3624 • Women in Business Luncheon: Last Wed. of the mth at Wells Gray Inn, 12–2 pm. Preregister at 250-674-2700 • Crafts & Conversations with Cheryl. Tuesdays 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at the North Thompson Aboriginal Sharing Center. Phone 250674-3703 for more info.

• Clearwater Farmers’ Market May – Oct. Saturdays 9am– Noon. For more info please call Anne at 250-674-3444.

• M&M (Mrs. & Ms.) Social. Last Sun of the mth Wells Gray Inn. 1pm: 250-587-6503 • Blackpool Community Hall Coffee House; Local musicians – 2nd Fri. of the mth. 6:30pm. Concession, $3 or 2 for $5.

• Clearwater Elks Bingo - 2nd & 4th Wed. Elks Hall 5pm, Info call Phyllis 250-674-3535 • Cribbage Wed. at the Royal Canadian Legion. 12:30 pm.

• Fun Darts Fri. at the Royal Canadian Legion. 6 pm.

• Upstream Community and Heritage Society open house Tuesdays: 9am-9pm @ Avola School House, various activities. Info ph Fay 250-678-5302.

• Thompson Valley Quilters. Meet 2nd Wed. and 3rd Mon. of the mth at NTAC in the DLCC, 9 am - 4 pm. Info Linda 250-674-3437 or Dorothy 250-676-9270 • Vavenby Needle Arts Group. Meet every Tues. 11am - 4pm at Vavenby Community Center. Info Dorothy 250-676-9270 CHILDREN & FAMILIES • Racoon StrongStart - Raft River Elem school days Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 8:45-11:45am • Racoon StrongStart - Vavenby Elm school days Wed 8:50-11:50am • Clearwater Breastfeeding Group: 3rd Wed. of every month 7:30pm @ YCS • Mother Goose - Monday mornings, reg. Kerry 250-674-3530 HEALTH & HEALING • Hospice Grief Support: 3rd Thur of every mth, NT Funeral Home 1-3 pm, info 250-674-2400 • Shambhala Meditation Group: meets every Tuesday at Forest House 6:30-8:00 pm. Info: 250-674-3233.

• Connections Healing Rooms - Wed. 1-3pm (except stat. holidays).

86 Young Rd. No charge. Sponsored by Living Streams Christian Church. www.healingrooms.com.

• Healthy Choices – Tues 9am Clearwater Christian Church bsmnt (behind Fields). $2/wk drop-in free. Kim 250-674-0224 • Clearwater & District Hospice 3rd Mon. Sept-Jun 10am Legion 778-208-0137.

RECREATION • Drop-in soccer: May-Sept. Tuesdays & Thursday at 7pm at CSS field.

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• Bowling: Mon. 10–12pm & 1-3pm; Thurs., 1-3pm. Seniors Centre at Evergreen Acres. 250-674-3675 • Clearwater Sno-Drifters: 1st Thurs every mth. 250-676-9414 • CNT Rod & Gun Club: 3rd Tues. of the mth. Blackpool Hall 7pm Nov., Jan., & Mar. AGM in May • Volleyball: Winter, dates TBA, at Clearwater Secondary School Gym, $2 drop in. Info: 250-674-1878.

• Youth Group: ages 12-18, Fri. 7-10 pm Dutch Lake Community Center, arts & crafts, gymnastics, games & special events, info 250674-2600 • Yoga Tree – Call or email Annie 250-674-2468 annie.pomme@ hotmail.com • Core Strength Fitness. Tuesdays. 10-11am 250-674-0001 • Badminton: Mon & Wed, Oct – Mar, CSS gym, 7:30-9:30 pm, $3 drop-in fee, info 250-674-2518 • Drop in Basketball: Winter, dates TBA, $2 drop in at Clearwater Secondary School Gym. Info: 250-674-1878 • Slo-Pitch: Clearwater mixed Slo-Pitch league May – July. Contact Carmen Archibald 778-208-1773, 250-674-2632 • Drop in Soccer: June -Sept, tues and Thurs, 6:30-8:00 PM, CSS field, $2 drop in, grade 8 to adult SENIORS • BUNCO: 3rd Tue of every mth, Dutch Lake Seniors Drop-in Centre, 1:30 – 3 pm, info 250-674-2400 • Wells Gray Country Senior’s Society 3rd Sun Social Meet at the Wells Gray Hotel at 12:30pm for lunch or dessert, & chat • Wells Gray Country Senior’s Society Book Club Last Thursday of the mth 2pm at the library. All seniors welcome.

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Conservative McLeod outspent all others en route to election victory Cam Fortems – Kamloops This Week Re-elected Conservative MP Cathy McLeod increased her campaign spending last year by about 70 per cent compared to the 2011 federal election, according to information filed by Elections Canada.

Candidates are required to file financial statements after the election.

Those statements show McLeod spent $171,000 in the run-up to the October election, one of the longest campaigns in Canadian history.

That compares to $96,000 McLeod spent during the 2011 election and $82,000 she spent in her first campaign in 2008.

Thompson Rivers University political scientist Derek Cook said it is part of a trend toward higher election spending.

“It had to do with the length of the campaign,” he said. “We’re seeing a trend for more and more money needed and used by politicians to get elected.”

Second in campaign spending was New Democrat Bill Sundhu, who spent $159,000 and finished second in the four-way race. Green candidate Matt Greenwood, who finished fourth, spent just $1,700.

Liberal Steve Powrie, who finished third, has yet to file.

Final results in November’s election had McLeod with 24,595 votes, Sundhu with 21,466 votes, Powrie with 21,215 votes and Greenwood with 2,489 votes.

Under legislation brought in by the former Conservative government, campaign finance rules favour individual donors who give small amounts. Large donations from corporations and unions are not allowed.

The bulk of campaign spending is for advertising. Despite the higher amounts allowed in 2015, candidates spent far below the $271,000 cap.

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Obituaries IN LOVING MEMORY

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Cecile Gallot 1936 - 2016

On Saturday, January 16, 2016, the Angels came to take Cecile by the hand peacefully, with her family by her side. Cecile was born at Eastend, Saskatchewan on April 1, 1936. She grew up and attended a little school called Fairwell Creek. She married Len Gallot in 1956 and they farmed in Saskatchewan until 1966. Then they moved to Vavenby, BC with their five children. Cecile loved to ride horses and tend to the cows.

She was a teacher, school bus driver, a cook and a business woman. However, her true love was her family and the farm.

Cecile was predeceased by her husband Len, her parents, brother Lewis, son Gary in infancy and brother-in-law

(granddaughters Tara and Lindsey); Cindy (grandchildren Kyle and Jenna); sons Bruce (grandsons Randy and Kohl) and Larry (granddaughters Lawrinda and Shawna). Cecile also leaves behind 11 great grandchildren.

Goodbyes are not forever Goodbyes are not the end They simply mean I’ll miss you until We meet again.

Bud Dovel.

Cecile leaves behind daughters Debra (grandsons Robert and Ryan); Gloria (Len)

There will be a celebration of Cecile’s life by her family and friends to be held at a later date. Arrangements entrusted to Drake Cremation & Funeral Services, Clearwater, BC, 250674-3030

IN LOVING MEMORY

Theresa (Terri) McIntyre Aug. 9, 1953 - Feb. 21, 2016

Theresa (Terri) McIntyre died peacefully on Feb. 21, 2016 at Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital with her children and partner Jim by her side after an unexpected and brief illness.

Terri was predeceased by her parents Norman and Elsie Hundspedt and her husband John McIntyre. Terri is survived by her siblings Ted, David, Carol, Margie and Elva. She also leaves behind her three children: Craig (Alysha), Angelene (Mike), Deanna (Luke), and Kale (Darlene) as well as her eight grandchildren: Colby, Wyatt, Rylan, Preslie, Jaxen, Joey, Jed and Reggie.

Terri was born Aug. 9, 1953 in Vancouver, B.C. but lived her life in the North Thompson Valley, where she raised her children, made

many close friends and started her career. Terri's kids were everything to her. She loved her family passionately and unconditionally. Her kids learned from Terri to work hard and to play often, to laugh and to love, to tell the

Assisted living rules to be eased

truth even when it hurt and to remember to forgive. They learned how to keep a clean house and to balance a cheque book, how to plant a garden and to feed a family. They learned that there is always time for laughter and a chat, and that a little common sense goes a long ways. Terri was very proud of her children and she was blessed to be their friend as well as their mom.

Terri worked at Evergreen Acres in Clearwater, B.C. for 30 years. She had an amazing ability not only to provide phenomenal care for the seniors but also to use her humor and wit to establish an everlasting friendship. Her strength and compassion made her an excellent caregiver.

Terri will be tremendously missed by all; family, friends, clients and co-workers.

B.C. is preparing to make it easier for seniors to stay in assisted living longer before moving to more costly residential care.

Health Minister Terry Lake said amendments will be presented in the current legislature session in response to recommendations

by Seniors' Advocate Isobel Mackenzie.

Terry Lake "One of the things Black Press photo she has found is that sometimes people are declined in 2014-15 in three of five inappropriately placed in residential health regions, Northern Health, care when they could be in assistVancouver Island and Vancouver ed living longer." Lake said. "We Coastal, despite increasing senior have somewhat rigid regulations populations. around who can stay in assisted livShe said reductions in meal ing before they have to move on to preparation, bathing and houseresidential care." keeping can also lead to seniors Mackenzie's January report also moving from their homes to care found that home care worker hours facilities.

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“The grant kick-starts a child's education and soon even more children will be eligible."

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in B.C., along with a parent or guardian.

Families have three years to submit an application for the grant when their child becomes eligible.

As well, through Budget 2016, government is investing $39 million to extend the BCTESG to eligible

children born in 2006.

The families of these 40,000 additional eligible children will be able to apply for the grant later this year.

Since the launch of the B.C. Training and Education Savings Grant in August, more than 9,000 applications have been approved for a total of $8.1 million in grants.

B.C.'s credit unions, with more than 350 branches, were the first major financial institutions to offer the BCTESG. For more information on the B.C. Training and Education Savings Grant, call 1 888 2763624 or visit: www.gov. bc.ca/BCTESG

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