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VALLEY NEWS

Alpine guide hospitalized after Bugaboo accident

By Paul Clarke The Fitzhugh Editor’s note: This story has been reprinted with permission from The Fitzhugh newspaper in Jasper.

What began as a relatively routine ascent to the top of Pigeon Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park, quickly turned into a fight between life and death for Ryan Titchener, one of Jasper’s most experienced alpine guides.

Around 8:45 a.m. on July 15th, Mr. Titchener and his girlfriend, Tereza Turecká, were making their way along the west ridge of Pigeon Spire when a 300-kg boulder came loose, crushing Mr. Titchener, severely injuring the 32-year-old Jasperite.

With 14 broken ribs, a collapsed left lung and two damaged vertebrae, he immediately knew something was seriously wrong.

“The first thought that went through my head was that I was paralyzed,” recalled Mr. Titchener, from a hospital bed at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, where he is recovering.

“It was really hard to breath, I could tell I had broken a lot of ribs and my lungs were filling with blood, but I didn’t fully know the extent of my internal injuries.

“The fact that I’m alive is unbelievable.”

Considered a relatively modest climb, the pair were in British Columbia so Titchener could practice his guiding skills ahead of his exam to become a fully certified Canadian alpine guide, a life-long goal of his.

“I was one month away from what I consider to be a 10-year journey. Everything in my life I’ve done up to this point was to take that exam and it sucks it’s going to be taken from me, but if I fight hard and Ryan Titchener’s helmet like- get better than I’ll have a ly saved his head from being chance to take it again.” crushed by a 300 kg boulder.

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“Essentially, I was there to train and get ready for the exam so I was treating my girlfriend like a client and mock guiding her up the mountain.”

After hip belaying Ms. Turecká down a relatively short scramble, he started making his own way down the loose rock when things took a turn for the worse.

“As I was down climbing I made my way around this large boulder, which was up and to the right of me and I just happened to touch the boulder with my hand to kind of use it to support my weight as I stepped past it and the whole thing just let go,” he said.

“I could not believe this thing moved. That boulder sat there for 11,000 years and thousands of people have walked by and touched it and it never moved and all of sudden I just happened to move it.”

Watching all of this unfold was his girlfriend, who was only a few metres below him at the time.

“The boulder smashed right into my back and into my chest and rolled right over me,” said Mr. Titchener.

“My head went face first and smashed into the rock below and completely shattered my helmet.

“I should be dead. My head should have been crushed.”

Conscious throughout the entire ordeal, his body tumbled nearly 10 metres down the mountain before eventually coming to a standstill, metres from where his

girlfriend stood — albeit hanging upside down with life threatening injuries.

“I stopped rolling because one of my feet got wedged in a crack and my harness got hung up on a bit of a horn,” said Mr. Titchener.

“I was hanging in this really awkward, semi-hanging upside down stance with a crushed chest and a broken back and I instantly realized I was paralyzed.”

Recognizing what had just happened, Ms. Turecká immediately jumped into action using her first aid skills she’s honed as a ski patroller at Marmot Basin.

“She instantly went into ski patrol mode and I think that was a huge part of why my life was saved,” said Mr. Titchener.

After assessing his mental status and checking him for head injuries, she managed to get him into a more comfortable position using backpacks to prop him up on his side and strapping him down so he wouldn’t slide further down the mountain.

“I was in the most pain Tereza Turecká (left) sprung I’ve ever felt in my life,” re- into action using her first called Mr. Titchener. “I just aid skills as a ski patroller remember yelling to her to at Marmot Basin to stabilze Titchener immediately after get the radio out.”

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Turning it on, Ms. Turecká began yelling, “Mayday, mayday Pigeon Spire” into the radio.

Laying there hoping someone — anyone — heard their cry for help, they anxiously stared at the radio waiting for a response.

To make matters worse, the clouds quickly began closing in on the pair, pelleting them with rain and hail.

“When I saw that green light come on I knew there was going to be a good chance we were going to make it out of here alive,” recalled Mr. Titchener.

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Golden RCMP received an activation from the International Emergency Response Centre. The device is registered to a non-local male however no further information was available. The GPS location provided was 50 44`28.86N 116 46`48.108W. The beacon is able to send and receive texts however there was no response to texts sent. Golden and Columbia Valley Search and Rescue were notified and Golden Search and Rescue responded. At 6 p.m., Golden Search and Rescue advised that the male had been located and that he had set the beacon off by accident. He did not require any assistance.

• On Friday, July 29th at 9:09 a.m., RCMP were dispatched to a report of a dairy van spilling milk on Highway 95 in Edgewater. Police attended and spoke with the driver, who explained he was driving southbound and swerved to avoid a deer as he was entering the sharp curve in Edgewater. In doing so, crates of milk pushed against his side door (which doesn’t have a hold down pin, only a relatively flimsy fridge latch) and forced the door open, dropping the crates that were pushing on the door. Police conducted traffic control to allow the driver to pick up his debris. The highway department was advised and attended to put something on the road as the milk made that sharp curve slippery.

Weather conditions were good as the sun dried the milk pretty quickly. No damage to the truck, no collision.

• On Friday, July 29th at 2:36 p.m., RCMP were dispatched to a report of a break and enter in the 700 block of 10th Street in Invermere. The local female complainant reported the 2nd door to this commercial

space had been pried open and $30 had been taken out of the cash register. The incident would have happened between Thursday, July 28th at 10 p.m. and the 29th. This happened shortly after it was posted on Facebook that the organization using this space had raised around $8,000 with their last fundraiser. Police attended, took pictures, called on their forensic identification team and continue to investigate this incident.

• On Saturday, July 30th, an off-duty Columbia Valley RCMP member was following a black pickup truck, which was driving up Athalmer Hill and drifted over the centre line, causing a second vehicle travelling down the hill to swerve in order to avoid a head-on collision. This second vehicle ended up driving up on the concrete barrier to avoid a collision.

The pickup truck got so close it struck the driver side mirror of the second vehicle. The off-duty police officer followed the pickup truck into the Canadian Tire parking lot and confronted the driver as the officer felt they wouldn’t have stopped for this incident. An onduty uniformed member was called, attended the scene and spoke with the female driver of the pickup, who admitted to talking on her cell phone and drifting into the lane, but didn’t think that she was that far into the lane. Other than her admission, there was no evidence to support a distracted driving charge. The off-duty member issued two tickets under the Motor Vehicle Act for Speeding and Fail to Produce Driver’s Licence.

• On Monday, August 1st, a female complainant phoned the RCMP to report a road rage incident. She was driving on Highway 93 into Radium Hot Springs with three motorcycles following her, and tailgating her. At one point, they threw a water bottle at her vehicle. She was advised to drive towards Invermere so police could intercept. When she did this, the motorcycles turned the other way and left the area. Police attended and made patrols for three cruiser style motorcycles, the riders of which had full face masks. The motorcyclists were not located at the time. No damage caused to the vehicle by the water bottle.

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The Columbia Valley Pioneer • 5 GROWING THE GRASSROOTS — Columbia Valley Hockey School owners and head instructors (left to right) Brett Ponich, Chris Bruton and Kevin Noble have plans to expand the local hockey culture.

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The hockey school has 11 instructors, all who have previous professional experience, taking the kids through drills, dry land training, hockey talks, and games. To maximize the instruction, class sizes are kept down to ensure every participant has time with an instructor and room on the ice. The five to eight age category has a limit of 30 students and the age groups over eight years old hit capacity at 23 athletes.

“Everybody (instructing) not only do they have to have played a high level of hockey, they also have to be good with the kids, be able to communicate what they’re trying to teach,” said Mr. Ponich.

As the program grows, the three owners hope to build up the hockey culture in Invermere by including opportunities for Ju-nior players, AHL players and NHL players the chance to skate in the evenings.

“We’re trying to create this culture of hockey in the summer so that NHL guys who vacation here want to be in the area, Junior A kids don’t have to move away to train.

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By Nikki Fredrikson Pioneer Staff Columbia Valley Hockey School owners Chris Bruton, Kevin Noble and Brett Ponich are working hard to instill young athletes in the community with a passion for hockey. The trio first took over as owners of the hockey school last year and have transformed it into a full-service hockey camp.

“We want the parents to be able to come here, drop their kids off, know they’re taken care of, they’re always looked after. They’re fed, hydrated and when they pick them up, the kids all have a smile and they’re ready to go to bed,” said Mr. Bruton.

The owners, all with professional experience, bring their passion and dedication to the sport to each camp.

Wanting to build the passion for the game and work ethic of these young athletes, the trio is hands-on as head instructors for the program.

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PERSPECTIVE

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By Emily Rawbon Pioneer Staff Last Wednesday, July 20th, a friend and colleague sent me the following message: “FYI you are officially protected under the BC Human Rights Code now… only took until 2016.”

She followed that up with a statement by Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton in which the Minister announced an amendment to the B.C. Human Rights Code that stated that all individuals, including transgender persons, have the right to equal protection under the law.

The B.C. New Democratic Party and groups such as the BC Teachers’ Federation were quick to applaud the changes to the code with statements like, “Transgender rights are human rights” or “Today marks a big step forward for British Columbia, a step towards a more open, diverse, and tolerant society.”

As an inter-sexed, gender variant individual, I feel that our government’s position on human rights bodes well for a community that has been marginalized and discriminated against for far too long.

However, I know this about tolerance; it requires reciprocity. Without it, the discrimination and violence in which some individuals and groups feel privileged to enact upon the transgender community are going to continue… law or no law.

So, how do we end this intolerance? In my opinion, it’s most likely never going to end. The male/female-only dichotomy has been with us a very long time and, like the abolishment of slavery, the right for women to vote or civil rights for African Americans, the idea that transgender individuals have equal rights under the law is at first going to be a hard pill to swallow for some people.

Regardless of any intolerant views, the transgender community is officially protected under the law. Eventually in time, with patience and with education we as a society will hopefully look back at this period of history and ask ourselves why was this issue such a huge concern in the first place.

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Old plane in photo identified Dear Editor: A couple of additions/corrections to the two photos in the “Team, pilot remembered” article (Historical Lens feedback) in the July 15th issue.

• In the first photo (of the 1910 Golden baseball team), John Blakley is back row, second from the right, not the left.

• The pilot in the second photo is also John Blakley. The plane is a de Havilland DH.60 Moth (Gipsy Moth), registration CF-AGK, owned by Radium Hot Springs Flying Service Ltd. and flown by both John Blakley (owner) and his son Jock Blakley. The plane was registered in late 1930 and was damaged beyond

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LETTERS

Stetski seeking input on democratic reform Submitted by the Office of Wayne Stetski Member of Parliament Wayne Stetski is coming to a coffee shop near you, seeking input on how to improve Canada’s electoral system and ensure that every vote counts equally. During his Summer Democratic Reform tour, Stetski will be stopping in 14 communities to hear from residents of Kootenay-Columbia. “In the last two federal elections, parties that only received 39 per cent of the vote formed a majority government with 100 per cent of the power — this is not a fair system,� said Mr. Stetski. “The current government has promised to make changes, but those changes need to reflect the desires of Canadians across the country, not just the interests of the party in power. It is important for me to hear from the people of Kootenay-Columbia on this important issue, so I can take your views back to Ottawa.�

Mr. Stetski will be holding meetings in Fernie, Sparwood, Kimberley, Cranbrook, Creston, Salmo, Ymir, Nelson, Kaslo, Meadow Creek, Revelstoke, Golden, Invermere and Spillimacheen, from August 9th to 19th. Specific dates, times and locations can be found on Mr. Stetski’s website (at www.waynestetski.ndp.ca) and Facebook page (“Wayne Stetski, MP�).

For residents of the Columbia Valley, he will be in Spillimacheen on Friday, August 19th at the Spilli Bean Cafe from 1 to 1:30 p.m. and in Invermere at The Invermere Bakery from 2 to 3 p.m., also on Friday, August 19th. “Canada has been using its current electoral system since before the invention of the automobile, and there is a broad consensus that changes need to be made,� said Mr. Stetski. “I encourage everyone across our region to join me and be a part of this important conversation about strengthening our democracy.�

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For someone who hadn’t touched a golf club until he was 33 years old, it’s been a remarkable run for Harry Ferguson, who just won his first British Columbia Senior Men’s title at the Shuswap Lake Estates Golf & Country Club.

The now-59 year old claimed his championship in a playoff hole after he and four-time winner Gudmund Lindberg tied at even par through 54 holes. After only just playing the 18th hole, Mr. Ferguson said he was comfortable hitting an identical shot to his previous time around and was able to two-putt his way to a victory.

“It’s a putt here or a putt there and that’s what it came down to in the fact that I won in the playoffs,” he said. “You make one mistake and you’re not holding the trophy, right.”

Although it was Mr. Ferguson who claimed the championship, he said he attributes his success to a “we” effort completed by his partner and caddy Shelley Thompson who is a CPGA professional herself.

“It’s so nice to have her,” he said. “Without her I wouldn’t be holding that trophy because every time your mind starts to wander away, she just ropes you back in. It’s not only about me winning it, it’s about having her there on the bag to be a team to win it.”

Mr. Ferguson has been a member at Radium’s The Springs course for 20 years now. He said his relationship with Canadian golfing icon Stephen Ames, who also owns a

SENIOR MOMENT — Invermere’s Harry Ferguson saw his dream come true when he won the BC Senior Men’s Championship title at Shuswap Lake Estates Golf & Country Club.

Photo courtesy of Brad Ziemer/BC Golf home in the Columbia Valley, is one of the many reasons he was able to progress his golfing game to where it is today.

Adam Bayne, a golf professional at The Springs course, said that it was a great sight to see Mr. Ferguson take home the championship after years of coming up just short in big tournaments like the provincials.

“I just can’t express to you how important of a victory this is,” Mr. Bayne said. “Harry is one of the hardest working golfers that I’ve seen. We have the best senior men’s golfer in B.C. right now.”

With the victory, Mr. Ferguson will have the opportunity to compete at the 2016 Canadian Men’s Se-

nior Championship in Niagara Falls, Ontario from September 6th to 9th.

He said that he and Ms. Thompson have already looked the course over online and said its length and his powerful drive will play in his favour in the Over-50 age bracket.

“I always compare to speed in hockey,” he said. “If you’re fast in hockey, you have an advantage. If you have length in golf, you have an advantage.”

With only a month before he makes the journey east, Mr. Ferguson said he’s going to continue working on his game with only winning on his mind. As the captain of the B.C. team heading to the tournament, he has as good a chance as any.

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Try out pickleball for free cant land the club owned beside the driving range at the golf course to build four pickleball courts, which were completed earlier this year.

For $5 per person, people are able to rent out the courts Sports in the summer can be pretty typical throughout the valley. There’s tennis, baseball, soccer and, of for a game, which usually lasts about an hour depending on course, who can forget about golf. But if you’re looking whether you play three to five games in your match.

For one day, though, Copper Point Golf Club is into add one more, get out to learn all there is to know about the sport of pickleball at the Copper Point Golf viting the public to learn more about the sport, the rules and techniques behind it, for free with the opportunity Club today (Friday, August 5th) at 10 a.m. to try it out after the short Pickleball, known to some and unbeknownst to others, “We just want people to come out and give it demo clinic the club will be hosting. Mr. Schaal said what has been tagged as the fasta try and see what the sport’s like.” makes the sport so interesting est growing sport in North to newcomers is the ease with America thanks to its ease Brian Schaal which people are able to beof learning and fun playing Manager, Copper Point Golf Club come competitive at it right style. Originating in the Paaway. cific Northwest of the United “My son is 11 and another boy was down there and States in the 1960s, the game is known for being a fusion of tennis, badminton and table tennis played with a solid he’s 12, and they started rallying back and forth and gradupaddle and a plastic Wiffle ball. If you saw the game being ally they were playing pretty good,” he said. “The learning played, the first thought that would cross your mind is curve is really short and you can be relatively good at it.”

Those interested are invited to show up at 10 a.m. that it looks like a micro version of tennis.

Brian Schaal, general manager of Copper Point for a day of learning and fun with the sport of pickleball.

“We just want people to come out and give it a try and Golf, said he had heard of pickleball a couple of years ago from several members who had gone south to try out see what the sport’s like,” Mr. Schaal said. “I’ve had a lot “Reverse logosport for use onwhile darker backgrounds (black background for reference the on vacation and enjoyed it.only After doing people say, ‘That’s an old person sport’, but I said I really - not part of the ”logo”): some research on it, he developed the idea to use the va- enjoyed it and a lot of young people are playing it as well.”

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Team or solo, registration is between 5:30 and 6:15 p.m. and costs $2 per person. Participants must be a member of the Columbia Valley Cycling Society (memberships will be available for purchase at time of registration — $30 for an adult, $10 for a student, $60 for a family).

This Toonie Tuesday is sponsored by Ralph Stewart Contracting and Crazy Soles. This event will involve finding eight to 12 particular spots along the trail, so the participants who are the most observant and know their way around this trail will benefit!

The start time is 6:30 p.m. and the Start\Finish will be at the bottom entrance on Peters Hill — watch for signs! And please use caution turning into this entrance! A barbecue will follow.

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A rescue technician prepares Titchener to be rescued by helicopter.

Photo submitted rescuers and equipment at Mr. Titchener’s feet.

Almost immediately, they began performing first aid and put him in a vacuum mattress to secure his broken back.

Over the course of the next hour, nearly six centimetres of snow accumulated as the group waited for the weather to clear again so the helicopter could return to pick them up.

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“That was probably the most pivotal point because at that point we hadn’t made contact with anybody yet and the storm was getting worse and there was a lot of doubt in mind because of the severity of my injuries.”

Crackling across the radio, they could hear two voices talking back and forth to each other confirming what they thought they had just heard.

After a few more minutes, Ms. Turecká was in direct contact with one of the radio operators confirming their location, sparking the rescue operation that would ultimately save Mr. Titchener’s life.

As luck would have it, a search and rescue team out of Golden was training in the valley eight-kilometres away.

Using a small helicopter, the team patiently waited for the weather to briefly clear before mounting a rescue operation.

“All we were listening for was that sound of a helicopter,” recalled Mr. Titchener, “There was nothing else we could do at that point.”

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“It was just like a miracle, like the heavens were opening up,” said Mr. Titchener.

With a window of opportunity, the helicopter gently plucked Mr. Titchener off the ridge, taking him to a waiting helicopter in the valley below where he was airlifted to the hospital in Golden.

In Golden, doctors immediately cut off his clothing and cut into the side of his chest to drain his lungs, which were full of blood.

“I just remember the pressure of them pushing that tube between my rib cage and straight into my lungs and the blood just pouring through a tube,” said Mr. Titchener, adding they drained a litre and a half of blood from his lungs.

After stabilizing him, doctors realized he would need to get to a more advanced hospital so he could undergo spinal surgery. They quickly prepared him to be transported by ambulance to Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.

“The weather was so bad in the Rockies they couldn’t just helicopter me to Calgary so they decided to drive me there,” said Mr. Titchener, adding he got there in two hours.

Arriving in Calgary around 10 p.m., doctors ran him through a series of x-rays, MRIs and CT scans to figure out the extent of his injuries.

The following day he underwent spinal surgery fusing his L2 vertebrae with his L4 vertebrae after removing the shattered remains of his L3 vertebrae.

“My spinal cord was not severed; it was bruised and damaged, but it wasn’t severed, so there’s actually a lot of hope that I could potentially still walk,” said Mr. Titchener.

Nearly two weeks after the accident, Mr. Titchener was in good spirits from his hospital bed in Calgary, but acknowledged he has a long road to recovery.

“I am a paraplegic right now, for the time being, until I can rehab my lower limbs and the doctors say at this point they don’t know what the future holds, but they’re very, very positive about the outcome of the surgery,” said Mr. Titchener, explaining he has limited motor functions below his knees.

“The other day I was staring at my toe, wishing and wishing and wishing and all of a sudden that big toe on my right foot just moved,” said Mr. Titchener. “I just couldn’t believe it.”

Despite his traumatic experience, he said he is optimistic he will fully recover from his accident.

“They said the spinal surgery went as good as it possibly could have gone and they gave me the best fighting chance so it’s up to me now to keep fighting and hopefully I can walk again,” said Mr. Titchener.

“This is going to be my Everest.”

To support his recovery people can donate money to his online GoFundMe campaign: “Ryan’s get well relief fund”. As of August 3rd, over $19,000 had already been raised.

A fundraiser and silent auction will also be held at Rockaboo Mountain Adventures in Jasper, where Ryan worked, on August 8th from 4:30 to 9 p.m.

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A healing journey

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An exhibit by Pynelogs’ resident artist Kimberly Olson titled ‘The Emotional Journey Through Sexual Assault’ is on display in the Pynelogs Art Gallery through to August 7th before going on tour. See next week’s Pioneer for the story behind the art and the artist.

Photo by Jami Scheffer

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InvermereMusicFest.com August 19 & 20 Get your tickets!

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MusicFest is about more than just good tunes these three who are all from the local surrounding areas.

In terms of alcoholic beverages, there will be a fully fenced off beer garden on the In just its fourth year since inception, concert grounds for the weekend. For beer, the Invermere MusicFest is once again local brewery Arrowhead Brewing Comworking at firing up the vendor options to pany will be serving their tasty brews while give everyone a palatable option that meets Tinhorn Creek Vineyards will sponsor the their tastes at Kinsmen Beach Greenspace wine selection. from August 19th to 21st.

While a music festival at heart, the After a successful 2015 MusicFest, orevent will also offer activities for children ganizers decided that if it isn’t broke, don’t to participate in with the Westside Legafix it, electing to bring back the same three cy Trail hosting the Kids Korner and the food vendors for this year as last summer.

Street Dogs, owned by Barry and Carol Summit Youth Centre operating the merchandise tent. Those looking to earn a free Lance, will be serving gourmet-style hot ticket into the festivities are invited to sign dogs that will no doubt pair well with the up as a volunteer online for one eight-hour warm weather typically accompanying a shift. The volunteer positions are split up weekend in the middle of August. Gio Pomodoro out of Canmore, Alberta will be FESTIVAL FOOD — Both Gio Pomodoro and Street Dogs will be back serving up by jobs that include pre-festival crew, front joining them, serving up several delectable food to festivalgoers at the Invermere MusicFest later this month.

Photo submitted gate, beer garden sales, Sunday workshop crew, photography, hospitality and the Italian street dishes that were widely popumerchandise crew. lar last time around, said Invermere MusicFest executive director Jami Scheffer.

For those looking to save their money for the numerous tasty food options and Lastly is GreenHut Whole Foods Eatery, which specializes in organic coldpressed juices, smoothies, rice bowls, curries and salads. This option will cater to merchandise available at the event while enjoying the diverse array of music, a volthose looking for fresh, organic and local dishes that are a healthier option than unteer position might be right up your alley.

Visit www.invermeremusicfest.com to sign up and for more details about the many other alternatives. Ms. Scheffer said that with the Invermere MusicFest being a small music festival, it is extremely important to support local food vendors such as three-day music extravaganza.

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Out & About Please call 250-341-6299 or e-mail us at info@columbiavalleypioneer.com to enter your event in our FREE listings.

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Friday, August 5th • 10 a.m.: Free Pickleball Clinic at Copper Point Golf Club. Visit copperpointgolf.com or call 250-341-3392.

• 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Junior Naturalist Program for children ages 6-12, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at Redstreak Campground Theatre until Aug. 27th. Cost $5 per child. Parents call 250-3476525 to register. Drop-ins are also welcome!

• 12 - 8 p.m.: Second Annual Art Walk. Stroll through seven Invermere Art Galleries and Studios every Friday until September 2nd.

• 4 - 9 p.m.: Music and Market on Main in Radium every Friday in August. Market from 4 - 9 p.m., Music from 7 - 9 p.m. Visit radiumhotsprings.com for details.

• 5 - 8 p.m.: Effusion Art Gallery Summer Creative Series featuring artist Lynne Harrison. Plus Saturday August 6th, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. artist in attendance.

• 6:30 p.m.: Baked Chicken dinner at Branch 71 Legion in Invermere. $17.50/person. All ages welcome.

Reservations are recommended. Call 250-342-9517.

• 7 - 9 p.m.: Invermere Roller Rink at the Curling Centre every Friday. Also Sundays 2 to 5 p.m. Cost $5 • 7 - 10 p.m.: Fresh Fridays Open Mic at Pynelogs.

Showcasing young talent from the valley. All ages, licensed bar. First Friday of every month.

• 8 - 12 p.m.: Free Live Music with Dean Ray at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort (FHSR), plus Food and Drink Specials all weekend!

Saturday, August 6th • Loop The Lake. Registration starting at $45, online until Aug. 3rd at noon, in person at Crazy Soles until Aug. 4th at 6 p.m., or at check-in from 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. at the Curling Rink. Visit loopthelake.bc.ca.

• 40th Annual Lakeside Event. Hang and paraglider pilots take off from Mr. Swansea and land in water targets at James Chabot Beach. Visit lakesideevent.com.

• 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Invermere Farmers & Artists Market in downtown Invermere. Saturdays until Sept. 10th.

• 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Branch 71 Legion Market - Crafts, Baking, Home Based Businesses, BBQ and more.

• 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Wild Nature Tours - Wild Food and Medicinal Plants, hosted by Wildsight. Kalista Pruden leads participants on a hunt for edible and medicinal wild plants along Radium’s riverbank. Kids $15, adults $25. www.wildnaturetours.ca/invermere.

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• 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.: Art Show at Pynelogs featuring Mary Kate Woodward, Lynne Grillmair, Jim Lawrence, Ron Robinson & Jerry Kohorst. Continues until Aug. 21st.

• 5:45 p.m.: Toonie Tuesday running and biking event along the Kloosifier Trail. Mountain Bike or Trail Run; Team or Solo. Registration from 5:45 to 6:15 p.m.; Cost $2; event begins at 6:30 p.m. BBQ to follow. Sponsored

by Ralph Stewart Contracting and Crazy Soles. For more info contact Crazy Soles.

Wednesday, August 10th • 11:45 a.m.: The Rotary Club of Invermere meets every Wednesday at the Curling Centre.

• Dusk: Eagle Ranch Theatre Under the Stars featuring Alice Through the Looking Glass. Admission is a nonperishable donation to food bank. Enjoy dinner prior to the movie by calling 877-877-3889 to make a reservation. Visit www.eagleranchresort.com.

Thursday, August 11th

• 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Effusion Art Gallery Summer Creative Series featuring artist Lynne Harrison painting live.

• 8 - 10 p.m.: Arrowhead Brewery hosts the 2nd annual Roller Disco Night at the Invermere Curling Centre.

Cost $15; includes skate rental.

• 1 - 4 p.m.: Summer Reading Club at Invermere Library every Thursday to August 25th. Grades 1 to 5.

• 5 - 6 p.m.: Wine tasting at the FHS Resort every Thursday. $15 per person or $25 for two.

• 5 - 8 p.m.: Beach Party at Kinsmen Beach, every Thursday in August.

• 7 - 9 p.m.: Artist Party featuring Mary Kate Woodward, Lynne Grillmair, Jim Lawrence, Ron Robinson & Jerry Kohorst at Pynelogs Art Gallery.

Show continues until August 21st.

Sunday, August 7th

Friday, August 12th

• 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.: Fairmont Market at Fairmont Hot Springs. Every Sunday until August 14th.

• 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Summer Splash at James Chabot Beach - free fun for all ages including music and edutainment. Sponsored by Lake Windermere Ambassadors.

• Horseback Archery Tournament at Luxor Corrals at Spur Valley. Call Doug at 250-347-9048 for details.

• Effusion Art Gallery Summer Creative Series featuring artist Veronica Funk. Also August 13th.

• 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Wild Nature Tours - Grasslands: A Precious Ecosystem, hosted by Wildsight. Rangeland Ecologist Gail Berg guides you south along Westside Road to visit grazed and non-grazed areas, comparing the effects of animal grazing on native vegetation. Kids $15, adults $25. www.wildnaturetours.ca/invermere.

• 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Artym Gallery Andrew Kiss and Margo Fearn exhibition. Continues until Aug. 18th.

• 7 p.m.: Columbia Valley Car Club meeting at Rocky River Grill. All car enthusiasts welcome! For more info, call Vicki at 250-342-1257.

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Monday, August 8th • Columbia Valley Hockey School with NHL guest instructors. General camps for ages 5-8, 9-11 and 12-14.

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• Dusk: Movies in the Mountains at Pothole Park, downtown Invermere. Every Monday in August.

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Bavin Glassworks Artwalk – Friday, August 5 Featuring Jack Olsen

2 p.m. – 6 p.m. Carver, painter, working on site.

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Columbia Basin Culture Tour gearing up for eighth year

By Nikki Fredrikson Pioneer Staff This year participants attending the 8th Annual Columbia Basin Culture Tour can take advantage of four local artist and cultural centres. The Culture Tour is a free self-directed tour of local artist studios, cultural centres, and heritage sites throughout the entire Columbia Basin region. “(The tour) gives people an opportunity to visit artists who maybe don’t necessarily have their studios open, also visit museums and galleries, and get the inside story on some of the historical displays and artifacts at some of the historical sites,” said Natasha Smith, administrative assistant for the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.

In the Columbia Valley, the four sites to discover on the tour are the Sandpiper Studio, June’s Originals, Pynelogs Cultural Centre & Art Gallery and the Purcell Mountain Painters. Each stop features a different artist and their respective mediums.

“We do have such a wealth of talent and history and cultural places to visit. So this just really celebrates and features what we have here in the Columbia Basin,” said Ms. Smith.

For the artists, this tour is one of the biggest events of the year which they spend weeks preparing for. Many of the stops have demonstrations, workshops and even studio sales on artwork. The local stops in the valley have planned different demonstrations for people to come in and enjoy.

“Sandpiper Studio, they’re going to be having live glass working demonstrations from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. on both days. They’re located in Windermere on the Kootenay #3 Road. They’re a husband-and-wife team, Gor-

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don and Julie Webster, and they founded their studio in 2009. Their work is using traditional glass making techniques yet their aesthetics are very modern. They produce beautiful glass objects, definitely worth a visit,” said Ms. Smith.

In Invermere, the Purcell Mountain Painters — a group of 31 members — have live painting demonstrations planned and even a tea with the painters. Columbia Valley tour participants can also expect to see the latest exhibit at Pynelogs and a variety of artworks by June at June’s Originals in Windermere.

“June is a master printmaker who has just become a painter. She’s been painting now since 2010. She’s been working on acrylics as well. So you’ll get the opportunity to see original woodcut prints at her studio and also a real range of her beautiful wildlife and landscape-based paintings,” said Ms. Smith.

In order to participate as stops along the Culture Tour, artists and venues had to register online by midApril.

“Your focus has to be arts, culture or heritage in terms of what you do. That’s what qualifies you to do the tour, that is the focus,” said Ms. Smith.

The tour was started eight years ago by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA) steering committee, an elected group of individuals with a background in arts, culture, and heritage, with funding from the Columbia Basin Trust making it more affordable for artists and venues to participate.

The tour will run Saturday, August 13th and Sunday, August 14th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with 86 stops across the Columbia and Kootenay region. Columbia Basin Culture Tour directories are available at Visitor Information Centres or online at www.cbculturetour.com/index.php.

Columbia Valley locations: 2016 Columbia Basin Culture Tour Purcell Mountain Painters Phone: 250-688-0220 Address: 712 10th Street, Invermere

Pynelogs Cultural Centre & Art Gallery Phone: 250-342-4423 Address: Kinsmen Beach, Invermere

June’s Originals Phone: 250-342-8838 Address: 4706 Government St., Windermere Sandpiper Studio Phone: 778-963-0194 Address: 2151 Kootenay #3 Road, Windermere

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Effusion unleashes artistic alchemy

By Stephen Lebovits Effusion Art Gallery + Glass Studio

P R E S E N T S

Widely practiced during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period, alchemy is defined as the art of transmuting base metals (such as copper, tin or zinc) into gold.

These days, while largely replaced by empirical chemistry, its mystique and romanticism live on, at least for self-proclaimed colour alchemist Lynne Harrison.

“I like to use unusual colour combinations, usually very bright, to create paintings that stir up emotional reactions from the observer,” she says of her pop-impressionistic style.

From her Canmore, Alberta studio, she conjures up uber-vibrant and dynamically colourful works of her surroundings, be they COLOURFUL CHEMISTRY —The vibrant art of Lynne Harrison is the mountains, local fauna, Indigenous el- being featured at Effusion this weekend, as well as live demos by Ms. Harders or whatever tickles her creative fancy. rison herself.

Image submitted And it all started when she took a break dencies across the Bow Valley area. from university back in the day.

In May of 2005, she finally opened her own place, “After two years at Ottawa’s Carleton University, I took a semester off to ski Whistler, and I have lived out from within which she could not only create, but from where she could also foster and support others who are west ever since,” she affirms.

The inspiration that she found while living and play- similarly inclined.

“I used to paint in our dining room, much to Dave’s ing among B.C.’s mountains moved her to paint, and chagrin,” she admits. “But having my own space allows paint she did.

Along the way, she also had two children, met and for more spontaneity and it allows me to more directly eventually married Crazy Canuck downhill skier and meet more people — it’s the perfect situation.”

So, why not catch some of her wizardry this weekOlympian Dave Irwin, and then had to overcome a devend, at the Effusion Art Gallery + Glass Studio, located astating and life changing event.

“Dave suffered a traumatic brain injury and soon at 1033 7th Avenue tonight (Friday, August 5th) from 5 after we started the Dave Irwin Foundation for Brain In- to 8 p.m., or tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., as she paints live, shows some new pieces and signs the large jury Recovery,” she explains.

But throughout it all, she continued to create, par- selection of prints she’ll have on hand. Lynne’s work can ticipating in exhibitions as well as taking on artist resi- also be seen at www.effusionartgallery.com.

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1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 3 tablespoon olive oil 3 tablespoon vinegar

To make dressing, combine salt pepper oil and vinegar, whisk or shake into a jar or bowl.

Wash barley and drain. Place iron skillet over high heat for 1 minute. Add barley and turn heat to low. Dry roast barley for 15 minutes stirring occasionally with wooden spoon. The barley develops a rich roasted flavour.

In a separate pot with lid place water or stock and bring to a boil. Add roasted barley and stir. Cover and bring heat to low, until liquid is absorbed. Remove from heat and allow barley to relax for half an hour.

Place barley in bowl and add all the vegetable ingrediants. Toss well and serve. It is good at room temperature or after being chilled in fridge.

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Combine tomatoes, garlic, vinegar, olive oil, onion, salt and basil. Keep chilled until chicken is done. Spoon over chicken before serving.

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Featured artists flourish

By Farah Shawaf Assistant Curator From August 9th until the 21st, Pynelogs will be hosting a new bi-monthly art show featuring five talented artists. Come be enchanted by ethical wildlife photographs captured by Jim Lawrence or beautifully crafted stone animals craved by Jerry Kohorst; both will renew your respect for nature. Pynelogs will also host art by Lynne Grillmair and Ron Robinson; two mixed media artists who express ideas through exploration of new mediums and techniques — a stark contrast from Mary Kate Woodward’s simplified line drawings that focus on enhancing striking attributes only. Art Opening is Thursday, August 11th from 7 to 9 p.m. — drop by Pynelogs to appreciate the art, meet the artists, enjoy live music and drinks from the cash bar.

If you love music or love to dance, Invermere MusicFest is the experience for you! From Friday, August 19th until Sunday, August 21st, the Kinsmen Beach Greenspace will be transformed with a dance party on Friday night and a fullday family-friendly event on Saturday. Both dates include amazing high-energy bands and a diversity of music ranging from reggae to rock and everything in between — there’s a music style for everyone and this festival is bound to get you moving! Musician workshops happen Sunday and will be led by four talented musicians. Early bird tickets are still available — it’s $50 for the weekend and children 12 and under are free, so get your tickets now! Would you rather a free ticket? Then volunteer! Find out more or sign up at www.invermeremusicfest.com Farah Shawaf is the Assistant Gallery Curator at the Pynelogs Art Gallery and Cultural Centre. Email pynelogs@telus.net or call 250-342-4423.

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Busy bees at Dragonfly Radium’s Dragonfly Discovery Centre was buzzing with singer-songwriter Madeleine Tasquin as she performed her original Bee song from the CD “Bug Family Band”.

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The Lake Windermere District Lions Club thanks all of the sponsors of our recent Charity Golf Day. All proceeds of the day will be given to the Fort McMurray Tarsands Lions Club to assist in their efforts to re-build parks in areas affected by the fires this year. The success of this event would not have been possible without the support of these individuals and businesses: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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250-426 A literal trickster Magician Leif David was on a Summer Reading Club tour through the Kootenay Libraries called “Book a Trip”.

The Invermere Public Library hosted him at Columbia Garden Village on Tuesday, July 19th and he thoroughly entertained an audience of 70 kids and 42 adults, including many of the residents from the Garden Village.

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More than just a library The wonders of a small town library… where the living is easy, and this is a spectacular place to visit anytime.

Visitors to our beautiful Columbia Valley find it especially appealing during our warm and sunny months of summer. They arrive by foot, on bicycles and motorcycles, in campers and RVs and by car, to enjoy the many attractions the valley has to offer. And we welcome them from places both near and far, from all corners of the world, to enjoy our hot springs, our mountains and hiking trails, our golf courses, our wetlands and our libraries… Libraries??? Did

you say libraries? Yes, our great little library here in Radium Hot Springs is a popular drop-in spot for those who come to our valley to spend anywhere from a few hours to a few days and even for a few months, in the case of our nearby neighbours from Alberta and Saskatchewan, etc.

The Radium Public Library serves as both a welcoming and information centre for these often weary wanderers. They come in search of a free network to connect with loved ones back home, to find maps and manuals and places to explore. In the Radium Library, visitors passing through will even find a free paperback or two to take along with them on their journey.

And if you happen to be one of our many seasonal residents, our library can offer you even more than directions to your next destina-

tion… a library card! An invitation to come and enjoy special programs like our “Summer Reading Program” where children visit our “Adventure Program” along with the opportunity to read books; and the annual Teddy Bears’ Picnic on Saturday, August 13th for preschool children.

During a busy holiday time, a library offers the opportunity to relax, find time for children to choose their favorite books to read as well as for parents to read to their little ones.

There are several “How to Read” toys available for preschool children as well.

Drop into our “air-conditioned” facility and enjoy the easy days of summer in Radium.

This week’s column was written by Jane Jones, director of the Radium Public Library, which is located at 7585 Main Street West. Call 250-347-2434 for more information.

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August 5, 2016

Construction site of the Columbia Valley Centre

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The beginning of a dream

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CENTRE Once upon a time in January 2005, some local citizens on the board of Columbia Valley Arts Council had a dream. They discussed the possibility of a regional performing arts centre in Invermere. The original concept was to upgrade the existing Pynelogs and add to this heritage centre, which would provide a facility with about 360 seats.

The idea was to attract cultural performances to the Valley and also augment the tourist attraction of the area. In turn, this would benefit the economy of the Valley, which relies heavily on tourist dollars.

The recognition of the richness of creative talent throughout the Valley from Spillimacheen in the north to Canal Flats in the south was the impetus for driving ahead with this dream. The first order was to renovate Pynelogs and provide a year-round venue in this lovely old building for the performing and visual artists. Rotting logs were replaced; windows were upgraded; basement storage was improved; a kitchen was renovated; a large patio was added.

The dream was gradually developing.

The dream underwent some modifications over the next 10 years, but now the vision of a performing arts venue is incorporated into the new Columbia Valley Centre. The Arts Council has been involved in the plans for the Centre and is instrumental in raising funds for the performance components.

The Columbia Valley Centre will be a special gathering place for our community. Go to our website: www.columbiavalleycentre.ca for more information.

Watch this space every week for interesting information and news about the Columbia Valley Centre.

This week’s Columbia Valley Centre update was written by Eloise Berry a volunteer for the centre’s fundraising committee. For more information and to donate, visit www.columbiavalleycentre.ca.

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Leap year changes Perseid viewing dates

By Brian Fenerty Pioneer Columnist Summer means stars don’t appear until late evening compared to winter.

On the other hand, night observing is certainly less chilly. If you plan to be outside for long, still take an extra layer of clothing you can put on. Observing doesn’t involve a lot of moving around so we don’t have continuous exercise to keep us warm. Take a warm hat too, just in case. And some bug lotion.

This coming week, one likely extra thing to take along: a lawn chair or recliner, for watching the annual Perseids meteor shower.

This year, a higher than usual number of meteors (some bright, many faint) are predicted. Late at night, you may be watching at least half an hour (an hour is more likely if the shower is captivating), looking generally upwards to get a wide sky view (because the meteors can be seen anywhere across the sky, not just northeastward towards namesake constellation Perseus), and

a chair or lounge makes watching a lot easier on the next day versus our time here. Plus some websites, even neck. The moon is over 50 per cent illuminated, so expert ones, use data from an old year!

I suggest we best go with NASA’s 2016 predicted maybe sit in a tree’s shadow so the moon’s brightness doesn’t wipe out your eyes’ sensitivity for at least some peak, which expects Earth to go through the heaviest streams late night Thursday, August 11th into early Friof the fainter “shooting stars”.

If you are a nighthawk, the hours between mid- day morning, August 12th. To cover your bases (and to night and almost dawn tend to give the fullest shower elude clouds), I suggest you plan watching late Thursarray, plus the moon will be setting. But even earlier day night for the potential big peak, then, as backups, Wednesday, Friday or even is OK. In fact, watching Saturday night. a night earlier or later is “I suggest we best go with NASA’s 2016 prealso OK. You may miss Speaking of Jupiter, dicted peak, which expects Earth to go through which indirectly affects the peak (Earth going through the thickest part the heaviest streams late night Thursday, August our meteor shower, faster of the streams of material 11th into early Friday morning, August 12th. To Earth is leaving it behind, left behind Comet Swift- cover your bases (and to elude clouds), I suggest so Jupiter gradually disapTuttle in its 130-year orbit you plan watching late Thursday night for the pears in the dusk. Near it appear Venus and even around the sun), but you potential big peak.” faint Mercury. But they are may well see a few meteors so low you need to know before or after. (Why are the streams near us sometimes thicker? Their stretched- where to look with scope or binos from the east side of the valley to just maybe spot them. Still, Mars and out orbits are varied by Jupiter!)

And which night? Although August 12th and 13th Saturn gleam in the southern sky.

Pluto? Remember, it’s also to our south. But essenare remembered as the usual Perseids dates, 2016 is a leap year and this switches the Perseids peak dates ear- tially invisible!

Brian Fenerty is a member of the Royal Astronomical lier. Some websites get dates confused; others use the astronomers’ Universal Time, but that time refers to Society of Canada. Contact him at fenertyb@telus.net.

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YOUR MONEY

Should I rent or buy a home? Part 1 Price declines and low interest rates have made housing affordability easier in recent years, however, these factors alone are not enough to make an informed decision about making the leap into home ownership, or selling one’s primary residence in favour of renting.

Here are a few points to consider when deciding which direction suits you best.

This week’s article will focus on buying versus renting costs, as well as information about the real estate markets in general.

Buying versus renting costs One’s budget is an important consideration when deciding whether to own or rent a home. In many cases, it’s the deciding factor.

When weighing one’s options, it’s important to ensure that the comparison is as correct as possible. An accurate comparison would consider the annual sum of the mortgage interest, property taxes, house insurance, utilities and expected maintenance, less the expected increase of the home’s value, against the cost of rent.

After all, most, if not all, of these expenses are built into the cost of renting.

Consider the following example: according to Canadian Real Estate Magazine, as of June 2016, the median price of a single family home in Invermere is $439,000.

If we use this purchase price with a 10 per cent down payment, plus a 2.40 per cent CMHC fee, that would leave a mortgage of about $404,580.

If the homeowner took a five-year mortgage term at three per cent interest, the annual interest-only cost of the house would be about $11,220, or $935 per month. Add property taxes of about $2,000 per year, $1,500 for insurance and municipal utilities, and $4,400 for maintenance (calculated as one per cent of the home’s value), the cost of home ownership could result in approximately $19,120 annually, or $1,595 per month. Deduct from this amount a conservative annual increase to the home’s value of one per cent, or $4,390, the cost of home ownership could be near the equivalent of a $1,230 per month rental.

Bear in mind, however, these are pure costs. For budgeting purposes, the principal portion of the mortgage payment must also be factored, though this cash outflow should be thought of as an investment, not an expense. For the above example, the annual principal payment would be $11,750.

Now, it seems unlikely that a person could rent a $439,000 house in Invermere for $1,230 per month.

That brings us to our next point.

Market considerations Just like the real estate market, the residential rent-

als market is affected by a number of factors including the location, size and style of the home, and supply and demand within a particular market.

At the moment, the residential rental market in Invermere is tight.

Only a handful of rentals seem to be available at any given time, whereas there are currently over 400 residential properties for sale in the Columbia Valley.

While a discrepancy will always exist between the two, supply and demand is a serious consideration, especially for those considering selling their home in favour of renting, or those who plan to rent perpetually.

Another consideration must be the economy as a whole. Among other things, a person must ask, are residential real estate prices currently overinflated, undervalued or fairly priced? Are rising interest rates or a lot of inflation being forecasted? This could signal higher payments and, in the case of high inflation, lower real estate prices in the future. How confident do you feel about buying in a particular community, or neighbourhood? And finally, is there a better opportunity, such as commercial real estate or a business, that you would rather buy?

This overview presents just part of the story.

Next week’s article will discuss housing security, lifestyle choices and the investment potential of owning versus renting.

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Reduce, Re-use, Re-Boler: Cleanline’s unique office here, I don’t know if the perception is really aligning with what they heard via word of mouth... Our existing clients, Over the years, residents of the Cowe’re not worried about because they lumbia Valley have owned, ordered cofknow what we’re about and they know fee, or even worked out of the Boler this is temporary. When we have new trailer now parked out front of Cleanline clients come, we have some explaining Automotive. The Boler, which is on loan to do,” said Stephanie. from Ray Schnerch, is currently repurRenovations started on the building in posed as an office space for Cleanline as early July and they hope to have the project the company goes through a renovation. completed by the end of September.

Aaron and Stephanie Van de Kemp, “Two months from now hopefully owners of Cleanline Automotive, realized it’s done because we’re going to start to they needed to get creative with what to run into cold weather,” said Stephanie. use as an office space while the shop reThe new expansion will feature a ceived an expansion. Stephanie had previnew hoist and bay allowing Cleanline ously worked in the Boler, selling Kicking to cut down on wait times for appointHorse Coffee at the Kaslo Jazz Festival, ments, as well as a brand new office and knew that Ray had since acquired a space and lunch area for the staff. new coffee trailer (Ray and Jacqueline UNIQUELY CANADIAN — Cleanline Automotive is making use of a well-known Boler “At the very least, we hope to get Schnerch had used the Boler to sell Kick- for their temporary office while the company’s building in the Industrial Park gets renovated. the hoist up and running pretty quickly. ing Horse Coffee at music festivals across Photos by Steph van de Kemp That part’s important, we want to start B.C. and Alberta). getting more cars in,” said Stephanie.

“We were trying to figure out what we were going to do when our office got Once the renovations are finished, the Boler will return to Ray Schnerch and he ripped off and we just thought, ‘Well, that would work’. So we approached him and will be restoring it into a high-end coffee trailer. Until then, the Boler will continue he said we could borrow it,” said Stephanie. to house the Cleanline Automotive office and serve as a conversation piece for staff When they received the Boler, it still had a sink, a till and plumbing in it, so it and clients. was up to Aaron to renovate it into a functional office space.

The Invermere “It took me a couple days working on it. It was odd because of the round corPick up the Pioneer’s ners; nothing’s square in it, making it a bit complicated to make everything fit a sister paper ~ The Invermere Valley Echo certain way. Once it did, it was good (but) it was a bit of work,” said Aaron. ~ every Wednesday.

For clients coming to Cleanline to get work done on their vehicles, the Boler office has been a conversation piece. Adam, who spends his days at work inside the {Subscriptions also available} Boler, has been hearing a lot of burger jokes with people coming up to order food.

For many clients, the Boler has even brought back childhood memories of camping in Boler trailers.

“Some people are devastated that we ruined a Boler and some people think it’s There’s more to the valley than meets the eye… the coolest thing ever,” said Aaron.

See this week's August 3rd Invermere Valley Echo for: Cleanline Automotive has been serving the community for four years, providing environmentally friendly automotive services. The company has now grown to have a loyal client base and receives many new clients by word of mouth for their clean shop.

“When we get new clients, because a lot of our clients come by word of mouth, • Celebrating the • Relocated urban deer and they hear about this really clean tidy shop that we are and they come down and survive better than communities of Kootenaywe’re working out of a Boler and they have maybe brought their high-end vehicle

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• CBT sees big bump in revenue (Page 3) • B.C. bans the use of drones for hunting (Page 4) • Airbnb takes off in valley (Page 4)

Columbia (Page 6)

• Athletes have a role in enacting social change (Page 6) • Travelling museum exhibit comes to valley (Page 8) • Invermere athletes compete at BC Summer Games (Page 9)

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Taynton pioneers left their mark

By Dorothy Isted Special to The Pioneer There are a number of Taynton landmarks throughout the Columbia Valley named for early pioneers to the valley, whose descendants are alive and well today.

People enjoying Kinsmen Beach and Pynelogs facilities would be surprised to know a thriving brickyard once occupied the shoreline, starting at the waterpark and going west.

John Hopkins Griffiths (Jack) Taynton and William Walter (Bill) Taynton immigrated to Winnipeg with their parents in 1882 from England, near Wales.

Their father was a brickmaker and mason.

Jack married Lydia Masters in Manitoba and the pair went west. In 1885, Jack found himself working in the Selkirk Mountains with the railroad and met men who’d discovered gold in Toby Creek canyon. This brought him to the Columbia Valley where he spent the summer panning for gold. He then welcomed his brother Bill in 1887 and they created a ranch called Tayntons Hillahee (it is now known as the Thunderhill Ranch near Canal Flats). Bill worked a few days on the Baillie-Grohman Canal, but quit as he didn’t enjoy the work.

Jack and Bill also packed supplies, moving most of the freight for the Northwest Mounted Police, who were brought in to settle a serious dispute between the Ktunaxa First Nation and encroaching settlers near Fort Steele. At that time, supplies were shipped by train to Golden. The men built their own boat and ferried goods further south. They operated pack trains consisting of six oxen and six horses.

Mining camps in the valley used cheap labour provided by Chinese immigrants under perilous conditions. The labourers hung by ropes into the canyons to chip out the mineral. The brothers transported food to the camps on Findlay Creek, and the payments were made in gold.

The brothers owned/operated and sold several ranches and mines. Jack and Lydia’s only child, William, was the first white child born in the Windermere Mining District in 1889. That year, they moved to Brisco and then Golden where they helped construct a bridge and a smelter. Moving to the West Kootenays, Jack returned to the valley in 1899.

In 1899, Jack’s brother Bill married his childhood sweetheart from Winnipeg, Edith Wilks. Bill ran the experimental farm once situated on 13th Avenue in Invermere and later the Windermere experimental farm.

He shared his love of flowers with his good friend and neighbour, R. Randolph Bruce. Edith and Bill had one child, Gilbert.

In 1902, Jack started a brick and lime yard on the shoreline of Taynton Bay. Along with the brickyard, Jack and Bill and both their sons had homes there at the site.

Continued on next page . . .

TOP: The Tayntons at Bunyan Mine in front of the cook shack.

Jack (John) is on the far right, with Bill (William) next to him.

On the far left is Bill’s wife Edith Taynton. Lydia Taynton, Jack’s wife, is one of the two women in front of the car.

RIGHT: Opium bottles (roughly 10 centimetres long) found along a creek where Chinese labourers used to hang by ropes to dig out gold along the canyon walls.

BOTTOM: William Walter Taynton, his wife Edith and their son Gilbert in a canoe.

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TOP: This photo was taken in 1915 or 1916. Jack Taynton’s home is in the foreground. The houseboat in the distance was the residence of Robert Randolph Bruce and Lady Elizabeth, who were waiting for their Pynelogs home to be built (pictured in the trees in the distance). As those familiar with local history know, Lady Elizabeth died before Pynelogs was completed and her gravestone can be found at Kinsmen Beach.

Photo courtesy of Windermere Valley Museum RIGHT: Bill Taynton’s son Gilbert and Gilbert’s wife, Ethel (parents of Griffiths and Avy).

BOTTOM CENTRE/RIGHT: William Walter (Bill) Taynton’s gold pocket watch, his knife and a locket, which has his initials on the front WWT and inside is a picture of his wife, Edith, and son, Gilbert.

BELOW: The 1948 flood. From the left are Bill Taynyon’s house, the ice house and Gilbert Taynton’s house, where Avy and her husband live today. The brick is no longer exposed on their home.

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Jack continued working masonry until ill health forced him to move in with his son William, who had married and moved to Kimberley. Jack died in Kimberley in 1954 at the age of 93.

Bill’s son, Gilbert, had two children with Ethel (Ethel had emigrated from Aberdeen, Scotland to Calgary where she won Highland and Charleston dance contests).

Bill lived with her son and daughter-in-law for his last few years and died at the age of 98 in 1968. Gilbert and Ethel’s children were Griffiths and Avryol (Avy.) Today, Avy, 77, lives in her parent’s house on the shore of Lake Windermere, the grounds of which were badly affected by a flood in 1948 but have since been built back up.

Avy has the invoice her parents received when she was born in 1939 at Pynelogs hospital, attended by Dr. Coy. They were charged $17.50 for a five-day stay at $2.50 per day and $5 for “looking after the infant.”

While still in high school, Avy took a job in Radium for the summer working at the telephone exchange, which was cordoned off in the lobby of the National Park Hotel (which later burnt down). Avy and her co-worker were housed across the street from the hotel. At 9 p.m., they would put all the phone plugs in, routing all calls to Cranbrook to be handled throughout the night. Occasionally, tipsy hotel patrons would reach across and pull out the plugs. Annoyed people in Radium would pound on the girls’ door late at night to have them remedy things so their calls could go through.

Road crews working on the Banff-Windermere Highway stayed at the National Park Hotel. That was how Avy met her husband Nick (a.k.a. Bill) Nicholson.

Nick, from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, married Avy in 1958. They had sons Dean, who lives in Cranbrook, and Dale, who lives in Wilmer.

Avy says the Taynton brothers were very different from each other, Jack being a bit of a renegade and Bill was soft spoken, loved flowers and displayed gentlemanly manners.

Avy fondly recalls her grandfather William singing Welsh ditties to her sons when they were young. He was widely known for his fine voice.

Avy’s brother Griffiths married Louise Beryl in Invermere, had three children. Griffiths now lives in Kamloops.

Taynton Bowl, Taynton Creek, Taynton Mountain and Taynton Bay are named in honour of these early pioneers to the valley.

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CLIMBING CREW — Top to bottom, left to right: Snowpatch and Bugaboo Spires form the backdrop to the 2016 Conrad Kain Centennial Society Bugaboos Teens climbing camp; ACMG guide Kirk Mauthner short ropes team members off of East Post Spire (photos by Pat Morrow); moonrise over Snowpatch Spire; the group and guides; Matthew Sapach (Invermere) on his way to the top of Hounds Tooth Spire with his team mates, Eric Engler (Cranbrook) and BC Parks ranger Craig Browne (photos by Tim McAllister).

Centennial of 15 pioneering ascents by Conrad Kain

By Brian Patton CKCS director The year was 1916. Thirty-three year old Conrad Kain was at the peak of his climbing career as he set out on a summer-long climbing spree. When the season ended, he had led ascents of 15 virgin peaks, including some of the most difficult ever attempted in Canada, and established himself as the country’s premiere mountain guide.

Conrad’s remarkable season began on July 19th, when he and his partner Albert MacCarthy worked out the complex route-finding up the near vertical limestone ramparts of 2,682-metre Mount Louis near Banff, not only ticking off a first ascent on this demanding peak, but completing it unroped.

Later that month, Albert and his wife Bess would accompany Conrad on 14 remote and difficult ascents in the Purcells from their Karmax Ranch in Wilmer. Smitten by the natural beauty of the Upper Columbia Valley, both the MacCarthys and Kain had recently settled in Wilmer.

Riding on mining and Indian trails up Toby Creek with Dr. and Mrs. Winthrop Stone, they explored and mapped out the territory between Toby, Glacier and Jumbo Creeks, building trademark summit cairns on 12 peaks.

On August 25th, the MacCarthy-Kain trio, joined by a hitherto unknown climber named John Vincent, reached the summit of the highest peak in the Bugaboo Group: 3,412-metre Howser Spire.

Two days later they completed a 15-hour long traverse of Sextet Ridge to Howser Peak (at the top end of today’s popular Silver Basin hike) and the very next day climbed the technically difficult peak known in 1916 simply as “Nunatak #3”, again in a 15-hour push from the valley floor.

The team gave 3,204-metre Bugaboo Spire its name after Conrad spent two hours rehearsing the intimidating gendarme crux pitch moves near the summit — “… nonplussed at the sight of a veritable bugaboo, which immediately suggested to our minds the appropriateness of the name ‘Bugaboo’ for this spire.”

Bugaboo Spire remained one of the most daunting alpine climbs in Canada until neighbouring Snowpatch Spire was finally climbed in 1940. Little did Kain and the MacCarthys know that their bold explorations would open up a world-class climbing mecca to future generations.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Kain’s most successful and ambitious season, 10 students from Invermere, Cranbrook and Kimberley travelled to Bugaboo Provincial Park on July 22nd to participate in the annual Conrad Kain Bugaboos Teens Climbing Camp.

The three-day camp, which took them in fog and rain across Bugaboo glacier to the summit of Hounds Tooth Spire and a brilliant day atop East Post Spire, is a legacy project sponsored by the Conrad Kain Centennial Society (CKCS) and generously supported by many individual and corporate sponsors. It has introduced students from the Columbia and East Kootenay valleys to Bugaboo granite for

the past eight years.

This year’s climbing team included Matthew Sappach, Oliver Orchiston, Thibaud Bonniard, Emerson Ferrier, Katrina Romanowicz, Jack Bolger, Megan Strachan, Janine Harach, Emma Thompson, and Eric Engler.

The students were accompanied by BC Parks climbing ranger Craig Browne and perennial ACMG guides Kirk Mauthner, Jen Olson and Tim McAllister. As usual, photographer Pat Morrow tagged along to capture the highlights.

Megan Strachan was inspired to write: “This weekend challenged me, made me learn more about myself and allowed me to grow as a person. I am so thankful for all the work you put in to make these trips a reality. I would love to help out with any future trips or projects in any way I can.”

Parents provided long-distance shuttle service for the event, and Brisco’s master raconteur, Leo Grillmair, sent the climbers off on their adventure with a gripping Snowpatch Spire climbing tale. In addition to the guides who led the climbs, the Conrad Kain Centennial Society thanks the Alpine Club of Canada, Columbia Valley Community Foundation, the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides, and Canadian Mountain Holidays for helping to facilitate this year’s camp.

“All the students were great team players, and developed a keen appreciation for nature on this brief, but intense outing, very much in the spirit of Conrad Kain,” said event organizer Pat Morrow. To learn more about the CKCS, visit www.conradkain.com.

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Bugaboo Spire re-enactment captures the legend

By Eric Elliott Pioneer Staff For the first time in a century, mountaineers have successfully climbed Bugaboo Spire using much of the same vintage equipment as one of the most legendary figures of Canadian climbing did in 1916.

Ontarians Bryan Thompson, Rob LeBlanc, Garry Reiss and Natalia Danalachi made the journey out west in July to make the 10,500-foot ascent up Bugaboo Spire using vintage gear and equipment from 100 years ago in hopes of re-enacting one of the most storied climbs made by the famous mountaineer Conrad Kain.

“The climb that was done on Bugaboo Spire that was done 100 years ago was by far one of the most challenging climbs of that time and it was considered to be pretty challenging for years after that,” said Ivan Petrov, one of the photographers on the trip.

“We were interested in experiencing what it was like to do something like that in 1916 and we also wanted to experience what it was like, not just to do the climb itself, but to camp in old wool clothes and use the same equipment and use the same foods that they would have eaten 100 years ago.”

The planning process started two months ago when Mr. Thompson, shopping at army surplus shops, antique stores and eBay, began assembling the necessary supplies for the trip that were most similar to that of the 1916 climb. As the leader of the expedition, he wanted to recreate the climb as closely as possible to the point of matching the amount of males to females as the trip in 1916, Ms. Danalachi said.

She was invited on the trip to represent the famous Elizabeth McCarthy, who scaled Bugaboo Spire as the only female member in the four-person group a century ago.

Carrying some 700 pounds of gear — including both modern equipment and food for safety precautions as well as film equipment for their documentary Hobnails and Hemp Rope — the four climbers and film crew began their ascent on July 8th in the hopes of finishing a week later.

Battling obstacles such as the uncomfortable hobnail boots — known for the nails driven through the soles of the boots — while dealing with failing equipment like their stove, they were forced to make the decision of how they would be able to reach the summit safely.

Making the climb increasingly difficult, Mr. Petrov said, was that they had to redo the route several times at each stage so they could bring all the equipment up with them, which added additional time to each stage. In the end, the group made the tough decision that it would only be safe for two of the group, Mr. LeBlanc and Ms. Danalachi, to reach the summit without taking on unnecessary risk.

“Overall, it was one of the best experiences of my life,” Ms. Danalachi said in an interview after reaching the summit. “It was not easy, but all the suffering that we went through was worth it. It was nice to see what Conrad Kain and all the climbers back in 1916 had to challenge in order to summit.”

As an amateur mountaineer himself, Mr. Petrov said that most of the crew had learned of this famous climb through books and wanted to share that story with more Canadians today.

“It’s not something that the general public seek out unless they’re involved in mountaineering or climbing, but it certainly seemed like something that required almost super human effort and preparation for planning 100 years ago without knowing what’s around the corner and whether they’d be able to get to the summit or safely come back down the mountain,” he said.

While not a perfect re-enactment, the group plans to produce the documentary film of their journey later this year with a trailer to its release available on YouTube by searching “Hobnails and Hemp Rope documentary trailer” or going directly to https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrRDb8Kfv0U.

Historical feat Garry Reiss, Bryan Thompson, Rob LeBlanc and Natalia Danalachi on their ascent; Thompson next to the team’s vintage tent, LeBlanc taking in the view; Thompson and Reiss looking very circa 1916 (photos by Ivan Petrov); trip photographer Ivan Petrov (photo by Ian McAllister).

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Waterbears of the lake Watershed Wanderings

They inhabit most regions of Earth due to their unique ability to withstand nearly any climate

By Katie Watt they’re faced with, however, they Pioneer Columnist are more prevalent within damp Somewhere beneath or aquatic systems abundant in the surface of our lake water and mosses, just like right lay nature’s indestructible here in our own valley! organism. A creature that Though they may seem has seen the rise and fall of unimportant dwelling in the the dinosaurs, has borne depths of our lake, tardigrades witness to the hottest heats have amazed scientists for years and the coolest cools, and has sat back and in many more ways that just one. watched for 530 million years as species afSince their discovery in 1773 by Gerter species come and go. man zoologist Johann August Ephraim Swimming silently, these organisms Goeze, the waterbear has been put to the feed on plants, bacteria and a cannibalism- test from enduring the harsh, radiation based diet as their eight legs and clawed feet filled vacuum of space, momentarily surpropel them eagerly throughout the water. viving in extreme highs of 150 C to freezUnlike any other aquatic creature, they are ing lows of -272 C, and to even lasting for nearly indestrucdecades without tible, and along a drop of food or with inhabiting water! But how the harshest enthey accomplish vironments on these superhuEarth, from the man tasks is the rugged faces of really interesting the Himalayas, part. to the freezTardigrades ing depths of can survive due Antarctic ice, to their interA Tardigrade (tahrdigreyd), or waterbear they can also be esting ability to found in a much more tranquil setting: make all metabolic functions come to a Lake Windermere. reversible standstill in a process known as But despite their strength, don’t go Cryptobiosis. Curling up into a little ball looking for anything alien just yet as these called a “tun” and losing more than 95 per microorganisms are nothing short of one cent of its water, it essentially dehydrates itof nature’s amazing creations just like you self. In this state, the waterbear then is able and me. to produce different proteins and sugars to Tardigrades (tahrdigreyd), or water- help protect its cells, and once the transforbears, as they’re more commonly known, mation is complete, it is then able to reduce have thick bodies resembling tiny bears, and even at times suspend its metabolism with stumpy legs and feet that end in two completely. to four claws.

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Your Local

Local landmark lore Curator’s Corner

By J.D. Jeffery Museum Curator We have had a successful Children’s Program this year. If you want to participate in the program, register by calling 250-342-9769.

We still have space available, but pre-registering guarantees a spot on program day.

The Fairmont Hot Springs name can be credited to Mrs. John Galbraith, who named the area after the small place she lived in called Fairmont in Virginia. George Geary, the first settler, set up a post office and called it Fairmont as well.

The hot springs part was added due to the medicinal springs right by the post office.

However, in 1915, the station was called Radium by the Kootenay Central Railway — promotional material listed “Radium, B.C. (late Fairmont Hot Springs), NOTICE: Do not confuse Radium with the Radium Hot Springs in Sinclair Canyon at the western gate of the Kootenay National Park”.

Then, on December 8th, 1933, the CPR changed the name to Fairmont Hot Springs Station.

This lessened the confusion that occurred with the Hot Springs to the north that was also known as Radium.

B.G. Hamilton was the local historian at the time and the following is an excerpt from a letter he

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In the same letter, he goes on to share names that he has found the background to, one being “Gerrard”. “…it crosses my memory that in the South African war there was a young Canadian engineer who did wonders in railway building at the front. As to how he spelled his name I cannot just remember.

The railway is fond of commemorating great men’s deeds by naming out-of-the-way stations after them.

This may have been the cause of the place being named Gerrard. Or it may be after the street of that name in Toronto.”

If anyone has any information about the Gerrard landmark that Hamilton referred to, please contact the museum by emailing wvmuseum@shaw.ca.

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. . . ‘Waterbears’ from page 28

A heartfelt donation

Tardigrades have been known to survive like this for decades, and after being removed from whatever conditions that caused them to enter said state, their bodily functions often return to normal and they’re even able to reproduce!

So next time you go out on Lake Windermere, just remember that around you are some of nature’s most durable life forms: the tardigrade. Living in the ice, the ocean, and right here in our own backyard.

Katie Watt is the Watershed Program Stewardship Assistant for the Lake Windermere Ambassadors.

Email her at intern@lakeambassadors.ca or call the office at 250341-6898.

The Invermere Legion recently donated an AED unit to the Invermere Community Hall. Accepting the donation from Invermere Legion president Ken Carlow is District of Invermere Gerry Taft.

The unit will be moved from the old hall to the new Columbia Valley Centre when it’s completed.

Photo by Eric Elliott

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Pioneer Classifieds GARAGE SALES

GARAGE SALES

ANNOUNCEMENT

CHEERS & JEERS

GARAGE SALE Saturday August 6th 9 a.m.

Corner of Main St. West and Stanley Street in RADIUM. All sales by donation with proceeds going to help maintain All Saints Church and Cemetery in Edgewater.

Hammock, WII system and accessories, Christmas decorations, household items, lighting fixtures, Bow Flex and more. Sat. 8 a.m. noon. 10B Wolfe Crescent, Invermere.

Alcoholics Anonymous. If alcohol is causing problems or conflict in your life, AA can help. All meetings are at 8 p.m. For more information, please call 250-342-2424. Columbia United AA, Invermere: Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at the BC Service Building, South End – 624 4th St., Invermere.

Radium Friendship Group: Friday at the Catholic Church, East Side of Main St. With the exception of Tuesday, all meetings are open.

Huge Jeers to people who leave their dogs in their yard (especially early in the morning) to bark every time someone or something walks by! Your neighbours are growing tired of the constant barking and people walking by move to the other side of the street with still no reprieve from the barking!

Huge garage sale, lots of designer clothes and shoes like new, 6 to 12, small medium and large. Purses and jewelry. Household items and bikes. Aug 11th, 12th and 13th, 4657 Government St. Windermere.

Moving Sale: Large flat screen TV, furniture, solid oak desk, household items, sewing supplies, Christmas stuff, everything must go. Corner house 1304 13th Ave.

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AL-ANON

Are you concerned about or affected by someone else’s drinking? If so, please join us. Al-Anon meets EVERY Monday in Invermere at 7:15 p.m., at the Canadian Martyrs Catholic Church, 712 – 12th Ave (behind the Invermere hospital).

For information, please call 250342-8255.

S OBITUARY S Brillon, Denise Rosemarie October 26, 1960 July 14, 2016 Denise Rosemarie Brillon, 55, of Invermere, British Columbia, passed away on Thursday, July 14, 2016 at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alberta.

CHEERS & JEERS Cheers to the nice person who found my bicycle bag near a cattle guard on the #3 highway on Tuesday and put it on a fence where I could easily find it.

Cheers to the Heavy Hauler on July 28 for sharing your communication technology during our 3 hour stoppage in KNP. Much appreciated.

Jeers to whoever put tape over the webcam at the flower shop last Thursday. As a commuter from the valley I like to see what the weather is like on my return trip. Cheers for the webcam.

Cheers to GT plumbing for your prompt, honest and friendly service.

Jeers to the person who spent hours washing their driveway on a hot summer evening. Water is a precious resource that should be respected and used responsibly.

S IN MEMORIAM S

Denise loved the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the sandy beaches of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where she, Roger and Cali shared their time. Denise was proud of her family and looked forward to receiving pictures and calls from her grandchildren in Australia who affectionately called her Memè. She will be remembered for her laughter, love of painting, decorating and fashion style, DIY ambition, and ability to bring new people together for entertaining and parties.

It was Denise’s wishes to have a celebration of life in lieu of a formal funeral service. Friends and family are invited to join the outdoor celebration at the personal residence in CastleRock, Westside Road, Invermere, British Columbia on Saturday, August 6, 2016 from 12 noon, with tributes at 3 pm. To view and share photos, condolences and stories of Denise, please visit www.choicememorial.com where further details and map for the celebration are available. Arrangements entrusted to the care of Choice Memorial Cremation & Funeral Services (403) 277-7343.

CHEERS & JEERS

CHEERS & JEERS

Cheers to Invermere Free Classified. Jeers to The District of Invermere Great site, fair rules, well managed. for installing a left hand turn Car, stove, trades, flowers, stuff light at Third Avenue and Laurier gone and stuff bought. Thrift store Street over a year ago and never CHEERS &activating JEERS it. then you for best Valley deals.

Sponsored by

BIG Cheers to CANFOR, without you so many people in the Valley would not have a job. So we have to put up with a bit of a noise and dust, but when that’s happening familes are able to stay in this great valley and make a living. Cheers and keep up the great work.

Cheers to the Rushmere Community FireSmart volunteers who made the big chipping job easier by turning out in great numbers. Our community is moving towards a safer one by the reduction in wildfire fuels and your enthusiasm to help.

Cheers to all the FireSmart volunteers in Rushmere who cut slash and moved huge piles of trees to be chipped last weekend. Big effort that took several weeks to accomplish. Cheers to the Rushmere landowners who allowed the effort to begin and helped out in any way they could. Great community spirit to accomplish an important goal.

Cheers to Edibles Cafe at Winderberry Nursery. Your delicious homemade food, amazing baked goods, friendly staff and lovely atmosphere is a refreshing addition to the valley!

S IN MEMORIAM S

Born October 26, 1960 in Rockglen, Saskatchewan, she was the daughter of Louis and Dorothy Brillon of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

She is survived by her best friend and partner, Roger Lyczewski; only son, Chris Brillon and wife, Chantelle, of Perth, Western Australia, and her grandchildren, Katelynn and Brayden; brothers, Kerry Brillon (Serena) and Lance Brillon (Lydia), sister Sherry Brillon; and furry companion, Cali.

• Phone: 250-341-6299 • Fax: 1-855-377-1312 • Email: info@columbiavalleypioneer.com • www.columbiavalleypioneer.com

In loving memory of

Ana Maria Wittenborn Who passed away on August 3rd, 2006 They say there is a reason They say that time will heal But neither time nor reason Will change the way we feel For no-one knows the heartache That lies behind our smiles No-one knows how many times We have broken down and cried We want to tell you something So there won't be any doubt You're so wonderful to think of But so hard to be without Forever loved and in our hearts Arthur and Elli

In memory of

Terrence James Richardson (Terry) June 13th, 1955 – August 4th, 2003 As we loved you, so we miss you, Remembered and always loved, What beautiful memories you left behind.

Lovingly remembered by Ann, Jayme Richardson (Ron Mason) Jodi (Phil) Adrian and their children, Carter and Payten Adrian and in addition, four family “mutts” Jack, Kaya, Broo and Hulk. xoxoxoxo

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CHEERS & JEERS

OFFICE SPACE

CONDO FOR RENT

Cheers to Vern Thomas for shooting his age last week.

Radium Hot Springs office space for lease, starting at $300/mo including utilities. 1-403-5599625.

Invermere - Furnished Upper Level Condo, close to Downtown.

2-bdrm, 2 bathrooms. N/S, N/P, No Partiers. References please. $1,000/ mo plus hydro. 403-978.4559.

Cheers to the members of the Windermere Community Association who work tirelessly to better the community in a thankless job.

Cheers to Rob, Trudy, Tilley, and Matilda for rescuing Watson, the dog with his very own blog, so happy you found your forever home!

JEERS to the couple copulating against a vehicle at the Fairmont launching area for floating down the Columbia River on the afternoon of Saturday July 30th.

There are lots of kids that use this area. If you cannot control your urges, you should GET A ROOM. Disgusted Resident.

LOST AND FOUND Lost: RONIX Wakesurf shaper, white wedge on July 24. Call 403-8169279 if found Found: Ladies jacket floating in the lake. Please call 778-526-0095 to claim.

Lost: On Saturday July 31st by No Frills. Toyota key finder. Please call 250-342-9388.

STORAGE NEWHOUSE MULTI STORAGE Various sizes available.

Now with climate-controlled units.

Call 250-342-3637.

STORAGE SPACE – assorted sizes, easy access, immediate availability, long-term or short-term. Deck Properties Warehouse, Industrial Park: 250-342-3166.

COMMERCIAL SPACE NEWHOUSE MULTI STORAGE 24 x 36 shop power included, propane heat at tenant’s expense, $650/mo first and last D.D. required. Contact Newhouse Multi Storage 250-342-3637.

SUITE FOR RENT Furnished, 1-bdrm apt. In Invermere, N/P, quiet, call 250-3429636, (leave message).

Wonderful 2-bdrm, 2 bath upper unit. Maple kitchen, hardwood floors, gas fireplace, front balcony, rear deck, W/D. Excellent downtown location. Quiet mature responsible adult only. $895/mo, possession negotiable. 250-3417092.

HOUSE FOR RENT In Invermere modern 4-bdrm, 2 bath newer home. Wilder subdivision, large yard with storage shed. W/D, D/W, N/S, N/P. $1500/ mo. 250-342-3790.

Windermere, furnished, 1-bdrm home, lovely yard, N/S, pets considered, references required. $700/mo plus utilities. Available Sept. 1st - May 31st. 403-6191540.

Downtown Invermere. 3-bdrm up and 2-bdrm down. 1 bath up and 1 bath down. Large multipurpose room formerly hair salon.

Large private deck. Storage shed.

Off street parking. N/S. Available immediately. $1450/mo + utilities.

Call Rick 250-342-3057(h), 250341-5572(c).

CONDO FOR RENT For rent in Radium, 2-bdrm, 4 bath, ground level condo. Beautiful views, backs on to The Springs golf course. All appliances, fireplace, fully furnished. 2 car garage. N/S, N/P, references please. $1650/mo, call 250-342-3790.

Radium Hot Springs Aspen Condo, main floor, 1375 sq. ft. with 2-bdrm + den, 2 bathroom, 2 parking stalls.

Washer and dryer, fully furnished.

Best mountain and valley view in Radium. 20ft. Deck, asking $1150/ mo. Available. Sept 1st. 403-2642782 or 403-999-2783.

MISC. FOR SALE

HOUSE FOR SALE For Sale 1998 Mobile Home, open living design, on large corner lot in Radium Hot Springs. 2-bdrm, 2 full baths, large deck, addition, storage sheds and landscaped yard. All services, excellent water.

Great starter or retirement home. $180,000 firm. Call 250-341-5639 to view.

Downtown half duplex. 723-15th Street. Great lake view, revenue suite, close to all amenities and beach. $389,000. Property Guys ID #266535. 250-342-8662.

Support Rockies Hockey firewood.

Larch, fir, and pine split and delivered. Call 250-342-6908.

Columbia River Wetlands RV Park.

Fully serviced, Year Round Titled RV Lots for sale. Columbia River and wetland access, 45 min north of Radium Hot Springs. Starting at $35,000, 250-348-2094.

For Sale: 2 2006 Arctic Cat 500 2 seater ATVs in excellent condition. $3750 each. Phone 403-463-9953.

Large lot for mobile home. Williams Trailer Park. No pets. Phone 250342-9390.

ELKHORN COUNTRY ESTATES Phase 2 now for sale, Windermere. Total of 8 acreages, 2 sold, 4.2 to 6 acres each. Starting at $169,000.

Separate individual graveled access roads, individual wells up to 30 gallons per minute.

Two minutes to golf course five minutes to beach. Phone Elkhorn Ranch 250-342-1268.

RV LOTS FOR SALE

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES

LOT/ACREAGE FOR RENT

LOT/ACREAGE FOR SALE

FIREWOOD

VEHICLES FOR SALE 250 US gallon tanks for sale.

Very versatile, plastic w/metal 6” opening, 2’ discharge, 125 lbs. $150. Call George. 250-347-9500.

2005 Chrysler 300 limited, fully loaded, 200,000 kms, second owner, local car 38 MPG. $5700, 250-341-6018.

2 seater stroller with 1 rain/bug and shade screen. Walk or jogging wheels. $250 O.B.O. Call 250-3425585.

2002 Suzuki DRZ-400 S Motorcycle.

5300 kms. Rated top dual sport.

Enhanced for off-road use with numerous options. $3950. Call 250347-0078 for details.

2007 kx85 two stroke dirt bike with monster decal kit, fmf fatty pipe, new chain and sprockets and rear tire, fast bike runs good. Call or text 250-341-5216 for more information.

SERVICES Heaven’s Best Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning.

Environmentally friendly products.

Dry in 1 hour! Call 250-688-0213 or visit www.heavensbest.ca .

Shannon’s Blinds & Designs Thank you for your votes Best of Business Awards!

We are grateful and appreciative of your support and loyalty “Blinds, Drapery, retractable screen doors and more.” 250-342-5749.

2015 Tacoma silver 6’ cab high canopy w/Yakima rails/boat rack, $1400. 2012 Jeep soft top, like new, $800. 4 Jeep stock rims w/stud snow tires, 254/70/17, $1600. 250342-1078.

1991 Seaswirl 185 tempo for sale.

140 hp outboard. Good condition. $5000 O.B.O. 403-512-3677.

Tempo 610E Elliptical, new condition, $250. Velodyne CT Series amplifier, $150. 250-347-6404 or cell 250-688-1544.

STORAGE

New House Multi Storage

BOAT & RV STORAGE

Conveniently located in the Invermere Industrial Park.

LOW RATES! DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE! We can park your trailer for you. 7 DAYS A WEEK ACCESS! Phone: 250-342-3637 Email: newmulti@telus.net

Just a reminder… The classified deadline is 12 noon Tuesday.

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SERVICES

kimberleyrae.ca …look for the red door behind the Invermere Dry Cleaners!

250-342-5102 AJ Siding and Eavestrough Serving the Columbia Valley since 1993.

• All types of siding • Soffit/Fascia • 5” Continuous eavestroughing • Eavestrough cleaning, inspection and repairs.

Free estimate, call Joe at 250-342-7177.

HELP WANTED Fairmont Mountain Bungalows Hiring Housekeepers Part/Full-time. $13 - 18/hr, staff accommodation available.

Please call 250-345-6365 or send resume to bungalows@shaw.ca Invermere Petro-Can is currently accepting resumes for F/T and P/T employment. Apply in person to 185 Laurier Street, Invermere between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Always wanted to work at a golf course? Fairmont Hot Springs Resort is for you. We are always looking for enthusiastic individuals, full-time or part-time to join our Food & Beverage, Golf Shop & Golf Course Maintenance teams. Plus, enjoy free golf all season at our courses. Apply to David Sheedy at hr@fhsr.com or fax 250-345-6616.

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

Wanted 2 F/T Restaurant Cooks, Rocky River Grill, 8888 Arrow Road, Invermere, B.C. Permanent, F/T shifts, overtime, weekends, days and evenings, $16/hour for 40 hours per week. Overtime after 40 hours.

Minimum several years experience and completion of Secondary School. DUTIES: Prepare and cook full course meals, prepare and cook individual dishes and foods, ensure quality of food portions, work with minimal supervision, prepare dishes for customers with food allergies or intolerances. Inspect Kitchens and Food service areas.

Please forward resume to Justin Atterbury by fax 250-342-8889 or email justatterbury@hotmail.com.

Gas Plus in Radium is looking for a F/T mechanic. Apply within or call 250-290-0170.

Seeking a motivated individual interested in joining growing construction company. Must have experience, be physically fit, have own transportation and a positive attitude. Wage negotiable dependent on knowledge and skills. Immediate start. Please email resumes and references to JLBinnovations@hotmail.com.

Part-time secretary with social media experience. 403-519-8268 or patyesh@gmail.com.

Don’t Miss an Issue!

Please apply at customer service.

N E W S PA P E R

Read us online:

www.columbiavalleypioneer.com

The Columbia Valley Greenways Trail Alliance is recruiting for a

Maestro of Events & Volunteer Champion The CVGTA, a registered charity, is building the Westside Legacy Trail - a world-class recreational asset for the Columbia Valley. We require a contract Maestro of Events & Volunteer Champion to work with the Executive Director, Fundraising Committee, and the Volunteer Board.

Black Forest Restaurant is looking for a full time Server. Previous experience required in a busy, upscale restaurant. Email, call or drop off resume. 250-342-9417 careers@blackforestrestaurant.com

Helna’s Stube is looking for a dishwasher/kitchen help, evening server and bus person. Email resume to mail@helnas.com or call 250-347-0047.

SERVICES

PIANO AND THEORY LESSONS

All ages, beginner to grade 10 conservatory.

Registered teacher for 40 years.

A.R.C.T. L.T.C.L. Play for recitals, exams, festivals, or just for your own enjoyment.

Please call Linda Hookenson at 250-342-9286

Meat Cutter

Must be able to work any shifts day or evening and weekends. Benefits.

Fairmont Hot Springs Resort is looking for fun and enthusiastic individuals to fill positions as servers, cooks, dishwashers and hosts. We are hiring for full-time seasonal staff and would love to take a look at your resume.

All interested applicants please contact Kevin Smith at ksmith@ fhsr.com.

Black Forest is looking for a P/T daytime cleaner and F/T kitchen help. Call, email or drop off resume. 250-342-9417, careers@ blackforestrestaurant.com.

Sobeys Invermere is looking for full-time

For more information, and instructions on how to apply for this opportunity, please visit: greenways.ca.

Applications close Aug 14, 2016, position starts Sept 1st

VISIT US: GREENWAYS.CA • EMAIL: INFO@GREENWAYS.CA LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: FACEBOOK.COM/COLUMBIAVALLEYGREENWAYSTRAILALLIANCE

JOIN OUR WINNING TEAM! Summer is half over and we’ve got positions available for motivated, hard-working individuals.

If you are looking to use your skills & energy at an organization which focuses on employee engagement, send us your resume today!

RETAIL SALES ASSOCIATE | MASSAGE THERAPIST | SOUS CHEF COOK | DISH WASHER | ROOM ATTENDANT | LIFEGUARD We offer a competitive salary & benefits package with access to all Resort amenities.

Please send your resume to David Sheedy at hr@fhsr.com or fax to 250.345.6616.

FairmontHotSprings.com 250.345.6070

s are welcome Didja know? All employee limitations. Soak, to use Resort amenities without ski & golf as much as you want!

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HELP WANTED

1 Year Maternity ACCOUNTS PAYABLE POSITION Brisco Wood Preservers Ltd., is a major Canadian Pole Producer of CCA treated wood poles supplying Western utilities and communications companies.

Our main treating facility is located in Brisco BC, just north of Radium Hot Springs in the beautiful Columbia Valley Columbia. Brisco Wood Preservers’ second treating facility is located in Peers, Alberta.

In addition to our pole manufacturing and treating, Brisco also produces large engineered beams from LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) in our laminating plant Brisco Manufacturing Ltd. General Summary: We are currently recruiting for an Accounts Payable Clerk to be located in our Brisco, BC office. The Accounts Payable Clerk will be responsible for processing accounts payable invoices and providing support to accounting and/or administrative staff.

Key Responsibilities: • Accounts Payable – sorting, coding, payment, problem solving, & reconciling • Monitor for cost saving opportunities where possible • Filing – maintain organized files for invoices that have been processed • General Ledger account reconciliation • Assist with month end close • Ad-Hoc accounting duties as assigned Qualifications: The successful candidate will bring the following experience and expertise: • 2 years’ experience in AP with mid-large size company • Experience working with a company with strict internal controls • Intermediate to advanced personal computer skills (MS Office) • Basic accounting knowledge • Excellent attention to detail and proficient data entry skills • Open-minded and positive in dealing with change and new ways of doing things This is a Temporary Full-time position, which offers a competitive wage. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted Please address cover letter and resume to Elke Petersen and e-mail PDF file to: epetersen@briscowood.com or Fax to 250-346-3218 Deadline for application is 5 pm (MST) Monday, August 15, 2016.

N E W S PA P E R

For all your advertising needs, call Dean or Amanda at 250-341-6299

PRO DAY — The first of three one-week camps hosted by the Columbia Valley Hockey School concluded on Friday, July 29th with a professional game day at the Eddie.

Photos by Nikki Fredrikson . . . ‘Hockey’ from page 5 We really want to grow it here in Invermere, we want to try to involve as much of the community as possible,” said Mr. Ponich.

The Columbia Valley Hockey School has teamed up with Tim Hortons, Sobeys, Copper Point Golf, Copper Point Resort and Cross Check Clothing as its major sponsors, as well as sponsorships from Howies Hockey Tape, Kady Hobbins and Columbia Valley Rockies.

Sponsorships help provide this program to the community and the owners hope they can further strengthen the hockey culture with local sponsors in the future.

“We want to have a community hockey school that everyone benefits from,” said Mr. Noble.

This summer, athletes attending the summer camps have been getting instruction from NHL players Adam Cracknell and Mason Raymond, an opportunity that camp participants have access to because of the owners’ own hockey careers. Having played professionally, they’re able to bring in NHL players to coach and speak to the kids about their careers.

“They can interact with the kids, they can be right in their face, grabbing them, wrestling them. The other day, one kid came in and snowed (Adam Cracknell) jokingly. Adam threw off his gloves and pretended to beat him up. Cool moments like that. When does a nine year old in Invermere get a chance to get a pretend fight with an NHL player? That’s a cool experience that will hopefully fuel their love of the game,” said Mr. Ponich.

The Columbia Valley Hockey School is about much more than

just working on developing the young player’s hockey skills. The program gives kids training to be successful in life with instruction on public speaking, nutrition, and plyometric workouts. The instructors believe in working them hard, but also giving the kids opportunities to have fun. Bringing in fire trucks to learn about firefighting, having relay races and offering the chance to soak their instructors with the fire hose, the camp balances education and summer fun.

“One of the biggest things is just having fun and really wanting to come to the rink and having the passion to play the game,” said Mr. Bruton.

Columbia Valley Hockey School camps run the last week of July to the second week of August, with camps available for athletes ages five to 19 at any skill level. To learn more about the camps, visit www.columbiavalley hockeyschool.com.

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Magic in the air Copper Point Golf recently earned bragging rights with two players with the same first name hitting holesin-one on the same hole in the same day within two hours of each other.

On Wednesday, July 20th, an ace on the 15th hole of the Point golf course by Doug Fedechko (top) of Edmonton at 2:15 p.m. was promptly followed up by another one, also on the Point #15, by Doug Yukes (below).

Photos submitted

Having a ball at Ballfest 2016 Fun was had by all at the 9th annual Ballfest softball tournament held at the Invermere Crossroads ball diamonds from July 22nd to 24th. All 26 teams had a blast competing in the tournament (middle pictures) and the home run derby (top photo). In the Intermediate division, the Skyhawks from Morley, Alberta were the winners, with the Scraps from Cranbrook taking home the recreational championship.

Funds raised from the tournament will support a Ballfest family who lost their home to a fire the day before the tournament, the Westside Legacy Trail and lead to some more exciting improvements at the Crossroads ballpark.

Photos by Eric Elliott

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Art in the Park Art in the Park took place Sunday, July 31st. The event welcomed local artisans who displayed their work at Pothole Park. Counterclockwise from the top: Along with artists, the event welcomed local musicians (pictured are Mike Smith, and Eli and Marty Beingessner) to perform throughout the day; Jan and Don Gropp took in the local art and enjoyed the musical performances; local landscape, wildlife, folk art and flowers artist Kristine Soellner; Karen, Fran, Joanne Hatalcik and Mike Freeman spent the day taking in all the art; John McGilvary, Sandi and Phin Pantella; the Art in the Park event attracted crowds to Pothole Park through the day; Daniel Outhet and Annais Castellanos took a peek at the different booths.

Photos by Nikki Fredrikson

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FAITH

Seeds of life

By Pastor Trevor Hagan, Lake Windermere Alliance Church When Jesus began His public ministry after His baptism, one of the first things He did was start teaching about the Kingdom of God. Now, the Kingdom of God is not like this world.

That’s why Jesus knew we needed to understand the difference, and He constantly taught about the Kingdom of God. The Beatitudes in Matthew 5 are an example of some of these Kingdom truths.

I was thinking about one of the Kingdom truths that I’ve learned over the years. John 12:24 Jesus tells us, “Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”

My family and I were previously pastoring in a rural farming community where one of my favourite things to do was to go and ride with the farmers as they seeded their fields. The imagery of this verse re-

minds me of those ride-alongs. Watching as my friends would prepare these dry, dead-looking seeds, put them in the seeder, and then planting them in the rich soil.

Depending on conditions, it’s not for four to six weeks until the first shoots are seen. But as the crop continues to grow, it multiplies abundantly. Had those single seeds stayed in the seed bins, they wouldn’t have multiplied. But in going into the ground, and being seemingly dead, those seeds actually could multiply beyond measure and produce an abundant harvest.

This is what I’d describe as a kingdom truth. It has many applications. First and foremost, it describes what happened when Jesus died on the cross. Jesus was like the single seed that “died and went to ground”.

And then, of course, He rose again and produced amazing fruit. In laying down His life, Jesus made it possible for each person across history since then to enter into a relationship with Him, and gain eternal life. The fruit has been abundant.

Isn’t it amazing to plant dead seeds and see them come to life? I remember feeling like I was dead in this world. I was encouraged to surrender my life to Jesus and he made me come alive! In a way we are all seeds waiting for God to bring us to life.

How about you?

This column is a reprint of one that was published in The Pioneer in July 2015.

LAKE WINDERMERE ALLIANCE CHURCH Sunday, August 7th 10:30 a.m. Worship And Life Instruction, “GOSPEL – Payment” … Pastor Trevor Hagan ministering.

“K.I.D.S.” Church, for children Age 3 to Grade 1, during the Morning Service.

Lead Pastor Trevor Hagan • Associate Pastor Matt Moore 326 - 10th Avenue, Invermere 250-342-9535 • www.lakewindermerealliance.org WINDERMERE VALLEY SHARED MINISTRY ANGLICAN-UNITED Worship every Sunday, 10:30 a.m.

Children & Youth Sunday School at 10:30 a.m.

Christ Church Trinity, Invermere 1st and 3rd Sunday, March - Dec. 9 a.m.: All Saint’s, Edgewater 2nd Sunday, 7 p.m.: June - October at St. Peter’s, Windermere Reverend Laura Hermakin • 110 - 7th Avenue, Invermere 250-342-6644 • www.wvsm.ca VALLEY CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY Sunday 10 a.m.: Worship Services.

Pastor Murray Wittke • 4814 Highway Drive, Windermere 250-342-9511 • www.valleychristianonline.com ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Saturday, 4:30 p.m.: at St. Anthony’s, Canal Flats.

Saturday, 5 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m.: at Canadian Martyrs’ Church in Invermere.

Sunday, 11 a.m.: at St. Joseph’s Church in Radium.

Father Gabriel • 712 -12th Ave., Invermere • 250-342-6167 ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN MISSION OF INVERMERE Worship services every Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

Christ Church Trinity, 110 - 7th Ave., Invermere Pastor Rev. David Morton • 250-417-5017 RADIUM CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Sunday 10 a.m. Worship service Pastor Wayne and Linda Frater • 250-342-6633 No. 4, 7553 Main St. Radium • 250-347-9937 CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Worship Service, Sunday, 10 a.m. • Relief Society, 11:15 a.m.

President Adam Pasowisty • Columbia Valley Branch 5014 Fairway, Fairmont Hot Springs • 250-341-5792

You can remember someone special with your gift to the Canadian Cancer Society

Working out with a group A group of Pokemon GO players gather together in front of the Highland Crossing show room adjacent to Invermere’s Cenotaph Park where a Pokemon Go gym pops up on the mobile devices of players, allowing them to battle or train their Pokemon characters.

Photo submitted

To donate In Memory or In Honour: www.cancer.ca | 250-426-8916 or call toll-free 1-800-656-6426 or mail to: #19, 19th Avenue South Cranbrook, B.C. V1C 2L9 Please include: Your name and address for tax receipt Name of the person being remembered Name and address to send card to

Let’s Make Cancer History

www.cancer.ca

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