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IN THE BEAUTIFUL COLUMBIA VALLEY Serving Spillimacheen, Brisco, Radium, Edgewater, Invermere, Windermere, Fairmont and Canal Flats

BACKYARD BLISS — It’s the Canada Day long weekend and summer is in full swing. The Valley is one of the best places in Canada for outdoor activities. A vacation destination to be sure. But the gorgeous setting and brilliant sunshine also make it a great spot for the more passive Canadian tradition of plain old relaxing in your backyard. In this repsect the valley is also a true staycation destination. In celebration of this unofficial, but universal, national pastime, The Pioneer invites you to find a good spot in the sun, put up your feet and enjoy the paper’s Canada Day: Ode to the Backyard feature on pages 19 to 23, in which Pioneer staff share or show what they like best about their own backyards — from smoking meat in Canal Flats to kingdoms of dirt under the deck in Invermere, and bighorn watching from the balcony in Radium to the paradise views from Pioneer proofreader Melanie Remple’s back porch in Brisco (shown here) the Valley is full of backyard beatitude.

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Events throughout the valley CANAL FLATS

Canada Day Celebrations Village of Canal Flats, June 30th, noon -11 p.m.

Celebrate both Canada Day and the Village of Canal Flats’ Grand Opening of the recently upgraded Tilley Memorial Park with music by Valley Forged, a free barbecue, T-shirt, flag and tattoo sticker giveaways, and cake. Fireworks at the Civic Center Grounds at 11 p.m.

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Canada Day Celebrations Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, July 1st, All Day Canada Day Celebrations at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort starting with face painting, balloon animals, live music

by L8, crafts, games & more in the courtyard from 12 - 4 p.m. Canada Day 150th birthday cake will be served in the courtyard at 1 p.m. and Odd Lot Puppetry Co. will be performing in the courtyard at 5 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. in the Cedar Room. And finishing off the day with a bang, Fireworks at the historic bathhouse at 10:30 p.m. They can be viewed anywhere from the resort area.

Fairmont’s golf courses will feature Canada flags adorning the pins and Canada 150 golf balls may be purchased.

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Kinsmen Club of Windermere Valley Fireworks East of Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena (Above the Lake), July 1st, 12:01 a.m.

The best places to watch are beside the Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena, Lakeview Road on the east side of Lake Windermere, James Chabot Beach at the north end of the lake, or from an anchored boat.

Music and Market on Main Visitor Information Centre, July 1st, 4 - 9 p.m.

The Music and Market on Main will be in operation at the Radium Visitor Information Centre for Canada Day with music by The Jazz Council starting at 7 p.m. Brithday cake will also be served.

Canada Day Parade Downtown Invermere, July 1st, 11 a.m.

Floats will be featuring a year or decade from Canada’s history as their theme. Parade organizer Laurie Meadows said the people at Columbia Garden Village are excited about featuring D Day in 1944.

PANORAMA

Mountain Mosaic Festival of the Arts Kinsmen Beach, July 1st, noon - 3 p.m.

Free festival for the whole family at the Kinsmen Beach Greenspace featuring the Festival Stage, Canada 150 Interactive Art Project, food vendors, face painting and Build a Boat and Float contest at 3 p.m. put on by Windermere firefighters as a fundraiser for muscular dystrophy. Entertainment on the stage will include belly dancing, Robert Wong’s magic show, United Dance’s competitive team and music.

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New activities and pure Canada celebrations All summer long, Panorama will be celebrating Canada 150 with new attractions, new bike trails, expanded sightseeing and more. And as the rest of the country kicks off celebrations, Panorama is ready to participate, party and pamper their guests.

As Panorama is situated right next to national parks, the resort has already seen an increase in bookings from those seeking to use the resort as the perfect home base for exploring the parks. Panorama offers great access and opportunities for adventures and exploration, without the crowds and bustle often found in the park centres. And as the parks reach capacity this year with their free pass program, Panorama is well prepared to accommodate overflow as well as those looking for a true resort experience in the mountains.

Last summer was incredible at Panorama Resort, and this year sees the resort building on that success and adding an array of activities aimed at a variety of interests. The resort has seen an increase in visitors seeking an authentic mountain experience, and for many, a stay at Pan-

orama may be their first adventure in an the Panorama Bike Park continues to outdoor environment. To that end, Pan- attract downhill bike fanatics for some orama has added new ‘soft-adventure’ ex- gravity-fed greatness. Beginning midperiences as well as a new pass useable for July, Panorama riders get to experience a brand-new network of lift-accessed, higha variety of village activities.

The new Active Pack makes it easy alpine trails!

The new Hopeful Creek Bike Trails for families to do a variety of activities without the complexity of having to pur- descend 1220 metres (4000 feet) from chase different tickets depending on the Panorama’s summit along the high alpine bike trails. attraction. The Active Pack scan pass “The Panorama Bike Park continues Inspired by the provides access to attract downhill bike fanatics for original Hopeful Creek Trail that to archery, Eurosome gravity-fed greatness.” once helped prosBungy, Howling pectors and huntWolf Mini-Golf, the climbing wall, ers ascend into the scenic chairlift rides, and the Paradice high alpine above Panorama, the trails are accessible by riding two chairlifts up the Mining Co. sluice.

The Paradice Mining Co. is one of mountain, with a short pedal up to the the resort’s new attractions, inspired by summit. Three distinct trail options offer the nearby Paradise Mine, which actively varying conditions from flowy forested mined minerals up to the mid-1900s. trails to challenging scree slopes with This family-friendly activity is a hands-on no shortage of breathtaking high-alpine history experience where guests can pan views of the Purcell and Rocky Mountain for gemstones, arrowheads, fossils and Ranges and the Columbia Valley below.

The Hopeful Bike Trail ticket is availshells.

On the other end of the spectrum, able on weekends beginning mid-July to

early fall. Tickets are $52 per person, or available as a $20 add-on if guests already have a Bike Park Lift Ticket or Bike Park Season Pass.

Prefer to explore on your own two feet? Good news, weekend warriors can now use the new Active Pack to breeze up a 1020-metre vertical rise from the village to the top of the Champagne Express and take in the spectacular views of the surrounding peaks. Available every Saturday and Sunday this summer starting July 1st.

In addition to hiking, biking, and activities, Panorama also possesses pools!

Our family-friendly outdoor pools, with water slides and hot tubs, are a perfect way to beat the summer heat and chill in the mountains. Activities for resort visitors also include ATV Tours, off-road safaris, whitewater rafting, and backcountry horseback riding, and the renowned Greywolf Golf Course.

There’s more to the mountains.

Check out Panorama’s website for more details on events, deals and adventures all summer long. See you up the mountain!

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Celebrating Community - The Performing Arts in the Columbia Valley and the way performing arts informed and enlivened that society.

The arts help us define and exEarly prospectors and adpress who we are. We gather to celventurers learned about this land ebrate that identity, our relationship from their indigenous friends, with each other and with our beauand many developed their own tiful land. In nearly every town in storytelling through this assothe valley a community hall stands ciation. In the early mining and in prominent position on the landfarming days, life was full of hard scape. They’re some of the oldest work. The best way to unwind and most well used buildings in was to dance the aches and pains our region, places purposefully away. Dancing was essential and built for us to gather, to celebrate, dance bands have been part of to share our human experience. the social life of this region since We do this through story, music, the 1890s.

Dora Bodecker song, dance, and theatre.

A fiddle and a mouth organ, Performing arts have contributed to cel- with spoons for percussion, could perk up any gatherebration from time immemorial. Before white ing. Musical leadership arrived with Celina Kimpton settlers came to the Columbia Valley, indig- in 1895. She played pump organ for church services enous populations gathered in celebration. A and piano for dances and socials at Windermere Hosuccessful hunt, a bountiful harvest, an abun- tel. Professor and Mrs. Troyer came in 1903 and soon dant fishing catch, the birth of a child, a mar- developed an orchestra that played for parties. Tunriage, a funeral – all these occurrences became nacliffe Orchestra played balls and dances in Wilmer more meaningful when they were shared and and Invermere in 1911. In the 1920s, Gladys Pitts led celebrated. Storytellers were called upon to the Haywire Orchestra. In Edgewater, Mrs. Hanson, bring out those meanings. Leaders were of- Stanley Harrison, and Bob Thompson played for loten selected and respected for their ability to cal dances. In Brisco, Mrs. Mitchell, Johnny Thorson, inspire unity through their storytelling skills. Bob Hale, Pat Kelly and Stanley Harrison performed Great orators could carry on for hours re- for all the special occasions. In Invermere, Eileen and galing listeners with expansive details, Chris Madson’s orchestra included Ian Robertson, Joe important teachings, and their own LaRochelle, and Wanda Seel. The Frank Major ortrademark humour. Then drummers, chestra hailed from Fairmont. At least fifteen musisingers, and dancers created pathways cal groups sprang up through the first decades of the through which people could imprint the Twentieth Century. Fine musicians performed in all stories in collective memory. these groups in changeable combinations whenever Our written and photographic re- occasions for celebration arose. cords show that immigrant settlers to the Music marked St. Andrew’s and St. Patrick’s Days, valley have done the same. Windermere as well as Robbie Burns Day, which called for bagValley Museum offers evidence of the pipes, jigs and reels. May Day involved a ribbon dance rich social and cultural life of the region, around a maypole. Masked balls were for Halloween as well as the New Year. Fall fairs included a dance to celebrate the harvest. Christmas caroling was common. Any need for fundraising was also a reason to have a social with music and dance. Red Cross and the Hospital Aid socials attracted great support. Organizers used whatever resources and volunteers they could muster. As they stepped up, the performing arts grew under their leadership.

Dora Bodecker, a young music teacher came to the valley in 1906 and taught piano to dozens of children into the 1950s. Her name appears over and over in the records of regional cultural occasions.

By Anne Jardine Special to The Pioneer

Top: Chief Louis Arable Middle: Mrs. Kennings’ Dancers in 1930s.

Right: Miss Bodecker’s Dance Troup. Dominion Day , circa1930. Photos courtesy of the Windermere District Historical Society

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The Canada 150 Project Miss Bodecker was able to bring out the best in her piano students, and they loved her strict decorum as well as her sense of fun. Student recitals generally drew out the whole population because everyone took great interest in the musical development of the youngsters. Miss Bodecker organized Invermere’s first choral group.

She was also first violinist in the Columbia Valley’s earliest classical string quartet, along with Dr. Mary Crawford on second violin, and Georgie Sims and Thelma Bartle on viola and cello. Miss Bodecker was a musical dynamo in this region. Her large, historical collection of music was eventually inherited by Barry Moore, who founded the classical Lockwood Ensemble with Elaine Larson, Dr. Lorne Beuckert, Wanda Seel, and Sharon Morgan.

Winn Weir came to the valley in the 1920s. Her cultural energy sparked life in the valley right up until the first years of the new millennium. A journalist, speaker, historian, author, playwright and poet, Mrs. Weir created and produced dozens of local performance events. She was a remarkable organizer and arts advocate. She believed that the stories and dreams of a place give the people their unique as well as their universal humanity. She captured the spirit of the stories, and reflected it back to us in words and in stage shows. She helped to establish Pynelogs Cultural Centre. She was honoured by the Lieutenant Governor as a companion of the Order of British Columbia for good reason: she influenced and inspired almost everything to do with arts and culture around here for over sixty years.

Edith Kennings was another cultural leader. She arrived in Edgewater in the 1930s and taught ballet, tap, and social dancing. She and Miss Bodecker collaborated to produce many musical performances. In Edgewater in the 1940s, Mrs. Kennings organized all manner of social events. She was assisted by the daughters of a family who moved to Radium in 1949 – the talented Paprocke sisters, Sophie and Wanda. They too became dance and music teachers. Wanda (now Wanda Seel) has given a whole lifetime as a cultural volunteer, leading choirs, playing for theatre productions, performing in piano and violin concerts. She still plays at many musical events around the valley.

Choral groups have been going strong ever since the early 1900s. Miss Bodecker’s Tommy Tuckers met weekly to sing together. With their huge repertoire of traditional and popular music of the early 1900s, they would be invited to house parties all over the valley to “sing for their supper.” In those days, families would sing around the piano after Sunday dinner. The “Tommy Tuckers” were perfect guests.

Choirs in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s were led by Wanda Seel, Anne Aycock, and in the 1990s by David Escott, whose Columbia Valley Singers eventually evolved to Valley Voices in 1999, with Ken Mallett and now Paul Carriere as conductors.

Theatre companies also contributed to our region’s cultural life. The Windermere Amateur Theatre Club in 1906 mounted a number of productions. The Wilmer Dramatic Club sprang up in 1912. The Lake Windermere Dramatic Society emerged in 1932, and revived itself as the Windermere Little Theatre Association in 1936. During these years, Ian Weir directed several Gilbert and Sullivan productions. In the 1950s, theatre people regrouped as Lake Windermere Players with a strong volunteer force of actors and directors. Shows over the next three decades were often entered in regional and provincial drama festivals. Winn Weir wrote, produced, and directed a series of Christmas pantomimes, many with original music composed by Barry Moore from 1960 through 1986. The pantomimes became a seasonal mainstay. Lake Windermere Players would generally mount two other productions to round out the calendar each year. One of the most exciting events for the hometown audience was a 1972 production of Guys and Dolls. Radium had a Theatrical Club for a few years. The 1970s and 80s saw several large

musicals cast mainly with DTSS and J.A. Laird students. The Brisco Players also contributed to our drama scene.

Lindy Meadows was one of the most notable leaders in theatre arts from 1970 to 1997. Though she often left to direct plays for professional companies around Canada, she would return to the valley bringing her creative ideas to our local stage.

In the 1990s she teamed up with Columbia Valley Singers Choirmaster David Escott to produce Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, and Broadway classics Sound of Music, and Oliver. Their collaboration set a high standard for local musical theatre.

Throughout its history, our valley has had an abundance of cultural leaders and talented performers. They continue to enrich our collective life, uniting us, deepening our humanity through our stories and songs. What better reason to celebrate, and build new community gathering places!

Top to bottom: Scene from Lake Windermere Players production of “Salad Days”, 1961, Ann Williamson and Dot Worsly; Pirate Crew of the Rigamaroo, Bob Campsall; David F. Scott, Barry Moore and Wanda Seel (Sound of Music); Winn Weir and Mike Frazer. Below: Scene from Sound of Music, 1996.

Jenna Crooks, Kirsten Smith, Nadia Gillies, Brodie Smith, Megan Smith, Owen Nicholls and Jamie Konschak.

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Tania and Martina Halik — a mother-daughter duo from the Columbia Valley — recently completed their astounding 2,300-kilometre, six month ski traverse of the entire Coast Mountain Range, from Squamish to Skagway, Alaska.

Although the timing of the trip coinciding with Canada’s 150th anniversary is more coincidence than anything, it’s worth pointing out that the duo spent much of the year that Canada turns a century and a half skiing across a huge swath of the country’s territory, getting a sense of the wild and rugged identity of the nation few others ever will. And for Tania, it was also a great way to celebrate turning 60.

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a way to cross the Dean River located between Bella Coola and Terrace. Martina, a skilled and passionate writer, documented that harrowing portion of their trip on their blog (coastmountainepic.com). Below is a portion of her account:

“The prize ‘Epic Trophy; goes to what we now ominously refer to as ‘The Curse of Mean (Dean) River’. Descending to the Dean river valley was a minor epic in itself.

Dawn to dusk of back breaking travel saw us cover a mere 3.5 kilometres as one unmarked canyon and cliff after another forced creative solutions like setting up pulley systems

By James Rose to shuttle gear. Our toboggans and packs took a beating Special to the Pioneer DARING DUO - Invermere resident Tania Halik (above) and the waterproof MEC bag I was carrying our raft in and her daughter Martina (below) successfully traversed for managed to acquire a small rip in it when it snagged on a Skagway, Alaska — For Tania and Martina Halik, it six months from Squamish to Alaska. Raven Eye Photography branch. was surreal. They made it. Descending to their final desThe Dean itself looked mean the second I laid eyes on it. tination around midnight on Monday, June 19th marked The water was black and fast and cold. Bordered by cliffs and the end of their ski touring expedition that took them ice banks on both sides and scattered with rapids, we searched from Squamish, B.C. all the way to the small Alaskan port for the widest calmest section we could to cross. With a lifetime town. In total, the mother-daughter duo traversed 2,300 and thousands of kilometers of kayak and canoe travel under kilometres in just under six months. And with the nearing her belt from the Arctic Ocean to whitewater rivers on several summer solstice, they were treated to a setting sun just as continents, Tania was the obvious choice to navigate the black they made their final push to the valley bottom. water first.

“I remember finding a water fountain near our acInflating our sturdy $24 pool toy with avalanche shovcommodation in Skagway and I just stood in its icy wael/paddle at the ready, we solemnly waited for a break in the ter,” said Tania, who has been an Invermere resident for relentless rain and then loaded up the raft. We decided the the past 30-odd years and turned 60 around the time safest option was to attach our two 30 metre glacier ropes to they started the trip. “It felt so good to just be in the mothe boat that way we could later set up a system to shuttle Tania. “But by that time, we had gone through so much gear across. ment and let the water sooth my tired feet.”

The final two weeks of their trip, from Juneau, Alas- and had done so much problem solving that it didn’t Within 10 seconds of departure it became obvious ka to Skagway were not without challenges. “We dealt deter us as much as it may have otherwise.”

Tania wasn’t going to make it. I hauled her back with the At face value, such a trip may at first seem like a rope from the brink of rapids for a second attempt. Then a with some severe weather storms the last few days. It physical challenge more than anything. But that was third. It soon became apparent the raft had a small leak that definitely was no cake walk to finish the trip,” reflected not the case. “Oh it was a we couldn’t patch, so in between each attempt we had to give mental battle for sure,” said it a few breaths to re-inflate it.

The monumental trip sawTania and MarTania. “Although we did Poor Tania clad only in her Arc’teryx shell jacket, untina passing through and camping out in extensive planning and prederwear and ski boots, was wet and freezing. Although parts of Canada most will never see. paring before we started, it the river wasn’t very wide the current was swift, and a

Raven Eye Photography didn’t take long before we particularly nasty boulder midstream with a mushroom had to start improvising of ice on it kept snagging the rope. When she finally did new routes and food drops make the opposite shore, she was snatched back into the and so on and so forth for current by the very rope meant to save her as it pulled hard much of the entire trip.” downstream. I forget how many times she battled the river Improvising, creative and I hauled her back before she was finally able to gain problem solving, and purchase in the ice bank on the opposite shore. maintaining an upbeat, At least six times. It was all very dramatic I tell you. can-do attitude — each I’ll never forget the elation as she stepped up the bank attribute was critical in en- hauling the raft and let out a triumphant primal yell of abling the already experi- “YEAH!!!!”. enced mountaineers to do But the Mean River had other plans. Two seconds what they did. later I heard a “Ping!” as the rope, still under tension, Take for example the somehow managed on its own to unclip from two opposed time they had to figure out carabiners.

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The Columbia Valley Pioneer • Play ’n’ Stay ~ 7 Tania surveys the rapidly retreating Sawyer Glacier. Last year it was reported to have retreated 3/4 of a mile. In a few decades a traverse like this may not even be possible anymore.

Raven Eye Photography

The rope slithered at high speed back into the icy depths where it snagged on the boulder as a professional photographer. For Tania, it’s back to Invermere working as a paraand I could not pull it back. Extreme profanities in multiple languages exploded from the medic. opposite bank. I am flabbergasted. I’ve personally taken and watched hundreds of falls up Aside from getting back to work, they are both excited about being featured in to 10 metres long onto a single carabiner rock climbing and never had it unclip. We’d been a documentary about their trip and have plans for a book. “The film crew for the hauling our toboggans for months on a single carabiner without them ever unclipping...” documentary met us on the last leg of our trip and I can’t wait for the film by Grant (read the full account at coastmountainepic.com).

Baldwin of Peg Leg Films to come out, which will be real soon,” said Martina. “We also Tania and Martina like to say they created this traverse in the hopes of experienc- are looking forward to the idea we shared about writing a book about our trip. It won’t ing something so immense and incredible that it would change our lives forever. “It is necessarily be a play-by-play but more of an attempt for us to explain how our different our hope that our journey will motivate others, especially women both young and old, perspectives shaped the way we navigated such an epic journey.” to explore their backyards too. For us, this will be the hardest thing we’ve ever done,” But what about their next grand adventure? “Mum says she never needs to do said the 30-year old Martina, a David Thompson Secondary School (DTSS) alum now something so long and difficult ever again,” said Martina in her final blog post. “I kind calling Fernie home. of don’t believe her, she’s said silly stuff like that before.” And Martina may be exactly And that’s saying something. Especially for Tania who, along with her husband, es- right, for upon arriving in Vancouver, it wasn’t long before Tania borrowed a canoe caped on foot from the former Czechoslovakia, when it was still a communist country from a friend and portaged it to nearby Cheakamus Lake for a paddle. in the 1980s. They fled to Switzerland before choosing to settle right here in Invermere.

As for Martina, her next adventure sounds like it will be something along the lines “The stories from my parent’s escape are enough to fill a book,” commented Mar- of boat-accessed ski touring in Greenland. “There are so many incredible places to ski tina. “From wading through icy rivers, trying to sneak past border guards and getting in Greenland where I doubt anyone else has ever before,” she said beaming. caught, and staring down the barrels of machine guns that are being held at them by For as they say, a rolling stone gathers no moss.

20-year-old soldiers, my mom is tough as nails.”

But for every Dean River type challenge the motherTania and Martina crossed 15 major ice fields and 12 large daughter duo faced, the trip offered as much, if not more river valleys on their 2,300 kilometre odyssey — a journey that in rewards. When the weather cooperated, it afforded them had previously only been successfully completed once. spectacular vistas. Blue skies, immense glaciers, and tower Raven Eye Photography ing mountain peaks all to themselves (save the odd bear).

“One of the greatest parts of the journey was the wonderful people we met along the way,” added Martina.

“Often complete strangers going out of their way to help us. The list of people that contributed to our expedition seems to be miles long by now – we are so grateful and appreciative to everyone that helped us along the way.”

Once they arrived in Skagway, the time to return home and earn an income was upon them. Because in case you may be wondering, 2,300-kilometre ski tour trips aren’t exactly cheap (the estimated trip cost was approximately $30,000). And while the two are very grateful for the support they received from their sponsors, the endeavour was part self-financed. For Martina, she has since returned to Fernie to resume her burgeoning career

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