Golden This Week - Dec. 4, 2015

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See story and pics, page 5.

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Local skaters compete in Okanagan

By Janet Crandall-Swaffield 1VCMJTIFS t (PMEFO 5IJT 8FFL Three local skaters participated recently in a regional competition. The Okanagan Interclub Competition took place on Friday and Saturday (27th, 28th) in West Kelowna.

Ryla and Tia Schacher and Lauren Russell went to the event, representing the Golden Figure Skating Club.

Ryla Schacher is skating in the Pre-Juvenile ladies category. While technically, her skate didn’t achieve everything she was hoping for, she did an amazing job on the program components side and put on a great show. She placed 9th.

She also skated her Silver interpretive that is dedicated to her father, which is always very emotional to watch. She did a great job and placed 10th.

Tia Schacher is skating STAR 2, and did really well.

She achieved the merit ribbon in her category.

Lauren Russell also skated exceptionally well, also skating in the STAR 2 category. She had a clean skate and finished with a silver ribbon. Due to the results achieved, she will move up to STAR 3 for the next competition.

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Branching out: What I learned about logging

By Janet Crandall-Swaffield 1VCMJTIFS t (PMEFO 5IJT 8FFL

6:05 a.m. - We’re loaded and ready to start on our way back down to the highway. First things first. The log stamp, which looks like a giant rubber stamp only it’s a kind of hammer that tells anyone who wants to know, where these logs came from. And then wrappers go on, cables with chains on the ends that wrap around the logs tight enough to keep them secure for travel.

6:15 a.m - A bit of paperwork … the order for the log yard when we get to the mill, and the log book. This load is heading to the Radium mill, Canfor. On our way down, we pass a couple of other trucks, Ralph Kostiuk and Ray Feuz, in position waiting to go up and be loaded. The road is wide here so it’s not an issue. Doug calls out our mileage again on the way down, and we meet yet another truck.

It’s 4:00 a.m. and my alarm just went off. But I was already awake. Today, I’m riding along in a logging truck and I’m excited.

4:30 a.m. - Time to leave the house, I drive by Doug Palumbo’s place on my way to park and wait to be picked up. He’ll be my driver today.

I can see the truck is mostly dark still, but it’s running. I hope he doesn’t forget me.

“7:10 a.m. - Passing through Golden, it’s still fairly dark and the town is just starting to stir.

Typically, people are just getting up to start their day, meanwhile the loggers have been at work for three hours already, and they tell me this is a later shift, that they’re a bit spoiled these days working so close to home.”

4:45 a.m. - Here comes my ride, all lit up, it’s quite the sight in the early morning hour. It’s completely dark out. And mostly quiet.

Climbing up into the truck, I’m surprised by it. Leather interior, comfortable seat, satellite radio. The truck is spotless, both inside and out.

Honestly, warm and comfortable isn’t exactly what I was expecting. But why shouldn’t it be. I don’t know what I was expecting.

5:00 a.m. - We’re on our way, heading through a mostly sleeping Golden, towards the TransCanada highway. The highway is closed due to an accident somewhere west, and there are trucks parked everywhere. Clearly, they’ve been here a while.

Can we still get through, I wonder, with the road being closed. No problem, the flagger waves us through like it’s no big deal, they know we’re just heading to Donald. And apparently we’re not the first truck through this morning.

It’s a perfect day for hauling logs, Doug says. At -12 C, it’s considerably warmer than yesterday’s -20 C. Road conditions are excellent, both on and off the highway. A few snowflakes are falling, but nothing too serious. Not yet anyway, I suppose that could change as the day wears on.

On our way to Donald, we pass the weigh scales without needing to stop there. “They’ve already taken our picture, and know the weight of the truck,” Doug tells me, as though he knew

My ride arrives at 4:45 a.m. Time to start the day. what I was wondering about. “Their technology is pretty amazing.”

5:15 a.m. - We pull off the highway and head north from Donald. The truck slows, and we stop.

Time to chain up. Chains aren’t needed every day, but because I’m riding along today, an extra safety precaution just in case. Thanks for that.

We head off the main road and up the hill.

The road is narrow, but not too bad. This is a pretty good road actually. Again, not sure what I expected.

Up and down, around corners, this is a one way road, with coordination required to get up and down. There are wider spots along the way, allowing the truck to pass when meeting another truck or vehicle. Doug calls out the mileage as we go along, the relevance coming clear to me more and more. Typically there are eight trucks for this particular site, each will do two trips, or cycles, per day.

5:40 a.m. - We’re at the landing. There’s the loader waiting for us to be in position. Jerry

Leigan is the loader operator, and Glen Tress is ahead in the distance, reclaiming the area, (or deactivating as it is sometimes called) as today is the last day for this site. They’re finishing up here and moving on to the next. We pull up past the loader and turn around, move ahead into position to be loaded. It’s dark. Really dark. I think I had imagined there would be more light needed to do this kind of thing in the wee hours of the morning, but they don’t obviously need it. Each piece of equipment has lights of own.

There’s a couple of minutes while the truck is being loaded. First, the loader operator unloads the trailer itself and it is put into position and hooked up, ready for logs. The driver of the next truck is there, Randy, and we chat for a minute while the logs are being loaded. The smell of fresh cut wood is all around me. It’s familiar, and comfortable somehow.

The truck rides totally different when it’s carrying some 50,000 lbs of timber. You can really feel the weight of the logs.

6:35 a.m. - We’re at the bottom of the hill, out of the bush and on the main road. Time for the chains to come off. Chains are heavy, I doubt that I could even lift them, but Doug makes it look pretty easy. He’s done this before once or twice.

7:10 a.m. - Passing through Golden, it’s still fairly dark and the town is just starting to stir.

Typically, people are just getting up to start their day, meanwhile the loggers have been at work for three hours already, and they tell me this is a later shift, that they’re a bit spoiled these days working so close to home.

Highway 95 is an easy drive. It’s socked in down the valley, snowing lightly but the highway is in excellent condition so the time passes quickly as I continue to query Doug about his job.

I’m surprised how quickly we arrive in Radium, and we turn right off the highway and head down towards the mill. The log yard at Canfor is big.

And there’s lots going on, trucks and machines moving throughout the yard.

8:30 a.m. - We queue up in the line, waiting ... Continued on page 10

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Hauling logs, my tag-along with a local logger Janet Crandall-Swaffield Publisher

“It dawned on me how driving truck was more than a simple career choice or just making a living, it’s a way of life, just like his dad and his five older brothers. It’s the family business.�

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How many of us hear the logging trucks rolling out in the middle of the night, heading out to the bush to start their day? Most of us probably don’t even hear it anymore, because we’ve gotten used to it. Sure, we know loggers have long working hours, but how much do we really know?

I was fortunate this week to spend half a day in a logging truck. I was curious to see logging up close, this industry that goes on all around us, that I can’t help but wonder if we don’t take it for granted much of the time.

Doug Palumbo agreed to take me along with him, picking me up before 5 a.m. to head out to the bush. It was an early shift, and it made for a fairly long day.

Doug has been driving truck for nearly 29 years, the majority of it spent hauling logs. Writing the test for a Class One license the day he turned 19, he started driving the very next day. Never looked back.

It was an easy ask, since I’ve known Doug for much of my life (almost no arm twisting required). We both grew up along Mitchell Road, otherwise known as the ’12 mile’, and my little sister, Merilee, and I spent many an afternoon at the Palumbo household. I think he thought I was crazy, he must not get many requests like this one. Ha. From the minute I climbed up into the truck and discovered Doug sitting there calmly, ready to face the day, I knew this was going to be fun. This is Doug’s ‘office’ after all. Here we go. I was really surprised to see how fast the next five and half hours went by.

So from Golden to Donald, to Radium, and back to Golden again, I pestered him with all manner of questions. (I’m sure he teased me a lot when we were kids, so this was good payback.)

It was a great day for a ride-along, with perfect conditions in every way. Nothing went wrong, and we experienced no delays.

I understand this isn’t the ‘everyday’ in the life of logging, there are so many things that can go amuck due to weather conditions and mechanical issues. It’s just how it is.

I’m sure there’s other stuff too, and maybe even some politics, as there is with any job.

Somewhere along the highway, I remembered a ride-along I did with Doug’s dad, Sam Palumbo, to Cochrane, more than 35 years ago. He had taken Divina (Doug’s sister) and I along for the day, it was very exciting for a seven-year-old.

It dawned on me how driving truck was more than a simple career choice or just making a living, it’s a way of life, just like his dad and his five older brothers. It’s the family business.

I know there are many professions that require one to work through the night doctors and nurses, policemen, ambulance drivers, volunteer firefighters, railway workers, bakers, and so on. Hauling logs is just another piece of the puzzle. But something about working in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, outside in the cold, rain or shine, well, let’s just say I quickly developed a whole lot of respect for what these guys do.

At the end of the day, Doug loves this job. I can see it in everything he tells me, in the way he treats his truck, his co-workers, everything along the way. It may not be perfect, it just is what it is. What a treat to ride along for a day. Thank you Doug.

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I have a bachelor’s degree in Journalism & Communication and worked as a freelance journalist for regional & national newspapers in Europe. I have worked many different jobs over the years, such as running an international rafting office in Nepal to being a high school janitor, but my passion is in sales, marketing and journalism.

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My family’s most recent financial meeting was a bit different from most, because our daughter Cristina and son-in-law Jason were in Scotland, not Canada. But with Skype, distance is no excuse for not giving a family financial meeting a try. The answers to the following questions will help you

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At our most recent family meeting, Cristina

wanted to understand her mother’s and my thinking about end-of-life healthcare. If my heart stopped, would I want to be resuscitated? If her mom was in a prolonged coma, what approach to treatment would she want? (Hey, my daughter is a bioethics specialist ... what can I say?) Thankfully, we started with lighter topics and then got into the heavier stuff.

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At our house, family meetings have evolved.

These days, they address the concerns of people ranging from ages 27 to 82. And though we don’t all live on the same continent, our family financial meetings help keep us on the same page.

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Eat Pure: Who loves popcorn?

by Judith Thibault Eat Pure Mountain Market Special to Golden This Week

It is the season of snuggling into a warm and cozy blanket for an evening movie. If you are lucky enough to cuddle on a comfy couch with your love done, your pet or a friend with a good bowl of popcorn (Zea mays everta), be sure to make it extra nutritious at the same time! At EPMM, we have this amazing, organic, multi-colored popcorn and it’s GMOfree. The kernels have a very thin hull that disintegrates upon popping, leaving a soft yet crispy texture that is very pleasurable to eat!

“Butter might be one of the most beloved types of food on the planet, because it makes everything taste so good, but there is an even more delicious alternative to butter that has been around for thousands of years.�

Known since ancient times, popcorn is made from a primitive variety of corn that has small, hard ears and kernels. Remains of these kernels, some dating back 5,000 years, have been found in archeological sites in Mexico. The endosperm of this type of corn is much larger in proportion to its weight than that of other varieties of corn, with the result being a higher starch content. It is also characterized by its firm and glossy hull.

When exposed to extreme heat, the moisture in the endosperm is converted into steam and the resulting pressure causes the hull of the

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kernel to burst, exposing the inner part, which forms a crisp and puffy mass.

Plain popcorn contains thiamin, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, zinc and copper. It is also a good source of fiber.

Let’s talk a little about butter and ghee.

Butter might be one of the most beloved types of food on the planet, because it makes everything taste so good, but there is an even more delicious alternative to butter that has been around for thousands of years. Ghee is a clarified type of butter, meaning it is butter that has been simmered into a concentrate and the milk residue has been removed. What remains is basically a pure combination of fats that does not need to be refrigerated. Ghee can last for months or even years without refrigeration, making it very popular throughout history. Although it originated in India, ghee

is commonly used in dozens of countries.

Ghee has a rather unique and flavorful taste and aroma that is different from butter, but it can be used in almost all of the same ways.

Due to the high concentration of fat in butter and ghee - in fact ghee is pure fat - only small amounts are needed or else it can have negative effects on your health. Everything in moderation. Although many people think of fats as unhealthy elements of your diet, the body also needs good fat to function. Omega-3s (monounsaturated fats) are healthy forms of fat that can be found in ghee, in addition to other fatty acids like conjugated linoleic acid and butyric acid (nourishes the cells of the intestines), both of which have positive health benefits in the body. Ghee also contains vitamin A, D, E and K. Since it’s made from the milk solids, but with

the impurities removed, people who are lactose intolerant usually have no problems consuming ghee. However, you may want to consult with your physician before trying it.

Storing: Popcorn kernels should be stored in an airtight container to prevent them from becoming too dry. Once they lose their moisture, they do not pop as well.

My favorite recipe: Popcorn, popped in a hot air popper or your favorite method Ghee, melted Celtic sea salt or Himalayan salt Nutritional yeast (A good source of Vitamin B) Sea-veg blend, from Harmonic Arts, for additional iron Sometimes I sprinkle curry powder on top for a little spice.

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‘It’s a perfect day for hauling logs’

Filling out the necessary paperwork for this load to be accepted at the logyard at the mill.

Unloading is done quickly, it’s all very organized.

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to be weighed. Bit of a rush hour at this time of the morning I guess. Once we’re weighed we move ahead into the next lineup, waiting to be unloaded. We are the 39th load for the day, and it’s not even 9:00 a.m. Doug estimates there will be up to 100 trucks through the yard today, working out to 50 trucks making two trips eaach.

We pull ahead, and Doug jumps out to remove the wrappers, the cables holding the load of logs

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As we approach the front of the yard, a loader operator speaks to Doug over the CB, calling us out of the line and up near the mill. Lucky break, part of our load gets fed right into the mill - large logs, the rest - headrig (even larger logs) - into a pile for sorting.

It’s an interesting place, the log yard. Lots of activity, yet it’s organized and everyone knows what to do and what’s expected of them. Seems like there wouldn’t be much room for error here.

Back around to be weighed and sign off on the paperwork, then over to the crane to load our

trailer up onto the truck so we can head back to the highway. Lucky again, this station is free so we don’t have to wait.

10:40 a.m. - Another easy highway trip, and we’re back in Golden in no time. I’m getting out here, my shift is done, but Doug’s day is only half over. He’ll head back to Donald for another load, another trip, another cycle. Just another day at the office.

It’s incredible what these guys go, I have to say. I didn’t see any female drivers, but I’m told that women have been known to work in these jobs before. It isn’t necessarily as physically

demanding as it appears, it can be more mentally fatiguing than anything.

There’s a camaraderie between these men, a professional courtesy as they go up and down the mountain, and up and down the highway.

Everyone knows their role. There’s a confidence in oneself, and in each other. And competency is evident, to be able to operate these machines in a remote location in the middle of the night. I’m just a tourist here, but it’s business as usual for these guys. I’m a tiny bit enlightened about what it takes to be a logger, and my appreciation is a whole lot higher.

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Ice Cream for Breakfast: Fantastic toddler trickery

by Sarah Elizabeth Special to Golden This Week

I have yet to have success keeping my child warm in the cold winter months without feeling like I’m torturing her in some way.

When trying to put my daughter in her winter jacket and snow pants she runs away while complaining the jacket is “too hard.� Part of me judges her a little - too hard - but at the same time I get it. I also judge myself a little when considering how hard of a time I have trying to get my child dressed – though she is fast. Never mind winter coats, hats, mittens and boots.

Every clothing item from putting on pajamas after bath time to the normal foundation of socks, pants and a shirt to go under the “hard� winter coat and outer wear needed to leave the house is a battle and I’m mildly embarrassed to admit, sometimes she wins.

Toddlers are built to outwit adults. They’re fast, they’re small and they have the strength of a thousand elephants. They are also loud – very loud. Their sonic capacity when discovering how loud they can scream can draw canine species from the depths of caves in undiscovered mountains from undiscovered continents. One of their greatest powers is so simplistic in nature I’m almost envious: They know that by stripping down to their birthday suits, combined with the lightning speed at which they can run and places they can crawl into or under, can mean holding an adult hostage for days until the adult gives in to their demands of popcorn and Calliou. The trick, as the parent, is to find the positive and use the situation to your advantage in some way. For example, the plus side to losing the battle that is “getting-dressed time� is how much easier “potty-time� becomes and this quickly turns into a cheerleading moment for me where I stand outside the bathroom door and gently ask, “Do you need any help?� Which is usually answered with a shake of the head and being yelled at to, “Close the door!� To which I gently respond with, “Okay, I’m right outside the door if you need anything.�

There are some things I never thought I would find myself saying since becoming a parent, but when I do say them, they are said in the most sincere, gentle way, like, “Sorry honey, poo has to go down the drain through the tunnel to the other side to be with his friends. That’s why you can’t hold him,� and “If you don’t brush your teeth they are going to fall out and then you can’t eat ice cream anymore.� Actually, us grown-ups know the opposite is true – if all of

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her teeth fell out, then ice cream might be the only food she eats, but what toddlers don’t know is our only leverage when going head to head in a battle of wits with them. Sometimes we must use this weakness of theirs to our advantage – a play on words can mean success. Teeth falling out and never eating ice cream again sounds consequential in a terrible way to a toddler.

Therefore, teeth brushing will commence and winning with cooperation as a result may save you from losing years at the end of your life.

Pinning them down or holding them upside down while you do the job wastes tons of energy that could possibly cost you years at the end of your

life span and we don’t want that. We also want to get through this while accumulating the least amount of gray hairs as possible along the way if that’s possible. Therefore white lies will get you a long way.

While there are many clothing items my two year old loves, including shirts with cats on them, she would prefer to be left in the comfort of her birthday suit. I guess if you consider the two options, nudity to a winter coat, a winter coat would be “too hard� – when you’re comparing it to air. But, I would argue that when the air is below 10 degrees and the sun outside is shining; when the snow is soft and

the hills are inviting; then the child who runs away saying, “no, no, no,� must get dressed somehow, someway – then try I must, try I may and not give up, to get on our way. (Hey, all that Dr. Seuss reading is paying off – see what I did there?)

I thought I could force snow pants on my daughter and she and I would have a good mother/daughter laugh at the wrestling match that ensued when I tried to get her stiff little legs into the purple, frost-bite-preventing, leg padding that is her snow pants. But it only ended in resentment and apologies. Neither one of us had any fun in that particular moment. While I have my white lies, my partner uses distraction to his advantage – putting a Korean version of the Wheels on the Bus on You Tube for her to watch while he dresses her with ease. This is why two heads are better than one. While I attempt to reason with my crazy kid who runs away from me in a game of “you can’t get me, sucker fool,� until I’m too tired or annoyed to care anymore, my partner creates a balance; coming up with clever ideas that lead to success when I’m all out and vice versa. Technology is a powerful win/win tool, as long as the batteries are charged - letting the Wheels on the Bus on You Tube do the job of distracting your child while you dress them in their five layers or so to keep them warm and all their fingers and toes in place during the winter months just might be worth saving the hassle.

I guess in the end there are all sorts of ways to get a toddler to cooperate. Sometimes there’s a time for bribery, sometimes a white lie, sometimes they listen to reason and you feel a small win at the realization that some of the decent parenting tactics you have been using are working – like long-winded explanations and letting them learn the natural consequence of taking off their mittens and holding the snow.

Then there’s the good old fashion compromise of staying home to enjoy a relaxing pajama day while making homemade soup and watching the snow fall, which isn’t such a bad alternative.

After all, nothing beats snuggling on the couch with a blanket and a whole-lotta books by the lights of a Christmas tree or the warmth of a fire place. While we grown-ups know a thing or two about some stuff, so do our kids to a greater degree. They know snuggling up on the couch with a soft blanket in a warm house is much more cozy than their own snot freezing into icicles hanging from their nose. Giving in to their demands can be a win/win for everyone. It sure beats a bruised ego as a result of fantastic toddler trickery if you ask me.

And toddler trickery is a fantastic thing indeed.

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History Column - Why no natural gas in our history?

by Duane Crandall Special to Golden This Week

Looking at how things came into being can be interesting. And, as we saw in the story of Hamber Park, sometimes the things that didn’t happen are also interesting. So along that line of thought, in a country that has such huge amounts of natural gas, you might wonder why the availability of natural gas in Golden is not part of our history.

And here is the answer: money, or perhaps more politely, costs. There are simply not enough people in the Columbia Valley to warrant spending

the money that it would take to put in a natural gas line.

That is true, but everything costs money. Roads cost money and we have the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 95. Schools cost money and we have schools. Hospitals cost money and we have a hospital. So why not natural gas, meaning natural gas that is piped to our homes the way it is everywhere else?

As I understand it, here is how it is. My understanding may not be perfect, but I did some work on it when I was MLA and here is what I found.

Natural gas is available in Cranbrook and Kimberley. It is also available in Salmon Arm and Canmore. Bringing it from either Salmon Arm or Canmore is prohibitive because of several reasons such as topography, national parks, lack of population along the routes and probably other things. So that leaves piping it up from Cranbrook as the only real possibility of getting gas to Golden.

If you are familiar with the pulp mill at Skookumchuk, however, you might assume that it has natural gas so that would shorten the distance considerably. And starting at Canal Flats, there are people living all the way up the valley to

help pay for the cost of the line.

But here is how it really is.

The line from Cranbrook to Skookumchuk is not very big. It is only big enough to provide gas to the pulp mill and besides that, it is company owned, which means it isn’t an option.

So it would mean starting from the pipeline in the Cranbrook area.

So that then brings population, and possible customers along the line into the equation.

As you know, regardless of whether the line would be put on the Fort Steele or Kimberley side of the Kootenay River, there is a very small population all the way north to Canal Flats. That is a distance of about 80 kilometres. Then from Canal Flats to Edgewater there are probably only about 10,000 people and no heavy industry except the mill at Radium. That is followed by low population from from Edgewater to Golden, and the population of the whole Golden area is only about 8,000 people. So we are probably talking about 20-24,000 people maximum that would be served by a natural gas pipeline from Cranbrook to Golden. The Okanagan valley, on the other hand, has about 230,000 people, or about ten times what we have.

The cost of construction is also huge,

regardless of the method of doing it. I looked at the cost of trenching along the highway and, while this might seem preposterous, also looked at the cost of putting a pipeline along the bottom of the Columbia River. Even back in the 1980’s, either way was expensive. Like $25 million dollars.

And that is just the cost of the main line from Cranbrook. That doesn’t include the cost of the local distribution systems.

Then, in addition to cost, even if a natural gas line were put in, there is no guarantee that everyone would hook up to it. For people who already have their homes and their energy system in place, are they going to throw it out to put in natural gas? Not likely. The people with propane could convert pretty easily, oil would probably not be too difficult, but you would have to start from scratch with electricity or wood.

So we don’t have natural gas in Golden and probably won’t ever have. It just doesn’t make sense financially for a utility company to bring it in. And, in fact, natural gas is not as cheap as it used to be. It used to seem like it was almost free when we would hear stories from other areas, but costs have caught up with natural gas and it is now much more comparable to other forms of energy than it used to be.

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