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Energy-packed local hockeyThe Ashcroft Canadians played a hard game against the Lillooet Pistons on Jan. 11 at Drylands Arena. The Atoms team came out playing hard and fast, scoring the first goal of the game, but just couldn’t hold on to the lead. They fought hard but came up short, losing 13-7.

Ashcroft Council is mulling over the future of solid waste in BC as part of a provincial in-itiative.

Environment Minister Mary Polak in Oc-tober rejected a proposed ban on waste export from Metro Vancouver but tasked Surrey-Pan-orama MLA Marvin Hunt, the former chair of Metro’s waste committee, to conduct a three-month review and make further recommenda-tions.

A committee made up of councillors from Ashcroft, Cache Creek, the Ashcroft Indian Band and MLA Jackie Tegart has met to hear presentations from Belkorp Environmental Ser-vices regarding their proposed Material Recyc-ling and Recovery Facilities and to speak with MLA Hunt, who asked the committee to pro-vide him with a rural perspective. The Bona-parte Indian Band was invited to be part of the committee but declined.

“We want to ensure that we maintain an in-dustry here,” said Ashcroft Mayor Jack Jeyes, rather than the decline that MV proposes, he added.

Coun. Alf Trill said the committee meetings have been positive and informative. Recycling can make a lot of money. “We need to work with Belkorp, Cache Creek and TNRD to get a MRRF placed here,” he said.

Coun. Al Mertens agreed: “There’s money to be made in recovering material from the waste stream. We don’t generate a lot of gar-bage,” he said, adding that it seemed as though MV wanted to keep all others away from their garbage and the $108 tipping fee they charged.

“We could be selling ourselves as experts in the field of solid waste disposal,” he said. “I can’t see us getting a MRRF, but have to try. The issue is, what we can do?”

According to Jeyes, MLA Hunt told the committee that the Cache Creek Landfill was a provincial asset.

“Garbage is a commodity and governed by the Free Trade Agreement,” he said, explaining further that Belkorp representatives had sug-gested that it was possible that Cache Creek could receive waste from the northern regional districts, and that would put them in a good pos-ition for a Material Recycling and Recovery Fa-cility. But the regional districts would have to be convinced. to send it.

Council will work with the committee to form a response for MLA Hunt.

Ashcroft could provide the region’s next Member of Parliament if local resi-dent and retired mayor Andy Anderson is successful in seeking the Conserva-tive nomination in the new Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon riding.

The new riding replaces the former Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon held by MP Mark Strahl and before him, his father Chuck Strahl.

Anderson says the idea of running federally came to him while he was promoting Ashcroft Terminal - Ash-croft’s inland port - as Mayor. He made many contacts and learned much about national as well as international infra-structure and trade.

One of his goals, he says, is to make the benefits that come out of the Asia-

Pacific Gateway accessible to all com-munities, especially those situated along water routes or train tracks.

He also wants to see federal infra-structure grants become more access-ible to small, rural communities.

“I’ve made a lot of connections through working with Ashcroft Ter-minal,” he says. “The riding includes a lot of rural communities. It’s a new rid-ing, and a new opportunity for a rural voice.”

Morley H. Anderson is better known as Andy Anderson to his friends and colleagues. He is a businessman, community volunteer and regional ad-vocate and he recently retired as the Mayor of Ashcroft after serving for 10 years.

Anderson moved to Ashcroft as an eight year old in 1965. He took his

Anderson seeks PC nomination in new riding

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Temporary Closure of the Ashcroft Hospitaland Health Centre Emergency Department

Residents are advised that the Ashcroft Hospital and Health Centre Emergency Department will be experiencing temporary closures due to a temporary lack of physician availability.

The Emergency Department will be closed:

Monday, Jan. 12 at 8 a.m., to Friday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m.

Weekend Emergency Department service is not affected, and the rest of the Health Centre will remain open with other services available as usual.

Emergency Department services normally operate Monday to Thursday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m. to midnight, and 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday.

During the hours the Emergency Department is closed, residents should take note of the following:• In the event of an emergency, call 9-1-1.

• For non-urgent matters, residents may wish to use the emergency departments or walk-in clinics in Kamloops or Merritt.

• If individuals are unsure about what services they require, call HealthLink BC at 8-1-1. The toll-free line provides 24-hour, confidential health information and advice from a registered nurse.

Interior Health regrets this interruption to service and remains committed to physician and locum recruitment in Ashcroft. IH is appreciative of the ongoing support of the community and the efforts of the Ashcroft Wellness and Health Action Coalition.

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Road paving, economic development and contract renewalsNotes from the Ashcroft Council

meeting of Jan. 12. Roll Call: Mayor Jack Jeyes and

councillors Doreen Lambert, Al Mer-tens, Barbara Roden and Alf Trill.

Lytton Emergency Services

Council agreed to support Lytton with its request to become part of the TNRD Emergency Program Service for 2015. Ashcroft is already part of this service.

Clinton Ball

Council passed a motion to authorize Mayor Jack Jeyes to attend Clinton’s 148th annual Ball on May 16.

Evans Road Walkway

Mayor Jeyes noted that there was not sufficient width on Evans Road to put in a full walkway for pedestrians. However, he said, he would look for assurance from the Ministry of Transportation that when they pave Evans Road this summer, they will include a shoulder and mark it. He noted that it would still be a tight squeeze in some spots, especially where the culverts are.

Cell phone

Council approved carrying on with a policy whereby the mayor would be reimbursed for using his cell phone for Village business at a rate of $80 per month, or the cost of a normal plan for the Village. The alternative was to carry two phones, one of them to be used exclusively for Village business.

TNRD building inspection

Council approved a new three-year con-tract with the TNRD to provide weekly Building Inspection

service.Administrator Michelle Allen said the rate being

charged in the new contract is the same as the old con-tract.

NDIT business facade

Council decided to continue on with the program and apply for another grant from Northern Development In-itiative Truste (NDIT). Only one local business took ad-vantage of the program last year, but staff is hping that it will be better used this year.

NDIT offers the Business Facade Improvement Grant program that provides annual grant funding for munici-palities and regional districts of $20,000 in annual fund-ing, to enhance economic development by encouraging private sector investment in business facade improve-ments.

Economic Development CapacityOn the advice of Administrator Michelle Allen, the

Village is putting NDIT on notice that it itents to spend $45,000.

NDIT assists municipalities with building sustain-able development. In 2014, Ashcroft hired an Economic Development officer to carry out projects.

“We need to review our economic development strat-egy,” said Allen, adding they staff would like Urban Sys-tems to work on the Strategy proposal, which would cost approximately $30,000. The Village would use the re-maining funds to work towards the goals set out with-in the strategy. It could become an application in the fu-ture, she said. The current economic development strat-egy was completed in 2002.

Last year’s funding was used for wages for an eco-nomic development intern, Resident Attraction Mar-keting Booklet, a short video depicting the Ashcroft Art Club’s Plein Air and paying for the website hosting fee for the Love Ashcroft program.

Next Meeting

Jan. 26 at 7 pm in the Village Office.

From the Jan. 12 meeting of the Cache Creek Council.

Roll Call: Mayor John Ranta and council-

lors Lisa Dafoe, David Dubois and Herb Hofer. Wyatt McMurray on telephone.

Tax Referral

Council agreed to cover the $345 tax pen-alty to businessman Derek Nelson. In May he purchased property next to the old Super Save Gas station, which he also owns, but Land Titles failed to notify the Village and he was not sent a tax notice.

Coun. David Dubois questioned if not re-ceiving a tax notice is excuse enough not to pay when you know that you should be receiving it.

“We didn’t do anything wrong,” he said. “Why are we paying for Land Titles’ mistake?”

Coun. Wyatt McMurray explained that the Village wasn’t paying out any money for the er-ror - it just wasn’t collecting the 10 per cent pay-ment for late taxes.

He did pay the $3.449.95 property tax.

Old Cariboo Rd.The Village is hoping that paving Old Cari-

boo Road can be fit into the Ministry of Trans-portation’s schedule this summer when it paves Hwy 1 through town.

Council approved a motion to apply for a $132,710 grant from Strategic Priority Fund - Gas Tax for resurfacing of Old Cariboo Rd.

Coun. Dubois wondered if they needed a survey first.

Administrator Dan Plamondon said the Ministry had one, and they did a walk through to make sure everything was the same.

Mayor John Ranta said the Village had a chance to get the road resurfaced from the Star-house Restaurant to the Post Office for less than $50,000, but it won’t happen if they don’t get the grant.

Work will take place between June and end of September.

Kinsmen Bingo

Council approved the Kinsmen’s request to use the Community Hall on Dec. 13 for the 2015 Kinsmen Family Christmas Turkey Bingo.

Senior Bowling

Council approved their use of the commun-ity hall on May 5 for their annual bowling tour-nament.

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Capturing Ashcroft’s past in memoriesNearly 60 people attended the first in a series of presentations by Ashcroft Museum curator Kathy Paulos called the Memories Project. The presentations were videos recorded with local seniors who shared their memories of Ashcroft’s past. Sunday’s two presentations were on the tomato cannery and area trucking. Paulos interviewed Donna and Jim Walch, Coleen Mireau and Herb Wohlleben about the cannery which operated in Ashcroft 1925-1957. On Jan. 25, Paulos will present “Sports”, “Business” and “Railways.” The Memories Project was funded by a grant from New Horizons for Seniors Program.

RDO winter hours reduced

Port expansion a concern

Garbage exports at all time highSurrey North Delta LeaderGarbage exports from the Lower Mainland

to the U.S. hit an all-time high in December, ac-cording to estimates from Metro Vancouver.

They show loads of garbage heading south for landfills in Washington State climbed 60 per cent over the last year to more than 19,000 tonnes per month.

Metro Vancouver last year tried to ban haul-ers from trucking waste out of the region over fears the rising flow of outbound garbage will cost the region millions in lost tipping fees and thwart recycling goals, as those loads are not subject to waste dumping rules, such as Metro’s new ban on disposal of food waste.

Environment Minister Mary Polak in Octo-ber rejected the proposed ban but named MLA Marvin Hunt to review whether some form of regulation is required to control waste flows.

Hunt is expected to report back with recom-mendations in the coming weeks.

Critics have accused Metro of simply try-ing to keep waste in-region to feed a planned new incinerator and hope a final provincial de-cision will be the nail in the coffin of its waste-to-energy agenda.

Some industry players also believe Metro has exaggerated the threat of garbage exports, which they predict will be less viable now that the dollar’s drop from par to 85 cents has made it more expensive to use U.S. landfills.

“Fifteen per cent is a heck of a swing,” said Ralph McRae, chair of NorthWest Waste Solu-tions, which does not haul outside the region. “That’s got to make it less economic.”

Belkorp Environmental vice-president Russ Black suggested haulers who are still shipping to the U.S. are now “doing it out of stubborn-ness, not out of profitability.”

Metro solid waste general manager Paul Henderson agreed haulers’ profit margins are

likely getting thinner, but said that hasn’t yet translated into any drop in how much garbage is shipped out, bypassing Metro transfer stations.

Black said Metro could cut its tipping fee to become more competitive and recapture some of the garbage business it’s been losing to the U.S.

Belkorp wants approval to build material re-covery facilities – plants that break open gar-bage bags and separate out the recyclables that would otherwise be landfilled or incinerated – and Black said he made his case for the technol-ogy in a recent meeting with Hunt.

The Surrey MLA was an outspoken support-er of waste-to-energy back when he was a Sur-rey councillor on the Metro board.

Black said Hunt still seems to support incin-eration but was open minded, particularly to pri-vate sector solutions.

Black maintains there are limits to how far people will go to separate out their recycables and food scraps, and also to the region’s ability to enforce its bans on dumping them.

He said Belkorp’s proposed NextUse plant in Coquitlam would offer a lass pass at extract-ing recyclables that would otherwise be gar-bage.

“We think that’s a better idea than burning the bag,” he said, referring to Metro plans to build a new waste-to-energy plant that may cost $500 million. “Our option is much more cost-effective because it’s private sector risk capital.”

Even if Metro reaches an ambitious target of 80 per cent recycling, he said at least half of the remaining garbage would still be recyclable or compostable.

Belkorp also operates the Cache Creek Landfill, which Metro intends to stop using, and regional politicians have argued the company’s real agenda is to hang onto its garbage business by undermining waste-to-energy.

Ashcroft Council agreed to support the Corporation of Del-ta by writing to the Canadian En-vironmental Assessment Agency with its own concerns about the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project, requesting that the environment-al asessment include a broad geo-graphic review of traffic impacts and an identification of potential mitigation options along the length of the transoportation corridor.

Council received the request from Delta at their Jan. 12 meeting.

According to documents sent by Delta, the Roberts Bank Ter-minal 2 project is a massive three-berth container terminal designed to double the container capacity at Deltaport. It is already the lar-gest container terminal in Canada, and plans to expand from 2.4 to 4.8 million TEUs annually (one rail car is 2 TEU). The Canadian En-vironmental Assessment Agency is conducting an environmental as-sessment of the project through an independent review panel.

A key area of concern for some municipalities, Delta included, is the geographic extent of the study area. Delta contends that Port Met-ro Vancouver, the project propon-ent, is seeking to limit the scope of the environmental assessment to land within its jurisdiction which would mean that road, rail and marine traffic impacts beyond the terminal footprint would not be as-sessed.

They have requested that the

Canadian Environmental Assess-ment Agency include a separate section on Municipal Rights and Interests, similar to the section on Aboriginal Rights and Interests that the review panel is required to consider. Delta said that while they fully support this section, it would be beneficial for local governments impacted by Terminal 2 to have a similar section in the Terms of Ref-erence relating to municipal issues and concerns. “We would suggest that this new section should be en-titled Municipal Rights and Inter-ests and would include the follow-ing elements:

a) An assessment of the im-pacts of the project on the local and regional transportation system;

b) An assessment of the im-pacts on municipally-owned land, utilities and statutory rights of way;

c) An assessment of off-termin-al facility requirements to support port operations (for example, con-tainer storage and stuffing/de-stuff-ing facilities); and

d) An assessment of the com-bined impacts of the T2 project with other developments current-ly taking place, such as the Fras-er Surrey Docks coal facility and Tsawwassen First Nation mall de-velopment.”

The proposed expansion would also impact Ashcroft Terminal, agreek Mayor Jack Jeyes.

“That sort of impact will go be-yond the port,” said Coun. Barbara Roden.

Cache Creek Council won’t give up weekend service at Was-tech’s Residential Drop Off (RDO) site. They agreed at the Jan. 12 Council meeting to Wastech’s re-quest to reduce winter hours to four days per week, but said two of those days had to be Saturday and Sunday.

Wastech General Manager An-gus Gardner and Director of En-vironmental Services Janet Teck-lenborg were at the meeting.

Tecklenborg said the landfill will remain open Monday to Friday and those hours won’t be changed by the reduced RDO hours.

She said they were trying to match other TNRD sites with the hours. If it didn’t work, she said, they could change it back.

Gardner said they were also planning to close landfill on statu-tory holidays.

Coun. Wyatt McMurray was not happy with Wastech’s planned reduction and made the motion to tell Wastech that Cache Creek wanted the RDO open five days per week, including weekends, and that days would be eight hours long in the winter and 12 hours in the summer.

Coun. Herb Hofer made a

friendly amendment to that, al-lowing for a four-day week in the winter but keeping everything else the same, including the weekend hours.

That motion was carried. Wastech is also planning to

ask people using the RDO to present photo ID for proof of residency.

Coun. Herb Hofer asked Teck-lenborg if they were going to fol-low through with that.

“The RDO is a free service for residents of Cache Creek, Ashcroft and Area I” she said.

The RDO attendants know most of the local people, but in the event they don’t recognize some-one, the picture ID is a last resort.

Hofer said landfill employees have pointed out the large number of big items such as mattresses and refrigerators being left at the land-fill. Hofer said it seemed like too much to left behind by just local residents.

Garbage drop off at the RDO, which is located near the land-fill, is free for residents, unlike other Transfer Stations around the TNRD where residents have to pay tipping fees based on weight to drop off their garbage.


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SNOW-BASED LIFE FORMS have been appearing around town lately

VICTORIA – My Christ-mas reading included a fascinat-ing new book called Kennewick Man, a study of skeletal remains discovered in 1996 on the bank of the Columbia River in eastern Washington.

He was an ancient hunter bur-ied just south of B.C. almost 9,000 years ago, in the Early Holocene period following the last Ice Age. Among the oldest humans found along the West Coast of North America, he sparked an unprecedent-ed battle by the Smithsonian Institu-tion to examine the skeleton and pub-lish the book late last year.

The most controversial evidence came from the skull. It doesn’t match the classic Mongoloid profile of mod-ern aboriginal people, key to the theory that the earliest humans reached North America by land bridge from Siberia to Alaska as glaciers receded.

Smithsonian scientists confirmed initial reports that Kennewick Man is a closer match with early Polynesians, and the Ainu people who remain in Japan today. He lived until about age 40, surviving for years with a stone spear point stuck in his hip.

The authors conclude from chem-ical analysis that “Kennewick Man could not have been a long-time resi-dent of the area where he was found, but instead lived most of his adult life somewhere along the Northwest and North Pacific coast where marine mammals were readily available.”

This suggests migration by sea, perhaps from a great distance.

The U.S. Army seized the skel-

eton. The scientists sued and eventual-ly won the right to a brief examination. The court case exposed brutal and il-legal actions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and federal departments to destroy the site and intimidate the scientists.

U.S. law demanded all remains from before European settlement be repatriated for burial by local tribes, without examination.

Umatilla tribe spokesman Armand Minthorn wrote in 1996: “We view this practice as desecration of the body and a violation of our most deeply-held religious beliefs.

“From our oral histories, we know that our people have been part of this land since the beginning of time. We do not believe that our people migrat-ed here from another continent, as the scientists do.”

The head of the Society for Amer-ican Archaeology tried to get the re-searchers to drop their lawsuit, fearing it would interfere with fragile relation-ships with area tribes.

The U.S. Justice Department warned the Smithsonian that lead sci-entist Douglas Owsley and others

might be in criminal conflict of in-terest as federal employees suing the government. Even the White House weighed in against them.

Meanwhile the skeleton was mishandled and later stored in substandard conditions at a Se-attle museum, where it remains today. Parts of both femurs were lost, and scientists were falsely ac-cused of taking them. They had been removed by tribal represent-atives and secretly buried.

Kennewick Man was found as the army was in tense negotiations with tribes on salmon fishing rights on the Columbia, their demand for removal of dams, and the $100 billion cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site.

The scientists finally won their case in 2004, with a ruling that the skeleton is so old there isn’t enough evidence to show it is related to the current tribes. The judge found the army repeatedly misled the court, and assessed the gov-ernment $2.4 million in costs.

The U.S. Army still controls the skeleton and denies requests for fur-ther study. The spear point, for ex-ample, could show the location where he was injured.

One final irony. Analysis shows Kennewick Man ate mostly salmon in his later years, around 6300 BCE. These are the salmon runs wiped out by dams built by U.S. Army engin-eers before the signing of the Colum-bia River Treaty with B.C.

Tom Fletcher is legislature repor-ter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc

Garbage. Garbage. Garbage. Some weeks it just seems to build up to ginor-mous propotions!

Seriously, we do talk a lot about garbage around here. And we’re not the only ones.

Waste disposal has been an ongoing nightmare in some places. Metro Vancou-ver’s woes don’t even come close to Italy’s decades-old mountains of garbage around Naples, “City of Trash”. Or Bangalore, India. Or several other countries.

We are far from perfect here in Canada, or in BC, in respects to the way we dispose of our trash, but it’s not bad it’s and getting better.

Despite all the criticism directed at the Cache Creek Landfill, it’s one of the best. Part of that reason is because of the criti-cism - it keeps the operators on their toes.

But then, Belkorp keeps coming up with new ideas (new to us) on how to manage what’s already been tossed in the garbage.

In a perfect situation, there would be no garbage. No automobiles rusting in a field, no floating islands of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, no need for landfills.

But even the ancient cities had their garbage dumps, and museums across the world are filled with their contents.

The world is evolving slowly in some aspects, and coming to terms with gar-bage is, unfortunately, one of them. More people, more garbage - and 99.9 per cent of it wouldn’t be suitable for anyone’s mu-seum.

Any method we use to dispose of it is going to have an effect on the planet and on us - earth, water, air.

Belkorp, which owns Wastech, is pro-posing to build material recycling and re-covery facilities in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. Unlike the “blue bag takes all” method we’ve gotten used to, workers at these facilities will sort the tossed materi-als and send them off for recycling.

It’s been slow in developing, but there can be profit in recycling. Like everything, it needs infrastructure in place that will take it from A-Z. We’re getting closer to Z.

Let’s just hope that it’s not too late for the planet.

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Dear EditorThe mini media hype around Constantia Resources Ltd’s

agreement with the High Bar First Nation, relating to a min-ing proposal at the Maggie Mine close to the Bonaparte Riv-er between Clinton and Cache Creek is a head shaker.

The Maggie Mine that wasn’t, and hopefully never will be, is on par with the protocol between Cache Creek and the Bonaparte Indian Band relating to the garbage landfill. We know what that’s worth.

Mines need water. Where do you think Maggie is going to get it? The Bonaparte Riv-er? That life line of a dozen ranches along its route to the Thompson River, not to mention the impact on the Thompson River which is the life line of the Village of Ashcroft and numer-ous communities along the corridor leading to the Fraser?

Mining ventures like Constantia need to sell stocks on the VSE. Creating the illusion of po-tential is one thing. Actually figuring out the

impact on the land and its people is another.And what, pray tell, does High Bar First Nation have to

do with the Bonaparte River and the plateau from which it is sourced? Surely, it is the Bonaparte First Nation that should be courted with the lure of jobs and income, or whatever?

Fact is, the Bonaparte people depend on that river as much as the ranchers along its route.

Let’s use the thinking apparatus on top of our collective shoulders. The days when the lure of jobs and job training was sufficient are over.

I’ve lived long enough in this area to recall another of-fice set up in Cache Creek to promote Hydro’s proposed Hat Creek Coal development. I can recall the millions of dollars spent on engineering, water diversion plans for Hat Creek, surveying, coal deposit testing, the works. And we all know what happened to that, if we’ve lived here long enough.

Esther Darlington MacDonaldAshcroft

We held our first meeting of the new year on Jan. 6 with seven mem-bers present.

President Reta Robertson opened the meeting at 2 pm with a warm welcome and good wishes for 2015. We repeated together the United Church Women’s pur-pose.

Joyce Freeman led the Devotional from the book Program Ready by Dorothy MacNeill. With Jan. 6 being Epiphany, this was the theme about the visit of the Magi to see the baby Jesus. The scripture reading was John 1:1-9 and 8:12 reminding us that Jesus brought Light into a world of darkness and that Light can never be ex-tinguished. She closed with prayer and with a reminder that the Light that came into the world was Jesus.

The business part of the meeting was dealt with through motions made and accepted. We evaluated the Inter-Church Bazaar and at this time want to thank everyone who came and supported us by donating and buying, attending the lunch and enjoying the Fellow-

ship. Without your sup-port it would not have been successful, so many thanks to each of you,

Our Friendship Tea in February, to which every-

one is invited, was discussed and plans made. Watch for posters and a reminder in The Journal. This tea is also for the men in our community also, so please come too.

Correspondence was dealt with and many pieces – news from Naramata Centre, First United Church Mis-sion, Action International, VST information and ma-terial for the World Day of Prayer in March which our church will be hosting.

Reports were given – Treasurer Colleen Mireau handed out a written report which was voted on and accepted. The other reports – Sunshine from Dorothy Pears, Publicity from Phyllis Gray and Outreach from Reta Robertson were given. There was no Archives re-port as Hilda Drinkwater was away. Many Campbell’s labels and stamps were given over to Reta to be sent on

to help with Christian work elsewhere. We thank you all for saving these items and passing them along to support our Outreach program.

We then paused for refreshments and fellowship time.

When we reconvened we began the initial plans for the World Day of Prayer in March and the initial plans for our Annual Bean Supper, also in March. Watch for posters. Statistic report forms arrived to be filled out and returned.

We will bring three Valentine cards each to the next meeting, to be used by the residents of Garden Oasis at the hospital. Up and coming Sunday service for regular worship was planned.

The next meeting will be Feb. 3 at 2 pm in our Church Hall and devotional and refreshment people were noted. We closed with the U.C.W. Prayer. If anyone is interest-ed in our work and would like to come as a visitor or join us you would be most welcome.

UNITED IN SPIRITUnited Church Women

Phyllis Gray

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The tempo is picking up at the Ashcroft Art Club as members get ready for this year’s Fine Art Show and Sale.

As you can see from the photo, we are all busy learning new skills. In this case, we were learning to draw with pens - first, negative spaces rather than just drawing lines, and then drawing some ob-jects in one continuous line. Pau-line Ogilvie then gave us all cedar stick “paint brushes” and ink and invited us to use that and a pen to draw the piece of sage brush and pinecone that were laid out on the table. Who would have thought that a stick could be so creative? It

helped us all to capture the many branches with the rough ends of the sticks.

This and other art experiences are common at our weekly paint-ing sessions either with DVDs or an instructor. We are also in the “getting ready for Art Show mode” as opening night, April 17, is only 14 weeks away.

We are so excited about our paintings in progress that we are inviting those who might be inter-ested in the Art Club to attend an open house to see some of the tech-niques we use in our art on Wed-nesday, Jan. 21, at St. Alban Hall, 501 Brink St. from 11 am-1 pm. Coffee and refreshments will be available and we are eager to share our enthusiasm for art with you.

Hoping to see you then, and be sure to mark your calendar for Ashcroft Art Show, April 17-21.

ASHCROFT ART CLUBby Alice Durksen

Art Club members Valerie Keller, Judy Davison, Paulette Thille (head) Bern Huber, Gladys Dickinson and Alice Durksen.

New Water Treatment Plant

Included with utility bills residents of the Village of Clinton also received an up-date on the new water treat-ment plant.

The state of the art plant was brought online on Dec. 10, 2014. All water that was in the system prior to initial-ization has now been flushed through so all water coming through the system now is treated, filtered water.

There is now a 480,000-gallon hold-ing tank and a new build-ing that houses the new fil-tration system. The water flows from the reservoirs,

through the filters to the chlorination building where chlorine is added as per In-terior Health Authority regulations. The water then moves into the enclosed res-ervoir (holding tank) prior to flowing to our taps.

With the new system it is anticipated that there will be no water advisory or boil water alerts during the spring run off as has happened in past years. Also, in the event of an extended power out-age there is enough water in the new holding tank to last up to three days instead of the three hours pre-vious to con-struction.

The Vil-lage will hold an open house in the spring to show how the water treatment plant works.

A Gas Tax Grant from the Feder-al Gov-ernment total-ling near-ly $2.5 million funded

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That was the Year That Was - Pt. 2

Anyone wanting to access the Ashcroft post office before 1917 would have had to run the gamut of loungers outside the Central Hotel.

We return once more to “the year in review”; the twist being that the year in question is 1914. It was a century ago, but many of the events that local resi-dents found frustrating and fascinating - some-times at the same time - are ones that are equally familiar to a modern read-er.

For example, in 2014 a meeting was held in Ash-croft to discuss the future of the local library. A sim-ilar meeting took place in 1914; only back then resi-dents weren’t looking at what direction the library might take, they were simply hoping to get one. A group of citizens met in December 1914 to dis-cuss the possibility of “securing for the reading pub-lic of Ashcroft one of the traveling libraries which is furnished for a nominal sum by the Provincial Gov-ernment”. Mr. Hobson of the Ashcroft Hotel offered the use of the hotel reading-room as a library, should the town be successful in raising the necessary funds. Residents were cautioned not to refuse if a delega-tion soliciting “two bits” visited, as “the penalty will be great”.

In an effort to help immigrants adapt to their new country, Ashcroft restaurant owner Chow Jim donated the use of a room behind his establish-ment so that a night school could be set up for Chi-nese youth. Miss Janet Baillie, Mrs. Donald Suther-land, and a number of other residents operated the school, and The Journal reported that “the sight of 20 or more bright young men studying the English lan-guage from 7:30 to 9 pm each evening, Saturday ex-cepted, is gratifying to all who long to see the utmost done for the Highest. . . . By their zeal to better them-selves, the Chinese offer a challenge to the best that is in us. Wake up, Ashcroft.”

Politics was, as always, a hot topic. The leader of the provincial Liberal Party, Mr. H.C. Brewster, vis-ited Ashcroft in January 1914, to campaign at a pub-lic meeting in the community hall. A large attend-ance was requested, and ladies were “cordially invit-ed” to be there. Quite a few ladies turned up at the

meeting, which was considered “very unusual at a gathering of this kind in Ashcroft”. A possible

reason for the large female turnout was that it had been whispered that the Liberals were “a staunch supporter of ladies’ rights”. If “ladies’ rights” were indeed part of the Liberal platform, how-ever, “the plank was stepped upon very lightly by the speakers”, presumably to the chagrin of the ladies in attendance who wanted to hear about any plans to ex-tend the vote to women.

Annoyance at the feder-al government, and its lack of movement regarding lo-cal projects, is nothing new. In 1914 there was

a good deal of displeasure with Ottawa over the gla-cial progress of the erection of a long-promised pub-lic building in Ashcroft. In late 1912 the Dominion Government purchased a plot of land at the corner of 4th and Brink Streets, intending it to be the site of a new public building. In August 1913 Ottawa advised that work on the building would begin “at once”, but when there was still no sign of any activity by March 1914 frustration boiled over, resulting in a petition being drafted and sent to the Hon. Martin Burrell, MP for Yale-Cariboo. More than 200 people signed the document, which described the “absolute neces-sity of at once constructing a � t and suitable public building in the town of Ashcroft” in which could be housed the post of� ce, telegraph of� ce, telephone exchange, and Customs of� ce.

The four businesses operated out of three sep-arate locations around town; locations described as “small, unsanitary, and poorly equipped”. The one telephone that connected Ashcroft to the outer world was situated in the telegraph of� ce, which was al-ready far too small to accommodate all the telegraph operators properly; and since Ashcroft would be get-ting its own in-town phone system in summer 1914, a proper space would be needed for it. The Customs of� ce was described as a “small, dingy building”, while the post of� ce was located within the Cen-tral Hotel, and had outgrown its space, to the point

that when the Parcel Post service arrived in Ashcroft parcels sometimes had to be left on the sidewalk, as there was no room in the post of� ce itself.

Whether or not it was because of the petition is unknown, but in June 1914 Ottawa announced that tenders for the construction of the new public build-ing would be called for immediately. “The long wait has come to an end,” proclaimed The Journal in tri-umph. “The watched pot has boiled.” Plans for the new building were put on display in the post of� ce (which probably didn’t help the overcrowding situa-tion there), and were widely admired. “The structure will be one of which Ashcroft will be proud, and will be as durable as the eternal hills.”

Even as Ashcroft celebrated the imminent con-struction of the public building, however, faraway events were conspiring to ensure that it would be three long years before it was � nally built. Late in 2014, Canada found itself involved in a complicated war in a far-off country; much as it did late in 1914, when events in Europe culminated in the start of the Great War. That con� ict had an immediate impact on Ashcroft and area, as dozens of local men enlisted and headed east. Those left behind also felt the im-pact of the war, as the price of staples such as � our and sugar immediately rose. “The worst of it is that when once prices go up they will never come down again,” wrote R.D. Cumming in The Journal in De-cember 1914; a � nal piece of proof, if it were needed, that everything old is new again.

January • Week 3ARIES - Take a leadership role on a work assignment, Aries. If your interest in work has been waning of late, a more active role may help you change your perspective.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, there is nothing you cannot accomplish this week. The sky is the limit in terms of your potential. All you need to do is focus your energy on a particular task.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Let something that’s been bugging you cool off for the time being, Gemini. There’s plenty of time to revisit the situation later, and you will be glad you took some time away.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 You’re willing to give a loved one the bene� t of the doubt when that person makes a proposal that seems to come out of nowhere. Your patience will be appreciated.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Expect to be surprised by good news, Leo. Share your good fortune with others this week, and you will realize the good news will prove even more enjoyable.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 You may bene� t from a change of scenery, Virgo. If you have the time, book a getaway to an exotic locale and make the most of this time to rest, relax and recharge.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, rest assured that a broken heart or bruised ego will not last too long. There are big changes ahead in your personal or professional life, so keep your eyes open.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Taking charge comes naturally to you, Scorpio. In fact, you thrive in this role. But this week you may have to play second � ddle for the good of the team.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 You seem to be operating on auto-pilot this week, Sagittarius. Your routine has become so ingrained that things are automatic. Make a few minor changes to liven things up.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Spend the week in as much quiet contemplation as you can manage, Capricorn. You have a few big questions to work out and can only think when you have private time.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, dissatisfaction at work has you wondering if things would be different elsewhere. Sometimes a change of attitude can give you an entirely new perspective.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, a loved one comes to you seeking guidance this week, but don’t be bummed if they ultimately do not heed your advice.

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Up to snow goodOn January 5, 2015

my children received something I always wanted as a kid but never got: a snow day. “Wouldn’t it be

cool if school is can-celled tomorrow?” my 14-year-old son had asked as he watched the � urry of � akes falling outside our liv-ing room window on the last Sunday of the winter break.“Keep dreaming,”

I said. “My brother and I used to wish for the same thing and it never happened.” Monday morning, on

their � rst scheduled day back after their two-week hiatus from school, I was anxious to have the house to myself. I woke Sam and Daisy up, fed them breakfast and made their lunches. As my husband shov-elled the driveway for the fourth time in the

last 24 hours, I started the truck and the kids got dressed. “Chelsey said school

is cancelled,” my 11-year-old daugh-ter said excitedly as I walked back inside. Skeptical, I looked

online at a local news site to prove that her friend’s text must be mistaken. “The superintendent

says they haven’t de-clared a snow day in 35 years,” I read from the report. “So unless there’s a major power outage or road clo-

sures, schools will be open as usual.” Daisy looked disap-

pointed. “Jake said school’s

cancelled!” Sam said, bounding up the stairs with a big grin on his face.“It’s not,” his little

sister grumbled. And then Sam looked bummed out as well. With my boots and

coat still on, I decid-ed I’d better double check with the Cen-tral Okanagan School District’s website before we left in the

truck. To my surprise the site announced a district-wide snow day. After reading the report aloud I stood there in shock as my kids did the happy dance. When I shared the

notice on my Face-book page the reac-tion was mixed. Some were as stunned as I was, others said they saw it coming and a few thought it was lu-dicrous. “We treat our kids

today like � ne china,” wrote one friend who grew up in a much snowier area with no sidewalks during the ‘50s when they had to walk to school during blizzards. “Give me a break. It’s time for kids to face the inevi-table of life’s challeng-es, such as a snowfall.” But if enough roads

and sidewalks weren’t plowed and the school

district’s superinten-dent deemed it unsafe enough to call for a snow day, I was okay with that.About an hour later,

while Sam, Daisy and our dogs played in a foot and a half of the � uffy white stuff in the back yard, I called my father to ask him if he’d ever had a snow day. He hadn’t either, but he did re-member the winter of 1964 when he and my mom were in grade ten and the dress code at their public school in North Vancouver was

temporarily altered.“It was freezing cold

so the girls didn’t have to wear skirts or dresses that week,” he said. “But our princi-pal announced on the intercom that even though they were al-lowed to wear slacks during the storm, they still had to wear their girdles underneath.”Up until then my

dad didn’t even know girls wore those un-comfortable looking compression gar-ments he’d seen on his mother. “I guess there was a

fear of jiggling bot-toms or something,” he said, laughing at the ridiculous double standard he and my girdle-wearing mom never questioned back then. For better or worse

times have de� nitely changed. I believe keeping our kids safe and attempting to equalize the genders are both positive steps in a preferable direc-tion.Lori Welbourne is a

syndicated columnist. She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com

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Community Volunteer GroupsThe Royal Canadian Legion #113301 Brink St., Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0Phone: 250-453-2423 Fax # 250-453-9625

South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society601 Bancroft St. Box 603, Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0250-453-9656

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

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

Ashcroft Yoga GroupCall Marijke - Phone: 250-453-0050

Desert Bells Handbell ChoirCarmen Ranta 250-457-9119

Sage Sound Singers Adult Community Choir Michelle Reid 250-457-9676

Cache Creek Market andCache Creek Garden ClubMarcie Down 250-457-9630

Cache Creek Beautification Society and Cache Creek Communities in BloomCarmen Ranta 250-457-9119

Ashcroft and Masonic LodgeZarthan Lodge No#105Contact Person: Fred Dewick Phone 250-453-2415

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

Ashcroft & District Tennis AssociationContact Person: Maria Russell MartinPhone 250-453-9391

Ashcroft & District Lions ClubContact Person: Lion Vivian Phone 250-453-9077

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Assc.601 Bancroft St., Ashcroft, BC Phone 250-453-9762

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347 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet CorpContact Person: Lt. (N) Curran 250-319-3461Alexine Johannsson 250-453-2661email: [email protected]

Sage & Sand Pony ClubDistrict Commissioner: Marcie [email protected].

Ashcroft-Cache Creek Rotary ClubContact Person: Karin Magnuson Phone 250-457-6629

Desert Spokes Cycle SocietyPhone 250-457-9348

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Ashcroft Curling Club Phone 250-453-2341

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Cache Creek Volunteer Fire DepartmentPhone 250-457-9967

Bridging to LiteracyContact Person: Ann Belcham 250-453-9417

Ashcroft Royal Purple Phone 250-457-9122

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

Cache Creek Recreation SocietyContact Person: Jackie Phone 250-457-9122

Winding Rivers Arts and Performance SocietyContact Person: Nadine 250-453-2053

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

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Thompson Cariboo Minor Hockey AssociationContact: Lewis Kinvig [email protected]

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Taoist Tai Chi Contact Person: Danita HowardPhone 250-453-9907 e-mail: [email protected]

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Lieutenant Governor sponsors youth environment programby Tom FletcherBlack PressVICTORIA – Inspired by her holistic ranching

background, Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon has launched a province-wide environmental education pro-gram for high school teachers and youth leaders.

Stewards of the Future offers grants of up to $800 per group to cover field trips, fees for programs and guess speakers, equipment and teacher release time for pro-jects. It is offered for students from grades 9-12, First Nations educators, 4-H, Guide and Scout groups and en-vironment clubs, with an application deadline of Jan. 23

for the spring program.“Through Stewards of the Future, students will have

the opportunity to explore issues that affect the land, water and other natural resources in British Columbia,” Guichon said. “The goal of this program is not to solve the challenges we face, but rather to encourage open dis-cussion and gain a better understanding of the issues that affect our natural surroundings.”

Program partners, including the education ministry and B.C. Parks, offer support such as research on inva-sive species leading to mapping and removal.

The Stewards of the Future toolkit emphasizes hands-on “place-based” experience to appreciate and enhance biodiversity.

Guichon and her late husband Law-rence Guichon are credited with pion-

eering holistic management in the B.C. cattle industry, emphasizing preservation of natural grassland on their historic Merritt-area ranch.

Holistic management, developed by African biolo-gist and game ranger Allan Savory, overturned the long-held belief that overgrazing is the result of too many ani-mals. Savory proved that reducing the number of ani-mals doesn’t restore grasslands, which developed in the presence of large herds that were kept closely bunched and moving to avoid predators. Planned grazing mimics that pattern and gives grasslands time to recover.

Details and application forms for the Stewards of the Future program are available at the Lieutenant Govern-or’s website, www.ltgov.bc.ca

Guichon intends to visit programs in the province and incorporate an awards program for participants.

schooling here and

then worked at Bethlehem Cop-per (now Highland Valley Cop-per). For several years he operat-ed a successful trucking business in the Revelstoke area but found that his heart remained in Ashcroft. So, in 1994 he purchased the hardware store and moved back. Since that time he has purchased additional businesses and his son and family assist with the overall operations.

He is a past President of the Ashcroft Chamber of Commerce, is the founder and co-Chair of the Cache Creek Airport Mother’s Day Fly In; an avid participant of the Barnes Lake Ice Races and pas-sionate promoter of the Ashcroft Terminal project.

During his 10 years as May-or, he met with and lobbied vari-ous levels of Government and saw the Ashcroft Terminal progress from not much more than an idea to an operating trans loading facil-ity that is growing larger every day. In addition, he guided the com-munity through a number of long term projects including upgrades to the water and sewer systems, a new community brand and test sites for hot water and photovol-taic systems. He also

never missed an opportunity to dis-cuss the shortage of physicians in the rural areas and donated apart-ment space for new doctors for sev-eral months when necessary. For his work and dedication he was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Med-al in 2013.

Anderson understands the way that government operates and has seen first hand the success that can be achieved when everyone works together for the greater god for the entire area. He believes that rural British Columbia is one of the worst kept secrets as most com-munities offer a quality of life and cost of living that allows young families a lifestyle of work and play. He would like to see more jobs relocated from the larger cen-tres so that young families can af-ford to move back home.

As he spent his early years in the Bridge River area, he under-stands the vast area that this new riding covers. He has spent literal-ly thousands of hours on the road and is up to the challenge of meet-ing and representing the citizens in this new Mission Matsqui Fraser Canyon riding.

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A fresh start on your life

Seniors Centre is open for funWelcome to 2015! By the time

you read this, we will have had our first week back at the Cen-tre, weather permitting! We will have put almost all our celebra-tions in our memory boxes and we will be back to normal routines and wear-ing “Auld claes and parritch” - transla-tion - wearing everyday clothes and eat-ing everyday fare.

Our schedule is as follows:-Monday - Bridge, doors open at 12:30

pm; Tuesday - Carpet Bowling, doors open at 12:30 pm, and Card Games at ap-proximately 2:15 pm; Wednesday closed; the third Thursday of the month is our business meeting - noon pot luck lunch; Friday - Carpet Bowling, doors open at 12:30 pm, and Card Games at approxi-

mately 2:15 pm; and Saturday - Bingo open to the public, doors open at noon.

Annual membership dues should be paid in January.

Nola McIlraveyIt is said that the kitchen is the heart

of a home, so surely the ruler of the kitch-en is one of the most important members of our group. She is the one who sees to it that we have tea, coffee and goodies available all the time and that the kitch-en is well stocked with all the necessities. Our “boss of the kitchen” is Nola McIl-ravey and I would like to tell you a little

about her.Moving from one location to

another 45 times in 47 years and living in three provinces - what an interesting life she has led! She has also a more complete read-ing of this land of ours than most of us do! Born in Penticton, she was raised in Powell River and has

lived in many other BC towns and cities besides travelling to locations in Alberta and Ontario, following availability of em-ployment while raising three children. She has had training as a cook and as a care aide as well, and she volunteers for Better at Home, so we know we are in ca-pable hands!

Besides that, she has the most infec-tious laugh that keeps us all smiling. The big plus in her favour is that she says she likes Ashcroft and its people best of all the places she has lived!

I hope this little thumb-nail sketch of Nola will be the first in a series, so watch this spot for - “Getting to know us, get-ting to know all about

us” almost as Julie Andrews sang - well, maybe not all but certainly an introduc-tion.

Next meeting is on Thursday, Jan. 15 - it seems early this month, but it is the third Thursday. It is important that we all at-tend these meetings as there are things we discuss and it is helpful if everyone has a chance to make their feelings known. Do come and introduce yourselves to Nola if you haven’t already met her, and enjoy the very tasty pot luck lunch with the rest of the members. See you there!

FROM THE CENTREAshcroft-Cache Creek Seniors

Joyce West

As we begin this New Year we all have various emotions and feel-ings. We may be excited about the prospect of a new year, new chal-lenges with our work, new personal goals or maybe some new dreams of what you want to accomplish. It feels good to have a new beginning or a fresh start.

You might have had the ex-perience in the past of working on a project with lots of ideas, but as you went along you soon lost the excitement, and you may have given up. Or you may have start-ed a new project - made some mis-takes and had to begin all over again. These can cause frustrations that will keep you from trying any-thing new.

What kind of ideas could you try this year? What about reading a new book? Why not begin to study the Bible with some friends? You will be surprised what you might learn. Maybe you could discover a new faith by attending a church with other believers? When is the last time you had a real talk with God?

One of the hardest things to do is to start attending a church when

you haven’t gone for many years. You might not have ever attended the church, or know the people; you don’t understand what is taking place, and you may feel awkward or out of place at first.

So as we begin this New Year I have these questions to ask you -

How is your relationship with God? Are you on speaking terms? How is your relationship with Jesus? Do you know him as your Saviour and Friend? You can begin this year with a fresh new start.

In a Bible verse in Isaiah 43:18, The Lord says, “Forget about what has happened before. Do not think about the past. Instead, look at the new things I’m going to do.” God is saying in this verse – ‘Forget about what’s happened before. Don’t think about the past. It’s over. The book’s closed on it.’

God is more interested in the future than He is in what’s hap-pened in the past. When we come to God to ask for forgiveness, He wipes out all our past sins. He for-gets them – erases them – throws them away – doesn’t bring it up again.

There is one verse in the Bible I want to leave you with and it is found in the New Testament – 2 Corinthians 5:17 – “When some-one becomes a Christian, he or she becomes a brand new person. He is not the same anymore, a new life has begun.”

Victor Koop

Evangelical Free Church

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ith

othe

r off

ers.

See

you

r dea

ler f

or c

ondi

tion

s an

d de

tails

. Gen

eral

Mot

ors

of C

anad

a Li

mit

ed r

eser

ves

the

righ

t to

amen

d or

term

inat

e th

is o

ffer

, in

who

le o

r in

part

, at a

ny ti

me

wit

hout

pri

or n

otic

e. †

†Off

er a

pplie

s to

elig

ible

cur

rent

ow

ners

or l

esse

es o

f any

mod

el y

ear 1

999

or n

ewer

car

that

has

bee

n re

gist

ered

and

insu

red

in C

anad

a in

the

cust

omer

’s n

ame

for t

he p

revi

ous

cons

ecut

ive

six

(6) m

onth

s. C

redi

t va

lid to

war

ds th

e re

tail

purc

hase

or l

ease

of o

ne e

ligib

le 2

014,

201

5 m

odel

yea

r Che

vrol

et c

ar, S

UV,

cro

ssov

er a

nd p

icku

p m

odel

s de

liver

ed in

Can

ada

betw

een

Janu

ary

12 a

nd F

ebru

ary

2, 2

015.

Cre

dit i

s a

man

ufac

ture

r to

cons

umer

ince

ntiv

e (t

ax in

clus

ive)

and

cre

dit v

alue

dep

ends

on

mod

el p

urch

ased

: $1,

000

cred

it av

aila

ble

on a

ll Ch

evro

let S

ilver

ado

mod

els.

Off

er a

pplie

s to

elig

ible

cur

rent

ow

ners

or l

esse

es o

f any

Pon

tiac

/Sat

urn/

SAAB

/Hum

mer

/Old

smob

ile m

odel

ye

ar 19

99 o

r ne

wer

car

or

Chev

role

t Cob

alt o

r H

HR

that

has

bee

n re

gist

ered

and

insu

red

in C

anad

a in

the

cust

omer

’s n

ame

for

the

prev

ious

con

secu

tive

six

(6) m

onth

s. C

redi

t val

id to

war

ds th

e re

tail

purc

hase

or

leas

e of

one

elig

ible

201

4, 2

015

mod

el y

ear

Chev

role

t car

, SU

V, c

ross

over

and

pic

kups

mod

els

deliv

ered

in C

anad

a be

twee

n Ja

nuar

y 12

and

Feb

ruar

y 2,

201

5. C

redi

t is

a m

anuf

actu

rer

to c

onsu

mer

ince

ntiv

e (t

ax in

clus

ive)

: $1,

500

cred

it av

aila

ble

on e

ligib

le

Chev

role

t veh

icle

s (e

xcep

t Che

vrol

et C

olor

ado

2SA,

Cam

aro

Z28,

and

Mal

ibu

LS).

Off

er is

tran

sfer

able

to a

fam

ily m

embe

r liv

ing

wit

hin

the

sam

e ho

useh

old

(pro

of o

f add

ress

req

uire

d). A

s pa

rt o

f the

tran

sact

ion,

dea

ler m

ay r

eque

st d

ocum

enta

tion

and

con

tact

Gen

eral

Mot

ors

of C

anad

a Li

mit

ed (G

MCL

) to

veri

fy e

ligib

ility

. Thi

s of

fer m

ay n

ot b

e re

deem

ed fo

r cas

h an

d m

ay n

ot b

e co

mbi

ned

wit

h ce

rtai

n ot

her c

onsu

mer

ince

ntiv

es. C

erta

in li

mit

atio

ns o

r con

diti

ons

appl

y.

Void

whe

re p

rohi

bite

d. S

ee y

our G

MCL

dea

ler f

or d

etai

ls. G

MCL

res

erve

s th

e ri

ght t

o am

end

or te

rmin

ate

offe

rs fo

r any

rea

son

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt a

t any

tim

e w

itho

ut p

rior

not

ice.

**O

ffer

val

id to

elig

ible

ret

ail l

esse

es in

Can

ada

who

hav

e ob

tain

ed c

redi

t app

rova

l by

and

ente

red

into

a le

ase

agre

emen

t wit

h GM

Fin

anci

al, a

nd w

ho a

ccep

t del

iver

y fr

om J

anua

ry 12

thro

ugh

Febr

uary

2, 2

015

of a

ny n

ew o

r dem

onst

rato

r 201

5 m

odel

yea

r Che

vrol

et (e

xcep

t 201

5MY

Chev

role

t Co

lora

do 2

SA).

City

Exp

ress

exc

lude

d at

out

set o

f pro

gram

; will

be

elig

ible

onc

e re

sidu

als

beco

me

avai

labl

e. G

ener

al M

otor

s of

Can

ada

will

pay

the

firs

t tw

o bi

-wee

kly

leas

e pa

ymen

ts a

s de

fine

d on

the

leas

e ag

reem

ent (

incl

usiv

e of

taxe

s). A

fter

the

firs

t tw

o bi

-wee

kly

paym

ents

, les

see

will

be

requ

ired

to m

ake

all r

emai

ning

sch

edul

ed p

aym

ents

ove

r the

rem

aini

ng te

rm o

f the

leas

e ag

reem

ent.

PPSA

/RDP

RM is

not

due

. Con

sum

er m

ay b

e re

quir

ed to

pay

dea

ler f

ees.

Insu

r-an

ce, l

icen

ce, a

nd a

pplic

able

taxe

s no

t inc

lude

d. A

ddit

iona

l con

diti

ons

and

limit

atio

ns a

pply

. GM

res

erve

s th

e ri

ght t

o m

odif

y or

term

inat

e th

is o

ffer

at a

ny ti

me

wit

hout

pri

or n

otic

e. S

ee d

eale

r for

det

ails

. ¥¥O

ffer

ava

ilabl

e to

qua

lifie

d re

tail

cust

omer

s in

Can

ada

for v

ehic

les

from

Jan

uary

12 th

roug

h Fe

brua

ry 2

, 201

5. 0

% pu

rcha

se fi

nanc

ing

offe

red

on a

ppro

ved

cred

it by

TD

Auto

Fin

ance

Ser

vice

s, S

coti

aban

k® o

r RBC

Roy

al B

ank

for 4

8 m

onth

s on

all

new

or d

emon

stra

tor

2015

Silv

erad

o 15

00 D

oubl

e Ca

b 1W

T. P

arti

cipa

ting

lend

ers

are

subj

ect t

o ch

ange

. Rat

es fr

om o

ther

lend

ers

will

var

y. D

own

paym

ent,

trad

e an

d/or

sec

urit

y de

posi

t may

be

requ

ired

. Mon

thly

pay

men

t and

cos

t of b

orro

win

g w

ill v

ary

depe

ndin

g on

am

ount

bor

row

ed a

nd d

own

paym

ent/

trad

e. E

xam

ple:

$40

,000

at 0

% AP

R, t

he m

onth

ly p

aym

ent i

s $8

33.3

3 fo

r 48

mon

ths.

Cos

t of b

orro

win

g is

$0,

tota

l obl

igat

ion

is $

40,0

00. O

ffer

is u

ncon

diti

onal

ly in

tere

st-f

ree.

Fre

ight

and

ai

r ta

x ($

100,

if a

pplic

able

) inc

lude

d. L

icen

ce, i

nsur

ance

, reg

istr

atio

n, P

PSA

, app

licab

le t

axes

and

dea

ler

fees

not

incl

uded

. Dea

lers

are

free

to s

et in

divi

dual

pri

ces.

Lim

ited

tim

e of

fer

whi

ch m

ay n

ot b

e co

mbi

ned

wit

h ce

rtai

n ot

her

offe

rs. G

MCL

may

mod

ify,

ext

end

or te

rmin

ate

offe

rs in

who

le o

r in

par

t at a

ny ti

me

wit

hout

not

ice.

Con

diti

ons

and

limit

atio

ns a

pply

. See

dea

ler

for

deta

ils. ®

Regi

ster

ed tr

adem

ark

of T

he B

ank

of N

ova

Scot

ia. R

BC

and

Roya

l B

ank

are

regi

ster

ed t

rade

mar

ks o

f Roy

al B

ank

of C

anad

a. >

Func

tion

alit

y va

ries

by

mod

el. F

ull f

unct

iona

lity

requ

ires

com

pati

ble

Blue

toot

h® a

nd s

mar

tpho

ne, a

nd U

SB c

onne

ctiv

ity

for

som

e de

vice

s. ~

Requ

ires

com

pati

ble

mob

ile d

evic

e, a

ctiv

e O

nSta

r se

rvic

e an

d da

ta p

lan.

Vis

it o

nsta

r.ca

for

cov

erag

e m

aps,

det

ails

and

sys

tem

lim

itat

ions

. Ser

vice

s an

d co

nnec

tivi

ty m

ay v

ary

by m

odel

and

con

diti

ons.

OnS

tar

wit

h 4G

LTE

con

nect

ivit

y is

ava

ilabl

e on

ce

rtai

n ve

hicl

es a

nd in

sel

ect m

arke

ts. C

usto

mer

s w

ill b

e ab

le to

acc

ess

this

ser

vice

onl

y if

they

acc

ept t

he O

nSta

r Use

r Ter

ms

and

Priv

acy

Stat

emen

t (in

clud

ing

soft

war

e te

rms)

. *^G

over

nmen

t 5-S

tar S

afet

y Ra

ting

s ar

e pa

rt o

f the

Nat

iona

l Hig

hway

Tra

ffic

Saf

ety

Adm

inis

trat

ion’

s (N

HTS

A’s)

New

Car

Ass

essm

ent P

rogr

am (w

ww

.Saf

erCa

r.go

v). *

‡Bas

ed o

n w

ards

auto

.com

20

14 L

arge

Pic

kup

segm

ent a

nd la

test

com

peti

tive

info

rmat

ion

avai

labl

e at

tim

e of

pos

ting

. Exc

lude

s ot

her

GM

veh

icle

s. 5

-yea

r/16

0,00

0 ki

lom

etre

Pow

ertr

ain

Lim

ited

War

rant

y, w

hich

ever

com

es f

irst

. See

dea

ler

for

deta

ils. ^

Whi

chev

er c

omes

fir

st. L

imit

of

four

ACD

elco

Lub

e-O

il-Fi

lter

ser

vice

s in

tot

al. F

luid

top

-off

s, in

spec

tion

s, t

ire

rota

tion

s, w

heel

alig

nmen

ts a

nd b

alan

cing

, etc

., ar

e no

t co

vere

d. A

ddit

iona

l con

diti

ons

and

limit

atio

ns a

pply

. See

dea

ler

for

deta

ils. ^

^Whi

chev

er c

omes

fir

st. S

ee d

eale

r fo

r de

tails

.

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