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Keith McNeill

Human foolishness was the cause of a potentially serious fire that started on the weekend near Spahats Falls, according to Jim Jones, manager of Clearwater Fire Zone.

Two campfires were left that were not put out properly, as well as two debris piles were lit, Jones said.

The fire likely started late Saturday afternoon and burned all night before being actioned.

As of Monday a crew from Kurt Dodd Contracting plus an excavator belonging to Larry Tucker were trying to put it out.

“The local rain cells that moved through likely saved our bacon with

Spahats. There was a lot of dead grass there,” the fire zone manager said.

Continued if sporadic showers have allowed Clearwater Fire Zone to avoid the major forest fire challenges that are emerging in the rest of the Kamloops Fire Center as well as across the province, Jones added.

Compared with the rest of the fire center plus the Valemount area, there has been little lightning activity locally.

A lightning storm that moved through Saturday evening caused a large number

of strikes, particularly south of Birch Island, but no fires were found on the ground.

As of Monday, Clearwater's three-person Initial Attack crew was fighting one of two new fires in the Raft River Valley.

A contract crew provided by Claude Poulin of Vavenby was to relieve the IA crew so they could move to the second fire in the Raft.

Because the road to the second fire had been deactivated, the IA crew likely would fly to the second fire.

A single tree was reported to be on fire on the Hydro line next to the highway at Moonbeam Creek north of Blue River.

BC Hydro had been advised and a forest technician was on his way to assess.

Also north of Blue River, there was a fire between Hellroar Creek and Foam Creek that had no crew on it.

A rap attack crew was actioning a fire in the North Thompson headwaters, how-ever.

Jones noted that, with so many forest fires burning in the United States and the rest of Canada, B.C. is running out of places it can get resources from.

He said the next step likely would be to bring in overhead management teams from Australia, where it is now winter.

Jones served in Australia several years ago when wildfires there grew to extreme levels.

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Battling for the ball

Megan Sim battles Josh Kiewitt for the ball during a community drop-in soccer session at the Clearwater Secondary School field on Thursday, July 31. Ses-sions are every Tuesday and Thursday, May to September, starting at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome. For another soccer picture, see page A12 inside.Photo by Keith McNeill

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Keith McNeill

There's a lot of pain in Clearwater.

About 15 people attended a workshop on how to man-age chronic pain put on by the Arthritis Society at Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital on Thursday eve-ning, July 31.

Most, if not all, appeared to be suffering from some kind of chronic pain.

“There are almost always options. You are not alone,” said June Vyner, the society's education and services direc-tor for its B.C. and Yukon division.

Pain is a big part of dis-ease for people with arthritis, but also for those suffering from other diseases, she said.

Osteoarthritis, for exam-ple, is the most common form of arthritis.

It is caused when the joint “degenerates” - the cartilage becomes rough and wears away, and the bone under-neath becomes thicker.

Joints most affected include the base of the thumb, the end joints or middle joints of the fingers, the hips, the knees, and the joint at the base of the big toe (bunion).

Pain management can include exercise, heat and cold, relaxation and cop-ing skills, diet, massage, and medications.

Non-prescription medica-tions include acetaminophen, ibuprofen, acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) and topical medica-tions.

There are also a number of prescription medications available.

Even with non-prescription medications, it is important to take them properly, Vyner said.

“Don't mix different pills on one bottle,” she advised. “No one ever remembers what the yellow one is for.”

Even acetaminophen can be dangerous, she said. Too much can damage your liver. Many over-the-counter medi-cations, such as cold remedies, contain acetaminophen. If a person is already taking high levels of the drug, adding more could result in an over-dose, so it pays to read labels carefully.

The Arthritis Society puts on free two-hour pain clinics at various locations across the province, although it has been some time since they offered one in Clearwater.

Vyner was in Clearwater to do some hut-to-hut hiking in Wells Gray Park and took some time out from her vaca-tion to put on the workshop.

“This is like a holiday for me. I love doing this,” she said.

Often the real value of the workshops is not so much the information passed on as the

realization for those suffering from chronic pain that they are not alone, she felt.

That feeling seemed to be confirmed by some of the comments by workshop par-ticipants.

“The harder you are on yourself, the worse it gets,” one said. “Never give up.”

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North Thompson resident Tom Coles says he is pleased to announced the release of his debut novel ‘Spirit Talker –The Legend of Nakosis.’

Set amid the ver-

dant and primordial wilds of pre-contact era North America, Spirit Talker –the leg-end of Nakosis tells the fantastical story of one young man’s induction into the mystique and magical world of the shaman. Possessing an acute sensitivity to the spirit realms, the young man is taken under the tutelage of the old vil-lage shaman and initi-ated in the ways and wonders of a ‘spirit talker,” he said.

It soon becomes apparent, however, that Nakosis is the medium of a very ancient and powerful spirit whose beckon-ing urges him upon a quest of legendary proportions whose unfolding will test the young man beyond his wildest imagining.

His journey will traverse strange lands of both stunning beauty and unforgiv-ing hardships. Along the way he will know the deepest grief and loss and yet come to embrace the full-ness of love and the revelation of sacred

wisdom as he finds his place within the Great Mystery.

What Nakosis discovers is not the archaic myths of a time and people long forgotten; it is the timeless thread of spiritual inter-con-nectedness that weaves throughout all of cre-ation, inexorably bind-ing all things within the warp and weft of the sacred circle of life.

This 600 page epic was the culmination of two years of part-time writing when Coles was not busy pursuing other vocations as a well known local tat-too artist, singer/song-writer/musician and artist blacksmith or working with his wife, Sandy on their 60 acre homestead and retreat, ‘Ravenwoods.’

‘Spirit Talker – The legend of Nakosis‘ is available to pur-chase through the publishers, direct on-line bookstore at www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/ 119734000013931267 or it can soon be ordered through out-

lets such as Chapters, Amazon, Indigo or Barnes and Noble. The book will also be available in hard cover and e-book format. You will also soon find it available at numer-ous local retailers.

For more informa-tion visit the authors' website at www.tom-coles.ca.

An official book launch is to take place Saturday, Aug. 23, at

the North Thompson Aboriginal Cultural Center in Clearwater at 1 p.m. The public is invited to attend, meet and talk to the author, take home a signed copy of the book and partake of food and festivities.

During the event a portion of all sales will be donated to the Center. This event is free of charge and open to all.

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KAMLOOPS: Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo NDP president Garry Worth announced that the party has set Saturday, Aug. 9, for nomination meetings to be held in 100 Mile House, Clearwater, and Kamloops. New Democrats will select their candidate for the federal election set for October 19, 2015.

The Aug. 9 meetings will be held as follows:• 100 Mile House nomination meeting - 10 – 11

a.m., United Church, 49 Dogwood Crescent, 100 Mile House. Guest speaker – Barb Matfin, chair, HEU 100 Mile House.

• Clearwater nomination meeting – 1:30 – 2:30 p.m., Monroe's Lounge at the Wells Gray Inn, Yellowhead Highway #5, Clearwater. Guest speak-er – Kathy Kendall, BCNDP candidate 2013.

• Kamloops nomination meeting – 5 – 6 p.m., BCGEU Office, 158 Oriole Road, Kamloops. Guest speaker – Peter Julian, MP for Burnaby-New Westminster and NDP House Leader.

Non-members will be welcome as guests.

Workshop looks at how to manage chronic painNew Democrats set nomination meetings

Tom Coles announces his debut novel, ‘Spirit Talker –The Legend of Nakosis.’

Rebecca Britton (l), the X-ray technician at Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital, discusses brochures with Joan Vyner, education and ser-vices director at the Arthritis Society's B.C. and Yukon division during a workshop on chronic pain held at the hospital on Thursday evening, July 31. Photo by Keith McNeill

Tom Coles, author of ‘Spirit Talker – The legend of Nakosis‘, sings during a recent concert in Clearwater. Times file photo

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Negotiators for school dis-tricts and the B.C. Teachers' Federation are getting together Aug. 8 to seek a settlement in their long-running dispute before school starts up in September.

A brief statement from the BCTF announced the resump-tion of talks Friday afternoon, a day after the B.C. government announced a contingency plan to pay strike savings to parents of younger students if the strike keeps schools shut in September.

The government saves an esti-mated $12 million a day when teachers go without paycheques, enough to pay parents $40 per missed school day for each child under 13 in public school.

Recreation centres are prepar-

ing to extend summer camp and activity programs into the fall.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong announced the contingency plan Thursday after several weeks without movement in the long-running dispute that shut schools for the last two weeks of June.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender has said the union's demands are far beyond settle-ments with other public sector unions, particularly on benefit improvements.

The B.C. Public School Employers' Association esti-mates the union's benefit demands alone represent an additional $225 million a year. Those include increases to preparation time, pregnancy and parental leave, extended health and dental and substitute teach-er compensation.

A small audience listens as Trevor Goward talks about lichen during a session held at his home in Upper Clearwa-ter on Friday evening. Photo by Keith McNeill

Keith McNeill

“This household supported by lichen dollars.”That's the bumper sticker that Trevor Goward

would like to have.The curator of lichens for the UBC Herbarium

and a former longtime Wells Gray Park naturalist, Goward gave a presentation on lichens to an audi-ence of close to 20 people at his Upper Clearwater home, Edgewood Blue, on Friday evening, Aug. 1.

The talk was part of the Wells Gray Rocks series of events being held this summer to cel-ebrate the 75th anniversary of Wells Gray Park.

Some of those attending were also taking part in a workshop on lichens over the weekend.

“Some people are astounded that other people will pay money to learn about lichens,” Goward said.

In fact, lichens are important factors in many ecosystems and are often sensitive if anything is wrong in those ecosystems.

“Lichens are good indicators of certain kinds of pollution but not others,” Goward said.

Radioactivity is one example of pollution that lichens are not sensitive to.

Studies have shown that radioactivity strong enough to kill just about everything, including trees, will not affect lichens.

Some sulphur compounds, on the other hand, will “change the world” for lichens, because they can change the acidity of the environment.

Goward noted that the largest literature in lichenology is about pollution.

He suggested that this was because most lichenologists work in universities, which are in cities, and so studying pollution is easy to do.

Lung lichens, for example, are still common here but have disappeared from many parts of Europe because of acidification and eutrophica-tion.

Lichens live by absorbing things from the air, including metals.

During the time when the United States and the USSR tested nuclear weapons in the atmo-sphere, the Inuit in the Arctic were the people most affected by radioactive fallout.

This was because the lichen concentrated the radioactive particles from the air and then were eaten by caribou, which were then eaten by the Inuit.

During the mid-1980s Goward did a major survey of metal concentrations in lichen near Kamloops to measure the effect of open pit mines in the area.

More recently, a controversy has developed about a proposal to build a new mine within city boundaries.

Goward wanted to do a comparison but someone in the Ministry of Environment had thrown away all the samples from his earlier survey.

Hair lichens in this area are an important source of food for mountain caribou, he said.

They require an acidic habitat to grow, which they usually find on conifers.

“People see lichens growing on dying trees and they assume they are killing them. Actually, it's the other way around,” Goward said. “First the trees have to start dying, then the lichen can grow on them.”

“As the forest ages, lichen become more abun-dant,” he said. “That's why mountain caribou need old forest. By the time you get to 150-year-old spruce ... now you're talking.”

Goward delivers enlichenment lecture

Trevor Goward holds a sample of hair lichen, an im-portant food for mountain caribou that requires mature forests to live. Photo by Keith McNeill

Teacher talks to resume Aug. 8


Editor, The Times:The widening gap

between what govern-ment thinks seniors need and want, and the services actually being delivered is the motiva-tion behind a group of community minded individuals who are primarily seniors them-selves.

This enthused and knowledgeable group will work towards the strategic develop-ment of strengthening the communication between all levels of government through a strong and united voice for seniors.

“We need a nonpar-tisan voice that will go above grass roots orga-nizations,” says Isabelle

Allen, president of the newly formed Interior BC Council on Aging Society.

Governments often take a condescending approach when it comes to the realistic needs of our aging population.

Despite the volumes of research focused on what type of commu-nity services and pro-grams can best support our senior population there has been little action reflecting the recommendations con-tained therein.

What has developed is a large percentage of primarily volunteer based organizations struggling to deliver services and meet needs.

Services are often

fragmented with mini-mal funding or outside support and often lack valuable communica-tion and awareness.

“There needs to be a consolidated approach that is effective and also identifies the best use of tax dollars within individual communi-ties and districts? says Allan. “The stated purpose of the Council on Aging is: ‘to bring awareness to and offer possible solutions for issues affecting an aging population through research and by draw-ing on the knowledge and experience within relevant sections of the community.”

The society was officially launched in March 2014. Over the coming months the board of directors will recruit additional mem-bers who support the purpose of the society.

For more informa-tion about the Interior BC Council on Aging, please contact the presi-dent, Isabelle Allen at: [email protected] or call (250) 374-8248.Interior BC Council on

Aging Kamloops, B.C.

Enlichenment lecture contains lessons about community

editorial by keith mcNeill

Opinion“ You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.”

— Bernard Baruch, � nancier

BC Press CouncilThe Times is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the BC Press Council.Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to BC Press Council, PO Box 1356, Ladysmith, B.C. V9G 1A9For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org

New voice for seniors in the B.C. Interior

Agree with him or not, if Clearwater-Wells Gray were an independent state, then Trevor Goward would be one of our national trea-sures.

Your editor was reminded of this when listening to Goward's “enlichenment” lec-ture on Friday evening at his home in Upper Clearwater (see story on page A2).

Goward is one of the world's leading lichenologists and he has a long list of pub-lished scientific papers to prove it.

According to Goward, the Clearwater River Valley has the world's largest assemblage of lichens. He and people working with him have identified 430 species.

He says it isn't the “Trevor Goward Effect” and that there are reasons why, other than hav-ing one of the world's leading lichenologists working full-time for decades, to explain the abundance of species found here.

Maybe so, but the Trevor Goward Effect has got to have been a factor, not just in document-ing how many types of lichen there are in the area, but a host of other natural phenomena and features of interest as well.

During his talk Goward made the point that lichens are unusual in that they combinations of two (or more) lifeforms – alga and fungus.

Apparently the alga cells can live on their own, and the fungus as well. However, when they get together and form a lichen – a commu-nity if you will – they are able to live through stresses that would easily kill the alga or the fungus on its own.

Our understanding is that, basically, the alga provides food through photosynthesis, while the fungus provides protection.

One hates to turn other people's words back on themselves (well okay, your editor likes few things better) but it seems to us that Goward's words about lichens might have some relevance to the ongoing Upper Clearwater logging con-troversy.

A number of residents of the Upper Clearwater and elsewhere, including Goward, are strongly opposed to Canfor's plans to log in the Clearwater River Valley.

Taken to the extreme, those arguments say we should abandon the forest industry and rely exclusively on tourism.

It seems to us that approach is similar to the alga or the fungus saying it would be better off on its own and not part of a lichen community.

Those opposing the logging plans have a number of strong arguments in their favor, in particular, concerns about soil stability in the First, Second and Third canyons area.

On the other hand, this community strug-gled hard and services declined noticeably dur-ing the two years that Canfor had its Vavenby sawmill closed.

The tendency nowadays is for sawmills to get larger and larger. That means the Vavenby sawmill needs every log it can get to remain competitive.

Lichens can grow in the Atacama Desert and in the rocks of Antarctica. They can even survive exposed for weeks in Outer Space.

As a community, we need a mixed economy to survive.

We should be thinking of ways to attract new and different industries, not how we can sacrifice one industry for a questionable benefit to another.

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Community Gaming Grants make good things happen in British ColumbiaEditor, The Times :

VICTORIA - Every year, gaming revenues generate hundreds of millions of dol-lars that the Government of British Columbia invests in providing key services, including health care and education, for all citizens and communities throughout the province.

The Government of British Columbia dedicates a $135-million portion of the total annual gaming revenues to communities as gaming

grants for non-profit organi-zations. These organizations provide invaluable services in most B.C. communities.

Eligible organizations apply to the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch for gaming grant funding distributed by sectors, includ-ing Arts and Culture, Sport, Environment, Public Safety, Human and Social Services, Parent Advisory Councils and District Parent Advisory Councils.

In 2012, Premier Christy

Clark increased the annual base budget for community gaming grants by $15 mil-lion, from $120 million to $135 million per year into the future. Every year, over 5,000 local organizations rep-resenting virtually every com-munity in British Columbia benefit from this funding.

These organizations accomplish amazing things for British Columbia's com-munities. The diversity of their work is astonishing: Continued on page A6


Editor, The Times:The widening gap

between what govern-ment thinks seniors need and want, and the services actually being delivered is the motiva-tion behind a group of community minded individuals who are primarily seniors them-selves.

This enthused and knowledgeable group will work towards the strategic develop-ment of strengthening the communication between all levels of government through a strong and united voice for seniors.

“We need a nonpar-tisan voice that will go above grass roots orga-nizations,” says Isabelle

Allen, president of the newly formed Interior BC Council on Aging Society.

Governments often take a condescending approach when it comes to the realistic needs of our aging population.

Despite the volumes of research focused on what type of commu-nity services and pro-grams can best support our senior population there has been little action reflecting the recommendations con-tained therein.

What has developed is a large percentage of primarily volunteer based organizations struggling to deliver services and meet needs.

Services are often

fragmented with mini-mal funding or outside support and often lack valuable communica-tion and awareness.

“There needs to be a consolidated approach that is effective and also identifies the best use of tax dollars within individual communi-ties and districts? says Allan. “The stated purpose of the Council on Aging is: ‘to bring awareness to and offer possible solutions for issues affecting an aging population through research and by draw-ing on the knowledge and experience within relevant sections of the community.”

The society was officially launched in March 2014. Over the coming months the board of directors will recruit additional mem-bers who support the purpose of the society.

For more informa-tion about the Interior BC Council on Aging, please contact the presi-dent, Isabelle Allen at: [email protected] or call (250) 374-8248.Interior BC Council on

Aging Kamloops, B.C.

Enlichenment lecture contains lessons about community

editorial by keith mcNeill

Opinion“ You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.”

— Bernard Baruch, � nancier

BC Press CouncilThe Times is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the BC Press Council.Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to BC Press Council, PO Box 1356, Ladysmith, B.C. V9G 1A9For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org

New voice for seniors in the B.C. Interior

Agree with him or not, if Clearwater-Wells Gray were an independent state, then Trevor Goward would be one of our national trea-sures.

Your editor was reminded of this when listening to Goward's “enlichenment” lec-ture on Friday evening at his home in Upper Clearwater (see story on page A2).

Goward is one of the world's leading lichenologists and he has a long list of pub-lished scientific papers to prove it.

According to Goward, the Clearwater River Valley has the world's largest assemblage of lichens. He and people working with him have identified 430 species.

He says it isn't the “Trevor Goward Effect” and that there are reasons why, other than hav-ing one of the world's leading lichenologists working full-time for decades, to explain the abundance of species found here.

Maybe so, but the Trevor Goward Effect has got to have been a factor, not just in document-ing how many types of lichen there are in the area, but a host of other natural phenomena and features of interest as well.

During his talk Goward made the point that lichens are unusual in that they combinations of two (or more) lifeforms – alga and fungus.

Apparently the alga cells can live on their own, and the fungus as well. However, when they get together and form a lichen – a commu-nity if you will – they are able to live through stresses that would easily kill the alga or the fungus on its own.

Our understanding is that, basically, the alga provides food through photosynthesis, while the fungus provides protection.

One hates to turn other people's words back on themselves (well okay, your editor likes few things better) but it seems to us that Goward's words about lichens might have some relevance to the ongoing Upper Clearwater logging con-troversy.

A number of residents of the Upper Clearwater and elsewhere, including Goward, are strongly opposed to Canfor's plans to log in the Clearwater River Valley.

Taken to the extreme, those arguments say we should abandon the forest industry and rely exclusively on tourism.

It seems to us that approach is similar to the alga or the fungus saying it would be better off on its own and not part of a lichen community.

Those opposing the logging plans have a number of strong arguments in their favor, in particular, concerns about soil stability in the First, Second and Third canyons area.

On the other hand, this community strug-gled hard and services declined noticeably dur-ing the two years that Canfor had its Vavenby sawmill closed.

The tendency nowadays is for sawmills to get larger and larger. That means the Vavenby sawmill needs every log it can get to remain competitive.

Lichens can grow in the Atacama Desert and in the rocks of Antarctica. They can even survive exposed for weeks in Outer Space.

As a community, we need a mixed economy to survive.

We should be thinking of ways to attract new and different industries, not how we can sacrifice one industry for a questionable benefit to another.

74 young Road, Unit 14 Brookfi eld Mall, Clearwater, BC V0E 1N2Phone: 250-674-3343 Fax: 250-674-3410Email: [email protected]

Publisher: Al KirkwoodEditor: Keith McNeillOffi ce manager: Yevonne Cline


Established September 23, 1964Member, BC Press Council

TH

E

NORTH THOMPSON


TH

ETimesWe acknowledge the fi nancial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Subscribe to the TimesIn Town / Out of Town Rates1 year $57.75; 2 years $110.25Prices include GST

Community Gaming Grants make good things happen in British ColumbiaEditor, The Times :

VICTORIA - Every year, gaming revenues generate hundreds of millions of dol-lars that the Government of British Columbia invests in providing key services, including health care and education, for all citizens and communities throughout the province.

The Government of British Columbia dedicates a $135-million portion of the total annual gaming revenues to communities as gaming

grants for non-profit organi-zations. These organizations provide invaluable services in most B.C. communities.

Eligible organizations apply to the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch for gaming grant funding distributed by sectors, includ-ing Arts and Culture, Sport, Environment, Public Safety, Human and Social Services, Parent Advisory Councils and District Parent Advisory Councils.

In 2012, Premier Christy

Clark increased the annual base budget for community gaming grants by $15 mil-lion, from $120 million to $135 million per year into the future. Every year, over 5,000 local organizations rep-resenting virtually every com-munity in British Columbia benefit from this funding.

These organizations accomplish amazing things for British Columbia's com-munities. The diversity of their work is astonishing: Continued on page A6


Editor, The Times:

Editor's Note: The following is an open let-ter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper sent by Aaron Sam, chief of the Lower Nicola Indian Band.

Prime Minister,My name is Aaron

Sam and I am the elected Chief of the Lower Nicola Indian Band, part of the Nlaka’pamux Nation. We are located outside of Merritt, B.C. in the heart of our traditional territory in the south-ern interior of British Columbia.

As you may know, the Kinder Morgan pipeline currently runs through our Lower Nicola Indian Band reserve. One of the decisions our commu-nity has to make this next year is whether we will agree to the expan-sion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline through our Indian reserve and traditional territory.

I am addressing this open letter to you because many in our community have seri-ous reservations about the Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline proposal. In this letter, I am not addressing specific impacts or concerns on LNIB lands and our traditional territory; I am addressing broader impacts that affect Canadians and the natural environment.

Many of us at

Lower Nicola Indian Band are very much concerned that your government hasn't taken any real steps to address climate change. For us to even consider approving the expan-sion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline through our territory, it is imperative that the Government of Canada take immedi-ate, real steps to attack climate change in a meaningful way.

In addition, we do not support the expan-sion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline because your govern-ment has not done enough to regulate the oil sands and extract resources in an envi-ronmentally sustain-able way. We believe that your government should initiate a mean-ingful dialogue with the First Nations and others who are affected by the extracting, processing and trans-portation of bitumen from oil sands across Alberta and British Columbia.

We also do not support the proposed project because of the possibility of an oil spill in the Salish Sea. While we know the likelihood of a bitumen spill could be relatively low, we believe it is still a risk not worth tak-ing. Many Canadians, including Nlaka’pamux people, are dependent on a healthy ocean and healthy salmon. If there ever was a large oil spill in the Salish

Sea, it could decimate our salmon and our healthy ocean waters for generations.

Although our tradi-tional territory is locat-ed in the interior of British Columbia, our members and families still rely significantly on wild salmon as their main food source. We see our interests being compromised by such an oil spill. In addi-tion, such potential decimation of salmon population would have a devastating cascading effect on most other living things in our tra-ditional territory.

If the Government of Canada doesn’t take serious steps to address the above mentioned issues while engaging First Nations in a meaning-ful way, we will find it very difficult, if not impossible, to support the proposed pipeline expansion through our traditional territory.

Since 2006, your government has revised and weakened many environmental laws and policies dealing with pollution, bio-diversity degradation, greenhouse effect of gas emissions and climate change. You have also made sig-nificant budget cuts at Environment Canada and other Federal government depart-ments, leading to criti-cism that undermines their ability to enforce remaining and weaker environmental laws in any credible way.

The restrictions placed upon the ability of government scientists to speak to the public and the media also strengthens criticism that you are trying to limit the debate on environmental issues.

As you have seen in the Supreme Court of Canada Tsilhqot’in decision, it is vital that First Nations are sit-ting at the table when there is any dialogue about natural resource development in this country. As you know, a genuine process of consultation and accommodation must take place before First Nations can consent to natural resource devel-opment projects.

We believe that Canada needs to develop a National Energy Strategy to move forward in a way that benefits everyone (not just a few). In order to accomplish this, I suggest that the Government of Canada spearheads a collaborative initiative where First Nations, communities affected by energy develop-ment, those concerned about the environment, academics, energy industry, business lead-ers, and representatives from the three levels of government engage in the development of this strategy. In order to be effective, the contribu-tion of all involved must be recognized and valued. A National Energy Strategy will help us find creative

and effective ways to have a more sustainable and diverse economy, socially relevant for all Canadians today and in the future, and mindful of the impact that the production, transportation and consumption of energy (especially from fossil

fuel sources) has on the environment.

In spite of the res-ervations above men-tioned, we are prepared to meaningfully engage in a genuine national conversation with other stakeholders in shap-ing Canada’s National Energy Strategy.

Accordingly, I hereby volunteer my energy and commitment to work with you on such important initiative. Please let me know how I can help.

Chief Aaron L. SamLower Nicola Indian

Band

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45 YEARS AGO:The corporal, the

bank manager, the prin-cipal, the constable and the politicians all got dunked in Dutch Lake during the Lions' annual Regatta. Bev and Barry Buck took the high aggregate trophies in the swimming races.

40 YEARS AGO: Twenty mem-

bers of Kamloops B.C. Federation of Naturalists spent a weekend on Trophy Mountain with Mrs. Ida Dekelver, Dianne and Tina. They hiked up Third Canyon Creek trail with two horses to pack supplies.

Dwaine Bridge and Dave May took over Clearwater Service Ltd. from the Jim MacLennan family.

Chuck Dee got the best pitcher award at the two-day Birch Island softball tournament.

35 YEARS AGO: Events organized

by CNT Lions and

Clearwater Swim Club for the Dutch Lake Regatta included para-chute jumping into the lake, swim races, an island swim, grease-pole climb, toddlers' sandbox money hunt, and bingo.

Frank Baruta came from Vernon to take over as Clearwater RCMP sergeant from Jim Switzer, who had been transferred to Prince George. The detachment had eight officers — three on highway patrol and five on in-town duty.

Birch Island land-mark McCracken's General Store was being taken down piece by piece. It had closed in mid-July.

30 YEARS AGO: Strong winds

knocked out the power and telephone lines to Clearwater Forest District office as staff fought 81 fires in the area. Radios were used to keep in touch, and oil lamps for light. Numerous trees were knocked down by the winds throughout the

North Thompson, and B.C. Hydro workers put in a 16 hour day to restore power to Blackpool.

A tourist found the body of a Bear Creek Camp inmate who had been knocked into Falls Creek in Wells Gray Park while work-ing on a bridge. The 41-year-old man's body was found near North Thompson Provincial Park campsite six days after the accident.

20 YEARS AGO: Wheelchair athlete

Rick Hansen was in Blue River to help open a wheelchair-accessible trail to Murtle Lake. Hansen said he looked forward to kayaking on the lake.

15 YEARS AGO:One 24-hour period

brought 59 new fires to Clearwater Forest District, said fire control officer Leon O'Dette. The largest fire in the district was at Jones Creek near Vavenby. “That one is really nasty,” said district manager Jim Munn.

An application by Steve Wallace to establish a second taxi service in Clearwater was turned down by the Motor Carrier Commission. Margaret Wilkie, who was doing business as Clearwater Taxi, objected that a taxi service in the area faced a meagre prospect at best.

10 YEARS AGO:A fire in Raft River

valley was the largest of 32 spot fires started by lightning in the area. It was 17 per cent con-tinued, and was being fought by 91 firefight-ers and 13 pieces of heavy equipment. One week later, the fire in Raft River valley (over 20 km from Clearwater)

had grown quickly but was being contained at 234 hectares. There were 60 local contract firefighters under the control of incident com-mander Sherri Madden.

Sam Saul and Ida Matthew, elders of the North Thompson Indian Band, taught Lehal, an ancient guessing game of the Secwepemc people, to teen members of the band, tourists and interested locals. The lessons were part of a summer program at Raft River salmon viewing platform.

Trevor Yeomans of Vavenby, age 15, placed 10th in shot-put at the B.C. Summer Games.

5 YEARS AGO:Clearwater

Peewee Crushers softball team was on its way to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to take part in the Western Canadian Championships.

Minister of Forests and Range Pat Bell announced the ministry would take a zero-tolerance approach to people defying the open fire ban. “There will be

no warnings,” Bell said. “We’ll have a total of 340 staff on the ground, in the air and on the water enforcing this.”

On Aug. 5 mem-bers of Central Interior Traffic Services in Clearwater seized more than 11 kg (24 pounds) of marijuana from a van during a road check on Highway 5 in Clearwater. The van had been modified with false walls to cre-ate gaps on both sides. The new inside wall had been covered with spray-on insulation. A 36-year-old male from Edmonton faced charg-es of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Run-of-the-river hydro projects had become a hot issue in the province but three such projects north of Blue River were still going ahead. According to Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. of Calgary, the proposed Bone Creek, Clemina Creek, and Serpentine Creek hydroelectric projects together would generate enough elec-tricity to power 21,000 homes. “We are cur-rently proceeding with the Blue River projects, with a construction work focus presently on Bone Creek,” said Kelly Matheson, man-ager of environmental affairs with Canadian Hydro.

Cory Graffunder found that the motor-biking in the hills around Vavenby he did as a youth was good practice for one

of the toughest enduro races in the world – the Erzberg rodeo in Austria. “It takes place in an old iron mine,” said Graffunder. “The man who designs the course goes out and finds the nastiest stuff he can. The idea is that only one bike will fin-ish and be the winner.” In the previous year’s race, only 21 out of the 500 motorcyclists who started actually completed the course. Graffunder was among those 21 and placed fifth.

1 YEAR AGO:Some of Canada's

most outstanding think-ers and writers had been invited to the upcom-ing Speak to the Wild – a Wells Gray World Heritage Year event. “It will be a four-day event with an internation-ally renowned set of authors,” TRU dean of science Tom Dickinson told Clearwater Rotary Club.

More than a dozen Clearwater and area youngsters took part in the EUReKA! Science Camp put on annually by TRU.

About 150 people, many of them former residents, attended a barbeque held as part of a Blue River reunion during the August long weekend. The event was hosted by TNRD Area B (Thompson Headwaters) services committee and director Willow MacDonald.

Continued from page A4 sports leagues for kids; community arts cen-tres and festivals; organizations that help ani-mals in distress and protect the environment; agricultural fairs that celebrate B.C.'s rural heritage; parent advisory councils working with schools; organizations dedicated to public

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HISTORICAL Perspect i ve

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Gaming grant deadlines coming soon


Times Staff

Major stakeholders in the rugged, scenic North Thompson Valley are partnering to create a compelling new tourism brand, website and mobile digital strategy aimed at increasing the num-ber of visitors from Europe, Australia and across Canada to this world-class destination.

The five stake-holders – spanning the beautiful North Thompson Valley and Highway 5 corridor from just north of Kamloops all the way to the Alberta border near Jasper – have joined in a pilot proj-ect with Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) to have expert resource people create brand messaging and a strong online presence that will attract more travel-lers to visit and stay in the area.

The project will be funded by the five stakeholder groups, with matching support from the provincial government’s tourism agency, Destination BC, through its Community Tourism Opportunities pro-gram. The stakeholders are Tourism Sun Peaks, the Lower North Thompson Tourism Society, Tourism Wells Gray, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, and Tourism Valemount.

“This initiative aims to unify the North Thompson valley and the Valemount area into a distinct, desti-nation experience for both Canadian and international visi-tors,” commented Gy Ovenden, president of Tourism Wells Gray.

“The benefit to local tourism is to build greater aware-ness of the North Thompson Valley as a multi-day destina-tion in itself for people touring or travelling through the interior of British Columbia, and of course Wells Gray Park will always be the showpiece natural attraction at the heart

of the valley.”Ovenden pointed

out that the initiative could especially benefit sectors such as agri-tourism and recreation-al fishing that are bet-ter packaged in terms of what the entire val-ley has to offer.

“Tourism Wells Gray is a partner in this program because we believe it is impor-tant to ensure that it complements our exist-ing tourism marketing strategy, whilst leverag-ing greater promotion of the area,” Ovenden said.

Project leader Simone Carlysle-Smith, TOTA’s community development specialist, said the project flows from a tourism plan prepared for the North Thompson Valley more than a year ago. She noted that document was the first area plan within the Thompson Okanagan to align with the 10-year Thompson Okanagan Regional Tourism Strategy, which had been finalized in November 2012.

Carlysle-Smith added that this brand-ing and digital-strategy

project is the latest in a series of community tourism pilot projects carried out in the Thompson Okanagan region in recent years which have incorpo-rated the principles of the Regional Tourism Strategy and have included the Canadian Tourism Commission’s sophisticated research-

based tourism mar-keting program, EQ (Explorer Quotient) – which develops marketing based on the potential visitor’s social values and travel motivations. These projects have been undertaken by TOTA and stakeholders in the Similkameen Valley, Enderby, Summerland, and Boundary Country.

"Each of these projects has had a somewhat different mix of goals, but each has incorporated the Regional Strategy and EQ," Carlysle-Smith said. "We’re so excited to have had such a

diverse range of proj-ects. Each one helped us gain valuable expe-rience in how to roll out the Strategy for different communities and areas, and helped our resource people build their expertise in developing power-ful tourism branding and digital marketing that aligns with the Regional Strategy and EQ. We now have a robust toolkit that can help almost any type of community in our region to take their tourism branding and marketing to the next level."

The North Thompson Valley encompasses ranch-lands, hundreds of lakes, wilderness areas and soaring moun-tains. It contains the communities of Avola, Barriere, Birch Island, Blackpool, Blue River, Clearwater/Wells Gray, Darfield, Little Fort, Louis Creek, Sun Peaks, Valemount and Vavenby. The area includes stunning natural wonders per-fect for backcountry adventure tourism.

The goal of the branding and website/digital project is to attract more visitors from overseas, pri-marily Europe and Australia, and from Canada, who until now have viewed the North Thompson Valley more as a travel corridor between Southern B.C. and Alberta, rather than as an area rich with its own amazing destina-tions that deserve an extended stay.

The project will develop a brand, a website and a digital strategy that will focus on outstanding desti-nations and activities that exemplify the authentic Canadian outdoors summer and winter experiences that visitors can have in the North Thompson Valley.

The website will tell the North Thompson Valley story through the profile of key des-tination experiences and the unique eco-system. The site will

provide direct links to the main tourism website of each of the five groups sponsoring this joint marketing project.

Christopher Nicolson, president of Tourism Sun Peaks and chair of the North

Thompson Valley Marketing Committee, said the five stake-holder groups in the area recently signed a memorandum of understanding to form the marketing commit-tee and work together on initiatives like this branding and website project.

"The North Thompson is a dis-

tinct part of British Columbia, defined by pillars such as Wells Gray Park, Murtle Lake and Mt. Robson," Nicolson noted. "These are icon-ic to adventure seekers and place the region on a global stage with New Zealand and Patagonia."

TOTA president and CEO Glenn Mandziuk said this project demonstrates how five groups, which market their own des-tinations separately, can come together and enhance their own efforts by developing an area tourism brand that is supported by the Regional Tourism Strategy and EQ mar-keting techniques.

"I commend every-one involved in this project because it shows the strength and value of partner-ships in our industry, and because it takes

us much further along the road of develop-ing world-class best practices in how we brand and market our tourism destinations," Mandziuk said.

The project team includes Simone Carlysle-Smith (project leader), Christopher Nicolson (president of Tourism Sun Peaks and chair of the North Thompson Valley Marketing Committee), Roger Handling (Terra Firma Digital Arts – for branding and web design), Teresa Nightingale (Attention Web and Graphic Design – for web-site production), A Couple of Chicks E-Marketing (for digital strategy), Kim Cameron and Kathleen Head (EQ content writers), and Kelly Funk (imagery). The project will be completed this fall.

6 - 7Groups partner to develop North Thompson Valley tourism branding and marketing

Helmcken Falls in Wells Gray Park is one of the major tourist attractions in the North Thompson watershed. A consortium of five tourism-related organizations is get-ting ready to implement a plan to bring more visitors to the valley. Times file photo


45 YEARS AGO:The corporal, the

bank manager, the prin-cipal, the constable and the politicians all got dunked in Dutch Lake during the Lions' annual Regatta. Bev and Barry Buck took the high aggregate trophies in the swimming races.

40 YEARS AGO: Twenty mem-

bers of Kamloops B.C. Federation of Naturalists spent a weekend on Trophy Mountain with Mrs. Ida Dekelver, Dianne and Tina. They hiked up Third Canyon Creek trail with two horses to pack supplies.

Dwaine Bridge and Dave May took over Clearwater Service Ltd. from the Jim MacLennan family.

Chuck Dee got the best pitcher award at the two-day Birch Island softball tournament.

35 YEARS AGO: Events organized

by CNT Lions and

Clearwater Swim Club for the Dutch Lake Regatta included para-chute jumping into the lake, swim races, an island swim, grease-pole climb, toddlers' sandbox money hunt, and bingo.

Frank Baruta came from Vernon to take over as Clearwater RCMP sergeant from Jim Switzer, who had been transferred to Prince George. The detachment had eight officers — three on highway patrol and five on in-town duty.

Birch Island land-mark McCracken's General Store was being taken down piece by piece. It had closed in mid-July.

30 YEARS AGO: Strong winds

knocked out the power and telephone lines to Clearwater Forest District office as staff fought 81 fires in the area. Radios were used to keep in touch, and oil lamps for light. Numerous trees were knocked down by the winds throughout the

North Thompson, and B.C. Hydro workers put in a 16 hour day to restore power to Blackpool.

A tourist found the body of a Bear Creek Camp inmate who had been knocked into Falls Creek in Wells Gray Park while work-ing on a bridge. The 41-year-old man's body was found near North Thompson Provincial Park campsite six days after the accident.

20 YEARS AGO: Wheelchair athlete

Rick Hansen was in Blue River to help open a wheelchair-accessible trail to Murtle Lake. Hansen said he looked forward to kayaking on the lake.

15 YEARS AGO:One 24-hour period

brought 59 new fires to Clearwater Forest District, said fire control officer Leon O'Dette. The largest fire in the district was at Jones Creek near Vavenby. “That one is really nasty,” said district manager Jim Munn.

An application by Steve Wallace to establish a second taxi service in Clearwater was turned down by the Motor Carrier Commission. Margaret Wilkie, who was doing business as Clearwater Taxi, objected that a taxi service in the area faced a meagre prospect at best.

10 YEARS AGO:A fire in Raft River

valley was the largest of 32 spot fires started by lightning in the area. It was 17 per cent con-tinued, and was being fought by 91 firefight-ers and 13 pieces of heavy equipment. One week later, the fire in Raft River valley (over 20 km from Clearwater)

had grown quickly but was being contained at 234 hectares. There were 60 local contract firefighters under the control of incident com-mander Sherri Madden.

Sam Saul and Ida Matthew, elders of the North Thompson Indian Band, taught Lehal, an ancient guessing game of the Secwepemc people, to teen members of the band, tourists and interested locals. The lessons were part of a summer program at Raft River salmon viewing platform.

Trevor Yeomans of Vavenby, age 15, placed 10th in shot-put at the B.C. Summer Games.

5 YEARS AGO:Clearwater

Peewee Crushers softball team was on its way to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to take part in the Western Canadian Championships.

Minister of Forests and Range Pat Bell announced the ministry would take a zero-tolerance approach to people defying the open fire ban. “There will be

no warnings,” Bell said. “We’ll have a total of 340 staff on the ground, in the air and on the water enforcing this.”

On Aug. 5 mem-bers of Central Interior Traffic Services in Clearwater seized more than 11 kg (24 pounds) of marijuana from a van during a road check on Highway 5 in Clearwater. The van had been modified with false walls to cre-ate gaps on both sides. The new inside wall had been covered with spray-on insulation. A 36-year-old male from Edmonton faced charg-es of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Run-of-the-river hydro projects had become a hot issue in the province but three such projects north of Blue River were still going ahead. According to Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. of Calgary, the proposed Bone Creek, Clemina Creek, and Serpentine Creek hydroelectric projects together would generate enough elec-tricity to power 21,000 homes. “We are cur-rently proceeding with the Blue River projects, with a construction work focus presently on Bone Creek,” said Kelly Matheson, man-ager of environmental affairs with Canadian Hydro.

Cory Graffunder found that the motor-biking in the hills around Vavenby he did as a youth was good practice for one

of the toughest enduro races in the world – the Erzberg rodeo in Austria. “It takes place in an old iron mine,” said Graffunder. “The man who designs the course goes out and finds the nastiest stuff he can. The idea is that only one bike will fin-ish and be the winner.” In the previous year’s race, only 21 out of the 500 motorcyclists who started actually completed the course. Graffunder was among those 21 and placed fifth.

1 YEAR AGO:Some of Canada's

most outstanding think-ers and writers had been invited to the upcom-ing Speak to the Wild – a Wells Gray World Heritage Year event. “It will be a four-day event with an internation-ally renowned set of authors,” TRU dean of science Tom Dickinson told Clearwater Rotary Club.

More than a dozen Clearwater and area youngsters took part in the EUReKA! Science Camp put on annually by TRU.

About 150 people, many of them former residents, attended a barbeque held as part of a Blue River reunion during the August long weekend. The event was hosted by TNRD Area B (Thompson Headwaters) services committee and director Willow MacDonald.

Continued from page A4 sports leagues for kids; community arts cen-tres and festivals; organizations that help ani-mals in distress and protect the environment; agricultural fairs that celebrate B.C.'s rural heritage; parent advisory councils working with schools; organizations dedicated to public

safety, including volunteer fire departments, community policing groups, search and rescue societies.

Volunteers play an important role in com-munities throughout British Columbia. Gaming grants help community organizations create wonderful opportunities for volunteers to share their time and experience with their local community. I encourage your non-profit organization to consider applying for a com-munity gaming grant. To find out how, visit: http://www.gaming.gov.bc.ca/

Upcoming gaming grant application dead-lines are:Aug. 31, 2014 Applications must be submitted for the environment and public safety sectors.Nov. 30, 2014 - Applications must be submitted for the human and social services sector.

Let a gaming grant help make good things happen for your organization and your com-munity.Connect with the Province of B.C. at: www.gov.bc.ca/connect

Coralee OakesMinister of Community, Sport and Cultural

Development

HISTORICAL Perspect i ve

BACK IN TIME

6 - 7

Gaming grant deadlines coming soon


Times Staff

Major stakeholders in the rugged, scenic North Thompson Valley are partnering to create a compelling new tourism brand, website and mobile digital strategy aimed at increasing the num-ber of visitors from Europe, Australia and across Canada to this world-class destination.

The five stake-holders – spanning the beautiful North Thompson Valley and Highway 5 corridor from just north of Kamloops all the way to the Alberta border near Jasper – have joined in a pilot proj-ect with Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) to have expert resource people create brand messaging and a strong online presence that will attract more travel-lers to visit and stay in the area.

The project will be funded by the five stakeholder groups, with matching support from the provincial government’s tourism agency, Destination BC, through its Community Tourism Opportunities pro-gram. The stakeholders are Tourism Sun Peaks, the Lower North Thompson Tourism Society, Tourism Wells Gray, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, and Tourism Valemount.

“This initiative aims to unify the North Thompson valley and the Valemount area into a distinct, desti-nation experience for both Canadian and international visi-tors,” commented Gy Ovenden, president of Tourism Wells Gray.

“The benefit to local tourism is to build greater aware-ness of the North Thompson Valley as a multi-day destina-tion in itself for people touring or travelling through the interior of British Columbia, and of course Wells Gray Park will always be the showpiece natural attraction at the heart

of the valley.”Ovenden pointed

out that the initiative could especially benefit sectors such as agri-tourism and recreation-al fishing that are bet-ter packaged in terms of what the entire val-ley has to offer.

“Tourism Wells Gray is a partner in this program because we believe it is impor-tant to ensure that it complements our exist-ing tourism marketing strategy, whilst leverag-ing greater promotion of the area,” Ovenden said.

Project leader Simone Carlysle-Smith, TOTA’s community development specialist, said the project flows from a tourism plan prepared for the North Thompson Valley more than a year ago. She noted that document was the first area plan within the Thompson Okanagan to align with the 10-year Thompson Okanagan Regional Tourism Strategy, which had been finalized in November 2012.

Carlysle-Smith added that this brand-ing and digital-strategy

project is the latest in a series of community tourism pilot projects carried out in the Thompson Okanagan region in recent years which have incorpo-rated the principles of the Regional Tourism Strategy and have included the Canadian Tourism Commission’s sophisticated research-

based tourism mar-keting program, EQ (Explorer Quotient) – which develops marketing based on the potential visitor’s social values and travel motivations. These projects have been undertaken by TOTA and stakeholders in the Similkameen Valley, Enderby, Summerland, and Boundary Country.

"Each of these projects has had a somewhat different mix of goals, but each has incorporated the Regional Strategy and EQ," Carlysle-Smith said. "We’re so excited to have had such a

diverse range of proj-ects. Each one helped us gain valuable expe-rience in how to roll out the Strategy for different communities and areas, and helped our resource people build their expertise in developing power-ful tourism branding and digital marketing that aligns with the Regional Strategy and EQ. We now have a robust toolkit that can help almost any type of community in our region to take their tourism branding and marketing to the next level."

The North Thompson Valley encompasses ranch-lands, hundreds of lakes, wilderness areas and soaring moun-tains. It contains the communities of Avola, Barriere, Birch Island, Blackpool, Blue River, Clearwater/Wells Gray, Darfield, Little Fort, Louis Creek, Sun Peaks, Valemount and Vavenby. The area includes stunning natural wonders per-fect for backcountry adventure tourism.

The goal of the branding and website/digital project is to attract more visitors from overseas, pri-marily Europe and Australia, and from Canada, who until now have viewed the North Thompson Valley more as a travel corridor between Southern B.C. and Alberta, rather than as an area rich with its own amazing destina-tions that deserve an extended stay.

The project will develop a brand, a website and a digital strategy that will focus on outstanding desti-nations and activities that exemplify the authentic Canadian outdoors summer and winter experiences that visitors can have in the North Thompson Valley.

The website will tell the North Thompson Valley story through the profile of key des-tination experiences and the unique eco-system. The site will

provide direct links to the main tourism website of each of the five groups sponsoring this joint marketing project.

Christopher Nicolson, president of Tourism Sun Peaks and chair of the North

Thompson Valley Marketing Committee, said the five stake-holder groups in the area recently signed a memorandum of understanding to form the marketing commit-tee and work together on initiatives like this branding and website project.

"The North Thompson is a dis-

tinct part of British Columbia, defined by pillars such as Wells Gray Park, Murtle Lake and Mt. Robson," Nicolson noted. "These are icon-ic to adventure seekers and place the region on a global stage with New Zealand and Patagonia."

TOTA president and CEO Glenn Mandziuk said this project demonstrates how five groups, which market their own des-tinations separately, can come together and enhance their own efforts by developing an area tourism brand that is supported by the Regional Tourism Strategy and EQ mar-keting techniques.

"I commend every-one involved in this project because it shows the strength and value of partner-ships in our industry, and because it takes

us much further along the road of develop-ing world-class best practices in how we brand and market our tourism destinations," Mandziuk said.

The project team includes Simone Carlysle-Smith (project leader), Christopher Nicolson (president of Tourism Sun Peaks and chair of the North Thompson Valley Marketing Committee), Roger Handling (Terra Firma Digital Arts – for branding and web design), Teresa Nightingale (Attention Web and Graphic Design – for web-site production), A Couple of Chicks E-Marketing (for digital strategy), Kim Cameron and Kathleen Head (EQ content writers), and Kelly Funk (imagery). The project will be completed this fall.

6 - 7Groups partner to develop North Thompson Valley tourism branding and marketing

Helmcken Falls in Wells Gray Park is one of the major tourist attractions in the North Thompson watershed. A consortium of five tourism-related organizations is get-ting ready to implement a plan to bring more visitors to the valley. Times file photo

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Blue River crash kills one, injures second

Drinking in publicA report was made this past

week of liquor consumption and loud music at the Dutch Lake boat launch.

Please be reminded that while a cold beer on a hot day can be a wonderful thing, there is a time and, more importantly, a place.

Consumption of liquor (beer or otherwise) in a public place can cost $230 dollars to start, and your remaining alcohol poured out.

Please, drink responsibly – and drink where it is legal.

Kayak FestivalA concert and campout that was

part of Clearwater Kayak Festival was held in Birch Island during the last weekend of July. RCMP are very happy to report that there were no reports made that could be

directly related to the festival.It appears the shuttle service

and camp facilities provided ample incentive for festival goers to avoid the temptation of drinking and driving.

The festival organizers should be commended for what appears to have been a very successful event all around.

Traffic is the most predominant issue

Over the past week half of all reports made to the RCMP have been for traffic/driving related offences.

With the summer season in full swing traffic volume along the high-way is expected to remain high.

The number of slower moving motorhomes and RVs will surely create opportunity for those drivers

already in too much of a hurry to cross the centreline and risk oncom-ing traffic to gain a few extra sec-onds on their way.

Please, if you tend to have a heavier foot while driving, con-sider the road you are travelling. Understand that for every RV or motorhome you pass, there are many more ahead of it, and pos-sibly even a hefty fine from one of your favourite Clearwater RCMP.

Take care on the roads and drive safe.

C L E A R W A T E R

1-800-222-TIPSClearwater RCMP Report

Kamloops This Week

Thompson Rivers University will receive $265,000 to help reduce its wait lists for trades deemed vital to the liquified natural-gas industry.

The money will allow 52 more students into the programs, 18 each in welder and electrician foundation level and 16 in the car-penter foundation level.

The money is part of $6.6 million the government is putting into seats for critical trades-education in post-secondary institu-tions as part of its Skills for Jobs Blueprint.

Trades funding for university

Times Staff

A woman is dead and a man has suffered non-life threatening injuries follow-ing a single vehicle crash five km south of Blue River early Saturday morning. Both are residents of the central Vancouver Island area.

According to Cpl. Bart Doerr of Clearwater RCMP's Traffic Services division, police received a report about the crash at approximately 3:57 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 2.

Upon the arrival of the police at the scene, members ascertained that a north-bound vehicle had left the travel portion of the highway and entered into the right

hand ditch. The vehicle then flipped before coming to rest a short distance away on its roof. There were two occu-pants in the vehicle at the time.

During the crash, the female passenger appeared to not have been seat-belted into the vehicle. Unfortunately, the female passenger died at the scene from the injuries she sustained.

The male driver was removed from the vehicle and was transported to the Clearwater hospital for non-life threatening injuries, including mid-body injuries.

The RCMP are in the pre-liminary stages of this investi-gation and have not made any

definite determinations as to the cause or relative factors leading to this incident.

At this point in time, drugs and alcohol are not suspected as contributing factors in this crash. During the time of the crash, weather and road con-ditions were considered good.

A Southeast District RCMP collision reconstruc-tionist attended the scene to assist the investigation. The local coroner also attended and is assisting with this investigation. The investiga-tion will continue into the cause of this tragic incident.

Police are not releasing the names of those involved as next-of-kin have yet to be notified.


VICTORIA – The B.C. government is spending $3.5 million a day to fight forest fires around the prov-ince, with the total for the year past $106 million and headed higher.

The government is bracing for bills that could reach $250 mil-lion by the end of the summer, depending on weather and the number of fires that threaten homes. B.C. has brought in fire-fighters from Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick, and issued several evacuation orders by the mid-point of the summer season.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong asked

for B.C. residents to take all possible pre-cautions and observe campfire bans through August. About 40 per cent of B.C. for-est fires are human caused, with most of the rest started by lightning strikes.

Forest fire spending

is already approaching totals for the last two years. Highs in the past decade are $382 million in 2009 and $371 million in 2003, when fires damaged Kelowna and Barriere.

"The possibil-ity of the fire season consuming a quarter

billion tax dollars is real," de Jong said. "Whilst there is no issue about spending the money, it has to come from some-where, so that's a cost item that's looking like it will be considerably more than what had been hoped for."

B.C. forest fire bills piling up

Fire at Eutsuk Lake in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park consumes forest interspersed with beetle-killed pine trees. Laura Blackwell/Lakes District News photo


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Eleanor Deckert

A guest book col-lected signatures. A camera collected faces. A digital recorder col-lected voices. A jour-nal collected stories. A chart collected five generations of fam-ily names. A time line collected dates. A map collected locations of homes, businesses, farms and events.

That was just some of what happened dur-ing the fourth Avola Reunion, held during the August long week-end.

Samples of stories overheard:

“She killed the griz-zly with her axe.”

“He thought he’d be called overseas to battle so he went to town to find the pret-tiest girl and have a good time.”

“The cop and us kids had street races on the straight stretch.”

“We were just kids running down to wave at the train and we saw this guy in his truck get hit.”

“Mom worked and Dad travelled so my big sister made the meals. We ate a lot of burnt potatoes.”

“This is my Mom’s doll which was second hand in the 1930’s.”

“I pulled the spark plug wires off the school bus.”

Women from the city arrived to primi-tive conditions. Other wilderness women had never been to a city. Children moved from school to school while parents searched for stability. Mental

health, still birth, suicide, gender issues, racial issues, religious divisions, alcohol-ics, violence in the home – these shadows are in the memories of our former Avola residents. Pranks and costumes, feasts and camaraderie, weddings and dances, games and movie night, children picking berries: these, too, are part of the early days in Avola.

Committee heads Bob and Colleen Jensen noted that many contributed in many ways. The Log Inn Pub provided excellent meals and hosted overnight guests, musicians and Kevin Deckert’s “Then and Now” slide show. Denis Graffunder pro-vided for great rates on the outdoor facili-ties. Larry Tucker and

Jack Schaeffer put on a demonstration of old engines. The Avola Book Club cleaned the building before and after. Upstream Community and Heritage Society pro-

vided the welcome tent with interviews and data collection. Out-of-town guests came from near and far (between 60-80 people attended). Many put cash donations in the

jar. Geocachers and other tourists popped in. The Times pro-moted interest in the history of our valley. Present residents of Avola worked together to present the event.

Avola Reunion 2014: So many stories, so little time

Former Avola resident Cathy Tucker brings a “show and tell” to the Avola Reunion held last weekend. This model of Avola’s one room log school house (built in 1939) was part of her granddaughter, Cassidy Tucker's, Heritage Fair project at Raft River School this year. Cassidy was interested in the place her Dad, Travis Tucker, went to school. She visited the school house this spring, interviewed former teacher Jane Olson, and made a timeline about the building. Photo by Eleanor Deckert

Avola Reunion 2014 Committee take a break. Colleen Herns-Jensen with grandson Alexander, Bob Jensen (the only Avola resident who has lived his whole life in the area), and Times freelancer Eleanor Deckert.Photo by Paul Klaehn

Oldtimer Bob Jensen (r) explains historical details to Kevin Deckert. Valuing the old by preserving it through new technology, Deckert scanned many of Jensen’s photos to make a 30-minute digital slide show which ran continuously at the Log Inn during the festivities.Photo by Eleanor Deckert

James and Linda Walford from Revelstoke attend the reunion. James was in the 1958 class as a five-year-old. Although his family moved that winter, he has vivid memories of his time in Avola. Photo by Eleanor Deckert


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Blue River crash kills one, injures second

Drinking in publicA report was made this past

week of liquor consumption and loud music at the Dutch Lake boat launch.

Please be reminded that while a cold beer on a hot day can be a wonderful thing, there is a time and, more importantly, a place.

Consumption of liquor (beer or otherwise) in a public place can cost $230 dollars to start, and your remaining alcohol poured out.

Please, drink responsibly – and drink where it is legal.

Kayak FestivalA concert and campout that was

part of Clearwater Kayak Festival was held in Birch Island during the last weekend of July. RCMP are very happy to report that there were no reports made that could be

directly related to the festival.It appears the shuttle service

and camp facilities provided ample incentive for festival goers to avoid the temptation of drinking and driving.

The festival organizers should be commended for what appears to have been a very successful event all around.

Traffic is the most predominant issue

Over the past week half of all reports made to the RCMP have been for traffic/driving related offences.

With the summer season in full swing traffic volume along the high-way is expected to remain high.

The number of slower moving motorhomes and RVs will surely create opportunity for those drivers

already in too much of a hurry to cross the centreline and risk oncom-ing traffic to gain a few extra sec-onds on their way.

Please, if you tend to have a heavier foot while driving, con-sider the road you are travelling. Understand that for every RV or motorhome you pass, there are many more ahead of it, and pos-sibly even a hefty fine from one of your favourite Clearwater RCMP.

Take care on the roads and drive safe.

C L E A R W A T E R

1-800-222-TIPSClearwater RCMP Report

Kamloops This Week

Thompson Rivers University will receive $265,000 to help reduce its wait lists for trades deemed vital to the liquified natural-gas industry.

The money will allow 52 more students into the programs, 18 each in welder and electrician foundation level and 16 in the car-penter foundation level.

The money is part of $6.6 million the government is putting into seats for critical trades-education in post-secondary institu-tions as part of its Skills for Jobs Blueprint.

Trades funding for university

Times Staff

A woman is dead and a man has suffered non-life threatening injuries follow-ing a single vehicle crash five km south of Blue River early Saturday morning. Both are residents of the central Vancouver Island area.

According to Cpl. Bart Doerr of Clearwater RCMP's Traffic Services division, police received a report about the crash at approximately 3:57 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 2.

Upon the arrival of the police at the scene, members ascertained that a north-bound vehicle had left the travel portion of the highway and entered into the right

hand ditch. The vehicle then flipped before coming to rest a short distance away on its roof. There were two occu-pants in the vehicle at the time.

During the crash, the female passenger appeared to not have been seat-belted into the vehicle. Unfortunately, the female passenger died at the scene from the injuries she sustained.

The male driver was removed from the vehicle and was transported to the Clearwater hospital for non-life threatening injuries, including mid-body injuries.

The RCMP are in the pre-liminary stages of this investi-gation and have not made any

definite determinations as to the cause or relative factors leading to this incident.

At this point in time, drugs and alcohol are not suspected as contributing factors in this crash. During the time of the crash, weather and road con-ditions were considered good.

A Southeast District RCMP collision reconstruc-tionist attended the scene to assist the investigation. The local coroner also attended and is assisting with this investigation. The investiga-tion will continue into the cause of this tragic incident.

Police are not releasing the names of those involved as next-of-kin have yet to be notified.


VICTORIA – The B.C. government is spending $3.5 million a day to fight forest fires around the prov-ince, with the total for the year past $106 million and headed higher.

The government is bracing for bills that could reach $250 mil-lion by the end of the summer, depending on weather and the number of fires that threaten homes. B.C. has brought in fire-fighters from Ontario, Alberta and New Brunswick, and issued several evacuation orders by the mid-point of the summer season.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong asked

for B.C. residents to take all possible pre-cautions and observe campfire bans through August. About 40 per cent of B.C. for-est fires are human caused, with most of the rest started by lightning strikes.

Forest fire spending

is already approaching totals for the last two years. Highs in the past decade are $382 million in 2009 and $371 million in 2003, when fires damaged Kelowna and Barriere.

"The possibil-ity of the fire season consuming a quarter

billion tax dollars is real," de Jong said. "Whilst there is no issue about spending the money, it has to come from some-where, so that's a cost item that's looking like it will be considerably more than what had been hoped for."

B.C. forest fire bills piling up

Fire at Eutsuk Lake in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park consumes forest interspersed with beetle-killed pine trees. Laura Blackwell/Lakes District News photo

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By Elli KohnertNorth Thompson Star/Journal

The small settle-ment of Vavenby is home to Ecki Manthei, a gifted artist who‘s artwork grows out of his connection to nature, and his drive to follow every new idea with a passion that moves him to create what is in his imagina-tion, without delay.

Ecki’s home stands out from all others in the Vavenby trailer park where it cannot be missed. Two large life-like eagles formed from wood, seem to be guarding his prop-erty. Varieties of crea-tures also made from wood, line the path to the house; and the ambiance of this place leaves no doubt that an artist lives here.

Ecki, and his life partner, Marilyn, arrived in the North Thompson Valley about five years ago. When they saw the trailer court in Vavenby, they “liked it right away and bought it”; a comfort-able, quiet place that allows his creativity to flourish.

Ecki says he emi-grated with his parents from Austria when he was a very young boy in 1945. He has lived and worked in various northern locations in

Canada, and eventu-ally came to live in Cloverdale, B.C. It is there that he began his artistic career.

Seashells were his medium then, tells Ecki as he explains how they lend them-selves to be made into clocks for instance, or be used as a canvas for his paintings.

When the couple eventually settled in the community of Vavenby, it is here that Ecki took on art as his life work.

Ecki has trans-formed one room of their home into an art gallery, where he now displays the numer-ous ‘Art By Ecki’ cre-ations.

The variety of his work is remarkable; it ranges from usable art, like wooden spoons and clocks, to wildlife and nature paintings. Ecki uses antlers for many of his carvings that depict wildlife, especially wolves, in their habitat.

“When I am walking in the forest, or along a stream, I often see something that gives me an idea for a proj-ect,” says the artist, “I may pick up a rock that would be just right to paint something on, or maybe I am lucky to find a moose or deer antler, and I know right away what I want to

carve on it!” He notes that near-

ly all the materials he uses in his creations are natural; giving the artwork its special character.

Sometimes a per-son may come into the gallery to view Ecki’s work, and they may purchase a special item of art for their own home. Most of the time though, Ecki and Marilyn market the art work by taking part in craft fairs.

“At some I do well, with others I do not,” commented the art-

ist on selling his work through craft fairs.

The couple say they have a few tentative ideas in mind for mar-keting; such as going on the road to sell their creations. But right now, they have no immediate plans that they want to follow.

“We like it here in Vavenby,” says Ecki, “We feel comfortable around here, and we do enjoy to be with the friends we have made in the area. For now, ‘Ecki’s Art’ will have its home in the North Thompson Valley .”

Nature plays a large part in Art by Ecki

(Above) Ecki Manthei of Vavenby shows one of the many ant-lers he has carved that are displayed in his home gallery.

(Top left) Ecki’s life partner, Marilyn, looks on on as he passionately describes his art creations to the Star/Journal reporter.

(Bottom left) Some of the beautiful creations that Ecki offers for sale to the public from his Vavenby gallery or at craft fairs.

STAR/JOURNAL photos: Elli Kohnert

Celebration of Art in Barriere June 23, 24By Jill HaywardNorth Thompson Star/Journal

Everything is in place for the June 23, and 24, Barriere Celebration of The Arts. The venue will be similar to last year’s event and will once again be hosted on property beside Highway 5 in Barriere, now the home of Sam’s Pizza and Rib House.

The two day Celebration of Art event is an extravaganza of art and culture, featuring the amazing talent of the North Thompson Valley and British Columbia.

Put on by the North Thomspon Arts Council, and the Yellowhead Artists Cooperative, the venue

continues to be admission free to the public, and encourages youth to attend and participate in the 12 years and under Art Activity Area.

Those involved say they expect a strong turnout of ven-dors this year and that they are looking forward to presenting such a broad range of top qual-ity art for exhibition and/or for sale.

Organizers say booth space is being filled fast by artists and artisans, and they encourage those who have not yet registered to do so now and avoid being disappointed. Service groups and organizations are also wel-come to participate to promote their programs in a booth at the site. Vendors are reminded they

must supply their own canopy or tent, and that power is not available.

If you would like more infor-mation or would like to book a space, or volunteer, please call Jessie at 250-672-9772.

“We figure that all the rain will be done with by then,” said one positive thinker, “It will be a great weekend, and the vendor tents will be to provide shade from the sun, not keep the rain off. We are expecting lots of art-ists, and a steady stream of visi-tors to our presentation. Come on down and see the extremely good works being produced from people within our art com-munity. You’ll be impressed – I guarantee it!”

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Marlene Wildemann, a French teacher at Clear-water Secondary School from 1993 to 1998, is having an art show and sale at the Wilson House Gallery in Kamloops from now until Sept. 4. Theme of the exhibition is “The Moving Finger Paints...”, based on impressions gleaned by Wildemann while travelling. The paintings repre-sent India, Ireland, Mexico, and so on.Photos submitted

Former local teacher holds Kamloops art show

Katie Bieber

Bonjour à tous! Wow! It’s difficult to believe that 10 1/2 months have just flown by.

It seems like yesterday I was packing my bags and getting ready to leave for my Rotary youth exchange in La Rochelle, France.

At the end of April, my parents came to visit me for my two week spring vaca-tion. It was so nice to see them after eight months!

We visited La Rochelle and Surgères, being wined and dined by each of my host families, visiting the two islands, the Ile de Ré and the Ile d’Oléron that are near La Rochelle, Bordeaux and Saint Emilion, a historic town near Bordeaux.

I was proud to be the “tour guide” showing them my life in France and taking them to places that I had vis-ited, especially La Rochelle and Surgères, where I spent the majority of my time dur-ing my exchange.

We also drove down and spent six days in Spain in the Basque Country. It’s like a mini country but it’s in the very northwest part of Spain and the southwest part of France. The people speak Basque, a language that has words that use so many let-ters, it was impossible for me to decipher.

We visited the Guggenheim Modern Art Museum in Bilbao, the Vizcaya Bridge, which is an UNESCO Historic Site, and we went on a funicular in San Sebastian.

We joined the lunch crowd at many Tapas bars, enjoy-ing the local delicacies, and we walked and walked and walked. When it was time for them to leave, it wasn’t as hard because I knew that I would see them again in only 2 1/2 months.

In May I was invited by my host Rotary club in France to go to Falmouth in Cornwall, England for an annual get together with its twin Rotary club. Falmouth Rotary Club showed us some sights in Cornwall, including

Buckland Abbey (the house of Francis Drake, the first Englishman to go around the world), an old mine, a historic house, and we took a little train on “The Bodmin and Wenford Railway.”

I tried “Cornish Cream Tea,” which is basically nor-mal black tea with scones with jam and clotted cream. Cornwall is famous for this clotted cream and I must say that it is delicious! I stayed with a really nice English host family and I had a great time getting to know the Falmouth Rotary Club.

I attended my Rotary District’s “Fête de Student” (Student Party) in Bordeaux. It was our last day together as a group.

We spent the day together planning a show for the evening. Everyone had to assemble by country and pre-pare something for the show. My fellow Canadians and I teamed up with the Finnish girl and we made a dance using Canadian/northern countries’ stereotypes, such as hockey, scraping windows, curling, and shovelling snow.

At the end of the evening, when we all had to say good-

bye, it was really hard as it was the last time that most of us would see each other.

The end of May and early June passed by quickly as the end of every school year nor-mally does.

On June 16 I left for Paris where I met up with 45 other Rotary exchange students to go on our Eurotour bus trip.

We spent 12 days visit-ing Paris and Strasbourg (France), Munich (Germany), Prague (Czech Republic), Vienna (Austria)

where I celebrated my 19th birthday, Venice and Milan (Italy), Chamonix (France), and Geneva (Switzerland).

I had an amazing time on this trip visiting wonderful places while making lifelong friends.

After the bus trip I had one week to say goodbye to all of my families and friends in La Rochelle/ Surgères before I came home.

I would just like to thank my home club, the Clearwater Rotary Club as well as my host club, le Rotary Club La Rochelle Aunis, for my wonderful exchange!

I am very proud and thankful that I was chosen to represent Clearwater and Canada in La Rochelle, France. It was a once in a lifetime experience!

This fall, Clearwater Rotary Club will be inter-viewing interested students for the 2015/2016 Rotary youth exchange, departure in August, 2015. If anyone is interested and would like to hear more about my experi-ences and my perspective on this incredible program, feel free to contact me.

Katie Bieber poses for a picture with her father, Wes Bieber, in front of the towers at La Rochelle in France as she approaches the end of her nearly-one year long stay in France on a Rotary Club exchange. Photos submitted

Local girl returns from France

Cleawater's Katie Bieber encour-ages any students thinking of go-ing on a Rotary youth exchange to contact her.

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10-11Looking at first CVFD firetruckMembers of Clearwater Volunteer Fire Department stand in front of the department’s first firetruck, a 1958 Chevy 1000 gallon tanker, during a May Day parade in 1971. Pictured are (l-r) Lloyd Romeo, fire chief Ray Donnelly, Fergie Musselman, Stan Walsh and Bert Sedor. Behind the tanker is a 1965 Dodge equipment van.Photo by Reg Small

A river raft piloted by Robert Beaudry of Riverside Adventures brings a load of Japanese and local Girl Guides down the Clearwater River during the last week of July. The girls also took part in the provincial SOAR camp in Enderby the week before. Photo by Kay Knox

Local and Japanese Girl Guides head out for a trail ride at Shooks' Ranch near Vavenby. Photo by Jean Nelson

Japanese Girl Guide visitors enjoy the great outdoors of Canada

Left: (L-r) Manaka Ishinao, a Girl Guide from Japan, sits on a rock with Alexa Brock and Kristen Regier recently. Four Japanese Girl Guides plus a leader were guests of Clearwa-ter’s Guiding move-ment during the last two weeks of July.Photo byJean Nelson

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We had a well attended Ladies Night on July 31 with 18 golfers out having fun with just three clubs and a putter. It was a hard call which clubs to take but it appears everyone had a good time and were not far off their game.

Two of the golfers were guests from the Barriere Club. Welcome back Rose and Carol. After a great dinner we were treated to birthday cake to celebrate a milestone for one of our own. No names and no numbers.

The winners this week were: Low Gross: Carol Hindle, Larissa Hadley, Abbey Bates; Low Net: Madeline Klassen, Carol Willox, Joan Streadwick; Long Drive: Carol H., Melanie Freeston, Daisy Hystad; Long Putt: Madeline K., Cleo Schwartz, Abbey B.; Long Putt all flights: Rosemary Harley; Least Putts was shared between Madeline H. and Daisy H.; Most Putts was shared between Rosemary H., and Rose Seymour; Closest to windmill: Cleo S.; Best Poker Hand: Cleo S.

Not surprisingly, there were no KP’s on num-ber 5. I guess everyone left their good club in the car for this hole’s challenge. Joan Slingsby received a shiny new ball to replace the one that went into the pond on #4.

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Ladies Golf Night is well attended

Madeline Klassen lines up for a shot during Ladies Golf Night at Lacarya last week. Photo submitted

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When I was grow-ing up my family would regularly go to my grand-parent’s house for lunch on Sundays. My grand-mother always had a big spread – roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops with potatoes and vegetables and salad and always two or more kinds of dessert (my grandmother had a real sweet tooth!). It got to be such a routine that I hardly knew anything different.

About the same time as my grandmother’s health was beginning to affect her ability to contin-ue this tradition, our lives were getting more com-plicated and we were less able to make the weekly commitment. But I remember those Sunday meals with great fondness.

It was more than just a meal. Oh sure, the food was always good, but it was the company and the conversation that was the most rewarding. I was too young to fully appreciate it at the time, but time spent sitting around that table or in the living room afterwards was formative. It was there that I heard stories of my parents' and grandparents' lives; it was there that I heard about people who had passed away and people who passed through our family; it was there that I learned what being a part of this family meant; it was there I learned who I am.

Some of the stories I first heard around that table have become legends in our family, they are a part of the family lore, full of strange names that I don’t recognize and places that I would have dif-ficulty finding on a map.

Over time, some of the details were forgot-ten and others have morphed, but the stories still remain and so does the reason for telling the sto-

ries – to remind us of who we are. Whether they happened exactly as they are re-told is unimportant, the point of the story is much bigger than the details of story.

I find it quite fas-cinating that there have been a number of

recent major motion pictures based on Biblical sto-ries. This year alone there was “Noah”, starring Russell Crowe, and “Son of God” produced by Mark Burnett. Ten years ago it was Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” and there is talk of at least two more coming down the pike, both by director Ridley Scott, one based on the story of the Exodus and one based on the story of David.

Why the sudden interest in bringing Bible stories to the big screen? Has there been a sud-den rise in the level of religious devotion among North American audiences (or movie directors and producers)? I don’t think so. I suspect it has to do with the nature of these stories – these are stories that remind us of who we are. And they are stories that are much larger than any of the details of the story.

The stories found in the Bible are about more than just historical people and events. At their core, these are stories that are about the nature of human beings and the world we live in. They are about the way things are, not about the way things were. Noah, David, Moses, Esther, Mary, all of them are all of us, their stories are our stories.

Reading these stories (or watching them) is like spending time with family, sitting around the din-ing room table or the living room, hearing about who we are. There’s a little of us in each one of them. And a little of them in each one of us.

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North Thompson

Pastoral Charge

By Rev.

Brian Krushel

Think on These Things

Remembering who we areConsultation sheds light on farmland changesTom Fletcher - BC Local News

VICTORIA – Since commercial production of wine or cider is allowed on farmland, why not a brewery, distillery or meadery?

Should energy co-generation be allowed on farms, using manure or other bio-degradable waste to produce methane gas and carbon dioxide?

These are some of the questions included in the B.C. government's consul-tation on changes to Agricultural Land Reserve regulations, released this week. Others deal with controversial propos-als to allow speci-fied non-farm uses, secondary residences and subdivisions without permission from the Agricultural Land Commission.

Developed after consultation with the B.C. Agriculture Council, local gov-ernments and the commission, the 11 questions offer more detail on changes the government is con-sidering under legisla-tion passed despite protests this spring.

The legislation divided the ALR into two zones, to permit more flexibility in the Interior, Kootenay and North regions (Zone 2) where both agriculture revenue and development pressure are lower.

One question asks whether farmland in all of Zone 2 should be able to be subdi-vided down to a mini-mum of a quarter section (65 hectares) without application to the ALC, as is now allowed in the Peace

River and Northern Rockies Regional Districts in northeast B.C.

Another proposal is to allow subdivi-sion without ALC approval where farm-land is divided by a major waterway or highway, subject to a minimum size.

The province is also considering relaxing lease rules, which currently per-mit leasing of an entire farm property without ALC approv-al. The consultation asks if a portion of property should be allowed for lease to permit "intergenera-tional transfer," where farmers retire on a portion of their land so their children can continue to farm the rest.

Another pro-posal for partial lease without ALC approval would allow unfarmed land to be brought into produc-tion. The partial leas-es would not require a formal subdivision.

Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick has empha-sized that changes to the ALR are designed to support farming, not erode the pro-tected agricultural land base.

Public input is being accepted until Aug. 22. The ques-tions and a back-ground paper are available here, where submissions can be made.

Comments can also be made by email to [email protected] or by Canada Post to ALR Regulation Consultation, P.O. Box 9120, Stn. Provincial Government, Victoria B.C. V8W 9B4.

The B.C. government allows wine and cider making on farmland, and is seeking public input on whether dis-tilleries or breweries should also be permitted. — image credit: Black Press files

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Sports

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We had a well attended Ladies Night on July 31 with 18 golfers out having fun with just three clubs and a putter. It was a hard call which clubs to take but it appears everyone had a good time and were not far off their game.

Two of the golfers were guests from the Barriere Club. Welcome back Rose and Carol. After a great dinner we were treated to birthday cake to celebrate a milestone for one of our own. No names and no numbers.

The winners this week were: Low Gross: Carol Hindle, Larissa Hadley, Abbey Bates; Low Net: Madeline Klassen, Carol Willox, Joan Streadwick; Long Drive: Carol H., Melanie Freeston, Daisy Hystad; Long Putt: Madeline K., Cleo Schwartz, Abbey B.; Long Putt all flights: Rosemary Harley; Least Putts was shared between Madeline H. and Daisy H.; Most Putts was shared between Rosemary H., and Rose Seymour; Closest to windmill: Cleo S.; Best Poker Hand: Cleo S.

Not surprisingly, there were no KP’s on num-ber 5. I guess everyone left their good club in the car for this hole’s challenge. Joan Slingsby received a shiny new ball to replace the one that went into the pond on #4.

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Madeline Klassen lines up for a shot during Ladies Golf Night at Lacarya last week. Photo submitted

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When I was grow-ing up my family would regularly go to my grand-parent’s house for lunch on Sundays. My grand-mother always had a big spread – roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops with potatoes and vegetables and salad and always two or more kinds of dessert (my grandmother had a real sweet tooth!). It got to be such a routine that I hardly knew anything different.

About the same time as my grandmother’s health was beginning to affect her ability to contin-ue this tradition, our lives were getting more com-plicated and we were less able to make the weekly commitment. But I remember those Sunday meals with great fondness.

It was more than just a meal. Oh sure, the food was always good, but it was the company and the conversation that was the most rewarding. I was too young to fully appreciate it at the time, but time spent sitting around that table or in the living room afterwards was formative. It was there that I heard stories of my parents' and grandparents' lives; it was there that I heard about people who had passed away and people who passed through our family; it was there that I learned what being a part of this family meant; it was there I learned who I am.

Some of the stories I first heard around that table have become legends in our family, they are a part of the family lore, full of strange names that I don’t recognize and places that I would have dif-ficulty finding on a map.

Over time, some of the details were forgot-ten and others have morphed, but the stories still remain and so does the reason for telling the sto-

ries – to remind us of who we are. Whether they happened exactly as they are re-told is unimportant, the point of the story is much bigger than the details of story.

I find it quite fas-cinating that there have been a number of

recent major motion pictures based on Biblical sto-ries. This year alone there was “Noah”, starring Russell Crowe, and “Son of God” produced by Mark Burnett. Ten years ago it was Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” and there is talk of at least two more coming down the pike, both by director Ridley Scott, one based on the story of the Exodus and one based on the story of David.

Why the sudden interest in bringing Bible stories to the big screen? Has there been a sud-den rise in the level of religious devotion among North American audiences (or movie directors and producers)? I don’t think so. I suspect it has to do with the nature of these stories – these are stories that remind us of who we are. And they are stories that are much larger than any of the details of the story.

The stories found in the Bible are about more than just historical people and events. At their core, these are stories that are about the nature of human beings and the world we live in. They are about the way things are, not about the way things were. Noah, David, Moses, Esther, Mary, all of them are all of us, their stories are our stories.

Reading these stories (or watching them) is like spending time with family, sitting around the din-ing room table or the living room, hearing about who we are. There’s a little of us in each one of them. And a little of them in each one of us.

12 - 13

North Thompson

Pastoral Charge

By Rev.

Brian Krushel

Think on These Things

Remembering who we areConsultation sheds light on farmland changesTom Fletcher - BC Local News

VICTORIA – Since commercial production of wine or cider is allowed on farmland, why not a brewery, distillery or meadery?

Should energy co-generation be allowed on farms, using manure or other bio-degradable waste to produce methane gas and carbon dioxide?

These are some of the questions included in the B.C. government's consul-tation on changes to Agricultural Land Reserve regulations, released this week. Others deal with controversial propos-als to allow speci-fied non-farm uses, secondary residences and subdivisions without permission from the Agricultural Land Commission.

Developed after consultation with the B.C. Agriculture Council, local gov-ernments and the commission, the 11 questions offer more detail on changes the government is con-sidering under legisla-tion passed despite protests this spring.

The legislation divided the ALR into two zones, to permit more flexibility in the Interior, Kootenay and North regions (Zone 2) where both agriculture revenue and development pressure are lower.

One question asks whether farmland in all of Zone 2 should be able to be subdi-vided down to a mini-mum of a quarter section (65 hectares) without application to the ALC, as is now allowed in the Peace

River and Northern Rockies Regional Districts in northeast B.C.

Another proposal is to allow subdivi-sion without ALC approval where farm-land is divided by a major waterway or highway, subject to a minimum size.

The province is also considering relaxing lease rules, which currently per-mit leasing of an entire farm property without ALC approv-al. The consultation asks if a portion of property should be allowed for lease to permit "intergenera-tional transfer," where farmers retire on a portion of their land so their children can continue to farm the rest.

Another pro-posal for partial lease without ALC approval would allow unfarmed land to be brought into produc-tion. The partial leas-es would not require a formal subdivision.

Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick has empha-sized that changes to the ALR are designed to support farming, not erode the pro-tected agricultural land base.

Public input is being accepted until Aug. 22. The ques-tions and a back-ground paper are available here, where submissions can be made.

Comments can also be made by email to [email protected] or by Canada Post to ALR Regulation Consultation, P.O. Box 9120, Stn. Provincial Government, Victoria B.C. V8W 9B4.

The B.C. government allows wine and cider making on farmland, and is seeking public input on whether dis-tilleries or breweries should also be permitted. — image credit: Black Press files


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Friends of Eliza Beaudry help her celebrate her 23rd birthday recently with a rafting trip provided by her family's company, River-side Adventures. Pictured are (back, l-r) Ali MacBoudreau, Rebecca Louwerse, Tiana Blouin, Eliza Beaudry, Camille Dhillon, (front, l-r) Aaren Ritchie Bonar, and Mairi Dalgleish. Photo by Diane Bishop

Left: An action photo provided by Riverside Ad-ventures gives some indication of how exciting the three-hour trip was.Photo by Riel MacBoudreau

A special birthday party

Fuel reduction efforts examinedVICTORIA – The

Forest Practices Board will investigate how much progress com-munities have made in reducing forest fuels in the wildland-urban interface. The investi-gation is a follow-up to a report the Board published in February 2010.

"We decided earlier this year that it was time to take a look and see what has hap-pened since our first report came out," said board chair Tim Ryan. "The number of fires so far this summer has shown this is an urgent topic for the board to revisit and report on to the public."

The earlier report examined fuel reduc-tion treatments at 50 sites across the prov-ince, and included interviews with local governments, the First Nations Emergency Services Society, the B.C. Wildfire Management Branch,

and consultants work-ing on fuel treatment projects. It noted that good progress had been made, but much work remains to be done.

This investigation will revisit some of those same sites to assess how effective the fuel treatments were. More recent treatment sites will also be examined and interviews with com-munities, government staff and fire experts will be conducted to assess fuel reduction progress over the last five years.

"Preventive treat-ments to reduce wild-fire risk and severity are one of the best things we can do to protect communi-ties," said Ryan. "We previously identified best practices for local governments, consul-tants and citizens and we are hoping to find that they are being fol-lowed."

The board will be seeking input from communities as part of the project.

However, given the current fire situation in the province, most field work likely won't proceed until the fall, when more staff and experts are available to provide input to the project.

The Forest Practices Board is B.C.'s independent watchdog for sound forest and range prac-tices, reporting its findings and recom-mendations directly to the public and govern-ment. The board can investigate and report on current forestry and range issues and make recommenda-tions for improvement to practices and legis-lation.

For more informa-tion: www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/managing_forest_fuels_in_the_wui_2014_update_special_investi-gation_tor.pdf


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TO ADD YOUR COMMUNITY EVENT OR ORGANIZATION CALL THE TIMES AT 250-674-3343

Night Market Thursdays until Sept 6, 5-830. Music starts at 6. Musicians & Vendors contact Lynda 250-674-3366 or [email protected]

July 24: Tennis To Go coming to your neighbourhood, free, all equipment provided. Downey St. Greer Sub. Register at DOC.

July 25: Wells Gray Rocks summer event. Volcanic Visions. Fire and Ice. Volcanic history of Wells Gray Park. info www.wellsgraypark.info

July 25 – 27: Wells Gray Man Tracker Invitational, Nakiska RanchJuly 26-27: Kayak Festival, Registration 9 am @ IWE July 26.July 26-27: Wells Gray Rocks summer event. Volcanic Visions in the Field.

Spend two days tracking the evidence of the cataclysmic events that shaped Wells Gray Park. info www.wellsgraypark.info

July 26: Learn to Fish - for kids 5 to15 and their adults, 11 am – 1 pm, Clearwater Lake Campground, free, equipment provided. Parent supervi-sion is required.

July 31: Summer Reading Club at Clearwater Library, “Something Funny is Going on Here” 11 a.m.

July 31: Chronic Pain Management Workshop, DHMH, Rm A, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, free, register 1-866-414-7766

Aug. 1: Wells Gray Rocks – summer event. En-lichen-ment, Edgewood Blue, Clearwater Valley Road, Upper Clearwater. Learn more about the fascinating world of Beard Lichens! The mountain caribou’s favourite

food. Info wellsgraypark.info. 250-674-3334Aug. 1-4: Avola reunion, info 250-678-5305 or email [email protected] Aug. 6: Children’s Art Festival, Wells Gray Park Information Center, Highway

5 and Clearwater Valley Road,A free, outdoor event that engages families to explore visual and performing arts in hands-on activities. Info wells-graypark.info. 250-674-3334

Aug. 7: Star Gazing Festival, Trophy Mtn Buffalo Ranch, 20 km up Wells Gray Park Road. Gates open 7 pm

Aug. 7: Tennis To Go coming to your neighbourhood, free, all equipment provided. Gill Creek Rd, Sunshine Valley. Register at DOC.

Aug. 8: Summer Reading Club at Clearwater Library, “Uncle Chris the Clown” 2 p.m.

Aug. 9: Learn to Fish - for kids 5-15 & their adults, 11am-1pm, Mahood lake Campground, free, equipment provided. Parent supervision is required.

Aug. 9: Geological Wonders of BC, Wells Gray Rocks – summer event. Presentation on the many wonders of geology found across BC. Upper Clearwater Community Hall. Info wellsgraypark.info. 250-674-3334

Aug. 16: 911 Golf Tourney, Chinook Cove Golf Course, 1 pm shotgun start. To donate or register call 250-672-9918

Aug. 22: NTFF&R Ambassador CoronationAug. 24: Kamloops Kidney Walk at Riverside Park 11am

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT• Indoor Market: 1st Saturday of month, 9 am – 2 pm, Elks Hall, info -

250-674-3763• Tuesday Morning Coffee (TMC): Meets 10am – 11:30 @ Clearwater

Community Baptist Church. All women and children welcome. (9:30-10 am Bible Study). Info 250-674-3624

• Raft River Rockhounds: 3rd Sat of the mth. Clw Lodge 1pm 250-674-2700

• Women in Business Luncheon: 2nd Thurs. of the mth at Wells Gray Inn, 12–2 pm. Preregister at 250-674-2700

• Clearwater Choir: Youth 3:30 - 5 pm; Adult 6:30 - 9 pm, Tuesdays, Clearwater Christian Church

• Crafts & Conversations with Cheryl. Tuesdays 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at the North Thompson Aboriginal Sharing Center. Phone 250-674-3703 for more info.

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

• M&M (Mrs. & Ms.) Social. Last Sun of the mth Wells Gray Inn. 1pm: 250-587-6503

• Blackpool Community Hall Coffee House; Local musicians – 2nd Fri. of the mth. 6:30pm. Concession, $3 or 2 for $5.

• Clearwater Elks Bingo - every 2nd Thurs. Elks Hall. open 5pm• Cribbage Wed. at the Royal Canadian Legion. 12:30 pm.• Fun Darts Fri. at the Royal Canadian Legion. 6 pm.CHILDREN & FAMILIES• Racoon StrongStart - Raft River Elem school days Mon, Tues, Thurs &

Fri 8:45-11:45am• Racoon StrongStart - Vavenby Elm school days Wed 8:50-11:50am• Clearwater Breastfeeding Group: 3rd Wed. of every month 7:30pm

@ YCS• Mother Goose - Monday mornings, reg. Kerry 250-674-3530• NT BC Home Schoolers: Meets Fri. afternoons. Call Leanna 250-674-

0057 for details• Kids Club: Clearwater New Life Assembly. Meets every Thur. 3-5 pm.

Ages 5-12. For info contact Bobbi @ 250-674-3346HEALTH & HEALING• AA Meetings: every Wednesday, #11 Lodge Dr, 250-587-0026 anytime• Shambhala Meditation Group: meets every Tuesday at Forest House

6:30-8:00 pm. Info: 250-587-6373.• Connections Healing Rooms - Fridays 1-3pm (except stat. holidays).

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

• Healthy Choices – Tues 9am Clearwater Christian Church bsmnt (behind Fields). $2/wk drop-in free. Kim 250-674-0224

• Clearwater & District Hospice 3rd Mon. Sept-Jun 10am Legion 778-208-0137.

RECREATION• Ladies Golf Night. Every Thursday @ Lacarya. April – Sept. Info Debbie

250-674-0260; Abby 250-674-2127• Drop-in soccer: May-Sept. Tuesdays & Thursday at 7pm at CSS � eld.

Everyone welcome!• Bowling: Mon. 10–12pm & 1-3pm; Thurs., 1-3pm. Seniors Centre at

Evergreen Acres. 250-674-3675• Clearwater Sno-Drifters: 1st Thurs every mth. 250-676-9414• CNT Rod & Gun Club: 3rd Tues. of the mth. Blackpool Hall 7pm Nov.,

Jan., & Mar. AGM in May• Volleyball: Winter, dates TBA, at Clearwater Secondary School Gym, $2

drop in. Info: 250-674-1878.• Yoga Tree – Call or email Annie 250-674-2468 annie.pomme@hotmail.

com• Core Strength Fitness. Tuesdays. 10-11am 250-674-0001• Drop-in Curling: Fri. Jan. 11 - Mar. 8, 7:00 PM, $5. Brooms and sliders

available.• Badminton: Mon & Wed, Oct – Mar, CSS gym, 7:30-9:30 pm, $3

drop-in fee, info 250-674-2518• Drop in Basketball: Winter, dates TBA, $2 drop in at Clearwater Sec-

ondary School Gym. Info: 250-674-1878• Slo-Pitch: Clearwater mixed Slo-Pitch league May – July. Contact Car-

men Archibald 778-208-1773, 250-674-2632• Drop in Soccer: June -Sept, tues and Thurs, 6:30-8:00 PM, CSS � eld, $2

drop in, grade 8 to adultSENIORS• Wells Gray Country Senior’s Society 3rd Sun Social Meet at the Wells

Gray Hotel at 12:30pm for lunch or dessert, & chat• Wells Gray Country Senior’s Society Book Club Last Thursday of the

mth 2pm at the library. All seniors welcome.

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Help WantedAn Alberta Oilfi eld Company is hiring experienced dozer and excavator operators, meals and lodging provided. Drug testing required. 1-(780)723-5051.

Medical/DentalFull time Certifi ed Dental As-sistant required for team orien-tated family dental practice. Awesome wage and benefi ts package. Apply by resume to: 121 N. 1st Avenue, Williams Lake, BC V2G 1Y7, Fax: (250)398-8633 or by E-mail:[email protected] Visit our website: www.cariboodentalclinic.com

Trades, TechnicalHEAVY Duty Mechanic - Good Mechanical Aptitude - Welding an asset - Rate negotiable - Benefi ts after 3 mths - Travel required - Email or fax resume to [email protected] or Fax 604-485-6380STRATHCONA COUNTY, Al-berta requires a full-time Li-censed Heavy Duty or Auto-motive Technician with thorough knowledge of heavy equipment, including vehicle and bus repair. Competitive compensation and work-life balance in Alberta’s energy and agricultural heartland. Vis-it www.strathcona.ca/careers

Work WantedHAFI GRANTS

Notice to low income seniors and persons with disability. You may qualify for a grant up to 20,000. to modify and adapt your home for improved safety and accessibility. For details contact your local HAFI expert Hans Ounpuu, Building con-tractor @ 250-674-3875.

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Financial ServicesARE YOU $10K Or More In Debt? DebtGo can help re-duce a signifi cant portion of your debt load. Call now and see if you qualify. 1-800-351-1783.GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

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Home RepairsFULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

Merchandise for Sale

AuctionsONLINE AUCTION - Salmon Arm: Equipment & Recreation Event! Modifi ed snowmobile, boat, sled trailer, Suzuki bike, gang edger for planks - more! www.mcdougallauction.com Phone Mike: 1-250-833-1400, 1-800-263-4193 DL#319916.

FurnitureSofa/hide-bed. Blue/grey col-ored pattern. $75.00 Call 250-674-3746

Misc. for Sale1992 camper, 8’x9’ w/bath-room, hot water tank & fur-nace; clean. Cement mixer - $225. 250-672-9559

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Used Postage StampsSupport International Scouting by donating used stamps which are sorted & sold to raise money for the International Develop-ment Fund of the International Scout & Guide Fellowship. This fund pays for training for Scout-ers in the third world.Drop stamps off at front counter of the Star/Journal in Barriere, or call Margaret at (250)672-9330.

Wanted: Used fridge and stove. Good working order. Call Julie 250-674-0188

Real Estate

Mobile Homes & Parks

1974 Homco-Ambassador (One move factory to site) 12x68

2bdrm FeaturingLiving rm with tip out, Dining

rm w/buffet & hutchRefrigerator, Range, Washer &

Dryer, Oil FurnaceScreen porch & family rm

additionsUnit had an auxiliary roof over

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Real EstateONLINE AUCTION: 60 acre idyllic Mountain Ranch with buildings located on Foghorn Creek, Clearwater, British Co-lumbia. View at www.mcdou-gallauction.com. Call Mike: 1-250-833-1400 or 1-800-263-4193. DL#319916.

Rentals

Duplex / 4 PlexBarriere: large 1 bdrm apart-ment in quiet neighbour-hood.750sqft. $615/mo. Pets negotiable. Call 250-682-2231

Mobile Homes & Pads

2008 Wildwood 22’ trailer, ex-cellent cond, walk around bed, fl at screen tv. $11,000.00. 250-672-5767

Modular HomesVery attractive 2-bdrm manuf home, stove, fridge, washer dryer, central air, offi ce area, carport. $800/mo. Now avail. Thompson Crossing Black-pool, Clearwater 250-587-6151

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Homes for RentClearwater: Beautiful 4-bdrm hm, deck, 3 bath, stainless steel appl, $1200/mo + util. Avail Sept. 1. Weyerhaeuser sub. Call Julie 250-674-0188

Suites, LowerBarriere: 2-bdrm, 2-bath suite. Everything incl in rent except phone. Priv ent, $950/mo. NP or smokers. 250-672-9887

Suites, UpperBarriere: Upper 4-bdrm, 2-bath, brackets one ensuite. Front yd. NS, $750/mo. District of Barriere utilities. Quiet neighbourhood. 250-672-9611 evenings

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Off Road Vehicles2004 Honda ATV-Recon TRX 250. Excellent condition, runs great. Ramps also available. $2500. 250-672-0001

Recreational/Sale1995 Rustler 5th wheel, 24.5’, sleeps 6, very well maintained, $5,500.00, hitch neg. Tows beautifully. Ph. 250-587-0004

Boats14’ Prince Craft aluminumboat. No leaks. Excellent con-dition. $1000 obo. 250-672-9207

1995 2300 Classic Malibu Sunbridge $20,500 includes trailer. Full load. Immaculate. 830hrs. For details & photos call: (1)250.826.4332 or e-mail: [email protected]

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This week is all about give and take, Capricorn. Do for others, and they will do for you. A special event calls for some extra-special gifts.

Some habits are hard to break, Aquarius. Look to a mentor to help and you will succeed. A fitness goal is easily achieved with a new piece of equipment.

The odds may be stacked against you, Pisces, but that doesn’t mean you won’t come out on top with a little ingenuity. A weekend endeavor requires a leap of faith.

Speak up, Aries, and the problem will be solved. A little miracle at home makes for an interesting weekend. Travel plans come together.

Cast aside all doubt, Taurus. The offer is genuine and will bring you many rewards. A test of faith begins— be strong. Money woes ease.

Feeling blessed these days, Gemini? Pay it forward. A compromise at home raises everyone’s spirits and fun ensues all weekend long!

A business relationship blossoms with an addition. A larger-than- life personality drops by with an offer you can’t refuse. Oh boy, oh boy, Cancer.

Oops, Leo. You fall behind on a project, raising some eyebrows. Not to worry. You will get back on track sooner than you think, thanks to an innovation.

Spend less, save more and you’ll definitely get more, Virgo. More in your bottom line and more peace of mind. Flowers provide a great pick-me-up.

Lady Luck smiles on you, Libra, and there is nothing beyond your reach. A treasured heirloom resurfaces, bringing back many fond memories.

The tiniest of changes make a vast improvement in a project. A rejection is a blessing in disguise. Be grateful for what you’re given, Scorpio.

News from afar gets the creative juices flowing, and you accomplish more than you have in some time, Sagittarius. A game of wits at the office proves challenging.

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Finances are on your mind this week, Aries. You could be driven now more than ever to get your ducks in a row. Expect such tasks to be a bit stressful but ultimately worth it.

Cancer, you may finally be ready to express feelings that you have been keeping to yourself. If you are worried about how others will respond, don’t be. You have accept-ing friends.

Libra, you are no stranger to meeting other people’s de-mands, but you need to be very firm about what you want right now. Work with others but make your opinions known as well.

Capricorn, expect some initial dissent when you propose an unorthodox solu-tion to a problem. Don’t worry much, as others will come around when the plan starts to work.

Do not allow your emotions to get the better of you this week, Aquarius. Steer clear of confus-ing issues and do not delve too deeply into things you don’t understand.

Taurus, avoid being sidetracked by some familiar obstacles. Even with the best intentions you can get pushed off target. Pay attention and stick with it.

Leo, do not deny yourself some plea-sure, especially if you have been put-ting in a lot of work and effort to attain your goals. Enjoy a little down time when you can.

Scorpio, your intensity helps you get through some difficult projects in the weeks ahead. Be sure to make some time for rest and relaxation once your projects are finished.

Pisces, expect to be acknowledged for some special contri-butions this week. Stand up and take your bow with grace and appreciation.

Gemini, it may be tempting to set aside responsibili-ties in favor of more exciting experi-ences. But the real opportunities for adventure come from making com-mitments and goals.

Virgo, you cherish your time with friends and family this week, spending as many free mo-ments with them as possible. In the coming days, carve out some alone time for yourself.

Sagittarius, there is a lot more going on in your life now than meets the eye. Moves that you make could be cru-cial to your success, so do your best to make sure you make the right choices.


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Cathy McLeod, Member of Parliament for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, recently announced the launch of Connecting Canadians, a new Government of Canada program that will bring high-speed Internet to 280,000 Canadian households that currently do not have Internet or have

slower access. Between now and 2017, the Government will invest up to $305 million to extend access to broadband Internet at 5 megabits per second (Mbps) to 98 percent of Canadian house-holds, mainly in rural and remote communi-ties across Canada.

In the weeks ahead, constituents of Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo are invited

to visit the new Connecting Canadians website (www.ic.gc.ca/ConnectingCanadians) to offer their input on communities whose Internet service does not meet the 5 Mbps threshold, and could be eligible to receive funding through this program.

The Connecting Canadians website fea-tures interactive maps of Canada which have

been developed to obtain feedback from Canadians, ISPs, and provincial and ter-ritorial governments across the country to identify those com-munities that are most in need of investment for greater access to high-speed Internet. Information about communities con-sidered in need and eligible for funding will be made public this fall, followed by a call for applications from ISPs. Companies interested in partici-pating in Connecting Canadians will be invited to submit applications for proj-ects this fall. The first projects are expected to be announced in spring 2015.

“For all Canadians, especially those living in rural and remote areas, having access to high-speed Internet helps create new jobs as well as new inno-vative products and businesses,” stated MP McLeod. “As more and more Canadians work and engage online, ensuring those in rural and remote areas have high-speed Internet access will enable them to fully take advantage of the digital economy.”

Connecting Canadians delivers the federal govern-ment’s commitment

in Economic Action Plan 2014 to bring high-speed Internet to an additional 280,000 Canadian households in rural and remote regions of the country. This program fol-lows the successful Broadband Canada program, which ran from 2009–12, and connected nearly 220,000 Canadian households in rural regions to 1.5 Mbps Internet for the first time. Today, as a result, more than 99 percent of Canadian households in commu-nities large and small have access to this 1.5-Mbps level of service.

“The launch of Connecting Canadians is great news for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo. It will bring the ben-efits of high-speed Internet to even more people in our area, ensuring they can take advantage of the opportunities of the digital age. Through programs like Connecting Canadians, our Government is work-ing to help Canadian businesses and indi-viduals get access to the Internet speeds necessary for them to interact and work online while remain-ing in their communi-ties,” concluded MP McLeod.

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McLeod promises high-speed Internet to 280,000 Canadian households

Mule deer lawnmower

This young buck was spotted in a yard in Barriere helping to keep the grass cut.

Photo by Elli Kohnert


Submitted

Cathy McLeod, Member of Parliament for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, recently announced the launch of Connecting Canadians, a new Government of Canada program that will bring high-speed Internet to 280,000 Canadian households that currently do not have Internet or have

slower access. Between now and 2017, the Government will invest up to $305 million to extend access to broadband Internet at 5 megabits per second (Mbps) to 98 percent of Canadian house-holds, mainly in rural and remote communi-ties across Canada.

In the weeks ahead, constituents of Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo are invited

to visit the new Connecting Canadians website (www.ic.gc.ca/ConnectingCanadians) to offer their input on communities whose Internet service does not meet the 5 Mbps threshold, and could be eligible to receive funding through this program.

The Connecting Canadians website fea-tures interactive maps of Canada which have

been developed to obtain feedback from Canadians, ISPs, and provincial and ter-ritorial governments across the country to identify those com-munities that are most in need of investment for greater access to high-speed Internet. Information about communities con-sidered in need and eligible for funding will be made public this fall, followed by a call for applications from ISPs. Companies interested in partici-pating in Connecting Canadians will be invited to submit applications for proj-ects this fall. The first projects are expected to be announced in spring 2015.

“For all Canadians, especially those living in rural and remote areas, having access to high-speed Internet helps create new jobs as well as new inno-vative products and businesses,” stated MP McLeod. “As more and more Canadians work and engage online, ensuring those in rural and remote areas have high-speed Internet access will enable them to fully take advantage of the digital economy.”

Connecting Canadians delivers the federal govern-ment’s commitment

in Economic Action Plan 2014 to bring high-speed Internet to an additional 280,000 Canadian households in rural and remote regions of the country. This program fol-lows the successful Broadband Canada program, which ran from 2009–12, and connected nearly 220,000 Canadian households in rural regions to 1.5 Mbps Internet for the first time. Today, as a result, more than 99 percent of Canadian households in commu-nities large and small have access to this 1.5-Mbps level of service.

“The launch of Connecting Canadians is great news for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo. It will bring the ben-efits of high-speed Internet to even more people in our area, ensuring they can take advantage of the opportunities of the digital age. Through programs like Connecting Canadians, our Government is work-ing to help Canadian businesses and indi-viduals get access to the Internet speeds necessary for them to interact and work online while remain-ing in their communi-ties,” concluded MP McLeod.

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McLeod promises high-speed Internet to 280,000 Canadian households

Mule deer lawnmower

This young buck was spotted in a yard in Barriere helping to keep the grass cut.

Photo by Elli Kohnert


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Once upon a time I was a real hiker, swinging along with a loaded backpack for overnight or week-long camps. Nowadays it’s a day pack, water bottle, mosquito dope and hiking poles. With bionic hip and “arthroscopically-not-quite-mended” knee, I am now an aging gimp! Some days making it up or down our six steps is even a challenge. And let’s not mention the too-small zipper-off hiking pants....

But I am still out there appreciat-ing the trails around Clearwater and in Wells Gray Park that are easy enough for me to hike, and always different to match the time of year, the weather, and company sharing the adventure. On our long-standing regular Friday morning hikes, a small group

of us sallies forth after assessing each one’s time constraints, stamina, and capabili-ties. Occasionally, like Molly the dog, we admit to getting older, but laugh that thought away immediately.

When we could finally stow our snow-shoes in the spring, our group re-visited favourite trails close to town, around the airstrip, Road 1, and many nearby lanes inviting us to loop the loop. We got misplaced less often if I didn’t

lead. Nearby Gates Creek trail took two mornings and we used two vehicles to shorten the hiking distance, though not the time it took, on the “back” section. Coral root orchids, blooming in pink and white beside the trail, did not seem to miss the leaves or chlorophyll which these tall, slim fungi lack.

On another Friday we parked near Third Canyon Bridge and hiked on an old road not far below the pres-ent paved road, to

Second Canyon. The old bridge has dete-riorated, even in the five or so years since I last saw it. The creek was just a trickle that we could have stepped over, but didn’t. We must visit again soon to see what changes happened as a result of the blockage of the culvert beneath the newest highway a few weeks later.

A drive partway up Candle Creek Road took us to the power line on a particularly bright, blue-sky day. Red Indian Paintbrush, yellow, blue and white flowers lined our route, and the crop of deli-cious wild strawberries had us stopping for refreshments often.

It wasn’t until the beginning of July, that the trail up to the Trophy Mountain Meadows was almost snow free, and by then the glacier lilies

in the lower section were already starting to fade. However, at the Shepherd’s Hut we were surrounded by a host of those golden flowers. When driving back down, the people in our car saw a mama grouse with one chick; near the former prison, a sleek black bear crossed the road in front of us.

Being the gad-ding person that I am, I missed many Friday hikes like recent ones to Placid Lake and the loop joining Spahats Falls and the Clearwater River Valley overlook. North Thompson Provincial Park, the gravel road that takes in the confluence of North Thompson and Clearwater riv-ers, walking the Clearwater River Road section by sec-tion, with loops down to the Kettle, parts

of Clearwater River Trail and more keep us entertained and active all year long. In summer months, hikes may start earlier when they are longer, more challenging, or higher; winter has us dusting off those snow shoes once more. Doggie

companions don’t care what time of year it is as long as they are with us.

Hiking anyone? Meet the group at 9 a.m. every Friday morning at the Information Centre. Got a new place to take us? Let’s go!

Lots out there to enchant even a gimpy hikerTrekkingTales

By Kay Knox

'Confidential informant’ alerted authorities to cross-border poacher, court toldTim Petruk – Kamloops This Week

The ongoing trial of a Kamloops man accused in the 1999 cross-border poaching of a record-setting Dall sheep underscores an issue plaguing our territo-rial neighbours to the north — B.C. hunters illegally killing Yukon animals.

That’s according to a man who’s spent the last 35 years patrolling the Yukon wilds for illegal hunting.

The top photo shows Kamloops hunter Abe Dougan and his record-setting Dall sheep in 1999. He said the animal was killed in northwestern B.C. The mountain depicted in the photo below is in the Yukon — 18 kilometres north of the B.C./Yukon border. Both photos were entered as evidence by the Crown during Dougan’s poaching trial in Kamloops.

Kris Gustafson, a conservation officer based in Whitehorse, was the lead investigator in putting together the case against Abe Dougan, the Kamloops man facing a dozen federal wildlife charges alleging he illegally killed a record-setting Dall sheep in the Yukon 15 years ago.

He said B.C. hunters authorized to hunt big game in parts of B.C. adjacent to the Yukon routinely cross the territorial border and kill animals in the Yukon.

“It’s a concern for us,” Gustafson, who is now director of Conservation Officer Services for Environment Yukon, told KTW outside court.

“We have concerns respecting any illegal harvest-ing of wildlife — and that’s a big one.”

Gustafson told court he was the driving force behind a Yukon conservation campaign in the 1980s to keep B.C. hunters in their own province.

That included a program that set up signs along the border and on the shores of float-plane-friendly lakes warning hunters they were no longer in B.C. That program, Gustafson said, is still in operation.

Court has heard Dougan in 1999 received special authorization via lottery to hunt sheep — a limited-

entry hunt — in a specific part of northwestern B.C. between the Yukon and Alaska borders.

He bagged a record-setting Dall sheep, which was the second-largest ever recorded in B.C. The score made its way into the pages of the fifth edition of Big Game Records of British Columbia when it was pub-lished in 2003.

In 2011, conservation officials in the Yukon received a tip from a confidential informant telling them to look closely at the B.C. record book — spe-cifically at the picture of Dougan with his record sheep.

The tipster said the photo was taken in the Yukon.

A mapping specialist with Environment Yukon then created a three-dimensional computer model of the Yukon mountains and searched until he found what looked like the matching spot.

In July 2011, a team of three investigators, includ-ing Gustafson, flew by helicopter to the site, 18 kilo-metres north of the B.C./Yukon border.

They took photos from what the Crown says is the exact location the photographer who shot Dougan’s picture would have been standing. The Crown contends the mountains depicted in the back-grounds are identical and prosecutor Lesley Ann Kilgore called the area “unique” geographically.

Court has heard Dougan, after killing the sheep, was required to tell B.C. officials where it was killed. He gave them a location in the section of northwest-ern B.C. where he was authorized to hunt.

Defence lawyer Kevin Church has questioned the authenticity of the photos and the fact investigators failed to visit the location where Dougan claimed to have killed the sheep.

“They don’t ever go to where Mr. Dougan says he shot this sheep,” he said. “They never even try.”

Lawyers will meet this week to set a date for the trial to resume.

The top photo shows Kamloops hunter Abe Dougan and his record-setting Dall sheep in 1999. He said the animal was killed in northwestern B.C., where he was licensed to hunt sheep. The mountain depicted in the photo below is in the Yukon — 18 kilometres north of the B.C./Yukon border. Both photos were entered as evidence by the Crown during Dougan’s poaching trial in Kamloops. — image credit: Submitted Photo:

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