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Kerrie-Ann SchoenitHope Standard

The Hope Golf Club is celebrat-ing its 50th anniversary this year.

Owners/operators Kerry and Claudette Krahn will be hosting several events to commemorate this milestone, including an an-niversary season kickoff party on April 12, homecoming 18 hole tournament and banquet dinner May 23-25, and a community bar-

becue and parking lot party on July 20.

Our goal is to celebrate ev-erybodys previous involvement, said Kerry.

Its good to have a course thats in this small community thats supported as well as it is. It doesnt happen everywhere.

This year, each hole will have new flags and will be sponsored by local businesses. The Grill on the Green Restaurant was re-

cently renovated and a historical committee is collecting data and pictures that will be displayed on the clubhouse walls. Upgrades to the cart pathways are also in the works.

More than 100 people attended the opening of Hope Golf and Country Club on July 1, 1964. Carl Anderson of Emil Anderson Construction donated a lot of the materials and equipment needed to make the new course possible.

Surrounded by mountains and rivers, the club continues to offera unique golfing experience on a challenging course.

There are currently about 140active members and many former residents return annually to teeoff.

For more information aboutthe golf club or the upcominganniversary events, visit www.hopegolfclub.com or call 604-869-5881.

Golf club kicks off 50th season

Colleen Knight takes a practice swing at the Hope Golf Club before teeing off at hole No. 18 on Tuesday. The club is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with several events.

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Ringette tournament comes to Hope ArenaKerrie-Ann SchoenitHope Standard

Ringette is making its debut in Hope next weekend.

About 75 participants from around the province will hit the ice for the Ladies Masters Tournament. Teams are coming from Comox, Richmond, Burnaby, New West, Surrey-White Rock, and Port Coquitlam-Ridge Meadows.

We wanted to host a destination tournament so that the participants could leave behind their duties and responsibilities and just enjoy a fun, social, weekend, said tournament co-ordinator Samantha Morrison. Hope has a great ice arena, aff ordable ac-commodations, and supportive tour-ism services. Th ere is a real commu-nity feel and we have been welcomed by the recreation staff and local busi-nesses.

Ringette is a fast-paced team sport similar to lacrosse and basketball that was invented in 1963 in North Bay, Ontario by Sam Jacks. Players use a straight stick to pass, carry, and shoot a rubber ring to score goals. Teams consist of seven to 18 players: a goalie and fi ve skaters, two defense, two for-wards, and a centre. Th ere is no off side rule but teams must pass over both blue lines to move up the ice. Each end

zone is restricted to three skaters perteam.

Ringette has become a popularsport for women in this country, withover 50,000 participants, includingplayers, coaches, offi cials and volun-teers across Canada.

Being part of a team motivateswomen to exercise and learn new skillsin a supportive and fun environment,said Morrison. Women oft en devotetheir social time to childrearing andwhen their kids hit a certain age theyfi nd that they have time for themselvesagain. Ringette welcomes women of allages and abilities.Many women startplaying in their 40s.

Th e Ladies Masters Tournamentkicks off on April 11 at Hope Arena.Boys and girls age six and over can tryringette for free from 6:30-7:30 p.m.,and ladies aged 25-60+ from 6:45-7:45p.m. Th e EaglesClub is also hosting aprivate banquet for tournament par-ticipants with dinner and dancing onthe Saturday.

Th ere will belots of team spirit andcamaraderie and eff ort if you arelucky perhaps you will even see someskilled play, said Morrison. Th e jam-bouree style tournament is focusedon relationship building and personalbests. Th ere are no fi nals. Th e mottofor the weekend is if you are not hav-ing fun you are doing it wrong.

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Did you know that the equivalent of 1.1 million full-time jobs in Canada are done by volunteers? Th ats 2.1 bil-lion hours of volunteer hours.

Each year 47 per cent of Canadi-ans volunteer in their communities. Volunteers are a driving force behind many local programs and organiza-tions in Hope, and Hope and Area Healthy Communities is hosting a celebration next week to thank them for their eff orts.

Th e event takes place at the HopeVisitor Centre (919 Water Ave.) from12:30-4 p.m. on April 8, with cake cut-ting at 12:30 p.m.

Opportunities for volunteers to berecognized and for people to fi nd outabout organizations looking for vol-unteers will be available throughoutthe week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

For more information, contactBrenna Ayliff e at [email protected].

Volunteer appreciation week

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Hope Mountain Centres Muriel McMullan (right) and Sabine Keil (middle) present the Don Bush Environmental Stewardship Award to Esther Brysch, coordinator of the Hope Community Garden, on Saturday for her passion and commitment to the environment and keeping the community green.

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Candidates for municipal and school board elections will have to register with Elections BC and report do-nations of $50 or more when they run in province-wide elections this November.

Legislation tabled by the B.C. government last Wednesday will extend the term of office to four years as well as tightening rules for campaign financing and ad-vertising.

Third-party advertisers will also have to register be-fore promoting candidates, and financial disclosures will

have to be filed with Elections BC within 90 days of the vote.

Community, Sport and Cultural Development Min-ister Coralee Oakes said the new rules have been devel-oped in consultation with the Union of B.C. Municipalities, and that discussion deter-mined that an outright ban on anonymous donations is too strict.

The disclosure rule will also apply to third-party ad-vertisers, who will have to report sources of donations more than $50 and identify themselves in advertising.

Campaign spending limits wont be imposed until after

the elections scheduled for Nov. 15, 2014. Oakes said that measure is complex because the variety of local govern-ments in B.C. is the widest in Canada, including large and small communities, regional districts, school boards, park boards and the Islands Trust that governs the Gulf Islands.

The legislation also moves the date of local elections from November to October, but that wont take effect until 2018.

UBCM president Rhona Martin, a director of the Co-lumbia Shuswap Regional District, said the move to four-year terms is not a per-

fect solution, but it was sup-ported by a majority of dele-gates at last years convention.

In previous votes, some small community represen-tatives said even three-year terms may be too long for a time-consuming commit-ment with little pay.

The change in reporting rules creates a large task of compliance and enforcement for Elections BC.

Oakes said the Elections BC will present its proposed costs to the legislature com-mittee that determines bud-gets for all independent of-ficers, including the Auditor General.

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Taking Action is the theme of this years Victims of Crime Week, April 6-12.

When someone has been impacted by a crime they are often in a spiral of disbelief, shock, fear and dealing with the unknown. The trauma of the incident itself can be ex-treme, but when you add the aftermath of having to report the offence, provide state-ments, deal with the courts and other involved agencies it can be a frightening and overwhelming experience. It is often a time when people are least able to take action.

Taking action may be as simple as getting help to ac-cess service for yourself or someone you know, or per-haps it will mean getting in-volved with an organization or a group to help promote the needs and rights of those who have been impacted by a crime or a personal tragedy. Whatever the issue may be, or your reason for getting in-volved, it is important to re-member that what you do can make a difference.

Support and assistance is critical to help people un-derstand what is happening

and to help them access the services they may need at this time in their life. Victim Services is a critical support service to many victims of crime and can be a lifeline to help them move through what may be the most dif-ficult time in their life and assist them in getting the in-formation and support they require. RCMP Victim Ser-vices are available in almost every RCMP detachment throughout B.C.

Next week, Hope/Boston Bar Victim Services will have an information display at

the Hope Library and Hope Crime Prevention Society of-fice. There will also be a pre-sentation on April 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Hope Crime Prevention Society of-fice (777 Fraser St.), to offer information and learn from the community what would be helpful for them.

For more information or to access victim support servic-es, contact Hope Victim Ser-vices at 604-869-7770. If you require additional informa-tion, call the provinces toll free victim support line, Vic-timLINK, at 1-800-563-0808.

Th e measles outbreak in B.C. has been largely contained to the eastern regions of the Fraser Val-ley, health offi cials de-clared Monday.

Health minister Terry Lake credited the work done by Fraser Health, and specifi cally chief medical health offi cer Dr. Paul Van Buynder, for the success.

Dr. Van Buynder and Fraser Health have shown excellent guid-ance and management of this diffi cult situation, said Lake.

I applaud the profes-sionalism and tireless eff orts of the dedicated staff who have engaged in an open and respectful manner with the leaders, families and individuals in these aff ected commu-nities.

Now into its fourth week, the outbreak has

generated 320 cases so far, health offi cials said.But nearly all those cases have been limited to the Abbotsford, Mis-sion, Chilliwack, Agas-siz, Harrison Hot Springs and Hope. Th e threat to communities outside the eastern Fraser Valley is considered low.

Since the outbreak was declared on March 8, Fraser Health has worked with schools, community groups, church groups, public health nurses and medical offi cers to inves-tigate the outbreak and implement control mea-sures such as setting up dedicated immunization clinics in public health and physician offi ces and urging people to get vac-cinated.

Th e measles outbreak is expected to continue for another two weeks as the second and third

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University of the Fraser Valley president Mark Evered cuts a cake on Wednesday at the Hope Centre in celebration of the universitys 40th anniversary thismonth. Fraser Valley College was proclaimed into existence by provincial education minister Eileen Dailly on April 4, 1974. Since then it has grown froma college without walls, to a degree-granting university college, to a modern multi-campus university.

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Federal government appeals medical marijuana injunction

Jeff NagelBlack Press

The federal government will appeal a March 21 court injunction that lets autho-rized patients temporar-ily keep growing their own medical marijuana past April 1, when the old system was to be outlawed.

The move by Health Canada keeps thousands of medical marijuana users off balance as to how long they can continue home growing under personal production licences.

They had been under a fed-eral directive to stop grow-ing, destroy any unused pot and confirm in writing by April 30 they had done so or face potential police enforce-ment.

Users behind a constitu-tional challenge of the new medical marijuana rules fear higher prices and lower qual-ity pot under the new system of regulated commercial pro-ducers.

Its unclear how quickly an appeal of the injunction will be heard, but the broader case is expected to go to trial sometime this year.

Health Minister Rona Am-brose said Monday she is working with organizations of health pro-fessionals to address their c o n c e r n s about the lack of dos-age guidelines and appro-priate health cautions for medical mari-juana use.

They want clearer guid-ance on safety and effective-ness and want authorizations to be monitored, Ambrose said.

She said its expected new measures and direction on dosage, educational materi-als and increased oversight

will cut the risk of patients being harmed by being over-prescribed medical pot.

I want to emphasize that marijuana is not an approved drug or medicine in Canada.

Health Can-ada does not endorse the use of mari-juana, but the courts have required rea-sonable ac-cess to a le-gal source of marijuana for medical pur-poses.

Regulators will get data from licensed producers on how much

pot each doctor prescribes to patients.

Youth are especially sus-ceptible to potential risks from marijuana use, ac-cording to Health Canada, which lists damage to mental function and mental health,

including psychosis and schizophrenia.

Sensible BC planned a day of protest on April 1 against the medical marijuana changes.

Organizer Dana Larsen welcomed Ottawas move to provide more information on marijuana to doctors and nurses, but remained sharply critical of the planned shift to commercial production.

Minister Ambrose still has not addressed the fact that the new regulations are going to price thousands of patients out of the market for their medicine.

Various municipalities op-posed the outgoing system of letting users grow their own pot or have other designated growers do it for them, citing fire and other safety risks.

The injunction doesnt stop the launch of new com-mercial pot producers, but it may reduce the initial size of their market if many us-ers dont have to start buying from them.

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B.C. has signed on to the federal governments program to match skills training with employers needs, aft er nego-tiations to maintain most of the existing programs to as-sist older and disadvantaged people.

B.C. Jobs Minister Shirley Bond signed onto the Canada Job Grant program in Ottawa Monday, as provinces and ter-ritories agreed to a program that requires employers to put up a third of training costs.

Once the program takes ef-

fect, the federal share will be up to $10,000 per trainee with another $5,000 from a spon-soring employer.

Federal Employment Minis-ter Kenney said the new pro-gram will address the need for thousands of skilled workers to develop liquefi ed natural gas plants, pipelines and other projects in B.C.

Th ere is no general labour shortage in Canada, but the $900 million a year the federal government spends on post-secondary training needs to match up better with the avail-able jobs, he said.

So we need to re-engineer our education system, Ken-ney said.

B.C. has taken the lead on this, to prepare young people for the jobs of the future, to educate them for the labour market.

Th e agreement means B.C. will use 40 per cent of Otta-was $65 million annual skills training transfer for the new program.

We very much support the concept of employer-led and driven employment programs, and I think thats actually where we ended up with the

Canada Job Grant fi le, Bond said.

B.C. objected to the pro-gram initially, because it would have taken federal money away from existing training programs for disad-vantaged groups. Kenney said the amended deal allows 90 per cent of B.C.s training pro-grams to carry on.

One of those is a 2007 federal-provincial program for workers aged 55 to 64 in communities with fewer than 250,000 people that have high unemployment or closure of employers.

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B.C.s small business minister defended the provinces shift to a new recycling system Wednesday aft er a con-tinuing attack in the Legislature by the Offi -cial Opposition.

Naomi Yamamoto said the Multi Material BC program transfers recycling costs from taxpayers to the pro-ducers who generate packaging and printed paper and challenged New Democrats to state

whether or not they op-pose that principle.

How many of us have come home aft er purchasing a relatively small item, struggled to unpackage the item and then found your-self with a mountain of waste material that we have no control over? Yamamoto responded in Question Period. Th is program actually provides an incentive to producers to reduce their packaging.

Th e new system led by Multi Material BC

is being resisted as too costly by various busi-ness sectors, including the newspaper indus-try and Black Press, the company that owns this newspaper.

Yamamoto said the province asked MMBC to work with the small business community and the B.C. Chamber of Commerce, adding that led to a series of ex-emptions that absolve 99 per cent of small businesses of require-ments to report and pay recycling fees under the

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critic Lana Popham cited severe business impacts and demanded to know if the province will halt the scheduled May 19 rollout pending better consultation with businesses, municipali-ties and environmental organizations.

Th e premier is chucking B.C.s recy-cling system into a gi-ant dumpster by com-pletely botching the implementation, Po-pham said.

British Columbia deserves to get our re-cycling right.

Popham earlier in the week denounced MMBC as a red tape monster controlled by Ontario-based corpo-rations and multina-tional fi rms that arent suffi ciently accountable to B.C. stakeholders.

Newspaper industry representatives have warned newspaper clo-sures and large-scale job losses are likely if the MMBC rollout con-tinues unchanged.

They want clearer guidance on safety

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Land reserve divided, not conquered

Kootenay Bill Bennett has done what I reported last November he was doing: seizing the horns of the sacred cow that is the Agricul-tural Land Reserve.

Henceforth there shall be two land reserves. Th e Island, South Coast and Okanagan, which pro-duce 85 per cent of B.C.s total farm revenue on 10 per cent of protected land, retains its strict anti-development rules.

In the much larger area Ben-nett likes to call beyond Hope, non-farm uses will be consid-ered to help maintain the many economically marginal farmers. Th is is the Interior, Kootenay and North, where development pres-

sure is mostly an urban myth. In remote areas, ALR diktats with no relation to reality are routinely ig-nored.

Political critics were quick to call this a B.C. Liberal hidden agenda to pave the ALR for their developer pals. Certainly neither partys 2013 platform talked about the ALR, although B.C. Liberal leadership candidates Kevin Fal-con and Mike de Jong promised relief from its more senseless bu-reaucracy to Peace country farm-ers in 2011.

When the zone plan was re-vealed last week, media went to ALR pioneer Harold Steves, the hero of all Lower Mainlanders who try to tell northern farmers what to do.

My real fear is that they want to open the door for fracking and natural gas and oil, Steves said.

Ive got bad news for the social-ist sage of south Richmond. Oil

and gas companies have operated on farmland since before the ALR was created in 1974.

Conspiracy buff s should read the delegation agreement that took eff ect just weeks aft er last Mays election, giving the Oil and Gas Commission author-ity to administer wells, pipelines and waste pits on farmland. If the ALR interferes with the pre-scribed handling of drilling waste, it interferes with safety measures.

University of the Fraser Valley food security professor Lenore Newman went on CKNW to re-fute what she called uninformed arguments, and then off ered one of her own. Th is two-zone change is connected to the exclusion of large tracts of Peace land for the Site C dam, she said.

Actually, the government ex-empted that project last Decem-ber using the long-standing pro-vincial interest provision, so this

phase of the alleged capitalist plot against farmland has no eff ect on Site C.

Steves is also concerned about second homes being built beyond Hope, and later sold rather than being destroyed as is the current disastrous rule. He warns that farmers might end up with non-farm neighbours, or as we like to call them up north, neighbours.

Again, this is an urban problem projected onto rural B.C., where costly restrictionsmainly serve to accelerate the depopulation of ru-ral and remote areas.

Delta South independent MLA Vicki Huntington is livid about the legislation, which has no eff ect on loss of farmland in her constit-uency. Th e growing federally reg-ulated port supersedes provincial laws, and the Tsawwassen First Nation is growing a big shopping centre on its treaty land.

Aboriginal entrepreneurs are

also starting to force big-box de-velopment on southern Vancou-ver Island, home of the purest ofthe pure left . Th is is where farm-ers cant even protect themselvesagainst deer.

Th e most damning charge is thatthe six regional ALR panels nowin place are open to corruptionunder new rules. Panel membershave always been cabinet appoint-ments, but currently they have tobe from outside the region so theyare less likely to hand out exemp-tions to their friends.

Th at is certainly something tokeep an eye on. So is the statusof B.C. farms, where the averagefarmer age is 56 and rising, andhalf of farms have income lessthan $10,000 a year.

Tom Fletcher is legislature re-porter and columnist for BlackPress.

Twitter: @tomfl etcherbc Email:tfl [email protected]

OpinionPublished at Hope, Boston Bar, Yale and surrounding area by Black Press

Misuse of funds warrants more than a shrug

Its not just about Nigerian inheritance schemes, or people stealing credit cards or fi nancial information.

Questionable activities touch each and every taxpayer whose hard-earned dollars are siphoned by politicians for unjustifi ed expenses.

If we have learned anything from last years Senate expense scandals, and the recent revelations concerning former Alberta premier Alison Red-fords travel expenses, its that this is a problem that crosses all party lines and involves all political stripes.

A recent example being publication of details of the vacation expenses billed for NDP MLA Jenny Kwans family to the Portland Hotel Society, a not-for-profi t organization already under fi re for its expenses record. Kwans subsequent repayment of the sum was a reason for rejoicing on the right.

Th at jubilation has been tempered somewhat by the revelation, also this month, of travel expenses billed by B.C. legislature Speaker Linda Reid, a B.C. Liberal MLA, for her husband so that he could join her on a trip to South Africa.

In addition to issuing a public apology, Reid has also repaid the sum in total. Whatever the mitigating circumstances of each case, neither inspires confi dence in our system.

Abusing public trust and dipping into public funds is, or should be, in-defensible, no matter the spluttering rants of entrenched ideologues on the left or the right, who will always claim that whatever the other party did is worse.

Yet oddly, when it comes to political impropriety, our society long ago suspended any notion of justice or punishment that automatically applies to scammers in any other walk of life.

With politicians going on to reap the rewards of generous pensions, lu-crative posts and valuable consultancies, its no wonder so many average Canadians shrug their shoulders and walk in the other direction when urged to exercise their democratic rights.

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Do you support the new provincial recycling program that is set to launch in May?

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

Do you support the introduction of federally

licenced commercial marijuana grow operations?

Heres how you responded: Yes 57% No 43%

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

A few months back, I received a notifica-tion which advised me that I had to declare whether Buckerfields was a producer of printed paper or pack-aging material.

If so, we would have to implement an ap-proved stewardship plan to deal with the material. Otherwise we would have to join another stewardship plan and pay fees to that plan holder.

I thought it was a scam. But I looked into it further and de-termined that there was indeed regula-tory provisions in ef-fect which stated this very thing and accord-ing to the regulations, Buckerfields is now a producer of printed paper and packaging material, with the best example being our Buckerfields feed bags.

I then discussed the alternatives with a Ministry of Environ-ment official and came to realize that we had no choice but to join the only approved stewardship plan in the province, MMBC. We signed the MMBC contract. But we also read it. It stated that MMBC had to file au-dited financial state-ments on its web site. I recently went to the web site and there are no audited financial statements.

Now, several months

later, I have discovered the following:

MMBC is a corpo-ration under the Soci-eties Act comprised of three directors, two of which live in Ontario. None of the directors have public sector cre-dentials. All of the Di-rectors represent large corporate interests.

MMBC is not ac-countable to any government agency, appointed official, elected official or any other government body other than the Registrar of Compa-nies under the Societ-ies Act.

MMBC is not gov-erned by the provinces Financial Administra-tion Act which sets out the rules for the administration of all public monies.

None of the monies collected by MMBC, including the fees Buckerfields is sup-posed to pay, go to the public accounts of the province or any other government organiza-tion.

MMBC is not sub-ject to oversight by the Auditor General of B.C.

Under MMBCs stewardship plan as approved by the pro-vincial government, MMBC has the author-ity to charge compa-nies like Buckerfields unlimited fees based on whatever MMBC spends, regardless of

what the actual costs are to recycle our feed bags and regardless of the fact that we al-ready pay municipal taxes in all eight of our locations.

MMBC has the au-thority to come into any municipality in the province and of-fer financial incentives to the locally elected government to do what MMBC wants in the area of waste col-lection and recycling; if the locally elected government refuses, MMBC has the au-thority to do what it wants anyway.

Municipal govern-ments of the province do not know the back-ground of MMBC and dont yet realize the fees that MMBC is charging to Bucker-fields and all the other companies amounts to double taxation.

Municipal gov-ernments are going to have to give up that tax base they have for waste collection and recycling because the shift to produc-ers paying directly for waste collection and recycling eliminates the need and justifi-cation for consumers i.e. property taxpayers to pay for these servic-es through the munici-palities.

The provincial government did not consult with the mu-nicipal governments

or the public but com-panies like Bucker-fields are pointing it out because until it is resolved, we are be-ing taxed twice for the same service and resi-dential taxpayers (in-cluding me) are being taxed for something that someone else is actually paying for.

Taxpayers and mu-nicipal governments were not consulted as to whether they really want to shift the fi-nancing and control of municipal waste and recycling services out of the municipal ju-risdiction, that is, the jurisdiction of demo-cratically elected mu-nicipal officials into the hands of a corpora-tion under the Societ-ies Act that is account-able to no one and is outside the jurisdic-tion of the provincial auditor general.

Taxpayers and vot-ers are unaware that the fees being charged by MMBC are so oner-ous that they will cause newspaper closures and job losses of 300-500 in the newspaper industry in British Co-lumbia, even though recycled newsprint is actually very valuable.

In finding all this out, I lament the fact that none of this was introduced into the legislature for prop-er debate because it means that instead of spending my days

managing the sale of chicks and garden sup-plies at Buckerfields, I have to spend my time trying to revive democratic processes in British Columbia, retroactively. I find it appalling.

My position as of the time of this writing is this, we aint paying a dime to MMBC and neither should anyone else, not until:

The provincial government reconciles what it is doing with the municipal govern-ments and municipal taxpayers so that tax-payers dont have to pay twice.

The provincial government takes back the legislation which calls us pro-ducers and blames us for the choices made by manufacturers and indeed consumers that are completely outside of our control.

Any monies charged under the auspices of the Recy-cling Regulation are included in the public accounts of the prov-ince and subject to the provisions of the Financial Administra-tion Act and the Audi-tor General Act.

Whatever is going to be done is intro-duced into the legis-lative assembly in the form of a bill so that the proper public de-bate can occur.

Insofar as MMBC

has not filed its au-dited financial state-ments since inception, and the period of time not reported spans more than two years, and insofar as MMBC is actually a taxing and funding agency, there be an independent public enquiry into the financial opera-tions, sources and uses of funds, contractual procedures and expen-ditures of MMBC.

No, Buckerfields is not paying a dime un-til this cash and power grab is unraveled and revealed for what it is. One final word, 96 per cent of all printed pa-per and packaging ma-terial is already being picked up or deposited into municipally fi-nanced facilities.

Despite what MMBC is saying, at least 53 per cent of that is already being recycled and it is very likely that that number was seriously under-stated to give the gov-ernment a reason for its MMBC cash and power grab.

In reality, there is no basis for setting up a recycling dictatorship and charging punitive fees to companies like Buckerfields at all.

Recycling is a boom-ing business with rapidly increasing prices of marketable commodities. Could that be why the board of MMBC is all big

business and outsidethe jurisdiction of theauditor general?

We dont have tochange a thing to seerecycling take off inB.C., in the hands ofour elected munici-pal officials. We needto send the MMBCregime to the recyclebin.

Kelvin McCullochCEO, Buckerfields

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Pricing is the real fix for water Re: Pricing a concern for lobby group

in new B.C. Water Sustainability Act (March 27)

Kudos to spokesperson Sheila Mux-low of the Water Wealth Project for stay-ing on top of, and keeping us informed on the provincial governments new Water Sustainability Act. Th e licensing of groundwater is surely overdue and the extra protection of the ecosystem is a no brainer. Unfortunately, the real fi x for protecting our fresh water is in the pricing. If you put a high enough price on any commodity the strong ten-dency is to conserve and protect. Gold and oil are the perfect examples. I be-lieve that the provincial government is

dragging its heels on this issue because of the strong political lobby from large industrial users. Th e fresh water that will be needed in the development of the Liberal governments natural gas plan is a phenomenal amount, and I dont believe a price increase was in the books. So until Premier Clark can con-vince the gas well developers to use salt water, or water from a distant location for fracking, dont expect any consider-able or practical price increase for the industrial use of fresh water. Th ough it wouldnt surprise me, if the provincial government taxed our personal use of water on the pretext of conservation.

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Suspended licences making driving in Washington a crimeCourt, jail awaits B.C. drivers who defy U.S. traffic tickets


A growing number of B.C. motorists are getting a nasty surprise after ignoring speed-ing tickets issued in Washington State be-cause they dont think the long arm of Uncle Sam can reach them.

Blaine city adminis-trators say many Cana-dians are regularly ap-pearing in court there

to face criminal charg-es of driving while un-der license suspension that stem from unpaid traffic tickets.

The typical case in-volves a B.C. motorist who gets caught speed-ing in Washington and ignores the ticket because they think theyre immune to U.S. enforcement.

But about three months after the tick-

et is issued if its not paid or disputed state authorities de-clare that drivers B.C. licence suspended in Washington.

The next time the driver crosses the bor-der theyre nabbed in-stantly by U.S. authori-ties for driving while suspended.

Blaine deputy court administrator Raylene King said the court-

house there is seeing a rash of Canadians coming as a result.

Wednesdays court docket in Blaine fea-tured 11 arraignments of accused making first appearances, nine of them for driving while suspended.

Blaine immigra-tion lawyer Len Saun-ders says its the same scene each Wednesday morning a court-house parking lot jammed with Canadi-ans arriving to face the music.

They get a speeding ticket and they blow it off thinking The Americans cant do anything because Im a Canadian, said Saun-ders. Wrong idea.

The typical penalty there for driving while suspended is a $500 or $600 fine on top of the unpaid ticket, al-though the maximum is $1,000 and up to 90 days in jail.

But thats not the big-gest problem for many hapless B.C. drivers.

Because driving while suspended is a criminal misdemean-or, the conviction means instant loss of the Nexus card that gives many B.C. shop-pers speedy access over the border.

Canadians have no clue what problems they can get into at the border if they fail to pay a speeding ticket, Saunders said.

And its becoming more and more com-mon.

He ties the increase to the growing frenzy

of Canadians coming to Blaine to use U.S. mail boxes and other e-commerce package shipping services who then discover local police tightly enforce the 20-mile-per-hour speed limit in town.

Saunders doesnt defend criminal cases, but typically gets hired by Canadians desper-ate to reinstate Nexus passes.

Thats what a lot of people are worried about having their Nexus cards gone.

Its possible to avoid or appeal the Nexus loss, but Saunders said in many cases the card is gone for 10 years.

Saunders said sus-pended drivers who come back to Blaine for court must make sure they dont drive themselves across the border or theyll be

nailed for a second of-fence.

Theres no disputing that they were driving at the border because automated cameras photograph drivers as they roll up to the booths.

Solo drivers busted at the border typically get towed back to Ca-nadian soil because its illegal for them to even drive that far.

An even worse fate awaits those who ig-nore the court sum-mons for driving while suspended and then try to cross the border again regardless of whether theyre driver or passenger.

A warrant for their arrest gets issued, Blaine prosecutor Ra-jeev Majumdar said. And then when they cross the border they actually get arrested

and taken to jail.Saunders knows

one B.C. woman whowas handcuffed atthe Highway 15 truckcrossing and heldovernight in WhatcomCounty jail on a four-year-old speeding tick-et that had morphedinto a driving-while-suspended charge.

By the time the hus-band hired a U.S. law-yer and bailed his wifeout of jail, the cost ofdealing with what hadbeen a $124 ticket hadsoared to $4,000.

He was furious, hecouldnt believe it,Saunders said.

Id be terrified ifit was me, said King,who encourages Cana-dians to dispute a tick-et they consider unjust.

Ignoring it isnt thecorrect option. Its go-ing to come back tobite you.

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Blaine immigration lawyer Len Saunders says many B.C. drivers are unaware of the con-sequences if they ignore U.S.-issued traffic tickets.

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Farmland review creates two zonesTom FletcherBlack Press

The Agricultural Land Re-serve is being divided into two zones, with regulations to come to allow non-farm home-based businesses out-side the southwest regions of high productivity.

The changes affect three of the six regional panels of the Agricultural Land Com-mission, for the Interior, Kootenay and North regions. Details will be worked out in consultation with industry and placed in regulations, said Bill Bennett, the cabi-net minister in charge of the governments core review of programs.

Non-farm uses will not be considered in the Island, South Coast and Okanagan regions, but value added activities such as food pro-cessing on farmland are being considered across the prov-ince, Bennett said.

Bennett and Steve Thom-son, acting agriculture minis-ter, reiterated their assuranc-es that the ALC will continue to operate independently.

Commissioners are ap-pointed by cabinet, two or three per region, and deci-sions can be appealed to the

regional chairs who act as an executive.

Delta South independent MLA Vicki Huntington called the Interior zone change de-ceitful and a betrayal of the public trust, and accused the government of removing its obligation to consult with the ALC chair on new panel ap-pointments.

NDP agriculture critic Nicolas Simons was forced by the speaker to withdraw the term deceitful from his re-

marks in the legislature, as he accused Bennett of keeping the changes secret until after last years election.

The fundamental prin-ciple is that the reserve was set up for the entire province, not for zones here and zones there, Simons said.

Bennett said the only change to the Interior zones is the addition of social and economic factors in consid-ering permitted uses.

He gave the example from

his Kootenay constituency of a market garden operator who was refused permission to build a second home on an unproductive part of the property so the next genera-tion could take over the busi-ness.

Rhonda Driediger, chair of the B.C. Agricultural Coun-cil and operator of Driedi-ger Farms in Langley, said she is looking forward to the changes that will allow devel-opment of new revenue.

The ALC is old and it hasnt been updated in a long time, Driediger said.

On a day-to-day basis it makes it very difficult in farming, especially when youre looking to be progres-sive.

Faye Street, general man-ager of Kootenay Livestock Association, congratulated the ministers for having the three Bs in the male anatomy to get this done starting at the brain, backbone and work your way down.

Street said young farmers are not entering the industry under the current conditions, and allowing them supple-mentary income will help maintain the farmers.

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Ten per cent of ALR land in the Fraser Valley and southern Vancouver Island produces 85 per cent of farm revenues in B.C.

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Former premier Mike Harcourts disenchant-ment with the NDP is a sign of the challenge ahead for the party aft er last years election loss, leadership candidates John Horgan and Mike Farnworth said Tuesday.

Harcourt has let his party membership lapse and gave several in-terviews this week to express his disappoint-ment with the NDPs performance in the 2013 election.

Harcourt told the Globe and Mail he is not sure if his decision to quit the party is a trial separation or a decree absolute, but he wont be voting in the leadership contest in September.

Horgan said he has spoken with Harcourt in

recent weeks about the partys standing in rural B.C., particularly aft er leader Adrian Dixs mid-campaign decision to oppose the expansion of the Trans-Mountain oil pipeline from northern

Alberta to Burnaby.Th e message it sends

to me is that I have a lot of work to do, Horgan said.

I have a lot of work to convince Mike Harcourt and other New Demo-

crats and all British Co-lumbians that theres a better way for us to proceed, a balanced ap-proach to the economy and the environment.

Harcourt, the former Vancouver mayor who

served as premier from 1991 to 1996, endorsed Farnworth in the 2011 leadership campaign.

Farnworth said Tues-day he agrees with Har-courts criticism, and the struggle to balance resource development with environmental con-cern has a long history in the NDP. It was Harcourt who faced the war in the woods in the 1990s over coastal logging and came up with land use plans that still serve B.C. today, he said.

I think Mike is say-ing what he thought, and its refl ective of the com-ments we heard aft er the election last May, Farn-worth said.

NDP members vote this fall on their choice to succeed Dix, with re-sults to be revealed Sept. 28.

NDP hopefuls downplay Harcourts rejection

Mike Harcourt endorses Mike Farnworth for the B.C. NDP leadership in 2011.BLACK PRESS FILE PHOTO

Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon MP Mark Strahl is encourag-ing the community to nomi-nate special volunteers for a Prime Ministers Volunteer Award.

The award is open to indi-viduals, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations that make exceptional voluntary

contributions.Volunteers make an enor-

mous difference in the lives of people in our community ev-ery day. The Prime Ministers Volunteer Awards are a way of recognizing the outstand-ing volunteers among us, said Strahl.

The Prime Ministers Vol-

unteer Awards consist of 17 awards in total: 15 regional awards three awards for each of the five regions across Canada (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies, British Columbia and the North), and two national awards.

Recipients are recognized at an award ceremony and

chose an eligible not-for-profit organization to receive a grant for $5,000 (regional award) or $10,000 (national award).

The call for nominations is open until May 9.

For more information and to submit a nomination, visit: www.pm.gc.ca/PMVA.

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MT. HOPE SEVENTH-DAYADVENTIST CHURCH

SATURDAY MORNING Study Hour 9:15 a.m.

Worship Hour 11:00amPrayer Meeting - Tuesday, 7pm

1300 Ryder St.

Pastor Michael Hope604-792-8471

HOPE PENTECOSTALASSEMBLY

10:30am Morning Worship & Childrens

Sunday School

Pentecostal Assemblies of CanadaCorner of 5th & Fort

604-869-9717Pastor Jim Cornock

SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:30 AMFREE STORE TUES/THURS

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Invites you to worship SUNDAYS 10AMTHE REV. GAIL NEWELLwww.anglican-hope.ca

Corner of Park & Fraser St.604-869-5402

HOPE UNITED CHURCH

590 Third Ave.SUNDAY SERVICE: 10am

UNITED WE SINGFIRST WEDNESDAY OF

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604-869-9381Rev. Ryan Knight

Grace BaptistChurch

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949-3rd Ave. 604.869.5524Helping people take one step

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COMMUNITY CALENDARMONDAYHope Al-Anon Group: Al-Anon supports friends and families of problem drinkers. Monday, April 8 8 p.m. Fraser Canyon Hospi-tal meeting room 1275 7th Ave. [email protected]

Krackle Goes to Family Place: Famous Hope Library poet-in-resi-dence, Krackle Crow, visits Hope Family Place every Monday morning. Library staff tag along and tell stories, sing songs and generally help Krackle do his thing! For kids age six and under and their caregivers. Monday, April 8 9:30 a.m. Family Place 604 Hudsons Bay St. [email protected]

Volunteer Training: Hope Seniors Peer Counsellors Society is in need of volunteers to visit our seniors. Train-ing begins Monday, April 7 6 p.m. J-591 Wallace St. [email protected]

TUESDAYSenior keep fit: This fitness class is designed

for seniors, and uses weights and bands for strength train-ing. Chairs are also used to support the participant. This class has been ongoing for 15 years. Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 a.m. Golden Agers Hall 560 Douglas St. [email protected]

Tops Meeting: Power-ful support group for weight loss and lifelong health. Weigh-in 5:30-6:50 p.m. Meeting 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 9. Anglican Church Hall 681 Fraser St. [email protected]

ESL Conversation Cir-cles: Come to a relaxed place to practice your English skills through guided discussion. Free drop-in Conversation Circles will be held weekly until April 15. Tuesday, April 8 10:30 a.m. Hope Library 1005A 6th Ave. [email protected]

Hope Community Choir: Community Choir is a secular choir welcoming singers of all ages and abilities. We are all volunteers

who sing for the sheer joy of singing. Please feel free to come and observe. Tuesday, April 8 7 p.m. Hope United Church 590 Third Ave. [email protected]

Writing Beyond Hope Writers Group: To all writers and writing wannabes: there is a writing group in Hope! Writing prompts, dis-cussions and support. Also, book draws! Tues-day, April 8 6:30 p.m. Hope Library 1005A 6th Ave. 604-869-3032

WEDNESDAY Westie Army Cadet Training: The cadet program prepares youth age 12 to 19 to become leaders of tomorrow through fun yet challenging activities. Wednesday, March 26 6:30 p.m. The Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 228 344 Fort St. [email protected]

MS Support Group: Monthly support group in Hope for people with a diagnosis of MS as well as family mem-bers and friends. We look forward to seeing you there! Wednesday,

April 9 11:30 a.m. Kim-chi Restaurant 821A 6th Ave. [email protected]

Protective Foods: Con-cerned about cancer? Come enjoy recipes including protective foods. Wednesday, April 9 7 p.m. Seventh-day Adventist Church, Fireside Room 1300 Ryder St. [email protected]

Shared Travels: Gone on a trip or taken a trek recently? Or maybe you have a hobby or passion youd like to share? Bring along your photos and stories to share with fellow life travellers. Wednesday, April 9 7 p.m. Hope Library 1005A 6th Ave. [email protected]

THURSDAY Seniors Coffee and Conversation: Drop in and join us for a cup of coffee, tea and home-made treats. Youll enjoy some interesting and lively conversa-tion. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hope Library - no member-ship required, just stop

on by! Thursday, April 10 10:30 a.m. Hope Library 1005A 6th Ave. [email protected]

ESL Classes: Free ESL classes offered for Level 1 - Level 2 English speakers. Structured sessions will be offered with a trained volun-teer instructor. Thurs-day, April 10 10 a.m. Grace Baptist Church 949 3rd [email protected]

FRIDAY Tops Meeting: Power-ful support group for weight loss and lifelong health. Weigh-in 8:15-9:20 a.m. Meeting 9:30-10:30 a.m. Friday, April 4. Anglican Church Hall 681 Fraser St. 604-869-2140 [email protected]

SUNDAYHappy Knit Hope: Join knitters of all ages and abilities for this cozy fireside knitting circle. Share patterns and projects. Sunday, April 6 1:30 p.m. Hope Library 1005A 6th Ave.604-869-2313

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Winter campers gather around a kitchen table made of snow to make dinner on portable stoves. The Hope Mountain Centre hosted a Winter Camp on the weekend, teaching skills for safe winter travel and camping on snow.Participants dug their own snow caves into deep snow, on a high mountain ridge in Manning Park.

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Barry StewartHope Standard

Th is spring, there will be no kid in Hope who can honestly say, Th eres nothing to do.

In addition to self-made fun with friends and the programs at the local rec centre, there are now three organized sports where there was previously only one.

Saturday soccer was the only game in town when Hope Minor Soft ball shut down in 2008 but now minor ball is surging back to life, along with the Steve Nash Youth Basketball Program.

At the core of all three kids sports groups is a committed group of parents, youth and oth-er citizens who have volunteered their time and skills to help make a diff erence in the lives of the next generation.

Weve got 41 kids signed up and 24 volunteers, said Jeff Kuhn, local organizer for the Steve Nash program. I feel really fortunate, as youre only as good as your vol-unteers and weve got some real good ones.

Bruce Becker, long-time presi-dent of Hope Minor Soccer, mir-rored Kuhns sentiments.

Th e league is run by volunteers and without them there would not be a soccer league in Hope. Th ey also allow the costs to be quite low. Th eir help is very much appreci-ated!

Tammy Shields, president of Hope Minor Soft ball, has brought together a six-member executive for the clubs second year of ref-ormation. She would be happy to have even more coaches on-board, though.

Th e Steve Nash program is in its second year, showing slight growth in the girls registration from 14 to 17 but a big jump from 13 to 27 in the boys divisions.

We had a large group of Grade 7 girls last year and this year, there are only two, said Kuhn. Th e ma-jority of our girls are from Grade 4 and 5.

Fourteen boys from Grade 4 and 5 use the Coquihalla school gym on Mondays and Th ursdays, while the girls and the Grade 6 and 7 boys use the Hope Second-ary gym on those nights.

On Monday, we assessed kids for placing them on teams, added Kuhn. Mondays will be practice nights and Th ursdays will be game nights. Im happy with our num-

bers, as it gives us two teams in each group, with subs coming in.

Among his 24 volunteers, Kuhn has 11 high school students. Its good experience for them, he said.

Hope Minor Soccer kicks off their spring season this Saturday, with 130 players from kindergar-ten to Grade 10. Mini-fi eld nets get set up at 8 a.m. for the younger groups to work with in the morn-ing and the Grade 8-10s play full fi eld from 12:15 to 1:30.

We have about 18 coaches, said Becker, the principal of Silver

Creek Elementary. A few have been helping out for many years and take on more than one team. Some of the long-time coaches are Geoff Birch, Rob Tiessen, Larry Green, Kevin Chisholm, Mike Crane, Les McAllister, and Mike Lancaster.

We also have two talented and dedicated high school students, Amanda Lancaster and Blake De-scends, who coach as well.

Aft er the great response to last summers Learn to Play soft ball program, Shields said she didnt know what the numbers would be

like when they moved to the spring season this year but a few hours before opening night this Tuesday, she thought there would be about 80 players from age four to U-14.

Weve got two mini-mite teams, two mites, a U-11 and a U-14, said Shields. Th e mini-mites will start with T-ball, then move to in-tegrating a pitched ball by a coach.

Weve got more boys than girls. Probably a 60-40 ratio maybe even 70-30, and Soft ball BC is in-terested in supporting us because of the number of boys involved. In our district of Chilliwack, Abbots-

ford, Mission and Langley, soft ballisnt really big, as far as boys go.

Gerry Dyson, who grew up inHope, and his wife Sue are driv-ing up regularly from Chilliwackto share their extensive knowledgein the sport and Hope MinorBall is hosting a coaching andskills clinic by George Morneau,father of major league fi rst base-man Justin Morneau. Th e clinicstake place on Saturday, April 12,so anyone wanting to help coachshould be in attendance.

Shields can be reached at 604-869-1634.

Three organized sports programs running this spring

The Steve Nash Youth Basketball program had its opening night on Monday, with players learning some fun drills to tweak their abilities. Here, Darby Link (left) and BrianneRichardson practice the knee tag drill, which strengthens observation, footwork and quickness. Forty-one players are registered this year, compared to 30 last year.

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5 IN MEMORIAM

In Loving Memory of

Bill DancsMarch 27, 2004The years are quickly

passingAnd we will never forget

For in the hearts that love you

Your memory lingers yet.We think of you in silence

We often speak your nameBut all we have are memories

And your picture in a frame.Your resting place we visit

And put fl owers there with care

But no one knows the heartacheAs we turn and leave you there.

There comes a time for all of us

When we must say goodbyeBut memories of

those we loveLive on and never die.

Our thoughts are ever with you

Ten years have passed away

And those who have loved you dearly

Are thinking of you today.Always loved, always re-membered by your wife, your daughter, your son-in-law, your family and all of your friends.

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5 IN MEMORIAM

In Memory ofTyler Wells

May 19, 1993 - April 3, 2007

Another month, another year, another smile, another tear.

Another winterand summer too,

But there can neverbe another you.

Love you forever and a day

but miss you more.

Grams, Uncle & Susan and Missy

7 OBITUARIES

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7 OBITUARIES

KARST,Isobel May

July 19, 1927 - March 28, 2014

Isobel Karst passed away quietly with her family at her side, on March 28, 2014. She was born on July 19, 1927 at St. Walburg Sask., into a farm-ing family, with four sisters and one brother. She attended Deer Valley School and Miller Business College.Isobel married George Karst on Nov. 17, 1948 in St. Wal-bur, and moved to Hope, where they resided for 65 years. Isobel worked as a bookkeeper for several or-ganizations, including the Vil-lage of Hope, and the Hope School District. She socialized at the Hope Curling Club, Hope Golf course, Ladies bridge clubs and the Anglican Church, where she was a member of the Altar Guild for over 50 years.Isobel was predeased by her parents George and Emma Buckle, siblings Daisy, Cyn-thia, and Robert. Left to cher-ish her memory are her loving husband George of 65 years, sister Rose LaBar, son Dale (Connie) of Kamloops, grand-sons Shawn and Travis of Kamloops, plus numerous neices, nephews and wonder-ful friends in the Hope area.A service will be held Friday April 4th at 2 pm, at Christ Church in Hope.The family would like to thank Dr. Demian and the staff of Fraser Canyon Hospital for their compassionate care. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made directly to the charity of your choice.


7 OBITUARIES

LINZA, Armando Giuseppe

Armando Giuseppe Linza passed away on March 27, 2014 at Hope, BC at age 88. He was born March 12, 1926 in Altilia, the Province of Co-senza, Italy. Armando is survived by his wife, Battistina (Betty), son; Paul, daughter; Nuccia, grand-children; Madisyn, Colby, Aa-ron, Nicole and Kyle. He is predeceaced by a daughter Rita in 2003.Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, April 11,2014 at 11:00 am from Our Lady of Good Hope Roman Catholic Church, 671 Water St. Hope, BC; Burial to follow at Moun-tain View Cemetery, Hope. Celebrant, Fr. Gordon Cook. OMI. Pallbearers will be Paul Linza, John Linza, Frank Lin-za, Larry Kennedy, Tonino Lenza, and Frank Lenza. Armando arrived in Canada from Italy as an immigrant in 1954. He was employed fi rst, with the Canadian National Railway on the section of the Kettle Valley. He then moved on to careers in Sawmills, Min-ing, Service Industry, and his Janitorial Business. He fi nally retired in his early 70s. During his days off, Armando thor-oughly enjoyed fl y fi shing, mushroom picking, and per-fecting his home-made wine collection, with much pride that became the envy of many friends. During the gardening season you could always fi nd him tending to his garden.Armando would often be seen reaching over the fence offer-ing samples of his vegetables to passersby whether he knew them or not. Armando will be forever missed by his loving wife of 58 years, Betty, his children, and grandchildren. Hendersons Funeral Home in care of arrangements, 604-792-1344www.hendersonsfunerals.com

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Valley Youth Partnershipfor Engagement and Respect (VYPER)

Job Opportunity: Area Facilitator(Hope Boston Bar)

VYPER is a Health Canada-funded youth-adult collaborative project running across the Fraser Health region (Burnaby to Boston Bar) of British Columbia. VYPER is seeking an Area Facilitator who is responsible for supporting, providing outreach, and serving as a VYPER liaison for organizations in the Hope Boston Bar region. The projects ultimate aim is to delay, reduce and prevent illicit and non-prescribed drug use and related harm among youth (12-24).Quali cations:The preferred candidate will have: An in-depth understanding of the socio-

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Experience with collaborative community and youth-adult projects

Basic understanding of the concepts of Knowledge Exchange and of the concept of the Social Determinants of Health particularly as applied to substance use

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Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and ability to respond in a positive way to demanding issues and project a welcoming, friendly personality

Must have use of personal vehicle and be comfortable driving to/from Hope-Boston Bar year round. This job will be based in Hope and will require a exible schedule. For detailed job posting, visit www.vyper.ca/HopeAF.pdf

Please send resume and cover letter to:VYPER, Attention: Human [email protected] or fax to 604-859-6334Closing Date: April 11, 2014 Start Date: ASAPOnly those candidates to be interviewed will be contacted.

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