Invermere Valley Echo, June 25, 2014

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Columbia Garden Village resident Alfred Ames (left) was awarded the MSM Legion Medal at the Invermere Royal Canadian Legion on Monday

June 16th. The 70-year-old veteran, pictured here with Henry Butters, was honoured for his heroic efforts in Normandy. See below for the full story.

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Distinguished war veteran Alfred Ames was awarded the prestigious MSM (Meritorious Service Medal) by the Royal Canadian Legion at a veter-an’s lunch hosted by local Branch 71 president Ken Carlow and members on Monday, June 16th. Mr. Ames is a long-standing member of Salmon Arm’s local Royal Canadian Legion Branch 62 who now resides in Invermere as a Columbia Garden Village resident. The award is considered one of the highest honours that can be granted a member and is offi cially approved by the Do-minion Ritual and Awards Committee.

“He has been my mentor and my friend for over a decade, and it’s fair to say that Branch 62 would not have sur-vived without the service and dedica-tion of fellow comrade and legionnaire Alf Ames,” commented Salmon Arm

Branch 62 President, Henry Butters, in a statement.

Mr. Ames was formally acknowl-edged by peers and supporters for a lifetime of outstanding devotion to his community and for “going above and beyond the call of duty” to the legion he so proudly served and continues to serve. Mr. Ames’ distin-guished career has tak-en place over a period spanning seventy-six years.

Born in Birmingham, England, on July 14th of 1924, the widower of Olga Ames, his marriage partner of 65 years, and father of Howard Ames and Shelley Hopkins, fought bravely in the Sec-ond World War. Mr. Ames was one of the 24,000 British, U.S., and Canadian allied soldiers who landed on the 50-mile beach off the coast of Normandy on D-Day.

“My father was committed to our fam-ily and set aside time from his work and community service for us. He had clear views of right and wrong, and always emphasized doing the right thing. He of-ten said that you have no right to com-plain about something if you are not willing to change it,” said his daughter,

Shelley Hopkins. Mr. Ames served as a

military driver for the Colonel Finance Offi cer in Germany for a peri-od of two years after being wounded during

the confl ict in Falaise Gap, one of two injuries he sustained while on duty in France.

“He encouraged taking a stand for your beliefs — he showed his beliefs through his actions. He was a steady, quiet, kind and very giving man,” said Ms. Hopkins of her father.

Awarded the Overlord Medal by the

French government for his heroic ef-forts in what is commonly known as “Operation Overlord,” the Queen’s Medal, and the Dutch Medal for his ef-forts in the liberation of Holland, the proud and devoted lifetime Legion member was humble and gracious as he accepted his award.

Mr. Ames’ notable accomplishments after the Second World War include an induction into the presidency of the Pincher Creek legion branch, where he served on the executive for over ten years. Transferring his membership to Salmon Arm Branch 62 in 1964, Mr. Ames continued to serve in an execu-tive position and on various commit-tees, which eventually earned him the Life Membership award in 2003, and the 70 years of continued service to the Legion award in 2012.

“His Legion service is wide and var-ied,” said Mr. Butters of the war hero.

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June 18th was a beautiful day on the lake. The Lake Windermere Ambassadors sampling crew spotted lots of birds, including grebes, mergansers, osprey, eagles and a heron. Turbidity (murkiness) varied from the south to north end. There was 0.75 NTU (the measurement of turbidity) at the North end — which is the lowest we have observed this season. However, at the South end the turbidity was high at 5.73 NTU. This demonstrates the effects of meltwater coming into the lake from Dutch Creek. This was the Ambassadors’ Summer Student Ella Swan’s fi rst time testing water quality in the fi eld. “It’s exciting to be able to apply what I learned in Chem-istry at DTSS right here in our community,” she said. Stay tuned for more water quality reports throughout this summer.

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NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE AND DISPOSITIONRoad Closure Bylaw No. 1487, 2014

NOTICE is given of a proposed road closure and disposition by the District of Invermere.

Bylaw No. 1487, 2014 outlines the details of the road closure. Legal description as follows:

Reference Plan EPP4182 to close part of the road dedicated on Plan NEP23621, District Lot 1092, Kootenay District.

The proposed closure of 380.7m2 of Plan NEP23621, District Lot 216, Kootenay District is permanent and is to be acquired by Larchbrook Development Corporation, Inc. No. 418762 for $16,000. The closure and diposition being proposed is to accommodate the siting of a proposed multifamily development “Whisper Ridge” on the adjacent parcel. The above synopsis is not intended to be, nor should it be interpreted as the full text and content of the proposed “Road Closure Bylaw No. 1487, 2014”.

A copy of the proposed bylaw and relevant background documents may be inspected at the District of Invermere Municipal office 914 - 8th Ave., Invermere from June 20th 2014 to July 8th 2014. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

All persons who believe that their interest in the property is affected by the proposed Road Closure Bylaw No.1487, 2014 may:

• Send written briefs to the District of Invermere via letter or email.• Fax written briefs to the District of Invermere.

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A nostalgic, if not historic sign, has gone missing from downtown Invermere just as it was about to be given as a gift, and the own-ers are seeking to have it returned.

The old Valley Echo building was built de-cades ago and, for about the past 20 years or so, has cut a distinctive profile on 13th Street with its classic Western-style storefront name sign. The Valley Echo newspaper moved from the building to its current location in early 2013; the building was then purchased by the local branch of Manulife Financial.

This past weekend, work was being done on the building and the old sign was carefully taken down, with the plan to give it as a gift to the Ede family, who have been involved with

the newspaper for decades. To the shock of Manulife staff, the sign has disappeared, like-ly sometime during Saturday.

“It seems it just walked away,” said Manulife assistant Holly Jones. “We’re tremendously disappointed we didn’t get to give it to the Ede family, because it would’ve been quite meaningful to them.”

Manulife will wait to report the sign as sto-len property, in order to give a week’s grace period for the sign to be returned.

“Hopefully that will encourage somebody to return it,” said Jones. “They could put it by the old Echo building or leave it by the new Echo location, no questions asked.”

The classic Western-style sign was initially put up to replace an older sign. By The Valley Echo’s Monday press deadline, the sign was still missing.

Winderberry Nursery applying for commercial

kitchenSteve HubrecHt

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The local food production scene may soon get another boost, with Winderberry Nursery seeking to add a small commercial kitchen to their operations.

Owners Lin and Oliver Egan have made an application for Agri-cultural Land Reserve (ALR) non-farm use, which was support by the Regional District of East Kootenay board of directors and the board’s most recent meeting on Friday, June 6th.

“It’s still in process at this point,” said Mr. Egan of the application, which has now gone on to the Agricultural Land Commission for consideration.

“It’s a matter of them reviewing it, so we’re just waiting,” said Mr. Egan.

The facility the Egans are proposing to build would be about 25 feet (7.5 metres) by 35 feet (10.5 metres) and would function as a certified commercial kitchen.

“We’d be using food from the farm and serving it out of the kitch-en. It wouldn’t be a sit-down kind of restaurant, but it would allow us to do take-away food and pies, stuff like that,” said Mr. Egan, add-ing customers would be able to snack away on kitchen food as they peruse the nursery.

The whole operation would be a great example of food-to-fork phi-losophy, he said.

If approved, the kitchen would adjoin the nursery’s retail outlet.The recently passed Bill 24 does not affect this application for ALR

non-farm use, which is proceeding through the normal Agricultural Land Commission approval process. The changes proposed in Bill 24 will not take effect until regulations based on those changes are drawn up.

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The new owner of the old Valley Echo building, the local Manulife Securities branch, is ask-ing whoever took the ‘The Valley Echo’ sign (pictured here) to return it, no questions asked. The sign went missing sometime on Saturday, June 22nd. FILE PHOTO


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Project No. ...................061300191 – Industrial Business Park Road Improvements Issue Date........................................................................................... June 18, 2014Closing Date & Time ..................................................June 30, 2014, 4:00 p.m. MST

Quotations must be received by sealed Tender marked Industrial Business Park Road Improvements in one hard copy by mail, prepaid courier or personal delivery by the closing date and time to the following addresses. Quotations may not be sent by fax or electronic email. Amendments will be received by fax.

The work generally consists of the following:

• Approximately 4,400 square metres of asphalt overlay on Panorama Drive• Stormwater infrastructure work on Panorama Drive• Milling and Paving approximately 1,050 square metres of asphalt on Industrial Road No 4• Drainage improvements on Industrial Road No 4

Tender documents may be viewed at Focus Corporation at the addresses below after 1 pm Thursday, June 19th, 2014, or on the District of Invermere website or on BC Bid.

Tenders must be accompanied by the following:•A Certified Cheque or Bid Bond in the amount of Ten Percent (10%) of the Tender Price.•Signed copies of any addenda issued during the tender period.

An optional attendance site meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 25th, 2014 at 9:00am at the intersection of Panorama Drive and Industrial Road No 1, Invermere, BC. A representative from the Focus Corporation will attend the meeting to answer any contractor questions.

The Owner reserves the right to waive informalities, to reject any or all tenders, or accept the tender deemed most favourable in the interest of the Owner. The lowest or any Tender will not necessarily be accepted.Inquiries:

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Fairmont landslide and flood service area expands Steve HubrecHt

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The new Fairmont flood and landslide service area is now official, after the Re-gional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) board of directors voted at their most recent meeting to amend a bylaw and expand the two existing flood and landslide services areas in the community into a single larger one.

“The key to the success of this project was the communities support and en-gagement. The community was willing to create a service area for all of Fairmont, not solely those living on the creeks, which gave the RDEK the ability to raise funds through property taxes to help with the mitigation measures to limit the impact of future events,” regional district Area F director Wendy Booth told The Valley Echo.

The bylaw amendment was voted on during the RDEK board of directors’ June 6th meeting, and the proposal for the expanded service area came after two con-secutive years of significant debris flow or flooding in late spring or early summer in the area.

“As result of the debris slide in 2012 on Fairmont Creek as well as flooding on both Fairmont Creek and Cold Spring Creek in 2013, I felt it was important to ad-

dress these creeks. In addition we had creek assessments completed that found that the creeks had ‘abundant’ and ‘unlimited’ amount of sediment still to come down, given the right climatic conditions,” said Booth.

The service area will result in a maximum tax rate of 20 cents per $1,000 of assessed residential property value (to raise the money needed to fund flood and debris flow mitigation work in the new service area), but the actual tax rate is expected to be 13 cents per $1,000 of assessed residential property value, RDEK chief financial officer Shawn Tomlin had said at an open house on the issue in March.

The mitigation work being done stems from the creek assessments, which con-tained a number of recommendations to be implemented in three or four phases during a period of years. The first phase finished in April 2013. The second phase, which will be funded through the new service area, is set to begin this winter and involves measures such as channel widening and rock armouring.

Booth has previously said she thought it unfair for the cost of the mitigation work to be borne only by the two previous service areas, which were both com-paratively, small, when the whole community of Fairmont benefits from the work.

Public feedback at the open house meeting in March was strongly in support of creating the new service area.

Steve [email protected]

Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort municipal council voted to enter into the Community Works Fund Agreement during its most recent meeting.

The fund is a federal program (sometimes called the Gas Tax Agreement) administered by the Union of British Columbia Municipali-ties (UBCM), transfering federal gas tax reve-nues to communities across the country. The Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality will receive two payments of $25,000, for a to-tal of $50,000 during the course of 2014.

The municipality will be given the first pay-ment once the agreement is signed, dated and sent in (as long as the UBCM has the Jumbo municipality’s 2013 annual gas tax expendi-ture report) and will get the second payment in December 2014.

“Our participation in the Community Works Fund Agreement means the same as it does to

any other community — it helps us to make sure that future residents will be able to rely on sound and affordable infrastructure,” Mr. Deck told The Valley Echo. “In our case, it doesn’t mean having to replace older services. We are fortunate to be able to invest the funds in services that reflect current best practices without the need to disturb settled areas.”

Councillors also voted to carry Jumbo mu-nicipality’s 2014 annual report during the Tuesday, June 17th meeting. The report was open to public comment, but attracted none. The annual report summarized the municipal-ity’s activities for the past year, listed bylaws adopted and laid out the municipality’s 2014 and 2015 objectives.

Jumbo council also accepted the May cheque register at the council meeting, which totalled $496.82, with more than $250 of that as legal fees relating to the Ktunaxa petition against Glacier Resorts Ltd. and the provincial government. A B.C. Supreme Court judge dis-missed the petition in early April.

Jumbo receives small funding boost

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Smiling in front of the crowd, the seasoned patriarch patiently allowed photographs to be taken as he stood proudly with medal in hand. The newly honoured Mr. Ames was showered with applause, accolades, and a dignified flag tribute from the Legion’s Colour Party as he took a moment to enjoy the recognition of a lifetime dedicated to the service of others.

“It is impossible to see Salmon Arm and not see the impact of his contributions. His is a last-ing legacy, a reminder of what commitment to community can accomplish,” said Ms. Hopkins.


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JUNE 25th - JULY 1st

25TH : WEDNESDAY• 11:45 a.m.: The Rotary Club of Invermere meets every Wednes-day at the Curling Rink.• 12 - 1 p.m.: Valley Go Go Sisters meeting at Columbia Garden Vil-lage. Everyone welcome.• 2:15 p.m.: Seniors’ Day at the In-vermere Library on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. Bus provided. For more informa-tion or to pre-register, contact 250-342-6416 or visit invermere.bclibrary.ca.• 5 - 9 p.m.: Open mic night at the Summit Youth Centre.• 5:30 p.m.: DTSS Class of 2014 Grand March, starting just above the post offi ce and proceeding past the Cenotaph and over to the curling rink. Come out and see the Class of 2014 dressed in their fi nest and send them a com-munity congratulations.• 7 - 9 p.m.: Artist’s Opening at Pynelogs. Show features art-ists John Niddrie, Gerry George, Tom Symington, Bill DesBrisay, Graham Fowler, Brittney Lintick, Cathy Parkes and Stacy Fair. Show runs June 24th to July 6th.

26TH : THURSDAY• 7:45 - 8:45 a.m.: Sun Riser Yoga at the Community Greenhouse, pre-sented by Groundswell. By dona-tion. Visit: groundswellnetwork.ca/events-calendar.• 11 a.m.: Glass-blowing demon-strations at Bavin Glassworks, ev-ery Thursday until July 3rd. Come in for a chance to win the demo piece. For more info, check out bavinglass.com.• 12 - 1 p.m.: Ask a Librarian / Drop-in tech support at the Invermere Public Library. Every Thursday. For more info, go to invermere.bclibrary.ca.• 5 - 9 p.m.: Cartoon night at the Summit Youth Centre.• 7 p.m.: Morgan Macdonald and Corinna Rose perform live at Strand’s. Visit morganmacdonald.

ca and corinnarose.com. $8 cover.

27TH : FRIDAY• 4 - 9 p.m.: Market on Main, Radium.• 5 - p.m.: Maya Eventov exhi-bition at Artym Gallery. Artist will be in attendance. Show con-tinues until July 4th. Check out artymgallery.com.• 6 - 11 p.m.: Volleyball at Kinsmen Beach with the Summit Youth Centre.• 7 - 9 p.m.: Swanee & Cronin per-form at Music on Main, Radium. • Opening day for Panorama’s bike park, climbing wall, and oth-er summer activities. Check out panoramaresort.com.• Fairmont Lions Clubs Hole-in-One Challenge, every weekend (Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday) from May to September. Hole #8 at Riverside Golf Course. Entry fee $5.

28TH : SATURDAY• 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.: New work from Balgonie, SK artist Kimberly Kiel will be on display at Effusion Art Gallery. For more info, go to effusionartgallery.com.• 6 - 11 p.m.: Hang out night at the Summit Youth Centre.• 7 - 9 p.m.: Siofri perform at Mu-sic on Main, Radium.• 7-9 p.m.: Faces of Ethiopia, a pho-tographic presentation by John Ni-ddrie from his recent trek in north central Ethiopia. At Pynelogs, $2 admission goes to the Partners of the Horn of Africa. Cash bar. Gal-lery show continues at Pynelogs from June 24th to July 6th.• 7 - 9 p.m.: Legend Nights at Lake-shore Resort and Campground. Listen to Ktunaxa legends as told by a First Nation Elder. Free, open to the public, traditional food available for purchase. Also July 12th and 26th, and August 2nd, 23rd and 30th. • Cyclists from GearUp4CF arrive in Invermere. GearUp4CF is a 9 day, 1,200 km bike ride from White Rock to Banff, raising money for Cystic Fibrosis. Cyclists will leave at 8 a.m. June 29th for Banff. Visit cfvancou-ver.ca/home/events/gearup4cf for more information.

29TH : SUNDAY• 7:30 - 10:30 a.m.: Wildsight’s fi rst Wild Nature Tour of the season. Cam Gillies, local birding expert, will be taking 10 people to the wetlands below Fairmont. For details and to register, visit wildnaturetours.ca.• 9 a.m.: Radium 333 Sporting Clays at the Lake Windermere Dis-

trict Rod & Gun Club. 220 targets Saturday, 113 targets Sun-day. Pump, SxS, Subgauge 5-stand July 1st (tentative). Registration opens 9 a.m., safety briefi ng at 9:45 a.m. For info and pre-registra-tion, visit lwdrodgun.com.• 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Art workshops at Black Star Studios. Ages 5 - 99. $28 for 1 hour workshop. Work-shops daily from June 29th - August 31st. Workshop topics include: Puppet - making, plaster sculpture, paper mache, air-dry clay, fi mo, col-lage, and painting. Go online (black-starstudios.ca/workshops) or call 250-342-6663 for the full schedule and to sign up. • 2 - 5 p.m.: Pat and Doris Kavana-gh’s 60th Anniversary Open House at Copper Point Resort.

30TH : MONDAY• Dusk: Canada Day Fireworks in Canal Flats at Tilley Memorial Park. Cake will be served to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the incorpora-tion of the Village of Canal Flats.

1ST : TUESDAY• 12:01 a.m.: Annual Kinsmen Club of Windermere Valley Fireworks. Best places to watch are beside Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena, Lakeview Road on east side of lake, James Chabot Beach.• 11a.m.: Annual Canada Day Pa-rade in downtown Invermere.• 12 - 3 p.m.: 10th Annual Moun-tain Mosaic Festival of the Arts. A free Canada Day festival for the whole family at Kinsmen Beach following the Canada Day Parade. Live entertainment, art tents, food kiosks and more. Visit co-lumbiavalleyarts.com.• 3 p.m.: Annual Build-a-Boat con-test, hosted by the Windermere Fire Department, at Kinsmen Beach.

JULY 2nd - 8th

2ND : WEDNESDAY• 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Adventure Radium. Ages 5-8 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m., Ages 8+ 1 - 3:30 p.m.. Meet at Brent’s Shack (near the skating rink/ball park); registration forms available online, radiumhotsprings.ca, or at the Village Offi ce. $5 drop-in fee/child, $25 summer fee/child, $50 family fee (3 or more). Runs Tuesday through Thursday, every week from July 2nd to August 21st.

3RD : THURSDAY• 11th annual Horsethief Hideout Memorial Motorcycle Rally, July 3rd - 6th. Live music nightly, golf tour-nament, vendors, time trials, poker run, camping available. Everyone welcome, no bike necessary. Full de-tails at horsethiefhideout.com.

4TH : FRIDAY• 9 - 11:30 a.m.: 5th annual cowboy breakfast. All proceeds donated to the Radium Fire Department. Visit radiumhotsprings.ca.• 4 - 9 p.m.: Market on Main, Radium.• 6 - 9 p.m.: Wine and appies with jewellery artist Karyn Chopik at Effusion Art Gallery. For more info, go to effusionartgallery.com.• 7 - 9 p.m.: Music on Main, Radium.

5TH : SATURDAY• 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Vancouver art-ist Sharon Quirke will show new work while creating on-site at Ef-fusion Art Gallery.


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The Columbia Valley Com-munity Directed Funds

(CVCDF) Committee held its most recent meeting on June 16th. The committee is com-prised of the five Columbia Val-ley Regional District of East Koo-tenay (RDEK) directors (three mayors, electoral Area F director and electoral Area G Director). In addition, we have five appointed community members from the Columbia Valley. Currently, I am the chair of this committee and Dee Conkin is the vice-chair.

The committee’s mission is to guide the al-location of funding valley-wide (Canal Flats to Spillimacheen). Its priorities are determined through the inclusive community consultation.

The committee completed the Commu-nity Priorities Plan in December 2013, which identified the top five priorities: 1. Branding, marketing and promotion; 2. Economic de-velopment and business growth; 3. Afford-

able housing; 4. Recreation; and 5. Arts and culture.

The CVCDF Program is funded by Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) and administered by the RDEK. The funding is $200,000 per year for three years and we are cur-rently completing our second year. The CVCDF program was the first of its kind in the basin. There are now several new di-rected funds programs in the ba-

sin and it can be said that the work and effort the CVCDF committee members have put into this program has paved the way for other com-munities. In addition to the regular business of monitoring existing projects we have funded, at our June 16th meeting, the committee re-ceived a report about Columbia Valley Visitor Services. This report outlined the existing fund-ing models for visitors services and provided recommendations for amalgamation of them. The key here is a fair and equitable funding

formula that works valley-wide. While the work of the committee is complete at this time, the next step is for me to present the report to the Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Radium Chamber of Commerce, the Fairmont Business Association, and municipal councils.

In following our number one priority of “Branding, Marketing and Promotion,” the com-mittee allocated $23,400 to the Columbia Val-ley Chamber of Commerce. These funds are to go towards the following projects; Summer Marketing Video for $8,400, Event/Conference Planner Familiarity Trip for $8,000, and $7,000 towards Marketing Co-ordination for Guinness World Record Achievement.

Sadly, we will be losing one of our community members as Andi Dzilums will be leaving the valley at the end of the month. We wish him and his family all the best.

Wendy Booth is the Regional District of East Kootenay Director for Area F and the RDEK board’s vice chair. Contact her at [email protected] or 250-345-6155.

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The FIFA World Cup in Brazil is halfway done, and even if you aren’t a soccer fan,

that’s still no reason not to catch any of the international action in the final two weeks.

Despite Canada’s absence from the tourna-ment (which comes as no surprise; the one and only time our True North Strong and Free participated was in 1986), CBC is doing a fantastic job — as always — covering the event, the games and the players.

But they’ve truly outdone themselves this time around. Maybe it’s the inspiration of Brazil with its wildly colourful Amazon and

culture. The visual elements in between game footage, the special effects on the screen highlighting instant replays, and the eye-catching sports desk boasting some of the best announcers in the country all con-tribute to a multi-media delight that makes the most of what technology today has to offer. Stream a game live over the internet, and you can learn all about the players, the teams, their strategies and the game stats as they happen thanks to a handy tool bar at the top of your computer screen. Before you know it, you’ll be immersed in the storytell-ing leading up to the question that is grip-ping billions around the world: which coun-try’s team is going to win?

Aside from the creative bonanza this glob-al event offers, this World Cup is exploding with passion and drama. Like actors on a stage, the players exude their ecstasy or suf-fer their agony for all the world to see in the 12 soccer stadiums that serve as the venues.

And at this point in the tournament, the world’s most outstanding soccer stars are starting to emerge with some of the most skillful ball handling, strategy and strength ever displayed on a soccer pitch.

If that’s not enough to win you over, you might simply enjoy the feeling of being part of a world-wide celebration that is bringing cultures from around the world to one joyful common ground.

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I’m going to be attending the fi reworks. I go every year — it’s great to be out and about with a bunch of people.”

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This has been a spring full of serious and important

issues that have caused British Columbians to speak out very loudly against the actions of the B.C. Liberal government. One of the issues that caused the greatest number of emails to my offi ce this spring is the government’s plan to further privatize our public lands through Tree Farm Licence (TFL) rollovers.

When the BC Liberals fi rst proposed the TFL rollover legislation prior to the 2013 election, they were forced to back down because of overwhelmingly negative public reaction. But they were determined to press ahead. After the election, they promised that, ahead of re-ta-bling TFL rollover legislation, they would con-duct a province-wide, authentic consultation.

Instead of the wide-ranging consultative pro-cess that was promised, the government sim-ply offered an opportunity for British Colum-bians to submit their thoughts online. Those of us who want to keep our lands in public hands took the opportunity to send another strong message to government.

At the close of the consultation period, ap-proximately 4,225 submissions were recorded. Of them, 4,185 reject the government’s plan for

privatization, approximately 25 are neutral, and only 15 clearly support the government’s agenda.

As the Critic for Forests, I also re-ceived most of these submissions and many hundreds of these emails came from Kootenay residents. But there was also a very large contin-gent of these emails that came from people in other parts of the world.

Because B.C. relies on internation-al markets for its wood products

and these markets value wood products that are harvested sustainably, any changes here that shake the confi dence of the international market in our environmental standards puts our industry at risk.

The CEO of Canfor, a corporation that employs so many in our area, has come out strongly against the proposal for just this reason stating that”‘the risk of aligning the public against B.C.’s largest forest companies” is just too high.

We cannot lose public control of our lands, of our forests. TFL rollover legislation threatens our ability to sell our products, it gives away our public lands through back-room deals, and it is environmentally irresponsible.

Norm Macdonald is the NDP MLA for Co-lumbia River Revelstoke. He can be reached by phone at 1-866-870-4188 and by email at [email protected].

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Last week, Elon Musk, the founder of

SpaceX and Tesla, made all Tesla’s patents avail-able online for free to encourage innovation in the electric car in-dustry. By working with other auto manufactur-ers, rather than going it alone and trying to ham-per the progress of com-petitors with the patent stranglehold, he is in fact saying, copy our stuff: “Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous fl ood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.”

Electric cars make up less than one per cent of vehicle sales today.

As a resident of a town that is joined at the hip to the success of Calgary’s oil industry, one wonders if electric cars will be good for Invermere. In my view, people will travel more and further with their much cheaper per kilometre (self-driving) electric car than their expensive gas guzzler, so places like Invermere will actu-ally benefi t. Take note, Musk knows

a thing or two, proven by Tesla stocks’ 625 per cent gain in value, mak-ing this PayPal founder the 140th richest man in the world.

About three years ago, Invermere installed its fi rst two electric car plug in points at the District of Invermere Offi ce and at Kicking

Horse Coffee, which you can fi nd at plugshare.com. Musk has followed the lead of the open source software movement in removing patents in an effort to grow the technology, which he is undoubtedly king of. Less law-yers, more innovation. In fact, the best thing to ever come out of a U.S. patent offi ce was Albert Einstein, who used his idle time there as a clerk to dream up the General Theory of Relativity.

Last month, Google released to the public videos of their fi rst driverless, steering wheel-less, pedal-less car. They expect to begin road trials within two years. Their existing fl eet of modifi ed driverless cars have already clocked up 700,000 miles, accident-free.

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A few things have changed since the last all-out teacher strike in B.C.

That was just two years ago, when the B.C. Teachers’ Fed-eration was coming off its second-ever voluntary agreement with a 16 per cent raise over five years and what the union termed an “enhanced” signing bonus of $4,000. Even with special teacher-only top-ups, BCTF members almost rejected the last of the government’s big-spending pre-Olympic labour deals signed in 2006.

By 2012, outraged teachers were back on the legislature lawn, howling for another 16 per cent, with backup vocals provided as usual by HEU, CUPE, BCGEU and other public sector unions that settled for less. Teachers had just sailed through a crippling global recession with a series of raises, but were oblivious to all that.

Last week the protest venue switched to Vancouver, where both the crowd and the demands looked a bit thinner. The signing bonus target is up to $5,000, but the raise is a mere eight per cent over five years (compounded, for those who passed math), plus another huge basket of cash disguised as benefit improvements and so forth. Government negotiators put teachers’ total compensation demand at 14.5 per cent.

One obvious dodge: they want the bottom two steps of the teacher salary grid dropped. That’s simply a raise for entry-level teachers. Ad-mittedly those are rare creatures these days with shrinking enrolment and ironclad seniority rules that allow retired teachers to monopolize substitute work.

Something else that’s changed since 2012 is that the government has granted the BCTF’s wish to bargain directly with the province. The edu-cation ministry executed a takeover of the B.C. Public School Employ-ers’ Association after last year’s election, and installed veteran industri-al union negotiator Peter Cameron. He’s backed up by long-time labour specialist Lee Doney, whose task is to keep the teacher deal within Trea-

sury Board limits that have defined all other public sector union settlements.

Doney made it clear last week that no mediator is going to come in and “split the baby” as long as the BCTF position is so far beyond the current compensa-tion framework.

Despite constant union complaints of low wages and deteriorating working conditions in B.C. schools, education grads remain lined up around the block hoping to get in. Why is that?

For those who have been exposed to life outside school for a while, it’s fairly simple. The job market out

here in the real world is tough. And here’s how the real world evaluates a teaching job.

Start with 189 working days, each nine hours long as per the accept-ed definition, and the top-heavy seniority list that places the average teacher salary at around $72,000 a year. That works out to $42.32 an hour, plus a suite of benefits that most private sector employees can only dream about, starting with three months of prime-time vacation.

I am occasionally lectured by teachers that the job goes far beyond five hours in the classroom and an additional four hours a day prepar-ing and marking. They throw out different estimates, variously defined. Alas, it’s a salaried job, and we salaried employees in the real world don’t waste a lot of time counting hours. Here’s the work, here’s the deadline, here’s the pay. Take it or leave it.

Consider another union demand that seems to be just another thinly disguised raise. The BCTF wants a large increase in preparation time for elementary school. There are no duties being added here. For this one item, government negotiators calculate the cost to taxpayers at $86.2 million every year by the fifth year of the BCTF proposal.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Find him on Twitter @tomfletcherbc or by email at [email protected].

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I find it curious that council deems the library not worthy of a first phase in the pro-posed new community hall. Historically, libraries have al-ways been attacked. Ancient Romans destroyed the fine library situated in Alexandria. Vikings sacked monastic li-braries. Crusaders ransacked the repository of ancient Greek books in the library at Constantinople. Nazis burned books in more recent times and now electronic machines attempt to make books obso-lete. Those who love to read will tell you that, by holding a book and turning the pages of an absorbing or gripping story, one will experience a variety of emotions that cannot be seen on an illuminated plastic screen.

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Tesla is planning on having its to-be-released AWD SUV, the Tesla Model X with self-driving capability, ready for production by 2019. If you haven’t already seen some Teslas on the road, there will like-ly be more as Tesla expands its empire into Calgary later in the summer, giving you a taste for technology that has been around for much longer than the Model T. In fact, the world’s first speed-ing citation and imprisonment was issued by a bicycle-riding cop to an electric taxi in New York in 1899 for going 19 kilometres per hour, a whopping six kilometres per hour over the speed limit.

Maybe with quantum injections of innovation like what Tesla has exhibited, the robots will be beating the humans in the FIFA World Cup much sooner than the anticipated 2050.

Rob Orchiston is a software programmer who lives in Invermere and stays on top of the latest trends in technology. Email any Science and Technology questions or comments to [email protected].

The Blue Dog cafe touts its authenti-

cally cool and untra-ditional wholesome food on its website, saying carnivores and vegetarians alike will enjoy their fare.

The Blue Dog opened in 1998, of-fering good soup and sandwiches. Through the years, the menu has expanded greatly and today you’ll find it artis-tically written out on a chalkboard. There’s a nice variety of healthy items available and they prepare just about everything in their res-taurant in-house. There’s even good eats for kids of all ages, including peanut butter and jam sandwiches. The cafe is also licensed and make all the fancy coffees you’d expect.

Just by chance, we or-dered a meat-free lunch and loved it. The special was a corn and cheese frittata with a choice of soup, salad or corn chips. A frittata is an Italian-style flat omelet that’s baked in a skillet. It was so good, accompanied by a light, fresh sal-ad dressed in a dill yogurt dressing. Good coffee, too.

A healthy, filling and full-of-pro-tein falafel pita served with Flo-rentine soup was equally good. The soup was thick with potatoes and spinach. Everything was re-ally fresh. That goes for everything here — tasty and freshly made. It

all went down well with a cream soda from Grizzly Paw in Canmore.

Behaving for a change, we did not indulge in their home-made desserts. From past experience though, we can vouch for how yummy those are. Did we mention

good coffee? The Blue Dog serves organic and fair trade coffee from Kicking Horse Coffee. Free refills are a nice bonus, particularly if you have time to stay and visit with friends and family in the cheerful, sunny room. It was full of moms, babies and grand-parents. We had a lot of fun entertain-ing babies with our funny faces. There

was a steady stream of people coming and go-ing. It’s a bustling, busy place, but our food arrived quickly and the service was great.

This is a nice community restau-rant with the work of local artists featured on the walls, a community board loaded up with info, reading material available and a computer for the use of their customers. The small, shady patio in the back is a nice spot, particularly for the lovely summer days coming up.

Authentic, great food in a warm, happy place is what the Blue Dog is all about.

The Blue Dog Cafe is located at 1213 7th Ave in Invermere and can be reached at 250-342-3814.

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Clockwise from top: Attendees give their full at-tention at Look Outside hosted by Wildsight at the CPR Lodge on Tuesday, June 16th (Photo by Pat Morrow); Jay Stovell and Sylvia Power from The Edgewater Collective perform live at Look Out-side on Tuesday, June 16th; Gage Cullen, left, and Jeremy Stevens enjoy the festivities at the Shus-wap Band’s National Aboriginal Day celebration on Saturday, June 21st; Enthusiastic bikers race down Main Street during the 4th annual Branch Out Bike Tour on Saturday, June 21st; Colleen Wagner, left, Meghan O’Neill, centre, and Sheila Tutty enjoy a heartfelt moment during the Sum-mer KickOff Party at the Inveremere Community Hall on Saturday, June 21st; Billy “Rubadub” Rob-ideau, left, and Eric “Captain E’merica” McLaugh-lin of the Invermere Fire Department serve a few during the Summer Kickoff Party on Saturday, June 21st. PHOTOS BY ERIN KNUTSON


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Kinsmen Club of Windermere Valley FireworksEast of Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena (Above the Lake), 12:01 a.m.The best places to watch are beside the Eddie Mountain Memorial Arena, Lakeview Road on the east side of Lake Windermere, James Chabot Beach at the north end of the lake, or from an anchored boat.

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Mountain Mosaic Festival of the ArtsKinsmen Beach, 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.Free Festival for the whole family following the Canada Day Parade in downtown Invermere at 11 a.m. Enjoy the Home Hardware Festival Stage featuring live entertainment by Dani-Lynn, A Muse Troupe, and Zumba by Julie Parent. Art tents, build a boat with the Windermere Fire Department, clowns, bouncy castles, food kiosks and more. Participate in the Transformation Station with tattoos, face painting and hair dooz. Visit www.columbiavalleyarts.com for information.

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This June is the month of “powerhouse” artists at the Artym Gallery! Follow-ing on the heels of an amazing show by valley favourite, Angela Morgan, the show that opens this Friday is by internationally renowned painter Maya Eventov.

What sets painter Maya Eventov apart is her impeccable sense of colour. With very formal training, one would expect a working knowledge of colour theory; Maya’s pieces leap off the canvases with their vibrancy and strength. Every stroke of her palate knife leaves a plethora of colour in its wake, creating as much visual interest upon close inspection as the viewer experiences in the piece as a whole from a distance.

Maya is most well-known for her birch tree paintings. She works in series, so she has a series of paintings of day birch, a series at night, some in calming grey tones, and a series with the perspective of looking up from the ground into the heights of the birch branches.

She is most recently working on an abstract landscape series, and there will also be some pieces from her more established Mediterranean patio series, and her very popular fi elds of poppies or daisies. Also, look for a few surprises, such as cut fl owers, or lily pads!

Maya Eventov’s work can be found all over the world, but the Artym Gallery in Invermere remains one of the most successful representors of her original pieces. Having carried her work for as long as it has been open (close to 14 years!) the gallery is pleased to bring out this Toronto artist every two years. Her feature exhibitions, however, remain an annual affair.

Take this opportunity to meet this famed artist in person this weekend at the Artym Gallery. The show will be on the walls for the opening reception on Friday evening from 5 to 8 p.m., and will be in full swing Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with Maya in attendance the whole time.

If you can’t make it down (though you really should), you can see her work online at artymgallery.com .

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Imagine Invermere Community Sustainability Plan

GRANT OPPORTUNITIESInvermere – What kind of community would you like Invermere to be in the future? How can we get there together? What are the steps we can take right now?

These questions were used to create Invermere’s Integrated Community Sustainability Plan, known as Imagine Invermere. The plan was adopted in 2011, and a committee was formed to help move it forward. This committee, called the Imagine Invermere Implementation Team, has been working hard, and several exciting projects have been completed or are underway.

One of the Team’s goals is to develop partnerships within the community with engaged citizens and community groups who are inspired to work together on initiatives that create a sustainable future.

To help these partnerships happen, the Team, along with the District of Invermere, is excited to announce the second grant stream intake of the Imagine Invermere granting program aimed at providing funding for projects that support the initiatives of the Imagine Invermere vision.

Funding is available and will be awarded annually to registered not-for-pro� t societies or unincorporated local community associations, groups and service clubs who wish to further sustainability as outlined in the Imagine Invermere plan.

The Imagine Invermere Implementation Team is now accepting Letters of Intent from groups interested in accessing the partnership fund. It is important that any proposals align well with the priorities in Imagine Invermere. The complete document can be found online at http://imagineinvermere.ca/

Letters of Intent will be accepted up to June 30, 2014 at the District o� ce, Box 339, 914 8th Avenue, V0A 1K0, or by email at [email protected]

For more information, please contact Rory Hromadnik at the District of Invermere, 250-342-9281, extension 1235, [email protected], or Councillor Spring Hawes [email protected].

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Workshops are an interesting and creative way to keep kids inspired and motivated this summer, and an excellent way to tap into your own creativity. They give you an opportunity to improve old skills or explore new ones in a con-trolled, safe and guided setting. With bright, sunny mornings and long afternoons to fill over the hot months of summer, you’ll find signing up for a workshop will keep you cool, relaxed, and inspired.

Black Star Studios hosts a number of hour-long and two-day workshops for chil-dren. They include the use of paper maché, fimo and watercolour paints. Guest artists will be running classes for youth 12 and up. Moccasin workshops, portrait workshops, zen tangles, collage and mixed media workshops, and even bead string-ing will be available over the summer.

Five-day art camps are also available with limited room, so be sure to sign up soon! To sign up, call Black Star Studios at 250-342-6663.

Robyn Oliver, artist and high school art teacher, has a selection of half-day camps running from July 28th to August 1st, and again from August 11th to 15th. Camps are held Monday through Friday with the days split into two age groups. Activities include drawing, painting, tie-dye and working with clay.

To sign up, call Robyn at 250-341-7890.

Cathy Parkes, local painter and long-time animator, runs life-drawing classes out of Pynelogs on Wednesday evenings. These workshops will provide inspira-tion, challenge and focus to hone your hand-eye co-ordination, and to better understanding light and form. There is limited space so sign up early by calling Pynelogs at 250-342-4423.

Mirja Vahala, a Calgary-based painter and painting instructor, will be holding an acrylic painting workshop that runs July 18th to 20th at Pynelogs. She’ll be giving step-by-step instruction on how to work with and care for your brushes, the technical application of paints, and colour theory. The workshop culminates in a finishes

piece. The workshop is $199 (plus GST) and can be purchased also by calling Pynelogs.

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LIBRARIES from A8

Books give something back to the Earth by decomposing that illuminated plastic can-not. Books can become priceless while illuminated plastic is simply thrown away once outdated. A library in a community speaks volumes (no pun intended) about the people who live there. A library gives a sense of permanence so lacking in a rapidly changing world. A library can still produce awe by its sheer numbers of volumes and success of authors who have been published. Sure, fitness centres have a role to play, especially for couch potatoes and those who sit behind computers all day, but a library is for all, agile or otherwise.Young or very old. Amen.

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Local artist and high school art teacher Robyn Oliver is running one of the many pro-grams taking place this summer. FILE PhOtO


60th Anniversary Celebration

The family of Pat and Doris Kavanagh invite all of Pat and Doris’s friends to join them in celebrating 60 years of marriage!

OPEN HOUSE Sunday, June 29th, 2014

2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Copper Point Resort

(760 Cooper Road, Invermere)

Please no gifts - your presence is the best gift!

Dan [email protected]

Deep into their studies, three post-graduate students from the University of Mis-sissippi have spent three weeks in the valley to learn about local efforts being made to restore sensitive ecosystems.

Megan Overlander from Minnesota is working towards earning her Master’s de-gree, Diana Mullich is studying towards her PhD in Biology, and Ann Rasmussen from Tennessee is also working towards her Master’s.

They spent three weeks in May and June living and studying in the valley through the Rocky Mountain Trench Ecosystem Restoration Program, which has been accredited by the United Nations.

Last month’s visit was the second time that international students studied lo-cally through the program.

“This is a great example of collaboration,” said Al Neal, strategic planning lead-er for BC Ecosystem Restoration. “We showed them expertise from all different angles.”

The students were submerged in practices involving as many of the program’s partner groups and stakeholders as possible, Mr. Neal said.

“It’s all part of our outreach — interaction is most important for them,” he said.“They sent us here to learn from the best,” said Ms. Overlander.While learning about the valley’s ecology, she was surprised how different the

effects of fires are here compared to the ecosystems only a few hundred kilome-tres south.

Because of changes in climate trends, Ms. Mullich is eager to learn how ecosys-tems will change in mountainous terrains.

“The Rocky Mountain Trench is the northern extent of many reptile habitats,” she said. “I’m interested to see how mountains will adapt to rising temperature

trends.”It’s a researcher’s dream to witness the un-

folding of major changes, Ms. Mullich said.Ms. Rasmussen was most fascinated to learn

about the species of trees affecting burning and restoration efforts, and said that North-western North America holds very unique ecosystems. She was also impressed by the amount of citizen involvement that goes on in the valley with restoration.

“These are future leaders in the United States restoration field,” Mr. Neal said. “We have to make sure we’re knowledgeably mov-ing forward with it.”

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WINDERMERE VALLEY SHARED MINISTRYANGLICAN-UNITED

250-342-6644100-7th Avenue, Invermere

www.wvsm.ca Reverend Laura Hermakin

Sunday, June 29th9:30 a.m.

Bacon, Friends & Faith at Christ Church Trinity

10:30 a.m.: Worship at Christ Church

Trinity, Invermere

Everyone Welcome!

CANADIAN MARTYRSCATHOLIC CHURCH

Roman Catholic ParishPastor: Father Gabriel

250-342-6167 Invermere250-344-6328 Golden

Confession: 1/2 hour before MassCanadian Martyrs Church

712 - 12 Ave, InvermereSaturday at 5 p.m.Sunday at 9 a.m.

St. Joseph’s ChurchHighway 93-95, Radium Hot Springs

Sunday at 11 a.m.Sacred Heart Parish

808 - 11 Street, GoldenSaturday at 7 p.m.Sunday at 10 a.m.

St. Anthony’s MissionCorner of Luck and Dunn, Canal Flats

Saturday at 4:30 p.m. (served from Kimberly)

RADIUM CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

For more information call 250-342-6633 or 250-347-6334

Loving God, Loving People

#4 - 7553 Main Street W, Radium

Sundays at 10 a.m.

Bible Studies#4 - 7553 Main Street W,

Radium Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

Kids’ Church Edgewater Hall

Thursday 6:30 p.m.

LAKE WINDERMEREALLIANCE CHURCH

326 - 10th Ave. 250-342-9535REV. TREVOR HAGAN

Senior Pastorwww.lakewindermerealliance.org

Sunday, June 29th10:30 a.m.

Worship And Life Instruction “Love Is A Verb …

Jesus Proved It” Summer Intern

Nathan Hildenbrandt will be ministering.

Everyone Welcome!

VALLEY CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY

Hwy. 93/95 1 km northof Windermere

Pastor:Murray Wittke

Sunday Service10 a.m. Worship & Word

Kid’s Church Provided

Call the office at 250-342-9511for more information.

www.valleychristianonline.com

Sharing TruthShowing Love

Following the Spirit

ST. PETER’SLUTHERAN MISSION

OF INVERMERE

Worship Servicesevery Sundayat 1:30 p.m.

at Christ Church Trinity110 - 7th Avenue,

Invermere

Pastor Rev. Fraser ColtmanPastor Rev. David Morton

250-426-7564

CHURCH SERVICES DIRECTORY

KEITH RAYMOND EBBERNFebruary 9th, 1926 - June 20th, 2014

On the evening of June 20th, 2014, Keith Raymond Ebbern passed away peacefully of natural causes in Invermere, BC. Keith was 88 years old. He is survived by his wife of 63.5 years, Elizabeth Ebbern and their five children and spouses: Stephen (Judy), Jane (Kevin), Laura Donatelli (Terry), Thomas (Linda) and Andrew (Diana) as well as by 8 grandchildren and a first great-grandchild expected this week. He is predeceased by his four sisters: Evelyn, Muriel, Gwendolyn (who died in childhood), and Mildred.

Keith was born in the small town of Alexander, Manitoba on February 9th, 1926. He was the fifth child and first son of Lucy and Thomas Ebbern. He moved almost every year for his first 16 years as his father worked in contract teaching and principal positions throughout Manitoba. He was a bright student and did his first year of civil engineering at the University of Manitoba at age 17.

Then at age 18 in the summer of 1944, he enrolled in the Royal Canadian Air Force as he was keen on becoming a pilot. However, by November of that year, it was clear that more pilots were not needed and he switched to the army, and was just completing training when peace was reached in August of 1945. He returned to his studies at the University of Manitoba and completed his degree in 1948. He then did a one year Master of Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1949. While in Toronto, he corresponded a lot with the lovely Elizabeth (Liz) Guest of Winnipeg, whom he had met at the Young Street United Church several years earlier. Keith returned to Winnipeg and started working for Dominion Bridge in their drafting office and married Liz in November 1950.

Keith spent his entire 38-year career with Dominion Bridge, being promoted quickly into management positions in Montreal, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto and Calgary. He retired in 1986 as Chief Operating Officer of Western Canada.

During his retirement, Keith took three 30-60 day management assignments from CESO (Canadian Executive Services Overseas) in Panama, Romania and Czechoslovakia. He and Liz also travelled extensively and started their retirement with an around-the-world trip.

Though Keith never did become an RCAF pilot, he learned how to fly at age 49 and, for the next almost 25 years, he owned a plane. He looked for every excuse to fly: search and rescue, long trips up north, vacations south in winter to see snowbird friends, or just afternoon joy rides over his beloved mountains.

Keith and Liz custom built a lovely vacation home in Fairmont Hot Springs in the Columbia valley, BC and they moved there permanently in1989. Keith loved having great ski slopes and golf courses nearby and continued enjoying both till age 80. Having the Fairmont airport a 5-minute drive away was a huge plus. Keith also found time to research, write and publish a family history book called “My Family and Me: A Story of Two Pioneer Canadian Families: Troops and Ebberns 1750-2010”. Keith and Liz developed a strong group of Columbia Valley friends both in Fairmont and Invermere, and when declining health became a challenge, they relocated to Invermere in 2012.

He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Services are being held at Christ Church Trinity (Windermere Valley Shared Ministry), 110 7th Avenue, Invermere on June 27th at 2pm.

If friends so desire, in lieu of flowers please make a donation in Keith’s name to a charity of your choice.

Cornelus (Casey) SchefferMarch 15, 1921 – June 20, 2014

Casey passed away peacefully at the age of 93 in Invermere.

His family preserves the memories of his infectious humor and personality. Casey always had a friendly smile to share with

everyone. His family values and his faith were strong and steadfast. We will miss the head of our family.

Casey’s family was featured in a story written by Elinor Florence about his heroic family from Holland that hid a Jewish family during the Second World War. His parents were honored with the Righteous Among the Nations recognition for their bravery and conviction.

Born in Nijverdal, Holland, Casey immigrated to Canada with his family in 1951 after the Second World War. His family settled in Alberta and Casey moved to Kimberley, BC where he met the love of his life, Toni Scheffer another dutch immigrant. They bought the Kimberley City Bakery in 1960 and raised three sons and a daughter. They spent part of their retired years at Wasa Lake, Cranbrook and then moved to Invermere in 2003 to be closer to their family.

Casey is survived by his wife Toni, of 62 years, his sons Arnold (Donna), Pieter (Cathy), Andy (Sony) & daughter, Jami. He was an Opa to 10 grandchildren, and 8 great grandchildren. He leaves behind his younger brother and sister.

For those that would like to celebrate the amazing life of Casey, please join his family at the Fairmont Cemetery on Saturday June 28th at ???? pm and at Pynelogs Cultural Centre in Invermere at 5:30 pm for the Funeral and Celebration of Life

In lieu of flowers, donations will contribute to a Bench in honor of Casey. For any more information please call 250.342.5330

Celebrations

11th Annual Horsethief

Hideout Memorial Motorcycle Rally Thursday, July 3rd -

Sunday July 6th Invermere ( Westside

Road, north of Wilmer ) Golf Tournament, Time

Trials, Poker Run, Bike Games.

Live bands nightly from 8:00 pm - 2:00 am.

Door prizes, free camping. $50.00 per person for the

entire weekend. EVERYONE Welcome ! You don't even have to

own a bike! Check us out at

horsethiefhideout.com for more details

60th Anniversary Celebration

The family of Pat and Doris Kavanagh invite all of Pat and Doris’s friends to join

them in celebrating 60 years of marriage! OPEN HOUSE, Sunday, June 29, 2014 from 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the Copper Point Resort (760 Cooper Road, Invermere).

Please no gifts - your presence is the best gift!

Coming Events

Coming Events Personals Business Opportunities

Obituaries

In Memoriam:Jason Ashley Slovack

1968 – 2014Please join family and friends in a

Celebration Of Jason’s Life on:

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 2:00 pm

Waterton Park United Church108 - Clematis Avenue

Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

Arrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service.

Condolences for the family can be offered at:www.mcphersonfh.com

Open HouseJune 28th

Starting at 9 a.m.Join us for free hotdogs

and drinks at lunch

Information

Al-Anon - Are you con-cerned about or affected by someone else’s drinking? If so, please join us. Al-Anon meets EVERY Monday in Invermere at 7:15 PM at the Canadian Martyrs Catholic Church, 712 - 12th Ave, (be-hind the Invermere hospital). For information, please call 250-342-8255

ALCOHOLICS Anonymous - If alcohol is causing problems or confl ict in your life, AA can help. Call 250-342-2424 for more information. All meetings are at 8 p.m. Invermere: Satur-day, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday groups - Colum-bia United AA at the BC Ser-vices building, south end, 625 4th Street Invermere. Radium Friendship Group: Friday, Catholic Church. All meetings are open with the exception of Tuesdays.

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Cornelus (Casey) SchefferMarch 15, 1921 – June 20, 2014

Casey passed away peacefully at the age of 93 in Invermere.

His family preserves the memories of his infectious humor and personality. Casey always had a friendly smile to share with

everyone. His family values and his faith were strong and steadfast. We will miss the head of our family.

Casey’s family was featured in a story written by Elinor Florence about his heroic family from Holland that hid a Jewish family during the Second World War. His parents were honored with the Righteous Among the Nations recognition for their bravery and conviction.

Born in Nijverdal, Holland, Casey immigrated to Canada with his family in 1951 after the Second World War. His family settled in Alberta and Casey moved to Kimberley, BC where he met the love of his life, Toni Scheffer, another Dutch immigrant. They bought the Kimberley City Bakery in 1960 and raised three sons and a daughter. They spent part of their retired years at Wasa Lake, Cranbrook and then moved to Invermere in 2003 to be closer to their family.

Casey is survived by his wife Toni, of 62 years, his sons Arnold (Donna), Pieter (Cathy), Andy (Sony) & daughter, Jami. He was an Opa to 10 grandchildren, and 8 great grandchildren. He leaves behind his younger brother and sister.

For those that would like to celebrate the amazing life of Casey, please join his family at the Fairmont Hot Springs Cemetery on Saturday, June 28th at 2 pm, and at Pynelogs Cultural Centre in Invermere at 5:30 pm for the Funeral and Celebration of Life.

In lieu of flowers, donations will contribute to a Bench in honor of Casey. For any more information please call 250.342.5330

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Summer Student Visitor Centre

CounselorThe Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce is seeking an individual with an outgoing personality, good computer skills, knowledge of the Columbia Valley and transportation to and from work. Retail experience is an asset. Must be a fulltime student (Secondary or Post-secondary) and returning to full-time studies in the fall. Must be able to work weekends. Term of employment June 1st to August 31st. Please send resume with cover letter to [email protected], drop off at Visitor Centre or call 1-250-342-2844.

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Is this you?Looking to improve?Find a better Future!

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Now Hiring

A&W Restaurant, Invermere, has immediate openings for FULL-TIME permanent Food Counter Attendants.

4 Full-Time Day & Evening Positions – Kitchen and Front Counter (up to 40 hours/week)

$10.25 - $11.50/hr (based on experience)

We offer a friendly work environment, shared benefits plan, scholarship program and opportunities for advancement.

Successful applicants will be required to perform the following duties:

salads, milkshakes, portion and wrap food or place it on plates for service to patrons, package food for take-out orders, clean production area.

payment transactions, clean dining and front counter area.

standards for food safety and quality, and record keeping.

team members.

Please apply in person or online at www.aw.ca

Part and Full-time Positions Available

Start date: ASAPFood Service Supervisor

Permanent, ShiftJob Description Available in Store

7 positions availableNo education required

One to two years experience required.Nights/early mornings/weekends

$12.12/hour + medical/dental/group benefits.

Food Counter AttendantPermanent, Shift

Job Description Available in Store12 positions available

No education or experience required.Nights/overnights/early mornings/ weekends. $11.05/hour + medical/dental/group benefits.

Apply in person, via email ([email protected]) or by fax (250-341-3177) for both positions.

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ONLINE AUCTION CONDUCTED BY REAL STORAGE

Take notice that miscellaneous goods and chattels belonging to the following person(s) and stored at Real Storage LP (Windermere) will be sold due to unpaid charges:

Geordie Stevens

The sale will be on Saturday, July 5th, 2014 via an online auction through www.ibid4storage.com.

The goods may be viewed commencing on Wednes-day, June 25th, 2014. All bids are for the entire contents of the storage unit. Winning bidder will be contacted via iBid4storage.com for payment arrangements.

Groundswell Network Society’s

Annual General Meeting

Wednesday, June 25th 7 p.m. at the

Community Greenhouse

Come find out what’s happening with Groundswell, the Community

Greenhouse and Community Garden.

Career Opportunities

Help Wanted Financial Services Misc. for Sale Apt/Condo for Rent Auto Financing Auto Financing

2001 DODGE RAM 1500 2wd. Ext cab. 4 door. 233000km. Very clean. New w/s, tie rod end and ball joint. Drives like a dream. Very good fuel mile-age. $3000 obo 250 520 0262

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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.

Hiring: Assistant Operator, Lead Hand, Supervisor

Oilfi eld = opportunity = job = income = career Recruiting

rep. coming to these locations: Vernon –July 10,

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Invermere: Looking for extra income? Columbia Valley

Taxi is looking for a class 4 driver. Must have clear criminal record check,

drivers abstract and health check. Mostly late night driving. $15/hr plus tips. Phone 250-342-5262 or

250-341-3521

Vernon Service Company re-quires Journeyman Service Plumbers/Gasfi tters, $36.00/hr Call (250)549-4444 or fax 250-549-4416

INVERMERE PETRO CANADA

is currently acceptingapplications for full time and

part time employment. Apply in person to185 Laurier Street,

Invermere, BCbetween 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Medical/DentalCDA EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY in

INVERMEREOur Team is looking for a

Certifi ed Dental Assistant to join us in July 2014. We are

looking for a gentle, organized and motivated

person to work 4-5 days per week. Please fax/e-mail your resume to Dr. Pat O’Sullivan

at 250-342-3561 or [email protected]

Professional/Management

PRINCIPAL, St. Christopher’s Mon-tessori School, Victoria, BC, begin-ning August 2014. One of Victoria’s oldest and most established Mon-tessori Schools. Quaint two-class-room school house caters to 80 Pre-K and K children. Current BC teaching cert. or equiv.; min 5 yrs teaching; team & admin. leadership; excellent interpersonal skills; com-puter, budget & supervisory experi-ence. Montessori cert. highly de-sirable. Send CV by July 11, 2014 to [email protected].

Trades, TechnicalIMMEDIATE OPENINGS for a Journeyman Heavy Equipment Technician (Mechanic) with truck experience and also a trailer mechanic. Fax or email resume and references to: Calnash Trucking, Lac La Biche, 1-780-623-4051; [email protected].

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Home CareLakeview Meadows: Certifi ed Caregiver needed for 82 year old gent, for either Tuesdays or Wednesdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call Mary Ann at 250-342-0743.

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Merchandise for Sale

AuctionsAUCTION. Commercial Pic-ture Framing Equip & Invento-ry. July 5th, 11 AM, On Site Kelowna. (250)545-3259 doddsauction.com

Misc. for SaleA- STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’ 53’ and insulated containers all

sizes in stock. SPECIAL

Trades are welcome.40’ Containers under $2500!

Also JD 544 &644 wheel Loaders

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A look back through � e Valley Echo's archives over the last 55 years

REMEMBER WHEN?

55 years ago (1959): Famed Sinclair Can-

yon was sold to Her Maj-esty the Queen in Right of Canada for Kootenay Na-tional Park with � fty acres of land.

50 years ago (1964): Hockey star “Red”

Hays pitched the � rst ball to 10-year-old batter John Futa in Invermere to cele-brate the opening of the ball � eld.

40 years ago (1974): Warren Lloyd of

Calgary arrived in Inver-mere for his second year as lifeguard at the Kinsmen Beach. Assisting him that year were two local youths, Buddy Dearin and Donald Tegart.

30 years ago (1984): Jim Miller and Pete

Furgeson formed a new partnership, operating Sun Valley Auto Body together in Invermere’s Industrial Park.

20 years ago (1994): Invermere residents

Pedro Cebulka and John Newton played a marathon round of golf to bene� t the

Canadian Cancer Society on June 20th, 1994. Starting at 4:30 a.m., Cebulka and Newton played until sunset, completing 200 holes of golf at Fairmont Riverside.

15 years ago (1999): There were more

injuries than ever before at the Sunday Motorcross races at Hidden Valley Ranch according to Rocky Mountain Riders Association media liaison Shizu Futa.

10 years ago (2004): A youth on his bike

hit a car. The accident oc-curred on 13th Street at the alley entrance beside The Valley Echo. He was treated for minor injuries.

2009 — Students from J.A. Laird School took part in their own version of the Amazing Race. The race had them build sandcastles, that were judged for creativity and style, and prizes went to the winners. Pictured are Sawyer Logan and Delaney Rad with their turtle. ECHO FILE PHOTO

CLUES ACROSS 1. Coneless craters 6. Pullulate 10. Six (Spanish) 14. Cricket frog 15. Deliberately subverted 17. McCullough’s 2nd book 19. Body of water 20. Plural of 22 down 21. To get up 22. They __ 23. Expression of sorrow 24. Turfs 26. Door beam 29. Arabian sultanate 31. Corn dough 32. Soft infant food 34. Famous movie pig 35. “Oleanna” playwright 37. One point E of SE 38. Cool down 39. Surrender

40. WWII war criminal Rudolph

41. Artificial 43. Drains 45. Woods component 46. Unit of time (abbr.) 47. 1955-77 regional

defense org. 49. Local area network 50. 1/3 tablespoon (abbr.) 53. Breathe excessively 57. Dilapidated ships 58. Goes it alone 59. Jap. women pearl divers 60. Television tube 61. (Prev. Portuguese)

S. China seaport CLUES DOWN 1. Tangles 2. Dull pain 3. Length x width =

4. Fishing gear 5. Small Chevrolet truck 6. 18th Hebrew letter

(alt. sp.) 7. Ingests 8. Decline 9. Martinet 10. Cruel deviant 11. Hen products 12. Technology firm 13. 40th US state 16. Albanian capital 18. Sensory receptors 22. Publicity 23. A winglike part 24. Sword with a curved

blade 25. Single 27. Fencing swords 28. Research workplaces 29. Japanese sash 30. Nutmeg covering spice

31. Woman (French) 33. Foot (Latin) 35. Fast rise to fame 36. Used to cut and shape

wood 37. Shaft horsepower (abbr.) 39. A consortium of

companies 42. Stirrup bone 43. Transmitted 44. Carrier’s invention 46. Without (French) 47. Noah’s oldest son (Bible) 48. Jaguarundi 49. Former Cowboy Leon 50. Powder mineral 51. Greek colonnade 52. Mexican monetary unit 54. Preceeded the DVD 55. Doctrine suffix 56. Mauna __, HI, volcano 57. Public prosecutor

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Question of the WeekFour-time F1 champ Sebastian Vettel got behind the wheel of a kart when he was just three-and-a-half years old and was racing at age eight. Should we encourage teens to follow that example, as a way of learning about vehicle speed and control before getting their first license at 16?

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Hot laps with F1 World Champ Sebastian VettelBOWMANVILLE, Ontario. Four-time Formula One world champion Se-bastian Vettel has been driving since 1991 – 20 years less than yours truly.The Infiniti-Red Bull Racing Team lead man was only three-and-half years old when he took the wheel on a kart in his native Germany. He began racing four years later at the ripe old age of eight. He has a few years under his safety harness but he’s always up to learn from his elders.Last year, the 26-year-old wunderkind showed off his driving skills to me and buddy Brian Makse – a man also with racing pedigree – in an Infiniti FX50 Vettel Edition FX on the Paul Ricard Circuit in the south of France. We both figured his cornering needed work. Seb’s seat time with us clearly paid off as thereafter he won his fourth straight F1 championship. It came as no surprise then that he would jump at the opportunity to take the wheel again alongside me. Brian wasn’t available but I headed here to the Canadian Tire Motorsport in Ontar-io to work the magic again. The affable young guy has had a tough start to the F1 season, battling with the new hybrid technology.I put in some time first with retired F1 driver and now ace BBC TV F1

commentator David Coulthard on an auto cross track, laid out in the shape of the Infiniti logo. As I finished my turn at the wheel of the Infiniti Q50, the Scot sent me off to Seb with the words: “No cones were hurt in this filming . . . ”I’ll take that as a compliment for my error-free drive.Buckled up in anoth-er Q50S ($47,450), I wondered if Seb would demonstrate an improved cornering technique as we did a hot lap together around the reputedly fast 3.95-kilometre track. He

greeted me warmly, I thanked him for a hat he had kindly autographed, which I recently auctioned off. He was pleased to hear it had raised hundreds of dol-lars to help send local leukemia-strick-en teen Ryan Fagnan and his family on a last vacation, shortly before he died. We roared out of the pit lane through the first turn and continued to accel-erate downhill – close to 170 km/h – towards the second turn. Locals told me the stretch to the turn features a number of camber changes down to the second turn, scene of most of the track’s fatal crashes. Gulp.Obviously, nobody had cautioned him as he whipped the family sedan effortlessly round, talking about how he relaxed as we drove. Movies with happy endings apparently. Ah, the same conclusions he likes to F1 races.

“There haven’t been too many of those lately,” he joked, pressing harder on the metal, perhaps to make a point. As Infiniti Director of Performance, Vettel is truly playing a role in the development of future road products, rather than merely offering his name as a celebrity endorsement. He talked enthusiastically about the new com-pact, performance-oriented Q30, which should see the light late next year in Europe and a little later in Canada. The 328-horsepower 3.7-litre V6 Q50S we were riding in also benefitted from a little of his input. He’s clearly looking forward to Infiniti giving the go-ahead to the Q50 Eau Rouge concept, which features the Nissan GT-R’s growling 560-horsepower twin-turbo V6. Another corner loomed and I leaned into the door, as he barely slowed from the rapid pace we had zipped along the straight. “Your cornering has improved since last year,” I offered cheekily.

“Thank you, I think I’ve got the apexes about right,” he grinned. Hours earlier, it’s doubtful he had even heard of the tricky track, nevermind driven it. Harkening back to his references to happy endings, I reminded him that after driving with me last year he had enjoyed nothing but success.“That’s right . . . it’s all down to you,” he said with what I believed was a thoroughly genuine smile of appreci-ation.The end was nigh. Time flies when you are having fun: our hot lap and friendly chat took less than four minutes.Last Sunday, he enjoyed only his second podium finish of the year taking third place at the Montreal Grand Prix. You’re welcome, Seb. Same time next year, in the Eau Rouge?

Videos of my day with Sebastian Vettel and David Coulthard can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/1ujR58W

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Visit DrivewayCanada.ca to view video of Keith’s ride with Sebastian VettelH

‘‘Seb’s seat time with us clearly paid off as he went on to take his fourth straight championship.’’Keith Morgan

As Infi niti’s Director of Performance, Vettel is

truly playing a role in the development of future

road products.


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Golfers were greeted with perfect weather on Sunday, June 22nd as the Windermere Valley Golf Course played host to Giving Back Day in support of the Hospice Society of the Columbia Valley. This year, in addition to hosting a scramble golf tourna-ment, the owners of the Windermere golf facility also chose to donate a portion of all green fees throughout the day.

Tournament partici-pants were treated to an excellently mani-cured course com-pliments of superin-tendent Dave Dakin and his staff as well as oysters on the half shell with mini Cae-sars compliments of Elements Grill at Cop-per Point Resort and massages from Craig Smith, a registered massage therapist and physiotherapist from High Altitude Therapy in Invermere.

Competitors had three chances at $10,000 hole-in-one prizes sponsored by RONA North Star Hardware, Sobeys

and Pharmasave as well as individual skill contests throughout the day.

After an incredible meal from Kari’s Kitchen, prizes were awarded with the team from Windermere Valley Golf Course posting the lowest score, a 13 under par round of 53.

Honourable mention goes to the team comprised of members from Sobeys, Pharmasave and Mortgage Alli-

ance West who fin-ished the day 11 un-der par.

The organizing committee and the volunteers from the Hospice Society need also be recognized for making the day possible.

Windermere Val-ley Golf Course has a long history of giving back to our communi-ty. For over 15 years, the Wilfley family do-nated the golf course for the Tiger Open which helped to raise more than $1 million for the Calgary Chil-dren’s Hospital. More recently, a variety of local service groups have been chosen as recipients, including ICAN and the Rotary Club of Invermere. Golfers can look for-ward to another day of Giving Back in 2015.

Great generousity backs Giving Back golf tournament once again

(Left to right) Valley Echo/Pioneer advertising sales consultant Cheryl Williams, Pioneer graphic designer Emily Rawbon, Valley Echo/Pioneer advertising sales consultant Dean Midyette and Valley Echo/Pioneer publisher Rose-Marie Fagerholm continue the Valley Echo Giving Back Golf Tournament tradition on Sunday, June 22nd.

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windermere ladieS’ GOlF ClUB: On May 14th, the game was Longest drive and KP. 1st Flight LD was won by Coreen Ruault; KP by Gail Wilfey. 2nd Flight LD was won by Cathy Howard. KP was nil. 3rd Flight LD was won by Shirley Johnston. KP was again nil.The Putting pot was won by Dawn MacKinnon; and deuce pot was shared by Sandra Howard, Dawn MacKinnon and Diane Kochorek. It was a beautiful day with 21 ladies out to play. • On May 21st, the game was Low Net ‘n’ Pin Round. 1st flight was won by Susan Nikirk and Coreen Ruault; 2nd flight by Sylvia Page and Doris Allan; the putting pot by Cathy Howard; and the deuce was a carry over. • On May 28th, the game was Hidden Holes and they were very hidden with the rain, no one went out. • The game on June 4th was Low Net Pin Round. The Low net winner was Nora Efford; it was a tie for second between Diane Kochorek and Mary Jean Anakin. Putting Pot was won by Coreen Ruault with a 29 while the deuce was a carry over. • On June 11th, the game was Tee to Green. 1st place was Eileen Rose and it was a tie for 2nd between Shirley Johnston and Cathy Howard. The Putting Pot was won by Diane Kochorek with a 28 and the deuce was a carry over.June 18th was a nice day for golfing. The game was Putts — so your putts less half your handicap. The winners were Doreen Stewart, Joyce Robinson, Raylene Oram and Diane Kochorek. The Putting Pot was won by Raylene with a 31. The Deuce pot again was a carry over — a big pot for whoever gets that deuce! SUBmitted By helGa BOker

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Valley Hawk Security has protected the Valley for nine years. As we continue to grow and maintain quality service to all our clients,

our mission remains the same: “VHS is dedicated to the safety of the Valley with high security standards which not only instills peace of mind but creates safer environments for all the residents, businesses and tourists to enjoy for years to come.”

VHS provides professional services including on-site security guards, mobile patrols, 24/7 alarm response, key holding as well as interior and exterior property checks. Our clients range from residential, community associations and strata organizations to commercial; resorts, construction sites and local campgrounds across the valley.

VHS is a proud recipient of three CVCC awards: 2008 Business Excellence for the Central Area, 2010 Small Business Excellence and 2011 Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

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