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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2010 WEEKEND CLOSE-UP

INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE:Your Style Holiday Edition 2010. From recipes to decorating and more, it’s your guide to living this season to the fullest.

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In today’s Capital News, Warren Henderson talks to Clint Stibbard (left), Rachel Tietzen (middle) and Brendan Ellis (right), three Kelowna athletes who are making themselves right at home in their fi rst semesters atAmerican schools.

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WESTSIDESUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2010 WEST OF THE BRIDGE

Mike SimmonsSTAFF REPORTER

A new agreement will see residents of Westbank First Nation land receive the same levels of library service as residents of the district of West Kelowna.

Okanagan Regional Library executive director Lesley Dieno said the li-brary system has an agree-ment in principle that the WFN will commit to a longer-term contract.

The library system and the WFN have been running a pilot project for the past three years, where people who live on re-serve land received library services and the band col-lected taxes from them.

Dieno noted that de-mand for library services has been about the same as everywhere else, with around 60 per cent of resi-dents using the library.

The pilot project in-volved the ORL provid-ing library services to WFN residents for about $30,000 to $40,000.

Dieno said the WFN wanted to fi nd out if it was worthwhile providing the service to the public so that residents could get free library cards.

When library services were not in place, WFN residents had to pay $75 per year for a library card.

Dieno said the WFN was paying the library sys-tem a stated amount for li-brary services each year, so it could try it out and make sure people who lived on reserve land still wanted the service.

After the pilot project, talks began this summer.

Dieno noted the WFN wanted to come into the system under the same conditions as other mu-nicipalities, regional dis-tricts and the Penticton In-dian Band.

“They agreed they would pay what everyone else does,” she said.

The arrangement will see the WFN get a vote on the library board and pay a percentage of the total library system operating costs.

Dieno added that in principle, the contract says WFN-land residents are treated like everybody else is treated under the Library Act.

She noted the WFN will have a vote on the board, which it did not re-ceive under the pilot pro-ject because it was not paying a full share of the cost at that time.

The agreement is be-ing reviewed by lawyers with both the WFN and the library system, and still has to go through the library’s policy and plan-ning committee.

Dieno said she antici-pates the agreement will come to the library board in March of [email protected]

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‘‘(THE WFN) AGREED THEY WOULD PAY WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES.

Lesley Dieno

Mike SimmonsSTAFF REPORTER

Gambling remains a profi table enterprise in our province, but no gaming facilities are forecast to be built on the Westside any-time soon.

The B.C. Lottery Cor-poration remains a profi t-able enterprise despite last year’s economic decline. The corporation raked in $2.6 billion last year, with slightly more than $1 bil-lion going to the prov-ince of British Columbia. There is a 10 per cent net return to municipalities that host casinos. This deal resulted in $81.9 mil-lion being returned to lo-cal governments last year from BCLC.

There are no gaming facilities in West Kelowna. The city of Kelowna has two, with Chances about to undergo a signifi cant renovation. BCLC pub-lic affairs manager Greg Walker said the corpora-tion has also maintained a commitment to bingo and charitable organizations, as he addressed West Ke-lowna council on Nov. 24.

He noted the Crown corporation is committed to providing gaming in B.C. in a socially respon-sible fashion. Gaming in Canada is illegal, unless the federal government authorizes an agency to oversee it on their behalf.

BCLC was created in 1984 as one of those agen-cies. Walker said the cor-poration is guided by the Criminal Code and by B.C.’s Gaming Control Act. The lottery corpor-

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ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN David Finnis shelves volumes at the Westbank branch of the Okanagan Regional Library. The library will be more accessible to residents of Westbank First Nation land under an agreement that would administer a similar fee structure as other system stakeholders.

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THE WHITE STUFF…Cole Booker digs out the Shell gas station on Elliott Road after snow enveloped the Westbank downtown core on Thursday. Three centimetres of snow fell on that day, leading to poor road conditions and a string of traffi c accidents, including one that snarled Highway 97 traffi c during the morning rush hour.

Mike SimmonsSTAFF REPORTER

A volunteer society and West Kelowna dis-trict staff are looking for another location to feed residents’ need for grow-ing things.

The district is already home to the Town Cen-tre Community Garden in Westbank. The Central Okanagan Community Garden Society coordin-ates eight community gar-dens in the region.

Spokeswoman Bar-bara Bowman said the so-ciety has approximately 300 households involved in using the gardens, from Lake Country to West Ke-lowna.

Bowman added that the Westbank Town Cen-tre garden is considered the society’s “Cadillac” garden.

The gardens are used by children, singles, fam-ilies, older adults and others who have no access to land to grow food.

The garden society was looking for approval to discuss the use of land in Shannon Woods Park as a community garden. Bowman said the lower part of the park has soccer fi elds developed on it.

She added there have been 15 residents in the Shannon Woods Ridge area that have come for-ward and indicated inter-est in a community garden in the area.

Bowman pointed out there is multi-family hous-ing nearby, and the soci-ety prefers to put gardens in multi-family housing areas.

She added the Town Centre garden had a wait-

ing list all last summer. “There are gardeners

at Town Centre who will move to Shannon Lake should that garden go ahead.”

Bowman said the so-ciety is searching for ap-proximately 7,000 square feet of space to house up to 30 garden plots.

Coun. David Know-les noted Bowman and the society have achieved great works in West Ke-lowna, and they are much appreciated.

He agreed with the ex-ercise, recreation and so-cial benefi ts of gardening espoused by Bowman.

Knowles added that eating the food you grew from seed and small plants is a fairly major benefi t for a human being.

Bowman said the sooner the society can fi nd land, the better. All of the gardens being run through the Central Oka-nagan by the society have waiting lists.

She pointed out the land at Shannon Woods would not require the de-gree of reclamation work that was needed for the Town Centre garden.

“It’s pretty fl at, there’s not an awful lot to be done.”

She pointed out that the society has been build-ing gardens for approxi-mately $10,000 cost, with the exception of the West-bank Town Centre gar-den that used a B.C. Spirit Squares grant.

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ation is responsible for bingo, community gam-ing and casinos as well as the provincial lottery. The most recent addition to the corporation’s assets is in-ternet-based gaming at www.playnow.com.

Walker said BCLC be-lieves they must fufi ll their social responsibility by providing a greater aware-ness of what their prod-uct is.

“If you buy a lotto ticket, you will see prob-lem gambling information on the back of the ticket.”

He noted that anyone in need of information on problem gambling can get that information free of charge. The corpora-tion identifi es 4.6 per cent of B.C. adults as being prone to problem gam-bling. Walker added that percentage has stayed the

same over the past dec-ade. The numbers of B.C. adults with gambling problems classed as se-vere has risen from 0.4 per cent to 0.9 per cent over the past 10 years.

Walker noted prob-lem gamblers are identi-fi ed as ‘severe’ after go-ing through a question-aire, telephone survey and one-on-one interview con-ducted by psychological experts.

“Just a little bit under $7 million goes into treat-ing this problem.”

Walker said gam-ing fl oor employees are trained in how to ap-proach someone who may be challenged by gam-ing products. The corpor-ation provides informa-tion kiosks in gaming fa-cilities, and a problem gambling telephone hot-line. There were two calls from Westbank to the hot-

line this year, fi ve calls last year, and two calls in 2008.

Walker noted the cor-poration assists people by identifying them and tak-ing pictures if they want to be kept out of gaming fa-cilities. If a problem gam-bler signs up for voluntary self-exclusion in Kelow-na, pictures of their face or vehicle license plate are available if they try to enter a casino in another town.

“We ID the person in advance and escort them out of the facility.”

Coun. Bryden Winsby pointed out there is a lot of money involved in gam-ing, and community or-ganizations have taken the hit with less of the funds being doled out by the province.

“Their fundraising is becoming much more dif-fi cult.”

Walker pointed out the lottery corporation does not give out the money. Disbursement decisions are made by the Ministry of Housing and Social De-velopment.

He agreed there is no question that in the previ-ous fi scal year, the amount of money going out in gaming grants was much lower. He added those amounts have increased again this year. Walker emphasized the corpora-tion is not responsible for how the division of funds occurs at the ministry level.

“We generate the funds, government gets to give it out.”

Walker said the lottery corporation is not consid-ering new gaming facili-ties in the Central Okanag-an at this time. The organ-ization does keep a close eye on areas of population

growth, but he said BCLC feels they are adequate-ly serving customers with the two operations run-ning in Kelowna.

Coun. Duane Ophus pointed out West Kelow-na sends many customers across the bridge and gets the problems of gambling in return, but does not see the revenue from gaming facilities.

Walker noted West Kelowna is not the fi rst municipal council to raise the issue. He said the rule at the moment is the mu-nicipality hosting a facil-ity receives gaming rev-enue. An exception is the municipalities of View Royal, Langford and Col-wood on Vancouver Is-land. Walker said the mu-nicipalities came to their own decision to share rev-enue generated by a ca-sino in View [email protected]

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Mike SimmonsSTAFF REPORTER

Westbank Rotary Club is struggling to achieve the

fi nal funds needed to build a children’s water park, as available funds have slowed to a trickle.

Club chair Rick de

Jong said 14 business-es and organizations have come on board with fi nan-cial support for the pro-posed children’s water

park in Westbank. He add-ed that individuals have also donated their time and talents.

The project was con-ceived in 2007, but de Jong said getting the water park to a construc-tion phase has not been easy for the club. He noted project costs have fl uc-tuated and the economy has taken a major down-turn, resulting in fundrais-ing efforts that were not as effective as club mem-bers had hoped. De Jong added that gaming funds from the province have been cut in half for West-bank Rotary. Final cost for the water park is now es-timated at $260,000. The club has raised $230,000 over the past three years, and has applied for a grant-in-aid from the dis-trict of West Kelowna for $27,500.

“This is a big endeav-our and a big dream for a small club of 32 people,” said de Jong. “We have been working on this pro-ject for three years... We are tired, but we’re also excited. After three years, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”

De Jong said if aid is granted from the district, funding and support for the project will be in place and ground can be broken in spring of 2011. He add-ed the club has donated their cash reserves to the water park, and now have little funds left to support other community needs that they have in the past.

“This move was made

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Mike SimmonsSTAFF REPORTER

Preserving the past is a modern concern as the district of West Kelowna inventories historic sites and evaluates the public’s interest in local heritage.

Planning manager Nancy Henderson noted the district has a rich herit-age, dating back from the settlement of First Nations to fur trading, agricultural and logging history. There are numerous heritage sites in the area. She add-ed that heritage planning can play a key role in re-vitalizing a town centre.

She pointed out many people are not aware of the area’s heritage, es-pecially with a growing

community where people move in from other lo-cations. Designation of heritage buildings, along with interpretive signs and walks, is seen as a good way to raise community interest in heritage. Fund-ing for heritage initia-tives is not as available as it once was, with funding from the Ministry of Tour-ism, Trade and Investment being halted due to recent economic conditions.

Henderson noted there is still $10,000 available for initiatives through the Heritage Legacy Fund.

First steps for the dis-trict of West Kelowna would involve a heritage visioning session to fi nd out who is interested in heritage in the commun-

ity. Henderson added that a heritage advisory com-mission could also be es-tablished.

Mayor Doug Findlat-er noted the district does have heritage buildings in the community that are more than 100 years old with a rich history. One such house on McIvor Road was in poor condi-tion and torn down by the owner.

He added that the 200th anniversary of the fur brigade trail is com-ing up, with the West Ke-lowna intersection of the trail being a national his-toric site for several years. Findlater said that at one time, it was the only his-toric site in the Okanagan and much more could be

told about the trail.He pointed out that the

CPR, First Nations sites and the Gellatly Nut Farm all have heritage value in the area. He noted that in-terpretive signage along trails can be a good low-cost solution that would be interesting for both vis-itors and residents.

Council carried the motion to hold a pub-lic workshop to defi ne what heritage preserva-tion means to the com-munity. District staff will also work on creating an inventory of heritage sites and criteria for their inclu-sion, as well as separating the heritage plan from the heritage and cultural mas-ter [email protected]

▼ HERITAGE INVENTORY

West Kelowna takes stock of its past

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THE 121-YEAR-OLD Goldie house on Elliott Road sat covered with snow this week. The house is one of many historic buildings in West Kelowna that may soon fi nd their way onto the district’s heritage inventory.

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This column is in-tended to be about achieving justice

in personal injury claims.But, from time to

time, I have used this plat-form to write about road safety topics.

So far, my editor has accommodated my de-tours.

This is another such detour.

I’m not the handiest guy out there, but I can fi nd my way around a

screw driver.Yes, my wife hints

with my buddies on our street to get pictures hung, furniture put together, and dimmer switches in-

stalled.I say that’s a lack of

inclination, though.I can hang a picture if

I put my mind to it.Heck, I could prob-

ably get my head around a dimmer switch as well.

But I’m a busy guy, and my wife seems to like things to be done quicker than it takes hell to freeze over.

We’ve got two sets of wheels for our mini-van and SUV, one each for

summer and winter tires.Changing those

wheels over is a pain in the butt.

Taking the vehicles into a shop to do the change-over takes up a bunch of time for vehicle drop-off and pick-up. A ride has to be arranged.

And yes, it costs a few bucks.

It was the kind of thing that I fi gured I should do myself.

Even though I’ve be-come a desk jockey, I did grow up on a farm. I can still get my hands dirty.

It’s about as straight forward a manly job as can be.

Jack up the car, re-move the nuts, switch the tires, replace the nuts and repeat.

I picked up one of those heavy duty jacks to avoid having to fi ght with the pathetic little things our vehicles came with.

I borrowed a buddy’s impact drill and I was all

set.It was like I was in a

race car pit.I had the wheels

changed over in no time. And an impact drill is

kind of fun, by the way. “I am such a man,” I

was thinking.

But my fi rst indica-tion I had screwed up was when a friend of mine, Ron Smith, owner of Dy-namic Westside Auto Ser-vice & Transmission, chuckled as he told me I had put the wheels on backwards.

Apparently, that’s what those directional ar-rows on the sides of tires are all about.

The next indication, after I fi xed the goofy dir-ectional thing, was when my father-in-law told me I needed to have my align-ment checked.

Sure enough, there was an odd wobbling sen-sation. Wobble it was. The nuts on one of the wheels were all loose.

Thankfully, I had the presence of mind to check the wheels on the mini-van.

It turned out I had missed tightening the nuts on one of the wheels on that vehicle as well.

And were the treads still adequate? What’s the appropriate tread depth?

Not so simple.I had endangered my-

self, my family and other motorists to save some time and a few bucks.

I was an idiot.I’ve learned from my

mistakes to have a torque wrench handy to ensure the nuts are properly se-cured, and I’ll never put my wheels on backwards again.

As for the tread, I’m going to make sure I get professional advice.

I’ve told you this story because I know I’m not the only idiot out there.

Perhaps some others will learn from my mis-takes, too.

It’s that time of year.As I said in last week’s

column, (as a personal in-jury lawyer) I don’t need the extra business.

This column is intend-ed to provide general in-formation about injury claims. It is not a substi-tute for retaining a lawyer to provide legal advice specifi cally pertaining to your case.

Paul Hergott is a law-yer at Hergott Law in West Kelowna.

[email protected]

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‘‘MY FIRST INDICATION I HAD SCREWED UP WAS WHEN A FRIEND…TOLD ME I HAD PUT THE WHEELS ON BACKWARDS.

West Kelowna May-or Doug Findlater has per-sonally thanked local MP Stockwell Day and MLA Ben Stewart for their sup-port in securing funding for the district to expand its sewer system.

Last week, the mayor met the pair at the site of one of the newly-complet-ed sewer projects, to thank them for the $5.1 million from the federal govern-ment and the $2.55 mil-lion the province contrib-uted towards the $8.8 mil-lion project.

“Securing sewer ser-vice for our community has been council’s top pri-ority since West Kelow-na’s inception,” said Find-later.

As a result of the fund-ing, 450 homes in West Kelowna received sew-er services in 2010 and will be able to connect this winter.

The additional funding also meant council was able to lower the overall connection cost to all resi-dents in the Sewer Servi-cing Strategy area. Now residents will pay $8,400 per connection instead of $10,193.

Project timelines were adjusted to meet the fund-ing deadline.

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It became evident the Mount Boucherie Senior Boys’ Volleyball team would indeed be playing in provincials when they defeated the Rutland Secondary Voodoos No-vember 19, fi ghting for a spot in the top two from our region along with KSS.

The boys then lost to

KSS on November 20, still earning a well-de-served number two spot in the valley champion-ship and a spot in the AAA Boys Volleyball Provincials.

John McParland says Mount Boucherie will be able to host the fi rst games of provincials this year, which are mostly going to be played at UBC Okanagan.

McParland also noted the team was currently ranked eighth going into provincials, a commend-able feat.

The Senior Boys’ Volleyball team ended with a 14th place fi nish in 2009 and are looking to improve that. The last time the team had come in fi rst was in 2003 and has made two other top three fi nishes since then.

Boucherie spikes their way to provincials

Mount Boucherie Secondary School not only has a wide range of courses such as drafting, me-chanics, band, choir, sociology, photography, peer counseling, dance, the hairdressing program and the culinary arts program, but they also have many extra-curricular activities and clubs.

Many P.E. choices are offered including an outdoor education program and a hockey academy. Some unique clubs our school offers are Lifesavers, the global service club, Smart Risk, the science club, the chess club, and the Bear Stage. Lifesavers is an opportunity for students to create

a presentation for schools in the Okanagan to try and prevent teen suicide.

Global Service Club is a chance for students to re-ally get involved not just in our school, but worldwide to make a difference and help those less fortunate than us. Smart Risk is a program that creates awareness of youth injuries by encouraging students to take risks, but to take them smartly.

Getting involved in some of these clubs not only helps make a difference in the school, but also creates great opportunities, experiences and great friends.

MBSS CLUBS

Something foreveryone

School and community cometogether to facilitate changeBY NICOLE CLARK,CRYSTAL CHESNEY AND KYLA HUMENIUK

At Mount Boucherie Secondary School, No-vember was a busy month. Students have been plan-ning events such as “No Shave November” to promote awareness for pros-tate cancer. Mainly male students, and some female, did not shave for the entire month of Novem-ber, and if they succeeded, were awarded with free ‘Gillette Fusion’ razors for their participation.

Another event was the Vow of Silence which

that has been going on in the world for 21 years. The Vow of Silence raises awareness, gets attention, and creates real social change. They aid children who cannot speak up for themselves.

For MBSS, our Vow of Silence

was on No-vember 18 from 4 p.m., to November 19, 4 p.m.

Our Bike-a-thon raised

money for Right to Play, an organiza-

tion that raises money for children in third world countries that do not have the money or support to be able to play sports. They give children a chance to become participants

in society, regardless of gender, disability, ethnic-ity, social background or religion.

Considering the bike-a-thon was for 24 hours, and there were roughly 100 students doing this, we needed some sort of donations. We had many generous sponsors who donated food, drinks, and equipment.

For instance, La Cuci-na donated our dinner for November 19, and the Shannon Lake Con-venience Store donated movies for the night.

Starbucks Coffee had given us canteens of cof-fee, the Packing House donated apples, and Tim Horton’s gave us mugs and gift cards that were used for prizes and break-

fast. Body Fit donated four stationary bikes and Snap Fitness donated some as well to use for the event.

The Westside Fire Hall and fi refi ghters do-nated a large sum of mon-ey that was used for food.Wal-Mart gave us a $50 discount to buy supplies for the event, and Canada Bread donated some of their produce.

The DJ we had for the night to keep the party going was Patrick Hel-man, DJ ShowStyler, who graduated from MBSS two years ago.

So as you can see, November was chalked full of fun and charitable things to do. But it’s not just this month, it’s every month.

BY RACHAEL LESOSKY

As part of the Global Service Club’s Change for Change awareness campaign this Novem-ber, blue and yellow posters were seen scat-tered along the walls and lockers of Mount Boucherie Secondary School.

First, melancholy blue posters were hung to bring attention to the negative statistics of the

world, such as poverty and child labour.

A week later, yellow ones appeared on the walls, like the sun break-ing through the clouds. The idea of those posi-tive posters was to show how the statistics are improving throughout the world.

The students of the Global Service Club are hoping to inspire fellow pupils to want to make a difference, too.

Among other aware-ness efforts this month, the club also hosted a game of global jeopardy during lunch. Lucky contestants tested their knowledge of the facts on the posters for a chance to win treats.

Students, not just at Mount Boucherie, but all over Canada, participat-ed in the Vow of Silence.

On November 19, participants decided to refrain from talking,

texting and going on Facebook to raise a voice for children around the world who can’t speak for themselves. Pledges were collected to raise money for the cause.

In addition to these worthy events, other fundraising initiatives included a bottle drive to raise money for orphans in Kenya to have a playground and agood bank drive where $2,852 was raised.

BOUND FOR SILENCE Students united to demonstrate the power of not using their voices, and raised money for Vow of Silence, an initiative taken on by the Global Service Club.

November abusy month

at MBSS

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A member of the Westside Warriors is among eight B.C. Hockey League players named to the roster for Team West at the sixth annual Canadian Junior Hockey League Prospects Game.

Defenceman Michael King was named to the team when the Canadian Junior Hockey League announced the roster for Team West at the 2010 CJHL Prospects Game.

The game will be played Dec. 7 and 8 at Credit Union Place in Dauphin, Manitoba.

Team West is com-posed of players from the CJHL’s fi ve western leagues, which include the BCHL, the Alberta Jun-ior Hockey League, Sas-katchewan Junior Hockey League, Manitoba Junior Hockey League and Su-perior International Jun-ior Hockey League. Play-er selection is a joint in-itiative of the CJHL and NHL Central Scouting.

King is listed by Cen-tral Scouting on its watch list of players that could move up onto Central Scouting’s draft rankings.

The 17-year-old has

three goals and nine as-sists for 12 points in 21 games.

Team West includes eight players from the BCHL, four from the SJHL, four from the MJHL, three from the AJHL and one from the SIJHL. Team East and Team West will each have two goaltenders, six de-fencemen and 12 for-wards.

The roster for Team East was to be announced Friday.

The prospects game was created to showcase the top 40 NHL draft eli-gible players in the CJHL.

The event includes a two-game, total goal ser-ies between Team East and Team West, which

is well attended by local hockey fans, NHL scouts, and representatives from Canadian and American colleges and universities.

GoaltendersJan Obernesser*

AJHL/BrooksJason Kasdorf*

MJHL/PortageDefenceSam Jardine* AJHL/

CamroseLuke Madill AJHL/

Drayton ValleyJosh Roach SJHL/

HumboldtBrody Luhning

SJHL/BattlefordsEric Walker* BCHL/

TrailMichael King*

BCHL/WestsideForwardsMitch VanTeeling

MJHL/DauphinTJ Constant MJHL/

OCNAaron Hadley BCHL/

VernonDestry Straight*

BCHL/CoquitlamShane Gingera

MJHL/Winnipeg SaintsSam Mellor* BCHL/

TrailMitchell Deacon*

BCHL/Coquitlam

Madison Dias BCHL/Victoria

Lucas Froese SJHL/Melville

Kyle Hall SJHL/Battlefords

Joey Baker* BCHL/Trail

Austin Adduono SIJHL/Wisconsin

* NHL Central Scouting watch list

Earlier this month, 19 players from the Can-adian Junior Hockey League were identifi ed on the NHL Central Scouting Players to Watch list for the 2011 NHL entry draft.

Nine players on the Team West roster were amongst those recog-nized.

Five alumni of the CJHL Prospects Game have been selected in the fi rst round of the NHL entry draft, including Kyle Turris (BCHL), Riley Nash (BCHL), Beau Ben-nett (BCHL), Joe Col-borne (AJHL) and Dylan Olsen (AJHL).

Eleven Canadian Jun-ior Hockey League play-ers were selected in the 2010 NHL entry draft.

Kevin ParnellSTAFF REPORTER

There was a new face behind the bench for the Prince George Spruce Kings when they played the Warriors in West Ke-lowna on Thursday night.

But that face would have been pretty familiar to plenty of West Kelow-na folks.

Dave Dupas, a West Kelowna resident and longtime Central Oka-nagan hockey coach was hired as the new head coach of the Spruce Kings this week.

Dupas replaces Ed Dempsey, who was re-lieved of his duties as Spruce Kings head coach on Wednesday.

Dupas, who was last the head coach of the short-lived Williams Lake Timberwolves, said he was excited to get back behind the bench.

“It feels great to be back in the league,” said Dupas when contacted on Thursday. “I’m looking forward to the challenge.”

The Kings are current-ly in the basement of the

BCHL’s Interior Division with a 6-22-0-2 record.

Following Dupas’ debut Thursday in West-side, the Spruce Kings then played in Merritt on Friday before returning home to play the Salmon Arm Silverbacks Satur-day in Prince George.

Dupas has coached at several levels of hockey in the past decade. He led the the Okanagan Rock-ets major midget team and also coached Junior B and Junior A levels.

He also played four years in the B.C. Jun-ior Hockey League, three years in Division 1 hock-ey in the United States and four years of semi-pro hockey.

At the start of last sea-son Dupas took the head coaching job in Williams Lake.

But the expansion franchise was in turmoil from the start and Dupas didn’t fi nish the season.

This year was the fi rst in some time he had not been behind a hock-ey bench and instead was working in the Alberta oil sands. But hockey, Dupas said, is in his blood.

“This is what I love to do,” he said.

Warriors Rap:The Warriors close out the month of November and a four game home stand on Tuesday when they host the Victoria Grizzlies at Royal LePage Place...On Wednesday the team trav-els to Penticton to play the Vees before a home and home series with the Ver-non Vipers next Friday and Saturday with Satur-day’s game being played at RLP...Warriors cap-tain Alex Grieve leads the team in scoring. Prior to this weekend’s action the 20-year-old Grieve had 34 points in 26 [email protected]

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Mayor willing to consider loanas a commitment to this project.”

District council weighed several assist-ance options on Nov. 24, including having the club go through the grants-in-aid process or delivering an interest-free loan.

Mayor Doug Findlat-er said he would be will-ing to support the loan idea, but wouldn’t sup-

port dipping into fi nan-cial reserves to support the water park.

“One of our challen-ges is to build up reserves as a new municipality rather than funding things out of it.”

He added that the grant-in-aid process might be suitable for the project, but council needs to look at all the requests togeth-er and there are more than ever this year.

Coun. Gord Milsom said he was not in favour of a loan either.

“I don’t feel comfort-able with the practice of lending money to third-party service groups.”

He added that the Ro-tary Club had done a ter-rifi c job in getting the pro-ject 90 per cent funded, and there was only 10 per cent left to go.

Coun. Duane Ophus said council has to con-

sider the signals they are sending to non-profi t or-ganizations in the com-munity. He noted the pro-ject started out at $150,000 in cost.

“Through no fault of the participants, it has al-most doubled in size.”

He pointed out that the club has gone out and raised $230,000 in a down economy. Ophus’ motion that the money be taken from the parks reserve ac-count was defeated.

Ophus said the club should be encouraged to aggressively fundraise over the next few months, as a construction start date would not arrive until March or April of 2011.

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Time off for bad be-havior—big time. Opposition MPs

are proposing this. Suppose a teenager

winds up hurting himself while he’s mugging a sen-ior. His mom or dad will get time off, for a year, paid for by taxpayers, to stay home with him till he’s feeling better.

And the parent’s em-ployer will have to give the parent up to two years leave of absence from work until junior’s injured knuckles are ready for ac-tion again.

Here in the constitu-ency people are shak-ing their heads. We have a soft spot for anyone, es-pecially a young persaon who wants to get his or her life straightened out.

The federal govern-ment gives signifi cant funding to local initiatives which reach out to youth

and families at risk rec-ognizing there is clearly a place for prevention and rehabilitation.

U.S. President Bar-rack Obama, commenting on the scourge of social problems in many Amer-ican cities, said that the single greatest reason for youth dysfunction was absentee fatherhood.

Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper, was speak-ing last week in schools

to parents and teachers about limiting time spent on texting and videoing.

But none of those things are what the Op-position’s proposed legis-lation is talking about.

What kind of message does it send to a young person if the sanctions for mauling a senior or gang swarming an innocent teen means mom or pop gets a year off with pay?

Can you hear the fatherly advice?

“Look son, if you’re at risk of getting caught do-ing that home invasion, at least make sure you hurt yourself.”

Exaggeration aside, this legislation could be-come law if the Oppos-ition parties continue to support it.

I will do what most of you want me to do and speak against it. I’ll keep you updated on progress.

•••Better news on the

international front. The prime minister

took a lead role at two im-portant events last week.

At the G-20 meeting in Korea, he was able to highlight the reasons Can-ada is now considered as the industrialized country with the strongest econ-omy.

Freezing government-al operations spending,

reducing the defi cit and keeping taxes down all help to keep our economy and jobs growing.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Economic Forum are both saying Canada is the model during this fra-gile global recovery.

Later in the week Canada was thanked by NATO and Obama for our decision to have our troops play a military training role in Afghan-istan.

Respecting a previ-ous vote in Parliament, we will not be involved in further combat missions in Afghanistan after 2011.

Our troops were thanked for making real progress and sacrifi ces against the Taliban forces.

Villages have been liberated. More than fi ve million kids have now been inoculated against

polio, health centres and schools have been built, women by the thousands are learning to read and ir-rigation and power pro-jects are underway thanks to our soldiers.

Much is left to be done.

Canadian troops will train Afghan soldiers to protect their citizens from a heartless enemy.

Canadian troops can also hold their heads high, knowing they have faced the brunt of horren-dous vicious attacks and have prevailed as the most skilled and professional soldiers in the world.

Stockwell Day is the Conservative MP for Okanagan-Coquihalla and the president of the federal treasury board.

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On Nov. 16, Can-adian senators killed Bill C-311,

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The way the vote was carried out is an insult to Canadians and democ-racy. It’s also further evi-

dence that Canada will go to the UN climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, on Nov. 29, with nothing to offer but empty words and an unwilling-ness to tackle what lead-ing scientists say is the most serious crisis facing Canada and the world.

Even though the bill was delivered to the Sen-ate 193 days before, after being passed by the House of Commons, the vote was called without notice and without debate, when at least 15 Liber-al senators and several in-dependent senators were absent. This law, which would have put our coun-try on track to be an en-vironmental leader, was killed by only 11 votes (43 to 32).

Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper once prom-ised he would never al-low the unelected Senate to go against the will of the majority of MPs and the Canadian public. But with this vote in a Senate stacked by the prime min-ister, he has done exact-ly that.

The Act would have committed Canada to an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and a 25 per cent reduction by 2020. Many international scientists agree that these reduc-tions are the least required to prevent dangerous cli-mate change.

But in a near-un-precedented move that fl ies in the face of demo-cratic traditions and gov-ernment accountabil-ity, Conservative senators killed this modest piece of legislation. At nearly 75-years-old, I am sick-ened to see people my age making such a reck-less decision that will af-fect the lives of today’s young people and genera-tions to come when many of the senators won’t even be around to face the most serious consequences.

When his government was fi rst elected in 2006, Harper told Canadians restoring accountability would be one of the ma-jor priorities of his new government. “Account-ability is what ordinary Canadians, working Can-adians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders,” he said.

It appears that was empty rhetoric—especial-ly when it comes to cli-mate change. The gov-ernment has dismissed its obligation under the Kyoto Protocol, an inter-

national climate change agreement that Canada and 186 countries rati-fi ed. It has not imple-mented any substantial policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and helping Canada join the emerging clean-ener-gy economy, even though Canada is probably more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than any other industrialized country.

The government claims the cost of re-ducing emissions will be economically devastat-ing yet continues to heav-ily subsidize and sup-port the polluting fossil fuel industry, especially in the environmentally de-structive tar sands. Can-ada has even earned itself the shameful reputation for obstructing progress at international negotiations on climate change.

Harper’s contention that the bill would have thrown “hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of people out of work” is simply false. In California, voters resisted attempts by out-of-state

oil companies in the Nov. 2 election to overturn the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act. Since the law was passed in 2006, California has attracted more investments in al-ternative energy start-up companies than anywhere in the world and has seen a boom in employment in the clean energy sector.

Canadians have seen far more leadership from municipal and provin-cial governments than from the federal govern-ment on environment-al issues related to cli-mate change. Ontario is phasing out coal power and has implemented in-centives to attract clean-energy technologies. Van-couver is moving ahead with its ambitious green plans, and B.C. has imple-mented a carbon tax that increases over time.

Canadians expect more of our leaders. At the very least, we expect them to remember we still live in a democracy.

with Faisal MoolaDavid Suzuki is a sci-

entist and broadcaster based in Vancouver.

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