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Busloads of soccer players descended on Nakusp last weekend to play in the annual Nakusp Sr. and Jr. Boys Invi-tational Tournament.

� e two-day event hosted both junior and senior teams from various parts of the province, including Grand Forks, Fort St. James, and Invermere.

Friday’s games were slightly overshadowed by the weath-er. Rain came down for most of the event, which was rather unlucky for the David � ompson Secondary School Lakers from Invermere.

� e Laker’s equipment was stolen before they le� for the tournament. � eir balls, their bench, and their tent, every-

thing was gone. “When I le� home, I put the stu� on the road to get picked

up,” said coach Jurgen Striegel. “I le� it alone a minute, and everything was stolen.”

� e � rst day was a bit rocky for other teams as well. Na-kusp lost their � rst game against Fort St. James 2-0.

“� ese boys come out, it’s the � rst game of the season, an early tournament, and they’re learning,” said coach Ryan Willman. “It’s all about making mistakes, but it’s whether they learn from their mistakes.”

� e second day of the tournament was better. � e sun had come out, which made for better playing, but some of the teams were starting to � ght fatigue.

“Tournaments are hard on kids because it’s many games in a short period of time,” said Mike Phelan, coach of the Grand

Forks Wolves. “Even during a day, you play a game, you rest, you play a game, you rest. It wears on them, even though they’re young.”

By the end of the a� ernoon, the games were decided. For the Juniors, the Creston Bulldogs came in � rst, followed by the Hawks of JL Crowe in Trail. In third place, the Wolves of Grand Forks, and the Nakusp Cougars came in fourth.

For the Senior games, � e Invermere Lakers took � rst place, followed by the Fort St. James Falcons in second place, � e Hawks from JL Crowe in Trail were third, Mid-way Boundary Central Secondary School was fourth, and the Nakusp Cougars took � � h place.

“I’m proud of the boys, the way they played soccer and the e� ort they put in there,” said Striegel. “I knew they were capable of winning if they played well.”

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� e Regional District of Central Kootenay board has agreed to step up its lobbying of BC’s environment minister, asking her to enforce a provincial recycling law.

That law requires companies that produce paper and packaging to pay Multi Material BC (MMBC) to recycle pa-per products when they enter the waste cycle. But many companies have not signed on, even though the program has been in place for two years.

According to RDCK sta� , this means its resi-dents pay twice to have

their paper and packag-ing recycled: once when they buy the products (whose prices have been increased to pay for recy-cling) and then taxes to have the RDCK process their recycling.

� e RDCK would like to hand over its recycling to MMBC rather than doing it itself at a cost to local taxpayers of nearly $1 million per year

But MMBC, which provides recycling for many municipalities and regional districts across the province, says it can-not take on more because it can’t a� ord to, because many businesses that produce paper products in the province have not signed on.

“For us to expand we need additional busi-nesses joining,” MMBC’s Allen Langdon told the board at their meeting last week. “� ere are hundreds of businesses not meeting their regu-lated obligations.”

MMBC provides recy-cling services for several local communities, in-cluding Nelson, although their presence is not ob-vious here because they contract curbside collec-tion back to the city.

The RDCK board passed a resolution ear-lier this year to send a bill to MMBC for reim-bursement of its recy-cling costs but did not follow up.

At the recent meeting,

it was suggested the bill should be sent instead to the government because it doesn’t enforce the re-quirement that all paper producers join MMBC.

However the board ultimately decided that sending a bill to either party was too confronta-tional and that it should lobby the minister in-stead.

“If we slap a bill on them it will create a huge ri� that we cannot repair,” said RDCK chair and Nakusp mayor Kar-en Hamling. “It would be better to push them to start � ning these compa-nies, and then ask them to reimburse us.”

RDCK members at-tending the annual Union of BC Municipali-ties conference this week met with environment minister Mary Polak about this.

RDCK manager Stu-art Horn told the Star today that “we de� nitely felt heard.”

He said the minister appears to take the gov-ernment’s enforcement responsibility seriously, but that she prefers to negotiate with delin-quent producers rather than force them.

Also at the conference a resolution was brought to the � oor by the Town of Comox asking the UBCM to urge the gov-ernment to start � ning companies that don’t join MMBC.

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Tyler Leeson, Executive Chef at Halcyon Hot Springs Village and Spa, has won the Armstrong In-terior Provincial Exhibition (IPE) Iron Chef Competition that took place Sept. 2-6.

Leeson was asked to partici-pate last year, but because the re-quest came on such short notice, he wasn’t able to compete. He was called again this year, and was given a month’s notice. He entered with friend and fellow chef, Josh Hines of Kelowna.

“It’s not the same one that you would see on the Food Network. It’s not quite as big, but still a lot of fun,” Leeson said.

Ten teams competed throughout the week, two per day for � ve days.

“It’s a 100 mile competition, and they give you a list of ingredients and you have half an hour to come up with your � rst course and then ten minutes for each of your next courses,” he said. “It’s a total of four courses in an hour. You have to use the one ingredient in everything, and then there’s three or four other ingredients that you have to use somewhere in your meal. � ey’re all regional.”

He said as far as ingredients go,

this competition was fairly simple.“I’ve had other competitions

where you had to pair salmon with veal liver together somehow, and then you get the kidneys, and the hearts. O� al meats are tricky, espe-cially in that short period of time. Most of them take a long time to prepare.”

Time is a constraint. While an hour might seem like plenty to pre-pare a meal, with four courses to make, it can be stressful, and going over can cost you.

“I’ve struggled in other competitions,”Leeson said. “I’ve always gone over by 30 seconds, or a minute, and I’ve lost more than once because of it. � is time I didn’t go over time and I think we won by .125 per cent.”

One thing about the competition Leeson enjoyed was the camara-derie.

“You get to meet lots of cool people, and the people that are fun to compete against are really good about it. � ere’s no poor sportsman-ship, everyone helps each other,” he said. “If they need something that we have, we just give it to them, and if they have something that we need we can ask for it. It’s the camarade-rie. It gives you an idea of where you stand in the grand scheme of things. Sometimes living in a small town like Nakusp, you can do well here, but does that mean you’re actually good, or just good here? � at kind of thing. It’s nice to kind of get out there and compete against some of the top winning chefs in B.C.”

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Terri Roberts was the lucky winner of the Arrow Lakes News Summer Shopping Spree. Roberts was given $250 in vouchers to spend at local stores. She chose Overwaitea, Home Hardware, Touch of Fashion, and Treasure Trove. She was allowed to spend a maximum of $75 at each store.

“It was fun. I had a great time. I try to shop local as much as possible. I like sup-porting the local businesses,” Roberts said.

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� is is part three and � nal column which focusses on the history of the Sinixt People, courtesy of Sharon Montgomery of Nakusp and District Museum.

In the year 1770, Samuel Hearne, a British explorer who worked for the Hudson Bay Company, travelled overland from Churchill, Manitoba across the North West Territories to the mouth of the Coppermine River on the Arctic Ocean.

Samuel and his expedition brought about disease to the natives of the NWT and in turn, the diseases � ltered down across the Grease Trails and trade routes wiping out almost 80 per cent of the Aboriginals in southeast BC, Washington, Oregon and Idaho — all along the Columbian River Basin.

In 1836, smallpox hit Colville and half of the Sinixt popu-lation perished. In the winter of 1847-48, a total of 123 chil-dren died of measles at Fort Colville. In 1850-51, in� uenza

struck. In 1853 another smallpox epidemic hit — then two more epidemics ravaged the Sinixt in 1857 and 1862. A� er the third of � ve waves of disease, infected Hudson Bay blan-kets came through this area, and the terri� ed Sinixt people began to leave. � ey were absorbed by neighbouring Salish Tribes because they were known as the Mother Tribe and were very much respected.

It was during the mid-1800s when the border was es-tablished between Canada and the US. � e Sinixt people were at Kettle Falls engaging in their annual � shing expedi-tions. When they tried to go north to their winter homes, they were stopped at the border and were told that they now had to make a decision about being either a Canadian or an American Indian. At that time, there was no reservation in existence within the Columbia Basin — only disease and persecution by bounty hunters. � ere was however, a large reservation in their southern territory at Fort Colville. � e Sinixt chose the safety of a reservation where disease could (potentially) continue to plague them. Some Sinixt chose to live in rural areas, such as Burton and Arrow Park and even-tually, some 30 years later, a small reserve was established across from Burton at “Oatscott.”

In 1953, when Annie Joseph of Oatscott passed away, the

Government thought she was the last person on the band list. So, just prior to the planning of the Columbia River Treaty in 1956, the Federal Government mistakenly declared the Ar-row Lakes People extinct, in Canada. � e authorities of the time wanted an unencumbered valley to � ood.

Today there are a great many Sinixt people living in Colville, Wash. � ey would like the opportunity to have the freedom to travel their ancestral territory, visit their burial grounds and return to stewardship of this landscape. Cur-rently the Federal Government remains in negotiations with the Sinixt to have their Extinct Status removed.

� ey have plans for a number of biological and environ-mental studies including terrain, hydrology, � sheries, lichens and wildlife mapping. � ey have identi� ed four keystone species critical to the local ecosystem — grizzly, wolver-ine, mountain caribou and � sheries. So, these people, even though they have “ghost status” are quietly working at pre-serving this landscape because it is their cultural law to pro-vide stewardship.

� e Museum will be closed for the winter season on Sept. 19, reopening in May, 2016, however group or classroom tours can be arranged upon request at other times. Call Sharon at 250-265-2120.

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October 2, 1925 � e palatial steamer, Bonnington was

tied up at the ways here for the winter on Saturday night- the Minto taking her place. � e passenger tug Columbia was taken down to Robson on Saturday by Capt. J. Fitzsimmons where she will be tied up until the lower lake service is necessary.

October 3, 1935 W.K. Esling, Conservative candidate for

Kootenay West Riding, addressed a well attended meeting in the Bosun Hall, New Denver,on Friday.

An attentive audience gathered in the Opera House in Nakusp Tuesday to listen to H.W. Herridge of Nakusp, C.C.F. candi-date for Kootenay West, and E. Bakewell, MLA.

D.D. McLean, the National Liberal Fed-eration candidate for Kootenay West re-ceived enthusiastic support from meeting in the lower area of the Kaslo-Slocan rid-ing.

� e chicken supper put on by the Nee-dles Women’s Institute was a huge success from every angle. Over 100 people sat down at the well loaded tables during the course of the evening.

October 4, 1945 A joint nomination convention was held

recently at New Denver in the Kaslo-Slo-can riding for the purpose of nominating a Coalition candidate to contest this seat in the coming election. Capt. C.S. Leary was nominated from the Liberal side and Alex Bedard of Nakusp from the Conservative side. Twenty-eight delegates had been pre-viously chosen from each party to vote by ballot on the issue. It was later announced by the chairman that Mr. Leary had won a majority of 10. Mr. Bedard then pledged his support for Mr. Leary.

Frank Rushton proposed the toast to the bride and groom of 40 years on � ursday evening, when Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Fowler of

Pine Lodge celebrated the anniversary of their wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler were married at Trout Lake on Sept. 27, 1905.

October 25, 1955 H.M. Rolston has been given the con-

tract to clean up the Nakusp arena site with half the salvage going to the contractor and half to the Recreation Commission. Mr. Rolston will also erect the side walls which are still good. An attempt is still be-ing made to collect damages assigned but the B.C. Court by registering the claim in Alberta.

Charles Augustus Ferguson, a pioneer of Edgewood, died there on Saturday. He was 80 years old and had come to the Edge-wood district 46 years ago.

September 30, 1965 For a winter project the Kinette Club of

Nakusp has chosen to establish a museum in Nakusp. � ey will work in conjunction with the Women’s Institute. � e group has

been given permission to use a basement room of the Centennial Building to house the articles collected for the museum.

A Prince George contractor, London Contracting and Development Ltd., and MacAurthur Construction Co. Ltd have been awarded contracts to clear areas that will be � ooded by the Arrow Dam.

October 1, 1975 A former resident and old timer, Wm.

Mann Strachan passed away at White Rock at the age of 95. He came to Burton be-fore World War I, and a� er serving over-seas, lived in Burton until his property was bought out by B.C. Hydro due to the � ood-ing.

October 2, 1985 A retirement party was held for Monica

Irwin on Friday, Sept. 27 at Bosun Hall in New Denver. Mrs. Irwin worked for 20 years as the secretary at Lucerne School in New Denver.

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If you were to stop by Studio Connexion today, you’d see some-thing quite di� erent on the gallery walls: art-work made from bees-wax, otherwise known as encaustics.

� e art form, which was practised by Greek artists as far back as the � � h century BC is also practised by New Den-ver artist Louise Ducha-rme.

She discovered the art form when search-ing for ideas when she taught art for Grades 8-12.

“I like this medium because it’s exploratory and it’s playful, you don’t know what’s re-ally going to happen, so you’re making deci-sions as you go along about what it’s going to be like,” she said. “At the beginning, the only decision I could really

make was my knowl-edge of colour theory. If I had the right colours, whatever would hap-pen would at least look somewhat good because of colour theory.”

� e showing marks the � rst time Studio Connexion has had a gallery of encaustic works.

“Every year I look for new artists and I like to present something new at the gallery, because otherwise you just have the same old thing over and over and over,” said curator Anne Beliveau.

All the pieces in the gallery were created speci� cally for the show.

“She produced a lot of material. She came with all her material last Tuesday, and had a lot of di� erent pieces,” said Beliveau. “Some were a little less abstract than others and we decided which ones were go-ing to stay in the show. � en you lay out how

the show should look, and you have to link it together and it has to � ow well.”

When creating en-caustic art, you always work on wood because you don’t want the wax to bend or crack. � e wax can also be a little tricky to work with.

“I have little pots of melted wax on a hot plate. I will take a brush

of natural hairs, and I’ll put it onto my board, but as soon as it hits the board, it gets hard, said Ducharme.

“Every time I want to add another colour or another layer I have to fuse it with a hot air gun or a propane torch so it all melts again.”

From � e Melting Pot will be at Studio Con-nexion until Oct. 10.


Encaustic art makes a Connexion

Isaac and Orsi Carter admire some of Louise Ducharme’s artwork.

Photo by Jillian Trainor

Ninety-ninth in a series on West Kootenay/Bound-ary place names

� e Kettle River was named by July 31, 1860 when the Victoria Daily Colonist quoted a New Westmin-ster Times report about gold being found “on all the tributaries of the Okinakin [sic] Rock Creek, Kettle River, and Semilkameen [sic] in paying quantities.”

� ere are a couple of theories about the name’s origin. As G.P.V. and Helen Akrigg put it in Brit-ish Columbia Place Names, one possibility is that it “comes from the boiling, seething Kettle Falls, which were known as La Chaudiére [� e Boiler] to early explorers.”

Alternatively, it comes from “the round holes, shaped like cauldrons, which water has hollowed out in the rocks.” Hudson’s Bay Co. governor George Simpson gave the latter explanation in 1847, accord-ing to the Akriggs, although they didn’t say where.

� e river, and its valley, was previously known by the Okanagan name Nehoialpitku, according to Lt. Charles Wilson of the British Boundary Com-mission, who wrote on Aug. 31, 1860: “We started for to continue our journey to Colville and passing throughout he town of Rock Creek followed down the stream of the Nehoialpitku. Oh! Valley of the Nehoialpitku, how shall I sing thy praises!”

(� e name is otherwise written as nxwya?łpítkw.

Colonial secretary Arthur Birch gave it as N-whoy-alpit-kwu in a letter written on Oct. 31, 1864.)

When a post o� ce application was � led in 1891 near what was then called Grande Prairie (and is now called Grand Forks), postal inspector E.H. Fletcher wrote: “As there is already a post o� ce in operation [known] as Grande Prairie it would not be desirable to duplicate the name, and the establishment of the o� ce applied for as ‘Kettle River’ will be satisfactory.”

He was wrong. � ree years a� er the Kettle River post o� ce opened in 1892, residents petitioned for a name change, feeling Kettle River was too general, since there were many settlements along it. So it was renamed Carson in 1896 and operated until 1915.

� e north fork of the Kettle River became known as the Granby a� er the Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of Granby, Que. which built a smelter at Grand Forks in 1900. � e earliest known reference to the river by that name is in the Grand Forks Sun of Feb. 23, 1917: “A few properties on Granby river, mostly in Franklin camp, were examined …”

� e name Kettle Valley, meanwhile, dates to the creation of the Kettle Valley Railway Co. in early 1898. Kettle Valley, the community just east of Rock Creek, dates to before 1913, when the post o� ce opened. It closed in 1975.

What’s strange at � rst glance, however, is that in-stead of taking its name from the Kettle, the district came to be known for a tributary, Boundary Creek. We’ll look at this in greater detail next week.

Paddling the Kettle River at Grand Forks. It was so named by 1860. Courtesy Graham Watt

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Kettle River was first known as Nehoialpitku

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There are eight spe-cies of wrens in British Columbia, but only one occurs regularly in our region. All B.C. wrens are quite small and gen-erally brown in colour. They tend to be fairly se-cretive and spend their time creeping through the vegetation foraging for insects and fruit, of-ten with their tails held high above their backs. Most have long narrow bills, ideally suited to probing in cracks and crevices for food. All but two species are cavi-ty nesters, and some will use artificial nest boxes.

The Pacific Wren is the only wren that breeds in the Nakusp region. Along with the very similar Winter Wren, it is the smallest of the North American wrens measuring just 10cm from tip of bill to tip of tail. It favours ar-eas of dense vegetation, usually in moist situa-

tions in the coniferous forest. Nests are usually built in natural cavities but old woodpecker holes are occasion-ally used. Spaces under stumps or in the roots of an upturned tree are frequently used natural sites.

The Pacific Wren has one of the most remark-able songs of all the North American song-birds. It is loud, varied, and long, lasting 8-10

seconds. Several au-thors have attempted to describe it, but few have done it justice. In 1926, P. A. Taverner, in his book Birds of Western Canada, calls the wren the “...finest songster of the northern woods.” He goes on to say, “It’s song, strangely discon-nected yet continuous, composed of jerkily jumbled trills and stac-cato notes, dies down as though about to cease,

only to revive and con-tinue with full vigour several seconds longer.” The Encyclopaedia of North American Birds describes the song as: “...loud, rich, full, ... rising and falling high pitched notes in a fine silver thread of music ... con-tains 108-113 separate notes...”. Once heard, the song is difficult to forget! (You can hear it for yourself at https://www.youtube.com.

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Pacific Wren. Photo by Gary Davidson

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Barry Rein enjoys the beautiful falll weather outside What’s Brew-ing on Broadway.


� e Nakusp Public Library was full as people came to hear author Caroline Woodward read from her latest book Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper.

It was a chance encounter that would bring the Woodward-George’s to their de-cision to leave their jobs in publishing.

At the Nakusp Public Library on Sept. 23, author Caroline Woodward explained what led to the making of a life altering decision.

One day, while on the ferry bound for Alert Bay, Caroline rescued a Jack Russell Terrier on the deck, and met its owner, a relief lighthouse keeper. � ey got to talk-ing, and Caroline realized this would be something Je� would probably like to do.

“I called him a� er I � nished taking book orders in Alert Bay and Port McNeil, and I drove down the island highway to the northern outskirts of Campbell River, where there’s cell phone service,”she said. “I said ‘Get the white wine chilling honey, I’m going to buy salmon at the dock in Camp-bell River. I have found out what we’re go-ing to be doing for the rest of our lives.’”

With her blessing, Je� applied to be a relief lighthouse keeper, and once his training was through, he got a posting on Egg Island. In 2008, he was asked to be the assistant lighthouse keeper on Leonard Is-land. It was then that Caroline made the decision to become a relief keeper.

A� er going through several training courses, including � rst aid, and a VHF ra-dio course, she was ready.

“I ended up having to do relief 15 days a� er I got to the Island,” she said.

She now does anywhere between six and eight months of relief work a year.

At the lighthouse, they give weather re-ports every three hours, the � rst one is at

4:40 a.m., the last at 10:40 p.m.Of the many lighthouses that dot the

B.C. coastline, 27 are sta� ed. Woodward stated the importance of having these lighthouses sta� ed, as opposed to being monitored by computer, when she re-counted an event that took place just a few weeks ago.

“I was waiting for that last weather re-port, and all of a sudden there was bang, bang, bang on our door at Leonard Island. We have kind of a hostile island, jagged toothy beaches, it’s not a safe place,” she said. “� ere was, in the fading light of 9:30 p.m. and fog rolling in, a man and his little boy. � ey had come in on some sort of Canadian Tire kayak, and there was no cover, had no VHS radio. � eir phone was soaking wet and defunct — they were in big trouble.

“We got them warmed up, and Je� woke

up, and called the lifeboat crew and they came out and took them back to the resort they had zig-zagged away from.”

Marilyn McKinnon, one of the attend-ees, thoroughly enjoyed the reading.

“I thought she was just delightful, very articulate,” she said. “I was particularly interested in her talk, because I’ve been out to that area, and I just love it. I’ve seen quite a few of the lighthouses when we’ve been on the water, in and around the in-side passage, so I was interested in hearing of her life as a light keeper.”

� e � rst week the book was released it was number 10 on the B.C. Best Seller List, and last week it went up to number three.

Woodward thinks part of the reason is because many people have connections to lighthouses on both coasts.

“It’s really a part of our history, and peo-ple really connect to that.”


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Last Thursday, students from the Nakusp Ele-mentary School partici-pated in the 9th annual TRYathlon. This year the swimming portion of the TRYathlon was ex-changed with an obsta-cle course encouraging all students in Grades 4-7 to participate in the obstacle course, bike and run.

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October 1 Recycling Day in Nakusp! Leave your recycling on the curb in clear blue bags, for 7 a.m. pick-up.

October 1 Mother Goose @ Nakusp Public Library. 10 to 11 a.m.

October 1 Nakusp T’ai Chi @ the Legion 10 to11 a.m. Call Ruth 265-3353.

October 1 African Drumming Group @ Move on the Kusp at 7:15 p.m. Bring your own drum. New drummers welcome.

October 2 All Candidates Meeting @ Silverton Me-morial Hall. 7 p.m.

October 3 Richard Cannings (NDP Federal candidate) @ Broadway Deli. 8 to 9:30 a.m.

October 3 Nakusp Farmer’s Market between KSCU and What’s Brewing. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

October 3 Nakusp & District Museum Open House. Come and see what we’ve done! We’ve spent all summer completely renovating all our displays. You will be impressed. Free admission and light refresh-ments served. 11 to 3 p.m. October 3 Community Choir practice @ Saddleback Church. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For ages 19 years and up. Cost is $7 on your � rst practice only. For more information contact Marilyn Massey @ 250 265-4087.

October 4 AA Meeting 5 to 6 p.m @ the Terra Pon-dera Clubhouse in Nakusp. For more information call 265-4216.

October 5 BC Transit Bus to Nakusp Hot Springs. The bus leaves Overwaitea at 1:15 and arrives back in Nakusp at 3:55 p.m. Cost is $1.25 one way, or $2.50 round trip.

October 5 Bridge @ Nakusp Senior’s Centre, every Monday 1:30 to 4 p.m. Cost is $2.50, and beginners welcome.

October 6 Free Family Law and Child Protection information session @ ASLCS (Community Services). 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information or to schedule an appointment call The Advocacy Centre at 1-855-552-2708 ir 250-352-2708.

October 6 Nakusp T’ai Chi @ the Legion 10 to11 a.m. Call Ruth 265-3353.

October 7 Poker Night @ the Leland Hotel. It’s free and beginners are welcome. 7 p.m. start. For more information contact Dan @ 265-3314.

October 7 AA Meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. @ the Terra Pondera Clubhouse in Nakusp. For more information call 265-4216.

October 9 ALHS presents: The Jean Spicer Collection @ The Bonnington Arts Centre. A selection of stunning imagery from the 1950’s -1980’s, spanning the Arrow, Lardeau & Slocan Valleys. Admission by donation and refreshments and goodies available.

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Most executors, when asked if they would ever take that task on again, answer with a resounding “No”. Although honoured when � rst appointed executor, many quickly re-alize they lack the legal know-how to properly administer an estate when called upon.

Most Canadians are either named as executor in a will or have a will of their own in which they’ve named an executor. As executor, certain duties must be performed, within a certain timeframe and in a speci� c order. Vehicle ownership must be trans-ferred, terminal tax returns � led, taxes paid (including the possibility of capital gains tax), property trans-ferred, accounts closed and accurate records kept. � e average estate in Canada takes 18 months to settle. Even a little planning by the testator (writer of the will) now can make a big di� erence to the executor later when called upon.

“Executors, usually at a very emo-tional and stressful time in their lives, need to complete a task they have never done—or did once twen-ty years ago. � ey are required to � nd and gather speci� c documenta-tion, know who to contact and locate where the government o� ces are, pay for numerous fees…for many, it is daunting,” says Kevin Holte, sem-inar presenter and Assurant Life of Canada district manager. “� at’s why we are thrilled to be able to pro-vide this important information that can save families unnecessary head-aches and estate settlement costs.

“It never ceases to amaze me how o� en a death in the family is the spark that ignites the underlying

� ame of sibling rivalry or perceived parental favouritism…add mon-ey to the mix and the executor can be looking at a Molotov cocktail of stress,” says Holte.

One of the most common mis-takes people make is trying too hard to avoid probate fees. “People need to be aware of the risks when they joint their home with one of their kids, because sometimes the cure is worse than the disease” adds Holte. “I think what the local funeral home is doing to educate and empower the public is very commendable.”

Bill Clark, local funeral home owner, is enthusiastic about the sem-inar’s content. “It is important for the average person to walk away from the seminar with some real under-standing and tangible steps they can take to make their executor’s job eas-ier. � at’s exactly what these semi-nars provide, and they are presented in simple English so even the most ‘rookie’ testator or executor will ben-e� t.”

Everyone is invited to attend. Topics include an understanding of the executor’s legal responsibilities along with a realistic expectation of costs and timelines, time-saving and money-saving tips, dangers of joint ownership, explanation of probate, capital gains tax overview, funeral pre-planning information as well as cremation options. “� e goal is to ensure everyone ends up with a grateful executor and not a frazzled one,” Holte summarizes.

� e estate planning seminar will be held Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6:30 p.m. at the Valley Funeral Home. To regis-ter, call 250-265-4316.

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Work B.C. celebrated six of its clients on Sept. 23 with its second annual Celebrating Diversity event, held at Gabi’s Fairytale Café.

“We’re celebrating the word diversity, the idea of diversity, and the success of diversity tonight,” said Terri McLeod, a rehabilitation consultant with Work B.C. “Disability, or differing ability as we know it, is just another difference, like cultural eth-nicity, sexual orientation, or gender. We recognize that by embracing differences, embracing diversity can be a valuable source of personal inspiration and insight, insight that hopefully leads us to become more tolerant, patient, and accepting people by wit-nessing the diversity of our fellow man.”

Those being celebrated were individuals who have shown success in the workplace over the last 12 months.

Success varies for each person depending on their abilities. One might be able to work a couple of hours a week, another person might be able to do fifteen hours a week.

McLeod says it depends on what their passion is, and what kind of jobs are available for them.

“We’ve got two self-employed people with dis-abilities that have been doing self-employment, and sometimes self-employment is a really good fit for differently abled people.

“They can control their work environment, they can control what they do and when they do it.”

Kim Keriaff, one of the six clients celebrated, shared her story.

In December of 1984, she suffered a spinal cord injury, breaking her neck on the fifth and sixth ver-tebrae. At the time, she was enrolled in the Early Childhood Education program at Selkirk College.

During her rehab, she met with a counsellor who was also in a wheelchair. The counsellor had also tried going for the ECE program, but didn’t make it, and said if she couldn’t make it, Keriaff probably couldn’t do it either.

“At that point I was really crushed, because it was my passion,” she said.

Fortunately Keriaff has a mother who doesn’t take no for an answer.

“I ended up moving back to Castlegar a few years later, and she came in my bedroom and said ‘What are you going to do?’ and I said ‘Well, I’m going to watch TV.’ She said ‘No, what are you going to do

with the rest of your life?’ and I said ‘I’m going to watch TV.’ She wouldn’t hear of that.

“She was saying ‘You need to do something with your life.’ I said ‘I wanted to do the ECE but was told that I couldn’t.’ She said prove that you can.”

Keriaff thinks events like these are needed.“I think it’s important to let people know that ev-

erybody has something to give if you just give them a chance,” she said.

The event also celebrated local employers, com-munity groups, and individuals who have hired or supported people in the community with diverse needs.

“You have come forward and invested in the wholeness of our community,” said Tim Payne, ex-ecutive director of the Arrow & Slocan Lakes Com-munity Services and Halcyon Assisted Living So-ciety. “You have fought the naysayers and you have offered your expertise and time in a manner that benefits and includes everyone, and in doing so, you have demonstrated the true meaning of being inclusive. Thank you for that.”

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The Council of the Village of New Denver proposes to borrow the money and undertake the purchase of a replacement fi re engine unless, by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 6, 2015, at least 10 percent of the electors in the Village of New Denver sign an elector response form opposing the implementation of the proposal. The number of elector responses required to prevent the local government from proceeding unless a formal vote is held is estimated to be 40.

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Community leaders and volunteers will join Black Press, Kootenay Savings Credit Union and the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy on Oct. 8 to raise awareness about the importance of literacy and to celebrate the power literacy has in the Arrow and Slocan Lakes area.

� e 5th Annual Reach a Reader cam-paign will raise funds for local community-based literacy pro-grams.

Why literacy? Statis-tics indicate that up to 45 per cent of BC’s adult population has di� cul-ty with some daily liv-ing tasks — due in part to limited literacy skills. � ese include reading a newspaper, � lling out an application form, reading a map, or un-derstanding a lease.

“Literacy is the single most signi� cant skill needed to function ef-fectively in school, in the workplace and in society,” says Lisa Bjar-nason. “� rough our

Reach a Reader cam-paign, we hope to in-crease awareness of literacy needs in our community and raise funds to support the lit-eracy programs and ser-vices available for chil-dren, families, adults, and seniors.”

In Nakusp funds will help support the Parent-Child Mother Goose program. In Mother Goose, parents and young children between

the ages of zero and four come together to enjoy songs, rhymes and sto-ries that encourage early language development.

You can support the Reach a Reader cam-paign by making a do-nation in exchange for a special edition of the Arrow Lakes News on Oct. 8. Volunteers will be on the street in Na-kusp with papers in hand at Overwaitea be-tween 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

You may also donate online at chimp.net/groups/arrow-slocan-lakes-reach-a-reader-campaign.

To learn more about community-based lit-eracy programs contact Lisa Bjarnason, Arrow and Slocan Lakes Com-munity Literacy Coor-dinator, at [email protected] or go to cbal.org/arrow--slocan-lakes.About Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy:

� e Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL) is a not-for-pro� t organization that develops, promotes and delivers literacy and es-sential skills services for people of all ages in the Columbia Basin and Boundary regions.

CBAL’s 16 Commu-nity Literacy Coordina-tors provide services in 77 communities, work-ing with local literacy advisory committees to develop e� ective lit-eracy programs and re-sources in the commu-nities they serve.


CommunityLiteracy campaign launches

Mom and baby enjoy time together at Mother Goose. Donate to the Reach a Reader cam-paign to support literacy programs in the Arrow and Slocan Lakes region.

When it comes to personal � nance, too many people wander aimlessly with very little awareness how their spend-ing habits today will a� ect their future. Setting goals is very powerful and re-warding simply because it sets a foun-dation for future success and a strategy to achieve it.

Many people skip this important step in their path to � nancial independence or retirement. Some make an attempt to set goals but they may not do it properly. Skipping goal setting can certainly still lead to success but maybe success by chance instead of choice. On the other hand, setting goals can increase the like-lihood of success because it starts a plan. Remember the old saying “People who fail to plan, plan to fail?”

One of the challenges in the world of personal � nance is it’s such a big space. Financial planning can mean so many di� erent things, such as:

• Debt management – How to reduce, manage and pay down your debts like mortgage, credit cards, lines of credit. Which ones should you tackle � rst?

• Saving money – How much should you save? Is it better to use RRSPs or TFSAs? When do you have enough?

• Tax Planning – It’s not how much you make that counts but rather how much you keep a� er tax that makes all the di� erence.

• Retirement planning – When do you want to retire? Can you retire? Do

you have a plan for retirement?• Estate planning – Do you have a

will? An enduring power of attorney? Have you thought about what will hap-pen if you die or become disabled?

• Risk management - Are you pro-tected from � nancial disaster? Do you have enough life insurance or disability coverage?

• Investing – Do you know what you are investing in? Do your investments line up with your goals?

• Saving for children’s education – Are you utilizing RESPs? Have you looked at other ways to save?

Take a snapshot of where you are right now. Recognize your areas of strength and weakness and establish your goals around them.

Develop an action plan; goals cannot be met without action. It may be easier to break down your goals into smaller milestones and make adjustments as necessary. Achieving goals starts with � nding a balance between setting goals that can be accomplished while still allowing you to live the life you want right now.

What is really important to you? Do your goals match your values? Is build-ing up a savings account important or is paying down debt more important to you? Your goals belong to you and no one else. Ensure they re� ect what you want, not your neighbor, coworker or extended family members.

And remember, it’s never too late or too early to start planning.

MARIA KRUCHEN Kootenay Savings MoneyWorks

Increase your � nancial literacy

Arrow Lakes News, October 01, 2015

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