Eagle Valley News, January 14, 2015

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Heavy snowfall, a highway closure and repeated power outages brought Sicamous to a standstill early last week.

Between Monday and Tues-day, the community received about a half-meter of snow – similar to Salmon Arm and other parts of the Shuswap and North Okanagan. Environment Canada meteorologist Lisa Coldwells attributed the storm to a surge of cold Arctic air from the Yukon that settled into the valleys and was covered by a large warm air mass originat-ing in Hawaii.

“The two (air masses) are battling it out,” said Coldwells Monday. “And there has been

a continuous flow; that’s one of the keys for making it snow for what seems forever.”

Schools were closed Mon-day and Tuesday as a result of the snowfall and the subse-quent power outages that began Monday evening, and weren’t resolved until early Wednes-day, impacted approximately 3,900 customers in the area.

“The storm caused trees to fall into our transmission line and knock it out of service several times yesterday, which resulted in several power out-ages in Sicamous,” said BC Hydro spokesperson Mary Anne Coules. “The trees were weighed down from the enor-mous amount of snow we’ve had and the freezing rain on

Highway closure: Eastbound truckers wait in their vehicles parked along the Trans-Canada Highway, at the Husky Travel Centre and elsewhere in town last Wednesday morning. Photo by Lachlan Labere

Heavy snowfall cripples highway travel

Snowmobile accident kills Shuswap man

A Blind Bay man died at the scene of a snowmo-biling accident that occurred Friday near Sicamous.

The BC Coroners Service stated on Monday that David Mark Yule, 49, was killed on Friday, Jan. 9, after the snowmobile he was on went over a steep cliff.

The incident occurred in the backcountry of the Owlhead snowmobiling area.

Police, the BC Ambulance Service and search and rescue crews from Vernon and the Shuswap were called to the accident scene at approximate-ly 12:30 p.m. Sicamous RCMP Cpl. J.R. Lechky reports that upon arrival, authorities learned the 49-year-old had mistakenly driven his sled off a cliff, estimated to be 40 feet high.

Paramedics with BC Ambulance Service’s heli-copter service and the Vernon search team arrived within an hour, said Lechky, but were unable to resuscitate Yule, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Gord Bushell, general manager of the Eagle Valley Snowmobile Club, said he and the sledding community are upset by the incident and expressed their condolences to Yule’s family and friends. Bushell called the incident an unfortunate accident, and said Yule had been well-prepared to sled the backcountry.

“He was off on an un-groomed trail, he was in the backcountry and he wasn’t doing anything stu-pid,” said Bushell. “It was just an incident where he was coming down the hill and he ended up going over a cliff and wasn’t able to get away from the sled.”

Damage: A tree weighed down by heavy snow caught a telephone wire while crashing on top of a pickup truck parked at a Forest Park Street residence. Photo by Lachlan Labere

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

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Power outages: Close to 4,000 B.C. Hydro customers impacted.


Trail: Above is the trail head for the Owlhead sledding area. Photo by sledsicamous.com

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Jan.30 & 31 $2 Bag Sale Sicamous Thrift Shop 10 am - 3 pm clothing & shoes.Monday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. - Sicamous Amateur Drama Club rehearsals, 7:00 p.m., Red Barn Arts Centre. 836-4705.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group Contact Don at 250-838-0794.Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.Every Wed. - Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to

be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for info.Every Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5.Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please

feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Sicamous Health UnitEvery 4th Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Carol 250-836-3135 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpaletteclub.comEvery Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pmEvery 1st Fri. of the month –Sicamous Seniors Ctre general meeting 11:00am followed by a great pot luck lunch. We encourage every to join us.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors

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AWARDRays of Sunshine to the District Of� ce for the good work they did during and after the snow event. Pushing huge piles of snow back from driveways, having the lower turn around on CPR Hill cleared off after it was being used for a for stacking snow from the road .... thank you so much.

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cation line was also knocked down on Forest Park Street. Sicamous Fire Chief Brett Ogino said a tree on a residen-tial property fell under the weight of the snow, catching a telephone cable as it proceeded to fall on a pick-up truck parked on the neigh-bouring property. The power line was also hit, but did not disconnect or cause any damage.

Policing matters dur-ing the storm pertained mostly to managing the community-wide truck stop that began Monday night after the Trans-Canada Highway was closed east of Sicamous due to snow and ava-lanche conditions. Oth-er than that, and a few

false alarms, Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Scott West said there were no inci-dents.

The highway didn’t reopen until noon on Wednesday, Jan. 7. By that time there were ap-proximately 200 trac-tor-trailer units parked along the highway be-tween Sicamous and the Skyline Truck Stop in Malakwa.

For some of the truck drivers, being stuck in Sicamous overnight was just a part of the job, and something that’s fac-tored into the trip.

“You make sure you’re prepared, pack extra groceries, blan-kets, clothing, water, the essential stuff,” said Mike DeBakker, who was heading to Calgary from Aldergrove. “With winter driving, you nev-er know what to expect.

It can happen anywhere, be it an accident or whatever.”

As someone who fre-quently drives the TCH from the Lower Main-land to Alberta, DeBak-ker suggested widening the highway might help improve winter driving conditions. He also sug-gested there could be more highway mainte-nance.

“There have been a few times where there’s been some heavy snow-fall and it will be four or five hours before you see a plow on the road,” said DeBakker.

Trucker Marek Ko-rez’s solution, however, is to avoid the route alto-gether during the winter.

“No, I don’t come back to B.C.,” laughed Korez Wednesday morning, while en route to Calgary. His rig had

been parked on the highway shoulder since Tuesday. “I go maybe five times a year and I don’t come back to May 1.”

District of Sicamous operations manager Randy Hand said the power outages added insult to injury, at least as far as staffing goes. He said the heavy, wet snow was very difficult to deal with, adding clean-up didn’t begin until Wednesday.

“There’s so many factors to keep in mind like safety of motorists and pedestrians and ev-erything else, the clear-ing of sidewalks and just to open up the driv-ing areas so that resi-dents could get around, make appointments, get to work and things like that,” said Hand. “A lot of the local areas

weren’t done until the afternoon, which was difficult. But our priori-ties are first the down-town, and then we have the collector roads and then the local roads.”

While the power outages necessitated increased staff time for monitoring water and wastewater operations, Hand said the district was able to deal with the storm within bud-get, noting snowfall had been fairly light during the past two months. As for the numerous com-plaints received, Hand said they were usually able to resolve matters by explaining what the district was up against.

“Once we explain what we’re doing, peo-ple understand we’re hard at it and moving as fast as we can,” said Hand.

Property values remain stable in Shuswap

Truck drivers weather the storm in SicamousContinued from front

Stable is how BC Assessment deputy as-sessor Jason Sowinski describes housing val-ues for the Shuswap in 2015.

BC Assessment has released its annual ap-praisal of properties in the province, and own-ers can expect their no-tice to arrive in the mail if they haven’t received it already.

For the Shuswap, Sowinski said property assessment values saw minimal change – be-tween minus five and plus five per cent – over

the year prior. This con-trasts with properties in the Okanagan, especial-ly along the Okanagan Lake commuter cor-ridor, where assessed values increased up to 10 per cent.

Assessments are es-timates of a property’s current market value, and Sowinski notes, though sales numbers have increased in Si-camous and Salmon Arm, product demand isn’t the same as in larger North Okanagan municipalities.

“I know some of the higher-level housing in both of those commu-nities (Sicamous and

Salmon Arm), they’re still in demand…,” commented Sowin-ski. “But it’s not like Kelowna and Vernon, where it’s driven more by the up-tick in the lo-cal economies.”

Doug Hubscher, a Shuswap realtor and di-rector with the Okana-gan Mainline Real Es-tate Board (OMREB), has a slightly different perspective on local market activity. For 2014, OMREB saw “an upswing in consumer demand the strongest in seven years.” Sales activity was strongest in the Shuswap, with a 28 per cent increase in

residential sales over 2013.

Property values on residential sales only increased by 5.7 per cent, however, which Hubscher said is “rela-tive to what we’re see-ing from BC Assess-ment.”

If the current sales trend continues in the Shuswap, influenced by a decline in market in-ventory of lower-priced homes ($250,000 to $300,000), Hubscher says it’s likely property values will continue to increase.

“I’m cautiously op-timistic… that sales activity is going to be

translated into an up-ward movement of prices,” said Hubscher. “I’m cautious about it because I don’t think it’s going to be leaps and bounds.

Property owners concerned about their assessment may con-tact an appraiser and, if still unsatisfied, may appeal by submitting a notice of complaint to BC Assessment by Feb. 2. Appeals are re-viewed by an indepen-dent property assess-ment review panel. For more information, visit www.bcassessment.ca, or call 1-866-825-8322.


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Marie Munro was one of hundreds of truckers sidelined in Si-camous for close to 24 hours last Wednesday.

Part of a long line of semis that stretched from Sicamous to the Skyline Truck Stop in Malakwa, Munro con-sidered herself lucky to be stuck in a com-munity.

The 48-year old trucker, with 20 years of experience, has been sidelined along the Trans-Canada be-fore but said she was amazed when a knock came on the side of her truck door Tuesday evening.

"I rolled down the window and a woman said 'care package,' and handed me two foil-wrapped packages," said Munro, noting she spied a couple with a white pickup work-ing their way along the line, but it was too dark and happened so quickly she had no further details. "I said what's this? She said steak dinner. It was bar-becued steak, potatoes and veggies and it was really tasty. I scarfed it down right away."

Although she likes living in her truck and enjoys the amenities such as a heater, Inter-net access and a toaster oven, she had not yet made dinner.

Munro, who had been stopped with her feline travelling com-

panion, Turtle, since 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, was very touched by the thoughtfulness of the couple, who she noted, would have been without power them-selves.

That somebody turned out to be Si-camous resident Barb Makota and her partner Serge Miller, who were without power and were heading down the road to stay with a friend who has a wood-burning � replace.

Makota found steak in her freezer and bar-becued that and some veggies and dropped off the care packages to truckers on the way.

"We had fun doing it; it felt really good to be able to help people out and be generous," said Makota, pointing out her partner was a truck driver for 30 years.

"My heart sort of went out to the truck-ers; I know they’d been stuck. I felt so bad for them."

Makota says she was touched by Mun-ro's public acknowl-

edgment of her care package.

Munro meanwhile said several other truckers were also sur-prised and pleased by the couple's generosity and by the operators of

the local Husky, who were handing out free sandwiches and bever-ages.

While she has been stuck along the Trans-Canada more than once, and received spe-cial food baskets from local church groups when parked at truck stops over Christmas, she has never experi-enced this kind of com-munity generosity.

"It's really nice to see people are still car-ing about people," she said. "I want to say a huge thank you to Si-camous, especially considering they were without power."

Munro wishes as much care and atten-tion could be given to the Trans-Canada Highway.

"It's highway one – death highway; if it's not avalanches it's crashes," she says, calling for better road maintenance. "I notice just between Christmas and New Year, it's great running. But the rest of the time, where are the plow trucks, where is the sand on the road?"

Munro says if the province is going to privatize road main-tenance, they need to have more oversight.

"This isn't about money, this is about our lives," she says. "Don't privatize; or make the maintenance people li-able."

In terms of acci-dents, Munro says the trucking industry is

suffering and there is a shortage of experi-enced drivers.

"You used to have to have � ve to 10 years experience before you could drive the high-way, but now they're taking drivers right out of (truck-driving) school," she says.

"You need experi-ence out here, it can be dangerous out here."

Trucker impressed with local hospitalityBy Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

Travel buds: Marie Munro and her driv-ing partner Turtle. Photo contributed

That somebody turned out to be Si-camous resident Barb Makota and her partner Serge Miller, who were without power and were heading down the road to stay with a friend who has a wood-

Makota found steak in her freezer and bar-becued that and some veggies and dropped off the care packages to

My heart sort of went out to the truckers; I know

they’d been stuck. I felt so bad for

them.Barb Makota

Care packages: Stranded drivers surprised to receive hot meal.

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VICTORIA – My Christmas reading includ-ed a fascinating new book called Kennewick Man, a study of skeletal remains discovered in 1996 on the bank of the Columbia River in eastern Washington.

He was an ancient hunt-er buried just south of B.C. almost 9,000 years ago, in the Early Holocene pe-riod following the last Ice Age. Among the oldest hu-mans found along the West Coast of North America, he sparked an unprecedented battle by the Smithsonian Institution to examine the skeleton and publish the book late last year.

The most controversial evidence came from the skull. It doesn’t match the classic Mongoloid pro-file of modern aboriginal people, key to the theory that the earliest humans reached North America by land bridge from Siberia to

Alaska as glaciers receded.Smithsonian scientists

confirmed initial reports that Kennewick Man is a closer match with early Polynesians, and the Ainu people who remain in Japan today. He lived until about age 40, surviving for years with a stone spear point stuck in his hip.

The authors conclude from chemical analysis that “Kennewick Man could not have been a longtime resi-dent of the area where he was found, but instead lived most of his adult life some-where along the Northwest and North Pacific coast where marine mammals were readily available.”

This suggests migration by sea, perhaps from a great distance.

The U.S. Army seized the skeleton. The scien-tists sued and eventually won the right to a brief ex-amination. The court case exposed brutal and illegal actions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and fed-

eral departments to destroy the site and intimidate the scientists.

U.S. law demanded all remains from before Eu-ropean settlement be repa-triated for burial by local tribes, without examination.

The head of the Society for American Archaeology tried to get the researchers to drop their lawsuit, fear-ing it would interfere with fragile relationships with area tribes.

The U.S. Justice Depart-ment warned the Smithson-ian that lead scientist Doug-las Owsley and others might be in criminal conflict of in-terest as federal employees suing the government. Even the White House weighed in against them.

Meanwhile the skeleton was mishandled and later stored in substandard con-ditions at a Seattle museum, where it remains today. Parts of both femurs were lost, and scientists were falsely accused of taking them. They had been re-

moved by tribal representa-tives and secretly buried.

Kennewick Man was found as the army was in tense negotiations with tribes on salmon fishing rights on the Columbia, their demand for removal of dams, and the $100 bil-lion cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site.

The scientists finally won their case in 2004, with a ruling that the skeleton is so old there isn’t enough evidence to show it is re-lated to the current tribes. The judge found the army repeatedly misled the court, and assessed the govern-ment $2.4 million in costs.

The U.S. Army still con-trols the skeleton and denies requests for further study.

One final irony. Analysis shows Kennewick Man ate mostly salmon in his later years, around 6300 BCE. These are the salmon runs wiped out by dams built by U.S. Army engineers before the signing of the Columbia River Treaty with B.C.

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Heroic deed not a job qualification

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House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers performed a heroic deed in October when he shot dead a gun-

man who attacked Parliament Hill after murder-ing an unarmed solider guarding the National War Memorial.

That Vickers was brave that day is without dis-pute.

His actions very likely saved lives.For all that, Vickers has been commended.This week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper

announced Vickers will become Canada’s ambas-sador to Ireland, succeeding Loyola Hearn, a former Conservative MP.

Vickers has been sergeant-at-arms at Parliament since 2006, before which he spent a quarter-cen-tury working as a Mountie.

He may well become an effective ambassador to Ireland, but Vickers’ appointment again raises the question as to the qualifications of those awarded well-paid postings at home and abroad.

Surely performing a heroic deed while employed in a policing role cannot in and of itself qualify one to become Canada’s highest link to a Euro-pean country?

Is there anything else, aside from Vickers’ work in stopping a killer in October, that makes him the right person to become ambassador to Ireland?

Or, as with so many other appointments in poli-tics, is the plum gig a reward for doing a good job? And, if so, should it be this way?

We have seen too many people handed lives of luxury simply because they supported the govern-ment in power or because their celebrity can be perceived to help the government in power.

Vickers’ predecessor in Ireland, Hearn, is an example of the former. He was instrumental in working to unite the Progressive Conservatives and Canadian Alliance. Examples of the latter include journalists Mike Duffy and Pamela Wal-lin (to Harper’s eternal regret) and Sun Peaks’ own Nancy Greene Raine.

Here’s wishing Vickers well in Dublin while we also wish for more transparency in how and why these appointments are made.

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It’s 4 p.m. and I’ve just hit the wall.

No, not literally. I’m referring to the after-noon slump, that point in the day when mental exhaustion sets in, and writing a lengthy, de-tailed story about, say, how sitting at your desk eight hours a day will supposedly decrease your lifespan by 20 per cent (thank you Mayo Clinic) is out of the question. The risk of errors and omissions is too great, as is the prob-ability of my passing out on the keyboard.

Yesterday at this time of day I felt great, with plenty of energy.

Why do I feel this way now then?

Oh, right, the night visitor.

Two months ago, my family moved into a new place. The ad-justment is a work in progress. Part of this has to do with our five-year-old son’s sleeping habits. Well, one habit really. It seems he can no longer sleep through the night in his own bed.

Our son’s sleepy eyed, bedroom-to-bed-room pilgrimage oc-curs at around 1 a.m. He’ll open our bedroom door, crawl into our bed in between us and fall asleep. Which wouldn’t be terrible if his version of “sleep” complement-ed ours. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Sleep for him involves a lot of fidgeting, grab-bing and kicking, and that’s on top of the toss-ing and turning like an adult who’s consumed too much caffeine too late in the day.

So, once again, we find ourselves having to help our son re-es-tablish a healthy sleep

ritual that, ideally, will benefit us all. So far this hasn’t been easy – not that I expected it to be. Our son has be-come more fluent in the English language, and has clued in to words he know will sting. As I learned the other night, he’s not afraid to do use them when be-ing helped/herded back to his own bed. I don’t take it personally, but it doesn’t help matters any.

The effects of sleep deprivation on children are well documented on the Internet: defiant/contrary behaviour, dif-ficulty waking up, poor concentration during the day, need for long naps, etc. Thankfully, the Internet also offers plenty of help/solutions to our far-from-unique situation.

The same goes for adults dealing with sleeping issues, of which there are appar-ently, a great many.

A 2011 report by the World Associa-tion of Sleep Medicine (yes, that’s a real thing) indicated Canadians – both adults and chil-

dren – are experienc-ing an epidemic of sleep disorders. Co-incidentally,studies in-dicate the prescription sleeping pill industry has done quite well over the past decade. I suspect sales of sleep-related supplements such as melatonin, have also been on the rise. But not all solutions come from a bottle. Re-establishing a healthy sleep pattern may only require relatively minor lifestyle changes: avoid caffeine after lunch, ex-ercise (though not close to bed time), lower the temperature in your bedroom at night and try to keep the noise down.

Of course, none of that helps when the source of one’s sleep disturbance is a child who, for one reason or another, is determined to establish his or her own little groove in the middle of mommy and daddy’s bed.

Another joy of par-enting you don’t really think about until it hap-pens to you.

Is it 5 p.m. yet? Bet-ter yet, is it bedtime?

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Harper a hypocriteEver since 9-11, the

world has gone hay-wire over terrorism, with trillions of dollars wasted from war profi-teering and hundreds of thousands of lives lost. and there is no end in sight for this madness.

The shooting of a soldier in Ottawa along with the murder by two lone, disturbed indi-viduals provided Prime Minister Harper a slight bump in the polls because he capitalized on these events to boost efforts to fight terror-ism. And now the trag-edy in Paris is being used by the Conserva-tive government to urge more action. Yet few Canadians realize that despite Harper’s rheto-ric, behind the scenes, his government has been promoting weap-on sales to the Middle East, where these ar-maments may end up in the very hands of the very extremists the West is battling against.

The 10-year, $14.8-billion contract to sell light armoured vehicles made in On-tario in a General Dy-namics branch plant was promoted by the government-run Ca-nadian Commercial Corporation. Thus, it is no wonder the Harper Conservative govern-ment refused to sign the UN global Arms Trade Treaty, which came into effect three weeks ago after it was ratified by 50 countries.

Hopefully this fall, voters will be aware of the Canadian Conser-vative hypocrisy that condemns the “inter-national jihadist move-ment,” while at the same time facilitating more war profiteering and refusing to sign a treaty that encourages peace instead of more war.

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Friday, January 16thSicamous vs Princeton

Saturday, January 17thSicamous vs Revelstoke

Wednesday, January 21stSicamous vs Summerland

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SICAMOUS EAGLES PLAYER PROFILE

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Position: Forwards Home Town: Salmon Arm, BCAge: 19 Height: 6’ 4” Weight: 205 Prev Team: Sicamous EaglesGoals: Get a scholarshipHobbies / Interests: Golf, video gamesPersonal Hero: My parentFavorite NHL Team: Vancouver CanucksFavorite Player: Sidney CrosbyFavorite Music: Hip hop Favorite Food: LasagnaWhat do you like best about playing hockey in Sicamous:Being able to live at home.

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If you wish to “like” Sgt. Scott West, you’re going to have to meet him in person.

Sicamous residents will not find the com-munity’s new detach-ment commander on social media websites like Facebook. When it comes to public rela-tions, West says he pre-fers the tried-and-true approach of speaking with people in person.

“Face-to-face – that’s the way I’ve al-ways done business… and that’s the way I appreciate doing it,” said West. “If I have to do something over the phone, then great, but if it’s a community group or somebody who needs some per-sonal attention, that’s what I get paid to do – help people solve prob-lems.”

West’s approach may have something to do with his preference for working in smaller communities. Prior to Sicamous, West, who has served 22 years with the RCMP, was stationed in Dawson Creek. There he was Operations NCO (non-commissioned officer) and sometimes act-ing detachment com-mander. Prior to that, he worked four years in Kamloops, just under a year in Nakusp and 13 years in Kelowna.

“That’s just where my career path has led me…,” said West. “I’ve never been a big-city

boy, so I’m not inclined to go to the metro area or the Lower Mainland. I like small-town polic-ing. I like being able to deal with the public and being familiar with the people in town. That’s the way I grew up, I guess.”

West arrived in the Shuswap with his wife and two kids, who he says “have been fol-lowing him around for the last 15 years.”

Not having been in the community long, West said he’s still get-ting his bearings, but is quickly picking up on policing priorities that may be more unique to the community, such as snowmobiling. He says one of the local de-tachment’s focuses has been, and will continue

to be making sure local and visiting sledders can have a good time without being victims of crime.

“It’s not that I have to make any changes along those lines – the members here already have that mindset,” said West. “And then of course, in the summer-time – it is a summer-time destination – so it’s to make sure every-body has fun and does so responsibly and no-body ends up being a victim of a crime in any way, shape or form.”

While energies will be focused on polic-ing priorities, West an-ticipates his problem-solving abilities will be called upon for all kinds of matters.

“I was dealing with

a gentleman yesterday, it didn’t turn out it was solely a policing is-sue, and the policing issue was relatively minor, but it was an issue where he had a problem and he didn’t know how to solve it,” said West. “So I gave him a couple of outlets, a couple of avenues to follow up on his own.

“I told him to get back to me and tell me how he made out. He called me yesterday afternoon and he said all my problems are solved… so, did I solve somebody’s problem? No. But did I equip him with the informa-tion to be maybe help them solve their own problems on their own? Yeah. Sometimes that’s what the police do.”

West joins Sicamous detachment

In charge: Sgt. Scott West is now serving detachment commander at the Sicamous RCMP detachment. He arrives with 22 years experience with the RCMP. Photo by Lachlan Labere


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The launch of the new recycling program at Columbia shuswap Regional District depots was smoother at some sites than others.

Trying to make the transition from a co-mingled system to one that requires sorting re-cyclables into six cate-gories as smooth as pos-sible has been a bit of a challenge for staff, says Environmental Health lead Ben Van Nostrand.

“It’s one of the busi-est starts to a new year I’ve ever had,” he said last Thursday. “It’s been a bit of a learning curve, and that’s putting it mildly.”

Miscommunication between the regional district and Emterra, the company respon-sible for picking up recyclables from Bill’s Bottle Depot until mid-night Dec. 31, resulted in overflowing bins and a “rough start” for the new program.

Van Nostrand said Emterra had been try-ing to hold off on going to the depot to remove their large, familiar green bins until their contract had ended.

This resulted in over-flowing bins.

“There was some miscommunication, maybe on both sides, that led to some issues,” he said, noting the de-pot operator made sev-eral calls on Jan. 2 to get the bins removed, something that appar-ently happened after the depot closed. “One day the bins were there and the next day they were gone, but there was still stuff on the ground.”

Another issue that complicated the launch was the number of Salmon Arm residents who missed curbside collection over Christ-mas and took their co-mingled blue bags to the depot.

While several of the new commodities have been added to the curb-side collection program, some remain unac-ceptable – plastic foam packaging, glass and plastic bags or plastic film, which are part of the depot program only.

If a driver spots un-

acceptable material in the blue bag, he will leave it at the curb. If too much of the mate-rial ends up being col-lected, MMBC will fine the city.

For a complete list of acceptable curb-side items, visit www.salmonarm.ca and type recycling in the search window.

Meanwhile, Van Nostrand says that by Wednesday the Bill’s Bottles site looked fan-tastic and people at the depot were thanking him for adding the new categories such as plas-tic film and Styrofoam and saying they were happy to separate the material.

“We’ve had to hire a bunch of contractors so there’s a bit of an up-take on employment,” he said, noting that in the first week of 2015, more than 2,000 cubic feet of materials in-cluding Styrofoam had already been collected from the Shuswap by Materials Management BC (MMBC).

And that does not in-clude the estimated five tonnes-plus of fibre ma-terial.

“The other big thing is we haven’t paid any-thing for that; it’s all paid for by MMBC,” he said. “They are collect-ing and processing the material.”

And the savings will be used for new recy-cling programs such as food waste diversion and a permanent haz-ardous waste disposal facility.

“Through savings, we have budgeted to have a permanent facil-ity up and running in 2016 instead of hav-ing a hazardous waste round-up every two years,” Van Nostrand says. “And other options are included in the new Solid Waste Manage-ment Plan, which will be brought to the board by February or March.”

Van Nostrand says the transition so far has been better than he thought – at most de-pots.

Tempers have been hot at the Salmon Arm Landfill, despite the presence of contrac-tors who are not only providing information on the new system, but actually offering to help people sort their recy-cling.

“Someone will just throw their stuff on the ground and say ‘screw you,’” says Van Nos-trand of the attitude some attendants are dealing with. “They’re saying ‘I’ll dump it in the garbage.’”

That can be a costly response, as doing that will earn people a dis-incentive fee and other

penalties. “We’ve asked at-

tendants to get licence plate numbers and if it’s a bylaw issue we’ll fol-low up on it,” he says. “Attendants are only trying to help; it’s not their fault and they’ll even help you sort your stuff.”

Van Nostrand is frus-trated that some people are saying they were not told about impending changes, despite the re-gional district’s attempt to reach everyone with-in CSRD over the last several months through newspaper advertise-ments, their website, Facebook and Twitter.

Travel east to Si-camous and Malakwa and Van Nostrand says that while there has been some after-dark, illegal dumping, most residents are happy and welcome the new cat-egories.

Van Nostrand had heard little from the North Shuswap as of Thursday and was re-ceiving mixed reviews from South Shuswap.

“CSRD has part-nered with Bill’s, Sor-rento Firehall and Tap-pen Co-op,” he says. “We have begged them to help us make this work, but at the end of the day. if they are in-undated with garbage, they’re gonna walk and there won’t be a depot.”

CSRD sorts out new recycle program

Mountains of fun: Tyler Watson leaps over one of the piles of snow on the school grounds enjoyed by Parkview Elementary stu-dents last Wednesday following the snow storm that closed Shuswap schools for two days. Photo by Lachlan Labere

By Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

Waste not: CSRD’s Ben Van Nostrand recycles styrofoam at one of two new recycling bins in Salmon Arm on Friday, Jan. 9. Photo by Evan Buhler

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The Sicamous Ea-gles made sure the 300-plus kilometre trip to 100 Mile House Friday to take on the Wran-glers was well worth the effort.

Four hours of sitting on a bus didn’t deter the Eagles from earn-ing a 6-2 win versus

their Cariboo hosts. Devyn Myck lit up

the board with a goal early in the first period, assisted by Ben Camp-bell and Tyson Taylor. Minutes later, team-mate Scott Robinson added one off Samuel Subert. The Wranglers got on the board at 8:45 with a power-play conversion, but Nathan Plessis added a third

goal for Sicamous off Ashton Wake, putting the Eagles at 3-1 going into second period.

Carter Hansen, off Bradley Whitehead, added a goal early in the second frame. Later in the period, the Wran-glers were once again able to score on the power-play advantage.

Korwin Shewchuk potted a fifth goal for

the Eagles early in the third frame off Riley Cardinal. At this point the Wranglers were largely on the defen-sive, yet they were un-able to stop a goal by Wake at 10:04, assisted by Plessis and Hansen, who, at the end of the night was named the game’s second star.

On Saturday, Jan. 10, the Eagles were

back on home ice where they were hand-ed a 6-3 upset by the Revelstoke Grizzlies.

Myck delivered an unassisted single late in the first frame that wound up being the only goal that period. In the second frame, though the Eagles de-livered more shots on net, the Grizzlies sealed the win with five unan-

swered goals. The visi-tors added their sixth goal in the third frame on a power play. It was answered, however, a minute later by Darien Blight, off Wake and Hansen. Justin Wilde added the final goal of the night off Plessis and Campbell, and was named the game’s first star.

Tonight (Jan. 14),

the Eagles welcome the Chase Heat, to play a game that was cancelled last week on account of the snow-storm and related trav-el conditions. On the weekend, the Eagles will be in Princeton to take on the Posse, and then in Revelstoke for a rematch with the Griz-zlies. Game time is 7 p.m.

Eagles trip up Wranglers with 6-2 win in 100 MileBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News


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After a full and eventful life Stanley went to be with the Lord on December 28, 2014. He was halfway to his 90th birthday. Stan is survived by his four children Dan (Shirley), Linda (Steve), Liz (Shawn) and Doug, his wife Margery of 35 years as well as grandchildren Tim (Kristy), Carolyn (Mark), Stephen, Ryan (Shawna), Shane (Ileana), Jennifer (Rose), Mathew (Tanya), Caroline (Dorian), Joshua and Stephanie; and 13 great-grandchildren.

In his retirement years he moved to Sicamous, BC, where he took up wood carving with chain saws and other tools, creating beautiful cedar plaques of fish and birds. He had a home alongside a creek at the edge of a mountain and he spent hours tending his garden creating a park-like environment. It was the envy of all around him. He was also active in the local church and worked on behalf of seniors in the community. In 2002 he returned to Winnipeg to finish his years closer to the majority of his family. He lived in Lions place for 11 years and then one year at Lions Manor Supportive Housing. A memorial service was held on January 8, 2015 at 2:00 pm, at Neil Bardal Funeral Centre, 3030 Notre Dame Ave. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Lions Housing Centres of Winnipeg.

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STANLEY DOUGLAS BURTONJuly 18, 1925 - December 28, 2014

Edward (Ted) Whitehead, age 86, died at Salmon Arm hospital on January 7th. Ted died with his wife Eileen and family at his side.

Ted was born on April 28th, 1928 in Miami Manitoba. He has lived in Sicamous since March of 1961. Ted had a variety of careers starting as an electrical engineer, worked on the Rodgers Pass road construction, was a Superintendent of mill construction, had a metal fabrication shop, constructed homes in Sicamous, then for many years had logging and site preparation equipment. Ted retired at the age of 72 and enjoyed telling stories, woodworking and travelling.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the Sicamous Legion Hall on

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Hard work and determination will pay off for Shea Weber in February when he suits up in the red and whites of Team Canada.

The 24-year-old Sicamous product was tagged last month to represent the nation in the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s a goal Weber had been working towards, and an opportu-nity he’s proud to be part of.

“The Olympics are a very special event, not only for hockey but for winter sports and to be able to play for your country and compete for a medal is kind of neat,” says Weber.

The 6’4”, 234 lb. Nashville Predators defenceman will be sporting the maple leaf with other big names in hockey like Scott

Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks), Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks), Chris Pronger (Philadelphia Flyers) and Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Pen-guins).

Apart from a camp held last summer, We-ber guesses the team may have a couple of days to gel in February before hitting the ice in Whistler, and he’s interest-ed in seeing how everyone fi ts. But Weber’s mom and dad, Tracy and James, don’t ex-pect Shea will have any problems.

“Whatever they want him to do, he’ll do it,” said James. “He’s a team-fi rst guy, he’s not a selfi sh player at all.”

Both parents share what could be described as a subdued excite-ment for their son and the hon-our that’s been bestowed up on him.

“Shea phoned home and said ‘I’ve been chosen

to play in the Olympics, and I said ‘okay,’” Tracy commented, explaining it’s kind of a family trait not to overreact – one that Shea

shares. But she and James who, with Shea,share roots in Sicamous minor hockey, are defi nitely excited, and are hoping to attendat least one of their son’s games.

Sicamous Eagles manager Wayne Marchis also pretty excited by the news that Shea, an Eagle alumni, will be playing forhis community and country at the Games.March says Shea has been totally focusedthroughout his career on what he wanted todo: make it to the NHL. In the process, Sheahelped the Eagles win the KIJHL West-ern Canadians in 2001-02; he helped takethe Kelowna Rockets to three consecutiveWHL Memorial Cup championship games,including the win in 2004; and, after signingwith Nashville in 2004, he helped the Ca-

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