Sicamous voters have chosen Suzanne Carpenter to be their sixth representative on municipal council. Preliminary election results for the Sept. 28 bye- lection show Carpenter handily winning a seat on council with 208 votes. Lynn Miller came in second place with 90 votes, followed by Terri Sinton with 61. The News hoped to speak to Carpenter about her victory, but she was on vacation. Mayor Darrell Trouton, however, was not, and provided comment in a following news release. “We are happy to have Suzanne join our team,” said Trouton. “I’m sure she will bring a new per- spective, and we all look forward to working with her.” According to district chief administrative of- ficer Heidi Frank, 90 voters took advantage of the advance poll on Sept. 18, while 269 cast their ballot on the Sept. 28 election day. As of the Nov. 2011 election, there were 1,953 eligible voters in the district. The byelection was held to replace the seat vacated by Greg Kyllo, who now serves the Shuswap as its MLA. Frank says she will be meeting with Carpenter shortly to help her understand the role she will be taking and the responsibilities it comes with, and Carpenter is looking forward to working with Trou- ton and her soon-to-be fellow councillors, Fred Busch, Charlotte Hutchinson, Don Richardson, Terry Rysz and Joan Thomson. “As with every new councillor that has never held office before, there is a fairly significant learn- ing curve,” said Frank, “and we have lots of pro- cesses in place to help with that. My best advice is just to jump right in, and I’ll provide all the support I can.” Carpenter recently retired from working with School District #83 and Eagle River Secondary, and is involved in numerous volunteer activities. In a bio written for the News, Carpenter said run- ning for council has been a long-standing dream of hers. The province con- firms it is investigating alleged works done in Sicamous Creek by a neighbouring business. Brennan Clarke, spokesperson with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Re- source Operations, said the province is looking into allegations involv- ing Waterway House- boats and recent work that was done in the creek. Richard Clegg that on Sept. 9, after a week- end of heavy rainfall, he and his neighbours who live near the creek witnessed Waterway personnel in the process of damming a portion of the creek where it had diverted and was head- ing toward the house- boat company’s prop- erty. “At that point, we put a report in to the RAPP line (Report All Pol- luters) and Poachers,” through the recommen- dation of someone at the Columbia Shuswap Regional District,” says Clegg. Clarke says it is ille- gal under the B.C.’s Wa- ter Act to conduct work in and about a stream without a permit from the province. “The possibility of Fisheries Act violations is also being assessed,” said Clarke. Calls to Waterway Houseboats general manager Neil Millar were not returned. Clegg agrees the creek’s diversion may have put Waterway’s property at risk. But he and his neighbours argue provincial and federal regulations still have to be followed in relation to fish-bearing streams. “Regardless of whether they felt their property was at risk, they still have to follow the laws,” says Clegg, adding spawning salm- on have since been seen in the creek. This summer the province completed en- hancement and restora- tion work in an upper portion in the creek in response to concerns identified during fresh- et. This was on top of the significant restora- tion and enhancement work done in the creek, including the mouth, following the June 23, 2012 debris flow. EAGLE VALLEY NEWS Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Vol. 57 No. 40 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com PM40008236 Students pound the pavement for good cause Page 3 Services ongoing despite ‘no’ vote in referendum Page 6 By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News Sicamous Creek: A dump truck drops a load of rock and debris on the north side of Sicamous Creek after it had diverted towards the Waterway Houseboats property. Photo by Richard Clegg Neighbours’ concerns prompt investigation Work in question: Richard Clegg stands next to Sicamous Creek and across from work he said was recently done in the creek by Waterway Houseboats. The province confirms the matter is under investigation. Photo by James Murray Carpenter wins council seat Turnout: Three-way race draws more than 350 people to the polls. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News Suzanne Carpenter
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Sicamous voters have chosen Suzanne Carpenter to be their sixth representative on municipal council.
Preliminary election results for the Sept. 28 bye-lection show Carpenter handily winning a seat on council with 208 votes. Lynn Miller came in second place with 90 votes, followed by Terri Sinton with 61.
The News hoped to speak to Carpenter about her victory, but she was on vacation. Mayor Darrell Trouton, however, was not, and provided comment in a following news release.
“We are happy to have Suzanne join our team,” said Trouton. “I’m sure she will bring a new per-spective, and we all look forward to working with her.”
According to district chief administrative of-� cer Heidi Frank, 90 voters took advantage of the advance poll on Sept. 18, while 269 cast their ballot on the Sept. 28 election day. As of the Nov. 2011 election, there were 1,953 eligible voters in the district. The byelection was held to replace the seat vacated by Greg Kyllo, who now serves the Shuswap as its MLA.
Frank says she will be meeting with Carpenter shortly to help her understand the role she will be taking and the responsibilities it comes with, and Carpenter is looking forward to working with Trou-ton and her soon-to-be fellow councillors, Fred Busch, Charlotte Hutchinson, Don Richardson, Terry Rysz and Joan Thomson.
“As with every new councillor that has never held of� ce before, there is a fairly signi� cant learn-ing curve,” said Frank, “and we have lots of pro-cesses in place to help with that. My best advice is just to jump right in, and I’ll provide all the support I can.”
Carpenter recently retired from working with School District #83 and Eagle River Secondary, and is involved in numerous volunteer activities.
In a bio written for the News, Carpenter said run-ning for council has been a long-standing dream of hers.
The province con-� rms it is investigating alleged works done in Sicamous Creek by a neighbouring business.
Brennan Clarke, spokesperson with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Re-source Operations, said the province is looking into allegations involv-ing Waterway House-boats and recent work that was done in the creek.
Richard Clegg that on Sept. 9, after a week-end of heavy rainfall, he and his neighbours who live near the creek witnessed Waterway personnel in the process of damming a portion of the creek where it had diverted and was head-ing toward the house-
boat company’s prop-erty.
“At that point, we put a report in to the RAPP line (Report All Pol-luters) and Poachers,” through the recommen-dation of someone at the Columbia Shuswap
Regional District,” says Clegg.
Clarke says it is ille-gal under the B.C.’s Wa-ter Act to conduct work in and about a stream without a permit from the province.
“The possibility of
Fisheries Act violations is also being assessed,” said Clarke.
Calls to Waterway Houseboats general manager Neil Millar were not returned.
Clegg agrees the creek’s diversion may
have put Waterway’s property at risk. But he and his neighbours argue provincial and federal regulations still have to be followed in relation to � sh-bearing streams.
“Regardless of whether they felt their property was at risk, they still have to follow the laws,” says Clegg, adding spawning salm-on have since been seen in the creek.
This summer the province completed en-hancement and restora-tion work in an upper portion in the creek in response to concerns identi� ed during fresh-et. This was on top of the signi� cant restora-tion and enhancement work done in the creek, including the mouth, following the June 23, 2012 debris � ow.
EAGLE VALLEY
NEWS Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Vol. 57 No. 40 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236
Students pound the pavement
for good cause Page 3
Services ongoing despite ‘no’ vote
in referendum Page 6
By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
Sicamous Creek: A dump truck drops a load of rock and debris on the north side of Sicamous Creek after it had diverted towards the Waterway Houseboats property. Photo by Richard Clegg
Neighbours’ concerns prompt investigation
Work in question: Richard Clegg stands next to Sicamous Creek and across from work he said was recently done in the creek by Waterway Houseboats. The province confirms the matter is under investigation. Photo by James Murray
Carpenter wins council seat Turnout: Three-way race draws more than 350 people to the polls.By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
� cer Heidi Frank, 90 voters took advantage of the advance poll on Sept. 18, while 269 cast their ballot on the Sept. 28 election day. As of the Nov. 2011 election, there were 1,953 eligible voters in the district. The byelection was held to Suzanne Carpenter
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Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group at First united Church. 20 - 4th Street SE, Salmon Arm at 10 am. Contact Doreen at 250-836-2509.
Every Mon. Drop in Pickleball 6 p.m. Parkview Elementary Oct.7 - Dec. 2. Call 778-930-0534
Every Mon. & Fri. - Bridge, Seniors Activity Centre, 1 p.m.
Every 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.
Tues. & Thurs. - Carpet Bowling at the Seniors’ Activity Centre at 1 p.m.
Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven.
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Every Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.
Every Wed. - Seniors 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 every 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
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1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome. First meeting October 2nd
Every Thurs.- Crib and darts 7 pm at the Royal
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Every Thurs. - Chronic Pain workshop for 6 weeks. Thursdays, 1-3:30 starting Sept 17 at the Sicamous United Church. Learn to better self-manage pain from ongoing health conditions. To register call 1-866-902-3767 or register nine at www.selfmanagement.ca
Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652
Every Thurs.-Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.
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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 or just drop in to one of our meetings where you will be welcome.
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Every 2nd and 4th Thurs. Options For Sexual health from 7 to 9 p.m., Sicamous Health Unit.
Every 3rd Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:30 in the Malakwa Hall.
Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at Catholic Church. 836-3440.
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Local MLAs insist housing allowances aren’t being abused.
Linda Reid, speaker of the Legislature, will review B.C.’s MLAs possibly receiving $1.1 million in allowances for accommodations in Victoria this year al-though the B.C. legis-lature is not sitting this fall.
But Greg Kyllo, Shuswap MLA, insists there is more to the job than being in the Legis-lature.
‘“We’re spending a lot of time there,” he said.
“I sit on six different committees and I am spending, on average, three days a week on the road to Victoria or Vancouver.”
Eric Foster, Vernon-Monashee MLA, also stands by the current funding formula for housing.
“There was a five-week sitting in July and that’s never happened before,” he said.
“I am in Victoria two nights this week, two nights next week
and three on the follow-ing week,” said Foster, who rents an apartment there.
Reid has indicated she will review the policy that permits non-Victoria MLAs to claim up to $1,000 a month in housing expenses with-out submitting a receipt.
Foster doesn’t be-lieve a change in the rules is required.
“We’re making more work out of something. Some will have to pro-cess that (receipts),” he said.
Foster doubts any-one is using the money
for items other than housing, whether it is staying at a hotel, rent-ing an apartment or pur-chasing a home.
“What will someone do, sleep in their car?” he said.
“You have to stay somewhere. I’m not sure when you’ve been to Victoria lately, but there’s nothing cheap to stay in.”
Besides claiming $1,000 a month with-out a receipt, MLAs can also submit re-ceipts for up to $1,580 monthly for housing or they can hand in re-
ceipts for hotel rooms to a maximum of $1,416 a month.
“It’s not extrava-gant,” said Kyllo, who is staying in hotels while in Victoria.
Foster admits he is frustrated with the focus on the Legis-lature not sitting this fall when he and other MLAs are busy with a range of activities.
“People have a mis-conception that we’re all at the golf course if we’re not in Victoria, which is ridiculous,” he said while at a budget session in Kamloops.
Local MLAs justify accommodation expensesBy Richard Rolke Black Press
RCMP RePoRt
The search effort for the body of a Calgary man who went miss-ing in Shuswap Lake is coming to an end.
On Monday, Sept. 30, Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk said search crews had an-other unsuccessful day on the water looking body of Kevin Boutili-er, who went missing in Shuswap Lake on Aug. 24 and is presumed drowned.
Dubnyk says there will probably be one more outing, though this would be more of a wrap up, and “for all intents and purposes the search has been sus-pended.”
Several search ef-forts have already been conducted by police in co-ordination with the
crew of the Royal Cana-dian Marine Search and Rescue #106 Shuswap Station and with assis-tance by Vernon Search and Rescue.
• Sept. 26, 9:42 p.m., police attempted to stop a vehicle in town and but the vehicle took off. Police located it a short time later and two in-dividuals arrested and taken into custody. The passenger was later re-leased, while the driver remains in custody for dangerous driving and breach of other court-ordered conditions.
• Sept. 23, 12:05 p.m., Sicamous RCMP received a report of a sexual assault. Police say this was an isolated incident and the indi-viduals are known to each other.
• Sept. 23, 2:26 p.m., police receive a report of a gold Chevy pickup truck with an Alta. li-cence plate driving er-ratically.
• Sept. 23, 5:43 p.m., police were requested by a local business to attend and assist in the removal of an unwanted patron.
• Sept. 24, 10:18 a.m., a domestic dispute was reported.
• Sept. 24, 12:07 p.m., a black Honda Ridgeline with B.C. plates was reported to be speeding and driving unsafely.
• Sept. 24, 1:41 p.m., a lost trailer plate was reported.
• Sept. 24, 2:26 p.m., a brown Fiat, with B.C. plates was reported to be speeding.
• Sept. 24, 3:59 p.m. police responded to an abandoned 911 only to discover it was a pocket dial.
• Sept. 25, 9:57 p.m., Sicamous RCMP re-ceived a request from the Salmon Arm de-tachment to locate in-dividual to assess their emotional state. While attempting to locate the person, Salmon Arm called back to advise they had located indi-vidual who was safe and sound.
• Sept. 25, 10:58 a.m., police received a report of a hit and run motor-vehicle incident.
• Sept. 25, 2:04 p.m., a local campground re-quested assistance in removing an unwanted guest.
• Sept. 25, 5;39 p.m.,
police received a report of harassment.
• Sept. 26, 10:49 a.m., police received a report of a traffic haz-ard, a large semi-trailer travelling with a broken axel.
• Sept. 27, 2:25 p.m., police received a report of vandalism. The complainant sus-pects his neighbour was throwing rocks at building in town, caus-ing damage to doors and windows. Police continue to investigate.
• Sept. 27, 9:59 p.m. police received a report of suspicious people at a local golf course.
• Sept. 28, 9:31 a.m., police were asked to pickup firearms at a lo-cal residence, the own-er no longer wanted them.
Search effort for Calgary man draws to a close
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Water quality sam-pling shows the Salmon and Shuswap rivers and Mara Lake as areas of concern to be addressed through the next stage of the Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process.
In a presentation to Salmon Arm city council, SLIPP part-ners Mike Simpson, regional manager with the Fraser Basin Coun-cil, and Paul Demenok, Columbia Shuswap Regional District Area C director and SLIPP steering committee chair, outlined the wa-ter quality monitoring effort undertaken over the past three years, and what the collect-ed data has revealed. While Shuswap Lake is by and large consid-ered OK, there are ar-eas of concern, where bacteria and nutrient levels are or have been in excess for extended periods. These areas include the Salmon and Shuswap rivers and, resulting from the lat-ter, Mara Lake. There have also been water
quality issues identified at Christmas Island, where the water is shal-low, and in Mara by the Sicamous water intake. Simpson said this relat-ed to the flooding that occurred in 2012.
Canoe, Tappen, White and Newsome creeks were all found to have high levels of E. coli, above recreational guidelines. But Simp-son said their overall contribution to Shus-wap Lake is minimal.
Current data is based on three years of water quality monitoring co-ordinated under SLIPP. Simpson pointed out how this period in-cluded a high salmon spawning year, as well as last year’s flooding in Sicamous and around the Shuswap. Over this time, SLIPP monitored about 250 sites/areas of concern. Among them was Salmon Arm’s sewage treatment plant and Nielsen Beach, popular among house-boaters. Regarding the former, Simpson sug-gested the impact has been minimal. As for the beach, where there was concern for grey-
water contamination, Simpson said a lot has been done voluntarily to reduce the impact of greywater from house-boats, and the data pos-itively reflects this.
“Both of those rivers (Shuswap and Salmon) contribute up to 100 times more phospho-rous than the sewage treatment plant and the houseboats combined, with what we can de-termine from the data we’ve got so far,” said Simpson.
Asked what might be done to limit runoff from agricultural ac-tivities, Simpson em-
phasized there may be other sources affecting water quality, and ex-plained the whole basis of SLIPP’s water qual-ity monitoring effort was to gather the data to confirm what the num-bers were. Addressing those sources would be the next stage.
When asked what the city might be re-quested to contribute financially towards the program in the coming year, Demenok said it would be premature to offer a figure at this time, as it’s something the steering committee is working out.
“It looks like we’ll have some additional partners who are con-tributing this year on a funding basis, it looks like we may lose a part-ner or two…,” said De-menok. “We know that the funding formula right now is not equi-table. As you know, my area, Area C, picks up about $140,000 of the $355,000 each year. So we do have to resolve that one at some point.”
More information about SLIPP, including information on water quality in the region, can be found at http://www.slippbc.ca.
Water quality concerns identified in ShuswapBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News
Walk and roll: Eagle River Secondary social justice students, friends and others pause for a picture Thursday before heading off on the ALS Walk and Roll fundraiser.Photo by Victoria Rowbottom
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National anthem excludes half the population
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There are times when it is prudent to stand on guard to protect tradition, but other times when the old guard
needs to be replaced to reflect our country’s evolving history and social development. A group of prominent Canadian women have launched a new campaign to introduce a more gender-neutral version of our national anthem.
A website – restoreouranthem.ca — will go live this week, with endorsements from for-mer prime minister Kim Campbell, author Margaret Atwood, Senator Nancy Ruth and Sally Goddard, mother of Nichola Goddard, the first female Canadian soldier to be killed in combat. She died in Afghanistan in 2006.
The campaigners are seeking to have Rob-ert Stanley Weir’s O Canada lyric, “in all thy sons command,” replaced with “in all of us command.”
They argue that these words more closely reflect the original English lyrics that Weir altered, “in all thou dost command,” to more gender specific words before the First World War – at a time when men, and only men, were being asked to put their lives on the line for their country.
While there are some who would argue the wording change is an insignificant item that has been exaggerated out of proportion, there can be no doubt that the meaning of words matter. And as it stands now, this particular wording in our anthem – the powerful musi-cal expression of our supposed collective national identity – clearly carries sexist con-notations. For as noted on the website, when-ever it is sung, half the population is effec-tively excluded.
The anthem should reflect the values which Canadians respect, and a cornerstone of these values is equality among citizens.
A change in our anthem is not unprece-dented and rightly reflects the contributions of both genders to our nation.
Science loses ground to superstitionVICTORIA – From
Stockholm to Sydney to Si-camous, September was a bad month for science.
In Sweden, the Inter-governmental Panel on Cli-mate Change finally issued its widely leaked update on human-caused global warming. As expected, it downgraded predictions of temperature rise in the face of 15 years of measure-ments that show little or no average surface tempera-ture increase.
The official spin also went as expected. The revelation that more than a dozen computer predic-tion models have all more or less agreed, and all have been wrong, was played down. The IPCC went from “very likely” to “extremely likely” to affirm its belief in human-caused warming, even as its own core evi-dence went the other way.
Again and again we are told that the vast majority of scientists believe in hu-
man-caused warming, and those who don’t are labeled “skeptics” or even “de-niers” with hidden agen-das. The problem is, sci-ence isn’t supposed to be done by polls or popularity contests, or assertions of faith like those that greeted Galileo’s wild claim that Earth is not the centre of the solar system.
Before the angry mail starts to arrive, let me has-ten to add I am not arguing for or against the theory of human-caused climate change. You can label me a “skeptic” as I view the tem-perature readings and the shifting theories advanced to explain them.
Speaking of tempera-ture data, David Suzuki had a problem with that at a TV town hall in Austra-lia. Polite, well-informed questions soon revealed that while Suzuki rails con-stantly about the horrors of global warming, he doesn’t actually know much about
the latest science. Suzuki is not only behind on his homework, he resorts to cheap, sensational tricks to exaggerate and misrepre-sent hazards.
Back in B.C., local poli-ticians gathered in Vancou-ver for their annual con-vention. One of the most intense debates was over a call to the provincial gov-ernment to declare B.C. “genetic engineering free.”
The heart of this move-ment is hostility towards Monsanto’s “Roundup ready” seed. Speakers at the municipal convention warned of sinister “cor-porations” trying to con-taminate and control our food supply for profit. The debate pitted hobby farm-ers against professionals. Peace region grain farm-ers said such a ban would put them out of business. Others pointed out that the province has no jurisdic-tion and that scientific de-cisions shouldn’t be influ-
enced by emotion.The session ended with
a classic pseudo-scientif-ic claim. A woman who used to have a couple of bee boxes said someone’s bees died and there was a Roundup-ready cano-la field next door. Case closed. The misguided “G.E.-free B.C.” motion was supported by a narrow majority.
As it turns out, there are agricultural pesticides that may be harmful to bees. The David Suzuki Foun-dation is part of an effort to get one of them banned in Canada. The problem is, it’s not Roundup, and it’s got nothing to do with ge-netic engineering. They’re called “neonicotinoids,” because they’re similar to nicotine.
It’s ironic that as the “in-formation age” accelerates, our society, overwhelmed by conflicting messages, slips back towards super-stition.
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‘greed’ to want to keep the money you’ve earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
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The budget axe is coming out again at lo-cal schools.
Just a few months after another round of deep cuts, trustees have been told that more needs to be done to accommodate a tenta-tive two-year contract between the provin-cial government and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
“With our declin-ing enrolment and in-creasing costs, we had a really hard time last spring trying to deter-mine what to save and
what would have to be changed or lost,” said Bobbi Johnson, North Okanagan-Shuswap School District chair-person.
“There will be more tough decisions now.”
For the North Okan-agan-Shuswap, an ex-tra $250,000 in savings must be found the first year and $440,000 in the second year.
At the Vernon School District office, the impact is $250,000 for this year and a fur-ther $200,000 next year.
The situation is even worse for the much larger Central Okana-gan School District — $700,000 in the first year and $1.2 million during the subsequent year.
“In the short term, we have enough in sur-plus to cover (the first year) but to deplete all of our surplus is not a
good idea,” chairperson Moyra Baxter told the Kelowna Capital News.
Now, no one should blame the union for this scenario.
Bus drivers, trades people, certified edu-cation assistants, cus-todians and secretaries have gone without a raise for a few years and the 3.5 per cent wage hike in the pro-posed deal isn’t much more than the cost of living.
The problem is the provincial government agrees to a collective agreement without en-suring school districts have the required finan-cial resources.
That means districts have no choice but to look within their exist-ing budgets and tighten the belt further.
Of course provincial officials have stated no cuts will be made to core services, but
that’s unrealistic given what’s been happening for years.
As part of the 2013/14 budget, the Vernon district slashed 19 teaching positions, 1.4 school-based ad-ministration staff and one custodian. There is also reduced main-tenance staff. If those aren’t a cut to core ser-vices, what is?
It’s been suggested by some provincial officials that the mon-ey for the collective agreement could be found by charging stu-dents to ride the bus. But keep in mind that bus routes have already been consolidated in most areas and a fee would hit low-income families particularly hard.
The latest rounds of cuts will slice even deeper into the bone that is the public educa-tion system, and could
put the future of those very employees getting raises in question.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender has stated that funding for public education is at record levels despite falling enrolment, and while that may be the case, that investment is not keeping up with the rising costs facing dis-tricts. Fuel to run buses is soaring, while B.C. Hydro, a government Crown corporation, is hinting at higher elec-tricity rates. There are also increased medi-cal premiums for staff and the price for paper, textbooks and comput-ers has climbed.
The ministry can brag all it wants about reaching labour peace and avoiding job ac-tion. But the reality is that students will con-tinue to pay the price for inadequate govern-ment policies.
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be offered for the time being through the for-mer Malakwa Elemen-tary school as the rami-fications of a public vote against local govern-ment leasing the build-ing are considered.
A referendum was held Saturday in Mal-akwa, giving residents an opportunity to vote on a proposed Colum-bia Shuswap Regional District bylaw that would have allowed the regional district to enter into a five to 10 year lease agreement with School District #83 to be responsible for the ongoing maintenance and operation of the former school which
currently serves as the Malakwa Community Learning Centre. The result was 57 in favour, 152 opposed.
If approved, the by-
law would have required an annual $125,000 contribution through a property value tax levy.
CSRD Area E (rural Sicamous-Malakwa)
director Rhona Mar-tin says she now has to speak with the school district to determine what the next course of action will be. But she adds services currently offered through the building – the library, the resource centre and the post office, as well as the Malakwa Learn-ing Academy – con-tinue.
“I think what people weren’t understanding necessarily, was this was to pay for the opera-tion of the facility,” said Martin, explaining a for-mer lease for the build-ing has expired and the school district isn’t re-ally interested in leasing again to a non-govern-ment organization.
Martin says the ref-erendum result suggests
residents don’t want an increase in property tax-es, that they’re already paying school taxes. But she stressed the ref-erendum was not about schooling, it was about the building.
“The building is home to services, there’s the postal ser-vice, the library, the re-sources, so that’s what it was about,” said Martin. “Do you want to pay for those services or not? And I guess the people have said they don’t want to pay for those services, or they feel they’re already paying because they’re paying the school taxes. I’m not sure. It’s difficult to un-derstand.”
One upside, noted Martin, was the strong voter turnout.
To shop, and school, to work and play,
The busy people pass all day;
They hurry, hurry, to and fro,
And hardly notice as they go
The wayside flow-ers, known so well,
Whose names so few of them can tell.
O, if these people understood
What’s to be found by field and wood;
What fairy secrets are made plain
By any footpath, road, or lane –
They’d go with open eyes, and look,
(As you will, when you’ve read this book)
And then at least they’d learn to see
How pretty common things can be!
- Song of the Way-side Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker
I love that scene when Bambi and his mother venture out from the forest to the clearing and, when it’s safe, he joyfully bursts out “the meadow!” He was so filled with won-der and excitement, checking out the grass-es, flowers, the birds and the butterflies. Then there’s the scene of Thumper, about to chow down on a big pink ball of clover un-til his momma catches him and he has to re-cite what his father says about eating greens. It’s still my favorite movie.
When our daughter and I would put a bou-quet together, we’d of-ten look for the flowers, foliage and wild grasses that grew along the side of the road, a meadow or a vacant lot because,
to us, they were just as pretty as the ones that grew in our garden and there was so much to choose from. We also loved to watch all the life that these natural places attracted, such as the bees, insects, drag-onflies and butterflies – all of which depended on this important source of food and habitat.
A couple of years ago, I slowly started layering grass clippings and shredded leaves on a rough, unused sloped area behind the house with the plan to cre-ate my very own little meadow for the polli-nators to feed on. After a year, I had enough of a soil base for good ger-mination, so I collected both wild and domestic flower seeds throughout the year and then threw them all over the 20- by
30-foot space. Luckily, despite the lack of rain this year, I now have a lovely mini-meadow, full of buzzing insects and butterflies.
Because of the steady march of urban-ization and develop-ment, we have lost so many of our wonder-ful natural spaces that these critters need for survival. We all know that the insect world is losing untold numbers of species every year and our bees in particu-lar are in peril. They need lots of food from spring until fall, so we can do our bit by saving as many flower seeds as possible this fall, then go for a pleasant Sun-day stroll and broadcast them along the rural roadsides, the vacant lots in town, ditches or anywhere else you
think they’ll take hold. Just be careful not to throw seeds or dig in plants in areas that are designated natural places and avoid the in-vasive types as well, so they don’t take over the area.
Starting next year, plan on gathering seeds all through the summer season and into the fall and find more areas to throw them around. Before we know it, the Shuswap will be one big, bountiful wayside garden, helping to feed our hungry pollinators and adding even more beauty to this area we all call home.
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Hub: Malakwa Learning Academy student Etha Dunham monitors his experiment at this year’s Learning Expo. The academy is one of the services currently offered through the former elementary school that currently serves as the Malakwa Community Learning Centre. File photo
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The Sicamous Midget Eagles started their 2013/14 season by hosting Merritt and Kelowna over the past two weekends.
Their home opener started off with a com-manding win over the Merritt Centennials, with Buddy Rich and James Weber once again behind the bench.
Goaltender Karter Anderson faced 21 shots, with the offence being led by Louie Federico, with five goals in the game, one short handed.
Assists came from Darien Blight and Cur-tis Klassen.
Colby Sherlock, with the help of Aus-
tin Miller, found the back of the net, with a nice pass from Colton Skead to Blight, mak-ing the final score 7-2.
This past weekend, Sicamous hosted the Kelowna Tier 4 team, who they will play throughout the season.
The Eagles came out flat in the first peri-od, finding themselves behind 3-0 within the first 10 minutes of the game.
The boys battled back and popped in two quick goals at the end of the first.
Kaylen Kerr fired a shot past the goalten-der after a nice passing play from Sherlock and Federico.
Jesse Olsen tapped in a shot that came from behind the net thanks to Blight and Klassen.
The second period remained scoreless un-til the :36 second mark, where Kelowna scored another goal on goal-tender Keyon Bittner.
The Eagles found themselves down by two after getting into penalty trouble. How-ever, they were able to take advantage of back-to-back penalties on Kelowna, with Federi-co and Blight bringing the game within one.
Cody Donahue as-sisted on both goals, while Klassen and Fed-erico each assisted on one.
In hopes of tying the game, Sicamous pulled their goalie, but with 1.6 seconds left, Kelowna notched an empty netter to win 6-4. Shots on goal were 28 to 28.
The Junior Eagles next home game will
be at 11 a.m. on Sat-urday, Oct. 12 versus West Kelowna.
The team is grate-ful to all the fans who have came out and supported them, and hope to see continued support in games to come.
sportsEagles knock back Grizzlies in rebound
Strong goaltending was a big factor in how the weekend played out for the Sicamous Eagles.
Friday and Saturday the team had back-to-back games versus rivals, the Revelstoke Grizzlies. At Friday’s game, the host Eagles were on the losing side of a narrow, 2-1 tally. The following night,
on the bruins’ home ice, the Eagles earned a 5-4 win in overtime. In both games the Griz-zlies outshot the Eagles (52-46 and 53-40), but solid efforts by Chris Turner on Friday and Kris Joyce on Saturday helped keep damage to a minimum. The wins, however, didn’t come easy for either team.
In Friday’s contest, the first and second pe-riods were scoreless. The Grizzlies finally
lit up the board in the first minute of the third frame, their second goal potted less than two minutes later. A minute later, Sicamous’ Tyler Ehlers executed the rebound, assisted by Devin Gerun and Matthew Maetche.
The first goal Satur-day night was scored with six seconds left on the clock in the first period by Sicamous’ Tyson Fair, assisted by Jayce Davis. Revved
by the lead, the Eagles quickly added another goal in the second pe-riod, courtesy of an unassisted marker by Tyler Ehlers.
Revelstoke turned up the heat for the re-mainder of the period and added three goals of their own.
In the third frame, Nathan Grieve tied things up, assisted by Derek Miskiman, and then added another marker off Nicholas
Astasiewicz and Mis-kiman to give the Si-camous a lead that ended on a Grizzlies’ powerplay conversion at 4:23. Play went into second overtime before Hayden Orton sealed the win for Sicamous, with assists by Bobby Jo Love and Riley Je-pson.
Sicamous is back on home ice on Oct. 4 to face off against the Chase Heat. Game time is 7 p.m.
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District of Sicamous Ph: 250-836-2477 Fax: 250-836-4314 www.sicamous.ca 446 Main Street. Box 219 Sicamous B.C. V0E 2V0
DISTRICT OF SICAMOUSPUBLIC NOTICE
TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of the District of Sicamous will be considering Revitalization Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 862, 2013 Amending Bylaw No. 864, 2013 for the following reasons and objectives:
Purpose of the Bylaw and Amending BylawCouncil wishes to establish a Revitalization Tax Exemption Program in the downtown commercial area of the District to assist businesses that are listed in the Revitalization Area defined in the Bylaw and were severely affected by flood damage to the District’s water system in 2012 to purchase private water filtration systems. The Amending Bylaw will add additional businesses to the Revitalization Area list, Schedule “A” which is attached and amend section 2.0 Definitions, by deleting paragraph (a) under “Private Water Filtration System” and replacing it with the following:
(a) “paid for and installed on a Parcel in 2013 or in 2012 after the flooding occurred by a High Volume Commercial Water User because the 2012 flooding in the District resulted in the municipal water supply being unsuitable for or injurious to the business purposes of that User, and”
Reasons for the Revitalization Tax Exemption Program
The extreme flooding that occurred in the District in 2012 damaged the District’s water system. The damage prevented the District from being able to continue to supply commercial water users in the District who require high volumes of water with an adequate, suitable and reliable supply of municipal water until such time as the District is able to update its water treatment plant, estimated to take two years or more to complete.
The economic and social well being of the District is enhanced by a viable commercial and retail sector that continues to supply the basic and necessary goods and services, as well as a variety of other goods and services, to the District’s resident population, tourists and visitors and other District businesses. The economic health of that sector and, therefore, the well being of the resident and visiting populations, would be adversely affected by closures of businesses in that sector, forcing persons and businesses in Sicamous to purchase their goods and services in other municipalities. The closure of those businesses may adversely affect other businesses in the District, causing them to close as well.
The water users who are dependent on their water supply for the continuation of their businesses, may be unable to recover from the adverse impacts of the loss of the water supply they require and unable to afford the cost of installing private water filtration systems. Rather than see these businesses close or relocate to other municipalities and be lost to the District, Council deems it necessary and in the best interests of the District to offer them tax exemptions under section 226 of the Community Charter.
Objectives of the Revitalization Tax Exemption ProgramCouncil’s objectives for the Revitalization Tax Exemption Program are to secure the future economic and social health of the District by offering tax relief to the owners and occupiers of those commercial properties in the Revitalization Area (high volume commercial water users) who were adversely affected by the long term loss of an adequate, suitable and reliable supply of municipal water as a result of flood damage to the municipal water system in 2012.
Accomplishing the ObjectivesThe Objectives of the Revitalization Tax Exemption Program would be accomplished by
(1) assisting the high volume commercial water users with the cost of installing water filtration systems on their premises to provide water suitable for their business operations until such time the municipal water service is upgraded, operational and able to supply them with an adequate, suitable and reliable supply of municipal water; and
(2) thereby enabling the existing high volume commercial water users to keep their businesses financially viable; to preserve the jobs they provide in their businesses and indirectly in other businesses in the District; and to continue providing goods and services to the inhabitants of the District as well as visitors and tourists to the District, rather than having their customers purchase their goods and services outside of the District.
Eligible PropertiesTo be eligible for the tax exemption, an applicant must:(1) own a Parcel or operate a business assessed for taxation on one or more of the of the commercial
properties (Parcels) listed in the Table at the end of this notice, and(2) have installed a water filtration system on the Parcel before October 1, 2013.
Maximum Term of the Tax ExemptionThe tax exemption will be provided for a maximum term of 5 years beginning with the calendar year 2014 and not available after the year 2018.
Amount of the Tax ExemptionThe annual tax exemption proposed for each property is $1,200.00 or 20% of the Actual Purchase Price (as verified under the terms of the Revitalization Tax Exemption Agreement between the District and the property owner) of a water filtration system, whichever is the lesser amount.
Extent of the Tax ExemptionThe extent of the Tax Exemption is $6,000 if claimed for the Maximum Term of 5 years. The exemption is applied only to the general municipal tax portion of the municipal tax bill and not to taxes that must be collected by the District for other taxing authorities.
Date of Council MeetingCouncil will consider the adoption of the Amending Bylaw at its Regular Council Meeting on October 23rd, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. in the District of Sicamous Council Chambers at the address below. Interested persons are welcome to attend.
InformationA complete copy of the bylaw is available at the District of Sicamous Municipal Office, 446 Main Street, Sicamous, BC. For more information, please call Heidi Frank, Chief Administrative Officer, 250-836- 2477.
** Portion of larger property (boat storage/moorage) *** On Twin Anchors Houseboat property **** Assessed as one property (breakdown is unclear)
DISTRICT OF SICAMOUS Under Section 227 of the Community CharterSCHEDULE “A”
Revitalization Tax Exemption Bylaw NO. 862, 2013 Amending Bylaw NO. 864, 2013. Designated Revitalization Area and List of Parcels within the Revitalization Area.
Schedule “A”Attached to and forming part of Bylaw NO. 864, 2013 cited as Revitalization Tax Exemption Bylaw NO. 862, 2013 Amending Bylaw NO. 864, 2013
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CROSS, JOAN MARIONJoan Marion Cross, 70, of Kelowna BC went to be
with the angels on September 19th 2013 at home with her family by her side, after a very courageousbattle with cancer.
She was predeceased by her Mother and FatherJack and Millie Portman, her sister Marg Haller andmother-in-law Connie Cross.
Joan is loved and missed by her husband BasilCross, children Corrinne Cross (Chris Franson andchildren) of Lake Country, Kevin Cross (Marie Byersand shildren) of Salmon Arm. Brother and sister-in-law Woody & Kathie Cross, grandchildren TylerWhitehead, Shelbi, Rylee, Ben, Gillian Cross, uncle Bill Portman of Kamloops. Joan also leaves specialfriend Colleen Friesen and many cousins, nieces, nephews, and lifelong friends.
Joan was born in Kelowna BC October 2 1942, andgrew up in Copper Mountain and Kamloops whereshe met and married her loving, caring husband Basil. Basil and Joan moved to Hudson’s Hope to work and start their family. In 1972 the familymoved to Sicamous BC where Joan was involved incurling, bowling, gymnastics, school functions, minorbaseball.
In 1988 Joan and Basil moved to North Vancouver, in 1999 moved to Vernon, and 2008 to Lake Country(Kelowna) while wintering in Yuma AZ.
Many thanks to the Doctors, Nurses and staff of Palliative Care
A Celebration of Life will be on October 5th 2013 at1:00pm at the Lakers Clubhouse at 7000 Cummins Road, Vernon BC.
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EAGLE VALLEY
NEWS Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Vol. 57 No. 38 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.comPM40008236
Candidates cite work and water as key projects
Page 3
Eagles back in regular hockey season action
Page 7
Walking the walk: Volunteers,
participants,
residents of
Bastion Place
and members of
the Sicamous
Eagles hockey
team take part
in the annual
Superwalk For
Parkinsons held
Saturday morning
at McGuire Lake
in Salmon Arm.
Photo by
James Murray
CSRD report outlines options for public transportation
A transportation report com-
pleted through the regional dis-
trict will be making its way to Si-
camous council for deliberation.
The report, presented recently
to the Columbia Shuswap Re-
gional District board, represents
the � ndings of a feasibility study
by BC Transit, which looked at
providing public transit between
Sicamous, Malakwa, Seansea
Point and Salmon Arm.
The report includes � ve op-
tions, which range from con-
tracting the service through a
third party based in Sicamous
or Salmon Arm, to the provision
of a midday service, one day a
week between Sicamous
and Salmon Arm, as well
as a weekday service. A
supplementary option ties
Malakwa into the one-
day-a-week option. It is
estimated this would cost
local taxpayers $31,200,
with the province picking
up $34,600 of the total
cost. The one-day service
between Sicamous and
Salmon Arm would cost
local taxpayers $29,200. The
weekday service, which would
provide two one-way trips Mon-
day through Friday, would cost
$106,000, $47,000 of which
would be funded through local
taxation. Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trou-
ton notes the options are very
costly, and council will have to
look at the practicality of pay-
ing for the service and whether
enough residents would actually
use it. “Of course we all would like
to have it, but would you actually
use it? And that’s the question,”
says Trouton. “It would
be nice for some people
to be able to use it. But
are you speaking for oth-
ers or are you speaking
for yourself? Most people
are � ghting for others. If
you ask them, personally,
will you use it, most peo-
ple say, ‘I wouldn’t use
it, but I know somebody
else that would.’ And you
know, that seems to be the
consensus.”The report’s � ndings were in-
� uenced by public input received
through a survey released online
and through the Eagle Valley
Community Resource Centre. A
total of 242 were submitted, with
191 respondents from Sicamous,
38 from Malakwa and 13 from
Swansea Point. The report notes
that while the survey provides
helpful information, “the distri-
bution method does not result in
statistically valid outcomes and
likely over-represents the ‘pro-
transit’ segment of the popula-
tion.”As for the public’s willing-
ness to fund a transit service, 84
per cent of survey respondents
supported some level of proper-
ty tax increase, with 47 per cent
suggesting a small increase up to
$24. Trouton notes public transpor-
tation tends to be heavily sub-
sidized by the province and the
taxpayer.
Feasibility: Sicamous mayor questions whether residents would favour costly busing system.
ton notes the options are very
It would have to be
subsidized heavily by the
taxpayer, by the people that
say I wouldn’t use it…
Darrell Trouton
Mayor
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