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Doreen Lambert has been returned as Councillor for the Vil-lage of Ashcroft, ac-cording to the final re-sults of the by-election held on Aug. 10.

Lambert (144 votes) was one of three candidates for the pos-ition, which was left vacant when Jackie Te-

gart resigned following her provincial election win in May. The other two candidates were Jes-sica Clement (128) and Alf Trill (96).

“I’m feeling tired,” said Lambert, the day af-ter her victory. “Yesterday was a long day. I’m looking forward to a new challenge, a new ex-perience. I’ll need some guidance until I find my feet, though.”

She feels that she is more than a one-issue candidate. “The Village faces more issues than just the branding,” she said. “I think our biggest issue is that we need a council that listens, that doesn’t just pay lip service to people’s concerns.

“We’re working for the people, the taxpay-ers. We have to listen to them.”

A total of 369 votes were cast for the three candidates, representing approximately 27% of the Village’s registered voters. This contrasts with the last by-election for Village council, in 2003, when Councillor Peter Rolston passed away a year into his term. A total of 694 votes were cast on that occasion.

Turnout for the four advance voting days was strong, with more people voting during the advance polls (186) than on voting day itself (183). This contrasts with previous years, when advance voters accounted for as few as 10% of votes cast.

All three candidates were disappointed by the low turnout. Doreen Lambert would like to have seen more people voting, but added, “I’m grateful to all who came out, regardless of who they voted for.”

Jessica Clement was disappointed by the low numbers. “It was sad to see,” she said. “I don’t know if it was because it was summer, or because it was only for a one-year term, but it

ROCKIN’ IN THE DESERTThe 4th annual Desert Daze Music Festival took place in Spences Bridge at the weekend. An enthusiastic crowd gathered under sunny skies to hear the musical stylings of performers such as Miss Quincy and The Showdown (bottom left), cool off in the beer garden, try their luck at a handcrafted prize (above), and enjoy the festive atmosphere. The event finished in the black this year, and organizers are already looking towards a fifth Festival in 2014.

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A plane crash near Cache Creek took the life of a 16-year-old student pilot last week. Lorne Perrault, a student at St. Ann’s Academy in Kamloops, went missing in a single-prop 172 Cessna after taking off from Kamloops Airport. He ap-parently crashed in the hills near Cache Creek, in steep and near-inaccessible terrain.

Perrault was training for his pilot’s licence and had al-most 100 hours of flying experience. He took off from Kam-loops Airport for what was supposed to be a two-hour solo flight on the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 6, performing exer-cises in the area near Kamloops Lake.

Perrault and the plane were found at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 7, by a team in a Royal Canadian Air Force Buffalo aircraft.

Investigators for the Transportation Safety Board of Can-ada (TSB) arrived last Thursday to look into the crash. They have now completed most of the “field phase” of their in-quiry. Based on photos of the site, TSB regional manager for aviation accident investigations Bill Yearwood said it appears the plane collided with the ground at a steep angle

while travelling at a high velocity.“The damage is consistent with an unsurvivable collision

with the ground,” he said. “The understanding of why that happened, there’s a lot of work yet to be done.”

With a survey of the site mostly complete, the Cessna will be transported to Kamloops, where it can undergo fur-ther analysis as needed. Yearwood said he expects it will likely be months before the TSB issues a final report on Per-reault’s death.

The TSB has opted to do a longer, more in-depth inves-tigation of the crash, beyond what would be required by the B.C. Coroners Service, Yearwood said. “When we look at these circumstances, we try to determine if there is some-thing we could learn in doing a full investigation that could help the public and the aviation community avoid a similar occurrence.”

“This occurrence is in a mountainous area,” Yearwood said. “I can’t say whether at this point the issues were re-

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Where’s Walrus?Last week a male driver

reported losing a blue stuffed walrus somewhere between Hope and Cache Creek. He was very distraught over the loss. Anyone finding it is asked to please contact Ashcroft RCMP as soon as possible.

Suspicious behaviourOn Aug. 6 at 5:00 am a report was

received from a Cache Creek resident, who spotted a group of 3 – 4 males walking up and down Stage Rd. check-ing out vehicles. This had been going on for an hour. Patrols of the area were made, but the males were not located.

No forwarding addressOn Aug. 7 a Cache Creek resi-

dent turned in a wallet which had been found on Aug. 3 outside Anie’s Piz-za in Cache Creek. Credit cards and a driver’s licence were found inside it, but police were unable to contact the male owner, as he no longer lives at the Kamloops address associated with the identification. If you are, or were, from Kamloops, recently stopped at Anie’s, and no longer have your wallet, please see the Ashcroft RCMP.

Violence isn’t the answerOn Aug. 7 at 6:00 pm, police re-

ceived a report of an assault on the Bonaparte reserve. A 46-year-old male had punched another male in the face, then left in a grey vehicle. There was no physical injury to the victim. The as-sailant was located and arrested for as-sault. He was later released on a prom-ise to appear in court, with the condi-tion that he not contact the victim. A court date has been set for Sept. 16.

It’s a gas, gas, gasOn Aug. 8 a jerry can of gas was re-

ported stolen from a residence on Brink St. in Ashcroft. The can was labelled “gas only” and contained approximate-ly $20-worth of gas. There is no lead in the case.

Deer 2, Car and Driver 0On Aug. 8 at 2:45 pm there was a

single vehicle crash on Hwy. 97 near Hat Creek Ranch, when a pickup truck driven by a Cache Creek male hit a power pole and brought down power lines. The driver said that a deer had jumped in front of his truck, and in try-ing to avoid it the driver swerved onto the soft shoulder and lost control of his vehicle. There were no injuries to the driver, but the truck sustained $5,000 in damage. Representatives from B.C. Hydro and Telus attended the scene. The deer was apparently not injured.

Assault victimsOn Aug. 8 at 9:00 pm there was a

report concerning a domestic assault. A Cache Creek male who was reported-ly intoxicated had hit his wife and two daughters. The male was arrested at the scene and later released on a promise to appear in court and conditions of no contact with his victims. A court date has been set for Sept. 26.

Cause of fire: car partOn Aug. 9 at 4:00 pm a 1997 Hyun-

dai Accent driven by a resident of Mis-sion lost a part on Hwy. 1 near Corn-

wall Rd., which started a small brush fire. Ashcroft Fire De-partment attended and quickly doused the fire. A piece of en-gine piston was located at the scene. No other damage was reported.

Let this be a warningOn Aug. 9 at 9:30 pm

a 13-year-old boy and his

12-year-old male friend went into the Mesa Vista dunes and started a small fire. The Ashcroft Fire Department was called, and the boys were detained by the AFD until police arrived. The boys admitted starting the fire and were taken home by police, who gave them a stern warning. No charges are being laid. The fire was quickly doused.

From bad to worseOn Aug. 10 at 1:50 am police were

called to an Ashcroft residence, where a male witnessed another male, who was apparently intoxicated, throwing chairs at a stationary Ford pickup truck, which sustained $500 in damage. An argument ensued between the two men, and a fight started. When police arrived the intoxicated man reported that he was upset because he had just broken up with his girlfriend. The man was ar-rested for mischief and taken to the de-tachment. While in the process of being charged, officers found two crack pipes and a small bag of marijuana on the man’s person. The man was released on a promise to appear in court; a date of Sept. 26 has been set. The matter is still under investigation.

Deer 3, Car and Driver 0On Aug. 10 at 11:00 pm, a North

Vancouver male travelling on Hwy. 97 approximately 15 km north of Cache Creek hit a deer. There was minor dam-age to the vehicle. The driver did not stop, but called police, who attended the scene. The deer was not found. Re-ports that it was seen with a blue stuffed walrus are unconfirmed.

Reckless cookingOn Aug. 11 at 10:00 am a Break

and Enter was reported at a residence on Old Cornwall Rd. in Ashcroft. The B&E occurred some time between Aug. 9 – 11, and the front door had been damaged when someone gained entry to the house. After investigating, police found that the perpetrator was the complainant’s son, who had come to the house to cook a crab dinner. The son denied causing any damage to the door. Nothing had been stolen, and no charges were laid.

Rock outcrops dwarf the railway tracks east of Ashcroft.Photo by Barbara Roden

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New park unlikely for Spences Bridge

Consul General plans Ashcroft visit

History comes alive at Museum open house

Ashcroft residents Aki and Hiroko Kanamaru (left) and Councillor Helen Kormendy (right) receive a warm welcome from Japanese Consul General Seiji Okada and his wife Yasuko at Mr. Okada’s official residence in Vancouver. The event capped off the visit of a delegation from Ashcroft’s Japanese sister city, Bifuka. Photo by Kazuhiko Nakagi

After a very successful early August visit to Ashcroft, it was time for the visiting Japanese dignitaries from our sister city to head home to Bifuka with many pleasant memories to share. However, there was one more important stop for Mayor Yamaguchi and the other delegates to make, this time in Vancouver.

They were invited to dine with Japan’s Con-sul General, Seiji Okada, at his officialresidence on Aug. 7. Also attending the dinner were Ash-croft residents Aki and Hiroko Kanamaru, and Councillor Helen Kormendy, representing the Village of Ashcroft.

Upon their arrival, the guests were wel-comed by staff and offered refreshments in the formal reception room, which is exquisitely decorated with artwork symbolic of Japanese culture. From there the group headed off to sign the formal guest book, using a special callig-raphy brush.

This was followed by dinner, where the guests were met by a very welcoming Consul General and his wife. This is Mr. Okada’s first summer in Vancouver, and he mentioned his en-joyment of the city’s more temperate, and less humid, climate. Japan has had an Embassy in Canada since 1877, and there are currently 32 sister city relationships between Japanese cities and B.C. Municipalities.

The upcoming 20th anniversary sister city celebrations in Bifuka, taking place in 2014, were of great interest. The Consul General ex-pressed his intention of visiting Ashcroft before that date.

The delegates were given a tour of the very splendid traditional Japanese garden on the Em-bassy site. The garden also contains tomatoes, cucumbers, and kidney beans, planted with Mr. Okada’s “green thumbs”, and they were thriv-ing indeed.

It was an honour to have been invited to share a lovely formal evening, and to discuss the connection between Japan and B.C. It was clear that the sister city relationship between Bifuka and Ashcroft is highly regarded and valued by our sister city visitors, and by the Japanese Con-sul General.

Helen Kormendy

Step into the past this summer, when the Ashcroft Mu-seum holds its annual open house. Two tours start at 9:00 am on Friday Aug. 23, both of them highlighting the rich history of the town and the area.

Kathy Paulos will be leading an outdoor walking tour, which begins at the Museum and takes in some of the many historic buildings in Ashcroft, including the Museum it-self, the Opera House, the Journal office, the Community Hall (did you know it was originally a schoolhouse?), and the town’s churches. The tour will continue down Railway to the sites of Ashcroft’s Chinatown and its various bridges, then back to the Museum past some of the historic houses on Brink Street.

For those who want to beat the heat, and who would pre-fer to stay inside in air-conditioned comfort, there will also be an indoor tour of the Museum. It starts at 9:00 am, and is conducted by Aneka Battel, who will escort guests around the Museum and discuss some of its many displays, photo-graphs, and artifacts about the history of Ashcroft and the surrounding area. Visitors are encouraged to test their know-

ledge by playing the always popular “What on earth is that?” game, which involves trying to puzzle out what some of the Museum’s more odd and offbeat items are.

When the two tours converge there will be an indoor presentation about the historic Bryson House on Brink St., one of the oldest homes in the town. Built in 1900 by black-smith J.D. Bryson, the building was purchased and first lived in by Dennis Murphy, a lawyer. The house, which re-tains many of its original features, is now owned by Dolly Lowe. Also planned is a presentation on the Ashcroft Hos-pital Ladies Auxiliary. It was founded on Aug. 14 1913, less than two weeks after the opening of Ashcroft’s hospital, and is still going strong as it enters its second century.

Coffee and refreshments will be served, and there is no charge for the event. If you have visitors who’d like to learn something about Ashcroft, or you’re a resident who would like to find out more about a specific place or event, mark Aug. 23 in your calendar and come down to the Ashcroft Museum. History is all around; and it’s always more interest-ing with a knowledgeable guide to lead the way!

Though the final tally is not yet in, it appears unlikely that there will be a park at the Spences Bridge school grounds anytime soon.

As of last week nearly 70 petitions sup-porting the park status had been turned in, but that fell a little short of the required 88. On the upside, the challenge of locating the owners of all 175 parcels in the designated park area wasn’t completely successful. There were also parties who owned several blocks of parcels, and who were not ready for a park in Spences Bridge.

Given those factors, the significant number of folks who took the time to send in their pe-titions showed strong sentiment on both sides.

We will have the official result next week, but I’d like to take this time to thank the great group of volunteers who helped get the word out. Your efforts were greatly appreciated.

Steven RiceTNRD Director, Area “I”

A presentation about the historic Bryson House on Brink Street will be just one of the events at the Ashcroft Museum’s open house on Aug. 23. Built in 1900, it’s one of the oldest houses in town and contains many original features, including the coloured glass window to the right of the front door.

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LIFT UP YOUR EYES UNTO THE HILLS: The now-abandoned Anglican church (bottom left) at Pukaist, near Spatsum, has stood precariously under the hills and talus slope towering over it since about 1880.

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“Hot enough for you?”It’s a common question round these parts in sum-

mer, and fairly innocuous; a simple pleasantry, on a par with “Some wind we had yesterday, huh?” and “How about those Lions/Canucks/Whitecaps/other sports franchise?”, or any other form of words meant to establish a connection and a friendly tone.

However, that particular phrase – “Hot enough for you?” – makes my blood boil, which is not a good thing when the temperature is closer to 40 than 30. I usually just smile weakly, and mumble some-thing about yes, it really is hot, isn’t it, while in my mind I want to go full-on Ebenezer Scrooge. You’ll remember the scene, early in A Christmas Carol, where Scrooge’s nephew wishes the old curmudg-eon a merry Christmas. “If I could work my will,” Scrooge replies indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”

As Scrooge is with “Merry Christmas”, so I am with “Hot enough for you?” (although I’ll leave you to imagine with what, and where, I’d like to im-pale someone when I hear him say it). If I were be-ing honest, my reply would be, “Yes; yes, it is hot enough for me. Indeed, it’s more than hot enough for me. In fact” – and here I’d lean closer in to my ques-tioner, if it wasn’t so hot, and drop my voice as if im-parting a deep secret – “I’d go so far as to say that this is much, much too hot for me. My hair follicles are perspiring. I am peeling exposed flesh from any plastic or leather surfaces I am unfortunate enough to come in contact with. I am in danger of first de-gree burns from touching the front door handle for more than two seconds. I am almost envying mem-bers of the Franklin Expedition, because even though they resorted to cannibalism before starving to death in the Arctic, they were at least able to keep cool. So in answer to your question: yes. It is safe to say that it really is more than hot enough for me.”

But I don’t say this, because I know that even if I try to make any of the above sound light-hearted my questioner will immediately look puzzled. “But,” he will say, clearly trying hard to comprehend the infor-mation I have just imparted, “but you have to expect that here. Why’d you move to a desert if you don’t like the heat?”

Well, it’s not that I don’t like heat; it’s just the ex-cessive heat, where it doesn’t even cool down appre-ciably at night, that I don’t enjoy. I moved to Ashcroft knowing what summers were like here, and came de-spite that, not because of it. I think of it as a trade-off. I endure a certain number of days of scorching heat in summer; in exchange I get springs, summers, and winters that are just about perfect for me. A period of blistering temperatures in July and August is the price I pay.

So if I look a little pained when you ask me “Hot enough for you?” you’ll know why. Or it could be because I’m thinking about getting into my car, which will have an interior temperature I could roast meat in. Ah well, you know what else they say here, this time of year. At least it’s a dry heat. . . .

Dear Editor,This is an open letter to Cache

Creek council, regarding the health connections bus. What have you done to reinstate transportation for seniors from C.C. to Ashcroft?

I grew up in Cache Creek; my moth-er still lives there in the house she and my father built before much of the town was settled. My father served many years on the Cache Creek council and fought for many benefits you all enjoy today. Frankly, I am relieved he doesn’t know of the lack of respect and the in-consideration you have shown the sen-iors of your town in taking away fund-ing for the health connections bus from Cache Creek to Ashcroft. My moth-er still holds her driver’s license, but I worry what will happen if one day she can not drive. Do you at all care?

While some enjoy Graffiti days/free Mothers’ Day flights/free swimming at the pool . . . what have you done for the seniors? You opt out of the only trans-portation that allows them to keep their independence. You voted down the funding without any referendum, and have not followed up with any other op-

tion for them to get to their doctors’ ap-pointments, the drugstore, or full gro-cery services. There should be no issue of funding here – it is a basic necessity.

To the councillors who ask for votes when the election is drawing near: I would suggest you don’t bother asking any seniors for support, unless you ac-tually plan on representing their needs.

I urge all seniors to note this issue when this council is next up for election and ask the question. “What will you do for seniors if elected?”

To those who voted for opting out of the health bus connection – you should be ashamed of yourselves. You don’t deserve the vote of any senior who lives there; and remember, you will be one yourself one day. The message you have sent to the seniors of Cache Creek is “Live here and pay taxes, but when you are too elderly or your health fails and you can no longer hold a license – move to Ashcroft!”

You are not doing what you were elected to do: represent all who pay taxes in Cache Creek.

This issue needs attention.A. Holloway

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Dear Editor,Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s

anti-gay law brought to mind a quote from Niemoller, a German Protest-ant pastor who spent seven years in a Nazi concentration camp for being an outspoken foe of Hitler. He said “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a So-cialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – be-cause I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Let’s not let history repeat itself by letting others condemn innocent people. We must stand up for every-one’s right to exist with tolerance and compassion. Boycotting sports that young people have trained for for years is not the answer. All countries could ensure the safety of all our athletes by demanding written safeguards from Pu-tin for all people attending. That could be the first step in ending this law.

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Whodunit? Murder mystery comingJazz and Blues at this Wednesday’s Music in the Park

Winding Rivers Arts and Performance Society presents “Music in the Park” in Ashcroft every 2nd and 4th Wednes-day of the month in summer. The next concert is on Wed-nesday, Aug. 14 and will feature the sweet soul/blues sounds of the Andrea Smith duo from Nanaimo. Andrea is a velvet-voiced blues, roots, rock, and jazz singer falling somewhere between Bonnie Raitt and Kathleen Edwards, with hints of Eva Cassidy.

Andrea Smith has been playing music professionally for the past 25 years. She studied songwriting with Mae Moore and Ron Hines at the B.C. Festival of the Arts in 2001, as well as jazz performance at the VIU, where she graduated in 2011. Her style—described as crossover—is influenced by blues, country, pop, and jazz idioms. In 2005 Andrea won first place in the songwriting competition at the Shuswap Lakes International Writers Festival. In 2007 her second CD,

Sweet Embrace, took home both the Female Songwriter and Producer/Engineer of the Year (for Pat Coleman and Rick Salt) Awards at the Vancouver Island Music Awards.

Karla Cummins will be our local opener. Bring the whole family to a great night of music; don’t forget the lawn chairs or a blanket. The music starts at 7:00 pm, and the concert ends at approximately 9:30. Pass-the-hat-donations are en-couraged. Be sure to come early—the park fills up fast!

Adult acting classes, and a murder mysteryWinding Rivers Arts and Performance Society is pleased

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These acting workshops will help cultivate some great actors for our upcoming community play performance of a unique kind—a murder mystery. Cafe Murder is going be held at a local venue, with dates and prices to be finalized soon. Rehearsals for Cafe Murder will take place from Sept. 10—Oct. 8, with casting happening in late August. There is the possibility of multiple casting depending on the num-ber of people who want to take part. The play is about Rose-mary Saint-John, a loud, annoying hypochondriac convinced she is allergic to water. While celebrating her birthday at a restaurant with her four kooky siblings—a hippie, a valley

girl, a trucker, and a banker—Rose-mary makes enemies with everyone around her. When she disappears and is presumed murdered, the only ob-jective witnesses in the restaurant are the audience members, who must cast their vote.

Whodunit? Was it one of Rose-mary’s siblings? The self-taught de-tective? The passionate French chef? The polite and proper mâitre d’? The sarcastic waiter? No one is above suspicion in this delightful dinner theatre murder mystery!

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Ashcroft Fall Fair entertainment line-up

This year’s Ashcroft Fall Fair is just three weeks away, and takes place on Sunday, Sept. 11 from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at the Drylands Arena. Blue Jeans and Country Scenes is what you’ll see at this year’s Fair.

Come learn the history of denim, and ways to repurpose those old jeans. Listen to country music while you check out the variety of vendors and the homemade products on dis-play. There will be children’s entertainment and lots of activ-ities to keep them busy.

The headliners this year are a great band from Vancou-ver called Backdoor Slam. You can enjoy some great country and western swing from Kat Wahamaa (guitar/vocals), Jen-nie Bice (fiddle/vocals), Tony Rees (guitar/vocals), and Joe Samorodin (upright bass/vocals). Collectively, they’ve re-ceived rave reviews for their music all over the globe. Soar-ing vocals, strong harmonies, flying fiddle, swingin’ guitar, harmonica, bass, mandolin, and washboard comprise their unmistakable sound.

Their name comes from a line in a 1946 version of the tune “I’ll Get Mine Bye and Bye”, and you’d better believe they are all invested in “getting their own” brand of music out to the hungry ears of the listening public. The music they play? Country and Eastern, roots and branches; down in the dirt stuff including country, blues, bluegrass, and West-ern Swing; traditional music of the British Isles; and even Finnish folk. They infuse these styles with elements of East Coast kitchen party, punk rock-a-billy, and a penchant for swing and rhythm. They play with such exuberance and feel-ing you’ll want to get up, dance like Jed, join them with a comb and a piece of wax-paper, or cry like a baby!

West Coast Music Award nominee Kat Wahamaa is a songwriter/recording artist often compared to kd lang, Em-mylou Harris, and Lucinda Williams, among others. With “a voice you can take a bath in” and her irreverent sense of hu-

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Health Care Auxiliary celebrates 100 years of serviceAs of the date of today’s paper, the

Ashcroft & District Health Care Aux-iliary begins its second century of oper-ation. It was founded on Aug. 14 1913, only days after the new Lady Minto Hos-pital had opened in Ashcroft.

The Aug. 22 1913 issue of the Ash-croft Journal contained an article about the new group, headlined “Ladies Aux-iliary Formed: First Annual Meeting Held In Schoolhouse”. The report said, in part:

“A meeting of the greater part of those ladies interested met in the schoolhouse on the afternoon of the 14th inst., and formed a Ladies’ Auxiliary in connec-tion with the Ashcroft and District Gener-al Hospital. The meeting was called to or-der at about 3:30 p.m. . . . Many matters of interest to the hospital were discussed, and it was decided that meetings would be held monthly on the second Thursday of each month. . . . We trust that the good work thus so pleasantly and unanimously begun will continue throughout the exist-ence of the Lady Minto Hospital. Seven-teen members have joined the Aid, and $1.00 is the membership fee.”

One of the ADHCA’s first fundrais-ing events was a dance in 1913, which brought in $150 (approximately $3500 today) to support the hospital. It was the start of a century of raising funds, all of which go to benefit not only the hospi-tal in Ashcroft, but healthcare of all types throughout the area.

Over the years the ADHCA has pre-

sided over horse race meets, teas, raf-fles of donated goods (including a Ford motorcar in the 1920s, donated by a lo-cal Ford dealership), dances, the sale of homemade goods (including knitted and sewn items), movie nights, bake sales, and educational presentations. In June 1963 the Auxiliary opened its Thrift Store on Railway, on the site where Safety Mart currently stands. Founded by Dollie Nor-rie, and now located at the Village Office on Bancroft St., the shop is now the AD-HCA’s main source of revenue.

Over the last century, the money raised by the Auxiliary has funded num-erous projects and purchases. In its ear-ly days the focus was on giving aid to the upkeep of what began as the Lady Minto Hospital in Ashcroft. Items purchased for the hospital include beds, bedding, and pyjamas; storm windows; vinyl flooring; bedding and furnishings for the nurses’ quarters; awnings; an incubator; wheel-chairs; an auxiliary battery-powered plant for the operating room; air condition-ing units; operating room instruments; an X-ray machine and table, as well as lead lining for the X-ray room; emer-gency lamps; bassinets; a foetal monitor; a cardiac defibrillator; a whirlpool bath; a heart monitor; and electric beds.

Changes to the Ashcroft hospital in recent years have led the ADHCA to ex-pand its support to other hospitals used by area residents. Donations have been made to Royal Inland Hospital in Kam-

loops, to assist in purchases for the In-tensive Care facility and to help pro-vide a new CT scanner. The Auxiliary has also donated funds to the Cancer Clinic in Vancouver.

Members of the ADHCA have al-ways given their support to organiz-ations which promote the health and well-being of all. Within a year of the group’s formation came the start of World War One, and many Aux-iliary members worked for the Red Cross; something which happened again during World War II. In 1948 the Auxiliary held a very successful X-ray clinic, which was attended by more than 300 people. Since then the group has staged blood donor clinics, sponsored a group of students known as “Candy Stripers” who helped staff with chores and visited patients, and arranged the twice-yearly mammo-gram clinics for the area. ADHCA members have also ensured that even during the dark times of the Depres-sion and Second World War, when food was scarce, the hospital was well sup-plied with food and preserves from mem-bers’ pantries, kitchens, gardens, and even wine cellars.

In the 1960s the Auxiliary established the showcase at the hospital, featuring many homemade items which could be purchased to support the group’s work, and this tradition continues today. Many a new baby born locally has received, as

one of his or her first gifts, a lovingly hand-knitted item from the showcase. The AD-HCA also brightens the lives of older patients; over the years members have shopped for hospital-bound people, cheered the lives of patients by bringing them flowers, and taken round a trolley stocked with chocolates and treats.

It is difficult to know how much the Auxiliary has raised over the past hun-dred years; inflation, and the changing purchasing power of the dollar, make such cal-culations difficult. In 1965,

for example, the Journal reported that the ADHCA had raised $10,000 that year for purchases; a sum that would be equiva-lent to approximately $75,000 today. This year the Auxiliary will be donating more than $100,000 that will benefit the health-care of all residents in our region. It is therefore probably safe to say that, in to-day’s terms, the ADHCA has raised more than $1 million for healthcare in our area; all of it accomplished by volunteers.

The “good work . . . so pleasantly and unanimously begun” in 1913 has indeed continued throughout the existence of the Lady Minto Hospital, and well beyond it. The work of the Ashcroft & District Health Care Auxiliary has touched the lives of many, many people over the last century. Congratulations to the group, as it begins its second century of existence; long may it continue!

Many thanks to Marilyn Bueckert for her assistance with this article. The su-perb posters Marilyn has made with the help of her daughter Kathryn Garcia, and which document each decade of the Aux-iliary’s existence, can be seen at the Ash-croft Family Medical Centre, the Ashcroft Healthcare Centre, and the Auxiliary’s Thrift Store at the Village Office.

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mour, she has delighted audiences throughout Western Canada, Japan, and the U.S. Her ex-perience as a disciple of the danse du ventre, or so-called belly dance, is evident from the hip style rhythm guitar, mandolin, and washboard. Kat’s website is at www.katwahamaa.com.

Fiddle player Jennie Bice came to Vancou-ver in search of other musicians driven enough to play the speed she wanted, and bold enough to try some of her ideas. Jennie’s recordings and concerts span many genres, along with Celt-ic styles, and include Cuban Latin, jazz, rock-abilly, classical, country, and Cajun, amongst others, which accounts for her unique playing style. Jennie fronts the band Prydwen (www.prydwen.com), also plays with such folks as “Mad Pudding”, and has toured internationally.

Tony Rees was born in Bristol, England and was drawn to the folk music scene that flour-ished in the U.K. during his teens. He is a pro-ponent of Bob Wills, Memphis Minnie, and the Blasters. Tony plays swing, folk, and blues guitar, and the harmonica, and has a decidedly unique vocal sound. Take a look at www.shin-ybuckle.com for info on his Western Swing en-semble Shiny Buckle Band. He and Kat tour as a duo internationally.

Joe Samorodin’s roots stem from the west. He’s a restless soul, which causes him to re-direct the energy of a performance into a non-stop dance that sometimes ends up in the audi-ence. He feeds on this, and his fretless and stand-up bass playing reflects the many rhythms that have crossed his path and become ensnared in his persona. Joe can also be found at www.prydwen.com.

Backdoor Slam will be performing two afternoon sets at the Arena Stage, which will no

doubt be a very fun time. Other entertainment throughout the day will be Filetta Fish and her One Woman Circus; and don’t miss Ashcroft fa-vourites The Kamloops Old Time Fiddlers. It will be a great time for all.

Don’t forget to get your entries in for this year’s fair. Program books are around town, and forms are online. See you there! www.ashcroft-fallfair.net.

Take a staycation, 1863 style, at the Cariboo Wagon Road 150 Celebrations this weekend in Historic Yale.

You’ll get all the excitement, colour, tastes, and pageantry of the opening of the lower sec-tion of what was hailed as the “eighth wonder of the world” when it was built in 1863. “We have a wonderful weekend of family fun and a taste of living history celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of this historic route,” said Deb Zervini, Yale Historic Site Supervisor.

Visitors can step back into time at the Site site on Aug. 17. Wander through the R.E. Liv-ing History re-enactors’ camp, sample the bar-becued salmon and fresh-baked bannock, or pan for gold next to the Yale Museum. The event also includes a historic guided walking tour and a performance of Tales and Trails of the Canyon by the Hope Performing Arts Community Theatre.

A tour of some of the intact portions of the Cariboo Wag-on Road is another key feature of the festivities. It includes stops at Lady Franklin Rock – named in honour of Lady Jane Franklin, widow of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, who visited the area in 1861 – traditional salmon-drying sites used by the Yale First Nation and others, and the old Alexan-dra Bridge. The suspension bridge, which can be visited on foot, was completed in 1926 and considered an engineering marvel in its day.

“You’ll get a very real sense of what it must have been like to travel this amazing road,” said Hope Mountain Centre Program Director Kelly Pearce. “The Cariboo Wagon Road played a key role in the gold rush economy of the 1860s and the development of British Columbia.”

The celebrations continue on Sunday, Aug. 18. High-lights include the re-dedication of the Cariboo Wagon Road plaque and interpretive sign, and the official opening of the new picnic area. The Sunday celebrations end with a recep-tion to celebrate the grand opening of the Ward House, built in 1863 for Johnny Ward, a teamster with the famed BX (Barnard’s Express).

“This celebration is about the future as well as the past,” said Terry Raymond, emcee of Sunday’s festivities.

“Restoring our heritage trails and historical assets – es-pecially key sites like Alexandra Bridge – will help local economies all along the Gold Rush/Spirit Trails corridor from Hope to Bar-kerville and beyond,” added Cheryl Chapman, New Pathways to Gold Society’s First Nations Co-chair.

Historic re-creators and black powder gun demonstrations are just two of the features of the Cariboo Wagon Road 150 Celebrations.

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Does a person quali-fy to be called a single parent if their finan-cial and time respon-sibilities are split in half with their ex?That question came

up recently, while I was having lunch with a couple of new friends - one who has her children ev-ery second week, and the other who has her kids full time, with no help at all, financially or otherwise.“I’m so sick of peo-

ple calling themselves a single parent when they have it so easy,” one said to the other with an irritated tone. “You’re not paying for everything on your own, like I’ve always had to do. And you have an entire week off, 26 times a year. I can’t even remember the last time I had a night to myself.”Her outburst came

after the other wom-an referred to her-self as being a single mother.The conversation

immediately became so heated I felt like I was watching an ag-gressive tennis match, and hoping the ball

wouldn’t fly off the court and hit me in the face. While it was an interesting topic of discussion, it was uncomfortable to be in the middle, con-sidering the history, emotions and raised voices between the two ladies I was just getting to know.A little time has

passed since then, and the hurtful things that were said dur-ing the lunch have been worked out to the point that both of them were fine with me writing about it in a column. As long as I didn’t use their real names.So, for no particular

reason other than the fact that I used to call my Barbie dolls these names when I was younger, I will call

them Jill and Kelly. People of my vintage might get that TV ref-erence.Jill’s issue, she said

later, was a mixture of jealousy, self-pity and exhaustion. “I get where Kelly’s coming from now,” she said. “She’s sin-gle, because she’s no longer married, and she’s a parent. That’s not the same thing as being a ‘single parent’ the way I’ve always been and I’ve always

thought of it, but I think I was hearing a complaining tone from her where there was none intended. I was internalizing for sure.”Kelly gained a mu-

tual understanding of Jill’s perspective as well.“Her resentment

made me defensive,” she said, explaining her angry reaction and why the discus-sion went sideways. “I wasn’t trying to say my situation was tougher than hers. I know it’s not even close. I have lots of ‘me-time’ and I ap-preciate that. But the fact remains - I’m a mother and I’m single - and I’m looking for a man.”She laughed when

she said that last part, but she was serious.

In her mind, refer-ring to herself as a single mom is more about getting dates than getting sympa-thy, and she makes no apologies for using the term.And now that the

two old friends have an understanding on their different defini-tions, apologies and explanations are no longer needed.“What people call

themselves, for what-ever reason, is a per-sonal decision,” Jill concluded. “Look at you. You call yourself ‘married with chil-dren’ - like you’re Peg Bundy or something.”It’s true. I do.If I only had her

hair.Lori Welbourne is a

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“[Perrault] was cleared to go out [near Kamloops Lake] and not venture off from there,” said David Cruz of TylAir Aviation Ltd., the flight school at which the student was training. “Once those exercises were com-plete, he was to return at 12:45 pm. When he was not at the tarmac at 12:45, the company immediately dis-patched two planes to search for him in the area he was supposed to be.”

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was too bad more people didn’t turn out.”

Alf Trill also felt that the timing of the election played a part in the low turnout. “It’s summer, people are busy,” he said, adding that other factors probably played a part. “It was a Saturday election, and the heat was probably an issue, and it was jut after the August long week-end. It was probably a bad week to have an election.”

This was Clement’s first time running for council, and she plans to stand again in next year’s elec-tion. “I’ll keep going to council meetings, see what’s going on, talk to people, and try again in 2014.” Trill – who served on council from 2005-8 – also plans to run again next year. In the meantime, he wishes the new councillor all the best. “She’ll do a good job. She put in the time and effort to get elected, so I know she’ll put in the time and effort as a councillor.”

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Photo from the Transportation Safety Board of the crash site near Cache Creek that took the life of a 16-year-old pilot.

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Overview of position:This is a 6 month temporary position based in Cache Creek. Under the guidance of the Landfill Engineer, the Landfill Technician is responsible for operating, maintaining and upgrading the landfill gas (LFG) extraction and leachate collection systems as well as assisting with the operation / maintenance of the irrigation systems. The Landfill Technician will also provide technical support for Landfill Operations with an emphasis on ensuring the operating permit is being complied with and operating plans are being adhered to.

Duties and Responsibilities: Performing monitoring rounds on the LFG collection system with a handheld gas analyzer and

making adjustments as necessary to maintain optimum performance Trouble-shooting issues with LFG and leachate collection system Identifying and making repairs to collection system Installing LFG collection piping, wellheads etc Tracking LFG and Leachate quantities collected Preparing documentation and procedures relating to LFG and Leachate collection systems Overseeing contractors and Wastech staff working on pertinent projects Assisting with day to day operation and maintenance of the re-vegetation program’s irrigation system Participating in training courses such as Landfill Gas Operations and Maintenance and HDPE

Fusion WeldingQualifications:

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Gold Country presents... Past, Present & Beyond

GOLD COUNTRYBARBARA RODEN

One year after Special Constable Isaac Decker was murdered in Ash-croft in June 1909, while question-ing two men suspected of holding up a CPR train, his killer was still at large. Police had identi� ed the men as broth-ers Dave and Bill Haney, from the Los Angeles area. Dave had been killed by Decker before Bill had gunned down the policeman and � ed. A manhunt in the Calabasas Hills of California, where Haney was known to be hiding, had proved fruitless. By the summer of 1910 it was clear he had left that area.

On Aug. 9, 1910 a � re started in a barn in the small town of Dillon, southwest Montana. A stranger gave the alarm; then, while residents tried to put out the � re, the man walked into the State Bank of Dillon and asked the lone employee for change. When the teller looked up the stranger had drawn a .32 Colt automatic. He told the tell-er to throw up his hands; but instead of complying, the man ducked and made for the back door. The would-be rob-ber � red a shot, which sailed wide. The teller escaped, and spread the alarm.

The stranger had, by this time, exit-ed through the main door and mount-ing the bay horse he had ridden into town. He might have escaped, had the horse not lost its footing. The stranger was thrown and temporarily knocked out, allowing two citizens to seize and hold him. In addition to the .32 he car-ried a .45 Colt and a Winchester ri� e, but there was nothing to indicate who he was except the name “E. Smith” marked on his undershirt. The man said his name was Edward Smith, and he was charged with arson, attempted robbery, and assault with a � rearm.

There the matter might have end-ed, had not one Dillon resident got a better look at Edward Smith. The un-lucky bandit had a moustache and beard, and was wearing a brown wig, but the resident recognized someone he had known in Los Angeles. The

Dillon sheriff, a man named Gossman, was informed that the prisoner going by the name “Edward Smith” was real-ly Bill Haney, want-ed by police in Cali-fornia. He was also, their informant said, wanted in British Columbia, where Bill Haney and his broth-er (whose name the man misremembered as “Dan”) had robbed a train and murdered a policeman, and where “Dan” had been killed.

Sheriff Gossman wasted little time in confronting his prisoner with this charge. “Hello, Bill,” he said, entering the cell of “Smith”. “Where’s your brother Dan?”

Communications between Dil-lon, Los Angeles, and British Colum-bia began � ying. A full and extensive description of “Edward Smith” – right down to moles on his face and body, and a bullet scar on one hip – matched perfectly with that of Bill Haney, and the Dillon police were asked to pro-vide a photograph of their prisoner.

He proved less than coopera-tive, however. Every time the photog-rapher tried to get a picture, the pris-oner turned or moved his head so that he could not be clearly seen. When deputies grabbed him by the hair and forced him to look at the camera, the prisoner squirmed so much that the re-sulting photos were useless; for this was a time when the photographic pro-cess still required that the subject re-main very still for several seconds, in order for a clear picture to be obtained.

Even without pictures, the simi-larity of the descriptions of Edward Smith and Bill Haney were so remark-able that Superintendent Hussey of the

B.C. Provincial Po-lice sent a telegram to Sheriff Gossman in Dillon. He said that if there was any chance of the sheriff’s pris-oner being released, he should be detained until further instruc-tions were sent from Canada. Doubtless the Superintendent mentioned the $4,000 reward being offered for the capture and conviction of Isaac Decker’s murderer;

an incentive that would have ensured Gossman’s cooperation.

The sheriff, in the meantime, had other worries. He believed that his prisoner had a confeder-ate, who would try to break him out of jail. A stranger was seen hanging about after dark; mysteri-ous lantern signals and gunshots were seen and heard at night; the steel bars over the building’s win-dow were tampered with; and a crowbar had been left in a corri-dor near Haney’s cell. Gossman � nally resorted to connecting the steel bars over the window with arc-light circuits, and posting warning notices reading “Any one touching this window does so at his peril, as 2,000 volts are pass-ing through the bars.”

The only way to prove that “Edward Smith” was Bill Haney was to have one other person who knew him come to identify him. In late August 1910 a Pinkerton detective from Los Angeles ar-rived in Dillon, accompanying a man named Frank Deahn, who had worked for Bill Haney and knew the family intimately.

As soon as he saw “Edward Smith”, Deahn identi� ed him as

one of the Haney brothers; but whether it was Bill or Dave, he could not say for sure. He recognized the bay horse the prisoner had been riding, saying that it had belonged to Dave Haney. Dea-hn said that he himself had ridden the horse many times. He added that Bill Haney had been a contractor in Los Angeles, where he lived in a � ne resi-dence with his wife and family. Deahn also claimed that the Canadian police did not know for certain which brother had been killed by Isaac Decker.

It was looking more and more like-ly that Sheriff Gossman had one of the Haney brothers in his jail in Dillon, Montana; but which one? Before that could be decided, however, came new information; new information which turned the entire situation inside out.

To be continued

BILL HANEY ON THE RUN in this romanticized depiction, from the Feb. 10 1910 edition of the Los Angeles Times.

In the Line of Duty: Part 8 - “Edward Smith”

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