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Music in the airThe Desert Bells Handbell Choir held its Spring Concert on Sunday with invited guests that included Teresa Takacs (below left), Simple Pleasures and the Lillooet Community Choir. Above, l-r: Handbell Choir members Gaurangi Benner-Tapia, Natasha Grimshire, Vraja Benner-Tapia, Denise Tapia, Breanna Grimshire, Kirk Watson and Maria Russel-Martin.

The Handbell Choir dedicated a bell to the B.C. Interior Community Foundation. Choir member Ray Shindell (right) reads the commemorative poem to representatives Bonnie Sonenberg and Cara Graden.

Unconditional grants to the Village are go-ing down and user fees for the new water treat-ment plant are going up in the Village of Ash-croft’s most recent budget.

Less than two dozen people gathered at the Ashcroft Town Hall meeting where the town’s current budget was presented on May 4.

Ashcroft is only planning a 2.5 per cent rise in taxes this year, but Chief Financial Officer Yogi Bhalla warned that keeping tax increases to a minimum are getting harder when provin-cial and federal grants are getting smaller and the tax base is getting older.

He said two-thirds of Ashcroft’s population is expected to qualify for the seniors discount in 10 years, and that will mean significantly less residential tax revenue for the Village. Many municipalities have phased out the seniors dis-count for that reason, he said.

Unconditional grants from other govern-ments account for $883,239 of Ashcroft’s total revenue of $3,826,256, but are not guar-anteed. Bhalla said some years they are more than others, but they are never guaranteed. It’s a problem for small municipalities all over the province, he said.

The Village uses these grants to offset tax in-creases, said Bhalla.

“Day to day needs are essential,” he said, “and the unconditional grants help us pay for those things.”

A large part of the Village’s expenses are driven by gas and electricity rates which they have no control over.

“The population goes down, but expenses don’t,” said Ron Hood. “How are you account-ing for that?”

“By making an economic development plan,” said Mayor Jack Jeyes. “It will give us focus.”

The town is preparing to build a new water treatment plant for its drinking water in the near future, and will be increasing the user fees it collects in anticipation.

Providing approximately half a million dol-lars in revenue to the Village, Bhalla said the fees have remained the same for many years, but that is about to change.

“By raising the user fees, it will create a sur-plus for water purposes,” said Coun. Al Mer-tens who attended the meeting along with May-or Jeyes and councillors Barbara Roden and Doreen Lambert.

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May 8: Movie Night at Zion United; 7 PM. Showing: The Bible - Part 3 (from the 2013 TV series). Location is 401 Bancroft Street, Ashcroft. FREE admission, refreshments by donation. Everyone very welcome.

April 27: Cache Creek Council meeting at 4:30 pm in the Village Of� ce. Everyone welcome.

May 3: Desert Bells Handbell Spring Concert, 3 pm at Crossroads Pentecostal Church in Cache Creek. Admission by donation.

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May 17: Opening Day for the Spences Bridge Market. Call Oliva at 458-2532 for information.

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June 7: Skips Charity Run, 9 am at Heritage Place Park.

WRAPS: will be presenting the musical My Fair Lady in November 2015; actors and singers of all age groups wanted for all roles, from featured parts to chorus. Auditions on Thursday April 29 (7:00 - 9:00pm) and Saturday/Sunday May 2 - 3 (2:00 - 4:00pm), Ashcroft Secondary School. For info call Jessica at 457-7128.

May 24: Ashcroft Plein Air Paint-out, Public Show & Sale, 6:00 - 8:00pm, St. Alban’s Church Hall. All welcome!

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POLICE REPORTWendy Coomber

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Doctors for interim coverage

Special thanks this month to Ron Hood for his fine meeting minutes and David Durksen for providing this article.

At this point we have not yet been able to secure replacement for Dr. Peedikayil. Everyone (Interior Health, WHAC, Dr. Govindasamy and locum physicians) has worked diligently and as of today, we have ER and clinic coverage booked for the usual scheduled hours through to the end of May. The recruit-ment efforts are ongoing and once a physician has announced that he/she will be coming to work in Ashcroft, this will be publicly an-nounced as soon as possible.

IH reports that the recruitment team have met with doctors seek-ing employment opportunities at several events in the last six weeks, in addition to continuing their ad-vertising campaigns.

It has been explained that Ash-croft will be listed to recruit four full time doctors. In the interim, we will also be talking with doctors who may wish to work part time to see if they would join the clinical practice for a day or two a week. This will help us provide coverage to those patients without a family doctor so as to assist with their on-going medication and lab needs. In an ideal world this will help us bridge time until we have full time doctors recruited.

In this transitional time, we need to ensure that we stabilize the clinical practice and do not burn out Dr. Govindasamy. As we can-not sustain ER coverage with only one physician, the ER hours will be reduced. Please watch for upcom-ing posters and news articles re-garding the ER coverage hours. At this time there are reduced hours planned for in May, with only weekend coverage available as we move into June. Without successful recruitment, it is expected that the ER will be closing in the month of June through to August. Of course, if at any time we are successful in recruitment, we will be notifying

the community. The Rural and

Remote Division of Family Practice has been established and Ashcroft has already joined this working

group. Members of the WHAC executive will be meeting with members of the Thompson Div-ision of Family Practice (Kam-loops), which started a bit earlier, so that we may bring back informa-tion re: the structures and systems that will facilitate us implementing the potentials of the Rural Division as quickly as possible. This new in-itiative will help facilitate collabor-ative work between the local phys-icians, the community and IH to deliver community programs that address health issues identified as priorities by the community.

A new licensing stream for international medical graduates who meet the BC College of Phys-icians and Surgeons licensing cre-dentials have started their “Practice Ready Assessment” incorporating exams, credentialing review and a 12 week practicum.

These graduates have a three-year return of service agreement for rural areas. Ashcroft was se-lected as a community within IH to have two places for candidates, if the candidates choose Ashcroft, are found to be a suitable match to the community by the local phys-icians, and pass all of the licensing requirements. This next cohort will likely be finished early in 2016.

Check out our website www.whac-chb.ca for more detailed minutes and other important infor-mation. There is a rural health dis-cussion paper posted under “essen-tial reading”. We would like your input, so that we may add it to our submission.

Finally – are you a member of WHAC? If not please join – mem-bership applications and fees (a whole $5/year) may be dropped at People’s Drug Mart. The more members we can report, the more influence we have with the deci-sion and policy makers at every level.

Thank you all for your ongoing support!

OUR HEALTH MATTERSWellness and Health Action Coalition

Alice Durksen

Boating accidentApril 20 at 7:30 pm po-

lice received a report of mis-chief from a 49 year old woman at Barnes Lake. She said she accidentally rode her kayak over a fish-erman’s line, which led to a heated exchange of words. She suspected that it was he who slashed the tires on her vehicle on his way out of the park. The matter is still under investigation.

Beamer on the moveApril 28 at 4 pm police

received a report of an er-ratic driver in a blue BMW on Hwy 1 near Savona. The complainant said the car was travelling at approxi-mately 160 kph and passing on double solid lines. The vehicle was located on Hwy 1 near Cache Creek and the driver, a 61 year old Ashcroft man, admitted to speeding for which he was issued a ticket.

Disturbing customersApril 28 at 8:45 pm po-

lice received a complaint from the Heartland Restau-rant that an intoxicated man was causing a disturbance in the parking lot, approaching customers and nearly get-ting hit by a car exiting the parking lot. The 29 year old Prince George man was lo-cated near the Chevron. He was in possession of a can of beer and a small amount of marijuana. It was deter-mined that he was on proba-tion with conditions to stay away from alcohol. He was arrested and charged with breaching his probation.

Missing great daneAn Ashcroft man re-

ported that his dog had gone missing while he was out walking it. He told po-lice that he just assumed the great dane cross was behind him, but discovered she was nowhere in sight when he got home. The owners have posted a reward. If you’ve seen Toffee, please call 453-9476 or 453-9477.

Backyard theft

April 29 at 6:30 am po-lice received a report of theft from the back-yard of a resi-dence on Sun-valley Cres. in Cache Creek. The man re-ported that a rock tum-bler and pol-isher, valued at $300, was mis-sing and sus-pected it was stolen and that a vehicle parked at the Castle Inn was involved. The complain-ant also thought the vehicle was stolen. Police checked the vehicle which was not stolen, and the rock tumbler was no-

where in sight. The matter is still under investigation.

Abandoned vehicleApril 29 at 1:30 pm po-

lice received a report of an abandoned Dodge Caravan parked at the side of the road across from Hillside Apts. on Government St. The call-er said it had been there for two weeks. Police checked

the plates, which were valid and contacted the Regis-tered Owner in Logan Lake. The owner advised that the vehicle had broken down and he was waiting for parts to arrive so he could fix it. The vehicle has since been moved.

Wore out his welcomeApril 30 at 2 pm po-

lice attended the Greyhound Station in Cache Creek af-ter an intoxicated 49 year old Prince George man had been kicked off the bus. The

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Ashcroft wants trains to slow down

Sing a little songThe Lillooet Community Choir, led by conductor Kathleen Gunn (right) performed in Cache Creek over the weekend as invited guests at the Desert Bells Handbell Choir’s Spring Concert. The newly formed choir will be offering its own concert in Lillooet on June 5.

To market, to market...The Cache Creek Market had a successful opening day last Saturday as over a dozen vendors took part and customers poured in all day. The Market is now open every Saturday, 9 am to 1 pm, from now until October.

Towing to Prince George, domestic problems

The federal government says it’s going to direct trains to slow down when travelling through “highly urbanized areas”, but Ashcroft would like the same courtesy.

Last week, the Honourable Minister Raitt, Minister of Transport, issued an Emergency Directive to railway companies concerning the safe and secure transportation of dangerous goods.

Companies must slow their trains to a max-imum of 40 miles per hour (64 kilometres per hour) when travelling in highly urbanized areas. The Emergency Directive also requires increased inspections and risk assessments along key routes used for the transportation of dangerous goods, including crude oil and etha-nol. The Emergency Directive remains in place until Aug. 17, 2015.

Canada’s two largest railway operators - CN and CP - have already restricted their train speeds to a maximum of 35 mph in highly ur-banized areas.

Ashcroft Council reviewed the federal gov-ernment’s directive and discussed the effects it would have on Ashcroft.

“They’re reducing their speed through ma-jor urban centres but don’t seem to care about rural centres,” said Mayor Jack Jeyes.

Coun. Alf Trill suggested sending a letter to CN about the speeds of their trains through small towns “and say we’d like to see the same” (35 kph).

“Most trains that go through here on CN tracks have about 20 cars of flammable liquids on them,” said Jeyes.

Council agreed to send the letter.Transport Canada continues to explore all

measures that will further improve the safety of the Canadian railway system.

was located near the bus station with a partial bottle of vod-ka. He was arrested and lodged overnight in cells.

May 4 at 2 pm police attended Boston Flats after a com-plaint about the same man, still intoxicated. As he was breaching conditions of his probation by consuming alcohol again, he was arrested and charged with failing to comply with conditions of his probation. After he sobered up, he was escorted back to the bus station to finish his trip to Prince

George.

Throwing rocksMay 2 at 2:40 am police were notified by CP police that

someone was throwing rocks at a passing train and managed to break a window in one of the engines. Police patrolled the area where the tracks cross Hwy 97C but no one was located.

Unruly sonMay 2 at 7:15 pm police were called to a

Cache Creek residence by a woman who re-ported that her 54 year old son was being ver-bally abusive and throwing things around. He was gone before police arrive, leaving in his mother’s car. Patrols were made but he was not located. The mother was satisfied that her son would cool down before returning home.

Sudden deathMay 4 at 8 am police were called to a Cache

Creek residence to investigate the sudden death of a 72 year old man, who was found deceased in his bed by his wife. It appears that he died of natural causes.

Long haulMay 4 at noon police attended ASC Auto-

motive after being notified that a vehicle owner was insisting on driving away in his vehicle af-ter it had been taken off the road by police and ordered to have a safety inspection. The man was gone before police arrived. They learn-ed later that the man had made arrangement to have it towed to Prince George. There were no charges.

Domestic assaultMay 4 at 11:20 pm police attended the

Castle Inn in response to a report of domestic assault. The 45 year old man was gone before police arrived, and the 45 year old woman was being assisted by the manager. She had min-or injuries and was treated by paramedics. The man is still at large and is wanted for arrest on the charge of assault. Alcohol was a factor.


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“AEROBATICS” AT THE ANNUAL Mother’s Day Fly In at the local airport - May 10, starts at 8:30 am

Last week we were talking about Emer-gency Preparedness Week, but sometimes we still get caught unprepared.

This time it was for World Naked Gar-dening Day on Saturday, May 2. It just goes to prove, you can’t prepare for everything.

Did you miss it? It was the 10th annual.Not widely promoted, but for some rea-

son, it came across my desk just a few days before. And then, typically, I forgot about it until Meghan Winslow reminded me at the Cache Creek Market last Saturday. Meghan’s really up on all things related to gardening.

Lamely, I replied that my tomato plants were naked.

And that was all that was getting naked that day. It wasn’t cold-on-the-verge-of-snowing like it was this time last year, but it wasn’t hot either. The clouds, combined with the frequent gusts of wind, kept the temperature down to the point where many people were wearing jackets.

I commented to the vendor next to me that we’d be doing lots of hopping and flop-ping about to stay warm if we were nekkid, and that would just be painful for everyone involved.

I knew a family of naturists in Fort St. John - they often travelled to a southern destination before taking their clothes off, and if you’ve ever experienced the chill in that northern city, you’d know why.

And my oldest brother once lived in a very small southern Ontario town where his next door neighbours liked to lounge around their backyard in the buff. After the first accidental sighting, he avoided looking in the direction of their house.

To each his and her own. People have told me there’s nothing like skinny dipping.Maybe some day. My backyard is a little bit too exposed at the present, so until further notice, I will be doing my gardening in my usual comfortable, loosely-fitting clothes

The promoters of World Naked Gar-dening Day (look it up on Google) say that Adam and Eve were the first naked garden-ers. But I’ll bet they never had to contend with our mosquitos, black flies, hornets and UV - sunburn on the face is bad enough!

Dear EditorIs there such a thing as “geriatri-

cide”? It’s not in the dictionary - but I wonder.

Is it now a government policy if there is?

The “fiscally sound” actions cur-rently proposed by Interior Health would seem pre-destined to prove that the concept of “geriatrice” is real. It’s real! And it may well work in small B.C. communities with higher than normal populations of senior citizens such as Ashcroft.

How? Take away our doctors! Those graduates from medical schools we’ve subsidized with taxes paid in our lifetime.

Close our hospitals! Shut down their programs! Those buildings, fa-cilities and equipment which were initially paid for with local funds. Funds still being raised largely by seniors working in our thrift shop.

Finally, limit the rates paid to lo-cal paramedics! This ensures none have the required training to even transport any heart or stroke patient to the nearest hospital. When min-utes count - make sure it will take hours!

Will it work? Interior Health seems determined to find out with its latest proposal.

Will they be happy if they also

kill a good part of the commun-ity which has been a safe home for seniors?

Will it matter to them if those who can afford to leave such a com-munity do?

It doesn’t matter that you’d rath-er stay - staying may kill you. It doesn’t matter if you can’t afford to live in comfort elsewhere - move.

Am I paranoid? Hysterical? De-lusional? Maybe. But in the end, whether such an outcome was pre-determined or accidental, it will happen. People who did not need to will die. And a community with a great history and great residents will struggle harder to survive.

Don’t I know, these authorities ask, that health costs are skyrock-eting as the percentage of seniors rise? Of course. But I’m not con-

vinced we’re they only reason. And if one calculated the lifetime medic-al costs for the maority of us living here, I’ll guarantee the total would be but a tiny fraction of the moey we’ve paid in taxes during our life-time to date. And still pay.

Yes, we pay - but we shouldn’t have to pay with out lives. For whether the resulting “geriatricide” is a planned outcome of Interior Health or an accidental byproduct, the results will be the same. Some people will die.

And to ensure that happens, all that good people need to do is stand by and say nothing. Not me. What about you?

Patricia KiltAshcroft

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Ashcroft CiB sponsors worm compostingEarth Day (Apr. 22) was extra special for

Mrs. Deb Van Thienen’s class at Ashcroft Ele-mentary School, as Ashcroft Communities in Bloom, together with the TNRD, brought a worm composting station and presentation to the children.

Adriana Mailloux of the TNRD spoke to the students about garbage. How much does every person make a year? Where does it go? What happens to it in a landfill? How can we reduce the amount of garbage that we put into land-fills? It was very enlightening to listen to the children’s responses to these questions and also their insights on this topic.

The students were shown the red wriggler worms that would be doing all the work in the

worm composter that will be set up in the class-room. These worms eat organic food scraps together with shredded paper and dryer lint, and the worms can eat their own body weight in one day! We learned that household food scraps make up 30 per cent of the household garbage that is put into landfills; so, it’s a good idea to compost these items as it not only saves the en-vironment but also improves the garden.

Students were told how the worms make worm castings, and were shown how the worm composter will work. They were very excited to see the worms put into the first bin and even more excited to start saving their food scraps to feed them.

Andrea Walker

Adriana Mailloux from the Thompson Nicola Regional District introduces worm composting to the children in Mrs. Van Thienen’s class at AES.

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Everybody’s out walking

Boy! Have I had fun finding movers this past month! If you read my last Living Well article, you will know that over the month of April, I’ve been roving around looking for walk-ers, joggers, runners or otherwise anyone moving for health. Not only have I met some knew faces, but I have also seen a lot of mov-ers both in Ashcroft and Cache Creek!

I wanted to pro-mote movement out-doors. Then, thanks to Runner’s Sole, (Kam-loops) I was given a box of nice shirts and from there, the idea for catching movers was born!

I have been look-ing here and there for anyone moving and when I spot one, I stop and say, “I caught you moving! Would you like a free shirt?” the usual response is “huh?” to which I ask if they read my last Living Well article and then I tell them what I’m doing. It made me chuckle when a few of you were skeptical and wondered where the “catch” was. (It seems some of you thought I’d make you join one of my Boot Camps! Haha!). I guess the only catch was that you had to be moving outdoors.

Now I know that there are lots of you moving about for health on a regular basis, but it seems to me that the foot traf-fic near my house has increased. Co-incidence? (insert a wink and smile). I have also heard that I should have been rov-ing around more in the evenings as I have missed some of you. For now, my shirts are gone, but stay posted for the next time the “Let’s Move” Encour-ager is roving through town!

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Living Well

Left: Ashcroft Mayor Jack Jeyes gets a free t-shirt from Vicky Trill for being a mover and a shaker. Below: Melanie, Ashlene and Heather Minnabarriet, Bernice Maldideer and Julie McGewen show off their new t-shirts.

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Spring has always been a short sea-son at Loon Lake Road with Winter hold-ing on until April and summer arriving in May. This year has been different; we have had a wonderfully long spring sea-son and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Flowers on shrubs came out early and have given a lovely display for as long as three weeks whereas usually they are so blasted by the heat that they fall off with-in a week. The native deciduous trees have now all leafed out. The evergreens are in bloom and while their flowers are quite inconspicuous, the clouds of pol-len on the wind are not. There is a yellow layer of pollen powder covering every flat surface in the garden and on the deck. There should be another bumper crop of cones this Fall as there was last year. In the garden little seedling evergreens are emerging everywhere; I never thought I would be treating fir trees as weeds and pulling them out from between the irises.

While Cache Creek and Ashcroft are known for the strong winds, at Loon Lake Road we have also had an unusually long period with strong winds bringing down branches and whole trees in some instan-ces. The loud noise of the wind can some-times be mistaken for a motor running some distance away. The hummingbirds usually arrive here around mid-April, however they were later coming than some other years and it could have been that the winds affected their travel. A bird so small and lightweight must have some challenges flying in high winds. However now they are back for the Summer and up to their usual antics of diving and fighting over feeders. They provide deck-side en-tertainment for the cats as well as guests who have never seen a hummingbird up close before.

The short Winter with few very cold days has meant that the pesky bugs in the garden came through in large numbers. Already the aphids are collecting under the leaves of the currant. The continued increase in the number and variety of in-sects that are harmful in the garden can-not however be blamed solely on warm Winters. We have lost our major ally in keeping insect populations in check with the kill off of song birds. Every year I note fewer and fewer birds migrating through the area. And while it is a blessing of sorts not to have more white crowned sparrows eating every green sprout in the garden, it is a major help to have the chickadees and juncos in the trees and shrubs gleaning out insects and eggs. Have we forgot the sad case of the famine in China 60 years ago that was caused by the order to kill off all the sparrows as they were eating too much grain? With the sparrows gone the insects multiplied, ate all the grain and millions of people starved to death.

The spring weather and the return of many residents from their Winter migra-tion has turned conversations once again to the problems of the deer eating much

prized plants and shrubs. Garden-ers are attracted by the ˝deer resist-ant˝ label on some plants and are then quite angry that the deer ate them anyway. Well, the label says “deer resistant”, not “deer

won’t eat”. Resistant means the plant will probably not be killed by the deer graz-ing on the plant. In my gar-den the deer nibble on just about everything when the young green shoots emerge; including daffodils, rhubarb, irises, day lilies and other stuff labelled as deer resist-ant as well as most shrubs as they leaf out and almost every kind of flower. They will leave the foliage of some plants like peonies but the flowers are quickly eaten up. In my experience the only plants deer do not eat or nibble on are lady’s man-tle, nepeta, creeping thymes and other strong smell-ing herb foliage. Some gar-deners have some success with a spray that repels the deer to protect their plants. I use fencing and put my wire hanging baskets upside down to protect early spring bulbs – as they are finished blooming by the time I need to use the baskets for their main purpose.

In this seed starting time I have been looking at re-purposing stuff that would otherwise be sent to recyc-ling. I have borrowed an idea from an English gardening book on using empty card-board toilet rolls as seed-ling starter pots. They are working well for me, with the peas happily growing in them. I stand the rolls on end in a box that can drain and fill the rolls with seeding mix and then sow the peas and beans indoors, to give them a good start. It takes a long time for the garden soil to warm up at this elevation with the cold night, so often direct sowing results in rot-ting seeds and no crop. This method gets the roots well developed then each roll can be planted out without dis-turbing the roots so much for an earlier start.

The TNRD is offering a Free Disposal Day at the Loon Lake transfer station on Saturday, June 6. This year residents may bring one free load per household to the transfer station. One load is defined as ˝a maximum of one eight foot pick-up truck box OR one eight foot trail-er˝. This includes materi-al you usually have to pay

for such as cooling appliances, tires on rims, mattresses, fur-niture, renovation

waste, wood waste, roofing shingles and household garbage. No business or com-mercial loads will be accepted for free. The same offer will be available at Clin-

ton and 70 Mile transfer stations on the same day for those who are residents of those communities. The TNRD reminds residents to secure their load and tarp it. This is a good initiative from the TNRD and with a good response and consider-ation from residents this could become a regular event.

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What should I do if there is an error on the Walhachin Community Water System Parcel Tax Roll? Objections must be made in writing and received by the TNRD Director of Finance by 1:00 p.m. on Monday, May 11, 2015. When will the Walhachin Community Water Service Area Debt Financing Parcel Tax Review Panel sit? The Thompson-Nicola Regional District will be holding a Parcel Tax Review for the capital financing water service upgrades to the Walhachin Community Water System Area on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. in the TNRD Board Room, 4th Floor, 465 Victoria Street in Kamloops.

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Two Nelson photographers survive Nepal earthquake

Tourist booth to be moved

by Tamara HyndNelson StarNelson residents David Gluns

and Douglas Noblet survived the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal on April 25.

Noblet was in the village of Jhinu Danda when the quake struck and he reports that he is doing fine.

Noblet is an avid skier, moun-taineer, pilot and owner of Wild Air Photography. He travelled to Nepal earlier this month and was in the midst of hiking the Annapurna trek when the devastating earthquake shook the country.

He wrote to the Star via Face-book that there was “not too much damage in the village, however, some buildings did partially col-lapse … The shaking from the first and big one was pretty violent and lasted at least a minute.”

Noblet then spent the night in Chhomrong, which is further away from the epicentre of the quake, along the Annapurna base camp trek. He stopped at a local police checkpoint to register that he was okay.

“There was another mild shake around 5 this morning,” he wrote on Saturday. “Otherwise things are pretty calm up here.”

He is also a member of Nelson Search and Rescue. “There hasn’t been much I can help with up here though,” he wrote.

He was waiting for news from the Annapurna base camp. “[I] haven’t heard much yet in about 20 hours,” he wrote.

After two days without Inter-net service, Noblet wrote that more tremors occurred on Monday for seven to eight seconds and another on Tuesday morning where more buildings were crumbling at Jom-som, another point on the trail, but no injuries were reported.

Meanwhile, photographer David Gluns was in Kathmandu working in an office on the third floor of an old building when the temblor struck.

“Yes, survived the quake,” he wrote the Star in an email. “The shaking was violent.

“[The] hotel near ours col-lapsed, killing many. Our hotel was slightly damaged with bits of con-crete all over my room.”

“[Kathmandu] is a mess,” wrote Gluns, adding that many histor-ic buildings have been destroyed. “The loss of life is even more dev-astating in what started out as just another day for most.”

Gluns had been working in Ne-pal leading a trekking group. “The group I was leading had left the day before the quake. I stayed be-hind to set up the fall trips.”

Gluns managed to fly out Satur-day. “It was chaos,” he wrote.

An eight-hour flight delay had him stuck in Istanbul waiting for a new flight to Munich. Gluns is fly-ing to Spain to walk a cross-coun-try pilgrimage route.

The quake is the country’s worst in 80 years and has claimed more than 7,000 lives and injured more than 9,000 people.

Council is considering moving Ashcroft’s Tourist Info Booth down the street to Heritage Place Park.

Ashcroft Council is debating what to do with the Tourist Booth downtown. At the Apr. 13 meeting, Council asked staff to look into a possible move to Heritage Place Park.

It was recently noted by Coun-cil that a fence had gone up be-tween the car wash, at the corner of Railway Ave. and Hwy 97C, and the Tourist Booth next to it, cut-ting off motorized access to it. The property was owned by the same person when the two structures were built, but the car wash was sold and now the remaining prop-erty is up for sale.

Coun. Barbara Roden proposed the move.

“Place it by the mural (in Herit-age Place Park),” she suggested. “Put signs downtown directing tourists to the booth and public washrooms. What tourist doesn’t like washrooms?”

The Tourist Booth was built by property owner Al Alberts and given to the Chamber of Com-merce to use. The Booth has been in operation for at least three years, staffed over the summer months by volunteers, who report that hun-dreds of out of town visitors sign their guest book each year.

Community Volunteer GroupsThe Royal Canadian Legion #113301 Brink St., Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0Phone: 250-453-2423 Fax # 250-453-9625

South Cariboo Elizabeth Fry Society601 Bancroft St. Box 603, Ashcroft, BC V0K 1A0250-453-9656

Ashcroft and District Fall FairContact Person: Janna 250-457-6614Contact Person: Jessica 250-457-7128

Second Time Around201 Railway Ave., Ashcroft BC Anne Bonter 250-457-9781

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The Board of Education is pleased to announce that Ms. Caro-lynne Muncer has accepted the position of Principal for Lillooet Secondary School as of Aug. 1.

Ms. Muncer started her work in Gold Trail in 1992 as a teacher at Mission Mountain School. Over the following years she taught at Gold Bridge Community School, Cayoosh Elementary School and Lillooet Secondary School. In 2006, she was appointed as the Principal of Lytton Elementary School.

In 2007, Ms. Mun-cer left Gold Trail to pursue leadership op-portunities in BC’s Rocky Mountain School District and the Wild Rose Public School Division in Al-berta. Ms. Muncer re-turned to Gold Trail School District and the community of Lil-

looet in August 2013 and is excit-ed to develop her role in the school and support for students, parents and community as Principal.

Ms. Muncer is committed to ensuring that all students at Lilloo-et Secondary School have the op-portunity to feel valued, experience success and leave Grade 12 with options for their future. She looks forward to continuing the work al-ready underway with students, staff, parents and community part-ners to make LSS a great place to be and learn.

by Tom FletcherBlack PressThe B.C. government re-

leased details of its pre-elec-tion property sales last week, showing it came out with more money overall than appraisals or B.C. Assessment Authority values forecast.

Opposition critics called for the disclosure after ob-taining government memos that showed a rush to make the deadline for the 2013-14 fis-cal year, where the B.C. Liber-als campaigned on a balanced budget tabled before the 2013 election.

Development property

south of the B.C. legislature beat its appraisal by $13 mil-lion, selling for $34 million to help the government meet a $350 million target to end the fiscal year.

A former hospital site in Surrey was sold for $20.5 mil-lion, $3 million less than its B.C. Assessment Authority value. Finance ministry rec-ords showed the sale price was midway between appraisals commissioned by the govern-ment and the buyer.

Finance Minister Mike De Jong said surplus Crown prop-erty is sold every year, with about 1,500 properties dis-

posed of in the last 30 years. They will continue, but there won’t be another identified program in future budgets now that post-recession deficits have ended, he said.

NDP finance critic Carole James said there was an ob-vious rush to meet ministry targets for asset sales, and some could continue to be sold below market value without the public knowing.

Many of the surplus prop-erties are school sites, and there are other transactions with municipalities.

May • Week 2ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you will have a lot energy this week. Channel your energy into a project that is especially meaningful to you and those you love.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Nervous energy may leave you feeling a bit out of sorts, Taurus. Find a way to keep busy so your nerves don’t get the better of you. Invite a friend over.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, a friend may be in a bind and come to you for advice and assistance. Find the right words to heal any wounds and provide the support this person needs.

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SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, a hectic schedule may compromise your ability to get together with friends. Although you may be disappointed, there will be other opportunities.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 A visitor needs a little sympathy and compassion from you this week, Capricorn. His or her situation can put life in perspective and help calm your own nerves.

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my friend and I at-tended an event at the Delta Grand Okana-gan Hotel honour-ing the former mayor of Kelowna and two longtime councillors. I pulled my car up to the building, grumbled there was no valet parking and headed to its parkade.When I approached

the entrance my pal, Jennifer Long, told me to stop the car and jumped out to buy a pass from the machine. As she did I answered a couple of texts on my phone. A few min-utes later I thought I heard a feeble “Lori?” coming from outside the car.Looking back I could

see my beautiful friend in her elegant dress and five inch heels

bending over as if she were picking up some-thing from the ground while a car waited for her to move. I was about to get out to help, but suddenly she’d hobbled up to the passenger door, slid onto the seat in an awkward position and held her face up in the air with her hands.“I think I broke my

nose,” she said as blood poured out of it. “And my teeth.”With her chin held

high to keep the blood from getting on her dress she pulled the vi-sor down and inspect-ed her reflection in the mirror.“How do I know if

I broke my nose?” she asked. “Do you have a cloth?”I was already fum-

bling around my

husband’s car look-ing for napkins or tis-sue. “What in the hell happened to you?” I asked, reaching for the only thing I could find - a grubby wash rag. Oddly I felt my initial concern transitioning into a suppression of laughter.“You didn’t see any

of that?” she asked in shock. “Nothing? I just had the most em-barrassing moment of my life and you missed the entire thing?”“I was texting,” I said,

trying to sound seri-ous and remain stony-faced. “I thought you were just picking up coins or something.”“Coins?” she asked,

her eyes penetrating mine. “You thought I was picking up coins?”“Yes,” I said, do-

ing everything in my power to kill the un-

intentional smile I felt sprouting on my face. I asked her if she wanted me to take her to the hospital, but before I could finish the ques-tion my voice got high and started to crack. The laugh I’d been try-ing to stifle escaped - and it didn’t just erupt out of me, but out of her too.As she entertainingly

explained how her heel got caught in a hole in the cement and she suddenly found herself falling forward, she said she conducted a full on debate inside her head as she tum-bled.“I’m OK,” she had

thought to herself. “No, I think I’m fall-ing. No, I couldn’t be. Now I’m on my knees? Now I’m falling fur-ther? Weird. Guess I’m really falling. What

the hell? My nose just fully crashed into the pavement. And it was so loud! But I’m still alive?”After trying to break

the fall with her arms she motioned towards me and whimpered my name.“Huh?” her thoughts

continued. “How am I going to get into that car from here?”By now we were

laughing so hard we were actually crying as she continued to wipe away the blood with the dirty cloth while noticing the big runs in her nylons and her bloody knees.“Maybe we should

go to the hospital?” I repeated, as I looked at the road rash on her nose and forehead.“I’m okay,” she said.

“It just really hurts.”As we walked to the

hotel we marvelled at how she could go from an upright walking po-sition one moment, to landing directly on her face with the full force of her body weight seconds later.“I’m always left won-

dering what my most embarrassing moment is whenever that sub-ject comes up,” she said. “Now I’ve got a story to tell.”Fortunately she ap-

pears to be all right

and the fall that should have broken her nose did not. It didn’t ruin her evening either, and unless we told people what happened, no one knew.Hopefully the hotel

has some video foot-age they can share so we can see what those people in the car wit-nessed. I certainly learned why we’re en-couraged to put our phones down and pay attention to what’s happening around us. Good or bad, it’s often worth seeing.Lori Welbourne is a

syndicated columnist. She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com

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Barkerville Historic Town is gear-ing up for an eventful 2015 season filled with education, entertainment, and three sesquicentennial celebra-tions.

These celebrations include the 150th anniversaries (1865-2015) of Barkerville’s Cariboo Sentinel news-paper, the Cariboo Amateur Dramatic Association’s first public performance (in a saloon) and completion of the legendary Cariboo Waggon Road from Yale to Williams Creek.

By 1865, English boatman-turned-Cariboo miner Billy Barker’s name-sake city was considered by some to be the largest north of San Francisco and west of Chicago. It was a wooden metropolis in the wilderness of British Columbia’s Central Interior, and before long Barkerville’s multicultural com-munity was making culture of its own.

The Cariboo Sentinel newspaper printed its first edition in June 1865. One week after that, the Cariboo Ama-teur Dramatic Association presented its first play. The Cariboo Waggon Road from Yale to Richfield was complet-ed in November, bringing more popu-lation, industry, and opportunity to the goldfields.

It also paved the way for Barker-ville’s physical preservation. Declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1924, and later a provincial heritage property in 1958, Barkerville is now the largest “living museum” in west-ern North America. Tens of thousands of people from all over the world still travel the Gold Rush Trail every year, and in doing so, help keep the spirit of B.C.’s earliest days prosperous and full of life.

But that’s not all. The Royal BC Museum’s (RBCM) 2015 exhibit, Gold Rush: El Dorado in BC, will bring tales of unfathomable Barkerville rich-es (along with Billy Barker’s very own pocket watch) to nearly half a million museum visitors in Victoria between

May and October before heading out to the Can-adian Museum of Hist-ory in Gatineau, Quebec and several additional ports of call in 2016 and beyond (www.royalbc-museum.bc.ca).

“We are very pleased to have partnered with the RBCM on its Gold Rush exhibit in 2015, and look forward to future collaborations,” says Bar-kerville chief executive officer Ed Coleman, who will sign an historic memorandum of understand-ing between the two institutions later this summer.

“As bookends to B.C.’s Gold Rush Trail, Victoria and Barkerville have been integrally connected for more than 150 year. By exploring and promoting this relation-ship, both provincially and internationally, we bring our communities closer togeth-er despite our perceived geo-graphical distance.”

Never one to miss a party, Barkerville Brewing Co. of Quesnel has produced a spe-cial Mucho Oro lager to com-memorate the RBCM’s Gold Rush: El Dorado in BC exhib-it … and partial proceeds from the sale of each bottle will benefit both the museum and the Barkerville Heritage Trust, the stewards of Barkerville’s modern-day legacy.

With its unique streetscape of more than 130 heritage buildings, authentic displays, satellite museums, restaurants, shops and accommodations, Barkerville still has so much to explore. With three significant anniversaries at hand, this sea-son looks like the perfect time

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The Great War - Pt. 4: When the Blighters Started Shelling

Canadian Field Ambulance personnel in Flanders in 1915, at about the same time Canadian John McRae wrote “In Flanders Fields” (May 3 1915).

An intermittent series looking at Ashcroft and area during World War I.

A wave of soldiers forming part of the second Canadian Ex-peditionary Force had passed through Ashcroft in February 1915; but unlike their counter-parts in the � rst contingent, who ended up training on England’s windswept Salisbury Plain, these men were bound for Shorncliffe, 250 km to the east on the coast of Kent. They arrived on April 18, cheerful and hoping to get a taste of battle in a war that many still thought would be over quickly.

Sobering news was starting to � lter through from the front, however. A report in the Ash-croft Journal of March 12 1915 stated that 58 Can-adian soldiers had been killed in action (with another 101 having died of disease or accident). Local men were still enlisting, however; in the same issue of the paper it was noted that “George Munro left Ashcroft for Kamloops on Tuesday last where he is enlisting for the front. We wish George every success in his hunting expedition.”

On March 27 The Journal ran a lengthy arti-cle with the headline “Letter From A Cariboo Boy At The Front”. The article is unsigned; in a person-al letter to editor R.D. Cumming the author wrote “Whatever you do don’t let anything be published as coming from me, as my letters are not really cen-sored. I am merely on my honour not to say anything I should not say. I don’t think I ever do; but opinions differ, and I might get it in the neck if some of what I have said were published over or under my name.”

The piece paints a vivid picture of what life was like for the writer, who operated as part of a Field Ambulance at the front. He had been there since the end of October 1914, “doing my bit”, but by Febru-ary 1915 was desperate for leave. To his disappoint-ment all he got was a “rest job” about � ve miles be-hind the � ring line, not the home leave he had hoped for: “they could not spare me or any other medical men away from work.”

Of his duties he writes, “One part [of the Field Ambulance] goes out to points close behind and

sometimes in the trenches to collect the sick and wounded and bring them in to the dressing station

about three to � ve miles behind the � ring line. My duties were with the ad-vance or bearer party. All collecting of wounded has to be done by night in pitch darkness, no lights of any kind being allowed as the Germans have no respect for the Red Cross and their snipers � re on everything they see or hear by night. . . . When there is any scrapping we have lots of bullets sing-ing, mostly over our heads I am glad to say, but the absolute worst touch of all is when the blighters start shelling.

“You can hear [the shell] com-ing, and ten to one it comes when you and your bearers are yards from any sort of cover. You hear it coming clos-er and closer and you wonder when the

blasted thing is going to bust. Nine times out of ten it bursts a couple of hundred yards away at least, but the suspense till it does go off, is awful, and the relief when you � nd you are still untouched is correspond-ingly pleasant. . . . Have you ever sat in a dentist’s chair with his infernal drill in a tooth, and feeling that any moment he is going to hit the nerve? Well, if you have, exaggerate it a hundred times and you have the sensation caused by a shell.

“Since early in De-cember the weather has been of the most poi-sonous description. Rain and snow ad. lib., till the whole country is just one huge quagmire. The trenches were knee deep in slush and water and in some places waist deep.

“Heaven alone knows when I will get back to B.C. If I come through all right I’ll be back as soon as the war is over. Some say it will be over by May. I have no opinion on the sub-ject as I know nothing of internal conditions in

Germany. We will never lick them by May, but they may be beat for want of food, etc.”

Local residents continued to respond to the need for help. The ladies of the Ashcroft Red Cross Soci-ety were busy providing items to be sent overseas, while donations - many of them from First Nations residents in the area - continued to come in for the � eld hospital Mrs. Stobart was operating near Cher-bourg, France. Doubtless the war seemed very far away to most people in the region; but on May 7, 1915 the entire world was shocked to hear of the tor-pedoing and sinking of the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania. In � ring on a non-military ship with-out warning the German navy breached what were known as the “Cruiser Rules”, and ignited a storm of protest around the world at the attack on civilians. In this area the disaster hit very close to home, as Soda Creek resident Donald Kerfoot was thought to be among the passengers; however, he telegraphed af-ter the event to say that he was safe. George Smart of Quesnel, who had been an agent there for the B.X. Express, was not so fortunate; he was one of the 1,198 people on board the Lusitania who did not sur-vive.

Only a day later Private Lawrence Scan-lon Shields, aged 22 and the youngest son of John Shields of Ashcroft, was killed in action. His was the � rst local war death recorded in The Journal; there were many more to come.

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, les

see

will

be

requ

ired

to m

ake

all r

emai

ning

sch

edul

ed p

aym

ents

ove

r the

rem

aini

ng te

rm o

f the

leas

e ag

reem

ent.

PPSA

/RD

PRM

is n

ot d

ue. C

onsu

mer

may

be

requ

ired

to p

ay D

eale

r Fee

s. In

sura

nce,

lice

nce,

and

app

licab

le ta

xes

not i

nclu

ded.

Add

ition

al c

ondi

tions

and

lim

itatio

ns a

pply

. GM

rese

rves

the

right

to m

odify

or t

erm

inat

e th

is o

ffer a

t any

tim

e w

ithou

t prio

r not

ice.

See

dea

ler f

or d

etai

ls. ¥

Lea

se b

ased

on

a pu

rcha

se p

rice

of $

16,0

04/$

20,9

69 (i

nclu

ding

$1,

000/

$2,0

00 le

ase

cash

and

a $

446

Ow

ner C

ash)

for a

201

5 Cr

uze

LS (1

SA)/C

ruze

LT

(1SA

). Bi

-wee

kly

paym

ent i

s $7

3/$9

7 fo

r 48

mon

ths

at 0

.0%

APR

and

incl

udes

Fre

ight

and

Air

Tax,

on

appr

oved

cre

dit t

o qu

alifi

ed re

tail

cust

omer

s by

GM

Fin

anci

al. A

nnua

l kilo

met

ers

limit

of 2

0,00

0 km

, $0.

16 p

er e

xces

s ki

lom

eter

. $99

5 do

wn

paym

ent r

equi

red.

Pay

men

t may

var

y de

pend

ing

on d

own

paym

ent t

rade

. Tot

al o

blig

atio

n is

$8,

580/

$11,

135,

plu

s ap

plic

able

taxe

s. O

ptio

n to

pur

chas

e at

leas

e en

d is

$7,

424/

$9,8

34. P

rice

and

tota

l obl

igat

ion

excl

udes

lice

nse,

insu

ranc

e, re

gist

ratio

n, ta

xes,

dea

ler f

ees,

opt

iona

l equ

ipm

ent.

Oth

er le

ase

optio

ns a

re a

vaila

ble.

Dea

lers

are

free

to s

et in

divi

dual

pric

es. L

imite

d tim

e of

fer w

hich

may

not

be

com

bine

d w

ith o

ther

offe

rs. S

ee y

our d

eale

r for

con

ditio

ns a

nd d

etai

ls. G

ener

al M

otor

s of

Can

ada

Lim

ited

rese

rves

the

right

to a

men

d or

term

inat

e th

is o

ffer,

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt, a

t any

tim

e w

ithou

t prio

r not

ice.

††

Offe

r app

lies

to e

ligib

le c

urre

nt o

wne

rs o

r le

ssee

s of

any

mod

el y

ear 1

999

or n

ewer

car

that

has

bee

n re

gist

ered

and

insu

red

in C

anad

a in

the

cust

omer

’s n

ame

for t

he p

revi

ous

cons

ecut

ive

six

(6) m

onth

s. C

redi

t val

id to

war

ds th

e re

tail

purc

hase

or l

ease

of o

ne e

ligib

le 2

015

mod

el y

ear C

hevr

olet

car

, SUV

, cro

ssov

er a

nd p

icku

p m

odel

s de

liver

ed in

Can

ada

betw

een

May

1st

– J

une

1st,

2015

. Cre

dit i

s a

man

ufac

ture

r to

cons

umer

ince

ntiv

e (ta

x inc

lusi

ve) a

nd c

redi

t val

ue d

epen

ds o

n m

odel

pur

chas

ed: $

500

cred

it av

aila

ble

on C

hevr

olet

Spa

rk, S

onic

, Cru

ze, V

olt,

Trax

, M

alib

u (e

xpec

t LS)

. $75

0 cr

edit

avai

labl

e on

oth

ers

Chev

role

t veh

icle

s (e

xcep

t Col

orad

o 2S

A, C

amar

o Z2

8, M

alib

u LS

, Silv

erad

o Li

ght D

uty

and

Heav

y D

uty)

. Offe

r app

lies

to e

ligib

le c

urre

nt o

wne

rs o

r les

sees

of a

ny P

ontia

c/Sa

turn

/SA

AB/H

umm

er/O

ldsm

obile

mod

el y

ear 1

999

or n

ewer

car

or C

hevr

olet

Cob

alt o

r HHR

that

has

bee

n re

gist

ered

and

insu

red

in C

anad

a in

the

cust

omer

’s n

ame

for t

he p

revi

ous

cons

ecut

ive

six

(6) m

onth

s. C

redi

t val

id to

war

ds th

e re

tail

purc

hase

or l

ease

of o

ne e

ligib

le 2

015

mod

el y

ear C

hevr

olet

ca

r, SU

V, c

ross

over

and

pic

kups

mod

els

deliv

ered

in C

anad

a be

twee

n M

ay 1

st –

Jun

e 1s

t, 20

15. C

redi

t is

a m

anuf

actu

rer t

o co

nsum

er in

cent

ive

(tax

incl

usiv

e): $

1,00

0 cr

edit

avai

labl

e on

Che

vrol

et S

park

, Son

ic, C

ruze

, Vol

t, Tr

ax, M

alib

u (e

xpec

t LS)

; $1

,500

cre

dit a

vaila

ble

on o

ther

elig

ible

Che

vrol

et v

ehic

les

(exc

ept C

hevr

olet

Col

orad

o 2S

A, C

amar

o Z2

8 an

d M

alib

u LS

). O

ffer i

s tr

ansf

erab

le to

a fa

mily

mem

ber l

ivin

g w

ithin

the

sam

e ho

useh

old

(pro

of o

f add

ress

requ

ired)

. As

part

of t

he tr

ansa

ctio

n, d

eale

r may

requ

est

docu

men

tatio

n an

d co

ntac

t Gen

eral

Mot

ors

of C

anad

a Li

mite

d (G

MCL

) to

verif

y el

igib

ility

. Thi

s of

fer m

ay n

ot b

e re

deem

ed fo

r cas

h an

d m

ay n

ot b

e co

mbi

ned

with

cer

tain

oth

er c

onsu

mer

ince

ntiv

es. C

erta

in li

mita

tions

or c

ondi

tions

app

ly. V

oid

whe

re p

rohi

bite

d. S

ee y

our G

MCL

dea

ler f

or d

etai

ls. G

MCL

rese

rves

the

right

to a

men

d or

term

inat

e of

fers

for a

ny re

ason

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt a

t any

tim

e w

ithou

t prio

r not

ice.

~Vi

sit o

nsta

r.ca

for c

over

age

map

s, d

etai

ls a

nd s

yste

m li

mita

tions

. Ser

vice

s an

d co

nnec

tivity

may

var

y by

mod

el a

nd c

ondi

tions

. OnS

tar w

ith 4

G LT

E co

nnec

tivity

is a

vaila

ble

on s

elec

t veh

icle

mod

els

and

in s

elec

t mar

kets

. Cus

tom

ers

will

be

able

to a

cces

s O

nSta

r ser

vice

s on

ly if

they

acc

ept t

he O

nSta

r Use

r Ter

ms

and

Priv

acy

Stat

emen

t (in

clud

ing

soft

war

e te

rms)

. OnS

tar a

cts

as a

link

to e

xist

ing

emer

genc

y se

rvic

e pr

ovid

ers.

Aft

er th

e tr

ial p

erio

d (if

app

licab

le),

an a

ctiv

e O

nSta

r ser

vice

pla

n is

requ

ired.

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ased

on

GM T

estin

g in

acc

orda

nce

with

app

rove

d Tr

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ort C

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st m

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ds. Y

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sum

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ary.

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ased

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om 2

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r Sm

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udin

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r Saf

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ety

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trat

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e 20

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afet

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ck P

lus

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d w

hen

equi

pped

with

ava

ilabl

e fo

rwar

d co

llisi

on a

lert

. ‡ P

urch

ase

pric

es

incl

ude

a ca

sh c

redi

t of $

2,50

0 an

d $4

46 O

wne

r Cas

h an

d ap

ply

to n

ew 2

015

Chev

role

t Tra

x LS

FW

D m

odel

s at

par

ticip

atin

g de

aler

s in

Can

ada.

Pur

chas

e pr

ices

of $

17,4

95 (L

S FW

D) in

clud

e Fr

eigh

t, Ai

r Tax

but

exc

lude

lice

nse,

insu

ranc

e, re

gist

ratio

n, d

eale

r fee

s an

d ta

xes.

Dea

ler m

ay s

ell f

or le

ss. O

ffer m

ay n

ot b

e co

mbi

ned

with

cer

tain

oth

er c

onsu

mer

ince

ntiv

es. G

MCL

may

mod

ify, e

xten

d or

term

inat

e th

is o

ffer,

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt, a

t any

tim

e w

ithou

t not

ice.

See

dea

ler f

or d

etai

ls. ‡

‡ Pu

rcha

se p

rice

incl

udes

a c

ash

cred

it of

$4,

200

and

$670

Ow

ner C

ash

and

appl

y to

new

201

5 Ch

evro

let E

quin

ox L

S FW

D m

odel

s at

par

ticip

atin

g de

aler

s in

Can

ada.

Pur

chas

e pr

ices

of $

22,9

95 (L

S FW

D) in

clud

es F

reig

ht, A

ir Ta

x bu

t exc

lude

s lic

ense

, ins

uran

ce, r

egis

trat

ion,

dea

ler f

ees

and

taxe

s. D

eale

r may

sel

l for

less

. Offe

r may

not

be

com

bine

d w

ith c

erta

in o

ther

con

sum

er in

cent

ives

. GM

CL m

ay m

odify

, ext

end

or te

rmin

ate

this

offe

r, in

who

le o

r in

part

, at a

ny ti

me

with

out n

otic

e. ¥

¥ Co

mpa

rison

bas

ed o

n 20

13 P

olk

segm

enta

tion:

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pact

SUV

an

d la

test

com

petit

ive

data

ava

ilabl

e an

d ba

sed

on th

e m

axim

um le

groo

m a

vaila

ble.

Exc

lude

s ot

her G

M b

rand

s. *

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2-Y

ear S

ched

uled

Lub

e-O

il-Fi

lter M

aint

enan

ce P

rogr

am p

rovi

des

elig

ible

cus

tom

ers

in C

anad

a, w

ho h

ave

purc

hase

d or

leas

ed a

new

elig

ible

201

5 M

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evro

let (

excl

udin

g Sp

ark

EV),

with

an

ACD

elco

® o

il an

d fil

ter c

hang

e, in

acc

orda

nce

with

the

oil l

ife m

onito

ring

syst

em a

nd th

e O

wne

r’s M

anua

l, fo

r 2 y

ears

or 4

0,00

0 km

, whi

chev

er o

ccur

s fir

st, w

ith a

lim

it of

four

(4) L

ube-

Oil-

Filte

r ser

vice

s in

tota

l, pe

rfor

med

at p

artic

ipat

ing

GM d

eale

rs. F

luid

top

offs

, ins

pect

ions

, tire

rota

tions

, whe

el a

lignm

ents

and

bal

anci

ng, e

tc. a

re n

ot c

over

ed. T

his

offe

r may

not

be

rede

emed

for c

ash

and

may

not

be

com

bine

d w

ith c

erta

in o

ther

con

sum

er in

cent

ives

ava

ilabl

e on

GM

veh

icle

s. G

ener

al M

otor

s of

Can

ada

Lim

ited

rese

rves

the

right

to a

men

d or

term

inat

e th

is o

ffer,

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt, a

t any

tim

e w

ithou

t prio

r not

ice.

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ition

al c

ondi

tions

and

lim

itatio

ns a

pply

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