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Another algae bloom in the Shuswap has residents concerned for the health and pro-tection of the region’s lakes.

Reports of a yellow-brown substance floating just below the surface of Mara Lake began to pop up late Thursday. On Friday, May 22 the bloom was spotted from Two Mile, and later in Shuswap Lake. Salmon Arm biologist Jeremy Ayotte said he and five others were on a canoe excursion Fri-day, paddling along the east side of Shus-wap Lake toward Anstey Arm, when they encountered a “yellow-orange mat of algae hovering about a metre below the surface.”

“It was patchy in places, sometimes whis-py and thin,” Ayotte explained in an email. “In other places it appeared to be a solid mass. There was no smell, but it also didn’t appear to break the surface of the lake.”

Ayotte said the algae didn’t extend north of the narrows, noting “the nutrient-laden

water from Salmon and Shuswap rivers flow west through the narrows, “and the bloom likely wouldn’t spread into the cooler, clean-er waters of the Anstey Arm.”

The bloom was reported Friday to the Ministry of Environment, which did not pro-vide its findings before press time.

Ayotte, however, said last week’s weather and lake conditions – unusually warm tem-peratures and calm waters – were conducive to algae blooms, as seen in Shuswap Lake in 2008, and in Shuswap and Mara lakes in 2010.

“It’s the canary in the mine shaft thing that we need to watch for,” Ayotte told the News. “It’s that algae that’s going to tell us when the nutrient regime is out of balance, or out of whack in the lake.”

Ayotte says this third bloom stresses the need for better management of the Shuswap watershed.

Shuswap Environmental Action Society president Jim Cooperman agrees, calling for an active Shuswap Watershed Council, as well as point source monitoring of suspected nutrient sources, specifically agricultural op-

erations along the Shuswap River. “When they first started SLIPP (Shuswap

Lake Integrated Planning Process – the wa-tershed council’s previous incarnation), that was the plan, to do point-source monitoring and, to my knowledge that hasn’t been done yet,” said Cooperman. “They’ve identified nutrient spikes in the river and in Mara Lake, but they can’t tell you where it comes from. The point-source monitoring will tell you the source of the nutrients.”

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Input sought for labour market recovery plan

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Algae bloom reported in Shuswap

By Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Cloudy concern: Clouds of a yellow-brown substance, believed to be algae, were seen in Mara (above) and Shuswap lakes Thursday evening and Friday, May 21 and 22, during the warm weather. Photo contributed

Watershed council: Residents stress need for better watershed management.

Break-in adds insult to injury for victims of February mudslide

Donna Vaughan thought her life had hit bottom af-ter her Mara home was de-stroyed in a mud slide. She was wrong.

Six seconds. That’s about how long it took for Donna and husband Leo’s lives to change for the worse. On Feb. 16 of this year, the two were at home in their bedroom. Donna was in the bedroom and Leo the kitch-en when their house spilt

down the centre after being struck by wave of mud that she says moved the home 30 feet.

“The house split down the centre in a buckle, and he was on one side and I was on the other and we crawled out of that,” said Donna.”So when things keep happen-ing, you’re like, ‘wow, what more could you throw at me?’”

On the evening of Tues-


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At wit’s end: Leo and Donna Vaughan stand in front of the remains of their Mara residence, which was destroyed in a mudslide. Last week, the couple learned they’d been victims of break-in on the property. Photo by Kelly M. Dick

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May 29 & 30 $2 Bag Sale Sicamous Thrift Shop 10 am - 3 pm clothing & shoes.May to July 22 Sicamous Mixed Softball League runs every Wednesday night from May to July 22, 2015. At Finlayson Park at 6:30 pm. Windup Tournament is the weekend of July 24, 25, 26, 2015.Monday to Friday Community Access Site at the Senior’s Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Internet & related services. Call Diana. 836-2446Every Tues. Stopping the Violence Program in Sicamous - counselling for women who have experienced abuse during childhood or adult relationships. No charge. Call Kathy at 250-832-9700.Every Tues. & Thurs. - Seniors Meals provided, 12 noon in Common Room at the Haven. Every 1st & 3rd Wed. - Parkinsons Support Group Contact Don at 250-838-0794.Every Wed. Girl Guides of Canada. Sparks - 3:00 pm. Brownies - 4:00 pm. Girl Guides - 5:30 pm. New members welcomeEvery Wed. Lunch by a donation at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091-Shuswap Avenue at 12 noon.

Every Wed. - Crib, 7:30 p.m., Haven seniors building. Everyone welcome - you don’t have to be a senior. Socializing and coffee served after crib. Info: Esther 836-4373.Every Wed. - T.O.P.S. (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets Wednesday morning at the Sicamous Rec. Centre (arena). Weigh in at 9:00 am and meeting at 9:30. Everyone Welcome. Ph: 250-836-4041 for info.Every Wed.-Sat. United Church Thrift Store 10:00 am to 3 p.m.1st & 3rd Wednesday - Eagle Valley Photographic Arts Club meets at the Red Barn at 7 pm. Everyone Welcome.Every Thurs. - Sicamous Crokinole Group meets at 7pm at the Sicamous & District Recreation Centre - upstairs for more info and to join call Dave Reed @ 250-836-3652Every Thurs.- Ladies shuffleboard at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #99 in Sicamous. 1pm-3pm. All ladies welcome.Every Thurs.- Malakwa Thrift Store between the 2 churches Open every Thursday 10-5.Every 2nd Thurs. - Sicamous Lions Club meeting at the Seniors Activity Centre, 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Doors open at 6:15 and

meeting starts at 6:30. Anyone interested in being a volunteer for the community, please feel free to call Mary at 250-517-8107, Joan at 250-836-4876 or Pam at 250-836-4788.Every 1st, 3rd, 4th Thurs. - Keepsake Kwilters meet at the Haven Common room 1095 Shuswap Avenue at 7:00 p.m. For info call 250-836-2695.Every 4th Thursday monthly meeting of the Malakwa Community Association at 7:00 in the Learning Centre Library.Every Fri. - Parents & Tots, 10-12 noon at the Eagle Valley Resource Centre. 836-3440.Every Fri. - Eagle Valley Brush & Palette Club meets at the Red Barn, 10am-3pm, Everyone welcome! For info call Carol 250-836-3135 or Amy 250-836-4756. www.eaglevalleybrushandpalette.com Every 1st Fri. of the month –Sicamous Seniors Ctre general meeting 11:00am followed by a great pot luck lunch. We encourage every to join us.Every 2nd 3rd and 4th Fri. Wii Tournament at 10 am at the Sicamous Seniors Activity Centre - 1091 Shuswap Avenue. Everyone Welcome.Every Fri. - Pool Tournament at the Legion at 6:00 pm

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day, May 19, Donna and Leo learned they’d been victims of a break and enter. She said it happened sometime since weekend, from a shop beneath a cabin on the same property as the house. It’s where they stored everything they could salvage from the house. Among the sto-len items Donna could list were: a generator, a compressor, a toolbox with tools, drills and other power tools.

“It was everything that you need to try and build a house again,” said Donna. “We’re just like, wow, ‘let me just

get down a little bit fur-ther so you can kick the dirt in my face.”

Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Scott West con-� rmed the Vaughans had reported the break and enter to the local detachment and a � le has been opened. Don-na said she was told by the of� cer she spoke with that the suspects likely knew no one was on the premises when the break-in occurred.

“He said they know you’re not there,” said Donna. “It might not be abandoned, but they know you’re not there regularly.

“I said, ‘well, I was taught not to touch

things that don’t belong to you.’ And he said, ‘well, unfortunately this society doesn’t seem to think that way

anymore.’”After the mudslide,

Donna said she and Leo learned their insur-ance wouldn’t cover them. From there, it’s

been one thing after an-other. Donna noted that because Leo has a brain injury, she’s the sole income provider, and

said she’s been work-ing non-stop to pay a mortgage, rent and other bills. The rob-bery has added to the couple’s anxiety, and

Donna is distraught, exhausted and open to help in whatever form may be available.

“I’ve been trying to do everything on my own – muddle through it – but you know, I’m exhausted. I need help now,” she said. “And you know, I appreciate everything from any-body trying to help us, I just really do. There are strangers we don’t even know who have helped us or offered to help us… out of the kindness of their hearts. So I thought that was unbelievable.”

The Vaughans can be reached at 250-838-6589.

� rmed the Vaughans had reported the break and enter to the local detachment and a � le has been opened. Don-na said she was told by the of� cer she spoke with that the suspects likely knew no one was on the premises when

“He said they know

There are strangers we don’t even know who have helped us or offered to help us… out of the kindness of their hearts. So I though that was

unbelievable.”Donna Vaughan

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Exhausted, couple welcome help from public

Support grows for watershed council

There was a moment of tension over contribu-tion to support the Shus-wap Watershed Council at last Thursday’s Co-lumbia Shuswap Re-gional District board meeting.

Pleased that Salmon Arm has decided to support the council’s work to maintain water quality in the Shuswap, Area C South Shuswap director and chair of the watershed council Paul Demenok said he was “a little disappointed” the city had approved a contribution of $40,000 rather than $50,000.

Mayor Nancy Coo-per pointed out the city had responded to Deme-

nok’s request when he appeared before council in March.

“It was based on a $5 parcel tax, that’s my understanding,” said Cooper.

But Demenok said that following his coun-cil appearance, he sent an email upping the re-quest to $50,000.

“There was a table that laid out an elector-al areas lump sum and parcel tax request,” he said. “It showed the ac-tual request for funding rather than what I said verbally at council.”

CSRD chairperson Rhona Martin stepped in.

“They are supporting us more than they were and I am delighted with

that,” she said.Area F North Shus-

wap director Larry Mor-gan noted his approval

of the city’s support, but asked why council had agreed to a three-year water-quality monitor-ing program rather than the proposed � ve- year term.

“It looked like there would be a review in

three years anyway, so council decided that would be a good time (to have the program run),”said Cooper.

The City of Salmon Arm’s contribution will be effective Jan. 1, 2016 and will be fund-ed 50 per cent from general revenue and 50 per cent from the water and sewer funds.

Overall, Demenok said he was pleased Shuswap Watershed Council’s “efforts seem to have been strongly supported” by Salmon Arm, Sicamous and TNRD (Thompson Nic-ola Regional District).

In a housekeeping move, regional district directors approved an extension to the Shus-

wap Watershed Coun-cil Developmental Year Contribution Agree-ment to March 31, 2016.

As well, the board authorized a $70,000 funding contribution from previously ap-proved $240,000 allo-cated in the regional dis-trict’s All Electoral Area Works Fund to com-plete to work this year rather than wait for April 1, 2016.

That work will in-clude ongoing water-quality monitoring of deep-water stations and tributaries, education and communication as well as some prepara-tory work for the coun-cil’s � ve-year work plan.

By Barb BrouwerEagle Valley News

understanding,” said

But Demenok said that following his coun-cil appearance, he sent an email upping the re-

“There was a table that laid out an elector-al areas lump sum and

Paul DemenokDirector, Area C

CSRD: Salmon Arm commits $40,000 to stewardship initiative.

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OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN REVIEW – PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE

The review of the District of Sicamous Official Community Plan is underway!

As a guiding document that seeks to address social, economic and environmental goals within the community, the Official Community Plan (OCP) covers topics such as growth management, agriculture, residential development, commercial and residential waterfront development, downtown and highway redevelopment and the environment. The OCP directs the District and Council toward common goals and purpose when evaluating community growth and development.

In order to provide a draft document, that reflects the desires for the future growth and development in the community, public input is vital. On Thursday June 11, 2015 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at City Hall (446 Main Street) the District of Sicamous will be hosting the 1st Public Open House. This will be an opportunity to explore components of the existing OCP and to look towards the future growth of the community. The Open House will include a presentation and discussion.

The 2nd Public Open House is scheduled for Thursday July 9, 2015 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and will follow a similar format. Please plan to attend!

For more information on the OCP Review please visit the District of Sicamous website (www.sicamous.ca) and follow the link to Official Community Plan Review.

Due to the scheduling of this Open House, the Community Building Forum that was scheduled for June 4, 2015 from 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. has been cancelled.

OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE – EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

The District of Sicamous has begun a review of the 2009 Official Community Plan (OCP) and is seeking individuals within the community to serve on the Official Community Plan (OCP) Advisory Committee as part of the Review and Update project.

As a guiding document that seeks to address social, economic and environmental goals within the community, the OCP covers topics such as growth management, agriculture, residential development, commercial and residential waterfront development, downtown and highway redevelopment and the environment. The OCP directs the District and Council toward common goals and purpose when evaluating community growth and development.

The purpose of the OCP Advisory Committee is to provide input on issues and opportunities related to land use and the future growth of the community during the OCP 2016 Review and Update. The OCP Advisory Committee will work directly with District Planning staff to review public input and potential policies and objectives related to community goals, land use and community development. The OCP Advisory Committee is intended to be a focused group, working with some responsibility to gauge public input and policy development throughout the OCP Review and Update process. As a committee of Council the OCP Advisory Committee may be tasked with making recommendations, through staff, to Council related to on issues related to land use policies and future growth within the OCP Review and Update 2016 process. It is expected that OCP Advisory Committee member will attend regular meetings during the Review and Update process.

The District is accepting applications until June 16, 2015 at 4:30pm. Applications are available online at www.sicamous.ca or may be picked up at City Hall (446 Main Street). For more information please contact the Development Services Department at:Phone: (250) 836-2477Email: Melinda Smyrl, Planning Assistant, [email protected] Or Mike Marrs, Community Planner, [email protected]

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Public engagement is critical to the work being done towards developing a labour market recovery plan for the District of Si-camous and Electoral Area E, Sicamous-Mal-akwa.

The Labour Mar-ket Assessment and Planning Project for Sicamous and the elec-toral area is well under-way. The public’s first opportunity to engage in the project will be Monday, June 1, at the Red Barn Arts Centre. The meeting begins at 5 p.m., and organizers are hoping to see a large turnout. It will be an op-portunity to learn about the different phases of the project and how it can help the area, hear about what informa-tion has been collected

so far and help identify pertinent information that is missing.

An initiative of Community Futures Shuswap, with finan-cial support from Com-munity Futures and the Ministry of Develop-ment and Social In-novation, the project’s intent is to gather cur-rent information in order to assess labour market challenges and

opportunities, and use this information to for-mulate a plan for recov-ery. This task falls upon the specially created Community Employer Partnership Program Sicamous Sub-Com-mittee and project co-ordinator Kyle Dearing.

The June 1 meet-ing is the first of three community engage-ment opportunities in the works. A second is

planned for later this summer, to inform the public about all the data that’s been collected and the insights it pro-vides about the local labour market. A third meeting is planned for early fall. This will be where a step-by-step recovery plan starts coming together.

For more informa-tion, visit www.si-camouslabour.com.

Open house planned for labour studyBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Fun and safety awareness go hand-in-hand at the Sicamous Safety Fair.

The fair returns this Saturday, May 30, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sicamous and District Recreation Centre.

The main focus of the event is safety awareness and emer-gency preparedness for the community.

“This is an opportu-nity for the community to come out and see the equipment and meet the personnel,” says orga-nizer Kathy Keam.

Kids can decorate their bikes and enter the bike rodeo for some great prizes.

There will be a Ted-dy Bear Check Up clin-ic where children will be able to have their

teddy bears looked at by the BC Ambulance crew and then give their bears a clean bill of health.

There will be dem-onstrations, information booths and an array of emergency response ve-hicles to check out, in-cluding fire trucks, the RCMSAR Rescue boat, Eagle Valley Rescue Society’s rescue truck,

the a BC Ambulance helicopter and more. There’ll be a foam pit, and Bobby the Safety Boat and Barney the mini school bus will be making the rounds. In-terior Health will have information on bicycle helmets and will be do-ing an egg drop.

The Sicamous Fire Department will be fir-ing up a grill for lunch.

Safety Fair this Saturday at rec centre

Area C South Shuswap director and watershed council chair, Paul De-menok, called news of the recent bloom “dis-tressing,” and said the council – comprised of local and regional gov-ernments, First Nations and B.C. government agencies – would have to “redouble our efforts with monitoring and

mitigation plans.” But Demenok adds

the council is still in the process of establishing the sustained funding needed to focus on problems like this. As for determining nutri-ent sources, he said that would be one of the goals of the council’s five-year plan.

“That’s a very im-portant component of the water-quality moni-

toring program that’s been put forward…,” said Demenok. “There have been suggestions the sources are agri-cultural. We still need to confirm that, we still need to do the science that points to the sourc-es of phosphorous in the Shuswap, Salmon and Eagle rivers.”

Cooperman says all governments that rely on the Shuswap

watershed should take heed of the bloom and support the watershed council in moving ahead.

“The entire region is dependent on the health of the lake,” said Cooperman. “If we let it go downhill, and we get more algae blooms year after year, it may decrease visitation and affect the whole econ-omy.”

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Monitoring would confirm nutrient sources

Recovery planners: Shuswap MLA and parliamentary secretary for The BC Jobs Plan, Greg Kyllo presents a cheque for $64,089 to the members of the Community Futures Shuswap advisory committee who are working toward identifying current and emerging labour market trends in the Sicamous area. Phot contributed


VICTORIA – Opposi-tion politicians were out-raged over the B.C. govern-ment’s latest effort to secure its first major liquefied natu-ral gas deal, announced last week.

Premier Christy Clark, Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman and Finance Minister Mike de Jong signed agreements with Pacific Northwest LNG for a long-term gas royalty structure that could run for 30 years.

The government says the deal guarantees minimum royalty revenue for the prov-ince, while the investors in-crease their revenue if the spread between gas prices in North America and Asia increases during the term.

Pacific Northwest is a partnership of some of the biggest investors and gas customers: Malaysian state giant Petronas, its Canadian subsidiary Progress Energy,

Chinese state firm Sinopec, Indian Oil Corp. and Japan Petroleum.

These corporate giants will review a project de-velopment agreement, and if they approve, Clark will convene the legislature to approve changes that would compensate them if the new LNG income tax increases.

Environmental changes such as a “discriminato-ry” carbon tax increase or greenhouse gas regulations on LNG would also trig-ger compensation. Future changes to general carbon tax or corporate income tax rates would not.

NDP leader John Hor-gan warned that “too much lolly” is being offered, with no word of job guarantees for B.C. or a deal with First Nations at the proposed site near Prince Rupert.

“My biggest concern is that we’re tying the hands of future governments be-cause a desperate govern-ment made commitments that they over-promised on

and now they want to get a deal at any cost,” Horgan said.

Green Party MLA An-drew Weaver called it “shocking and irrespon-sible,” repeating his predic-tion that the global market is swimming in gas and will never support huge green-field projects across B.C.

For the investors, it’s like a mortgage. There are “sub-jects” to be removed before the deal closes, and this is a proposed $36 billion mort-gage for pipelines, LNG processing and shipping facilities.

This isn’t just a political dispute. For example, Prog-ress has drilled about 500 gas wells in northeastern B.C., and Petronas took it over with this development in mind. Without exports, B.C.’s whole gas industry is looking at a bleak future of low prices and demand.

Petronas delayed its in-vestment decision to this year and cited exactly these concerns, certainty on taxa-

tion and royalties beyond the election cycle. With that in hand, their obstacles re-main federal environmen-tal approval and a revenue sharing deal with a First Nation to host a terminal.

Pacific Northwest CEO Michael Culbert notes an-swers to questions posed by the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation were submitted to federal regulators only days before they started vot-ing on a $1 billion share of LNG proceeds over 40 years.

The vote was a resound-ing no, despite a redesign that put pipelines on a sus-pension bridge over the most sensitive salmon habi-tat. Culbert suggests that given some time to exam-ine environmental mitiga-tion work, that answer may change.

The Nisga’a Nation has identified four sites as suit-able for LNG terminals with a shorter pipeline route to the coast than Prince Ru-pert.

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NEWSNEWS

The long federal election campaign

OPINION

One of the side effects of having fixed election dates in Canada, a move that was pioneered by the BC Liberals

when they first were elected in 2001, is that cam-paigns have become much, much longer.

In fact, having a short campaign period is con-sidered a disaster by most political handlers now.

The federal election campaign has actually been underway for some time — certainly since the beginning of the year. While Parliament is still sitting and passing laws, MPs and candi-dates of all stripes are hard at work getting ready for the October election.

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair was in Surrey for a rally Friday night. This clearly was an election-related visit. Surrey gains a new riding under re-distribution (it will have a total of five, including the Cloverdale-Langley City one).

Two of the current Surrey ridings are held by NDP MPs, and the NDP are doing well in recent opinion polls. The surprising win of the NDP in Alberta is causing more people across Canada to look at the federal party a little more closely. Some are, for the first time, actually considering it as a government in waiting.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has also made a number of visits to the Lower Mainland in recent weeks — with at least two of them to Surrey. One was to the Kwantlen Polytechnic University campus in Cloverdale, part of the new riding.

While they haven’t been election rallies, his visits are directly connected to the campaign. In particular, the time he spent with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Surrey, Vancouver and several Ontario venues was invaluable.

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau will almost cer-tainly be in the area several times in the com-ing months as well, and it is possible Green Party leader Elizabeth May be in the vicinity. It’s likely she will spend a lot of time defending her Vancouver Island seat and trying to build on the strong interest in Green politics on the island.

Voters aren’t too engaged in federal politics right now, but the parties most certainly are.

-The Langley Times

By Tom FletcherNews Columnist

B.C. government goes long with LNG bid

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I am providing con-stituents with the fol-lowing paragraphs of a letter sent to the Mayor of Vancouver from our federal Minister of Health:

“Marijuana is not an approved drug or medicine, and Health

Canada does not en-dorse its use. There is serious health risks as-sociated with smoking marijuana, especially for youth. That is why the Government of Canada wants to stop youth from smok-ing marijuana. The evidence is clear that when youth smoke marijuana, they have increased risks of de-veloping mental health issues, including psy-chosis and schizo-phrenia. We also know that regular, long-term marijuana use in youth can harm concentra-tion, memory, and the ability to think and to make decisions, and it

can also produce para-noia and anxiety or nervousness.”

“Legitimizing and normalizing the use and sale of marijuana can have only one ef-fect: increasing mari-juana use and addic-tion. Indeed, according to the Canadian Drug Use Monitoring Sur-vey, although youth marijuana use has dropped by almost 45 per cent since 2004, 20 percent of youth smoked marijuana in 2012 compared to 70 per cent who drank alcohol. Legitimiz-ing and normalizing marijuana could mean more than tripling its

use by youth.”“While Canadian

courts have required the government to al-low access to mari-juana when authorized by a physician, the law is clear that this must be done in a controlled fashion to protect pub-lic health and safety. In response to the courts, the government imple-mented the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations in June of 2013, with the aim of treating dried marijua-na as much a possible like other narcotics used for medical pur-poses.”

“These Regulations are clear and do not

provide municipali-ties with the authority to legitimize the com-mercial sale of mari-juana, which remains an illegal substance. Storefronts and dis-pensaries do not op-erate within a ‘grey zone’ and the law is clear: they are illegal.”

The Minister of Health’s position is clear. I have a problem understanding people in politics who tell us they are there for the public good, yet they put the public at risk for political points and to accommodate their lifestyle. Surely there are better policy priori-ties for our youth.

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Ban of motorized vehicles on Shuswap River consideredMotorized boats

could eventually be banned on parts of the Shuswap River.

The Regional Dis-trict of North Okana-gan is currently seeking feedback on proposed boating regulations for the Shuswap River. The goal is to improve rec-reational safety, reduce bank erosion, reduce disturbance to salmon spawning grounds and minimize conflicts be-tween users.

“The decision to consider boating regu-lations for the Shuswap River has come about due to numerous occa-

sions where communi-ty groups and residents have raised concerns with respect to the im-pacts of motorized ves-sels on the Shuswap River over the past 20 years,” said Anna Page, sustainability co-ordi-nator.

The regulations be-ing proposed for the Shuswap River in-clude:

Lower Shuswap River from Mara Lake upstream to Baxter Bridge (Trinity Valley Road) – vessel engine size limit of 10 horse-power.

Lower Shuswap

River from the Baxter Bridge (Trinity Val-ley Road) upstream to the eastern (upstream) end of Skookumchuck Rapids Park – no mo-torized vessels.

Mid-Shuswap Riv-er from South Mabel Lake upstream to the Shuswap Falls – no motorized vessels.

Boating regulations are the responsibility of Transport Canada and any level of govern-ment can request the federal government to restrict the use of all vessels on all bodies of water in Canada. Regulations may help

achieve safety, environ-mental or public inter-est objectives.

“Numerous consul-tation activities will be undertaken over the next four months to obtain feedback on the proposed regulations including open houses and a survey,” said Page.

An open house will be held at the Enderby Drill Hall, June 10 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. and there will be one at the Mabel Lake Commu-nity Hall (Lumby end), June 11 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

Surveys can be

completed online and will be mailed to all property owners ad-joining the river in the affected areas. The surveys, maps of the zones and additional information can be ac-cessed at www.rdno.ca/boating.

“We really want to gain an understanding of the level of com-munity support for the proposed boating regu-lations. This is the first step in the process and we are open to hearing from all who would be affected” said Rick Fairbairn, RDNO chairperson.

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The North Okanagan has hit the big screen. Disney’s Tomorrow-land, partially shot in Grindrod, opened in theatres on Friday, while Go With Me, which was also filmed in the region, has been marketed at a presti-gious trade fair in Eu-rope.

“It’s really amazing. Word is getting around,” said John Trainor, an Armstrong resident and Okanagan Film Com-mission chairperson.

Trainor and film commissioner Jon Sum-merland attended To-morrowland’s premiere in Vancouver Thursday.

“It’s definitely a fam-ily movie and there’s lots of interesting spe-cial effects. The audi-ence enjoyed it,” said Trainor.

“It (the premiere) was cool. It was a who’s who of Vancouver and lots of film industry people were there.”

Missing was the star,

George Clooney.“There was a ru-

mour he’d be there but he didn’t show,” said Trainor.

Clooney and the rest of the cast and crew were in the North Okan-agan in the summer of 2013, and the region is profiled early on in the film.

“There is a very cool scene, that I actually watched be shot, where a young George Cloo-ney comes in on a jet-pack and crashes,” said Trainor.

“The farm house and farm and certainly the hills around Enderby are recognizable. There were also back roads in Armstrong I recog-nized.”

At the same time that Tomorrowland is turn-ing heads in theatres, another movie with North Okanagan links is also garnering atten-tion.

The trailer for Go With Me was featured at the film industry’s sales market in Cannes, France.

“We were meeting with international film distributors who want to look at your movie,” said Rick Dugdale, producer and president of Hollywood-based Enderby Entertainment, which is named after his hometown.

Go With Me, which stars Anthony Hopkins, was filmed in Enderby, Armstrong and Vernon in late 2014.

“Everyone is ex-tremely excited,” said Dugdale of the response to the trailer.

“They are seeing the look of the film and

what the genre is — a suspense thriller. More action plays well over-seas.”

It’s anticipated the film will be shown at a Canadian film festival soon and distribution plans for North America are being put together. It could be released in February or March.

“No matter what happens, we will show it in Vernon,” said Dug-dale.

Post-production is taking place in Sweden and Hopkins has been following the process with keen interest.

“When the lead cast is happy, we have ex-ecuted what we hoped to do,” said Dugdale.

Trainor is convinced more major films will come to the region, par-ticularly after attending Tomorrowland’s pre-miere.

“The director and producer were im-pressed with the local crews and that’s what it’s all about,” he said.

“It’s a great place to film a movie. It’s a very professional place to shoot.”

It has been suggest-ed that Tomorrowland could pump $91 million into B.C.’s economy.

“I wish we would give a little more due to the impact these productions have so the film commission is not going every year cap in hand for another two per cent (funding increase) from regional districts,” said Trainor.

“We have an op-erating budget under $200,000 and we bring tens of millions into the Okanagan.”

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Eagle River Second-ary is a small school doing big things.

The school took centre stage during a May 13 conference at University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna. The title of the conference: the Second Annual UBCO Think Tank: Imagining the Futures of Small Secondary School.

ERS principal Scott Anderson said the school was chosen to provide a “case study” for the conference, detailing the work be-ing done at the school, including unique pro-gramming developed, he says, out of neces-sity, in response to de-clining enrolment and budgets.

“They offer this conference every two years,” said Anderson. “They look for a dif-ferent small school that is innovative and do-ing things creatively, and this year I guess it was in the wind what we were doing… sort

of innovating out of necessity. They heard about some of the stuff we were doing and were interested and called us up to be the feature school.”

Anderson said con-ference attendees – including university professors, Ministry of Education staff as well as school teachers and administrators – re-ceived the case study in advance so they could learn from, and provide feedback on what’s happening at ERS.

On the positive side, Anderson said people were very impressed with the school’s time-table, designed to max-imize teacher avail-ability for students to do more creative proj-ects, field trips, labs, etc. Another aspect that impressed was the school’s cross-curric-ular approach to pro-gramming, in which a course may be an amal-gamation of different disciplines.

“Let’s say for exam-ple, one of the course studies would be a course called Local

Plants,” Anderson ex-plained. “It’s science-based in biology, but also talks about a his-tory of the plant’s use, First Nations use of the plant, etc. So they’re getting sort of the so-cial studies and the science in that particu-lar course at the same time. We have a whole handful of courses that are taught that way as well.”

As for construc-tive criticism, Ander-son was encouraged to find different ways to broaden community involvement with the school – opportunities for students to learn from the expertise of different employers and organizations in the community and area.

“We already have a lot of involvement with Twin Anchors here in Sicamous, having kids learn welding and all that kind of stuff – more of that sort of thing, involving more people in different businesses,” said An-derson. “Let’s say like the Trail Alliance, and

groups like that, that are doing other things in the community. They could have our kids go out to do brushing and clearing of trails, and learn, say geography and mapping, at the same time.”

In addition to the constructive feedback, Anderson was encour-aged by the ministry’s interest in, and com-mitment to “small schools,” as well as how small schools like Eagle River are rede-fining how education is delivered.

“I think another message, loud and clear from the min-istry as well as from this conference, is that small schools are strong because they’re small…,” said Ander-son. “Because we’re small, meaning a low-er student-to-teacher ratio, we have more opportunities to inno-vate, as opposed to just staying the course like you would in a larger school. That came through loud and clear, as well as other schools are looking to small

schools because we are innovating – we have to survive.”

Eagle River a role model for small schoolsBy Lachlan LabereEagle Valley News

Street paint: Eagle River Second-ary student Josie Germaine leaves her mark during the grad street painting held at the school Wednes-day, May 20. Eagle River’s graduation ceremony is Friday, June 5, beginning at 5 p.m.Photo by Kelly M. Dick

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The District of Sicamous has recently attained substantial completion of the “Sanitary Sewer Collection System Extensions Contract #9 – West of Narrows” project. This is the final phase of sanitary service installation to provide waste water service to the residents of the District of Sicamous.

The District of Sicamous Sewer Rates and Regulations Bylaw No. 194, 1996 requires that;

“The owner of every parcel of real property located on the west side of Sicamous Narrows and capable of being connected to the sanitary sewer system shall connect the property to the sanitary sewer system within one year of substantial completion of the sewer works, which date shall be determined and advertised by the District.”

In accordance with the above Bylaw the District of Sicamous is announcing a substantial completion date of June 1, 2015. Therefore, residents on the west side of the channel must be connected by June 1, 2016.

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Wind-up: Kelowna Heat pitcher, Gina Selfe of Sicamous winds up for the pitch against the Langley Extreme Saturday, May 23, during the Sicamous Ladies Open Fastball Tournament at Finlayson Park. Photo by Kelly M. Dick

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Eagle River Secondary’s golf team saw their season come to a bittersweet end at the Valley Championship Tournament in Kelowna.

The team, consisting of Karter Anderson, Mytch Blight, Austin Miller and Colby Sherlock, was victorious at the A North Zones in Revelstoke on May 7, qualify-ing them for the Championships

on May 20. There, each of the players excelled, but would up being disqualified for signing an incorrect score card.

“We would have finished fourth place overall if it wasn’t for the disqualification, “said teacher Jason Ostoforov, adding the team still managed to meet or exceed their personal bests for the season.

“Karter Anderson, he shot 96, which was his best round of the year,” said Ostoforov. “Col-

by Sherlock, he shot 86, which was his best round ever. Mytch Blight, he shot a 94, which was his best round of the year. And then Austin Miller, he shot 89, which tied his best round of the year.”

Ostoforov said there was something like a 60 swing differ-ence between the winning team’s total and Eagle River’s. He also noted it’s been about five years since Eagle River has had a golf team qualify for championships.



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EAGLE VALLEY

NEWS

FIND IT CLASSIFIEDSIN THE

4 OUT OF 5 PEOPLE WITH DIABETESDIE OF HEART DISEASE.

.Better your oddsVisit getserious.ca


Targeted Online Job Board.

/localwork-bc @localworkbc

Just one of the reasons to call LocalWorkBC.ca for all your job recruitment needs.

1-855-678-7833


Misc. for Sale

For Sale: Yakima Skybox Pro 12 Silver and Yakima Highroller Upright bike

racks. Yakima roof rack that fi ts factory roof racks.Locking cores and key

match locks on bike racks, box and roof rack. Box and

bike purchased new in 2009. Roof rack a couple of years older. Excellent condition. Rarely used and storedunder cover. $900 OBO.

Located in Nelson250-354-7471

SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector BuyingCollections, Olympic Coins,Silver, Gold, Jewelry, EstatesChad: 778-281-0030 in town.

PURCHASING scrap gold & old Canadian & American coin collections. 250-548-3670

Real Estate

Mobile Homes & Parks

Bi-weekly payment from

$47000Land and Home

Ownership250-833-4728eaglehomes.ca/listings

Best pricing for New Homes

in Sicamous

Transportation

Boats

MoorageWANTED: moorage for pon-toon boat in Sicamous for 2015 season (250)836-0271 or email: [email protected]

Classifi edsGet Results!


Sicamous and Columbia Shuswap Regional District Area E

LABOUR MARKET ASSESSMENT & PLANNING PROJECT

COMMUNITY MEETINGJune 1, 2015 @ 5 pm

at the Red Barn Arts Centre1226 Riverside Avenue, SicamousCome and learn about the labour market research and planning project currently taking place in Sicamous and CSRD Area E:

• Learn about the different phases of this project, and how this project can help the area

• Meet the project team• Hear about the information that has been collected so far• Help identify what information is missing

The success of this project depends on community participationWe hope to see you there!

QUESTIONS: Contact Kyle Dearing - 250-515-2029; [email protected]; also see website for more information about the project: www.sicamouslabour.com

Snacks & Refreshments will be served

Eagle Valley News, May 27, 2015

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