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Rehab centre for teens closes doors Tara Bowie

Review Staff A local addiction rehabilitation

youth facility wasn’t able to recover a financial agreement with the BC government and shut its doors sud-denly last week.

A mix of about 30 full-time, part-time and seasonal employ-ees of The Crossing operated by Portage British Columbia were told March 5 the facility would cease operations immediately, Seychelle Harding, communications director for Portage said during a phone interview with the Keremeos Review.

The Crossing provided a resi-dential rehabilitation treatment pro-gram for adolescents between the ages of 14-18. The centre had a 42-bed capacity.

“We met the employees there to tell them the news. Most of them were not surprised and the reason behind the decision is that...Portage has been trying for about two years to get to an agreement with the provincial health authorities and we just couldn’t get to an agreement,” she said.

Harding said employees were

offered other employment oppor-tunities in Portage facilities out of province mainly in Ontario.

Portage operates 12 other pro-grams in Atlantic Canada, Quebec and Ontario. Keremeos was Portage’s only facility in B.C.

Some took new postings while others have declined, she said.

“We understand BC is very beautiful and these people have set up their lives there,” she said.

The facility had not taken any new clients since October 2014.

Harding was unsure whether there was still one client at the facil-ity or if it all had finished treatment when the announcement was made.

“I’m not sure if there was one person left or no one left because it’s four to six month programs. By the time it had closed most had finished,” she said.

The facility opened in 2009 on a 58-acre property located approxi-mately six kilometres west of the Keremeos.

According to a notice put on the facility’s webpage a year after it opened Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health were contribut-ing $2.5 million annually to cover

operating costs of the drug rehabili-tation centre in March 2010.

Central City Foundation led the capital fundraising campaign, rais-ing $6.5 million for the purchase of the property and the construction of the facility in Keremeos.

It’s unknown what will happen

to the facility at this time. During its six years of opera-

tions more than 400 youth suc-cessfully completed the six-month addictions recovery programming.

“There was a lot of people. A lot of great stories. Teenagers would write back when they finished their

degree and went back to school. It is with heavy heart we are doing this as we know that the resources are scarce in BC,” she said.

Harding said Portage can accept out of province clients so youth who are struggling can find more information at www.portage.ca.

Submitted photo About 30 full-time, part-time and seasonal local jobs have been lost with the announcement that The Crossing, operated by Portage British Columbia is closed. The Crossing was a residential rehabilitation pro-gram for adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18.

Arctic Apple company sells for $41 million Steve KiddBlack Press

Summerland’s Okanagan Specialty Fruits has been drawing international attention over the last few years for its development of an apple that doesn’t turn brown after slicing.

They’ve also drawn the attention of a major player. At the end of February, Neal Carter, founder of OSF, announced the company had been sold for $41 million to Intrexon, a U.S. company that styles itself as a leader in synthetic biology.

“We feel this acquisition can be viewed as a very positive development for the local community,” wrote Carter in an email inter-view. “Okanagan Specialty Fruits will remain based in Summerland. We are pleased to share that Intrexon intends to retain all cur-

rent staff.”Through the acquisition, Intrexon expands

its food programs to include trees yielding fruit that is more appetizing and convenient for consumers while providing economic benefit throughout the tree fruit supply chain.

Carter, who will also remain with OSF after the acquisition is complete, developed his line of Arctic Apple varieties using genet-ic techniques to switch off the gene that con-trols the enzyme that turns the white flesh of apples brown after exposure to air.

“We have certainly received a great deal of interest from a variety of sources, and as expected, the foodservice industry is among those who recognize the value of the non-browning trait,” wrote Carter noting that currently, fresh cut apples must be treated

with anti-browning solutions, adding cost and interfering with flavour.

“The potential is huge in areas like cafete-rias, for example. In fact, a recent study from Cornell found that schoolchildren eat about 70 per cent more apples if they’re served pre-sliced rather than whole.”

Arctic Apples recently gained regulatory approval in the U.S., and are well on their way through the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s process. The company expects Canadian regulators to grant commercial approval to Arctic apples in the near future. Carter said it is unfortunate that the BC Fruit Growers Association has taken a stand against biotechnology.

“Even if they are not interested in support-ing Arctic apples, many others are; we have

received significant interest in Arctic apples from a substantial number of growers and other members of the apple supply-chain,”

File photo Summerland’s Okanagan Specialty Fruits, creators of the Arctic Apple, has been sold to US company Intrexon for $41 million.

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OKANAGAN FALLSSECOND MON: Communities for Kids OKFalls Table Mtg., 2:45 pm at StrongStart Early Learning Ctr. at OK Falls Elementary, 250-498-8433 for more info.TUESDAY: South Okanagan Toastmasters 7 - 9 p.m. at Best Western in Osoyoos. Call 498-4412, 499-2144.TUESDAY: Bingo at the Senior Citizenís Centre on Willow St. 1p.m. (except last Tues.).EVERY 3RD TUESDAY: Legion Branch #227 Gen Meeting 7 p.m. Jack Hill Room, OK Falls.WED. & SAT.: Carpet Bowling 1 p.m. Seniorís Centre.WEDNESDAY: Join the Stroke Recovery Club for stroke survivors and caregivers, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the South Okanagan Similkameen Brain Injury Society offi ce, #2-996 Main Street, Penticton..Call Tina at 490-0613. FIRST WEDNESDAY OF MONTH: OK Falls Legion - Ladies Auxiliary General Meeting 1:00 p.m., Jack Hill Room, OK Falls.THIRD WEDNESDAY OF MONTH: OK Falls Womens Institute meeting at the Falls Community Centre busi-ness at 7, entertainment at 8 p.m. Call Betty for more info - 497-6665.THURSDAY: Bridge 1 p.m. Seniors Centre.THURSDAY: Crib 7 p.m. Seniors Centre.THURSDAY: Computer classes 9 a.m. Seniorís Centre.FRIDAY: Arts group painting 1- 3 p.m.FRIDAY: Whist 7 p.m. 2ND & 4TH FRIDAY: A Wellness Clinic is held at the Seniors Centre, on Willow Street, 9 to 11 a.m. Have your blood pressure, heart and weight checked by a retired registered nurse. Open to everyone.FIRST FRIDAY OF MONTH: OK Falls Legion - Ladies Auxiliary Dinner and Entertainment 6:00 p.m. After the Meat Draw.THIRD FRIDAY OF MONTH: OK Falls Legion Ladies Auxiliary Steak Fry Dinner 6:00 p.m. After the Meat Draw.FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS: The Okanagan Falls Legion Branch #227 has meat draws from 5:00 p.m.SATURDAY: OK Falls Legion Branch #227, Dinner and Dance 6:00 pm.FIRST SATURDAY: Ladies Auxiliary Branch #227. Drop in Bingo 1-4 p.m. Jack Hill Room. OK Falls.THIRD SATURDAY OF MONTH: Drop in bingo at OK Falls Senior Centre. 1128 Willow St.

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WEDNESDAY: Diabetes Clinic, 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. at Similkameen Health Centre. RN & Reg. Dietitian in at-tendance. Dr. referrals or self referral. Appts. necessary. Phone 1-800-707-8550.WEDNESDAY: Yoga at Cawston Hall, 6 - 7:30 pmWEDNESDAY: Keremeos Search & Rescue meetings, 7 pm, little brown building behind the Village Offi ce.1st THURSDAY: South Similkameen Museum Society Meeting, 7 pm, at the Ecumenical Church in KeremeosTHURSDAY: Tumble Bumble, 3:00 - 4:30 pm upstairs at the Legion. Ages 0-6. For info 250-499-2352 ext. 106. THURSDAY: Positively Pregnant, 10:00 - 11:30 am at the Family Centre. For info 250-499-2352 ext. 106. THURSDAY: AA meetings at 7:30 pm Health Centre activity room. Info. call Eleanor 499-5982.THURSDAY: KCSA Monthly meetings the last Thursday of each month at clubhouse 7:30 p.m.THURSDAY: Afternoon dances at the Keremeos Seniors Centre from 1:30 - 4 p.m. Whist 6:30 pm to 9:00 pmTHURSDAY: Similkameen Adult Badminton Club, Oct. 16th to Dec. 18th, 7 pm to 9 pm, For more info call Manfred at 499-5290.THURSDAY: Weight Watchers, 5 pm, Elks Hall. More info call Sarah at 250-499-2878.FRIDAY: Keremeos TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 9:00 a.m. at the Health Centre. Visitors & new members are welcome. Call Georgina at 499-0202 for more info.FRIDAY: Elks and Royal Purple bingo. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. FRIDAY: Keremeos Seniors Centre Bingo, 1:00 pm.SUNDAY: KCSA Trap Shooting, 11:00 am to ?, Weather permitting.SUNDAY: AA Meeting at 10:00 am in the Health Center Activity Room. Info call Eleanor at 499-5982.3RD SUNDAY: Legion General Meeting. 2:00 p.m. Keremeos Legion Hall. 3rd MONDAY: Kars Under the K Meeting, 7:00 pm, Meeting Room at Health Center, Call Marcel Morin for info 499-7775.2nd TUESDAY: Can-Do General Meetings. Everyone Welcome. Phone 499-2420 for more information. 1ST WEDNESDAY OF MONTH: Regular meeting of the Keremeos Seniors Centre, at 2 p.m. Keremeos.1ST & 3RD WEDNESDAY: Search & Rescue meet 7-9 p.m., 8th Ave. & 4th St. Call 499-6067 or 499-5429.2ND WEDNESDAY OF MONTH: The Similkameen Garden Club meets at 7 p.m. at the Keremeos Seniors Centre, 2ND AND 4TH THURSDAY: The Royal Purple Lodge meets at 1:30 p.m. at the Elks Hall. Info: 499-7073.LAST THURSDAY OF MONTH: KCSA Club meeting.EVERY 1ST AND 3RD THURSDAY: The Keremeos Elks meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Hall. 1ST SUNDAY OF MONTH: Jam Session. Keremeos Seniors Centre. 1 p.m. Everyone Welcome. 499-0112.1ST SUNDAY OF MONTH: Friends of Olalla, 4 pm, contact 250-599-9090.

HEDLEYTUESDAY: Once a month Soup and Sandwich - watch for posters.Hedley Seniors’ Center on Scott Ave.THURSDAY: Library 2 pm - 7 pm Hedley Seniors’ Center, free computer use.1ST MONDAY: Hedley Heritage Museum meeting, 6:00 p.m. at the Museum, Everyone welcome to attend.2ND SUNDAY: Pancake Breakfast, Hedley Seniors’ Center, 8:00 am to 10:00 am.3RD MONDAY: Monthly meeting at Seniors’ Center, 2 pm.3RD MONDAY: Community Club meeting at 7 pm at the Club.DAILY: Coffee & good conversation at the Seniors’ Center 6:30 am - 8 am. Every Mon./Wed./Sat. Exercise at 9 am. EVERY SUNDAY: Church Service at 9:30 am, Hedley Grace Church. EVERY SUNDAY: Hedley Farmers Market 9-1, July - Oct. DAILY: Hedley Heritage Museum open daily 9am - 4pm, Daly Ave.EVERY TUESDAY & THURSDAY: Exercise at 9:00 am.

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Review Staff The funding is flowing for the

Similkameen Valley Watershed Plan.

The Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen received a $36,135 grant from the federal and provincial governments for Phase 3 of the plan.

The latest phase to be com-pleted will take a closer look at the agricultural sector. Funding was granted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the BC Ministry of Agriculture and delivered by the Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC.

“The funding will allow us to

expand our information gather-ing with a detailed assessment of groundwater inventory, its use and future agricultural demand,” stated Manfred Bauer, chair of the Similkameen Valley Planning Society in a press release.

Phase three work includes characterizing the future of agriculture in the Similkameen watershed; inventorying ground-water use by agriculture; esti-mating future agricultural water demands; conducting an irriga-tion groundwater quality assess-ment and developing an imple-mentation strategy for agricul-tural groundwater management.

The most recent grant will be paired with grant money already obtained meaning the phase three portion of the study should cost about $70,000.

The data is expected to be collected before fall and work on phase three completed by March 2016.

The data from the second phase is expected to be released in the next few months.

The SVPS through the RDOS received government funding of $500,000 to complete the water-shed plan.

About $160,000 of the grant money is remaining.

Funding streams into SVPS watershed plan

Director Christensen clashes with consultant over wages

Tara BowieReview Staff

The Similkameen Valley Planning Society was almost forced into a closed door meet-ing after Area G Director Elef Christensen inappropriately ques-tioned a contracted employee wage in public session.

Following a presentation from Andrew Stuckey, who is con-tracted to handle communications for the SVPS watershed plan, Christensen pointedly asked his hourly rate.

“You make $52 an hour right?” Christensen said.

Stuckey agreed.Christensen went on to ask

how many hours a month he works on SVPS projects and suggested Stuckey could bill the society for increased hours with-out approval and that directors have no way to know the amount

of time he is working on projects.On average Stuckey bills the

society for 10 hours of work a month.

“It wouldn’t be very produc-tive for me to do that (bill for more hours),” Stuckey said.

The brief exchange between the two men was ended by chair Manfred Bauer who called it “inappropriate.”

“It you want to talk about staff and wages like that we must move into a closed meeting,” Bauer said. “Andrew does great work for us and this isn’t appropriate.”

Christensen apologized to Stuckey.

The men had several exchang-es prior to the wage discussion concerning a communications committee Stuckey has struck.

The committee will include two at large members and two members with a water back-

ground.The committee will aid

Stuckey in developing a commu-nications plan to make the public more aware about the watershed plan.

The committee will also include a member of SVPS and Stuckey.

Stuckey proposed that each member receive a $25 per meet-ing honorarium to pay for travel costs as members come from across the valley.

Christensen questioned the role of the committee several times and the need to pay an honorarium.

After discussion Christensen along with all SVPS members present voted to allow for four members of the public to be part of the committee and to pay the $25 honorarium.

Tara Bowie The Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen received a $36,135 grant from the federal and provincial governments for Phase 3 of the watershed plan.

Staff Writer A quiet community leader has

spoken volumes with a $2-mil-lion donation to the new Patient Care Tower at Penticton Regional Hospital.

David Kampe, owner of the Peters Bros. Group of Companies, has become the first major individual donor to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation’s $20-million fund-raising campaign to provide new medical equipment for the PRH expansion.

Kampe, who has supported many community projects for years, said his gift aims at ensur-ing top quality health care for residents throughout the region for decades to come. He also hopes it will help spur others in the community to donate as well.

“This hospital here is every bit as good as any hospital in the province,” Kampe said in a press release. “It’s a remarkable hospital for this region’s level of population.”

Janice Perrino, the Foundation’s executive director, said the value of Mr. Kampe’s donation means much more to the campaign than simple dollars and cents.

“No one understands the importance of a donation more than Mr. David Kampe,” she said in a release. “He came to us even before we got the agreement for the Patient Care Tower by the Province because he knew we had to have the community come on side and he was ready to get the campaign rolling.”

Perrino said it’s hoped Kampe’s incredibly generous gift will give momentum for other individuals, corporations and organizations to financially sup-port the hospital campaign.

“Helping provide the best health care possible, it represents an investment in the future for the residents of the South Okanagan-Similkameen,” she said.

This marks the second time in four years that Kampe has stepped forward with a major donation to the Foundation.

In 2011, he donated a one-hectare parcel of land at Industrial Avenue and Camrose Street, immediately south of the hospital. The land at the time was valued at $1.5 million.

This latest donation follows the Summerland Health Care Auxiliary’s recently-announced pledge to donate $1 million over

five years for the Foundation’s campaign.

The Province is scheduled to select its private sector P3 partner early in 2016 with construction of the $325-million Patient Care Tower to begin soon afterwards.

The tower will include new surgical rooms, 84 single-patient rooms, ambulatory care clinics and other facilities. A second con-struction phase will see the hos-pital’s present front lobby and adjacent offices become part of an enlarged Emergency Department – almost four times the size of the existing emergency room.

The Okanagan-Similkameen Regional Hospital District will fund $122 million (40 per cent) of the construction cost, while the provincial government and its P3 partner will pay about $183 mil-lion (60 per cent). The Foundation will provide the final $20 million of the total project cost for medi-cal equipment

For more information con-tact Janice Perrino, execu-tive-director of the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation, at 250-492-9077 (office) or 250-462-6895 (cell) or email [email protected].

Hospital expansion receives $2 million donation

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VICTORIA – B.C.’s new seniors’ advocate has issued her second report, and the media mostly ignored it.

When this new office was promised by a campaigning Premier Christy Clark two years ago, I suggested that B.C. already has 85 seniors’ advo-cates. They’re called MLAs, and inquiries go to their local offices.

Much to the chagrin of the opposition, Seniors’ Advocate Isobel Mackenzie’s mandate is not to pursue individual cases, and so she won’t be serving up a fresh assortment of horror stories to embarrass the govern-ment.

Instead, it is to look for “sys-temic challenges” and recom-mend ways to deal with them. The latest report is based on a survey of more than 500 seniors from around the prov-ince, and the key finding was not what she expected.

“We were surprised to learn of the lack of awareness among seniors, particularly low-income seniors, of govern-ment programs and the subsi-dies available to assist them,” Mackenzie said.

The survey found that 60 per cent of seniors living on

$30,000 or less annual income didn’t know they are eligible for discounts on Medical Services Plan premiums. For income less than $22,000, the entire $864 cost of individual MSP premiums is waived.

Other frequently over-looked programs are a month-ly rent subsidy called Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER), grants for disabil-ity modifications called Home Adaptations for Independence, drug cost assistance called Fair Pharmacare, property tax deferment and the fed-eral Guaranteed Income Supplement program. Those older than 75 with income of less than $30,000 reported the lowest awareness of assistance designed specifically for them. But you don’t get these benefits unless you apply and show that your income qualifies.

The survey also found that the biggest fear of low-income seniors is that they won’t be able to afford to stay in their

homes. See home adaptation, prop-erty tax and rent subsidy programs above.

A w a r e n e s s and usage of the SAFER program was lowest in the north and highest in urban areas, per-haps not surpris-ing since the B.C. government exists

more in theory than in fact in many remote places.

So what should the govern-ment do about this? Well, it could advertise these programs. The government does lots of advertising, but not about old news like the SAFER program, which dates back to the 1970s.

Clark’s government did a whack of advertising in the election year, 2013. Much of it was about the B.C. Jobs Plan, heavy on the hardhats and blueprint-style graphics and arc welding and stuff like that.

Then last year the govern-ment’s big ad campaign was around the teachers’ strike, and the payments to parents to help with child care while teachers demanded twice as big a raise as all the other unions.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender is still bragging about the response rate for $40-a-day parental strike pay, which was snapped up by almost 100 per cent of eligible parents. This demonstrates that the gov-ernment can indeed give away money with great efficiency, just by telling people how to get it.

The NDP’s version of seniors’ advocacy is to find the most tragic problems from complaints coming into con-stituency offices, and use those to ambush the government.

A popular choice is an elderly couple who have to be separated because their medical needs are too different to keep them in the same facility. TV news loves that one. People cry on camera and denounce politi-cians for being heartless, as if the health minister stayed up late plotting how to break their granny’s heart.

Maybe this seniors’ advo-cate wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]

Every so often – if you pay close attention – you can find an example of democracy in action.

So it is demonstrated with the recent Liberal budget, and the promise from the BC government to eliminate the claw back of child support payments to single fami-lies receiving income or disability payments.

The long-fought-for policy change puts $13 million a year back into the pockets of the province’s disad-vantaged families, and will better the lives of approxi-mately 5,200 children who live daily with the hunger of poverty, and the fear that accompanies uncertainty.

Taking well deserved credit for this progress is BC ACORN (Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now) that orchestrated an 18-month cam-paign to get the attention of legislators.

They did it with the help of like-minded groups – including the Elizabeth Fry Association and Raise the Rates – and with the media playing a large role as stories appeared across all platforms exposing the per-sonal stories of parents struggling for simple survival for their children.

Call it a shame game. It was warranted, unrelenting, and ultimately successful.

Successful government lobbies are often perceived to be of a different nature. Professional spin doctors are hired, ad campaigns are purchased and political and financial support is leveraged.

Single parents on government assistance can’t afford to pay for help or advertising when they can’t afford to buy food and hydro in the same month. The poor are used to having the approximate political clout of unwashed socks.

So they did it the old fashioned way.BC Acorn led 11 actions over a year and half.

Members wrote letters, knocked on doors, set up phone campaigns, held house meetings and leadership work-shops. They organized on-line.

They staged actions at various social assistance offices across the lower mainland that resulted in meet-ings with government ministers.

They attended Question Period. They held press conferences.

On 2014, as their campaign picked up speed, they held a Poverty Potluck on Mother’s Day to highlight the inadequacy of the food bank diet that sustains so many single parent families.

In June of last year, the government relented and promised a review of the claw back policy that led to the announcement in the spring budget.

Beyond the simple humanity and common sense of not taking money away from single parents and their children – for not effectively penalizing a family because someone somewhere is paying child support – its actual breathtaking to know it works.

Democracy. Phone calls, letters, calling the paper and repeating

oneself over and over and getting louder and louder until someone in power simply has to listen.

Credit is due to ACORN and its allies, but also to Christy Clark and her government for coming to terms with a grassroots lobby.

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I admit, with a dose of embar-rassment, it was a foolish deci-sion. Reflecting back , I shudder inwardly at what we did. I’m sure our parents shuddered then already.

Linda and I were young, newly married and happy in our relation-ship. She was a bank employee and I was a heavy equipment operator. We had bought a home on five acres, near the Canada-U.S. border. We were delighted to not be renting. There was only one significant problem. We both felt utterly unfulfilled in our work. On a Saturday in early May, 1967, at breakfast I posed a question that had percolated in my psyche for some time.

“How do you feel about what we’re doing?” I asked. She seemed to have anticipated my query.

“I really hope I won’t be a teller the next forty years,” was her response.

“And I don’t want to be a cat operator for forty years,” I said.

That conversation ended with a seemingly ill-conceived deci-sion. We gave notice to our employers and found a renter for our home. Two weeks later we loaded camping supplies and food into our chevy panel truck and set out along the Trans Canada Highway. Just a couple of inno-cent, small town kids, looking for more from life. How to find more was definitely well outside our understanding. We didn’t even know where we were going.

That first evening we pulled the Chevy into a campsite near 100 Mile House. We quickly discovered our new sleeping bags were more suited to California summers than to this area’s minus zero temperatures. May in the Cariboo was not as pleasant as in the Fraser Valley. Even fully dressed, we shivered. A couple

of weeks later we spoke with an elderly local realtor. In spite of our severely limited funds, he seemed to take an interest in us. “Meet me here tomorrow at 8 a.m.” he said.

The next morning, after an hour in his pickup on an unpaved road, we eased his canoe into the pristine waters of Sheridan Lake. By sunset, we had arranged to purchase the lot the realtor showed us.

We returned the next day and set up our tent. At about 5 the following morning Linda roused me, agitated. “I hear loud breath-ing,” she said. “Is it a bear?” I unzipped the flap of the tent and looked into the large eyes of sev-eral long horned cattle, apparently curious about this intrusion into their domain. The realtor had not informed us this was open range cattle country. After breakfast I built a corral around the tent.

For nearly three months our only visitors were an overly bold black bear, a shrieking demand-ing squirrel, a curious cow moose and her calf, and the local rancher patrolling on his ancient dirt bike.

Our days on the shore of Sheridan Lake were taken up with physical work. Each evening, sit-ting around our campfire, we read a few pages of the biography of Madame Curie. As a university student passionate about scien-

tific research, she existed largely on buttered toast and tea. Marie and her husband Pierre conducted research in a cramped storage room. During one phase of their experiments, the Curies, mainly Marie, treated eight tons of pitch-blende to obtain one gram of radi-um. They could have sold it for $150,000 but chose to keep it for further research. Their commit-ment and sacrifice deeply stirred our imaginations.

Marie Curie’s tenacious pur-suit of an elusive goal awakened in me a desire to further my education. Swatting at hungry mosquitoes and trying to avoid the smoke of our campfire one evening, I said, “I’d like to go to university, but I know we don’t have the money.” Without hesi-tating, Linda said, “I could work.”

A few days later, the black bear jumped over my corral and damaged our tent. We broke camp and returned to the Fraser Valley. I enrolled as a student of Sociology and Political Science at Simon Fraser University. That was 48 years ago. Now my hair is the colour of snow and I have retired after many years of work-ing with inmates in provincial and federal corrections and then with young offenders in Hedley. Because of Marie Curie’s exam-ple, our foolish decision had a good outcome.

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This year, like every year on March 8, Mr. DeMeer woke up grumbling about International Women’s Day.

Why do you need International Women’s Day? When is International Men’s Day?

This year, like every year on March 8, I responded that it is International Men’s Day every day – all year long.

It’s a special family tradition we look for-ward to, in the same way other couples might enjoy greeting each other on December 25 with a kiss and a “Merry Christmas, sweet-heart.”

The theme for this year’s event was Strong Women. Strong World. Improving Economic Opportunities For All.

In other words we’ve come a long way baby. But there’s a heck of a long way to go.

Look down. Look way, way, down under your feet. That is where sexism and misogy-ny in the workplace moved, after deciding it was too hot living up here in the same climate as political correctness.

Like cottonmouths in a swamp, you hardly ever see them and that makes them all the harder to fight.

There are still professions that remain almost exclusively male.

Sports reporting is a good example. Shortly after the last winter Olympics I was loung-ing in the newsroom thumbing through the Toronto Sun and came across a promotional ad for that company’s Olympic reporting team.

More than two dozen men with iPhones and cameras and laptops, and one woman.

One woman? The company sent ONE woman to cover the Olympics?

Without raising his eyes from his com-puter screen the sports editor remarked they probably needed somebody to write about ladies’ figure skating and the managing edi-tor casually noted she probably also made coffee.

Cottonmouths are everywhere if you know where to look. Only a couple of years ago, while working in Ontario, I was profession-ally chastised for losing my temper during a meeting about classified advertising.

A colleague across the table held forth about the “girls” in classifieds. The girls this, the girls that, if only the girls would do X,

Y or Z. In order to prevent the blood from eventually leaking out of my ears, it had to be said.

Look Dave, THEY ARE NOT GIRLS. They are women. They are professional women. Girls are prepubescent females and if you truly are employing a collection of 11-year-olds in the front office we have a big-ger problems in this department than Kijiji.

The next day I received a visit from my senior manager

who told me I’d made several people uncom-fortable and for the sake of my career I should dial down the feminism.

Feminism – don’t bring it to the office. Chauvinism, on the other hand, is like Master Card – accepted pretty much everywhere.

About the same time I was fortunate enough to attend a corporate leadership con-ference that included a day-long presentation by a noted industry professional who used clips from popular movies to illustrate his various points. The conference was informa-tive and entertaining even though all of the movies chosen to exemplify strong leader-

ship were extremely male – Master and Commander, Bull Run, Remember the Titans.

The Devil Wears Prada, a movie enshrin-ing every cruel stereotype conceived about female bosses, was the only film clip showcasing a woman and of course it was employed to provide a perverse example and give everyone a good chuckle.

Several days after the conference I sent the presenter a thoughtful email, thanking him for a good seminar and sharing some com-ments on his movie choices. I suggested that with a number of women in the audience, and some men who reported to women, in future he might consider including at least one posi-tive female leadership model.

The gentleman responded that I missed the point of his presentation. I replied that he missed the point of my email.

There are lots of people who don’t under-stand why experiences like this are frustrat-ing, sometimes painful, and represent very real challenges to women’s success.

It kind of makes you want to hold a few heads under the swamp.

Hope you enjoyed International Women’s Day.

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Carter writes. That interest is echoed by consumers, according to their own studies and taste test comparisons.

Carter said their technique doesn’t introduce any foreign genes into the apple, instead using one of the apple’s own genes to make the changes. OSF has put the apples through years of field testing in their quest to gain regulatory approval for the Arctic Apple line, which includes geneti-cally modified versions of granny, golden, Fuji and gala apples.

“Okanagan is a world leader in the development of fruit-bearing plants to express enhanced, advantageous traits with tremendous potential to revolutionize the tree fruit industry,” said Thomas R. Kasser, PhD, senior vice president and head of Intrexon’s food sector. “Through this acquisition, we can deliver more acces-sible and affordable choices of high-quality foods for an ever-growing population.”

They’ve also drawn the attention of a major player. On Feb. 27, Neal Carter, founder of OSF, announced the company had been sold for $41 million to Intrexon, a U.S. company that styles itself as a leader in synthetic biology.

“We feel this acquisition can be viewed as a very positive development for the local community,” wrote Carter in an email interview. “Okanagan Specialty Fruits will remain based in Summerland. We are pleased to share that Intrexon intends to retain all current staff.”

Through the acquisition, Intrexon expands its food programs to include trees yielding fruit that is more appetizing and convenient for consumers while providing economic benefit throughout the tree fruit supply chain.

Carter, who will also remain with OSF after the acquisition is complete, developed his line of Arctic Apple varieties using genetic techniques to switch off the gene that controls the enzyme that turns the white flesh of apples brown after exposure to air.

“We have certainly received a great deal of interest from a variety of sources, and as expected, the foodservice industry is among those who recognize the value of the nonbrowning trait,” wrote Carter not-ing that currently, fresh cut apples must be treated with anti-browning solutions, add-ing cost and interfering with flavour.

“The potential is huge in areas like caf-eterias, for example. In fact, a recent study

from Cornell found that schoolchildren eat about 70 per cent more apples if they’re served pre-sliced rather than whole.”

Arctic Apples recently gained regula-tory approval in the U.S., and are well on their way through the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s process. The company expects Canadian regulators to grant com-mercial approval to Arctic apples in the near future. Carter said it is unfortunate that the BC Fruit Growers Association has taken a stand against biotechnology.

“Even if they are not interested in sup-porting Arctic apples, many others are; we have received significant interest in Arctic apples from a substantial number of growers and other members of the apple supply-chain,” Carter writes. That interest is echoed by consumers, according to their own studies and taste test comparisons.

Carter said their technique doesn’t introduce any foreign genes into the apple, instead using one of the apple’s own genes to make the changes. OSF has put the apples through years of field testing in their quest to gain regulatory approval for the Arctic Apple line, which includes geneti-cally modified versions of granny, golden, Fuji and gala apples.

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Arctic apple aimed at foodservice industry

Letters to the editorHydro costs not grounded in affordability Letter to the Editor:

I just wanted to say to the couple on the cover of the March 5 paper that I’m sorry to hear of your pain with hydro.

But you are not alone. My wife and i got a hydro bill estimate. We also

pay equal payments now. The bill was $973 for 32 days. We heat our house with wood (two fireplaces).

We use two lights, one television at night. Hydro says we use 212 kilowatt hours a day. I layman’s terms it takes a 60-watt light bulb 24 hours to use a kilowatt hour.

What hydro tells us is that we have on 212 60 watt light bulbs all day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

That’s impossible. I think they are either crooks, bandits or thieves.

This will never get better as long as the govern-ment taxes our hydro bills. Our last bill had $47 GST on top. The more your hydro bill the more tax the government makes.

The energy commission is just a bunch of yes men for hydro. That does nothing for us. The two-tiered system hurts seniors the most.

They were supposed to do a review of the two-tiered system last November. Has anybody heard anything. Not a word. Right now we pay 50 per cent of earning in taxes. We pay 25 per cent to hydro. That leaves 25 per cent that we really get to live off.

Anybody else feeling the squeeze?

Pat Sanderson

To the Editor:

In repsonse to a column by Black Press writer Tom Fletcher about defaulting on student loans.

As a life-long watcher of daily newscasts and reader of newspapers, etc., I somehow managed to miss an item described as “ . . . an era where misguided university profes-sors use their positions to organize violent protests against job-creating projects . . .”

Would you kindly provide me with any facts to support this item?

I went to university using student loans.

I’m afraid I was not one of those fortu-nate 180,000 students who were able to attend university for four years without borrowing. My parents were poor, I was a young female student trying to survive on poorly paid summer jobs and unable to save anything from those jobs to pay my way through university. But because of that education I was able to obtain better, and better paying, jobs while I worked full time and raised a family. Indeed, because of that education and those better paying jobs, I was able to pay more income taxes to help support that education which is so important to our youth today.

By the way, I paid my student loans off within ten years of my university gradua-tion. If I had been unable to make the pay-ments for whatever reason, it would hardly have been in the public interest to take away my driver’s licence so that I could not get to work.

I think you owe an apology to all the people out there, who like me, have bene-fited themselves and our country by getting an education at such a high cost.

Marg Savery,Keremeos, B.C.

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Katie Frasch, Grade 12, SESS student Elementary students at Similkameen Elementary Secondary School dressed up as their favourite characters for Read the Most Day. The students use software to determine their reading ability and to track books read. They are entered into a raffle and also compete as teams to read the most over their classmates. Back row, left to right Emily Tucker, Lamay Boshoff, Sarah Hore, Rylee Demchuck, Alexis Ward, Sage Stewart, Cassandra Gibbs, Paris Schneider and Megan Reichl. Front row, Rajpreet Lidhar, Levi Escobar, Hannah Shore, Mathew Lee, Christine Gray, Madeline Pender, and Sadie Hockey.

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Tara BowieGuy McGunigle, right, was presented with the Sportsmen of the Year award by president Andy Barkanyi at the Keremeos-Cawstom Sportsmen Association banquet last Saturday. McGunigle has been an executive member for the last four years, a representative of the Wilderness Watch committee, budget member at large, and part of the 3-D archery program.

Tara Bowie First Big Game trophies were handed out by Norm Parkin, left, to Garrett Bishop, Caroline Brunton and Derek Brunton. They each got a mule deer this past year.

Tara Bowie Cliff Last, left, received the President’s Award for his tire-less volunteer efforts with the Keremeos-Cawston Sportsmen Association. Last was presented the award by president Andy Barkanyi.

Tara BowieRyan Brunton took down the largest bear in 2014. He received his award from Norm Parkin at Saturday’s Keremeos-Cawston Sportsmen banquet.

Tara Bowie There was a tie for Ladies Club Champion this year. Winners were left, Joan Bishop and Louise Desabrais. The women were pre-sented with their awards by Andy Barkanyi, president of the Keremeos-Cawston Sporstmen Association.


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Jetson Gibbs bagged himself the largest big game animal amongst his junior peers.

The 16-year-old clearly remem-bers the day he shot the white tail deer that had a score of 133.

“I remember I was with Doug sitting in the blind and the deer ran across the field and stopped and I shot it,” he said during an interview following the Keremeos-Cawston Sportsmen Association banquet Saturday.

It was the first time Gibbs had hunted using a blind.

The deer earned Gibbs the tro-phy for largest Big Game in the club’s junior category for 2014.

He plans to have the head mounted and turned the rest into sausages and other meat.

“It was really good,” he said. The year before the avid hunter

shot a mule deer that had a score of 125.

He’s been hunting since he was 10.

“I find it all really relaxing. It gets me away from everything and

I can blow of steam,” he said. Thirteen-year-old Zane Gibbs

had the most impressive run with awards during the banquet. The young man who joined the club about five years ago earned awards including top of the ring fire, to casting, archery competition, centre fire rifle, centre fire ring fire and the Junior Club Championship.

“I really like helping out and being part of the club,” the humble teenager said. “I like doing all this stuff. It’s just fun.”

Taking home one of the most prestigious awards of the night was Ivan Gibbs who earned the Junior Sportsmen of the Year trophy. Ivan Gibbs is the BCWF junior com-mittee chair, and a participant in the goat counts and sheep feed program.

“It’s a good accomplishment,” he said while taking a short break from cleaning up after the banquet. “I like being outdoors so it’s a good fit for me.”

Doug Boult, past president applauded all the Gibbs teens and all the other youth in the club.

He said over the last eight to 10 years the club has had a major

resurgence and that’s because of the participation of women and chil-dren.

In the mid 2000s membership had dropped to about 50 members but now is close to 300.

“They’re our future,” he said.

“It’s the same as anything if you can get the women involved you can get the family involved. We made a conscience effort to go from an old boys’ club to one that was very family orientated and youth orientated.”

The club holds a variety of events involving hunting, fishing, and conservation efforts throughout the year and does outreach through the schools teaching archery.

For more information on the club visit k-csa.com.

Tara Bowie Zane Gibbs, 13, cleaned up during the Keremeos-Cawston Sporstmen Association banquet. The teen won awards spanning ring fire, to casting, archery competition, centre fire rifle, centre fire ring fire and the Junior Club Championship.

Tara Bowie Ivan Gibbs, 18, earned the Junior Sportsmen of the Year award at the Keremeos-Cawston Sportsmen Association banquet. Gibbs is the club’s BC Wild Life junior committee chair, participates in goat counts and sheep feed program in addition to many other functions of the club. Andy Barkanyi, club president, presented Gibbs with the award.

Tara Bowie Jetson Gibbs earned the Junior Big Game trophy at the Keremeos-Cawston Sportsmen Association banquet. Gibbs took down a white tail deer that had a score of 133 in an undisclosed area in Cawston. Gibbs received the award from director Norm Parkin.


THE FUTURE OF THE ROLE OF ALTERNATIVE HEALTHCARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Within the label: “Alternative Healthcare,” there is an inherent curiosity in the terminological designation of the word “alter-native”. Even though the label itself was created to define the category, the name itself, at surface level, provides no genuine information for curious observers unfamiliar with the paradigm. The label itself is unspecific and broad, which naturally creates questions and where questions are left unanswered, mystery and subjective assumption fills the space reserved for the Truth. The alternative healthcare industry, therefore, by its very existential symbol, is destined to a fate of constant scrutiny and a repeated need for authentication. Whether the practitioner is a naturopath, herbologist, energy healer, yoga instructor or acupuncturist, the simple fact is the history of most of these skilled professions predates recorded history. Throughout all of human history, way before the Carte-sian model of modern medicine, was “alternative” healthcare; which should actually be called: Traditional Healthcare. Since the very inception of human beings settling in villages, were the village shamans that practiced within their local community. Despite the tried, tested and true traditional methods the shamans have used for thousands of years, today’s modern medical system seems to have more of an interest in new potent experimental drugs to introduce to your body and study its effects, as they still try to learn and understand and profit from their trade, as opposed to sticking with traditional healing practices. So if you stop and reflect upon the bigger picture here, you realize that today’s modern medical industry itself is actually the “alternative” to traditional healthcare. It is also worth considering the fact that, despite its repressed history, the traditional healthcare industry even still exists as a private trade. The dark ages of Europe had such a devastating effect on traditional practices, that the age’s sociological effects are still being felt to this day. The church’s war on paganism (6th -13th centuries) nearly obliterated all traditional European healing practices and forced the surviving practitioners to go into hiding, as generations of them privately lived in exile which led to being popular outcasts from their local communities. The European intolerance to traditional practices spread across the ocean and reached genocidal proportions as the obliteration of the first nations civilizations and knowledge happened in both the North & South American continents (15th-20th centuries). Even in China, the science of Feng Shui dates back to 4000b.c, yet its knowledge was strictly reserved exclusively for nobility, and was never permitted for the public to use until the T’ang dynasty around 600a.d released the information into their public’s hands, the goal being that the people would generate prosperity for themselves with it. Unfortunately, after the T’ang dynasty fell around 900a.d. all public civilians who were known to practice Feng Shui were executed, imprisoned or exiled, its literature burned, its practices outlawed and even fake Feng Shui texts were created and circulated to destroy Feng Shui’s creditability and discourage anyone from pursuing the science further... Only now, since the dawn of the information age, it’s the first time in human history information can be shared exponentially. And knowledge like Feng Shui and other traditional practices be permitted to see the light again.This article is of the copyright of OK in Health and the author; any reproduction, duplication and transmission of the article are to have prior written approval by OK in Health or the authorThese articles are provided by OK In Health eMagazine. To sign up for your free eMagazine go to www.OKin-Health.com for more great articles, events, recipes, and more. This column and articles are provided by OK In Health. Come visit HYPERLINK “http://www.OKinHealth.com” www.OKinHealth.com Your on-line community events and wellness magazineGet Connected! Sign up for your FREE monthly OK In Health’s E-Magazine.OK In Health - Your Wellness Community at Your Finger-Tips!

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Review Staff At least one area director is

being ultra tight with the public purse strings when it comes to grants in aid.

Elef Christensen, director for Area G refused a request to con-tribute to a local well-known event and youth focussed pro-gram at the Similkameen Valley Planning Society last week.

Organizers of the annual pow-wow held at the Chopaka rodeo grounds visited the SVPS meet-ing in February to request funds to help offset the cost of prize money.

When asked if he would donate $200 in partnership with Area B and Keremeos for a total of $600 to the event, Christensen said no.

George Bush, Area B director agreed via email to contribute to the event and Keremeos Mayor Manfred Bauer decided each area would contribute $300 so pow-wow organizers could still count on the SVPS for a prize.

Although the powwow is a longstanding event in the Similkameen, Chirstensen said he didn’t know anything about the event.

“I don’t know what it is so I’m

not going to do it,” he said. He also declined to provide

funding to the Ambassadors pro-gram despite being told a Hedley teen had signed up and would be competing at the event at the Elks Rodeo in May.

Although the program co-ordinator was in attendance at the meeting Christensen declined to ask any questions about the program.

The request was for $400. Keremeos had previously donat-ed $800 to the program and Bush agreed via email to donate $400.

Christensen tight with grant funds

In recent bowling action at the recreation centre Tim Austin and Wayne Ritchie earned the bowler of the week title.

Austin earned his at Wednesday night’s short league two weeks ago when he bowled a 214, 200 – 605. While Ritchie earned his Thursday Swingers action last week by bowling a 260.

Goldenagers on Wednesday morning have racked up a bunch of high scores over the last two

weeks including for the Ladies Carol Cole, 204, Ruby Cavenaile, 246 and Bonnie McConnell, 209. In Men Clyde Morris bowled 208, Bruce Crossman, 246, Paul Meikle, 228, and Paul Herchak, 242.

In Alley Oops action on Feb. 16 high scorers were Wayne Ritchie, 204, 239, Frank Shiels, 248, Jack Popovich, 250, Bruce Crossman, 207, Lester Pruden, 234.

In Alley Oops action on

February 23, Helen Wetter bowled 206, Bundie Page, 215, Elaine Ritchie, 211. Harold Desjardins bowled 250, Frank Shields, 211, Wayne Ritchie, 200, and Paul Meikle 208.

In Swingers action Wayne Ritchie bowled 254, Clyde Morris, 209, Ron Blackmore 206. On February 26 Bonnie McConnell bowled 209, Paul Meikle, 228, Wayne Ritchie, 260 and Paul Herchak, 242.

Bowlers wrack up big scores this month

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CAPRICORN: Capricorn, pressure to complete an important project will find its way to you this week. No matter how quickly you need to get things done, calmly approach the tasks at hand.

AQUARIUS: Resist the instinct to keep your feelings bottled up this week, Aquarius. Get your thoughts out in the open, and you will instantaneously feel much better.

PISCES: Pisces, you will be very productive this week as you benefit from a new outlook. Plan ahead for some magic.

ARIES: Aries, give a loved one the benefit of the doubt before jumping to conclusions. This beloved confidante deserves your trust and ardent support.

TAURUS: Taurus, expect some powerful emotions to surface when you meet a new person this week. You may be immediately drawn to this individual, so embrace the attraction.

GEMINI: Gemini, the week starts off on a bumpy note but quickly turns itself around. By Friday, you will have a smile on your face and be ready to make the most of the weekend.

CANCER: Cancer, some long weeks have left you physically and emotionally wiped out. Take some time out for yourself in the coming days and resist the urge to jump back into the fray too quickly.

LEO: A romance at work begins to heat up, Leo. This may be the perfect opportunity to find your match. Just don’t let feelings get in the way of productivity.

VIRGO: A problem dominates your thoughts as you work to find a solution, Virgo. Until you pull away and focus on something else, you will not be able to see the answer clearly.

LIBRA: Libra, you have a difficult decision to make, but forge ahead with what you think is best. Keep a level head and weigh all of the consequences of your decision.

SCORPIO: Friends jokingly suggest you have psychic powers, Scorpio. They are put to the test this week when you suspect something is amiss. Rectify the situation in due time.

SAGITTARIUS: Avoid taking a big financial risk this week, Sagittarius. Hold on tight to your money and resist the temptation to spend any money for the time being.

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Putting you in touch with the right business. Keep these

numbers for all of your service and shopping needs!

Ryan Campbell, OwnerFix Em Automotive

250-499-4422Located at 400 9th Street (Across from Hilltop Esso)

• Licensed Mechanic• Licensed Vehicle Inspector• Over 15 years experience

• Red Seal Certified

NOW A LICENSED VEHICLE

INSPECTION

FACILITY

222 Burton Ave., Princeton250-295-6938

FLETCHER Building Supplies

Farm Supplies, feed, fencing, shavings, pellets...

FEED STOREBuilding Supplies

• Accounting & Bookkeeping

• Corporate & Small Business Tax Returns

• Farm & Personal Tax Returns

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IMILKAMEEN INDUSTRIES LTD.

2064 Main St., Cawston, BC

(250) 499-7732

Truck, Trailer, Heavy Equipment and Cars

Diesel Engine Diagnostic & Repairs

Government Inspections

AC Service & Oil Changes & Tires

Open: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Monday to Friday

516 7th Ave., P.O. Box 128, Keremeos, BC V0X 1N0Tel: 250-499-2561Email: [email protected] 11 -3, 4:30 - 8:30 ~NOW hiring cook - $13.50/hour ~

Keremeos Building Suppliesis now Home Building CentreSame Great Location: 620 - 8th Ave., Keremeos250-499-5322 Hours: Mon - Fri, 8 am - 5 pmSaturday 8:30 am - 5pm

We’re still locally owned and operated!

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Automotive

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Shane Henry’s Heavy Equipment

Shane: Home 250.499.2208 Cell 250.498.9206

Clayton: 250.689.0276Troy: 250.689.0249

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

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The Village of Keremeos is offering an opportunity for a person with the right s ills attitu e uali ations an a ilities to ll the position of a ourer

eporting to the u li or s an ar s oreman the su essful an i ate will perform uties relate to general muni ipal operations

in lu ing water istri ution wastewater olle tion an treatment op-eration an maintenan e roa maintenan e par s maintenan e emetery maintenan e onstru tion an general la ourer uties

The position may require the employee to work weekends as part of a e onse uti e day work weekThe su essful andidate must ha e a rade edu ation or equi alent with a minimum of two years e perien e in muni ipal pu li works The su essful appli ant must ha e suf ient physi al strength stamina and oordination to e a le to do hea y manual outdoor la our in all weather onditions positi e attitude and the a ility to perform a ariety of tasks without super ision is a must

lass ri ers i ense with air rakes endorsement is required as is e perien e operating loader a khoes tra tors and other equip-mentThe su essful ompletion of the following orresponden e ourses offered y alifornia tate - a ramento or their equi alent is an asset:

peration of astewater Treatment lant Volume and peration aintenan e of astewater olle tion ystem Volume ther erti ates related to workpla e safety and water distri ution an as-

setThis is a permanent full-time position with wages and ene ts pursuant to the Village s olle ti e agreement The su essful an-didate will e paid either a ourer or a ourer rate depending on quali ations and e perien enterested parties should su mit their appli ation omplete with re-sume and referen es no later than 12:00 noon, Friday, March 20, 2015 to:

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LABOURER Permanent Full Time

Arlene Johnson of Cawston, BC. Passed away peacefully in her sleep on February 11, 2015 at the age of 72 years. Arlene was born in Vernon, BC on June 14, 1942 and was raised in Wil-

liams Lake and Prince George where she met her lifetime partner of 51 years who worked by her side in many various ven-tures while raising 4 children. Our mother was blessed to have spent many winters building a beautiful RV park in Arizona where they have had many treasured and happy memories. Living out her last 30 years enjoying the Windy Point Ranch in Cawston, BC. Some of Mom’s precious moments were singing Karaoke, loving and sharing her numerous pets with Dad. Arlene was a long-time member of the Royal Canadian Legion. She will be lov-ingly remembered by her husband Stanly Johnson, daughters Joanne Tinevez (Brian) and Candice Rayner (Mike Johnson) sons Rick (Nancy) and Don (Naomi) Johnson, grandchildren Alexandra, Madison, and Leland Tinevez, Cassidy and Wyatt Ray-ner and Taliah Fearns, Ryan, Dan, Wesley, Doug, and Dennis Johnson, a number of great grandchildren, as well as her mother Francis Parnell, brother Brian and sister Linda Parnell, and Arlene Webster, Evelyn Pettigrew, Edie Johnson, the Umpherville family, many friends and family in the Okanagan and in Arizona and caregiver and beloved friend Anna Williams. She was sadly predeceased by Bob and Ann Pettigrew, Jim Pettigrew, Pat Olson, and Bill Parnell. Th ere will be a celebration of life at a later date to be announced. Condo-lences may be sent to the family by visiting www.hansonsfuneral.ca .

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for a grounds worker for the district, commencing April 1 to eptem er annuall his posi on is hours per week with

a rate of pa of 1 hourl and includes a compe e ene ts package. Visit our website at www.sd53.bc.ca/employment for job descrip on and applica on guidelines. Applica on packages will be accepted un l 3 pm on arch 1 , 15. C60-2014/15.

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Help WantedRV Park just outside of Kere-meos is looking for a part time handyman, janitor, facilities maintenance person as fol-lows: HANDYMAN: Respon-sible for maintaining common areas including buildings, roadways, paths and pool fa-cility as well as care for related equipment. JANITOR; Re-sponsible for cleaning of com-mon buildings including lodge and pool. FACILITIES MAIN-TENANCE PERSON; Respon-sible for testing, sampling and maintenance of potable water system, wastewater facility and testing of pool facility. All positions require individuals who are self-starters, able to work with minimal supervision and report appropriately to su-pervisors and regulatory au-thorities. The successful can-didates must have a minimum of 1 year experience and pro-vide full resume and referenc-es. Remuneration is depen-dent on experience.Consideration may be given to individuals who wish to take on more than one of these po-sitions simultaneously. Appli-cants can email their resume with cover letter to:[email protected]

Medical/DentalMEDICAL Transcriptionists are in huge demand! Train with the leading Medical Tran-scription school. Learn from home and work from home. Call today. 1.800.466.1535 www.canscribe.com. or email: [email protected].

Trades, Technical

F/T - Millwright /Maintenance Person

Princeton, B.C.You will work on the repair & upkeep of bucking mills post peelers and wheeled mobile equipment. Must have 10 years exp. including hydraul-ics, welding & minor electrical repairs. Will have the ability to work unsupervised, be able to problem solve and prioritize jobs.

CompetitiveCompensation Package

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Trades, Technical

OKANAGANStore Manager

We are recruiting for a Store Manager. The suc-cessful candidate will have previous, relevant grocery experience. Applicants must possess excellent in-terpersonal skills, take a genuine interest in people and have a strong commit-ment to customer service while delivering budgeted results consistent with store operating standards in merchandising excel-lence, quality and presen-tation. We offer:Competitive Wages with starting rates based on ex-perience Company match RRSP Program.Benefi ts include: MSP, Dental, Extended Health, Life and Wage In-demnity.

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Home ImprovementsFULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

LandscapingEMERALD CEDARS: Direct from Okanagan Grower, accli-matized for this area. SPE-CIAL 5ft tall - 10 for $200. De-livery & planting available. Call George, Budget Nurseries 250-498-2189 or email [email protected]

Painting & Decorating

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Pets & Livestock

LivestockPOLLED Hereford yearling bulls for sale, top bloodlines. See pedigrees and pictures at www.koote-nayph.com. For more information call Ed 250-365-3270 or Murray 604-582-3499

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Heavy Duty Machinery

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40’Containers under $2500!DMG 40’ containers under $2,000 each. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift.

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“NEW LISTING”

“NEW LISTING”

Local entrepreneur has laser precisionTara Bowie

Review Staff He’s always had an interest in

woodworking but new state-of-the-art equipment allows Garry Elliott to take his skill to a whole new level.

“There’s no limit to what you can do with these machines. It’s a lot of fun,” Elliott, owner of Bandit Laser & CNC said. Elliot shares a storefront with Outlaw Graphics on 7th Avenue in Keremeos.

“I have a pretty steady hand with a router but it just takes on a whole new level with machines.”

Bandit had a soft opening in mid-January to allow Elliott time to become more comfortable with the machines and build up an inventory of unique items.

By using special computer soft-ware, Elliott can make almost anything with his CNC and laser machines.

A grand opening was held just a few weeks ago.

“Everyone has been really support-ive,” Elliott said.

Elliott has used the machines to make a wide variety of items from wooden and plexiglass signs to wine boxes, wooden business cards, tro-phies, light boxes and more.

Elliott also has an etcher that allows him to engrave on glass, metal and tile.

“We can do anything from orders of hundreds to small orders of just five or 10 and even those one-offs that people just want something etched or engraved on something they already have.”

Elliott and partner Janice Uebelhardt moved to the Similkameen last summer from Fort Langley.

The pair are both serving as direc-tors on Similkameen Country.

“Getting involved is very impor-tant. The community has been great to us,” Uebelhardt said.

Bandit Laser & CNC custom cut-ting and engraving is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit www.banditlaserandcnc.ca for more information.

Tara Bowie Garry Elliott, owner of Bandit Laser & CNC, holds an intricate decorative sign he made with special computer software and a laser machine.

The Community Foundation of the South Okanagan is a success story that benefits everyone.

The organization got its start 23 years ago, with an original investment of $200,000 from the founding donors, which included the Penticton Rotary Club, the City of Penticton, HSBC and the Vancouver Foundation. In 1994, their first granting year, the CFSO distributed $2,600 to six organiza-tions.

Today, the grants come from investment earnings on endowment funds that have grown to nearly $10 million. In 2015, the CFSO plans to award $340,000 in grants to charities throughout the Okanagan Similkameen.

“Next year, we will be well over $2 million total grants. That will be a significant milestone,” said Aaron McRann, CFSO executive director.

It’s an incredible story of growth, especially con-sidering that the group only passed the milestone of $1 million in grants in 2012. The work of the CFSO doesn’t stop with managing the fund and distribut-ing grants.

“We have been transitioning over the last number of years beyond simply grant making. We are help-ing donors and community members with a lot more in the philanthropic world,” said McRann.

That includes supporting programs like the Random Act of Kindness day, and 100 Women Who Care, which McRann describes as a giving circle combined with social interaction. They also sponsor the Vital Signs report, which surveyed communities throughout the South Okanagan and Similkameen on 10 issue areas from arts and culture to the envi-ronment and work, “taking the pulse of our commu-nities to provide citizens with a sense of where we’re at and where we might be going.” And through the Smart and Caring communities program, the CFSO has branched out to help communities create their own investment funds.

“We now have investment funds in every com-munity in our region,” said McRann. “That has been a huge success and is really the future of the founda-tion in a lot of ways.”

Community foundation � ourishes

Mark Brett Pat Currie is the beneficiary of this act of kindness courtesy of executive director Aaron McRann of the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan.

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