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Ferguson playing New doctor coming to at Blossom Fest Osprey Medical Clinic BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

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Three years ago, Wendell Ferguson kicked off the Creston Valley Blossom Festival with a musical tour de force that had the audience stomping its feet, howling with laughter and calling for more.

On May 18, he makes a return engagement and he said he can’t wait to get back to play for an appreciative audience and enjoy the hospitality that left him with such a good impression that he isn’t coming alone this time. See FERGUSON, page 28

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month to take up practice at the Osprey Medical Clinic at the Creston Valley Mall. “We are very pleased that Dr. Hopkins has chosen Creston from among many opportunities,” said recruiter Marilin States. “She has been practicing

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Arrest made at Canyon Hall party BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

A teen party at Canyon Hall on Saturday night required the use of all available police resources, Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday. The party attracted hundreds of young people to the event, which did not have a liquor licence. After receiving complaints from neighbours, the RCMP set up roadchecks and conducted foot patrols in an attempt to keep order. The music, a local resident told police, was so loud it measured 72 decibels at his home and 90 decibels on the street outside the hall. “ ‘There is no noise bylaw out here. That’s why we chose the hall,’ is what one of the organizers told one of our members,” Gollan said. Police received trespassing complaints, seized small amounts of marijuana, found one out-of-control youth who was suspected of having taken LSD, arrested a combative intoxicated male and dumped more than 100 bottles containing alcoholic beverages, Gollan said. A Canyon Hall volunteer said on Monday that very minor damage had occurred in a washroom and that the hall was left clean by the party’s organizers.

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Who: Yuri Jmaeff What: A full range of baked goods, “99 per cent” from scratch Where: Creston Valley Bakery When: Since 1986 Why: It’s what he learned at his father’s side as a child BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff Yuri Jmaeff said he’s been around a bakery for as long as he can remember. “Since I was small enough to fall into the bowl of a 20-quart Hobart mixer.” Fortunately, the mixer wasn’t running at the time. Jmaeff came to Creston from Fruitvale, where he had been running his own bakery for five years, but in a rental property whose owner wouldn’t sell. “My dad (Alex, a master baker) was in Vancouver picking up supplies and someone pointed out an ad listing a bakery for sale in the Kootenays,” he recalls. “He called me and we decided to check it out.” Jmaeff agreed to purchase the building, which had been sitting abandoned since the previous operator left town. “That was in the winter of 1986. We thought we’d be open by Blossom Festival.” No such luck — there was a ton of work to do and Alex supervised much of the renovation and rebuild while Jmaeff kept working in Fruitvale. It took eight months of work before opening day. “Dad said he would help me to start it up, but that it would be my bakery. I always remember him saying, ‘It’s not what you do — it’s how you live your life.’ That was a defining moment for me — I’ve never forgotten those words.” Jmaeff is proud to have become Creston’s longest serving “food business operator” but has some regrets about never having taken a baking course. “I learned so much from my dad, who studied baking in Chicago,” he said. “And of course, I’ve done tons of reading. I was invited to write the master baker exams by the American Institute of Bakers, but it just never worked out for me — one of the few regrets in my life is not getting the accreditation for my knowledge — it

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would be nice to have that piece of paper.” His work at Alex’s bakery in Port Alberni — where the family had relocated from Nelson when Jmaeff was a child — became more formal when he worked for several hours each morning before going off to high school. Even before that, he’d fill in if one of the other bakers called in sick. After graduating from high school he played junior hockey for a year, did a year at Malaspina College, then went to work for a construction company. “I mixed mortar for the old Italian bricklayers,” he says. “They loved my mud — it was consistent, never too thick and never too watery. When they had to work overtime they always requested that I get the extra hours, too, so I could mix their mortar!” Jmaeff smiles when he remembers reading an ad in Washington’s Nickel’s Worth advertiser when he was in Fruitvale. “There was an ad for a 20-quart Hobart mixer. I needed one so I called the guy in Spokane, but he wouldn’t tell me how much he wanted. ‘You need to come down and see it,’ he said.” Jmaeff left work that day and drove to Spokane. The owner was a retired German baker, but he still wouldn’t tell the young business owner how much he wanted for the mixer. Eventually, he told Jmaeff just to take it.

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“I’ll come up and see you. We’ll work something out,” said Henry, the baker. “About a week later, Henry and his wife, Ann, arrived at my bakery wearing their ‘whites’ (traditional bakery garb),” said Jmaeff. “Henry came into the back and just started baking with me. Ann started washing dishes and cleaning up, then she ended up serving customers!” Jmaeff began fast friends with Henry and Ann, then with their children. He would eventually serve as a pallbearer at Henry’s funeral and remains friends with his offspring. “Henry was like a second father. He shared his recipes and taught me so much.” By investing his life in the Creston Valley Bakery, Jmaeff says he has fulfilled a dream. “I was renting in Fruitvale and the owner wouldn’t sell to me. I didn’t want to feel temporary and coming to Creston was a great decision. My dad was right when he said, ‘If you want to make a business successful you’ve got to be in it for the long haul.’ “It seems almost unbelievable that on Sept. 16 I’ll have been open for 26 years.” It was a good business decision when Jmaeff decided to add a deli to the bakery business, he says. “What better way to get people to taste my bread than to get them to have lunch at my place? And the community has supported me from day one. I still have regular

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customers who came in on that very first day. And I really love to see young families come in to buy their family packs of bread — it’s a very satisfying feeling. “It still amazes me that customers might have to park a block or two away and then walk down the street to buy my bread.” Being a “scratch baker” is important to him. Increasingly, it’s something that the market is supporting, too, as customers want natural (he uses no preservatives), healthy food. A couple of years ago, he introduced a line of artisan breads, using flour milled at the Pride of the Valley Flour Mill, a non-profit enterprise operated in Grand Forks by the Doukhobor Heritage Milling Society. “That old hammer mill produces the most incredible flour,” Jmaeff says. “I’ve never used any other flour like it.” There is even more heritage in those artisan breads, too. All are made from a rye sour starter that Alex brought back in a suitcase from Russia a dozen years ago. “That was pre-911,” Jmaeff smiles. “I don’t think you could get away with that today.” Much of his bakery’s success he attributes to his employees, many who worked through high school and have gone on to other careers. “I’m always hearing back from them, asking for a reference or updating me on their life — what a wonderful feeling!” Support from retailers and restaurants is a big deal to Jmaeff, as well. He supplies locally to, in no particular order, Famous Fritz Meats and Deli, Real Food Café, A Break in Time Caffé, Jimmy’s Pub and Grill, Chatka Family Restaurant, Broaster House, Sirdar Pub, Wynndel Foods, Coffee Creek Café, Crawford Bay Store, Paul’s Superette, Wynndel Foods, Kokanee Inn and the Creston Golf Club dining room. “It’s great when I go out and see my products in other businesses — what a satisfying feeling. And it reminds me that I’ve always meant to order plastic bags with the bakery’s name on them!” To celebrate the weekly Meet Your Maker series, Jmaeff will be creating a “Creston sandwich”, using local ingredients when available. And he’s looking for a suitable name for the creation. Drop your suggestion off in an envelope to Creston Valley Bakery and the winning selection will receive a bakery gift certificate. Do you have suggestions for Creston Valley “makers” who might be featured in this series. They might be food producers, cooks, artists, musicians, artisans — if they make anything, we’re interested. Send an email to publisher@crestonvalleyadvance.ca.

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Dollar store robbed by teens, one with knife BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

Two males, one brandishing a knife, robbed Your Dollar Store with More at the Creston Valley Mall on Saturday. The males, believed to be teens, made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. One is described as Caucasian, wearing a grey hoodie, black pants and white sneakers. The second was dark-skinned and wore a navy blue Roots hoodie, blue jeans and black skateboard shoes. Anyone with information about

the robbery or the suspects is asked to contact police, said Creston RCMP Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan. Police Beat Creston police responded to 92 calls for service from April 30-May 6, Gollan said. April 30 •In a continuing saga, mailboxes on Canyon-Lister Road were vandalized. •A speeding male driver stopped on Mallory Road was found to be without insurance. He was ticketed for both infractions. •A local resident reported get-

The Creston Valley Health Working Group (Physician Recruitment) is pleased to announce the pending arrival of Dr. S. Hopkins and her family to Creston! Dr. Hopkins will be working at the Osprey Medical Clinic. An announcement from Osprey Medical Clinic will be forthcoming once the clinic and Dr. Hopkins have established her start date. Our thanks to the physicians of the Creston Valley who continue to provide excellent care to the community, and who support the recruitment and arrival of new physicians to our Valley!

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ting an email from a person claiming to be a family member, requesting money for an emergency. It was determined that the family member ’s email account had been hacked and he has been notified. •Police were unable to locate two males who were reported to have illegally entered Canada at the Rykerts border crossing. They were also unable to locate a vehicle that might have crossed into Canada near Wellspring Road. •A small amount of marijuana was seized when a vehicle was stopped by a patrol car on Highway 3A. This is described as “a no case seizure” when the amount is too small for Crown counsel to pursue criminal charges. May 1 •Police conducted a wellbeing check on an Aldrich Road female and determined she was OK. •An Ash Street resident turned in some old ammunition to be destroyed. •A well-being check on a Northwest Boulevard male found that he was in the hospital. •It was reported that 60-80 litres of jet fuel had spilled out onto the ground in the Iron Range after someone shot the cans. •Two front-load tractors were stolen from a Lister Road property. •Minor damage resulted to a parked vehicle in a hit and run on Canyon Street. •Police assisted the Nelson International Border Enforcement Team in arresting a person suspected of helping people cross the border illegally. •A male who was breaching no contact conditions on Northwest Boulevard was taken to another location. •An intoxicated female who was walking without shoes on Northwest Boulevard was arrested for her safety

and held overnight in police cells. May 2 •A female driver sustained minor injuries when her car went off the road near Destiny Bay on Highway 3A. She had to be cut out of the vehicle by a Road Rescue crew. •A Meadow Wood Road resident complained about harassing calls from Alberta. •A tractor C-frame was stolen from an Erickson Road property. •Creston police assisted Nakusp RCMP in the investigation of a sexual assault case. •A male who appeared to be very confused when he stopped at the Rykerts border crossing was taken to hospital. Gollan credited volunteers from PAWS, who arrived to care for the man’s dog. “They were very good about it,” he said. •An intoxicated male was arrested in Centennial Park and held overnight in police cells. •Police attended an Erickson Road residence to keep the peace during a meeting between a landlord and tenant. •An Elm Street resident reported a theft of mail. May 3 •A vehicle collided with two elk on Highway 3, but was able to drive away from the scene. •Police received a complaint about a loud party on 16th Avenue, where vehicles also blocked a driveway. Unfortunately, the complaint was made the day after the incident. •A collision was reported on private property on 20th Avenue South. •Police helped resolve a dispute between renters on 10th Avenue South. May 4 •Thieves broke in through a rear door of a Northwest Boulevard business and stole a small amount of cash. •Police are investigating a complaint of threats on

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Highway 95. •A Vance Road resident called to ask police to stop the shipment of shoes back to China after she purchased them on eBay and returned them because they didn’t fit. She was concerned about the legitimacy of the business. Police were unable to help. •The loss of prescription drugs was reported on Canyon Street. •The male who was reported last week of not arriving to serve his weekend in jail because he was intoxicated did the same thing again this week. He is now being held until a court determines his fate. •Three 911 calls routed through the Mount Thompson cellphone tower could not be traced. Laughter could be heard in the background, but no voice message was made. May 5 •Police are investigating vandalism that occurred during a teen party at a hall on Pitt Road. •A well-being check on a female on 24th Avenue South revealed that she was okay. •Police are continuing to try to contact the Alberta owner of a phone that made a 911 call through the Topaz Creek cellphone tower. •Police discussed gun safety with shooters and their parents after a complaint of shotgun fire at a target was received from the Blackmore Road area. •Pallets were stolen from a fruit stand on Erickson Road. May 6 •Police are investigating an assault on Highway 3A. •Thieves jacked up a vehicle on Northwest Boulevard and stole the tires and rims. •A motorcyclist sustained minor injuries when his bike went down on Canyon-Lister Road. •A “loud white Ford pickup” drove around a lawn on a Northwest Boulevard residence.

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Please be advised that Town crews will be carrying out their annual hydrant maintenance and flushing program starting May 7, 2012 and continuing for approximately 4 weeks. During this period, the water may become cloudy. Should this happen, we ask that you flush your lines by running cold water to clear any murkiness. Thank you for your cooperation during this period. If you have any questions, please contact the Town Hall during regular office hours at 250-428-2214, ext. 233. Iain Bell Director of Engineering & Public Works

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From page 1 A graduate of University of Birmingham Since Perrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first go at it, allows members to work out outBY BRIAN LAWRENCE Medical School in England, Hopkins is married Creston Fitness Centre was owned side of regular business hours. Advance Editor to Greg, who is originally from Wisconsin. The by Barbie Wheaton, then Marcus â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an important thing to keep an couple has two children, Natasha, 5 and Creston Fitness Centre has come full circle Staginnus and finally Pompu, who alternate, private gym going in the Alexander, 2. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; when Dave Perrin took the reins from bought the gym in 2004. The private area, especially for all the people who States said she first learned of Hopkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interCharleen Pompu last week, he again became facility offers many advantages, want to work out at times the rec est to relocate through a referral from Health the owner of the gym he started 20 years ago. including a keytag system that centre is not available,â&#x20AC;? said Perrin. Match BC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back then, Creston didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much of â&#x20AC;&#x153;I immediately wrote to her and told her anything,â&#x20AC;? said Perrin, who was a local vetabout our community, its culture and geograFollow the Advance online erinarian from 1973-2000. phy,â&#x20AC;? States said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within three weeks, she came Some of the equipment Perrin bought to Creston for a site visit that included some facebook.com/cvadvance decades ago still serves its purpose, augother Kootenay communities.â&#x20AC;? mented with some top-the-line pieces Pompu Hopkins said by email on Sunday that she twitter.com/CrestonAdvance bought after she purchased the facility. first saw a presentation by Health Match BC in But the gym has seen a decline in members 2008. in the last few years, both after No Boundaries â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realized that I have all the qualifications Health and Fitness opened in 2006 and after and work experience that would allow me to the Creston and District Community Complex work in Canada,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After our daughfitness centre opened last year (which ultiter, Natasha, was born in 2006, my husband, mately forced No Boundaries to close its Greg, and I started to talk about moving to doors in September). somewhere that our kids could experience To help draw in new members to Creston more of an outdoor lifestyle. Greg is originally Fitness Centre, Perrin has added a couple of from Madison, Wis., but has been in England incentives: three- and six-month new or Music by Don Macdonald | Libretto by Nicola Harwood for 10 years. renewed members get a free month at Canyon â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alexander arrived in 2009 and I reconnected Heights Golf Course, as well as entered in a with Health Match BC early last year. After draw for a weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accommodations at Perrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunday, May 13, 2012, 2:30 pm deciding that the Kootenay area might fit the bill, condo in Zipolite, Mexico (condo details at I flew over last October and toured around sevTHE PRINCE CHARLES THEATRE www.vrbo.com/397553). eral towns. Fitness has always been a big thing for â&#x20AC;&#x153;While I was in Creston I was impressed by CRESTON, BC Perrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family. One daughter, Joan, is a fitthe sense of community that came from everyness instructor in San Diego, another, Alicia, one I met. Marilin was a great host and I had Tickets available at Black Bear Books, 1013 Canyon Street, plays volleyball for Trinity Western University, the chance to meet some of the physicians in Creston, BC or by phone at 250-428-2711. and a son, Gordon, plays volleyball on the town, who gave me the impression they worked national team. hard but also had a good work-life balance and Adults $25/Seniors and Students $20 were enjoying raising their families in the valley. We think that the climate and spectacular DLC Whitehouse Mortgages surroundings will make for the perfect place for our family to grow up, too.â&#x20AC;? Hopkins will be working out of the Osprey Medical Clinic, where Dr. Raphael Elemuo, Mortgage Broker another CVHWG recruit, began to practice last â&#x20AC;&#x153;I work with over 90 different October. lenders to ďŹ nd you the best ratesâ&#x20AC;? With Deanna Ibbitson, M.Sc. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While she was in Creston I could sense her falling in love with the place,â&#x20AC;? 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FOR THE RECORD In the April 26 Advance, a letter to the editor written by Michael Bunn contained an error in fact and made unsubstantiated implications. The job titles of â&#x20AC;&#x153;municipal services coordinator, approving officer and chief building inspectorâ&#x20AC;? describe the responsibilities of one Town of Creston employee, not three. In the letter's last paragraph Bunn asked whether Mayor Ron Toyota and RDCK Area B director John Kettle, when attending events at Creston and District Community Complex â&#x20AC;&#x153;either alone, or with their wives or a group of friends â&#x20AC;Ś pay their support at the gate or â&#x20AC;Ś slide through for free on their influence.â&#x20AC;? It is the Advance's belief, and experience, that both men are assiduous in not taking unfair advantage of their elected positions. The Advance apologizes for publishing Bunn's error and implications.

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If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen to believe that globalism, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and Monsanto are the answers to the needs of people and their countries (not countries and their people), you might be wondering at the surprise and angst in the last week when voters in France and Greece tossed out their governments. Chalk it up to a refreshing display of sanity, I say. Now, let me make it clear that I am not saying that the new leaders will suddenly reverse the fortunes of their respective countries. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m too cynical about party politics to believe that. But from my point of view it is cause to celebrate that there might be just the slightest glimpse that in those countries people are beginning to reject the endless interference that the European community has foisted upon them. This wrapping together of an array of dramatically different economies and cultures was not, repeat not, designed to benefit individuals. It was a top-driven scheme supported by global corporations who wanted freer and easier movement of assets in Europe, to impose values to create a generic entity and to have ways to punish countries that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t toe the line. In our travels in Italy, we were told time and time again that the most obvious change brought about by the switch to the Euro was that prices rose dramatically. Not wages, not social benefits, not hope. Prices. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hardly surprising that a country like Greece has had difficulty falling into lockstep with Germany. Angela Merkel and her party have led the way in pushing for austerity, which is all well and fine when the policies affect only the country they govern. But Greeks have every right to resent the imposition of policies driven by a country that 70 years ago invaded their shores.

In pre-Euro days, the Greeks might not have had the most vibrant economy, but it was theirs. In their history, Greeks have been enormously influential in the arts, education, philosophy, economy and almost every aspect of orga-

Then the Greek government fell for the same line. It started to expand services â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not a good thing when your culture means looking after your family. Greece doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have oil and gas reserves or a great manufacturing sector or great tracts of land to support industrialized agriculture or multitudes of natural resources, so entering into the borrowing frenzy wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a great idea. After all, the easiest way for a government to ease the burden of debt is grow its way out of it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lorne Eckersley the same with individuals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; debt doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem like nized life one can cite. And then, a big deal if your income rises suddenly, they were being told by steadily. their leaders that they were stupid The European plan to move to a and that they had to kowtow to single currency (ask a Brit if the their influential neighbours to the United Kingdom will eventually north. What did Greek leaders do move to the Euro and you can so they could be accepted into the almost anticipate the answer: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not European Community and be bloody likelyâ&#x20AC;?) was as certain to allowed to dump their Drachmas have problems in difficulties as it and embrace the Euro? They lied, was to be popular in boom times. telling Germany and the other Planning for good times is easy, but powerhouses that they had adoptnow Europeans are learning, the ed the expected economic meahard way, that there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a simple sures and achieved the required way out of bad times. goals. It was nonsense and the Shrinking governments and cutother countries knew it. Welcome ting taxes has become such a manto the club, Greece was told. tra from the political right, which In no time at all, international has learned if you say the same banks swooped in. Here was a words over and over that eventualcountry whose people had tradily people begin to believe they tionally had a cash economy. They must be true, that it is easy to fall saved for purchases and made into line and adopt the austerity them when they had sufficient approach. The problem is that drafunds. Suddenly, cheap loans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; matically cutting spending in slow available because Greece was now economies has precious little backed by the more powerful record of success. economies in Europe and the By defeating governments who belief that there is strength in have been putting more effort into numbers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were on offer. Why doing what the big bosses want than save for months and years when they have in listening to their citiyou can borrow at low interest zens, the people of Greece and rates and enjoy youy new home or France have sent a message that car or consumer goods today? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s should be heard beyond their borthe new way, the people were told, ders. I wonder what the chances are and they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to look far that it will be heard? north to see it was true. So they Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of borrowed. the Creston Valley Advance.

This is the Life

Lojong slogan 41: Good in the beginning, good at the end

When you start your day, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good idea to take at least five minutes to think about what you are doing with your life, in general, and with the coming day, in particular. Instead of just launching into your shower and your first cup of tea or coffee, you could begin your day with something in mind beyond getting to work or getting through your to-do list. In particular, you could look at each day as an opportunity to deepen your spiritual awareness and to practice kindness and compassion. Zen students can practice this conscious living by sandwiching each day with meditation. At the end of the day, before you fall asleep, instead of just flopping into bed with a book or turning out the light and settling in for sleep, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

also a good idea to take at least five minutes to review how you realized your intention to live your life on a spiritual basis. You could begin by appreciating the times you joined

Zen's-Eye View Kuya Minogue

your spiritual principles with the various activities and encounters that day. Then you could reflect on the times when you lost your connection to those principles and acted accordingly.

The idea is not to beat yourself up for losing awareness of your spiritual values; nor is it to give yourself a medal for being â&#x20AC;&#x153;goodâ&#x20AC;?. You do not need to blame yourself or to blame anyone else. The idea is simply to take note so that you can shift your energy gradually in the direction of kindness and awareness of the highest values that you want to bring into your daily life. Living life on a spiritual basis is a lifetime journey, but that journey takes place one day at a time, one moment at a time. You cannot do anything about days gone by, and speculating about the future can be overwhelming and pointless. See ZENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S, page 7

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Fishing town contest needs votes

To the Editor: Hats off to Myrna Johnson for nominating Creston in the World Fishing Network’s Ultimate Fishing Town contest. I went directly to the site voted and made my comment. We have so many great lakes, rivers and streams to fish, let alone the beautiful scenery in the valley. I had tried last summer by emailing some of the fishing shows and get them to cover some of our great bass fishing in Duck Lake. How awesome would this be to win? Just maybe our road out to Duck Lake will get fixed so we won’t need four-wheel drive and to hold our tongue just right and cross our fingers! Everyone be sure to vote and check out www.worldfishingnetwork.com/uft. Barb Ogilvie Wynndel

Vendor to boycott Lions street fair

To the Editor: An awkward situation has arisen between the Creston Valley Blossom Festival committee, the Creston Lions Club and the Creston Valley Farmers’ Market, in that it appears the Lions club in pressuring the Blossom Festival committee (which holds the lease on Millennium Park for May 19) to restrict which vendors can partake in the farmers’ market on May 19. A letter has been received by the organizers of the farmers’ market stating that only produce or food vendors can participate, they cannot accept applications from craft vendors for this market, any applications already accepted must be returned and the vendors informed that they must apply to the street fair sponsored by the Lions club in the Spirit of Creston Square if they wish to sell their crafts that day. Where is our freedom to make choices? As vendors, we have always had the choice to go to the Spirit Square, farmers’ market or any other craft fair that may have been taking place that day. Does the Lions club really believe that telling us where we have to participate will make us change our minds? If anything, it will do exactly the opposite and we don’t go anywhere, so everyone is the loser — the Lions club, the farmers’ market, the vendors and, most of all, the customers. I would hope that through some serious negotiations a compromise can be reached

Zen’s-Eye

From page 6 But you can look at each day as a practice period, with a beginning and an end. You can realize that we create our future lives by what we think, say and do in the present moment. Each day is a new beginning. When taking

that would be a win-win situation for all three groups and not a lose-lose for everyone. As a farmers’ market vendor for many years, but not involved on any committee regarding the farmers’ market, I resent the fact that the Blossom Festival committee and the Lions club feel they have the authority or right to tell me where I can sell my craft. Any crafter has the right to choose either the market or the street fair or any other fair that may be taking place on the same day. Does this mean that a precedent will be set and the Lions club can soon be telling other service organizations that they can no longer be hosting pancake breakfasts? Yes, the Lions club does a lot of community service, and there are many other organizations in Creston that do the same good deeds but they don’t tell others what they can and cannot do. The vendors of the farmers’ market are local, belong to and volunteer for some of these organizations and spend their money in the valley. Does this not count? Some of these very vendors who have been advised that they are not to sell at the May 19 market but must sell at the street fair have paid their yearly stall fee and are now being restricted from using what has been paid for. What about loyal customers, both local and out of town, who come to the market and expect their favourite vendor to be there only to be told that the Lions club and the Blossom Festival committee have restricted them from being there? This puts a lot of stress on the volunteers of the market. What kind of impression does this leave about Creston? I have already had phone calls from Alberta asking about this year’s farmers’ market. What am I supposed to tell them? I have the right to choose at which event I will display and sell my craft, and that choice should have no bearing on decisions regarding future locations for future farmers’ markets. As a matter of principle, I will not be attending any event sponsored by either the Blossom Festival or the Lions club on May 19. I thought we lived in a democracy, not a dictatorship. AnitaSE Wellspring 2012 Fusion Creston

to our community and to the creation of a better world. Because of their work, the life of many people is a little better. We should be thankful to have people like Alex Nilsson in our midst. Alex is a shining example of an individual who has shown the rest of us what it takes to make our community and our world a better place to live in. While Alex is the most outstanding citizen far and wide, there are many more at work, and some because of him. The Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors is only one of many creations helping seniors to have a better life that is here because of Alex’s work and dedication. There are a hundred volunteers at work to make Gleaners function. Gleaners is not only helping the needy but is contributing thousands of dollars for worthwhile causes into the community. It is doing a lot for a cleaner environment by helping in reusing clothing, hardware and many other items that would otherwise be wasted. There is a long list of many other groups and individuals doing great services to our community and often filling the voids left by our governments. The arts community is flourishing. Small farmers and gardeners are providing healthy, fresh fruit and vegetable without poison and without polluting the Earth by transporting it thousands of kilometres. We are well on our way to making out valley a showcase to the world, where wealth is measured in health and happiness. The people of the Creston Valley and, it seems, most Canadians want a different Canada than the one our quasi-dictator prime minister is trying to force on us. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” That was true in Margaret Mead’s time and is true today. Henry Dahle Creston

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Where does one find a bleeding heart?

There are a few, not many, that are of the bleeding heart kind and even less, that actually are bleeding hearts. I asked someone what they thought of when they heard the words “bleeding heart”. For them, it conjured up thoughts of

Out There Ed McMackin

someone who is acting unusually emotional or sentimental towards somebody or something that is in the slightest difficulty. Well, I’ll let you deal with that while I get into something I know a bit more about. When I refer to a “bleeding heart” group, I am thinking of a small group of very delicate spring wildflowers. It’s not very often I go out of the Creston area to explore, much less write about it. However, at the end of April I did make it as far as VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver. There, as well as in the Lower Mainland, I was spellbound by the vast array of diversely coloured and showy flowering shrubs. There were masses of flowering rhododendrons, azaleas, laurels and viburnums, just to name a few, of many colors and shades. But the focus of my thoughts here is on the masses of wild bleeding heart flowers that completely transformed large patches of the forest floor from winter browns to soft pink hues. Thousands of heart shaped flowers hung from fragile 10-inch stems. While this plant is plentiful west of the Cascade Mountains (near Hope), it is found only in a few sparsely scattered locations in the Kootenays. Of course, in local gardens, if you haven’t already, you will soon find a garden variety of bleeding heart displaying its pendant, red “hearts”. It is only a slight mystery to me why this plant is called bleeding heart; however, it is a greater puzzle to me why members of this group are

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called “fumitories”. This name, fumitory, is based on the root meaning “smoke of the ground (earth)”. The only explanation I have for this group name is that some members of the group have bluish-green foliage, which, perhaps, gives the appearance of smoke. The very small fumitory family also includes several members that are not red or pink but are white or yellow. Otherwise, they have very apparent similarities. A white one, that is in the “same room” with bleeding hearts has a very contrasting name, Dutchman’s breeches. Early in April, I saw little colonies of it in shady woodlands in southern Washington. You may find it more southerly also in Idaho and also on the east side of the continent where it is much more common. It would be a rare find to spot it here; that is, not in someone’s garden. (The flower has a small resemblance to pants hung upsidedown on the clothesline).

The other significant and somewhat more common member of the “smoke of the earth” group, that you are likely to find, is, corydalis. Like other members of the group, you can find this yellow- or golden-flowered kind in open woods. Steer’s head, with a name that doesn’t seem to fit in with bleeding heart, may be found in elusive pockets in the Kootenays. However, look for another, single-flowered bleeding heart that shows off a white or sometimes pink bloom. Some members of the bleeding heart family, like corydalis, steer’s head and Dutchman’s breeches and off-the-continent varieties, just might be found, locally, in the gardens of some unusualflower buffs. So, if you have missed them, check in with your gardening friends. Ed McMackin is a biologist by profession but a naturalist and hiker by nature. He can be reached at 250-866-5747.

The art of disorder, disease and disability

I am disordered and disabled but not diseased. Now, you may be wondering what on earth this topic has to do with cultural perspectives, and as I’m writing, so do I. Perhaps as an artist, it has to do with the disability I have (multiple sclerosis is a disorder not a disease) that can often keep me from doing what I love, which is a lot more than just painting. My life has been full of disorder for several months now, with the upswing of MS leading to a downswing of ability and order. It spreads like a disease. We’ve all been told the stories of how the infirm and aged (lots of the three Ds there) in some cultures are cast out — left in the deserts of sand or ice, sometimes put out to sea. Then there are stories of the members of the community turning their backs

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Wild bleeding heart, where it is plentiful, transforms the forest floor.

on those who are not ordered, able or at ease. Shunning those whom we consider different (a fourth D) is something that still goes on even in our own culture.

standing, though I’m able now to respond with a smile instead of leaving in tears. When I was younger and used a cane, I told one person in a moment of weakness that I’d been bit by a shark while scuba diving in Australia and was still in recovery. (Thank God they didn’t want to see the scars!) They say that MS is the invisible disability, disorder, disease. Because you can’t see it, you don’t believe it’s real (this is a delusion that I still suffer from at times). Whenever I feel well, I head off hell-bent for leather because I have so much to make up for. What I have to make up for I really don’t know, because I am always, no matter how I feel, doing as much as I can. I think in the end, it is our culture’s push for perfection. The fact that we are supposed to go, go, go, get, get, get, be, be, be. I suffer from feeling like I should be on the rollercoaster — for years, I suffered from the feeling that I’m less because I’m not able anymore. Having been part of the push for perfection, it was a long fall, and took a long time to orient myself into the strange world I now live in. Periodically, I still fall prey to the wish for perfection, push myself too hard and… lose the ease in disease, the order in disorder and the ability in disability. There is a Japanese proverb that says, “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.” I think I’m on 35/36. Lori Wikdahl is a Creston Valley artist.

A Cultural Perspective Lori Wikdahl

I have spent years trying to take the “dis” out of disability and disorder and tried to become at ease with disease. It is not an easy task. I live in a never-ending cycle of wellness/ illness. Sometimes I do so well that I tell myself that I’m cured, then try to attempt and accomplish all manner of things that I’m unable to, because I’m not cured — I’ve just become so at ease with disease and become so (dis)abled and ordered that wellness for prolonged periods of time leads to a psychological war in my head, with the rational part of my brain giving in to the part of me that says, “No, really, this time I’m sure I’ve cured us. You’ll see!” Perhaps that is what this column is really about: the sense of failure that I never thought I’d get over. Even though I have accomplished many incredible things since I became disabled, I still find myself from time to time wishing I were healthy and whole. I still cringe when people offer me pity and sorrow instead of empathy and under-

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