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Town reviewing development charges BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

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Vandals hit college greenhouse BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

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College of the Rockies Community Greenhouse staff were dismayed on July 4 to find that several vegetable beds on the Creston campus had been vandalized overnight. Carrots, potatoes, beets, cabbage,

leeks, peppers and onions had been ripped from the ground. Most were dumped on the ground, while some onions and beets — the latter minus their tops — were taken. “It’s not someone who needed the food,” said greenhouse program co-ordinator Anita Sawyer, who also noted that a greenhouse’s plastic side was sliced open,

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although no damage occurred inside. “If it was, we wouldn’t be so bothered.” The biggest concern is the setback to the greenhouse’s recipients, mainly the Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors and the Creston Valley Gleaners Society food bank, as well as other nonprofit groups. See GREENHOUSE, page 17

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The Town of Creston has embarked on a review of development cost charges (DCCs), a system that pre-determines the costs of building and upgrading water, sewer and roads to accommodate new development. “This is a process that should be reviewed regularly to ensure it meets the needs of developers and the town,” municipal services co-ordinator Ross Beddoes told town council last week. Beddoes said one public meeting was held on May 31 and about 15 residents and developers attended and were asked for input. DCCs were first introduced in Creston in 1980 and included property in the extreme southwest portion of the town. In 1981, the Alice Siding area was designated as a DCC site. The most recent update was in 2009. At the direction of town council, Focus Corporation, a Rossland firm, was contracted to review the DCC bylaw, which addresses how water, sanitary sewer, storm drain and road improvements off of development sites are financed. While developers foot the full costs of infrastructure on a site, expansions or upgrades to systems away from the development are often required, at no direct benefit to the existing taxpayer. DCCs are intended to ensure developers know the full cost of proposed developments when they embark on a project. See DCCs, page 3

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From page 1 “Developers from outside of town generally consider that DCCs are an indication that local government has a plan in place and that they can operate without fear of surprise financial charges once the work is underway,” Beddoes said. Town engineering manager Colin Farynowski took council through a process in which infrastructure upgrades and their costs are identified in anticipation of new development. He explained that some of the upgrades would be of benefit to existing taxpayers as well as any new development, and that council would have to decide how to apportion the costs. The presentation by Beddoes and Farynowski was intended to provide a basis for town council as it moves through the DCC bylaw review process, which will continue with another public meeting later this summer, on a date yet to be announced. “This is very interesting and thoughtful approach to development and how the costs are allocated,” said Mayor Ron Toyota. “By working with developers and taxpayers we can prepare for the future and ensure that future developments fit with the official community plan, which is also under review.”

Who: Gunda Stewart What: Wood kiln-fired pottery Where: Her Orde Creek Studio in Canyon When: Wood-firing since 2004 Why: “I’m good at fire. I love the process.”

from Toronto’s prestigious Gardiner Museum gallery, one of the best sites in Canada for a potter’s work to be shown. But her focus is on the local market. Throughout the conversation, Stewart keeps a close eye on peepholes in the kiln and an ear on the sound, which quiets when the flames begin to die down. She is aiming for a 1,300 C peak tem-

BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff Gunda Stewart has been firing her pottery the hard way since 2004 when she, with the help of husband, Wayne, built a large brick kiln in a lean-to behind her studio. Last week, Wayne started a small fire at 6 a.m. in a seven-foot-high kiln that replaced the original two years ago. By mid-afternoon the kiln, which Stewart had carefully loaded earlier in the week, was registering more than 1,222 C (2,231.6 F), the temperature at which cone 6 bends. Throughout the process, she was pushing wood through a small opening into the firebox at a rate of a half-dozen pieces every five minutes or so. For 15 hours, the fire has to be closely tended. Since constructing her first wood-fired kiln nearly eight years ago, Stewart has fallen in love with the process, which she describes as “expensive and labour intensive”. It costs about $300 per firing for the wood, grinding wheels (for kiln shelves and posts) and grates, which are replaced every five or six firings. The wood also has to be split; for the most part, that’s Wayne’s job. An accomplished potter long before she took to wood firing, Stewart describes her work as functional, with influences from English, German and Japanese folk pottery. And in the last year or so, she’s made another dramatic change, selling nearly all of her work locally, instead of galleries around the country, “which always demand my best pieces.” “Strictly being a local potter, I’m loving it,” she smiles. “To be in a small community and to know your customers is very special. Local people are such great supporters.” Stewart admits to hedging a bit on the local angle — she’s finding it hard to say no to orders

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perature, but will work to hold it at slightly lower temperatures for “soak” periods. Inside, the heat is hardening the clay bowls, plates, mugs and other containers, melting the special glazes and decorating them with tiny marks from wood ash that flies around in the high temperatures. “It’s a fine balance between air and fuel,” she says. “Too much fuel and the kiln atmosphere changes to a dark, smoky one, which causes the black glazes to run.” Subtlety and wood firing go together like Stewart and her kick-propelled potter’s wheel in the studio. Wood firing and a kick wheel? Hasn’t she heard about electricity? Sure, but she prefers the silence of the kick wheel and the endless variations that the wood kiln puts onto the surface of her pots. “I enjoy the physicality of the work, too, both inside the studio and out here at the kiln.” She and Wayne got plenty of physical work in when they constructed the first kiln from tons of bricks in 2004. “It should have lasted 20 years, but we got bad bricks.”

The aging of that kiln was also sped up by the salt-firing process she was using, throwing handfuls of salt into the flames to create unique and hard to control surfaces on the pieces inside. That first kiln lasted five years, then the couple rolled up their sleeves and set to work on a new one, with a slightly different design. At seven feet tall and nearly eight feet in length, the kiln is no small thing. Photos on her blog (gundastewart.blogspot.ca) show her crouched inside the firing area, carefully stacking a variety of pots to eventually fill the space. When the load is ready, she stacks bricks to close in the opening, then seals it up with a mix of newspapers and clay slurry. The kiln is designed with a number of small openings that are controlled by moving loose bricks in and out to control the movement of air during the firing. Wood is burned in the kiln’s firebox with pieces fed in through a door closer to eye level. Stewart wears heavy Kevlar gloves and a face shield to protect herself from the intense heat that greets her each time she fuels the fire. So what motivated her to set aside her electric kiln and begin firing her creations with wood? “You get tiny ash speckles in the glazes and marks on the clay from the flames, which I think is very cool,” she says. “Colours are unpredictable — not uncontrolled and random or serendipitous, but not the same each time. I know that certain things will happen in the kiln — usually. But the results are always slightly different, even from one spot in the kiln to another.” The unpredictability also pops up during the firing. Her eyes open wide as she interrupts the conversation to check an external pyrometer, a second way to monitor the temperature (the first being cones inside, that slump at specific temperatures). The pyrometer temperature has dropped to 900 C. She adds wood to the fire and it jumps to 1,100, then suddenly dips to 600. Wayne comes to the rescue, playing with the wires that run to sensors inside the kiln. They have become corroded and with a little cleaning the device’s accuracy is restored. She relaxes and is soon back into a rhythm of feeding the fire and standing back to cool off. “I love fire. I’m good at fire. I enjoy the process. And I like being out here. I like the peacefulness.”

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With water levels no longer threatening homes, an evacuation alert for Peterman Road in West Creston was lifted on Friday, said a press release by Bill Macpherson, public information officer for the Regional District of Central Kootenay. Peterman Road, however, remains closed, and the alternate route off Smith Road, where traffic control remains in place, is being used. Residents should continue to be watchful around creeks, streams and their banks

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Regional fire restrictions start Friday BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

The sudden hot summer temperatures have made cool, wet weather a distant memory and fire prevention is now in focus, Creston Fire Rescue Chief Bruce Mabin said on Monday. Passing on information from the Southeast Fire Centre, Mabin said all open fires will be prohibited, effective at noon on July 13. “The prohibition is to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety,” he said. The prohibition will remain in place

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From page 1 •A business in the 1000 block of Northwest Boulevard banned a person after a shoplifting incident. •A youthful driver received tickets when he was stopped on Devon Street and found not to be displaying the required N on his vehicle. Alcohol and a small amount of marijuana were also found in the vehicle, and friends he was transport-

until Sept. 19, or until the public is otherwise notified. Specifically, this prohibits the burning of any waste, slash or other material, the burning of stubble or grass, and the use of fireworks or burning barrels of any size or description. This prohibition does not include campfires, gas or propane cooking stoves or briquettes. This prohibition also does not apply to a resource management open fire, including those conducted for agricultural purposes by the Creston Valley Grain Growers Association. Campfires must not be larger than 0.5 metres by 0.5 metres in size. People lighting a campfire must maintain a fireguard by removing flammable debris from around the campfire area and must have a hand tool or at least eight litres of water available nearby to properly extinguish the fire. Campfires should not be lit or kept burning during windy conditions, nor left unattended. Make sure that the fire is completely extinguished and the embers are cold before leaving the area. This prohibition covers all BC Parks,

ing had to continue their trip on foot because new drivers are prohibited from carrying extra passengers. July 7 •A damaged green canoe was found washed ashore on Kootenay Lake near Kuskanook. It contained a green cooler. •A neighbours’ dispute over the cutting of a shared hedge on Ash Street was determined to be a civil issue. •Neighbours complained about a male walking around

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when police determined the culprit was a youth who didn’t know he was violating private property. •A Cory Road resident complained about receiving 13 harassing phone calls from an ex-spouse. •Patrolling police stopped an erratic driver on Highway 3A and determined he was already under a driving prohibition. The vehicle was impounded for seven days and a small amount of cocaine was found inside.

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The Games special event call to become “Canada’s Tournament will most certainly be a catalyst for Shirley Lloyd 250-428-8762 or Capital” and a leader in sport tourism Surrey and future host communities to Bob Johnson & Petra Flaa, Owners initiatives. continue to capitalize on sport tourism 250-428-8768 “Hosting the BC Winter Games really and host outstanding sport events. started Kamloops’ interest in sport tourism,” said Sean Smith, Kamloops tournament capital co-ordinator. “The community was engaged and inspired and A feature presenting health related topics appearing semi-monthly we have seen that continue through the countless events Prostate Cancer we have hosted since. Another important benefit for the comThe treatment of prostate The prostate is a walnut-sized organ that is an essential part of munity is the volunteer skills cancer is dependent a man’s reproductive system. It surrounds the urethra (the tube on the stage (which is that carries urine out of the body) just below the bladder. There is that are developed with indiindicative of the spread a 1 in 8 chance that a man will develop prostate cancer during his viduals making a greater and of the cancer) at which it is diagnosed. The most important lifetime. One out of every 28 cancer deaths in men are because greater difference with every factors for a successful treatment of prostate cancer is early of cancer of the prostate. This makes prostate cancer the third event.” detection (early clinical stage), low levels of prostate-speciﬁc most lethal cancer in men. Each year in Canada another 25,500 The 2012 BC Summer Games antigen (PSA) and low tumor grade. men will be given this diagnosis. The incidence of prostate cancer will take place in Surrey from is rising and has nearly doubled since 1980. Prostate cancer has a course that is often longer than 10 years. July 19-22. Tourism Surrey and It is often remarked that many men die with prostate cancer – Prostate cancer has a higher than average occurrence in certain the City of Surrey recently much fewer from it. Prostate cancer is treated in a variety of ways groups of men. It is rarely found in men under age 50. People developed and implemented a such as surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and hormone therapy. who are at higher risk for developing prostate cancer include new sport tourism strategy afro-canadian men, men older than 60 and men who have a Many famous men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer with the purpose of attracting father or brother with prostate cancer. Certain occupations such including singers Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Johnny Ramone sport events and increase visias farmers, tire plant workers, painters and those who work with and Frank Zappa, actors Bill Bixby, Alec Guinness, Roger Moore, tation to Surrey. The strategy cadmium have an increased chance of developing this cancer. Lawrence Olivier, Jerry Orbach and Telly Savalas and politicians includes plans for facility Bob Dole, John Kerry, Nelson Mandela, and Pierre Trudeau. The symptoms of prostate cancer resemble those of the more upgrades, as well as support common and benign prostate enlargement. These symptoms Like all cancers, early detection of prostate cancer substantially for sport event organizers relate to the obstruction of the urinary tract and include urinary improves the outcome for the patient. Many men avoid seeing bringing events to the city. dribbling, hesitancy and frequency, pain during urination and their physicians because they are uncomfortable with the idea “To advance Surrey’s sport blood in the urine. The symptoms are often mild and the cancer of the DRE. 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With both of our sons and their families now living in Calgary we make the trip more often than ever, especially because Angela and I have siblings in the city and my mother also lives there. We are enjoying the new experience of staying in a brand new development in the southeast part of the city, watching it grow and change continually. Even better is the strange fact that Evan and Ryan have recently bought houses only about a block apart. When we arrive from the south on Highway 2 we are only minutes from our destination. Their homes are lovely, but more impressive is the sense of community that is already in place. The development is teeming with families â&#x20AC;&#x201D; driving in the area means being hyper-aware of kids on skateboards and bikes, little ones dashing out from between parked cars and groups of children embroiled in one sort of game or another. But it would be a mistake to think that there is nothing else for them to do but play on the streets and sidewalks. Dotted throughout this mix of single-family dwellings and townhouses are an amazing number of parks, even more than the City of Calgary requires in a suburban development. Homeowners pay more than $450 annually toward the cost of maintaining and operating the park system. Included in that is access to a manmade freshwater lake stocked with fish and a clubhouse/recreation centre, large sandy beach, kayak and canoe access, splash park,

adventure playground and change rooms. On this first hot Saturday of the year, friends and family gathered at the park for our granddaughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third birthday. While the available

It is good to be aware of the circumstances that must come together if you are to develop a spiritual basis to your life through meditation and Zen training. By attending to the underpinnings that support you on the path, you can create and maintain a strong base for realizing your highest self in daily life. You can develop greater appreciation for your good fortune, and not take it for granted. At the same time, it is also good to remind yourself that many people do not have such good circumstances. To do so will prevent you from making the mistake of judging and criticizing others. If you recognize that people need support in order to live their lives on a spiritual basis, you can aspire to provide them with the same kind of support that has enabled you to develop spiritually. The first principal support for Zen training is a teacher, someone who has practiced and studied Zen for many years. You may have first heard about Zen and meditation through a book, a movie or from a friend, but no matter where you heard about it, if you trace it back, these teachings come from real live human beings, beginning with the Buddha himself in fourth century

BC, extending through China, Japan and, finally, in the early 1960s, to North America. Without the hard work and sacrifices of many generations of teachers, you would never

drinks (and, of course, birthday gifts), and within a few minutes we were unloading everything into the garage at Ryan and Lynitaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house, Quinn was starting to play with her presents and two-month-old Wilson was nursing and being readied for a nap. As well as the large park, the area is dotted with smaller playgrounds and there are two only a five-minute tricycle ride from Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house. The community is a testament to how far Calgary has Lorne Eckersley come in planning. Quick access by car is available to gazebos had long been booked, we Deerfoot Trail and Highway 22X, the found a very nice area, shaded by new hospital is minutes away and trees, close to both the splash park clusters of shops and restaurants are and beach. My 84-year-old mom close by. And I have come to apprewas seated in the shade and she was ciate the absence of straight roads â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thrilled to be able to watch all the they curve and they wind and help activity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is almost as nice as to keep traffic speeds down, serving the gravel pit we played in as kids,â&#x20AC;? to make children in the area safer. I joked with her. The 10-12 kids With the many small parks in the under the age of four all had a great neighbourhood, families spend more time and there was so much to do time out on the sidewalks, allowing that they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get bored or end up them to meet neighbours and develin squabbles. op a social network. On the day of How nice, we thought, to have the party, Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbours were such a great 13-acre park in the heart busy working on a shrub garden of a community, within a five-minthat straddles their properties. They ute drive or walk for tens of thouhad also picked up enough edging, sands of residents. With the cost of made from tire crumbs, and mulch housing steadily rising in Calgary, it for Ryan to do a similar landscape must be heartening for parents to feature in his own backyard. Last know that they have a nice-sized month they shared the cost of the lake and beach so close at hand, fence between their yards. No doubt reducing the need for long drives similar relationships have sprouted and wasted time in vehicles to get to out throughout the community. a place suitable for families. When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not about to move back to the we cleaned up after the party, a few city after a 33-year absence, but I trips out to the parking lot were know where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be going if I was. required to load up the chairs, Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of tables, umbrellas, leftover food and the Creston Valley Advance.

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have heard about the possibility of Zen training. The second principal cause is to understand the importance of meditation and Zen training. We all have the ability to work with our own minds; it is our natural capacity. But although all people have this capacity, few act on it. Recognizing that spiritual training is both possible and important, and acting on that recognition by working with a teacher and a community of practitioners, is the second strong support for practice. The third principal cause is to have adequate social and economic support for your practice. You need to be practical. It is extremely difficult to develop a spiritually focused

mind with an empty belly. Children and families need food, clothing, shelter and a loving home environment, and it is important to establish these conditions before starting a focused practice. Once you have worked to create the time and conditions for furthering your practice and undertaking Zen training, you can join with the first two causes, find a teacher and a community in which to train and make meditation and Zen practice the focus of your activities in daily life.â&#x20AC;¨ Suggested practice: What kinds of supports do you need to put in place to help strengthen your practice? Do you need more guidance from an experienced teacher? Do you need deeper confidence in your practice or commitment to training? Or do you need to develop a more stable social or economic base to support your practice? All three of these conditions are essential to Zen training. This column is a long series of short essays exploring the meaning of the Lojong Slogans. It is inspired by the work of Judy Lief. Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Crestonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ZenWords Zen Centre. For more information, she can be reached at 250-428-3390.

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To the Editor: I always enjoy reading Lorne Eckersley’s columns. “Our Broken Education System” (June 7 Advance, page 6) stirred me, though. I had given up on changing our system until I felt that people were ready to join the cause for real change. It was extremely difficult not to notice the sadness in the column, though, as if the writer was truly ready for anything that would give a glimmer of hope for a dying society. Leadership, it seems, has been lost to humanity in a time when it is desperately needed the most. The generation that controls the planet is more concerned about saving their portfolios rather than the water, air, food, education or health systems. Truly, we are at a crossroads in history. Rebecca Huscroft, a fellow Homelinks parent and School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) trustee, and her family are friends of ours. We had a chat about the cuts proposed at a recent school function and I felt for her, as the hatred that the town had shown her was clearly wearing on her. She knows my opinion about the situation as we have stood side by side when the district tried in vain to shut down our beautiful little school. But now she is on the other side of the fence and I guess the grass isn’t so green over there. Friends, please try to remember who the true enemy of Mother Earth and all of her citizens is: the Illuminati, the Bilderberg group, the Common Purpose, the One Per Cent, the shadow government. And don’t try to give me that crap that “they” don’t exist. If humankind has learned anything in the past four years, it should be the obvious. Pure evil is what they are. Their system is set up to keep us fighting amongst each other, chasing our tails, instead of dealing with them. We’re bogged down in bureaucracy, with funding cuts, dealing with paperwork instead of actual work, and jumping from one government department to the next without ever getting an answer to the simplest problems. Who do you think is responsible for this crappy society we live in? I guess we are, because we have not banded together to cast them into the pit of death, now have we? Although I do not share Lorne’s opinion about sending our taxes to Victoria to have them doled out by the coastals, I do believe that political change is desperately needed. I promote true democracy: leaderless, decentralized, direct democracy run on the Internet with a nationalized energy policy and banking system — complete and peaceful revolution so

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that my children won’t have to worry about the air or water, the North American Union or the economy, and no concerns about getting ADHD from breakfast cereal, kidney and liver failure from genetically modified food or breast cancer from milk products. And if you think the Illuminati will be dictated to by the NDP, think again. Or do you really need to be reminded about the last time the NDP was in control of this province? Tyson Soroke West Creston

Chamber must explain

To the Editor: In his June 7 column, Jim Jacobsen of the Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce encouraged us to shop locally — a very understandable position. However, this contradicts what the Canadian Chamber of Commerce promotes while it is lobbying the federal government for free trade and more open borders. The Harper government has responded by increasing the purchasing limits in the U.S. it contradicts what the local chamber of commerce is asking Creston citizens to consider. It is incumbent on the Creston chamber of commerce to explain its position. Are you encouraging us to shop locally and/or do you support the increased competition and diversity by shopping in the U.S.? Come to think of it, this must be the same dilemma that Creston merchants face while they are shopping south of the line. Frank Orosz Creston

Moving closer to dictatorship

To the Editor: In my opinion, June 14 deserves to be called Black Thursday. That, of course, was the day — or more accurately, the night — when the Conservative majority in Canada’s House of Commons gave second reading to Bill C38, the Harper government’s budget legislation. Much has been made of the size of Bill C38, of the fact that it contained a multitude of provisions not normally proposed as part of a budget, and that was deplorable enough in itself. It meant that the House didn’t have time to debate each provision as much as it deserved.

It also meant, however, that ordinary Canadians did not have time to grasp the frightening implications of many of those provisions, to realize that Bill C38 was indeed a “slash and burn” document and, at the same time, a law that moved Canada uncomfortably close to dictatorship. On the one hand, the bill reduces or eliminates many existing federal-government functions and services, thereby making life harder for thousands, in some cases, millions, of ordinary Canadians. The changes to employment insurance are one example of that. On the other hand, Bill C38 gives the government power to ignore or overrule the decisions of commissions and tribunals that have been set up to guard against the abuse of government power or to limit the ability of such agencies to do their job properly. Here, the restrictions the bill places on the environmental assessment processes is a glaring case in point. The government defends all this on a perceived need to balance the federal budget, to make government more efficient and to help the economy provide more jobs. These are all commendable objectives but they do not require the draconian measures proposed in Bill funds for the measures C38. Indeed, raise in some cases, your group or employmay work against increased ment: firing thousands of public servants organization. and cutting public spending call dave to power is hardly likely toorganize increaseaemployment. No, what we have in Bill C38 is Bottle Drive nothing more nor less than a blueprint of Stephen Harper’s vision of ultraconservative government, which is to say, as little government as possible, conducted with as much secrecy and arbitrariness as possible. That Harper holds this vision will come as no surprise to those who have followed his political career. What does come as a shock, to me anyway, is that so many of his back-bench MPs on showed bycLosed their performance on Black Sat.they Juneshare 30 it. Thursday that Had a mere two dozen of them voted against Bill C38, or even abstained, it HaPPY would not have passed. Surely they cannot all havecanada been comfortable with the bill. Surely many of them must have daY! agreed with the Opposition MPs’ arguments and been aware of the considerable public uneasiness about the bill. Does party loyalty and or the pay and perceived prestige of sitting in the House mean so much to them? Whatever the case, although Harper must take the blame for assaulting our democracy, the “ trained seals” who sit on the benches behind him must bear the shame. And that’s really why it was Black Thursday. Peter Hepher Creston

Stop placing blame to create peace

Harvesting in the fields of Oklahoma with an all-Canadian crew, our young lad from Quebec spilled some grain on ground instead of filling the semi-trailer. He blamed himself for this misfortune. Out of the blue I told him, “Ledger, this is not your fault. We are a team. Whatever happens, it is nobody’s fault. We just put our heads and hands together, fix it and move on.” He was as surprised as I was. It was difficult for him to accept it. I reasoned with him that if there is a team, we are one in purpose, one in mission, one in accomplishing the task. We right the wrong, learn from each other, grow together. We learn how to fix things when something goes wrong. He was able to grasp this when we talked about basketball, his favourite sport, which he excelled in. Say, a player

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closest to me. I cannot change the past, but I can live this new learned principle and pass it on and around. It is never too late to change. Let us start with our spouses, kids, friends and co-workers. All can benefit from the “nobody’s fault” principle. We can make our surroundings more pleasant. Are you in any doubt? Try it. There is nothing to lose. Make it spread like a wildfire. It worked for me and it will work for you. I was the hard nut case and it helped me and those around me. Vladimir Certik Am I a dreamer? Yes. This dream came true for me and can become true for you, as well. Vladimir Certik believes that thinking somebody to blame, to point a finger at. outside the box and engaging fellow citizens *plus 3.99% nancing OAC In this erroneous belief and practice, I mayﬁbring simple solutions to complex probhave probably upset or hurt (or worse) a lems. The West Creston resident can be great number of people, including those reached at 250-402-0055.

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attoos are often associated with skulls or cherries or dice, and they can be simple or elaborate — but often generic. That’s not the case with Creston tattoo artist Gerry Eyre, who Story and goes above photos by and Brian Lawrence beyond, with many pieces looking like they’ve jumped off the sketchpad or canvas and onto a limb or torso. Detailed, and with fine lines, his work includes modern spins on traditional designs, as well as portraits

Eyre, who had long enjoyed art — “I’ve had a pencil in my hand since I was two years old,” he said — decided to attend Calgary’s Alberta College of Art, his brother saw an opportunity. “When I became a teenager and was going to art school, my brother and his friends were pushing me to get into it,” Eyre recalled. It took a while before Eyre made it happen. He moved back to Creston 14 years ago and worked in home support before apprenticing to become a tattoo artist, but never dreamed that it would turn into full-time work.

and more realistic images, much of it made possible with the wide range of colours available nowadays — he has a set of about 75. “The fine art side is way more incorporated,” Eyre said. But for Eyre, who grew up in a Christian household, it was the edginess of the eagle and flames associated with bikers’ tattoos that attracted him to the art. He did some drawings, which his brother showed to a Spokane, Wash., tattoo artist, who was suitably impressed. When the Creston-raised

Six years later, it has, and he’s built up a clientele from as far away as Fort McMurray, Alta. Between one-third and one-half of his clients are from out of town, thanks to the publicity from social networking — when one client posted a picture of her tattoo on Facebook, Eyre had nearly a dozen calls over the next week. Of course, time is of the essence for out-oftown clients, which can make for some very extended sessions — over the course of two days, a Kelowna man spent 19.5 hours in Eyre`s studio.

While bikers are a tattoo artist’s stereotypical clientele, that is no longer the case. “I have done tattoos on teachers, doctors, lawyers — people you don’t normally think of getting tattoos,” he said. Clients have ranged in age from 16 to 75, and come for a variety of reasons: to mark a milestone, create a memorial or simply have Eyre’s artwork on their body. Unlike many tattoo parlours, Eyre doesn’t simply copy stock images — known as flash — onto new clients. He designs each tattoo from scratch, with the help of his customers. “Everything is all custom work and one-offs,” he said. “I don’t mind people bringing in reference work, but I always try to put a different twist on it. “If someone wants something a certain way, even if it isn’t my vision, I’ll accommodate them. I try to visually communicate what they’re thinking.” That’s been Eyre’s goal from day one. “Even that first year, I was overwhelmed with how many people trusted me to do what they wanted,” he said. He noted, however, that he had to do many retouches to his work that year, and still does a couple each year — customer satisfaction is key, so he’s happy to touch things up. And he’s passing on his love of the art — his teenaged son, Skylar, is also an accomplished artist, who has done some tattooing himself — at the same time as he’s giving customers a one-of-a-kind experience that will last a lifetime. “People give me a lot of creative freedom,” he said. “To be able to use my art to help someone express something is great, for sure.”

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