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International co-operation limits flood damage in Kootenays BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

said, ‘Creston,’ on TV,” said TRP director Michelle Whiteaway, who nominated the program in a submission co-written by Christine Munkerud. “Everyone in Creston got behind us.”

Regional District of Central Kootenay chair John Kettle said last week that unprecedented international efforts in the Columbia River drainage helped avert potential disaster. “In the 12 years I have been involved with the Columbia River Treaty (an agreement to manage the resource) I have never seen the co-ordination and co-operation from both sides of the border concerning reaction to flows and information as took place during the last three weeks,” Kettle said. The Creston Valley connection to the Columbia River is the Kootenay River, whose headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. The Kootenay (Kootenai in the U.S.) flows south into Montana and Idaho, then returns north to re-enter Canada near the Rykerts border crossing. It empties into the Columbia River at Castlegar. Along its way, the Kootenay fills the Koocanusa reservoir and Kootenay Lake in Canada and Libby Dam in the U.S. Kettle said that careful management of water flow, especially at Libby Dam, was needed to protect property.

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Organizers of the vote for Creston campaign with Therapeutic Riding Program staff, members and friends celebrated Creston’s victory in the Kraft Celebration Tour contest last week.

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Corps to Capt. Bryanne Materi. With Lt.-Col. Kirk Jones, commanding officer of 39 Service Battalion and retired lt.-col. Phillip Sherwin joining over 80 members of the community in attendance, the parade celebrated the service of Jones to the corps over the last two years, and welcomed Materi to the corps and regimental family. Materi is a newcomer to Victoria, after having grown up in Creston. She started working with the 3005 Army Cadet Corps in April 2012. “It’s going to be a fantastic year ahead,” said the newly minted commanding officer, who works as a geography laboratory technician at Camosun College. “We’ve already made plans for canoe trips, winter survival weekends, as well as leadership opportunities for the senior cadets. … There is so much support from 11 Service Battalion, our affiliated unit, as well as the community — we have a great team.” Materi was a cadet in Creston with 1746 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps from 1997-2003. She completed her bachelor of arts degree and followed up with a bachelor of education degree from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Royal Canadian Army Cadets is a national youth organization jointly sponsored by the Department of National Defence/Canadian Forces and the civilian Army Cadet League of Canada, and encourages leadership and citizenship, physical fitness, and an interest in the land forces activities of the Canadian Forces primarily by outdoor activities. There is no enrolment or uniform fee and summer training opportunities are available for selected Cadets. For more information, please visit www.cadets.ca.

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Town to offer Local arm rebate on low wrestlers flush toilets place in BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

Creston residents will soon get a break when they switch to low flush toilets to reduce water consumption. Water Smart ambassador Claire Schadeli reported at the July 10 regular town council meeting that a toilet replacement program will be instituted. The Water Smart program is a partnership that includes the Town of Creston, the Regional District of Central Kootenay and Columbia Basin Trust. Details of the low flush toilet rebate plan will be announced later this summer.

Council Briefs •Mayor Ron Toyota thanked Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church pastor Carl Sawler for his contributions to the community. Sawler, who attended the meeting to deliver the ministerial invocation, is retiring from this position. •Creston Fire Rescue Chief Bruce Mabin was presented with a fire investigator certificate in the National Qualifications System. His training now allows him to conduct formal investigations into fires in Canada. •A $250 donation to the Cops for Kids charitable foundation was approved, with money to come from the mayor’s discretionary fund. Toyota has been a regular fundraiser for the foundation when RCMP cyclists tour southeast B.C. to raise money and awareness for the foundation each fall. •A letter from resident Michael Bunn, who chastised the town for paying for the advertising costs of a $1 annual land lease, will get a positive response. Couns. Gerry Schmalz and Scott Veitch led the discussion in agreeing with Bunn that people leasing small portions of town land should have to pay the advertising costs. •The town will donate four shirts to the Creston Valley Rotary Club for the club’s annual Drive Fore Rotary golf tournament. •A private donor is providing a bench to be placed on Cavell Street near Crestview Village. •A letter of support will be sent for the City of Fort St. John’s efforts to encourage the federal government to continue funding infrastructure projects. •Council voted to have staff proceed with the investigation and implementation of a plan that will allow councilors to participate in council meetings via electronic means. It will be stipulated that a majority of councilors will be required to attend in person in order to constitute a quorum.

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Two Creston Valley arm wrestlers placed in the Canadian Arm Wrestling Federation championships on July 1, when Adam Koenig earned third place with both arms in the 75 kg category, and Darryl Johnson did the same in the 65 kg category. It was Koenig’s second time at the nationals, having competed without placing in 2010, and his skill kept him on a track that made his victory over multiple-time national champion Perry Bruhm a bit easier. “It was kind of a surprise,” said Koenig. “I got a really good draw, and I was able to stay on the A side so I didn’t have to pull as much. … I was really calm and very focused, and in the right headspace.” About eight arm wrestlers have been meeting regularly in the valley for a couple of years, and Koenig, the Creston director for the BC Armwrestling Association, feels that other locals could have placed if they’d been able to attend, a testament to the effort they put in. “It’s something you have to work really hard at as a hobby,” said Koenig.

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Region avoided ‘disastrous flood’ From page 1 “In my opinion, we narrowly avoided a disastrous flood,” he said. “To my knowledge, never in the history of the Columbia River Treaty, have groups including the Army Corps of Engineers, BC Hydro and Fortis met daily on telephone conferences with all affected participants having input. “As a result of this incredible cooperation, Canadian parties requested, and were granted (by the Army Corps of Engineers) action that saw both Libby and Koocanusa go ‘full pool’ plus two feet.” Kettle said that this was the first time that the huge and vital Libby Dam had been pushed to hold water at a level two feet higher than what is considered its maximum. “If we had not agreed on this unprec-

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edented tactic, I honestly believe we would have had millions of dollars of damage in addition to what we suffered through the Regional District of Central Kootenay.” Kettle said the co-operation extended even further when an old mine tailing pond near Salmo threatened to breach in the last few weeks. A huge pumping effort was undertaken to empty the pond before its walls collapsed and allowed the water to enter the Kootenay River, whose waters eventually supply Spokane with drinking water. “I called (Kootenay East MLA) Bill Bennett when I learned that a problem had been identified,” he said. “Bill Bennett got everybody out of bed — cabinet ministers and Premier Christy Clark included — and told them that we

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had a big problem here. “We had people on-site within an hour.” Dozens of RDCK staff and contractors, and Cominco engineers, too, worked round the clock for a week until the situation stabilized. The tailing pond base, Kettle said, holds 15 feet of contaminants that began amassing more than a century ago from the nearby mining operation. “It contains chromates and alkalis and arsenic — we don’t even know what all was put in there over the years,” he said. As chair of the RDCK, Kettle declared at least 10 emergency orders throughout the regional district to deal with the effects of high waters and floods in the last month.

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Ontario man rescued from Goat River BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

An Ontario male narrowly avoided a tragic fate when he was swept into the Goat River current near Canyon-Lister Road on Sunday. He managed to pull himself onto a ledge and await a high-line rescue by Canyon-Lister Fire Department volunteers. “He was extremely lucky,” Creston RCMP Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said. “No one should be getting close to local rivers with the high waters continuing as they are.” The rescue was made more challenging when two males at the scene confronted police officers, challenging them to fight and refusing to leave the site when requested. The males did not want the rescuers on the property, Gollan said. The pair could face obstruction charges.

Wynndel female recovering after being run over in her yard BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

A 22-year-old female is recovering from injuries sustained when she was driven over by a pickup truck in her yard in Wynndel on July 9. Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday that the woman suffered a broken hip, and collarbone and back injuries. She was flown to Cranbrook for treatment by helicopter ambulance. “This was a completely freak accident and no charges will be laid,” Gollan said. The driver, a construction contractor working at the residence, was leaving the yard when his vehicle went over the woman, who was sunbathing at the time. “Our members recreated the circumstances of the incident and determined there was no way the driver could have seen the woman, given the terrain and vegetation,” Gollan said. “As you can imagine, the driver is extremely distraught.”

Police Beat Creston RCMP responded to 81 calls from July 9-15, Gollan said. July 9 •A vehicle parked at Twin Bays was keyed. Millennium Park will be •A vehicle parked on 11th Avenue North was to the public walked on, denting the hood and roof. •A gas can was stolen from a residence on Saturday July 21, 2012 Newman Street in Kitchener. 12:30-4:30pm due to a private booking •A male was arrested for breaching a noThe Meyer-Gullekson Wedding contact order. •When police stopped an erratic driver on Highway 3A, a subsequent search of the vehicle I need a volunteer ad in Gleaners revealed a large quantity of for a variety of illegal Council Procedures anddrugs. The driver for notmen having a Gleaners Too.wasAticketed few good valid driver’s licence and the vehicle was seized. Amendment Bylaw needed Gollanfor saysGleaners charges are Too. pendingJoin with our regards to PUBLIC NOTICE the drugs. family of volunteers etc.

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that it intends to amend the “Council Procedures Bylaw No. 1647, 2006”. The proposed amendment will allow a maximum of two Council members at one time, with the authorization of the Mayor, to participate in Council or Committee meetings using electronic means. Council Procedures Amendment Bylaw No. 1779, 2012 may be inspected at Town Hall, 238 – 10th Avenue North, Creston, BC, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, with the exception of statutory holidays from: Thursday, July 19, 2012 to Friday, August 3, 2012. Inquiries respecting the proposed Bylaw No. 1779, 2012 may be directed to: Bev Caldwell Executive Assistant Town of Creston

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•The driver of a 1997 Toyota Corolla was offended when she was stopped for transporting two dogs in the open trunk on Northwest Boulevard. She said she was only going a short distance. •Parents reported that their adult child destroyed his laptop in their 44th Street residence. •A complaint about unwanted kittens at a McDonald Road residence was referred to the Pet Adoption and Welfare Society. July 10 •An elk walked away from the scene after being struck by a vehicle on the Placer Creek Forest Service Road. The vehicle sustained severe damage. •When police responded to a complaint about assault with a weapon, the victim refused to cooperate with the investigation. •Police received a complaint that traffic cones had been taken from a pickup truck and spread around Canyon Street “for the third year in a row.” •Solar lights were stolen from fence posts on Sixth Avenue North on July 7 and strewn around the area. •A Kindle and running shoes were stolen from a locked vehicle. •Inadvertently sending a suggestive photo to an unintended party ended up with the offending female being threatened. •Two females who got into a consensual fight on the previous weekend at the Canyon-Lister gravel pit were warned about their behavior. •When police got a complaint about an assault with a weapon from a Seventh Avenue North address, they found the call had been made by an intoxicated female who wanted a sober person removed from the residence. She said she made up the assault with a weapon story to get a faster response from the police. It worked, but she also spent the night in police cells and was released when sober. July 11 •A Sanca Creek resident who was selling a property privately got a call from the supposed buyer who said his vehicle had broken down and he needed $800. The resident wired the money and the buyers deny any knowledge of the call. •Police are attempting to locate a driver who failed to stop for a pedestrian on Canyon Street. •A semi driver was ticketed for failing to yield when his vehicle collided with a car on Highway 3A. Minor damage was reported. •A white four-by-four post with a house number was stolen from an Erickson Road residence. July 12 •A fight between cousins on

Canyon Street and 16th Avenue was reportedly consensual. •A shoplifter has been banned from a Highway 3A store. •A Highway 3 resident reported to Osoyoos RCMP that his grey 1988 Chevy Blazer was stolen in Creston two years ago. •An Erickson Road male complained that his parents wouldn’t provide him with money to buy drugs. •A resident of the 400 block of Canyon-Lister Road is hoping the owner of five cows roaming the area will round them up and keep them fenced. •Four youths were reported to be on the Adam Robertson Elementary School roof, “a very unsafe thing to do,” Gollan said. July 13 •A 25th Avenue South resident complained that a neighbor placed dead birds and cat feces in her yard. The neighbor said he did so last year, but not this year. •Anyone with knowledge about someone shooting gophers in the Goat River Road area is asked to contact police. There are many residences in the area and it is illegal to shoot any firearm within 300 yards of a residence. •A McDonald Road resident complained about a neighbour’s child crying in one of a series of complaints in an ongoing dispute. •A cellphone call from a lost female in the U.S. was transferred to Bonners Ferry police. •About 100 vehicles were stopped in a roadside check on Canyon Street at Pine Street. One impaired driver was issued a 90-driving prohibition and the vehicle was impounded for 30 days. Two tickets were issued for open liquor in a vehicle, a small amount of marijuana was seized and one seatbelt warning was given. July 14 •The traffic lights on Highway 3 at the bridge repair site near West Creston were reported to be not working. •A motorcycle driver sustained minor injuries when he collided with a deer on Highway 3A near Kootenay Bay. •An erratic driver stopped on Highway 21 was found to be intoxicated. His licence was suspended for 90 days and the vehicle was impounded for 30 days. He was held in police cells and released when sober. July 15 •Two siblings in a dispute about a Canyon-Lister Road property inheritance were informed the issue was civil, not criminal. •A break and entry to a Ninth Avenue residence, while the resident was home, netted a thief a bag of clothing, an LG cellphone and an Xbox connection cord.

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Kettle in politics for ‘good of the people’

Who: John Kettle What: Chair of Regional District of Central Kootenay, Kootenay East Regional Hospital Board, Ktunaxa Kinbasket Treaty Council Where: Represents RDCK Area B, lives in Creston When: First elected as Area B director in 2002 Why: He wants “to leave it better than we found it”

with recycling and environmental issues. At the age of 25, in Couer d’Alene to visit an old friend who had become a Coors distributor, Kettle took advantage of his proximity to Canada to come north to Kootenay Lake for a holiday, but not before “filling up my car with pizza and winter supplies.” (It was summer, but Canada was north.)

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When a huge clap of thunder startled the dozens attending rain-soaked Canada Day festivities at the community complex this month, it had an even bigger impact on John Kettle. The first instinct of the four-term Regional District of Central Kootenay director was to run for cover. “I’ve been shot at too many times,” he said, when he regained his composure. Kettle wasn’t talking about the potshots regularly aimed at elected officials — his reference was to his two tours of duty in Vietnam in 1966-67. The Texas drawl came later in life. He was born and raised in a public housing project in Denver, Colo. “I learned to fight when I was pretty young,” he says. “It was a tough area.” His mom eventually moved her family to the suburbs, where he was “average in academics, because I was lazy.” Attending the University of Colorado didn’t exactly float his boat, either, so he packed it in to go to work. He landed a job with Coors Industries, in the public relations department, which led to his first opportunity to visit Canada. He was sent up to explain the effect beverage container taxes were having on the brewing industry. Coors took a different tactic, voluntarily implementing its own Cash for Cans program and developing an industry-leading recycling program for glass and aluminum. He acted as spokesman for the giant brewery in all matters to do

John Kettle His first stop after crossing the border was at the Sirdar Pub, where he was surprised to find men and women drinking in separate rooms. “I asked the men how they met women,” he laughs. He camped at Gray Creek. “I sat and looked at the lake and the mountains and I thought that I would always come back,” he recalls. “That was about 40 years ago and I haven’t missed many chances to return.” With Coors, he eventually became vice-president of Coors Glass, the largest glass plant in the world, producing 1.3 million bottles a day. In 1974 he accepted a job offer from a persistent entrepreneur in El Paso, Texas. “I’d never been to Texas and I didn’t want to go, but the offer was too good to resist.” His job there was to travel as a representative for oil and gas sales, mostly into Mexico. “Eventually, I started my own company and we (he and his wife, Marilyn) embraced Texas as our own state,” he

says. “Our four kids were born there.” During a downturn in the economy in the 1970s, Kettle made the decision to move north into Canada “and I’ve never looked back. I decided to chase my dreams instead of chasing the dollar.” John and Marilyn raised their family on a ranch they had purchased at Meadow Creek, near Yahk. Kettle ran a guide-outfitting business and raised cattle. “Marilyn and I got involved in community activities and I fell in love with hockey,” he says. “I can organize and I can raise money, so it was a good fit.” He worked with the NHL hockey hall-of-famer to form the John Bucyk Honour Role “to make sure kids were as good off the ice as they were on.” In 1996, he became a citizen, and in 2001, with the encouragement of former Nelson-Creston MLA Corky Evans, ran for a director’s position on the Regional District of Central Kootenay board. “It was a four-man race and I did win, and I’ve been working my butt off ever since, quite frankly,” he says. In politics, he admits, big wins are rare, “but you keep moving forward for the good of the people. “If you need thanks for what you do, don’t run for public office. I just try to do the best job I can. You won’t make more friends the longer you are in office, but you will make more enemies. People don’t remember the 19 times out of 20 they were happy with what you did, just the one time that they weren’t. I volunteered for this, though, so I can’t complain.” Now in his fourth term, and 10th year, of office, Kettle has become a major player on the local political scene. He chaired the administration and finance committee on the RDCK board before accepting a nomination to run as board chair. He is now serving his second year at the head of the table. And he’s only the second ever Creston Valley resident to assume the chair’s position. Kettle also made local history by becoming the first ever Creston Valley representative to serve as chair of the Kootenay East Regional Hospital District, which oversees capital spending in the area by the Interior Health Authority. If Marilyn, his wife of 40 years, worries about seeing too much of her husband, she can relax now that he also has become chair of the Ktunaxa Kinbasket Treaty Council, with which Kettle can put his many provincial and federal political connections to good use. “I’ve learned that you really don’t have a private life when you hold

Prize allows TRP upgrades

From page 1 “Anybody who could walk, talk or breathe,” added Myrna Johnson, who promoted the contest and even stayed overnight at the College of the Rockies, which offered its computer labs for the 24-hour voting period that started 9 a.m. Monday morning. The TRP has about nearly 40 members aged five to 80, and the $25,000 prize will be put toward increasing safety and accessibility in the form of a permanent washroom facility would replace the portable toi-

let, an upgraded mounting ramp, a solid floor in the tacking area and a new horse, allowing more riders to take part. With only a week between the announcement and voting, Johnson and Whiteaway launched into action, promoting the contest through the TRP’s Facebook page, mass emails and in person. It worked, with more than 1,000 hits on the contest’s page, gocreston.ca, on Monday, and the TRP’s Facebook likes more than doubling from 50 to 115

— not to mention votes coming in from Australia, Bermuda and the Philippines. “Even if we lost, the PR for the program was incredible,” said Whiteaway. “It got to people’s hearts. It’s not just one part, it’s the whole community.” Despite Kimberley’s loss, the publicity generated should go along way to promoting the region as a whole. “We won the money, but the Kootenays won overall because of the exposure,” said Whiteaway.

public office,” he says. “When you go to the grocery store and restaurants and the like, you will get the good and bad, but you won’t be ignored.” “Don’t worry about the mule,” he says, unable to let a conversation pass without a Southern aphorism, “just load the wagon.” (Creston town manager Lou Varela was still laughing the next day when she thought of Kettle, embarrassed by the town’s presentation at a meeting, saying, “I feel like we brought a knife to a gunfight.”) Politics at any level, Kettle says, is not for the faint of heart. On the downside, he says, there are negative impacts on marriages and family life. “But my guiding principle is to leave it better than we found it,” he says. “If you can do that, you’ve succeeded.”

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If there is anything we should be able to agree on this summer it is that we are extremely fortunate to have a remarkable network of â&#x20AC;Ś letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call them professional volunteers in our province. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking particularly about search and rescue and firefighting teams. In the police news elsewhere in this issue is a small item about an Ontario man, here apparently in anticipation of the fruit-picking season, being plucked from the steep rock walls beneath CanyonLister Bridge. He had been swept into the still high and rushing Goat River and, luckily, was able to get himself onto a ledge, where he clung until firefighters were able to conduct a high-line rescue. Facebook friends report that another such rescue was necessary on Monday night. Making national news has been the horrific slide at Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Landing, the tiny Kootenay Lake community that has lost four of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reported 35 members. Dozens of search and rescue volunteers from around the province swarmed to the scene last week when the emergency call went out. Many stayed even when it was announced that the site had been redesignated as a recovery scene, not a search and rescue operation. There is no magic in what happens before these volunteer professional men and women arrive at an emergency. Hours and hours and hours of training take place on a regular basis, time stolen from fami-

ly activities and the pursuit of other personal interests. Several years ago, I was working on a story about air search and rescue and I got a first-hand look

willing to carve time from their busy lives to become an asset to their team of choice. Locally, I would guess that these volunteers exceed a hundred in number, people who sit through endless meetings and put in classroom time and training sessions that simulate events, all necessary so that when that emergency call comes they are ready and able to contribute. They do so knowing that Lorne Eckersley there is danger. I think of the hours I spent in the at some of the training volunteers Goat River Bridge area two years undergo. On that particular day, I ago to witness the efforts it took to boarded a plane with spotters who retrieve the drowned body of a were combining training with an search and rescue volunteer who ongoing effort to find the wreckage died in a mission to recover a car of a glider of a pilot who had gone that had gone off the highway. She missing the previous year. As I and her team had no way of knowlooked down into the heavily ing whether the driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body was wooded mountainsides I felt like in the vehicle in the rushing, my eyes were going to pop out of muddy waters. The effort claimed my head as I strained to be the one her life and the site was filled with who would catch that first glimpse incredibly sad volunteer profesof the downed aircraft (it was sionals who went about their work eventually found by hikers, as I knowing that it could have been recall). In looking at the landscape any one of them that had their life in that way, I came to appreciate cut short by the dangerous work just how daunting our provincial they do. geography is. The adage about Each year we designate days to finding a needle in a haystack recognize these volunteers and to came to mind as I looked down thank them for what they do. But upon millions of trees and range we should never pass the opportuniupon range of mountains. ty to give them our personal thanks. Most search and rescue and fireWe live in a community in which we fighting volunteers are not the stefeel safer knowing they are among reotypical thrill seekers and adrenal- us. Saying thank you is the very in junkies. Most are just everyday least we can do. folks who want to contribute to the Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of safety of their community and are the Creston Valley Advance.

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Before July 12, most people never calls and thankfully were able to conheard of Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Landing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just nect family members. the way residents there preferred. As I was fielding calls from media, Remote, with one road in and out, my staff were working on getting me no cell service and only the CBC home and up to Kaslo as soon as posover radio airwaves. Beautiful with scenic views of Kootenay Lake and the mountains, glacier fed creeks and birds singing in the trees. By the six oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock news on July 12, however, the whole nation knew about Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Landing because something Michelle Mungall terrible happened. A massive landslide came down the mountain in mere seconds, clear- sible. I finally arrived early Friday ing trees, boulders and houses in its evening after a briefing from the minwake. People ran, but some couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. ister responsible for the Provincial At the time of writing, four people Emergency Program, as well as my remained missing, hopefully alive, staff, who had been on the phones after being trapped in the landslide. constantly with north Kootenay Lake Petra Fresche, Valentine Webber and residents and various emergency serhis two daughters Rachel and vices. Once at Kaslo Search and Rescue Diane. central command centre, I was put to From here, I can only tell the story work. Asked to help SAR source a few from my point of view, as your MLA. items from the community, I got on I was in a taxi leaving a meeting the phone and was so grateful at the when I checked my BlackBerry for quick responses with some large new emails on Thursday afternoon. items, such as a deep freeze. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I saw what had hapThe following day, I met with resipened. My office immediately kicked dents who had been evacuated and into high gear and our first service with emergency social services. Some was to let people know that they people have lost their homes and the could call us with any questions and items that tell the stories of their lives that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take a list of people from and family histories. One woman anywhere in the world unable to get told me how she lost her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hold of their loved ones from jewelry, and her laptop with photos Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Landing. We received some and a book she was writing. She and

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her husband literally ran with the clothes on their backs. Another young couple with a threeweek-old baby have a farm. While it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t destroyed directly by the slide, the farm has no water now, as the slide happened in Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Landingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water source, Gar Creek. This young family is facing the loss of a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s income because they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work their land right now. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also been in contact with residents still in Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Landing. They couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get regularly updated information because the power was out and they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a battery powered radio. A friend was going over Sunday afternoon, so I arranged to get them a radio. In such circumstances, you see tremendous grief, sadness and trauma. You also see a community come together and support each other without question. You see search and rescue professionals and volunteers from all over B.C. leave their families to get on planes and drive all night to help people in our part of the world. For this, I can only express my eternal gratitude. For information on how you can help, please contact my office at 1-877-388-4498 or Michelle.Mungall. MLA@leg.bc.ca. Michelle Mungall is the member of the legislative assembly for the Nelson-Creston provincial riding, and is the Opposition critic for advanced education, youth and labour market development.

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Where is the old Canada?

To the Editor: It always warmed my heart every Canada day to see the crowds in Ottawa cheering and waving our beautiful maple leaf flag, expressing their love for Canada. I, too, love my Canada very much. This year, it is for me a sweet-sour celebration. I am asking Prime Minister Harper, “Where is my Canada?” The highly respected Clayton Moore, CM, QC, said what I also feel, “Canada has become a country that I barely recognize. Since when did this country bully charities, trash environmental laws, thumb its nose at the international community and silence its own citizens?” Together with the powerful corporate interest, the rich and mighty Harper is making the Canada we know and love unrecognizable — democracy be damned. Harper’s contempt for Parliament, democracy and his rule by ideology cannot go on forever. The government is entrusted to act on behalf of its citizens and every voice should count. I am one of many Canadians that have experienced dictatorship and am thankful that I could find refuge in this generous country. It is my hope that Canadians will come out of their apathy and complacency and resolve to bring back the Canada we know and love. Canada’s brave soldiers have fought and died to preserve freedom and democracy. Henry Dahle Creston

Canada not part of U.S.A.

To the Editor: (Open letter to Kootenay-Columbia member of Parliament David Wilks) I was one of the protesters attending the Creston flag raising on July 1. I was surprised to see our flag raised on a derrick mounted on a truck. Perhaps that was because we now have a more American-controlled border, due to Stephen Harper’s cozy relationship with the Americans. I am referring to the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement (or whatever it is being called these days to try and throw Canadians off the track). I guess a moveable flag system is a good idea as we become less and less Canadian and more and more under the influence of the Americans and the current Conservative government, which appear to be, at times, one and the same. With the changes to our sovereignty due to Bill C-38, under the guise of security, our borders are now American borders, not Canadian. I am not saying anything meant to be derogatory about the good old U.S.A. I am just saying that Canada

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should not be considered annexed by it, either bit by bit or all at once. I wanted to make sure, Mr. Wilks, that you were aware of the words on the banner those of us protesting at the “flag-raising” were carrying, because it was raining heavily and you may not have seen it clearly. It stated, “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” (Albert Einstein) We were referring, of course, to your failure to stand up as you initially indicated you wanted to, against the passage of Bill C-38. Pat Martin Canyon

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what time it is in Sandpoint or Nelson. And why should we align ourselves with Cranbrook when I and many of my acquaintances in this town have more business with Nelson or Sandpoint, both of which use Pacific time? If we were serious about saving the town money, perhaps we could refrain from resurrecting dead issues and start moving forward with new proposals to enrich the valley. Gary Eisele Creston

Home-school remarks Daylight time offend mom not an issue and student

To the Editor: (Re: “Valley should consider time change”, July 5 Advance, page 6) If Coun. Judy Gadicke could change anything in the Creston Valley it would be adopting daylight time? Instead of working to improve the local economy by bringing business to Creston, Gadicke has revived the groundless argument of saving electricity by moving to daylight time. There are plenty of real issues affecting the citizens of Creston that require council action, so why bring up daylight time? Broadening our economic base from two or three sawmills and one brewery surely is a more pressing issue than saving some daylight time. How many empty storefronts in the downtown core are required before we see some inventive thinking? Gadicke claims 25 per cent of a household’s electricity is consumed by lighting and small appliances. But she neglects to tell us how much of that electricity would actually be saved by moving to mountain daylight time (MDT). If the supposed benefit of MDT is to use sunlight to light one’s tasks rather than electrical lighting, I fail to see how using my stove at 6 p.m. rather than 5 p.m. will save any electricity — it is on for 20 minutes every day regardless. In fact, the estimates I’ve found indicate that there are no savings in electrical usage in the real world by moving to daylight time. There are real world dangers to daylight time, as people in the transportation industry are all too well aware. Every year when moving forward in the spring, we get one hour less sleep — and automobile accidents rise. We already live in an area where inattention at the wheel can have serious consequences, so why should we increase the odds of an accident? Workers on the Monday following the spring time change also experience an increase in job related injuries. Gadicke complains of the complications with making appointments elsewhere; however, we live on the border of a time zone and there will always be mental arithmetic involved when crossing to another zone. If we align ourselves with Cranbrook, we’ll be wondering

To the Editor: (Re: “Parents to pay for out-of-catchment busing”, June 28 Advance, page 1) I was saddened by Annette HamblerRaiseanti-home-school funds for Pruden’s blatent comyour group ment, “This could push or parents into home-schooling. Then, when that organization. doesn’t work, Call the children Dave to come back into the public organize school system and we all a have to pay toBottle help them catch up.” Drive Are you really saying all homeschooled children fail, Annette? Part of your platform (I was at Prince Charles Secondary School when you read your speech) was the fact that you personally helped Homelinks from being shut down, that you wanted good/ fair/quality education for everyone and choice of education. Your quote in the June 28 paper was incredibly insulting. CLOSED There are hundredsonof homeSat. June schooled children in 30 the Creston area, and how can you presume that homeschooled children fail? Good grief. HAPPY What information are you basing your CANADA facts on? What an awful thing to say. If people are willing to take their DAY! children out of public school and home-school them over a $20 bus fee, then their confidence in the public school system is not very high. We don’t home-school because it’s easy. If I wanted easy, I would put my child in public school. I want amazing, enriched, incredible, challenging, stimulating and fantastic. Home-schooling is hard work. Home-schooling is a commitment. I think more people should homeschool, or at least try it. What a way to truly meet, know and enjoy your child. Julie Matthews Creston To the Editor: (Re: “Parents to pay for out-of-catchment busing”, June 28 Advance, page 1) I am seven years old and I am a home-schooler. I don’t think it is fair that you (school district trustee Annette Hambler-Pruden) are saying that home-schoolers are not smart. I am smart and so are my friends. Maisie Matthews Creston

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Creston can have Program lets seniors flourish say in consultations

We attended the annual gar- ests of seniors in British den party hosted by Janeen and Columbia. On Feb. 14, the provGord Hansen last week. Every ince released Improving Care for year this family hosts the most B.C. Seniors: An Action Plan and wonderful meal and afternoon included the opportunity for for the Therapeutic public input into Activation Program the role of a seniors’ for Seniors folks at advocate. Several their beautiful proppublic consultations erty. It has become have been held an annual tradition throughout the that the staff and province to receive volunteers look forfeedback to define ward to as much as the role of a seniors’ the seniors. Janeen is advocate. Written Clara Rushka’s Terry Nowak submissions are daughter. Clara is a being received until long time and very busy TAPS July 31. Now it is time for Creston member, and a very proud moth- to have its say. er. Thank you Janeen, Gord and What do you, or the group you your family and friends who did are part of, think the role, purpose so much work. Other trips into and key functions of a seniors’ the neighborhood are planned advocate should be? How can the and with our buses running well seniors’ advocate work with existand the picnic boxes packed, we ing organizations currently offerare ready to go. ing services to seniors? What would Congratulations to Creston’s be the best ways for the seniors’ Therapeutic Riding Program on advocate to meet the needs of our winning the Kraft Celebration community? If you have suggesTour. We are looking forward to tions that you want forwarded to the Kraft/TSN community party the people developing the office of to be held here in August. Several the seniors’ advocate please forTAPS seniors contributed to this ward them to me. I will include cause by voting on the computers them in a submission coming from at TAPS. It is amazing what this TAPS and others in our communitough little town of ours can do. ty. Forward your suggestions to Speaking of what our town crestontaps@shaw.ca. can do… Do you know that the This is another opportunity provincial government has com- for Creston to work together to mitted to establishing an office the advantage of all of us. Let’s of the seniors’ advocate? The take it! purpose of this office will be to Terry Nowak is an outreach worker support a better approach to with the Therapeutic Activation addressing the issues and inter- Program for Seniors.

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Rosey (not her real name) came to the Therapeutic Activity Program for Seniors (TAPS) unable to make a decision herself, shy and withdrawn, unable to know what joy felt like, or what it was to feel loved and respected. She had been in a highly abusive relationship for 56 years, locked in her own home surrounded by a tall fence and spiked gate and guarded by a German shepherd trained to be ferocious. She had one pair of shoes and her clothes were in rags while her husband dressed in warm new clothes. When it was recognized that she had severe hypothyroidism and her health was rapidly going downhill, her daughter managed to get her to a doctor. However, her husband refused to allow the prescription renewal. It was not until after her husband died, when she was 85 that Rosey’s life began to change. It took a while to overcome the anger and paranoia built up over that long and soul-destroying marriage. To her great credit, Rosey has now completely changed her view of life. She lived with her daughter for a while and then moved into her own apartment. Realizing she could buy what she wanted to eat and wear was a novelty. Then came her introduction to TAPS. At first, she was too afraid to be with all those people. She had had no friends and no social interaction, except under great

duress. She didn’t know what to talk about, how to interact. Through her bright mind and observation, the caring and support of TAPS staff and members, a new Rosey began to bud.

Wow, interesting last week or two, eh? I suppose the big news was the successful competition in the Kraft Celebration Tour, where the outcome was as it should be and Creston’s Therapeutic Riding Program won the $25,000 prize with a little help from their friends. What good friends too, as they generated over 171,000 votes in 24 hours, and apparently a community barbeque which will be announced in later weeks with all the details. As I have professed before, people that don’t think we have a great community and pull together when needed — time to reevaluate. Also in the “as it should be” column, soccer camp ran last week down on the Alec Nilsson Field and for as long as I can remember; it is the hottest time of the year. There have been times over the past years where the week might start out in the rain but somewhere along the line it turns smoking hot and kids crowd under the patch of shade from the tent like ants on an orange peel. Everyone has a great time, mind you, but it’s kind of eerie that we can control the weather by the way we program soccer camp. Also, in the recently ultra-cool department were our Creative Art Adventure camps artfully instructed by our own Lisa Viola and craftily assisted by Susan

Duske, whom you may recognize as our child-minding guru. Lisa, more commonly attired in lifeguard red and often seen carrying a rescue tube, had taken a

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Today Rosey can’t imagine life without TAPS. She enjoys choosing her own clothes and looking attractive. She has made friends and is always happy to help someone at TAPS. Her warm smile reveals that she is happy and has blossomed into her true self. At 91, she has also discovered the joys of dancing and is a member of the TAPS choir. She recently admitted that she feels she is beginning to enjoy life. On a recent outing in a TAPS bus, she blew kisses to everyone as they climbed on board. TAPS staff and volunteers have created a centre for nurturing and healing, as well as socializing and providing nutritious meals and activities. Everyone who comes to TAPS, whatever their background, is enfolded into a loving, caring “family”, and shown dignity and respect, the recipe for heal-

ing and transformation. Another example of transformation through TAPS involves a gentleman who was non-verbal following a stroke. We will call him Tony, and he was always beaming, even though he had to be helped in many ways. He expressed his appreciation with that wonderful smile and kind eyes. The gentle and caring way everyone is treated at TAPS, helped him retain his dignity and pride. He gradually became more confident and able to look after himself. It was obvious that he understood well, and in subtle ways would express his opinion. One day, Jill Fehr asked him to dance, and so began another successful venture for him. After a while, he walked over to Jill and asked her with his smiling invitation, to dance with him. When we feel loved and accepted unconditionally, we feel safe enough to extend our boundaries, act differently without fear of rejection, one of our biggest fears. To see the transformation in seniors, some as old as 90, it becomes clear that no matter how old or how badly we are emotionally, psychologically or physically wounded, a safe and loving environment can help us heal reveal more of our true selves. It is never too late to find out who we really are. Christine Munkerud is a volunteer with the Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors.

Rec centre camp all about art

visualize the kids puffing out their cheeks and flapping their arms doing their impression of Billy the Bass picture this: Lisa approaches another multi-talented employee, Rindy, and puts an order in for a bass. Rindy promptly goes and catches the bass (much to the disgust of my fishily impaired abilities) and the fish then becomes the block print for T-shirts as different acrylic paints are applied Neil Ostafichuk and then pressed into the cloth leaving a multicolsojourn from saving and donned ored fish impression complete a flowing lab coat covered with down to the scales. artwork in order to stride enerGyotaku (“gyo” meaning fish, getically around the full class- and “taku” meaning rubbing or room like Dr. Emmett Brown in impression) is a traditional form Back to the Future. First off, it’s of fish printing, originating hungreat to have employees that are dreds of years ago — before the multi-talented enough to take on “camera age” as a method to other roles but it is also amazing scientifically record the size and to see the subject matter touched unique characteristics of the endupon at these camps. less array of species of the “wet Maybe I was sheltered as a world”. As the story goes: An child but the extent of my art old samurai fisherman caught a camp memory involved making fish and laid it on the riverbank little triangles out of Popsicle while he continued fishing. For sticks and peace signs out of pipe the long walk back to the village, cleaners. The stuff they are doing he wrapped the fish in a cloth to here is based on Monet, Van sling over his back. When he Gogh, Pollock, Cezanne, Dali — unwrapped the fish in the vilpeople I didn’t know existed at lage, the muddied side of the fish that age. The artwork itself had left a beautifully detailed involved wind chimes from pot “mirror-image” of the fish. It lids and kitchen utensils, still life sure beats Popsicle sticks and paintings on bottles, mini inuk- pipe cleaners… shuks, weaving, paintings and Neil Ostafichuk is the recreation one of my favourites — fish supervisor at the Creston and impressions. Wait, before you District Community Complex.

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