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Mount Thompson fire still burning BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

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VOTES FOR WOMEN! — The Creston Museum hosted its annual Old-Fashioned Tea on Saturday, which featured an appearance by suffragette Dorothy Davis,

played by Gail Kitt (centre), on the centennial of her 1912 visit to the Creston Valley. Other members of Footlighters Theatre Society joined Kitt and the audience in a discussion of women’s suffrage, and members of Key of She sang songs appropriate to the topic. For more photos, visit www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/community.

Source becomes Lectric Avenue BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

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When Irvin and Evelyn Sobry signed a five-year lease to house their new electronics business on Canyon Street 19 months

ago they thought they would have at least five years operating as the Source. That expectation changed in April, though, when the couple learned by email that they were among more than 160 stores across Canada whose contracts

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Nearly a week after a lightning strike started a wildfire on Mount Thompson, crews continue to battle a blaze that had grown to 56 hectares (138 acres) on Monday. The fire started during the Aug. 8 electrical storm and crews were on the scene by Wednesday. As many as six helicopters have supported a crew of 36, many of which are rappel specialists, trained to fight fires in steep, rocky terrain. The fire, located on the mountainside above the Bountiful community, is not considered a threat to any structures or infrastructures. Smoke has been visible throughout the Creston Valley and flames could be seen for miles around at night. “Today, crews will work to keep the fire from progressing to the south and west through the building of a fire guard,” BC Forest Service fire information officer Tim Neal said on Monday. “To strengthen the fire guard, they will be burning off un-burnt fuel within the fire perimeter. This may cause more smoke to be visible in the surrounding area.” B.C. is also experiencing a haze of smoke from forest fires in Russia. See FIRE, page 24

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The John Bucyk Arena will see some intense action on Aug. 18, when members of the east and west Kootenay roller derby leagues take part in two exhibition bouts during A Black Eye Affair. They will be joined by members of Creston’s fledgling team, the Black Eyed Cherries, which was started after exhibition bouts played here in April. “It’s our goal to recruit more players after this event,” said Creston team member Amanda “Kerrazy” Kerr. With their arena time sponsored by local Regional District of Central Kootenay directors, the nine Cherries practice twice a week. Four of their players have been “benchmarked” — they meet the minimum skills for game play — and five others are well on their way. One more member is needed to create a full team to compete in the East Kootenay league next year, in a season that runs from March to September; the East Kootenay Roller derby League’s playoffs run Sept. 15 in Marysville. Without travelling, this is the last chance for local women to see what it’s all about. “You don’t have to be in the best shape of your life,” said Kerr, who also plays with Kimberley’s Bavarian Barba-

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rians. “And you don’t have to For Kerr, it was an opportuknow what you’re doing — it nity to make new friends, get in can be learned.” shape and challenge herself. “Roller derby is a contact “You can put yourself into sport played by two teams of another personality,” she said. five members roller skating in “It’s pretty awesome.” the same direction around a For more information or to track,” explains the Wikipedia. learn how to volunteer (men org entry. “Game play consists can take part as referees or offiof a series of short matchups cials), contact Amanda Kerr at (‘jams’) in which both teams 250-402-6532 or contact@blackdesignate a scoring player (the eyedcherries.com, or visit www. ‘jammer’) who scores points by eastkootenayrollerderby.com. lapping members of the opposTickets to the Aug. 18 bouts ing team. The teams attempt to are $10 in advance at the Chad assist their own jammer while Smoke Shop or Black Bear hindering the opposing jam- Books or $15 at the door, ages mer — in effect, playing both Movie six information to 12 arenot$5, and children available at print time. offense and five and under are free. The callopen 250-428-SHOW defense simul-Please doors at 5 p.m., and(7469) the for information onat the6.current feature. taneously.” first whistle is

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Next generation takes over Pridham Studio

Who: Micah and Jeremiah Wassink What: Handbuilt, hand-painted pottery Where: Pridham Studio on 12th Avenue North, the Saturday Creston Valley Farmers’ Market When: Since summer 2011 Why: It gave them a chance to return to their hometown and start a family

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After 11 years in Victoria, Micah and Jeremiah Wassink had had enough of city life. They had got what they wanted out of it — education, careers, experience — but it wasn’t, well, let’s say, feeding their souls. Then, in 2011, they seriously began to explore an opportunity that had been on the table for a couple of years. Nancy and David Pridham, Micah’s parents, had fallen in love with Mexico’s Baja California, and their house and business were up for sale. Now, more than a year later, Micah and Jeremiah have settled back into their hometown and they couldn’t be happier. “I spent many years working at craft fairs with my mom and hanging out in the gallery,” Micah says. “When I was in high school I worked with her, doing clay work and pottery painting.” It was while attending Prince Charles Secondary School that Micah met Jeremiah Wassink. She was active in school and community theatre and, a few years later, the young couple headed for Vancouver Island so she could study theatre at the University of Victoria. “I loved it,” she says. Her original intention was to focus on acting, but within a month of starting classes, she knew her real passion was in design. After graduating, she worked in the film industry. “I worked in the costume

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Micah and Jeremiah Wassink took over Pridham Studio from Micah’s parents, Nancy and David Pridham.

department when I got involved in the film scene,” she says. “On-set costume work kept me busy.” She also got involved with the Pacific Opera Victoria. “That was a great experience. I loved the people and the atmosphere.” While Micah was establishing herself in wardrobe and costume design, Jeremiah, who also had artistic interests, entered the welding trade. “My first really good job involved making ornamental gates and fencing, but it was a little different because we worked entirely in aluminum,” he recalls. Aluminum stands up to the damp, salty atmosphere of an ocean-side environment, but it’s a tricky and demanding metal to work with. “I really liked the hands-on aspect of welding.” But the artist in him eventually began pulling Jeremiah toward a more creative life. “I had always liked drawing. Originally I had planned on going into graphic design before my focus shifted to welding.” He was thinking about going back to school to study art when he and Micah began to talk about purchasing her mom and dad’s home and business. “We sat down and went over the numbers and began to see how we could make it work,” he says. “Then we went to the bank and figured out how to make it a reality.” Purchasing Pridham Studio offered Jeremiah and Micah the chance to come back home to Creston, perfect timing because they wanted to start a family and didn’t want to raise kids in the city. “We were ready to settle down and this

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gave us that opportunity,” Jeremiah says. “I grew up in this house, so it was a little strange for a couple of months,” Micah smiles. “It was a bit interesting at first, wondering how it would be working with my mom as we began the transition to take over the business, but it quickly became apparent that it wouldn’t be an issue.” Jeremiah says learning a new trade was just what he was looking for. “As I got deeper into the welding trade I began to realize I didn’t want to go deeper into it. I got tired of working in an industrial setting.” When they returned to Creston last summer, they set to work learning a business that Nancy and David had built up into a successful enterprise. Micah naturally fell into painting the designs on the pottery that Jeremiah was soon turning out — mugs, plates, bowls and the like — useful and decorative items that have found a strong appeal among buyers throughout B.C., and in Alberta and Idaho, too. Nancy’s hand-painted designs, many created especially for a specific environment — black bears for the Banff area, for instance, or the orange bridge in Nelson — meant that Micah and Jeremiah had an established market to start out with. “People are expecting something and you have to produce,” Jeremiah says. “We were fortunate to have purchased such a well-established business. David and Nancy went through a lot of trial and error to get production up to a certain level and the losses are quite low.” Customers arriving at Pridham Studio, a converted garage attached to the house, are used to a quiet, reflective atmosphere as they wander among the pottery shelves and dis-

plays. Their visit often extends into the backyard, where the Wassinks have continued the Pridham tradition of gardening, growing much of their own food in the secluded space. “We’ve been eating out of it for months,” says Jeremiah. While Micah describes the business takeover as “quite seamless” — “All of our galleries are quite thrilled to get the same products they have always received” — it involved a lot of intense focus and training. A typical day starts at 6 a.m. to fire up the kilns and keeping the studio open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A motion sensor alerts the pair to arrival of customers when they are busy working in the adjacent studio. While Pridham Studio pottery can be found in galleries from Whistler to Banff and south into Sandpoint, the Kootenays are a large part of the business. Retail sales remain strong in Nelson, Kaslo, Invermere, Trail, Fernie, Golden, Rossland, Grand Forks and Christina Lake. “And we know there is room to grow, especially into Calgary and other Alberta markets, as well as the Okanagan.” Owning a business “definitely makes you want to push that much harder,” Jeremiah admits. They have become regulars at the Creston Valley Farmers’ Market each Saturday and are just beginning to find time to put their own stamp on the business. Micah has created some new designs and Jeremiah has introduced some new shapes, like spoon rests and goblets. They recently teamed up with Brandy Dyer at Creative Fix to produce a line of pottery using designs Dyer originally created for Town of Creston street banners. “I love partnering with other businesses and Nancy helped me work on the banner designs, so this is a perfect match, working with Pridham Studio,” Dyer said when she introduced the new items into her store. Jeremiah is working on teapot designs these days, trying to find just the right balance between form and function. “A teapot has to look good, function properly and feel good in the hand,” he says. “There is a lot of experimentation involved and I love the challenge. And this winter we want to experiment with small runs of unique shapes — that should be fun!” Winter promises to be fun in other ways, too. Micah and Jeremiah are expecting their first child in January. It is such a momentous event that Nancy and David will make a midwinter journey back to Creston from their Galeria Bahia to be part of the occasion. “It’s exciting for us to be among a younger generation that is coming back to Creston,” Micah says. “We are part of a younger crowd with their families, people who want to enjoy what this valley has to offer,” Jeremiah echoes. “Creston is a beautiful place and we feel like we have a great future here.” “And we have no plans to go anywhere else,” Micah adds.

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RCMP deal with many motor vehicle calls BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

Creston RCMP responded to 95 calls from Aug. 6-12, Cpl. Monte Taylor said on Monday. August 6 •When police tracked down a semi in which a nine-year-old had been placed, “kicking and screaming,” on Helen Street, it was determined there was no cause for concern. •A vehicle went off Highway 3A into a ditch and was pulled out by another vehicle before police arrived. Neither vehicle was located. •A 911 call from a cellphone was attributed by the owner to pocket dialing. •No injuries resulted from a two-car collision at Canyon Street and 16th Avenue North.

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•Threats were reported in an ongoing custody dispute in Kitchener. •Police were unable to locate a vehicle reported to be carrying four or five children who were not in car seats or protected by seatbelts. •A patrolling officer witnessed a black Pontiac Trans Am squeal tires and fishtail out of a parking lot on Canyon Street. The vehicle was stopped and the driver was issued a $368 fine for driving without due care. The car was impounded for seven days. August 7 •An Erickson resident dialed 911 by accident. •When an Erickson Road resident saw a man driving his ATV on the road, he removed the key and stopped the vehicle. A wrestling match ensued and police were called. Police determined the man had a permit to operate the ATV on public roads, but only to cross roads at a 90-degree angle or to drive on unused roads. The details of the permit were explained and no charges were laid. •No injuries were reported when a vehicle was rear-ended while slowing to make a left turn on Highway 3 near Goat River Bridge. •Police received numerous complaints about vehicles passing on solid lines during the week. •A minor collision occurred in a Northwest Boulevard parking lot when a vehicle backed out of a parking space and struck another vehicle. The offending driver earned a $138 fine for driving without a valid licence and a $109 fine for reversing unsafely. •Police have a licence plate number and are investigating a complaint that it swerved toward a vehicle it was passing, then tailgated it. •A male reportedly acting suspiciously on

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Sunset Boulevard provided police with a false name when they responded to the call. He was taken to the police station, where he provided correct information and eventually was released without charges. •Police and grocery store management are concerned with the number of reports of food being taken from dumpsters. The food is sprayed with a bleach substance to discourage the practice and there are concerns for the safety of those consuming food from the trash bins. August 8 •Threats were made during a dispute between neighbours on Campbell River in Riondel. •Males who were refused accommodation at a local motel broke a window to express their displeasure. •Ferry personnel in a Zodiac boat rescued a female who jumped off a ferry on Kootenay Lake. She was later taken to Creston Valley Hospital for examination. •A male from Quebec fled when approached by police on Canyon Street. He was caught and taken to hospital, suffering from a suspected drug overdose. The investigation continues. •A female reported sending a man she had met on an Internet dating site $2,000 when he told her his clothing had been stolen. He then sent a message that his son had suffered the same experience and asked that she send more money. At that point, she called the police, who continue to investigate the matter. August 9 •A 15th Avenue resident complained that a “unique rock” had been taken after he showed it to someone he had met at the pub. He later called back to say he found the rock on his deck. •Police are investigating a complaint of a driver who passed unsafely on Highway 3 near 33rd

Avenue, honked his horn and then completed the pass before slamming on his brakes. •Police were called to a Cook Street business to investigate a report of an “eight- or nine-year-old girl” begging. The female in question was 20. •A hit and run causing minor damage was reported in the 1400 block of Canyon Street. •A naked male was reported to be using tools to remove a sign in the 5000 block of Highway 3A. The suspect’s mother arrived to pick him up and take him home. The investigation continues. •Police were called to help paramedics transport a suicidal male to hospital. •A small amount of marijuana was seized from a vehicle in a check stop on Highway 3 near Summit Creek. •Two workers installing a cellphone tower on Mount Thompson got lost when their vehicle had a flat tire and they took a shortcut downhill to get to a second vehicle. A search and rescue crew worked into the early hours of the morning without finding them. The men were found, unharmed, on a forest service road at 9 a.m. the next day. •An intoxicated male who passed out on Northwest Boulevard was taken to hospital, where he assaulted paramedics and a police officer before being brought under control. August 10 •A motorist who threw a lit cigarette from his vehicle on Highway 3 near 38th Avenue will receive a warning. •Police attended a family dispute on Ash Street, where a young man insisted he would be living, against the wishes of his stepfather. •A specialized mountain bike valued at $900 was stolen from the 1200 block of Canyon Street. See CONCLUSION, page 5

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From page 4 •Another 911 cellphone call was attributed to pocket dialing. •Police were unable to locate a four-door car from Quebec that hit a blue car on the Goat River Bridge on Highway 21 before driving off. August 11 •A complaint about a barking dog on Hilton Road was referred to the town bylaw department. •A female on Birch Street was reported to be walking around at night wearing only an overcoat. She was taken to hospital for evaluation. •Police were unable to trace the source of three 911 calls in which a child could be heard chattering into the phone. •An old laptop computer was found on Erickson Road. •A dispute over payment between an unhappy orchardist and four unhappy cherry pickers required police attendance. •A West Creston Road resident reported that a male who purchased a vehicle from his daughter in April was making threats toward her after a wheel fell off the car. •Police were unable to locate a 19-year-old male reported to be driving while intoxicated. His father, however, was contacted and made aware of the report. •Police were called to the 400 block of 16th Avenue North by a male whose partner threw juice

on him in an argument. She agreed to leave the premises until tempers had cooled. •A domestic dispute was reported near Kingsgate when a male removed car wiring so his intoxicated partner couldn’t drive away. •A female driver failed a roadside screening device test for alcohol consumption when she was stopped after hitting a parked vehicle in the 1400 block of Hillside Street. She was given a 90-day driving suspension and her vehicle was impounded for 30 days. August 12 •A dispute between an orchardist and cherry picker on 32nd Avenue South resulted in the picker being struck in the face with a sandal. •No injuries resulted from a minor collision in the 1400 block of Cook Street. •A Centre Road resident reported his home had been broken into in the past three days. Thieves stole a pair of running shoes. •A male was arrested and held in police cells following a domestic dispute on sixth Avenue North. •The bell from the Creston fire hall was found on the ground, apparently a result of the handiwork of vandals. •Two intoxicated males were taken into custody after they were found jumping in front of oncoming traffic on Highway 21 near the Goat River Bridge.

watercraft and activities BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

Summer on the lake may bring to mind thoughts of motorboats and jet skis, but the Riondel Parks and Recreation Society is again preparing a summer event that keeps the fun and promotes non-motorized water activities — the second annual Riondel Milk Jug Regatta. The Aug. 25 event at Riondel’s north bay beach is comprised of two segments, a poker paddle in the morning and shallow water races in the afternoon. With the latter event, the catch is that the watercraft must be made of recyclable materials. “We wanted to sponsor something that got people thinking about the water in ways that didn’t involve gasoline,” said treasurer Fran O’Rourke. Sign-up for the poker paddle starts at 9 a.m. For a $10 entry fee — which goes toward the construction of a community kayak stand — adults can navigate their non-motorized craft along a predetermined route and collect five playing cards, with the best poker hand earning prizes. Following a hotdog lunch, the afternoon’s shallow water races include one using any flotation device, such as an air mattress or inner tube, and the highlight race, in which participants race watercraft made with any materials accepted in recycling bins. A $2 entry fee is donated to the community roof fund, and allows racers to have a lot of fun, if last year’s

race is any indication. One entry was a large cardboard box with a plastic bag wrapped around the bottom, and one boy filled a laundry basket with milk jugs, turned it upside down and sat on it. “He didn’t make it far, but he had fun,” said O’Rourke.

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When moments add up to a day

On Sunday, my mind wandered back to the early days of this column. It would have been 1989 and if memory serves it was the second â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the Lifeâ&#x20AC;? effort. If memory doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t serve, forgive me â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 1,100 or so columns is probably a bit too much to remember accurately. Anyway, I digress. Not so long before that particular column I had watched a video featuring the great monologue performer Spalding Grey. He had described what he called a perfect moment and the idea burned itself into my thoughts. The stimulus for the perfect moment that became a column topic was a visit on a sunny summer day to chat with a gentlemen who sold antiques from his home near Armstrong Bay on Kootenay Lake. Reg and his wife were gracious hosts and I enjoyed the tour through the shop they called Mousehole Antiques, a room or two in their lovely home. Afterward, we sat and sipped tea, looking out over the lake and having an interesting and wideranging conversation. When I left their home to make the drive home, I was struck with how fortunate I was to have a job that allowed me the freedom to visit with such interesting people, and about how grateful I was that, 10 years earlier, we had chosen to make the Creston Valley our home. In the decade since relocating from Calgary, we had been blessed

its worst, it induces moments of jitters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; those fortunately short periods of time spent staring at a computer screen, grasping at straws for inspiration. In either situation there is a common denominator â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I rarely know exactly what direction a column will take until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underway. And I never know how it will end until I get there. This particular effort is a prime example. I knew Lorne Eckersley what I wanted to write about â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a series of perfect moments that strung together to scrapped and it would be another form a perfect day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but I also four years before I moved away wanted to give the subject some from the business to spend a context. dozen years at other endeavours. Obviously, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write about My love affair with having this all of the perfect moments I expespace to fill each week never died, rience. They are far too plentiful though. I kept on writing â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is for that. But they do add to the life the Lifeâ&#x20AC;? at the invitation of pubwe enjoy here in the valley and lisher Helena White. In the early serve as reminders that this is days of personal computers, I indeed, a special place. bought a laptop word processorSo now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come this far and printer that had a tiny amount of have yet to talk about the perfect memory, just enough to display moments that added up to a perone line of a document before it fect day last weekend. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll continue was printed. For several years I hand-delivered each column to the this next week. Meanwhile, a correction: Thanks Advance office. When I was out of to a reader for drawing to my attentown I faxed them to a string of tion to a column two weeks ago in different editors. Those columns which I referred to a $500 billion were written in cities across improvement plan for the Enbridge Canada and the U.S., and even pipeline proposal. The number from Italy. should have, of course, been $500 At its best, the experience of million. Thanks to the reader for writing a weekly column is joyful, pointing out the error and for the a brief period that allows me to conversation that followed. look back over the past week and Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of write about the one subject that the Creston Valley Advance. has captured my imagination. At with two sons, built a house, made countless friends and had jobs we enjoyed. My five-year plan to learn the newspaper business at the Advance had long been

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Harper gov’t creates its own reality

To the Editor: Lorne Eckersley raised an important issue in his July 5 column, “Waving the Flag”: the simple-minded attempt at mind control in the latest propaganda package from MP David Wilks. David should be well versed in that, having recently recanted in his effort to voice an independent opinion. Can an ordinary MP have a chance of voicing thought when long respected institutions have been muzzled, such as the Science Council of Canada, environmental workers, fisheries critics and more? Recently, scientists held a march in Ottawa, a mock funeral procession with a coffin labelled “The Death of Evidence.” Under the Big Brother government, reality is no longer studied but created, a postmodernist concept imported from the George Bush government. The muzzling of all departments to speak freely to the public was followed by the elimination of the national science advisor position. This paranoia that the public might become aware of something contrary to Orwellian thought control has become so intense that Canada’s freedom of information ranking has now fallen to 51st out of 89 countries, falling behind such bastions of freedom as Angola, Columbia and Niger. When truth becomes self-evident through other sources, the Conservative spin doctors reveal their own “paid for” findings, thus chrysotile asbestos (in a Health Canada report) becomes actually harmless, and Tony Clement’s own panel declares safe injection sites are not useful (130 physicians and scientists au contraire). Although the majority of farmers wanted to retain the co-operative Canadian Wheat Board, it was sacrificed to serve the free enterprise agenda. Gun registration was cancelled over the objections of the Association of Police Chiefs. Canada’s Experimental Lakes Area, used for the study of 58 lakes, will be closed. Now we hear that the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, which monitors the polar atmosphere testing climate models will be dismantled. The most indicative action of the lack of interest in studying reality was the cancellation of the long-form census, without which it is not possible to study thousands of aspects of our lives and plan for future life. Better to create your own realty rather than study what is and prepare for what will be. So distortion of reality is another arrow in the rogue government’s quiver. Couple this with economic terrorism replete with random firings replaced by private contractors and social service cutbacks with threats of more, and you will soon have a populace that is compliant, apathetic, servile and nihilistic. Recently, a special fund for broadcasters to assist in disseminating local news has been cancelled. Ignorance is bliss; the bland can then better lead the blind. Pierre Trudeau astutely observed, “We absent-mindedly bestow these absolute powers over our lives and welfare on a handful of men in elections dominated by fanaticism and gangsterism, generally without asking of them the smallest guarantee of intelligence or of elementary honesty. Should one of them happen to overstep

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the bounds, we allow him to be made a judge, or a legislator for life in one of our upper houses. In fact, if we were to extend the powers of the state without having multiplied our means of controlling its policy and limiting its methods of acting, we would tend to increase our enslavement.” Fait accompli, and the fact that the puppet master is someone who believes in the “rapture” raises concern. Larry Ewashen Creston

Committee welcomes refugees

er, Alberta has sent $250 billion more to Ottawa more than it has received in return, for the benefit of every Canadian. How well would Norway do if it had a schoolyard bully taking it’s lunch money? Lastly, China has the power to get its oil regardless of what Canada does. Is burning oil laced with the blood of war more appealing? Everything we consume is created and transported using oil. We are fortunate in Canada to have abundant natural resources and all Canadians are fortunate to have B.C. and Alberta paying more then their fair share. Mike Somerville Wynndel

Last letter encouraged equal rights

To the Editor: July 22 was an exciting day for the Creston Refugee Committee. The Karen family of seven that we have waited for for two-and-a-half years finally arrived To the Editor: in Creston! It must have been an excit(Re: “Science is a way to gain knowling day for them, too, after living 14 edge”, Aug. 9 Advance, page 7) years in a refugee camp on the BurmaI think that you are missing the Thailand border to finally be free and point, sir. The dogma of the Church of safe. Scientology is just as politically charged It is hard to rent housing for a famias my following of the Bible. I am just as ly of seven so we were blessed when offended that you think that my comPete Banman rented a house to us. We ments are as “reprehensible and ignoare so proud of all the beautiful furnirant to the core” as you are about living ture, linens and dishes that were donat- amongst people who believe that we ed to the family by the good people of NOW came from a divine being or God. But this wonderful Creston Valley. The refagain, this is not the point, and I am RECYCLING ugees were very tired and it must have sorry that my comments offended you. cheered them up to see that each of the LEAD Actually the point is that the govsix beds was covered in a gorgeous erning bodies pull money from thin air ACID homemade quilt donated by the Rather and spend it to fund projects like the VEHICLE Be Quilting group. “atom basher” in Geneva, and there are BATTERIES We thank everyone who has so genpeople all over the world starving. The erously supported the refugee families “God particle”, or Higgs boson, has that we have brought to Canada. We still not been found, and they are no are sure that as soon as this family closer than they were three years ago, learns some English it will be thanking and yet whatever or whoever created you, too. We hope that you will continthis world still remains a mystery to ue to support us for the next 12 months many scientists. But because I am some as we raise the money it takes to hick that you assume never went to finance a family of seven. university, I am somehow not as smart Linda Price as the enlightened ones or the knowlCreston edgeable ones. So going to the dogmatic universities and believing some textbook created and written by man makes one more intelligent than one who does not? I may offend you now: You, sir, have bought a lie about living three times as long now. Tell that to the hundreds of kids that are dying in the children’s hospitals — and, by the way, the last time I walked through an old abandoned cemetery in Fort Steele or Barkerville, the people were still dying at the ripe old To the Editor: age of 80. So by today’s standards we (Re: This is the Life: “Clark on the should be living till 240 years of age, if Right Track”, Aug. 2 Advance, page 6) my Grade 12 math is still useful. Do Lorne Eckersley makes three major some research and you’ll see that some points in his column: Alberta should scientist claim that we lived longer in give B.C. some royalty money for the the Biblical era you speak of. People Northern Gateway pipeline, Norway is were used as cannon fodder and ritualsmarter then Alberta because it has a istic sacrifices, even up to the Second bigger nest egg and selling oil to China World War, and as a result skew that is environmentally immoral. fantastic statistic you quoted. On the first point, how would B.C. Living longer is not the point and citizens view sending their tax dollars neither is the science behind it. It’s fair to another jurisdiction for any reason? and equal treatment of people in the In confederation, Canadian goods are “Christian Valley” or as far away Iraq. allowed to cross provincial borders for Black, white, yellow or red, we are all the greater good of Canada. Are we beautifully made and throwing money only Canadians while watching the to projects that don’t matter was and is Olympics? Perhaps Christy Clark the intent of my letter (“Scientific would better serve B.C. and Canada by Knowledge not Needed”, July 26 pressing Alberta, Ottawa and Enbridge Advance, page 7). to create a world-class oil spill and If one is not for more equal rights safety program for the pipeline. then I sure am glad I believe in God, Secondly, Lorne compares the provbecause hell is right here on earth, *plus 3.99% ﬁnancing OAC ince of Alberta to the (smarter) country don’t you agree? of Norway. Alberta’s Heritage Trust Bill Dyck fund stands at only $16 billion; howevCreston

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Variety of chickens offer rainbow of shells

ou’ll never know what to expect when you open a carton of eggs from Shell’s Little Greenhouse — with shells of blue, Story and brown, pink photos by and green, Brian each carton offers a Lawrence colourful and welcome surprise. “Everyone who buys eggs smiles. It makes them happy,” said Shelley Lamb, who moved from White Rock to Lakeview-Arrow Creek Road in 2005. The rainbow of shells is a result of the variety of hens she keeps, many with origins around the world. Among Lamb’s hens are Brahmas (India), Araucanas (Chile) and Minorcas (Spain) — a “smart, quick” breed — as well as her favourite, the Polish top hats. “Polish top hats are a very soft, quiet, timid bird,” she said. “They’ll approach you if they’ve been raised by hand. They’ll let you pick them up and they’re quite content.” Six years ago, she started out with five hens, and now has about 30, which are mostly free-range in the summer. It was an easy decision for her to begin raising them, although she knew very little about doing so. “I’ve always thought they were kind of cool,” Lamb said. “I thought, if I’m living out here, why not?” She’s learned a lot in the last six years, and is still fascinated by her chickens’ interaction. “As a rule, chickens aren’t as dumb as people

think,” she said. “They work as a group and they’re very social. You couldn’t have just one chicken — they need another to survive.” Their family bond is strong, too, and just as evident as with other animals. “They are amazing mothers,” Lamb said. “They just hunt for food all day for those chicks. They have a little call they make when they find food and the chicks come over.” One hen is a brooding hen, and Lamb enjoys putting her to work, and the sometimes surprising results. “I select eggs, put them under her and see what comes out.” The rooster, a Polish top hat, also plays an important part in day-today coop life, besides crowing at the crack of dawn, something Lamb said she quickly became used to. “The rooster watches for danger all day long. ... He gives them food and nests. He loves them,” she said with a laugh, “some more than others.” Raising chickens isn’t a difficult task, and is one Lamb strongly recommends, particularly to people with children. “Kids love chickens,” she said. “They’re good for people who want to get back to the land.” And the “sweet little creatures” make excellent companions. “I enjoy coming out and just being with them,” said Lamb. “They’re very soothing.” For more information, call Shelly Lamb at 250-428-7274.

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