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LKB chief leading walk for addictions awareness BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

Chief Jason Louie will be joined by Lower Kootenay Band members and others at 10 a.m. Nov. 19 in a walk to recognize National Addictions Awareness Week. Participants will be delivering a handmade sturgeon nose, or Kutenai, canoe that will be presented to the Creston Valley Hospital after carrying it from the Lower Kootenay administration centre. “Like the hospital, the canoe represents life,” said Louie. The canoe was made during a youth cultural boot camp in July, a project led by him and two other instructors. “We were operating on memory, from what we had seen as children, and from viewing some film footage,” he said. “We asked the boot camp participants what to do with the canoe and they wanted to donate it to an organization that would appreciate it. “National Addictions Awareness Week is an annual event and it seemed like a good fit to do this as part of the activities from November 19-24.” See LKB walk, page 2

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Lower Kootenay Band maintenance worker Jim Marcil worked to weatherproof a Kutenai canoe made at a youth cultural boot camp in July. The canoe will be carried from Lower Kootenay to Creston Nov. 23, where it will be presented to the Creston Valley Hospital as part of National Addictions Awareness Week activities.

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From page 1 Louie said the lengthy hike from Lower Kootenay to town is appropriate. “The hike is symbolic. Those who battle addictionsdo so on a daily basis and the battle can seem

endless. And the weather should be cold, so we don’t feel very comfortable. The least we can do is get an understanding of their pain for at least a couple of hours.” Presenting the canoe to the hospital is meant as a good will gesture to help improve relations between the medical community and Lower

Kootenay Band members. “The canoe is a symbol of who we are as a valley — there’s no other place in the world that has anything similar,” he said. The walk will begin at 10 a.m., with participants taking turns carrying the canoe. Anyone is welcome to join in.

June against winners from other east and west Kootenay communities. This year, Creston’s Matt Hansen placed second and the Jesse Dumas-Jairus Stonehouse duo placed third in the region — just below Cranbrook’s Trena Speers — after competing against winners from Kimberley, Trail, Nelson, Grand Forks and Rossland. “We laid a very positive groundwork for every one of those communities,” said Gorham. “It’s exciting to see where it’s going to go. I think we’ll have many more singers coming out and many more watching.” As usual, audience voting will play a big part in the contest. On Jan. 31, 30 singers will compete, and the audience will whittle those down to 20 to compete on Feb. 14. Audience voting will then narrow those down to 10, who will compete by singing two songs for outof-town judges in March. The addition of the third night and a greater length of time between nights for the

adult category mean that singers will have more opportunity to prove their talent. “It will give a chance for people to work on songs,” said Gorham. “Potentially, a singer could sing four times.” Creston isn’t the only place the contest is expanding. In the West Kootenay, some of the contests are also adding a night, with audiences voting at an audition night hosted by a school in each community. “They’ll handle my auditions for me and use it as a fundraiser,” said Gorham. If it sounds like a lot to organize, it is — but it’s all worth it in the end, particularly when it’s time for the regional competition. “We have tremendous talent in Creston and the Kootenays,” Gorham said. “There’s talent that should be showcased and shared. It makes for a really fun night to hear local singers of a high quality.” For more information, contact Vern Gorham at 250-428-0305 or visit www.kootenaysbestsinger.com.

Singing contest getting bigger BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

The fourth annual Creston’s Best Singer contest returns next month, and will be bigger than before. The 2013 edition will be comprised of four nights, expanded from two (quarterfinal and semifinal/final) in 2011 and 2012, starting with a youth division contest on Dec. 4 at the Prince Charles Theatre. “I had 10 or 15 parents say, ‘My child would love to sing in your contest but doesn’t want to compete with 40-year-olds,’ ” said producer-host Vern Gorham. The youth contest will be open to singers 14 and under, and the top two will advance to the semifinal round on Feb. 14, competing against the top 20 adults singers from the Jan. 31 quarterfinal. The top 10 from the semifinal will compete in the final round on March 7. It’s all part of a bigger plan — the top two from the Creston finals will compete in the Kootenays’ Best Singer contest in

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Annual Operation Memoir offers refreshing Christmas Child look at former RDCK chair boxes ready for toys and gifts REVIEW

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Canadian literature isn’t exactly teeming with memoirs of small-town mayors. Among those that have been written it’s hard to imagine that there has been a funnier, more insightful result. Welcome, readers, to the weird, wacky and wonderful world of Gary Wright, longtime mayor of New Denver and former chair of the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK). Wright, like fellow ex-pat American Corky Evans, wound up in Canada because of his objections to the Vietnam War. His book, Unrepentant: The Story of an Era, has only one real flaw that I can think of. At 200 pages, it’s too short. I know Wright mostly by his reputation, information gleaned mostly from Crestonites who have served with him in various local government capacities. In the times that I’ve seen him acting in an official capacity I have found him to be fair-minded, extremely knowledgeable and quick-witted. When I received a review copy in the mail I was completely unprepared for the reading experience I was about to enjoy. Halfway through the book, I went to bed that night, then woke up at 3 a.m., thinking about what I had read. I turned on the bedside lamp and finished it. Born in Montana to a Republican family, Wright’s story of transformation to a radical began when he left home to attend university in Missoula, Mont. It was the 1960s and the anti-war movement was just beginning to gather momentum. One thing led to another and Wright got involved with Students for a Democratic Society, a membership that

would land him on an FBI watch list and eventually get him planning a move to Canada. Unrepentant starts with those university and protest years and takes the reader through his two decades as a musician and, shall we say, free spirit, before he arrived in New Denver. Wright was working as the town’s janitor when he was first encouraged to run for a vacant spot on town council. A few months later, in 1989, the New Denver mayor resigned due health reasons and Wright got the job, one he would hold on to for nearly a quarter-century. For much of that time, he also served as New Denver’s RDCK director and was for a number of years the board’s chair. In an early chapter of Unrepentant, a chapter he calls “Purple Haze”, Wright takes on the task of explaining the drug issue: From time to time, people we don’t know pick certain drugs to be legal and others to be outlawed. This is necessary in order to provide worthwhile career opportunities for policemen, criminals, jailors, lawyers, judges and lawmakers who would otherwise have to become firemen, teachers, farmers or better cooks. If you sell legal drugs, you are called a pharmacist. That’s okay. If you sell illegal drugs, you are called a pusher. That’s not okay. If you use legal drugs you are called a consumer or a patient. That’s okay. If you use illegal drugs, you are called a doper or an addict. Not okay. If you plant hops, you are called a farmer. Okay. If you plant hemp, you are called a grower. Not okay.

Distill spirits in Saudi Arabia and you can be executed. Distill spirits in America and your son can become president. It’s all wonderfully arbitrary, depending on what century and what country you are living in. There is no rhyme nor reason for this, so you had best be your own judge of what works best for you. It will involve some trial and error. Good luck. Near the end of Unrepentant, Wright includes a chapter called “A Canadian Primer for Yankees”, in which he describes the differences in our federal systems, explaining in humorous terms the roles of the prime minister, senators and governor-general: Historically the country runs better during the periods when it has no government than it ever does when the elections are over and a new one proceeds to once again dash the hopes of the electorate. Wright’s book is a refreshing look into the life of a man who has never stopped trying to make sense of the world around him, who wears his values on his sleeve and who never made the too-often fatal political mistake of taking himself too seriously. Creston Valley readers may be especially interested in a chapter written by Corky Evans, a moving and sobering account of the former MLA and cabinet minister’s transformation from a youngster who assumed that a stint in the armed forces, and tour of duty in Vietnam, would be part of his life to becoming a respected left-wing politician and orator. Wright also includes chapters about Area B director John Kettle, who succeeded him as chair of the RDCK board. I don’t remember when I enjoyed a book more than Unrepentant. Unrepentant: The Story of an Era is available in Creston at Black Bear Books.

BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor In what has become an annual tradition, Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church is collecting for Operation Christmas Child, a program that sees toys, school supplies and more delivered to children in developing countries. Run by Samaritan’s Purse, a non-denominational evangelical Christian organization that has provided spiritual and physical aid around the world since 1970, the program involves filling shoebox-sized containers with items purchased locally for a boy or girl in the 2-4, 5-9 or 10-14 age ranges, along with a $7 donation to cover shipping and other project costs. More than 400 boxes were shipped from Creston last year — a total of 672,274 were collected in Canada in 2011 — and the numbers look to be similar this year, said Glad Tidings Pastor Gary Forsyth, thanks to the efforts of Kelly Miller and Ann Cote. “He’s been setting people up and getting them organized,” said Forsyth. “She’s been heading up getting them into schools.” The Operation Christmas Child boxes can be picked up at Glad Tidings or Your Dollar Store With More, then filled and dropped off at the church on or before Nov. 23 to allow for packing and shipping to the Calgary processing centre. The program is nothing new to Creston, where it’s been going for over a decade, and certainly nothing new to Forsyth, who came to Creston two years ago. His previous church in Airdrie, Alta, held a big drive every year, collecting over 300 boxes from church members alone. The church would then send a team to the Samaritan’s Purse warehouse,

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Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church Pastor Gary Forsyth with Operation Christmas Child boxes that have already been filled and returned.

where each box is opened, examined and repacked for shipping. This year, Operation Christmas Child boxes will be sent to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uruguay and Venezuela. About eight years ago, Forsyth was in Cambodia, and was able to see firsthand the effect the boxes have on children. “We were able to get all the kids from the neighbourhood together and hand them out,” he said. “To say they have nothing is an exaggeration. They’re never given anything, ever.” But better than just giving things to the children, Operation Christmas Child allows Samaritan’s Purse workers to do even more for the locals. “These open up doorways for the guy in Cambodia to do social work in the community,” said Forsyth. For more information, contact Gary Forsyth at 250-428-7418.

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Mustaches highlight slow week for RCMP

BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

With only 55 calls to respond to from November 5-11, the highlight of the RCMP week was the continued growth of mustaches on the participants in the annual Movember fundraiser for cancer research. Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said he has relaxed grooming requirements so he and other male members can participate. November 5 •A 911 call from Highway 3A was determined to have been caused by a tree falling on phone lines. •Minor damage resulted in a two-vehicle collision on 10th Avenue North. •A well-being check on a Masuch Road resident revealed he was okay, but his phone service wasn’t. •No injuries were reported in a minor two-vehicle collision in a Canyon Street parking lot. •A female driver complained that someone lectured her about 11th Avenue South being a 30kph zone. •A complaint of fraud was

received from 18th Avenue South. •No trace could be made of a 911 call through the Whimster Road cell phone tower. November 6 •Police served a summons to an Aspen Road residence on behalf of Cranbrook RCMP. •A cell phone 911 call through the Riley Road tower could not be traced. •Tools were stolen when a John Deere grader was broken into on the Big Bear Forest Service Road. •Police received a report that two males started a red Toyota truck with a screwdriver on 9th Avenue North and drove away but no report of a theft has been received. November 7 •Police were unable to locate a vehicle reported as being driven without insurance on Oliver Road. •When police conducted a well-being check on a male on 11th Avenue South, they found him on the floor. He said he’d been there for two days, suffering from a gout attack. He was taken to hospital by ambulance. •911 calls through the Riley Road and Topaz Creek cell phone towers could not be traced.

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“No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another” - Anonymous Thank you to the people of Creston Valley for their generosity at a fundraiser held for Skyler Hansen Saturday, September 8

•A 13-year-old female who has been skipping school was put into the hands of a provincial government ministry that doesn’t like its name to appear in the newspaper. •A youth who was caught shoplifting at a Cook Street business faces charges and a court appearance. •One occupant was taken to hospital with minor injuries after a collision on Scott Street. A driver has been charged with failing to yield at a Stop sign. •A male who was reported to be causing a disturbance on 10th Avenue North collapsed and was taken to hospital. •A CCM Express bicycle was found on Highway 3. It can be claimed by the owner at the police station. •Police attended an Evans Road residence to keep the peace while a female removed her belongings. •A driver who claimed to have swerved to avoid a deer on Lakeview-Arrow Creek Road rolled the vehicle onto its roof. Police are investigating and believe speed may have been a factor. November 8 •Police were called to an Erickson Road neighbours’ dispute over a fence three

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My apologies if your name or business was missed. With many last minute donations, I may not have had the time to thank you individually. You know who you are and how much your contribution was appreciated. It was an unforgettable day of fundraising that I will cherish and always remember. You should all be proud to know you live in a community ﬁlled with kind caring people, and an abundance of generosity.

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A sharp-eyed reader reports that last week’s story about the Bear Aware report to the Town Council meeting contained an error. Upon checking with Bear Aware co-ordinator Gillian Cooper, the reader learned that the bear reported to be roaming into Schikurski Park is a black bear, not a grizzly. The Advance regrets the error and thanks the reader for correcting our error.

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From the volunteers who set up and organized, business owners and community locals who contributed to the silent auction; to the guests, who arrived for a couple quick throws at the dunk tank, or simply a bite to eat, I can say without hesitation, we truly live in a “one of a kind community”. To think of how everyone pulled together to make my day so special, means the world to me. The list below does not even begin to portray how many helping hands we had that day, but to everyone who made the fundraiser, concession, games and silent auction a success, I thank you for your everlasting thoughtfulness.

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BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff Hometown hero Matti Jmaeff had a strong weekend, picking up five points in a home and home series that saw the Creston Valley Thunder Cats

and Columbia Valley Rockies each win in their own arenas. A goal and assist by Jmaeff weren’t enough on Friday night, when the Rockies dropped the Thunder Cats 5-3 in Columbia Valley. Creston played

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Hanna. Andrew Hodder drew the Thunder Cats even with 29 seconds to play in the second period, with a helper from Jaiden Ward. Creston got a measure of revenge at home on Saturday night, riding a threegoal second period effort to grab a muchneeded 5-2 victory.

“We pride ourselves in getting better as the game goes on.” -Josh Hepditch “While there were a lot of penalities, we killed off a bunch in the first period and just took off after that,” the coach said. “It was good getting a solid lead because we pride

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ourselves in getting better as the game goes on.” Once again, Jmaeff led the away, assisting on a first period goal by Joey Berget. He scored Creston’s second goal on the power play, with assists coming from Jesse Collins and Trevor LeBlanc, and was also credited with an assist on Jonathan Watt’s goal, along with Joey Berget. Marcel Fuchs’ goal from Ethan Rusnack in the last minute gave the Thunder Cats a commanding 4-1 lead going into the final frame. Rusnack scored the Thunder Cats’ fifth goal, with assists being

awarded to Ty Kronewitt and Angus Johnston. Jmaeff, goaltender Zach Straza and Jonathan Watt were named the game’s three stars. Straza and Tyler Moffat having been alternating in net since Moffat’s return to the team a couple of weeks ago. Creston went into Tuesday night’s game against division-leading Fernie Ghostriders in fourth place in the tight Eddie Mountain division, three points up on the Rockies and three points behind the Golden Rockets. Fernie remained in first place, three points ahead of the Kimberley

Dynamiters. “Tonight’s game against Fernie should be a good test for us, that’s for sure,” Hepditch said. The Cats will be short a couple of players due to injury and Matthew Murray will be sitting out the final game of his suspension. Ty Kronewitt will also be unavailable as he sits out a one game suspension for getting a game misconduct at the end of Saturday night’s game. Kronewitt crossed the red line at the end of the game as he berated a Columbia Valley player, earning the misconduct and suspension.

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Help with Seasonal Sleep Patterns Now that the days are shorter and it’s dark around suppertime, our bodies must adjust to this lack of light. This adjustment can sometimes be difﬁcult on its own and can be compounded by changes in one’s day-to-day routine, different surroundings, time changes and yes . . . medications. Often our mood and the presence of emotions like anxiety and depression can have major effects on our sleep patterns. Sleep normally takes up 1/3 of our day and is important to our psychological well-being. Our normal sleep patterns are made up of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep and Non Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) states and our individual sleep patterns each have different time spent in each state through the night. Within REM and NREM states there are different stages of sleep categorized by brain wave activity. It turns out that studies have shown that as we grow older, our sleep patterns change and we spend less time in deep sleep and more time in light sleep which often results in nighttime wakefulness. This age-related disturbance is usually mild and does not interfere with day-to-day activities unless the individual cannot fall back to sleep. There are many medications that can cause sleep disturbances, such as high blood pressure meds, anti-depressants, anti-convulsants, cough and cold and pain medications, to name a few. There are also various foods and drinks that, if taken too close to bedtime, may increase sleep latency or cause nighttime wakefulness. Identifying the factors that cause sleep problems such as increased sleep latency (falling asleep), poor maintenance of

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Everyone has an opinion and no one, at least that I am aware, has a solution. And nothing has changed in the more than three decades that I have been in Creston. Last week the Bountiful community was a popular subject in the news. Once again. This time the story was about the fallout from the closure of Bountiful school, leaving more than 200 students temporarily, at least, out of the public education system. Depending on your point of view, it might not have been a bad thing when the majority arrived in September to enroll in Homelinks, Kootenay Lake School District’s supported home schooling program. The story of the Bountiful closure actually begins more than a year ago when the Fraser Institute’s famously flawed rating system put the school right at the top among all provincial schools. It wasn’t without a raised eyebrow that I contacted Bountiful principal Merrill Palmer to do a story about the recognition. He might not have been doing cartwheels, but he was no doubt happy to be recognized in such a way. I doubt any of our public school principals would have responded differently. A few months later I ran into Palmer, whom I happen to like very much, and learned that he had been fired shortly after my story came out. We could only guess that Warren Jeffs, self-proclaimed leader of many Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints followers, had taken umbrage at the school drawing attention to the part of the Bountiful community that he still appears to control, despite the fact that he is in jail for pedophilia.

With the respected Palmer given his walking papers, it shouldn’t have come as a huge surprise that the school was closed outright this fall. There is no evidence that Jeffs is

the mere snap of the jailbound, but obviously not muzzled, Jeffs. Meanwhile, pundits from afar, and some locals, put up the usual argument that children should be forced to attend public schools, that polygamists should be prosecuted, that the community should be broken up and the members be integrated into mainstream society. I don’t have any philosophical objection to those arguments, but I also freely admit that I have no solution for the problem. Lorne Eckersley Attempts to achieve similar goals with First Nations and Doukhobors weren’t exactly resounda great believer in education and ing successes and I’d hate to see us some curious/bizarre/disturbing making the same mistakes all over reports have been coming out of what is a now a very closed commu- again. How do you prosecute polygamy nity of marriages being dissolved, without witnesses? It’s a problem men being kicked out and their that has dogged RCMP investigawives and children “reassigned” to tions over the years and there is no other men and families. indication it has changed. How do So now, for the time being at you force Bountiful kids into public least, about 170 Bountiful students at least have a foot in the door of the schools without risking having them spirited away to another location in public education system. It’s been a the dark of night? Or without having welcome challenge for the school to force other homeschoolers, who district to accommodate these kids, don’t want their kids in the public not least because it now means that system for any number of reasons, to more teachers have jobs in the pubattend our schools. How do you lic schools than last year. From what break apart a community that, like it I’ve heard, ancillary services at the or not, has members who believe in Creston Education Centre, home to Homelinks, have been overwhelmed the tenets of their faith, which they have a constitutional right to do? by new clients, but there has been a I don’t have any answers to those great commitment to accommodate questions, at least none that don’t them. involve some very ugly behavior Sadly, while it might seem like a and risk forcing people to further glimmer of hope to have all these distance themselves from us, or students participating in the public worse, to feel that violence is their system, their enrolment can only be only recourse. described as tenuous at best. From Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of all indications, they could just disapthe Creston Valley Advance. pear as quickly as they arrived, at

This is the Life

Volunteers important to library

In the next couple of columns, I would like to take the opportunity to highlight some of the amazing work that volunteers do for our library and our community. When I worked at the Vancouver Public Library, people would often approach me about volunteer opportunities at the library. Unfortunately, at VPL — as at many urban and regional library systems — there is no role for volunteers, and we had to turn those good people away. One of the things I love about my new job here is the opportunity to work with such a diverse and active group of volunteers. We have high school students advising me on what books to buy for the teen section, another team of dedicated souls delivering library books to homebound patrons, and a greyhaired army of former teachers, librarians and folks from all walks of life helping to shelve books, clean shelves and keep the library and staff in order. Thank you to all of you! I’d also like to tell about a special group of volunteers who are giving their time to assist elementary school aged children learn to read. The program is called Readers are Leaders. Students meet weekly with a trained reading buddy and gain confidence in reading cognition, comprehension and speed. The library arranges tutor

training, tutor-student matching and program oversight. If you know a student who might benefit from this program, or if you would like to volunteer, please con-

reserve list for this one if you want it before next summer. The Imposter Bride, by Nancy Richler, was shortlisted for the 2012 Giller Prize for the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. The story follows a young immigrant to Montreal who quickly marries, gives birth and disappears, leaving behind a host of questions and intrigues, such as: Who is Lily, really? Why did she leave? Will Ruth ever find her? And what’s up with the rocks? Finally, 2001 Nobel Prize in economics winner Joseph Stiglitz has come out with The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. Stiglitz argues that our faith in fundamentalist capitalism (i.e. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”) is detrimental both to society as a whole and to the one per cent who appear to benefit the most. He proposes an alternative approach to capitalist economics that is both more efficient and, importantly, more fair and equitable. Personally, I’m more interested in how Llama Llama’s shopping trip turned out, but to each his or her own! Please come by and check out our new new book display area, and if you’re looking for something to read with your little one, come talk to me — otherwise, talk to Pat or Narelle! Aaron Francis is the chief librarian at the Creston and District Public Library.

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Aaron Francis tact Gail Southall, our volunteer coordinator, at 250-428-4141 or gail@ crestonlibrary.com. Now, if you are a regular patron at the library, you probably know that our staff members Pat and Narelle are the ones to talk to if you are looking for a good read. For my part, with a toddler at home, I rarely read anything more involved than Llama Llama Red Pajama (a great book, by the way!). Nevertheless, here are few from the hotlist, just arrived on the processing cart. James Patterson, the richest author in the world according to Forbes, has a number of new titles out in 2012. Among them is NYPD Red, a thrilling detective tale combining larger-than-life action, relentless speed and white knuckle twists. Better put yourself on the

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Canadian way should be peaceful To the Editor: Liberating a Dutch hospital during the Second World War is my 90-yearold uncle’s pride. “Peace!” the Dutch shouted. Freedom from oppression at last! Canada’s economy perpetuates the business of war for profit. Our Canada Pension Plan invests $675 million into the top international weapons manufacturers and trade. Cluster bomb components, depleted uranium bullets, tanks, $1 billion invested in armed drones and the infamous stealth fighter jets are profitable investments. The consequences of war trauma are deprived acts of cruelty, suicide and mass insanity for generations. Hearts and minds are broken during the escalating horror for profit. The power of greed is more addictive than heroine or cocaine — they who are the richest in our culture are deemed to be most successful and honoured. Global climate change is an unacknowledged major consequence of fossil fuel wars, and wars require fossil fuels to power their profitable wars for fossil fuels! Canadians have a choice to embrace the goodness of life by rejecting wars’ tragic profits by subsidizing alternative energy and local sustainable employment, or we can continue to fund the

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dead-end evil of war and its profiteers through our hijacked pensions, taxes and elections. For all of the earnest cadets selling poppies in remembrance of peace — may you be trained as global climate change emergency response teams, rather than be utilized as soldiers in the unethical no-win fossil fuel wars. Susan Eyre Yahk

Last penny ‘end of era for mankind’ To the Editor: The last penny went out on May 4. Many people were sad, many people were happy. This is a part of the plot to desensitize people to the idea of eliminating all hard currency to bring in microchip implants. I mean, what’s a penny? It’s worthless. People throw them away to be rid of their weight. The value of money has disappeared in a whirlwind of bailouts, quantitative easing and massive layoffs. Your pension: worthless. Your savings: worthless. Your paycheque: worthless. We are headed toward a tough winter, and there is very little food in the shed and very little money in the hands of many people because money is worthless. What has gone on these past five years is bizarre, to say the least. Things don’t look so good for the next five, either. We are living in a time where

money has no value because you require so much of it just to live. The pennies are fewer and the cost of living is going up. Better hold on to your pennies! Before fractional reserve banking, all hard currency’s value was based on the value of the metal it was printed on — copper, nickel, silver and gold. A country’s strength depended on its reserves. Empires were forged. Inflation was natural. But fractional reserve banking and oil made hard currency obsolete. They could print as much money as they wanted based on nothing. We conquered the globe. But peak oil is here, and these minerals are getting very expensive to get out of the ground. Good times for mining, bad times for the penny. I was sad to see the penny go. It is the end of an era for mankind. Money is just numbers on a piece of paper now, which is such crap. It doesn’t matter how much money they print; they can’t fix the global economy. It’s spiralling out of control. Peak oil does not care about fractional reserve banking. As demands outweigh supply, you will see more madness than leadership. True Democracy does, though. We can step aside from the madness and create a better society through direct democracy and green technologies, redesign our energy demand and rebuild our money supply as Andrew Jackson did and give the power of it back to the people, and eliminate the World Bank as it is and give the money back to the people to whom it truly belongs. By the way, the last penny in Canadian history cost you $50,000. Tyson Soroke West Creston

Tory MPs need to use conscience

Wanted: Twenty-two angry MPs. I’ll tell you why in the following paragraphs. You have surely read and heard the concern being expressed about the government’s failure to let Parliament see and discuss publicly the details of its proposed 31-year investment treaty with China. Governments aren’t legally bound to submit treaties to Parliament, but it has been customary for pacts as important as this to be opened to scrutiny before ratification. Were you watching the CBC’s The National recently when the three “insight” panelists unanimously condemned the Harper government’s introduction of an “omnibus” budget bill — for the second time in two years — as “an affront to democracy”? They did so because these omnibus bills make it impossible for opposition MPs and the public to adequately assess and debate all the measures proposed in the massive documents before they go to the Senate for ratification, especially when, as happened last year, “closure” is used to limit the time allowed for Commons scrutiny. These are but the latest in a string of actions taken by the Harper government which make me, too, anxious about the future of democracy in Canada and, indeed, about the well-being of its citizens. Among others was the decision to limit the time allowed the National Energy Board to hear public submissions about the proposed pipeline for moving Athabasca oilsands crude to the Pacific Coast, not to mention the government’s evident lack of concern for the environment generally and about global warming in particular. There were the steps taken to muzzle federal scientists who disagreed

with government policies affecting their spheres of expertise and to reduce funding for scientific activity in general. There was the measure that made it more difficult to qualify for and get employment insurance.

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Experience Peter Hepher There was the arbitrary removal of the Canadian Wheat Board’s historical monopoly on the marketing of wheat and barley without allowing the affected grain growers to vote on the move. There was the killing (by ending its funding) of the National Council of Welfare, and similar action taken respecting other governmental or nonprofit agencies that had the temerity to take issue with governmental decisions. And the list of measures taken to stop parliamentary and public scrutiny, and in some cases awareness, of the government’s intentions goes on. Given what has happened during the past two years, I shudder to think what might happen during the next three if Stephen Harper is allowed to go on running the country like a dictator. That, I think, is not too strong a word to describe Harper’s approach to government. His excuse in many cases has been the need to provide jobs, but success on that front has so far been questionable.

Another argument the prime minister has advanced in defence of some measures, including reducing the size of the public service, is that the government needs to be more efficient. Unfortunately, more governmental “efficiency” has often resulted in more inconvenience and sometimes actual hardship for ordinary Canadians, but that get us nearer to what I and others think really makes Harper tick. That the man is a control freak is generally conceded. Add to that his belief that the less government the better and the suspicion that he has particularly hard-edged religious convictions and you see what I’m afraid of. However, I’m not only afraid of what damage Harper’s approach to government might do if allowed to continue, I am dismayed that those who have the power to stop him have failed to do it. A little math tells me that the government’s current majority in the House is a mere 21 MPs. I find it hard to believe that all of the 163 Conservatives are comfortable with Harper’s performance. Yet it would only take 22 of them to vote against an important piece of legislation — say, this new omnibus budget bill — to force Harper to either back down or call a general election. In fact, they need only abstain if all 142 opposition members were present and voting. Are there really not 22 Tory MPs who, recognizing that they were elected to serve their constituents according to their own convictions, are ready to put those convictions, their reasoning and their consciences ahead of misguided and hazardous party loyalty? Peter Hepher is a retired journalist living in Creston.

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Thursday, November 15, 2012 Creston Valley Advance

Trucking careers needed and important to B.C. economy BLACK PRESS

Job seekers are in luck when it comes to the commercial road transportation industry in British Columbia. Trucking companies throughout B.C. require professional drivers, mechanics, dispatchers and operations staff right now, which means that job seekers with experience and/or training may find work within their preferred region. For those considering training prior to joining the workforce, demand for skilled workers in the industry is likely to grow — to 2020 and beyond. There are a number of reasons for this. For truck drivers, the industry is facing a North America-wide shortage because most are 45 years of age or older and nearing retirement (in fact, in Canada, according to a report by the Canada Trucking Human Resources Council, 58 per cent of long-haul truck drivers fall in this age range). Similar shortages exist for other jobs, including diesel engine and heavy duty mechanics. Aside from worker shortages, economic growth in the Asia-Pacific Gateway is also driving demand for workers in transportation. This applies not only to companies in the Lower Mainland, but in other regions as well, since the Asia-Pacific “gate-

way” is actually made up of an integrated supply chain of airports, seaports, rail and road connections, and border crossings, from Prince Rupert to Surrey, with links supplied by trucking. Today’s trucking industry is an exciting place to be. Equipment in many companies is state of the art, meaning increased comfort and ease for drivers and opportunities for mechanics to work with technologically advanced systems, keeping both their skills and interest engaged. Dispatch relies on sophisticated tracking and routing systems. Others on the operations side also use information technology of many kinds to deal with everything from licences and permits, to customer services, accounting, sales and marketing. And, people joining the industry have many career choices. Drivers, for example, may work close to home as pick-up and delivery or short-haul drivers. Those who like the idea of travelling across Canada or North America can become long-haul drivers for an employer or work as owner-operators. Drivers may haul consumer goods, fuel, logs, heavy-duty equipment, livestock — most of what we purchase or consume spent some time on the road with a commercial truck!

If you already have experience as a driver, mechanic or operations worker, most companies advertise jobs on their websites. Members of the BC Trucking Association from across the province may post jobs under Careers on www.bctrucking. com, and the provincial and federal governments maintain job sites at WorkBC (www.workbc.ca/Jobs) and Working in Canada (www.workingincanada.gc.ca; choose to explore careers by occupation, then by region). Within your own community, it may also pay to approach a company you’d like to work for, drop off a résumé and inquire if and when they’ll be hiring. If you’d like to enter the industry but need training, there are also many avenues to explore. Although there is not a standard training course for professional drivers, there are numerous private schools throughout B.C. that offer programs. For information on transportation trades in B.C., including mechanics and other technicians, visit TransCDA (www.tcda.ca). And for information on trucking careers in general, see www.truckingcareers. ca. Your own community and region depend on trucking. It may also offer the right career for you.

Thirty words to give your resume a big boost Words to Convey Work Ethic 1. Diligent 2. Consistent 3. Thoughtful 4. Accurate 5. Valuable 6. Thorough 7. Reliable 8. Results 9. Persistence 10. Improved Words to Convey Positive Attitude 11. Solutions 12. Vision 13. Success 14. Encouraged 15. Innovative 16. Achieved 17. Motivated 18. Contributed 19. Collaborated 20. Outcome

Words to Convey Communication Skills 21. Spoke 22. Presented 23. Published 24. Negotiated 25. Inspired 26. Created 27. Shared 28. Conveyed 29. Timely 30. Concise

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