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John Kidder holds a photograph donated by Guy Lundstrom and tries to encourage Deb Arnott (right) to bid higher while Janna Quesnel, Lisa Tegart and Jim Duncan enjoy the exchange at last week’s Spaghetti Supper and Auction Fundraiser, put on the the Ashcroft branding committee. More on p. 3.
MP Mark Strahl, Cache Creek Mayor John Ranta and councillors Herb Hofer and Lisa Dafoe were joined by representatives from several community groups: Martin Dalsin, Leslie Lloyd, Trustee Carmen Ranta, Judy Davison, Lori Pilon, Shirlee Johnson, Vicky Trill and her daughter Mary Grace as Strahl announced the award of a $128,300 grant to Cache Creek.
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The Cache Creek Community Park will undergo some major improvements with the help of $128,300 from the federal government. Last week, Mark Strahl, Member of Parliament for Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon, on behalf of the Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, announced federal funding for playground equipment and site site reconstruction under the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF). “By improving facilities such as this, we are helping to boost economic activity while improving local facilities,” said MP Strahl. Cache Creek will match the grant with their own $128,000 and use the money to raise the existing level of the playground to address flooding issues, install paving stones around the Gazebo to make it wheelchair accessible, and level the sloped area between the pool and playground. The Village will also replace existing playground equipment to meet current safety standards. “This initiative will improve the accessibility and functionality of the park, as well as protect the playground and gazebo from future flooding,” said Mayor John Ranta. “New paving stones around the gazebo will provide an attractive and functional area for community events, and leveling the sloped area between the pool and playground will offer an expanded area for picnicking. We are very excited about this project.” These improvements to the park, and more, were outlined in the 2011 Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan which can be read on the Village’s website: www.cachecreekvillage.com The Plan was created with the input of several of Cache Creek’s leisure and recreation users. Later the same day, Nov. 30, Strahl was in Lillooet to announce $52,000 for the Lillooet and District REC Centre from the same funding program. The funds will replace an exterior marquee sign with an energy-efficient electronic message board, improve the centre’s boiler unit and make various improvements to the pool area. CIIF supports, on a cost-shared basis, repairs and improvements to existing community infrastructure accessible to the public. Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) is delivering the Fund in Western Canada with an allocation of $46.2 million over two years.
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Cache Creek Pentecostal Church Christ Centered People Centered 1551 Stage Rd. Cache Creek B.C. Phone 250-457-6463 Pastor David Murphy Worship and Sermon commences at 10 a.m. Everyone welcome
Cadets and officers of 347 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Avenger stand ready to assist at the recent snowy Remembrance Day ceremony in Ashcroft. Trailers collide
Nov. 27 police were asked to investigate a hit and run in the Cache Creek Husky parking lot after a tractor trailer reported damage. The truck had been parked there since the weekend and it was suspected that another tractor trailer was the culprit. The truck was registered to a company in Williams Lake and the driver was a 45 year old Williams Lake woman.
Thief grabs the beef
Dec. 1 police received a report of the theft of frozen meat from Heartlands Restaurant in Cache Creek after it was discovered that $2,000 worth of meat had been stolen from the restaurant’s freezers some time overnight. There were no signs of forced entry outside the restaurant, but once the suspect managed to enter the restaurant, they forced open the storage area where they stole the meat, some alcohol and a space heater. The matter is still under investigation.
Sleepy driver causes accident
Dec. 1 at 9:30 am police attended a two car accident on Hwy 97 by the Bonaparte reserve after a northbound 1999 Chrysler Intrepid served into the path of a southbound Dodge Caravan
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pulling a trailer. The car hit the trailer, sending the driver to Kamloops hospital with minor injuries. It is suspected that the driver, a 43 year old Surrey man, nodded off behind the wheel. His passenger was not injured, nor was the driver of the Caravan, a 72 year old Lillooet man. Charges are pending against the Surrey driver.
Abandoned trailer burned
Fridge and washer stolen
Dec. 2 police received a complaint that two appliances had been stolen from an unused mobile home in the Riverside Trailer Park in Cache Creek, next to the Post Office. Stolen were a refrigerator and washer. There was also extensive damage done to the building. The matter is still under investigation and anyone having any information about the incident is asked to phone RCMP at 453-2216.
Dec. 2 at 4:20 am police received a report of a trailer on fire on the south shore of the Thompson River, across from the Christian Ranch, in an area called Barnes Lake Rd. by Walhachin. There was no evidence that there was anything inside the trailer at the time, which burned to the ground. Anyone with any information Police Telephone #s about the incident, the owner of the trailer or the owner of Ashcroft: 250-453-2216 the property is asked to phone Clinton: 250-459-2221 the RCMP at 453-2216.
Bottle Depot’s trailer stolen
Remembrance Day “Winter weather makes for unsafe driving conditions. Please we drive forget carefully.” - Harry Lest If you value your freedom, then thank a Veteran!
Dec. 2 at noon a local businessman reported the theft of his 16-foot Titan Dump utility trailer from the parking lot at the bottle depot in Ashcroft. The theft happened sometime overnight of the 29th. The trailer is black with two custom welded lifting rams and BC plate 57459C. Anyone with any information about the theft is asked to phone RCMP at 453-2216.
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Wellness committee’s fundraiser huge success Laughter. The sight and buzz of people visiting. The smell of spaghetti sauce. Bite-sized cupcakes in the jewel-toned colours of the stepping stones. Background music. Colorful balloons dotting the tables and entry way. A colourful slideshow of local scenery, events and people. What a wonderful evening for those who attended the Wellness Committee’s Spaghetti Supper and Auction on Nov. 29 at the Community Hall! The committee was overwhelmed with the turnout of 130 people - elders, young families and children - and also the generosity of local businesses and residents alike who offered items for the auctions. Dinner tickets and auction items raised just over $3,800 for next summer’s Wellness Festival. The silent auction had a wide variety of items (39 in total), while the live auction showcased nine items. Joris Ekering and John Kidder did a marvelous job as auctioneers, drawing many into the excite-
ment of bidding. Councillor Jackie Tegart, welcomed everyone to the event and thanked the many volunteers who made the event such a huge success. She drew people’s attention to the stepping stone shapes on the wall and shared the meanings of their colours: Yellow for the Ashcroft sunshine, Green for the sage, Purple for the distant hills, Red for Ashcroft tomatoes and Brown for Ashcroft potatoes; a testament to our past, present and future. The food was great, the energy was positive and the evening was fun for all. With a solid base established, the Wellness Committee is eager to move forward with the plans for the Wellness Festival that will be held next July 19-21. There is another fundraiser planned for Feb. 14, 2013. This will be an adult function, and as it is Valentines Day, an opportunity to dress up and have a fun evening. More information will be available as the date comes closer. Andrea Walker
Conservatives form new riding association in Fraser Nicola board members, Forseth then went on to announce that Merritt resident Michael Beauclair was the first person approved to seek the nomination for Fraser Nicola. Beauclair, who has worked in forestry for over 24 years, CA President Dan Cummins of Savona (L) and Board introduced himDirector Ted Lund of Merritt (R) self to the memBC Conservative Party members present. bers, from across the Fraser Nicola “I believe that the key to proselectoral district, gathered on Dec. perity, in extracting natural resour1 in the Cache Creek community ces, is free-market system that is hall. based on honest weights and meas“Today’s event was to officially ures,” he told them. “I also believe bring into existence the BC Con- in, and am a strong advocate of, servative Party Constituency As- value-added manufacturing of forsociation for Fraser Nicola,” de- est products. clared Regional Director Alan For“We have all seen first hand the seth, “... and secondly to hear the every increasing job loses in the announcement of the first person forest industry in recent years. We who has declared they will seek must ensure that we extract more the nod of members to run in next value from our forests to, sustain May’s provincial election.” both employment now, and into the Elected to the first board were future.” Dan Cummings of Savona, Wayne In the weeks and months ahead Ferguson of Seton Portage, Ted Michael will engage the people Lund of Merritt, Patrick Mull- of the Fraser-Nicola, and promote doon of Logan Lake, Shaun Free- the ideals of the BC Conservative man of Savona, as well as Michael Party, as he campaigns to win the Beauclair of Merritt. party’s nomination. Following the election of the Submitted
The Ashcroft branding committee raised nearly $4,000 at its Spaghetti Supper/ Auction Fundraiser last week. (Left) Martina Baier and Jo-anne Portman browse the silent auction. (Above) The crowd, including Al and Marijke Stott, have a good laugh at the evening’s silly auctioneers, (Above Left) Joris Ekering and John Kidder.
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What goes around, comes around It sure doesn’t seem much like Christmas out there as I write this on Tuesday afternoon. Blue skies, mild weather. A little bit of ice and frost in the morning. I am not complaining! I’m just saying that it’s hard to forget that Christmas is three weeks away. When I was a kid, we started marking off the days until Christmas in November, we were so excited. There were so many things that Santa might bring us. And now, 40 years later as I look back, I can remember very few outstanding gifts. What I remember is family - lots of visiting, lots of food! Laughter and noise. Thinking of it still makes me smile. I also remember Christmas concerts every year, how my parents would dress up in their best “going out” clothes (different from “going to church” clothes) and sit in the packed gymnasium with all of the other parents on those old gray metal stacking chairs. It felt like the social event of the year. That was the community I remember as a child. Since then, there have been other communities. Special places where I’ve lived, where there have been people who have gone out of their way to bring the community together, usually through a variety of ways. Christmas season has so many opportunities for communities to come together, and it’s interesting to watch as people who normally keep to themselves become transformed by the laughter and friendship of everyone else in the room. Community usually doesn’t just “happen”. It needs help. It’s best when it has help from everyone. It’s not only people who get gifts at Christmas time. Communities can, too. What sort of gift can we give our community? Volunteering. Helping out, helping friends and strangers alike. Putting aside the differences of opinion that separate us from others. Working together - TOGETHER - to make our communities happier, prettier, more prosperous places to live. You can’t lose, because the more you give, the more you get back. Giving to your community is also giving to yourself.
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SUNSHINE CREEPS OVER THE HILLS along the river, highlighting the gulleys and channels
Merry Christmas from Seniors’ Assoc. Dear Editor On behalf of the Ashcroft Cache Crek Seniors, we would like to thank the residents and friends in this area who are always there for us, in any of our endeavours. It’s nice to meet and talk to you all, whether selling tickets or at our Bazaars. A very big thank you to our members and friends who worked so hard at our Strawberry Tea, our Christmas Bazaar or our annual Carpet Bowling Bash; our weekly bingo callers, plus those wonderful ladies who spoil us every Saturday Bingo with those tasty treats! I can’t forget Wendy, who is always there for us at any of our do’s. I’m sorry I can’t mention every name, but you all know who you are. Just remember, you are thought of by us all.
Lastly, I will add the names of our Raffle winners: 1st Prize (Christmas Hamper) Stephanie Walker; 2nd ($75) Mary Edwards, 3rd ($60) Christine Wilson; Door Prize Aletta Hanson; Cake - Louise Burroughs; and Grill - Fusa Teshima. All are from Ashcroft. Don’t forget our annual Christmas party on Dec. 13 at Chris’ Under the Bridge. Door open at 11 am, but let me know by Dec. 10 that you’re coming. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from us all. Pat Kirby Ashcroft-Cache Creek Seniors Association
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Dear Editor Bah! Humbug! Tis the season to be... Cache Creek Council couldn’t even wait until the Dec 11 meeting with all three communities to discuss the viability of the bus service between Ashcroft, CC and Clinton. I do not use the service because I have my own car and can buy gas whenever I need it. Heck! I can even afford to use planes, boats and trains to travel anywhere I want. But I remember when I was not so blessed. Having this
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service provides a quality of life for its users whether it is a trip into one of the villages to shop for food, pick up prescriptions, have lunch with some friends or make a connection to get to Kamloops to see the doctor/ specialist or our local doctor. These are things that most of us take for granted. It speaks volumes about our communities that we are willing to use our tax money to provide this service. What would be “earth shattering” is to have Cache Creek Council come up with a viable alternative? It will not be a “Happy New Year” for our local BC transit users. Maria Russell Martin Ashcroft
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The hard-working Dutch immigrants social life by introducing him to a church with a predominantly Dutch congregation that spoke English. And it was in that church that Gerry met the love of his life, Wilma. The couple have been married for over 50 years. Dutch immigration to Canada peaked in the 1950’s. Prior to the Second World War, Holland discouraged immigration, but the aftermath of the war, when the country was occupied by the German armies, left many homeless, starving, and without unemployment. Holland’s economy was devastated. One third of the population was prepared to immigrate. And Canada was the chosen country. The bulk of those early immigrants became farmers. Wilma was only 15 when her family took the vigorous young hopeful Dutch youth in as a boarder. “He was handsome. He looked like a movie actor,” declares Wilma. Courting was permitted, but it was not until Gerry moved out that the couple became engaged. “It was a different time. Couples didn’t get together under the same roof,” See BEEKHUIZEN on p. 6
Lions thanked for helping a young boy to hear At their Nov. 28 meeting, Robert Belin from Cache Creek presented the Lions with a beautiful card that he had made thanking the club for the $1,600 donation that helped to purchase his new hearing aids. Robert is 6 years old and his mom didn’t know he had a hearing problem. He wasn’t a happy little boy - often acting out - until he started school and they realized something was wrong and had his ears tested. Now that he can hear he is a happy child and doing very well. The Ashcroft & District Lions are pleased that they could help Robert out. In the picture (Back row): Lions Laurie Rennie, George Harvie, Mo Girard, Ernie Kristoff, Arlene Lebedoff, Henry Klassen, Mavis Putnam, Bob Cunningham. (Middle row): Bob Tuohey, Bob Williams, Ken Munro, Orval Trueman, Jan Maserall, Robert Belin, his Mom Ramona, Lions FRIDAYInes Lopez, Dave Wilson. (Front row): SUNDAY Lion Burt Mazerall, and Robert’s sister, DEC. 7-9 Kiandra.
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by Esther Darlington MacDonald “We learn by doing”. Pretty well sums it up. That’s how Wilma Beekheuzin views the long history of their lives in Canada after her family immigrated from Friesland in Holland in 1952. The family was large. Nine children, the eldest just 14. Wilma’s father had been an office worker before the war, but he found work as a carpenter soon after arriving in Canada. Eventually, he became a builder of houses and built many fine homes in Richmond, B.C. The family prospered and never regretted the dramatic move to Canada from a rural area in north Holland. Gerry Beekhuizen was a lad of just 18 when he arrived in the country he declares today is a “Land of opportunity”. Unlike Wilma, who received her education in Canada and spoke two languages, Gerry could not speak a word of English. When he found work with a farming family in B.C. shortly after arriving in Canada, he says, “I never spoke a word for two months”. The family not only helped Gerry to learn the language which he now speaks fluently, they broadened his
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Keeping busy kept food on the table BEEKHUIZEN from p. 5
Wilma explains, with a twinkle in her eyes. Wilma was 19 when they married. Gerry was 24. Wilma reflects how today’s young couples seem to expect so much more when they marry. A house, a vehicle or two, a boat, holidays in Hawaii and Mexico, are just a few of the expectations. But Gerry and Wilma looked to the future with all the hope and confidence of youth, though financially, they had very little except their skills. Still they were ready and willing to take on any adventure. It was Wilma’s description of the young couple’s time in the remote hamlet of Kitwanga that aroused my interest. “We lived in a cabin. About 8’x10’. All we had to keep us warm and to cook on was a potbellied stove.” Gerry recalls with laughter, the “toilet”, - a huge pile of sawdust that was used near the cabins at the sawmill he worked at in the bush. “When the snow melted, you could see the toilet paper sticking out,” Wilma chuckles. She goes on to describe the 50 below temperatures that ruptured the trees and literally cleaved them in half with an explosion that would wake them at night. Wilma and Gerry saw the whole year long experience as an adventure. Something to look back on without a trace of pity or regret. Just something to live through. The couple greatly enjoyed the company of the native persons in the area whom they found friendly, articulate, a handsome people, as industrious as themselves. But there was little money for Gerry working in a bush mill. It was what resembled “piece work”. You were paid by the thousand board feet $3. and,
as happened all too frequently, a machine broke down and a part was needed from Prince George, hundreds of miles distant, you didn’t get paid anything. Undaunted by this adventure, the couple re- Wilma and Gerry Beekhuizen turned to the coast. the work habit was still strong. Gerry became a plasterer When a friend offered him the and worked for several years job of hauling milk from other for a small company. He had dairy farmers, Gerry took it his eye however, on 10 acres of and worked for 16 years. But pasture land, and all his agri- when the job became “a sevcultural instincts came to a en days a week” operation, head. Back in Holland, he’d at- Gerry felt the time had come tended an agricultural college, to find another type of work. and one of his friends during He worked for Highways, the war when people were eat- and Wilma managed a store ing tulip bulbs to survive, in- for the Workwear chain. Now vited him to eat with his family well into mid life, the couple who owned a farm. The food felt it was time to retire. They was plentiful at his friend’s lived in Sicamous for a time, home. So, it isn’t surprising but when the town began to that Gerry equated good liv- grow and the demographics ing with farming. Eventually, changed, they decided to move he started a Holstein calf oper- again. They found Ashcroft, ation and the herd expanded and they’ve been here for four to 35. But again, a problem years and love the life here. surfaced in the Milk Board’s “The people are so friendly quota system. “It was a tough here,” notes Gerry. way to make ends meet,” reWe talk about the Protestflects Gerry without bitterness, ant Work Ethic. Wonder if it “But we stuck it out and my has died, or is just faltering alplastering job helped.” But af- together. People seem to want ter “years and years of strug- so much more. Times have gling”, Gerry and Wilma sold changed dramatically since their dairy farm at Grindrod the Beekuizens immigratfor $240,000. ed to Canada and were happy They raised two sons at the to attempt any adventure, defarm. It was a good, healthy spite the challenges. The life, but as is so often the case, Second World War’s aftermath their sons did not wish to make brought many more industrifarming their career. ous peoples to Canada which Gerry was only 40 when most found a country of opthe dairy farm was sold. He portunity, “if you were willing could have retired early, but to work hard enough.”
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Clinton celebrates 150 years, CiB steps onto national stage Clinton Youth Receives 2012 CiB Foundation Bursary
Established in 2005, the Communities in Bloom Foundation is dedicated to funding, developing and disseminating education and awareness to a wide audience on the value, improvement, importance and sustainable development of green spaces and natural environment in Canadian society. Dustin Coldwell of Clinton was one of two Canadian recipients of the 2012 CiB Foundation Bursary of $1,000 each. Coldwell will be enrolled in the Resource Management Officer Technician program at the Vancouver Island University In order to be eligible applicants must be registered in, and successfully complete, a full-time post secondary level pertaining to ornamental and/or environmental horticulture programs in an accredited institution. They must also be involved in a community participating in the Communities in Bloom program (national or provincial editions). Successful recipients must agree to have their name and education information publicized throughout the Communities in Bloom network and public (website, magazine, et cetera). Clinton Councillor David Park and Clinton CiB Chair Christine Johnstone
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presented the bursary check to Coldwell in late November. Congratulations, Dustin!
Clinton Going National
In a letter from CiB Founding Chairman Raymond Carriere, The Village of Clinton was invited to enter the 2013 Communities in Bloom National Edition. At the Nov. 28 regular council meeting Council voted to accept the invitation. The Clinton CiB Garden Club members are excited to get started.
Anniversary Plans
It was noted that there should be more visitors to Clinton next year with the anniversary celebrations being planned. 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the naming of Clinton by Queen Victoria in honour of the retirement of Colonial Secretary Henry Pelham Clinton. It is also the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Village of Clinton. A committee has been struck to coordinate the events being planned by the various organizations in Clinton. As plans are made more info9mation will be made available.
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Smith Ave. The kids can skate with Santa at the arena between 3 and 4 p.m. The Village Christmas tree will be lit on the lawn of the Village Office at 5:30 p.m. Join Mayor Rivett as he throws the switch to light up the tree. The day finishes with the Bethel Pentecostal Church Christmas Banquet at 6 p.m. In order to as- Councillor David Park and Clinton CiB Chair Christine certain numbers those Johnstone present Dustin Coldwell with his bursary cheque planning to attend are asked to RSVP by calling 250-459-2959. Join us in Clinton for a fun day filled with activities.
on Saturday, Dec. 8 as the Clinton CiB Garden Club members invite you to their first Victorian Christmas Celebration. Plans include the annual Merchant Madness Sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in participating businesses. The Clinton museum will be decorated in Victorian style and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A Victorian Father Christmas will be in attendance at the museum during the morning hours. Check out the Flea/ Craft Dec 8: 3rd Annual Breakfast with Santa and Toys for Joys 8-11am at Market Chris’s Under the Bridge Restaurant. and Bake Dec 9: Annual Kinsmen Family “Christmas Turkey” Bingo at the Sale in Cache Creek Community Hall. Doors open at 10:00 am. the Le- Dec. 10: Cache Creek Council meeting at 7 pm in the Village Office. Dec 12 & 13: Screening Mammography at the Ashcroft Hospital. For gion appointments call 1-800-663-9203. basement Dec. 13: Cache Creek Winter Lights Appreciation and Singalong in from 10 the Community Hall. Doors open at 7 pm. Includes a performance by the Handbell Choir. Hot beverages and snacks available. Free a.m. to 2 admission. p.m. Dec. 14: Zion UCW Church Family Christmas Party; 5:30 pm. The Sen- Potluck supper and program. 14: Annual Turkey Bingo at the Spences Bridge Community iors As- Dec. Hall (Hwy. 8) on Fri. Dec. 14. Doors open at 6:00 pm; early bird sociation starts at 6:30 pm. will host Dec. 16: Ashcroft Curling Club annual “Turkey Fun Spiel”, 10 am a Christ- - 4 pm. Entry fee; everyone welcome. Please bring at least one nonperishable food item for the local Christmas Food Hamper. Potluck mas Tea luncheon. Sign up sheet at the Curling Rink, or call Barb Hodder from 2 to 250-453-9286. 4 p.m. in Dec. 16: Seasonal Choral Performance with the Sage Sound Singers and The Desert Bells Handbell Choir at 7 pm in St. Alban’s Church the Sen- in Ashcroft. Matinee performance at 2 pm on Sunday, Dec. 17. iors Cen- Admission is by donation. tre at 217 Dec. 16: CP Holiday Train rolls into Ashcroft with Brothers Dube,
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Booing is bad manners ON A BRIGHTER NOTE LORI WELBOURNE loriwelbourne.com
Canadians are known for being polite people, but last weekend thousands of spectators at the Grey Cup game in Toronto were anything but when they aggressively booed their nation’s most famous young superstar before, during and after his halftime performance. Okay, I understand these predominantly male football fans are not remotely interested in Justin Bieber’s singing and dancing, but didn’t they learn in kindergarten that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all? Perhaps they missed a class. I have to admit, the 18-yearold singing sensation isn’t
my cup of tea either, but I’m sure he’s okay with that. He has millions and millions of adoring fans all over the world screaming for him the way my generation screamed for Michael Jackson and my mother’s generation screamed for The Beatles. Since not many football fans have Bieber fever, booking him as part of the half-time show was clearly a ploy to boost their ratings. Undoubtedly it worked in that regard. “The spectators at the game paid good money for their tickets,” one of my friends said in defense of their behaviour. “They have every right to show
their displeasure.” But who are they displeased with? The organizers that booked an entertainer who was obviously not someone their fans would appreciate? Or the entertainer who was doing what he was hired to do? “That is not music,” another friend said angrily. “It’s bubble gum crap!” What a coincidence. I heard the same thing about Michael Jackson in the 80s and my mom heard the same thing
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defensive on their behalf as well as his. In the world of arts and entertainment, what’s considered good or bad is entirely subjective. Pleasing everyone, as we all know, isn’t possible. Do we really need to get aggressively rude towards someone just because we don’t like them or their work? Who among us would enjoy that type of treatment? I guess if the trade-off is fame, fortune and the adoration of millions, most of us would learn to ignore the angry haters and recognize the jealousy, resentment and hostility for what it’s worth: nothing. As a Canadian, I’m extremely proud of my fellow countryman for his astonishing success and contentious talent. His music might not be on my playlist, and I probably won’t be taking any fashion tips from him either, but the Biebs will never hear any booing from me. Like most Canadians, I’m far too polite for that. Lori Welbourne is a syndicated columnist. She can be contacted at LoriWelbourne.com
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about The Beatles in the 60s. I wonder if those “crap singers” were treated with such hostility by their native countries after becoming international superstars. I doubt it. “Bieber is an embarrassment to Canada,” my friend continued. “Wearing undone overalls and a backwards baseball hat to receive an award from the Prime Minister is an absolute disgrace!” I have to say, if he were my son, I would have strongly encouraged him to change into a nice suit to receive such an honour backstage during rehearsals, but his questionable wardrobe choice doesn’t warrant the kind of revulsion normally reserved for violent criminals. The severe backlash against Justin Bieber has baffled me for years, and it continues to surprise me as it becomes more intense. I’ll never forget the first grown man I heard spewing venom and practically frothing at the mouth over the young singer when he first became a break-out star. Being the mother of two children who loved Justin’s music, I felt
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Rockets learning the ropes Ashcroft Rockets Team roster for this game ... Lyric Antoine (1), Holden Kinvig (17), Waylon Hoggard (10), Fischer Pelley (9), Carter Billingsly (5), Shawn Minnabarriet (4), Cloe Rupert (11), Kylie Isnardy (7), Mackenzie Rampone (2), Cashtin Wilson-Minnabarriet (3), Cimarone Wilson-Minnabarriet (8), Dallon Tomey (12), and Louis Minnabarriet (6). The Ashcroft Initiation Team, the Rockets, played the Logan Lake Initiation team in the Drylands Arena last Saturday, Dec.
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The Ashcroft and District Lions Club presented an Appreciation Award to the Ashcroft Hockey Association. They have been very generous with donations to our Golf Tournament as well as contributing time and money to repairing our concession trailer. Lions Nick Lebedoff and Darrell Rawcliffe made the presentation to Larry Van Leest, Derek Nelson and Stan Aie. Stan has been a great help donating his time when the grills in the trailer need parts or repairs. A big thank you to Stan and the Hockey Association.
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down and open the gifts you have bought for each other. It could mean traveling to a special place – your parents’ or your Victor Koop son or daughter’s home. Evangelical Free Church But today I want to share this definition. JOY means Jesus first, Others next and Yourself last. Back in 1998, Pastor What does Christmas mean to Phil Toole of Mounyou? Christmas is a time for... you tain Valley Community Church in fill in the blank. It means so many Scottsdale, Arizona, put it differdifferent things to different people. ently; I suppose it depends what you up Jesus grew doing as a family with your O traditions. You But, I want to share with you The “J” stands for Jesus. The this Christmas season that Christ- “Y” stands for you. Do you know mas truly is a time of joy. As you what the “O” stands for? It stands watch the news and hear all the sad for zero. Just what it says – noththings that are occurring in our ing! What I am saying here is that world, you might wonder how it the way to stay close to Jesus and could be a time of joy for each of keep joy in your heart, is to let them. But I say, that it can be an oc- nothing between Jesus and you. casion to celebrate for everyone. That is my prayer for each one We read in the Biblical account of you this Christmas – that you in Luke 2 – where the angels came will experience the ‘Joy’ of Christ to give the good news to the shep- this year. herds of the special event that had just taken place. It says in vs. 10, ** The Sage Hills Evangeli11 – Then the angel said to them, cal Free Church (1244 Mesa Vis“Do not be afraid, for behold I ta Rd.) is hosting a Community bring you good tidings of great joy Christmas Carol Sing on Friday, which will be for all people. For Dec. 21 at 7 pm. A Community there is born to you this day in the Church Choir is practicing and will city of David a Saviour who is bring Special Music – but we want Christ the Lord.” to invite you to join us in singing Joy could have another mean- many of the Christmas Carols that ing for you or for me. It could sig- talk about the birth of Jesus Christ, nify a special feeling when we are our Saviour. together with family and you sit
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How to stay fit and motivated over the holidays The holiday season is upon us and I get very stressed out during this time of year. Lucky for me, exercise is a great stress reliever. Staying fit and motivated is very difficult though. With family to visit you probably haven’t seen since last holiday season, all the tempting food that you know is not good for you, and I’ll admit sometimes the weather doesn’t co-operate like it does for us in the summer. First, I’d like to give a little tip, Relax!! Have a good time! Yes, it is the holidays, enjoy yourself, visit the family, and go ahead, eat just one more piece of homemade fruitcake – my wife makes the best Christmas fruit-
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It is with great sadness that the family of Audrey Crawford would like to announce her passing on November 27, 2012 in Kamloops, B.C. at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House after a very brief but stoic fight with Cancer. Audrey was born in Ashcroft in the old Lady Minto Hospital on November 17, 1938 to Flossie and Robert Nesbitt , a descendant of one of the founding families of the town of Ashcroft . She attended the Lady Bing School where she shared the story of the school janitor Mr. Harrison building her a special desk because she was so small. One of her favorite memories as a child she shared with us was the different Halloween costumes her mother would toil over for her every year. Mom went to the island and was a telephone operator for a while for BC Tel. She met Clarence in Ashcroft on one of her trips home and they married in Langley on August 31, 1957. They made their first home at Loon Lake and started their family with their first born Lester . They moved about in the area with a brief time in Scotty Creek, Kelly Lake, and Ashcroft. They completed their family of five children with Terry , Joan , Bonnie and Dennis before moving to her home until passing in 16 Mile. She was always a very busy Mom to her children and even though she did not have her Mother`s sewing skills she helped construct Halloween costumes for her kids too; a favourite being the Three Bears and Goldilocks. She spent many hours supporting her family while they participated in many activities and later loved being a very caring and loving Grandmother to Kayla, Jennine, Becca, Jake, Justin, Shawna, Chase, Kirstie, Kole, Kyron, Kiarah and Taylor. Her grandchildren came to learn and share her love of cards and board games with countless hours spent together around the kitchen table. She even was able to instill memories of colouring pictures and playing games with her next generation with her great grandchildren Taylor, Carter, Gwenyth, Scarlett, Tucker and Kade. In her later years when she was not fishing she was out and about with Clarence looking for the best buy at the local flea markets and garage sales. She considered all of her friends family and one could always find the coffee pot on and the door open and welcoming ``Come on in `` no matter what time of day at the house. She did not have much time to fuss and fret after her diagnosis , she was so busy taking care of her husband Clarence of 55 years; until she could no longer and went into hospital in Kamloops and later into the hospice house where she was surrounded by family and friends and later passed , no longer in pain. Mom we will love and miss you and will keep your memory alive by sharing memories and stories with all the little people and those ones yet to come. Audrey is survived by her husband Clarence; children Lester, Terry (Norman), Joan (Randy ), Bonnie (Brad), and Dennis; her grandchildren and great grandchildren, her sister Barney Craggs (Rod), numerous nieces , nephews, and too many friends to list. A Celebration of Audrey`s life will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 8, 2012 in the Ashcroft Community Hall with a social to follow. In lieu of flowers , donations may be made to Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House in Kamloops, B.C. Thompson Valley Funeral Home Ashcroft entrusted with arrangements.
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... Past, Present & Beyond If you go down to the Woods today... There’s a wonif help was needed, they derful line in the found that the creature 1939 film version was a “big hairy thing layof the Sherlock ing in the road, arms halfHolmes advenway down his legs and ture “The Hound huge hands and feet and of the Baskerwas walking upright bevilles”, in which fore the guy hit it. It smelt several characters really bad.” The creature are discussing lowas supposedly loaded cal legends. One into the back of the pickman is asked if he up, and the driver was believes them, to going to take it to “the which he replies, RCMP in Cache Creek GOLDEN COUNTRY “No. If I believed [sic] to find out what the all the legends heck it is”. When the story BARBARA RODEN about this place, broke, Sergeant Dave I wouldn’t live Prentice, then in charge here. I wouldn’t have the courage.” of the RCMP detachment in Ashcroft, I don’t know how many people be- had to assure people that no creature lieve in the legends told about Big- fitting that description had ever been foot, or Sasquatch; but if they do be- brought to the attention of the police. lieve, and they choose to live in some And yet the legends persist, with of the more remote parts of this area, the area bounded (roughly) by Chillithen they have a good deal of courage. wack on the south end and Yale on the The creature has, according to reports, north having yielded up a rich trove been seen from Lytton to 100 Mile, of sightings over the decades. In 1884 and from Lillooet to Logan Lake, there were reports of a small creature, with stories ranging from the mun- “half-man, half-beast”, captured by a dane (tall, hairy creatures have been crew working on the CP line near Yale glimpsed by the sides of any number Tunnel, although “Jacko” (as the beast of area roads) to the unusual (in 1993, was named at the time) appears to have a group of Cub Scouts camping over- been about as real as the Cache Creek night in Upper Hat Creek were awak- monster 125 years later. More persuaened by “blood-curdling screams of in- sive is the 1941 sighting at Ruby Creek, tense volume”) to the very odd indeed between Agassiz and Hope, when a (in 2000 a couple camping near Lo- mother and her children were terrified gan Lake reported “several incidents by a strange creature that wandered out of their campsite being disturbed, of the woods towards their cabin, causmissing food, missing clothing, find- ing them to flee. Those who were first ing 18-inch long, barefoot, humanlike back to the site reported seeing huge, footprints, and finally seeing a reddish- bare, human-like footprints in the mud brown, 7 – 8 foot tall Sasquatch in their around the cabin, and a barrel of salted camp throwing stuff around”). salmon had been torn apart. The area In early 2009 this paper reported around Ruby Creek continues to throw on the furor created by a report that a up more than its fair share of people pickup truck traveling on Hwy 1 south claiming to have seen large, hairy, upof Cache Creek had struck something. right creatures that aren’t bears, and When the occupants of a vehicle trav- are far too large to be people. Someone eling behind the pickup stopped to see close to the author reports seeing such
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a thing, crossing a field towards the river at dusk. Another person close to the author recalls hearing, many years ago, a strange scream one evening, near a cabin located on the side of Cornwall Mountain near Ashcroft. It was about 9 at night, and the cry – which sounded like a screaming baby, and unlike any animal he could remember hearing – came (as far as he could judge) from a spot near where the road leading away from the cabin turned and disappeared into the trees. “I don’t know what it was, but it sounded pretty close, about two or three hundred feet away. It was dark enough that I wasn’t going to go out there to look.” This would have been in the early 1970s, and not many years later, in conversation with someone who used to live in the area, another, even stranger, story surfaced. The person in question used to live further up Cornwall, and had been in hospital in Kamloops following a minor operation. She got into conversation with another patient in the same
room, an elderly Native woman. When the Native woman found out where my correspondent lived, she grew quiet, and then said that she had lived for a time in that same area – Three Sisters – but had left when she was a teenager, because she had seen a Sasquatch one day. The experience had so terrified her that she had left the place immediately, and never been back. It’s a story that’s stayed with me for many years (although I’m glad I didn’t recall it, the day this past summer when our van broke down at Three Sisters, until well after I was safely home). Are the legends true? Is something out there, roaming the woods, or can all the stories and tales be explained away in a perfectly rational fashion? I don’t know. But keep your eyes open, next time you’re out in the woods, or driving along area roads. And have your camera handy, for good measure. You never know what might be waiting around the next bend in the road. All accounts in this article, save the ones related directly to the author, are from the websites British Columbia Sasquatch (http:// sasquatch-pg. net/British%20 Columbia-sasquatch-sighting-reports.htm) and Phantoms and Monsters (http://naturalplane.blogspot. ca/2008/12/hbcc-report-sasquatchhit-by-truck.html)
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