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Town must spend up to $7,500 on carbon credits BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

“It just happened to turn out that they are all from here,” said training director Diana Miller, who operates Helping Paws Service Dogs in the Creston Valley.

Creston town council got a reminder at its Jan. 15 regular meeting that signing on to a provincial carbon neutral commitment comes with a cost. In response to pressure in recent years for local governments to reduce carbon emissions, three adjoining regional districts — Central Kootenay, East Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary — along with Columbia Basin Trust and some First Nations, formed their own consulting organization. The result, Carbon Neutral Kootenays, provides advice on how to reduce carbon footprints and how to mitigate target shortfalls with carbon credit purchases. “Creston signed on to the voluntary climate action charter several years ago, committing, among other things, to be carbon neutral in its operations by 2012,” CNK’s Trish Dehnel told council. She outlined steps the town has taken toward achieving that goal, but said that it will be as much as 300 tons of carbon emissions over neutrality when the analysis is complete. “To meet this commitment, Creston must take responsibility for its remaining emissions by purchasing offsets,” she said. The cost will be under $7,500, possibly much less, Dehnel said, and CNK recommends that the credits be purchased from the Darkwoods project, the forest on the southwest side of Kootenay Lake that was recently bought by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

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Vicki McDonald (left) and Pat May with (from left) Barney, Tommy, Jane, Chevie and Kenzie.

Creston dogs find new homes with Vancouver veterans BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

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Therapy dogs From page 1 Tommy and Barney (10-monthold German shepherd crosses), Chevie (three-year-old Shar-PeiGreat Dane cross) and Kenzie (German shepherd) recently completed a six-week training program — called “basic training” because it’s veteran-related — to qualify them with Citadel. (Kenzie’s littermate, Jane, will be sent with three others at a later date.) Miller and PAWS president Vicki McDonald went to Vancouver ahead of the dogs to interview potential recipients. “We have to pick which ones would be right for them,” said Miller. The dogs already meet Assistance Dog International requirements, but their training will go further once they arrive at their new homes, following a flight donated by Pacific Coastal Airlines. “Once they’re paired up with new owners, they go through a 14-week training program,” said Miller. “It’s very structured.” The second round trains both the dogs and their owner, who learn handling skills, obedience, grooming, general care, feeding, first aid, public manners and etiquette. And if required, the dogs may go through still further training to become actual service dogs. Miller gives a lot of credit for the dogs’ success to McDonald, Pat May and Joan Halvorsen, who worked with the dogs around town, as well as to local business owners who allowed the dogs inside. “We want to thank local business for allowing public access,” said Miller. “It’s been so huge for their training.” People in the community, too, have been helpful, not distracting the dogs by petting them or speaking to them while they are wearing their blue training vests. “Members of the community have been really good about that,” said May. Although these four dogs were unwanted and turned over to the PAWS shelter, their future looks bright, partly because of the second chance given to them by PAWS. “Volunteers spend time to make sure they are adoptable,” said Miller. “These were throwaway dogs,” said May. “People didn’t want them. Now, look what they’ve become in the community!”

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Johnson’s Landing farmer teaching COTR seed saving workshop BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

Saving seeds is an ancient skill that is slowly becoming a dying art — but Patrick Steiner hopes to steer Creston Valley gardeners and farmers back to traditional ways when he presents “Starting with Seeds” on Saturday, the first in the College of the Rockies’ Food in the Valley workshop series. “This is something that for a long time, generations, was practiced all the time,” he said. “Farmers, and gardeners too, used to grow their seeds.” In the latter half of the 20th century, selfsufficiency began to fade as seed collecting became something done by large companies. “A lot of people lost skills and knowledge about how to save their own seeds,” said Steiner. “With the loss of that knowledge base, you’re stuck with what the seed companies give you. For a long time, that was not a concern.” With Colleen O’Brien, Steiner operates Stellar Seeds and Kootenay Joe Farms in Johnson’s Landing at the north end of Kootenay Lake, where they grow mixed vegetables and seeds for everything from beans to eggplant to rutabaga to annual flowers. Most of their seeds are heirloom or heritage varieties, which have been around for generations, and have distinct colours, flavours and shapes. Some of those seeds were once easy to obtain, but disappeared as larger seed companies took over small ones. “With that, they would often drop part of the seed lines that were offered,” said Steiner. “We actually lost agricultural biodiversity.” In Saturday’s workshop, Steiner will tailor information to the audience, as he does when he has offered a similar presentation around the province. “It’s kind of aimed at gardeners of all experience levels who have an interest in harvesting, collecting and growing their own seeds,” said Stenier. “Usually, it’s more of a gardener crowd, but we do get farmers.” No matter the experience level, it’s important to discuss the basic rules of seed saving — and for some, that will mean starting at the beginning. “A lot of people either don’t save their own seeds or think its very difficult,” Steiner said. “Within a few hours, we can go over those seed saving rules and make your seed saving successful.” Saving seeds is a step toward developing stronger food security, as seeds are saved based on their reaction to a particular climate. “Find out what you like,” he said. “Often if you grow them in your own garden or farm, you acclimatize them to conditions around you. Many seeds you buy off the shelf, they’re produced as far away as China or Israel, and not necessarily acclimatized to own gardens. “With just a few years of saving your own seeds, there should be a beneficial dif-

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Colleen O’Brien and Patrick Steiner operate Kootenay Joe Farm and Stellar Seeds at Johnson’s Landing.

ference with your crops. … You’ll have probably selected seeds that will grow best in your own garden.” Steiner and O’Brien have been farming for about 17 years and lived in Salmon Arm before moving to Johnson’s Landing two years ago. “We’d been farming for many years, but always leasing land,” he said. “We were in the process of looking for our own land and looking for an area we wanted to live in for a long time. The Kootenays was one of the places we wanted to be because of the community and young families around.”

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Although he has a great deal of experience, Steiner appreciates the chance to interact with workshop participants, and encourages questions and comments throughout. “I often find that people’s enthusiasm is kind of infectious, so it keeps me inspired with what I do on my own farm,” he said. “I often learn things in the course of doing this, as well. Every farmer or gardener who comes to these workshops has had their own experience.” Anyone interested in attending the Jan. 26 workshop at the College of the Rockies is asked to register by 3 p.m. Friday, by emailing creston@cotr.bc.ca or calling 250-428-5332.

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Icy roads, false alarms and more for RCMP BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

Creston RCMP responded to 53 calls for service from Jan. 14-20, Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday. January 14 •A vehicle that went into the ditch off Highway 3A near Kuskanook four days earlier was still there, police were told. The owner was contacted and made arrangements to have it moved. •A complaint about an aggressive dog was made from Wynndel Road. •A logging truck slid on an icy

Winlaw Road and collided with a parked pickup. •The owner of a Husqvarna 266cc chainsaw that fell off his truck on Canyon-Lister Road would really like it back. •A Hurry Road resident reported suspicious activity in her house, including doors slamming, whistling and lights going on and off. Police were unable to find evidence of an intruder. •Both sides involved in a harassing text message dispute were warned about the possibility of charges if the issue continues. •A well-being check on a Canyon Street resident found him to be OK.

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a call through the Huscroft Road cellphone tower. •An abandoned vehicle on Teetzel Road was reported. •Police served a subpoena to a Quinton Road resident on behalf of Cranbrook RCMP. •A female called that she was trapped in a Helen Street car wash but an attendant had already resolved the problem when police arrived. •A theft of under $5,000 was reported by a Northwest Boulevard business. January 18 •Police spoke to the source of unwanted calls to an 11th Avenue resident and resolved the problem. •A child custody dispute was reported from Bow Road. •No trace could be made to a 911 call from a Highway 3A cellphone tower. •When police located the driver of a vehicle that was reported to have blocked traffic on Canyon Street she reported she had been dropping off kids at the theatre. •Shortly after an alarm went off at the library police received a call from a male who said he had attempted to open the door, thinking the library was open, which set off the alarm system. •The owner of a camper that went up in flames on Dogwood Street was perplexed, reporting he hadn’t been in it since summer. Police were unable to identify the cause of the fire. •A male who called 911 because he couldn’t unlock the steering wheel of his parked car apologized when it was explained that his wasn’t the

sort of emergency the 911 service is intended for. •A Canyon Street apartment resident complained about two other residents smoking marijuana in the building. The smokers were warned. •An out of town visitor called from Northwest Boulevard looking for directions to a local address. A goodhearted officer gave her a ride. January 19 •A male found slumped over the wheel of a car parked on 20th Avenue South was given a three-day driving prohibition when it was determined he had been consuming alcohol. •Police visited a Murdoch Street residence to assist Nelson police with a harassing phone call complaint. •An vehicle reported to be driving slowly and erratically on Highway 3A could not be located. •A snowmobile was reported being driven on town roads on Sixth Avenue North. •A well-being check on Aldrich Road revealed the resident was okay. •A female was refused entry to the U.S. at the Kingsgate border crossing. January 20 •A passenger of a vehicle on Canyon Street called on his cellphone to report that the driver was impaired because he was overtired, and shouldn’t be driving. Police later learned the driver had agreed to stop and get a hotel room. •Checkstops on Evans Road and Nicks Island Road found no infractions among the 30 vehicles checked.

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January 15 •When police contacted the owner of a residence on Highway 3/95 where a 911 call was made from he said he had been in Cranbrook all day and had no idea how the call could have been made. •A 911 call through the Crestview Road cellphone tower could not be traced. •A complaint about two speeding vehicles was made from Pilot Bay Road but no descriptions were provided. January 16 •A request to locate a Cedar Street resident was successfully complied with. He was fine. •Minor injuries were reported in a single vehicle accident on Highway 3A. •Patrols will be increased after police received a report of an ongoing speeding problem on Valley View Drive. •A complaint of mail theft on Riondel North Road was made. •A neighbours’ dispute came from Fourth Avenue South. •A caller attempting to contact the hospital dialed 911. January 17 •A female resident of Devon Street who sent money to an Internet fraud scheme was contacted once more, this time for a larger sum. Police advised her not to get involved and helped her get her computer set so she wouldn’t receive more emails from the sender. •A complaint about shots being fired near Clement Road led police to conclude the shots were being heard from the Kitchener shooting range. •No trace could be made of

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From page 1 Couns. Judy Gadicke and Tanya Ducharme both questioned the value in purchasing credits, but they were reminded that Creston had signed the agreement several years ago. Dehnel said CNK is working with Kootenay communities to find suitable local projects that will offer credits by reducing carbon emissions.

tion, the town signed a five-year Arrow Creek Water Treatment and Supply Service cost-sharing agreement with the Regional District of Central Kootenay. Under the agreement, the town will pay 60 per cent of the operating costs. The RDCK is committed to installing water meters on its lateral lines to help measure water usage, which could result in a cost-sharing change in 2014. The Town of Creston and RDCK have been Council Briefs •Ross Beddoes, chief building official, report- sharing costs without a written agreement for ed that 2012 was a 10-year low for construction four years. •A zoning amendment application for 1333 in Creston. A total of 42 building permits were issued, with only two for new single-family resi- Eighth Ave. N. will move forward to a public hearing. The amendment, similar to those of dences. Last year’s construction value was under $2 neighbouring properties that have been million, compared to more than $11 million in approved in recent years, would change the zoning of the lot from rural residential (R-5) to single 2011. •Jen Comer, representing the Creston Valley family residential (R-1). •Council planned to hold a strategic planning Food Action Coalition, reported on the growing success of the Creston Valley Farmers’ session with a consulting facilitator in Creston Market. The number of vendors and customers on Jan. 16 to determine its priorities for the comcontinues to grow and an economic impact ing fiscal year. •A $1,000 grant for the Creston Valley report produced last year indicates that the market is a significant contributor to the local Thunder Cats hockey team was approved after council learned that it faces an operating shorteconomy. She said a permanent, year-round location is fall due to the loss of concession revenues. Areas A and B have also committed to helping make the goal for the market. •After a long and often contentious negotia- up the anticipated $2,500 loss in revenues. •A $400 grant was approved to help with Follow the Advance online costs in hosting the minor hockey peewee facebook.com/cvadvance provincial tournatwitter.com/CrestonAdvance ment.

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(From left) Jenna Leduc, Marybeth Stenhouse and Erin Collison were voted the top three singers in last week’s youth edition of Creston’s Best Singer.

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And the winners are: Marybeth Stenhouse, Erin Collison and Jenna Leduc! The youth segment of Creston’s Best Singer was held at Prince Charles Theatre on Jan. 17, with 13 singers competing, ranging in age from nine to 14. This was the first of three shows in which audience members can vote for

their favourite performance. Seventeen singers will be chosen from the quarterfinal contest on Jan. 31 (winners will be exclusively published in the Feb. 7 Advance), and the top 10 chosen from the Feb. 14 semifial (17 quarterfinal winners combined with the three youth winners) will also allow the audience to choose their top 10 to compete in the March 7 final.

To earn their wins, Stenhouse sang Demi Lovato’s Skyscraper, Collison sang Sara McLachlan’s Angel and Leduc sang Carrie Underwood’s Before He Cheats. Other competitors included Savanna Kerr, Taylor Caughey, Emma Archambault, Sierra Blackmore, Taya Blackmore, Ariel Faulks, Tionna Hall, Lizzie Moore, Tyler Hoeve and Mackenzie Fowler.

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Regional District of Central Kootenay Area C director Larry Binks took the reins of the local services committee on Jan. 14, assuming the role Creston Mayor Ron Toyota has had for two years. “In the past we have often approved resolutions that haven’t had a time frame,” he said after assuming the chair’s position. “I don’t want us doing that. When we pass a resolution it should have a time frame attached to it. When we don’t do that it puts the staff in a compromised position and I don’t think that’s fair to them.” With that statement on the record, the second-term RDCK director proceeded with a meeting agenda that started off with a report from emergency services co-ordinator Alanna Garrett, who said that plans are underway to prepare for the annual spring freshet and flooding issues that can arise. Garrett heard concerns from Area A director Garry Jackman about the lack of response when blocked culverts are reported along Highway 3A. Dealing with those blockages can prevent bigger problems that occur with the buildup of water on the high side of the highway. “How the Ministry of Transportation and YRB address those reports is beyond our capacity,” Garrett said. Area B director John Kettle concurred with Jackman, observing that provincial governments historically “won’t do anything to prevent a disaster but they will pay after it happens.” He said a meeting designed to “get all the players in the same room at the same time”, including various cabinet ministers, is planned for February to talk about the issue.

Creston Valley Thunder Cats president Bob Gollan presented a financial report to the Regional District of Central Kootenay local services committee, saying that the loss of concession revenues will leave the club about $2,500 in the hole for the 2012-13 season. In the absence of a concession kitchen since renovations to the arena foyer were undertaken, the Thunder Cats were selling pop, chips and candy, netting $200-$300 per game. Now, with the concession open and being operated by A Break in Time Caffé, the club loses that revenue. “Don’t get me wrong,” Gollan said. “I agree with the decision made to operate the concession in this way. But we need those revenues to be made up so we don’t go into debt.” Area B director John Kettle ($1,000) and Area A director Garry Jackman ($750) agreed immediately to help with grants to cover the shortfall, while Area C director Larry Binks and Creston Mayor Ron Toyota said they would take the issue back to their constituencies. Gollan said the lack of concession revenues should be a factor in the team’s ice rental agreement because Thunder Cats fans are the largest concession users. “We have an obligation to the hockey team to make this work,” Kettle said. “Without the Thunder Cats we would have to raise user fees or taxes to cover our costs for this facility.” Committee Briefs •Pet Adoption and Welfare Society treasurer Lynn Ray presented a report

and requested that directors consider providing ongoing funding for an organization “that is a victim of its own success.” Relying on grants, donations and fundraising takes a lot of energy out of the volunteers, she said, and the many services PAWS provides are of direct benefit to local taxpayers. “We need sustainable funding,” she said. “Without it we could need to start charging fees for services.” Directors acknowledged the value of the work PAWS does and promised to explore ways of helping to fund services. “We need to step up to the plate,” Binks said. “We can’t just keep asking you to do this for free.” •RDCK staff were directed to explore the feasibility of moving building inspection and emergency preparedness staff offices to the community complex from the library building. “Let’s let these departments tell us what they need,” Kettle said. Kettle and Joe Chirico, RDCK general manager of community services, got into a brief discussion about whether the emergency operations centre should also be moved to the complex from town hall. Binks put a stop to the conversation when it was revealed the discussion was referring to a report to the RDCK that was not made public. “If the information can’t be released then it shouldn’t be brought up at a meeting,” he said. •A draft bylaw that will make the Creston Valley local services committee an official arm of the RDCK is expected to be ready for February’s meeting. •Staff were directed to get a report on necessary upgrades to Rotacrest Hall.

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It wasn’t a surprise that the first two comments after town council heard a presentation about carbon credits came from Couns. Judy Gadicke and Tanya Ducharme. They are typically the first two members on council to raise questions and challenge assumptions. Gadicke always questions spending and Ducharme has lots of experience in environmental issues relating to carbon emissions from her work at Columbia Brewery. The presentation was made by Carbon Neutral Kootenays, an organization formed and funded by the three regional districts in the southeast of the province, and a number of municipalities. Chalk the formation of CNK up to good decision-making, an effort to help guide local governments to reduce their carbon footprint and to help identify local projects that offer carbon credits. My first brush with carbon credits came a number of years ago when we were purchasing flight tickets to Europe. Did we want to purchase carbon credits to offset our contribution to carbon emissions the flight would make? the website asked. I was unfamiliar with the concept so I did some research, learning that non-profits and forprofit companies were setting up systems that allow companies and governments to offset their own carbon emissions by purchasing credits from projects which help reduce carbon emissions. Planting forests with long-term management plans is one way but there is a myriad of others, more popping up almost daily. I did

Lojong slogan 58: Don’t be frivolous

To work with this slogan, it is necessary to look at how you spend your physical, mental and emotional time. In short, how do you invest your life energy? It is easy to fritter time away in frivolous pursuits that are entertaining and do not infuse your life with quality. Such activities lead nowhere and are a waste of your one precious and wild life. Chasing after and indulging in mindless entertainment is like eating junk food: It is ultimately unsatisfying, and, if truth be told, ultimately harmful. Frivolity comes across as lighthearted and innocent, but it is not. It is not real openness, but a form of aggression toward your own best self. To be frivolous is to be selfindulgently carefree, unconcerned about or lacking any serious purpose, to have little or no importance, to be unworthy of careful attention. Frivolity results in a life not fully lived.

purchase credits, thinking that every little bit helps. CNK estimates that the Town of Creston emitted as much 300 tons of carbon in excess of its neutral

costs to its budget, every dollar counts. Gadicke, who commented at the start of the discussion that “I should have been wearing my T-shirt that says ‘Don’t tell me what to do!’ ” did question what the ramifications of ignoring the carbon neutral agreement would be. The answer to that was a simple one. On many application forms for provincial government funding and grants a question is now Lorne Eckersley commonly asked, “Are you a carbon neutral government?” How many town councils target, one that it signed an agreement with the province to hit. That or regional districts are going to resist buying a few thousand dolmeans that it needs to purchase lars worth of carbon credits and carbon credits to achieve neutral risk losing tens or hundreds of status. The CNK recommendation thousands, or even millions, in is to purchase credits from the provincial funding? Not many, I Nature Conservancy of Canada, suspect. And it would be even less which purchased the Darkwoods credible to resist after having forest on the south side of signed an agreement. Kootenay Lake. By selling credits, I am reminded of an All in the the conservancy will be able to pay Family episode in which Archie for at least part of the cost of the Bunker went to night school to get purchase and provide guarantees his high school diploma so he would that portions, if not all, of the land have a chance at a supervisory posiwill not be logged. Cutting trees is tion on his loading dock. Eventually one way that carbon is released the job went to a co-worker, who into the atmosphere. Bunker referred to as Black Elmo. At The cost to create a carbon neuthe end of the show, Bunker tral footprint isn’t much. CNK said slumped into his chair and said, they expect the town’s emissions “And here I am, stuck with a high will actually be under 300 tons and the maximum purchase price will be school diploma.” I’m not sure that carbon credits $25 a ton, but more likely closer to will make a difference in climate $15. The town has been told to budchange but I think it would be irreget for a $7,500 cost, but to expect it will end up to be $5,000 or even less. sponsible to risk not doing anything. At worst we will be stuck with a Not much in the big picture, but cleaner environment. still, for a local government that is Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of trying to hold back spending in light the Creston Valley Advance. of last year’s addition of policing

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Keeping things on the surface level may help you prevent any discovery about the reality of your life, or about life in general, that might rock the boat. An unexamined life may help you feel more comfortable about float-

cates frivolity. But, in truth, the Dalai Lama is a highly serious person. He’s serious about compassion, peace and about restoring political freedom to the Tibetan people. The trick is that frivolity can seem like a virtue, but it isn’t, and that true happiness can appear as mindless frivolity. The second trick of frivolity is that it is possible to overcorrect, to counter frivolity with an overblown self-righteous display of seriousness. But the mind/heart culKuya Minogue tivated by Zen training is neither stodgy nor ing about in the shallows of your brief frivolous. True spiritual training will existence on planet Earth, rather than help to avoid both frivolity and seriassisting you to delve into the depth ous self-righteousness. One could say that the play of reality. But since the amazing power of your true nature lies in its innate between seriousness and frivolity is a desire to realize the highest of enlight- kind of spiritual humor. The most enment, suppressing that instinct by solemn occasions often have an opting for frivolity, takes work and undercurrent of absurdity; and the drains energy. To maintain a narrow silliest interactions can have an field of self-centred comfort, you have undertone of profundity. Suggested practice: Take a census to keep pushing down the truth of what it means to be alive in a human of what you think about and how you spend your time. How do you distinbody in this time. It is tricky to work with frivolity. guish between what it frivolous and First, it is easy to confuse it with the what truly takes care of your life? This column is a long series of short kind of openness, light-heartedness and playful childlike mind that is essays exploring the meaning of the cultivated by meditative practice. We Lojong Slogans. It is inspired by the can all cite a spiritually realized work of Judy Lief. Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher teacher who displays child-like openness. It is easy to think that because at Creston’s ZenWords Zen Centre. For the Dalai Lama laughs under all con- more information, she can be reached at ditions he is an example that advo- 250-428-3390.

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Creston Valley Advance Thursday, January 24, 2013

Arab Spring struggle for democracy is a sham To the Editor: Several years ago it was leaked that the U.S. and its allies were going to orchestrate “regime change” in five different countries in the Middle East in order to protect their interests. The socalled Arab Spring struggle for democracy is nothing but a sham. The first nation to fall, according to the leak, would be Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Libya, the next would be Syria, and finally Iran. In the recent past we have seen three down and two more to go. Syria is the most anti-American country in the region, and its struggles against American power plays is creating an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region. Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, senior fellow at the U.S. Institute for Social Policy And Understanding in Washington, D.C., is on the ground floor of involvement in supporting the opposition in Syria. In his advice, the intervention in Syria needs to be “velveteen” in nature and woven patiently over time. The mission has to be led by a regional force composed of Turkish and Arab militaries, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are funding the opposition, and Washington and European powers remotely back the operation facilitating its success.

Speaking in Zagreb, Croatia, in November, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that Washington is reorganizing the front representing the so-called rebels in Syria, and went on to explain U.S. efforts to groom a new leadership capable of forming a government after the government of President Bashar al-Assad is toppled. So things in our world are not as our mainstream media leads us to believe. Going completely off the present subject, if the U.S. is so concerned about helping people establish democracy in their oppressive countries why has it done nothing about the situation in Burma where the most despotic military dictatorship has been in power these past 30 years or so? Obama and Hillary have just visited the leader of the opposition who had been under house arrest for nearly 20 years, and only recently released. Alex Ewashen Creston

Town should have current statements available To the Editor: Budget meetings are coming up for the Town of Creston. I wanted to look at the financial statements prior to the

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budget meetings to understand the town’s financial state and see if the financial reporting was relevant, reliable and comparable to other communities’ financial information (which is the main criterion of financial reporting and wise decision making). From these statements I wanted to see how much we have coming in and from where — and see how much we owe, and to whom — long term and short term, and therefore see if the budget allocations and later budget decisions were wise. I could not get these relevant figures, and the town council does not get them either — no one has access to them now or access to them prior to budget decisions. The town council is given a net figure, I was told by the head of finance and corporate services, and from this individual figure the town council makes its budget decisions. The finance and corporate services official would let me download 2011 financials, but that does not make relevant 2013 decisions. If any corporation, company, or household ran their finances like this, they would probably be a lost cause very shortly. How can any institution know how to wisely handle their future finances without knowing where they made and will make their revenue from or who they owe money to? I was astounded. No wonder taxes are apparently higher in Creston than they are in West Vancouver, Victoria or Kelowna. This interim 2012 financial reporting (statements) needs to be freely available to all citizens of Creston, and for sure every town council should study them, before making any budget allocations. Rhonda Barter Creston

Landscaping for energy savings

Besides raising your property value and generally making your home a nicer place, proper landscaping can also help you keep your energy bills lower all year round. Most people can see the obvious benefits of a few carefully placed shade trees through the heat of summer. Besides keeping you and your home out of the direct sun the living plants in your yard actually keep you cool through evaporative cooling as moisture is lost from their leaves to the atmosphere. It's like having your own giant air conditioning system. But seeing that it is winter right now I'm going to call attention to how your landscaping can actually keep you warmer for less. Years ago in agricultural college, I learned the benefits of shelterbelts to crop production on the prairies. These oversized hedges planted around the edges of fields actually help to increase heat units and crop yields by reducing the wind speed. It is this same principle that can help keep your home warmer. It is accepted that a windbreak of

some sort will save you 10 to 25 per cent on heating costs by reducing the air infiltration (leakage) rate on your home. On cold and windy days, heat losses due to leakage may represent up to 50

Nursery Notes Evan Davies per cent of your total heating costs. Blocking cold winter winds also reduces heat loss due to conduction through your home, as well. By placing a hedge near your home you can reduce the wind velocity on the surface of your house and therefore reduce the air infiltration rate. For example, here in Erickson our old house gets a regular crosswind from the northeast. That part of the house was fully exposed to the wind with the exception of an area to the

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north corner partially protected by some large rhododendrons. The sliding glass door, picture windows and walls all lose heat through air infiltration and conductive heat loss. By planting a hedge of yew trees about six feet out from the house walls, I have reduced the wind speed from 12 miles per hour to about four miles per hour. This serves to create a dead air space beside the house walls as well as deflecting some of the wind around the house. While this evergreen hedge has taken some time to establish, it is low maintenance, drought tolerant and deer proof. There are a number of other evergreen shrubs that could be chosen, including some varieties of holly, mugho pines, junipers and cedar trees. Semi-evergreen and densely twiggy deciduous shrubs can also work well to reduce wind speeds and if you are short on space you could even opt for a vine of some sort growing on a trellis. Evan Davies owns Beltane Nursery at 2915 Highway 3 in Erickson.

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Seniors stay connected Woodpeckers keep knocking

The Therapeutic Activation critical to remaining healthy, Program for Seniors operated active and focused. It gets us out through the holiday season with of the house, helps us maintain a fewer numbers but just as enthusi- sense of purpose and, because we astic folks. Co-ordinators Bridget are seniors, allows the communiCurrie and Rosalie ty to benefit from our Wilson have started wisdom and experiup the programs for ence. 2013 with the popuWe already benefit lar errands project from partnerships already helping with the Creston valseniors get important ley food action coalitasks done. The tion, the College of errands project has the Rockies Commuhelped over 20 nity Greenhouse, seniors get to medical Telus Terry Nowak Gleaners, and dental appointambassadors from ments, the pharmacies, the post Cranbrook, Harvest Share prooffice, the bus depot, banks and the gram, Creston Lions Club, both hairdresser. The ability to meet Rotary clubs, Creston and District one’s own needs is vital to inde- Community Complex and College pendence, self-esteem and good of the Rockies education programs. health. TAPS seniors have com- We will be looking for more oppormented that this is one of our most tunities for our seniors to stay convaluable programs. nected in their community. If you We think that this project has have an activity that you think been successful because of its sim- seniors can contribute to, please let plicity. If a senior requires a little us know. We have skills and expehelp with an errand it is scheduled rience to share. for Monday or Friday. Errands that Tammy Hardwick from the can be handled independently are Creston Museum is starting up the booked for Wednesdays. This proj- reminiscing program with us ect has been funded by a grant again. This activity is a favorite of from the Creston-Kootenay the seniors and is a wonderful way Foundation. to spend the afternoon, listening Each year we operate with a and learning. We are hoping to theme in mind. Last year it was start an activity with Wildfower keeping seniors productive, and School and have applied for funds we contributed to our community to bring high school students to by helping out the Gleaners, Meals our site to learn skills needed in a on Wheels, Telus ambassadors, commercial kitchen. and other seniors at home and at Mark your calendars for our Swan Valley Lodge and Crest View annual Tarts and Tunes sing-along Village. party. It will be Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. at This year our objective will be Rotocrest Hall. Hope to see you to stay connected to our commu- there! nity and to help others to do so Terry Nowak is an outreach worker too. Staying connected with with the Therapeutic Activation friends, family and community is Program for Seniors.

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What Parents Need to Know Dear Parents, The Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA), given to Grade 4 and 7 students, does not count towards your child’s marks. The results do not actively support your child’s learning. • FSA tests are expensive and waste money at a time when cuts are being made. teachers teach. • FSA tests do not help students learn or teachers teach. • FSA tests take valuable time away from more meaningful learning. • The data does not provide real help to students, parents, or schools. • The results are misused to rank schools and promote privatization. Teachers in Creston Valley recommend that you write a letter to your school principal, or detach the following letter, requesting that your child be exempted from the FSA. To learn more about your child’s progress and the real assessments done in the classroom, talk to her or his teacher. A message from the Creston Valley Teachers’ Association | 250.428.7006 Please detach and use the letter to request that your Grade 4 or 7 child be withdrawn from the January and February 2013 FSA testing.

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Winter is a good time to concentrate on sounds of birds other than the calls and songs of spring and summer made by robins, warblers, song sparrows and buntings, to list a few. Now seemingly dominating the winter season are the calls of ravens, crows, Steller’s jays and pileated woodpeckers, whose loud “kak, kak, kak, kak” rings through the winter forest.

Out There

Ed McMackin Detecting the location of a pileated woodpecker is not as challenging when it is calling as when it is just “chopping” at some tree. Now, when one is located, it is even more challenging to get close enough to this sometimes not-so-shy bird to find that there is a difference between some individuals. While on a winter walk, I chanced to get a close look of a pileated chopping away on a tree below my location. In the bright afternoon sun, I got a good view of its glistening red crest and the red “moustache” streaking back from the beak, a distinguishing mark of a male pileated woodpecker. The most common indication of the presence of woodpeckers, when winter’s chill permeates the forest, is the sound of their persistent pecking on the trunks of trees. That is how I have located most woodpeckers. However, determining the precise location may not be so easy, either. Once I heard the sound of pecking coming from some treetops. Unable to determine which tree it was, I put my ear to the trunks of several trees until I could clearly hear the pecking sound, loud and clear, through a specific trunk. It was then I knew which was its choice lunch stop. Actually, I think some woodpeckers lunch all day long, cloudy or sunny. It doesn’t seem to matter. Late one winter afternoon, I was on the edge of a dense stand of evergreen trees where I heard a pecking sound that I had heard there before. I tried to get a good view of the bird, which I expected was a northern three-toed woodpecker. It was on the right kind of tree, had the right pecking habit and was pecking where I had heard it before. But, here it was pecking away into the dusk till it got too dark for me to possibly identify it. Not too many of us “listen for lunch”, but woodpeckers do. They will perch on a tree trunk, cock their head one way and then the other until they get a bearing on where to drill. The sounds of wood-boring beetle larvae carving their wooden tunnels just under the bark can, at least to a woodpecker, be quite audible. Once on a summer day I was snooping some woods when I heard a barely audible scraping sound coming from a tree trunk. I was able to pinpoint the location of the sound, whereupon I put my ear to the

Pileated woodpeckers at a feeder.

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trunk and heard it even more clearly. I am sure woodpecker hearing and smelling ability is much more acute than mine. Tracking down a three-toed woodpecker is probably the most difficult, not because they are that quiet but because they are probably the least common of all our Kootenay woodpeckers. Along with that would be our black-backed woodpeckers. I sometimes call the three-toed a “ladder-backed” woodpecker because of the horizontal black stripes on the back between the black wings. However, ladder-backed is officially applied only to a woodpecker of agave communities of the southwestern United States. Our male three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers both have yellow crowns winter and summer. Last week the best view of a three-toed this season came, in spite of crunchy snow, on a trail in the Arrow Creek district. This male was foraging on the lower trunk of a larch giving plain views of each side, the back and of the yellow crown. Our two common woodpeckers are the hairy and the smaller downy woodpeckers. The hairy is nearly robin size and the downy is about half that, but when they are hard to distinguish that way, then, perhaps, they can be distinguished by the bill length compared to the head. The bill of the hairy is over half the length of its head and the bill of the downy is less than half the length of its head. Both males have a little red topknot. This winter I have seen more hairy woodpeckers in pairs than individually. A pair is coming to my beef fat feeders. They, along with pileated woodpeckers, may be seen just about anywhere there are trees or even hydro poles. The northern three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers favour dense forests of cedar-hemlock that include western larch. Checking out our winter woodpeckers can make out door walks and exercise more interesting. Have fun! Ed McMackin is a biologist by profession but a naturalist and hiker by nature. He can be reached at 250-866-5747.

In the Apostles’ Creed, Christians profess excuse personal greed. But the truth is, the Bible belief in “God, the Father Almighty, creator of teaches human responsibility to care for God’s heaven and Earth.” And yet, as some will point creation. Humans — God’s images on Earth — out, worshiping the Creator has not always were created so that the Earth would flourish. resulted in caring for God’s creation. And humans are answerable to the Creator for Lynn White famously their stewardship of God’s earth. popularized Christian Have Christians culpability in environbeen on the forefront of mental exploitation, and environmental stewmany have since toed ardship? No, to our his line. Though his theHRISTIANS AND THE ARTH shame, we haven’t. sis has been discredited By Pastor Tom Greentree Have Christians by many historians of ignored their own science and thought, it Scriptures on creation remains firmly care? Unfortunately, entrenched in the comErickson yes, some have. Do mon mindset — that Christians need to Christianity not only Covenant repent and ask the does not promote enviChurch Creator’s forgiveness ronmental care, it, in for the mess we’ve fact, supports the exploimade? Yes, absolutely. And a growing number of tation and degradation of the earth. Not true. The Bible does not support the Christians are taking critical steps of repentance exploitation of creation. Oh, people have misin- and action for the sake of God’s world. terpreted and abused the words of Scripture to See WORLD, page 14

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