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T-Cats hosting golf tourney BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

The fifth annual Creston Valley Thunder Cats golf tournament fundraiser is scheduled for May 4, committee member Bob Foreman said last week. “This year, in addition to the funds raised to assist the community-owned hockey team, a portion of the money will go to support Muscular Dystrophy Canada, in partnership with Creston Fire and Rescue,” he said. One-third of the funds raised will be directed to MDC, Foreman said. Sponsorships and prize donations are welcome. “You don’t need to be a great golfer to enjoy this tournament, which is a fun and friendly scramble,” he said. Cost to register is $65 for Creston Golf Club members who have paid their green fees and $75 for non-members. Individuals or teams can register by calling 250-428-5515 or emailing proshop@crestongolfclub.com by May 1. The event includes a best-ball scramble tournament, catered dinner and live and silent auctions. For more information, call Foreman at 250-428-5608 or Lawrence Smebey at 250-428-1735.

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Former Pet Adoption and Welfare Society president Vicki McDonald is moving to Gabriola Island.

Fifteen-year PAWS volunteer leaving Creston Valley BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor

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Masters’ works lead to audio-visual gallery Alison Masters made watercolour and pencil sketches each evening after a day of walking during a two-month trek with her husband, Dave Drennan, along the famed pilgrimage path from Seville to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She had no idea at the time that those sketches would eventually lead to a multimedia collaboration with two other Creston artists. “We walked 1,000 kilometres from Seville to Finisterre (the coastal town near Santiago de Compostela),” she said. ”Every day after we finished walking, I painted from anywhere from 15 to about 45 minutes. I would just find a little scene and I’d used my watercolours and my pencils. By the end of the trip, I had filled two sketchbooks, so that was about 100 pages of sketches.” Back in the studio behind her Ninth Avenue North home, Masters found inspiration to approach her art in a different way than she usually has. “When we got home I had all these sketches and I’ve never before been able to turn sketches into paintings,” she aid. “What I’ve always done is gone out onsite with really big boards and painted what I was looking at. “So, I just started with some of my favourite little sketches and I decided that as a working title I would call them Travel Posters. It just seemed like they were headed in a direction of how you would want to advertise a place if you wanted people to go there — they are kind of happy. I could just see them as advertising posters. “After about 10 months of painting I had 34 paintings. They were mostly the same size — 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet — and some of them were painted over and over. I’d paint on a board and I wouldn’t like what I’d done so I’d flip it over and I wouldn’t like what I’d done so I’d flip it over again. So some of the paintings have paintings underneath that show through.” Having 34 complete paintings is one thing, though. Finding a suitable way to display them is another. “I had 34 paintings and I was starting to show them a little bit in my studio. People would come

through and say, ‘I want that painting,’ and I’d say, ‘You can’t have it.’ Do you remember that?” she asked one of the people in the room. “What I was realizing was that I really wanted to see them all together before I released them into the world. Each painting was so dependent on the other paintings. I would learn from one painting to try something else and there was just a real thread from one to the other. “I wanted to show them in Creston and I wanted to show them together, but I couldn’t think of any place where I could show 34 large paintings all at once. I started thinking, ‘Well you could sort of make your own gallery.’ “I started thinking of projections. If nothing else we have lots of buildings here. Wouldn’t that be a cool thing to do, project them onto a wall outdoors?” She applied to Columbia Basin Trust for a grant after calling animation and video artist Richard Reeves to see if he would be interested in creating a digital presentation of the paintings. “I sort of knew Richard from another art exhibit and asked him, ‘Do you want to be a part of this?’ He said yes, but I don’t even know if he knew who I was!” The grant was approved, and in September Reeves went to work with his camera. “He took a set of pictures and he was so meticulous,” Masters recalled. “Then he came back and said, ‘I don’t like these pictures and we’re going to do this again.’ ” Reeves went to work in his own studio, with only the vaguest of instructions. “What I always said to Richard was, ‘I want my paintings to be shown in the most beautiful gallery in the whole world.’” The English-born Reeves created a 43-minute silent presentation. The resulting DVD showed each picture for just over minute. Audiences would see a close-up of a small portion of a painting and then the camera would pan to other portions before moving back to show the work in full. The result was a meditative tour of Masters’ memories of those evenings on the Camino de Santiago, each spent in a small Spanish town or village. The paintings are shown in chronological order. Reeves has a long history in the animation world and locally

has shown short films he has made by scratching images onto film strips. The process is meticulous and time-consuming, made more complicated when he also scratches on the edge of the filmstrip to create sounds to accompany the images. He has traveled the world, teaching workshops and working on projects in Europe, South America and Australia. For Travel Posters @ the Night Gallery, Reeves used his digital expertise to make a computergenerated film. “I really enjoyed exploring ways to show audiences paintings within each painting, working to bring out the vivid colours that Alison used,” Reeves said. The resulting video got positive responses when it was projected onto an exterior wall, on a chilly night, at Adam Robertson Elementary School. Later, it would be shown at Prince Charles Theatre before a Friends of the Cinema movie presentation. Setting the video to music had occurred to Masters, but she was hesitant, not wanting “canned or

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stereotypical Spanish music.” Enter a mutual friend, who suggested to musician Gary Deatherage that he might consider writing some music for the pictures. He had only seen Travel Posters @ the Night Gallery once. “I was inspired by it because there is something different,” he said. “I didn’t look at a painting and think, ‘I’m going to do this with it.’ I thought more of a theme.” He wrote eight short pieces of music without Masters’ knowledge. “Gary phoned me about two weeks after he saw the video and said. ‘I’ve composed eight pieces of music for Travel Posters. Do you want to hear them?’ I said, ‘What?’ “I went over to Gary’s studio and we started immediately matching the music to images. Then Gary composed some more music and Richard and I went back there and we did that four times and matched 34 pieces of music perfectly to 34 paintings.” Deatherage is a retired psychologist who spends much of his time in his backyard music studio, Fort Cosmos Studios,

which he shares with his son, Jason. A prolific writer of words and music, he used “every guitar and instrument in the studio.” “I wanted a Spanish feel but not to overdo the Spanish guitar thing. This was one of the few projects I’ve had where I could do anything I wanted to,” he said. “My inspiration was to use a different instrument to give each piece a different sound.” Not that it was without challenges. “Writing short, one-minute pieces was quite different for me,” he said. “With any other song I’ve ever written I could go as long as I wanted to go.” Putting the music together with the pictures was a threeway collaboration. The musical pieces weren’t necessarily written for a specific painting, so Masters, Reeves and Deatherage would listen to the music and then find an appropriate match. As visual artists, Masters and Reeves both say they see colours when they listen to music. “Alison would listen and say, ‘That’s a street,’ or ‘That’s a sky, so it goes with this painting,’ ” Deatherage said. “And it wasn’t just her, Richard was the same way.” With the audio-visual version of Travel Posters @ the Night Gallery complete, Gary and Jason burned DVDs and designed a cover and liner notes. For her part, Masters’ twomonth trek along the SpanishPortuguese border has continued throughout her own painting process, Reeves’ work on the video presentation and Deatherage’s musical contribution. She said the unanticipated collaboration has proven to be inspiring, a sentiment echoed by Reeves and Deatherage. They are already working on a second project, with a third now in the discussion stage. “This has been an amazing adventure,” Masters said with a wide smile. Travel Posters @ the Night Gallery will be shown in “an evening of film-music-painting collaboration” at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Prince Charles Theatre. The evening is a celebration of Arts and Culture Week and will include live music by the Howling Wannabes (in which Deatherage plays) and “cameraless animation” by Reeves. Admission is by donation.

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Potential pot growers must meet local guidelines BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

A steady stream of criminal record check requests is piling up on Creston RCMP Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan’s desk at such an alarming rate that he has been forced to institute guidelines before accepting them for processing. “These are for people who want to apply for licenses to grow medical marijuana,” he said, pointing to the pile of papers. “But most of them haven’t addressed the requirements set out, so it’s a waste of our tight resources to conduct every request.” Gollan said the applications are being fuelled by the federal government’s plan to start licensing private medical marijuana producers in 2014. But approved producers will have to meet a

Town of Creston HYDRANT FLUSHING Please be advised that Town Crews will be carrying out the annual hydrant flushing program starting April 15, 2013 and continuing for approximately 4 weeks. Your water may become cloudy during this period. Should this happen, we ask that you flush your lines by running cold water to clear any murkiness. Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please contact the Public Works Department, 250-428-2214, ext. 233, during regular office hours. Iain Bell Director of Engineering & Public Works

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number of strict criteria, starting with meeting local government regulations. “There are people who think they are going to grow medical marijuana in their homes,” he said. “But that wouldn’t be allowed in Town of Creston or RDCK (Regional District of Central Kootenay) zoning bylaws.” Gollan said he has no issue with authorizing the record checks for applicants that have a plan that includes meeting local bylaws and meeting the onerous security requirements for the premises.

Police Beat Creston RCMP responded to 70 calls for service from April 15-21, Gollan said. April 15 •A red bicycle found near Canyon Street can be claimed at the police station. •Police were unable to locate the female driver of a van who was talking on a cellphone when she nearly ran over a male at a group mailbox on Highway 3. •A Calgary driver reported colliding with a deer on Highway 3/95 on April 11. •An Erickson Road resident reported being a victim of a computer scam in which a warning claiming to be from the RCMP pops up, ordering payment of a fine before the computer can be used again. •A Cook Street resident complained about a person who was standing and staring at her. •A person reported to be a possibly impaired driver was located by police, but was found not to be over the limit. April 16 •An unruly customer at a 16th Avenue business left before police arrived. •Party on! Two males who attended

court to support their buddy were intoxicated and carrying alcohol with them. The liquor was seized and the men were held in police cells until sober. •Police helped resolve a family dispute on Hurl Street. •About $3,000 in damage resulted when a vehicle backed into another on Simon Road. •A male reported to be causing a disturbance by crying on Canyon Street told police he was distraught over financial problems. •An elderly male reported to be driving erratically was found to be in medical distress and taken to the hospital. April 17 •Police are investigating a disturbing call to a Corn Creek Road resident from the Salmon Arm area. •A lock was broken off a Highway 21 shed, but no theft was apparent. •A break and enter that apparently took place on Highway 3A in November netted thieves a laptop computer and some coins. •Police were unable to trace a vehicle that drove through a crosswalk while a pedestrian was in it. The plate number provided did not match the description of the car. •Horses were reported to be loose on Highway 3A near Wynndel. •A firearm was turned in for destruction from an Erickson Road residence. April 18 •No injuries were reported from a single vehicle accident on Highway 3. •A van reported to be driving erratically and slowly on Highway 3A was not located. •A 15-year-old male was arrested and later released on conditions after assaulting his grandmother at a Scott Street residence.

April 19 •Police received a complaint about an aggressive wild turkey on 16th Avenue North. •A quantity of beer was stolen from a parked transport trailer on Erickson Road. •Police are investigating a case in which a vehicle speeding around a Canyon-Lister Road curve nearly struck a pedestrian. •Patrols will be increased after complaints about an ongoing problem of vehicles not stopping for pedestrians on Cedar Street. •An anonymous report was made about a pit bull chasing cars on Dogwood Street. •The theft of firewood and an axe was reported from a seasonal cabin near Gray Creek. •A truck driver crossing into Canada at Kingsgate now has a date for a court appearance after being found with 1.4 grams of heroin. •Youths reported to be shooting an air gun in Centennial Park were gone when police arrived. April 20 •Cedar Street residents arrived home to find their house being ransacked by three males. One, Brenton Chambers, 20, was detained until police arrived. He was held in custody after being charged with break and entry, assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of another male, who has been identified, for the same crimes. A third male has yet to be identified. •A male reported to be taking photos of people on Canyon Street told police he was merely reading from his cellphone and not taking photos. See POLICE, page 5

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McDonald Area C hands out CBT funds BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

Regional District of Central Kootenay Area C director Larry Binks has announced that his area recommended the distribution of $30,000 in Columbia Basin Trust funding under the Community Initiatives Program. Binks said total requests were more than three times what Area C had available to distribute. Pending final approval by the RDCK, the following non-profit groups will receive funds: Spay/Neuter Animal Program, $1,000; Creston Community Resource Society, $2,500; Creston and District Society for Community Living, $500; Creston Community 4-H Club (beef and dairy), $1,500; Creston Kootenay Foundation, $500; Creston Pet Adoption and Welfare Society, $2,500; Creston Rod and Gun Club, $3,000; Creston Valley Blossom Festival, $2,500; Creston Valley Blossom Festival (youth group), $500; Creston Valley Figure Skating Club, $500; Creston Valley Music Teachers Association, $500; Creston Valley Search and Rescue Society, $1,000; Creston Valley Thunder Cats, $1,500; Friends of the Ingham Arts and Culture Centre, $1,000; Prince Charles Secondary School photography club, $300; West Creston Fire Protection Society, $3,800 (fire equipment), $3,800 (community equipment), $2,700 (Forestry S-100 certification); Creston Valley Fall Fair, $2,000.

Police From page 4 •When police responded to a Canyon Street complaint about a dog biting a person, the attending officer was attacked. The dog was pepper-sprayed before any damage was done. •A lock was punched out of a vehicle door on Eighth Avenue South, but no theft was reported. •A wheelbarrow was stolen from an Ash Street residence. •A wallet found on 16th Avenue

From page 1 Born in Creston, McDonald has spent most of her life in Creston, with the exception of her first six years, when her father travelled in the Air Force, and some time at the University of Lethbridge. Her previous volunteer work went hand-in-hand with her children’s education and activities, and she served as treasurer for the Creston Valley Minor Hockey Association, and worked with parent advisory councils and the high school band. She got involved with PAWS after her husband, Jim, who died in 2011, found two dogs while hauling equipment in the bush in 1997. The dogs were fearful, something McDonald had no experience with, so she took them to obedience training with the late Claudia Grimstead, a founder of PAWS. “I took them to Claudia and the next thing I knew, I was in PAWS,” McDonald said. “Once I started, it was almost like an addiction. I love animals, especially dogs. I’ve learned so much being part of this. It’s just an amazing thing to do.” She eventually became treasurer and then vice-president, before an 11-year stint as president following Grimstead’s death in a 2001 car accident. At the time, the five-year-old organization’s desire to build an animal shelter was growing. “But rather than giving up Claudia’s dream,” said McDonald in her final president’s report at the March 21 annual general meeting, “her death spurred on not only

South has been returned to the owner. •A vehicle was seized on Mallory Road after it was reported to be driven by an unlicensed driver. •Two girls on 19th Avenue reported they were having a consensual fight over a boy while they were being filmed so the event could be posted on YouTube. •A male required stitches after an assault at the old ferry landing. •Minor injuries were reported after a vehicle went off of Mallory Road and into the ditch. April 21 •Stop signs were removed from the intersection of Cook

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PAWS members but many friends and community members, as well, to work even harder to help animals, and to fundraise to realize that dream.” A short time later, PAWS was able to establish a small office next to Columbia Bottle Recycle, after years of “not knowing where we were going to hold meetings.” And in June 2002, about a dozen members began the huge task of caring for 56 dogs found near Topaz Creek on Highway 3. Their nationally-recognized effort led to a large private sector grant that allowed the 2004 purchase of property on Lower Wynndel Road. In 2010, the group took a step further when its new shelter, Claudia’s Place, opened, providing a permanent location for PAWS, which helped the group’s volunteer roster grow from five in the early days to over 50. “Having a physical presence where people can see what we have and what we’re doing made a huge difference to draw people in,” said McDonald. The shelter wasn’t the end, though; the PAWS five-year plan includes an area for livestock and large animals, an off-leash park and a memorial garden for pet remains. The organization also plans to work more closely with emergency social services to evacuate animals in danger. McDonald has seen animals in danger firsthand, having visited New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of pets without owners. One of her two dogs is a Katrina rescue, and the other came from PAWS. “The most important thing I’ve

learned is the incredible amount of trust and forgiveness that animals possess,” she said. “If people could be like them ... man, it would be a pretty good place.” Although McDonald’s former role as president made her the de facto face of the organization — it’s hard to imagine one without the other — she’s confident that the group she’s devoted 15 years to will thrive in her absence. “If I was in the least bit concerned about leaving PAWS in their hands, I’d maybe be having second thoughts about leaving,” she said. “The best kind of people are the people here. They here because they care and love animals, and to me, those are the best kind of people.”

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Until the last few years Canadians have rarely heard about a “need” to bring temporary foreign workers into the country, except for the harvesting of agricultural crops. Now, it seems hardly a day passes without a related story. A Chinese-owned mine operation “needs” to bring in Chinese miners who have experience in a specific type of mining (turns out they didn’t have that experience). The Royal Bank of Canada, struggling after posting a mere $7.5-billion profit last year, contracts with an Indian company, then instructs Canadian workers help train the temporary workers, who can then carry on the work overseas next year. The list goes on. A red flag seemed to wave in front of my eyes last month when an analyst, speaking on CBC Radio, said that the federal government’s own statistics on labour and employment failed to indicate any real labour shortage in any part of the country. That, it occurred to me, just might be an explanation for the Harper government’s disdain for research and data collection, at least as it pertains to the stuff that is actually intended to be available to the interested public. The analyst implied that the likelihood is that “labour shortages” are in fact a euphemism for expensive (a.k.a. Canadian) labour, and that there is increasing business pressure on the federal government to approve applications for temporary foreign workers, who tend to be paid less, who can’t organize themselves into unions, who are more easily intimidated and controlled and who can simply

be shipped back home when they are no longer needed, wanted or welcomed. More information blurred the simple supply-demand argument on

earn enough to pay for their accommodation, to which they can go back to and enjoy the other parts of their lives. Now, I am entirely sympathetic to the plight of the agricultural employer. After a couple of generations of Canadians have fled from rural to city life, it is hard to lure employees back to the farm. And these businesses compete in an unfair world, where they have to sell their products in competition with other comLorne Eckersley panies, where land and labour are cheaper and fewer environmental standards have Monday during a call-in show, this to be met. If governments were truly time on Mark Forsythe’s fine interested in food security issues, Almanac program. One woman, they would work to level the playwhose family has a tomato operaing field by restricting imports that tion, said she simply can’t get Canadian workers to stay on the job. harm our own industry, or provide subsidies to allow Canadian producForget my impression that, from her ers to compete. The status quo is not attitude and the tone in her voice, working, at least to the benefit of she came across as not the sort of our own citizenry. person anyone would want to work Instead, though, governments for. She pays, she said, minimum wage (“or a little bit more”), but also take the same cheap, easy ways out as they have for the last couple of provides housing for the workers, decades, paving the way for jobs to which she argues is a valuable perk. be exported out of the country to Not that I have direct experianywhere that labour is cheaper. Or, ence (I did live in a work camp when the jobs cannot be exported, once, but the commute home from they responded to this perceived north of the Arctic Circle to Calgary would have been impracti- labour shortage by encouraging the import of temporary foreign workcal) but I doubt that there is a very ers who don’t even have the luxury large percentage of Canadian of voting. workers who think that living on I’m guessing it was nearly 20 years the farm where they work for minago that I wrote in this space that any imum wage is a big lure. It would political party that promised to put be, though, for someone coming up more barriers to the easy movefrom Central or South America or ment of goods and services across our the Far East. In her own eyes, the border would have my support. I tomato lady sees the value of the housing she provides as being part don’t feel any differently today. Cheap goods for a poor populace of the salary, but I suspect from the is a lousy trade. prospective Canadian workers’ Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of point of view, they want no part of the Creston Valley Advance. it. They want to go to work and

This is the Life

Mindful eating is slow eating

You may have heard of slow food proponents who recommend avoiding processed foods and eating only natural foods. They have a good idea, but they forget to mention how important it is to eat those slow foods slowly. Many of us rush through meals with a gobble-gulp-and-go attitude that leads to stressful, unhealthy living. With the simple but powerful act of eating slower, we calm our lives down and step away from excessive busyness. It takes a few minutes extra each meal, and yet it can have profound effects. All you have to do is take smaller bites, chew each bite more slowly and more fully, and enjoy your meal longer. There are some practical reasons to consider the simple act of eating slower. Weight loss. A growing number of studies confirm that by eating slower, you’ll consume fewer calories — in fact, enough to lose 20 pounds a year without doing anything different or changing your diet. It takes about 20 minutes for our brains to register that we’re full. If we eat fast, we often continue eating past the point where we’ve had enough. If we eat slowly, we have time to realize we’re full, and stop earlier.

Enjoy your food. It’s hard to enjoy your food if it goes by too quickly. Think about it. You want to eat your favourite foods because they taste good. But if you eat them fast, what’s

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the point? If you eat them slowly, you can get the same amount of taste, but with less food entering your stomach. The math works. Slow eating enhances the gastronomic pleasures of eating. Better digestion. If you eat slower, you chew your food better, which leads to more nutrients being absorbed in the mouth. Digestion actually starts in the mouth, so the more work you do there, the less you’ll have to do in your stomach. This can result in fewer digestion problems. Less stress. Eating slowly and paying attention to our eating is a great mindfulness exercise. It is the

perfect place to practice being in the moment. Instead of rushing through a meal thinking about what you need to do next, when you eat, just eat. This kind of mindfulness, will lead to a less stressful life, and to long-term happiness. Rebel against fast food and fast life. Our modern day hectic, fast-paced, stressful lifestyle leads to eating salty, fatty and sugar-laced fast foods, and to eating them quickly. This lifestyle dehumanizes us, makes us unhealthy, stresses us out and robs us of the pleasure of taking the time to enjoy life, to enjoy each other, to be human. We can rebel against that entire lifestyle and philosophy with the small act of eating slower. And we can teach our children the deep intelligence of eating slowly by slowing down at the dinner table. Suggested practice: For the next two weeks, when you eat your evening meal, put your fork or spoon down between bites. If you have children, make a game out of it. Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Creston’s ZenWords Zen Centre. For more information, she can be reached at 250-428-6500.

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Bank policy morally wrong To the Editor: Well, it took nearly a week for the big boss of the Royal Bank of Canada to apologize for his organization’s plan to fire 45 of its Canadian employees — after they had trained foreigners to do their jobs. His published letter of April 11 argued that the bank had done nothing illegal but implied that the policy it had followed was morally wrong. We must all hope that he was sincere about the second point because that is the crux of the issue. Remember how, in the late 18th century, Scottish lairds drove their tenant farmers off their estates because raising sheep for wool became more lucrative, or how the Luddites of Lancashire were displaced by more efficient weaving machines in the late 19th century? What’s the connection between those two historical events and the Royal Bank affair? In all three cases, human beings lost their livelihoods (and in the Scottish case, their homes) because their landlords or their employers saw a chance to make more money by getting rid of them. I’m not arguing that new technologies (or kinds of land use) should never be introduced when they involve fewer jobs for human employees. That would be misguided “reverse Luddism,” and detrimental to the best interests of society as a whole. But human beings are not just machines, to be suddenly cast aside if cheaper or more efficient ways of getting the job done come along. They are, well, human beings — men and women who, as long as they are loyal and do their jobs properly, are entitled to expect respect, decent treatment and, yes , loyalty, from their employers. In other words, they should be entitled to keep their jobs until they reach retirement age, given the option of alternative, comparable employment or wellpaid early retirement or otherwise shielded from the steamroller of “progress.” The love of money may not be the root of all evil. Indeed, the love of money can be a motivator of human progress. But the love of money, if unbridled by self-restraint, is the cause of far too much evil, especially when it is yoked with economic and/or political power, as is so often the case today. So what’s the remedy? The love of money must be curbed by politically enacted and governmentally enforced restraints, so as to ensure that it does not override the legitimate expectations and rights of people like those Royal Bank of Canada employees. Peter Hepher Creston

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work strictly by the book, regardless of the results for the patient. Meantime, the final outcome for all my efforts and stress and about $500 in various fees and costs connected with the testing, was a letter from OSMV telling me that effective immediately it is unsafe for me to drive, and I was ordered to return my driver’s licence by Jan. 25, 2013 — which I did. My little homestead is 45 kilometres north of Creston and there is no public transportation, so I now live more or less like under house arrest. The OSMV did offer to review their decision if I submit another cognitive test. This was done, and results are expected in two months from the date their office receives the submission. The politicians and others who approved the DriveAble tests are forcing on seniors the most complicated and demanding standards of the entire driving population — and for what? Before DriveAble appeared, elders simply quit driving when they were not able to continue, and this was decided in the family, without the help of doctors, politicians and professors, and the roads were as safe then as they will ever be. But the government is pressing forward with the DriveAble, as if there were an emergency in B.C., with seniors veering and lurching down the highways and byways. However, according to Powell River MLA Nicholas Simons, the Sunshine Coast Opposition critic for Community Living BC, things are not nearly as bad. He says, “Seniors are very safe drivers. Many drive with extra care, and limit themselves to driving in good conditions — and even then, only when necessary. Seniors are not involved in disproportionate numbers of collisions. … Seniors should have the right to be assessed in their own community, they should only be tested using familiar technology and any on-road driving tests should be in a familiar vehicle on familiar roads.” The original decision to bring DriveAble from Alberta was not about road safety; it was a decision concerning former premier Gordon Campbell, and the marketing department of DriveAble company. The premier, as you remember, had badly tarnished his image by his drunken driving in Hawaii, so to improve his image he made some innovative moves, and DriveAble was one of them, even though we had in place throughout the province the ICBC testing. That was in 2005. But why keep the costly parallel system of testing now when all areas of public spending are being severely reduced, and Campbell is gone? Also, the special needs of older drivers could have been met within the framework of the ICBC testing, carried out on familiar grounds, at a fraction of the cost, and with due respect and consideration for seniors. When you think how old people are forced to do these tests, you can be sure there is something seriously wrong with DriveAble, and you can be also sure that any society that approves such and similar mistreatment of seniors, is a society that has lost its bearings. Anton Skerbinc Boswell

DriveAble needs fixing Trapping laws are unsafe To the Editor: Since I got involved in the new driver’s licence testing, starting with the memory tests in the doctor’s office in October 2012, and the DriveAble screen test and the road test in Nelson, I repeatedly heard that the tests have nothing to do with the doctor; however, the Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles states that “the majority of referrals (98 per cent) are from doctors.” Of course, the individual doctor does not make the rules, but at the same time some doctors make an effort to get the best deal for the patient, and there are also doctors who

To the Editor: Kootenay River has beautiful scenery, boating, fishing, tubing, walks and picnics along the riverside or dikes — and traps. Two weeks ago, Arielle, a German shepherd belonging to three young girls, died in a trap. The trap was set at the bottom edge of the dike along the Reclamation Road stretch of the river, a few hundred metres from the house, in

an area they often run the dogs in. We have since discovered that trapping season runs from October to April, and trappers on public access land do not legally have to post signs or advise landowners, nearby residents or anyone that the traps are there. The rights or wrongs of trapping aren’t the point here, but public safety — the safety of myself, family and friends, and our dogs in our own backyard — is. If you have to hire a trapper, think it through, accept some responsibility, tell your neighbours and their neighbours, and insist the trapper places signs. Know what your trapper will use and when. During the six months of trapping season, I have the following advice: To anyone intending to exercise their public access rights and enjoy the use of the river or riverside for water activities or to have a family outing along the riverside/dikes, I say be careful! Stay in the boat and if on land, leave the dogs at home, put the kids on a leash and watch carefully where you put your feet! To the trappers, use your brains! Traps are weapons that kill and seriously injure. If you want to trap beavers, use beaver traps in the water and not spiked ones capable of holding a bear on land where people have a legal right to be. Place signs, stretch a bit of tape along trees around the immediate perimeter, notify the landowner and adjoining properties — accept responsibility for your actions. To animal activists or bored morons who think it’s smart to remove signs the few conscientious trappers left still place, think again — your past actions contributed to Arielle’s death. Set the traps off if you want, but leave the signs alone. If you miss a trap and have taken the signs, any deaths or injuries are on your head not the trappers’. And finally to the council, provincial officials, conservation officers and all other relevant lawmakers who forgot to make rules for signage and warnings for trapping on public access land, three dogs were killed in Creston this year and many more across B.C. You know about the problem, and know it’s only a matter of time before a kid or person is trapped. This is outrageous — quit procrastinating and fix the laws, now! Myf Doig West Creston

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Food at feeders draws summer birds

Late summer and fall, and spring are times bird feeding enthusiasts change their bird feeding habit. In late August, the hummingbird feeders come down, or at least they should so as not to encourage hummers to stick around beyond their favorite season. There is usually plenty of early fall flower food for them. Later in the fall, when snowflakes flit on chilly breezes, the winter bird feeders seem to appear out

Bird grub that does need to come down are suet and beef fat, or any substance that contains such. Suet comes from around cow’s kidneys. Although it doesn’t go rancid in warm weather as fast as beef fat, it should still come down now as it may be a little too heavy for parent-fed baby birds’ digestive systems. Beef fat, because it is a heavy snack, or even fatal, for baby birds and because it goes rancid quickly in warm weather, should also be taken down now. Now, after you have done all that, hairy and downy woodpeckers, and chestnut-backed chickadees, regular cusEd McMackin tomers at the fat feeder, might just of nowhere, or out of some dusty keep coming back to your feeding garden shed. area, but for some other treat. In spring, it seems, for varied This time of spring may be a reasons, less attention is given to tough time for young and adult bird feeding and feeders. Sunflower birds. If the weather is cold and trays and silo feeders go empty. wet, insects may not hatch out so About this time, because it seems to early if the leaves and flowers on be the thing to do, some people take plants and trees don’t unfurl in their feeders down. But, perhaps, time. Plants support insects and it’s time to leave them up. insects support many kinds of bird

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life, even hummingbirds. Keeping the rest of the winter menu in the bird feeding area may help the birds bridge this hard time. Chickadees and nuthatches, along with other insect eating species, may make fewer visits to the feeders as summer approaches. But bird feeder enthusiasts of the human kind who keep the feeders supplied through the summer with the regular winter menu, and, perhaps, a few other tasty morsels, may be in for some surprises. Surprisingly, in summer, hairy and downy woodpeckers have been known to dine on black oil sunflower seeds. Chickadees continue to partake of sunflower seeds from the summer feeder; however, they tend to come in pairs rather than individually or in groups, as in winter. I am noticing that some birds are now much more territorial around the feeders. There is one male junco that now keeps chasing other juncos out of “his” space. One time, he flew at another junco while still holding a piece of cracked corn in his mouth. Once in a while, it and another flew up a few inches off the ground, and hovered momentarily while having a face off in mid-air. Attracting summer birds to feeders may become more exciting with the addition of different types of feeders and/ or by increasing the variety of locations. Many birds who like sunflower seeds may try out or prefer suspended net feeders or silo feeders. It is sometimes amusing to watch a bird try to

go for bits of cracked corn scattered on the ground and also pick up white millet. You might try putting millet or birdseed containing millet in a silo feeder for the summer. Now, feeding birds in summer may attract other birds such as merlins and pygmy owls, who, of course, are not after food for birds but after birds for food. Then there is another sort — those that also come to feed on the food you have spread on the ground. In some areas, it could be pigeons but here it could be mourning doves or perhaps those prolific Eurasian collared doves. Then, lurking around your feeders you might find some wild turkeys or even the neighbour’s old white hen. To keep a ground supply of food for smaller birds, some people have constructed a bell or cone made of chicken wire and placed it over Ed McMackin the feeding location. This has A male downy woodpecker allowed smaller birds like checks out an aspen sapling chickadees, siskins, juncos and while waiting his turn at the similar sized birds access to the food while keeping larger birds suet. out. This device may keep out get food that is a bit difficult to extract. Birds will often leave a jays and towhees or some birds spinning net feeder or some that won’t go through the will stay on for the ride and chicken wire so an open location may be set up for them. feed when it stops turning. Some birds, as some of you Varied thrushes, which might are aware of, prefer to feed on be a summer surprise, will help the ground, or on a flat surface themselves to that spot too. An of wood or cement. Song spar- unusual type of bird treat, rows, which may come to your which in another part of the feeder, are quite amusing when continent attracted Baltimore they scratch in the grass for bits orioles when they first returned of cracked corn. Chipping spar- in spring, was orange sections. rows, a summer resident in the If there are orioles around your Kootenays, along with juncos, place, give it a whirl. The orange sections were attached to a perch or branch with a small nail or wire. Perhaps apple pieces could be tried. Some techniques, like the chicken wire bell that people try, may be, for other people, a bit of a bother and not worth the effort. However, Saturday May 11 • 7pm Prince Charles Theatre the benefits gained may far out weigh the bother. And, besides, if you are capable of doing that, it’s good exercise! Bird watching continues even more so to be the most popular Leave a name, a return outdoor recreation and/or sport in North e-mail or phone number, and America. The cost is identify this bird species at quite reasonable and crestonvalleybirds.ca/contact perks are included at no extra cost! Where or call Jim do we get a bargain at the Chamber of Commerce like that? Try attracting birds to your environ250-428-4342 ment this summer too. Start off with the usual winter foods, excepting the fat. Watching © Brent Wellander birds can be an excitRegister on-line, at the College of the Rockies, or at ing, educational, enterArt for Birds • May 10, 5-8 pm • Creston Room taining, enlightening experience! And, what 5 events are sold out! else? Register early to avoid Ed McMackin is a biologist by profession disappointment. but a naturalist and hiker Pre-registration required for all by nature. He can be wildsight Saturday & Sunday events reached at 250-866-5747. creston valley

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