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New book chronicles battle with Lyme disease BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff All I can do is note that something inside me has fundamentally changed and not for the better. It occurs to me that I may be dying; that in some dark corner of my anatomy an important cluster of cells has charted a fatal course and one day soon someone will slap a name on the illness that’s siphoning off my life. Vanessa Farnsworth feels lucky that she has lived to tell her story about five years of suffering from a bacterial disease that she apparently contracted from a tick bite that she wasn’t aware of. Book readers are lucky that she is an experienced and exceptionally good writer, up to the task of relating a powerful and horrifying personal story while at the same time educating readers on the science of the difficult-to-diagnose tick-borne diseases. In her recently released book, Rain on a Distant Roof: A Personal Journey Through Lyme Disease in Canada, the Lister resident weaves journal entries with extensive research, much of it undertaken in an effort to come to terms with symptoms that pushed her to consider suicide on more than one occasion. Vanessa and Michael Farnsworth moved to their rural property south of Goat River in the mid-2000s. Together they ran an Internet tech company. She pursued her vocation as a professional writer and pursued her passion for gardening. She became known to Advance readers as author of a weekly column, The Garden Muse. See LYME, page 3

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SOMETHING’S FISHY — (From left) Alison Emary and Megan

Kolodychuk were among seven Grade 8 students from Prince Charles Secondary School who painted fish next to storm drains on Oct. 16. Sixty-four drains were painted as part of Know Your Watershed, a regionally-based water stewardship initiative of Columbia Basin Trust, delivered at PCSS by Katia Plotnikoff.

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Kootenay-Columbia MP David Wilks says the new session of Parliament promises to be a productive one. Wilks spoke to the Advance from his parliamentary office immediately after the 2013-14 session’s predictably raucus first question period on Oct. 17. MPs, he said, had concluded the morning with a tribute to the citizens of Lac-Mégantic, Que., where work to restore the town continues. It wasn’t the destruction of Lac-Mégantic’s downtown core by a runaway freight train that had Opposition MPs up in arms, though. Prime Minister Stephen Harper wasn’t in the House, having jetted off to Europe to sign a trade agreement. “It’s hard to believe,” he said about the Opposition’s criticism. “It’s the second-most comprehensive trade deal that we have, creating 80,000 jobs.” Turning to the throne speech, which was delivered in the Senate on Oct. 16, Wilks said budget forecasts continue to be optimistic. “Nationally, I think for me, the most important one for me is that our government is still on target to balance the budget by 2015,” he said. “As a result of that we’ll put a freeze on the overall operating budget which will continue to restrain hiring. “ In anticipation of a balanced budget in the foreseeable future, Wilks said the government is preparing legislation to require governments to balance budgets. See WILKS, page 5

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the loss of their own adult children. “This is a very serious issue, but we have lots of fun raising money to support it,” says organizer Barb Archibald. Tickets for the variety show are $15, available at Black Bear Books, Creston Card and Stationery and at the door. Doors at the Prince Charles Theatre open at 7 p.m. and showtime is 7:30. ••• uthor Valerie Comer will be celebrating the recent release of Raspberries and Vinegar: A Farm Fresh Romance at 2 p.m. Oct. 26 at Black Bear Books. She will read a selection from the novel, talk about the writing/ publishing process, field questions from the floor and, of course, sign copies. The party will feature local food

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Blackmore of B-Boys Special Products, the company contracted for removal. The elevator, built in the mid1930s will live on, though, in wood furniture built by B-Boys. “Our goal is to reuse some of the wood,” said Blackmore.

BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor Demolition of the Wynndel grain elevator began Friday, expected to be completed by the end of this week. The elevator was deemed a liability by owner CP Rail, said James

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Lyme

From page 1 And then, at nearly the instant that a dentist’s needle filled with Novocain emptied into her jaw, she started a deathly downward spiral into an illness that took six months to diagnose and five years to get to what she describes as 90 per cent of her former self. Now, after a year with no major health setbacks, she knows she might never return to her former self. Gone are the memories of her wedding and graduation from university, among many others. But she has transformed from being quiet and shy into a confident and outspoken woman. It’s a tradeoff she’s willing to accept. Now she is about embark on a national tour to promote her book. Even more importantly, she wants to educate and enlighten the country’s population about Lyme disease and other wood tick-related illnesses. Here’s what really boils my blood: I was diagnosed with Lyme disease months ago and not one doctor has been ready, willing, or able to tell me anything about the disease. Nothing. Nada. Zip. It’s not like I haven’t asked. I’ve asked every doctor unfortunate to wander into my sight to tell me what’s happening to me, where these awful symptoms are coming from, and why I don’t appear to be cured, when I took the antibiotics I was given like the good little patient I can sometimes be. I keep asking these questions and I keep getting nowhere. “It was everything — every human illness you could possibly get was all at the same time,” said Farnsworth in an interview. “I didn’t think I was going to live. I thought what I was doing with those journal entries was recording my own death. At the beginning I didn’t even know what that death was going to be from. It struck me early on that something extraordinary was happening to me, so different than anything else. This was not the flu, not something I was famil-

iar with. And I could not understand why my entire body was going haywire and yet somehow I was going to survive—that didn’t make sense to me. “It was six months after the whole thing started before someone put a name — actually two names as you learn in the book — on what the illness was. But it was still very clear to me that I wasn’t going to survive unless something extraordinary happened.”

Vanessa Farnsworth The “journal entries”, the paragraphs that appear in italics in this story, were recreated by Farnsworth from handwritten notes and computer files that she wrote whenever she found the strength and coherence. If they read like scenes from an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the narration that fills the rest of the book sounds like it could have been written by David Suzuki — clear, rational and true to the science that she delved into, largely as a survival mechanism. “When I started to put this book together, I made a conscious decision to turn the Internet off,” she said. “I want to concentrate on the science, so I got and read every scientific paper I could find on the subject.” When she completed the book last spring, Farnsworth submitted the manuscript to four publishers. One replied

immediately, saying “they loved the book but had no idea how to market it.” A second, Signature Editions in Winnipeg, quickly snapped up the opportunity to publish it. “They knew exactly how they wanted to market it,” she said. Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases affect only a small portion of the population. Now. But with climate changes leading to warmer winters, ticks are no longer killed by icy temperatures at the rate they once were. Within only a few years, it is estimated that most of the Canadian population will be susceptible to the bacteria the pinpointsized insects carry. And Farnsworth is eager to share her information. “There is no chance that the number of Lyme disease cases reported by the Public Health Agency of Canada is even remotely accurate,” she said. “The failure of the agency to recognize the existence of the majority of Lyme cases in this country is increasingly placing the health of Canadians at risk.” A Canadian tour will help, and she’s already in demand to speak at conferences. Creston Valley residents get their chance to hear readings from the book and to learn more about Lyme disease and its current state of diagnosis and treatment at a book launch this week. Rain on a Distant Roof: A Personal Journey Through Lyme Disease in Canada will be officially launched at 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Snoring Sasquatch. Everyone is welcome. My body temperature now chronically hovers at a hair below 35 C. Cold radiates from my bones. Sometimes I shake uncontrollably and yet all that shaking fails to produce any heat. It just makes me tired and confused and desperate for something, anything, that will bring just a hint of warmth. So I pile on sweaters and wrap myself in blankets, waiting for a St. Bernard to arrive with a caskful of brandy, which I won’t be able to drink, but at least I can look at it. And I can hug the beast that brought it.

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Creston RCMP remind residents to lock vehicles BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

Creston RCMP reported another rash of entries into unlocked vehicles late Sunday night. “Please lock your vehicles,” was the message from Const. Dave Skretting. “It’s an easy thing to do and most of these incidents only involve people who are looking for unlocked doors.” Skretting was busy fielding reports and didn’t have an estimate of how many vehicles were entered at press time. Police Beat In other RCMP news, Creston police responded to 59 calls for service from Oct. 14-20, Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday. October 14 •When police responded to a complaint of a break and entry to a Church Road residence in Kitchener, they found a frequent customer, who

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was arrested and held in custody pending a court appearance. The male was found not to have broken into the residence, but to be unlawfully in the dwelling. He also faces charges of possession of a weapon in breach of probation conditions and possession of marijuana. Police also found four syringes, “filled with some substance,” on his person. •The Nick’s Island Road North neighbours’ dispute over a lost and found calf continued. •A female from Stace Road brought her son to the police station and demanded he be transported to hospital in Cranbrook. She was referred to the local hospital. •Police attended a Cook Street residence to keep the peace while a male picked up his belongings. •A dispute about parenting on Riverview Road was referred to the appropriate provincial agency. October 15 •A warning letter has been sent to the owner of a vehicle that pulled

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appropriate information on the damaged vehicle before he left. •Police followed up a complaint about a driver hunting from his car. The hunter denied that he had shot from his vehicle and had a deer and valid tag in his possession, so police took no further action. October 18 •A 2007 GMC Yukon reported stolen from Hillside Street was later recovered in Kimberley. •A residential alarm on Alder Street drew a visit from police, who were told the owner had forgotten the alarm’s security code. •A 2010 Honda Civic stolen from a Highway 95 residence was later recovered in Creston near the hospital. •A dispute over the ownership of a shed was reported in a property dispute on Osborne Road. •A Cook Street resident reported he had been in a fight but refused to co-operate with police by providing more information. •A complaint about two aggressive dogs running loose on Ninth Avenue North was referred to the Town of Creston bylaw department. October 19 •People reported to be fighting on Ninth Avenue South were gone when police arrived. •Police were called to help emergency health services personnel enter a Maple Place residence so they could treat a female in medical distress. •The planned towing of a sailboat found near Pilot Bay Road was made unnecessary when the owner showed up to claim it. •A 2012 Hyundai Santa Fe was stolen from the Gray Creek area on Highway 3A. •Police responded to SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 8 a report of a male possibly (KOOTENAY LAKE)

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out into traffic from 10th Avenue North, causing other vehicles to brake suddenly. •An abandoned vehicle in Kootenay Bay was towed when police found it to be obstructing traffic. •A female resident on Highway 3 reported there were suspicious footprints found in soil beneath her kitchen windows. When police arrived to investigate, the soil had been dug up. October 16 •Binoculars found on Canyon Street can be claimed at the police station by the owner. •Pioneer Villa on Ash Street was broken into again. This time, vandals set off fire extinguishers. •A single-vehicle crash on Canyon-Lister Road resulted in the driver being taken to hospital with minor injuries and a badly damaged vehicle. •A check by police about a person soliciting donations for Crime Stoppers on 10th Avenue North revealed that the solicitor does indeed represent the organization. October 17 •An Elm Street resident complained about a child custody issue. •A phone message left at the police station had the sound of a child screaming. The call seems to have originated in Cape Coral, Fla., and the information was passed on to police in that city. •A request for a well-being check on a person in another community was arranged. •A complaint from Sinclair Road about four dead sheep is being investigated. •A complaint about a hit and run on 15th Avenue North turned out not to be a concern as the offending driver left the

How will this affect me? Do you own a business in the Town of Creston? Do you advertise your business with a publicly displayed sign? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then this Bylaw affects you! How do I get more information? Drop by the public Open House at the Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce, located at 121 Northwest Boulevard, between the hours of 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 to have a look at the proposed new Bylaw and chat with Town Staff. Alternatively, stop by the Town Hall at 238 – 10th Avenue North, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) to view the document. Looking forward to seeing you there! Ross Beddoes, Municipal Services Coordinator

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planning to jump into the water beneath Kootenay River Bridge, but he was gone when they arrived, leaving no sign that he had jumped. •An intoxicated female who was found lying beside Highway 3/95 was taken to hospital. October 20 •A complaint of a motorcycle running without lights was received from Bacon Road in Gray Creek. •Police helped emergency health services personnel enter a Pine Street residence to attend to a medical emergency. •In the continuing saga of a family dispute on Arrow Creek Road, police received a complaint that a family member had taken a sewing machine owned by her elderly mother. •Conservations officers will investigate the shooting of four mule deer on private property near Mallory Road. •A wallet was stolen from an unlocked vehicle on 11th Avenue North. •Conservations officers will investigate the source of a light reflection on Goat Mountain. •An 11th Avenue North resident complained about a neighbor raking leaves out onto the road. •A male who fell off his bicycle on Cedar Street was taken to hospital by ambulance. •A female who put a vehicle up for sale reported that a friend who was helping with the sale had allowed it to be taken for a test drive. The vehicle was not returned and when she called the number of the prospective buyer, he said he was interested in making the purchase, but that he was having some work done on it in Alberta first. The vehicle is now considered stolen. •A female, well known to police, reported that a table lamp valued at $300 was stolen from her 11th Avenue residence.

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Oct 26, Nov 2, 9 & 16, 2013 In an effort to reduce back yard burning, the Town of Creston is offering residents the opportunity to dispose of their organic yard waste. The Town-controlled drop off location is situated at the south end of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is via Davis Road. The site will be available to residents only on October 26, November 2, 9 & 16, 2013, between 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. Accepted yard waste includes tree prunings, grass clippings, leaves and other plant matter. Load volumes will be limited to residential quantities only. Materials must be sorted with plastic bags, twine or other bundling material removed. It is recommended that grass clippings and leaves be brought in garbage cans and not plastic bags. Please note that the Town’s annual fall curbside pick-up of yard and garden clean-up waste is scheduled for November 12, 13 & 14, 2013. Colin Farynowski Manager of Engineering

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Wilks

From page 1 “As well, the government will continue to review federal assets, and where it’s in the best interests of Canadians they will be sold. A good example of that in the Kootenays is the divesting of the Dominion Coal Blocks, which are just in between Fernie and Sparwood. There is no need to hold on to them.” Focusing on employment for youth is important, Wilks said. “Although the youth unemployment rate is much lower than in other countries there’s far more we can do. We will provide opportunities for work experience in the high demand fields such as trades— we need to get youth more involved in the trades. As most people know we’ve had to resort to temporary foreign workers. “We really need kids in Grades 10, 11 and 12 to start focusing in on trades, if that’s their desire in life. We certainly need electricians, plumbers, welders — you name it, we need them. “There’s been a lot of misguided thinking in the past about trades, and kids hear, ‘Oh, you’re going to be a plumber?’ But the reality is that Mr. Plumber makes $40-$60 an hour. The trades will always be in demand.” Another trade-related issue is the challenge workers face in moving from province to province, where there is no consistency in their certification.

“We’re going to improve credential recognition all across the country to enable the free movement of skilled workers because as you know right now sometimes there’s barriers inter-provincially,” he said. “We’re going to do our best to

MP David Wilks remove those barriers so that those skilled workers can move from province to province to province without being inhibited in any way.” Acknowledging that it can be all too easy for governments to simply pile on legislation, Wilks said the Conservative government will, ironically, “introduce legislation to enshrine the one-for-one rule, so if we create a new legislation, we have to remove one.” The government’s stated intent to get involved with consumer issues like cable bundling and cellphones was national news immediately after the throne speech was delivered.

“I think a lot of people raised their eyebrows yesterday about reducing roaming charges and about the bundling of cable channels,” he admitted. “It is a small thing, but I think it’s something that Canadians have talked about for a long time. Whether one agrees that it’s of national importance or not, the fact of the matter is that we, as a federal government, regulate the CRTC (Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission) and as a result we can direct how we want that to happen.” Another communications issue piqued Wilks’s interest. “The federal government has done a good job of providing broadband to rural areas but we could do better. We could do way better. So we’re going to focus on that — getting high-speed to rural Canadians. I’ve got a couple of thoughts on that but I want to run them by the minister first — I think they’re pretty radical. We need to really lower the price and make things really competitive.“ As a retired RCMP officer, law and order and justice issues are always near the top of Wilks’s priority list. “I’m quite happy to see we will be reintroducing legislation to ensure that public safety comes first,” he said. “That sounds pretty broad, but one of the things we want to do is end sentencing discounts for child sex offenders. Right now they can get one-third or two-thirds off. We want to stop that. We want to stop automatic release of serious repeat offenders because they are still eligible for release at one-third or two-

Auto feature making debut Black Press What does your vehicle say about you and what do you look for in a new car? Whether it’s lux style, heavy-duty performance, safety or savings, we’re bringing you the best insight and offers each week in our new Driveway feature, debuting this week on pages 16-18. “Our local auto businesses are essential contributors to our economy and supporters of the Creston Valley,” said Advance publisher Lorne Eckersley. “In addition to custom stories, Driveway showcases what’s hot on the local lots plus parts and service offers.” “Today, we are excited to introduce Driveway — our new weekly automotive feature, designed to inform and entertain with brightly written stories from our made-in-B.C. team,” said Driveway editor Keith Morgan, who welcomes input at keith.morgan@drivewaybc.ca. Zack Spencer, co-host of Canada’s highestrated auto show, Driving Television, and voice of a nationally syndicated radio show, will tell readers what is hot and not among the new models. Women play a decision-making role in more than 80 per cent of car purchases, and Alexandra Straub will help them make the right decision. In Near New, technical wizard Bob McHugh will pick out the best in “previously loved” cars. Ian Harwood will join the pages soon with his column, Just Trucks.

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“We want Canadians to know that we are doing our best to provide good air quality. How we are going to do that, I don’t know yet,” he said. He wrapped up the conversation with comments on the Senate, where controversy has swirled for the past couple of years. “I think people probably expected more about the Senate, but the reality is that we’re waiting for the ruling from the Supreme Court about what we can and can’t do. Hopefully, the Supreme Court is going to give us some guidance that there is the potential for the federal government to make amendments to the Senate without opening the Constitution. If that happens, I think you’ll see our government move forward very quickly. I think that most Canadians and most parliamentarians know there is a need for a change.”

thirds of sentence. That’s ridiculous to me — I think that if you are sentenced to seven years for an armed robbery, that means seven years. It doesn’t mean you’ve been a good person in jail so you get out in four or sometimes three years. “The most significant thing to me is one that I’ve advocated since I’ve come here and I’m glad to see the government is going to do something about it. We’ll change the law so that a life sentence means a sentence for life. So if you’re sentenced to life for first-degree murder, enjoy your life, because you’re going to park it in a cell. Some will see that is really harsh — well, go ask the family who won’t see their loved one again.” Environmental issues didn’t take up much space in the throne speech, but Wilks said they haven’t been ignored, and that the government plans action to improve air quality nationwide.

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Annual General Meeting Monday, October 28, 2013 • 7pm Town Hall Council Chambers 238, 10th Avenue North

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My eyebrows raised involuntarily during the run-up to last week’s throne speech. The federal government was floating the idea of dealing — it’s not exactly clear how — with cellphone roaming charges and the packaging of television channels by cable and satellite signal providers. This is, after all, a government that does nothing without considering how it will affect the business sector. So let’s get the delicious irony out of the way first thing. The same government that loves to bundle various and sundry legislation into massive omnibus bills suddenly has an issue with cable and satellite folks bundling individual channels into packages? Only in Canada, you say? Let’s start with why I think the Conservatives (Liberal governments did this, too, though not quite to the extent we’ve seen in the last few years) package often completely unrelated legislation into huge omnibus bills. Well, partly because it’s a great divide and conquer approach. Put enough eggs in a basket and some will look great and some will look crappy. But who’s going to object to a nice big basket of eggs when there are only a few they don’t need? Omnibus bills also make it hard for the opposition and media to focus. Single in on one or two issues and the government has a built in “yeah, but” excuse — there are 50 pieces of legislation here but you only want to talk about one or two? Now, why do cable and satellite companies bundle channels into packages? The obvious answer is that it’s more convenient and less costly for billing purposes. Offering 200 channels that subscribers can choose from individually is a greater

hasn’t balanced a budget for so long that it might not recognize one if it ever sees it has announced that it plans to make it the law to balance budgets. Presumably it will be enacted after the projected 2015 balanced budget. “A law?” my friend sputtered, “Just balance the damn budget!” I couldn’t help but take the opportunity to raise his blood pressure even further when I told him the government also plans to impleLorne Eckersley ment “one-for-one” legislation. With each new regulation enacted this law would force mini-series on CRAP this month, so the government to take another one I’ll subscribe to watch it, then off the books. unsubscribe afterwards because for “Just do it,” he yelled, going all the most part CRAP airs mostly, apoplectic on me, the innocent meswell, crap. senger. “They’re gonna bring in If I was running a cable company I’d be pointing out this disconnect in another law for this?” I’ll admit I brought those subjects philosophy to the prime minister, and I’d also be asking why he wants into the conversation just to wind him up — I knew exactly the reacto take on their way of doing business when he shows no interest, like tion he would have because I’d had a similar one myself, though it all of his predecessors, in questionwasn’t quite as dramatic. ing why gas prices change in lockEssentially, laws like this are not step, and go up even when there is intended to force the government in no clear change in supply and power to behave in a certain way. demand. That would be akin to pointing a Roaming charges, as outlandish gun at one’s own head and calling as they may be, fall in to the same out at someone making a threat, category — issues that this econo“Stop, or I’ll shoot!” my-obsessed government doesn’t No, these are what I call silly usually get involved with. Buyer bugger laws, designed to make life beware and let the market decide miserable for future governments. and all that. But Canadians hate It’s like seeding farmers’ fields with cable companies and they hate landmines or poisoning the well, a phone companies and what better practice usually reserved for retreatway for a governing party to win ing soldiers. The government some votes than to side with Joe doesn’t look like it’s in danger of Sixpack than to tell him that you losing power any time soon (yeah, I hate them just as much? The throne speech caused another know, I said the same thing in the Paul Martin era), though, so we are smile, too, this one when I saw the left to wonder what it’s really up to. reaction of a friend when I told him Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of it includes balanced budget legislathe Creston Valley Advance. tion. This same government that technological challenge and billing costs spiral. Imagine the steady stream of requests to add or subtract channels on a monthly basis — hey, my neighbor says there is a cool

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saurs and, of course, all life as we know it had to start over from scratch. The facilitator then passed around a rock with iridium in it, and most kids passed it on to the next person without a thought until it got back to the facilitator. Many parents are busy (including myself) and don’t have time to question what the system is teaching, but I wasn’t buying the theory (which is taught like a fact). Some quick facts on iridium: It is the second-most dense metal on Earth, it is mined mostly in South Africa, Canada and Russia (very little, if any, in Mexico), it is very rare and seems to be most abundant in meteors and asteroids, it is obtained commercially as a byproduct from nickel and copper mining and processing, and it has a very high melting point and is therefore great in spark plugs. My two-part question, which I didn’t get to ask in Drumheller (because I am not an expert in minerals, and evidently neither is the paleontologist) is this: If iridium is only found in meteors and settled in the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary 65 million years ago, why does most of the mining not take place near the Gulf of Mexico because of the dense fallout of the heavy metal? Why do the fossil records show it in the polystrate forests running through the sediment layers, including that which is said to be 65 millions years old? I am trying to be reasonable, but I am tired of the cramming of poor evidence to try and prove that dinosaurs were here millions of years ago, and that I am somehow related to a snake. Every creature, including dinosaurs, is creatively and wonderfully made, and when they find human remains among the fossil records it is always dismissed with another theory. I know for many I am foolish for believing the lies found in the Bible. But for those who think I’m foolish, do you not see the absurd nature with which we are being indoctrinated? Also, for those who think that I am foolish, check out some things with logical thinking (research the hydroplate theory) and for those who are not scared to open a Bible, read Job chapter 40. Bill Dyck Creston

To the Editor: I was recently privileged enough to spend a few days with my son and daughter on a field trip. We started the trip with a visit to the science centre in Calgary and then went on to the world famous Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller. I was amazed as were the kids at the scientific advancements and of course the awesome dinosaurs. I, like many others, view the facilitators of these programs as experts in their respective fields, and in no way want to disrespect any of their teachings, but I couldn’t help but wonder how we as parents and teachers seem to turn a blind eye to some teachings that are just plain ridiculous. The one that got me thinking the most was how science is using the geological sediment layers as a way to measure the age of the Earth. As one child asked, “How do you know?” The child was given the iridium theory. A meteor hit the earth several million years ago in the area we currently know as the Gulf of Mexico, and scattered a metal known as iridium in the crust layer known as the CretaceousPaleogene boundary, killing the dino-

To the Editor: After the Thanksgiving weekend, some spray-painted graffiti was found on the Lower Wynndel Road tunnel, including “Grad 2014” and some other images and writing. Those of you who saw the graffiti probably came to the same conclusion — that current Prince Charles Secondary School Grade 12 students were responsible. We do not know if that is the case or not, but even the possibility was disturbing. In a meeting with the Grade 12s, we discussed the social and legal implications of such actions and volunteer Grade 12 students helped remove the graffiti the afternoon of Oct. 17. Our message is simple and clear: We value our positive relationship with the community, appreciate the scholarships and bursaries that this community generates, along with all the other donations

To the Editor: (Re: “This is the Life: Taking the high road”, Oct. 3 Advance, page 6) Lorne Eckersley said, “Crown Counsel adamantly refuses to prosecute charges on small amounts of marijuana possession because a) the courts are already backed up and b) judges have long since stopped attempting to use fines and jail sentences to stop what is essentially a tidal wave of victimless crime.” However, it is a myth that you can’t get arrested for pot possession in B.C. For example, the rate of criminal charges for marijuana possession in Creston has risen dramatically in recent years. In 2003, there were two pot possession charges in Creston (rural). In 2011, there were 23 pot possession charges in Creston (rural). Sensible BC is a group that is working to decriminalize the simple possession of cannabis in British Columbia through the Sensible Policing Act. A large majority of BC citizens agree that cannabis possession should not lead to a criminal record. Obviously, the majority of people realize that charging adults for simple possession of marijuana is a huge waste of taxpayers’ money and our police have much better things to do. This issue is clearly not a grey area. It just makes sense. Herb Couch Nelson-Creston Riding Organizer Sensible BC

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and opportunities. We pride ourselves on our service activities, in which the entire staff and student population provide their time and effort to helping with different groups, organizations and programs around the community. It is unfortunate that someone felt that this was an appropriate way to showcase their enthusiasm. Based on the statistical probability that the vandalism was done by someone in the PCSS family, we apologize specifically to the Town of Creston and YRB, and in general to the community. PCSS Grade 12 Students, and Sharen Popoff, Principal

Food sources are changing To the Editor: Will Prime Minister Harper continue to support Monsanto? The people of Creston, the people of Canada and people all over the world want an end to genetically engineered food, they want the food that is in the food chain now labelled and they want Monsanto stopped from poisoning our environment. We need to give dignity to farmers and gardeners. It is nature, the soil and the farmers who will feed the world, not Monsanto, not genetically modified crops and not the technocrats. People from all walks of life in all parts of the world are coming alive, impelled to create a more just and sustainable society. In his book, Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken estimates that the number of grassroots groups and nongovernmental organizations for social justice, indigenous rights and environmental sanity numbers two million. There are forest defenders, military resisters, designers of windmills, urban farmers, occupiers of Wall Street, teachers in favelas and many more. We see the changes happening in our valley, too. More and more locally produced food is becoming available — real, fresh organic milk in returnable glass bottles, cheese, eggs from free-run chicken, fruit juice and more. The valley is on the way to become self-sufficient instead of bringing it in from far away places and polluting our Earth by burning fossil fuel. In the Agricultural Revolution of tens of thousand years ago, the domestication of plants and animals led to a radical shift in the way we live. In the Industrial Revolution that began just a few hundred years ago, a similar dramatic transition took place. Right now, a shift of comparable scope and magnitude is occurring. We are in the transition from a doomed economy of unlimited industrial growth to a life sustaining recovery of the world to save our sacred Earth from total destruction. The transition is already well under way; many people hear within them the sounds of the Earth crying. Like all true revolutions, it belongs to the people and it is happening all over the world. Future generations looking back at this historical moment may call it the time of “the great turning”. Most of our governments are so outdated and so far behind the times that it would be too dangerous to wait for them to act. Henry Dahle Creston

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Singing and music part of the fun at TAPS

If you come to Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors around 11 a.m. on Thursdays, you’ll find a lot of activity as folks who’ve been out on the walking program return to the centre. The smells of lunch being cooked will be in the air.

Looking around, you’d see beaming faces, quietly singing ones, people helping each other find the pages, and great smiles when a song goes particularly well. Some sit quietly in the midst of the singing, and sometimes there’s a requested solo. Meanwhile, there’s a growing audience of those who have come to eat lunch together for whom the music is background to their catching up with each other, for the caring atmosphere or just being in the company of old and new friends. Funding and donations have supported music lessons in the past, well as the acquisition of the ukuMaureen Cameron as leles. And speaking of donations, thanks goes out to Monte Anderson, You can meet Nicky and Jackson, students who has recently donated kazoos to the Maureen Cameron from Prince Charles Secondary School on a group. TAPS program director Bridget Therapeutic Activation Program for Seniors members enjoy singing and playing New Horizons for Seniors program. They Currie is smiling, imagining what fun the have joined the seniors and staff getting group will have trying them out this week. music each Thursday morning. things ready for lunchtime, and for the next So thanks, Monte, for your generosity. activity. Guitars in hand, you’ll see them join Thanks also to Brenda Silkie of the Creston a growing crowd who’ve come for the choir Rotary Club for facilitating a collaborative program. Led by Thelma Johnson and her Christmas card fundraising project being Happy Voices group, you’d hear a mini ver- done with TAPS participants, our students sion of an orchestra warming up: ukuleles and volunteers. A set of cards will be printed and guitars being plucked, harmonicas being from originals painted under the guidance of tested, a violin or drum set might get into the artist Eileen Gidman, and offered for sale. act. Along with this, you’d notice the happy There is already great enthusiasm from the murmur of participants and volunteers sort- seniors to get painting. Watch for details on ing out songbooks and music stands, and how to purchase a set at the Krafty Kronys later arrivals finding their seats. Someone will Christmas sale. be asking of what key the song is in, espeIf you want to be a part of the TAPS comcially for the pianist, who is usually Lavonne. munity of volunteers, contact Bridget at 250“What shall we sing next?” creates a dis- 428-5585 to offer your skills or to find out cussion, and soon familiar music and a cho- what is needed. rus of voices fill the air, some tentative, some Maureen Cameron is the community liaison confident, but all seem happy to be part of development co-ordinator for the Therapeutic something that has many memories. Activation Program for Seniors.

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In my last two columns, I presented two of the eight practices of awakening that Buddha taught on his deathbed. The first is, “Have few desires.” The second is “Know how much is enough.” The third awakening is to enjoy serenity. This is to be away from the crowds and stay alone in a quiet place. It is called “enjoying serenity in seclusion.” The Buddha said, “Monks, if you want to have the joy of serenity, you should stay away from crowds and spend time in a quiet place. If you are attached to noise and busyness, you bind yourself to worldly matters like an old elephant that is stuck in a swamp and cannot get out of it. This practice is called enjoying serenity in seclusion.” He added that by temporarily leaving behind your relations, as well as others, and retreating into a quiet place, you can abandon all distractions to your spiritual development and enter a highly enjoyable and serene state. Now, this is a difficult undertaking in today’s world. See ENJOY, page 10

Here is the deal. Fall colour will some colour on your shrubs before develop on plants that are stressed the real heavy frosts come and out earlier than on happy plants. I knock all their leaves off, try givlike to point out that you often see ing them a few weeks of drought bright red burning bushes on stress at the end of August. some dry corner of a front yard in Alternatively a mechanical stress, town. You notice them such as root pruning — chopping first because they turn off up to a third of the root system colour first. They went with a spade — should do the dry back in August and trick. Chop, chop. That is some started to shut down for instant plant stress. Besides the burning bush, there winter early. Plants that are well cared for keep are many other shrubs that will growing longer into the give you excellent fall colour. Blueberry bushes give great colour fall. In the past I’ve writ- and fruit, as well. Barberries have Evan Davies ten columns on the sci- awesome fall colour and little ence of why fall colour thorns that make them deer proof, winged burning bush. It grows to five develops, so I won’t bore you with too. And Spireas, fothergilla, feet tall and perhaps six feet wide over it again today. I wish only to say beautybush, smokebush, coto15 years. You can prune it anytime to that the underlying colour of a neaster, witchhazel, sumac and keep a more compact shape. Deer will plant shows through in fall when vibernums of all kinds, to name a do that for you, and because you aren’t the green chlorophyll in the plant few more. There really is no end to trying to have it grow any flowers there leaves begins to die off. It is wise the possibilities given the diverse isn’t any real harm. They are fully hardy to give a new plant a few good range of plants that we can grow on this side of the Rockies and will years of care for establishment here in Creston. Evan Davies owns Beltane Nursery grow in protected spots in Alberta if before letting them grow on their you wish. own. In any case, if you want at 2915 Highway 3 in Erickson. The other day, a gentleman stopped by with a sprig of green burning bush. His concern was that his newer shrub hadn’t developed any fall colour two years in a Follow the Advance online row and he was somewhat upset. I asked facebook.com/cvadvance him where he had it planted and if it was being well looked after. It was planted in twitter.com/CrestonAdvance a good garden soil and growing quite nicely in a bit of shade. Fall still sees a lot of folks with inquiries at the nursery. I would say that by far the greatest volume of enquiries this week went something like “What’s that bright red shrub we are seeing all over town?” To answer, it is the dwarf

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Life coach sharing experience Enjoy serenity as Creston library’s living book CRESTON VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Ever judge a book by its cover? Hear the real story. Check out a living book. The Creston Public Library’s Living Books speaker series is a way for community members to learn from each other. Living books are real people, your friends and neighbours, volunteering to share aspects of their own story. Through living books, the library seeks to encourage the sharing of knowledge and passion between people. Each month, the library hosts a get-together where a member of your community shares their personal experiences. Topics are varied, from art to travel to local history to coping with loss, and everything in between. Attendees of the speaker series learn more about the people in their community and their diverse backgrounds and expertise. On Oct. 26, recently retired counsellor Peggy Ness will share her story: “Honour Your Wisdom, Live Your Purpose”. Ness’s journey of overcoming addiction and following her path of healing and inner discovery allowed her to honour the wisdom of her experience and live her passion and purpose. Life is a series of transitions, some more challenging than others. Ness is currently in the transition into retirement after counseling for almost 30

years. Her employment path has included careers in the medical field as a registered lab technologist, in management as the assistant director of the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Centre, and as an addictions cousellor.

Peggy Ness Ness grew up in Montreal. She left her job as a lab technologist, wanting to work with people instead of test tubes, and in 1981 she moved to Vancouver. She began working in a Downtown Eastside emergency shelter and a year later admitted her own addiction to alcohol. Her desire for sobriety lead her on a path of healing, growth and self-discovery that enabled

her to have immense compassion for the struggles of others because she’d been there herself. Ness has always been passionate and dedicated about touching people’s lives and inspiring them to live their fullest potential. For Ness, the word retirement never meant doing nothing. Currently a life transition coach, Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) practitioner, speaker and author, Ness is the founder and owner of Freedom Beyond 50 Coaching Services. She has created the valuable and effective four-part video series, Four Critical Stress-Busting Tools that Every Woman Needs to Know, has recently presented workshops on mindfulness and transforming beliefs on aging, and has written the ebook, How to Create a Vibrant Life Rich with Meaning. Her focus is to provide transformative coaching to help women 50 and over to live their lives with meaning and fulfillment, and celebrate the possibilities ahead of them. Interwoven in the tapestry of Ness’s life are strong spiritual beliefs, a deep desire to understand and connect with all life, and awareness that there is so much more to life than what we are conscious of. Hear Ness share her eclectic story and some of the lessons she has learned to date in her life walk at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Creston Valley Public Library. Admission is free. For more information, contact the library at 250-428-4141.

From page 9 Even during our meditation retreats at the Creston zendo, trucks and motorcycles belch noise, the voices of children from the Adam Robertson Elementary School playground penetrate the meditative stillness, and the barking of the neighbours’ dogs disturb the silence. I once read an article about a man who searched the planet for a place where he could not hear the noise of machinery. Finally, he thought he had found such a place in the heart of the old growth fir on the Olympic Peninsula. He was settling down to enjoy the silence when two jets roared overhead. There are few places, if any, where we can enjoy true silence. On the surface, Buddha talks about seclusion and keeping away from crowds. Looking deeper, however, we find it’s through attachment to our lifestyle and being bound by busyness that we hinder our enjoyment of serenity. The truth is that even in the middle of a busy day we can follow Buddha’s suggestion and find the quiet place that exists within each of us. We don’t have to lock ourselves into an isolation chamber to find inner stillness. We can take a few minutes to go for a walk, or sit silently on a bench. Inner stillness is available anywhere, anytime. It only takes 12 minutes of silent sitting for the brain to enter an alpha state. This way, you can find that quiet place and enjoy serenity in the middle of a busy life. Or, better still, you can step out of your life for a few days and attend a silent meditation retreat that teaches you to still the busyness of your mind. There is a quiet secluded place inside you. When you learn to enter this place, regardless of what happens, you will abide in serenity. Suggested practice: In the next two weeks, create some time in each day to sit quietly by yourself. Enjoy the serenity of temporarily leaving behind all the concerns of your daily life. Kuya Minogue is the resident teacher at Creston’s ZenWords Zen Centre (250-428-6500).

The Town of Creston wants to say “Thank You” Small and medium size businesses are an important part of British Columbia’s economic engine and this fact certainly holds true in Creston. The Town would like to celebrate all of the new businesses we’ve seen locate to our community over the past few years. And, for those established businesses with new facelifts - thank you for continuing to invest in our community’s future!

The Town of Creston is OPEN for BUSINESS!

We invite you to visit the Mayor in his office to discuss your ideas about new business or ways to stimulate our local economy.

CELEBRATING

Small Business Week

Mayor Ron Toyota Councillor Tanya Wall Councillor Judy Gadicke Councillor Wesly Graham Councillor Jerry Schmalz Councillor Scott Veitch

Councillor Joanna Wilson Lou Varela, Town Manager Steffan Klassen, Director of Finance & Corporate Services Iain Bell, Director of Engineering & Public Works Mike Moore , Fire Chief Ross Beddoes, Municipal Services Coordinator

Please contact us by phoning 250-428-2214, Extension 0 or by visiting our website at www.creston.ca

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